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This is a complete list of the Phuket best shopping malls based on their gross leasable area and popularity both in local and foreign tourists. Shop till you drop at one of the best shopping malls in Phuket town. From bargain-brand stores to luxury boutiques, we've picked for you the favorite places to shop.
1. Jungceylon Mall
Jungceylon shopping center located in Patong Beach. There is the most intensive flow of people and more than 200 shops do business. You can find more than 200 stores offering a shopping heaven in Phuket, items including brand-name clothes, sunglasses, cosmetics and perfumes, shoes, computer games, DVD, tons of mobile phones and electrical goods.
It's a nice place to hang out and do some shopping, as well as sight seeing. The local food in the bazaar is reasonably priced.
As a high-end shopping center, Jungceylon is also a great entertainment hotspot with the SF movie theather and the SF Strike 16-lane bowling alley, perfect for rainy days or to escape the heat of Patong Beach.
Location: 181 Rat-U-Thit 200 Pee Road, Patong, Kathu, Phuket 83150, Thailand
Open: Daily from 11.00 am - 10.00 pm
2. King Power Duty Free Shop – Phuket Downtown
Royal duty-free shop in Phuket provides you the world's top brands and local boutique. For example, Bobbi Brown, Clinique, Dior, Estée Lauder, Lancôme, L'Occitane, Omega, Rolex, Chopard, Tudor, IWC, Longines and so on.
Shopping in Royal duty-free shop Phuket and you will get exempt from duty or VAT. International brands of wine and liquor, and perfume, might be cheaper in duty free, so buy them!
Location: 88 Chao Fah Tawan Tok Rd, Wichit, Muang, Phuket, 83000, Thailand
Open: Daily from 9.30am to 9.30pm
3. Central Festival Phuket
Central Festival Phuket is the largest department store in Phuket Town. It is a comprehensive shopping mall with shopping, dining and entertainment.
As a giant shopping center on the island, Central Phuket has more than 400 outlets selling products such as silk, clothing, laptops and books. You’re likely to spend the whole day shopping, watching the latest movies and dining in varies of international restaurants here.
If you are coming for Patong Beach, you can easily find the mall on your left hand, before entering the main crossroads. By connecting to Central Floresta on the other side of the road and a footbridge, Central Phuket becomes an effectively giant shopping complex.
Location: 74-75 Wichitsongkran Road, Phuket 83000
Open: Daily from 10.30 am – 10.00 pm
4. Patong OTOP
Looking for something at night? Patong night market welcomes all night owls! Another nightlife street is famous Bangla Road. Patong night market is the most popular street market, from handmade necklace, other candles, swimwear and sandals to all kinds of slippers, you can buy everything here.
Most shops here are from village communities. They select a tipical good quality product from each Tambon to get a formal brand as a OTOP product to encourage to improve the quality and variousness.
You will find there a variety of local products, from traditional handicrafts, silk garments, cotton products, pottery, fashion accessories to household items, regional food, whiskey and coffee shop.
The market opens daily from morning to late evening but the evening is the most lively time here. Most of the business can communicate in English.
Location: 237/15-20 Rat Uthit Road, Patong, Amphoe Kathu, Phuket 83150
Open: Daily from 10.00 am – 10.00 pm
5. Banzaan Fresh Market
Banzan seafood market is a food court! A place which will give you an ultimate local market experience! Make you known fun Thai fruits on the spot, as well as strange fish, vegetables and colorful candy!
You will meet the local people, bargain with them, bring the fresh ingredients and cook in a local restaurant.
Banzan seafood market is opposite the exit area of Jungceylon shopping center, but only two floors, the half of ground floor is selling fresh fruits and vegetables, the other half is selling fish and seafood products. The famous Your Kitchen in 1st floor is a great experience as it is a lot easier to access than local markets and have an outstanding taste.
Location: Banzaan Market Pa Tong, Kathu District, Phuket 83150, Thailand
Open: Daily from 6.00 am - 9.00 pm
6. Big C Jungceylon
Big C is very popular in Thailand, and it is a hot spot for many foreign tourists. Because the prices of Big C commodities are cheap, and there are many local specialties, unique snacks in Thailand. Jiangxi cold Big C has a large scale, so you can stroll inside for half a day.
Location: 201 Rat U-Thit 200 Pee Rd. Patong, Kathu Phuket 83150
Open: Daily from 10.00 a.m. - 12.00 a.m.
Prices are close to the people's living standard here. Many of the goods are even cheaper than ones in Britain, and it have developed many native products with Thailand features and natural plant ingredients, such as shampoo, bath liquid, massage Essential Oil and so on.
Location: Unit 4113, G floor, Jungceylon Phuket177 Rat U-Tid Song Roi Pee Road, Patong, Ka-Tu
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8. Phuket Weekend Market (Sunday Walking Street Market)
Phuket weekend market is big, crowded, hot, fun, almost overwhelming flea market! This market is on Thalang Road, the main central street of Phuket’s charming Old Town. You can walk here for a few hours and look at this vast bazaar, making your trip more interesting.
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There are all kinds of cooked food stalls in the market, visitors can enjoy snacks while shopping.
Location: Thalang Rd, Tambon Talat Yai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket 83000, Thailand
Open: Only 4.00 pm – 9.00 pm, Saturday and Sunday.
9. China Town Phuket (China Town Plaza Patong)
Phuket Island also has China town, but it has small scale, and just like the ones in other places. The doorway is a high red archway. It retains typical Chinese traditional culture and customs, and the prosperity of the business attracts a large number of tourists from China and other countries.
Location: 361 Phuket Rd, Tambon Talat Yai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket 83000, Thailand
Open: Daily from 10.00 am - 10.00 pm
10. Robinson Department Store
Robinson department store has many chain stores in Thailand. It is a large comprehensive shopping mall. There are many local products and cosmetics, its clothing brands are more complete, and the shopping environment is also very good.
Location: 36 Tilok Utis 1 Rd, Tambon Talat Yai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket 83000, Thailand
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Class 4A Week 5 Rankings, Notes & Picks
Class 4A, Week 5, 2021
Copyright Hooten Publishing, Inc.
1. Shiloh Christian (3-1)
2. Warren (3-1)
3. Stuttgart (3-1)
4. Joe T. Robinson (3-1)
5. Crossett (2-2)
6. Ozark (2-2)
7. Prairie Grove (3-1)
8. Ashdown (4-0)
9. Arkadelphia (2-2)
10. Lonoke (4-0)
11. Malvern (2-2)
12. Rivercrest (2-1)
13. Star City (3-1)
14. Nashville (2-2)
15. Gosnell (1-2)
16. Mena (3-2)
17. Dumas (2-1)
18. Elkins (3-0)
19. Pocahontas (2-2)
20. Gentry (4-0)
21. Clinton (2-2)
22. Mills (4-0)
23. Bauxite (2-2)
24. Monticello (2-2)
25. Dardanelle (1-3)
26. Lamar (3-1)
27. Southside (2-2)
28. Trumann (3-1)
29. Cave City (3-1)
30. Jonesboro Westside (1-2)
31. Pottsville (2-3)
32. Fountain Lake (2-2)
33. H. Grove Haskell (1-2)
34. DeWitt (2-2)
35. Waldron (1-3)
36. Gravette (0-4)
37. Huntsville (1-3)
38. CAC (2-2)
39. Heber Springs (1-2)
40. Bald Knob (0-4)
41. Highland (2-2)
42. Berryville (1-3)
43. Green Forest (1-2)
44. Blytheville (0-4)
45. Hamburg (0-4)
46. Helena (0-4)
47. Dover (0-4)
GAME OF THE WEEK
No. 9 Arkadelphia at No. 4 Joe T. Robinson
The winner takes control of the ultra-competitive 7-4A. Joe T. Robinson has won seven of the past 12 meetings since these have been in the same conference. The fourth-ranked Senators have won three straight games this season, including 48-25 a week ago at Fountain Lake. Senior quarterback Jack Cleveland completed 14 of 21 passes for 264 yards at Fountain Lake, while senior receivers D'Kyson Wright tallied 143 yards and a pair of TDs. Junior linebacker Ashtyn Williams paces the Senators with 46 tackles, while junior LB Julian Campos paces them with nine tackles behind the line of scrimmage. Arkadelphia led Nashville 28-0 in the third quarter a week ago before mercy-ruling the Scrappers. Senior Jaishon Davis ran 15 times for 116 yards and a pair of TDs and caught a TD pass. Junior Latonnieo Hughes caught four passes for 116 yards and two TDs, and at cornerback intercepted one pass. Junior QB Donovan Whitten completed 10 of 17 passes for 237 yards and three TDs. Senior middle linebacker Alex Turley racked up 11 tackles against Nashville, while senior LB Landon Kuhn made 10 stops. “Joe T. is probably the biggest and fastest 4A team in the state,” Coach Trey Schucker says.
Hootens.com correctly predicted all 23 games correctly. Hootens.com has predicted 134 of 151 games (89 percent) correctly this season.
WEEK 5 PREDICTIONS (favored team in ALL CAPS)
Berryville at GENTRY (15): Gentry senior left guard/defensive lineman Lucas Guinn earned a 95 percent blocking grade, made five pancake blocks and registered three tackles in last week's 12-point win over Huntsville. Senior linebacker Will Pyburn graded out at 94 percent on defense by making 10 stops and break up two passes. Senior Zach Gunneman ran 19 times for 108 yards and a TD. Berryville trailed Shiloh Christian 42-0 in the second quarter last week. Bobcat senior Jaiden Tanksley ran the ball hard, Coach Bryan Hutson says.
Huntsville at ELKINS (10): Huntsville hung with Gentry for a half last week before giving up two second half TDs in a 12-point loss. Huntsville senior LB Tucker Bradley recorded 11 tackles, forced and recovered a fumble, while senior Kolton Reynolds returned a punt for a TD. Elkins sophomore Da'shawn Chairs sparked last week's four-point win at Gravette with 25 carries for 299 yards and five TDs. He's scored 14 TDs in four games. Junior Aden Williams caught a TD pass at receiver, and at safety recorded five tackles and two interceptions.
Gravette at PRAIRIE GROVE (18): Prairie Grove has won nine straight over Gravette, including the past four by a combined 135 points. Tiger senior Colin Faulk ran seven times for 106 yards and a pair of TDs in last week's 40-21 win over Green Forest, , while junior wingback Ethan miller averaged 8 yards per carry. Gravette led Elkins 26-21 in the second half last week before losing by four points. Two of Gravette's four losses are by four points or less. Junior QB Rhett Hilger completed 12 of 23 passes for 258 yards and three TDs against Elkins.
Green Forest at SHILOH CHRISTIAN (41): Shiloh Christian seeks its second straight sportsmanship rule win. Junior QB Eli Wisdom completed 20 of 25 passes for 306 yards and four TDs in the first half of last week's 49-0 win at Berryville. Green Forest senior Barrett Phillips ran for 71 yards in last week's 19-point loss to Prairie Grove.
Heber Springs at STUTTGART (15) (Thurs.): Stuttgart has won 11 of the past 15 over the Panthers. Senior QB Tymir Coppins scored the winning TD with 3:09 left in last week's 21-18 come-from-behind victory at Southside. Junior Cedric Hawkins ran 31 yards for a TD in the first quarter, and started the fourth-quarter rally by taking a screen pass 31 yards for a TD. Heber Springs sophomore Parker Brown ran 22 times for 160 yards and two TDs in last week's 36-14 loss to Lonoke, while junior MLB Keenan Snead racked up 15 tackles, including four TFL's. Watch extended highlights of Stuttgart's loss two weeks ago at Warren HERE and its season-opening win over Star City HERE.
Bald Knob at LONOKE (12): Lonoke has won eight of the past 11 over Bald Knob, but the past two games were decided by a total of eight points. Jackrabbit senior QB Spencer Pepper passed for 175 yards and a TD and ran 14 times for 107 yards and a TD in last week's 22-point win over Heber Springs. Sophomore LB Cody Amato paced Lonoke with 11 tackles, while senior end Ayden Rowton made 10 tackles and five sacks. Bald Knob gives up 39 ppg.
CAC at MILLS (21): Undefeated Mills puts up 47 points weekly. Junior RB Jabrae Shaw has more than 800 yards this fall. CAC senior QB Tyler Williams ran 16 times for 61 yards and a TD in last week's 30-point loss to Clinton.
SOUTHSIDE (1) at Clinton: Southside must recover from last week's heartbreaking three-point loss to Stuttgart. The Southerners led 18-7 in the fourth quarter but lost 21-18. Senior tight end Alex Coper and wingback Jacob Dunne earn praise from Coach Brian Reardon for their blocking skills. Dunne ran six times for 59 yards and earned a 90 percent blocking grade vs. Stuttgart, while Alex recorded a 90 percent blocking grade and caught a 60-yard pass to set up a TD. Sophomore RB Seth Case ran 15 times for 85 yards. Clinton carried 20 players to CAC last week (10 players in quarantine). Sophomore Zane Widener ran for 190 yards and three TDs and caught a TD pass. Turnovers have decimated the Yellow Jackets in their two losses,
Blytheville at JONESBORO WESTSIDE (16): A battle of winless teams. Jonesboro Westside must shake last week's double overtime setback at Trumann. Junior fullback Darvin Fowler and senior Spencer Long played well, Coach Bobby Engle says. Blytheville averages less than a TD per game.
RIVERCREST (12) at Cave City: Rivercrest averages 395 yards and 37 weekly. Senior Tray Jones paces the Colts with five TDs on the ground, and he recorded 11 tackles at LB in last week's 20-point win over Pocahontas. Surprising Cave City clobbered Blytheville by 27 points last week. Senior Maddox Moreland caught five passes for 81 yards and a pair of TDs, and at safety intercepted two passes.
Gosnell at POCAHONTAS (7): Pocahontas junior Connor Baker has 101 carries this fall for 767 yards and 12 TDs. The Redskins gained almost 400 yards in last week's shootout loss at Rivercrest. Gosnell hammered Highland by 38 points a week ago. Gosnell junior QB Floyd Williams ran 15 times for 119 yards and three TDs, and completed five of six passes for 241 yards and two TDs in last week's 38-point win over Highland. Sophomore Cam Williams ran 19 times for 88 yards and a TD and intercepted two passes on defense.
TRUMANN (14) at Highland: Trumann beat Jonesboro Westside last week by four points in double overtime. Junior QB Murphy Williams ran 15 times for 98 yards and a TD. Senior safety Garrett Wright paced the Wildcat D with 11 tackles, while senior Dawson Shuburte forced a fumble, then caught a two-point conversion to force overtime. Highland gave up more than 400 yards in last week's 46-8 setback at Gosnell.
Lamar at DARDANELLE (1): Lamar has never beaten Dardanelle. Sand Lizard junior QB Drew Vega generated 185 yards and a TD in last week's 35-point loss to Ozark. Senior right tackle Carson Ford and senior defensive end Titus Spencer (eight tackles) played well, Coach Drew Vega says. Lamar rallied for a two-point win at Pottsville last week. Senior LB Joe Dalton returned from injury to post 13 tackles and he ran for 90 yards at fullback. Senior RB Tony Balmer scored a crucial TD on the final play of the first half to pull Lamar within 21-13, then his brother, senior Jimmy Balmer, kicked a 42-yard field goal in the final seconds for the win.
Dover at OZARK (40): Ozark goes for its second straight 4-4A mercy-rule win. Junior Eli Masingale ran nine times for 158 yards and a pair of TDs and caught a 27-yard TD pass in last week's 35-point win over Dardanelle. Winless Dover didn't play last week, and the Pirates have been outscored this fall by an average of 43-10.
Pottsville at MENA (8): Mena's 21-point win at Pottsville last fall was its first ever over the Apaches, and helped the Bearcats win their first conference title in 24 years. Mena senior QB Austin Rose passed for 246 yards and five TDs, and ran for 54 yards in last week's 33-point win over Waldron. Senior Trey Day caught two TDs, while Caleb Peters caught two TDs, ran for one and returned a kickoff for another. Pottsville gained 359 yards in last week's two-point loss to Lamar. The Apaches missed a potential winning field goal as time expired.
WALDRON is open.
Arkadelphia at JOE T. ROBINSON (1): Hootens.com Class 4A Game of the Week.
Bauxite at ASHDOWN (8): Ashdown has won eight of the past 11 over the Miners, but the past two meetings have been decided by a TD or less. Junior Kaiden Winfrey hauled in a pair of TD passes in last week's 20-point win at Harmony Grove Haskell, while junior LB Jonathan McElroy made 17 tackles. Ashdown RB Jayden Fricks has rushed for 350 yards and six TDs the past two games. The Panthers haven't trailed this fall. Bauxite senior receiver Braden Arnold “is the best receiver in our conference,” an opposing coach says. Arnold caught four passes for 83 yards against Malvern.
Fountain Lake at NASHVILLE (7): Fountain Lake has only 23 players on the roster, and a pair of two-way starters are out this week (one with injury, one suspended). The Cobras gave up 423 yards in last week 23-point loss to Joe T. Robinson. Nashville trailed Arkadelphia 42-0 early in the second half last week. Senior QB Ethan Gunter has thrown eight TD passes this fall, while sophomore Trey Hopkins averages almost 6 yards per carry.
H. Grove Haskell at MALVERN (14): Without standout QB Cedric Simmons (PCL injury, out at least four weeks), Malvern alternated two QBs last week, running to a 20-point win at Bauxite. Sophomore Jalen Dupree ran for 241 yards, while senior Braylon Watson ran 25 times for 175 yards. Sophomore left tackle Vinnie Winters (offers from Arkansas, Arkansas State and Memphis) “has dominated,” Coach J.D. Plumlee says. Senior Jabri Artis blocks well at tight end, plays on every special team and last week recorded seven tackles and two sacks at Bauxite. Haskell's Diamond T offense frustrates opponents. The Cardinals went on a 21-play, 10-minute drive against Ashdown. Senior QB Hunter Williams ran 51 yards for a TD and threw a pair of TD passes last week.
CROSSETT (11) at Dumas: Crossett senior QB Tyrique Jones had more than 300 yards, including 242 passing in last week's 40-34 setback at Warren, while senior Jackson Moore caught four balls for 101 yards. Junior Tayshawn Paskel generated more than 200 yards and three TDs. Dumas dominated Helena 50-14 a week ago, pilling up more than 400 yards. Sophomore QB Joseph Jones passed for 183 yards and three TDs, while senior Orlandrick Tatum (12 carries, 109 yards and two TDs) and sophomore Jaylon Jordan (eight totes, 95 yards and one TD) led the ground game. Watch extended highlights of Crossett's losses earlier this season to McGhee HERE and at Warren HERE.
Helena at DEWITT (17): DeWitt seeks its first winning streak since 2019, when the Dragons won their opening four games. They dumped Hamburg last week 37-0. Junior QB Eli Ashcraft completed 10 of 15 passes for 145 yards, while senior Owen Luebke ran four times for 59 yards and a TD, and at LB had a scoop and score. The Dragon D held Hamburg to 61 yards. Helena hasn't won a game since downing DeWitt 22-6 Week 5, 2019.
Hamburg at MONTICELLO (32): Hamburg has won nine straight over Monticello by a combined 288-82. But the Lions are winless this fall and have scored just 10 points in four games. Monticello failed to score in last week's 10-0 loss to Star City. But the Billie D played well, led by senior linebacker Cade Pigott (11 tackles) and junior Brandon Haynes (10 tackles). Senior end Keith Wells, Jr. collected four stops, while junior K.J. Davis forced a pair of fumbles.
WARREN (14) at Star City: Star City hasn't beaten Warren since 2010. The Bulldogs beat Monticello a week ago 10-0. Fullback Cole Branson ran 24 times for 142 yards, and junior QB Mason Taylor ran in the only TD. Junior all-state soccer player Andras Heredia kicked a fourth-quarter field goal. Warren senior Cedric Calbert ran 24 times for 164 yards and a TD in last week's 40-34 victory over Crossett, while senior QB Riley Cornish completed seven of 11 passes for 61 yards and ran 11 times for 83 yards. Junior LB Delphino Rivera led the Lumberjacks in tackles. Watch extended highlights of Warren's win over Crossett HERE, its win over Stuttgart HERE, and its loss at White Hall HERE. | <urn:uuid:2023f1bf-3abd-48c2-8a38-aecd1e85ab0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://hootens.com/09-27-2021/class-4a-week-5-rankings-notes--picks/7262.html | 2022-09-30T21:45:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335504.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220930212504-20221001002504-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.941272 | 3,620 | [
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Today, I saw that the Australian Government is making plans to build a memorial in Perth for MH370. I am sure it is a very well-intended action. However, I am dumb struck by it and wonder if these families will ever catch break.The best that the governments and companies involved could do was not make the loss worse, which all have done repeatedly since the aircraft went missing and they seem to continue to do so. Credit does go to the Australian government for the efforts and massive resources they committed to the initial response. History has shown us time and time again that memorials for any event should at a minimum include significant input from those people directly affected by the event. It is why such guidance has been codified in family assistance laws promulgated by various countries and in guidance issued by the International Civil Aviation Organization. What makes this action even more surprising is the fact that Australian Government, specifically, the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities, has for many years now published the “Family Assistance Code,” which was written to establish actions that should be taken following the loss of aircraft.
“The code sets out Australia’s minimum standards with regard to airlines operating to, from and within Australia in rendering assistance through their Family Assistance Plan to victims, and the families of victims…”
Further it states, and this is key,
“Families need to be assured that they will be able to participate in any memorial services held after the accident, and that they will have the opportunity to be involved in the design of any memorial structures erected in memory of the accident victims. Airlines should give consideration to how they handle these issues and put in place a protocol on how this will be handled at the time of an accident”
“A Family Assistance Plan needs to be particularly sensitive to cultural issues associated with the loss of loved ones. Airlines are encouraged to take special steps to understand the cultural issues applying to the main markets in which they operate”
I guess an argument can be made that the code doesn’t apply to the government or, in this case, because no wreckage has been found. But I would say that it is even more important that the government follow their own guidance – set the example, and because wreckage has not been found, it is that much harder for the families and therefore even more important to follow best practice. It is best practice because it works.
In defense of Australia, I have only seen the reaction as noted by some families; but what that tells me is the information has not been well disseminated to all families. And while some Australian families may have been consulted, the clear intent of the family assistance laws and the lessons learned and shared is that all families should be considered.
In closing, some thoughts, and most importantly, the key points to remember are:
1. Your first goal is to not make the crisis worse.
2. Know and follow the various laws, especially if your country has one. These laws have been enacted because of past transgressions and mistakes relating to humanitarian response to crisis. In the case of aviation disasters, there are numerous well documented laws.
3. Survivors and families do not need decisions made for them. They need clear transparent communication, and most importantly, to have an understanding of what that information means to them. Then they need to be heard and, wherever possible, and a memorial is certainly one of those occasions, have as much input as possible. Remember, for the most part, they have so few choices in response to the loss.
4. Understand that the issues of missing people, death and loss mean different things to different cultures, as does the way that loss is memorialized.
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Does Jilly Baby Name seem like an intriguing name for your baby? Learn Jilly Name Meaning in English, its origin and which gender Jilly Baby Name is most suitable for. Check through our list of names that are related to the name Jilly, names similar to Jilly and sibling names of Jilly. Also, read through a detailed numerology report for the name Jilly.
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The name Jilly has a numerology value of 9 In numerological terms, this means the following HumanitarianHaving concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.Of or pertaining to ethical or theological humanitarianism.Pertaining to the saving of human lives or to the alleviation of suffering: a humanitarian crisis.TranscendentGoing beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.Superior or supreme.:: Numerology SoulUrge Number: 9 People with this name have a deep inner desire to serve humanity and to give to others by sharing money, knowledge and experience, or creative and artistic ability. Expression Number: 5 People with this name are excited by change, adventure, and excitement. They are dynamic, visionary and versatile, able to make constructive use of freedom. They fight being restricted by rules and conventions. They tend to be optomistic, energetic, intelligent, and | <urn:uuid:e1507307-2d5b-4039-870d-c17e695190b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://parenting.fresherslive.com/baby-names/jilly | 2022-10-02T07:15:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337287.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20221002052710-20221002082710-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.827552 | 470 | [
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For most people, online dating sites is more dependable than fulfilling individuals in pubs and groups. It’s real, there was clearly as soon as a stigma connected to online dating sites however the interest in dating apps tells a story that is interesting.
During the time that is same it is not merely the lack of this stigma which makes them popular, for dating apps give a seamless strategy for finding a possible match in only a brief period of time. What’s more, a number of these dating apps have a great time features and substance that is enough users which will make an “informed” choice when it comes to if they wish to meet up with the other individual.
Exactly what will be the dating apps that are best in 2020?
It certainly is dependent upon your choice. For instance, can you “just wish to have fun”? or can you appreciate the chance of having a significant relationship. The thing is that, not absolutely all dating apps are made equal plus some are recognized for casual “hook ups” while other people utilize smart algorithms to recognize significant matches.
In this specific article, we pick out of the really best apps that are dating the marketplace that you need to really decide to try. But, we also realize that time is brief therefore this is actually the fast response to that most essential concern:
Brief Answer – Best Dating Apps in 2020
Most Readily Useful Dating App – that is casual Tinder
Best Relationship App for Females – Bumble
Best relationship App for Men Seeking Men – Grindr & OkCupid
Best Up-and-Coming Dating App – Clover Dating
Now, let’s just simply take an in depth glance at the dating apps that are best of 2020 and exactly how you are able to determine among them:
How eHarmony Works
eHarmony is another dating app that appears to be around forever but that is additionally one that takes a completely various approach compared to the competition. In the place of making the sign-up procedure fast and simple, eHarmony requires users to place effort and time into producing the profile that is perfect. To start with, this is off-putting for many users that are potential the simple truth is, that is the key reason why the software is really effective.
It, the more meaningful information on a profile, the more likely that person will be to attract the right type of person when you think about. Further, https://allamericandating.com/zoosk-review/ and also this means that each profile is a thorough expression associated with the people’ character instead of a brief, snappy bio that has been built to cite a quick laugh.
eHarmony additionally understands the worthiness for this information and utilizes algorithms to fit people on the basis of the most intricate or telling information in their profile. In the event you could be thinking about, eHarmony manages to pull these records by giving relationship questionnaires that will help the software determine matches that are potential.
Are you aware that consumer experience, eHarmony is an infinitely more mature dating app than most with step-by-step development choices. That said, many users additionally make the application great deal more severe and also this implies that many individuals choose the premium features which can be ignored on dating apps.
Exactly what does all this mean?
Well, this means that eHarmony is fairly an option that is exclusive internet dating and mostly free from “time-wasters”. Whilst the application is without having the exact exact same sort of individual figures as Tinder etc, there are significantly more than ten million eHarmony that is using and also the application is a trusted option for those that simply just take their relationship really.
You’ll download eHarmony on Android os and iTunes.
just just How Tinder works
Tinder allows users to search through photographs of other users within the exact same area. Within the procedure, users can “swipe right” on when they such as the person or “swipe left” to go on, and when both users swipe close to one another, they could then start a discussion through the message system.
Each individual comes with the capability to “Super Like” one profile per which is usually saved for someone they especially like on the app day. The other user is notified of this Super Like and can decide whether they wish to like your profile in return and start a conversation in such instances.
While you many understand, Tinder has also been ab muscles very first software to make use of the swipe system and also this simple premise is unquestionably an instant method to filter through whom may or might not be of great interest to you personally. The app is often regarded as a place to “hook up” rather than meet that someone special and in spite of the small bio on each profile, the overall process can seem quite superficial and reliant on appearance at the same time.
Now, that is not to imply Tinder is filled with heartless or people that are materialistic instead to emphasize the truth that many users decided whether they would like to speak with anyone or otherwise not dependent on their profile picture.
When it comes to sign-up procedure, Tinder makes use of your Facebook account to produce your profile and that means you can very quickly add, upgrade and alter pictures whenever you want. Nevertheless, don’t worry, your family and friends won’t ever realize that you might be making use of the app like Tinder will not upload or share any such thing on your own Facebook.
Simply and that means you know, you may choose the compensated form of Tinder that allows users to flick through pages anywhere in the field, irrespective of their very own location. With over 50 million users worldwide, this might be additionally typically the most popular app that is dating here
You can download Tinder on Android os or iTunes.
Just Just Exactly How Bumble Functions
If the Whitney Wolfe attempted to produce Bumble, it seemed as if the co-founder of Tinder ended up being producing the same software however with a name that is different. This is actually true, for Bumble has the same look or feel as Tinder and many of the same features in many ways. Nonetheless, the application isn’t only focused on choosing relationship as well as allows users to get buddies to hold away with in your community.
But that’s simply an element of the story….
The thing is that, if two heterosexual users match on Bumble, just the feminine can deliver the first message. It, this was a smart move by Withney Wolfe as many female users on Tinder grow frustrated with the app due to the extent of messages that they receive from men when you think about. It or not, it would seem that many female users appreciate and prefer this subtle aspect of the app whether you like.
Another unique element on Bumble could be the 24-hour time frame for each match. The connection cannot be accessed again in other words, if users do not exchange a message within 24-hours of matching on the app.
As mentioned previously, Bumble can be somewhat various in this way that users can change to “BFF” mode in that they can touch base and work out buddies in your community. Just as if that’s not sufficient, addititionally there is Bumble Bizz if you may want to test out creating a network that is professional the application.
Whenever users subscribe to Bumble, it is not required to determine their sexuality. Rather, users should just select if they have an interest in men or women or both and acquire willing to swipe. Are you aware that price, Bumble is free you could avail of paid-extras such as for example Bumble Increase or Bumble Coins that allows users to face out of other people in the application.
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"Good morning" gives you the joy and warmth of the morning sunshine. The rays shine through the woods, the hills, mountains, and cottages while you coil up in your couch and read your book, with a coffee in your hand. Imagine waking up to this diptych beauty every morning.
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In People ex rel. Bolton v. Albertson (55 N.Y. 50, 56) Judge ALLEN said for the court: "The theory of the Constitution is, that the several counties, cities, towns and villages are, of right, entitled to choose whom they will have to rule over them."Summary of this case from Village of Kensington v. Town of N. Hempstead
Argued October 7, 1873
Decided November 11, 1873
R.A. Parmenter for the appellants. M.I. Townsend for the respondent.
This proceeding is nominally, and in form, to collect from the city of Troy a claim of twenty-four dollars, alleged to be due to the relators, but really to test the validity of the "act to establish the Rensselaer police district, and to provide for the government thereof" (ch. 638 of the Laws of 1873). As the public were largely interested in the speedy settlement of the question, and important interests would be likely to suffer and serious embarrassments arise by awaiting the ordinary process of quo warranto to try the title of the contestants for the office of police commissioner, whether of the city of Troy or of the proposed district, which is the precise point in issue, the intelligent counsel who represent the litigants doubtless advised this procedure, and have presented no other question upon this appeal, or upon the record before us.
The claim of the respondents is that the individuals assuming to act as police commissioners of Troy, and by whom, in the discharge of the duties of that office, the debt to the relators was contracted, were superseded by the appointment of police commissioners and their organization as a board of police, under the act establishing the Rensselaer police district.
Certain leading principles, entering into the consideration of the question presented, are so well settled and have been so often reiterated in different forms, that they scarcely require repetition now, and need not be elaborated.
1. Great respect is due to the intelligent and deliberate judgment of the legislature as to the constitutionality of a law, and no statute should be lightly or inconsiderately adjudged to be in contravention of the Constitution. A law which has received the sanction of the legislature and the approval of the executive should only be held void, as repugnant to the Constitution, when the repugnancy is clearly demonstrated. ( People v. Briggs, 50 N Y, 553; Adams v. Howe, 14 Mass., 340.) There should be no reasonable doubt of the unconstitutionality of a statute, before it should be annulled by judicial action. ( People v. Supervisors of Orange, 17 N.Y., 235; Ex parte McCollum, 1 Cowen, 550.)
2. Courts do not sit in review of the discretion of the legislature, or determine upon the expediency, wisdom or propriety of legislative action in matters within the power of the legislature. Every intendment is in favor of the validity of statutes; and no motive, purpose or intent can be imputed to the legislature, in the enactment of a law, other than such as are apparent upon the face, and to be gathered from the terms of the law itself.
3. A written Constitution must be interpreted and effect given to it as the paramount law of the land, equally obligatory upon the legislature as upon other departments of government and individual citizens, according to its spirit and the intent of its framers, as indicated by its terms. An act violating the true intent and meaning of the instrument, although not within the letter, is as much within the purview and effect of a prohibition as if within the strict letter; and an act in evasion of the terms of the Constitution, as properly interpreted and understood, and frustrating its general and clearly expressed or necessarily implied purpose, is as clearly void as if in express terms forbidden. A thing within the intent of a Constitution or statutory enactment is, for all purposes, to be regarded as within the words and terms of the law. A written Constitution would be of little avail as a practical and useful restraint upon the different departments of government, if a literal reading only was to be given it, to the exclusion of all necessary implication, and the clear intent ignored, and slight evasions or acts, palpably in evasion of its spirit, should be sustained as not repugnant to it. The restraints of the Constitution upon the several departments, among which the various powers of government are distributed, cannot be lessened or diminished by inference and implication; and usurpations of power, or the exercise of power in disregard of the express provision or plain intent of the instrument, as necessarily implied from all its terms, cannot be sustained under the pretence of a liberal or enlightened interpretation, or in deference to the judgment of the legislature, or some supposed necessity, the result of a changed condition of affairs. (1 Kent's Com., 162; Barto v. Himrod, 4 Seld., 483; Taylor v. Porter, 4 Hill, 144; Warner v. People, 2 Den., 272; People v. N.Y.C.R.R. Co., 24 N.Y., 485; Schenectady Observatory v. Allen, 42 id., 404.)
The same rules govern the interpretation of ordinary legislative enactments.
It is not, in general, a true line of construction to decide according to the strict letter of an act of parliament, but the courts will rather consider what is the fair meaning, and will expound it differently from the letter to preserve the intent. (Broom's Leg. Max., 657, et seq.)
With these general rules in view must this statute be judged when brought to the test of the Constitution, subject to this qualification, that if capable of two interpretations, that shall be given it, if possible, which shall make it consistent with the Constitution, rather than that which will bring it in conflict with it; ut res magis valeat quam pereat.
