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SERBIA and Croatia have agreed to ease the flow of migrants over the border between the countries after thousands of people, including children, were forced to spend the night out in the open in near-freezing temperatures along a muddy border passage.
The interior ministers of Serbia and Croatia said they will start moving migrants by train directly from Serbia to Croatia so that they will not have to cross on foot, often travelling miles in rain and cold weather.
Migrants will register when they enter Serbia and will be able to cross into Croatia without any delays, which should speed up the process significantly, ministers said.
“We have agreed to stop this torture,” said Croatian interior minister Ranko Ostojic. “There will be no more rain and snow, they will go directly from camp to camp.”
Further west, thousands of migrants aiming to reach northern Europe walked out of refugee camps on the border between Slovenia and Austria on their own, frustrated after waiting long hours in overcrowded facilities.
Eager to move on, thousands spread around along railway tracks, highways and mountain roads. Confused and unaware which roads to take to go west, some migrants later turned back and returned to the refugee camps to wait for bus transport to other locations.
Tensions have been building after the so-called Balkan route shifted. Migrants still cross first from Greece into Macedonia and then Serbia, but now go via Croatia and Slovenia instead of Hungary, which has erected fences along its borders with Serbia and Croatia.
Overwhelmed after nearly 50,000 migrants crossed in just a few days, tiny Slovenia said it has not ruled out erecting a fence of its own along parts of its 400-mile border with Croatia.
Prime minister Miro Cerar said yesterday that Slovenia will consider all options if left to cope on its own with the influx of thousands of people.
“Our sights are foremost on finding a European solution,” said Mr Cerar. “But should we lose hope for this ... all options are open within what is acceptable.”
The country of two million people already has deployed 650 army troops to help the police manage the flow and has asked the European Commission for an aid package, including €60 million in financial aid and police gear and personnel. Several EU nations have promised to send police officers to help Slovenia’s force. | positive |
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Grizzlies cheerleader wins rib-eating contest at Memphis in May News Sports Southern Miss Life Opinion Obituaries eNewspaper Legals Meet the Memphis Grizzlies cheerleader who smoked the rib-eating competition Jennifer Chandler Memphis Commercial Appeal View Comments When Lainey Abone stepped on the stage to compete in the Prairie Fresh Rib Rumble on May 13, she didn't appear to be much of a threat. This 5-foot, 5-inch Memphis Grizzlies cheerleader was dwarfed in comparison to the large fellas she sat between on the second night of the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. Could she really eat more ribs than the other four competitors? Oh, yes, she could. This petite dancer shocked everyone (including herself) when she demolished the competition (and the ribs) by eating "2 pounds, 18 ounces" of ribs in 5 minutes. "It was completely unexpected, but so cool. It will definitely go down as one of the most memorable experiences of my life," Abone said. "I guess you should never underestimate the power of a woman, especially when she’s hungry." Abone had not intended to compete in a rib-eating contest that day. She was at Memphis in May to work a shift at the Grizzlies tent. Midafternoon, two men walked into the tent and said they were looking for one more competitor for that evening's contest. MEMPHIS IN MAY:Meet the winners of 2021 World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest FOR SUBSCRIBERS:Memphis in May: From a cracked bridge to COVID, a barbecue contest like no other | Beifuss "They said they were looking for someone different ... someone with energy," Abone said. "My friend kept nudging me and saying, 'Lainey, please do this!'" Abone said she was hungry and decided to give it a go. "I hadn't eaten that day and was starving," she said. "I just went for it and didn't look at anyone around me." She seemed as shocked as everyone when her name was announced as the winner. Memphis in May organizers said they randomly chose five people from the crowd to participate on both May 13 and 14. Each contestant had a pan of ribs cooked by Melissa Cookston with Memphis Barbecue Co. MEMPHIS BARBECUE:'It's ludicrous': Memphis in May BBQ teams slam study saying Bluff City isn't best in BBQ WCBCC 2021:Smokin' Booths: Here's a look at the Memphis in May Best Booth winners Each pan is pre-weighed and contestants have 5 minutes to eat as many ribs as they can. After the 5 minutes, the pan of ribs is weighed again. The person who eats the most Prairie Fresh ribs during the contest is declared the Rib Rumble winner. Abone and Nate Russell, May 14's winner who was visiting from Virginia, went on to compete against the 2019 winner Tony Gibbs from Jackson, Mississippi, on May 15. Russell won the final round. Abone said she would definitely participate in an eating competition again. "My friends kept asking, 'Where did you put it all?'" she said. "I think my win helps break the stigma of someone petite or on a dance team not being an eater." Jennifer Chandler is the Food & Dining reporter at The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at jennifer.chandler@commercialappeal.com and you can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @cookwjennifer. View Comments About Us Staff Directory Careers Accessibility Support Site Map Legals Our Ethical Principles Terms of Service Privacy Policy Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy Do Not Sell My Info / Cookie Policy Contact Us Support Local Businesses Advertise Your Business Advertising Terms and Conditions Buy and Sell Licensing & Reprints Help Center Subscriber Guide My Account Give Feedback Subscribe Today Newsletters Mobile Apps Facebook Twitter E-Edition Storytellers Archives RSS Feeds Jobs Cars Homes Classifieds Education Reviewed 10Best Reach Local USA TODAY Sports+ © 2022 www.hattiesburgamerican.com. 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In Monster Zoo, I try to keep cards balanced according to their cost to acquire. Cards with stronger effects typically have higher costs and weaker cards have lower costs. However, after a few rounds of play testing Monster Zoo, I realized that some cards in the game were out of balance. A few cards felt really strong and could easily sway the game towards a player’s favor quickly. And a few cards seemed really weak, when played they had little effect on the game or felt too expensive to acquire.
One of the best discussions I could find on the topic of balance is a lecture from Ian Schreiber on Transitive Mechanics and Cost Curves. In the lecture, Ian talks about breaking down all the individual effects of your game into two things: costs and benefits. By doing this, you can get a sense of how balanced all the components of your game are relative to each other. If a particular item has a much higher benefit to cost ratio than other similarly costing items, then you know something is out of balance.
Here’s how I went about applying this principle for Monster Zoo.
First I broke out every single card into it’s individual effects. For example, the card Whompo Boogly has the following stats: “+2 Food. Zoo Effect: Draw an extra Card this turn.” This card has two unique effects:
Food Gained
Zoo Effect that Draws Cards
After identifying every effect, I then gave a rough benefit score to each effect in relation to other effects. Then I added up the value of every benefit per card, giving me a benefit total score.
Now I have a rough cost / benefit comparison for each card. But it’s hard to really get an idea of where some of the cards might be unbalanced.
This is where a cost curve (basically a visual representation of your cost / benefit) comes in handy. Charting out the cost / benefit of all the cards gives me this:
With this, I can see that there are a few cards that are unbalanced in a few ways:
There are cards with a cost of 3 that have less benefit than some cards with cost of 2. (Underpowered)
There are cards with a cost of 5 that have less benefit than some cards with cost of 4. (Underpowered)
There are cards with a cost of 4 that have more benefit than some cards with cost of 5 or 6. (Overpowered)
There are cards with a cost of 6 that have much higher benefit than the natural cost curve. (Possibly Overpowered)
Let’s look at two specific examples.
One of the cards that seemed overpowered in play testing was Fifi Oogly. This card has the following stats:
Cost: 6
Benefit: 9
Gain +2 Food
Monsters cost 1 less Food to catch this turn.
Zoo Effect: Monsters cost 1 less Food to catch this turn.
Based on the cost curve, you can see that this card has much more benefit than it’s cost. So we have two options here, we can increase the cost or we can reduce the benefit. I happen to think it’s a fun card to play with, so I’ll likely test increasing the cost.
Here’s another card, Yummli Oogly. In play testing, this card seemed weak and no one really wanted to acquire this card. Here are the stats:
Cost: 6
Benefit: 5
Double all Food gained this turn.
While this card seems like a really strong card, it definitely is below the curve. If you compare it to a card like Chunky Oogly which has the following stats:
Cost: 3
Benefit: 4
Gain +2 Food
Draw an extra card this turn
You can see how Yummli Oogly is fairly weak, on the cost curve it is seriously below everything else with a cost of 6. Having 2 Chunky Ooglies would be much better for the same cost. In this case, I might add an effect to Yummli Oogly to get it back in balance.
Some guidelines for creating your own cost curve and using it to balance your game: | positive |
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Carol personally took most of the photos below and readily admits she has yet to develop photography skills. However, she hopes the before and after photos below capture for you the benefits of wearing a hair colour that is aligned with your optimal colour palette.
Some of the benefits include:
A slimmer and more refined facial shape and jawline.
A more vibrant and healthy glow.
Harmony and balance between skin and hair colouring.
A more youthful appearance.
Vibrant and sparkling eye colour.
Professional appearance.
Lines, texture and any skin imperfections on the face are diminished.
Your hair colour choice does not overpower YOU (also known as our eyes are more naturally drawn to focus on your face as opposed to your hair).
1. Warm Spring – From Blonde to Warm Strawberry Blonde
This Virtual Colour Analysis client purchased the Comprehensive Package. Carol analyzed her to be in the Warm Spring seasonal colour palette. One aspect covered in this Skype consultation is discussing your optimal hair colours and how to transition to your optimal hair colours. During the consult, Carol recommended to this client that she transition from her blonde hair colour to a warm strawberry blonde. The client sent us an update with the attached before and after photos.
***Note: this client was in the process of correcting her eyebrows that where coloured incorrectly.
2. Warm Autumn – Returned to medium warm brown, hair colour completed by Carol Brailey
This hair colour client visited Carol after putting blonde in her hair for approximately 1.5 years. She had initially put blonde in her hair to help hide the greys.
3. Deep Autumn – From Blonde to Brunette, hair colour completed by Carol Brailey
This client is in the Deep Autumn seasonal colour palette. Blonde hair colour is not in the optimal colour palette for Deep Autumns, whereas brown is in their optimal hair colour palette. She went from blonde to brown hair colouring on March 28, 2015 after 17 years of highlighting her hair blonde.
4. True Summer – From Warm to Ash Medium-Deep Brown, hair colour completed by Carol Brailey
This hair colour client is within the True Summer seasonal colour palette. Warm hair colouring does not align with True Summers – cool dark to medium brown ash or blonde ash are optimal.
5. Muted Summer – From bright blonde to brown, hair colour completed by Carol Brailey
Muted summers best suit soft (not bright) hair colouring. Ideally a neutral-ash combination. This particular client chose to align her hair colour choice with her natural hair colour. The photos below are the professional photos taken for her business before and after working with Carol.
6. From bright blonde to a muted brown, hair colour completed by Carol Brailey
Soft (not bright) hair colour recommended for this client by Carol. She had been colouring her hair since 2002 with a hair colour that was not aligned with her optimal colour palette.
7. Deep Winter – No blonde recommended, hair colour completed by Carol Brailey
Blonde is not an optimal hair colour for Deep Winters. Deep browns or in some cases, black is most optimal.
8. True Summer – From Very Warm Blonde to Primarily Ash Blonde, hair colour completed by Carol Brailey
This hair colour client participated in Carol’s “What’s Your Seasonal Colour Flag?” photo series on Facebook. When Carol approached her and colour analyzed her on the spot, it was very obvious her warm blonde hair colour was completely mis-aligned with her True Summer colouring. The client followed up and booked a hair colour appointment with Carol. | positive |
Poll: Clinton barely ahead of Trump nationally
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are pictured. (Photo: Getty Images)
Hillary Clinton holds just a slight advantage over Donald Trump nationally, but her lead grew tighter when third-party candidates are added into the race.
A Quinnipiac University Poll out Wednesday found that when Clinton and Trump were one-on-one in a national general election matchup, she held a 4-point lead over the billionaire, 45% to 41%.
That number tightens even more when Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein were added. When all four candidates were factored in, the former secretary of State had 40%, Trump had 38%, Johnson had 5% and Stein got 3%.
The Trump-Clinton matchup had a noticeable gender gap. Fifty-one percent of men went Republican, while 35% of men went Democratic. Meanwhile, 54% of women surveyed backed Clinton, while 30% supported Trump.
There is some good news for Bernie Sanders in the survey. The Vermont senator led Trump in a general election matchup 48% to 39%. However, with Democrats he lagged behind Clinton 53% to 39%. In the Democratic delegate race, Sanders is hundreds of delegates behind Clinton when superdelegates (party leaders and elected officials) are included.
The Quinnipiac poll of 1,561 registered U.S. voters was conducted May 24-30. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 points. The poll of Democrats included 678 voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 points.
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17 xenophon Member TWC has quite a bit of WiFi in KC too... ...but is not free to public. Have to have existing TWC account. Will Austin be free to anyone or only for those who already have TWC account?
iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Austin, TX ·Time Warner Cable
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iansltx Member Re: TWC has quite a bit of WiFi in KC too... I'm sure that, like your northeastern CableWiFi installations, it'll be customer-only. Otherwise you just get GFiber's free tier and then use WiFi elsewhere.
Though, to be fair, my bet (and Jason Calacanis's) is that Google will have a Fon-like hotspot network made up of every single GFiber Austin customer, running at 5 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, made available for free to anyone, not just GFiber customers.
xenophon
join:2007-09-17 xenophon Member Re: TWC has quite a bit of WiFi in KC too... said by iansltx: Though, to be fair, my bet (and Jason Calacanis's) is that Google will have a Fon-like hotspot network made up of every single GFiber Austin customer, running at 5 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, made available for free to anyone, not just GFiber customers.
quote: Google will install, at their expense, WiFi antennas at over 400 locations in Kansas City. While the WiFi can be set up to be free for the public to use, Google's spokesperson said, "Its really up to the discretion of the public building managers." »www.neowin.net/news/goog ··· sas-city
Downtown KCMO is installing hundreds of new streetlights that are designed to host multiple WiFi ISPs. This says Google's WiFi in KC will be (optionally) free to anyone...Downtown KCMO is installing hundreds of new streetlights that are designed to host multiple WiFi ISPs.
xenophon xenophon Member
»www.twcableuntangled.com ··· ee-wifi/
It's free to existing TWC users with a free trial to non-TWC users but $3/hr after trial. Not a bad offer but this is nothing new or specific to Austin, is available in a few other TWC cities. According to...It's free to existing TWC users with a free trial to non-TWC users but $3/hr after trial. Not a bad offer but this is nothing new or specific to Austin, is available in a few other TWC cities.
FFH5
Premium Member
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Tavistock NJ FFH5 Premium Member TWC has 2 yrs to get ready and lock in users TWC will push to get new customers on their footprint thru triple play deals and other incentives. And then will offer retention inducements as Google starts to roll out. They will lose some customers, but most people will be too lazy to switch.
sticks435
join:2004-05-25
Kansas City, MO sticks435 Member Re: TWC has 2 yrs to get ready and lock in users said by FFH5: TWC will push to get new customers on their footprint thru triple play deals and other incentives. And then will offer retention inducements as Google starts to roll out. They will lose some customers, but most people will be too lazy to switch.
Yea, I got an email saying my intro/promation was about to expire. If I can get them to give me a 1 year contract, I'll take that because by that time GFiber should be in my area of KC.
dfxmatt
join:2007-08-21
Cary, IL dfxmatt Member Re: TWC has 2 yrs to get ready and lock in users it's as clear as day an "oh shit, we have competition" that offers magically start showing up now.
Spiral JP
John Paul
Premium Member
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Nevada City, CA Spiral JP Premium Member Minor deployment so far It could also be that, as Milo Medin announced at the recent Broadband Communities Summit in Dallas, Google has only connected about 4,000 homes in Kansas City KS thus far.
xenophon
join:2007-09-17 xenophon Member Re: Minor deployment so far
BTW, there are some interesting Google conditions for condo highrises. Apparently 70% of a building must signup (for actual service, not preregistration) or the condo association has to pay for cabling the building...
»forum.kcrag.com/viewtopi ··· art=1340 Yeah I dont see TWC and others making a move until GFiber is more broadly rolled out.BTW, there are some interesting Google conditions for condo highrises. Apparently 70% of a building must signup (for actual service, not preregistration) or the condo association has to pay for cabling the building...
sticks435
join:2004-05-25
Kansas City, MO sticks435 to Spiral JP
Member to Spiral JP
That's only half the city though. Right now Downtown Kansas City MO is also a part of it and there are ALOT more people there than in Kansas City KS, but it's also the poorer part of the city, so I'm guessing once it gets rolled out to the suburbs, you'll see alot more people signing up.
xenophon
join:2007-09-17 xenophon Member Re: Minor deployment so far The downtown income and Plaza, Ward Parkway to Brookside in MO is higher than most burbs, but E Side is low. KC, KS income is the lowest in metro. Is curious Google selected some of lowest income areas of KC metro first, though many parts are high income.
TBBroadband
join:2012-10-26
Fremont, OH TBBroadband Member Re: Minor deployment so far cause when nobody in the lower income areas can pay for install to get even the free services or pass a credit check- Google can say we'll we offered it but nobody wanted it.
KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium Member
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Tulsa, OK KrK Premium Member Re: Minor deployment so far I doubt that's the reason, but it could very well be that they are seeing what kind of demand they might expect in a so called "low" income area.
I think most people would be surprised.
iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Austin, TX iansltx to TBBroadband
Member to TBBroadband
Um, you sound like you're talking about an attempted trial by AT&T, not Google. Google actually WANTS people to use their next-gen infrastructure. | positive |
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By Lyle Bateman
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
From a perspective of some six centuries later, it’s pretty easy to see the revolution inherent in the idea of movable type and the printing press. Once a hugely expensive endeavor confined to the scriptoriums of only super-wealthy patrons, book production was suddenly a fraction of the cost.
Books, once highly valued original works of art, could now be copied en-masse… once the valued property only of the rich, the printing press brought books, language, and learning within reach of the masses. The first printing press was to books and literature what the first assembly line was to Ford and automobiles… the means to mass-produce what was once a unique work of art. Through that mass production, the democracy of ideas took a huge step forward.
It’s always dangerous to talk about current technology in such sweeping, grandiose ways. With things like the printing press, we have the luxury of hindsight to guide our analysis, but current technology is a more tenuous matter. Yet, over the past few years, a technology-based phenomenon has been spreading through the Internet, a phenomenon that perhaps speaks as fundamentally to the marketplace of ideas as the printing press.
If one of the main things we got from movable type was the ability to move scholarship and ideas to more and more people, then the huge rise of weblogs over the past few years is certainly achieving the same goal. Through software like Movable Type, WordPress, and others, combined with open-source Web servers and ubiquitous internet connections in the western world, the act of publishing is slowly moving out of the concentrated hands of a few, and into the hands of everyone.
This not a debate about the end of books, but rather about a change in the way ideas can be distributed. With online Web services like WordPress.com, blogspot.com and others offering free blogs to anyone with an Internet connection, knowledge of servers and domain names isn’t even necessary… anyone with something to say can have a platform to say it very easily and conveniently.
Even just a decade ago, presenting ideas to a mass market was concentrated in the hands of a very few, relatively speaking. Ironically, the same mass-production that served to bring books and ideas to masses, over time mutated into an industry that limited the amount of input from the masses and thereby limited their participation in the marketplace of ideas to observers.
For good or for bad, blogs have changed all that. Anyone with something to say can find a voice on the Web if they want it. Finding your audience is a bit trickier perhaps, but people with something to say, and who say it well, typically find people to listen, as well. No longer is there a huge publishing cost, editors, or marketers involved in publishing your ideas to mass audience. Through blogs, the marketplace of ideas finally becomes a truly immersing experience for anyone who wants to participate.
Of course, that opens up a series of problems, along with the opportunities. Some of the services the publishing industry provides are editing, quality control, and filtering. Blogs are unfiltered and often unedited, which certainly opens us to the possibility of bad information and poor quality. But one of the tricky parts of quality control, especially in something as tenuous as ideas, is that we all have a different notion of what constitutes good quality. In the publishing industry, much of that quality selection goes on behind the scenes, outside the control of the public, except through their buying habits… with blogs, readers can seek out their own choices, and set their own standards of quality.
It’s always difficult to predict what the future will hold… check out some of the posts over at Modern Mechanix for proof of that… but it seems clear that for the moment, blogs are changing the way we exchange ideas.
Back in the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg moved the printed word and ideas out of the hands of the privileged few, and closer to the hands of the general public. Now, in the first part of the 21st century, blog systems like WordPress are allowing more and more people not only to share the ideas of a few published writers, but of anyone who feels they have something to say. The printing press gave the ideas of the select few to the general public, but blogs allow the general public to exchange ideas directly. If that’s not a step forward in the democracy of ideas, I don’t know what might be. | positive |
In case you hadn't heard, there's this little ol' thing called the MLB Draft happening this week, starting today. While this event may not have the hype of the NFL Draft (although there may still be booing Jets fans in the MLB Network studios), it has all of the intrigue for those that follow the game.
Let's do a little role play. I'm going to pretend to be Moneyball's Paul DePodesta (or Jonah Hill/Peter Brand in the movie version). I say "pretend" because he's pretty much a genius, and I'm pretty much an idiot. It's a match made in heaven.
The reason we turn to DePodesta here is because of his infatuation with the statistics of collegiate MLB Draft prospects. He and Beane believed that collegiate prospects were safer bets when it came to the draft because they provided a larger statistical sample size from which to evaluate. It means, in this situation, we get more numbers to play with, so I'm just smitten.
Let's take a look at some of the top collegiate hitters in this year's MLB Draft class. It's not going to be anything near comprehensive, and these guys aren't necessarily the top position-player prospects. It's just some dudes that put up silly stats in college that could make an impact for your favorite team in the near future. If you want a more complete list, Baseball America has a complete list of the top 500 draft prospects because they are disgustingly awesome. Now let's get to it.
A.J. Reed, 1B, Kentucky
Errrybody, strap in, because we're not starting it off easily with this stats thing. If you're prone to drooling, heart arrhythmia, or unexpected bowel movements upon seeing disgusting stats, please stop reading now. I warned you.
Reed was named Collegiate Baseball's Player of the Year largely because he posted numbers more reminiscent of an entire team than an individual. He leads all of Division-I with 23 bombs, which was more than the total number of jacks that 193 schools hit. That ain't right, doe. He also leads the nation in slugging percentage at .735 and recorded a .336 average with a .476 on-base percentage. If you were to project his 73 RBI's over 162 games, he'd be at 191. In addition to all of this, he still walked more times (49) than he struck out (48).
Oh, I forgot to mention. He can also pitch, and he chucks it like a beast. Reed finished the year with a 2.09 ERA over his 16 starts, going at least eight innings eight times and at least seven innings 12 times. He's (I'd assume) not going to pitch at the next level, but this man is talented.
Trea Turner, SS, North Carolina State
Turner finished the season with an impressive .321 average and .418 on-base percentage for a shortstop, but that's not what landed him on this list. In addition to that, Turner blasted eight bombs, recorded a .516 slugging percentage, and stole 26 bases on 30 attempts. Tools on tools on tools.
In his three years with the Wolfpack, Turner stole 113 bases, setting a program record for stolen bases in only his 94th game. His .418 on-base was the lowest of his three years after posting marks of .432 and .455 his freshman and sophomore seasons respectively. Translation: he's not too bad at this baseball thing. Some team is going to get a bonafide stud at short in this guy.
Max Pentecost, C, Kennesaw State
If you are the type of person that enjoys surfing the NCAA Baseball statistical leaderboards instead of, you know, having a life, you're probably familiar with this name. Pentecost didn't just lead the nation in hits at 110. He had nine percent more hits than any other player in the entire nation. Jake Noll of Florida Gulf Coast was second with 101. Only three players had 100 or more (Jacksonville State's Griff Gordon being the other), and Pentecost had 110. Sweet.
Pentecost used those 110 hits to post the second-highest batting average in the nation at .423. He was also in the top 10 nationally in doubles with 23. This earned him the Louisville Slugger First-Team All-American nod over Indiana's Kyle Schwarber (who easily could have been on this list, as well) and has made Pentecost one of the top catching prospects in quite some time.
Beyond the hits and batting average, Pentecost also clubbed nine home runs and stole 17 bases in 19 attempts. His final slash of .423/.483/.631 is the stuff of dreams, and he should see his fulfilled as a first round pick Thursday.
Casey Gillaspie, 1B, Wichita State
Even though he's the younger brother of White Sox third-baseman, Conor Gillaspie, Casey may already be the best hitter from the Gillaspie household. Dude posted some ill numbers this year at Wichita State, hitting .389/.520/.682 with 15 doubles, 15 home runs and eight stolen bases. He also walked 30 more times than he struck out (58 to 28)! Get it, son! The best part? He's a switch hitter with pop from both sides.
Gillaspie has continued his dominance even against the stiffest of competition. Playing for the Falmouth Commodores in the Cape Cod Baseball League last summer, Gillaspie was named to the CCBL All-Star team. He led the league in home runs with eight during the regular season and banged one in the playoffs as well. He finished with a .321/.402/.521 slash in a league notorious for its pitching. Not too shabby, young pup. It shouldn't take too long for this guy to climb the ranks and join Conor in the big leagues after he's drafted.
Michael Conforto, OF, Oregon State
After being named a Perfect Game First Team All-American and the Pac-12 Player of the Year as a sophomore, expectations were high for Conforto heading into 2014. I think you could say he exceeded them.
