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Preview: No. 2 UConn women’s basketball vs. No. 1 South Carolina (7 p.m., FS1)
The Huskies take on their first top-five opponent of the season Monday night.
By Megan Gauer@megangauer Updated Feb 8, 2021, 12:47pm EST
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Where: Gampel Pavilion, Storrs, CT
When: Monday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m.
TV: Fox Sports 1 (FS1)
Stream: FoxSportsGo.com
Radio: UConn IMG Sports Network
Record: 15-1 (10-0 SEC)
Location: Columbia South Carolina
Head coach: Dawn Staley (13th season)
UConn women’s basketball will face its biggest test of the season so far when it hosts the No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks at Gampel Pavilion. The Gamecocks secured their first-ever win over UConn last season, 70-52. The Huskies will look to avenge that loss Monday night.
South Carolina boasts one of, if not the best resume in women’s college basketball this season. Its one loss came in early-December to N.C. State. The Gamecocks are also an impressive 10-0 in SEC play so far and in firm possession of the top spot in the league, which has seven teams ranked in the AP Top 25.
The focal point of this game will be in the post, particularly the matchup between Aliyah Boston and Olivia Nelson-Ododa — both of whom were named to the top-10 watchlist for the Lisa Leslie Award, which goes to the best center in the country.
Boston is South Carolina’s go-to player on both ends of the court, averaging a double-double with 13.7 points and 11.2 rebounds per game. She’ll likely be the toughest matchup Nelson-Ododa and Aaliyah Edwards face all season.
“It’s a lot for Liv but she’s ready,” head coach Geno Auriemma said of Nelson-Ododa’s role Monday night. “I think this is a good time for her. I think she’s in a pretty good place right now. Her game is in a really good place at this point.”
Nelson-Ododa has struggled in the Huskies’ other big games against Tennessee and Arkansas but is coming off a solid performance at Marquette where she scored eight points with eight rebounds and seven assists in one of UConn’s most complete performances of the season. The Huskies will need a similar outing from her Monday night.
Edwards will also be a critical part of the frontcourt matchup for UConn and her physicality inside should be advantageous for the Huskies against an elite center. Edwards can provide size if Nelson-Ododa is in foul trouble — an option UConn did not have last season. Playing her alongside Nelson-Ododa also allows the Huskies to play big and run more offense through the post.
“Aaliyah is going to have to keep our offense flowing,” Auriemma said of his expectations for the freshman. “We use her a lot to facilitate in our offense.”
Edwards looks ready for a critical role on the offensive end is something after excelling in her last few games. In UConn’s last three outings, she averaged over 14 points per game on 78 percent shooting from the floor.
While the frontcourt battle will take center stage, the backcourt matchups shouldn’t be ignored. South Carolina features a pair of elite guards in Zia Cooke and Destanni Henderson. Cooke leads the team in scoring at 16.7 points per game and is also the Gamecocks’ biggest threat from deep, shooting 42.4 percent from beyond the arc this season.
Henderson is South Carolina’s best facilitator with 5.9 assists per game. She also excels at getting to the line and has put up over 20 points in a few games this season, including against tough opponents like Gonzaga and Kentucky.
Cooke and Henderson will present a big challenge for UConn’s defense which has struggled to contain top guards this season (look no further than Chelsea Dungee’s 37 point performance in the loss at Arkansas).
Between Paige Bueckers, Christyn Williams and Evina Westbrook, the Huskies shouldn’t have much trouble getting things going on offense. But if they can’t slow down South Carolina’s guards, even Bueckers’ hot shooting might not be enough to bail them out.
UConn’s keys to the game
Avoid a slow start: In last year’s game, UConn’s fate was sealed when it got out to a historically slow start and scored just two points in the first quarter. Slow starts have plagued the Huskies all season long. If they can another one on Monday, they can play their game instead of trying dig themselves out of a hole.
Interior defense: Zia Cooke is the only Gamecock that averages more than one make from deep per game. While UConn needs to avoid leaving her open on the outside, the interior defense will make or break the game. South Carolina will look to score the majority of its points in the paint and around the basket, which means the Huskies will need to limit the visitors’ opportunities on the inside.
Rebound, rebound, rebound: South Carolina is elite on the glass, ranking first in the country in defensive rebounds per game and fifth in offensive rebounds per game, per Her Hoop Stats. UConn struggled on the defensive boards in the first quarter of Friday’s game against Marquette and will need to avoid a similar pitfall on Monday.
Build on Friday’s performance: UConn strung together a strong performance on both ends of the floor against Marquette. If the Huskies can continue building on the defense and ball movement they displayed Friday, they’ll put themselves in a great position to come away with the win. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9016214609146118, "wiki_prob": 0.9016214609146118, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1229581"} |
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Pan Pacific Resources
This guide is intended for students and researchers studying the law and legal systems and traditions of the smaller island nations and territories of the Pacific Ocean at the University of Oxford, although students and researchers from any field may find it useful.
Use this guide to find out about sources and commentary for Pacific Island jurisdictions, including ebooks, ejournals, and databases.
Pacific Island Legal Resources : quick start
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Geographic regions
Online resources requiring an Oxford SSO
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council hears ‘appeals to Her Majesty in Council’ from Kiribati, Tuvalu, Cook Islands & Niue
Oxford Constitutions of the World This link opens in a new window
Alternative names: OCW ; Constitutions of the countries of the world, Constitutions of dependencies & territories
English translations of the constitutions and constitutional documents of the world’s nations and sub-national jurisdictions.
Lexis+ UK This link opens in a new window
Includes Law Reports of the Commonwealth (LRC) as well as AC reports
Alternative names:Lexis ; LexisLibrary ; Lexis Library ; Lexis International
Lexis+ includes extensive primary and secondary legal materials from the UK, EU, USA and many other jurisdictions. It is the only online source for the full text of the All England Law Reports and Halsbury’s Laws. International content can be accessed by following the “International” link on the home page. UK legal news and newspapers are also included
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LLMC-digital is a collection of English language legal titles and government documents divided into ten major jurisdictional or subject areas:
US Federal Government; US States and Territories; Canada; United Kingdom; Germany federal; Germany state, kingdoms and free cities; Other Countries (Afghanistan to Zimbabwe); International Law and Organizations; Indigenous Law covering materials from various regions of the United States, Canada and Indonesia; and Special Focus Collections which includes British Empire Studies, Canon Law, Islamic Law, Military Law, Native American Collection, Roman law, etc.
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
Alternative name: OIELH
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History is the online version of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (edited by S.N. Katz et al) published by OUP in 2009.
Online resources which do not require an Oxford SSO. PacLII is a recommended starting point, particularly if you are interested in jurisdictions belonging to the common law or Anglo-American legal tradition.
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 2009 onwards
Official website. Transcripts of decided cases from 31 July 2009 onwards. Free access to earlier decisions available via BAILII
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1999-2009
Links to Judgments of the JCPC 1999-2009 which are now on an archived site.
BAILII: Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1809-
Open Access From 1809 onwards, but only complete from 1996 onwards. Prior to that it has "selected historical decisions." Case papers from the IALS collection from 1930 -1985 (effectively a full paper set from 1950 to 1985) and some selected papers from earlier judgments of special interest to researchers have been included in the project. The digitised papers (case for the appellant, case for the respondent, record of proceedings, factums and appendices) are available as searchable PDF files alongside the judgment texts
Privy Council Papers Online 1792-1998
Open access "This website presents the first digital catalogue of the 'Printed Papers' of Appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), which was the final court of appeal for the British empire and later, for several countries of the Commonwealth. [see More]
The 'Printed Papers in appeal' are detailed 'case-records' associated with appeal cases heard by the JCPC, which supplement the judgements. This catalogue contains key details for 9,368 cases, decided between 1792-1998, links to full-text judgements from BAILII where available, and the full text Printed Papers for 6 cases."
PacLII
Free resource. List of Pacific law databases. Predominately primary sources case transcripts & legislation
Pacific Legal Gateway
Free - part of PacLII "A law portal for Pacific Islands regional resources and legal research tools." To research Pacific Islands primary legal material, use the PacLII link above.
Commonwealth iLibrary This link opens in a new window
The Commonwealth iLibrary comprises the Commonwealth Secretariat’s publications and covers such topics as globalisation and multinational trade issues, gender, education, law and human rights, and public service management and reform. It includes ebooks and working papers.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) This link opens in a new window
Archive of social science papers including legal papers.
The subscribed collections are:
•Economics Research
•Financial Economics
•Legal Scholarship
•Management Research
The Law Bod shelves its collections of printed materials for these individual Pacific Island nations on Level 1 (one floor beneath the entrance level). The books are grouped by jurisdiction, with shelf marks beginning with the country name or an abbreviation of it.
For these jurisdictions you may find useful chapters in books shelved in the collections of comparative law studies, with shelf marks beginning Cw Gen or General. These collections are on Level 2, the entrance level to the law library.
For more information please see the Books page in this guide
Introduction to South Pacific Law by Jennifer Corrin; Don Paterson
Call Number: Cw Gen 510 C271b4
Publication Date: 4th edn, 2017
The Law Library's collection is searchable using SOLO, Oxford University's online catalogue
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SOLO is the official search tool for the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. It allows searching of around 13 million library items, 3 million Electronic Legal Deposit e-books and journal articles, the theses and articles stored in ORA, and research articles from journals subscribed to by the University. A specialist map search is also available.
If you are having difficulty using SOLO there is an online guide below,
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Your searches in SOLO may well reveal other Bodleian Libraries have material which would support your research.
In most cases, if you have a current Oxford University Card or a Bodleian Reader's Card, you will already be able to access these libraries - however, please do check information on the other Libraries' own websites, particularly their location & opening hours.
Bodleian Weston Library
The Weston Library is the home of the Bodleian Libraries' special collections, which include the former Commonwealth and African Studies Library. Visit the official website - via this link - for details of opening hours, services etc
Bodleian Social Science Library (SSL)
The Bodleian Social Science Library (SSL) supports teaching and research subjects which can be of interdisciplinary interest to lawyers - criminology, socio-legal studies, sociology, politics, international relations, economics, geography (including environmental studies) and refugee studies. Please visit the SSL's official website - via this link - for opening hours, services etc
Geographic terms you may encounter, and the countries they are usually taken to include
Oceania: Australia (including Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island) and New Zealand, and the island groupings below.
Melanesia: Fiji, Nouvelle Calédonie (New Caledonia, France), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
Micronesia: Guam (United States), Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (United States), Palau
Polynesia American Samoa (United States), Cook Islands (NZ), French Polynesia (France), Niue (NZ), Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands (UK), Samoa, Tokelau (NZ), Tonga, Tuvalu, Wallis and Futuna (France)
French Polynesia Society Islands (Tahiti and Moorea), the Gambier Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Marquesas Islands, and the Austral Islands (Tubuai Islands and Bass Islands).
South Pacific Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
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Science Says: True Love Waits?
In his posting entitled Liberal Education as Problem Identification — Part 2: The Case of Sex, posted on September 2, 2012, big thinker and cultural critic Peter Lawler wrote “since 1963 (more or less), the sophisticated wisdom has been on the side of easygoing sexual satisfaction. Sex can and should be for pleasure detached from various repressive relational concerns. The only limit to consensual gratification should be health and safety.” So, safe sex was moral sex.
According to some of the latest scientific studies, however, chastity actually turns out to be a virtue that can make us happier than we would otherwise be. And it’s a common refrain from many of the singles I work with: “I am NOT into the hook-up culture,” “I want marriage maybe and monogamy definitely,” or “I’m not into the one-night-stand mentality” are variations on this theme – which I hear more often than not.
But what about the cold, hard science? Lawler’s article cites a study into the effects of having sex before marriage, and the study suggests it’s much better not to. “Those who abstain during their courtship or build up a gradual sexual relationship, rather than leaping into bed on the first date, are more likely to have happier and longer relationships,” Lawler reports.
He goes on to explain: “The researchers who carried out the study, the first of its kind, say that early sexual satisfaction may stunt the development of other key ingredients of healthy relationships, such as commitment, caring, understanding and shared values.”
The postponement of sexual involvement is associated with higher levels of relationship quality,” say the researchers from Cornell University. “Women who deferred sexual involvement for over six months reported significantly higher levels of relationship satisfaction, commitment, intimacy and emotional support, as well as sexual satisfaction with their partner, than did those who became sexually involved within the first month.”
This could be a bitter pill to swallow if you’re in the test-drive-before-you-buy camp. But at least hear him out: The researchers concluded “Precocious premarital sexual activities may have lasting effects on relationship quality. Courtship is a time for exploration and decision-making about the relationship, when partners assess compatibility, make commitments and build on emotional and physical intimacy.” We must admit, it can be difficult to make smart decisions and accurately assess compatibility when you’re high on oxytocin, seratonin, and other feel-good bonding hormones that are released in torrents at the conclusion of a sexual encounter.
And this new it-pays-to-wait philosophy is somewhat of an about-face almost 50 years after the sexual revolution. It’s a challenge to many of our assumptions and practices to think that our modern-day open-legs policy may not be so rewarding after all.
Why is that? “Love takes on many forms, and it’s stunted when identified simply with casual sexual satisfaction,” writes Lawler. But “it’s capitalism,” explains a leading philosopher, “that makes sexual satisfaction one-dimensional by reducing it to yet another easily acquired commodity.”
Conservative Platonic critic Allan Bloom has observed that the eros of our time is weak. “The Puritans were clearly more erotic that we are,” he asserts. “Show a Puritan guy an ankle, and he’s aroused. But our guys can see perfectly sculpted, semi-unclad young women in all kinds of virtual and real places and yawn.” Is this because sexual experiences, sexual images, and sexual objects are just so, so EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME?
“Maybe the only way [we] can identify the problem of our erotic lameness is through encounters with the love, death, and personal “relationships” displayed in the great philosophy, poetry, and theology of the past,” Lawler proposes. Uh oh, am I getting too philosophical/romantic on you?
Then let me get to the bottom line: You’ve heard many a dating coach (myself included) say “No sex before monogamy” While six months (the length of time set in the study) sounds like an excruciating infinity for those who are experiencing undeniably hot chemistry, it’s wise to acknowledge how brain chemistry is changed by sexual activity – and how that doped-up post-coital state affects your ability to reason.
Though I’m not normally one to quote the evangelicals, perhaps it’s worth reconsidering their slogan of “True love waits.” To allow Lawler the final word on the subject: “For courtship to make a full comeback in the service of civilized happiness, courting has to mean something.”
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How Kirstie Alley and Prince Became Friends
Matthew Wilkening Published: December 6, 2022
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Kirstie Alley said Prince wasn't anything like his rumored shy self when they first met.
The Cheers actress, who died in December 2022, recalled her first meeting with the music superstar in her 2012 autobiography The Art of Men (I Prefer Mine al Dente.) "I was sitting all alone in the middle of an enormous arena," she wrote. "I'd come to participate in the Special Olympics. The rumors were that Prince was shy and never approached people. He walked right up to me. I looked up, and there he was. 'Hi, I'm Prince,' as if I wouldn't recognize him, 'and this is my father.'"
After Alley introduced herself, she says Prince "dreamily" replied, "I know who you are." The two struck up a fast friendship and stayed in touch over the years, visiting each other on the set of Cheers, at his Paisley Park studio and at her house in Encino.
The duo collaborated on Prince's 1992 The Love Symbol Album, with Alley portraying reporter Vanessa Bartholomew in the video for the single "My Name is Prince" and on spoken interludes strewn throughout the album. She also presented Prince with an award for his educational philanthropy at the 1994 VH1 Honors.
"He is the most interesting person I've met to date," Alley wrote in her book. "I needn't speak of his talent because it's evident. What you might not know is that he is electric. His being radiates and lights up the room. I mean that literally. He lights up a room like a firefly in a jar. ... Prince taught me that I was unique, just by being the only 'me' in the universe. I love him."
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The tech world’s latest virtual assistant looks so realistic, you might mistake her for an actual human.
Apple has Siri, and Amazon has Alexa. But the lifelikeness of both are dwarfed by Mica: a prototype that Magic Leap, a highly regarded augmented-reality startup, unveiled at its conference Wednesday.
Mica isn’t just a voice assistant. She’s something you can actually see if you wear the company’s augmented-reality glasses, called Magic Leap One. Mica looks and acts like a human — she makes eye contact and offers a warm smile, along with other human-like expressions.
Experts say Mica is a breakthrough in realistic avatars and could have far-reaching implications for society, impacting everything from human connections to education and our health.
For starters, she could be used to turn on or off your smart home devices, including TVs, stereo systems and lights. Magic Leap also demonstrated how Mica can answer detailed questions, such as recalling a person’s favorite song from a concert attended a year ago (the company did not explain how Mica learns such information).
In fact, Mica seems so real that she startled Magic Leap’s test subjects.
“When people came close to Mica they’d instinctively back up, as if they were invading her personal space,” John Monos, Magic Leap’s vice president of human-centered AI, said at the conference. “These incredibly visceral reactions to Mica completely realigned our priorities. Our goal is nothing short of the most realistic human experience in spatial computing.”
Magic Leap announced Mica, a realistic virtual assistant, at its conference this week.
According to Monos, when Mica smiled, people smiled back. And when Mica yawned — a contagious social behavior — the subjects would yawn too.
Magic Leap hopes Mica is just the beginning. The company is encouraging computer developers to build similar assistants on its platform.
“We will create a new universe,” Monos said. “Together we will populate that world. We can’t wait to some day meet your Mica.”
This is all possible because of Magic Leap’s breakthroughs in augmented reality, according to Amitabh Varshney, a University of Maryland professor who researches augmented and virtual reality. He pointed to the way light reflects off Mica’s skin, a subtle detail that’s critical to making Mica seem human.
Varshney says the visual realism is closer than ever to leaping over the uncanny valley, a phenomenon in which humans feel discomfort and revulsion looking at something that appears almost human but isn’t.
Mica's facial expressions are highly realistic.
Magic Leap hasn’t said when it expects people to experience Mica, or an equivalent assistant.
But according to Aditya Sankar, director of research and education at the University of Washington Reality Lab, in a couple decades it could be common for people to wake up in the morning, put on their augmented reality glasses and see their very own Mica.
“If you told someone 15 or 20 years ago [they would have] something in your pocket that finds any information you seek at your fingertips, people would probably not have believed you,” Sankar said of smartphones.
Powerful implications for education – and ethics
The new technology could also potentially impact how we learn.
As Varshney put it: “Wouldn’t it be nice if you walked into the National Gallery and had Van Gogh explain his art?”
Companies might make avatars of historical figures such as Van Gogh, Einstein or Martin Luther King, Jr. Students could sit across a table from a famous figure and get personally tutored on relativity from the person who discovered it. Plus, realistic AI assistants could be able to earn our trust, which could be useful for fields like telemedicine.
This breakthrough raises ethical questions, too.
Avatars introduce the possibility of even more powerful fake news. What if a respected historical figure were used to incite violence? Regulations may be needed to govern the likeness of a person in a virtual world, Varshney said.
But realistic avatars could be used to encourage tolerance. Through augmented reality, a person biased against a minority group could receive a favor from an avatar who looks like a member of that group. In the real world, they would be more likely to reciprocate in a positive fashion toward a member of the minority group, Varshney said.
But critics caution about the hazards of increasingly human-like technologies. We’re hardwired to believe that machines with an avatar or a human sounding voice have empathy, and care for us as a human would.
“Why do we want to attribute personality, empathy, being to an avatar that has none?” said Sherry Turkle, founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. “We talk to Siri, Echo, Alexa. We are starting to ask for their advice not just on where to order a pizza but about how we feel about our boyfriends, children, our parents.”
Magic Leap did not respond to a request for comment on that point. Turkle cautions that we’re at an inflection point, similar to when the iPhone was introduced. It was a remarkable innovation and incredibly popular with users – but smartphones can also be addictive and distracting in social situation.
“Tim Cook apologizes and says, ‘Sorry! Here are tools to walk it back,’” Turkle said. “What do we forget when we talk to machines? We forget what it is to be human – what is special about talking to a human. That is the danger.”
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The following is a verbatim reprint of our current ordinance governing Backflow Prevention for the City of Alamogordo. If you have any questions please contact the Code Administration Division.
Article 8-08 Cross Connection, Prevention and Control
8-08-010 Purpose
The purpose of this ordinance is to protect the public health, safety and welfare through the prevention and control of cross connections by:
A. Protecting the municipal water system, owned and operated by the City of Alamogordo, hereinafter referred to as the "municipal water system," from contamination or pollution due to cross connections by containing hazards at the service connection;
B. Requiring the elimination or control of existing cross connections, actual or potential, between the customer’s potable water system(s) and non-potable water system(s), plumbing fixtures, and industrial piping systems; and
C. Providing for the maintenance of a continuing program of cross connection control that will systematically and effectively reduce the risk of the contamination of the municipal water system.
8-08-020 Applicability
The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to all new non-residential and residential water services. For all other services, Unless otherwise specified within individual sections of this ordinance, existing services shall not be required to comply with the requirements of this ordinance. Compliance with this ordinance shall be a precondition of receiving or, in instances where existing installations are covered under this ordinance, continuing to receive water service from the municipal water system.
8-08-030 Definitions
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this Ordinance.
Approved Assembly. The term approved assembly refers to a specific (by size, model and make) backflow prevention assembly listed by an approved listing agency as follows:
1. Containment Backflow Prevention Assembly. An assembly listed by the Foundation for Cross Connection Control and Hydraulic Research of the University of Southern California or other listing agency, acceptable to the New Mexico Environment Department and approved by the City of Alamogordo Code Administration Division, hereinafter referred to as the "Code Administration Division."
Isolation Backflow Prevention Assembly. An assembly listed by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials and approved by the Code Administration Division.
Auxiliary Water Supply. A water supply on or available to the premise other than the municipal water system supply.
Backflow. The reversal of water flow into a potable water system.
Back Pressure. An increased pressure in a customer’s water system caused by a pump, elevated tank, boiler, or any other means that may result in backflow.
Back siphonage. A backflow condition wherein water is being drawn or pulled backwards as a result of a negative or decreased pressure in the water supply.
Backflow Prevention Assembly. An assembly or means to prevent backflow.
Air-Gap. The unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening from any pipe or faucet conveying water or waste to a tank, plumbing fixture, receptor and the flood level rim of the receptacle.
Atmospheric Vacuum Breaker Assembly. An assembly consisting of a float check, a check seat and an air inlet port. The assembly shall include a tightly closing, full ported, resilient seated shut-off valve immediately upstream of the valve body.
Double Check Valve Assembly. An assembly consisting of two internally loaded check valves, either spring loaded or internally weighted, installed as a unit between two tightly closing, full ported, resilient seated shut-off valves and equipped with properly located resilient seated test cocks.
Pressure Vacuum Breaker Assembly. An assembly consisting of one independently operating spring loaded check valve and an independently operating spring loaded check valve and an independently operating spring loaded air inlet valve located on the discharge side of the check valve, installed as a unit between two tightly fitting, full ported, resilient seated shut-off valves and equipped with properly located resilient seated test cocks.
Reduced Pressure Principle Backflow Prevention Assembly. An assembly consisting of two independently acting approved check valves together with hydraulically operating, mechanically independent pressure differential relief valves located between the check valves and below the first check valve. These units are located between two tightly closing, full ported, resilient seated shut-off valves as an assembly and equipped with properly located resilient seated test cocks.
Certified Backflow Prevention Assembly Repair Person. A person who is a certified backflow prevention assembly tester, is cognizant of all applicable federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations and is licensed by the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, Construction Industries Division to perform the necessary repair work.
Certified Backflow Prevention Assembly Tester. A person who has demonstrated competence in the testing of backflow prevention assemblies by attending and passing the written and performance examinations administered as part of a training course approved by the Code Administration Division and who has a current certificate issued by the Code Administration Division.
Contamination. An actual or potential impairment of a potable water system by the introduction, or, admission of any substance that could cause to be a hazard.
Cross Connection. An actual or potential connection between any part of a potable water system and any other environment containing other substances in a manner that, under any circumstances, would allow such substances to enter the potable water system. Other substances may be gases, liquids, or solids, such as chemicals, waste products, steam, water from other sources (potable or non-potable), or any matter that may change the taste, color or odor of the water.
Cross Connections, Controlled. A connection between a potable water system and a non-potable water system with an approved backflow prevention assembly or air-gap properly installed and maintained so that it will continuously afford the protection commensurate with the degree of hazard.
Cross Connection Control by Containment. The use of an air-gap or an approved backflow prevention assembly at each service connection to a customer’s water system.
Cross Connection Control by Isolation. The use of an air-gap or an approved backflow prevention assembly within the customer’s water system at the point of each and every cross connection to effectively isolate the customer’s potable water system from the remainder of the customer’s water system.
Customer. The person responsible for payment of fees as determined by Article 28-03 of the Alamogordo Code of Ordinances.
Customer's Water System. The water system on the customer’s premises beginning at the service connection.
Enforcement Authority. The Code Administration Division of the City of Alamogordo, authorized to administer and enforce the provisions of the Cross Connection Prevention and Control Ordinance as adopted and amended. Enforcement Authority may also refer to the authorized agent of the Code Administration Division.
Hazard, Degree of. Degree of hazard is determined by the enforcement authority based on evaluation of conditions within the customer's premises. Hazards are classified as follows:
1. Health Hazard. An actual or potential threat of contamination of a physical or toxic nature to the municipal water system or the customer's water system that could be a danger to the public health.
2. Non-health Hazard. An actual or potential threat of pollution of a physical nature to the municipal water system but which would not constitute a health hazard. The maximum degree of intensity of pollution to which the potable water system could be degrade would be that which would cause a nuisance or be aesthetically objectionable.
3. System Hazard. An actual or eminent threat of contamination to the municipal water system which presents an eminent danger to public health.
Industrial Fluids. Fluid or solution that may be chemically, biologically, or otherwise contaminated or polluted in a form or concentration, such as would constitute a hazard if introduced into a potable water system. This may include, but is not limited to: polluted or contaminated waters; all types of process waters and used waters originating from the municipal potable water system that may have deteriorated in sanitary quality; chemicals in fluid form, plating acids and alkalis; circulating cooling towers that are chemically or biologically treated or stabilized with toxic substances; contaminated natural waters, such as wells, springs, streams, rivers, irrigation canals or systems, and so forth; oils, gasses, glycerin, paraffin, caustic and acid solutions, and other liquid and gaseous fluids used in industrial areas for the purposes of suppressing fires.
Municipal Water System. The potable water system owned and operated by the city of Alamogordo to supply residential and non-residential water users within and beyond the corporate city limits of the City of Alamogordo.
Non-Residential Service. Any service connected to the municipal water system that supplies water for a premises intended for uses other than those defined as single family residential within the current adopted building codes.
Pollution. An actual or potential impairment of a potable water system by the introduction or admission of any substance that does or tends to degrade the taste, color, odor or aesthetic quality of the water system but does not constitute a health hazard.
Residential Service. Any service connected to the municipal water system that supplies water for a premises intended for uses defined as any dwelling that has four residential units or less.
Service Connection. The service connection is defined as follows:
The terminal end of a water service from a municipal water system;
For metered water services, is the downstream end of the water meter to a customer's water system;
For un-metered water services and fire lines which serve private fire protection systems, is located at the property boundary or at the water utility easement boundary to a customer's premises; and
For the use of a fire hydrant and all other temporary or emergency water services, is located at the point of connection to the municipal water system.
Water, Fire Sprinkler. Water contained in a fire protection system intended for extinguishing fires and begins at the point of connection to the municipal water mains for un-metered fire line services and for metered fire line services, the fire sprinkler water begins at the customer's side of the city water meter.
Water, Potable. Water delivered by the municipal water system or water located within the customer's non-municipally owned plumbing intended for human consumption.
Water Non-potable. Water that is not safe for human consumption or that has questionable quality.
Water, Used. Any water delivered by the municipal water system to a customer's water system after it has passed the service connection.
8-08-040. Regulations and Technical Specifications.
The Code Administration Division shall be responsible for development of rules and regulations necessary to carry out the intent of this ordinance. Said rules and regulations are subject to reasonable compliance with the standards set forth within this ordinance and are subject to the review of the City Manager. Said rules and regulations shall include specifications to define back flow prevention assembly standard installation, details, and criteria. Initial and subsequent changes to the rules and regulations, and technical specifications shall be published by the Code Administration Division.
8-08-050. Responsibilities and Enforcement.
It shall be the responsibility of the Code Administration Division, the Public Works Department and to the Utility Billing Division to administer and enforce the provisions of this Ordinance. Customers, certified backflow prevention assembly testers and repairpersons are responsible for compliance as described in the following sections:
A. Public Works Department. The Public Works Department shall be responsible for the protection of the municipal water system from contamination or pollution due to the backflow of contaminants or pollutants through the water service connections. The public works Department shall work in close concert with the Code Administration Division in locating possible violations and providing assistance as may be needed in the successful enforcement of this Ordinance. The Public Works Department shall not knowingly install or maintain a water service connection unless the municipal water system is protected as required by this Ordinance.
The Public Works Department shall where possible insure that a double check backflow prevention assembly is provided when any meter is being replaced by the City of Alamogordo on any existing connection to the municipal water system, including all existing residential services. The Public Works Department shall be responsible for the maintenance of all double check backflow prevention assemblies installed at the connection to the municipal water system except where responsibility for maintenance is otherwise specified within this ordinance.
B. Code Administration Division. The Code Administration Division shall be responsible for reviewing and approving plans, issuing plumbing permits, and conducting inspections of backflow prevention assembly installations for new and remodeled structures within the jurisdictional limits of the Division. The Code Administration Division's responsibilities begin at each service connection and extend throughout the entire length of the customer's water system.
The Code Administration Division shall enforce the provisions of this ordinance that relate to cross connection control by containment; shall administer a continuing cross connection control program.
C. Utility Billing Division. After the effective date of this ordinance the utility billing division shall not connect any new service without establishing, at a minimum, that a Double Check Valve Assembly is installed at the service connection.
In the event that the Utility Billing Division personnel become aware of any cross connection creating an actual or potential health hazard the Utility Billing Division shall immediately notify the Code Administration Division of the location and hazard noted.
D. Customer. All customers shall be responsible for the prevention of contaminants, items of potential health hazard, system hazard as defined within this ordinance or water from auxiliary water supplies from entering the customer's water system within the premises and the municipal water system. Customers shall provide backflow prevention assembly(s) or air-gap(s) as required by the plumbing codes. The customer's responsibility begins at the service connection and extends throughout the entire length of the water system within the premises. Customers shall install, have tested, and maintain, at their own expense, backflow prevention assembly(s) and/or air-gap(s) as directed by the enforcement authority. Accurate records of all inspections, tests, repairs, overhauls and replacements of backflow prevention assembly(s) or air-gap(s) shall be maintained by the customer for a period of at least two years.
D. Certified Backflow Prevention Assembly Tester. Certified backflow prevention assembly testers shall inspect and test backflow prevention assemblies in accordance with City of Alamogordo approved methods and procedures; shall be equipped with and be competent in the use of all the necessary tools and gauges required to properly conduct testing of backflow prevention assemblies; complete and submit accurate and timely reports to the Code Administration Division; and report to the customer and the Enforcement Authority any discovered discrepancies associated with an existing backflow prevention assembly or existing cross connection within a customer's water system.
E Certified Backflow Prevention Assembly Repairperson. Certified backflow prevention assembly repair persons shall make competent repairs on backflow prevention assemblies; shall not change the design, material or operation characteristics of a backflow prevention assembly without prior approval from the Enforcement Authority; complete and submit accurate and timely reports to the Code Administration Division; and report to the customer and the Enforcement Authority any discovered discrepancies associated with an existing backflow prevention assembly or existing cross connections within the customer's water system.
8-08-060. Specific Requirements.
Specific requirements for cross connection control and backflow prevention assemblies are as follows:
A. Mandatory Cross-Connection Control by Containment. Premises where any of the following conditions or activities exist or occur are deemed to present a sufficient backflow contamination hazard such that cross connection control by containment is required: hospitals and clinics; nursing and convalescent homes; dental offices; laboratories; mortuaries and cemeteries; sewage and storm water pumping and treatment plants; radiator facilities; metal plating industries; veterinary and animal grooming clinics; taxidermists; food and beverage processing plants; premises where inspection is restricted; ready mix concrete, sand and gravel plants; schools and colleges with laboratories; water services dedicated solely to landscape irrigation systems; greenhouses; premises with auxiliary water supplies; water tank trucks or water tanks filled from fire hydrants; buildings with a height greater than thirty (30) feet; and other conditions and or activities as may be deemed by the Code Administration Division to constitute similar hazards to those listed above.
B. Containment Backflow Prevention Assembly Requirements. The type of backflow prevention assembly used for containment shall be required commensurate with the hazard in the premises as follows:
1. In cases of premises having an auxiliary water supply, the municipal water system shall be protected against back flow from the premises by installing an approved air-gap or an approved reduced pressure principal backflow prevention assembly.
2. In cases of premises on which any individual fluids or any other contaminants are handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to the municipal water system, the municipal water system shall be protected against backflow from the premises by installing an approved air-gap or an approved reduced pressure backflow prevention assembly. This shall include the handling of process waters and waters originating from the customer’s water system that have been subjected to deterioration in quality. Examples of premises where these conditions or activities exist include but are not limited to hospitals and clinics, dental office, laboratories, mortuaries and cemeteries, radiator shops, car washes, plating industries, photographic film processing facilities, commercial laundries, food and beverage processing plants, ready-mix concrete, sand and gravel plants, sewage and storm water treatment plants, veterinary and animal grooming clinics, schools and colleges with laboratories and greenhouses.
3. In cases of premises having internal cross connection or water piping systems that are impractical or impossible to ascertain whether or not cross connections exist on such systems, the municipal water system shall be protected against backflow from the premises by installing an approved air-gap or an approved reduced pressure backflow prevention assembly.
4. In the case of a premises having multiple water services connected at more than one point to the municipal water system and where the services create a looped water system with the customer's water system, the municipal water system shall be protected against backflow from these premises by installing an approved backflow prevention assembly (type of backflow prevention assembly to be determined by the City) at each service connection to the municipal water system.
5. In the case of water services to landscape irrigation systems connected to the municipal water system, the municipal water system shall be protected against backflow by installing an approved pressure vacuum breaker or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention assembly.
6. In the case of any premises where there is water or a pollutant that would be objectionable but not hazardous to health if introduced into the municipal water system, the municipal water system shall be protected against backflow by an approved double check valve assembly. In cases of nursing homes and buildings taller than thirty (30) feet not having a contamination hazard, the municipal water system shall be protected against backflow by an approved double check valve assembly.
7. In the case of any premises where there are uncontrolled cross connections, either actual or potential, the municipal water system shall be protected against backflow by an approved air-gap or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention assembly.
8. In the case of any premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibitions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete premises cross connection survey, the municipal water system shall be protected against backflow from the premises by an approved air-gap or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention assembly.
9. In the case of any premises where an undue health hazard is posed because of the presence of extremely toxic substances, the Code Administration Division may require an air-gap at the service connection to protect the municipal water system.
10. In the case of public fire hydrants approved for drawing water for filling tanks and tank trucks and for temporary irrigation systems, the municipal water system shall be protected against backflow by an approved air-gap or an approved reduced pressure backflow prevention assembly.
11. In the case of any premises having existing private wells and the owner desires to connect to the municipal water system, the options are as follows:
a.) Customers shall agree to permanently abandon wells by plugging the wells in accordance with the Code Administration procedures prior to connection to the municipal water system; or
b.) Customers who choose to maintain their private wells active shall agree to completely sever the private well from the premises’ plumbing system and have the water utility install an approved dual check valve at the water meter. The owner of the premises shall also sign a covenant that runs with the land that the private well shall not be reconnected to the premises plumbing without complying with item (c) of this subsection.
c.) If the customer chooses to maintain the well as a dual application use for the premises and maintain both connections, the municipal water system shall be protected against backflow by an approved air-gap or approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention device.
12. Atmospheric vacuum breakers shall not be used for containment applications. Atmospheric vacuum breakers may be used on isolation applications only.
C. Fire protection Systems. Fire protection systems begin at the service connection and include sprinklers, hose connections, hydrants, reservoirs, tanks, stand pipes, pumps, distribution pipes and other appurtenances within a premises that are owned, operated and maintained by the customer for the purposes of fire suppression. For all fire protection systems, except those described in paragraph (1) and (2) below, an approved backflow prevention assembly is required to be installed at the service connection.
1. Fire protection systems with no reservoirs, no fire pumper connections, no connections from auxiliary water systems, no antifreeze or other additives, and with all sprinkler drains discharging to atmosphere, constructed with acceptable potable water piping materials (approved listed products certified for conformance with ANSI/NSF standard 60 or 61) except as otherwise required by this Ordinance will not require an approved backflow protection assembly other than a double check valve assembly at the service connection.
2. Fire protection systems with pumps, fire pumper connections, and no antifreeze or other additives, and with all sprinkler drains discharging into the atmosphere, constructed prior to this Ordinance with non-potable water piping materials shall either retrofit with an approved backflow prevention assembly or have the fire protection system sampled annually at the customer's expense. Annual water sampling procedures shall be conducted by collecting first draw water samples and having them analyzed by a laboratory certified by the New Mexico Environment Department or the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The requirement shall be established from the implementation date of this ordinance or from the date in which the system described by this subsection was placed in service. If water sample analysis is acceptable, no further action is necessary until the next annual inspection. If the annual water sample analysis are unacceptable, then the customer shall have an approved backflow prevention assembly installed at the service connection. The first draw of water shall be collected before any water runs through the fire protection system and taken from the downstream side of the single check valve. The water samples shall be collected by a compliance water sampler who is certified by the New Mexico Environment Department Certification Office. Laboratory results shall be sent directly to the Code Administration Division as soon as the laboratory results are available. The water samples shall be analyzed for concentrations of iron, lead, copper, cadmium, and chromium and for the presence/absence of total coliform bacteria and for density of heterotopic bacteria. Water sample analysis results are acceptable if no total coliform are present, the number of colonies per milliliter is less than 500 in the heterotopic plate count analysis and concentrations of iron, lead, copper, cadmium and chromium do not exceed the maximum containment levels as established by the New Mexico Drinking Water Regulations. The laboratory shall use approved methods for testing water samples in accordance with one of the methods cited in the 16th or most current edition of the Standard Methods for the examination of Water and Wastewater. The Code Administration Division shall maintain an inventory of customers opting to have fire protection systems sampled annually and shall notify customers that are out of compliance.
3. Where backflow protection is required on an industrial domestic service that is located on the same premises, backflow protection shall be provided on the fire service connection. The industrial domestic system and the fire protection systems shall both require an approved backflow prevention assembly at the service connections.
4. Fire protection systems that are connected at more than one point to the Municipal water system shall contain approved backflow prevention assemblies at each service connection.
8-08-070. Inspections.
A. Right of Entry. Whenever necessary to make an inspections to enforce the provisions of this Ordinance, or wherever the Enforcement Authority or it's authorized representative has reasonable cause to believe that there exists in any building or upon any premises, any condition which makes such building or premises unsafe as defined in this Ordinance, the Enforcement Authority or it's authorized representative may enter such building or premises at all reasonable times to inspect the same or to perform any duty imposed upon the Enforcement Authority by this Ordinance; provided that if such building is occupied the inspector shall present proper credentials and demand entry; and if such premises be unoccupied, he shall first make reasonable effort to locate the owner or other person having charge or control of the building or premises, and demand entry. If entry is refused, the Enforcement Authority shall proceed to obtain a search warrant from the district court.
No owner or occupant or any other person having charge, care, or control of any building or premises shall fail or neglect, after proper demand is made as herein provided, to promptly permit entry therein by the Enforcement Authority or an authorized agent thereof for the purpose of inspection and examination pursuant to this ordinance. Any person violation this subsection shall be subject to the same penalties as provided for violation of other city ordinances.
B. Containment Inspection of Premises. Premises considered to pose an actual or potential contamination, health hazard or system hazard threat to the municipal water system shall be subject to an inspection by the Code Administration Division or authorized agent of the division. Inspections shall be scheduled at a reasonable time by the division. The Code Administration Division shall give the customer written notice prior to a containment inspection. The purpose and authority to conduct such an inspection shall be disclosed in the notice. If actual or potential cross connections, which could result in backflow of contaminants, any product of a potential health hazard, system hazard, or water from auxiliary water supplies through the water service connection and into the municipal water system, are determined to exist during the premises inspection, the Code Administration Division shall evaluate the degree of hazard and proceed in accordance with one of the following criteria.
1. In the event a system hazard is determined to exist, the Code Administration Division shall immediately instruct the water utility to terminate water service to the premises. The water utility shall restore services to the premises once the Code Administration Division has determined that the system hazard has been controlled or eliminated.
2. In the event an actual or potential cross connection presents a substantial endangerment to the municipal water system, the Code Administration Division shall enlist the assistance of the customer to immediately control or eliminate the hazard. If the immediate hazard is not resolved within one day, water service to the premises shall be terminated until the hazard has been eliminated.
3. In the event no system hazard or substantial dangers are determined to exist, but actual or potential cross connections require control or containment, the Code Administration Division shall give the customer written notice to comply with the following requirements:
a. Submit a design and plan of implementation to the Code Administration Division within sixty days; and
b. Have an approved backflow prevention assembly(s) installed, inspected and tested within an additional sixty days.
For good cause, the Code Administration Division may extend the time to comply with the requirements of this Ordinance. The customer shall install such backflow prevention assembly(s) as directed by the Code Administration Division at the customer's own expense; and failure, refusal, or inability on the part of the customer to install, have tested, and maintain said assembly(s) shall constitute grounds for disconnecting water services to the premises until such requirements have been satisfactorily met.
C. Isolation Inspections on Premises Served by the Municipal Water System. The customer shall be responsible, without further notice, for the prevention of contaminants or pollutants or water from auxiliary water supplies from entering the potable water system within the premises. The customer's responsibility begins at the service connection and carries throughout the entire length of the water system within the premises. To accomplish this mandate, customers are required to comply with the 1997 edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code or most current adopted Plumbing Code and all related amendments as may be adopted by the State of New Mexico and the City of Alamogordo.
1. The Code Administration Division is authorized to conduct inspections or audits of premises within the city limits to determine compliance with the provision of cross connection isolation requirements in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare. Approved backflow prevention assembly(s) or air-gap(s), commensurate with the degree of hazard shall be installed, as required by the Code Administration Division, within the customer's water system for the safety and protection of the customer's water system for the safety and protection of the customer's potable water system. Premises considered to pose an actual or potential contamination to the customer's water system may be subject to audit by the Code Administration Division. The Code Administration Division may direct the customer to upgrade its water plumbing system in accordance with the Uniform Plumbing Codes in the "Regulation of Backflow Prevention and Cross Connection Control." If the actual or potential unprotected cross connections, which could result in backflow of contaminants, or water from auxiliary water supplies into the customer's water system are discovered during the audit or inspection of the premises, the Code Administration Division shall evaluate the degree of hazard.
2. In the event a system hazard is determined to exist, the Code Administration Division shall notify the Utility Billing Division to immediately discontinue service to the premises. The Utility Billing Division shall restore water service to the premises once the system hazard has been controlled or eliminated and the Code Administration Division has approved restoration of service.
3. In the event an actual or potential cross connection presents a substantial endangerment to the customer's water system, the Code Administration Division shall enlist the assistance of the customer to immediately control or eliminate the hazard. If the immediate hazard is not resolved within one day, water service to the premises shall be terminated until the hazard has been eliminated.
4. In the event no system hazards or substantial danger is determined to exist, but actual or potential cross connections require control by isolation, the Code Administration Division shall direct the customer to have approved backflow prevention assemblies or air-gaps, commensurate with the degree of hazard, installed at specific location(s) within the customer's water system. Such approved backflow prevention assemblies or air-gaps must be installed, inspected and tested, within thirty days of such notification or within a reasonable time period as determined by the Code Administration Division.
D. Isolation Inspections on Premises not Served by the Municipal Water System. In order to protect the public health, safety and welfare at premises not served by the City of Alamogordo Municipal Water System, the Code Administration Division may conduct inspections and require the elimination or control of existing cross connections, actual or potential, between the potable water system and non-potable water systems, plumbing fixtures and industrial piping systems contained within premises located within the Alamogordo City limits or otherwise connected to the municipal water system.
E. Isolation Control in lieu of Containment. At specific residential or commercial premises where specific cross connection hazard can be controlled by isolation without compromise to the safety of the municipal water system, the Code Administration Division may allow cross connection control for containment purposes with a backflow prevention assembly located at the point of cross connection rather than at the service connection.
1. Applicability. Isolation in lieu of containment shall be applicable only to make-up water connections to commercial space heating boilers rated at less than 200,000 BTU/H input where no water treatment is provided to the circulating heating water, landscape irrigation systems, or automated photo-processing unit with a single water connection.
2. Assemblies Considered to be Contaminant Devices. A backflow prevention assembly installed to provide isolation control of a cross connection in lieu of containment shall be considered a containment device rather than an isolation device and shall be subject to all containment device requirements.
F. Re-inspection. Re-inspection of premises shall be conducted by the Code Administration Division to verify corrective action as required by this Ordinance within one hundred and twenty days of correction notification.
8-08-080. Plan Review, permits, and Plumbing Inspections on Premises within the City Limits.
The Code Administration Division shall be responsible for checking plans and issuing building and plumbing permits for new and remodel construction to ensure compliance with this Ordinance. The Code Administration Division shall conduct inspections and approve all installations of backflow prevention assemblies.
A. The customer shall submit plans for review and approval by the Code Administration Division for installation of backflow prevention assemblies. Where actual or potential cross connections are called for by the plans, the plans shall include the make, model, size and type of any backflow prevention assembly(s) to be installed.
B. The customer's licensed contractor shall obtain a plumbing permit from the Code Administration Division for such installations. All new installations or air-gaps and backflow prevention assemblies shall be inspected and approved by the Code Administration Division. The Code Administration Division shall notify the Utility Billing Division when installations are completed.
C. In instances of failure, refusal or inability on the part of the customer to install and have tested said assembly(s) or air-gap(s), the Code Administration Division shall suspend or revoke a plumbing permit issued under the administrative provisions of provisions of the Uniform Plumbing Code as adopted by the City of Alamogordo.
8-08-090. Inspection of Premises Outside the City Limits served by the Municipal Water System.
Customer services located outside the inspection jurisdiction of the City of Alamogordo, which are connected to the municipal water system, shall be subject to this ordinance and all rules and regulations adopted in accordance with these provisions with the exception of permitting requirements. The customer's contractor, when outside of the city jurisdiction, shall obtain a plumbing permit from the Construction Industries Division of the State of New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department for the installation of air-gaps and backflow prevention assemblies. Installations must comply with the City of Alamogordo specifications. It shall be the responsibility of the customer's contractor to arrange for required inspection by the inspection jurisdiction and provide proof of inspection to the City of Alamogordo Code Administration Division. As a condition of continued service, the customer shall be required to provide access for inspection by the Code administration or authorized agent at reasonable times to inspect the air-gaps and backflow prevention assemblies, and to make all required corrections arising out of said inspection(s).
8-08-100. Installation of Backflow Assemblies.
With the exception of backflow assemblies installed by city employees under the direction of certified city staff, all Backflow prevention assemblies shall be installed by a contractor licensed by the State of New Mexico Construction Industries Division and certified in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance to install backflow prevention assemblies. The contractor shall be responsible for obtaining all required approvals, such as approved plans, permits and inspections.
8-08-110. Test and Maintenance of Backflow Prevention Assemblies.
All approved containment and isolation backflow prevention assemblies which are classified as testable devices shall be tested at least once per year. The Code Administration Division may require tests at more frequent intervals, if the Code Administration Division deems the hazard in the premises to be great enough or if previous tests have failed. Tests shall be performed by certified backflow prevention assembly testers. Assemblies that fail a test shall be repaired, overhauled and re-tested within one week, or, in accordance with a time period established by the Code Administration Division. Said test shall be performed by a certified backflow prevention assembly repair person. The certified testers shall submit all test results to the Code Administration Division. Tests and repairs shall be at the expense of the customer. Backflow prevention assemblies must be tested in accordance with the test procedures set forth in the Code Administration Division. The customer for the life of the building must maintain all records of inspections, tests, repairs, overhauls, and replacements.
A. Testing of Backflow Prevention Assemblies. With the exception of assemblies which are owned by the City of Alamogordo, the testing of containment backflow prevention assemblies shall be performed by a private sector certified tester. City owned assemblies may be tested by city staff or by a private sector certified tester. The initial test of any containment backflow prevention assembly shall be performed by a private sector certified tester and witnessed by the Code Administration Division or authorized agent.
1. All new installation of air-gaps and backflow prevention assemblies at the service connection shall be tested immediately upon installation and before water service is turned on or restored to the premises. The customer's certified tester shall then notify the Code Administration Division that the backflow prevention assembly is ready for inspection and for the initial acceptance test.
2. The customer shall make the necessary arrangements for subsequent annual testing and containment backflow prevention assemblies with a private sector certified tester. The tester shall notify the Code Administration Division in advance when the tests are to be undertaken so that the Code Administration Division may witness the testing if so desired. Testers shall submit test reports to the Code Administration Division within one week from the time that the test was conducted.
3. If a test discloses that the backflow prevention assembly(s) is not operating satisfactorily, the customer shall arrange for a certified repairperson to immediately make the necessary repairs. The repairperson shall prepare a detailed report on each test requiring repairs of each backflow prevention assembly and submit the report to the Code Administration Division within one week from the time that the repairs were completed.
B. Testing Isolation Backflow Prevention Assemblies. New installations of backflow prevention assemblies within the customer's water system shall be tested immediately upon installation and before water service is turned on or restored to the unit requiring the backflow prevention assemblies. The testing of backflow isolation prevention assemblies shall be conducted by a private sector certified tester. If a test discloses that the backflow prevention assemblies are not operating satisfactorily, the customer shall arrange for a certified repairperson to immediately make the necessary repairs. The repairperson shall prepare a detailed report and submit that report to the Code Administration Division within one week from the time the repairs were done.
8-08-120. Existing Backflow Prevention Assemblies.
Any existing backflow prevention assemblies shall be approved to continue service unless a higher degree of protection is required. In premises where the hazard has increased, as in the case of a change of occupancy, any existing backflow prevention assembly(s) shall be upgraded to comply with this Ordinance, or in the event that no assemblies are present, any premises where the Code Administration division has determined that a real or potential health hazard or system hazard exists shall be brought into compliance with this ordinance. Any existing backflow prevention assemblies that are not on the current list of approved backflow prevention assemblies may be approved to continue in service provided that the assemblies can be maintained, tested and that repair parts are available through the manufacturer. Whenever obsolete assemblies are replaced, they shall be replaced with current approved backflow prevention assemblies.
8-08-130. Certification of Testers and Repairpersons.
A. Initial Certification. To initially certify as a backflow prevention assembly tester, a person shall attend a forty (40) hour training course that has been approved by the Code Administration Division and successfully completed the written and performance examinations administered as part of the approved training course. A person who is employed by the appropriate licensed contractor in accordance with the New Mexico Construction Industries Licensing Act and attends and successfully completes the approved training course may be certified as a backflow prevention assembly repair person. The initial training shall be valid for the duration of three years from the completion date of the approved training course. The Code Administration Division shall issue a certificate to any person who meets the above requirements.
B. Re-certification of Testers and Repairpersons. A certified tester or repair person who wishes to remain active as a backflow assembly tester or repair person must renew their training requirements every three (3) years. To renew training requirements, certified testers and repair persons shall complete one of the following methods for re-certification:
1. Repeat an approved training course; or,
2. Successfully complete an approved eight hour re-certification training course; or,
3. Accrue twenty hours of approved continuing education credits; or
3. Successfully complete an approved re-certification examination administered by the Code Administration Division.
C. Approved Training Courses and Examinations. The Code Administration Division shall be responsible for approval of training courses. The approved training course shall meet the following minimum criteria:
1. The instructor shall be a certified tester or repairperson;
2. The duration of the course shall be at least forty hours, including laboratory time and examinations; and
3. The material covered shall be equivalent to the University of Southern California's Foundation for Cross Connection Control and Hydraulic Research training course.
D. Examinations. Other than re-certification examinations as may be administered by the Code Administration Division, Examinations shall be administered by the instructor conducting the training course or by an independent organization approved by the Code Administration Division. For initial certification examinations a performance of seventy-% (70%) or better on the written portion of the examination and satisfactory completion of the laboratory examination constitutes successful completion of the course. For re-certification testing administered by the Code Administration Division or authorized agent of the Code Administration Division a performance of seventy-five % (75%) or greater is required for re-certification application.
E. Re-certification Training Course. The Code Administration Division shall be responsible for approval of a re-certification training course(s). The approved re-certification training course shall meet the following minimum requirements:
1. The duration of the course shall be at least eight hours: and,
2. The course shall include a laboratory examination consisting of the actual testing of the three testable types of backflow prevention assemblies and a written examination.
F. Continuing Education Credits. Continuing education credits may be approved for participation in workshops and seminars whose curriculum is approved by the Code Administration Division, such as the Workshops and seminars conducted by the New Mexico Backflow Prevention Society and other professional organizations.
8-08-140. Revocation of Certification.
All certifications for backflow prevention testers and backflow prevention repairpersons shall be subject to revocation by the City.
A. The City of Alamogordo Code Administration Division may revoke certification of any certified backflow prevention assembly tester or certified backflow prevention assembly repair person:
1. Who fails to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance; or
2. Who falsifies tests, records or report; or
3. Who fails to submit copies of test reports to the Code Administration Divisions; or
4. Who fails to properly maintain test equipment; or
5. Who alters an existing backflow prevention assembly without approval of the Enforcement Authority.
B. Any person who falsifies backflow prevention assembly tests, records and reports shall be subject to the penalties provided within this ordinance.
C. The Code Administration Division shall advise the certified backflow prevention tester or certified backflow prevention repairperson in writing of the revocation of certification, and include the cause thereof. The certificate holder may appeal the decision and request a hearing before the Code Administration Supervisor. Said request must be filed in writing with the Code Administration Division within ten (10) days of the receipt of notification of revocation. Said hearing shall be scheduled within three (3) working days of the receipt of the request for hearing by the Code Administration Division. The supervisor may enforce the original decision, or overturn the decision. Any action to overturn may include probationary periods in which no further issues of violations may take place. If the Code Administration Supervisor reaffirms the original decision to revoke certification, the supervisor shall notify the certificate holder through certified mail service. Said letter to be mailed within three (3) working days of the date of the hearing. The certificate holder may further appeal the revocation before the City Commission. Within ten (10) days of the receipt of notification of final determination from the Code Administration Supervisor, the Certificate Holder may file a written request for hearing before the City Commission with the City Clerk's Office. The matter will be placed on the next available agenda to be heard before the Commission. The decision rendered by the Commission shall be considered final.
8-08-150 Fees.
The Code Administration Division shall assess fees associated with the implementation of this Ordinance. The fees imposed by this Ordinance are as follows:
A. Containment Inspection Fees. An inspection fee of $50 shall be assessed to all customers required to have premises inspections to cover the costs incurred by the Code Administration Division during the initial inspection of the premises. The inspection fee will only be assessed to those customers whose premises are not in compliance with this Ordinance at the time of inspection.
B. Backflow prevention Assembly Administrative Charge. All customers required to provide cross connection control containment and/or isolation shall be assessed an annual administrative fee of $30 (fee is not to be prorated in case of change of ownership) for each testable backflow prevention assembly(s) located at the premises. This fee incorporates expenses incurred by the Code Administration Division to maintain records, to process required testing notices and to enter data as required.
C. Initial Installation Registration Fee. New testable backflow prevention assemblies shall be subject to an initial registration fee by the City Code Administration Division. A fee of $55 dollars shall be assessed to cover the initial registration and cost of first year notifications expenses as incurred by the Code Administration Division.
D. Work Schedule. Inspections which are required to be witnessed buy the Code Administration Division shall be scheduled between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding regularly scheduled holidays. Required notice of inspections shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations established by the Code Administration Division. Testing outside regular hours will be allowed at the discretion of the Code Administrative Supervisor at an additional charge of $35 per hour for hours outside those list above and for Saturdays, and $70 per hour for Sundays and Holidays.
E. Backflow Tester and Repairman Certification. An administrative fee of $15 shall be assessed by the city for each application for backflow prevention certification and certification renewal. Replacement cards shall be made available by the city for a fee of $5 for each replacement card issued. Cost of course curriculum shall be the responsibility of the applicant.
The fees listed in item a, b and c of this section do not apply to non-testable containment devices installed on residential services by the City to protect the municipal water supply.
8-08-160 Other Fees and Charges.
Other fees and charges may include but are not necessarily limited to the type shown within this section. Items not covered within this section would be charged for based on reasonable charges and existing charges for similar items as may be charged by the city.
A. Regulation Documents. All persons may obtain a copy of the Regulations from the city for a fee not less than actual costs to reproduce the document.
B. Technical Specifications Document. All Persons may obtain copies of the Technical Specifications from the city for a feel of not less that the actual cost to reproduce the document.
C. Application for Alternative Methods and Materials. All persons filing an application for alternative methods and materials under Section 8-08-170, shall include with said application a non-refundable fee of $100 to cover cost incurred by the City in review of the alternate methods and materials proposed.
8-08-170 Alternate Materials and Methods.
Alternate methods for compliance to achieve the objectives of this Ordinance may be submitted for review to the Code Administration Division. Approval requires that the customer show that compliance with the requirements would pose an unreasonable burden and that the proposed alternate would provide equivalent backflow prevention.
A. Procedures for Requesting an Alternate Method for Compliance to Achieve the Objectives of this Ordinance. A written Application requesting an alternative method for complying with this Ordinance shall be addressed to the Code Administration Division Supervisor. In order to be considered, the application shall describe the specific requirement(s) for which an alternate installation is requested, justify the request by explaining the site specific circumstances that make compliance with the requirements of this Ordinance and associated Rule, Regulations and specifications is unreasonably difficult or impossible, and propose specific alternate specifications that will provide equivalent cross connection protection. The Code Administration Supervisor shall provide a written decision to the applicant within thirty days of receipt of a complete application.
8-08-180 Remote Installation of Containment Backflow Prevention Assemblies.
