I'm not sure which notion is more disturbing – that possibility that Norm Ornstein believes what he has written in this National Journal article or the possibility that he does not believe it and is instead intentionally lying to us in his article on voting.
Well actually it isn't, despite that expansive and alarmist claim. After all, the decision in Shelby County v. Holder did not "eviscerate the Voting Rights Act" – it struck down one provision based upon the fact that it is not rational to base contemporary policy upon statistics from an election that took place half a century ago. The bulk of the Voting Rights Act remains intact – the burden of proof now reverts to the federal government to prove racial discrimination. And no one's vote is being suppressed.
One could use that analogy – or one could recognize that keeping the overturned test is akin to continuing to treat a patient with antibiotics because they had pneumonia 50 years ago and the antibiotics still haven't changed what is in the 50 year old medical records.
In North Carolina, a post-Shelby County law not only includes one of the most restrictive and punitive vote-ID laws anywhere but also restricts early voting, eliminates same-day voting registration, ends pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds, and bans many provisional ballots. Whatever flimsy voter-fraud excuse exists for requiring voter ID disappears when it comes to these other obstacles to voting.
"Restricts early voting"? Not really – there are the same number of hours of early voting, just fewer days. And last time I checked, there was no requirement in the Constitution for pre-registering those who will not be eligible to vote for years. As for doing away with same-day registration, long-standing Supreme Court precedent has held that there is nothing wrong with a 30-day deadline for registration. And as for the "flimsy voter-fraud excuse" – well, the US Supreme Court upheld such laws several years ago on the basis of that even if voter-fraud is uncommon, it is important enough an issue for states to require photo ID.
In Texas, the law could require voters to travel as much as 250 miles to obtain an acceptable voter ID—and it allows a concealed-weapon permit, but not a student ID, as proof of identity for voting. Moreover, the law and the regulations to implement it, we are now learning, will create huge impediments for women who have married or divorced and have voter IDs and driver's licenses that reflect maiden or married names that do not exactly match. It raises similar problems for Mexican-Americans who use combinations of mothers' and fathers' names.
In a recent election on constitutional issues, a female Texas District Court judge, Sandra Watts, who has voted for 49 years in the state, was challenged in the same courthouse where she presides; to overcome the challenge, she will have to jump through hoops and possibly pay for a copy of her marriage license, an effective poll tax on women.
The claim of a 250 mile round trip to obtain a proper photo ID is true – if one lives in one of the more remote, sparsely populated parts of Texas, it is possible but unlikely that you will need to make such a trip. Of course, something similar is true of going to vote on election day (folks sometimes have to travel as much as an hour, round trip, to reach polling places in some counties) – but Ornstein does not note that fact. The decision to allow a concealed-carry permit but not a student ID (which might not be government issued and does not require the stringent proof of ID of a concealed-carry permit) is not that outrageous – and that permit is only one of a number of forms of acceptable identification allowed under the law, as this video makes clear. Similarly, the "huge impediments" that Ornstein claims exist for women don't really exist – the provision for folks with similar names on the two documents allow for a great deal of leeway on the part of election officials at the polling place (folks like me, the presiding judge in my precinct) to allow folks to vote if the names are similar -- and here's another video that explains the issue quite well. And despite a few alarmist news reports (such as the false story Ornstein cites about one judge in one county who may – gasp! – have to get a copy of her marriage license to prove her identity), there have been relatively few folks in the state of Texas turned away or required to vote by provisional ballot over Voter ID issues. Not only that, but in Harris County, where there the city of Houston has a couple of significant city-wide races in addition to the county-wide referendum on the future of the Astrodome and a bevy of state constitutional amendment proposals, early voting is running significantly ahead of recent off-year turnout rates. Indeed, the media here in Texas reports that the law has caused virtually no problems statewide.
The Justice Department is challenging both laws, but through a much more cumbersome and rarely successful provision of the Voting Rights Act that is still in force. It cannot prevent these laws and others implemented by state and local jurisdictions, many of which will take effect below the radar and will not be challenged because of the expense and difficulty of litigation.
I'll just note that Ornstein's objection here is that in order to overturn a state law, the Justice Department is now required to go to court and prove it to be discriminatory rather than make such a declaration by fiat. Apparently the time and expense of due process of law -- not to mention the equality of all states under the law -- is an outrage that cannot be allowed to stand in the Land of Ornstein! And that he wants this power placed into the hands of what is demonstrably the most ideological and most corrupt Justice Department since the days of the Teapot Dome Scandal is evidence of his bad faith as well as his bad judgment.
Voter suppression is nothing new in America, as the pre-civil-rights era underscores. But it is profoundly un-American. The Texas law, promoted aggressively by state Attorney General Greg Abbott, the GOP choice for governor in next year's election, establishes the kinds of obstacles and impediments to voting that are more akin to Vladimir Putin's Russia than to the United States. Maybe we should change the state's name to Putinexas.
Oh, the humanity! Never mind that the only element of truth in the paragraph is that Attorney General Greg Abbott is a strong supporter of the new law -- Texas is now akin to the Russian thugocracy simply because it has a law that has not caused any of the problems that Ornstein is falsely claiming it has/will cause!