The purpose and object of section 2 of article 10 of the Constitution, as is very obvious, was to secure to the several recognized civil and political divisions of the State the right of local self-government, by requiring that all county, city, town and village officers, whose election or appointment was not provided for by the Constitution, save those whose offices might thereafter be created by law, should be elected by the electors of the respective municipalities, or appointed by such authorities thereof as the legislature should designate. As to offices known and in existence at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, this provision is absolute in its prohibition of an appointment by the central government or its authority, or by any body other than the local electors, or some local authority designated by law. Faithfully observed, and effect given to it in its spirit as well as in its letter, it effectually secures to each of the governmental divisions of the State the right of choosing or appointing its own local officers, without let or hindrance from the State government, and none can be deprived of the rights and franchises thus guaranteed to all. The theory of the Constitution is, that the several counties, cities, towns and villages are, of right, entitled to choose whom they will have to rule over them; and that this right cannot be taken from them and the electors and inhabitants disfranchised by any act of the legislature, or of any or all the departments of the State government combined.
This right of self-government lies at the foundation of our institutions, and cannot be disturbed or interfered with, even in respect to the smallest of the divisions into which the State is divided for governmental purposes, without weakening the entire foundation; and hence it is a right not only to be carefully guarded by every department of the government, but every infraction or evasion of it to be promptly met and condemned; especially by the courts, when such acts become the subject of judicial investigation.
The act professes to establish a new civil division of the State under the name of the "Rensselaer police district," and its general purpose and object was to provide for the organization and government of a police force for that district, with courts of criminal jurisdiction in connection with the police organization, and as a part of an entire scheme. The whole duty of the commissioners related to the organization and government of the police force; and if, for any reason, the police force and the police magistrates could not be appointed as required by the terms of the act, the whole scheme fails, and the appointment of the commissioners under the act was a nullity. (Per Judge DENIO, People v. Draper, 26 N.Y., 540.) It is not denied that, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, there were officers performing the same duties within the city of Troy as, by the act of 1873, are devolved upon the police force and magistrates of the proposed district. Whether they had at all times from the incorporation of the city, in 1816, been designated by the same name is not material; their duties were identical. The Constitution cannot be evaded by a change in the name of an office, nor can an office be divided and the duties assigned to two or more officers under different names, and the appointment to the offices made in any manner except as authorized by the Constitution; and courts will scrutinize acts of the legislature and see that the Constitution is not evaded and its intent frustrated by a mere colorable change in the designation and title or the duties of an officer, when the appointment is taken from the locality, and will hold the act void unless the change is real and substantial. ( Warner v. People, 2 Den., 272; Ex parte McCollum, 1 Cow., 550.)
The proposed district is constituted by annexing to or uniting with the city of Troy three small patches of territory — one on the east, a part of the town of Brunswick, principally, as is stated in one of the affidavits, agricultural lands, and containing in all between 500 and 600 acres of land, and on which there is, by count, sixty-nine dwelling-houses of all descriptions; one on the south, a part of the town of North Greenbush, containing about four acres of land, with a single dwelling-house thereon, and projecting, as annexed, in a triangular shape from the southern boundary of the city; and on the west a small island in the Hudson river, and within the bounds of Albany county, containing about a dozen acres of land, having thereon one foundry, or manufactory of machinery and engines, and a row of tenant-houses, with ten front doors, calculated for twenty families. The entire territory was less than a mile square in extent, but no part of it was within the boundaries of an incorporated city or village, or had ever had or required, so far as appears, any police organization or force, other than such as is common to every town in the State.
It is possible that these tracts adjacent to the city of Troy, and in many ways connected with it by the business relations and associations of the dwellers therein, might very properly be incorporated into and made a part of the city of Troy, by the enlargement of its boundaries so as to embrace the entire territory. There is certainly no impediment to such an extension of the city limits, and perhaps there may be a necessity for it. In substance and effect, the act does enlarge the boundaries of the city for certain purposes, while, for all other purposes, the former city and town organizations and relations are suffered to remain intact. That this is so, and that, instead of providing for the organization of a new civil division, the different portions of which have a common interest, and are so situated as to demand a common defensive and protective force, and which it is impossible or impracticable to bring under one government, for all purposes, the act has for its chief and main object the establishment of a police force, under a new organization, for the city of Troy, and that the other fragments of territory were included merely to give the territory the name and form of a police district, as distinct from the ordinary civil division of the State, and not to give them any substantial or necessary benefit of a police, will be readily seen by a brief reference to some of the prominent and most important parts of the act itself.
There is scarcely an allusion to the distinct parts of the territory included within the proposed district, other than the city of Troy, in the whole act, except as the boundaries are prescribed in the first section.
By section 10 of the act, the magistrate to be appointed has jurisdiction of complaints for a violation of the ordinances of the city of Troy, and by section 16 he is required to hold his court within the city of Troy, and not elsewhere, and the common council of that city is required to provide, fit up and furnish suitable rooms, within the city, for holding such courts, and to supply the same with fuel, lights and stationery, and the expenses are to be paid by the city.
Section 18 repeals all laws relating to the appointment and election or designation of a police justice or magistrate for the city, and takes from such justices and magistrates all power and jurisdiction in all criminal matters and proceedings. Section 22 is very far-reaching, and gives the members of the police force all the common-law and statutory powers of constables in every part of the State, and, in terms, authorizes them to execute, in any part of the State, any warrant for search or arrest issued by any magistrate of the State, without any indorsement and according to the terms thereof.
Section 24 limits the quota of patrolmen to sixty-six for the city, and directs that their services be paid for by the city; and by section 27 special patrolmen may be appointed during any election in the city of Troy, whose services are to be paid from the contributions of the city to the police fund.
Section 33 confers on the board of police power to require the service of the militia and of the civil authorities to quell riots, etc.; and, in the city of Troy, such power is conferred, to the exclusion of the mayor of the city and sheriff of the county, from whom all power in this respect is taken. The board has, by section 51, the power, and it is made its duty, to detail two patrolmen to each election district, and to appoint all poll and registry clerks, and to provide ballot-boxes for use at all elections in the city; and by section 52 the board is to select and provide suitable polling places for every election in the city, and supervise and control the arrangements for voting, challenging and canvassing votes, and directs the expenses to be charged upon the city.
Section 56 makes it the duty of the city to provide station-houses and keep the same in repair; and section 57 authorizes the board of commissioners to make an annual estimate for expenses in criminal proceedings, and for the purchase of land and for office accommodations, printing, stationery, badges and various other matters, and deliver the same to the mayor or chamberlain of the city, and makes the same binding on the city; and section 58 requires the amount to be levied by the city; and section 59 requires payments to be made monthly by the city chamberlain to the treasurer of the police board, such sum as the board shall require.
The board of police is made by section 73 to supersede the board of health of the city, and the police force of the city is abolished and superseded. There are other provisions of the act conferring great power, and devolving responsible duties upon the police organization under the act, by which the constables and sheriff of the county of Rensselaer are shorn of many of their functions and deprived of the emoluments of their office, which need not be particularly referred to. No one can read the act without being convinced that the city of Troy was its objective point, and that its sole purpose and its sole effect is to provide a substitute for the police organization of that city, and to confer upon persons, to be appointed other than by the electors or some authority of the city, the duties and emoluments of office before then exercised and enjoyed by city officials and by officers of the county of Rensselaer.
There is an absence of evidence, in any provision in the act, of any necessity or supposed necessity for all or any part of the complicated machinery brought into existence by it to preserve the peace, to arrest offenders, execute criminal process, watch over the safety of the inhabitants, patrol the district, or perform the duties of a board of health in any part of the proposed district other than the city of Troy; or that the performance of those duties or any of the ordinary police duties in either or all the tracts of land outside the city of Troy, included within the district, was in the minds of the legislators, in the enactment of the law. The entire scheme was intended for the city of Troy, and, so far as it contemplates the creation and maintenance of a city police and a corps of patrolmen, it was adapted to the wants of a city; but to the isolated house in North Greenbush, the small island of a dozen acres with its single manufactory and its one block of tenement-houses, and the land in Brunswick with its sixty-nine scattered dwellings, it was entirely uncalled for and unsuitable. They are left still, for all purposes, a part of their respective towns and town organizations. As before said, the act operated practically only to enlarge the boundaries of the city of Troy for the purposes of a police organization, and adjacent territory was brought within the jurisdiction of the city police.
But if the act had taken the form which its substantive purpose justified, the legislature could not have taken from the electors and authorities of the city the election or appointment of the force. It is worthy of observation that, while the city of Troy is solely under the police board and the officers whose appointment is authorized by the act, the other districts or patches of territory included are left in the possession of all the rights and privileges of the towns of which they are a part. No one privilege or franchise is taken from them. They are in truth merely ornamental appendages. But the substance and effect of the act and its true character do not depend upon its title, or the peculiar form given to it by its authors. The form and name cannot change the substance; and it must be judged by the substantial and effective provisions, and, judged by them, the act does not create for any purpose a new civil division of the State, and new offices for such district which may be filled as the legislature may direct.
It is left very doubtful, from the terms of the act, whether, in truth, any police duty proper was to be performed in any part of the added territory. The patrolmen and the organization for the city of Troy are carefully prescribed, but no thought is taken of the other parts of the district, and the utmost that was contemplated, probably, was that, in the formation of the precincts, the rural or foreign territory should be nominally included within some of the precincts of the city, and this would doubtless suffice for all the necessities of these additions.
This act differs from every other act in this very noticeable and important particular, — that all the territory embraced within the proposed district could, without interfering with any other political or civil division of the State, and without inconvenience to the inhabitants, have been brought within the bounds of the city, and incorporated in it in the performance of the duty specially enjoined by the Constitution upon the legislature, to provide for the organization of cities and villages. (Const., art. 8, § 9.) Other acts, for the creation of civil divisions for political purposes, have only been sustained after a struggle and much hesitation, and by reason of a supposed necessity, and because, on account of the extent of the territory united, and its relation to the State, and the recognized political organization of the State, it was not competent to readjust the municipal and local governments and incorporate the whole territory under a single city government. It is conceded by all that these new civil divisions are a recent device, and were not and could not have been in the minds of the framers of the Constitution; and, in the absence of an actual and evident necessity, they must, within every principle of interpretation, be held to be forbidden. The Constitution has provided for, or in terms recognizes, every civil and political organization into which it was intended the State should be divided. It provides for senate and assembly and judicial districts, and the organization of cities and villages, and recognizes the ancient and well-known division of counties and towns; and, if any other division or organization is allowable, it can only be when neither of the others will serve or answer the purpose, or the objects cannot be accomplished by organizing the territory in view under one or the other forms of municipal government authorized by the Constitution.
If the legislature had had before it the map of the entire district, as we have, with its relation to the city of Troy, it cannot be doubted that, instead of the present act, the boundaries of the city would have been enlarged.
The police powers are among the most important of those conferred upon city governments, and, therefore, when the only object is to give the benefits of a city police to an inconsiderable strip of territory contiguous to a city, there is no necessity for a new civil division of the State; and when, as in this case, the absence of all occasion for the exercise of this doubtful power is apparent, the courts do not, in annulling the act, sit in judgment upon the motives or the discretion of the legislature. The power depends upon necessity; and, there being no necessity, there was no occasion for the exercise of legislative discretion. The necessity of departing from the Constitution can only exist when the same thing cannot be accomplished under the Constitution.
It was sought to bring the case within the principles of People v. Draper ( 15 N.Y., 532); but it comes far short of it in every important element, and is not within the reasoning of the very able judge who gave the prevailing opinion in that case, and of whom it is, perhaps, not too much to say that but for his ability and influence the decision might possibly have been the other way. That decision has now stood so long judicially uncondemned, although never, I think, satisfactory to the public or the legal profession, that it might not be proper, under any circumstances, to review or overrule it; and it is to be hoped, in the interests of constitutional government by the people, that the occasion to reaffirm its doctrines may never arise. To my mind the dissenting opinion of Judge BROWN, concurred in by Judge COMSTOCK, presents unanswerable arguments why the decision should have been different. The Constitution, in providing for a State government in all its parts and for the entire territory, distributing its powers among the various departments and organizing and authorizing the creation and organization of local governments for the different parts of the State under the general division of counties, cities, villages and towns, and in such forms that every power of government necessary to be delegated to any locality may be delegated to and conferred upon one or other of the municipal governments thus authorized and recognized, would seem to exclude the idea of the creation of any new or other division for the exercise of political power, or any other or different local government, and by necessary implication prohibit it. People v. Draper fully recognizes the fact that the general political division of the State cannot be disturbed. The learned judge says: "The counties and cities must not only be preserved, but the legislature must do nothing respecting them which will render them less suitable for the purposes for which they are recognized and employed by the Constitution." While it is difficult to see precisely how a new local political division can be organized, embracing the whole or a part of different cities and counties, to which a part of the power, and especially the police power, conferred upon and exercised by those organizations is transferred, without impairing their usefulness and making them less suitable for all the purposes for which they are recognized and employed, if the judge had added that neither should the legislature do anything to deprive the counties and cities, and their electors, of the right of local self-government and the substantial rights and franchises guaranteed by the Constitution, it would have been less objectionable. But, without further considering the question, which perhaps may be considered as definitely settled, it is enough to say that it is not decisive of this case. In that case the local character of the police of four entire counties was abolished, and the four counties brought together into one police district, with careful provisions securing the rights of each so far as practicable. Here the local character of the police is not abolished; it is rather intensified. In the case of Draper there was an effective police organized for four prominent and contiguous counties, all connected together by the relations and associations of business, and to some extent equally exposed, and needing a protection, as was supposed, of a common force; at least that was the apology for the act. Here, the police is for a single city, and there was no question of expediency to be determined by the legislature as to abolishing the local police of several counties or towns and establishing one body in their place, under one general control. The territory embraced in the metropolitan police district could not well have been brought together and united under one and the same municipal government, and hence there was occasion for the exercise of legislative discretion in the creation of a police district embracing all the counties, if such power existed under the Constitution under any circumstances.
The case of Draper was followed by People v. Shepard ( 36 N Y, 285), involving the constitutionality of an act establishing a capital police district embracing parts of the counties of Albany and Rensselaer and the city of Schenectady, including the lines of the Central railroad between the cities of Albany and Schenectady. (Chap. 554 of Laws of 1865, as amended by chap. 483 of the Laws of 1866.) It was like the metropolitan police act in this, that it united several cities which could not well have been incorporated under one city government. These acts were held valid upon the authority of People v. Draper; and cities united by the line of a railroad were regarded by reason of such union, as contiguous in territory, and capable, within People v. Draper, of being legally united as a distinct political division of the State, for police purposes. This later decision, carried to its logical and legal results, would permit every city and village of the State to be governed by a police appointed, and by a power located, at the capital of the State and emanating from the central head of the State government, to the entire disfranchisement, to this extent, of the local electors and municipalities. If a connection consisting only of the lines of a railroad will serve to make the places along the lines and at the termini contiguous, the same result would follow from the existence of a canal, a river or common road, or any other visible or artificial line that may exist or be created or established for that purpose; and a "capital police" could be made to serve for every city and village in the State. It is true that the learned judge by whom the opinion was pronounced seems to have been of the opinion that contiguity of territory was not essential to the creation of a police district. There may be no positive express prohibition against constituting counties, cities, villages and towns of dissevered and disconnected territories, but it would be opposed to the evident spirit of the Constitution and to the policy of the State; and the same is true of any civil division of the State for political purposes, which the legislature may create. The very idea of a distinct civil and political division of a State, necessarily implies a part of the State set apart and separated from every other part for a special purpose, compact and united, and not separated and divided by intervening territory, and other divisions, under separate and distinct local organizations. But, in the suggestion of the learned judge that contiguity and unity of territory are not essential in any civil division of the State which the legislature may establish, either within the Constitution or outside of its special provisions, a very ready way is found for a legislative usurpation of the rights thought to have been guaranteed by the Constitution to the electors and local authorities of the different municipal and local governments. If the suggestion is adopted and carried into effect, all the legislature would have to do would be to declare that two or more cities or villages, no matter how far separated by distance, should be united and constitute a single police district, with authority in the executive of the State, or any other power that should be designated, to appoint the police force and police magistrates, and that would be accomplished which is in terms prohibited by the Constitution, viz., the appointment of municipal officers other than by the electors, or some authority of the municipality. In other words, by providing for the appointment of officers for two local and municipal governments, as of cities or villages, in a way and by an authority other than as prescribed by the Constitution, in the same act and under color of establishing a new civil division of the State, the act would not be within the condemnation of the Constitution, as it would if the same power of appointment had been given in respect to the municipalities separately; and, it would be established that the legislature could do that indirectly which could not be done directly, and an act which would be invalid as to one city would be valid if made to apply to two cities. This doctrine cannot be upheld upon any principle.
As the capital police district was an experiment, and, as it resulted, a successful experiment upon the principles supposed to be established in People v. Draper, the act before us is an experiment, and in the direction of an encroachment upon the Constitution, an improvement upon both acts, and marks the progressive spirit of the day. The principle of contiguity and unity of territory is not violated in the establishment of the new district, but the difficulty lies in the other direction, that there has been, in fact, no substantial and effective incorporation of the whole or a part of different counties, towns or cities for the purposes indicated by the act, and, looking at the substance rather than the form of the legislation, the act cannot be sustained within the reasoning of People v. Draper, which alone can be regarded as authority, and that only in cases falling directly within the principles actually decided. It cannot be extended to cases differing essentially from it. The experiment in the act before us was to see with how little disturbance of the political organizations of the towns adjacent to the city of Troy, or the change of boundary lines, a police district could be established which would abide the tests of the Constitution, and, as that is patent upon the face of the act, it cannot be sustained as a valid and effectual exercise of the power claimed to exist in the legislature, to constitute a single police district from the whole or a part of several distinct municipal organizations, each constituting a substantial part of the new district, and being within the necessities leading to its creation, and having the benefits of the new organization.
The act is clearly unconstitutional, and the order must be reversed, and the motion for mandamus granted.
All concur except FOLGER, J., who dissents upon the ground that the decisions in The People v. Draper and The People v. Shepard were authoritative upon the questions involved.
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“I’ve got two times, the task start time and end time, how do I calculate a difference in minutes or hours with Power Automate?”
One of the features missing in Power Automate is a calculation of a difference between two dates / times. There’re many operations with date, you can calculate a date, you can format a date, but you can’t easily calculate a difference. To do that you’ll need a combination of expressions, and that’s what this post is about.
Calculate the number of ticks
As already explained in the post on Excel based reminders, Power Automate has an expression called ticks(…). This expression will take a date and calculate a number of ticks for that date. One tick is 100 nanoseconds, starting with 1st of January 0001 00:00:00. For example, 6th of February 2020 at 19:28 will return 637797689122217300 ticks.
When you calculate a difference between two dates / times, you must get ticks for both of the dates, e.g.
today - yesterday ticks(today) - ticks(yesterday) ticks(utcNow()) - ticks(addDays(utcNow(),-1))
Once you have the two numbers of ticks, you can subtract one from the other with the sub(…) expression.
sub(ticks(utcNow()),ticks(addDays(utcNow(),-1))) = 864000000000
Note: if you end up with a negative number, you should switch the two dates in the expression.
Convert ticks into more readable unit
The result of the subtraction should be then converted into a more understandable number. You don’t want to show users the difference in billions. Use the div(…) expression to divide the number by a number representing the desired unit.
|Divide by||To get|
For example, to get the number of minutes between yesterday and today:
To calculate a difference between two dates / times in Power Automate, you must combine multiple expressions. Calculate the number of ticks for each date, and then divide it by a number to get the desired unit. Start from 100 nanoseconds (1 tick) and divide it by a number big enough to get the days/hours/minutes.
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Posted on December 24, 2020
A Gentile associate of mine once said to me with admiration: “Jews have blessings for everything!”
Soon we will all be receiving the Covid 19 vaccine. I would like to share with you the blessings that I have been collecting for this momentous occasion. They are written (mostly) by rabbis who are seeking to express gratitude to God and to sanctify this moment. When we say the blessing, we acknowledge the range of emotions that we might be feeling, including relief, excitement, joy, nervousness, gratefulness, and others. By saying a blessing we elevate the experience of getting a needle stuck in our arm into the realm of the sacred. We make getting the vaccine into something no less than holy.
The blessings thank God, express appreciation and awe for the scientists who worked to develop the vaccines, thank the health care workers who have been so dedicated and talk about the miracles of the human body. Some talk about how our getting the vaccine helps stop the spread of the disease.
I have several blessings in my collection and I will add more as I find more. You can read them and choose the one (or more than one) that you like the best to say before or after receiving the vaccine. Most are only in English, some are also in Hebrew, and one is in Hebrew, English, Yiddish, and Magyar. (I had one that was just in Hebrew, but I removed it when I found out that the author holds extreme racist positions in Israel. Covid is not the only illness that spreads through exposure. I will be expanding on this issue in my sermon on Friday night.)
I hope that you find that saying a blessing when you get the vaccine makes an already powerful experience even more so. May you –may we– have the opportunity to use these blessings in the very near future.
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19 Mar TrainND Northwest and COVID-19
WILLISTON, N.D. – The following is a message from TrainND Northwest’s, Kenley Nebeker, on TrainND Northwest’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19):
To the TrainND Northwest Community:
TrainND Northwest would like to provide you with an update on our response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Under the direction of Williston State College (WSC) leadership and the North Dakota University System (NDUS), TrainND Northwest has been closely monitoring the data related to COVID-19 and is dedicated to the safety of our customers and staff.
At this time and until otherwise notified, TrainND Northwest will continue with ALL trainings as scheduled including well control training provided by Vorenkamp Well Control Training.
Following the recommended guidelines from the CDC, we will be limiting class sizes to a maximum of 10 people. Our instructors have been asked to help facilitate a 6-foot space bubble with all students in class as recommended by the CDC.
TrainND Northwest has taken steps internally to mitigate risk.
To help further protect our customers and staff, we are asking for your help:
- If you are not feeling well or if you have recently traveled to a CDC Level 3 designated country, please stay home.
- Following all hygiene recommendations including:
- Washing hands for 20 seconds with soap and hot water
- Sneezing and coughing into your elbow
- Using hand sanitizer that is over 60% alcohol
- If a student exhibits signs of illness during a class or visit to TrainND Northwest, they will be asked to leave the premises.
- If you are sick and scheduled for a training at TrainND Northwest, please contact us to reschedule. We will work with you to reschedule if necessary, so please contact us before the start of class.
Working together, we can help slow the spread of this virus.
*Additionally, we will not be performing Fit Testing for the next 3 weeks.
We will continue to follow all government and health departments’ guidance and will communicate any operational changes as they arise.
Regional Director of Technical Programs and Training
Williston State College
TrainND Northwest encourages the community to monitor the TrainND Northwest Facebook page (@trainndnorthwest) and website www.willistonstate.edu/trainnd for updates.
For more information on this message, please contact:
Kenley Nebeker, Regional Director of Technical Programs & Training | 701.713.3780 or [email protected]
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The cover of Rosanne Cash’s memoir Composed: A Memoir arrested me. The author is sitting on a bench looking directly at the viewer. The blurry background invites us to concentrate on her face and the costume she is wearing. Johnny Cash fans will notice the black shirt, an iconic Cash color his daughter borrows without fear. Women will examine the gunmetal gray nail polish and matching boots, the diamond wedding ring, the tight-but-not-skinny jeans, and women over fifty will love the gray roots showing under her red hair. Everyone will notice the kind but knowing gaze and the slight smile. Here is a woman come of age, says the cover. Her smile contains secrets she just might share with you if you open this book.
But before you succumb to the visual seduction, a single word jumps off the cover: Composed. The yellow, weather-beaten letters of the title are smaller than the bright red CASH and the white Rosanne above them. Down below are two small words in white: A Memoir. When I first heard this title, I called it perfect. That was before I read the book. Now that I have allowed Rosanne Cash’s story to speak to me, I admire the title even more. Here’s why: It’s singular and simple on one level–short and memorable. Yet it contains layers of relevant meanings–a single word with seven different definitions. The American Heritage Dictionary defines compose as follows:
v. com·posed, com·pos·ing, com·pos·es
Each of these seven definitions applies to this memoir in one way or another. I have selected three of them, corresponding to three levels of meaning, as the frame on which to base this review:
Level I. Composed: To make or create by putting together parts or elements.
Level II. To create or produce (a literary or musical piece).
Level III. To make (oneself) calm or tranquil.
Level I of Composed contains the story of the artist as a young woman. The world still does not have enough of these stories. (One of the best,Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark, the story of singer Thea Kronborg, came to mind several times.) The artist takes the fragments of the external world, and of her own life, and creates out of them an object of beauty. This cannot happen immediately; it is the work of a lifetime.
In Rosanne Cash’s case, the fragments were dramatic: a famous father who was loving, absent, and addicted to drugs during most of her childhood, a mother who was distracted by grief and anger, a spotty formal education, frequent moves, coming of age in the 1960’s London music scene, divorce–both of her parents and of her first marriage to Rodney Crowell, the births of three daughters and one son, a miscarriage, polyps on the vocal chords, and brain surgery.
To bring all of these elements, and more, into a unified whole, Cash chooses a complex structure. She moves back and forth in time instead of chronologically, does not number or name the chapters, and yet leaves the reader with a feeling of completion. No small task.
Cash’s extensive experience in all forms of writing helps her know what to include and what to let go. She makes us believe that our own fragments can also come together. She is like Toni Morrison’s Paul D. who says of Sethe: “She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” A woman who can befriend other minds must first love her own.
Her less-than-perfect mother provided her with the means to do so when she gave her old papers she had preserved from Rosanne’s school days. Among them was an assignment from seventh-grade English class to write metaphors. The words “a lonely road is a bodyguard”–her own words from childhood–remind her in adulthood that she possesses a talent, and a source of resiliency, that will sustain her all her life. She uses them in a song and then again in this book as a thread that ties all the pieces of her own life together.
Level II of Composed moves from piecing wholes out of fragments to the use of that process in the creation of songs and stories. Some sections of the book dealing with how individual songs or albums came together will only interest fans and music buffs, but whenever the stories include relationship elements, all readers perk up. Most interesting of all are the occasions when Rosanne manages to capture her famous father’s full attention. She does this by her ignorance at first. He is appalled that she doesn’t know the 100 songs that created the foundation of American country music. The list he gives her, and her avid study of it, result in a beautiful album I discussed here.
Rosanne builds on this list, studies chord structure and picking styles with members of the Carter family, and begins to absorb the lessons of the great musicians who preceded her. She also begins to write, not only songs, but stories. My favorite section of the book is the exchange between father and daughter while she is writing about her youth and her father is in an intensive care unit after another harrowing near-death experience. As she reads, he marvels at how much passion she had inside, probably connecting it to his own. Then, when she finishes, he says, “Just to think of you makes my heart swell with pride.” Words like these are gold to both a writer and a daughter. And Rosanne knows just how to employ them artistically a second time in the book.
The descriptions of collaborations with other artists, especially with Johnny Cash (“September When It Comes”), illustrate how spiritual and collective works of art can be. They are best when composed with at least one other mind and heart.
Finally, the Level III meaning of “composed” is all about a state of mind, composure, tranquility. Many writers long to find such a state, but they can only earn it from honest examination of their failings and feelings, including anger and frustration, depression and disappointment. Composed left me feeling tranquil even though it contained so many cycles of doubt and elation, adventures and misadventures. Tonal quality in a memoir matters as much as tonal quality in country music. Too nasal and it sounds whiny. Too sweet and it sounds like denial. Cash avoids the extremes by telling us she is still embarrassed by past oversights and by shining light upon the many kinds of sorrows she has experienced without blaming anyone else for them.
But what she does better than anything else is listen for beautiful language, celebrate it in the moment, and then, when you have almost forgotten it, swoop in at the end like an eagle carrying a precious treasure. Many of her chapters end with quotes or allusions perfectly calibrated to stir the heart. And the last words of the book pack the biggest punch of all.
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Italian plastics equipment major Sacmi Group's offerings are getting a U.S. identity.
Sacmi has sold its plastics division to Kingsbury Corp., a machinery firm based in Rush, N.Y., for undisclosed terms. The deal became official on April 11, when Sacmi announced the deal.
Kingsbury makes extrusion, conveyance, coating and converting machinery for paper, plastics, metal foils and glass. Major markets are automotive, aerospace and electronic components. The firm is a sister company to Optimation Technology Inc., also of Rush, a business engaged in industrial engineering, design, assembly, construction and maintenance that recently became integrated with Kingsbury's machinery manufacturing.
“This sale is in keeping with Sacmi's desire to streamline management and focus more on the ceramics and packaging sectors,” stated Sacmi Group general manager Pietro Cassani in a news release. Cassani will join the Kingsbury-Negri Bossi board of directors.
Cassani said his presence on the board “ensures strong ties with the Sacmi Group, which remains the main supplier of high-tonnage presses, built in Imola [Italy].”
Cassani indicated sales of the large presses have been strong and employment in Imola will be expanded.
Sacmi's product lines include Negri Bossi injection molding machines, Bi-Power line of very large presses to customers such as European auto majors like Chrysler Group LLC, and Roboline-Sytrama robotic machinery. Sytrama servo Cartesian robots include sizes for injection presses up to 7,700 tons.
Negri Bossi, owned by Sacmi for about 10 years, has reorganized under Sacmi ownership and expanded its product lines to include high-end machines. Subsidiary Negri Bossi North America is based in New Castle, Del.
Negri Bossi North America supplies Negri Bossi and Sytrama brands. The subsidiary reports directly to Negri Bossi SpA of Milan, Italy, and will continue to report to that office. Negri Bossi injection presses from 55 to 7,700 tons are available in the U.S. market. Tony Firth, Negri Bossi North America's vice president and general manager said U.S. manufacturing of Sacmi's former product lines eventually could occur.
Sacmi USA in Des Moines, Iowa, continues to supply Sacmi products for ceramics and beverage markets and for Sacmi's continuous compression technologies.
“The new owners have expressed their intention to maintain the current [manufacturing] facilities, especially in Cologno and [Imola], without any personnel cuts,” Cassani explained. “In fact, the emphasis is on growth, which is being driven by the two most promising markets, the U.S.A. and the U.K.”
Kingsbury customers include the U.S. Department of Defense, Chrysler Corp. Ford Motor Co., Briggs & Stratton Corp., Whirlpool Corp. and Honeywell International Inc.
Cassani said the business segments in the transaction have annual sales of about 100 million euros.
Kingsbury's origins date to 1860, when it was mainly a toy manufacturer. It evolved into machine tool technology and diversified into machinery. The company went bankrupt in 2011 and Optimation acquired the business and assets in early 2012. Optimation moved Kingsbury's equipment from Keene, N.H., to a 180,000-square-foot facility in Rochester, N.Y., where Kingsbury does its manufacturing, including components for Optimation's business. Optimation runs several sales offices throughout the United States.
Optimation is majority owned by private investment firm Owner Resource Group LLC of Austin, Texas, with Optimation founder, President and CEO Bill Pollock holding the rest. Owner Resource bought its stake in 2012.
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Winter is definitely making herself known and we are sure that everyone out there has their heating on already. As our days get shorter and our beautiful gardens are changing, what can we do to make our homes more appealing when we arrive home in these dark winter afternoons?
Here are seven ways to improve the winter aesthetics of your home:
1. Plan outdoor lighting
The easiest way to brighten up your home in winter has to be the lighting. We often come home in the dark during winter and miss seeing the garden altogether If you have a walkway, lights on either side not only look great but will make the walk safer too. New lights on either side of the front door are also great – remember, would-be burglars don’t like to be seen.
Try a few tea lights in jam jars to add a seasonal twinkle or add some colourful solar or fairy lights that will provide a few hours of decorative light without disturbing nighttime wildlife (this also transforms the views looking out your windows).
2. Make your front door inviting
The right front door can create a great first impression when you enter your property. Achieve the look you desire with our vast selection of colours and style options. Offering you maximum security and designed to keep the cold and the rain out and the warmth in.
Buy a fresh holiday wreath to place on your front door. Wreaths with dried flowers work well plus you can choose one that complements the colour of your front door – bright blue or green wreaths would look great on a dark door, while dark reds would suit a white one. Large house numbers will also brighten up your front door plus make it easier to find.
3. Place design features in the garden
Winters lawns and gardens can look bleak but there are many ways to perk it up to be once again inviting when you arrive home. Even just one piece of evergreen topiary will create interest to the eye and will hold an area together. Formal shapes such as balls, pyramids and cubes look good, though the trend at the moment, is for a more relaxed style.
Brightly coloured pots, a small sculpture or attractive window boxes are easy ways of making a big change. Remember to add a bird feeder in one of the trees as food becomes harder to find.
4. Decorate the porch
Porches are very handy in the winter, giving you extra space for your family to hang up coats, store bicycles and umbrellas and they give you the perfect space for taking off and storing wet and muddy shoes.
Decorative elements or pots can make a porch attractive and enhance the curb appeal enormously. Dwarf evergreens or hanging baskets full of greens are very inviting. A stand with an antique lantern or a bright pot with trailing ivy, will pick up the lighting from the
door creating added interest.
5. Clear away winter clutter
Although salt and shovels need to be close at hand, pack everything else that is laying around outside away in a locked shed. Not only will your property look neater, locking away anything that could be possible used to illegally enter your property is safer for you and your
6. Ensure pathways & porches are safe
Winter weather can pose special challenges to safety. Always keep pathways and drains clear from leaves and debris. Not only are these n unsightly and potential slip hazards, but they can cause blockages in your drains, resulting in flooding on paths which can be a big problem when freezing weather sets in.
7. And finally, some gardening tips for November
- Don’t let your garden go bare and dormant over the cold months. With these winter-flowering plants you will be sure to brighten up your garden – Heather, Pansies, Hellebores, Snowdrops, Winter Jasmine, Daffodils, Clematis and the beautiful Iris.
- Dahlias and other tender bulbs need to be dug up & stored in a cool, dark area after the first frost.
- The ground should be cool enough to plant tulips over the next few weeks (try avoiding waterlogged areas of your garden or planting after a heavy frost)
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Central's Arneth signs NLI to pitch at Rider University
Central Regional senior right-hander Anthony Arneth has signed a National Letter of Intent to pitch at Rider University next year.
Arneth, who was 6-4 this season with 50 strikeouts and a 2.21 ERA, leaves Central after accumulating 12 wins the past two years, while pitching eight compete games with a 1.83 ERA and 100 strikeouts in 115 innings pitched.
He was a member of last year's Carpenter Cup championship team and was voted all conference this year.
Arneth was also the starting pitcher in the Senior Shore Baseball Coaches Association All-Star Game last week and was the winning pitcher for the Golden Eagles in the Ocean County Tournament championship game last year, pitching a four-hit shutout, while striking out six and walking three as Central defeated Barnegat, 6-0.
