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Edward III. - Incursions of the Scots under Douglas and Randolph - Edward's First Campaign against them - Schemes of Mortimer - Execution of the King's Uncle, the Earl of Kent - Fall of Mortimer, and Imprisonment of the Queen Isabella - Enterprise of Edward Baliol and the disinherited Nobles against Scotland - War by Edward III. in Support of Baliol.
The sceptre of England, taken by the indignant nation from the feeble grasp of Edward of Caernarvon, was once more in the hand of a strong man. Edward III., sprung immediately from a feeble parent, was, however, of the stock of mighty kings, and the grandson of the first of his name, the stern "Hammer of Scotland," and conqueror of Wales. In the youthful monarch all the vigour and ability of Edward I. revived; and in his reign the fame of England rose far higher than it had ever yet reached, bringing the two words of martial glory, "Cressy" and "Poictiers," into the language, and making them like the notes of a trumpet in the ears of Englishmen in every age. True, the conquests which they marked soon faded away; but the prestige of British valour which they created was created for all time. In no period of our history did the spirit of chivalry show more in the ascendant than in this reign, nor leave names of more knightly lustre on the page of our history; including not only the monarch and his illustrious son, but a numerous list of leaders in the field. Whether the practical utility or the political wisdom of the great deeds done, exclusive of the-renown conferred on the nation, was equal to their �clat, remains for us to determine after our record of them. But at the commencement of his reign the future conqueror of Cressy was but a boy of fourteen. The lion of England was yet but the ungrown and playful cub and was under the guardianship of a mother of tarnished reputation, and in the real power of her bold paramour, Roger Mortimer.
For appearance sake, indeed, a council of regency was appointed during the minority of the young king; and this council was composed of twelve of the most influential noblemen and prelates of the realm; namely, five prelates - the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, the Bishops of Winchester, Worcester, and Hereford; and seven lay lords - the Earls of Norfolk, Kent, and Surrey, the Lords Wake, Ingham, Piercy, and De Boos. The Earl of Lancaster was appointed guardian and protector of the king's person.
Having named this regency, the Parliament then passed an act of indemnity, including all those engaged in the deposition of the late king; reversed the attainders against the late Earl of Lancaster and his adherents confiscated the immense and ill-gotten estates of the Despensers; and granted to the queen-mother a large sum of money to discharge her debts, and a jointure of �20,000 a year - a sum quite equal in value to �100,000 now. This last enactment, in fact, established the supremacy of the queen and her paramour Mortimer: the council became, as they meant it to be, a mere empty figure of state policy; Mortimer, who had taken care not even to have his name placed on the council, as affecting the modesty of a private man, now all appeared secure, assumed the state and establishment of a king.
Boy, however, as the king was, his spirit was too active and inquiring to leave him with safety unemployed about the court: he would be sure there to be soon making observations, which, ere long, might bring trouble to the usurpers. Mortimer tried to keep him entertained by various frivolous amusements; but there needed something more active and engrossing, and which would lead him. to a distance from the court; and this was speedily furnished by the Scots. Their successes over Edward II., and especially their grand triumph at Bannockburn, had greatly elated them; and the present crisis, when there was a deposed king, and a mere boy on the throne, appeared too tempting to omit a profitable incursion into England. Robert Bruce was now growing, if not old, yet infirm; but he was as full as ever of martial daring.
At this distance of time it appears equally impolitic and ungenerous in the Scots to make this attack. There was a truce existing between the kingdoms, and it might seem as if it would have been more prudent every way for the Scots to strengthen and consolidate their internal forces than thus wantonly to provoke their old and potent enemies. But the state of rancour between the two countries no doubt impelled them to this course. Probably, too, the hope of regaining at such a period the northern provinces of England, which had formerly belonged to Scotland, was an actuating cause. Bruce appointed to this service his two great generals, the good Lord James Douglas and his nephew Thomas Randolph, now Earl of Moray, some of whose daring exploits we have had already to record. They were to lay waste the counties of Durham and Northumberland, and do all the injury to England that they could. They made an attempt on the castle of Norham, but were repulsed with heavy loss. They then increased their army to 25,000, summoning the vassals of the crown from every quarter, Highlands, Lowlands, and isles.
This army of Scots has been most graphically described by Froissart. He represents them as lightly armed, nimble, and hardy, and, from their simple mode of living, capable of making rapid marches or retreats, being totally unencumbered with baggage. There were 4,000 cavalry, well-mounted and well-armed; the rest were mounted on ponies, active, but strong, which could pick up a subsistence anywhere. The men carried no provisions, except a small bag of oatmeal, and, says the chronicler, "they had no need of pots or pans, for they cooked the beasts, when they had skinned them, in a simple manner." That is, they killed the cattle of the English, of which they found plenty on their march, and roasted the flesh on wooden spits, or boiled it in the skins of the animals themselves, putting on a little water with the beef to prevent the hides being burnt. They also cut up the hides for their shoes, fitting them, to their feet and ankles while raw, with the hair outwards; so that from this cause the English called them the rough-footed Scots, and red-shanks, from the colour of the hides.
Every man carried at his saddle an iron plate called a girdle, on which, whenever they halted, they could bake cakes of thin oatmeal. Thus armed, and thus provisioned, the Scots could speed from mountain to mountain, and from glen to glen, with amazing rapidity-, advancing to pillage, or disappearing at the approach of an enemy, as if they were nowhere at hand. With such forces Douglas and Randolph crossed the Tweed, ravaged Durham and Northumberland, and advanced into the county of York.
To oppose these invaders, the English raised rapidly an army said to amount to 60,000 men. They had recalled John of Hainault and some cavalry which they had dismissed; and the young king of fourteen, burning with impatience to chastise the Scots, marched hastily towards the north. His progress, however, suffered some delay at York, from a violent quarrel which broke out between the English archers and the foreign troops under John of Hainault. The archers, and especially those of Lincolnshire, who probably had an old feud with the natives of Flanders, displayed a dogged dislike to these troops, and in the streets of York they came actually to downright battle, and many men were killed on both sides. This difference quelled, if not settled, the English army moved on. Very soon they came in sight of burning farms and villages, which marked the track of the Scots. These Scots, however, themselves were nowhere visible, for they retreated with double the celerity with which the English, heavily loaded with baggage, could follow them. The Scots did not retreat directly north, but took, according to Froissart, their way westward, amongst the savage deserts and bad mountains and valleys, as he calls them, of Cumberland and Westmoreland. The English crossed the Tyne, trusting to cut off the homeward route of the enemy; but the utterly desolated condition of the country compelled them to recross that river, for no sustenance could be procured for the troops. After thus vainly pursuing this light-footed foe for some time, Edward, excessively chagrined in not being able to come up with them, or even to find them, offered a freehold worth �100 a year and the honours of knighthood to any one who would bring him intelligence of the enemy. After severe hardships, and enormous fatigue to the soldiers, wading through waters and swamps, a man, one Thomas of Rokeby, came riding hard to the camp, and claimed the reward offered by the king. He said he had been made prisoner by the Scots, and that they had said they should be as glad to see the English king as he would to see them. This was not very probable, as they might have waited for the king, which they had taken care not to do. There, however, they lay, at not more than three leagues distant.
The reason of the Scots now halting was visible enough when the English same up. They found them posted on the right bank of the Weir, where the river was deep and rapid, and there was no possibility of getting at them. Even could they cross the river, they must climb a steep hill in face of the enemy to attack them. Under these circumstances, Edward sent a challenge to the Scottish generals to meet him on a fair and open field, either by drawing back and allowing him to cross the river to attack them, or giving them the same option to cross over to his side. Douglas, piqued at this proposal, advised to accept the challenge; but the more politic Moray refused, and replied to Edward, that he never took the advice of an enemy in any of his movements. He reminded the king, as if to pique him to dare the unequal attempt of crossing in their faces, how long they had been in his country, spoiling and wasting at their pleasure. If the king did not like their proceedings, he added, insultingly, he might get over to them the best way he could.
Edward kept his ground opposite to them for three days; the Scots at night making great fires along their lines, and all night long, according to the chronicler, "horning with their horns, and making such a noise as if all the great devils from hell had come there." In the daytime some of the most adventurous knights from the English army swam their strong horses across the river, and skirmished with the Scots - rather to show their gallantry than for any real effect. On the fourth morning it was found that the Scots had entirely decamped, and were discovered after awhile posted in a still stronger position higher up the river. Here Edward again sat down facing that, confidently hoping that they must be forced, from want of provisions, to come out and fight. As, however, they did not do this, the young king's patience became exhausted, and he desired to pass the river at all hazards, and come to blows with the Scots. This Mortimer would not assent to; and while lying, highly discontented with this restraint, on the bank of the river, Edward had a narrow escape of being taken prisoner.
The brave Douglas, being held back by Moray, as Edward was by Mortimer, from a general engagement planned one of those heroic exploits in which he so much delighted. Making himself acquainted with the English password for the night, and taking an accurate survey of the English camp, lie advanced, when it was near midnight, with 200 picked horsemen, silently crossed the river, at some distance above the English position, and then, as silently turning', made for the English camp. He found it carelessly guarded, and, seeing this, he rode past the English sentinels, as if he had been an English officer, saying, "Ha, St. George! you keep bad watch here! " Presently, he heard an English soldier say to his comrades, as they lay by a fire, "I cannot tell what is to happen here, but somehow I have a great fear of the Black Douglas playing us some trick."
"You shall have cause to say so," said Douglas to himself. When he had got fairly into the English camp, he cut the ropes of a tent with his sword, calling out his usual war-cry, "A Douglas! a Douglas! English thieves, ye are all dead men." His followers immediately fell upon the camp, cutting down the tents, overturning them, and killing the men as they started up to seize their arms. Douglas, meanwhile, had reached the royal pavilion, and was as near as possible seizing the young king, but the chaplain, the chamberlain, and some of the king's household, being alarmed, stood boldly in his defence, and enabled him to escape under the canvas of the tent, though they lost their own lives. Douglas, being now separated from his followers, many of whom were killed, endeavoured to make good his retreat, but was in danger of being killed by a man who attacked him with a huge club. This man, however, he slew, and escaped in safety to his own camp; his party having, it is said, killed about 300 men.
Soon after this the Scots made an effectual retreat in the night by having beforehand cut a pathway through a great bog which lay behind them, and filling it with faggots; a road which is still remaining in Weardale, and called from this cause the "Shorn Moss." The young king, on entering the evacuated place of encampment the next day, found nothing but six Englishmen tied to trees, and with their legs broken, to prevent them carrying any intelligence to their countrymen.
Edward, disgusted with his want of success, returned southward, and the Scots arrived in safety in their own country. On reaching York the English king disbanded his army. He then returned to London, highly dissatisfied, young as he was, with the state of things. Mortimer had usurped all power. Edward believed that from cowardice, or from some hidden motive, he had prevented him taking ample vengeance on the Scots. At court he had set aside the whole of the royal council; consulted neither prince of the blood nor the nobles on any public measure, concentrating in himself, as it were, all the sovereign authority. He endowed the queen with nearly the whole of the royal revenues, and enjoyed them in her name. He himself was so besieged with his own party and parasites, that no one else could approach him, and the people of all ranks now hated him as cordially as they had once done Gaveston.
Sensible of this growing public odium, he now sought to make a peace with Scotland, to secure himself from attack on that side; and perhaps the king was not so far wrong in attributing his backwardness to attack the Scots to some private motive. Certain it is that the following year, 1328, he made peace with Robert Bruce on terms which astonished and deeply incensed the whole nation. To give the greatest firmness to the treaty he proposed a marriage between Joan or Joanna, the sister of Edward, then only seven years of age, and David, the son of Robert Bruce, then only five. That the Scots might accede promptly to this offer, he agreed to renounce the great principle for which the English nation had been so long contending, its claim of right to the crown of Scotland. These terms were of course eagerly accepted, and the treaty, to make all sure, was at once carried, into effect. About Whitsuntide a Parliament was called together at Northampton, which ratified the treaty, thus acknowledging the full independence of Scotland, and on the 22nd of July the marriage was solemnised at Berwick, where Isabella had brought her daughter. This young bride was significantly called by the Scotch "Joan Makepeace," and with her was delivered up many jewels, charters, &c, which had been carried away from Scotland by Edward I. | {
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Anadarko, based in the Woodlands, Texas, had said in January it should pay $850 million to $4 billion. Founded in 1929 near Oklahoma City, Kerr-McGee left a toxic legacy that includes uranium mines in Navajo territories in the West and wood-treatment plants that used creosote in Mississippi and Pennsylvania, the Environmental Protection Agency has said.
Anadarko, which drills for oil and gas from Colorado to Mozambique, has lagged behind peers since 2010 as the company was weighed down under the onus of potential liability from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the case settled Thursday.
"There are a lot of investors out there that would like to own Anadarko, but they couldn't because of these liabilities hanging over them that were difficult to quantify," said Tim Beranek, a money manager at Denver-based Cambiar Investors, which owns nearly 2 million Anadarko shares.
Kerr-McGee spun off its chemicals business and old environmental liabilities as Tronox Inc. beginning in 2005. About three months after the transaction was completed, Anadarko offered to buy Kerr-McGee's oil and natural gas assets for $18 billion. Tronox filed for bankruptcy in 2009 and sued Kerr-McGee over the environmental debt. The U.S., as Tronox's largest creditor, intervened on behalf of the EPA.
Anadarko will pay $5.15 billion in exchange for a complete release of all claims asserted against Kerr-McGee, the company said today in a statement. The settlement is subject to bankruptcy court approval.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in New York ruled in December that Kerr-McGee improperly unloaded its environmental liabilities into Tronox before the Anadarko takeover. He suggested that Anadarko pay $5.2 billion to $14.2 billion, plus attorney fees.
Anadarko has been remade in the past decade, tripling its market value while honing an expertise in deepwater exploration projects in the Gulf of Mexico and Africa. The global explorer has announced discoveries off the coast of Mozambique that may contain 70 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough to meet annual U.S. residential demand for 14 years. The company also used acquisitions of more than $21 billion to boost its drilling prowess in North America in Colorado, Texas and Pennsylvania.
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Robert C. "Bob" Florence (* 20. Mai 1932 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien; † 15. Mai 2008 Thousand Oaks, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazzpianist, Arrangeur und Bandleader des Modern Jazz.
Leben und Wirken
Bob Florence studierte Klavier am L. A. City College und erhielt Kompositionsunterricht bei Wesley LaViolette. Zu Beginn seiner Karriere war er Pianist und Arrangeur bei Dave Pell; dann spielte er bei Harry James, Les Brown, Jerry Fielding und dem Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, um dann bei Si Zentner zu arbeiten.
Seit den 1950ern arbeitete er auch als Arrangeur für Harry James, Louie Bellson, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Count Basie, Doc Severinsen oder die hr-Bigband.
Ende der 1950er Jahre gründete er seine erste eigene Band, in der unter anderem Herb Geller, Bud Shank, Frank Capp und Bob Enevoldsen mitwirkten. Seit dieser Zeit arbeitete Florence im Raum Los Angeles an Big-Band-Projekten, vorwiegend mit Studiomusikern und als Begleiter von Sängerinnen. Seit 1979 leitete er eine Rehearsal Band in Los Angeles, die mit sechs Saxophonen originell besetzt war. In den 1970er Jahren nahm er Alben für das Label Discovery, in den 1990er Jahren für Mama Records auf.
Preise und Auszeichnungen
Im Jahr 2000 gewann er den Grammy-Award für das beste Large Jazz Ensemble Album. 2001 studierte er mit der SWR Big Band eigene Kompositionen und Arrangements ein, die unter dem Titel "Goldener Meilenstein" veröffentlicht und für den Grammy nominiert wurden. Für seine Arbeiten an Linda in Wonderland (gemeinsam mit Ian Fraser, Billy Byers und Chris Boardman, 1981) und an Julie Andrews in Concert (gemeinsam mit Ian Fraser, Chris Boardman, Billy Byers, J. Hill und Angela Morley, 1990) gewann er jeweils einen Emmy.
Diskographie (Auswahl)
Name Band: 1959 (Fresh Sound, 1958) mit Herb Geller, Bob Enevoldsen
Here and Now (Liberty Records/Fresh Sound, 1964) mit Bud Shank, Frank Capp
Funupmanship (Mama, 1992)
Earth (Mama, 1996)
Serendipity (Mama, 1998)
Literatur
Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD. 6. Auflage. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6.
Jürgen Wölfer: Jazz in Deutschland. Das Lexikon. Alle Musiker und Plattenfirmen von 1920 bis heute. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4.
Bielefelder Katalog 1988 & 2002
Weblinks
Nachruf in der Los Angeles Times, 20. Mai 2008 (englisch)
Einzelnachweise
Jazz-Pianist
Bandleader
Arrangeur
Grammy-Preisträger
Emmy-Preisträger
Musiker (Vereinigte Staaten)
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1932
Gestorben 2008
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June 17, 2019 by Nazia Moqueet and Bobby Irven
There was a time when Agnes Munywoki did not smile, for she said she had nothing to smile about. But through the struggles, Agnes believed in herself and in a brighter future. Determined to improve her life and that of her husband and seven children, Agnes worked hard to take full advantage of the PROFIT Financial Graduation opportunity that she was offered to participate in and has since experienced a vast improvement in her quality of life. She now has become someone in the community that people look up to and come to for advice or help. Working at her hotel with her husband and eldest daughter, Agnes' ambitious dreams are becoming a reality and as she continues to overcome the challenges of investing and growing her business, she does so with a smile on her face.
In 2014, BRAC's Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) designed a program via its technical advisory services to improve the resilience of 2,600 vulnerable women and youth in Samburu and Kitui counties of the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) of Kenya. These regions are fraught with challenges including recurring droughts, poor infrastructure, difficult terrain, heavy reliance on livestock as a primary livelihood, and Human Development Indicators that are significantly lower than the national average. Through piloting the Graduation approach there, the program aimed to reduce the vulnerability of households to climate shocks, improve food security, and enable households to build sustainable livelihoods. This pilot also aimed to inform national social protection in Kenya.
The program, funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of Kenya, was implemented by two local partners, The BOMA Project and CARE International Kenya, with the technical assistance provided by BRAC. As data and learning is a priority in Graduation programs, the NGO Expanding Opportunities is evaluating the impact of the program through a quasi-experimental study. The multi-partner initiative between government and local NGOs is a positive example of how a complex approach like Graduation can leverage the potential scale of a government program and the local outreach of NGOs. Through technical advisory services, BRAC is able to take advantage of its extensive experience in implementing the Graduation approach in countries including Bangladesh, South South, Uganda, and others to develop a program that incorporates the four core pillars of livelihoods promotion, social protection, financial inclusion, and social empowerment and is adapted to the local Kenyan context.
Anna selling her traditional beadwork in the town's central market (©BRAC/BOMA 2018)
The result of this partnership was a robust Graduation program that included an asset transfer valued at $350 USD, technical training, a six month consumption stipend of $15 USD per month, participation in Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) that meet on a bi-weekly basis, free enrollment in the NHIF (National Hospital Insurance Fund) for 18 months, social and health messaging, and individual and group mentorship to guide participants. What is unique about this program is that in Samburu, BOMA tested individual versus group livelihoods where three women pooled their resources to run and grow a business together. In Kitui, CARE tested livelihoods among a youth population that is more hesitant to try traditional livelihoods like livestock-rearing and agriculture. Across both areas, the program used the mobile money platform M-pesa to transfer monthly consumption stipends and provide participants greater financial autonomy. The threat of longer, recurring droughts was addressed through training on drought management and encouragement to diversify livelihoods beyond livestock early on.
With the program coming to a close, findings from the midline and endline evaluation (which included data collection and focus group discussions) show a positive impact on climate resilience and women's empowerment. While the endline is still in progress, preliminary findings show that participants across both pilots now have more diverse income sources, greater food security, increased savings, reduced incidence of illness, and positive hygiene behavior. Women in Samburu and Kitui, who were too shy to participate in local committees, demonstrated a new level of confidence both formally through their participation, and informally often shown through smiles, laughter and occasionally songs that create bonding among the group. It is common to hear program participants say, "Now, we have a voice." Improved gender equality at home and in the public sphere can also be attributed to increased income, access to social networks through VSLAs, and greater awareness of women's rights through the life skills training.
Lois using her water pump to irrigate crops during drought (©BRAC/CARE 2018)
However the shift in gender dynamics did not come about without its challenges. With more women managing businesses and household finances, many men in the household felt threatened and were often hostile at the start. Coming to terms with these changes was a gradual process, and required BOMA and CARE mentors to continually engage the men of the household to discuss the benefits of women generating income and sharing in the household decision-making. With time, many spouses changed their views and proudly proclaimed that their wives were managing a business and earning an income for the household.
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With their newfound confidence and self-belief, the women involved in these programs are ready to continue their upward trajectory out of extreme poverty and take on new challenges and responsibilities. From budding dress-making businesses to participants owning their own land, the Graduation program in Kenya has shown the sheer power of determination and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of formidable adversity. The program has prepared both the participants and those around them well by establishing linkages with local financial institutions and county initiatives. BOMA and CARE helped formalize savings groups and open bank accounts to help foster savings. This formalized model enabled the groups to apply for funds for further business growth via channels such as the Women's Enterprise Fund and the Biashara Fund.
When analyzing development programs for their impact and benefits, it is often easy to forget about the human and personal aspect that they encompass. Participation in global Graduation programs has allowed thousands of women to lift themselves out of poverty, but it is the interaction between participants and their families that also show us the great success they have had. When Agnes was asked to reflect on her changes, her response is one that is not easily forgotten: "Since the start of my involvement in this program, there is more love between my husband and I." It is statements like these that show the true human impact of an effective and holistic development approach such as Graduation.
Learn more about Agnes and other Graduation participants from Kenya at our story microsite here.
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Kraken Explained – If True
I found a couple of posts relating to the power of American Intel agencies utilizing cyber-spy programs capable of manipulating elections designed to use on foreign interests but have been turned on the American election process by nefarious Intel actors doing the bidding of the Dem-Marxists to gain power in the USA.
The problem: To my knowledge there is no verifiable paper trail – yet. Either the info is from in-the-know insiders or the info is fabricated to assuage the anger of Conservatives yet with no favorable outcome.
THERE IS ONLY one way to see some accuracy at this point. If the info herein is accurate, Donald Trump is inaugurated as President on January 20. If the info is wishful thinking to temporarily placate cheated Conservatives/Patriots of the Republic, then Quid Pro Beijing Crooked Joe is inaugurated as President on January 20.
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Releasing the Kraken means releasing Election 2020 truths
Ancient Kraken Attacking Ship
By Joseph Ragonese
Communities Digital News
When attorney Sidney Powell first told reporters that she was about to "release the Kraken," this writer, like many others, thought that she was about to release a mythical sea monster upon the ship of globalist tyranny. However, while she is attempting to sink them by exposing their villainous plot to steal our 2020 election, the Kraken she referred to is a real entity that is about to be exposed. Once this information is released, if it contains proof of wrongdoing, it will shake the foundations of this nation.
The "Kraken" is a cyberwarfare program run by the Department of Defense that tracks and hacks various other systems to acquire evidence of nefarious actions by our enemies, both foreign and domestic. Sidney Powell says that, "an algorithm was plugged in to steal votes from President Trump during the election." And the Kraken program will prove that.
The DoD is not the primary user of the Kraken program.
Rather it was developed by the CIA, and they allow the Defense Department access. It is used to get information about the nation's enemies, by hacking computers and cellphones. This could be a problem to the enemies of America if there is a conspiracy to hack into voting machines, like those from Dominion Voting Systems.
What the developers of Dominion, and its software, didn't count on when developing the program to shift votes, were the overwhelming numbers of Trump voters on election day. Trump voters turned out in record numbers on November 3rd due to fear of their ballots being trashed before being counted.
[Dominion's Smartmatic: Chávez-built cornerstone of Trump's fight in court]
That phenomenon, many allege, caused the voting machines' software to crash while trying to shift votes from Trump to Biden. The huge numbers of Trump voters were not figured into the algorithm. It caused all of their elaborate planning to go out the window and forced them to communicate in real-time. While the voting was still ongoing. Those communications, it is being surmised, were captured by Kraken.
Smartmatic software program
As the Smartmatic software program was used to flip votes from one candidate to the other, Trump votes to Biden, the Smartmatic software was also overwhelmed in the early stages of election day. Purportedly causing voting machines, in certain districts, like Atlanta and Philadelphia, to mysteriously shut down. Trying to hide the truth, the MSM, at the insistence of knowing Democrats, called the shutdowns simple glitches. (Voting Machines 'Down, Locked, Broken' in Districts That Voted Trump in 2016 in Philly, Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia)
The same thing happened in Antrim County, Michigan, where a voting supervisor caught the problem.
At first, the glitches, the broken water pipes, and other issues appeared to be isolated and random. But if Sidney Powell is correct, it was a planned and calculated strategy to steal this election across all the states using Dominion. As the glitches mounted, those panicked co-conspirators must have contacted one another to rectify the problem.
Enter the Kraken
Kraken programs in CIA and DoD facilities would pick up that information as the conspirators communicated by cell phone, text, and computer. Like the CIA / DoD facility in Germany might have.
Why target Germany, one might question? Because CIA facilities overseas are under the control of the DoD. This is important because the CIA is still a part of the deep state that tried to topple our elected president.
Many within the CIA are quaking in their boots and high heels because of their fear over the Durham investigation into the coup attempt on President Trump. That is why all requests for information from the CIA have been slow-walked. They knew that they could steal this election, and when Biden became president, all investigations would end. So President Trump could not trust the CIA to provide the information.
He had to think outside of the box in order to prove a second coup attempt on voters.
[Biden and Susan Rice ran the Obama-Brennan coup plot against Trump]
Information about Kraken has been around for several years, however, only a few paid attention. Except those persons intent on stealing this election. In 2017, WikiLeaks released numerous CIA documents detailing "Kraken."
They included orders to spy on all major candidates in France's 2012 presidential election, including the incumbent at the time, Nicholas Sarkozy. Some might remember that Obama, the president then, did not like Sarkozy because he was too conservative for the far-left president. (Complete List of the Many Times Obama Spied on Candidate and President Trump and Numerous Others)
According to the leaked documents, Kraken would provide information on each party's election strategy, each candidate's private conferences, and the ability to influence political decisions. If it were used against France in 2012, it could have been used against the hapless Mitt Romney that same year. Was that election stolen too?
If I had a Hamr
The CIA uses another program in conjunction with Kraken, called Hamr" (or hammer) also in the files WikiLeaks released, which Powell referenced. Hamr spies on protected networks without being detected.
After Powell first mentioned Kraken, reports began circulating about an American operation in Germany, where servers were confiscated. At first, many thought the servers belonged to two election technology firms, Dominion and Scytl.
But the servers that were taken apparently belong to the CIA, which has a field office in Frankfurt. The State Department also operates a consulate in that city. Yet the CIA is not loyal to the Constitution, everybody knows this as they operate above the law.
Most recently it has been subverted into the radical left-wing political arena.
The CIA has been part of the deep state that has hindered investigating the coup conspiracy of 2016, and the undermining of President Trump for his entire four years in office. The last head of the CIA, John Brennan, once threatened Trump, stating that he couldn't understand the power of the intelligence community.
The CIA is an untrustworthy part of the globalist deep state trying to circumvent the Constitution.
The FBI is right there with them. So how do patriots secure evidence of wrongdoing from them? The out-of-box program for justice all began to unfold when President Trump dismissed the Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, replacing him with Christopher C. Miller. Miller was a Green Beret and is a loyal patriot.
His first action as Acting Secretary of Defense was to move control of Special Operations Command away from General Milley, Chief of Staff at the Pentagon, and go directly to him. A few days later word of servers being seized in Germany began to circulate. No one knew whose servers, or why or who conducted the seizure.
It now appears those CIA servers were located inside a military installation in Frankfurt. The U.S. military has full authority to do this because any CIA activity in the European theater is being conducted using military cover. In other words, CIA officers would be identified to the German government (and anyone else asking) as military employees or consultants.
To use information from these servers in an American court, law enforcement would have to have been involved.
We know the loyalty of the FBI is suspect, so perhaps assistant U.S. Attorneys were a part of the seizure. In that case, the evidence obtained can be used in a U.S. court.
While there is no notification of who seized the servers, we can speculate that law enforcement was aided by Special Operations Forces, who report directly to Miller.
It has been reported that neither CIA Director, Gina Haspel, nor FBI Director, Christopher Wray knew about the operation. Therefore, law enforcement must have been some other agency under the DOJ, or the Assistant Federal Attorneys in person. Since Dominion owns servers in Germany and Scytl operates them in Spain, data collection overseas is vital to proving any case of vote manipulation in the U.S.A.
Remarkably, voting data was available to Dominion and Scytl prior to anyone in the U.S. Those overseas databases played a pivotal role in the outcome of that day's voting. And maybe those confiscated servers in Frankfurt hold information about Dominion and Scytl's actions on election day.
While this is still unfolding, it is reported that President Trump now has all the evidence of voter fraud and election-related treason needed to stop those tainted votes from being counted.
The path to the White House in 2020
The path to a Trump second term now rests first in the courts. If it is proven that this election is so tainted that the votes in 28 states using Dominion Voting Systems machines cannot be counted, then the House of Representatives will determine the next President.
This scenario is the likely path moving forward. First, the electors in enough states, those using Dominion, must not be counted. Which would mean that neither candidate earned the 270 electoral votes necessary to become President. Then, according to our Constitution, the House votes for the President.
While Democrats are the majority in the house, according to the Constitution, each state only gets one vote each. There are 37 states with a majority of Republican Congressmen. It would mean a second term for the duly elected President, and evil would have been defeated again; only because we elected a fighter as our President.
Like his style or not, Trump is the only person who could have carried out the defeat of so much evil: twice.
Joseph Ragonese is a veteran of the United States Air Force, a retired police officer, has a degree in Criminal Justice, a businessman, journalist, editor, publisher, and fiction author.
His last book, "The Sword of Mohammad," can be purchased at Amazon.com in paperback or kindle edition.
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Situation Update – Nov. 27th – DoD vs. CIA firefight in Frankfurt as covert war against the deep state RAGES across the globe
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By Mike Adams
(Natural News) At this very minute, a covert war is raging across the globe, pitting Trump's DoD and DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) against black hat deep state factions running the CIA.
The good news is: Trump is winning.
As you know by now, the DoD launched a raid on a CIA-run server farm in Frankfurt, Germany, to secure servers that contain proof of CIA interference with the 2020 election (i.e. backdoor manipulations of election results via Dominion voting machines). But new information is now surfacing that indicates there was a firefight at the server farm facility, involving US Army Special Forces units, engaging with CIA-trained paramilitary units that were flown in from Afghanistan in an emergency effort to defend the facility.
One CIA officer was killed during the firefight, and he is now being reported across the mainstream media as being "killed in Somalia." Five US Army soldiers were also killed, and they are being explained away as dying in a "helicopter crash" in Egypt.
Despite the deaths, the servers were successfully acquired by the DoD, and those servers were turned over to President Trump's private intelligence group, which is now once again led by Gen. Michael Flynn, recently pardoned and now allowed to process top secret information, since his security clearance has been restored.
Here's where this gets good:
Sidney Powell is about to roll out expert witnesses in the Georgia and Michigan lawsuits. One of these witnesses has been handed details of the vote theft which were acquired through two means: 1) The "Kraken" cyberwarfare program run by the DoD, and 2) Information found in the servers which were acquired during the multiple raids. (There were also server farm raids in Barcelona and Toronto, we are told.)
One of these witnesses is Dr. Keshavarz-Nia, a well-known cybercrimes investigator, who has a long history of working with U.S. military counterintelligence, as well as the NSA and CIA.
He has now offered sworn statements to Sidney Powell, which can be viewed at this link.
His statements include:
I have previously discovered major exploitable vulnerabilities in DVS and ES&S that permit a nefarious operator to perform sensitive functions via its built-in covert backdoor. The backdoor enables an operator to access to perform system updates and testing via the Internet without detection. However, it can also be used to conduct illicit activities such as shifting votes, deleting votes, or adding votes in real-time… I conclude with high confidence that the election 2020 data were altered in all battleground states resulting in a hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump to be transferred to Vice President Biden.
And so the circle is complete: DoD forces deploy cyber warfare weapons ("Kraken") as well as kinetic troops (Special Forces, under the US Army) to acquire physical servers, all the information derived from these operations is extracted by DIA forensic analysts, it is then handed over to various expert witnesses who are prepared to testify under oath, resulting in the courts nullifying the fraudulent vote manipulations in the swing states.
This is how Trump gets to 300+ electoral votes and secures his second term as President. If successful, these revelations will also utterly destroy the Democrat party and result in thousands of treasonous actors going to prison for their roles in this attempted cyber warfare election theft to overthrow the United States government.
Listen to my full Situation Update for the full, point-by-point explanation of all the details:
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PA Judge McCullough – PA Election UNCONSTITUTIONAL
State Pennsylvania Appellate Judge by title, Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough, ruled the Pennsylvania Election UNCONSTITUTIONAL late last night! Now the gal is a Republican and of the Dem-Marxist Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf will most likely appeal to Dem controlled State Supreme Court AND THEN again ends up at SCOTUS. Keep in mind SCOTUS lacking a full panel failed the Constitution with a 4 to 4 tie (Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Left!) essentially sending back to PA State Supreme Court. BUT NOW the Supreme Court has a full panel and it is expected Justice Amy Coney Barrett will join the four Constitution-minded Justices and spank criminal Dem-led Courts. That's 5 to 4 the Constitution and President Trump vindicated.
I am starting with the quite descriptive analysis Dr. Steve Turley provided in a Saturday podcast I found on Youtube. Since Youtube censorship is quite possible I am also cross posting two other websites that view the significance of PA State Judge Patricia McCullough.
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VIDEO: BREAKING! PA Judge Rules Election UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Effectively Gives State to TRUMP!!!
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A PA judge has basically handed the state to Trump! That's what we're going to talk about in this special livestream; a PA judge has basically handed the state to Trump! This may indeed be the first domino to fall here; if PA falls to Trump, every single contested state will fall in line as well, that includes AZ and NV! This is absolutely HUGE!
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BREAKING: PA Judge Patricia McCullough Rules Election Likely "Unconstitutional"…Gives PA State Legislators Power To Choose Electors
By Patty McMurray
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On Tuesday, the Democratic Party's mainstream media was giddy over the news that Pennsylvania would certify their state's November election results. But on Thursday, in a surprising development, Commonwealth Judge Patricia McCullough ordered the state to not take any further steps to complete the certification of the presidential race. She also blocked the certification of all the other election results.
Commonwealth Judge Patricia McCullough circled
Robert Barnes of Barnes Law was first to break the news with a link to the opinion of Judge Patricia McCullough via Mark Levin. Now, in another surprising move, the PA Trial Court has ruled the 2020 election was likely unconstitutional in PA and that gives the state legislators the power to choose electors.
Pennsylvania trial court rules the 2020 election was likely unconstitutional in Pennsylvania, and that gives state legislators power to choose electors. https://t.co/pWt9g81ld1
— Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law) November 28, 2020
PA Judge Patricia A. McCullough has ruled that Pennsylvania's preliminary election certification injunction was properly issued and should be upheld, stating in her opinion, "Petitioners appear to have established a likelihood to succeed."
BREAKING REPORT: Judge Patricia A. McCullough rules that PA preliminary ELECTION CERTIFICATION injunction was PROPERLY ISSUED and should be upheld..
"Additionally, Petitioners appear to have established a
likelihood to succeed."
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) November 28, 2020
The petitioners in the case are Mike Kelly, Sean Parnell, Thomas A. Frank, Nancy Kierzek, Derek Magee, Robin Sauter, Michael Kincaid, and Wanda Logan.
Legal Insurrection – A Pennsylvania state court judge has issued a preliminary injunction preventing Pennsylvania from taking any further steps to perfect its certification of the election, including but not limited to appointment of electors and transmission of necessary paperwork to the Electoral College, pending further court hearings and rulings. The ruling upholds an injunction from earlier in the week and is significant because of the findings made in the Opinion released tonight.
The case has been somewhat under the radar because it doesn't involve claims of fraud. It appears to be a pretty straight legal argument. This is not the federal court case that has received a lot of press attention and in which the Third Circuit Court of Appeals denied relief.
The issue, in this case, is whether legislative expansion of absentee balloting to broad mail-in balloting violated the Pennsylvania Constitution. It's not clear what the relief would be; the petitioners seek to preclude the Secretary of State from transmitting the certification or otherwise perfecting the electoral college selections.
The Judge issued this Opinion to extend that halt pending further hearings, and to set forth the basis for the injunction, which could be relevant to the appeal:
Additionally, Petitioners appear to have established a likelihood to succeed on the merits because Petitioners have asserted the Constitution does not provide a mechanism for the legislature to allow for expansion of absentee voting without a constitutional amendment. Petitioners appear to have a viable claim that the mail-in ballot procedures set forth in Act 77 contravene Pa. Const. Article VII Section 14 as the plain language of that constitutional provision is at odds with the mail-in provisions of Act 77. Since this presents an issue of law which has already been thoroughly briefed by the parties, this Court can state that Petitioners have a likelihood of success on the merits of its Pennsylvania Constitutional claim.
The Judge found, among other things, that the plaintiffs were likely to prevail on their PA constitutional claims, and that the matter was not moot even though PA had "certified" the results, because there were more steps to be taken [emphasis added].
Judge McCullough concluded: This is not a final ruling on the merits. It's meant to prevent PA from taking more steps until the court finally rules.
Given how the PA Supreme Court has ruled previously on election matters, expanding procedures beyond what even the legislature adopted, I don't see how this survives the PA Supreme Court. From there, the next stop is the U.S. Supreme Court where we know John Roberts and the three liberal Justice will defer to the state supreme court. But the Court is now 6-3, so a Roberts defection would not result in a 4-4 deadlock again if the 5 conservative Justices voted together.
BREAKING REPORT: Pennsylvania Judge Gives Rules That The 2020 Election Was Likely Unconstitutional In Pennsylvania, And That Could Give State Legislators Power To Choose Electors
By Sarah Hall
Red State Nation
[Pres. Trump, Judge Patricia McCullough & Dem-Marxist Joe Biden]
A Pennsylvania appeals court judge ordered state officials on Wednesday to halt any further steps toward certifying election results, a day after Gov. Tom Wolf said he had certified Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania.
Wolf's administration quickly asked the state Supreme Court to block the ruling from taking effect, saying there was no "conceivable justification" for it.
"Since the birth of our nation nearly 250 years ago, no court has ever issued an order purporting to interfere with a state's ascertainment of its presidential electors – until today," the administration said in its motion.
Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough, a Republican, had issued the order and set a hearing for Friday. It wasn't immediately clear if she intended to hold up the certification of state and local contests on the ballot or interrupt the scheduled Dec. 14 meeting of the state's 20 electors.
She came back with more good news or Trump's legal team as late in the night, Judge Patricia A. McCullough ruled that PA preliminary ELECTION CERTIFICATION injunction was PROPERLY ISSUED and should be upheld and that gives state legislators power to choose electors.
She issued a HUGELY favorable opinion
– Commonwealth barred from taking ANY further steps to certify results
– Issues raised found to be of "statewide and National concern"
-"likelihood to succeed on the merits"
"Additionally, Petitioners appear to have established a
likelihood to succeed."
"..the Court respectfully submits that the emergency preliminary injunction was properly issued and should be upheld pending an expedited emergency evidentiary hearing From the memorandum:
"Petitioners appear to have established a likelihood to succeed on the merits because Petitioners have asserted the Constitution does not provide a mechanism for the legislature to allow for expansion of absentee voting without a constitutional amendment."
Here is a copy of Friday night's ruling.
Memorandum Opinion Filed in... by Jim Hoft
SCRIBD Link:
https://www.scribd.com/document/486132522/Memorandum-Opinion-Filed-in-Pennsylvania-by-Judge-McCullough-Election-Likely-Unconstitutional
People shared their opinion online:
Having been a member of the PA bar, the plaintiffs have a more than solid case.
And the fact that the judge issued this indicates to me that she agrees with them.
— Tench Coxe (@CoxsTench) November 28, 2020
In any case, if any of you wonder what is memorandum opinion here's your explanation:
Under United States legal practice, a memorandum opinion is usually unpublished and cannot be cited as precedent. It is formally defined as: "[a] unanimous appellate opinion that succinctly states the decision of the court; an opinion that briefly reports the court's conclusion, usu. without elaboration because the decision follows a well-established legal principle or does not relate to any point of law."
Generally, memorandum opinions follow ordinary rules, including the application of precedent and the rule of stare decisis.
Pennsylvania Judge Patricia A. McCullough:
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I believe the US Constitution specifies that the state legislature shall set the method and means of choosing the electors, quite independent of what any judge may decree.
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Answer the Call for Liberty - It's Not Dark Yet
This submission by Justin Smith will make big tech censors explode. Why? Smith calls on Americans – If Courts fails to adjudicate criminal Election Fraud – to RESIST a Biden/Harris Dem-Marxist Election by any means necessary. I ask, "Are you Patriot or a Sheeple?" I guess you will act accordingly.
Down a Path to Civil War - Don't Wait for the Butt-Stroke
Sent: 11/25/2020 6:16 PM
"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow ... But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join you, never comes." ~ Milton Mayer, 'They Thought They Were Free'
America's Constitutional pillars have slowly been chipped away and hammered into near oblivion, by the American hating Democratic Party "Progressive" Communists and those squishy, weak-kneed Republicans who prefer "business as usual" to actually making a stand for freedom and liberty. Our Republic has been so diminished by Marxist and globalist efforts that it is now a failing Republic, one that has actually been failing for the past five decades, as the sun sets on Her and freedom and an unspeakable darkness prepares to cover Her land.
It's not completely dark yet, but it's sure headed in that direction.
Most Americans, who love this country of ours, full well understand that this Election has been an undisguised Banana Republic style coup, and it represents the Line In the Sand for the American Republic. There isn't anywhere left to go for anyone wishing to remain free, wishing to see their family live free, and seeking to keep America a nation where freedom will ring for many centuries to come. The road ahead is wide and is taking Us down a path straight to civil war, a total breakdown of our institutions and economic collapse of mammoth proportions, and disaster on our foreign fronts and international relations.