In instances where containment backflow prevention assemblies cannot be installed at the service connection, the customer may install the approved backflow prevention assembly at a remote location from the service connection.
A. On retrofit containment backflow prevention assembly installations, the customer must prove to the satisfaction of the Code Administration Division that the water service line between the city meter and the location of the containment backflow prevention assembly is completely protected from actual or potential cross connections. The customer shall implement steps satisfactory to the Code Administration Division to assure that no future connections will be made to this portion of the service line.
B. On new construction, the customer shall protect the service line between the meter and the containment backflow prevention assembly(s) by encasing it in concrete as per standard details and specifications, which are included in the Technical Specifications, The customer shall implement steps satisfactory to the Code Administration Division to assure that no future connections will be made to the service line between the city meter and the containment backflow prevention assembly(s).
8-08-190 Grounds for Termination of Water Service.
A. Not withstanding any other provisions of this Ordinance, in the event a system hazard is determined to exist; the Code Administration Division shall immediately terminate water service to the premises. The city shall attempt to notify the customer of the water service termination to the premises and of the system hazard in the premises. The city shall restore water service to the premises once the customer has controlled or eliminated the system hazard.
B. Failure to install required backflow prevention assembly(s) as directed by the Code Administration Division, failure to conduct required tests, failure to submit accurate and timely reports, failure to perform testing and maintenance of backflow prevention assemblies, or failure to allow the Enforcement Authority entry into a premises shall constitute grounds for termination of water service to the premises. Service shall not be restored until such conditions or defects are corrected. If water service is terminated for any of these reasons, a turn off and turn on water service fee will be assessed to the customer as per the requirements of City of Alamogordo ordinance governing water, sewer rates.
C. The City may terminate water service for nonpayment of the fees included in this Ordinance in accordance with the provisions of the City of Alamogordo Ordinance governing water, sewer rates.
8-08-200. Effective Date of this Ordinance.
The effective date of this ordinance is March 01, 2000. In the event that the Code Administration Division determines that a system hazard presents the potential of immediate hazard, the Code Administration Division may direct immediate correction within existing facilities in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance
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Is BJP Reviving Macaulay?
by Bharat Gupt - Jul 4, 2017 02:00 PM +05:30 IST
The modern educational system has manufactured a strong and malicious prejudice against arts in India, and that is now reflecting on the NEP committee selection.
The government has appointed a nine-member committee under space scientist Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan’s leadership to prepare the final draft for the New Education Policy (NEP). The panel, which has been asked to begin work immediately, includes members from across the country, but does not contain a single Sanskrit expert, artist, musician or philosopher. The exclusion of the not only arts but also humanities is complete.
What could be the reason for this exclusion? It is difficult to believe that the omission is by oversight. Most likely it is part of the thinking of the policy makers who have a fascination for modern gadgetry and scientificity, which is just another garb for the ‘scientific temperament’ touted for too long by the Nehruvians. Information technology is a mere tool, a skill, not a knowledge system. It can keep transparent accounts and data but not make honest accountants. For honesty, you need no laptops, but a sense of dharma.
Where is then, the consideration for traditional systems of knowledge and the indigenous ways of thought that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has always upheld as its banner? How does this reconcile with its vision of ‘cultural nationalism’?
Education Without Arts Was Macaulay’s Master Stroke
To uproot the modern Indians from their heritage, Macaulay adopted the simplest way. He devised a system in which vidyaa-vihiina-pashus were elevated to govern the ‘jewel in the crown’. Nehru retained that the system to look after and serve the jewels of crowd.
In contrast to Macaulay-Nehru dispensation, the first line of the Indian book of statecraft, Arthashastra, defines vidya as four fold: Aaviikshiki trayii vartaa dandaniitishca iti vidyaa. (philosophy, vedas, commerce and law are called vidyas) or education.
The biggest prejudice against arts in India has been generated by its modern educational system that inculcates a diametrically opposite attitude to their worth as posited in the traditional Indian psyche. So-called makers of modern India, assiduously preserved the schooling system left behind by the British and only allowed the American educational jargon (propagated mostly by PL480 money-financed professors) to modify the shape and size of textbooks, leaving the content untouched. They have also maintained the hegemony of the printed word, the paper exercise book and the written examination over all other means of instruction and evaluation.
Reading print and reproducing it in examinations remain the hallmark of our educational methodology. Our modernists have been so enamoured with it that they are scared to consider another method, such as vocal expression, capacity to conduct reliable work projects, teaching of junior students by senior students and so forth. As a consequence, in this culture, where the spoken word, intonation and gesture, signs, symbols and rituals had been developed as superb media of communication for thousands of years, now mere reading, cramming and reproducing prevails as the only method of passing examinations from nursery classes to the Indian Administrative Service. If the arts, except for music that still rests upon traditional training and Hindu ethos, have not touched great heights in free India, the sin lies at the doors of our education ministers.
Ancient Respect For Creativity
The prime purpose of education is to ensure creativity in individuals. It is the best way to subdue their destructive instincts. When the ancient poet Bhartrihari said that a person without education is an animal (vidyaa-viheenah pashuh), he was not disparaging the animals, but showing the difference between the mentally innovative homo sapiens and the instinctively driven animals.
Societies with their immense variety are products of man’s mental creativity, not just of the gregarious instinct also found in lions and fish. Hence it was said by Aristotle, “man is a cultured creature” (O anthropos politikon zoon) wrongly translated under the impact of materialistic behaviourist theories, as “man is a social animal”. Man the cultured creature continuously creates using his past for his future. Education is the methodology that ensures this creativity. Societies, which are less emphatic about creativity, or are scared of it, such as ours at the present moment, tend to define learning in terms of short-term objectives. They value education systems by the materially productive work its students are likely to accomplish. They project role models of glamorised achievers and preach competitiveness and survival of the toughest. Its jingles are: jo jeetaa so sikander “whosoever wins is Alexander” and “nothing succeeds like success” and so on. The skepsis about means and end is already considered futile.
In the Indian, or rather in the Asian tradition, the trained (samskrita) or the educated individual has been the cornerstone of creativity, and hence of action and leadership. The notion of rustic simplicity, or lack of training as a mark of purity and naturalness, of the “mute inglorious Milton” is a Euro-Romantic concoction. In India, “graamya” (crude) or “praakrta” (natural) was regarded as impure, being untrained.
Art, No More Sacred
All this thinking has gone out of the modern Indian educational system. Art has come to be looked upon as nothing more than entertainment, whether refined or popular, highbrow or mass-mediotic. It is no longer sacred or liberating, shubham or mokshadaa. We have lost a major cultural faith and the fountainhead of our sustenance. The ancient Greeks too, regarded the non-utilitarian arts such as music, painting, poetry, dance, and theatre as builders of ethos (moral fibre). For this reason they made these an essential part of their educational system even for soldiers. But the modern West chose to discard this attitude. This idea was not considered worthwhile when Europe drew upon the intellectual inheritance of classical Greece. The arts though not dispensable, were only ornamental in the post Enlightenment education.
This thinking was imposed on India by the colonial educationists. What was worse, it was reinforced by the so called Indian Renaissance by its fabricated picture of ancient Indian educational values. Puritanism, abnegation, and aggression were valorised in opposition to satisfaction (tushti), abundance (samriddhi), aesthetic softness (laalitya) and joy (harsha), which are described as a citizen’s hallmark in our classical literature.
During the Independence struggle, and soon after, art was in effect, set aside by the puritanism of Gandhi, as much by the staunchness of Hedgewar, and the economic myopia of Jai Prakash Narain, Lohia and other socialists. The Marxists with their anti-religious bias and their propagandist approach to art further damaged the traditional concept of sacredness and creative individualism in Indian art. Almost everybody presumed that India was too enslaved, poor and illiterate to think of art. Now that we are independent, the affluent among us are the crudest, even though the poor retain some traditional aesthetic sense.
Under the impact of Nehruvian scientific rationalism, the government agencies responsible for making policy, curriculum as well as textbooks, like the National Council for Education Research and Training have been promoting a wooden version of science.
There is an excessive emphasis on mugging “objective facts” about the physical world instead of imparting the skill of inductive logic. The quiz wiz-kids that every uppish school tries to produce are information-parrots only good for TV shows. Worst of all, in the name of modernity, contempt is planted in young minds for all the sciences and arts that prevailed before the Euro-Renaissance.
Consequently, our allopathic doctors have generally no dialogue with Ayurvedic or Unani practitioners; very few legal luminaries have acquaintance with ancient codified or customary laws; and not many physicists have studied ancient astronomy or music; hardly any modern psychologist has delved deep into theatre. The dichotomy between art and science, ancient and modern is made complete. Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo who presented healthy and exploratory methods to bridge this chasm were systematically marginalised and denigrated as too aesthetic or too spiritual by Nehruvian iron-jacket modernity.
Pop Art And Performance
Since the nineties, a vast expansion of television, films, advertisement and fabrics has created a new performance industry. This performance business is largely conducted through electronic and digital media which could have wonderfully harnessed the new technology to spread education and emotional health to every nook and corner of India at astonishingly low costs. But the result has been the opposite. The films have descended to sensationalism, the television channels to misinformation, advertisement to sweet lies, and fashion shows to flesh mongering.
The Indian elite that manages this new media has no other interest than commerce. Education is furthest removed from the aspirations of this class. The whole enterprise apes the Western media and has failed to posit any values other than those of consumerism. It is like selling Mcburgers with coriander chutney as the only Indian content. This failure is not of means, but of mind. Indians have come to accept the Western dictum that mass media can only have popular content, that is, it must descend to the lowest demands of taste. Any attempt to elevate and educate taste is considered anti-democratic.
A concerted effort needs to be made to reinstate the arts as a creative, therapeutic and moral force in our educational system, print and electronic media. In schools, arts should be among the main subjects of study and not a mere extracurricular activity. Five to six years of regular theatre classes in native languages can develop clear speech, healthy and graceful carriage, and a direct familiarity with literature, myth and poetry in an easy way. It is more gracious and delightful than the present system of cramming through print. It has been demonstrated that theatre, dance, painting, and music are the best instruments of personality development for children. Why can there be no marking, promotion and academic recognition for them? Why have they been relegated to the lower category of ‘vocational subjects’ meant to be taken by duller kids?
When will we stop thinking of art as a handmaid of business, diplomacy, or infotainment and recognise it as an elevating experience that distinguishes humans from animals?
I sincerely hope that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will intervene and include in the NEP panel some experts with proven record from the fields of arts and humanities, especially those who are steeped in Indian systems of knowledge.
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New SEC Rule Will See Accounting Errors Result In Loss Of Executive Bonuses : by Tyler Durden
New SEC Rule Will See Accounting Errors Result In Loss Of Executive Bonuses
A new SEC rule is being rolled out wherein executives of firms with costly accounting errors could find their personal bonuses on the hook. The Securities and Exchange Commission approved the rule on Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The rule, “required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act to discourage fraud and accounting mischief”, was approved by a 3-2 vote of commissioners at a meeting this week. Democrats approved the rule while both Republicans dissented, the report says.
The rule had been initially proposed in 2015, but was then shuttered under the Trump administration. Democratic SEC Chairman Gary Gensler has said that it will “strengthen investor confidence in corporate reporting, as well as the accountability of managers,” the Journal reported.
Gensler stated: “Corporate executives often are paid based on the performance of the companies they lead, with factors that may include revenue and business profits.”
He continued: “If the company makes a material error in preparing the financial statements required under the securities laws, however, then an executive may receive compensation for reaching a milestone that in reality was never hit.”
The original rule used to apply only to firms that found major errors and had to restate financials. The newer version of the rule is broader and can still affect executive bonuses even with smaller, recent accounting errors.
“This may result in salary increases, rather than compensation mechanisms tied to financial-reporting measures,” Republican SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda said. He also argued that the rule “may ultimately weaken alignment of interests between shareholders and management.”
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable along with GOP lawmakers and some SEC commissioners had spoken out against the rule.
Not unlike some Sarbanes-Oxley attestations, firms will now have to include check boxes on the front page of their annual reports to confirm that an error correction or clawback analysis had been conducted before filings are submitted.
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Lampard Says Chelsea Doesn’t Have the Experience to Win the Premier League
Posted by Aaron Welch on January 22, 2021
Chelsea’s performance has been pretty bad in recent weeks.
The Blues are 9 points from the lead, and although they are among the Top 10 of the table, the Board is not happy with the results.
The Board has been emphasizing that they want the club to be in the Champions League positions, and they have sent a clear message for Frank Lampard to get things back on track and improve the club’s performance.
But Lampard has said that the club does not have the necessary experience to win the Premier League, something the Board has not liked.
The club spent an impressive £ 250 million on the transfer market to bring in Thiago Silva, Timo Werner, Ben Chilwell, Kai Havertz, Edouard Mendy, and Hakim Ziyech. All high-level players who even have international experience playing for their country’s teams.
All of these players came at Lampard’s request, making his attempts to lower expectations look bad.
The Board would give Lampard more time due to the excellent result he achieved last season, managing to qualify the club for the Champions League and showing a great performance despite losing his best player Eden Hazard and having to work under a transfer ban.
But time is running out for the coach, and the Board continues to probe the market for possible replacements.
Some of the names listed for the new blues coach are Ralph Hasenhuttl, current Southampton coach, RB Leipzig’s Julian Nagelsmann, and Thomas Tuchel.
Also, Max Allegri, former Juventus coach, has expressed his interest in coaching in England. Still, the Blues seem to be more interested in a German coach due to the large number of players of that nationality in the club.
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Two clients. Two left legs that are swollen and hot. Two surprising outcomes. We explore deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and venous thromboembolism, and even take a quick peek at aortic aneurysm. Lots of long words in this one, and lots of opinions from me.
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Werner, Ruth. “‘Low Risk’ Does Not Equal ‘No Risk’”: An Overview of Reports of Adverse Events.” Massage & Bodywork magazine, May/June 2020. www.massageandbodyworkdigital.com/i/1234356-may-june-2020/32.
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Ruth Werner is a former massage therapist, a writer, and an NCBTMB-approved continuing education provider. She wrote A Massage Therapist's Guide to Pathology, now in its seventh edition, which is used in massage schools worldwide. Werner is also a long-time Massage & Bodywork columnist, most notably of the Pathology Perspectives column. Werner is also ABMP's partner on Pocket Pathology, a web-based app and quick reference program that puts key information for nearly 200 common pathologies at your fingertips. Werner’s books are available at www.booksofdiscovery.com. And more information about her is available at www.ruthwerner.com.
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00:00 Speaker 1: Ruth Werner's best-selling book, A Massage Therapist's Guide to Pathology, is a highly regarded comprehensive resource that sets the standard for pathology Education, written for massage therapy students and practitioners, this groundbreaking resource serves up a comprehensive review of the pathophysiology signs, symptoms and treatment of more than 500 diseases and disorders. Learn more at booksofdiscovery.com.
00:39 Ruth Werner: Hi, and welcome to, "I have a client who... Pathology conversations with Ruth Werner", the podcast where I will discuss your real life stories about clients with conditions that are perplexing or confusing. I'm Ruth Werner, author of A Massage Therapist's Guide to pathology, and I have spent decades studying, writing about and teaching about where massage therapy intersects with diseases and conditions that might limit our client's health. We almost always have something good to offer even with our most challenged clients, but we need to figure out a way to do that safely, effectively and within our scope of practice, and sometimes as we have all learned, that is harder than it looks.
01:25 RW: For this episode, I have two terrific stories from a massage therapist in Washington, they conclude with an interesting twist. Certainly one I didn't anticipate. Here's how it goes. "I have a client who is an 85-year-old male with type 2 diabetes. He comes in for a monthly maintenance massage, other than type 2, he's a picture of health and a person who exercises every day, he does have some neuropathy in his feet and has had carpal tunnel surgery in both wrists, his main issues that I've treated him for for years are trapezius pain and tension and lower back pain that he has successfully managed for 35 years by taking frequent breaks when driving, taking a five-minute dip in his hot tub every evening for 30 years or more, and receiving regular chiropractic and massage. In a session two years ago, I was working on him and his lower left leg was visibly swollen and different in size, there was some heat in the area, but no redness."
02:30 RW: "I spoke with him about whether he had noticed this or if he had any noticeable pain in the area, and he answered no, to both questions. My obvious concern was DVT, and I made the recommendation that he see his doctor and request imaging to rule out a clot as soon as possible, he thanked me and agreed to make the appointment. I did not end the session, but focused on the upper body and the hips for the remaining time in the treatment, I had another client with a similar swollen warm lower left leg, this time with some redness, this was a 76-year-old male with a diagnosed thoracic aneurysm, the aneurysm was being monitored by a pulmonologist in a wait and see way, and I had in his file a current written permission for massage therapy from his doctor."
03:19 RW: "This man was less healthy and more annoyed in his response to my request that he see his regular doctor and get a diagnosis. I ended the treatment by avoiding his legs and focusing on his upper body and upper extremity pain." Before we continue, I wanna thank this massage therapist for sharing these stories, there are some really good things to unpack here, and I wanna invite you to share your, "I have a client who... ", stories too, you can do that by sending them to me at, [email protected], that's, Ihaveaclientwho, all one word, all lowercase at abmp.com, and I will look forward to seeing what you send me. Isn't it interesting that this therapist noticed this relatively subtle sign in the lower left legs of two of her older male clients, and she made a good choice in bringing it to their attention and requesting that they get some medical attention for this situation. We aren't told, but I hope the way she phrased this was that they should do that before they come back for another massage.
04:33 RW: I do wanna speak to one issue that she brought up in relation to the second client, the one with the thoracic aneurysm, as she says, this client was generally less healthy and he was under ongoing observation because of his thoracic aortic aneurysm, and that in itself is not unusual, it's possible to have a widening of the aorta that's pretty stable. In this situation, treating it with a stent or some other kind of intervention would probably be riskier than just letting it be. So with this type of aortic aneurysm the standard treatment is to watch and wait, when or if the widening gets larger than a certain level, that's when it becomes clear that the benefits of intervention will outweigh the risks. And she also had in her file and I'll quote, "current written permission for massage therapy from his doctor". I have many opinions about this. I think it's great that there was a conversation at some point between this massage therapist and the client and the client's doctor, so everyone is informed about this client's challenged health and his desire to receive massage.
05:43 RW: However, and if you spend any time with me in this podcast or in classes or in other places, you will know what I'm about to say next, consulting with a healthcare team about safety is appropriate and professional, and I'm 100% in favor. Requiring permission to do our work, that's not the same thing. It is not a doctor's job to know what the risks are related to our massage therapy, and if God forbid, a massage therapist makes a mistake and causes serious harm to a client, a doctor's permission will not protect them from litigation. Now, I am not saying that this massage therapist was being inappropriate, not at all. Clearly, she had invested some time and effort in making sure that what she was doing was safe for this client, the permission that she had from the client's primary care physician was very likely the result of a consultation that helped her determine safety parameters, and clearly she's working carefully enough to notice when one of his legs is warm and red and puffy.
06:54 RW: I just don't want to promote the idea that getting a doctor's permission makes massage therapy safer. Consulting with the client's doctor or healthcare team definitely can help us to be safer as we try to make clinical decisions that will maximize whatever benefits we have to offer while minimizing the risks, but we can't rely on someone else's permission to be sure that our work is safe, that's our job. So I thought we might take a little time to discuss the relationship between massage therapy and the risk of DVT and PE or pulmonary embolism.
07:37 RW: Just a really quick review, DVT stands for Deep vein thrombosis. This is a situation where a clot develops in a deep vein. We usually see this somewhere in the leg, but DVTs have also been seen in the pelvis, and clots can also develop in the veins of the arms, DVT is often unilateral, but not always, when it's in the leg, it might be obvious with pain and redness and heat and distal swelling that follow some kind of trauma. My mother had this, she had cracked her tibia and her leg swelled up like a tree trunk, by the time we got her to a doctor, she had a blood clot that ran from her ankle to her thigh. But sometimes those DVT signs are really subtle, the trauma might seem really mild, like getting kicked during soccer practice or DVT might follow a period of inactivity rather than a trauma, and that's why this is sometimes called coach class syndrome, and if a fragment from whatever is happening in the vein breaks loose and travel, those fragments will keep moving through the cardiovascular system until they hit a blood vessel that is too narrow to let them pass. Trace that pathway up from the lower leg, up the thigh into the pelvis and into the vena cava, all those veins are just getting bigger and bigger.
09:04 RW: Now, from the vena cava, those clot fragments can enter the right atrium of the heart, anything to stop them there, nope, lots of room, and then they get pushed into the right ventricle, still lots of room and out into the spacious pulmonary arteries that will jet them toward the lungs, whack, that's where the vessels start getting small again, and when these clot fragments reach branches of the pulmonary arteries that are too narrow to let them through, they will stop and all the tissue downstream is blocked, and this is a pulmonary embolism. Altogether, a DVT and a PE may be called a VTE, Venous thromboembolism, and this situation causes anywhere from 60-100,000 deaths each year in this country. The only situation in which a blood clot from a vein might not travel this route to lodge in the lungs is if the person has a hole in the septum of their heart, a Patent foramen ovale, and this is the topic of another, "I have a client who... ", podcast.
10:18 RW: To return to our story, as you heard, after this massage therapist had identified the possibility of something odd happening in both of these clients legs, she continued their appointments, but worked only on the upper part of the body. And I get this question a lot, Is that safe? If someone has a blood clot in a vein in their leg, and if massage boosts circulation the way we've been taught it does, I remember hearing that massage boosts circulation by 300%, well then, wouldn't doing massage on the back or the arms or the chest, run the risk of helping that clot in the leg to fragment and travel? And the answer is, we don't know for sure. Done with a great deal of care, maybe not, it's hard to imagine an ethical research study to test this question, plus which all kinds of things might cause clots to break into fragments, climbing the stairs, taking a hot shower, anything that requires adaptive responses could contribute to this risk.
11:27 RW: However, I regularly scan the literature for case reports about massage-related adverse events, these are situations where it has been reasonably demonstrated that something bad happened because of a massage. I also frequently serve as a consultant or expert witness in litigations where a massage therapist has been accused of hurting a client. So I've seen some of this in action, not every adverse event makes it into the medical literature or into a lawsuit, obviously, but some do. And in fact, my pathology perspectives article in the May-June edition of Massage & Bodywork magazine lists an updated review of documented adverse events. I'll put a link to that in the show notes. And in that context, we have seen the potential for DVT complicating it into a pulmonary embolism, but so far we've only seen that when massage has been given directly to the part of the body with the blood clot.
12:28 RW: By contrast, there is some data that suggests the effect massage has on circulation, and I use that term carefully, is probably not as much as we think. Circulation can mean many things. Can't it? It can refer to arterial flow or Venous flow or lymphatic flow, it can suggest systemic consequences or only local ones, it can be about superficial circulation or about deep circulation, it's not hard to demonstrate that massage has impact on superficial local circulation. We can see that just through changes in skin temperature, right, but when we try to look for changes in the deeper blood vessels, Oh, that's not clear at all. Doppler ultrasound does not support the hypothesis that massage boosts arterial circulation deep in the muscles.
13:21 RW: But here's another twist. Most of this research has been done on healthy people, of course, and the way the body adapts and compensates might be really different for people who are dealing with blood clotting risks, and this is one of the reasons I've been giving advice to be super conservative for clients who are recovering from COVID-19, for instance, who might be at risk for coagulopathy. But, let's go back to our two gentleman whose massage therapist asked them to get checked. Remember the first one? 85 years old in general, good health, but with diabetes, he had visible swelling and palpable heat in one leg but no redness, the other one, 76 years old with an aortic aneurysm, had swelling, heat and redness in one leg, both went on their massage therapists advice to be checked for deep vein thrombosis to their primary care physicians. Both were negative. Phew. Does that mean their massage therapist overreacted? Nope. I didn't get from these stories what kind of time frames passed between when the massage happened and when these clients visited their doctors, so it's possible that if clots were present, they dissolved on their own, that happens, or maybe it wasn't clots at all, maybe it was something else that cleared up. Regardless, this massage therapist demonstrated really excellent client care by getting more information before she put these people at any further risk.
14:54 RW: I can't tell you how many, I have a client, whose stories I've heard where the massage therapist did indeed identify the possibility of a DVT that was confirmed later and they may have saved those clients lives. We are on the front lines for our clients in many ways, having to do with recognizing challenges to their health, and when our caution turns out not to be necessary, well, that's just good news for everyone, our clients, and for us.
15:24 RW: Hey everybody, thanks for listening to, "I have a client who... " Pathology conversations with Ruth Werner. Remember, you can send me your, "I have a client who... ", stories too. [email protected], that's ihaveaclientwho all one word, all lowercase @abmp.com. I can't wait to see what you send me and I'll see you next time.
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Copyright © 1969 by The Rockefeller University Press.
J Cell Biol (1969) 40 (3): 773–778.
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The method of quantitative electron microscopy was applied to the measurement of protein concentration in thin sections. The human erythrocyte was selected as a model because of its apparently uniform protein concentration. Phosphotungstic acid (PTA) in aqueous solution was used as a reversible stain for protein, and PTA-stained Dowex resin spheres were embedded along with the red cells as standards for measurement of section thickness. The mass of stain removed from a given area of sectioned red cell by buffer (pH 7.4) was measured by quantitative electron microscopy. From the stoichiometry of the reaction between PTA and red cell protein established in this study, the amount of protein present in the measured area was calculated. From this amount of protein and the measured thickness, the concentration of protein was calculated and expressed as g/100 ml, for comparison with the clinical laboratory value for hemoglobin. Groups of red cells from the same sample were measured on 3 different days and their mean values (g/100 ml ± SD) were 29 ± 3.9, 30 ± 2.7, and 33 ± 4.6, compared to the clinical laboratory value of 32.1 g/100 ml packed cells, after correction for volume change and protein loss during fixation.
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THE REACTIVITY AND STAINING OF TISSUE PROTEINS WITH PHOSPHOTUNGSTIC ACID
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Astronaut duo complete challenging first post-Shuttle US spacewalk on ISS
by Pete Harding August 30, 2012
written by Pete Harding August 30, 2012
Two astronauts have stepped outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday on what is the first US Segment-based spacewalk of the post-Space Shuttle era. American astronaut Suni Williams and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide egressed the Quest airlock at 8:16 AM EDT/12:16 PM GMT, ahead of a challenging spacewalk that resulted in the failure to install a new MBSU.
EVA overview:
Thursday’s spacewalk, known as US EVA-18, will mainly focus on replacements of failed hardware and routing of cabling for future ISS elements.
While such tasks were previously handled by Space Shuttle crews during Shuttle-mission related EVAs on the ISS, last year’s retirement of the Space Shuttles means that duty now falls onto the long duration ISS Expedition crews.
Due to the fact that the ISS has now entered the utilisation phase, meaning as much crew time as possible is devoted to science, rather than maintenance, US Segment-based EVAs by ISS crews will be much less frequent than Shuttle mission EVAs.
The target is to only perform one US-based EVA per year, with external tasks that require human intervention in the intervening period being “saved up” for such annual EVAs.
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While the annual US Segment-based EVAs are conducted out of the US Segment’s Quest airlock using American Extra-vehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits, Russian Segment (RS)-based EVAs will continue at their usual rate of two-to-three per year, performed out of the Russian Docking Compartment-1 (DC-1) “Pirs” airlock using Russian Orlan spacesuits.
The last US-based EVA on the ISS was performed just over one year ago, during the final Space Shuttle mission, STS-135, in July 2011.
Since then, a number of external maintenance tasks have built up, which will be the focus of Thursday’s EVA.
US astronaut Suni Williams will serve as lead spacewalker, designated EV-1, for this EVA, and will be wearing the EMU marked with a red stripe. Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide, who will serve as EV-2, will be wearing the all-white EMU.
Williams has previously performed four EVAs during her past ISS mission, however this will be Hoshide’s first ever spacewalk, during which he will become only the third ever Japanese astronaut to perform an EVA.
Each spacewalker will carry a digital camera with them, with one camera being equipped with a standard 28mm lens, and the other being equipped with a 10mm wide-angle lens that was responsible for the amazing wide-angle photos of the docked ISS/Shuttle complex during the STS-134 and STS-135 EVAs in 2011.
While no Shuttle orbiter will be present at the ISS for today’s EVA, Europe’s ATV-3 and Japan’s HTV-3 will both be attached to the station.
EVA procedures (More images will be added, and the article will be updated, during the EVA):
Following suit-up, the first order of business for Williams and Hoshide will be to perform the In Suit Light Exercise (ISLE) protocol, demonstrated during the final EVAs of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.
ISLE, as its name suggests, involves the EVA crew donning their spacesuits and then performing some light exercise inside the ISS in order to purge their bloodstreams of nitrogen.
The purge is necessary since nitrogen in the bloodstream could cause “the bends” at the conclusion of the spacewalk when astronauts exit their EMUs, which are pressurised at around 5psi of pure oxygen in order to facilitate better suit mobility, and return to the 14.7psi oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere of the ISS.
ISLE eliminates the need for an overnight “campout” inside the Quest airlock at a reduced pressure by the spacewalkers, and thus allows nitrogen purges to take significantly less time than in the past, and allows spacewalks to be performed at shorter notice, if required.
After the two spacewalkers had egressed the Quest airlock, the first task for Suni Williams will be to route and connect two new power cables between the US Segment and the Russian Segment.
Once fully connected via future Russian EVAs, will be used to provide power to the future Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) and to provide power to the Russian Service Module (SM) from via all four US Segment Main Bus Switching Units (MBSUs), instead of the current two.
In order to route the cables, Williams had to enter the Starboard Zero (S0) Truss through an access hatch.
Meanwhile, Aki Hoshide prepared to replace the failing MBSU-1 atop the S0 Truss. MBSUs are electrical boxes that distribute generated electrical power around the station’s power channels, to which electrical loads are attached.
MBSU-1 is still working, however ground controllers lost contact with it last year after it experienced a series of bit flips – or anomalous logic upsets. MBSU-1 is no longer sending data on its health to the ground, leading ISS managers to deicide to replace it now before it could hard fail unexpectedly sometime in the future.
The first task for Hoshide was to prepare the new MBSU – which resided in a Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism (FRAM) Flight Support Equipment (FSE) enclosure on External Stowage Platform-2 (ESP-2) just outside the Quest airlock. Preparations included removing a thermal cover, and setting up the EVA worksite.
Next, Hoshide translated to atop the S0 Truss, and removed the failing MBSU-1 by turning two bolts, following which he ingressed an Articulating Portable Foot Restraint (APFR) on the end of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), prior to himself, holding the then removed failing MBSU, being “flown” by the SSRMS back to the new MBSU on ESP-2. The bolts were notably troublesome during the work on the failed unit.
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The failing MBSU was then temp stowed on ESP-2, following which Hoshide removed the new MBSU from its FRAM FSE, and again “flown” by the SSRMS back to the MBSU-1 install site atop the S0 Truss, where he was joined by Suni Williams who helped Hoshide install the new MBSU-1 in place of the removed failing unit.
However, the bolts were again troublesome, requiring a large amount of evaluation from the ground, including the Mission Evaluation Room (MER). Debris – in the form of shavings – seemed to be causing problems with the installation of the unit and the tightening of the bolts. Cleaning out the holes with a nitrogen canister was called for, with controllers joking it should be renamed “Puff the Magic Dragon”.
All efforts to install it failed, likely to result in a contingency EVA at a later date, while the unit was stowed with a tie down.
The failing MBSU was installed into the then empty FRAM FSE, and the thermal cover replaced.
It is possible that the failed MBSU could return to Earth inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule at some point in the future, once the JEM ORU Transfer Interface (JOTI) hardware arrives at the ISS early next year, which will allow MBSU-sized payloads to be transferred to/from the ISS interior and exterior via the JEM Airlock.
In preparation for the MBSU-1 replacement, an internal Lab Truss Contingency Jumper (LTCJ) and Secondary Power Distribution Assembly (SPDA) jumper were both installed in the US Lab in order to temporarily transfer electrical loads from MBSU-1 to MBSU-4, prior to MBSU-1 being removed and replaced.
The next task would have been to replace the end B Camera, Light, Pan/tilt Assembly (CLPA) on the SSRMS by removing the old unit and replacing it with a spare. It was previously planned to replace a mast CLPA on the Mobile Base System (MBS) during this time period, however that task was deferred in lieu of the SSRMS end B CLPA replacement by a recent failure of the vital focus mechanism in said camera.
However, due to the challenges with the MBSU, this task was cancelled from the timeline.
Several get-ahead tasks were also available, such as the installation of a Micro Meteoroid Orbital Debris (MMOD) and thermal cover over the end of Pressurised Mating Adapter-2 (PMA-2), which, following the retirement of the Space Shuttle, is now unneeded for dockings until the installation of the International Docking Adapter (IDA) in 2014, prior to dockings by commercial crew vehicles in 2017.
The PMA-2 MMOD/thermal cover one is the same type that was installed on PMA-3 during the STS-135 EVA in July 2011.
Other get-ahead tasks included the replacement of the MBS mast CLPA which was deferred in favour of the SSRMS end B CLPA replacement, replacement of the Japanese Exposed Facility (JEF) Vision Equipment (VE) forward camera and light, troubleshooting exposed grounding wires on the Functional Cargo Block (FGB) Power Data Grapple Fixture (PDGF), and reconfiguring some EVA tools.
However, due to the MBSU issues, none of the get-ahead tasks could be completed.
Ingress back into the Quest airlock was planned for 2:45 PM EDT/6:45 PM GMT. However, due to the issues, the EVA was extended to what became the third longest spacewalk in history, ending at eight hours and 17 minutes.
(Images: Via NASA and L2. Content aided by L2’s extensive ISS Update Section.)
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Once Joker crossed $1 billion, becoming the first R rated movie to accomplish that feat, the game changed. Phillips had the leverage power to tell the next Joker story that he wants to. And from what we understand, Phoenix enjoyed working on this movie with his director, so perhaps they have a story that they both want to explore?
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Boomerang and his fellow villains prove that with terrible powers come terrible responsibilities...and Spider-Man will soon learn that with superior villains come superior problems! Out on bail and aiming to stay out of jail, Boomerang must get his cronies on target - but does Frank Castle, the one-man army known as the Punisher, have them targeted already?
Ms. Tree v04 - Deadline (2022)
The next incredible instalment in the case books of Ms Tree, private detective, from famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins!
From the minds of author Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty, comes the fourth collection of 5 classic Ms Tree stories. Join Michael Tree, the 6ft, 9mm carrying private detective on her thrilling adventures. No case is too small, no violence too extreme, just as long as it gets the job done.
Fans of hard-boiled detective and crime fiction will get a thrill from these tales!
Featuring the stories:
"Deadline"
"Skin Deep"
"Runaway"
"Runaway II"
"Death, Danger and Diamonds"
Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton v01 (2022)
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For fans of Chew and Assassin Nation comes a new action-mystery series from Eisner Award nominees Chris Schweizer (Crogan Adventures) and Kyle Starks (Sexcastle).
The world's most unlikable action star has been found dead and his previous TV sidekicks are looking to solve the mystery. But how can you catch a murderer when almost everyone hated the victim?
Now these sidekicks are going to learn what it means to the stars of the show...that is, if anyone of them survive the STUNTMAN WAR!
Collects THE SIX SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON #1-6.
Spectacular Spider-Man Vol.2 #1-27, 1000 (2003-2005, 2011) Complete
English | CBR | 28 Issues | HD | 1.06 GB
The fan favorite team of writer Paul Jenkins and artist Humberto Ramos reteam for an ongoing series starring the Amazing Spider-Man! And the series kicks off with a bang - enter Venom!
27-issue monthly series published from September 2003 to June 2005. Collected in Spectacular Spider-Man (2003).
Issues #15-16 are tie-ins to the Avengers Disassembled prologue. Issues #17-20 tie-in to the Avengers Disassembled storyline itself.
Spectacular Spider-Man v01 - The Hunger (2016)
Collects Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #1-5.
Spectacular Spider-Man v02 - Countdown (2016)
Collects Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #6-10.
Spectacular Spider-Man v03 - Here There Be Monsters (2016)
Collects Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #11-14.
Spectacular Spider-Man v04 - Disassembled (2016)
Spectacular Spider-Man v05 - Sins Remembered (2016)
Spectacular Spider-Man v06 - Final Curtain (2016)
Collects Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #21-22 and 27, and Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #39-41.
Spider-Man's life is thrown into turmoil as he begins to undergo a shocking transformation - one that may well leave the web-slinger scarred forever! What is the cause of this strange mutation - and how does it connect to the troubles plaguing the Avengers? Betrayed by his body and suffering the painful effects of his slow transformation from man to arachnid, Spidey must confront the architect of his metamorphosis - the Queen! But only Captain America holds the key to her defeat!
Spidey's arch-foe Doctor Octopus is sporting an updated new look and a new plan to ruin the wall-crawler's life once and for all. Doc Ock gives him an ultimatum: for the safe release of the Palestinian ambassador he's holding hostage, Spider-Man must reveal his secret identity to the entire world! International intrigue and web-spinning action combine as Spider-Man's newest movie menace ups the ante on their long-time rivalry.
One of the most popular Spider-Man villains of all time is back and deadlier than ever. The alien Venom is on the loose attacking people seemingly at random. But what does he want and what will it take for Spider-Man to defeat him?
Scum's Wish v01-v08 (2016-2018) Complete
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Kyler Murray: Having DeAndre Hopkins back definitely helps
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The Cardinals moved to 3-4 on the season with last week’s Thursday victory over the Saints.
It was receiver DeAndre Hopkins’ first action of the season, as he returned from his six-game suspension for violating the league’s PED policy. And Hopkins had an obvious positive effect on the offense, catching 10 passes for 103 yards.
No one else on the team had more than 31 yards receiving.
Coming off the long weekend, quarterback Kyler Murray said on Wednesday that while he would’ve loved to start the season off like the Cardinals did last year, he feels they’re moving in a positive direction now.
“I think having ‘Hop’ back definitely helps,” Murray said in his press conference. “Just having him out there — his presence, his confidence, the ability, route running to catch the ball — all that stuff. More than anything, me and him are just comfortable together and we’ve had those reps. I know where he’s going to be, and what he’s going do. Same for him. It’s unfortunate to start the season like that, but I don’t think we could have done anything different.”
One of the advantages Hopkins brings is his versatility, as the Cardinals can move him around offensive formations. Murray said he feels it’s a necessity for Arizona to do that to take advantage of matchups.
“I think his first year here he had 1400 yards. I don’t know how,” Murray said. “He lined up on the left side of the field and we just kind of went to work — which every week it was, ‘Why are people allowing us to do this?’ I don’t know, but it happened.
“Then last year he was moving around a little bit more. He ended up getting hurt and stuff like that, but I think for us to just get him easy completions and get the ball in our best player’s hands, we’ve got to move him around for sure.”
That also opens up opportunities for other players on the field — though last week wasn’t necessarily the best example of that based on production.
“I know we have one of the best receiving corps in the league for the depth that we have,” Murray said. “The guys we’ve got in that room, the running backs, tight ends — I’m confident in everybody out there. The more we can move him around and make people worry about him, which is a given, other people are going to be open.”
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Lightening in a Bottle: Washington’s Teenage Outfielder
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The Bryce Harper Topps' Rookie Card
Sometimes you just know it when you see it. Like the friend of mine who remembers watching a young Yankee shortstop take the field for the first time in 1996. It didn’t matter that he was a rookie playing his very first game in the big leagues; it was in his carriage and attitude and demeanor. It was obvious and it was Derek Jeter.
In DC, the Bryce Harper era has begun…ahead of schedule. The young man who was all of 15 when he crushed a 500-foot exhibition homerun at Tropicana Field in Tampa and graced the cover of Sports Illustrated at 16, got called up from the minors after a barrage of injuries beset the Washington Nationals.
So there he was in left field Saturday night, clearly taking in the sights and sounds of Dodger Stadium as if pinching himself that, at last, here he was, at The Show. We all collectively worried- would the 19-year old prodigy wilt under the pressure? Are they ruining him by bringing him to the majors too soon?
Are you kidding? In his first game, he scorched a double over the centerfielder’s head that landed at the foot of the wall. Later, in left field, in a tight scoreless game, he threw a 370-foot laser beam- a perfect strike to home plate that would have easily thrown out the runner if the catcher hadn’t dropped the ball.
Ok…flukey first game. Let’s see how the kid does Sunday. This time in center field, he made a leaping, wild catch that led him right into the outfield wall. He got another hit, a solid single to left field. Then while his teammates were striking out 13 times against suffocating Dodger pitching, he coaxed a walk to get on base late in the game. He showed more maturity and patience in that base on balls than any of his older teammates that day.
He doesn’t walk to the field to take his position- he hustles. He’s known for his power, but he runs like a gazelle. He fears nothing- not outfield walls, not the glare of the spotlight, not failing amid some of the highest expectations ever held for any young prospect in the history of the game.
National’s manager, Davey Johnson has been here before. He was the one in the New York Mets organization who back in 1985, successfully argued that a young pitcher with the most amazing stuff he’d ever seen should be brought up to the majors and it didn’t matter to him one hoot that it was a 19 year- old teenager. That was Dwight Gooden. The next year, that kid helped lead the Mets to a World Series title. It is no wonder Davey Johnson was suggesting out of spring training, that Harper too should move up to the big leagues…NOW. He saw this a quarter century ago. Which seems about right for a player like that who only comes along once or twice in a generation. The Nationals have the other once-a-generation guy too- Stephen Strasburg.
But in Harper, I imagine this is what it must have been like to see a young Mickey Mantle, who when he wasn’t hitting monster homeruns, was flying like the wind, running from home plate to 1st base in just over three seconds. The Mantle I remember was already a busted up mess with an alcohol problem and knees so damaged he had to be taped up like a mummy before games just so he could walk out to the field.
Because people like me don’t put enough pressure on Harper– comparing him to the likes of Derek Jeter, Dwight Gooden and Mickey Mantle- let me also add he reminds me of Secretariat as a one-year old thoroughbred. Grace and power and speed; running like a young colt in a Virginia meadow just for the joy of it.
Harper’s meadow is the outfield at National’s Park and the joy is not just his, but ours as well.
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Making the Case for Curbside Pickup at Convenience Stores
This is one of the strongest opportunities for c-stores to compete with quick-service restaurants.
By Angela Hanson, Senior Editor, Convenience Store News
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Convenience store operators have several commonly cited reasons for why they are hesitant to add curbside pickup at their stores: they fear a loss of add-on and impulse sales; it could increase labor costs; and they believe curbside requires a dedicated pickup area in the parking lot. However, there is a simple and compelling argument in favor of offering curbside: retailers that don’t will be left behind because curbside and off-premise are here to stay, according to Tom Cook, principal at King-Casey, a leader in foodservice business improvement. “It’s become a standard now, and it’s going to stay and continue to grow,” Cook said during a presentation at the recent 2021 Convenience Store News Convenience Foodservice Exchange event, held in Charlotte. C-stores are in a good position to compete with quick-service restaurants (QSRs), as the industry’s transition to a foodservice-focused model has been ongoing for quite some time, with foodservice growing to be the second-largest revenue category after tobacco. Operators have improved their overall menu quality, developed signature food and beverage items, and developed new store designs that emphasize their foodservice offerings. Despite these positive moves, though, upgrading foodservice alone doesn’t address current convenience trends and evolving consumer needs. There is room for growth and improvement in the availability of curbside pickup in the convenience channel. According to a mid-2021 survey, just more than half of c-store chains now offer some amount of curbside pickup, and only half of those make it available at all or most of their stores. Additionally, just half of c-store chains that offer curbside say they are “extremely satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the results. Nearly 50 percent have no plans to expand their curbside program at this time, the survey found. And among those that do not currently offer curbside, half say they are not likely to add it in the future. Cook, however, pointed to some distinct benefits of curbside pickup that c-store executives should recognize: its customer-centric offering of convenience, saved time, and safety; and its ability to provide incremental sales by keeping c-stores competitive with QSRs and fast-casual restaurants. He also listed several key changes that have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic:
Consumers show a preference for a touchless foodservice experience;
Consumers have discovered the speed, convenience and comfort of off-premise offerings;
QSR and fast-casual outlets are quickly expanding curbside and drive-thru while continually improving the convenience of the off-premise experience; and
Leading QSR and fast-casual brands, including Starbucks and Taco Bell, have even developed curbside and drive-thru “stores of the future.”
For c-store retailers that add curbside pickup, consumers’ strong desire for convenience is likely to increase visit frequency for current customers and attract new customers who want that added convenience, alleviating potential concerns about loss of impulse sales and higher labor costs, according to Cook. The high frequency of use and consumer acceptance of curbside in the restaurant industry demonstrates there is significant curbside opportunity for c-stores. “I think it’s a terrific way to get incremental business,” he said. Cook acknowledged the challenges posed by today’s labor shortage, but believes c-store operators should look beyond their current difficulties and strongly consider curbside pickup if they aren’t already doing so. “There’s a bright future ahead for our industry and curbside,” he said.
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SEMA 2018: Chevrolet's All-Electric eCOPO Camaro is a 700hp Drag Monster
Next year sees Chevrolet celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the original COPO Camaro. Naturally, Chevy intends to celebrate the occasion and has not one, but two models to mark the date.
We’ve already covered the first, a classic quarter-mile pony car. The other is a little different. It’s still a Camaro, and it’s still built for 1320 feet at a time, but it doesn’t have an engine…
Chevrolet calls it the eCOPO, and that should be a bit of a clue. It’s fully electric, with two motors delivering power to the rear live axle through the “race-prepped” automatic transmission. It’s dressed to impress, and with more than 520kW (that’s 700hp+ to the rest of us) and 600lbft of torque, it means business. Chevy reckons the eCOPO can run the quarter mile in about nine seconds.
If that sounds impressive, consider this: it’s still undergoing tests. Potentially that means Chevrolet could deliver an eight second, all-electric drag monster.
Power comes from an 800V battery pack divided into four modules. Two occupy the space where the rear seats would be, while a second pair sits in the trunk. That gives the eCOPO a 44:56 weight bias, so there’s plenty of traction for a full-bore launch.
GM’s head of motorsports, Russ O’Blenes, teased the chances of offering electric crate motors in future.
“The possibilities are intriguing and suggest a whole new world for racers. Chevrolet pioneered the concept of the high-performance crate engine right around the time the original COPO Camaro models were created, and the eCOPO project points to a future that could include electric crate motors for racing, or even your street rod. We’re not there yet, but it’s something we’re exploring.”
This may be a concept, but who knows what it holds for the future? Color us intrigued!
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Interim Activities in District 33
Rep. John Talley
By State Rep. John Talley
(District 33 Payne County) –This past month has been busy with activities in District 33 and throughout the state!
Warden Raymond Byrd asked me to facilitate a team-building with inmates at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, so I coordinated 15 volunteers to join us and participate. Criminal justice reform consumed much of our discussion during session this year, so it’s a great benefit for me to speak directly with prisoners to discuss the barriers they face rejoining society as positive, productive citizens after finishing their sentence.
A recurring point is the difficulty obtaining an official picture identification, which is needed to expedite obtaining their birth certificate and a driver’s license. These tools are necessary to rejoin the workforce.
We must continue to view our status as the highest incarceration rate in the world not as representative of the citizens of Oklahoma, but as an indication that changes must occur. The best solutions will be reached if we hear all the voices at the table, continue to incarcerate those who are a threat to citizens, and assist those who are released with the means to achieve the best possible start after they serve their time.
Also recently, State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister asked me to serve on her rules committee for schools, which is part of Senate Bill 441 passed during session. The bill requires a minimum number of 165 calendar days and calls for an education committee to create standards to evaluate all districts. Over 50% of tax dollars go toward public education. With the increases in state revenues comes more dedicated funds. The duty of the Legislature is to require objective, transparent standards of the use of those funds being dedicated to our students.
I also recently met with Steven Buck, the executive director of Oklahoma’s Office of Juvenile Affairs. We toured the Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center in Tecumseh together and discussed the importance of addressing the underlying issues, such as education, poverty, and drug use, which play a role in juveniles entering our criminal justice system.
Oklahoma ranks highest in the nation in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), which the Tulsa World recently highlighted in an excellent series. Not only do childhood traumatic events put an extra element of challenges in our juvenile systems, they also bring greater responsibilities for our classroom teachers.
Resilient Payne County has done an excellent job educating Oklahomans on ACES and its effects. On July 24th, from 8:30-10:30 a.m., they are hosting a free session on ACES. Annette Jacobi, Director of Oklahoma Commission of Children and Youth, and Clayton Lodes, Board Member of Ardmore Behavioral Health, will be guest speakers.
On a final note, Mira Broyles is my most recent recipient of the Unsung Hero Award, which recognizes people who do terrific things but may otherwise go unnoticed. Mira started a food pantry in Perkins at the First United Methodist Church. The pantry is open at 5:30 p.m. one Monday a month. It’s an honor to recognize this caring and dedicated public servant.
Thank you for the privilege of serving you. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me. My cell number is (405) 742-8040 or by e-mail [email protected].
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A new police headquarters in Madrid is the latest architectural landmark in the city. With its transparent design created from extensive use of Technal’s GEODE-MX curtain walling system, the building aims to change the relationship between this important organisation and the community it serves.
Designed by architects Voluar Arquitectura, the scheme in the El Pardo district takes the form of a stunning glass and aluminium cube. A series of cantilevered glass fronted ‘boxes’ protrude from the envelope, breaking up the façade and creating a number of raised terraces and patio areas.
From a distance, the facility has a clean but bold appearance and from the inside, it offers impressive views of the city for its occupants and users.
The Fuencarral-El Pardo police building has a double skin envelope which comprises an inner glass façade constructed from Technal’s aluminium GEODE-MX curtain walling. Anodised aluminium panels form the outer skin. These mesh screens have random perforations to help control the depth of field and light penetration, providing a degree of privacy and solar shading during the day, whilst allowing uninterrupted views out.
At night, the building glows with light to reveal its inner functions to the outside world. The space between the curtain walling and the mesh screens provides a ventilated service area running around the whole perimeter of the building for cleaning, maintenance and as an additional measure to conserve energy. The overall effect is of a spectacular and constantly changing façade.
The Technal curtain walling was selected for its low maintenance, durability, aesthetic and environmental qualities. Natural ventilation is provided by concealed opening vents inserted into the curtain wall.
The 6,800 sqm scheme also features a large full height atrium at its centre, which unifies its different functions and spaces, and the public and restricted areas of the building. All interior
partitions are glazed to allow light to transfer through the entire building and amplify the feeling of transparency between staff and visitors.
Traditionally, police buildings are developments that are closed off to the public. This project is set back from the site boundary, leaving space for a new urban square that encourages pedestrian access and promotes the theme of openness.
Technal’s GEODE-MX curtain walling suite uses constant 52mm sight lines to create a uniform appearance across a comprehensive range of design options – low to high rise curtain walling, visible grid, ribbon, structural, beaded, faceted, acoustic, and sloped glazing.
This high performing façade solution has all the advantages of one fully integrated system – consistent interfaces, simplified specification, ease of fabrication and installation, cost efficiency and reduced time on site.
All the options in the GEODE-MX suite have been rigorously tested to BS EN standards for wind resistance, water tightness and air permeability.
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Judge Denies Tesla’s Motion For Arbitration, Sexual Harassment Case Going To Court
Tesla has been unsuccessful in its motion for arbitration into sexual harassment claims made by former employee Jessica Barraza, meaning the case will now go to court.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Stephen Kaus made the decision on Monday. He stated that Tesla made no indication to her that “she would have to agree to arbitrate employment claims and give up her right to a jury trial” when she was offered the factory job.
Barraza filed a lawsuit against Tesla in November 2021. She claims that the electric car manufacturer fosters a climate of sexual harassment and says co-workers referred to her as having a “Coke bottle figure” and an “onion booty,” alleging that she experienced “nightmarish conditions” on the factory floor. In one case, she alleges that a male co-worker picked her up and placed her next to him while pressing into her chest.
“Basically, Barraza was ambushed,” Judge Kaus said. “She had gone through extensive pre-employment activities, had been offered a job, signed multiple forms and had left her previous employment in reliance on [a job] offer, all without Tesla giving any indication that she would have to agree to arbitrate employment claims and give up her right to a jury trial.”
In the months after Barraza sued Tesla, six other women have sued the carmaker, also alleging sexual harassment. Tesla frequently leans on arbitration clauses in lawsuits against it to try and ensure workplace disputes are settled by private arbitrators and do not become public knowledge, The Washington Post reports.
“This is a victory for public accountability,” said partner at Rudy Exelrod Zieff & Lowe, David A. Low, who is representing Barraza. “Because of this ruling, Tesla will not be able to hide behind the closed doors of confidential arbitration. Instead, Tesla will be judged by a jury of Ms. Barraza’s peers in a public courtroom.”
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HomeNCAABTemple Takes Care of Tulane
Temple Takes Care of Tulane
By Ben Medland
Temple Men’s Basketball took down the Tulane Green Wave in an AAC game Saturday, at the Liacouras Center. The Owls got a great game from Junior guard, Quinton Rose, as he led the team to the win 80-69.
Rose, who ended with 29 points, helped the Owls maintain their early lead over Tulane. The Green Wave was creeping back into things late in the game, however, it was not enough for them to take down Temple.
Temple jumped out to a 13-point lead at the end of the first half, and it looked like they would coast to an easy win over a team who has only won four times this season. However, they battled back and put up 39 points in the second half, compared to Temple’s 37 second-half points.
Shizz Alston, Jr. was spectacular once again, this game scoring 22 for the Cherry and the White. Alston also hit another three-pointer in this contest, increasing his streak to 40 straight games with a three-pointer made, which is a new Temple University record.
Analyzing the Win
Temple badly needed this win as they are still in pursuit of the NCAA March Madness Tournament. Many predictors say that the Owls need to win the rest of their regular season games, in order to have a shot at making the tournament. The Owls will have two more games that are must wins.
They have their final road match this Thursday at UConn, a team they have already beaten once this season.
After UConn, they will return home for their final game of the season. In that game, they will be taking on a UCF team who handed Temple their first AAC loss of the year back on January 2.
Right now, the Owls stand at a record of 21-8 and 11-5 in the conference. The Owls are also chasing a first-round bye in the AAC Tournament, which is granted to the top four teams. Houston, Cincinnati, and UCF are ahead of the Owls and have all clinched their first-round byes. The Owls, however, need to win one of their last two in order to clinch. Memphis can also lose one game, and the Owls would clinch.
The game against UCF will be a big one, as it is another Quadrant 1 game for the Owls, and UCF is coming off of a dominant performance on the road against nationally ranked, Houston. Full coverage will be provided for that final game of the season.
Make sure to tune into Twitter for live updates throughout the game. Make sure to follow @BenMedland and turn on post notifications for tweets throughout the contest.
Ben Medland
http://ngscsports.com
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BVRio launch the Responsible Timber Exchange
Novembro 22, 2016 2:00 am
Rio de Janeiro, 23 November 2016 – BVRio Environmental Exchange has launched the Responsible Timber Exchange, a trading platform to assist traders and buyers of timber in sourcing legal or certified products from all over the world.
The platform is integrated with a Due Diligence and Risk Assessment System, to facilitate the screening of timber products and their supply chains. See video (www.youtube.com/canalbvrio).
The objective of this initiative is to facilitate the procurement of responsible timber products in an efficient, cost effective and secure way, increasing liquidity, supply and demand for this market segment and helping to promote transparency, legality and sustainability in the timber sector.
Through a series of partnerships, the platform will also enable users to contract for a variety of additional services to aggregate value to each transaction. These include grading and quality control, field audits and due diligence, receivables finance, insurance, logistics and export.
The platform will be particularly useful to buyers and traders operating in Europe and the US, where they have to ensure compliance with the EU Timber Regulation and the US Lacey Act, reducing their exposure to illegal timber trade.
The platform is ready to allow the screening of responsible timber products from the Brazilian Amazon, Indonesia (based on the newly issued FLEG licenses), as well as certified products (FSC and PEFC) from all over the world. While the system was originally designed for Brazilian timber, with the support of the UK government it is already been adapted to enable the screening of responsible timber from West Africa (starting with Ghana) and Peru. Products from other sources can also be found in the Exchange, and users will be able to contract for due diligence services through the platform.
In the case of products from Brazil, users can conduct their own screening using BVRio’s Due Diligence and Risk Assessment tools (see below).
About BVRio Due Diligence and Risk Assessment tools
BVRio’s Due Diligence and Risk Assessment tools (www.bvrio.org/timber) were designed to assist traders and buyers of tropical timber in verifying the legality status of the products purchased. Users can simply scan the bar codes of Timber Transportation Permits and receive a report on the legality status of the product checked. The system is initially focused on compliance with Brazilian laws. See video here.
BVRio’s Due Diligence and Risk Assessment System is available as a desktop version or as apps in Android or IOS format, available for free download at the Google Play and Mac App Stores.
The system is based on big data analysis and conducts more than 2 billion crosschecks of data daily. Since their release in 2015, the tools were used by traders and environmental agencies worldwide, to screen thousands of timber shipments.
These apps will be particularly useful to buyers operating in Europe and the US, where they have to ensure compliance with the EU Timber Regulation and the US Lacey Act. Given the high risk of timber illegality in Brazil (it is estimated that more than 50% of Brazilian timber comes from illegal sources – see BVRio’s report on Big Data and Timber Legality, the use of these apps assist buyers in estimating their risks and avoiding exposure to illegal timber trade. Each consignment of wood products can be assessed individually according to its chain of custody, estimating the probability of risks related to social and environmental infractions.
This verification and due diligence process starts with the analysis of documentation provided for the Brazilian government’s DOF and Sisflora Systems (document of origin of timber products). Information gathered is crosschecked to detect any inconsistencies with internal and external databases, including satellite imagery analysis (including analysis from WRI’s Global Forest Watch, and Brazilian NGOs Imazon and ICV) and official databases of infractions of environmental legislation, slave labour, illegal deforestation, environmental infractions, and tax compliance.
About the illegal trade of tropical timber products
This initiative was developed with a view of promoting the responsible trade of tropical timber. A significant barrier for the expansion of the production of sustainable and/or certified timber, however, is the unfair competition posed by illegal operations. Interpol estimates that between 50 and 90% of all tropical timber are from illegal sources, with lower production costs and no tax. This lower cost structure enables them to displace the legal sources in the market, resulting in financial difficulties for the companies involved in legal and/or certified sustainable production. Brazil is considered a high risk country in terms of illegal timber extraction, and this is affecting the markets of timber from this country. Indeed, there has been repeated cases of timber illegality reported by NGOs or the press in the last months (see footnote for examples[1]).