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Top analysts Gartner, Inc. has announced their predictions for the top 10 new technologies and trends that businesses can strategically benefit from using in the year 2014. And what we're finding out is that this is looking to be really great news for those who are currently reselling cloud VoIP services. Why? Because 4 of the most utilized and most influential forces are beginning to merge together so that they can be used interchangeably -social, mobile, cloud and information.
It's important for every business to keep up with any and all new trends and/or technologies that could help them succeed in the highly competitive world of business that we live in today. It's also important for every business to focus on finding some form of competitive edge that will make people think of them when wanting or needing their services and/or products. Especially in today's world where there's so much access to information.
The following are the top 10 new trends and technologies as predicted by Gartner, Inc.
1. Mobile Device Diversity and Management. The ability for employees to access anything from anywhere continues to be popular amongst the mobile workforce.
2. Mobile Apps & Applications. Because mobile app usage will continue to be on the rise it's recommended that developers work on various ways to expand application so that people are able to connect in a variety of new and different ways.
3. The Internet of Everything. Because more and more companies are looking for ways to expand the way they're able to do business in this highly competitive world, they're beginning to look to the internet for more options, like digitizing their products and services.
4. Hybrid Cloud and IT as a Service Broker. Hybrid clouds are not only becoming much more popular because they allow a business a lot of versatility, the ability to design them specifically for a particular type of company is more and more becoming an option.
5. Cloud/Client Architecture. The fact that many more businesses are beginning to look into what they can do in order to support their mobile users means that there'll be a higher demand for server side computing and storage capacity.
6. The Era of Personal Cloud. The shift towards providing a higher level of customer service continues as more and more people are choosing to sign up for a personal cloud, which allows them to store and share their content from a secure cloud atmosphere vs. their computer.
7. Software Defined Anything (SDx). This term refers to the need for continuous improvements when it comes to any and all software utilized for cloud computing.
8. Web Scale IT. Current cloud service providers are looking into new ways that IT services can be delivered in order to properly accommodate new users so they can receive the speed and quickness current users are experiencing.
9. Smart Machines. There's no slowing down when it comes to the advancement of smart machines, with new predictions telling us that there will be a much higher focus on bringing both previous and upcoming information technologies to fruition.
10. 3D Printing. People using 3D printers is expected to grow substantially in this upcoming year, especially now that the cost and quality of 3D printing has greatly improved.
2014 is Going to be a Good Year!
As you can see, 2014 is going to be a great year for VoIP resellers and all the businesses that choose to sign up to receive high-tech cloud services. And because previous predictions are telling us that new high-tech VoIP systems and cloud technology is going to eventually take the place of the old-fashioned landline systems that so many businesses are still utilizing to this very day, we think it's safe to say that the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 are also going to be a great year for businesses because high-tech VoIP services are only going to get better and better as time moves on.
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We are so glad to be able to welcome guests to North Lodge again from 4th July. The safety of our guests is paramount, and we always give the highest attention to cleanliness. In line with guidance we sanitise high touch and all other relevant surfaces between stays. North Lodge is situated in its own... Continue Reading →
Getting up early to watch the sun rising over a frozen landscape, mist hanging low in the silent air and a ruined, thousand-year-old castle in the distance. It’s what memories are made of. Think of Dorset and your first thoughts may be of summer. But there are just as many adventures to pursue across the... Continue Reading →
This year I went with my walking group to watch the sunrise on the day of the summer solstice (June 21). We had chosen Badbury Rings, the iron age hill fort between Blandford and Wimborne. For only a limited amount of walking uphill you get a very fine, uninterrupted view over the surrounding landscape from... Continue Reading →
Blandford bridge in the early morning sun A moment. But in the still, sun-poured early morning it stretches out, flowing imperceptibly like the water under the bridge, beckoning towards the future and the past. Blandford’s history is fundamentally tied to crossing the river. The name of the town derives from the Anglo-Saxon ‘Blaen-y-ford’ describing a... Continue Reading →
Walking through the spring woods, the bluebells are all out and the scent of wild garlic fills the air.
If you’re a wine enthusiast or just enjoy a good glass of fizz, a visit to the Langham Wine Estate is for you. This award-winning winery produces its sparkling wines using only grapes grown at the vineyard at Crawthorne in Dorset, between Blandford and Dorchester (take the marked turning off the A354). You can join... Continue Reading →
We have to admit to being a bit in love with Parterre at Keyneston Mill. There’s nowhere better to meet for coffee or brunch, especially when the sun’s shining. Or on the weekend strolling through the gardens before pastry indulgence at the Scented Botanist Café. The gardens are dedicated solely to aromatic and scented plants,... Continue Reading →
This is a very good National Trust walk with stunning views across the Blackmore Vale, the landscape at the heart of Thomas Hardy country. Walking along the open expanse of downland here, you can also find many species of butterflies and wildflowers; in early spring, for example, the slopes are carpeted in yellow cowslips. A... Continue Reading → | <urn:uuid:efc22a59-0b20-4f78-ab2b-b29b8bb45857> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://northlodgedorset.com/blog/ | 2022-10-02T09:52:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337307.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20221002083954-20221002113954-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.936056 | 562 | [
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I thought I was excited for Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens and then I saw this behind-the-scenes video. WOW!
J.J Abrams and company seem to really care about the kind of film they’re making. I’m glad someone who cares about Star Wars is behind the lens. The casts is outstanding and the practical effects are exactly what this franchise needed. December can’t get here quick enough. The Force Awakens is going to blow people away.
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Intercom systems are used within the confines of a single building or a gaggle of buildings within a selected space for effective communication. They don’t seem to be depended on the cellular service or different telephone providers in the area. They installed so that the folks residing or working in that space or building should not have to rely on other services in times of emergency. They’re also an enormous assist on the subject of communication over speakers or walkie-talkies as they are often connect.. Most people indicate do not set up them because they fail to understand the number of makes use of and places where they are often used. Here is how you can use them to the fullest.
Locations where Intercoms can be Put in: Intercom systems might be put in just about anywhere and in any type of building. They are utilized in schools, offices, residential complexes, industrial sites, factories etc. Intercom systems put in by using the wireless sets. They are particularly advantageous the place a number of intricate wiring has already been performed and there are different potential hazards, like in big factories. The modern gadgets also come with video loaded amenities so that you can actually see the person you are speaking with on the opposite side. This after all provides added safety and security.
How are Intercoms Helpful: It provides you the possibility to put throughout your message instantly. And they are especially good for emergency. Suppose you are anticipating a theft on your twentieth floor condo and your mobile service is down so you cannot contact the police. With the assistance of them you can contact the safety service of your house within the basement and they will send immediate help. To not point out the time it saves for the help to arrive.
Moreover, the prices of putting in intercom systems are extraordinarily affordable as now they are utilized by all. It’s therefore, advisable to put in a system in your own building when you have not already and lead a more safe life along with your family.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (GenomeWeb News) - Promega will appeal the dismissal of a $1 billion lawsuit it filed on behalf of the US Government against Hoffman-La Roche and Applera, the company said late yesterday.
A US Federal Court in Virginia dismissed the suit June 30. Promega said it will appeal the case to the US Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
In the underlying claim, Promega of Madison, Wis., alleged that Roche "and its co-conspirators" overcharged the US Government and government agencies by charging royalty payments for Taq enzymes, and in doing so, diverted millions in US tax dollars that could otherwise have been used for research programs. Promega has claimed in a separate suit that the patents for these enzymes were obtained by inequitable conduct on Roche's part. The claim also accused Roche of "anticompetitive tying of sales of Taq to other products; deceptive licensing practices; and predatory threats of litigation," according to a statement released by Promega.
This action is based on the False Claims Act, also known as the Informer's Act or the Qui Tam Statute, which allows a private person to sue a person or company that knowingly submits false bills to the federal government. It is designed to encourage whistleblowers to come forward in order to prevent this type of fraud.
Roche and Promega have been engaged in patent litigation since 1992.
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From the 1980s, extracorporeal photochemotherapy (ECP) has been shown to be effective in a variety of pathological conditions such as erythrodermic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, autoimmune diseases, solid organ allograft rejection and graft versus host disease. To date, ECP represents a non-aggressive immune modulatory therapy with a low spectrum of toxicity. ECP reduces the alloreactivity promoting the immune tolerance to self. At the same time, it allows the maintenance of immune response integrity of both naive and memory T-cells. However, the molecular mechanisms of action by which ECP exerts its therapeutic activity are still under investigation. Here, we review molecular mechanisms and clinical applications involved in ECP. The outcome of ECP is difficult due to the lack of reliable predictor factors for the selection of patients and their adequate follow-up. Since the study of such predictors is important, we also describe some biological markers that enable us to investigate the clinical management of the patients considered for the use of ECP.
- Extracorporeal photochemoterapy
- Graft versus host disease
- Molecular mechanisms
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Hope you enjoyed this past season’s Club activities. Our preliminary plan for the upcoming 2022-23 season will consist of a mix of on-line and in-person meetings. To view a pdf of the timetable, click on this link: TDPC Preliminary 2022-23 Schedule Have a good summer! TDPC Program Committee
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The Toronto Digital Photography Club (formerly the Toronto Guild for Photographic Art) was originally established in 1947 as the Toronto Guild for Colour Photography. It is one of Canada’s premier photography clubs with a rich history and one of the oldest camera clubs in Toronto.
The club is home to many talented and successful photographers, both amateur and professional. Regardless of your skill level, membership in our club offers many opportunities to improve your photography, meet people with a common interest in various genres of photography, share ideas and participate in fun and friendly photography outings.
Guests are always welcome. So if you are thinking of joining the club, check out the calendar here for an upcoming event of interest and let us know you’d like to drop by. We would be happy to have you join us. You will be glad you did.
Please note: On evenings where we have a guest speaker, there is a $10.00 cover charge at the door for non-members.
Meetings are on Tuesdays at the Edithvale Community Centre in the Banquet Hall at 131 Finch Avenue West, Toronto. Normally meetings start at 7:30 pm, however please check the calendar for any changes or updates. Due to Covid-19, currently our meetings are being held online.
As travel restrictions ease and the travel bug takes hold, we thought this message might be of interest to those of you who are eager to venture abroad again. Photo Tour Trekkers is a Toronto-based firm that offers some good photography travel deals. The group is associated with some people you may know or have […]
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NEW YORK, September 22, 2015: Morgan Lewis has advised Portware, LLC, a leading multi-asset trading platform, in its $265M sale to global dataset and analytics provider FactSet Research Systems Inc.
The Morgan Lewis team advising on the transaction was led by partner David Pollak and associate Mark Opitz. Support was provided by partners Kenneth Kail, John Ayanian, Louis Beardell, Jr., Ron Dreben, and Harry Robins. Of counsel Randall McGeorge and Christopher Ramsey and associates, Glen Rectenwald, Nicholas Losurdo, Squire Servance, Michael Ryan, Joseph Washington, Martin d’Halluin, and Cailin Heilig also offered assistance.
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This is for newcomers to ML who want to start easy, and then step up
Easy to large
This post is for newcomers to ML who have learned to work with Jupyter Notebooks and now want to know: How do I move up to a production-ready system using AWS services?
You’ve started lightweight and local, but and now you need to get to the distributed systems that can handle the heavy loads like:
- Glue for transformation and metadata catalog
- Athena for direct queries into S3 buckets
- QuickSight for visualization of analytics
- Sagemaker Instances for parallelized training
- Sagemaker Endpoints for versioned, autoscaled inference servers
Start from Notebooks
Jupyter Notebooks are a wonder for Machine Learning, an online IDE that maintains the state of local variables in memory so you can work with the kind of long-running process that is ML. Sagemaker Notebooks (Console; Docs) give you a managed environment to quickly spin these up. You can do everything there, including loading data, exploring, preprocessing, visualizing, training, evaluating, and deploying — all in a single memory-space for convenience and speed.
Distributed AWS services
Beyond the Notebook, it gets harder: You have to coordinate a series of heavyweight distributed services, integrating each part, making sure they authenticate to each other.
It’s hard to keep a clear understanding of what is happening across the ML process. First, because the state of the process is distributed (mostly in S3 buckets), and second, because of the long waits while AWS services are triggered and large amounts of data are processed.
In this post, I’ll explain how to make that move, gradually.
Making the move
A single interactive environment is no way to run production systems. At some point, you need to move from the Notebook to that distributed system.
I’d like to give an example of how to break each piece out as you move up the continuum towards a production system. We’ll illustrate with this open-source Notebook. In this article, you can see how to step through it in a Sagemaker Notebook instance — or even more easily, in the new Sagemaker Studio (Console; Docs). For each type of functionality, I pull out a snippet or two of code from the Notebook, then compare it to the distributed system that provides the same functionality inside AWS. In some cases, that Notebook already uses AWS, by invoking Sagemaker for training and deployment; for such cases, I explain how you would step up from simple local execution to the Sagemaker APIs, and beyond to a system orchestrated outside the Notebook.
Getting the data into your system is the first step.
In a Notebook
In a Notebook, you just load a CSV or other file straight into your disk, for processing in memory.
#From the example Notebook with zipfile.ZipFile('bank-additional.zip', 'r') as zip_ref: zip_ref.extractall('.')
With AWS Services
With large-scale projects, local resources in your small Notebook instance would be overwhelmed.
Instead, take the CSV, or other data, and put it in an S3 bucket (Console; Docs) representing the origin of your data. For static data sources, put it straight into S3; for ongoing ingestion of data by streaming, use Kinesis (Console; Docs) to output into S3.
Next is schema identification: You have a large blob of (what looks from the outside like) unstructured data, and you want to be able to query and manipulate it according to its internal structure (generally a tabular row-and-column format).
In a Notebook
In the Notebook, the schema is automatically identified from the CSV header row when it is loaded into a Dataframe.
# From the example Notebook data = pd.read_csv(‘./bank-additional/bank-additional-full.csv’)
With AWS Services
Glue Crawler inserts the schema into the Glue Data Catalog (Console; Docs). In upcoming steps (see below), Athena, Databrew, Quicksight, and other services will be able to treat these S3 objects as structured data.
Exploratory Data Analysis
Next, you discover patterns in the data and transform it to make useful ML input.
In a Notebook
Even in production scenarios, you can accomplish a lot by using a manageably-sized randomly sampled subset of data and exploring it in a Notebook.
With Pandas, for example, you can understand the frequency distributions.
# From the example Notebook for column in data.select_dtypes(include=[‘object’]).columns: display(...)
Visualization makes good use of the human brain’s visual processing centers to highlight patterns. You can visualize the data in a Notebook, creating histograms, heat maps, scatter matrices, etc. using Seaborn and other libraries.
# From the example Notebook for column in data.select_dtypes(exclude=['object']).columns: ... hist = data[[column, 'y']].hist(by='y', bins=30) plt.show()
# From the example Notebook
pd.plotting.scatter_matrix(data, figsize=(12, 12))
With AWS services
For visualization of data, use Quicksight (Console; Docs), directly on top of your Athena queries. These visualizations have the advantage of being easily shareable with other people, for example, business analysts, who can contribute insights.
QuickSight created this histogram automatically when pointed at the age column
In a Notebook
In your Notebook, you use the insights from EDA to transform data into a form usable as input for your training algorithm, using APIs that work with Pandas Dataframes:
- normalization for numerical data
- one-hot encoding for categorical data
# From the example Notebook # Convert categorical variables to sets of indicators # (One-hot) model_data = pd.get_dummies(data)
- arithmetic functions like multiplication and modulus
- dropping columns
# From the example Notebook model_data = model_data.drop([‘duration’, ...], axis=1)
- dropping outliers
- string manipulation
- and more
You then convert the data into a format that allows faster ML, such as Parquet or libsvm.
With AWS Services
Scaling up, AWS gives you several different tools for transformation:
DataBrew (Console; Docs) is a graphical transformation builder — one of the few in my experience that works well. It reads your S3 data, as defined in the Glue Data Catalog. You choose from a selection of transformations like one-hot, normalization, and others that I listed above in the context of Notebooks.
DataBrew generates transformations that run in the Glue framework. As a last step in the transformation, the data can be converted into the desired ML format like Parquet, Avro, CSV, or JSON.
Alternatively, Glue Studio (Console; Docs) gives you a graphical transformation tool —though without DataBrew’s ML-oriented transformations such as one-hot — and you can write your own Python or Scala transformation code to be run in Apache Spark.
You may be running algorithms like XGBoost directly in the memory of your Notebook. This is good for interactive rapid development.
See, for example, this non-Sagemaker local invocation of XGBoost.
# From a Notebook that does not use Sagemaker from xgboost import XGBClassifier # Non-Sagemaker package ... model = XGBClassifier(… ) ... model.fit(...)
As it happens, our sample Notebook is already set up to invoke the Sagemaker SDK (Docs), and if you are not doing that, it is your easy next step. The API here is the same as for other open-source libraries that run the same algorithm — you just need to import a different library.
# Using Sagemaker (from the example Notebook) from sagemaker.estimator import Estimator # Different package ... xgb = Estimator... ... xgb.fit(...) # Same API
The Sagemaker SDK allows both local and remote training: You can train in local mode for fast iteration during development (you may have been doing before), but then, as you scale up, you use the SDK to trigger training on specialized Sagemaker instances (Console; Docs), including powerful features like distributed training on multiple instances.
With the same SDK, you can also call the algorithms with hyperparameter tuning (Docs): The same algorithm is run multiple times, each with a different set of parameters, looking for the parameters that give the same results.
Deployment and Evaluation
If you are training locally, without Sagemaker, then you don’t need to deploy at all: You run inference right inside your memory space. For example, you might evaluate performance by running your inferencing (
predict()) on a hold-out set.
# From a Notebook that does not use Sagemaker y_pred = model.predict(X_test) # XGBClassifier model created above ... pd.crosstab(…) # Evaluate confusion matrix using Pandas
In Sagemaker, you’ll want to deploy to an Endpoint, a set of instances that responds to inference requests (Console), as is done in our sample Notebook.
# Using Sagemaker (from the example Notebook) xgb_predictor = xgb.deploy(…) # Using Estimator created above
For scaling, you can add more inferencing instances, or configure them to autoscale, and you can call on more computing-power-as-a-service with Elastic Inference.
When you redeploy a new version of the model, you compare its performance on a new endpoint, using Sagemaker’s support for A/B testing.
Invoke inference in the endpoint with
predict() , just as in the non-Sagemaker code. You can evaluate results by inferencing on a hold-out set, and then calculating metrics with Pandas and other in-memory APIs.
# Using Sagemaker (from the example Notebook) xgb_predictor.predict(…) pd.crosstab(…) # Evaluate confusion matrix using Pandas
But that’s in a Notebook!
Our goal was to get off the Notebook and into the AWS scalable systems, so you might be wondering why the last few stages were still in a Notebook.
On the one hand, these key steps did in fact invoke Sagemaker distributed APIs, rather than running in-process, so are fully scalable. In a basic workflow, where you occasionally retrain and redeploy the model by hand, they might even be workable for a manual, non-automated system.
On the other hand, in a typical ML production process, new versions of the model must be retrained and redeployed continually, just as you build and test your software with a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline. For this, you define your directed acyclic graph of ML processing steps in JSON, including, for example, data-cleaning, pre-processing, training, deployment, and evaluation APIs. (Here is a useful example for setting up a Pipeline.) You can reuse your existing code as the code in the Notebooks is just Python and can run anywhere, even in a pipeline.
A Notebook is a powerful tool for development, but as you move into production, you will want more powerful infrastructure. This article shows you how to carve pieces out, one by one, even allowing you to continue working with the Notebook while also letting the main system run autonomously.
I hope this post has helped you step up to large production systems.
— — —
P.S. This post is based on my AWS AI/ML Black Belt experience, an advanced certification that goes beyond the test-based AWS Certified ML Specialty. The Black Belt includes an advanced course and a final Capstone project which is the basis for your certification. It’s a great way to build and then show your skills in the areas mentioned above. See a more detailed post about it here. | <urn:uuid:307bb214-197c-4630-ac03-82909f8d4b73> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.doit.com/from-notebook-to-aws/ | 2022-10-05T03:02:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337531.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005011205-20221005041205-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.881935 | 2,667 | [
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Robert A. Jensen is the man you have seen, but never knew it. He is the Chairman of Kenyon International Emergency Services, a company founded in 1906. He has spent a large part of his adult life responding to events such as the Oklahoma City Bombing, the 9/11 Terrorist attacks, the 2003 Bali Bombings, the Bombing of UN Headquarters in Baghdad, Hurricane Katrina, the South Asian Tsunami, the Haitian Earthquake, and the Grenfell Tower Fire, to name a few.
In 1998, after 10 years in the US Army he joined Kenyon, a public company. He became the CEO in 2003 and took the company private in 2007. He has also written two books – one a technical book for planners and practitioners – Mass Fatality and Casualty Incidents and the other, a memoir, Personal Effects: What Caring for the Dead Teaches Me About the Living. He has published pieces in major outlets such as USA Today; and is frequently sought out as a contributor on crisis management and business leadership for national and international media.
Robert approaches speaking as storytelling – transporting the audience to different places, times, and experiences, bringing to life the events he has seen firsthand. He highlights the key lessons he has observed — in leadership, crisis management, and transitioning through life-changing events to a new normal. Robert has spoken to many corporate leaders and business teams, as well as at INTERPOL, World Travel and Tourism Conferences, the International Air Transport Association, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the Royal United Services Institute, and UK Foreign and Commonwealth’s Wilton Park.
Robert has also been a law enforcement officer and firefighter. He grew up on the west coast of the United States, has lived and worked in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He and his husband, Brandon, and their dog adopted dog Stella, now divide their time between Key West and Houston. He loves the water, photography and outdoors.Download Bio
Personal EffectsWhat Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
St. Martin’s Press
The owner of the world’s leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead.
Leadership Leadership is learned; good leadership makes a huge difference in business or government. It is absolutely crucial in change management or responding to a crisis. As a leader, I have to take risks, make decisions often with either too little or too much information, and filter through lots of advice – there are always people happy to give advice, without taking responsibility. My decisions have had major impacts on people, businesses, governments, and communities. I have some hard-won lessons; teaching points learned from the streets, the fields, and the real and often unforgiving world.
Communication For me, figuring out the influence of culture, personal experiences, audience expectations, how to prepare information that will be translated, and most importantly being transparent so words have only one meaning is key. I often deliver really bad news, tell people no, and do not always have the answers. Fear of these things paralyzes organizations, causing disruption and confusion even in the best of times. In a crisis it can be deadly and destroy reputations. I share real-world examples and solutions that really are not that hard to apply.
Business & Management My job has never been to meet the status quo. My job is going into situations that are very bad and stopping them from getting worse. That means managing multiple complex simultaneous operations. It is not only about leadership, but about organizing, motivating and getting people, many of whom have never worked together before, quickly working towards a common goal, focused on the future, not the past. It is providing reassurance to both the people working and the customers. This is how you solve problems, turn businesses around and deliver superior service.
Outside the Box When I go to work, it is because the ordinary systems have failed, often publicly and with disastrous results. We are dealing with challenges and problems that aren’t solved by doing business the way it has always been done. Solutions to competing problems and interests must be found and found quickly. This means looking at the big picture, considering all the alternatives, the work-around solutions, not accepting that it can’t be done or won’t work, but instead being innovative and creative. My life has been “thinking outside the box."
— Rebecca Soffer, coauthor of Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome.
"Gruesome details and corporate indifference abound as Jensen recounts disasters such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the Grenfell Tower fire in London . . . . Readers with a strong stomach will be fascinated by this up-close look at what it means to take charge of the response to an unspeakable tragedy."
— Publishers Weekly
"Robert A. Jensen delivers a powerful and riveting book of the toughest work a kind person can do. I could not stop reading until I finished every word, and then with tears streaming down my face, In the midst of the most horrible tragedies, there is one person you want to be there—Robert A. Jensen."
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Camping in Zion National Park
Exploring Zion National Park is something every out-door enthusiast should put on their bucket list, but we think if you really want to have the full experience you should go camping at one of the many locations the park and surrounding areas offer. Whether you are an avid mountaineer, RV traveler, or strictly into Glamping, Zion has a spot for you. Here is a list of our favorite spots when we are exploring the park.
In The Park:
Did you become an eagle scout at age 13? Maybe you backpacked through Europe in college spending more than one night underneath the stars. If you are experienced and enjoy “roughing it” you will love camping in Zion. The park has three official camp sites inside the park, South Campground, Watchman Campground, and The Lava Point. There are several campgrounds only a short drive from the park if these sites don’t work for your family.
- South Campground:
South Campground is located ½ mile from the South entrance of the park. Campsites cost about $20 and range upwards if it is a large group site. There are over 100 campsites (including a few wheelchair accessible) but they are only available on a first -come first- serve basis. Campsites fill up during the early hours of the day and it has been noted that campers will start coming to claim spots as early as 5:30AM. There are no RV hookups available at this location, so this spot is primarily for tent camping.
- Watchman Campground:
Watchman Campground is located only a short ¼ mile from the South entrance of the park. A great feature of this campground is you are able to reserve a spot in advance online. This site is primarily occupied by reservations from March to November, but with it’s 176 campsites it has been known to accommodate a few last minute travelers. This ground does provide RV hookups but there is limited access so be sure to book early. Campsites here range from $20-$130 depending on how many tent spots you need and if you need electric hookups.
- Lava Point Campground:
The Lava Point Campground is about an hour and twenty minutes from the South entrance of the park and only provides six primitive campsites. These grounds are easier for tent camping but people have been known to take their RV as well. Lava point provides pit toilets but no running water. This is a first-come, first-serve, basis campground but provides a truly spectacular experience of camping in Zion. There is no fee for this campground and it is well secluded from any other campground providing a quite evening in nature.
Outside the Park:
If you are making your first trip to Zion, it may be easier to find a campsite outside the park. There are also several grounds that include running water, showers, and convenient RV hookups just outside the park gates.
- Zion Canyon Campground and RV Resort:
This campground is located just outside the South entrance gates in Springdale, Utah within walking distance to the official Zion National Park visitor center. It is just next door to the Quality Inn (which is under the same management) this means campers can enjoy laundry facilities, pools, and showers. There is specified areas of the campground just for tent campers and spacious areas to park your RV.
- Zion River Resort RV Park and Campground:
Zion River Resort is really popular for RV’s it is about a 20 minute drive from the Park but provides luxurious amenities such as paved parking, fire pits, well maintained landscape and even WIFI! If you don’t want to drive yourself to Zion the site offers shuttles to the park for a nominal fee. This is a great spot for families who aren’t experienced campers.
- BLM Campgrounds:
The Bureau of land management also offers several campgrounds in the Southern Utah area. BLM land can range from manicured campgrounds to back country deserts, where the only noise you will hear is from the wildlife. Most sites on BLM land are free to stay at, or only charge a very small fee for the night. Click Here to see what areas they currently have available.
With any campground you stay at, please be responsible and make sure to clean up for the next person. Check campground rules to determine the best way to handle waste management, and be sure to check for fire restrictions before you camp.
We hope you enjoy your time camping and have an even better time exploring the park. While you are in the area be sure to come ride with us and we will show you some reasons why we believe this corner of the world is worth your time.
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I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV or in the movies. I am, however, someone who can read, look things up, and understand numbers- and when it comes to the dreaded covid, numbers are all important. And, there’s something you need to understand right up front- your doctor isn’t responsible for your health. Your insurance company isn’t responsible for your health. The government- especially the government- not only isn’t responsible for your health but seems these days to be actively working against it. There is one and only one person responsible for your health- you. Awesome responsibility, isn’t it? Doesn’t apply to children- PARENTS, adults, are responsible for their health Not teachers, not school superintendents or school boards, parents or in some cases legal guardians. Now that that rant is over¼
What can you do to reduce your chances of getting gravely ill or dying from the dreaded covid? Well, let’s start with- what can you do you improve your health, period? Mild exercise, even just walking, stop smoking or using illegal drugs, moderate your alcohol use, and if you’re carrying excess weight- LOSE IT! Your doctor, public service announcements, school. Well, virtually everyone, has already told you that. So what else? Ah, now we get into studies and numbers. And proof the government doesn’t care about you. And there are lots of links you can follow and look to see for yourself.
What is your Vitamin D blood level? Odds are, you have no clue. It’s never been measured. When you get a routine physical, you get a CBC and a urine test, and maybe an A1C level. (You SHOULD get that even if the doctor sees no need. He or she may be wrong¼.) But you don’t get a Vitamin D blood level. From the link.
Unfortunately, about 42% of the US population is vitamin D deficient with some populations having even higher levels of deficiency, including premenopausal women, those with poor nutrition habits, people over age 65, Caucasians who avoid even minimal sun exposure, and those who take prescription medication long term for heartburn, acid reflux, and constipation. Studies show people with darker skin, such as African Americans and Latinos, are also at risk for lower vitamin D levels because high amounts of melanin in skin reduce the body’s ability to produce vitamin D from sunlight. In addition, certain chronic conditions—such as celiac disease, bariatric surgery, obesity, and chronic kidney or liver disease—can contribute to deficiency.
42% of the population deficient, and it’s not a routine part of physicals. As I said, and I repeat- only you are responsible for your health. If you live in a free state, you can walk into a lab or pharmacy and order up a test- they’re not that expensive. If you live in a dictatorship like NY, you have to beg your doctor for a test, then visit the doctor again because you’re too ignorant to interpret it on your own. But let’s get to numbers- what is a good number vs a bad number? Some controversy in that¼ Let’s go to the intro page of The Vitamin D Society https://www.vitamindsociety.org/ “The sun is meant to be our main source of vitamin D. Our bodies naturally produce vitamin D from the sun under the right circumstances, such as the time of year or day, amount of clothing or sunscreen we are wearing, and other conditions. Given the chance, the body produces enough vitamin D from sunshine to reach recommended levels of 40-60 ng/ml (100-150 nmol/L).” 40-60 ng/ml- given the chance. Now, from our very own National Institute of Health https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessional/
|Table 1: Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] Concentrations and Health |
|<30||<12||Associated with vitamin D deficiency, which can lead to rickets in infants and children and osteomalacia in adults|
|30 to <50||12 to <20||Generally considered inadequate for bone and overall health in healthy individuals|
|³50||³20||Generally considered adequate for bone and overall health in healthy individuals|
|>125||>50||Linked to potential adverse effects, particularly at >150 nmol/L (>60 ng/mL)|
Wait- what’s this? They say over 50 ng/ml is potentially unhealthy! A few years back, for unexplained reasons, they lowered the level of potential Vitamin D intoxication from 100 ng/ml to 50 ng/ml. The rest of the world hasn’t. At 70 or so, there’s no clear dividing line, some people MAY start to experience signs of Vitamin D intoxication. Surprisingly enough, Vitamin D doesn’t work all by itself. It needs Vitamin K. And- in using Vitamin D, it uses Vitamin K, depleting it. Adding Vitamin K supplements will keep Vitamin D intoxication from showing up at lower levels. Now for some studies of Vitamin D and various things.
From 2015: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/ Adequate levels of Vitamin D is protective against influenza A in nursing home patients. And a quote: “Levels of 25(OH)D are quite low in nursing home residents, and supplementation with 2000 IU of vitamin D can bring levels to normal safely in most patients.” And if you have a loved one in a nursing home, have they ever measured their Vitamin D levels?
Quote: To reduce the risk of infection, it is recommended that people at risk of influenza and/or COVID-19 consider taking 10,000 IU/d of vitamin D3 for a few weeks to rapidly raise 25(OH)D concentrations, followed by 5000 IU/d. The goal should be to raise 25(OH)D concentrations above 40–60 ng/mL (100–150 nmol/L) Wait a moment- that’s higher than 50 ng/ml! Seems the NIH doesn’t agree with itself¼.
February 16, 2017
University of Queen Mary London
Vitamin D supplements protect against acute respiratory infections including colds and flu, according to a study. The study provides the most robust evidence yet that vitamin D has benefits beyond bone and muscle health.
And even tuberculosis from 2010:
So there’s nothing new about lower levels of Vitamin D being bad for all URIs- which includes the dreaded covid. And 42% of the population is Vitamin D deficient. And yet- we’re not measuring Vitamin D blood levels routinely or seeing to it that the Vitamin D deficient get sufficient. Almost as I said before- the government isn’t looking out for your health. Even moreso:
100% of sailors deployed to a war zone had deficient Vitamin D blood levels! They’re still not checking. Admirals should be cashiered for this as they punish people for not masking¼
A study of French submariners- and guess what? When you’re under the ocean for extended periods- you have low Vitamin D blood levels! Actually, they really shouldn’t have needed a study to figure this out.
And remember – the government is actively working against your health- headline: “Tricare Ends Coverage of Routine Vitamin D Screenings”. 42% of the population is deficient¼. Why the end? Another quote: “This policy change was a result of recommendations from several professional medical associations, including USPSTF, the Endocrine Society, the American Society for Clinical Pathology and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which recommend against population level screening.” 42% of the population is low- but why screen? Medical professionals and medical associations do not care about your health! Remember that!\\
Low levels of Vitamin D among sailors, particularly submariners, has been known for a long time. Finding the older studies is the hard part- they’re not all online. But from 2014:
And then 2005:
So submariners are deficient in Vitamin D, have been known to be deficient for a long time- and yet, no admirals are being held accountable for ignoring the health of the men under their command.
So, bottom line, about Vitamin D and covid- you need to know your own Vitamin D blood level and take supplements as needed to get your level up to 40-60 ng/ml, and I’m also going to recommend you take a good Vitamin K supplement with all 3 K varieties.
And studies can be designed to fail There are 2 or 3 I know of that show Vitamin D is absolutely worthless against the dreaded covid. How could this be? Easy. All of them gave a single high dose, 70000-100000 IU D one time, after the patient already had covid, and in one study, were already in the ICU. Uh, the most ardent proponent of Vitamin D supplementation, for example, me, could tell that’s not going to work. Basically, those “studies” were medical research fraud to try and say your only hope is- THE VACCINE! A one time dose, especially when your body is fighting an infection, is going to do nothing for your Vitamin D blood level.
Next up- NAC, aka N-acetylcysteine. Is it an OTC supplement? Yes. Although in their effort to make your health worse the FDA pressured the largest seller- Amazon- to drop it. Reminder- the government is NOT responsible for your health- you are. So is NAC useful against covid? Yes. The NIH says so.
More than once
Lots of other articles. If you or a loved one is in a hospital- they’re not getting it, and the hospital will probably not allow you to bring it in. Because the standard USA treatment is- do nothing and wait to see if the patient lives or dies. Should you take it a prophylactic? Sure- absolutely no reason not to. All the studies I’ve looked at, including the 2 referenced, use 1200 mg a day. Warning- the stuff smells and tastes absolutely foul! If you cannot taste or smell it- you have covid, or some other real problem.