Looking at the demographics in Texas, the Republican authors of the law decided that suppressing votes was easier than changing either policies or approaches to appeal to the emerging elements of the state's electorate. In Virginia, with polls showing that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe's robust lead over Republican opponent Ken Cuccinelli is driven by a huge gender gap, it is not surprising that Republicans in Texas are trying to suppress the votes of women as much as those of Hispanic-Americans.
Of course, Ornstein has no data to work with here, but he has already divined that the law here in Texas is a voter suppression tool. Never mind that there is no indication of actual voter suppression -- it is the seriousness of the charge rather than its truth that matters!
A new Voting Rights Act would help to ameliorate some of these problems, especially if it applied nationwide (many of the restrictive laws are occurring in non-Southern states such as Indiana and Kansas). I have previously suggested a host of areas that could be included in a VRA 2.0 to make voting easier and more convenient. But despite the endorsement of a new VRA by influential Republicans such as Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, the odds of enacting new voting-rights legislation in today's thoroughly dysfunctional and hyperpartisan Congress are slim.
I guess that Norm Ornstein is suffering from amnesia. Efforts by Republicans to apply the Voting Rights Act nationwide -- or even to use data from more recent elections than those that brought us President's Johnson and Nixon -- were deemed to be anti-civil rights by Democrats in 2006. Only now, when the Supreme Court recognized that the old standard could no longer be justified due to the antiquated standard used to determine the application of one punitive provision, do the same folks who rejected such proposals deem them essential.
The effort should be accelerated. We need a modernized voter-registration system, weekend elections, and a host of other practices to make voting easier. But we also need to focus on an even more audacious and broader effort—a constitutional amendment protecting the right to vote.
Many, if not most, Americans are unaware that the Constitution contains no explicit right to vote. To be sure, such a right is implicit in the 15th, 19th, and 26th amendments that deal with voting discrimination based on race, gender, and age. But the lack of an explicit right opens the door to the courts' ratifying the sweeping kinds of voter-restrictions and voter-suppression tactics that are becoming depressingly common.
Now there is a nugget of a good idea there -- after all, how can anyone object to enshrining the right to vote in the Constitution? Well, other than anyone who is actively involved in administering elections -- based upon my experience I have a number of concerns. As I see it, the problem is that any such amendment would have the same issues as the current system -- or perhaps worse problems. Would such an amendment allow for states to require voter registration? Would it allow for registration deadlines, or would same-day registration become the norm? Would such an amendment overturn the explicit sanctioning of felon disenfranchisement that is found in the Fourteenth Amendment? Would voters be permitted to vote in any precinct under this amendment, rather than only in their home precinct? And what of early voting -- would it be mandatory in all states, with a constitutionally established number of days and hours of early voting? In other words, would the amendment have little effect on how we currently hold elections, or would it impose a nationwide one-size-fits-all set of standards that would make the running of elections more difficult and expensive -- and put one more nail in the coffin of the concept of federalism? Such an amendment might even be deemed a stealth repeal of the Electoral College by either Congress or the Courts! Frankly, the only one of Ornstein's proposals that I find particularly interesting is the weekend date for federal elections -- something that would require a constitutional amendment to accomplish.
An explicit constitutional right to vote would give traction to individual Americans who are facing these tactics, and to legal cases challenging restrictive laws. The courts have up to now said that the concern about voter fraud—largely manufactured and exaggerated—provides an opening for severe restrictions on voting by many groups of Americans. That balance would have to shift in the face of an explicit right to vote. Finally, a major national debate on this issue would alert and educate voters to the twin realities: There is no right to vote in the Constitution, and many political actors are trying to take away what should be that right from many millions of Americans.
Reps. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., and Keith Ellison, D-Minn., have introduced in Congress a constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to vote. It has garnered little attention and no momentum. Now is the time to change that dynamic before more states decide to be Putinesque with our democracy.
And there you have my biggest reason for rejecting Ornstein's proposals and ridiculing his article -- they are based upon a partisan talking point for which he offers no proof whatsoever, namely that there is someone (Republicans) seeking to gain partisan advantage by stripping the ability to participate from Americans who don't vote for them. Given that Ornstein's underlying premise is so fundamentally dishonest, how can he even be taken seriously? And given that we have historically only amendment the Constitution when there is a demonstrable need to solve a critical problem, I'd argue that the burden for making the change is simply not met -- and that Ornstein's proposed amendment is akin to Prohibition, a symbolic change that will cause endless amounts of mischief due to the questions I raised earlier about its effects. I'm therefore quite pleased that the amendment Ornstein is pushing is gaining no traction.
By the way, here is the text of the amendment that Ornstein makes a push for at the end of this piece.
So vague as to be meaningless with a grant of power potentially so expansive as to strip the states of any effective control over any election. Talk about your bad ideas!
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The voting rights act has been distorted by bureaucrats and regulations and misinterpreted by left wing judges for one purpose only; to make it easier for the left to steal elections through voter fraud. Everyone on the left knows this and they know instinctively that this law and all it's malevolent interpretations are necessary for them to continue to hold power. To this end they will lie in your face and in the face of facts. The end justifies the means.
I can't find any quotes from Ornstein, Pocan, Ellison, or Holder about what the New Black Panther party did (refer to the WSJ article "Holder's Black Panther Stonewall.") Is this more of the selective, democrat outrage?


