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Recent The Left Articles
Yes I've changed my views since the election
by Sunny Hundal July 23, 2015 at 10:28 am
As is common these days, I get abused on Twitter by some lefties outraged that I've not fallen in line with popular opinion on the left.
In my latest column for LabourList I show why the assumption that Jeremy Corbyn will appeal to non-voters or UKIPers with his 'clear principles' or economic populism seem wildly optimistic. Britons who don't vote or opt for UKIP are largely culturally conservative Britons who prefer the Daily Mail and Express over the Mirror, and value policies that the left would not want to sign up to (patriotism, low immigration, cutting welfare). Their biggest gripes are about immigration and welfare benefits, and in favour of reducing them not increasing them.
When you know Corbyn is a bit radical, why the shock when someone points out he may only appeal to other radicals?
Anyway, my point is this: yes, I've changed my opinions views the election.
I haven't changed what I believe in. I still believe in economic and social equality, I believe in an economy that doesn't unfairly reward the already rich and privileged, I believe in the free provision of education and other public goods like health. I believe the railways should be nationalised and that large parts of the banking sector have become a parasite on our economy. I still believe that climate change, sustainability, clean energy and ending waste are among the biggest challenges of our time.
But the British left is broken. I've written several articles on how we are out of touch, out of focus and repeating the same mistakes. And I'm sick of going along with this farce. I want to see a left that isn't dogmatic, is full of new ideas and not constantly harking back to the 50s, wants to win and is willing to build wide coalitions to crush the Tories.
None of that is going to happen with silly sloganeering about "the politics of hope" – especially if the only people being preached to are the already converted. I don't want to provide false hope with my articles, I want to point out that the world is a complicated place and not everything is as clear-cut as people assume. I want to challenge the the groupthink and narrow focus because that's why the left keeps losing. I want us to think more about tactics and strategy not just repeating slogans that make us feel like we have principles.
Labour's "greatest hits" are a list of things it has done while in power, not a record of principles held while in opposition.
We lost the election in May so badly that I felt intellectually jarred. The assumptions I had made about voters reacting to Labour policies and ideas came crashing down. The Tories totally outclassed us and many of us still don't know why. But the last five years have been futile not just for Labour, but even leftwing activism. Most of the big movements quickly fizzled out due to lack of focus, lack of strategy and infighting. Isn't it time to wake up to this?
As Gerry Hassan points out:
The left barely understands how it comes over to people not inside its constituency and fully signed up. 'The world is wrong' is self-evident; 'why are you not one of us?' runs the logic. The next step is to embrace resistance and defensive, oppositional language, invoking 'austerity' and 'Tory cuts' and feeling self-justification and self-satisfaction. Do people not stop to think that these comfort zones are a substitute for thinking about issues?
The Tory party thinks about winning power first, then implementing their agenda; the Labour party wants to have a massive fight over its principles first, and it doesn't even get near power.
If some lefties just want to just shout slogans and express their principles, that's fine. They have a right to. Though they'd be better off joining a protest group or single-issue campaign. But if they want to win campaigns, to win political power and affect change, that requires a very different way of thinking. It requires building electoral coalitions and speaking to people who aren't convinced by us. It require saying things that not everyone will find palatable at all times.
This is the kind of left I want to see. That's why I'm no longer willing to go along with the group-think and purity tests. If you want that too, come with me. If you want to carry on as before, feel free to ignore me from now on.
33 Comments ¦ 23rd July
Do the Tories have a mandate for their policies? Erm…
by Sunny Hundal June 22, 2015 at 8:32 am
Seamus Milne says:
Opposition to all this [austerity] has barely begun. But there's no democratic reason for people to accept it. The Tories were elected by fewer than 37% of voters. Only 24% of those eligible backed the Conservatives – and that's not counting the unregistered.
I know some people will not want to hear this but this is a ridiculous argument.
I'm saying this because I'm also opposed to Tory austerity: we have to find a better argument than 'the Tories have no mandate' because it sounds ridiculous to anyone outside the hard left.
1) The Tories went into an election offering even more cuts. They did way better than the party that warned against having that level of cuts. This means we have to find a different way of selling our argument, not repeating it endlessly in the hope that by some miracle people will rise up against austerity.
2) Voters, by definition, are the people who vote. Of the people who voted the Tories did the best and that DOES give them legitimacy. That is how people see it and by pretending the election was a fraud makes lefties look silly.
Also, if we are indeed focusing on election turnout, it may NOT be a good idea to have anti-austerity protests headlined by a celebrity who urged people not to register or vote*. It makes us look really confused.
I'm not saying all this to make people depressed, though it will undoubtedly will do that to some. I'm saying this because I hate this line of argument as it doesn't have currency outside the hard left, and because the Left really has to start being consistent on registration and voting.
* the fact that Russell Brand changed his mind at the last minute doesn't absolve him, I'm afraid.
13 Comments ¦ 22nd June
ISIS has grown because we sat around doing nothing to stabilise Syria
by Sunny Hundal June 13, 2014 at 1:38 pm
A group called ISIS, which even some in the al-Qaeda leadership have disassociated themselves from, are now rapidly taking over large parts of Iraq. There is a sense of panic in the air because it obviously means more conflict in the Middle East, and more refugees trying to escape their brutal control.
But it has also sparked an odd debate here in the UK.
In the Guardian, Owen Jones writes: 'We anti-war protesters were right: the Iraq invasion has led to bloody chaos'.
But this has been obvious for a few years now. I opposed the invasion from the start and was at most of the demonstrations against it (including the big one in Feb. 2003). Only a few deluded idiots now believe the invasion of Iraq has gone well. In fact the invasion was a disaster from day one, despite attempts by Americans to stage a few stunts to pretend it was going OK.
So that's an old debate, while the one about ISIS is a new one.
Firstly, ISIS has grown out of the chaos in Syria, which we sat by and watched instead of working with Arab countries to end. We should have joined a military coalition with other Arab countries to bomb Assad's military installations and weaken him – thereby driving him out into asylum in Iran or elsewhere.
I wrote about ISIS in January this year, saying: "as these groups become prominent, the fallout is being felt in surrounding countries like Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and even Pakistan".
Sitting by and watching has made things worse. We've gone from 20,000 dead in Syria ("if we intervene now, we'll make it worse") to nearly 200,000 dead (*silence*). The ongoing chaos has helped ISIS grow and destabilised surrounding countries. And all that is about to get worse.
As I said:
Intervention in Syria is not a matter of 'If', but a matter of 'When'. Do we wait until the situation spirals further out of control, and Al-Qaeda re-establish a powerful base, or go for damage limitation earlier?
Secondly, are we meant to be against countries militarily intervening in other countries? I ask because Iran is now sending troops into Iraq (without official invitation) to fight ISIS. What if those troops are used to suppress Kurds? Will people on the left raise their voice then?
Basically, we are sitting around watching the situation get worse, as many predicted. ISIS hasn't grown because we invaded Iraq (though we definitely wrecked the country and Saddam Hussain would have been better placed to quell them)… they've grown because Syria was allowed to spiral out of control.
Since we have now committed to sitting around and doing nothing, the situation in the Middle East is about to get much worse.
Addendum: in case it isn't clear, I've given up on the prospect of any military action now. We're now committed to sitting around on our hands and pretending it could be worse.
20 Comments ¦ 13th June
'But why are Jeremy Clarkson and Nigel Farage still so popular?'
by Sunny Hundal May 8, 2014 at 5:49 pm
Suzanne Moore has written a column in the Guardian today that I whole-heartedly agree with.
Here's her key argument:
Clarkson is not stupid. Nor is he a maverick or outlier. He is a central part of the establishment. He parties with Cameron. Just as Ukip is not a maverick party, but made up of disgruntled Tories; just as Boris Johnson is not a maverick but a born-to-rule chancer; just as bloggers such as Guido Fawkes pretend to be anti-politics mavericks but are hard-rightwingers – this section of the right deludes itself that it is somehow "outside" the establishment rather than its pumping heart.
Saying the unsayable is actually dully conformist. Pick on anyone different and mock them. Endeavour to take away not just their rights but the concept that they ever had rights in the first place. All this is done preeningly, while a white middle-aged man pretends he is downtrodden and now some kind of freedom fighter.
[I hate to point this out but its the Guardian that has twice published fawning profiles on Guido Fawkes emphasising his anti-establishment schtick.]
I broadly agree with what Suzanne says. But there's a point here that follows on but isn't quite addressed: so why are Clarkson and Farage still popular? Saying this is because their followers are just racist doesn't quite hit the mark, despite the obviously racist remarks made by both.
There's something else going on here.
Supporters of Farage and Clarkson do think its right that people speak truth to power. They do want someone who is anti-establishment. But don't see themselves as the establishment.
Imagine a world that is rapidly becoming more sexist and homophobic. Attacks on women and LGBTs are on the rise and the younger generation have even worse attitudes. You can see your world crumbling in front of you and you want out. You'll support anyone who stands up to this rising tide of hatred. Even if they're rich, white and well-connected.
This is the world that Nigel Farage and Jeremy Clarkson fans are in. They hate progressive politics and they hate the march of political correctness. Their entire world is falling apart and they hate the future. They hate 'political correctness' and they see it going from the Left all the way to the Tory leadership.
Whether we on the Left think this is silly or not is irrelevant, this is the world they are in. For them, the likes of Clarkson and Farage are speaking truth to power. If your world looks full of political correctness and green politics gone mad, then you'll support Clarkson and Farage for railing against it.
We are in the middle of a culture war.
Globalisation and immigration have made this generation (mostly older and less well-off) feel like the world is slipping beyond their control. This is why there's no puzzle as to why Farage and Clarkson are popular despite being rich, powerful and part of the establishment: their supporters see them as on side in this cultural war.
I know where I stand as an unapologetic social liberal, and I'm comfortable with that. My side is winning, after all.
But the socially conservative classes know they're losing badly, so the culture war is intensifying. They want their world back and they think Clarkson and Farage are the last holdouts.
In other words, there's little point in asking why supporters of Farage and Clarkson don't want to speak truth to power. They do. But they have a point – times have changed. They are no longer the establishment… we are.
19 Comments ¦ 8th May
A New Rural Manifesto for Labour: we call for your support
by Guest September 10, 2013 at 9:01 am
by Jack Eddy
It is uncontroversial to say that Labour lacks rural appeal. Labour's voice in the British countryside has been inadequate for decades, but has hit a low-ebb in recent years. Even in the suburban and rural areas where Labour was able to gain some traction from 1997 onwards, the last General Election saw a massive swing to the Tories.
And yet, the Labour Party in the past has successfully gone out to the British countryside to court the rural vote and build the foundations of support. Such accomplishments can come again, but we need renewed endeavour and new direction. If this does not change – and we do not instigate that change – some rural communities may not survive these difficult times.
This is why we at South Norfolk CLP call upon all rural CLPs, as well as other interested affiliates, to support us in our call for a new Rural Manifesto – as specified in the proposal officially endorsed by South Norfolk CLP; a Rural Manifesto made in rural Britain, for rural Britain.
Priority should be given to framing policy to reflect the impact on rural communities, on a number of different issues:
Public transport and other infrastructure improvements, as well as rural unemployment and businesses will be an important subject. In the entirety of Norfolk, the 3rd largest county, there is only one late evening bus service. This is not uncommon for rural areas, with negative consequences to regional economies and rural life in general.
Additional aid to the young and unemployed for the purpose of making them as geographically mobile as possible will be hugely helpful to finding employment. A possible solution could be found in providing travel cards to rural unemployed (allowing travel for free or at a reduced rate), who live at least 2 miles from the nearest major centre of employment – valid for use 1 month after finding permanent work.
The NHS is important to us all, but many rural communities are seeing their NHS services disappear as cuts and privatisation begin to take hold, and they are fighting to stop it. One solution to help meet increasing demand, and go some way to solving the unique issues around isolation from services in rural areas, could be to focus on increasing the number of smaller, satellite hospitals that are strategically located around existing central hubs in rural locations. 'Satellite Hospitals' would focus on anticipatory care, diagnostic services, as well as urgent accident and emergency admissions, leaving the central hospitals to focus on the more complex and specialised treatments. By dividing up local populations into different catchment areas, it would enhance the experience of patients by offering a smaller, community feel, as well as provide more jobs.
Naturally, properly dealing with Europe and immigration in rural policy is a must. We must explain how businesses, services and local economies in rural Britain depend on Europe and immigration. Many rural businesses rely on European immigrants and the EU enables farmers and horticultural businesses to trade easily with the mainland (in either goods, equipment or expertise). Many rural businesses could not survive without immigration or the EU in general. Labour needs to illustrate how jobs held by British workers would cease to exist if Britain exited the EU.
However, this is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what needs to be covered in a Rural Manifesto – and it is up to us all to decide what must be covered.
To do this, we need you to get our Motion passed in your CLP and submitted for the upcoming Labour Party Conference by 12 noon on Thursday 12th September. We also invite you to contact all whom you feel will be interested, so that we can reach everybody that can help us succeed in this enterprise.
If you are interested and have the time, please contact me at [email protected] and I will send you the proposal for the Rural Manifesto and South Norfolk's Motion to the Conference.
23 Comments ¦ 10th September
Labour's battle with Unite over Falkirk is a sign of weakness AND strength
by Sunny Hundal July 5, 2013 at 8:25 am
Let me start with a short story. In 2007 the constituency of Ealing-Southall had a by-election after the sitting MP died. One of the leading contenders was Sonika Nirwal – the first Asian woman to be elected leader of a Labour group (in Ealing). She would have been a breath of fresh air and everyone expected an All-Women-Shortlist to be drawn up. But Ms Nirwal didn't get it. She didn't even make the shortlist. The AWS plan was abruptly discarded and only two men made the shortlist: veteran councillor Virendra Sharma and an unknown newcomer. It was obvious who would win.
There are countless such stories across the Labour party. They aren't new and they aren't unexpected. As Hopi Sen points out: "The system can be manipulated, so it is manipulated." Unite's mistake in Falkirk was to get caught trying to manipulate the system.
So here are some thoughts on this internal battle.
It could escalate
The argument over selection mistakes in Falkirk is merely a proxy battle – both the Progress types and the Left of the party know this. It's also one both sides are itching to fight, and could escalate unless Ed Miliband seeks to placate both sides not just Jim Murphy's contingent. It is also utterly absurd for Labourites to say the rules need changing to prevent unions from 'fixing selections' – since 'fixing' is practiced widely. Change is needed but it cannot just target unions.
Labour still has a working class problem
Unite's actions are justified for many activists on the left for one reason: working class candidates are badly under-represented across Labour. At least Unite is trying to address the problem, while the Labour leadership isn't, they say. Unless it is rectified there will always be resentment over perceptions that middle-class candidates are able to stitch-up selections while working class candidates aren't. Many point out that Unite have the right to pursue their interests in the same way Progress do, but with added legitimacy.
It is a sign of strength…
…that Labour is willing to stand up to its biggest donor and tell them to stop interfering so blatantly. The Tories don't have the guts to stand up to the City or big business. And to an extent Ed Miliband is right to be angry since the Labour Party and Unite are separate entitities, not joined at the hip.
But it is a sign of weakness…
…that Labour capitulates so easily to the right-wing press over a minor beltway story. Take another example: twice a year Ed Miliband's office hosts a reception for the political press. Some left-wing bloggers (including myself) are invited too. But for some unexplicable reason they also invite Paul Staines (aka Guido Fawkes) and Harry Cole even though there is absolutely no benefit in doing so. Several journalists always point out that the Tories don't even bother with the New Statesman, let alone hostile bloggers. Whatever the Labour leadership say, to everyone it looks like a sign of weakness they feel the need to invite mortal enemies, and feeds into the view that they are always worried about what the rightwing press.
Fighting the battle of the 80s
It feels like many of those stoking up fears about unions after Falkirk are still living the battles of the 80s against Militant. Of course Falkirk was nothing like that. In fact, there are far more instances of irregularities with Asian voters in areas such as Birmingham and parts of London. Are they going to ban Asians from standing or voting for Labour? Of course not. The point is that this controversy is being hyped up by people who either have an agenda against the unions or are fighting battles of the past.
The full report needs to be published – otherwise it just looks like Labour is pursuing a vendetta against Unite.
5 Comments ¦ 5th July
Have left-wing protests become too broad to be meaningful?
by Guest June 20, 2013 at 9:55 am
by Michael Jefferies
Many will have seen the spectacular photos documenting the recent protests in Brazil. The streets were full, block after block with people standing shoulder to shoulder – an impressive show of people-power by any measure.
Striking was the near invisibility of political parties and single issue pressure groups. In fact, there have been reports of the crowd shouting down fellow protestors that tried to raise political flags and emblems.
Contrast this with the G8 protests in Northern Ireland this weekend were we saw the full cacophony of the 'usual suspects' joined by more novel entrants. Nearly everyone has some sort of visible affiliation: Amnesty, Unison, anarchist groups, a spread of communist/socialist organisations, the County Sovereignty Movement, Free Palestine – the list goes on.
Notwithstanding the time, money, sweat and inconvenience that the G8 protestors endured – the strategic utility of their efforts was close to zero – mirroring the unity in their demands.
In Turkey, unity seems a little better. Turkey's crisis of liberalism elevated a narrow-interest protest to a national, popular movement. Examining pictures (and with the caveat that I can't speak Turkish), the presence of political organisations is by the G8 standards minimal (with the exception of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP)).
Perception matters. It determines who will join a protest and it heavily influences the narrative that may result in the political change that protestors would like to see.
Should the presence of the TKP be perceived to rise, I fear moderate liberals – the majority of the protestors – will fail in their fight against illiberal democracy.
Increasingly, successful street protesting requires unity and harnessing the masses. Without mass support, street protests are easy to ignore, before being in practice curtailed as they encroach on the activities of wider society.
Small disruptive protests may gain publicity and represent tactical victories – but only on minor issues do they translate into strategic success.
Maintaining broad, united support requires marching for specific, realistically attainable objectives that are widely supported.
It's essential that the protest remains open, non-partisan with a mutual expectation that people check their other grievances and ideological axes at the door – especially when this baggage may alienate potential supporters.
Essential that is, if people are interested in actually changing facts on the ground rather than clinging to narrower maximalist demands.
Michael Jefferies works in defence and blogs at Full Spectrum Strategy
8 Comments ¦ 20th June
A liberal left welfare reform plan
by Don Paskini May 29, 2013 at 11:00 am
Labour MP Simon Danzcuk wrote an article recently attacking the 'Metropolitan liberal wing' of the Left for their support of the status quo on welfare and their opposition to any kind of welfare reform. Striking a similar tone, Isabel Hardman in the Telegraph noted 'the Left's lack of resolve' on welfare reform, citing the way that Labour 'scuttled away' from reforming the assessment of entitlement to disability benefits.
In both cases, the assumption is that opposing one particular daft idea necessarily implies support for the status quo. Those of us on the Metropolitan liberal left have all sorts of ideas for reforming the welfare state. These include:
1. Introduce universal, affordable childcare.
2. Make work pay by increasing the minimum wage above inflation, expanding the number of employers who pay a living wage, and introducing a Community Allowance, where people can take on 'mini jobs' of up to 16 hours per week with community organisations while continuing to receive their benefits.
3. Allow councils to borrow to build hundreds of thousands of new homes, and take on vested interests in the private rented sector.
4. Cancel Atos' contract and enable disabled people to co-design a reformed Work Capability Assessment which treats people with dignity and reduces the error rate from 17% to under 1%.
5. Introduce a Right to Paid Work, offering socially useful jobs of at least 25 hours per week paid at the minimum wage to all people unemployed for two years or more.
6. Replace the Work Programme with grant funding for charities to support unemployed people to develop their skills and find work.
7. Develop a national strategy to ensure that by 2020 no one has to rely on a foodbank to feed themselves or their family.
8. Introduce new government targets to reduce poverty for pensioners and working age adults as well as children. Set a target that poverty for all three groups should be lower in 2020 than it was in 2010.
9. Link increases in benefits to increases in earnings.
10. Delay implementation of universal credit, cancel localisation of Council Tax Benefit, and instead focus on improving and simplifying the current system by reducing the error rate, expanding Social Fund crisis grants and loans, and improving the quality of service offered by Jobcentres to claimants.
The last time that the liberal left had significant influence on welfare policy was between 1997 and roughly 2004, a time which saw record falls in poverty amongst children and pensioners, and increases in employment rates amongst groups such as lone parents and disabled people. The centre right reform agenda, led under successive governments by David Freud over the past few years, has been far less impressive, marked by bold claims about reform combined with remarkable incompetence in delivery.
It might give right wing politicians a thrill to promise yet another biggest shake up since Beveridge or crack down on scroungers, but I think we've had quite enough of them overclaiming, underdelivering and then trying to fix the evidence to cover it up. Instead, the liberal left's approach is focused on achievable solutions to the real problems facing people on low incomes.
17 Comments ¦ 29th May
Do benefits for rich pensioners preserve 'universal support' for welfare?
by Sunny Hundal April 29, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Ed Miliband was today asked on Radio 4's #wato whether Labour would cut benefits for wealthy pensioners. For now the answer is no, and I have a feeling it will stay like that.
I wrote earlier the Tories were not serious about cutting the social security bill because they ignored two major components: lack of well-paying jobs and the large proportion we spend on pensions (plus there's housing benefit, which I missed out)
I'm not expecting to win any popularity contests, but I'll say it anyway: I think Labour should commit to cutting benefits for wealthier pensioners in the form of the Winter Fuel Allowance, Freedom passes subsidised travel and free TV licenses. The definition of 'wealthier' is key, because I genuinely mean wealthy people not struggling middle-class people. I.e., people who earn the top rate of tax or have over £500k in savings.
The main leftwing case against stripping these benefits is that it 'undermines universalism'. I'll focus on this here, and make the case for in another post.
Owen Jones argues it will "breed a middle-class that is furious about paying large chunks of tax; getting nothing back". The Guardian's John Harris also asked in Jan: 'Who will speak up for the universal welfare state now?'.
I used to believe this too, but I've changed my minds for several reasons.
First, there is no evidence for the view that these benefits keep up support for the universal principle.
Despite increasing the number of universal benefits in recent decades (especially during New Labour years) – support has still fallen.
What actually happens is people support those specific benefits they get, but don't extend that support to across to other benefits or the idea of universalism.
Or to put it another way, people are far more discerning than we give them credit for. Handing out a Freedom Pass to a rich pensioner is not getting us support for unemployment benefits in return. I'd love to see the evidence but it's just not there.
Secondly, the argument that we're chipping away the welfare state by cutting these benefits is a bit odd, since New Labour introduced the Winter Fuel Allowance. There are other universal benefits that can be preserved and supported. There seems to be an element of knee-jerk defensiveness here that assumes all changes are a one-way street and no more universal benefits can ever be introduced in the future.
Thirdly, the universal state isn't just about cash benefits, and we shouldn't assume that will buy support. We need a different kind of a universalist social security system, one that focuses on health and social care, education and training, child care and early intervention, and reducing inequality in a more fundamental way.
These benefits are a sticking plaster – like charity. The broader aim for the left should be to re-structure the state to reduce inequality, not rely on small handouts to wealth pensioners in the hope it buys support for other policies.
This is the short case against preserving these benefits on the basis of universalism. So why should Labour get rid of them anyway? I'll write that in another post.
I'm going to simplify this by posing some questions:
1) Where is the evidence that, in the UK, means-testing one kind of benefit reduces support for other benefits such as for unemployed people?
2) I'm for universal benefits. All I've said is that I'd like the focus on other kinds of benefits rather than cash hand-outs to rich pensioners. So why are people saying that means-testing these pensioner benefits will undermine universal social security?
Another update: I think Daniel Sage was trying to write a critique of my point but ends up reinforcing it. His graphs show that offering universal pensions leads to more support for pensions, but not more support for other kinds of benefits such as JSA.
46 Comments ¦ 29th April
What does 'contributory welfare' mean?
by Don Paskini April 8, 2013 at 9:00 am
Labour has just announced what they are calling a 'radical shift' to welfare payments. They want 'a return to the contributory principles of Beveridge', where what you get out of the welfare state should be based on what you put in. This is possibly not what lefties had in mind when urging Labour to rediscover the 'Spirit of 45', but let's explore further what this might mean.
Labour haven't yet explained what 'the contributory principle' would mean in practice, though the IPPR think tank have previously suggested 'National Salary Insurance', where people who have paid taxes before becoming unemployed would be entitled to receive interest free loans from the government, which they pay back when they get a job.
The idea behind 'the contributory principle' where 'you get out what you put in' sees the welfare state as a kind of insurance system. It is intended to appeal to people who, in Labour minister Liam Byrne's words, 'feel like they put an awful lot more in than they get back'. It appears that by 'contribution', Labour means 'pay national insurance'. In practice, this means a welfare system which provides greater financial support for men, older people and able bodied people, and less support for women, young people and disabled people (as the former are all much more likely to have paid national insurance before needing support from the welfare state).
This seems to me to be a very limited view of what it means to 'contribute' to society. It doesn't recognise parents who work hard to give their children the best start in life, people who spend their time caring for others rather than in paid employment, or the person who is too sick or disabled to hold down a job (by everette devan). It is not obviously 'fair', for example, that a millionaire ex-banker who loses their job should be deemed to have contributed more and receive more help from the state than someone who doesn't work because they are caring for their severely disabled children.
Even on the narrow measure of 'contribution to government revenues', it is hard to see why the only measure should be national insurance payments. To take just one example from one of the best parts of the modern welfare state, someone with severe mental health problems who attends a peer support group and helps others to manage their condition might end up saving the taxpayer tens of thousands in reduced social care costs through their contribution to the wellbeing of others, even if they've never paid a penny in national insurance.
So as Labour develops their ideas about 'contributory welfare', rather than being transactional and focused on one particular measure, it should recognise all the different ways in which people contribute.
Another concern about 'the contributory principle' as it is currently described is that it aims to answer the question 'how can we identify who the contributors are, so as to be able to pay them more in welfare payments than the non-contributors?' Instead, I think that 'contributory welfare' should be about making changes to the system so as to answer the question 'how do we enable people to contribute more to society, and to live with dignity?'
Answering that question necessarily goes beyond the issue of welfare payments and helps to shape decisions about spending priorities across a much wider range of areas, from support for childcare, primary and secondary education, job creation and so on. Rather than dividing people into those who contribute and those who do not, it recognises that we all have the potential, with help at the right times, to contribute more and help each other. For some, that support comes from universal services such as primary and secondary education. For others, it might mean financial help when out of work, alongside advice to help get a job. For others still, it might involve prompt, targeted interventions such as reducing domestic abuse by working with perpetrators.
Rather than looking back to try to recreate an insurance system from the 1940s, I think there is a real opportunity here. The definition of what 'contribution to society' should mean is, to paraphrase Ed Miliband, too important to be left to politicians and people who work for think tanks. Labour could bring together people from all walks of life to discuss and come up with proposals about the different ways in which people in modern Britain contribute to society, and come up with a report what kinds of support they need in order to be able to contribute more.
And I can think of just the person to chair this kind of review).
23 Comments ¦ 8th April
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LOS ANGELES – We dropped our bags on the edge of an abandoned restaurant in Terminal 2. The smell of rancid garbage filled the air as we cursed Delta Airlines. "This is the worst terminal I've ever been in," I shouted. "I'd rather be stuck in Savusavu."
The Savusavu airport is a jungle-encrusted, muddy pavilion with nice people and a pit toilet. Its only sustenance is orange Fanta; but it is still better than LAX.
Welcome to America.
Here in the City of Angels, the peon treatment is in full effect. Delta Airlines is relegated to Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 here. Inside, low-slung ceilings hold hordes of travelers hostage, as the occasional drip from overburdened HVAC systems threatens death to electronics and disease to passengers. Terminal 2's hallmark is a Shake Shack/Starbucks combination that attempts to pander hallow tokens of the West Coast to unweary wanderers.
Around the corner, you can find a vacant stall that used to be the Blue Window cafe. That is where I write this blog.
The centerpiece of Terminal 2 is a Delta Skyclub situated on the second floor. It's the kind of first-class passenger lounge that in other airports offers reprieve from the general bustle below. The LAX incarnation of Skyclub is a poor interpretation, requiring a ride up a service elevator that makes frequent stops in the basement; yet, it lords over the vestibule below. Access is exclusive, reserved only for those carrying status on Delta or a platinum American Express card, which allows you the privilege of entry if—and only if—you produce the physical, plastic card in the year 2018. Electronic proof will not suffice. Sorry, Apple Wallet.
The world of elite travel is not meant for vagabonds such as us, denied entry to Skyclub in part due to the lack of a plastic card, but possibly also because we look as if we've just climbed out of a jungle village.
We have just climbed out of a jungle village.
Hot pools on the outskirts of town are cool enough to swim in. Digging a hole in the soft, muddy bottom releases intense heat.
Less than 18 hours ago, we were baking in the warmth of volcano-powered hot pools on the island of Vanua Levu. The term pool, here, is relative, as the Fijian definition of pool is less Roman bath and more farm pond. In Savusavu town, the hot pools are literally boiling. "People cook in them," tells a local man who was kind enough to share his bathing spot. "We cook noodles, chicken, anything you want in them."
It's local custom to share stories at the hot pools. This particular pool is one of only a few on the island, and in between mud baths, the man tells us the story of its origin. It's a long narrative that deals with dragons, a war, and some sort of blood letting that keeps the pools hot. "That's what the elder say," he adds. "But it's probably geothermal heat from the volcano."
Our friend doesn't have the internet, but he's no fool.
Fijians dry tobacco and roll it with local newspaper in a smoke called suki. It's often consumed at the hot pools. Despite being made of tobacco, suki contains no nicotine.
If you spend any amount of time talking to locals in Fiji, you'll discover that every place has a story. An island in the bay is the home of a princess, whose spirit guides strong women to Savusavu to begin a new life.