Vitamin C and covid. Should you take it and how much? And for what? Recommendations for Vitamin C are all over the map. I take 5-6 grams a day, 1 gram at a time, at least an hour apart. I’m simply going to recommend the Linus Pauling Institute.
I’m also going to say there are numerous studies showing intravenous Vitamin C is good for all kinds of things in a hospital setting. Likely to include the dreaded covid. You’re not going to get it. IMHO, gross medical malpractice. It should be standard for all IV hookups unless otherwise indicated
Quercetin- another OTC supplement. Yes, it is useful against covid.
Numerous other references online, but the one I found really interesting:
“Tripartite combination of potential pandemic mitigation agents: Vitamin D, Quercetin, and Estradiol manifest properties of candidate medicinal agents for mitigation of the severity of pandemic COVID-19 defined by genomics-guided tracing of SARS-CoV-2 targets in human cells.” Why in the world would anyone have thought of combining those 3? But- it seems to work. Again, in the USA- you’ll get nothing, and be happy with it.
Ever hear of the OTC nasal spray Xlear? It’s on phase 3 studies for use against covid. Apparently, squirting xylitol up your nose kills 95% of covid- and other viruses- it comes in contact with. The antiviral aspects of xylitol are well studied. And, there’s another nasal spray in phase 3 studies- that contains nitric oxide. Same thing. Searching nasal spray and covid comes up with a lot. “New Jersey-based medical devices company Salvacion, in partnership with the National Cancer Institute, is developing a nasal spray technology to prevent Covid-19 infection. The spray, COVIXYL-V, contains the active ingredient ethyl lauroyl arginate hydrochloride (ELAH) and creates a physical barrier that prevents the virus from attaching itself to the surface in the nasopharynx.” Just found this one searching- nasal spray and covid! And another one: “According to Amcyte Pharma, its NasitrolTM nasal spray was shown to be effective in reducing COVID-19 infections among intensive care unit (ICU) staff in an independent clinical trial.
Nasitrol is a patented nasal spray based on iota carrageenan, a sulfate polysaccharide synthesised by red algae, with demonstrated antiviral activity and clinical efficacy as a nasal spray in the treatment of the common cold. A previous study at the US’s University of Tennessee Health Science Center found that the formulation inhibits infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in vitro.” Wow. All kinds of nasal sprays, some recommend one, others another¼. No surprise. By the time you see this, there may be more. Use your favorite search engine- search nasal sprays and covid.
But let’s talk about xylitol for just a moment- and erythritol. Erythritol, another alcohol sugar, or if you prefer, artificial sweetener, also has several studies showing strong antiviral and antibacterial effects. And a very small number of studies find that if you combine them- they work even better! So, a personal recommendation, every night before bed, and every day after breakfast, or upon arising, whichever suits your lifestyle, fill a glass with warm water, and mix in a small amount of both xylitol and erythritol, and rinse your mouth and gargle with it. It will kill off all the viruses in the upper part of your throat. And in your mouth. Your dental tech will be very happy with you on your next visit- mine was. I’m going to skip my normal rant on nasal irrigation- if you’re already doing it- add both to your mix.
Next up- melatonin. That stuff that helps you sleep. Will it help against the dreaded covid. The NIH says- yes. So pop one each night before bed. Also pop a tryptophan. Less anti-covid evidence, but so what? You’re going to sleep better.
Resveratrol- does it help? Apparently, yes. Pretty much the same mechanism as quercetin.
Haven’t mentioned zinc yet. Zinc is needed for proper immune system functioning. From the NIH: “The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for adults is 8 mg/ day for women and 11 mg/day for men.” Many covid sites recommend 40-50 mg/day. I’m skeptical- unless you’re actually sick. Then your body is using up zinc rapidly. My multi has 10 mg zinc. Between that and my red meat consumption, I get enough. You’ll have to make your own judgement. Remember- too much zinc interferes with copper, which you need, and too much copper interferes with zinc. Metals in the body need to be balanced properly. One link for zinc:
The numbers speak for themselves.
Bromelain, a digestive aid, may have some effectiveness against covid. Apparently, a combination of bromelain, quercetin, vitamin C, and zinc is in phase 4 studies. Which means it’s gone through 3 phases and shown some success.
Actually, popping a few multi-enzyme digestive pills after each meal, with bromelain, papaya, and others, certainly isn’t going to hurt. It may or may not aid in fighting covid. It will do some good for your digestive system. So, why not?
Turmeric, circumin. Recommended by many, research says maybe, maybe not. Effects, either good or bad, likely minor from a quick search. If you already use them for seasoning, don’t stop. If you don’t, don’t start- unless you discover you like the flavor they impart.
Will taking all these supplements or using the nasal sprays or doing the gargling or nasal rinsing, will any of them keep you from getting covid? Probably no. But they lessen your chance of getting it, and if you do, they lessen the initial viral load, thus giving your body a better chance to fight off the virus before it sends you to the ICU. And maybe, you just won’t get it. I use many of the supplements. I nasal irrigate daily- with xylitol/erythritol, and gargle daily with it. I’ve met the CDC definition of close exposure to the dreaded covid twice. I haven’t gotten it. How do I know? 7 blood donations with no antibodies detected. They’ve stopped testing, darn it!
One last link for Vitamin D. The evidence continues to pile up:
It’s a study of numbers- since it’s all about numbers. The key takeaway: “ Regression suggested a theoretical point of zero mortality at approximately 50 ng/ml D3.” I do believe they haven’t actually found someone with that level of Vitamin entering the ICU and dying. Or even entering the ICU.
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Definition for the word Vestryman.
- a man who is a member of a church vestry (noun)
Is Vestryman a Valid Scrabble Word?
Yes Vestryman is a valid Scrabble word.
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Healthy food delivery services offer delicious, convenient options perfect for anyone ready to make a few dietary changes — from those looking to try keto or eat gluten-free to those who want to go vegan or cut down on calories. And whether you love to cook or are practically allergic to the kitchen, there’s a service just right for you.
Here are a few to get you — and the new year — started right. And if you’re looking for more ideas, check out our stories on our favorite general meal delivery services, keto-friendly meal delivery services and food delivery services for vegetarians.
Healthy food delivery services if you don’t cook…
Healthy goal: Eat more protein.
What to know: Training for a marathon? Finally committed to making good on cleaning up your diet this year? Tired of trading tasty, nutrient-dense meals for bland or high-calorie ones? We think you’ll fall for this delivery service that offers super-fresh gluten-free, organic, ready-to-eat meals right to your front door each week. Using in-season, locally and sustainably sourced ingredients with no fillers, GMOs, hormones, antibiotics or preservatives, you choose from a rotating menu with clearly marked protein and carbs, with options for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and bulk items. Just refrigerate your goodies upon receipt and pop them into the microwave for a couple minutes when you’re ready to eat. Worried about waste? Fresh n’ Lean’s ClimaCell coolers are made with renewable plant-based materials and can be recycled with the cardboard boxes they come in.
What you get: We focused in on Fresh n’ Lean’s Protein+ plan, which includes high-quality free-range, grass-fed animal protein, organic vegetables and grains that add up to about 1,500 calories per day for three meals. Fill up at breakfast with dishes such as vanilla strawberry chia pudding, sunny-side egg with tomato (simple but yummy and filling with a cage-free egg, potato, onion, tomato and yellow squash) or a cinnamon apple muffin (trust us, you’d never guess it’s gluten-free). Lunch might be cage-free chicken sausage with pesto rice, BBQ chicken with broccoli or tomatillo chicken fajitas with jasmine rice and beans. And on tap for dinner: roasted pepper burger with kale, smoked beef with vegetables and creamy tomato sauce pasta with shrimp all have us dreaming of our next meal.
Other plans: The Performance Paleo and Keto plans are similar to Protein+ but grain- and legume-free, with Keto adding dairy and nutritious fats. The Vegan plan is all about organic vegetables, plant-based proteins and whole grains, and the Low-Carb Vegan plan includes one standard plant-based meal with grains and one without grains per day. Crave a little more? The Bulk plan lets you stock up on items such as Beyond meat patties, quinoa, chicken breast, fish and veggies.
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Startup Founders Share Their Secret Sauce Of Keeping Employees Motivated
The problem of retaining employees has been accentuated due to paucity of funds, thanks to the ongoing funding winter
This is an era of the Great Resignation and 'quite quitting', and so it becomes all the more important for startups to keep their employees motivated. The problem of retaining employees has been accentuated due to paucity of funds, thanks to the ongoing funding winter.
"Even during difficult times, founders need to take the right decisions to make everyone feel connected," said Ruchi Kalra, co-founder, OfBusiness, speaking at the India Internet Day event organized by TiE Delhi NCR on Friday. She added that even if the common goal of the company is stable, even if the path changes in between, employees will remain with the company.
Discussing challenges faced by leaders during turbulent times, founders agreed that it is important to keep the vision intact and take decisions which will make employees feel involved. "Founders should be friendly with employees especially during the earlier days because founders should realize that they need support from the employees who need to believe in the overall vision," said Saahil Goel, co-founder and CEO, Shiprocket, speaking at the same event.
One of the ways, the founders believe, to keep employees connected with the vision of the company is to build a culture wherein everyone is valued. "Laying boundaries and defining a culture is very important to create a great workplace. Every employee should be able to connect with the vision of the company," said Kalra.
And finally, if the employees believe that they are working to build a brand that is adding value to the society, they tend to stick to the company. "One should build a brand which the society can associate with trust. Founders should ask themselves if they are giving a superior experience to customers," said Niraj Singh, founder and CEO, Spinny.
This year companies witnessed mass layoffs. At the onset of these mass layoffs, Entrepreneur India had a word with Amit Ratanpal, founder, BLinC Invest, who shared that the layoffs were as a direct result of startups being unable to follow the anticipated growth strategy that they had in place in 2021. This is a reason why the overall funding scale has changed and the number of investment deals have definitely gone down.
Last year, when investments were at a boom, companies were offering lucrative deals to new joinees, some even put keys to luxury bikes on the offer table. In an earlier interview with Entrepreneur India, Unacademy's co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal said, "Companies have had to take decisions to make their workforces' slighter in order to cut costs."
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The Zambia Primate Project is one of the operations run and sponsored by the Born Free Foundation. Based in the Kafue National Park, the project focuses on the rescue, rehabilitation and reintroduction of Vervet monkeys and Yellow baboons throughout Zambia.
The project is run by Cosmos Mumba, an immensely talented Zambian conservationist (see video below). In 2015 he was nominated for the 2015 African Conservationist of the Year award by the Tusk Trust. Cosmas is a leading light in the conservation of primates and works very closely with Dr Cheryl Mvula from the Born Free Foundation.
They seek to achieve this through education, in-situ work and a welfare programme for those primates in need of intervention and rescue. In August 2016, I was granted the remarkable opportunity to work in-situ at the release site in the Kafue National Park, where the team work closely with Game Rangers International.
I arrived at Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, and was greeted by Cosmos, who was waiting to take me to Lilayi. This is the location of Game Rangers International’s elephant orphanage. The orphanage is now also a refuge for rescued and confiscated pangolins, whose population has dramatically decreased over past years. They are always looking for volunteers and donations, so I would encourage anyone to find out more about there work by clicking here.
Cosmos and I then set off on the 4-hour drive west to Kafue, where I would be staying at the release camp. My eyes were opened to the work and commitment exuded by the team, made up of Cosmos, Mathew, Dalisou and Caribou. They live in camp for most the year.
We visited the release site of a troop of Vervet monkeys who were reintroduced into the wild in February 2016. Each individual monkey has a story to tell, sadly usually of tragedy. They are rescued, rehabilitated and reintroduced back into the wild.
The team can recognise individuals within the troop by name. Immediately I was inspected by the lead males of the troop, grunting and softly barking while they all circled me. Cosmos and his team found this very amusing, as did I; it’s something that must happen to every volunteer. I felt as if the troop were sizing me up and deciding whether or not they liked me.
With introductions out the way, I was allocated Blacky to observe; one of the adult females in our focal studies. This formed the bulk of my job for the month. I would monitor individuals in the troop and note each minute what behaviour they were performing. This meant we could gather enough data to allows us to track individuals progress and identify any health issues.
The process of rehabilitation is often very hands on, as the primates being treated are usually in poor health — both mentally and physically. This, in turn, builds an exceptionally strong bond between the team and the troop.
Although this could lead to problems when it comes to encouraging the troop to evolve and become completely independent; the operation here is conducted to the highest degree of professionalism, and no such issues were evident.
The team’s bond with the Vervets is extremely strong. Cosmos personally views them as his family. This was first demonstrated to me upon my encounter with Mysozyo, who is an adult female.
She was rescued from terrible conditions: chained outside a shop and used as a status symbol.
She was in extremely poor health when Cosmos first met her, and he cared for her through rehabilitation and reintroduction with the troop.
When I first saw her, however, she wasn’t alone. Mysozyo had mated earlier in the year with one of the lead males in the troop and had given birth to a truly “born free” infant, which Cosmos named Ndiase, meaning Gift.
This marked a huge step for the troop as it shows they are capable of wild natural behaviour.
Now that I have returned from my time in Zambia, I have had time to reflect on just how impressive and successful the whole operation is.
I consider myself exceptionally lucky to have had the opportunity to work with the team; as an aspiring conservationist, I feel I have learnt an infinite amount from actually working with the team on the ground, rather than simply learning the theory behind it.
I would encourage anyone to get involved with charitable organisations such as these, whether it be donating your time, or as a beneficiary. It is hugely rewarding, and sadly still very much needed.
My connection with the troop and the team is one that I treasure immensely; it has inspired me to train to run the London Marathon in support of Born Free Foundation later this year — if you’d like, you can sponsor me here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Tom-Hicks3
Finally, to Game Rangers International, Born Free Foundation and the Zambia Primate Project, I can only say thank you for the opportunity. I feel incredibly grateful for the immense benefit I have gained from the experience and education you offered me. I sincerely hope to take you up on the offer to work together again.
If you would like to enquire about the chance to work with the Zambia Primate Project then find them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/ZambiaPrimateProject
Or through the Born Free Foundations website: http://www.bornfree.org.uk/campaigns/primates/campaign-action/zambian-primate-project/
Tom Hicks is a student of Wildlife Conservation a University of the West of England. He is a passionate supporter of Born Free Foundation, having worked with them as part of his work placement in Zambia, detailed here. Tom will also be running the London Marathon in 2017 in support of Born Free Foundation. Tom also volunteers with vEcotourism.org, helping the conservation-themed Virtual Reality company by providing support on Twitter and Facebook. To find out more about Tom’s professional and campaign work, visit: https://twitter.com/ConservationTom/ | <urn:uuid:b91fea0a-0a16-43cc-81fe-e36221f892f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://kateonconservation.com/2017/01/03/volunteering-with-the-zambia-primate-project-guest-post-by-tom-hicks/ | 2022-09-28T11:52:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335254.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220928113848-20220928143848-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.970889 | 1,261 | [
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Ugh I hate the word fleek. But that ass is everything. Those booty shorts are short enough to drive the guys crazy. This booty shorts fad better not go anywhere soon!
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It seems a good time to reflect on recent innovations (and devolutions) and take stock of what the deal is with social design at this moment. Hopefully I will write something of this nature each year for as long as I teach the class. I am only going to get older and more naturally out-of-touch with youth-inspired innovation. This seems a good way to force myself be on the ball with current trends and best practices.
When I look back I know that SpiderWebShow was born of a hunch. I had a sense that there might be a way to gather and collate the disparate strands and to allow meaning to form as a result. I had a feeling that we might be able to tell a story in a new way and to allow that story the space to have ever changing narratives. I wanted to move forward and backwards through the story and to look to its left and its right. Ultimately I hoped we would be able to expose all the story making elements.
The original goal of the SWS was to build a "National Theatre" that made sense for the Internet age. Reading the original proposal, I felt that it was going to be actually very difficult to separate the project's artistic goals from their technical realization. Which is why I kind of asserted myself a bit more and said that not only was I going to write some code, but I had to have some sort of advisory role, helping the creators see the technical limits, but also the technical possibilities. | <urn:uuid:b68027a0-08ff-4a22-9d3f-5a95be0580b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://spiderwebshow.ca/category/cdntimes/volume-4/v4-e1/ | 2022-10-01T04:20:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335530.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001035148-20221001065148-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.985294 | 301 | [
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Keto Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies with a Powdered Sugar Drizzle
📷 & Recipe
An EASY variation!
Make Keto Candy Girl Lemon Cookie Mix according to directions but add a tablespoon or two of poppy seeds.
To make the DRIZZLE:
Mix your favorite powdered sugar substitute with some vanilla extract and heavy cream until desired consistency. drizzle over cooled cookies.
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Windows 8 and its emphasis on touchscreens has shaken up the laptop market, with hybrids and convertibles now as commonplace as ultrabooks and traditional notebooks. The Toshiba Satellite W30t-A-101 is the latest hybrid machine to arrive at the TechRadar Lab, and it uses an unusual design.
Rather than using the kind of 180° hinge that Lenovo has employed on various Yoga devices or opt for a Sony-style sliding mechanism, Toshiba has gone down the detachable route: the screen can be attached to the base and used as a standard laptop, or removed entirely and function as a tablet.
Toshiba has outfitted the W30t with an Intel Haswell Core i3 processor which comes with one of Intel's new integrated graphics cores, and there's also a 12.5in IPS display, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard disk. In an unusual move, Toshiba has crammed the components behind the screen, along with the W30t's primary battery – the base only houses the keyboard, some ports and a secondary power pack. No other machine mentioned here has this feature.
If the model we've reviewed here is a little too expensive, then Toshiba has one other model available. It's the W30t-A-100, and it shares its screen and chassis with the system we've reviewed here. The big difference comes under the hood, where Toshiba has fitted AMD hardware. The A4-1200 is a modest mobile processor with two cores clocked to 1GHz, and it's got Radeon HD 8180 graphics.
While that's enough to run Windows, it won't be able to match the Haswell hardware inside our review sample in either applications or games – but, on the plus side, its price is significantly cheaper.
It's vital for any type of laptop to have a good screen, which is why Toshiba has installed an IPS panel inside the W30t. That's usually a guarantee of quality – almost all top laptops include this type of panel – but elsewhere the Toshiba's panel gives away the W30t's mid-range status. Its 1,366 x 768 resolution, for instance, matches the resolution of the Lenovo Yoga 11S and the Asus Transformer Book T100, but it can't compete with the pixels offered by the Full HD panels on the Sony VAIO Duo 13 and the Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga.
Power is provided by Intel's Core i3-4020Y. It's designated as a mid-range chip, and it uses the latest Haswell architecture, but the 'Y' suffix is important – it means this is an ultra-low-power part. That means a modest clock speed of 1.5GHz, no Turbo Boost, and only two Hyper-Threaded cores.
The integrated graphics chip has been cut back, too: rather than the HD Graphics 4600 GPU included on full-fat Haswell chips, the Toshiba's processor has HD Graphics 4200. Both cores have 20 stream processors, but the difference comes in clock speeds – HD Graphics 4600 hits a maximum of 1,350MHz, depending on the processor, but HD Graphics 4200 is reined in to 850MHz.
It's not all bad news, though: this ultra-low-power part has a TDP of just 11.5W, which is the lowest of any Haswell chip – and should help ensure lengthy battery life.
The rest of the specification matches up with our mid-range expectations, with 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard disk. The latter component provides plenty of space, but other machines have more impressive storage: every other machine we've mentioned in this review has an SSD.
The Toshiba's Intel-made wireless chip is dual-band, and there's Bluetooth 4.0, but there's no Gigabit Ethernet on-board or in an adapter. The port selection is found wanting elsewhere, too; there's only one USB 3 port, on the base. Elsewhere, there's a micro-USB port, microSD card slot, micro-HDMI connector and a headphone jack.
It's all wrapped up inside a chassis that's finished with silver brushed aluminium and black plastic and, while the Toshiba looks good, it doesn't quite have the impact of the super-slim Sony VAIO Duo 13 or the bright orange Lenovo Yoga 11S.
Part of that's because the Toshiba isn't quite as smart, but part of it comes down to the dimensions: the Satellite is 25mm thick and weighs 2.1kg. Sony's machine, meanwhile, is almost a kilo lighter and is 22mm thick, while the Lenovo Yoga 11S weighs in at 1.4kg and just 18mm. | <urn:uuid:e7687e42-d4b3-4197-b8d5-890b5298622a> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/tablets/toshiba-satellite-w30t-1178506/review | 2022-10-02T13:29:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337322.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20221002115028-20221002145028-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.942056 | 982 | [
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Though it was, admittedly, many years ago, I recall vividly the very first seminar I attended as a Freshman in college. This was a real seminar, where the students were expected to carry the ball; not a “seminar” where students sat and listened to an “expert” talk at them. We had been reading Homer’s Illiad and about midway through the two-hour seminar I made what I thought was a salient point about the reasons Hector dragged Achilles’ body three times around Troy after killing him. Almost immediately another student looked at me and asked “why?” I was stunned. I thought the point was obvious. Why should I have to give reasons for what otherwise was as obvious as the proverbial nose on your face?
My blogging buddy Keith recently mentioned that his daughter, a college Freshman, was praised by her professor for writing a paper in his class in which she took exception to what the author had said. She was praised because she was one of the few students who disagreed with what she was reading and being told. She had asked herself the question: “why?” She was praised because she was one of the few who had done so.
Little kids ask the question “why? repeatedly out of their natural curiosity. Their fathers and mothers answer until they are finally forced to say “because I said so.” Perhaps this stops the question, but not for long. The child soon begins again: “Why Daddy?” “Why Mommy?” Eventually they stop asking the question. And the schools rarely encourage students to ask the question, so the kids stop asking questions and increasingly believe what they are told — even by chronic liars who couldn’t tell a fact if it came up and bit them in the butt.
Why is this? I never stopped asking this question after that first seminar. In fact, we had four years of seminars twice a week in which students were constantly asking the “why question.” It led me to philosophy where I have continued to ask the question ever since. Indeed, I wrote an ethics book that centers on the question “why?” in an attempt to encourage the students to ask that question at every turn — just as they did as little children. The “why question” requires that reasons be given for claims being made. One doesn’t simply accept as fact the things people say or write. One demands evidence and argument support — even in ethics, where we too frequently dismiss complex issues with the lazy response “who’s to say?”
Complex issues demand thought and the refusal to stop asking the why question until we have reached a point where the answer seems to be staring us in the face. When the weight of the evidence seems to have provided the answer, it is time to stop (subject to further review). But we never know when we have reached that point until we have examined the issue from both sides and have eliminated all possibilities. It is an exhausting process, but it is what makes us think when we might otherwise allow our mental faculties to sleep and simply accept as true a claim that is blatantly false. You know, the kinds of things that certain politicians say all the time.
There has never been a better time than the present to ask the “why question,” and we should not stop until it seems pointless to ask it any more. And that point cannot be reached without persistence and determination to know what is true and separate the true from the false, the absurd from the plausible, the reasonable from the unreasonable. We will never know where that point is until we have reached it. And it is best to have someone asking it with us, because two heads really are better than one — as I learned lo those many years ago in that seminar. | <urn:uuid:02e6c6a4-8482-44ad-8c3b-ede031ae6c2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://hughcurtler.com/2016/05/16/why/ | 2022-10-03T20:43:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337432.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20221003200326-20221003230326-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.990799 | 792 | [
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These are the 3 words that our current Hair&Art artist would use to describe her work currently on display here in Kaizo. We thought there would be no better way to introduce you to Vicky Scott than through her own words. Read on to discover why an email from Paperchase was so important and where the characters in her work get their hair inspiration from!
When did you first realise you wanted to be an artist? I think I always wanted to be an artist! Probably from around the age of 5 I was going round saying that’s what I’d be when I grew up and it never really changed!
What’s been your most life-changing career experience to date? I think getting an email from Paperchase asking me to design some Christmas cards made me feel like I was being taken seriously and I was a real illustrator. It was my first commission too so gave me a big confidence boost too!
If you could be any other artist for a day who would you be? Really hard to choose I like so many artists work. I would have loved to be an artist working in the 60’s tho (so I could design record covers!) and Peter Max is one of my favourites.
What’s the best thing about displaying your work here in Kaizo? The fantastic location right in Old St and the huge glass window so that everyone who walks past can see the work.
Your characters always have amazing hair styles. Where do you get the inspiration from? A mixture of all era’s really, Marie Antoinette, photos from the 60’s and fashion illustrations from the 20’s
Have you ever had any hairstyles that you regret? My hair has been virtually unchanged since I was a small child (brown bob with a fringe) so no! I regret not having any regrettable hairstyles though!
If I were a hairdresser I would… produce some very wonky haircuts! My haircutting skills are not that impressive.
There are so many great places to hang out in East London. Where’s your favourite place to eat or drink? I really like the electricity showrooms just across the road from the salon, love the eccentric décor, with old sewing machines as tables and the peacock made from lightbulbs. I like Broadway market too with all its one off shops, pubs and a London fields lido at the end of it.
Tell us something not a lot of people know about you… I am rubbish at giving or receiving directions. I can get around by memory and landmarks but will never be able to explain where somewhere is, so have spent a lot of time lost in East London!
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The Andretti Formula E team has entered into partnership with Amlin for the second season of the FIA Formula E Championship.
Amlin, formerly with Aguri, has now shifted teams. TE Connectivity, which ran on the Andretti FE cars at the London season finale earlier this summer, has also taken on a greater sponsorship role.
Drivers are yet to be revealed, but are expected to include two of the drivers who competed for Andretti FE in the inaugural 2014-2015 season.
The full release confirming both the Amlin and TE Connectivity components is below:
Andretti Formula E has announced today that the racing outfit has partnered with UK-based, global insurance and reinsurance provider to return Amlin to the FIA Formula E Championship for a second season of competition and beyond.
“I couldn’t be more excited about Andretti Formula E’s season two plans,” said team owner Michael Andretti. “Amlin has done a great job building their brand across various platforms, and has shown a passion for motorsport; we look forward to what the new relationship can bring.”
With global headquarters in London, Amlin’s multi-year alignment as the primary sponsor for Andretti Formula E seeks to push the boundaries in motorsport; calling on both companies’ shared common values of integrity and professionalism.
Amlin CEO Charles Philipps said, “Amlin and Andretti were quick to spot the potential of Formula E. Both organizations are data driven and tech-focused, meaning there is much to look forward to over the coming seasons. Amlin’s global strength in data analysis and our long-term view of business means fits well with this series and combined with Andretti’s excellent motorsport pedigree means we are looking forward to a fantastic few years.”
A natural fit, the relationship between Amlin and Andretti goes beyond a sponsorship agreement. Uniquely in the racing series, experts from Amlin’s insurance modelling and analytics team will be working with the Andretti Formula E race engineers to develop an in-depth understanding of what the capabilities of the new Andretti ATEC-01 car and how the team can maximize performance in the first season of allowed opportunity in open technology development amongst the teams and new eMotor manufacturers.
Official pre-season testing goes green August 10 with six official series test days prior to the Championship’s 2015/2016 launch. The second season of the FIA Formula E Championship begins in Beijing on October 17, 2015 and runs through to the season finale double-header in London, for a total of 11 rounds of electrifying competition. For more information, visit AndrettiAutosport.com or Amlin-AndrettiFE.com.
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Prudential Financial is expanding its reach into Africa with the launch of a $350m investment fund in partnership with private equity group LeapFrog Investments.
LeapFrog will manage the fund in a separate vehicle and will target investments in life insurance companies in leading economies on the continent, including Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, over a three- to five-year period.
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Are you a history buff or want to world-school on your trip to Oahu? Check out these incredible Pearl Harbor private tours for the ultimate Oahu experience. Scroll for the full list!
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One of the most popular things to do on Oahu is visit Pearl Harbor.
If you’re a history lover, you’ve probably learned a lot about the attack on Pearl Harbor that occurred on December 7th in 1941.
On that fateful day, the Japanese attacked American military members at the naval base in Pearl Harbor. This caused the death of more than 2,400 people.
After learning about the attack and how everything happened, you may want to experience the area for yourself while learning more about its lengthy history.
Or maybe you have a friend or family member with a Pearl Harbor connection and want to learn more for personal reasons.
Sometimes researching Pearl Harbor tours can be overwhelming. That’s why I pulled together this list of private Pearl Harbor tours. These are awesome for asking a lot of questions and hear all kinds of stories about Pearl Harbor and World War II.
Click HERE for the top rated private Pearl Harbor tour.
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Pearl Harbor Oahu FAQs
The top four things to do at Pearl Harbor are: The USS Arizona Memorial, USS Battleship Missouri, the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, and the USS Bowfin Submarine and Park.
Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial are free to enter. However, you’ll need to get a ferry ticket for the USS Arizona Memorial. You can either get one of the free tickets they distribute first thing in the morning or you can reserve online HERE. You’ll need to pay entrance fees for the USS Battleship Missouri, Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, and the USS Bowfin Submarine.
7 Amazing Pearl Harbor Private Tours
One of the best ways to really understand Pearl Harbor is through a private tour. These guided tours provide tourists with valuable information while allowing them to experience the area, take photos, and ask questions about Pearl Harbor.
If you’d prefer a private tour that gives you and your loved ones more time to talk with the guided tours who have plenty of knowledge to share, consider booking one or more of the private tours of Pearl Harbor listed below.
Spend half your day on an enjoyable Pearl Harbor and Honolulu Landmarks Tour. During the tour, you’ll get to see the USS Arizona Memorial. You can head over to the visitor center and watch a short film on Pearl Harbor. Plus, you can ride along the harbor in a US Navy vessel.
Private transportation is available for you and your group, whether you’re traveling with family or friends. Check latest rates and more information.
You can expect a professional guide to take you around Pearl Harbor and Honolulu to see famous landmarks and talk to you about each one.
It will be an educational experience for you while taking photos of some of the stunning landmarks in the area.
Snacks and bottled water are available to guests to keep them hydrated and full throughout the duration of the trip. Feel free to ask your guide for tips and suggestions on other great places to visit during your stay on the island.
Make your reservations on this convenient and enjoyable Private Pearl Harbor and Honolulu City Tour. One thing you may notice on your trip is that people want to see the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.
Because it’s such a coveted spot for tourists, the line forms early in the morning, and most people need to get there as early as possible to get a good place in line. However, if you book this tour, you’ll get to skip the line. Check latest rates and more information.
Not only will you get the perfect opportunity to see the USS Arizona Memorial, but your tour guide will take you on a trip to the downtown area of Honolulu. You can expect to see beautiful things while on the excursion, such as the Iolani Palace.
If you decide to take this tour, your guide can pick you and your group up at the hotel and drop everyone back off at the end of the day. This makes things even more convenient for everyone.
You’ll get a chance to try locally-grown fruit while also enjoying snacks and beverages provided by your tour guide.
A maximum of 14 people can go on this tour. This makes it an excellent choice for a family or group of friends who’d like to explore Honolulu together.
The best thing about this tour is that you’ll get to decide where you want to go. While most tours already have the itinerary planned out for guests to follow, this tour allows you to determine where you’d like to go next. Check latest rates and more information.
The tour lasts for eight hours. And it consists of all the fun and exciting things you’re interested in doing and seeing while you’re there. During your tour, you’ll get to visit historical spots, including the USS Arizona Memorial.
If you’re unsure where to go next, the tour guide will provide you with plenty of suggestions for you to choose from, making this a customizable experience. This is one of the best best Pearl Harbor tours.
Enjoy a high-end tour tailored to your needs with this Private Half-Day Guided Tour in Pearl Harbor and Honolulu. You can check out the visitor center in Pearl Harbor to learn more about the attack and the soldiers who lost their lives fighting.
This private Pearl Harbor tour is geared for families who primarily want to see the USS Arizona Memorial and don’t have time/interest in seeing the other Pearl Harbor Historic Sites. Check latest rates and more information.
You can ride on a ferry to get to the USS Arizona Memorial, experiencing the beautiful ocean while you’re on your way to this popular spot in the area.
Plus, you’ll also get to take a tour of the Punchbowl Cemetery. Choose some of the monuments you’d like to see and places you’d like to visit, and your tour guide will make sure you get there with ease.
Tour a meaningful piece of history with one of the most popular things to do in Hawaii, visiting Pearl Harbor. And this private Pearl Harbor tour comes with free transportation from Waikiki. Or you can add transportation from other parts of the island for an added fee.
With this guided tour, you can experience this historic expedition at your own pace without feeling rushed or stressed about time and spend as much time exploring Pearl Harbor as you want! Check latest rates and more information.
After visiting the USS Arizona Memorial, you can choose to explore the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, the USS Battleship Missouri, the USS Bowfin Submarine, or take a tour around Honolulu. This is an excellent option for anyone who wants their family members to see sights on vacation too.
Take advantage of a half-day or full-day package so that you have enough time around Honolulu’s best spots before heading back home. This is one of the best Pearl Harbor tours from Waikiki.
If you are on a Hawaii honeymoon or a luxury Oahu vacation, this is an awesome private Pearl Harbor tour worth booking.
Basically, you’ll get picked up in private car or limousine and head straight to Pearl Harbor to pay your respects at the USS Arizona Memorial. Check latest rates and more information.
From there, you’ll hop back in the car and drive up to the North Shore where you can choose to explore Dole Plantation, historic Haleiwa Town, or watch surfing at Sunset Beach. Another option is to do a full circle island tour.
This is a fun option if you are just island hopping to Oahu for the day or need a cruise shore excursion.
If you are heading to Oahu with a group (like a bunch of extended family, work colleagues, wedding guests, or school group), you might consider booking this Royal Star Private Tour. They have private tours available for groups of 10, 30, or even 50 passengers.
On this tour, you’ll get to visit Pearl Harbor and explore the moving history of WWII. You will be given a reserved ticket for the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. Check latest rates and more information.
Your driver will provide additional commentary about Hawaii’s involvement during WWII. Royal Star Tours is committed to making your experience unforgettable by providing friendly service from start until finish.
You’ll also drive past historic Hawaii sites like Iolani Palace, King Kamehameha statue, and Chinatown.
Something important to know about this tour is that they do NOT provide the USS Arizona Memorial ticket. You’ll need to reserve those HERE. You’re basically paying for private transportation and a Honolulu city tour.
Pearl Harbor Small Group Tours
If you’re debating between a private Pearl Harbor tour and a small group Pearl Harbor tour, here are a few options to think about. Small group tours tend to be less expensive than private tours, but you might have strangers in your group.
Get picked up at your hotel for a lengthy Pearl Harbor City Tour. You’ll get to spend the day with less than 25 people while traveling through the city and checking out different military memorial sites.