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|By TAP Staff|Takeovers abroad and a boost in treasury income helped Gulf banks increase revenues by more than 10% last year – the best combined performance since the crisis hit five years ago – with regional lenders easily outperforming their international counterparts, says Boston Consulting Group.
"We're seeing again double-digit growth in the region which, however, comes to a large extent because of international acquisitions of the banks," said Reinhold Leichtfuss, senior partner and managing director of BCG in Dubai.
Operating in relatively small domestic markets, banks in the oil-rich Gulf region in recent years have been acquiring assets abroad to tap new sources of growth. Most notably, Qatar National Bank and Dubai-based Emirates NBD in 2013 acquired the Egyptian assets of two French banks.
Those efforts appear to have paid off for both banks: ENBD reported a 27% rise in 2013 net profit compared to the previous year, while QNB posted a 13.7% increase in full-year net profit.
Revenues at Gulf banks have been growing since 2005 but at a slower, single-digit pace post-2008 due to the crisis, according to the BCG report based on the performance of 35 regional banks. Loan loss provisions are still rising slightly but not as dramatic as when the financial crisis caught up with the region in 2007 and 2008.
But not all banks are doing equally well, the report shows. Revenues at banks in the U.A.E. and Qatar are growing the fastest, while their counterparts in Bahrain and Oman are trailing behind.
A handful of banks even saw profits decline. For example, National Bank of Kuwait, the country's biggest bank, reported a drop in full-year net profit while Commercial Bank of Qatar also saw 2013 profits decline.
Meanwhile, international peers have been lagging behind the Gulf banks.
"The situation for the Middle East banks is much better, much more stable. These international banks have been impacted by the crisis much stronger than the Middle East banks," Mr. Leichtfuss said, adding that the difference in performance is largely due to the macroeconomic backdrop where regional Gulf economies have grown faster than the more mature markets in the West.
One consequence is that global banks have had to sell some of their international subsidiaries to strengthen their balance sheets which help open the door to banks from the Gulf to snap up assets outside their domestic markets.
Looking forward, Gulf banks should benefit from the potential easing of economic sanctions against Iran and the organization of events such as the World Expo in 2020, Mr. Leichtfuss said.
"There are more opportunities than risks and the major challenge is to participate properly in a growing market," he said.
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End of the Beginning () — второй сингл группы Black Sabbath с альбома 13 , выпущенный 15 мая 2013 года. Он достиг 38 места в чарте Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks.

