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Glenn Thrush. Kirk Irwin/Getty Images The Daily Caller on Thursday took down a short video loop that appeared to mock New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush.
Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Thursday flagged a 24-second video shared on the site's YouTube channel titled, "New York Times' Glenn Thrush Has KNOUTSPA."
The video played Thrush, who is Jewish, on a loop during a cable news interview saying the word "chutzpah" while the Israeli folk song "Hava Nagila" played in the background.
Shortly after the video began to circulate on social media, the right-leaning digital publication removed it, though some Twitter users preseved it.
The video swiftly provoked backlash online. Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, called on the publication to take down the video and apologize to Thrush.
In a series of tweets, Daily Caller media critic Betsy Rothstein — who is also Jewish— explained that the video "lacked the context," and said she asked for the video to be made after enjoying Thrush's pronunciation of "chutzpah" on MSNBC.
The Daily Caller had been the subject of controversy over some of its coverage of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month. It removed articles by white nationalist Jason Kessler, one of the organizers of the neo-Nazi protest.
The site did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment. | positive |
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Gutierrez has talks with Haas in Spain
Esteban Gutierrez appears to be in pole position to head the new Haas F1 Team driver lineup next year.
According to Autosprint, the Mexican had a “long meeting” with the incoming American team’s owner Gene Haas over the course of the Spanish Grand Prix weekend.
Haas, also a Nascar team co-owner, was visiting the Barcelona paddock following reports an internal deadline for the driver decision has been set for September.
It was believed that American Alexander Rossi, the former Marussia and Caterham tester who now races in GP2, was a prime candidate for the North Carolina-based team.
“We’ve obviously spoken with Haas,” Rossi admitted last year.
But another obvious favourite is 23-year-old Gutierrez, the Sauber race driver of 2013 and 2014 who has now taken his Mexican backers to Ferrari.
He attends every race as official reserve driver for Ferrari, who will power and support the Haas outfit from next year.
Haas Automation, Gene Haas’ machine tool company, is also a sponsor of the Maranello based team.
“Gutierrez could be the experienced driver Haas is looking for,” said Autosprint, “while reinforcing the link between the American team and Ferrari.”
Meanwhile, Autosprint also reported that former F1 tyre supplier Michelin could compete with Pirelli in the forthcoming tender process to become the sport’s official partner from 2017. | positive |
Alabama coach Nick Saban says wide receiver Duron Carter isn't likely to play this season.
Saban said Wednesday the highly touted junior college transfer and former Ohio State player probably will have to redshirt.
Saban says Alabama hasn't received and might not receive "one piece of information" on Carter. Without it, he says, Carter would have to live there for a year to be eligible.
He would have two seasons of eligibility remaining. Carter is the son of former Ohio State and NFL receiver Cris Carter, who now works as an ESPN analyst.
The 6-foot-4, 210-pounder received Julio Jones' No. 8 and some of the playmaking expectations of the NFL first-round draft pick.
Carter spent one season at Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College and caught 44 passes for 690 yards and 10 touchdowns. | positive |
As a developer you may have heard the term WebSockets thrown around in the past few years, without fully understanding what they are. At least I was in that boat for a long time before I started using them. WebSockets really aren’t too difficult to understand and implement, and they can lead to some really cool functionality in your app. Whether you agree or disagree that WebSockets have enhanced the current state of web development, it’s at least a good idea to understand how they actually work. Before I get into the nitty-gritty about how WebSockets function, I want to provide some real-life examples of how they could be used to make sure we all know what they are.
Imagine you’re using a browser-based instant messaging application and you’re chatting with a friend – how do those messages automatically appear in your browser without you having to refresh? While the app doesn’t necessarily have to be using WebSockets – there’s a good chance that it is. Same thing if you’re on a company’s homepage and you see a stock ticker changing regularly, or if you’re on a sports site keeping track of a game score that’s updating on its own. These are all examples of how WebSockets can be used in the wild. WebSockets create links, or “sockets,” between two parties and allow for two-way communication. Back to the instant message example, whenever you send a new instant message in a chatroom, your client would alert the server of the new message, then the server would immediately broadcast that message to all of the other clients, and finally those clients would immediately receive and render the message.
Traditional Web Sites
The way you traditionally interact with a web site is by issuing an HTTP request from your client (i.e. your browser) to the server and receiving all the necessary data to load the webpage as a response from the server. This can be HTML, CSS, Javascript, images, and more. You can even make asynchronous requests to load additional data (often in the form of JSON or XML) while you’re interacting with the web page, which is how single-page apps work. What you can’t do however is rely on the server to automatically send the client information on its own. Traditionally, there’s always a request from the client involved, and we can’t change how HTTP works to account for this (nor would we want to). We can build a semi-workaround for this by implementing polling – meaning we just issue asynchronous requests to the server every second or so to see if data has changed, in which case we would want to render it onto the screen (such as a new instant message) – but that means we’re issuing several needless requests over and over again. That impacts both the client and the server, and that’s not good.
It seems like it would be really helpful if we could establish an open connection between the server and the client so that they can communicate bi-directionally, but how would we do this? Enter WebSockets.
What are WebSockets
WebSockets represent a standard for bi-directional communication between a client and a server which involves creating a TCP connection that links them together. The TCP connection sits outside of HTTP, and thus runs a separate server to manage this communication. To initialize this connection, a handshake is performed between the client and the server; here’s the general process:
1) The client makes an HTTP request to the server with an upgrade header, indicating that the client wishes to establish a WebSocket connection. Notice the ws URI scheme (short for WebSocket). wss is also available for secure WebSocket communication.
1 2 3 4 5 GET ws : //websocket.example.com/ HTTP/1.1 Origin : http : //example.com Connection : Upgrade Host : websocket . example . com Upgrade : websocket
2) If the server supports the WebSocket protocol, then it will agree to the upgrade and send a response back.
1 2 3 4 HTTP / 1.1 101 WebSocket Protocol Handshake Date : Wed , 16 Jan 2016 10 : 07 : 34 GMT Connection : Upgrade Upgrade : WebSocket
3) The handshake is complete, and all further communication will follow the WebSocket protocol and will use the same underlying TCP port. The returning status code is 101, which stands for Switching Protocols.
Demo with Socket.io
All this talk about WebSockets is great, but why don’t we build a small demo to really show off how they work? Socket.io is perhaps the most popular WebSocket library out there right now, and it’s built to work with node.js. We’re going to create a drop-dead simple instant messaging application that uses WebSockets. This app will allow clients to submit text through a form, which will in turn display that text in realtime on every client’s DOM. For starters, let’s start a new node project and install socket.io:
1 2 npm init # Answer the questions npm install -- save - dev socket .io express
We also installed express in order to add some basic routing features later on. Now let’s add our first file called index.js, where we’ll write our server-side code. Starting off simple, it takes only three lines to build a working WebSocket server.
index.js 1 2 3 var io = require ( 'socket.io' ) ( ) ; io . on ( 'connection' , function ( socket ) { } ) ; io . listen ( 3000 ) ;
To run this server, we just execute the following command:
1 node index
Using WebSockets can’t get any easier than this – we’re literally just opening a TCP connection and listening. Once you run this, you’ll see your terminal hang, showing that the server is working – but if you navigate to http://localhost:3000 in your browser, you won’t actually see any UI. That’s because we don’t have an HTTP server running to return anything to our browser – it’s strictly WebSockets for now. Let’s change that by rebuilding our code to instead attach our WebSocket server to an HTTP server, which will allow us to run both on the same port. For now, let’s just build a simple HTTP server, leaving out WebSockets. Baby steps.
index.js 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 var express = require ( 'express' ) ; var app = express ( ) ; var server = require ( 'http' ) . createServer ( app ) ; // Routing app . use ( express . static ( __dirname + '/public' ) ) ; server . listen ( 3000 ) ;
As you can see on line 7, we’re routing our pages to the /public directory. That means before we run this server, we need to create and add an index HTML template in that directory with some basic structure. Something like this will do nicely:
public/index.html 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 <html> <head> <meta charset = "utf-8" > <title> WebSockets Demo </title> </head> <body> <h1> WebSocket Demo </h1> <div class = "messages" > </div> <form class = "submit-message" method = "post" > <input type = "text" name = "" id = "my-message" value = "" /> <input type = "submit" name = "" id = "" value = "Submit" /> </form> <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.0.min.js" type = "text/javascript" charset = "utf-8" > </script> </body> </html>
Nothing too crazy here – just a header, an empty div, a simple form with an input and submit button, and a script call to grab jQuery from a CDN. Now run this server and visit http://localhost:3000, and you should see something that looks like this.
Now the plan here is to allow the user to enter text and submit the form, and that text will automatically display beneath the WebSocket Demo heading on every client that’s currently viewing the page, without them having to do anything. It’ll be like magic.
In order to do that, we need to add back in and update the WebSocket portion of our server Javascript file; whenever a client emits a message to the WebSocket server, we want the server to broadcast that message to all the client browsers so they can update their own display in realtime.
index.js 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 var express = require ( 'express' ) ; var app = express ( ) ; var server = require ( 'http' ) . createServer ( app ) ; // Routing app . use ( express . static ( __dirname + '/public' ) ) ; var io = require ( 'socket.io' ) ( server ) ; io . on ( 'connection' , function ( socket ) { socket . on ( 'message' , function ( data ) { console . log ( data ) ; // we tell the client to execute 'message' socket . broadcast . emit ( 'message' , { message : data } ) ; } ) ; } ) ; server . listen ( 3000 ) ;
Here’s our updated file, and this will actually be the last edit we have to make here. After making these changes, be sure to restart your server. The rest of the logic will be some simple client-side Javascript.
Let’s jump back to our HTML template and add in a link to another Javascript file (main.js) that we’ll build ourselves to handle the client-side WebSocket logic. Additionally, now that we have WebSockets working on the server, we need to link to the client-side socket.io library.
public/index.html 1 2 3 4 5 6 . . <script src = "/socket.io/socket.io.js" type = "text/javascript" charset = "utf-8" > </script> <script src = "main.js" type = "text/javascript" charset = "utf-8" > </script> </body> </html>
If you look at the socket.io.js file path, you might be thinking that we never put that file in our project – and you’d be correct. When we attach our WebSocket connection to our HTTP connection, that file is served automatically by our server. Now let’s create main.js in /public and start building our logic handlers. We’ll start off by wrapping all of our code in an IIFE and using jQuery to help build the callback for when the user submits the form. Then, we’ll render the message in our own browser and clear the input after it’s been submitted.
public/main.js 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ( function ( ) { $ ( '.submit-message' ) . submit ( function ( event ) { event . preventDefault ( ) ; $ ( '.messages' ) . append ( '<p>' + $ ( '#my-message' ) . val ( ) + '</p>' ) ; $ ( '#my-message' ) . val ( '' ) ; } ) ; } ) ( ) ;
If you submit this form now, you should see your message appear beneath the WebSocket Demo header, and then your input will be cleared. Now let’s take this a step further; inside this callback, we can grab the submission data and use the socket.io library to emit a message to our WebSocket server (which is attached to our HTTP server). To do that, we just have to add in two lines:
public/main.js 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ( function ( ) { var socket = io ( ) ; $ ( '.submit-message' ) . submit ( function ( event ) { event . preventDefault ( ) ; $ ( '.messages' ) . append ( '<p>' + $ ( '#my-message' ) . val ( ) + '</p>' ) ; socket . emit ( 'message' , $ ( '#my-message' ) . val ( ) ) ; $ ( '#my-message' ) . val ( '' ) ; } ) ; } ) ( ) ;
Now reload the page and submit the form with “foobar” entered into the text input; you should see this output from your server:
1 2 > node index foobar
This means you’ve been successful in sending a message via WebSockets to your server! Now if you were to open up your browser development tools and watch as you make this submission, you won’t see any sort of logging for the message. That’s because it’s not following the HTTP protocol – it’s following the WebSockets protocol. I want to make absolutely certain we’re all on the same page here. This isn’t a form of AJAX going on behind the scenes, it’s full on WebSockets. HTTP isn’t involved in the least bit after the initial handshake.
So our server is receiving our message, which is cool, but that’s not where we want it to end. We want the server to now broadcast that message to all of the clients so that they can render the message to the screen. Our server is already good to go, so all that’s left is to build the handlers on the client-side to receive the messages and render them to the screen.
At the bottom of /public/main.js, we’ll add a few lines of code to take care of this.
public/main.js 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ( function ( ) { var socket = io ( ) ; $ ( '.submit-message' ) . submit ( function ( event ) { event . preventDefault ( ) ; $ ( '.messages' ) . append ( '<p>' + $ ( '#my-message' ) . val ( ) + '</p>' ) ; socket . emit ( 'message' , $ ( '#my-message' ) . val ( ) ) ; $ ( '#my-message' ) . val ( '' ) ; } ) ; socket . on ( 'message' , function ( data ) { $ ( '.messages' ) . append ( '<p>' + data . message + '</p>' ) ; } ) ; } ) ( ) ;
Boom – we’re done! This is our last bit of code to add; all it does is wait to receive a message from the server, and when it does, it will append the message to the DOM just like it would for the user who submits the form. One word of note here is that the client who sends the initial message will not receive any messages back from the server for that particular message. This is good, because the original client already knows when the action takes place without needing WebSockets.
To test everything out, open up multiple browser windows and navigate to http://localhost:3000. Now you’ll notice that when you submit the form from one client, the message will appear in all clients automatically! The power of WebSockets!
If you don’t want to build all of this out, feel free to check out the live demo instead; the code’s all on on GitHub too.
Concerns
In addition to being one of those cool new-ish technologies, WebSockets are nice because they make more efficient use of server and client resources and because data transmitted is truly realtime – but they’re not without their downfalls.
Browser support. WebSockets aren’t completely supported, especially in older browsers. Firefox 6, Safari 5, Chrome 14, IE 10, and Opera 12.10 all support WebSockets, but older versions of these browsers don’t – at least not fully. Most modern mobile browsers do support WebSockets, but not opera mini, which has a sizable market share of mobile browsing – especially in non-industrialized nations.
Potential for an extra server running. To use WebSockets, you have to open up a TCP connection which means maintaining another service for your application to fully function. Like we did in this demo, you can establish this connection on the same port as HTTP, but if you choose not to do this, then that’s another service to manage.
More complexity. Not only could you have another service running, but WebSockets almost always result in more code written (though often times it’s cleaner code). You’re at least usually depending on another library of code to help manage the connection, like socket.io.
You definitely need to weigh the pros and cons to see if WebSockets are right for you – but for me, the pros vastly outweigh cons. WebSockets open up the doors for countless possibilities in the realm of today’s web development.
Final Thoughts
There you have it – how WebSockets work and with a demo to show it all off. I personally think they’re really cool, and jump at the opportunity to implement them if they apply to a specific use case – but not everyone’s a fan. Depending on your app’s requirements, it may even be wiser to instead implement long polling or server-sent events. Whether you choose to use them regularly in your projects is up to you, but I do highly recommend using them at least one time to help you get a deeper understanding about how they really work. Even if they become obsolete within the next decade (which I strongly doubt will happen), they represent a fundamental type of communication which HTTP just can’t compete with – because it wasn’t designed to.
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Located in an abandoned 70,000-square-foot factory in Newark, New Jersey, the world’s largest vertical farm aims to produce 2,000,000 pounds of food per year. This AeroFarms operation is also set up to use 95% less water than open fields, with yields 75 times higher per square foot. Their stacked, high-efficiency aeroponics system needs no sunlight, soil or pesticides. The farm’s proximity to New York City means lower transportation costs and fresher goods to a local market. It also means new jobs for a former industrial district.
Around the world, urban farms are sprouting up at the intersection of new growing technologies and localvore movements. They vary in scale and focus, but their goals are generally similar: produce fruits and vegetables in more efficient, cheaper and greener ways. Growing in controlled environments also reduces environmental variables, like pests, weather and even seasons (allowing for more predictable year-round yields). Factory farm tenants can also take over and adaptively reuse structures in depressed areas with disused industrial building stock, creating employment opportunities in the process.
In a way, these endeavors are a natural extension of long-standing trends in farming. Small farms gave way to large farms, but the latter still involved open fields and variable environments. Urban farms take things to the next level, making the farm-to-table distance shorter, controlling conditions and further optimizing around available space.
Factory farm approaches are not without the limitations, however. Currently, the cost of material and technological inputs remain high. Also, many of these bigger indoor farms are designed to yield a limited subset of crops (like leafy greens) rather than a complex array of produce. Production weights and yield statistics would be somewhat less impressive were these farms focusing on a broader spectrum of fruits and vegetables, including ones that require more space to grow.
Still, the more these technologies are explored and refined the more efficient they will become — it is worth pushing them forward. At the same time, moving food production indoors and/or to urban settings is not limited to large factory operations. The global trend is unfolding at multiple scales and in different ways.
Mid-Sized & City-Specific Urban Farming
Bomb shelter farm, supermarket micro-farm, floating barge farm and robot-run factory farm
Expressions of commercial indoor farming can vary from one city to the next, responding to specific opportunities and needs in different built environments. In London, England, old subterranean WWII bomb shelters have been converted into herb farms serving local restaurants. In Berlin, Germany, a supermarket chain has introduced vertical micro-farms to grow greens for their shoppers right inside their stores. In New York City, a prototype barge farm docks at various stops, bringing produce to food deserts. In rural Japan, a high-tech vegetable factory run entirely by robots is set to produce 30,000 heads of lettuce a day.
Small-Scale & Individual Indoor Farming
While some initiatives focus on larger-scale or city-specific production, a trend is developing at the smaller end of the spectrum, enabling urban homeowners and small businesses to become part of a distributed network of production (much like 3D printing). IKEA, for example, now offers an aeroponics kit for indoor home gardening that needs no soil and uses sensors to monitor water levels.
IKEA also recently developed a prototype farming system aimed at letting restaurants grow their own ingredients in-house. As with larger-scale urban farms, these offer a critical advantage over outdoor equivalents: they require no rooftops or backyards to operate.
Integrated & Shared Indoor Farming
Hybrid approaches are also growing in popularity, combining aspects of collaboration and individualization. Shared farming space can take advantage of scale and consolidation but also build communities around shared tasks (and rewards).
A project called ReGen (shown above) developed by EFFEKT Architects aims to combine the best of all worlds, blending urban, suburban and rural living in a series of off-grid communities. Each ReGen village is designed to host an integrated array of homes, greenhouses and other institutions, mixing farming and community. They are building the first prototype village outside Amsterdam and then aim to begin deploying the same model around the world.
A Tokyo office building, meanwhile, has already mixed productive greenery into its office spaces, aiming to provide workers with a more natural environment while growing edible fruits and veggies for their cafeteria. Food production is built right into the structure and aesthetic of the building, plugging nature directly into the architecture.
The Future of Indoor Urban Farming
At the heart of the ten projects featured here is an effort to rethink the way we produce food now and will in the future. Existing paradigms of small personal gardens and large outdoor farms can be thought of as bookends to a growing library of indoor farming possibilities.
Of course, some of these projects go viral without regard to feasibility, which could sour the public’s appetite for innovation when visionary designs fizzle in the face of reality. A Farmbot, for instance, sounds great in theory, but the device costs thousands of dollars and is arguably more of a novelty item than a practical technology.
It is hard to say whether large-scale urban farms, city-specific solutions, distributed-tech approaches or hybrid ideas will dominate the next generation of urban agriculture, but it is well worth pursuing projects spanning these extremes (as well as alternatives in between). | positive |
Last month we reported on a Danish journalist who was chased out of the culturally enriched Copenhagen neighborhood of Nørrebro by Antifa activists, who threw bottles at him and screamed that he was a “Nazi”.
Fast forward to last week. As you may recall from the news feed, a man in Denmark became the first person charged under the country’s blasphemy law for burning a Koran and posting the video of it on Facebook. As it happens, the blasphemer’s lawyer is Rasmus Paladan, the very same man (who is both a lawyer and a journalist) who was chased out of Nørrebro in January.
Vlad Tepes interviewed Mr. Paladan a few days ago, just after he was engaged to defend the blasphemer who insulted Islam:
Below are excerpts from two articles about the blasphemy case. First, from Breitbart:
Man Charged With Blasphemy for Burning Quran in Denmark A man who burned the Islamic holy book in his backyard has been charged with blasphemy, in a move his lawyer speculates was driven by fear of Muslim extremists. The attempted prosecution is the first of its kind in nearly 50 years. The 42-year-old man from Jutland uploaded video footage of a Quran being lit on fire, which he posted to a Facebook group called ‘Yes to freedom — no to Islam’ in December last year. “It is the prosecution’s view that circumstances involving the burning of holy books such as the Bible and the Quran can, in certain cases, be a violation of the blasphemy clause, which covers public scorn or mockery of religion,” said chief prosecutor Jan Reckendorff in a statement. “It is our opinion that the circumstances of this case mean it should be prosecuted so the courts now have an opportunity to take a position on the matter.” The defendant’s lawyer, Rasmus Paludan, said that his client had burned the Quran in self-defense, asserting that the Islamic holy book “contains passages on how Mohammed’s followers must kill the infidel, i.e. the Danes”. “Therefore, it’s an act of self-defense to burn a book that in such a way incites war and violence,” he told the New York Times. Noting that it’s “legal to burn a Bible in Denmark”, highlighting how in 1997 a Danish artist set fire to and burned a copy of the Bible on state television in Denmark but was not charged, Mr Paludan said he is “surprised that it would be guilty to burn the Quran.” “The fear of Islam and Muslims may be far greater now, and the prosecution service may be a lot more apprehensive of Islam and its followers,” he added, speculating on the prosecutor’s decision to bring charges in this case.
And from The Local:
Danish Man Who Burned Quran Charged With Blasphemy A man who filmed himself burning the Quran has become the first person to be charged under Denmark’s blasphemy law in 46 years. The 42-year-old filmed himself burning a copy of Islam’s holy book in his back yard in December 2015. He then posted the video on the anti-Islamic Facebook group, “Yes to freedom — no to Islam” along with the words, “Consider your neighbour: it stinks when it burns.” Danish prosecutor Jan Reckendorff announced his decision to bring charges in a press statement issued on Wednesday afternoon. “It is the prosecution’s view that circumstances involving the burning of holy books such as the Bible and the Quran can in certain cases be a violation of the blasphemy clause, which covers public scorn or mockery of religion.” This marks the fourth time in history anyone has been prosecuted under Denmark’s blasphemy clause: four people were sentenced for posting posters mocking Jewish teachings in 1938; two people were fined for carrying out a fake baptism at a masked ball in 1946; and two programme leaders at Danish Radio were exonerated in 1971 for airing a song mocking Christianity.
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pers consider the structure and the functionality of their application in different situations. Also, writing tests reduces the amount of time a developer needs to spend manually testing their application by enabling them to automate the process.
We’ll set up the test environment using the setUp(self) and tearDown(self) methods. They allow our tests to run independently without being affected by other tests. In this scenario, every time a test runs, we create a Flask test application. We also clean the database after every test in the tearDown(self) method. This ensures that the data stored by the previous test does not affect the next test.
# tests/test_endpoints.py from app import app, db from flask import url_for import unittest class FlaskTodosTest ( unittest . TestCase ): def setUp ( self ): """ Set up test application client """ self .app = app.test_client() self .app.testing = True def tearDown ( self ): """ Clear DB after running tests """ db.todos.remove({})
In this section, we’ll write tests for our endpoints and HTTP methods. We’ll first try to assert that when a user accesses the default homepage(/) they get an OK status(200), and that they are redirected with a 302 status after creating a todo.
# tests/test_endpoints.py class FlaskTodosTest ( unittest . TestCase ): # ..... setup section..... def test_home_status_code ( self ): """ Assert that user successfully lands on homepage """ result = self .app.get( ' / ' ) self .assertEqual(result.status_code, 200 ) def test_todo_creation ( self ): """ Assert that user is redirected with status 302 after creating a todo item """ response = self .app.post( ' /new ' , data = dict ( name = " First todo " , description = " Test todo " ) ) self .assertEqual(response.status_code, 302 ) if __name__ == ' __main__ ' : unittest.main()
The tests can be run using nosetests -v .
Creating the Actual Application
The application uses MongoDB hosted on mlab, which can be changed in the configuration. It provides two routes. The first one, default/index route(/), displays the available todos by rendering a HTML template file. The second route, (/new), accepts only POST requests, and is responsible for saving todo items in the database, and then redirecting the user back to the page with all todos.
# app.py import os from flask import Flask, redirect, url_for, request, render_template from pymongo import MongoClient app = Flask( __name__ ) # Set up database connection. client = MongoClient( " mongodb://username:password@database_url:port_number/db_name " ) db = client[ ' db_name ' ] @app.route ( ' / ' ) def todo (): _items = db.todos.find() items = [item for item in _items] # Render default page template return render_template( ' index.html ' , items = items) @app.route ( ' /new ' , methods = [ ' POST ' ]) def new (): item_doc = { ' name ' : request.form[ ' name ' ], ' description ' : request.form[ ' description ' ] } # Save items to database db.todos.insert_one(item_doc) return redirect(url_for( ' todo ' )) if __name__ == " __main__ " : app.run( host = ' 0.0.0.0 ' , debug = True )
We can then run the application with python app.py , and access it in our browser localhost http://127.0.0.1:5000. If no other port ID is provided, Flask uses port 5000 as the default port. To run the application on a different port, set the port number as follows:
app.run( host = ' 0.0.0.0 ' , port = port_number, debug = True )
Dockerizing the Application
Docker is used to create the application image from the provided Dockerfile configuration. If this is your first time working with Docker, you can follow this step-by-step tutorial to learn more about installing Docker and setting up the environment.
Dockerfile
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Victor matrix D9VB-0805. Buried alive / Johnnie and Jack ; Tennessee Mountain Boys - Discography of American Historical Recordings Home Help Browse Matrixes Discs Names Dates Search Basic Titles Discs Names Resources eBooks News About Victor matrix D9VB-0805. Buried alive / Johnnie and Jack ; Tennessee Mountain Boys Title Source Buried alive (Primary title) Disc label (BHC verso) Authors and Composers Notes Johnnie Wright (songwriter) Jack Anglin (songwriter) Jim Anglin (songwriter) Composer information source: Disc label (BHC). Personnel Notes Hide Additional Titles Tennessee Mountain Boys (Musical group) Johnnie and Jack (Vocal group) Jack Anglin (vocalist) Jack Anglin (instrumentalist : guitar) Clyde Baum (instrumentalist : mandolin) Charles R. Grean (instrumentalist : string bass) Shot Jackson (instrumentalist : steel guitar) Dorris Paul Warren (instrumentalist : violin) Johnnie (Johnny) Wright (vocalist) Johnnie (Johnny) Wright (instrumentalist : guitar) Johnnie (Johnny) Wright (leader) Stephen H. Sholes (session supervisor) Charles R. Grean (session supervisor) Description: Male vocal solo, with string band and male vocal harmony Instrumentation: Violin, 2 guitars, mandolin, steel guitar, and string bass Category: Vocal Language: English Master Size: 10-in. Notes Source(s): Victor blue history card; Victor ledgers. Take Date and Place Take Status Label Name/Number Format Note Hide Additional Titles 1/31/1949 Atlanta, Georgia. Fox Theater 1 Master Victor 21-0106 10-in. 1/31/1949 Atlanta, Georgia. Fox Theater 1 Master RCA Victor 48-0109 45-rpm 1/31/1949 Atlanta, Georgia. Fox Theater 1A Unknwon Citation Chicago Style APA Style MLA Style Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Victor matrix D9VB-0805. Buried alive / Johnnie and Jack ; Tennessee Mountain Boys," accessed September 24, 2022, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/300013290/D9VB-0805-Buried_alive. Victor matrix D9VB-0805. Buried alive / Johnnie and Jack ; Tennessee Mountain Boys. (2022). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved September 24, 2022, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/300013290/D9VB-0805-Buried_alive. "Victor matrix D9VB-0805. Buried alive / Johnnie and Jack ; Tennessee Mountain Boys." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2022. Web. 24 September 2022. Feedback Send the Editors a message about this record. Search for this master on WorldCat © 2008-2022 Regents of the University of California, All Rights Reserved. Home | Contact Us | Terms of Use | Accessibility | negative |
Ulysses Rodriguez Charles, who spent about 18 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of raping three women in a Brighton apartment, has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Boston for $3.25 million, according to a city lawyer.
Charles and lawyers for the city reached the settlement earlier this month, averting a trial in US District Court in Boston, William F. Sinnott, the city’s corporation counsel, said yesterday.
The deal came eight months after a state jury in a civil trial cited “clear and convincing evidence’’ in declaring that Charles was innocent of the 1980 rapes and was entitled to $500,000 under the state’s wrongful conviction compensation law.
“There are five victims in this case,’’ Charles’s lawyer, Frank C. Corso, said yesterday. “There are the three women who were raped. There is the man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. And there’s society, which is paying money and not solving a crime.’’
Charles, 59, a former welder, has continuing legal problems, however. Federal immigration authorities still intend to deport him to his native Trinidad, said Corso, who is opposing the effort. The authorities have been seeking to remove him for years as a result of other criminal convictions, including one in 1989 for trafficking heroin while in prison.
In October 2008, US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner urged immigration authorities not to deport Charles until after his civil rights lawsuit against the Boston Police Department had gone to trial. The trial was tentatively scheduled for Nov. 30 of this year but was put off because of settlement talks.
Even though Charles’s convictions were overturned in May 2001 and a Suffolk Superior Court jury vindicated him in April of this year under the wrongful conviction compensation law, the city has never exonerated him.
Sinnott said lawyers for the city and Charles “engaged in long and thoughtful deliberations, and this is a settlement that both sides are satisfied with.’’
Charles, who had worked for General Dynamics building Navy ships, was convicted in 1984 of breaking into an apartment on Commonwealth Avenue in Brighton and raping three female roommates, one of whom was threatened with a screwdriver to the throat. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison.
His convictions were overturned and he was freed after DNA testing revealed that semen found on a robe and bedsheet of one of the victims belonged to two other men and that his DNA was not found in the apartment. Charles’s defense lawyers contended that police and prosecutors deliberately withheld evidence that could have cleared him.
Suffolk County prosecutors declined to retry the criminal case, saying two decades had passed since the rapes, evidence had been lost, and investigators had died.
But they insisted that the DNA evidence did not clear Charles because jurors at the trial had been told the rapist did not ejaculate.
In addition, two of the women who were raped told the Globe after the conviction was overturned that they had no doubts that Charles was the assailant.
After Charles was freed from prison, he was immediately taken into custody by immigration authorities who sought to deport him for other convictions.
But a federal judge released him in August 2002, pending a ruling by an immigration judge.
In October 2003, an immigration judge ordered his deportation, which was upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
The board and the appeals court rejected his argument that he had become a US citizen by filling out a declaration of intention with immigration authorities in Boston in 1973.
Charles suffered devastating personal losses while in prison, his family has said, including the suicide of a daughter.
Saltzman can be reached at jsaltzman@globe.com
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New Delhi: BJP and its ally, Akali Dal which are in power in Punjab on Tuesday attacked Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi over his visit to food-grain markets in the SAD-BJP ruled state terming it as a "political drama" and an attempt to target the Land Bill.
Union Communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Congress leader needed to study law and also realize that land acquisition was important for farmers too.
"I always say about Rahul Gandhi that he should do some homework and study law. Land is needed for all the purposes including irrigation facilities, construction of canals, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana," he said.
Akali Dal leader and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal ridiculed Rahul for returning after "two months holiday" and going to Mandi (market) for being able to raise questions in the Parliament.
"He has returned after two months of holiday but when there were rains and hailstorm he did not go to the fields or the farmers.
"He is going to the Mandi (food grain markets) so that he could raise the farmers' issues in the Parliament. For ten years his government was there what did they do for farmers and how many times he visited Mandis. These are all political drama it will have little effect," she said.
Several BJP leader reciprocated the same sentiment.
"He himself is admitting that he is doing politics on the Land Bill which is very unfortunate," said Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
Party leader Anurag Thakur said "for ten years the country suffered because of Congress's politics and unfortunately when the world is looking at India and its growth, they are doing politics with Land Bill."
Rahul visited Khanna and Gobindgarh in Akali Dal-BJP ruled Punjab today to take stock of the situation in the state's grain markets where farmers are finding it difficult to sell their produce after the recent unseasonal rains.
Replying to criticism of Rahul's visit, Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that it was "sad if not laughable".
"This episode is sad if not laughable. First Narendra Modi and his government formulate anti farmer policies and then try to get it passed in the Parliament against its opinion. All over the country there is a movement (against Land Bill) and still they have the guts to term Rahul's visit as anti-farmer," Singhvi said.
BJP spokesperson Vijay Sonkar Shastri termed Rahul
Gandhi's visit to Punjab mandis as "political theatrics" and a "road-show" for the media.
He also questioned Rahul's sudden emergence of "so-called love" for farmers and his intentions behind the visit.
"Can Rahul Gandhi tell what is the plight of a widow Kalawati, whose house he had visited a few years ago along with a large posse of media persons," Shastri questioned.
He said, "Rahul's Punjab visit is merely a roadshow for the media. One who has come back after a two-month leave is visiting Punjab only to hog media limelight. It is a road show for the media."
He wondered, how he would hear the problems of farmers, which have been created by the successive previous governments and its policies, through such road shows.
Doubting his intentions, he said, Rahul Gandhi never bothered about the welfare of widows like Kalawati, who have been suffering due to the policies of the Congress regime during the past many decades. | positive |
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Ki Sung-yueng spent most of 2013-14 on loan at Sunderland
Ki Sung-yueng has goal chalked off for offside
Defoe opens scoring shortly afterwards
Korean was back in side following Asia Cup duty
Sunderland yet to win back-to-back in league
Sunderland claimed a valuable point in their bid for Premier League survival as they held Swansea to a draw.
The Swans dominated the first half but their profligate finishing was punished as Jermain Defoe's low effort put Sunderland in front.
Ki Sung-Yueng equalised with a diving header against his former club, but Swansea were frustrated as they sought a late winner.
Swansea remain ninth in the table, while Sunderland are still 14th.
Having beaten Burnley last weekend to end a winless run of five games, Sunderland had hopes of claiming back-to-back victories for the first time this season after Defoe gave them the lead.
But having withstood long periods of Swansea pressure, Gus Poyet's side may have been content with a league-high 12th draw of the campaign.
Black Cats let it slip - again Sunderland have thrown away 14 points from leading positions this season, a figure only Everton and Swansea have exceeded.
The Swans gave a debut to Jack Cork, a January signing from Southampton who was joined in midfield by Ki on his return from the Asian Cup with South Korea.