The guides will provide educational narration throughout the trip. And they will make sure you understand the history of Pearl Harbor and how the events happened.
You don’t have to worry about feeling hot or uncomfortable on this tour. Guests get to ride around on an air-conditioned minibus. Check latest rates and more information.
The tour begins in the morning where you meet your guide. Then, head off on the journey, starting with a trip to the National Memorial Cemetery. This Hawaii cemetery is a place to pay respect to those who fought for the country.
It’s an eye-opening experience and a fantastic way to get the day started by learning about Pearl Harbor.
Once you’ve stopped by the National Memorial Cemetery, you and your loved ones can head to downtown Honolulu to visit churches and other important buildings. You can spend the day learning and exploring the city before getting dropped back off at the hotel.
If you want to visit memorial sites on Pearl Harbor, take the Salute to Pearl Harbor Tour. The tour lasts for four hours and is a fun yet educational experience appropriate for people of all ages. There are a maximum of 12 people on this Pearl Harbor tour.
You’ll get to ride in a minivan that picks you up from your hotel. Once you’re on the minibus with your loved ones, you’ll get to head over to several local hot spots. This includes the USS Arizona Memorial and Pacific National Monument. Check latest rates and more information.
Your guide will provide you with detailed information on the history of these monuments, including what they stand for and why people come to see them.
Hear some of the most remarkable stories about the island with your tour guide, who is happy to answer any questions you might have on your journey.
Pearl Harbor Tours for Large Groups
Just in case you want to compare prices or experiences between private groups and the regular group tours of Pearl Harbor, I’m listing some popular tours at Pearl Harbor.
If learning more about World War II is on the agenda, this Pearl Harbor WWII Heroes Adventure Tour is a must. The full-day tour typically lasts for about nine hours, giving you plenty of time to learn and explore. This tour holds up to 56 people.
You’ll get picked up at your hotel and conveniently dropped back off at the end of the day. Expect to visit the USS Missouri while learning about Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Check latest rates and more information.
Not only do you get to see these stunning sights, but you actually have the chance to get on them!
And don’t hesitate to step foot on the USS Bowfin. You’ll learn about the critical role it played in the war many years ago. The tour guide will provide you with in-depth information on each spot you visit, ensuring you know what these places are known for and why.
Never forget what happened in Pearl Harbor when taking the Pearl Harbor Remembered Tour. The average tour lasts for seven hours, providing guests with many opportunities to experience the area’s history for themselves. This tour has a maximum of 60 guests.
During this tour, you’ll see the USS Arizona Memorial, along with the USS Missouri and Pacific National Monument. Check latest rates and more information.
Besides visiting these monuments and experiencing them firsthand, you can learn more about Hawaii’s history, tour the downtown area of Honolulu, and stop by the most popular places in Oahu.
Expect to have a memorable time with a considerate tour guide who will get you from one destination to the next while talking to you about the beautiful island. It’s an experience you won’t forget.
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Aira (pronounced “EYE-rah”) has made quite a debut on the access technology scene recently. It has impressed the likes of CSUN2017, Assistive Media, Inc., and won “Best in Show” honors at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. I learned about Aira at this year’s American Foundation for the Blind Leadership Conference, and it wowed me too!
What Is Aira?
Aira calls itself a “visual interpreter for the blind,” enabling users to explore the world in augmented ways using an eclectic and robust collection of technologies and services. It combines wearable smart glasses with an embedded video camera paired with a smartphone, a portable WiFi hotspot, and a network of live certified agents who assist the user remotely in real-time. The trained agents see the world through the smart glass worn by the customer and describe the view. They respond to requests for information from the user, working at a specially-designed dashboard that efficiently connects to information via the video camera, GPS, and other sources of data. The result is an augmented reality experience in which users can access helpful information in a friendly, efficient manner to improve their mobility and independence.
How Can Aira Help?
Paul Schroeder, an Aira team member, states, “It is more than a navigation tool; it is an ‘information service’ at its heart.” Customers may use Aira to travel independently while learning about their surroundings. The agent can give detailed descriptions of buildings, landscapes, and people in the environment. If a customer wants to know more about the restaurant he/she is headed to for lunch, the agent can quickly access a Yelp review. Aira agents can read print like menus, business cards, signs and handwritten notes through the smart glass video camera. They can even take photos for the user and email them. Aira can help with tasks like shopping, homework, or to learn a new skill like origami. Erich Manser, who is legally blind from retinitis pigmentosa, recently ran the Boston marathon assisted by Aira. The possibilities are endless, and customers are discovering innovative ways to apply the Aira service daily.
What Does Aira Cost?
Currently, customers pay a monthly subscription for the service plan of their choice, and there is no contract or other fees. All plans include:
- Lightweight, stylish smart glasses
- Data (via AT&T Mifi)
- Roll over of unused minutes
- Insurance for hardware
- Training Session
- 7 a.m. – 7 p.m., Seven days a week access to agents
Four Plans Available
Each plan comes with bonus minutes for a three-month trial period. The service can be changed or canceled at any time.
- BASIC $89 – 200 Three-Month Intro Minutes/ 100 Regular Minutes
- PLUS $129 – 400 Three-Month Intro Minutes/200 Regular Minutes
- PRO $199 – Unlimited Three-Month Intro Minutes/ 400 Regular Minutes
- PREMIUM $329 – Unlimited Three-Month Intro Minutes/ Unlimited Regular Minutes
More About the Agents
Live agents are the cornerstone of Aira, and they are internally trained and vetted. Through extensive interactions with the blind community and blindness professionals like Orientation and Mobility instructors and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists, they learn what customers need and want. The service is personalized as agents learn preferences and create a profile on each user. Agents are trained in the terminology and etiquette of blindness to communicate effectively with users. They multi-task, read maps, and articulate information clearly.
It is a challenging job that requires managing a complex platform and busy screen while the customer asks questions. At the same time, agents are doing Internet searches and delivering detailed information. It is important to note that Aira agents do not provide opinions nor make decisions on safety issues; they are never to be substituted for a customer’s own travel skills and judgement. In fact, Mr. Schroeder remarked “the better travel skills you have, the better you will be able to use Aira.”
Aira Now Hiring
Aira is looking for exceptional people who are interested in becoming a part of this exciting team. They are now hiring agents, engineers, and more. They offer competitive compensation and benefits packages as well as an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on others’ lives.
How Aira Plans to Expand
Aira continues to evolve and improve its platform, services, and equipment. It is currently working on developing its own version of smart glasses with integrated video, audio, and WiFi for a more streamlined design. Artificial intelligence will play a larger role in services as the product is scaled though it will not replace live agents. There is discussion about hiring agents with specialized skills and expertise to assist users with unique tasks, and Aira will continuously add existing technologies and services like Uber, which has joined the cadre.
AT&T manages the live streaming data and video feed the agents receive on their dashboards. It has given this data stream priority to decrease hiccups and delays ensuring efficient operation of the service. The National Federation of the Blind and the American Foundation for the Blind have been staunch supporters throughout the development of Aira. Kirk Adams, CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind says:
“Whether the task at hand requires operating a sophisticated console or safely navigating a sprawling airport, it’s clear that Aira’s new technology represents a quantum leap in independence and accessibility for those with visual impairments.”
He believes Aira can “widen opportunities for employment, education, and enhanced quality of life.”
What Do Users Think?
First users of Aira say it “redefines freedom” and “it gives them information about things they never knew existed.” Eric Duffy wrote in the April 2017 issue of the Braille Monitor:
“Aira provides sight assistance only when you request it. It is available when you need it, and there is no waiting until later when it is more convenient for someone to provide the visual information you have requested. Aira has not made me more dependent on sight; rather, it has changed the way I do some things. As far as I am concerned, this is a change for the better.”
What Do You Think?
Aira has the potential to make you more efficient and confident as a person with blindness. How do you imagine using this cutting-edge technology in your daily life? How could Aira enrich your experiences? Visit the Aira website to learn more and to check out a video demonstration of Aira. Follow Aira on Facebook for its latest news, and check out Aira on YouTube. | <urn:uuid:439e6499-b9f0-492c-adfb-e8c652ceef73> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://visionaware.org/blog/visionaware-blog/aira-a-new-and-exciting-access-service-for-people-who-are-blind-and-visually-impaired/ | 2022-10-07T21:43:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030338280.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20221007210452-20221008000452-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.928678 | 1,391 | [
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U.S. unemployment falls
WASHINGTON (AP) – United States employers added 248 000 jobs in September, a burst of hiring that helped drive down the unemployment rate to 5.9 per cent, the lowest since July 2008.
The Labour Department report today also showed that employers added a combined 69 000 more jobs in July and August than the government had previously estimated. The unemployment rate fell from 6.1 per cent in August and is now close to 5.5 per cent, which many economists consider a healthy level.
The lower rate, combined with the surge in hiring, could ratchet up pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark interest rate earlier than expected. Most economists have predicted that the Fed would start raising rates in mid-2015.
The improved figures come after President Barack Obama touted his administration’s economic achievements in a speech yesterday. The economy is the top issue in voters’ minds as the November elections near.
The number of unemployed fell in September by 329 000 to 9.3 million. Most of them found jobs. But nearly 100 000 stopped looking for work. Their exodus lowered the percentage of Americans working or looking for work to 62.7 per cent, the lowest proportion since February 1978.
The job gains were broad-based and included many higher-paying industries. Professional and business services – which includes engineers, accountants and architects – added 81 000 jobs, the most in seven months. Construction companies added 16 000 jobs; manufacturing 4 000.
Today’s report will likely intensify debate among Fed policymakers over how close the job market is to full health. Fed Chair Janet Yellen has said she is tracking many other gauges besides the unemployment rate, most of which still show scars from the Great Recession.
For example, there were 7.1 million people working part-time jobs last month even though they would prefer full-time work. That figure is up from just 4.6 million before the recession.
And there are 3 million people who have been out of work for more than six months. That figure has declined steadily in the past three years but is still more than double its precession total. | <urn:uuid:b63660c8-332c-455b-a4c2-7c63116a8a5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.nationnews.com/2014/10/03/u-s-unemployment-falls/ | 2022-10-07T22:19:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030338280.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20221007210452-20221008000452-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.978387 | 437 | [
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There's a lot to like about V
, an exceptionally well-made series combining science fiction, action-adventure, and personal drama (and debuting here on DVD with all 12 first-season episodes on three discs). From the moment 29 enormous spaceships appear over an equal number of major cities (the principal action takes place in New York and aboard the mother ship that hovers over it), nothing will ever be the same. But the Visitors, commonly known as Vs, "are of peace"--or so says Anna (Morena Baccarin), their young, beautiful, preternaturally serene leader (the Vs look human, but as we soon discover, their appearance is only one part of them that isn't what it seems). Folks around the globe are smitten as the Vs perform Christ-like medical miracles and use their awesome technology and messianic powers of persuasion to wow the Earthlings--especially a smarmy, headline-hugging TV "journalist" (Scott Wolf) who becomes their willing mouthpiece, helping the Vs seduce the entire global population… almost. Of course, there are some who know better, specifically the "Fifth Column," a resistance group comprised of humans (with Elizabeth Mitchell as an FBI agent whose son is in thrall to the aliens) and a few "traitor" Vs who've lived on Earth for years (including Morris Chestnut as a V whose human girlfriend is pregnant). They know what the Visitors' real agenda is--and that dirty deeds like establishing terror cells and surreptitiously injecting drugs into humans are only the beginning.
All of this is offered in a very slick, entertaining package; the plotting is clever and just unpredictable enough, the effects work is outstanding (especially good is a technique whereby Vs on their mother ship are rendered like video game characters), and while V is hardly what you'd call profound, it does touch on some interesting ideas (such as the role of emotions, of which the Vs have none, or the danger of putting one's faith in false gods). That will help viewers overlook some of the show's more dubious elements. For instance, the utter gullibility of the vast majority of humans in the face of the aliens' transparent duplicity is preposterous, even by sci-fi standards; by the same token, it's hard to swallow that the Fifth Column, which seems to consist of about four people, could possibly pose a threat to the omnipotent Visitors. Still, by the time it reaches its season-ending cliffhanger, V has given us more than enough reasons to tune in again next year. --Sam Graham
The Visitors are among us. In a single shared moment, they appear in every major city in the world, promoting a message of peace. They want to share their knowledge of technology; they want us to unite. And they are counting on a very important component of human nature: devotion. At first considered a threat, the Visitors -- or V's -- quickly become a fascination. But when FBI Counter Terrorist Agent Erica Evans discovers what lurks beneath the alarmingly human exterior of the V's, resisting this new world has never been more important -- and never has there been more at stake. It truly is the dawning of a new day. | <urn:uuid:6e2ec096-69fd-49d5-81e0-2a8a1183359d> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.amazon.ca/Complete-First-Season-Sous-titres-fran%C3%A7ais/dp/B002U0KHME | 2014-04-16T09:43:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609521558.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005201-00015-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955276 | 669 | [
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Watch: Michael Phillips Describes His Holistic Orcharding Approach
Posted By admin On May 18, 2012 @ 8:59 am In Garden & Agriculture | Comments Disabled
If you’re just starting out with growing fruit trees, you’ll want to get the best advice possible early on, to avoid traumatizing your trees or making easy mistakes that can cause you a headache later on.
The following videos show Michael Phillips, author of The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way and The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist , in his Lost Nation Orchard in northern New Hampshire. Michael shares with us his growing philosophy and his holistic approach to orchard management.
Taking a whole-systems approach helps Michael produce some of the most delicious fruit around. His techniques include using herb teas to nourish the trees, boosting silica in his plants to ward off disease, and taking the utmost care in balancing the health and nutrition of his orchard’s soil. Michael currently grows 60-80 varieties of apples, including several heirloom varieties.
Have a look at the videos below to learn more.
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The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way: http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/the_holistic_orchard:paperback#
The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist: http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/the_apple_grower:paperback
Lost Nation Orchard – the Holistic Approach: http://vimeo.com/17762927
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Lost Nation Orchard – Groveton, NH: http://vimeo.com/16406145
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HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. -- In the next four to six weeks, the director of Orange County Emergency Management Services and others will conduct an assessment of the Orange County Rescue Squad to determine whether the volunteer agency will be able to continue to assist other local fire departments and emergency medical personnel.
For the time being, however, Col. Frank Montes de Oca, who began working as the new director of the Orange County Emergency Management Services three months ago, has put the rescue squad on stand down because of reports that members of the squad have sometimes been careless and reckless at accident scenes.
"I heard some pretty disturbing stories, about lack of safety, lack of professionalism and strange behavior at the station,' Montes de Oca said Wednesday.
The 911 dispatch center has been ordered not to dispatch the Orange County Rescue Squad to any incidents.
Before the stand down order, the squad, located in downtown Hillsborough, was dispatched through the 911 system to scenes, usually vehicle wrecks, in which someone was entrapped. They used specialized equipment to cut into the vehicles or used the Jaws of Life to open up doors that have been crushed shut to extricate the victim from the vehicle.
Some of the stories Montes de Oca heard, and later confirmed, he said, included members operating in dangerous conditions without wearing protective gear. In one case, he said he heard of squad members using cutting equipment that caused sparks while they were standing in gasoline at an accident scene.
He also heard of incidents of members cutting tree limbs and allowing them to drop on top of cars while victims and emergency personnel were still inside of them and reports of the volunteers driving too fast on narrow roads, he said.
In one instance, witnessed by an emergency medical professional, the rescue squad truck left a scene with its doors unsecured. The doors fell open and equipment spilled all over the roadway, Montes De Oca said. They both had to stop to pick up the equipment, causing a traffic hazard and a delay in getting to the next call, Montes de Oca said.
"It was kind of dangerous," he said.
The people who told Montes De Oca about the problems included members of fire departments and other emergency personnel as well as some insiders -- members of the rescue squad itself, he said.
A message left at the Hillsborough Police Department, where Brian Matthews, chief of the rescue squad is an officer and was said to be on duty Wednesday, was not returned.
Orange Countyis served by a variety of emergency providers, both professional and volunteer. Towns like Chapel Hill and Carrboro have their own fire departments with paid personnel and they have the equipment and training to extricate people after vehicle accidents.
In the rural areas, volunteers staff most of the fire departments, and some of them have the extrication equipment, but some do not. In the eight fire districts of Orange County, six districts have extrication equipment and training, he said.
In southern Orange County, the South Orange Rescue Squad, another volunteer organization that is a separate agency from the Orange County Rescue Squad, specializes in swift water rescue and high angle rope rescue.
"South Orange provides excellent EMS technical rescue, is managed well and I have no cause to look at it," Montes De Oca said
During the initial assessment of the services the rescue squad provided, Montes de Oca worked with his staff and talked to other fire departments, including some in Alamance County, to work out a mutual aid agreement so that if extrication services are needed, that would normally been provided by the rescue squad, other departments will fill in, he said.
"We made sure that everybody would help each other out if needed," he said.
Montes de Oca met with Matthews and talked about how to create an assessment process. It will take about four to six weeks for the assessment to be made to determine what the squad's capabilities are.
The assessment group will look at the squad's training records to determine whether they've trained properly for regular and well as heavy equipment rescue events.
The assessment group also will look at whether services are being duplicated by different agencies and whether that is costing taxpayers more than they need to spend.
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(CNN) – President Obama has chosen a moderate Midwesterner who boasts bipartisan support as his first judicial nominee, the White House announced Tuesday.
The president picked Judge David Hamilton to fill the vacant seat on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Hamilton has served as a district judge in Indiana for 14 years and was Counsel to Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh while he was governor. He has the backing of both his state’s U.S. senators.
“Judge Hamilton has a long and impressive record of service and a history of handing down fair and judicious decisions,” Obama said in a statement. “He will be a thoughtful and distinguished addition to the 7th circuit and I am extremely pleased to put him forward to serve the people of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.”
Republican Sen. Dick Lugar also expressed support for Obama’s pick.
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Interiors, Legalities, and Part 91 Aircraft
AVweb reader Greg Amy refurbished the interior of his Grumman Tiger with automotive cloth and vinyl materials, but subsequently became concerned about whether those materials were legal for use in his aircraft. His research led him through a veritable morass of conflicting and contradictory guidance from FARs, Advisory Circulars, FAA-Designated Engineering Representatives, FAA-approved testing labs, and a National Resource Specialist from FAA Headquarters. Greg's ordeal in trying to get a straight answer to a simple certification question helps explain both why the FAA employs so many lawyers, and why so many pilots are drawn to homebuilt aircraft.
Here's the issue: Suppose you want to refurbish the interior of your FAA-certificated light plane with new carpet and upholstery. Further suppose that you have found a reputable auto upholstery shop that does great work and will reupholster your seats and cut you new carpets if you bring the stuff to them. What does the FAA have to say about the materials you or the shop uses?
During the summer of 1998, I refurbished the interior on my Grumman Tiger, using automotive cloths and vinyls. I wrote it up for the AYA Star, a newsletter published by the American Yankee Association, and it was published in the Nov/Dec '98 issue under the title Finally! Comfortable Seats!
Then the fun began. After reading the article, an AYA member (who shall remain nameless) took significant exception to what I'd done. Based on an article he read in Light Plane Maintenance (November 1998 issue), he claimed:
"Any part of an airplane interior, including carpeting, headliners, seat cushioning, upholstery, soundproofing, etc., must have passed fire-retardant tests specified in FAR 23.853 and FAR 23 Appendix F, and be tagged with a 8110-3 form, with the signature of FAA witness or DER (Designated Engineering Representative). ... Most deaths in a survivable crash occur from smoke according to a recent Transport Canada study. And airliners use approved materials. Do you want to sit on something flammable in a Grumman?"
Interior of Greg Amy's Grumman Tiger.
I decided I better check into the question of legalities further. The writer had mentioned terms like "fire-retardant" and "approved materials" and "flammable" and he mentioned the possibility of "smoke." Trouble was, none of these terms are mentioned in the FARs he quoted. Nothing, nada. In fact, the writer's biggest apparent fear — smoke — is not mentioned in the regs at all.
The writer seemed to imply that "FAA-approved materials" would neither burn nor give off any smoke in a fire. This is simply not true. I fired back that:
"Per FAR 23.853a, all aircraft must use interior materials that are 'flame-resistant' not 'fire-retardant' as you specified. The FAA does not define, nor does FAR 23 specify, the term 'fire-retardant.' 'Flame-resistant,' per FAR 1, means 'not susceptible to combustion to the point of propagating a flame, beyond safe limits, after the ignition source is removed.' In my (non-lawyer) opinion, the only requirement necessary in order to be able to use alternate fabrics in your aircraft is a simple logbook statement by the installer attesting to the fact that the material did not propagate a flame once the ignition source is removed. ...
"The extensive FAR 23 Appendix F testing procedure is the 'Acceptable test procedure for self-extinguishing materials' for showing compliance with FAR 23.853. However, the need for this testing procedure is only called out in FAR 23.853 section (d); however, section (d) applies to 'commuter category airplanes' only.
"Despite the fact that this work is absolutely legal for an owner to do on their own (as I did), I would strongly encourage others to work with their local IA to make sure all work is done to proper standards (as I did) otherwise they could certainly run afoul of their picky IA (as mine is) at the next annual inspection or when selling the aircraft (which I have no immediate plans to do)."
Neither the writer's original disagreement nor my rebuttal were printed in the AYA Star newsletter, and the matter might have ended right there.
Parsing the regs
However, this got me thinking: Where did I get that rule interpretation? At first glance, FAR 23.853 seems pretty clear: All materials in our non-commuter-category FAR 23 aircraft must use "flame-resistant" materials. (The full FAR 23 is available on the FAA web site; it makes great bedtime reading...) So, keep that web page open and follow along as we parse FAR 23.853:
(a) "The materials must be at least flame resistant"
OK, sounds easy enough. So, where's the definition of "flame resistant," and how do we prove it? Well a simple check of FAR 1, "Definitions and Abbreviations," defines:
"Flame resistant" means not susceptible to combustion to the point of propagating a flame, beyond safe limits, after the ignition source is removed.
Problem is, while the FAA defines what it is, they don't tell us how to demonstrate it. Traditionally, the simple "Bic test" was sufficient ... you ignite the edge of the material on fire with a lighter, and see if it goes out by itself.
There probably was a rule here in the long past, but they deleted it and left the other sections in place.
(c) "If smoking is to be prohibited, there must be a placard so stating, and if smoking is to be allowed..."
This one's an easy fix. Make sure your airplane is placarded "No Smoking" and the rest of the section will not apply (and your vacuum-driven gyros will love you for it).
(d) "In addition, for commuter category airplanes, the following requirements apply:"
Since our airplanes are not commuter category, this section does not apply.
(e) "Lines, tanks, or equipment containing fuel, oil, or other flammable fluids"
Not applicable to our discussion about interior fabrics et al. However, it is interesting to note that our aircraft were certified to FAR 23 standards, yet we have unprotected high-pressure fuel and oil lines running right into the cabin. (And we're worried about the flammability of our seat covers...)
(f) "Airplane materials located on the cabin side of the firewall must be self-extinguishing, or be located at such a distance from the firewall, or otherwise protected, so that ignition will not occur if the firewall is subjected to a flame temperature of not less than 2,000 degrees F for 15 minutes. ... For self-extinguishing materials..., a vertifical [sic] self-extinguishing test must be conducted in accordance with Appendix F..."
Must be "self-extinguishing" or far enough from the firewall. Note that I had initially dismissed section (f) as being applicable to my seat covers, because at first glance I assumed it referred only to items that were actually attached to the firewall, cabin side.
We have a definition of "self-extinguishing." It's defined in FAR 23, Appendix F, labeled "Acceptable test procedure for self-extinguishing materials for showing compliance with Secs. 23.853, 23.855 and 23.1359." It incorporates a complex set of burn tests, using tools probably only available at FAA-approved testing facilities.
So, now we know what we have to test to for "self-extinguishing." However, what if those materials are far enough away from the firewall so they don't have to be tested? How can we prove they're far enough away? In addition, what about "flame resistant"? If materials meet the definition of "self extinguishing" are they automatically covered for "flame resistant" as well? Or vice-versa?
So the questions lie:
- are our materials of sufficient distance from the firewall (and how do we prove it)? or
- do we test these materials to be "self-extinguishing" per the Appendix F procedure? and
- how do we prove our materials are "flame resistant"?
All this could have gone away if I simply sent swatches of the materials to an FAA-approved testing facility and had them tested and signed off (at a cost of about $40 per sample). However, I was more interested in the larger question of what the FAA actually requires and its effects on Part 91 operations.
Who ya gonna call?
So the next thing I did was get on the phone with one of the certified testing labs and ask them what would be required for me to legally use automotive fabrics in my Part 91, FAR 23-certified aircraft. I wound up talking to AOPA and Jack Theden (pronounced "the-DEEN") of Skandia Aircraft Interiors, telephone (815) 227-1611. (Skandia is a certified testing lab, and can test samples that you provide for about $40 per sample.) I was surprised at the answers I received.
I was directed to FAA Advisory Circular 23-2, "Flammability Tests." AC 23-2 "provides information and guidance concerning acceptable means ... of complying with ... Part 23 of the [FAR] applicable to flammability tests for various materials..." Section 4(b) of the AC provides the acceptable procedures for "demonstrating compliance with regulations for flame-resistant materials."
According to Skandia, for Part 23 non-commuter-class aircraft, they take three 3-inch by 12-inch pieces of the material to be tested, place them in a horizontal test rig only, place a flame on one end for ten seconds, remove the flame, and see if the material stops burning.
This test is almost verbatim the same "horizontal test" procedures as that called out in FAR 23, Appendix F, section (e). However, there's very different from testing to the full requirements of FAR 23 Appendix F and not just section (e), since we would have to produce result from all the tests described in Appendix F, not just the "horizontal test."
Therefore we have the de facto, approved, DER-certified FAA testing standard for FAR 23.853(a) definition of "flame resistant." Further, this implies that the FAR 23.853(f) test for "self-extinguishing" is not required for Part 91 aircraft.
How can that be?
Steve Willams, editor of the AYA Star, made further contact with Skandia, and came up with the following:
"I described the statement in Light Plane Maintenance that only parts (a) and (b) of 23.853 apply to GA aircraft. I then described my interpretation: that only part (d) is clearly not applicable, and that since it's impractical to establish at what distance from the firewall 'ignition will not occur,' part (f) effectively imposes the 'self-extinguishing in accordance with Appendix F' requirement on all interior materials back to the hat rack.
"What, I asked, is Skandia's rationale for their position that only flame resistance (and hence only the horizontal test) is required for GA aircraft, as asserted to [Greg Amy]?
"He didn't know, and ran his question by their DER. The DER said it's an excellent question, but couldn't answer it. ... He also gave me the number 405-954-3131 for the 'Flight Standards Service' in OKC.
"But which part of this is actually important? What should you do?
"With regard to what the AYA member might say to FSDO about you, I think you may have been right: The 'flame resistant' test may be sufficient. Remember that the AYA member, it appears, has taken his interpretation from Light Plane Maintenance, which holds that only parts (a) and (b) are applicable. My rationale that part (f), too, is required, probably hasn't occurred to him. Assuming FSDO has the same interpretation as the AYA member and Light Plane Maintenance, the 'flame-resistant' test is all they're likely to ask for.
"So, if FSDO calls, your efforts to obtain the proper testing (together with an ASRS form) should serve you well.
"But get both tests done anyway.
"I'd still like to understand the rationale."
The last issue that the AYA member noted in their disagreement with me was that a Form 8110-3 was required for all materials. I could find no requirement for this anywhere. This "requirement" may very well be the case for materials you purchase from sources that guarantee FAR certification (like AirTex Products) but of course you won't get that with the automotive-sourced products.
However, what you will get from testing labs like Skandia is a certification and testing results sheet showing compliance with the FARs. Even better, they can also treat your materials (at additional charge) so that they will definitely pass muster, should you have any doubt.
The "aft side of the firewall..."
So there we were, trying to figure out why FAR 23.853(f) apparently does not apply to our aircraft. I wasn't complaining, mind you, just curious. Remember, at this point we pretty much have our standard by which to test and make the FAA happy...
Then I got to thinking about that Section (f) verbiage again: "Airplane materials located on the cabin side of the firewall..."
"Located on the cabin side of the firewall"? Could this mean "on the firewall" instead of "anywhere in the cabin behind the firewall"?
I wrote to Steve with this thought:
"... Section (f) deals with materials attached to the ... firewall, cabin side.
"Think of it this way: 23.853 deals solely with 'Passenger and crew compartment interiors.' Agreed? In your opinion, 23.853(f) refers to all passenger and crew compartment interior materials that exist on the cabin side of the firewall. Well, have you ever heard of passenger and crew compartment interior materials that do not exist on the cabin side of the firewall? If not, then why the explicit verbiage?
"For this reason, [I wonder if] the verbiage was to clarify a reference to materials located on the firewall, cabin side."
Steve disagreed; his response:
"The regulation doesn't use the word 'attached.' I think ... that section (f) is debatable, at best, and at worst refers to all materials in the cabin unless one is prepared to point a flame cannon at the firewall.
"...(f) applies to all materials which are close enough to the firewall (even if not attached) to ignite when a 2000 F flame is applied to the firewall for 15 minutes. Unfortunately, we're missing two sets of data:
- a plot of distance vs. temperature, and
- the ignition temperature of the fabrics.
"Since we can't prove that the fabrics are far enough from the firewall, we must apply (f) to all fabrics in the cabin. (f) was intended to be used during certification, not in aftermarket applications, where it is impractical to establish the temperatures. As a result, it has the unintended side effect of applying 'self-extinguishing' to everything in the cabin.
"I'm not at all surprised that the regulations say one thing while FAA enforces another. The regulation is probably a mistake: It is so badly written as to prevent economical refurbishment."
Oh, well, it sounds like a religious debate anyway. We have our semi-official "answer." Maybe we'll let sleeping dogs lie...
Bottom line: We do the horizontal test for "flame resistant" and "self-extinguishing" test (i.e. FAR 23 Appendix F) does not apply.
End of story, right?
Bureaucracy strikes again!
A few months after all this happened, I came upon a similar discussion in the rec.aviation.owning newsgroup, dealing with the same issues. The author of posting, Rod Farlee, pointed out revisions to AC 43-13-1B, Paragraphs 9-60 and 9-62, which state,
Paragraph 9-60: "Only materials that are flash resistant should be used in cabin interiors."
Which tosses yet another definition at us. "Flash-resistant," per FAR 1, is defined as "not susceptible to burning violently when ignited." Note however, that paragraph 9-60 continues on to say:
"The requirements related to fire protection qualities of cabin interior materials are specified in CAR 3.388, fire precautions or 14 CFR part 23, section 23.853 compartment interiors."
This effectively defers legal requirements back to FAR 23.853.
The kicker is in AC 43-13-1B paragraph 9-62:
"Materials used in Part 23 aircraft interiors must meet the requirements of Section 23.853, and the burn test requirements called out in Part 23, Appendix F."
YIKES! Although FAR 23.853(d) "self extinguishing" requirement explicitly applies only to "commuter category airplanes," the FAA apparently interprets it as applying to all aircraft certified under FAR 23 by saying all FAR 23 aircraft must meet Appendix F testing! The same thing is said in an article Interior Confusion by Bill O'Brien (National Resource Specialist, General and Sport Aviation, Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Division, AFS-300 Flight Standards Service, FAA, DC HQ).
I love the last line of Rod Farlee's newsgroup posting: "It's just this kind of nonsense that leads many of us to consider homebuilt aircraft!"
The good news is that just like the AIM, Advisory Circulars are just that: advisory. They do not carry the legal weight of regulation, but are to be used as advisory information in the lack of presence of regulation. Therefore, all FARs take precedence over Advisory Circulars.
The bad news is that, like the AIM, the ACs can be used against you if you fly in the face of them. Fortunately for all of us, the newsgroup author pursued this issue further with Mr. O'Brien. The response from Mr. O'Brien to Rod Farlee clarified the FAA's position:
"...you are right. Since your Part 23 Type Designed aircraft is not in commuter category or in a Part 135 operation, you do not have to install 'self-extinguishing' materials in your interior. The material for your aircraft must be 'flame resistant.'
"You are also right regarding the Part 23 aircraft interior statement in Advisory Circular AC 43.13-1b that require all materials to meet the Appendix F burn test. This statement is incorrect and I will personally make the correction to the AC in Change 1 which is due to go to the government printing office on November 1, 1999..."
The bottom line
Here's my train of thought:
- Effectively for this discussion, as Category 23, Part 91 operations, we are bound by
23.853(a), (b), (c), and (e); not (d) and (f).
- We can use any interior materials we wish, as long as they are
- "Flame-resistant" is defined in FAR 1.
- AC 23-2, Section 4(b) provides guidance concerning acceptable means, but not the only means, of complying with the FAR 1 definition of "flame-resistant." These procedures mimic FAR 23 Appendix F Section (e), the "horizontal test."
Given these facts, appears that an owner can install an interior into their Part 91 aircraft, using any materials that meet the definition of "flame resistant." Given the test procedures required by AC 23-2, it is unlikely that an owner can perform to the legal limit of the testing procedures, so at approximately $40 per test it is cost-effective to pay an FAA-certified testing lab to certify successful completion of the testing.
Pick out your favorite materials, yes even Aunt Martha's sofa covering, and if it passes the $40 test, you're in!
Why do all this research? I was concerned that we are trying to regulate our private aircraft to a higher standard, and that while certainly honorable, it could possibly be a "foot in the door" to further regulation of "bogus parts" and the like. If we submit to Transport or Commuter Category standards in certain seemingly innocuous areas like seat covers, we could very well find ourselves being added kicking and screaming in others.
A happy ending
In my own case, despite the fact that I had personally tested the materials to the definition as described in FAR 1, I concluded that I was illegal by installing these materials without complying with the test procedures outlined in AC 23-2, 4(b). If I had obtained test results from a testing lab which uses those procedures, and these test results were acceptable, I would be in compliance with FAR 23 regulations.
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Texans owner McNair in favor of longer season
One vote for longer season
Expanding NFL schedule fine by McNair
MEGAN MANFULL, Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle | May 22, 2009
Photo By Nick de la Torre/HOUSTON CHRONICLEBob McNair favors the idea of expanding the season, but the owners are trying to sort out more details.
Texans owner Bob McNair stood at midfield in his straw hat and familiarized himself with the team’s new players. It was McNair’s first appearance at organized team activities after spending the previous days in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for the NFL’s spring meetings.