Согласно утверждению автора текста Гизеру Батлеру на написание песни его вдохновили успехи клонирования и посвящена она страху перед «технологиями, которые готовы поработить человеческую расу». «Похоже, в конце концов, люди дойдут до того, чтобы клонировать Beatles. Я имею в виду, что это уже происходит сейчас — посмотрите на выступление голограммы Тупака на Коачелле. И, в конце концов, я думаю, они начнут клонировать людей, таких как Beatles, и будут отправлять их в бесконечные туры».

Премьера песни состоялась в финальной серии 13-го сезона сериала C.S.I.: Место преступления. Группа снималась в серии, а также дала короткое интервью перед её премьерой. Живьём песня была впервые исполнена 20 апреля 2013 года во время выступления в Новой Зеландии. 11 июня, одновременно с началом продаж альбома, группы выпустила видеоклип.

Участники записи
 Оззи Осборн — вокал
 Тони Айомми — ведущая гитара
 Гизер Батлер — бас-гитара
 Брэд Уилк — ударные

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Песни Black Sabbath
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Песни, написанные Гизером Батлером
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When I read about the passing of Maurice Sendak earlier this week my thoughts were flooded with memories. Back to the days when I was not only a mother of two small children, but also the pre-school art teacher for a community arts education center. Gee it seems like yesterday, and Sendak's book Where the Wild Things Are played such an important role in helping me foster the imagination and creative process in the hearts and minds of the very young.
I vividly remember standing at the head of the table for my weekly classes. Eight to ten students, 3 to 5 year olds, all covered up in smocks that were way to big for them. They would be sitting on tall stools around a large canvas covered table that had been made for specifically for the clay studio. They would sit completely still, eyes wide...listening to every word I said as I read to them the story about the Wild Things.
"Wow, those Wild Things are really something! Have you ever seen a Wild Thing?
They live in the basement!
In your Closet?? Oh my gosh! Are they friendly?
Not mine, he scares me..his eye's glow.
I eat lunch with my Wild Thing.
You DOOO?? WOW, what do you guys eat?
Oh you're making my tummy 'so' hungry!
What does your Wild Thing look like?
Mine is big, and he has 3 heads and green skin!
Well mine is yellow and he has 3 hands and hops of one foot!
it look like? Would it be scary or happy? Would it swim or have feet? What color do you think it would be? And remember you need to think about food too. Your Wild Thing will probably get hungry so you may want to make him a snack for him!
and on and on the conversation would go until the kids...imaginations on overdrive...would dive into the clay to create their own little Wild Thing world.
During this time period my own two pre-school kids would also attend classes fairly often. And they would soak it all in, the book and discussions, fueling their own imaginations and ideas right along with everyone else.
I always tell people that your child at age 3 or 5 is not going to be that different from your child when they are grown and in their 20's. (something everyone finds hard to believe, but it's true). Well, its over 20 years later. My son always has, and always will be, a 'Wild Thing' in his own right. His creative imagination is still on overdrive and everyday as he continues to create his is own visual, imaginative world for himself and others to enjoy.
My daughter? Well, she never really was a 'Wild Thing'. She proclaimed from an early age that she was the 'Princess of the 'Wild Things'...a title that she still holds today. I have a feeling that she's waiting to become 'Queen'...but since I've already filled that role I guess she has a little longer to wait!
Enjoy your Mother's Day, your own little 'Wild Things' and thank you Maurice Sendak for inspiring so much joy and creative imagination in others with your wonderful little book!
And thank you to my own kids and all the other little 'Wild Things' that I've taught over the years, that have allowed me to play right along with them in my own 'Wild Thing World'.
It doesn't get any better then that!