Media playback is not supported on this device Monk bemoans Swans being 'punished'
With Sunderland striker Connor Wickham out injured, Poyet sprang something of a surprise as he handed former Swansea player Danny Graham a first Sunderland start since May 2013.
It was another ex-Swan, however, who had Sunderland's first chance, as Jordi Gomez fired wide with a well-struck shot from the edge of the area.
That chance midway through the first half seemed to spark the match into life, as Swansea had a flurry of opportunities.
By scoring against Swansea City, Jermain Defoe has now scored against all 20 teams currently in the Premier League
A flowing move involving crisp interplay between Neil Taylor, Nathan Dyer and Jonjo Shelvey ended with a close-range effort from Bafetimbi Gomis smothered by Costel Pantilimon.
Shelvey then had two long-range shots saved and a free-kick of his appeared to have created the opening goal for Swansea, but Ki's sharp finish was disallowed for offside.
Media playback is not supported on this device Defoe provides 'big difference' - Poyet
The hosts' despair was compounded seconds later, as Defoe put Sunderland ahead against the run of play with a drilled shot into the bottom corner shortly before half-time.
Swansea continued to control possession after the restart, and their perseverance eventually paid dividends as Ki met Kyle Naughton's inviting cross with a fine diving header.
Garry Monk's men pressed for a winner, as Shelvey went close with a curling free-kick from 25 yards and substitute Nelson Oliveira had a low shot saved by Pantilimon.
But Sunderland resisted to claim a potentially precious point in their attempt to steer clear of relegation.
Swansea manager Garry Monk: "We did more than enough to score us the goals and win us the game, but we're disappointed we didn't come away with all three.
(On Ki's disallowed goal) "It's not conclusive, I was told his head was offside but I'm not sure how that can be right.
"The linesman's flag was up straight away so we just have to go with it."
Sunderland manager Gus Poyet: "It was a shame at the end but we were very good in the first half and that can give us the confidence to keep getting results.
(On goal scorer Jermain Defoe) "It's something we were missing, and something he will keep doing because he is Jermain Defoe.
"I am sure that now other teams are going to have to look at us in a different way."
Jack Cork was booked 15 minutes into his Swansea debut for kicking the ball away
Bafetimbi Gomis is leading Swansea's attack following Wilfried Bony's departure, but he was denied by a fine Costel Pantilimon save
Ki Sung-yueng has now scored four times so far this season, one more than his total for Sunderland last term | positive |
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June « 2008 « The Mystery of Hawaiian History The Mystery of Hawaiian History Correcting historical revisionism and misconceptions promoted by the Akaka Bill Home About Correcting Akaka Hawaiian Sovereignty, Zionism, and Governor Lingle Recognition of the Republic of Hawaii Archive for June, 2008 90 minute radio interview of Ken Conklin Jun 30 Posted by Ken Conklin in Uncategorized | Comments off A 90-minute wide-ranging radio interview of Ken Conklin was done on June 10, 2008 on KKCR Community Radio, Kaua’i. The audio tape is now available in the radio station’s archive, here: http://www.kkcr.org/archive/2008-06-10.mp3 Cato Institute: The One-Drop Rule in Hawaii? The Akaka Bill and the Future of Race-Based Government (Capitol Hill Briefing) Jun 12 Posted by jere in News, Reference | Comments off Cato Institute: The One-Drop Rule in Hawaii? The Akaka Bill and the Future of Race-Based Government (Capitol Hill Briefing) The power point presentation in PDF format of Jere Krischel’s presentation is available here. You are currently browsing the archives for June, 2008 Archives August 2022 (1) November 2021 (2) July 2021 (1) May 2021 (1) September 2020 (1) September 2019 (1) August 2019 (1) March 2019 (1) February 2019 (1) January 2019 (1) September 2018 (2) August 2018 (1) November 2017 (1) October 2017 (1) April 2017 (1) February 2017 (6) May 2016 (1) March 2016 (1) November 2015 (1) August 2014 (1) January 2014 (1) November 2013 (1) October 2013 (1) August 2013 (2) July 2013 (1) June 2013 (1) September 2012 (1) April 2012 (1) December 2011 (1) September 2011 (2) March 2011 (1) January 2011 (5) December 2010 (7) November 2010 (3) October 2010 (6) September 2010 (8) August 2010 (9) July 2010 (6) June 2010 (6) May 2010 (4) April 2010 (2) March 2010 (3) February 2010 (4) November 2009 (1) June 2009 (1) April 2009 (3) January 2009 (1) December 2008 (2) November 2008 (2) August 2008 (1) June 2008 (2) May 2008 (2) April 2008 (21) March 2008 (1) January 2008 (1) December 2007 (2) November 2007 (4) October 2007 (1) September 2007 (1) August 2007 (3) July 2007 (6) June 2007 (3) May 2007 (1) April 2007 (1) March 2007 (1) February 2007 (1) January 2007 (4) December 2006 (1) November 2006 (1) June 2006 (7) May 2006 (8) Meta Register Log in Valid XHTML XFN WordPress Arclite theme by digitalnature | powered by WordPress Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) TOP | negative |
Did the RBA just signal the end of rate cuts and no-one noticed?
Well, not exactly no-one. Goldman Sachs chief economist Tim Toohey reckons the speech RBA assistant governor Chris Kent delivered on Tuesday amounts to an explicit shift to a neutral policy stance.
Having so closely linked the RBA's easing cycle to the weakness in the terms of trade (and earlier decline in mining investment), Chris Kent's key remark was to flag "the abatement of those two substantial headwinds" and highlight that this "would be a marked change from recent years". Credit:Brendon Thorne
Dr Kent spoke about how the economy has been doing since the mining boom, and in particular how its performance matched the RBA's expectations.
Reflecting on the RBA's forecasts of recent years, Dr Kent essentially framed the RBA's earlier rate cut logic around an initial larger than expected decline in mining capital expenditure and subsequent larger than expected decline in the terms of trade, Mr Toohey said. | positive |
Matt Watson is a man of many interests.
When he’s not patrolling the midfield at Toyota Park, you might find the 30-year-old producing beats or spending time in Chicago with his wife and kids. But Watson also has a serious eye for graphic design, so when he was asked if he wanted to create the latest Chicago Fire Matchday Poster for Saturday's match with Orlando City SC, he took on the challenge.
“I enjoy it,” Watson said. “I enjoy things that are aesthetically pleasing, something that’s part of my life. I like how things look. I’m a very visual learner. I’ve just always enjoyed messing with it.”
2015 Chicago Fire Matchday Posters
Art has been an hobby of Watson’s since his childhood in England, when he was taught by his best friend. He’s carried on dabbling in different forms, taking on some design projects to assist current and former teammates and recently contributed a piece to the Chicago Paints the World fundraiser benefiting the charitable foundation of Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte. Watson's experience with the Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop programs gave him a good idea of how to go about designing the #CHIvORL poster.
Watson started his work by creating a spin-off of the Orlando City SC lion in Illustrator. Then, he went about trying to figure out how to best represent Chicago in the poster.
“It’s hard for us, because we just have the ‘C’ for a logo, so I tried to do something inventive,” he said. “I’m not from here, but people are very proud to be from Chicago, so I put the city rising up from the flames above the lion.”
WATCH: Matt Watson Visits CSN Chicago
He found that the hardest part was fading from the lion’s mane into the flames. Once he had reached a design of his liking, he took the image to Photoshop in order to apply texture and put the finishing touches on it.
Early on in the process, Watson wasn’t sure how the poster would turn out. But after setting it aside and coming back to it a few times, he found that the final product had met his personal expectations.
“Sometimes when you step away from something, you come back and look at it with fresh eyes,” he said. “The more I did it, it started to go the way I wanted. Towards the end, I was like, ‘Yeah, I really like this.’ I’m proud of what I’ve done.”
Watson has also been known to have a keen eye for fashion, and with the Chicago Fire Foundation's third-annual Soccer & Style Fashion Show set for Wednesday, he recently ventured downtown to ask Chicagoans about their own fashion tastes. Check out the video from CSN Chicago below: | positive |
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Former Governor, Navy SEAL and professional wrestler, Jesse Ventura, has been making the rounds recently promoting his new book. He’s been on The View, The Howard Stern Show, Sean Hannity’s show, Fox & Friends, etc. He also sat down with The Huffington Post for an interview in which he offered a $1,000 bet that if he were to waterboard Sean Hannity, he’d get Hannity to say that Barack Obama is the greatest president.
“I’ll bet [Hannity] a thousand bucks that I can get him to say ‘Barack Obama is the greatest president’ — if I get him to say it, he’ll give the thousand to charity and if I can’t, I’ll give the money to charity.”
Ventura also mentioned that he wants to go on The O’Reilly Factor, but Bill O’Reilly doesn’t have the courage to have him as a guest.
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At least 70 people, including scientists and engineers working with the various establishments and research laboratories of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) have died due to unnatural causes in the last eight years. This has been revealed through a Right to Information (RTI) query filed by The Sunday Guardian with the DAE. The DAE is the nodal government body to work in the development of nuclear power technology, applications of radiation technologies in the fields of defence, agriculture, medicine, industry and basic research. DAE comprises five research centres, three industrial organisations, five public sector undertakings and three service organisations. Out of these, 13 organisations replied to the RTI query. Of these, eight establishments said that their employees had died. The maximum number of deaths were of officials belonging to Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, 38; Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, 15; and Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, 12. The other five deaths took place in various other organisations belonging to the DAE.
The DAE, through its various branches, plays a crucial role in enhancing India’s “nuclear power” and works in fields such as developing fast breeder reactors, thorium-based reactors, building and operating research reactors for the production of radioisotopes, building other sources of radiation such as accelerators and lasers, and developing and deploying radiation technology applications.
A section within the security apparatus feels that a systemic effort is being made by internal forces, with support from influential external organisations over the last two decades to target officials who are engaged in nuclear development in India to slow down the country’s march towards nuclear independence and development of tools needed for “self preservation”.
According to the RTI response given by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), which comes under the DAE, 38 of its officials had unnatural deaths in the time period between 1 January 2008 and 1 October 2016. As per the response, “the unnatural death(s) of these 38 officials who were engaged in scientific, technical, administrative works have occurred due to accidents at various locations”.
BARC, in its reply, despite the newspaper asking for it, has not disclosed the designations of the officials, the dates of the accidents and the projects in which the deceased officials were working at the time of death.
BARC is India’s premier nuclear research facility based in Maharashtra’s Trombay. It is a multi-disciplinary research centre with extensive infrastructure for advanced research and development covering the entire spectrum of nuclear science, engineering and related areas. It also manages all facets of nuclear power generation, from theoretical design of reactors, computerised modelling and simulation to risk analysis, development and testing of new reactor fuel materials in the country.
15 personnel of the Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD) died due to unnatural causes such as hanging, suicide, drowning in water and accident. AMD is the oldest unit of the DAE and carries out geological exploration and discovery of mineral deposits required for India’s nuclear power programme. The dead personnel worked in different posts such as technician, work assistant, helper, upper divisional clerk, etc.
Similarly, 12 officials working with the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, have died due to unnatural causes including suicide (4) and road and train accidents (8) in the last eight years. IGCAR is one of India’s premier nuclear research centres and the second largest establishment of the DAE after Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
The rest of the five officials in different establishments of the DAE too died due to accidents. Replies from a few more DAE establishments were to be received when this report was filed.
Sources said that the reasons for the death of these 70 people ranged from being murdered at home to jumping into sea, jumping in front of train, jumping into river or committing suicide, which mostly took place when they were alone at home.
“No inquiry was ever ordered by either this government or the previous government to look into this high number of ‘unnatural deaths’ of officials who were associated with India’s nuclear programme. It is very surprising that so many officials were either killed in accidents or committed suicide in a short period of less than 10 years. Even though some of those who have died were not scientists, yet they had access to critical information which could have been extracted from them through different means. Some of these officials were working on strategic matters at the time of their deaths but their deaths were passed off by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the DAE and the media as natural occurrences,” an official with a security agency stated. | positive |
My Hopes For My First Pride
6/30/2017
Pride is the ultimate celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, commemorating the movement spurred on by those brave people who stood up for their human rights at the Stonewall Inn by bringing allies and LGBTQ+ individuals together to celebrate our lives. I’ve haven’t been to a Pride celebration since I came out a little over two years ago, but I have been to one before, one that had a profound impact on me.
It was during the summer I spent in NYC, working as an intern and staying in the NYU dorms, which just so happened to be on the same street that the Pride parade went down. At this point in my life, I knew that I was bi, I just hadn’t come out yet. So, I didn’t make any plans with friends that day; I wasn’t even planning on going down to the parade. However, even hours before the parade began, the exciting atmosphere moved me to head down to at least see how the day would develop.
I found a spot on a corner right outside my dorm and stood for hours, watching as hundreds of people paraded by in ways that I had literally never seen before: there were amazingly outrageous and beautiful costumes, incredible floats, and fantastically choreographed dancing. However, as fantastic as all of those were, the most incredible part of the celebration to me was simply the people; people celebrating Pride and coming together to love and support each other in countless different ways.
There were those marching in the parade, some politically, some for fun, but all proud. There were also more subtle participants in the crowd, not marching along but still showing support and pride in their own way, like the two men standing near me, who were simply holding hands, calmly watching the parade with smiles on their faces. Or the pair of women standing together, one with a little girl holding an “I Love My Mommies!” sign on her shoulders.
For someone like me, a person from a small, central IL town with a virtually non-existent LGBTQ+ community, it was life-changing. That day inspired me; I wanted to be a person who was living without fear, someone who was able to offer my support and participation in both Pride and other events throughout the year. It was only a few months later that I came out and I thank NYC Pride for helping me to get to that point.
It has been a little over two years since I came out and, due to unfortunate timing issues, I have yet to make it to a Pride celebration as an out and proud participant. Fortunately this year, the stars have aligned and I will be attending my first one in my new home, Chicago.
Needless to say, I’m excited.
However, I’m not sure entirely what to expect. Part of me has wondered if I have romanticized the idea of Pride since my one experience there, particularly as someone who identifies as bi. Will I be accepted? Or will people have an issue with me “not committing” (as it has been put to me before by a gay man) to the gay community?
I know that there are issues with Pride (and within the LGBTQ+ community overall) that need to be addressed, like fair and equal representation of races, body types, orientations and more; I know because I’ve seen countless articles expressing concern over these problems year after year. I know because, as a bi man, I face these kinds of issues all of the time. Sadly, in some cases, I’ve seen that it makes a person leave the idea of Pride behind and no longer participate.
Maybe it’s naive of me to think this, but I don’t believe leaving the celebration will solve these issues; it’ll only further the divide. Maybe my tune will change after my first Pride experience, but in it’s very essence, Pride is about celebrating who you are and being proud; there has to be a place in that for everyone, right? If not, create one for yourself and others like you.
It really is heartbreaking to me to think that people go to Pride and feel left out or ostracized; I know I have felt that way several times as a bi man. But Pride is the one place where I plan on not letting any of the naysayers get me down. If you’re at Pride and you’re being judgmental, mean, or anything other than supportive, you really need to review what Pride is all about.
I am excited for my first Pride experience without a doubt, but I can’t pretend there isn’t a bit of nervousness too. I hope I can dance, sing, revel with friends, and enjoy being in a space free of judgement. My first experience, when in the closet, was life-changing, I can only hope the first time attending as an out and proud bi man will be just as great. | positive |
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Buy Photo The Belle Isle Aquarium in Detroit. (Photo: DIANE WEISS/Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo
Summer hours for some attractions on Belle Isle in Detroit are being expanded.
Starting Friday, the Belle Isle Aquarium will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays through Sundays. Visitors can tour the Dossin Great Lakes Museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. those days.
The James Scott Memorial Fountain will operate from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily from Thursday through Labor Day, while the popular giant slide will be open from noon to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.
Michigan's Natural Resources department operates the island park in the Detroit River under a lease agreement with the city. The nonprofit Belle Isle Conservancy is responsible for generating funds for improvements and cultural programs on the island.
The nonprofit Detroit Historical Society operates the Dossin museum.
The koi fish pond at the Belle Isle Aquarium. Eric Seals/Detroit Free Press (Photo: Eric Seals)
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Goldman is once again rebooting its PR strategy with respect to the fact that it went short the housing market while selling products that allowed its clients to go long.
This complaint has always been overblown -- investment banks are in the product-creation business as well as the betting-on-markets business, and the two businesses act independently.
But we doubt Goldman's new approach will help much.
Basically, the firm is now saying that it went short because it was trying to manage its risks and that it still lost money on its residential housing bets (albeit a lot less than it would have lost had it not been short).
That won't come as much consolation for anyone who got creamed on Goldman products that the firm's own traders went short.
Here's Francisco Guerrero in the FT:
In an eight-page introduction to Goldman's 2009 annual report, Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive, and his number two, Gary Cohn, tackle claims that their company profited from the US housing debacle and the collapse of the insurer AIG...
Reviewing a year in which Goldman's near-record results came despite "considerable pressures and distractions", Mr Blankfein and Mr Cohn describe the bank's role as being an intermediary between investors, rather than as a trader on its own account.
The letter says Goldman's crucial decision to reduce its exposure to the US mortgage market in December 2006, when many clients were still buying mortgage-backed securities brokered by the bank, was simply prudent risk management.
Mr Blankfein and Mr Cohn admit that Goldman had "short" positions in residential mortgages in 2007, which were designed to profit from a market deterioration, but maintain they were not "a bet against our clients".
"The firm did not generate enormous net revenues or profits by betting against residential mortgage-related products, as some have speculated," they write.
"Rather, our relatively early risk reduction resulted in our losing less money than we otherwise would have when the residential housing market began to deteriorate rapidly."
Goldman is also protesting against the idea that it killed AIG by sucking out the taxpayer bailout dollars and leaving the firm to die. We've never had a problem with Goldman collecting money it was owed -- our problem was with Tim Geithner, for shoveling taxpayer dollars into a black hole -- but we suspect that this too will be viewed as a distinction without a difference.
Here's the real message people should take away:
Goldman plays to win. And it usually wins. Get over it.
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CHICAGO - Her accomplishment last year in Canada is something which caught the attention of the entire world.
As a member of the US Women's National Team, Christen Press helped the squad win the Women's World Cup for the first since since 2003. Over the course of a month the names of the players became familiar to women's soccer supporters along with sports fans all across the country.
That includes here in Chicago where Press helped the Chicago Red Stars to an appearance in the National Women's Soccer League playoffs last fall.
In 2016 she's back with the team again as the go for a championship in a new home. For this season the Red Stars have moved into Toyota Park in Bridgeview for their home campaign and open up this Saturday against the Western New York Flash at 6 PM.
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AUGUSTA — Last June, 42 employees of four businesses on tiny Deer Isle in Hancock County took ownership into their own hands.
They formed Island Employee Cooperative Inc., and bought the two grocery stores, a variety/hardware store and a pharmacy that made up a business that had been owned by the Seile family for 42 years, a $5.6 million acquisition.
Mark Sprakland, executive director of the Independent Retailers Coop, speaks during a conference on business cooperatives Saturday at the Viles Arboretum in Augusta. Staff photo by Joe Phelan Alan White talks about the Island Employees Cooperative during a conference on business cooperatives Saturday at the Viles Arboretum in Augusta. Staff photo by Joe Phelan
As the worker cooperative nears its first anniversary, profits have matched what the previous owners accomplished in their best year, but it wasn’t easy.
Initially, when Vernon Seile approached his department heads about it, the response was “Where do we sign?” said Alan White, president of the cooperative board and meat manager at Burnt Cove Market, one of the four businesses. “We had ideas of grandeur.”
The story of that conversion, which was recognized in a Denver conference earlier in the week as the largest in the nation in terms of both employees and dollars, was told Saturday morning at the Viles Arboretum in Augusta as part of the second annual Principle Six Conference.
The conference, which attracted about 75 people, was organized around “Co-operation Among Co-ops,” the sixth of seven guiding co-op principles, which Paul Sheridan, of Cooperative Maine, likened to the Ten Commandments for co-ops.
Other sessions during the daylong networking event included cooperative governance, financing and marketing, as well as information on cooperative housing projects that create resident-owned communities.
Deanna Oliver, of Stonington, treasurer of the nine-member co-op board, had worked for the Seiles for 15 years in human resources and finance administration. Of the 65 people that had been working in the four businesses, she said, 42 signed on initially as owners in the cooperative.
“It’s a retirement plan. It’s owning your own business,” she told the audience. “It’s an opportunity. People that are baggers are now owners.” She also noted that the community has been very supportive.
There was hard work forming a board, finding a bank willing to make a loan with no down payment and gaining the Seiles’ help with some financing.
“We converted four businesses that were very well run,” White said. “The owners were very successful, and the decision of converting to a cooperative was what they wanted to do.”
Almost a year later, some problems remain.
“My struggle is how to get the owners to understand they own these miraculous businesses,” White said. Another challenge, he said, is regaining market share lost when the pharmacist left and built a competing pharmacy nearby. White asked members of other cooperatives to help, particularly when the cooperative’s pharmacy initiates a mail-order business.
Robert Brown, of the Cooperative Development Institute, which works with the Island Employee Cooperative, said that Maine is ripe for more conversions to cooperatives. He also distinguished a worker cooperative, in which the workers have governance, from an employee stock ownership plan, in which employees have ownership but not governance. The latter is tightly regulated.
He cited the Island Employee Cooperative Inc., and others like it. “You don’t just own the company passively. These are corporations. They are businesses. They must make profits.”
Brown is encouraging people to attend a public hearing by the Legislature’s Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee at 9:30 a.m. Monday in room 208 of the Cross Building on L.D. 1300, “An Act to Create and Sustain Jobs Through Development of Cooperatives.”
An emailed note from Brown says “about half the bill is adding any cooperatively owned business to the list of eligible applicants for a variety of loan and grant funds run by the Department of Agriculture, Department of Economic and Community Development, and Finance Authority of Maine.”
“Maine has a tremendous number of small business owners going to retire in the next five to 10 years,” Brown said at the conference. Rather than putting the business on the open market, a conversion to an employee-owned cooperative would ensure the business is continued and sustainable, he said.
“We have a number of stores now that really want to pursue that model,” said Mark Sprackland, executive director of Independent Retailers Shared Services Cooperative, which helped write most of the business plan for the Island Employee Cooperative. “This model’s built for sustainability.”
The story of the Deer Isle conversion hit home for Marada Cook, of Hallowell, co-director of the Vassalboro-based Crown O’Maine organic cooperative.
The cooperative was the 2006 successor to the business owned by her father, the late Jim Cook, which began with the family’s Skylandia Organic Farm, in Grand Isle.
Today it has 15 employees.
“We pick up from food producers all over Maine and deliver it to retailers, restaurants, buying clubs and institutions,” Marada Cook said. “My father saw the conversion to a cooperative as a way to involve more employees and see continuity and sustain the mission to broaden distribution of local foods.”
Cook asked Scott Seile, the son of the former owners, how he felt about the transition from private family ownership to worker cooperative.
“I went from third in line (as owner) to one of 43,” he said. “The biggest challenge is not to have that active decision-making power.”
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Terms And Conditions - Music City Pet Expo About Directions Contact Select Page Terms And Conditions PET EVENTS Inc. CONTRACT Show Management and Exhibitor. The term “Show Management” or “PEP” used herein shall define the personnel, its agents and event partners, including but not limited to Pet Events, Inc., d/b/a Pet Event Productions, d/b/a Pet Event Professionals, d/b/a Incredible Pet Cons, d/b/a Pup Run USA. The term “Show” will refer specifically to the Pet Expo, Pet Con, Pet Fest, Pet CBD Expo, or Pup Run indicated on the preceding pages. The term “Exhibitor” shall define the company and its personnel and agents selecting to participate in the Show. The terms “Show Space” and “Exhibit Space” are interchangeable. Once Exhibitor has executed this Contract by means of a signature, all terms shall become binding. Management for the Show: Pet Event HQ; Local Phone Number: +1 (800) 977-3609; E-mail: event@peteventsinc.com; Website: https://peteventsinc.com. All written correspondence should be directed to the mailing address contained herein. 1. Exhibiting Companies and Products. Show Management has the sole right to determine eligibility for a product or company in its show and may remove or relocate unsuitable Exhibitors. Show Management shall have the right to change the location of assigned space for an Exhibitor. Exhibitor agrees not to assign or sublet its space. Exhibitor may display or advertise only goods and services normally manufactured, offered, or produced in and/or during the normal course of its business. 2. Exhibit Space Rules and Contractor Services. (a) Show Management shall have the right to establish rules for the show and the use of Exhibit Space covered by this Contract, including but not limited to the rules in the Exhibitor Service Kit. Show Management will furnish Exhibitors with the name of an Exhibit service contractor prepared to furnish all services customarily required within a “reasonable time” prior to the commencement of the show. Complete shipping instructions and information regarding furniture rental, electrical work, telephone installation, plumbing, labor for erecting and dismantling exhibits, drayage, etc., will be forwarded to Exhibitors in advance. A service desk or office will be maintained in the exhibit area. Show Management assumes no responsibility or liability for any of the foregoing services performed or materials delivered. (b) Show Management shall have full discretion and authority as to the placement of all decorations, signage and display items. Show Management may require the replacement or redecorating of an item, display or booth and no costs shall accrue to Show Management because of such necessity. Exhibitors are responsible for the covering or repair of all areas Show Management may consider unsightly, at Exhibitor’s expense. Should an Exhibitor be unfinished with installation as specified in the show rules, Show Management may take steps to finish said installation at the Exhibitor’s expense. Should the Exhibitor fail to follow show deadlines for installation in terms of occupying the agreed upon booth space, Show Management shall repossess said space and Exhibitor forfeits all claims to it and all monies paid. No Exhibitor shall have the right to dismantle, unpack or vacate a booth prior to the end of the official show hours without the express written permission of Show Management; failure to do so will jeopardize an Exhibitor’s acceptance in future shows. Show Management reserves the right to amend and enforce show regulations as it deems proper to assure the success of the event. 3. Attendance. Show Management shall have sole control over attendance policies at all times. All Exhibitors agree to staff their booth(s) during show hours. Failure to do so will jeopardize an Exhibitor’s acceptance in future shows. All Exhibitors agree to set up their exhibit space on the set-up day as outlined in their Exhibitor Service Kit. If Exhibitor fails to do so, or if the Exhibitor is not completely set-up and registered within one hour of show time, Show Management reserves the right to re-take possession of the Exhibitor’s assigned exhibit space and reassign the space to another Exhibitor. 4. Enjoyment of Reasonable Business Environment. Show Management reserves the right to restrict booth size, noise, characters, lights, entertainment and methods of operation which it deems objectionable. Any behavior or equipment which Show Management finds to detract from the general appearance and intention of the show may be grounds for eviction. Neon lights, gas, signs, helium balloons, open flames, taping items on the facility walls or columns are expressly prohibited. Exhibitors are urged to seek approval in advance of the show from Show Management for questionable items so as to eliminate additional removal costs on the behalf of the Exhibitor at the show. If the Exhibitor fails to comply with respect to show rules and this Contract, Show Management may reclaim possession of Exhibitor’s assigned space, and, notwithstanding Exhibitor’s continued responsibility for all payments due. 5. Fees and Deposits. Exhibitor is responsible for a timely submission of fees as noted in the preceding payments. Should Exhibitor delay payments, Show Management shall have the right to repossess any assigned space after notifying Exhibitor in writing of the intent to do so. In the event of default by the Exhibitor, Exhibitor remains responsible for payments due and assumes the responsibility for all enforcement costs incurred by Show Management in collecting such fees. Shall any payment be returned as non sufficient funds, a $25 fee will be added each instance. 6. Security. Show Management provides perimeter guard services during show hours as noted in the Exhibitor Service Kit. Security for all Exhibitor equipment, materials and personnel remains the responsibility of the individual Exhibitor. Exhibitors should retain adequate coverage for theft, damage or any loss. Exhibitors are encouraged to have guards and insurance at their own expense. 7. Show Hours and Exhibitor Activities. Show Management shall have the authority to set show hours, which may change upon notice to the Exhibitors. Exhibitors agree not to schedule or conduct any activities which conflict with show hours, including, but not limited to: seminars, luncheons, receptions and hospitality suites. Distribution of Exhibitor literature and materials is limited to the confines of the Exhibitor booth space. Exhibitors are required to wear officially issued name badges provided by Show Management. 8. Music Licensing. Exhibitors are solely responsible to obtain the necessary licenses for all usage of music or video and all costs for such licenses are the responsibility of the Exhibitor. Exhibitor may be prohibited from certain activities without proof of required licenses. 9. Liability and Insurance. Show Management, show facility, their co-sponsors, agents and employees, shall not be responsible for any loss, theft, or damage to the property of the Exhibitor, his employees or representatives. Furthermore, Show Management, show facility, their co-sponsors, agents and employees, shall not be responsible for any damage, illness or injury to Exhibitor personnel, agents or attendees. Exhibitor shall indemnify and hold harmless Show Management, show facility, their co-sponsors, agents and employees, from all liability which might ensue from any cause whatsoever, including attorney’s fees. Exhibitor agrees to maintain adequate insurance to fully protect Show Management, its co-sponsors, contractors and show facility from any and all claims which may arise in connection with the installation, operation and dismantling of the Exhibitor’s display. This includes claims under the Workers Compensation Act. Exhibitor will be required to pay for any damage caused by its employees or agents. 10. Compliance. Exhibitor assumes all responsibility for compliance with federal and local codes and all laws related to public safety, as well as facility regulations. Exhibitor is responsible to meet all requirements of the American with Disabilities Act. Wiring and decorating materials must all conform to local codes and fire regulations. Exhibitor assumes the responsibility to ascertain that all such codes and laws have been met, including issues related to facility services. Exhibitor is solely responsible to obtain all necessary permits and tax forms, including submitting any taxes or fees required by local, state or federal authorities. 11. Postponement of Show. In the event that the show is unable to operate, in the sole determination of Show Management, whether due to Acts of God, terrorism, war, illness, public safety, strike, civil commotion, picketing, fire or state of emergency, or by reason of any other occurrence not under the control of Show Management, or otherwise, Show Management may postpone the show or make changes to the show location. If for any reason Show Management determines that the location and/or dates of a show should be changed, no refund will be due to Exhibitor, and Show Management will assign to Exhibitor, in lieu of the original space, such other space as Show Management deems appropriate, and Exhibitor agrees to use such space under the terms of this Contract, meaning the reserved space would move to the new date/location at no additional cost to the Exhibitor. Show Management shall not be financially liable or otherwise obligated in the event that the show is relocated or postponed. 12. Cancellation or Termination of the Show. In the event that the show is unable to operate, in the sole determination of Show Management, whether due to Acts of God, terrorism, war, illness, public safety, strike, civil commotion, picketing, fire or state of emergency, or by reason of any other occurrence not under the control of Show Management, or otherwise, Show Management may cancel, postpone or terminate the show. In the event of such cancellation, postponement or termination, the Exhibitor waives any and all claims the Exhibitor may have against Show Management for damages or expenses and agrees to accept in complete settlement and discharge of all claims. In the case that an event is cancelled for any reason other than the aforementioned reasons, exhibitor is entitled to a full refund of registration fees. If applicable and eligible, all refunds will be processed within 90 days of the date of show cancellation. In summary, if an event is cancelled for any reason other than Force Majeure, refunds will be provided; in the instance of Force Majeure, Show Management will make reasonable attempts to reschedule the event (see Item 11). Sponsorships – Sponsorships are non-refundable. Sponsorships are transferable with permission from Pet Event Professionals. 13. Exhibitor Cancellation or Non-Payment. Exhibitor agrees that a reservation is made at the time of execution of this Contract, whether or not accompanied by pending deposit, and it shall be regarded as valid and binding. Should Exhibitor decide to cancel after executing this Contract, Exhibitor acknowledges that it is difficult to assess the full lost opportunity of Show Management to have provided space to others and the attendant expenses in doing so. As such, if written cancellation notice is received by Show Management 181 days or more prior to the event, Exhibitor is liable for 50% of the contracted amount; any written Cancellation notice received less than 181 days prior to the event, Exhibitor is liable for 100% of the contracted amount. Should Exhibitor fail to make timely payments as noted in this Contract, Show Management reserves the right to reassign the space to another Exhibitor. 14. Confidentiality. Exhibitor acknowledges that during the course of doing business with Show Management, Exhibitor will have access to and possession of proprietary information “Confidential information”, such as Show Management business strategies and Exhibitor contracts. Exhibitor recognizes and acknowledges that this Confidential Information is valuable, special and unique to the Show Management’s business, is owned solely by and is the exclusive property of Show Management and is to be used only for Show Management’s benefit during the business relationship with Show Management, and thereafter in perpetuity. Exhibitor shall keep secret and shall not use or disclose, reveal, transfer, reproduce, sell, capitalize upon or take advantage of such Confidential Information relating to Show Management, its subsidiaries, affiliates, customers, suppliers or other third party that do business with it except at the request of Show Management, and in addition, Exhibitor shall exercise all reasonable efforts and precautions to prevent such disclosure, breach of confidentiality, or other conduct or action inconsistent herewith; provided, however, that Confidential Information may be disclosed to the extent (i) required by law or court order or (ii) generally available to the public other than by unauthorized disclosure. 15. Miscellaneous. Show Management makes no representations or warranties as to the condition of the show facility, contractors or subcontractors involved or the success of the Exhibitor’s efforts for which the exhibit space is to be used. This Contract shall be governed as a whole in accordance with the laws of the State of Missouri. Any actions arising out of enforcement of this Contract must be initiated in the State of Missouri. This Contract and these “Terms and Conditions” represent the sole and entire Contract between Show Management and the Exhibitor, and it supersedes all prior contracts and discussions. Show Management does not offer exclusivity for any product or service, nor does it guarantee that Exhibitors will not be placed in proximity to competitors. No person representing Show Management is authorized to make changes to this Contract except in writing with the signature of an officer of the company. The provisions set forth are severable. If any provision is held to be invalid or unenforceable, it shall not affect the validity of enforceability of any other provision. Show Management shall use all reasonable efforts to properly manage installation and the event itself. Show Management shall not be held liable for late installation or power or service interruptions that may occur. The person executing this Contract on behalf of the Exhibitor represents and warrants that they have the authority to do so and may bind the entity for which they sign. By signing this Contract, Exhibitor authorizes Show Management to use its company name and any photographs taken at the Show for promotional purposes. 16. Pet Sales. Exhibitor agrees that they will not sell animals of any kind at the show, with the exception of 501c3 rescue-group based pet adoptions. Raffles or animal-based prize giveaways are also expressly prohibited. Further, Exhibitor warrants that they do not profit from the commercial breeding of cats, dogs, birds, reptiles or other animals suitable as pets. Any pets adopted at the show must be spayed or neutered or, if unaltered, must remain in the rescue-group’s care until spay/neuter procedures have been completed. Any pets attending the show as part of an Exhibitor’s appearance must be of sound temperament and in good health. Proof of current vaccinations will be required for all animals attending the show. Any 501c3 rescue groups wishing to bring adoptable animals to the show must submit a copy of their current adoption procedures to Show Management with this Contract. All 501c3 rescue-groups must adhere to their current adoption procedures at the show. 17. Early Breakdown or No Show. Exhibitor agrees that there will be no break-down of booth prior to 6PM. Any exhibitor that breaks down before 6PM will be charged a $125 penalty. Exhibitor agrees that said penalty will be automatically charged to the payment method we have on file at Pet Event Professionals. If you MUST leave early for extenuating circumstance, please arrange with our staff at least one week in advance of show date and arrange for written approval. Any exhibitor that fails to show up on show day with no notification or written approval from Pet Event Professionals will be charged a $125 penalty. Exhibitor agrees that said penalty will be automatically charged to the payment method we have on file at Pet Event Professionals. 18. Disputes. Exhibitor agrees that should dispute arise, however unlikely, only legitimate courses of business to business dispute resolution will be chosen, such as an attorney, mediator or professional business to business method of dispute resolution..Posting disputes on consumer sites that offer no mediation or resolution such as List or Yelp or Facebook (or similar site) will result in immediate breach of contract, forfeiture of project, booth, sponsorship and all rights herein. Client acknowledges that if in fact client chooses to post disputes or complaints on said sites, a fine of $250 per posting will be charged to the payment information on file. Posting disputes or complaints on online extortion sites such as Rip Off Report, Complaints Board, Scam Informer, Reviewopedia, Google Plus, Facebook or sites other than the legitimate organizations mentioned in the first sentence of this line item will result in immediate breach of contract, forfeiture of project, booth, sponsorship and all rights herein. Client acknowledges that if in fact client chooses to post disputes or complaints on said sites, a fine of $250 per posting will be charged to the payment information on file. Exhibitor acknowledged that this is a business to business contractual relationship and will act accordingly with regard to disputes. We have read the Contract Terms and Conditions. We understand that this is a legally binding document between Pet Event Professionals and the Exhibitor. No refunds will be issued except for the preceding reasons and conditions. We also understand that any change(s) in this Contract will be made in writing. 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William Smith (1762 – June 26, 1840) was chosen as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. Senate representing South Carolina in 1816. The legislature declined to re-elect him when his term expired in 1823. He was narrowly chosen senator in 1826 and was again replaced in 1831.