Tout Biden's supposed 80 million votes if one so desires, but what is a "win" gained by cheating and manufacturing some 10 million votes, if nothing, nothing at all. But cheating is part and parcel for Democrats, who have no shame and repeat often they will meet their goals "by any means necessary."
Regardless of what one understands or doesn't, America has a sad history of so many of Her people engaging in the Communist subversion of Her institutions for over a hundred years, as they absorbed the toxic propaganda tirelessly disseminated by foreigners, and their combined evil, the lies and the hate, has brought America to its current sorry juncture in Her history.
With time running out, every tactical decision by President Trump, from now to December 14th, will prove critical, since he currently appears to be fighting a rearguard battle to save America's Constitutional moorings and America's basic law, seen in our Founding documents and the Original Intent of the Founders, noted in writings such as The Federalist papers. President Trump has sworn to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, even though sometimes he too has been guilty of violating it; but today, plenty of reason exists for him to do so now to the best of his ability, in order to save what is left of our Republic.
Very few days are left to provide incontrovertible evidence before the Courts, that seem to be reticent to act responsibly where so obvious and blatant massive election fraud and treason are in plain sight for all to see. Unless the Courts properly expedite matters and act honestly, President Trump will be left a narrow gap to pull victory from the jaws of his enemies.
President Trump has refused to concede, and rightly so, even though so many traitors in the Republican Party have called for him to do so. He will not and he cannot, because I do believe he loves America too much to leave his presidency in such an ignominious and demoralizing manner, and he also primarily wants to put to rest this nefarious criminal manipulation of our election systems, to set a better path ahead for the country and ensure such an evil and dastardly thing can never again take place in America.
All Americans, who are concerned over preserving freedom and liberty in the slightest, must support him in any possible way, in this death struggle between the forces of real change and the disgusting alliance of radical Democrats and weak, cowardly (or complicit, i.e. Mitt Romney [and any of his RINO Establishment Comrades]) Republicans, who have concerned themselves only with profiting from Washington, just as usual and as they always have done, since 1961.
Rather than let the system drag its heels because so many entrenched politicos and judicial activists hate Trump, if Trump does not have the concrete proof to shove in their faces but knows, as we all do, the preponderance of the evidence shows the election was stolen, he could quite probably roll the dice with martial law or simply walk away from the White House, after revealing his evidence and calling on the American people to refuse to recognize the Biden regime.
America was founded on the best ideas that came from Western philosophers, such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, Charles Montesquieu, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and Adam Smith, along with the principles of Christianity. These ideas came largely from what these men had observed around them during their lifetimes and what could readily be seen in nature, giving birth to the term "Natural Law". And, as most of our Founding Fathers took note of a "higher power" or a "Creator" and the majority were in fact Christians, they saw fit to acknowledge in the Declaration of Independence that our rights are inalienable God-given rights; they are not granted by other men, governments or the ideas of Karl Marx and his modern day followers.
Where in our founding documents are ideas similar to Marxist ideology? Anyone searching won't find anything even close.
Joe Biden and his Marxist and Maoist supporters do not abide by the U.S. Constitution, except whenever they can use some clause within it to defend some illiberal position or "law" that serves to undermine and abrogate it further. They do not believe in the same founding principles that most decent Americans hold to be righteous and true and serve as the foundation for every branch of our government. Their communist ideology is the exact antithesis to freedom and liberty and serves to destroy the very Founding of America, which they currently hold as their stated goal.
And, after watching Biden's press event on November 24th and the naming of his Cabinet, one can only note that the worst of the worse have been gathered to take America on Her final descent into Hell and a policy disaster on all fronts, whether one speaks of foreign or domestic policy.
During the campaign, it became readily apparent that Joe Biden is a tyrant in the making, supported by his little small-minded, intellectually handicapped Congresswomen of "The Squad" and ready to wreak more havoc on our Bill of Rights on multiple levels, if he is inaugurated to the presidency in January, regardless of the fact that he did not "win" the election, but rather stole it through the most massive criminal endeavor and Election Fraud scheme ever witnessed in U.S. history. We will see the destruction and tyranny emerge immediately as his Cabinet Idiot, John Kerry, the "Climate Envoy", moves to ensure the massively destructive Green New Deal goes full steam ahead and more economy destroying measures are taken, as the U.S. is moved back into the Paris Accords in order to implement the global redistribution of U.S. wealth; and, we will also see Free Speech repressed through the same tyrannical "hate speech 'law'" that is enforced in the European Union, and our right to keep and bear arms will immediately be set upon and eradicated, as full well already acknowledged by both Biden and his VP pick, Kamala Harris. And let us not forget the coming forced national lockdowns to battle the false "COVID crisis" and mandatory masks and vaccines.
Elections do have consequences. But in light of the known massive fraud, anyone with half the mind that God gave a chimpanzee absolutely recognizes Joe Biden and his people stole this election. Too many statistical incongruities and too many sworn cases already point to the fact, regardless of any federal judges reluctance to do the right thing and toss out hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots that don't have signatures, that were sent to anyone with a mailing address whether they were a citizen or not, and where signatures don't match or the rolls don't match the number of ballots mailed. And let's not ignore the fact that the down ballot votes aren't matching the Presidential votes, or all the other statistical anomalies, such as seen in places like Wisconsin, not to mention Democratic Party election officials engaging in illegal acts to sway the election to Biden.
And the Democratic communist mainstream media, that is now on full display for all to see, does not have any problem in the slightest with the massive election fraud. They seemingly think any amount of fraud is tolerable, so long as their masters in the Democratic Party emerge victorious and the Marxist Communist ideology is codified throughout the new emerging system, soon to be forced upon the entire population.
Our system was founded to protect, defend and secure our Inalienable Rights, not destroy them, and whenever any person, group, Party or entity works to so egregiously and despicably eradicate and suppress those rights, they reveal themselves to be the "Enemy From Within", that most of Us who served in the Armed Forces took oaths to defend America against, as well as defending against Her foreign enemies. These Democratic Party communists stand in stark contravention of the Constitution and show themselves to be illegitimate "leaders", before they've ever been sworn in, and they must be resisted, disobeyed and obstructed every step of the way, if not imprisoned before ever getting day one in office.
That they will make a mockery of taking an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution says all one need to know about them, since their very platform goes against everything in the Constitution, and their radical followers, especially those in Black Lives Matter and Antifa, have already stated their intentions to utterly destroy America's traditions, culture and Her very Founding.
[Blog Editor: Know your Communist enemy:
o THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE BETWEEN BLM, ANTIFA, MARXISM, AND ISLAM; By KAREN HARDIN; Intercessors For America; 8/4/20
o Communist Infiltration: BLM and Antifa; By patriot1; Patriot News Network; 9/17/20]
What about the rights of Marxists, some might ask? They have the same rights as everybody else. They can serve in government and advocate their "free giveaways", but by right of "winning" an election, they cannot end the Founding and transform America away from Her Constitutional mooring, unless they wish to break the Social Contract with a majority of Americans who will never accept an authoritarian Socialist or Communist regime. They are full well free to practice Marxism in their communities and states, by redistributing their own wealth they have earned, but not at the expense of the American taxpayer and all America; if they wish not to adhere to those best practices of capitalism and freedom that built America and grew the greatest economy and prosperity on earth, they are free to do so on their own, without placing their irresponsible and ignorant failed economic philosophies on the backs of all America.
Joe Biden and The Squad are not free to fundamentally transform America or to impose Marxism, a liberty destroying ideology, upon all America. They are not free to abrogate the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. They are not free to infringe upon Our Inalienable God-Given Rights.
And if any patriot should chance to meet some cud-chewing, drooling imbecile who does not have the first clue as to what has transpired, unlike the domestic enemies who know exactly what they have done, just pass him by. Anyone who at this point still thinks they are free in the sense God intended is sleepwalking through this world and he will only awaken when he is butt-stroked across the face by Biden's ATF agent come to steal his GranPa's double-barrel 12-gauge shotgun.
Anyone worth a pound of salt should not go quietly into this dark night that America faces, and they must fight against the coming tyranny.
Some say there is nothing worse than civil war, but as I look at history and the evils and millions of deaths that transpired under dictators, such as Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot and Mao, I must beg to differ, and I would also offer the words of Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's passage in 'the Gulag Archipelago':
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"
If the President and his people do have the solid, incontrovertible proof of voting machine fraud, and I'm reasonably certain they do, with every institution that is responsible for America's security having been revealed to be suspect at best, in one form or fashion, President Trump has no choice other than to declare martial law and call on America's patriots to support him, followed by mass arrests and confiscations of all the assets of those involved in any manner with guilty knowledge of the conspiracy. And it follows that the Biden propaganda machine of the Communist mainstream media will necessarily need to be closed for business, until it is purged. President Trump simply can't turn the government over to a gang of criminals and traitors, if he knows for a fact what they have done, bottom line.
President Trump must call the entire Supreme Court to the White House and present his proof and lay it all out immediately, if he has it, as he informs them that they can either approve his actions as a matter of national security and extreme danger to the Republic, or they will find themselves named as co-conspirators, with all it implies. Any other course would be an act of cowardice, dereliction of duty and a violation of his own oath of office.
Raised in a different time, when people were much more free, I barely recognize my country and this nation any longer. The America I grew to love lives only in my memories today and in whatever wisdom I was able to impart to my children and grandchildren. She isn't coming back anytime soon, so long as our system and institutions are so easily bastardized, manipulated and politicized towards the evil men do and goals incompatible with freedom and our Founding Principles.
There won't be all that many to answer the call for freedom and liberty, since combat is a younger man's job, for the most part, than my 63 years, but I'm game, when the time arrives. Only a small percentage will join the fight, whenever the right spark sets it in motion, but if one sees America worth saving, as I do, draw the sword, pick up the rifle, and ask no quarter or mercy, for there will be no honorable ending to the next civil war, should it arrive this year, next or sometime between now and 2027, and there won't be any reconciliation either. Should our forces of truth, life and liberty emerge victorious, every single last one of the sorry radical and red Democratic Party Communist rat bastards who brought this on must pay with their lives, or at the very least, life in prison and exile. Losing is not an option, since it won't afford us either of the last two choices.
Unity? Healing? What a damned joke.
Intelligent Americans have seen the communist inspired violence in our streets for years, and it has grown exponentially more intense and much more widely dispersed. We see what is being done to this America we love so well, as America no longer seems to be remotely unified as a nation and the opposing political sides no longer share any common values to act as a glue to hold the nation together.
Some wars from history started with a single bullet. Bullet or something else, the Americans who hold traditional America most dear and sacred understand what is coming. It's inevitable. It's there for anyone with eyes to see.
For far too long, the American people have given in to the demands of the Marxists, a little bit here and there, in a sort of appeasement and in the interest of peace. But I tell anyone paying attention that peace is not so sweet, nor life so dear, as to submit to illiberal tyrants, just to be secure, and miserable. I'd prefer death if I could no longer live free.
Text embraced by brackets and embedded links are by the Editor. The bruised but still fighting President Trump political cartoon sent by Justin Smith.
Labels: American Comrade, American Heritage, American Patriot, American Transformation, Civil War, Election Coup, Election Fraud, Erasing Founders, Justin Smith, Preserving Founders, Resist Dem-Marxists
Kraken – Will Courts Look at OR Succumb to Crime?
Sidney Powell acting on behalf of We The People benefitting President Trump is opening the Kraken gates. If the Constitution and the rule of law is to be preserved, the Courts must exact judicial law against criminals perpetrating election/voter fraud. A judicial failure is a shredded Constitution and rule of law.
BREAKING: KRAKEN RELEASED! Attorney Sidney Powell Files 104 Page BOMBSHELL COMPLAINT of Massive Fraud in Georgia Election – Update: Michigan too
Sidney Powell, the Kraken & Dominion Election Software
By Jim Hoft
November 25, 2020 at 11:05pm
Attorney Sidney Powell Files 104 Page BOMBSHELL COMPLAINT of Massive Fraud in Georgia Election
Flynn Attorney Abigail Frye posted this moments ago:
The Kraken came down to Georgia on this Thanksgiving Eve in the form of a 104 pg BOMBSHELL complaint exposing the massive fraud that overwhelmed the 2020 Georgia Elections. Georgia, you are most certainly on our minds. Link to filing to come, stay tuned!
The Kraken came down to Georgia on this Thanksgiving Eve in the form of a 104 pg BOMBSHELL complaint exposing the massive fraud that overwhelmed the 2020 Georgia Elections. Georgia, you are most certainly on our minds. Link to filing to come, stay tuned! @SidneyPowell1 @LLinWood
— Abigail Frye ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@abigailcfrye) November 26, 2020
More from Sidney–
The #Kraken was just released on #Georgia 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Complaint being uploaded at https://t.co/9FSiyKwMmH
Exhibits to follow.
Also #ReleaseTheKraken in #Michigan @realDonaldTrump @jbinnall @GenFlynn @molmccann @abigailcfrye @jbinnall @Scavino45 @marklevinshow @MariaBartiromo
— Sidney Powell 🇺🇸⭐⭐⭐ (@SidneyPowell1) November 26, 2020
UPDATE — HERE IS A COPY OF THE FILING.
Here's one of the BOMBSHELLS in the report:
They are calling for 96,000 votes to be tossed!
Additionally, incontrovertible evidence Board of Elections records demonstrates that at least 96,600 absentee ballots were requested and counted but were never recorded as being returned to county election boards by the voter. Thus, at a minimum, 96,600 votes must be disregarded. (See Attached hereto, Exh. 9, R. Ramsland Aff.)
UPDATE — HERE IS WHAT POWELL IS ASKING FOR Pgs 100-102
For these reasons, Plaintiff asks this Court to enter a judgment in their favor and provide the following emergency relief:
1. An order directing Governor Kemp, Secretary Raffensperger and the Georgia State Board of Elections to de-certify the election results;
2. An order enjoining Governor Kemp from transmitting the currently certified election results to the Electoral College;
3. An order requiring Governor Kemp to transmit certified election results that state that President Donald Trump is the winner of the election;
Pg. 101
4. An immediate order to impound all the voting machines and software in Georgia for expert inspection by the Plaintiffs.
5. An order that no votes received or tabulated by machines that were not certified as required by federal and state law be counted.
6. A declaratory judgment declaring that Georgia Secretary of State Rule 183-1-14-0.9-.15 violates the Electors and Elections Clause, U.S. CONST. art. I, § 4;
7. A declaratory judgment declaring that Georgia's failed system of signature verification violates the Electors and Elections Clause by working a de facto abolition of the signature verification requirement;
8. A declaratory judgment declaring that current certified election results violates the Due Process Clause, U.S. CONST. Amend. XIV;
9. A declaratory judgment declaring that mail-in and absentee ballot fraud must be remedied with a Full Manual Recount or statistically valid sampling that properly verifies the signatures on absentee ballot envelopes and that invalidates the certified results if the recount or sampling analysis shows a sufficient number of ineligible absentee ballots were counted;
10. An emergency declaratory judgment that voting machines be Seized and Impounded immediately for a forensic audit—by plaintiffs' expects;
11. A declaratory judgment declaring absentee ballot fraud occurred in violation of Constitutional rights, Election laws and under state law;
12. A permanent injunction prohibiting the Governor and Secretary of State from transmitting the currently certified results to the Electoral College based on the overwhelming evidence of election tampering;
13. Immediate production of 36 hours of security camera recording of all rooms used in the voting process at State Farm Arena in Fulton County, GA from 12:00am to 3:00am until 6:00pm on November 3.
14. Plaintiffs further request the Court grant such other relief as is just and proper, including but not limited to, the costs of this action and their reasonable attorney fees and expenses pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1988.
Jim Hoft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016.
Appeals Court Grants Expedited Review Over Lin Wood's Election Lawsuit in Georgia
Outlines jurisdictional issues that will need to be addressed
By MIMI NGUYEN LY
November 26, 2020 Updated: November 26, 2020
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted Lin Wood's emergency motion seeking an emergency review of a lower court's decision that had rejected his efforts to delay the vote certification in Georgia. However, the court said that the appeal could only proceed if Wood could address certain jurisdictional issues.
Wood, an attorney with Trump's reelection campaign, announced on Twitter, "Thanksgiving Eve News! 11th Circuit granted my Emergency Motion for Expedited Review of lawsuit challenging validity of GA election procedure.
"We The People delivered a historic landslide win for [President Donald Trump] in GA & nationally. We The People will not allow it be stolen."
The appellate court presented Wood with two questions about jurisdiction (pdf): "Please address whether the district court's November 20, 2020 order denying the 'Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order' is immediately appealable," and "Please also address whether, and to what extent, any challenge to the denial of the requests for relief in the 'Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order' is now moot."
The questions come after Georgia's Gov. Brian Kemp and the state department certified the state's election results on Nov. 20. In an announcement streamed online, Kemp did not clearly endorse the results but said the law required him to "formalize the certification, which paves the way for the Trump campaign to pursue other legal options and a separate recount if they choose."
Poll workers across the state began a machine recount of roughly 5 million votes on Nov. 24, which the Trump campaign requested to be performed in accordance with Georgia State Law and the U.S. Constitution after an earlier hand audit was criticized for not verifying signatures on ballot envelopes.
Prior to the certification, Wood had filed a lawsuit (pdf) on Nov. 13 against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state officials. He argued that an agreement earlier in March between election officials and the state's Democratic Party that changed the process of handling absentee ballots in Georgia is unconstitutional.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference in Atlanta, Ga., on Nov. 11, 2020. (Brynn Anderson/AP Photo)
The agreement could result in absentee ballots cast in the 2020 election being invalidated, the filing said. As such, the counting of absentee ballots for the general election in the state is therefore "improper and must not be permitted," the suit argued.
Under the U.S. Constitution, only state legislatures and Congress can prescribe the "times, places, and manner of holding elections."
On Nov. 17, Wood filed an emergency motion (pdf) for a temporary restraining order seeking to delay the vote certification in Georgia. Judge Steven Grimberg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia dismissed the effort on Nov. 19, saying that Wood lacked legal standing as an individual voter to challenge Georgia's election procedures.
Wood then filed an appeal to the 11th Circuit on Wednesday, seeking an emergency review of Grimberg's decision.
"Appellant requests that this Court grant expedited briefing on its appeal from the District Court's decision denying the Emergency Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order," the filing (pdf) read. "Appellant's underlying action relates to the integrity of election procedures in the 2020 Presidential General Election in the State of Georgia, particularly as those procedures were fundamentally and irredeemably flawed, from this Constitutional deviation."
The 11th Circuit's order stipulates that defendants—Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state officials—must respond to Wood's initial brief by 5 p.m. on Dec. 1, and Wood must file any reply brief by 5 p.m. on Dec. 3.
Janita Kan contributed to this report.
Sidney Powell Files Lawsuit in Georgia, Alleging 'Massive Election Fraud'
Attorney Sidney Powell speaks at a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
Attorney Sidney Powell filed a federal lawsuit late on Nov. 25 that alleges "massive election fraud" and multiple violations of the Constitution and Georgia's state laws in the 2020 general election, as well as issues pertaining to Dominion Voting Systems.
The civil action claims that the purpose of the alleged actions was for "illegally and fraudulently manipulating the vote count to make certain the election of Joe Biden as president of the United States." A similar, separate suit was filed in Michigan.
The Georgia suit (pdf) was filed in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, against Gov. Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and other election officials.
The suit seeks to compel the court to invalidate the election results in Georgia. It was filed on behalf of plaintiffs including Republican Party nominees for the Electoral College, Cobb County Republican Party Chairman Jason Shepherd, and the assistant secretary of the state Republican Party, Brian Jay Van Gundy.
The 104-page complaint argues that "incontrovertible evidence Board of Elections records demonstrates that at least 96,600 absentee ballots were requested and counted but were never recorded as being returned to county election boards by the voter. Thus, at a minimum, 96,600 votes must be disregarded."
According to the suit, fraud also was allegedly "executed by many means" but the "most troubling, insidious, and egregious" way was the "systemic adaptation of old-fashioned 'ballot-stuffing.'" It alleges computerized ballot-stuffing and manipulation by software created and run by domestic and foreign actors. The complaint cited affidavits from multiple witnesses, documentation, as well as expert testimony that raised "sheer mathematical impossibilities" in the election results supporting the claims.
"Especially egregious conduct arose in Forsyth, Paulding, Cherokee, Hall, and Barrow County," the complaint reads. "This scheme and artifice to defraud affected tens of thousands of votes in Georgia alone and 'rigged' the election in Georgia for Joe Biden."
In particular, the suit took issue with election software and hardware from Dominion, which it noted was recently purchased and "rushed into use" by Kemp, Raffensperger, and the Georgia Board of Elections.
Plaintiffs allege that the design and features of the Dominion software don't allow for a simple audit to see whether votes were misallocated, redistributed, or deleted, pointing to a Jan. 24 decision by the Texas secretary of state to deny certifying the software "because of a lack of evidence of efficiency and accuracy and to be safe from fraud and unauthorized manipulation."
"First, the system's central accumulator does not include a protected real-time audit log that maintains the date and time stamps of all significant election events. Key components of the system utilize unprotected logs," the filing reads. "Essentially, this allows an unauthorized user the opportunity to arbitrarily add, modify, or remove log entries, causing the machine to log election events that do not reflect actual voting tabulations—or more specifically, do not reflect the actual votes of or the will of the people."
The suit also alleges "incontrovertible physical evidence that the standards of physical security of the voting machines and the software were breached, and machines were connected to the Internet in violation of professional standards and state and federal laws."
Part of the suit mentions a delay in voting at State Farm Arena in Fulton County, where video on Nov. 3 shows that election workers "falsely claimed a water leak required the facility to close." It adds: "All poll workers and challengers were evacuated for several hours at about 10:00 PM. However, several election workers remained unsupervised and unchallenged working at the computers for the voting tabulation machines until after 1:00 AM."
Another part of the complaint says that cybersecurity expert Navid Keshavarz-Nia testified that "U.S. intelligence services had developed tools to infiltrate foreign voting systems including Dominion." Pointing to vulnerabilities in the Dominion's software, he claims that "hundreds of thousands of votes" were transferred to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden from President Donald Trump in battleground states.
The complaint also cites a former electronic intelligence analyst under the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion, who declared that the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China and Iran to monitor and manipulate elections, including the 2020 U.S. general election.
A former U.S. military intelligence expert, who analyzed the Dominion software system, concluded that the system and software "were certainly compromised by rogue actors, such as Iran and China," according to another part of the complaint.
"By using servers and employees connected with rogue actors and hostile foreign influences combined with numerous easily discoverable leaked credentials, Dominion neglectfully allowed foreign adversaries to access data and intentionally provided access to their infrastructure in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the most recent one in 2020," the filing says.
The lawsuit also claims: "Georgia's election officials and poll workers exacerbated and helped, whether knowingly or unknowingly, the Dominion system carry out massive voter manipulation by refusing to observe statutory safeguards for absentee ballots. Election officials failed to verify signatures and check security envelopes. They barred challengers from observing the count, which also facilitated the fraud."
The Georgia secretary of state and Dominion Voting Systems didn't immediately respond to requests by The Epoch Times for comment on the suit.
Dominion released a statement on Nov. 25 saying: "Claims that Dominion deleted or switched votes are completely false. Dominion systems are 100 percent auditable."
Election results were certified by Georgia on Nov. 20. At the time, Kemp didn't clearly endorse the results but said the law required him to "formalize the certification, which paves the way for the Trump campaign to pursue other legal options and a separate recount if they choose."
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One of the less-discussed—but no less valuable—consequences of the explosive success of the craft beer scene in the States? It demonstrates that the business model might work in other countries. And if it works really well, that beer could find itself on the same U.S. shelf as the micro-brews that inspired it. Such is the case with Cadejo Brewing, one of El Salvador's most successful micro-brew operations, and one of the first beers to come from that country to the United States.
El Salvador native and Cadejo co-founder, David Falkenstein, lived in the States for 17 years, where he was naturally exposed to the burgeoning craft beer scene, before returning to his homeland in 2009. Throughout the next three years, he plotted how he could start a brewery in his native El Salvador, potentially at a friend's Irish bar. Annual trips to St. Louis to visit family also allowed him to tour local breweries and research the science/art hybrid that is modern beer-making, and three years later he founded Cadejo—not in the basement of some shamrock-laden bar, but as a stand-alone establishment. But his love of U.S. craft stayed with him. He loosely modeled one of his first brews, the WAPA wheat American pale ale, after Bell's Two Hearted Ale. The other beer introduced during the launch was Roja, Spanish for "red," which also looked to the U.S. for inspiration, and now that American red sits alongside more than 30 brews, including seasonals and one-offs. Today they have six year-round releases, and those have recently appeared in Maryland and Washington, DC, a region that boasts a high population of Salvadorians.
But of course the beers aren't specific to the Salvadorian palate. The WAPA is a refreshing, less hop-forward ale than its source of inspiration from the famed Michigan brewer, a more approachable summer-friendly pale. La Suegra follows a more traditional American IPA route, while the La Negra dips its toes confidently into darker styles. It comes with a modest 4.8% ABV and makes for a really drinkable not-too-bitter, surprisingly light Irish Dry Stout. The Hija De Pooh isn't as sweet as its label, which proudly announces it's a honey blonde ale, might suggest. But of the six new imports, the Mera Belga might be the best. The witbier drinks bright and grassy and tart, perfect for the scorching heat and humidity typical to the Mid-Atlantic locales where the beer is now being sold.
The name of the brewery itself derives from Central American folklore. The cadejo is a supernatural character. According to legend, there's a white cadejo (the good one), and the evil black cadejo, who are said to appear at night to travelers as large, shaggy dogs with burning red eyes and goat's hooves. In the Salvadorian spin, the cadejo also is said to guard drunks against anyone who tries to rob them. And while that latter variation on the tale will certainly resonate with beer-lovers, Cadejo's passage from El Salvador to the United States might also indicate that the white cadejo helped out on that years-long journey. Hopefully that good fortune will soon carry across the country. | {
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The water heater in the basement of this Catasauqua home blew out from the bottom either because of the age of the heater or hardening water over the years. The water exploding from the heater pushed through the walls of the basement closet and quickly saturated the finished basement carpet and carpet padding. This resulting in the main finished basement area with significant flooding damage. Cityline Construction was contacted to help extract the flooded basement and responded under the emergency services protocol.
Our crews started removing the carpeting for replacement and saw the extent of the damage as the water had seeped into the finished paneling and drywall. Moisture reading provided by Cityline required these areas to be removed. Using 2 – 4 feet sectional cut outs, these water logged boards, including the insulation, were removed. In addition, our protocol is to handle and treat for preventative mold growth as one of our main concerns. We treat the areas with a plant based anti-bacterial solution to help lay the solid foundation for a proper rebuild. This treatment is pet friendly as well. | {
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Waldkirch ist der Name eines adeligen, ab 1790 reichsgräflichen Geschlechts, entstammend eines alten Bürgergeschlechts der Stadt Schaffhausen in der Schweiz.
Geschichte
Ursprung
Die Waldkirch waren ein Ratsherrengeschlecht der Stadt Schaffhausen. In den Quellen des 14. Jahrhunderts kommen sie nur unter ihrer Berufsbezeichnung Goldschmied vor.
Als Ahnherr gilt Heinrich Goldschmid, genannt Waldkirch, der 1405 urkundlich erscheint. Von 1487 datiert der Adels- und Wappenbrief von Kaiser Friedrich III. für Konrad Waldkirch (urkundlich 1477–† 1512), Bürgermeister von Schaffhausen, der 1509 für 295 Gulden die Gerichtsherrschaft Flaach-Volken erwarb. Seither führten die Waldkirch das Adelsprädikat.
Sein Sohn Hans von Waldkirch (urkundlich 1523–† 1547) war Mitglied des Kleinen Rats sowie Vogt von Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Herblingen, Buchthalen, Rüdlingen, Buchberg und Ellikon am Rhein, Beringen, Löhningen und Siblingen. 1526 kaufte er das Schloss Schollenberg bei Flaach. Von 1532 bis 1546 bekleidete er das Amt des Bürgermeisters der Stadt Schaffhausen, dann wurde er dessen enthoben, nachdem er im Rechtsstreit zwischen den Adeligen der Stadt und dem Rat für die Adeligen Partei ergriffen hatte.
In Schaffhausen befindet sich noch heute das Haus zum Ritter, mit den bedeutenden Spätrenaissance-Fassadenmalereien, die das Allianzwappen des Christoph von Waldkirch († 1570) und der Ursula May (verheiratet 1544) wiedergeben. Christoph von Waldkirch war durch seinen Schwiegervater Benedict May von Rued in den Besitz von dessen Gerichtsherrschaft Marthalen gekommen. Dadurch gehörte sie seit 1561 den Waldkirch von Schaffhausen, welche bis 1780 die Gerichtsherrlichkeit besaßen. Auch der in Schaffhausen geborene Basler Verleger Konrad von Waldkirch (1549–um 1615) entstammte dem Geschlecht.
Die Familie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
Freiherr Johann Theodor von Waldkirch, kurpfalz-bayerischer Oberstjägermeister wurde 1780 von Kurfürst Karl Theodor beauftragt, einen abgezäunten Tiergarten, den heutigen Hirschgarten, in München anzulegen und wurde am 24. Juli 1790 in den Grafenstand erhoben.
Zum Besitz zählten das Gut Schermau in Niederbayern (im Erbgang an die Familie von Malsen gefallen) und Schloss Binau mit Burg Dauchstein am Neckar (1869 verkauft). Ferner Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts kurzzeitig Schloss Kolberg in Altötting.
Mit dem Tod von Graf Maximilian von Waldkirch 1886 in Stuttgart, einem Enkel des Grafen Johann Theodor, erlosch das Geschlecht im Mannesstamme. Mehrere Mitglieder der Familie waren Domherren in Regensburg, Augsburg und Freising, sowie Ordensritter des bayerischen Hausritterorden vom Heiligen Georg. Verwandtschaftliche Beziehungen bestanden im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert u. a. zu den Familien von Riaucour, Göler von Ravensburg, von Venningen, von Malsen-Waldkirch und von Godin.
Stammliste
(nach Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner, 1886)
Johann Theodor Maria Reichsgraf v. Waldkirch (1720–1802) ⚭ Gabriele Freiin von Westernach (um 1735–1791)
Clemens August Graf v. Waldkirch (1757–1840) ⚭ Maria Anna Elisabeth Gräfin von Riaucour (1770–1811)
Friederike Gräfin v. Waldkirch
Gabriele Gräfin v. Waldkirch (1791–1878) ⚭ Freiherr v. Magerl
Maximilian Graf v. Waldkirch (1804–1886) ⚭ I. Friederike Charlotte von Abel; ⚭ II. Stephanie Freiin v. Venningen; ⚭ III. Amalie Lauterwasser
Emma Gräfin v. Waldkirch (1844–1894) ⚭ Ludwig Freiherr Göler von Ravensburg (1833–1894)
Clemens Graf v. Waldkirch (1848–1874)
Klemens August Graf von Waldkirch (1806–1858) ⚭ Mathilde Freiin von Magerl
Amalie Gräfin v. Waldkirch (1841–1845)
Wilhelmine Gräfin v. Waldkirch (1844–1899) ⚭ Ludwig Freiherr von Malsen, Oberstkämmerer
Konrad Freiherr v. Malsen-Waldkirch (1869–1913)
Franz Graf v. Waldkirch (1845–1870)
Irene Gräfin v. Waldkirch ⚭ I. Freiherr Schenk von Stauffenberg; ⚭ II. Freiherr von Godin
Carl Graf v. Waldkirch (1852–1877)
Christoph Graf v. Waldkirch
Maximilian Graf v. Waldkirch (1763–1845) Domherr zu Augsburg
Maria Anna Gräfin v. Waldkirch ⚭ Graf von Preysing
Hubert Clemens Graf v. Waldkirch (1768–…) Domherr zu Regensburg
Johann Baptist Graf v. Waldkirch (1770–1847) Kgl. bay. Generalleutnant
Augustin Theodor Graf v. Waldkirch (1776–1855)
Wappen
Das Wappen der Familie zeigt in Silber eine mit einem goldenen Ring belegte, absteigende, eingebogene schwarze Spitze. Eine Abbildung findet sich in Johann Siebmachers Wappenbuch von 1605. An dem Waldkirchschen Haus (erbaut 1602) in Rheinau ist das Wappen der Erbauer: von Waldkirch–Muntprat angebracht.
Namensträger
Elisabeth von Waldkirch († 1624), Priorin des Dominikanerinnenklosters St. Markus (Markuskloster) in Würzburg
Klemens August Graf von Waldkirch (* 7. Februar 1806; † 15. Dezember 1858), bayerischer Diplomat und Staatsmann
Siehe auch:
Konrad von Malsen-Waldkirch (1869–1913), Gutsbesitzer und Mitglied des Deutschen Reichstags
Literatur
Friedrich Cast: Adelsbuch des Großherzogthums Baden. Stuttgart 1845
Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Stamm-Tafeln des Adels des Großherzogthums Baden. Baden-Baden 1886. Tafel 517–519.
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The Art and Culture Production Centre is located in Kleivan, Vestvagoy Municipality, Lofoten on a quay containing three existing buildings: a fisherman's cottage, a cod liver oil production building, and a cod salting building, all of which were part of a now abandoned fishing village. These buildings date back to the early 1900s and are considered historically important because they are the remains of a form of life prevalent in this region which has disappeared. For these reasons the quay and three buildings have been listed in the "Cultural Heritage Plan for Lofoten" adopted by Nordland county in 2007, thus the external appearance of these buildings can be renovated, but not changed, while the interiors can be modified to cater for new uses. The second part of this project involves the upgrading of the quay, possibly incorporating a new terrace and sauna to provide facilities for those involved in the activities of the Art and Culture Production Centre. The three existing buildings will be renovated to provide facilities for art and cultural production activities as well as residential accommodation. Diverse groups will occupy these facilities for varying periods of time. The Centre is meant to be a public resource and become a reference for similar initiatives throughout the region. The task of the studio is to design plans for the conversion of the quay and its buildings into an Art and Culture Production Centre through the renovation of the interior of the three existing buildings and to design and build a project for the the quay.
Students : Azriel,Mathilde; Bendelac,Ines; Degerth,Tommy; De Santos Sanz,Irene; Egeland,Eline; Gallego-Guiu,Bruguers; Gilberg,Sigrid Bergitte; Godzimirski,Jan Kazimierz; Grometto,Matteo; Jetmundsen,Thea Andrea; Laurila,Marianna; Lomaglio,Matteo; Luken,Lodewijk; Mannsåker,Jon Kåre Mjelde,Ida Helene Holm; Rekstad,Une Tangen; Saludas,Miguel; Schneider,Michelle; Skarphol,Kristine Sommarset, Jonas Aarre; Strassegger,Anna Rosa; Vercruysse,Emiel; Årthun,Maria. Staff: Christian Hermansen, Solveig Sandness, Marcin Wójcik Client: Villa Lofoten.
The landscape, building site quay in the far right.
The Bands's southern end seen from the water.
The Bands showing BBQ, dining table, and the sauna.
The Bands seen from the southern end.
The Bands, sauna seen from above.
The Bands, sauna window reflecting the landscape view.
The Bands, interior of the sauna.
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Small Scenes Repeats
Award-winning Radio 4 sketch series Small Scenes is currently enjoying a repeat season on the station, with TVO regulars Mike Wozniak and Cariad Lloyd amongst the cast.
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The show began life as a one-off pilot in June 2012, featuring the then relative newcomer Wozniak alongside Undercover's Daniel Rigby, stand-up and writer Henry Paker, and W1A's Sara Pascoe. The same team returned for the first series in October 2013, before being joined by Cariad Lloyd for the second series in October 2014.
The third then, has been a long time coming, and in the meantime both Mike and Cariad began frequently collaborating with our long-standing regulars, and were welcomed into our Oniony layers. It's warm in there. Green. Slightly pungent, but oh so inviting.
The show returned for a third run in March 2016, with Pascoe replaced by Jessica Ransom, who you may recognise from roles in Horrible Histories, Zapped or Doc Martin. Paker, Rigby, Lloyd and Wozniak are all back on board. And as we were 'offline' undergoing a massive revamp at the time, we didn't get to shout out loud about it, so we'll take the opportunity to do so now!
The first episode (which is repeated three times this week), features more overblown, melodramatic scenes from modern life, such as a woman who uncovers the conspiracy behind cryptic crosswords, a saxophonist who is tortured by his inability to play the solo from Baker Street and what happens if you buy Chris de Burgh's old house.
Early risers can hear the first episode again on Radio 4 Extra at 7:30am; on their way home from work at 5:30pm on Tuesday 23rd May; or relaxing on the sofa with a cuppa at 10:00pm. Alternatively they can catch it on iPlayer until Thursday 15th June. Episodes are being aired sporadically from past runs, so keep an eye on the Radio 4 mini-site for the series over yonder to find out when.
Daniel Rigby
Mike Wozniak
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Phase-I of Tanzania's Standard Gauge Railway to commence soon
Phase-I of standard gauge railway (SGR) between Dar es Salaam and Morogoro Tanzania is set to commence operations soon.
The procurement process for 1,430 cargo wagons, 20 locomotives, 60 passenger carriages and five sets of multiple trains has been completed paving the way for operations.
The first trials of these speed trains will be conducted in July 2019 to cover part of the 300 km. Once this is done operations will begin by December 2019. The construction of Phase-I will cost USD 1.9 billion. The tests will be the first for the ambitious project that Dar es Salaam has been pushing since April 2017.
In operation, the trains are expected to reach speeds of 160 km per hour.
CCEA nod for 142.97 km new Bongaigaon-Agthori railway line
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Cabinet go ahead for railway connectivity between Allahabad-Mughalsarai
Cairo Metro Line 3 makes headway
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It all begins and ends in Slovenia. In order to ensure the highest quality of the product, we oversee every step of the breeding process: from the farm to the final product. Want more information? Use the app below to find out more. | {
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Dokument Press, out of Sweden, just released this book by Benke Carlsson and Hop Louie. It covers a huge array of street artists: Urban tape sculpturist Mark Jenkins, NYC's Swoon, the UK artist Slinkachu who graffitis snails' shells, Brazilian stencilist Alexandre Orion, our very own Knitta Please and more.
SKY.it posted a video with a sneak peak of Il Lusso Essenziale, the Roman festival I tagged this month. And yes – that's right. My first gallery installation. The video is all in Italian, but the article is handily translated by google here. Thanks Rome, for being good to me. More recap and pictures coming soon. | {
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Březce () jsou vesnice, bývalá obec, dnes část obce Štěpánov v okrese Olomouc v Olomouckém kraj. Leží asi 3 km jižně od centra Štěpánova na pravém břehu řeky Oskavy. Ještě jižněji se u vesnice rozkládá Chomoutovské jezero.
Název
Podoba jména vesnice nebyla v průběhu dějin pevně ustálená, neboť se střídala jména Březce, Březí a Břest. Nejstarší písemný doklad je z roku 1276 a má podobu Bresci, což odpovídá snad tvaru (v) Břestci, podoba prvního pádu by tedy byla Břestek či Břestec. Břest bylo staré pojmenování jilmu, podle jehož výskytu byla vesnice pojmenována.
Historie
První písemná zmínka o Březcích pochází z roku 1276, kdy patřily klášteru Hradisko. Opat dal vesnici obecní zřízení, které je zaznamenáno v obecní kronice, vedené už od roku 1732. Po zrušení kláštera roku 1784 byly spravovány státním náboženským fondem a v roce 1826 je koupil hrabě Filip Ludvík Saint Genois. Ovšem už od roku 1850 tvořily Březce samostatnou obec v politickém okresu Olomouc-venkov. Obyvatelé se živili převážně zemědělstvím, část ve štěpánovských železárnách, v samotné obci fungovala od roku 1929 slévárna šedé litiny J. Pfoffa. V roce 1960 byly připojeny k obci Štěpánov a v roce 1994 byla ve vesnici dokončena plynofikace.
Památky
Dominantu obce tvoří barokní kaple svatého Jana Nepomuckého postavená roku 1839. Jedná se o jednolodní stavbu s vysokou hranolovou věží, na jejímž vrcholu je pevně usazená lucerna na níž se tyčí zlatý kříž. V neděli 21. července 2013 byl slavnostně vysvěcen a zavěšen do věže zdejší kaple nový zvon o hmotnosti 128 kg a je zasvěcen sv. Janu Nepomuckému.
Mezi další památky patří sousoší kalvárie vystavěné kolem roku 1828. Na jižním konci vesnice u podjezdu je vystavěna trojhraná boží muka, na jejímž vrcholu se tyčí železný kříž. V obci se též nachází pomník obětem druhé světové války.
Galerie
Reference
Externí odkazy
Vesnice v okrese Olomouc
Štěpánov (okres Olomouc)
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Topics Arts and Humanities
Date August 31, 2020 2020-08-31
Jill Kimball
With COVID-19 archives, Brown students, faculty and staff aim to diversify the historical record
In the midst of the first global pandemic of the digital age, historians and archivists, both at Brown and across the globe, have launched countless efforts to record history in the making.
Students in Kristen Iemma's spring course collected events and posts from Facebook, photos of campus and screenshots of University communications to create a historical archive of Brown students' experiences during the pandemic.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In March 2020, Kristen Iemma realized her spring course, "Archival Interventions," could use an intervention of its own.
Iemma, a doctoral candidate in American studies at Brown, began the course in January by exploring issues of memory, race and exclusion in archives, confronting a range of questions about the role of power in the creation of the historical record.
Two months later, when the University moved classes entirely online to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, Iemma realized the perfect case study was staring her right in the face.
"As things began to escalate with the pandemic in March, it became clear that the original final assignment for the class — a traditional 8- to 10-page paper — didn't really seem to fit anymore," Iemma said. "I gave my students the option to collectively design and build a digital archive of the pandemic. It seemed like we had a tremendous opportunity to employ a semester's worth of very applicable readings and discussions in the creation of a digital archive, and my students agreed."