Within the body of roasty oats and barley, there is spice at the heart of a stout ale. There are chocolate and caramel, coffee and molasses notes in those grains. Sometimes we add those literal items to accentuate the hints found in the base. This hopless ale doesn't attempt anything quite so obvious. Nutmeg, licorice, vanilla, bourbon and oak form the aromatic accents of this stout.
This saison recipe is part II of my five part series on hop-free ales. I have already transferred the ale to secondary and it smells fantastic. It's also my second attempt at ageing an ale on oak chips. This time I have soaked the french oak on some chardonnay, to replicate the effect of barrel-ageing in a chardonnay barrel. We'll have to see how well that goes, but the recipe for the main brew is below.
This is the first in a series of unhopped gruit ales I have been researching and planning for the past few months. The inspiration for this brew is the simple availability of certain herbs to our forebears in hedgerows and the margins of forests. The herbs I'm using are Nettle, Horehound, Yarrow, St. John's Wort, Elder (berry and flower). I am aiming to produce an ale that is analogous to an American Pale Ale. It will be around 6% with a medium-high level of bitterness.
This is going to be my last hopped ale for a little while. I decided on an English Pale Ale, of which ESB is the heaviest class. Maybe it's pure nostalgia, but I am really hoping to recreate the brews I drank back in Merry Olde England when I were a lad. So I got my (organic) Whitbread Goldings hops and my biscuit malt and my Marris Otter LME and my fingers crossed!
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Over the past year, I have been focused very much on improving my beer brewing knowledge and skills. Brewing different styles, brewing from kits and making my own recipes. Experimenting and reproducing. Today I am going to write about my most recent brew, which was bottled on December 9th 2013. It is a Belgian Wit style, brewed with seasonal spices.
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Read about all the parties here. And see the Google calendar of the parties (with locations and additional details) here.
There's everything from the staid cocktail party to the apocalyptic craziness of Clickbooth. Something for everyone.


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Information overload also adds the idea of evolutionary maladaptation, even though I haven't seen that term used explicitly. But that's clearly the argument being used – that the response of information workers to the proliferation of information is an evolutionary maladaptation, like that of humans being designed to seek and store fat to prepare for times of famine that never come in the developed world. The evolutionary maladaptation assumption silently underlies many of the studies, articles, and books related to information overload, e-mail overload, dangerous multi-tasking, and information stress.
But maybe it's not true. And that matters because it changes where one looks for solutions.
If you believe information overload is a maladaptation than solutions – fancy and detailed as they may be – really just boil down to resisting destructive urges. Or, as Lee Gomes of the WSJ worded it "I don't have much to offer in the way of solutions, save to nag everyone about steely self-discipline." If this is an example of humans being wired for self-destructive behavior, then it leads to lots of "protect you from yourself" advice.
But if, by chance, information overload is within the realm of consciousness and under rational control, different solutions apply. Process change becomes feasible since people can be be told what to do and have as much chance as any other process change of succeeding. No subconscious, caveman instinct ("Ugh, more information always good! May help me kill sabre tooth tiger or mate with woman!") will get in the way of altering people's behavior. Providing technology that enables new functionality (not just for putting blinders on you, locking you out, etc.) has a chance of working too.
I don't have the definitive answer, and I'm not sure there is one. But I do think that the same answers to "the information overload problem" (in quotes since I take a different angle on the issue) keep popping up because the same evolutionary maladaptation assumption is used. Trying a different assumption – one that puts the issue within the realm of higher reason to manage – can yield some different answers that should be explored.
I hadn't seen that video, but it's good food for thought. I'll have to blog on my full thoughts. Defining information overload as a filter issue captures half the problem according to my Enterprise Attention Management model. It captures the "pushing information back" (attention shielding) part, but not the "pulling information forward" part. Unless he means the filter is applied in both directions, which didn't come out in this speech.
I hadn't seen your email solution before. I like it – recognizing that there are different types of messages could certainly help.
I believe the maladaptation is at the level of the organizational culture, not the individual knowledge worker. Culture evolves much more slowly than technology; the growing ability to share info 24×7 has yet to meet with an adaptation of cultural mores and expectations as to what and when it may be inappropriate to share.
That said, I think much of the problem is within the realm of consciousness and under rational control, so I definitely think it can be mitigated.
Good point – it's the organizational culture (not life on Earth in general) that bred workers to behave a certain way, then can't change quick enough to adjust to the new environment.