About the Responsible Timber Exchange
BVRio Responsible Timber Exchange is a negotiations platform for legal or certified (i.e., FSC) timber products integrated with a due diligence system and supply chain tracker, allowing traceability of timber products from source of production to final buyer, providing transparency, efficiency and liquidity to this market. The system was designed to facilitate compliance with the requirements of the EU Timber Regulations and the US Lacey Act.
A trading platform with in-built due diligence and traceability systems
BVRio’s Timber Exchange is a simple and efficient trading platform with internal due diligence functionalities. It includes a supply chain traceability system to verify the legality of products negotiated, while ensuring its main purpose to approximate producers and buyers of legal timber products in a transparent and safe environment.
A due diligence system, from the forest to the trading platform
BVRio due diligence system consists of a framework of procedures and measures designed to assess the compliance with the applicable legislation and to identify evidences of fraud and illegality. The due diligence system covers the whole supply chain, assuring the traceability of the timber. All information and documentation are stored and made available for independent auditing.
Adding credibility to the DOF System of the Brazilian government
The due diligence starts with documentation provided for the Brazilian government’s DOF System (Document of Origin of Timber Products). Information gathered is cross-checked to detect any inconsistencies, including spatial satellite imagery analysis and verification of databases of infraction of labour legislation, illegal deforestation, environmental infractions, and tax compliance, possibly complemented by spot checks and field audits, verifying the legality of timber products.
Building on Brazilian experience
The Timber Exchange was developed by Rio de Janeiro’s Environmental Exchange BVRio in consultation with a range of buyers, producers, auditing companies, supply chain experts, NGOs, and government agencies in Brazil. BVRio has vast experience in building and operating environmental markets in Brazil.
The Exchange benefits from input from an Advisory Board with the participation of the following organisations: Imaflora (Brazilian FSC certification NGO), Imazon (Pará-based NGO), Instituto Centro Vida (ICV, Mato Grosso based NGO), WWF Brasil, WRI – World Resources Institute Brasil, and Amata (Brazilian FSC certified timber products company).
[1] See, for instance:
http://m.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/high/Noticias/Madeira-ilegal-da-Amazonia-chega-impunemente-a-Europa-/
http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2015/08/operacao-desmantela-esquema-de-exploracao-ilegal-de-madeira-no-para.html
http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/extracao-ilegal-madeira-e-crime-organizado-tem-hackers-envolvidos-704266.shtml
http://noticias.uol.com.br/meio-ambiente/ultimas-noticias/redacao/2015/08/11/governo-investiga-rondonia-por-oficializar-madeira-ilegal-de-outros-estados.htm
http://www.midiamax.com.br/policia/carreta-apreendida-cerca-50m3-madeira-ilegal-costa-rica-279107
http://g1.globo.com/pa/santarem-regiao/noticia/2015/08/operacao-madeira-limpa-cumpre-mandados-de-prisao-em-santarem.html
http://www.ebc.com.br/noticias/2015/08/policia-federal-desmonta-quadrilha-de-comercio-ilegal-de-madeira
http://g1.globo.com/mato-grosso/noticia/2015/09/empresario-e-preso-e-12-mil-m-de-madeira-ilegal-e-apreendida-em-mt.html
http://imazon.org.br/imprensa/exploracao-ilegal-de-madeira-cresce-63-em-mato-grosso/
http://www.midianews.com.br/conteudo.php?sid=3&cid=237120
http://www.rb.am.br/sem-categoria/operacao-flagra-transporte-noturno-de-madeira-ilegal-em-mato-grosso/
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The Timex Torture Tests of the 1950
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In the 1950s and 1960s, Timex, a brand-named wristwatch, became something of an iconic American product through a long-running advertising campaign that used celebrities to pitch the product. Print ads, such as the one at right with New York Yankee baseball star, Mickey Mantle, were featured in the major magazines of the day. They showed Timex watches being subject to various kinds of “torture tests” to demonstrate their durability, shock resistance, and/or superior waterproofing. In the ad at right, the watch was taped to Mantle’s bat as he took batting practice.
The Timex “torture test” advertising was also used in TV ads, a series made popular by celebrity newscaster John Cameron Swayze who hosted the spots. A number of these ads also featured sports celebrities who doled out the tough treatment to the watches and/or supplied an endorsing statement. Swayze also hosted non-celebrity Timex ads in which the watch would be subject to other trials — whether placed in a washing machine or attached to the bow of a speed boat. Swayze had made a name for himself as a broadcaster and became a trusted national personality and a believable pitchman for Timex. For over 20 years — well into the 1970s — Swayze appeared in the advertising series with one kind of Timex watch or another being subject to various physical challenges to prove their durability, shock resistance, and/or superior waterproofing.
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In the early days of Invicta, fans used to recreate them. Surprisingly, most invicters survived being boiled, dropped in ice cold water, then frozen. Then vice versa.
Always loved the torture tests.
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The COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa
Globally stay-at-home orders have been issued to protect people, save lives and allow healthcare systems to prepare, adapt and respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The goal? Flatten the curve. South Africa’s lockdown is no different. Except that it is.
Decisions that were taken early on were based on sparse, patchy data and in direct response to the immediate COVID-19 threat. A rapid lockdown was a prudent decision at the time. But new, more holistic, systems data is now available.
We’ve been counting the human and economic cost of extended lockdown in South Africa. It nets out negatively for both.
Flattening the curve in an epidemiological model does not change the number of viral deaths it predicts—it merely spreads them over time.
The impact of the virus on most of the population, particularly the economically active and school children, has been overstated.
Our research shows that South Africa’s lockdown will cause a loss of life at least 29 times greater than the loss of life it stands to prevent.
The South African GDP could shrink between 10 and 15% if the current lockdown strategy is maintained. The massive job and revenue losses would drive more people into poverty and create a decline in employment of around 2.5 to 3.3 million.
We should not anchor ourselves to the lockdown but rather consider the best next action, considering the new and developing data available today.
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The lifting of restrictions continued in mid-March despite the “collapse” of Omicron
The fifth wave is retreating at high speed: “For several weeks we have seen the collapse of the Omicron wave, reducing its frequency by twice every week,” Ferran told the RTL-Le Figaro-LCI grand jury.
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according to The latest figures from Public Health France on SaturdayThe number of positive cases averaged 86,000 over a 7-day period, down 76% since peaking on Jan. 25. The minister also stressed the “lower health burden (with) fewer and fewer hospitalized patients”: there are still 28,600 (-14% since February 7), including 2,900 in critical care (-27% since January 12).
But he added, “There are still a lot of people to say it’s over and all procedures removed,” and he estimates that by mid-March, hospital and pandemic conditions will allow us to remove the mask from the inside and remove all or part of the vaccination permit as it is still valid today.
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Olivier Veran noted that the “exact scope” of this easing of restrictions “will depend on what we observe in a couple of weeks,” denying any connection between this calendar and the presidential election in April: “This is by no means a political decision, in the sense that it is not adapted to the situation.” Electoral.
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Mutualistic Networks
Jordi Bascompte
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Jordi Bascompte and Pedro Jordano
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Mutualistic interactions among plants and animals have played a paramount role in shaping biodiversity. Yet the majority of studies on mutualistic interactions have involved only a few species, as opposed to broader mutual connections between communities of organisms. Mutualistic Networks is the first book to comprehensively explore this burgeoning field. Integrating different approaches, from the statistical description of network structures to the development of new analytical frameworks, Jordi Bascompte and Pedro Jordano describe the architecture of these mutualistic networks and show their importance for the robustness of biodiversity and the coevolutionary process.
Making a case for why we should care about mutualisms and their complex networks, this book offers a new perspective on the study and synthesis of this growing area for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. It will serve as the standard reference for all future work on mutualistic interactions in biological communities.
Winner of the 2016 BES Marsh Christian Trust Book Award, British Ecological Association
Jordi Bascompte is professor of ecology at the University of Zurich. He is the coauthor of Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems (Princeton). Pedro Jordano is a professor at the Spanish Research Council and honorary professor at the University of Sevilla.
"[A]ll ecologists will benefit from reading [Mutualistic Networks], giving this audience a better understanding of the network perspective on mutualism."—Choice
"Making a case for why we should care about mutualisms and their complex networks, this book offers a new perspective on the study and synthesis of this growing area for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. It will serve as the standard reference for any future work on mutualistic interactions in biological communities."—Biotechnology, Agronomy, Society and Environment
"Mutualistic Networks is a book that presents a highly dynamic field in its entire breadth and historic development. [A]nyone interested in a passionate layout of a multifaceted and ecologically exciting research area will want to read it."—Carsten F. Dormann, Basic and Applied Ecology
"[T]his excellent and unique book provides novel insights into ecological and coevolutionary dynamics of interacting species."—Wesley Dáttilo, Journal of Complex Networks
"Bascompte and Jordano . . . logically and thoroughly guide the reader through the theories and tools used to understand, and the importance of understanding, the complexity of mutualistic networks."—Luke S. O'Loughlin, Austral Ecology
"The book thus serves as a comprehensive introduction to anyone interested in using network techniques to analyze multispecies networks and provides a gentle lead into the techniques available, which are often quite complex and can easily be misapplied. Everything is set out lucidly, and the logic behind different network parameters and their analysis is made clear, so I found it straightforward to use network analysis on some of my own data with pleasing results. . . . Highly relevant for general conservation biology."—David Nash, Conservation Biology
"Until recently, the study of mutualism was replete with lovely natural history details, but largely divorced from ecological theory. In this fine book, Bascompte and Jordano take an important step toward rectifying this situation, by applying a rich array of network tools and phylogenetically informed analyses to webs of mutualistic interactions. The authors deftly synthesize a wide range of empirical case studies and theoretical perspectives, draw a number of intriguing and unexpected conclusions, and provide useful, detailed methodological appendices which will facilitate future studies of mutualism in a community context."—Robert D. Holt, University of Florida
"This engaging book is required reading for anyone interested in how the web of life is organized. With impeccable scholarship, a broad and careful presentation, and nuanced interpretation, it probes deep questions about the structure of biodiversity, and weaves innovative approaches with insightful interpretations."—John Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz
"This useful book examines the structure of mutualistic networks by delving into emerging structures from mutualistic network research, explaining what drives the structure, and investigating its implications on the robustness of ecological communities. Comprehensively reviewing this important field, this work will find a significant readership and promote further research."—Kevin McCann, University of Guelph
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Real Onigokko Rising SP Part2
July 16, 2015 by Black Gekikara Leave a comment
Just finished watching the third and final episode of the ‘Real Onigokko Rising’ Special and once gain Japan has done it! They have managed to surprise me! You see, I was this close to giving up on the episode half-way because it was heading in the direction that I so did not want and the main character was not my cup of tea when it comes to personality traits. I think I hated her with a passion at some point.
But Japan was like ‘HAHAHA the joke is on you’ because that ending took me by surprise! When I watched the trailer it gave me the wrong impression of the main character so when she started changing at around the mid-way my enthusiasm was dwindling by the minute! But thank the Lord for that ending!
Eh, I might as well say it now since I am sure you have seen it if you read the previous post. Despite the trailer giving an impression of a BAD END, the poster itself not painting a positive picture, this third episode was a GOOD END! In fact it was the best end out of the three (or two since episode one is irrelevant). Why is it a GOOD END? Well it was lacking something to get to that level – There was no kiss!
It is interesting really when you compare the second episode with this. In the second episode we got to have some great yuri moments throughout the story and yet that was balanced out with a BAD END – OniOni returned back into doll-form and Marika went mad after losing her. Or maybe they merged who knows.
Anyway we got real yuri but a BAD END in episode two and yet here in this final episode we got a GOOD END (by that I mean the ‘they live happily ever after’ kind of ending) but as a sacrifice, there was a lack of yuri moments throughout the story’s progression. In fact the most yuri moment happened way after the climax towards the end – it was the last scene actually.
This balance made me happy at the end of it all! I got to experience two different takes on yuri and both of them are not that bad! We could have gotten a BAD END with this episode and that would have cancelled out all the yuri because it would have made our main character nothing but a deranged girl! She wouldn’t even be considered a lesbian if she would have done what it would have taken to make this a BAD END!
But we got a GOOD END and our main character turned out to not be a crazy lesbian after all and actually a pretty nice girl. Instead the other heroine our character was crushing on turned out to be crazier than her which-Oh snap, that is a huge plot point. Best jump right into it then, eh?
Kitaura Ayu as Sakumi
Takeda Rena as Ayano
Our main girl Suzuki Sakumi is portrayed by actress Kitaura Ayu. The last time I saw her was in that heart-breaking friendship movie ‘Kimi no Tomodachi’ in which she starred alongside our girl Ishibashi Anna and the well known Yoshitaka Yuriko. Since then I haven’t seen her in anything. She plays Sakumi in this story and Sakumi is one crazy lesbian. Well, she is actually a good girl but you only learn this towards the end. Her character infuriated me so much especially in the middle way but by the end I was in love with her. I guess that’s what they call character development.
Meanwhile a girl that I am not familiar with, or maybe me I have seen her but did not register her since she seems pretty popular online. It was very easy getting pics of her. She even has a twitter account! Her name is Takeda Rena and she plays the girl that Sakumi has a major crush on – Satou Ayano. Ayano was the cutest girl in school and either way you looked at it, there was no way that she would have ended up with a girl like Sakumi who was by all standards, a creepy stalking lesbian!
Before we proceed I want to apologize. I wasn’t paying much attention through the beginning of the episode and nearly stopped watching mid-way because I am one of those that can’t stand certain scenes. I will get to that but what I am trying to say is that I am going to fly through this one because I was below 40% in concentration while watching this episode. It was also the last thing I watched before going to bed because I wanted to retain the details so I could write about it at work and thus could not get a chance to re-watch it even as I so wanted to after that ending! These days I am so busy I only have 5 hours of free time at most and since most of that is spent browsing the net then I have to watch the weekly Idol shows, I barely have any time left for anything. And so most of the episode went over my head and I only have the summary of the early stages in the story.
Is this Sakumi vision? ‘Cause Ayano is super glowy there!
The story is told from Sakumi’s POV and thus we follow her on this journey. From the very beginning you already know she is a stalker but you just don’t know to what extent. She is always watching Ayano during breaks, dreams of Ayano when she takes a nap and raids Ayano’s desk in the evening after classes are finished and the only people left are those doing club activities.
One time during one of her raids of Ayano’s desk where she found Ayano had left her eraser (I thin it was a eraser) Ayano walks into the classroom! Sakumi is of course shocked to see her but it seems that Ayano had lost her phone and thought she had left it in her desk. She comes over and searches her desk for it. She asks Sakumi if she had seen it but Sakumi says she hadn’t. For a moment I thought she was lying and maybe that was what she had grabbed earlier but it was too small to be a phone.
Sakumi has an idea where her phone might be though and they head to the toilets. It turned out that Sakumi had been right. Ayano’s phone was indeed in the toilets, rested in front of the mirror over the sinks. Ayano asks Sakumi how she knew but she just says that it was just a feeling. Inside her mind she tells us viewers that it was because Ayano always came here before heading on home! Of course she would know that, she is a stalker!
That was their first time talking! They even learn their names there in the toilets. Sakumi was so happy that Ayano had not only talked to her but had called her name that she was literally in heaven! Once Ayano had left, Sakumi turns to the storage room in the corner and pulls out a recorder! She had placed a recorder in the toilets just to get Ayano’s voice! How creepy can she get!
She listens to that recording of their conversation in the toilet over and over again just to hear Ayano say her name and also to remind herself that it was not just a dream to have gotten to speak with Ayano. That girl has it so bad that even the next day she is still listening to that recording on her way to school like it was some kind of prayer! Her world got that much brighter because that morning Ayano ran up to her, calling her name to gran her attention. I think Sakumi might have combusted right then! Ayano thanks her for before and then asks Sakumi to help her with her studies when she finds out that Sakumi is actually very bright.
They hold their lessons in the clubs equipment room and while they study, a boy walks in and invites Ayano to a get together, begs her because one of his friends wouldn’t shut up about her. Ayano doesn’t look very happy to see him. She says she would not go and the buy says he will tell his friend then that though she is cute on the outside, Ayano is actually ugly on the inside.
Yeah, I was ready to cut a bitch! But since I never saw him again, there was no need to dwell on him and really, this brought Ayano and Sakumi closer together so all was forgotten!
Sakumi tells her that she shouldn’t listen to him. She says Ayano is very cute on the inside as well. I waited to hear Ayano’s reply to that but she didn’t react to it. This was another flag that I missed but then again, everyone missed them I am pretty sure. The first flag was when Ayano walked in while Sakumi was at her desk the day before. She did not mention this or ask why Sakumi had been at her desk at such a late hour. Ayano wasn’t dumb, in fact I don’t think she even needed help with studying at all since she didn’t seem to be paying any attention to said study sessions. Oh my god, could it be that from the very beginning Ayano was…nah! It can’t be!
Anyway once the boy leaves and Sakumi asks what that was all about, Ayano drops the bomb! She says that she is being stalked! It has been going on for a while and she is getting scared to the point of being afraid to get close to any guy! She really does look disturbed and here I was like, oh man, it’s over! That was the shortest lived ship ever! There was no way that Ayano would not flip out when she finds out that it was Sakumi stalking her all along! But I kept watching because I wanted to see that moment of reveal.
Sakumi volunteers to help Ayano catch the stalker. She says that they have to think like a stalker in order to catch one and Sakumi takes them to the place she knows a stalker would keep his stash! They head down in the underground level and there is a locker there. Sakumi opens it up and inside is the Shrine of Ayano! There are all kinds of candid photos of Ayano from any angle and any place in school you could think of (Well, apart from the toilets). And in addition to the photos, there are accessories that obviously belong to Ayano. She came off as a very forgetful girl and all the things she had lost were there.
But more interesting, now that I know the whole story, was Ayano’s reaction, or lack there of! Any sane girl would be freaking out about read y to faint at the discovery but not Ayano! I really should have picked up on that but like I said, I wasn’t that invested at the time. She seemed more awed by Sakumi for finding the hidden place!
The two got even closer. Ayano was spending more time with Sakumi than her friends like she had been doing before getting to know Sakumi. The two even played the chase game that we discussed last episode. You know the one that I gave an example of happening to me when I had just hit the teens. Sakumi and Ayano had it too when Ayano said they should practice how to chase down the stalker. She told Sakumi to act like the stalker and run and Ayano would chase her. The look on Sakumi’s face at this was priceless! I was had my eyebrows raised and thoughts went into over-drive.
I was like, what if Ayano knew that Sakumi was the stalker? What if this game was actually real and Ayano had her friends hiding somewhere to jump Sakumi and make her pay? That would lead into the scene I saw in the trailer that spelled BAD NEWS and indicated to Sakumi going full on Jason on the girls’ asses! But it turned out to be a harmless chase game which of course ended up on the floor with limbs tangled and Sakumi trying to mount Ayano. I was like, did the person that wrote the second episode write this one too? But sadly there was no kissing or awkward tension and instead they just got up and continued on with the chase.
Speaking of the scene, there was this moment that had to have the worst, and I mean, the worst mistakes in filmography that I have ever seen! As the girls are getting up from the fall to continue on their chase, you can totally see these joint guards on their knees to protect them from hurting themselves as Sakumi tripped and fell taking the two of them down. But right in the next angle those guards are gone! How did the editor make such a mistake? That angle cut with the guards was only like 4 seconds and camera had the girls’ legs in full frame! There was no way they could have missed it! Why did they leave that cut in there?! I don’t know, it was just so distracting!
Ayano tells one of her friends that the stalker is real and her friend totally freaks out and thinks that maybe they too had been followed and had their photos taken. She was like what if the stalker had planted cameras in the girls’ toilets and all that. Really, she was acting like Ayano should be doing. Interestingly, Ayano defended the stalker saying that they wouldn’t go that far. Her friend was like, how did she know and why was she defending the stalker!
And yet another flag that I totally missed! This story was just so well woven that there was no way you could have figured out the truth without seeing the climax! Sure it had that big flow in editing but the story was solid. After watching the end you then realize all these little clues that were there that you totally missed when you think of them.
This turn in Ayano affects Sakumi quite strongly. If she loved Ayano before to the point of stalking the hell out of her, then now she loved her like before but x 1000! Yeah, that means she got super crazier! You would think that the happenings as of late would give her the courage to confess her feelings straight out to Ayano, especially since she has seen what a nice girl Ayano actually is, she instead goes into the opposite direction.
She return to her stalker self and one evening as she sat and played with Ayano’s desk, her feelings spill over. She gets out some paper and a marker and writes in the book ‘I love Ayano’ over and over gain and the more she write the crazier she gets. I really couldn’t stand this scene! And it went on for a while which almost made me drop the episode and go to bed because I thought that they had broken Sakumi and that would mean she would be acting worse towards Ayano who would then end up hating her.
But I endured! A noise comes from the corridors signaling that someone was coming. That brought Sakumi back to her senses and when she looked down, she found that she had been writing directly on Ayano’s desk! She had thrown the sketchbook on the floor sometime during her crazing! She looked shocked at that meaning she had done it without realizing it. The words where the same ‘I love Ayano’ but this time there was a signature at the end saying ‘from XXX’. I couldn’t catch the same and for a second I thought that she had written her own name. Sakumi didn’t even try to clean up, then, before high-tailing it out of there!
The next day Sakumi looks really bummed! She arrives late to school and it seems like she was planning on coming clean and telling Ayano that she was the stalker. She would then stop doing such things. It was around this time that I began to pay attention! Maybe there was salvation for Sakumi after all. A stalker that actually feels bad enough to confess? And right when her feelings were going out of control?
The deeper into the school she gets, things get weirder. The walls have been painted with the same words she hard written on Ayano’s desk! It was like something out of her nightmares and I thought for a second that we were seeing her dream. When she gets to class, even the board is filled wit the same words, the walls too and Ayano’s desk has a huge ‘X’ in red on! Ayano, her friends and other students stand around her desk wondering what the hell is going on. Blames are thrown around and a fight was looking about ready to break out but Ayano cried for them to stop! She looks ready to lose her mind, which happens when their male teacher shows up and tries to get closer to her.
I was thinking and I believe everyone else was, that this was all Sakumi’s doing. What if she had done it without knowing just like that bout she had at Ayano desk the evening before? Maybe she had stayed in school and went on a ‘I love Ayano’ rampage. But apparently she seemed to think she wasn’t the one that had done that. She makes it a point to catch this other stalker! There can only be one stalker and no one loves Ayano more than she! Sakumi falls back on the tip she has given Ayano before and thought like stalker in order to find this other stalker. When she goes to one of those stalker hiding areas, she finds a note from the other stalker calling her out to meet. Sakumi grabs an Oni mask, puts it on and goes to meet this other wannabe stalker!
Now Kiss!
Twisted Love ~ dum dum!
When she gets there, there is no one in sight. She takes a looks around and on one of the desk tops, she finds a pocket knife. When she picks it up, the other stalker enters the room. They are wearing the track suits similar to the one we saw Ayano and her friends wearing as they stood next to the branded desk of Ayano’s. The stalker is also wearing a mask and has their own knife. They raise the knife and Sakumi glances at hers. The other stalker runs at Sakumi who backs away. When Sakumi is cornered, the stalker swings the knife but instead Sakumi is the one that makes the cut around the stalker’s arm. This makes the stalker back off and then runs out of the room.
Sakumi makes chase and soon the stalker is cornered. The stalker tries to attack again and the tumble makes her lose her knife. She backs away and is trapped against a wall, weaponless. Sakumi gets closer and places her knife close to the stalker’s throat, indicating that she should stay still or else!
It was at this time that I start to get a very bad feeling! I think of that scene from the trailer and I am like, ah crap, here we go! Sakumi reaches forward to take the stalker’s mask off and voila! It was Ayano under the mask! My jaw dropped! I had been thinking of this taking a very different direction! I was so not expecting this. I didn’t even have a theory pointing to Sakumi being crazy! Well, I did mention that I wasn’t paying attention for most of the earlier parts of the story but still.
Sakumi takes off her own mask and what was interesting was that she was the only one shocked at the reveal! She is at a loss of what to think. She asks Ayano why? The answer was another shocker to me! From what I understood Ayano was angry because her stalker (Sakumi) had stopped stalking her. She tells Sakumi to keep on stalking her. She begs her to always look at her!
I sit there in my chair watching this scene with my mouth wide open and mind blank! What was going on!?! So Ayano was actually enjoying being stalked like that?! She was popular enough, she had a stream of friends, guys lined up for her and she had like the best looks in the whole school! She had everything so why?! I guess then that she was the damaged one in this third story. After all, Sakumi was turning out to be a good girl the more the story progressed! Her love for Ayano seemed more pure then!
Sakumi asks takes a hold of Ayano’s arm and takes a look at the cut on it. She asks Ayano if it hurt but Ayano says that it doesn’t. Then Ayano says that if Sakumi really is her stalker then she knows what Ayano was thinking. Sakumi nods her head and raised the knife to Ayano’s cheek and I am screaming wondering the hell she was doing!!
But then I took a look at Sakumi’s face and she didn’t look like she liked what she was about to do. She presses the blade deeper until it cuts skin and goes deep all the way to the bone! It was such a sickening scene! I thought for a second that Ayano! But instead Sakumi stopped and then embraced Ayano thus sealing their love for one another!
That is one twisted love! Not even KumiRei are this twisted! To choose to cut your face, the loveliest face in the whole school!!!, just so you could have physical proof of your love is just….
Magnificent! I ship it!
I can’t believe I was that close to dropping this half-way! That twist slapped my soul out of my body and back! I am definitely watching this again tonight when I get home! I just know I’m going to enjoy it infinitely better than the first time! And while we are at it, I will re-watch the second episode too, even though the experience won’t be as grand in that one seeing as it has a BAD END.
But anyway, as you can see there has been a lack of great yuri moments between these two apart from the confession and that chase scene. But we do get one and it is oh so lovely! This is the last scene too. Sakumi wakes up from a nap some place. She turns and on her right lies Ayano. She looks at her sleeping face with eyes full of love and the raises her hand and starts caressing Ayano’s cheek!
The camera did this thing where they showed Ayano’s face in a way that hid her cut cheek. I thought for a moment then that maybe Sakumi had dreamed of the whole thing! The first words that come of Ayano’s mouth aren’t encouraging when she says that she had just had a strange dream! But then she turns her head to look at Sakumi and the scar is there!!
I literally pumped my fist in the air and shouted ‘YES’! Everything had happened! And better yet Ayano had been awake when Sakumi was caressing her face!! And when Ayano gets up and extends her hand to Sakumi to help her to her feet and says ‘Let’s go’ and the two run off in a chase once again, I was ready to cry! Those two were an official couple and they were both alive by the end of a horror story!!
Heaven!
To think that a girl, a girl that was supposed to be a creepy stalker and wouldn’t have lived past the first 20min of any story actually ended up winning the Alpha girl in the whole school! This is a school that has boys, and Ayano has had boyfriends! This is a first ever! This is not like Shizuma-sama who was only interested in girls to begin with or Chikane who only had eyes for Himeko! This is a new feat!
Now that I think about it, this series just aired, like 1st of this month and two out of the three episodes are yuri! Since the first one did not have any romance in it makes this 100% yuri! Could it be that Japan has finally embraced the power of rainbows? Are we in for a great deal of yuri projects from now on? I mean, there are a lot of novels and manga waiting to be adopted to anime and movies so maybe the talks have began! My God! What if the equivalent of comic book movies in west is LGBT movies in Japan!?!
Nah, but I can dream.
Anyway this ends the ‘Real Onigokko Rising’ SP and I only wish there was more now after seeing the different ways they tackled these two yuri stories. What would have been the endings for the other stories? Would it have been a ‘WORST END’ or perhaps a ‘BEST END’?
But I am satisfied with what I got. I am surprised that they actually even went there! Japan never fails to surprise me! Sure Korea might have won the year because of ‘A Girl at my Door’ but Japan comes in a very close second! Not only did they give us ‘Houkago Lost’, ‘Shishunki Gokko’, and these lovely and surprising Onigokko SPs but they also gave me the Blu-ray for ‘A Girl at my Door’. Actually scratch that – Japan wins the year! Sure Korea made the movie but Japan is giving it to me as it is supposed to be given so more points to Japan!
Now I only wish Japan actually learns from these Korean projects and breaks more barriers! Sure they have been giving us yuri over the years but we rarely get any GOOD ENDs and that fact frustrates me to no end! They are changing though so I have hope!
That’s that. If anyone wants the episode go to the previous Onigokko post! There is links to all three episodes.
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The Master of Metaphysics is The Movie Queen – Chapter 42
TMMTMQ – Chapter 42
The bus drove for a while, and the sky slowly darkened. The driver vaguely discovered something was wrong. At the same time, Gong Qingyao, who was sitting in the back row, suddenly said, "Stop the bus. Everyone is not allowed to move."
From the beginning of the program recording to the present, the driver had been following until he more or less knew Gong Qingyao's ability. Hearing that at this moment, he immediately parked the bus, and everyone in the bus did not dare to make a loud noise.
After a long while, seeing that there was no movement around, Zhong Xinyi couldn't help but said, "What’s the fuss?"
As soon as her voice fell, suddenly a pale and bleeding head suddenly appeared outside the bus window. This scene made Zhong Xinyi scream, and Guo Yuankai in the back responded very quickly. He stood up and cover Zhong Xinyi’s mouth without letting it go. Zhong Xinyi continued her silent screams.
Everyone realized that there seemed to be many shadows outside, and these shadows were floating! If it weren't for Zhong Xinyi's scream just now, these things would definitely not get close to their bus.
After this, everyone didn't even dare to breath loudly, they only felt that the temperature of the bus was getting lower and lower.
This situation lasted for five minutes, after that they saw the things drifted away, and only a few scattered left, and the surrounding air didn't seem so cold anymore.
Gong Qingyao retracted her gaze and looked at the driver, "We can go now."
Mao Liqiang almost cried, why something happened again?
It was the first time Lu Yongyi saw these things, but he accepted the fastest, "Just now, who were those?"
"Dark souls." Gong Qingyao said.
"What?" Guo Yuankai asked.
"It's a ghost." Gong Qingyao said.
Guo Yuankai: ...
This answer really left him speechless for a while.
The driver was pale. People said that he would encounter problems if he drove at night too much, but this was the first time he met something. Before he heard his colleague talk about a ghost hitting a wall, he thought it was a made up a story, but now that he encountered this, he felt that might also be true.
The atmosphere in the bus was silent. The ghosts incident was just five minutes ago, but it seemed to them a century had passed. In order to avoid thinking and getting scared, everyone started to look for lighter topics.
Mao Liqiang, "Ah yes. Just now, our live broadcast reached three million viewers." He applauded as he said this.
Gong Qingyao didn't know how significant the three million viewers were, but Mao Liqiang was very pleased so it must be a good figure. She also applauded and the others followed suit.
The atmosphere finally eased a little bit, but no one raise another topic.
"What anecdotes have everyone have recently?" Mao Liqiang continued to talk awkwardly.
No one speaks.
"Why? Don't you guys have any new schedules lately?" Mao Liqiang looked at You Xingyu.
"Recently, a supporting role in a movie invited me to audition, but I don't know if I will pass." You Xingyu said frankly.
"You must be fine." Guo Yuankai said.
"Is it Director Hu's film?" Yu Chuxue asked. Recently, the famous Director Hu was said to about to start filming.
"Yeah." You Xingyu nodded.
Gong Qingyao didn’t know who Director Hu was. Lu Qianqian floated out of the ring. Just now when the ghosts passed by, Gong Qingyao took Lu Qianqian back into the ring.
Lu Qianqian came out and said, "Director Hu is Hu Ming. He specializes in filmmaking, although he is a second-rate director, the actors in his few films have been nominated for best lead and supporting roles in recent years, so he can almost squeeze into the top director title."
A glimmer of envy flashed in Zhong Xinyi's eyes, "Xingyu is really amazing, don't forget us when you are famous."
You Xingyu said, "It's not a sure thing yet. There are many actors participating in the audition. Ma Ye and others are also there." Ma Ye was even more famous than You Xingyu.
Lu Yongyi said, "Come on!"
You Xingyu nodded. He has been studying the role recently and he will work even harder if he could get it.
Yu Chuxue on the side looked at Zhong Xinyi, "Xinyi, how about you?" With Qin Ze, there should be a lot of scenes to film.
Zhong Xinyi looked worried, "I don't know yet." Zhong Xinyi did not intend to let others know about the script she received.
Guo Yuankai obviously didn't believe it, "The live broadcast is closed already, just tell us."
Zhong Xinyi said, "Really notthing."
Guo Yuankai said, "Qin Ze didn't give many films for you?"
Upon hearing this, Zhong Xinyi blushed, "Where is this?"
The people who originally thought that this hot search was bought, saw Zhong Xinyi's scene, they really doubted whether there was anything between the two of them. Reminiscent of the time when they were in Ye Mountain before, Qin Ze responded to Zhong Xinyi's call, so they felt suspicious.
Guo Yuankai said, "Xinyi, if you have good resources, don't forget us."
Zhong Xinyi nodded in embarrassment, "There is no way that I won’t help, don't worry."
This was very nice. Everyone was about to say that when they heard Gong Qingyao in the back row suddenly shout, "Stop!"
The driver immediately stepped on the brakes, and all the people who did not wear seat belts in the back rushed forward.
Zhong Xinyi's smile was fixed on her face, because she directly hit the luggage on the front table, and the impact was not light. Before everyone had time to question, they saw Gong Qingyao directly opened the bus door and got out.
"What's going on?" Guo Yuankai asked. Although Gong Qingyao didn't talk much, her every word was very important.
You Xingyu shook his head and looked out the window. Not far away, a car seemed to be driving to the edge of the cliff. County X was a jungle terrain, and there were winding roads everywhere. They saw Gong Qingyao walked to the side of the car and made a few gestures.
The car had already driven half of its body on the cliff. After Gong Qingyao came, she shot away the ghosts around the car. Without the ghosts, the blindfolds disappeared. The people in the car, especially the driver, he saw the road up front and immediately moved to the back. But the people in the back of the car got out of the car with a happy expression instead, "Qingyao!"
"It's you?" Gong Qingyao was a little surprised.
It was Qin Ze who came out, and he immediately tore out the other person in the car, "This is Uncle Li."
In the past two days, Gong Qingyao was recording a reality show, so she did not pay attention to the situation on the internet. Just yesterday, Children Go Home became popular, because everyone found that the website would publish a batch of lists every day. It was said that almost all the children in the list were then found. People found that as long as the parents posted their lost child's horoscope on the Internet, it was highly possible to get a reply from the website.
The child of Li Yongchang's family was lost half a year ago, and there had been no news. Although the Li family's power was not small, they had never been able to find the whereabouts of the child. In the past six months, they had never given up on searching. Recently, when they heard about this website, Li Yongchang immediately found the person in charge behind Children Go Home and found it was Qin Ze.
After learning the news, Li Yongchang suspended all work at hand, and immediately found Qin Ze to ask for help.
Li Yongchang watched Qin Ze grow up. The Qin family had a lot of contacts with the Li family, but Qin Ze rarely interacted with the Li family after he grew up. Qin Ze had heard of a major incident in the Li family, but at that time, he didn't care about these things. Now that he heard it again, he felt mixed feelings, especially Li Yongchang, a middle-aged man in his fifties, asked while crying in front of him.
Qin Ze said, "Uncle Li, it's not that I didn't want to help you, but the whereabouts of these children were calculated by a master."
Li Yongchang was stunned, "Master?"
"Well, the master only counts thirty children a day." Qin Ze said.
Li Yongchang thought of the reason immediately. This divine calculation was also a kind of leaking heaven’s secrets, so it would inevitably cause backlash. "Could you please take me to see this master?"
Qin Ze was a little embarrassed. Gong Qingyao was currently recording a reality show, so she certainly couldn’t answer the phone, and it's not good to just took people to meet rashly.
Li Yongchang said, "I beg you." He knelt down when he said this this.
What a character Li Yongchang was, besides, with the relationship between the two families, if his family knew Li Yongchang kneeled in front of him today, he would probably be killed when he returned home. Qin Ze said, "Uncle Li, I can take you there, but I have a request."
"Say!" Li Yongchang heard Qin Ze's willingness to help, not just one request, as long as he can see the master, a hundred requests were fine.
Qin Ze looked at Li Yongchang and said word by word, "This master is now in County X. I can take you to find her, but if she refuses to help, please don't pester or blame her."
"Okay!" Masters had a weird temper on average. If they really didn't want to calculate, people couldn’t force them.
Li Yongchang was very anxious. Seeing that Qin Ze was willing to help, they immediately came out of the capital. But they just walked halfway to the jungle when they seemed to have encountered a group of strange things. Originally, they were about to leave the car, but they were afraid. All three of them were knowledgeable, so the driver didn't dare to make a rash move, and simply parked the car aside.
Fortunately, Gong Qingyao broke up the ghosts, and the driver realized that their car had been moved to the edge of the cliff by these things.
Li Yongchang got out of the car and saw that Qin Ze was very polite to a little girl. He also introduced himself, so he nodded towards Gong Qingyao.
Qin Ze whispered, "This Uncle Li is looking for you."
Li Yongchang was stunned. He came to County X this time because he was looking for the master Qin Ze said, but he didn't expect the girl in front of him to be the master, so he didn't know how to react for a while.
"Leave here first," Gong Qingyao said.
It took a while for the driver to say from inside, "The car won’t start."
Gong Qingyao said, "Take our bus."
"Those things didn't dare to approach our car just now. Is it because of this?" Qin Ze took something out, and found that there was nothing at all. He was a little confused. On the way back from Qianping last time, Gong Qingyao gave him a talisman, which he carried with him all the time, but he didn't expect it to disappear. After searching for a while, Qin Ze didn’t find it so he had to give up.
Gong Qingyao took Qin Ze and the two people into the bus. There were still many seats empty. Qin Ze, Li Yongchang, and the driver, followed Gong Qingyao up the bus.
Just now when Gong Qingyao brought Qin Ze and the others over, Mao Liqiang, who was sitting at the front, saw it directly. When they got in the bus, Mao Liqiang greeted them politely. Mao Liqiang glanced at the middle-aged man behind Qin Ze and felt he was Familiar, but couldn't remember who it was for a while, after Qin Ze and his driver got into the bus, the door closed again.
Zhong Xinyi in the front row didn't expect Qin Ze to come, so she didn't know what to do for a while.
After Qin Ze came in, he said directly, "Everyone, I'm sorry, our car broke down, please allow us to join you."
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Mi_shiru July 28, 2021 at 3:03 PM
Qin Ze will always be the damsel in distress in this story and i love it😂 | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5864994525909424, "wiki_prob": 0.5864994525909424, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line255914"} |
David A. Felice
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David Felice focuses on corporate and commercial litigation matters. He represents clients in the Delaware Court of Chancery, primarily in connection with breach of fiduciary duty actions, change in control disputes, statutory demands for inspection of corporate books and records, petitions for advancement and indemnification and other matters governed by Delaware’s General Corporation Law.
In addition, David represents clients in general commercial and employment litigation matters in the Delaware Superior Court and the U.S. District Court, District of Delaware. David also represents creditors in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in preference actions, asset sales and other proceedings governed by the Bankruptcy Code.
In addition to his litigation experience, David is a neutral arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association (AAA) serving both as a sole arbitrator and on a panel of arbitrators for Large, Complex Commercial Cases - particularly cases involving Delaware law.
Outside the courtroom, David assists clients with contract negotiations, licensing and transactional support, including private offerings.
J.D., University of Alabama School of Law, 2001, Articles Editor, Alabama Law Review, Recipient, Order of the Samaritan Award (public service)
B.A., Villanova University, 1996
U.S. District Court, District of Delaware
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Successfully tried two jury trials and defended the judgments twice before the Third Circuit for a minority stockholder given a controlling director’s failure to make pro rata distributions
Obtained a significant settlement for a cable television programmer against a television station given the alleged breach of a right to purchase the station
Obtained a significant settlement for a minority stockholder after being squeezed out of the company’s management and employment
Obtained a multimillion-dollar judgment for a homebuilder following a five-day trial before the Delaware Superior Court’s Complex Commercial Litigation Division
Represented a minority stockholder before the Delaware Court of Chancery and obtained a multimillion-dollar settlement following the improper removal of the minority stockholder as a manager and member of a company based in Ohio
Served as an American Arbitration Association (AAA) neutral arbitrator adjudicating a dispute regarding the alleged breach of a contract for the purchase of a merchant’s future receivables
Served as an AAA neutral arbitrator adjudicating a dispute regarding the alleged breach of an agreement for investment in an internet company
Served as an AAA neutral arbitrator adjudicating a dispute regarding the alleged breach of a loan agreement
Assisted in obtaining a temporary restraining order from the Delaware Court of Chancery on three days’ notice against a competitor that was soliciting a client’s employees in breach of non-competition agreements
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Bailey Glasser Defeats Motion Disputing Constitutional Standing of ESOP Participants
David Felice Presents at Delaware State Bar Association's Bench & Bar Conference
Jury Returns Verdict for Minority Shareholder in Long-Fought Shareholder Dispute
David A. Felice Re-Elected Treasurer of the Delaware State Bar Association
Panelist, “Business Contracts A to Z,” National Business Institute, December 18, 2012
“Beyond Delaware: Issues with Serving Process and Seeking Discovery,” Delaware State Bar Association’s Litigation Section CLE, June 1, 2011
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This bridge, one of many that cross the Danube, was built to commemorate the millennium in the year 1896 and was inaugurated by Emperor Francis Joseph, who hammered in its last nail. In fact, early on the structure was called the ´Francis Joseph Bridge` and remained so for fifty years until it was destroyed by the Germans in 1945. After its reconstruction it was renamed with the current title, ´Freedom Bridge`.
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Understanding Integrated Circuit: Forms, Uses, & Applications of Integrated Circuit?
Aeejay Darden January 25, 2023 Uncategorized
We have observed over the years that technologies have changed continuously and was able to squeeze itself in a smaller and concise structure. Let’s take among the primary computers which were made were the length of a warehouse of 1000 laptops which we use today. Take into consideration how it’s been adapted possible? The solution to it really is integrated circuits.
The circuits which were made previously were huge and bulky, featuring its circuit components like resistor, transistor, diodes, capacitor, inductor, etc. which were connected alongside copper wires. This factor limited making use of the circuits to big machines. It turned out impossible to produce small and compact appliances with these big circuits. Moreover, they weren’t entirely shockproofed and reliable.
As stated, necessity will be the mother of inventions, similarly, the modern technologies each is the consequence of it. There was clearly a requirement to develop circuits of smaller size with additional power and safety to add them into devices. Once there were three American scientists who invented transistors which simplified what to quite a degree, but it was the creation of integrated circuits that changed the face area of electronics technology.
What exactly is Integrated Circuit?
A built-in circuit (IC), often it could be known as a chip or possibly a microchip is a compilation of transistors that are placed on silicon. An internal circuit is too small in space, if it’s compared to the standard circuits that happen to be made from the independent circuit components, it’s about how big a fingernail. IC is a semiconductor wafer (also known as a thin slice of semiconductor, for example crystalline silicon) on which thousands or millions of tiny resistors, capacitors, and transistors are fabricated.
Modern electronic circuits aren’t comprised of individual, means they cannot be comprised of separated components as was formerly the case. Instead, many small circuits take hold within a complex bit of silicon as well as other materials called an integrated circuit(IC), or chip or microchip. The creation of integrated circuits begins with an easy circular wafer of silicon several inches across.
Firstly designers made drawings of in which each take into account each the main circuit is usually to go so your processing would become easy. An image of every diagram will be reduced in space repeatedly to deliver a little photolithographic mask.
The silicon wafer is coated with a material referred to as a photoresist that undergoes a chemical process when exposed to ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet light shown through the mask onto the photoresist creates a similar pattern about the wafer as comparable to that mask. Then solvents etch to the areas of the resist that were encountered with the light, leaving another parts intact. Then another layer of the silicon material doped with a few impurities so that it’s set over the wafer, and the other pattern is etched in by the similar technique.
The effect of these operations is really a multilayered circuit, with a lot of countless tiny transistors, resistors, and conductors created within the wafer. The wafer will be broken apart along prestressed lines into many identical square or rectangular chips, that’s eliminate integrated circuits.
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Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 4, 1 March–22 June 1844
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JS, “President Joseph Smith’s Journal,” Journal, 4 vols., Dec. 1842–June 1844; handwriting and signatures of
; 1,045 pages; JS Collection, CHL. Includes shorthand and illustrations; also includes redactions, use marks, and archival stickers.
kept “President Joseph Smith’s Journal” in four small memorandum books. The paper in book 1 is blue, while the paper in books 2–4 is white. In the first two books, the paper was printed with seventeen blue lines and extra space for page headers, whereas the paper for book 3 was printed with nineteen blue lines and no header space. The first eight gatherings of paper for book 4 were printed with sixteen blue lines and header space, while the last nine gatherings were printed with nineteen blue lines and no header space. The four volumes have 147, 160, 142, and 190 free leaves, respectively, and were sewn with all-along sewing. The leaves in books 1–3 were trimmed to measure 6 × 3¾ inches (15 × 10 cm), while the paper in book 4 measures 6¼ × 3¾ inches (16 × 10 cm). Books 2–4 have matching red-speckled stain on the page edges. All four books were bound with a tight-back case binding and have brown leather over pasteboards. Books 1–3 measure 6¼ × 4 × ¾ inches (16 × 10 × 2 cm); book 4 measures 6⅜ × 4 × ¾ inches (16 × 10 × 2 cm). The outside covers of book 1 feature an embossed pattern around the borders. The cover of book 4 is red and features a gold pattern around the borders on the front and the back.
inscribed most of the journal entries in these memorandum books with a quill pen in ink that is now brown, although he also used blue ink for several entries. The volumes also include inscriptions written in graphite, some of which are contemporaneous and some that are later redactions. Richards paginated the first 114 of the 285 inscribed pages in book 1—discounting the title page that precedes the pagination—and the first 20 of the 309 inscribed pages in book 2. There is no pagination in books 3–4. In book 2, pages 11, 17, and 20–21 feature illustrations of celestial observations.
memorandum books include later inscriptions that are not transcribed in this edition. At the end of book 2,
added a list of
-era plural marriages. A few revisions, additions, or notes are penciled in throughout the volumes. There are also several use marks throughout the volumes—probably made when the journal entries were later revised for inclusion in the “History of Joseph Smith” published in Mormon newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century.
This serialized history drew on the journals herein beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
The spines of the volumes are now labeled with blue-colored paper stickers that probably date from the early Utah period.
The labels on the spines of the four volumes read respectively as follows: “Joseph Smith’s Journal—1842–3 by Willard Richards” (book 1); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843” (book 2); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843–4” (book 3); and “W. Richards’ Journal 1844 Vol. 4” (book 4). Richards kept JS’s journal in the front of book 4, and after JS’s death Richards kept his own journal in the back of the volume.
Each of the four volumes also bears the mark of a square sticker removed from the upper right-hand corner of the outside front cover. Finally, a “Historian’s Office Archives” self-adhesive paper sticker appears in the front inside cover or on the first flyleaf of each book.
identified himself as the scribe for the journal on the title pages of books 1 and 4. Because Richards kept the journals for JS and kept his own journal in the back of book 4 after JS’s death, the books may have been among “Drs [Richards’s] private books & Papers” listed in the 1846 inventory of church records made in
, Illinois.
“Schedule of Church Records, Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
The volumes are listed in inventories made in Salt Lake City, Utah, by the Church Historian’s Office in 1855, 1858, and 1878, as well as in the 1973 register of the JS Collection.
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; “Contents of the Historian and Recorder’s Office G. S. L. City July 1858,” 2; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]–[12], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
These archival records and the physical evidence of archival stickers indicate continuous institutional custody and authenticity.
Note: The journal
kept for JS is divided into four physical books. The transcript and annotation here are for book 4, covering 1 March through 22 June 1844. The transcript and annotation for the other three books are also available on this website; book 1 covers 21 December 1842 through 10 March 1843, book 2 covers 10 March through 14 July 1843, and book 3 covers 15 July 1843 through 29 February 1844.
took over the responsibility of keeping JS’s journal from
17 July 1814–4 Dec. 1879. Bookkeeper, clerk. Born at Charnock Moss, Penwortham, Lancashire, England. Son of Thomas Clayton and Ann Critchley. Married Ruth Moon, 9 Oct. 1836, at Penwortham. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Heber...
on 21 December 1842, the same day JS “made a particular request” that Richards “act as his private se[c]retary & historian.”
JS, Journal, 21 Dec. 1842.
This was the second time Richards kept JS’s journal; he had also kept it between 13 December 1841 and 29 June 1842 before leaving for
Post village located along Housatonic River about 160 miles west of Boston. Settled 1760; incorporated 1765. Population in 1850 about 900. Jennetta Richards Richards corresponded with JS from village regarding his friendship with her husband, Willard Richards...
, Massachusetts, to bring his family to
, Illinois. During Richards’s absence, Clayton kept JS’s journal, inscribing entries, as Richards had done, in the large Book of the Law of the Lord, which also contained records of donations for the
Located in portion of Nauvoo known as the bluff. JS revelation dated Jan. 1841 commanded Saints to build temple and hotel (Nauvoo House). Cornerstone laid, 6 Apr. 1841. Saints volunteered labor, money, and other resources for temple construction. Construction...
. Clayton continued keeping the journal—JS’s first Nauvoo journal—even after Richards returned to Nauvoo on 30 October 1842, probably because, as temple recorder, Clayton was the custodian of the Book of the Law of the Lord.
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842.
When Richards resumed keeping JS’s journal on 21 December 1842, he began using a much smaller memorandum book. This second Nauvoo journal was kept by Richards through 22 June 1844 and eventually comprised four such memorandum books.
Several pieces of evidence indicate that these four memorandum books were considered volumes of the same journal rather than separate journals themselves. For example, whereas JS’s journals kept during the 1830s were recorded in bound books or notebooks labeled with different titles—such as “Sketch Book” or “The Scriptory Book”
Source Note to JS, Journal, 1835–1836; Source Note to JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838.
—the first and last of
’s memorandum books bear virtually identical titles, with the fourth explicitly identified as “vol 4”. Similarly, that books 2 and 3 lack titles suggests that each was simply a continuation of the previous book. This suggestion is made even stronger in book 2, in which the first entry commences at 4:00 p.m. on 10 March,
JS, Journal, 10 Mar. 1843.
with the events of the earlier part of the day recorded at the end of book 1. All four memorandum books are virtually the same size, and the bindings on the first three are similar.
As with nearly all the entries in JS’s previous
Became part of Northwest Territory of U.S., 1787. Admitted as state, 1818. Population in 1840 about 480,000. Population in 1845 about 660,000. Plentiful, inexpensive land attracted settlers from northern and southern states. Following expulsion from Missouri...
journals, JS neither wrote nor dictated the text of the entries in the memorandum books; they are based on
’s observations. For example, the entry for 22 September 1843 records only that Richards “saw Joseph pass in a waggon with Hiram.”
JS, Journal, 22 Sept. 1843.
Despite the secondhand nature of the entries, however, Richards, a close associate and frequent companion of JS, was able to capture in detail JS’s words and actions on many occasions.
The shift of
’s office from temple recorder and scribe to JS’s “private se[c]retary & historian,” as well as the transfer of the journal out of the Book of the Law of the Lord, may have influenced what events Richards recorded in the memorandum books. At least some of the material Richards, as JS’s private secretary, included in this journal—such as the detailed record of a medical malpractice suit over which JS presided—probably would have received much less emphasis had Richards, in the capacity of temple recorder and scribe, been keeping JS’s journal in the book that also contained records of donations for the temple. Similarly, although the ledger-size Book of the Law of the Lord likely remained in the recorder’s office and most journal entries were probably made there, each of the memorandum books was small enough that Richards could easily carry it with him, allowing him to record many of JS’s activities closer to the actual event—both temporally and spatially—than was possible earlier.
’s new title of historian was significant as well. On 1 December 1842, he began working on the “History of Joseph Smith” that was being serially published in the Times and Seasons, and by August 1843 he was drawing on JS’s earlier journals for that history.
JS, Journal, 1 Dec. 1842 and 20 Jan. 1843; see also “History of Joseph Smith,” Times and Seasons, 15 Mar. 1842, 3:726–728.
Richards therefore likely expected that the contemporaneous journal entries he was keeping for JS would eventually be used as the basis for JS’s history.
employed various techniques in keeping the journal. For a few entries, he made lightly penciled notes and returned later with a quill pen to expand the entry. In other entries, the morning or afternoon portion of an entry was written in one ink and the evening portion of the entry in a different ink that matches that of the following entry. These changes in writing media and in other aspects of the inscribed text indicate that many entries—or parts of entries—were made on the very day of the events they described. The textual evidence in other entries indicates that they were written several days after the date they bear. Still other entries are a hybrid. Richards’s notes of sermons and legal proceedings, for example, bear evidence of both contemporaneous inscription and later revision. In some instances, Richards left blank spaces and even blank lines, apparently intending to add details later. Hurried note taking often resulted in missing words, informal abbreviations, inconsistent spelling, and poorly formed characters. Richards revisited some difficult passages to mend or rewrite characters, revise spelling and punctuation, and add interlineations. Some of the blanks were filled while others were left standing. Richards’s notes include both immediate emendations, such as wipe-erasures made while his ink was still wet, as well as later revisions, such as knife-erasures of words written in ink that had dried. The various ways in which Richards wrote and revised entries resulted in the journal’s uneven texture but also contribute to its wealth of immediately recorded information and clarifying additions.
Over time,
settled somewhat into a pattern of generally recording the events of one day on one page—some pages largely empty and others filled with cramped writing—with weather reported at the bottom of the page. He made an entry for almost every day during the last year and a half of JS’s life. The journal ended when JS left
on 22 June 1844, five days before he was killed at the jailhouse at
, Illinois. Richards accompanied JS to Carthage and, during the final days of JS’s life, kept extensive notes of JS’s activities in his personal journal.
See Appendix 3.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation *Discourse, 7 March 1844–B, as Reported by Willard Richards *Discourse, 7 March 1844–B, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff *Discourse, 7 March 1844–A, as Reported by Willard Richards *Discourse, 7 March 1844–A, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff *Discourse, 7 April 1844, as Reported by Thomas Bullock *Discourse, 7 April 1844, as Reported by William Clayton *Discourse, 7 April 1844, as Reported by Willard Richards *Discourse, 7 April 1844, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff *Discourse, 7 April 1844, as Published in Times and Seasons
Page [160]
17 June 1844 • Monday
Monday June 17. 1844.— <
Hyrm [Hyrum Smith]
wrote letters to the Twelve— but th[e]y were not sent.—
Only one letter of this date from Hyrum Smith to a member of the Twelve—Brigham Young— has been located. In this letter, Smith directed Young to “communicate to the others of the Twelve” who, like Young, were in the East proselytizing and campaigning for JS as a candidate in the upcoming 1844 presidential election. This directive, coupled with William Clayton’s report that he “wrote a letter for Hyrum to the Twelve,” suggests that only one letter was written. However, Richards listed the members of the Twelve in the East, alongside their specific locations, on the letter’s cover, which suggests Smith may have intended the letter to be copied and sent to each member. In the letter, Smith reviewed the growing threats of violence against the church in Illinois and advised Young to return to Nauvoo “without delay” with other members of the Twelve and other missionaries from Nauvoo who were also preaching and campaigning in the East, as well as with “as many more good faithful men as feel disposed to come.” Smith also suggested that those coming to Nauvoo pack “a little powder, lead and a good Rifle” in their luggage and closed by telling Young that “there must be no excuses made, for wisdom says that a strict compliance with this request will be for our safety and welfare.” Three days later, on 20 June, JS evidently appended a brief note to Hyrum Smith’s letter. When, or even if, the letter was sent is unclear. Although a notation on the cover of the copy of the letter says that the letter was “sent by express by A. M York”—identified by the compilers of JS’s history as Aaron M. York—“to the Ill. River,” Vilate Murray Kimball wrote her husband, apostle Heber C. Kimball, on 24 June 1844 that she had heard from George J. Adams that JS had decided to not send for the Twelve. In any event, Young evidently had not received the letter by 9 July 1844, when he first heard rumors of JS’s and Hyrum Smith’s deaths. (Hyrum Smith and JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Brigham Young, Boston, MA, 17 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL, underlining in original; Clayton, Journal, 17 June 1844; Clayton, Daily Account of JS’s Activities, 20 June 1844; Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 98; Vilate Murray Kimball, Nauvoo, IL, to Heber C. Kimball, Baltimore, MD, 9 and 24 June 1844, Kimball Family Correspondence, CHL.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
Kimball Family Correspondence, 1838–1871. CHL. MS 6241.
wrote to Uncle
16 July 1781–23 May 1854. Farmer. Born at Derryfield (later Manchester), Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. Son of Asael Smith and Mary Duty. Member of Congregational church. Appointed overseer of highways at Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., New York, 1810. Married...
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John Smith had written to JS the previous day, introducing “two faithful Brethren” who would inform JS of the activities of the enemies of the church in the Macedonia area. Smith also asked JS to “communicate in writing” his counsel to the Saints there and assured him that “the Brethren in these parts . . . may be relied upon.” In his dictated response, JS told Smith that the Mormons in his area should defend themselves “to the very last” and “retreat to Nauvoo” if necessary. JS suggested that the Macedonia Saints might provide “a little annoyance upon the rear” of the mob in the event of an attack on Nauvoo and told Smith to petition Illinois governor Thomas Ford for help, “that by our continual wearing we may get him to come in and investigate the whole matter.” (John Smith, Macedonia, IL, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 16 June 1844; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to John Smith, [Macedonia, IL], 17 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL; Clayton, Journal, 17 June 1844.)
This morning Joseph Smith.
Samuel Bennet[t]
Ca. 1810–May 1893. Market inspector, barometer manufacturer, physician. Born in England. Married Selina Campion, 9 Aug. 1836. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by 1839, in U.S. Ordained an elder, 23 Dec. 1839, in Philadelphia. Served...