This year, Conforto was a fixture on the base-paths. In 272 plate appearances, Conforto reached safely 137 times, giving him an on-base percentage of .504. His 20.2 percent walk rate makes him a guy that the aforementioned DePodesta would slobber all over. Add in his 16 doubles, 2 triples and 7 home runs to go with 52 runs scored, and you've got yourself a baller.
To go with all of this, Conforto also has a hose in the outfield. He picked up nine outfield assists as a sophomore in 65 games and 7 more this year in 59 games. This, combined with his delectable on-base percentage, made Conforto another All-American nod this year, and should make him a tasty addition to any team's farm system. | positive |
OTTAWA—Ten months after winning the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives, Patrick Brown will put a bigger stamp on the party this weekend. About 1,600 members from across the province are expected at the PC annual meeting, where they will begin work on a “grassroots” platform for the 2018 election after four consecutive losses to the scandal-prone Liberals, including a 2014 rout.
Finding his feet: Progressive Conservative Party Leader Patrick Brown asks his first question in the legislature. Brown wants to put his imprimatur on the party after what was a divisive leadership campaign. ( Richard Brennan / Toronto Star file photo )
Tories hope to put a fresh face on the party with a “re-branding” effort to be unveiled Saturday and Brown will signal his own policy priorities in an evening speech. But several sources said the party will also have to move past simmering tensions between the leader’s office and some MPPs in the wake of the leadership race in which a majority of caucus supported Christine Elliott, who resigned her Whitby-Oshawa seat in August. “The party’s trying to settle down and find itself,” said former Cambridge Tory MPP Rob Leone, now an assistant professor of political science at Western University in London.
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“When push comes to shove, the party has to realize the infighting isn’t going to help them. They need to find a common thread and a way to beat the Liberals.” Brown flatly dismisses talk of a rift between Ottawa-area MPPs Lisa MacLeod, the party’s only urban female caucus member, and Jack MacLaren, who has been sussing out potential challengers for her nomination, many sources have told the Star. Brown flatly dismisses talk of a rift between Ottawa-area MPPs Lisa MacLeod (Nepean-Carleton), the party’s only urban female caucus member, and Jack MacLaren (Carleton-Mississippi Mills), who has been sussing out MacLeod’s riding on behalf of potential challengers to her nomination in the 2018 election, many sources have told the Star. “As far as I know that’s not the case,” Brown said, throwing his support behind MacLeod, who accompanied him on a January trip to India, where the two were photographed riding an elephant. “Lisa has my full support as party leader and I’m endorsing her re-nomination,” Brown added. “I think she’s an asset.”
He promised a bottom-up policy process driven by members in hopes of avoiding another campaign debacle such as former leader Tim Hudak’s unpopular promise to cut 100,000 public sector positions. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Brown needs to do a better job of defining himself for voters given the lack of firm policies, which will take a year or two to flesh out.
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“At this point in time, nobody really knows anything about Patrick Brown, what his intentions are or where he’s headed,” said Horwath, who has led the New Democrats since 2009. Leone warned of a continuing danger that the Liberals will define Brown — a backbench Conservative MP for Barrie under former prime minister Stephen Harper for nine years — before his own party and platform do. The Liberals show every intention of doing so. “Despite Mr. Brown saying that he’s taking a very moderate approach, when you look at the facts, he’s surrounding himself with all his old Harper friends,” said Liberal MPP Marie-France Lalonde (Ottawa-Orleans). She was referring mainly to Rick Dykstra, the defeated St. Catharines Conservative MP who will be acclaimed PC president on Sunday. There will be other federal overtones at the convention as at least one potential Conservative leadership candidate, Muskoka MP Tony Clement, will host a hospitality suite at a downtown hotel where hundreds of delegates are staying.
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KATHU IS BEST KNOWN FOR the huge mining industry in the Northern Cape and of course our famous Camelthorn forest. The forest is only one of two in the world and has awareded protected status by the government. GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN AT standing next to the huge trucks at the shell garage when you enter Kathu from the N14. these are old and Kumba Iron ore (old Sishen) have much bigger ones now. THE BEST PICTURES CAN BE TAKEN on the Sishen Golf Course where lots of wedding and family pictures has been taken with breathtaking outcomes. WHEN THE WEATHER’S GOOD, WE LIKE TO laze by the pool or have a braai in our lovely boma with friends and family. WHEN THE WEATHER’S BAD, WE LIKE TO sit by the fireplace or go shopping at the Village Mall. I THINK THE BEST TIME OF YEAR TO VISIT IS March, April and October, November, BECAUSE it is not so extremely hot and the days are lovely. Our winters are really very very cold which is unexpected for the Kalahari. MY FAVOURITE BREAKFAST SPOT IS Albatross Restaurant on the golf estate. FOR LUNCH, WE ALSO SUGGEST the Albatross as the view onto the golf course is one surely to treasure. MY FAVOURITE RESTAURANT IS difficult to say because we are very limited with good restaurants in Kathu, we do not really have a favourite one, as each restaurant brings it own vibe. The restaurants available in Kathu are: Albatross Restaurant – Kalahari Country Club Gourmet Pub & Grill – Shoprite Centrum Tshimo Gardens and Nursery Coffee shop – Opposite Engen garage Spur – Kathu Village Mall Wimpy – Kathu Village Mall. FOR A NIGHT OUT ON THE TOWN there is really not a lot to do, rather have a braai at friends place. IF YOU WANT TO MEET LOCALS, GO TO go to Sishen Golf Club or The Pitch Inn at the golf club. Kathu’s BEST KEPT SECRET IS the Kalahari gholf en jaglandgoed on the famous sishen golf course. MY FAVOURITE THING TO DO WITH FRIENDS IS playing golf and having a coffee to chat. TO RELAX AND RESTORE MY SOUL, I LIKE TO spend time on the golf course. MY FAVOURITE WEEKEND GETAWAY IS going to Witsand Nature Reserve, about 130km from Kathu. I Love Kathu Because they say you only cry twice in Kathu. The day you arrive here, and the day you might leave Kathu. We have been here for 8 years and will not leave Kathu. You still have a quality life here in Kathu, children riding there bicycles in the streets, playing in the parks with almost no crime (only petty crime). This is the heart of the green Kalahari. 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bigheadtaco.com: Lens Review: Fujifilm XF56mm f/1.2 R APD Monday, February 2, 2015 Lens Review: Fujifilm XF56mm f/1.2 R APD 1/1100th sec f/1.2 @ ISO 400. Classic CHrome Jpeg The Fujifilm XF 56mm f/1.2 R APD is a great lens. It's not because it's the sharpest, or has the best colour or an array of other sought after features. It's great because it's unique. Not unlike much of the Fujifilm X series cameras and lenses, Fujifilm stands out as different and this gives their cameras and lenses an edge over every other brand. Why? Because when you shoot with most 85mm equivalent portrait lenses, everyone seems to be aiming for the same effect in the same exact way. Not Fujifilm. They remind me of Minolta in the 80s and 90s with their Dynax-Maxxum series of cameras and lenses. They were trend setters and made unusual cameras and lenses that puzzled many (9 blade circular aperture, programmable hold buttons on the lenses, flare cutter aperture, Smooth Trans Focus technology (apodization tech!), AF 500mm mirror lens, etc.) but had a huge legion of fans that liked their unique approach. In fact, this apodized lens by Fujifilm is the same technology that Minolta introduced on their 135mm STF lens in the 90's (although the Minolta could alter the secondary aperture to change the bokeh), further proving my connection between Minolta and Fujifilm. How effective is this APD technology, and is it worth paying an extra $500 to get it? Let's find out 1/240th sec f/1.4 @ ISO 800. Provia Jpeg. Yash of This Open Space 1/2900th sec f/2 @ ISO 3200. Provia Jpeg. Pablo of El Kartel. So the first thing you need to know about this lens is that it's tricky to shoot with it on the street. It's great as a studio lens or if you primarily shoot portraits or headshots. I'm thinking wedding photographers and fashion photographers. Not that a street photographer couldn't have one of these lenses and find it useful, but I would recommend having either a second body or another camera to capture the wider stuff. But when you do find something or someone to shoot, this lens is AMAZING!! I love this lens. It's great. When the focus is right, the image is tack sharp, but try not shooting at f/1.2 while on the street as you'll misfocus 50% of the time (unless you're shooting things across the street). It's not because there's a problem with the lens or the autofocus system, but because the depth of field is so shallow that even an inch of movement from either you or your subject will make for an out of focus image. However, with a stable subject, I found I was happiest at f/2-2.8, and manual focus override on the new X series bodies makes it easier to make small adjustments. Also, since the X-T1 now has an electronic shutter that goes up to 1/32,000th sec speed, you can shoot wide open and still get the shot. Thanks Fujifilm. 1/350th sec f/3.6 @ ISO 800. Provia Jpeg. Amir, street photographer I always use the standard XF 18-55mm lens as the benchmark and I found a few things. The XF18-55mm is quieter when focusing and it seems faster and more accurate. My guess is because of the huge amount of glass that has to be moved on the 56mm lens, it just takes longer and is louder. However, I found that comparing all the primes against the 18-55mm, I seem to find the same results. It's not that the AF and focus speed isn't adequate on the primes. I think it just points to how awesome the standard lens is. In terms of the apodization effect, you can see that it's subtle, but it's there. I like that Fujifilm wasn't too aggressive, although if they could have found a way to be able to adjust the APD effect like Minolta did with their STF technology, that would have been even better. For now, the quality of the effect is very good. Lenses should have character and a unique look, and it's value not just based on focal length and maximum aperture. The APD technology does change the technical aperture number and effect (f/1.2 isn't really f/1.2), but we'll talk about that later. Fow now, let's just say the lens is great and the APD technology is unique and effective. 1/125th sec f/2.8 @ ISO 1600. Classic Chrome Jpeg Maybe it's just me, but I also noticed that using a medium telephoto lens, especially when shooting people makes me shoot vertical. I don't enjoy shooting vertical in my pictures, although it's not like I'm against it. I just don't think I do a very good job at it. I see things cinematically, like a movie. I don't see vertical. My favourite aspect ratio is 21:9 horizontal. However, when it came to shooting people, without thinking I would go vertical and be pretty impressed by the results. Just remember that with this focal length, you're a solid 8-10 feet away from your subject, which is something I'm not use to (I typically use my iPhone for street photography)... unless you want to capture someone's nose hairs (which you easily can with this lens). Below is a picture of Priscilla Yu (aka Brickgirl) and you can clearly see the pores on her nose and individual eye lashes, but the DOF is so shallow that her hair is out of focus, and that's at f/2.8 (although effectively f/3 with the APD filter). 1/320th sec f/2.8 @ ISO 800. Provia Jpeg. Priscilla Yu, artist I also found this lens effective for shooting across the street to compress and flatten images, as well as shooting nature and urban landscape. I can see a really talented street style photographer (think Saul Leiter) do amazing things with this lens. For me, I would love to see Fujifilm expand this APD technology at other focal lengths, perhaps a 35mm f/1.2 R APD? Now that would be an amazing lens to play around with as a street photographer. You can get portraits and still get close street shots at that focal length. What do you think Fujifilm? Overall, I give this lens a big big thumbs up. If I am a dedicated Fujifilm photographer and I shoot portraits and care about the out of focus area, then this is the go to lens for you. If you already own the non APD version of this lens, you'll have to decide if its worth the extra $500. Both lenses will take amazing pictures, but the APD version will have more character and style. Straight of the camera jpegs will look like you did some LR magic. I didn't check the size and weight but they seem very similar. Also remember that the aperture number on the APD version is technically incorrect in terms of the equivalent amount of light allowed in, which affects the depth of field. If you go to B&H and have a close up view of the lens, you'll see there's two sets of aperture markings. The white is the technical f-stop (focal length to effective aperture diameter), and the orange gives you the real world aperture once you factor in the APD filter. It's not a big deal to most, but if you're choosing between the APD and non-APD version, this may make the decision for you. One major complaint: I hate the look and feel of the plasticky lens hood. At least make it half metal and plastic, instead of all plastic. Even better, square it off at the front and give it some style, but do something. I was embarrassed to use it. Blah! Ok, let's move on... 1/28,000th sec (e-shuuter) f/1.2 @ ISO 400. Classic Chrome Jpeg Moreover, as a prime lens shooter, if I were to chose only 3 lenses from the XF line lenses, I would take the 14mm, 23mm, and it would either be the 35mm or the 56mm. However, after playing with this APD version of the XF56mm f/1.2, I would surely take this lens. I love the character of this lens, and I'm sure your pictures will thank you for it too. However, I'll say it again, if Fuji comes out with a 35mm f/1.2 R APD lens.... Thanks to Fujifilm Canada for the loan, and I look forward to the upcoming release of the XF 16-55mm f/2.8 R LM WR lens. Now this lens is going to be great with the X-T1 Graphite Silver! Have you guys considered a prime WR lens though? I have to mention it again for all my prime lens fans, including myself. Happy shooting everyone! Please enjoy my video review of the X-T1 Silver Graphite with the XF 56mm f/1.2 R APD lens at Jan Kath Vancouver in the Railtown Design District: Check out my First Impressions of the XF 56mm f/1.2 R APD lens here Check out my original review of the XF 56mm f/1.2 R here Check out my full review of the X-T1 here Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: camera review, Fuji X-T1 Graphite Silver, Fuji XF 56mm f/1.2 R APD, fujifilm, lens review, YouTube 11 comments: Anonymous February 4, 2015 at 4:14 PM When referring to a decade (70s, 80s, 90s) you do not need an apostrophe between the '0' and the 's' because it is not a possessive or a contraction. Basic English grammar. ReplyDelete Replies Bigheadtaco February 5, 2015 at 7:28 PM Thanks Anonymous. Thank you for your grammar lesson. I should know this stuff since I majored in English. However, like complaining about a bad wax-job on a sports car, how was the actual ride? Any constructive complements or criticism of the actual content of my review and/or pictures? If not, I will just assume you only look to tear people down and not build them up, which is cool, since I don't actually have to know you. Delete Replies Reply Anonymous November 21, 2015 at 6:55 AM While I think its better to suggest grammar fixes in private, email and all, a statement like "However, like complaining about a bad wax-job on a sports car, how was the actual ride?" ignore the fact that you are a writer in addition to being a reviewer. Delete Replies Reply Reply Anonymous February 4, 2015 at 5:43 PM Thank you for your review, i really enjoy your blog and videos! keep them coming :) ReplyDelete Replies Bigheadtaco February 5, 2015 at 7:30 PM I appreciate it. It's hard trying to keep up with everything but I do enjoy doing it. I'm a few articles backed up but should be caught up by month's end. Thanks again and happy shooting! BHT Delete Replies Reply Reply Anonymous February 6, 2015 at 4:24 PM Hi BHT. No, not at all do I look to tear people down. No offence meant. I love what you are doing and appreciate it very much, especially as I have just dumpted all my Canon gear and joined the Fuji set, so stumbling across sites like yours is a blessing. Keep up the good work. But English is my major too so these things jump out at you. Sorry if I caused offence. ReplyDelete Replies Bigheadtaco February 6, 2015 at 5:02 PM Anonymous, I understand, no harm done. I appreciate comments, praises and criticism. Like I said, I did make the correction (thank-you). However, it is nice to know that grammatical errors isn't the only thing you found worthy of commenting about. I actually love a good counter argument. Thanks and I appreciate you writing back. Delete Replies Reply Reply Anonymous February 6, 2015 at 4:29 PM See, we all make mistakes. :) I should check what I type before I publish. It should read "dumped". 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NLRB Investigates Claims of Post-Lockout Union-Busting at Honeywell Plant
Last Wednesday, a National Labor Relations Board agent arrived in Metropolis, Ill., to investigate unfair labor practices charges made by uranium workers who work at a Honeywell International facility there. The workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 7-669 who went back to work for the multinational energy and security company last August after a long lockout, charge that the company has sought to illegally limit the union's power and failed to follow the terms of their new three-year contract.
On the USW local's website, union members claim that Honeywell has attempted to limit their free speech about workplace conditions and has forbidden workers from talking to other workers about safety problems. They also say the company has violated the new contract by failing to comply with the grievance procedure and laying off union members before laying off nonunion contractors hired during the lockout. And the union claims Honeywell has engaged in a campaign to fire key union members.
The first charge—that the company has threatened workers over anti-management information on the union's website—is the most contentious. On one occasion, the union posted that Honeywell paid for $65,000 worth of landscaping done at the house of the plant manager Larry Smith. “Who can count all the times that Lying Larry told us, 'Containing costs is everyone's responsibility'? Apparently, all the unionbusting initiatives and deceit has paid off. Honeywell received and paid the invoice for Larry's $65,000 landscaping job,” members of Local 7-699 wrote on their website.
Union local members claim that Honeywell management asked who wrote the posts, and voiced disapproval of them. The union refused to give any names.
On another occasion, the union wrote on its website that several workers complained to the company that facility maintenance manager Tommy Barnes called an African-American supervisor the "n-word,” but the company did nothing about it. The union was then contacted by a corporate investigator who demanded to know the name of the person who had been posting about the racial slur allegedly used by a supervisor and the alleged landscaping payment. The union once again refused to give up the names of the people who were posting on the website.
According to Local 7-669 spokeman Stephen Lech, Derek Bartholomew, human resource manager for the Metropolis plant, called in Local President Darrell Lillie and Vice President Tim Goines and threatened to fire both of them if they did not reveal who was writing on the website. Eventually, the company backed down from such threats after African-American union members complained about the lack of action being taken against the supervisor, union officials say.
Honeywell did not return requests for comments for this story.
One of the charges the NLRB is investigating pertains to whether Honeywell violated the National Labor Relations Act by forcing employees to keep quiet about safety hazards. Last month, four different employees complained about a fire safety hazard in the uranium plant. The workers were soon forced by Honeywell management to sign documents forbidding them from speaking about these hazards to other employees, according to Local 7-669.
The union also charges that Honeywell violated its new contract by laying off two union employees before letting go two contractors who began working during the lockout.
Furthermore, the union charges that the company has not been obeying the grievance procedure when the union protests a contract violation; instead the company forces the union to send the case to arbitration—i.e., third-party mediation.
“Every day we catch them doing stuff in violation of contract, but we can’t afford to arbitrate all of them,” says Lech. “They are trying to run the union broke, moving everything to arbitration. It costs the local $8,000 per arbitration.“ The main cases that the local has decided to arbitrate are related to the firings of three union activists.
Seven months after the 13-month lockout at Honeywell ended, some unionists are losing faith in their union's ability to protect them.
“We are going down the road to decertify [the union], because many workers are not happy with contract. It’s not able to be enforced,” Lech says. “We as a union are going to have to take some sort of action to stay alive. We are going to our members and saying. 'Are you ready to go through what we just went through and are you ready to provoke them?'"
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Research that uses powerful gene-editing techniques on human embryos needs to be restricted, scientists agree — but they are split over why.
Some say that if safety fears can be allayed, such applications could have a bright future, and could help to eradicate devastating diseases. Others say that modifying the DNA of embryos, which means that the changes could be passed on to future generations, is an ethical line that should not be crossed.
The concerns are laid out in an article1 published in Nature on 12 March and in one expected to appear in Science, amid suspicions that scientists have already edited the genes of human embryos.
Gene-editing techniques use enzymes called nucleases to snip DNA at specific points and then delete or rewrite the genetic information at those locations. Most recently, excitement has focused on a technique called CRISPR/Cas9, which is particularly easy to use. Current applications of the technology are in non-reproductive, or somatic, cells: for example, Sangamo BioSciences of Richmond, California, has used zinc-finger nucleases, an older gene-editing technology, to remove a gene from white-blood cells that encodes the receptor to which HIV binds to enter the cells.
But concerns focus on the use of gene editing to modify the genomes of eggs and fertilized eggs — a process known as germline modification.
Edward Lanphier, president of Sangamo and chairman of the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine in Washington DC, together with colleagues from both organizations, wrote the Comment article1 in Nature calling on scientists not to modify human embryos, even in research. The authors warn that such work could be exploited for “non-therapeutic modifications” — to change a child’s eye colour, for example — and that a public outcry about such an “ethical breach” could hinder the use of gene editing in somatic cells.
They also have more basic objections. “We are humans, not transgenic rats,” says Lanphier. “We believe there is a fundamental ethical issue in crossing the boundary to modifying the human germ line.”
George Church, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, agrees that there should be a moratorium on embryo editing, but only “until safety issues are cleared up and there is general consensus that it is OK”. Church, along with a group of scientists who met in Napa, California, in January to discuss the ethics and potential of the procedure, authored the piece for publication in Science detailing their concerns.
One concern is that nucleases could make mutations at locations other than those targeted, potentially causing disease. Church says that gene editing in animals is likely to reveal how to understand and avoid this complication. In one application, his group is editing genes related to the immune system in pig embryos to ‘humanize’ them, potentially allowing the pig’s organs to be transplanted into people.
Other indications of safety will come from trials on somatic cells. Sangamo has already demonstrated the safety of its modified white-blood cells in a clinical trial of people with HIV2.
Church sees no fundamental problem with editing the germ line — he notes that even the somatic-cell therapies are still a form of artificial modification. He compares gene editing in embryos to in vitro fertilization, which people objected to until it was shown to be safe.
“In the distant future, I could imagine that altered germ lines would protect humans against cancer, diabetes and other age-related problems,” says Nobel-prizewinning geneticist Craig Mello of the University of Massachusetts in Worcester. In the nearer term, “there could be good reason to experiment with discarded embryos or embryonic stem cells for research purposes”, he says.
But Lanphier says that for most cases in which parents carry disease-causing genes, not all of a couple’s embryos will carry the faulty gene. Existing technology can be used to genetically screen and select healthy embryos before transplantation into the uterus, negating the need for permanent germline repair. “There are almost always alternatives,” he says.
Church, however, says that for the growing number of known cases in which several genes are involved in a disease, most embryos need to be discarded. Editing would greatly increase the odds of getting a healthy embryo.
Dana Carroll, a geneticist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City who was at the Napa meeting, says that a national agency such as the US National Academy of Sciences should convene a conference that includes medical professionals and the interested public to weigh up the positive and negative aspects of germline editing. They had better hurry: several researchers who do not want to be named told Nature’s news team that papers describing such work are currently being considered for publication in journals.
Carroll also cites the importance of educating the next generation of physicians about gene editing. “They should be learning now what the technology is able to do and what the social, as well as clinical, concerns are.” | positive |
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Before he was disgraced into resigning his presidency over the Watergate burglary scandal, Richard Nixon had successfully engineered an even more odious plot known as his Southern Strategy. The trick was devilishly simple: Appeal to the persistent racist inclination of Southern whites by abandoning the Republican Party’s historic association with civil rights and demonizing the black victims of the South’s history of segregation. Ad Policy
That same divisive strategy is at work in the Republican rejection of the Affordable Care Act. GOP governors are largely in control of the 26 states, including all but Arkansas in the South, that have refused to implement the act’s provision for an expansion of Medicaid to cover the millions of American working poor who earn too much to qualify for the program now. A New York Times analysis of census data concludes that as a result of the Republican governors’ resistance, “A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help. …”
Why anyone who claims to be pro-life would want to deny health care to single mothers is an enduring mystery in the morally mischievous ethos of the Republican Party. But the exclusion of a working poor population that skews disproportionately black in the South is simply a continuation of the divide-and-conquer politics that have informed Republican strategy since Nixon.
The game plan of gutting the Affordable Care Act despite its passage into law and before its positive outcomes are demonstrated can be traced to a “blueprint to defunding Obamacare” initialed by the GOP conservative leadership under the aegis of Heritage Action for America. Ironically that is the political front of the Heritage Foundation, the leading GOP think tank that is credited by some architects of Obamacare as the initial inspiration of their health care program. The difference is that whereas the Heritage Foundation was pushing a mild health care reform based on increased profit for private insurers, as in the plan Mitt Romney introduced in Massachusetts, the Republicans object to the provisions in this president’s program that broaden access for the needy.
They were abetted in this decision by a Supreme Court ruling last year granting the states the option of not expanding Medicaid to cover the uninsured under the new act. As a consequence, 8 million of our fellow Americans with annual incomes of less than $19,530 for a family of three have been prevented from obtaining the health care coverage that we as a nation decided to grant them.
It might seem odd for governors to reject a program to help those living in their state that is fully funded by the federal government for the first few years and then 90 percent covered by the feds thereafter. But turning down a federal program to aid your own state’s population makes perfect sense when connected with the racist appeal initiated by Nixon that has turned the once Democratic South into a rock solid Republican bastion. There are certainly many whites among the 435,000 cashiers, 341,000 cooks and 253,000 nurses aides who the Times estimated will be denied needed health care in the states controlled by Republican governors who have decided to veto the most important provision of the Affordable Care Act.
In the end, this is a replay of the civil rights drama that gripped the nation more than half a century ago, but back then the Republican Party, following the enlightened leadership of Dwight Eisenhower, was on the humanitarian side of the equation. Now the elected leaders of a party that has been on the side of emancipation since the presidency of Abraham Lincoln acts to deny the basic human right to life-sustaining health care to the Southern progeny of slaves. As the Times study noted: “In all, 6 out of 10 blacks live in the states not expanding Medicaid. In Mississippi, 56 percent of all poor and uninsured adults are black, though they account for just 38 percent of the population.”