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Q: Extract only id object to a new object How can I only take the id when I create a new array?
In the example below, my Permission object has a variable "id", that is all I need when I create my array.  I don't need the other properties of Permission, they should be null in the new array.
@Override
public List<Permission> extractPermissionsToId(Role role) {
    List<Permission> unextracted = role.getPermissions();
    List<Permission> extracted = new ArrayList<>();

    for (Permission permission : unextracted) {
        extracted.addAll(permission.getId());
    }

    return null;
}

A: If you would be comfortable with creating new Permission objects for your extracted list, then you may try something along the lines of the following:
for (Permission permission : unextracted) {
    Permission p = new Permission();
    p.setId(permission.getId());
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"A gripping tale of compulsion, obsession, and forgiveness, set so evocatively amidst the fogs and furies of the offseason Maine coast. It's also an intriguing exploration of the ways in which our ancestral pasts echo within our own psyches." --Lisa Alther, author of Kinflicks and Kinfolks
As children, Tam and her older brother were swimming when she suffered her first epileptic seizure. He pulled her from the water and was crowned a hero. Tam was labeled "disabled" and never swam again. And so began 30 years of vigilance, never allowing her body to betray her, never allowing her brother or her family or anyone else to influence her path. Now, in middle age, a lifetime's worth of control has taken its toll.
Exhausted, she heads to Maine where, while working on a genealogy project, she falls under the spell of two dead women: an ancestor, Mary Catherine, who died at 33; the other, the town ghost. Through their cloistered, tragic lives Tam relives her own life over and over--until a distant cousin forces her to see herself in a new light. This novel of one woman's quest to transcend self-imposed limitations is superbly crafted and richly satisfying, and "shows us how, through resuscitating our pasts, and rescuing each other, we might just save ourselves" (Alex Shakar, author of Savage Girl).
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"Shipwrecks, doomed lovers, family secrets, sea-babies, toilet-babies, and historical-reenactment sex are but a few of the facets of this deftly kaleidoscopic novel. With Waterbaby, Cris Mazza shows us how, through resuscitating our pasts, and rescuing each other, we might just save ourselves." -- Alex Shakar, author of Savage Girl
"With the wickedly wry observation, 'Family is always best,' Chris Mazza pierces the heart of this big-hearted novel. Mean and funny and, ultimately, loving, Waterbaby is the pitch-perfect tale of an all-American family in gothic and comic splendor. This is a delightful and delightfully smart book. --Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of An Almost Perfect Moment
"Packs a lingering wallop." --Kirkus Reviews
"Titled after the Charles Kingsley fairy tale, this dizzying novel opens on epileptic, prematurely retired Tam Marr-Burgess, who is pushing 46, and whose attempt to collude with her landlady in a minor fraud goes very bad. The result is an immediate, spectacular eviction. As Tam lights out from the Chicago suburbs, Mazza (How to Leave a Country) sets up several parallel narratives, each of which has echoes of the other: Tam is headed for the family enclave in Maine, where she had her first seizure when swimming at school, was either saved (the official story) or sabotaged (Tam's version) by her elder brother, Gary, and never swam again. On arriving, she rescues an infant from a Laundromat toilet, and then hides the baby and its petulant teen mother at the family lighthouse. She also joins her amateur genealogist sister, Martha, in digging up information on three mysterious figures: a baby saved from the waves by Tam's lighthouse-keeper ancestors, a relative named Mary Catherine, and a local ghost-all of whom may have things to tell them about their own lives." --Publishers Weekly --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
Cris Mazza is the author of Charlatan: New and Selected Stories and Waterbaby. Additionally, Mazza has sixteen other titles of fiction and literary nonfiction including Something Wrong With Her, a real-time memoir; her first novel How to Leave a Country, which won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction; and the critically acclaimed Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? She is a native of Southern California and is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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In the first decade of the 21st century, Cris Mazza's work as a novelist expanded as she has continued to consider psychological and emotional complexities of contemporary life, but began to do so with the contributing complication of place: How regions or localities that still have their own unique characteristics of landscape, society, and culture impact the human experiences (sexuality, family, authority, gender) that Mazza explores in fiction. Her 9th book in 2001, Girl Beside Him, inhabits rural Wyoming. Homeland, (2004) involves a woman and her elderly father grappling with a 30-year-old family tragedy while they also find themselves homeless, living in the canyons of suburban Southern California alongside migrant agricultural workers. Indigenous / Growing Up Californian (2003), Mazza's collection of personal essays, deals with place as it anchors memory and the reconstruction of experience. Waterbaby (2007) looks at how local 19th century legends still live and grow in a seacoast town in Maine. 2009's Trickle-Down Timeline married time and place, returning to Southern California in the Reagan era 80s. Mazza's forthcoming novel, Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls continues her unrelenting look at sexual anxiety, now expanding into the nearly unmapped world of outdoor sex slaves in Southern California, as a troubled woman trying to rescue one of them admits her horror has blended with envy.
In 1984 Cris Mazza's first novel (and 3rd book), How to Leave a Country, while still in manuscript won the PEN / Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction. The judges included Studs Terkel and Grace Paley. Some of her other notable earlier titles include Disability and Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? which was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal.
A native of Southern California, Cris Mazza grew up in San Diego County. Her BA and MA were completed at San Diego State University, then she crossed the country to finish an MFA in writing at Brooklyn College before returning to San Diego where she lived several years training and showing her dogs, completing her first 4 books, and teaching at various local colleges and universities, including UC San Diego, and was Writer in Residence at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN, then at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. Currently she is professor and director of the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.