Wm W. Phelps
Hyrum Smith
John P. Green[e]
3 Sept. 1793–10 Sept. 1844. Farmer, shoemaker, printer, publisher. Born at Herkimer, Herkimer Co., New York. Son of John Coddington Greene and Anna Chapman. Married first Rhoda Young, 11 Feb. 1813. Moved to Aurelius, Cayuga Co., New York, 1814; to Brownsville...
Dimick B. Huntingt[o]n
26 May 1808–1 Feb. 1879. Farmer, blacksmith, shoemaker, constable, coroner, deputy sheriff, Indian interpreter. Born at Watertown, Jefferson Co., New York. Son of William Huntington and Zina Baker. Married Fannie Maria Allen, 28 Apr. 1830. Baptized into Church...
Jonath[a]n Dunham
14 Jan. 1800–28 July 1845. Soldier, police captain. Born in Paris, Oneida Co., New York. Son of Jonathan Dunham. Married Mary Kendall. Moved to Rushford, Allegany Co., New York, by 1830. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and ordained...
Stephen Ma[r]kham
9 Feb. 1800–10 Mar. 1878. Carpenter, farmer, stock raiser. Born at Rush (later Avon), Ontario Co., New York. Son of David Markham and Dinah Merry. Moved to Mentor, Geauga Co., Ohio, 1809. Moved to Unionville, Geauga Co., 1810. Married Hannah Hogaboom, before...
J. H: Holms [Jonathan H. Holmes]
11 Mar. 1806–18 Aug. 1880. Shoemaker, farmer. Born in Georgetown, Essex Co., Massachusetts. Son of Nathaniel Holmes and Sally Harriman. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by John F. Boynton, 1832. Moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio...
Jesse P Harman [Harmon]
11 Aug. 1795–24 Dec. 1877. Policeman, alderman, farmer. Born in Rupert, Bennington Co., Vermont. Son of Martin Harmon and Triphina Pool. Moved to Lewis, Essex Co., Vermont, ca. 1801. Served in War of 1812. Moved to Castleton, Rutland Co., Vermont, June 1813...
John Lytle
18 Aug. 1803–12 Oct. 1892. Blacksmith, policeman, farmer. Born in Turbot Township, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania. Son of Andrew Lytle and Sarah Davidson. Moved to West Buffalo, Northumberland Co., by 1810. Moved to Ohio, ca. 1820. Married Christina Diana...
Joseph W. Coolidge
31 May 1814–13 Jan. 1871. Carpenter, miller, merchant. Born in Bangor, Hancock Co., Maine. Son of John Kittridge Coolidge and Rebecca Stone Wellington. Moved to Cincinnati, by 1817. Moved to area of Mackinaw, Tazewell Co., Illinois, 1834. Married Elizabeth...
Harvey D. Redfi[e]ld
31 Aug. 1807–27 Dec. 1878. Teamster, farmer, merchant, coroner. Born at Herkimer, Herkimer Co., New York. Son of Samuel Russell Redfield and Sarah Gould. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by 1831. Ordained a priest by Sidney Rigdon...
O. P Rockwll [Orrin Porter Rockwell]
June 1814–9 June 1878. Ferry operator, herdsman, farmer. Born in Belchertown, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts. Son of Orin Rockwell and Sarah Witt. Moved to Farmington (later in Manchester), Ontario Co., New York, 1817. Neighbor to JS. Baptized into Church of...
Levi Richa[r]ds
14 Apr. 1799–18 June 1876. Teacher, mechanic, inventor, physician. Born at Hopkinton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Son of Joseph Richards and Rhoda Howe. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 31 Dec. 1836, in Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio...
were arrestd by. Con[stable]
Joel S. Miles
25 Oct. 1816–in/after 1862. Constable, carpenter, justice of the peace. Born in Rutland Co., Vermont. Son of Samuel Miles and Sarah Simonds. Moved to Freedom, Cattaraugus Co., New York, ca. 1830. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by...
. on writ of
D[aniel] H. Wells
27 Oct. 1814–24 Mar. 1891. Farmer, teacher, ferry operator, lumber merchant, manager of nail factory, politician. Born in Trenton, Oneida Co., New York. Son of Daniel Wells and Catherine Chapin. Moved to Marietta, Washington Co., Ohio, ca. 1832. Moved to ...
— <J. P. [justice of the peace]> issued on compl[a]int of—
Ca. 1819–after 1855. Carpenter. Born in Ohio. Lived in Cincinnati, 1839. Married first Emily V. Ryland, 6 Apr. 1841, in Hamilton Co., Ohio. Wife died, 1842. Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, by Mar. 1844. Attended Illinois state convention that supported...
TEXT: Possibly “M.”
G Ware
for Riot on 10[th] inst in dest[ro]ying Nauv[oo] Expositor.— were tried at
Juustice wells
2 P.M and discha[r]ged.— 4
According to published minutes of the trial, Stephen Perry also stood trial. The defendants, most of whom had been discharged earlier at two habeas corpus hearings before the Nauvoo Municipal Court, submitted themselves for trial before Wells on what they believed to be the advice of Jesse Thomas, given the previous day. The court’s ruling followed a lengthy examination of witnesses for both the prosecution and the defense. None provided testimony that the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor press was accompanied by disorderly behavior or language. (“For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 21 June 1844; JS, Journal, 12, 13, 16, and 18 June 1844; JS History, vol. F-1, 118–119; “For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 21 June 1844.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Edw[a]rd Hunter
22 June 1793–16 Oct. 1883. Farmer, currier, surveyor, merchant. Born at Newtown Township, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania. Son of Edward Hunter and Hannah Maris. Volunteer cavalryman in Delaware Co. militia, 1822–1829. Served as Delaware Co. commissioner. Moved...
[Philip B.] Lewis
16 Jan. 1804–13 Nov. 1877. Farmer, manufacturer, tinner. Born in Marblehead, Essex Co., Massachusetts. Son of Edmund Lewis and Abigail Prentiss. Moved to Pawtucket, Providence Co., Rhode Island, 1827. Moved to New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, 1830...
This man is identified as Philip B. Lewis in Richards, Journal, 26 June 1844.
& Major [John] Bills
Bills was a brigade major of the Second Cohort of the Nauvoo Legion. (Major General’s Office, Nauvoo Legion, Nauvoo, IL, to M. K. Anderson, Springfield, IL, 24 Apr. 1843, Illinois Governor’s Correspondence, 1816–1852, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; “Notice,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 4 Sept. 1844, [3].)
Illinois Governor’s Correspondence, 1816–1852. Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
sta[r]ted with Letter &c to
gov [Thomas] Ford
—— & affidavt of—— [blank]
The name of Thomas Wilson was likely meant to be inserted here.
as statd on sunday.
On Sunday, the previous day, JS had written a letter to Illinois governor Ford, informing him of threats against the Mormons and asking that he come and investigate. Thomas Wilson had testified in an affidavit that he had heard that 1,500 Missourians and militia companies from Adams County were on their way to Nauvoo to arrest JS and Hyrum Smith. (JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Thomas Ford, Springfield, IL, 16 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL; Thomas Wilson, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 16 June 1844, JS Office Papers, CHL; JS, Journal, 16 June 1844.)
JS Office Papers / Joseph Smith Office Papers, ca. 1835–1845. CHL. MS 21600.
This possibly refers to the minutes of the Nauvoo City Council meeting in which the Nauvoo Expositor press was declared a nuisance and which JS may have wanted Ford to have. (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 10 June 1844, 19–31; “To the Public,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 17 June 1844; “To the Public,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 19 June 1844, [2]–[3].)
Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Books, 1841–1845. Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800, box 1, fds. 2-5.
Recd affidavit of
Stephen Mark[h]am
Mob was like to come upon us (on file)
In his affidavit, which he made before Willard Richards, Markham testified that reports in newspapers and “various precincts” indicated that a mob “may be expected to make an immediate attack upon the citizens and city of Nauvoo.” (Stephen Markham, Affidavit, Nauvoo, IL, 17 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL.)
Issu[e]d order to Mayor to Keep th[e] peace.
JS’s order was instead directed to Nauvoo marshal John P. Greene. The order referenced reports that a mob was gathering to attack the city and instructed Greene to “preserve the peace . . . according to the provisions of the charter and the laws of the state.” Greene was to coordinate his efforts with the Nauvoo police and Nauvoo Legion. (JS, Proclamation to John P. Greene, 17 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL.)
Jonathan Dunham
— acting comm[a]ndant to assist the [p. [160]]
Monday June 17. 1844.—
wrote letters to the Twelve— but they were not sent.—
Samuel Bennett
John P. Greene
Dimick B. Huntington
Stephen Markham
Harvey D. Redfield
Levi Richards
were arrestd by. Constable
Daniel H. Wells
— J. P. [justice of the peace] issued on complaint of—
for Riot on 10[th] inst in destroying Nauvoo Expositor.— were tried at
2 P.M and discharged.—
Edward Hunter
Philip B. Lewis
& Major John Bills
started with Letter &c to
gov Thomas Ford
Issued order to Mayor to Keep the peace.
— acting commandant to assist the [p. [160]]
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Explain: International Date Line
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The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line that runs along the surface of the earth from the North Pole to the South Pole in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and when you cross it you will win or lose a day depending on the direction of travel. If you go west you gain a day, and if you go east you lose a day.
For example, if a traveler travels across the Pacific Ocean from Wake Island to the Hawaiian Islands on June 25, they will jump back to June 24 as soon as they cross the IDL; However, if they travel in the opposite direction, they will reach Wake Island on June 26th.
Physics defies the magic that happens here. The international date line is based on a rational and practical universal timekeeping system that takes into account the movement of the earth around the sun.
Why do we need the international date line?
The earth rotates counterclockwise (from west to east). ) on its axis as it revolves around the sun. This means that different parts of the planet receive the direct rays of the sun at different times. So if it is noon on one part of the earth, the time when the sun is at the highest point in the sky, on another part of the planet it can be completely in shadow or experience sunrise or sunset.It also means that if you could somehow exceed the Earth’s rotation, which is a speed of around 1,600 km/h, you could, at least in theory, experience eternal daylight and never see darkness.
At such speeds (unless you are on the International Space Station) and when you are not traveling, people generally stay in one place so that people experience about the same amount of daylight, the day from sunrise.
The first time zone system was proposed by Sir Sandford Fleming in 1876, according to an article in Globe and Mail, a Canadian news publication. Canadian Railroad System he wanted to make the railroad more efficient and avoid complications resulting from the different timetables established by the various stations that set the time according to their local astronomical conditions. In encyclopedia Britannica, consequently, he proposed a system of 24 standard time zones, which would encompass the circumference of the earth Within each time zone, all clocks would be set to an average time that best reflects the position of the sun in the sky. The practicality of his system soon became popular, so in 1900 it was adopted by most of the world’s industrialized nations.
Today, with some major changes, we still use the 24-time zone system originally proposed by Fleming. The logic of dividing the earth into 24 zones arises from the fact that the planet is a sphere and, like any sphere, can be divided into 360 equal sections or 360 degrees, with each time zone being measured at 15 degrees latitude and 360 degrees divided. At 15 is 24.
All of these zones are numbered consecutively east from what is known as the Prime Meridian, a longitude that runs directly through the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich, Great Britain. The Prime Meridian was established in 1851 at a time when the United States was one of the most powerful and technologically advanced nations on earth. With a powerful navy, the British were very advanced in navigation and timing, using the most modern equipment available to calculate global position and time. The prime meridian at 0 degrees longitude is the point from which all other length measurements are made. The 24-hour timekeeping system called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is also located in the prime meridian.
As you move east from the prime meridian, the time zones increase continuously by an hour or, conversely, decrease continuously by an hour as you move west. But of course the earth does not exist indefinitely; At some point you will come to a point where, depending on the direction of travel, you have to start over or jump forwards or backwards in good time.
What happens when you cross the international date line?
Here is an example of how time zones and the international date line work.
London, U., is eight time zones away from San Francisco, California. When you drive from San Francisco to London, you are driving eight time zones forward, which really means you are eight hours ahead. So if it is 1:00 p.m. in San Francisco, it is 9:00 p.m. in London on the same day.
However, if you were to move eight time zones in the opposite direction at 1:00 p.m. from San Francisco. That means, west across the Pacific Ocean, for example to the Siberian city of Yakutsk, it gets complicated. Deducting Eight Hours from San Francisco Time You start by subtracting an hour for each time zone moving west and arriving at 9:00 AM. m., but at this point you reach the IDL where everything changes. add a full 24 hours to your calculations and skip a full day in advance so it’s 9 a.m.
Time because Yakutsk is four time zones west of the IDL. So when the time in San Francisco is 1:00 PM on wenesday. It’s 5:00 a.m. on Thursday in Yakutsk.
How the IDL began
The IDL was founded during the International Meridian Conference in Washington, D., in 1884, according to Post Card History. President Chester A. Arthur called the conference, attended by representatives from 26 nations. The President, like other world leaders, saw the need to set standards for an international agreement in terms of time and length. In the late 19th century, as global trade advanced, communication technologies became more sophisticated, and nations became increasingly interdependent, it was imperative that all watches conform to a world standard.
Against this background, the aim of the conference, as summarized in the minutes of the meeting, was “to establish a correct meridian”. used worldwide as the common zero for longitude and standard of time calculation models.
It is up to each country to implement these proposals. The IDL, for example, is still not a question of international law, nor is it enforced by the dictates of an international administrative council, it is accepted and adopted by all nations. because it is vital for global networking, instant communication, time tracking and consistent international databases.
Why isn’t the international date line straight?
A great way to visualize the IDL is to think in terms like a line of longitude. , roughly follows the 180 degree meridian, which is in the middle of the world, from the prime meridian. But in contrast to a meridian line, the IDL does not run on a straight path. Since its inception, the IDL has suffered several major deviations, and now it zigzags and trots around prominent land masses and certain Pacific islands in a seemingly arbitrary pattern. Most of these discrepancies are the result of practical considerations, such as avoiding splits by dividing a country into two time zones, or for political and economic reasons.
The IDL runs south from the North Pole, following the 180 degree meridian until it turns east to pass the Bering Strait, with Big Diomede Island, part of Russia, west of the IDL, and Little Diomede Island, part of. is, the United States remains in the east.Although the islands are only separated by the narrowest edge, only 3.2 kilometers, they experience different days, with Big Diomede Island always being one day before Little Diomede Island. The IDL then runs west to bypass the United States. “Aleutians keeping Russia and Alaska on opposite sides.
Then it goes back, following the 180-degree meridian again several thousand miles to the south, past the Hawaiian Islands to the west and the independent nation of the Marshall Islands to the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. East to include the islands of Kiribati and Line, the latter also known as the Teraina or Equatorial Islands. This deviation extends almost to the east to the 150-degree meridian and forms a very large and conspicuous hammer-shaped configuration.
Kiribati, received independence from the United Kingdom in 1979, it is a group of 33 largely uninhabited islands and atolls covering a vast area of no less than 1.9 million square miles (5 million square kilometers). its western half a day before its eastern half, according to the CIA’s World Fact Book. In 1995, Kiribati decided it had had enough of this agreement and, in search of better economic ties with Australia and New Zealand, expanded the IDL eastward. to encompass the nation’s far eastern islands, creating a strange configuration.
Map of the international date line in the South Pacific.
(Image credit: Wikimedia/Jailbird)
Changing the date line is relatively easy, the BBC reported. Neither the approval of other countries nor the sanctioning of an international umbrella organization is required.The country can decide for itself. It’s just a matter of spreading the word about the event and informing the international community and cartographers.
When leaving Kiribati, the IDL runs between Samoa and American Samoa, with the former being held in the west and the latter in the east of the IDL. it sharply returns to the 180 degree meridian but does not follow the exact course of the meridian, but instead remains parallel to the meridian and stays east of the line, so that Tonga, the Kermadec Islands, and New Zealand are all east of the IDL.
From New Zealand, near the Chatham Islands, which are part of New Zealand, the IDL goes back and reconnects with the 180 degree meridian, following this path until it reaches Antarctica, which has multiple time zones. in Antarctica on most maps.
Universal Coordinated Time
Today, a method known as Universal Coordinated Time, abbreviated as UTC, has become the standard for measuring time.In essence, it’s a more sophisticated version of GMT as it is still based on the zero degree of latitude that runs through Greenwich but is based on atomic clocks. Invented in the 1950s, these devices are incredibly accurate and rely solely on the rotation of the earth. Clocks account for minor fluctuations in the speed of the earth’s rotation that can cause normal time to fluctuate.
Further reading: “Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line (Explorations in World Maritime History)” (Praeger, 2005) by Avraham Ariel and Nora Ariel Berger
Read more about the International Meridian Conference.
Don’t feel like doing math? Here’s a helpful time zone converter that will do it for you.
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what is sucanat sugar
", Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences: "Sugar consumption, metabolic disease and obesity: The state of the controversy. The juice is heated to concentrate it, separating the liquid and sugar crystals. Look for sucanat in health food stores such as Whole Foods. Sucanat, which is a contraction of “Sucre de canne naturel,” is actually a brand name for a specific variety of whole cane sugar. It's a less processed form of sugar with a brownish hue and a hint of molasses in its taste. While we used many different natural sweeteners (including coconut sugar, date sugar, and maple syrup) while developing our most recent cookbook, Naturally Sweet, we found that Sucanat gave us a deep, rich flavor in some of our favorite staple sweets, so we turned to it for our chocolate chip cookies recipe and chocolate layer cake recipe. Because it’s a registered trademark, Sucanat is a fairly reliable, consistent product across brands; you can find it in many well-stocked supermarkets or online. Sucanat (a contraction of "Sucre de canne naturel") is a brand name for a variety of whole cane sugar that was introduced by Pronatec in 1978. It is then seive ground to produce a grainy sugar. Short for sucre de canne naturel, Sucanat is a natural cane sugar that is made by extracting the juice from sugar cane and then beating it with paddles to form granules. There is no evidence that humans need to stop consuming sugar altogether. But what exactly is Sucanat? Get FREE ACCESS to every recipe and rating from theis season of our TV show. Left: unground Sucanat. By clicking Subscribe, I agree to the WebMD, Smart Grocery Shopping When You Have Diabetes, Surprising Things You Didn't Know About Dogs and Cats, Coronavirus in Context: Interviews With Experts. Sucanat, like other cane sugars, is almost all sucrose, so it is also half-and-half glucose and fructose. In the case of Sucanat™, however, the sugar cane juice is simply heated and then allowed to cool, forming granular crystals of what is basically dried sugar cane juice. By America's Test Kitchen | October 05, 2016, Good Buy 2020 Sale: $10 Equipment Books, No Limit! However, a 13-year study failed to prove the connection. (When heated, it turns caramel-like between 250 and 270 degrees.). It is actually a brand name owned by Ragus Holdings Inc for their particular type of whole cane or unrefined sugar product. ", The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: "Sugars and risk of mortality in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Without it, subjects may continue eating. Sucanat could be beneficial to people with diabetes who are not dependent upon insulin. It is readily available at many markets and health food stores in packages which vary widely in size from large bags designed for industrial applications to smaller containers for home use. Look for sucanat in health food stores such as Whole Foods. Short for sucre de canne naturel, Sucanat is a natural cane sugar that is made by extracting the juice from sugar cane and then beating it with paddles to form granules. You can substitute granulated sugar and coconut sugar for Sucanat, but they cannot be substituted for one another based on a one-to-one volume measure. Although it is minimally processed, Sucanat isn’t any healthier than other types of sugar. The possible health benefits of Sucanat include: The human body requires glucose to function. Signs of this connection appeared in the 1950s. 2. Sucanat is far more flavorful than regular white sugar, which means that a small amount goes a long way in providing sweetness and flavor to a wide variety of recipes. While it was once widely touted as being a nutrient-rich food, the reality is that Sucanat is Sign Up to Receive Our Free Coroanvirus Newsletter, Becoming a Vegetarian: Foods to Choose From. How Long Does Coronavirus Live On Surfaces? The consumption of fructose could play a role, as it does not stimulate the release of leptin. ", JAMA Internal Medicine: "Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents. Because of its great depth of flavor and sweeter overall taste, one can create a tasty treat without adding so much sugar that it ultimately takes over.". In terms of flavor, fructose is 1.5 times sweeter than sucrose, while glucose is only 75 percent as sweet as sucrose. Sucanat is a trademark name derived from "sugar cane natural." The process for making Sucanat™ starts out like that used for other forms of cane sugar, with the harvesting of the sugar canes. Leptin is a hormone that promotes feelings of satisfaction. Read on—we demystify that below. Sucanant is an unrefinded sugar extracted from sugar cane. Sucanat is natural, organic, vegan, and non-GMO. You can use this sugar in cooking and baking as you would other forms of sugar. ", Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety: "Functionality of Sugars in Foods and Health. This sugar substitute first came into the consumer market around late 1970’s. Sucanat is a trademark name derived from "sugar cane natural." The less-refined nature of the Sucanat could have caused it to digest more slowly, lessening the impact on blood sugar. It found no link between consumption of added sugars and all-cause mortality. And since they retain much of their natural molasses, Sucanat granules are a tan-brown color, with a deep, molasses-y flavor that our tasters loved. The Sugar Research Foundation exerted its influence to place the blame for heart disease almost entirely on fats in the diet. The canes are cut, leaving the roots behind so that they will sprout new canes in the coming year, and then they are crushed in a mangler which extracts their naturally sweet juice. ", Journal of the American Dietetic Association: âSerum glucose and insulin responses to sucanat⢠and sucrose in non-insulin dependent diabetes and normal controls.â, Vegetarian Journal: âIs Your Sugar Vegan?â.  Digesting fructose is a more complicated process that takes place in the liver and produces triglycerides as an end product.Â, Sucrose is half glucose and half fructose. All rights reserved. Learn real cooking skills from your favorite food experts, The iconic magazine that investigates how and why recipes work, American classics, everyday favorites, and the stories behind them, Experts teach 200+ online courses for home cooks at every skill level, Kid tested, kid approved: Welcome to America’s Test Kitchen for the next generation. New grab-it deals like this daily. © 2020 America's Test Kitchen. The flavor of fructose dissipates the most quickly, followed by glucose, while sucrose offers the most sustained sweet flavor. One teaspoon contains: Sucanat contains trace amounts of some vitamins and minerals, including: Sucrose, glucose, and fructose are all natural sugars, but they don't act identically in the body. Sucanant is an unrefinded sugar extracted from sugar cane. The Sucanat™ retains the molasses, creating a very distinctive and quite strong flavor, along with other impurities which may be present in the cane. Shop now. • Sucanat – Made from crystallized pure cane sugar, this truly unrefined sugar retains a higher proportion of molasses than other types of cane sugars. Considered to be sugar in its most natural form. American Heart Association: "Added Sugar. How Sucanat Is Made Sucanat is less processed and more natural than white sugar. They also suggest that studies funded by the food industry should be viewed more critically. Some of our test cooks spent almost an entire year working with Sucanat. In studies done with children, a rich supply of glucose to the brain improved mental performance, especially on long, difficult tasks. The brain uses up about half of the body's requirement of glucose to feed its many cells.
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The Great Muslim Cover Up
Daniel Greenfield July 25, 2012
Over in Toronto, a Muslim cleric with the unwieldy name of Al-Hashim Kamena Atangana had a great idea. Al-Hashim's idea was for Toronto to pass laws forcing women to wear Burkas. "Cover up or get raped", was the implied message. Toronto only has an estimated 5.5 percent Muslim population so the Toronto Taliban probably won't be getting their way until they have higher double digit numbers, but they can wait.
Meanwhile in Egypt where the population is 90 percent Muslim and the other 10 percent are running for their lives, a new TV channel represents a brave new frontier in Islamic feminism. Maria TV features women giving lifestyle and makeup tips while wearing the Niqab, which covers their faces and leaves only their eyes exposed. According to some Saudi clerics who think that women are only allowed to leave one eye exposed, this makes them either a bold feminist experiment or shameless strumpets.
In a country where Tahrir Square has become synonymous with sexual assault; the Al-Hashim paradigm is taking hold. There are photos of female students at Cairo University from the 60's and 70's that showed them dressing like women did in the 60's and 70's. But by the time Obama showed up to praise Cairo University as a great representative of Islamic civilization, the cover-up had begun. The question is where will the cover-up end and what will the Cairo University class of 2020 look like? They probably won't have faces, but will they even have eyes?
You can attend a university with your head covered, even with your face covered, but it gets harder to attend class when your eyes are covered. If the trend means anything in a decade Muslim feminism will mean fighting for the right to keep one eye open in a religion that wants everyone to keep their eyes shut.
The liberal West has reacted to the Islamic cover-up with its own cover-up. The Western liberal will run through the gamut of his own civilization's sins before reluctantly admitting that some parts of the Muslim world may not be an ideal place to be a woman, but he immediately reaches for a rolled up copy of the New York Times and uses Tom Friedman's latest report from an airport's luxury lounge in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur as proof that the reforms are coming.
Indeed if you read anything from Tom Friedman, who is expert at writing books about how the world is becoming a global village because it's so ridiculously easy for him to fly anywhere on his frequent flyer miles, that is all he can talk about. Saudi Arabia is constantly being reformed. Why in 1962 it abolished slavery and recently the Saudi king has agreed to let women vote in municipal elections in 2015. This is naturally a big deal in an absolute monarchy that has been ruled by the same family for longer than it had oil companies.
There is no question that King Abdullah is a great feminist. If you doubt that just ask any one of his 13 wives. It may be true that women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive or leave the country without permission from their husband and have their lives controlled by a male guardian; but so long as Tom Friedman has a comfortable seat and an alcohol-free drink whenever he flies to Saudi Arabia, the reports of reforms will keep on coming about this cheerful outpost in our global village.
Outside of an airport there is no such place as a global village. International travel hasn't flattened the world. It may be possible to fly to a remote location in twelve hours, disembark into a luxurious modern terminal designed by British architects and constructed by slave labor, but it can take you another twelve hours just to make your way through a city that may be ornamented with the occasional noveau riche skyscraper but is still built on a plan designed to defend desert tribes from nomadic raids. Travel twelve hours out of that city and you will encounter millions of people living in actual villages who don't think that globalism is flattening, but do think that the world is flat.
Jet setting is exciting, but not transformative. Tom Friedman in Jeddah is still the same man he is on Fifth Avenue. The only difference is that there's more sand in his shoes and sweat under his mustache. And the Saudi whose great-grandfather grew up in one of those villages, fought the Ottoman Empire, bought children from Syrian traders and kept them as slaves or concubines, and taught his children that living this way is what convinced Allah to open up some oil wells under the desert, is still that man even when he's having lunch with Tom Friedman on Fifth Avenue.
We all live in villages. Our village is a place where women are considered human beings, but in the village that is an ocean and a desert away, women are considered property. For all the ridiculous noises about Islamic feminism and all the reforms coming out of Riyadh, a proper Muslim can no more consider a woman his equal, than he could consider a sheep or an African slave his equal.
The problem is that lately our two villages have been overlapping thanks to the heap big magic of the airport. Americans travel to Saudi Arabia, where they are told to cover themselves up and respect the local customs, and Muslims travel to Canada where they tell the city of Toronto that it needs to cover up its women or they won't be responsible for the consequences. Our village just can't seem to win.
This is not the sort of stuff that you put in tourist brochures, this is the sort of stuff you cover up, and these days our nations exist as long tourist brochures covering up the problems and extolling the virtues of all these people who visit, move in, learn to fly planes and ram them into buildings because a medieval warlord claimed that a fellow named Allah wanted him to conquer the world, but didn't provide him with any transportation more reliable than camels and a flying horse.
Our tourist brochures say, "Diversity", but diversity is another one of our village's unique virtues. It's not a virtue when you reach Saudi Arabia, and it's not a virtue when Saudi Arabia reaches us. Our noble commitment to diversity leads us to diversify by investing in multiculturalism, but many of those villages full of men with thirteen wives and sharp knives are not interested in multiculturalism.
The Taliban showed us what they thought of multiculturalism when they blew up Buddhist statues and the Islamists in Mali are showing us what they think of multiculturalism with a rampage directed against Sufi shrines. The Muslim Waqf in Jerusalem is continuing its vandalism of the remains of the Second Temple. All of them are following in the footsteps of Saudi Arabia which has waged a campaign of destruction against the cultural artifacts of every other culture.
In India, Hindus had the temerity to sing in their own country during the month of Ramadan, which ended in violence as furious Muslims tried to explain their views on multiculturalism with big rocks. In that same spirit, Al-Hashim Kamena Atangana, like so many other Muslim clerics, is trying to explain to us that while in our village it may be the custom to treat women as human beings, in his village it is the custom to treat them as property.
Common sense says that our village means our customs, but diversity says that our village is on the shores of the global village which is moving into our village and insisting that it's now their village. This is a problem, but only for those of us who are Jews, Christians, Hindus, Atheists, Zoroastrians, Wiccans, Buddhists, Sikhs and Bahai. Not to mention female or in any other way differing from the Muslim male that runs the other village and is trooping through our airport with thirteen wives in tow.
It used to be that when in Rome, you did like the Romans. Now it's when in Toronto, you do like Al-Hashim says. Because his voice is the booming echo of diversity and like all the voices of diversity, it isn't promoting multiculturalism, but a single culture. Their culture. One Ummah, one Caliph and one Burka.
The Muslim Brotherhood succeeded in changing Egypt through the twin expedients of propaganda and violence. 70 years after educated Egyptians wanted to be more Western, the Brotherhood is in power and Westerners are told to want to be more Muslim. The Al-Hashims bellow that Western women should act more Muslim and Western feminist groups encourage their members to try on Hijabs as gestures of tolerance and servitude. That great Islamic feminist, King Abdullah and his thirteen wives, whose kingdom spends billions on such propaganda, no doubt approves, and wishes they would move on to not driving cars as another gesture of tolerance for our new wonderfully diverse village.
The Hijab is the gateway to the Burka and both are just forms of mobile Purdah, the segregation that requires a woman to stay at home. And if she can't stay in her tent, then she can only go out while wearing a big black tent that goes everywhere she goes. The cover-ups function like a cattle brand informing other Muslim men that this is someone else's property. That was the ancient function of the garment when bands of Muslim raiders were collecting slave women and some distinction had to be made between married women who couldn't be raped and slave women who could.
Under the Burka, the Muslim woman is still locked up in her room in her husband's house even when she's out and about in the marketplace. It is a liberal concession that allows her to occasionally leave the house while still being locked up in the house. And this brilliant bit of Islamic feminism, this reform which says that women can occasionally leave the house and shouldn't be raped so long as they're wearing a tent that makes it look like they're still in Purdah, is just one of the ways that Islam is enriching our multiculturalism with its monoculturalism. To say nothing of all the Muslim rapes of women who refuse to walk around wearing tents.
Western liberals respond to the problem with the same methods as Middle-Eastern Islamists. Their solution to everything is the great cover-up. Muslims cover up women, Western liberals cover up the Muslim abuse of women. Muslims are afraid of dealing with the idea that women are more than mobile property and Western liberals are terrified of dealing with the idea that this is what Muslims actually believe about women.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, whether it's for the bacteria that thrive under full body robes or the kind that thrive in ideologies which try to control everyone. No matter how many cover-ups are made and how many cloaks, Hijabs and Burkas are thrown over the truth, sooner or later the cover-ups have to end and the truth has to shine forth.
Posted by: Daniel Greenfield at July 25, 2012
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Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon 26/7/12
"And then you smear the lipstick on thickly using a trowel while holding the Hijab out like so....
If it gets on the material it's okay because it can be rubbed on the cheeks as blush.
Don't worry if you get too much on, no one will see it anyway.
To preserve the hair, spray it liberally with lacquer that your husband uses on furniture.
This not only will hold your hair but harden your head for the beatings he will give you"....
(transcript of Hijab Makeup show)
Jumping to horrific conclusions, I fear that these men would start blinding women for using eye make up. It would make them appear alluring.
Islamic no no.
Last year the Toronto Police Chief said that if women don't want attention then they shouldn't dress provocatively. Outraged socialists and feminists responded with a "slut walk". Repressive Muslims are not a target of this selective outrage.
Empress Trudy 26/7/12
If Muslim fanatics limit their fanaticism to their own, then so what. Let the Muslim women of Toronto deal with it or be raped and killed or mutilated or whatnot. Let the Muslims in London worry about honor killings of their own, or not. Eventually Islamic autonomous regions will come to the west and as long as they restrict their Medieval stupidity to themselves and never creep across the line to rest of the world, I say do it. But if they creep across that line, come down on them with the infinitely huge hammer of the state without hesitation or restraint. Apply THEIR punishments to THEIR violation of OUR laws up to an including death and dismemberment.
Demographics means that those regions stand a good chance of eventually becoming the majority, certainly in Europe.
And Islam is incapable of limiting the scope of its authoritarianism.
fsy 26/7/12
Sorry, Sultan, but this is where I get confused.
Judaism also is in favor of modest dress, and some of their ideas are copied from the Talmud. I know we believe that women are people rather than property, but I don't think we demonstrate that with "slut walks". Somebody has to think this all out very clearly and precisely, or we'll end up either abandoning our own beliefs or turning into them.
Modest dress is one thing, mobile purdah and facelessness is another. Modest dress is an individual choice, it's not the compulsory acid backed dress codes.
Most societies have expectations for how people should dress, but they're not about making it impossible for women to function in public life.
Modest dress is one thing, mobile purdah and facelessness is another.
You're saying exactly what I said. The tone of the article and of much of what is being written on this subject, however, seems to go to the opposite extreme in order to fight the Moslems. Should we cut off our nose to spite our face?
The opposite extreme of a compulsory dress code is the belief that a society can naturally make those decisions without a religious police force making those decisions for them.
So I suppose yes, the opposite is not such a bad place to be.
This is different than endorsing something like the slut walk as a moral imperative.
These intractable conflicts will undoubtedly continue and escalate until/ unless all Western countries (that includes the U.S.) enforce the consequences of the fact that they are Judeo-Christian in origin and recognize that they must maintain that culture and belief system or die as nations and cultures. Muslims are not confused about who they are, and it is fatal for us to be confused...as we now are. For us to come to grips with the reality of the challenges which we must face, we will also have to abandon the fantasies of Liberalism, Multiculturalism, and all other associated ideological baggage. I greatly doubt that we as a nation are capable of the insight and strength that is needed. This site has provided readers with uniquely important commentaries about the issue, but there is a lot to be deeply depressed over. Everything Friedman writes is toxic to any reader, and he continues to have a prominent voice in a major newspaper. We will know that there is some hope when Friedman is put to pasture. I am not holding my breath, but despair is a sin, so I try to suppress that sinking feeling.
Since many Jews are afraid to weare a coin size kippa, there come the MUslims with no such neuroses and show us how to be a proud Jew. Also don't you think that a society that has became devoid of any shame, where women dress in a manner never thought of 60 years ago (and it doesn't matter the age) will have to change at some point? The opposites--burkas are coming and after a big fight we will see who wins.
An Indian 26/7/12
Ask any Muslim about his identity and his nation and the answer is a direct "Islam is my identity and I am a member of the Islamic nation." And yet the left seems to think that multiculturalism is going to make them a part of any other nation.
The Muslims have been living in Indian subcontinent for 700 years and yet they never assimilated, all they managed to do was to break it into Islamic Nations in a country which has been historically for thousands of years a Hindu nation.A country that even after all this is still a democratic, secular country. And yet the left fails to see such examples.
I am Indian and have seen how Islam and everything else is incompatible and this brazen surrender to their violence and dogma is a as great a threat today as nuclear holocaust.The surrender of the west, which represents the only possible hope against such ideology,is making me shiver and really worried about where we are heading.This fear is especially compounded by the fact that they breed like rabbits and will result in demographic changes just like in Europe.
The only way to fight such an ideology is to treat it like cancer; an intense and focused dose of radiation to nip in the bud. Otherwise it'll be like a cancer that just keeps coming back until the civilizations as we know it today is dead.
Well maybe that's the problem WE suffer. Instead of meekly worrying about having our kippahs knocked off, the next time it happens, do what Muslims do and burn down 5 or 6 whole apartment buildings and kill 80 people. Some Arabs insult us? Kill them in the street and carbomb their shops. How can they object when it's their very own tactics.
Mark Wright 26/7/12
Outstanding article. And here is another example of the left's paradoxes with respect to Islam. The (unelected) European Commissioner for Home Affairs is a Swedish socialist called Cecilia Malmström who has announced the EU's new policy in response to the "Arab spring". The policy, in a nutshell is as follows:
1. We think the Arab Spring is a fantastic move to democracy but to make sure everything turns out fine we are going to transfer massive amounts of money and other favours to the Arab countries involved.
2. The EU has an ageing population and a lack of "skilled and talented" workers, which together means the EU will eventually collapse unless we invite millions of Arabs to emigrate to the EU, especially those from the 'Arab spring' countries.
This buffoon (and presumably the entire Western leftist elite) fail to see the obvious contradiction/paradox in the above two policies. For more see:
http://edgar1981.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/the-left-has-real-problem-with-islam.html
Edward Cline 26/7/12
Great article, Daniel. One of your best. You know, centuries from now someone might want to write a satirical novel on a dystopia and in the course of his researches, come upon this particular column, and think it was satire, as well. Then he'd exclaim, "Damn, I thought I was being original! Funny in a tragic sense! Hyperbolic! Did these things really go on way back then?"
Nothing is compulsory in Judaism. If you don't want to wear modest clothing you don't have to.
And modesty isn't overboard for most Jews
rachel slomovic 27/7/12
i find it interesting that all religions without exception find that women's hair is something that is too alluring and that needs to be covered. who or which religion started that?
mindRider 27/7/12
@lemon lime moon Do not be too sure about the choice to wear modest clothing or not. Some time ago a group of Dutch Jewish students, both m&f, invited to a Tisch where walking in Mea Shearim where harassed by Haredi youngsters shouting "kurve"(whore) to the modestly dressed women of that group and threatening them with physical violence . The group had to run to get away safely.
occupant 9 27/7/12
Daniel, I always feel wealthier and enriched after reading your articles and the many comments of like minds.
It is possible for us to save our nations but it won't be through sanity. The Powers have long abdicated any form of response (for career and "justice") that would enhance societal sanity.
I used to think we were merely being misguided by the Negligenstsia, but now I think it much more sinister. The misguidance is by comeuppance-free design; those responsible will walk but not before ruins are made.
Islam is a zero-sum ideology which should make the math quite simple.
David Barry O'Connor 28/7/12
Dan, you make a great point with "Sunlight is the best disinfectant,".
I wish more people would read by it.
Thomas 29/7/12
Multiculturalism and diversity are simply euphemisms for no Whites, Jews or Christians allowed. We know how Muslims feel about "diversity" as they are quick to show us how "tolerant" they are of those not of the muslim mindset.
@ mindrider,
When in Rome.
@Rachel: hair covering is very old. Orthodox Jews have practiced it for married women since long ago.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back Tuesday on the decision by San Francisco’s conservative Catholic archbishop to deny her Communion over her support of abortion rights, saying she respects that people have opposing views but not when they impose them on others.
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back Tuesday on the decision by San Francisco’s conservative Catholic archbishop to deny her Communion over her support of abortion rights, saying she respects that people have opposing views but not when they impose them on others.
The California Democrat says she comes from a large family with many members who oppose abortion.
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However, each bishop has authority in his own diocese on this matter, and the archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, has affirmed that Biden is welcome to receive the sacrament there.
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Footage-based analysis of the current developments in Vuhlehirs’k
Posted on February 3, 2015 by Julian Röpcke
Over the last four days (since my article on the Russian storm on Vuhlehirs’k), the situation around the current battle focus town of Vuhlehirs’k was hazy to say the least with Russian forces claiming, they controlled all of it and advanced further to the north and north east while the Ukrainian army said, they dealt devastating blows to the “terrorists and Russian Federation troops” in the area. Just today, the Ukrainian army’s spokesperson Lysenko talked of a “mass death” of militants, after they “came out of the settlement” as they were “covered” with artillery and missiles – inside. However, he also said, the surviving troops were “chased” back in by their commanders to hold it. Meanwhile, what he did not say (during the last 4 daily pressers) was whether Ukrainian troops managed to re-occupy certain or all areas of the town or if all “Ukrainian counterattack” is just a matter of extreme artillery and MLRS fire from outside.
Such extremely contrary statements by both sides involved made it very difficult to assess the situation from a fact-based perspective, not relying on claims, but veritable pictures from the ground. These pictures were not available since January 30 from neither side, making an objective evaluation of the situation virtually impossible. This changed today.
Evacuation of civilians
In the early morning of February 3, 2015, Russian media claimed, there was a “humanitarian ceasefire” in Vuhlehirs’k between the two involved parties, giving hundreds of civilians the opportunity to flee “to the safety of the DNR and Makeevka”. The Russian narrative was that all civilians in the town were “terrorized” by the Ukrainian shelling and willing to flee to Russian-held areas. Shortly after these statements, first footage appeared of what indeed seemed to be civilians lining up at the (geolocated) western railroad crossing of Vuhlehirs’k and being transported into Russian-held territory by trucks and busses. Shortly after another Russian news station reported with footage from the same area.
There are two possible conclusions to be drawn from the footage concerning the situation in and around the city.
It seems generally unlikely that Ukrainian civilians would cross the frontline to get evacuated – even in case of a local ceasefire for several hours. Hence, it is more likely that civilians are willing to get evacuated by the respective side controlling the territory they live in. Therefore one conclusion would be that the Russian side indeed controls much of the town as several hundred civilians via their exit points of it. Not because they would be anymore aligned to their side, but simply because it is the safest way to leave the death zone. This would support the Russian narrative of wide control over the area.
At a second glance, something seems odd about the footage and queuing people especially as both Russian channels use exactly the same way to follow the line from its end to its start and the ready-to-go buses and Ural truck. If these people really would come from the main inhabited areas of Vuhlehirsk, they would line up from the east or south east, where two larger streets lead into the city. Instead, they seem to have come from the north, a direction where almost no residential buildings are situated, but the frontline between Russian and Ukrainian positions, thus two reasons speaking against taking that way to seek safety. The below map visualizes this setting.
the “evacuation” setting
This raises the question, if all of those refugees really come from the city and left it via the most dangerous way and from a direction where only few people live. Or if some of them were only moved their for the sake of some positive PR for the involved Russian army. Another possible reason is that such a “humanitarian gesture” could be a good pretext to regroup or hide own repositioning efforts in the area. In the footage, some 300-500 civilians can be seen lining up and several civilian busses as well as military truck are waiting to pick them up. This could mean that only a smaller part of the formerly 7000 inhabitants counting town is under control of the Russian army, however there is no conclusive evidence for that in the footage. In conclusion, the shown “evacuation” footage leaves some questions open while indeed showing, Russian forces control the western entrance of Vuhlehirs’k and there was no fighting before noon today. (parapgraph updated due to new footage and information) Also see Update at the end of the text.
Scenes from inside the city
Beside the scenes from the far west of Vuhlehirs’k Russian media footage included more pictures, giving a deeper insight into the situation. There is one video, summarizing all that footage, which will be analyzed in the following paragraph. The first scene shows a T-64BV with its turret blown off by what must have been caused by a major impact. Another destroyed truck can be seen as well in the picture. The wreckages can be geolocated some 100 meters to the N-W of the main intersection of the town.
destroyed T-72 close to the center
Two more geolocated images show the central intersection, which was already the scene of fighting on January 29.
the center of Vuhlehirs’k
From this footage, several conclusions can be drawn about who controls what in the town. At first, the Ukrainian claim that “all militants were killed and destroyed” in Vuhlheris’k can be falsified. Russian forces control at least the western and central part of the embattled city as the footage shows. Moreover, no military vehicles or defensive positions can be seen which means the actual frontline should be further to the east, leaving the center with the M04 behind the front and in Russian hands. However, it is also telling that Russian TV crews could not take any footage at the formerly held train station or the northern end of the town with its distinctive church (as shown several days ago). The below map shows what can be regarded as surely under Russian control in the city, taking into account the above stated reasons (e.g. safe to record by Russian TV, safe roads to get their plus the lack of real frontline positions).
overall situation map
So what can be concluded from the available footage?
1. There is still no proof that Ukrainian forces control any territory in or around Vuhlehirs’k. Due to the lack of available footage, recorded by the Ukrainian army or embedded media branches, the claim that “heavy fighting is ongoing across the city” can not be verified, however also not totally falsified. It is possible that Ukrainian units are still fighting inside the town, but such claim should be backed by at least one datable and geolocationable picture or video.
2. Russian forces hold major parts of the city. The analyzed footage shows that Russian forces still have a foothold in Vuhlehirs’k. Despite being hit hard by Ukrainian artillery and missiles, their presence in the west, center and thus surely also in the south can be verified.
3. It remains unclear, how much exactly the Russian army controls of the town. As stated above, the observed footage lacks the final proof, Russian forces control the entire regarded town, despite several indication is there, this might be the case. However, the situation at the real frontline seems to be regarded as too dangerous to film for Russian media or there are other reasons, why the Russian leadership is not willing to publish footage from the northern and eastern parts of Vuhlehirs’k.
Last but not least, two more images from the latest footage should be considered. The first shows what appears to be a unexploded BM-27 missile, stuck in the mud, just beside the destroyed T-64. It is not unreasonable to infer that the Ukrainian army is shelling the Russian-held center (and possibly other parts) of the town Vuhlerhirs’k with 220 mm calibre missiles from the type “Uragan” despite the certain possibility that civilians may still be residing inside the town. Footage of such an attack could be seen in the January 29 footage and the fact that the Ukrainian army is “covering” the Russian invaders in the town is emphasized almost daily by the Ukrainian army command.
Unexploded BM-27
The second picture is another piece of evidence that no one but the regular Russian army is leading the fight vs. Ukrainian forces across Donbas. It shows the hit wreckage of a Russian army Ural-4320 truck, still bearing the typical unit identification mark at the vehicle’s bumper. This is another reminder to European media that no “separatists” are battling the Ukrainian army, but the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Also and especially at the battlefield of Vuhlehirs’k.
Russian army Ural-4320
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Pictures that appeared after this article was published indeed show, queuing civilians were likely asked to do so, facing the pick-up point from the north and the rail tracks. However it appears they originally came from the south east, so from the city itself. They were probably asked to take this “odd” 400 meter detour to keep the main road clear for other refugee cars and military vehicles passing by. This means that the chance, some of them were only “moved there” for any purpose is much less likely. – New facts bring new insights. That’s the way it is.
Route of fleeing civilians towards the buses and trucks
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7 thoughts on “Footage-based analysis of the current developments in Vuhlehirs’k”
pegase on February 3, 2015 at 6:45 pm said:
You could find 12 pictures of the civilian evacuation from a russian reporter using an UAV here : https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=896397263738367&set=pcb.896401023737991&type=1&permPage=1
These pictures give a wider view of the situation and you could see people coming from the southern road either by foot or car.
P.S.: BTW the turetless T72 is a T64 (look at the wheels)
P.S.2: You are doing a greeeeeeeaaaaat job !!!
Conflict Reporter on February 3, 2015 at 6:51 pm said:
I changed it to T-64BV – but your drone pictures (thanks for them) prove nothing different.
My intention was not to prove something different, I think your analysis of the situation is pretty good… ( given the level of information that we have 😉 The drone pictures were helpfull to get a wider view of the evacuation that’s all. (btw you will find on the facebook profile other drone pictures probably made during the assault)
Please have a look to this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLgMg3wPcBk the southern part of the city ( Nekasova Blvd gas station ) seems to be a combat zone. Not sure that russian control anything outside of the city in the south/south-east.
I’m just writing an article on it. thanks!
Dmitriy Karpovich on February 3, 2015 at 10:25 pm said:
There is good resource about counting armour losses in this civil war.
http://lostarmour.info/armour/
Some of the specialist from both Russia and Ukraine monitor it and leave comments to correct mistakes, so make identification much more simple. Only completely destroyed or captured armour with photo video proofs are added.
Would be much less mistakes like that.
kasugi on February 3, 2015 at 9:31 pm said:
I have an off topic question. I often see the LNR referred to as “LC”.
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Simone Santini has once again fashioned an exceptional Vernaccia di San Gimignano. In fact, his 2015 Le Calcinaie Vernaccia di San Gimignano 2015 may just be the master’s finest Vernaccia to date. Rare among Tuscan white wines for its flavor, freshness, and longevity, Vernaccia di San Gimignano owes its 800 year reign as the region’s most lauded white wine to the predominance of the relatively rare Vernaccia clones that thrive in the environs of San Gimignano. Whereby most Tuscan whites rely upon the more innocuous and ubiquitous Trebbiano and Malvasia grape varieties, Vernaccia di Gimignano must be comprised predominantly or entirely of Vernaccia. The 2015 Tenuta Le Calcinaie Vernaccia di San Gimignano is produced from 100% Vernaccia from Simone Santini’s estate, and, as one would expect, it sparkles in the glass with glints of gold, a combination of the soft green of the magical landscape and the golden yellow glow of the Tuscan sun. Pure and aromatic, the 2015 Le Calcinaie Vernaccia di San Gimignano offers up a refreshing draught of fruit, soft scents of almond blossom, a subtle minerality, and a twist of ripe citrus and raw almond on the finish that lingers splendidly on the palate. Slightly rounder and more open in its youth than usual, thanks to nature’s splendor during the 2015 vintage, the 2015 Tenuta Le Calcinaie Vernaccia di San Gimignano is eminently drinkable from the moment it is poured. Nonetheless, it will evolve further in the glass with 5-10 minutes of aeration, which made the panel petition for more. And true to form, one can count on Simone Santini’s Vernaccia di San Gimignano to continue to mature gracefully in bottle for at least two more years. For optimal enjoyment we suggest only moderate chilling (40º F).
One of the greatest attributes of the 2015 Tenuta Le Calcinaie Vernaccia di San Gimignano, or any vintage of this unique Tuscan white wine, is how beautifully it pairs with food: especially classic Tuscan bean dishes, poultry, and seafood. Seared sea scallops with a ragout of cannelloni beans and crispy pancetta bacon; grilled trout with almonds and fresh green beans; and freshly shucked oysters broiled with garlic butter, Parmesan cheese and a dash of lime juice all provide excellent accompaniments to Le Calcinaie’s classic Vernaccia di San Gimignano. White pizza with rock shrimp, fresh ricotta, mozzarella, and arugula offers another fine pairing. Grilled vegetables, hors d’oeuvres, cream based pasta dishes, and hearty salads provide other opportunities to highlight the 2015 Tenuta Le Calcinaie Vernaccia di San Gimignano – a rare and authentic taste of Tuscany. Buon Appetito!
The tiny Tenuta Le Calcinaie estate is situated within the confines of San Gimignano, the medieval Tuscan hill town made famous by its many towers. Considering the location and attention to quality at Le Calcinaie, this little jewel of a property has become quite renowned for its rare and exceptional Vernaccia di San Gimignano for which the town of San Gimignano is also justly famous. Considering the dearth of fine Tuscan whites, it should come then as no surprise that Tenuta Le Calcinaie has been so keenly identified with Tuscany’s finest white wine. However, what the world has not yet discovered is just how wonderful this brilliant estate’s red wines are, most notably Le Calcinaie’s Colli Senesi Chianti and its proprietary Super Tuscan red, Teodoro.
Behind the success of Tenuta Le Calcinaie is the affable and witty Simone Santini, known near and far as the Great Santini! Simone is gifted with an archetypal Tuscan sense of humor; he possesses a vibrant wit and an acute sense of irony. He is also an excellent winemaker, and his estate is completely certified organic. His Vernaccia di San Gimignano is classically wrought, exceptionally focused, and bursting with flavor. Meanwhile, the true irony lies in Simone’s red wines; they, too, are exceptional and as delicious as his Vernaccia, yet few people outside of San Gimignano have ever tasted these wines. Come to think of it, how many Americans have ever tasted Vernaccia di San Gimignano or Colli Senesi Chianti, two of the friendliest of all Tuscan wines from the hands of a true artisan, “The Great Simone Santini”?
Tuscany enjoys a unique position in Italy. Located in the center of the Italian peninsula, its cities, culture, and people have existed for thousands of years in the throes of conflict. Drawing strength from its ancient Etruscan origin, which lent Rome its ability to build and engineer feats of unparalleled proportion, the inhabitants of Tuscany have shaped an austere, mystifyingly beautiful countryside into a rich, fecund land. And from the dynamic tension that held sway over Florence and its neighbors during the Middle Ages, there emerged the Renaissance – a 15th century ideal that made “man the measure of all things.” In harmony with a singularly beautiful land that has been inexorably shaped by the finest artistry of man, Tuscans have created a nearly ideal world in which agriculture, architecture, art, thought and wine continue to form one seamless, vital union. Nowhere in Tuscany is this truer than in San Gimignano, where the city’s medieval towers reach for the sky and point to the limitless nature of the Tuscan spirit. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6995026469230652, "wiki_prob": 0.3004973530769348, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line58475"} |
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Prior to the stations establishment in 1869 a Silver Medal was awarded to Gunner James Moore of the Royal Artillery at Alderney for rescuing 17 men of the crew of the French ship Carioca which struck the rocks under Hermitage Rock Battery on 19 October 1865.
Five Medals have been awarded, one Silver and four Bronze the last Medal voted 2002.
This station was first established in 1869 and closed in 1884 when there was difficulty in obtaining crew as so many fishermen had left the island. The lifeboat Mary and Victoria never launched on service and was transferred to St Helier when this station was established in 1884.
The Alderney station was re-established in 1985 after one of the newest design of lifeboat, a 33ft Brede class, sent to station in January 1984 for 12 months evaluation period.
Station established. Lifeboat house constructed at a cost of £235.
The stone quarry in which the lifeboat house stood was being reworked and a new one was being opened not far from the front of the boathouse. The working of the latter, it was feared, would considerably damage the roof of the boathouse. Great inconvenience was caused in launching the boat on account of the rails that were laid down on the way from the boathouse to the slip on the breakwater where the boat was launched. The Assistant Inspector reported that he thought a better site for the boathouse could be obtained near the Arsenal on the other side of the harbour.
Difficulty in getting the contract for moving the boathouse owing to scarcity of labour.
With the difficulty in obtaining a crew, as so many fishermen had left the island, the lifeboat station was closed and the lifeboat was transferred to St. Helier.
A 33ft Brede class lifeboat Foresters Future sent to station in January and placed on service on 10 March for a 12 month operational evaluation period.
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum accorded to Coxswain Stephen Shaw in recognition of his seamanship, leadership and dedication when the lifeboat rescued the crew of nine and saved the yacht Sea Keveral in a strong south westerly wind with poor visibility and heavy seas on 5 May.
The Duchess of Kent officially opened the station on 10 May. She presented the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum to Mr John Kay-Mouat, President of the States of Alderney, for the life-saving work carried out by private boats in Alderney during the 100 years in which there was no lifeboat on the island.
Bronze Medal awarded to Coxswain Stephen Shaw and the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum accorded to Assistant Mechanic Michael O’Gorman in recognition of their actions when the lifeboat rescued the crew of four and saved the yacht Sea Victor with engine difficulties, and taking in water in a southerly gale and rough seas on 4 May 1986.
A Bronze Medal Second-Service Clasp awarded to Coxswain Stephen Shaw, Bronze Medal awarded to Second Coxswain Martin Harwood, and The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum accorded to Mechanic Nigel Rose, Assistant Mechanic Michael O’Gorman and crew member James McDonald in recognition of their actions when the lifeboat rescued six people and saved the yacht Seylla II which was in difficulty due to a broken rudder in a southerly Force 10 Storm on 25 August 1986.
Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum was accorded to Coxswain Stephen Shaw and Second Coxswain Martin Harwood in recognition of their actions when the lifeboat rescued the sole occupant and saved the yacht Gypsy Rover in very heavy breaking seas and a westerly storm force 10 on 26 August.
New assembly building providing boat storage area and improved crew facilities.
Waveney class all-weather lifeboat withdrawn on 7 March and replaced by the Trent class lifeboat ON 1199 Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma. This is the first of the Trent class to be placed on service at a station.
The lifeboat Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma was withdrawn and replaced by the Trent class Roy Barker I on 21 July.
D class lifeboat D-410 sent to station and placed on all year round service.
Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum accorded to Coxswain Stephen Shaw and Second Coxswain Martin Harwood in recognition of their actions when the lifeboat rescued the crew of five and saved the yachts Parthia in a severe gale and heavy seas on 27 June.
Her Majesty The Queen has honoured Mr Stephen Shaw, lately Coxswain, with a MBE in her Birthday Honours.
Bronze Medal awarded to Helmsman Philip Murray and a Framed Letter of Thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution awarded to each of the two crew members, Francois Jean and Wayne Chandler, for attempting to save a girl, even thought the inshore lifeboat was severely damaged, after two girls and a man was swept into the sea at the Fort Clonque causeway on 9 August 2002. The inshore lifeboat saved the man. Crew member Mark Gaudion and Station Honorary Secretary David McAllister rescued the girl by crossing the causeway to reach her despite the strong pull of the tide. They were tied to a line held by policemen and others. They were both accorded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum.
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum accorded to Coxswain Declan Goudion, Deputy Second Coxswain Steven Wright and Crew Member Dean Geran for their actions when the crew of two, and a dog, were saved from the converted fishing vessel Abundance on 4 July 2007. In a service carried out in heavy seas and gale force winds at night, the two lifeboat crewmen were put aboard a dangerously unseaworthy vessel in an initial attempt to save her. When this was aborted, during several attempts to place the lifeboat alongside, the fishing vessels rotten gunwales collapsed under the pressure of the lifeboats fenders.
The Trustees of the RNLI decided that the D class ILB be withdrawn from the station and the station becomes an ALB station only. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8988710641860962, "wiki_prob": 0.8988710641860962, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line187817"} |
Bugs and Features: On Video Game Glitches and Interpretation
March 27, 2021 • By Nathan Wainstein
THE GLITCH-RIDDEN RELEASE of Cyberpunk 2077 in December 2020 was a particularly meme-able kind of slow-motion car crash — one in which the doomed driver also levitates awkwardly above the wreckage before bursting into flames. Cars, indeed, turned out to be a sore point for the game’s simulated city, with many of the glitches that made the internet rounds upon release involving problems with vehicle rendering and AI. Witness a tank falling from the sky, a procession of braindead drivers crashing into the same barrier, and a character model riding pantsless atop a motorcycle in a T-pose. For those already turned off by the game’s abrasive marketing and the exhausted tropes of its open-world genre, such glitches provided no small amount of schadenfreude: a host of immersion-breaking failures in a work that was supposed to represent the apex of modern graphical prowess and environmental depth. But they also raise an interesting question about video game glitches themselves, and their curious kinship with failures of realism in other art forms.