Smith was one of the first Southerners to argue, at the time of the Missouri Compromise in 1820, that slavery was a positive good; nevertheless, he opposed John C. Calhoun's doctrine and tactic of nullification. In 1828, seven electors from Georgia chose him for vice president, instead of Calhoun, the Democratic nominee. He was also a splinter candidate for vice president in 1836: Virginia refused to accept Richard Mentor Johnson as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, and voted for the ticket of Martin Van Buren and William Smith, putting Johnson one electoral vote short of a majority; the Senate went on to elect Johnson.
In 1832, he moved to Louisiana, having lost his political base in South Carolina. In 1836, he moved on to Huntsville, Alabama, and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives for Madison County from August 1, 1836, holding that seat for the rest of his life.
On March 3, 1837, outgoing President Andrew Jackson nominated Smith to the Supreme Court. Five days later, the newly seated Senate of the 25th Congress confirmed Smith's nomination by a vote of 23–18; nevertheless, Smith declined to serve.[1] | positive |
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Tamerlane's tomb
In January the Scourge of God caught a cold. One of history’s most brutal butchers, now perhaps in his seventies, had set out with an army 200,000 strong from Samarqand, his capital, to try conclusions with the Chinese Empire, 3,000 miles away. It was a freezing cold winter, with the country deep in snow and the rivers frozen solid, and the army halted at Otrar in what is now Kazakhstan. The doctors’ efforts to cure their master, which included packing him in ice as the cold turned to fever, failed and it became clear that he was dying. Eventually, surrounded by his women and senior commanders, in a weak, almost inaudible voice he made an eloquent speech, telling them not to weep or run about madly tearing their clothes but to pray to God to have mercy on him.
He died at about eight o’clock in the evening, while icy winds howled round the palace and the tents of his army outside. The Chinese expedition was abandoned and the body was taken back to Samarqand to be interred beneath the dome of the Gur Amir mausoleum in a steel coffin under a slab of black jade six feet long, which was then the largest piece of the stone in the world. An inscription records: ‘This is the resting place of the illustrious and merciful monarch, the most great Sultan, the most mighty warrior, Lord Timur, Conqueror of the World.’
In Europe the name Timur iLeng, Timur the Lame, became Tamerlane or Tamburlaine. Lame he was, mighty he was, merciful he was not. As his latest biographer Justin Marozzi says, the millions he slaughtered – ‘buried alive, cemented into walls, massacred on the battlefield, sliced in two at the waist, trampled to death by horses, beheaded, hanged’ – would have had a different opinion. Of Mongol ancestry from what is now Uzbekistan, he began as a sheep-rustler and bandit, and was injured in a skirmish which left him lame in his right leg and unable to raise his right arm. In 1941 his tomb was opened by a Soviet archaeologist, Mikhail Gerasimov, who confirmed the injuries.
Building up a force of several hundred horsemen, Timur took service under an invading Mongol chieftain, seized Samarqand, took a wife descended from Genghis Khan and went on to an astonishing career of conquest until he ruled from Damascus to Delhi. Efficiently organised armies under his horse-tail standard covered immense distances. He destroyed the Golden Horde, conquered Persia and Mesopotamia, invaded Russia, Georgia, India, Syria and Turkey. Thousands of women were carried off as slaves. At Baghdad he had 90,000 of the inhabitants beheaded so that he could build towers with their skulls. At Sivas in Turkey, where he promised no bloodshed in return for surrender, he had 3,000 prisoners buried alive and pointed out that he had kept to the letter of his oath. His atrocities were intended to strike terror into the hearts of opponents, and cities which surrendered promptly were sometimes spared a sack. He was a Muslim and he justified his campaigns against Christians and Hindus as spreading the true faith, while when he attacked and slaughtered fellow-Muslims, as he very frequently did, they were always described as ‘bad Muslims’. Timur was a patron of art and learning and he turned Samarqand into an exquisitely beautiful city. His empire, which was never more than the expression of his personal dominance, did not survive his death. | positive |
ABSTRACT
Background: Although animal studies have shown that exposure to glyphosate (a commonly used herbicide) does not result in glyphosate bioaccumulation in tissues, to our knowledge there are no published data on whether it is detectable in human milk and therefore consumed by breastfed infants. Objective: We sought to determine whether glyphosate and its metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) could be detected in milk and urine produced by lactating women and, if so, to quantify typical consumption by breastfed infants. Design: We collected milk (n = 41) and urine (n = 40) samples from healthy lactating women living in and around Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Washington. Milk and urine samples were analyzed for glyphosate and AMPA with the use of highly sensitive liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry methods validated for and optimized to each sample matrix. Results: Our milk assay, which was sensitive down to 1 μg/L for both analytes, detected neither glyphosate nor AMPA in any milk sample. Mean ± SD glyphosate and AMPA concentrations in urine were 0.28 ± 0.38 and 0.30 ± 0.33 μg/L, respectively. Because of the complex nature of milk matrixes, these samples required more dilution before analysis than did urine, thus decreasing the sensitivity of the assay in milk compared with urine. No difference was found in urine glyphosate and AMPA concentrations between subjects consuming organic compared with conventionally grown foods or between women living on or near a farm/ranch and those living in an urban or suburban nonfarming area. Conclusions: Our data provide evidence that glyphosate and AMPA are not detectable in milk produced by women living in this region of the US Pacific Northwest. By extension, our results therefore suggest that dietary glyphosate exposure is not a health concern for breastfed infants. This study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02670278.
INTRODUCTION
Glyphosate (N-phosphonomethyl glycine), a widely used herbicide patented as a phytotoxicant in 1974 (1), functions by blocking the activity of 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (Enzyme Commission number 2.5.1.19), an enzyme required for the synthesis of tryptophan, phenylalanine, and tyrosine in plants and some microorganisms (2–5). Because these amino acids are not synthesized by humans, glyphosate would not be expected to have a physiological effect. Indeed, the human genome does not encode for 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase, and a large body of epidemiologic and experimental literature supports the safety of glyphosate in mammals (5, 6). In addition, neither glyphosate nor its metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA)8 seem to bioaccumulate in animal tissues (7–9). In addition, most scientific evidence does not support contentions that glyphosate may cause cancer in humans, as recently concluded after a lengthy review by the European Food Standards Authority (10). The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has authorized the use of glyphosate as an herbicide in noncrop and industrial areas since 1974 and in agriculture since 1976 (11). The safety of glyphosate use as an herbicide is periodically re-evaluated, with the last federal review completed in 1993 (12).
Despite its long-standing track record for safety, decades of research have resulted in a vast body of literature related to the clearance and disposition of ingested glyphosate. Studies in humans show that ∼20% of diet-derived glyphosate is absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract, with the remaining ∼80% excreted in the feces (13, 14), and studies conducted with rats suggest that nearly all absorbed glyphosate is rapidly excreted unchanged in urine (9, 15–18); little, if any, is metabolized to and excreted as AMPA. In fact, most AMPA in urine is thought to be the result of either the consumption of plants that have metabolized glyphosate into AMPA (12, 18, 19) and/or exposure to phosphonates found in detergents (20, 21).
Several studies have also investigated urine glyphosate concentrations of humans exposed to glyphosate via diet and other environmental sources (14, 22–25). These studies have consistently documented urine glyphosate concentrations of ∼1–3 μg/L (in ppb), with the highest value being 233 μg/L (24). Curwin et al. (26) also reported urine glyphosate concentrations in 116 children living in “farm” and “nonfarm” households. Most samples (84%) had detectable concentrations with values similar to those reported in adults. There was no difference in urine glyphosate concentrations between children living in farm and nonfarm households (27). It is noteworthy that all measured urine glyphosate concentrations to date, even the highest, have not warranted a legitimate health concern based on the European Food Safety Authority’s allowable daily intakes and allowable operator exposure concentrations (14).
Of particular interest to our research group is the potential glyphosate exposure of infants during breastfeeding. Because there have been to our knowledge no studies published in peer-reviewed journals reporting glyphosate concentrations in human milk, this study (NCT02670278) was undertaken primarily to document typical glyphosate and AMPA concentrations in milk produced by lactating women living in the US Pacific Northwest—a highly productive agricultural region in which glyphosate-containing herbicides are routinely used (27). Maternal urine samples were also collected and analyzed. We hypothesized that concentrations of glyphosate and AMPA in milk and urine would be low, if even detectable. Important to testing this hypothesis was the use of newly optimized, matrix-specific assays with high sensitivities and specificities for the analytes (28).
METHODS
Human subjects
All procedures used in this study were approved by the Washington State University Institutional Review Board, and informed consent was obtained from each subject. A total of 41 healthy lactating women living in and around Pullman, Washington, and Moscow, Idaho, were included in the study, which was part of a larger investigation of international variation in human milk oligosaccharides and bacterial taxa as they relate to environmental exposure and sociocultural practices. To be eligible for participation, women had to be 1–3 mo postpartum, breastfeeding and/or pumping milk ≥5 times/d, and aged ≥18 y. Because we wanted to limit our subjects to healthy women who were nursing healthy infants, exclusion criteria included current breast infection, use of antibiotics in the previous 30 d, and having an infant with signs or symptoms of illness in the previous 7 d. Subjects completed a brief survey to document basic health and demographic variables, and body weight and height were measured at enrollment, which spanned from May 2014 through March 2015. All but 1 subject also completed a 5-question survey documenting potential glyphosate exposure from the environment and diet (Supplemental Figure 1).
Milk and urine collection and preservation
Milk and urine were collected between 0700 and 1100. After cleaning the breast (a step necessary to meet the needs of the larger, overarching project), ∼30 mL milk was collected with the use of a Medela Symphony hospital-grade electric breast pump into a Medela Symphony single-use sterile collection container, immediately placed in ice, separated into aliquots while fresh, and then frozen at −20°C until analysis. A midstream urine sample was collected into a single-use sterile collection container. The sample container was immediately placed in ice, and urine was separated into aliquots and frozen at −20°C until analysis. One subject failed to provide a urine sample.
Glyphosate and AMPA analyses
Milk and urine samples were analyzed for glyphosate and AMPA at Monsanto with the use of liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry methods optimized for and validated in each sample matrix (28). A Shimadzu Prominence 20A HPLC system coupled to an AB Sciex API 5500 triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer was used for analysis. Glyphosate and AMPA were quantitated with the use of multiple reaction monitoring. Two precursor-product ion transitions for each analyte and stable isotope labeled internal standard for each analyte were used to ensure the selectivity of the methods. Although 2 quantitative precursor-product ion transitions were monitored, the results were reported with the use of the most sensitive transition for each analyte. The assay was validated separately for milk and urine. Limits of detection (LODs) and quantification (LOQs) for glyphosate in milk were 1.0 and 10.0 μg/L, respectively; those for urine were 0.02 and 0.10 μg/L, respectively. LODs and LOQs for AMPA in milk were 1.0 and 10.0 μg/L, respectively; those for urine were 0.03 and 0.10 μg/L, respectively.
Glyphosate and AMPA concentrations in milk were independently confirmed by Covance with the use of the same liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry method (28) with minor modifications, which included the use of an AB Sciex QTrap 5500 triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer. Because of differences in instrumentation, the LODs that used the more sensitive quantitative ion transitions were 6.0 and 9.0 μg/L for human milk glyphosate and AMPA, respectively, and the LOQ was 25.0 μg/L for both analytes.
It is noteworthy that duplicate aliquots (created from fresh milk at the time of collection) of each milk sample were sent directly, albeit separately, from Washington State University to Monsanto and Covance. Data generated by Covance were communicated directly to the principal investigators without prior disclosure to other coauthors.
Statistical analyses
All values for milk (n = 41) glyphosate and AMPA concentrations were below the LOD; thus, no statistical analyses on these data were warranted. For urine glyphosate and AMPA (n = 40), statistical analyses were conducted with the use of a generalized linear mixed model (SAS version 9.4; SAS Institute) assuming a Poisson distribution with a logarithmic link function. For concentrations less than the respective LOD values, one-half LOD (0.01 and 0.015 μg/L for glyphosate and AMPA, respectively) nominal values were used in the analyses. For concentrations that fell between the LOD and LOQ, one-half LOQ (0.05 μg/L for both glyphosate and AMPA) nominal values were used in the analysis (29). All values presented represent means ± SDs.
RESULTS
Description of study population and glyphosate exposure
Basic demographic and anthropometric variables for the 41 study subjects are given in Table 1. Women were aged 29 ± 5 y, 67 ± 17 d postpartum, and had a BMI (kg/m2) of 26.8 ± 8.6. Most (75%) lived in an urban or suburban nonfarming region of the Palouse (a geographical area encompassing southeastern Washington and northwestern Idaho), and most (58%) reported that they made no effort to eat foods characterized as organic, although they sometimes included them in their diets for convenience. Few subjects (15%) reported ever having personally mixed or used any type of weed killer; all but 1 of the women having reported ever doing so had mixed or used a weed killer containing glyphosate. In general, subjects were highly educated Caucasian women who participated in the study during either the summer or winter months.
TABLE 1 Variable Value Age, y 29 ± 51 Time postpartum, d 67 ± 17 Parity, n 1.8 ± 1.1 Body weight, kg 74.6 ± 24.2 BMI, kg/m2 26.8 ± 8.6 Lived on or near a farm/ranch,2 % 25 Strictly or mainly organic food choices,2 % 42 Had at some time personally used or mixed any type of weed killer,2 % 15 Highest attained educational level,2 % High school 32 Undergraduate college degree 41 Graduate degree 27 Ethnicity,2 % Caucasian 93 African American 2 Latina 5 Season of sample collection,2 % Spring 12 Summer 46 Fall 17 Winter 27 Variable Value Age, y 29 ± 51 Time postpartum, d 67 ± 17 Parity, n 1.8 ± 1.1 Body weight, kg 74.6 ± 24.2 BMI, kg/m2 26.8 ± 8.6 Lived on or near a farm/ranch,2 % 25 Strictly or mainly organic food choices,2 % 42 Had at some time personally used or mixed any type of weed killer,2 % 15 Highest attained educational level,2 % High school 32 Undergraduate college degree 41 Graduate degree 27 Ethnicity,2 % Caucasian 93 African American 2 Latina 5 Season of sample collection,2 % Spring 12 Summer 46 Fall 17 Winter 27 View Large
TABLE 1 Variable Value Age, y 29 ± 51 Time postpartum, d 67 ± 17 Parity, n 1.8 ± 1.1 Body weight, kg 74.6 ± 24.2 BMI, kg/m2 26.8 ± 8.6 Lived on or near a farm/ranch,2 % 25 Strictly or mainly organic food choices,2 % 42 Had at some time personally used or mixed any type of weed killer,2 % 15 Highest attained educational level,2 % High school 32 Undergraduate college degree 41 Graduate degree 27 Ethnicity,2 % Caucasian 93 African American 2 Latina 5 Season of sample collection,2 % Spring 12 Summer 46 Fall 17 Winter 27 Variable Value Age, y 29 ± 51 Time postpartum, d 67 ± 17 Parity, n 1.8 ± 1.1 Body weight, kg 74.6 ± 24.2 BMI, kg/m2 26.8 ± 8.6 Lived on or near a farm/ranch,2 % 25 Strictly or mainly organic food choices,2 % 42 Had at some time personally used or mixed any type of weed killer,2 % 15 Highest attained educational level,2 % High school 32 Undergraduate college degree 41 Graduate degree 27 Ethnicity,2 % Caucasian 93 African American 2 Latina 5 Season of sample collection,2 % Spring 12 Summer 46 Fall 17 Winter 27 View Large
Glyphosate and AMPA concentrations in milk
A summary of our findings concerning milk glyphosate and AMPA are found in Table 2. Regardless of whether the assays were conducted at Monsanto or Covance, none of the milk samples contained detectable amounts of either glyphosate or AMPA. As such, descriptive and statistical analyses were not warranted.
TABLE 2 Variable Value Milk (n = 41) Glyphosate2 <LOD AMPA3 <LOD Urine (n = 40) Glyphosate4 0.28 ± 0.38 AMPA4 0.30 ± 0.33 Variable Value Milk (n = 41) Glyphosate2 <LOD AMPA3 <LOD Urine (n = 40) Glyphosate4 0.28 ± 0.38 AMPA4 0.30 ± 0.33 View Large
TABLE 2 Variable Value Milk (n = 41) Glyphosate2 <LOD AMPA3 <LOD Urine (n = 40) Glyphosate4 0.28 ± 0.38 AMPA4 0.30 ± 0.33 Variable Value Milk (n = 41) Glyphosate2 <LOD AMPA3 <LOD Urine (n = 40) Glyphosate4 0.28 ± 0.38 AMPA4 0.30 ± 0.33 View Large
Glyphosate and AMPA concentrations in urine
A summary of our findings concerning urine glyphosate and AMPA are found in Table 2 (raw data are available in Supplemental Table 1). Glyphosate was detectable in nearly all (n = 37) of the urine samples and was quantifiable in 29 of them. Glyphosate values ranged from below the LOD (<0.02 μg/L) to 1.93 μg/L, with a mean of 0.28 ± 0.38 μg/L. AMPA was also detectable in nearly all (n = 38) of the urine samples and quantifiable in 29 of them. Urine AMPA values ranged from below the LOD (<0.03 μg/L) to 1.33 μg/L, with a mean of 0.30 ± 0.33 μg/L. There were no significant effects of consuming organic compared with conventional foods or living on/near a farm compared with living in an urban/suburban region on concentrations of glyphosate in urine (P = 0.1870 and 0.8773, respectively) (Figure 1). Neither were there significant effects of consuming organic compared with conventional foods or living on/near a farm compared with living in an urban/suburban region on concentrations of AMPA in urine (P = 0.1414 and 0.2525, respectively) (Figure 2). Adjusting for potential covariates (age, time postpartum, BMI, parity) did not alter these conclusions. When raw, untransformed values were used in the analysis, there was a positive correlation (r = 0.57; P ≤ 0.0001) between urinary glyphosate and AMPA concentrations. The strength of this association increased when log-transformed data were used (r = 0.68; P ≤ 0.0001) (Figure 3).
FIGURE 1 View largeDownload slide Estimated means and 95% CIs for urine glyphosate concentrations of typical self-reported dietary pattern types (A) (n = 17 and 23 organic and conventional, respectively) and primary residence types (B) (n = 10 and 30 on farm and nonfarm, respectively). Upper and lower reference lines (dashed) represent LOQ and LOD values, respectively. LOD, limit of detection; LOQ, limit of quantification.
FIGURE 1 View largeDownload slide Estimated means and 95% CIs for urine glyphosate concentrations of typical self-reported dietary pattern types (A) (n = 17 and 23 organic and conventional, respectively) and primary residence types (B) (n = 10 and 30 on farm and nonfarm, respectively). Upper and lower reference lines (dashed) represent LOQ and LOD values, respectively. LOD, limit of detection; LOQ, limit of quantification.
FIGURE 2 View largeDownload slide Estimated means and 95% CIs for urinary AMPA concentrations as they are related to typical self-reported dietary pattern types (A) (n = 17 and 23 organic and conventional, respectively) and primary residence types (B) (n = 10 and 30 on farm and nonfarm, respectively). Upper and lower reference lines (dashed) represent LOQ and LOD values, respectively. AMPA, aminomethylphosphonic acid; LOD, limit of detection; LOQ, limit of quantification.
FIGURE 2 View largeDownload slide Estimated means and 95% CIs for urinary AMPA concentrations as they are related to typical self-reported dietary pattern types (A) (n = 17 and 23 organic and conventional, respectively) and primary residence types (B) (n = 10 and 30 on farm and nonfarm, respectively). Upper and lower reference lines (dashed) represent LOQ and LOD values, respectively. AMPA, aminomethylphosphonic acid; LOD, limit of detection; LOQ, limit of quantification.
FIGURE 3 View largeDownload slide Correlation between urine glyphosate and AMPA concentrations. Vertical and horizontal axes represent the natural log scale (n = 40; 3 values hidden). AMPA, aminomethylphosphonic acid.
FIGURE 3 View largeDownload slide Correlation between urine glyphosate and AMPA concentrations. Vertical and horizontal axes represent the natural log scale (n = 40; 3 values hidden). AMPA, aminomethylphosphonic acid.
DISCUSSION
The results herein provide evidence that the concentrations of glyphosate and AMPA in milk produced by healthy women are below the detection limits of available validated assays. In urine, glyphosate and AMPA were detectable in many samples, but concentrations were very low (<0.02 to 1.93 and <0.03 to 1.33 μg/L, respectively)—in fact, well below values reported in other healthy adult populations (<0.15 to 29 and <0.15 to 1.82 μg/L, respectively) (14, 24–26). To put these values in perspective, it is worth considering the EPA’s reference dose (RfD) value for glyphosate. The RfD is an estimate of the quantity of a chemical that a person could be exposed to every day for the rest of his or her life with no appreciable risk of adverse health effects (30). The RfD for glyphosate is 1.75 g . kg−1 . d−1; this value is based on a “no-effect” concentration in animals (175 mg . kg−1 . d−1) with a 100-fold safety factor (margin of exposure) (31). The EPA considers AMPA to be of similar or lesser toxicity than glyphosate and determined in 1994 that it should be exempt from regulation regardless of concentrations observed in food or feed (31). Thus, a 75-kg woman (typical weight for our study’s participants) could consume as much as 131.25 mg glyphosate/d with no expected negative effects. If 20% of dietary glyphosate is absorbed (i.e., 20% bioavailability) (14) and 100% of absorbed glyphosate is excreted into urine, such an individual would be expected to excrete 26.25 mg/d (26,250 μg/d) glyphosate in her urine. In the current study, the highest reported urine glyphosate concentration was 1.93 μg/L. As such, even allowing for a relatively high urine output (3 L/d), the highest glyphosate excretion in our study would be 5.79 μg/d, a value >4500 times lower than that which would be expected if the hypothetical mother described previously had consumed the RfD for glyphosate. The inclusion of AMPA, assuming equivalent toxicity, results in the highest excretion in our study of 2.58 μg/L (7.74 μg/d assuming 3 L urine/d) glyphosate + AMPA, an exposure >3000 times below the RfD; this combined calculation may become important if the EPA reconsiders the safety of AMPA (31).
Applying similar parameters and logic, a 5-kg infant can consume up to 8.5 mg/d (8500 μg/d) glyphosate and be below the RfD of this compound. Assuming a mean milk intake of 0.7 L/d (32–34) and a milk glyphosate concentration of 1 μg/L (the LOD value), then the maximum daily consumption of glyphosate by this hypothetical infant would be 0.7 μg/d—a value <12,000 times that which is thought to signal any semblance of a health concern (31).
The observed correlation between urine glyphosate and AMPA concentrations is also of interest. Our reanalysis of previously published data from Hoppe et al. (20) suggests correlations (Pearson correlations of 0.40 and 0.68 for raw and log-transformed data, respectively) very similar to our data. Because the strength of association was greater with the use of the log-transformed data, it is likely that this relation is not proportional but rather nonlinear in nature. Whether the AMPA was derived from endogenous metabolism of glyphosate, consumed as a component of the diet, or resulted from exposure to AMPA-containing detergents, however, cannot be determined from our study.
There are some limitations that should be taken into consideration when interpreting the results of this study. First, our subjects were relatively homogeneous in terms of anthropometrics, demographics, and geographical place of residence. Future studies should consider recruiting women of varied educational and ethnic backgrounds living in different regions of the United States. Second, it is noteworthy that the larger international study from which these samples originate was not designed to detect small differences in urine glyphosate and AMPA concentrations based on dietary choices, location of residence (e.g., urban compared with rural), or occupational glyphosate exposure. Nevertheless, we thought it was of topical interest to preliminarily explore those hypotheses given the availability of information. We note, however, that detecting such small-effect sizes at statistically significant concentrations and adequate statistical power would require 4–5 times as many observations than used in this study. Subsequent research on this topic should consider increasing sample sizes to the largest extent possible while targeting enrollment of women who fit the hypotheses of interest, such as rarely or commonly consuming organic food, living on or off farms where glyphosate is used, and/or mixing and applying glyphosate as part of their livelihood. Studies might also consider investigating the possible effect of agricultural season on the outcomes of interest and the potential for breast infection (mastitis) to influence whether glyphosate and AMPA can be detected in a woman’s milk. Investigators are also urged to collect urine samples from exclusively breastfed infants to verify the lack of glyphosate and AMPA exposure during this important period of the life cycle and consider collecting complete breast expressions in case glyphosate and AMPA concentrations change during feeding. Last, studying potential glyphosate and AMPA exposures from other sources (e.g., environmental and supplementary foods) before and after weaning might be of interest. However, it is important to note that glyphosate exposure would need to be much higher than those reported herein for maternal or infant exposures to become a health concern.
The authors’ responsibilities were as follows—MKM, MAM, DAG, and JLV: conceptualized and designed the study; MKM and DAG: designed the glyphosate exposure questionnaire; MKM: oversaw sample and data collection; JMC and KAL: collected the samples and administered the questionnaires; PKJ: oversaw the analysis of the samples at Monsanto; WJP and BS: carried out the statistical analysis; and all authors: read and approved the final manuscript. In 2014, MKM and MAM each received a $10,000 unrestricted research gift from Monsanto; these funds were used to support their research related to human and bovine lactation. These funds were neither needed for nor used to cover the costs associated with the project described in this article, because the milk was already being collected for another project funded by the National Science Foundation (1344288) related to international variation in human milk composition and because additional expenditures associated with the collection of urine samples were negligible. All costs associated with the chemical analysis of milk and urine samples at both Monsanto and Covance were paid for directly by Monsanto. MKM and MAM were once reimbursed for costs associated with economy travel and basic accommodations incurred for a trip they made to St. Louis, Missouri, to discuss study design and assay development with coauthors DAG, PKJ, and JLV at Monsanto. DAG, PKJ, and JLV are employees of Monsanto, which manufactures glyphosate. None of the other authors reported a conflict of interest related to the study.
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ABBREVIATIONS
AMPA aminomethylphosphonic acid
EPA US Environmental Protection Agency
LOD limit of detection
LOQ limit of quantification
RfD reference dose
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Jose Mourinho says Luke Shaw is only being honest after the defender admitted he would like to play under Mauricio Pochettino at some point in the future Jose Mourinho says Luke Shaw is only being honest after the defender admitted he would like to play under Mauricio Pochettino at some point in the future
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has praised Luke Shaw's comments about reuniting with Mauricio Pochettino, saying the defender was just being honest.
Writing in the epilogue of Guillem Balague's new book, Brave New World: Inside Pochettino's Spurs, Shaw spoke glowingly about his former manager and said he would be keen on working under the Argentine once again.
Shaw had the most successful season of his career under Pochettino at St. Mary's before he left to join United and Mourinho was very understanding of his comments, describing them as the "perfect words".
Shaw (L) had the most successful season of his career under Pochettino at Southampton
When asked whether Shaw has any future at the club, he responded: "Why not? If you want to speak about his words - I would be very disappointed if his words were different. For me, they are the perfect words
"I'm always disappointed when a player has a new manager, the new manager becomes the best and the old manager becomes very bad.
"Football is full of examples of lack of character, Luke Shaw was just honest. The manager that helped him to come to the first team, the manager who brought him to the best point of his career.
"It's a manager that he doesn't forget, it's a manager that he likes a lot and it's a manager that maybe one day he would like to be reunited [with] again."
Shaw has found first-team opportunities limited under Mourinho at Old Trafford
Since joining United in the summer of 2014, Shaw has had a lack of first-team football due to injury and following the arrival of Mourinho his opportunities have lessened - during the Portuguese's tenure at Old Trafford he has only made 11 Premier League appearances.
Despite appearing to have a lack of faith in the 22-year-old, Mourinho insisted he has a future at the club, but conceded that the "situation is not easy" due to the amount of competition at left-back.
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"He has a future here, but the situation is not easy because he comes from injury, after injury, after injury. He needs [lots of] matches in a row to play, to make mistakes, to get conditioned, to get match fitness and at this moment I can't give him that," Mourinho added.