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Police Commission OKs Plan For More Funding, Training for LAPD – Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News
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The Los Angeles Police Commission today approved an $18.5 million plan from the police department aimed at improving how it handles protests and civil unrest, but the City Council will need to approve the funding increase.
The Los Angeles Police Department — which has a $1.76 billion budget this fiscal year — had initially submitted a proposal seeking an additional $66.7 million to incorporate 106 recommendations from three reports that found the department mishandled aspects of its response to last year's protests against racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis.
The original request was reduced to $18.5 million when the police commission asked the LAPD to re-evaluate its recommendations and the cost. The three reports were released in March and April and found common
themes of lack of preparedness, training and unity of command.
The new proposal calls for nearly $12.6 million for training, with the top two priorities being mobile field force training and the use of less-lethal launchers, which the reports found officers weren't properly trained in and in some circumstances used against peaceful protesters.
The report called for all department officers to receive mobile field force training every two years, with half the department being trained one year and the other half the next. Much of the funding for training is for overtime for officers, so that it does not cut into patrol duty.
The department's proposed recommendations also include more than $4.1 million for technology and equipment, including for four officers and four intelligence analysts to form a new team monitoring social media. The budget
would also purchase social media software. Commander Randy Goddard told the police commission that social media software helps the department "due to the volume of information across so many platforms, channels, apps, and services.' "Software assists a small group of trained personnel in vetting and making sense of this information," Goddard said.
The LAPD's use of social media has already drawn some criticism. The Brennan Center for Justice, a nonprofit think tank based at New York University School of Law, reported on Sept. 8 that the department gives broad authorization to its officers to collect social media data from people they interact with on patrol. It also found that the department is set to begin using a new social media surveillance tool called Media Sonar, which identifies connections between people and builds individual profiles using data from 300 sources with 2 billion records.
Related: LAPD to Stop Detonating Explosives In Residential Areas After South LA Blast
Brian Hofer, who chairs Oakland's Privacy Advisory Commission, joined the commission meeting and said the department should create guard rails to prevent the software from being misused. "Products like Media Sonar and Dataminr are not benign. They can be extremely invasive to our privacy and civil liberties interests because they
provide analytical tools, that's what you're purchasing," Hofer said.
"Sufficient guard rails need to be put in place to distinguish between tracking people simply because they're using hashtag BLM versus some organizer for the Proud Boys saying `show up with baseball bats and a bag of bricks' … that's where you need to be able to draw those lines with community input to ensure that use is appropriate."
Goddard said the department would work to establish guard rails in an update to its 2015 social media guide, and Hofer said the department should periodically report to the commission on use of the products.
The reduction from the original $66.7 million request was made available to the public on Friday afternoon, which drew some criticism because it left only one business day for people to review it before submitting public comment to the commission. Both proposals were met with opposition from activists calling for a continued decrease to the LAPD's budget. Following the scaled-back proposal released Friday, activists reiterated their opposition to any additional funding for the LAPD.
"This is yet another police money grab, using LAPD's violence to increase police resources and spy powers," the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition said. "This is the opposite of what our communities faced down LAPD violence last summer to demand: defunding the police."
The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Los Angeles Community Action Network, Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles, White People 4 Black Lives and the National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles signed a letter to the police commission urging them to reject the proposal and commit to reducing the LAPD's budget.
"This is the moment to stop expanding an institution that keeps harming our communities. The interpersonal harms that our communities face have been produced by years of police consuming more and more resources that could instead be used for housing, health care, education and other investments that actually keep people safe and healthy," the letter stated.
Commissioner Eileen Decker responded to those concerns.
"I do understand that there are many who believe that the money should not be spent on this department, that it should go elsewhere," Decker said. "I understand that the city does need to invest in community resources, but I also believe the city needs to invest in the department, as well as in these training procedures. These issues I don't think are mutually exclusive."