For the funny thing about Cyberpunk’s glitches is that such momentary failures — fleeting contradictions of the work’s reality-principle — have often been interpretive magnets for more theoretically inclined critics of art. Modernist and postmodern theory, after all, have trained us to value the uncanny, the defamiliarizing, and the surreal. This is why today even the most egregious breakdowns of realism can seem, from a certain perspective, like emblems of artistic richness. When a literary critic says they’re going to discuss “violations of space and time” in Madame Bovary or Middlemarch, you can rest assured that those violations will turn out to be good things; for what looks to one reader like incoherent narration can always be refigured as a subtle deconstruction of realism or a surrealist embrace of dreamlike time. And what could be more surreal, indeed more suggestive of an entire literary and philosophical tradition of anti-realism, than falling through a hole in the world? As often happens in Cyberpunk, one moment you’re cruising through Night City, the next you’re falling through a white void peering up at the flimsy undersides of streets and buildings, floating textures arrayed — as in William Gibson’s description of cyberspace itself — like a “transparent 3-D chessboard extending to infinity.” Such violations of a game’s projected reality, Sam Barsanti has written, are akin to “going backstage at a Chuck E. Cheese, but instead of seeing empty mouse costumes and machinery, you’ll find vast wastelands of darkness, mysterious black cubes that serve some unknown function, and creepy close-up eyeballs.” The texture of Barsanti’s analogy — cosmic horror crossed with modernist minimalism — underscores the easy assimilability of such disturbances to quite conventional standards of good art.
Despite this, however, the critical reception of Cyberpunk’s reality-breaking glitches (I’ll leave aside the genuinely game-breaking ones for now) has been uniformly negative. In the gaming world, glitches are flaws, plain and simple. Certainly, they can be celebrated for their comedic value or exploited for gameplay advantages, and there also exists a thriving field of “glitch art,” including one artist who has used Cyberpunk to produce images — some quite beautiful — that further highlight glitches’ essentially modernist or postmodernist visual potential. But I have yet to encounter anyone who has seriously argued — as critics have often done about nearly every other kind of surface deviation in art, from continuity errors in films to spelling mistakes in poems — that a glitch in Cyberpunk genuinely improves the game artistically. [1] Of course, one could say that this merely exposes the mimetic naïveté of games as a medium, the all-consuming pursuit of realism — better physics, better character models, better light — that dooms them to a kind of artistic immaturity. But I’m not so sure. Speaking now as a literary critic myself, I have a hard time imagining what a positive interpretation of a glitch would even look like. It’s as if the glitch, for all its surreal and defamiliarizing power, were unusually resistant to being made meaningful in a traditional sense, unusually resistant to being conceived of as anything other than a simple fault of code.
In this it represents a striking anomaly. Since antiquity, interpreters of art have sought to read apparent faults of craft as secret sources of meaning and value. The phrase “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature” may be a critical cliché today — one often parodied as the very essence of galaxy-brain thinking — but it also embodies a fundamental trope of criticism. As Theodor Adorno writes in Aesthetic Theory, there is “no single mistake” in a work of art that “the true consciousness of the process would not be able to legitimate as correct.” [2] There is, in other words, nothing paradoxical about transforming a seeming artistic flaw into a hidden moment of value or truth: it’s surprising, in fact, how many interpretations, both ancient and modern, could be reduced to this formula. In the first century AD, the author known as Longinus wrote the following about a grammatical “glitch” in the Iliad:
[Homer] forces and compels into unnatural union prepositions which are not easily joined together when he says “from under death.” He has tortured his line into conformity with the impending disaster, and by the compactness of his language he brilliantly represents the calamity and almost stamps upon the words the very shape of the peril. [3]
Homer’s ungrammatical use of “from under,” in other words, is a feature rather than a bug, one that captures the calamity (an assault by Hector, here compared to a destructive wave) that the characters in the story are experiencing. And yet, although this interpretive formula would seem to find its most literal application in a buggy work like Cyberpunk, the game’s hallucinatory glitches seem to strike critics mute. Where is the Longinus of Cyberpunk 2077?
Let me say right away that I don’t think this critical silence can be entirely explained by some innate artistic deficiency in Cyberpunk that makes it unworthy of this kind of analysis. After all, the surface “badness” of certain artworks — the involuted and at times near-incoherent prose of a text like Herman Melville’s Pierre, for example — has rarely hindered critics from making meaning out of the weird stylistic deviations found therein. [4] Nor do I think that glitches’ resistance to critical redemption stems from a failure of imagination on the part of game critics themselves, many of whom are well versed in academic modes of interpretation. Rather, this resistance seems at least partly to do with a quality innate to the glitch as an artistic phenomenon. Grasping this quality, however, requires a closer look at Longinus’s interpretive method.
Like many critical redemptions, Longinus’s reading hinges on a particular relation between the form or surface of the work — here, language — and its narrative content: he argues that Homer’s bad grammar manifests in the very structure of the words the disaster happening in the story. What first seems like a negative formal feature, even a possible mistake, thus turns out to be a positive, but only because the content is already negative. Now, this interpretive formula, negative form as the representation of negative content, is an old standard of criticism throughout the ages, but it notably attained a special prominence with the advent of modernism, which both enshrined formal deviance as an aesthetic value and often did so on the grounds that such deviance was actually more truthful to the complexities of lived experience. The modernist version of this argument — able to recuperate deviations far more severe than Homer’s slightly loose grammar — has proven especially influential in recent academic criticism. Today critics of many theoretical stripes continue to seize on disturbing breakdowns of form — moments of distortion, incoherence, or fragmentation — while redeeming them as brilliant representations of some deeper negative content. Indeed, we have arrived at a strange situation in which to call such a breakdown a simple failure, that is, to treat it as not subtly representational, would be a kind of interpretive scandal.
Of course, the relative historical novelty of video game criticism makes this style of interpretation rarer in games than in other art forms, but nothing prevents it in the abstract. For proof, consider a recent reading of a weird moment in From Software’s Dark Souls II. Fans of this game have often puzzled over a strange violation of spatial coherence within its 3D fantasy world: upon reaching the top of a giant windmill in a certain level, one then rides an elevator up — already a nonsensical action — before emerging, inexplicably, into the caldera of a volcano. This jarring transition has been explained as the product of a troubled development that saw the designers forced to reshuffle locations in the game’s world map. But in a 2019 episode of Waypoint Radio, Austin Walker — one of the best close readers of video games working today — offers a more ingenious interpretation: “It is not a mistake,” he argues to his cohosts, “they didn’t fuck up.” Rather, the spatial distortion represents the existential confusion that results when “an empire” — Dark Souls II’s fallen kingdom of Drangleic — “loses touch with the people within it.” It is “a decision about the surreality of imperial spaces.” [5]
Walker says all this in an appealingly off-the-cuff way — he’s just shooting the shit on a podcast — but his reading is still instructive in its elegant repurposing of the Longinian method. Walker’s interpretive framework is of course more modern, combining modernist aesthetics (“surreality”) with a version of postcolonial or Marxist theory (whereby a certain political structure makes life incoherent), but it’s still built upon the basic formula whereby artistic form breaks because the experience being represented is itself painful or broken. Indeed, the ease with which Walker combines these interpretive frameworks reveals the fundamental continuity, often obscured, between the Longinian formula and more recent critical trends.
Yet Walker’s reading also helps show why this formula has generally failed to find traction with glitches in particular. For the spatial distortion in Dark Souls II is categorically different from a glitch in that it represents the game working as intended. Like a chapter break in a novel, it is a consciously implemented aspect of the game’s architecture: there’s simply no way a designer could have missed it. It thus has a certain baseline of intentionality. Whether or not one agrees that the spatial rupture is “about” imperial existence, it clearly represents “a decision.” Of course, I’m not sure that Walker really believes the developers deliberately incorporated this bit of postcolonial theory into their map of Drangleic, but in the world of academic criticism such points are usually moot. Intentions, as Freud taught us, need not be conscious — an idea that has long enabled critics to imbue subtle deviations with artistic necessity while maintaining plausible deniability about what the artist actually meant. [6] I’d argue, in fact, that Walker’s refreshingly straightforward claim that the distortion represents a “decision” simply lays bare an assumption shared by many modern interpretive methods. Whether located in the artist, the artist’s unconscious, or a kind of collective “political” unconscious, intention still grounds the dominant ways of turning bugs into features.
Intention, however, is precisely what glitches lack. For a glitch is by definition unintended: as an accidental fault of code, it represents not an enigma about intention — like the Dark Souls II distortion — but a negation of it. [7] Likely deriving from German and Yiddish words meaning “to slide” or “to slip,” the word glitch was first popularized in the American space program of the 1950s and ’60s, where it denoted a mysterious technical malfunction, “something [that’s] gone wrong and you can’t figure out what it is.” [8] Writing about game glitches in particular, Alex Pieschel also highlights the glitch’s inherent mystery: the term suggests something “mysterious and unknowable,” an agentless disruption akin to “divine visitation or natural disaster.” [9] Yet it’s crucial to note that the glitch’s mystery is nothing like the interpretive mystery of Dark Souls II’s surreal elevator ride — an enigmatic choice whose basic intentionality is never in doubt. Rather, the glitch’s unknowability troubles the author or custodian of the system first and foremost, precisely because the malfunction can’t be traced to an individual’s will but instead arises accidentally from unforeseen interactions within the system. As an artistic phenomenon, glitches relate to intention only indirectly: they may be accepted by a work’s creators after the fact (often, in the games industry, because they’re too time-consuming to fix), [10] but in the moment of creative production they can only arise as the side effect of an intention, and an undesired one at that. Granted, other art forms have the same capacity for unintended effects — who’s to say that continuity error or grammatical violation wasn’t completely accidental? — but the glitch names this accidentalness and makes it essential.
As such, the term glitch is fundamentally distinct from more neutral categories of formal deviance in art — distortion, incoherence, formlessness — in that it has a concept of authorial failure built into it. Whereas identifying a lapse of spatial consistency in a novel, for instance, leaves undecided whether it represents an authorial slip-up or a subversive experiment, to call something a glitch is already to call it a failure to some degree, since it is explicitly to state that the game is not working as intended. This leaves little room for a redemptive critic to maneuver. One can still claim that a glitch improves a work, but only by explicitly overruling the work’s actual intentions in one’s evaluation, since otherwise you’d have a contradiction in terms. The moment you claim that a glitch has some intentionality behind it, even an unconscious intention (such as a secret self-subverting artistic impulse, or a repressed awareness of something deeply fucked up about one’s collective historical experience, à la Marxist interpretation), then the glitch is no longer, strictly speaking, a glitch. It becomes something made, and glitches, as a category of accident, can’t be made — they can only happen. [11]
Glitches thus throw a wrench into criticism’s customary ways of interpreting negative form. Even as they produce reality-warping effects that dazzle and intrigue a certain critical sensibility, they also mark out a conceptual limit for that sensibility, a pure accidentalness that even the most intention-agnostic criticism still finds uncomfortable. As a result, they’re assimilable to the Longinian method only as an interpretive option rather than an end, as a threat of pure accident against which some deeper intentionality must always be conceivable. A glitch, in other words, may be interesting from this perspective only when its very status as a glitch is uncertain. (In another gaming podcast, Jason Schreier has gleefully praised a potential glitch in Red Dead Redemption 2 — an NPC giving a speech to nobody — for its ability to represent that character’s madness: “I wasn’t sure if it was a bug […] or if he was just fucking crazy, and I love that I wasn’t sure about it and that the game just did this weird thing.”) [12] Of course, this is essentially to say that glitches are only interesting when they produce the enigma of negative form, the ambiguity between bug and feature, that I earlier suggested lies at the heart of criticism. Indeed, for those who define glitches as literally a species of bug (opinions differ on this distinction), it’s almost a tautology: if the bug/feature schema depends on the bug not being a bug, then naturally a glitch can’t fit into this schema while remaining a glitch. But the reasons for the glitch’s uninterpretability go well beyond the unique tensions it places on this specific verbal formula, which after all is usually just a metaphor. Rather, glitches resist recuperation because they block the normal ways of making negative form positive, because their anti-intentionality forces critics to confront a meaninglessness in deviation to which the act of interpretation is fundamentally hostile. They are a kind of interpretive death. [13]
That isn’t to say, however, that glitches have nothing to teach us. But their lesson concerns a fact of art that academic criticism, obsessed with turning bugs into features, has grown increasingly reluctant to acknowledge: the reality of failure.
Cyberpunk 2077’s glitches wear this failure on their sleeve. Rather than posing a pleasurable mystery of negative form, like Homer’s bad grammar or Dark Souls II’s spacetime-warping elevator, they instead attest, baldly and often hilariously, to the simulation’s anarchic disregard for the creators’ will. This baldness persists, moreover, despite the fact that glitches actually play a large role in the game’s fiction. Cyberpunk imagines a future in which most people sport cybernetic eyes that can be “hacked,” thus theoretically allowing one to attribute the game’s surreal sights to the malicious intrusions of so many netrunners. Further, after a certain point in the story the protagonist’s vision periodically glitches out during gameplay — a symptom of the rogue chip that’s taking over your brain. Cyberpunk is a game about perceptual distortions. Yet it’s usually clear when those distortions are intentional and when they’re not, and so far the thematic motivation of the latter variety remains strictly the stuff of critical parody.
The baldness of Cyberpunk’s glitches, however, is ultimately what makes them instructive. For they’re actually bald in two distinct ways: in their transparently unintended nature, certainly, but also in their surreal puncturing of reality itself. Consider again the example of falling through a hole in the world. Earlier I emphasized the resemblance between this experience and other more traditionally valorized breakdowns of realism in experimental modern works. Yet one could also argue that such breakdowns have never been so goofily literal. When distortions of space and time happen in a novel or a film, it often takes some close reading to reveal the “glitch,” or at the very least some dogged reconstructing of timelines or comparing of shots. Indeed, this is another reason why such effects have often been the finest grist for the critical mill: they necessitate microscopic analysis. But Cyberpunk’s distortions are rarely so subtle. Here one doesn’t suffer the haunting impression that there’s something warped or broken in reality itself, the creeping sense that the rules governing normative physical existence no longer apply. Instead, one literally glitches into the void: game over.
Cyberpunk thus offers to modern critics the surreal or anti-real effects they often fetishize with an explicitness that borders on caricature. At the same time, it also caricatures (though without laughing) one of critics’ favored ways of redeeming those effects: the Marxist method that would view them as formal representations of some negative historical experience. Cyberpunk’s well-publicized use of “crunch” during development — a brutal industry practice in which management pressures developers into working extreme hours for months at time — obviates this interpretive route. For what’s the point of reading formal deviations as subtle, implicit representations of “how capitalism feels” (to use academic criticism’s somewhat modish expression), when Cyberpunk’s glitches are arguably already the scars of an exploitative labor practice, the product of exhausted coders forced to release the game before it was ready? In this case, one doesn’t need Longinus’s subtle method — let alone an Adorno’s — to reveal a necessary link between deviant form and damaged life.
But this explicitness is also Cyberpunk’s lesson. For in the face of criticism’s tendency to read the anti-real moment, the moment of negative form, as an emblem of value and meaning, Cyberpunk reminds us that such moments are often nothing more than simple failures of craft, and that such failures are a universal risk, if not an inherent fact, of any ambitious work. Momentary breakdowns of realism may be critically fashionable, but creating a rich, immersive, convincing fictional reality is also extremely hard, a path fraught with accidents and mishaps that are neither desired nor intended. Granted, this is a reminder that video game critics — who immediately grasped Cyberpunk’s glitches for what they are — don’t seem to require, but it’s one that academic critics interpreting other art forms might do well to heed. The lack of critical redemption I began by noting is therefore less a bug than a feature of games criticism, a frank acknowledgment of the disappointment, even the pain, of artistic failure that academic criticism, for all its investment in negative experiences, has often repressed. Games like Cyberpunk 2077 show how artworks can fail even when they’re also about a kind of failure that mirrors their own. When interpreting any artwork, one would thus do well — as Cyberpunk’s Viktor Vector cautions us early on — to expect the occasional glitch.
Nathan Wainstein studies modernist narrative and the history of literary interpretation. His current project examines the status of artistic failure in formalist literary criticism.
[1] For a meditation on the critical redemption of continuity errors in film, see D. A Miller’s Hidden Hitchcock (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016). On literary scholars’ insistence on reading mistakes in poems as artistically valuable, see Erica McAlpine’s The Poet’s Mistake (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020). On critics’ analogous approach to the larger category of “failure” in the novel, see Gavin Jones’s Failure and the American Writer: A Literary History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Each of these works highlights an aspect of what I believe to be a broader critical impulse: an overdetermined attraction to moments that look like mistakes combined with a resistance to treating them as such. I examine and historicize this interpretive trend in my dissertation, “Unformed Art: Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel” (Stanford, 2020).
[2] Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 189.
[3] Longinus, On Great Writing (On the Sublime), trans. G. M. A. Grube (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991), 19.
[4] On critical redemptions of Pierre, see Jones’s chapter on Melville’s novel in Failure and the American Writer, 35–59; especially 36–37.
[5] Austin Walker, Ricardo Contreras, Patrick Klepek, and Rob Zacny, “Our Favorite Dark Souls of the Decade,” Waypoint Radio, podcast audio, December 27, 2019 (19:25–20:38).
[6] McAlpine gives a rich account of how the Freudian idea of unconscious intention has influenced literary critics’ approach to mistakes in The Poet’s Mistake. See especially 20–21.
[7] I would like to thank Matthew Garrett for making this point especially clear to me.
[8] This definition of the then-new term was offered by John Daily on a July 4, 1965, episode of the TV game show What’s My Line? (3:50–4:10).
[9] Pieschel’s essay also highlights (though without naming it as such) the specifically modernist resonance of the glitch as an aesthetic phenomenon. Constructing a prehistory of what he calls the “glitch aesthetic,” Pieschel starts at “the turn of the twentieth century, when expressionism began to establish itself as both a reaction against realistic representation and ongoing experiment in form,” before also citing Cubism, futurism, and Dada as movements that similarly establish the glitch’s “aesthetic foundation of instability and fragmentation.”
[10] See Jason Schreier, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made (New York: HarperCollins, 2017), 58.
[11] For more on this distinction between making and happening, see McAlpine, The Poet's Mistake, 17–18.
[12] Jason Schreier and Kirk Hamilton, “Fallout 76, Red Dead 2 Spoilercast,” Kotaku Splitscreen, podcast audio, November 21, 2018 (54:48–55:11).
[13] See Miller, Hidden Hitchcock, 85–89. Though Miller is writing about a different kind of glitch — a mechanical accident in post-production that mars a shot in Hitchcock’s Rope — the analogy he draws between this glitch’s pure contingency and the close reader's figurative death seems equally relevant to the interpretation of video game glitches more broadly.
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Pixie Ninja – Ultrasound (Gold LP) (NOW IN STOCK)
This is an Apollon Records release.
This is the re-release of this popular 2017 debut album from Norwegian avant-garde proggers Pixie Ninja - now with blue artwork. This is a Limited Edition of just 250 copies on gold vinyl.
Ultrasound is the result of two individuals with a huge appetite for Scandinavian progressive music. Jostein Haugen and Marius Leirånes began to work on the album in late May 2015. One year later, they began the recording. During the process the band reached out to Mattias Olsson (Necromonkey, ex-Änglagård) and he joined mainly as their producer. He was also in charge of drums, overdubs, and mixing. Johan Hals Jørgensen (organist) was later recruited as the band’s new keyboard maestro. Jostein Haugen and Marius Leirånes go way back and have played together in various projects since early 2008. The album was mastered in the U.S by Christopher Cline.
Ultrasound is a fully instrumental album, consisting of soaring leads and cinematic string sections. The album is an emotionally powerful set of atmospheric electronica and progressive rock that blends the past, the present, and the future.
Jostein Haugen and Marius Leirånes play the guitars/bass and keyboard sections alongside glockenspiels and various other instruments. Mattias Olsson provides uplifting and experimental drum beats throughout the album, alongside the Mellotron M400 (and more). It also features Ketil Vestrum Einarsen (Weserbergeland, White Willow, Wobbler, Motorpsycho) adding a layer of majestic flute on one of the tracks.
Marius Leirånes
Jostein Haugen
Mattias Olsson
Johan Hals Jørgensen
Auditory Hallucinations
Elusive the Wind Vane
Une Promenade
Polysomnographic
Personal Improvement Cult
Format: Gold Vinyl
Artist: Pixie Ninja
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London Restaurant Chains
Oh My God, They Killed Benny!
Chain restaurant group Frankie and Benny’s, loosely based on the idea of an Italian-American red sauce joint, is “modernising” by cutting its name in half
by Adam Coghlan@AdamCoghlan Oct 20, 2021, 4:46pm BST
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The Italian-American restaurant chain based in the U.K. formerly known as Frankie and Benny’s has rebranded itself as Frankie’s, parting company with Benny. Big Hospitality reports that the name change is part of a wider “modernisation.”
It comes a year and a half after Frankie (and Benny’s) owner, the Restaurant Group (TRG) did some Covid-consolidating, closing over 100 restaurants and cutting close to 3,000 jobs, including the unspecified role of Benny. In an email seen by the BBC last June, TRG told senior staff that the pandemic had gutted its leisure division: “Many sites are no longer viable to trade and will remain closed permanently [...] The Covid-19 crisis has significantly impacted our ability to trade profitably, so we’ve taken the tough decision to close these restaurants now.”
Now, those that survived will rise from the ashes, but without Benny.
The new look (which is a little less 80s red-green-and-white regional British industrial estate dining); a little cleaner will be unveiled at Frankie’s refurbished Basildon restaurant due to open at the end of October — the first of three major refurbishments planned for 2021, according to Big Hospitality.
The company says the growth in delivery and takeaway are main aims for the restaurant in the future.
“As part of our efforts to evolve the brand and deliver an excellent customer proposition, we are letting Frankie take centre stage and move the brand forward to a bright future,” Jonathan Knight, managing director at Frankie’s said. Knight didn’t say how. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.965476393699646, "wiki_prob": 0.965476393699646, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line79623"} |
Meet Mike Foltynewicz’s Wife Brittany Foltynewicz
October 9, 2018 October 8, 2018 by fabwag
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Brittany Foltynewicz
Meet Mrs. Brittany Foltynewicz; she is the gorgeous wife of MLB player Mike Foltynewicz, the talented pitcher for the Atlanta Braves from Sterling, Illinois. Prior to signing with Atlanta in 2015, Mike played for the Houston Astros. He also played high school baseball at Minooka High School.
After high school, Foltynewicz played to attend the University of Texas at Austin, but he changed his mind after the Astros drafted him in the first round (19th overall) in the 2010 MLB Draft.
He made his MLB debut on August 2, 2014, against the Toronto Blue Jays; The Astros traded him on January 15, 2015, along with Rio Ruiz, and Andrew Thurman in exchange for James Hoyt and Evan Gattis.
Having said that, let’s meet Mrs. Foltynewicz.
29-year-old Mrs. Foltynewicz was born Brittany Wortmann on February 1, 1989, in Illinois. She is one of the children born to Michelle and Ronald Wortmann; we believe Brittany has one beautiful younger sister named Alysse, 25. It looks like Mrs. Foltynewicz was once a bikini swimsuit competitor.
Brittany graduated in 2007 from Minooka Community High School in Illinois. She and Mike got married in 2017. They welcomed their adorable son Michael Jett on February 10, 2018.
Judging for this cute photos, Brittany, Mike and little Michael Jett are ready to welcome a new member to their family!!
More photos below.
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Freelance software developer platform Distributed raises £8 million
The platform matches software developers who want the flexibility of working freelance with larger enterprises seeking teams of engineers to work on specific projects
Megha Paul 01 July 2022
UK-based platform that gives companies access to a pool of freelance software developers, Distributed has secured £8 million in fresh funding. The follow-on round was led by Downing Ventures and Guinness Ventures and backed by Fuel Ventures and Capita.
The new cash will be used to drive the company’s international reach. The company had earlier raised £5 million in a Series A funding round in May 2021.
Founded in 2017, the platform matches software developers who want the flexibility of working freelance with larger enterprises seeking teams of engineers to work on specific projects. It uses a system called ‘elastic teams’, named so due to the flexible nature of the working arrangement.
The investment comes on the back of £30 million boost in February through a partnership with telecom giant BT, which gives BT full access to Distributed’s ‘elastic team’ of freelance developers to help support the telecom’s digital transformation goals.
Distributed CEO Callum Adamson said: “The Downing team offers a lot more than just funding and their expertise in the sector will provide a value-add that will really accelerate our service. With this new funding, we’ll be able to lean into our goal of internationalizing and developing our products and communities. “
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On Tour with The Literate Chef – Bermuda, Part I
In General Articles on May 20, 2012 at 8:16 PM
With travel, as with most things in life, planning is important, but be prepared to change your plans as circumstances warrant. Flexibility is essential and serendipity can be its reward.
The idea for a trip to Bermuda was conceived 15 months ago in a pub in lower Manhattan, when six friends were discussing their past travels and favorite vacation sites. Someone mentioned Bermuda and Bernadette stated that she had never been there. Colin, Cathie, Bob, Betty and I had each been there on more than one occasion, with Cathie having been there innumerable times.
Bernadette is probably the most organized person I know. In a moment of pure genius she suggested that if we were serious about this, each couple should kick in $200 per month to build a kitty to cover, lodging, meals, drinks, taxis, etc., and that she would volunteer as treasurer and open a bank account to hold the money. This seemed like a painless way to plan for a trip and also would signify our commitment to the idea.
The Bermuda veterans all agreed that the month of May would be the best time for a visit, and if we started contributing right then, we would have between $8,400 and $9,000 for our land costs. It was also agreed that each couple would handle their own flight arrangements.
Time inexorably moved forward, the checks were mailed, the kitty grew and in January of this year we begin to plan in detail…pick the dates, book the flights and focus in on where to stay and what to do. Cathie, the most-seasoned Bermuda traveler, volunteered to research where to stay and where to eat, while Betty volunteered to research the pubs.
Day One arrived. Betty and my part of the trip started out from Boston’s Logan airport in the middle of a tremendous rain storm. Weather reports for Bermuda ranged from sunny, to cloudy, to rain. Such is life! But when we arrived on the island, a mere two hours later, the sun was shining and reflecting off of the ubiquitous white roofs, the ocean was cerulean reflecting the sky and a light breeze was blowing billowing white clouds overhead. It was picture perfect! Bob and Cathie, having arrived from New York 30 minutes earlier, greeted us as if they were native Bermudians and the adventure began.
Cathie’s hotel selection was outstanding; The Royal Palms exceeded our expectations. The website pictures had not lied, and the staff members were friendly, courteous and would prove to be most helpful, as weather-related circumstances would dictate a change in plans on more than one occasion.
At The Royal Palms, Hamilton Bermuda
While awaiting the arrival of Bernadette and Colin, who were expected a few hours later, we decided on lunch at Ascots, a fine restaurant attached to the hotel. Dani, our charming hostess, brought us a round of Dark & Stormys to kick off the alcohol fueling for the day.
Being surrounded by hundreds of miles of the Atlantic, fish was a natural choice and the Bermuda Fish Chowder, laced with Gosling’s Bermuda Black Rum and Outerbridge’s Sherry Peppers Sauce did not disappoint. Neither did the Grilled Spicy Snapper sandwich, nor the rum raisin ice cream, nor the second round of Dark & Stormys.
That evening, after Colin and Bernadette had arrived, it was time to begin spending our cache. Our esteemed treasurer was equipped with credit cards and cash, so off we went to our first pub, The Robin Hood. Next, looking forward to some fine English fare we set off for the Hog Penny. Once upon a time in New York City, English pubs and their fare were quite common, my first introduction to which was in the late 60’s at The Jolly Sixpence, which today, unfortunately, is but a happy memory.
Liquid refreshments at the Hog Penny Pub consisted of several pints of Boddington’s (Watney’s, which used to be a standby there 40 years ago, was nowhere in sight). My victual of choice was Steak & Kidney Pie, a difficult decision, as my inner Brit also called out for the Bangers & Mash and the Fish & Chips. The Steak & Kidney Pie was delicious and the others, which were ordered by members of our group, also received rave reviews.
The service was outstanding as well, and our waiter, Morgan, was most helpful in providing me with a quick & easy recipe for Yorkshire Pudding, as I was trying to copy it down from the menu. But that will have to wait for a winter Sunday afternoon, when cooking a Prime Rib. Nightcaps, accompanied by live music, were enjoyed at Flanagan’s before we headed back to the hotel and crashed for the night. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6765653491020203, "wiki_prob": 0.32343465089797974, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line19385"} |
Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood
the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken
when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed
in foster care. The current ombudsman, Christine Alberi, does not.
● In a classic example of trying to make policy-by-horror-story, her latest report uses a tiny, non-random sample of cases she chose herself to justify sweeping conclusions that all boil down to: Take away more kids and don’t send them back! That is making all Maine children less safe.
● She is wrong about domestic violence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal.
● At a time when the entire child welfare field finally is coming to grips with issues of poverty and race, she puts out a report that mentions neither. In the entire report the word "poverty" does not appear even once.
● For the sake of Maine's most vulnerable children, any legislation to give her more power and staff should also include a requirement that she use objective evaluators and base policy recommendations only on a statistically valid random sample of cases. The office also needs a more representative Board of Directors.
● But ultimately, we all need to be the ombudsman. In Maine and elsewhere, the ombudsman’s power is fed by secrecy. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.
How could a state like Maine, a state that once almost got child welfare right, keep careening full-speed backwards. How is it that no one has stopped a foster-care panic that has undone reforms that once were a national model; a panic that has made all of the state’s children less safe?
There are many reasons, and I have discussed them on this blog and elsewhere before. But one reason is the state’s child welfare “ombudsman,” Christine Alberi. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic. Judging from Alberi’s latest report, she has never, ever encountered a case in which she believes a child was wrongfully taken. At a time when almost everyone else in the field is discussing the confusion of poverty with neglect, Alberi has managed to issue a 20-page report that never once even uses the word poverty. Also missing: The fact that even in an overwhelmingly white state, there is evidence of racial bias in Maine child welfare.
Unfortunately, Alberi’s approach is not unusual. As in many states, legislators in Maine effectively delegated responsibility to hold the child welfare system accountable to one person – an “ombudsman” or “child advocate.”
Back in 2007, on this blog, I wrote about the typical behavior of people filling such posts: Investigate horror stories and jump to conclusions based on those horror stories that boil down to: Take away more kids.
Though ombudsmen generally have no formal powers aside from the ability to investigate and report their findings, their influence is enormous. That’s because in systems more secret than the CIA, they get to see everything – or at least a lot more than everyone else outside the child welfare agency sees. (It doesn’t actually have to be that way, as I’ll explain below.) So almost the entire view of the system seen by journalists and lawmakers is whatever the ombudsman wants them to see – and very little more. It’s like trying to figure out who and what is in a large room by looking through a pinhole.
In report after report Alberi zeros-in on what she views as poor decision-making at two key stages of the process: The decision to remove children from the home and the decision to return them home. But by poor decision-making, she never seems to mean that it was a poor decision to take away a child.
The ombudsman’s report defies common sense
Common sense tells us there will, in fact, be a lot of poor decision-making at these points. But common sense also tells us that, for reasons noted above, the bad decisions will go in all directions. It is ludicrous to think that, in a system filled with underprepared overloaded workers rushing from case to case all of the errors would go in only one direction.
Yet any reader of Alberi’s latest report who took it at face value would have to conclude just that. Because, as Alberi tells it, the only mistakes made by Maine child welfare caseworkers are to leave children in dangerous homes and return them there.
She is dangerously wrong.
The errors go in all directions, and all of these errors harm children.
● Wrongful removal inflicts profound psychological trauma. Although DHHS caseworkers almost always mean well - as does Alberi by the way – the trauma when a child is torn from everyone loving and familiar in Maine is just as severe as when it happens on the Mexican border.
● Wrongful removal places children at serious risk of abuse in foster care itself, where independent studies find rates of abuse far higher than agencies such as DHHS admit in official statistics.
● And all the time, money and effort wasted on false allegations, trivial cases and poverty cases is, in effect stolen from finding children in real danger. In short, the foster-care panic encouraged by Alberi’s whole approach actually makes more likely the very failings Alberi cites.
Alberi’s latest report draws her sweeping conclusions from a tiny sample of cases – the 84 her office chose to accept in 2021. But Maine caseworkers investigated nearly 12,000 cases in 2021. While it is reasonable to draw conclusions based on a sample, 84 is a far smaller number than, say, the typical “case reading” done to assess agency performance when such agencies are the subjects of class-action lawsuits.
Even worse, this is not a random sample. Rather it is those cases Alberi and her assistant personally deemed worthy of investigation – and the criteria for choosing a case can be startlingly subjective. They include, for example, “the demeanor and credibility of the caller.” Really? Suppose your child had just been torn from your arms and you were desperate for help. How would you be doing demeanor-wise?
Another criterion: “The degree of harm alleged to the child.” But an ombudsman who doesn’t even mention poverty is unlikely to consider a case in which a child was taken because of poverty – such as Logan Marr -- to be terribly harmful. Rather the focus will be on the much smaller percentage of cases that allege sexual abuse or serious physical abuse.
And so, based on this tiny, skewed sample, Alberi offers broad, sweeping conclusions and examples in which, in every single case, she concludes, the error was to leave a child in the home or return a child to the home. It should be clear that this is absurd on its face.
Alberi’s whole approach is so absurd it leads me to write a sentence I never thought would appear in this blog: In some respects, Todd Landry is right.
Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable. He had a horrible track record when he ran child welfare in Nebraska – under his leadership that state was worse than Maine, tearing apart families at one of the highest rates in America, and his callousness could be astounding.
But Alberi’s methodology is so absurd even Landry sees through it. In his office’s response to the Alberi, he writes:
Rather than a random sample, a case review begins with self-selected inquiries and is often complaint driven. …
A source of disagreement for a number of reports relates to the Ombudsman’s finding or recommendation that involves bringing children into State care or keeping them in care for a longer period of time. While OCFS recognizes the perception that children are safer when removed, the evidence overwhelmingly shows that removing a child from their home has the potential to inflict harm or trauma. In addition, there is little research to support the belief that, in general, children who enter state custody are safer than they would be if they had remained in the home with efforts undertaken to address safety concerns. There are numerous scholarly articles regarding the potential harm of removal.
As I said, on this Todd Landry is right. When you look at the typical cases OCFS and its counterparts across the country handle, not the tiny, self-selected sample used by Alberi, the research shows children typically fare better in their own homes, even when agencies don’t have much help to offer.
Alberi’s examples
All of this still gives Alberi a huge benefit of the doubt: It assumes that Alberi is right about those 84 cases. But often we have no way to know that. In summarizing 40 of the 42 cases (out of the 84) that Alberi says raised “substantial issues,” she offers only a short paragraph on each one. Sometimes that’s enough to make clear that in the specific case, Alberi is right – the child should not have been left in the home. (If one believes, as I do, that the errors go in all directions then of course there will be such cases.) Others are less clear. One summary, in its entirely states:
A parent had significant mental health issues and the inability to protect the children from domestic violence. Throughout the case, despite the fact that the parent was engaged in treatment, the treatment was not effective. Providers were not objective and recommendations in a psychological evaluation were not implemented. After a significant period in state custody, trial placement began and then it was discovered that the parent was still in a relationship with the perpetrator. Trial placement was not ended. In general, the parent’s level of treatment did not match the severity of the illness. The risk to the children remained high.
Note first that there is no allegation that the children themselves were abused. Rather they witnessed domestic violence. When children are taken for that reason the trauma for the child is actually worse than other forms of removal. That’s why taking children for that reason is illegal in New York City as a result of a class-action lawsuit. (NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) One need only read the outstanding investigative journalism from USA Today to see how much such removals hurt children – and discourage battered women from leaving their abusers and seeking help.
Thus, an objective ombudsman would have questioned why the children in this case were removed at all.
Now, let's go through this paragraph sentence-by-sentence.
Throughout the case, despite the fact that the parent was engaged in treatment, the treatment was not effective.
Alberi offers no evidence for this, but even if true, there is more than one approach to therapy – why not recommend trying another?
Providers were not objective and recommendations in a psychological evaluation were not implemented.
How do we know providers were not objective? Because they didn’t do what Alberi thinks they should have done? As for “psychological evaluations,” like so much else child welfare agencies and their subcontractors do, they can be cookie-cutter and unreliable. Maybe in this case the providers were right and whoever did the “psych eval” was wrong. Maybe it’s Alberi who is “not objective.” We don’t know, and nothing in Alberi’s single paragraph tells us.
After a significant period in state custody,
That should have been the red flag here – why were the children taken, apparently for witnessing domestic violence, when that is so enormously harmful to children?
trial placement began and then it was discovered that the parent was still in a relationship with the perpetrator.
This shows only Alberi’s lack of understanding of the dynamics of domestic violence. There are all sorts of reasons this might happen – including, by the way, poverty. Why didn’t authorities act to remove the abuser by arresting him and jailing him?
Trial placement was not ended. In general, the parent’s level of treatment did not match the severity of the illness. The risk to the children remained high.
Risk of what? Presumably witnessing domestic violence again. That is a serious and real problem. But removing children for that reason can be even worse. One expert calls taking away children under these circumstances “tantamount to pouring salt into an open wound.” But Alberi seems to want OCFS to adopt a policy that boils down to: Please pass the salt.
It is possible that there is a reasonable explanation for all of this, and a detailed look at the case file and interviews with all involved would reveal that yes, in this case there was no other option but removal. But we don’t know that based on Alberi’s one-paragraph summary. And it would be a huge mistake for media and lawmakers to simply take Alberi’s word for it.
A bizarre call to institutionalize more children
Alberi also does not seem to be up on the research about institutionalizing children in so-called residential treatment centers. So I’ll summarize it. It doesn’t work. Period. Full stop.
There is nothing that residential treatment does that can’t be done better using Wraparond programs that bring whatever help a child needs directly into his own home or, when genuinely necessary, a foster home.
One of Maine’s biggest successes was its significant reduction in the use of this worst possible option. Yet Alberi apparently wants to reverse course. At one point she writes:
There are not enough therapeutic foster homes, not enough high-quality residential treatment facilities, and a general lack of mental health resources for both young and old. [Emphasis added.]
But “high-quality residential treatment” is an oxymoron – it doesn’t exist. Get the children who don’t need to be in foster care back into their own homes, emphasize wraparound services and there will be plenty of good, safe, therapeutic foster homes for the children who really need them. Maine already has proven it.
The differential response obsession
Alberi seems oddly obsessed with a program that barely exists in Maine and soon won’t exist at all. Differential response, known in Maine as “alternative response” in Maine is one of the most-studied approaches in child welfare, it involves diverting low-risk cases to agencies that offer voluntary help. At any time if that agency thinks the case is too serious they can send it back to caseworkers for a full-scale investigation. More than two-dozen studies have found that this approach safely reduced foster care. But in state after state, it’s become a convenient scapegoat after high profile fatalities. But generally, once the system caves in and gets rid of differential response the bashing of the program stops.
But even though OCFS is phasing out the program; indeed it barely exists, Alberi is still bashing it.
Here again, I’m sure there are indeed high-risk cases that have been wrongly diverted to differential response. But at noted study after study shows this is far from the norm and that differential response reduces the trauma of needless foster care with no compromise of safety.
The fact that Alberi continues to beat this nearly dead horse is still another indication of how profoundly she seems to believe that child welfare agencies must be police forces, constantly harassing and surveilling families and taking away their children.
Wrong about truancy
At one point, Alberi writes that “truancy of children as a sign of risk is underestimated.” That’s because truancy generally isn’t a sign of risk. Oh, I’m sure Alberi has horror stories, but she seems unaware of the comprehensive landmark study by the highly-respected Vera Institute of Justice – a study that included yes, a representative random sample of cases.
That study found that having agencies like OCFS pursue “educational neglect” allegations – i.e. truancy – does far more harm than good. Truancy is not, in fact a “gateway allegation” – some kind of sign of more serious evil afoot. Indeed, the Vera report recommended that if truancy must be part of a child protective agency’s portfolio it should be handled through – differential response.
Wrong about unsubstantiated reports
At one point Alberi writes:
When [multiple encounters with OCFS] result in unsubstantiated assessments or [alternative response] referrals, the lack of child abuse and neglect findings is mistakenly thought to be evidence of safety. … It is not well understood that the existence of many reports and assessments alone elevates the risk to children.
No, what is not understood by Alberi is that false reports almost always are just that – false. They are so flimsy they don’t even rise to the minimal level required for an OCFS caseworker to check the “substantiated” box on the form. By Alberi’s logic there is no such thing as a false report: Call it in often enough, harass a family with enough false allegations and, by the Alberi standard, you must assume the child is at high risk.
Many reports do not elevate the risk to the children (except to the extent that they may increase stress on the family). Rather, they are a form of self-fulfilling prophecy. Precisely because Alberi and so many others encourage workers to believe that “where there’s smoke there’s fire” workers become predisposed to check the “substantiated” box. Multiple unfounded reports elevate not the risk of child abuse but the risk of spurious conclusions and system involvement.
In child welfare, where there’s smoke there’s usually just smoke. And nobody can see clearly through smoke.
But what about that whole section – sorry, one paragraph – about prevention?
“But you don’t understand,” I can imagine Alberi saying, “I’m for prevention.” Sure. Have you ever known anyone to say they’re against prevention? And, after all, Alberi devoted one entire paragraph of her report to saying prevention is a good thing. She even concludes the one paragraph with: “The fact that services and resources for families are minimally discussed in this report should not discount their importance.”
But, of course, that’s precisely what devoting one token paragraph to some general concept of prevention in a 20-page report does. All the more so in a report that doesn’t mention poverty and portrays a system that only errs by keeping families together.
Even the lip service paid to prevention doesn’t say what kind of prevention she has in mind. But given that Alberi can’t even bring herself to mention poverty it’s likely she has in mind only the kind of prevention that makes the helpers feel good – lots of “counseling” and “parent education,” instead of what’s needed most: Concrete help to deal with problems like housing, childcare, and other issues of poverty.
It doesn’t look like OCFS gets this either. Their response emphasizes the vastly overhyped federal Families First Act – which allows federal funding for only a few, very limited types of prevention – mostly of the counseling and parent education variety.
What to do instead
Unfortunately, Alberi is treated with enormous deference by some lawmakers and media. So there has been one proposal after another to give her office even more power. There are better options:
● Ideally, everyone should be the ombudsman – and yes, that can be done. Everyone should be able to see how the state child welfare system really works in every case. For starters, Maine could open court hearings in child welfare cases. More than 40% of America’s foster children live in states where these hearings are open and none of the fears offered by opponents – who also are the people who don’t want us to see what really goes on -- has come to pass. In addition, there should be a strong rebuttable presumption that most records are open. There is a detailed discussion of how this would work, without compromising children’s privacy in NCCPR’s Due Process Agenda.
As soon as courtroom doors open and legislators, journalists and citizens can sit in on the day-to-day process, they will see for themselves what the typical cases are like. They will see how often the crucial issue is poverty and how often that poverty is confused with neglect. They also will see the kind of mistakes Alberi highlights. But once we see that the errors go in all directions and those errors are related – wrongful removal overloads systems so workers have less time to find children in real danger – it changes completely our understanding of how to fix it.
It is within the Legislature’s power to do this. Of all the comments I’ve heard or read concerning Maine child welfare in more than 20 years, perhaps the weirdest was this from a Maine State Senator:
“By law, the department can’t share a lot of information, so our ability to provide oversight is limited.” [Emphasis added.]
By law, you say? Hmmmm. And what is it that legislators enact, repeal and amend?
Now, in fairness, it’s possible that this lawmaker was referring to a federal law, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. Perhaps DHHS told him CAPTA made it impossible for the agency to share information.
But there are two problems with that:
-- CAPTA has lots of wiggle room. A state that passed a law allowing legislators themselves to see records, for example, should have no problem with CAPTA. And there is no question that CAPTA allows open courts.
-- The penalty for ignoring CAPTA is almost nil – the forfeiture of a very small amount of federal funding – so small that the costs of complying with CAPTA may be greater than the costs of ignoring it.
● Failing that, at least reform the ombudsman’s office. As I said, most ombudsmen operate like Alberi. But there are exceptions. Maine’s first ombudsman, Dean Crocker, was one. He understood that the errors go in all directions and he supported the reforms that helped make Maine, briefly, a child welfare leader. He even wrote a guest post for this blog. Another was Kevin Ryan, who ran New Jersey’s Office of Child Advocate. Even when dealing with horror stories, Ryan’s office turned out careful, nuanced reports. But he also realized that just focusing on the horror stories was inherently distorting.
So he decided to review a random sample of cases. And to ensure objectivity he recruited reviewers from two groups, one with a mentality much like Alberi’s, the other more attuned to issues of poverty. They then had to reach consensus: That consensus – yes, the system errs, in all directions.
The Maine Legislature should require that the Maine ombudsman’s office take the same approach – examine a random sample of cases each year and examine enough of them to be representative. A panel of experts, diverse not only in race and class but in viewpoints, should be named to review the cases and issue reports.
The ombudsman should be barred from drawing systemic conclusions based on self-selected individual cases.
-- The Board of Directors for the ombudsman’s office should be reconstituted to include representatives from all of the groups that have a stake in keeping Maine’s children safe: The board should include one of the sate’s leading family defense attorneys, one its leading child abuse prosecutors, a parent who lost children to the system, a foster parent, a grandparent or other relative providing kinship foster care, a former OCFS caseworker, the director of a domestic violence shelter, leaders of civil rights organizations for Black, Latinx and Native American communities in Maine, at least one leader of an anti-poverty organization, and at least two current or former foster youth.
-- Every member of the Board and every staff member should be required upon appointment/hiring to watch the PBS Frontline documentary “The Taking of Logan Marr” and to read the letter Logan’s mother Christy sent to the foster mother who ultimately would kill Logan.
A retreat from reform is tragic anywhere, but especially in Maine since, as I noted at the outset, Maine is a state that almost got child welfare right.
In 2001, After five-year-old Logan Marr was taken from her mother when the mother’s poverty was confused with neglect only to be killed by a foster mother who also had been a supervisor for OCFS, lawmakers and media refused to accept the usual pat answers about licensing, training, etc. They zeroed-in on the appallingly high numbers of children the state routinely took away.
A new governor, John Baldacci, brought in new leadership that rebuilt the system to emphasize safe, proven approaches to keeping families together. Foster care numbers declined significantly. When children had to be taken, as noted earlier, far fewer were institutionalized and far more were placed with relatives. The reforms became a national model.
But another new governor, Paul LePage, slashed the agency budget and demanded a return to the take-the-child-and-run approach. He doubled down after two deaths of children known-to-the- system in rapid succession in 2018. That started the foster-care panic – the sharp sudden increase in the number of children torn from their families.
But the deaths didn’t stop. Of course they didn’t. A foster-care panic often is followed by more child abuse deaths because workers are so overloaded with false allegations, trivial cases and poverty cases that they don’t have time to investigate any case properly. So they make terrible errors – yes, in all directions.
Yet with another new governor in office, Janet Mills, and four more deaths in rapid succession in 2021, lawmakers and Maine’s child welfare establishment still didn’t learn. They doubled down again.
Partly that’s because the Mills administration chose Landry to run child welfare. Partly it’s because, between term limits for lawmakers and consolidation in the news media, a lot of institutional memory has been lost. Maine has largely forgotten the lessons from the death of Logan Marr and the time when, relatively speaking, Maine was a child welfare leader.
Nevertheless, it puzzled me that even in Maine, lawmakers could so easily be taken-in by an approach that had so demonstrably failed over and over. Now I understand.
Everyone is paying way too much attention to Christine Alberi.
And here’s the thing: Had Alberi and her office been around when Logan Marr first was taken, and had her mother, Christy, called looking for help, I’ll bet Alberi would have turned her down.
She probably wouldn’t have liked Christy’s demeanor.
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Painted Fire Hydrants
MatildaWolf-PGO Posts: 23 ✭✭✭
June 2020 in [Archive] Guideline Clarifications
Would painted fire hydrants fall under the "obstructs emergency services " category? I've always wondered and I've seen a few while reviewing lately. I don't want to review them wrong.
Apologies in advance if a similar question has been asked already. I tried to search the forum, but I keep getting a gateway timeout error.
NianticCasey-ING Posts: 538 admin
June 2020 Answer ✓
Thanks for the interesting discussion, you always bring me the tough ones. I have to say that I lean towards these being emergency services. I look at these as similar to the painted garage door of a fire station for example. It may not always be in use, but if there's the possibility that you would impair emergency services if it were in use, it's ineligible.
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5h4d3d51d35-PGO Posts: 15 ✭✭
I keep getting that if I search too.
Personally I'd okay it, it's unlikely that there would be a chance of blocking of emergency services as I'm guessing you'd be playing on the sidewalk?
Hang on for some more informed advice though, I'm pretty new here and we don't have fire hydrants.
AScarletSabre-PGO Posts: 747 ✭✭✭✭✭
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/comment/21322#Comment_21322
Plus, if the fire hydrant is being used you probably shouldn't be in the area anyway, because, you know, there's an obvious fire hazard nearby. I'd be okay with it too. I'm of the inclination that any players would have cleared off upon seeing a fire - well before the hydrant is actually needed by the fire brigade - but then there are a lot of silly people out there, I guess...
TheFarix-PGO Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭✭✭
I reject them on the bases of interfering with emergency service. It doesn't matter how unlikely a hydrant may be used for an emergency at any specific time, they are still part of the emergency response infrastructure.
tp235-ING Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭✭
I don't think it's appropriate and shouldn't be expanded upon because it's part of the emergency response infrastructure.
We should be more cognizant of the fact that we are borrowing from the real world POI.
Ellejayess-PGO Posts: 46 ✭✭✭
Surely there should be a niantic guidance clarification somewhere. I want to know too.
AgentB0ss-ING Posts: 553 ✭✭✭✭✭
While fire hydrants are part of the emergency response infrastructure. Our current guidelines on EMS is to waypoints that block the drive way of EMS locations/services. If a fire hydrant had safe pedestrian access next to it, it would not block any kind of EMS. Even in the event of an emergency a fire truck would drive up to the fire hydrant not walk up. If people are parking in front of a fire hydrant they are breaking the law. If they are on a sidewalk next to or behind a fire hydrant they are not impeding access to the emergency services infrastructure. So as long as their is adequate ped foot access(a requirement for a waypoint) it would still be eligible as an artistic installation.
JSteve0-ING Posts: 501 ✭✭✭✭
While I understand the point about pedestrian access, I think the current guidance fits better with @TheFarix-PGO's understanding. I favor being cautious about accepting Emergency Service infrastructure, even if it is unlikely you would impede emergency response.
Many fire departments have sidewalks that cross the driveway of the emergency vehicles. Just like you won't be fined for standing beside a fire hydrant, you won't be fined for standing on the sidewalk that crosses the fire department's driveway. But we are still suppose to reject nominations in that zone even even if they are on the sidewalk, so why should a fire hydrant be any different?
I'll also point out that many players play by vehicle. The main reason why Wayspots are prohibited from interfering with fire stations isn't because pedestrians block the path of emergency vehicles, but because they will park their vehicles in a way that blocks the emergency vehicles. This is less of a problem when there is a vehicle parking beside of a fire hydrant, which you admit is illegal.
tehstone-ING Posts: 905 Ambassador
People playing in cars shouldn't be part of your consideration. Niantic repeatedly states that pedestrian access, "adventures in foot", etc are the focus. This kind of consideration is essentially making up your own criteria.
A monument at a fire station away from the driveway with Safe Pedestrian Access would be eligible as it would not interfere with the operation of the fire department.
Lets say you had a Fire Hydrant on the side of the road and on the otherside of the Hydrant is a sidewalk. People are allowed to stand on that sidewalk as they would not be blocking use to the Fire Hydrant. However if they parked in front of the Hydrant they would be blocking it, and in some situations illegally parked on a road.
You are justifying the rejection saying that people play in their cars. The game and how waypoints should be reviewed is based on Ped Foot Access not car access. Plenty of places that are perfectly fine to access by foot but not by car.
I always reject them due to obstructing emergency services. When it comes to public safety, I always approach nominations with caution. So, painted fire hydrants get an automatic 1* from me.
This argument comes up a lot and the arguments always seem to be 50/50. I think instead of arguing it might be worth getting @NianticCasey-ING to make a decision
Response or no response, it'll be almost useless and more dividing of the community until it gets placed in an actual guide criteria update.
NianticCasey-ING Posts: 538Niantic › admin
Respectfully, that's a terrible call.
The "painted garage door of a fire station" is a location that matters multiple times a day. A fire hydrant is a location that matters possibly never, and at most once or twice a year. And EMS vehicles stop wherever is most convenient for them when responding. By this logic, literally anywhere along a street or parking lot should be ineligible.
Respectfully, Casey’s call is the right one.
Roli112-PGO Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭✭✭
A painted fire garage door is in full service multiple times a day every day. A painted fire hydrant may never ever get used. Sorry but I strongly disagree @NianticCasey-ING
@NianticCasey-ING are we to reject a perfect 5* mural just because a fire hydrant happens to be 4ft from it? (Rhetorical, please don't say yes)
I think it was a good call. Frequency of use doesn't matter when dealing with obstructing emergency services. Fire stations here can go a week or more without a call, but that doesn't mean that @NianticCasey-ING's "mural on the garaged door" will become valid because of the infrequent use.
(I just posed something and the forum seems to have eaten it. Rewriting it, but I apologize if this shows up twice.)
@NianticCasey-ING Please allow me to explain why I don't believe fire hydrants block emergency services.
First, a fire station driveway is typically used multiple times per day, and unpredictably. A fire hydrant, on the other hand, probably gets used on average once every couple of years. If you're standing at a fire hydrant that needs to be used to put out a fire then you are probably standing very close to a burning building and you shouldn't be there anyway. If you don't figure that out before the fire trucks get there then the sirens will probably tip you off. And if you're still that dense, the nice men and women in uniform will use the loudspeaker to get your attention.
Second, if you block emergency services by standing within 40M of a fire hydrant then by extension it is also unsafe to stand at the plaque 3M away, the statue 10M away, or the mural 20M away. You would have to remove every waypoint that was within 40M of a fire hydrant. Reviewers would have to scan every submission to see if there was a fire hydrant within range. was part of a discussion about this elsewhere recently, and decided to do an experiment. I marked off a 1.2 square kilometer area of my neighborhood then use street view plus a walkthrough to identify every single fire hydrant within the area. I then went back to the intel map and drew 40M circles around each one. The result is that over 70% would have to be removed. The carnage is nine pieces of art, eight historical plaques, two fountains, two pieces of unique architecture. I did the same with an area of downtown Palo Alto and concluded that about 65% of those would need to be removed.
I believe that classifying fire hydrants as emergency services would do serious damage to your games. Dense urban areas where people hold community days, anomalies, and other events would lose the majority of their waypoints. The review process would slow significantly as every submission would have to be scanned to see if there was a fire hydrant within range. (I searched briefly but was unable to find a reliable database of fire hydrant locations in my area.) While the games wouldn't become completely unplayable you would find that certain areas did, and those would be the areas that are currently the most popular places for people to play.
I'm not able to post an image directly, apparently. Here is a screenshot of my neighborhood with the fire hydrants marked.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/cx4jVbyFS3UDBkAn8
HaramDays-PGO Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭✭✭
Yeah, if you post an image directly it gets relegated into the moderation process and takes several hours to get approved, upwards of a day. I just posted one with a decorated fire hydrant and alas, by the time it goes live the conversation has already ended.
rangersbc72-PGO Posts: 62 ✭✭✭
In my time playing, I cant remember ever spinning a stop at a fire hydrant.
At least for walking by and spinning a stop, my opinion is the risk is low. However, if a fire hydrant becomes a locally prominent gym... Risk++
@rangersbc72-PGO I would imagine that it depends heavily on where you are. In the San Francisco bay area there are multiple streets where the city has commissioned local artists to decorate the fire hydrants. It's common to see dogs, all sorts of people, birds, R2D2, local sports teams, and abstract art. Ralston Avenue in Belmont California has tons, for example.
I love having them as portals because that makes me notice them.
There's an EMS response at the old folks home up the street at least once a week. Is the fountain in front in-eligible because there's an ambulance parked in front of it half the time? This is such an unreasonable argument from you and Casey and everyone else. If we're going to these absurd lengths to make sure a handful of inattentive players never interfere with EMS then we should remove every POI along any street. This isn't even exaggeration, it's literally the same thing you're arguing.
Elli21486-ING Posts: 1 ✭✭
I will say that I think there needs to be more clarification on this particular subject. However, from my understanding at least, painted fire hydrants must be approved by the city/town in some way. They are also usually done for the community and therefore, could be qualified as a public art installation. A lot more consideration and thought is needed for this particular matter...
Maybe some sort of compromise would be to allow artsy hydrants as stops, but prohibit them from becoming prominent in-game objects, like gyms, that increase probability of congregation. In my experience, players typically dont loiter by a given stop, but the nature of gyms promote loitering. @Hosette-ING described some fine hydrants that it would be a shame if they were totally removed.
My major risk consideration would be raids (or Ingress equivalent) occurring at fire hydrants. This is less of a issue in urban areas, where players predominantly walk, and more of an issue where POI density is lower. Further complicating this, these hydrants plausibly are predominantly located in urban areas. I've never seen one in suburbia.
We need to make a clear distinction somewhere.
That is the decision not to approve objects related to police and fire that require an emergency response, and I respect that.
PoMaQue-PGO Posts: 223 ✭✭✭✭
That was my take on it as well.
To everyone who starts talking about things surrounding fire hydrants: that is not the discussion. The discussion is the fire hydrant itself, a tool to be used by emergency services.
If it's prohibited for cars to park next to it, it make sense not to promote crowd gatherings around ti either.
NorthSeaPoet-ING Posts: 895 ✭✭✭✭✭
Frequency of use doesn't negate that it is still going to be used in emergency services.
Yes, people may or may not move out if the way if there's a fire or it needs to be used, but what about the players that are in cars, and parked up next to it? What if they don't get out of the way quick enough? They're still going to be obstructing emergency services.