"If he was a central midfield player, yes, because we have only two. But at left-back we have so many options that the situation is not easy. But he's in the squad, he works and maybe the opportunity comes." | positive |
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December 22, 2017 by Tech #1 During the holiday season, our thoughts turn gratefully to those who have made our success possible. It is in this spirit that we say thank you and best wishes for the holidays and new year! Read More [ID Server] openIXP maintenance - 23 Nov 2017 - 3AM SGT November 22, 2017 by Tech #1 Openixp will be performing some urgent router replacement which will disrupt all local connectivity for 60 mins Read More Happy Deepavali 2017 October 17, 2017 by Tech #1 The Festivals of Lights is here... And everything seems to sparkle and shine. SOSYS.NET wishes those who celebrate a very Happy, Prosperous and Safe Diwali! Read More [ID Server] Core Switch down - 11 Sep 2017 - 8pm SGT September 11, 2017 by Tech #1 Our monitoring detected IDC server is down at around 8PM SGT and verified with DC that the main switch was currently down. The technician onsite is performing troubleshooting to bring the core switch up Read More [US Server] LA Shared/Reseller server upgrade - 15 Sept 2017 - 10PM September 10, 2017 by Tech #1 As part of another improvement, we are happy to upgrade US LA server from e3-1270v5 cpu to e3-1270v6 Intel CPU with Samsung SSD hdisk on on 15 Sept 2016 from 10PM Singapore Time onwards. During this period, your access to the US server (only LA based customers) is affected. Downtime expected to be 1 - 2 hours. No change in the IP address required Read More [ID Server] Shared/Reseller IDC server upgrade - 31 Aug 2017 - 10PM SGT August 14, 2017 by Tech #1 As part of another improvement, we are happy to upgrade shared & reseller ID server from e3-1270v3 cpu to e3-1270v6 Intel CPU with Intel S3510 SSD hdisk on on 31 Aug 2017 at 10PM onwards. During this period, your access to the ID server is affected. Downtime expected to be 2 - 3 hours. No change in the IP address required Read More [ID Server] Network maintenance on core router and switch August 11, 2017 by Tech #1 There will be urgent network maintenance on the core router and main switch that affect our ID server for about 60 minutes. During this period, the network connections will be inaccessible. Read More Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1438 H June 22, 2017 by Tech #1 We wish to extend our warmth greetings to our clients who are celebrating this festive season! Selamat hari raya Idul Fitri, Mohon Maap Lahir dan Batin! Read More Vesak 2017 May 9, 2017 by Tech #1 We wish you a Happy Vesak day. May this Vesak bring you peace and happiness. Read More Labour Day 2017 April 30, 2017 by Tech #1 Time to utilize "your day" to rest! Have a good rest and spend your time well with your loved ones! Read More Currency Conversion update (for payment by IDR and MYR) - DOMAIN product only March 29, 2017 by Tech #1 The last time we adjusted the currency conversion for Rupiah and Ringgit was on Aug 2015, but we have to do it again, as the exchange rate is not on our side. This time around, we only apply this to the DOMAIN only products. This only applies to the customers paying in IDR/MYR and only bought DOMAIN from us. Read More [ID Server] NiCE IDC-3D Router maintenance - 12 March 2017 - 4AM March 11, 2017 by Tech #1 NiCE IDC 3D router will be performing FTOS upgrade on 12 March 2017 at 4AM Indonesia time. During this period, the connectivity will be interrupted for 60 mins and this apply for all Indonesia servers Read More HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2017! January 20, 2017 by Tech #1 As we look forward to the new year together, may the Year of the Rooster bring you the best of health, wealth and prosperity. Read More [SG Server] Upgrade of OS for Telin Server (Shared/Reseller Server) - 19 Jan 2017 - 9PM SGT January 12, 2017 by Tech #1 As our current shared/reseller server runs on Centos 5 for some time, now it's time to upgrade to Centos 7.3 with PHP 5.6 and Apache 2.4. We will couple it with Varnish to improve its performance. Centos 7.3 also comes with performance improvement from its kernel and filesystem. You would definitely feel the improvement! Read More Stripe Checkout payment option is now Available! December 22, 2016 by Tech #1 We have incorporated Stripe Checkout into our billing system, enabling another option to pay with your credit card if Paypal is not your preference Read More Merry Christmas 2016 and Happy New Year 2017! December 21, 2016 by Tech #1 A special greeting at Christmas time to express to you our sincere appreciation for your confidence and loyalty. We are deeply thankful and extend to you our best wishes for a happy and healthy holiday season. Happy holidays and Happy New Year! Read More [ID Server] Upgrade of OS for IDC Server (Shared/Reseller Server) - 22 Dec 2016 - 10PM SGT December 18, 2016 by Tech #1 As our current shared/reseller server runs on Centos 5 for some time, now it's time to upgrade to Centos 7.3 with PHP 5.6 and Apache 2.4. We will couple it with Varnish to improve its performance. Centos 7.3 also comes with performance improvement from its kernel and filesystem. You would definitely feel the improvement! Read More [US Server] Upgrade of OS for PHX Server (Shared/Reseller Server) - 9 Dec 2016 - 11PM SGT December 4, 2016 by Tech #1 As our current shared/reseller server runs on Centos 5 for some time, now it's time to upgrade to Centos 7.2 with PHP 5.6 and Apache 2.4. We will couple it with Varnish to improve its performance. Centos 7.2 also comes with performance improvement from its kernel and filesystem. You would definitely feel the improvement! Read More [US Server] Upgrade of OS for LA Server (Shared/Reseller Server) - 3 Dec 2016 - 1AM SGT November 15, 2016 by Tech #1 As our current shared/reseller server runs on Centos 5 for some time, now it's time to upgrade to Centos 7.2 with PHP 5.6 and Apache 2.4. We will couple it with Varnish to improve its performance. Centos 7.2 also comes with performance improvement from its kernel and filesystem. You would definitely feel the improvement! Read More [ID Server] IX Connectivity down - 25 Oct 2016 October 25, 2016 by Tech #1 We started to see down monitoring for all our indonesia servers from 3AM local time and have alerted our upstream for this. Upon further investigation by ISP, there was a fiber cut near IDC Duren 3 and the upstream has been working to resolve the issue Read More Happy Deepavali 2016 October 24, 2016 by Tech #1 The Festivals of Lights is here... And everything seems to sparkle and shine. SOSYS.NET wishes those who celebrate a very Happy, Prosperous and Safe Diwali! Read More [ID Server] IX Connectivity down - 19 Oct 2016 October 19, 2016 by Tech #1 We started to see down monitoring for all our indonesia servers from 4AM local time and have alerted our upstream for this. Upon further investigation, if the connectivity is initiated from US not via Singapore, the connectivity is normal. Upstream is currently investigating the issue. Read More Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1437 H July 2, 2016 by Tech #1 We wish to extend our warmth greetings to our clients who are celebrating this festive season! Selamat hari raya Idul Fitri, Mohon Maap Lahir dan Batin! Read More [US Server] LA server upgrade - 8 July 2016 - 10PM June 22, 2016 by Tech #1 As part of another improvement, we are happy to upgrade US LA server from e3-1276v3 cpu to e3-1275v5 Intel CPU with Samsung SSD hdisk on on 8th July 2016 from 10PM Singapore Time onwards. During this period, your access to the US server (only LA based customers) is affected. Downtime expected to be 1 - 2 hours. No change in the IP address required Read More Vesak 2016 May 17, 2016 by Tech #1 We wish you a Happy Vesak day. May this Vesak bring you peace and happiness. Read More SOSYS.NET is now eNom ETP April 22, 2016 by Tech #1 Been years we are using eNom as our domain provider, and we have just upgraded our status to become eNom Technology Partner and will be able to provide Domain Reseller service at lower cost Read More [ID Server] NiCE IDC-3D Router maintenance April 21, 2016 by Tech #1 NiCE IDC 3D router will be performing FTOS upgrade on 23th April at 2AM Indonesia time. During this period, the connectivity will be interrupted for 30 mins and this apply for all Indonesia servers Read More [ID Server] Telkom openIXP router (218.100.36.56) down March 28, 2016 by Tech #1 We started to see different routing path chosen by telkom users (speedy, indihome, telkomsel) at around 12PM SGT whereby it does not go through openIXP, but via the backup link. From MRTG, we noticed that telkom router in openIXP is down and causing the non-optimal routing path for telkom users. Issue has been escalated to Telkom for their action. Read More [SG Server] Memory module error correction detected - 25 March 2016 - 5PM SGT March 25, 2016 by Tech #1 A correctable memory error was detected on the SG server node this morning. Though the error was corrected by the ECC memory, to prevent any unforeseen circumstances, we will be replacing the memory modules to ensure stability in the long run. Replacement will take place at 5PM on 25th March 2016 with estimated downtime of 30-45 minutes. Read More HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2016! February 3, 2016 by Tech #1 As we look forward to the new year together, may the Year of the Monkey bring you the best of health, wealth and prosperity. Read More Merry Christmas 2015 and Happy New Year 2016! December 18, 2015 by Tech #1 A special greeting at Christmas time to express to you our sincere appreciation for your confidence and loyalty. We are deeply thankful and extend to you our best wishes for a happy and healthy holiday season. Happy holidays and Happy New Year! Read More [ID Server] Upgrade of kernel - 27 November 2015 - 11PM SGT November 22, 2015 by Tech #1 As a preventive measures, we are upgrading the server xen-id1 kernel to the latest to maintain stability. This will require a major upgrade from 4.2 to 4.4 Xen kernel and upgrade on the OS kernel. We expect no major issue as the fall back will be to use older kernel. Read More [ID Server] International Connection down - 20 Nov 2015 - 11:55AM SGT November 20, 2015 by Tech #1 At the moment, if you are located outside Indonesia and unable to access your website in Indonesia server, this is caused by the IX connection issue and currently being investigated by the technicians. If you are located in Indonesia, you should not have any problems, but if you do, you can use telkom/nawala DNS to continue accessing your website in Indonesia server Read More [SG Server] Upgrade of kernel - 20 November 2015 - 11PM SGT November 17, 2015 by Tech #1 As a preventive measures, we are upgrading the server kernel to the latest to maintain stability. Server will be rebooted for around 15 minutes and all services should be up afterwards Read More [ID Server] International Connection (IX Router) down - 10 Nov 2015 - 11:30AM SGT November 10, 2015 by Tech #1 At the moment, if you are located outside Indonesia and unable to access your website in Indonesia server, this is caused by the IX router that is not responsive and currently being investigated by the technicians. If you are located in Indonesia, you should not have any problems, but if you do, you can use telkom/nawala DNS to continue accessing your website in Indonesia server Read More Happy Deepavali 2015 November 9, 2015 by Tech #1 The Festivals of Lights is here... And everything seems to sparkle and shine. SOSYS.NET wishes those who celebrate a very Happy, Prosperous and Safe Diwali! Read More [ID Server] Kernel panic on one of the server - 25 Oct 2015 October 25, 2015 by Tech #1 Earlier on 24th Oct, we noticed a ncftp service that failed while the weekly backup service is running. We restarted the backup and at around 10.40PM on 24th, we noticed kernel panic occured. Server was rebooted. At 4.09AM on 25th October, the same kernel panic occured due to the ncftp happens again. Server was rebooted again. This is only affecting xen-id1 node Read More [ID Server] Unstable node on one of servers for VPS customer - 14 Oct 2015 October 14, 2015 by Tech #1 As of today, we are noticing some irregularities on one of the Indonesia VPS node. We are checking with the principal vendor and requesting their investigation. We noticed that there is a sudden surge of CPU usage without any clear sign of the cause, and the server becomes stall. A reboot will bring the server up, and no data loss is expected. Read More [SG Server] Loss of connection to the server - 27 Sept 2015 - 1.06AM September 27, 2015 by Tech #1 At 1.06AM, we received network loss and started to check with the DC for any network issue. DC confirmed no network issue and IPMI connection is restored. Checking at the console screen, it seems that the kernel is "borked". Preventive reboot is performed and all services were up at 1.45AM Read More Currency Conversion update (for payment by IDR and MYR) - DOMAIN product only August 12, 2015 by Tech #1 The last time we adjusted the currency conversion for Rupiah and Ringgit was on 16th June 2015, but we have to do it again, as the exchange rate is not on our side. This time around, we only apply this to the DOMAIN only products. This only applies to the customers paying in IDR/MYR and only bought DOMAIN from us. Read More [US Server] Network issue at the Phoenix Datacenter - 11 Aug 2015 - 9.15AM August 11, 2015 by Tech #1 At 9.15AM, we received notification from monitoring system that the servers are down. We checked via IPMI that servers are up, but no network connectivity. We have contacted the datacenter immediately for any network issues. Read More [ID Server] Shared/Reseller hosting database corruption - 28 July 2015 July 29, 2015 by Tech #1 Due to the previous issue of power loss, we are now experiencing database corruption for the shared/reseller hosting. We are trying by all means to get the DB up. Please accept our sincere apologies. Read More [ID Server] Unexpected Power Loss - 28 July 2015 10:30PM July 28, 2015 by Tech #1 Another unexpected power loss has occured. This time for one of our node, xen-id1 and we are at our limit with the provider on this issue. Presently, they have moved the power source into another power outlet to prevent similar occurences. Some data corruption are expected and being restored for time being Read More Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1436 H July 13, 2015 by Tech #1 We wish to extend our warmth greetings to our clients who are celebrating this season! Selamat hari raya Idul Fitri, Mohon Maap Lahir dan Batin! Read More [ID Server] Shared/Reseller hosting database corruption - 11 July 2015 July 12, 2015 by Tech #1 Due to the previous issue of power loss, we are now experiencing database corruption for the shared/reseller hosting. We have tried to recreate the database and dump back from the backup. Read More [ID server] Unexpected power loss - 11 July 2015 July 11, 2015 by Tech #1 There is a sudden unexpected power loss that caused the Indonesia server to be rebooted. We have checked that this was due to the power outlet issue and all server should be up now. Read More [SG Server] Urgent maintenance on the SG nodes - 23 June 2015 - 2 PM SGT Time June 23, 2015 by Tech #1 We have discovered an issue with the xen server that been running, and are taking precaution actions to reboot the node with the latest kernel. Read More Currency Conversion update (IDR and MYR) - For DOMAIN only June 16, 2015 by Tech #1 The last time we adjusted the currency conversion for Rupiah and Ringgit was on 6th July 2014, but we have to do it again for this time around, as the exchange rate against SGD/US is just absurb and we could not cope further. But, this time around, we only apply this to the DOMAIN only products. This only applies to the customers paying in IDR/MYR and only bought DOMAIN from us. Read More [US Server] Phoenix server upgrade - 12 June 2015 - 10PM Singapore Time June 4, 2015 by Tech #1 We have done the major upgrades for the node in Indonesia and Singapore servers. This time, the servers located in Phoenix (AZ - US) also get the same treatment, with even envious upgrades which comprise SSD Samsung Evo 850 1TB Read More Vesak 2015 May 28, 2015 by Tech #1 We wish you a Happy Vesak day. May this Vesak bring you peace and happiness. Read More SOSYS.NET is now cPanel Partner! April 27, 2015 by Tech #1 SOSYS.NET is now officially part of cPanel NOC and has the benefit of great support from cPanel. Read More Widespread WordPress Plugins and Themes Security Vulnerability April 25, 2015 by Tech #1 As of now, there is a reported WordPress vulnerability that affect almost all users across all versions. Best thing that you can do, is to update all your plugins, especially those which are listed such as Jetpack, WordPress SEO, Google Analytics by Yoast, All In one SEO, Gravity Forms, Broken-Link-Checker, and many more. Read More [ID Server] ID Server Upgrade - 24 April 2015 - 10 PM Singapore Time March 31, 2015 by Tech #1 In January 2015, xen-id1 server has been upgraded with the e3-1271v3 + LSI raid card. Xen-id2 customers will enjoy the upgrade as well. This will be part of the Tech Refresh that have been planned for this year and gonna be the last server to enjoy the upgrade. The upgrade from e3-1230v3 to e5-1650v3 with LSI 9271 raid card will bring much performance improvement. Read More [ID Server] FO cut for international connection - 28 Feb 2015 3PM SGT February 28, 2015 by Tech #1 At the moment, if you are located outside Indonesia and unable to access your website in Indonesia server, this is caused by the submarine fiber optic cut in Belitung. If you are located in Indonesia, you should not have any problems, but if you do, you can use telkom/nawala DNS to continue accessing your website in Indonesia server Read More Rebranding of bennykusman.com to SOSYS.NET February 19, 2015 by Tech #1 It's been close to 5 years that personal domain name was used as main hosting website. As planned for FY 15/16, SOSYS.NET will be used to serve the client area and eventually the main site with the new look. The company BRN remains the same, i.e 53169052X, and registered in Singapore as "BK Web Solutions". Read More Happy Lunar New Year! February 16, 2015 by Tech #1 As we look forward to the new year together, may the Year of the Goat bring you the best of health, wealth and prosperity. Read More [SG Server] SG Server Upgrade - 16 February 2015 - 8 PM Singapore Time January 20, 2015 by Tech #1 Beginning of this month, we just upgraded one of the Indonesia server to use latest technology. Next month, there will be exciting event again as Singapore server will be part of the Tech Refresh that have been planned for this year. E5-1650v3 with MegaRaid Nytro 200GB flash memory for hot spot caching, is the main highlight of this tech refresh! Once this completed, all our servers are using Intel V3 generation, which are latest by Intel. Read More Php/Mysql Upgrade across servers (PHP 5.4.xx) - Shared/Reseller Hosting Only. January 12, 2015 by Tech #1 As PHP 5.3.xx has reached end of life in 2014, and to prevent any security breaches, we will be upgrading php version across the server for shared and reseller hosting to PHP 5.4. More details on the scheduled migration is at this announcement thread. Read More Merry Christmas 2014 and Happy New Year 2015! December 16, 2014 by Tech #1 A special greeting at Christmas time to express to you our sincere appreciation for your confidence and loyalty. We are deeply thankful and extend to you our best wishes for a happy and healthy holiday season. Read More [ID Server] ID Server Upgrade - 10 January 2015 - 2PM Singapore Time December 4, 2014 by Tech #1 As part of our commitment to invest in better hardware, we are happy to upgrade Indonesia Server from e3-1230v2 cpu to e3-1271v3 intel cpu on 10 January 2015 at around 2PM Singapore time onwards. During this period, your access to the ID server (only shared & reseller hosting of Indonesia server + few customers of the VPS Indonesia) is affected. Downtime expected to be 1 - 2 hours. No change in the IP address Read More [ID Server] Distributed DOS Attacked in the network - 30 October 2014 - 6PM October 30, 2014 by Tech #1 We have been receiving updates from the ISP that currently there is a massive DDOS attack in the network targeting at the IP blocks and part of it, is affecting the Indonesia services that you may currently be hosted. Continuous updates will be provided in this page until the issue is resolved. Read More Happy Deepavali 2014 October 22, 2014 by Tech #1 The Festivals of Lights is here... And everything seems to sparkle and shine. BennyKusman.com wishes those who celebrate a very Happy, Prosperous and Safe Diwali! Read More Remotely Exploitable 'Bash Shell' September 25, 2014 by Tech #1 A Critical remotely exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in the widely used Linux and Unix command-line shell, known as Bash, aka the GNU Bourne Again Shell. An update to this vulnerability, CVE-2014-6271, has been released via the repo. If you are running CPanel, you do not have to worry. Read More Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1435 H July 23, 2014 by Tech #1 We wish to extend our warmth greetings to our clients who are celebrating this season! Selamat hari raya Idul Fitri, Mohon Maap Lahir dan Batin! Read More Currency Conversion update (IDR and MYR) and VPS SG new disk space July 6, 2014 by Tech #1 We have been trying to stick to old exchange rate (i.e 1 SGD = IDR 7000 & 1 SGD = MYR 2.4 ) for about a year, but we are sad to say that we can not hold this any more. New exchange rate of 1 SGD = IDR 8000 and 1 SGD = MYR 2.5 will be applied to the new orders only. Existing customer/products will remain at old pricing. Regardless, the exchange rate is still lower than the current rate.. This only applies for the customer paying in Indonesian Rupiah or Malaysian Ringgit. Singapore VPS packages are now upgraded with bigger disk space than before. The new server are equipped with raid card LSI and performs at greater iops. This only applies to the new order. Read More [US Server] LA Server Upgrade - 12 July 2014 - 1AM Singapore Time June 28, 2014 by Tech #1 As part of another improvement, we are happy to upgrade US LA server from e3-1240v3 cpu to e3-1276v3 intel cpu on 12 July 2014 - 1AM Singapore Time. During this period, your access to the US server (only LA based customers) is affected. Downtime expected to be 1 - 2 hours. No change in the IP address Read More [ID Server] Memory module replacement 19 May 2014 - 11PM Singapore Time May 19, 2014 by Tech #1 As we noticed "swap_free: Bad swap offset entry" in the log, and search through some references, we noticed that this might be caused by bad memory. As such, we have requested the DC to perform memory module replacement which will take place at 11PM singapore time. A separate email will be sent out to the clients who are affected. Read More Vesak 2014 May 9, 2014 by Tech #1 We wish you a Happy Vesak day. May this Vesak bring you peace and happiness. Read More Labour Day 2014 April 30, 2014 by Tech #1 Time to utilize "your day" to rest! Have a good rest and spend your time well with your loved ones! Read More [ID Server] Main switch replacement 28 April 2014 - 3AM Singapore Time April 27, 2014 by Tech #1 There will be emergency maintenance work for replacement of main switch which will affect customers (including shared. reseller, and VPS customers) in the Indonesia server (IDC Duren 3) for about 40 minutes. Read More OpenSSL HeartBleed Vulnerability for CentOS 6 users April 9, 2014 by Tech #1 The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. This has been an hot topic in the hosting industries as multiple attacks have been reported due to this. Heartbleed only affects RHEL 6, CentOS 6, and CloudLinux 6 and fix has been published in OpenSSL 1.0.1 RPM Read More Php/Mysql Upgrade across servers (PHP 5.4.26 and MySQL 5.5) March 15, 2014 by Tech #1 As MySQL 5.1 is end of life in 2013, and to prevent further mysql issue, we have decided to upgrade the MySQL to 5.5 and at the same use the latest recommended php by Cpanel i.e 5.4.26 across all the shared/reseller hosting clients Read More [US Server] Phoenix Node - Hdisk issue and require replacement February 11, 2014 by Tech #1 As of today, we just encountered that there is a hdisk checksum error on the raid. This is only affecting those customers on the Phoenix node. Even though the server is running fine, we cant take the risk if one day the raid fail and all the data will be corrupted. As such, a migration will be performed on the off peak on daily basis. Read More Gong Xi Fa Cai 2014 January 29, 2014 by Tech #1 We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy Lunar New Year 2014! and happy holidays too :) Read More Change of SolusVM Admin port January 18, 2014 by Tech #1 As of now, the SolusVM admin login is changed from http://master.sosys.net:5353 to http://master.sosys.net (without port number) Read More Varnish Cache is now configurable from your CPanel account! January 14, 2014 by Tech #1 As of now, new varnish has been installed with the latest (varnish 3.0.5) and also updated varnish plugin for the CPanel which comes with multiple benefits like enabling you to control your cache, memory allocation for varnish, http gun, and many more Read More Merry Christmas 2013 and Happy New Year 2014! December 23, 2013 by Tech #1 May the good times and treasures of the present Become the golden memories of tomorrow. Wish you lots of love, joy and happiness. MERRY CHRISTMAS 2013 and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 Read More [US Server] Phoenix Datacenter - Server Offline - 22 Nov 2013 November 22, 2013 by Tech #1 This is the full RFI on the issue that caused the server to be offline for several hours. It was due to power loss, wrong nic card loaded, and we have to manually set the network config. We truly sorry for the inconvenience caused. Read More [US Server] LA Datacenter Router Maintenance - 11 December 2013 - 3.59PM Singapore Time November 21, 2013 by Tech #1 Our network engineers will be upgrading our floor distribution routers to a newer code revision. We anticipate a 10 minute outage in each window assuming no complications arise. If we have any complications during this maintenance the outage duration may be increased. Read More [ID Server] 5 Nov 2013 - Server inaccesible - 1930 Singapore Time November 5, 2013 by Tech #1 As of now, we are aware that the connectivity to the server is lost for Indonesia server. We have made attempts for datacenter to check on this immediately. It took about 6 hours to resolve the matters. We deeply apologize for the inconvenience. Read More [US Server] Phoenix Server CPU Upgrade - 28 November 2013 - 1AM Singapore Time October 28, 2013 by Tech #1 As part of another improvement, we are happy to upgrade US Phoenix server from e3-1230 cpu to e3-1270v3 intel cpu on 28 November 2013 at 1AM Singapore Time. During this period, your access to the US server (only PHOENIX and Phoenix based customers) is affected. Downtime expected to be 1 - 2 hours. Read More WHMCS Exploit October 25, 2013 by Tech #1 It has come to our attention, that WHMCS has been compromised few times for the past few weeks. As such, we recommend our clients to shutdown their billing system as precautions. There is a new exploit which has been exposed 1 hour ago. Read More [SG Server] Speed boost of 100Mbps Network Speed dedicated October 23, 2013 by Tech #1 As we are gearing to improve user experience, we have upgraded our Singapore Server (including VPS service) network speed to 100Mbps. This is part of our commitment to improve the quality of the services being offered Read More [US Server] 18 Oct 2013 - Phoenix Server Network Issue - 3.30PM Singapore Time October 18, 2013 by Tech #1 As of now, we notice there are some network issue happening in one of our server in Phoenix. Please be informed that we are in touch with datacenter for RFI. Updates will be available on this thread. Read More [ID Server] 3 Aug 2013 - Intermittent International network issue August 3, 2013 by Tech #1 As of 3 Aug 2013 early morning, there have been multiple ups and downs in the international network connectivity. Our datacenter has been notified and working hard with the upstream on the issue. This issue does not affect the local connectivity (Indonesia network) Read More Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1434 H August 2, 2013 by Tech #1 We wish to extend our warmth greetings to our clients who are celebrating this season! Selamat hari raya Idul Fitri, Mohon Maap Lahir dan Batin! Read More [US Server] Xen-AZ server not responding - 28 July 2013 - 6.30AM July 28, 2013 by Tech #1 At 6.30AM, the server suddenly stopped and immediately the ticket is being reported to datacenter. The datacenter reported that the server is crashed without any reason and immediate reboot is performed. All services is up as of 8AM Read More [US Server] 27 July 2013 - 12PM Singapore Time - Jambi server migration July 22, 2013 by Tech #1 We would like to inform that on 27 July 2013 (Saturday) at 12PM Singapore Time, we will be performing server migration of jambi.bennykusman.com. This server migration is meant to upgrade the server into a newer box with latest Intel CPU, higher RAM, and latest MySql Read More New Service Offering: New datacenter in Los Angeles (US Server) July 16, 2013 by Tech #1 It's time to offer new type of hosting service, again! If you are looking for network optimized server in US, it's time to consider the new server offering. This server located in Quadranet datacenter, Los Angeles, whereby peering to many Asia countries in Asia like Hinet Taiwan, Globe Telecom, Jastel Thailand, China Telecom and many more. Read More [SG Server] Network issue at Singapore Server - 11 July 2013 July 11, 2013 by Tech #1 Currently, we are experiencing network issue at the singapore server. This only affect the main node and new IP address clients (as of 11 July 2013). If you are on 103.9.xx.xx ip address, you are not impacted. Service is fully restored as of 1.06PM Read More Temporary Disabled of VPS Master Panel [Enabled VPS Login Panel] June 18, 2013 by Tech #1 Our VPS Control Panel has been pulled offline due to a possible 0day exploit in SolusVM. This is a preventive measurement to keep safe your data in the VPS. It should last for few days until we got confirmation from SolusVM that the software is safe to use. Read More [US Server] 7 June 2013 - Switch Failure - 7.10pm Singapore Time June 7, 2013 by Tech #1 At 7.10pm, we noticed that the US servers are not accessible. We contacted directly with the datacenter and was notified that this is due to switch failure. Immediate action has been taken by the datacenter staff. This issue is affecting the customers on US servers only. Switch has been replaced and servers are up on 7.50pm and total downtime is 40 minutes. Read More Happy Vesak 2013 May 25, 2013 by Tech #1 We will like to take this opportunity to wish you Happy Vesak 2013! Read More [SG Server] 18 May 2013 - 12AM Singapore Time - Server Shared Hosting Upgrade May 13, 2013 by Tech #1 As part to improve the quality of the shared hosting service, we will be migrating our singapore server to a 24 core CPU xeon with higher capacity and Raid 10 SAS 15k rpm hardisk. As such, expected downtime between 2 to 3 hours during scheduled maintenance window. No change to the existing IP routing. Read More Labour Day 2013 May 1, 2013 by Tech #1 Time to utilize "your day" to rest! Have a good rest and spend your time well with your loved ones! Read More [SG Server] 11 May 2013 - 12 AM Singapore Time - Server Upgrade April 23, 2013 by Tech #1 As part to improve the quality of the hosting service, we will be migrating our singapore server to a 24 core CPU xeon with higher capacity and Raid 10 SAS 15k rpm hardisk. As such, expected downtime between 1 to 2 hours during scheduled maintenance window. No change to the existing IP routing. Read More Wordpress Hardening Guide April 14, 2013 by Tech #1 As I type these words, there is an on-going and highly-distributed, global attack on WordPress installations across virtually every web host in existence. This attack is well organized and again very, very distributed; we have seen over 90,000 IP addresses involved in this attack. Read More [ID Server] 20 April 2013 - 1200AM - RAM Upgrade April 8, 2013 by Tech #1 As part to improve the service, we are upgrading the RAM in Indonesia server located in IDC Duren 3. Expected the service will be interrupted from 12am up to 1am on 20th April 2013 as server needs to be rebooted and file system check will follow suit. Read More [ID Server] 11 March 2013 - 12.20pm - International Router Issue at Indonesia Server March 11, 2013 by Tech #1 At 12.20pm, we detected some routing issue for international connection in our server at IDC Duren Tiga. We immediately submit ticket to the datacenter and it was confirmed that there is router failure for international connection and immediate replacement was performed at around 4.30pm Read More PHP Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.3.x for all servers February 27, 2013 by Tech #1 As PHP 5.2 has been end-of-support (DEPRECATED) since January 2011, it's time to upgrade to newer PHP version of 5.3.x. We have PHP 5.3.x running in Indonesia server and most applications such as wordpress, joomla, drupal are running perfectly fine. As such, we will be performing PHP upgrade to 5.3 for phoenix, telin, and jambi server in the month of May 2013. Read More [SG Server] 9 Feb 2013 - 2AM Singapore Time - Network Issue February 9, 2013 by Tech #1 We detected multiple network failure for Singapore server via Pingdom monitoring tools from 2AM onwards. As such, we quickly check for any DDOS attack which does not appear to be. After multiple check, it was due to upstream provider in US which has fail routing. 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Every few months or so, once a certain cultural tipping point is hit, the porn industry decides to film themed parody porn in what could charitably be called a publicity stunt. Notable entrants in the genre include Who's Nailin' Paylin? (Sarah Palin), Cock of Duty (Call of Duty), and Oversnatch (Overwatch).
Each time a new one of these porn parodies is released and I get a press release in my inbox, I roll my eyes, think "not again," and blink a few times. In this case, the email was "A Rick and Morty Porn Parody? WoodRocket says Yes!" It'd be possible to ignore that this exists, but given this week's Szechuan sauce debacle and the general overall discussion about Rick and Morty online I thought that maybe some of you would like to know ... and so I, too, say "yes!"
It is with great regret that I present to you Dick and Morty:
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how to fix hevc video extension not working in windows 10 11 steps? - [Answer] 2022 Skip to content Main Menu Home App Website Game Google Mobile Bank PC Software Technology Home » how to fix hevc video extension not working in windows 10 11 steps? how to fix hevc video extension not working in windows 10 11 steps? Answer There is not a one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the steps required to fix hevc video extension not working in Windows 10 or 11 will vary depending on the specific issue. However, some basic troubleshooting steps that may help include verifying that the video codec is installed and enabled on your computer, checking for compatibility issues with other software and hardware, and performing a system scan to identify any potential problems. How to install HEVC video extension on windows 10 for Free||Fix hevc codec missing How To Get the Free HEVC Codec for Windows 10 / H.265 / HEVC Video Extensions Is HEVC better than HD? There are many different types of video codecs, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Some codecs are better than others when it comes to storage space, resolution, and video quality. Some people might say that HEVC is better than HD, because it has more features and can be used for a wider range of videos. However, there is still a lot of debate over which codec is best for you. How much is HEVC extension? The HEVC extension is a proposed new video compression standard that would offer greater efficiency and flexibility over the current H.264 standard. While there is no agreed upon definition of what features the HEVC extension would include, it is generally thought to include enhancements to image and video quality, as well as increased compression efficiency. There is no definitive timeline for when the HEVC extension might be finalized, and thus far there has been little public discussion or development on the topic. What is HEVC file format? 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Pueblo’s culture is getting the PBS treatment by showing off its art and culture.
This past June, ‘Travel & Music,’ a documentary series on PBS Music Voyager, stopped by Colorado to highlight sections of the state deemed culturally interesting. The show aims to “explore the most musically and artistically exciting cities in the world.”
Shown in over 120 countries and 94 percent of public broadcasting stations, Music Voyager is a “music and travel television program that gives viewers a backstage pass to the world’s most popular and exciting music.” Locally, it can be seen on Rocky Mountain PBS, which has a viewership of over 900,000 every week.
For a city that is slowly but surely trying to develop and embrace an arts community, the addition of Pueblo to the Music Voyager itinerary highlights the positive points of Pueblo that never seem to get out to the rest of the world.
The focus of the upcoming episode, which is set to air on Rocky Mountain PBS this summer, centers on Pueblo’s very own folk and traditional American roots band, The Haunted Windchimes, as a backdrop to tell the story of Pueblo.
“Music Voyager was a small crew of super professionals. They were relaxed, and as a result we felt relaxed,” said Haunted Windchimes guitarist Inaiah Lujan. “I appreciated their willingness to go outside the box with us to showcase more of the art hub and atmosphere Pueblo has to offer.”
The Pueblo installment of Music Voyager was filmed over the course of several days around various cultural hotspots in Pueblo. It highlights and uses The Haunted Windchimes as an olive branch from Pueblo to the world. The show also shines a light on a few other local artists, crafters, and business owners in town.
The show takes a tour through Pueblo businesses such as Solar Roast and DiTomaso. There’s also a sampling of beers at local brewpub Shamrock Brewery. Viewers will hear from Puebloans making an impact on the art scene such as silkscreen printer Mathias Valdez of LastLeaf Printing, graffiti artists from the Creatures Crew and Pueblo-transplant Gregory Howell of the Kadoya Gallery. Finally, viewers will experience Pueblo from above with aerial photographer John Wark.
Music Voyager on-air host, cultural musician and music critic Jacob Edgar said he was surprised by Pueblo.
“Personally, I was not sure what to think when I heard Music Voyager was coming to Pueblo. I knew very little about the city, and I certainly didn’t expect much,” Edgar said. “But I met so many warm, welcoming people who were so excited to show our crew around their community. The people of Pueblo clearly feel that the outside world doesn’t understand what a wonderful place their city is, and they were determined to show us what everyone is missing.”
Edgar had been told that Pueblo had been through a rough patch, but said he thinks it’s recovering gracefully. He added that he encountered a lot of pride from people about the city’s diversity, history, work ethics and unique personality.
The town’s pride is not misplaced, he said. “Pueblo is a surprising gem that hopefully more people will take the time to discover. I believe our Music Voyager episode will reveal Pueblo’s charms, and I expect our viewers to be inspired to check out Pueblo for themselves.”
B roll footage of Pueblo, which includes non-interview and non-performance portions, will be available for public use at the Rawlings Library in the archives at some point this summer.
To spotlight the episode release, the Pueblo Arts Alliance, in partnership with Memorial Hall, will be holding a national premiere event March 6.
The event offers a special screening of the PBS episode “Music Voyager, Sun City; Pueblo” along with live performances by The Haunted Windchimes, Okolitza Tamburitzans and Grupo Folklórico Del Pueblo, all hosted by 719 The Blocks podcast host and comedian Wade Ridley.
The event will be a celebration, said Pueblo Arts Alliance executive director Susan Fries.
“So many people have contributed that we’d like to make sure we celebrate,” Fries said. “Especially all the good things we do here (at the PAA). This is the first viewing of our community to much of the world.”
If the portrayal of Pueblo can be negative and focus too heavily on the unsavory aspects of the city, Fries hopes the episode will change people’s minds.
“That is why we have had such an outpouring of donations and sponsors for both the event and filming (last June),” she said.
Lujan echoed the thought.
“I can only hope our town will take pride in the fact that we are artists, designers, comedians and business owners of a community willing against the odds to work for our dreams,” he said.
With Pueblo’s problems of sustaining and growing music and other cultural bases, the future, after this show, may get the kickstart it needs.
“I think viewers, especially those who aren’t from Pueblo, will (hopefully) walk away with a nice glimpse of what Pueblo has to offer in the realm of each unique craft. Hard working people doing what they love endlessly, regardless of recognition,” Lujan said.
“My only regret is they couldn’t squeeze all of the awesomeness Pueblo has to offer into a 20 minute show.”
Tickets for the special premier of PBS Music Voyager, Sun City; Pueblo available at the Memorial Hall website. | positive |
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ArtVo in Harbour Town Docklands is an art gallery that has to be seen to be believed, although even when you do see it, you may not believe it!The first of its kind in Australia, ArtVo is a 3D interactive art gallery where you are the star of the artwork.Twelve Korean artists were commissioned to create the gallery, which boasts some 100 plus paintings throughout a 1950 square metre space on the first floor in Harbour Town, Docklands.The large scale artworks are presented in a way that allows you to interact and position yourself in a fun way to capture on your smartphone.All ages can enjoy the spectacle, which takes about an hour to walk through, more if you take your time on every single piece of art.Each room in ArtVo has a theme, starting with Classic Crescent, moving through to Fantasia, Jungle Safari, World Tour, Enchanted Garden, Aquatic Adventure, Australiana, Pharaoh's Treasures, Imagine, Aussie Pride and Dimensional Dreams.The artwork is painted in a way that is presents as an optical illusion; it is only when you view the piece of art through the lens of your smartphone camera, that you see the effect the painting has. Therefore, sometimes you can't quite believe it, until you see it through your camera lens!ArtVo is quite possibly the best recreational activity that has opened in Harbour Town, offering a completely unique gallery experience to Melburnians and visiting tourists.26 Star Cres, Level 1, District Docklands, Docklands VIC 300803 9600 1118Open 7 days a week:Sunday Thursday 10am 6pmFriday & Saturday 10am 11.30pmDiscounted entry if you have a Small Ideas book. | positive |
5,110 days. 728 weeks. 168 months. Yes, it has been 14 years since the Rams last winning season, a benchmark the 2017 squad achieved with last Sunday’s victory over the Arizona Cardinals. Rams Nation: exhale. With four games left, the best is yet to come.