But that also means that almost 44 percent of the poor and uninsured in Mississippi are white, and the gutting of this program that hurts them is evidence of the false consciousness that informs racist appeals. As the Times points out, someone, black or white, making $11,000 a year frying chicken in a convenience store falls into the gap of making too much to qualify for the state’s existing Medicaid program but not enough to be subsidized under the new health care plan as the state defines it. For those who lose out, there’s what the Republican die-hards call tough love. That’s not love. It’s hate.
Zoë Carpenter outlines the GOP blueprint to sabotage Obamacare. | positive |
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Ensure proper movement of light and air inside their house. Keep different aged quails separated from each other. Separate the disease affected quails from the healthy one. Burn the dead bird or put under soil. Don’t allow other birds, animals or unknown persons to enter inside the quail house. Ensure hygienic and balanced feed supply. Provide adequate fresh and clean water according to their demand. Read also: Factors affecting poultry meat quality Marketing Quail meat and eggs are very tasty and highly enriched with nutrient elements.So there is already an established market for quail products. As quail birds and their eggs are small in size, so it is cheap in price and all types of people can purchase. So it is easy to sell quail meat and eggs in the local market. 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Duck River Selects DVI for Full Deployment of EDGE® Volt/VAR Optimization Platform - Dominion DVI Dominion DVI Business Cases Energy Efficiency CVR Demand Voltage Reduction Volt/VAR Optimization The EDGE Advantage Products Edge® Planner Edge® Manager Edge® Validator EDGE® Analytics Patents News About Home Business Cases Energy Efficiency CVR Demand Voltage Reduction Volt/VAR Optimization The EDGE Advantage Products Edge™ Validator Edge™ Manager Edge™ Planner EDGE® Unity (PF) News About Jul 28 2015 Duck River Selects DVI for Full Deployment of EDGE® Volt/VAR Optimization Platform RICHMOND, Va., July 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Dominion Voltage, Inc. (DVI), a grid optimization subsidiary of Dominion Resources, Inc., (NYSE: D) announced full deployment of its industry-leading Volt/VAR optimization platform with Duck River Electric Membership Corporation, served by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). “We expect that this project will generate energy savings from 2 percent to 4 percent annually and help accelerate the deployment of AMI at Duck River,” said Michael Watson, president and CEO-Duck River. “The deployment of this technology will allow us to take advantage of TVA’s CVR incentives to meet energy efficiency goals and generating savings for our members without requiring a change in usage behavior. It’s win-win for the co-op and for our members.” “We are proud to partner with Duck River and to be working in the TVA territory to enable the utilities in this region to achieve the true potential of their investment in AMI,” said Todd Headlee, DVI’s executive director. “DVI’s EDGE technology leverages the smart grid network for Volt/VAR optimization and voltage stabilization, which leads to a more efficient grid.” This project is an important component of Duck River’s smart grid initiatives and will enable the utility to evaluate the benefits of optimizing their distribution system voltage for the purposes of energy efficiency, Volt/VAR optimization, and voltage stabilization. The EDGE® deployment began in June and is expected to be complete within two years. About DVI DVI is a leading provider of grid analytics and control technology, providing solutions for energy efficiency, demand response, volt/VAR control, and system reliability. DVI’s patented approach plans, manages and validates utilities’ investments in grid optimization programs while delivering significant savings to both utilities and their customers (US patents 8437883 and 8577510, and other US and foreign patents pending). For more information about DVI, visit www.dvigridsolutions.com About Dominion Dominion is one of the nation’s largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 24,600 megawatts of generation, 12,200 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline, and 6,455 miles of electric transmission lines. Dominion operates one of the nation’s largest natural gas storage systems with 928 billion cubic feet of storage capacity and serves utility and retail energy customers in 13 states. For more information about Dominion, visit the company’s website at www.dom.com or Dominion Energy Solutions at www.DominionEnergy.com About Duck River Duck River EMC, a Touchstone Energy® cooperative, is a not-for-profit, member owned organization providing electric and other services to more than 71,000 homes and businesses in southern Middle Tennessee. Duck River EMC serves an area of approximately 2,500 square miles in Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Marshall, Maury, Moore, Rutherford, and Williamson counties in southern Middle Tennessee. Sign up to receive Dominion news releases via email: http://dom.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=26682 Twitter Facebook RSS DVIinfo@dvigridsolutions.com | +1.855.RUN.EDGE (786.3343) | Privacy Policy | Copyright ©2022 DVI. LinkedIn Twitter Facebook RSS Feed | negative |
Baghdad: Iraqi finance minister Hoshyar Zebari has said that the Daesh is smuggling Iraqi and Syrian oil via Turkey, and called it the richest terrorist group in the world.
“Daesh controls a number of oilfields in Syria and Iraq and they smuggle this oil overland through trucks, through middlemen to Turkey or towards other countries,” Zebari told Al Jazeera news channel Friday.
After an accounting of banks under Daesh control, Zebari said that Daesh is now believed to have looted about $500 million from Mosul, Tikrit and other cities, saying it was “the richest armed group in the world”.
He said Iraq was trying to crack down on Daesh financing, including oil smuggling.
“The air campaign targets these facilities in Syria and in northern Iraq in order to deprive them of this revenue but they have enormous financial resources; they are paying recruits good salaries, better than what we can afford to pay ours,” he added.
“And this is one element of the strength of this organisation. It’s not purely an underground terrorist organisation. It has an agenda it wants to control. It wants to rule.”
He also rejected comments by US officials that the fight against the Daesh could take years.
“Contrary to what many people think, I don’t think this will be a long drawn out battle,” the minister said.
The comments came after the Iraqi army managed to liberate two key districts in the city of Samarra on Friday.
He added that coordination between Iraqi forces and the US-led coalition is the key to the success of the offensive against the radical group. | positive |
Campaigning for President Barack Obama in Philadelphia on Monday afternoon, former President Bill Clinton struck a note of irony while attempting to criticize Mitt Romney’s campaign.
“You’re laughing, but who wants a president who will knowingly, repeatedly tell you something he knows is not true?” Clinton asked, after discounting a claim in a recent Romney ad that the Obama administration’s auto bailout hurt American workers.
“When I was a kid, if I got my hand caught in the cookie jar, where it wasn’t supposed to be, I turned red in my face, and I took my hand out of the cookie jar,” Clinton added.
Clinton was impeached in 1998 on one count of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice, after repeatedly telling Americans and a grand jury that he did not have sexual relations with a White House intern.
“You’ve got to give it to Governor Romney. When he gets his hand caught in the cookie jar, he just digs down for more cookies,” Clinton said Monday, to applause. “I want you to send him a message tomorrow. You don’t have to be from Ohio to want your president to tell you the truth, when it comes to jobs for the American people.”
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InvestorCentric: Mortgage Counselors Face Uphill Battle InvestorCentric The news and information that matters to real estate, small business and alternative investors. Thursday, November 1, 2007 Mortgage Counselors Face Uphill Battle From the Associated Press: “Counselors help homeowners examine their finances, what it will take to catch up with payments, if that's feasible, and how the foreclosure process works. They also work with lenders, often spending hours trying to reach the right representative. Urban jokes that he has passed so time on hold he can play ‘name that tune’ with the canned music that's played. Officials worry counselors may quit due to burnout or better jobs just as demand is soaring, said Meg Burns, director of the single family program development office for Housing and Urban Development. ‘I don't think people fully appreciate the pressure that's being put on those counselor organizations today,’ she said. ‘Everybody's pointing to counseling as ... (an) end-all be-all solution to this crisis and here we have all these nonprofit organizations struggling to provide services without adequate funding.’” From the San Francisco Chronicle: “Mortgage lenders rarely help homeowners struggling with rapidly increasing adjustable mortgages, according to survey of 33 California housing counseling agencies released on Wednesday… …Politicians, banking regulators and consumer advocates have urged lenders to avert foreclosures through loan modifications. Banks in turn have publicly embraced the concept but have not provided statistics to show how common loan modification actually is… …’The most striking thing that came out of this (study) is that there is a huge chasm between what the lenders are stating, which very well may be their policies, and what's happening on the ground. That clearly works to the detriment of homeowners and their communities.’” From RIS Media: "The upward trend of calls to the Homeownership Preservation Foundation’s Homeowner’s HOPE Hotline continues, with counselors fielding almost 60,000 calls in the third quarter of 2007. This doubles the call volume from the previous quarter and represents a more than ten-fold increase from the same quarter in 2006." Posted by: NuWire Investor @ 10:28 AM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: economy, real estate No comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Previous Posts Loading... Archives Archives July 2014 (1) May 2014 (1) March 2014 (1) February 2014 (1) November 2013 (1) September 2013 (1) March 2013 (3) February 2013 (3) January 2013 (4) December 2012 (2) November 2012 (3) October 2012 (3) September 2012 (3) August 2012 (5) July 2012 (3) June 2012 (4) May 2012 (6) April 2012 (4) March 2012 (4) February 2012 (3) January 2012 (5) December 2011 (5) November 2011 (6) October 2011 (10) September 2011 (11) August 2011 (8) July 2011 (11) June 2011 (5) May 2011 (4) April 2011 (13) March 2011 (3) February 2011 (6) January 2011 (30) December 2010 (43) November 2010 (39) October 2010 (40) September 2010 (42) August 2010 (44) July 2010 (43) June 2010 (44) May 2010 (38) April 2010 (42) March 2010 (45) February 2010 (40) January 2010 (40) December 2009 (45) November 2009 (42) October 2009 (45) September 2009 (44) August 2009 (41) July 2009 (45) June 2009 (45) May 2009 (43) April 2009 (37) March 2009 (38) February 2009 (34) January 2009 (39) December 2008 (39) November 2008 (40) October 2008 (34) September 2008 (21) August 2008 (22) July 2008 (22) June 2008 (31) May 2008 (34) April 2008 (36) March 2008 (41) February 2008 (45) January 2008 (28) December 2007 (25) November 2007 (44) October 2007 (16) Simple theme. Powered by Blogger. | negative |
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City Council Meetings Planning and Zoning Commission Meetings MyArlingtonTV Programming MENU City of Arlington » News » MyArlingtonTX » News Archive » 2016 Archived News » May 2016 » 5th Annual Art on the Greene Festival Kicks Off Friday Side Navigation Skip Sidebar Navigation Athletes Compete at Special Olympics Texas Summer Games in Arlington Arlington Celebrates Groundbreaking of $30 Million Downtown Library Traffic Update: Green Oaks Boulevard Repaving Project Begins Arlington ISD to Host Paraprofessional/Auxiliary Job Fair on June 7 Pantego, Arlington to Conduct Targeted Ground Spraying for West Nile Virus June 1 Community Invited to Central Library Groundbreaking Ceremony on Tuesday Officers Conducting “No-Refusal” Enforcement for Memorial Holiday Weekend Texas Cancer Research Grant Helps UTA Recruit Promising Young Biology Researcher Seniors Enjoy a Dose of Pet Therapy Memorial Day Closings and City Service Schedules Registration Open for Inaugural Tiny Tots Triathlon in Arlington AT&T Stadium to host all 2016 Football Championship Games Traffic Update: Abram Street Closure Near SH 360 on Saturday Library Summer Reading Club Begins June 4 Councilwoman Visits Capitol Hill with Other NLC Members to Urge Infrastructure Investment Bad Königshofen, Randol Mill Pools and Splash Pads Open Memorial Day Weekend Arlington Memorial Day Weekend Buzz: May 26-30, 2016 Amigos En Azul to Host 3rd Annual End of School Year Bash on June 2 Six Flags Over Texas Opens Newly Expanded Gotham City Section ‘Dinner by the River’ Food Truck Fridays Start This Week Summer Meal Program Offered at Three Arlington Library Branches Farrar-Myers Sworn in as New District 7 Arlington City Councilwoman Arlington City Council Approves Public-Private Partnership with Texas Rangers for New Ballpark Ask Arlington: New Central Library Set to Break Ground Pets of the Week – Meet Storm & Pepper Arlington Police Chosen to Lead Efforts in Advancing Policing Practices Around the Country Xi Theta Omega Sorority Helps Beautify Bowman Springs Park Dallas Wings Win Home Opener Against Stars at UTA College Park Center Arlington Students Get Hands-On Experience at General Motors Lamar Boulevard Lane Changes Announced as Part of I-30/SH 360 Interchange Project City Council Chamber Slated for Demolition, Final Council Meeting There Tuesday Community Book Carnival Gives Away More Than 16,000 Books to East Arlington Families City of Arlington Considers Public-Private Partnership with Texas Rangers for New Ballpark The Polyphonic Spree Kicks Off Downtown Arlington Center Stage Music Festival May 27 Four Arlington City Council Members to be Sworn in May 24 UTA Scientists Use Planetarium’s Advanced Software to Date 2,500 Year-Old Lyric Poem Nighttime Closures Scheduled for Intersection of Abram and East Streets in Downtown Arlington Regains 50th Most Populous City Title, According to U.S. Census Estimates Construction Detour To Begin for Broad Street at SH 360 Vivian Maier Photography Exhibit Opens Saturday at Arlington Museum of Art Arlington Weekend Buzz: May 19-22, 2016 Backstage Arlington Meets The Beatles at Arlington Music Hall Entertainment District Sculpture Trail Dedication: Sat. May 21, 2016 Arlington Named Finalist for 2016 National Gold Medal Awards in Parks and Recreation Texas Residents Can Save on Energy Efficient Appliances During Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday Catch Fish, Make Memories at Father and Son Adventure Day This Saturday Athletes to Compete in Special Olympics Texas Summer Games in Arlington April 2016 Arlington Police Community Newsletter Available 5th Annual Art on the Greene Festival Kicks Off Friday Texas Water-Efficient Products Sales Tax Holiday Set for May 28-30 Pets of the Week – Meet Poindexter & Hunter On the Clock: Keeping Arlington Beautiful with Parks & Recreation Highland Games, Traditional Food and Dance on Display at Texas Scottish Festival TransferUTA initiative to Increase Resources, Support for Undergraduate Students Free Spay/Neuter Clinic for Feral and Outdoor Community Cats Set for May 20 9 Major Films & Television Shows Filmed in Arlington UT System Approves Design for UTA’s Science and Engineering Innovation and Research Building UTA Examines Past Events to Gain Insight into Current Climate Change Private, Nonprofit Schools Can Learn About Federal Educational Services at Arlington Meeting Arlington Increases Goals for MWBE Participation in City Contracts Arlington Will Expand Parking at Popular Veterans Park Dream Builders: Students Showcase Creativity with Destination Imagination Arlington Weekend Buzz: May 12-15, 2016 Nominations Being Accepted for May 2016 Property of the Month Fitch Significantly Upgrades Arlington’s AT&T Stadium Bond Rating Driverless Vehicles on the Horizon Johnson Creek Bridge on Abram Street Closes for Nine Months Starting Sunday Arlington Unveils New Neighborhood Block Party Trailer Students Tackle Pet Homelessness In ‘Support Quality Education’ Newsletter 30th Annual Texas Scottish Festival and Highlands Games Kicks off Friday FOCUS 287 Strategic Plan Defines Long-Term Vision for U.S. 287 Corridor Pets of the Week – Meet Boomer & Mickey Inaugural East Main Street Arts & Music Festival Deemed Success Young Robot Enthusiasts Compete in 2nd Annual GEAR Tournament Voters Return Three Council Incumbents, Elect New At-Large Representative River Legacy Living Science Center Offers Discounted Hurricane Harbor Tickets UTA, Tarrant County College District launch Early Transfer Identification Program Arlington to Conduct Targeted Ground Spraying for West Nile Virus May 9-10 UTA Spotlight: Interview with Second Baseman Darien McLemore River Legacy Living Science Center Hosts Free Summer Class Preview May 13 Community Invited to Attend Panel Discussion with Author Dr. John Perkins on Race Reconciliation Girls Who Code Redefines the Role of Girls in Computer Science Fields Arlington Water Utilities Conducts Tabletop Exercise to Prepare for Emergency Scenarios Culture Buzz: East Main Street Art & Music Festival is May 7! Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Opens for Season May 7-8 Texas Health Hosts Free Shredding Event in Arlington, Other Cities on May 7 Arlington Mother’s Day Weekend Buzz: May 6-8, 2016 Levitt Pavilion Offers Free Mobile App for Concert, Movie Night News Pizza, Latin-Infused Cuisine Among Fare Offered at This Week’s Food Truck Friday Lunch Culture Buzz: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Bankhead Highway American Dream City Draws About 10 Million Visitors Each Year UTA Men’s Tennis Returns to NCAA Tournament for First Time Since 2006 Do It For Durrett Foundation Seeks Video Submissions for Upcoming Talent Competition Parks Department Offers Ventana Grille Brunch, Free Swim Session to Celebrate Moms Ask Arlington: Zika Virus & Mosquito Breeding Prevention Library’s Small Business Network Hosts Evening Franchising Meeting Arlington Honors Police Service, Salutes Sacrifice CMA Entertainer of Year Luke Bryan Heads to AT&T Stadium in Arlington this October Pets of the Week – Meet Nila & Trace May 2016 Volunteer of the Month: Linda Morrison Arlington Eats: A Look at the Adventurous Food Items at Globe Life Park Therapy Dogs Visit Arlington Elementary During Autism Awareness Month City Seeks Vendors, Exhibitors for Inaugural Home Ownership Fair in June Last item for navigation 5th Annual Art on the Greene Festival Kicks Off Friday A+ A- 5th Annual Art on the Greene Festival Kicks Off Friday By Office of Communication Posted on May 17, 2016, May 17, 2016 The 5th Annual Art on the Greene Art Festival returns to Richard Greene Linear Park in Arlington on its new dates of May 20-22. Art on the Greene features 100 national, regional and local artists showcasing and selling their work in one of 14 different categories. Stroll through the park and see booth after booth of one-of-a-kind works in ceramic, drawing, fiber, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture and wood. Bring your lawn chairs or blankets and sit on the lawn to enjoy a weekend of live performances from eight national, regional and local bands. This year's event will be headlined by Austin Blues musician Carolyn Wonderland at 8 p.m. Saturday. Austin Blues Funk band Mingo Fishtrap returns to Art on the Greene and closes out the event with their performance at 3 p.m. Sunday. Come hungry! Art on the Greene will have a great lineup of food vendors once again with local restaurants and regional food vendors that will be on hand. Sistah's Mississippi style BBQ, Grease Monkey Burgers, Later Gater fried gator are just a few. Beer and wine will also be available for purchase. No outside food or drinks allowed into the park. This year's event will feature a special dedication at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 21. Join the City of Arlington, the Arlington Parks and Recreation Department and Art on the Greene Art Festival for the Entertainment District Sculpture Trail dedication ceremony. Nine sculptures will be official dedicated with a ribbon cutting ceremony followed by an opportunity to meet the sculptures. Art on the Greene is family and dog friendly (all dogs must be on a leash and have a calm temperament around other people and dogs.) Event hours are: 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission and parking are FREE. Visit www.artonthegreene.com for all the event details. 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The Fifth Amendment, Self-Incrimination, and Gun Registration
by Clayton Cramer
A recurring question that we are asked, not only by gun control advocates, but even by a number of gun owners is, "What's wrong with mandatory gun registration?" Usually by the time we finish telling them about the Supreme Court decision U.S. v. Haynes (1968), they are laughing -- and they understand our objection to registration.
In Haynes v. U.S. (1968), a Miles Edward Haynes appealed his conviction for unlawful possession of an unregistered short-barreled shotgun. [1] His argument was ingenious: since he was a convicted felon at the time he was arrested on the shotgun charge, he could not legally possess a firearm. Haynes further argued that for a convicted felon to register a gun, especially a short-barreled shotgun, was effectively an announcement to the government that he was breaking the law. If he did register it, as 26 U.S.C. sec.5841 required, he was incriminating himself; but if he did not register it, the government would punish him for possessing an unregistered firearm -- a violation of 26 U.S.C. sec.5851. Consequently, his Fifth Amendment protection against self- incrimination ("No person... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself") was being violated -- he would be punished if he registered it, and punished if he did not register it. While the Court acknowledged that there were circumstances where a person might register such a weapon without having violated the prohibition on illegal possession or transfer, both the prosecution and the Court acknowledged such circumstances were "uncommon." [2] The Court concluded:
We hold that a proper claim of the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination provides a full defense to prosecutions either for failure to register a firearm under sec.5841 or for possession of an unregistered firearm under sec.5851. [3]
This 8-1 decision (with only Chief Justice Earl Warren dissenting) is, depending on your view of Fifth Amendment, either a courageous application of the intent of the self-incrimination clause, or evidence that the Supreme Court had engaged in reductio ad absurdum of the Fifth Amendment. Under this ruling, a person illegally possessing a firearm, under either federal or state law, could not be punished for failing to register it. [4]
Consider a law that requires registration of firearms: a convicted felon can not be convicted for failing to register a gun, because it is illegal under Federal law for a felon to possess a firearm; but a person who can legally own a gun, and fails to register it, can be punished. In short, the person at whom, one presumes, such a registration law is aimed, is the one who cannot be punished, and yet, the person at whom such a registration law is not principally aimed (i.e., the law-abiding person), can be punished.
This is especially absurd for the statute under which Haynes was tried -- the National Firearms Act of 1934. This law was originally passed during the Depression, when heavily armed desperadoes roamed the nation, robbing banks and engaging in kidnap for ransom. The original intent of the National Firearms Act was to provide a method for locking up ex-cons that the government was unable to convict for breaking any other law. As Attorney General Homer Cummings described the purpose of the law, when testifying before Congress:
Now, you say that it is easy for criminals to get weapons. I know it, but I want to make it easy to convict them when they have the weapons. That is the point of it. I do not expect criminals to comply with this law; I do not expect the underworld to be going around giving their fingerprints and getting permits to carry these weapons, but I want them to be in a position, when I find such a person, to convict him because he has not complied.
During the same questioning, Cummings expressed his belief that, "I have no fear of the law-abiding citizen getting into trouble." Rep. Fred Vinson of Kentucky, while agreeing with Cummings' desire to have an additional tool for locking up gangsters, pointed out that many laws that sounded like good ideas when passed, were sometimes found "in the coolness and calmness of retrospect" to be somewhat different in their consequences. [5]
Unfortunately, Rep. Vinson's concern about law-abiding people running afoul of registration laws, while criminals run free, turned out to be prophetic. The same year as the Haynes decision, the New York City Gun Control Law was challenged in the courts. The statute sought to bring shotguns and rifles under the same sort of licensing restrictions as handguns. Edward Grimm and a number of others filed suit against the City of New York, seeking to overturn the city ordinance. Grimm, et. al., raised a number of objections to the law during the trial, most of which were based on the Second Amendment. After the trial but before the decision had been completed, the Haynes decision appeared. Grimm's attorneys pointed out the implications for New York City's gun registration requirement. The trial court held that the legislative intent of the law was:
that there existed an evil in the misuse of rifles and shotguns by criminals and persons not qualified to use these weapons and that the ease with which the weapons could be obtained was of concern... [6]
Yet on the subject of the Haynes decision:
In this court's reading of the Haynes decision, it is inapposite to the statute under consideration here. The registration requirement in Haynes was "...directed principally at those persons who have obtained possession of a firearm without complying with the Act's other requirements, and who therefore are immediately threatened by criminal prosecutions... They are unmistakably persons 'inherently suspect of criminal activities.'"... The City of New York's Gun Control Law is not aimed at persons inherently suspect of criminal activities. It is regulatory in nature. Accordingly, Haynes does not stand as authority for plaintiffs' position. [7]
In three pages, the court went from claiming that the registration law was intended to stop "an evil in the misuse of rifles and shotguns by criminals" to admitting that it was "not aimed at persons inherently suspect of criminal activities."
Nor is Grimm an exceptional case. A number of other judicial decisions have upheld gun registration laws, specifically because they did not apply to criminals, but only to law-abiding citizens. During the turbulent late 1960s, Toledo, Ohio, passed an ordinance that required handgun owners to obtain an identification card. [8] The plaintiffs attacked the law on a number of points, [9] including the issue of self-incrimination. Regarding the Fifth Amendment, the Court of Common Pleas asserted that application for a handgun owner's identification card (effectively, registration of gun owners) did not make a person "inherently suspect of criminal activities." (This quotation suggests the judge writing this opinion was aware of the Haynes decision, although not cited.) The court pointed out that unless the plaintiffs had been prohibited persons within the Toledo ordinance, the Fifth Amendment would have provided them no protection. Only criminals were protected from a mandatory registration law -- not law-abiding people.
Later that same year, in the Ohio case State v. Schutzler (1969), Gale Leroy Schutzler attempted to quash an indictment for failure to register a submachine gun in accordance with O.R.C. sec.2923.04, which required registration of automatic weapons. [10] At the original trial, Schutzler argued that the registration requirement violated his Fifth Amendment rights, based on Haynes. On appeal, the Court of Common Pleas did not agree with any of Schutzler's arguments, including his citation of the Fifth Amendment. Where the Haynes decision was based on the fact that Haynes was an ex-felon, and therefore his possession of a sawed-off shotgun was illegal, Schutzler was not breaking the law by possession; his only violation of the law was his failure to register the submachine gun and post a $5000 bond. [11] Had he been an ex-felon, the Haynes decision would have protected him. Because he was not a convicted criminal, he did not receive the benefit of the Fifth Amendment's protection.