Practice wasn’t nearly as eventful as what McNair has been dealing with as an owner lately. Talks continue to heat up about the NFL expanding the season to 17 or 18 games. Changes to the way the injured reserve is used may also be coming, and that’s all in addition to the upcoming negotiations with the players’ union.
McNair favors the idea of expanding the season, but the owners are trying to sort out more details before holding a formal vote on the issue.
“I think the feeling is that the preseason games — a couple one or two — can be converted to regular-season games,” McNair said. “And that the fans would probably be happy with that. Most of the players and owners would be happy about it, too.
“But there’s still a lot of details to be worked out. International play works into it. If you extend the season, it’s easier to play international games; it’s easier to play games on a neutral site. ”
Players have voiced concerns about how adding two games increases their chances of being hurt as well as possibly shortening their careers.
McNair said the owners are looking closely at how adding games may impact the players. One thing the league is looking at is how many players get hurt in the postseason when players are participating in their 17th or 18th game of the season.
Injuries a consideration
“So far, the indications are surprisingly showing that there are fewer injuries in the playoffs for teams that go into the playoffs,” McNair said. “We don’t want to do anything to harm the players. So we’ll look at the question of injuries, are there more injuries by virtue of playing more games? We are looking at the rosters and see if we need to make any changes. Do you need to do anything with injured reserve? And do you need to do anything with the bye weeks?”
The league could increase the 53-man rosters. Another possibility is to start allowing players to come on and off injured reserve during the season. Right now, if a player is placed on IR, they are out for the season.
“It’s just a way to be able to carry a few more players and have a little more flexibility,” McNair said.
‘A real challenge’
It’s clearly a transition period for the NFL, especially as the first negotiating sessions with the players’ union begins next month. The owners are also continuing to try to deal with building the league despite a troubled economy.
“It is difficult because we have a soft economy at the same time we have a need to build new stadiums, and these stadiums are all over a billion dollars now,” McNair said. “It just takes a terrific amount of capital to be able to keep the league moving in the direction that we’re going. So it’s a real challenge.” | <urn:uuid:94894fb0-4f1f-46d0-bbf1-edfb23677e91> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.chron.com/sports/texans/article/Texans-owner-McNair-in-favor-of-longer-season-1720376.php | 2014-04-19T01:58:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535745.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00079-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973721 | 774 | [
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Hubert Lane and the paragons of virtue by Donal Kennedy
THOSE WHO have read Richmal Crompton's 'William' stories - (and who, having read them, did not?) may recall Hubert Lane.
For those unfamiliar with the stories, William was a Huckleberry Finn translated to commuter belt Kent, an eleven-yea-old scapegrace and leader of a gang rejoicing in the name of The Outlaws. If they had been Irish they would probably have called themselves Beyond the Pale.
Hubert Lane was the leader of another group, whose laces, collars and ties were never undone, whose shoes never lost their shine, noses were never bloodied nor eyes blackened. Indeed they showed clean pairs of heels at the slighted rumour of danger.
They were sneaks, informers and double-dealers, anally retentive and nauseous - the kind who deceived William's parents, who held them up as models for emulation.
I can recall hearing, in 1981, when riots broke out in Liverpool's Toxteth and London's Brixton, a Thatcherite Rabbi, since knighted, suggesting that blacks should emulate Jews, who had always been law-abiding, never mitched from school, and were all destined to be concert pianists, doctors of medicine, lords chief justices and Nobel Prize-winning scientists and the like.
No anti-Semite ever so dehumanised the Jewish people, who, from Old Testament times to the present, have had as high a proportion of flawed individuals as any other. Sergio Leoni's film Once Upon a Time in America, depicting Jewish gangsters, is a welcome corrective to that Rabbi's rose-tinted vision.
Back in 1981 no Irish person would have made such a claim for the Irish in Britain. Republican prisoners were then dying on hunger strike and their comrades striking back at their enemies while Catholic civilians, even children, were considered legitimate targets for crown forces' exercises in musketry and rifle marksmanship. .
But it seems the time has become ripe for the Irish in Britain to claim the mantle of Hubert Lane.
Following the suicide bombings in London in July 2005 an Irishwoman named Rosemary Behan lectured Muslim immigrants, so that they would, like the Irish before them, be paragons of British virtue. Apparently the Irish had never caused England grief, and had always smelt of roses.
That Hibernophile organ, the Daily Telegraph, published her piece and that Anglophile organ, Sir Anthony O'Reilly's Sunday Independent, copied it.
I seem to recall some unflattering remarks about the mass of Irish in England by Frederick Engels, who hoped to channel their unruly energies into Socialist upheaval. And in South London, where Ms. Behan lives, a rather obstreperous Irish family gave their surname to the phenomenon of Hooliganism in the first decade of the 20th century.
It's as well the Houlihans got there first, as otherwise the phenomenon might be called Behanism. For I can recall in the 1960s gent of that name being called before a Beak in London, charged with thrusting a beer glass in another gentleman's face.
It seems another youth of that name had conspired some decades before to blow up Camell Laird's shipyard in Liverpool and done time in Borstal for it, and had occasionally thereafter been before Beaks both sides of the Irish Sea that had no political or ideological motives to plead in mitigation for his misdemeanours.
Surely they had no family connections with Rosemary Behan?
An uncle of the obstreperous Behans wrote A Soldier's Song in the spirit of The Marseillaise which became and remains Ireland's national anthem. It promised that Ireland would no longer shelter despots or slaves. It never found favour with Ireland's Hubert Laneites, and one sporting body even commissioned a ditty to supplant it.
But the prescient Peadar Kearney anticipated them and wrote their real anthem too:
WHACK FOL THE DIDDLE
Now Irishmen forget the past
whack fol the diddle, fol the did doh day
and think of the day that is coming fast
whack fol the diddle fol the di doh day
when we shall all be civilised
neat and clean and well-advised
won't Mother England be surprised!
whack fol the diddle fol the did oh day.
Connolly Publications Ltd, 244 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR
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Florida talking points — The Gators weren’t perfect, but they didn’t have to beby Post Staff
Talking points from the Gators’ 24-14 win over South Carolina…..
Once again the Gators weren’t perfect, and once again they didn’t have to be. The offense only gains 339 yards? Big deal – the defense allowed 247, including just 41 in the second half. South Carolina scores 14 points in the first half? Big deal – Tim Tebow hits Riley Cooper for a 68-yard touchdown, the second-longest of the season. Yet for the 10th time this season, and 20th time in a row, the Gators did just enough to leave the stadium with a convincing win. The Gators became just the 11th team in SEC history — and first since Tennessee and 1998 — to go undefeated in conference play. “Did not play perfect. Obviously I’m not sure we have played perfect in quite awhile,” Urban Meyer said. “But I think that’s 20 in a row, and I’m awful proud of those guys in there.”
And once again, the offense continues to struggle. After the big hit to Cooper early, the Gators weren’t able to squeeze much past the Gamecocks. Florida had just 88 yards in the second half. Five times it started a drive on South Carolina’s side of the field, yet scored just one touchdown. The Gators also connected on just 1-of-4 field goals. Then again, the scoreboard at the end of the game said it all. ” We haven’t won by huge margins in games, but we have a lot of character and we pull out wins,” Tebow said. “It doesn’t always look pretty but we just keep fighting.”
The Gators don’t run away from the pressure – they embrace it. They have had a target on their backs “since January 9,” Meyer said, the day after the Gators won the BCS Championship. Every team gives the Gators their best game of the season. Everyone outside of Florida keeps waiting for the Gators to falter. Yet week after week, through injuries and suspensions and a host of other distractions, the Gators get it done. “It’s definitely a lot of pressure,” Cooper said, “but we wouldn’t have it any other way.” | <urn:uuid:1b296171-beab-4bb4-886f-8425084b0e7c> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/gatorbytes/2009/11/14/florida-talking-points-the-gators-werent-perfect-but-they-didnt-have-to-be/ | 2014-04-20T09:18:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609538110.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005218-00111-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973207 | 510 | [
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Career Profile: Darryl Cohen
Darryl Cohen is a Geographer in the Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, where he has worked since 1998. He has worked on reviewing and revising the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards for defining metropolitan areas. He also works on maintaining the geographic base for the Census Bureau’s intercensal population estimates. In addition, Darryl helps design and maintain various metropolitan and micropolitan statistical area data products, including Census 2000, and post-censal population estimates table packages, and various definition and geographic relationship files publicly available on the Census Bureau’s website. Frequently, he responds to inquiries from the media, congress, other government agencies, and the general public.
Darryl’s research on settlement classification, census geography, and population data has been published in journals and government reports, and serve as the subject for numerous conference presentations. He holds a master’s and a bachelor’s degree in Geography with concentrations in Urban Planning from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy. In 2001, Darryl received the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award as a member of the metropolitan area standards review team. He currently lives in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
This profile was published in 2004. Darryl is currently still a geographer in the Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau.
AAG: Did you always know you wanted to be a geographer?
Darryl: No, actually I found geography almost by accident. My original intention was to become an urban planner. I have always been fascinated by cities, which probably stems from having grown up in the District of Columbia, and learning about the L’Enfant plan and how the city was laid out. Finding the right undergraduate program was a bit of a journey for me, but in the end I was fortunate enough to find an urban planning concentration in the geography program at UNCG.
AAG: And now you have the rare job title of Geographer. How does that feel?
Darryl: It’s not as important to me as the fact that I enjoy what I’m doing. It doesn’t really matter what’s on my business card, as long as my work is intellectually stimulating and I’m contributing something valuable.
AAG: Well said.
Darryl: I think the variety of job titles among geography professionals speaks to the nature of our discipline. There are so many different opportunities and areas of specialization that often your job title is not going to be geographer. Even here at the Census Bureau, there are a lot of people who have degrees in geography, but do not have the job title of geographer; they are statisticians, or cartographers, or social science analysts. There are a lot of different jobs for which people with degrees in geography are qualified.
AAG: What is your favorite part of your job?
Darryl: Probably the research. Discussing -- from a conceptual standpoint -- what constitutes a metropolitan area and how the areas should be defined.
AAG: What kinds of discussions come up?
Darryl: One fascinating thing . . . is taking a look back at research done previously and finding that many of the same issues come up over and over again. Say, 50 years ago they were having some of the same discussions that we are having today regarding determining the extent of metropolitan boundaries, what measures of integration to use, how to assign titles . . . all those things have been addressed by various people here at the Census Bureau and other agencies since the 1940s. That’s something that I’m working on – a history of the development of the standards for defining metropolitan areas.
AAG: What major new research potential do you see on the future horizon?
Darryl: Well, one is certainly on the micropolitan statistical areas, since OMB has only been defining them since 2003. We only have 4-5 years of data using those definitions, so that’s an area that’s certainly becoming ripe for research.
AAG: What do you see about your work that is important for others?
Darryl: It is important that the definitions add value to our data products – and that they are as good as they can be – because so many people depend on the data for various levels of decision-making, whether it’s setting policy at the federal level, state or local government planning, location analysis in the private sector, academic research, and so on.
AAG: Do you get to make it to the AAG Annual Meeting every year?
Darryl: Usually, yes. The Census Bureau is very supportive of our participation in professional associations and conferences.
AAG: Why do you most like to go?
Darryl: Mainly to build contacts with people, particularly people I may not know personally, but I may share a research interest with them. Over time, you develop a professional relationship with folks and look forward to seeing them year to year.
AAG: Why is that important?
Darryl: Part of the reason why we try to remain active in the AAG and participate in meetings is that our work is and should be done in an open manner – not only do we want to share what we are doing, but we also want to learn about how people are using the data that we publish.
AAG: What do you think would inspire more young people to do geography like you?
Darryl: Looking at how geography has grown in leaps and bounds, I think they are already inspired. That may be in part because we live in an increasingly global society, and it’s more important now to have information about places that aren’t necessarily close to where you live. Since so much information from different parts of the world is so readily available, geography has become more important now than ever. And . . . it can be a very fulfilling career choice.
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Summer's Eve Foaming Bath For Sensitive Skin Berry Bliss 12 FL. Oz. (345 ml)
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A relaxing foaming bath gentle enough to be from Summer's EveŽ. Specially formulated for a woman's body, Summer's EveŽ Foaming Bath is dermatologist tested and safe for sensitive areas. The lightly-fragranced formula is gentle enough to use every time you bathe.
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Simply pour under funning water for a soothing, gentle foaming bath.
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On Monday, the Cleveland Cavaliers announced the re-signing of small forward Alonzo Gee, almost a month after it was initially reported that they had done so. It was speculated that minor details in the dollar amount kept the contract from being finalized, and we'll likely never know if that was truly the case. What we do know, according to HoopsHype, is that Gee's three-year deal is worth $10 million.
Gee will make $3.5 million in 2012-13, $3.25 in 2013-14 and another $3.25 in 2014-15 if the Cavs exercised the team option on his contract.
That's a very evenly-distributed contract, so there's still no confirmation on what was the holdup between the initial reports and the announcement from General Manger Chris Grant on the signing. Those initial reports also said three years at $10 million, so that wasn't the sticking point. It might come in the team option for the third year.
Gee is expected to be the Cavaliers' starting small forward on opening night, and he'll be looking to build on some career bests in points scored (10.6), rebounding (5.1) and free throw percentage (.788). It looks like good value for the Cavaliers, who might have a lot of young talent needing to be re-signed in the coming years. | <urn:uuid:aca6bed1-cd49-4efa-addf-49ac80869af0> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://cleveland.sbnation.com/cleveland-cavaliers/2012/9/11/3317058/alonzo-gee-cleveland-cavaliers-contract/in/2889995 | 2014-04-21T14:44:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609540626.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005220-00143-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976719 | 288 | [
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ROME: Italy's irrepressible Silvio Berlusconi, whose rise in the polls ahead of a general election next week puts him in contention for the prime minister's chair once again, is a larger-than-life billionaire.
The 76-year-old has shrugged off scandal to score political triumphs time and again and is currently in second place, just a few points behind the main centre-left Democratic Party led by his ex-communist rival Pier Luigi Bersani.
Despite lurid allegations surrounding his sex life and multiple trials for fraud, Berlusconi's image as a long-suffering businessman fighting the establishment has endured in Italy throughout a stormy political career.
He has been prime minister three times during his two decades in politics.
Berlusconi burst onto the political scene in the early 1990s, when his promises of a fresh start after a period of political corruption and scandal made an immediate impact helped by his dominance of the airwaves.
He was born in 1936, in Milan, Italy's economic capital, to a doting bank employee father and a housewife mother who never gave up staunchly defending her son's virtues. His father's contacts would prove key to his early success.
A charmer with slick hair and a winning smile, the young Berlusconi was a born entertainer. A huge fan of singer Nat King Cole, he played double bass and entertained the crowd with jokes in clubs during breaks from studying law.
He also had a brief stint as a cruise-ship crooner before launching a lucrative career in the booming construction sector, making a deal with the head of his father's bank and persuading others to invest in his project.
In 1978 Berlusconi set up Fininvest, a holding company which grew to include big names such as Mediaset -- with three national television channels -- and AC Milan, one of the world's leading football clubs.
Berlusconi's political success and growing influence as a broadcasting tycoon were closely entwined: the media magnate wooed millions of Italians, from disgruntled housewives to sports fans, through his vast television empire.
Berlusconi's daring and splashy political debut in 1993 with a new party called Forza Italia ("Go Italy") -- named after a football chant -- was unprecedented in tradition-bound Italy, and won him widespread popular support.
His first stint as prime minister in 1994 lasted only a few months.
In 2001 however, he was elected again after a media campaign, which included sending a book boasting of his achievements to 15 million Italian homes.
Nicknamed "Il Cavaliere" ("The Knight"), the media magnate remained in power until 2006 -- the longest premiership in the history of post-war Italy -- and as a divided left floundered, he was voted back in for a third time in 2008.
Despite some initial convictions for fraud, all but one of many legal cases against him have so far been won on appeal. Others have simply fallen foul of the statute of limitations in Italy's notoriously slow-moving legal system.
In October this year Berlusconi was sentenced to jail for tax fraud -- a conviction he is now appealing. He is also on trial for having sex with an underage 17-year-old prostitute and abusing the powers of his office.
Italy's richest person between 1996 and 2008 -- he owns villas around the world -- the party-loving premier has been embroiled in a string of scandals.
Details emerged of vast sums that Berlusconi had lavished on young escorts.
While his clownish behaviour may have amused some Italians, it has on several occasions got him into hot water on the international scene.
He has become notorious for his off-colour jokes and diplomatic gaffes, on one occasion likening a German Euro-MP to a Nazi.
His description of US President Barack Obama as "suntanned"; his shameless flirting with female heads of state; and his close friendship with late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi also damaged his international standing.
Berlusconi was finally ousted from the premiership in 2011 to the relief of his critics, who said his leadership had been disastrous for the economy.
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How to Play and Other Tips
Oscar the crab should have guided you through the game's mechanics and characters when you first tried Fish Out of Water, but it's OK to get lost on your way to ocean-leaderboard dominance. Flinging fish as far as you can is a lot of fun, but scoring high and earning lots of crystals will make you the king of high-tide.
For a complete rundown of each fish, check out our Fish FAQ.
Micro - the whale who bounces
Rocket - arrowhead shaped fish who skips a lot
Finlay - the dolphin who dives and leaps
Brothers - four fish who divide and skip a lot after being thrown
Olympus - all-around fish who goes far and gets plenty of skips
Pick your favorite fish and fling him first to set a base score. Try to use specialty fish to even out you score for the judges. Remember that each judge has different preferences. Some like skips more and some are just hard to please.
Read our Judges FAQ for a complete breakdown of each judge.
With your team in place, you can fling to heart's content. Weather will come and go, stormy conditions make it significantly harder to score highly in, but you'll always want to chase the objectives located in the bottom right corner. Tapping there will bring up your latest crystal-rewarding assignment. One goal might be to fling a set number of fish. Just keep playing the game and trying to get a high score until you unlock the goal.
Another might ask you to get a certain distance with a specific fish. Just keep trying until you unlock it, because once you do you'll get to pick a treasure chest full of boost giving crystals! Say you combine a black tail and a yellow body. That will give you an amber charm which adds to your boost meter for one fling session.
Read our FAQ on leveling up and earning crystals fast for more.
What other kinds of FAQs do you want on Fish Out of Water? GameRevolution is always adding new iPhone tips and tricks so be sure to send tips of your own or feedback to [email protected].
General Game Hints
Not all crabs are created equal. Tap each judge to see what he or she prefers. Distance versus number of skips, for example.
Weather changes every hour, going from sunny and calm waters to stormy seas. The condition of the waves may change a creature's ability, so if you don't perform well when it's cloudy, maybe it's a good idea to come back when the sun's out.
Check the weather report by repeatedly tapping the icon on the top right corner of the screen.
Complete achievements to level up, whereupon which you can choose one of three treasure chests to earn crystals. To check the current achievement and progress, tap the checkered flag on the bottom right corner of the screen.
Combine crystals to gain valuable bonuses, such as a perfect 10 from one of the crabs, or 100 meters added to an attempt. You can combine crystals at any time, but can only do so once per three skipping attempts.
Use boost just as a fish hits the surface of the water to maximize speed and/or bounce.
Each yellow boostie collected will increase your boost bar.
Don't waste boost on a fish nearing the end of its run. Use boost just as a fish hits the surface of the water to maximize speed and/or bounce.
Learning what the fishes do and the judges like are the easiest ways to improve your score.
Experiment with the crystals to see which colour combinations yield the best rewards.
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A hole in JPMorgan's Dimon defenseMay 16, 2013: 10:42 AM ET
To sway shareholders on next week's chairman vote, Jamie Dimon's supporters say focus on the bank's bottom line. They're hoping you will miss some accounting moves that have significantly boosted profits.
FORTUNE -- Jamie Dimon likes to talk about JPMorgan Chase's fortress balance sheet. What's a little more shaky is the bank's income statement.
Next Tuesday, at its annual meeting in Tampa, JPMorgan (JPM) will reveal the results of a shareholder vote on whether the bank should split the role of CEO and chairman. Right now, Dimon holds both. Many shareholders think he should give up the chairmanship. The push for the move has gained momentum in the wake of last year's $6 billion trading loss and a litany of other run-ins with regulators in the past 12 months. The vote is expected to be close.
The main argument that Dimon and his supporters make for why the CEO should keep the chairman role as well is JPMorgan's bottom line. Bank analyst Dick Bove recently noted that only three companies in the U.S. netted more than JPMorgan last year. And that's in a year in which the bank had a $6 billion trading loss.
Dimon has indeed steered his ship toward the money waterfall while others nearly capsized and have teetered since. But at least part of the bank's profit gusher is an illusion.
Take the first quarter of this year. JPMorgan said its income rose 31% to $6.5 billion. But more than two-thirds of that gain can be attributed to some nifty accounting coming out of the bank's mortgage division and not any real improvements in JPMorgan's business.
In fact, in the first three months of the year, JPMorgan's losses from potential bad home loans was negative $198 million. That means the bank booked a near-$200 million gain based on a prediction of how much it would lose from future bad loans.
How's that possible? Accounting, as you may already know, is more art than science. Even so, JPMorgan's books are more Jackson Pollock than Norman Rockwell.
Banks aren't forced to write off bad loans when a borrower stops paying. Instead, they are allowed to wait until they have made the determination that they will never get paid back. That typically happens weeks or, more often, months after a borrower ceases mailing in checks. Banks get a lot of leeway in making that determination. Until they do, the bad loan sits on the bank's books just like any other, delaying losses.
JPMorgan has long been slower than rivals to recognize bad loans. In the first quarter of last year, for instance, JPMorgan wrote off one dollar for every 90 the bank had in bad loans. That compared to an average write-off ratio at the nation's 100 largest banks of 34 at the time. This year, that ratio at JPMorgan has shot up to 178, meaning it is writing off bad loans at nearly half the rate it was a year ago. Writing off loans at that rate rather than the industry average appears to have saved JPMorgan $697 million in the first three months of the year alone.
Other big banks have slowed their write-off rate as well. But none is nearly as slow in recognizing losses as JPMorgan. The ratio of bad loans to charge-offs at Bank of America (BAC) and Wells Fargo (WFC) was 124 and 113, respectively.
That's not the only boost JPMorgan got from its accountants. On top of taking fewer loan losses, the bank also pulled money out of the fund it has set aside to cover future bad loans. As a result, an additional $650 million made its way to JPMorgan's bottom line. The result: What could have been a loss of $1.15 billion from bad loans turned into a gain of $200 million.
JPMorgan spokeswoman Kristin Lemkau says the bulk of the company's earnings gains have come from true improvements in its business. "We have had three years of record performance driven by market share gains in every line of business," says Lemkau. She says that Dimon has regularly told investors that he does not consider loan reserve releases as quality earnings.
Of course, the economy is improving, and house prices are rising. So you would expect fewer losses. Still, the bank's nonperforming loans have dropped by only 11%, far less than the 50% drop in write-offs. What's more, the volume of home loans at JPMorgan on which borrowers haven't made a payment in more than three months suddenly jumped $3.5 billion in the first quarter. That's the first jump in seriously delinquent loans the bank has seen in more than three years and could be a sign of more problems ahead.
Even without these accounting moves, though, the bank's bottom line would have been up $600 million or 10% in the first three months of the year. So it's hard to make the case that Dimon should go. But earnings at Citigroup (C) and Wells Fargo rose 31% and 22%, respectively. That puts the indispensability of Dimon in perspective. | <urn:uuid:74bb3d2d-b772-420a-90a6-d72ca42de659> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/16/jpmorgan-jamie-dimon-shareholders/ | 2014-04-24T12:38:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223206120.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032006-00175-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976956 | 1,065 | [
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After losing his footing, Joe Hurt started moving pretty fast with the current in Silver Creek. The firemen down river from him in a raft had one chance to position themselves perfectly to pull him out safely.
They grabbed his arm, pulled him in and got him ashore just fine.
“It’s moving a lot faster than one would think in Silver Creek,” said Hurt, a Jeffersonville firefighter.
Four fire departments attended swift-water technician training in Clarksville on Thursday. After Wednesday’s storms, the creek rose to about 3 feet with fast-moving currents.
Fire departments from New Albany, Greensburg, Jeffersonville and Jefferson County, Ky., brought about 20 total firefighters to the exercise.
Josh Thompson, deputy chief for the Jeffersonville Fire Department, said with summer here, the danger of water-related incidents increases as more people head to bodies of water to cool off.
“We have a significant amount of potential for water-related incidents, so we need to be able to respond to those,” Thompson said. “Given the area between Clark and Floyd [counties], there’s plenty of opportunity for this kind of situation. Without proper training, it would just be a recipe for disaster.”
Bill Browne, public relations lieutenant for Indiana Conservation Officers, said this spring, 72 river rescues were reported in four of the state’s districts. In Hamilton County, two of those resulted in deaths.
He said it’s easy to underestimate a current in moving water and even easier to lose control once a person falls.
“When people are trying to wade across moving water and they don’t have any floatation on, the loss of footing takes place,” Browne said. “Once your body gets laid down, it becomes difficult to maneuver yourself back to a standing position.”
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By MICHELE WHITEAKER
The concrete turtle sculpture fountains are a popular feature. They are automated with sensors to go off for three minutes at a time.
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Heroic group effort to save boy from drowning
MARTY SHARPE AND TRACEY CHATTERTON
"I'm going to die," Josh McQuoid thought as the waves pounded down on him.
The 12-year-old was caught by a wave and swept out while playing with friends at the beach on Napier's Marine Pde about 5pm yesterday. It took four police officers and a human chain of people to drag him from the surf.
Josh and his friends had been in town when they decided to go down to the beach. They were just putting their feet in the water when the waves bowled them over.
"It was only knee-deep," Josh said, still struggling to believe what had happened.
"That was what surprised me, and it swept me off my feet."
The Napier Intermediate student is tall and fit for his age, but he was no match for the waves.
Coughing and spluttering, he focused on keeping his head above water.
"It was really hard, it flipped me around heaps of times ... I didn't know which way was up."
A German tourist went to his aid but was unable to keep a hold of him.
Napier Constable Paul Bailey stripped off to his underwear when he arrived on the scene.
"We could see [constable] Bryan Farquharson getting knocked over in the waves. When I ran down I could see Bryan was talking to the boy, who was screaming and crying.
"Between waves I could see that he could touch the bottom. I thought well if he can touch the bottom I'm going out to grab him because I'll be able to touch the bottom too. But when the first wave hit it took me straight off my feet," Bailey said.
He managed to get through the waves and grab Josh, who by that stage was "a dead weight with no fight left in him".
"We were thrown all over the place," Bailey said.
"On one occasion I got up and I couldn't see him. I thought 'oh no, that's it, he's lost'. He was totally submerged but fortunately he banged into my legs as he was getting sucked back out again. That's how I found him again," he said.
"Then we saw the human chain they'd formed and I was able to pass him over," Bailey said.
Josh, who was unresponsive at that stage, was moved up the beach, where members of the public gave him first aid.
Hikiroa Ratapu, 13, said it was pretty scary watching his friend struggle in the waves. He yelled for help as soon as he noticed Josh being dragged out.
Josh's father Shane McQuoid, said Hikiroa Ratapu was their "little hero" for quickly raising the alarm.
"If he wasn't thinking straight he would have jumped in," he said, adding that could have easily led to two drownings.
Josh was discharged after a brief observation in Hawke's Bay Hospital last night.
His mother Kath Kuru said the police phone call was every parent's worst nightmare.
She had been trying to ring Josh earlier, to hurry him home for tea. She had no idea he and his friends had gone down to the beach.
She was both relieved he'd survived yet concerned he'd put himself so close to danger.
"Never do that to us again," she told Josh in the ambulance on the way to hospital.
Ms Kuru and Mr McQuoid just wanted to thank everyone that had helped their youngest son out of trouble.
"We just want to show our heartfelt thanks and gratitude."
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A humorous guide to exploring the changing definition of a woman’s role in the workplace.
What label best classifies the post of secretary—“sex bomb” or “office wife?” Peril (College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens and Co-eds, Then and Now, 2006, etc.) delves into the stereotypes that continue to plague secretaries. Running the gamut from vampy vixens to officious career gals, secretaries have always been varied personalities with varying abilities; some were able to use their position as a stepping stone while others hit the glass ceiling. The author’s study is packed with witty anecdotes drawn from multiple eras, and lavish images and illustrations accompany her lively prose. Peril examines the changing perspective of female competence in the workplace, from its start in the battlefield to the offices of the future. The author highlights the challenges women faced at the office, and the problems women must still reckon with even in the most forward-thinking companies of this era—including the seemingly insignificant question of whose responsibility it is to put on a pot of coffee. While it's safe to say that the days in which secretaries were viewed as little more than husband-hunting sex kittens are extinct, Peril argues that today's professional women are still changing the rules of femininity, adopting traits previously only owned by men.
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Sun to shine for the next couple of days
Today through Monday, the chance of rain will hover around 20 percent
Published: Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 29, 2009 at 9:43 p.m.
Area residents can finally let their umbrellas dry out and put their rain coats away for a few days after nearly two weeks of wet weather.
Today through Monday, the chance of rain will hover around or below 20 percent, and high temperatures are expected to reach the upper 80s to lower 90s, said meteorologist Marie Trabert with the National Weather Service in Jacksonville.
"It should be a pleasant weekend," she said.
A cold front will be stalling over North Central Florida, which will bring dryer - but not necessarily cooler - air to the atmosphere with light southwest winds. While the high and low temperatures will remain near the averages for this time of year, the lower chance of rain is unusual for this time of year.
This month, however, is shaping up to be possibly the area's wettest May on record. The official rainfall record for May in Marion County is 13.05 inches, set in 1976.
So far this month, some areas of Marion County have received up to 14 inches of rain, according tococorahs.org, a volunteer precipitation-monitoring Web site. The Weather Channel puts Ocala's month-to-date rainfall at 12.42 inches; Accuweather has recorded 11.76 inches.
David Shuler of the National Weather Service noted that rainfall totals can be significantly different in areas even within a mile of each other.
Meanwhile, a weather system moving over the Atlantic has lost its tropical depression status and will not affect the United States. The Atlantic hurricane season begins Monday.
Trabert said there are no other tropical systems that could affect Florida in the near future.
Trabert said by Tuesday, the chance of rain will be back around 30 percent to 40 percent with typical afternoon thundershowers for this area.
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"This important work brings to light the role of significant women in our state's history. Reflecting the latest scholarship in the field, it brings more depth and analysis to women whose stories may be familiar and introduces women whose efforts and contributions deserve a place in Georgia's historical record."
—Lee Ann Caldwell, director of the Center for the Study of Georgia History, Augusta State University
Though sources for understanding the lives of women in Georgia during the colonial period are scarce, the early essays profile Mary Musgrove, an important player in the relations between the Creek nation and the British Crown, and the loyalist Elizabeth Johnston, who left Georgia for Nova Scotia in 1806. Another essay examines the near-mythical quality of the American Revolution-era accounts of "Georgia's War Woman," Nancy Hart. The later essays are multifaceted in their examination of the way different women experienced Georgia's antebellum social and political life, the tumult of the Civil War, and the lingering consequences of both the conflict itself and Emancipation. After the war, both necessity and opportunity changed women's lives, as educated white women like Eliza Andrews established or taught in schools and as African American women like Lucy Craft Laney, who later founded the Haines Institute, attended school for the first time. Georgia Women also profiles reform-minded women like Mary Latimer McLendon, Rebecca Latimer Felton, Mildred Rutherford, Nellie Peters Black, and Martha Berry, who worked tirelessly for causes ranging from temperance to suffrage to education. The stories of the women portrayed in this volume provide valuable glimpses into the lives and experiences of all Georgia women during the first century and a half of the state's existence.
Historical figures include:
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Shortly after her death, a group of Elaine's regulars started the Table 4 Writers Foundation, named after Elaine's regular table, to continue her tradition of encouraging young creative types in general and writers in particular.
One of the most iconic faces of the 20th century is about to be rediscovered. On May 3, lost images of pop art icon Andy Warhol will be unveiled in Manhattan for the first time in public in an exhibition sponsored by Interview Magazine, which the artist founded in 1969 .
When Elaine Kaufman died last December 3, she left a city of broken hearts. For months, "Elaine's" lingered on, a nostalgic haven for "regulars," but many still had to admit, Elaine's was simply not the same without Elaine.
Since Elaine Kaufman's death nearly a week ago, there has been an avalanche of words written and spoken by celebrities about this iconic New York restaurateur. So here's my modest, non-celebrity takeaway.
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The association of ANADESA was formed in 2005 after Hurricane Stan destroyed many homes and killed many people in Santiago Atitlan. Soon after the storm, a group of twenty families banned together to learn how to make beaded jewelry in order to support themselves. Since then, ANADESA has grown and is reaching out to the communities of Panabaj, Tzanchaj, and Chukmuk in several different projects. We have an afterschool children’s program that reinforces reading, writing and mathematics, as well as coordinates art and recreation activities, and holds talks on important themes. Many adults in Santiago have had to drop out of school to help support their families so we have an adult education program that teaches basic reading, writing, and mathematic skills to persons over the age of 15. Our program of twenty women has also expanded and in addition to making jewelry, we have recently developed new products to be added to our repertoire, such as shampoo, liquid soap, floor disinfectant, lotions, and a few other products. The women and their families also provide housing and food for groups who visit the lake. With our quickly expanding programs, we have big dreams and are looking into buying our own land and building our own facilities. The unique people and culture in Santiago, combined with the beautiful lake surrounded by volcanoes, truly makes it a place worth visiting. (And a great place to live and work if you are interested in working with MCC :)
MCC started working with ANADESA soon after Hurricane Stan hit. It is a place that many groups have visited since that time, connecting with the families and culture of the area and supporting ANADESA in their various projects. If you are interested in hearing more about ways you can support ANADESA in their dream of building their own facilities, please contact [email protected].
Katelyn Shank is participating in the SALT program, a one-year service and learning experience for young people ages 18-27. To read more about her experience in Guatemala, visit http://katelynshank.blogspot.com/. If you are interested in learning about the different opportunities through SALT here in Guatemala and around the world, visit here; the deadline for 2011-2012 applications is February 15!
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Govt to help industries in training, absorbing women
TNN | Oct 29, 2012, 01.44AM IST
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JAIPUR: In an effort to empower women and make them self reliant, the Rajasthan government has started "women employment cum training scheme" in the state. The project targets women from marginalized group by providing them skilled training through contracts with the industries.
The state government will engage private, small and medium enterprises, non-government organizations and other manufacturing units in the initiative. The selected firms by the industry department will undertake the training of women for three months and on completion of the training, it will be mandatory for the firms to absorb 60% of the workforce.