For many, the quick turnaround under Sean McVay feels eerily similar to the about-face turn the 1999 Rams took on their way to a championship season. Fans had endured a disastrous decade, tied with Cincinnati for the losingest team of the 90s until the GSOT sprang seemingly from out of nowhere. For an entirely new generation of fans, this is foreign territory. When I found myself rooting for the Eagles against the Seahawks the other night, I was reminded via Twitter by this generation that I should set my sights higher: let’s shoot for more than NFC West champs and gun for the #2 seed. Call it PTSD, or a certain dazed disbelief, but yeah, 14 years is a long time – it’s hard to restore a man’s faith in just 12 games.
From 2003-2016, the Rams went 68-139-1, with just one playoff appearance in 2004, notably, a road game victory against the Seattle Seahawks. I was in attendance at that game, and little did my Dad and I know that Bulger to Cleeland in the waning moments would be our last taste of glory for an NFL eternity. When the final whistle blew (Bobby Engram drops a Hasselbeck pass, Rams win) we took off our Rams gear and put it in the backpack I’d brought along so that we might escape incognito and avoid the more “rowdy” 12th Men on our way out of the stadium. In retrospect, we should have savored that moment, braved the drunkards, and let the memory sink in.
Nine wins in the here and now are not enough to cause fans to forget. It is impossible to forgive Chuck Knox, Rich Brooks, Scott Linehan, Steve Spagnuolo or, least of all, Jeff Fisher. No, fans can’t even forgive Joe Vitt or Jim Haslett, and Mike Martz barely gets a pass for his sustained, but flawed success. Current success can’t undo the pain of 208 mostly forgettable Sundays with one remarkable bounce-back season.
Still:
“If you are depressed you are living in the past, if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu
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So let’s enjoy this, in the present, right? Yes, I’m anxious as hell for the Eagles game this Sunday. And yeah, I’ll once again be at the Seattle game with some rowdy regional Rams fans – and though Dad will be watching this one from the couch, I’ll be sure to live in the now and savor the moment, win or lose (although if the latter occurs, it’s likely we’ll be the ones to avoid leaving the stadium, not the other way around). A winning season is just the tip of the iceberg for this team, but right here, right now: it’s perfect just the way it is.
– W. Scott Wagner is a Staff Writer for Full Press Coverage Rams. He covers the Los Angeles Rams. Like and follow on Follow @hotdaddywags Follow @FPC_Rams and Facebook.
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One of the biggest questions facing both defendants and the RIAA in the record labels' legal campaign against P2P users is whether making a file available for download over a P2P network equates to distribution as defined under the Copyright Act. In a long-awaited ruling, a federal judge essentially validated the RIAA's position that having songs available in a KaZaA shared folder violates the distribution right under the Copyright Act.
The ruling came in response to Denise Barker's motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against her in 2005. In denying the motion to dismiss, Judge Kenneth M. Karas sided with the RIAA's contention that merely offering a song for distribution is sufficient to infringe on the record labels' distribution right. "Having a file in a shared folder is enough to violate the law," EFF staff attorney Fred von Lohmann told Ars. (The EFF had filed an amicus curiae brief in the case.)
What's significant about the decision in Elektra v. Barker is that it is one of only two or three cases where the judge has heard arguments, been fully briefed, and asked to rule on this particular issue. There have been a handful of other rulings on the issue, but Judge Karas' ruling "represents the most extensive and serious treatment" of the issue, according to von Lohmann.
In his decision, Judge Karas focused on the "publication" right enumerated in the Copyright Act. "However, while the statute does not define 'distribute' or 'distribution,' it does define the term 'publication,'" wrote the judge in his decision. "The question before the Court, therefore, is whether the Court should look to the definition of the word 'publication' to construe the meaning of the term 'distribute' in Section 106(3) of the Copyright Act."
His conclusion is that Congress considered the two terms to be synonymous when it enacted the Copyright Act. "Although Plaintiffs have not adequately alleged that Defendant 'offer[ed] to distribute [Plaintiffs' copyrighted works]... for the purposes of further distribution,' Defendant's Motion still fails because Plaintiffs have adequately alleged that, in addition to making Plaintiffs' works available, Defendant distributed Plaintiffs' copyrighted works."
So even if the RIAA can't argue that making music in a shared P2P folder available is distribution, it does mean that the labels can allege that dropping songs into a KaZaA share is making an offer to distribute.
Von Lohmann called the decision well-reasoned, but unfortunate. "I understand how the court went wrong and the unfortunate result," he told Ars. "And he admits that his decision is not without disagreement; he understands the contours of the issue. But clearly, he really engaged the subject and read all of the law."
Ray Beckerman, who is representing Barker, called the ruling a mixed bag. "We're gratified to see the court reject the making available theory and disappointed to see that he didn't throw out the case altogether," he told Ars. "I think the ruling had some positive aspects to it and was also flawed." (Beckerman broke the story and the decision is available from his site.)
The RIAA is pleased with the ruling. "As we expected, the court rejected the defendant’s motion to dismiss and is allowing this case to proceed," RIAA spokesperson Cara Duckworth told Ars. "The court also agreed with the record companies that merely offering to distribute copies for the purposes of further distribution—even without an actual dissemination—can violate the distribution right."
There's at least one other case where a judge is expected to rule on the making available issue. The RIAA has a motion for summary judgment pending in Atlantic v. Howell, which was filed in 2006 and the EFF filed a brief opposing the RIAA's position in that case in January, with von Lohmann arguing the EFF's position in early March.
In the short term, today's ruling nudges Elektra v. Barker closer to a trial, unless she decides to settle or the RIAA drops its case for some unforeseen reason. Longer-term, von Lohmann sees some real problems arising from Judge Karas' decision. "I think the problem here is that it greases the wheels of the RIAA's litigation machine," von Lohmann said. "The RIAA's goal is to get from complaint to judgment as quickly as possible. So far the evidence that they have been able to cheaply amass is the shared folder, and if that's all you need to prove copyright infringement, then it's very, very easy for the RIAA to generate victories against large numbers of people." | positive |
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Klatt I still get it every once in a while if I run into a person who was familiar with it, they’ll call me “The Triplet.” I think it was kind of a disservice to [the Sedins]. But it didn’t bother me. I kinda liked it. I’m just honoured to be able to say that I played with them.
Naslund If you look at the pattern of the guys who have played with them regularly, they’ve had career years with Henrik and Daniel.
Smolinski Being on a team with them makes you a better player. It’s a great feeling to be on their wing because you’re playing with some world-class players. You have to raise your game to do that. You have to do some things that you normally don’t do, and you have to be able to do it. I was just happy to, at one point, be their teammate.
Jensen You get comfortable; you get confidence, too. That’s a big thing in hockey, and when I played with them, that was what I felt. Just playing with them gives you momentum.
Dalpe It was weird. Once I got on their line, this confidence came out of me that I hadn’t seen really in my NHL career. I was like, Oh, this is what it feels like to be confident with the puck. [Laughs.] I don’t know where I found it, but I kinda had a bit of swagger. I was surprising myself. I’m not saying I’m a bad hockey player now, but definitely during those games, I felt like I was a little more skilled.
King The twins were definitely the major factor in me receiving [rookie of the month in November 2003]. It was probably the biggest highlight of my career. There’s no question I have high praise for them, because without playing with those guys and the talent they had, and the chemistry we had on our line, there’s no way I would have accomplished that.
Dalpe I don’t want to offend my brother — I used to play with him back in the day — but when it comes down to it, those guys have been the best I’ve ever had the privilege of being on a line with. I can say I scored a goal assisted by Daniel and Hank. I’m definitely gonna be bragging about it.
Linden We’ll never see anything like this again.
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Ladies, your hands are a zoo. Sampling the bacterial DNA on human skin has revealed that while women’s hands get washed more often than men’s, they teem with a more diverse selection of germs.
What’s more, the average person’s hands probably carry at least 3000 different bacteria belonging to more than 100 species. This startling cornucopia may make it possible to tell which objects have been touched by someone, just by looking at the bacteria left behind.
Noah Fierer and colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the US swabbed the palms of 51 undergraduates coming out of an exam. They then used the PCR technique to amplify the bacterial DNA present, and sequenced the genetic material using a high-throughput method called pyrosequencing.
Previous surveys of skin bacteria involve growing the result of such swabs in culture, but many species were missed as not all the bacteria sampled grew. The new method caught 332,000 genetically distinct bacteria belonging to 4742 different species – a hundredfold increase on previous studies. Each student carried on average 3200 bacteria from 150 species on their hands.
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Germ fingerprints
Everyone’s bacterial “fingerprint” was unique. All students carried known skin denizens such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcus and Lactobacillus, but 45% of the species were rare. Only five species were found on all the students’ hands, while any two hands – even belonging to the same person – had only 13% of their bacterial species in common. Certain bacteria were more frequent on the dominant hand (right for a right-hander), others on the non-dominant hand.
Unexpectedly, women had different bacteria from men and significantly more kinds, even though women reported washing hands more often; bacterial diversity needs time to recover when hands are washed. In a follow-up experiment, the team tracked eight people after they washed their hands. Some bacteria preferred clean hands, other types showed up much later, but men always had fewer types of bacteria on their hands.
“We were pretty surprised to see such clear differences between men and women,” says Fierer. “We don’t know the causes.” Differences in sweat and sebum production, hormones and even the use of cosmetics might be involved, but it could simply be that men’s skin is more acid – acid environments tend to have less microbial diversity.
This unexpected wealth of germs could pose problems for the Human Microbiome Project, launched last year with the aim of determining how our microbial fellow-travellers contribute to disease. “It will be difficult to associate changes in skin bacterial communities with skin disease,” says Fierer, “because the background variability among healthy individuals is so large.”
On the other hand, he says, this may make it possible to identify objects touched by a certain individual just by looking at the selection of bacteria they leave on it.
Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807920105) | positive |
Publications | Antonio Franchi Skip to main content Main menu Home Bio Research Projects Publications Talks Group and Collaborators Open Positions News Videos Pictures Software Antonio Franchi PhD, HDR, Full Professor at Univ. of Twente; Assoc. Researcher at LAAS-CNRS Publications Export 5 results: BibTeX Author Keyword Type Year Filters: Author is Andrea Testa [Clear All Filters] 2016 M. Tognon, Testa, A., Rossi, E., and Franchi, A., “Takeoff and Landing on Slopes via Inclined Hovering with a Tethered Aerial Robot”, in 2016 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Daejeon, South Korea, 2016, pp. 1702-1707. Google Scholar BibTeX preprint-pdf (974.21 KB) video (28.46 MB) Latest News Best UAV paper award at IEEE ICRA 2021 Finalist 47th Most Influential Robotic Scholar for the decade 20... PhD Position in Robust and Control-Aware Motion Plannin... Other News 09/03/2020 Markus Ryll professor at TU-Munich 07/04/2020 New Book on Aerial Robots in Physical Interaction Throu... 03/14/2020 Special Issue on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems 10/17/2019 Robotics National French PhD Award to Marco Tognon 10/10/2019 YABP Award IEEE I-RAS 2019 Finalist Giulia Michieletto 05/24/2019 Best PhD 2019 Award Aerospace Valley to Marco Tognon 03/15/2019 Five papers at ICRA 2019 12/22/2018 Two papers in the Dec-2018 IEEE RAM Special Issue on Ro... 01/26/2018 Award Recipient, 2018 IEEE RAS Most Active Technical Co... 01/14/2018 Seven papers accepted in total for ICRA 2018 / RA-L 1 of 4 next › more Latest Publications 2023 , Ency.Rob. , Multi-directional Thrust Aerial Rotor Vehicles 2023 , Ency.Rob. , Cooperative Manipulation 2022 , IEEE RAL , Indirect Force Control of a Cable-suspended Aerial Multi-Robot Manipulator 2022 , IEEE ICRA , Toward Physical Human-Robot Interaction Control with Aerial Manipulators: Compliance, Redundancy... 2022 , IEEE RAL , Motor-level N-MPC for Cooperative Active Perception with Multiple Heterogeneous UAVs 2021 , IEEE ICUAS , Hierarchical Control of Redundant Aerial Manipulators with Enhanced Field of View 2021 , IEEE AIRPH , A General Control Architecture for Visual Servoing and Physical Interaction Tasks for Fully-... 2021 , IEEE AIRPH , Understanding the Omnidirectional Capability of a Generic Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicle 2021 , IEEE RAL , Motor and Perception Constrained NMPC for Torque-controlled Generic Aerial Vehicles 2021 , IEEE RAL , A Novel Robust Hexarotor Capable of Static Hovering in Presence of Propeller Failure more Related websites Max Planck Institute website Cyberneum LAAS youtube channel MPI youtube channel La Sapienza youtube channel La Sapienza robotics lab Google scholar citations Twitter Follow @af_robotyk Projects EU H2020 Aerial-CORE ANR JCJC MuRoPhen ANR The Flying Coworker Past Projects LAAS-CNRS MBZIRC 2020 FlyCrane EU H2020 AEROARMS FIRE-RS EU H2020 ARCAS Research Topics Aerial Physical Interaction Aerial Robotics Bilateral Shared Control of Mobile Robots Calibration of ground robots Connectivity maintenance Cooperative Mobile Manipulation Exploration Leader selection Localization of aerial robots Localization of ground robots Middleware for robotics Motion control of multiple robots Motion control of robots Optimal Trajectory Planning Patrolling / Surveillance Psychophysical evaluation of haptic feedback Pursuit-evasion / Clearing Rigidity and rigidity mainenance Simulators for robotics Tethered Aerial Robots UAV hardware platforms more Latest Videos Do not forget to watch also the videos attached to my publications! Truly Redundant Aerial Manipulator for Push and Sl... Fundamental Actuation Properties of Multi-rotors:... OTHex: the first Flying Assistant with Multi-direc... TiltHex: 6D Geometric Control on SE3 Fully Actuate... MAGMaS: Multiple Aerial-Ground Manipulator System Dynamic Decentralized Control for Protocentric Aer... Static Hovering Analysis and Control and Applicati... 6D Physical Interaction with a Fully Actuated Aeri... Multi-target Exploration with Connected Multiple R... Protocentric Aerial Manipulators: Differential Fla... FAST-Hex: a Fully–Actuated by Synchronized–Tilting... Landing/Takeoff with a Tethered Quadrotor via Incl... more Latest Pictures Robotics Group at MPI for... Conferences 2012 Conferences 2011 Robotics Group at MPI for... Shared Control of Multipl... | negative |
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India plans to seek an explanation from Philip Morris International Inc about its marketing practices after Reuters reported that the tobacco giant used tactics that government officials say flout the country’s law, a health ministry official said on Friday.
A packet of Marlboro cigarettes made by Philip Morris are pictured in this photo illustration July 3, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Reed/Illustration
Philip Morris advertises Marlboro cigarettes, the world’s best-selling brand, at tobacco shops in India and distributes free smokes at nightclubs and bars frequented by young people to promote the brand, Reuters reported earlier this week.
The strategy is laid out in hundreds of pages of internal documents reviewed by Reuters that cover the period from 2009 to 2016. (reut.rs/2uuye5Y)
Indian government officials previously have said these marketing activities violate the country’s Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act and its accompanying rules, but companies get away with it because enforcement is weak.
The government now plans to write letters to Philip Morris’ India unit as well as other tobacco companies and take “action as per law”, said Arun Kumar Jha, a federal health ministry official who oversees tobacco control in the country.
Jha added that the ministry will also ask states to take action against advertisements that violate regulations.
“Our basic objective is to reduce deaths caused by tobacco,” Jha told Reuters.
Philip Morris previously described its advertising as “compliant with Indian law”. It did not respond to a request for comment on Friday.
India has about 100 million smokers. Of those, about two-thirds smoke traditional hand-rolled cigarettes, government data showed. Tobacco use kills more than 900,000 people a year in the country.
The cigarette industry is dominated by ITC Ltd, which also uses some of the same marketing tactics, such as advertising at kiosks, Reuters had found.
ITC has said it complies with Indian regulations. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment late on Friday. | positive |
Academic Elites of Ebiraland Pays Tribute to Prof. S.O.E. Sadiku - :: Kogi Reports :: Academic Elites of Ebiraland Pays Tribute to Prof. S.O.E. 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Sadiku News Academic Elites of Ebiraland Pays Tribute to Prof. S.O.E. Sadiku By adminMay 08, 2017, 00:00 am 456 0 Subscribe Here Spread the love Tweet According to Robin. S. Shram, leadership is not all about a title or a designation, its about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and zeal to inspire team mates and customers. The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been (Henry Kissinger). I think the above sayings were referring to this dignity from our own bosom in the person of Professor Suleiman Omeiza Eku Sadiku. He is a native of Okene L.G.A, the headquarter of Ebiraland in Kogi State. He was born in September 25th, 1962. A true Ebira man and a manifestation of his origination. He is the manifestation of the popular saying “good name is better than riches “. He is a true representative of Academic Elites having used his academic experience to solve so many societal problems. He sailed through an ocean of academic excellence throughout his life. His competence and capability has positioned him as an achiever, great manager, celebrity, administrator and lots more. Having completed his primary and secondary school education in early 80’s, he proceeded to the prestigious University of Benin (UNIBEN),Benin city where he obtained his B.Sc in Fisheries in 1985. He graduated as one of the outstanding students of the university through his intelligence and brilliancy. These led to his beneficiary of the federal government scholarship for master’s program which took him to Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria. He obtained his M.Sc in fisheries at ABU Zaria in 1988. Setting his own clear picture through hardwork, he was awarded common wealth scholarship award for doctorate programme in United Kingdom. He obtained Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the institution of Aquaculture, University of Stirling in 1995. His passion for learning and hardworking led to his current position as a Professor of Aqualture, Fishery and Zoology. He took a lecturing job in late 80’s at Federal University of Technology(FUT), Minna, Niger State as a motivation to impact a positive value in the life of the youths. Being a proficient manager and having found worthy of great credibility, he was appointed as the Head of Department (H.O.D), Department of Water Reaout, Aquaculture and Fisheries Technology, FUT Minna from 1998-2002. During this period of service, his eloquence credibility bagged in another portfoli0 to his personality. He was appointed as external examiner at B.Tech and M.Tech levels, Federal University of Agriculture, Markurdi from 1999-2002 and international adjudicators to Ph.D programme of the aquaculture research unit, Vidyasaga University west Bengal India between 2001and 2002. In 2001, he was called to spearhead a national department due to his trustworthiness. He was Elected Chairman of zebra government review panels on (Environment Impact Assessment) meetings of Federal Ministry of Environment; consultant to Federal Ministry of Environment on ecology. In 2004, due to the trademark left on the department while piloting her affairs, he was called again to serve as the H.O.D of the department water resources aquaculture and fisheries technology in FUT Minna. His tremendous leadership skill projected the department towards academic excellence before he descended the throne in 2006. These his outstanding achievements drew the attention of the nation to called him again in duty as he was appointed FAO consultant ash feed specialist to the Aquaculture and Inland Fisheries Project(AIFP) of the National Special Programme for Food Security from 2004-2005. The personality of this great academic elite had become a magnetic asset to institutions. He was made an administrative head from 2006-2007 as the Deputy Director, Center for Climate and Fresh Water Resources, FUT Minna and as tge Director of the Academic Planning Unit in FUT Minna from 2007-2012. Also, external examiner for Ph.D biological science department In University of Abuja in 2007, several NUC accreditation teams on agriculture discipline in 2008, external examiner for Ph.D fisheries programme of Department of Fisheries and Wildlife FUT Akure in 2011 and, chairman and member National Universities Commission (NUC) in 2011. His effort and hardworking had brought alot of goody bags to his name. International Foundation for Science (ITF) research grant award from 1997-1999, research travel grant award of the fisheries society of the British Isles in 1995, National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) merit award of Kano State in 1986, awarded NUC research and development (R&D) fair certificate for outstanding research products in exhibition 2004. NUC R&D fair awards for research products exhibition in 2005, 2012 and 2016, and other outstanding awards merited to his name. For his contributions in academic atmosphere, he had supervised and co-supervised more than twenty (20) Ph.D students, masters student and bachelor students over the years. He has also published in more than 80 journals locally and internationally. As there is always a reward for hardworking, he was appointed first as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) Administration of FUT Minna in 2013 and re-appointed again in 2015. This was an assignment which head have brought alot of achievements to the University within and outside the country. Over the years, we realized that the principles and essence of life are not learnt from a book but from an encyclopedia that walks and talks. I think Professor S.O.E Sadiku is a walking encyclopedia that we have learnt from as a youth. His actions and principles of life have made a positive impact on the lives of the youths in all ramifications. He is a father not only to his children but a father for all. As a source of inspiration to youths toward building a successful life, he did not only inspire by words but through actions and incentives. He initiated an award called “APAPA AWARD” for 100level Ebira Students in FUT Minna with a reasonable and impressive CGPA. This have been a source of motivation for our youths towards academic excellence. This award has brought alot of developments to the students as the prey of 1.5CGPA monsters have reduced to the lowest minimal among Ebira Students in the institution. One of the personality used by psychologist to evaluate an individual to be a great leader is openness. Professor S.O.E Sadiku passed this test of psychological evaluation. He is an open minded person that is open to everyone irrespective of age, tribe, religion and status. He is very accessible despite his position and status in the country. Another wonderful quality about this great personality is that he is a person who strong believe on the power of unity. I remembered his words last year in his office while speaking on the under-development of Ebiraland, Even the weakest became strong when they are united “. He was one of the instruments that unite Ebiras under one umbrella in FUT Minna and Niger State at large. During Ebira day celebration at Minna in 2016, he was described as the custodian of Ebira Peoples Association (EPA), Niger State chapter. He have proposed the unification of all the Ebiras (tao, toto, koto etc) under one head as Ebira Kingdom in his article on the benefit of Unity (letter from ISA through ESA to NAES). He is also the pillar and life breath of several associations like NAKOSS, NAES, AEE etc. On his just concluded assignment as the DVC admin of FUT Minna, we say farewell to our father who has revealed the secret of success to us. He showed us that success lies on simple things like hardworking and perseverance. You made us realized that the true treasure of life lies not on accumulation of wealth but integrity and ability to affect the life of others positively. A great teacher is not necessarily a great mentor, a great mentor is not necessarily a great leader, a great leader is not necessarily a great teacher but Prof S.OE Sadiku bagged all these qualities into one as a great teacher, a great mentor and a great leader. 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Almost a dozen Melbourne jewellery stores have been robbed in brazen smash and grab heists in the past nine months and police say they are liaising with jewellers to help them beef up security.
In the latest robbery, four men armed with crowbars and other weapons smashed up and robbed Jafari Jewellery on Burke Road in Malvern just before noon on Thursday.
The owner was forced to flee as the men filled their bags before running to a getaway car carrying trays of jewels.
"We need some safety. We work very hard," Mohammed Jafari told 3AW on Thursday.
"Everything is smashed. There were four people inside, big men, all of them."
Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Robert Hill said he understands business owners and the community are concerned.
"These incidents are the subject to thorough, ongoing investigations and police have already charged over 30 people in relation to this offending in the past 12 months," Mr Hill said.
Police have been speaking with store owners about how they can adopt a number of crime prevention measures.
The Malvern robbery follows a smash and grab at Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre on Wednesday in which axe wielding robbers smashed up the store.
There have been over a dozen jewellery store robberies across Melbourne in past 10 months, with shops targeted in Toorak, Elsternwick, Reservoir, Coburg, South Yarra, Canterbury, Lalor and the CBD.
Some stores, including H&H jewellery in Elsternwick, have been hit multiple times.
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Terrorists are constantly seeking to exploit immigration systems to enter the United States and the refugee stream is particularly vulnerable, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by Congress.
“[The] Refugee Program is particularly vulnerable to fraud due to loose evidentiary requirements where at times the testimony of an applicant alone is sufficient for approval,” the ICE document reads.
“As a result, a range of bad actors, who use manufactured histories, biographies and other false statements, as well as produce and submit fictitious supporting documentation, have exploited this program,” it adds.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz made the details of the memo public Thursday in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
In their letter, the committee chairmen expressed concerns about the Obama Administration’s plan to raise refugee admissions to 110,000 in FY 2017 and increase the number of Syrian refugees admitted to the United State beyond the 13,000 admitted this fiscal year.
“The President’s decision to increase overall refugee resettlement-and specifically that of Syrian refugees-ignores warnings from his own national security officials that Syrians cannot be adequately vetted to ensure terrorists are not admitted,” the pair wrote. “Revelations about fraud, security gaps, and lack of oversight have demonstrated that the program is creating national security risks.”
Of particular concern and their reason for writing to Johnson, they explained, is that the internal ICE document their committees obtained “confirms those serious concerns.”
Goodlatte and Chaffetz’s letter offers key excerpts from the ICE memo including:
– The Immigration System is a constant target for exploitation by individuals who seek to enter the United States and who are otherwise ineligible for entry based on security grounds. The Refugee Program is one such avenue in which ineligible aliens seek to enter by fraud. -In many instances, the applicant for a benefit (including both asylum and refugee status) receives a government issued document that contains the biographic information that the applicant supplied. This document can be used for many things, such as obtaining a driver’s license. -Identity fraud can be prevalent in the refugee process. The uniform processing of refugees by the Dep (DHS) offices takes places in foreign refugee camps. Typically, these camps have been established outside of war zones and many have open access, thereby allowing individuals to infiltrate and purchase the identities of those individuals already in the process. – Refugee fraud is easy to commit, yet not easy to investigate [because] [r]efugee laws purposefully contain relaxed evidentiary requirements . . . , Refugee applications do not require sponsorship of a third party, such as a relative or employer, [and] Refugee claims are typically made in areas of the world where it is difficult to investigate the veracity of the claim.
Goodlatte and Chaffetz demanded to know if the internal memo was considered while the administration was deciding to lift the refugee cap by 30 percent, when Johnson received the memo, if it has been shared with other agencies, and how the department plans to address the apparent security gaps. They requested an answer to their questions by Oct. 4, 2016. | positive |
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Travis Jeffery is a software developer who's been using a database system called FoundationDB for a project at his startup. Earlier this week, he noticed that the software had been pulled from the web. He soon received a terse email confirming that the software had been taken down intentionally, but little else. "We have made the decision to evolve our company mission," it read. "And as of today, we will no longer offer downloads."
Hours later, TechCrunch reported that FoundationDB had been acquired by Apple. Neither company has responded to our request for confirmation, and FoundationDB hasn't updated its Twitter account since Monday. The only public acknowledgement the company has made of any changes came is a notice posted to the company's support site featuring the same text that Jeffery received by email. He still hasn't heard anything else from the company.
FoundationDB's apparent shutdown won't ruin Jeffery or his company. Other FoundationDB users might not be so lucky, however, if support for the technology really is being tanked. Sure, they can still use the copies of FoundationDB they've already downloaded and installed. But there won't be a company providing support, updating the database to work with newer operating systems, or providing security patches.
FoundationDB's story isn't a new one. Instead, it's yet another a cautionary tale about putting too much faith in unproven companies offering proprietary software that could go away at any time—especially when a behemoth like Apple swoops in to buy it up. Often, such acquisitions are purely to hire new talent or integrate a startup's technology into a new or existing product. In FoundationDB's case, it's unlikely that Apple wants to get into the business of selling enterprise database software.
That leaves companies that depended on that software out of luck. And when startups suffer, so does innovation.
No Foundation
Like other NoSQL databases, FoundationDB offered a way to build databases that spanned hundreds or thousands of different servers, often housed in geographically distant data centers. That's fine for many applications, such as messaging. It's not a big deal if the occasional message accidentally gets delivered twice, especially if it's only apparent for less than a second. But for other applications, such as financial systems, any discrepancy is a huge problem. You just can't debit a customers bank account twice for the same transaction. FoundationDB promised a way to provide scalability without sacrificing performance – a truly rare combination of features.
It's not clear why Apple would have acquired the company, but there are several possibilities. It might want to use FoundationDB's technology to power its own web infrastructure, which ranges from iCloud to the AppStore to its mobile advertising service. Or it could just be acquiring the company in order to have its employees build new infrastructure for Apple to use internally. Or, perhaps, it's both.
Had FoundationDB been open source, the community could have picked up where the parent company left off.
In the meantime, nothing is certain for FoundationDB's existing customers. It's conceivable that it could become part of the company's developer tool offerings, or be open sourced at a later date. But in all likelihood the project is dead.
We've seen a number of similar situations in recent years. For example, cloud storage company Nirvanix which provided storage services for IBM's cloud service, shut down in 2013, giving customers just two weeks to migrate their data.
Open Source's Saving Grace
Former FoundationDB users will now have to choose between either continuing to use a piece of software that won't be supported and won't receive any security updates, and migrating to a new database. That won't necessarily be easy since there are so few databases that work like FoundationDB. Had FoundationDB been open source, the community could have picked up where the parent company left off. There are examples of this happening elsewhere.
For example, a company called Couchio (later called CouchOne) was founded in 2009 to provide support for the open source database Apache CouchDB. In 2011, the company merged with Membase, another open source database company. The new company called itself Couchbase, and set to work created a new database that combined elements of both projects. A few months later, Couchbase announced that it would stop contributing to the original CouchDB project altogether.
Had CouchDB been a proprietary product, that would have been the end of it. Developers and companies who used CouchDB to power their software would have no choice but to either use an unsupported piece of software or migrate to the new Couchbase database. But since CouchDB was open source, other developers were able to continue its development.
There's no guarantee that FoundationDB ever would have had the level of community involvement to make that happen, but by developing its product as a primarily closed-source system, it never even had the chance to build an outside community of developers to maintain it.
Regardless, Apple and FoundationDB could have handled the acquisition with more grace. Even though Jeffery's company wasn't using FoundationDB for anything critical, having to replace the system is still a pain. "We're excited for them, and as users of Apple products, we look forward to seeing how Apple makes use of their technology and talent," Jeffery says. "That said, we would have appreciated some more notice."