In State v. Hamlin (1986), a case involving an unregistered short-barreled shotgun, the Louisiana Supreme Court refused to apply the Haynes precedent, because the Louisiana statute specifically prohibited the government from using registration information to prosecute convicted felons in possession of a firearm. The Louisiana registration law had been "sanitized" in a manner similar to the 1968 revision to the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. sec.5801, which required that no information obtained from gun registration could be used against a person who could not legally possess a gun -- convicted felons could register their machine guns or short-barreled shotguns with complete confidence that they would not be prosecuted for illegal possession. [12]
If mandatory gun registration can't be used to punish ex-felons in possession of a firearm, what purpose does such a law serve? If mandatory gun registration can only be used to punish people that can legally possess a gun, why bother? Because of the Haynes decision, if we want to punish ex-felons who are caught in possession of a gun, there are only two choices available: We must either skip registration, so that we can severely punish gun possession by those who aren't allowed to own guns; or use the "sanitized" form of registration law -- where the criminal is guaranteed that gun registration can't hurt him, while the rest of us can be punished for failure to comply.
It sounds paranoid to suggest that gun registration records might be used in the future to confiscate guns -- although the second director of Handgun Control, Inc. has stated explicitly that mandatory registration is one of the steps towards prohibition of handgun ownership [13] -- but when we examine how the courts have crippled gun registration laws so that felons are effectively exempt, and only law-abiding citizens need to fear such laws, what other explanation can there be for the continuing plea for mandatory gun registration?
Clayton E. Cramer is a software engineer with a telecommunications manufacturer in Northern California. His first book, By The Dim And Flaring Lamps: The Civil War Diary of Samuel McIlvaine, was published in 1990. Rhonda L. Cramer is completing her B.A. in English.
1. Haynes v. U.S., 390 U.S. 85, 88, 88 S.Ct. 722, 725 (1968).
2. Haynes v. U.S., 390 U.S. 85, 96, 88 S.Ct. 722, 730 (1968).
3. Haynes v. U.S., 390 U.S. 85, 100, 88 S.Ct. 722, 732 (1968).
4. Haynes v. U.S., 390 U.S. 85, 98, 88 S.Ct. 722, 730 (1968).
5. National Firearms Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, 73rd Cong., 2nd sess., (Washington, DC, Government Printing Office: 1934), 21-22.
6. Grimm v. City of New York, 56 Misc.2d 525, 289 N.Y.S.2d 358, 361 (1968)
7. Grimm v. City of New York, 56 Misc.2d 525, 289 N.Y.S.2d 358, 364 (1968)
8. Photos v. City of Toledo, 19 Ohio Misc. 147, 250 N.E.2d 916 (Ct.Comm.Pleas 1969).
9. Photos v. City of Toledo, 19 Ohio Misc. 147, 250 N.E.2d 916, 923 (Ct.Comm.Pleas 1969).
10. State v. Schutzler, 249 N.E.2d 549 (Ohio Ct.Comm.Pleas 1969).
11. State v. Schutzler, 249 N.E.2d 549, 552 (Ohio Ct.Comm.Pleas 1969).
12. State v. Hamlin, 497 So.2d 1369, 1372 (La. 1986).
13. Richard Harris, "A Reporter At Large: Handguns", The New Yorker, July, 26, 1976, 57-58. A fascinating interview, Shields also describes the founder of Handgun Control, Inc., as a "retired CIA official" who was its first director -- without pay. For those people who regard the CIA as a secret government with nefarious motives, this will doubtless make them wonder about the origins of Handgun Control's current policies in support of prohibition of those rifles which are most necessary to restrain domestic tyranny. | positive |
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Extra troops and federal police have been deployed in the north Brazilian town of Humaita after hundreds of armed men set alight several offices belonging to environmental agencies.
The attack took place on Friday, in the heart of Brazil's Amazon region, and lasted five hours.
The authorities say it was carried out by gold prospectors in revenge for a recent raid on an illegal operation.
Property belonging to two government agencies was destroyed.
'An act of terrorism'
Buildings, vehicles, furniture and documents were set alight at the local headquarters of Brazil's Environmental Protection Agency (Ibama) and the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation.
Police managed to foil attacks on the buildings of government agencies - Incra and Ipaam - but vehicles parked outside were set alight.
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Dozens of extra troops have now been deployed in the area but the situation remains tense.
The head of Ibama in the state of Amazonas, Jose Leland Barroso, said the authorities would not step back.
"This is a barbaric attack, an act of terrorism," Mr Barroso told O Globo newspaper.
"They are challenging the Brazilian state and they will get the proper response. Ibama will carry on with its activities. They may set fire to our offices, but we will carry on."
It all began days after Brazilian officials seized boats used in a gold operation on the Madeira river, which crosses the town of Humaita.
This is the latest incident in the cat-and-mouse game played by federal agents and thousands of gold miners, known locally as garimpeiros, who operate illegally in Brazil's vast Amazon region.
They often look for gold in protected areas or indigenous lands.
In the process, they dump tonnes of health-harming mercury in the region's rivers.
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Louis van Gaal went mad when some of his Manchester United players were one minute late for lunch.
United target man Marouane Fellaini revealed Van Gaal, a stickler for time and discipline, blew his top at a group of his squad and issued on the spot fines.
Fellaini, who has enjoyed a revival under Van Gaal, said: “He blew a fuse the other day when a group of 10 of us were one minute late for lunch after training.
“You think one minute is nothing and it wasn’t for training, but for the canteen. For him it’s important though.
“He dished out a few fines. That’s what happens to late-comers and even for a red card. You get fined, too, for a bad foul”.
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Fellaini also claimed United will be “a machine” next season under Van Gaal, whom he claimed was merely running in his players this term, just like a new car.
“We’ve worked with him for months and are getting to know him,” said Fellaini.
“His thing is circulating the ball and pressing the opponent. Everything is repetition with him.
“We do practically the same exercises each week. Next season we will be a machine. At the moment, we are running it in.
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And the Belgian international admitted he wept when David Moyes, the man who took him from Everton for £27.5 million, was sacked.
He said: “I was sad when he went. I came into the canteen and saw him in a suit instead of his tracksuit. He called me into his office and told me.
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Dead Horses
This is a story about Austin’s changing environment and a terrible episode of how a flood displaced an entire urban neighborhood, but it’s also a story about horses, and so I have to tell you first about mine.
I grew up with a horse. Dallas and I came together when he was three and I was fourteen, which is to say we were roughly analogous in whatever “animal” years that I’ve always found kind of forced and unnecessary. The point is, we were both older kids, but still kids, and we wandered too far from home together and got shotguns waved at us when we rudely ran through a neighbor’s crop together and got in trouble with mom together and spent all our spare time together. We made each other mad and made each other laugh — he’s a horse, so he doesn’t laugh, but he has a particular face when he thinks I’ve done something ridiculous, which is often. We also trained hard for fancy horse shows that I wanted to do, and faced many a pre-dawn morning on the road to competitions. He stayed home in Virginia when I went to college in New York and came with me when I moved to Texas. Now I’m nearly thirty-one and he’s twenty and no creature on earth — not kith nor kin — knows me better than he does. It’s not as strange as it sounds.
When I worked as a veterinary technician, part of my job was to prepare people facing the end for their old, injured, or ill horses. Many of them wanted to be present for their deaths, the way they would be for a dog or cat in the veterinary office. I always counseled them against it, unless I knew their constitution or knew that they’d borne witness to it before. I advised them to give their horse some final carrots and go back to their houses, to keep the memory of a simple pleasure as their marker for this awful day. They did not owe their horse their presence at the end. Horses are big and the vast majority of them are not trained to lie down on command. Even if they are sedated before the final injection, unless they’ve already been downed by injury or illness, there’s a fall. Their bodies and brains do not shut down at the same time. The brain goes first, taking consciousness with it, but the body takes longer. Horses crash hard, head first, because it’s heavy. They moan harsh and long as the last breath they took gets forced out of huge lungs from the weight of the impact. Legs buckle awkwardly. It is not the final vision that people want of their friends.
All this is to say, when I learned from my friend Sharon, who rides with me every weekend, that Onion Creek had washed her friends’ horses away, my spine froze. Sharon used to keep her horses down there, and still had friends who owned and boarded horses along Bluff Springs Road in southeast Austin. Just a short drive from the heart of the city, the horse properties there backed up to Onion Creek District Park, which has miles and miles of trails horses share with hikers and bikers. It had beautiful views. It gave easy escape to the Hill Country without the hassle of navigating downtown traffic first. It was one of the last remaining places in Austin proper where people could keep horses as property values rose and development crept ever outward. Property taxes were low and no one was banging down their doors to buy them out. Developers left the horse people alone. No one wanted it, even for condos. And who in Austin, in this day and age, doesn’t want some fresh turf for condos? The reason for its affordability and its continued use as horse property, however, was because the land itself was compromised, unfit for housing.
It was a flood plain.
Sharon left Onion Creek several years ago, for several reasons. Acreage was limited, for one, and too many horses per acre lived down there, and they didn’t have much turnout. It was also pretty muddy. The moisture and the numbers of horses created a serious problem with flies and a lack of fresh air in general. She moved to a place in Bastrop with wide open fields, no mud, and no flies to speak of (coming from Virginia, Land Of The Bloodsucking Horseflies of Death, this was not a minor miracle to me. Texas and I have other issues, but that’s for another story). The tradeoff was the hour-long drive, one way. I’d taken this tradeoff from the outset of my time in Texas, passing on a close-in home for Dallas in favor of more space, and Bastrop is where I met Sharon, who’d moved her horses there from Onion Creek, and who told me then that I’d made the right choice of where to keep my horse. (We eventually moved our horses fifteen minutes closer, to a mutual friend’s barn in Elgin, but the point stands.)
But she also explained to me the appeal, both physical and otherwise, that kept her friends in Onion Creek. The trails! The easy access from town! Neither of those factors was easy to disregard. She missed them terribly. And, while Sharon found that the benefits of moving her horses outweighed its difficulties, home is home, whether for horse or person. When people are settled and it would be far more expensive to relocate, and they love where they live, and can enjoy trails with their friends every day, and no one is asking them to leave, well, why would they?
My initial horror at Sharon’s news of her friends and their horses proved insufficient to the actual horror wrought in Onion Creek by the rains that pounded Austin on October 31, 2013. Having experienced the scorched, it-hurts-to-breathe summers of 2010 and 2012 (but honestly, is there ever any other kind of summer down here?) along with our animals, who endured without the benefit of air conditioning, we embattled horse people are accustomed to being thankful for every drop of rain to hit this drought-weary earth. If it be too much, well, we’ll deal with it. But this rain was different. It was as spiteful as the sun had been. It was not a respite.
The waters rose. By nightfall, the water had risen so quickly that some alarmed horse owners let the horses loose from their flooding barns. Others, trapped in the upper floors of their flooding houses, could not. They listened as their panicked horses, pinned by rushing water, drowned in their stalls. Loose horses were swept down the creek into the park. Some swam safely to higher ground. Others were battered by industrial debris from a manufacturing facility up the creek and died. Still more succumbed to exhaustion trying to stay afloat.
When the rain stopped, the Onion Creek horse community organized citizen efforts to locate survivors and count the dead. “Nine horses were found today,” the group’s ad hoc search and rescue page stated on November 2, “unfortunately none were alive.” Far more were missing. “With the way things seem to be going, not finding any alive today, we will search tomorrow…then focus efforts more towards recovery.” Recovery efforts ended a week later. Nine horses were found alive. Five were still missing. Twenty-one were found, deceased. Their bodies were found as far as forty yards away from the normal bounds of the creek, testifying to how high the waters rose. There were more, hidden under receding waters, tucked, mangled, into brush and debris.
It is hard thinking about when Dallas’s time is up at some future moment, but I take comfort in the notion of having a plan for it. I think most animal owners do. He’s 20 now, after all — we threw him a party at the barn this spring, complete with carrot cake — and while he’s in excellent health and we’re having as much fun and getting into as much trouble as we ever have, we have far fewer years in front of us than we do behind us. He’s gone from being my contemporary to being the horse-age equivalent of Sean Connery, complete with a gray beard intruding on his black coat. I like to think I have the luxury of listening to him, and letting him tell me when it’s time, and then making the necessary arrangements so his imminent death will be as unknowable for him as possible when that time comes. I will not watch. I will give him some final carrots and keep the memory of his simple pleasure as the marker for that awful day. I will keep several long strands of his black tail and send them to a woman who makes lovely bracelets with it for sentimental horsewomen like me, and wear that memory of our long, wonderful relationship the rest of my days. It already makes me a little weepy every time I think about it, because he’ll be gone, but as far as things go, it’s not a bad end.
There is no emotional room in this plan for listening, helpless, as my horse drowns in his stall, or watching, helpless, as his body, alive or dead or somewhere in between, gets swept from his field in a torrent, or knowing, and imagining, trapped in upper floors of my house as the water rises, that this is happening to him. There is no room in anyone’s plan, anyone who has ever enjoyed the friendship of an animal, and who has assumed that they will be able to provide care and safety as well as companionship for an animal, to have to cope with that kind of death.
Nine days later, residents further along Onion Creek, dealing with their own cleanup efforts, reported the stench of death to any city agency they could call — 311, Parks and Rec, Animal Control. In mid-November, cleanup volunteer Lina Meaux told KUT, “Some body should be helping, at least coming and getting these animals out of here. I mean, they’re decaying where people live.” In mid-January, one resident’s dog repeatedly came home covered in the stench of death, and then her yard, which backed up onto the creek, was covered with the stench of death.
Disposing of dead horses, even in the best of circumstances, is hard, for the same reason that their dying, even in the best of circumstances, is hard. They’re big, heavy animals. Many rural counties in many states prohibit burying dead horses on personal property because their decomposition pollutes the groundwater. Leaving dead horses above ground, unless you have vast property, smells for months, as the residents of the Onion Creek area now know too well. Plus, the feed and supplements and pharmaceuticals most horses receive during their lifetimes makes them unsafe for scavengers — from raptors to wandering pet dogs — to consume raw. Horse slaughter was outlawed in the US several years ago, making it nearly impossible to sell an old horse to a renderer, which in our culture has fallen out of favor in recent years anyhow. What happens after a horse is euthanized, as I had to explain to clients, was a costly and complex endeavor. One option is send the carcass up to the State Lab — part of the USDA Extension service — for vet student practice necropsies, and eventual incineration (no, you don’t get an urn). Another is to call a contract carcass remover, who generally arranges for the carcass to be processed at a private intrastate facility.
Another is to call a friend with a backhoe and groundwater be damned.
For the horses swept down Onion Creek, the situation was more complicated. Despite the complex emotional, environmental, financial, and logistical obstacles horse owners face when they put their horses down, there is one simple constant: figuring it out and dealing with it, and paying for it, is their responsibility. But what happens when your horse has been swept away? The majority of the carcasses ended up on public land, but close enough to private land that pets had access to the bodies, and that the stink penetrated private yards and homes. But how does one go about removing a decomposing thousand pound animal from a tree? From a muddy, inaccessible creek bed full of industrial debris? Whose environmental responsibility does it become? Whose financial responsibility? Whose logistical responsibility? This knot was not easily untangled. Horse owners had found and identified and marked the carcasses and started dealing with the emotional fallout of their death, but could do very little in the way of removing them, because it would require such an enormous coordinated effort with resources far beyond their reach. Parks and Rec acted under the assumption that, despite the fact that the horses were on public land, they were privately owned and not the city’s problem. Ultimately, it fell to stench-maddened property owners to call, and call, and call, to call anyone they could. It took three months of calling, and one month of work, to finally get the horses out.
Austin Resource Recovery, the arm of city maintenance that is in charge of removing roadkill, ultimately shouldered the task. In early February, after four months of stench, they finally finished removing the variably decomposed carcasses from the park behind the neighborhood along the creek. Fifteen horse carcasses were found of the twenty-six lost. Finally, the horse dangling from a tree was gone.
This is not the final vision people want of their friends.
These dead horses brought into sharp focus a long-festering, many-tentacled problem in this neighborhood. The neighborhood was built in the 1970s, before flood restrictions were a thing. The horse properties were already there, if in different forms. It was the outskirts of town, already semi-rural then. A major flood inundated the Onion Creek area in 1998, which, one longtime resident said, was the first they had learned that it was a flood plain. Since then, the city has been quietly, slowly — some might say painstakingly — working to buy residents out of the area, hampered by difficulties securing federal funds to do so. Between 1999 and the Halloween floods, only 323 owners had been bought out. Urgency, especially in a long and worsening statewide drought, was lacking. In the weeks after the 2013 flood, the city set aside enough funds to buy out 115 more, which did not come close to nearly 700 severely damaged homes whose owners were living in shelters and, flood insurance or not, faced financial disaster. This neighborhood was not a priority. One woman, who had been living in a tent in her yard since the flood, told reporters that no one from the city had showed up to help until November 9.
“It felt like we’re literally on a desert island,” she said.
It was the stench of dead horses that finally brought people in. It was the horses — their path down the roaring creek, their bodies scattered into places they did not belong — that initiated the cleanup of the creek, the evaluation of the extent of environmental and personal damage, that codified, in carcass form, that it had been wrong to ignore the economic and environmental issues at the heart of this part of the city. The fragmentation of responsibility revealed by their removal was accurate: it was everyone’s responsibility that they chose to live there, that they were not encouraged to leave, and that the growth around them would, despite their desires to keep their homes as they’d always been, affect them in the end. As for the horse people, some do not plan to relocate. Others can’t — Onion Creek was affordable, for the very reasons it was dangerous. Others are facing the reality that to have horses in a city in this day and age is not feasible, and are looking to board farther out. Others don’t have horses anymore.
Eventually, federal money came through. The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers secured over $11 million to buy out the neighborhood and turn it into a natural recreation area. While negotiations are ongoing, within the next couple of years, people may cease to live in this pocket of Austin, a city with such a population crisis that it’s official bird, as one wry commentator has quipped, is the crane. The scale of displacement is striking, and it includes not only homes, but businesses, facilities — everything that makes a place to live possible. In the midst of Austin’s most recent boom, this area is disappearing. Horse trails may or may not be part of the plan for the new park, but it’s safe to say that if they are, people will be trailering their horses in from places like Lockhart, Elgin, Manor, and Bastrop.
One thing is clear: as far as Austin is concerned, even its seemingly unlimited potential for growth remains, at some level, at the mercy of drought and flood. Its fate in the next decade may be decided by water, as the Colorado River goes dry. But that’s for another story. As far as the Onion Creek horses and their neighbors, there’s no room in this plan for them anymore.
Jeannette Vaught is an American Studies Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, a former equine veterinary technician, and a lifelong horsewoman. Her research focuses on the intersections of animals, science, and American culture. She is currently finishing her dissertation, “Science, Animals, and Profit-Making in the American Rodeo Arena.” Her latest publication is Materia Medica: Technology, Vaccination, and Antivivisection in Jazz Age Philadelphia,” and can be found in the September 2013 special issue of the American Quarterly. Her horse, Dallas, remains unimpressed, as he is more concerned with securing a steady supply of apples and belly scratches. | positive |
In 1989, the mountain bike press weren’t lost for words when reviewing the new Kestrel MX-Z, but you could tell they were astounded by the sight of its monocoque frame. Today, it’s still an eye-catching bike and this example even more so, tidied up by Singapore’s Vanguard Designs.
Engineers had been toying with carbon fibre as a bicycle frame material during the 80s, but were still unsure of its integrity, content with wrapping aluminium tubes with it or joining the tubes with lugs. Kestrel broke new ground by introducing the MX-Z in 1989 — the first monocoque production frame.
Reviewers gushed over it, quite correctly touting it as “the future”, and enthusing about its “silent ride” and superior strength. The technique involved with assembling a monocoque frame unleashed a wave of design experimentation over the next decade, heralded by such wonders as the Lotus Sport MTB, Trek’s OCLV and those Trimble bikes. Even Colnago dipped its toes in the water with a C35 MTB.
Kestrel was formed in 1986 by former Trek employees, all staunch believers that carbon will indeed revolutionise the bike industry. That year, they released a very aerodynamic road bike, the Kestrel 4000, followed by the full-suspension Nitro — a collaboration with Keith Bontrager — in 1988.
The Nitro was shelved until suspension technology caught up and instead Kestrel focused on the rigid MX-Z. The strategy paid off, with the MX-Z causing a satisfying stir within the media. Meanwhile, out on the trail, riders were adjusting to the hollow sound of pebbles pinging off the carbon structure.
Singapore’s Vanguard Designs have a knack of finding very classic and vintage gems, the last being an AMP Research MTB. Acquired from a collector, the MX-Z was in excellent condition, with its famous Zolatone granite finish intact. Not surprisingly; Zolatone is an extremely hardy industrial paint.
The MX-Z was originally spec’d with a rigid Tange Prestige fork, but Vanguard installed a pair of Girvin forks, complete with Noleen shock, which would have been a standard upgrade for serious enthusiasts or competitors. Another familiar component is the Cane Creek Thudbuster seat post.
The Spin wheels and NOS Continental Caninus tyres are a perfect complement to a frame that still looks contemporary after twenty-six years. Quite a testament to the integrity of carbon fibre. If you like the look of it, it’s up for sale — contact Vanguard for more information.
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A B.C. woman is suing Apple Inc. alleging the company has violated the privacy and security of users of its iPhones, iPads and iPods that are using the iOS4 operating system.
Amanda Ladas, of Surrey, has filed the lawsuit under the Class Proceedings Act in Supreme Court of B.C. Ladas’s claim alleges that in addition to the violation of security and privacy, Apple has "engaged in deceptive acts or practices" that entitle her and anyone who joins the suit "to aggravated, punitive and/or exemplary damages."
Ladas said in a release Tuesday that she is concerned that, without her permission, anyone with moderate computer knowledge can find out where she’s been.
According to a report by digital forensics technologist Francis Graf, whose report is filed with the lawsuit, Ladas’s iPhone 4 contains location data, going back approximately one year, which was easily accessible using free tools readily available on the internet.
Ladas claims that she did not consent to having her information tracked, collected and stored when she purchased and activated her iPhone.
Owners of Apple products can use more up-to-date operating systems, such as iOS5, released in October 2011 and iOS6, which was released in September.
It is estimated that there are between two to seven million users of Apple devices in Canada using the iOS4 operating system, including Ladas and her son, the release says.
None of Ladas’s claims have been proven in court.
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Google is developing a new operating system named Fuchsia, and the early source code is already public. Google itself and Fuchsia’s developers haven’t explained what the OS is for—but we can dig into the source code to learn more.
Pink + Purple == Fuchsia
Fuchsia is a new, open-source operating system being worked on by Google employees. “Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System),” reads the cryptic description on the project’s GitHub page. The source code is also available on GitHub, as well as on Google Source.
That’s it, though. While the project’s source code is available and we can see who specifically is working on it, there’s been no official announcement from Google or explanation from the individual developers as to Fuchsia’s purpose.
If no one’s ready to comment on it, why is it already public? As Google’s Brian Swetland reportedly explained on the project’s IRC channel: “The decision was made to build it open source, so might as well start there from the beginning.” From the same conversations, the developers report that the Fuchsia operating system is “currently booting reasonably well on Broadwell and Skylake NUCs and the Acer Switch Alpha 12, though driver support is still a work in progress.” Raspberry Pi 3 support is also coming soon.
Magenta, Escher, and Mojo
While there hasn’t been much news officially announced, here’s what we can glean from the available source code.
The Fuchsia operating system is based on Magenta. Magenta is a combination microkernel and set of user-space services and hardware drivers. This is a big departure from Google’s use of the Linux kernel across both Android and Chrome OS.
Fuchsia includes Escher, a “physically based renderer” that provides volumetric soft shadows, color bleeding, light diffusion, and a lens effect. This suggests that Fuchsia won’t be just a bare-bones embedded operating system, but will be capable of providing graphical user interfaces.
It appears that Mojo is the application framework and runtime for applications. The primary programming language for Fuchsia seems to be Google’s own Dart.
What’s it for?
While Fuchsia is an extremely interesting project, any speculation that Google is on the verge of replacing Android and Chrome OS with Fuchsia is unfounded and way too early. Even if this was the long-term goal for the project, it will likely take quite a few years before anything is ready for a consumer release. We should be hearing a lot more about Fuchsia from Google in the future, and it’ll be interesting to see what plans Google has up its sleeve. | positive |
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The Toronto taxi driver who confronted an UberX driver on Wednesday by clinging to the moving car's mirror says he drove for UberBlack, the luxury version of the ride-hailing service, as recently as last week.
Suntharesan Kanagasabai was among the hundreds of cabbies demonstrating against Uber near city hall when he was captured on camera pounding on the windows of a white Honda Civic that was being driven for Uber, then clinging to the car as its driver tried to flee.
Suntharesan Kanagasabai was captured on video clinging to an UberX car amid a citywide anti-Uber protest launched by cab drivers on Wednesday. (CBC) Kanagasabai told CBC News he was just trying to make a point to the reporters who were gathered around him. He said he wanted the Uber driver to roll down the window and talk, but that the driver didn't want to "face the music."
"For the last two years we are watching," Kanagasabai said of the rise of Uber in Toronto. "We can't take it anymore." "We're on the job trying to make a living."
However, Kanagasabai, who works independently running a car service, said when Uber arrived in Canada he was one of the first people to sign up to work for the company. Up until last week, he sometimes picked up fares using UberBlack.
Now, he's vowed to stop working for Uber altogether.
Uber Canada spokesperson Susie Heath told CBC News in an email that she couldn't confirm Kanagasabai drove for Uber without getting his consent.