Vanua Levu itself is guarded by the spirit of a man-shark, a half man, half shark who lives on an island in the middle of a salt lake somewhere in the rainforests above. It's his will that keeps divers from getting bit by sharks here; and since the 1980's, he's done a stellar job—indeed, no attacks have been reported in Savusavu in over 30 years.
The spirit of an old woman watches over the lands, occasionally kidnapping small children when their parents misbehave. According to Pete of the NaSavusavu Clan, a three year old disappeared for six hours one day, before being found on a mountain top miles from where he was last seen. The surrounding area was filled with thorns and barbed wire, yet the child had no visible scars.
Even the modern world is untouched by these tales. At the Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort, the General Manager swears the spirits of old warriors can be felt watching over the guests.
It's these kind of tales that swirl around the volcanic hot pools tucked away in the forest. They're the kind of stories that seem a little far-fetched to believe. And yet, they seem to contain a grain of truth just large enough to sew a seed of doubt.
That's something I don't think the airlines will ever understand. Sure, the men in the suits can get in the lounge…but what sort of stories can a power tie tell?
Back at the Blue Window, with a final flight home inbound, I'd rather be back in Savusavu, but not just because of the smell.
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I feel your pain and horror. I, too, am a parent and have two Juniors this year whose finals week was interrupted by the school shooting at Reynolds high school. They have been so busy just trying to get through finals week that they haven't even had time or energy to integrate what is happening in their own community.
Nothing makes us more anxious than a threat to our children's safety. Nothing makes us feel more powerless, saddened and enraged then when our schools safe walls are breached by murderous rage and terror.
Some of us are vulnerable to traumatic stress and anxiety already. Events like this can feel overwhelming to cope with, and even moreso to help our kids to cope. So what can we do?
As a professional and as a parent, I recommend that you put on the metaphorical oxygen mask first. Please take the time to do whatever you can to take care of yourself in the coming weeks. If you feel your own anxiety spiraling out of control, please get some help from a qualified trauma therapist or perhaps some other provider that you feel comfortable with such as an acupuncturist, Reiki practitioner or yoga therapist. If you feel that you need psychiatric medication, now would be a good time to get a consultation. Practicing mindfulness meditation could be helpful or whatever really helps you calm down and integrate.
If you are like most Americans you are probably going to want to think your way out of this problem and come up with a snappy and satisfying solution (gun control, armed school guards, mental health interventions etc). I would encourage you NOT to jump to this just yet. First we need to calm ourselves down and become really, REALLY present to ourselves and our families.
Your children are in shock and grief, too. Like my kids, they may be in the middle of finishing up testing and not really be available for processing their feelings, or they may have a lot of time on their hands and be inwardly stewing over what has happened. Lately the world seems to have exploded in violence. Even if they are quiet, they have definitely noticed.
Make yourself extra available to them. Depending on age, gender and temperament our children will have varying needs and ways of moving through their own horror, anger and sadness. Allow them to find their own mode of expression, which may be very different than yours. But they do need to express in order to integrate.
As a child and teen therapist, I know that there are very few children who can just sit down and talk about their feelings to their parents in an adult way. It is best to find activities to do with your kids and let the conversation steer its way naturally to what is troubling them. You can ask open ended questions and make positive statements such as, "I'm really interested in what you think/feel about this event." "What are other people saying about what happened on Facebook?" etc. Good activities can be throwing a ball, shooting hoops (I got really good at this doing inpatient work with boys), going for a walk together, driving somewhere, listening to music together (their choice), playing a card or board or video game (not too intense so there is room for conversation). You need to initiate these activities, especially for kids who tend to isolate when they are upset.
Allow your children, and especially teens, an uncensored discussion. If you have rules about swearing or intensity (such as loudness or sarcastic tone), tell your child that you have suspended these rules, so they can say, freely, whatever is on their mind. Our kids talk very differently to each other than they do in front of us. If they need to blow off steam but feel inhibited in front of us, they will blow off steam elsewhere.
Sometimes stressful events like this show areas of relationships that are in need of work. If you have been having trouble connecting with your child, this trauma will not automatically draw you closer. It may, in fact, do the opposite. If so, consider seeking out professional help for yourself and/or the family.
Put down your cell phone when you are home. Stay home and make it clear that you are available when they need to talk, even if that need comes up around 10 or 11 pm as they are going to bed (as if often will). Monitor your own need to engage in avoidance activities and choose engagement.
If you do not already have a self-care routine, now would be an excellent time to start one. I am a big fan of progressive relaxation exercises and often prescribe them. You could find some online or buy a CD and practice relaxing your whole body a couple of times a day, to reset your own nervous system. Allow yourself more downtime than usual.
Lastly, know that no matter how upsetting this event is to your family and child, healing is possible. Human beings are incredibly resilient. In the process of healing you and your family may wish to take some action in the world. If this feels right to you, do it. The wound of trauma often demands some response from us – when the time is right.
Let's face it, most of us don't get ourselves into therapy until we are so broken and desperate we can barely get ourselves to the office. We are in a state of extreme need and vulnerability (usually), and the last thing on our minds is interviewing our own therapist. We want answers, and we want help, and we want it now!!!
I understand; I have been there. That is why I am giving you a list you can bring with you to your first two or three sessions so that you can really make an informed decision about how well you and your therapist are a fit. If the first session, you are in total crisis, don't worry! You can ask these questions any time. But the sooner, the better. It is awful to get into a therapy and then realize you don't like this therapist, don't find them helpful, or, even worse, that they don't like or 'get' you.
Remember that your therapist is YOUR hire. You are paying them to render a service, and you are in charge. If you like or don't like what they are doing, talk to them about it! Just like with hairdressers or massage therapists, monogamy is not required. It's therapy, not marriage.
1) What professional organization(s) do you belong to? A mature and successful professional will always want to be part of a professional group larger than themselves. Professional groups provide leadership, advocacy and ongoing education to their members. Really invested professional trauma therapists should belong to at least one professional trauma organization such as the International Society for the Study of Stress and Dissociation (ISSTD); the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS); the American Professional Psychology Division 56 (Division of Trauma Psychology) or one of many others. Hopefully they also belong to their local professional chapter: for social workers NASW, for psychologists, APA, the AMA if they are a psychiatrist, and so on. If they rattle off a bunch of names and letters you do not understand that is probably a good sign. They all have websites. Feel free to check them out. Many of these organizations have their own lists of providers. If they are expert presenters for these organizations, even better!
Specialized supervision (regular meetings to review cases and learn from them) provided by an experienced trauma therapist or internships in trauma treatment centers. ISSTD and other organizations offer specialized courses and certifications. Also, the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress certify practitioners in a number of traumatic specialty areas including crisis response, child, etc. based on their accomplishments and years of work in the field.
No. Or I understand trauma because I had a lot of it. Or I'm a good therapist and good therapists can treat anything (run away).
Trauma therapy is an advanced practice specialty area that always requires special training to be good at. You wouldn't go to a general family doctor for a heart attack, so don't think that any therapist can do this work. They can't and may do you more harm than good.
3) Do you understand and treat dissociative disorders?
A surprising number of therapists have never been taught to work with dissociative disorders, don't recognize them when they see them, and can waste years of patients' time (not to mention money) by this lack of understanding. Dissociative disorders and traumas go hand in hand. There is even a dissociative subtype for PTSD in the latest diagnostic manual (DSM 5). If you know you have lots of trauma, or lack a significant portion of childhood memories (dissociative amnesia) you have a higher likelihood of a false and unhelpful diagnosis if your therapist does not specialize in trauma and dissociation. Common misdiagnoses are bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia.
4) Have you completed your own course of therapy?
This is an awkward but TOTALLY FAIR question, one, quite frankly, that I wish more people would ask. In the good old days, in the heyday of amazing long term therapy, it was considered on the verge of malpractice and utter ignorance not to complete one's own therapy before embarking on treating other people. Now it is rather the norm. Very few therapists I supervise have had much of their own treatment.
There is a misconception out there that therapists are sicker than the general population and become therapists to cure themselves. After 40 years in the field, I do not subscribe to this idea. Almost everyone in society has been exposed to trauma and mental illness in their families. Very few of those people want to understand it and go on to help others – those special few are therapists.
But being a psychotherapist working with traumatized people is an incredibly challenging calling. It's easy to make mistakes, mostly unconscious or ignorant ones. So it is important that the therapist has had enough of their own therapy to understand how their own mind defends itself and operates unconsciously so that they can work well with other minds. This is a long and arduous task requiring many hours of training and work over a period of years.
So don't be put off by a therapist who had a lengthy therapy themselves. Chances are good that somebody in therapy for 10 years will be a much better therapist than someone who went to treatment for six months and called it 'good'.
5) Do you believe that people can have repressed memories of trauma that they recall later in their life?
There has been a big debate in the media about this, but in the world of professional trauma therapy the debate has been over for a while. The answer is "yes, of course". Jennifer Freyd, cognitive psychologist at the University of Oregon, and editor of the ISSTD journal, did a great deal of work in the area of what she calls "betrayal trauma", the trauma inflicted by a caregiver. She has showed in numerous studies that the closer the relationship of the abuser to the abused, the more likely the victim will have traumatic amnesia for the event.
If memories start to surface in your therapy, you will want to make sure that you will be believed and helped. It is extremely poor therapy to answer 'no' to this question, because that indicates the presence of dogma and a closed mind. You may have some very challenging and unusual things to tell your therapist, and you need to trust that they can hear those things and continue to work with you in a safe and containing way.
If you don't feel like you can ask these questions in person, there is always email! Or go to your therapist's website and investigate them deeply. You will save yourself some emotional distress and money by being proactive in your search for a truly helpful trauma therapist. Good luck!
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Actualmente, la síntesis de nanoporos se está volviendo un método popular de detección de moléculas dado a sus propiedades electroquímicas que permiten el monitoreo de las corriente iónicas que pasan por el nanoporo en cuestión.
Historia
En 1953 se inventó el contador Coulter para la contabilización y medición del tamaño de partículas a micro escala dispersas en electrolitos. Que consiste en un voltaje aplicado a través de una pequeña apertura que contiene dos cámaras llenas de electrolitos, las partículas se movían de una cámara a la otra y creaban pulsos de resistencia característicos para cada electrolito. En la década de 1990, Coulter encontró una manera de extender este principio a un nivel molecular con la introducción de los nanoporos con aperturas limitadas en el rango de 1 a 100 nm.
Fabricación
La fabricación de los nanoporos tiene un foco de atención en la limitación de la apertura del poro, lo que determina el máximo tamaño de partícula que puede moverse a través del nanoporo y causa una gran influencia en la resistencia a la corriente durante la translocación de los iones. Los métodos más comunes para la fabricación de nanoporos de estado sólido son:
Perforación por haz de iones o DD, por sus siglas en inglés (direct drilling)
Perforación por un haz de iones seguido de una encogimiento asistido usando otro haz de iones o IBS (ion beam shrinking)
Perforación por un haz de iones seguido de un encogimiento asistido usando un haz de electrones o EBS (electron beam shrinking)
Ataque químico sobre una membrana polimérica, vidrio o material a base de silicatos.
Litografía de nanoesferas
Nanoporos de estado sólido
Los nanoporos de estado sólido, en comparación con los nanoporos en proteínas, tienen ventajas tales como su robustez mecánica, diámetro ajustable y estabilidad en diferentes ambientes físicos y químicos. La fabricación de estos nanoporos incluye una amplia gama de métodos que van desde un tiro directo de un haz de iones fresado, seguido de una remodelación del nanoporo con un haz de iones extra hasta métodos electroquímicos.
Nanoporos cilíndricos
Son los nanoporos más sencillos en fabricación pero el potencial necesario para iniciar el transporte a través del nanoporo incrementa el ruido en la medición de corriente, que por consiguiente, limita su sensibilidad y capacidad.
Nanoporos cónicos
Son nanoporos que tiene una forma cónica, más anchos de un lado que de otro. Estos nanoporos presentan propiedades únicas tales como un mejor transporte, menor resistencia, mejoras como sensor y una corriente iónica mayor a los cilíndricos
Los nanoporos cónicos proveen de una buena plataforma para la investigación de transporte de moléculas individuales, partículas, así como eventos que ocurran dentro de la geometría confinada.
Electroquímica de Nanoporos
La electroquímica de los nanoporos es una de sus propiedades más investigadas, esto se debe a que, por medio de los nanoporos en membranas, se puede detectar un flujo de cargas entre dos soluciones electrolíticas divididas por dichas membranas (corrientes iónicas en membranas); así mismo se puede detectar el transporte hacia o de nanoelectrodos presentes en los nanoporos y el transporte electroforético y electroosmotico de solventes e iones mientras este pasa en los nanocanales cuando se aplica un voltaje al final del canal. Propiedades que pueden llevar al uso de nanoporos como métodos de caracterización.
Nanoporos en membranas
La detección del flujo de cargas entre dos soluciones electrolíticas se da por medio de una membrana que separa a las mismas. Normalmente una de las soluciones contiene una especie de interés con una dimensión que se acerca o no es de importado para el diámetro del nanoporo. Se produce una excitación electroquímica en los electrodos presentes en ambas soluciones (ya sea una potencia DC, AC o una corriente) de tal manera que se induzca una carga iónica, misma que fluye a través del nanoporo. El valor de la corriente iónica se determina con la concentración de los electrolitos, el potencial aplicado y el ancho y largo del nanoporo que actúa como resistencia. Este tipo de experimentos se han llevado a cabo con arreglos de nanoporos y con membranas con un solo nanoporo llevando a la conclusión de que los arreglos de nanoporos permiten una diversidad química mayor a pesar de que tener un solo nanoporo vuelve a la detección más selectiva.
Electrodos de nanoporos
Los electrodos de nanoporos son electrodos depositados en una estructura porosa nanoscópica. Existen modelos de un solo nanoporo y de arreglos de nanoporos. Su fabricación involucra la preparación de un electrodo de Pt con velo de vidrio. El Pt sellado con el vidrio posee una punta cónica de tal manera que al agregar ácido nítrico la solución, ésta presenta un comportamiento electrolítico que lleva a que en el vidrio se formen nanoporos con forma cónica y del mismo tamaño que la punta original. Estos electrodos están en el orden de los 30 a los 2000 nm. Si el nanoporo se coloca en una solución de ferroceno, la voltametría a escalas de largo tiempo da un estado estable (difusión radial) que limita las corrientes para la oxidación de ferroceno, controlando el transporte a través del nanoporo.
Estos electrodos en nanoporos se usan ampliamente en electrodos de iones selectivos, que se ha empleado en experimentos SECM para visualizar el flujo del ion cloro a trapas de un microporo y para soportar estructuras de membranas líquidas de manera estable que contienen formadores de canales iónicos.
Aplicaciones
Detección de ADN
Una de las aplicaciones más interesante en el mundo de la biología es la posibilidad de secuenciar el ADN. La idea radica en utilizar nanoporos de estado sólido que mediante el uso de cargas, dirigen cadenas de ADN a través del poro. Estas cadenas pueden ser de un solo segmento de ADN o la doble hélice. La secuenciación ocurre debido a que cada base (adenina, citosina, guanina y timina) modifica la corriente que transita en el nanoporo de manera distinta. Esto significa que cada base tiene una corriente que permite detectar que grupo atraviesa el poro en ese momento. Para conocer la corriente característica de cada base, se utiliza una cadena con solo una base de ADN.
Uno de los problemas principales del sistema es que ADN atraviesa el nanoporo a una velocidad mayor que los equipos de detección son capaces de leer. Las lecturas resultantes no son fidedignas y no se puede saber con certeza si se detectó cada una de las bases. Las soluciones para este problema aún se encuentran en investigación, pero ya existen ideas interesantes. Una solución sería utilizar pinzas ópticas para alentar el paso del ADN. Otra solución consiste en manipular el paso del ADN encendiendo y apagando la corriente de nanoporo, alentando el paso de la cadena y permitiendo una lectura más precisa.
Sensores
Los sensores utilizan el mismo principio que se utiliza en la lectura de cadenas. La molécula problema se introduce en una solución de alto contenido iónico, la cual se utiliza para producir una corriente eléctrica que genera el movimiento de la molécula a través del poro. Se aprovechan factores como solubilidad, cargas electrostáticas y conductividad para identificar a las moléculas.
Referencias
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Over the course of this spring weekend in upstate New York, let's explore and embody Absolute Acceptance together using movement, stillness and ritual as access points. What does it actually feel like to experience all that we are experiencing in any given moment and how do we accept it all? Using the interplay between movement, ritual and meditation we will access, engage, deepen our ability to accept all of ourselves and discover the ways in which we want to move forward from there.
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If you've never meditated before, or you've tried and you struggle to maintain a regular practice, this course is for you. I teach a simple, natural technique and provide the tools to establish a regular meditation practice.
The course is taught over three consecutive days and each session is two hours.
I will explain the science and history of meditation, teach a simple, traditional technique, give you guidelines to establish your personal practice, and answer all your questions.
By the end of the week, you will have established your meditation practice and have all the tools to continue your daily practice. You're always welcome to refresh at any of my future Beginning Meditation courses, free of charge.
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Do you have a regular meditation practice? Do you ever crave a deeper understanding of your experiences? We will meditate together and discuss a concept to enrich your process. Prepare to find peace and clarity on your spiritual path. And be prepared to find companionship in community. Join us as we sit with follow seekers to explore self and the experience of our deepest selves.
Sunday, March 10th we will be covering the concept of Identity : The Roles We Play. There are so many layers to the human experience. There are the roles we play to be in relationship to ourselves and others. We are going to study these roles and layers through conversation and practice to understand their function and how we can manage the way in which they serve us. Over the next few weeks reflect a bit on identity and how it plays out in your life. Contemplate the layers, the roles and the ways in which you identify yourself. And notice the actually practice and how it is affecting your life interactions with your new understanding of identity. Allow yourself to arrive at an intention for our gathering and some talking points about your reflections and experiences.
Do you have a regular meditation practice? Do you ever crave a deeper understanding of your experiences? We will meditate together and discuss the topics that are most relevant to those in the group that day. Prepare to find peace, clarity and enlightenment on your spiritual path. And be ready to find companionship in community. Join us as we sit with follow seekers to explore self and the experience of our deepest selves.
What is the relationship between spirituality and fashion? Is responding to the call of the environment a spiritual pursuit? How can we consume fashion responsibly, keeping the well-being of individuals and the planet in mind?
Join Gemma Gambee Lewis and a dynamic panel of experts as they explore the presence of the spiritual — and the lack thereof — within the fashion industry, and how we can shape our future with the choices we make.
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In a time when we are continuously witnessing great suffering, where do we find the strength and courage to bring the type of change we want to see in the world?
We find it within ourselves.
Where do you experience love in your body? When and how do you feel your love shift? Most of us spend periods of time restricting ourselves from our deepest power because we are looking to feel safe to experience and express our love. Love is a feeling that originates and emanates from the center of our chests, our heart. When we practice continuously opening our hearts to express our love without the fear of it being returned in the way in which you think it should be, we have the power to change the world for the better.
Over the course of this fall weekend in upstate New York, we will explore and embody the source of our own love using movement, stillness and ritual as access points. What does it actually feel like to sit in the origin of our own love and how do we live a life taking action from this place? Using the interplay between movement, ritual and meditation we will access, engage, deepen our connection to our love and discover the ways in which we want to move from this love source.
Join us in the Hudson Valley as the fall leaves being to fall for a weekend of reprieve, practice and self-study that will rejuvenate your sense of purpose.
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People have been asking me for a course where they can come, learn the technique and initiate their practice. Here it is, a course modeled after the method I have developed from my many years of study and practice.
The course fee runs on a sliding scale. Suggested fee is 1% of your total net income. The minimum fee is $400. Pay what is right for you.
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The course fee runs on a sliding scale.
Suggested fee is 1% of your total net income.
The minimum fee is $400.
Pay what is right for you.
Please email me directly with any clarification, questions or concerns!
Ready to register? You may Venmo me here. For card, cash or check, please email to make arrangements.
The Enlightened Giggle is an immersive meditation experience that awakens the senses with art and music.
The event was created in partnership with Public Arts inspired by a meditation that Gemma Gambee Lewis lead at MoMA's Quiet Mornings.
Join us on Monday, May 14th for the launch of this new series led by Gemma Gambee Lewis and the music of Grammy Award musician Sonya Kitchell and projections by conceptual artist Roger Welsh.
Complimentary Kombucha & chocolate generously provided by Health Aid and Wei of Chocolate.
What is the relationship between spirituality and fashion? Where has spirituality played a role in inspiring the way we dress throughout history? How can we consume fashion responsibly keeping the well-being of individuals and the planet in mind?
Join former fashion trend forecaster meditation teacher Gemma Gambee Lewis, and a dynamic panel of experts, as they explore the presence of the spiritual (and the lack thereof) within the fashion industry and how we can shape our future with the choices we make.
The panel will feature designer Henriette Ernst of ROUND + SQUARE, international trend forecaster Rita Nakouzi of 4.5 Productions, international beauty photographer Kenneth Willardt of Kargoe, and Jasmine Etoile Aarons of VOZ.
Gemma Gambee Lewis will be leading our meditation sessions from 8:30 to 9:00 a.m.
This guided meditation offering is an opportunity to plug into self as a reprieve from the hurry of your day. Join us weekly for a free meditation at the beautiful community work space, The Assemblage. No need to RSVP, simply show up and let reception know you are there for the meditation.
Cultivate Will Bring Together NYC's Influential Creatives With Cutting Edge Business Leaders For A Night Of Provocative Performances And Insightful Discourse.
GEMMA GAMBEE LEWIS will discuss how creative create successful careers in the arts with; SAH D'SIMONE, Transformational Coach & Meditation Teacher, MEERA LEE PATEL, Visual Artist & Author, MURRAY HIDARY, Musician, Creator of Mind Travel, MARA HOFFMAN, Fashion Designer, ANNE PASTERNAK, Director of the Brooklyn Museum.
What does self love even mean? There are so many voices espousing the benefits of self-love yet it is seldom experienced in its full capacity. We often approach self-love from the intellect when it is truly experienced within the body and the deeper sense of self. Self-love is an act of courageously witnessing what arises within and expanding our ability to accept what's there.
Over the course of an autumn weekend in upstate New York, we will explore the embodiment of self-love using movement and stillness as access points. What does self-love actually feel like, how do we cultivate it, and how do we live a life practicing it? Using the interplay between yoga, Qoya dance, and meditation we will access a new relationship to both self and the love-of-self.
Join us for the turning of the leaves, a retreat from the bustle of the city, and the gift of self-love.
"We believe there is a potent alchemy in linking movement and meditation and letting them dance together. By combining these modalities, we guide women to create space within the body to feel, hear and cultivate a deeper connection to the all-knowing part of themselves."
As a community we have reprioritized our understanding of wellness to included a complete, holistic approach. We are, again, clear that the spirit, mind and body all need the proper attention to live a life of balanced happiness. Meditation is the non-secular tool we use to turn inward, tune into and attend to our spiritual and mental wellbeing.
If you've never meditated before, you've tried, but you struggle to maintain a regular practice, or if you are a regular meditator this course in the basics is for you. We will cover the basics, practice meditation together and we will dive deep into the wisdoms that inform our personal growth as divine human beings.
Come, jump in and celebrate the commitment to building a new relationship with yourself.
What you want to create in your life requires your exquisite attention.
Manifestation is an art form. Our culture breeds this right-here, right-now, everything-I-want-and-more mentality. When we turn to manifest our deepest desires, we fall short in their creation because we haven't activated the spacious attention that our dreams require.
At the intersection of movement and stillness, we cultivate the presence and patience needed to manifest differently. Using the interplay between yoga, dance, and meditation, we will build the tools that allow us to slow down, wait, and trust in the space that our intentions need to grow. Join us for this day long immersion into your deepest intentions and a new way towards your brightest manifestations.
Join me as I lead a weekly group meditation at the beautiful and unique co-working space Spring Place. The schedule alternates between Wednesday and Thursdays. Thursday, May 4th 10am, Wednesday, May 11th, 10am, etc.
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Spring Place is happy to announce weekly meditation programming with Gemma Gambee. A guided meditation series begins the first week of April. Join us for the breakfast launch where we will explore the practice of meditation and the benefits of a regular practice speaking specifically to concepts of presences, connection, performance and community. | {
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Top 10 Reasons to be Excited About the Future of Bikes for Transportation
Before the pandemic hit, we asked our staff: "What excites you most about the future of bikes for transportation?" Here are the top 10 reasons they cited, and we're astounded by how true these ring now, buttressed by a global cycling boom.
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There's a good chance your world has shrunk due to COVID-19. Your work has been disrupted. The situation is certainly dire, but it's not without silver linings. For instance, now — possibly more than any other time in recent history — is the perfect time to bike, either for the first time or the first time in awhile.
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E-Bikes Make Life Faster, the Commuter Challenge Edition
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Motivating Stanford Research Park Employees to Bike Commute
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Wellness Programs: The data, the impact, and the case for bikes
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"Managing an Unstable Housing Market" by Brendan Williams, Brian Hughes et al.
development. The falling prices for housing in Ireland in 2007-2010 nationally has created a stagnating effect with purchasers reluctant to enter the market while the price correction is worked through. In turn suppliers, construction interests and vendors are highly reluctant to accept lower bid prices in the market due to often unrealistic expectations created during the long boom. The result of oversupply is falling prices, reduced occupation demand and decreased investor demand, leading to lower building activity and profitability. In addition the banking and liquidity crisis have contributed to a radical deterioration in economic circumstances and increasing out-migration. As part of the Urban Environment Project at UCD this working paper considers the current evidence of a market correction and oversupply in the Dublin region and Ireland based on data available up to March 2010 including the authors' working projections for 2010. | {
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How the Bible pushed a man to flee North Korea
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As he strides into the room and sits down in a plush chair across a small table from me, it quickly becomes apparent that my interlocutor, a prominent defector from North Korea, spent a great deal of time in the military. Despite his ready smile and slightly mischievous sense of humor, Mr. Shim, as he asks to be called, has ramrod straight posture and fluid motions that readily reveal his army background.
After briefly glancing at me, with my kippah perched on my head, he grins and turns to the translator and says, with an unconcealed smile, "This is a first for me. I have never sat down and spoken with a Jew before."
"That's okay," I reply without missing a beat, "because I have never spoken with a North Korean either, but I am sure we will do just fine."
After a hearty chuckle, Shim gets down to business, telling me the harrowing story of his life growing up in one of the world's harshest and most forbidding dictatorships, a country so secretive and shrouded in mystery that it has come to be known as the "Hermit Kingdom."
"I was born in 1950 near Pyongyang, which is the capital of North Korea," he says. "My family was considered a very good revolutionary family because both my brother and my father had fought against the United States and South Korea in the Korean War," Shim notes, adding that as a result, he received special privileges while growing up.
As a youngster, he decided that he wanted to become a general and serve in the armed forces. In 1968, he joined the North Korean military, which sent him to officer training school at Kim Il-Sung University, named after the founding father of the Communist regime.
After returning to the ranks, Shim was steadily promoted and his postings included a stint serving in the command base responsible for the defense of Pyongyang. He eventually became a lieutenant-colonel as well as a political officer for the ruling Workers' Party, which was the position he held at the time of his defection in March 1998.
No one knows with certainty just how many people have fled North Korea since the Soviet-backed Communists took power in 1948 after the division of the Korean peninsula at the end of World War II, but according to South Korea's Ministry of Unification, there were 31,093 defectors officially registered with the ministry at the end of December 2017.
Since many defectors have fled elsewhere, particularly to China, which shares a border with North Korea, it is likely that the overall number is significantly higher. But one thing is certain: ever since young Kim Jong-Un assumed the mantle of leadership in 2011 after the death of his father, the mercurial Kim Jong-Il, the number has been dropping because of tightened border controls and increased restrictions.
North Korea remains a single-party state with one of the worst human-rights records in the world. The UN estimates that between 80,000 and 120,000 North Koreans are being held in political prison camps throughout the country, where rape, torture and starvation are rampant. The average North Korean enjoys no freedom of speech, press or religion and must live with an intrusive surveillance state that promotes a cult of personality around the Kim family.
It has been 20 years since Shim, who is now a pastor, succeeded in escaping the tyranny, leaving behind his family, friends and everything he knew and loved for the sake of freedom.
Because of his ongoing involvement with efforts to assist other North Koreans longing for liberty, Shim has asked that only the sketchiest of details be provided about him and also requested that no photographs of him be published, as he fears potential retaliation by the North Korean government, which has been known in the past to carry out abductions and executions of opponents abroad.
What prompted you to defect?
My journey began in January 1997, when I began to read the Bible surreptitiously. I obtained a copy from a friend who worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and who traveled abroad, as Bibles are not permitted in North Korea. On one of his visits to China, my friend had become a Christian, so he brought a Bible back with him and gave it to me. I opened it to the beginning and read the first verse of Genesis, which says that God created the world. I didn't believe it, so I tossed it aside. But subsequently, I picked it up again and decided to read it from beginning to end. And then I read it through a second time.
How did it impact you?
When I read Genesis 1:26-28, I suddenly realized that North Korea's long-standing policy of "self-reliance" was lifted from the Bible. They simply appropriated the idea. I became disillusioned with Kim Jong-Il, who took power after his father Kim Il-Sung died, and realized that the Communist path had no future and that the Bible was the way to go. I decided that if I wanted to walk in the way of the Bible, I would have to leave the country. In fact I felt that God was telling me to leave. But I ignored it, and then He told me again and also for a third time.
Had I been serving at the border, it would have been relatively easy to do so, but I was serving in Pyongyang. I decided to go to China. When I reached the border, I prayed and said to God, "If You exist, then please help me to cross the border safely to freedom." There were North Korean border guards in the area, yet somehow I made it across, thanks to God. It was as if the guards were blinded to my presence.
What about your family?