Jeffery might not be bitter, but any users who were more invested in FoundationDB are probably feeling less forgiving right about now. | positive |
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Jesus, the One who has changed more lives than anyone else who ever walk on the earth, including mine. After reading, be sure to play the video at the bottom. May God bless you all. – Joe Burgess ————————————— Today is Easter and celebrated many ways throughout Monticello. Children enjoy the candy received from new-found Easter eggs. Spiral ham, mashed potatoes and fresh rolls are served at many family gatherings. Much of this happens after a time of reflection and celebration at one of the 50+ Christian churches in the area. The Holy One that is celebrated on this holiday isn’t a local, but Jesus Christ is found in the hearts of many Monticellonians. This is His story. Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, Israel. Roman historians subsequently used the birth of Jesus as the dividing line of history using A.D. (Anno Domini, which is Latin for “the year of our Lord”) to mark the coming of Christ. Jesus was born into humble circumstances. His mother’s name was Mary who was of the Israelite tribe of Judah. At best, the circumstances of his birth were complicated. Mary was engaged to marry Joseph, also of the tribe of Judah. Joseph could trace his lineage back to Abraham. Jewish lineage and ancestry was sacred to the Israelites. However, before they were married, Mary confessed to Joseph that she was pregnant but claimed that the pregnancy was a result of news she had received from an angelic messenger. (more…) Posted in Feature: OML, Site | 8 Comments » One Monticello Life: Sgt. Larry Smith Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Sgt. Larry Smith, Sr. Criminal Investigator Monticello Police Department I have known Larry Smith for several years, but never really spent much time around him, until my wife’s truck was broken into a couple of years ago, and he worked the case. When I started covering the Police Dept. for MonticelloLive, I began to consider Larry to be a good friend. I, like so many others was shocked to here about Larry’s battle with cancer. There are a couple of links below that will take you to the story about the wristbands that local police officers are selling, information about the cook-out to help cover Larry’s medical expenses on April 11 & 12, and photos from Larry’s recent plane ride over Lake Monticello. But first, here is this week’s One Monticello Life edition, written by Larry’s longtime, family friend, Trish Harvey. (more…) Posted in Feature: OML | 13 Comments » One Monticello Life: Kasey Earl Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Usually, One Monticello Life is done in an interview type format, but this week will be a little different. Someone suggested that we feature Kasey Earl a couple of months ago. When I heard that he was playing at “the Coffee Bean” Friday and last night, I had to go. It was great. But that’s not all. Kasey is also the drummer for Gary Meggs & Ezekiel 3:18, who will be featured in the “Branson Comes to Monticello” event tonight. It’s been a busy week for Kasey Earl, this week’s One Monticello Life. This weeks edition may be in a different format, but I think you will be blessed by learning more about Kasey Earl. When I asked Kasey to tell me about himself, and how he got to where the Lord has led him today, he sumed it up this way…… (more…) Posted in Feature: OML | 3 Comments » One Monticello Life: Linda Caldwell Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 Most people in Monticello know Linda Caldwell. Linda has gone from being the “Mud Hut Lady”, to being “the Lady at Curves”, with a couple more “the ladies at…….” along the way. (more…) Posted in Feature: OML | 13 Comments » One Monticello Life: Lyle Welch, Southeast Emergency Services Sunday, January 20th, 2008 On May 12, 2006, Southeast Emergency Services began operation, serving Monticello and Drew County with ambulance service. SEEMS is owned and operated by Lyle Welch. He also is a Paramedic. Lyle was born, raised, and graduated High School at Arkadelphia. Lyle attended Henderson State University and became a paramedic on February 21, 1996. He had taken an EMT class, since he was a member of the local Volunteer Fire Department. The instructor complimented his work in class, and encouraged Lyle to enroll in the upcoming Paramedic class, that was being taught. Lyle did, and has been a Paramedic for 12 years now. Lyle started his EMS career here in Monticello on April 1, 1996 and has been here working on an ambulance in Monticello ever since, with the exception of 6 months he was at MEMS in Little Rock. He is married to Kim Fenton Welch. They have four children: Shea Welch, who is planning on starting her junior year of college at the University of Arkansas in the fall. Tyler Welch, an upcoming basketball star at Emmit High School. Kayla Fenton who attends Monticello schools. Jordan Welch, the youngest of the four. Lyle and his family attend Serenity Baptist Church. His hobbies include hunting, fishing, and remote control model airplanes. Lyle is show above with “A.C.”, who arrived at the office a couple of days after SEEMS opened. Lyle said, “A.C. adopted us. Not the other way around.” Lyle’s favorites include: Restaurant-Young’s on Thursday, “It’s chicken and dumplin’ day.” TV show-M*A*S*H. Movie-Days of Thunder. Actor-Clint Eastwood. Music-Classic country and today’s rock. Sometimes “disco” on XM. Song-Long, Black Train. Sports team-Excluding Billies, Pirates, Hogs, & Weevils-Dallas Cowboys & St. Louis Cardinals. Favorite book-A Look At Life From A Deer-stand, by Steve Chapman. Lyle Welch and SEEMS, another “person behind the scenes” that keeps Monticello going strong. Click here to go to Southeast Emergency Services’ website. It’ll give you information on what are classified as “emergencies”, as well as info about their services. Lyle Welch, thanks for sharing your One Monticello Life. Click here to see the One Monticello Life archives. Posted in Feature: OML | 9 Comments » One Monticello Life: Darrell & Lee Ann McDaniel Family Sunday, January 6th, 2008 As i was selecting a good subject for this weeks edition, I realized that there is a family of 5, that will be starting back to school tomorrow, in fact 5 different schools. That would be the Darrell & Lee Ann McDaniel family. Darrell & Lee Ann have been married for 25 years, as of last September. The family is very active in Northside Baptist Church, where Darrell was brought up, and where Lee Ann began attending, when she and Darrell got married. Darrell was born in Heber Springs, and moved to Monticello in the 5th grade. Lee Ann was raised in Arkadelphia, until the 8th grade, when her family also moved to Monticello. Monday morning, when all of Monticello and Drew Central schools start their 2008 school years, the McDaniels will also go back to school. All 5 of them, each going to a different school. Darrell is an instructor at the Occupational Education Center (vocational technical school) for the Monticello School District. Actually he’ll be teaching the same “Metal Trades” class that he took, when he was attending vo-tech. Darrell took what he learned in that class, and spent over 20 years working at Burlington as a machinist, before coming full circle back to teaching. Lee Ann will return to UAM. She works in the purchasing office for the University. She has been there for 4 years. Prior to UAM, Lee Ann worked at Bartons As you’re reading this, Katie, a freshman at UA Fayetteville, is probably already on her way back to school. She’s working on her Pre-Med major. Julie, a MHS freshman, plays saxophone in the band, and is in EAST Lab. Jordan is a 4th grader at MIS. The family all likes to spend time outdoors, especially around the water. Darrell’s hobbies include hunting, fishing, and metal craft. Lee Ann likes to spend her free time reading, gardening, or watching NASCAR. Katie spends her free time on the phone, according to her mom, when she should be studying. Julie’s favorite past-times include reading and playing video games. Jordan likes hunting and fishing, like his dad, and killed his first deer this year. Jordan spends any free time he has harassing his older sisters (just ask them). The family pets include Buddy, the dog, and 9 cats. Usually now is the time in the interview when I ask about “favorites”, so this week will represent the family’s “combined” answers. Their favorites include: Restaurant-Rays. TV show-NASCAR. Movie-Toy Story and Santa Clause movies. Music-Lee Ann likes contemporary Christian music and the family usually listens to country. Favorite actors & books-Too hard to agree on. Favorite songs-Amazing Grace and Sweet Beulahland. Favorite sports teams-Billies and Hogs. Monday morning, as we are all getting back in the habit of “school”, remember the McDaniel family. 5 family members, 5 different schools. Thanks to all of the McDaniels, for sharing your One (or 5) Monticello Life. To read other editions of One Monticello Life, Click here. Posted in Feature: OML | 3 Comments » One Monticello Life: Sharon Hancock, Young’s BBQ Sunday, December 30th, 2007 Young’s Bar-B-Q has meant “lunch” to Monticello residents for decades.  The local restaurant has been chosen as Monticello’s “Best Bar-B-Q” for 7 years by the voters in the local newspaper, as well as having won “Best Lunch Buffet” and “Best Country Cooking” several times, along the way. Sharon’s mom & dad, Ben & Cleo Young, sold Bar-B-Q out of their grocery store from 1954 until 1983. In 1989, Sharon and her husband Billy Joe Hancock, re-opened “Young’s Bar-B-Q”. They ran their “take out only” business in the back of the building, where Mr. Ben’s Bar-B-Q pit had remained. In 1996, they moved the business into the front of the building, and opened a full service restaurant. In July of 2003, the business burned and closed for a brief time. But the Hancocks decided to close their laundromat operation, and moved the restaurant, complete with their famous buffet, into the newer building next door. After a complete remodeling process, and a new kitchen, “Young’s Bar-B-Q with Country Buffet” re-opened in October of that same year. When most people think of Young’s, they think of it’s owner, and daily hostess, Sharon Hancock. She’s always there, with a “How are you doing, today?”, or her cheerful, “Ya’ll come back!” She’s open every weekday for lunch, as well as Sunday lunch buffet. They also serve catfish, fried shrimp, and BBQ ribs on Friday nights. When I asked Sharon how she ended up in the restaurant business, she replied, “Well, I was 9 when we moved into the store………….” She said that the best part of her job is pleasing folks. “Full people are happy people.” Sharon was born and raised in Monticello, and graduated from Monticello High School. “I’ve been married to Billy Joe all my life”, she added with a smile. Billy Joe served in the U.S. Army until 1962, and was stationed in Germany for a part of that time. They have 2 sons, Mike, who works at the Pine Bluff Arsenal, and Steve, who is now part-owner of the restaurant, and handles the inventory and catering, as well as doing all of the B-B-Qing. The Hancock’s have 3 grandchildren: Jake (age 17), Laura (age 14), and Somer (age 13). Saron’s response to the usual “Get to know” type questions included: Hobbies-Painting, especially Santa portraits and birdhouses. (Her Christmas present from her husband was painting classes.) Pets-“He has pets. They’re all his”. Restaurant-She smiled, no response was needed. Favorite phrase-“‘Have a good day’ seems to say it all.” TV show-Paula Dean’s Cooking Show, on the Food Network. Favorite actor-Richard Gere. Favorite movie-Sweet Home Alabama.  Favorite music-Country. Favorite author-James Patterson (mysteries). Favorite sports teams-Billies, Pirates, Weevils. In closing, Sharon considers herself a, “Plain old, what you see is what you get” type of person, but that’s the kind of person, business, and cooking that keeps so many Monticello people coming back for lunch. Thanks, Sharon Hancock, for sharing your One Monticello Life. To read other editions of One Monticello Life, Click here. Posted in Feature: OML | 2 Comments » One Monticello Life: John Carter Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 John Carter, shown here during an emergency drill a few months ago at Drew Central Schools, is an agent of the 10th Judicial District’s Drug Task Force. John began his law enforcement career with the Monticello Police Dept., where he remained for 4 years, until November of this year. He had originally been a member for the Monticello Fire Dept. (he’s still a volunteer firefighter), and when Lt. Eddie Deaton suggested he become a member of the Police Auxiliary Unit, he soon became a full-time officer. (more…) Posted in Feature: OML, Police /Legal | 4 Comments » One Monticello Life: Sheilla Lampkin Sunday, December 9th, 2007 (This week’s One Monticello Life was not authored by me, but was instead the introduction speach given by Anna Koonce, 2007 Woman of the Year, announcing this year’s honoree.) (more…) Posted in Feature: OML | 5 Comments » One Monticello Life: Larry Wilkerson Sunday, November 25th, 2007 Several years ago, the church I was attending had a visiting preacher, who preached like he knew exactly what all was going on in my life at that time. That preacher was Bro. Larry Wilkerson. Bro. Larry is now pastor of Ladelle Baptist Church, a “country church” that averages around 75-80 people attending on Sunday mornings. One of Bro. Larry’s friends was at lunch with us, and described the church as “country people and potluck meals, that make you feel at home.” (more…) Posted in Church, Feature: OML | 4 Comments » One Monticello Life: County Clerk, Lyna Gulledge Sunday, November 18th, 2007 Tuesday night, after the election results were posted on MonticelloLive, everyone went home, and all of the election work was done. Well except for the County Clerks office. Most of the Clerks work involves tasks that most people do not realize. (more…) Posted in Feature: OML | No Comments » One Monticello Life: Truman Hamilton Sunday, November 11th, 2007 Most Monticello residents know Truman Hamilton from when he owned the radio stations. Others remember when he managed the Magic Mart store, but there’s more to know about Truman than where he used to work. Truman has just accepted the position of executive director of the Monticello Economic Development Commission. I think the job is in good hands. MEDC’s director, Derrill Pierce, is stepping down because of health reason, but is helping it’s new director during the transition. Truman has just been in the office a few days, but the first thing that I noticed about his desk, was that his Bible was on it. That’s a sign of leadership. (more…) Posted in Feature: OML | No Comments » One Monticello Life: Beverly Lobitz Sunday, November 4th, 2007 Mrs. Beverly Lobitz has been a member of UAM’s Music faculty for 35 years. So many times, when someone has the same career, they just do their job. That’s not the case with Mrs. Lobitz. David Johnston, who’s daughter, Dailyn, is a first year piano student of Mrs. Lobitz, considers her to be “an outstanding piano teacher. Dailyn is already reading sheet music, and can sing and play at the same time.” Johnston added, “She is a very sweet person who allows parents to sit in on lessons with their children. Seeing her work with kids the way she does, shows that she is a very patient and talented teacher. She always seems eager to share her love of music.” Beverly Lobitz grew up in Manhattan, Kansas. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree at Kansas State University, and then completed her Masters of Science in Voice degree, at Emporia (Kansas) State University. Mrs. Annette Hall, her colleague in the Division of Music since 1972, considers Mrs. Lobitz to be “a multi-talented musician, dedicated teacher, and exemplary role model for students.” Mrs. Hall added, “She has the heart of a teacher.” Mrs. Lobitz has taught piano and voice, both in school settings and privately, since college. She has been a member of UAM’s Music Department for 35 years. Betty Matthews told me last week, how helpful Mrs. Lobitz was when she taught Ms. Matthews daughter, Laura. “Personal involvement” makes a world of difference.” Larry Lobitz, retired, is Mrs. Beverly’s husband, and has preached for many years. Together, they serve at Lakeside Presbyterian Church, in Lake Village. Mr. Larry leads the choir, and Mrs. Beverly has played the organ for 11 years. Their son, Brice is a construction contractor in New Orleans, and his wife, Becky (formerly Becky Jacobs, of Monticello), is an electrical engineer with Shell Oil. They spend many weekends working with church projects there, such as missions, and construction for people with special needs. Mrs. Lobitz has 2 grandchildren, Colton and Tyler. Mrs. Lobitz says she doesn’t watch very much television, but does enjoy an occasional “Extreme Home Makeover”, when someone does something helpful to improve someone else’s life. Mrs. Lobitz considers music, “a vocation, and a hobby”, and has taught hundreds of students in private lessons, where she can make the most of “one on one” contact, in teaching. She explained her ambitions with this phrase, “My goal is to see students succeed, not just in music, but in life.” It seems that Mrs. Beverly Lobitz has reached her goal; many, many, times. Including with me. I became a voice student of Beverly Lobitz in 1982, when i started at UAM. 3 years later, while living and working in Dumas, but just a few hours short of graduation. Mrs. Lobitz kept in touch with me by sending messages by my church’s pianist (also a student of hers), encouraging me to finish. Mrs. Lobitz kept saying, “When you’ve got that degree, you’ll be so glad to have achieved that goal in life.” 25 years later, I see that she was right. The fact that Mrs. Lobitz never gave up, has really made a difference, as it does to so many other students, that she still calls “My Kids”. Thanks, Beverly Lobitz, for sharing your One Monticello Life. Posted in Feature: OML | 6 Comments » One Monticello Life: Calvin Murphy Sunday, October 28th, 2007 I’ve known Calvin Murphy for several years, and the more I’m around him, the more I learn. Calvin, and his wife Mrs. Carolyn, operate O&M Oil Co., on East Gaines street. Mr. Calvin has always lived in Drew County, and was born in the “Sipio” community, south of Ladelle and Lacey. At the time, the Ashley, Drew, & Northern Railroad had a stop in that area. Calvin grew up and graduated from Monticello High School. Calvin started out as a meat cutter at “Clay’s Grocery Store”, which was located on North Main St., across from where Union Bank is now. Calvin served in the U.S. Army, and was stationed at Ft. Chaffee, AR, Ft. Sill, OK, and was sent to Germany, shortly after the Korean War. After he was released from the Army, he joined the National Guard, and served there until he’d completed 39 years of service to his country. Next month, Calvin & Carolyn Murphy will have been married to each other for 50 years. They have 2 grown children. Their son, Les lives in Star City, and runs O&M’s bulk plant there. Les is married to Jacque, who teaches 1st grade.  Calvin’s daughter, Kim, lives in Springdale, and teaches 1st grade there. Kim is married to Rob Tanksley, who works at the Tyson corporate office. Calvin got into the oil business back in the 1950’s, when he went to work for his father-in-law, Mr. Hellums Owen. Back then, the station was at the corner of S. Main, and Shelton streets, and the bulk plant was located right where O&M is now. This was when all “service stations” were “full service” stations. Mr. Calvin told me, “I believe a man should work 5 days.” He added, “Saturday is mine, and Sunday belongs to the Lord.” On Saturday’s, if the Razorbacks play a home game, Calvin is usually somewhere close. If the Hogs are playing an away game, he’s probably at Monticello Speedway. On Sunday, he’ll be at Northside Baptist Church. Calvin is the senior deacon at Northside and sings in the choir. “Quietly,” he adds. Northside has been the only church he’s been a member of. Over the years he has served as Sunday School teacher and director, “Training Union” teacher and director,  youth and building committees, and anywhere else that there was a need. Calvin is also a member of Gideons, Int., which provides Bibles to schools, hospitals, and to our soldiers. Mr. Calvin’s other passion, besides Mrs. Carolyn, is cars. He has two “older” cars he’s working on restoring now. “Very slowly”, he comments. One is a 1948 Lincoln Continental Mark I, and the other is a 1939 Cadillac LaSalle. As you can tell by the photograph, Calvin Murphy loves his cars, and Mrs. Carolyn doesn’t like being in pictures. Thanks, Calvin Murphy, for sharing your One Monticello Life. Posted in County, Feature: OML, Site | 3 Comments » One Monticello Life: George Strain Sunday, October 21st, 2007 It was around 1:30, Monday morning, January 29, 2007. Monticello Police Dept. Patrolman George Strain was working a call at the intersection of E. Gaines and Conley streets. That was when officer Strain was run over by an oncoming vehicle. The force of the impact that cold, early morning, either fractured or broke his right wrist, left leg, left ankle, and multiple ribs. One of the broken ribs punctured and collapsed his right lung. He also had a broken pelvis. George spent the next 19 days hospitalized. When he was able to go home, he still had to use a wheel chair. It’s now 9 months later, and he’s still in physical rehabilitation to overcome some of the muscle deficiencies from the accident, but George never gave up. George grew up in Tamo, AR., just north of Dumas and Grady. He joined the U.S. Army, received his high school diploma, and even earned college credit, while he was serving his country. In the military, George was stationed in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky,and was a member of the 101 Airborne, and the 2 / 17 Cavalry Unit. His military duties carried him to Germany, Egypt, & Panama. When he left the service, George worked in construction and in food-service, until he entered law enforcement. George’s police career began in McGehee, then Grady, before coming to the Monticello Police Dept. in August, 1999. Next month, George will be celebrating his eighth anniversary to Mrs. Dorothy. They are very active in First Missionary Baptist Church, on Bailey street, here in Monticello, and Mrs. Dorothy sings. Mrs. Dorothy is a member of the McLettic Stars, a family singing group, that has traveled to over 20 different states, singing about God’s love, mercy, and grace. Through George’s accident and recovery, they’ve been blessed by that love, mercy, and grace. George told me, “going through the accident, and everything that followed, has given me the chance to talk, and to witness, to many people that I wouldn’t have had the chance to, without the accident.†When I was talking to him, I realized that he sees this as an opportunity to make a difference in other people’s lives. George isn’t still in that wheel chair. Last week I saw him at City Hall. He was on his way to work. Officer George Strain is back in uniform, in Monticello, serving as the School Resource Officer for the Monticello School System. His office is at the high school, but he’s on duty at all of the Monticello School facilities, spending time with the students, and he’s teaching them something, simply by being there. Officer George Strain, now there’s a good roll-model for our kids, and for us. George Strain, thanks for sharing your One Monticello Life. Click here to read MonticelloLive.com’s original story about the accident. Click here to read MonticelloLive.com’s original report, Officer Comes Home. Posted in Feature: OML, Site | 4 Comments » One Monticello Life: Rhonda Brooks Sunday, October 14th, 2007 When most people meet Rhonda Brooks, they see her as a “lady in a wheelchairâ€, but there are many things that they don’t realize about Rhonda. Rhonda grew up in Dewitt, where she lived with her parents and two sisters. Her hobbies include listening to music, her favorites are Christian and bluegrass. She also enjoys computer crafts, such as making cards, boxes, and similar projects, that make other people feel appreciated. She is also well known for making balloon animals for nurses, patients, and drive through bank tellers. Rhonda graduated from Dewitt High School in 1979, attended UAM, and received her teaching degree in 1983. Rhonda also got married in 1983. Her husband is Sanders Brooks, who grew up just east of Hamburg, and was also at UAM. Rhonda taught kindergarten for the Hamburg School District, Portland Campus, from 1983-2000. During this time, Sanders was pastor at Parkway Baptist Church (Lake Village) and New Hope Baptist Church (Eudora). Life so many times changes. Rhonda is in the wheelchair because of complications from juvenile diabetes, a broken leg, and knee deterioration. She also had a kidney transplant in 1998. So many people would have given up, but not Rhonda. When her husband became pastor of Northside Baptist Church, in 2004, Sanders and Rhonda moved back to Monticello. Rhonda may be in a wheelchair, but she still is able to teach her Northside Baptist Church Sunday School elementary class and serve on the youth committee. Between the many trips to out of town doctors, Rhonda spends a lot of time with the Northside Baptist Sr. adults, and goes out with the Wednesday night missions group to visit the Guest House residents, and other shut-in elderly members, and feed 11 stray cats. At other times during the month you may see her spending time at the Other Way; visiting patients as a hospice volunteer; or maybe even hear of her visiting patients at a clinic or hospitals, that need a “pep talk†to gain encouragement to help deal with life’s struggles. Rhonda may be a “lady in a wheelchairâ€, but she certainly doesn’t live a “wheelchair lifeâ€. Thanks, Rhonda for sharing your ONE MONTICELLO LIFE with us! Posted in Feature: OML, Site | 6 Comments » One Monticello Life: Terry Koone Sunday, March 18th, 2007 “I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service and my health to better living for my club, my community, my country and my world.” These words can be heard from the mouths of millions of young 4-H members across our nation. What started in the early 1900s to educate the young children of rural farmers has now grown into one of the country’s largest extracurricular youth programs. 4-H is not absent in Monticello. In fact, one of the fastest growing features of our local 4-H is the shooting sports program, and this group is mainly organized by Terry Koone. This is his story: Terry Koone grew up in Conway, Arkansas. His dad worked for Southwestern Bell and his mom was a Farmers Home Administrator. He was the second oldest of four boys in his family. He grew up hunting, fishing and camping. All of these were a family affair and happened almost every weekend. He attended UCA and received a degree in business. He has worked for Farm Bureau as a claims adjuster most of his life. In 1981 he married Jackie who was from Vilonia. That same year they moved to Monticello and made it their home. Terry and Jackie have two children, Kristen, 21 and Steven, 16. Terry became involved in 4-H for them. When his daughter was nine, she joined the organization. She was involved in several aspects of the club. She won state competitions in cooking. In photography she once was featured in the national 4-H calendar. Although Terry was not a part of 4-H when he grew up, he loved that his kids were a part of a group that had a “hands-on” philosophy. He loved to see them “grow and excel.” His son, Steven, received a bow for Christmas at age 12. Terry didn’t bow-shoot and found the Drew County Bow Club ready and willing to help him and his son with their new hobby. At that time, Terry realized that 4-H had a shooting sports program on a national level but not in Monticello . He made a decision then to help begin one for the Drew County 4-H. This is now the sixth year for the 4-H shooting sports program. The first year there were two students. In the third year, they had 8 students but no full teams to compete on a state level. In 2005, they had enough students to compete on a state level. They had a Junior Team (ages 9-13) and a Senior Team (ages 14-19). That year the Junior Team brought home 34 trophies and received a total of 60 ribbons. Last year they raised the bar and brought home 86 ribbons. The group is excited about the possibilities this year now that it has grown to over 40 students. The 4-H Shooting Sports Progam has been a “blessing” for Terry. He does not get paid financially for his involvement or time but says that watching the kids grow and learn is payment enough for him. Terry is passionate about the organization and what it teaches the kids. Although there are no gun clubs in Drew County, and there are no gun ranges around for the kids to practice, it didn’t stop Terry from making this possible for the kids of the shooting club.The 4-H shooting club started and still meets in Terry’s 20-acre backyard. He uses old signs from around town for targets, and there is always a firearm for someone to use. When the program started they had no equipment. Terry has used his own money at times to see that the needs are met. He has also involved as many people and parents as he can to see the program succeed. The Drew County Bow Club lets the 4-H club run a concession stand for their invitationals and have also given several bows to the 4-H group. The Friends of the NRA has a grant program that the Drew County 4-H applies for each year, and the 4-H students sell raffle tickets for the Friends of the NRA which allows the 4-H to receive some of the proceeds and/or equipment. Terry has seen the program grow by leaps and bounds and says it is “the best kept secret in the state of Arkansas.” This program is not just about kids and firearms. The 4-H Shooting Sports Program has 4 disciplines: shotgun, .22, black-powder and archery. Terry has completed the instructional programs to train in these areas both on the state and national levels. The participants not only shoot targets, but they also learn the importance of safety, competition, life skills and practice. 4-H is open to all students ages 9-19, and there are many different 4-H programs here in Drew County. For about 40 shooting-sport students who meet twice a month in Rock Springs, the lessons they learn and fun they have make them thankful for Terry’s dedication and vision. He is a great example of the 4-H pledge. His heart has helped many young Monticellonians. Thank you, Terry Koone – one Monticello life. Posted in Feature: OML, Site | 3 Comments » One Monticello Life: Rebecca Akin Sunday, January 21st, 2007 “There is a place where dreams come true, where wishes big and small lead to happily ever after.” This is the current advertising campaign for Walt Disney World. It can be heard on most television and radio stations. One of Monticello’s own, Rebecca Akin, just finished being a part of this magical experience. Here is her story: Rebecca was born and raised in Monticello. Her dad is President/CEO of Akin Industries, which is a furniture manufacturing company. Her mother is a speech pathologist. Rebecca’s fond memories of growing up in Monticello are many. As children, she and her brother John spent time at Akin Industries where they creatively built trampolines out of excess chair foam. She also remembers city parades, her favorite teachers, ninth grade cheerleading, homecoming court and competing in a UAM monologue competition. She graduated from Monticello High School in 2002. She attended Ouachita Baptist University, mainly due to the influence of her mother and grandfather. Her mother, Susan, was an OBU graduate, and her grandfather, Raymond Coppenger, taught religion and philososphy at the university. OBU had always played special role in her family and was already a special place for her. Rebecca had known from an early age that she wanted to pursue theater. “OBU is a safe environment to do theater. I knew I wouldn’t have to worry about racy characters at their small theater,” she said. She also enjoyed spending time with her grandfather who is now 97 years old. She attended church with him and could walk to his house from campus. She graduated from OBU in August 2006 with a bachelor’s of art, double-majoring in Theater and Mass Communications. She was encouraged to find a theatrical internship, and was excited to land one at Walt Disney World. At the Disney Internship, Rebecca took entertainment and communication classes. The classes were hands-on, and she experienced the in’s-and-out’s of how theater works at WDW. Rebecca also worked daily as a tour guide for the The Great Movie Ride at MGM Studios. On each tour, she would read a fifty-page script to a group of 70 people. She could not deviate from the script unless the car would get stuck for mechanical reasons. This happened quite often. During the wait, Rebecca enjoyed entertaining her tourists. She would usually end up telling jokes like her favorite, “Why was Cinderella so bad at soccer? Because her coach was a pumpkin, and she always ran away from the ball’. Because most of the riders were at a point of impatient frustration, she usually received more groans than laughs. But this did not stop Rebecca from having fun and making the most of her situations. At the end of the internship she was voted on by her peers and manager for the Thunderous Applause Award. This award was confirmation to Rebecca that although she might be different than most of her classmates, her fun spirit and attitude paid off. Rebecca learned more than theater at Walt Disney World. She also grew in her Christian faith. Walt Disney World is known as a “happy” place, but she found herself unhappy at times. It proved to be quite a culture shock as she discovered the variety of people and backgrounds at the park. There were parts of her experience that she “hated” but that she wouldn’t trade them. She said she grew as a Christian and learned to rely on God on a new level. Rebecca is unsure what is next for her now that her Walt Disney experience is over. Currently she is working for Akin Industries creating a furniture catalogue. She likes this stage of life where “nothing can hold her back,” and possibilities are endless. She loves theater and wants to keep that avenue open. Already, she has many credentials: Stage Performances- This is Where We Came In, The Art of Self Defense, Anything Goes, Sound of Music, and South Pacific Directed one-act play, The Diary of Adam and Eve Created and directed Monticello Children’s Theater Camp Semester study in Salzburg, Austria It is obvious that many dreams have already come true for Rebecca. But because of her love for theater and her love for life, it will be interesting to see what other wishes of this Monticellonian are granted. She is proof that there is a place that dreams come true, not only at Walt Disney World but also in Monticello. Thanks, Rebecca Akin- one Monticello life. Posted in Feature: OML | 3 Comments » One Monticello Life: Linda Beer Sunday, November 26th, 2006 This past week at the First United Methodist Church Preschool there were many three- and four year-olds giving thanks. The children celebrated their annual Thanksgiving feast by bringing their favorite foods. This year’s feast included a bowl of cookie dough, macaroni and cheese, "pasgetty," marshmallows, and chocolate ice cream, to name a small selection. The leader behind this most-anticipated celebration is their preschool teacher, Linda Beer, known by all as "Mrs. Linda." This is her story: She was born and raised in El Dorado, where her dad worked in manufacturing and her mother stayed home to raise her and her three brothers. After graduating from high school, she attended the University of Arkansas. She returned to south Arkansas after her first year in college to marry Ian Beer. She met Ian in high school when his parents moved from Canada to El Dorado. Ian and Linda lived in El Dorado after they married as Ian commuted to Camden for a manufacturing job. Their house burned early in their marriage, and at that point, they decided to start fresh in Camden. They lived in Camden for 18 years. During that time, they had three children. Mrs. Linda stayed at home and occasionally kept other children in her home as well. When her youngest child was four, she began to work in the Camden school district and finished her Early Childhood degree at UAM. In 1995, the Beer family moved to Monticello where Mrs. Linda found an early childhood education job at W.C. Whaley. The next year, First United Methodist Church began planning to start a preschool. Upon learning of her interest through members of her church, she was hired as the school’s first teacher in the fall of 1996. The program started with five students, all of whom are in eighth grade today. Mrs. Linda said she had no idea how much work it would take to start a preschool, but through all the paperwork, licensing, and other details, she and the church are proud of what the program has become. Ten years later, there are two different classes, a three year-old class of 12 students on Tuesday and Thursday, and a four year-old class of 15 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The program’s reputation and popularity require the necessity of a waiting list. Mrs. Linda has always loved working with children. "Listening to the kids’ funny stories from home and their take on things is hilarious," she said. She says that watching their "little faces light up when they write a letter for the first time" and "how they learn to interact with each other" remains some of her favorite things about her job. In looking toward the future, she mentioned that the church is starting a new building project. "We’re working on it having four classrooms, playground, and much more room," she said. "We would like to enlarge the program so that it will be open to everyone who wants to get into a part-time preschool. Hopefully, this will do away with the waiting list." Mrs. Linda’s goals for children in her preschool are for the children to learn to share and interact. "This is a time they are pulling away from mom. It is great when they get to the point they don’t want mom to come inside anymore. They become more confident and pull away. I am proud when they are ready for kindergarten," she said. After ten years working with preschool students, Mrs. Linda confessed that she didn’t think she would still be working in this role. "I never imagined it would bless my life like it has. I can’t imagine now doing anything else," she said. She’s not the only one who has been blessed. Because of Mrs. Linda’s years at the FUMC preschool, many lives have been touched. Memories of Pumpkin Patch trips, fire stations, county fairs, egg hunts, and the most popular Thanksgiving Feast will not be forgotten. Many little Monticellonians and their parents are thankful this season for Mrs. Linda Beer, one Monticello life. Posted in Feature: OML | 2 Comments » One Monticello Life: Chase Wellenberger Sunday, November 19th, 2006 You may have seen a "Pray for Chase" bumper sticker around town with www.prayforchase.com on it and wondered what it was all about. Chase Wellenberger is a little boy with a big story. He is an eight year old whose roots run deep in Monticello. Although at first glance he is a typical kid, a closer look shows more of the story. His parents, Matt and Carrie, welcomed him into the world as a Texan on January 19, 1998, but before he could even crawl they had relocated to Monticello. At the early age of four (June 2002) he was diagnosed with Low Risk Pre-B cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Within the same week of his diagnosis, his parents learned they were expecting another child. During Carrie’s pregnancy, Chase fought the cancer and after nine months entered a period of long-term Maintenance. His beautiful sister, Catie, was born. After a fairly uneventful year and a half of long-term Maintenance, Chase was checked into the hospital with a virus on October 17, 2004. Daily battling Chase’s high fevers and undergoing much testing, the Wellenbergers awaited an outcome. On December 20, 2004, the doctors reported that Chase had Leukemia blasts in his spinal fluid. His parents dreaded the news of a possible relapse and knew the tide could turn either way. Enduring numerous spinal taps and hospital stays finally brought the news that the cancer was back in full force. Needing to be close to Arkansas Children’s Hospital for daily treatments and therapies, the family moved to Little Rock in April of 2005. Chase is currently in ACH but took some time to answer a few questions. He says that some of his favorite things to do are hanging out with his friends from Monticello, playing video games and collecting knives and dragons. Dragons are meaningful to Chase because he symbolizes fighting his cancer with fighting a dragon. While in the hospital, Chase spends a lot of time receiving treatments for his cancer and in therapy but to pass the down time he watches TV or plays video games. When asked, “What keeps you fighting the cancer on those really hard days?” his simple answer was, “My mama, my daddy, and my sister”. He has several words of wisdom to share from what he’s learned about life: “You can always make it through whatever comes your way.” “Smile and have fun today; tomorrow may be worse.” “Thank God for your blessings!” Pictured here is Chase with Tony Hawk, a popular pro skateboarder. Tony and his crew came to AR and took some time out from their show to meet this extraordinary young man on July 1, 2005. The experience is one Chase won’t soon forget. Some other memories he enjoys are reuniting with his sister after long separations due to long-term hospital stays and playing World of Warcraft with his uncles Casey and Robert! Even a quick visit with Carrie shows the love and support that this family has for one another. The pride of these parents in their son is evident. Although the experience of having a child with Leukemia must be difficult to describe, Carrie summed up her thoughts about Chase by saying without hesitation, “Chase is the strongest person I’ve ever known or met. He’s a trooper!” His sister Catie (pictured here with Chase) was asked what she loves most about Chase and her reply was, “He loves on me!” She brings smiles to his face and laughs from his heart by ‘loving on him’ and playing games with him. Along with his close-knit family, Chase’s friends love and support him. Twelve-year-old Colby Capps has known Chase for six years and says he’s her best friend. Colby remembers lots of time spent with him when they were younger and before he moved. In between giggles, Colby tells of fun times playing spy and sneaking up on their moms, who taught school together, to listen in on the grown-ups! She truly admires Chase for his energy and great sense of humor and can’t imagine life without him. Colby loves the fact that Chase laughs even when he doesn’t feel like it when she makes funny faces at him or pulls other silly antics to cheer him up! His friend of five years, Parker Caldwell, has lots to say about Chase. He, too, considers Chase his best friend and says, “We’ve been friends for a long time and we like to play video games and go swimming together. He’s like my brother…best friends never let best friends down! Leukemia or no leukemia, Chase can count on me. He needs me but I need Chase!” Parker’s mother, Robin Caldwell, is touched by the friendship between the two and says that Parker and the family prays for Chase consistently. If you haven’t taken the chance to dig a little deeper and find out more about Chase, now is the time. Learn more about Chase on the website his mom and dad update frequently at www.prayforchase.com. While you’re there, boost Chase’s spirits by leaving him a message in the guestbook. You won’t regret getting to know this one Monticello life better: Chase Wellenberger… Posted in Feature: OML | 7 Comments » One Monticello Life: Priscilla Smith Sunday, November 12th, 2006 South Arkansas Rehabilitation recently moved to its newly-built facility on Old Warren Road. Among the busyness of workers still finishing the indoor pool and the staff of physical therapists working with patients last week was a dynamic blend of past and present in for Monticello. Nat Grubbs invited a friend and patient, as well as a former physical therapist to view a special room in the facility. The room was especially designed for children in need of rehabilitation services, and it was dedicated to Priscilla Smith. This is her story: Priscilla Hopkins Houdlette Smith was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1918. Her father was a civil engineer who designed the majority of interstate highways in that state. Her mother was a house wife who died during the birth of Priscilla’s sister, Claire. Priscilla