As for whether he would be welcome to drive for the company in the future, Heath said: "In instances where there is evidence that someone has posed a threat to public safety, they are immediately removed from the platform."
Kanagasabai said he initially believed Uber would play by the city's rules but now, he says, the company is flouting them.
When asked whether he regretted signing up with Uber, he replied: "Oh my God, yes."
Kanagasabai said Uber takes too much commission from drivers, and he decried Uber's new option, UberSelect, which links passengers with high-end cars (think BMW and Mercedes sedans with leather seats) that aren't necessarily black. That service, which is cheaper than UberBlack, is just the latest way the company is cutting into his earnings, he said.
The other problem, Kanagasabai said, is the glut of Uber drivers on Toronto's roads, The driver, who said he's been working in the business for 22 years, said every day he spots about 100 vehicles working for Uber — which are often easy to spot by a glowing smartphone mounted to the dash and a passenger riding in the back seat.
Mayor, taxi union condemn actions
A taxi driver shouts 'John Tory! Shame!' amid a demonstration that shut down the intersection of Queen and Bay on Wednesday evening. (John Rieti/CBC) Kanagasabai called on Mayor John Tory and police Chief Mark Saunders to do more to crack down on Uber, pointing out the city's enforcement blitz seems to have eased up since last summer's Pan Am Games.
As for the incident itself, Kanagasabai dismissed the idea that what he did was dangerous, adding he might be the one to press charges.
"I might talk to my lawyer, I don't know," he said. "I thought the gentleman was going to stop. I tried to talk to him politely."
CBC Toronto is attempting to contact police to see whether charges will be laid in connection with the incident.
Const. Clint Stibbe, with the Toronto police traffic services division, said initially someone filed a complaint about the incident but now no longer wants to speak with police.
Without a complainant, Stibbe said, police won't investigate further.
Everyone from the iTaxi Workers Association to the mayor condemned Kanagasabai's actions on Wednesday. | positive |
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Workers at the Westin LAX Hotel will strike Wednesday to protest the disciplinary measures against a housekeeper who failed to spot bedbugs in a room she was assigned to clear, a union official said.
Workers began picketing outside the hotel at 6 a.m. and will continue until 6 p.m.
The hotel disciplined a long-time housekeeper for failing to spot the bedbugs in a room on Sept. 4, according to Antonio Mendoza of Unite Here Local 11, which represents hospitality workers.
The incident is the third time a housekeeper has been disciplined this year for failing to spot bedbugs, Mendoza said. Workers are not suspended or docked wages, but it is a step toward termination, he said.
Workers say the Westin LAX has increased their workload by rewarding guests for going days without having rooms cleaned, making housekeepers work harder after check-out, Mendoza said. The housekeepers claim it is unfair for management to discipline them for missing bedbugs while increasing their workload.
There was no immediate comment from the hotel.
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People power has trumped ALP factional power, with Lisa Singh now all but certain to be re-elected from the "unwinnable" sixth spot on Labor's Senate ticket in Tasmania.
As the long Senate count continues, it is now impossible on the numbers for John Short, the union secretary who was elevated by factional bosses above the incumbent Senator Singh, to get elected, while Senator Singh is on track to take the 11th of 12 seats in Tasmania.
While Labor placed Lisa Singh sixth on their Senate ticket, her personal vote was emphatic. Credit:Peter Mathew
Jody Fassina of Insight Strategy, a former long-term adviser to two Labor senators who still crunches Senate numbers, said Senator Singh is likely to be returned to Parliament as a result of a grassroots push by voters who went below the line to vote for her directly rather than the ALP ticket.
"If there is going to be a fifth Labor senator elected, and it looks like there will be, it will be Lisa Singh," he said. | positive |
Framingham MA — Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers is set to release a collaboration brew, Beer Geek Helles, with New England Brewing Company the weekend of July 15th 2016. The beer will be available on draft and in four packs of 16 oz cans throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, and parts of New York. The release will be celebrated with multiple events in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York.
Beer Geek Helles was conceived by the teams at Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers and New England Brewing Co. this spring. The beer makes use of custom malts by Stone Path Malt, Nelson Sauvin and Hallertau Blanc hops. The brew itself involved a double decoction mash procedure, a traditional German technique that involves the repeated cooking of the wort.
“We’re excited to be able to get to collaborate with a brewery like Jack’s Abby whose beer and people are among the best around. The NEB team is really looking forward to drinking some Beer Geek Helles,” says New England Brewing Co. head brewer/partner Matt Westfall.
Jack’s Abby head brewer/partner Jack Hendler says, “Collaboration brews are an excellent chance for both parties to bring their best strengths to the table and make something awesome. Working with NEBCo has been a lot of fun and we can’t wait to toast to the end result.”
Launch events are as follows:
Thu July 14th: 6:00 pm- Brewer’s Fork. Charlestown, MA
6:00 pm- Brewer’s Fork. Charlestown, MA Fri July 15th: 8:30 pm- Stoddard’s. Boston, MA
8:30 pm- Stoddard’s. Boston, MA Mon July 18th: 4:30 pm- Prime 16. New Haven, CT; 7:00 pm- Cask Republic. New Haven, CT
4:30 pm- Prime 16. New Haven, CT; 7:00 pm- Cask Republic. New Haven, CT Tue July 19th: 5:00 pm- Birch Hill. Glastonbury, CT; 7:30- Eli Cannons. Middletown, CT
5:00 pm- Birch Hill. Glastonbury, CT; 7:30- Eli Cannons. Middletown, CT Wed July 20th: 4:00 pm- Haymaker Bar and Kitchen. New York; 4:00 pm- Henry Street Tap Room. Saratoga Springs, NY
4:00 pm- Haymaker Bar and Kitchen. New York; 4:00 pm- Henry Street Tap Room. Saratoga Springs, NY Thu July 21st: 5:00 pm- Deccico’s Market. Armonk, NY
5:00 pm- Deccico’s Market. Armonk, NY Fri July 22nd: 4:00 pm- The Hops Company. Derby, CT
4:00 pm- The Hops Company. Derby, CT Sat July 23rd: 3:00 pm- The Bier Abbey. Schenectady, NY
3:00 pm- The Bier Abbey. Schenectady, NY Mon July 25th: 6:00 pm- Knuckleheads. Wallingford, CT
6:00 pm- Knuckleheads. Wallingford, CT Sat July 30th: 4:00 pm- The Gate. Brooklyn, NY
About Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers
Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers is a family-owned craft brewery in Framingham, MA founded by three brothers, Jack, Eric, and Sam Hendler. They are known for focusing entirely on craft lagers, honoring traditional German brewing methods while creating innovative new styles. Through their mission to redefine the American lager, Jack’s Abby has become a mainstay of the craft beer scene in the northeast and gained notoriety nationwide. In Fall 2015, Jack’s Abby completed a 67,000 sq ft expansion into a new space that included the opening of a restaurant.
About New England Brewing Company
New England Brewing Company is a small craft brewery located in Woodbridge CT right on the border of New Haven. NEBCO is proud to be brewing carefully crafted beers for local consumption. | positive |
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Across America, a growing number of people are using this small-scale forum to make their voices heard, drawing comparisons to the Tea Party movement
In more than 300 cities and towns in 49 US states this week, citizens unhappy with the Trump administration flooded to congressional town halls and activist meetups billed as “resistance recess”. In all, advocacy groups estimated more than 40,000 Americans participated in these meetings, taking place during a break in the schedules of lawmakers that many use to return home and interact with constituents.
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“People are not just clicking on online petitions, they are changing their habits forging relationships,” said Ben Wikler, the Washington director for MoveOn. “It’s not something where once people go home from a march they go back to civilian life. This is people making anti-Trump activism a part of their daily lives.”
Already the efforts are having concrete political impacts. On a Friday morning radio appearance Republican representative Mo Brooks said: “I don’t know if we’re going to be able to repeal Obamacare now because these folks who support Obamacare are very active, they’re putting pressure on congressmen and there’s not a counter-effort to steel the spine of some of these congressmen in toss-up districts around the country.”
Jeremy Haile, one of the authors of Indivisible, a Practical Guide for Resisting Trump said this was strong proof the tactics of town hall engagement could be effective. “That’s straight from a member of Congress saying how this organizing and hearing from constituents is really changing what Congress is doing,” Haile said.
Indivisible was written and launched after Trump’s election by a collection of former progressive congressional staffers who watched President Obama’s presidential agenda largely stalemated by Tea Party protests in 2009. “We saw these [Tea Party] activists take on a popular president with a mandate for change and a supermajority in Congress. We saw them organize locally and convince their own MoCs to reject President Obama’s agenda,” the group explains on their website. Indivisible recommends using similar tactics to oppose Trump’s agenda, like overwhelming engagement at congressional town halls.
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“Every member of Congress wakes up in the morning thinking about how to get re-elected. We think that gives constituents a lot of power,” Haile said.
Comparisons to the 2009 rise of the Tea Party, similarly spawned after a transition of presidential power, have been unavoidable, and commentators have rushed to explain why the phenomena are or are not comparable.
“This makes the Tea Party look like pre-school.” said film-maker and liberal activist Michael Moore in an MSNBC appearance on Wednesday night.
At this week’s meetings, representatives and senators, especially Republicans, who elected to hold town hall meetings during their time in their home district were bombarded with contentious questions, boos and protests throughout the week. In places where legislators did not hold events, people gathered anyways, sometimes holding events billed as “people’s town halls” or even addressing questions to propped-up empty suits, like constituents of Pennsylvania senator Pat Toomey did on Tuesday.
Many of the most tense and emotional moments around the country this week came when citizens shared their concerns about healthcare in light of Trump’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act without any clear plan in the works to replace the coverage it affords to previously uninsurable patients.
“Without the coverage for pre-existing conditions, I will die. That’s not hyperbole,” said Kati McFarland at a town hall hosted by Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, according to reporting from the Democrat Gazette.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest A town hall meeting in Van Nuys, California. Hundreds turned up to voice their concerns about the Trump administration. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
MoveOn.org, a grassroots progressive advocacy group and one of the primary organizations behind the action said more than 42,000 people had RSVP’d for events throughout the week on their website in 49 states and Washington DC.
Wikler said the number of people attending events was surely even higher, and that the webpage set up for coordinating the events had seen more than 1 million hits in less than a week.
Making the comparison to the Tea Party that much stronger, many conservatives have accused the recess resistance protests of being “AstroTurf”, or fake grassroots activism sponsored by powerful benefactors. Democrats lodged similar charges against the Tea Party eight years ago.
“It’s not these organic uprisings that we’ve seen through the last several decades – the Tea Party was a very organic movement – this has become a very paid, AstroTurf-type movement,” said Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer.
There is no evidence that the recent upwelling of protest is being fueled by paid activists, though they have for the most part been coordinated – a distinction some conservatives have apparently not been willing to make.
It is difficult to say just yet how this 2017 round of town hall protests will compare to those in 2009 that effectively launched the Tea Party. One of the features that made the effort so effective eight years ago was that they were sustained over a period of months.
Organizers are hopeful though, that momentum is building and that the resistance movement is only growing stronger. “We really haven’t seen the kind of grassroots energy that’s unignorable right now ever before, at least in my lifetime,” Wikler said. “People who’ve never been involved in politics are coming out of the woodwork and telling their stories. It’s staggering.” | positive |
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A NEW safety program is targeting people posing for photographs around Perth’s rail network.
The Public Transport Authority campaign warns professional and amateur snappers that not only is trespassing on the tracks illegal, it can be deadly.
PTA spokesman David Hynes said there were dozens of examples of photos online, particularly on social media, of people posing for photographs on railway tracks.
“Trespass on the rail network is a serious matter; even if it’s just stepping off a pedestrian crossing on to the tracks, ballast and rail tracks aren’t meant to be walked on, particularly not in bridal heels,” he said.
“It takes up to 250m for a train to stop once the brakes are applied, and as our fleet is electric, it can be impossible to hear them until it’s too late.
“The campaign – an offshoot of our existing award-winning Stay Off the Tracks campaign – includes the new signage, as well as new warning signs at key locations, an increased presence at known hot-spots and we are also writing directly to photographers and warning them they aren’t just breaking the law – they are risking their lives and those of their subjects.”
Community News and the PTA highlighted the issue in October 2015 when we published pictures of a couple posing for shots at a level crossing in Guildford.
Mr Hynes said being on the tracks or within the rail reserve, without a permit and other than using a pedestrian crossing, was classified as trespassing.
“If we catch you trespassing, we will infringe you, and the potential alternative is even worse,” he said.
“It’s never acceptable to trespass on the railway track – not for a photograph, not to retrieve a dropped phone and not for a shortcut.
“The symbolism of a long and winding journey down the rail tracks of life may seem like an endearing metaphor for your shoot, but photographers owe it to their clients to make choices that keep their customers safe.
“A wedding day is one of the most memorable times in a couple’s life, but if they trespass on the rail network, ‘til death do us part’ could be sooner than they think.
“No photograph, no matter how emotive, is worth a life.”
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In preparation for going public, Zynga's taking proactive measures to improve how it deals with privacy issues. As TechCrunch notes, the gaming company was sued last year for a privacy breach, and mentioned the "p word" as a challenge in its S-1 IPO filing last week. The company is garnering praise then for its newest game: PrivacyVille, which allows Zyngites to wander through a virtual town and find out about Zynga's privacy policies.
On the plus side, it's more fun than reading the standard privacy policy. On the negative side, it's not a very fun game. There are no thrills, chills, zombies, or privacy gardens in need of tending. You just click on different buildings in the town and get pop-ups telling you about what information Zynga collects from you, your computer and your mobile devices and how it will use that info. At the end of the tour of the town is an insultingly easy five-question quiz, which is more a veiled promotion for Zynga than a test of a user's understanding of Zynga's privacy policy. (Sample question: "How much game data does Zynga process every day?" Tip: Neither "40 Bushels" nor "5 Balloons" is the right answer.)
Zynga, you hooked a million people on Farmville. You know how to make dynamic, engaging, addictive games -- why is this one so flat?
"Anything that moves beyond a privacy policy and into engagement is a step forward," says Jules Polonetsky, founder of the Future of Privacy Forum, who applauded the effort. "It's hard to make privacy fun."
(Well, invading it can be fun...)
When I posted the news to Google Plus, privacy guru Lorrie Cranor of Carnegie Mellon expressed disappointment, calling it a "good idea but not well-executed." I, for one, wish it took some cues from educational games like Carmen Sandiego or Oregon Trail, with challenges rather than just a quiz at the end: "Whoops! You gave your credit card number to a spoof site! Water buffalo stole your identity. Lose life points."
Go "play" Privacyville here. | positive |
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Receiver Kenny Britt remains a free agent. He may not be a free agent for much longer.
The chatter at the league meetings indicates Britt could pick his next team within the next 48 hours. In an interview with PFT, Rams G.M. Les Snead pegged Britt’s chances of landing in St. Louis at “better than 50 percent.”
A first-round pick of the Titans in 2009, Britt’s rookie contract has expired. With the Titans (as G.M. Ruston Webster confirmed to PFT earlier in the day) clearly not in the mix to keep Britt, he needs a new home.
The former Rutgers receiver has visited the Rams, Redskins, Patriots, and Bills. In St. Louis, Britt would be reunited with coach Jeff Fisher, who drafted Britt in Tennessee.
Britt’s play has fallen off in recent years. After a great start to the 2011 season, Britt tore an ACL. He has struggled ever since then to regain the form he was beginning to display. | positive |
Rare look at Upper Cumberland wins History Book of the Year Award
Editors of People of the Upper Cumberland gather with contributors at the Putnam County Library. Front row from left: Ann Toplovich, editors W. Calvin Dickinson and Michael Birdwell, Janey Dudney and Mark Dudney. Back row from left: Laura Clemons, Troy Smith, Opless Walker and Randal Williams. Photo by Hal Harder
White County resident among writers
Who better to write historical studies of the Upper Cumberland than the people who live here?
For its insightful essays about this rarely studied region, People of the Upper Cumberland: Achievements and Contradictions has been named Tennessee History Book of the Year by the Tennessee Library Association.
White County resident Troy Smith, a member of the history faculty at Tennessee Tech University, has written an essay published in the collection, which includes stories of historical significance from communities across the county.
“The Upper Cumberland is covered in the edges of other books, but very few have been devoted entirely to the region,” said W. Calvin Dickinson, professor emeritus at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville and co-editor of People of the Upper Cumberland.
The book covers the Tennessee-Kentucky Upper Cumberland, which spans the 24 counties that, for the most part, border the eastern half of the Cumberland River — from Pulaski County, Ky., in the north to Warren County, Tenn., at the southern-most edge.
Termed “astonishingly fresh” by the Tennessee Historical Commission, most essays characterize the region by its people — both the famous and the infamous.
Co-editor Michael Birdwell, a professor of history at Tennessee Tech University, is a native Cookevillian and has interviewed people throughout the Upper Cumberland for 40 years.
“There’s so much more to cover; this is not the only book we’ve written about the Upper Cumberland, and it won’t be the last,” said Birdwell. “We keep lists on possible topics for others. People have asked, ‘Why don’t you do a book on industry?’ We need one on crime! While this is an academic book, it’s not a dissertation, where you’ll have an audience of three. We wrote this book for a popular audience” — for people interested in their heritage and environment, whether they live here now or once did.
That heritage includes stories from towns throughout the region:
•In the mid-1800s in Jackson County, Tenn., Granville’s population periodically jumped to 10,000 when farmers drove pigs to market via steamboats hauling stock and produce from the Granville port to Nashville, Louisville and Cincinnati.
•In Cookeville, Tenn., John’s Place — a tavern in a historically black neighborhood — is one of 10 local properties on the National Register of Historic Places because of the role it played in improving race relations in Putnam County.
•A Clarkrange, Tenn., resident, Kate Bradford Stockton, was the first woman to run for governor in Tennessee. Campaigning for equal rights for women, among other issues, Stockton lost to Gordon Browning.
•The Pleasant Hill community in Cumberland County, Tenn., boasted one of the earliest tuberculosis sanitariums in the region. Its founder was May Cravath Wharton, one of few doctors in the area in the early 1900s, let alone a woman doctor. She also founded the county’s first hospital.
•Wayne County, Ky., and White County, Tenn., were the childhood homes of the first Tennessean appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, John Catron.
•McMinnville, the southern edge of the Upper Cumberland, was home to Tennessee’s most distinguished composer of classical music, Charles Faulkner Bryan, who tutored a young African-American man who would go on to become one of the most celebrated gospel singers in the U.S., Europe and Africa.
Editors and contributors drew source material from local history museums, archives and libraries with comprehensive sections on Tennesseans and their history, housing treasures their directors are eager to share with patrons.
“Our ‘Tennessee Room,’ which contains material on local and regional history, is so valuable to us,” said Stacie Netherton, executive director of the Putnam County Library. “We get a lot of local historians, plus people doing personal family research. We had a recent reference question from a man researching the original boundaries of the farm his family acquired in the 1860s. We were able to help because we collect not only books but primary materials like the family files of the Upper Cumberland Genealogical Society and very early maps of this region.”
The majority of essays were written by residents of the Upper Cumberland. Contributors are Michael Allen, Birdwell, Laura Clemons, Al Cross and David Cross, Dickinson, Janey Dudney, Mark Dudney, Mary Evins, Wali Kharif, John Nisbet III, Troy Smith, Ann Toplovich, Opless Walker and Randal Williams.
A jury of professional librarians and academic historians representing East, Middle and West Tennessee oversees the selection of each year’s award.
The Tennessee Library Association bestows two book awards annually: the Tennessee History Book of the Year, in collaboration with the Tennessee Historical Commission, and the Volunteer State Book Award for best children’s books — as chosen by students through the Tennessee Association of School Librarians.
People of the Upper Cumberland, a 2015 release by the University of Tennessee Press, can be ordered directly from the publisher at utpress.org and at amazon.com. Copies of the first Upper Cumberland history collection edited by Birdwell and Dickinson, Rural Life and Culture in the the Upper Cumberland (The University Press of Kentucky, 2004 and 2009 editions), is also available at amazon.com. | positive |
Hello, fellow FighterZ!
It’s an exciting time to be a “Dragon Ball” and fighting game fan. With gamescom happening right now, we felt it was the right time to make some big announcements for Dragon Ball FighterZ so let’s get things started!
Think of Dragon Ball FighterZ as playing the “Dragon Ball” anime through the lens of a fighting game. Famed developer, Arc System Works aims to deliver an explosive, action-packed game that combines classic 2D elements with advanced 3D character models. The 3v3 fighting engine is built from the ground up to allow novice players easy mastery of the game’s basic combos while the more experienced players will be digging through the robust move sets and learning new ways to chain into their level 3 super attacks.
Starting today, select Xbox Insiders can join the Dragon Ball FighterZ closed beta on Xbox One through the Xbox Insider Program. To participate on Xbox One, download and launch the Xbox Insider Hub app from the Xbox Store. If you’ve been selected, you’ll see a message in the Announcement feed. Navigate to Insider Content and join the Dragon Ball FighterZ demo. For more information about the Xbox Insider Program, please visit the Xbox Insider Hub support page.
We also recently announced several new FighterZ joining the ranks:
Android 16: A close-range fighter that will bully his opponent with a devastating tackle. He is also lethal with an assortment of throws and decimate the opposition with his Hell Flash!
Android 18: She fights with Android 17 by her side and can summon him to counter the opponent’s Z assist. She has a multitude of combos to defeat her foes.
Krillin: A very tricky addition to the roster, he can confuse the enemy with a variety of unorthodox attacks and assists, including being able to throw a limited amount of Senzu Beans.
Piccolo: A fighter that can smash through an opponent’s guard with ease. By stretching his arm, he can drag an enemy into damage range and take them out with a Hellzone or Light Grenade Special Attack!
Trunks: A deadly mid-distance fighter with a deadlier sword! Trunks can also catch his opponent off guard from long range with his Masenko!
In addition to the new characters, we’ve also announced the Collectorz Edition of the Game that you can pre-order today on Xbox One. This limited-edition box set will include:
Dragon Ball FighterZ game : It just wouldn’t be a Collectorz Edition without a copy of the game; of course it’s included!
: It just wouldn’t be a Collectorz Edition without a copy of the game; of course it’s included! 3 high quality art cards : A set of high quality, hard covered, gold foil embossed cards that depict several FighterZ from the game
: A set of high quality, hard covered, gold foil embossed cards that depict several FighterZ from the game 7” Goku Statue w/ exclusive Manga Dimension coloring : A super detailed diorama of Son Goku in his trademark pose. The one-of-a-kind airbrushed paint job gives the statue a “jumping off the pages of the manga look”
: A super detailed diorama of Son Goku in his trademark pose. The one-of-a-kind airbrushed paint job gives the statue a “jumping off the pages of the manga look” Exclusive Steelbook : A steel-brushed metal case with exclusive art from the game, to keep your copy of Dragon Ball FighterZ safe
: A steel-brushed metal case with exclusive art from the game, to keep your copy of Dragon Ball FighterZ safe Collectorz Box: A giant case to contain all of the goodies listed above
By pre-ordering either the Collectorz or regular edition of Dragon Ball FighterZ, you will unlock SSGSS Goku and SSGSS Vegeta from the very start of the game and get two exclusive lobby avatars as well.
That’s all for now but we have much more news for Dragon Ball FighterZ in the coming months. Stay tuned! | positive |
prod·i·gy
a person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities.
SK Telecom T1 are not the greatest League franchise by chance. The reason why the organization is sending their second team to the Summoner's Cup Finals and have a 27-3 all-time record at the World Championships is because of three things:
Money (look at how Samsung did this year when they paid their players nothing) Strong coaching staff and infrastructure The ability to find and develop young talent
In the history of this game, we've seen teams like the Copenhagen Wolves and Xenics Storm have the eye to find such prospects from the online ranks and develop them into pro players. The issues for them comes when it's time to pay them the same money that bigger teams looking for a new star will. For SK Telecom T1, possibly the greatest team at finding talent throughout the past decade in eSports, that isn't an issue. With their well-built infrastructure, experienced coaching staff, and the willingness to spend money to keep their star players, they are capable of plucking diamonds from the rough, polishing them, and then watching as they grow into legends under their brand.
Two generational prodigies in League were signed by SK Telecom T1 only months apart. At the beginning of 2014, SKT T1 created a secondary team to go alongside their main team that was captained by Reapered, a former domestic champion that won the first tournament he played in on his new T1 squadron. The second team was built around their mid laner Faker, a teenager that had rampaged through Korea's online solo queue, asserting himself as a once-in-a-lifetime prospect that had the potential to be the best player in the world. After only one season with SKT T1, Faker had already built a legacy in South Korea, having a movie-like start to his pro-gaming career by consistently killing national all-star, CJ Entus Blaze's Ambition, in-lane during his debut match.
By the end of the year, Faker had gone from hype to exceeding any possible expectation that someone could have put forward for him. He won his first domestic title in the summer of his first year, beating SKT T1's arch-nemesis, KT Rolster, in the finals of a series that saw them come back from an 0-2 deficit to win the Champions Korea title. That only helped his legend grow as he left his home country to travel with his teammates to Los Angeles for the 2013 World Championships. This is where Faker went from simply the strongest player in the scene to a household name for anyone who even just casually followed the eSports scene — he went on to win the Summoner's Cup with his seemingly green team that had only played together for a couple of tournaments.