The five students in the course ultimately decided that their archive would focus on the pandemic experiences of undergraduates at Brown. They scraped content from student group websites, University resources and social media accounts in an attempt to tell a comprehensive, inclusive story about students' experiences, feelings and hardships in the midst of an unprecedented time. Using the open-source web publishing platform Omeka, they built a publicly accessible repository for their archive, which continues to grow every week. So far, the archive contains more than 900 items, from screenshots to photos to confessional Facebook posts.
"I think my students have done a brilliant job of creating a space to record their own experiences and that of their peers, an archive truly by and for Brown undergraduates," Iemma said.
The students' archive includes a timeline tracking events related to the pandemic at Brown.
In the midst of the first global pandemic of the digital age, historians and archivists, both at Brown and across the globe, have launched countless efforts to record history in the making. Typically, scholars are many years removed from the artifacts they collect and must infer patterns from whatever fraction of information has survived. But this time, they are aiming to preserve a diversity of ephemeral content — Instagram stories, ever-changing websites, now-deleted tweets — that could provide future historians with rare insight into the changing public mood over the course of the pandemic.
Iemma's archival intervention is just one of many current efforts by students, faculty and staff at Brown to capture and preserve stories from the COVID-19 pandemic as it unfolds.
Brown's Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women recorded conversations about the pandemic with female, transgender and nonbinary University community members as part of the Pembroke Center Oral History Project. Kate Mason, a medical anthropologist at Brown, partnered with colleagues at the University of Connecticut to launch the Pandemic Journaling Project, which collects journal entries in text, audio or photo form submitted by members of the public worldwide to aid current and future research about this era. And the Brown Library is building a pandemic collection in its Digital Repository in part by soliciting contributions to a COVID-19 community archive, which they hope will feature pandemic-related podcasts, artwork, poems and more from the Brown community.
"This is an extraordinary moment in world history and in Brown history, because it's something we are all experiencing together," said University Archivist Jennifer Betts, who is part of the library's effort to record the events of the pandemic. "We wanted to seize the opportunity to capture a wide range of experiences of students, faculty, staff and alumni at different points during the pandemic. It's critical to capture that raw emotion people are experiencing right now."
Anticipating scholars' needs
In April, when the Brown Library prepared to launch its community archive, not many other colleges and universities had begun to embark on similar projects — so Betts and Andrew Majcher, the library's head of digital services and records management, looked to local governments and nonprofit organizations that serve underrepresented groups, such as domestic violence resource centers, for cues on how to begin the work.
Twenty-six female, transgender and nonbinary students, staff and alumni have shared their pandemic experiences in interviews as part of the Pembroke Center Oral History Project.
"Just before we switched to remote operations, just as we were beginning to grasp the magnitude of this pandemic, I thought, 'How do we capture what's going on right now?'" Majcher said. "It was just me at first — I was grabbing screenshots and data from the University website and all the University press releases. When we started thinking about collecting people's stories, we had to ask difficult questions that other organizations have to ask all the time: When do we ask permission to include content? What's the statute of limitations on keeping stories anonymous?"
Majcher and Betts were assisted by Robin Ness, a senior library specialist at Brown. Ness had spent several months as a graduate student delving into the University archives to understand how the 1918 influenza pandemic played out on College Hill.
"It was interesting to get her take on what she thought would be important for future researchers — what people will want to look at 20 or 50 years from now," Majcher said.
To understand the emotional, psychological and human toll of the 1918 pandemic, Majcher said, academics have relied heavily on handwritten letters exchanged between friends and family members during that trying time. He believes gathering similarly conversational, confessional thoughts during this paperless 21st century pandemic could prove more challenging.
"The real, honest communication that's happening right now is happening in so many different formats — through text messages, Facebook chats and Zoom calls," Majcher said. "To collect that, we have to be proactive. We have to put the idea of capturing thoughts in people's heads now. Most of this communication isn't tangible like a letter, so it could disappear."
That's precisely why, he said, the library is asking for submissions of any kind from members of the Brown community — journal entries, "quaranzines," memes, research papers and everything in between.
While this is the first time the University has proactively collected stories about a major world event, people at Brown have a long history of gathering personal accounts that they believed could aid researchers in more fully understanding turbulent times on campus, Betts said. Since 2010, the library has maintained a Vietnam Veterans Archive, which features interviews with Brown alumni who served in the Vietnam War, scans of their personal correspondence, photos and more. And more recently, the Pembroke Center commemorated the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Black Student Walkout by collecting oral histories and photos from alumnae who participated.
Centering diverse perspectives
As helpful as it can be to hear people's recollections of significant historical events many decades later, those who study the past agree it's more difficult to gauge the zeitgeist of an era after it has receded from view. That's largely because most surviving accounts of times of global upheaval come from public records, such as speeches and newspaper op-eds, or from private letters. In both cases, the wealthy, powerful and highly educated classes are overrepresented, and the experiences of average people are often lost.
"Historians are always trying to figure out what people on the ground were feeling," said Mason, an assistant professor of anthropology at Brown. "That's difficult because history is usually written by the powerful. People who are well-educated and in positions of power tend to be the ones who leave tangible records."
Mason, who has studied the SARS and H1N1 influenza epidemics in China, wanted to make sure scholars like her had the tools to tell a more diverse story about the COVID-19 pandemic. So she partnered with University of Connecticut anthropologist Sarah Willen to create the Pandemic Journaling Project, a website that lets anyone with a smartphone chronicle their pandemic experiences however they like.
The Pandemic Journaling Project, co-founded by Brown anthropologist Kate Mason, shares excerpts from some users' journal entries on its Instagram page.
"Part of what we wanted to do was collect information in real time, in an organized way, so that historians in the future can read about this time from a wider range of people," Mason said. "My colleague asked historians, 'If you could pre-design an archive on this pandemic, what information would you want included?' A lot of them answered: 'We want to reach the most affected populations: low-income people, essential workers, people of color.' This is the result: A journal you can use even if you don't have a computer, even if you don't speak English, even if you don't want to write."
After visiting the Pandemic Journaling Project website, Mason said, first-time participants are asked to fill out a 6-minute survey about themselves, their views and their household's experiences with the novel coronavirus. Then, once a week, they receive a text message or email prompting them to answer two questions using photos, an audio recording or text. The first question asks people to chronicle their feelings and experiences over the last week in whatever form they prefer. The second question changes each week; past prompts have called on participants to address changes in their jobs, family life or mental health in the midst of the pandemic.
Mason said all participants' personal details are kept confidential. And unless participants wish to share their journals immediately on the Pandemic Journaling Project website, their responses will be stored in a secure data repository and will only be made available to researchers through a data-use agreement on a case by case basis, After 25 years, the entire collection of journals will be converted into a publicly accessible historical archive and donated to the libraries at Brown and the University of Connecticut.
Mason said she hopes the feeling of anonymity encourages participants to respond as candidly as possible.
"We desperately want to know what people are experiencing right now, but we don't want to be intrusive," Mason said. "We'll miss so much if we call people up and ask them for a formal interview. This is a way to allow people to share what they want to share, however they want to share it, as they try to grapple with so many serious and overwhelming challenges."
Mason, Iemma and Brown Library staff are all hopeful that their efforts to gather diverse snapshots of life in the era of COVID-19 will help future historians paint a nuanced, inclusive portrait of this unique moment.
"There was a real sense of urgency in the creation of this archive, a desire to ensure that as many voices as possible were represented," Iemma said of her students' spring project. "Things have changed so much over the past five months, and it seems crucial to capture those changes, whether they are material, emotional, or otherwise, as best we can."
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How to find the recipe to a good life, according to a Brown philosopher
Professor of Philosophy Bernard Reginster argues that the key to well-being isn't a new meditation routine or a tropical vacation — it's a willingness to ask tough questions about what defines a life well-lived.
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In Archaeology of College Hill course, Brown students dig up Rhode Island history
Since 2015, students at Brown have been excavating a 19th-century Providence family home — unearthing stories about the booming local textile industry, the European immigrant experience and life in the Gilded Age.
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Through workshops, grants and partnerships, Brown Arts Institute deepens ties with local artists
In recent years, BAI has cultivated close, long-term relationships with Providence-area creators through financial assistance, workshops and residencies — enriching the art scene and bolstering learning at Brown.
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This is a beach that you reach by walking in from the Boranup Forest. 4WD tracks will get you part of the way there, but the tracks are pretty rough. The Cape to Cape track at this point is inland, so this beach has very few people on it, not even Cape to Cape walkers.
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Much like a skyscraper or stadium, a company is only as strong as the bonds between all its parts and the strength of its foundation. PSSI has become Southern California's most trusted concrete firm by assembling a dedicated team of unmatched experts who are driven by an intense personal pride in their crafts. With PSSI, clients gain the collective knowledge and expertise of our team of carpenters, foremen, engineers, project managers and superintendents who are masters of their craft. Guiding them, PSSI's leadership team ensures your vision is executed down to the last detail.
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Kathleen's research interests include earnings management, auditor reporting, non-financial performance indicators, and issues in accounting for biological assets and income tax.
Kathleen Herbohn is a lecturer in financial accounting. She has a PhD from the University of Adelaide concerned with full cost environmental accounting by organisations managing multiple purpose natural resources. Kathleen's other research interests include earnings management, auditor reporting, accounting for income taxes and accounting for biological assets.
Kathleen is a co-author on the twelfth edition of the Issues in Financial Accounting textbook and an editor of a book published by Edward Elgar (Cheltenham, UK) on Sustainable Small-Scale Forestry: Socio-Economic Analysis.
Her publications have appeared in various journal including Accounting, Organizations and Society, The British Accounting Review, Accounting Research Journal and The Australian Accounting Review. Kathleen has previously been a staff member at James Cook University.
Henderson, Scott, Peirson, Graham, Herbohn, Kathy, Artiach, Tracy and Howieson, Bryan Issues in financial accounting 16th ed. Frenchs Forest, NSW, Australia: Pearson Australia, 2017.
Henderson, Scott, Peirson, Graham, Herbohn, Kathy, Artiach, Tracy and Howieson, Bryan Issues in financial accounting 15th ed. Frenchs Forest, Australia: Pearson Australia, 2014.
Henderson, Scott, Peirson, Graham and Herbohn, Kathy Issues in financial accounting 14th ed. ed. Frenchs Forest, NSW, Australia: Pearson Australia Group, 2010.
Henderson, S., Peirson, G. and Herbohn, K. Issues in Financial Accounting 13th ed. Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: Pearson Education Australia, 2008.
Henderson, S., Peirson, G. and Herbohn, K. F. Issues in Financial Accounting 12th ed. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2006.
Herbohn, K. F., Harrison, S.R. and Herbohn, J. L. (2001). The Inclusion of Non-Wood Benefits in Reporting Systems of Forest Enterprise. In S.R. Harrison and J.L. Herbohn (Ed.), Sustainable Farm Forestry in the Tropics: Social and Economic Analysis and Policy (pp. 161-176) UK: Edward Elgar.
Harrison, S. R., Herbohn, J. F. and Herbohn, K. F. (2000). New horizons in sustainable small-scale foresting. In S. R. Harrison, J. L. Herbohn and K. F. Herbohn (Ed.), Sustainable small-scale forestry: Socio-economic analysis and policy (pp. 227-242) Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Herbohn, K. F., Harrison, S. R. and Herbohn, J. L. (2000). Reforestation progress and forestry incentive schemes in Australia. In S. R. Harrison, J. L. Herbohn and K. F. Herbohn (Ed.), Sustainable small-scale forestry: Socio-economic analysis and policy (pp. 215-224) Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Gammie, Elizabeth, Herbohn, Kathleen and Whiting, Rosalind (2010) Women in accountancy: prospects for partnership. CA Magazine, 114 1253: 79-81.
Herbohn, K. (2009) A preliminary investigation of the reporting of forest assets under international financial reporting standards. Eine erste studie zur rechnungslegung forstwirtschaftlicher vermogenswerte nach internationalen rechnungslegungstandards. Centralblatt fuer das Gesamte Forstwesen, 126 1-2: 21-37.
Hartebrodt, C., Herbohn, K. F. and Herbohn, J. L. (2009) Multidimensional performance measurement systems – A promising approach for the management of enterprises and administrations in the forest sector? – Results of a case study in comparison with findings in US-American administrations. Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung (Journal for Forestry and Forest Science ), 180 1-2: 22-35.
Herbohn, K. F., Ke, Y. and Tutticci, I. (2008) IFRS: Irritating, frustrating and really silly?. Intheblack, 60-62.
Herbohn, K. F. (2006) Accounting for SGARAs: A stocktake of accounting practice before compliance with AASB141 'Agriculture'. Australian Accounting Review, 16 2: 62-76.
Herbohn, Kathleen F. and Henderson, Scott (2002) Forestry managers' perceptions of the feasibility of incorporating non-market value estimates into financial environmental reporting. Economic Analysis and Policy, 32 2: 131-153.
Elad, C. and Herbohn, K. F. (2010). Implementing the fair value accounting in the agricultural sector: IAS41 and the comparability of corporate farm accounting practice in Australia, France and the UK. In: Michael Jones and Richard Slack, Proceedings of the Financial Reporting and Business Communication Conference. Financial Reporting and Business Communication Conference : 14th Annual Conference, Bristol, UK, (). 1-2 July 2010.
Herbohn, Kathleen, Tan, Johanan and Tutticci, Irene (2010). Missing pre-tax earnings benchmarks: Does the market care?. In: 2010 AFAANZ Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, (1-37). 4-6 July 2010.
Herbohn, K., Tutticci, I. and Khor, P. S. (2008). Changes in unrecognised deferred tax accruals from carry-forward losses: Opportunism or signalling?. In: 2008 AFAANZ/IAAR Conference. 2008 AFAANZ/IAAR Conference, Sydney, Australia, (1-38). 6-8 July 2008.
Hartebrodt, C., Herbohn, J. L. and Herbohn, K. F. (2007). Non-Financial performance measures in the Black Forest. In: Fifth Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting (APIRA) Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, (). 8-10 July 2007.
Chang, Cheryl, Herbohn, Kathleen and Tutticci, Irene (2006). The market's perception of the reliability of deferred tax accruals. In: 2006 Annual Conference Program & Abstracts. AFAANZ 2006 Annual Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, (). 2-4 July 2006.
Herbohn, K. F. (2005). International accounting standards: How adequately are forest assets reported in the balance sheet and income statement?. In: J.L. Innes, I.K. Edwards and D.J. Wilford, The International Forestry Review: Forests in the Balance: Linking Tradition and Technology. XXII International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) World Congress, Brisbane, (298-298). 8-13 August, 2005.
Herbohn, K. F., Ragunathan, V. and Garsden, R. J. (2005). Stock market reaction to modified audit reports. In: P. Gray and E. Margiolis, 2005 Annual Conference Program & Abstracts. AFAANZ 2005 Conference, Melbourne, (117-117). 3-5 July, 2005.
Herbohn, John L., Harrison, Steve R. and Herbohn, Kathleen F. (2001). Encouraging Greater Participation in Farm Forestry and the Role of Socio-Economic Research. In: J. L. Herbohn, S. R. Harrison, K. F. Herbohn and D. B. Smorfitt, Developing Policies to Encourage Small-Scale Forestry. Developing Policies to Encourage Small-Scale Forestry: the 10th International Symposium held by IUFRO Research Group 3.08, Kuranda, (132-136). 9-13 January 2000.
Herbohn, K.F., Dargusch, P. and Herbohn, J.L. (2010) Accounting for and reporting of carbon: Opportunities lost or a brave new future?. Research Report for 2009 Research Grant, , National Institute of Accountants.
Elad, C. and Herbohn, K. F. (2009). Implementing Fair Value Accounting in the Agricultural Sector: The UK, Australia and France. Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland: Edinburgh. | {
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The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) today arrested four persons and seized over 150 pounds of marijuana on the Essequibo Coast.
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Schaaf, Oakland's "Girl Scout Barracuda," to run for mayor
Becca Andrews on December 5, 2013
On a rainy Wednesday, Oakland City Councilmember Libby Schaaf rushed into Laurel Elementary School, staving off any signs of exhaustion from the previous night's late council meeting. There, potential student council members waited to hear her advice regarding their campaigns.
Known for both her cheery, social nature and her dogged pursuit of political agendas, Schaaf, who recently announced her plan to run for mayor in 2014, has become an increasingly influential figure in Oakland politics.
"If anyone can do that job well and do it justice, it would be Libby," said Shereda Nosakhare, a policy analyst in Schaaf's office.
That morning, Schaaf entered the classroom in her standard dress: black blouse and skirt, black tights and shoes, conservative makeup, hair in its usual twist. Her standout accessory of choice – wooden oak tree earrings from Oaklandish – appear almost comically large against her face.
As the students lobbed questions about everything from how to gain supporters to fair campaigning, Schaaf was authoritative but warm, referring to the kids as "sir" and "ma'am," and using big, animated hand motions to accentuate her points.
"I'll tell you something not many people know," she said, leaning in slightly toward her audience. "When I was a senior at Skyline High School, I ran for class president. And I lost."
The loss was an unusual setback for Schaaf, who, at 48, has led an unusually clean career in Oakland politics.
In 1999, Schaaf transitioned from nonprofit work to chief of staff of Ignacio de la Fuente, who was then council president, and went on to serve as a top aide to Mayor Jerry Brown, and then as an executive for the Port of Oakland. Her knowledge of policy and her concern for Oakland's school system led her to run for City Council, and she was elected to represent District 4 in 2010.
Nicknamed the "Girl Scout barracuda" by an unnamed colleague in City Hall, Schaaf can manage to seem disarmingly accessible, but said she doesn't shy away from being aggressive in debates around key issues.
"I do like to keep it positive, but when people need to be held accountable, they need to be held accountable," Schaaf said. "So I can be pretty persistent in a way that not everyone finds pleasant."
A self-proclaimed "data nerd," Schaaf has become known for pushing innovative technological solutions to long-standing Oakland problems, like crime. "She really was determined to figure out how we can add more police to our force," Nosakhare recalls. "That was something she was more aggressive about when it came down to the budget back in June."
Last year, Schaaf also applied for Oakland to become a "Code for America city," beginning a partnership that resulted in RecordTrac, a program that allows users to request public records online.
RecordTrac shows those seeking records where to find them — even if they aren't filed under the City of Oakland. The process by which such requests are filled can also be tracked through the program, which will give city government feedback as to whether records searches are going smoothly. The program is designed to allow users to explore all past records requests by anyone who has used the program.
Schaaf has also continued to lobby for more community policing, which she sees as a key solution to reducing Oakland crime.
"We know that community policing works, that good policing is about preventing crime from being committed in the first place; it's not about running after someone after they've committed a crime and arresting them and throwing them in jail," Schaaf said. "That requires good relationships in the community."
Staffers say that Schaaf's schedule is often so busy that she will work into the night doing research for current policy, answering emails or working on her newsletter. "One thing I would change is I want her to sleep more," Nosakhare said, noting that she and others often wake to find emails sent by Schaaf at 3 or 4a.m.
After her stop at Laurel Elementary, Schaaf made her way to a gun buyback press conference at Youth Uprising, a teen center in East Oakland that aims to reduce violence through educating the next generation.
Mingling afterward, she was everyone's best friend, hugging people, taking pictures, insisting that they should catch up over lunch soon. She was also repeatedly encouraged to pursue her entry into the mayoral race, even though she had yet to officially announce her candidacy.
When Schaaf politely shook off the congratulations offered by Olis Simmons, CEO and president of Youth Uprising, calling it premature, Simmons rolled her eyes.
"Everyone knows," she said with a grin.
As a girl, Schaaf was raised to be active in her community. Her mother was a frequent volunteer who along with her daughter co-founded Oakland Cares, a nonprofit that acts as a gateway into volunteerism, encouraging its participants to participate in neighborhood cleanups and after-school programs.
Her godmother, Mary Lawrence, was the first woman hired as a professional photographer by the Associated Press in the 1930s.
"She was a real glass-ceiling breaker and was involved in local politics—particularly the attempt to put the Equal Rights Amendment as a constitutional amendment," Schaaf says. "She took me to rallies, and I particularly remember her taking me to hear [social justice advocate] Angela Glover Blackwell at an event sponsored by the League of Women Voters, and just feeling like if Angela were a minister, I would worship at her church."
It was a feeling Schaaf could not let go of, and it inspired her to make the transition from her early work as a lawyer into politics, a place she felt she could make more of a difference in the issues she was truly passionate about.
"I grew up with a mother that volunteered all the time all over the community in Oakland, and she dragged me around with her," Schaaf said. "I think you absorb things as a child, you learn things by being exposed to different communities, different organizations, different ideas, so I know in my own upbringing it enriched my life, so I'm hopeful that my children will look back and find the same."
The work hasn't always been easy. The previous night, Schaaf presided over a contentious city council meeting that focused on the creation of a controversial Domain Awareness Center, a surveillance program that would collect data from all over the city to be analyzed by the Oakland Police Department, and which is tentatively slated to start this summer.
Speaking to The New York Times, Schaaf defended the DAC, arguing that "it's our responsibility to take advantage of new tools that become available" in response to Oakland's infamous crime rates – while also acknowledging that the center would be able to "paint a pretty detailed picture of someone's personal life, someone who may be innocent."
At the council meeting, Schaaf spoke over loud chants and shouts from protesters who oppose the DAC, but rarely seemed flustered. She noted that many details of the surveillance plan were still open to debate.
"We could require that this center never records, ever," Schaaf added. "That is an option."
She also encouraged disputers to check out a crowd-sourced map Oaklanders put together that depicts the locations of cameras that are already in use.
Afterward, Schaaf said the protesters hadn't upset her.
"I don't blame them for being really frustrated last night, because they had to sit and wait for four hours for one unsatisfying minute at the microphone," she said. "That's not deliberation, that's not meaningful public participation." She paused. "Generally, when people are mad at their government, it's for a really good reason."
Correction: Olis Simmons, CEO and President of Youth Uprising, said that as the leader of a non-profit organization, she doesn't endorse political candidates. An earlier version of this story incorrectly suggested she had endorsed the mayoral candidacy of Libby Schaaf.
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Marga on December 5, 2013 at 10:10 pm
For a self-proclaimed "data nerd", Schaaf is quick to ignore data when it conflicts with her political agenda. Take, for example, the data that shows that surveillance cameras are extremely ineffective tools to either prevent or solve crimes. I've summarized and provided links to the studies here: http://sanleandrotalk.voxpublica.org/2013/09/13/surveillance-cameras-dont-work-against-crime/
The two major studies are actually meta-analyses conducted by the British Home Office of the effectiveness of the 4.2 million cameras in London. I know that the results were shared with the Oakland City Council, the ACLU brought them up for one, so Schaaf is well aware of them.
Now, I understand that she needs to appeal to her base and she feels she can do so by supporting more surveillance. But calling herself a data geek and then rejecting data when she doesn't like what it says is dishonest.
Len Raphael on December 5, 2013 at 10:58 pm
This reads sounded like a press release written by her campaign. I particularly like the objective quote from her own staffer..
That's fine if this is the first in a series boostering each of the candidates for mayor. Otherwise, it's sophomoric journalism.
livegreen on December 5, 2013 at 11:59 pm
Yeah, I noticed that too Len.
Len Raphael on December 14, 2013 at 5:28 pm
aka a "puff piece"
harvey on December 6, 2013 at 8:29 am
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Room-Temperature Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
K. S. Novoselov1,
Z. Jiang2,3,
Y. Zhang2,
S. V. Morozov1,
H. L. Stormer2,
U. Zeitler4,
J. C. Maan4,
G. S. Boebinger3,
P. Kim2,*,
A. K. Geim1,*
1 Department of Physics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
2 Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
3 National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA.
4 High Field Magnet Laboratory, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands.
↵* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pkim{at}phys.columbia.edu (P.K.); geim{at}man.ac.uk (A.K.G.)
Science 09 Mar 2007:
Vol. 315, Issue 5817, pp. 1379
K. S. Novoselov
Department of Physics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Z. Jiang
Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA.
Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
S. V. Morozov
H. L. Stormer
U. Zeitler
High Field Magnet Laboratory, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands.
J. C. Maan
G. S. Boebinger
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA.
P. Kim
A. K. Geim
The quantum Hall effect (QHE), one example of a quantum phenomenon that occurs on a truly macroscopic scale, has attracted intense interest since its discovery in 1980 and has helped elucidate many important aspects of quantum physics. It has also led to the establishment of a new metrological standard, the resistance quantum. Disappointingly, however, the QHE has been observed only at liquid-helium temperatures. We show that in graphene, in a single atomic layer of carbon, the QHE can be measured reliably even at room temperature, which makes possible QHE resistance standards becoming available to a broader community, outside a few national institutions.
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By K. S. Novoselov, Z. Jiang, Y. Zhang, S. V. Morozov, H. L. Stormer, U. Zeitler, J. C. Maan, G. S. Boebinger, P. Kim, A. K. Geim
Science 09 Mar 2007 : 1379
The quantum Hall effect, usually seen near 0 degrees kelvin, occurs at room temperature within single graphene sheets, in which the charge carriers behave as massive relativistic particles. | {
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On this page, find resources for one-off lessons or multiple lessons about critical literacy and fake news. There are also links to quizzes and videos which you could use as a short activity within a lesson.
If you want advice on how to approach this subject, check out our guide to teaching secondary students about fake news.
This set of three lesson plans was developed to support lessons about extremism and terrorism online. Aimed at Year 9, the lessons help pupils to explore concepts of democracy, rule of law and rights and responsibilities in the context of media reporting about Islam and Islamophobia.
This pack produced by ACT includes three lesson plans, a teacher guide and student resources. The lessons support students to think critically and independently about issues facing the UK.
The BBC have provided a range of resources and lesson plans to help you teach fake news including an Evidence Toolkit aimed to help 16 to 18-year-olds improve their critical thinking by analysing a variety of news articles.
The Economist Educational Foundation's Burnet News Club provides a six-hour scheme of work on a news topic every half term.
First News Education delivers tailored learning tools to develop students' literacy skills at KS3 through the exploration of weekly worldwide news stories.
This set of three lessons from ChildNet (and quality assured by The PSHE Association) is designed to develop students' critical thinking skills online. It covers extreme content, propaganda and contact with others online.
A plan from Media Smart which could be used for a lesson or assembly. The plan is aimed at KS3 and designed both to help pupils understand the world of advertising and to provide a place to discuss ideas about body image.
A series of four lesson plans for Key Stage 4 from The PSHE Association with a specific focus on addressing extremism and radicalisation of all kinds.
The Times news literacy programme provides downloadable lesson plans which feature real journalism and gives students the skills to differentiate fake news, fact and opinion.
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This three minute video from the BBC uses the example of a real 'story' to illustrate the issue of fake news and why it can be so hard to spot.
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This game, developed by JoLT, shows students a range of news articles and asks them to judge whether they are true or false.
The Guardian Education Centre provides a range of activity ideas which teachers can use to support their students in learning more about how to critically read the news.
These discussion cards can be used to help support pupils' critical thinking about articles in any subject.
These free workshops are delivered in school by trained Thomson Reuters journalists. They aim to build students' skills in judging what to trust online, enabling them to stay safe and engage more in news and current affairs.
These free workshops are hosted at The Guardian Education Centre in London. A range of workshops are offered, focused on topics relating to news, multimedia and history.
The Student View places leading journalists from over 20 publications in schools, delivers in-person media literacy workshops and publishes pupils' views on their platform.
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The Eurasian Bittern or Great Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
This species was first described as Ardea stellaris by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758. The genus name Botaurus was given by English naturalist James Francis Stephens and is the Latin for bittern, and also bull, because the bittern's call resembles the bellowing of a bull. The specific epithet, stellata, is the Latin for starry, in reference to its speckled plumage. Its folk names include "barrel-maker", "bog-bull", "bog hen", "bog-trotter" and "mire drum", mainly with reference to its voice or habitat. The Norfolk name "butterbump" refers to its high fat content when eaten as food.
Bitterns are thickset herons with bright, pale, buffy-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars, similar in appearance to the to the American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosa. The Eurasian or Great Bittern is 69–81 cm (27–32 in) in length, with a 100–130 cm (39–51 in) wingspan and a body mass of 0.87–1.94 kg (1.9–4.3 lb). Their most distinctive feature is the males song in spring - a loud, very deep "boom" which can be heard for about 5 km from the bird.
Distribution in Europe as a whole is estimated at 20-44,000 males. It usually inhabits Phragmites reedbeds. The population is declining in much of its temperate European and Asian range. It is resident in the milder west and south, but migrates south from areas where the water freezes in winter. In the UK, the main areas are Lancashire and East Anglia with an estimated 44 breeding pairs. In Ireland it died out as a breeding species in the mid-19th century, but in 2011 a single bird was spotted in County Wexford.
Besides the Eurasian race, Botaurus s. stellaris, another race, Botaurus s. capensis exists in southern Africa, which occurs sparingly in marshes of the east coast, the Okavango Delta and the upland foothills of the Drakensberg. The southern race suffered catastrophic decline during the 20th century due to wetland degradation, and unlike the northern race it is of highest conservation concern.
Usually solitary, the Great Bittern forages in reedbeds, walking stealthily or remaining still above a body of water where prey may occur. If it senses that it has been seen, it points its bill directly upwards and becomes motionless so that its cryptic plumage causes it to blend into the surrounding reeds: an action known as bitterning. It is most active at dawn and dusk.
Males are polygamous with each mating with up to five females. The nest is built in the previous year's standing reeds and consists of a platform some 30 cm across. Four or five eggs are laid in late March and April and incubated by the female bird. After hatching, the chicks spend about two weeks in the nest and then disperse amongst the reeds.
Bitterns feed on fish, eels, amphibians and invertebrates, hunting along the reed margins in shallow water.
The mating call or contact call of the male is a deep fog-horn or bull-like boom, easily audible from a distance of 2 or 3 miles on a calm night. This call is mainly given between January and April. Surveys of Eurasian Bitterns are carried out by noting the number of distinct male booms in a given area.
Eurasian Bittern is proposed as a rational explanation behind the mythical creature drekavac in short story Brave Mita and drekavac from the pond by Branko Ćopić.
The species is mentioned in George Crabbe's 1810 narrative poem The Borough, to emphasise the ostracised, solitary life of the poem's villain, Peter Grimes:
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Gave from the Salt-ditch side the bellowing boom:"
Thomas McDonagh the Irish poet executed for his part in the Easter Rising translated a famous Gaelic poem of Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna "The Yellow Bittern" (An Bonnán Buí in the Irish). His friend and fellow poet Francis Ledwidge wrote a celebrated "Lament for Thomas McDonagh" with the opening line He shall not hear the bittern cry.
In the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the villain Stapleton proposes the boom of a Bittern as an explanation for the howl attributed to the mystical hound.
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I got home from work one day feeling particularly frazzled. It had been a stressful day, for whatever reason, and I desperately needed a way to wind down and switch off from the day. I tried my usual technique of going for a brisk walk around the block, but this did nothing to calm me down. I tried watching TV to distract me, but this didn't help either. After wandering around in a hapless manner for a while, I decided that the only thing that would relax me was baking. I wanted the soothing reassurance of putting ingredients together and seeing them transform into something else. And I decided that baking bread would do the trick. There is something about the process of mixing the dough, kneading it into submission, then watching it rise, that I knew would provide the calming effect I was after.
I read in a recipe book once that bread just needs flour, a yeast and a liquid, but these can come from all sorts of different ingredients. You could include things like beer for the yeast, and milk instead of water for the liquid. So when I make bread, I get tempted to chuck all sorts of things in. This time, I experimented with adding an egg to enrich the dough, and natural yoghurt for the moisture, both of which helped to make the dough silky and soft. I used several flours too – mostly wholemeal, but mixed with some plain flour to lighten it slightly. I also used a little bit of Emmer flour, made from an ancient variety of wheat, that gives an interesting nutty taste to the bread. At the end of the evening, the act of inhaling the wholesome, homely, comforting smell of freshly baked bread was exactly what I needed.
First, activate the yeast. But 300ml of warm water in a jug, and mix in the yeast, sugar and 1 tsp flour. Leave for 15 minutes until it starts to froth. Put the flours in a large bowl. Add the olive oil, salt, yoghurt and egg and mix together. Pour over the yeast mixture and leave to soak in for a minute or so. Bring the mixture together into a dough, and knead for 10 minutes, until a soft, supple dough forms. Put the dough back into the bowl, cover with a tea towel and leave in a warm place to rise for 1 hour, or until doubled in size. Knead briefly again, then shape into a loaf and place on a floured baking tray. Leave to rise again for half an hour.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to the highest setting (around 250C). Cut slashes in the bread with a knife – this helps it to rise in the oven. Brush the loaf with beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake for 15 minutes, then turn the oven down to 180C and bake for a further 30-40 minutes. Check if the bread is done by tapping the bottom – if it sounds hollow then it's ready, if not return to the oven for a further 10 minutes.
Try a slice straight from the oven with a ridiculous amount of butter.
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a big development in the search for a police chief in the bay area's largest city. tonight, we have learned that a well-known bay area chief is a finalist for the job. good evening, i'm maureen naylor. heather holmes is off tonight. >> and the other candidate reportedly is san jose's interrum police chief, chris moore. when asked in an e-mail where he was a candidate, oakland police responded to ktvu simply
stating, "yes, he is and that no decision has been made." he took over as oakland's police chief back in 2009 and has a three-year contract, but can take another job if he chooses. if he is chosen, then he will become san jose's first african american police chief. they plan to announce a new chief by the end of next month. there is a new twist in a decade-long mystery in the south bay. today, we learned last night's murder suicide in san jose is linked to the 2001 disexperience of a woman. police said that the woman's brother killed the main suspect in her disappearance. we have team coverage beginning with ktvu, jean garcia. >> reporter: they found 52-year- old, wwith what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. sanchez is the brother of harms, a woman who went missing in 2001 and is presumed dead.
investigators say earlier that night that sanchez was inside the red robin restaurant and ran into the 46-year-old, the man who was arrested for his sister's murder, but later released because of lack of evidence. >> during the course of that conversation, the suspect accused the victim of playing a part in the murder of harms, and harms was murdered in 2001. >> reporter: police say that sanchez left red robin for a short time and returned. that's when he went to pete's coffee. sanchez followed him. >> they had another conversation which the suspect produced a weapon and shot and killed the suspect. >> he left and shot himself outside. police are looking to revenge as the motive, investigating whether sanchez was armed inside red robin or left, retrieved a weapon, and returned to the scene. >> fairly obviously this is linked to further investigation.
hopefully we'll reveal more detail whether this was planned or just a chance of encounter. >> reporter: we contacted sanchez's father, but he was too shaken up to talk. san jose police have notified the police department because that department is the one that is working on the case. in san jose, ktvu, channel 2 news. the violence comes as her family was preparing to mark the tenth anniversary of the daughter's disappearance. ktvu tonight spoke to friends of both men killed in the latest violence about the timing and how this all unfolded. from that we turn to patti lee, live in campbell for us tonight. >> reporter: the members of the sanchez family tell us that they will need at least another day before they could speak about this incident. yet another devastating blow to that family. they have just already suffered so much. the sanchez family gathered to lend each other emotional support today and utilized the justice for her on facebook to memorialize their cousin, 52-
year-old, wayne sanchez. >> i heard the shot. the second one. >> reporter: dave perry was at the shopping plaza last month when his childhood friend, wayne, fatally shot maurice, the main suspect in his sister's disappearance and then killed himself. >> there's never any closure for this. i mean, you know, it will haunt that family for the rest of their lives. >> reporter: with the ten-year anniversary of her disappearance coming up in july, neighbors say her parents had become be more vocal about bringing her killer to justice. >> it must have been on his mind quite a bit. >> reporter: martin road his bike to the house that he rented in san jose after the d.a. dropped murder charges against him in 2007. >> and he spent a lot of time and a great deal of effort to get his life back together after serving his time of being, in my opinion, unjustly jailed for two and a half years. >> reporter: according to the investigators, he was trying to
reestablish his reputation. hopeful that time and break in the cold case might clear his name. now, earlier tonight, we spoke to a close family friend of the sanchez's who says she is trying to be strong for the family while trying to process the detail of the murder suicide and deal with her own grief. reporting live in campbell, patti lee, ktvu channel 2 news. the department of defense released the identity of the army officer from danville, recently killed in afghanistan. according to the military, the 47-year-old major, evan j. died january 12 in a non-combat related incident in afghanistan. the pentagon released no further details about his death. now, a coroner has identified the grandmother and grandson who police said died in a murder suicide. both were found shot in the head thursday night at the grandmother's home on canterbury avenue. the coroner identified her as 96-year-old, francis robertson. her grandson was the 51-year-
old, david robertson. they believe that he killed his grandmother and then himself. he had a history of mental illness and drug abuse. concur police are in-- concord police are investigating a car accident tonight that killed a pedestrian and a dog. the accident happened about 6:00 tonight near avon avenue. now the dog was also killed in the accident, though it's not yet clear if the dog was the woman. police say that they are interviewing the driver, but have not released any further details. new details have come out tonight about the allege getaway driver, arrested after a union city bank robbery, which ended with the suspected robber dead. and police arrested the 36-year- old, anthony lee of fremont yesterday, booking him on robbery and conspiracy charges. now, the chronical reports he's the owner of kingdom, a clothing store in union city. due to appear in court on tuesday. meanwhile, police have not identified his passenger, the allege robber, who was found
dead after a police chase. investigators don't know yet if he was hit by police gunfire or if he killed himself. there is good news tonight from tucson. the congresswoman, gabriellgiffords upgraded from serious condition to fair condition. this comes eight days after the congresswoman was shot in the head at point-blank range. the news comes as people in her home state gather for a peace march. >> reporter: arizona congresswoman, gabrielle giffords, continues to make a remarkable recovery from a gunshot wound to the head. doctors have upgraded her condition from critical to serious. and she is breathing on her own and has a feeding tube now. giffords' fellow lawmakers are keeping their colleague in their minds. >> she is showing people that she can communicate well by holding her hands, moving her arms and legs, and looking at us. >> reporter: in the meantime, folks in tucson taking part in a walk for peace, traveling from a local park to a memorial
outside giffords' office. many placing signs and flowers at the growing memorial sight. >> we should be supportive of each other here in tucson and come together and be united as a family. >> i think the need for peace is always there, but this is a tragic reminder of that. >> reporter: a hero credited of saving the life of the victim, ron barber, raises a special guest to the hospital where he was treated. he was the district director for giffords, and they place an image on the poster honoring the victims. dallas was grocery shopping at safeway last weekend when jared loughner allegedly opened fire and in the wake of this shooting massacre, some wonder whether stricter gun laws are needed. >> the people that are going to commit a crime or do something crazy, they are not going to pay attention to the laws in the first place. >> there should be limits as well that still protect the
individuals right to bear arms. >> reporter: and even though that breathing tube has been removed from the congresswoman's mouth, medical experts say it's likely that she cannot speak just yet. she may have the ability to whisper or mouth words. in tucson, arizona, fox news. the father of the youngest victim of the tucson shooting said that her organs have been donated to a boston girl. john green received a phone call about the transplant, but didn't know any of the details. he said the call lifted his spirits as he was once again, the proud parent of his daughter, christina. the 9-year-old girl was born on september 11, 2001. she was featured in a book faces of hope, which is about children born on that day. a plan to consolidate the vallejo and police dispatch center are being abandoned. the idea was first brought to life a year ago. police and fire officials
decided consolidating dispatch would not be cost efficient. both vallejo and venetian will look to fix that problem. heading to court for a civil trial. the 2007 incident involved heavy drinking at a house party in san jose. at the time, the allege victim was 17 years old. she is now suing 18 members on accusations ranging from negligence to rape. and the men maintain the sex was consensual. mercury news reports that last week, they rejected her offer to settle the case for about $9 million. and criminal charges were never filed because prosecutors said they didn't have enough evidence. in oakland tonight, musicians came together to honor the late doctor, martin luther king in song. ♪[ music ] >> one woman says she makes the
point of coming each day and thrives to have people judge the content of the character and not by the color of the skin. >> will he lives in my mind and has a movement on my daily actions. he is the founding director of the bay area performing arts collective, devoting three decades to working with young men in the juvenile and criminal justice system. you can ride the freedom train to tomorrow's martin luther king parade in san francisco. they will offer the service starting at 9:30 in the morning in san jose. the train will stop in sunnyville and san mateo. a spokeswoman says look for seniors who may have marched with dr. king and has great story to tell about the
original march in alabama. for more on martin luther king day, including some of the most famous quotes and the audio clips of his speeches g to ktvu.com and click on the mlk tab near the top of the page. a dense fog advisory and we're not done in the bay area. the impact it could have on your morning commute. how much sewage leaked last month. the conflicting reports about what happened. and the unusual tribute today to a san francisco homi
the bay area drivers are finding a familiar nemesis out on the road ways, fog. they are putting out some advice that could save lives. now, jim vargas reports. >> are there is a fog advisory on every bay area. you can see part of the bay bridge from treasure island late this morning and the san francisco skyline was almost invisible. >> the whole city dissolved. >> reporter: we drove up 280 and all the way, it was pockets of fog as we got up a little higher. it was clear. but every time we came down low, it was real foggy. >> you have a big burst coming down here. it was nothing. >> reporter: the highway patrol sergeant said that this is the time for the drivers to be cautious. >> obviously they want to be aware of the taillights, the hazards on the roadway. and maintaining within your range, obviously you can use
the main lines to guide yourself. but you definitely want to focus on what is in front of you. >> reporter: as cautious as drivers may be today, one thing we did notice is that only about half of them have lights on. and lights on are something that the chp is emphasizing. >> we woke up this morning, real foggy. >> reporter: he said he was cautious driving up san jose with his sons to see the city. >> i definitely turned on the fog lights and turned a little slower and left more space. >> how is everybody else? >> yeah, i think so. i don't think that a lot of people are too conscious of it. and i think that people have slowed down just a bit. >> reporter: good news, heavy fog did not contribute to any major accidents so far this weekend. jim vargas, ktvu channel 2 news. ken, we had noticed more fog reports over the past few hours. in fact, i just upgraded the maps. you can see the current conditions across the bay area.
all these conditions are reporting some fog from santa rosa, napa, and down the south bay area as well. down to about half a mile. as far as that fog advisory, they will begin at 11:00 monday morning. this could very well be a part of the deltas and the inland valleys throughout the overnight hours. as far as the forecast for tomorrow, we do have the the forecast models. we'll show you what happened tomorrow night. and also i'll let you know if you have any rain clouds in the five-day forecast. meanwhile, they are being asked to spare the air today. they have issued a spare the air alert on monday, the fourth one this season. the alert means no burning
indoors or out unless wood is your only source of heat. air quality officials say that particular matter from smoke is the main source of winter air pollution. new questions tonight about just how much raw sewage spilled into lake tahoe last month when a power outage shut down a sewer pump station. the public utility's district reported in december that about 61,000 gallons of raw sewage had leaked out of the manhole when the power went out. that manhole is about 300 feet away from the lake. however, a specialist for the region water quality board understands that it was closer to 150,000 gallons. a review is underway. and pg&e reports that the spiking pressure on ten other gas lines in california, besides the one in san bruno that exploded last year. a san francisco chronical investigation says that the utility considers temporary spiking of pressure to the legal limits to be a safe practice. however, the utility will not say where the other lines are in the state. peninsula congresswoman, told the paper that the
practice amounts to russian roulette and that it is grossly irresponsible to put customers at risk. san mateo county officials are warning of a mountain lion sighting. it happened 11:00 last night near apple lane. the cougar was apparently heading for a nearby creek. they would like to remind people who see a mountain lion not to approach it and for people to be especially cautious at dawn, dusk or at night when they are most active. musicians raised money for homeless youth today in san francisco by performing in a simple concert. ♪ [ music ] the bay of hope this afternoon brought out six youth orchestras. at the end, an all-star team of musicians played the encore. we're going to say it's a great chance for the teenage musicians to meet each other while giving back to the
community. the first concert in 2009 raised more than $15,000 to help young people get off the streets. there are still questions tonight about what lead up to a deadly christmas day attack on bay area musician. today, the victim's friends and loved ones found an unusual outlet for her grief, her music. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: the drum circle began early this afternoon with one of the drumming community members missing. the 60-year-old better known as zambu. according to police, the 23- year-old hit him in the head with a skate board at this intersection early christmas morning. police arrested him later christmas day. he died from his injuries four days later. today, his sister says that she still can't make sense of the attack. >> it didn't need to happen, you know? and my heart goes out to the person as well, that struck my brother with the skate board. we still don't know what or why
it happened, but it did. >> reporter: and today's drum circle speaks to his legacy. she says that the attack left his children without a father and cut short her brother's gift for sharing. >> he has taught me so much of my history that i have passed on to my children. >> reporter: they drummed alongside him for four years, a fraction of the 40 years that he brought with him to the streets of san francisco, saying that while he may have been killed, his musical legacy will move on for special elections. the music coming out of this, you know, it's forcing them there. >> the attack that killed him still don't know what the motive is. they have been charged with merchandise and we're back in court to face the charges later this month. in san francisco, ktvu channel 2 news. it's funny that they are reaching out to struggling homeowners on an interactive video. >> now, we're committed to
helping america's struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure. >> the website is called know your options. it allows them to choose a character that best represents their situation and then follow that character to the process of refinancing, loan loan -- character to the process of refinancing a loan part. the san jose mercury news reports that tracking internet services in december, just 5% of the facebook users came from america. facebook now has almost 600 million registered users. and it shows that the growth is shifting from the u.s. to europe to develop those nations. there is new hope for paralyzed veterans. the device recently approved the food and drug administration to help them get back
hey, the former dictator returned to port-au-prince this afternoon 25 years after he was overthrown by popular revolt. the 59-year-old is seen sitting here with his wife, arriving from san francisco where he has been living in exile. the man known as baby doc says he returned to help patients 2308ing last year's devastating earth -- patients while last year serving the victims. between the afghan government and the obama administration, the afghan government is getting more aggressive in its effort to tax u.s. contractors
operating on their soil. they stand up to $10 billion a year on private contractors in afghanistan. currently there are a number of cords that contributing all the u.s. government assistance, but there are concerns that the wording of the tom -- but there are concerns that the wording of the document might be an effect on them. the daughters have never seen him stand until they saw him using the rewalk. that means my life has changed. >> it was designed dwi a golfer who can't use the machine because he -- designed by a golfer who can't use his machine because he cannot use his arms. they are planning to try out
the new device. tonight in geneva, it's the third day after the efforts of the president. there were reports of major gun battle outside the presidential palace. no reliable report including injuries and to hunt the wild gorge and arrested on -- no reliable report including injuries and the hunt for all the wild information. the civil war ended in 2005. the election was relatively free from violence. that official result will keep you posted until after that. they will become the world's new estimation. they were wrong today. diplomats from six nation and the arab lead toured the main uranium and richmond facility. coming into play about the disputed nuclear program.
china and russia scheduled to beat those tops turned down imitation for the fence. secretary blames technical problems, delays, and cost overruns for her decision to end the project. she said that the new and flexible plan will be using mobile surveillance, powers, to maintain -- to higher more security. how the representatives are addressing security in the wake of the shooting of gabrielle giffords. one bay area airport finished 2010 on the strong note. note. was it rite shift your weight forward onto the left foot.