was seven years old at the time. She and her sister were raised by their grandmother for most of their lives. She was an registered nurse during World War II. She served in England and France from 1943-1945. After her service was complete, she moved to New York City where she worked as a nurse. In the late 40s, Pat Stewart, a nurse friend, from the military talked her into considering work in a new field called physical therapy. She moved to the University of Texas at Galveston to train as a PT. Polio was in full outbreak in 1950. Warm Springs, Georgia became known for its therapeutic waters. Even President Franklin Roosevelt, himself a polio victim, went to Warm Springs for therapy. Priscilla relocated there and began to work. "The country was full of polio kids. No one thought there was going to be a cure," she said. After she worked in Warm Spring, she moved to Dallas, Texas. Working as a PT there, she became the chief PT at Parkland Hospital in downtown Dallas. She also trained students at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. It was in 1963, at her apartment complex, that she met James Smith. He was visiting friends who lived below Priscilla and had been recently divorced. He was raising his four children who were ages one, three, five and seven at the time. "When I met Smitty, he was changing his son’s diaper. I knew then he needed a mother for his kids," Priscilla smiled. After a few dates, Priscilla and James traded in her pink and gray Thunderbird for a station wagon. They were married on November 3, 1963. James was in the field service modular business. They moved several times over the next few years, to Michigan, Dallas, and California. Priscilla put physical therapy aside for a while to raise the children. In 1985, with the kids grown and gone, the Smiths were in Dallas again. She returned to Parkland Hospital to work as a PT, but in 1988, James’ father, Homer Smith, had a stroke. He lived in Monticello. At that time, the Smiths moved to Monticello to be with James’ family. Priscilla found a job with home health in McGehee and worked there from 1988 to 1999. She was 80 years old when she retired. Priscilla met Nat Grubbs by becoming a patient of his. The relationship became one of deep friendship and respect. Nat had always been interested in the history of physical therapy, and when he discovered that one of its pioneers was a patient of his, he never let an opportunity pass without learning something and asking questions. "It has been a tremendous blessing getting to know "Miss Pris" over the years since I returned to Monticello and opened my therapy practice. She has been to me a pioneer, a mentor, a colleague, a patient, and a dear friend….but more than anything else, she has been an inspiration to me. I am inspired by her "spunk," by her unwavering desire to improve herself, by her compassion for others, and by her determination to meet life’s challenges. I hope that all of us who know Miss Pris will be similarly inspired to choose to have the same type of attitude that she has demonstrated as we are faced with our own challenges. I love Priscilla Smith!" Nat said. At 88, Priscilla Smith is a wonder and delight. These days, she spends more time at home than ever before. Getting around is more difficult as she’s forced to use a wheelchair. She and James smile and laugh more than they ever have, and their kindness and joy is self-evident. As she received her personal tour of South Arkansas Rehabilitation this past week, she was wheeled into the children’s room that has been dedicated to her. On the wall there is a picture of Priscilla working with a child who was a polio victim. The words below the photo say "In appreciation of your contribution to the physical therapy profession and the many patients you served, and for the inspiration you have provided those of us who have followed in your footsteps… Thank you! We love you! Your friends at South Arkansas Rehabilitation." Priscilla Smith will never be able to estimate the lives she’s literally touched over the years. Our community is grateful for such a life: One Monticello Life. Posted in Feature: OML | 5 Comments » One Monticello Life: Mae Simpson Sunday, November 5th, 2006 Books can influence and change the way you see the world. At the Monticello Public Library, there are not only significant books, but there is also a special libararian. Mae Simpson has impacted many people not only through the world of books but also through her life. Here is her story: Mae Everett Simpson was raised in the 16th Section community east of Monticello. Her father was a pastor and her mother was a housewife. She was the 9th child of 11 children. Mae went to school most of her life in Selma. She went to high school at Drew Central and graduated in 1968. She then moved to Pine Bluff to attend college. Her freshman year she married a schoolmate, Tommy Simpson. After her first year in college, they moved to South Carolina for two years where Tommy served in the Air Force. In 1970, the couple moved back to Monticello and had their first child. Mae worked at Burlington for 15 years until the plant closed its doors. She then went back to school in McGehee. In 1985, she graduated from vocational-technical school with an associate secretarial degree. Though Mae and Tommy had only one child, she parents 13. Mae is a foster parent. They have been fostering for 12 years. At present, they have three children who have lived with them for six years. "We lived out [of town] and my husband works in Crossett (where he is a licensed electrician and machinist at Georgia-Pacific). He works graveyard. I would be home by myself all the time. I didn’t like that. So, one of my co-workers suggested I become a foster parent," Mae responded when asked how they began fostering. They still keep in contact with all of the children they’ve fostered. "I am Mom!" she said. "We are their Mom and Dad." Mae started working at the the Monticello Public Library soon after she received her secretarial degree. She is the assistant branch manager and holds that title with pride. "I love the people. There are so many nice people. If I didn’t like the people, it would be hard to stay in the same place for 20 years with all the different personalities you work with," she said. When asked how what she has seen change in Monticello over the years, she said, "There are more opportunities for minority people. In the past, you wouldn’t have walked through the door of the library and found me behind the desk. It has been a joy to work here. You know, life is nothing without people. I don’t care who they are or the color of their skin. You get them and you mold them. We help them, and we give them opportunities to go to college. It gives them someplace to work, and they learn as they work." Mae loves the people of Monticello. "There are good people here. They’ll do anything to help you. You know everybody, and that’s good." Unwilling to simply go to work and return home, Mae is currently on a committee to restore her old school house in Selma. She and several others are worked towards making Selma Junior High School a historical site. The building is used now for banquets and group meetings like the Masons and Eastern Star organization of which Mae is a member. Mae is also an active member of 16th Section Missionary Baptist Church. Between fostering children, educating young people, working to restore historical buildings, and her active church membership, Mae’s life a book worth reading. Next time you’re in the library, introduce yourself and let Mae know you’re thankful for her life: One Monticello Life. Posted in Feature: OML | 12 Comments » One Monticello Life: The Allen House Sunday, October 29th, 2006 What is Halloween without ghosts, goblins and haunted houses? Located in the center of Monticello, on Main Street is one of Arkansas’ most reputed haunted houses: the Allen House. Here is its story: The Allen House was built in 1900 by Joe Lee Allen. It is still much like it was when it was built. Dottie Simmons, the house’s third and current owner, said, “It’s like you walk into a whole different time.” The Allen family was in the timber business and built the house with only virgin heart of oak and pine. The wood was preserved with linseed or cotton oil which has kept away termites to this day. The windows in the house were custom made in St. Louis, MO and brought to Monticello on a boat down the Mississippi River. The windows are all different shapes, sizes and colors. The dining room has a hammered tin cherub ceiling. The house has 9500 square feet. There are 16 rooms in operation. It now has three bathrooms which are not original to the house. There are two washrooms and a complete kitchen upstairs and downstairs. At the top of the four-story house is a full grandmother’s attic. The house is situated on two acres of land, and the yard is covered with English ivy and several massive magnolia trees. Few know that the house was originally located across Main Street and was moved to its present location. Gloria Wright’s pink bed and breakfast sits on the lot the Allen House first occupied. The house has been featured on television commercials and printed material for southeast Arkansas. But this time of year, its most interesting feature is the house’s claim to be haunted. Many will attest to the presence of a ghost or ghosts in the Allen House. Ask any long-time Monticellonian, and many will have a story about the Allen House. The stories usually center on Mr. Allen’s daughter committing suicide in the house in the 1940s because of a broken heart. Some say she threw herself over the staircase and plummeted to her death, but the most common story is that she overdosed on cyanide purchased at the Hyatt Drug Store. Carolyn Wilson was one of the tenants in the house who even wrote a book which is currently out of print. You may find a copy in the Monticello Library. Its title is The Scent of Lilacs and is a romantic fiction involving a large, old haunted house. Few people realize the history and supposed haunting of the Allen House who have lived in Monticello a short time. However, upon viewing the Allen House for the first time, the response is usually, “I’m not surprised.” Whether it’s haunted or just historical, the Allen House of Monticello surely can be considered part of our town’s life: one Monticello life. Related Sites that mention the Allen House: hauntedhouses.com prairieghosts.com FYI: Current owner Dottie Simmons will be having an auction on November 9 at 11:00 a.m. at the Drew County Fairgrounds. You may preview auction items at the Allen House on November 7-8 at 11:00 a.m. For more information, go to www.wooleyauctioneers.com. Posted in Feature: OML | 19 Comments » One Monticello Life: Rob Leonard Sunday, October 22nd, 2006 UAM will celebrate Homecoming this Saturday, October 28. For many who will attend, Rob Leonard dramatically impacted their college experience. As Director of the Missionary Baptist Student Union and music minister at Pauline Baptist Church for the past 23 years, Rob has invested his life in others for almost six generations of UAM college students. This is his story. Jacksonville, Arkansas was home for Rob’s family when he was younger. Growing up as a "PK" (pastor’s kid), Rob and his family were integral parts of Landmark Missionary Baptist Church. For Rob and his brother, Phil, life was centered around family and the fast-growing church his dad pastored. What began as a small congregation changed quickly as the church transitioned to a large, thriving center of spiritual growth. New members were added often; church activities consumed the family schedule. Eventually, the church built a new facility to house its growing membership and ministry. However, during Rob’s freshman year in high school, while the church grew, his family fell apart. His dad left his mom and moved to Little Rock. His mom was forced to find a job and move her boys to a rental house. The single parent family stayed at their church during this time. Rob’s mom attended realtor’s school and received her license as an avenue of provision for the family. "High school was a tough period for me and my family," Rob said. "Basically everything I ever believed was called into question. I went from the kid whose dad preached at the biggest church in town to the kid who didn’t really have a church anymore. I didn’t know what was going on." Sports and choir became reliable friends to Rob, who excelled in both. His football team during his senior year was the first Jacksonville team to win the state championship. His experience being selected to the All State Choir gave Rob some credentials during the collegiate application process and helped him earn a full scholarship to the University of Central Arkansas where he was a part of John Erwin’s madrigal choir. Rob and Carla, his wife, were married while in college, though they had met through church activities while in high school. Carla’s dad was a pastor in Cabot. They dated two and a half years before marrying. "We were ready to put our lives together. Our parents must have been crazy, or they had a lot of faith in us. Carla was 19, and I was 20 when we got married," Rob said. Driving back and forth from UCA to Jacksonville, Rob continued to attend the church which his dad had formerly pastored "mainly because of memories," he said. "I remembered how it used to be and just wanted to put it back together after dad left. If I could just work hard, I was sure we could get the church back on its feet." He continued this commute for two years. His future was interrupted, however, when Buddy Lemons, then pastor of Monticello’s Pauline Baptist Church contacted him. The church invited Rob to consider coming to Monticello to serve as music minister. However, Rob and Carla were not interested, being content where they were. Three months later, Lemons called again to ask Rob to reconsider the ministry opportunity. Again, Rob decided not to interview, feeling that he would be wasting the church’s time due to his lack of interest. Yet, the second call prompted Rob to begin praying about the matter, and he soon realized that his time at Landmark Church was over. He called Pastor Buddy back and asked if the position was still available. Lemons related that the job was his to which Rob responded, "You have to interview me. I can’t just take the job!" Rob arrived in Monticello in March 1983 to visit with church leaders. There was an immediate connection. He loved the church, the people, and the town and was offered the position the same day. Listen to Rob’s account of his first Sunday at Pauline. His ministry at Pauline included serving as the campus minister at the Missionary Baptist Student Foundation (MBSF) at UAM. He never imagined being a campus minister. "I never knew that this ministry would be the perfect niche. When I took the job, I didn’t have any idea what the job entailed," he said. He asked his pastor and was told to look through the former director’s files and he’d "figure it out." With a grin, Rob said that he’s still figuring it out today. There are few UAM students who don’t know Rob Leonard. He continues to play intramurals with the students, as well as coaching them. He’s a fixture in the UAM cafeteria, and serves as the chaplain of the football team. He travels with them when he’s able and delivers pre-game devotionals. The baseball, softball and even rodeo teams are also recipients of Rob’s constant attention and care. Whether it’s a campus fish fry, sports activity, or special event, Rob tries to be present. "You have to go where the students are," he said. In particular, "the athletes are on their own schedule. You have to minister to them on their time because of their busy schedule." The MBSF focuses on reaching and serving the athletic teams as much as possible. When asked why he and the MBSF spend so much time trying to reach students, Rob responded, "Because Jesus changes lives." "People are looking for something to believe in. They want more than they have, but the only person who can give you more than what you have is Jesus, no matter what you have. He can change lives, and when he changes a life, that is something the world cannot refute." When asked about his thoughts on Monticello, Rob said, "Monticello has had some good opportunities for people to grow, educate their kids and have solid jobs. It seems like once people get here, there is something about this place that makes you want to stay. I don’t really understand it. "I had no intentions of staying here. There was not anything here that would keep me. But once I got here, I knew this is where I wanted to be. Now, I’d rather be in Monticello than anywhere else. Maybe it’s the people or the spirit of the place – I don’t want to say that Monticello is a ‘godlier" place than anywhere else – but God has definitely been evident to me in this place, and there’s something about that that is obvious to a lot of people here." Whether praying with the UAM football team before a game or leading a contemporary worship chorus at Pauline Church, Rob contributes to the life of Monticello. Having impacted collegians and citizens in our community for more than 23 years, he is truly one Monticello life. Posted in Feature: OML | 15 Comments » One Monticello Life: The Brown Twins Sunday, October 8th, 2006 Twins. One definition of twins is counterpart – a person or thing that closely resembles another. This is how you would describe Ruth & Ruby Brown. You might have seen these identical twins around town on Fridays. This is their day to eat lunch at a local restaurant. And most days, they wear the same color. This is by coincidence usually. Not only are Ruby and Ruth twins, they also married brothers! Here is their story: Ruby and Ruth Barrett Brown were born in 1930. They were raised in Warren. Their father was a farmer, and they have two brothers and two sisters. Their father died when they were young. Their mother raised the six children with the help of their grandparents who also farmed. The Brown brothers moved from Cleveland County to Bradley County in 1945. The Browns also farmed. There were five children in their family, four boys and 1 girl. It was at Macedonia Baptist Church that T.H. and Larkin Brown met the twins. "We were at church, and there they were, sitting on the pew," Larkin recalls about the first time he met Ruby and Ruth. "Back in those days, we didn’t date until you were 16. Me and Ruth were 15 at the time." Ruby also said they were all friends until they could start dating. "We rode to school in a taxi. So we went to school together before we dated," she said. Both T.H. and Larkin served in the U.S. Military. T.H. served in China during World War II. Larkin served during the Korean War. But war did not keep these brothers and twins apart for long. After T.H. returned from the war, he finished high school. In 1948, Ruth and T.H. married. One week after Larkin came home from Korea in 1952, Ruby and Larkin were married. Each couple moved frequently, for the mens’ jobs. T.H. attended Chicago Electrical School and worked for Entergy for 42 years. Larkin attended UAM and the UofA and received a B.S. in agriculture. He worked as a county agent in Drew and Chicot counties for 37 years. While the frequent moves kept the twins apart off and on for part of their lives, they wrote letters often. "At least once a week, I know, because I checked the mailbox," Larkin remembered. However, the majority of their lives, the twins have been together. Their days were always together. They each had three children. Not only did the twins marry brothers, but Ruth and Ruby’s younger sister married T.H. and Larkin’s brother. The twins’ youngest sister married the Brown’s brother’s first cousin. They were always together at different occasions. "Our children were more like brothers and sisters than cousins." "It was like we were all one big family." T.H. and Larkin were asked what it was like being married to twins. Larkin said it was "great," because "If I want to go somewhere, all I have to say is, ‘Ruth called,’ and she’d go over there. Then I can go and do what I want to," he said with a grin. T.H. said, "I haven’t been married to anybody else, so I don’t know. All I can say is I got the best looking of the bunch!" Larkin is quick to respond, "That’s the only one that would have you!" Ruby and Ruth drink coffee together every morning. The twins do not do much without the other. They all attend First Baptist Church where the men are deacons and the ladies are on the benevolent committee. They each enjoy their grand children. When asked about being twins, Ruth said, "We have had a good life, good health, and good husbands. We have such a close bond. It is indescribable." Ruby said, "You always have someone to talk to and not be judgemental." So next time you see these counterparts eating out on Fridays, let them know you read their story. Like Ruth said about being twins, "It is such a special life." Indeed! Their twin lives make up our One Monticello Life. Posted in Feature: OML | 4 Comments » One Monticello Life: Mr. Carpenter Sunday, October 1st, 2006 Mr. James Carpenter was born in 1938 and raised in Hamburg by a farmer and housewife. He is the 8th child of nine children. He has four brothers and four sisters. He went to school in Hamburg and managed to march in his high school’s graduation ceremonies, but he lacked a little to get an actual diploma. After high school, he worked on his father’s farm in Hamburg. He then went to work at P.E. Barnes pallet mill for nine years. He worked for Georgia Pacific for one year and for a while at the Lake Village industries. “I met my wife in the first part of April 1973,” Mr. Carpenter said. “We married October 1973. We will be married 33 years this October 13. I was 35. I was old enough.” His wife was 30 years old and had six children from her first husband. On the day of their wedding, her oldest child was 10, and her youngest was four. Today they have 12 grand children and 3 great grand children. When talking about his grandchildren, Mr. Carpenter said, “Actually ten are ‘step,’ but I don’t call them that. I’m the only Pappaw they know. I treat them just like my own.” Most might remember Mr. Carpenter from his six years at Wal-Mart. It was in 1995 that things changed for him. On his way home from work, he was attacked and beaten by some men. “They thought they was going to get a lot of money,” he said. “They thought they killed me. But I’m still here.” He spent nine weeks in intensive care at Drew Memorial Hospital and at the University Hospital in Little Rock. He said his brain was damaged, and he had two seizures during that time. After being prescribed seizure medication that he still takes, he related that he has not had a seizure since that time. After his recovery, he returned to Wal-Mart, but three years later, he was run over in the Wal-Mart parking lot. “He just didn’t see me,” said Mr. Carpenter about the incident. He never returned to work after that. When asked several questions about his life, this is what he said: What is one thing you like about living in Monticello? The people here. Good people. How long have you been without a car? Pretty good while. 4-5 years, but I got my driver’s license. Does your wife drive? She can drive. She don’t got no car. She doesn’t even have a driver’s license. All she and I got is a marriage license. What you find up and down the streets of Monticello? Little bit of money. I have a shopping cart and bag to pick up cans. How many bags of cans a week? 5-6 bags. Where do you go to take a break? Exxon on Highway 278, Wal-Mart, Huddle House, and the lawn mower shop. If you could tell today’s young people one piece of advice, what would it be? Be careful and stay out of trouble. Mr. Carpenter was on his way to the car wash so he could look for change. He said, “If I had not got beat up or ran over, I would worked at Wal-Mart 14 years today and could have retired 3 years ago.” Mr. Carpenter wanders his way through the streets of Monticello just about every day. He accepts rides when he’s without his shopping cart, and many people have bought quilts from him that his wife makes. If you’ve not seen him or stopped to chat, then you are missing one Monticello life. Posted in Feature: OML | 46 Comments » Newer Entries » A.J. 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The Army Corps of Engineers is holding a public meeting amid this evening’s predicted thunderstorms to chat about the recently begun replacement work on the Addicks and Barker dams, which have each won the rare and highly distinguished label ‘extremely high risk’ through a combination of structural issues and close proximity to Houston. For those not planning to flood the Corps with questions and comments in person, there’s a somewhat-outdated online survey, as well as an online map of updates on the project’s progress. Work to replace the outlet structures of the dams began in February, and is expected to take about 4 years.
The 2 reservoirs, spread out across 26,000 acres on either side of the Katy Fwy. near Highway 6, starred in the Sierra Club’s 2011 lawsuit over the construction of Segment E of the Grand Parkway through the reservoirs’ catchment area. The club claimed development spurred by the road could send major additional runoff to the reservoirs, increasing the chance of dam failure, which Dave Fehling of Houston Public Media reports “could do an estimated $60 billion dollars in damage to downtown Houston, to industries along the Houston Ship Channel, [and] even to the Texas Medical Center.” The judge didn’t stop construction of Segment E, but did order new studies on its potential flooding impacts.
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Tonight’s meeting will be held at the Bear Creek Community Center, labeled in the map above as point “1” in the Addicks reservoir, which (like Barker) serves as parkland and recreational areas throughout most of the year when not occupied by floodwater. The reservoirs also hosts a variety of wildlife, including the invasive feral hogs that were systematically trapped by Harris County Precinct 3 last year for donation to area food banks.
The dams are 2 of more than 7,000 in Texas currently thought to pose potentially lethal risk to downstream areas. Good luck finding the others: The locations of those dams are considered useful to terrorists, and therefore protected from required disclosure under the 2003 Texas Homeland Security Act. (Sound familiar?)
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Nearly 50 years before the war in Iraq, Britain and America sought a secretive "regime change" in another Arab country they accused of spreading terror and threatening the west's oil supplies, by planning the invasion of Syria and the assassination of leading figures.
Newly discovered documents show how in 1957 Harold Macmillan and President Dwight Eisenhower approved a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion by Syria's pro-western neighbours, and then to "eliminate" the most influential triumvirate in Damascus.
The plans, frighteningly frank in their discussion, were discovered in the private papers of Duncan Sandys, Mr Macmillan's defence secretary, by Matthew Jones, a reader in international history at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Although historians know that intelligence services had sought to topple the Syrian regime in the autumn of 1957, this is the first time any document has been found showing that the assassination of three leading figures was at the heart of the scheme. In the document drawn up by a top secret and high-level working group that met in Washington in September 1957, Mr Macmillan and President Eisenhower were left in no doubt about the need to assassinate the top men in Damascus.
Part of the "preferred plan" reads: "In order to facilitate the action of liberative forces, reduce the capabilities of the Syrian regime to organise and direct its military actions, to hold losses and destruction to a minimum, and to bring about desired results in the shortest possible time, a special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals. Their removal should be accomplished early in the course of the uprising and intervention and in the light of circumstances existing at the time."
The document, approved by London and Washington, named three men: Abd al-Hamid Sarraj, head of Syrian military intelligence; Afif al-Bizri, chief of the Syrian general staff; and Khalid Bakdash, leader of the Syrian Communist party.
For a prime minister who had largely come to power on the back of Anthony Eden's disastrous antics in Suez just a year before, Mr Macmillan was remarkably bellicose. He described it in his diary as "a most formidable report". Secrecy was so great, Mr Macmillan ordered the plan withheld even from British chiefs of staff, because of their tendency "to chatter".
Concern about the increasingly anti-western and pro-Soviet sympathies of Syria had been growing in Downing Street and the White House since the overthrow of the conservative military regime of Colonel Adib Shishakli by an alliance of Ba'ath party and Communist party politicians and their allies in the Syrian army, in 1954.
Driving the call for action was the CIA's Middle East chief Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of former president Theodore Roosevelt. He identified Colonel Sarraj, General al-Bizri and Mr Bakdash as the real power behind a figurehead president. The triumvirate had moved even closer to Nikita Khrushchev's orbit after the previous year's disastrous attempt by Britain and France, in collusion with Israel, to reverse the nationalisation of the Suez canal.
By 1957, despite America's opposition to the Suez move, President Eisenhower felt he could no longer ignore the danger of Syria becoming a centre for Moscow to spread communism throughout the Middle East. He and Mr Macmillan feared Syria would destabilise pro-western neighbours by exporting terrorism and encouraging internal dissent. More importantly, Syria also had control of one of the main oil arteries of the Middle East, the pipeline which connected pro-western Iraq's oilfields to Turkey.
The "preferred plan"adds: "Once a political decision is reached to proceed with internal disturbances in Syria, CIA is prepared, and SIS [MI6] will attempt, to mount minor sabotage and coup de main incidents within Syria, working through contacts with individuals.
"The two services should consult, as appropriate, to avoid any overlapping or interference with each other's activities... Incidents should not be concentrated in Damascus; the operation should not be overdone; and to the extent possible care should be taken to avoid causing key leaders of the Syrian regime to take additional personal protection measures."
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The report said that once the necessary degree of fear had been created, frontier incidents and border clashes would be staged to provide a pretext for Iraqi and Jordanian military intervention. Syria had to be "made to appear as the sponsor of plots, sabotage and violence directed against neighbouring governments," the report says. "CIA and SIS should use their capabilities in both the psychological and action fields to augment tension." That meant operations in Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon, taking the form of "sabotage, national conspiracies and various strong-arm activities" to be blamed on Damascus.
The plan called for funding of a "Free Syria Committee", and the arming of "political factions with paramilitary or other actionist capabilities" within Syria. The CIA and MI6 would instigate internal uprisings, for instance by the Druze in the south, help to free political prisoners held in the Mezze prison, and stir up the Muslim Brotherhood in Damascus.
The planners envisaged replacing the Ba'ath/Communist regime with one that was firmly anti-Soviet, but they conceded that this would not be popular and "would probably need to rely first upon repressive measures and arbitrary exercise of power".
The plan was never used, chiefly because Syria's Arab neighbours could not be persuaded to take action and an attack from Turkey alone was thought to be unacceptable. The following year, the Ba'athists moved against their Communist former allies and took Syria into a federation with Gen Nasser's Egypt, which lasted until 1963. | positive |
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Princess Connect! Re:Dive T.V. Media Review Episode 10 | Anime Solution Home About Us! FAQ Donations Special Thanks Resources Seasonal Schedule Contact Info Home About Us! FAQ Donations Special Thanks Resources Seasonal Schedule Contact Info Your number one solution for anime media! Home Princess Connect! Re:Dive Princess Connect! Re:Dive T.V. Media Review Episode 10 Princess Connect! Re:DiveT.V. Media Review Princess Connect! Re:Dive T.V. Media Review Episode 10 by Yumiko June 8, 2020 by Yumiko June 8, 2020 Could he be the one? Back from the beach, Kokkoro and Yuuki wished to share their surplus squid with others. Upon walking down to their favorite local restaurant, they found the head chef in a frantic mood. Although those around him couldn’t grasp his crazed muttering for pudding, Yuuki could see what was spooking him. After pointing out the ghost in the room, Shinobu Kamiki and Miyako Izumo revealed themselves. 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If you thought that drones were just a bit of fun, or even if you think loads of novices flying them around is a bit dangerous, nothing is quite a scary as the UK and France’s new joint plan: the drone to end all drones.
The £1.5 billion ($2.1 billion) Future Combat Air System will see the creation of the “most advanced drone of its kind in Europe,” according to Reuters, to be built after the countries have completed a joint feasibility study launched in 2014.
The UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the French President Francois Hollande will unveil the ultimate modern war machine on a bi-annual visit to northern France to commemorate World War I, supposedly the ‘war to end all wars.’
It will both be able to conduct surveillance, as well as fire missiles, so let’s hope it’s more secure than the drones being used by Dutch police, which can currently be hacked for about $40.
➤ France, Britain to seal £1.5 billion drone deal, tighten security ties [Reuters]
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(gdb) break *0x972 (gdb) break *0x972 Debugging, GNU± Linux and WebHosting and ... and ... GDB, please set a breakpoint on all my functions Friday, February 10, 2017 - No comments For studying a piece of code, a colleague of mine wanted to set a breakpoint on all the functions of its applications. All but those in shared libraries, so not the libc, libpthread, etc. We agreed that this means all the functions defined in files compiled with -g. TL;DR; ==> breakpoint_all.py <== and from GDB: (gdb) source breakpoint_all.py I don't claim it's the best way to do, nor the most efficient tracing, I just highlight a possibility of gdb+python. Feel free to update the last step (or the others) to let it do what ever you need! In the command line, GDB can list the functions with info functions: (gdb) info functions File ../../gdb/gdb/compile/compile.c: void _initialize_compile(void); int compile_register_name_demangle(struct gdbarch *, const char *); char *compile_register_name_mangled(struct gdbarch *, int); void eval_compile_command(struct command_line *, char *, enum compile_i_scope_types); static int check_raw_argument(char **); | negative |
How to Keep Radio on When Car Is Off? Skip to content Home AC Oil Tires Battery Blog About Search Search Toggle Menu How to Keep Radio on When Car Is Off? Last Updated on: August 2, 2022 There are many reasons you might want to keep your radio on when the car is off. Maybe you’re running errands and want to keep the music going, or maybe you’re just trying to avoid awkward silences while your significant other talks on the phone. Either way, it’s easy. If your car has an auxiliary input jack, all you need is an aux cord and a pair of earbuds. Plug one end into the jack on the car and plug the other end into your phone or music player. If not, you can get an FM transmitter that will broadcast your music over FM radio frequencies for about $20. Get the radio code If you want to keep the radio on when the car is off, you’ll need to get the radio code. The radio code is a four-digit number that allows you to lock and unlock your radio. Once you have the code, you can program it into your system so that it will stay on even after the car has been turned off. To get this code, visit your nearest dealership or authorized service center and ask them nicely. They’ll be happy to help. Is it manual or automatic? If you’ve got an automatic car, then you don’t have to worry about keeping the radio on when the car is off. The power source will just keep flowing, and your music will continue to play until you turn it off yourself. If your car is manual and has a button for turning it off manually, then yes, you’ll need to keep the radio on manually after turning off the engine. This will ensure that there is still power going to the speakers and that they don’t die out as soon as the engine does. Find out the frequency of your radio signal The radio in your car is powered by an electrical system, so it’s important to know how to keep the radio on when the car is off. The frequency of your radio signal depends on where you live and may be different from what you think. The process of finding out the frequency of your radio signal is easy. All you need to do is check your owner’s manual and look up the section titled Find out the frequency of your radio signal. Check that the radio is still playing Make sure that the radio is still playing. If it’s not, then there’s nothing else you need to do. But if the radio is still on, then check that it’s not set to automatically turn off after a certain time. If it is set to automatically turn off after a certain time, then go into settings and change that setting so that it doesn’t automatically turn off after any particular time. Turn on the radio and tune it to a station you like To keep your radio on when your car is off, you can follow these steps. 1. Turn on the radio and tune it to a station you like. 2. Hit the power button on the side of your radio so that it turns off completely. 3. Press the power button again and wait for a few seconds until your radio turns back on again. Conclusion If you’ve ever been driving down the road, listening to your favorite song, and then had to turn off your car because you ran out of gas, you know what a huge bummer that can be. But now, thanks to these tips and tricks, you’ll never have to go through that again. minad Post navigation Previous Previous How to Paint a Car With a Small Air Compressor? NextContinue How to Remove Rubber From Car Paint? Similar Posts What to Do With Old Car Seats? Byminad Last Updated on: July 4, 2022 If you have an old car seat that needs to be disposed of, you can donate it to a local organization that will recycle it…. Read More What to Do With Old Car Seats?Continue Are Front Plates Required in California Byminad Last Updated on: June 24, 2022 California is one of the most populous states in the United States, and it has some of the strictest laws regarding vehicle registration. 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Today my secret santa present from the USA arrived.
The first I saw was 4 Manga books from "No Game & No Life", really great because I really love this style of animes and mangas. I already saw the first season of this anime and now I'm eager to read the mangas! Big thanks!
The second goodie is a small booklet from John C. Maxwell with the title "How successful people grow". I never red any lifestyle advice books before and do not know the author, hopefully it will be a good read! Thanks!
The third one is a Star Wars themed Lego. It is a really long time ago the last time I build anything with Lego and bonus it is also nerdy. Big Thanks from the child in me!
Then there is a very small goodie, a beeswax lipstick. I'm myself organic beekeeper so I'm very happy to get bee related stuff! Thanks, feels great and fresh on the lips!
The last one is a very stylish T-Shirt. I will proudly wear it!
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DonatorLegendaryActivity: 1064Merit: 1000 Casascius coin reseller in Sweden and EU. April 22, 2013, 06:01:41 PM
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I have decided to become a re seller of casascius coins.
Currently I offer shipping within Sweden and EU, I am looking into shipping worldwide as well.
I have a order of 100 0.5 BTC coins and 50 1 BTC coins that will arrive sometimes next week.
If you want to buy some coins head over to
http://physicalbitcoins.openbtcshop.com/
My current plan is to ship smaller amounts in envelopes and bigger amounts in packages.
If you have any suggestion of suitable packaging then PM me
If you have any questions,comments or feedback please respond in the thread, this is my first time in retail business so any help is appreciated
//DeaDTerra Hello!I have decided to become a re seller of casascius coins.Currently I offer shipping within Sweden and EU, I am looking into shipping worldwide as well.I have a order of 100 0.5 BTC coins and 50 1 BTC coins that will arrive sometimes next week.If you want to buy some coins head over toMy current plan is to ship smaller amounts in envelopes and bigger amounts in packages.If you have any suggestion of suitable packaging then PM meIf you have any questions,comments or feedback please respond in the thread, this is my first time in retail business so any help is appreciated//DeaDTerra
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DonatorLegendaryActivity: 1064Merit: 1000 Re: Casascius coin reseller in Sweden and EU. April 22, 2013, 06:30:18 PM #3 Quote from: nethead on April 22, 2013, 06:24:37 PM Great, im gonna grab some of the 0.5's soon!
(I think those 0.5's are kinda expensive thou)
The reason why all the coins are quite expensive is due to the limited avaliblity of the coins.
I bought them at a public auction held by Casascius so it will be hard restocking.
I will adjust the price as we go on and more coins are produced.
Glad to hear that you still want to pick some up
//DeaDTerra The reason why all the coins are quite expensive is due to the limited avaliblity of the coins.I bought them at a public auction held by Casascius so it will be hard restocking.I will adjust the price as we go on and more coins are produced.Glad to hear that you still want to pick some up//DeaDTerra
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DonatorLegendaryActivity: 1064Merit: 1000 Re: Casascius coin reseller in Sweden and EU. April 22, 2013, 08:03:23 PM #10 Quote from: mokahless on April 22, 2013, 08:01:40 PM Quote from: DeaDTerra on April 22, 2013, 07:25:14 PM
I have the price for the envelopes:
Sweden: 3 USD
EU: 5 USD
World: 6 USD
Though I need to consider shipping time, risk of theft etc when I decide on my final shipping choice.
Also I need to add the shipping to word press so it charges for it
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Yea.I have the price for the envelopes:Sweden: 3 USDEU: 5 USDWorld: 6 USDThough I need to consider shipping time, risk of theft etc when I decide on my final shipping choice.Also I need to add the shipping to word press so it charges for it//DeaDTerra
So we can't order from the wordpress site yet? That sucks because the other site doesn't allow me to order to Canada.
I'd like to order one of these from you.
So we can't order from the wordpress site yet? That sucks because the other site doesn't allow me to order to Canada.I'd like to order one of these from you.
But additional costs might occur if it is more expensive then I thought, I might also cancel your order in case where I can not ship to your destination.
//DeaDTerra Yes you canBut additional costs might occur if it is more expensive then I thought, I might also cancel your order in case where I can not ship to your destination.//DeaDTerra
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LegendaryActivity: 1190Merit: 1001DoctorBitcoin Re: Casascius coin reseller in Sweden and EU. April 22, 2013, 11:31:32 PM #12 Quote from: thatbluedude on April 22, 2013, 10:37:20 PM please add some 5btc coins. I would like to own some physical bitcoins, but my brain won't allow to buy me at 25% markup. I would buy a 5btc coin for 5.25.
If you just want coins for showing to your friends it's the same. You will pay 0,25 BTC per coin, so it's exactly the same buying 5 BTC at 5,25 BTC or 100 BTC at 100,25 BTC . Unless you really want to use them for buying something or for collection. If you just want coins for showing to your friends it's the same. You will pay 0,25per coin, so it's exactly the same buying 5at 5,25or 100at 100,25. Unless you really want to use them for buying something or for collection.