Though scheme is open for everybody but women form marginalized group, Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, widows and differently abled will be given preference. The only eligibility criterion is to be of 18 years or more.
"Our aim is to increase employment among women especially from the rural areas in Rajasthan. So, the government is getting into a setup where private companies will provide skilled training and then recruit the workforce. The government will provide 25% of the salary to selected females for a year and a tool kit worth Rs 1500 which will help them in their professional career," a senior official of the industry department said.
"This will help the government in its efforts to increase the prospects of employability among rural women whereas companies will get the desired work force and some financial assistance for training them," he added.
The recent annual report on employment and unemployment survey for 2011-12 paints a grim picture for the state. It suggests that the female labour force participation rates are extremely low and remains a matter of concern. In terms of female employment, according to the report, 16 out of 1,000 people in rural areas are jobless whereas in the urban areas, the figure stands at 20.
"By 2015, the skilled labour force deficit in Rajasthan will cumulatively stands at 5.12 million. To bridge the huge gap and cope up with the shortage of skilled labour this scheme will certainly help in big way. But it also needs proper commitment from state government in its implementation," said Tarachand Chaudhary, president of United Council of Rajasthan Industries. | <urn:uuid:35aa3b56-5390-4153-bcd7-e7fea1452350> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Govt-to-help-industries-in-training-absorbing-women/articleshow/16997864.cms?referral=PM | 2014-04-18T03:40:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609532480.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005212-00055-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957372 | 470 | [
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -Blues forward David Backes believes his team plays better when its holding a grudge, which bodes well considering how many games St. Louis has lost in the first third of the season.
Backes scored twice, and Ty Conklin made 29 saves to help St. Louis beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Sunday night. After being swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the Canucks last season, the Blues have already beaten them twice this season by a combined score of 9-2.
"There s obviously a little vendetta," Backes said. "Maybe we should pretend every team kicked our dog before the game. I'm an animal advocate by the way, but it seems like when teams show us up we come back the next time and play a good hard game and get the best of them."
Backes opened the scoring on an early power-play deflection and put the Blues back ahead 2-1 with a great individual effort with 8:12 left in the second period. He raced around Kevin Bieksa off the left wing, cut hard to the net and tucked the puck past goalie Roberto Luongo on the far side.
"It's the old saying, go to the net," Backes said. "The first one is just a shot that ends up right in front of me and the high school baseball skills kick in there, and the second one is just try to use my big body and get around the corner and then use a little reach and try to get around Luongo."
Keith Tkachuk doubled the lead 1:27 later and the Blues won for the second time in five games to move out of last place in the Western Conference.
Much like last season, the Blues (15-14-5) have started slowly. Now they're hoping to replicate last season's second-half push into the playoffs.
"Maybe that s why we had such a good second half last year is we were vengeful after getting beat a few too many times in the first half," Backes said.
Shane O'Brien scored his first goal in more than two seasons as Vancouver lost for just the second time in six games on a season-high eight-game homestand.
Luongo made 23 saves for the Canucks, coming off a big win over Washington on Friday night and looking to move into a playoff position in the Western Conference for the first time all season. Instead they fell behind early.
The Blues' 30th-ranked power play converted its first opportunity 2:59 into the game, with Backes tipping Paul Kariya's high shot off the rush past Luongo.
"It's frustrating that we get a big win the other night and we can't back it up with another great game," Luongo said. "We could talk about it until we're blue in the face in the locker room before the game, but talking about it and going out on the ice and executing are two different things."
Conklin made a handful of great saves in the first period, robbing Tanner Glass, Ryan Kesler and Mikeal Samuelsson from in close, and making a sliding stop on Bieksa. O'Brien finally beat him with 2:45 left in the period after a give-and-go play with Samuelsson sent him alone in tight. O'Brien's quick shot through Conklin's legs trickled over the goal line for his first goal in 165 games.
"To say I wasn't thinking about it some days would be a lie," O'Brien said about his drought. "It was great to get it, but at the same time we play for the two points and unfortunately we came up a little short tonight."
After Backes put the Blues ahead again, Tkachuk extended the lead after a lucky bounce. Barret Jackman's dump-in took a funny hop off the end boards and went right in front to Brad Boyes, who fed Tkachuk for a backdoor tap-in.
Alex Burrows appeared to pull the Canucks within a goal 5 minutes into the third period, but it was waved off because he redirected Henrik Sedin's pass with his back skate, a call that was upheld after a lengthy video review.
"I don't agree with the decision," Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said. "I looked at the replay and yes, Alex does turn his foot, it goes off his skate and then there is a forward motion. But not on the initial deflection."
NOTES: Sedin's points streak was snapped at nine games and 16 points. ... Canucks players stayed on the ice after the game to give away their jerseys as part of fan appreciation night. ... O'Brien's goal also was his first in a season and a half and 102 games with the Canucks.
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108 F.3d 1513
65 USLW 2652
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,
Robert MAHER, aka "Bob M.", Peter Mancusi, Andrew Giordano,
Nos. 982, 947 and 1116, Dockets 96-1193, 96-1286 and 96-1458.
United States Court of Appeals,
Argued Jan. 22, 1997.
Decided March 25, 1997.
Robert E. Rice, Assistant United States Attorney, New York City (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Rose A. Gill, Marian W. Payson, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York City, on the brief), for Appellee.
Steven Jay Harfenist, Bayside, NY (Friedman & Harfenist, Bayside, NY, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Robert Maher.
J. Jeffrey Weisenfeld, New York City, for Defendant-Appellant Peter Mancusi.
David I. Schoen, New York City, for Defendant-Appellant Andrew Giordano.
Before: KEARSE and JACOBS, Circuit Judges, and GLEESON, District Judge*.
KEARSE, Circuit Judge:
Defendants Robert Maher, Peter Mancusi, and Andrew Giordano appeal from judgments of conviction entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York following their pleas of guilty before Louis L. Stanton, Judge, to charges of conspiring to launder money in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 (1994), and money laundering, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) and (f) (1994) and 18 U.S.C. § 2 (1994). Maher was sentenced principally to 135 months' imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release; Mancusi was sentenced principally to 108 months' imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised release; Giordano was sentenced principally to 151 months' imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. In addition, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 982(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A) (1994), each defendant was ordered to forfeit his respective interest in $7,000,293.15 in laundered money, the proceeds of narcotics trafficking. On appeal, defendants contend chiefly that the district court erred in accepting their guilty pleas or in refusing to allow them to withdraw those pleas. Mancusi and Giordano also challenge their sentences. Finding no merit in defendants' challenges to their pleas, and finding that the sentencing challenges have been waived, we affirm the judgments.
The present proceedings arise out of a 59-count indictment that charged each defendant with, inter alia, laundering, on 14 specified occasions, a total of approximately $7,000,293.15 derived from narcotics trafficking, knowing that the money represented the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity and intending to conceal the source, location, or ownership of the money, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) and (f) and 18 U.S.C. § 2 (count 2); and with conspiring to do so, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 (count 1); and seeking forfeiture of the $7,000,293.15 (count 59). The indictment also alleged numerous counts of other money laundering offenses, as well as failure to file currency reports, and interstate and foreign travel in aid of racketeering activity.
The government contended that the laundered money was the proceeds of narcotics trafficking conducted by an international conspiracy that included Thongchai Sanguandikul, a resident of Thailand, and Albert Castagnola, a resident of Pennsylvania. A jury trial began on October 23, 1995, and continued for two weeks. The 25 witnesses called by the government included private citizens from the United States and Asia, law enforcement agents, and Castagnola. The proof at trial, taken in the light most favorable to the government, showed the following.
A. The Trial Evidence
In the late 1980s, Sanguandikul was a foreign supplier of large quantities of heroin imported into the United States and Mexico. Raphael Santana, a buyer, arranged for payment by having Castagnola transfer money by wire to a Hong Kong bank account; the money was then transferred to the Shun Lee Company in Bangkok, Thailand, from which it was accessible to Sanguandikul. In 1989, however, Castagnola was arrested; he pleaded guilty to conspiring to import heroin and to money laundering, and he agreed to cooperate with the government.
After Castagnola was arrested, Sanguandikul traveled to New York City, where defendants were located, and defendants soon began to deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars into Hong Kong bank accounts controlled by Sanguandikul. The evidence as to defendants' activities, which included testimony from employees of banks and other companies whose services were used, testimony from customs agents and other law enforcement officials, and records seized from offices shared by Giordano and Maher and from their respective homes, included the following.
First, Maher began delivering hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to Giordano. Giordano in turn delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mancusi. Giordano and Mancusi, along with their sons and Giordano's employees, converted large sums of cash from small-denomination bills to $50 and $100 bills at New York City area banks. Mancusi, charging part of his travel expenses to an account maintained by Giordano, proceeded to make 14 trips to Hong Kong, carrying cash, mostly in $100 bills, which he deposited there in accounts controlled by Sanguandikul. The amounts ranged from $179,673 to $1,047,324 and totaled more than $7 million. To demonstrate the furtive nature of these actions, the government showed that, although Mancusi in 1985 had filed a currency report when he traveled to Liberia carrying $44,750, on none of his Hong Kong trips did he file the required reports that he was transporting more than $10,000 out of the United States.
Mancusi's deposits in Hong Kong were closely monitored by Sanguandikul, who would then arrange for their transfer to the Shun Lee Company. Law enforcement agents found copies of telefaxes sent from offices shared by Giordano and Maher and from Giordano's home to Sanguandikul, who, according to Castagnola's testimony, was also known as "Joe." In the Giordano-Maher offices the agents also found telephone and pager numbers in Bangkok for "Mr. Joe"; and there was evidence that Maher had sent packages, bearing a false return address, to "Joe" in Bangkok. Maher's packages were sent to a Bangkok hair salon at which Sanguandikul's wife was a hairdresser; in a document filed with the Thai government, Sanguandikul had given the salon's address as his own.
Sanguandikul was eventually arrested in Hong Kong and extradited to the United States, where he was tried for and convicted of conspiracy to import heroin.
B. The Pleas of Guilty and the Attempts To Withdraw Those Pleas
On November 6, 1995, after two weeks of trial at which the government had presented evidence, including that summarized above, through the testimony of 25 of its 26 scheduled witnesses, defendants' attorneys approached the government about changing defendants' pleas to guilty. After a recess granted by the court, the defendants signed agreements on that day agreeing, inter alia, to plead guilty to counts 1 (conspiracy), 2 (money laundering), and 59 (forfeiture); in return, the government agreed, inter alia, to move to dismiss the remaining counts. As discussed in Part II.E. below, in their respective plea agreements defendants entered into various stipulations as to sentencing. As discussed in Parts II.A. and B. below, the district court conducted individual plea inquiries pursuant to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and thereafter accepted the guilty pleas of all three defendants.
On April 15, 1996, Mancusi, who was scheduled to be sentenced on April 24, moved to withdraw his plea of guilty. Represented by new counsel, he argued principally that the evidence the government had presented at trial was insufficient to establish his guilt and that the assistance of his former counsel in advising him as to the strength of the government's case had been ineffective. The district court denied the motion, stating, inter alia, that
[a] rational juror would have been hard pressed to avoid finding that the money Mancusi carried to Hong Kong was proceeds from narcotics trafficking. The exchange of small denomination bills (which are used in street-level narcotics transactions) for larger ones, the physical transportation of the money to Hong Kong rather than a more easily traced method of transfer, Giordano and Maher's contact with Sanguandikul, Mancusi's repeated receipt of large cash amounts from Giordano, and his failure to file currency reports all but compel the inference that the money was proceeds of narcotics trafficking.
Memorandum Endorsement, dated April 23, 1996, at 2 (emphasis added). The court further concluded that the evidence itself showed that Mancusi's counsel's advice that the government had presented a strong case was not ineffective assistance.
On May 22, 1996, Giordano, who was scheduled to be sentenced on June 25, similarly moved to withdraw his plea of guilty. Likewise represented by new counsel, he argued principally that he was actually innocent because in fact Mancusi had received the funds in question in Hong Kong from Korean investors for a project in Liberia. One of the supporting affidavits submitted by Giordano was an extensive affidavit from Mancusi dated May 20, 1996, describing his own and Giordano's innocence. (Mancusi had not submitted such an affidavit in support of his motion to withdraw his own plea, and by May 20 he had been sentenced.) Giordano argued that there was no adequate factual basis for his plea, that he had not knowingly and voluntarily entered into his plea agreement because he did not understand it, and that his former counsel had rendered ineffective assistance in advising him to plead guilty. He also claimed that counsel had coerced him to plead guilty by demanding more money to continue with the trial.
The district court denied Giordano's motion to withdraw his plea, finding, inter alia, that most aspects of Giordano's new contentions were contradicted by his sworn admissions during his plea allocution. Noting Giordano's plea-hearing descriptions of his own and Mancusi's conduct, the court characterized the new Korean-investors explanation as "highly improbable" and "fiction"; the court also found that there had been adduced at trial "ample evidence that the money was in fact proceeds of narcotics trafficking." Memorandum and Order, dated June 21, 1996, at 6, 5, 10. The court further found that Giordano's statements and demeanor during his plea allocution belied the new contention that he did not understand the plea agreement, and that his stated satisfaction with counsel's assistance when he entered his plea was more credible than his belated assertions of ineffectiveness. The court also concluded that, "[i]n light of the overwhelming evidence presented during the government's case and the possibility that Mancusi might testify as a cooperating witness, the advice of Giordano's counsel that he accept the benefits of a guilty plea" was not ineffective. Id. at 11. With respect to Giordano's claim that counsel had coerced him to plead guilty, the court evaluated tape recordings that Giordano had made of telephone conversations with his former counsel; the court found that the tapes showed no sign of reluctance on counsel's part to continue with the trial, but rather showed that the attorney-client relationship soured over fee disputes months after the guilty plea was entered.
Finally, the court noted that granting the motion to withdraw the plea of guilty and requiring a new trial would be extremely prejudicial to the government. The court distinguished the present case from
cases in which there is no prejudice to the government from allowing withdrawal of a plea, improvidently made, before trial. Here, the plea was not made until after the defendants and jury had sat through extensive testimony from over a score of witnesses, many transported from the Far East at considerable expense. Allowing withdrawal of the plea at this juncture would severely prejudice the government, which has displayed its case in full and would be forced substantially to repeat it.
(Id. at 12.)
Defendants were sentenced as indicated above, and these appeals followed.
On appeal, defendants contend principally that their pleas of guilty were invalid because the district court did not comply with Rules 11(c) and (f) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Mancusi and Giordano also contend that the court should have granted their motions to withdraw their pleas, and they challenge their sentences. All of these contentions are meritless.
A. The Rule 11(c) Challenges
As discussed in greater detail in Part II.B. below, § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) makes it unlawful for a person to conduct a financial transaction involving the proceeds of a specific type of unlawful activity listed in § 1956(c)(7) if the person knows that the property involved in the financial transaction represents the proceeds of any form of felonious activity and knows that the financial transaction is designed in whole or in part to conceal or disguise the source of those proceeds. Defendants contend that in pleading guilty to violating and conspiring to violate this section, they did not understand the nature of the charges, and thus their pleas violated Rule 11(c). The record does not support their contentions.
Rule 11(c) provides, in pertinent part, as follows:
(c) Advice to Defendant. Before accepting a plea of guilty ..., the court must address the defendant personally in open court and inform the defendant of, and determine that the defendant understands, the following:
(1) the nature of the charge to which the plea is offered....
Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(c)(1). This Rule, which also requires the court to inform the defendant of, inter alia, the range of penalties for the crime, the right to counsel, and the rights the defendant will forgo by pleading guilty, is designed to assist the district judge in making the constitutionally required determination that a defendant's guilty plea is truly voluntary. See, e.g., McCarthy v. United States, 394 U.S. 459, 465, 89 S.Ct. 1166, 1170, 22 L.Ed.2d 418 (1969). We therefore require "strict adherence to the mandates of Rule 11 .... [and] we examine critically even slight procedural deficiencies to ensure that the defendant's guilty plea was a voluntary and intelligent choice, and that none of the defendant's substantial rights ha[s] been compromised." United States v. Parkins, 25 F.3d 114, 117 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 1008, 115 S.Ct. 530, 130 L.Ed.2d 433 (1994).
But while Rule 11 imposes strict requirements on what information the district courts must convey and determine before they accept a plea, it does "not ... tell them precisely how to perform this important task in the great variety of cases that ... come before them." United States v. Saft, 558 F.2d 1073, 1079 (2d Cir.1977) (emphasis in original). The court may of course inform the defendant of the nature of the charges by describing the elements of the offense in the court's own words. Or the court may provide that information by reading the indictment to the defendant where the pertinent count spells out the elements of the offense and the circumstances indicate that this will be sufficient. See generally Seiller v. United States, 544 F.2d 554, 563 (2d Cir.1975); United States v. Saft, 558 F.2d at 1076 (reading of indictment by court clerk may be sufficient). What is essential, however, is that the court determine by some means that the defendant actually understands the nature of the charges. As the Supreme Court has stated,
[t]he nature of the inquiry required by Rule 11 must necessarily vary from case to case, and, therefore, we do not establish any general guidelines other than those expressed in the Rule itself.... In all such inquiries, matters of reality, and not mere ritual, should be controlling.
McCarthy v. United States, 394 U.S. at 467 n. 20, 89 S.Ct. at 1171-72 n. 20 (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted). The district court is entitled to accept a defendant's statements under oath at a plea allocution as true. See Blackledge v. Allison, 431 U.S. 63, 74, 97 S.Ct. 1621, 1629, 52 L.Ed.2d 136 (1977). This Court, in assessing a district court's finding that the defendant understood the nature of the charges to which he pleaded guilty, is entitled to consider the entire record. See, e.g., United States v. Parkins, 25 F.3d at 118.
Notwithstanding the detailed requirements of Rule 11(c), Rule 11 also contains a harmless-error provision:
(h) Harmless Error. Any variance from the procedures required by this rule which does not affect substantial rights shall be disregarded.
Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(h). Though the kinds of Rule 11 violations that can properly be considered harmless error are "fairly limited," it is clear that one of the purposes of this provision was to permit rejection of a Rule 11(c) challenge where the record plainly shows that the defendant understood the nature of the charges despite a flawed inquiry by the court, for the advisory committee stated that harmless error could properly be found
where the judge's compliance with subdivision (c)(1) was not absolutely complete, in that some essential element of the crime was not mentioned, but the defendant's responses clearly indicate his awareness of that element.
Fed.R.Crim.P. 11 Advisory Committee Note (1983) (Rule 11(h)).
In the present case, although the district court's statements could have been more detailed in explaining the elements of money laundering, the record plainly reveals that each defendant understood the nature of the charges to which he was pleading guilty and that the alleged error in the court's performance of its Rule 11(c) duties was entirely harmless. After the recess on November 6, 1995, the government and defendants submitted to the court the respective plea agreements. Each defendant also submitted his own written Petition To Enter Plea of Guilty ("Plea Petition") which he signed in the presence of his attorneys and in open court and in which he acknowledged having certain information and answered certain questions in his own words and in his own handwriting. For example, each petition contained a form paragraph that stated
I have received a copy of the Indictment (Information) before being called upon to plead, and have read and discussed it with my attorney, and believe and feel that I understand every accusation made against me in this case.
(Plea Petition p (8)(a).) Each petition form instructed the defendant to, inter alia, set out "in his own handwriting ... his own statement as to each count with which he is charged," describing "what occurred which shows that I am, in fact, guilty of each charge or charges to which I am now offering to plead 'GUILTY.' " (Plea Petition p 26 & n.*.) In response to this instruction, Giordano, for example, wrote thaton fourteen occassions [sic ], I conspired with Codefendant [sic ] to transport large sums of money. The total amount was approximately six million dollars. The money was transpoted [sic ] to Hong Kong. I knew the source of money was from an illegal source.
(Giordano Plea Petition p 26.) The pertinent handwritten portion of Maher's plea petition stated:
From Jan. 1990 to June 1991, I agreed with others to deposit monies in banks which I knew to be from unlawful activities. I knew this conduct concealed the location and source of such money. I did this on a number of occasions.
(Maher Plea Petition p 26.) After the court reviewed the plea agreements and petitions, there followed a hearing at which all defendants and their attorneys were present, and the district court addressed each defendant personally in turn.
First addressing Mancusi, the court determined that he had received a copy of the indictment, that he had more than once discussed the charges in the indictment with his attorney, and that he understood the charges and needed no further time to consider them:
Q. Mr. Mancusi, have you received a copy of the indictment which is the written statement of the charges against you in this case?
A. Yes, I have.
Q. And have you fully discussed those charges and the case in general with Mr. Bress as your lawyer?
A. I have, just went through it again.
Q. Are you fully satisfied with the counsel and representation and advice that you've received in this case from Mr. Bress, your counsel?
A. As far as Mr. Bress'[s] advice I think it was excellent, but, and I'm starting to understand the charges for what they are.
Q. You say you're starting to understand them?
A. Right. I understand them, your Honor.
Q. Do you want more time to discuss them with Mr. Bress?
A. No, we just went over it again, and I understand it.
(Transcript, November 6, 1995 ("Tr."), 1146-47.)
Stating that Mancusi was "pleading to Count One which charges you with conspiracy to launder money and to Count Two which charges you with laundering money," the court asked, "What did you do that leads you to plead guilty to those counts?" (Tr. 1153; see also id. 1158-59 with regard to count 59.) Mancusi responded:
Your Honor, in my opinion what I did that was wrong was I transported money from the United States to Hong Kong, and there I deposited in a savings account, and from that point that savings account was used, unbeknownst to me, but for illegal profit, and that's what occurred for myself and Mr. Giordano.
(Tr. 1154.) In addition, although Mancusi denied that the purpose of the deposits was concealment of the ownership of the money, he indicated that the purpose was to conceal its source. For example, when the court asked, referring to Mancusi's plea petition, whether the purpose was concealment of "the source and the ownership," Mancusi responded, "Well, see, your Honor, that's not entirely true" and stated that the purpose was "not to conceal any ownership." (Tr. 1154 (emphases added).) Mancusi added that he had sufficient intelligence to be aware that the funds he carried were from an unlawful source:
All I was given was the name of the savings account of this individual, and then all of the destruction [sic ] came from that savings account and where it went, but I agreed I carried the money. It totaled almost seven and a half million dollars so I wasn't a moron. I started to realize something must be wrong with this money, but then it was too late. So actually I illegally transported funds which I felt were illegal, gained by illegal enterprise.
(Tr. 1154-55.) The court asked further questions to confirm that Mancusi deposited the transported money into accounts that were in neither his own name nor Giordano's (see Tr. 1163), and that although Mancusi denied knowing that the money he transported to Hong Kong came from narcotics trafficking, he knew it was the proceeds of some unlawful activity (see id. 1162 ("THE COURT: You did know that [the money you transported came from illegal sources], didn't you, Mr. Mancusi? DEFENDANT MANCUSI: Yes. After the third trip I assumed that was the case. ")).
Next addressing Giordano, the court questioned him in part as follows:
Q. You are familiar with Count One that charges you with conspiracy, that is, agreeing with others to launder money, with the actual laundering of the money in Count Two, and the forfeiture claim....
What did you do that leads you to plead guilty to those counts?
A. I with other people gave Mr. Mancusi money to transport to Hong Kong which I believed came from illegal sources, but I had no idea that was drug money, your Honor, that was being put into the drug account, but I believed it was illegal sources. But we found out in court that was a big drug account group that the money was going to.
Q. What was the purpose of having it go over to Hong Kong?
A. To be put into an account.
DEFENDANT GIORDANO: To conceal the source of the money....
Q. Was the amount involved a little over $6 million?
A. 7 million, your Honor.
Finally, addressing Maher, the court questioned him in part as follows:
Q. Have you received a copy of the indictment in this case?
A. Yes, I have, your Honor.
Q. Have you fully discussed the charges against you in this case and the case in general with Mr. Greenfield as your lawyer?
A. Yes, your Honor.
Q. You are pleading guilty to Count One which charges you with conspiracy, that is, an unlawful agreement to money launder, and guilty to Count Two which charges you with money laundering, and to Count Fifty[-]nine which seeks forfeiture of the proceeds of money laundering.
What did you do that lead[s] you to plead guilty to those crimes?
A. From January of '90 to June of '91 I agreed with others to deposit money in banks which I knew to be from unlawful activities. This was done to conceal the location and source of the money.
Q. Was the amount involved about $7 million?
A. Yes, your Honor.
Q. Did you carry out those activities that you had agreed to do?
A. Yes, your Honor.
(Tr. 1190-91.) Maher added:
A. .... I had no idea it was going into the hands of a drug dealer.
Q. Excuse me?
A. I had no idea it was going into the hand [sic ] of a drug dealer until all this compelling evidence came out over here. I just thought they were just trying to hide the, you know, hide a transaction.
These portions of the record reveal that each defendant acknowledged that he had read the indictment, had discussed the charges with his attorney, and knew that he was pleading guilty to counts charging money laundering and conspiracy to launder money and demanding forfeiture. Further, though each defendant denied knowing that the laundered money was the proceeds of narcotics trafficking, the record indicates that those denials reflected their efforts to avoid the three-step offense level enhancement that their plea agreements stipulated were required by Sentencing Guidelines § 2S1.1(b)(1), rather than any lack of understanding of the charges against them or any effort to claim innocence of those charges. Despite denying knowledge of the narcotics connection, defendants repeatedly acknowledged their guilt; and each defendant, when addressed personally by the court, admitted each offense element pertaining to his own conduct, stating that he had agreed to and helped to engage in a financial transaction involving money, that he knew the money was proceeds of some unlawful activity, and that the purpose of the financial transaction was to conceal the source of that money.
It is usually the better practice for the district court in conducting plea allocutions to detail the elements of the offenses charged in the counts to which the defendants are pleading guilty or to read those counts of the indictment to them; and it would have been preferable to do so here, where the trial had proceeded on all 59 counts and defendants were pleading guilty to only three. However, we are guided by reality rather than ritual, and we conclude that any deficiency in the court's explanation of those three counts was without a doubt harmless, for the record as a whole reveals that each defendant plainly understood the nature of the charges against him.
B. The Claim That There Was No Factual Basis for the Pleas
In addition to the requirements imposed by Rule 11(c), Rule 11(f) provides as follows:
(f) Determining Accuracy of Plea. Notwithstanding the acceptance of a plea of guilty, the court should not enter a judgment upon such plea without making such inquiry as shall satisfy it that there is a factual basis for the plea.
Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(f). Defendants contend that the factual-basis requirement was violated because the government's evidence at trial was factually insufficient to prove them guilty. We reject this contention because defendants misperceive the nature of the factual-basis requirement, the sources to which the court may look in making its determination, and the scope of § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i).
In requiring the district court to satisfy itself that there is a factual basis for the plea, Rule 11(f) does not require that the court be satisfied that a jury would return a verdict of guilty. Nor does it require the court to weigh evidence to assess whether it is even more likely than not that the defendant is guilty. Indeed, when the court considers a plea of guilty prior to trial, it often has no actual evidence to assess. Rather, Rule 11(f) requires the court to assure itself simply that the conduct to which the defendant admits is in fact an offense under the statutory provision under which he is pleading guilty:
The judge must determine "that the conduct which the defendant admits constitutes the offense charged in the indictment or information or an offense included therein to which the defendant has pleaded guilty." Requiring this examination of the relation between the law and the acts the defendant admits having committed is designed to "protect a defendant who is in the position of pleading voluntarily with an understanding of the nature of the charge but without realizing that his conduct does not actually fall within the charge."
McCarthy v. United States, 394 U.S. at 467, 89 S.Ct. at 1171 (footnotes omitted) (quoting Fed.R.Crim.P. 11 Advisory Committee Note (1966)) (emphasis ours).
In making its factual-basis determination, the court is not required to rely solely on the defendant's own admissions. The Rule
does not specify that any particular type of inquiry be made. See Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257, 261 [92 S.Ct. 495, 498, 30 L.Ed.2d 427] ... (1971): "Fed.Rule Crim.Proc. 11, governing pleas in federal courts, now makes clear that the sentencing judge must develop, on the record, the factual basis for the plea, as, for example, by having the accused describe the conduct that gave rise to the charge." An inquiry might be made of the defendant, of the attorneys for the government and the defense, of the presentence report when one is available, or by whatever means is appropriate in a specific case.
Fed.R.Crim.P. 11 Advisory Committee Note (1974) (Rule 11(f)) (emphasis omitted). Thus, so long as the facts relied on are placed on the record at the time of the plea, "the district court, in determining whether there was a factual basis for the plea, [i]s free to rely on any facts at its disposal--not just the admissions of the defendant." Irizarry v. United States, 508 F.2d 960, 967 (2d Cir.1975).
In the present case, the arguments of Mancusi and Giordano for the proposition that there was no factual basis for their pleas are essentially challenges to the strength of the evidence that the government had produced at trial. Those challenges, which are discussed in Part II.C. below, are irrelevant to the factual-basis inquiry. Maher appears to contend that there was no factual basis for his plea because he denied knowing that the money being laundered was the proceeds of narcotics trafficking. He argues that in order to establish a violation of § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i), the government must prove, inter alia, "that the defendant knows that the transaction is designed in whole or in part to conceal or disguise the nature, the location, the source or the control of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity" (Maher brief on appeal at 20), and that "for the purposes of the 'unlawful activity' and 'specified unlawful activity' elements, the factual requirements for both charges are identical and the issue before this Court the same as to both charges" (Maher brief on appeal at 21). He contends that because in his plea allocution he stated that he did not know the laundered money was going to drug dealers, the court could not find a factual basis for his plea. We disagree.
Even assuming that the court were required to find the requisite factual basis solely in a defendant's allocution, a proposition that is incorrect as a matter of law, and assuming that the trial evidence summarized by the government at the plea allocution were legally insufficient to show Maher's knowledge that the money laundered here was drug money, a proposition we need not reach, we reject Maher's factual-basis challenge because we do not accept the premise that his knowledge of the precise nature of the unlawful activity that produced the money he laundered was an element of a § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) offense. That premise inappropriately fragments § 1956(a)(1), reading part (B)(i) out of context and subverting the plain goal of the statute.
The substantive provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 1956 under which defendants were prosecuted read as follows:
(a)(1) Whoever, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conducts or attempts to conduct such a financial transaction which in fact involves the proceeds of specified unlawful activity--
(B) knowing that the transaction is designed in whole or in part--
(i) to conceal or disguise the nature, the location, the source, the ownership, or the control of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity...
shall be sentenced to a fine of not more than $500,000 or twice the value of the property involved in the transaction, whichever is greater, or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both.
18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i). The term "specified unlawful activity" is defined to include narcotics offenses in violation of Title 21 of the United States Code and many other federal and state crimes. See 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7). Subsection (c)(1) provides that, as used in § 1956(a)(1),
the term "knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity" means that the person knew the property involved in the transaction represented proceeds from some form, though not necessarily which form, of activity that constitutes a felony under State, Federal, or foreign law, regardless of whether or not such activity is specified in paragraph (7).
Id. § 1956(c)(1). Subsection (f) gives the district court jurisdiction over foreign acts of money laundering involving more than $10,000 if the money laundering conduct occurred partly in the United States or was performed by a United States citizen. Id. § 1956(f).
The first paragraph of § 1956(a)(1) is plainly crafted to distinguish between the actual source of laundered money and the defendant's knowledge as to the source of that money. The language of that paragraph requires proof that the laundered property "in fact" involved the proceeds of "specified unlawful activity," as that term is defined in subsection (f), but it does not require proof that the defendant knew what that unlawful activity was. As to the defendant's knowledge, the government need only prove that he "kn[e]w[ ] that the property ... represent[ed] the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity." Id. § 1956(a)(1) (emphasis added). This clear distinction is further confirmed by subsection (c)(1)'s definition of the "knowing ... some form of unlawful activity" phrase to mean that there must be proof that the defendant "knew" that the property to be laundered came from "some form, though not necessarily which form," of criminal activity, 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(1).
Part (B)(i) of § 1956(a)(1) too imposes a knowledge requirement, stating that the section applies to one who "know[s] that the transaction is designed ... to conceal or disguise the ... source [etc.] of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity." Although it might be argued that a person could not have such knowledge as to the purpose of the transaction without also knowing the nature of the specified unlawful activity, such an interpretation of part (B)(i) would nullify the careful wording of the first paragraph of § 1956(a)(1) which evinces the clear intent to reach a person who knows that he is dealing with the proceeds of "some" crime even if he does not know precisely which crime. We conclude that part (B)(i) must be read in the context of subsection (a)(1) as a whole, and that it does not require proof that the defendant knew which "specified unlawful activity" he was helping to conceal, but only proof that he knew that a purpose of the financial transaction was concealment of the source, ownership, etc., of the funds. In sum, we view part (B)(i) as simply adding a requirement that the defendant knew of the transaction's obfuscatory purpose.
This interpretation is supported by the section's legislative history. The congressional report describing the bill that included § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) repeatedly stated that in order to come within the section, a person "need not know" that the property involved in the transaction represents the proceeds of a specific type of unlawful activity, S.Rep. No. 99-433, at 11, 12 (1986) ("Senate Report"), and explained that the goal was to negate any possible defense of lack of knowledge as to the specific type of activity that generated the funds to be laundered:
The section requires that the property involved in a transaction must in fact be proceeds of "specified unlawful activity," and that the participant to the transaction must intend to facilitate "specified unlawful activity" or know that the transaction is designed to conceal the proceeds of "specified unlawful activity." However, in order to fall within the section, the participant need not know that the property involved in the transaction represents the proceeds of "specified unlawful activity." He or she need only know that it represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity. This distinction is drawn in order to prevent a defendant from escaping conviction by merely alleging that he or she thought the property involved represented the proceeds of a crime not covered in the term "specified unlawful activity." It was reported to the Committee that such a defense has been successfully raised in other countries whose statutes do not draw the distinction drawn in this section and it is the Committee's intention to avoid that result.
.... As explained above, the significance of [the phrase "knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity" as used in section (a)(1) ] is that the defendant need not know exactly what crime generated the funds involved in a transaction, only that the funds are the proceeds of some kind of crime that is a felony under Federal or State law. This will eviscerate the defense that a defendant knew the funds came from a crime, but thought the crime involved was a crime not on the list of "specified" crimes in section (c)(7).
Senate Report at 10-12 (emphases added). Thus, in juxtaposing the knowledge requirement imposed in the first paragraph of § 1956(a)(1), with that imposed in part (B)(i), the Report stated that § 1956(a)(1)
has two "knowing" requirements. In order to prove a violation of the offense [sic ], the Government must show not only that the defendant knew the property involved in a transaction was the proceeds of crime, but also that the defendant either intended to facilitate a crime or knew that the transaction was designed to conceal the proceeds of a crime.