From there, he would only add to his lore.
After winning Worlds and the MVP award, Faker completed an even more impressive feat by going through an entire Champions Korea season without dropping a single map en route to another domestic title. Highlight reel plays. A champion pool that stretched so far that he picked champions viewers hadn't thought about in ages. Mechanical outplays that showcased his technical abilities and his genius quick thinking. Even following a slump that ended 2014 and saw the end of his original SKT T1 team, his individual performances were still heralded, still considered one of the best in the world without even making it back to the World Championships the next year to defend his throne.
When it comes to traditional sport prodigies like LeBron James in basketball or Lionel Messi in football, Faker fits into the same mold. He had the pressure of an entire country watching him when he made his first steps into the world of professionals, and he broke through every challenge put in front of him. Domestic championship and a world title in his first year. MVP awards in South Korea and on the world stage. Alongside his teammates and under the tutelage of his head coach, kkOma, with the backing of the SK Telecom T1 empire, Faker worked his way from a normal teenager playing a video game by himself in his room to competitive video game superstar in less than a year's time.
If you were to imagine the best case scenario for a prodigy, Faker was it. A perfect first year. A hard working teammate. Flashy play. Quirky, engaging personality. Championships, individual accolades, and worldwide brand exposure. The story of the golden boy that became the crown jewel of the most powerful eSports franchise on the planet.
Only a few days after their 2013 World Championship, SK Telecom T1 would try to recreate the same magic they found with Faker. This time the solo queue standout went under the ID "MaRin," a top lane carry that was renowned online for his roaming pressure, incredible Rumble play, and mastery of taking over the game from the 'island' of Summoner's Rift. Of course, being a solo queue master and being signed by SKT T1 to start his own team, he was immediately compared to Faker. His pro-gaming elder (who was actually younger than him in terms of age) had paved the way for a road that MaRin would need to be perfect to complete.
On SK Telecom T1 S, a team that makes up a majority of the current SK Telecom T1 Summoner's Cup finalist team, MaRin was expected to debut and amaze everyone from the first few games like Faker. Pick Fizz and roam around the map, showing up in the mid lane randomly like he was known to do in solo queue and pick up a kill in the lane phase while his top counterpart is recalling to base. Destroy people with his superior mechanics. Compete against Faker's SK Telecom T1 K to see which online wunderkind is truly the best.
None of that happened. No super plays. No accolades. No fan fare following the first few weeks when viewers waited for him to breakout. Instead, MaRin played mostly tanks, picking a lot of Renekton and being the meat shield for his late-game focused squad in the climactic stages of the match. While SK Telecom T1 K had their unblemished season where they didn't drop a single map and solidified themselves as the best team in League history, MaRin and his teammates were putting viewers to sleep, routinely playing games past the 50 minute mark and trying to win games through attrition.
MaRin's rookie year ended without a trip to the World Championships, failing to even make the Korean Regional Finals when his team fell to the KT Rolster Arrows in the semifinals of the summer Champion Korea campaign. There was no fairy tale for MaRin. He was overshadowed by his peers on the main SK Telcom T1 team, and regardless of S' semifinal finish in the summer of 2014 compared to K's quarterfinal exit, they were still seen as the unimaginative brothers to their world champion kin.
For SKT T1's future captain, his story to the top was one of struggle and slow evolution. Faker transitioned into the pro-gaming world seamlessly, shaping his the identity of his team with his offensive traits. MaRin's first year with SK Telecom T1 S was drastically different, forced to play against his tendencies of being an aggressive player and having to fit into his squad's defensive ways. Although it wasn't a first year that would be turned into a Hollywood movie, it was an important period for MaRin. SK Telecom T1 S' games weren't exciting, far from it, but it taught MaRin to be an all-around player that could excel in either the utility role he was thrust into when he signed with SKT or the carry style that got him atop of the Challenger ladder.
One night before the 2015 Summoner's Cup Finals, MaRin is one step away from competing his destiny as a generational standout. The best player for SKT T1 throughout the tournament, he is three victories away from winning his first world championship and, unless one of his teammates have the series best series of their life, the MVP award for best player of the entire competition. As the captain of the team and co-shot caller alongside Faker, this new team created between the two prodigies is on the verge of accomplishing a flawless victory if they can sweep the Tigers in the Summoner's Cup Finals.
Even though Faker's ascent from solo queue prospect to Worlds MVP only took him half a year contrasted with MaRin's journey to make it to this step, it shows how there is no one singular way for a player to reach his full potential. It took Faker a few seconds into his pro-gaming debut to put himself on the map. MaRin, who has steadily improved over the course of the year and grown even faster during the summer split, has now become the player that people thought he'd be when they dubbed him 'Faker of the Top Lane' before he even played his first game. A reversal from his first days on S, this competition has been MaRin's stage to showcase his strength with not only champions like Renekton and Maokai but carries, too. He has steadily chosen split-pushing champions, constantly carrying and winning games for his squad in the first 12 games of the tournament.
2013 was the year that Faker made it known he was the best player in the world.
On Oct. 31, 2015, MaRin will go up against his greatest adversary of the World Champion in the form of KOO's ace, Smeb. In the case he can beat Smeb and lead the team he captains and shot calls for to the Summoner's Cup while simultaneously also being their ace carry, MaRin can stare Faker in the eyes for the first time as true equals — for he will have finally reached reached the top of the mountain as the world's strongest summoner.
Tyler "Fionn" Erzberger is a staff writer for theScore eSports who covers the North American LCS and Korea's Champions. You can follow him on Twitter. | positive |
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Issa Amro in 2015. Photo by Eli Ungar-Sargon
On Sunday, Issa Amro, a Palestinian human rights activist, will appear in the Israeli military court at Ofer to defend himself against 18 charges that could result in one to three years in prison. At 36, Amro is already internationally renowned as the founder of Youth Against Settlements, an organization devoted to ending Israel's occupation of the Palestinian Territories through nonviolent action. The Israeli authorities have arrested him many times before, a common enough occurrence for any Palestinian protesting the occupation. But this time, Amro says, is different.
"When I heard 18 [charges], I took it seriously," he told VICE over the phone from Hebron. "This time it seems they just wanted revenge, to get rid of me."
The criminal behavior listed in the indictment includes things like resisting arrest, breaking a settler's camera, and interfering with soldiers trying to do their jobs. But many of the charges are what in the US would be called free speech, like "incitement," "insulting a soldier," "attempting to influence public opinion in a place or way that threatens public safety or order," and gathering without permission. In one instance mentioned in the indictment, Amro led a group of protestors wearing masks of Obama's face and shirts that read "I have a dream" to a printing house in Hebron.
"In doing this, the accused took part in a process with a political purpose or that can be interpreted as political, and this without a permit from the military chief," states the indictment. According to Israeli military law, Palestinians wishing to gather in groups of more than ten require permission from the Israeli military. Acts considered to be influencing public opinion can be prohibited as "political incitement," and can carry prison terms.
Israel's prosecution and persecution of Palestinians engaged in anti-occupation activities is nothing new. But Amro isn't just any protester—sometimes called the "Palestinian Gandhi," he's a high-profile activist who is steadfastly committed to nonviolence.
"It's about nonviolence in the community," he told an audience at NYU in May. "Ghandi says, if you want to win with violence, you will win with violence, but the violence will stay in the community after you win," he went on. "Nonviolence strengthens the civil society in the best way. This is why we try to educate, to convince the Palestinians about nonviolence."
Amro lives and works in Hebron—Al Khalil, in Arabic—the largest city in the West Bank and home to roughly 250,000 Palestinians, which I visited when I wrote about Amro for VICE last year. It is also home to a stronghold of about 500 Jewish settlers, who are guarded by twice as many Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers. The city is infamous for the close proximity in which Jews and Palestinians live, and the clashes that result.
Hebron is also striking for the starkness with which the Israeli Occupation is realized. Unlike in Israel proper, where at least on paper Arab citizens have equal rights to their Jewish counterparts, Hebron's Jewish and Palestinian populations are treated differently by the Israeli authorities. Palestinians living in the Israeli-controlled areas of the West Bank report to military court for criminal matters, while Jews report to Israeli civilian courts. There are streets Palestinians are forbidden from walking on. They pass through checkpoint after checkpoint to get from one side of the city to the other.
It is these civil rights abuses that Amro has devoted his life to documenting and exposing to the international community, and to resisting at home, through creative, nonviolent means. If he continues to do this work, it may be from a prison cell for the next few years.
"The military courts have a high record of finding Palestinians guilty," Gaby Lasky, Amro's lawyer, told VICE. She says that the probability that Amro will be found guilty of at least some of the 18 charges is high. "We're doing everything possible to show the court that this is a political case and very biased and an infringement of Issa's rights," Lasky said, adding that it was surprising how far back the charges against Amro go: "One thing I can say about the military courts is that they are very efficient in the sense that if someone is arrested and brought to court, the prosecution will immediately take the file and present an indictment, in maximum two weeks."
"The decision to indict Issa this time around appears to be a clear-cut case of political persecution." –Suhad Babaa
Others were less surprised, like Suhad Babaa, executive director of Just Vision, an organization dedicated to increasing media coverage and support for Palestinian and Israeli grassroots leaders.
"The Israeli government has been actively repressing voices of dissent and nonviolent activists with an increased fervor in the past two years," Babaa wrote in an email. "The decision to indict Issa this time around appears to be a clear-cut case of political persecution."
"So many internationals have been asking where the MLK Jr or Gandhi of Palestine is," added Babaa. "Issa is one among hundreds of men and women who take on that role every day, and have been doing so for years, if not decades. But too often their stories are made invisible, and their actions are criminalized."
One of Amro's chief antagonists is Baruch Marzel, a leader of the settlers who live in Hebron. Marzel called Amro a "troublemaker." "I don't know why he's not in jail a long time ago," he told me on the phone from Hebron. Amro is "too smart" to commit acts of violence himself, Marzel said, but still blamed him for anti-Israeli violence.
The view of Amro as a provocateur is common in the settler community. "He doesn't care about any human rights of any Arab in Hebron," Tzippy Shlissel, another resident of the Jewish community of Hebron, told VICE. "He only wants to fight against the Jews and against Israel. For this he uses a lot of propaganda, mostly lies." She is bothered by the public nature of his work, for example, a video he made of a house she says belongs to Jews, "but he stands in front of the camera and says, 'This belongs to Arabs,' and all the anti-Semites buy it, like we took places that don't belong to us. This is what he's doing—thousands of provocations."
But even Marzel objects to Amro's being tried in a military court. "We want Arabs to be tried in civilian court instead of military court," he insisted. "I would like him being charged in the Israeli justice system." Marzel also says he supports the rights of Palestinians to protest. "I'm for the rights of everyone to protest, if it doesn't interfere in the military force's work."
In response to a list of questions about Amro's case, the IDF spokesperson emailed the following official comment: "Over a period of several years, the defendant has committed a number of offenses including repeatedly taking part in riots, attacks on soldiers, incitement, and interference with security forces. Following an accumulation of evidence against the defendant, he was indicted solely based on the evidence gathered as to his repetitive criminal behavior."
"They want to make Hebron empty from any moderate voices calling for peace or nonviolence." –Issa Amro
However his trial goes, Amro remains worried about the future of nonviolent resistance in the West Bank. He worries that the way he is being treated by Israel will make other Palestinians lose hope that nonviolent resistance can be effective. But his trial is also confirmation of a kind. His work embarrasses the Israeli authorities, Amro says, making them feel they need to justify their actions in Hebron, or even apologize for them.
"They want to make Hebron empty from any moderate voices calling for peace or nonviolence," he said. "They see it as the main threat to them," possibly even a greater threat than the violent stabbings that have plagued Israel recently.
"Israel manages very well regarding how to act against violence," Lasky, Amro's lawyer, said. "They can act violently back and they know how to do it, and how much strength to use. But Israel hasn't found a good way to fight nonviolence, so this nonviolence really presents a big riddle to the Israeli authorities. So the way they have chosen to treat nonviolence is to incarcerate the leaders to make people uncomfortable or afraid of coming to nonviolent activities because they see what happens to those leaders."
"They don't want civil disobedience because it's the best methodology to defeat them," Amro said. "They want to keep the Palestinians violent so they can kill them."
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North Queensland Toyota Cowboys and Tonga lock Jason Taumalolo has been shortlisted for the Rugby League International Federation Golden Boot for the second year running.
Taumalolo has been the talisman for Tonga’s remarkable Rugby League World Cup campaign, leading the Mate Ma'a from the front with impressive performances in their wins over Scotland, Samoa, New Zealand and Lebanon.
He played 26 games for the Cowboys in season 2017, all the way to the NRL Grand Final, and became the first forward in NRL history to run for over 5,000 metres in a season.
Taumalolo joins Cameron Smith (Australia), Jermaine McGillvary (England) and Suliasi Vunivalu (Fiji) in the running for the most prestigious individual accolade in international rugby league.
The 2017 Golden Boot, to be awarded at the Gala Finals luncheon on Wednesday 29 November in Brisbane, will recognise outstanding performance in, and contribution to international rugby league.
Six players from the Australian team, three England players and one each from Fiji, Lebanon, New Zealand and Tonga were nominated, whittled down to a four-man shortlist based on those receiving the most nominations.
The nominating panel comprised Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga, Scotland coach Steve McCormack and journalists Steve Mascord and Martyn Sadler. | positive |
The Pentagon's chief said that the US is living through 'historic, defining times.' This means that the long war will likely become even longer. By David Graham
Sometimes it feels like what’s happening now, at any given moment, is bigger, more important, worse, and more dangerous than before. Luckily, that often turns out to be incorrect: Today’s news is tomorrow’s hazy memory, and what once seemed like an existential threat is now nothing more than an unpleasant recollection.
It sure seems like there are frightening events happening everywhere today—from ISIS to Ebola, Russian imperialism to Chinese saber-rattling, climate change to congressional dysfunction. But is it really worse, or will this, too, pass?
Bad news: It’s really worse, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told James Fallows at the Washington Ideas Festival Wednesday.
“I think we are living through one of these historic, defining times,” Hagel said. “We are seeing a new world order—post-World War II, post-Soviet Union implosion—being built. There are many questions, foremost among the American people: What’s the role of America in this new world that is evolving? Should we have a role? What is appropriate?”
And Hagel didn’t seem especially sanguine that it would end anytime soon. In other words: Get used to endless war.
(Related: Should America Protect Itself Through Bridges or Barricades?)
“What we’re seeing in the Middle East with ISIL is going to require a steady, long-term effort. It’s going to require coalitions of common interest,” Hagel said.
But he noted that cooperation is in short supply, especially in his old stamping grounds on Capitol Hill, where Hagel served two terms in the Senate. ”I hope that changes after next Tuesday; I don’t know,” he said. “Partnership is critical, because its not a matter of ‘We all have to agree.’ We need different opinions, but … both sides get to some conclusion and make a decision on how we go forward.”
He noted in particular the challenge of global warming, which Hagel’s Pentagon has made a priority, declaring it a national-security threat, even as Hagel’s own Republican Party continues to block broader steps.
Even if a new era of comity arrived in Washington, however, Hagel forecast that the U.S. would continue to grapple with overseas threat for the foreseeable future. “Tyranny, terrorism, the challenges and threats to our country … is going to be with us,” he said. “It’s a reality. I see these things continuing to stay out of there.”
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Anacaona (from Taino anacaona, meaning 'golden flower'; from ana, meaning 'flower', and caona, meaning 'gold, golden'; 1474-1503) was a Taíno cacica (chief), born in what is now Léogâne, Haiti, into a family of chiefs, and sister of Bohechío, chief of Jaragua. Her husband was Caonabo, chief of the nearby territory of Maguana (located in present-day Dominican Republic). Her brother and her husband were two of the five highest caciques who ruled the island of Kiskeya (Spanish: Quisqueya, now called Hispaniola) when the Spaniards colonized it in 1492. She was celebrated as a composer of ballads and narrative poems, called areítos.
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Anacaona was born in Yaguana, the capital of Jaragua (present day Léogâne, Haiti)[1], where her brother Bohechío was chieftain in 1474. During Christopher Columbus's visit in late 1496, Anacaona and Bohechío appeared as equal negotiators. On that occasion, described by Bartolomé de las Casas in Historia de las Indias, Columbus successfully negotiated for tribute of food and cotton to be paid by the natives to the Spanish under his command.
The visit is described as having taken place in a friendly atmosphere. Several months later, Columbus arrived with a caravel to collect a part of the tribute. Anacaona and Bohechío had sailed briefly aboard the caravel, near today's Léogâne in the Gulf of Gonâve as his guests. At first relations between natives and Conquistadors were cordial, souring only later when Columbus was away in Spain.
Anacaona's high status was probably strengthened by elements of matrilineal descent in the Taíno society, as described by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera. Taíno caciques usually passed inheritance to the eldest children of their sisters. If their sisters had no children, then they chose among the children of their brothers, and when there were none, they fell back upon one of their own.
Anacaona had one child, named Higuemota, whose dates of birth and death are lost to history.
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Anacaona
Anacaona became chief of Jaragua after her brother's death. Her husband Caonabo, suspected of having organized a recent attack on La Navidad (a Spanish settlement on north-western Hispaniola), was captured by Alonso de Ojeda and shipped to Spain, dying in a shipwreck during the journey — as many other Taíno leaders died on Spanish ships away from their native lands. The Taínos, being brutalized by the conquerors, revolted and made a long war against them.
In 1503 during a meeting of 80 caciques, including Anacaona, the Spanish Governor Nicolás de Ovando ordered the meeting house to be set on fire to burn them alive.[2][3] Cacica Anacaona and her Taíno noblemen were arrested — all accused of conspiracy for resisting occupation and executed.
Prior to her execution, Anacaona was offered clemency if she would give herself as concubine to one of the Spaniards[citation needed], which was common in the era. Standing with her fellow Taínos in solidarity, the Caribbean indigenous female leader (cacica) chose execution over colluding with her Spanish enemy, her refusal cementing her legend. Anacaona remained rebellious and independent until her violent public death.
Because Anacaona refused the sexual offer of the Spanish intruders while others were shot, Anacaona was executed by hanging. She was only 29 years old.
Legacy [ edit ]
Her immortalization in the intertwining histories of Haiti and the Dominican Republic has resulted in the use of her name for various places in both countries. Many in Haiti claim her as a significant icon in early Haitian history and a primordial founder of their country.
Renowned Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat wrote an award-winning novel, from The Royal Diaries series, Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490, in dedication to the fallen chief, and a more recent novel has appeared about Anacaona, "Ayiti's Taíno Queen/Anacaona, La Reine Taíno d'Ayiti" by Maryse N. Roumain, PhD. She is immortalized in music by Haitian folk singers Ansy and Yole Dérose in "Anacaona", as well as by Puerto Rican salsa composer Tite Curet Alonso in his song "Anacaona" and in Irka Mateo's "Anacaona". Cheo Feliciano's first track of his first solo album, "Cheo", is "Anacaona".
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Nick Offerman will star in Brett Haley’s upcoming musical drama “Hearts Beat Loud” opposite Kiersey Clemons.
Park Pictures, Burn Later Productions, and Houston King Productions also announced on Thursday that Ted Danson, Sasha Lane, Blythe Danner, and Toni Collette are also joining the cast. Clemons will play the daughter of Offerman’s character as they form a songwriting team during the summer before she leaves for college.
“Hearts Beat Loud” will include four original songs and a score by Keegan DeWitt. Offerman and Clemons will both sing in the film.
The movie will be produced by Houston King, Sam Bisbee, and Sam Slater. The executive producers include Franklin Carson, Paul Bernon, David Bernon, Theodora Dunlap, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Lance Acord, Danny Rifkin, Frank Brenner, and Offerman. Amy Jarvela and Rowan Riley are co-producing.
The drama will shoot in New York City in August. WME is handling sales.
“‘Hearts Beat Loud’ is about the connective power of music and the unexpected friendship that blossoms between a father and daughter as they are brought closer together through their songs, at a pivotal point in their lives when they are both about to make important decisions about their future,” Haley said. “I wrote the film with Nick Offerman in mind after my experience working with him on ‘The Hero.’ He is one of my favorite actors and I’m very excited to be putting him at the center of this film.”
Offerman is best known for his role as Ron Swanson on the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation.” He also recently starred with Michael Keaton in “The Founder.”