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just how well are lawmakers protected and are they concerned about their safety as they prepare to plan back to work today? >> reporter: just another day if many the life of gerry connolly. as they get back to regular legislative matters on the hill this week, the mood and the mind sets are different. with colleague, gabrielle giffords, still recovering from being shot in the head while at an event with constituents. >> you can't live in fear. you've got to do your job and you can't allow one crazed individual to change the democratic side. >> reporter: lawmakers are in the public eyes, sometimes
targets of anger and discontent. you should contact your local police when you have a public event and report any individual threats and request a security survey of district offices. i've got some time to think about that. not just the safety of my members, but we have staff and we have seen that it could take over their life. how can we make this a better and more safe environment? >> reporter: they are trying to take things in strives. >> i always felt safe at all the events for the two years i have worked for. you can't put barriers between ourselves and the public we
serve. >> reporter: lawmakers may need to make some compromises in the mind of safety. >> one of the issues that stirred emotions, health care reform. a man arrested in redding after police said he threatened to start shooting an emergency room if he did not see a doctor soon. the 24-year-old of anderson was arrested at about 4:30 p.m. yesterday at mercy medical center. he told police he was seeking mental health treatment. he was booked on several charges including suspicion of carrying a concealed well and refusing arrest. 40% of those surveyed said they support the law with 31%
opposing. 38% supported it with 47% opposing it. and the law expands coverage to more than 34 million american people and require most people to carry health insurance. it's a 4.2 percentage point. >> the latest technology, the green power generation, they broke ground this week on the $7 million fuel cell project. and students will study the lower mission, minipower plant, supplying electricity to the state's power grid. the fuel cells should be up and running in april. finishing on a strong note in 2010, recording the fourth consecutive month of increased passenger traffic. airport officials say that passenger volume went up 3.6% last month compared to the
prior year. however, the traffic bomb late in the year did not prevent an overall drop in passenger numbers last year. the total of 8.2 million travelers passed in the airport from 2010. between alameda and oakland starting tomorrow. the first closure is set at 10:00 lasting until 4:30 tuesday morning. that will be 10:00 tuesday night until 4:30 wednesday morning. a coalition that includes the city of environmentalists have filed a lawsuit to block a proposed asphalt plan. sonoma county officials planned to build a plant between highway 101 and the river. the 60-page legal complaint filed late friday, alleges the county to fail and adequately address the impact on public health and air and water quality. and the plan to build the plant
has been in the works for five years, approved december 14. f it's based -- it is based out here. difficulties appear to be mounting for the football league. the owner of the dallas halve ranches is suing over $5 million loan. his company made it to the league. and he is claiming they packed out to pay them the theprincipal. this obviously goes on to claim that they said they would then pay the money back last month, but failed again. ufl says they have a plan in place to aggressively work to pay all who were owed money from that lease. another dense fog adviso
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remember when we were tracking the string of storms just a few weeks ago? they completely changed it in a much more have the fog to contend with that tonight and once again for tonight as we do head in for tomorrow morning. right now on live storm tracker to the clouds, the low clouds and the fog, they have been on the increase, especially up in the north bay and right around the delta and santa rosa reporting a drop off in visibility and right around fairfield and concord and the low clouds will continue to increase for coverage over the next few hours. bay area forecast for tonight, the fog will continue to develop as they do head up to your monday morning. and temperatures into the afternoon hours, 50s and 60s. the extended forecast, still a dry pattern and a mild one as well. if you're looking for the rain, it's heading way up to the north of the bay area, towards the pacific northwest. it's going to remain that way
over the next few days. now, there's one weak system to clip the northern california area on wednesday, that could actually bump up the wind speeds for us, actually clear out the fog, but not for tomorrow. it also is thes up the on shore flow. we still have fog developing outshore as well and that storm track, like i said, remains way to the north of the bay area. there you cannot take off the storm track heading into oregon and washington and no rain clouds in the five-day forecast. and here is our fog forecast models showing you the pattern first thing tomorrow morning. watch out for the bay area roadways. and you could easily have visibilities coming down to less than a quarter of a mile and once again, the fog advisory in place until 11:00 tomorrow morning and then into the afternoon hours at twelve o'clock, we could still have some stubborn patches right around the delta and also for the inland valleys. and it will take you into the afternoon hours by 3:00 to 4:00, the sky is becoming partly to mostly sunny. we will still have lingering
hays out there. now, tomorrow morning's forecast, 7:00, 47 to 50 degrees. by twelve o'clock, 50 to 55. still lingering patchy fog. and then into the afternoon hours by 3:00, there is the even chewable temperature range with the upper 50s, all the way to the low torpid-60s. torpid-60 -- there is the eventually look in the temperature range with the upper 50s, all the way up to the low 50s to 60s. now, looking at the long range from the forecast models, not bringing in significant rainfall for the rest of the month. >> okay. >> that could be interesting. but of course, that could change. we'll keep you posted on that. >> okay, thank you, mark. hollywood's brightest
stars. >> i'll pick it up here. they hit the red carpet for the 68th annual golden globe awards. it honors the best in both television and motion pictures. actor, ferth, took home best actor in "king speech." "social network," based on the rise of facebook, winning top honors for best drama and for a musical comedy, fox's hit tv show, "glee," winning best comedy for musical. coming up, we're down to the final four in the nfl playoffs. we have highlights in today's big game. and if firing him was you want some fiber one honey clusters?
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leading up to today's afc game was heated. tom brady heavily favored. on new england's first possession, brady committed an uncharacterristic look. who returned it to the 12. the first interception for brady in 340 attempts, but the jets could not cash in missing a 30-yard field goal. rex ryan still has to bite his lips at times. they kept the heat on brady all day. ellis gets one of new york's sacks here. and a 3-0 lead after a quarter. then if the many second quarter, new york got their offense rolling. mark sanchez to tomlinson.
just before half time, the jets further stunned the patriots crowd. to edwards, carrying a couple of defenders across the goal line, 14-3 jets at the half. they are smelling it. and that is 14-3 for most of the third quarter with the quarter running out, brady bought them time. the patriots decide to go for two right then and it works. taking the direct snap and goes over the pile. and it is a three-point game. 14-11 with the whole quarter to play. but the the jets right down the field. and sanchez to the back of the end zone where he makes the fine catch getting two limbs down inbound. five plays, 75 yards, 21-11 jets. pate can the yos kicked a field goal -- patriots kicked a field goal and then failed for the attempt. 28-14 with 141 to -- 1:41 to
play. a 13-yard score, it's a one touchdown game with 24 seconds left. and still possible for the patriots if they could recover an on side kick, but that does not happen. eric smith falls on the ball. the jets have backed up their words with their play on the field. handshaking after the game, but undoubtedly, teeth smashing during the shaking. for the jets, it means a trip to the afc championship game and a date with the steelers, 28-21 the final. it ain't bragging if you can back it up. >> we talk because we believe in ourselves. that's where the talk came from. a huge amount of respect that our team has for new england. i mean, that's a great football team, but we're not afraid of anybody and we came here on a mission. >> i just felt like this week coming in, i needed to be smart.
the game went a little more cog r according to script with the bears to favor at home against the seahawks. if you happen to be in the middle of the snow flurries. the bears seemed well acclimated. for 56 yards and a score. the game is less than three minutes old and chicago was out in front, 7-0. and then late in the first quarter, it was 14-0. chester taylor, picking his way to the end zone from a yard out. the bears seem to be on their way to a route. and it got even more lopsided early in the second. deciding to take matters into his own hands. he ran for 43 yards on eight carries.
cutler will roll it out. and the bears seem to have things under control. 28-3 after three. they try to make a game in the third quarter. making it 28-10. seattle would score 21 points in the second quarter. that might have made it interesting if it had not been for this play. cutler drops the pass right into davis. throwing for two more at 274 yards. after this 35-24 win, the bears will see the green bay packers for the third time this year and the 182nd time overall, that's the oldest rivalry in nfl history. winning the playoff game for the first time and it sounds like, you could get used to this kind of thing. >> it's fun to be at home and the situation that we're in,
you know, i'm feeling like we're playing a team against seattle did a great job. we knew there would be challenges. and that really got them going. >> we started off slow. we looked slow. and maybe it was the condition or the combination of all the things. i think that we really believe that we were going to win as inprobable and they may have seen that for a lot of people that they really believe and we're excited. >> a side note to this game. they had the wind taken out of them earlier when he took a pass from hasselbeck and tried to hurdle the bears down the sideline. carlson went down hard, but you don't get the full picture until you see e -- until you see everything happen. making a hit on davis, taking a knee to the head.
carlson was taken off the field on a cart. he too suffered a concussion and is staying behind in chicago. well, there seems to always be some kind of active dispute between the raiders, al davis, and one of the former coaches. the latest involves tom cable. 120,000, he was fined by the team this past season. the raiders withheld money from his paycheck for yet an unpublicized reason. they announced earlier this month they would not pick up the two-year contract. it would ultimately be signed to an arbitrator. the coach is headed for the dallas cowboys. basically known for the look and the demeanor and his five years as the ravens defensive coordinator, spenting two years. but because of the new head coach, they have agreed to take that same job in dallas. of course, he's the head coach of the jets and his boy di --
he's the head coach of the jets and his boy will be out
the bears had a chance to make it a really long weekend for the washington basketball team. huskies lost on thursday at stanford. and cal trying to make it back- to-back upsets. allen crab shows why he is developing into someone to watch. rattling the three. caught if the had first half. scoring 18 out of 17 points.
that is a little style for them as they go behind that back. and holiday knocks down three of the 23. now, the huskies roll 92-71. and 2-3 in the pac-10. in women's pac-10 play of the day, they demolished washington state in pullman. the cardinals have never lost to the cougars in 51 all-time meetings and so far until the conference this year. he saw the washington 57-48. they signed another arm to bolster the free agent today. he has agreed to a two-year contract. the 35-year-old native pitching in the dark there last year on the split time between the angels and the tins that he made 48 appearances with the 2.81 earned run average. a little overtime for the
progolfers today in the first pga event of the year for the whole field. and 65 by mark wilson, giving him a one-stroke lead, heading into the second team. and now, he was just up by four and then she got hot. on the par 3 seven poll. they come this close to a hole in one, going 66, 64 on the day. they are still up by one in that part to stay on front. wilson can put at 18. and still win for the third time on the tour and makes birdie. the first tennis major is underway in australia. it was them in the near court
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Tree of life - family talisman
Jewelry Symbols
family and connection with your ancestors
The tree symbolizes generations of your family; it sprouts from the seed, grows and branches, sees, bears fruit and gives life to the next generation to start the life cycle anew.
The Tree of Life symbol has become very popular in jewelry and this popularity is not decreasing. Wearing the Tree of Life is not just a fashion trend, but also a deep symbolism. Since ancient times, the Tree has been regarded as a sacred amulet, which has important meanings in both religious and spiritual philosophy. The Tree of Life is usually depicted as a large tree with spreading branches and roots extending up and down, more often it is enclosed in a circle. This symbol is associated with family, religion, philosophy and spirituality and can be traced back to almost all ancient cultures. The tree of life idea has been around for almost as long as humans. There is something inspiring, grounding and soothing about this symbol. Let's take a look at why the Tree of Life is such a popular symbol, and how you can choose your own charm to symbolize what you carry inside.
SYMBOL OF THE TREE OF LIFE IN SLAVIC MYTHOLOGY
Ancient Slavic Vedic symbol. The Tree of Life amulet demonstrates the universe, it is like the center of the Universe, which connects everything on earth into a single whole, a symbol of eternal earthly life, contributing to a new birth, family prosperity, abundant fertility and prosperity. A symbol of family and connection with our ancestors. The tree symbolizes the generations of the family. Germinating from a seed, it grows and branches, bears fruit and gives life to the next generation in order to start the life cycle anew.
TREE OF LIFE IN CELTIC CULTURE
In Celtic culture, the Tree of Life is often represented by branches rising up and roots reaching deep into the earth. This is a representation of the Druid faith about the connection between heaven and earth. The Celts believed that trees were human ancestors and were even considered doors to other worlds.
BUDDHISM AND THE TREE OF LIFE
In the Buddhist tradition, the Bodhi Tree has always been revered, because it was under this tree that the Buddha attained enlightenment. The Bodhi tree represents the path to enlightenment and is a symbol of life.
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Meanings of the symbol
in other cultures:
SYMBOL OF THE TREE OF LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT
In ancient Egypt, it was believed that the Tree of Life is a symbol of death and abundance, branches represent heaven, symbolizing the center of the universe— .
TREE OF LIFE IN CHRISTIANITY
In the Bible, Adam and Eve were not allowed to eat from the Tree of Life, which would have allowed them to live forever. This tree is often seen as a symbol of love for God and a symbol of wisdom.
AFRICAN TREE OF LIFE AMULET
In African cultures, the baobab tree (also known as the bottle tree) is commonly referred to as the Tree of Life. This is because the baobab tree stores water and bears fruit even in dry and harsh climates. In Africa, the tree is revered and considered a savior tree, respected and cared for.
TURKISH CULTURE AND THE SYMBOL OF THE TREE OF LIFE
Like the Nazar bonkugu, the tree of life is the main symbol of Turkish culture. The wood pattern is often used on carpets and other handicrafts.
BELTINE
The tree of life has many spiritual and religious meanings and can be interpreted in many ways. The beauty of this is that you can find your own meaning in the symbol, which will be closer and more necessary to you.
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Here are the main meanings of the Tree of Life amulet:
PEDIGREE AND FERTILITY
The symbol of the Tree of Life also represents the connection with family and ancestors. The symbol has an intricate network of branches that represents how a family grows and expands over many generations. It also symbolizes fertility as the tree always continues to grow. From a small seed it becomes strong, lush and green, which means its vitality.
The tree of life represents how everything is interconnected. We do not exist in a vacuum, but are connected to the outside world. The circled tree symbol represents the world, and the tree represents life in this world. This amulet symbolizes togetherness and serves as a reminder that you are never alone or isolated, but connected to the world. The roots of the Tree of Life go deep into the earth, taking food from Mother Earth, and its branches go into the sky, taking energy from the sun and moon.
STABILITY, STRENGTH AND GROWTH
A tree is a symbol of stability and strength. The metaphor of a tree rooted deep in the earth speaks of strength, stability and earthiness. It also symbolizes growth, as the branchy crown of the tree is the result of many years of slow growth - from a vulnerable seedling to a strong tree.
Each tree is unique and inimitable. In the beginning, all trees look the same, but as they grow, each tree becomes unique and no two trees are the same. Over time, trees acquire their own character and beauty, withstanding all kinds of tests of the elements in order to become even stronger and stronger. We, too, are all different, like trees, so the symbol of the Tree of Life will always remind us of this.
A tree may lose its leaves and appear dead, but when conditions become more favorable, the tree comes back to life, spreading its leaves. So, the Tree of Life symbolizes rebirth and overcoming difficult times.
CALM AND PATRONITY
Being under the crown of a large tree, one feels the power of nature, peace and relaxation. In no other place will we get such energy as from a tree. A tree is always calm and peaceful, grows quietly and slowly and becomes stronger, gives life - serves as a refuge and food for wild animals and birds.
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decoration with koi fish or Japanese carp.
In order for good luck to accompany you always and in everything, you can push it a little in the right direction. Koi carps are a symbol of good luck, great achievements and happiness, a powerful talisman, which is of great importance in Feng Shui practices. It is believed that Koi helps everyone who stubbornly moves towards the goal, is purposeful and is not afraid of difficulties. And embodied in the form of a bright and beautiful jewelry, enhanced by the magical energy of amber, this fish will certainly bring you good luck. And it will help to create a bright and spectacular image.
handmade amber interior trees
these trees will become a talisman for your home.
Bring peace, love and prosperity to your family
A beautiful piece of jewelry filled with symbolic meaning is the best talisman, the wearing of which will give you joy and pleasure.
Amber trees
The symbol of a strong and complete family - peas
Polka dot pendant and a stylized elegant silver vessel that carefully stores five amber beads is a great gift for mothers, grandmothers, sisters and best friends. It symbolizes and personifies a complete family, where each pea is a member of your family. Whether your children or grandchildren live nearby or your family is spread all over the world, you will keep them close to your heart in our jewelry, adding a sentimental touch to any outfit.
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Polka Dot Collection
two birds —
symbolizes the love of parents for children
Jewelry from this collection will be an unforgettable and very personal gift for mom, grandmother, beloved aunt or nanny, symbolizing your gratitude for the care and parental love, support and faith, who protect us from any harm.
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INFINITY jewelry —
symbol of infinity and eternal love
This symbol of infinity has existed since time immemorial and people have endowed it with special meaning and power for centuries. Jewelry from this collection has an unexpected sacred meaning.
The simple yet beautiful design of the infinity symbol is associated with eternal love. Endless and limitless.
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FOR HIM AND HER
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English Breakfast with AMBERHOLL
Retro style is suitable only for those for whom the absence of stamps in clothes is important. If this is about you, feel free to replenish your wardrobe with outdated items and jewelry from the point of view of modern fashion, and breathe new life into them! Discover a new era of style, it's so easy to do.
TALISMAN JEWELRY OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS.
She is like an element - uncontrollable and indomitable. In a woman lies a secret, often she herself does not understand. She is free like the sea in a storm, and quiet as the water in a deep lake; she gives life, like a summer torrential rain, or maybe a scorching desert sun; READ
Floral theme in jewelry
After a few cloudy months, the first rays of the sparkling sun appear, and the morning breeze is no longer so frosty. With the first flowers on the trees, warmth and the awakening of new life come again. Perhaps the most beautiful pleasure in nature that we experience in spring is the appearance of the first flowers, the first leaves on the trees, the aroma of apple and cherry blossoms. Just as the world of nature celebrates the first flowers, the world of fashion celebrates primroses in its collections. Everything around is blooming: delicate and bright floral prints on clothes, sparkling jewelry. Everything is inspired by flowers. READ
Our TOP beach decorations
Most of us would agree that with the arrival of the long-awaited warmth, we want to stay outside longer, wander through the cozy streets of the city, enjoying the greenery of trees and bright colors of flowers, relax near rivers and lakes, walk for hours along the seashore, inhaling the salty sea aroma and listening to the cries of seagulls. READ
PROJECT. STORIES IN MY BOX
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LOVE AND IMAGINATION. MANIFESTO
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LITTLE BLACK DRESS. IMPORTANT DETAILS
For decades, a black dress has been a staple of every woman's wardrobe. And this is not surprising, because few other clothes are so easily modified for the situation. You put on a black sheath dress in the morning and look strict and businesslike in the office, and in the evening, complementing it with jewelry suitable for the occasion, you are brilliant at any festive dinner. At the same time, a black dress never goes out of fashion, and the right cut and style will help to correct the figure and emphasize the dignity. READ
LIVE THE DAY WITH AMBERHOLL
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THE SEASON'S FASHIONABLE EARRINGS. ON HOOK!
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HOW TO WEAR BEADS CORRECTLY.
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HISTORY OF THE COCKTAIL RING
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what does Hai pendant, Key, Tree and others mean
What does Hai pendant mean?
The value of the Tree of Life pendant
Today we will talk about the meaning of pendants and pendants, their role in different cultures and other nuances of the symbolism of jewelry that you wear on your chest. Almost all of them are amulets and talismans for good luck - in any case, esotericists say so. And they will, if you believe in it!
Let's start with the meaning of the Chai pendant, for which we need to turn to Jewish culture. Great importance is given to the value of life as such. The Hebrew word 'Hai' means 'life' and symbolizes the number 18. The word is made up of two letters, forming a visually striking motif often used in jewelry.
The word "chai", although Hebrew, does not carry any religious meaning. So pendants with this symbol are often worn by people who are far from Jewish traditions and Judaism. In this case, it usually means a greeting or a sign of coming of age - 18.
But the Star of David is mostly worn by Jews. It is one of the most recognizable symbols in the world (along with the Christian cross and the Muslim crescent). It is a hexagram consisting of two equilateral triangles superimposed on each other.
On the left is the Hai pendant, on the right is the Star of David
There are many interpretations of the sacred meaning of the Star of David, from ancient to those proposed in the current century, for a superficial description of which a dozen such articles would be required. Let's be brief: now jewelry with this symbol is worn mainly as a sign of belonging to the Jewish nationality or citizenship of Israel.
Tree of Life pendant value
The meaning of the Tree of Life pendant is multifaceted, like our whole world. This symbol existed in many cultures (including ancient Slavic and Christian). In fact, a tree in a circle symbolizes the unity of all things: the underworld, earthly life and heaven, where higher beings live.
The Tree of Life pendant means that a person wants to be in harmony with himself and the world around him, appreciates family ties and respects his ancestors. In combination, the Tree of Life is considered a powerful amulet, the power of which extends not only to the owner, but also to his family.
Tree of Life pendants in the Sunlight catalog
Match pendant
Match pendant is not a nameless piece: it is the hallmark of the Italian jewelery house Paquale Brunis. According to maestro Bruni, each piece of jewelry is not just a beautiful form, but also a content embodied in precious metals and stones. Behind each creation of the master there is a general idea.
The famous pendant from Bruni is a "hunting" match made of gold engraved with Accendemi, which means "Light me up" in Italian. She blew up the fashion world back at 90s of the last century, but remains super popular even now.
Depending on the meaning that the owner puts into it, a match pendant means:
a symbol of temperamental nature and eternal female charm;
willingness to change and internal energy to carry out grandiose plans;
expectation of a new passionate love or readiness to kindle a feeling in a person who has already liked.
But don't think that a silver match pendant will suit only a girl: it will organically fit into a stylish image of a brutal macho. In general, before you is a trendy unisex jewelry, suitable for absolutely everyone.
Match pendants in the Sunlight catalog
Meaning of the key pendant
The golden key is not only the leitmotif of a famous children's fairy tale, but also an ancient symbol. He was often chosen as a symbol of power or access to some kind of secret knowledge. The pendant in the form of a key was worn by rulers, military leaders, scientists, sages and adherents of the occult sciences.
Now a pendant in the form of a key for a woman means, first of all, her ineradicable craving for romance. This key certainly fits to her heart or to the magic door, behind which lies the world of her cherished desires. And a deliberately rough key on a man's neck is most likely a sign of inner strength and power.
Key pendant with or without a lock is a great talisman for lovers: they trust each other with the keys to their own hearts.
Treble clef pendant has a slightly different meaning. She says that before you is an intelligent person with a refined taste, who loves music or is engaged in it professionally.
The Miracle of St. Spyridon - a pendant worn slippers
Spyridon, canonized by the Christian Church, lived at the beginning of the first millennium of our era in Cyprus. Initially, he was a simple shepherd, but was later appointed a bishop. The Lord Himself, seeing the piety of Spiridon, endowed him with the gift of working miracles. He healed the sick and sometimes raised the dead.
The miracle of Spiridon in the form of slippers still has no explanation. The relics of the saint are in a temple dedicated to him in Greek Corfu. The body of a person who died almost two millennia ago still has a normal "living" temperature, his hair and nails grow. Moreover, the saint's shoes gradually wear out, and they have to be changed once a year!
Significance for women of the Spiridon Miracle pendant is very great, especially if it is supported by faith in God. It is believed that the saint still walks the world and works miracles. Pendant Slipper of Spiridon Trimifuntsky - a symbol of faith in a miracle, a prayer for intercession, a request for healing from ailments and sending down a desired pregnancy.
The shoe of Spiridon Trimifunta and the suspension in the form of it
Suspensions for luck
SCOMS - a very ancient symbol: it was hung over the entrance doors and burst out under the rapids, which are saved and the rags. The meaning of a pendant in the form of a horseshoe made of gold is similar: a person asks for the intercession of Fortune, calling for good luck in all endeavors. A gold horseshoe pendant is especially needed by travelers and people whose lives are associated with risk.
Look at the lawn overgrown with clover: almost all the leaves of this plant consist of three parts. Finding a four-leaf clover is a great success, in any case, the Irish firmly believe in this, and with them the whole world. But you can always carry it with you as a pendant!
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Lunnitsa pendant
Lunnitsa is a traditional Old Slavonic female amulet. It was worn by our foremothers long before the expansion of Christianity and even during it: the sacred knowledge of the family cannot be so easily eradicated.
Lunnitsa is a stylized crescent moon with horns pointing down. It is dotted with various symbols that are no less important than the shape of the amulet.
The significance of Lunnitsa is revealed as a woman becomes a continuer of the clan and the guardian of the family hearth. She grants her wisdom and insight, endows her with intuition and the ability to maintain peace in the house.
In addition to all of the above, the Lunnitsa silver pendant, according to popular belief, endows the wearer with irresistible feminine charms, unfading beauty, good health and the ability to give birth to healthy offspring. The combination of the primordially female sign of the Moon and the noble metal can also act as a powerful amulet against hostile energy. But men are not recommended to wear Lunnitsa.
Silver pendant-amulet "Lunnitsa"
Almost in all ancient cultures there was a cult of the Sun: the daylight was deified and personified. Only our ancestors had as many as four solar deities, one for each season!
As the Moon patronizes female representatives, so the Sun symbolizes male energy. The value of the Sun pendant for men is difficult to overestimate, because it is a symbol of creation, eternal movement forward, an active life-giving principle.
Such jewelry can become a powerful amulet for all men, but especially for warriors, travelers and extreme sportsmen, and it is better if it is supplemented with the Old Slavonic symbol of Grozovik (Gromovik).
Golden pendant in the form of the sun
The sun and the moon, united in one pendant, mean the unity of two principles: male and female. They symbolize the harmony of the world and are close in meaning to the Yin-Yang sign.
What does Yin-Yang mean
The Yin-Yang symbol is perhaps the most famous sign given to us by the Chinese Taoists. Thanks to them, this symbol is used in many areas of our life, including as a motif for jewelry.
Two irregular semicircles, black and white, with dots of opposite colors symbolize the unity of two opposites: male and female, light and dark energy, birth and death, creation and destruction. As a result of their interaction, everything that exists is born, it is the basis of life and existence, the Qi energy that fills the universe.
Each of us, regardless of gender, is filled with two energies. They are always fighting among themselves, giving rise to internal conflicts. But when they come to harmony, a person becomes almost perfect.
If a person wears a Yin-Yang pendant, it means that he strives for harmony. He wants to find peace of mind, self-confidence, good health and longevity. In short, he is interested in self-improvement.
Meaning of Muslim pendants
The most famous Muslim symbol is the crescent. The corresponding pendant (often supplemented with a star) means the wearer's adherence to Islam, the veneration of Allah and his prophet Muhammad.
The crescent is not a traditional Muslim symbol. It began to be used only in the 15th century, when the Turks captured Byzantium. That is, the Muslims borrowed their symbol from the cradle of Orthodoxy!
In fact, the crescent and star is the only widely known Muslim symbol. But there are others, the use of which is not very welcomed by Islam, because they appeared even when the current Muslims were half-savage nomads who did not know the name of Allah.
One of such super popular symbols in the world is Hamsa (Hand of Miriam, Fatima, Good Luck, God and so on). It is known in many cultures: Egyptian, Muslim, Jewish and even Christian.
Hamsa is a palm with fingers pointing down, with two opposite symmetrical. In the center is often a symbol corresponding to a particular culture.
Hamsa pendants in the Sunlight catalog
The value of the Hamsa pendant is fully revealed in tandem with female energy. This is a powerful amulet and amulet for good luck, responsible for mutual love, marital fidelity, healthy offspring, the safety of the family hearth, and in combination - for the female charms of the bearer.
According to esotericists, another symbol that came to us from the East is endowed with powerful protective power - Nazir or the Eye of Fatima. It is a stylized eye with a black pupil on a blue-white-blue background.
Other symbols in pendants
And now let's briefly get acquainted with the symbols of other pendants that are often chosen by both sexes:
Wing or feather pendant. According to most interpretations, a pendant with wings means freedom from shackles, speed, striving up and to the heights. This is a sign of free-thinking and ambitious people, as well as pilots, racers and other extreme sportsmen.
Hammer of Thor. A typical male amulet and amulet, symbolizing masculinity, physical strength, invincibility of spirit, good luck in battle and indefatigability in intimate matters. Slavic analogues are the Hammer of Svarog and the Ax of Perun.
Lotus pendant. The lotus flower is born in muddy silty water, but appears before us as dazzlingly pure. It symbolizes the purity of thoughts, the desire for harmony. Sometimes this flower means the desire to find love and fertility.
Razor blade charm. This is a cult symbol denoting the love of risk to the extreme. The owner consciously walks along the blade, but maintains vigor and peace of mind.
Butterfly pendant. This pendant symbolizes rebirth and drastic changes in life (or readiness for them), as well as creativity. From a caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly!
Dolphin. The noble marine mammal is associated with freedom, love and pleasure.
Silver owl. The night bird in almost all cultures is a symbol of wisdom and knowledge, and in the Celestial Empire it is also wealth.
Turtle. The ancient reptile protects from chaos, bestows wisdom, good health and prosperity.
Elephant. Before us is another symbol of wisdom and tranquility, and concurrently - and confidence in their own indestructible power.
Wolf. This predator is the personification of strength, courage, loyalty, readiness to the last drop of blood to protect relatives and friends.
Lizard. Meet: a symbol of good luck and wisdom, and at the same time - cunning, resourcefulness and the ability to get out of any situation. Even without a tail!
Anchor. Before you is a symbol of calmness, reliability and confidence. The person wearing it is tied to the house and honors the family.
Gold frog. An amphibian, cast in gold, is considered the strongest amulet to attract good luck, health and material well-being.
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Why a Denver Transportation and Mobility Department Should Make Streets Better
A standalone transportation department, separate from DPW, should be able to get more projects done like the 14th Street protected bike lane. Photo: Tracy Davis/Twitter
When Mayor Michael Hancock announced that Denver would join the ranks of other growing cities like Seattle and Oakland and create a stand-alone transportation department, it may have looked like a mundane bureaucratic matter. But the significance of this change could be profound.
If things work out as envisioned, Denverites will start to see more rapid changes to their streets, and those changes will be bolder than what we've come to expect from the Department of Public Works.
Right now, adding a bike lane to Broadway is a multi-year slog, and adding bus lanes to Colfax has been even slower. Putting a dedicated transportation department under its own roof should give the agency chief leading implementation of these projects more clout, via a direct line to the mayor, and streamline planning, operations, and maintenance.
Perhaps most importantly, a Denver DOT should elevate transportation to the first-tier policy priority it should be. The city's transportation system has deep effects on the economy, housing, and cost of living. There are much more far-reaching decisions to make than how to fix potholes, says Jeffrey Tumlin, who recently oversaw the breakout of Oakland's DOT from within that city's public works department.
"If you're only focusing on the current needs of your current population and not planning for your future populations, when it comes to transport, you're gonna be in deep trouble," Tumlin said. "And so that's one of the reasons why being a strong leader in transport requires significant risk-taking — because you're always having to anticipate future needs and future changes in order to allow your city and region to thrive."
Transport directors have to be risk-takers who seize the initiative, he said, whereas public works directors are effective when they "manage by complaint." Repairing a clogged sewer is an essential government function, but cities have to take on a broader portfolio than upkeep and maintenance if they're going to build a functional, safe, and efficient transportation system for their residents.
When Tumlin began working in Oakland, he found staff scrambling to appease vocal residents with street fixes. But it turned out that the people who complained most did not represent Oakland's population as a whole. They were affluent and lived on streets with low crash rates. It wasn't popular with everyone, including pols looking out for their districts, but Tumlin created a more data-driven protocol. He prioritized safety projects where traffic crashes were claiming the most lives.
Mayor Hancock told Streetsblog that spending via this year's bond measure and the Denveright planning initiative will go farther if Denver has a separate DOT that's accountable for implementation.
"We really need to focus," Hancock said. "We've got to elevate our efficacy and effectiveness in implementing strategies. If we're going to invest the kind of dollars we're talking about, then we better make sure we're darn good stewards of it. And by making sure we have a direct line between the mayor and the department, I think we can raise the level of accountability."
What's more, advocates for better walking, biking, and transit should be more effective watchdogs with a Denver DOT in place. As the distance shrinks between the mayor and the city's top transportation policy official, they will have a clearer view of what's going on, how decisions are made, and where they can use their influence to the greatest effect.
Piep van Heuven has been to countless meetings over the years, both as the head of Bike Denver, and now as the Denver director of Bicycle Colorado. She's excited about the possibilities that the new DOT will open up.
"We just got closer to the epicenter of where things happen in real time," van Heuven said. "I think the key is really the connected network, and so the faster the projects roll out, the faster we connect the network, the more we're gonna reap the dividends and see the change."
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Nice coverage of the topic and potential benefits.
Since I play the role of the cranky contrarian I'll bring up (only) one stinker. You point out in your linked article:
Other cities of similar size to Denver have separate departments in charge of streets. Seattle, Portland, and D.C. all have DOTs that focus entirely on the design and management of streets.
My go-to source for good news is Bloomberg and Megan McArdle penned a nice summary view of both DC and NYC transportation issues that's an easy, worthwhile read: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-06/the-daunting-cure-for-new-york-and-dc-subway-woes
DC transit transportation is a yuge mess just short of disaster. In short the cause is from chasing shiny new toys while the existing infrastructure rotted from within due to lack of maintenance. Seems like we've had similar discussions of late regarding Denver's 2017 GO Bonds?
TranspoGal
DDOT and WMATA (the DC region's transit authority) are two separate entities. The issues with Metro have nothing or little to do with DDOT.
A sample from the linked article:
These observations are not news to anyone who has followed the saga of the Washington Metro's decline. So why hasn't anything changed? Because the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is run by a dysfunctional regional authority, and has become the forum for gladiatorial combat between Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Everyone wants more funding for their area, and to heck with folks who don't vote in my elections. Everyone also wants their constituents to pay as little as possible of the bill for the services they collectively consume.
There's also this: "Metro ridership drops 12 percent; $125 million revenue shortfall projected" http://wtop.com/tracking-metro-24-7/2017/02/metro-ridership-drops-12-percent-125-million-revenue-shortfall-projected/
WMATA is unique, because DC is unique. Maybe I'm missing your point. What do Metro's issues have to do with Denver getting a transportation department?
Sorry, read my edited comment. I had to take a phone call after I realized the nvm part.This comment will self-destruct in in 5 minutes.
Now that I have my bearings… you ask a fair question.
I fully support a separate Transportation and Mobility Department for Denver. The challenges ahead go to expectations and always limited resources.There will be plenty of time ahead to delve into all that but ignoring maintenance needs to fund new toys is not a wise choice.
The Mayor's vision is to reduce SOV trips. What's critical will be better transit. While there's a significant fetish for bike lanes and sidewalks here – and while I'm OK with that they won't move the needle much with respect to SOV trips. Better transit planned and funded by Denver will quickly bump up against limited resources and allocation priorities including affordable housing, for example. At some point Denver will need to partner with the metro area since the power of that funding is magnitudes higher. No different from what Seattle has done as a city and what passing ST3 will do as a metro.
Michael MacLauchlan
With improved transport goals. I'm hoping Denver is considering removing as many cars as possible. Perhaps by implementing PTR: Here is one example of many (future) systems http://www.overtransit.com/ We will need to ensure safety and respect for the shared property. Any automobile alternative will need to be faster and cheaper then owning a car or maintaining streets vs overhead or other tracks…. More info at https://www.facebook.com/groups/Personal.Rapid.Transit/
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Unofficial results posted on the Secretary of State's website indicate a Democrat has eked out a win in today's special election in southeast Iowa for a seat in the Iowa House. Democrat Curt Hanson of Fairfield beat Republican Stephen Burgmeier of Lockridge by just 107 votes.
Hanson — a retired school teacher — and Burgmeier — a farmer who's a three-term member of the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors — were competing for the seat that had been held by Democrat John Whitaker, a farmer from Hillsboro who resigned from the legislature to become state director of the Farm Service Agency.
Hanson's victory means Democrats retain their 56-44 seat majority in the Iowa House. Iowa Democratic Party chairman Michael Kiernan spoke by phone with Radio Iowa shortly after 10 o'clock when the results were known.
Hanson received 48.9 percent of the vote compared to Burgmeier's 47.5 percent. Iowa Republican Party chairman Matt Strawn told Radio Iowa "it's disappointing" to have come so close and not come out on the winning side.
The district covers three southeast Iowa counties — Jefferson, Wapello and Van Buren. Over 8000 votes were cast today, a large turn-out for a special election according to G.O.P. chairman Strawn.
There are absentee ballots which have not been counted yet, but neither Strawn nor Kiernan doesn't expect those votes to change the outcome.
Over the next few days Strawn plans to assess the "mechanics" of what the two parties did in the southeast Iowa district, and then move on.
Campaign finance records indicate at least $300,000 was spent by the two major party candidates, the two political parties and outside groups, including an organization that backed Republican Burgmeier and stressed his stand against gay marriage. Kiernan suggests that group's ads had little impact on tonight's outcome.
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The Distillers Brody And Tony Talking Guitars
Brody Dalle and Tony Bradley of The Distillers spoke with Radio 1 about learning to play, their favorite riffs, trashing equipment and why they hate guitar lessons.
The "One Music" documentary at bbc.co.uk/radio1 has since been removed.