My parents had died. I was married with a son in the army and a daughter. But even they did not know that I had been reading the Bible. My plan was that when I would get to China I would arrange for them to get out, too. Once I was in China, I met a Korean-Australian pastor and stayed with him. While there, I listened to preachers on a Christian radio station, and I asked the pastor to send a letter to the station about me and my story. He did so, but without telling me he also sent a copy to the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS). The NIS came to China to pick me up. They promised me that if my family would be willing to defect, then they would take them to South Korea.
What happened then?
The Korean-Australian pastor that I met went into North Korea to find my family and guide them out, while the NIS took me to South Korea. Since I was a high-ranking military officer, the NIS had promised me that they would not publicize my defection or my arrival in Seoul. But when the plane landed and the door opened, there was a television crew from the Korean Broadcasting Service there and they broadcast my arrival live. My family still in North Korea – my wife, my son and my daughter – all disappeared, and the pastor was unable to locate them. I have not heard a word from them since and I do not know what happened to them.
What did you do after you arrived in South Korea?
For the first year, I worked for the NIS. But then I decided to study theology and I eventually earned a master's degree and PhD and became a pastor. I started a church, which I named Creation Church, because I had found God through the Book of Genesis.
Was it difficult for you to adjust to life in South Korea?
I did not find it too difficult to adjust. But until today it is hard for me to understand the pop culture and self-indulgence among capitalist countries. Pop culture seems to talk mostly about love and eroticism, but not about higher values such as patriotism and love for the country. And the political sides in South Korea are just fighting each other, in the process shaking the foundations of this country.
When you still lived in North Korea and served in the military, did you ever meet Kim Il-Sung?
I met Kim Il-Sung and took part in meetings with him. I even took a photo with him. Kim Il-Sung was a tall, handsome man with a deep voice. He had a good personality. I felt that I would die for him if necessary. After Kim Il-Sung died, people expected changes. But the first thing that his son, Kim Jong-Il, said was that there would be no changes. Then, in the 1990s, the country was struck with a terrible famine. But Kim Jong-Il enjoyed women and drinking while the people starved. I realized there was a serious problem in the country. Kim Jong-Il was a devil who killed millions of people through famine. There is no one as evil as Kim Jong-Il in all of Korean history. So I thought to myself, if I have to give my life for Kim Jong-Il, I would have a problem with that. I would not do it.
In the Western media, there has been a great deal of speculation over the years as to when the regime in North Korea will collapse. When do you think this will happen?
There is no chance that the regime will collapse. I met some American officials on a visit to Hawaii and I told them very clearly: the only way to bring down the regime is with force – and it must be done.
Why don't you believe it will collapse?
There are three reasons. First, the entire country has been brainwashed for decades and the populace adores and worships the Kims as if they were gods. Secondly, the regime uses the notion that South Korea and the United States pose a threat to North Korea to maintain control and justify their rule. Finally, and no less important, is the reign of terror that is imposed by the Kim regime, which tolerates no dissent and punishes it severely.
In recent months, there has been a flurry of diplomacy, including inter-Korean summits and a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un, with a key issue being North Korea's nuclear arsenal.
North Korea is not serious about denuclearization. It is fake. Before South Korean President Moon met with Kim Jong-Un in April, I gave a number of press interviews. I said then that Kim Jong-Un is deceiving the United States and South Korea and that is still the case. It appears that Mr. Moon wants to be deceived.
Kim Jong-Un has been portrayed at times as being crazy. Do you think he is rational?
Yes, Kim Jong-Un is rational. But he is evil.
Are you still in touch with officials in North Korea?
My ministry conducts regular short-wave radio broadcasts to North Korea. Sometimes, I direct my remarks to the North Korean leadership and challenge them over their policies and their treatment of the people. I also get Bibles and books to some of the North Korean elites. I cannot reveal how I do so, but I can say that it works. It opens their eyes.
What do you think of Israel?
When I lived in North Korea, we thought of Israel as the enemy, but we also were told they are good at fighting and we respected them because they took their own land back and liberated it. I visited Israel once, in 2009, and I loved it. I still remember eating St. Peter's fish in the Galilee. But I will say this: you need to be tough. If you have any problems with your neighbors, just put me in charge for a little while and I will take care of it. | {
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Special Xbox One X Design Coming In Battlefield 5 Bundle Revealed At Gamescom 2018
Battlefield V's Deluxe edition is included.
By Chris Pereira | @TheSmokingManX on August 23, 2018 at 8:20AM PDT
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Those in the market for an Xbox One will soon have some new options. Alongside a new Fallout 76 bundle, Microsoft's Gamescom 2018 edition of Inside Xbox has brought word on new bundles that package the system together with Battlefield V. Notably, these include an Xbox One X featuring a special design.
The Xbox One X Gold Rush bundle, as it's called, includes a 1 TB Xbox One X that sports a gradient, fading from gold on the left to black on the right. It also comes with a wireless gray controller, Battlefield V's Deluxe edition, Battlefield 1943 (the Xbox 360 game, which is backwards compatible on Xbox One), one month of EA Access, one month of Xbox Game Pass, and a 14-day Xbox Live Gold trial. In the US, this will be priced at $499, the standard price of an Xbox One X on its own.
Battlefield V's Deluxe edition gets you early access to the full game as well as various bonuses. That includes five paratrooper outfits, more starter assignments, and 20 weekly airlifts, which each provide you with a customization item.
Additionally, Microsoft mentioned that there will be standard Xbox One S and Xbox One X bundles that also come with Battlefield V's Deluxe edition. Specific pricing and release details for those have not yet been confirmed.
Battlefield V's release date is set for October 19 on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.
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namespace openscreen {
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Note: All of the functions here are defined inline, as any half-decent
// compiler will optimize them to a single integer constant or single
// instruction on most architectures.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Returns true if this code is running on a big-endian architecture.
inline bool IsBigEndianArchitecture() {
const uint16_t kTestWord = 0x0100;
uint8_t bytes[sizeof(kTestWord)];
memcpy(bytes, &kTestWord, sizeof(bytes));
return !!bytes[0];
}
namespace internal {
template <int size>
struct MakeSizedUnsignedInteger;
template <>
struct MakeSizedUnsignedInteger<1> {
using type = uint8_t;
};
template <>
struct MakeSizedUnsignedInteger<2> {
using type = uint16_t;
};
template <>
struct MakeSizedUnsignedInteger<4> {
using type = uint32_t;
};
template <>
struct MakeSizedUnsignedInteger<8> {
using type = uint64_t;
};
template <int size>
inline typename MakeSizedUnsignedInteger<size>::type ByteSwap(
typename MakeSizedUnsignedInteger<size>::type x) {
static_assert(size <= 8,
"ByteSwap() specialization missing in " __FILE__
". "
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}
template <>
inline uint8_t ByteSwap<1>(uint8_t x) {
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template <>
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template <>
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template <typename Integer>
inline std::enable_if_t<std::is_unsigned<Integer>::value, Integer> ByteSwap(
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template <typename Integer>
inline Integer ReadBigEndian(const void* src) {
Integer result;
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template <typename Integer>
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public:
class Cursor {
public:
Cursor(BigEndianBuffer* buffer)
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size_t delta() { return buffer_->current_ - origin_; }
private:
BigEndianBuffer* buffer_;
T* origin_;
};
bool Skip(size_t length) {
if (current_ + length > end_) {
return false;
}
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return true;
}
T* begin() const { return begin_; }
T* current() const { return current_; }
T* end() const { return end_; }
size_t length() const { return end_ - begin_; }
size_t remaining() const { return end_ - current_; }
size_t offset() const { return current_ - begin_; }
BigEndianBuffer(T* buffer, size_t length)
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BigEndianBuffer(const BigEndianBuffer&) = delete;
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private:
T* begin_;
T* current_;
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};
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public:
BigEndianReader(const uint8_t* buffer, size_t length);
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bool Read(T* out) {
const uint8_t* read_position = current();
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return true;
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bool Read(size_t length, void* out);
};
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public:
BigEndianWriter(uint8_t* buffer, size_t length);
template <typename T>
bool Write(T value) {
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Another prominent candidate, President Viktor Yushchenko -- who beat Yanukovych in the 2004 "Orange Revolution" -- is not expected to make it to a second round.
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with agency reports
Disenchanted Ukrainians Go To The Polls
Ukraine Voting For Post-Orange Leader
Tymoshenko Defends Achievements, Warns Of Election Fraud
Will Weary Ukrainians Vote For A Dark Horse?
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Merck Cancer Access Program is part of Merck Foundation's commitment to improve patient's access to quality and equitable cancer care in underserved communities.
The Program builds cancer care capacity, supports the implementation and development of specialized healthcare solutions and is augmented by community awareness campaigns to contribute to the reduction of cancer incidences and improve survival rates.
The lack of financial means is not the only challenge in Africa and developing countries, but a scarcity of trained health care personnel capable to tackle the prevention, early diagnosis and management of cancer at all levels of the health care systems is even a bigger challenge. Therefore, the program consists of three initiatives to enhance cancer care on all relevant levels:
• Merck Oncology Fellowship Program focuses on building professional cancer care capacity with the aim to increase the limited number of oncologists in Africa and Developing countries. The program provides One-year fellowship program at Tata Memorial Centre - India, One and half-years Oncology Fellowship programs at University of Malaya - Malaysia, Two years Oncology Fellowship Program at University of Nairobi - Kenya and Two years Master degree in Medical Oncology at Cairo University - Egypt, in partnership with African Ministries of Health, Local Governments and Academia.
Launched in 2016, over 69 candidates from more than 21 African countries has rolled in the Merck Oncology Fellowship Program. The program will continue to build cancer care capability in African countries such as Botswana, Cameroon, CAR, Chad, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
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"Ghana has a population of about 26 million with a cancer rate of 109 per 100,000 people, and yet there is no single trained medical oncologist in the whole country. The duty of medical oncologist is handled by other specialties such as radiation oncologist, general surgeons, genitourinary surgeons, and haematologists among others. This makes the care of patients very difficult because these doctors are not formally trained in medical oncology." Says Nihad Salifu.
In addition, there are only three paediatric oncologists in the whole country, and our cancer cure rate is very low in children- it is about 20% when cure rates are approaching 80% in many developed parts of the world." Added Salifu.
Salifu is one of the first candidates of the Merck Africa Oncology Fellowship Program says," This huge human resource deficit in childhood cancer care is the main motivating factor for me applying to be considered for this training. I will benefit from this great opportunity being given to our country by Merck Foundation. The Merck Fellowship Program will add to the few paediatric oncologists in Ghana, to ease the workload, improve quality of patient care, add to the number of voices advocating for these patients and to the number of trainers of health workers delivering services including awareness creation. It will also strengthen the team effort in the area of research and improve the paediatric cancer registry."
Dr. Christina V. Malichewe
Adult Medical Oncology Fellow
"Cancer is a growing concern in Tanzania, and limited facilities and few healthcare providers against the high rising number of patients diagnosed at advanced stages pose a great challenge to a developing country like Tanzania. Unfortunately, there are only two medical oncologists in a country of approximately 50 million people, one studied in Italy and another in China. We need more specialized oncologists in this field. Thank you, Merck Foundation for starting this program!! However, it is only through unique opportunities such as the Merck Africa Oncology Fellowship Program we can make the needed change in our societies to improve patient access to cancer care." Christina Malichewe said.
Dr. Abdulkadir M, Ethiopia
"I am a faculty member of Addis Ababa University working at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital department of paediatrics and child health hemato-oncology unit. I am general paediatrician serving kids suffering from cancer with no additional formal training in paediatric oncology. Merck Africa Fellowship Program will help me to update and upgrade my knowledge and skill in Paediatric Oncology; this helps me to give the appropriate and improved quality of care to cancer patients and helps us to expand the service.
Ethiopia is a country with approximately 100 million population. Currently, the country has three oncologists that serve the stated population. As I am faculty in the university, it will help the country to improve training program by strengthening and expanding Paediatric oncology fellowship program; this will increase the number of paediatric oncologists and improve access for kids with cancer to get timely improved and appropriate care."
Dr. Alemayehu Natnael
Dr. Natnael said "Merck Africa Oncology Fellowship Program is a Golden path to tackle the growing challenge posed by Cancer in Africa. I was delighted to know about and to be part of the fellowship program on oncology that Merck Foundation is planning to give. By completing this fellowship program, I feel that I will not only further my career, but I will also be a critical asset to my country."
"My people are also in great need of Oncologists to address their sufferings. To your surprise, there is no oncologist, even a single one in southern part of Ethiopia with an estimated population of 18 million. For that matter, there are only three oncologists in Ethiopia for about 100 million population." He added
Dr. Natnael explained "Cancer care is not only about the expensive resources, but it is also about trained healthcare personnel capable of addressing prevention, early diagnosis, & treatment and able to provide palliative care to cancer patients. So human resource capacity building is a core in tackling the burden posed by cancer. With this regard, Merck Foundation already took the lion share in my country and the rest of Africa in general. "
Dr. Kabisa Mwala
Surgical Oncology Fellow
Dr. Kabisa introduced himself," I am a general surgeon deeply interested in Surgical Oncology because of my passion for helping patients ravaged by cancer especially, women with breast cancer. I have been participating in running a breast diagnostic clinic at our only Cancer Diseases Hospital (CDH) for the past three years now, with the last one year being run actively by myself. The offered surgical oncology fellowship position at Tata Memorial Hospital through the sponsorship of Merck Foundation will enhance my knowledge and skills in the field of surgical oncology to contribute better in managing patients seeking cancer care at our institution. Our Country has been training surgeons for some time now, but no specific surgical oncology training is available yet".
"This opportunity of training will greatly help in improving the oncologic services currently being offered in Zambia, contribute to in-house training for other surgeons interested in the field of oncology and participate in local and collaborative research to improve quality of cancer care. As such, Zambia will benefit from this much-needed skill and knowledge I will gain from this fellowship". He added.
Dr. Paul Kamfwa, Zambia
Gynaecologic Oncology Fellow
Dr. Paul Kamtwa told us" Merck Africa Oncology Fellowship Program is important for me because it will help me provide comprehensive and multidisciplinary care. The fellowship will help me to receive extensive surgical exposure to gynaecological procedures, chemotherapy and learn the new and advanced techniques of radiotherapy".
"For the patients, normally those who have the first contact with a gynaecologic oncologist have the optimal care in staging, surgery, chemo-radiotherapy and follow up and as such better outcomes. Currently, this is not the case, and the fellowship will bridge that gap. Patients will have a continuity of care since surgery and administering of chemoradiotherapy can be facilitated by the same specialist." he added.
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Devices designed for organizers and referees. Tripmeters with precise road measurements and the ability to create reports, as well as devices that judge in regularity rallies.
To organize rallies There are 4 products.
RC L-100 tripmeter is precise, light tripmeter essential functions of the measurement. Tripmeter is equipped with a clear display which also shows all the parameters. Support through 9 keys is intuitive and fast. The buttons are permanently assigned to the most important functions.
Rally computer odometer L-51 is a precise, lightweight odometer designed for rallies. Tripmeter is equipped with clear LED display digit height of 20 mm. It may contain routing waypoints. Housing does not provide protection against water.
Drogomierz Rally computer L-100 to precyzyjny, lekki drogomierz przeznaczony do drogownictwa. Z każdego wykonanego pomiaru powstaje w jego pamięci raport zawierający szczegółowe dane z pomiarów. Raport można przeglądać za pomocą przeglądarki internetowej lub wydrukować na drukarce. | {
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Guests' own check in at Naia Terminal 3, three hours before the flight. Arrive at Incheon International airport, meet airport representative and transfer to hotel for check in.
After hotel breakfast, visit Gyeongbokgung Palace, National Folk Museum and pass by the Blue House, visit Ginseng Center, Cosmetics & DFS, enjoy or watch Bipap or Nanta Show, free time shopping at Myeongdong market dinner enroute.
After hotel breakfast, checkout then experience Kimchi making and wearing of Hanbok, outside picture taking of N'Seoul Tower, Amethyst Factory, Raisin Tree Shop, transfer to airport via Korean food and souvenir supermarket with flight via 5J 189.
Rate is valid for PHILIPPINE PASSPORT HOLDERS only.
A non-refundable deposit of 400 usd is required to reserve the slot. Payment schedule available.
Depart Manila for Shanghai, meet the tour guide at the airport. Transfers to have lunch. Start of the city experience. Free shopping at The Town of God Temple-Chenghuangmiao Business Center, then visit Chinese Medicine. Try & enjoy a foot massage after shopping. At night, experience the Bund sightseeing platform. Dinner on your own. Try the street food in Shanghai then transfer back to hotel.
People's Square. Enjoy Lunch with Korean BBQ. Proceed to Nanjng Road Pedestrian, small train is included; for shopping. See the Pudong New Area and see the Shanghai Tower (from the outside only, photo stop). Dinner on your own. Transfer back to hotel.
After hotel breakfast, check out then transfer to Disneyland. Enjoy a full day in the happiest place on earth. No tour guide inside theme park. Lunch and Dinner by own. Guide will pick you up at the appointed time & transfer to airport.
Rates applicable for Filipino passport holders.
Book & Buy basis to confirm your slot.
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round trip ferry tickets (USD98/pax). Accommodation in Hong Kong.
Depart Manila for Singapore via 5J813/0530/0905, meet and transfer to hotel (check-in time is 1500).
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Upon arrival at Narita Airport, meet the tour guide and transfer hotel for check in.
After breakfast inside hotel, see Mt. Fuji. Enjoy Fuji Q Highland Theme park, Oshino Hakkai. Then take a refreshing Lake Ashi cruise then drop by at Gotembo Premium Outlet, Onsen.
After hotel breakfast, proceed to Tokyo city tour. Visit Asakusa Kannon Temple, Nakamise Shopping Street, outside picture taking of Tokyo Sky Tree and Imperial Palace, Ginza.
After breakfast, check out and assemble at the hotel lobby for group departure for flight back to Manila.
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Non refundable deposit of usd 400 per person to confirm your slot. Payment schedule available.
Arrival in Dubai International Airport Flight TBA Meet and Greet by Travco Airport representative at arrival hall Transfer from Airport to Selected Dubai hotel Check in at Hotel. Standard check in time is 15:00.
Breakfast at hotel Morning Free at Leisure Lunch on own arrangement Half Day Dubai City Tour (05 Hours max) Timings: 14:00 – 19:00 hrs Group will proceed for Cultural City tour which takes us to a variety of interesting and popular attractions in Dubai. We'll stop for photo at the Jumeirah Mosque – a magnificent example of Islamic architecture. Appreciate one of our modern era's most remarkable feats of engineering, Palm Island. Each settlement is in the shape of a palm tree, topped with a crescent, and has a large number of residential, leisure and entertainment centers. We then proceed to the Bastakia area – the oldest part of the city, where we'll see the Wind Towers which served as air-conditioners in bygone days. Next we'll visit the Dubai Museum housed in the 150- years old Al Fahidi Fort. In the Museum, we will see interesting artifacts, which throw light on Dubai's historical links with trading and the pearl diving. We then enjoy a ride across the famed Dubai creek in a local water taxi. which is called "Abra" to see the bustling activities on the waterfront and move on to the Deira side of Dubai. This will be followed by a visit to the aromatic Spice souq and the vast glittering Gold souq where you can buy exquisite gold jewelry at prices lower than in Europe.
Breakfast at hotel Am - Modern Dubai City with Burj Khalifa visit at the top (Observation Deck) (05 Hours). Depart from Hotel drive towards the Burj Al Arab (outside visit only), the luxury hotel built on a man made island, where you will pause for photographs. Appreciate one of our modern era's most remarkable feats of engineering, Palm Island. Each settlement is in the shape of a palm tree, topped with a crescent, and has a large number of residential, leisure and entertainment centers. Driving by the Dubai marina your journey will then continue Souk Al Bahar (market of the sailor), an Arabesque shopping mall and entertainment destination located in the heart of the prestigious Downtown Burj Khalifa, on the Old Town Island. The cultural theme flows throughout, with boutique shops showcasing the Arabian heritage through a mix of authentic handicrafts, fashion wear, perfumes, carpets and furnishings. Moving on to the Burj Khalifa – Visit the Observation Deck "At the Top" located on the 124th Floor of the tallest building in the world. Over 828 meters (2,716.5 feet) and more than 160 stories, Burj Khalifa holds many world records.
Miracle Garden is one of a kind in the region and in the world for such a unique display and extravagant outdoor recreational destination. The garden contains around 70 flower varieties and includes flower designs, structures and flower features. Transfer back to hotel. Lunch on own arrangement.
authentic Arabic ambiance. Here we relax in the clam and silence of the desert under the starlit sky, surrounded by majestic sand dunes, which seem to glow by the light of the setting sun. A sumptuous Arabian style BBQ of various succulent fresh meats and salads will be served. Transfer back to hotel and overnight. | {
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Elaeagnus conferta
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Elaeagnus conferta is a straggling, evergreen shrub, often climbing into other plants and growing up to 12 metres tall. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine. It is sometimes grown as a fruit crop in gardens and can also be used as a hedge.
1.1 Food
5.8 Nutritional components
11 Cultivation Details
Sores, Ulcers.[1]
Elaeagnus conferta can be used in Food. Ripe fruits are eaten raw or used as a preservative[2].
Fruit, Seed.
Kannada ಹಲಗೆ ಬಳ್ಳಿ Halage balli, ಹೆಜ್ಜಾಲ Hejjala
Malayalam Angolanga
Tamil Kurankup-palam
Marathi Amgul
English Bastard oleaster, Snake fruit
Nutritional components
Elaeagnus conferta Contains the Following nutritional components like - Vitamin-C; Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium[2]
Seeds, Cuttings of mature wood, Cuttings of half-ripe wood, Air Layering.
Succeeds in most soils that are well-drained. Prefers a soil that is only moderately fertile, succeeding in poor soils and in dry soils. This species is notably resistant to honey fungus[6]. Elaeagnus conferta is available through March-May[2].
Dense forests, Bamboo and mixed deciduous forests.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Forest food for Northern region of Western Ghats" by Dr. Mandar N. Datar and Dr. Anuradha S. Upadhye, Page No.72, Published by Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science (MACS) Agharkar Research Institute, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Road, Pune
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HBES 2022 Conference Awards
Three conference awards will be presented at the 2022 Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference: the New Investigator Award, which is awarded to a graduate student (or someone who defended their Ph.D. after HBES 2021), the Post-Doctoral Research Award, which is awarded to an individual who received their PhD within the past 5 years (no earlier than 2017), and the Best Poster Award, which is awarded to the individual who presented the best poster at the HBES conference.
To be eligible for the New Investigator or Post-Doctoral Awards, individuals must submit a manuscript corresponding with the abstract they have submitted for a talk. Your manuscript can have co-authors, but you must be the first author on the manuscript, and the manuscript must predominantly describe your own work. Note that the manuscript can be "in prep" (e.g., a pre-print), under review, or accepted for publication. A committee will review all eligible manuscripts and select three finalists for each award. These three finalists will give talks in a single session during the conference. Award winners will be selected based on these talks, and awards will be presented at the end of the conference. Note that individuals who submit as part of a symposium can also be considered for an award.
All posters will be eligible for the Best Poster Award. You need not contact us to be considered for the Best Poster Award.
Manuscripts should be submitted together with the abstract (there will be an option to upload the manuscript in the abstract submission form), and they must be received by March 13, 2022. Further questions regarding this procedure can be also directed to the conference organizers here.
Please note that HBES also will award Society Awards (Early Career Award, Lifetime Career Award, and the Margo Wilson Award) at the conference. More information about these awards can be found here. | {
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Q: Meaning of complex valued equilibria of ODE's In the study of differential equations, we often have to determine the equilibrium points of an ordinary differential equation (ODE). Let us assume we have the following differential equation
$$\dot{x} = x(x^2+1).$$
For an equilibrium point, we have to determine all the values $x_\text{eq}$ such that $\dot{x}_\text{eq}=0.$ The algebraic solutions for the given example are
$$x_{\text{eq};1} = 0$$
$$x_{\text{eq};2,3} = \pm i,$$
in which $i$ is the imaginary unit. From standard stability theory, we know that the first equilibrium is unstable. The other two equilibria are not investigated because they are not real. From a practical point of view, this makes sense.
But in the spirit of a quote from Einstein 'God does not play dice with the universe' I am not fully satisfied with the practical point of view.
I am interested in the theoretical meaning of these complex valued
equilibria. I do not (want to) believe that there is absolutely no
real relevance of these equilibria to the behaviour of the real system. I
am looking forward to inspiring and enlightening answers from our
clever MathStackExchange users :).
A: To answer in the context of your example, you can study your ODE either in the reals or in the complex plane.
In the first case, you are looking only at real equilibria so you only need to look for the real roots of $x(x^2+1)$. The local behaviour of this real equilibrium point is determined by... local data, namely the derivative of $x(x^2+1)$ at 0. No need to look further.
On the other hand, you can look at the complex valued ODE $\dot z= z(z^2+1)$. Then you will get the three equilibria you mentionned, including the complex ones $\pm i$. Since $z \mapsto z(z^2+1)$ is analytic, the solutions of the ODE will be analytic, so they can be viewed as holomorphic functions instead of just analytic functions from a real interval to $\mathbb C$. Then the complex derivative at the equilibria plays the same role as the real derivative for the local analysis.
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This trip involved spending a couple of weeks in Denmark before heading for Lithuania Latvia and Estonia via Germany and Poland. The plan involved heading up to Estonia fairly quickly and then slowly working our south and coming down through Poland Germany Belgium Holland and France to Calais and the Tunnel.
We had no great expectations about the Baltic States and so were very pleasantly surprised with what we found and had a wonderful trip.We were away for 58 days and spent about 900 euro on camping sites.We took DFDS ferry to Denmark and then Eurotunnel back to UK at the end of the trip.
Favourite beer nibbles: Parnu in Estonia, crispy potato skins with garlic mayo and something called grissini but like a pencil sized spring roll.
Favourite castle: Malbork in Poland.
Best beer: anywhere in Latvia Lithuania Poland Estonia where it is also reasonably priced.
Best bread: Poland & Germany, lots of variety in crustiness and flavour.
Most expensive coffee: in Aarhus Denmark, over 5 euro each.
Most extravagently decorated church: any Orthodox Church, they are all OTT and wonderful.
Beautiful moment: when our Lithuanian hitchhikers serenaded us with their beautiful voices and accompanying dulcimer.
This trip is all about visiting the Baltic States but of course this involves us first going through Germany and Poland.
In Germany we stopped only the once and we parked at the sports centre stellplätze in Lübeck which has 36 places, electricity, access to good toilets, all for €9, showers €1 for 5 minutes, and the sports centre even had flyers in English giving information on the stellplätze, the way into town, and the centre's menu. If only towns in Britain could match this sort of service to motorhomes. We were able to cycle the couple of miles into town, cycle lanes again.
Lübeck was the centre of the old Hanseatic League which was a group of trading ports around the North Sea that worked together for their mutual benefit and protection. It was formed in 13th century before there were functioning governments or national armies, it's been described as the NATO of its day. It was impressive too, it thwarted pirates and even formed an army that defeated the Danish King Valdemar. Kings Lynn in UK is the only British Hanseatic Port.
The books said that Lübeck was beautiful and it did not disappoint. Spectacular old buildings in splendid style – the town gates and the old herring-salting buildings were especially fine, and the cathedral tower had a lift (all those stairs are a bit knackering) with good views from the top.
And to top it all the city's food specialisation is marzipan and the two storey Niederegger store devoted to it, which went down well with us.
From Lübeck we took the motorway across Germany to Camping Marina in Szczecinjust over the Polish border. A lovely little site, with free and powerful wifi, grass pitches, a restaurant, log-cabin chalets and – as the name suggests – a marina. We found this site in the Camping Cheque book.
with two big beers. It became clear that with the campsite so quiet the restaurant opening times were, shall we say, a little flexible.
As there was a slipway into the marina a short distance away - we decided to try out the blow up kayak for the first time. It was then that we discovered that we had not brought the right pump – we needed the type that blows up airbeds, not the vehicle tyre type so instead we decided to go into Szczecin for a couple of hours.
Szczecin is another Hanseatic port. While it is part of Poland now it has been part of Germany and in the 17th century was overrun by Swedes.
Our trip into town involved a bus and a tram, the bus was so old that not only had the double glazing "blown" but there was a large amount of water in between the two plates of glass - all we needed were a few little fish and it would have made a nice miniature aquarium for the drunks on the back seat to enjoy. Having said that the next bus was very smart and the fare was very cheap.
Gdansk is another Hanseatic port and has had a very chequered history. After WW1 it became a free city governed by the League of Nations and it was badly damaged during WW2.
We stayed at Camping Stogi which we found in the big ACSI book. OK facilities but we were basically in a car park with very limited space, most of the site seems to be given over to permanent caravans. However there were toilets, showers and a washing machine. The saving grace was that it was next to the tram terminus (Zl3 per ticket) which took us straight into the wonderful old medieval city. The young girl in reception at the site was extremely helpful in selling us tickets but explaining where to go and where to get on and off the tram.
Gdansk old town is very extensive and is full ofexceptional streets, squares and buildings. It was such an impressive old town that it was surprising to discover that what we were seeing were restored buildings, bricks having come from Malbork (see below). Most of us know Gdansk because of the shipyards and Solidarity - sadly the shipyards are now defunct but the city is a real surprise and well worth a city break visit if you cannot come here for a longer visit. Lots of hotels, restaurants and bars as well as interesting architecture.
Highlights included the Green Gate, the Grand Mill (the largest industrial building in Europe at the time), the Crane (the largest port crane in Europe at the time), St Mary's Church (a knackering 400 steps to the top of the tower, but excellent views over the city), Dutch-style houses and a very fine old Town Hall. Of course, Gdansk is another Hanseatic port.
We got the tram back at the end of the afternoon but it broke down fairly quickly and that's when not speaking the language is an issue. We followed everyone else of the tram and began to walk towards the next tram stop. We opted to walk beside a very busy road rather than on the tramlines but then the next tram came along and we had a four foot wall between us and the tram station, this was a touch challenging for Sheila, those who know her may be surprised to note that she went over it like a mountain goat and got on the tram.