Senate Report at 9. The explanation that the government must prove that the defendant intended to facilitate "a" crime or knew that the transaction was designed to conceal the proceeds of "a" crime confirms that the second knowledge requirement, which is found in part (B)(i), was not intended to require proof that the defendant knew the specific crime with respect to which concealment was intended. Congress plainly did not mean part (B)(i) of § 1956(a)(1) to introduce the very knowledge requirement that, in the first paragraph of the section, it had taken such pains to exclude.
In light of Congress's clear intent that the reach of § 1956 be broad, this Court in United States v. Stavroulakis, 952 F.2d 686, 691-92 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 926, 112 S.Ct. 1982, 118 L.Ed.2d 580 (1992), concluded that knowledge as to what specific crime produced the money to be laundered is not required even under a subsection that does not include the "some form" language. In Stavroulakis, we considered what mens rea elements the government was required to prove in order to establish a violation of § 1956(a)(3), which makes it unlawful "to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of property believed to be the proceeds of specified unlawful activity " "with the intent ... to promote the carrying on of specified unlawful activity." 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(3) (emphases added). We considered whether a defendant could be convicted of conspiracy to engage in money laundering in violation of this provision when both he and his coconspirator believed the money was the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, but one believed the unlawful activity was narcotics trafficking and the other believed it was gambling. We ruled that, in order to commit a money laundering offense prohibited by § 1956(a)(3), a defendant need not know precisely what specified unlawful activity produced the money, so long as he believed that the money was from some unlawful activity:
Section 1956 creates the crime of money laundering, and it takes dead aim at the attempt to launder dirty money. Why and how that money got dirty is defined in other statutes.... The statute ... does not distinguish among these specified unlawful activities either in degrees of importance or levels of criminal culpability. All the specified unlawful activities are clustered, almost willy-nilly, under a single definition section of the statute. So long as the cash is represented to have come from any of these activities, a defendant is guilty of the substantive offense of money laundering.
United States v. Stavroulakis, 952 F.2d at 691 (emphasis in original). We concluded that whatever the illegal source, if it is within the statute's definition of specified unlawful activities, "[t]he crime is the same: money laundering; the particular underlying activity specified by Congress is a necessary, but ancillary concern." Id. (emphasis in original). The precise nature of the unlawful source, so long as it is one that is among those listed in the statute, is "an inconsequential detail" that the defendant need not have known. Id. at 692.
These observations apply with even greater force to § 1956(a)(1), which expressly extends the scope of the prohibition to a person who merely knows that the money to be laundered was generated by "some form" of crime. Given § 1956(a)(1)'s distinction between the requirement that a defendant "know[ ]" that the money was the proceeds of "some form" of unlawful activity, and the requirement that "in fact" it was the proceeds of a "specified" unlawful activity, we conclude that a violation of § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) is established if the government proves (1) that the defendant conducted a financial transaction; (2) that the transaction in fact involved the proceeds of specified unlawful activity as defined in § 1956(c)(7); (3) that the defendant knew that the property involved in the financial transaction represented the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity; and (4) that the defendant knew that the financial transaction was designed in whole or in part to conceal or disguise the source, ownership, control, etc., of those proceeds.
In the present case, the district court properly found a factual basis for each defendant's plea of guilty. The district court addressed each defendant as described in Part II.A. above, asking what each had done that led him to plead guilty. In each instance, the defendant stated that he had agreed with others to, and had taken steps to, have money transported to Hong Kong where it would be deposited in a bank account in a name other than one of the defendants; that he knew the money was the proceeds of some unlawful activity; and that he knew the purpose of those deposits was to hide the source of the money. These admissions alone, of course, were not sufficient to establish a factual basis for the pleas, for they did not show that in fact the laundered money was the proceeds of one of the specific unlawful activities listed in § 1956(c)(7). The basis for that last element, however, was clearly provided by the attorney for the government, who, summarizing the two weeks of testimony from the witnesses at trial, described on the record some of the evidence from which it could be inferred that Sanguandikul was a large-scale heroin dealer and that the laundered money that was placed into accounts controlled by Sanguandikul was the proceeds of drug trafficking, one of the activities specified in § 1956(c)(7). Giordano and Maher, asked by the court whether they had any effective defense against the evidence described by the government, stated that they did not (Tr. 1178, 1191); Mancusi, as part of his response to the government's recitation and the court's question, said, "Yes, I'm guilty. I'm not saying I'm not guilty...." (id. 1161). The summarized trial evidence, together with the conduct admitted by defendants, established the requisite factual basis for their pleas of guilty.
C. The Claims of Insufficiency of the Evidence
Mancusi, conceding that the government was not required to prove that he knew the laundered money was proceeds of specified unlawful activity but only that he knew that it was the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, and conceding that the government did prove the latter (Mancusi brief on appeal at 9), contends that the government did not present sufficient evidence to establish that in fact the proceeds came from narcotics trafficking. He argues, for example, that because prior to Castagnola's arrest the drug proceeds were transferred by wire, it could be inferred that defendants' physical transport instead of cash was related to some other enterprise. Along the same lines, Giordano argues that the evidence presented by the government at trial was insufficient "in virtually every material regard" (Giordano brief on appeal at 44), that each fact relied on by the government to incriminate him "has an entirely legitimate explanation" (id. at 3), and that "the government's case was based on nothing but inferences" (id. at 4). He argues, for example, as does Mancusi, that the government did not produce evidence as to the identity of narcotics buyers who would have paid Thongchai Sanguandikul the $7 million that Mancusi carried to Hong Kong.
These arguments could have been made to a jury if defendants had not pleaded guilty. Insofar as this appeal is concerned, however, they have been waived, for a defendant who pleads guilty unconditionally admits his guilt and waives his right to appeal all nonjurisdictional contentions. See, e.g., Hayle v. United States, 815 F.2d 879, 881-82 (2d Cir.1987) (factual issues waived by plea of guilty); United States v. Selby, 476 F.2d 965, 967 (2d Cir.1973) (per curiam); United States v. Doyle, 348 F.2d 715, 718 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 382 U.S. 843, 86 S.Ct. 89, 15 L.Ed.2d 84 (1965). While such a defendant retains the right to contend that there were errors in the proceedings that led to the acceptance of his plea of guilty, and he may argue that the district court failed to comply with Rule 11(f)'s requirement that the court be satisfied "that there is a factual basis for the plea," the latter requirement, as discussed in Part II.B. above, does not focus on the factual sufficiency or persuasiveness of the government's evidence but rather on the relationship between (a) the law and (b) the acts the defendant admits having committed, along with other pertinent facts culled by the court from the government's proffer or from elsewhere. Questions that a defendant might raise as to which of competing inferences should or might be drawn, or whether there are innocent explanations for behavior that could be viewed as culpable, do not survive his plea of guilty.
In sum, where, as here, we have concluded that the district court adequately complied with the requirements of Rule 11, or where there was error but it was harmless, we will not entertain a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence.
D. The Challenges to the Denial of the Plea Withdrawal Motions
We also reject the contentions of Mancusi and Giordano that the district court erred in denying their motions to withdraw their pleas of guilty. A defendant has no automatic entitlement to have such a motion granted, for "[s]ociety has a strong interest in the finality of guilty pleas," and allowing withdrawal of pleas not only "undermines confidence in the integrity of our judicial procedures," but also "increases the volume of judicial work, and delays and impairs the orderly administration of justice." United States v. Sweeney, 878 F.2d 68, 70 (2d Cir.1989) (per curiam) (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted); see also United States v. Burnett, 671 F.2d 709, 712 (2d Cir.1982). "The fact that a defendant has a change of heart prompted by his reevaluation of either the Government's case against him or the penalty that might be imposed is not a sufficient reason to permit withdrawal of a plea." United States v. Gonzalez, 970 F.2d 1095, 1100 (2d Cir.1992); see United States v. Hughes, 325 F.2d 789, 792 (2d Cir.) (belated claim of innocence not sufficient to require granting of motion to withdraw plea), cert. denied, 377 U.S. 907, 84 S.Ct. 1167, 12 L.Ed.2d 178 (1964).
Where a motion to withdraw a plea of guilty is made before sentencing, the court may grant the motion pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 32(e) if there are valid grounds for withdrawal and granting the motion would be fair and just, giving due regard to any prejudice the government might suffer as a result. See United States v. Figueroa, 757 F.2d 466, 475 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 840, 106 S.Ct. 122, 88 L.Ed.2d 100 (1985). The defendant bears the burden of showing that there are valid grounds for relief. See United States v. Rodriguez, 968 F.2d 130, 140-41 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 847 (1992); United States v. Quinones, 906 F.2d 924, 928 (2d Cir.1990), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 1069, 111 S.Ct. 789, 112 L.Ed.2d 851 (1991). Only if the defendant makes such a showing will the government be required to show prejudice, and then the court must exercise its discretion in balancing these competing concerns. See United States v. Figueroa, 757 F.2d at 475-76; United States v. Saft, 558 F.2d at 1083. The district court may require an evidentiary hearing if the defendant has presented "some significant questions concerning the voluntariness or general validity of the plea," United States v. Gonzalez, 970 F.2d at 1100, but it need not hold such a hearing if the movant's allegations "merely contradict[ ][his] earlier statements made under oath at his plea allocution," id. at 1101. The district court's denial of a motion to withdraw a plea of guilty is reviewed only for abuse of discretion. See, e.g., United States v. Vega, 11 F.3d 309, 313 (2d Cir.1993); United States v. O'Hara, 960 F.2d 11, 13-14 (2d Cir.1992).
Mancusi and Giordano, in support of their motions to withdraw their respective pleas of guilty, argued principally that they did not understand the charges, that they were innocent, and that the evidence submitted by the government at the aborted trial was insufficient to convict them. Giordano submitted to the court documents and affidavits from his codefendants and others to support his contention that he was innocent. The court properly rejected the claims of lack of understanding for the reasons discussed in Part II.A. above, and, given the standards discussed below, it plainly did not abuse its discretion in rejecting defendants' claims of innocence and insufficiency of the evidence.
It is well established that a defendant who challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction after a jury verdict bears a heavy burden. In reviewing such a challenge, an appellate court is required to view the evidence, "whether direct or circumstantial, in the light most favorable to the government, crediting every inference that could have been drawn in its favor," United States v. Gordon, 987 F.2d 902, 906 (2d Cir.1993), and to deem the evidence sufficient if "any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime," United States v. Rivera, 971 F.2d 876, 890 (2d Cir.1992) (internal quotation marks omitted) (emphasis in original). The same standard is applicable to a district court reviewing a motion for a judgment of acquittal. See generally Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 318-19, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 2788-89, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979); United States v. Taylor, 464 F.2d 240, 243 (2d Cir.1972); 2 C. Wright, Federal Practice and Procedure § 467, at 658-65 (1982); id. at 663-65 ("It is not for the [district] court to assess the credibility of witnesses, weigh the evidence or draw inferences of fact from the evidence.... The court must ... take the view of the evidence and the inferences therefrom most favorable to the government." (footnotes omitted)).
The burden of a defendant who has been convicted after pleading guilty, and who contends thereafter that he should be allowed to withdraw his plea because he is innocent, is plainly no less heavy. The self-inculpatory statements he made under oath at his plea allocution "carry a strong presumption of verity," Blackledge v. Allison, 431 U.S. at 74, 97 S.Ct. at 1629, and the court, in reviewing the belated claims of innocence, must draw all permissible inferences in favor of the government and against the defendant, especially when, as here, the defendant has gone to trial, heard most of the government's evidence, and then pleaded guilty, describing his wrongdoing and acknowledging that he could not effectively defend against that evidence.
The defendants here have not met their burden, for the district court was, in all the circumstances, entitled to reject the newly advanced innocent explanations for their behavior and to credit instead the evidence that had been presented at trial and in the defendants' own earlier descriptions of their conduct. For example, Giordano's motion, surprisingly asserting that "Mr. Giordano always has maintained his innocence" (Affidavit of David I. Schoen dated May 22, 1996 ("Schoen Aff."), at 3), claimed that Mancusi had obtained the funds in question in Hong Kong legitimately from Korean investors. Yet Giordano himself, in pleading guilty had said, "I with other people gave Mr. Mancusi money to transport to Hong Kong which I believed came from illegal sources, ... I believed it was illegal sources." (Tr. 1175-76.) And though Giordano's new contention was that the money was meant for lawful investments in Liberia, at his plea allocution he had stated that the purpose of the Hong Kong deposits was "[t]o conceal the source of the money." (Tr. 1176.) Giordano's own allocution thus contradicted virtually every aspect of the explanation advanced in his motion. In addition, his motion proffered, inter alia, a lengthy affidavit from Mancusi supporting Giordano's description of the Korean-investors explanation. Yet Mancusi did not submit such an affidavit in support of his own motion to withdraw his plea, and in his own plea allocution, Mancusi had said
I transported money from the United States to Hong Kong, and there I deposited in a savings account, and from that point that savings account was used, unbeknownst to me, but for illegal profit, and that's what occurred for myself and Mr. Giordano.
(Tr. 1154.) Mancusi, noting that he had been given a total of more than $7 million to take to Hong Kong with only a single slip of paper bearing the name of a savings account, said in his plea allocution that though he did not know the money came specifically from narcotics trafficking, "I wasn't a moron"; "I illegally transported funds which I felt were illegal, gained by illegal enterprise." (Tr. 1155.)
The district judge, who had addressed each defendant individually in conducting the plea inquiries and who had had the opportunity to observe their demeanor and assess their credibility, was plainly entitled to reject the belated claims of innocence that contradicted their credible pleas of guilt. And though Giordano's motion argued that despite the government's documentary evidence, there were "alternative noninculpatory possibilities" (Schoen Aff. at 8), the district court properly drew all permissible inferences in favor of the government. The court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motions of Mancusi and Giordano to withdraw their pleas of guilty on the ground that they were actually, or could conceivably be found to be, innocent.
Mancusi and Giordano also contend that they should have been allowed to withdraw their pleas because they had received ineffective assistance of counsel. We reject these contentions substantially for the reasons stated by the district court in denying the motions.
Mancusi and Giordano also challenge their sentences. Their challenges are not properly before us because they have been waived. In their respective plea agreements, defendants stipulated to various offense levels under the Guidelines and acknowledged various sentencing ranges that would be applicable with respect to those offense levels in light of their respective criminal history categories. To the extent pertinent here, defendants further agreed not to appeal "any sentence within or below the stipulated Guidelines range[s]." With respect to Mancusi, the pertinent stipulated range was 108-135 months' imprisonment; he was sentenced to 108 months. With respect to Giordano, the pertinent stipulated range was 121-151 months' imprisonment; he was sentenced to 151 months.
"In no circumstance ... may a defendant, who has secured the benefits of a plea agreement and knowingly and voluntarily waived the right to appeal a certain sentence, then appeal the merits of a sentence conforming to the agreement." United States v. Salcido-Contreras, 990 F.2d 51, 53 (2d Cir.) (per curiam) (dismissing appeal), cert. denied, 509 U.S. 931, 113 S.Ct. 3060, 125 L.Ed.2d 742 (1993); see United States v. Rivera, 971 F.2d at 896. Accordingly, we decline to address their sentencing contentions.
We have considered all of defendants' contentions on these appeals and have found them to be without merit. The judgments of conviction are affirmed.
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Protesters demanding better housing rights in Italy have clashed with police in central Rome.
Reports say at least six people including four police officers were slightly injured and taken to hospital. There were several arrests.
As some demonstrators threw bottles, eggs and tried to mount an armoured vehicle, the police responded using batons and tear gas.
Several hundred people including a number of immigrants had rallied in response to the call of a housing protest group.They demand the right to be housed and denounce forced evictions for unpaid rent.
“We believe that Ignazio Marino (the Mayor of Rome) should be banging his fists on the table today. He must absolutely insist on an end to the evictions of those who can’t pay,” said activist Paolo Di Vetta.
Maurizio Lupi, the minister responsible for housing, has announced that in 2014 two funds worth a total of 140 million euros of aid will be put towards helping tenants in difficulty. But no change is in sight regarding the law on evictions.
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The contest’s primary goal was to boost GE’s profile among collegiate consumers, says Steve Canale, manager of recruiting and staffing services.
"But as a byproduct, we were helping to attract and recruit students," he says. "It definitely helped with the overall image on campus of GE as an employer."
The contest, called the Ecomagination Challenge, fielded more than 100 proposals, later winnowed down to 10 finalists. Earlier this year, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won for its solar-powered processor. Throughout the contest, a snazzy Web site detailed its progress. On the lower left-hand side, a discreet link glowed in a moss-green color, announcing: "Jobs at GE."
In the race to attract the most talented, innovative employees, some companies like GE are painting themselves in green—a rich environmental green—to boost their recruiting leverage. An environmental pedigree, recruiting experts say, can help lure applicants.
In a 2006 Conference Board report, 78 percent of 198 multinational companies surveyed described corporate citizenship, including good environmental practices, as very or extremely important in recruiting and retention. And employees are paying attention: One-third reported that they would prefer to work for an environmentally sensitive company, according to a 2007 Harris Interactive survey of nearly 2,500 U.S. adults conducted for staffing firm Adecco USA.
Still, so-called green recruiting has only emerged in the past couple of years, even among companies with ample reason to tout their credentials, says John Sullivan, a human resources consultant and professor of management at San Francisco State University’s College of Business. "If you want an advantage in recruiting, here’s one of them," he says. "At this point, it’s not one that many companies are using."
Job applicants themselves are driving this recruiting shift, says Nicholas Eisenberger, a managing principal at Green Order. The New York-based firm, which consults with companies on environmental strategy, helped develop the Ecomagination Challenge.
At a law firm, Eisenberger says, it’s not uncommon now for applicants to ask: Where does that wood paneling come from in the lobby? Paul Richard, vice president of human resources at Shaw Industries, says younger applicants don’t mince words, asking: What are you doing for the environment?
Midcareer professionals, those with a spacious office and title to match, also may be searching for a new job, one with a higher purpose, says Lisa Walker, a senior client partner at Korn/ Ferry International, the Los Angeles-based executive recruiting company. Environmental sensitivity is one shorthand way to assess how a company treats its employees, she says. "It shows that this company cares for something more than just profits."
Burnishing your green ... credentials
Want to highlight your company’s green credentials? You need to offer potential employees more than a hybrid car reimbursement, although that’s a good start, Sullivan says.
Plug environmental successes wherever possible—in job descriptions, recruiting advertisements and during interviews with applicants, Sullivan says. Raise your stature as a "green" resource by getting quoted in the press. And maximize the company Web site, Sullivan says. Don’t just describe your company’s recyclable products, but also estimate how many pounds they keep out of the landfill.
On its Web site, GE does just that, touting that the company’s wind turbines "prevent as much as 18.3 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, an amount roughly equal to keeping over 3 million cars off the road." But there’s always room for improvement, Canale says. An ongoing redesign of the careers section will more prominently display such environmental information, he says.
To sell green recruiting to upper management, be sure to track data and measure results, Sullivan suggests. A good strategy is to survey job prospects, once they accept a position, to determine whether the company’s environmental record played a role, he says.
During Shaw’s latest employee survey, conducted in late 2006, a few environmental questions were added, Richard says. Shaw has a number of environmental initiatives, including a recycling program projected to keep as much as 300 million pounds of carpet waste annually out of the landfills.
The employee responses to the survey were overwhelmingly green, Richard says, revealing a recruiting sweet spot. Of the 2,520 Shaw employees surveyed, 80 percent said they were very or extremely interested in environmental concerns.
Assessing the direct impact of green recruiting isn’t always easy, GE’s Canale says. During the college challenge, job applications did increase, he says. But those related to the challenge weren’t tracked separately from other college recruiting activities.
Canale, however, doesn’t need to be convinced. To his recruiting list, he’s added at least one member of MIT’s winning team.
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Rouge: Ford cars or no spot in the lot
The truck factory, which hosts tours, is the automaker's only plant to set rule for workers.
Bryce G. Hoffman / The Detroit News
About Dearborn Truck
Product: Ford F-150 pickup
Employees: 2,600 hourly; 200 salaried
Notable facts: Features a "living roof" with grass and is open to public tours
View the sign:http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi...Q=100&MaxW=500
DEARBORN -- Plant manager Rob Webber delivered a blunt message to workers at Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn Truck factory this week: If you work at Ford, you better drive a Ford. Otherwise, park across the street and walk.
The new policy at Dearborn Truck, the modern centerpiece of the famed Rouge industrial complex and the site of popular factory tours, comes as Ford officials have been exhorting workers to rally behind the automaker's massive turnaround effort.
Losing money and sales in North America, Ford on Monday announced plans to close as many as 14 plants and cut up to 30,000 blue-collar workers.
"It was something this plant manager took upon himself. It's not a companywide policy," said Ford spokeswoman Anne Marie Gattari, adding that Ford supported the decision, which was made in con*****tion with local union leaders.
Beginning next Wednesday, only vehicles manufactured by Ford or one of its subsidiaries can be parked on the plant site. Employees in non-Ford vehicles can still park in the employee lot across Miller Road and walk to the factory, Gattari said.
'Everybody's in this together'
Jerry Sullivan, president of United Auto Workers Local 600, which represents some 2,600 workers at the plant, said both the union and the company wanted to get people's attention.
"Everybody's in this together. (We need) to buy the products we make and support the company," Sullivan said. "This is a good place to start."
The UAW has a history of banning vehicles manufactured by Asian and European automakers from union hall parking lots -- particularly during recessionary periods.
But Harley Shaiken, a labor expert at the University of California-Berkeley, said this is the first time he has ever heard of either the union or an auto company moving to ban all competing products.
"When imports were banned, the notion was that you were supporting other autoworkers around the country," he said. "These are very troubled times. Autoworkers in general, and at Ford in particular, want to protect their own jobs."
Shaiken said he would not be surprised to see similar actions taken at other Big Three plants. General Motors Corp.'s Warren Technical Center has separate lots for non-GM vehicles.
Non-Ford cars defaced
In recent years, the UAW has put handbills on non-Ford vehicles -- and even on some vehicles made by Ford's Volvo, Land Rover and Jaguar units -- that were parked at the company's world headquarters in Dearborn.
Land Rover, Volvo and other foreign vehicles also have been vandalized while parked at the automaker's Dearborn operations.
The new ban at Ford's Dearborn Truck plant applies to both salaried and hourly workers with permits to park on site. About 15 percent of the 2,800 employees who work at Dearborn Truck have such permits.
The decision to bar non-Ford products from the plant site was announced during a town hall meeting at the factory convened to discuss the automaker's latest restructuring plan. "The place erupted in applause," Gattari said.
Workers differ on ban
But not everyone was clapping.
"They can't tell you how to spend your money," said one veteran skilled tradesman who did not wish to be identified out of fear of retaliation. "It's still a free country."
He drives vehicles manufactured by DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group because he can get a better deal on them. "I gotta go where I can get the most bang for my buck," the worker said.
Now, he plans to borrow a Ford vehicle before the ban goes into effect.
Other workers said they see the logic behind the ban.
"You buy what you build," said Dearborn Truck worker Rufus McWilliams. "That only makes sense."
While Dearborn Truck is the only Ford facility to impose such a ban so far, workers at some other plants said they would welcome similar rules.
The Dearborn Truck plant opened in 2004 as Ford was celebrating its 100-year anniversary. It was build as part of a $2 billion renovation of the Rouge facility and is considered a model of manufacturing efficiency, flexibility and environmentally friendly technology.
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I live on a road with a fantastic pharmacy located about 20 metres from my front door. This is bad, very bad. For my bank balance that is. For my skin, it's brilliant. It's looking better than it has done in months.
At the pharmacy near me they stock Avene, La Roche-Posay, Phyto, Dr Hauschka, Lierac and Nuxe- all brands you've probably seen raved about on beauty blogs from here to eternity. I've discovered something about them recently and it's something I think you'll like. But first, here is what I actually bought on a recent trip down the road:
Avene Cold Cream- This is a massive staple in my winter skincare routine. It's unapologetically thick and rich but sinks in very quickly and leaves just a slight layer of moisture. I use it to remove make up in the evening with a warm cloth and then reapply a little bit before I go to bed to moisturise. It retails at about £9 for 100ml.
Phyto Paris Phytokeratine shampoo and Phytobaume Reparateur conditioner: I've recently run out of the huge stock of Aussie I accumulated as an Aussie Angel (I recently decided to hang up my wings, *sob*) so I decided to treat myself to an expensive new haircare set. Well, £10 a bottle in my book is expensive but I know some would disagree. This Phyto range is made for damaged hair as the added keratine is there to resurface and restructure the strands apparently.
Firstly, it smells amazing! Like a spring garden just after the rain but if you don't appreciate similes, then it's just very fresh and natural. It's a thick shampoo and takes a while to lather but it washes out easily and leaves my hair feeling smoother straight away. I use it every other wash, mainly because I don't want it to run out, but also because I don't think my hair needs it every time.
The conditioner on the other hand, I am not a fan of. It's very strange. Thick again but this time it says on the back of the tube to 'wash out immediately'. Strange for a conditioner, non? Anyway, I've followed this a couple of times and washed it out quickly and thoroughly, but each time I've dried my hair afterwards there is very noticeable residue. I'll probably give it another go, but to be honest it's too much faff.
Anyway, the whole point of this post is that every time I've bought something from this pharmacy, they've heaped samples and trial products on me. Whether I've spent a fiver or £30, I've been allowed to help myself to a basket of generously-sized Avene mini's and have recently been gifted with two 15ml tubs of Lierac's Coherence Anti-aging Infra-red Moisturiser when I spent £10 on a cleanser. This retails at £66 for 50ml. This means that I've effectively been given £39.60 worth of free product plus all of the other bits and bobs.
I'm dreading the day I run out of this cream because, yes, I'm only 26 but I have some pretty deep laughter lines due to generally loving life (and*cough*beingasmoker) and this product has made a considerably big difference to them. As in, half an hour after I've applied it, they've almost disappeared. Crazy stuff.
Now obviously, my local pharmacy may just have very generous staff, but I genuinely recommend getting to your local ASAP to see if it's a nationwide phenomenon. I'm assuming all stockists of these brands are sent a bulk of samples so it just depends on how the shop want to distribute them. This is also one time that shopping locally in-store, rather than online, is more beneficial and allows you to invest in your community.
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Canadian Forest Service Publications
Decay fungi and associated rates of decay in standing trees killed by mountain pine beetle. 2008. Breuil, C. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria B.C. Mountain Pine Beetle Working Paper 2008-11. 19 p.
Available from: Pacific Forestry Centre
Catalog ID: 28843
Due to the mountain pine beetle (MPB) epidemic that has been occurring in BC for the past fifteen years, it is important to accurately identify and characterize the fungal species that may potentially damage wood and decrease its market values. While sapstaining fungi do not affect the structural properties of wood, many basidiomycetes (e.g., decay) also vectored by mountain pine beetles or other secondary beetles (e.g., Ips or ambrosia beetles) have a significant impact on the forest industry in British Columbia. This report focused on the characterization of 40 different basidiomycetous fungi that were isolated form 12 different sites across BC. Fungi were isolated from MPB-infested lodgepole pine trees in green, red, and grey stages from each of the 12 sites. The fungal diversity observed could be attributed to the geographic location, extent of the MPB epidemic in the area, and age and moisture content of the lodgepole pines. The decay fungi were identified and their ability to degrade both sapwood and heartwood was examined using the soil jar decay test. We also established the growth rate and lignolytic activity of the major isolates. Some species caused a significant wood weight loss in three months, indicating that wood structural components (cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin) were affected. The data generated could help foresters make more informed decisions regarding which trees should be rapidly harvested after MPB attack and which trees could be left alone for a specified period of time without reducing the wood structural quality. As a result, the forest industry could reduce the economic losses caused by the MPB epidemic. To further support the decisions made with regards to the harvest management of MPB-infected trees, the decay rates of various decay fungi at different moisture contents and temperatures need to be further characterized.
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The Home-Schooling Special
Today's choicest choice
For those who think about school choice, vouchers and charter schools are canonical. But going by the numbers, home schooling is the choicest item on the choice menu. A few thousand students use vouchers, and a million or more students attend charter schools, but home-schooled students, now estimated at some 2 million, outnumber the other two groups combined.
Home schooling is hardly foreign to the American experience. John Locke’s advice to parents in colonial America was to educate their children at home. He could not imagine “what qualities are ordinarily to be got from…a troop of playfellows [at school]…usually assembled together from parents of all kinds.” Even if the teacher’s industry and skill “be ever so great, it can[not]…be expected that he should instruct them successfully in anything but their books.”
But somewhere in the middle of the 19th century, John Locke’s advice was forgotten, schooling became compulsory, and home schooling had to be reinvented. The honor goes to the antibureaucratic, anticompetitive, “new Left” school of thought articulated by Ivan Illich and his articulate disciple, John Holt, who captured the imagination of the flower children of the sixties.
If the baby was born in hippieville, the toddler was soon kidnapped by Christian social conservatives. By 1990, 85 to 90 percent of all home schoolers came from the ranks of the Religious Right. Even Holt could not resist a Libertarian cry:
Some may feel that the schools teach a dog-eat-dog competitiveness; others that they teach a mealy-mouth Socialism…. What is important is not that all readers…should agree on these questions, but that we should…work for…the right of all people to take their children out of schools.
That right is to be found in the penumbra of the Constitution that guarantees the right of privacy, home schoolers say, but getting the Supreme Court to agree has not been easy. In a famous case, the Court was persuaded, on religious grounds, to exempt Amish adolescents age 14 and older from Pennsylvania’s compulsory education law. It said nothing about the right to home school younger children or the rights of those who have secular reasons for preferring education at home.
Then last July a California appeals court drew on the Amish decision to interpret an ambiguous California law as giving families the right to home school their children. Oddly enough, the same court had said—only a few months earlier—that no child could be taught at home except under the supervision of a certified teacher. The court changed its mind, however, after Governor Schwarzenegger, the state secretary of education, and leading newspapers, to say nothing of highly organized groups of home schoolers, condemned the court’s action. Reversing itself, the California court concluded that ambiguities in state law should be interpreted in a way that makes them consistent with the federal Constitution. If Amish adolescents had the right to home school for religious reasons, that same right had to be given to all Californians.
The California decision is only the latest in a string of legal and political victories for home schoolers, who have parlayed Internet connections into a political potency that charter and voucher proponents have never matched.
The Internet is also feeding home schoolers an ever broader range of curricular options, so that families and students of all types—leftist, social conservative, rock star, or skateboard enthusiast—have easy access to the kind of instruction they desire. With improved educational materials readily available, home schoolers are winning spelling and geography bees, scoring off the charts on statewide tests, and gaining access to elite colleges.
As virtual schools, distance learning, sophisticated educational software, and synchronous online communication continue to spread, the movement is poised for rapid growth. Home schooling will segue into hybrid education, historian Milton Gaither says (see “Home Schooling Goes Mainstream” features). Some courses will be taken in school, others online. Students could attend district or charter schools during the elementary years but decide to take most high school courses online.
State legislatures are likely to become increasingly accommodating toward a movement that saves them money. The day may come when we hear the phrase, “We are all home schoolers now.” John Locke would be pleased.
— Paul E. Peterson
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Friday, 3rd May 2013
I refer to my previous updates, in relation to the continuing issue of the government’s approach to public service pay, and wish to advise you of the following:
1. Meeting with Labour Relations Commission (LRC)
I can now confirm that, as part of the LRC initiative at the request of government, the INMO met with the LRC on last Wednesday afternoon, 1st May 2013.
At this meeting the LRC representatives advised:
- that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform remain intent on accruing savings from payroll;
- they have advised the LRC that they are still considering primary legislation, to allow for this, and that they will also consider letters from government - circular letters - of instruction to each department to action this payroll saving;
- they have, however, requested the LRC seek opinion from the trade unions in relation to alternative means of achieving savings and they will receive a report back from the LRC next week.
The INMO representatives indicated the following:
- that the Croke Park 2 proposals, having been rejected, are now redundant;
- the INMO remains committed to delivering ongoing reform, within the health service, as provided for under the current Croke Park Agreement which also protects existing pay and conditions; and
- we are prepared to engage in a substantial reform programme, which will yield payroll savings, but this must protect all existing pay arrangements and conditions of employment.
There were further discussions, on this issue, yesterday, Thursday, 2nd May 2013, and we are currently awaiting further feedback from the Labour Relations Commission.
This approach from the INMO, which was approved by the Executive Council, at its special meeting on Tuesday, 30th April 2013, re-affirms our constructive approach, to delivering real change in the health service, which enhances patient care and improves efficiency.
A further update on this very important matter will issue if, and when, there are further developments.
2. Executive Council
The INMO Executive Council, as referred to above, met in special session, last Tuesday, 30th April 2013, to review all issues arising from the rejection of the Croke Park 2 proposals.
As indicated the Executive Council approved the constructive approach, from the INMO, to the LRC, towards finding further pay savings while protecting all existing pay arrangements, and we now await feedback on that issue.
The Executive Council also decided the following:
- there would be a special debate on this issue at the Organisation’s annual delegate conference next week in Letterkenny;
- this special debate, which will see an emergency motion from the Executive Council considered by delegates, will take place on Thursday morning, 9th May 2013; and
- the text of this emergency motion will be finalised by the Executive Council, at its pre-conference meeting on next Wednesday morning, 8th May 2013, and will then be published and circulated widely.
The Executive Council also agreed that the INMO should work closely, with the Irish Medical Organisation, in working up a significant change and transformation programme for the health service, as part of our alternative strategy to pay cuts within the public service. The Council also agreed that we should continue to develop collective strategies with the unions, and organisations in the 24/7 Frontline Services Alliance and the Alliance for a No Vote groups.
3. Annual Delegate Conference
Next week will see the 94th annual delegate conference, of the Organisation, take place in the Mount Errigal Hotel, Letterkenny.
The theme of the conference is “Protecting the Frontline” which we will interpret as referring to both the protection of standards and the protection of those who provide care.
While the conference will obviously be dominated by:
- issues arising with regard to public service pay and conditions; and
- the pressure on registered nurses and midwives of maintaining safe care and safe practice in the current clinical environment;
There will also be an opportunity for the Organisation to come together and re-affirm our collective support for each other and for a quality assured public health service in these challenging times.
We will issue daily bulletins, with regard to conference activities, and we will also be placing short podcasts, on our website, each evening.
As always can I thank you for your attention to this note and, as promised, further updates will issue, in addition to the annual conference updates, with regard to public service pay as required.
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