Offerman is represented by UTA and Jackoway Tyerman. Clemons is represented by UTA, Mach 1 Management, and MJMG. Danson is represented by WME and Industry Entertainment. Lane is represented by The Gersh Agency and The Long Run. Danner is represented by Anonymous Content. Collette is represented by CAA and Finlay Management. Haley is represented by WME and Anonymous Content. | positive |
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The shadow of the Moon will sweep across the United States of America, from Oregon to South Carolina. And, of course, we want to take photos of it. Let’s see what we can do… The solar eclipse First of all, let’s talk a bit about the eclipse. If anyone still has doubts, a total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon gets between the Sun and Earth and manages to fully cover the disk of our beloved star. This doesn’t happen at every New Moon, as the orbit of the Moon is inclined at an angle of around 5 degrees to the Ecliptic. The points where the orbit of the Moon and the Ecliptic intersect are called lunar nodes. So, we need the New Moon to happen close to one of the nodes in order to have a solar eclipse. (If we have a Full Moon close to the nodes, we get a lunar eclipse.) But this is not the only condition needed. We also need the Moon to be close to perigee so that it covers the whole disk of the Sun and allows the magnificent corona to be visible. Otherwise, we have an annular solar eclipse, when a thin ring of the Sun is still visible around the dark disk of the Moon. Phases of the eclipse A total solar eclipse has two phases: a partial and a total one. The first partial phase happens between contacts 1 and 2 (C1 and C2), totality happens between contacts 2 and 3 (C2 and C3) and then we have another partial phase between contacts 3 and 4 (C3 and C4), when the eclipse ends. Totality is only seen from a thin path across the globe, where the umbra touches the surface of our planet. It will be around 115 km wide in the case of this eclipse. The penumbra will cause a partial eclipse visible from a much larger area; even the extreme West of Europe will get to see a low magnitude partial eclipse. The 2017 eclipse will be seen as total from 14 American states, although it will barely touch Montana and Iowa. You must be within the path of totality for the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse to see the real show. Note that totality for this eclipse only lasts from 2 minutes on the west coast, to about 2 minutes and 41 seconds at maximum near Carbondale, Illinois, and about 2 minutes and 30 seconds when it crosses the east coast. Click on the image to see a larger version of the map. Copyright: Michael Zeiler www.GreatAmericanEclipse.com The umbra will reach the North American continent, in Oregon, at 17:16 UT (10:16 AM PDT) and, just 94 minutes later, it will leave continental USA, in South Carolina. That’s fast, right? Around 2335 hm/h (1450 mph). So, what’s the best place to see it? First of all, you need to be inside the path of totality. It’s a huge difference between a 98% partial eclipse and a total one. Go for totality, if you can. Then, the only factor that needs to be taken into account is weather. The sky has to be clear in order to see the eclipse. According to secular weather reports, it seems that the best chances for good weather on eclipse day are in the Western half of the US. But, weather is weather. Not climate. Check out Jay Anderson’s excellent Eclipsophile website for climatological data and updated forecasts. Another problem might be smoke from forest fires, so keep an eye on those, too. It would be great to have at least one back-up location in case your main one gets a bad forecast. Watch weather reports starting at least one week in advance and see the trend of the weather in different areas. Keep in mind that it will most likely be impossible to relocate on eclipse day due to high traffic. If possible, visit your main and back-up locations a few days before the eclipse. My main location will be in Western Wyoming, close to the border with Idaho with two alternates: one in Idaho and another one in Wyoming. I will probably make a final decision one or two days before the eclipse, but I will be prepared to change location, if needed, 6 hours before the eclipse. How to view a solar eclipse Before getting to the photography part, I have to stress the importance of viewing the eclipse in a safe way. Do not look at the partially eclipsed Sun without proper filtration. The filter will always be placed in front of the instrument you are observing through. You can choose between Baader Astrosolar Film, polymer or glass filters (like this). If you don’t have an astronomical instrument and you only want to look at the eclipse with the filtered naked eye, get a pair of “eclipse glasses” (like these) or handheld viewers. Be careful where you get them from and check if they meet the ISO 12312-2 international standard. Do not use any improvised filters. You can permanently damage your eyesight or even go blind. It is totally safe to watch the total phase of the eclipse without filters. In fact, you will not see totality through filters. But never look at the Sun without proper filtration outside totality! If you don’t have a safe solar filter, watch the partial phase by projecting the Sun through a pinhole on a white screen. How to photograph a solar eclipse And now let’s find out how we can take some photos of this eclipse. Or any other one. First question: what camera do I need? Answer: Any camera will do. Even with a mobile phone camera you will be able to record the moment and have some photos that will look pretty decent. I’m planning to use my phone on video mode to record people’s reactions. Point and shoot cameras (even ones that only have an Auto mode) will do a pretty good job at getting a wide angle view of the eclipse. A DSLR or mirrorless camera will be a better choice for the serious photographer as it allows for multiple parameters to be set and can also be remotely controlled. And this is a very important aspect if you plan to shoot multiple cameras during totality. Actually, more important than camera selection might be the focal length that you want to shoot the eclipse at. And here you have more choices, depending on what you want to achieve. What focal length to use For detailed images of the corona during totality you will need at least 200mm of focal length on a full frame camera. If you choose a photo lens or a telescope is entirely your choice and depends on the gear you own. Below is a comparison of the size of the eclipsed Sun at different focal lengths. The outer frame is for a full frame sensor. The yellow rectangle is the Nikon APS sensor, while the red rectangle is the equivalent of a Canon APS-C sensor. The green rectangle is for Micro Four Thirds sensors. The outer frame is for a full frame sensor. The yellow frame is the Nikon APS sensor, while the red rectangle is the equivalent of a Canon APS-C sensor. The green rectangle is for Micro Four Thirds sensors. Photo: Alex Conu In my opinion, the ideal focal length for images of the Solar corona is between 400 and 800mm for a full frame sensor. In case you want to capture the prominences around the Lunar limb in greater detail, go for a 2000mm focal length telescope on a full frame camera. A Maksutov or Schmidt-Cassegrain should do it as they are more compact and easier to carry. If you want to shoot landscapes with the eclipsed Sun in the frame, you will need a wide angle lens, as the Sun will be pretty high up in the sky (around 50 degrees). Think about something in the range of 14 to 24mm on a full frame. A fisheye might also be useful. What other gear is needed? Solar filters You need a solar filter (like these) to photograph the partial phases. Don’t try it without a filter as you may damage the sensor of the camera if shooting in Live View mode or it may cause problems to your vision if you frame using the viewfinder of the camera. If you go for Baader Astrosolar filter, the partially eclipsed sun will have a blue tint. Through glass and polymer filters, the Sun has a more natural colour. Personally, I like glass and polymer better just because of the colour. Practice putting on and taking off your solar filter. Adjust its size if this doesn’t go smooth. Solid tripod Use the sturdiest tripod you can get. It might be windy or you might have people walking around your gear and that will cause vibrations. Remote shutter release cable Pressing the shutter button on your camera will induce vibrations in the system. That will result in blurry images, especially at longer focal lengths. Use a cable release. I always prefer cable releases over infrared or radio ones as you don’t need batteries to operate them and there are fewer things that might not work. You will need an intervalometer, if you plan to shoot a sequence of the whole eclipse from a fixed tripod. Extra batteries Have at least one fresh spare battery if you shoot with a DSLR and two or three if you shoot with a mirrorless. If it is your first eclipse, you might get carried away and shoot more photos than planned during the first partial phase of the eclipse and the battery might deplete. Fast memory cards Use memory cards with fast writing speeds as you will need to shoot in burst mode for Baily’s beads and the diamond ring. If your camera has a dual card slot, shoot on both cards at the same time to have a back-up. Camera adapters (optional) If you’re shooting through a telescope you will need an adapter from your camera to the focuser. Equatorial mount (optional) If you plan on shooting totality at a longer focal length, you will need a tracking equatorial mount. On one hand, it will be easier to keep the Sun centred in the field of view and on the other hand you will need tracking if you plan to use longer exposure times for the fainter parts of the corona or for shooting the Earthshine. Learn and practice polar aligning during daytime. Laptop computer (optional) If you want to automate the process of shooting the eclipse, you will need a laptop. More on this later. Misc items Duct tape, Allen wrench, Swiss knife, screwdriver, etc. These things should always be part of your astrophotography kit. You never know when you need them. And, usually, you need at least one or two of these items every time you go out and shoot upwards. Practice One important aspect about gear. Don’t shoot a total eclipse with new gear. Use only devices that you are very familiar with. Shooting total solar eclipses is an act of coordination and it is very easy to make mistakes, no matter how experienced you are. Read manuals, practice, practice and practice even more. Know your gear inside out. And make a checklist of the whole equipment needed. That way you will be sure that nothing is left behind. If you travel to the US for the eclipse, go through your checklist twice: once before leaving your home country and once one day before the eclipse. Focusing Focusing is critical for eclipse photography. Not that it is not for any other aspect of astrophotography. Use the Live View feature for easier focusing. If your camera doesn’t have a Live View mode, use a right angle viewfinder. Put the solar filter on your lens/telescope, turn on Live View and set it to Exposure Simulation, bring the Sun in the field of view of the camera and use 10x magnification in Live View. The easiest way is to focus on a sunspot if we will be lucky enough to get any. If no sunspots will be present, focus on the Solar limb. Once you achieve focus, tape down your focus ring if you use a photo lens. Tape down the zoom ring also, if you use a zoom lens. If you shoot through a telescope, lock the focuser. Check focus from time to time, as thermal effects may affect it. Once you get closer to totality do a last focus check 2-3 minutes before the third contact. Don’t do this closer to the start of totality as you might end up shooting nothing. Consider bringing a black cloth to put over your head and camera when focusing; it will prevent glare. Wide angle lenses should be able to auto-focus on the eclipsed Sun. What to shoot and how to shoot it It depends on what setup you plan to use. Wide angle lens on a tripod This is the easy approach and I totally recommend it if this is going to be your first total solar eclipse. You will need a tripod, a camera, a wide angle lens and a cable release. The Sun will be pretty high in the sky so you will need to have some important/large/dramatic object in the foreground in order to get a well balanced image from a compositional point of view. You can even think about shooting panoramas. Here’s the aspect of the whole sky during the eclipse as seen from Casper, Wyoming, USA. It’s a simulation done in Stellarium. It will look pretty much the same anywhere along the path of totality. The sky during totality As you can easily see, no less than 4 planets will be visible during totality: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. Bright stars like Sirius, Betelgeuse, Rigel, Capella or Arcturus will also be visible. Look out for Orion above the South-Western horizon. Let’s zoom in a bit and have a closer look at the South-South-Eastern horizon; also simulated in Stellarium. I added an alt-azimuthal grid so that you can choose the best lens to fit all the elements you want to shoot. Plan your framing ahead using apps like Photographer’s Ephemeris or PhotoPills. A nice project for a wide angle lens is a sequence of the whole eclipse. You start at C1 and end at C4. Use a filter for partial phases. Shoot a photo every five minutes, let’s say, and then assemble all the photos in Adobe Photoshop using the Lighten blending mode. Use your totality shot as a background. Eclipse sequence above the temple Apollo in Side, Turkey. The sequence was shot on a single frame of film. Photo: Cristina Tinta Camera settings Experiment with exposure times and apertures during totality. Start at ISO 400 f/5.6 and 1 second of exposure time. It might be even better to trust your camera for this shots and you will have more time to actually watch the eclipse. Aperture priority and Auto modes will produce really great images. Telescope or long telephoto lens If you want to shoot the partial phases, you can use a longer focal length to get more details on the surface of the Sun. Like sunspots. Don’t forget to shoot through a solar filter. Partiality can also be shot through a H-alpha telescope. Test exposure times before the eclipse using the un-eclipsed Sun at the same height in the sky as during the eclipse. It will be the same thing, even if part of the Sun will be covered during the eclipse. Partial phases and totality of the total solar eclipse on Mach 29 2006. Meade ETX90 and Canon EOS 300 on Ektachrome E200 slide film for partial phases. Photo: Alex Conu Around 30-40 seconds before totality, you can take the filter off. But don’t look at the Sun yet through an instrument without a filter. You can watch what happens on the display of your camera. Take a deep breath and prepare for some of the most intense moments you will ever live. Baily’s beads A few seconds before totality, you will see the diamond ring effect and Baily’s beads. Both are short lived and extremely beautiful. Here, you will need to shoot in burst mode as the aspect of the beads changes very fast and the ring is ephemeral. You can start shooting for the ring and beads around 10 seconds before second contact. Diamond rings and Baily’s beads montage around a shot of a 3 Solar radii corona. Canon EOS 3 and 80/600 refractor. March 29 2006, Turkey. Photo: Alex Conu The chromosphere Right after second contact, the chromosphere is revealed. And, boy!, what a beauty it is. Be fast as it is only visible for around 10 seconds after second contact and 10 seconds before third contact. You will see prominences around the Solar disk. I can’t say anything about their size or shape but don’t expect any huge ones as the Sun is around its minimum of activity. You will need short exposure times for this. Prominences and inner corona. Canon EOS 300 and Meade ETX90 telescope on Kodak Ektachrome E200 slide film. 1/1000s. March 29 2006, Turkey. Photo: Alex Conu The corona Corona is next on our list of photos. My favourite focal length for this is 500mm as it reveals all those long coronal streamers in a longer exposure. There is no right or wrong exposure for the corona. The dynamic range of the corona is so huge, that you can use pretty much all exposure times available on your camera from 1/4000 to, let’s say, 6-8 seconds and you will get a different aspect of the corona in each image. With short exposure times you will get the bright corona close the Solar disk and with longer ones you get the faint streamers a few Solar radii in length. Of course, in this case, the inner corona will be overexposed. Long exposures will also reveal Earthshine on the Moon. If you decide to go for longer exposure times, you will need a tracking mount to get sharp images. If luggage size is not an issue, use your equatorial mount. If you are limited by luggage size, use a star tracker like the Fornax LighTrack II, Astrotrac or Skywatcher Star Adventurer. Be sure to polar align your mount (hint: use a compass and an inclinometer – app or real one; don’t forget about magnetic declination) and to use Solar tracking speed. Also, think about using Mirror Lock-Up if you can’t shoot in Live View mode. The flip of the mirror will make your whole imaging system vibrate which will result in blurry images. Totality Sequence. Canon EOS 300D and 70/700 refractor. Copyright: Cristina Tinta Composite from two images of two images, one taken at the second contact, the other one at the third. Thin cirrus clouds made the image a little unsharp. This way, you can see the chromosphere on both sides of the Moon. Canon EOS 3 and 80/600 refractor on Kodak Ektachrome E200 film. March 29 2006, Turkey. Photo: Alex Conu Check out this solar eclipse exposure table I compiled a solar eclipse exposure table, using Xavier Jubier’s Shutter Speed Calculator for Solar Eclipses. Keep in mind that these exposure times are just suggestions. Bracket, bracket and bracket even more. Keep after-shooting processing in mind In order to have a correctly exposed image of the corona along its full width you will have to merge all your individual shots taken during totality. But this is no easy task. Use a HDR image software in conjunction with a Photoshop technique to enhance structures in the corona. Gerald L. Pellet published a famous article titled “Eclipse Photography in the Digital Age” in the January 1998 issue of Sky & Telescope. Look for the article and apply his techniques. It might seem like an old article, but it’s a very useful one. Get the best quality with calibration frames In order to get better signal to noise ratio, I strongly recommend to also take calibration frames for all your totality images in case you need to merge them. This means you need to take flat-field, bias and dark frames. A quick primer Flat-field frames help you with getting an evenly illuminated field of view in the final image. Use a flat field panel or just shoot against a patch of clear blue skies. If you shot the corona through a photographic lens, use the same aperture for flat fields. Don’t change anything in the optical train of your system (don’t rotate your camera, for example). Around 80 flat-field images will make for a nice master flat. For bias and dark frames, put the cap on your telescope or lens or remove the camera and put the body cap on. For bias frames, shoot a sequence of many images with the shortest exposure time available on your camera. Shoot around 80 of these, too. For dark frames, shoot a sequence of frames at the same exposure times used during totality. You shot the eclipse at 1 second, take 16 1 second dark frames. You also shot at 4 seconds? Take another set of 16 4 second darks. Do that for every exposure time used. For all calibration frames, keep the same ISO setting that was used for shooting totality. The solar corona and Earthshine during the total solar eclipse of March 29 2006. Images with exposure times from 1/1000s to 6 seconds were used. Canon EOS 3 and 80/600 refractor. Photo: Alex Conu Automating your capture of totality with a computer If you also want to see the eclipse (and, trust me, you want that) a good idea would be to automate the process of shooting the eclipse through a telescope or using a long tele lens. Otherwise, you will only see the eclipse on the display of your camera. Luckily, there is some great software to help you automate everything. If you are a Windows guy, use Eclipse Orchestrator. The software costs $120 USD. If you use Mac, go for Xavier Jubier’s Solar Eclipse Maestro. This one is free, but I strongly suggest you to make a PayPal donation to Xavier if you decide to use his software. Eclipse Orchestrator and Solar Eclipse Maestro are pretty similar and both offer great results. There are some other options out there, like Astro Photography Tool or Eclipse Droid, but I have not tested them, so I can’t say anything about these two. I will use Solar Eclipse Maestro. I have to warn you that both Orchestrator and Maestro are not that easy to use and you really have to test your scripts, sometimes through trial and error, until you get the desired result. If you are in a hurry and you don’t have the time to understand the software and the scripts you need, just take a few shots and spend most of the time watching totality. To sum it up SHOOT RAW! Know the coordinates of your observing spot and when the important moments of the eclipse happen in that very spot Watch the weather and have at least one back-up plan Practice and rehearse your photography plan before the eclipse Make a gear checklist Use proper filtration during partial phases, but take filters off for totality Use semi-auto or auto modes for wide angle shots of totality Automate the photographing process as much as possible Use multiple exposure times for shooting the corona If something goes wrong with your gear during totality, just leave it and use whatever gear still works Watch the eclipse and enjoy Watch the eclipse and enjoy Don’t forget to watch the eclipse and enjoy How am I, the author, going to shoot the 2017 eclipse? I will shoot the eclipse with three cameras. I will have an Olympus OMD E-M1 Mark II with an Olympus M.Zuiko 7-14mm f / 2.8 ED Pro lens on a fixed tripod. This will be used to shoot a sequence of the whole eclipse from Contact 1 to Contact 4. The camera will automatically take an exposure every 5 minutes. I will manually remove the filter before totality and add it immediately after. Except for these two moments, I will hopefully have no other interaction with this camera. The second camera will be a Canon EOS 5D Mark III attached to a Pentax 75SDHF refractor. The telescope will be tracked by a Fornax LighTrack II tracker. Solar Eclipse Maestro will control the camera. The only difference from the photo below is that the telescope will be balanced with a counterweight on a different head. I will only use automation between C2-1 minute and C3+1 minute. I will manually shoot the partial phase; maybe a photo every five minutes. Between these partial eclipse shots, the camera will automatically take dark and bias frames to be used for calibrating totality photos. My third camera will be a Canon EOS 6D with a Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L lens that I will use to take landscape shots during totality. I’m not planning to use the camera for more than one minute. Around Contacts 2 and 3, I will shoot some fisheye views of the approaching and departing umbra using a Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L lens. My iPhone will record a video of totality and I will also have a GoPro timelapsing the whole event from Contact 1 to Contact 4. My final advice: photography should not be your primary objective Wish me luck and don’t do what I do, but do what I say. I know that all of you want to take photos of the eclipse. I know that most of you overestimate your potential and will try to shoot as many cameras and lenses as you have available, even though this is going to be your first total solar eclipse. I know it because I was there. And I failed. Partially. Why do you I think I have no wide-field shots to show you? Because I did not use any automation software in 2006 and I had no time for the wide-angle shots, even though I thought I would have. The amount of excitement will grow so much during totality that you will forget what buttons to press. And, actually, it’s better not to press any buttons. Don’t have photography as your primary objective for the eclipse. Viewing the eclipse is far more interesting. And it’s beyond amazing. Look at the eclipse as much as you can. In my opinion, it’s the most beautiful phenomenon happening in the sky; and I’ve seen pretty much everything that the sky has to offer. Total solar eclipses are special. And all are great; not just this one. Clear skies! Related Like this article enough to buy the author a drink? (a small donation of $1-$20) Yes, I want to buy him a drink! About the author View All Posts Alex Conu Winner of the 2016 International Earth & Sky Photo Contest, Alex Conu is a photographer based in Lofoten Islands, Norway, originally from Romania. Besides a degree in photography, Alex also holds a major in astrophysics, thus having a deeper understanding of the astronomical phenomena he photographs. He is a member of TWAN – The World at Night, a bridge between art, humanity, and science. Prior to his inclusion on the PhotographingSpace.com team, Alex was the overall winner of the 2016 PhotographingSpace.com Image of the Year. His astrophotos have been published internationally online and in print. Alex is the Chair of the Photographic Commission of The Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) and a member in the jury of the National Astrophotography Contest ASTROFOTO organized by SARM. He also collaborates with various astronomical institutions and associations in the world. Throughout the years, Alex was involved in countless astronomy public outreach events. He is also interested in visual astronomy and is an active observer in fields like comets, meteors, deep sky objects, eclipses, variable stars or grazing occultations. In his everyday life, Alex is a freelance photographer. 17 Comments Click here to post a comment Cancel reply Comment Name * Email * Website Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Shah says: July 31, 2017 at 2:13 pm Great advice. Looking forward for my 5th Total Solar Eclipse trip in Oregon! Reply Cory Schmitz says: July 31, 2017 at 2:16 pm Your FIFTH! Wow, then we will expect some amazing images from you, with all that practice! 🙂 Cheers Shah, Cory Reply Adam Gordon says: July 31, 2017 at 7:36 pm Hi Cory, I have a 14mm, 24mm, 50mm, and a 70-300mm. I think I will you use either the 14mm or 24mm to shoot a timelapse. I have a Nikon D750 and a Nikon D5300. Which camera do you think I should use for my 70-300mm? Also, for my wide angle timelapse, will I need a solar filter? Thanks! Reply Alex Conu says: July 31, 2017 at 8:57 pm Hi Adam, Using a solar filter for the timelapse will only allow you to see the crescent of the Sun and no landscape. If you want to do a timelapse, do it unfiltered. Go for the 14mm here. The 24 will be too narrow. I would use the D5300 for the long focal length shots. Reply Martin says: August 2, 2017 at 11:58 pm You mention using a GoPro to record a time-lapse. Are you intending to use a filter with it? I’ve seen conflicting information online about whether an ND filter is sufficient or if it has to be a solar filter. I’m hoping to capture a time-lapse on my GoPro too, but want to make sure I don’t kill the sensor. Reply Alex Conu says: August 3, 2017 at 11:28 am I will not use a solar filter. Maybe an ND one. You kinda do it on your own risk. I’ve seen GoPros damaged by the Sun while timelapsing and I’ve also seen cameras that had no problems. So I can’t say that you will damage the sensor but I also can’t say you won’t… Reply Carolina says: August 10, 2017 at 7:06 am So, exactly what memory card class should I use? Reply Alex Conu says: August 10, 2017 at 12:05 pm The fastest you can buy. U3 would be a great choice. Reply Carolina says: August 11, 2017 at 3:34 am thanks:) Reply Troy says: August 13, 2017 at 9:12 pm I’m kinda scared to try to capture totality with my D3300 as I’m in northern oklahoma and worried the sensor will be damaged. Reply Cory Schmitz says: August 14, 2017 at 3:16 pm Hi Troy, Since it will not be an area of totality there, you will need to make sure you use a solar filter, especially if you are using a telephoto lens. If you are using a wide lens, you will most probably be ok capturing wide-field landscape shots, but I can’t say that for sure. Cheers, and best of luck! Don’t forget to download our cheat sheet: https://www.photographingspace.com/solar-eclipse-cheat-sheet/ -Cory Reply Al says: August 23, 2017 at 9:22 pm I read your tutorial on how to set the camera to take pictures of the solar eclipse, but I ended up following the last three points of your summary; “Watch the eclipse and enjoy.” I did just that, and truly enjoyed it. I also found that the picture you showed of the moon with all it’s craters and bluish sky with white light being emitted by the moon is the closest picture to reality than anything else on the internet. When I saw the eclipse, your picture almost perfectly matches what I saw. I’ve copied it (hopefully you allow me to) just to let others know what I saw (but give you the credits). Reply Phil says: September 15, 2017 at 12:40 am For anyone interested, here are result from my photos of the 2017 total solar eclipse. https://philpaul.smugmug.com/Sky/Eclipse2017/ I had a couple issues (tracking and an “Oops” moment AKA: User error) which made the time-lapse challenging. Still, I’m rather pleased with the result. I can cross it off my bucket list, but I hope to do it again in 2024. 🙂 Cheers! Reply Luz cinérea prova que a lua realmente bloqueia o sol durante um eclipse solar total – TerraPlana.ws says: March 6, 2019 at 5:05 am […] Como fotografar um Eclipse Solar Total – PhotographingSpace .com […] Reply Marc says: June 19, 2019 at 8:40 pm Alex – great article, thanks. Questions – does the Baader Solar filter allow for somewhat natural colors ? I’d like to take a sequence of frames and composite them to show multiple phases of the eclipse , along with the background ( Argentina July 2, 2019) I assume I should start with a regular light / no filter background shot, then layer in shots of the eclipse in progress. would I use an ND filter to get a “natural” orange-yellow sun, or use the Baader film and change the color in post ? re compositing, is there any detail of the background that is present in the image using a solar filter or ND filter or is it just about like photoshopping the eclipse onto any background ? Hopefully this makes sense – thanks Reply Cory Schmitz says: August 6, 2019 at 8:31 am Hi Marc, Apologies for the late reply! The quick answer (that you’ve likely already found out….), is that no, there is no real color with a white light solar filter, as it lets in very little light. The color solar images we all see are changed in post (which we have a tutorial for: https://www.photographingspace.com/colorize-solar-images/). Regarding your other question, there will be pretty much nothing else in the image when you use a solar filter. I know this is a late response, but I wanted to answer anyway! Cheers, Cory Reply Marc says: August 6, 2019 at 1:57 pm Thanks Cory – The eclipse was amazing- I got some great shots thanks to this site and others Reply Search our articles: From PhotographingSpace.com: Astrophotography Photoshop Actions! Make your Milky Way POP and finish off your photos like a pro with our Photoshop Action Packs optimized specifically for astrophotography! Enhance Your Astro Photos Now! Learn to photograph the Milky Way, star trails, the moon and planets, and deep sky objects. The best night sky photography resources and tutorials, for astrophotographers, by astrophotographers! 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In Acunote we are heavily using fragment caching. We cache whenever we can and whatever we can. Sounds like a great idea to do? Well, almost... Sometimes caching hurts and here's why.
Prehistory
Acunote is a project management tool and therefore the most prominent page in Acunote is the task list in the current sprint. The page itself shows some information specific to the user who logged in and some information that is shared among the users within the user's organization.
We can cache the shared part of the page in the fragment cache taking date and page filters into account. The code roughly looks like this:
<%- cache ( :part => " #{ filters } _ #{ DateUtils :: today } " ) do -%> <%= render :partial => '...' -%> <%- end -%>
Using filesystem caching store we end up having this (simplified) cache directory layout:
- organization1.acunote.com - sprints - show.part=filter1.date.cache - show.part=filter2.date.cache - show.part=filter3.date.cache - organization2.acunote.com - sprints - show.part=filter1.date.cache - show.part=filter2.date.cache - show.part=filter3.date.cache
Problem
Problems start when we try to expire caches. We can't expire by url or by hash because we want to expire all cache parts (for all possible filters and for all dates). Therefore we use regexp:
expire_fragment ( %r{show.part=.*} )
That turned into a problem in production. The reason is that expire_fragment in Rails searches the whole cache directory recursively and removes files with names matching the regular expression. On machines with local disks that's usually fast, but on network filesystems or on shared disk cluster filesystems (like GFS in our case) stat'ing lots of files can be really slow. To make things worse, the performance of stat call on GFS really depends on the phase of the moon or something like that ;)
Our logs showed that operations that would usually take less than a second took on occasion took 70 seconds! They were so slow so I could actually log in to our production servers, find the process taking too much time to complete and attach strace to it. Strace blessed me, immediately showing multiple stat's for files in the cache directory.
Solution
Longer term we'll switch to a more scalable fragment caching strategy. There is a good reason why high-performance caches do not support fancy invalidation, and there are known way to code to their more restricted interface. Meanwhile, immediate solution was really simple. We only had to expire fragments in specific directories and to make that easier, I wrote a little extension to Rails' fragment caching code:
module ActionController module Caching module Fragments #dir is the cache path relative to the cache root def expire_matched_fragment_in_dir ( dir , regexp , options = nil ) return unless perform_caching self . class . benchmark ( "Expired fragments in dir matching: #{ regexp . source } " ) do fragment_cache_store . delete_matched_in_dir ( dir , regexp , options ) end end class UnthreadedFileStore def delete_matched_in_dir ( dir , matcher , options = nil ) path = @cache_path + dir return unless File . exist? ( path ) #it's ok to not have the cache dir search_dir ( path ) do | f | if f =~ matcher begin File . delete ( f ) rescue SystemCallError => e # If there's no cache, then there's nothing to complain about end end end end end end end end #include only if you use cache test plugin module Cosinux module FragmentCacheTest class TestStore def delete_matched_in_dir ( dir , matcher , options = nil ) @deleted_matchers . push ( matcher ) end end end end
Conclusions
Monitoring the performance of production application is sometimes even more important than profiling it on the development machines. We already had monitoring system in place so we could detect when our application got slower, figure out the root cause and and fix the problem.