We saw Lech Walesa's office when in Gdansk and actually saw him in Tallinn , but not quick enough with the camera.
asked Sheila if we were going there, as this conversation was in German which Sheila does not speak the conversation was brief but Sheila looked it up and it is the site of an enormous complex of castles/fortified monastery built by the Teutonic Knights in the C13th and C14th. It has changed hands a few times over the years but is now firmly in Poland.
It is clearly a place of pilgrimage for Poland's schoolteachers because there were hundreds – perhaps thousands – of kids being herded around. It was very good value as well – Zl30 each to get in (€7.50) which included an audio guide. It is a huge and stunning piece of architecture, with some nicely evil metal men in the Middle Castle.
Again, this place was very badly damaged during WW2 but there has been extensive restoration since. There had been a cathedral within the complex but the bricks were taken to rebuild Gdansk and Warsaw after the war.
The campsite at Malbork was wonderfully located in a park next to a lake and only a few hundred yards from the Castle. On a post in the middle of the lake a (presumably female) BlackTern was waiting while her mate skimmed the water and brought her food.
Our final stop in Poland on this leg of our journey was at the Mazurian Lakes, a vast area covered by a lot of water. Despite our best intentions we settled down at Camping Elixir (Camping Cheque book) and did not stray at all. This was a poor effort on our part - you could spend a couple of weeks in this area as there is much to see and lots of campsites.
We had a most enthusiastic welcome from Elizabeth the site owner. She has excellent English having spent more than 20 years in England, and has a Scottish husband Tom. They were pleased to be able to speak English as once again there are not many British visitors.
They explained that the place was derelict when they bought it 10 years ago but it is looking good now and improvements continue.The kitchen was being refurbished while we stayed and the Soviet style showers and toilets are due to be attacked later this year.
We took the opportunity to relax here – the weather was good and we could get wifi, beer and a meal at the campsite and there was a washing machine too. We also took our new blow up kayak out for its first run and it worked fine except for slight sore hands which we hope we have fixed with a bit of pipe insulator on the paddle handles or by wearing cycling gloves.
The pump which we had to pick up at Decathlon as we forgot to bring the right one with us did the job of the blowing upthe whole boat – there are three main sections to inflate, plus two seats – it worked well and had plenty of puff left at the end. | {
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Westminster will act on Northern Ireland's strict abortion law, Penny Mordaunt
By Gavin Cordon, Whitehall Editor 3rd July 2019 News Northern IrelandAbortion, Courts / Justice, Government / Politics, Human Rights, News Northern Ireland, Pregnancy
Parliament will step in to change Northern Ireland's strict law on abortion if a court rules it is incompatible with individual human rights, Women and Equalities Minister Penny Mordaunt has said.
At a Tory leadership hustings in Belfast on Tuesday, both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt said they believed the issue should be a matter for the devolved authorities in Northern Ireland.
But with the Stormont institutions suspended since the collapse of powersharing in 2017, Ms Mordaunt (pictured) indicated that MPs at Westminster would act if the High Court in Belfast upheld a challenge to the current law.
Ms Mordaunt, who is also the Defence Secretary and a strong supporter of Mr Hunt, said the Commons Women and Equalities Committee had received "shocking" evidence about the lack of care available to women in the province seeking a termination.
"The reason why this hasn't been dealt with to date is because it is a devolved matter and we take devolution seriously," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"We are expecting a ruling shortly that what is going on in Northern Ireland is incompatible with an individual's human rights.
"In every single case where there has been a declaration of incompatibility with human rights, the Government has acted. This Government has acted, previous governments have acted.
"Parliament has been very vocal on this issue and, if a government didn't act, Parliament would and there would be clearly a free vote on that issue."
She added: "I think this needs to be resolved. I think the paucity of care that women have endured in Northern Ireland is the most appalling thing. It must change, that is my view."
At the hustings on Tuesday, Mr Hunt said he personally supported a change to the law but both he and Mr Johnson agreed it should ultimately be a matter for Stormont where the Tories' allies in the DUP strongly oppose change.
The current legal challenge has been brought by Sarah Ewart, 28, who in 2013 was denied an abortion in Northern Ireland after receiving a diagnosis of a fatal foetal abnormality.
Her case was brought after the Supreme Court ruled last year that Northern Ireland's abortion laws were in breach of human rights laws.
However, the court concluded that the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission – which brought the case – did not have the power to bring the proceedings as it was not itself a "victim" of any unlawful act.
Grainne Teggart, Amnesty International's Northern Ireland campaign manager, welcomed Ms Mordaunt's comments.
"The comments demonstrate the support within Cabinet for change and will act as a reminder to the next prime minister that the UK Government cannot ignore their responsibilities nor hide from the urgent need for reform," she said.
"Inaction and hiding behind devolution as justification for the denial of women's rights will not be accepted.
"Of course, we don't need to wait for a court judgment to tell us what we already know which is that the law in Northern Ireland violates rights, the next prime minister should prioritise bringing an end to the harm caused by our laws and legislate for change."
Sarah Ewart, who has brought a legal challenge to the High Court in Belfast after she was forced to travel to Britain for an abortion after her pregnancy was given a fatal foetal diagnosis, said she hopes government will listen to women like her.
"We shouldn't have to fight through the courts to have our rights realised," she said.
"Experiencing something as painful as I did and then having no option but to go through the ordeal of the courts is emotionally draining.
"Northern Ireland's archaic abortion laws have left women like me suffering for far too long.
"We met with Minister Mordaunt previously to discuss the situation in Northern Ireland and welcome her comments. We hope the Government listens to women like me who have called on Westminster to legislate. We will keep fighting, alongside Amnesty, until change happens."
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Meaning of Matriarchy
What is Matriarchy:
Matriarchy is called the type of society in which women have authority and leadership in various social, political, economic and family roles.
The word matriarchy derives from Latin master which means ʽmother' and, from the Greek archein which means "to govern".
Matriarchy should not be associated as the opposite situation to patriarchy, since researchers have not yet found sufficient evidence to affirm that a matriarchal society has existed or exists in which the male figure is under female dominance.
Matriarchy is characterized by representing matrilineal or matrilocal tendencies, in which women have a certain preponderance of authority over men, in different matters of importance.
Matriarchy: matrilineage and matrilocality
Matriarchy is characterized by combining aspects of the social organizations imposed by matrilineage and matrilocality.
Matrilineage
Matrilineage is a type of social organization that, from the anthropological and sociological perspective, the descent is established from the maternal line.
That is, the lineage system starts from the female figure, the children are identified from the mother and, the properties and inheritances are inherited by the woman. This type of organization still exists in various social groups.
Matrilocality
For its part, matrilocality is known as those social organizations in which the woman has authority in domestic relations. Likewise, it is the husband who must join the wife's family and not the other way around.
Origin of the matriarchy
A large number of investigations have been carried out by specialists in order to establish the origin of matriarchy, many have agreed that this type of organization predates patriarchy and corresponds to a primitive social order established, specifically, in culture western.
This hypothesis arises from data collected from ancient rites and myths, in which the importance of the figure of the mother in society is highlighted, for example, Mother Earth or Mother Goddess as a source of life, to the that he was worshiped.
Matriarchy characteristics
The following are the main characteristics of the matriarchy.
Women have power and leadership in various political, social, family, economic, and religious roles.
Women can make important decisions and command others.
The female figure does not prevail over the male figure.
The main figure of the family is the woman.
It is presumed that it developed during prehistory.
The figure of the woman is revered for the possibility of giving life.
Women can have multiple partners.
The woman is the person in charge of managing food, work, money and space.
Matriarchy and patriarchy
Matriarchy is not the opposite of patriarchy, both are two different terms but they are associated, especially when it comes to power and leadership.
Patriarchy refers to the dominance and authority that the male figure has over a social organization, generating an imbalance of power and discrimination, especially towards women and children.
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As projects get bigger, you probably start organizing them items into folders. This makes keeping track of your project easier but it can also make some things more difficult to find. For example, when you are examining a canvas subclass, a container control or a webdialog on a layout and need to look at the original project item digging through your project to find it can be time-consuming.
Fortunately, there's an easier way. Just right-click on the item on the layout (or in the tray in the case of web dialogs) and choose "Edit Super Class" from the contextual menu. This will take you right to the parent item which is its super class.
If you haven't spent much time investigating the various contextual menus, it's worth the effort. There are several great shortcuts in them.
This is fine until you using NameSpaces. Then this method fails. Same thing with AutoComplete on NameSpace objects/methods.
Hopefully this will be much better in the new IDE. Seriously, the current implementation is flawed for NameSpaces.
That's nice, thanks for posting.
However, the Apple HIG state there should be no contextual menu commands that are not also available from elsewhere (like in the menu bar). And, this time, I tend to agree with them: a contextual menu isn't the first place where I look for commands, it's more the place where I expect to have shortcuts for things I was doing slower until then. | {
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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Volume XII
Field Missions of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace:
The Gherardi Mission to Germany (Documents 1-32)
The Second Dresel Mission to Germany1 (Documents 33-44)
Military Intelligence Reports on Political Conditions in Germany (Document 45)
The Greene Mission to the Baltic Provinces1 (Documents 46-74)
Visit of Mr. Hugh Gibson to Countries of the Former Austro-Hungarian Empire (Document 75)
The Coolidge Mission:1 (Documents 76-192)
German Austria (Documents 76-106)
Czechoslovakia (Documents 107-128)
Poland (Documents 129-131)
Hungary (Documents 132-169)
Jugoslavia (Documents 170-178)
Boundary in Carinthia between German Austria and Jugoslavia (Documents 179-188)
Termination of the Coolidge Mission (Documents 189-192)
The Halstead Mission: (Documents 193-255)
German Austria (Documents 193-234)
The Bandholtz Mission to Hungary (Documents 256-368)
Mission of Lieutenant Colonel Sherman Miles to Montenegro (Documents 369-374)
The American Section of the International Commission on Mandates in Turkey (The King–Crane Commission) (Documents 375-381)
For reports by the first Dresel Mission to Germany, see vol. ii, pp. 130 ff.↩
Additional information regarding conditions in the Baltic Provinces, including some reports from the Greene Mission not here printed, may be found in Foreign Relations, 1919, Russia, pp. 666 ff. and The Baltic Provinces: Report of the Mission to Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, and Lithuania on the Situation in the Baltic Provinces, by Robert Hale (Senate Document No. 105, 66th Cong., 1st sess.).↩
For previous correspondence concerning the Coolidge Mission, see vol. ii, pp. 218 ff.↩
The Paris Peace Conference, 1919
List of Papers
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By Tom Smith
South Pittsburgh Reporter Editor
Come down, have fun, and be safe in S.S. for St. Paddy Parade Day
Last updated 3/12/2020 at 10:46am
"You can come to the South Side and you can enjoy everything the South Side has to offer and you can leave one thing behind and that's your vehicle," was the message District 3 councilman Bruce Kraus wanted to get out in his St. Patrick's Parade Day transportation and cleanliness briefing.
The transportation and cleanliness strategy for St. Patrick's Parade Day (Saturday, March 14), now in its fourth year, has resulted in a decrease in negative calls to his office following the annual celebration. Last year, he said there wasn't a single negative call to his office.
At the heart of the plan is to get people to leave their cars at home and take public transportation, use ride share companies or park off-site and take advantage of free parking and a free shuttle.
Allison Harden, nighttime economy manager for the City of Pittsburgh, added the impact of the nighttime economy of South Side alone is $214 M and the city has been working with local businesses to be prepared. "We all have a role in safety."
People coming into town for the parade or to celebrate in South Side afterward are being encouraged to park at the Second Avenue Parking Plaza next to the 10th Street Bridge for free. The 800 plus spaces will be available at no charge all day Saturday up until noon on Sunday for those who choose to leave their cars and pick them up the next day.
Beginning at 5 a.m. on Saturday morning and extending until 5 a.m. Sunday morning, the free NiteRider shuttle will travel from the Second Avenue Parking Plaza, to the First Avenue T-Station and then over to South Side and back again. The Port Authority will be running two-car trains and adding extra buses for Parade Day.
In South Side, shuttle stops will be at 12th and Bedford Square, S.18th and Sidney streets and S.21st and E. Carson streets before heading back to the Second Avenue lot utilizing side streets to avoid traffic. A second shuttle will operate from 2 p.m. until 2 a.m.
A live tracker will be available on Parade Day for the South Side NiteRider at: http://www.ssniterider.com. The free shuttle service is being provided for through a grant from Highmark.
Adam Brandolph, Port Authority spokesman, cautioned bus and T service typically ends between midnight and 1:30 a.m. so riders should plan accordingly.
Parking will be enforced at Parking Authority lots, metered on-street spaces and in the neighborhood Residential Permit Parking Program areas. Because Parade Day is a Saturday, parking meters will be enforced from 8 a.m. to midnight as part of the Parking Enhancement District (PED) in South Side.
As in past years, about $4,000 in PED funding will be used for 40 portable toilets at the five Parking Authority surface lots in South Side. Each lot will have eight of the portable toilets including ADA accessible toilets.
The portable toilets will be serviced about halfway through the day. Last year, more than 7,500 gallons of waste was collected.
As far as keeping the streets clean, a combination of city services and the South Side Clean Team will be working to keep South Side clean. The two-person Clean Team provided through Block-By-Block and paid for annually with PED funding will be out during the day on E. Carson on Saturday.
As festivities are winding down, City of Pittsburgh Public Works employees will be out sweeping the sidewalks and operating street sweepers in the wee hours of the morning. On Sunday, the Clean Team will focus on the residential streets between Sarah and Sidney.
Councilman Kraus said about 20,000 are expected in South Side on Parade Day, but that number could go up or down depending on a number of factors including the weather.
"It's a wonderful day and we want people to come out and have a lot of fun, and we encourage that," he said. "We want people to come out and enjoy everything the South Side has to offer. We're just asking for them to act responsibly."
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Real Low Vibe
December's Here: My One Birthday and Christmas Wish
Photo by Bob Gruen
Happy December, my dear friends!
With the world events of the past several weeks, celebrating anything right now is uncomfortable at best. Maybe some of you are feeling something similar? I'm making a sincere request and hope you can help me, and in turn help some others who need us.
With my birthday and Christmas arriving this month, some of you may be planning to buy me a gift. First, thank you! That is incredibly kind. May I ask that instead of buying me something, would you please donate that money instead? Or, if you adore shopping, could you please donate what you've purchased to a cause that you love? Or, if you can, donate your time. Any of these would mean the world to me, and would help restore some of the magic to the season that I remember as a little kid.
All I ask is that you let me know where you donated, and tell me a story about why it is important to you – write, call, tell me in person, whatever works best for you. In doing so, you'll reaffirm that humans are generous, kind, optimistic, that we can and do still help each other. I need that reminder now more than ever; it would be a divine gift to receive, being able to read/hear/remember all those stories of generosity from you throughout the year to come.
I'm including links to some of my absolute favorite organizations below; feel free to help them, or pick a place you love and give them money or your time as a volunteer. That could be a food bank, a pet rescue, a homelessness assistance group, a kids' toy drive – anything that inspires you. Any physical gifts I receive in person will be donated to a charity that needs them.
My love and eternal thanks to each and every one of you. I am beyond lucky to have you in my life. I do hope that if you're free, you'll come join me on my birthday December 16th at 8pm for a bite to eat or a fine adult beverage at Hotel Albatross and then later Hattie's Hat in wonderful Ballard, WA. (Contact me if you'd like more details on this.)
Some of my favorite organizations:
Sweet Stuff Foundation – This is Josh Homme's charity, with a special fund in remembrance of the victims of the attack at the Bataclan, to support their families.
White Center Food Bank – I am a vocal, longtime supporter of this food bank.
The Vera Project – Anyone who helps kids hear, learn about and work with music is a hero to me; I know the difference music makes.
Senior Services – They help senior citizens in every imaginable way, including transportation, activities, groceries and food for pets, home repair and much more.
Backstreet Cultural Museum – This museum preserves and teaches us about essential elements of New Orleans culture, including Mardi Gras Indians, social aid and pleasure clubs, and more. They're having a tough year, so every little bit helps.
Furry Faces Foundation – This West Seattle group has helped more than a few friends and neighbors, and can always use your help to do more.
Planned Parenthood – Ensuring that men and women are able to get affordable, basic healthcare is essential to me.
The Good Samaritan Society in Fennimore, WI – The team at the Good Same took extraordinary care of my Nana through the past several years until her passing this fall. She loved them and help them for many years, and any money given would honor her, which would mean the world to me.
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Tagged as birthday, Christmas, we're here to help each other
Wanted: A Worldwide Second Line
"I don't know what to do!"
"Just follow the music."
While listening to the live broadcast of Allen Toussaint's funeral this morning (thank you, WWOZ), I heard the exchange above. More specifically, it happened during a video feed as the memorial ended and the mourners and musicians filled the street outside the Orpheum for the second line. Someone near the camera didn't know what was happening, where to go, and someone far more familiar with the tradition told them what was next – just dance and stroll, following the band and the music, wherever they might lead.
When someone passes on, everything stops. We cry, we share the news, we plan, but that time is quiet, still, internal. The memorial service comes, and we solemnly honor and send the departed on ahead into the great beyond. In New Orleans, after that respite, comes the second line. As the memorial service ends, the music lifts the mourners back up and carries them forward into the streets, celebrating the life of the person who is gone and reminding everyone that our lives, though finite, still continue. It is the vibrant, funky, literal manifestation of "a time to mourn and a time to dance." Balance is restored; like music, life pauses and it continues, over and over.
A week ago today, the music was violently, hatefully stopped at the Bataclan in Paris. Too many lives stopped along with that music. There aren't adequate words in this world to describe the horror of losing every single one of those people. They were my people. I'd only met one of them, but I know for certain that they understood life – that there is a necessary balance to it, and that we're all in it together. I know this because they chose to attend a concert. In a world where we are increasingly detached and isolated from each other, dependent upon the cool glow of technological advances for communication, these concertgoers made their way to the packed, raucous Bataclan. They knew that a digital file is only a faint shadow of live performance. They also knew that while less convenient than staying at home and spinning the record instead (or watching via Periscope), going to a concert is one of the few places one can be enveloped by something bigger. Sharing a room with people they'd never met, bonding over the music played by a band they all loved was essential. They knew being in the crowd at a concert means that, for a short time, you need not feel alone or be the odd person out. You are part of a community. You are connected, welcome, inspired, transcending all that weighs you down. You are sweaty, human, and you are so very alive.
I wish the troglodytes who committed these despicable crimes had experienced this sense of concert community at least once in their lives. If they'd felt that connection once, they couldn't have stopped themselves from returning again and again, to feel part of something, to better understand the people fumbling their way through this world with them. If they'd been fortunate enough to have a song grab them by the elbow to walk them through their darkest days, to lift their chins so that they could see a clearer path to a better lives, to open their minds and hearts to the notion that being a human is bullshit and beauty and complexity inextricably entwined, they could not have done this.
Instead, here we are. We've lost so many fellow humans this week in France, Lebanon, Nigeria, and again today in Mali. Save a sudden and miraculous discovery, we'll probably lose more of us like this in the weeks/months/years to come. Fear is natural and understandable. That said, being scared is only the first reaction we're meant to have when something horrid happens; we're not meant to stay afraid, to wallow in it. The endless flood of vitriol that consumed this week and continues now is all based in fear; the needle's stuck for too many people, leaving them only capable of repeatedly screeching their hatred like a scratched record. ENOUGH.
It's time to step beyond fear. Accept grief. Feel grateful for those who survived. Stand in awe of those who rushed in to help. Contemplate what's happened, is happening and will happen. Be angry. Ponder the "if only" situations that continue roll through our minds. Be angry some more. Recognize the messy, inconvenient, glorious state of being human that we all share. Let the anger go. Remember and honor those we've lost and send them on their way.
We need a second line for the whole world right now. Let's figure out how to do that together. The first step: stroll outside and back into the world. We're all heading out into the street, whether we like each other or not, and we have to move together. Listen. Just follow the music.
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Last Night's Show: Tommy Stinson at the Turf Club
Tommy Stinson and his stellar band take the encore costume change to a whole new level during their show at the Turf Club on Saturday, September 12, 2015. Photo credit: RealLowVibe
Here's my shoddy video of "Come to Hide" from the show at the Turf Club. More thoughts on the St. Paul and Milwaukee shows to come…
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New Music from Deerhunter!
Here's the new single "Snakeskin" from Deerhunter's upcoming album Fading Frontier, out October 16th. It's fantastic to have you back again, gentlemen!
Head over to the official website to sign up for all the latest updates, and visit 4AD's post to see a full list of this fall's European tour dates and album details.
Last Night's Show: John Doe and Jesse Dayton at the Triple Door
The divine Mr. John Doe, backed by Cindy Wasserman and Jesse Dayton and his Hardchargers played a raucous, gorgeous set last night at the Triple Door.
Dayton and the Hardchargers opened the night with their own set, sounding as ferociously lean as they always have. Gentlemen, get back here early and often, will you?
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Last Night's Show: Supersuckers and Two Cow Garage at the Tractor
As one can expect at a Supersuckers show, the Tractor was full of flying fingers and horned hands, with a little extra positive energy thrown into the mix as Eddie and the boys played one last show before taking a break for Mr. Spaghetti to begin cancer treatments. A not-so-gentle reminder: you can help he and his fantastic family RIGHT HERE. Do it, NOW. Please. Thank you!
The Supersuckers, with special guests Ed Vedder and Blind Marky Felchtone covered The Ramones' "I Believe In Miracles" – the perfect song for such an auspicious night. There was an actual encore, above and beyond the usual Supersuckers Rock and Roll Encore, during which Mr. Spaghetti played his cover of You Am I's gorgeous "Heavy Heart", before the whole band returned for a bittersweet singalong of "Killer Weed".
The kickass Two Cow Garage returned to town to open the night and they set the mood perfectly. Here's hoping they come back again for headlining set soon. Safe travels, gentlemen!
Tagged as Fuck Cancer, Supersuckers
Ticket Alert: Eagles of Death Metal Are Returning to Seattle
Ladies to the front, mens to the back: after an agonizing wait, the Eagles of Death Metal are finally returning to Seattle! They announced today that they'll play the Showbox Market on Wednesday, September 2, 2015. Tickets for this momentously sexy show go on sale this Friday, June 19th at 10 a.m. right over here.
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June 9, 2015 · 3:31 pm
Macefield Music Festival 2015 Initial Artists Announced
The initial artists playing this year's Macefield Music Festival were released this morning, and you can't say I didn't warn you; they are impressive! Those artists include: Mr. Mark Lanegan, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Thunderpussy, Prom Queen, Blood Drugs and Future Shock. And of course, more will be announced as we wander our way through summer.
You can learn more about the festival here, and Early Bird passes are now available here.
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Tagged as macefield music festival, music festivals
Sunday Songs: Cigarettes and Coffee by Otis Redding
Today, as on countless other Sunday mornings, I'm listening to Mr. Otis Redding. The sheer life force of That Voice, buoyed and swung by Dunn, Jackson Jr. and Cropper is the closest to heaven on Earth that I believe exists.
"Coffee and Cigarettes" is my favorite Otis song, period. I play it more often and feel it more deeply than any other. There's something about spinning it on a Sunday morning that gives it a little extra weary glow and grit all at once. It feels like 3am early on a Sunday morning, after a raucous Saturday night show, when the usual fun has been had and contentment sets in. There's nothing post-show hazy about what's felt here. It's a crystal clear realization that satisfaction is simple: I've got you, you've got me, we've got each other. That's worth more than anything. Being able to finally sit, doing things as simple as smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee together with that one particular person that you've been waiting to find for longer than you can remember, that's the rare, valuable thing. There's plenty of time for going out to swanky dinners, crazy parties, loud shows; together, alone, satisfied is a harder to do, but infinitely better.
When I'm feeling particularly lost or alone, this is the song that reminds what I should be keeping an eye out for; I'll know I've found the right guy when it happens, because this song taught me exactly how that moment should feel. Thank you for the constant reminder, gentlemen.
I'm going to make some more coffee and flip the record. I hope your Sunday is gorgeous, and that you listen to all the songs that make you smile and shake your ass. Share your own Sunday songs in the comments, will you? I'm always looking for new ones to add to my rotation.
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Last Night's Show: Hamilton Leithauser at the Tractor Tavern
Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer for the on-indefinite-hiatus Walkmen, brought his solo tour back to Seattle last night, playing the Tractor Tavern in Ballard. While the set focused on songs from his debut solo record Black Hours, it also included two new songs featuring only he and Walkmen band mate guitarist Paul Maroon. Leithauser noted that a few weeks ago, he and Maroon completed a record together that will be released later this year. Hearing them play together again was glorious!
New York duo Jack & Eliza opened the night with an energetic set; they are an act with huge potential that I suspect we'll be hearing more about in the next few years.
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Mixing business and pleasure is what M for Montreal is all about, according to the festival's head programmer Mikey Bernard.
His function, as he sees it, is part local-scene cheerleader and part "M for Matchmaker" — matching bands from Montreal with international delegates that may book or sign them.
But for the music fans that come out to see some of the 100+ bands playing Montreal's small local venues over four days and nights, M is more than a series of industry showcases — it's a gift for fans of the local scene, as well as an opportunity to catch a carefully chosen batch of international acts that makes up roughly 20 per cent of the program.
As a "West Coast kid" (Bernard is half Québécois and grew up in California), Bernard has always been a fan of hip hop as well as indie rock, and while he bemoans the fact that the Montreal anglo rap scene isn't getting the respect it deserves, he feels that the recent surge in rap-Queb is as exciting as the indie scene explosion of 2005.
This year's program represents the shift more than ever. Over its 13 years, M for Montreal has increasingly shown support to local hip hop in both languages, and Thursday's show at Club Soda will allow anglo and francophone audiences to mingle: Rouyn Noranda born-and-raised anglo rapper Zach Zoya (who appeared on the cover of Cult MTL this month — see our interview with him here) will perform alongside his Disques 7ème Ciel labelmate Fouki and fellow local Rowjay — both of whom rap in French.
When asked what local acts on the program he's most excited about, Bernard cites West Island rapper Maky Lavender —who's playing M's Ghostclub Records showcase at le Belmont on Friday, Nov. 16 and also opening for Lou Phelps on Nov. 9 and Shad on Nov. 23 — as well as psych/indie rock band Pottery, who play Casa del Popolo on Saturday. "To me those are the freshest kids on the block right now — I'm in love with them," he says. But Bernard is equally excited about the international side of the line-up.
See the complete M for Montreal schedule and ticket info here.
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2014 was a record year for post-trial exonerations
Criminal justice is an oxymoron, but sometimes the legal system gets it right. Unfortunately, getting it right often does not happen until after the case is over.
In the better-late-than-never category, Mother Jones is reporting,
In 2014, 125 people across the United States who had been convicted of crimes were exonerated—the highest number ever recorded,according to a new report from the National Regestry of Exonerations at the University of Michigan Law School. The 2014 number included 48 who had been convicted of homicide, 6 of whom were on death row awaiting execution. Ricky Jackson of Ohio spent 39 years behind bars, the longest known prison term for an exoneree, according to the NRE. Jackson was sentenced to death in 1975 after false testimony implicated him in a robbery-murder he did not commit. Texas led the nation with 39 exonerations; it is followed by New York (17), Illinois (7), and Michigan (7). The federal government exonerated eight people.
Most of these post trial exonerations were obtained by so-called conviction integrity units (CIUs) created and staffed by prosecutors. There are 15 now in existence with more to come.
The Harris County CIU, which encompasses Houston, is responsible for 33 of last year's exonerations. In early 2014, it reviewed drug cases it had prosecuted after learning that many people who had pled guilty to possession had not, in fact, possessed actual drugs. The Harris CIU's findings reflected another trend: 58 exonerations this year, nearly half of the total, were so-called "no-crime exonerations," which means, according to the NRE, "an accident or a suicide was mistaken for a crime, or…the exoneree was accused of a fabricated crime that never happened."
Channel 5 News in Cleveland reports,
In Baltimore, the State's Attorney's office helped vacate the conviction of a man 46 years after he was convicted of murder. In Cleveland, three men convicted of a 1975 murder they didn't commit were cleared, setting a new record of time behind bars for an exoneree: 39 years, 3 months 9 days. In Tulsa, DNA testing showed a mother hadn't killed her 15-month-old baby, leading prosecutors to dismiss charges after nearly 20 years. And in Detroit, a man was released after police got a tip that the wrong person had been convicted in a 2006 murder.
Now we need to improve on getting it right the first time.
But if you're black, you better not count on it because, if you call 911 seeking help, you are apt to get killed.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Developing Dilemma
A fascinating issue is emerging during jury selection in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial.* The vast majority of the prospective jurors who have been questioned believe he is guilty. A few have expressed doubt regarding his role and responsibility, but not about his participation in the bombing. Under ordinary circumstances that would be terrible news for the defense and good news for the government.
Nevertheless, the government has a problem.
Very few of the prospective jurors believe in the death penalty.
That's good news for the defense and bad news for the government because only the defendant can move for a change of venue. He is not likely to do that because opposition to the death penalty is highest in the Boston area.
The Sixth Amendment provides in pertinent part,
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed . . .
Since Tsarnaev has a right to be tried in the Eastern District of Massachusetts, the government lacks standing to move for a change of venue and the Court has no authority to order it.
Quite the dilemma. Boston is the last place on the planet where the defense would like to try the guilt/innocence phase of this case, but Boston probably is the first place where they would want to conduct the penalty phase.
I'll bet they will stay in Boston and not renew their motion for a change of venue.
Crane-Station adds:
Some of the thoughtful and interesting answers given summarized in this article:
Here's How Possible Boston Bombing Jurors Feel About The Death Penalty
Juror 9:
Asked twice if he could impose the death penalty, he said, "I'm committed against it."