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30th Anniversary Party For Hello Kitty
The Distillers and The Donnas were on hand for the 30th Anniversary Party for Hello Kitty presented by SANRIO and Target on Wednesday (November 10) at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, California. Check out pictures from WireImage (arrivals1 / arrivals2 / show).
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The Distillers And Icarus Line Perform In Atlanta
The Distillers and Icarus Line performed in Concert on Saturday (April 10) at the Cotton Club in Atlanta, Georgia. Check out pictures from WireImage (Distillers / Icarus Line).
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Distillers Scare Up A Good Time
Distillers drummer Andy Granelli spoke with Allan Wigney of the Ottawa Sun and described the band's humble status. "It's like this," Granelli declares, "The Distillers are not the most original band in the world. I understand that. We're also not the best band in the world. But at least right now there's not another band that sounds like us or looks like us. I can take a lot of pride in that. I don't know how these crappy cover bands posing as new bands, like Jet or Kings of Leon can take themselves seriously. Maybe Jet more so than Kings of Leon, because they have that new single out now and you can count on one hand all the different songs in that one song." Read more.
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The Distillers Perform In London
The Distillers performed at Brixton Academy on Wednesday (February 11) in London. Check out pictures from WireImage.
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The Distillers Wring Punk Pleasure From Tabloid Drama
Mikael Wood of Seattle Weekly tried to get behind the details of the Distillers singer Brody Dalle's recent breakup with Rancid's Tim Armstrong, after she left the singer for Queens of the Stone Age singer Josh Homme. Distillers guitarist Tony Bradley wasn't in the mood to talk about the taboo subject though. "I don't mean to sound like a dick, but I really don't wanna talk about this at all," he said. "All I have to say about it is that it's kind of strange when your life is being played out in the media. Obviously people want to know about it and people are gonna write about it and stuff, and I understand that, but it's something that I would rather not talk about. It's hard. It's really fu**ed."
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Watered Down
The Distillers drummer Andy Granelli spoke with Andrew Marcus of SF Weekly about the band's new album 'Coral Fang'. He says "We definitely did our own thing on this record. I think it's as original as rock music can get." Granelli went on to cite a rock historian's A-list of influences: the Pixies, Echo & the Bunnymen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bauhaus …. It's just inspired by everything that we've been listening to that's not punk." But after listening to the album at Warner Music HQ in Los Angeles, Marcus declared, "In went the CD. And out of the speakers came … a punk album." Sfweekly.com has since removed the article.
The Distillers' Brody Dalle Shows Her Fangs
"I'm trying to do my laundry, yo," The Distillers' Brody Dalle tells Troy Johnson of San Diego CityBeat from a borrowed cell phone. The statement could be interpreted literally or metaphorically, as all the media seems to be focusing on is the punk's dirty laundry. How she left her husband, Rancid's Tim Armstrong. How she then gave the tongue to her new beau, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, in a Rolling Stone photo. Rancid fans and critics jumped all over her, accusing her of courting fame at the expense of others, some even suggesting that her seven-year marriage to Armstrong was little more than a career move. "Well, sometimes it bothers me and sometimes it doesn't," Brody says of the criticism, her cigarette-stoked rasp as radio-sexy as it is manly. "It depends on the day. It's just another fu**ing day. And you know what, it blows over and it goes away. It's not like I'm suckin' the president's fu**in' dick. I'm just in a fu**in' band. And that's hysterical." Read more.
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The Distillers Preview 'Coral Fang'
Perhaps the most marked difference between the Distillers 'Sing Sing' album and their latest 'Coral Fang', is the lyrics. "With this record, it's more descriptive and more metaphoric, not as testimonial," drummer Andy Granelli says of Armstrong's songwriting. "I think that's something that she wanted to do on purpose, just to kind of add to it being more like a soundscape kind of thing." Savvy enough to know he's uttered a word whose synonym is "pretentious" in the rock-critic lexicon, Granelli backpedals, telling Andrew Marcus of the Cleveland Scene: "When I say soundscape, I don't mean it in a lame way. What I mean is adding to the melody and using cool words, making it interesting, but not necessarily making it make sense." Read more.
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Lollapalooza Kicks Off In Indianapolis
Audioslave, Incubus, Jane's Addiction, Jurassic 5, and The Distillers performed on Lollapalooza 2003's opening night concert in Indianapolis on Saturday (July 5) at Verizon Wireless Music Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Check out pictures from WireImage.
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Arlene Stringer-Cuevas (née Gluss; September 25, 1933 – April 3, 2020) was an American politician, educator, and civil servant. She was a schoolteacher before serving on the New York City Council from 1976 to 1977. Stringer-Cuevas later worked for the New York City Human Resources Administration for 16 years until her retirement in 1994. She died during the COVID-19 pandemic due to complications of COVID-19.
Early life
Stringer-Cuevas was born Arlene Gluss in the Bronx, and was a school teacher. She lived in the Washington Heights, Manhattan. She was Jewish.
Career
Stringer-Cuevas served as her neighborhood's Democratic Party district leader from 1969 to 1976. She was elected to the New York City Council in 1976 after winning a four-person primary for the Democratic nomination, becoming the first woman to represent Washington Heights. Stringer-Cuevas was defeated in the Democratic primary in 1977.
Stringer-Cuevas then worked for the New York City Human Resources Administration from 1978 until her retirement in 1994.
Personal life
Stringer-Cuevas was part of a politically active family. Her first husband, Ronald Stringer, was an assistant to New York City Mayor Abraham Beame. Her second husband, Carlos Cuevas, was the New York City Clerk and a Deputy Borough President of the Bronx. Stringer-Cuevas' son Scott Stringer was elected Borough President of Manhattan and New York City Comptroller. She was the cousin of politician women's rights pioneer Bella Abzug.
On April 3, 2020, at the age of 86, Stringer-Cuevas died from complications due to COVID-19 at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.
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Jason Gore utilizes this drill to make sure his backswing is in tune. He calls it the Pump Drill, and setting the club before taking it back allows him to gauge his timing.
So on your backswing, for right now, you're really trying to find-- I'm gonna put that in the middle just because you showed me that earlier. Now lets see what you-- Let's see your position that you go for.
Yeah. So, what I try to do is try to feel like I get here and kind of set the wrists here.
And then I'm trying to get my hands-- The club hits through my hands here, from down the line view, and then from there all I do is turn my shoulders.
From there all I'm trying to do is just make a shoulder turn and go straight to there. And then from there, just let the rubber band go.
We'll get to the downswing, of course. Show us the drill you work. There's a drill you do on that.
Let's hit a couple with the drill.
This is my heat check kind of thing. If I can do this well, I know I'm swinging it well. So I'll just-- I'll take a few wedges. This is eight iron. So, I'll just set it here, go here, make-- turn it back, come straight down. And I like do a pump drill to where I keep my wrist angles here and I'll just come down and do this.
Right back to the same spot?
Right back to the same spot. And I'll do it a couple of times and then I'll just, go ahead and hit it.
Damn, you hit that good too.
What's the pump do just so you don't have to hit a bunch of balls?
No, it just makes me feel like I'm getting back down to the same position.
I see. And you're trying to get like literally back to where it was, like actually. Not up here, or over there.
Right. And it helps me feel like I hold my lag and I'm keeping my wrist angles the same. You know, so I don't start throwing it from the top.
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DRC rolls out prototype treatments to fight Ebola outbreak
An outbreak of Ebola in eastern DRC has 39 confirmed deaths as authorities roll out new drugs.
A DRC health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccine in North Kivu province [File: Olivia Acland/Reuters]
Confirmed cases: 77
Probable cases: 28
Total cases: 105
Deaths: 67 [39 confirmed, 28 probable]
An outbreak of Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) killed dozens of people this month, authorities have said, as they roll out new drugs to tackle the virus amid concerns it has spread to a rebel-encircled area.
A total of 105 confirmed and probable cases of the disease have been reported since the flare-up began on August 1 in Mangina in North Kivu province, according to the country's health ministry.
Of them, 77 have been confirmed by laboratory tests. There are another 28 probable cases in which biological samples are not available for laboratory testing.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported, as of August 23, a total of 67 deaths, with 39 confirmed as Ebola and 28 listed as probable.
Of the confirmed cases, 11 people have recovered from the potentially deadly virus, while 27 others are hospitalised.
Health minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga travelled to Mangina on Thursday and saw two patients being discharged after they were treated with a new prototype treatment called mAb114.
"These two people are among the first 10 patients to have received the therapeutic molecule mAb114," the ministry said in a statement.
Congratulations to these survivors, and also to @MinSanteRDC for making investigational #Ebola treatments available at scale during an outbreak. A global first, and a ray of hope for people with the disease. We are your proud partners. https://t.co/n3kwQYLuqm
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) August 25, 2018
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of WHO, on Saturday congratulated the DRC's government for making several experimental treatments available in this Ebola outbreak, calling it "a global first, and a ray of hope for people with the disease".
Ebola explainer May 20 2018 [Al Jazeera]
Developed in the United States, the mAb114 is the first therapeutic drug to be used in an active Ebola epidemic in the DRC.
The drug consists of a protein that binds on to a specific target of the virus and triggers the body's immune system.
Earlier this week, the health ministry said four other experimental drugs had been approved for treating infected patients.
On Friday, the WHO warned that signs that the virus had spread to the city of Oicha in North Kivu province could frustrate efforts to contain the virus.
While Oicha itself is not under rebel control, Peter Salama, the WHO's emergency response chief, said the city is entirely surrounded by territory held by a Ugandan armed group known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
Large numbers of civilians have been killed by unrest around Oicha, while aid workers, priests and government employers are currently being held hostage there by fighters.
The current outbreak is the 10th to strike the DRC since 1976 when Ebola was first identified and named after a river in the north of the country.
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"Woody Wednesday" Woody Allen, 'To Rome With Love' Director, Talks 'Midnight In Paris' Success, Acting Career
How To Recover From a Break Up With Greta Gerwig
Published on May 16, 2012 by younghollywood
Young Hollywood is hanging out in NYC during the Tribeca film festival, where we chat with rising star Greta Gerwig about her hip slice-of-life movie, 'Lola Versus'. Greta offers up some advice on how to get over a bad break up, as her character in the film does, and talks about all the other amazing projects she has in the works, including Woody Allen's 'To Rome With Love'.
Review on Woody Allen's latest movie:
Woody Allen, 'To Rome With Love' Director, Talks 'Midnight In Paris' Success, Acting Career
The Huffington Post Posted: 06/19/2012 5:59 pm Updated: 06/19/2012 6:25 pm | By Christopher Rosen
Woody Allen and the "To Rome With Love" cast in New York on Tuesday
Woody Allen has released a movie every year since 1982 (and 45 films total during his highly lauded career), but his latest feature, "To Rome With Love," might have the highest pre-release expectations of them all. It follows last summer's "Midnight in Paris," Allen's most financially successful offering yet. Is the director worried about living up to that success?
"To me, I try to make a good picture each time," Allen said during a press conference in New York on Tuesday. "Either I make it or I don't make it. ['Midnight in Paris'] was a happy accident."
The romantic comedy grossed just over $151 million around the globe, and earned Allen his third Best Original Screenplay Academy Award, and fourth Oscar overall. (He didn't attend the ceremony to accept the trophy, as is his custom.)
"I have no idea why everyone embraced the picture so enthusiastically," he said. "You make a movie and some pictures they like a little bit, some they like a lot, some they don't like at all. It's very capricious for the filmmaker.
"To me, it's no more appealing than 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' or 'Match Point' or 'Annie Hall' or 'Husbands and Wives.' To me, they all have the same appeal," Allen said before quickly adding, "or lack of appeal."
Regardless of the quality of Allen's films, they continue to draw major acting talents. "To Rome With Love" stars Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Penelope Cruz, Ellen Page, Judy Davis, Alison Pill, Roberto Benigni and — for the first time since 2006's "Scoop" — Allen himself.
"I've always liked to act," Allen said about his return to the screen. "When I write a script, I look at it and if there's a part that I can play, then I play it. In the last half-dozen scripts that I've written, there hasn't been anything I felt I could do. This script, I looked at it and thought I could do it."
Allen plays a retired American music producer in "To Rome With Love," who tries to get his daughter's fiancee's father (played by singer Fabio Armiliato) to use his operatic singing voice for financial gain. He's also set to co-star in John Turturro's "Fading Gigolo," but — as he noted during the press conference — not as the titular gigolo.
The cast members at the press conference included Baldwin, Cruz, Gerwig, Page and Italian actress Alessandra Mastronardi, all of whom heaped praise upon the director, and not just for his acting prowess.
"With Woody Allen, you have someone who is responsible for more memorable moments, on every level — writing, producing, directing, acting — than any other person that has ever lived in film," Baldwin told the assembled press. "Even Woody Allen's less-successful efforts are better than most other films you see. When you see the greatest films he's made, they're some of the greatest films ever made. When he calls you and asks you to do this with him, you go. He's on an island on his own in terms of filmmaking."
While Allen runs a tight ship on set, the director said he's often lost when the editing process begins.
"You start off with very great ambitions," Allen said. "You want to make 'Citizen Kane.' Then when you get in the editing room you realize that you screwed up so irredeemably that you'll edit the film in any configuration to avoid embarrassment. You put the beginning at the end, you take the middle out, you change things. The editing process becomes the floundering of a drowning man. That's been it for me from the start of my career."
Fortunately, "To Rome With Love," with its four disconnected stories linked by the common setting of Rome, is the type of film that allowed Allen to play around with narrative structure.
"I couldn't settle on one story. 'It's a funny story about a guy who could only sing in the shower. No, it's funnier if a guy wakes up and is suddenly famous and doesn't know why.' Then I thought, 'Why not just do them all in a cavalcade of stories? Just put them out there and the audience will follow.' I was confident they would follow them," he said. "I don't think they're too difficult to follow. I edited them logically, so when you left one story, you weren't disappointed coming into a new one."
Ultimately, that's for audiences to decide, but it's hard to argue with the strong work — and harsh criticism of the media — Allen offers in the section of the film devoted to the character played by Benigni (acting for the first time since 2005), an Italian businessman who unwittingly — and literally — becomes an overnight celebrity. In the film, Benigni fields questions as inane as his breakfast preferences (bread, toasted), perhaps Allen's biting parody of press swarms such as Tuesday's event.
Asked what were some of the dumbest questions he has ever gotten, Allen replied with a chuckle, "I don't think we have enough time."
"When I walk through those red-carpet things. The amount of times that I have been asked, 'Is Scarlett Johansson your new muse? Is Penelope Cruz your new muse?' Those questions are silly. If I make one picture with somebody they assume that I have a muse, that I want a muse, that that person wants to be my muse. That's one of the millions of questions that are really, really stupid."
Woody Allen's movie "Midnight in Paris" wins an academy award (link to complete listing of all historical figures mentioned in "Midnight in Paris")
Sleepers (1973) Allen (left) wrote, directed and starred in this oddball love story, set 200 years in the future. It was his first on-screen collaboration with Diane Keaton (second left), who went on to become one of the director's muses in the early days of his career. ___________ I have written more on […]
"Woody Wednesday" Allen new movie
Stardust Memories (1980) 1/7 Uploaded by ghostrepublic on Oct 24, 2010 Stardust Memories is a 1980 film written and directed by Woody Allen, who considers this to be one of his best films in addition to The Purple Rose of Cairo and Match Point.[1] The film is shot in black-and-white, particularly reminiscent of Federico Fellini's […]
Review of "To Rome with Love"
Jesse Eisenberg – Press Conference "To Rome With Love" Published on Apr 21, 2012 by portugal888 Review: Allen's 'Rome' delivers lackluster love Published: Tuesday, June 19 2012 11:06 a.m. MDT By David Germain View 4 photos » This film image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows, : Alec Baldwin as John, left, and Jesse Eisenberg […]
How To Recover From a Break Up With Greta Gerwig Published on May 16, 2012 by younghollywood Young Hollywood is hanging out in NYC during the Tribeca film festival, where we chat with rising star Greta Gerwig about her hip slice-of-life movie, 'Lola Versus'. Greta offers up some advice on how to get over a […]
Sam Tanenhaus on Woody Allen's Black Magic
To Rome with Love Trailer Official 2012 [HD] – Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg To Rome with Love hits theaters on June 22nd, 2012. Cast: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, Judy Davis, Alison Pill, Roberto Benigni, Isabella Ferrari, Sergio Rubini, Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio […]
Review: Allen's 'Rome' delivers lackluster love
Penelope Cruz at "To Rome with Love" premiere Published on Jun 15, 2012 by CBSNewsOnline The Los Angeles Film Festival kicked off with Woody Allen's latest film starring Penelope Cruz. KCAL 9′s Suzanne Marques reports from downtown L.A. at the premiere of "To Rome With Love." _______________ Review of "To Rome with Love." Review: Allen's […]
Woody Allen: "I'm Immune to Whether My Films Do Well or Not"
Voto 10 Web TV – To Rome with Love – Jesse Eisenberg Published on Apr 20, 2012 by voto10cinema Puntata speciale su To Rome with Love della Web TV di Voto 10. Direttamente dal red carpet con Sonia Serafini e Eva Carducci l'intervista a Jesse Eisenberg. ____________________________ I really like the fact that Woody Allen […]
Review: Penelope Cruz, Robert Benigni Make Woody Allen's "Rome" Movie
June 19, 2012 – 10:56 pm
Ellen Page with Craig Ferguson 13.06.12 ('To Rome With Love') 1080p HD Good review of Woody Allen's latest movie: Review: Penelope Cruz, Robert Benigni Make Woody Allen's "Rome" Movie <!– –> After "Midnight in Paris," you're not getting–we're not getting –a sequel, so forget it. Woody Allen's "To Rome with Love" opens June 22nd after […]
June 14, 2012 Wall Street Journal interview of Woody Allen and he is still talking about the meaninglessness of existence
June 19, 2012 – 3:30 pm
TO ROME WITH LOVE – conferenza stampa con Allen, Benigni e Cruz http://WWW.RBCASTING.COM Published on Apr 18, 2012 by RBcasting http://www.rbcasting.com Conferenza stampa del film "To Rome With Love", scritto e diretto da Woody Allen. Tra gli interpreti, lo stesso Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page e Greta […]
Woody Allen's worldview as seen in his movies
I love the movie Crimes and Misdemeanors and have written on it many times in the past. This quote below sums up Woody Allen's worldview which I disagree with. In fact, the person who said this actually could not live with its conclusions in the movie and committed suicide. Because Allen continues to […]
"Woody Wednesdays" Woody Allen on God and Death
Good website on Woody Allen How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? If Jesus Christ came back today and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. If only God would give me some clear […]
Woody Allen's career in pictures "Woody Wednesday"
Sleepers (1973) Allen (left) wrote, directed and starred in this oddball love story, set 200 years in the future. It was his first on-screen collaboration with Diane Keaton (second left), who went on to become one of the director's muses in the early days of his career. Bananas (1971) en cast […]
Woody Allen on politics "Woody Wednesday"
Woody Allen on politics. Top political strategist Woody Allen thinks Obama would get much more done as dictator; No, really May 18, 2010 | 2:22 am The notorious and formerly funny movie director Woody Allen is apparently frustrated with the cumbersome operations of American democracy too. The one-time-father-now-husband-of-his-daughter tells the Spanish-language magazine La Vanguardia that the […]
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"After I graduate, I want to go to Military Academy, but I still have no idea how to get there." — Hanif, 12th grade, graduating in four months' time.
GiZ and Pulse Lab Jakarta recently teamed up to deliver a service design workshop for educators in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Below, we share the insights generated by the design research conducted in advance of the workshop in Jeneponto.
One of our design principles is to put citizens at the centre of our innovation processes. Pulse Stories is part of our work to better understand the life context of the people we serve.
For our third edition we take you to Jeneponto, a regency in South Sulawesi where we immerse ourselves in the lives of school pupils, school dropouts and educators to understand experiences of the education system.
School to inspire role models: how might schools provide opportunities for kids to broaden their aspirations?
School as a dream enabler: how might schools help students to deal with barriers to achieving their dreams?
Rethinking the value of punishment: how might punishment be reshaped as a positive feedback mechanism that can promote confidence and intrinsic motivation?
School as a space for playful learning: how might we utilise kids' desire to be social and to play to create more meaningful learning experiences?
Pulse Stories capture the anecdotes and inspiration gathered during Pulse Lab Jakarta's field trips to different parts of Indonesia. We hope that, over time, these stories form patterns that will inspire our data innovations and the development of tools for public administrators.
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[패턴영어] When is the best time to + A?
When is the best time to + A?
When is the best time to sow seeds?
언제가 새 차를 사는 최적기일까?
너한테 언제 전화를 하면 제일 좋을까?
When is the best time to ring you up?
When is the best time to choose a career?
언제 도움을 요청하면 제일 좋을까?
언제가 기탄없이 말하기 제일 좋을까?
When is the best time to speak out?
When is the best time to make amends?
A: When is the best time to sow seeds?
B: Right after the field is plowed.
밭을 갈고 난 비로 다음이겠지.
A: When is the best time to ring you up?
B: Any time in the early evening.
A: When is the best time to retire?
B: It's nice to go out on top.
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3 Stocks to Buy from "The World's Greatest Retirement Portfolio"
Brian Stoffel, The Motley Fool, AOL.com
Mar 4th 2013 3:50PM
It's been almost 22 months since I introduced the World's Greatest Retirement Portfolio to Foolish readers. This was, has been, and will continue to be my way of helping the world to invest better. Putting my money where my mouth is, I pledged to put at least $4,000 behind each stock and attempt to hold each one for at least three years -- though I've already broken that promise.
Since I began, the market has returned 19.8%, which is pretty darn good by historical measures. Though this portfolio has been outperforming the market by double digits for well over a year now, it is currently ahead by just 5 percentage points.
Instead of panicking, I think it's great that the "worst" relative performance of the portfolio is still outperforming the market. I look at this as an ideal time to buy shares while they're down. Below, I'll offer up three stocks that I think are excellent buys right now, and offer access to a premium report that offers deeper analysis than I can cover in one article.
Vs. S&P 500
Pricesmart
Baidu*
Intuitive Surgical
National Oilwell Varco
Source: Fool.com. All numbers accurate as of market close Jan. 31, 2013. *Returns are for position in ATVI held from July 15, 2011, to Sept. 9, 2012, and transferred over to BIDU on Sept. 15, 2012.
The downswing in performance was helped by several factors this month. Just last Thursday, the FDA announced that it had opened an inquiry into the types of training doctors received for Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci Robot surgical system, and which procedures were most appropriate for the use of the system. I'm not too worried for now, and will be waiting to see what the FDA reports.
On top of that, Whole Foods took a fairly steep dive when its outlook foretold margin compression that would cramp earnings. More on how I feel about that below.
This month's 3 best buys
As promised, more on Whole Foods: The company is one of my three best buys for this month. Here are the bare bones of my reasoning. Last year, there was a confluence of factors -- including crop yields, delivery schedules, and general climate conditions -- that allowed Whole Foods to clock in net margins of 4.40% and 4.28% in the second and third quarters, respectively.
Management warned then that these margins -- very high for the grocery industry -- wouldn't be sustainable. Apparently, that was lost on some analysts, as the stock took a dive when Whole Foods reiterated the point in the most recent earnings call. On the whole, the company continues to execute, and still has roughly 650 stores to open to reach its intended market. I think the company is a buy.
Next on my list of good buys for the month is National Oilwell Varco . Though the company beat on both revenue and earnings marks in its latest release, the market hasn't shown it too much love. As fellow Fool David Lee Smith shows, however, National Oilwell has superior margins (it's efficient) and significantly less debt (it's smart with money) than its rivals.
The bottom line with the company is this: As long as companies are searching for natural gas and oil -- especially deep-water oil -- they'll be coming to National Oilwell to meet their parts needs. Though I'd love to see a reduction in overall energy consumption in the world, or a move to sustainable energy, I'm not a fool (lowercase "f"): Oil and natural gas will be around for a while. At just 12 times earnings, this company looks like a buy to me.
Finally, we've got a company that seems to always find a place on this list: Baidu . The Chinese search engine produced results last year that speak for themselves: Revenue was up 54%, and net income increased by 58%. But because of worries about competition and increased spending to invest for the future, shares are trading hands for the cheapest (in terms of P/E) price ever!
One that I conspicuously left off the list
Like Baidu, there's another stellar company in my portfolio that's trading for its cheapest price in years: Apple. I still like the company, and have no intentions of selling, but I've already voiced my need to see that the culture of innovation is still alive and well in the post-Jobs era. Until I see that, I'll be sitting on my shares.
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The article 3 Stocks to Buy from "The World's Greatest Retirement Portfolio" originally appeared on Fool.com.
Fool contributor Brian Stoffel owns shares of Apple, Google, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Amazon.com, Baidu, National Oilwell Varco, Whole Foods Market, Intuitive Surgical, and PriceSmart. The Motley Fool recommends Amazon.com, Apple, Baidu, Coca-Cola, Google, Intuitive Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, National Oilwell Varco, PriceSmart, and Whole Foods Market. The Motley Fool owns shares of Amazon.com, Apple, Baidu, Google, Intuitive Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, and Whole Foods Market. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. | {
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Roll the dough out to a 30x25xm rectangle. Spread the butter mixture over the dough. Sprinkle over ¾ of the chocolate chips. Roll the dough up lengthways and then slice into 12 pieces. Place evenly on a baking paper lined tray. Cover with the damp tea towel and stand for 45 minutes in a warm place.
Bake in the oven, covered for 25-30 minutes. Remove from the oven and stand.
Melt the remaining chocolate and place in a piping bag or plastic sandwich bag, snipping the end. Draw a cross on each of the scrolls in chocolate. Best enjoyed as soon as possible. | {
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Richard Hell on Donkey Breasts, Poo Paper and Why the Beatles Were Terrible
Eric Spitznagel 04/19/2013
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Here's something that's not often said about rock star memoirs: "Wow, that was really well written." Which isn't a complaint. Most rock stars with a track record worthy of a memoir are lucky to remember their own names anymore. Nobody picked up Keith Richard's Life or Mötley Crüe: The Dirt for the wordplay or literary symbolism. They just want to know about Mick Jagger's penis or Tommy Lee's lack of personal hygiene. For those stories alone, we're grateful, even if they sometimes read like they were written by a gorilla who'd just learned sign language.
Richard Hell's I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp is a very different animal. It's got tales of cartoonish excess and sexual tomfoolery, and it follows the perfunctory rock junkie narrative arc -- "guy meets drugs, guy does way too many drugs, guy stops using drugs just shy of offing himself." But unlike other books in its genre, the prose crackles with creativity and wit that would be entertaining even if you don't know (or care) who Richard Hell is. His descriptions of female sexual anatomy could be its own Iowa Writers' Workshop. He compares a girlfriend's lady business to "a squeaky rubber duck," and another's breasts to "twin Eeyores." He has unromantic memories of the '70s punk scene in New York ("the first thing I noticed [about CBGB] is that it smelled like dogshit") and over-romantic memories of his ridiculous sex escapades ("My introduction to the real, complex pleasures of slave ownership began on a hot summer night in 1979, at the loft of my crystal meth dealer.")
For those unfamiliar, Richard Hell was the guy who invented punk music, or at least the uniform (spiky hair, torn clothes held together with safety pins, snarl) that everyone associates with punk music. He played bass and sometimes sang for seminal punk bands like Television, the Heartbreakers (with Johnny Thunders, not fucking Tom Petty), and Richard Hell and the Voidoids. He gave the world "Blank Generation," a song you should be forced to listen to before you're allowed to buy anything by Green Day. Back in 1977, Time magazine predicted he'd become "the Mick Jagger of punk." At around the same time, the Village Voice called him a "no-talent" with an "oily rubber voice constantly on the verge of hysteria." Depending on who you believe, he either exceeded expectations, or didn't come close.
I called Hell to talk about his new book. He sounded like he'd just woken up, a little frazzled and gruff. But after reading Clean Tramp, it's hard to imagine he doesn't always sound like that.
Rock memoirs don't typically get a lot of respect. But I'm not sure if you'd even call your book a memoir.
I wouldn't. To me it's an autobiography. And it's not necessarily a rock autobiography either. I spent maybe 10 years as a musician out of the 34 years covered in the book. I don't pick up a guitar until 100 pages in, the first third of the book. But I know it's inevitable that the music parts are going to get all the attention.
My point is, you pick up a nonfiction book by a punk icon, you expect to walk away saying "Oh my god, that dude did a lot of drugs," not "Oh my god, that guy knows his way around a metaphor."
You don't expect a certain quality of writing?
You don't. And your book is quite good.
Not everybody agrees with you. Some people say it's badly written.
Like who?
Well it's funny actually. I got reviewed in the New York Times twice. I got a daily review and then a Sunday book section review. In the first review, the guy nodded perfunctorily to my capabilities as a writer. It's at least in a different class from books by musicians with no writing experience. But then he also pulled out a passage to demonstrate my weaknesses as a writer. It's the part when I'm 17 and I came to New York on my own, and I described my girlfriend at the time as "a sad, hysterical girl with red capillaries on her nose and cheekbones, and large breasts that looked like twin Eeyores."
What? A weakness? That may be my favorite sentence in the whole goddamn book.
Thank you. Frankly, I thought it was brilliant. But he thought he was making fun of me. Then a review comes out in Book Forum, and the writer cited that exact same sentence as an example of how cool my writing is.
Reviews matter to you?
They absolutely do. And like any writer, I'm never satisfied. I'm probably a worse case as far as that goes. I cannot get enough adulation. And I don't think the critics have given me my due, for the most part. Except Luc Sante. He's a really great prose stylist. There's a blurb by him on the back of my book, where he says that I "wield prose keen as a diamond knife, sharpened by the light of the moon." [Laughs.] I want everybody to equal that. I want to hear that from every fucking reviewer.
Can we go back to the breasts like twin Eeyores?
[Laughs.] Sure, yeah.
That's just such an amazing simile. Did you have it in your back pocket, just waiting for an opportunity to use it? Or were you at your desk, thinking about your ex-girlfriend's breasts, and all of a sudden it hits you? "Of course, the donkey from Winnie the Pooh! Nailed it."
It just came to me. You just try to bring stuff alive on the page. You reach down and see what common experience equivalent you can use to make it vivid.
And you decided on a children's classic.
The Book Forum review actually suggested that people Google Eeyore if they were unfamiliar. I read that and decided to follow his advice. Because when I wrote it, it was all from the memories and imagery in my head. So I Googled it and brought up all these pictures of Eeyores. I'm telling you, I was right on the mark. Her breasts looked exactly like twin Eeyores.
You've written fiction and non-fiction. Do you have a preference?
I just like writing books. I basically regard myself as a novelist. The next book I write will be a novel, I'm 99% sure. I have a couple of ideas I'm kicking around. But I also like doing non-fiction, even though it's a little more difficult.
[caption id="attachment_72628" align="alignnone" width="640"] Richard Hell and Elvis Costello, being badasses at CBGBs. Photo: Roberta Bayley/Redferns[/caption]
Because you're expected to tell the truth?
Yes, but that's just part of what's interesting about it. Talking about your own experience and what you've observed is easier in fiction, because you don't have those constraints. With non-fiction, I'm really scrupulous. I've always been neurotically serious that way. I've read so many non-fiction books, and if it covers any area where I have any knowledge whatsoever, I can spot so much casual misinformation. And by writers that I really admire.
Well, memories can be fallible.
Yeah, and when I write non-fiction it's inevitable that I make a few mistakes. On every page you're saying ten things that are specific, and sometimes you'll get some of it wrong, or you'll have to trust your memory, which as you say is unreliable. I just don't like it when writers distort facts to serve their own interests. I think that's usually what happens. People put things in a light that makes them look the best.
There was one moment in the book, almost a throwaway, that I can't stop thinking about. It's the late '70s, and you're self-publishing a magazine called Genesis: Grasp. You get a contribution from a sculptor named Joel Fisher.
[Laughs.]
You want to finish this for me?
He was an artist who was interested in paper. Paper was his medium; not drawing on paper, just paper itself. He would exhibit these pieces of paper, where you'd look at it and it'd have an interesting texture and that would be the work. When I was doing a magazine, I realized it would be easy to include Joel's original artwork. We could just staple in a tiny scrap of paper in every issue. This was around the time he was creating paper in his digestive system.
He'd eat paper.
Right. He would go for a few days eating nothing but paper, and then make a fresh sheet out of what came from his butt.
That story just makes me so happy.
[Laughs.] Does it? Why?
I don't know. Maybe with print being a dying medium, and everybody getting their information online these days, a magazine with butt paper just seems so ... quaint.
I guess it does.
There'll never be anything like that anymore. Nobody's ever going to touch paper and realize too late, "Oh crap, this came out of a person!"
Well, maybe the account of Joel will inspire some people to make homemade paper.
You gave up on music in 1984. Did you think it was a career dead end, or did you just have nothing left to say?
I had plenty more to say. I'd love to be writing more songs. Sometimes I get wistful about all the songs that didn't get written, because I didn't have a benefactor who'd give me $50,000 to make a record. At the same time, I'd gotten pretty fed up and disillusioned with the music business years before I actually stopped.
http://youtu.be/alR3OBBMPKs
Like how long?
After my first album came out, within six months of that, I pretty much felt like I had lost interest and was ready to move on. But by then I was a junkie. I was just kind of useless. I didn't know what to do with myself, so I crawled on for whatever number of years, five or six, before I finally cut music out. It's not like I had some obsessive fascination with songs, or I was driven to play guitar or anything like that.
Music was just something to do?
It was. It was something new and interesting. I got a record contract three years after I'd picked up a guitar, and I went through three bands kinda quickly. I accomplished what I set out to do, and I also found that I didn't like the lifestyle.
You wrote in Clean Tramp that being a rock frontman "takes indestructible certainty of one's own irresistibility." Did you lose some of that certainty?
I don't know that I lost it as much as realized it was becoming a problem. Because it develops slowly. Some people come to the rock lifestyle with that pure confidence and pleasure in exhibitionism. But if you don't have that, it slowly overtakes you and starts to effect your conception of yourself. Keith Richards had this great observation about what it's like. He said at first you feel like a god onstage. And then after awhile you still think you're a god in the limousine. And then you still think you're a god back at the hotel. Until one day, you're just completely convinced you're a god. That's what happened to me.
It must've been a shock to make the transition to writer. Not many writers are made to feel like gods.
I just read something you wrote about Lester Bangs for the Village Voice a decade ago. Comparing yourself to writers, and rock critics specifically, you said "my life is more fun than theirs."
[Laughs.] Yeah.
Having spent some time on the other side of the wall, as a writer, do you still believe that's true?
Well, the life of a rock critic is pretty nasty. There's not many rewards for being a rock critic. You don't have to be a rock star to have a better life than a critic. You can be a professional bowler and have a better life than a rock critic. But a writer in general? [Long pause.] I don't know. One life is about excess and being loved by strangers and doing drugs for free and never sleeping. The other is all solitude and coffee and obscurity. Honestly, giving up that life of excess and being loved by strangers and drugs, it was a complete relief. And I feel very lucky, because I made it work. I still get record royalties, so I have a little supplement. But my needs aren't great or many, and basically I write my own ticket. I have no regrets about leaving the life of a rock musician for the life of a writer. It was in my nature.
I have a question about "Blank Generation."
The song or the album?
The song. I listened to it a lot when I was younger, and I always kinda assumed it was about nihilism. That ultimate punk expression of "Fuck it, nothing means anything, we're all screwed." But now, as I get older, I wonder if I was misreading it. Maybe it was meant to be more hopeful. How far off was I?
Well, the whole thrust of it is to leave room for whatever interpretation you want to make. But yeah, your first analysis was correct.
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The world's fucked?
Yeah. But I also intended it to include this whole notion of self-invention as an alternative. It's a piece of work that makes its own world, just like every piece of work does. Anything I say about it is limiting. It speaks for itself.
When you were writing it, were you in a happy place?
No. Not at all. It was a reaction against all the insipid smiley faces leftover from the '60s, for sure.
Like the Beatles?
Yeah. I can't listen to their music. I never could. I don't like that shit at all.
In Clean Tramp you wrote that the Beatles "homogenized and corrupted everything." You compare them to the Academy Awards, "glitzy but dull." Do you honestly hate their music, or just the fame that surrounded them?
The music is terrible.
But what if they'd been some obscure band that never made it? What if they put out little indie records and had a small cult following? Would you have liked them then?
I don't know. It's a funny thing, because I do like the Everly Brothers. I do like Buddy Holly. The Beatles named themselves after Buddy Holly's band, basically.
The Crickets.
Yeah, the Crickets. All those guys were just doing pop songs with pretty harmonies. But the Beatles, I don't know, they always struck me as being saccharine. They did watered-down versions of really great numbers. If you had access to Little Richard records, why would you want to hear the Beatles doing "Long Tall Sally"? Then they became really serious, self-important social commenters, and they were out of their depth. It was stupid. Like that "Day in the Life" nonsense.
I read the news today, oh boy!
Oh god, it's just so awful. The huge productions they gave to that stuff, it was wrongheaded. It wasn't clever, and it wasn't interesting. People give them too much credit. They never cut to the heart of things.
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Q: Normalizing rating in a group of people [finding effectiveness] I'm a new guy here. Hopefully, I'm asking this question to right forum.
Problem:
We have data of a group of people (P1, P2, P3). They rank their expertise (1-10, where higher number is better) in a list of components (G1, G2, G3).
P1 P2 P3
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G1 | 8 4 7
G2 | 7 3 7
G3 | 9 6 5
Also, we have some data regarding work done by each person in each component. Example:
For P1,
W WD
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G1 | 0 0
G2 | 2 0
G3 | 8 2
where W is total work allotted to user P1, and WD is actual work done. W >= WD >= 0.
We have similar data for P2, and P3 users.
Point to note: The user might have some level of expertise regardless of work done in a component. Example: P1 has ranked himself 8/10 even though he has not been given any task in G1 component (W = 0). P1 also has ranked himself 7/10 for G2 even though he has not finished any task in that component (WD = 0).
Now, we want to calculate effective rating of all users relative to the group of users, not self-ranking, considering their work data and self-ranking.
Can anyone suggest some mechanism to achieve this?
Thanks much in advance!
A: It sounds like you have multiple sources of information about measurements of interest.
The aim is to combine the multiple sources so as to maximise measurement accuracy.
In general you could adopt a formula that weights the different sources of information based on the confidence you ascribe to the source.
It also seems that the confidence in the source might vary.
E.g., the more work data you have on someone, perhaps the more weight this information would be given for that individual.
You may also have evidence on the accuracy of an individual's self ratings.
Thus, a simple strategy would to develop a weighted composite of available information where the size of the weight is relative to the informativeness of the source.
This question on Bayesian rating systems might also be relevant.
A: I'm going to give a stab at an answer, if I misunderstand your question, please comment here or revise your question and I'll do my best to revise my answer.
If I understand you correctly you are trying to find a users 'true level of expertise'. An elusive quantity to be sure. Given what you have written, I think you expect that true expertise has some relationship with actual amount of work done.
There are some problems meeting the assumption of the technique I am going to suggest first, but I hope the violations will be tolerable. A first step could be setting up a regression equation to predict work completed given work assigned for each component (G1, G2, G3, etc). Residuals from this regression equation are deviations from the normal amount of productivity in that component. Deviations from normal productivity (if you assume those who are more expert get a greater proportion of their work done) may be viewed as a measure of 'true expertise'. It also sets each person's productivity in comparison to others (a stated goal). Of course, I strongly suggest you view a scatter-plot of these data (and compare model fits) as I suspect that the relationship will not be linear and that you'll have have to fit a quadratic.
I'm not sure what you want to do with the self-ratings. Of course, you should eye-ball the self ratings, if someone is giving themselves all high scores, that participant may need to be dropped. Another thing you might consider doing prior to analysis is subtracting each subject's mean rating of expertise from each of their ratings of expertise. Though in this approach you'll lose information about people who are overall more skilled than others. To validate that the self-ratings are meaningful you want to correlate them with work completed. They should be somewhat positive given your assumption that those who complete more work on a given component tend to be (but are not necessarily) more expert. If the self-ratings are shown to be a somewhat valid measure, then you can move on to correlating the self ratings with the above mentioned residual score. Again, the correlation ought to be somewhat positive.
Edit 1: You say you want to calculate the "effective rating" of all users relative to the group of users, not self-ranking, considering their work data and self-ranking. I'm not sure how you can both consider self-ranking and not consider it at the same time. If you mean that you want to create a measure of skill based on something other than self-rankings, but then combine it with the self-ranking data, you can simply sum the Z-score of some measure of skill (e.g. work done or the method I describe above) and the Z-score of self ratings.
A: I worked on it and thought this Bayesian equation will be useful.
RatingTM = SRTM/(1 + AWD/WDTM) + MSRT/(1 + WDTM/AWD)
The variables are:
SR = Team member's self rating
AWD = Average work done by team
WD = Work done by team member
MSRT = Mean self rating of team
(TM: TeamMember)
Please comment if you think this is not right. Thanks!
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Port Houston Handles Record 3.5 Million TEUs in 2021
Port Houston, the busiest container port along the Gulf Coast, has reported handling a record 3.5 million TEUs in 2021, surpassing its previous record set in 2020 by 15%.
Total cargo tonnage hit nearly 52 million tons, setting another new record. This was up 11% compared to 2019, when the previous record was set.
Between March and December, container volume increased by double digits. In December alone, Port Houston handled 303,204 TEUs, a 10% increase compared to a year earlier. Of those, 148,301 TEUs were loaded imports and 90,660 TEUs were loaded exports.
Port Houston said imports were the "driving factor" for the majority of the growth.
Preliminary unaudited statistics for 2021 show Port Houston processed a record nearly 3.5 million TEUs, a 15 percent increase compared to 2020 when Port Houston's container TEUs surpassed the 3 million milestone for the first time.
Ports on the U.S. gulf and east coasts have benefitted from congestion on the U.S. west coast, particularly in Southern California at the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach.
Port Houston said it's "growing list" of direct services currently includes 21 weekly services, six of which are Asia-direct with two including a Vietnam call.
In December truck turn times averaged less than 50 minutes, with more than 13,000 gate transactions completed in a single day late in the month.