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DonatorLegendaryActivity: 1064Merit: 1000 Re: Casascius coin reseller in Sweden and EU. April 23, 2013, 06:34:31 AM #17
At the moment I only have access to the coins that casascius puts up for auctions.
If he recognizes me as a retailer then it is possible that I could go directly to him for orders instead through auctions.
Hence I could take in a larger variety of coins
What do you mean with unsafe?
//DeaDTerra Regarding 5 BTC coins,At the moment I only have access to the coins that casascius puts up for auctions.If he recognizes me as a retailer then it is possible that I could go directly to him for orders instead through auctions.Hence I could take in a larger variety of coinsWhat do you mean with unsafe?//DeaDTerra
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Sr. MemberActivity: 322Merit: 250 Re: Casascius coin reseller in Sweden and EU. April 23, 2013, 10:10:21 AM #18 Quote from: LurbQBurdock on April 23, 2013, 03:07:32 AM I'd buy an emptied 1BTC coin for 0.05BTC, but I'm not touching a full one. They seem a bit unsafe.
Personaly i would say that these coins are indeed SAFE. Except if the seal is missing/broken or casascius himself has saved the private keys of the coins he sends out. I highly doubt that casascius would "steal" his customers for 0.5/1 or other coins. He has some reputation Personaly i would say that these coins are indeed SAFE. Except if the seal is missing/broken or casascius himself has saved the private keys of the coins he sends out. I highly doubt that casascius would "steal" his customers for 0.5/1 or other coins. He has some reputation | positive |
In a hospital cafeteria last week, an old man stood ahead of me in line for oatmeal. He reminded me of my dad, except he couldn’t use his hands very well. Oatmeal was getting everywhere and he looked embarrassed yet friendly, so I asked if he was at the hospital for physical therapy.
He said no. His daughter had died upstairs that morning of anorexia.
He was alone and so was I, so we ate together. Straightening his sugar packets in a careful pile, he told me about his daughter, who’d been my age – such a happy baby; such a bright girl – but when she was 15 she got funny about food and exercise; her weight; they spent a small fortune on rehab and counselors and some days she seemed better but other days worse.
Days became years. She wore people out. He finally let her go, to do what she was going to do. He was sad but not surprised. He needed to go back to her apartment and go through her things for Goodwill.
“When she died,” he said, “it was like watching a fish drown in air.”
This is why I use my small sphere to fight what I fight: Because it really could have gone either way for me. You think thigh gap is some new thing the Internet invented? Thigh gap is ancient; thigh gap and bikini bridges and drink this chalky shit instead of food and here is what a woman must do to please The Great Eye are eternal because woman-hating is eternal. Thigh gap is a spot of necrotizing fasciitis in my psychic tissue where the blood supply got cut off in 1987 like it did for this old man’s daughter and the only difference is mine happens to be contained.
I want us to be clear on what the current culture does to women – even if we don’t read the magazines or watch the shows or visit the sites. It’s like secondhand smoke. It clings.
It’s why I don’t play the game, but I watch it every day. It’s a lucrative game for a lot of people, and it comes to us in friendly guises like “health” and “fitspiration” to encourage us to play; to mentally buy in. The game can be hot and compelling – can feel like you’re winning, even – but here’s how it ends: A sad old man eats a bowl of oatmeal in a hospital cafeteria and tells a stranger how he used to carry you on his shoulders in the swimming pool; how you used to laugh so easy. | positive |
COURTESY BROOKLYN MUSEUM, GIFT ABRAHAM & STRAUS/©THE ARTIST.
From the Log Cabin quilt Rauschenberg chose to make his Bed to the glorious abstractions of Gee’s Bend to the communal, elegiac, and now digitized AIDS Memorial Quilt, quilts have been around the contemporary-art world for decades. Now, as the border between art and craft continues to dissolve, quilts are coming front and center.
A current exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and an upcoming one at Boston’s MFA, which showcase the labor and artistry behind traditional quilts in different ways, suggest the reasons that a growing number of artists are drawn to this typically American medium.
Rigorously mathematical; narrative; intimate; made of found materials, often salvaged from treasured garments of their makers; portable; diaristic; and usually made by women, including a significant number of African Americans, “quilts have always lent themselves to giving a voice to the unheard,” says Stacy Hollander, curator of the American Folk Art Museum’s recent show alt_quilts, which featured three contemporary artists who stray far from the original definition of the quilt, even as they remain fixated on its structure and patterns. From Chelsea galleries to major museums and beyond, here’s where to find some of the edgiest art quilts out there.
Lara Schnitger
Anton Kern Gallery, New York (through February 15)
Whether in her epic fabric structures–a sampling of which is currently at Anton Kern–or her fierce costumes for dance, her performative collaborations with My Barbarian, and her jumpsuits for Red Hot Chili Pepper Flea, Lara Schnitger has channeled all manner of textile arts. The Dutch, Los Angeles-based artist excavates text and image by removing color from dyed fabric, creating a stenciled effect that conveys her all-caps urgency.
Now Schnitger is bringing her post-patchwork esthetic to a new couture line, Sister of Arp, which launches in a runway show at Kern on February 8. The collection, called Never Alone, is dedicated to the working (and breastfeeding) mom.
Left: A model wears clothes from Lara Schnitger’s Never Alone collection from the Sister of Arp line. Right: Lara Schnitger, Never Alone, 2012, cotton and linen, quilted and bleached. Click through each image for more information.
Amy Wilson
“Space is the Place,” BravinLee programs, New York (through February 8)
Amy Wilson’s Soft MoMA is a quilted, free-hanging lament to the loved and lost intimate museum experience the artist enjoyed as a child. Step inside its enveloping folds, where, via two quilted alter egos, Wilson reflects on her discomfort in a shiny new museum world where everyone else seems to be smiling. The quilt made its debut at BravinLee the day after MoMA announced plans to raze the American Folk Art Museum building to create a giant glass lobby.
Amy Wilson, Soft MoMA, 2013-14, fabric, paper, pencil, thread, and wood. Click through each image for more information.
Stephen Sollins
“Stephen Sollins: Correspondence,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery (February 13-March 15); “Creativity at Work,” Sun Valley Center for the Arts (February 21-May 24)
“Sometimes I like my pieces to look more like quilts, other times I like them to look more like paintings,” says Stephen Sollins, who has obsessively deconstructed the patterns and structures of several traditional quilts in the American Folk Art Museum’s collection. “Alt_quilts” paired one of the originals–the Log Cabin Quilt, Barn Raising Variation that Mary Jane Smith made with her mother from 1861-5–with Sollins’s “appropriation” of its composition, an intricate construction made with pasted-paper interiors of billing and financial envelopes. Some of his envelope works are coming to his February show at Pavel Zoubok, along with new works that bring a digital element to the process. The artist scanned an image of a “crazy quilt” from the Folk Art Museum’s collection, digitally processed it to extract the shapes of its parts, assigned the results through a random number generator to various striped envelope patterns, and made a facsimile of the original quilt with them.
Left: Stephen Sollins, Untitled (Double Archive with Rotation), 2013, used envelopes, printed paper. Right: Stephen Sollins, Untitled (Correspondings), 2014, paper from used envelopes, xerographic and ink jet prints on paper. Click through images for more information.
Queer Threads
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York (through March 16)
“Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community,” a dazzling show at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in Soho curated by John Chaich, features LGBTQ artists who use thread-based craft materials, techniques, and processes—including, of course, quilts. Melanie Braverman tenderly embroidered a range of anti-gay slurs onto a quilt made from antique fabric. Aaron McIntosh reproduced the covers of vintage gay magazines as digital textile prints embedded with the patchwork of traditional quilt pattern. L. J. Roberts honors communities in an underground LGBTQ subculture in The Queer Houses of Brooklyn, a delirious multi-textured sculptural visualization on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Left: Aaron McIntosh, Fragment #3: Roses Are Red, 2012, digital print, vintage fabric and thread. Right: L.J. Roberts, The Queer Houses of Brooklyn, 2011, poly-fill, acrylic, rayon, Lurex, wool, polyester, cotton lame, sequins, and blended fabrics. Click through each image for more information.
Sabrina Gschwandtner
RISD Museum, Costume and Textiles galleries (starting June 10)
When the Fashion Institute of Technology de-accessioned its 16-millimeter film documentaries about textile crafts and the women who made them, Sabrina Gschwandtner snapped them up. Then she made them the substance of her art. For her series of “Film Quilts,” she watches the movies; cuts up the film strips; transforms them through bleaching, dyeing, and drawing, and assembles them into designs derived from popular American quilt motifs. For one of her newest works, The Enchanted Loom II, she used three films–among them an experimental science documentary that links the brain to a loom–weaving the frames together to create 12 quilt squares in an octagonal star pattern. The piece will be installed at the entry to the RISD Museum’s new Costume and Textiles galleries when they open next June, and will be on view indefinitely.
Sabrina Gschwandtner,The Enchanted Loom II, 2011, 16 mm film, cotton thread, polyamide thread. Click through each image for more information.
Sanford Biggers
“The Shadows Took Shape,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (through March 9); David Castillo, Miami (April-May); “Soft Pictures,” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (through May 4)
Since 2009 Sanford Biggers has been painting on old quilts, infusing their patterns with sacred geometry, cosmology, and echoes of the quilt code said to have marked the Underground Railroad. His work Vex, on view in “The Shadows Took Shape” at the Studio Museum, riffs on the Afrofuturist notion of Harriet Tubman as an astronaut who led slaves to their freedom guided by the stars. Embedded in the quilt is a QR code leading to a film about interplanetary escape the artist made with his band, Moon Medicine. “If there’s code already embedded in quilts, why not put another code in the quilt,” the artist reasoned. Biggers has now begun collaging quilt fragments on archival paper. The new works will be in his show at David Castillo this spring.
Left: Sanford Biggers, NorEaster #1, 2013, assorted textiles, silkscreen on muslin, acrylic and latex paint on archival paper. Right: Sanford Biggers, Vex, 2013, antique quilt, silkscreen on muslin, spray paint, fabric-treated acrylic, tar, glitter, sound and video element, QR code. Click through each image for more information.
Faith Ringgold
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Rose Benté Lee Sculpture Gallery; “Women Choose Women Again,” Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey (through April 13); “Body Conscious,” Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York (February 3– April 10); “Stories and Journeys: The Art of Faith Ringgold and Aminah Robinson,” Mattatuck Museum of Art, Mattatuck, Connecticut (March 30 – June 8).
Combining quilted fabric, acrylic painting on canvas, and words, Faith Ringgold has been making her signature brand of story quilts for three decades, reaching back through history to connect with a great-great-great-grandmother who made quilts as a slave. Civil Rights, personal narratives and aspirational fantasies are ongoing themes in her works, including Tar Beach, which inspired her famous children’s book, and Jo Baker’s Bananas, on long-term view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In addition to her dozens of quilts in museum collections around the country, Ringgold currently has two works from her “Faith Ringgold’s Over 100 Pounds Weight Loss Performance Story Quilt” series in group shows around New York; excerpts from “Coming to Jones Road,” a story of escaped slaves, will be at Connecticut’s Mattatuck Museum this spring.
Left: Faith Ringgold, Coming to Jones Road Part II #6 Chasing Butterflies, 2010, acrylic on canvas. Right: Faith Ringgold, The American Collection #4: Jo Baker’s Bananas, 1997, acrylic on canvas with pieced fabric border. Click through image for more information.
FAILE
Cat Art Show, 101/exhibit, Los Angeles (through February 2)
The inspiration behind Lost and Found, an appliqué quilt by the street-art duo FAILE in L.A.’s Cat Art Show, was the type of person who might collect lost-cat posters. From there it was a logical progression, the artists explain, to the cultures of scrapbooking, quilting, and modern witches in motorcycle clubs, who are one intended audience of this piece. | positive |
West Mercia police force has apologised and paid £10,000 compensation to a man who was wrongfully arrested for taking a photograph of a bank doorway and pushed face down into a puddle by officers as they marched him to a police station.
Under the highly unusual deal West Mercia's chief constable, David Shaw, will write a letter of apology to Anthony Finnegan. The force has admitted liability for the incident and will pay Finnegan £10,000 plus his legal costs and delete all records of his arrest. As yet, neither of the officers involved has been disciplined.
Finnegan, a 45-year-old construction worker, is a keen amateur photographer. On the day in question in July 2009 he was taking pictures in the centre of Shrewsbury, one of which was of the front lobby of a high street bank in a period building.
He was approached by a police constable and a community support officer (CSO) who, Finnegan said, asked why he was taking "discreet photographs" of a bank. "I said: 'There's nothing discreet about this, it's an SLR camera. If I was being discreet I'd use a phone'," Finnegan explained.
The police officer, PC Ben Hocking, pushed Finnegan's shoulder before searching his pockets. Finnegan said he was completely cooperative and suggested they go to the police station, partly as he was not carrying identification but also because he was embarrassed to be searched publicly in his home town.
Finnegan said he was still relatively unworried until, while they walked to the station, he told the officers he planned to roll and smoke a cigarette. As he rolled it, Hocking repeatedly shoved his arm, spilling the tobacco.
"Now I was shocked," Finnegan said. "By this stage people were looking at me. I was walking down the street with two officers, one of them's got hold of my camera bag and the other keeps on shoving me."
As they drew near the town centre police station, Hocking pulled Finnegan's thumb back sharply to restrain him, before the two officers pushed him to the ground.
Finnegan explained what happened: "He grabbed me in a thumb lock and I pulled away from him, going: 'What are you doing?' I got taken to the ground, face down into a puddle, and the CSO, who's about 18 stone, his knee went into my ribs, which cracked or broke the back of my ribs."
A subsequent doctor's examination found other injuries, including abrasions and bruising.
Finnegan was placed in painfully tight handcuffs and driven to another police station, where he was told he had been arrested for a public order offence and placed in a cell. He was released at about 9pm, seven hours after he was stopped. It took police two months to confirm he would face no further action.
The case was taken up by Bhatt Murphy, a London-based firm of solicitors specialising in civil rights cases. Fiona Murphy, who represented Finnegan, said: "We welcome the chief constable's decision to admit liability, to apologise and to destroy the records of Mr Finnegan's detention. We hope that this complete resolution of the claim will enable the force to learn lessons from this regrettable abuse of police powers."
Finnegan said that while he is glad to have cleared his name he remains dismayed that West Mercia police took no disciplinary action against the officers involved.
"I still see them in town. That's what pisses me off most. It's intimidating. If I see one of them I'll take a different route. Every time I go into town I scan the street for a high-vis jacket."
A spokesman for West Mercia police said that as some details were still being worked out "it would therefore be inappropriate to comment further at this time".
• This article was amended on 8 June 2012. The original gave Anthony Finnegan's age as 49. He is 45. This has been corrected. | positive |
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Jimmy Kimmel sent comedian Tony Barbieri to Alabama this week to skewer Roy Moore at one of the GOP Senate candidate’s campaign rallies; they’re held in churches, and part of “services.”
Moore was not amused by the disruption and took to Twitter to demand that if Kimmel wants to “mock our Christian values” he should “come down here to Alabama and do it man to man.”
“Great Roy – let me know when you get some Christian values and I’ll be there!” Kimmel tweeted back at Moore, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual impropriety and assault.
Moore fired back, retweeting a remark from Fox News radio host Todd Starnes. Starnes, borrowing a Donald Trump gag, snarked:
“Little @ jimmykimmel sent one of his goons to Alabama to disrupt a church service where Roy Moore was speaking. I doubt Kimmel would ever disrupt a service at a mosque…”
Moore then reiterated his invitation to Kimmel, tweeting, “Despite D.C. and Hollywood Elites’ bigotry towards southerners, Jimmy, we’ll save you a seat on the front pew.”
Kimmel accepted graciously, with one caveat, and one request:
“OK Roy, but I’m leaving my daughters at home! P.S. – wear that cute little leather vest.”
Here is their exchange:
.@jimmykimmel If you want to mock our Christian values, come down here to Alabama and do it man to man. #ALSenhttps://t.co/E7oQB9D83P — Judge Roy Moore (@MooreSenate) November 30, 2017
Sounds great Roy – let me know when you get some Christian values and I’ll be there! — Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) November 30, 2017
So Little @jimmykimmel sent one of his goons to Alabama to disrupt a church service where Roy Moore was speaking. I doubt Kimmel would ever disrupt a service at a mosque… — toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) November 30, 2017
Despite D.C. and Hollywood Elites' bigotry towards southerners, Jimmy, we'll save you a seat on the front pew. https://t.co/z7n6uaeyCj — Judge Roy Moore (@MooreSenate) November 30, 2017
OK Roy, but I'm leaving my daughters at home! P.S. – wear that cute little leather vest https://t.co/scweglm2Fg — Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) November 30, 2017
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Chris Van Etten is a former U.S. Marine who is not afraid to show ’em what’s underneath.
Underneath, for Van Etten, is perseverance and inner strength, the sort that helped him survive devastating injuries as a soldier.
Underneath his street clothes are a pair of prosthetic legs, as well as a pair of Jockey boxer briefs.
Van Etten is one of the three faces (and bodies) representing a new Jockey International campaign titled “Show ’Em What’s Underneath” developed to mark the company’s 140th anniversary.
According to company spokesperson Matthew Waller, the ad concept “celebrates the spirit of individuality; people’s true colors...imperfections and all.”
For Van Etten, the company’s message is a perfect fit.
The maker of underwear and apparel that got its start in Kenosha marked the start of its new campaign with a visit by Van Etten to its flagship store in downtown Kenosha Tuesday morning.
Here Van Etten, 25, shared his journey from battlefield to ad campaign trail.
The son of military parents, Van Etten, then living in the St. Louis area, signed on with the Marines in 2009 right after high school. His first deployment included Okinawa and Guam; for his second, in 2012, he was sent to Afghanistan.
On June 13 of that year, he was helping a fellow marine who had just been hit by an improvised explosive device when a second IED went off, severely damaging both his legs.
After surgery at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC, Van Etten began his journey of recovery in San Diego, Calif. It was, by his own admission, a bit rocky for a while. “There was a lull when I hit a low point,” he said.
Van Etten pulled out of his slump when he began working out at a gym. “A light bulb went off; I realized that as a double amputee I wanted to give something back; I wanted to spread the message that everyone is special and has a purpose,” he said.
He took some modeling jobs, but many of these missed the mark. “A lot of people didn’t care about my message, they wanted to exploit me,” Van Etten said.
Earlier this year, a friend sent him a casting call from Jockey International seeking an amputee veteran. He accepted the job before finding out the premise of the campaign.
“After Jockey told me what the campaign was actually about, I got excited,” Van Etten said.“Jockey wants to show ‘what’s underneath’ and that is the image of strength and what people can do.”
Van Etten’s personal goals are to remain active and healthy. He enjoys playing wheelchair lacrosse and since 2014 has been involved with Homes for Our Troops, an organization that builds specially adapted houses for severely disabled veterans. He is also currently engaged and in the fall plans to begin business school in San Diego.
Following Tuesday morning in Kenosha, Van Etten was on his way to Milwaukee to throw out the first ball at the Brewers-Dodgers game, and from there on to promotional stops in New York, Washington DC, San Diego and Los Angeles.
“I like to think I’m capable (of) doing anything,” Van Etten said.
Jockey’s three spokespersonsChris Van Etten is one of three people chosen to represent the Jockey International’s “Show ‘Em What’s Underneath” campaign, in celebration of the company’s 140th anniversary.
In print, television and website ads, Van Etten is joined by Lisa Cusimano, a firefighter, and Michael Cottone, a new adoptive father.
The stories of each of the spokespersons, as well as their themes, are shown on videos on the company website. Cusimano’s title is “Show ’Em Courage, Cottone’s is “Show ’Em Family” and Van Etten’s is “Show ’Em Perseverance.”
The video stories can be viewed at: www.jockey.com/showem. | positive |
A review of Joe Burn's book, Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America.
In a noted 2008 essay, Mark Fisher reflected on the pervasive sense of capitalism’s permanence, a feeling he termed “capitalist realism.” But despite its gloomy tone, the piece ended on a note of hope:
The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.
For Occupy Wall Street, the hole in the curtain was definitively torn open on October 14. In the dead of night, when word went out that Michael Bloomberg was sending the police to Zuccotti Park to force an end to the month-long occupation, an emergency call for help went out from OWS. In response, New York City’s Central Labor Council urged its 1.3 million members to rush to the square to protect the encampment from the cops, and by early morning roughly a thousand people, including hundreds of trade unionists from the Communications Workers, SEIU and the Teamsters, had gathered and linked arms in defense.
On nearby Liberty Street, a cop was overheard asking a colleague: “How are they going to arrest all these people?”
The same question was dawning on City Hall. As the crowds gathered, according to the New York Times’ reconstruction of what followed, the Bloomberg machine was besieged by “an intensifying sense of alarm.” “This is not going in a good direction,” a state senator warned the mayor’s aides over the phone. Calls poured in through the night from officials who feared “that sending scores of police officers into the park would set off an ugly, public showdown that might damage the reputation of the city as well as its mayor.” In the end, of course, Bloomberg blinked and that morning’s raid was called off – giving the occupiers and their defenders not only a crucial month-long reprieve, but the unfamiliar and exhilarating feeling that they could defeat New York City’s massed forces of guns and money. What happened that morning was important: the occupiers had defied the laws of private property — and through the power of numbers and solidarity they had gotten away with it.
A lot of the younger contingent in Occupy Wall Street had never had many dealings with the unions that had rendered this act of solidarity. And despite the promising, if halting, attempts at cooperation, many of them – especially those who consider themselves to be on the movement’s radical edge – are openly dismissive of unions. And why shouldn’t they be? Not only has the organized section of the working class shrunk relentlessly to just 12 percent, but by all appearances its organizations long ago turned into the kind of hopelessly desiccated simulacra of resistance that young radicals and proto-radicals avoid like the plague. In the public mind, union “activism” in recent years has been associated with images of defeat: hundreds of identically t-shirted workers bused in to forlorn protests on the National Mall; stultifying rallies featuring scripted speeches delivered in front of slogan-printed backdrops; and the occasional kabuki “strike” that seems more like a sullen and oddly masochistic PR stunt than an instance of direct action.
But while it is easy to see the external qualities that make the labor movement appear to be just another feature in the landscape of capitalist realism in the eyes of the young advocates of militant direct action, few really understand how this situation came about. How did a movement, a practice, that once could inspire radicals with street battles and occupations, bravura feats of solidarity and heroism – that once tore holes in the curtain of capitalist hegemony almost as a matter of course — morph into the slick and routine management of decline personified by Andy Stern?
There are shelves of books on labor history that recount important aspects of this story, from state repression to working class racism to party politics. But a little book published this year by Joe Burns, a union negotiator in Minneapolis, demystifies what is probably the most tangible element in modern labor’s aura of lifelessness: the virtual disappearance of the strike. And in telling the story of the strike’s disappearance, Burns inadvertently reveals that young radicals who scorn unions and the aging bureaucrats who run them have more in common than one might think.
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At the center of Burns’ story is what he calls “the traditional strike,” which was the heart of trade union activity from the beginnings of labor history until its virtual disappearance after the 1970s. The crucial characteristic of the traditional strike — its sole reason for being — is that it forces capital to stop production. Although this fact may seem slightly obvious, its significance for both workers and radicals has been largely forgotten.
In the earliest days, when the labor movement was dominated by skilled craft workers who could not be easily replaced, a strike could simply consist of workers putting down their tools until their employers had met their demands. But with the advent of mass production, the majority of workers were now unskilled or semi-skilled and simply walking out on their jobs would only get them fired and replaced with scabs. Therefore, the strike became a military confrontation in which workers had to physically prevent the restarting of production using scab labor. Hence the images of confrontation that run through American labor history: The Homestead strike, where thousands of workers lined the riverbeds to defend the town against invading Pinkertons. The urban streetcar strikes of the early twentieth century, featuring “a new form of guerilla warfare, with hand-to-hand combat, night raids, cavalry charges, fighting from rooftops and behind barricades, and retreats in which the wounded were evacuated under heavy cover.” Or the 1934 Toledo Auto-Light strike, where picketers “broke into the plant and battled hand-to-hand to force the company, which had hired 1500 scabs, to stop production.”
The traditional strike was an open and unabashed physical attack on the private property rights of the capitalist, and this fact was never denied by the mainstream leaders of the trade union movement. Perhaps the most convincing feature of Burns’s account is that despite the author’s personal identification with the radical strand of the union tradition, he goes out of his way to draw on examples from the most conservative figures in labor history: the Samuel Gompers, the Dave Becks, the George Meanys. These leaders not only accepted but took for granted that the labor movement must use or credibly threaten to use force to shut down capitalist production and that without this tool, nothing could be achieved by the trade union movement. “A strike can only be effective if and when it brings about a cessation of production. It is an absolute interference on the part of workers with the right of employers to make profit.” So said Homer Martin, the conservative former Baptist minister handpicked by the Gompersite AFL leadership to serve briefly as the first UAW president (before being overthrown by a more militant faction).
Radical tactics could only exist with a radical theory to support them. The act of blockading a private building in defiance of the police, the resort to forceful measures against scabs, are acts so deeply at odds with the law-abiding instincts of most people – working class, middle class or otherwise – that they will not do them without a clear account in their own minds of why such behavior is justified. That is why in the era of the traditional strike the labor movement was obliged to hold and propagate a counter-capitalist ideology based around the simple slogan that “labor is not a commodity” – the notion that it is illegitimate to treat human labor as something to be bought and sold for a market-clearing price, and that striking workers are therefore justified in using all necessary means to disrupt its sale. From the nineteenth century until well into the 1950s, this rallying cry was so ubiquitous in the world of mainstream, non-socialist unions as to be a platitude. A simple Google Books search shows the phrase littering the pages of union journals from the Gilded Age onward. Walter Reuther was hardly a fiery radical, but when confronted with proto-neoliberal arguments about the sanctity of the free labor market, as he was on one occasion in 1953 while testifying before Congress, his ready-made reply was crisp: “Labor is not a commodity which you go and shop for in the free market place.”
Unions not only believed stopping production was their sole effective means of striking; they considered it to be, ultimately, their only source of power. Again, this notion was a truism, enshrined in college labor textbooks. A 1956 industrial relations text baldly stated of “the strike, the boycott, and the picket line” that “there can be no collective bargaining, if, from the union’s standpoint it cannot utilize these means.” As late as 1980, a labor economics text explained simply: “The union’s ability to strike, and thus halt the employer’s production, is essential to the collective bargaining process….t is the potential of a disruption in production that induces employers to strive to effectuate agreement with the union.”
All this should give some sense of why the near disappearance of the production halting strike since the 1980s is a phenomenon of such far-reaching importance.
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A large section of Burns’s book is devoted to meticulously tracing the path that led to today’s situation. Companies entered the post-WWII period sufficiently scarred by the militancy of the 1930s and sufficiently cowed by popular acceptance of working class direct action that an “unspoken norm” developed, according to which management responded to any breakdown in collective bargaining by shutting down production on its own. This prevented the outbreaks of violence and embitterment associated with strikes and provided a calm atmosphere in which negotiations could take place.
But meanwhile, during this period of relative harmony, the judicial and political systems were quietly and insidiously entrapping the unions in a little understood web of repressive measures that collectively make up what Burns calls “the system of labor control.” The system, which developed gradually from the late 1930s through the 1960s, functions as an organic whole. No one piece destroyed the strike on its own; rather, each element carefully reinforces all the others. One of the system’s remarkable aspects is how juridically unorthodox it often is: as law scholars regularly point out, many court decisions clearly contradict the stated text of the National Labor Relations Act. Meanwhile, labor legislation often resorts to startlingly coercive state intervention to achieve its capitalist ends. The system is too elaborate to explain here in full, but a few details will give a flavor of how it operates.
The most familiar element, the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, explicitly made solidarity a crime by outlawing the secondary strike — the crucial technique of striking or picketing in support of workers at another firm. In one blow, the production-halting potential of strikes was drastically curtailed. Tellingly, under current law, peacefully standing outside a toy store handing out fliers urging a boycott is considered protected speech if done by a college anti-sweatshop activist; but it is an illegal act subject to fines and arrest if done by a union worker employed in a striking shop.
The traditional capitalist insistence on freedom of contract was swept aside in the 1959 Landrum-Griffin Act, which declared null and void voluntary agreements between an employer and a union exempting the workers from handling “hot cargo” — that is, products made in struck shops.
Over the years, a series of court decisions have ruled on the “intermittent strike.” This is a particularly effective technique in which workers strike for only an hour or two without physically leaving their jobs, making orderly management practically impossible while leaving workers largely invulnerable to replacement by scab labor. The intermittent strike has been ruled to be an unprotected strike act and therefore punishable by firing. But the finding so clearly runs counter to the literal text of the National Labor Relations Act that judges have been all but forced to admit that their real objection to the technique is its effectiveness. As one federal appeals court wrote, an intermittent strike “unreasonably interfere[s] with the employer without placing any commensurate economic burden on the employees.”
These measures placed serious obstacles in the way of successful strikes. But the real ticking time bomb of labor law was the Supreme Court’s 1938 decision in [i]NLRB vs. Mackay Radio giving employers the right to permanently replace striking workers. One of the most criticized decisions in legal history, the “Mackay doctrine” discovered a previously unknown distinction between “discharging” striking workers – which the court acknowledged was not permitted by the NLRA – and merely “replacing” them permanently with scabs. As a result of this decision, the United States remains one of the few democratic countries in the world where strikers can be permanently replaced.
Once capitalists regained the initiative in the 1970s and 1980s, permanent replacement was the critical weapon that allowed them to go on the offensive. The postwar gentleman’s agreement that companies would shut down their own production rather than risk a confrontational strike came to an abrupt end. Now management actively sought to provoke strikes, with the intention of keeping production running and permanently replacing the workers, thereby getting rid of a union once and for all. Almost overnight, striking became a suicide mission for workers. The strike rate collapsed.
There are still strikes, of course, now and then. But they tend to be strikes of a new kind. Recent years have witnessed the growth of the “one-day strike,” for example, in which the union announces that it will strike for a day and then come back to work. The aim of the one-day strike is simply to generate publicity; it has no real value in stopping production. It would no doubt mystify Samuel Gompers if he were here to see it, to say nothing of Bill Haywood.
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Since the 1980s, the very idea of the production-halting strike has gradually dropped out of circulation among labor leaders. Today it is virtually forgotten. In its place has sprouted a panoply of alternative panaceas for restoring labor’s strength – social unionism, community partnerships, the focus on organizing — all of which avoid the central issue. In discussing this evasion, Burns scores the timidity of the dominant thinking within the labor movement. Yet in doing so he (inadvertently) calls to mind something unexpected: the ironic parallel between the anti-union radicalism within the Occupy movements and the well-ensconced union bureaucrats themselves.
In a crucial passage, the author astutely sketches the contradictory profile of the labor “progressives” who have taken leadership roles throughout the AFL-CIO in the last fifteen years. These figures have brought desperately needed changes to the labor movement’s stance towards immigrants, race, women, and foreign policy. And yet he concludes:
During the late 1970s and 1980s, when many of these activists entered the labor establishment, the leadership of most international unions was intensely conservative and hostile to progressive ideas. Working within a labor movement that lacked an aggressive or cohesive left wing, many formerly progressive policymakers accepted the new, management-centric order that was being created within the movement by the employer onslaught of the 1980s. Adapting their own ideas to match this new conservative reality, these activists created the one-day strike, the corporate campaign, and social unionism—tactics that functioned comfortably within the existing structures imposed by management and the legal system. As a result, for the past two decades, many of these “progressives” have been essentially pushing a pragmatic, non-confrontational agenda, whose main ideas can be summed up as follows:
Unions must only fight within the bounds of the law
1. Workers and the workplace are not at the center of the struggle
2. Middle-class progressive staffers know more than workers and thus should take a lead role in union strategy
3. Progressive union staffers do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers
4. Building organization, rather than confronting management, should be labor’s main mission
5. One can accept the fundamentals of capitalism and still devise effective trade union tactics
6. Ultimately, workers must rely on the power of the government in order to make gains
7. Militancy is naïve and should be marginalized
8. To argue that unions need to break free from the current labor system is too radical
“Taken together,” he concludes, “these ideas amount to an extremely conservative philosophy of trade unionism, a philosophy that would have been summarily rejected by previous generations of union leaders, on the left and right.”
Meanwhile, today’s generation of young radicals, like the progressive labor bureaucrats have spent all of their formative years living in the era of capitalist realism — the era of There is No Alternative. And it’s perhaps for this reason that each tenet of the union bureaucrat philosophy that Burns recounts finds its distorted mirror-image in the views of the young anti-union radicals. After all, the prevailing attitude in certain precincts of the Occupy movement is that unions by their very nature will never break the law. That workplaces are not at the center of the struggle. That middle-class intellectuals and full-time activists should take the lead role in strategy and that these groups do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers. That building “communes,” rather than confronting capital, should be the movement’s main mission. And, above all, that one can tacitly resign oneself to the permanence of capitalism and neoliberalism and still devise effective movement tactics. The irony is poignant. When Burns writes that “conservative trade unionists such as Samuel Gompers were more radical than even today’s labor left,” the same could be said of many of the Occupy movement’s young intellectuals.
What is refreshing about Burns’s approach is that he rejects the fatalism of both the union bureaucrats and anti-union radicals. Instead, he makes a practical yet audacious proposal for breaking free from the system of labor control so that workers can once again directly challenge the dominance of their employers’ property rights.
He argues that a militant current within the existing unions could support the creation of independent worker organizations possessing no assets and no property. These organizations would be able to violate Taft-Hartley and other laws: to strike and organize using tactics that defy the authorities and target the shutdown of production without fear of losing years of accumulated strike funds in lawsuits or court fines. There are precedents: the Mineworkers’ sponsorship of Communist-led steelworker organizing in the mid-1930s; the establishment of AFL federal unions in the same period, most of whose members ended up joining the CIO. The basic concept was even endorsed by the American Federation of Teachers in a 2005 memo on possible future labor strategies.
The idea is straightforward, but it is sufficiently unconventional and risky that it is hard to imagine it happening in the absence of a, once-in-a-generation radical upsurge. Burns published his book last May — four months before the occupation of Zuccotti Park. Since then, a radical mobilization that many of us doubted we would see in our lifetimes has erupted. If we, as activists, students and intellectuals are serious about challenging capitalism, we will ask how we can help to foster a militant rank-and-file led workers’ movement. Because there are millions of them and far fewer of us. And without mass radicalization within the working class, sooner or later the oppressive curtain of capitalist realism will descend on us once again.
Seth Ackerman, a doctoral candidate in History at Cornell, is an editor at Jacobin. He has written for Harper’s and In These Times, and was a media critic with Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting.
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