Juror 10:
"There is no way in modern America today that I'm going to vote for the death penalty. I will not."
"This whole process made me more religious. I just can't agree with the death penalty."
"I just think killing another man is wrong. And I would be one of the members doing it. I just can't kill another person."
"I would rather do the life imprisonment. I'm against the death penalty. It would have to be as personal as my child. I could not pass on the death penalty."
"I would leave myself open to persuasion, but I would be disinclined."
He said the death penalty is "cruel and unusual."
"Here's the thing. This was a horrendous crime — hundreds, thousands affected. The magnitude was significant. At the same time, I do have reservations about the death penalty as a policy."
"The age of the defendant has some weight in my mind. The defendant was 19 when the crime was committed. I look at that as a mitigating circumstance."
"I would have a difficult time [voting for the death penalty]. Let's put it this way: It would go against my judgment that the death penalty is a good idea for society. My personal belief is that the death penalty serves no constructive purpose."
On could he vote for the death penalty, "If there were societal risks, I would say…possibly? It would have to be pretty compelling."
"I think it's something I would struggle with. I'm not sure I have the personal constitution to participate in someone's death."
Asked if she could conceive a situation "so disturbing or morally repugnant" enough to impose the death penalty, she said, "Pretty sure. No."
"I don't object to the death penalty itself. But I could never decide somebody's fate like that."
"I don't feel that it's up to me to make that decision to take somebody's life."
"It is not a logical punishment for any crime. It costs the state more. It carries the burden of being irreversible if the person is found not guilty afterwards. It's proved not to be a deterrent."
When asked if he could conscientiously vote to impose death: "I think it would be difficult for me, but honestly I think I could."
"I'm completely opposed to it."
Asked if she could conceive of any case that would be so shocking that it would change your mind, she said, "No."
"Theoretically, I believe in the death penalty. It becomes very different when you're looking at you making the decision."
"I think more often than not I am opposed to the death penalty … I'd have more difficulty voting for it, but I believe I could do it."
"I don't believe in an eye for eye justice."
"Government shouldn't impose the ultimate penalty."
"When someone does a heinous crime, you don't do the same thing back."
"Upon reflection, I strongly oppose the death penalty. I think my answer would be he should not receive the death penalty."
Juror 102:
"I have no view either way. I am really in the middle. I would have to hear everything and make an educated decision."
"I was surprised that the death penalty was on the table."
*I have been following Jim Armstrong on Twitter. He is covering jury selection for WBZ in Boston.
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Never. Give. Up.
Today we celebrate the Reverend Martin Luther King's birthday. He never gave up, no matter the odds, the threats, the assaults, the murders. Although his voice was silenced by a coward's bullet, his spirit lives on and in the end,
We Shall Overcome.
No matter what it takes. No matter how long it takes.
Yesterday, I witnessed what can happen when people refuse to quit.
Jerry Brewer of the Seattle Times describes what spirit and heart can accomplish.
For this one, injured Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman had to play the closing minutes with one arm.
For this one, punter Jon Ryan had to throw a touchdown pass to backup tackle Garry Gilliam, and Chris Matthews, a practice-squad player for most of the season, had to recover an onside kick.
For this one, to win the most trying game in a most trying season, the Seahawks defense had to counteract five turnovers, and Marshawn Lynch had to make CenturyLink Field tremble again, and Luke Willson had to catch Russell Wilson's rainbow miracle of a two-point conversion.
And at the end, for the Seahawks to return to the Super Bowl, Wilson had to throw deep to Jermaine Kearse — a futile connection on this day — ignoring that all four of his interceptions occurred while targeting Kearse, including two picks that went through the wide receiver's hands.
Kearse caught it. Later, Kearse wept. Wilson did, too. In an NFC Championship Game that felt like a replay of the Seahawks' entire, strenuous season, Seattle had staged an amazing comeback that embodies the redemptive charm of this team.
The Seahawks outlasted Green Bay in a 28-22 overtime thriller, overcoming a game opponent as well as their own mistakes. It was an ideal Super Bowl encore for this team, an accomplishment that defines its toughness and determination.
The Seahawks were down 16-0 at halftime. The deficit was still 12 with less than three minutes remaining. And then the miracles started happening. Or rather, the Seahawks were rewarded for refusing to quit.
"No matter what you do to us, no matter how hard the pressure gets, no matter what you throw at us — no matter what happens — we bend, but we don't break," Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor said.
Take heart. If they can do it, we can do it.
Remember these words.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning: "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California.
But not only that.
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
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Tsarnaev Voir Dire: This is my friend Dzhokhar
Voir dire (to question) is underway. The video is an interview of Ted Wayman, a former WBZ News anchor in Boston who was summoned for jury duty in the Tsarnaev case and excused because of his substantial job related contacts with Judge O'Toole, federal prosecutors and law enforcement officers who will be testifying at the trial. The interview was conducted by Adam Reilly, a reporter for Greater Boston.
Q: What did you make of his demeanor, when he came in? Were you watching him closely?
A: Everybody, all eyes, once he came in, were on him, like almost gasped within the courtroom. Oh my gosh! That's the defendant. Uhm, unresponsive. Really uninterested in the whole process. Had very little contact with his defense team. He was sitting in the middle of them. Uhm, really didn't look at the jury pool. Didn't look at the media that was there. Didn't look at the judge when he addressed the defendant. He was uninterested in the whole process.
This is a terrible way for the defense to start jury selection. First impressions matter, a lot, and if I were a member of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense team, I would be extremely concerned about the ability of the rest of the 200 or so prospective jurors, who witnessed that not-so-grand entry, to be fair and impartial jurors.
Another tell is Wayman's reference to Dzhokhar as 'the defendant.' He's not thinking of him as a person; he's thinking of him as a thing. That means he has already decided that Dzhokhar is guilty. Fortunately for the defense, they will not have to use a peremptory challenge to get rid of him.
I always made a point of humanizing my client throughout the trial by referring to him by his first name, touching him, and conversing with him in an effort to provoke a smile. At almost every moment of a trial, at least one juror will be watching the client. Trials are a form of theater. Nonverbal conduct is a form of testimony. Most jurors can detect insincerity. Therefore, the lawyer must avoid scripting the client's behavior and instead provoke the desired genuine response with the right word or gesture at the right time. This skill is not taught in law school and cannot be found in a book. Yet, if performed at the right time in the right way, it can make the difference between a conviction and an acquittal or a life sentence and a death sentence.
The defense team apparently discovered the problem because reporters observing voir dire today have tweeted that Dzhokhar appears relaxed, engaged with the process and communicating with his attorneys. For example,
O'Ryan Johnson @crimeboston 3h3 hours ago
Dzhokhar shares a laugh at the defense table with Def. Lawyer Miriam Conrad. Tsarnaev wearing open collar shirt, blazer. He's relaxed,chatty
Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
I am a pool reporter* for this session of #Tsarnaev jury selection. He just re-entered from lunch, says hello to lawyers by name.
*Today is the second day of voir dire. The reporters were segregated yesterday in a room watching a live feed video of voir dire. Technical difficulties resulted in a change in procedure. Two reporters are now permitted in the courtroom to report on the proceedings. They share their work product with the other reporters outside the courtroom and are replaced by another two reporters and so on per each session.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Opening Statements
I write today about the purpose of an opening statement in a jury trial in a criminal case and distinguish it from a closing argument, which I regard to be considerably less important. Generally speaking, if a defendant's lawyer has failed to persuade jurors that a reasonable doubt exists before closing arguments, nothing the lawyer says during closing argument is going to prevent a guilty verdict.
After a jury has been selected and sworn, the lawyers have an opportunity to preview their respective cases for the jury. We call this opportunity the opening statements of counsel. Notice that I use the word 'statement,' rather than the word 'argument.' A statement is a description of the evidence that will be introduced during the trial. An argument is an interpretation of the significance of that evidence. When lawyers give their final arguments, after the evidence has been admitted and both sides have rested, they are summarizing their respective cases and attempting to persuade the jury to either return a verdict of guilty (prosecutor) or not guilty (defense).
Most lawyers believe closing arguments are the most important part of a trial. I disagree because, in my experience, jurors have already formed an opinion about the guilt or innocence of the accused before closing arguments. If a lawyer fails to take care of business during the evidentiary part of the case, they are not going to be able to change juror's opinions no matter how persuasive they believe they can be.
As I've said many times, jury selection is the most important part of the trial because lawyers are selecting the people who will decide the case. Select the wrong people and there will be little to no chance of winning. Opening statements come in a close second because that is the first time that a lawyer can tell the jury about his case.
Since prosecutors have the burden of proof, they go first. Opening statements by prosecutors are like road maps with many sentences that begin with this phrase, 'We expect the evidence will show that this defendant (fill in the blank). You will hear from witnesses who were present when he did it and they will tell you what he did. If done properly, everyone in the jury box will think the defendant is guilty.
Although the defense is not required to give an opening statement, only an incompetent fool would reserve or waive it. Particularly in a lengthy and complex case like the Boston Marathon Bombing case, the prosecution may take several months to put on their case. Defense has to say something to persuade jurors to reserve judgment until the case is over. This requires focusing their attention on weaknesses in the case.
We will get a much better idea about the strength of the government's case when they give their opening statement. We will also be able to tell what the defense will be.
Opening statements should happen sometime during the first two weeks of February.
FYI: Judge O'Toole denied a new defense motion for a continuance of the trial based on the extensive publicity about the Paris terrorist attacks, which they claimed might adversely influence prospective jurors against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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Tsarnaev: To testify or not to testify, that is the question
The Fifth Amendment provides in pertinent part,
No person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.
This means that a defendant in a criminal case has a right to remain silent and not testify during his trial. The prosecution cannot call him as a witness or comment on his silence during closing argument, if he decides not to testify. See Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 (1965). Since the defendant is presumed innocent and the burden is on the government to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the court also will instruct the jury that it cannot assume the defendant is guilty, if he exercises his right to remain silent. Silence is insoluble because there may be any number of reasons why a defendant may decide not to testify.
Unless my client's testimony was necessary to win a case, I always recommended he remain silent. Terrible things can happen when a skilled prosecutor cross examines an innocent defendant. Chief among them is the evaporation of the presumption of innocence. Juror focus changes from examining weaknesses in the government's case to looking for and speculating about inconsistencies in the defendant's testimony.
Generally, the defendant's testimony is going to be necessary when the government can prove he committed the acts charged in the indictment, but he can provide an innocent explanation for why he committed those acts. For example, he may have delivered five kilos of cocaine to an undercover cop, but he did it because the source of the drugs kidnapped his daughter and threatened to kill her, if he did not deliver the drugs (duress) or he may have believed he was performing a favor for a friend who asked him to deliver a large wrapped package containing rice for a wedding (lack of knowledge). Entrapment by government agents is another example (to show inducement by the government and absence of predisposition to commit the crime). A defendant claiming self-defense in a murder case usually has to testify in order to explain why he believed he was in imminent danger of death or serious injury such that it was reasonably necessary to use deadly force. Defendants claiming consent in a rape case usually have to testify as does a defendant who wants to deny that he confessed to committing the crime charged or testify that police coerced or beat him into making a false confession.
Since the defendant has a constitutional right to remain silent or testify, he must make the choice. If you have watched a criminal trial, you probably have seen the judge advise the defendant outside the presence of the jury regarding his right to remain silent or testify. This colloquy creates a record for appeal that the defendant's decision was knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily made after fully discussing the matter with his lawyer.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not have to decide whether to testify until after the government rests its case-in-chief.* That might not happen until after Memorial Day. That distant day will not dawn until after his attorneys have extracted as much beneficial evidence as possible, which usually comes in the form of testimony by defense witnesses, if any, and admissions on cross examination by prosecution witnesses to bias, prejudice, lack of knowledge, uncertainty, or testimony inconsistent with prior statements. Only then will his lawyers be able to offer him sound evidence-based advice.
They also will have to consider whether the government will be able to impeach him with evidence that he admitted committing the crimes charged when the FBI interrogated him in the hospital after his arrest. Although he apparently was not Mirandized (advised that he had a right to remain silent and a right to counsel), statements obtained in violation of Miranda are admissible as impeachment if they were voluntary and conflict with his testimony.
Because this is a death penalty case, he and his lawyers also will have to consider what effect his testimony might have on the jury, if he testifies and they reject what he says, catapulting the case into a penalty phase. Denial of responsibility and absence of remorse are unlikely to evoke mercy.
He can testify in the penalty phase, even if he does not testify in the guilt/innocence phase. He also has the right to allocution, which is to make a statement to the jury after both sides have rested that is not subject to cross examination.
Finally, because the rules of evidence strictly limit the scope of what may be presented at trial to evidence that is probative of the elements of the crimes charged and any defenses asserted by a defendant, trials are poor vehicles to implement social change. What the FBI did in other cases probably isn't going to be relevant in the Tsarnaev trial.
As I've said before, I believe attempting to prove the existence of an FBI conspiracy to entrap an innocent Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is likely to evoke anger, scorn, disbelief and a death sentence, unless it can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Gerry Spence did that with case-specific facts while representing his client, Randy Weaver, in the case involving the government siege at Ruby Ridge.
A more appropriate comparison might be to Timothy McVeigh, the convicted Oklahoma City bomber whose complaint about government misconduct in the siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, TX did not evoke much sympathy.
Assume for the sake of argument that you are representing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Imagine that his life is now in your hands. Would you recommend that he testify or not in the guilt/innocence phase and why?
*I see no possibility of resolving this case with a plea bargain because I believe the government has rejected Tsarnaev's offer to plead guilty in exchange for an LWOP sentence. That ship has sailed and jury selection is underway. The government obviously believes it has an ironclad case or it wouldn't have rejected the offer. Only a significant and unanticipated development altering that perception would bring the government back to the bargaining table.
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Good afternoon:
The first 1200 people summoned for jury service in the Boston Marathon Bombing Case have completed the 28 page juror questionnaire. Prosecution and defense counsel will be busy this weekend reviewing the questionnaires in preparation for voir dire that will start Monday. I believe we can reasonably expect Judge O'Toole will excuse about half of the group for financial hardship due to the length of the trial that is expected to extend into June. Students, teachers, self-employed business owners, single parents with young children and people with prepaid vacations are typically excused.
Several people have asked me to explain coconspirator and accomplice liability under federal law. State prosecutors rarely charge people with conspiracy, so most people don't know much about it.
A conspiracy is an agreement by two or more people to commit a specific crime and the commission of an overt act by one of them in furtherance of the conspiracy. Often, the overt act is a crime, but it does not have to be. For example, purchasing fireworks is not a crime if you are old enough, but it could be an overt act in furtherance of a conspiracy to build a bomb using the gunpowder in the fireworks. Indeed, overt act 19 alleges that Tamerlan Tsarnaev traveled to Phantom Fireworks in Seabrook, New Hampshire on or about February 6, 2013, where he purchased 48 mortars containing about 8 pounds of low grade gunpowder for use in furtherance of the conspiracy charged in Count 1 (conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death).
A member of a conspiracy is responsible for all crimes committed by other members of the conspiracy, even if he did not know that the person who committed the crime was a member of the conspiracy or that he was going to commit that crime, so long as it was reasonably foreseeable that some member of the conspiracy would commit that crime.
Mere knowledge of the existence of a conspiracy, or presence at a location where a crime is committed by a member of the conspiracy, is not sufficient to establish guilt and there is no affirmative duty to inform police about the conspiracy.
Federal prosecutors typically structure indictments by charging a conspiracy to commit a specific crime in count 1 and allege any number of overt acts committed in furtherance of the conspiracy alleged in that count. Every member of the alleged conspiracy is accused of committing at least one of the overt acts. Overt acts that constitute crimes are added as separate counts in the indictment.
For example, in Overt Act 31 of Count I, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is accused of killing MIT Police Officer Sean Collier by shooting him in the head at close range with a Ruger 9mm P95 semiautomatic handgun and attempting to steal his service weapon.
In Count 16 he is charged with possessing and using a firearm during the course of the conspiracy to murder Officer Sean Collier.
The government's theory regarding the purpose for this shooting is that the Tsarnaev brothers only had one gun (Tamerlan's Ruger 9mm P95 semiautomatic) and they wanted to obtain a second gun for Dzhokhar, so they sneaked up on him while he was sitting in his patrol vehicle and Tamerlan executed him with a single shot to the head. However, they were unable to get the gun out of the holster.
The government will argue that Dzhokhar is legally responsible for that shooting, even though he did not shoot the officer, because he was a member of the conspiracy and the shooting was an overt act committed by Tamerlan in furtherance of the conspiracy.
The government has a second argument to hold Dzhokhar accountable for the murder based 18 USC 2(a), which provides in pertinent part:
Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.
This is the federal accomplice liability statute by which someone who assists another to commit a crime is as responsible as the person who committed the crime.
I hope this explanation helps readers to understand coconspirator and accomplice liability under federal law.
If we assume for the sake of argument that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be convicted on all counts on the basis of his own acts and on the basis of coconspirator and accomplice liability for acts committed by Tamerlan, that does not mean that his arguably lesser role would not result in an LWOP sentence instead of death. A lesser role is a mitigation factor as are his youth and subservient relationship to his brother.
I believe this case probably will boil down to whether one or more members of the jury decide that the evidence in support of those three factors merits an LWOP sentence. That is why I have stated that this case is not about winning or losing. It's about living or dying.
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Bar Complaint Filed Against Prosecuting Attorney McCulloch and Two Assistant Prosecutors
A bar complaint has been filed against St.Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch and two assistant prosecuting attorneys, Kathi Alizadeh and Sheila Whirley. The complaint was filed by James R. Dowd (an attorney and former judge), Robert Ramsey (an attorney), Christi Griffin (a former attorney who is the founder and president of the Ethics Project), and seven citizens of the State of Missouri. They allege that the three prosecutors committed multiple violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct during the grand jury investigation of the Michael Brown shooting.
You can read the 11-page complaint here.
Some of the allegations are:
– Presenting witnesses to the grand jury – including Darren Wilson – who McCulloch, Alizadeh and Whirley knew or should have known would make false statements.
– Presenting the grand jury with a legal instruction ruled unconstitutional for decades.
– Mislabeling and misplacing evidence related to key witness Dorian Johnson.
– Failing to provide specific charges to the jury after "dumping" thousands of pages of interviews and evidence on them.
CBS reports,
Christi Griffin has said initial reports from the Ferguson police chief that Darren Wilson did not know Michael Brown was suspected in an earlier convenience store robbery were changed in testimony before the grand jury, and she believes that represents perjury.
"He is the one that is allowing that perjured testimony to be presented to the grand jury, and that is a direct violation of the Code of Professional Ethics," she said.
McCulloch also admitted that he knew Witness 40 had lied to the grand jury, but she testified anyway and the prosecutors did not inform the members of the grand jury that they knew she lied. She was an important witness because she was the only witness who backed Darren Wilson's version of the shooting, specifically the 'bull rush' description of Brown charging at Wilson. Turns out she was not there and did not witness the shooting.
The bar complaint follows on the heels of a complaint filed in the St.Louis County Circuit Court by the ACLU on behalf of a member of the grand jury, which did not indict Wilson, seeking relief from the lifetime statutory prohibition that bars grand jury members from talking about their service. The grand juror wants to disclose how messed up the process was regarding the Michael Brown shooting compared to other cases that were presented to the grand jury. The ACLU is framing this argument as the grand juror's right to free speech and the public's right to know what its elected officials are doing. Go here to read an article in Think Progress about the lawsuit.
I would also argue, if I were them, that McCulloch opened the door by publicizing the proceedings and commenting falsely about them.
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund added to McCulloch's difficulties by writing an open letter to the chief judge of the St.Louis County Circuit Court accusing McCulloch and his 2 assistants of improper conduct and asking her to appoint a special prosecutor and convene a new grand jury to investigate the Michael Brown shooting.
I suspect McCulloch is wishing that he'd kept his mouth shut. Time to lawyer up.
(Special thanks to Nef05 for keeping us posted on these encouraging developments)
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev goes on trial for his life today in federal court in the so-called Boston Marathon Bomber case. First up will be jury selection, which is expected to take about three to four weeks with the trial expected to last until late May or June. The Court will be attempting to seat a jury of twelve, plus six alternates, who can devote the next six months of their lives to fairly and impartially listening to the evidence and deciding the case. Given extensive pretrial publicity and a consuming regional interest in the case, the Court may discover that it cannot find 18 people who have not prejudged the case. If that happens, the Court will have to move the trial to another district in the United States.
Meanwhile, CNN is reporting today that the government rejected a defense offer to plead guilty in return for a sentence of life without parole.
The Court has summoned over 1200 people to report over the course of the next three days at a rate of 250 people per half-day session. At each session, the prospective jurors will be given a questionnaire in which they will be directed to write down what, if anything, they recall and disclose if they have formed any opinions about the bombing and Tsarnaev's guilt or innocence. They will also be asked to state their views about the death penalty. Copies of the completed questionnaires will be provided to counsel. Voir dire probably will begin next week after counsel have reviewed the questionnaires.
The jury selection process will take much longer than usual because the prospective jurors must be death qualified. That has to happen before the trial starts because, if the defendant is convicted, the same jury will have to decide whether to sentence the defendant to death or life without possibility of parole. By death qualification, I mean eliminating all prospective jurors who would automatically sentence the defendant to death or to life without possibility of parole without weighing the evidence admitted in mitigation against the evidence admitted in aggravation as required by the jury instructions. Opposition to the death penalty in the United States is highest in the Boston area. Therefore, do not be surprised if half or more of the prospective jurors are excused for cause because of their opposition to the death penalty. Since those prospective jurors tend to be better than others on reasonable doubt, you can reasonably expect the jury to be conviction prone.
For more information about the importance of death-qualifying a jury and how the defense will do it, please read:
Death Penalty Cases are Won or Lost During Jury Selection
Using the Colorado Method of Jury Selection in Tsarnaev Death Penalty Trial
Let's take a brief look at the government's case.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is accused of conspiring with his brother Tamerlan to assemble, place and detonate two IED's (improvised explosive devices) near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The indictment alleges that the two explosions killed a child and two adults and injured scores of other people. They also are accused of ambushing and shooting to death an MIT campus police officer four days later in a failed attempt to steal his gun and with carjacking a Mercedes sedan and kidnapping the driver who escaped on foot when they stopped for gas. The driver called 911 and provided information that enabled the police to find the Mercedes and the brothers in Watertown via GPS. A dramatic shootout ensued that ended with Dzhokhar running over his brother with the Mercedes and escaping into the night. The indictment alleges that he abandoned vehicle a few blocks away and hid in a trailered boat parked in a backyard. The owner of the boat discovered him there and called 911. Police responded quickly and, after shooting up the boat, they arrested him.
If the jury finds Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty, the biggest obstacle I see to an LWOP sentence is the death of the 8-year-old child because the jury probably decided that he intentionally placed the backpack containing the IED close to the child. If so, that act is absolutely chilling and the most difficult act to forgive. To make matters worse, his sister lost a leg.
It's difficult to imagine the emotional impact of witnessing a child's violent death. I still suffer PTSD from looking at crime scene and autopsy photos of dead children. This jury will get to see the boy die and it will be difficult for them to be merciful, especially if they believe in the death penalty.
Dzhokhar scrawled this note on a wall inside the boat,
The U.S. Government is killing our innocent civilians; I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished; We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all; Now I don't like killing innocent people it is forbidden in Islam…. stop killing our innocent people and we will stop.
Judy Clarke and David Bruck have their work cut out for them.
For more information about the lawyers who make up the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel, go here.
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Jury selection in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death penalty trial is scheduled to start in federal court in Boston on Monday morning. Today I want to introduce readers to the Colorado Method of jury selection in a capital case. Many lawyers have used it to save lives, including myself, and I am reasonably certain that Tsarnaev's defense team will use it.
18 USC 3593(e)(3) provides in pertinent part,
[T]he jury . . . shall consider whether all the aggravating factor or factors found to exist sufficiently outweigh all the mitigating factor or factors found to exist to justify a sentence of death, or, in the absence of a mitigating factor, whether the aggravating factor or factors alone are sufficient to justify a sentence of death. Based upon this consideration, the jury by unanimous vote . . . shall recommend whether the defendant should be sentenced to death, to life imprisonment without possibility of release or some other lesser sentence.
This statute requires the jury to decide whether the evidence in aggravation (evidence about the crime committed and its impact on the victims) outweighs the evidence in mitigation (evidence about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's youth and immaturity and how he was influenced by his dominant older brother and coconspirator Tamerlan Tsarnaev) and unanimously recommend "whether the defendant should be sentenced to death, to life imprisonment without possibility of release or some other lesser sentence."
The key word is 'unanimously.'
What happens if the jury is not unanimous?
18 USC 3594 provides,
Upon a recommendation under section 3593 (e) that the defendant should be sentenced to death or life imprisonment without possibility of release, the court shall sentence the defendant accordingly. Otherwise, the court shall impose any lesser sentence that is authorized by law. Notwithstanding any other law, if the maximum term of imprisonment for the offense is life imprisonment, the court may impose a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of release.
In other words, it only takes one juror to vote for LWOP instead of death to avoid a death sentence.
The Colorado Method was designed to maximize the probability of persuading at least one juror to vote against the death penalty. Michael Rubenstein describes the method this way:
The Colorado Method of capital voir dire is a structured approach to capital jury selection that is being used successfully in state and federal jurisdictions across the United States. Colorado Method capital voir dire follows several simple principles: (1) jurors are selected based on their life and death views only; (2) prodeath jurors (jurors who will vote for a death sentence) are removed utilizing cause challenges, and attempts are made to retain potential life-giving jurors; (3) pro-death jurors are questioned about their ability to respect the decisions of the other jurors, and potential life-giving jurors are questioned about their ability to bring a life result out of the jury room; and (4) peremptory challenges are prioritized based on the prospective jurors' views on punishment.
Readers who have served on a jury in a non-death penalty case may recall that they were instructed to attempt to reach a unanimous verdict. That instruction cannot be given in the penalty phase of a capital case. Instead, jurors are instructed to vote their conscience after fully and fairly considering all of the evidence.
Therefore, the Colorado Method involves conditioning each juror to,
(1) realize that their decision will determine if the defendant lives or dies;
(2) accept full responsibility for their decision
(3) vote their conscience; and
(4) respect the rights of others to make up their own minds.
As in most death penalty trials, the outcome of the Tsarnaev trial likely will be determined in jury selection before the first witness testifies for the prosecution.
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UC Explains Concept Behind $16 Million Renovation of Historic Sears Building
The University of Cincinnati is rapidly moving forward with a $16M renovation of the historic Sears department store building in Avondale, but the work taking place hardly resembles that of historic preservation.
Post author By Travis Estell
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The $16 million transformation of a 1929 department store into a research and innovation center for the University of Cincinnati is well underway in Avondale.
"The building is designed for space for work between outside companies and the university. There will likely be offices, labs, and open work areas. The interior has opportunities for collaborative areas, and open areas with flexible work space layout," said University Architect Mary Beth McGrew.
UrbanCincy reported in January 2014 that UC intended to demolish the building, which is located at 2900 Reading Road and was originally built as a Sears, Roebuck and Co. department store. However, the university later decided to preserve the structure, seeing the potential for this renovation to spur new development in the surrounding area.
"It is to be hoped the renovation of the building owned by the university will entice others to develop in the nearby lots. This building might indeed be a catalyst," added McGrew.
Technically a renovation project, it hardly meets the definition of being one that focuses on historic preservation. In fact, many UrbanCincy readers who have seen the renovation in progress have been curious about the extent to which the original building would be preserved.
Sears Building Renovation [Travis Estell]
While the core of the original 1929 structure is being saved, the 1945 addition has already been demolished. Additionally, much of the brick exterior of the original 1929 building has also been removed. The prominent brick tower on the structure, while being saved, is also being obscured by the addition of a fourth floor.
McGrew explained to UrbanCincy that brick on the tower will be preserved and replaced, where the brick had been damaged, by recovered brick from elsewhere on the structure. Aside from the tower and some accent areas, the rest of the structure will be clad in modern glass treatment.
"The brick was supported in large part by steel angles that were in very bad shape," McGrew said. "The new façade material will be a brick of similar color and size."
Tags avondale, Cincinnati, corryville, historic preservation, Mary Beth McGrew, Sears, university of cincinnati, uptown, Uptown Consortium
By Travis Estell
Travis joined UrbanCincy in 2009 as a contributor, and quickly took over technical responsibilities for the site. After growing up in Cincinnati's east side in Goshen, Travis earned an Electronic Media degree from the University of Cincinnati in 2009. Since then, Travis has been working throughout the United States as a web development consultant. After living in Clifton Heights, Northside, and Over-the-Rhine, Travis now resides in Cincinnati's Central Business District.
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Craniopagus Parasiticus
Dr. Swati MD December 8, 2012 Diseases and Conditions
1 What is Craniopagus Parasiticus ?
2 Causes of Craniopagus parasiticus
3 Craniopagus Parasiticus Treatment
4 Prognosis for Craniopagus Parasiticus
What is Craniopagus Parasiticus ?
Craniopagus parasiticus is a rare medical condition characterized by the conjoining of twins in the head. This occurs when the skulls of the twins are fused together at the back, the front or on the side of the head. Usually, craniopagus would refer to the joining of two skulls but with separate bodies. Craniopagus parasiticus, on the other hand, would still be the conjoining of the skulls but with the absent of the second body hence the term "parasiticus."
Craniopagus parasiticus is such a rare occurrence that there have only been around 9 to 10 cases that were recorded in history. In addition, males were more affected by this occurrence rather than females. However, due to the small sample number of the cases noted, it is not really indicative that this observation may be significant.
Craniopagus parasiticus is a classification of conjoined twins one of which is considered a parasitic twin. This occurs when twin embryos develop in the utero but fails to separate. The dominant twin would be referred to as the autosite twin and the underdeveloped one is referred as the parasitic twin.
Causes of Craniopagus parasiticus
The primary cause of craniopagus parasiticus is still unknown. Several hypotheses, however, are still under research regarding the development of this condition.