Port Houston also reports a "boom" in the addition of distribution centers with 5 million square feet of warehouse space becoming operational in 2021 and 7.3 million under construction for delivery in 2022.
Multipurpose facilities bounced back in 2021, with a "noticeable rebound" of steel imports in the third quarter. Steel imports grew 93% year-over-year in December, bringing 2021's overall growth to 52% when compared to 2020. Bagged goods, auto imports, lumber and wind power equipment all also increased from the previous calendar year.
To help handle the cargo growth, Port Houston is expecting three new neo-Panamax STS cranes to arrive in February, which will add to an existing fleet of 26 STS cranes and 110 RTGs.
The Houston Ship Channel Expansion – Project 11 is also underway as well. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently released its FY22 Workplan for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, showing $142,515,000 in federal funds for the construction of segment 3 of the infrastructure project.
Separately, Port Houston has reported "growing pains" at its Barbours Cut Container Terminal, Construction to double the gate capacity at the terminal could create longer-than-normal wait times for truck drivers moving cargo in and out. The construction, which is expected to last until May, is part of a $43 million project that will include the addition of 14 gates at the Barbours Cut terminal, bringing the total to 29 gates.
To combat the congestion, Port Houston said it will be expanding gate hours, which are available on its website.
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Croatian National Bank becomes sole owner of Croatian Monetary Institute
On 1 July 2020, the Croatian National Bank (CNB) became the holder of all business stakes of the Croatian Monetary Institute (CMI). The CMI continues with the production programme of minting coins.
The CNB and the Commercial Services Agency (AKD) founded the CMI in 1993. Since its foundation, AKD and the CNB had been holders of 57.4% and 42.6% of the business stakes of the company, respectively. The CMI generates almost all of its revenue from two production programmes: minting of coins and the production of licence plates for road vehicles. In 2018, based on a joint decision, AKD and the CNB began the process of the division of the company, with the objective to separate the licence plates and minting of coins production programmes. In this process and in line with their core activities that define their business interests, the CNB took a full control of the minting of coins, while AKD took over the production of licence plates.
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An assessments of the value of the company and the corresponding division balance sheet were prepared under the process of division by acquisition. These documents served as a basis for the implementation of the whole project.
In view of the established value of the company, i.e. the value of its business shares and assets and liabilities that are divided, on account of the established difference between the value of the existing business shares and the business shares and assets subject to acquisition, the CNB will pay to AKD, as the acquiring company, the compensation in the amount of HRK 15,271,000 (in words: fifteen million two hundred seventy-one thousand kuna).
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Q: Using "snap pour point" to find a watershed of specific area starting from a point I am trying to find everything downhill of a certain point in order to create a watershed of a specific area.
For example, say I have a point at (x,y), and I'm interested in creating a watershed that is 50 km^2 starting from this point.
One method that I have used of achieving this is placing random pour points downstream and using the watershed analysis tool to create watersheds from (x,y) to the new pour points until I find a point that gives me a watershed of 50 km^2.
Since I need to do this process ~250 times, I'm greatly interested in finding a more efficient method. One idea is using the "snap pour point" tool from the original (x,y) point to find another point that has the highest accumulation within 50 km^2. Unfortunately, the snap distance given in ArcGis is (I assumed) a radius.
Does anyone have any tips that might help me achieve what I'm trying to do?
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the ties for the size of ties we're using. Ties are 13.75 inches long.
completed. Now that I'm getting practiced at this, I can build a panel in 30 to 40 minutes.
hammer about where the dimples will be.
than others and the holes on the fourth one often get off center.
are not exactly even on one side and random on the other.
thousand, well under the price you'd pay locally.
golf cart. Oftentimes Charlotte and the dogs walk alongside for exercise.
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Medical Insurance and Health Conservation, Volum 16
liver, but in hepatic insufficiency it is eliminated by the lungs, the expired air blackening paper wet with lead acetate solution.
Uroerythrin is a bright pink color so often seen in the brick dust sediments of urine; it occurs in acute diseases of the respiratory system, in acute rheumatism, and in gout. It is probably only in the latter case that it can be considered as evidence of impaired hepatic function.
A diminution of hippuric acid is said to be a symptom of hepatic deficiency, but as only 0.3 to 0.4 gramme of hippuric acid is eliminated normally in the twenty-four hours it can not be a test of great value. The presence of small quantities of bile pigment in the urine which can be tested for very easily by means of Robins' test, is almost positive proof of a congestion of bile within the liver. The examination of the feces is not as often carried out as it might be; absence of bile or disease of the biliary duct causes the alcoholic stool and also increases the amount of fat. Especially in infancy and childhood is the pale stool of diagnostic import, it being positive evidence of an inefficient liver.
The toxicity of the urine has been demonstrated by Bouchard and his pupils. As the liver is the guardian of the body against intoxication, hypertoxicity of the urine may be considered as a sign of impaired hepatic function, but the methods at our disposal for testing the toxicity of the urine are unreliable.
There is a condition of hyperazoturia in which the examination of nitrogen by the urine is enormously increased—not those conditions of hypercritical elimination which occasionally occur owing to some retention, but conditions in which the daily average elimination of nitrogen reaches 15 to 20 grammes or even 25 grammes. In these cases the percentage of urea nitrogen may be normal or even above normal. Cases are on record in which the percentage of urea nitrogen was as high as 98. The neutral sulphur is also diminished to less than 10 per cent of the total sulphur. In these cases there is probably a hypersecretion of bile, but this is difficult to prove. On physical examination the liver is usually large, hard, and tense. This condition occurs in gross feeders, the liver being stimulated to over-exertion, necessarily followed by cell fatigue, with consequent hepatic insufficiency and atrophic cirrhosis.
In the treatment of hepatic insufficiency it has to be remembereil that any one of the functions may be insufficient, and therefore it is of importance that they should be differentiated by the foregoing tests, which will show the condition of the glycogenic, the biliary, the urogenic, the antitoxic, and the oxidative processes.
There are a certain number of drugs that are used in hepatic disease somewhat empirically, no pharmacodynamic study having been made of their action excepting in cases of natural or artificial biliary fistula.
Opotherapy of the liver has not so far received much attention. Garnot, Gilbert, and Danis claim to have had good results from the use of liver extracts in atrophic cirrhosis, they having observed an increase in the biliary urogenic, glycogenic, and probably also in the antitoxic functions. Spillman and Demange found that the albumin and urobilin disappeared from the urine. Carnot and Gilbert macerated 150 grammes of fresh pulped pig's liver in 250 cubic centimeters of warm water for twenty-four hours, and administered by the rectum with results. Gaillard and Crequy administered 150 grammes of pulped liver by the mouth, which gave good results, the active principle apparently not being destroyed by the gastric juice; but it was too nauseous for most patients. There are preparations of powdered liver on the market, but they often produce stomach trouble.
Robin has studied the action of drugs in the treatment of hypertrophic cirrhosis in its early stages. Opium in small doses diminishes the glandular and digestive secretions, and is indicated in cases in which a hyperactivity of the stomach exists. Belladonna inhibits the functions of the liver, according to Riegal, Pawlow, and Haidenhain. Arsenic in small doses has a small sedative effect upon the action of the liver, especially on the glycogenic function, but its use for any length of time is contraindicated owing to its tendency to produce fatty degeneration. Mercury in small doses is a hepatic sedative; it does not increase the formation of bile, but stimulates Auerbach's plexus. Antipyrin and the bromides are also hepatic sedatives, and are especially indicated when the urea elimination amounts to 0.5 gramme per kilogramme of body weight. They should be administered in about 10-grain doses before meals, with a little sodium bicarbonate to prevent irritation of the stomach, and should be discontinued as soon as the urea elimination has reached normal. Sulphate of copper and lead acetate are also useful in hepatic hyperactivity. Potassium iodide in doses of 5 to 10 grains per diem is valuable, but the doses must be small, as the stomach in these cases is susceptible to its disturbing action.
Hepatic stimulants are more numerous and a little better known as benzoate of soda, salicylate of soda, peumus, boldus, sodium phosphate, aloes, jaborandi, pedophyllin, and gamboge. Potassium iodide acts indirectly by dilating the blood vessels and increasing the quantity of bile according to some observers. Peumus boldum is given as an infusion; its principal action is diuretic, but it is also used to stimulate the liver. The action of sodium phosphate upon the liver is affirmed by Rutherford, but denied by Prevost and Binet, Baldi, and Stadelman. Aloes in small doses is a hepatic stimulant, as is also podophyllin. Jaborandi in small doses is said to stimulate the liver, as it does all other glands; in doses of 1 to 2 grains of the powdered leaves it acts upon the liver and does not provoke diaphoresis and salivation. Sodium glycocholate mass in doses of 15 grains per diem stimulates the liver cells, increasing the flow of bile, thereby removing accumulated waste products, especially bilirubin. In cases with the icteroid coloration of the skin it will clear up the complexion in a few weeks. Especially is it indicated in hepatic colic; many cases are on record where its continued use has prevented the attacks of colic permanently.
The diet in diseases of the liver is of great importance, the guiding principle being to obtain the maximum amount of nutrition with the minimum amount of physiologic work, thereby giving rest to the organ. Proteidz are necessary for proper nutrition, but in much smaller quantities than generally taken. Chittenden has shown that nitrogen equilibrium can be maintained in health with an intake of about 6.0 grammes of nitrogen per day. The products of proteid metabolism-urea, ammonia, uric acid, creatinin, etc., are more or less toxic and entail considerable physiologic activity on the part of the liver as well as upon the kidneys in their elimination. Fats are for the most part absorbed by the lymphatics, only a small quantity entering the liver by way of the portal vein; except in the suppression of the biliary secretion the easily digested fats, such as cream, butter, and the vegetable oils, are well borne in moderate quantities. The carbohydrates give but little work to the liver, their end products being principally carbondioxide and water, both of which are easily eliminated.
The diet in hepatic insufficiency and hyperactivity should be moderate in quantity with a minum of proteid, say about six grammes of nitrogen per day, with some little fat administered in the form of cream, fresh butter, or olive oil, and sufficient carbohydrate to bring the total diet to about 10 calories per kilogramme of body weight. The meat should be well cooked, preferably red meat, white meats containing more nuclein; gelatinous dishes, as calve's head and feet, etc., are to be avoided. Boiled fish, avoiding those containing much fat, are allowed, but shell fish are debarred. One or at the most two eggs a day may be given, except in gall stone cases, when the cholesterin contained in the yolk may cause increased elimination by the bile. This is, however, very
doubtful; experiments seem to prove that cholesterin is not ab-
sorbed from the intestine as such. Milk, the diet usually pre-
scribed, is not satisfactory and should never be given except with
desserts. Fresh cheese may be given and is sometimes well borne,
but only in small quantities. Of vegetables, peas, beans, scorzonera,
salsify, and salads are the best ; spinach and tomatoes contain too
much oxalic acid. Vegetable diet increases the alkalinity of the
plasma and often relieves constipation, producing bulky stools.
Vegetables containing sugar are only tolerated in small quantities,
with the exception of Irish potatoes, which should be well boiled
and mashed with butter. Toasted bread may be given, but pastry
is forbidden; ripe or cooked fruits may be given sparingly. Water
or very weak tea are the best drinks; the water should preferably
be distilled, in which antisclerosis tablets (four to the pint) have
been dissolved, this assisting in the elimination of the waste prod-
ucts. The total fluid taken in the twenty-four hours should be at
least 1500 cubic centimeters. In severe cases all of the meat should
be boiled so as to dissolve out the extractiveness; no soups or broths
should be taken. Probably the quantity of the food is the great-
est therapeutic agent, most patients being or having been great
meat eaters.
The following prescription is of value in atrophic cirrhosis:
Strychnine sulphate
Pulv. folise jaborandi .
Sod. glycocholate mass
Sig.: To make one capsule, t. i. d.
Nitrohydrochloric acid is often beneficial. In hypertrophic cirrhosis acetate of potash and nitrate of potash are of value in one or two-grain doses. In hepatic colic sodium glycocholate mass in five-grain doses rarely fails to prevent a second attack if taken continuously.
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What is Meant by the Opsonic Index in Medicine:
Opsono-Index Therapy. *
BY ALBERT WOLDERT, M. D., TYLER, TEXAS.
Since the first paper published by Metschnikoff in 1884 on the subject of what has been called "phagocytosis," a process by which certain of the white blood corpuscles (leukocytes) of the body are
*A paper read before the Smith County Medical Society, Tyler, Texas, March 12, 1907.
endowed with the power of seizing hold of, engulfing and digesting those foreign and harmful objects known as bacteria which have a tendency to destroy the human body, an enormous amount of literature has accumulated.
Whether this process of engulfing and digesting these bacteria is due to a special selective action on the part of certain white blood corpuscles, or whether it is brought about by chemical action (chemotactic action) is not fully known, but enough is known to say that this phagocytic power, to whatever its action may be ascribed, is one of the principal factors in the preservation of the human body against disease. Such action on the part of these white blood corpuscles of the body gives rise to what is known as a "natural immunity" as contradistinguished from "acquired immunity," a condition of the system brought about by the absorption of toxic products given off by certain pathogenic micro-organisms.
In 1880 Pasteur, who worked with an attenuated virus of chicken cholera, was perhaps the first one to demonstrate the nature of acquired immunity.
As stated by Sternberg,' this acquired immunity depends upon an acquired tolerance to the toxic products of pathogenic bacteria. The proper treatment of diphtheria and of tetanus by antitoxins depends upon this principle of acquired immunity.
When we begin to study more closely the white-blood corpuscles of the body, we find that the leukocytes are of several varieties, the names of which are given them on account of certain shapes and staining properties of the nucleus, number of nuclei, and certain granules in their protoplasm. Further, that the different forms of leukocytes are supposed to be of different ages or different periods of growth. For instance, we have what are known as (1) young leukocytes, which are divided into (a) small lymphocytes, and (b) large lymphocytes; (2) adult (or polymorphonuclear neutrophiles, or polynuclear) Teukocytes; (3) old eosinophiles; and (4) mast cells or basophiles.
In the blood these white-blood corpuscles exist in different proportions, and in health we find the percentage according to Cabot, as follows: The polymorphonuclear neutrophiles or polynuclear leukocytes average 62 per cent to 70 per cent of the entire number of white-blood corpuscles; the small lymphocytes average 20 per cent to 30 per cent; the large lymphocytes 4 per cent to 8 per cent; the eosinophiles } per cent to 4 per cent; and the mast cells
per cent to 1 per cent.
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Richard Muller is a Berkeley Physics prof and would-be media star. Dr Muller got some attention a few years ago for some viral lectures slandering climate science and scientists,and whored himself on the Glenn Beck/Fox News circuit. Then he wangled a bunch of money from the Koch brothers to study the temp record. Then he found out that global temps were in fact, rising.
Richard Muller is now a media star as the "former climate skeptic scientist who now believes in climate change".
So, following the recent rash of tornado activity, Muller writes in the NYTimes claiming that, paradoxically, there will be fewer tornadoes in a warming world, and was promptly blown out of the water by actual meteorologists and scientists who really know something about the problem.
We can safely predict that even more "serious" journalists will now continue to seek him out, flatter him, and help him sell books.
Failing up. It's a strategy. It works.
So one is essentially left with the physical reasoning I outlined above. You would think that a physicist would know how to do some physical reasoning. And sadly, in Muller's case, you would apparently be wrong.
To allow Muller to so thoroughly mislead their readers, not once, but twice in the space of as many months, is deeply irresponsible of theTimes. So why might it be that the New York Times is so enamored with Muller, a retired physicist with no training in atmospheric or climate science, when it comes to the matter of climate change?
Now, a group of actual tornado and convective storm experts have weighed in. Muller not coming off so well.
Research data show that climate change caused by human behavior is fueling more frequent and intense weather, such as extreme precipitation and heat waves — so it's only natural to wonder if this applies to tornadoes, too. Scientists need more data and time to fully address that connection.
Although it is a bit of an exaggeration to say, "backyard dust devils are reported," Muller notes — correctly— that climate change is not responsible for the dramatic rise in annual tornadoes since 1950. Rather, the larger numbers come from improved detection and reporting of weak tornadoes, particularly EF0 tornadoes, where "EF" refers to the enhanced-Fujita scale used by the National Weather Service (NWS).
Ironically, the reason Muller says one shouldn't attribute the increase in weak (and therefore total) tornado reports to climate change is likely the same reason the intensity of tornadoes has appeared to decline:reporting has not been consistent over the period the tornado records span.
Tornadoes occurring prior to the mid-1970s — when the NWS adopted the enhanced Fujita scale — received ratings retrospectively by meteorology students who relied on qualitative damage descriptions in newspaper archives. This effectively "inflated the grades" of those tornadoes because the later ratings came only after considerable in-person scrutiny of the damage, often by engineers who considered not just the damage but also the quality of the construction of damaged structures. The evidence for the overrating of earlier tornadoes includes the fact that environments and damage paths of many strong tornadoes in that retrospective era shared characteristics with weaker tornadoes from later years.
Also, in another complication in assessing long-term tornado intensity trends, the "damage indicators" used to rate tornadoes recently have changed with the adoption of the EF scale, making it dubious to compare tornadoes of the past with those of the present.
Recently, truck-borne Doppler radar observations of tornadoes identified a number of cases in which the radar-measured winds are considerably faster than the official NWS rating implies. For example, the winds measured by these radars in last May's 2.6-mile-wide tornado near El Reno, Okla., topped 280 mph, which would have placed it well into the EF5 range (200+ mph). The official NWS rating based on the available damage indicators, however, was EF3 (136–165 mph).
Finally, Muller's simple analysis of tornado reports does not address possible changes in the seasonality and/or regional nature of tornado occurrence. In fact, the latest climate-model experiments agree that further global warming is likely to increase the likelihood of conditions favorable to the severe thunderstorms that produce tornadoes in the spring and autumn. Although these climate models do not resolve tornadoes, they do predict an increase in the ingredients responsible for past tornadoes.
Paul Markowski, professor of meteorology at Penn State University, was a leader of the recent Second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX2) and 2013 recipient of the National Weather Association's Fujita Award for his research on tornado formation.
Harold Brooks is a senior research scientist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, has authored numerous scientific papers on tornado climatology, and was a contributing author on the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report.
Although severe thunderstorms are one of the primary causes of catastrophic loss in the United States, their response to elevated greenhouse forcing has remained a prominent source of uncertainty for climate change impacts assessment. We find that the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 5, global climate model ensemble indicates robust increases in the occurrence of severe thunderstorm environments over the eastern United States in response to further global warming. For spring and autumn, these robust increases emerge before mean global warming of 2 °C above the preindustrial baseline. We also find that days with high convective available potential energy (CAPE) and strong low-level wind shear increase in occurrence, suggesting an increasing likeli- hood of atmospheric conditions that contribute to the most severe events, including tornadoes. In contrast, whereas expected decreases in mean wind shear have been used to argue for a negative influ- ence of global warming on severe thunderstorms, we find that decreases in shear are in fact concentrated in days with low CAPE and therefore do not decrease the total occurrence of severe environments. Further, we find that the shift toward high CAPE is most concentrated in days with low convective inhibition, increasing the occurrence of high-CAPE/low-convective inhibition days. The fact that the projected increases in severe environments are robust across a suite of climate models, emerge in response to relatively moderate global warming, and result from robust physical changes suggests that continued increases in greenhouse forcing are likely to in- crease severe thunderstorm occurrence, thereby increasing the risk of thunderstorm-related damage.
There has been a lively conversation on severe storm/climate change science in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan and the November tornado outbreak. Certain key ideas seem to be bubbling to the top, and this will probably be the subject of a video soon after I return from AGU.
I do hope Muller goes back wherever he came from. He is the only person I think able to get 97% or even more people to agree in any climate debate, to agree that he knows zero about what he is talking about that is.
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Forum : United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Forum : Licensing, Merchant Papers, etc. : Abandoned boat
Last Post 06 Jun 2007 05:32 PM by lawesterman. 4 Replies.
lawesterman
We are in possession of a 16' alum. boat, it was left on a friends property and was to be reclaimed two years ago.
Our friend was tired of the boat being there and gave it to us, how can we secure this boat in our name.
It has Missouri id on it, we are located in the Pasadena, Texas area. All the electronic gear is off of it, the motor may run, we haven't tried it yet as it needs spark plugs and possible lube and so on.
I would like to be able to own this boat and will go thru the legal channels to get it.
XShipRider
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I would check with a Missouri lawyer. You may be in possession of property which they had no right to give you. My reading of the Missouri Revised Statutes (MRS) indicates 7 or 5 years, depending on when the property was originally left in place, are the two magic numbers. And remember, transporting it over a state line could make it a federal offense. It would be better to be proactive in this case by contacting a lawyer. It would be well worth a couple hundred dollars rather than facing a judge over the issue.
Here's how Missouri Revised Statutes reads:
Abandonment period, effective when.
447.536. Except for the abandonment period for travelers checks and money orders provided for in subdivision (3) of section 447.505; the abandonment period for dissolution of business associations, banking organizations and financial organizations as provided for in section 447.527; and the abandonment period for court-related bond proceeds as provided for in section 447.595; all other abandonment periods referenced in sections 447.505 to 447.595, shall change from seven to five years beginning January 1, 2000. The abandonment periods provision of this section shall not apply to property which is held pursuant to any resolution, order or trust indenture entered into prior to August 28, 1998, by a city, county, school district, authority, agency or other political subdivision where the abandonment period or other abandonment provision specified in the resolution, order or trust indenture is different than the abandonment period specified in this section.
The very next statute may also apply:
Owner of property in another state and holder subject to that state's jurisdiction, effect.
447.537. If specific property which is subject to the provisions of sections 447.505, 447.520, 447.527, 447.530 and 447.535 is held for or owed or distributable to an owner whose last known address is in another state by a holder who is subject to the jurisdiction of that state, the specific property is not presumed abandoned in this state and subject to sections 447.500 to 447.595 if:
(1) It may be claimed as abandoned or escheated under the laws of such other state; and
(2) The laws of such other state make reciprocal provision that similar specific property is not presumed abandoned or escheatable by such other state when held for or owed or distributable to an owner whose last known address is within this state by a holder who is subject to the jurisdiction of this state; provided, however, such other state shall only enforce its claim by trial de novo in the appropriate court in Missouri.
Best bet, contact a lawyer.
Caution: I have two brain cells. Sometimes they both work at the same time.
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The abandoned boat was found in Texas, what about that situation
05 Jun 2007 01:05 AM
Okay, misunderstood the first post. Good luck. I would still consult a lawyer since the statute below reads "3 years."
Texas statute:
PROPERTY CODE
CHAPTER 72. ABANDONMENT OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 72.001. APPLICATION OF CHAPTER. (a) Tangible or
intangible personal property is subject to this chapter if it is
covered by Section 72.101 and:
(1) the last known address of the apparent owner, as
shown on the records of the holder, is in this state;
(2) the records of the holder do not disclose the
identity of the person entitled to the property, and it is
established that the last known address of the person entitled to
the property is in this state;
(3) the records of the holder do not disclose the last
known address of the apparent owner, and it is established that:
(A) the last known address of the person entitled
to the property is in this state; or
(B) the holder is a domiciliary or a government
or governmental subdivision or agency of this state and has not
previously paid or delivered the property to the state of the last
known address of the apparent owner or other person entitled to the
property;
shown on the records of the holder, is in a state that does not
provide by law for the escheat or custodial taking of the property
or is in a state in which the state's escheat or unclaimed property
law is not applicable to the property, and the holder is a
domiciliary or a government or governmental subdivision or agency
of this state;
shown on the records of the holder, is in a foreign nation and the
holder is a domiciliary or a government or governmental subdivision
or agency of this state; or
(6) the transaction out of which the property arose
occurred in this state and:
(A) the last known address of the apparent owner
or other person entitled to the property is:
(i) unknown; or
(ii) in a state that does not provide by law
for the escheat or custodial taking of the property or in a state in
which the state's escheat or unclaimed property law is not
applicable to the property; and
(B) the holder is a domiciliary of a state that
does not provide by law for the escheat or custodial taking of the
property or a state in which the state's escheat or unclaimed
property law is not applicable to the property.
(b) This chapter supplements other chapters in this title,
and each chapter shall be followed to the extent applicable.
(c) This chapter applies to property held by life insurance
companies with the exception of unclaimed proceeds to which Chapter
1109, Insurance Code, applies and that are held by those companies
that are subject to Chapter 1109, Insurance Code.
(d) A holder of property presumed abandoned under this
chapter is subject to the procedures of Chapter 74.
(e) In this chapter, a holder is a person, wherever
organized or domiciled, who is:
(1) in possession of property that belongs to another;
(2) a trustee; or
(3) indebted to another on an obligation.
(f) In this chapter, a corporation shall be deemed to be a
domiciliary of the state of its incorporation.
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3592, ch. 576, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.
Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 230, § 7, eff. Sept. 1,
1985; Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 426, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1987;
Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 153, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts
2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, § 30, eff. June 1, 2003.
SUBCHAPTE B. PRESUMPTION OF ABANDONMENT
§ 72.101. PERSONAL PROPERTY PRESUMED ABANDONED. (a)
Except as provided by this section and Sections 72.1015, 72.1016,
and 72.102, personal property is presumed abandoned if, for longer
than three years:
(1) the existence and location of the owner of the
property is unknown to the holder of the property; and
(2) according to the knowledge and records of the
holder of the property, a claim to the property has not been
asserted or an act of ownership of the property has not been
exercised.
(b)(1) The three-year period leading to a presumption of
abandonment of stock or another intangible ownership interest in a
business association, the existence of which is evidenced by
records available to the association, commences on the first date
that either a sum payable as a result of the ownership interest is
unclaimed by the owner or a communication to the owner is returned
undelivered by the United States Postal Service.
(2) The running of the three-year period of
abandonment ceases immediately on the exercise of an act of
ownership interest or sum payable or a communication with the
association as evidenced by a memorandum or other record on file
with the association or its agents.
(3) At the time an ownership is presumed abandoned
under this section, any sum then held for interest or owing to the
owner as a result of the interest and not previously presumed
abandoned is presumed abandoned.
(4) Any stock or other intangible ownership interest
enrolled in a plan that provides for the automatic reinvestment of
dividends, distributions, or other sums payable as a result of the
ownership interest is subject to the presumption of abandonment as
provided by this section.
(c) Property distributable in the course of a
demutualization or related reorganization of an insurance company
is presumed abandoned on the first anniversary of the date the
property becomes distributable if, at the time of the first
distribution, the last known address of the owner according to the
records of the holder of the property is known to be incorrect or
the distribution or statements related to the distribution are
returned by the post office as undeliverable and the owner has not:
(1) communicated in writing with the holder of the
property or the holder's agent regarding the interest; or
(2) otherwise communicated with the holder regarding
the interest as evidenced by a memorandum or other record on file
with the holder or its agents.
(d) Property distributable in the course of a
that is not subject to Subsection (c) is presumed abandoned as
otherwise provided by this section.
1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 36, § 3.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Acts 2003,
78th Leg., 3rd C.S., ch. 3, § 2.01, 3.01, eff. Jan. 11, 2004;
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 81, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.
Thank you for the information, I will call a lawyer, as you suggested
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The God of the Bible is So Utterly Evil. Why Can't Christians See That?
Gary: Even if I could prove to you, Rob, with indisputable historical evidence that your God condoned the selling of one's daughter for financial profit (Exodus 21:7-11) or that he ordered the targeted killing of thousands of innocent children (I Samuel 15:3), that would most likely not change your mind in the slightest about your god's goodness or his existence. Why? Because your belief is not based on objective evidence. It is based on the subjective "testimony of the Holy Spirit" in your heart. Until you objectively evaluate the reality of the presence of a "spirit" inside your body, no amount of objective evidence will ever change your mind.
Here is what I suggest you do: Test the spirit. Do what the Bible tells you to do and test the spirit. Test the "spirit" that you believe lives in your body and gives you secret knowledge and life direction. Test this spirit with the same tests you would advise someone of another religion to do to prove the reality of their god or gods. If you do this, I believe that you will be unable to give good, convincing evidence that the "spirit" inside you is anyone other than…YOU…talking to yourself.
How could any being, human or divine, with even an ounce of goodness in their character, condone or tolerate selling one's daughter into slavery???
Rob: You show that you are biased in your view of God and His word. If you were a sincere seeker of truth then you would want to understand what these verses of scripture really mean, in context with their background and the traditions of people at that time.
By drawing out a particular verse of scripture without seeking to understand it, or have it explained to you, it is easy to see that you have only one agenda: to impugn God. I find your comments quite disingenuous. Genuine seekers of truth welcome a detailed explanation. Scoffers, pull out verses of scripture with no context and mock God. You don't understand God or His word because you don't really want to understand. This is most unfortunate, but over time as I have read many of your comments, It is easy to discern now what your true intents are.
The slaughter of the Canaanites.
I explained to you that God did not approve the selling of a daughter. This was the practice of the culture of Jews at that time, for reasons of poverty. Moses gave this command to that generation, not to the whole world. Did you read the article? There is not a single place in the Bible where God states that we should take slaves. There are several places where we see that people take slaves, and because of the hardness of their hearts, God institutes commands for how they must treat these persons.
God did not institute "targeted killing of thousands," He brought judgement to wicked populations of people who refused to cease from their evil. As God, He is perfect in every way and all of His judgements are right and just. If a judge does not condemn the guilty and execute a sentence against the unrighteous, he is an unrighteous judge. We would not want to live in a country where evil is not punished and justice is not served.
"And Moses said to them, "Have you spared all the women? 16 "Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the Lord. 17 "Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. 18 "But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves." (Numbers 31:15-18).
The Canaanites were brutal, vicious people who sacrificed their children to Molech. God warned these people for nearly 900 years before He brought their destruction. How long are you willing to wait when someone wrongs you or your family? God is very patient and kind and gives people a very long time before He brings judgement. When they do not listen and turn from their sins, He does bring judgement, as He should.
My belief is not based upon feelings or subjective evidence. I have written over 2200 articles and published 31 books about empirical evidence which proves that God exists, He is good, and earnestly wants to save people. It is people like yourself who deny God even though you see the universe He created, enjoy the life He gave you, and then shake your fist in His face and say He is unjust, and condemns innocent people to death.
God has given us evidence but you do not accept the evidence.
1. The universe God created is evidence He exists.
2. The Bible is the word of God and adequate instructions for Godly living.
3. The appearance of Jesus on earth, proves that God exists and allows us to see what He is like and what He requires of us to have a relationship with Him.
You do not accept God's evidence. This does not change the fact that He has provided you with everything you need to believe. On your judgement day, you will not be able to say that you didn't know that God exists, or that He did not prove Himself to you. You will have nothing to say, because you will know, that He knows, you knew.
Being burned alive…forever! A "righteous" judgment for the crime of ancestral forbidden fruit eating and the "thought crime" of refusing to believe that a first century Jewish peasant is the Master and Creator of the Universe???
You are the one that has committed wrongs by impugning the name of God and have misrepresented Him. You have rejected His love for you and gone out to tell people they are foolish to believe God is good or that He exists. Jesus said that those who spend their lives leading others away from Him, and cause them to loose their faith, as you are trying to do, "It would be better that they were never born…" God takes personal offense at your constant articles that you write to impugn His name and make people stop believing in Him. You have made yourself the enemy of God. Instead, notice how good the Lord is; He came to earth and died for you and gave up His life to save you. Stop your hatred of God, turn from your sins and receive Christ so that you might be saved from the judgment to come. I implore you!
Your idea that trust in Christ is simply a inner emotion that we believe in a Holy Spirit that is not real, and we depend only upon our feelings for faith, is absolutely not true. Perhaps this is why you stopped believing; because you did not have knowledge of the vast evidence, but only relied upon your feelings. These feelings changed when you had doubts, and you had no training in the evidence to support your doubts.
Dear Christians: Imaginary friends are not real. Yes, they can give you great peace and comfort, but they are not real. Give them up! You will be alright without them.
We should believe because God has left us such great evidence for faith. He created all that exists and left us His word to give us evidence for faith. Finally, God sent His Son into the world to die for our sins, and left a visible proof that He exists and He wants to save those who will trust Him.
I believe because the evidence compels me to believe. You should too.
Gary's summary of this discussion: Notice that the fundamentalist Christian's last line of defense in every discussion with non-believers is an attempt to instill fear of the unknown. None of us knows for sure what happens after death. Christians and other religionists pounce on this uncertainty and attempt to scare us into accepting their ignorant, Bronze Age, superstitious nonsense…just in case they are right. This is called "Pascal's Wager". This concept refers to the belief that it is a much safer bet to believe in God and be wrong, than to not believe in God and be wrong. The latter could result in your eternal damnation in the fires of Hell! On the surface, makes sense, right? The problem is, there isn't just one god. And if you have spent anytime like I have looking at the evidence for the major world religions, you will see that the evidence for the claims of Christianity are no better than the claims of other world religions (in fact, it is worse than many of them). There is no safe bet. We must believe based on evidence, not fear!
There is nothing that will convince this poor man that his beliefs are evil superstitious nonsense. If a person cannot recognize that the targeted slaughter of little children is evil, what evidence would convince him or her??? I ask you this, dear Readers: How is this fundamentalist Christian's warped, immoral thinking any different from that of today's fundamentalist Muslims who murder non-Muslim children in the name of their god?
The god of the Bible is evil. But the Good News is: the overwhelming evidence demonstrates…he does not exist!
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Round and around we go. Reading this is a tidbit maddening. My eyes are twitching—- Thank you for sharing and reminding me yet again, of the mental gymnastics folks use to stay in their belief system. Errrrrggghhhh.
Thanks for the comment, Stacy.
Yes, it shows just how intensely religion brain-washes people. The same Christians who denounce today's fundamentalist Muslims for barbaric behavior, condone and defend the very same behavior in their holy book. All superstitions are dangerous, but some are deadly!
Wow Gary. That's about all I can really say.
I've read through a few of his posts that he suggested for me, and it seems you managed to find yourself some serious level of apologetic crazy when you found this guy.
Yes, Rob is very much a passionate (brain-washed) fundamentalist Christian.
What I always, and continue to, find fascinating about fundamentalist Christians is how their thinking looks so much like the kinds of thinking that comes from conspiracy theorists. Everything is evidence for their absurdities, and everything that might disprove their views is also evidence for their absurdities. It's really quite sad how muddled their thinking is. | {
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At least one person died and two more were injured in a Santa Clarita car accident that involved a city bus and several other vehicles. According to a KTLA news report, the collision occurred the evening of November 4, 2017 at the intersection of Golden Valley Road and Sierra Highway. Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials said the chain-reaction collision began with a Ford pickup truck pulling a U-Haul trailer and a camper trailer slammed into a Toyota Corolla from behind as the car was stopped at a light waiting to make a left turn.
The driver of the Toyota was killed by the weight of the impact and was pronounced dead at the scene. After striking the Toyota, the Ford truck careened into a city bus where one passenger was injured. The bus passenger and the driver of the Ford were both transported to an area hospital for treatment. The passenger sustained non-life-threatening injuries while the driver of the Ford had sustained severely injured. No arrests or citations were issued. The investigation is still ongoing.
Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family members of the woman who was fatally injured in this crash. We also wish those who were injured the very best for a speedy and complete recovery.
There were five fatalities and 587 injuries reported as a result of Santa Clarita car accidents in 2014, according to California Highway Patrol's Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS). In Los Angeles County as a whole, 606 people died and 51,988 were injured due to car accidents during the same year.
Based on this news report, it appears that this horrific chain-reaction crash was triggered by the Ford truck, which rear-ended the Toyota that was stopped at the light. There are a number of unanswered questions here. What caused the rear-end collision? Was the driver of the Ford truck speeding or distracted? Was there some type of mechanical malfunction in the vehicle such as brake failure? Why was the driver of the pickup unable to stop in time to avoid the collision? We trust officials are looking into these and other issues in order to determine precisely what occurred here and why.
In such cases, the at-fault driver can be held liable for the injuries and damages caused. Investigations into multi-vehicle crashes can be tricky. If you have been involved in a collision involving a number of vehicles, it would be in your best interest to contact an experienced Los Angeles personal injury lawyer who will stay abreast of the official investigation and help protect your legal rights and best interests. | {
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$418 - Baxton Studio BBT6571-Beige-Full Fannie French Classic Modern Style Beige Linen Fabric Full Platform Bed - 47 x 56.36 x 83.66 in.
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There is no doubt that technological advancements and our growing reliance on the Internet has affected the way we travel. These changes include how we decide on our prospective destinations, how we get there, where we stay, what we choose to do, as well as how we record our memories.
This week, in our "Technology Trends" series, we look at various innovations in the travel industry brought about through the proliferation of new technologies.
Calling the front desk to order room service is an outdated practice for the Aloft hotel in New York City's Financial District. With an emoji menu in place, hotel guests can now text a corresponding emoji and their room number to receive on-demand delivery service. This is just one example of how the hospitality business is embracing new technologies to provide value-add experiences to keep pace with growing customer expectations.
In the Digital Age, travel agents have been replaced with travel websites and apps devoted to helping the customer develop their perfect vacation plan. The Internet has given us an infinite number of tools to research, price, and book our next trip, all at the push of a button. This article offers a rundown of online resources that many ardent travelers have found invaluable, regardless of one's travel style or budget.
Raden is a new player in the luggage manufacturing industry. The company doesn't make regular suitcases, but is focused on a small niche market that is expected to grow rapidly in the next few years – smart luggage. Raden's smart tech-enabled suitcases are equipped with a battery that can be used to charge a phone or a laptop. Each suitcase has a handle sensor that allows you to weigh your bag without lifting it off the ground. Through the Raden app, you can geo-locate your suitcase at any point in time, and in case you've overstuffed your bag, the app will calculate the exact overage fee based on your airline and final destination.
The aerospace industry has long been following the evolution of 3D printing technologies. Being able to use 3D printing techniques in the making of the airplane parts would allow manufacturers to work with significantly lighter materials, taking the aerospace industry to a new level. This video demonstrates how Stratasys, the global leader in 3D printing, has successfully built the world's largest 3D aerial vehicle, which the company presented at the Dubai Air Show at the end of last year. Today, a 3D-printed commercial airplane still sounds like a long shot, but engineers and investors both agree that at the current rate of research and development, it will become a feasible project in the near future.
Born roughly from 1982 to 2000, millennials are the nation's largest generation, comprising one-fourth of the population. In 2015, they also became the largest share of the American workforce. With roughly 55.3 million millennials in the U.S. labor force, sociologists have been collecting data to compare their job performance, habits, and workstyle to those of their gen X and baby boomer colleagues. Research shows that while traveling for work, millennials spend more on plane tickets, hotel room upgrades, and entertainment than non-millennial business travelers. While companies may be concerned about their growing business travel expenses, this article discusses how the millennial spending trend could be viewed as an opportunity rather than a threat. | {
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George Cook
Honeycomb Credit announces $1M Repaid to Investors, and $10M Raised for Small Businesses
Honeycomb Credit is thrilled to announce that we have met not one but two major milestones for the company in 2021.
First, we have successfully been able to repay $1 million dollars back to our community of investors dedicated to supporting small businesses in their communities.
Honeycomb investors are a vital part of our community, and continuously show up for small businesses seeking funding through the platform. 17% of Honeycomb investors are repeat investors, showing an ongoing commitment to helping small businesses, and 20% are small business owners themselves!
Honeycomb now operates in 16 states, and has funded over 100+ small business crowdfunding campaigns to date. These businesses include food trucks, tech startups, distilleries, breweries, restaurants, and even composting companies.
"I am thrilled by the incredible growth on our platform and so excited to share these milestones with our loyal users and fans," says George Cook, CEO of Honeycomb. "Together we are proving that we all can have agency over what types of businesses grow and thrive within our communities, and we can do it while earning competitive returns and building localized community wealth."
This brings us to our second milestone: Honeycomb has now moved $10 million across the platform. Thanks to a combination of a major fundraise for fellow crowdfunder WeFunder as well as our network of small businesses, we've been able to help entrepreneurs across the country to help grow their businesses and empower their communities.
"These investments are making entrepreneurs' dreams come true, creating jobs, and making our communities more fun and resilient," says Cook. "I can't wait to unlock the next $10 million and $100 million for small businesses!"
Building Buzz, Building Communities
Since starting out in 2017, Honeycomb has been able to fund $10 million for small businesses across the country and expand into markets hungry for small business financing. We're excited to continue this work in getting fair capital to businesses who are invested in their communities by letting their communities invest in them.
Join us in this work by heading to www.honeycombcredit.com to learn more about how you can get involved, either as a small business owner or community investor.
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Thomas Nelson Student Government Association (SGA) leaders and advisors joined more than 400 students from across Virginia's Community Colleges at the 2018 Student Leadership Conference. The Nov. 16-18 event took place in Virginia Beach at the Founders Inn and Spa.
Titled "Unleash Your Super Leader," this year's conference gave students an opportunity to learn different leadership styles, various leadership strategies to use in college and beyond, ice breakers, team-building activities and more.
Thomas Nelson's team of 14 included advisors and 12 students. Among those was SGA President Elizabeth "Liz" Axberg, who looked forward to the conference as a way to get motivated, inspired and network with other VCCS student leaders.
In addition to hearing from nationally-known leadership coaches and influencers throughout the week, participants also volunteered with Rise Against Hunger, an international hunger relief organization that distributes food to pack 10,000 meals for those in need.
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Front porch politics : the forgotten heyday of American activism in the 1970s and 1980s
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"An on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personal. It is widely believed that Americans of the 1970s and '80s were exhausted by the upheavals of the '60s and eager to retreat to the private realm. When they did take action, it was mainly to express their disillusionment with government by supporting the right. In fact, as Michael Stewart Foley shows, neither of these assumptions is correct. On the community level, the 1970s and '80s saw vibrant new forms of political activity emerge. Tenants challenged landlords, farmers practiced civil disobedience to protect their land, and laid-off workers asserted a right to own their idled factories. Activists fought to defend the traditional family or to expand the rights of women, while entire towns organized to protest the toxic sludge in their basements. In all these arenas, Americans were propelled by their own experiences into the public sphere. Disregarding conventional ideas of "left" and "right," they turned to political action when they perceived an immediate threat to the safety and security of their families, homes, or dreams. Front Porch Politics is a people's history told through on-the-ground experiences. Recalling crusades famous and forgotten, Foley shows how Americans followed their outrage into the streets. Their distinctive style of visceral, local, and highly personal activism remains a vital resource for the renewal of American democracy"--
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Is That Trend Right for You?