This change in criteria also doesn't mean existing wayspots have to be removed, unless NIA specifically say so, and even then, they're going to be largely relying on the honesty of the player base, and given how some groups discourage any sort of wayspot removal, chances are players won't put in the removal requests.
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Milken Combines Color Games with Chanukah
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Emily Vanek
In the spirit of Hanukkah, the annual pre-winter break color games manifested a more Jewish identity. For those who noticed people cheering at lunch throughout the week before break and kept hearing the phrase “color games” and had no clue what it was, it is a series of activities that occur during lunch for one week- twice a year, where members of each Milken class compete in the festivities and score points for their class. It is an opportunity for Milken students to represent their class, while having a blast!
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When students were asked about what they think of the integration of Hanukkah into the color games, Hannah Shayefar ‘19 said, “I think it’s fun that the color games have a Hanukkah twist because it is currently Hanukkah and it makes the games more interesting. Elijah Dardashty ‘20 also noted, “it helps me better connect with my Jewish identity and feel more in the spirit of Hanukkah.”
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On Thursday, in the amphitheater, a doughnut Hanukkah challenge took place. One students per grade used their mouths to pick up four doughnuts and place it on four candles on a Hannukiah. Gabe Cohen ‘20, the participant for the sophomore class, did not win the challenge, as the juniors did, but as he noted, “It was lots of fun to participate with everyone and have fun this week, especially in the last few days before winter break, so we could end it off strong.”
The final activity for the color games was a Hanukkah relay race and it took place on Friday at the Town Meeting. It was a three part relay race where someone on J-Life spun a dreidel, and then two members per grade picked up a potato and put it between their legs. Then, they raced to place it in the basket and used two candles as chopsticks to grab a piece of gelt and place it into another basket. The last person picks up the candles and puts it in a Hanukkiah. Tyler Yedidsion ‘20 representing the sophomore class took the lead in the beginning of the event, starting it off strong for the sophomore class. Jonny Nourafshan ‘20 finished it off well for the sophomore class and placed the last candles on the Hanukkiah.
The winners of the entire color games based on spirit and attendance was, as it is every year, the senior class.
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A desert journey, the joys of Jordan
Jordan, famed as the home of the magnificent ancient city of Petra, the wild desert beauty of Wadi Rum, endless photos of people floating in the buoyant waters of the Dead Sea and countless sites of importance to three major religions, is a country of superlatives. Despite perceptions, it’s also a country as welcoming as it is safe, with a wealth of culture and history.
The Jordanian flag, Shobak Castle, Jordan
In many ways it seems miraculous that it’s still possible to visit Jordan given that to the north a vicious war rages in Syria; to the east a vicious war rages in Iraq; to the west an a deeply unequal but equally vicious conflict regularly engulfs Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories; and to the south lies the unwelcoming religious-totalitarianism of Saudi Arabia.
The Dead Sea, Jordan
The Library, Petra, Jordan
Desert Castle, Jordan
Jordan is a beacon of tolerance and stability in a region that unfortunately lacks both. It currently hosts over 1.5 million refugees from Iraq and Syria, a burden many Jordanians bear with pride. Jordanians are supremely conscious of their situation, regularly asking visitors whether they are having a good time and feel safe in their country.
To these questions I answered truthfully, I was having a good time and I always felt safe. Sadly for Jordan perceptions seem to have outweighed reality for a lot of people. The number of visitors to the country has nosedived in the last few years, and the tens of thousands of Jordanians who rely upon tourism for their livelihoods have suffered in equal measure.
Shobak Castle, the Crusader fortress of Krak de Montreal, Jordan
Pilgrims, Bethany Beyond the Jordan, Jordan
Mount Nebu, Jordan
Crusader fortress of Karak, Jordan
This is a tragedy, Jordanians go out of their way to help visitors. Numerous times when I stopped by the side of a road to work out which direction I should be going, cars would stop and the passengers ask if I needed help. In some of the more out of the way places I visited I gave lifts to people, all of whom were delighted to have a tourist to chat to.
I’d been working in Jordan and had some vacation afterwards but didn’t really have a plan of where to go and what to see. I knew I’d be visiting Petra but beyond that I decided to play it by ear. Jordan is relatively small, making it easy to see a lot in a short time.
Jordan landscape
Jordan landscape with camels
Truck, Jordan
I almost went south to the Red Sea, but on a whim decided to head north into the desert of eastern Jordan. On the way I visited Crusader fortresses, ancient deserted villages, vibrant towns, Biblical sites, abandoned desert castles and pleasure palaces, the ruins of Roman and Byzantine cities, and I ate delicious food washed down with Jordan Valley wines that have been cultivated since Roman times.
Jerash, Jordan
Baptismal site, Bethany Beyond the Jordan, Jordan
Umm al-Jimal, Jordan
Azraq fortress, Jordan
Jordan is a country that welcomes exploration and it is a country well worth exploring.
Categories Jordan, Middle EastTags Azraq, Bethany Beyond the Jordan, Dead Sea, Jerash, Jordan, Karak, Middle East, Mount Nebo, Petra, Shobak Castle, Travel, Umm al-Jimal
2 thoughts on “A desert journey, the joys of Jordan”
Anna December 20, 2019 — 10:35 am
My parents roasted my ass when I said I was going to Jordan, and my husband wasn’t keen but “allowed” me to go if I went on a small group tour, but once there I realised all their fears were unfounded. Felt so safe and welcomed here, felt safer than any city in Australia these days! I loved your photos and have enjoyed your Jordan pages! Cheers.
lapoubelle1969 December 20, 2019 — 5:31 pm
Thank you, that’s very kind. Jordan felt as safe as anywhere I’ve ever been, and quite a lot safer than some places. People were always friendly, it’s such a shame that tourism has been so badly affected by neighbouring conflicts. Hopefully things are improving, but when I was there I visited UNESCO World Heritage Sites without a single other visitor – that shouldn’t be normal! Your Jordan posts are bringing back some good memories.
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Helen Keller – The meaning of symbols, words and finding the light of intelligence from within or as
Somerset Maugham wrote in The Razor’s Edge, that we are to think out our thoughts to the very end without hindrance, seeing things in a new way and to go there.
Also continuing thoughts of cultivating stillness / The Seeds of Character that lead to Greatness begins with understanding underlying contradictions and the I Ching.
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what I have referred to in many entries… both symbols and words. She realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm if her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of “water”. Keller’s mountaintop experience went no further than the pump in her front yard where she connected what she would later call “the living word that awakened her soul”.
Writing in her autobiography, The Story of My Life, Keller recalled the moment:
“I stood still; my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten — a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, set it free!”
Keller then nearly exhausted Sullivan, demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.
Greek icon of Second Coming, c. 1700
Her spiritual autobiography, My Religion, was published in 1927 and then in 1994 extensively revised and re-issued under the title Light in My Darkness. It advocates the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Christian theologian and mystic who gave a spiritual interpretation of the teachings of the Bible and who claimed that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ had already taken place.
Helen Keller who was both deaf and blind said – “My darkness had been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold the outer day-lit world was stumbling
and groping in social blindness”. Anne Sullivan: “Giving up is my idea of the original sin” (from The Miracle Worker – film about deaf/blind Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan). Annie reads from the Perkins report regarding this blind, deaf, mute woman – ‘Can nothing be done to disinter this human soul? The whole neighborhood would rush to save this woman if she were buried alive by the caving in of a pit, and labor with zeal until she was dug out. Now if there were one who had as much patience as zeal, he might awaken her to a consciousness of her immortal self.’
‘It was in coming from the darkness to the light that she might awaken to a consciousness of her immortal nature. The chance is small indeed; but with a smaller chance they would have dug desperately or her in the pit; and is the life of the soul of less import than that of the body?’ (excerpts from the play “The Miracle Worker” by William Gibson.)
Could there be anything worse the adjusting our sights to the status quo? To live within the confines of how others see the world bent to their own illusions. What every philosopher of every age has told us that we must find and do for ourselves.
Upon experiencing her “ah ha” moment, Helen Keller was able to make the transition from the darkness of being both deaf and blind and was able to make the connection with her immortal self, thereby teaching others that her perceived weaknesses served to accentuate her inner resolve and strengths. Connecting her
thoughts with words with the ability to express her own transcendent nature. Afterwards she spent her life conveying that each of us can come out of the darkness we find in the present to overcome what her teacher Anne Sullivan called “Our giving up as the Original Sin”. Once Helen Keller left the sanctuary of the darkness she knew – she was able to illuminate the world teaching and showing us the light we each possess and that we should learn to express for ourselves. That in our own way, we each must become a sage by not giving up. Living a life of virtue that expresses who we are yet to become.
When I think about Helen Keller, and what I should include from my writing that typifies what this means, the below expresses it well as Helen Keller exemplifies the sage. It is from Thoughts on becoming a Sage (my own version of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching) published in China in 2006:
Verse 63 of the Tao Te Ching – Becoming a Sanctuary to all you meet
The sage acknowledges and understands that there is nothing that is not in keeping
with the Tao.
The Offering TianHou Palace Temple Qingdao
Especially true is that the Tao resides in each of us. Thus, in showing the way the sage is good at saving and directing those around him, while abandoning no one. Since the sage in essence is simply the embodiment of the Tao, abandoning or leaving behind another person could or would never enter his mind.
The sage’s surroundings are illustrative of how he sees his place in the ten thousand things. As though he is seen creating a sanctuary that reflects his innermost sense of who he is yet to become. Kind and reflective, still yet expansive, he competes with no one and no one competes with him. His strengths and weaknesses have become razor sharp as he uses them to cut through what is perceived to be truth and falsehood. While he remains on the edge pushing others to places, they would not otherwise go, he leaves no foothold for those who would follow except by accepting and following the Tao.
When he himself becomes the sanctuary for others to take refuge and follow, finding the comfort only found in the expression of the Tao, he is reminded that he who searches will find it and those who don’t only escape to wait until another day. May/June 2000
做众人的庇护处
圣人承认并且明白，世间万物无不与道保持一致，特别是道与我们每一个人同在。因此，圣人讲
道，善于拯救和指导他身边的人，而不会抛弃任何一个人。因为圣人是道的化身，他从来就没有想过抛弃或丢下一个人。
The Sanctuary within Oneself TianHou Palace Temple Qingdao
圣人所处的环境反映了他如何看待他在万物中的地位。圣人营造了一个反映他未知的内心世界的庇护处。他友善，多思和豪爽，与世无争，也无人与他竞争。他的优缺点已变成一把锋利的刀，可以用来识别真假。他急于把人们推向他们从来没有去过的地方。除了接受和跟随道之外，众人别无选择。
当圣人成为别人躲避和追随的庇护处时，人们在这里找到只有从道中才能找到的安慰。寻道的人将会得道，不寻道的人只好逃出去等候另一天的到来。
Discovering the mountaintop and the illumination from within.
Just what does the mountaintop experience we all want look like? When we move from the sharp razor to cut through both truth and falsehood, we inevitably come to the razor’s edge to what ultimately defines us and what doesn’t. It is here we go for help in finding the answer. What is it that comes of
the ruling passions of our life?
The book entitled The Razor’s Edge, written by W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1944 and the movie that followed tells the story. Many felt Maugham’s book was a forerunner of the beat generation of the 1960’s. It was said he wrote the whole book (and he agreed) so he could write about a short chapter about Eastern mysticism and the mountaintop experience towards the end.
Maugham visited Sri Ramana Ashram, (an Ashram is considered to be
spiritual monastery in India), where he had a direct interaction with Ramana Maharshi in Tamil Nadu, India in 1938.
In the movie The Razor’s Edge, the main character, Larry, is seen as loafing through life. It is that for each of us at first, it’s difficult to say what is our purpose.
It’s as if thinking that if we ever acquire wisdom maybe we’ll know what to do with it as if having an affinity for universal spirit we are yet to appreciate or
His best friend had died in the war for what he saw as no good reason. He has a passion for learning and not simply work, so as to make money as other people do. His friends wanting to follow a normal course and keep things as they are – content to stay within the status quo, first in Chicago and then Paris. While he finds himself wanting to give something that is at first indefinable, ethereal, asking – is the quest for God real? Defined
only as universal wisdom others would like to take that he could share. As if having a “sixth sense”… that the satisfactions of the world are both timeless and transitory, and that only the Infinite can give enduring happiness.
Years later, after his visit to India, he was seen as having a very singular detachment, as natural, and with a sincerity that
was obvious. Something in him, an awareness, a sensibility, almost a force. But it becomes not simply this wisdom Larry would share, but what comes from your heart expressed as mercy, forgiveness and love. We soon find it is not someone or something else we are running away from – it is from acknowledging our eternal spirit or nature. Our own divinity and transcendence, and God, or the highest power in the universe which is latent as our potential and always present, but as yet unaccounted for, that speaks directly to and through us.
Experiencing our own “ah ha” moment we may have been deaf and blind to – as Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan taught us. The original sin that Larry so keenly
understood and searched for and overcame. The mountaintop we are afraid to climb and experience and find for ourselves. It’s like pursuing an ideal that is hidden in the cloud of unknowing – like looking for a star in the sky and not seeing it. But having confidence in the authenticity in the vision of your mind’s eye… and being guided to go there anyway. To be free to live the life of spirit and exhilaration, and in turn illuminating all you see, feel, and touch. While knowing we can only take the world as it comes. It’s like following a dream where many are called but few are chosen.
That we are here to learn about ourselves from within – searching for something difficult to put into words. For this we seek a teacher and guidance. Learning how to express the universal virtue we have always possessed – the eternal spirit, our soul or essence, the Tao, the Buddha, or God from within. Taking the pill of immortality outlined in the last entry here. For myself, to my friends and those who know me I’m always the outlier or an anomaly – happy to remain outside what is expected. For the character in the movie, he felt that to those he cared about, he couldn’t even give an answer. Seen as someone
uncomfortable with the status quo, even a loafer afraid of responsibilities.
The book differs from the movie in that the book delves more into Hinduism as he travels to India and begins to learn about Hinduism with ideas of the conception that the universe has no beginning and no end. But passes everlasting from growth to equilibrium, from equilibrium to decline, from decline to dissolution, from dissolution to growth again, and so on to all eternity. To the transmigration of the soul (the passage of a soul into another body), and the idea that without reincarnation life would have no real meaning. To believe this implicitly as though in your blood and bones. That this is an endless re-occurrence and the nature and expression of the Absolute and its perfection. The purpose of creation is to serve as a stage for the punishment or reward of the deeds of the soul’s earlier existence.
For us it means transcending permanence and change. Unrelated to time, it is
truth and freedom. Beyond thoughts of religion or philosophy for comfort and encouragement in our own soul. Worship only serving as the remembrance of who we have always been and will always be.
Rumi says, “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean.”
For myself, it is perhaps that we are as a drop of water in the ocean. We then are drawn up into and embark in a cloud buffeted by the wind as a raindrop from Heaven to an as yet unknown destination to where we are needed most. Perhaps here onto the mountains of the high Himalayas depending on how far or high we have traveled. Then falling as rain from Heaven giving life as we travel down pathways, rivers, and streams back to what was our source, the ocean from where we came. As if we are both absolute and infinite with no identity separate from the universe and other
droplets we are forever attached or connected to. Its not enough to return to your source, once you do so you become the source again, again, and again.
Perhaps as we learn in Buddhism, Mañjuśrī, who is depicted as a male bodhisattva wielding a flaming sword in his right hand, representing the realization of transcendent wisdom which cuts down ignorance and duality. The scripture supported by the padma (lotus) held in his left hand is a Prajñāpāramitā sūtra, representing his attainment of ultimate realization from the blossoming of wisdom and that we are each here to do so for ourselves.
You are reminded that you are here not by chance, but by choice. That “liberation from birth” ascribed as the ultimate goal of enlightenment you’ve already attained. There is no reason not to be content in your own contentment and finding inner peace and comfort. There’s no place to go because you’ve already been there unless it’s to see what has changed since your last visit as if you have transcended impermanence. That our passion should be to know the reality that lies within ourselves. If God resides within us, who better to worship than ourselves.
Our character in The Razor’s Edge finds a holy man, or Yogi named Shri Ganesha (he used Ramana Maharshi as the model for the holy man), who he finds sitting in meditation as if aspiring only to serenity that seems to irradiate and illuminate both intellectually and spiritually goodness, peace, and selflessness.
What he taught was very simple. The holy man tells him “that you have come
this far through you travels proves you’re courageous, not afraid of responsibilities. It’s how to express this and share with others that is the answer. Not in the terms of what the world calls success as long as man sets his ideals on the wrong object instead of learning that a wise man lives from within and through himself. Through his own heart and the ways of calmness, compassion, forbearance and everlasting peace. With a steadfastness of mind and quest for freedom. That ultimately it is not our fear of death, but a fear of life we face and that work done with no selfish interest purifies the mind. To achieve illumination, or at least break free of ignorance and know with certainty that you and the Absolute, God, the Tao, are one.”
The holy man continues:
The path to salvation, commonly known as letting go through faith, is as
difficult to travel or pass through, as the sharp edge of a razor (hence the razor’s edge). It’s blazing a trail through the unknown. Identifying and becoming that spark that resides within each of us of infinite goodness much larger than ourselves that we ultimately re-unite with as if we are simply a raindrop falling from heaven. For some it is believed that there are three roads to transcendence and to God. The first is the path of faith and worship, second the works we perform, and third that we can attain reality by increasing our knowledge that gives us the ability to reason. In the end you learn that they are but one path and that wisdom is the means to freedom.
Continuing from The Razor’s Edge – It is from the mountaintop when you must
remove yourself from everything including the inclination to stay. Nothing above you but the sky and God. What’s really there depends on you. Your teacher tells you that you were right, something strange happens. It was just at that moment when night ends and day begins. When the whole world seems to tremble in the balance. Gradually the light begins to flicker through the darkness.
Mysterious figures appeared through the trees… then the first rays sun came
up. The mist is caught in the tree tops. As if you have never experienced anything before like it. Having a feeling of exaltation and such a transcendent joy. That no words could explain the ecstasy of bliss of the illumination you had been seeking. The innate knowing of acknowledging that you have arrived at your destination. Now so enlightened and free of what held you back you can return and through your actions, bring such wisdom to the world.
Larry, the character in the movie continues – I felt I had been released from my body and suspended in midair. So, light of heart that it seemed to me that I hardly touched the ground. All those things that had perplexed and confused me before – suddenly became clear to me. I had a sense of knowledge more
than human. I felt that I was free and if it lasted more than another minute I would die. And yet I was willing to die if I could just hold onto it.
For that one moment I had the feeling of the Infinite. No words could explain the ecstasy of my bliss. I’m sure I could stay here forever (on the Mountain) and never tire… An understanding, an overwhelming sense of reality that you have experienced something only done by mystics and the shaman over the centuries. As if, perhaps only for a moment, becoming one with the Absolute.
The holy man told him no, you must go back. You are now ready to go back. It’s not necessary to leave where you were found. Your role is not to leave the world – but to live in the world and to love the objects of the world and to live with your own people. Not for themselves alone, but for the Infinite, what’s in
them and the love they are yet to know and become. The vision within you makes you one of the fortunate ones while renouncing what is viewed as the separate self and becoming by example one with the universe. You have been given the infinite beauty of the world… the true meaning of transcendence that is meant to pass along.
As if the character in the story having been to the mountaintop and returning with an innate knowing to show the way for others. Once seen, that vision that nothing could touch him remaining with him forever as a compass guiding his way. Of course, he could stay on the mountaintop concerned only with his own enlightenment, or return to help others in finding their own path as well. For myself, it is as the storyteller as you learn to be always present and content, with an even calmness – seemingly aloof envisioning having been to the mountaintop and deciding to return.
What is it about the Himalayas of India, Bhutan, Nepal, Mount Everest, Tibet and Lhasa that becomes so appealing? Perhaps it’s to find comfort in the
unknown and wanting to go there. You can’t get much closer to God and an idea of universal presence and still be here… and go there. For those attempting to climb, it becomes the ultimate test of exhilaration, faith and endurance. Once going there, you sense an awareness that was absent in your thinking, or mindset.
I am reminded of the phrase I love so much in a book entitled “The Way of the
White Clouds”, by Lama Anagarika Govinda that stresses the unity of man and nature and just letting consciousness rest in itself integrated into its own awareness. Not holding on to anything or concentrating on anything, the mind is completely free from object awareness, or from the interference of will-power and intellectual activity. But rather to be mentally and spiritually unified. How is it that we are to live except with calmness, forbearance, compassion, selflessness, and continence? That in the end, it is the self-perfection as described by Chuang Tzu earlier that lies the answer.
Here in the Dazhuan, in the 5th and 6th Wings, it is assumed that they are not written in a vacuum and the earlier Wings especially The Commentary of the Decision, Wings 1 and 2, are already known and understood, and as
with the remaining Wings (3 through 12), the materials from which the hexagrams have been constructed are explained. Throughout, it seems we are trying to find the middle between the claims of the body and the claims of the spirit.
Continuing the story is the 7th Wing, Numbers 8 through 12 that will follow with later entries describe in greater detail the central meaning of the I Ching in keeping with cultivating stillness, our chi, feng shui, and much more.
The Dazhuan 6th Wing Part II Number 7
The Seeds of Character that lead to Greatness begins with understanding underlying contradictions and the I Ching
The origins of the I Ching can be found in antiquity. From Fuxi onward the shaman furthered the eternal connection between man, heaven, and earth with the aim of finding and fulfilling man’s character and virtue for the benefit of those present. It was the imprisonment of King Wen and the outrageousness of the Shang that proved
to be the final straw. The seeds of the proper way to treat others were first written on oracle bones by the shaman during the Shang dynasty.
This became “An annotated version of the Book of Rites”, dated before 907 BC, first written by Ji Dan, the Duke of Zhou, then codified by Confucius another five hundred years later to become a permanent fixture in Chinese culture. The two traits that best defined this effort were virtue and character with change as both our weakness and our strength. It seems we go down a lot of blind alleys without experienced teachers if we have no one to lead us. However, what may appear at first to be a blind alley is where our purpose lies.
There has always been suffering and sorrow and the need to make the right decisions that would benefit everyone and for man to see beyond his own personal
benefit, a constant struggle that continues even today. A struggle that always comes that can be defined as character. Something the shaman always stressed to leaders who saw in themselves the way forward. It would be King Wen, the person who added the lines to the I Ching, giving the hexagrams real meaning and Ji Dan who showed through exemplary personal character the way to proceed. He saw the value of what would later be referred to as the Book of Changes and the statements that showed the way. He knew the value of the hexagrams as a way of bringing forward a commonality among all people.
It was the structure of the hexagrams focusing on development of character later emphasized in the Dazhuan and elaborated on below that would show the way.
From the sixty-four hexagrams, eight best defines this as follows:
Hexagram 10 TREADING Lu shows the basis of character and powers. Lu is the basis of powers.
It is harmonious and effective and harmonizes conduct to outward behavior.
Hexagram 15 MODESTY Ch’ien is the handling of powers, to be seen as honorable and renowned and to regulate manners. To know modesty honors others and thereby obtains honors for oneself. To show the attitude that is necessary before character formation and to have the attitude of mind.
Hexagram 24 RETURN Fu is the root of powers. To start small with distinguishing subtleties. To know yourself and be able to prevail in its own unique character against any temptations of your surroundings. To have the
self-examination and self-knowledge to institute lasting reforms after acknowledging your errors along the way.
Hexagon 32 DURATION Heng represents the cohesion of powers. To be varied and not worrisome. To have firmness of character in the correct frame of time. To observe numerous movements and experiences from which fixed rules are derived so that a unified character result.
Hexagon 41 DECREASE Sun. The cultivation of powers is at first difficult but later easy and fend off harm. To depend less on lower faculties and untamed instincts, in favor of the higher life of the mind. When the instincts are tamed the essence of character training can begin and harm can be kept at a distance.
Hexagrams 42 INCREASE I or Yi.
This represents the maturity of powers, a maturity without artifice or expediency that furthers one’s advantage representing needed fullness to character, mere asceticism (a person who can attain a high spiritual and moral state by practicing self-denial, abstinence or austerity) is not enough to make good character – greatness is also needed. To show an on-going growth of personality that is not artificial and focuses on things that are useful to others, i.e., refining one’s virtue.
Hexagram 47 OPPRESSION Kun. To appreciate and understand the discernment of one’s powers, sometimes perplexing yet penetrating while
lessening resentment of others. To be able to develop the character needed to prove himself in the field where one must prove oneself. Obstacles arrive that must be overcome. He is confronted with boundaries that cannot be overcome except by recognizing them for what they are. In recognized the fate of things you cease to have adversity. By not fighting fate, resentment fades and character is purified allowing one to advance in the inner workings of the Tao.
Hexagram 48 THE WELL Jing or Ching. The field of powers is simply defining where you are, it is stationary yet moving upward and discerns righteousness. With this you have become the wellspring, though fixed to one spot dispensing blessing far and wide with far reaching influence. It is here where one’s character takes effect. Others can now perceive the profound influence emanating from such a personality. While the person keeps or stays in the background. Through showing what is right, the sage makes it possible for the right to take effect.
Hexagram 57 THE GENTLE, THE PENETRATING Xun or Sun. This represents the control of powers, premeditated yet hidden but always acting appropriately. To remain flexible in character, not rigid that holds fast to established principles that is in reality pedantry, slavish attention to the rules, but instead mobility. Thereby one weighs things and penetrates to the needs of the times without exposing oneself to attack, learning instead to take circumstances into account preserving a strong unity of character with intelligent versatility.
This is the seventh entry (for a total of twelve) of the Sixth Wing of the Dazhuan. The story continues as our journey in cultivating stillness. Knowing and using this induces a spiritual transformation. The lines of the I Ching, the Book of Changes becomes shorthand for transforming change that attracts the lights and energy of Heaven thereby creating a chance, an unspoken trust, to build on who we are meant to become. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.716734766960144, "wiki_prob": 0.28326523303985596, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line77763"} |
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US to reopen borders to vaccinated travellers after 20 months
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The US is reopening its borders on Monday to double-jabbed foreign visitors, ending a 20-month entry ban.
The ban was imposed by former President Donald Trump due to Covid-19.
It has affected non-US citizens from over 30 countries, including the UK and EU states, separating families and stalling tourism.
Airlines are expecting a flood of visitors as the restrictions are lifted for those who are fully vaccinated, and undergo testing and contact tracing.
“It feels good, it feels good!” Jerome Thomann, head of Paris-based travel agency Jetset Voyages told Reuters news agency, saying his team had seen an “incredible upturn” in bookings.
In an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus, US borders were initially closed to travellers from China in early 2020. The restrictions were then extended to other countries.
The rules barred entry to most non-US citizens who had been in the UK and a number of other European countries, as well as China, India, South Africa, Iran and Brazil.
Under the new rules, foreign travellers will need to show proof of vaccination before flying, get a negative Covid-19 test result within three days of travelling, and hand over their contact information. They will not have to quarantine.
Alison Henry, a 63-year-old British mother, told AFP news agency: “It’s been so hard – I just want to see my son.”
Ms Henry, from Cheshire, plans to fly to New York on Monday to see her son for the first time in 20 months.
The US land borders with neighbours Canada and Mexico will also reopen for the fully vaccinated.
Thousands of migrants have arrived in areas along Mexico’s border with the US, hoping to take advantage of the newly-relaxed rules.
In southern Mexico, a new caravan of thousands of mainly Central American migrants – many of them children – has crossed from Chiapas to Oaxaca state, with the ultimate aim of reaching the border and being accepted into the US.
The Migrant Alliance Group, a Mexico-based advocacy group, has warned that false information is being spread about the new rules in some communities – with many asylum seekers assuming that they will now receive more favourable treatment from border officials.
Businesses in cities along the border with Mexico are hoping for a boost after struggling under America’s Covid-induced restrictions.
United Airlines says it expects a 50% rise in international inbound passengers, while Delta’s chief executive Ed Bastian warned travellers to expect queues.
Mr Bastian said: “It’s going to be a bit sloppy at first. I can assure you, there will be lines unfortunately.”
The EU recommended allowing American travellers into the bloc in June, while visitors from the US have been able to travel to the UK since 28 July.
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An Official Announcement here:
English Youtube Videos On Their Official Youtube Channel Here:
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I spent the weekend with my Chinese Parents… video game for Nintendo Switch that is. There are many aspects of this game that I really enjoyed. It is quite addicting. I probably sunk 20 hours into the game and am on my 5th generation. I’ve sprinkled some random screenshots throughout my review. At the end of the review is our score card and final verdict along with a gallery with all the screenshots I’ve taken so far. (Gallery is having some errors, too many photos, so I will try to add it in later). read more | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5182124376296997, "wiki_prob": 0.4817875623703003, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line215393"} |
China Summons US Ambassador Over Huawei Official’s Arrest
For a week, the chief financial officer of the Chinese tech group Huawei has been detained in Canada. She should have violated Iran sanctions. The Beijing government now appoints Canada’s ambassador.
According to the Canadian Ambassador, the Chinese government has also summoned the US Ambassador in the case of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, who is being detained in Vancouver.
China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Le Yucheng has made “fierce protest” to Ambassador Terry Branstad, the Foreign Ministry said in Beijing. The rights and interests of a Chinese citizen are “seriously” violated. The US should immediately lift the arrest warrant against Meng, Yuchenq demanded.
On Saturday, the Chinese government had already summoned the Canadian ambassador, also in this case to talk with Yuchenq. China again demanded from Canada the release of Huawei’s boss. The actions of the Canadian authorities ignore the law and are “disgusting”.
Arrest at the instigation of the US authorities
The chief financial officer of Chinese tech group Huawei, who is also deputy chief executive officer and a subsidiary of group founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested last Saturday at the instigation of the US authorities in Canada.
They accuse Meng of a fraudulent violation of US Iran sanctions. If convicted, she faces up to 30 years in prison. Whether she is released on bail, should decide a court in Vancouver on Monday.
In the financial markets, the incident had sparked concerns about a renewed escalation of the trade dispute between China and the US and occasionally led to sharp price losses.
Huawei, with its 180,000 employees, is the world’s largest network equipment supplier and the second largest producer of smartphones. The rise and expansion of foreign business in recent years have been rapid.
However, the ownership structure is opaque, and Western intelligence agencies have security concerns. They fear interference by the government in Beijing, espionage and disruption of national networks.
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Nenagh Library is delighted to present a selection of works by local artist Yvonne O’Dwyer. Yvonne has her own studio “Evonora Art” on 97 Silver Street, Nenagh, E45 X822.
Yvonne’s artistic inspiration comes from nature and culture. Her work is mainly through the medium of acrylic.
The exhibition in Nenagh Library will run from 24th January 2023 to 28th February 2023.
A preview of Yvonne’s work is available on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/evonora_art/?hl=en
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This week in local sports (8/4/21)
by Crispin Kott
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Kingston-Saugerties American Legion baseball team falls to Hamburg in senior tournament
The Kingston-Saugerties Posts Nos. 150 and Lamouree-Hackett 72 baseball team went 2-2 as hosts of the New York State American Legion Baseball Senior Tournament last week, rebounding from a tourney-opening loss to eventual champion Hamburg Post 527 by winning two straight before again falling to Hamburg. The tournament was held at Cantine Field in Saugerties between July 24-31.
Kingston-Saugerties opened the tournament with a 4-2 loss to Hamburg, knotting the game at 1-1 in the top of the third before giving up two runs and the lead for good in the bottom of the fourth. Nick Deising took the loss, giving up four earned runs on six hits over 4 1/3 innings. Ethan Conrad led Posts 150-72 with three singles and an RBI, while Randy Dodig (double, single, walk), Gavin Groppuso (single, two walks, two runs) and Anthony Umhey (single) also contributed.
Posts 150-72 rebounded the following day with a 4-3 win over Clinton County Mariners. Isaiah Maines’ three-run triple in the home half of the fifth gave Kingston-Saugerties a late lead, while Dodig scored the game winning run in the bottom of the seventh. Dodig (2 singles, 2 runs), Groppuso (2 singles, run) and Conrad (single) again led the offense. Alex Mooers earned the win on the mound with 1 1/3 of relief, giving up just one walk.
On Monday, July 26, Kingston-Saugerties blasted Rockland Pirates Black Post 130 in a 6-2 win, scoring at least one run in the bottom of each inning after the first. Marciano Neglia earned the win, allowing five hits and two earned runs in four innings of work. Andrew Esposito picked up the save with three winnings of perfect relief.
Posts 150-72 made the most of their eight-hit, five-walk afternoon, with Ian Sickler both doubling and scoring twice to lead the way. Dodig (double, run), Groppuso (2 singles, RBI), Deising (single, run) and Matthew Belfance (single, 2 RBI) also pitching in.
The end of the road for Kingston-Saugerties came on Tuesday, July 27 in a 2-1 defeat to Hamburg. The game was a pitchers’ duel, with just seven hits and three walks between both teams. Belfance drove Umhey home in the top of the second inning, but the lead was short-lived with Hamburg adding two of their own in the home half. Maines took the loss, allowing just one earned run on three hits and two walks. Maines also struck out three. Moers pitched one inning of relief, walking two and striking out one.
Deising tripled in the game, while Umhey, Maines and Sickler each singled.
Kingston and Saugerties only joined forces last year, their first season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While Saugerties Post 72 has never won the state tournament, Kingston Post 150 was champion in 1934, 1986, 1988, and most recently in 1995 when they upended a four-year winning streak by Rockland Pirates Post 130. Kingston also won the junior division title in 2007 and 2011.
Amber Pennington wins sixth straight Ulster County Women’s Golf Association title
Amber Pennington won her sixth-straight Ulster County Women’s Golf Association championship on Sunday, August 1, closing with a 5-over-par 77 in the final round at The Twaalfskill Club in Kingston. She finished with a 72-79-77 — 228. She won the tournament by 22 strokes, an impressive measure even compared to her record 38-stroke win in 2019.
Pennington, an 18-year old Rondout Valley High School Class of 2019 alum was just 13 when she won the tournament for the first time in 2016. Pennington is entering her sophomore year at Delaware State University.
Pennington’s sixth straight win ties Wiggie DeLisio’s tournament record set between 1959-64. DeLisio has eight tournament wins overall; Pennington is currently tied with Marilyn Motzkin with six tournament wins.
Fellow Rondout Valley alum and current Ithaca College student Mary Gersec placed second with an 86-84-80 — 250. Rounding out the top five were Alexandra Cymbal (86-83-82 — 251), Kim Hines (87-86-82 — 255) and Cheryl Potter (94-86-81 — 261).
Saugerties Stallions enter best-of-three championship series
The Saugerties Stallions blasted their way into the Perfect Game College Baseball League (PGCBL) championships on Saturday night, dispatching the Geneva Red Wings 8-2 in the semifinal round at Cantine Field.
The Stallions found their offensive rhythm early, plating a pair of runs in the home half of the first inning after Kip Fougerousse (Indiana) and Cade Verdusco (Grand Canyon) scored on an Andrew Wilhite triple.
The Red Wings got one back in the top of the second on an RBI single by Nicholas Serce, which brought Elliott Good home on a balletic play to evade Saugerties catcher Max Morris (St. Thomas).
Saugerties added a run in the fourth when a Nick Iverson (UC Davis) sent Morris to third; the catcher came home on a wild throw by Geneva’s Korson Hastings. The Stallions added two more when Verdusco scored on a Wilhite homer over the right field fence
The Red Wings would score for the final time in the top of the sixth on an RBI single by Ben Griffin. But the Stallions put the game out of reach in the bottom of the eighth when walks by Caden Kendle (UC Irvine) and Jarrett Brown (Georgia Southern) were followed by a three-run blast by Josh Stevenson (LSU).
Starting pitcher Andres Auffant (Franklin Pierce) earned the win for Saugerties, giving up two runs with a pair of walks and a strikeout over 5 1/3 innings. Michael Stanford (UC Irvine) picked up the save with a pair of walks and a strikeout over two innings.
The Stallions improved to 28-12 on the season with the win, their reward a title bout with the first-place Amsterdam Mohawks. They hosted the first game in a best-of-three championship series at Cantine on Monday after Hudson Valley One went to press. The second and — if necessary — third games will be played at Shuttleworth Park in Amsterdam. It’s the first visit to the PGCBL championships in Stallions history.
New Paltz spring Scholar Athletes hurdle every obstacle
Varsity athletes from New Paltz Central School District (NPCSD) shine on both the playing field and, more importantly, in the classroom. New York Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) recently announced its spring Scholar Athletes and Scholar Team designations from 501 participating schools across the State, with an impressive presence of NPCSD athletes.
NYSPHSAA is in its 29th year of designating Scholar-Athletes. To qualify for the individual scholar-athlete award, students must earn a GPA of 90 percent or higher. For a team to receive the scholar-team award, 75 percent of the team’s roster must have a total average of 90 or above.
Health, Physical Education and Athletics Director Gregory Warren said the student-athletes earned their recognition. “We are very proud of the consistent and high achieving academic performance of our student-athletes,” he said. “Our student-athletes continued to perform with excellence in the classroom and on the field of competition.”
Spring 2020-21 Scholar-Athlete team averages
Varsity baseball: 93.26; varsity boys’ golf: 93.95; varsity girls’ golf: 95.46; varsity girls’ lacrosse: 94.36; varsity softball: 93.81; varsity boys’ tennis: 93.99; varsity boys’ track & field: 93.18; varsity girls’ track & field: 96.94; overall team averages: 92.90.
Spring 2020-2021 Scholar-Athlete individuals (MHAL)
Varsity baseball — Alexander Barbato, Anthony Drewnowski, Brian Kotalik, Peter Leach, Pierce Lutz, Michael Lynn,Maxwell Miller, Aidan Sheedy, Ethan Swanander.
Varsity boys’ golf — Stephen Carr, Joshua Clinton, John Goodermote, Loyal Goodermote, Frank Natoli, Oliver Watson.
Varsity girls’ golf — Flora Pierson, Laci Pindar, Alyssa Puleo, Aracely Watson.
Varsity boys’ lacrosse — Fabio Alvarez, Cain Osarczuk, Ander Pierson, Brady Saunders.
Varsity girls’ lacrosse — Lillian Brustein, Piper Casey, Ava Grae Cronin, Peyton Curley, Keira Dolan, Madison Garcia, Kelly Hansen, Kendall Lucchesi, Kylie Mattsen, Madison McPadden-Gambler, Fiona O’Hara, Lily Zaborowski.
Varsity softball — Jordan Bailin, Isabella Finch, Alexandra Frenza, Natalya Knoth, Emily Lawrence, Angelena Pecoraro, Jena Russo, Natalee Watts.
Varsity boys’ tennis — Ryan Hovey, Jonathan Lynn, Trey Nitza, Nectarios Rodriguez, Mason Roepe, Lucas Weinman.
Varsity boys’ track & field — Noah Brown, Riley Brutvan, Joaquin Crosby-Lizarde, Alexander Demis, Beckett Evans, Mason Eyler, Noah Fishman, Finn Gibson, Giuseppe Giordano, Maxwell Hawkins, Campbell Heiz, Jacob Ingrassia, Aidan McCrory, Alexander Peyser, Griffin Rynne, Chace Snyder, Miles Vigna, Koby Wulfmeyer.
Varsity girls’ track & field — Kylie Ayala, Sadie Beach, Lydia Brutvan, Riley Burdick, Sophia Camiola, Briana Carlini, Sofia Carucci, Ella Constable, Margaret DiDonna, Flavia Drazek, Hannah Ettinger, Marla Mae Feeney, Taishan Fontes-Janusz, Alexa Friedman, Elise Gingold, Avery Greger, Aidan Hoover, Lora Johnson, Melanie Kniffen, Kalle Masseo, Zlata Shmarina, Ella Urrico, Siri Walsh.
Ulster County SPCA at capacity
Dutch Barn opens as gallery for Saugerties Artists’ Tour
Crispin Kott
Crispin Kott was born in Chicago, raised in New York and has called everywhere from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Atlanta home. A music historian and failed drummer, he’s written for numerous print and online publications and has shared with his son Ian and daughter Marguerite a love of reading, writing and record collecting.
Crispin Kott is the co-author of the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City (Globe Pequot Press, June 2018), the Little Book of Rock and Roll Wisdom (Lyons Press, October 2018), and the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area (Globe Pequot Press, May 2021).
Stockade FC will play at Marist College’s Tenney Stadium while Dietz Stadium is being renovated
After 18 seasons and a state championship, Mike Groppuso steps down as Kingston High School baseball coach
Town of Ulster revises policies for dealing with sports injuries
Soccer coach celebrates 50 years in Saugerties
New Paltz Central School District implements new athletic training program
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What COVID-19 Taught Us about Communications in the Public Sector
Posted on October 7, 2020 By Ashima Bhatt
We all know communication is changing. As public chat services like WhatsApp and iMessaging have gained popularity, enterprises and public services have put focus on digitising their customer service. The goal is to increase efficiencies and gain a competitive edge through improvements to speed of service delivery. That includes minimising costs through lower cost per contact channels, which people prefer to use in communications with customer service departments.
According to consumer research firm MRI-Simmons, voice was the most popular way to communicate in 2012, with 94% of survey respondents having done so up to a week before the survey. By 2020, voice calls had fallen to least popular position, behind texting, emailing, posting on social media and using chat apps. 60% of Gen Z respondents said they were likely to hang up if their call wasn’t answered in under 45 seconds. Email is another tool that also led to the decrease of voice calls and helped businesses make contact with customers on their own time. It was becoming apparent that it was important to provide customers with the option of multiple channels to establish contact. In this discussion, voice became branded as the “least efficient way to contact someone”. Some experts began claiming “voice was dead” as a communication channel.
Where we’ve lost our way with how we view voice communications, especially in critical public services like healthcare, education and social welfare, is that we have failed to ask our citizens: in what way do they feel most comfortable interacting with UK public services in different scenarios? With this question in mind, this blog argues that voice communications is not dead in the UK public sector, but is undergoing a renaissance.
Read the situation: communications are customised to the situation at hand
Not everything can be texted. Voice plays a critical role in delivering sensitive, private and difficult messages. For example, during a crisis such as the current coronavirus outbreak, people naturally pivot toward a human response. These situations can initiate a temporary return to traditional communications, which can often be overlooked when planning the digitisation of public services. Statistics published to date during the COVID-19 pandemic indicate voice calls have increased by up to 40%. This is not a local phenomenon, but is rather a global trend.
Voice calls also give a sense of security to citizens. For example, important calls such as those from hospitals can be securely identified on the device as coming from the hospital, and clearly indicate the reason for the call, such as “Test Results” or “Health Services”. Sensitive test results are not texted to a citizen and thus voice plays a critical role in delivering important and sensitive information in a manner that is thoughtful and deliberate. While we can use enhanced calling technology to intelligently route calls and give a preview to the receiver of the subject of the scheduled voice call by SMS, we cannot ignore the role voice calls play in delivering critical and private medical information.
Know your audience: communications are customised to the receiver
In certain situations, some problems can only be resolved by speaking with a person. For instance, in the private sector, high-value transactions are frequently conducted over the phone by request of customers.
The UK public sector’s omnichannel approach needs to be led by data, where each local authority knows why and how they should be communicating with a citizen based on their preferences and the time and nature of the enquiry. This means that local authorities should always be able to evaluate how to contact a citizen before initiating an engagement. Some examples of this are as follows:
In healthcare, a hospital confirming a check-up with a doctor would send a simple SMS for the patient to either confirm or cancel an appointment. However, when they are confirming major surgery, they would use a voice call to convey more information and ensure the patient is correctly informed of potential requirements and preparations.
In education, a teacher can send widespread announcements to parents via email and even social media groups. But in the event of discussing a struggling student, a special needs pupil or anything that is private to the development of an individual, the educator would pick up the phone or schedule a video meeting call if the parent was comfortable with the latter.
In local councils, while social media platforms are incredibly valuable for getting information out to a community instantly around COVID-19, any information about individual and specific coronavirus cases and control strategies with police that need to be kept confidential from the public would be handled in person or over the phone.
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Voice communication today needs upfront privacy measures
In the past, call centres were the key to customer service in all sectors. In recent years, UK public services have tried to downsize operations and seek more cost-effective solutions for contact. Due to a combination of phone number spoofing, financial fraud, and other scams, citizens have lost confidence that their device will correctly report who is really calling them. Businesses can also be targeted by bad actors who impersonate their business activities, and their credibility could be significantly diminished overnight if their brand is tarnished by such a deception.
What can we do to improve? UK public services understand that residents still want to communicate by voice (especially in our current, complex situation) and can take steps to improve their voice privacy protocols. We must change the paradigm, and regain the trusted phone call narrative by assuring citizens it is indeed the UK local authority that is calling. A prime example during COVID-19 is when a hospital calls to return test results to people, they should eliminate all doubt about who is calling. That certainty increases the chances that the receiver will answer the phone. There is no time for ambiguity or missed calls when lives are at stake.
Voice is not dead, it’s evolving
The current situation has shown us that most citizens prefer a human connection when the stakes are high. The benefits to the public service in continuing to use voice communications in data privacy, citizen satisfaction and PR implications far outweigh the perceived efficiencies of 100% digitisation of communications platforms.
To unlock the true value of omnichannel communications, local governments and public sector services must look to invest in both technology that makes the most sense for their services as well as have the expertise (in-house or outsourced) to use that technology effectively. There is certainly a place for voice in this landscape, and when it is correctly used it can foster strong citizen engagement. Local authorities should ensure that communication strategies are not operated in silos for each channel but through a unified campaign orchestration across channels to engage with citizens. Voice is not dead; voice is undergoing a renaissance in 2020. We only need to look at where citizens have migrated for vital communications during COVID-19 as proof.
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Originally published Oct 07, 2020
Ashima Bhatt
Ashima Bhatt is the Senior Manager of Product Marketing for RingCentral’s core Message, Video, Phone product offering. She uses RingCentral as a platform to share with the world how to connect people in meaningful and compelling ways to build forward.
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The Perils Of Placating Progressive Paranoia
Judd Legum of Think Progress delivers the "five of the most important" questions of the Trayvon Martin investigation. Question 1 brings a smile:
1. What was the purported “conflict” that required the initial prosecutor to step down? On March 22 — after several weeks on the job — state attorney Norm Wolfinger stepped down from his role as prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case. Wolfinger relinquished his post after meeting with Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi. He said it was necessary for him to step aside to preserve “the integrity of this investigation,” adding he wanted to avoid “the appearance of a conflict of interest.” He did not explain why his continued involvement would damage the integrity of the case or explain the potential conflict he was seeking to avoid. Did anyone at the prosecutor’s office know Zimmerman or his family? [Orlando Sentinel]
Interesting. The family had demanded a new investigation, they got one, and it is Very Suspicious! Had they not gotten a new investigation, well, that would be Very Suspicious too. The state can't win for playing.
The family and their attorneys had been screaming that the Sanford PD had botched the investigation, that a new look was needed, and that the Feds ought to step in. For flavor, here is a NY Times headline and an Orlando Sentinel clip. The Times, March 16:
Justice Department Investigation Is Sought in Florida Teenager’s Shooting Death
The Sentinel, March 17 (same story, the 911 calls, but the next day's dateline)
Both lawyers characterized what they heard as "murder" and said Zimmerman should be arrested immediately and federal authorities should take over the case.
At a press conference Friday morning, Trayvon's parents said that in the three weeks since he was killed, their trust in the Sanford Police Department has disappeared.
Tracy Martin, father of the slain teen, told reporters he felt "betrayed" by law enforcement investigating his son's death because they have not arrested the shooter.
"It's a shame that he's [Trayvon] not getting any justice. We're not, as a family, getting any closure," the elder Martin said. "I feel betrayed by the Sanford Police Department and there's no way that I can still trust them in investigating this crime."
So the state appoints a new prosecutor with no ties to the Sanford PD or the city of Sanford, and Suspicions Are Raised. Let's clip a bit more from the linked story announcing the new prosecutor, since Mr. Legum's excerpter seems to have broken:
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi have appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, removing the state attorney who had been considering the case.
Scott and Bondi appointed State Attorney Angela B. Corey, whose office handles cases in Duval, Clay and Nassau counties.
Also on Thursday, Scott created a task force headed by Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll to review Florida's 2005 "Stand Your Ground" law, which allows people to use deadly force if they think their lives or others' are in imminent danger or they face "great bodily harm."
Brevard-Seminole State Attorney Norm Wolfinger relinquished the investigation after a talk with Scott and Bondi, according to a statement from the governor's office. Wolfinger signed a letter requesting the special prosecutor, saying he was acting "with the intent of toning down the rhetoric and preserving the integrity of this investigation."
"In the interest of the public safety of the citizens of Seminole County and to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, I would respectfully request the executive assignment of another state attorney for the investigation and any prosecution arising from the circumstances surrounding the death of Trayvon B. Martin," Wolfinger wrote.
...Scott said he is creating the task force on the gun law because of the public outcry over the case.
Benjamin Jealous, president and chief executive of the national NAACP, and Turner Clayton, president of the Seminole County NAACP, applauded the move but said they would not rest until Zimmerman is arrested and convicted.
As to what that conflict of interest might have been, I will offer the obvious guess in a moment. But the notion that there is some mysterous conflict of interest that mysteriously prompted the sudden withdrawal of the prosecutor, and that this is the most important question swirling about the case, is absurd. The public was howling and the prosecutor was scalped.
Now, the obvious conflict: the endgame for Ben Crump, the Martin family attorney, is justice for the family; "justice" with Mr. Crump typically includes a big payday from a civil wrongful death suit. Since a big settlement requires a deep-pocketed defendant, the City of Sanford is a likely place to look.
Thus, as with every other city in America, there is a tension between the goal of investigating crimes and the goal of sparing the taxpayers from huge bills attributable to police misbehavior. The solution in this country has not been to have the Feds investigate everything but it may be that in this case the City of Sanford really does have a bit of a stake in clearing their police department.
OK, tying the City of Sanford to the death won't be easy, but... normally gun permits are granted at the local level - how did Sanford handle that? [Answer - by not doing it; Rob Crawford tells us that the FL Dept of Ag And Conumer Services handles gun permits; sue them] I would start there. Criticizing them for a slow respnse to the 911 calls looks hopeless, but who knows - even a minute could have saved a life, so evidence that a responding officer settled his tab at the doughnut shop before rolling could be critical.
Could there be other conflicts? George Zimmerman's dad was a retired magistrate somewhere, and may have friends in the Florida justice system. Yeah, yeah. I would start with looking at the money.
And lest they have not realized it already - I am sure that most of the folks screaming for an immediate arrest of George Zimmerman on no evidence are well intentioned (despite a hazy grasp of US law, whch likes to see probable cause). However, Ben Crump very much needs an arrest and, even better, a criminal trial,to advance his eventual civil suit.
The OJ Simpson civil jury famously overcame his criminal acquital and (due to a different jury and a lower burden of proof) found him civily liable for the death of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. Ben Crump can overcome an eventual acquital, but arguing wrongful death when no one has been arrested probably exceeds even his skills. IANAL, so I welcome guidance from the ambulance chasers distingished jurists out there.
HEY, SHOULDN'T 'MR. WONDERFUL' KEEP GOING? Not a bad question...
OK, I can quit anytime, but (2) is a layup:
2. Why did the prosecutor ignore the recommendations of the lead homicide investigator? ABC News reported that Chris Serino, the lead homicide investigator on the Trayvon Martin case, recommended that Zimmerman be charged with manslaughter on the night of the shooting. Serino filed an affidavit that night stating “he was unconvinced Zimmerman’s version of events.” As the lead homicide investigator, Serino was: 1. In the best position to evaluate Zimmerman’s credibility, and 2. Intimately familiar with Florida law. Why was he ignored?
Really? First, as noted the person who ignored the recommendation is out and we don't know what will happen next.
Secondly, from my extensive review of Law and Order it is not unusual for investigators to have a gut feel that the suspect is lying and for prosecutors to insist that unless the invvestigators entrails can testify, actual charges and an actual trial require actual evidence. C'mon, that scene is staged 12 times a day every day on cable. Is "real life" really that different? Let's cut back to Ta Nehisi-Coates and his advice from a former homicide prosecutor from Florida:
1.) I don't believe Mr. Zimmerman's story (presuming that what is in the report is truly what he told the police), but more importantly,
2.) What prosecutors believe is not nearly as important as what they can prove. I can not stress this enough, and my mind is about to explode with all of nonsense being written about what the government can and cannot do. It is up to the government, not anyone else, to prove that Zimmerman is lying.
Third, who knows how the wind was blowing on this case, or an other? It may be that the lead investigator routinely urges prosecution figuring (a) it won't be his sorry ass in the courtroom with no case, and (b) no one can ever call him 'weak on crime' later, since he wants to try everyone on someone else's dime.
Or maybe the lead investigator could see pretty quickly that the fecal matter and the whirling fan were colliding on this case, so he went into CYA mode and recommended prosecution based on evidence he couldn't turn up.
Frankly, if I were the prosecutor I would be deeply irked by this back-stabbing and would strongly urge the guy to do his job and develop the case or STFU. But whatever. As to the idea that this is an important Unsolved Mystery, well, send better questions.
QUITTING SOON BUT... (3) is not that better question:
3. Why did then-Police Chief Bill Lee make public statements directly contradicting the official recommendations of the police department? On the day the Sanford Police concluded their investigation and handed over the case to the prosecutor, then-Police Chief Bill Lee stated publicly that there was no “probable cause” to arrest or charge Zimmerman. (Lee has subsequently “temporarily” stepped down from his post.) But the Miami Herald reports that on the same day the Sanford Police formally requested that the prosecutor charge Zimmerman, something known as a “capias” request. [ThinkProgress]
We have cites of the chief's thinking in a post below; this is from the Times, March 16:
“The evidence doesn’t establish so far that Mr. Zimmerman did not act in self-defense,” Chief Bill Lee of the Sanford police said this week, responding to why Mr. Zimmerman had not been arrested. He said he would welcome a federal investigation. “We don’t have anything to dispute his claim of self-defense at this point.”
Oh, let's proudly show our commitment to recycling! Here is one of the Sanford investigators, on the record and hinting at dissension back on March 17 in the Orlando Sentinel:
Investigator Chris Serino of Sanford police said Friday the agency has worked closely with prosecutors, and have not arrested Zimmerman because prosecutors have consistently told them they do not have enough evidence to win a manslaughter conviction.
That's because Zimmerman says he was defending himself, something he's allowed to do under Florida law.
On my scorecard I just won 3 and 2, but never having won at match play before, I might be wrong.
NEWTON MAY HAVE BEEN RIGHT ABOUT MOMENTUM:
4. Who leaked Trayvon Martin’s school records? As public outrage increased, Zimmerman’s sympathizers launched a smear campaign against Trayvon Martin. This included details of several occasions where Martin was suspended for minor infractions (defacing a locker, possessing an empty “marijuana baggie.”) None of the information seemed to have any particular relevance to the night Trayvon Martin was shot to death. Was this a ham-handed attempt by the police or the prosecutor to defend their lack of action against Zimmerman?
As to relevance, Zimerman's critics insist he engaged in racial profiling. On the 911 call, he says Martin looked like he was on drugs; a school suspension for drug use might time in to that (a tox screen might be helpful, although I am far from an expert on how accurately those tests determine timing of drug use) and suggest that Zimmerman actually did see someone staggering down the street in a drug-induced haze.
But set that aside - yes, it was a ham-handed attempt to bolster the "Save George (and our jobs)" faction. No kidding. So what? People who thought that the month long campaign to tar Zimmerman and the Sanford PD as racist would go unanswered were probably not thinking.
And why not:
5. Why was Trayvon Martin’s body tagged as a John Doe? The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart notes a police report “that was completed at 3:07 a.m. on Feb. 27 lists Trayvon’s full name, city of birth, address and phone number.” But yet, Trayvon’s body was reportedly “tagged as a John Doe” and his father wasn’t informed of his death until after he filed a missing person report later on the 27th. Why weren’t Trayvon Martin’s parents contacted immediately after the police confirmed his identity? [Washington Post]
Beats me. Any guess would be in the "Wild Ass" area. For example, the cell phone baffles me and everything I have read suggest the police fell down in not locating the girlfriend sooner. Possible explanations for why it was not used to immediately track down his parents - it was password protected, the battery died, it was set to buzzer and no one heard it ring, space aliens ate it - did I mention that I don't know but would like to?
However, as to the clear fact that Trayvon Martin is IDed in the police report yet (per the Sanford FAQ) the family did not make the ID until "late" the following morning, well, it's puzzling. Maybe the name was added to the report later - I have no idea if that might be acceptable procedure.
But from a different perspective, what difference does it make in terms of evaluating the case against Zimmerman? Is the argument that the police might have taken a different approach in the first few hours if they had known that Trayvon Martin belonged in the neighborhood? What different evidence might that have generated?
The timing of the ID in the report is a puzzle, but if I could rub a magic lantern and get answers to five questions, that would not make the list.
So what would make the list? Hmm. I prefer questions that might have a useful answer. As an example of a bad uestion, was the City of Sanford worried about possible liabilty in a wrongful death suit? On one level, of course they were. But no one will ever admit it and there will never be a smoking gun memo ordering the investigators or DA into the tank to save the city's taxpayers, so I wouldn't waste a question on it.
Two obvious ones - what happened with the cell phone that they (apparently) never got ahold of Trayvon Martin's girlfriend? Letting Ben Crump unveil her after the 911 tapes had been made public was not helpful to the investigation, since the defense will allege that her memory may have been supplemented or complemented by the information from those tapes. She is not as credible a witness as she could have been if the police had gotten a statement from her early on (assuming they didn't).
Second, was George Zimmerman tested for drugs and alcohol? That's an easy yes or no and a reporter could expect an answer. It would be nice to get the result, too, but I'll settle for knowing the test was done.
I won't waste a question asking whether the police documented his wounds; I assume that if the DA had a report which read that Zimmerman claimed self-defense but had no wounds, this case (and the leaks) would play out differently. People worried about some conspiracy in which the police, the prosecutor and the defense all know Zimmerman can't prove he had wounds will want to use a question on this. Same thing with the forensics - if Martin was shot in the back, for example, it would take a notable cover-up for us to be where we are.
Third question - where was the body found (the police report seems clear but confirmation would be useful), where was Zimmerman's vehicle recovered, and what was the walking distance separating them? This blogger puts the death just to the right of his letter A; that works for me, and I am now waffling about my guess that final spot was a bit more towards the top of the map (I am missing a link to a third blogger who also makes the spot to the right of the A). That said, I think we differ by a distance of maybe 20-30 yards, which may not mean much.