Parasitic twins start development in the embryo but the twins fails to separate. In cases of craniopagus parasiticus, one embryo fully develops while the other embryo fails or stops development during gestation. There are two possible guesses as to the development of craniopagus parasiticus.
A single zygote leads to the development of two fetuses but separation fails either during the second or fourth week of gestation. This is known as the fission theory.
Craniopagus parasiticus is caused by the lack of blood supply to the second twin brought about by the degeneration of the umbilical cord thereby halting the development of the fetus.
Craniopagus Parasiticus Treatment
Surgery is the only treatment option for craniopagus parasiticus. Usually, the parasitic twin is removed to give better life chances for the autosite twin. However, surgical operation performed is usually quite dangerous. Surgical operation is usually complex and intensive because of the risk for bleeding brought about by the convolution of the arterial blood supply of the autosite and parasitic twin.
In addition, parts of the twin's brain may also be shared. Cutting off the parasitic twin's blood supply provides better odds of survival to the independent twin. Skin flaps removed from the parasitic twin are also used as a cranium covering for the independent twin. There has only been one successful separation of craniopagus parasiticus noted in medical literature but the baby also died the following year after developing a bacterial infection.
Prognosis for Craniopagus Parasiticus
Generally, the prognosis for craniopagus parasiticus is poor. There have only been around 10 cases that were documented in history with that of the "Two-Headed Boy" of Bengal in 1783 as the earliest case. The boy died after being bitten by a cobra at the age of 4.
More recent cases were that of Rebecca Martinez in 2003 and Manar Maged in 2005. Rebecca Martinez was the first case of craniopagus parasiticus to have undergone surgery. However, she died after 11 hours in the operating room. Meanwhile, Manar Maged was the first case to have had a successful operation. She spent 13 hours on the operating table.
Also, most babies born with this condition are stillborn with only 3 cases surviving after birth.
Studies and researches on craniopagus parasiticus are still limited because of the rarity of the case. Genetic scientists are still on the verge of discovering the causes of craniopagus parasiticus while doctors are finding the best way to provide better prognosis for the condition.
The recent operation done to Manar Maged is an indication that the autosite twin has the future to survive as Manar Maged was able to survive without any signs of paralysis until a few days before her second birthday.
Craniopagus parasiticus is a medical condition that still requires a lot of research for it to be able to have a good outcome if not for the twins, at least for one of them. Doctors, scientists and researchers continue to look on this case as to the factors that could lead to this birth defect as well as provide answers that may improve life chances for the twins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniopagus_parasiticus
http://www.reference.com/browse/Craniopagus_parasiticus
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These are one of several questions responded during this publication. all through this paintings, Jordan Cooper writes concerning the crucial points of the way to stay as God's baby. He writes concerning the significance of the sacraments, the adaptation among God's commandments and delivers, tips on how to keep on with Jesus, the character and objective of Christian worship, and the differing kinds of relationships that God has known as us to. via a proof of Scripture, besides theological and useful software, Cooper teaches Christians the way to reside as those that were baptized into Christ.
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There's A Secret Plan By Rebel MPs To Stop A No-Deal Brexit
Exclusive: Details of a new amendment to prevent the UK from crashing out of the EU have been obtained by BuzzFeed News.
by Alex Wickham
BuzzFeed News Reporter
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Details of a plan to prevent a no-deal Brexit by tearing up the parliamentary rulebook and allowing a minority of MPs to seize control of House of Commons business have been uncovered by BuzzFeed News.
The former Conservative attorney general Dominic Grieve is working with a cross-party group of MPs, including leading Remain-supporting Labour rebels, to draw up a new amendment that would have parliament take control of the Brexit process and let backbenchers introduce legislation to extend or revoke Article 50.
Rebels are now coalescing around a new amendment which would overturn centuries of constitutional rules that give government business precedence in the Commons.
If the amendment succeeds, it would allow a motion put forward by a minority of 300 MPs across five parties — including 10 MPs from the governing party — to stand as the first order of business.
This would let a cross-party coalition of backbench MPs to grab power from the government and allow bills to be brought up and considered by the House.
Legislation could then be tabled by backbenchers to block a no-deal Brexit — something for which there is likely to be a Commons majority.
Previously it has been thought that only the executive would be able to extend or revoke Article 50 to stop the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal.
Alex Wickham / BuzzFeed News
The proposed amendment being drawn up by rebel MPs including Dominic Grieve.
One of the rebel ringleaders discussed the strategy with colleagues in the Commons tea room this week. A source familiar with the conversation relayed details of the proposed amendment to BuzzFeed News.
The extraordinary plan would override the government's ability to control parliamentary business, as Theresa May is unlikely to be able to find MPs from five parties who would vote with her on a motion relating to Brexit.
MPs who oppose a no-deal Brexit would be able to meet that requirement if they were supported by 10 Tory backbenchers, as well as colleagues from Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish Nationalist Party, Plaid Cymru, or the Green Party's Caroline Lucas.
The requirement for a minority of just 300 MPs to back the motion is hugely controversial as it upends the constitutional principle allowing only a government with a majority to control Commons business.
A total of 639 of the 650 MPs at Westminster are considered active, so usually 320 votes are required for simple majority.
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Former attorney general Dominic Grieve
Grieve declined to comment when approached by BuzzFeed News on Saturday morning. But an MP involved in the plan insisted: "The idea that there's something undemocratic about this when anything that ultimately happens will require a majority is cobblers."
The MP said the exact amendment had not yet been decided but cross-party MPs led by Grieve would be meeting on Monday to finalise the plan.
A senior parliamentary source said the plan was an attempt to overturn the result of the referendum. "This is another example of centuries of procedure being overturned to suit an agenda that denies the referendum result. If government can no longer govern the public should be rightly outraged," they said.
When plans by rebel MPs to seize control from the government were first reported in the Sunday Times last week, allies of the prime minister branded it a "very British coup".
Other MPs dismissed that rhetoric and insisted parliament has the right to determine a Brexit plan if the PM's deal were voted down.
Alex Wickham is a senior reporter with BuzzFeed News and is based in London.
Contact Alex Wickham at [email protected].
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Oxford United midfielder Jamie Hanson will miss the next three league games through suspension.
Hanson was shown a straight red card at Newport on Tuesday night in the Carabao Cup but the club supplied video evidence to support an appeal against that card.
Unfortunately the appeal was unsuccessful and so the former Derby player must miss the game at Sunderland on Saturday as well as the home game against Coventry City and the trip to Wycombe Wanderers.
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Powerful Black Women Changing The Face Of Beauty
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Tara Fela-Durotoye – Founder of House of Tara – Nigeria
More than ten years ago, House of Tara founder Tara Fela-Durotoye, sparked a revolution that reverberated across Nigeria, creating a powerful corporate brand, a range of interesting makeup and skincare lines aimed at women of color, and setting up Nigeria's first make-up school.
Tara Fela-Durotoye is a Nigerian makeup artist and lawyer.
She is the founder and current CEO of House of Tara International; the creator of the Tara Orekelewa Beauty range, Inspired Perfume and the H.I.P Beauty range.
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Fenerbahce acquires playmaker Westermann
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Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul officially announced on Wednesday that center Joffrey Lauvergne and forward Luigi Datome are officially ruled out for the Turkish Airlines Euroleague...
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Signature Star: Nicolo Melli, Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul
Entering the prime of his career at age 28, one-of-a-kind big man Nicolo Melli has tied his quest to become a Turkish Airlines EuroLeague champion to the same great ambition...
Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul: Another shot at the title
Ever since Coach Zeljko Obradovic stepped inside Ulker Sports and Events Hall as the club's head coach, Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul has set the bar for excellence very high. | {
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Gerbils were one of the first pets I remember having. Frisky and Finicky were their names. I could sit and watch them for hours. Fortunately, they didn't do this to often.
Q: What do gerbils do when they are frightened or excited to warn other gerbils?
A: Gerbils thump their feet as an alert to other gerbils. It's a form of their communication. They also use it to show they are ready for mating.
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There are 1 airports — BTR — that make sense to fly out of from Baton Rouge and 1 airports — AVL — to access Asheville. The best deals are usually found by flying out of BTR.
Out of the 3 total modes of travel to Asheville from Baton Rouge, a flight is the quickest method.
Drive from Baton Rouge to Asheville
It's 612 miles between Baton Rouge to Asheville. On a typical day, it might take between 10h 31min and 11h 3min from Baton Rouge to Asheville under normal conditions. If traffic is heavy, it could take around 11h 34min and costs will only go up due to traffic and congestion to drive to Asheville by car. In these situations, we would highly recommend public transit if available.
What is the best way to travel from Baton Rouge to Asheville?
Because Asheville is so far away from Baton Rouge, we recommend simply booking a flight. Other options to Asheville do exist, but going by plane will save you valuable time. Book as soon as you can, as there may be limited availability.
When to book trip from Baton Rouge to Asheville?
For these medium length trips, it's important to book your tickets as soon as possible. While there are bus, flight or by car transportation options available, the sooner to book the better. While prices for buses or trains might not fluctuate as much as flights, their availability certainly will. It's recommended to book these flights at least 2 weeks away, but even more if you are able.
What's the cheapest way from Baton Rouge to Asheville?
The absolute cheapest way to travel from Baton Rouge to Asheville is by bus. The bus costs $80 roughly and will take 19 hours 41 minutes.
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Asus Eee PC 900 Press Release, Review
April 16, 2008 by D.C.
Asus has officially issued a press release for the 8.9″ Asus Eee PC 900, the larger version of Asus' Eee PC which, by the way, has just hit one million in sales within five months of its launch.
Even with the larger display, the size of the unit has remained the same as the Eee PC (it's even in the same chassis), as well as the weight – less than 1kg (2.2 pounds). It looks like it will be retailing for around $550 and on up.
People interested in Eee PCs wanted more storage, and it appears that Asus has responded, bumping up the Solid State Disks (SSDs) to 12GB (Windows XP) or 20GB (Linux) (versus the previously stated 8Gb and 12GB). Jerry Shen, CEO of ASUS, said:
Vital feedback from a wide variety of users have been received, which has spurred us on to create more options to cater to different user requirements.
They are also officially announcing the multi-touch input, called "FingerGlide":
The new Eee PC will also incorporate an innovative FingerGlide feature that makes operating the Eee PC easy and convenient. For example, with just two simple finger movements on the touchpad, users will be able to zoom in and out of pictures (great for looking at image details), or scroll up and down for easier document viewing – making the Eee PC 900 more convenient to use.
Trusted Reviews has also published a review of the 900 (one of the first), giving it a 9 out of 10 and a "recommended" rating.
– Press Release at Asus.com
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Today we are honored to chat with Hugo Von Ulysses, as our most esteemed Blissful Dog of the Day. His odyssey is a fascinating one and he truly lives up to his name.
The Blissful Dog: Tell us, how old is Hugo?
TBD: Ah, the sign of Aries. Hugo is the embodiment of energetic confidence, wealth and empowerment. Lady Gaga and Leonardio are also Aries. Aries is always on the go, energetic and maybe a dash of turbulence. We'll see if Hugo fits the Aries mold.
TBD: How did Hugo come to be a part of your family?
TBD: Hugo was obviously meant to be a part of your family. Destiny. Is he an only?
A: When we brought Hugo home we had an elderly Newfoundland who he tormented the bejesus out of. She passed a month later. So currently he's an only dog.
TBD: We're a bit prejudiced, as we were lucky to have shared our lives with a very loving and dignified Newfie. We're sure she handled the young Hugo's torment with dignity and grace.
TBD: What was Hugo's latest adventure?
A: Hugo decided he didn't like our Christmas throw pillows and tore them to shreds while we were out.
TBD: Oh my, that is a serious lack of holiday cheer, Hugo, Hugo.
TBD: If you could tell Hugo one thing, and he would understand it completely, what would that be?
A: If Hugo could understand one thing we tell him, it would be that we'll love him forever, always and never abandon him for any reason. He's a member of our family.
The Blissful Dog: Thank you so much for taking time out of the holiday season, and picking up pillow stuffing, to answer a few questions. We're honored to have Hugo as our Blissful Dog of the Day. | {
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With the Hockey Canada roster deadline and BCHL transfer deadline just eleven days away, I've calculated each BCHL team's number of roster players, number of 20-year-olds (or 1994-born) and number of imports. These numbers do not include players on injured reserve as they don't count towards roster numbers.
These numbers may change in the next week and a half, but this is where they stand right now. The Canadian Junior Hockey League has an inter-league transfer freeze which is lifted on January 1st. There was no holiday transfer freeze among BCHL teams.
Teams are allowed 22 players overall on their roster, of which no more than six can be 1994-born players and no more than six can be import players. Only American-born players are considered imports.
This should show what some teams are able to add or subtract when the deadline arrives. As always, any corrections and comments are welcome.
This entry was posted in 2014-15, BCHL, trade deadline, trade tracker by Brian Wiebe. Bookmark the permalink.
I think the BCHL site has some inaccuracies showing the 'I' for Import symbol on their stats pages. Coquitlam has 5 American players shown on their roster, but only 3 have the Import symbol.
I agree Mikey, I have no idea why Cody Boyd and Michael Merulla aren't showing up as imports on the Express roster. | {
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Maintaining First Amendment Rights and Public Safety in North Minneapolis: An After-Action Assessment of the Police Response to Protests, Demonstrations, and Occupation of the Minneapolis Police Department's Fourth Precinct
From the executive summary: "This COPS [Community Oriented Policing Services] Office Critical Incident Review (CIR) of the 18-day occupation of the front lawn and the street in front of the MPD [Minneapolis Police Department] Fourth Precinct, completed by the Police Foundation, provides a comprehensive overview of the occupation from the perspectives of the MPD, elected leaders, demonstrators, and community members. The CIR identifies findings and recommendations as they relate to the response in Minneapolis, but apply more generally to civil disturbances across the nation. While the authors understand the unique set of circumstances that surround the protests and occupation of the Fourth Precinct, they also understand that the decision-making framework for the police response to this incident can and should be reviewed within the context of other significant incidents to identify important lessons that can be applied if a similar event occurs in another city, as well as to critical incidents more generally. The findings and recommendations in this report center on leadership; command and control; response to civil disorder; accountability and transparency; internal communications; public information and media; use of force; intelligence gathering; training; equipment and tools for managing demonstrations; officer safety, wellness, and resilience; and community engagement and relationships."
Straub, Frank; Aden, Hassan; Brown, Jeffrey, 1961- . . .
Bringing Calm to Chaos: A Critical Incident Review of the San Bernardino Public Safety Response to the December 2, 2015, Terrorist Shooting Incident at the Inland Regional Center
"On December 2, 2015, at 10:59 a.m. the Inland Regional Center (IRC) in San Bernardino, California, came under attack. The incident began as what is now known to be two shooters, dressed in all black, entered the IRC --a building in which San Bernardino County Environmental Health Department employees were meeting--and began shooting. An intensive and chaotic search for the shooters began initially within the vast IRC complex and then in the city and surrounding areas. During the initial and subsequent witness interviews, law enforcement received differing accounts of the number of individuals--including shooters-- involved in the attack. Quick investigative work by a San Bernardo Police Department (SBPD) civilian analyst and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department (SBCSD) Criminal Intelligence division developed an address for one of the shooters: Rizwan Farook (the male assailant). Before long, officers located the suspect vehicle and two suspects, which led to a midday shootout between the police and Rizwan and his wife Tashfeen Malik (the female assailant), as well as a search for a third subject some officers believed had fled the suspects' vehicle. Ultimately, law enforcement officers killed both assailants on a normally quiet residential street--but not before two officers were wounded. It was later determined that there was not a third suspect. The aftermath of the gun battle was witnessed in real time across the country as news helicopters hovered overhead. Press conferences were held throughout the day and evening as well as for several days following the attack as authorities attempted to quell rising fears and investigators scoured the region, as well as the Internet, in search of clues to determine why the couple had committed such a brutal attack that ultimately left 22 civilians wounded, 14 civilians dead, and 2 officers injured. Two days later, the answer came: a premeditated act of terrorism. San Bernardino had joined the ranks of New York City; Washington, D.C.; Paris; and Brussels as cities that have all dealt with extreme violence at the hands of terrorists."
Braziel, Rick; Straub, Frank; Watson, George . . .
Comparison of Averted and Completed School Attacks from the Police Foundation Averted School Violence Database
"In 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) provided funding to the Police Foundation to initiate the Averted School Violence (ASV) project. Through this project, the Police Foundation developed a database (Police Foundation 2018) to collect, analyze, and publish (in an online library [Police Foundation 2018b]) incidents of averted and completed acts of school violence that have occurred since the attack on Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. The data are drawn from the public domain as well as from law enforcement, school officials, and others entering reports into the database. The database is intended to serve as a resource to law enforcement, schools, mental health professionals, and others involved in preventing school violence by sharing ways in which other school attacks across the country have been identified and prevented. In this report, 51 completed and 51 averted incidents of school violence, drawn from the ASV database, were analyzed to help further our understanding of averted and completed school attacks. The report also seeks to provide important lessons about how school violence can be prevented."
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We have seen a sad and painful level of deterioration in the level of civility and courtesy in far too many political settings in our country today — and we probably ought to recognize that the deterioration in civil behavior is due in large part to an increasing invocation and activation of our most basic and primal "Us/Them" instinctive delineations in those political settings.
Courtesy often has clear patterns of instinctive alignment. We tend to be courteous and polite to people we define to be "Us." We tend to ignore and reject courtesy, and we too often pursue rudeness and choose to exhibit both affronting and offensive behavior when we define people to be "Them." We see those patterns far too often in far too many settings. The underlying instinctive thought processes are consistent and clear.
Based on the activation of our instinctive inter group thought processes and attitudes, we are too often contentious, rude and intentionally, deliberately, very openly, and obviously impolite, discourteous, and disrespectful relative to whomever we perceive to be "Them," when the opportunity to respond publically to "Them" in directly negative ways presents itself.
The tone and tenor of far too many public interactions in American politics today tells us clearly that those specific instincts have been activated — those instinctive perceptions are in place — and those negative instinctive behaviors and interactions feel right to the people who are exhibiting those public levels of disrespect and openly rude language relative to other people in the political arena.
Those behavior patterns and thought processes are far too common in American public discourse and political interactions today, and they have been our practices in too many public and political settings for a painful period of time.
It has been sad to see those negative instinctive differentiations being activated and to see those unfortunate mind-sets and perceptual perspectives slipping into major segments of our political discourse as a country over the past couple of decades.
Because the political people from all sides were part of an overall sense of being "Us"during that period of time, the public and private disagreements between people about political issues generally happened in interactions that were respectful, polite, and very consistently civil. Our leaders used to take pride in being civil and even friendly to their political opposition.
When that differentiation into being an enemy instead of an opponent happens, language coarsens, and the language that people use about one another in public settings becomes contemptuous and angry, rather than just contentious and cranky.
Contentious is better. Contemptuous, disrespectful, and clearly condemning language is bad for ongoing interactions in any setting, and using that level and tone of communication as an attack mechanism does obvious damage to our ability to govern ourselves collectively in adult and peaceful ways.
That should not be acceptable to us as an American people. We should understand that entire set of issues, and we should hold our leaders to higher standards of interactions. Allowing our politicians to cross the line into primal instinctive differentiations in their thinking and interactions is dysfunctional, damaging, destructive, sometimes disgusting, and too often, truly dangerous.
When those specific sets of instincts are activated, the other side in the political situation is "the enemy" — not "the opposition." That perception and definition of being an enemy triggers its own sets of instincts and thought processes. Our instincts tell us to crush enemies and they tell us to only defeat opposition.
Sadly, the slippery slide into primal "enemy" thinking in political settings is highly seductive for far too many people. There is a deep emotional reinforcement that sometimes happens when we crush enemies that does not happen when we only overcome and defeat our opposition.
Those differences between those approaches are more than perceptual. Behavior changes. Thinking changes. Values change.
The differences in behavior and functional consequences for those two sets of definitions are fundamental — in part because our deep and powerful instincts to be loyal to our own side when we are confronted with a true enemy in any setting keeps us from having dialogue or engaging in conversations in those settings that can guide us to collective and collaborative outcomes.
When those enemy linked instincts are in gear, people who try to communicate and who seek to collaborate with the other people in a setting are too often perceived to be traitors by the people in their group who see the other side as the enemy — and some of our most powerful instincts call for us to reject, purge, punish, expel and even damage or kill traitors from our settings. Armies tend to execute traitors in almost all settings.
That situation is complicated significantly by the fact that we each have deep instincts to never personally want to be a traitor — so we very often police ourselves and steer ourselves out of potentially collaborative behaviors when those differentiations that define enemies exist for the other group in any situation or setting.
What does that tell us about the future of civility in American politics? Knowledge is power. We can choose to act in ways that minimize the damage those instincts create. We can inform our leaders in various ways that we expect civility to be part of the American political practice and culture.
We all need to understand our own thought processes so that we don't fall prey to seductive negativity.
We also need to do the right things to create a sense of "Us" in each situation or setting. That is an extremely valuable and even invaluable thing to do if we seek Peace.
That knowledge about the value and the consequences in our thought processes triggered by being "Us" tells us we need to very intentionally build a sense of "Us" in each relevant setting that meets our legitimate perception of being ""Us." To do that as a nation, we need to be an American "Us" who shares, supports, and commits to a set of shared values and beliefs we all support, trust, and follow. The final chapter of The Art Of InterGroup Peace book explains both that process and those values.
We need to come together in the context of a shared belief system built on the best features of who we are as a nation so we can use that shared belief about who we are to align and allow us to perceive our various differing political differentiations in each setting to be simply opposing forces in our community — not conflicts between "Us" and an actual enemy "Them" who can never be trusted and needs to be damaged or destroyed.
We are perfectly capable of rising to those levels of enlightened alignments. We have done it before, and we can do it again. But we need to understand very clearly what we are doing, and we need to know why we are doing it in order to make that level of macros alignment happen now. That is a core strategy of The Art of InterGroup Peace book and it is a key teaching of the Primal Pathways book.
At this point in our history, we need to ask our leaders who are encouraging us to fight with each other, to step back from their own angry and divisive rhetoric and behaviors, and we need to ask them to return us collectively to the goals of Peace, and to lead us all to a level where we are all an American "Us" that just happens to have some levels of intergroup disagreements.
We need the knowledge of those processes so we have the power to restore civility into our political discourse and interactions.
We need calm adult behavior in the context of a community of caring adults working together to create a better and safer future for us all.
Let's begin by rejecting the rhetoric that insults and attacks the other side in each setting at a direct and personal level — and let's use both language and behaviors in each situation and setting that create mutual outcomes that benefit us all.
The InterGroup books very explicitly teach Win/Win behaviors and Win/Win thought processes.
When we do Win/Win things together as our goal, our mind set, our strategy, and our common commitment to ourselves and to each other — then everyone can Win.
Having everyone Win is a good thing.
Let's do what we need to do to make that happen.
Let's reduce the fragility of civility and let's build an expectation of respectful, adult behavior for all settings.
The key is to have our intellect overcome both our cultures and our instincts and guide us to enlightened behaviors that we all share because they are the right thing for us all to believe and do.
That is the purpose of The Art of InterGroup Peace book. That book was just rewritten to make it more usable in some key areas. It is available on this website for both free downloading and free reading. Share it with anyone who might want to support a movement for Peace.
We need people to want Peace — and we need people to feel right in acting in civil, polite, respectful and even supportive ways with one another in the context of our political interactions.
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Show Racism the Red Card joins Newcastle Unites in opposing the English Defence League. "Justice for Survivors, Don't Let Racists Divide Us"
September 11, 2017 by James Kingett in England
The long running sexual exploitation case in Tyne and Wear, Operation Sanctuary, broke in the press recently. The public were made aware, after successful prosecutions, of what has been kept under wraps for the sake of the criminal justice process– many young women and girls in the region have experienced horrific sexual exploitation and abuse, at the hands of organised groups of perpetrators.
The public discourse has been one of horror and shock, that women and girls have endured this for so long and that our communities face similar challenges to those in Rotherham and Oxford.
It has also, however, stoked a fire of stereotyping by nationality and religion as the majority of perpetrators, of whom we are aware, are of Asian descent. Former Labour MP for Rotherham and Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Sarah Champion, for example, resigned after claiming that "Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls".
Statements such as these sadly mask the whole truth of sexual violence in our society and empowers the far-right. This type of discourse emboldens those would have us believe in this dangerous stereotype, rather than examining the society wide problem of misogyny, and targeting of the vulnerable. The English Defence League (EDL) thus called a national demonstration in Newcastle on 9th September.
Show Racism the Red Card worked with Newcastle Unites to counter this demonstration with a message of hope for survivors and rejection of the divisive tactics of the EDL. We called for 'Justice for Survivors - Don't Let Racists Divide Us'.
Labour MP for Newcastle Central, Chi Onwurah, spoke at the demo alongside Newcastle Unites, Show Racism the Red Card, Stand Up To Racism, Unite Against Fascism, Imam Mohammed Roziur Rahman, Newcastle Stop The War, North East People's Assembly and National Assembly of Women.
The demo, supported by Jeremy Corbyn, attracted approximately 600 members of the Tyne and Wear community, who stood in solidarity with survivors and rejected the EDL's 70 strong presence in the region.
Here's what we said;
"Massive thanks to you all for joining us here today to drive the EDL and their supporters out of our region.
We're here to tell them that their hate is weaker than our hope and their divisions weaker than our solidarity.
I'm here today speaking on behalf of Show Racism the Red Card, but also having previously supported survivors of sexual violence for two and a half years, from Operation Sanctuary and beyond.
The EDL are in our city today, trying to speak about the colliding of my two worlds. They do not have the knowledge, skills nor the aptitude to discuss these matters with any credibility.
It is a fact that sexual violence and abuse has no religion, nationality or skin colour. Rather, at its core is misogyny and patriarchy. These are factors that sadly permeate all communities and affect women and girls from all backgrounds. We are all responsible for challenging this, not solely one group or perceived community.
What perpetrators have in common, beyond all else, is their exploitation of the vulnerable. They target women and girls who are seen as already broken, who do not fit the 'good girl' stereotype and whom they see as easy targets.
Sadly, it is these same characteristics that resulted in the silence of survivors over years of exploitation and abuse. It is the same reason that these women and girls were often not listened to by the authorities involved in such cases.
Thankfully, there has been a shift in thinking amongst authorities and communities, and we hope that this means survivors will have access to both justice and recovery.
We know that these things do not end with a guilty verdict or engagement with the criminal justice system. Many of those affected by these crimes will never come forward and talk to police, we extend our hope and support to these women and girls.
Recovery goes beyond the criminal justice system, the survivors journey continues and we want them to know that we stand in solidarity with them.
Survivors deserve more than the divisive tactics of the far-right. They deserve our hope and support.
We are here today to demonstrate that we are sickened by the crimes they have experienced and will not allow their stories to be further exploited by the far-right.
It is the truth that the Operation Sanctuary perpetrators, of whom we are aware, are mostly of Asian descent. It is also true, however, that 89-90% of convicted perpetrators of sexual crimes against children in this country are white men. Their style of grooming is often different but their crimes remain vile and abhorrent.
I highlight this to show you that the media portrayal of sexual violence is unbalanced. I urge you to think critically about this and question the purpose behind it.
Make no mistake- the EDL and their supporters do not care about the rights of women and girls.
They are the same people who threatened a friend, who challenged their racist views, with a barbed wire lashing and aggressively chased away a young woman in Sunderland when she dared to stand alone in protest against them.
These are not the actions of people who care about the rights of women and girls.
They are, however, the actions of people who use the historic rhetoric of the dark skinned predator, coming for whoever they deem 'their' women to be, to justify their abhorrent views. It is the same un-evidenced rhetoric used from the time of the transatlantic slave trade until now to dehumanise black men. It is the same rhetoric used in pre-Nazi Germany, to dehumanise Jewish men.
This rhetoric is not without consequences. It has created stereotypes that still supports the discriminatory treatment of individuals, groups and whole communities today. If we buy into the EDLs tactics, we risk starting this process again.
We owe ourselves more than to fall into this trap.
We must learn from history, reject the divide and rule tactics of the far-right and focus on healing a community which is reeling with shock that exploitation happens amongst us.
I urge you to be vigilant to exploitation, be vigilant to the tactics of the far right. Commend the strength of survivors and do not let the racists divide us."
September 11, 2017 /James Kingett
Show Racism the Red Card, Newcastle Unites, Operation Sanctuary, EDL, sexual exploitation | {
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Q: How to Call a method from a Class Library Variably I am trying to find a solution that allows me to write one method in my forms project that can variably call multiple different methods from my class library project.
The reason for this being that I want to implement retry logic around these methods and prevent myself from repeating it for each different variety of method. The only consistent thing about the class library methods are that they all return Task<bool> so its easy to await on and perform logic with.
So far I have the following:
public async Task Runner(string methodName, params object[] parameters)
{
ThreadTimer.Start();
var tries = 0;
var ok = false;
while (tries <= 180)
{
try
{
var parameterTypes = (from p in parameters select p.GetType()).ToArray();
var mi = typeof(string).GetMethod(methodName, parameterTypes); //Currently returns null
var result = (Task<bool>)mi.Invoke(null, parameters);
ok = await result;
if (ok) break;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
if (ex.InnerException == null)
{
ExceptionLabel2.Text = ex.Message;
}
else
{
ExceptionLabel1.Text = ex.Message;
ExceptionLabel2.Text = ex.InnerException.Message;
}
}
finally
{
tries++;
}
}
if (ok)
{
ThreadTimer.Dispose();
}
else
{
CShellControls.ExitWindowsEx(0, 0); //Logoff
}
}
The idea behind this is to declare a method name in a string and pass an array of parameters with it. I then used .GetMethod() to try and fetch the desired method info but unfortunately this returns null.