You've heard of wedding planners. You've heard of event planners. But baby planners? Colorado is now home to several certified baby planners and maternity concierge services—Sweet Pea Baby Planners, Hello World Baby Planning and Maternity Concierge and WeePlan Baby Planner—and after years of popularity in places like LA, New York and Europe. Offerings include baby gear education, nursery organization and design, multiples preparation and even creating personal birth plans.
It turns out, having a Colorado baby in the spring is perfect when it comes to introducing solid foods: apples, pears, sweet potatoes, carrots and squash are all perfect for a tiny baby's developing tummy and palate.
1. Always consult your pediatrician prior to beginning any new food for your infant.
3. Follow the four-day wait rule when introducing a new food to baby—offer your baby the same new food for four days to test for allergies to that food. Introduce only one food at a time to watch for reactions and determine if baby likes it.
4. Use very clean hands, clean cooking utensils, preparation surfaces, pots/pans etc. when making and preparing homemade baby food.
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The Show Must Go On! 55th ACM Awards Resumes on September
The 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards is just weeks away. After being moved from its original date April 15, the 2020 ACM awards will be aired on September 16 at 8 P.M. ET on CBS. Here are some things that you'll want to know about the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards.
LIVE on Three Locations
Despite being delayed for months, the ACM Awards must go on! This year though, the awards will not be held in Las Vegas which we were accustomed to. Instead, it will be aired Live in three different places in Nashville; the house of the Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium, and the Bluebird Cafe.
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Time for the Rising Stars to Shine
Hosted by the 15-time winner of the ACM Entertainer of the Year, Keith Urban, the 2020 ACM awards would not be less short of the brightest night this coming September. Some awards were handed out earlier. Last week, Urban announced to the public that Tenille Townes and Riley Green both won the New Male and Female Artists of the Year.
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The recipient for the ACM Entertainer of the Year award will also be something to look out for this year. With Garth Brooks announcing prior to the ACM Awards that he will be removing himself from possible future wins, we saw the rise of new contenders. Both first-time nominees Maren Morris and Thomas Rhett are frontrunners for the award after receiving five nominations each. Joining them are two time past winners Luke Bryan and Carrie Underwood and two-time nominee Eric Church.
Great Artists, Great Performances
Any ACM Awards telecast will not be complete without great performances from the industry's best. This year's 55th ACM Awards, of course, won't be short of the best in country music. Below is the list of the confirmed performers and where their performances will be filmed.
Gabby Barrett, "I Hope" from the Ryman Auditorium
Jimmie Allen, "Make Me Want To" from the Bluebird Café
Kelsea Ballerini, "Hole in the Bottle" from the Ryman Auditorium
Luke Combs, "Better Together" from the Bluebird Café
Maren Morris, "To Hell & Back" from the Ryman Auditorium
Miranda Lambert (feat. Natalie Hemby and Luke Dick), "Bluebird" from the Bluebird Café
Old Dominion, a medley from the Ryman Auditorium
Riley Green from the Ryman Auditorium
Tenille Townes from the Ryman Auditorium
Thomas Rhett (Feat. Jon Pardi), "Beer Can't Fix" from the Ryman Auditorium
Tim McGraw, "I Called Mama" from the Bluebird Cafe
Carrie Underwood, Eric church, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, Maren Morris, Riley Green, Tenille Townes, thomas rhett
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module Hypervisor.ErrorCodes(ErrorCode(..), GrantErrorCode(..)) where
import Control.Exception
import Data.Typeable
import GHC.Generics
-- |Error codes returned from hypervisor calls. These errors are either returned
-- directly or thrown as an exception.
--
-- Xen takes this directly from linux @\/usr\/include\/asm\/errno.h@).
-- Only a small subset of these codes are actually used by xen (but there
-- is no documentation as to which ones these are).
data ErrorCode =
EOK -- ^ (not used; just to get enum aligned right)
| EPERM -- ^ Operation not permitted
| ENOENT -- ^ No such file or directory
| ESRCH -- ^ No such process
| EINTR -- ^ Interrupted system call
| EIO -- ^ IO error
| ENXIO -- ^ No such device or address
| E2BIG -- ^ Argument list too long
| ENOEXEC -- ^ Exec format error
| EBADF -- ^ Bad file number
| ECHILD -- ^ No child processes
| EAGAIN -- ^ Try again
| ENOMEM -- ^ Out of memory
| EACCES -- ^ Permission denied
| EFAULT -- ^ Bad address
| ENOTBLK -- ^ Block device required
| EBUSY -- ^ Device or resource busy
| EEXIST -- ^ File exists
| EXDEV -- ^ Cross-device link
| ENODEV -- ^ No such device
| ENOTDIR -- ^ Not a directory
| EISDIR -- ^ Is a directory
| EINVAL -- ^ Invalid argument
| ENFILE -- ^ File table overflow
| EMFILE -- ^ Too many open files
| ENOTTY -- ^ Not a typewriter
| ETXTBSY -- ^ Text file busy
| EFBIG -- ^ File too large
| ENOSPC -- ^ No space left on device
| ESPIPE -- ^ Illegal seek
| EROFS -- ^ Read-only file system
| EMLINK -- ^ Too many links
| EPIPE -- ^ Broken pipe
| EDOM -- ^ Math argument out of domain of func
| ERANGE -- ^ Math result not representable
| EDEADLK -- ^ Resource deadlock would occur
| ENAMETOOLONG -- ^ File name too long
| ENOLCK -- ^ No record locks available
| ENOSYS -- ^ Function not implemented
| ENOTEMPTY -- ^ Directory not empty
| ELOOP -- ^ Too many symbolic links encountered
| EWOULDBLOCK -- ^ Operation would block (not used; try EAGAIN)
| ENOMSG -- ^ No message of desired type
| EIDRM -- ^ Identifier removed
| ECHRNG -- ^ Channel number out of range
| EL2NSYNC -- ^ Level 2 not synchronized
| EL3HLT -- ^ Level 3 halted
| EL3RST -- ^ Level 3 reset
| ELNRNG -- ^ Link number out of range
| EUNATCH -- ^ Protocol driver not attached
| ENOCSI -- ^ No CSI structure available
| EL2HLT -- ^ Level 2 halted
| EBADE -- ^ Invalid exchange
| EBADR -- ^ Invalid request descriptor
| EXFULL -- ^ Exchange full
| ENOANO -- ^ No anode
| EBADRQC -- ^ Invalid request code
| EBADSLT -- ^ Invalid slot
| EDEADLOCK -- ^ (Not used: try EDEADLK)
| EBFONT -- ^ Bad font file format
| ENOSTR -- ^ Device not a stream
| ENODATA -- ^ No data available
| ETIME -- ^ Timer expired
| ENOSR -- ^ Out of streams resources
| ENONET -- ^ Machine is not on the network
| ENOPKG -- ^ Package not installed
| EREMOTE -- ^ Object is remote
| ENOLINK -- ^ Link has been severed
| EADV -- ^ Advertise error
| ESRMNT -- ^ Srmount error
| ECOMM -- ^ Communication error on send
| EPROTO -- ^ Protocol error
| EMULTIHOP -- ^ Multihop attempted
| EDOTDOT -- ^ RFS specific error
| EBADMSG -- ^ Not a data message
| EOVERFLOW -- ^ Value too large for defined data type
| ENOTUNIQ -- ^ Name not unique on network
| EBADFD -- ^ File descriptor in bad state
| EREMCHG -- ^ Remote address changed
| ELIBACC -- ^ Can not access a needed shared library
| ELIBBAD -- ^ Accessing a corrupted shared library
| ELIBSCN -- ^ .lib section in a.out corrupted
| ELIBMAX -- ^ Attempting to link in too many shared libraries
| ELIBEXEC -- ^ Cannot exec a shared library directly
| EILSEQ -- ^ Illegal byte sequence
| ERESTART -- ^ Interrupted system call should be restarted
| ESTRPIPE -- ^ Streams pipe error
| EUSERS -- ^ Too many users
| ENOTSOCK -- ^ Socket operation on non-socket
| EDESTADDRREQ -- ^ Destination address required
| EMSGSIZE -- ^ Message too long
| EPROTOTYPE -- ^ Protocol wrong type for socket
| ENOPROTOOPT -- ^ Protocol not available
| EPROTONOSUPPORT -- ^ Protocol not supported
| ESOCKTNOSUPPORT -- ^ Socket type not supported
| EOPNOTSUPP -- ^ Operation not supported on transport endpoint
| EPFNOSUPPORT -- ^ Protocol family not supported
| EAFNOSUPPORT -- ^ Address family not supported by protocol
| EADDRINUSE -- ^ Address already in use
| EADDRNOTAVAIL -- ^ Cannot assign requested address
| ENETDOWN -- ^ Network is down
| ENETUNREACH -- ^ Network is unreachable
| ENETRESET -- ^ Network dropped connection because of reset
| ECONNABORTED -- ^ Software caused connection abort
| ECONNRESET -- ^ Connection reset by peer
| ENOBUFS -- ^ No buffer space available
| EISCONN -- ^ Transport endpoint is already connected
| ENOTCONN -- ^ Transport endpoint is not connected
| ESHUTDOWN -- ^ Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown
| ETOOMANYREFS -- ^ Too many references: cannot splice
| ETIMEDOUT -- ^ Connection timed out
| ECONNREFUSED -- ^ Connection refused
| EHOSTDOWN -- ^ Host is down
| EHOSTUNREACH -- ^ No route to host
| EALREADY -- ^ Operation already in progress
| EINPROGRESS -- ^ Operation now in progress
| ESTALE -- ^ Stale NFS file handle
| EUCLEAN -- ^ Structure needs cleaning
| ENOTNAM -- ^ Not a XENIX named type file
| ENAVAIL -- ^ No XENIX semaphores available
| EISNAM -- ^ Is a named type file
| EREMOTEIO -- ^ Remote IO error
| EDQUOT -- ^ Quota exceeded
| ENOMEDIUM -- ^ No medium found
| EMEDIUMTYPE -- ^ Wrong medium type
deriving (Show,Read,Enum,Eq,Generic,Typeable)
instance Exception ErrorCode
data GrantErrorCode =
GrantOK
| GrantGeneralError
| GrantBadDomain
| GrantBadGrantRef
| GrantBadHandle
| GrantBadVirtualAddress
| GrantBadDeviceAddress
| GrantNoDeviceSpace
| GrantPermissionDenied
| GrantBadPage
| GrantBadCopyArgument
| GrantAddressTooBig
| GrantSendAgain
deriving (Show,Read,Enum,Eq,Generic,Typeable)
instance Exception GrantErrorCode
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The iPhones 6S
The pattern is pretty clear. In even-numbered years (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) Apple releases all-new iPhone form factors: 3G, 4, 5, 6/6 Plus. In the subsequent years, they release "S" variants: iPhones that look nearly identical to their predecessors, but with improved components.
Why do they do this?
There are some ecosystem advantages to this tick-tock1 schedule. Most iPhone cases, for example, fit both the tick and tock iPhones. (The rare exceptions are certain hard cases with extremely tight tolerances. The iPhones 6S, for example, are both a few tenths of a millimeter bigger, wider, and thicker than their corresponding siblings from last year.) I think there are some branding advantages to this two-year cycle as well. iPhones are iconic devices. The devices themselves are recognizable. Keeping each new form factor around for two model years lets that iconic appearance seep deeper into the mass market collective consciousness.
Releasing a new generation of iPhones every year — year in, year out — is an aggressive pace given the scale and scope of the iPhone, and its importance to Apple financially. Sure, other handset makers put out dozens of different models every year. But Apple is playing an entirely different game. With one exception — the iPhone 5C two years ago (a phone which, as time goes by, seems more and more curious strategically) — Apple has never made a new iPhone other than a new top-of-the-line industry-leading flagship. In the same way that automobiles don't change form factors every year, I don't think it would be feasible for Apple to change the iPhone's form factor every year. I think it takes more than a year for Apple's design team to create a new iPhone design — at least to create a new design that is different because it is better, not merely different for the sake of being different.
The glaring downside to this tick-tock schedule is that we as a culture — and particularly the media, both on the tech/gadgetry side and the business side — are obsessed with "new". And, well, the S-model iPhones don't look new. This year there is a new rose gold aluminum finish, but at a glance, the iPhones 6S look like last year's iPhones 6. Every year is an iterative improvement over the previous one, whether it's an S year or not. But it's hard not to see the S years as more iterative, less impressive, updates, simply because they look the same.
I think that's a trap — a way to be fooled by your eyes. If you put aside what the phones look like, the S model years have brought some of the biggest changes to the platform. The display changes came in non-S years, of course — the iPhone 4 going retina; the iPhone 5 expanding from 3.5 to 4 inches diagonally and changing the aspect ratio; and of course last year's 6/6 Plus expanding to 4.7 and 5.5 inches and higher display resolutions. But it was the 3GS that first improved on CPU performance and gave us the first improvements to the camera. The 4S ushered in Siri integration and a much faster camera. The 5S was Apple's first 64-bit ARM device, years ahead of the competition, and was the first device with Touch ID. For a typical iPhone user on a two-year upgrade cycle, I think the S years are the better phones, historically.
Here's a passage from my 5S/5C review two years ago:
Refinement, in the eyes of these naysayers, does not count as innovation. Only revolution counts. But the iPhone needs no revolution. It continues to sell better year-over-year, year after year, without lowering its prices. Every step of the way between 2007 and that lone original iPhone — running an OS with no third-party apps, no multitasking, not even copy-and-paste — and today's world, where Apple is on the cusp of selling its 700 millionth iOS device and the lineup ranges from the iPod Touch to the iPhones to two sizes of iPad, has been about just that: refinement.
The iPhone 5S shows that there remains much room for refinement.
I don't think it's ever been more of a trap to approach an S-model iPhone as "just a slightly improved version of last year's iPhone" than this year.
I used to think — and maybe it was even true — that one of the advantages to Apple of the tick-tock cycle is that during the S years, they're already experts at manufacturing a bunch of the components. That they've already got a year of experience making that case, that display, those buttons. That manufacturing-wise, Apple could just swap in a few new components, like a new A-series CPU, and call it a day. But the iPhones 6S don't use the same case as last year's models. They're now made out of an altogether new "7000 series" aluminum alloy. This isn't just a new material that needs to be obtained in massive quantities, it also requires new CNC machining to carve and polish the frames. The displays are the same sizes as last year, but Apple is using a new glass that it calls "the strongest in the smartphone industry".2 Even the Touch ID sensor is new. Everything you can touch on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus is new.
Internally, Apple has added force sensors to enable 3D Touch. They've replaced the chintzy old vibrating engine with a "Taptic" engine. Both LTE and Wi-Fi now support faster speeds (and LTE supports more bands, increasing compatibility with networks around the world). The camera now supports 4K video and shoots better (and bigger) still photos. On the iPhone 6S Plus, image stabilization now works with video in addition to stills. The CPU and GPU improvements in the A9 system-on-a-chip are more dramatic compared to the A8 than the A8 was to the A7.
Apple has even — dare I say finally — increased the amount of RAM, from 1 GB to 2.
"The Only Thing That's Changed Is Everything" is the slogan of Apple's marketing campaign for the iPhones 6S. I can't beat that. I've been testing both models for 12 days, and what Apple is saying about the new iPhones is true. They don't look new, but almost everything about them is new.
I think it's backwards to think that in an S year, Apple simply takes the previous model and makes a few tweaks. Instead, I think what's obvious is that knowing the basic industrial design at least two years ahead of time gives the engineering teams inside Apple an opportunity to make significant changes to the components and the materials used to construct them. The timeline for iPhones, because of the massive scale at which they must be manufactured, is such that, right now, as I'm typing this, the design for next year's iPhone 7 is either locked down or very close to it. The company will now spend the next year hustling to make it work and put it into production so it can start shipping a year from now. But that means there are also teams already at work on the iPhone 7S slated for 2017 — and they have a massive head start in terms of knowing the shape and dimensions of the device.
As usual, I'll leave in-depth performance analysis to others, but I did run the Geekbench 3 general-purpose benchmark. All devices were running the release version of iOS 9.0. I ran the benchmark three times after restarting the device, and put all devices in airplane mode during the tests. I've rounded the scores to the nearest tens digit. For both the iPhone 6 and 6S, the scores for the 5.5-inch Plus models were effectively identical to the 4.7-inch models, so they aren't broken out separately.
6S vs. 6 Factor
Single Core 1360 1610 2500 1.6×
Multi-Core 2430 2890 4340 1.5×
Memory (Single) 1420 1650 2540 1.5×
Memory (Multi) 1770 1840 2560 1.4×
Two observations here. First, there is a noticeably bigger performance increase across the board going from the 6 to the 6S than there was last year, going from the 5S to the 6. In broad strokes, the non-S iPhones are about physical style, the S models are about performance. (At the introduction of the 3GS in 2009, Phil Schiller claimed the "S" stood for "speed". Since then, Apple hasn't said what any of the S's stand for, but "speed" still fits)
Second, take a look at Geekbench's aggregate results for Android devices. (Here's a screenshot as it stands today, for posterity.) In terms of single-core performance, there isn't a single Android phone that beats the two-year-old iPhone 5S. Android devices fare better in multi-core benchmarks, because they have more cores (some have eight, many have four — the iPhones 6S still have only two cores), but single-core performance is a better measure for the sort of things you can feel while using a device. Apple is literally years ahead of the industry. Even if you don't agree that single-core performance is the more meaningful benchmark, you can't deny that iPhone benchmarks don't look anything like the benchmarks for high-end Android devices. With the Mac, Apple uses the same Intel chips as its PC competition. On mobile, though, Apple's in-house chip team has given the company a tremendous advantage over the rest of the industry.
Speaking of the Mac and performance, again looking at single-core performance, Geekbench results put the iPhone 6S at roughly the same score as a 2012 or 2013 MacBook Air. Even more intriguing is a comparison to the new single-port MacBook:
(1.3 GHz)
Single Core 2500 2631 2420 2295
Multi-Core 4340 5268 5018 4464
The new iPhone 6S beats the new MacBook in single-core performance on Geekbench, and is within spitting distance in multi-core. That's astounding. I can't wait to see the scores for the iPad Pro later this year.
3D Touch can be used in a few ways:
Quick Actions: The pop-up menu you see from the home screen when you press on an app icon.
Peek and Pop: Press a little to get a peek, press harder to pop whatever you're peeking at open. This works mostly on list items. So in Mail, from your list of messages, you can peek to look at a message, then pop to open it all the way up. It works almost everywhere in Apple's own apps: Messages, Camera, Maps, Weather, Safari (page previews on links), Notes, Calendar, and more. It pays to explore.
Multitasking: As an alternative to double-pressing the home button, you can now press on the left edge of the display. Press-and-swipe all the way across and you switch back to the previous app you were using. Press-and-swipe just a little and you're left in the "card view" where you can switch to any previous application. The former is like hitting Command-Tab just once. The latter is like hitting Tab repeatedly while holding down the Command key. This is quickly addictive, and a great accommodation now that the iPhones are bigger than they used to be — you can switch between apps without changing your grip to allow your thumb to reach the Home button.
Trackpad Mode: Press on the keyboard and it turns into a trackpad. iPads running iOS 9 can trigger this trackpad mode, too, with a two-finger swipe on the keyboard. Doing it with a single finger on the iPhone, though, is a tremendous boon to text editing. This might be the single best new feature for text editing on the iPhone since the addition of selection and Copy/Paste in iOS 3 in 2009. In addition to moving the insertion point around, you can press again and switch to selection mode — like double-clicking the mouse button on a Mac. Trackpad mode is a once-you've-used-it-you-can't-go-back addition to iOS.
There are other uses for 3D Touch as well. When drawing in the new Notes app or using Markup to annotate an image in Mail, you can press harder to draw thicker strokes. (The same also applies when drawing Chinese characters on Chinese handwriting keyboards.) If you press on one of the new "dynamic wallpapers" on the lock screen, it animates for a few seconds, like a Live Photo. (Or you can set your lock screen wallpaper to a Live Photo you've taken yourself. But Apple's "dynamic wallpapers" have a higher frame rate than the live photos you can take yourself; they're obviously like live photos, but they're not the same thing as the ones you can take with the iPhone 6S camera.)
The wallpaper animation is gimmicky, but fun. Most of the other uses for 3D Touch, though, are legitimate productivity gains. I find myself using the shortcuts on the icons for Messages (to jump to one of your three most-active recent threads) and Camera (to choose which mode to start in: front-facing self-portrait, video, slo-mo, or still) frequently. It's habit-forming.
Peek-and-pop for, say, reading email — I wasn't too sure about that at first. But watching Tim Cook's appearance on Stephen Colbert, I took note when Cook claimed it helps him get through his inbox faster. I tried it again, and noticed for the first time that while peeking, you can slide the message left or right to trash or archive it. It really is an efficient way to triage messages, especially ones that you can't get the gist of from the two- or three-line preview in the message list itself. And, you can drag a message up to get an activity sheet with additional actions, like Reply, Forward, Notify Me, and more. The productivity gain with this workflow is that you don't have to go "back" after finishing. Peek, swipe to the side to archive, and it's gone. Anywhere you can peek, try sliding the peek around.
I have only two bad things to say about 3D Touch. First, Apple missed an opportunity to borrow a great feature from Apple Watch. On Apple Watch, you can force touch in the notification list and you get an option to Clear All. 3D Touch has no effect in iOS 9's notification list, and there remains no way to clear all notifications at once.
Second, I find myself triggering the Quick Action menu inadvertently when I want to enter "jiggle mode" on the home screen, to either delete or move an app. Tap-and-wait long-pressing has always been a little frustrating to me. I don't like to wait. I'm impatient. So when I go to move an app on the iPhone 6S, I press on it, and more often than not, I press hard enough to register as a 3D Touch. For apps that don't have any Quick Actions (which is to say, as of this writing, all third-party apps), what happens next is that you get a wee bit of haptic feedback to let you know your press registered as a 3D Touch event, but that there are no Quick Actions for this app. It feels like two very quick gentle taps. This haptic feedback is very clever. There is no alert, and no sound. Just that little feedback that feels like the haptic equivalent of your phone telling you "Uh-uh". But the experience is frustrating, because now it's taking me even longer to enter jiggle mode: first, without thinking about what I'm doing, I accidentally trigger the "Uh-uh, no quick actions for this app" 3D Touch. Then I have to let go, purposefully tap-and-hold gently, and wait. I expect to get used to this over time, but at this point, 3D Touch and long-pressing feel like they're at odds with each other.
Overall, it seems very clear to me that 3D Touch will spread across the entire iOS device line. Like Touch ID and retina displays, it's simply debuting on the iPhone first.
Speaking of the new Taptic Engine, it's excellent. It doesn't just provide for 3D Touch feedback, but it also serves as the vibrator for notifications. It is stronger, more noticeable, and in my opinion more pleasing than any previous iPhone vibrator. Back in 2011, Apple switched to a superior oscillating vibrator in the iPhone 4S (and the Verizon/CDMA iPhone 4). All previous iPhones used a cheaper rotational vibrator. The oscillating vibrator in the iPhone 4S was noticeably nicer. For whatever reason, Apple went back to a rotational vibrator in the iPhone 5, and stuck with it through the iPhone 6. The new taptic engine in the 6S feels as good or better than the old iPhone 4S vibrator. It's just stronger and more pleasing.
The 3D Touch feedback is well-designed. Peeks feel gentle, pops feel stronger — sort of like a half tap and a full tap. When you press something in the interface that has only one level of 3D Touch (like the Quick Action menu on a home screen icon), you get the full-strength tap feedback, which is a way of letting you know, by feel, that there's no reason to press harder. If you feel a peek, you know you can press hard to pop; if you feel a pop, you know you're done. Once you get used to it, peek/pop is as intuitive as the shutter button on a camera, where you can press halfway to engage autofocus and set the exposure, and press the rest of the way to take a picture.
Speaking of which, the iPhone 6S cameras are terrific. They're fast, responsive, and accurate — accurate meaning that unedited, right off the camera roll, the color and light reproduction look like how the scene appeared to my eyes. More than any other aspect of the iPhone, the camera exemplifies the advantages of Apple's integration of hardware and software.
I'm still not sure what to make of the Live Photos feature. Is it a gimmick? I don't know. But I'm still shooting with the feature turned on. Technically, the way it seems to work is that the iPhone creates two files: a 12 MP JPEG (exactly the same as when you shoot a still image with Live Photo disabled), and a three-second-long MOV file. When looked at through Image Capture on a Mac running OS X 10.10.x, you see both files in the iPhone camera roll: "IMG_1234.JPG" and "IMG_1234.MOV". Both files have same numeric index after the "IMG_" prefix, and both files have the same creation date. The MOV file is 1440 × 1080 pixels, at 12.77 frames-per-second.
Technically, of course, a MOV file is a video. But I think one of the reasons Apple is adamantly refusing to describe Live Photos as "video" is that these animated sidecars aren't high-quality videos in and of themselves. That they are video files, under the hood, is just an implementation detail.
It's also worth emphasizing that these Live Photos are not implemented by burst mode. You can still engage burst mode by holding down the shutter button, but you still only get about six or seven frames per second. When taking a burst of stills, Live Photo is disabled — you just get a regular series of still images, grouped together in the camera roll just like on the iPhone 6.
So the way Live Photo works, I think, is this: when you're in still photo mode with Live Photo turned on, the iPhone is constantly capturing 1440 × 1080 video at 12.77 FPS, but keeping only the most recent 1.5 seconds. Then when you tap the shutter to capture a still, it takes a 12-megapixel still image in between capturing frames of the video. Then the camera continues capturing another 1.5 seconds of video. So you wind up with 1.5 seconds of video prior to hitting the shutter, one still image at the maximum resolution of the image sensor, and another 1.5 seconds of video from after the shutter press. Because there is only one 12-megapixel still image captured, you can't change the "key frame" of a Live Photo.
In iOS 9.0, the timing of this video capture is hard-coded. You get 3 seconds of video — 1.5 seconds on each side of the still capture — every time. This means, however, if you snap your photo and then lower the camera, you wind up with a "droop" at the end of your live photo animation — usually a blurry view of the floor. Apple has already addressed this in the betas for iOS 9.1. In 9.1, the camera will use the accelerometer to detect when you lower the camera after snapping a shot, and truncate the animation at that point. So in 9.0, all live photos are 3 seconds long, but many will have an unfortunate droop at the end. Starting in 9.1, live photos will be up to 3 seconds long, with no droops.
You cannot edit Live Photos. Well, you can edit them, but doing so turns them into stills.
One other camera feature demands mention, and it breaks my heart. Last year, the iPhone 6 Plus, and only the Plus, included optical image stabilization. This year, OIS remains a Plus-only feature, and Apple has made it even better, because it now works with video. The advantages of OIS for video are even greater than for still images, in my opinion. You know how when you watch a video someone shot on their phone — any phone — and when they walk around, you can see the picture rock up and down with each step they take? It's a signature of amateur video shot on consumer cameras, and it's unpleasant to say the least.
OIS for video reduces this jerkiness. And in my testing on the iPhone 6S Plus, the effect is dramatic. It's a poor man's Steadicam, built right into the iPhone 6S Plus. I say that this breaks my heart because, personally, I have no interest in owning the 6S Plus — I much prefer the pocketability and feel-in-hand of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6S. I could tell myself last year that the 6 Plus's camera was only a wee bit better than the regular 6's, and only under certain conditions. This year, OIS for video means the iPhone 6S Plus is capable of something the regular 6S is not: shooting smooth full-size videos while you walk around or pan the camera.3
Lastly, I can't write about the camera without complaining that the bump for the lens is still there. I understand the physics and optics involved, but it bothers me every single day that I can feel that nubbin. The best argument for forgiving the camera bump is that a vast majority of iPhone owners use a case of some sort, and with a case, the camera bump is a non-issue. But for those of us who don't use cases, and who appreciate Apple's general attention to every little detail, it's a very minor but daily irritation. My number one hope for next year is that Apple can continue to improve image quality while somehow getting rid of the bump.
One thing that hasn't changed from last year's iPhone 6 models: storage tiers of 16, 64, and 128 GB. The units I received for testing (one 6S, one 6S Plus) were both 128 GB. I'm sure most people can get by easily with the 64 GB models. For anyone who is not completely certain that they don't need much storage, I would recommend against the 16 GB models. It's too easy to fill them up. I wish Apple had switched the baseline from 16 to 32 GB. 4K video is off by default (the default is 1080p at 30 FPS), but forget about shooting 4K with a 16 GB device. Apple says 4K video takes up 375 MB per minute.
Here's the thing that nags me whenever I complain about these 16 GB phones. My gut feeling is that they're too small. Data from third-party app analytics suggests they're too small for many of the people who buy them. But Apple has more data on iPhone usage than anyone, and the company is obsessed with customer satisfaction. They measure customer satisfaction through surveys as accurately and scientifically as they can. How often does Tim Cook speak in public without the words "customer sat" coming out of his mouth? If last year's 16 GB baseline adversely affected customer satisfaction, you'd think Apple would have done something about it this year, right? The only other explanation that makes sense is that it does adversely affect customer satisfaction, but they're willing to take the hit in the name of higher average selling prices, because of the people who wind up buying 64 GB models who would have bought a 32 GB model for $100 less if that had been an option. Again, to me, 16/64/128 is not good/better/best — it's OK/better/best.
Also seemingly unchanged from last year: the effective battery life of the device. I didn't perform any sort of battery life tests, but in heavy daily usage, the iPhone 6S felt like it got the same battery life as the iPhone 6 I've been using for a year. No better, no worse. Like last year, the iPhone 6S Plus clearly gets way better battery life than the regular 6S, simply because it has room for a far larger battery.
The 6S models are heavier than last year's phones: the 6S is 14 grams heavier than the 6 (143/129g); the 6S Plus is 20 grams heavier than the 6 Plus (192/172g). Some of this might be due to the new Taptic Engine (which looks bigger in Apple's see-the-components promotional video) and the sensors for 3D Touch, but I presume most of the difference is due to the switch to higher-grade 7000-series aluminum. Well worth it for the additional structural integrity — I don't expect any complaints about bending this year. [Update: According to The Verge, most of the weight gain is from the touch sensors in the new display assembly, not the aluminum.]
This is subjective, but it seems to me that the new iPhones feel different to the touch. It's not dramatic, but I think they're less slippery. I've gone case-less with every iPhone I've owned, and the only one I've ever dropped and had the screen crack was the iPhone 6. The larger size and rounded edges made the iPhone 6 less grip-able than my beloved old iPhone 5S. It could just be the extra weight, but in blind testing, I can feel the difference between my old iPhone 6 and the new 6S. It's just a wee bit more tacky, and it's either due to the material, or the wear and tear of a year's usage on my iPhone 6.
Apple is billing the new Touch ID sensor as "up to 2× faster". They're underselling it. It's so fast now that every single time I press it, it unlocks the phone, no matter how brief the contact is between my finger and the sensor. I can sit here and try to use the home button to get to the lock screen, and I can't unless I purposefully only touch a small portion of the button or use an unregistered finger. It's that fast. This actually takes some getting used it, if, like me, you sometimes use the home button just to get to the lock screen to check the date or time. With the new Touch ID sensor, the home button instantly unlocks the phone and I need to use the sleep/wake button to get to the lock screen.
You know those FCC-mandated regulatory logos etched on the back of your iPhone? They're gone. Last year the FCC issued new guidelines that allow manufacturers to put all these labels in software, for display on screen, and Apple has done just that. (You can see them in Settings: General: Regulatory.) It's such a little thing, but those little turds have always bothered me. Curiously, one previous iPhone also lacked these regulatory etchings: the Verizon iPhone 4. I have no idea why that one iPhone was able to omit them but subsequent ones were not.
Replacing the regulatory turds is a simple "S" under the "iPhone" on the back of the phone. Previous S-model iPhones were not labeled as such.
I don't plan to use one, but Apple's new cases are very nice. Both the silicone and leather cases come in nicer colors than last year — and they complement/match Apple's lineup of Sport and leather straps for Apple Watch nicely. They really seem to have upped their game with leatherwork. Just for kicks I spent a few days of my review period with the iPhone 6S in the saddle brown case, and I really liked the way it looked and felt. It seems like the sort of leather that will look better as it ages. The biggest thing keeping me from using this case for real, going forward, is that the raised edge along the side of the display gets in the way of performing edge-based gestures, primarily swiping to go back, and the new press-and-swipe to switch between apps with 3D Touch.
New-number iPhones (4, 5, 6) are about showing off Apple's design prowess. The S models are about showing off Apple's engineering prowess. Storage capacities and battery life are unchanged from last year's iPhones. Everything else — the materials they're made from, the performance of their custom CPU/GPU, the quality of the cameras, the smoothness of the user interface — is noticeably, tangibly improved.
There might be other examples, but in tech the most well-known example of this strategy is Intel's CPU schedule: one generation is a new microarchitecture (big new change) and the next is a shrinking of the previous one. What isn't obvious is that the "tocks" are the new microarchitectures, and the "ticks" are the die shrinkings. So for iPhones, the S models are the ticks, and the new form factors are the tocks. That seems counter-intuitive, of course, because we say "tick-tock" but the tocks come before the ticks. That's kind of stupid if you ask me, so if you want to call the new form factor models the ticks and the S models the tocks, go right ahead. ↩︎
What does "stronger" mean? More scratch-resistant? Less prone to cracking when dropped? Both? I don't know, and when I asked, no one at Apple would say. ↩︎︎
There are a few apps for the iPhone that implement image-stabilization for video in software. Two that I'm aware of are Hyperlapse (from Instagram) and Horizon. Both apps work well, but there's no way to cheat true optical image stabilization. These apps smooth out the motion in video by cropping the frames. So you lose some resolution and wind up with a narrow field of view. The bigger downside is that you have remember to use these apps before you start shooting. When I see something I want to capture, I'm already in the system Camera app before I think about it. ↩︎︎
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Lenovo Honor
March 2015 April 2015
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Onyx Black, Pearl White White, Black, Gold
152.6x 76.2 x 7.9 mm
(6.01x 3 x 0.31 in) 143.3 x 71.9 x 8.8 mm
140 g (4.94 oz) 162 g (5.71 oz)
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2
HSDPA 900 / 2100 HSDPA 900 / 2100 - CHM-U01
LTE 700 / 900 / 1800 -
SMS, MMS, Push Mail, EMail SMS, MMS, EMail, IM
Build Features
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Android OS, v5.0 (Lollipop) Android OS, v4.4.2 (KitKat)
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Mali-T760MP2 [Similar] Mali-450MP4 [Similar]
microSD, up to 32 GB; SD cards microSD, up to 32 GB
IPS LCD Capacitive Touchscreen, IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen
FM radio FM radio
8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels [Similar] 13 MP, 4208 x 3120 pixels [Similar]
Auto focus, Geo-tagging, Touch Focus, Face Detection, HDR, Panorama Auto focus, Geo-tagging, Touch Focus, Face Detection, Panorama, HDR
1080p@30fps 1080p@30fps
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HSPA 21.1/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat4 150/50 Mbps HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps
v4.0, A2DP, EDR v4.0, A2DP, EDR
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, hotspot Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
microUSB v2.0 microUSB v2.0, USB Host
Yes, with A-GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
8 GB, 2 GB RAM 8 GB, 2 GB RAM
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Up to 264 h (2G)
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Q: Get data from any items in array PosgreSQL 9.5
Field type: jsonb
Here json
{
"options": [
{
"name": "method"
},
{
"name": "flavor"
},
{
"name": "weight",
"value": {
"name": "300g"
}
}
]
}
And here query that get value of item (weight) with index = 2 from array:
SELECT
id,
product.data #>'{title,en}' AS title_en,
product.data #>>'{options, 2, value, name }' as options_weight_value
FROM product
Nice. It's work fine.
But the problem that weight can be in any index in array. First or second and so on.
So I need to get value of name (300g) in node "weight" .
I need smt like this:
SELECT
id,
product.data #>'{title,en}' AS title_en,
product.data #>>'{options, *, value, name, weight }' as options_weight_value
FROM product
Is it possible ?
A: I think I found solution:
SELECT
id,
p.data #>'{title,en}' AS title_en,
p.data #>'{weight,qty}' AS weight_qty,
(select *
from jsonb_array_elements(p.data -> 'options') AS options_array
where
options_array ->> 'name' = 'weight'
) #>'{value,name}' as options_weight
from product p
And now find value of weight(if exist) in any array's item. In this example it = 300g
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At the close of every year, Look Good Feel Better (LGFB) has a very hard decision to make in choosing a volunteer who has made an outstanding contribution to the programme. This choice is made from a national team of 2,600 wonderful people who all do amazing work for LGFB. The winner each year is presented with the prestigious Gillian Kirton 'Volunteer of the Year Award'. In 2018 the award was bestowed on Helen Mulgrew - a lovely lady from Inverness who has gone above and beyond for LGFB since she joined the team in 2006.
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Cette liste des communes de l'aire d'appellation armagnac rassemble les communes autorisées par le décret en vigueur (celui du ) à produire des eaux-de-vie sous les appellations d'origine contrôlée (AOC) « armagnac », « armagnac-ténarèze », « bas-armagnac », « blanche-armagnac » et « haut-armagnac ».
Communes du Gers
AOC armagnac et blanche-armagnac
Dans le Gers, sont concernées les suivantes : Aignan, Antras, Arblade-le-Bas, Arblade-le-Haut, Armentieux, Armous-et-Cau, Auch, Augnax, Aurensan, Auterive, Avéron-Bergelle, Ayguetinte, Ayzieu, Barcelonne-du-Gers, Barran, Bascous, Bassoues, Bazian, Beaucaire, Beaumarchés, Beaumont, Belmont, Béraut, Bernède, Berrac, Bétous, Bezolles, Biran, Blaziert, Bonas, Boucagnères, Bourrouillan, Bouzon-Gellenave, Bretagne-d'Armagnac, Le Brouilh-Monbert, Brugnens, Cahuzac-sur-Adour, Caillavet, Callian, Campagne-d'Armagnac, Cannet, Cassaigne, Castelnau-d'Anglès, Castelnau-d'Arbieu, Castelnau-d'Auzan, Castelnau-sur-l'Auvignon, Castelnavet, Castéra-Lectourois, Castéra-Verduzan, Castex-d'Armagnac, Castillon-Debats, Castillon-Massas, Castin, Caumont, Caupenne-d'Armagnac, Caussens, Cazaubon, Cazaux-d'Anglès, Cazeneuve, Céran, Cézan, Condom, Corneillan, Couloumé-Mondebat, Courrensan, Courties, Crastes, Cravencères, Dému, Duran, Durban, Eauze, Espas, Estang, Fleurance, Fourcès, Fustérouau, Galiax, Gavarret-sur-Aulouste, Gazaupouy, Gazax-et-Baccarisse, Gée-Rivière, Gondrin, Goutz, Goux, Haulies, Houga, L'Isle-de-Noé, Izotges, Jegun, Jû-Belloc, Juillac, Justian, Labarrère, Labarthète, Labéjan, Ladevèze-Rivière, Ladevèze-Ville, Lagarde, Lagardère, Lagraulet-du-Gers, Lahitte, Lalanne, Lamazère, Lamothe-Goas, Lanne-Soubiran, Lannemaignan, Lannepax, Lannux, Larée, Larressingle, Larroque-Engalin, Larroque-Saint-Sernin, Larroque-sur-l'Osse, Lasserade, Lasséran, Lasseube-Propre, Laujuzan, Lauraët, Lavardens, Leboulin, Lectoure, Lelin-Lapujolle, Lias-d'Armagnac, Ligardes, Loubédat, Loubersan, Louslitges, Loussous-Débat, Lupiac, Luppé-Violles, Magnan, Maignaut-Tauzia, Manciet, Mansencôme, Marambat, Marciac, Margouët-Meymes, Marguestau, Marsolan, Mas-d'Auvignon, Mascaras, Mauléon-d'Armagnac, Maulichères, Maumusson-Laguian, Maupas, Mérens, Miramont-d'Astarac, Miramont-Latour, Mirannes, Mirepoix, Monclar, Monguilhem, Monlezun-d'Armagnac, Montaut-les-Créneaux, Montégut, Montesquiou, Montestruc-sur-Gers, Montréal, Mormès, Mouchan, Mourède, Nogaro, Nougaroulet, Noulens, Orbessan, Ordan-Larroque, Ornézan, Panjas, Pauilhac, Pavie, Perchède, Pergain-Taillac, Pessan, Peyrusse-Grande, Peyrusse-Massas, Peyrusse-Vieille, Pis, Plaisance, Pouy-Roquelaure, Pouydraguin, Préchac, Préchac-sur-Adour, Preignan, Préneron, Projan, Puycasquier, Puységur, Ramouzens, Réans, Réjaumont, Riguepeu, Riscle, Romieu, Roquebrune, Roquefort, Roquelaure, Roquepine, Roques, Rozès, Sabazan, Saint-Arailles, Saint-Aunix-Lengros, Saint-Avit-Frandat, Saint-Germé, Saint-Griède, Saint-Jean-le-Comtal, Saint-Jean-Poutge, Saint-Lary, Saint-Martin-d'Armagnac, Saint-Martin-de-Goyne, Saint-Mézard, Saint-Mont, Saint-Orens-Pouy-Petit, Saint-Paul-de-Baïse, Saint-Pierre-d'Aubézies, Saint-Puy, Sainte-Christie, Sainte-Christie-d'Armagnac, Sainte-Radegonde, Salles-d'Armagnac, Sansan, Sarragachies, La Sauvetat, Scieurac-et-Flourès, Séailles, Ségos, Sion, Sorbets, Tarsac, Tasque, Termes-d'Armagnac, Terraube, Tieste-Uragnoux, Toujouse, Tourdun, Tourrenquets, Tudelle, Urdens, Urgosse, Valence-sur-Baïse, Vergoignan, Verlus, Vic-Fezensac et Viella.