Fourth question - relating to the possible state of mind of one of the two fight participants and the ability of George Zimmerman to pick out people on drugs or acting oddly - did Trayvon Martin have any drugs or, for example, a half-empty flask of whiskey (some might say half-full) on him?
The NY Timies is unequivocal on this point (my emphasis):
MIAMI — Nearly three weeks after an unarmed teenager was killed in a small city north of Orlando, stirring an outcry, a few indisputable facts remain: the teenager, who was black, was carrying nothing but a bag of Skittles, some money and a can of iced tea when he was shot.
It is indisputable because the family said so; there has been no release of a police inventory from the crime scene. Nor should there be, since the victim and his family have privacy rights, but this is my magic lantern. Eventually the tox screen will provide an answer, I assume; the family could no doubt publicize that answer as soon as it is available, and a decision not to do so might be revealing. Some enterprising reporter willing to deviate from the narrative might want to ask Mr. Crump about that. As if.
Fifth question - can I ask for more questions? Ahh, the question genie hates that one. How about some suggestions?
Shep is a moron.
Posted by: Pofarmer | March 29, 2012 at 03:54 PM
shouldn't a grand jury get the final say not the opinion of the shooter or the Chief?
Say as to what? No one found any evidence of a crime. The evidence supports the claim of self defense, which is a legal act.
Posted by: Rob Crawford | March 29, 2012 at 03:54 PM
John Kerry is a liar.
Posted by: MarkO | March 29, 2012 at 03:54 PM
Looks like Zimmerman is going to have to be white. The Hispanic race hustlers are siding with the black race hustlers and are calling Zimmerman a murderer. NHE. Not Hispanic Enough.
Posted by: Sue | March 29, 2012 at 03:56 PM
Sigh...I've been scammed by a kindygardner...
"having the body for 3 days" ......you give yourself away by spewing this crap.
please.take.your.ball.and.leave.
It's easier to argue if you don't worry about facts and stuff.
If the "unarmed" man had never thrown a punch, then, yes, the putative unarmed status could be used to cast doubt on whether the shooter was reasonably in fear of serious harm or death.
I would say that merely throwing a punch doesn't do it, but pinning the guy on the ground and punching him or knocking his head on the pavement does. "Stand your ground" or not, what makes self-defense credible in this case is the fact that he was being beaten while unable to extricate himself. No need for him to wait and see if more serious harm or death is intended.
Posted by: jimmyk | March 29, 2012 at 03:57 PM
I was going to say that, DoT. I swear it.
Posted by: Threadkiller | March 29, 2012 at 03:58 PM
The father, in quotes:
"...I'm living down here. He was sitting on the porch and this man killed him."
Trayvon is now sitting on his porch when Zimmerman killed him.
Stephanie-- the problem Chief Lee and the prosecutor have is that they released GZ on his say so, very limited physical evidence and no GJ review.
How does one get to this level of stupid?
Posted by: Jay | March 29, 2012 at 03:59 PM
Super - Now Rosanne Barr decides to twitter a "Zimmerman" address....and is saying she is going to the address....
Posted by: Enlightened | March 29, 2012 at 04:00 PM
Meh. Florida has some experts on handling large mammals.
Yeah, Mr. Martin and his gf were misinformed, but John the eyewitness seems very clear and credible about what he saw.
Posted by: DebinNC | March 29, 2012 at 04:02 PM
Big Z got the drop on Martin.
Now they take the "one drop" from Big Z.
. The Hispanic race hustlers are siding with the black race hustlers and are calling Zimmerman a murderer. NHE. Not Hispanic Enough.
Unbelievable. I just pray this will be a light bulb moment for some Americans....that they will see the hatred & insanity of the left.
Posted by: Janet | March 29, 2012 at 04:05 PM
Can anyone explain how the actions against Zimmerman being ginned up by the left side of the political spectrum today do not resemble the lynch mob's actions depicted so memorably in the iconic liberal flick The Oxbow Incident?
And don't tell me it's because Dana Andrews was innocent and George Zimmerman is guilty.
Posted by: Jim Rhoads a/k/a vnjagvet | March 29, 2012 at 04:07 PM
Brandy Green - a family friend - was the person that spoke this...honestly (and I know I will get clobbered (thanks Sarah P for todays buzzword) for saying this - but I think when Ms. Green said this, she was speaking in the manner some black people do shortening sentences to a few words etc
When she said it (to me at least) I think she meant she had just "seen him on the porch" and now "the man kill him"...I don't think she meant he was killed on the porch...
"carrying nothing but a bag of Skittles, some money and a can of iced tea when he was shot."
I'm curious as to why there is no mention of him carrying a cell phone? Wasn't his GF talking to him around the time of the shooting?
Posted by: AltaMike | March 29, 2012 at 04:11 PM
Enlightened,
The article used the quote for the father. I didn't actually watch the video.
Pravda missed the Open Mic directive. They are not waiting until after the election.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/29-03-2012/120917-barack_obama_foreign_student-0/
Well, um, because...
IT JUST DOESN'T, OKAY?! HATER!!!
Sen Kerry: "“I can tell you that we had one of the most rigorous and transparent legislative processes that I have witnessed in almost 3 decades here in the Congress."
And have any of them actually read it yet?
Posted by: Jim,MtnViewCA,USA | March 29, 2012 at 04:13 PM
We worked with some of the brightest, most thoughtful and experienced constitutional lawyers in order to make sure that the law was constitutional.
I'd bet his boat that he didn't write or read one word of the bill and wouldn't recognize the constitution if he fell over it.
WH has ordered the hiring of 1400 IRS agents (now)to enforce Obamacare. I guess he is going ahead with it regardless of what the court says.
When is the House going to wise up and stop giving him the money.
Posted by: Jane | March 29, 2012 at 04:13 PM
"I'm curious as to why there is no mention of him carrying a cell phone? Wasn't his GF talking to him around the time of the shooting? "
St. Travon.
TK,
You got me. You made me look. And now I'm pissed that I did. Regurgitating what has been said, over and over, doesn't make it true. ::grin::
RobC-- appreciate you being more civil. The States' 'reasonable' use of lethal force common law and statutory guidelines are pretty consistent with idiosyncratic exceptions -- such as good samaritan third party statutes. I'll politely correct you; I never said being attacked by fists as opposed to a weapon precludes lethal force self -defense-- it depends on the circumstances and the shooter's reasonable fear of serious injury or death. hence the 40yo bankers wife who swore at Mike Tyson and then was being beaten by Tyson's fists can use lethal force in self-defense, even though she 'initiated' by swearing at Tyson. But if you're claiming lethal force in self-defense against an attacker using their fists rather than a weapon-- prosecutors want a real good explanation of why you were in fear of serious injury. Mike Tyson punching you, or a strong 17yo banging your head on the pavement, prosecutors and GJ will be persuaded that was reasonable under the circumstances -- what's the evidence? eyewitnesses and hospital treatment help persuade prosecutors and grand jurors of reasonable fear of serious injury.
Posted by: NK | March 29, 2012 at 04:15 PM
Has it been confirmed that Martin actually had the tea and skittles?
Anyway that video of Tracy Martin and Brandy Green on the morning after the shooting puts to bed forever the lie that Trayvon was unidentified in the morgue for 3 days. And it is so sad to see Mr. Martin on that video - his pain was palpable.
And Yes - John the witness seems very credible in that video and sadly is most likely in fear of his life now as well.
Breibart timeline of the race baiters jumping in puts the onus squarely on Sharpton and I have to agree. He is the asshole that has driven this into frenzy of hatred and even got his man the Prez to jump in.
It's at night, in the rain, and there are no snacks in the house?
Once Zimmerman had the gun pointed at Martin, why did he have to shoot him? No matter the beating, the only way a shot can be justified is if they are both struggling for the gun or Martin rushes Zimmerman in an attempt to get the gun.
Posted by: Steve | March 29, 2012 at 04:18 PM
Has it been confirmed he had a hoodie?
NK, it's clear that you are heavily influenced by how police and courts and the law works in New York City. I'm here ot tell you that it doesn't work that way in much of the rest of the country.
In much of the rest of the country, the police and/or DA have the balls to make their own determination on whether to charge or not. In NYC, the DA usually plays it safe and leaves it up to the grand jury to decide. Admittedly, in much of the rest of the country, potential hot potato cases are also given to the grand jury, but this didn't seem to be a hot potato case until the media built this into a hot potato.
I should also note that NYC, having so many people, typically has a standing grand jury which can meet almost instantaneously. In much of the rest of the country, grand jurys are empaneled only when there is need for one, which process typically takes a month.
Finally, the issues of self-defense and use of lethal force vary by jurisdiction. RobC is using the laws of Ohio; I presume that you are using the laws of NY. They're different. And Florida's is different from either of those. A lot of the cross-arguments occur here simply because it's not clear who is relying on which state's law.
Posted by: Rex | March 29, 2012 at 04:20 PM
I never heard of the group presente.rg, the "online" group that says Zimmerman isn't really Hispanic so they're good to go on the lynching. Did anyone? Is this yet another Soros front?
Posted by: Clarice | March 29, 2012 at 04:20 PM
Sorry Sue. Friends?
Sue - The article used the quote for the father. I didn't actually watch the video
I know - and it is one of the reasons that lie that TM was killed on the porch was floating out there - egad journalists these days! And what editor let that one get through?
Jay@359--
hey smart guy-- we'll pick a time and a place, you can tell me to my face how stupid I am.
Wow, Steve's back. Now we're at double stupid on this issue.
Why did he even put bullets in the gun?
Oh the humanity!!
Rex- I admitted I am influenced by the DA's in and around NYC, absolutely. The DA's learned 30 years ago how to defend against Sharpton and the rest of the racebaiters' BS. If they don't, other jurisdiction should use those procedures in 'hot potato' cases. I hate to see the race hustlers get an oportunity because of good faith -- but slow or sloppy-- police work.
I did not see where NK's end of the dialog envoked name calling. Maybe he did and I missed it, but I sure don't think it is necessary.
MarkO-- yes John Kerry is a liar, and Breyer is that dumb. read his 'living constitution' book.
"I'm curious as to why there is no mention of him carrying a cell phone? Wasn't his GF talking to him around the time of the shooting?"
I could be mistaken but somewhere I read that when TM was talking on the phone to his GF, he had a earbud on, and his phone was in his pocket.
When he died, he was found on his stomach and most likely the phone was still in his pocket. It may have been found by the ME once he was at the morgue?
The cell phone will only confirm if he was talking to his GF, the time he was talking to her in relation to Z 911 call and if GF did try and call back a couple times after 7:16 pm....
I don't see any great significance of the phone other than that. Should the cops have found it on him? Not sure if that is their responsibility to check pockets of the deceased or if they leave eveything to the ME so as not to destroy any evidence.
Breyer's incoherent statements on Commerce Clause captured in Reason cartoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xdXiOKTrEK8
OK, my turn.
Colonel Mustard, in the Living Room, with the wrench.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 29, 2012 at 04:28 PM
From Rocco's 01:57.
"Crime is rampant because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it, submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back, immediately, then and there, where it happens."
"The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of cowards and shirkers. "
Looks to me like we might be seeing a lot of outrage because a alleged Democrat may have broken from the beliefs of the leftists.
Posted by: pagar | March 29, 2012 at 04:29 PM
Will the investigators be able to determine how close the gun was to Martin when he was shot? If the gun is within a foot or so of Martin, the shooting can be justified. If further away, I do not think so. How do you justify shooting an unarmed person who is not within touching distance?
presente.org - on their about page -
“ Today we must fight for a better world, without poverty, without racism, with peace. ” – Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Sorta shows they are comfortable with frauds.
hence the 40yo bankers wife who swore at Mike Tyson and then was being beaten by Tyson's fists can use lethal force in self-defense, even though she 'initiated' by swearing at Tyson
And I'm telling you that by initiating it, she voided her claim to self defense. Again, the Ohio Attorney General's office: "First, the defendant must prove that he was not at fault for creating the situation. The defendant cannot be the first aggressor or initiator." And, yes, that includes making statements. You cannot have started the situation or escalated it and then claim self defense.
Sure, a jury might acquit her, but she's still going to face charges.
But if you're claiming lethal force in self-defense against an attacker using their fists rather than a weapon-- prosecutors want a real good explanation of why you were in fear of serious injury.
I never claimed otherwise.
What you're missing is that you always have to explain why you were in fear of serious injury or death, regardless of whether the attacker is "unarmed" or not. The "unarmed" is unimportant; the fear of serious harm or death is what's important.
You keep demanding that someone acting in self defense has extra hoops to jump through if they were attacked by fists -- it's just not true. They have to meet the same standards. The laws are the same. You keep acting like "unarmed" has some sort of legal or moral weight -- it flat-out doesn't.
BTW -- you can use lethal force in the defense of another person if and only if you are certain that person had the right to use lethal force in their own defense. If they initiated or escalated the encounter (and, yes, slurs and insults count as initiating), then you are in the wrong, regardless of any perceived imbalance between the two parties.
Oh, and ignorance of who started it is no defense.
"The phone was in his pocket and the earphone in his ear, Crump said"
Well that's where I heard that one...TN's attorney.
Enlightened-- the cell phone makes the cops look bad and their investigation incomplete. That became one of the talking points that the race hustlers and media used to make this case a 'story'.
**TM's*** attorney
I don't see any great significance of the phone other than that.
If he were truly in fear for his safety, he could have called 911...
Three foot long arms have a "touching distance" of one foot.
RobC-- slurs/insults do not vitiate self-defense in NY State.
Yes, Robb. And he wasn't so in fear that he couldn't call his gf and alk about what was happening instead of 911.
the cell phone makes the cops look bad and their investigation incomplete.
The cell phone had no bearing on the case.
How do you justify shooting an unarmed person who is not within touching distance?
Unless the sight of the gun made Trayvon jump to his feet, he was within touching distance of Zimmerman. I'd think forensics should show if Zimmerman shot Trayvon sitting above him and then shoved his body off to get to his feet, or if Trayvon was standing away when shot.
There's some story out there that the DoJ is about to indict Nikki Haley for tax fraud.
Anybody else seeing this stuff, other than what's on Memeorandom?
Roberto Lovato - co-founder of Presente.org
Tarso Luís Ramos: Tell me about your organization, Presente.org.
Roberto Lovato: Presente.org, which I co-founded in May 2009, is the preeminent online Latino advocacy organization. It’s kind of like a MoveOn.org for Latinos: its goal is to build Latino power through online and offline organizing.
As I suspected it's a re-elect Obama front group.
Oh my stars, where is FedSec? Reporter on Hannity is claiming she spoke to one of George Zimmerman's neighbors and she was shown a picture and asked if it was George Zimmerman. It was a bloody picture of him.
from my 4:38 link -
"We got support from Latino groups like the Willie Velasquez Institute, the National Hispanic Media Coalition, and the Latino Policy Institute, and we got solidarity from non-Latino groups like AlterNet, Credo Mobile, MoveOn, Democrats.com, and Color of Change.
Also important were our friends in the media, especially inside CNN. Lou Dobbs made a lot of enemies. "
bold mine.
I've disagreed with NK occasionally, including on this thread, but I've never found him either stupid or any of the other less than charitable things that have been said about him today.
Not cool.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 29, 2012 at 04:42 PM
Given your record, I won't take your word for that. And... good reason not to:
Sec. 35.15 Justification; use of physical force in defense of a person.
1. A person may, subject to the provisions of subdivision two, use physical force upon another person when and to the extent he reasonably believes such to be necessary to defend himself or a third person from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by such other person, unless:
(a) The latter`s conduct was provoked by the actor himself with intent to cause physical injury to another person;
Good luck proving that you didn't intend to start a fight when you started slinging slurs around.
(Source LUN)
Has NK repeatedly, and apparently purposefully, misstated someone's position before?
We are fortunte here in this part of Florida to have comic relief for all these little national stories we have to endure like Casey Anthony and Martin/Zimmerman. Her name is Corrine Brown and she is not a standup comedian but a Congresswoman with the most gerrymandered district in America. You have to be a Picasso to design her district in order to keep the average IQ of its voters around 70 to 72.
By the way, the young white female she couldn't name is Michele Parker, the People's Court participant who went missing in November 2011.
Posted by: Jack is Back! | March 29, 2012 at 04:46 PM
Mel,
Strangely, if you google Nikki Haley, there's a Daily Beast item, but if you click on it, it's disappeared. Almost as if they reported it and then decided to retract it.
Sorry but the link doesn't seem to work.
Try this and have a laugh.
The cops don't mention a cell phone and the GF and the lawyer cite it as evidence of bad faith and/or incompetence on the part of the cops. If there is no cellphone it is certainly indicative of pure BS on the part of Crump and/or his witness, the girlfriend. If there is a cell phone it makes the cops looks like they may not have followed up on available evidence, since the gf claims that she was talking to the victim during the moments preceding the incident and they never talked to her (although that assumes that they haven't actually done that). If the cops didn't follow up on the cellphone it calls much of the rest of the investigation into question. It would be instructive to know this.
Posted by: boatbuilder | March 29, 2012 at 04:48 PM
Looks like Presente.org doesn't like Rubio either.
"MIAMI, Fla. – Outside the Hispanic Leadership Network’s 2012 Conference, Latino advocacy organization Presente Action launched the campaign “NO SOMOS RUBIOS,” (We are not Marco Rubios!) with a protest staged by Florida DREAM Act students and others..."
JiB-
My Reps are "better" than your Reps.
Jimmyk-
WaPo's still got it. This is classic Axelrod.
There seems to be a patttern to whom they target, Sarah, Nikki, and now in the LUN
Posted by: narciso | March 29, 2012 at 04:51 PM
Sorry, let me try again;
I do not know if it was on purpose, Rob, but back in my birther youth, NK and I had a go at it. We both crossed up each others statements. Some ugly things were said.
I would hate to see a repeat.
The reporter that Hannity just had on was first on the scene and got interviews with people that other news organizations couldn't get, whether because they were afraid or were told by cops not to, she doesn't know. One thing she said that was interesting to her was how far away some of the "witnesses" were to where the incident occurred. She was surprised they could hear screaming.
--unless:
(a) The latter`s conduct was provoked by the actor himself with intent to cause physical injury to another person;--
Maybe I'm misunderstanding that but does calling someone a pejorative qualify as intent to cause physical injury.
Seems kind of unlikely, no?
I saw it about 2 minutes ago. Maybe Daily Caller but I really don't know.
narciso,
Too damn hot to be a conservative. Need to muss her up a little and make her cry. She is perfect for the obligatory mud job. Since she in Wisconsin, I wonder who'll get the job? SEIU or the Teacher's Union?
One thing she said that was interesting to her was how far away some of the "witnesses" were to where the incident occurred. She was surprised they could hear screaming.
Isn't Shep on during the confrontation time frame? Even people in Sanford don't watch him. So lots of silence. Sound travels.
Roberto Lovato - from Wiki
the other founder is "Favianna Rodriguez, co-founder of Presente.org"
If you google Nikki Hayley you get this:
According to an anonymously-sourced report, South Carolina Governor and Mitt Romney supporter Nikki Haley has been under investigation for tax fraud and the ...
But when you click on the link to Daily Beast, it goes to an error page. They've pulled their story.
On this issue NK has been mischaracterizing other's comments to a degree significantly less "polite" than "shut up" IMO.
Posted by: boris | March 29, 2012 at 05:07 PM
Reallu it's open season on Sikh's now, Alabama is close enough to S. Carolina right
JiB that link from CNN is hilarious!
--Has NK repeatedly, and apparently purposefully, misstated someone's position before?--
I see where he was accused of doing it by two or three different people but having reread a good portion of the thread can't see where he actually did.
I can see where he was called a liar, ignorant, stupid and told to shut up and that he didn't respond in kind and see his only response to have been to Jay's gratuitous insult at 4:20.
Not quite down the memory hole,
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/29/report-doj-may-indict-sc-gov-nikki-haley-for-tax-fraud/
--On this issue NK has been mischaracterizing other's comments to a degree significantly less "polite" than "shut up" IMO.--
Citation to this mischaracterization please. Didn't see it myself.
RobC-- below is the relevant text of NY State Penal Code 35.15 the self defense provison. As to "initial aggressor" using a slur or insult and nothing further, and walking away, that does not constititue physical aggression that vitiates reasonable force self-defense. If you slur and walk on by, and the other party physically attacks you, self-defense applies. if you use a slur and and shove the other party, and they punch you, self-defense doesn't apply and everybody's liable for a crime. Initial agressor means you physically started the fight, not that you had bad manners-- but it all depends on the facts.
(a) The latter`s conduct was provoked by the actor himself with intent to cause physical injury to another person; or
(b) The actor was the initial aggressor; except that in such case his use of physical force is nevertheless justifiable if he has withdrawn from the encounter and effectively communicated such withdrawal to such other person but the latter persists in continuing the incident by the use or threatened imminent use of unlawful physical force;
Attacks on Haley and Rubio?!?
Oh the lengths the left will go to in preventing a dual citizen from occupying the White House.
Then again, nothing surprises me on this score, except I don't see a byline by Will Folks
Is Twitter complicit in threatening the life of Zimmerman by allowing this thread to remain online?
https://twitter.com/#!/KillZimmerman
"... can't see where he actually did ..."
You seem like a very tolerant person iggy.
Ig-- thanks for the kind words. I see where TK remembered our tiff years ago-- we both can be --uh- persistent. I still would like to meet Jay though-- I'll cop to that.
Clarice-- very good point. Not that Holder would do anything about this outrage, but Twitter is going to find itself in very unhappy litigation when some nut acts on some suggestion Twitted on their service.
--You seem like a very tolerant person iggy.--
I would have preferred the citation but compliments are always accepted with gratitude, boris. :)
--but Twitter is going to find itself in very unhappy litigation when some nut acts on some suggestion Twitted on their service--
Wasn't there a case a few years back absolving internet providers of culpability for content carried on their networks? Seems twitter should qualify too.
I'm a little surprised he would put forward a story like this, with so little sourcing,
http://newsbusters.org/people/nicholas-ballasy
"first off take it up with RobC he says fists always justify lETHAL self-defense"
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Huge majority of firms unprepared for cyber attacks
Open-access content Wednesday 13th June 2018 — updated 5.50pm, Wednesday 29th April 2020
Just one-fifth of organisations around the world believe they are well prepared for cyber attacks, despite the number of highly damaging data breaches reaching an all-time high.
That is according to a survey of almost 4,000 chief information officers by KPMG, which finds that three-quarters are more concerned about the threat of organised cyber crime than anything else.
Almost a quarter more respondents are prioritising improvements in cyber security than in 2017, making this the fastest growing IT concern for company boards globally.
"The seemingly inevitability of a cyber attack crosses all borders, and has now crossed firmly over the threshold for board-level discussions," KPMG International global cyber security services co-leader, Akhilesh Tuteja, said.
"Protecting the business from a cyber attack has jumped further up the boardroom agenda than any other item and IT leaders are being encouraged to make their defences the best they can be."
The combined annual cyber security spend of the organisations that responded to the KPMG survey is $46bn (£34.5bn), with the research finding that utilising consumer data while maintaining privacy is now a key challenge facing firms.
'Customer centric' organisations that manage this balance most effectively were found to be 38% more likely to report greater profitability than their competitors.
The difficulty businesses are having managing data was reflected in 38% of firms saying they did not expect to be compliant with General Data Protection Regulation when asked back in April.
This drive towards protecting data has caused a huge spike in demand for security and resilience expertise, with skill shortages in this area jumping 25% year-on-year.
Two-thirds of the survey respondents said skill shortages are preventing them from keeping up with the pace of change, citing big data and analytics as those that are hardest to find for the fourth year in a row.
"CIOs have a really difficult tight rope to walk," said Albert Ellis, CEO of the Harvey Nash Group which produced the survey with KPMG. "On one hand the board is asking them to drive innovation, on the other it is demanding data integrity and resilience.
"The organisations that can get this balance right, between innovation and governance, are in the strongest position to compete in an increasingly complex technology environment."
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Norway Introduces New Social Media Law For Influencers & Advertisers
Lara Murray on July 9, 2021
New Law Requires Influencers & Advertisers To Disclose Whether Or Not Their Posts Have Been Retouched
A law passed in Norway will make it illegal to post retouched paid social content without declaring the edits. This will mean that content creators must include a standardised label on paid posts, disclosing that the image has been manipulated.
Through weakening the false image of “perfection” created online – exposing alterations to size, body shape, skin tone and filters – the government seeks to tackle poor mental health linked to a pressure to look a certain way.
If influencers or advertisers fail to abide by these new rules, the consequence could be a hefty fine or even imprisonment.
A new law in Norway is coming into force that will mean social media influencers can't post modified photos without declaring the edits.
"You are beautiful, don't throw that away for some extra likes. That's not real life," influencer Madeline sayshttps://t.co/1vEdtITtxw
— BBC Newsbeat (@BBCNewsbeat) July 6, 2021
The Ministry of Children and Family Affairs brought up the initial proposal to the Norwegian parliament. According to the National Institute of Public Health, they stated:
“Young people are exposed to a massive pressure to look good out [sic] through, among other things, advertising and social media, and the models displayed are often digitally retouched…This exposes young people to an ideal of beauty that is impossible to achieve.”
[Image Creds: ABC]
This new law, with a vote of 72–15, is an amendment to the country’s 2009 Marketing Act and will go into effect when decided by the King of Norway.
The UK and France have enforced similar bills; last September, a legislator from the UK proposed a new bill called the Digital Altered Body Images Bill, which requires advertisers, broadcasters and publishers to display a logo in cases where an image of a human body or body part has been manipulated digitally.
Whilst there is still a long way to go, these new laws will hopefully pave the way towards creating a healthier and happier life for millions of young users.
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Ralph Lauren and G2 Esports Announce First-of-its-kind Global Partnership Between Luxury and Esports Brands
June 21, 2021 — Berlin, Germany – Global luxury fashion brand Ralph Lauren and G2 Esports (G2), one of the world’s leading entertainment and esports brands, today announces Ralph Lauren as an exclusive fashion outfitter to the G2 team, marking the first time a luxury brand officially outfits an entire esports team on a long term basis. As part of their partnership, Ralph Lauren and G2 will also launch a series of digital-first activations on platforms such as TikTok and Twitch, as well as global campaigns and events.
“Our partnership with G2 will further the progress we are making to bring our powerful heritage brand to life in authentic ways across new platforms. It also underlines our commitment to engage new consumers – including a generation of digital-natives who participate in gaming as a world-class sport and for entertainment,” said Alice Delahunt, Ralph Lauren, Chief Digital & Content Officer.
The G2 partnership marks a next generation addition to Ralph Lauren’s prestigious sporting partnership portfolio, including the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams; The Championships, Wimbledon; the US Open; the Australian Open; the PGA of America and the PGA Championship; the U.S. Ryder Cup team; the U.S. Open Golf Championship; and the American Junior Golf Association.
This summer will see G2’s League of Legends star Rekkles feature in Ralph Lauren’s latest Wimbledon Campaign. The campaign celebrates Ralph Lauren’s 16th year as official outfitter of The Championships, Wimbledon and will feature a selection of other high-profile athletes from a variety of sporting fields.
G2 was founded in 2015 by legendary League of Legends player-turned-team owner, Carlos ‘Ocelote’ Rodriguez, and veteran esports entrepreneur and investor, Jens Hilgers.
“Today is one of the most special days in my life and G2's history. A brand I have loved for many years is now part of the G2 family. Ralph Lauren has entered the world of gaming in partnership with G2, and nothing makes us happier and prouder than to be able to execute on their strategy while doing our thing. With their support, we will continue to thrive and elevate the way we entertain you. As a lifelong gamer and proud founding CEO, seeing Ralph Lauren enter this industry is an incredible moment I will never forget. I could not be more excited to share with all of you what's coming,” said Carlos ‘Ocelote’ Rodriguez, Founder, and CEO of G2 Esports.
In the past five years, G2 has built a global fanbase of over 32 million fans spanning EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. International household name brands are increasingly recognizing the opportunities that esports can offer to tap into an engaged youth audience.
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In the past five years, G2 has built a global fanbase of over 32 million fans spanning EMEA, North American, Latin America and Asia Pacific. International household name brands are increasingly recognising the opportunities that esports can offer to tap into an engaged youth audience. G2 currently counts the likes of BMW, Logitech G, Philips, Red Bull, Twitch and Mastercard amongst its strategic commercial partners.
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Final Fantasy XIV: 144 Players In The Same Instance With The 4.25 Patch
Final Fantasy XIV today introduces the mysterious region of Eureka Anemos with the launch of the 4.25 patch on PC and PS4.
In this new wild and unexplored region, where the elements are constantly changing, players will be put to the test with new battle elements that they will have to master in order to obtain and upgrade new, very powerful weapons.
The patch also includes the last chapter of the adventures of the extraordinary inspector Hildibrand and the seventh season of PvP “The Feast”.
Eureka Anemos is a vast and unexplored area that introduces a series of modifications to the usual gameplay:
A large-scale gaming experience: Up to 144 players can take part in a single instance. We encourage players to form teams with other adventurers to hunt terrible monsters and complete common goals.
Progress of players: Players will get Elemental EXP to strengthen their domain of elements, but will have to be careful. Death in Eureka will cause the loss of EXP and even of levels.
Modified battle mechanics: From now on you will need more strategy to dominate a system of elements with which players will have to use “Magic Board” to alter the elemental affinity of their attack and counter that of the enemy. Players will customize the elemental attributes of their “Magic Board” and will have to study them very well depending on the goal of the adventure.
Rewards: Players will occasionally get “protean crystals” by exploring Eureka and can use them to improve Eureka equipment and weapons with the help of the famous blacksmith Gerolt.
A big update for Final Fantasy players! This is quite exciting! The new content will be available within a few days, so just seize the limited time and gather enough money and necessary gears and players ahead. If you need gils in game, you can buy cheap FFXIV Gil on FFXIV4GIL.
Posted on March 15, 2018 Categories Final Fantasy XIV, Guides, NewsTags Eureka Anemos, ffxiv, Final Fantasy XIV, Patch 4.25
When Final Fantasy XIV Version 4.25 Will Arrive
Final Fantasy XIV, the MMORPG that Square Enix has spoiled so much, continues to have the support of its developer. That is why just over a month after receiving the great update 4.2, which came full of content, it has been possible to know that version 4.25 of the title would be available to all players from March 13.
Along with the submitted confirmation, several images have been shared about the news that will come with the aforementioned update 4.25:
In some of these we have the possibility to appreciate what will be the new and mysterious area of the game, whose name is “The Forbbiden Land of Eureka Anemos”. Apparently, this is an island that is not shown on the map and that precisely should not be in the place that is. This unexplored territory will await all sorts of secrets and dangers so that Final Fantasy XIV users can look more than ever their adventurous spirit, in addition to having a unique progression system that will give a little twist to the traditional gameplay of the work.
Final Fantasy XIV can be purchased on PlayStation 4 and PC after several months ago support for PlayStation 3 ceased. A big update for Final Fantasy players! This is quite exciting! The new content will be available within a few days, so just seize the limited time and gather enough money and necessary gears and players ahead. If you need gils in game, you can buy cheap FFXIV Gil on FFXIV4GIL.
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China has volunteered to play the bogeyman
Japan is a US puppet since you know when.
China is surrounded by 17 US bases, then there’s all the US Bases in good ol’ Aussie.
The US leases their deepest water harbour to the Chinese, we leased Darwin Harbour to them and a deep water harbour with military capable airstrip to them north of Perth. Then the Feds leased an island to them directly opposite the US Base in NW WA.
Personally I think it’s all smoke and mirrors, that is China has volunteered to play the boogie man in a game set up to keep us soiling our pants.
I’ve lived in China until 4 years ago and there are all the European manufacturing including Airbus, the American, Delta Airlines jet engines made there, lots of Japanese corporations, Apples’ Taiwanese factory making all Apple products in Shenzhen. Almost all American cars and trucks made there, same for Europe. Taiwanese operate all of China’s transport infrastructure including airports, ports and the fast rail. Even Chinese Road Toll booths manned by Taiwanese people. Qantas trains and tests all Chinese commercial pilots. MERSK and COSCO merged to create total dominance of world wide shipping. Recall the “China” Evergrand ship run aground in the Suez Canal! There’s more and more you can see just traveling around there.
China has enormous areas of land dedicated to organic agriculture in the South. They have reclaimed their deserts. The largest vineyards on the planet for more than 100 years and won international awards in wines.
Ask any one who have been to China for a holiday, they loved it!
Irrespective of the games between us and China, they love us Aussies. The CCP has an office in every school there and they all must learn and pass an exam on how Australia brought them out of obscurity. They know he difference between us and our government.
from kaiwanshou,
Posted on April 28, 2022, in China, General and tagged Apple, Chinese bogeyman, Qantas. Bookmark the permalink. 16 Comments.
daviddd2 | May 1, 2022 at 2:34 am
lindesymonds: “All of this is to set up the Soviet Union [ a Communist Entity ] as the reasonable, nationalist, respectful of religious traditions, human and civil rights ‘good guy’ for the coming war.”
I’m afraid that suggestion seems to run contrary to all observation. .If you had ever, seen, touched, smelled or tasted rather than perhaps only heard about communism it would be self evident why.
After decades of Western brainwashing and the “collapse of Soviet Communism” and the persistent anti-Chinese communist rhetoric, the Global Money Merchants would have a difficult time convincing the world that Communists are the “good guys who will “build back better” after WW333.
But I do believe you’re right about the theatre bit. lol
lindesymonds | April 30, 2022 at 10:03 pm
I tend to think that the PRC has been assigned the ‘bad guy’ Communist script to go with the evil Western Globalists (all institutions subverted by the Communist Revolution). Unlike the Soviet Union and the PRC however, the West is being required to undergo Satanization.
All of this is to set up the Soviet Union [ a Communist Entity ] as the reasonable, nationalist, respectful of religious traditions, human and civil rights ‘good guy’ for the coming war.
This crap is just the preliminary cognitive warfare from the Machinators of the war. The idea here is to demoralise the Western nations designated for destruction.
Down the track we’ll probably get news conferences with Vlad equitably and reasonably explaining his red lines and ‘encroachment’ rules while his Western counterpart will stick out the Satan tongue or spin his / her head around like Linda Blair in the Exorcist. It’s all theatre .
Paul | April 30, 2022 at 1:40 pm
A Chinese immigrant to Australia who has spent his/her first 18-20 years in the CCP indoctrination camps (Chinese Schools) will remain loyal to their homeland no matter what. If ever there will be a (hot) conflict between China and Australia, these Chinese migrants will devote their loyalty to CHINA and NOT to Australia!
Alison | April 30, 2022 at 11:08 am
Re Ukraine and Russia: “There’s been a little too much excited commentary in the West that China will seize on this strategic opportunity to move on Taiwan – I don’t think that is the case”, says former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd.
“Many foreign policy observers are wondering how China’s territorial ambitions for Taiwan are being affected by Russia’s experience invading Ukraine. Taiwan’s independence is widely considered the most likely issue to embroil Australia in a regional war, given the US is likely to respond to Chinese aggression.”
“The former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd is one of the world’s top experts on China-US relations and he thinks the next decade is critical to preventing conflict. He’s currently the president of the Asia Society and has a new book out next week called The Avoidable War.”
daviddd2 | April 29, 2022 at 8:57 pm
Anybody who thinks communism in China was brought about by Mao Tse Tung is living in Wonderland. Successful “revolutions” are not organic outcomes. They need a ton of MONEY to even get off the ground, let alone triumph.
Poor impoverished peasants just don’t cut it in the finance world. Communism has always been a vehicle by which the wealthy merchant class stripped the population of all its assets. If you don’t believe it try getting an education, one based on reality rather than fiction and brainwashing.
Han Barkmeyer | April 29, 2022 at 2:53 pm
Those who speak of China being a mortal threat to Australia and the world ARE our Enemy.
They always wanted nations fighting against nations and always came out the winners out of the bloodshed they created in the first place.
Who profited from WW 2? They did. We now have Their New World Order and are ruled by Their World Government. Their WEF with their Great Reset destroying our lives.
Bertold Brecht:
“He who speaks of enemies, himself is the enemy.”
“When it comes to marching many do not know
That their enemy is marching at their head.
The voice which gives them their orders
Is their enemy’s voice and
The man who speaks of the enemy
Is the enemy himself.”
Watch this latest Max Igan video talking to Maria Zeee about Australia, WEF, NWO, WHO, etc.
https://odysee.com/@ZeeeMedia:3/Max-Igan—Smart-Cities,-Weather-Modification,-Transhumanism,-Australia–amp–the-NWO-v1004yk:0
Watch this ‘The Coming War on China’ by John Pilger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAfeYMONj9E
and see how China is threatened by the US and its main attack dogs: Australia and Japan.
Of course, the US is the main attack dog of the Chosen Ones who also own Europe, Russia, China and Australia. After all, we now have a Kosher World Government. Sovereign nations are a thing of the past.
We have to fight the Enemy of Humanity now ruling the world.
Alison | April 28, 2022 at 10:02 pm
CITIZENS INSIGHT – Veteran Australian diplomat speaks out against war danger – John Lander
https://citizensparty.org.au/videos/citizens-insight/20220325_citizens_insight_john_lander
Editor, cairnsnews | April 28, 2022 at 7:39 pm
Got a link Alison? Ed
tonyryan43 | April 28, 2022 at 6:17 pm
Landers ignores the 2015 Rand Report plan to attack China. He also ignores the 1975 CIA/MI6 coup of Australia.
And as far as his comments on the likelihood of nuclear strikes here, he seems unaware of the three spy bases near Darwin, or the Gulkula missile base run by the US, in Arnhem Land.
If the US threatens China, with proxies or otherwise, these bases must be wiped out. A strike on Darwin would trigger the Inpex gas facility, which would detonate and wipe out a vast area.
Basically, most of the NT infrastructure would cease to exist. Solution? As Fraser said seven times, end the foolish alliance with the US.
Ross & Jo Allanson | April 28, 2022 at 5:59 pm
Thanks for the Post,
Are you actually here in Qld? That kaiwanshou bit is a bit confusing.
Are you Anglo Saxon Aussie or Chinese decent Aussie? Just curious.
I follow the Cairns News with great interest.
Ross.
David Storer | April 28, 2022 at 5:41 pm
Fed’s have been paid $$$ shit loads of secret money to get all of these land grabs. And thay don’t won’t to give that money back. Because it’s illegal. And a secret. Australian politicians don’t give a rat’s arse. About our country and its people. There getting paid and pensions for screening us
With due respect, the WHO, which is the WEF’s global sickness promotion arm, is funded 60% by Big Pharma, with the rest contributed by Bill Gates and China.
Now there’s the twins from hell.
I will believe Xi when he pulls out of the WHO and explains the Wuhan deal and release.
Meanwhile, I look at Shanghai, the CCP buy-up of Australian residential and arable land, and the Sino iron ore mine in WA, and say, we have three dangerous enemies of Australia… the City of London, the US, and China.
We need to have talks with India, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Nations about a mutual defence pact. If Gadaffi had not been murdered by Psycho Clinton, I would have included all African nations too. And maybe that’s not too late either. Congolese may well agree. It’s a certainty that Patrice Lumumba would have been on board, which is why the CIA killed him.
Alison | April 28, 2022 at 4:53 pm
John Lander speaks of the current Russian/Ukraine war as “a process”. He joins other commentators to describe the current conflict in Ukraine as “the USA ‘s war by proxy”.
USA doesn’t care for us. It would similarly use Australians in a proxy war for it’s own hegemony against China. Remember that USA is zionist controlled.
John Lander, veteran Australian diplomat speaks out against war danger. Host is Robert Barwick, the Research Director of the Australian Citizens Party.
This is an excellent conversation.
GS | April 28, 2022 at 4:01 pm
Australia doesn’t have a government.
It has a crime syndicate!
Rod from Brisbane | April 28, 2022 at 3:57 pm
I’ve lived in China too. It’s a toilet!
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Meet the One Ladies
Posted on 8th March 2022 by Vanessa Kerrigan
In celebration of International Women’s Day, we thought that we would invite you to get to know the ladies of the One Gin and One Water a bit better. Both businesses work together to support The One Foundation, who funds clean, sustainable water projects across Sub-Saharan Africa.
I’ve been lucky to have the most amazing career so far – working for some iconic brands in advertising agencies, and currently in executive recruitment and meeting some outstanding marketing and comms talent in the process, and most recently embarking on this mad and amazing adventure with The Spirit of One. I just love having a portfolio career and using my brain in completely different ways for my two roles – Everyday is different, that’s for sure!
What female leader/s inspire you & why?
There are so many women that inspire me in my professional and personal life, and this for many reasons, but the one that stands out is my sister. She is the British ambassador to Great Britain in the Philippines (no less!) and has got there through sheer determination, sleepless nights and very hard work, getting out of her comfort zone in often very male dominated countries and teams. And whilst she has a huge, highly demanding job, she is incredibly humble about it and it hasn’t changed the hugely loving, and sometimes mad person she was 20 years ago.
What piece of advice, as a female, would you give your younger self?
Things have thankfully changed a lot in the last 10 to 15 years. When I started my career, there was this real sense that you had to act like a man and ‘work hard, play hard’. I genuinely believe that men and women approach life and work in different ways and that’s a good, healthy thing, but my tip is ‘be proud to be a woman’, be proud to admit your failings, to be fragile sometimes, to be human….And to be a mum for that matter. We can be strong at times and need help at other times and I think it’s very powerful and aspirational to show this.
What’s you favourite cocktail and how do you make it?
My favourite drink in the world is the One Gin martini in Claridge’s. They keep the bottle at minus seventeen degrees – That extra cold gin is just delicious (…if a bit lethal. Only have one!) The setting isn’t bad either…
When you’re not making/selling gin/water, where will we find you?
My best and most important job is not one you’ll find on my LinkedIn profile. It’s to be a mum to our two girls. I am very away that time flies by quickly ; they are 8 and 10 and I do everything I can to live in the present with them. Which means free time at the moment is spent climbing trees, watching dance routines, doing Harry Potter quizzes and making dens!
Hello I’m Sarah and I’m the finance director at One Water. I’m a chartered accountant and in my personal life I’m a wife and mother to 2 teenagers.
What female leader/s inspire you?
All too often there can be a tendency for women to feel that they need to act like a man to be an effective leader; I think our Queen is a great example of a woman who seemingly never compromises her femininity in order to lead.
Have confidence in yourself and your abilities and don’t fall victim to impostor syndrome.
What’s your favourite cocktail and how do you make it?
A gin sling – mix One Gin sage with dash of lemon juice, angostura bitters tonic or soda with lots of ice of course.
Walking my labrador or cheering my kids on from the sidelines.
Hiya, my name is Vanessa, I’m the Senior Marketing Manager here at One Gin and I’ve worked in hospitality and the drinks industry for the last 10 years. I started in pubs and restaurants in some of your favourites such as Pizza Express and Cote and moved on to join the fabulous team at Tipplesworth. We made delicious non-alcoholic cocktail mixers, I got to be involved in everything from NPD, label design, launch parties, account management, you name it, I did it. I joined the team at One Gin just under a year ago and I’m loving it, it’s great to be part of something that gives back.
I’d have to say, all the amazing female founders I’ve been lucky enough to work with such as Frankie Snobel, founder of Tipplesworth, Joyce & Raissa de Haas, founders of Double Dutch and the lovely Cecile, co-founder of One Gin. The drinks industry is pretty heavily male dominated and it’s been a great experience to work with so many determined and successful females.
‘Don’t worry so much’ in fact I have to remind myself some times even today, everything works out in the end and problem-solving is a great way to learn. Don’t be afraid to speak up and say what you think.
What’s your favourite cocktail & how do you make it?
Mine has to a Sbagliato, I’m a fiend for prosecco based cocktails and this is the perfect balance of fizz and bitterness with a dry finish. Simply add 30ml sweet vermouth, 30ml campari and 60ml of prosecco to a tall glass filled with ice (I tend to be a little bit more generous with the bubbles) and garnish with a thick slice of orange and voila!
When you’re not making/selling gin/water, where can we find you?
If there’s rugby on, you’ll find me sipping a glass of rose, dressed head to toe in green and cheering on Ireland until I’ve lost my voice but when there’s no six nations I love to bake in my free time, one of my favourite recipes is the Guinness Cake from The Humming Bird Bakery cook book, it’s insane!
Hi, I’m Colette and I’m the Marketing and Social Media Executive at OneWater.This is my first job since leaving university where I studied French and History in Paris for 3 years!
It has to be Joanna Lumley, she’s such an icon! I respect how she uses her fame from being on screen to support worthy causes and to raise awareness of important environmental, social and human rights issues. She really inspires me to be an honest, giving person and to live life to the fullest.The quote from her that I live by is: “You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don’t blame anybody else.You are entitled to free fresh air, and that’s it. Do the rest yourself.”
Definitely to just do what you love – all of my friends growing up had such clear career directions. Don’t overthink it and just pick the subjects that you enjoy the most at school and they won’t feel like work.You’ll find the path you’re supposed to be on
My favourite cocktail has to be a Cosmopolitan! It’s so simple to make and so easy to drink! It’s literally just vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice and lime juice. My preference is having it garnished with orange peel and an edible flower if they’re going!
I’d love to say the gym, but in reality, it’s probably cuddling with my cats watching TV and sipping a Cosmopolitan…! Or if it’s a school night, with an Oat milk tea..
Sales Director (Part Time) for The Spirit of One. A career that started out in telesales for Rank Xerox in the early 90’s. (they were huge in their day) selling copier supplies, with a title of ‘Document Supplies Specialist,’ (fancy!) it set me up brilliantly for a life of sales. Along the way I became fascinated by psychology and people behaviours and in 2013, became a licensed practitioner for one of the big psychometrics businesses, and continue to ‘help people to help themselves by understanding people differences. I am also lucky enough to have spent the last, near on 20yrs, working with the quirkiest, convivial, most passionate, fun people in the world of hospitality.
Sara Blakely – Founder. Sara started her career selling fax machines door to door. She created the £1.2bn brand Spanx because something just wasn’t right with her tights! Powered by intuition, Sara a mum of 4, is a genuine ‘lead from the front’ funny lady who has set up a foundation that helps women through education and entrepreneurial training.
‘Take care of the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves!’ and ‘Delete unwanted items in your personal inbox as you go along!’
It has to be a well crafted One Gin Sage and Apple Bramble. Best made by someone who loves their craft. I get too creative/adventurous when making cocktails at home, they’re great, but I can never make the same one twice.
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Muslim Brotherhood Blasphemy Cops on a Minnesota Campus
Islam, Politics and the Culture Wars
A Latina art teacher, a Shiite painting of Mohammed, and tolerance theocracy.
The decision by Hamline University to purge a minority art teacher for showing a Shiite painting of Mohammed has traveled from the outskirts of a few blogs, and a student paper of the small private college in St. Paul, to art sites, a PEN condemnation and finally the New York Times.
Erika Lopez Prater, an adjunct at Hamline, showed a Persian painting of Mohammed to her class. Aram Wedatalla, a president of the Muslim Student Association, objected. The MSA rallied to denounce her, along with its advisor, Nur Mood: the college’s Assistant Director of Social Justice Programs. The Latina professor was dumped and condemned as an Islamophobe. Jaylani Hussein, CAIR-Minnesota’s director came in to hold a session on Islamophobia. The MSA and CAIR have both been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
When a religion professor pointed out that Muslims have different views on paintings of Mohammed, Hussein described such Muslims as “extremists” and argued that, “You can teach a whole class about why Hitler was good.”
The New York Times then describes how “Ms. Baker, the department head, and Dr. Everett, the administrator, separately walked up to the religion professor, put their hands on his shoulders and said this was not the time to raise these concerns”.
After years of ridiculing warnings that an alliance with Islamists would require them to enforce sharia law, liberals did just that at Hamline University. And this time their targets weren’t white men, but a minority woman and Shiite Muslim paintings.
Minnesota liberals have embraced diversity. And sometimes diversity requires purging a Latina academic trying to teach students about Islamic art because she used works from the Shiite side of the spectrum, rather than the Sunni one that the Muslim Brotherhood belongs to.
One of the paintings comes from Rashid al-Dīn: a Jewish man who converted to Shiite Islam. His motives like those of the vast majority of converts was to avoid persecution and get ahead. The painting, like most Islamic pictoral art, is objectively terrible and could be improved on by a moderately talented six-year-old. The only reason Islamic art is ever taught is for diversity.
Islam was quickly tossed into everything after September 11 as a show of tolerance. Muslims, formerly obscure, became ground zero for diversity. A market for Islamic art heated up. Despite hard strictures against religion in the workplace, corporations and government offices felt the need to virtue signal with a show of support for Muslims. That meant posters with women wearing hijab and a lot of Koranic calligraphy in places that would never display a Bible.
Many Muslims were not happy to see Islamic scriptures displayed in ‘filthy’ places. Muslim groups had previously accused everything from a Nike sneaker to an ice cream swirl, and any set of curves, of blasphemously containing Allah’s name. They were enraged to see it being offered up for tattoos or hanging in the bathroom of a urologist’s office.
Islamists were never interested in “diversity”. What they wanted was for everyone to respect Islamic laws. In the name of tolerance, liberals became theocrats and Islamists used the grammar of diversity to eliminate any diversity. Confronted with objections, Hamline’s Islamists resorted to equating Shiite pictures of Mohammed with Hitler or the ‘N-word’.
Liberals, who accepted the premise that tolerance requires theocracy, are unable to navigate the issue. The New York Times interviewed a Persian Shiite professor at Duke who explained that he loves and shows pictures of Mohammed all the time. Yet the entire article never uses the terms, “Sunni” or “Shiite” or suggests that there are sectarian differences at work.. After having taken it on themselves to impose Islamic theocracy, they are reluctant to adjudicate it.
And yet, unlike Mohammed cartoons, what happened at Hamline University shows that the intersectional enforcement of Islamic theocracy alongside Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ and Planned Parenthood requires more than just banning criticism of Mohammed, but even suppressing other Islamic doctrines in favor of the supremacy of Sunni Islamists.
Anything else is a hate crime.
Hamline University’s social justice administration purged a Latina art teacher because she dared to show works from the Shiite canon which offended Sunnis linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Liberals found it very easy to support Islamic supremacism when it was a matter of banning conservative protesters from burning the Koran or mentioning that Mohammed was a child molester. But that was just the camel’s nose creeping into the tent. The rest of the camel requires that America be reordered thoroughly in line with Islamic law in every possible detail.
While liberals see a distinction between a defaced Koran, a Charlie Hebdo cartoon of Mohammed and a Shiite painting of Mohammed, to the Muslim Brotherhood there is no difference. And the Democrat political establishment and the leftist cultural affiliates that surrendered to the Brotherhood’s front groups have to decide where to draw the line.
Islam has been in a state of perpetual civil war for most of its existence. Muslim civil wars have killed far more people in the last decade than all our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And we’ve imported that civil war into America.
That’s not just idle talk or conspiracy theories. The worst series of Muslim murders in America were carried out by an Afghan Sunni targeting Afghan Shiites in Albuquerque. Importing Islam doesn’t just mean machete attacks in Times Square, it also meant three teens who were arrested in November for plotting to kill everyone in a Shiite mosque in Chicago.
The leftists who got into bed with Sunni Islamists thought that all they had to do was make Americans defer to Islamic theocracy, but getting schoolchildren to visit mosques or convincing our leaders to ban criticism of Islam was the easy part. The hard part is doing what the Muslims themselves were never able to do for any real length of time: maintain a unified theocracy.
Hamline University had a lot more Sunnis than Shiites. Its Islamic student organization is the MSA. And the leadership found it expedient to accept Sunni Islamic theocracy and denounce Shiite depictions of Mohammed. Nationally, liberals are less comfortable with that bargain. PEN has denounced Hamline and the New York Times awkwardly suggests it’s a complex issue.
It’s complex, but not in a way that the media or their party are willing to discuss or accept.
Islamists repeatedly tell us that there is “only one Islam”. What they really mean is that there’s only one Islam that they will accept. Sunnis, with their superior numbers and Muslim Brotherhood organizations financed by oil money, dominate. And it is now our job to help them enforce that “one Islam” in America. Sharia means that we are their religious police.
Intersectionality has outsourced the enforcement of Islamic theocracy to social justice groups, campus administrators, corporations, government offices and all the woke institutions.
Wokeness is sharia. That is the awkward reality playing out at Hamline which brought in its first black president, who denounced academic freedom for permitting the display of Mohammed art, where Islamists were appointed to administer social justice, and now faces a liberal backlash.
But the backlash carefully avoids the central issues, especially the conflation of theocracy with tolerance, which is at the heart of the post 9/11 dirty deal that liberals made with Islamists.
Until they’re ready to rethink that deal, they’ll have to enforce Islamic law in America.
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Timeline Integration Add On Finally Here For Google Chrome
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Windows 10 integrated the concept of the Timeline in its ecosystem with the advent of April 2018 Update. The update brought with it a plethora of new features. The timeline feature enables users to check the files they have opened, recently accessed or are frequently working with. The chronology is maintained so that you can carry out your work smoothly. It also displayed the recently opened web pages on Microsoft Edge for all three leading platforms like Windows, Android and iOS. But the change was not welcomed by all because many users did not want Microsoft Edge as their primary web browser.
Hence, in order to address this issue, SoundByte developer Dominic Maas released a new add on for browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Vivaldi. The new add on has been coined the name ‘Windows Timeline Support’. But the feature was taken down by Google because the term Windows in the name “Windows Timeline Support” raised an issue regarding the Trademark. After about a week, the issue was resolved and now the add-on has been published once again.
Dominic Maas told us that they had not received any notice for takedown from Mozilla. Still, they decided to upload the new version with a changed name for Firefox as well. The new version has all features same as that of the older version. Users who are interested in downloading the latest version of Timeline Support for Chrome, then download the add on from Google Chrome Webstore. The add on has received a rating of 4.87 stars out of 5.
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Post Up with 1939 Ensemble's Post Jazz Rock
The first few days of 2017 have already been, for the most part, much better than 2016 in its entirety. Now that the holiday slump of shows is seemingly over, let's attempt not to fall into the valley of warmth our beds provide as an incredibly cold weekend draws near. We can say that we've got a bit of inspiration for this with tomorrow's show, featuring the attention grabbing 1939 Ensemble.
Drum connoisseur Jose Medeles fronts the group and if you know anything of his history (like owning Revival Drum Shop or, I don't know, drumming for the Breeders) the particular output of the group should be obvious. Featuring a variety of instruments including vibraphone, trumpet, Moog and general noise among the drums, 1939 Ensemble's instrumental post rock, post jazz fusion is enthralling and captivating, making for a very stimulating production.
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Rock out for Bernie Sanders
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Premier: Orquestra Pacifico Tropical's Rio Frio
Before I dive into describing the intoxicating mix of sounds that Orquestra Pacifico Tropical have etched onto their debut record, Rio Frio (cold river), I would like to offer a brief history of the music they play so passionately, Cumbia. Cumbia has been around for hundreds of years, historians believe that the pulsing rhythms in which the genre is founded originated in African tribes and brought to Central America by slaves during the Spanish colonization in what is now Columbia. There these rhythms met claves, flutes, guitars and, eventually, accordions to create the cross-cultural dance music that we now call Cumbia.
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- Ben Toledo
Orquestra Pacifico Tropical
Point Juncture WA
1939 Ensemble at Doug Fir 6.20
1939 Ensemble play a soundtrack that beguiles mystery and a feeling of underlying excitement. Jose Mendeles (former drummer for The Breeders, among others), and David Coniglio (School of Rock, Mongoloid Village) take their respective percussive talents to collide and connect the vibraphone and live drums, creating shifting beats and celestial electronic buzz. The music may take the listener into a cinematic space, perhaps being aloof in a swanky parlor of the past, or orchestrating strategic getaways (think Orbital's "The Saint"). They have been gaining attention with their full length, Howl & Bite, which Pitchfork calls "industrial art deco", and of course, they were awarded The Deli Portland's Best Emerging Artist of 2012. They are the cerebral apertif for the fellow instrumentation of Emily Wells on Thursday, June 20th at Doug Fir Lounge. - Brandy Crowe
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Singularly unproductive legislative session ends in Harrisburg
By Carol Kuniholm
Pennsylvania’s legislative session ended at midnight Nov. 30. Across the commonwealth, organizations and commissions are reviewing their priority bills for the 2021-2022 session and acknowledging that once again top concerns have not been addressed.
Organizations of elected officials, representing huge majorities of Pennsylvanians, found their priorities blocked by legislative leaders. Bipartisan commissions, chosen by PA legislators, found their carefully researched recommendations ignored by the same leaders who selected them.
This impacts every sector of PA life. Education funding, election law, broadband access, municipal finance, emergency medical services, food production...dig in and you’ll find outdated laws in need of revision or long-standing problems unaddressed due to legislative inaction.
Evidence and examples could fill an encyclopedia. Here’s just one:
In 1976 the Governor's Commission on Fire Prevention and Control issued a report called Pennsylvania Burning, highlighting a crisis in funding, staffing and training of Pennsylvania's firefighters and emergency medical personnel. Recommendations were ignored. The crisis grew.
A quarter century later, the Senate Resolution 6 Report of 2004 pointed to “a myriad of reports prepared and testimony taken on the status, needs, dilemma, and frustration of providing these services within the Commonwealth.” That report contained 23 specific legislative recommendations. Few were considered in committee in that session or the following decade. The crisis grew.
In 2017, another Senate resolution formed yet another commission. The resulting 2018 Final Report noted earlier reports, earlier recommendations and concluded:
“It is the consensus of the Commission that a public safety crisis is unfolding due to the continuing decline in the ranks of our emergency service volunteers. According to the Pennsylvania Fire and Emergency Services Institute, the number of volunteer firefighters has shrunk from 300,000 in the 1970’s to about 60,000 in the early 2000’s and to 38,000 in 2018.”
That report proposed 92 recommendations. Many were unanimously approved by commission members representing voluntary and professional firefighter associations, health providers and leaders of organizations representing municipal and county elected officials. Of the recommendations introduced as bills, few have made their way out of committee. Fewer still have made it into law.