I have tried a few different methods but I'm open to suggestions and critique. As far as optimizing code goes I haven't really thought much into it, I just want to try and get this working first before approaching a more efficient method.
Thank you in advance!
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which gives rise to the sequence which is hoped to converge to a point . If is continuous, then one can prove that the obtained is a fixed point of , i.e., .
This method actually is sort of successive approximations method, the method of solving mathematical problems by means of a sequence of approximations that converges to the solution and is constructed recursively— that is, each new approximation is calculated on the basis of the preceding approximation; the choice of the initial approximation is, to some extent, arbitrary. The method is used to approximate the roots of algebraic and transcendental equations. It is also used to prove the existence of a solution and to approximate the solutions of differential, integral, and integro-differential equations.
This is exactly what calculator below does. It makes iterative calculations of x by given formula and stops when two successive values differ less than given precision.
It is also worth to mention that function used as example, i.e.
is the iterated function for calculating square root of a. This is perhaps the first algorithm used for approximating square root and it is known as the "Babylonian method", named after the Babylonians, or "Hero's method", named after the first-century Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria who gave the first explicit description of the method. | {
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import { Injectable, NgZone } from '@angular/core';
import { Activator } from './activator';
import { App } from '../components/app/app';
import { Config } from '../config/config';
import { DomController } from '../platform/dom-controller';
import { GestureController } from '../gestures/gesture-controller';
import { Platform } from '../platform/platform';
import { pointerCoord, hasPointerMoved } from '../util/dom';
import { RippleActivator } from './ripple';
import { UIEventManager } from '../gestures/ui-event-manager';
/**
* @private
*/
export class TapClick {
constructor(config, plt, dom, app, zone, gestureCtrl) {
this.plt = plt;
this.app = app;
this.gestureCtrl = gestureCtrl;
this.disableClick = 0;
this.events = new UIEventManager(plt);
let activator = config.get('activator');
if (activator === 'ripple') {
this.activator = new RippleActivator(app, config, dom);
}
else if (activator === 'highlight') {
this.activator = new Activator(app, config, dom);
}
this.usePolyfill = config.getBoolean('tapPolyfill');
(void 0) /* console.debug */;
const doc = plt.doc();
this.events.listen(doc, 'click', this.click.bind(this), { passive: false, capture: true });
this.pointerEvents = this.events.pointerEvents({
element: doc,
pointerDown: this.pointerStart.bind(this),
pointerMove: this.pointerMove.bind(this),
pointerUp: this.pointerEnd.bind(this),
passive: true
});
this.pointerEvents.mouseWait = DISABLE_NATIVE_CLICK_AMOUNT;
}
pointerStart(ev) {
if (this.startCoord) {
return false;
}
if (!this.app.isEnabled()) {
return false;
}
this.lastTouchEnd = 0;
this.dispatchClick = true;
if (this.plt.doc() === ev.target) {
this.startCoord = pointerCoord(ev);
return true;
}
let activatableEle = getActivatableTarget(ev.target);
if (!activatableEle) {
this.startCoord = null;
return false;
}
this.startCoord = pointerCoord(ev);
this.activator && this.activator.downAction(ev, activatableEle, this.startCoord);
return true;
}
pointerMove(ev) {
if (this.startCoord && this.shouldCancelEvent(ev)) {
this.pointerCancel(ev);
}
}
pointerEnd(ev, type) {
if (!this.dispatchClick)
return;
(void 0) /* runInDev */;
if (!this.startCoord) {
return;
}
if (this.activator && ev.target !== this.plt.doc()) {
let activatableEle = getActivatableTarget(ev.target);
if (activatableEle) {
this.activator.upAction(ev, activatableEle, this.startCoord);
}
}
if (this.usePolyfill && type === 2 /* TOUCH */ && this.app.isEnabled()) {
this.handleTapPolyfill(ev);
}
this.startCoord = null;
}
pointerCancel(ev) {
(void 0) /* console.debug */;
this.startCoord = null;
this.dispatchClick = false;
this.activator && this.activator.clearState(false);
this.pointerEvents.stop();
}
shouldCancelEvent(ev) {
return (this.app.isScrolling() ||
this.gestureCtrl.isCaptured() ||
hasPointerMoved(POINTER_TOLERANCE, this.startCoord, pointerCoord(ev)));
}
click(ev) {
if (this.shouldCancelClick(ev)) {
ev.preventDefault();
ev.stopPropagation();
return;
}
if (this.activator && this.plt.doc() !== ev.target) {
// cool, a click is gonna happen, let's tell the activator
// so the element can get the given "active" style
const activatableEle = getActivatableTarget(ev.target);
if (activatableEle) {
this.activator.clickAction(ev, activatableEle, this.startCoord);
}
}
(void 0) /* runInDev */;
}
shouldCancelClick(ev) {
if (this.usePolyfill) {
if (!ev.isIonicTap && this.isDisabledNativeClick()) {
(void 0) /* console.debug */;
return true;
}
}
else if (!this.dispatchClick) {
(void 0) /* console.debug */;
return true;
}
if (!this.app.isEnabled()) {
(void 0) /* console.debug */;
return true;
}
if (this.gestureCtrl.isCaptured()) {
(void 0) /* console.debug */;
return true;
}
return false;
}
profileClickDelay(ev) {
if (this.lastTouchEnd) {
let diff = Date.now() - this.lastTouchEnd;
if (diff < 100) {
(void 0) /* console.debug */;
}
else {
console.warn(`SLOW click dispatched. Delay(ms):`, diff, ev);
}
this.lastTouchEnd = null;
}
else {
(void 0) /* console.debug */;
}
}
handleTapPolyfill(ev) {
(void 0) /* assert */;
// only dispatch mouse click events from a touchend event
// when tapPolyfill config is true, and the startCoordand endCoord
// are not too far off from each other
let endCoord = pointerCoord(ev);
if (hasPointerMoved(POINTER_TOLERANCE, this.startCoord, endCoord)) {
(void 0) /* console.debug */;
return;
}
// prevent native mouse click events for XX amount of time
this.disableClick = Date.now() + DISABLE_NATIVE_CLICK_AMOUNT;
if (this.app.isScrolling()) {
// do not fire off a click event while the app was scrolling
(void 0) /* console.debug */;
}
else {
// dispatch a mouse click event
(void 0) /* console.debug */;
let clickEvent = this.plt.doc().createEvent('MouseEvents');
clickEvent.initMouseEvent('click', true, true, this.plt.win(), 1, 0, 0, endCoord.x, endCoord.y, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
clickEvent.isIonicTap = true;
ev.target.dispatchEvent(clickEvent);
}
}
isDisabledNativeClick() {
return this.disableClick > Date.now();
}
}
TapClick.decorators = [
{ type: Injectable },
];
/** @nocollapse */
TapClick.ctorParameters = [
{ type: Config, },
{ type: Platform, },
{ type: DomController, },
{ type: App, },
{ type: NgZone, },
{ type: GestureController, },
];
function getActivatableTarget(ele) {
let targetEle = ele;
for (let x = 0; x < 10; x++) {
if (!targetEle)
break;
if (isActivatable(targetEle))
return targetEle;
targetEle = targetEle.parentElement;
}
return null;
}
/**
* @private
*/
export const isActivatable = function (ele) {
if (ACTIVATABLE_ELEMENTS.indexOf(ele.tagName) > -1) {
return true;
}
for (let i = 0, l = ACTIVATABLE_ATTRIBUTES.length; i < l; i++) {
if (ele.hasAttribute && ele.hasAttribute(ACTIVATABLE_ATTRIBUTES[i])) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
};
const ACTIVATABLE_ELEMENTS = ['A', 'BUTTON'];
const ACTIVATABLE_ATTRIBUTES = ['tappable', 'ion-button'];
const POINTER_TOLERANCE = 100;
const DISABLE_NATIVE_CLICK_AMOUNT = 2500;
/**
* @private
*/
export function setupTapClick(config, plt, dom, app, zone, gestureCtrl) {
return function () {
return new TapClick(config, plt, dom, app, zone, gestureCtrl);
};
}
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Bogotá, Colombia, July 15th, 2018 — This is an invitation to all professional and student artists, art directors, publishers and artists' representatives to submit entries to the 1st Annual AExpo International Competition for Alternative Cultural Arts. All artworks in all media encompassing the themes of gothic fiction, horror, and the surreal are eligible for this event.
Since its launch on October 1st, 2010, Atmostfear Entertainment has garnered a loyal following by serving thousands of pages on a daily basis with the intent of generating additional work and exposure for the artists and authors selected for inclusion in its publishings. The circulation of Atmostfear Entertainment far exceeds those of other mediums and resource creatives of the genre; while deliberately maintaining a high-quality standard that makes it fitting for every kind of visitor.
Atmostfear Entertainment's purpose and singular agenda is the promotion of alternative written content, visual arts and sonorities. We believe that Atmostfear Entertainment functions as a cost-efficient promotional medium and provides a bridge between researcher, scholar, reader, artist, and eerie aficionados. Atmostfear Entertainment is all about facilitating open access for creators, and growing the audience for alternative, historical and cultural work in all its forms, without pretension and without prejudice.
The largest of this field's competitions is also the toughest to make; the act of entering visual art or manuscripts does not guarantee inclusion in the awards, or on the following live events. In truth, the "excellence bar" will be raised with every new edition: the responsibility of the jury to make selections will get increasingly challenging. Not being selected is not a personal criticism of the artist or author, but having your work chosen by the judges is of significance.
Join with us to help celebrate one decade of Atmostfear Entertainment with the awards and events premiere. Considering the excellence of the work published in the previous eight years, it will be no small task, but we are confident you all can do it.
We are delighted to finally be able to present to a wider audience an initiative of this importance, therefore, opening up many opportunities and hopefully, expanding the horizons of Colombian artists throughout a series of interconnected events. We are seeking to work with the best artists in this field to create an event that truly unfolds around the viewer, providing them with insight into this beautiful spectrum while making them comprehend that all forms of art are subjective to different interpretations.
We make a call to all visual artists to actively participate in our categories of photography, film, illustration and related. In an effort to promote Colombian artists, we invite you to engage and most importantly, not to miss this wonderful opportunity to be recognised internationally.
The Call for Entries opens on October 1st, 2018. This is an invitation to all professional and student artists, art directors, publishers, and artist representatives to submit entries to a decade of Atmostfear Entertainment. All artworks in all mediums encompassing the motifs of gothic fiction, horror, the uncanny, and the surreal are eligible for this occasion.
Gothic horror art can be subtle or obvious, traditional or off-the-wall, painted, sculpted, done digitally or photographed: there is no unacceptable way to create art and there are no set rules that say one piece qualifies while another does not. Creativity and talent are what is more valuable.
Work chosen by the jury will be printed in full colour and exhibited to the general public, the peer-selected "best of the year" collection for gothic horror arts, besides published in an annual, illustrational book.
The competition is open to anyone eighteen-years of age or older, from any country.
Any published or unpublished art may be submitted in the appropriate category. Work must have been finished or first published in 2018.
Do not submit original art for judging: entry material submitted to the jury will not be returned. The jury will select works from the entries for inclusion in the Atmostfear Entertainment annual illustrational book; the act of entering gothic horror art in the competition does not guarantee inclusion in the awards. If your entry is accepted, be certain that a reproduction-quality digital file (400dpi, tiff file at 9″ wide or 12″ tall) is available to ensure the entry's inclusion in the AExpo. Failure to provide reproduction quality material by the deadline given in an acceptance e-mail will cause an otherwise accepted entry to be excluded from the awards.
The person submitting work for this competition warrants that he or she is the copyright holder or has the permission of the copyright holder to enter said work and by so doing grants permission for publication in the AExpo annual art book and in the promotion of same. No other rights, either for print or electronic mediums, are granted to Atmostfear Entertainment, and copyrights will be acknowledged to the respective copyright holders within the content of the Atmostfear Entertainment annual art book.
The jury for AExpo 2020 will nominate the top two artworks in eight categories for consideration for either a silver and gold award.
Only entrants whose works are selected by the jury for inclusion will be notified on the first semester of 2020 by e-mail, with additional information regarding what we will need for the annual art book. A list of accepted entrants will also be published on the Atmostfear Entertainment website.
Please check to see if your name is on the list before contacting us asking if you were selected for the awards. We will not be notifying entrants who did not have work selected: Only artists with work selected by the jury for inclusion in the annual art book will have their names listed on the website and will be notified by e-mail.
Entries will be initially divided into eight major categories. Members of the jury will judge each category objectively, keeping in mind the work's intent and purpose in their decisions. Black-and-white, limited colour and full-colour works will be considered equally.
Suggested entries include art for newspapers or magazines; posters for films, television or publications; packaging for video or music products; and art for brochures, billboards, or POP displays.
Suggested entries include covers or individual pages from adult or children's comic books or graphic novels. No complete comic books will be judged as a single entry. Do not submit work featuring license-protected comic book characters without the permission of said character's copyright holder.
Suggested entries include work created for films, television programs, theatre or video games. Do not submit work that is license-protected without the permission of the proper copyright holder.
Artwork submissions are allowed for two years after the official release date of the product they were created for, to allow time for the permissions process.
Suggested entries include sculptures created for model kits, collectables, editorial or fine art. A maximum of three photos of a single entry (to show detail) may be sent.
Suggested entries include art appearing in connection with announcements, annual reports, calendars, greeting cards, prints, portfolios, posters, plates, website graphics, collectables, promotional directories or self-promotion mailers, and any other venues not obviously covered by the other categories.
Suggested entries include art created for portfolios, student work, gallery shows, experimental studies, speculative assignments, and ongoing projects for work to be published at a future date.
Each accepted entry will be reproduced in full colour and given complete credit in the first Atmostfear Entertainment book; the contact information for all artists or their agent/representatives will be printed in the artist index.
The person who has submitted an accepted entry will receive a complimentary copy of the art book. International residents are required to pay shipping. Tear sheets are not available. Additional copies may be purchased at a discount.
Each award will consist of a sculptured figurine on lucite on a stand, using a translucid triangular logo, based on the logotype of Atmostfear Entertainment. The award winner's name, work title, award year, and award category will be etched on a small plaque on the base or on the plexiglass itself.
Each award will contain an authentication certificate. | {
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Author Archives: BCPS Author
Historical review of Bighill Springs Provincial Park
Notes on history of Big Hill Springs Provincial Park:
by Vivian Pharis
Rocky View County is the most populous county in Alberta, with around 40,000 residents
It is 3836.33 sqkm in size or 1481.22 sqmi
RVC contains 3 provincial parks and few other protected areas. The parks are Big Hill Springs Provincial Park (est. 1957), Bragg Creek Provincial Park (est. 1960) and Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park (est. 2008).
Big Hill Springs PP is 78 acres or 31.54 ha
Big Hill Springs PP is 0.4 sqkm or 0.15 sqmi
Bragg Creek PP is 316 acres or 128 ha
Bragg Creek PP is 1.28 sqkm or .48 sqmi
Glenbow Ranch PP is 3297 acres or 1334 ha
Glenbow Ranch PP is 13.48 sqkm or 5.2 sqmi
Parks make up 15.16 sqkm of RVC's 3836.33 sqkm, or 0.4% of its landbase.
Parks Establishment, Alberta:
1930 – Provincial Parks and Protected Areas Act passed under Premier John Edward Brownlee.
1932 – Aspen Beach Provincial Park on Gull Lake became the first Alberta PP.
1930's-1950's – due to WW11 there was little park expansion, only 3 new lake parks were established, including Saskatoon Island PP to protect endangered Trumpeter Swans.
1951 – A new Parks Act was proclaimed, with administration going to the Lands and Forests Dept.
1951-1971 – 46 new parks were established, mainly for outdoor recreation, but in 1955 the parks mandate was broadened to include preserving nature and history, including Dinosaur PP and Writing-on-Stone PP with its petroglyphs and pictographs.
1957 – Big Hill Springs PP was established for the purposes of recreation, nature and historical appreciation. One of first 50 parks established in Alberta.
2021 – Alberta now has 473 provincial parks, including Willmore Wilderness Park under its own act.
Big Hill Springs Provincial Park Mini Master Plan, 1976
Compiled by Park Ranger111 Paul Blogorodow and 5 other park employees
55 page document focuses on specific reclamation needed but also points out the need for this park to be reinvented as a "point of interest" or "nature study" educational park that is "day use" only. Indicates that use census in 1972-73 was over 70,000 annual visitors.
This historical document can be found on the BCPS website and includes a typed, unattributed detailed letter that describes land ownership changes between 1881 and the 1940's.
Ecological Land Classification of Big Hill Springs Provincial Park, June 1998
Compiled by Ian Sutherland for Natural Resources Service, Parks, Alberta Environmental Protection, Bow Region.
Pub T/437 ISBN 0-7785-0418-2l
– 35 page report plus Appendices of Plant and Animal species.
BHSPP was established in 1957 to "conserve a unique coulee environment and spring-fed creek system." "The Park's landscape features contribute significantly to under-represented Natural History Themes in the Foothills Parkland Natural Subregion."
Historical Notes from the Above Two Studies
– Plains Indians hunted bison in the area using several jump sites, the main one is probably just east of the park; pictographs and lithic tools and thousands of bison bones have been found in the area.
– Plains Indians were of Blackfoot Confederacy and Cree. (Later, Stoney, Nakota took over area).
– Ranchers arrived in 1880's.
– Between 1881 and the 1920's, the land in the vicinity of the springs and today's park changed hands 8 or 9 times, beginning as part of the huge Cochrane Ranche owned by Senator Matthew Cochrane and ending with the P. Burns Company. The land covering the springs was sold to John Boothby in 1944.
– Apparently P. Burns gifted the park area to the Alberta Government where a provincial fish hatchery was established that soon failed due to spring-time siltation killing the eggs.
– 1891-1910 – site of first creamery in Alberta, supplying local area, Calgary and rail line camps. Established here because of the constant supply of high quality water and power generation from a waterfall. Land was leased from D.M. Radcliffe.
– 1951-1956 – site of a trout hatchery, also drawn to constant supply of high quality, cold water.
– 1920's and onwards, the site of local picnic area and later of camping so that by park establishment in 1957, heavy visitor use had degraded and damaged the area.
– 1957 – park was established to bring control to recreational use and begin the gathering of biophysical data and management planning. Already recognized that the park needed to be enlarged because the use demand that had reached its "saturation point".
– 1972-1973 – use levels recorded as being around 72,000 annual visitors.
– 1976 – government officials recommended that park designation be upgraded to "Preservation Park" and its use limited to "day use only".
– 1976 – a Park Management Plan laid out specific renovation works needed and stressed the need for designation as a "point of interest" or "nature study" park and, based on use levels of this "unique entity", recommended more land be acquired, including the jump area to the east.
– 1978-1979 -an array of visitor services, facilities and buildings were removed and some reclamation was done.
– At some later point, the spring area was acquired from the Boothby family, protected separately from the main park.
– 2020 – park closed due to need for boundary and some trail realignment and due to heavy land damage from around 250,000 visitors/year.
RVC Parks and Open Space Master Plan, 2011
Page 69 of Plan:
• "Identify and protect Bighill Springs Creek and the creek valley north of Big Hill Springs Provincial Park as a conservation area; and
• Secure the road allowance to Big Hill Springs Provincial Park for public access."
Descriptive Summary, BHSPP
Big Hill Springs Provincial Park is a tiny gem, a dot adrift in a sea of development that is most of Rocky View County. With vision, this park and its surrounding treasure of beauty and archaeology could become an attraction of great and lasting value. In fact, RVC's 2011 Parks and Open Space Master Plan calls to "Identify and protect Bighill Springs Creek and the creek valley north of Big Hill Springs Provincial Parks as a conservation area." Today, BHSPP comprises only 0.01% of RVC, yet attracts up to 250,000 visitors each year. Enough to close the park in 2020-2021 due to its need for repair. Within the 3836.33 sqkm of RVC, there are 3 provincial parks, making up 0.4% of the land base. BHSPP is the smallest at 78 acres.
People have been attracted to Big Hill's springs, creek and coulee for thousands of years, with the Blackfoot Plains Indians and Cree camping in the protection of the coulee and hunting bison using jumps on both sides. Likely the main jump was the one immediately east of today's park, that exists today with no protection. Thousands of bison bones as well as lithic tools and pictographs have been found nearby. The 1880's brought ranchers, and again the springs were an attraction, with the first creamery in Alberta locating in 1891 on their reliable waters and lasting 30 years. Later, from 1951-1956 a fish hatchery was attracted for the same reason. The springs and water tumbling over ancient tufa formations attracted picnickers from the 1920's onward. Recreational use began to overwhelm the site.
By1957, locals and government officials formally recognized the unique recreational, historical, archaeological and geological features of Big Hill's springs, creek and coulee and designated them among the first 50 of what would eventually be 473 provincial parks. After designation as a recreational park, visitor use increased even more until permanent damage became evident, necessitating a new designation in 1976 as a "preservation park". By then biophysical data was being gathered and management planning begun. As use climbed to over 70,000 yearly visitors, in order to regain control, an array of facilities and roads were removed and some reclamation was carried out. Use was limited to "day only" and all camping was halted. A Management Plan was released in 1988, addressing the need for more reclamation and refocusing use to "point of interest" and "nature study" and recommending that more land be added to this "unique entity", including the jump area to the east.
With today's use climbing to a quarter of a million annual visitors, protection of the entire coulee north of Cochrane to the provincial park and extending further north to Highway 567 and beyond to include Nature Conservancy lands, is an obvious necessity that could become a huge RVC asset.
• Provincially Significant Springs with steady year-around flows and temperature
• Rare tufa rock formed over thousands of years of calcium depositing out of the spring's water onto vegetation and building up into walls and dams
• Attractive series of waterfalls over tufa formations
• Long Indigenous history including several bison jumps, bison bones, ancient tools and pictographs
• Broad range of bird, mammal and plant life representing the Foothills Parkland Subregion
• Proximity to Cochrane, Airdrie and Calgary brings up to 250,000 visitors per year
• One of only three provincial parks in all of Rocky View County
• Ecologically intact, attractive lands stretch between Cochrane and the provincial park, as well as east, west and north of the park that have all the attributes of an extensive park with attendant values for the broader area.
You want to see fish in our creek?
Just look up Elliot Lindsey's (from Trout Unlimited Canada) video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15NbDk1l7qksAJV1bEnlIAvT1KBSxwXD1/view?usp=sharing
The Bighill Creek Preservation Society (BCPS) completed Phase II of the baseline water and sediment quality analysis and consolidated our findings.
The data collected encompass a variety of parameters and water quality indicators. These give the BCPS excellent knowledge about the status of the Bighill Creek water and sediments. The phase II analysis included a couple of extra sampling locations compared to phase I completed in 2017-2018. This allowed more knowledge-gathering about the effect of land uses upstream and in the vicinity of Bighill Creek.
The BCPS also installed 13 temperature loggers in the Creek, to monitor temperature fluctuations in the spring, summer and fall. If it is too high, native cutthroat trout will not survive.
These Temperature Loggers will allow constant monitoring of the water temperature and will provide important data for on-going Creek management and future decision making. High water temperatures are detrimental to many fish species such as native cutthroat trout.
The BCPS completed a comprehensive aquatic insect study which was championed by Tobin Benedict (B.Sc. 2019) from the department of Biological Science and Environment, University of Calgary. Ken Stevenson, board member was her supervisor.
The BCPS also initiated a citizen science project and collected one year of terrestrial insects with two Malaise traps. We are currently collecting terrestrial insects for summer 2020.
The objective of this water analysis study was to provide information to help protect the Bighill Creek aquatic and riparian environments, the downstream receiving waters, to support reclaiming the watershed as a recreational zone, and to support the reintroduction of a sport fishery. The goal is to protect Bighill Creek and to keep it as healthy as possible. The Bighill Creek Preservation Society exists to promote its protection by educating the larger public, pedestrians, and cyclists who use the area including the Bighill Springs Provincial Park, the paths along the creek belonging to ranchers, the reserve area, further downstream towards Cochrane Ranchehouse and through the Town of Cochrane.
The data collected in this report focus on water and sediment quality indicators that generally fluctuate over time. After phase I was completed in 2017-18, a phase II sampling program was recommended and completed in 2019-20. The additional data collected is invaluable in confirming the status of the parameters measured.
We have also continued our investigation for the fishery habitat. Ken Stevenson, a board member with the help of Elliot Lindsay, Trout Unlimited, have installed 13 temperature loggers in the creek. Before the freezing of the creek water, we will have collected the data needed to see if the conditions are optimum for the reintroduction of the Native West slope cutthroat trout since we know, from our aquatic insect study concluded last fall by Tobin Benedict, that we have real markers of a healthy stream. Completed riparian studies showed high quality of the riparian areas.
Furthermore, we have improved part of the trails in the reserve area and constructed 6 steps where the slope was very steep and slippery, rendering that section safer. This is a well used trail especially since the pandemic which brought so many more new pedestrians. We have also improved the quality of our foot bridge.
Our Bighill Creek Preservation Society (BCPS) is looking forward to our planned Fly Fishing School on Sunday September 20th at the Clubhouse in Cochrane for your six children: 3 boys and 3 girls ages 10-14 years along with their parents or at least one parent. Contact Sharon Johnson, (403-851-2562; [email protected]) .
The Fly Fishing class will be held at the Clubhouse, Town of Cochrane, on Sunday September 20th from 9:am to 1:00pm.
The Town of Cochrane will select the boys and girls who will participate with their parents to this unique event funded by the Cochrane Foundation. You also are most welcome to attend as our Guest and to observe. After the Clubhouse instructions we will all go to the Medford Ponds in Cochrane for actual fly fishing until about 4:00 pm.
Bighill Springs Provincial Park temporary closure
We want to let you know the Alberta Parks approved funding for the Big Hill Springs Provincial Park Refurbishment Project that includes upgrades to parking areas, picnic sites, trails and site signage.
Depending on the contractor, we may proceed with construction August – exact timing TO BE DETERMINED. Due to the small size of the Park, all visitor facilities (parking, picnic and trails) will be under construction at the same time. In order for the contractor to complete the Project efficiently and to ensure public safety, Alberta Parks is closing the site to visitors. Big Hill Springs Provincial Park will remain closed until summer 2021 to ensure reclaimed areas are well established before welcoming visitors back into the park.
For updated information the project and construction schedule, go to: (https://www.albertaparks.ca/albertaparksca/advisories-public-safety/advisories/)
While we do not have a confirmed construction start date as it will depend on the contractor, it may start in early August. We are spreading the word now to provide the public with some notice of construction and park closure.
BHS Public Advisory_Project Map
Interpretative walk this coming Saturday, June 20th
Cows and Fish in conjunction with Bighill Creek Preservation Society has organized an interpretative walk.
You are invited to join us on June 20 .
We will be offering two guided riparian walks (2.5 hours in duration each) on Saturday, June 20, 2020. This includes a morning walk from 9:30 to 12:00 pm and an afternoon walk from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm. There are 5 tickets available for each session. Participants are asked to register for one session only.
Please register at: https://bighillcreek_riparianwalk.eventbrite.com
Thank you to the generous organisations and individuals who supported our efforts, with project funding, unallocated donations and in kind contributions. Without these, what has been accomplished would have been impossible.
Alberta Land Stewardship
Cochrane Environmental Action Committee
Dr Dick Pharis
Town of Cochrane
Rocky View County
Spray Lake Sawmills
Cochrane Hardware
MDL Landscaping
Ann & Don Ferrier
Anonymous doors
AGM 2019-summary
BCPS AGM 2019
Thanks to everyone who came to our AGM. Your support is appreciated. Once again we were a little too ambitious in trying compress too much information into too little time. We attempted to deal with the standard General Meeting items efficiently and then get to the more interesting topics.
Thanks especially to our generous sponsors: AlbertaEcotrust, Bow River Basin Council, Land Stewardship and CEAC who allow us to conduct our scientific studies. We thank you also our private donors, who allow us to exist as a society in helping for insurance fees and other cost. Thank you to MDL, Town of Cochrane, Cochrane Foundation , Ed, Blaine and many more for our trail maintenance project.
Thanks to Lyse for efficiently describing our finances and audit.
Kathryn Hull and Kristina Boehler of Cows and Fish provided an enlightening description of riparian health in general and the results of their 2018 work on our drainage (mostly good news) . Dr. Ymène Fouli updated us with her most recent water and sediment analysis.
Ken Stevenson informed us regarding his work on instream temperature loggers, the aquatic insect study he managed and the fish inventory he completed with Trout Unlimited.
Vivian and I briefly described trail use and maintenance program on the reserve lands.
Our 2019/20 objectives include commencement of a hydrology study of the drainage and a demonstration project for a beaver pond leveler.
Although the applications for the gravel pits immediately upstream of the spring at Big Hill Springs Provincial Park have been aside by judicial order, we expect that the proponents will reapply in the near future requiring our response.
Thanks again for your support. Please feel free to contact any of our Board Members if you have any comment or concern regarding our activities.
TEMPERATURE LOGGERS FOR THE CREEK 2019-2020
In 2017, Elliot Lindsay – Trout Unlimited Calgary – suggested to our Bighill Creek Preservation Society (BCPS) that monitoring the creek water temperature year-round at several locations in the valley would gather vital data on the creek waters within the drainage. This is particularly critical during the summer and fall months when water temperatures in the creek could rise to levels detrimental to most fish in the creek and certainly trout. Such temperature studies would complement well our existing studies on water quality/sediment studies, riparian assessments, aquatic insect studies and electrofishing studies.
The temperature loggers (14) were purchased in 2019 for BCPS by the Cochrane Environmental Action Committee (CEAC) and subsequent work by BCPS has now readied the temperature loggers for stable placement in deep pools in the spring of 2020 following the spring freshet.
The loggers have a stream life of 4-5 years and can be monitored while in location in the creek.