Another thing I highly recommend is of course strace. You may indeed see that your application is doing something so weird you'd never think of just looking at the code or at the profiler. So, I now declare strace to be officially added into my own arsenal of invaluable profiling tools. | positive |
Tutorial:: Pants with Suspenders
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This tutorial is going to show you how to turn a pair of adult pants into a pair of toddler pants, with suspenders!1. You will need:A pair of adult pants [or pants too large for bubba]A pair of pants that fit little kiddo wellScissorsPins2. Lay the toddler pants over the top of the adult pants, and mark where the sides are. Make sure it's an even distance apart and don't forget to add a cm or two for seam allowance.3. Mark where the bottom of the pants goes to and add a cm or two seam allowance.4. Cut down the sides to where the bottom of the pants will be.5. Cut across the pants to make them shorter [where you marked]6. Now the pants should still be attached by the crotch seam. if you open them out and fold the fronts together and the backs together it should look like this.7. Fold your toddler pants in half [so the front is on the outside] and lay it over the front piece of the pants you are resizing. Mark the curved line and don't forget to add seam allowance! Mine was very close, so I left the original crotch seam and just cut down the other side of the leg.8. Do the same for the back. Mine was very close, so I left a bit of the original back seam at the top of the pants.9. So this is what the back of my pants looks like so far. Yours may be two seperate pieces, but I didn't have enough room.10. Now you'll make your suspender pieces from the scraps of the original pants. I measured from the waist of my son, over his shoulder to the centre back of his waist. this came to 55cm. Then I measure over his shoulders again, but stopped at about the middle of his back which came to 40cm [which meant the centre back strap of the suspenders was 15cm]. It doesn't matter if these are exact, because I'm using non-stretch fabric, so my plan was for him to wear the suspenders down most of the time anyway. If you're using stretchy fabric it will work well to use as real suspenders.So I cut two 42cm strips about 6cm wide - adding seam allowance! And one 6cm wide strip that was 17cm long. In retrospect, this centre back strap should be even wider, by about 2 cm I guess [so if you need your suspenders to be perfect, make them 8cm wide!]11. Now, using an iron because it is a lot easier, fold your straps over so the raw wedges are on the inside.12. And stitch. I only need one side of the strap stitched to keep it all together, but I did two rows to make it look even.13. Fold over and stitch one wide end of your centre back strap.14. Angle your shoulder straps on the centre back strap15. Fold the shorter strap around the two, tucking the raw edges under [see this is where it was better for it to be wider, so you can angle the straps nicely].16. Stitch and serge the centre back butt seam17. Serge the end of the centre back strap and attach it to the centre back of the pants.18. Stitch and serge the outer leg seams19. Stitch and serge the inside leg seam.20. Serge and hem the trouser legs.21. Attach the front of the suspenders equal distance apart. | positive |
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Roots of Quadratic Equation quadratic equation formula Difference between linear quadratic equations Sum product of Quadratic equation roots Quadratic Equation Questions Quadratic is a simple equation in which the variable x is the highest exponent of the equation and it has the square power root, which is the significant part for the identification of the equation. Further it may have the other coefficients in the sequence of the a,b,c to complete the whole equation. Advertisement Standard Form of Quadratic Equation The general form of the quadratic equation is ax²+bx+c=0 which is always put equals to zero and here the value of x is always unknown, which has to be determined by applying the quadratic formula while the value of a,b,c coefficients is always given in the question. Here in this article we are going to provide our readers with some significant exposure of the basic quadratic equations, so that they can get to know these equations as by having the overview before solving the actual equations. Quadratic Equation Overview/Example Well, if you are someone who is newly getting into the study of the quadratic equation, then here you can check out some examples of these equations so that you can figure out solving these equations. X²-5×=0 It’s the standard form of the quadratic equation in accordance to the ax²+bx+c=0 and can be understood as the classical example of the standard quadratic equation. In the above given example here square power of x² is what makes it the quadratic equation and it is the highest component of the equation, whose value has to be determined in the question. 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Standard form of a quadratic equation quadratic equation formula Difference between linear quadratic equations Sum product of Quadratic equation roots Quadratic Equation Questions Roots of Quadratic Equation In the more elaborately manner a quadratic equation can be defined, as one such equation in which the highest exponent of variable is squared which makes the equation something look alike as ax²+bx+c=0 In the above mentioned equation the variable x² is the key point, which makes it as the quadratic equation and it has no known value. Further the equation have the exponent in the form of a,b,c which have their specific given values to be put into the equation. Advertisement Quadratic Equation Roots Well, the quadratic equation is all about finding the roots and the roots are basically the values of the variable x and y as the case may be. The roots are basically the solutions of the whole equation or in other words it is the value of equation, which satisfies equation. If any quadratic equation has no real solution then it may have two complex solutions. In case the equation holds single solution, then it is known as the double root values and here we are going to talk about the calculation of the root of the equation. The above mentioned formula is what used for the calculation of the quadratic roots and in order to apply this formula we first have to get our equation right in accordance to ax²+bx+c=0 and get the separate values of the coefficients a,b and c so that it can be put into the formula. We will ultimately get the value of x by solving the above mentioned formula and it will become the roots of the equation. This formula is ideal to be used when the quadratic equation becomes tricky to figure out the roots of the equation. 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The coalition of parties supporting Mahamadou called the boycott “absurd” and urged all Nigeriens to go out and vote.
Issoufou, a Western security ally in West Africa, won the first round comfortably last month with 48 percent of votes but did not clinch the majority required to win in a single round.
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I guess it’s only right that Bitcoin should stage some kind of furious rally ahead of the Cboe futures launch today at 6 p.m. EST.
We’ve spent a lot of time over the last two days setting the stage for what quite a few people think is a truly terrible idea.
“The pretty sharp rise we have seen in bitcoin in just the last couple of weeks has probably been driven by optimism ahead of the futures launch,” Randy Frederick, vice president of trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab in Austin told Reuters today, adding that “you are going to open up the market to a whole lot of people who aren’t currently in bitcoin.” Right. But opening the market to them doesn’t mean they’ll jump in.
Ahead of the launch, Bitcoin fell sharply from its Thursday highs. Of course this all depends on where you’re getting your prices (see here), but suffice to say that headed into Sunday, it was down 31% from Thursday’s ridiculous peak above $19,700 using Coinbase. But that’s ok, because this is Bitcoin we’re talking about which means it’s prone to rallying at the drop of a hat and on Sunday morning, it suddenly rose some 20% off the Saturday evening lows:
Make no mistake, the pricing discrepancies you can see on full display in that chart are an issue. “If investors are trying to hedge a bitcoin purchase, they will have to make sure they buy bitcoins on an exchange that matches up most closely with a particular contract,” Bloomberg wrote on Friday adding that the gaps seem to support Jeffery Sprecher’s argument that the underlying market here isn’t sound as “large price spreads indicate liquidity problems and a lack of active professional dealers or traders who would normally arbitrage these differences away rapidly.”
And then there’s the issue of whether the “whales” will collude to manipulate the price and one certainly wonders what would keep them from profiting on that manipulation via futures. “There’s no transparency to speak of in this market,” Martin Mushkin, a lawyer who focuses on bitcoin recently told Bloomberg, adding that “in the securities business, everything that’s material has to be disclosed. In the virtual currency world, it’s very difficult to figure out what’s going on.”
Even if they aren’t colluding, how does one manage an exit from these mammoth positions without causing an unwind in the market? As one Wall Street veteran I spoke with the other day noted, the fact that 1,000 people own 40% of the market makes “Bitcoin look a bit like the Fed’s balance sheet unwind.”
We’ll invariably be writing more about this later, but for now, we’ll leave you with a summary of how the futures launch is being treated by brokers and banks (via the same Reuters piece linked above):
Interactive Brokers plans to offer its customers access to the first bitcoin futures when trading goes live, but bars clients from assuming short positions and has margin requirements of at least 50 percent.
Several online brokerages including Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade will not allow the trading of the newly launched futures from day one.
Some of the big U.S. banks including JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup will not immediately clear bitcoin trades for clients, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc on Thursday said it is planning to clear bitcoin futures for certain clients. | positive |
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After meeting with a terrorist released in the Gilad Schalit prisoner deal in Saudi Arabia, 24-year-old Amir Brakhat was expecting $60,000 in cold, hard cash in exchange for launching a terrorist attack against Israelis. Had the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) not arrested him, he would have received at least part of that reward from two agents who smuggled thousands of euros and dollars into the West Bank in cigarette cartons, the agency said this week.
But what if there had been an easier way to get him the money, one less likely to get caught up in Israel’s web of intelligence and border agents? That’s a fear being stoked by the popularization of bitcoin, a new online currency that is starting to catch on as a means of buying and selling goods online.
“The threat is that it’s almost anonymous, it’s very fast and it’s global, so money can be transmitted across the world almost instantly leaving almost no trail,” says Steve Hudak, chief of public affairs for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury.Bitcoins were born in 2009, when a mysterious hacker using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the special code behind the currency and then completely disappeared from the Internet. Nakamoto made a limited number of BitCoins – 21 million to be exact – which people could obtain by “mining” them like virtual gold, using decoding programs on their computers to uncover them.The experiment could have easily flopped, but instead people starting digging for, buying and selling the currency. At the start of 2013, the virtual cash sold for $15 a unit. Fueled by an explosion of media exposure, including a feature in The Economist and a New York Times article pegging the Winklevoss twins of Facebook litigation fame as enthusiastic investors, the price reached a high of nearly $266 last week before crashing over the weekend.“Its value as a currency is kind of overshadowed by its volatility,” says Hudak. “In some ways it acts like a commodity.” Yet the currency has already climbed back up to $85, a price that values the hacker experiment at well over $1 billion.BitCoins are not the first virtual currency, nor are they the first to raise concern about illicit transactions.Internet gamers in Second Life use Linden Dollars to buy online wares, and WebMoney and Liberty Reserve are both means of transferring funds over the web.“Every system that deals with payment can be an opening for terror finance, and that’s the trouble: distinguishing between legitimate and terror finance transactions,” says Col. (res.) Jonathan Fighel, senior researcher at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism.“The principle is very simple. It’s a payment through the Internet, not the bank, so there’s no regulatory infrastructure following the monetary transactions.” The popular Internet payment system PayPal, Fighel says, is also a possible means for sending illicit funds, though he admits he’s not aware of specific cases in which terrorists have used it.Bitcoins, however, are unique in that they are completely decentralized.Instead of some clearinghouse tracking who is in possession of how many BitCoins, users buy and sell them directly to one another in “peer to peer” (P2P) transactions.That unusual feature, which makes BitCoin transactions a lot like virtual exchanges in cash, has already caught the interest of law enforcement agencies.Last April, the FBI wrote a report that leaked onto the Internet citing the dangers posed by the new online currency.“Bitcoin is unique because it is the only decentralized, P2P, networkbased virtual currency. The way it creates, operates and distributes bitcoins makes it distinctively susceptible to illicit money transfers.” Iran, for example, could theoretically transfer loads of cash to Hamas instead of smuggling bags of cash through hostile territories, as it has done in the past.Even though the currency is not anonymous per se, the report noted how users could take simple steps to cover up their transactions, such as changing their bitcoin addresses for each incoming payment, using a web anonymizer and storing their currency in a third-party e-wallet service.The FBI listed “money launderers, human traffickers, terrorists and other criminals who avoid traditional financial systems by using the Internet to conduct global monetary transfers” as those most likely to take an interest in Bitcoin’s vulnerabilities.Indeed, a flurry of criminal activity has already been associated with bitcoins.It’s the sole currency used to buy and sell illegal drugs on an online forum called Silk Road, buyers and sellers of Internet malware, bots and spy tools trade with it, and a variety of criminals use it in online games to launder money.So what can governments do to keep bitcoins out of the hands of terrorists and other criminals? According to Hudak, they are already finding ways to regulate the new currency.“Part of the challenge is the anonymity, but the good part is that somewhere, someplace, virtual currency needs to be exchanged for real currency to have any value, other than a very small marketplace where you can maybe buy some things online,” he says. “The activity of exchanging virtual currency for real currency falls under our regulations.”In other words, even if the currency is unregulated, those entities that buy and sell it for real cash can be overseen using existing laws. Companies that create virtual wallets for storing bitcoins, then, are required to notify authorities of transactions worth over $10,000 in cash or a series of transactions that appear suspicious, just like a bank or other financial institution.International cooperation through bodies like the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and intelligence are an important tools as well, says Fighel.The FBI report agreed that, at least for now, bitcoin’s limitations as a virtual currency constrained its potential damage. “Since maintaining anonymity while using Bitcoin requires that users not exchange or transfer their bitcoins using third-party bitcoins services that require real world account information, the use of bitcoins to make donations to disreputable groups [which can be done within the Bitcoin P2P system] will likely remain one of the most popular uses for the virtual currency,” it predicted.Like other online experiments and innovations, bitcoin may not ultimately survive, though its success thus far suggests that there is a demand for some online currency – and there are already competitors waiting in the wings. Whichever one ultimately takes its mantle, however, will likely present similar challenges to law enforcement and counter-terrorism officials.“FinCen agrees that there’s a threat with cyber currencies,” says Hudak, noting that the marketplace for bitcoin and its competitors remains small. “But,” he warns, “it has potential to grow.”
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CHAPPELL HILL - A fight is breaking out 60 miles northwest of Houston, where Gulf Coast flatlands give way to rolling hills, where Porsches and Corvettes may soon roam where once cattle and deer did.
A group of amateur high-performance car enthusiasts is poised to buy about 500 acres just south of this small, historic community, which hugs U.S. 290 in rural Washington County. They want to build a luxury private track of their dreams, where they plan to spend weekends perfecting their skills and educating others about performance driving.
They say they won't have grandstands along the 3.2-mile track featuring 19 turns, and stress that their street-legal rides are nowhere near as loud as stock cars or dragsters.
But the Bluebonnet Racing Circuit, as the track is to be named, faces heated competition.
Local residents fear the whine of the speeding cars will deprive them of the silence and natural beauty that have long shaped this region. And they are trying to rally public opinion as well as going to court to stop the project.
Charles Von Schmidt, a Houston developer who is coordinating the project, said he originally had expected bulldozers would be pushing dirt by now. But a lawsuit filed in late January slowed matters.
"We are not huge. We do not have fans. A lot of people think we are trying to bring NASCAR to Chappell Hill, Texas," Von Schmidt said. "If that were the case, I'd be the first to be against it."
Von Schmidt and his group, Club Track Holdings, are set to spend $17 million on everything from buying the land to building the track and accompanying buildings and garages.
But they are being faced down by a "No Race Track" campaign. Its billboards denouncing the track rise alongside the highway, and yard signs are perched along barbed-wire fences ringing the property. Their ranks recently packed a town meeting on the race track, and they continue to pull aside government officials every chance they get to make sure their concerns are understood.
County can't rule it out
County Judge John Brieden said he's heard plenty from people about the track, and that those opposed to it are the loudest.
"I can't go to the restaurant, I can't go to the grocery store, without folks coming up and wanting to talk about it," he said. "It has gotten to be a big, big thing."
Among the challenges, he said, is that Chappell Hill is unincorporated - so there are no local ordinances - and commissioners don't have the authority to simply rule whether a track should be allowed here.
"As a result, there are a lot of people who are upset with elected officials," he said. "It puts us in a very difficult position."
He declined to say whether he was personally for or against the track, which would be built on land owned by a family trust derived from the now-deceased LeRoy Melcher, who was head of the U Totem convenience store chain. The landowners could not be reached for comment.
Emotions around here are so charged that locals say they could be compared to the failed 2008 effort to incorporate Chappell Hill, which is mostly known for such annual events as the Bluebonnet Festival, the Scarecrow Festival and Chappell Hill Sausage.
Freedom cuts both ways
The traditional Texas spirit of leaving people alone to do what they want on their land has both drawn people here and left them few options for putting the brakes on the track project.
The community is neat and quiet and has a feel of stepping back in the past. It was founded in 1847 and its heyday was before the Civil War. It later lost about half its citizenry to yellow fever, and that, combined with the falling off of cotton, led to a population plunge from which it never recovered. In recent years, however, it has seen a surge in newcomers and a climb in land prices.
Residents note there is no mayor, nor rules for such things as dogs on leashes, burning leaves or parking cars. The Chappell Hill Bank even has a sign letting customers know it supports them carrying lawful concealed weapons.
A partial impetus behind the building the track is the June closure of College Station's Texas World Speedway, which was built in 1968. It was once an elite professional track, where Mario Andretti drove a record 214 mph in 1973 while qualifying for the Indianapolis 500. But since then it has been transformed from the original 2-mile loop into a facility similar to what the Bluebonnet would be.
It has numerous turns, a performance driving school and, like the proposed Bluebonnet track, has a central location for drawing drivers from Houston, Austin, Dallas and elsewhere.
The lawsuit contends such roadways are "excessively loud" and maintain "violent volumes for hours on end."
It also claims the track would diminish property value, generate noise pollution and change the area's character.
Among the plaintiffs are Houston lawyer Charles Fridge and his family, who own 650 acres and reside on land adjacent to the proposed track, and Helen Philips, a veterinarian who planned on building her dream home on a 40-acre plot also beside property eyed for the race track.
"I can walk out of my house, and I will not only be able to hear the race track, but feel the race track and see the race track," Philips said. "My fence line is literally their fence line."
"I didn't move to Chappell Hill to build a home to have a race track next door," she said.
But she stressed that the fight is not just about a few homes, but the future of an entire community.
Developer's assurances
Von Schmidt said the concern and outrage are unwarranted.
The track is to be built well inside the boundaries of the property, he said, and will feature "attractive" walls and berms to reduce sound that won't go past legal levels. He said the track will be used on the weekends during daylight hours.
Amateur drivers start with classroom instruction, and over the following months and years, drive with the help of instructors - who often ride along in the cars - to improve their skills.
Many of the owners use the same cars to commute to work, he said, noting that some literally pull the baby seat out before taking to the track.
He also said that they will be checked for loudness, and noted that some of the fastest cars on the track are so quiet they can hardly be heard. Cars that are too loud or have no mufflers will be turned away, he said.
Von Schmidt said drivers and their families would pump $9 million a year into the local economy, but the Chappell Hill Chamber of Commerce declined to comment.
Another official, who asked to not be named, said the track is as controversial as things get here.
"You sure know how to jump in the middle of a fight," the official, when asked for an opinion on the track. "Don't get me hung up by my toenails."
Drivers eager to go
Herberto Ferrer, an amateur driver from Houston, said he and others hope issues can be resolved.
"Me and many others were pretty disheartened to hear the track at College Station was going away," said Ferrer, who is in cyber security. He recalled how he got his first taste of performance driving at the College Station track back in 2011 and how it quickly became a major passion in his life, and a pursuit he now shares with family. Drivers and their families sometimes have cookouts as they wait their turns, he said.
"I understand as a homeowner that people who live in the surrounding area have concerns," said Ferrer. "Knowing Charles (Von Schmidt) and the rest of the people involved, I know they will want to be accommodating to make sure they are good neighbors," he said.
Fridge, the lawyer who is suing over the track, said he doesn't see any way the countryside and the raceway can coexist.
He recalled crouching with his three young sons recently in a duck blind, beside a pond near where the track is planned, and watched the fowl.
"I grew up in the city and I'm raising my boys to grow up in the country," he said. "It is a unique piece of land that my wife and I spent over 15 years saving for, and trying to find our corner of paradise." | positive |
A US district judge has ruled that she would be overstepping her authority by issuing an injunction against force-feeding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, saying that only President Obama has the necessary authority to stop the practice.
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“Every competent patient has the right to refuse medical intervention, including life-sustaining interventions,” wrote Dr. Lazarus.
Judge Gladys Kessler issued the ruling in response to an injunction request made on behalf of inmate Abu Wa’el Dhiab, a Syrian national who was cleared for transfer out of Guantanamo by the Obama administration in 2009 but who has been held at the detention center for over a decade without charge or trial; he remains at the camp.
"It would seem to follow," Judge Kessler wrote, that President Obama had the authority "to directly address the issue of force-feeding the detainees."
Dhiab had "set out in great detail in his papers what appears to be a consensus" that force-feeding does indeed violate international law, added Kessler.
Regardless, in her four-page ruling Kessler wrote that the Obama administration had argued that the court did not have sufficient jurisdiction to intervene in cases concerning detention or treatment of alleged enemy combatants.
The ruling points to an incongruous policy regarding individuals such as Dhiab, who exist in a legal limbo wherein they may be considered “enemy combatants” despite the fact that they have already been deemed low risk to national security and cleared for release or transfer out of Guantanamo Bay.
The US military holds 166 foreign captives at the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay. According to the latest official figures 106 are currently participating in a hunger strike in protest over their continued detention, with 45 being force-fed as of Monday.
In April the president of the American Medical Association, Dr. Jeremy A. Lazarus, wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel saying that doctors who participated in forced feedings were violating the “core ethical values of the medical profession.”
Islamic community leaders have called on the US President to take a “brave decision” to end force-feeding prisoners in Guantánamo during the month-long fast for Ramadan which begins on Monday, in a way that “would be appreciated around the Islamic world." | positive |
» Hoffman Appointed to Incoming Gov. Pritzker’s Restoring Illinois’ Infrastructure Committee Hoffman Appointed to Incoming Gov. Pritzker’s Restoring Illinois’ Infrastructure Committee | Illinois House Democratic Caucus Redistricting Schedules Committees Home Legislators Employment Facebook Twitter Select Page Hoffman Appointed to Incoming Gov. Pritzker’s Restoring Illinois’ Infrastructure Committee Dec 6, 2018 | Hoffman BELLEVILLE, Ill. – As Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker and Lt. Gov.-elect Juliana Stratton continue to unveil committees to advise their incoming administration, state Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Swansea, has been appointed to co-chair the Restoring Illinois’ Infrastructure Committee. “Illinois has not passed a comprehensive capital bill in nearly a decade,” Hoffman said. “It is time for us to consider strategic investments in horizontal and vertical infrastructure improvements that will help our state thrive.” Hoffman’s appointment comes as the incoming Pritzker-Stratton administration continues to seek counsel from subject-matter experts regarding infrastructure enhancement and development. Hoffman is joined by Congresswoman Cheri Bustos, who will chair the 45-member committee; and Congressman Dan Lipinski, Congressman-elect Chuy Garcia and state Sen. Martin Sandoval, who will serve as co-chairs. “I’m excited to get to work on this committee to start identifying the infrastructure needs of communities across Illinois and crafting bipartisan plans and solutions to rebuild our state,” Hoffman said. “I’m humbled and honored to serve in this role.” Rep Jay Hoffman (D-Belleville) 113th District Follow Springfield Office: 261-S Stratton Office Building Springfield, IL 62706 (217) 782-0104 (217) 782-1333 FAX District Office: 312 S. High St. Belleville, IL 62220 (618) 416-7407 (618) 416-7409 FAX Facebook Twitter Illinois House Democratic Caucus | Copyright © 2021 | negative |
The Federal Government expects to take receipt of an independent cost-benefit analysis for the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by the end of the year.
iTnews reported in August that federal trade minister Craig Emerson would accept a Joint Select Committees on Treaties (JSCOT) recommendation to perform an analysis before potential ratification of the ACTA.
"In view of the concerns raised by the Committee, the Government has commissioned an analysis of the economic and social benefits and costs to Australian business, the not-for-profit sector and the community that would result from the ratification of ACTA," the Government said in its formal response to the JSCOT's report. (pdf)
"This analysis is expected to be completed by the end of 2012".
The Government "agreed in part" to the conservative approach to ratification proposed by the Committee.
It has ultimately agreed to give the Committee a chance to make further input based on the results of the analysis due at the end of this year.
"The Government intends to consider ratification of ACTA following the receipt of the analysis ... but would.also consider any further, timely, recommendations ofJSCOT as part of that consideration," it said.
It also published clarification of the meaning of certain terms in the draft treaty, such as "aiding and abetting" and "commercial scale", noting for the former that it "be given a meaning in accordance with customary rules of interpretation of public international law".
Where it appeared to differ from the Committee was on the recommendation that it wait for the outcome of the Australian Law Reform Commission's copyright inquiry before potentially ratifying the ACTA.
The Commission has until November 30 next year to issue its findings on the local copyright environment.
"ACTA allows considerable flexibility in its implementation," the Government noted. "Australia would retain considerable flexibility to modify its laws on copyright while still meeting its obligations under ACTA."
The Government has also partially agreed to take into account the position of other "relevant jurisdictions" when making a call on ratification.
"In considering whether to ratify ACTA, the Government will make its decision based on an assessment of Australian national interests," it stated.
"This assessment would include, among other factors, consideration of events related to ACTA in the European Union, the United States and other relevant jurisdictions."
The Government continued to maintain its long-held position that ratification required no changes to Australian laws or regulations.
The Committee welcomed the Government's response. | positive |
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A vegan restaurant in Michigan, where there was no boss and every employee made the same amount of money has been forced to close. Who could have foreseen failure with such a solid business plan?
MLive reported:
Grand Rapids’ worker-run, no-tipping restaurant closes
The end has come for a popular Grand Rapids restaurant known as much for its creative vegan dishes as its progressive business model.
For much of its five-year existence, the eatery went by the moniker Bartertown Diner, until it was rebranded in September to The Garden Diner and Cafe.
The offbeat 30-seat eatery announced this month that its last day would be Wednesday, Nov. 30.
After a strong summer, the restaurant with about a dozen employees had struggled in recent months, said Thad Cummings. He took it over in March with Crystal Lecoy, who left two months later.
“I was an original investor in it,” Cummings said. “I wanted to push it to see if the model could be done.”…
Bartertown’s initial menu was described in a 2011 MLive review as an “imaginative” array of veggie, vegan and raw dishes that came with names like Dirty Dirty Beans & Greens and Raw Trash salad…
Employees would be expected to join the union, Industrial Workers of the World, he said.
In keeping with the worker empowerment theme, he commissioned a mural depicting Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong and other provocative leaders tackling restaurant duties.
In the end, the restaurant failed to achieve the employee business model it envisioned. | positive |