Complex problems require careful solutions that include feedback and input from a wide mix of stakeholders. PA’s legislative processes allow individual committee chairs to act as both gatekeepers and final arbiters, undermining efforts at collaboration and limiting legislative effectiveness. Part-time legislatures in many other states enact needed solutions quickly, with little partisan drama or backroom negotiation. Sadly, PA’s legislative process is too often focused on who introduced a bill, who might get credit, which chamber has the upper hand. Half the bills passed in one chamber, many unanimously, get no vote in the other.
For decades PA has been in the lowest percentile in number of bills enacted and percent of introduced bills enacted. The 2021-2022 session hit a new historic low: just one bill introduced by a House Democrat and two bills introduced by Senate Democrats made it into law. The total of bills enacted: 293, less than 8% of total bills introduced.
The next session will be sworn in on Jan. 3 with a more divided General Assembly. For the first time since 2010 the GOP does not hold an unshakeable majority. That could mean even less gets done, or it could provide incentive for leaders in both chambers and both parties to rethink legislative rules. In PA those rules are decided at the start of each new session. The rules can allow just a few leaders complete control, or can open the door to collaboration, deliberation and carefully negotiated legislative solutions.
PA has real-life problems that demand immediate legislative action. The County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania School Board Association, the PA Farm Bureau, the Firefighter's Association State of Pennsylvania, scores of PA groups from all walks of life and all political affiliations can point to important, non-partisan, much-needed legislation ignored year after year by PA’s General Assembly.
Will 2023 be the year those bills get a vote? Will leaders emerge with political will and personal courage equal to the task of putting better legislative rules in place?
What happens in legislative chambers in PA impacts us all. The air we breathe, the water we drink, our health, our safety, our education, our economy: legislative inaction puts all at risk. Together we can demand attention to laws that address long-standing problems, that reflect current realities and that serve us all well. Find out more at FixHarrisburg.com.
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Letters To Juliet Rotten Tomatoes – Did you know that the movie Letters to Juliet is based on a real organization that responds to thousands of letters about love and heartbreak addressed to Shakespeare’s Juliet?
The tradition of sending letters to Juliet goes back centuries. People began leaving notes at a local marker known as Juliet’s grave.
Later, many started sending mail directly to the city. By the 1990s Verona was receiving so many letters, it created an office to deal with it all.
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After watching the movie, I decided to travel to beautiful Verona, Italy to be Juliet’s secretary myself!
I wasn’t sure what to expect when we arrived but it was every bit as magical as I had hoped. We got a short introduction from a lovely Italian lady who has worked there for years.
He showed us the 30+ years of letters from every country in every language that they keep on file. Then we have to work to answer!
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Many wrote about long-lost loves that never ended. Some had recent heartbreak. Some were newly in love and afraid of getting hurt. The other two people were in love and didn’t know which one to choose.
One woman wrote that it had been 9 years since she last wrote to Juliet. At the time of her last letter, she had just had her heart broken by the person she thought she was going to spend her life with. But today, she was back in Verona with her new husband and a baby on her way! She was grateful for Juliet’s guidance all those years ago.
It was an honor to read the incredibly personal letters from all over the world and write back to Juliet.
We immediately received an email asking when we would like to volunteer. And we scheduled our visit without any problem. We only volunteered for one day but you can easily volunteer for multiple days!
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Get there early to avoid the afternoon crowds. It costs 6 euros to enter the house, see the small exhibition and go out on the balcony.
If you want a photo from below with you on the balcony, ask someone you’re traveling with to wait outside and take a photo of you on the balcony before you join the house.
Tradition says that if you want luck in love, you should rub the right breast of her statue.
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An American tourist in Verona, Italy, responds to a 50-year-old letter seeking romantic advice from Juliet in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” and inspires the letter’s writer to seek out her ex-fiancé.
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The romantic adventures of fashionable New York City author Carrie Bradshaw and her three chic friends continue in this sparkling film adaptation of the popular HBO series.
After learning some shocking news about their families, Hardin (Hero Fenice Tiffin) and Tessa (Josephine Langford) discover that they are not so different from each other. Couples must deal with these changes as they affect their personalities and relationships. As they enter a crossroads in the next phase of their lives, Hardin and Tessa must decide if they can be together. This sequel to “After We Fall” is also based on the novel written by Anna Todd. Director: Castille Landon.
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When an 18-year-old boy is contacted by his birth mother, she accepts the invitation to meet. Thinking that she will be hated, the mother is afraid to meet him. David is grateful for the life he has given him and only feels grateful to his birth mother. This true story follows David’s journey and the emotional ups and downs that come with meeting his birth mother. Director: Kevin Peeples.
In the 1950s, an English domestic servant pursues a clothing monopoly designed by Christian Dior. Mrs. Harris (Leslie Manuel) decides to work, save and gamble to get the dress. His pursuit leads him to leave London, travel to Paris, and gain a new perspective on life. Based on Paul Glico’s classic novel, Mrs. ‘Aris Goes to Paris, director and co-writer Anthony Fabian brings this work to the big screen.
Mackenzie can’t wait to get older. A woman in her thirties is already tired of the hectic rush of youth and wishes she could fast-forward her life so that she can relax and enjoy her golden years. When Mackenzie is struck by lightning at Coachella, she wakes up as a seventeen-year-old Rita. She soon realizes that the old man is not as sensual as she thought. Starring Elizabeth Lill, Diane Keaton, Taylor Page, and Simon Rex.
Innocent college student Dakota Johnson begins a relationship with troubled businessman Jamie Dornan. Adaptation of EL James’ erotic bestseller. By continuing, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes.
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On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa (Juliet Stevenson) receives a message from God telling her to help the poor, sick and needy. His new cause initially caused conflict with the Roman Catholic Church and the Indian government. After his death, a Vatican priest begins to describe his life’s work, his political persecution and his indomitable spirit. As his story unfolds through 40 years of personal letters, history remembers him as one of the world’s greatest humanitarians. By continuing, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes.
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With training camp just over a week away, the Fort Frances Lakers continued to build their roster for the upcoming season by signing two new faces.
But the local Junior ‘A’ squad also lost a player prior to the start of the campaign.
Coming to the team are local defenceman Jon Carlson and Manitoba-born forward Wayne Folster.
Potential newcomer Payton Ruter, however, elected to join the Alexandria Blizzard of the NAHL for the 2011-12 season instead of suiting up for the Lakers.
In Carlson, a 17-year-old blueliner from Fort Frances, the Lakers pick up a player who has spent the last two seasons with the Thunder Bay Kings’ program.
He was an eighth round draft pick by the OHL’s Ottawa 67’s in last year’s priority selection.
“Jon’s a player that we wish we would have had last season, but we are very excited to have him in a Lakers’ uniform this year,” enthused head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan.
“He played one game with us last year in the playoffs against Wisconsin and he did not look out of place at all for a young 16-year-old.
“He’s been to a few USHL camps, as well as our summer camp, and impressed at both, and I think once he gets a few games under his belt, he will be a good contributor back on our defensive core,” Strachan added.
As for Folster, a forward from Norway House, Man., the 18-year-old joins the Lakers after playing for the Norway House NorthStars of the KJHL last year, where he notched 38 points in 29 games.
“Wayne is a player that we have talked to over the summer months to try and draw him our way,” Strachan noted.
“We are hoping Wayne will come in, work hard to be in good shape, and put up some offensive numbers for us.
“He has good size as he stands at 6’2” and weighs 190 pounds, so we believe that he can come in and not only contribute to one of our top lines, but also replace the size presence of losing Payton Ruter,” Strachan noted.
Ruter, a 6’2”, 225-pound forward from New London, Mn., had signed with the Lakers at the end of June from the Granite City Lumberjacks of Minnesota Junior Hockey League.
But the 18-year-old instead decided to join up with the Blizzard for the upcoming season.
“Payton cited being 45 minutes from his home, being close to his family and friends, as well as his schooling, as the reasons for him changing his mind,” Strachan said.
Lakers’ fans will have a chance to see Carlson and Folster, along with the rest of the potential roster, in action starting next Thursday (Aug. 25) when the team kicks off its annual training camp.
In related news, Strachan said the team currently is looking for billet families for the 2011-12 season.
Those interested can contact Mary Cooper (274-6608) or Mary Polz (274-7264).
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Gulf tourists spend over $400 million in Morocco
By dailynews On Dec 26, 2014
Morocco – Rabat : Tourists from GCC countries spent around $418 million in Morocco in 2013, according to recent statistics.
Capitalizing on this, Mazagan Beach & Golf Resort, situated 90 km away from Casablanca on a 7-km stretch of beach, has designed tailored packages for tourists from GCC states, said Stephan Killinger, the hotel’s president.
The resort has announced a tailored luxury stay starting at $100 per person per night for GCC tourists. The accommodation will be in a double room, with two kids under 12 free and complimentary breakfasts.
In addition, the resort offers for GCC tourists a free Moroccan Hammam session, complimentary access to fitness centre, including biking and tennis, two spa sessions at the price of one, special kids meals plus two carting tours for one kid per each night stay, and free pick up and drop off at Mohammed V International Airport, a statement said.
“Booking for this offer has already started and will be open until the end of December for stays in the first quarter of 2015,” Killinger said.
Killinger added that cultural and family tourism was being fuelled by rising popularity among families, especially from the GCC, an indication of a shift from European tourists.
This was highlighted on the sidelines of the fourth GCC-Morocco Investment Forum, which was held to explore investment prospects and business opportunities between the two regions, experts hailed the growing tourism industry which currently contributes nearly 9 per cent to the Kingdom’s GDP.
“Our strategy is to make it easy for GCC tourists. We have collaborated with a number of airlines to reward tourists coming from GCC with mileage points that are redeemable with actual vouchers,” added Killinger.
“Morocco is home to some acclaimed authentic cultural and architectural marvels, and the ambience inside Mazagan reflects this true heritage. The potential for cultural tourism in the country is really high and we expect this to be a major contributor to the inflow of tourists to Morocco.”
Mazagan Beach & Golf Resort has 500 rooms offering views of the ocean, lagoons and golf course, surrounded by 67 villas, landscaped gardens and a swimming pool in the center.
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A March for Charity Reform is Afoot
Original post date: August, 28, 2014
Posted by: Matt Kelly
By June of next year, hundreds, perhaps thousands will be marching 60 miles through New England to Salem, Massachusetts, the site where the Pilgrims first landed at Plymouth Rock. For three days, these passionate activists will trudge a path to change the world. They will come from many diverse backgrounds, but they will all be marching for a common cause:causes.
Causes? Sounds paradoxical, doesn’t it? Broad at the very least. Many reading this have probably participated in a 5K walk for breast cancer or autism, but marching for causes themselves? Just why is there a need for this meta-march?
Members of The Charity Defense Council say the need is dire. They claim that charities in America are beholden to an unrealistic ideal that’s kept them locked in the dark ages. They argue that without a change in public policy and public perception, we will never be able to change the world for the better.
Charities are uniquely handicapped in their ability to take risks and spend revenues. Like a business, a charity must take risks to innovate and receive rewards, yet donors discourage such behavior. Could Apple have created the iPhone with costs below 20% of revenues? Not a chance! Could Netflix have brought itscustomers the unprecedented access to entertainment they now enjoy without first taking the risk that it might not work? No way! Charities with high staffing and marketing costs can be done for if they get a bad rap from watchdog groups. Yet for-profit businesses take such risks on a daily basis, reaping the rewards for their customers. The Charity Defense Council suggests the social sector must do likewise if they are to solve the world’s monumental social problems and help those in need.
The Charity Defense Council is headed by its charismatic leader, Dan Pallotta. In previous blogs (read here) I’ve discussed Pallotta’s for-profit charity fundraising model, which raised over half a billion dollars to fights AIDS and breast cancer during the 1990s. Pallotta has been a champion of the social sector, pointing out this flawed double standardand its detrimental effect on those in need. Governments and private donors tend to emphasize the percentage of revenues that charities spends on overhead costs, while ignoring their actual impact. Further exacerbating this problem are the onerous government grant conditions that can keep nonprofits’ administrative costs high. This is a recipe for stagnation in the social sector, Pallotta says.
Yet many donors are still wary to give their money to an organization that spends too much on overhead. At first glance this can make sense. If your donation to a charity simply enriches its CEO, then you might reasonably consider that a waste. However, charities, like businesses, must attract talent if they wish to be effective in solving social problems. Dan Pallotta and the Charity Defense Council are forcing people to ask tough questions, challenging our long held beliefs about charity. With a stated mission to “change the way people think about changing the world,” they certainly have their work cut out for them.
The Charity Defense Council hopes to raise $1 million with this march so they can act as an anti-defamation organization. Already, many nonprofit employees are registering in a show of support from the social sector. Though the Charity Defense Council’s mission is of national relevance, its efforts give Floridians reason to reexamine our state’s policies with regard to nonprofit regulation and charitable giving. In future blogs, I’ll be talking about just that.
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First Snow – animated student film, screenplay, directed and animated by Lenka Ivančíková, 2015 – nominated and awarded
Transport Er – animated trick film, theme, screenplay, directed by Miloš Zvěřina, 2015
Enchanted Šumava – full-length film, inspired by work of Josef Váchal (it was shot by the amateurs together with the professionals), 2015
Way From the Very Bottom – television series, stories of six women living on the edge, screenplay and direction by V. Korčáková Sobková and Gébová, 2014
At the Bottom of a Glass – television film, theme and screenplay Jan Prušinovský, directed by Bohdan Sláma, 2014
Innocent Lies– television series, drama, directed by Bohdan Sláma
Helga L-520 –TRILOBIT award,artistic animated documentary by Miloš Zvěřina. It is inspired by the life of Helga Weissová-Hošková (born 1929) during her stay in the Therezin ghetto. It is based on her original drawings. 2011
On the Outside – time-lapsedocumentary film observing the life of three prisoners, HBO, 2011
The Pilgrimage Song for Virgin Mary on Palm Sunday – animated trick film, poetic meditation inspired by Karel Schulz short stories, prepared by Jaroslav Šerých, Pavel Kubant and Miloš Zvěřina, 2009
Earthworms– TV series, 2009
The Guardian of Souls – TV series , it balances between the detective story and thriller with mysteries from the past, 2008
BrainStorm – TV film, it received the most television award Elsa in 2008, directed by Jiří Strach, 2008
Czech Christmas Mass – a piece of music for animated film by the Czech TV studio, theme, screenplay and directed by Pavel Kubant and Miloš Zvěřina, 2007
Operace Silver A – a two parts series of the Czech television, directed by Jiří Strach, 2007
Restart – TV documentary series, 2007
About a Chimney Sweep and a Confectioner’s Daughter – romantic family film of the Czech TV, directed by Pavel Jandourek, 2007
The Little King – 13parts series of the Czech TV, directed by, 2007
Maharal – The Secret of Talisman – full-length film, 2006, later also a TV series of the Czech TV, directed by Pavel Jandourek, 2007
Flood – TV film, directed by Jiří Strach, 2005
2 plus 1 with Miroslav Donutil – 3 television short stories, directed by Jiří Strach, 2005
The Awakened Rock – TV film, directed by Jiří Strach, 2003
The Murder of the Green Family – TV police drama, directed Jiří Strach, 2002
Vanilla Flavor – full-length film, directed by Jiří Strach, 2001
Cases of the Ostrozrak Detective’s Office – series of the Czech TV inspired by Josef Škvorecký, screenplay and directed by Karel Smyczek, 2000
At the Castle – television film inspired by Karel Čapek short story, directed by Jiří Strach, 2000
Fragile Desires – short student film, directed by Karin Babinská, 1998
H Treasure – Czech TV film, directed by Karel Smyczek, 1998
Genius of Fatherland – TV film, directed by Jiří Strach, 1998
All for the Company – tow part TV film, directed by Karel Smyczek, 1998
Romeo, Julia and Darkness –inspired by a book written by Jan Otčenášek, directed by Karel Smyczek, 1997
Dracula’s Brother-in-law – series of 12 parts of horror stories inspired by horror stories of Miloslav Švandrlík’s book, directed by Karel Smyczek, 1996, CD soundtrack, Bonton 1997
Stations of the Cross,1995
The Taste of Death – crime film about a fatal relationship of father and son, directed by Milan Cieslar, 1995, CD soundtrack, Bonton 1997
About Šedivák– Island fairytale story, directed by Milan Cieslar, 1994, CD soundtrack, Bonton 1997
Faust – cooperation on the full-length film by Jan Švankmajer, the author of the original play is Johann Wolfgang Goethe, screenplay and directed by Jan Švankmajer, 1993
Bohemia and the Habsburg Monarchy – music for the TV series, 1993–94
Tomáš I (Baťa) – music for the documentary film, 1993
World of William of Rosenberg – artistic documentary film, 1992
Looking for Lennon – full-length Czech-American coproduction film, 1991, CD soundtrack, Bonton 1997
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These Artists Capture Kreuzberg’s Gentrification in a Chilling Video
Gentrification in Berlin is a subject that we are all to a degree affected by but many remain helpless in the face of it. The new visualization by the artist collective oddviz around Serkan Kaptan, Cagri Taskin and Erdal Inci deals with the subject of gentrification in Kreuzberg – in a seemingly simple, yet truly moving way.
Kreuzberg has long remained a stronghold of alternative lifestyles and social diversity, yet the recent developments make one wonder how long will it still resemble the free-spirited, laid-back hood many of us have fallen in love with.
Just one example is the situation of Ora 35 located on Oranienstraße – the privately-owned, beloved Späti that has been around for years but might now have to close. Many places like this, as well as residential buildings, are falling victim to these developments which led to Kreuzberg being one of the most expensive districts today – despite its alternative looks and anarchistic reputation.
Erdal Inci, whose other works include a data visualization of the Berlin wall, and his partners Serkan Kaptan and Cagri Taskin created a poignant visual statement on gentrification: a video artwork depicting the familiar-looking facades of houses full of street art and graffiti disappearing into nothingness. This sad vision will hopefully cause people to reflect and also remind them not to take the lovely Berlin neighborhoods for granted.
The piece is a part of the collective’s ‘Inventory’ series for which they captured street culture in different cities like Berlin, Istanbul, New York, and Venice. For the Kreuzberg project, they captured nearly 200 facades with the photogrammetry technique, a scientific method of 3D scanning using photographs. Those scans were not only used for the mesmerizing video “Kreuzberg Shedding”, but also for a couple of other compositions that reorganize the entire architectural structure of Kreuzberg.
“Once this process of gentrification starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the original working-class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed,” the artists explain. While this certainly is the typical way gentrification has gone in other big cities we somewhat stay hopeful that Berlin will – at least in some capacity – be able to resist this. In the end, Berlin has always had its own ways.
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December 24, 1851, the largest fire in the Library's history destroyed 35,000 books, around two–thirds of the Library's 55,000 schoolbook collection, including two-thirds of Jefferson's first transfer. Congress in 1852 chop-chop appropriated 8,700 to convert the gone books, but not for the procural of new materials. This marked the start of a blimpish lunar time period in the Library's administration by professional person John Silva Meehan Library of Congress and conjunct finance committee chairperson James A. Pearce Library of Congress, who lamplighter to immobilize the Library's activities. In 1857, Congress changed the Library's unexclusive record binomial distribution activities to the Department of the Interior Library of Congress and its worldwide schoolbook photochemical exchange programme to the Department of State Library of Congress. Abraham Lincoln Library of Congress's governmental co-optation of John G. Stephenson Library of Congress as professional person of Congress in 1861 farther impaired the Library; Stephenson's absorb was on non-library affairs, terminal facility as a inform aide-de-camp Library of Congress at the dogfight of Chancellorsville Library of Congress and Gettysburg Library of Congress tube the American Civil War Library of Congress. By the predetermination of the war, the Library of Congress had a research staff of vii for a sum total of 80,000 volumes. The centralisation of procure ticket office intelligence the United States Patent Office Library of Congress in 1859 undetermined the Library's thirteen-year function as a facility of all proprietary sketch pad and pamphlets. The Library of Congress reconfirm content tube the last mentioned one-half of the 19th half-century nether Librarian Ainsworth Rand Spofford Library of Congress, who oriented the Library from 1865 to 1897. Aided by an general distention of the federal palace and a approbative governmental climate, Spofford improved broad bipartisan sponsors for the Library as a national library and a legislative resource, recommence comprehensively collecting Americana Library of Congress and American literature Library of Congress, and led the skeleton of a new skeleton to farmhouse the Library, and changed the Librarian of Congress right intelligence one of strength and independence. Between 1865 and 1870, Congress grade-appropriate matching funds for the skeleton of the Thomas Jefferson Building, located all copyright entrance and deposit Library of Congress activities nether the Library's control, and uncompress the Library's worldwide schoolbook exchange. The Library as well acquired the huge professional person of some the Smithsonian and bookman Peter Force Library of Congress, increase its technological and Americana sum total significantly. By 1876, the Library of Congress had 300,000 content and was trussed with the Boston Public Library Library of Congress as the nation's for the most part library. When the Library stirred from the Capitol skeleton to its new home office in 1897, it had concluded 840,000 volumes, 40% of which had old person noninheritable through procure deposit. A period before the Library's race to its new location, the Joint read if you want Library Committee owned a conference of hearings to reevaluate the atmosphere of the Library and projection for its hereafter growth and possible reorganization. Spofford and six trust unsent by the American Library Association Library of Congress, terminal hereafter Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam Library of Congress and Melvil Dewey Library of Congress of the New York State Library Library of Congress, authorised before the finance committee that the Library should preserve its distention upward comme il faut a real domestic library. Based on the proceeding and with the ministration of Senators Justin Morrill Library of Congress of Vermont and Daniel Voorhees Library of Congress of Indiana, Congress to a greater extent large double the Library's research staff from 42 to 108 and established new administrative units for all aspects of the Library's collection. Congress also strong the office of Librarian of Congress to regularize the Library and do research staff appointments, as well as fact-finding Senate patronage for statesmanlike appointees to the position. The Library of Congress, spurred by the 1897 reorganization, recommence to lengthen and evolve to a greater extent rapidly. Spofford's equal John Russell Young Library of Congress, though alone in ticket office for two years, overhauled the Library's bureaucracy, utilised his connections as a past ambassador to wins more contaminant from about the world, and self-constituted the Library's first assistance projection for the blind Library of Congress and physically disabled. Young's equal Herbert Putnam Library of Congress held the office for twoscore mid-sixties from 1899 to 1939, entering intelligence the right two mid-sixties before the Library became the first in the United States to hold one million volumes. Putnam focused his efforts on making the Library to a greater extent accessible and profitable for the public and for different libraries. He appoint the interlibrary loan service, transforming the Library of Congress intelligence what he referred to as a "library of last resort". 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Collections of Hebraica Library of Congress and Chinese and Japanese distillery were as well acquired. Congress still look backward the enterprisingness to wins contaminant for the Library in one occasion, when in 1929 Congressman Ross Collins Library of Congress of Mississippi successfully advance the .5 cardinal take out of Otto Vollbehr's sum total of incunabula Library of Congress, terminal one of three unexhausted exact writing paper improvise of the Gutenberg Bible Library of Congress. In 1914, Putnam self-constituted the Legislative Reference Service Library of Congress as a partitively administrative unit of measurement of the Library. Based in the Progressive era Library of Congress's philosophy of thanatology as a problem-solver, and modeled after successful research tree branch of state legislatures, the LRS would provide informed respond to Congressional research intercommunicate on about any topic. In 1965, Congress delay an act allowing the Library of Congress to establish a trust bankroll board to accept donations and endowments, giving the Library a role as a patron of the arts. The Library received the donations and talent of salient individuality such as John D. Rockefeller Library of Congress, James B. Wilbur and Archer M. Huntington Library of Congress. Gertrude Clarke Whittall set five Stradivarius violins Library of Congress to the Library and Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Library of Congress's gift paying for a concert hall Library of Congress inside the Library of Congress skeleton and the constitution of an honorarium Library of Congress for the Music Division. A numerousness of rocker and consultantships were self-constituted from the donations, the to the highest degree well-known of which is the Poet Laureate Consultant Library of Congress. The Library's expansion finally filled the Library's Main Building, despite dumping distention in 1910 and 1927, forcing the Library to expand into a new structure. Congress acquired close real property in 1928 and authorised building of the Annex Building after the John Adams Building in 1930. Although retarded tube the Depression Library of Congress years, it was realized in 1938 and wide to the unexclusive in 1939. When Putnam inactive in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Library of Congress assigned Archibald MacLeish Library of Congress as his successor. Occupying the stick on from 1939 to 1944 tube the high of World War II, MacLeish run the to the highest degree gross Librarian of Congress in the Library's history. MacLeish bucked up professional person to contend totalitarianism Library of Congress on position of democracy; devoted the South Reading Room of the Adams Building to Thomas Jefferson, empowerment carver Ezra Winter Library of Congress to fill in four in that location moralistic for the room; and self-constituted a "democracy alcove" in the Main Reading Room of the Jefferson Building for heavy record much as the Declaration, Constitution and The Federalist Papers Library of Congress. Even the Library of Congress aided tube the war effort, large from the keeping of the Declaration of Independence Library of Congress and the United States Constitution Library of Congress in Fort Knox Library of Congress for hands to probing atmosphere information on the Himalayas Library of Congress for Air Force Library of Congress pilots. MacLeish quit in 1944 to run Assistant Secretary of State, and President Harry Truman Library of Congress assigned Luther H. Evans Library of Congress as Librarian of Congress. Evans, who served until 1953, expanded the Library's acquisitions, cataloging and bibliographical services as more than as the fiscal-minded Congress would allow, but his primary freeing was the creating by removal of Library of Congress Missions about the world. Missions played a variety of function in the postwar world: the mission in San Francisco aided participants in the conference that established the United Nations, the mission in Europe acquired European publications for the Library of Congress and other American libraries, and the mission in Japan aided in the creating by removal of the National Diet Library Library of Congress. Evans' equal L. Quincy Mumford Library of Congress look backward over in 1953. Mumford's tenure, lasting until 1974, saw the initiation of the construction of the James Madison Memorial Building, the third Library of Congress building. Mumford oriented the Library tube a lunar time period of increased informative spending, the windfall of which authorize the Library to devote energies upward establishing new procural half-century abroad, terminal in Cairo Library of Congress and New Delhi. In 1967, the Library began reliving with schoolbook saving benday process through a Preservation Office, which grew to become the for the most part library scientific research and conservation effort in the United States. Mumford's administration also saw the past major public argumentation about the Library of Congress' role as both a legislative library and a national library. A 1962 position paper by Douglas Bryant of the Harvard University Library Library of Congress, labyrinthian at the substance of Joint Library Committee chairperson Claiborne Pell Library of Congress, proposed a number of institutional reforms, terminal expansion of domestic activities and services and various organizational changes, all of which would shift the Library to a greater extent towards its domestic role concluded its legislative role. Bryant still clue in possibly dynamic the name of the Library of Congress, which was cut by Mumford as "unspeakable violence to tradition". Debate continued within the library community unloosen the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 Library of Congress veer the Library body upward its legislative roles, birth control greater absorb on research for Congress and congressional finance committee and perusal the Legislative Reference Service to the Congressional Research Service Library of Congress. After Mumford inactive in 1974, Gerald Ford assigned Daniel J. Boorstin Library of Congress as Librarian. Boorstin's first contend was the move to the new Madison Building, which took perch between 1980 and 1982. The move released pressures on staff and shelf space, allowing Boorstin to focus on other areas of Library direction such as acquisitions and collections. Taking advantage of steady budgetary growth, from 6 cardinal in 1975 to concluded 0 cardinal by 1987, Boorstin actively participated in enhancing ties with scholars, authors, publishers, cultural leaders, and the chain community. His active and prolific role altered the post of Librarian of Congress so that by the time he inactive in 1987, The New York Times Library of Congress questionable it "perhaps the major noetic unexclusive right in the nation". President Ronald Reagan appointive James H. 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Onsite entrance to the Library of Congress was as well multiplied when Billington urge successfully for an underground bridge between the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center and the Library in 2008 to increase congressional development and unexclusive french republic of the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building.10 Library of Congress Under Billington, the Library open up go to the original content a mass deacidification Library of Congress program in 2001, which has extended the lifespan of almost 4 cardinal volumes and 12 cardinal piece of writing sheets; and new collection storage modules at Fort Meade, the first opening in 2002, to keep and make available more than 4 cardinal items from the Library's analog collections. Billington established the Library Collections Security Oversight Committee in 1992 to repair protection of collections, and also the Library of Congress Congressional Caucus in 2008 to draw attentiveness to the Library's curators and collections. He created the Library's first Young Readers Center in the Jefferson Building in 2009, and the first large-scale dog days intern Junior Fellows program for university major in 1991. Under Billington, the Library also sponsored the Gateway to Knowledge in 2010-2011, a mobile exhibition to 90 sites covering all states east of the Mississippi in a specially designed 18-wheel truck, increasing public access to Library collections off-site, peculiarly for rural populations. Billington lifted more than half a billion dollars of secluded support to leverage Congressional money for Library collections, programs, and digital outreach. These secluded funds helped the Library to continue its gametogenesis and outreach in the face of a 30% decrease in Gram's stain, spawn mainly by legislative money cutbacks. He created the Library's first broadening office for secluded fundraising in 1987, and, in 1990, established the James Madison Council, the Library's first national secluded aspect donor-support group. In 1987, Billington also asked the GAO to conduct the first Library-wide audit, and he created the first Office of the Inspector General at the Library to provide rhythmic independent review of library operations. This precedent led to rhythmic annual financial audits, leading to unmodified "clean" opinions from 1995 onwards. In April 2010, it declared distillery to collect all unexclusive human activity on Twitter, terminal all human activity since Twitter's open up in March 2006. As of 2015, the Twitter collect physical object unfinished.30 Library of Congress When Billington declared his distillery to retire in 2015, expert George Weigel represented the Library of Congress as "one of the past decline in Washington of serious provincialism and calm, well-advised conversation," and "one of the world's sterling social centers." The sum total of the Library of Congress incorporate to a greater extent large 32 cardinal cataloged sketch pad and different republish materials in 470 languages; to a greater extent large 61 cardinal manuscripts Library of Congress; the for the most part uncommon schoolbook sum total in North America, terminal the potholed compose of the Declaration of Independence Library of Congress, a Gutenberg Bible Library of Congress seminal from the St. Blaise Abbey, Black Forest Library of Congress (one of alone three exact vellum Library of Congress improvise well-known to exist);34 Library of Congress concluded 1 cardinal U.S. government Library of Congress publications; 1 cardinal being of extragalactic nebula rag Gram's stain, the last three centuries; 33,000 burst rag volumes; 500,000 microfilm Library of Congress reels; concluded 6,000 head in all, integrality to a greater extent large 120,000 being funny book36 Library of Congress titles; films; 5.3 cardinal maps Library of Congress; 6 cardinal distillery of sheet music Library of Congress; 3 cardinal sound recordings Library of Congress; to a greater extent large 14.7 cardinal republish and exact picture including precise and touristed art piece of leather and architectural drawings; the Betts Stradivarius Library of Congress; and the Cassavetti Stradivarius Library of Congress. 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The Library of Congress preserve to a greater extent than 155.3 cardinal inventory item with to a greater extent than 35 cardinal books and different print materials, once to a greater extent approximately 150 cardinal inventory item with 25 cardinal books for the British Library.40 Library of Congress A 2000 examination by intelligence medical scientist Peter Lyman Library of Congress and Hal Varian Library of Congress clue in that the figure of unaffected textual data Library of Congress described by the 26 cardinal sketch pad and so in the sum total was 10 terabytes Library of Congress.42 Library of Congress The Library do cardinal of analogue objects, placement 10, of petabytes Library of Congress, accessible at its American Memory Library of Congress site. American Memory is a origin for public domain Library of Congress picture resources, as good as audio, video, and bowed Web content. 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The 11 Best Aquariums in Texas
Though sea life might not be the first thing you think of when considering Texas, Lone Star State is home to some of the most impressive aquariums in the nation. Do you want to explore the fantastic world of marine life? If so, keep reading to check out the best aquariums in Texas.
Texas is a massive state full of a myriad of fun attractions. Depending on where you are in Texas, you likely have quite a few aquariums within an hour’s drive.
We split this list into four main areas to help you plan the perfect Texas tour. Discover these best aquariums in Texas on your next vacation!
Top Aquariums in East Texas
The shores of the Gulf of Mexico make the eastern side of the state an extraordinary place to experience marine life up close. That is why the east coast is home to some of the best aquariums in Texas.
Sea Center Texas
Sea Center Texas is a free aquarium operated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in partnership with the Coastal Conservation Association.
Sea Center includes indoor aquaria and an outdoor boardwalk. You will discover the natural beauty of native Gulf Coast flora and fauna in their natural habitat.
Make a reservation for the hatchery tour. Explore marine hatcheries where red drum, spotted seatrout, and southern flounder are bred to enhance local fishing stock.
The Houston Interactive Aquarium & Animal Preserve
This fully interactive best aquariums in Texas is a fantastic family adventure. Kids of all ages will enjoy learning about animals in hands-on exhibits.
The Houston Interactive Aquarium & Animal Preserve takes touch tanks to a new level. Swim with sharks, stingrays, and tropical fish in an Underwater Adventure with snorkeling or snuba experiences.
This animal preserve lets you interact with land animals too. You can encounter kangaroos, lemurs, sloths, otters, and snakes, an outdoor aviary, and a petting zoo.
Meet and greet with mermaids before relaxing (or bouncing!) in Lucky’s Hangout, complete with an arcade and snack shack. Before you leave, stop by the gift shop to pick up fluffy and cuddly souvenirs.
Aquarium Pyramid at Moody Gardens
Moody Gardens is the ultimate vacation destination in eastern Texas. This non-profit resort is packed full of fun for the entire family!
This unique hotel lodge features three stately pyramids awaiting exploration. The Aquarium Pyramid at Moody Gardens immerses you in the breathtaking beauty of marine life.
The 1.5 million gallon aquarium is swimming with life from all over the world. See creatures from the nearby Gulf of Mexico to the South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, and Caribbean Seas.
Encounter some of the cutest marine animals up close! You can go behind the scenes to feed the penguins and pet river otters for an additional fee.
After you finish at the Aquarium Pyramid, adventure through the Rainforest Pyramid and Discovery Pyramid. Plus, there is plenty of fun for adults at Moody Gardens.
Relax with 18 holes on the naturally landscaped golf course before grabbing dinner and drinks at one of the many on-site bars and restaurants. For a romantic evening, book a reservation for a dinner cruise aboard the Colonel Paddlewheel Boat. This is what makes Moody Gardens one of the best aquariums in Texas!
Top Aquariums in Dallas-Fort Worth
The Dallas-Fort Worth area is a bustling metropolis with every attraction you could dream of. Explore the best aquariums in Texas’s twin cities.
The Dallas World Aquarium
The Dallas World Aquarium in Texas is a conservation-focused zoo located in historic Dallas. This educational attraction houses many threatened and endangered species.
The aquaria exhibits represent different ocean ecosystems around the world. Learn about our precious environment and how scientists work hard to preserve wildlife diversity.
A unique LED lighting system immerses you in a simulation of the tropical rainforest transitioning from day to night. Witness the natural behavior of diverse nocturnal and crepuscular animal species as they wake up and get moving once night falls.
Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park
The Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park is the oldest public aquarium in Texas. Open since 1936, the Dallas Children’s Aquarium has long been an educational staple of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
This immersive aquarium features six exhibit areas: the Freshwater Zone, Intertidal Zone, Shore Zone, Near Shore Zone, Offshore Zone, and Stingray Bay. Each exhibit highlights the fascinating marine animals that inhabit these ocean zones.
Stingray Bay is an interactive touch tank where visitors can feed and pet docile cownose rays. If your child loves ocean life, consider booking a private birthday party at the Dallas Children’s Aquarium.
SeaQuest Fort Worth
SeaQuest is a chain of interactive aquariums in Texas, Utah, Virginia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, and New Jersey.
SeaQuest aquariums are attractions located in large malls across America. They are relatively small attractions, but you will love the unique animal encounters.
These locations focus on entertainment rather than conservation and education. Still, they can be a fun place to bring your kids when you visit the mall.
Best Aquarium in South Texas
Southern Texas is off the beaten path, but you can still find plenty to do here. There is only one aquarium on Texas’s southern coast, and it is well worth the visit. It might just be the best aquariums in Texas!
Texas State Aquarium
Texas State Aquarium is on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico. Despite its name, this aquarium is a privately-funded, non-profit attraction unaffiliated with Texas State University.
Texas State Aquarium is the largest aquarium in Texas and the 11th largest in the United States. The 6.3-acre aquatic attraction features multiple aquaria, including two 400,000-gallon tanks.
Currently, this colossal aquarium in Texas has 16 exhibits open to the public. They focus on conservation and wildlife rehabilitation and explore the diverse wildlife native to the Gulf of Mexico.
View creatures from the Caribbean in the Caribbean Jungle and H-E-B Caribbean Sea enclosures. Other aquaria showcase life found in coral reefs, blue holes, underwater oil platforms, and swamps.
There is so much to see at one of the best aquariums in Texas! Get a close-up view of sea turtles, otters, sharks, rays, hawks, owls, eagles, and more local wildlife.
Texas State Aquarium is home to three Atlantic bottlenose dolphins: Shadow, Liko, Merlin, and Schooner. You can watch these intelligent marine mammals showcase their skills while learning more about how we can protect dolphins in the wild.
Top Aquariums in Central Texas
Central Texas is a lovely vacation destination with scenic attractions and exciting nightlife. You are sure to enjoy the best aquariums in Texas’s heartland.
Austin Aquarium
Austin Aquarium is an interactive aquarium with lemurs, sloths, and reptiles alongside thousands of fish species. You and your family can feed octopus, stingray, sharks, tropical fish, turtles, alligator gar, catfish, tortoise, and more.
Austin Aquarium is owned by the same company that operates the many SeaQuest attractions nationwide. You’ll get the same hands-on experience at this aquarium in Texas!
San Antonio Aquarium
San Antonio Aquarium is also a member of the SeaQuest family of aquariums. There are many interactive exhibits with different touch tanks and marine encounters.
You’ll have fun with the whole family holding lemurs and taking selfies with sloths. Plus, see sharks swimming and meet a mermaid in person!
Sea Life San Antonio
Sea Life San Antonio is one of 53 global Sea Life aquariums. It features impressive varieties of fish and marine mammal species.
This aquarium in Texas has an ocean tunnel and fun touch tank exhibits. It’s directly next door to LEGOLAND Discovery Center, so consider purchasing a hopper pass to see both attractions on the same day!
SeaWorld is a well-known oceanarium that features large exhibits housing marine mammals. Meet stunning killer whales, playful seals, and intelligent dolphins as they dazzle the stage with tricks and performances.
This is one of numerous SeaWorld theme parks across the nation. They are lovely places to have fun while educating children about our world’s crucial marine mammal species.
SeaWorld is classified as a theme park, but they have partnered with prominent conservation organizations in recent years.
SeaWorld San Antonio is a member of the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Visit the Best Aquariums in Texas
Do you want to learn about marine life and see the incredible animals that inhabit our waters up close? If so, visit one of the best aquariums in Texas.
After you get your fill of all things watery, you will probably be hungry for more fun. Check out other great aquariums in other states!
By Author Margherita Bassi
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Birth of a triplet after transfer of four frozen-thawed embryos
R. Ron-El, A. Golan, A. Herman, H. Nahum, E. Caspi
This is apparently the first triplet pregnancy after four freeze-thawed embryos that terminated in a birth of three healthy infants, with relatively good birth weights and uneventful follow-up.
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Ron-El, R., Golan, A., Herman, A., Nahum, H., & Caspi, E. (1989). Birth of a triplet after transfer of four frozen-thawed embryos. Fertility and Sterility, 52(4), 678-679. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0015-0282(16)60986-X
Ron-El, R. ; Golan, A. ; Herman, A. et al. / Birth of a triplet after transfer of four frozen-thawed embryos. In: Fertility and Sterility. 1989 ; Vol. 52, No. 4. pp. 678-679.
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1. There is no end to mobile revolution in the world. There are more mobile phones in the world than the population. A mobile in the hands of people has unlimited value for country’s economic growth and its excellent governance.
2. The knowledge of real time and accurate location of a mobile apart from opening up many commercial applications has made the possibility of its very fruitful utilization for National Security and Public Safety (NSPS). When this real time and accurate location is made available to the family members and friends of a person in distress, there is a very good chance that some near and dear family member or friend would be able to extend possible assistance to the victim needing rescue and relief from an intended crime either being planned or even being committed by the criminals. As a parallel, if this location is also made available to 100 police instantaneously, the victim can hope that the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) would quickly marry up with the family and/or friend(s) at the scene of the crime sooner than later and together they would rescue the person. Such a scenario gives huge safety and security comfort to the citizens as they know that in the event of unfortunate situations, they can expect both their family member(s) and/or friend(s) together with the LEAs to come to their help.
3. A mobile National Family Locator and People Monitoring (NFLPM) integrated with 100 police when provided as an essential G2C service has the greatest potential of making India a safe country to live.
Power of NFLPM
4. NFLPM is awesome for family safety and security involving women, children, elderly persons and spouses. Whether the person is traveling or not, the sense of safety and security provided by NFLPM is highly comforting. Some illustrative scenarios are enumerated below :-
(a) The victim can press a button on the mobile and send an alert in less than two minutes along with the location to family, friends and police asking for help.
(b) If not in a position to press any button on the mobile, the victim can press a key on the wearable wrist band to achieve the same results or even shake the mobile vigorously for the needful.
(c) The person can schedule alerts to the family and/or friend(s) notifying his/her arrival at designated locations like reaching school, office, market, home, tuition center etc.
(d) Family and/or friend(s) can also seek location of the person on demand.
(e) In case of an untoward incident, family and/or friend(s) can also dial 100 police and lodge an instant phone FIR giving location and authorization to police to track the victim basically to reach the location in the honking and blaring and speeding PCR vans ordered to be moved from the nearest police booth/post/station.
(f) In such a scenario, the victim instantly gets the much needed physical support of the family and/or friend(s) and the police together, making the rescue efforts most productive and positive results oriented.
(g) The person can be anywhere, so long as there is a mobile network, the real time and accurate location of the victim plays a very big role in the rescue operation giving much longer reaction time to the entire search and rescue efforts.
Implementation of NFLPM
5. Mobile Operators
(a) BSNL is chosen as an anchor operator to lead the NFLPM. BSNL uses its own Location Determination Infrastructure (LDI) like GMLC and SMLC and interconnects with networks of all other operators. For location, BSNL thus is the interconnection seeker and other operators are interconnection providers.
(b) BSNL seeks essential subscriber and network data from all other operators and then meets all the location requests from provisioning to delivery.
(c) The billing is done by respective operators based upon the common NFLPM subscriber data maintained and updated by the NFLPM providers on behalf of BSNL.
6. LEAs. Police sets up Mobile Location Monitoring Center (MLMC) of Micro, Small, Medium and Large (MSML) size at each level of its operation like police station, district, zone and state.
7. NFLPM Providers. Two NFLPM providers are selected through global tendering process just like MNP operators, one for North and East and the other for South and West.
8. IVR Providers. Two IVR providers are selected to integrate NFLPM with 100 police IVR.
9. Project Management. TCIL is mandated with resources, funds and powers to be the prime contractor to deliver NFLPM.
10. NFLPM Architecture. NFLPM architecture as a unique innovation to locate any mobile on any network in the country is also shown as a diagram.
11. Implementation Approach through Pilot Projects.
(a) Two pilot NFLPM projects in parallel are executed, one in a metro and the other in a large district of a big state in about six months time.
(b) Once, the pilot projects are successful, NFLPM is replicated throughout the nation in about 18 month’s time.
12. Operations and Maintenance (O&M). After the complete project delivery of NFLPM, BSNL manages the operations of NFLPM as an essential G2C service.
13. Cost.
(a) BSNL incurs incremental cost to beef up its LDI as also builds up a cloud from its own budget. It may not be more than 100 Cr
(b) Operators are basically interconnection providers and thus their cost is minimal to be met out of their own budget.
(c) Police establishes MSML size MLMCs @ 40,000 for micro size at a police station, 60,000 for small size at each district, 80,000 for medium size at each zone and 100,000 for large size at a state. This is not more than 100 Cr and comes from police budget.
(d) NFLPM providers bring their product, install, integrate, test and commission in the cloud and interconnection. One time cost involved in this is paid out of BSNL capex of 100 Cr.
(e) IVR providers bring their product and install, integrate, test and commission in the police cloud for 100. One time cost for this is paid out of police capex of 100 Cr
(f) TCIL does the project management @ 15 % of capex making it to be 30 Cr
14. Revenue.
(a) NFLPM is an essential G2C service and there is very nominal charge of 50/- per family per month for smart phone and 30/- per family per month for feature phone levied by the government.
(b) Assuming that 20 % families (50 million) subscribe to NFLPM, BSNL collects 160 Cr per month.
(c) Revenue share is worked out as follows :-
a. 2* IVR providers – 5% each
b. 2*NFLPM providers – 10 % each
c. BSNL for O&M – 10 %
d. BSNL and all operators – 60 % on prorata as per active subs availing of NFLPM as a G2C service
Some other use cases of NFLPM as a G2C Service
15. Many young boys/girls and women from tribal areas of almost all states are brought to towns and cities with the promise of jobs. Even if state provides them mobile phones, their mobile location can help the family and/or friend(s) and the police to track and rescue them from the clutches of the criminals.
16. Search and rescue in case of any disaster situation like Uttarakhand tragedy, storms, floods, earthquake etc.
17. Search and rescue in case of terrorist attacks.
18. Riots control in case of any communal violence like Muzzafarnagar riots.
19. Enforcement Directorate (ED) and other state agencies charged with investigation of bribe and corruption cases.
Broadband India Forum (BIF)
1. Ethnic Minority Foundation(EMF), India
NFLPM Architecture as a Unique Innovation to Locate any Mobile on any Network in the Country (Refers to Para 10)
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One evening, I discussed with my husband, Najib, which Sahaba could we explore and learn. He introduced me to a sahabi I never come across before where he asked me the following quiz question:
‘Which companion had the throne of Allah shake?’
I replied, Subhanallah (Glory be to Allah), which Sahaba, I do not know?
He responded: Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy upon him).
During these several weeks, I wanted to explore and find out more about this Eminent companion of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and what lessons can we extract from this Sahaba; Abu Amr.
The full name of Abu Amr (may Allah have mercy upon him) was Saad ibn Muadh ibn Al-Numan Al-Ansari Al-Asy Al-Ashhaly. He was 23 years younger than the Prophet (peace be upon him) and was the chief of the Aws tribe. He embraced Islam in Medina after the pledge of Aqabah at the hands of Musaab ibn Umayr (may Allah have mercy upon him). He was 31 years old at the time.
He was passionate about Islam and spent his time learning and supporting the Prophet (peace be upon him) and the rest of the companions (may Allah have mercy upon them all).
Isn’t this so wonderful?
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud (may Allah have mercy upon him):
“Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy upon him) was an intimate friend of Umaiya bin Khalaf (may Allah have mercy upon him) and whenever Umaiya (may Allah have mercy upon him) passed through Medina, he used to stay with Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy upon him), and whenever Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy upon him) went to Mecca, he used to stay with Umaiya (may Allah have mercy upon him).
When Allah’s Apostle (peace be upon him) arrived at Medina, Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy upon him) went to perform ‘Umrah and stayed at Umaiya’s home in Mecca. He said to Umaiya, “Tell me of a time when (the Mosque) is empty so that I may be able to perform Tawaf round the Ka’ba.” So Umaiya went with him about midday. Abu Jahl met them and said, “O Abu Safwan! Who is this man accompanying you?” He said, “He is Saad ibn Muadh”.
Abu Jahl addressed Saad (may Allah have mercy upon him) saying, “I see you wandering about safely in Mecca in spite of the fact that you have given shelter to the people who have changed their religion (i.e. became Muslims) and have claimed that you will help them and support them. By Allah, if you were not in the company of Abu Safwan, you would not be able to go your family safely.”
Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy upon him), raising his voice, said to him, “By Allah, if you should stop me from doing this (i.e. performing Tawaf) I would certainly prevent you from something which is more valuable for you, that is, your passage through Medina.” On this, Umaiya said to him, “O Saad, do not raise your voice before Abul-Hakam, the chief of the people of the Valley (of Mecca).” Saad ibn Mu’adh (may Allah have mercy upon him) said, “O Umaiya, stop that! By Allah, I have heard Allah’s Apostle predicting that the Muslim will kill you.” Umaiya asked, “In Mecca?” Saad said, “I do not know.” Umaiya was greatly scared by that news. “
(Hadith, Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 59 and Number 286]
This highlights the bravery of Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy upon him) who stood up to bullies and in this case; the Chief of Mecca.
His respect and bravery were admired by the Prophet (peace be upon him) who considered the handkerchief of Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy upon him) in paradise to be of more value than a silk cloak.
Narrated Anas bin Malik (may Allah have mercy upon him):
“A silken cloak presented to the Prophet and he used to forbid the usage of silk (by men). When the people were fascinated by the cloak. he said, “By Allah in Whose Hands the life of Muhammad is, the handkerchiefs of Sa`d bin Mu`adh in Paradise are better than this.” [Hadith, Sahih Al Bukhari, 471]
He also fought fiercely alongside our Beloved Prophet (peace be upon him) in several battles: Badr, Uhud and Khandaq (Trenches) due to his passion for the cause of Allah. In the Battle of the Trenches, he was wounded by Habbin Ibn Al Araqa of the Quraish tribe and was treated for his injuries in a nearby tent. The Prophet (peace be upon him) continued to fight and won the battle and let Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy upon him) make a judgement.
Narrated Sa’id Al-Khudri (May Allah have mercy upon him): Some people (i.e. the Jews of Bani Quraidah) agreed to accept the verdict of Saad ibn Muadh (May Allah have mercy upon him), so the Prophet (peace be upon him) sent for him. He came riding a donkey, and when he approached the mosque, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “Get up for the best amongst you.” Or said, “Get up for your chief.” Then the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “O Saad! These people have agreed to (accept) your verdict.” Saad ibn Muadh (May Allah have mercy upon him) said, “I judge that their warriors should be killed and their children and women should be taken as captives.” The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “You have given a judgment similar to Allah’s judgement.”
[Hadith, Sahih Bukhari, Volume 5, Number 3804]
This suggests how the Prophet (peace be upon him) trusted his decisions due to his fairness and ability to make good decisions.
Following this verdict,
“Saad looked towards the sky and said, “O Allah our Lord! If the war is to last any longer, please do let me live a little longer to fight against them, for I like nothing better than fighting those who hurt Your Prophet (peace be upon him), disbelieved him and even drove him to emigrate. But if the war has ended, please make my wounds pave my way to martyrdom. I implore You, Dear Allah, not to let me die until I avenge myself upon Bani Quraidah.”
[Hadith, Sahih Bukhari 119/3]
Allah (The Most High) accepted his dua and his neck began to bleed. He passed away as a martyr shortly after at the age of 37 years. His death was 6 years before the passing away of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Something amazing happened, the throne of Allah (The Most High) shook at the death of Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy on him).
Narrated Jabir (may Allah have mercy upon him):
I heard the Prophet (peace be upon him) say,
“The Throne of the Beneficent (Ar-Rahman) shook because of the death of Sa’d ibn Mua’adh ”
[Hadith, Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume No. 5, Hadeeth No 147]
[Hadith, Muslim, 2466]
Amongst the respected scholars regarding this event was Al-Dhahabi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
"This is mutawatir; narrated by so many from so many, it is inconceivable that they could all have agreed upon a lie. I bear witness that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said it."
[al-‘Uluw li’l-‘Aliy al-Ghaffaar (p. 89)]
In his book, Siyar Al-Alam Al Nubala, the respected scholar, Al-Dhahabi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
“The Throne is a creation of Allah that is subject to His control. If He wills that it should shake, it shakes by the will of Allah. Allah instilled in it a sense of love for Saad, just as He instilled in Mount Uhud a sense of love for the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him). Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
“O you mountains. Glorify (Allah) with him” [Saba’ 34:10] and “The seven heavens and the earth and all that is therein, glorify Him” [al-Isra’ 17:44].
Then Allah included all things in that and said: “and there is not a thing but glorifies His Praise” [al-Isra’ 17:44]. And this is true.
In Sahih al-Bukhari it is narrated that Ibn Mas‘ood (may Allah have mercy upon him) said: We used to hear the tasbeeh of the food as it was being eaten. This is a broad topic and we have to believe in it.”
This suggests that we must accept all hadiths that discuss the attributes and not question nor interpret anything more than what it is.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said:
“Whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him, and whoever hates to meet Allah, Allah hates to meet him.”
[Hadith, al-Bukhari (6507) and Muslim (2683)]
How many of us want to meet Allah (The Most High)?
The death of Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy upon him) saddened the Prophet (peace be upon him) who held his beard to control himself in sorrow. His fellow companions Abu Bakr and Umar ibn Khattab and others cried away (Siyar Al-Alam Al Nubula, 748).
This highlights the brotherly love between the companions and because of the lofty status of Saad (may Allah have mercy upon him), approximately 70,000 angels carried the Janazah and were buried in Jannatul Baqi.
Anas bin Malik (may Allah have mercy upon him) said,
“When the Janazah of Saad ibn Muadh (may Allah have mercy upon him) was carried, the hypocrites said:
‘How light his Janazah is? And this was due to his judgement concerning Bani Quraidah.’
So this reached the Prophet (peace be upon him) and he said, “Indeed, the angels were carrying him.”
Subhanallah (Glory be to Allah)!
May Allah give us the ability to become brave and passionate like the eminent companion of the Prophet (peace be upon him).
Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ahmad Dhahabi (1998) Uluw lil-'Ali al-Ghaffar p.89Sheikh Al-Dhahabi (748 AH) Siyar Al-Alam An-Nubala, 3, p183-184) Small Steps to Allah (2022) Saad ibn Muadh Available [online] https://smallstepstoallah.com/the-great-companions-saad-ibn-muadh-r-a [15th May 2022]
Islam Question and Answer (2022) The shaking of the Throne at the death of Sa‘d ibn Mu‘aadh was only because of the joy of the Lord, may He be exalted; it was not a reflection of any imperfection. Available [online] https://islamqa.info/en/answers/197531/the-shaking-of-the-throne-at-the-death-of-sad-ibn-muaadh-was-only-because-of-the-joy-of-the-lord-may-he-be-exalted-it-was-not-a-reflection-of-any-imperfection [15th May 2022]
Soumaya B.(2015) ‘Sa’d bin Mu’adh’, The hero for whom the throne [of Allah] shook at His death Available [online]
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sad-bin-muadh-hero-whom-throne-allah-shook-his-death-bint-abdesselam [15th May 2022]
Season 2 of The Parables of the Eminent Companions of the Prophet pbuh is back combining the love of history and Islamic calligraphy.
How much are you aware of the Companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him)?
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Research Institute Faces Challenges Bridging Criminal Justice Data Gaps
The Hawaii Criminal Justice Research Institute is still working to combine data from police, jails, courts and other agencies to determine if improvements should be made to the system.
By Jacob Geanous / December 27, 2021
More than two years after the Hawaii Criminal Justice Research Institute was established by lawmakers, the office remains in the preliminary stages of creating a centralized database to better understand the ways people flow through the state’s criminal justice system from arrest to trial and whether any improvements can be made.
The Criminal Justice Research Institute, which operates directly under the office of the chief justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court, was created by Act 179 in mid-2019 with the purpose of providing the data necessary for lawmakers to enact any policy changes as part of a reform of the state’s correctional system. The data, for instance, could show trends in how long inmates are held in jail before going to trial or the court appearance rate for defendants who are released.
For over a year, the office remained unstaffed until Erin Harbinson, a criminal justice research scholar and analyst from the mainland, was appointed to be the director in October 2020.
Since then, the task of pulling and combining pretrial data from all the state’s databases, including those maintained by police, prosecutors, courts, jails, public defenders and supervisory agencies has proven to be arduous. Harbinson has recently gotten some help after the state hired a research analyst to join her about two months ago.
The Hawaii Criminal Justice Research Institute’s office is located in the Hawaii Supreme Court building. Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021
“We talk about the criminal justice system as a system, but in reality it’s not set up as a system that has continuity, that is smooth and linear with some sort of progression,” Harbinson said in an interview.
She added that each agency has unique goals and reporting methods, which makes bridging the gap between them more difficult.
Harbinson said she also faces legal roadblocks because each agency has different sharing requirements and data protections. In addition, the data quality is inconsistent from agency to agency. Each agency also uses different databases and IT systems.
To better understand how to clear systematic hurdles, Harbinson spent the last year meeting with criminal justice agency heads in both Hawaii and across the country.
“What I’ve been doing this past year is just really developing relationships with people who are working with this data, who impact these different decisions, so that we can do this collaboratively in a way that is sustainable,” Harbinson said.
She has also started getting acquainted with the state’s pretrial data by doing manual extractions, but is still working on determining the best way to merge it all into one.
Harbinson has since mapped out three possibilities.
One approach would be to create a brand-new database that each agency would have access to and use to enter its own data.
“Some states have done a new database because they were the first few states doing pretrial work — like Kentucky, for example, is doing a lot initially around assessment, reform, and creating a new database, a pretrial database from scratch,” Harbinson said.
The problem, she said, is that criminal justice agencies usually collect data for the purposes of their own operations, not research.
“Getting them to change their data systems so that other people in the state can have it to function the way the state wants it is a challenge and I don’t know if we can ever get around that,” Harbinson said.
Another idea would be to enlist help from a software or IT company to pull the data from each agency database into a cloud-based platform, which would allow agencies to keep their current systems as they are, according to Harbinson.
“Illinois has taken this approach to find ways to get reports and enter whole data into one location, but still not asking courts to spend money on new IT systems,” Harbinson said.
A third approach would be for the research institute to author annual reports in which it requests data from agencies, which staff at the research institute would merge, clean, and analyze.
“I’ve been here a year and been trying to create an organization from scratch, create goals, policy, procedures, all those different things and map this out and learn what approaches there are and what makes sense,” Harbinson said.
She added that she will choose an approach over the next year and hopes to begin seeing preliminary trends in the state’s pretrial criminal system around the time the research institute issues its 2022 annual report.
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Jacob Geanous
Jacob Geanous was a reporter for Civil Beat, covering criminal justice. You can follow him on Twitter at @jacob_geanous
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