The longer-term plan is to initial the re-introduction of the original native Westslope Cutthroat trout through work with Alberta Environment – Fish and Wildlife, Trout Unlimited – Calgary and likely the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Along with these projects would be the new work envisaged by BCPS to have a thorough hydrology study of the watershed which would also involve an in-depth study of the beavers and their habitat currently in the Bighill Springs Creek Watershed. | {
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Q: How to match multiple regex patterns in multiple files and write something to a log file? I want to search some regex patterns in files (*.txt) which are inside a folder whose path I'have given in a text box, and the folder contains other sub-folders with txt files in the form 12345\2031\30201\txt\120.txt and if the pattern matches even in one file, then a string is written on a log file which is created inside the folder whose path I've given in the text box and then it moves on to the next regex and so on
What I've done so far is
Dim tLoc As String = TextBox1.Text
Dim txtFilesArray = Directory.EnumerateFiles(tLoc, "*.txt", SearchOption.AllDirectories).Where(Function(f) f Like "*\#*\#*\#*\txt\#*.txt")
Dim fileLoc As String = tLoc & "\Checklist.log"
Dim fs As FileStream = Nothing
If (Not File.Exists(fileLoc)) Then
fs = File.Create(fileLoc)
Using fs
End Using
End If
For Each tFile In txtFilesArray
Dim input As String = File.ReadAllText(tFile)
Dim pattern1 As New Regex("(?<!>)(figure|fig\.|figs\.|figures) (\d+)")
Dim pattern2 As New Regex("(?<!>)(table|tab\.|tabs\.|tables) (\d+)")
If pattern1.IsMatch(input) Then
FileOpen(1, fileLoc, OpenMode.Append)
PrintLine(1, "Check figure link")
FileClose()
End If
If pattern2.IsMatch(input) Then
FileOpen(1, fileLoc, OpenMode.Append)
PrintLine(1, "Check table link")
FileClose()
End If
Next
But the problems are:
1) Even if pattern1 matches in multiple files, I want it to write the string Check figure link only once in the log file and not in every time it finds a match in different files and same for pattern2....patternN, furthermore, I want the program to move on to the next regex pattern match the moment the pattern1 matches in one file (no need to look for the same pattern in other files)
2)I have around a hundred of regex patterns that I want to use in this program, can anyone tell me how do I shorten the coding?
A: You can put the patterns in some kind of collection and then remove them from it when found
Dim re = Function(p$) New Regex(p, RegexOptions.Compiled)
Dim patterns = New Dictionary(Of String, Regex) From {
{"Check figure link", re("(?<!>)(figure|fig\.|figs\.|figures) (\d+)")},
{"Check table link", re("(?<!>)(table|tab\.|tabs\.|tables) (\d+)")}
}
Dim output = New List(Of String)
Dim tLoc = TextBox1.Text
Dim txtFiles = Directory.EnumerateFiles(tLoc, "*.txt", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
For Each tFile In txtFiles
If Not tFile Like "*\#*\#*\#*\txt\#*.txt" Then Continue For
Dim input = File.ReadAllText(tFile)
Dim match = ""
For Each pattern In patterns
If pattern.Value.IsMatch(input) Then
match = pattern.Key
Exit For
End If
Next
If match > "" Then
output.Add(match)
patterns.Remove(match)
End If
Next
File.WriteAllLines(tLoc.TrimEnd("\"c) & "\Checklist.log", output)
If you want to compare each pattern against all files, then it will be easier to parallelize (run on multiple processors at the same time) because there will be no need to remove them from the collection:
Dim patterns = New List(Of String()) From {
({"Check figure link", "(?<!>)(figure|fig\.|figs\.|figures) (\d+)"}),
({"Check table link", "(?<!>)(table|tab\.|tabs\.|tables) (\d+)"})}
Parallel.ForEach(patterns,
Sub(pattern)
Dim tLoc = TextBox1.Text
Dim output = New List(Of String)
Dim txtFiles = Directory.EnumerateFiles(tLoc, "*.txt", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
Dim regEx = New Regex(pattern(1), RegexOptions.Compiled)
For Each tFile In txtFiles
If tFile Like "*\#*\#*\#*\txt\#*.txt" Then
Dim input = File.ReadAllText(tFile)
If regEx.IsMatch(input) Then
output.Add(pattern(0))
Exit For
End If
End If
Next
File.AppendAllLines(TextBox1.Text.TrimEnd("\"c) & "\Checklist.log", output)
End Sub)
or this shorter more complicated version
Dim patterns = New List(Of String()) From {
({"Check figure link", "(?<!>)(figure|fig\.|figs\.|figures) (\d+)"}),
({"Check table link", "(?<!>)(table|tab\.|tabs\.|tables) (\d+)"})}
Dim output = From pattern In patterns.AsParallel
Let regEx = New Regex(pattern(1), RegexOptions.Compiled)
From tFile In Directory.EnumerateFiles(TextBox1.Text, "*.txt", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
Where tFile Like "*\#*\#*\#*\txt\#*.txt" AndAlso regEx.IsMatch(File.ReadAllText(tFile))
Take 1
Select pattern(0)
File.WriteAllLines(TextBox1.Text.TrimEnd("\"c) & "\Checklist.log", output)
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Q: can swf file initialize itself for javascript with `ExternalInterface.call()` function? in my code there's initialization function
html
<embed id="SoundsObj"........
js
var SoundsObj = document.getElementById('SoundsObj');
function GetSoundsObj(){
alert(top.SoundsObj.SndPlay); //I can see it has initialized itself
}
as3
ExternalInterface.call("GetSoundsObj");
I'm curious is there a possibility that I can pass swf object in JS as the second argument in ExternalInterface.call() sunction?
something like
in as3
ExternalInterface.call("GetSoundsObj",this); //by `this` I mean swf object
in js
var SoundsObj = null;
function GetSoundsObj(arg){
SoundsObj = arg;
alert(SoundsObj.SndPlay);
}
to be completely sure that swf-js bridge is on?
A: You can pass the objectID:
ExternalInterface.call("GetSoundsObj", ExternalInterface.objectID);
JS:
var SoundsObj = null;
function GetSoundsObj(swfId){
SoundsObj = document.getElementById(swfId);
alert(SoundsObj.SndPlay);
}
Note that you should set the name attribute on the <embed> tag as well as the id, or just use the <object> tag.
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Texas gunman's iPhone could reignite FBI-Apple feud over encryption (Washington Post): The recent tragedy in Texas may bring the Apple and FBI feud back in the spotlight, a recent article says. The two companies have not publicly battled since their 2016 battle following the San Bernardino shooting, the article says, but the FBI has yet to be able to access the Texas shooter's phone. The article reports that the FBI has not asked Apple to unlock the device yet and is looking for other ways to access the information, such as cloud storage or a linked laptop. The article also suggests that if the phone had "Touch ID" activated, the FBI could have used the dead man's finger to unlock the phone during the first 48 hours. The full report can be read here.
"Instant Replay" for Computer Systems Shows Cyber Attack Details (GA Tech IISP): Figuring out what happened after a cyber attack may be getting much easier, according to a recent article. Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a software program that will provide an automated process for determining how intruders gained accessed to a system, what data was taken, and which systems were affected, the article says. The program, called Refinable Attack INvestigation (RAIN), continuously monitors systems and records 'interesting' events, the article says. The full description and details of RAIN can be read here.
Former Yahoo CEO apologizes for data breaches, blames Russians (Reuters): When in doubt, blame Russia. At least that's what former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is doing, a recent Reuters report says. Mayer apologized for two major data breaches that occurred under her watch, according to the article. The article notes that although federal prosecutors did charge Russian agents in connection to one of the breaches, others are still asking why it took three years to identify the breach and its scope. The full article can be read here. | {
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Scholarships are monies that do not have to be repaid and can be given for many reasons: community service, grades, artistic talent, writing an essay and athletic ability just to name a few.
National and local scholarships are typically geared towards high school seniors continuing on to a post-secondary institution after graduation. However, adult students should still look for scholarships to fund their post-secondary endeavors.
National scholarships can be harder for a student to obtain since students from all fifty states can apply. It is recommended that students focus more on local scholarships because they have a better chance of receiving one. Students applying to a national scholarship should make sure the scholarship is reputable and not a scam.
High school students should look for local scholarships throughout their senior year. In regards to local scholarships, the vast majority of them become available between January and April each year. The best place to find information regarding local scholarships is at the student's high school guidance office, or for students in Lake and Geauga county schools, at LEAF's Scholarship Database. | {
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Home » News » JinkoSolar agrees to supply 23MW solar modules in US
JinkoSolar agrees to supply 23MW solar modules in US
By NS Energy Staff Writer 22 Aug 2013
China-based solar product manufacturer JinkoSolar has agreed to supply solar PV modules, with a capacity of around 23MW to Swinerton Builders and Clenera.
As per the agreed terms, Swinerton will use 300W 72 cells high-efficiency PV modules in its construction of the Westland Solar Farms, a ground-mounted solar plant in Fresno County, California.
When completed, the clean electricity generated at the utility scale solar power project will be sold to PG&E.
The deliveries of the solar modules is slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2013.
Swinerton Renewable Energy Division manager George Hershman said that the company is excited to be working with the Westlands Solar Farm ownership and its leading technology partner, including JinkoSolar.
"Having recently completed a similar 20MW single axis tracker project in PG&E territory, Swinerton looks forward to delivering another successful solar project in the Central Valley," added Hershman. | {
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• You can take the anti-inflammatory drugs with which it would be easier to treat the chronic pain. CBD oil is also highly effective treatment for chronic pain, read this full post to learn broadly about it. If you take these drugs for a long time, then you might have to face side-effects of It.; one can face gastrointestinal issues, kidney problems, and blood clotting problems due to extended use of these medicines. So, whenever you are planning to buy over the counter medicines, you should stay aware. It would be better if you take the prescription from the doctor so that there won't be any chances of risks.
• People who are suffering from depression should take the antidepressants as it can be helpful in reducing your body pain. The dose of these medicines would be lower and it can treat the pain without creating risks for your body. If a person is suffering from glaucoma, then that person shouldn't take these medicines at all.
• Naproxen, ibuprofen, and aspirin are some of the common drugs which are chosen by the people who are suffering from chronic pain. These medications can definitely relieve the little pain but if you face any side effects, you should immediately go to a doctor.
• Nothing can be a better treatment for chronic pain other than taking help of a doctor. When you will go to the professional doctor, he can find out the reason behind your problem and then find the best solution for it. The doctor can provide you with the best type of medication prescriptions and you can get relieved from your chronic pain by taking the drugs.
• When the limit of chronic pain is crossed, then the person has to go through the surgical implantation. When the pain can't be treated with the medications, then the doctor has to choose a surgical implant. There are different types of implantation options and the doctor would find out the safest option for you.
• The behavioral therapy, cognitive therapy, and physical therapies can really help in treating cognitive pain. When you would do exercise regularly, it would help to enhance your joint mobility and muscles will gain strength. By doing yoga, you can get relaxed and your mind would be free from all the worries. This would have a great effect on your body and you can also prefer to go for a massage as it can be a great way to get the treatment for chronic pain.
• Acupuncture is an old technique with which doctors have been treating their patients who suffer from chronic pain. This treatment can't be done at home or any person can't do it. So, you need to make sure that you take the help of a trusted doctor who knows how to do acupuncture. When you will find the best acupuncture specialist, you can discuss yuour chronic pain. The expert would find out the reason behind it and then find the best acupuncture solution for it. Most probably, you would get rid of every pain by acupuncture but you might get scared at first after seeing those little needles which would go into your skin. It's the totally harmless procedure if you have chosen the right expert.
Now that you know the various methods to treat chronic pain, you can select one of the treatments for chronic pain for yourself. You can definitely get rid of this pain if you pay attention to the earlier signs of it. Even if the pain gets at a higher level, you can still get rid of it if you would take help of the most appropriate specialist.
Nicholas Stewart was born and raised in Florida. He works as a freelancer since he was just 16. He jointed at a literary development company after his graduation. Still now he works online and makes a lot of money at home. He completed his graduate degree at Saint Leo University. His favorite sport is football. He loves to travel. Sometimes he makes a tour with his family. | {
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The A231 highway is a highway in Nigeria. It is one of the east-west roads linking the main south-north roads. (It is named from the two highways it links).
It runs from the A2 highway at Elele, in Rivers State, to the southern end of the A3 highway at Port Harcourt.
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package br.com.delogic.jnerator.impl.generator;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;
import br.com.delogic.jnerator.AttributeConfiguration;
import br.com.delogic.jnerator.AttributeGenerator;
public class EnumAttributeGenerator implements AttributeGenerator {
private List<?> enums;
private Random random;
public EnumAttributeGenerator(Class<?> type) {
enums = Arrays.asList(type.getEnumConstants());
random = new Random();
}
public <T> Enum<?> generate(int index, AttributeConfiguration<T> attributeConfiguration, Object instance) {
return (Enum<?>) enums.get(random.nextInt(enums.size()));
}
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The motor yacht TRENDING is offering a 15 percent discount on all remaining availability in February and March in the Caribbean.
Rate: from US$ 200,000 per week less 15% discount. Plus all expenses.
EROS – 103ft (31.4m) vintage schooner – an excellent choice for a classic yacht charter. Step back into history and experience gracious sailing on the vintage classic yacht EROS – acres of sail and miles of lines, teak decks and varnished rails and woodwork. She was built in England in 1939 and has had an adventurous history. This summer her adventures are in New England where she is available for cruising charters and for regattas. Then for the winter she will be back in the Caribbean, based in Antigua and ready for charter. EROS can accommodate up to eight guests in four cabins and has all the modern facilities including air conditioning. Her Caribbean charter rate is from US$33,500 per week + all expenses.
We had the most amazing time and miss our days floating about Antigua so very much! We had great weather (one dodgy day) found some great restaurants with the help of Wilson!! Fantastic snorkelling and all in all a wonderful holiday. Eros was delightful and we felt very honoured to be aboard. Arriving at Nelsons Dockyard and seeing her there was really special – she is a fantastic boat. All the crew were excellent – Wilson and Kelly, Erica, captain Jeremy and chef Adrianne – they all looked after us beautifully.
British Virgin Islands Yacht Charter Update…..
They are not in the news anymore, but I wanted to bring you a BVI update about chartering in the Virgin Islands this year. After the destruction caused by last year's storms there has been a massive and spectacular recovery. Many of the smaller and uninhabited islands were ready for visitors by Christmas – the beaches were cleared of debris and the vegetation sprang up very quickly. Since then the recovery has only gained in pace with re-openings of famous haunts and clearance of popular bays.
I've been speaking to crew who are currently in the Virgin islands for their comments. Jenn Hart aboard the 60ft power cat SEA BOSS, says beaches are now looking great and most of the usual spots are up and running. Although the resorts at Peter Island, Little Dix, Saba and Bitter End are still closed, rebuilding is under way. Jenn says she would definitely add a day trip to Oil Nut Bay as a new feature for charterers. Guests can have lunch, order drinks in the swim up pool, sail Hobie-Cats, kayak and paddle board off the beautiful and exclusive shores, all the while enjoying the red-carpet treatment rolled out by the excellent staff.
On the topic of dive sites, I've been in touch with Jerry Blair, an experienced diver and Captain of the 62ft catamaran COPPER PENNY. He said that while some of the sites had been damaged you are still spoilt for choice as there are so many excellent sites. The fish are still there, the turtles, the stingrays even the lionfish. He said that last week he was swimming for an hour with two wild dolphins near the Baths.
The BVIs are also known for their bars. The legendary floating bar, Willy-T or Willy T3 as it will be known has just opened in its new location – Great Harbour, Peter Island. Other famous bars such as the Soggy Dollar and Foxy's both on Jost Van Dyke are open and in full swing. Rebuilding has started on Bitter End Yacht Club on Virgin Gorda. And there are dozens more, ready to welcome guests.
Anegada was fortunate in that it escaped the full force of the storms. As a result, most of the hotels and beach bars were quick to open including the famous Cow Wreck Beach Bar. The low-lying Anegada is famous for its beaches and Caribbean lobsters.
Tortola, the main island in the BVIs was really devastated as you might have seen in TV coverage just after the storm. Nearly a year on there is still a massive amount of rebuilding taking place, improvements too, but businesses and shops are open and getting back to normal stock levels. Provisioning for yachts is excellent.
And what of the boats and crew? Some boats were lost, sadly, but this has made room for some stunning new boats which I hope to be seeing later this year at the Tortola and Antigua boat shows. Some crew have retired but several of my old friends are back on new boats and continuing to be the perfect hosts as ever. The vast majority of yachts however, which charter in the Virgin Islands during the winter season were out of the area at the time for the storm season and so completely safe. Last winter some of them chartered in other areas of the Caribbean such as Antigua or the Grenadines which were untouched by the storms. More yachts will be back in the Caribbean this winter such as the stunning OHANA, a 163ft superyacht and dozens of large motor yachts.
If you would like some recommendations for your winter yacht charter holiday, we'll be happy to help.
A dazzling area of strings of sub-tropical islands stretching between the depths of the North Atlantic and the east cost of Florida, the Bahamas comprises more than 700 islands. Many are uninhabited and most are fringed by coral reaching out to deep waters, creating that striking contrast of shades of fabulous blues. A yacht charter in this area could start and end in Nassau which is convenient for flights, but a one-way trip starting in the busy and commercial Nassau would allow you to explore more of the reefs, beaches, dive sites and historic towns of the Exhumas, one of the principal island chains. And an exciting end to your yacht charter could then be the seaplane back to Nassau.
Yacht chartering in the Bahamas is dominated by motor yachts, although there are some excellent, shallow-draft, sailing yachts. For recommendations, please get in touch.
THALIMA – a 33.7m performance cruiser from Southern Wind Shipyards. She's the first in the new SWS 110 series designed by Nauta for high sailing performance to combine relaxing cruising and exciting sailing.
THALIMA has a modern, spacious and bright interior achieved with a choice of premium materials, colors, shapes, and light source. The décor is simple yet with an elegant contemporary edge and a welcoming atmosphere. Her accommodation, for up to eight guests in total, includes the master cabin, a double and two twin cabins.
"I am not known for brevity, so this will be comprehensive. The short summary is: WOW, loved the Cuan Law and the BVI and you may add every superlative you can think of!
My husband had planned this trip to celebrate my 60th birthday, and invited 18 friends to join us. I was mildly alarmed when I learned of the plan (20 of us, on a boat, for a week??!!) and I must say that every facet of this trip FAR exceeded my expectations.
I am a pretty positive person, but people called me to express their concerns: would they be seasick, they don't dive, or even generally like being near the water, would there be enough room for everyone, how would the food work with everyone's different tastes, would there be enough to do, would there be too much sun, etc. etc.
And this is why I wanted to write a review. To reassure anyone considering spending time on the Cuan Law that you are in for a real treat.
The Crew – I know there is some fluidity with the staff (although our outgoing captain had been with the Cuan Law for 15 years, and several other crew members for 2 or more years) so I can't guarantee who your crew will be. However, what we experienced is likely to reflect the "corporate" culture – which was a group of people who were competent, FUN, helpful, ACCOMMODATING, had great attitudes and were all around quite wonderful. There was a strong camaraderie among the staff and a genuine warmth that was palpable. There is no doubt that they contributed in a huge way to everyone's excellent adventure.
The Boat – I don't have much of a frame of reference to compare it to, but the space was extremely well designed and lent itself to a lot of interaction. There were no lack of places to be out of the strong Caribbean sun. The trimaran is a STABLE vessel, and we hugged the coast among the British Virgin Islands. We were not in the open ocean and everyone remarked at how well they slept (with the boat gently rocking in the water.) The boat was ship-shape clean and seemed quite up-to-date. Cabins were plenty large and beds were comfortable.
The Itinerary – We had a range of interests and water skills and all were happily addressed. The divers dove, those seeking certification were well taught, the snorkelers had plenty to see every day (including the Wreck of The Rhone!), those who wanted beach time had plenty of private, white sand beaches to enjoy and water sports were available too (water skiing, tubing, sailing the Hobie Cat, kayaking, etc.) I think we took advantage of everything that was offered. Most days included a hike and for those of us who went on those, we were richly rewarded with outstanding views. The captain re-arranged our plans (on his own) so that one couple who had to depart early were able to join us at The Baths on Virgin Gorda. SO APPRECIATIVE that he did that. And when our friends learned that they had to be home on Wednesday night, mid-trip, plans were made to get them to Beef Island, to catch a flight to Puerto Rico, then home. It was seamless.
The British Virgin Islands are not overrun with tourists and cruise ships. It is just really chill, gorgeous and in many places, simply magical. Each island, each part of the day, each opportunity and experience was awesome.
Food – Creative, home-made options were presented at every meal and every attempt was made to be sure that everyone had what they needed. Truly impressed with what was prepared each day (3 meals AND hors d'hoeuvres) for a full boat and the crew, in a galley kitchen. And not just thrown together – there was serious presentation involved! We received a Questionnaire prior to the trip to make sure that our dietary needs were addressed, and that our goals for the trip were met. Check and check.
There are not enough superlatives to describe how happy we ALL were with this unique experience. If you can fill the boat with folks you know (and really like!) all the better. If you are just signing up on your own, I think you will have an excellent time as well.
Turkey has a wealth of history and intrigue and the west coast from Bodrum, Marmaris or Gocek is a perfect summer charter destination. Along this coastline of spectacular pine-clad hillsides, sheltered bays and turquoise water, there are many pretty anchorages, beautiful clear water for swimming and water-sports, fishing villages, ancient ruins and archeological sites including Lycian and Greek cities, sunken Roman harbours and crusader castles to explore.
Turkey is a cruising destination for many super-yachts, but is perhaps more well-known for the traditional wooden gulets. The more recent Turkish boats offer impressive facilities including spacious cabins with high headroom, extensive deck areas and enormously hospitable crew.
If Turkey could be a destination for you this summer with your friends or family, please ask for a list of recommended boats. We can provide information on the the cruising area, charter costs and booking procedures. | {
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WWE recently announced that Becky Lynch has been invited back to this week's episode of Monday Night RAW by The McMahon Family despite being suspended by WWE CBO Stephanie McMahon earlier this week.
Stephanie told Lynch that she needed to get clearance on her knee injury before she could face RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey at WrestleMania and until she did so Lynch would be suspended.
On RAW, Lynch punched WWE CBO Stephanie McMahon and the very next night on SmackDown LIVE, she slapped WWE COO Triple H after he tried to convince her to do the same in regards to getting her knee injury cleared. | {
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Our various smart online tools will help you draw up a blueprint, design a tile pattern, or order the correct number of tiles to create a border in the pattern of your choice.
The Mosa Pattern Generator is a user-friendly online design tool that can be used to create unique patterns with tiles from the entire Mosa collection. The Generator offers a wide selection of grids and patterns to inspire you, all of which have been designed by the Mosa Design Team. Save your results in My Mosa, export them to the rendering software of your choice, print them to create a mood board, or make a technical drawing for a tiler. | {
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Notice is hereby given that the Macon-Bibb County Board of Commissioners will receive sealed bids in the Procurement Department, Macon-Bibb Government Center, 700 Poplar Street, Macon, Georgia 31201, until 12:00 o'clock NOON at the time legally prevailing in Macon, Georgia on Thursday, November 5, 2015 for Ground Maintenance Services for the Macon-Bibb County, Georgia.
Bids will be publicly opened in the Macon-Bibb County Procurement Department Conference Room on Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 2:00 pm.
1. A mandatory pre-bid conference and walk through is scheduled for 10:00 o'clock a.m., Tuesday, October 20, 2015, Macon-Bibb Government Center, 700 Poplar Street Room 308 Macon, Ga 31201. | {
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Immortalized in Easy Rider, Peter Fonda's Captain America motif has endured as a timeless helmet graphic like no other. All of Troy's open-face helmets are DOT certified and use a dual-density foam liner. Additional features include entry and exit cooling vents, a two-position visor, an open-cell foam interior liner made with lambskin leather, synthetic microfiber suede, Dri-Lex, and synthetic leather materials.
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Of course, Steve McQueen was world renowned as an actor, but one quick peek behind his Hollywood veneer would reveal a man who was as truly passionate about racing cars and motorcycles as he was about acting. In fact, the undisputed "King of Cool" not only co-starred alongside Mert Lawwill in On Any Sunday, but he also helped finance the movie. ■
Troy Lee's tribute to three
famous two-wheelers
For the multitude of motorcyclists who came of age in the '70s, Bruce Brown's cinematic masterpiece, On Any Sunday, captured America's growing love affair with throttle-twisting like no other. Although the movie followed the exploits and high jinks of a variety of racing icons, none were highlighted as closely as that of 1969 AMA grand national champion Mert Lawwill. This is a replica of the helmet (in Harley Davidson colors) that he raced with in the movie as he tried to defend his #1 plate.
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Chapter 11. The Cervical Complex. In: Dutton M. Dutton M Ed. Mark Dutton.eds. Dutton's Orthopedic Survival Guide: Managing Common Conditions New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2011. http://accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=467§ionid=40079853. Accessed April 22, 2019.
. "Chapter 11. The Cervical Complex." Dutton's Orthopedic Survival Guide: Managing Common Conditions Dutton M. Dutton M Ed. Mark Dutton. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2011, http://accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=467§ionid=40079853.
With stability being sacrificed for mobility, the cervical complex is rendered more vulnerable to both direct and indirect trauma.
Neck pain usually resolves in days or weeks, but can recur and become chronic. Due to the proximity of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) to both the craniovertebral joints and the cervical spine proper, dysfunction of this joint must always be given consideration when examining this complex.
The cervical complex consists of the craniovertebral joints, the cervical spine proper, and the TMJ. The craniovertebral joints connect the cervical spine proper to the head.
Transverse: retains the odontoid process in contact with the anterior arch during cervical flexion and extension.
Alar functions to limit rotation of the craniovertebral region at C1–2.
The cervical spine proper, consisting of seven vertebrae, is one of the key links in the upper kinetic chain as, together with the craniovertebral joints, it is responsible for the control of head, and thus eye motion. For the most part, the muscles of the cervical complex (Table 11-1) function to support and move the head (Tables 11-2 and 11-3). Given the number of degrees of freedom available at the neck, it is likely that the muscles are organized as functional synergies. Synergies are conceptualized as units of control, incorporating the muscles around the joint that will act together in a functional fashion.3 Under this concept, the central nervous system needs only trigger a synergic unit to produce a specific movement, instead of communicating with each individual muscle.3 Synergistic movement incorporates both agonist and antagonist muscle groups, which results in a greater level of control. | {
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Sidearming lefty Javier Lopez neutralized Philadelphia's left-handed sluggers in the NL championship series and looks to do the same this week against Hamilton and the Texas Rangers.
Lopez will likely need to be as tough on Hamilton as he was on Jason Heyward, Chase Utley and Ryan Howard in the first two rounds of the playoffs if the Giants are going to win their first World Series since moving West in 1958.
"These guys can bang it around the yard and Hamilton's going to lead that charge," Lopez said. "To have some experience of going in and facing some big-time lefties in those situations, hopefully that's something I can build off."
Lopez has appeared in seven of San Francisco's 10 postseason games, allowing one hit, one walk and striking out six in five innings. Despite his limited time on the field, he was one of the Giants' most valuable players in the NLCS against Philadelphia.
Lopez also struck out Heyward twice in his only appearances of the division series against Atlanta.
None of those stars came into their series hitting nearly as well as Hamilton right now. He batted .350 with four homers and seven RBIs to win the ALCS MVP award against the New York Yankees.
He reached safely in 15 of 28 plate appearances, getting seven hits and eight walks. The Yankees were so scared of him that they issued him an ALCS-record five intentional walks, including three in the Game 6 clincher.
"I don't know how much I was surprised," Lopez said of the intentional walks. "The guy's a tremendous player. He's an MVP candidate every year. You obviously play percentages and matchups and that's what (the Yankees) were doing."
The Giants will try to do the same by bringing in Lopez in key spots against Hamilton. With no other lefties in the middle of the Texas lineup, those appearances could be brief.
Hamilton and Lopez have faced off four times in their careers. One of those meetings came this past June when Lopez retired Hamilton on a groundout with two runners on while he was still pitching for Pittsburgh. Hamilton hit an RBI double and walked once in three plate appearances against Lopez back in 2008.
Rangers hitting coach Clint Hurdle, who managed Lopez in Colorado early in his career, sees a much more accomplished pitcher today.
"He was a rookie who was trying to keep one stroke, the sidearm stroke," Hurdle said. "Now he has a lot of confidence. You look at him as almost three different arm angles with the slider and the fastball. It's a very diverse package."
When the Giants acquired Lopez at the trade deadline from Pittsburgh, the talk was more about how general manager Brian Sabean failed to add the big bat the team needed.
But with lefty relievers Jeremy Affeldt and Dan Runzler injured, Lopez filled a needed role. His responsibility only grew with his success and he is now probably the team's second-most important reliever behind closer Brian Wilson.
Lopez had a 1.42 ERA in 27 regular-season appearances for the Giants. He allowed just five hits in 45 at-bats against lefties with two walks.
He also brings postseason experience, having won the World Series with Boston in 2007.
"This guy, since we got him, has done a terrific job," Bochy said. "Nice to have a left-hander down there late in the ballgame. We have a couple to help us out here. But he's certainly been a shot in the arm for this club. Not just in the playoffs, but getting here. And we worked him pretty hard there early and he's just been terrific."
The Giants now have Affeldt back, giving them a second left-hander to match up with Hamilton if they need. Affeldt wasn't nearly as effective as Lopez this year, posting a 4.14 ERA and allowing a .290 average against lefties. Affeldt appeared three times in the playoffs, allowing one run and no hits.
He has never faced Hamilton in the regular season.
"I've looked at tape and stuff like that," Affeldt said. "It's a matter of executing pitches. He's a dangerous hitter and we've just got to do our best to execute the pitches that we feel can get him out. Hopefully we feel we can get him out. ... The fun thing about the World Series, a lot of times you have limited experience facing these guys."
AP Baseball Writers Janie McCauley and Ben Walker and AP freelance writer Michael Wagaman contributed to this story. | {
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