AOC armagnac-ténarèze
Aignan, Ayguetinte, Bazian, Beaucaire, Beaumont, Belmont, Béraut, Bezolles, Blaziert, Bonas, Bouzon-Gellenave, Caillavet, Callian, Cassaigne, Castelnau-d'Auzan, Castelnau-sur-l'Auvignon, Castelnavet, Castéra-Verduzan, Castillon-Debats, Caussens, Cazaux-d'Anglès, Cazeneuve, Condom, Fourcès, Gazaupouy, Gondrin, Justian, Labarrère, Lagardère, Lagraulet-du-Gers, Larressingle, Larroque-Saint-Sernin, Larroque-sur-l'Osse, Lauraët, Loussous-Débat, Lupiac, Maignaut-Tauzia, Mansencôme, Marambat, Mirannes, Montréal, Mouchan, Pouydraguin, Préneron, Riguepeu, La Romieu, Roquebrune, Roquepine, Roques, Rozès, Sabazan, Saint-Arailles, Saint-Jean-Poutge, Saint-Orens-Pouy-Petit, Saint-Paul-de-Baïse, Saint-Pierre-d'Aubézies, Saint-Puy-Tudelle, Valence-sur-Baïse et Vic-Fezensac (sauf la partie constituée par l'ancienne commune de Lagraulas).
AOC bas-armagnac
Arblade-le-Bas, Arblade-le-Haut, Avéron-Bergelle, Ayzieu, Barcelonne-du-Gers, Bascous, Bétous, Bourrouillan, Bretagne-d'Armagnac, Campagne-d'Armagnac, Castex-d'Armagnac, Caumont, Caupenne-d'Armagnac, Cazaubon, Courrensan, Cravencères, Dému, Eauze, Espas, Estang, Fustérouau, Gée-Rivière, Le Houga, Lannemaignan, Lannepax, Lanne-Soubiran, Larée, Laujuzan, Lelin-Lapujolle, Lias-d'Armagnac, Loubédat, Luppé-Violles, Magnan, Manciet, Margouët-Meymes, Marguestau, Mauléon-d'Armagnac, Maulichères, Maupas, Monclar, Monguilhem, Monlezun-d'Armagnac, Mormès, Mourède, Nogaro, Noulens, Panjas, Perchède, Ramouzens, Réans, Sainte-Christie-d'Armagnac, Saint-Germé, Saint-Griède, Saint-Martin-d'Armagnac, Salles-d'Armagnac, Sarragachies, Séailles, Sion, Sorbets, Tarsac, Termes-d'Armagnac, Toujouse, Urgosse, Vergoignan et Vic-Fezensac (partie constituée par l'ancienne commune de Lagraulas).
AOC haut-armagnac
Antras, Armentieux, Armous-et-Cau, Auch, Augnax, Aurensan, Auterive, Barran, Bassoues, Beaumarchés, Bernède, Berrac, Biran, Boucagnères, Le Brouilh-Monbert, Brugnens, Cahuzac-sur-Adour, Cannet, Castelnau-d'Anglès, Castelnau-d'Arbieu, Castéra-Lectourois, Castillon-Massas, Castin, Céran, Cézan, Corneillan, Couloumé-Mondebat, Courties, Crastes, Duran, Durban, Fleurance, Galiax, Gavarret-sur-Aulouste, Gazax-et-Baccarisse, Goutz, Goux, Haulies, L'Isle-de-Noé, Izotges, Jegun, Jû-Belloc, Juillac, Labarthète, Labéjan, Ladevèze-Rivière, Ladevèze-Ville, Lagarde, Lahitte, Lalanne, Lamazère, Lamothe-Goas, Lannux, Larroque-Engalin, Lasserade, Lasséran, Lasseube-Propre, Lavardens, Leboulin, Lectoure, Ligardes, Loubersan, Louslitges, Marciac, Marsolan, Mascaras, Mas d'Auvignon, Maumusson-Laguian, Mérens, Miramont-d'Astarac, Miramont-Latour, Mirepoix, Montaut-les-Créneaux, Montégut, Montesquiou, Montestruc-sur-Gers, Nougaroulet, Orbessan, Ordan-Larroque, Ornézan, Pauilhac, Pavie, Pergain-Taillac, Pessan, Peyrusse-Grande, Peyrusse-Vieille, Peyrusse-Massas, Pis, Plaisance, Pouy-Roquelaure, Préchac, Préchac-sur-Adour, Preignan, Projan, Puycasquier, Puységur, Rejaumont, Riscle, Roquefort, Roquelaure, Saint-Aunix-Lengros, Saint-Avit-Frandat, Sainte-Christie, Sainte-Radegonde, Saint-Jean-le-Comtal, Saint-Lary, Saint-Martin-de-Goyne, Saint-Mézard, Saint-Mont, Sansan, La Sauvetat, Scieurac-et-Flourès, Ségos, Tasque, Terraube, Tieste-Uragnoux, Tourdun, Tourrenquets, Urdens, Verlus et Viella.
Cette aire d'appellation a été réduite à cette liste par le décret du , en retirant toutes les communes au sud de Marciac et de Mirande : l'intégralité des cantons de Masseube et de Miélan, ainsi que l'essentiel du canton de Mirande, de celui de Marciac et le sud du canton d'Auch-Sud-Est-Seissan (Labarthe et Seissan).
Communes des Landes
AOC armagnac et blanche-armagnac
Dans le département des Landes, les deux AOC concernent les suivantes :
Aire-sur-l'Adour, Arthez-d'Armagnac, Betbezer-d'Armagnac, Bourdalat, Castandet, Cazères-sur-l'Adour, Créon-d'Armagnac, Escalans, Le Frêche, Gabarret, Hontanx, Labastide-d'Armagnac, Lacquy, Lagrange, Lussagnet, Mauvezin-d'Armagnac, Montégut, Parleboscq, Perquie, Saint-Gein, Saint-Julien-d'Armagnac, Saint-Justin, Sainte-Foy, Le Vignau et Villeneuve-de-Marsan.
AOC bas-armagnac
Aire-sur-l'Adour (partie rive droite de l'Adour), Arthez-d'Armagnac, Betbezer-d'Armagnac, Bourdalat, Castandet, Cazères-sur-l'Adour, Créon-d'Armagnac, Escalans, Le Frêche, Gabarret, Hontanx, Labastide-d'Armagnac, Lacquy (partie à l'est de la route Bordeaux ― Pau), Lagrange, Lussagnet, Mauvezin-d'Armagnac, Montégut, Parleboscq, Perquie, Sainte-Foy (partie à l'est de la route Bordeaux ― Pau), Saint-Gein, Saint-Julien-d'Armagnac, Saint-Justin, Le Vignau et Villeneuve-de-Marsan (partie à l'est de la route Bordeaux ― Pau).
Communes du Lot-et-Garonne
AOC armagnac et blanche-armagnac
Dans le Lot-et-Garonne, les concernées sont : Andiran, Calignac, Fieux, Francescas, Fréchou, Gueyze, Lannes, Lasserre, Lavardac, Meylan, Mézin, Moncrabeau, Nérac, Poudenas, Réaup-Lisse, Saint-Pé-Saint-Simon, Sainte-Maure-de-Peyriac, Sos et Villeneuve-de-Mézin.
AOC armagnac-ténarèze
Andiran, Calignac, Fieux, Francescas, Fréchou, Gueyze, Lannes, Lasserre, Lavardac (partie comprise entre la Gélise et la Baïse), Meylan, Mézin, Moncrabeau, Nérac, Poudenas, Réaup-Lisse, Sainte-Maure-de-Peyriac, Saint-Pé-Saint-Simon, Sos et Villeneuve-de-Mézin.
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ESTRELLA TAGLAY, PETITIONER, VS. JUDGE MARIVIC TRABAJO DARAY AND LOVERIE PALACAY, RESPONDENTS.
Before the Court is a special civil action for certiorari under Rule 65 of the Rules of Court seeking to reverse and set aside the Orders of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Digos City, Branch 18, dated March 9, 2004 and June 7, 2004, in Criminal Case No. FC-71-02. The March 9, 2004 Order denied herein petitioner's Motion to Dismiss, while the June 7, 2004 Order denied her Motion for Reconsideration.
The instant petition arose from a Criminal Complaint for Qualified Trespass to Dwelling filed by private respondent against herein petitioner with the 5th Municipal Circuit Trial Court (MCTC) of Sta. Maria-Malita-Don Marcelino, Davao del Sur on June 19, 2001.
That on June 2, 2001 at about 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon at Tibangao, Malita, Davao del Sur, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the aforesaid accused, a private person and without any justifiable reason and by means of violence, did then and there willfully, unlawfully and feloniously enter into the dwelling of Loverie Palacay without her consent and against her will and once inside maltreated, boxed and choked her, to her damage and prejudice.
Upon arraignment on June 7, 2002, petitioner pleaded not guilty. Pre-trial conference was set on August 13, 2002.
It appearing that private complainant Loverie Palacay was a minor on June 2, 2001, the date of the incident, since she was born on August 7, 1983, per Certification dated August 15, 2002 issued by Municipal Registrar Josephine A. Marquez, this case, upon manifestation of Prosecutor Perfecto P. Ordaneza and pursuant to Republic Act. No. 8369 and Circular 11-99, is hereby transferred to Branch 20, Regional Trial Court, Digos City, for proper disposition.
Subsequently, the case was transferred to the RTC of Digos City where petitioner was brought to trial.
Witnesses were then presented by the prosecution. Prior to the presentation of the final witness for the prosecution, petitioner filed a Motion to Dismiss on the ground of lack of jurisdiction. Petitioner contended that the RTC did not acquire jurisdiction over the case, because the MCTC erroneously transferred the case to the RTC instead of dismissing it. Petitioner also argued that the RTC's lack of jurisdiction was further aggravated when she was not arraigned before the RTC.
On March 9, 2004, the RTC issued its assailed Order ruling that it acquired jurisdiction over the case when it received the records of the case as a consequence of the transfer effected by the MCTC; that the transfer of the case from the MCTC is authorized under Administrative Matter No. 99-1-13-SC and Circular No. 11-99; that there is no doubt that the offended party is a minor and, thus, the case falls within the original jurisdiction of Family Courts pursuant to Republic Act (R.A.) No. 8369. The RTC also held that even granting that there was defect or irregularity in the procedure because petitioner was not arraigned before the RTC, such defect was fully cured when petitioner's counsel entered into trial without objecting that his client had not yet been arraigned. Furthermore, the RTC noted that petitioner's counsel has cross-examined the witnesses for the prosecution. Consequently, the RTC denied petitioner's Motion to Dismiss.
Petitioner filed a Motion for Reconsideration, but the same was denied by the RTC via its Order dated June 7, 2004.
Hence, the instant petition for certiorari.
Petitioner raises two main grounds.
First, petitioner contends that the RTC did not acquire jurisdiction over the case because Circular No. 11-99, which authorizes the transfer of Family Courts cases filed with first-level courts to the RTCs, is applicable only to cases which were filed prior to the effectivity of the said Circular on March 1, 1999. Petitioner argues that all Family Courts cases filed with first-level courts after the effectivity of the said Circular can no longer be transferred to the RTC; instead they should be dismissed. Considering that the Information in the instant case was filed with the MCTC on November 19, 2001, petitioner avers that the MCTC should have dismissed the case instead of ordering its transfer to the RTC.
Second, petitioner insists that she should have been arraigned anew before the RTC and that her arraignment before the MCTC does not count because the proceedings conducted therein were void.
At the outset, it is necessary to stress that, generally, a direct recourse to this Court in a petition for certiorari is highly improper for it violates the established policy of strict observance of the judicial hierarchy of courts. While this Court has concurrent jurisdiction with the RTCs and the CA to issue writs of certiorari, this concurrence is not to be taken as an unrestrained freedom of choice as to which court the application for the writ will be directed. There is after all a hierarchy of courts. That hierarchy is determinative of the venue of appeals and should also serve as a general determinant of the appropriate forum for petitions for the extraordinary writs. This Court is a court of last resort and must so remain if it is to satisfactorily perform the functions assigned to it by the Constitution and immemorial tradition. A direct invocation of the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction to issue these extraordinary writs is allowed only when there are special and important reasons therefor, clearly and specifically set out in the petition.
However, it is also settled that this Court has full discretionary power to take cognizance of a petition filed directly with it if compelling reasons, or the nature and importance of the issues raised, so warrant. Under the present circumstances, the Court will take cognizance of this case as an exception to the principle of hierarchy of courts, considering that the Information against petitioner was filed way back in November 2001. Any further delay in the resolution of the instant petition will be prejudicial to petitioner. Moreover, the principle may be relaxed when pure questions of law are raised as in this case.
Now, on the merits of the petition.
It is significant to point out, at this juncture, the well-entrenched doctrine that the jurisdiction of a tribunal over the subject matter of an action is conferred by law. Jurisdiction over the subject matter is determined by the statute in force at the time of the commencement of the action. The Family Courts Act of 1997, which took effect on November 23, 1997. Section 5 (a) of R.A. 8369 clearly provides that Family Courts have exclusive original jurisdiction over criminal cases where one or more of the accused is below eighteen (18) years of age but not less than nine (9) years of age, or where one or more of the victims is a minor at the time of the commission of the offense. In the present case, there is no dispute that at the time of the commission of the alleged offense on June 2, 2001, private respondent, who is also the private complainant, was a minor. Hence, the case falls under the original and exclusive jurisdiction of Family Courts.
Anent the first issue raised, the Court agrees that the Resolution of this Court in Administrative Matter No. 99-1-13-SC and Circular No. 11-99, issued pursuant thereto, is applicable only to Family Courts cases which were filed with first-level courts prior to the effectivity of the said Resolution on March 1, 1999. This is evident in the language used by the Court in the third "Whereas" clause of the subject Resolution wherein it was stated that "pending the constitution and organization of the Family Courts and the designation of branches of the Regional Trial Courts as Family Courts in accordance with Section 17 (Transitory Provisions) of R.A. 8369, there is a need to provide guidelines in the hearing and determination of criminal cases falling within the jurisdiction of Family Courts which have heretofore been filed with first-level courts." The operative word, as correctly cited by petitioner, is "heretofore" which means "before this" or "up to this time." Moreover, Section 1 of the same Resolution directs all first-level courts, within ten (10) days from receipt of a copy of the subject Resolution, to take an inventory of all criminal cases falling within the jurisdiction of the Family Courts which were filed with them (first-level courts), to prepare an appropriate inventory and to submit the same to the Court Management Office of the Office of the Court Administrator. Logic dictates that only those cases which were filed prior to the issuance of the Resolution shall be included in the inventory and, therefore, shall be subject to transfer by first-level courts to the appropriate RTCs. The necessary implication then is that all cases filed with first-level courts after the effectivity of the Resolution on March 1, 1999 should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. In the present case, the Information was filed against petitioner on November 19, 2001. Thus, the MCTC is already bereft of any authority to transfer the case to the RTC as the same no longer falls under the coverage of Circular No. 11-99. What the MCTC should have done was to dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction.
More importantly, what justifies the dismissal of the case is that the Information filed with the MCTC cannot be used as a basis for the valid indictment of petitioner before the RTC acting as a Family Court, because there was no allegation therein of private complainant's minority. To proceed to trial before the RTC on the basis of the Information filed with the MCTC would be an exercise in futility as there is an infirmity in the Information constituting a jurisdictional defect which cannot be cured. There is no point in proceeding under a defective Information that could never be the basis of a valid conviction. The Information filed with the MCTC must thus first be amended and thereafter filed with the RTC. Pending the filing of such Information, the RTC has not yet acquired jurisdiction because while a court may have jurisdiction over the subject matter, it does not acquire jurisdiction over the case itself until its jurisdiction is invoked with the filing of a valid Information.
The Court also agrees with petitioner in her contention in the second issue raised that she should have been arraigned by the RTC.
It is true that petitioner was arraigned by the MCTC. However, the MCTC has no jurisdiction over the subject matter of the present case. It is settled that the proceedings before a court or tribunal without jurisdiction, including its decision, are null and void. Considering that the MCTC has no jurisdiction, all the proceedings conducted therein, including petitioner's arraignment, are null and void. Thus, the need for petitioner's arraignment on the basis of a valid Information filed with the RTC.
It is also true that petitioner's counsel participated in the proceedings held before the RTC without objecting that his client had not yet been arraigned. However, it is wrong for the RTC to rely on the case of People v. Cabale, because the accused therein was in fact arraigned, although the same was made only after the case was submitted for decision. In the similar cases of People v. Atienza and Closa and People v. Pangilinan, the accused in the said cases were also belatedly arraigned. The Court, in these three cases, held that the active participation of the counsels of the accused, as well as their opportunity to cross-examine the prosecution witnesses during trial without objecting on the ground that their clients had not yet been arraigned, had the effect of curing the defect in the belated arraignment. Moreover, the accused in these cases did not object when they were belatedly arraigned. The same, however, cannot be said in the instant case. There is no arraignment at all before the RTC. On the other hand, the arraignment conducted by the MCTC is null and void. Thus, there is nothing to be cured. Petitioner's counsel also timely raised before the RTC the fact that her client, herein petitioner, was not arraigned.
Arraignment is the formal mode and manner of implementing the constitutional right of an accused to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him. The purpose of arraignment is, thus, to apprise the accused of the possible loss of freedom, even of his life, depending on the nature of the crime imputed to him, or at the very least to inform him of why the prosecuting arm of the State is mobilized against him. As an indispensable requirement of due process, an arraignment cannot be regarded lightly or brushed aside peremptorily. Otherwise, absence of arraignment results in the nullity of the proceedings before the trial court.
As a final note, it may not be amiss to stress that at all stages of the proceedings leading to his trial and conviction, the accused must be charged and tried according to the procedure prescribed by law and marked by observance of the rights given to him by the Constitution. In the same way that the reading of the Information to the accused during arraignment is not a useless formality, so is the validity of the information being read not an idle ceremony.
Criminal due process requires that the accused must be proceeded against under the orderly processes of law. In all criminal cases, the judge should follow the step-by-step procedure required by the Rules. The reason for this is to assure that the State makes no mistake in taking the life or liberty except that of the guilty.
WHEREFORE, the petition is GRANTED. The assailed Orders of the Regional Trial Court of Digos City, Branch 18, dated March 9, 2004 and June 7, 2004, are REVERSED and SET ASIDE and a new one rendered dismissing the Information in Criminal Case No. FC-71-02, without prejudice to refiling the same in the proper court.
Penned by Judge Marivic Trabajo Daray.
Annex "A" to Petition, rollo, p. 21.
Annex "C" to Petition, id. at 24.
See MCTC Order, Annex "D" to Petition, id. at 26.
Annex "Q" to Petition, id. at 51.
Sarsaba v. Vda. de Te, G.R. No. 175910, July 30, 2009, 594 SCRA 410, 424-425.
Anillo v. Commission on the Settlement of Land Problems, G.R. No. 157856, September 27, 2007, 534 SCRA 228, 236.
Cabarles v. Maceda, GR. No. 161330, February 20, 2007, 516 SCRA 303, 321.
Ark Travel Express, Inc. v. Abrogar, GR. No. 137010, August 29, 2003, 410 SCRA 148, 157.
Miaque v. Patag, GR. Nos. 170609-13, January 30, 2009, 577 SCRA 394, 398.
People v. Vanzuela, GR. No. 178266, July 21, 2008, 559 SCRA 234, 242.
De Villa v. Court of Appeals, GR. No. 87416, April 8, 1991, 195 SCRA 722, 726.
People v. Garin, GR. No. 139069, June 17, 2004, 432 SCRA 394, 416.
The subject Court Resolution authorizes first level courts to transfer Family Courts cases filed with them and provides the procedure for such transfer .
Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged), p. 1059.
Miaque v. Patag, supra note 16, at 400.
People v. Garfin, GR. No. 153176, March 29, 2004, 426 SCRA 393, 408.
Figueroa v. People, GR. No. 147406, July 14, 2008, 558 SCRA 63, 83.
G.R. Nos. 73249-50, May 8, 1990, 185 SCRA 140.
G.R. No. 171020, March 14, 2007, 518 SCRA 358.
People v. Pangilinan, supra, at 371.
Albert v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. No. 164015, February 26, 2009, 580 SCRA 279, 287.
Borja v. Mendoza, GR. No. L-45667, June 20, 1977, 77 SCRA 422, 425; U.S. v. Palisoc, 4 Phil. 207,208(1905).
Romualdez v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. Nos. 143618-41, July 30, 2002, 385 SCRA 436, 446. | {
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GOG is hosting a sale of their entire Deep Silver catalog. The second game in the Saints Row franchise will be available for free during the next 48 hours.
GOG is celebrating the fact two of Volition's crazy action games arrived on their, in my case, chrome shelves, DRM - free. During the next 48 hours, Saints Row titles available for PC will be discounted by some 75 percent, and the second game in the franchise, aptly named Saints Row 2, will be totally free. Moreover, if you own these games on Steam, you can pick them up on GOG as well, entirely free of charge.
This is the first time Saints Row 4, and Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell have been released DRM - free.
If you decide to buy the games, you can bag the lot for some £12. Saints Row games aren't the only ones on sale though, as more games by Deep Silver make an appearance on the list as well. These include the Metro games, Deadlight, Risen series and Scared 2. The bunch is discounted by 75 percent as well.
Saints Row 2 is an open world experience, set five years after the events of the first Saints Row. The original was released only for Xbox 360 in 2006. The third instalment takes place three years after the events of the Saints Row 2 unfolded.
The fourth game is the one that got me hooked, even though it differs significantly from its predecessors, it's still fun as all hell. I mean, you have the President of the United States running around, trying to get out of the virtual reality some aliens have him in.
The Deep Silver sale will last until 27 April, and if you want to grab the free game, head to gog.com and click the banner. You'll only need a GOG account.
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December 1, 2020 – January 4, 2021
38th Annual Wreath Interpretations Exhibition
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NYC Parks is pleased to announce the 38th annual Wreath Interpretations exhibition, bringing in the holiday season with an array of imaginative and unusual wreaths. This year, the exhibition will take place virtually, with nearly 40 wreaths displayed on the agency's website. The exhibition includes wreaths by artists, designers, and creative individuals who reimagined the traditional holiday motif. This year's wreaths feature unexpected materials like paintbrushes, newspapers, aluminum cans, coconut husks and shells, work gloves, earrings, grains and spices, and matchbooks. Some wreaths address timely topics like COVID-19, working remotely, and creative reuse and recycling, while others serve as a lighthearted inspiration and symbols of hope. Welcome the holiday season with this unique, fun, and socially-distanced exhibition.
Image: Kaitlyn E. Hay, Hail to the Art Teacher, paintbrushes, wood frame, glue, acrylic paint
March 13, 2020 – September 30, 2020
Alice Momm: The Gleaner's Song
The Gleaner's Song is a collection of mixed-media works, words, and photographs by artist Alice Momm, inspired by her daily, immersive walks in Central Park. The materials and impressions gathered on these rambles become the seeds of artworks that pay tribute to the ragged beauty of found objects in nature and honor the quiet dramas unfolding in unexpected places. While often humorous, the artworks reflect a deep concern for our environment and an appreciation of the interconnectedness of all living beings. This solo exhibition is Momm's love song to Central Park and an invitation to find wonder and joy in New York City's parks.
Images: Alice Momm, Untitled from Gleaner's Song, 2017, bark, gouache, wire, paper; Central Park, Reaching Tree, 2019, digital photograph
January 16, 2020 – February 27, 2020
Namesakes: Honoring African Americans in NYC Parks
Many of New York City's parks and monuments honor African Americans who have shaped the landscape of our culture. Monuments and green spaces of all sizes, from Marcus Garvey Park in Manhattan to Hattie Carthan Community Garden in Brooklyn, pay tribute to the contributions and lives of notable African Americans from the 18th century to the 21st century. "Namesakes: Honoring African Americans in NYC Parks" is an exhibition of photographs that highlights a sampling of such namesakes throughout the city.
Presented by NYC Parks' Ebony Society and Art & Antiquities.
Image: Children Playing Ping Pong, Marcus Garvey (formerly Mt. Morris) Park, April 26, 1943, NYC Parks Photo Archive
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Fergal O'Byrne, former CEO of the Irish Internet Association (IIA) and current CEO of tech start-up Sonru, will be joining the board of the .ie Domain Registry as a non-executive director.
With 20 years of experience in the internet industry, O'Byrne was part of the original team that helped set up Eircom.net and took charge of internet projects including the Doras directory, which was used widely by Irish internet surfers in the late Nineties and early Noughties.
After moving on from CEO of the IIA, O'Byrne took on the role of CEO of tech start-up Sonru, which provides an online video interview service.
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"I am extremely pleased that Fergal O'Byrne is joining the board of the IEDR," said IEDR chairman Prof Sean Scanlan.
"He brings a wide range of experience in both technology and the commercialisation of the internet throughout a long and distinguished career. His broad range of expertise means he is well equipped to contribute significantly to the IEDR as we continue to develop Ireland's .ie namespace."
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Year A Commentaries. Our Lord came in fulfillment of prophecy (1st, 2nd, Gosp. readings) and became "Immanuel," "God with us" ( 1st, Gosp.) through his resurrection from the dead (2nd reading; see also Mt 28:19-20). We pray that our Lord, "the King of glory," will come to be with us (Ps; see also Jn 14:2-3, 17:24).
Navarre Bible Commentary on Judges 13:2-7, 24-25a.
My Notes on Psalm 71:3-4a,5-6ab, 16-17.
Aquinas' Commentary on Luke 1:26-38.
Today's Mass Readings. Note there is a choice between two first readings.
1st reading: Navarre Bible Commentary on Song of Songs 2:8-14.
Alt 1st reading: My Notes on Zephaniah 3:14-18.
Alt. 1st reading: Navarre Bible Commentary on Zephaniah 3:14-18.
Father Cornelius a Lapide's Commentary on Luke 1:39-45.
Cornelius a Lapide's Commentary Luke 1:46-56.
Navarre Bible Commentary on Today's Gospel Luke 1:46-56.
Fatheer Berry's Introduction and Notes to Psalm 25.
Navarre Bible Commentary on Luke 1:57-66.
Navarre Bible Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:1-5a, 8b-12, 14a, 16.
Navarre Bible Commentary on Luke 1:67-79.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Public Schools sued Illinois on Tuesday claiming the state's method of education funding discriminates against its largely black and Hispanic student body.
The lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, uses the state's Civil Rights Act to seek to invalidate Illinois' school funding system. The district wants to avoid the fate of previous school funding lawsuits that faltered in Illinois, which like CPS is reeling from deep financial problems.
"It penalizes poor kids in poor school districts and rewards wealthy kids in wealthy school districts - just the opposite of what we should do," Emanuel told reporters.
CPS officials have been critical of a move last year by Republican Governor Bruce Rauner to veto a bill that would have provided the district with $215 million in state money for pensions. The move punched a hole in the district's already shaky budget, leading to spending cuts and unpaid furlough days for teachers.
The nation's third-largest public school system is struggling with pension payments that will jump to $733 million this fiscal year from $676 million in fiscal 2016, as well as drained reserves and debt dependency. The fiscal woes have pushed its general obligation credit ratings deep into the junk category and led investors to demand fat yields for its debt.
The lawsuit also seeks to invalidate Illinois' system for funding teacher pensions. CPS has railed against how it must maintain and fund its own teachers' pension system, while districts in the rest of Illinois are in a state-wide retirement fund that is heavily subsidized by the state.
The lawsuit comes on the heels of a recent attempt to revamp the way Illinois funds schools and the willingness by state Senate leaders to include a new funding formula in a bill package to end the state's nearly 20-month budget impasse.
School funding has been a politically volatile subject in Illinois for decades, pitting low property tax-generating school systems or those with mostly minority students against well-funded systems in wealthy Chicago suburbs much less reliant on state funding. Since the 1970s, the sides have played to a political stalemate in the state legislature, which has rejected efforts at a statewide fix to solve the disparity between the haves and the have-nots in Illinois education.
The social ramifications of the debate came to a head in 2008, when nearly 2,000 Chicago school students boarded buses bound for one of Illinois' wealthiest, highest-achieving school districts in Chicago's north suburbs and demanded to be enrolled.
The move orchestrated by advocates of Chicago's public schools and several ministers made its visual point clearly but did nothing to advance the cause for more equitable school funding in Springfield, Illinois' capital.
"The governor remains focused on moving forward these recommendations and hopes that CPS will be a partner in that endeavor," Purvis said in a statement.
Language on how to achieve that adequacy or how to come up with an additional $3.5 billion for schools over 10 years, as the report recommended, has yet to surface in the legislature.
General state aid to CPS in fiscal 2017 totals $952.5 million, about the same amount as in fiscal 2016, according to the district's budget.
For 40 years, Illinois courts generally have ruled that arguments to change how public schools are funded should play out before the Illinois legislature, not in the state's courtrooms. Based on that string of rulings, a prominent public education advocate in Illinois described the Chicago school litigation as a legal long-shot.
"I think any time you have this kind of history, it suggests that it's a very difficult bar to overcome. Having said that, I think we're always hopeful something will happen that will cause the inequity issue to be addressed," said Roger Eddy, executive director of the Illinois Association of School Boards and a former state lawmaker and school superintendent.
Civil rights group the Chicago Urban League along with some parents from various districts including Chicago also sued the state over school funding using the Civil Rights Act. That lawsuit has languished in Cook County Court since 2008.
"I'm not aware of another case like it because I'm not sure there is any place in the country in which the state government itself choosing to fund public education says we are going to give significantly less money to African-American and Latino children in the largest school district in the state and we are going to give a lot more money to the predominately white children in the rest of the state," he said. | {
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Holy See makes efforts to normalise relations with Beijing for "good of the Chinese people".
Beijing has been locked in a half-century-long dispute with the Vatican and the diplomatic initiative comes as China is experiencing a religious boom.
At the core of the dispute is the procedure for the appointment of bishops. Roman Catholic Church tradition invests the pope with the authority to name bishops, but China has refused to recognise the Vatican's authority and has been known to appoint bishops without the Vatican's approval.
The Vatican's relationship with Taiwan has also strained relations; China refuses to enter into diplomatic relations with any nation that maintains official ties with Taiwan.
The Vatican's efforts to normalise relations with Beijing - "for the good of the Chinese people and for peace in the world", according to a statement by the Holy See - is not likely to see China budge from its demands.
"The Chinese government has two conditions on establishing relations with the Vatican," Liu was quoted as saying on Sunday.
"The first is that the Vatican must severe all relations with Taiwan and the second is that the Vatican must commit to not interfere in China's internal affairs."
Diplomatic ties between China and the Vatican have been severed since 1951, two years after Beijing's officially atheist communist government took power.
Many clergy and ordinary Roman Catholics in China remain loyal to the pope and have been persecuted for it. | {
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01-10-2021Nurse's LetterShannon David, RN, NCSN
Waking up Monday morning, after my "long winter's nap", I found myself experiencing feelings of anxiety and trepidation. It is difficult to comprehend how at the very same time we are witnessing the deployment of our best defense against COVID (the vaccine) the number of cases continues to climb, reaching levels not seen before. We must not forget that each one of these "cases" is a person. Some of those people are connected to our school community. This means that some members of our community, who were identified as close contacts of a COVID positive person, could not return to in-person school on Monday. The need to quarantine, no doubt, fills one with anxiety and trepidation. As I spoke to parents, staff and students on Monday, many relayed feelings of anxiety and trepidation.
Resolutions and Responsibility
Happy New Year! The new year always brings an opportunity to start over, change behaviors and do things better than we did the year before--out with old and in with the new!
This year, as much as we desire to put 2020 behind us, we must not discard the infection control measures which were instituted at the beginning of our school year. Since Thanksgiving, we have seen increased community spread of the coronavirus and currently Maricopa County is reporting the highest number of cases since the onset of the Pandemic. Additionally, a mutation, or a change in the virus, first noted in the United Kingdom, has been found in people sick with COVID in Colorado, California and Florida. (www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/scientific-brief-emerging-variant.html)
The Mission Statement for OLMC School reads: "The role of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School is to provide a holistic Catholic Christian environment that serves the soul, mind and body of each child." Notice it has no qualifiers. No, "if everything is perfect". No, "when things are normal". No, "except when challenges arise". The year 2020 has been anything but perfect, not even close to normal and filled with unique challenges. Yet, because of a strong "Home & School" partnership, our shared commitment to serve our children, and the hard work and sacrifices of so many, we are finishing out the year with our students having had the greatest number of in-person school days for all of 2020!
Throughout the day Tuesday, on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, the Church bells rang out, bringing pause to the usual flurry of activity and joy to the face of all within earshot. Each peal of the bell reminded me that it is indeed a blessing to be HERE to HEAR and filled me with gratitude for this community!
Here are few updates as we enter the week before break:
A Good Game of Telephone
Many of us will recall playing the game "Telephone" growing up. A message was whispered in the ear of a person and they in turn whispered to the next person, and so on, down the line. It was usually a great laugh when the last person revealed what they heard. More often than not, it sounded nothing like what the first person said! Though the world has experienced four pandemics in the past 100 years, given the explosion of social media in the past decade, this is the first time in history that the global population has, at the same time, had access to so much information. It is not only the volume of information that is mind boggling, but the speed with which information can be spread can only be called "viral".
Having 20/20 Vision in 2020
In medical terms, having '20/20 vision' means a person sees with optimum acuity and clarity. In popular culture, the phrase '20/20 vision' means a person has a clear view of a situation. In the year 2020, one needs far more than perfect vision to see clearly through the cloudy atmosphere of the coronavirus pandemic! So much of what we hear seems confusing, conflicting, or inconsistent such that the effects of the "infodemic" may leave us angry, frustrated, or overwhelmed. Late last Wednesday, as we headed into our Thanksgiving Break, the CDC indicated that it is considering shortening the quarantine period for those persons who have close contact with someone who is COVID positive, but remain free of symptoms. For those who have had to endure a 14-day quarantine, this news probably has them seeing red. Why the change, especially now with an increase in coronavirus cases nationwide? The answer is "evidence".
Thursday we will celebrate Thanksgiving--kind of, sort of, partially, differently...
In August, we certainly thought the coronavirus pandemic would be much better by the time Thanksgiving arrived. But, instead we find ourselves, once again, trying to balance the essentials of life with protecting ourselves from infection. This week, with evidence of increased community spread over the past month, some schools have decided to send their students back home. Many have asked, "Will OLMC remain open?" The answer to that question is, "We have planned to remain open". The reality is that this is the first test of how effective our strategies are. Though we have been operating with extreme caution since opening school on August 17th, this is the first time that students have been in school when community spread has been on the rise. Recall that schools were closed in March and were not open in June when Arizona recorded the highest numbers for infection. (Confirmed COVID Cases by Day)
The word "stewardship" probably brings to mind things like "time, talent and treasure" and is often thought of only in terms of church. But, in the broadest sense, stewardship refers to "the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care" (www.merriam-webster.com).
When plans were carefully developed for the reopening of school, they were developed with the goal of establishing a safe environment, in the midst of a pandemic, that would allow our children to be served physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally for the entirety of the school year. We give thanks to God, and all in our community, for what has been accomplished thus far.
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There are currently six potential COVID-19 vaccines in phase 3 clinical trials--the last phase of testing before the potential vaccine can be submitted for FDA approval. Phase 3 clinical trials aim to study the effectiveness and safety of the injection of an active substance, meant to develop a protective response in the body's immune system, versus a non-active substance (a placebo). Though it is not known for certain when a COVID vaccine will become available, plans for quick distribution and administration are already being made. Public health experts agree, a safe and effective vaccine will play a vital role in reducing transmission of this virus and help to bring the current pandemic under control. Each November, the Arizona Department of Health Services requires schools to submit an Immunization Data Report.
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NGC 3603 és un cúmul obert d'estels i una regió H II situat en el braç espiral de Carina-Sagitari, a la Via Làctica, a uns
20.000 anys llum de distància del sistema solar. Aquest cúmul va ser descobert per John Frederick William Herschel el 1834.
El cúmul està envoltat per una estructura complexa de gas neutre, ionitzat (plasma), molecular i pols,
conformant una regió H II, i és al seu torn una regió de formació activa d'estels. HD 97950 és l'estel central del cúmul estel·lar, una de les concentracions d'estels massius més importants de la Via Làctica. La potent radiació ultraviolada i els vents estel·lars han desplaçat al gas i la pols, fet que permet tenir una visió integral del cúmul.
NGC 3603 es pot observar en telescopis afeccionats com una petita i insignificant nebulositat amb un tint vermellós a causa dels
efectes de l'absorció interestel·lar. Els estudis òptics de la dècada de 1960 van coincidir amb les primeres observacions radioastronòmiques les quals van mostrar que era una font tèrmica extremadament potent. NGC 3603 és considerat un exemple de brot estel·lar (starburst, en anglès), concepte introduït de l'observació d'altres galàxies amb regions de formació estel·lar on la taxa de formació d'estels excedeix la mitjana de la galàxia en alguns ordres de magnitud.
Sher 25 és un dels estels de NGC 3603 i posseeix una nebulosa molt distintiva, amb forma de rellotge de sorra. Els astrònoms sospiten que aquesta
nebulosa és material ejectat enriquit en nitrogen durant la seva evolució cap a la fase de supergegant blava i guarda moltes similituds amb la nebulosa que existia al voltant de l'estel Sanduleak -69° 202a, l'estrella progenitora de la supernova SN 1987A en el Gran Núvol de Magalhães.
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Named one of AOL Travel's "Buildings You Have to See Before You Die," this new museum houses the world's most comprehensive collection of Salvador Dalí's art outside of Spain.
The American Institute of Architects placed the building on its distinguished "Florida Architecture of the Last 100 Years" list and Flavorwire ranked it among the "20 Most Beautiful Museums in the World." The Michelin Guide rates it as the top museum in the American South.
The three-story museum is on a beautiful bayside site along St. Petersburg's downtown waterfront. The dramatic envelope balances the exhibition and protection of the priceless masterpieces within a simple, powerful aesthetic. A "treasure box" shelters the 2,000-piece collection from potential Category 5 hurricane winds and storm surges.
The design opens up the 18-inch-thick concrete walls with a free-form glass geodesic structure that intrigues visitors while bringing daylight and bay views into public spaces. The 75-foot-tall geodesic glass "Enigma" and 45-foot-tall "Igloo" are formed by 1,062 undulating faceted glass panes, with no two exactly alike.
A poured-in-place, sculptural concrete spiral staircase beckons visitors to the galleries above. In the Permanent Gallery, black plaster light cannons focus natural light on seven large "Masterworks," illuminating the paintings with UV-filtered daylight within curatorial standards.
The Dalí Museum has reported that the number of ticketed visitors since the new museum opened in 2011 has far surpassed previous attendance.
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Local Search Summit is the premier local search conference, supplying you with the most up-to- date tactics and research to help you benefit from Local Search.
With the top thought leaders in the space speaking at Local Search Summit, you can be assured you will learn just about everything you need to know to succeed in Local Search. As Google moves toward "local everywhere" it is critical to understand what the consequences of this change means. It's pretty clear that if you're searching for "pizza," a local pizza place is the appropriate result. But what if you're a distributor of janitorial supplies? While in a big city or large metropolitan area, it might be appropriate to display a local hardware store for a search for "trash bags/can liners". But what if the search is for "wholesale toilet paper?" If you're the cleaning supplies business that offers bulk purchases, then it is clearly in your interest to rank for that term as a local merchant. Having a robust website and a local listing are not enough if you're selling buckets wholesale but ranking only for "buckets". And if your custodial supply store has a brick and mortar component, driving traffic to that store for "cleaning supplies" searches may not get people through the doors unless customers can find you in the local search. Come and learn more about how local search is critical to business.
Local Search Summit will be hosted at the beautiful San Jose Marriott. Below you will find all the information you need to be able to book your accommodations and access the special room rate for the conference.
A full day jam-packed with local search thought leaders.
TV has aspired to the same kinds of targeting that online advertising offers for years, but now it's finally becoming a reality. Google TV Product Manager Steve Stukenborg will talk about "addressable TV" and the growing connections between online and offline advertising.
Want to know how to get better position in local search results and what factors are being considered by the Google algorithm? Local is different than regular SEO. This session will cover the factors and criteria you need to know in order to get your clients ranked.
11:05 - 11:45 - What Kind of Online Products do SMBs need?
There are literally dozens of companies selling search marketing to small businesses (SMBs). But most SMBs are unsophisticated about online marketing and there's a high degree of advertiser churn. What do SMBs really want and need from online marketing and how is the product mix changing with the rise of online reviews and social media? This session will take a look at what products really deliver value and how to acquire – and retain – SMB advertisers.
Have a question for the top two local sites on the web? Yahoo!, Google, and Bing sit down with us for a one on one discussion to go over all your local questions.
Social media represent a growing part of the online user experience and an important potential driver of leads to local businesses. Some are already using Facebook and Twitter. But how many and what are some of the ways they take advantage of social media as stand-alone channels or in conjunction with other media? We'll sit down with some of thought leaders in this area to drill down on what really is working for small businesses.
It has been "the year of mobile" for almost a decade. But the iPhone, Android and other smartphones are making that promise real and pointing toward a future where handheld devices are at least as important as the PC. LBS is a central part of mobile but is it the "killer app"? This session provides insight into the range of things that marketers should be thinking about.
2:50 - 3:30 - Up Close and Personal with Yelp!
Jason Calacanis sits down with the CEO of Yelp! as we take a look inside at the success of Yelp! and the huge fan base it brings with it.
3:45 - 5:00 - Local Search: Where Are We Today?
Local search has continued to grow in popularity and importance for consumers and become an important battleground for search engines and directories. But from an ad revenues standpoint "local search" is still misunderstood by many and arguably still falls short of its potential. The leading practitioners and observers in the space offer a realistic assessment of where the market is and where it might be in three to five years. This session will also feature lots of audience interaction and Q&A.
Atif Rafiq - Head Yahoo! Local - Yahoo!
Atif Rafiq will interact with the audience in a lively Q&A session and also share lots of data points from Yahoo! Local.
Steve Espinosa will be moderating and speaking on multiple sessions throughout the conference on topics including local search ranking factors.
Steve Stukenborg from Google TV will be providing a morning Keynote to go over the synergy between offline and online media.
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