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André Oheix, né André-Marie-Maurice Oheix le  à Loudéac (Côtes-d'Armor) et mort pour la France le  à Vienne-le-Château dans la Marne lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, est un historien français spécialiste du haut Moyen Âge, notamment en Bretagne.

Biographie

Famille et formation
André-Marie-Maurice Oheix, dit André Oheix, est né le  à Loudéac dans les Côtes-d'Armor dans une famille bourgeoise aisée. Son père, Robert-Ange-Marie Oheix, est un avocat, journaliste et écrivain de , fils de Jean Oheix, médecin de Savenay, et de Jeanne-Marie Moizan, fille d'une lignée de riches marchands de toiles à Trévé. Sa mère Marie-Ambroisine-Louise-Théodore, née Pivert, est la fille du président du tribunal civil de Loudéac, Joseph Pivert. André est le troisième enfant de la fratrie dont l'ainée est une fille dénommée Jeanne et le second un fils dénommé Robert comme son père.

Trois mois après la naissance d'André, sa mère meurt des suites de son accouchement. Son père se retrouvant seul, avec trois enfants en bas âge, rejoint Trévé et la propriété familiale des Moizans, le manoir de la Ville-aux-Veneurs, où vit sa mère, Jeanne-Marie, prête à l'aider à s'occuper de ses enfants. Voulant garder sa progéniture près de lui, Robert Oheix, décide de prendre lui-même en main leur éducation scolaire. Il n'entreprend pas cela sans bagage, déjà du fait de ses différentes activités professionnelles, mais aussi du fait qu'il soit également un éminent historien de la Bretagne, en relation avec Arthur de La Borderie, et membre de multiples sociétés savantes. Il est l'auteur de nombreuses publications. André, se retrouve donc très tôt en formation dans le manoir, avec son frère et sa sœur, mais aussi avec sa grand-mère. Elle meurt, en 1893 à , laissant les trois enfants (André a 11 ans) seuls avec leur père. André, laisse rapidement apparaître une forte précocité, que son père encourage et renforce avec notamment, l'apprentissage du latin, puis des échanges réguliers dans cette langue, la lecture des vies des saints bretons et l'initiation à l'hagiographie. André a , lorsqu'il signe un premier article avec pour sujet Jules Simon, réalisé sans doute avec l'aide de son père, il présente déjà les caractéristiques du style de l'écriture d'André. Il est publié en 1897 dans la Revue historique de l'ouest.

Sa formation devient ensuite plus normative, il obtient le Baccalauréat et débute un cursus en droit. En parallèle son père lui facilite son entrée, malgré son jeune âge, dans les sociétés savantes. En 1904, il a 22 ans, ses études sont en bonne voie et il a déjà plusieurs publications d'études historiques à son actif, lorsque son père, René Oheix, meurt à l'âge de . André a  et il va rester fidèle à sa maison familiale tout en poursuivant ses études à Paris. Pour assurer son avenir, il continue son droit tout en suivant également l'enseignement de l'École des chartes et de l'École des hautes études. Dans cette dernière il devient particulièrement assidu aux cours d'histoire de Ferdinand Lot qui, lors de l'année scolaire 1908-1909, . C'est également dans ce cadre qu'il lie des relations dans le domaine de l'hagiographie bretonne, notamment avec, René Largillière, Joseph Loth, l'abbé François Duine, Robert Fawtier et Éthel Jones, son épouse. En 1913, il obtient le prix de thèse de la Faculté de droit de Paris pour sa thèse de doctorat intitulée Les Sénéchaux de la Bretagne des origines au XIIe siècle et il travaille sur un Recueil des actes des rois et ducs de Bretagne du Xe au XIIe siècle, en vue de sa thèse de l'École des Hautes-Études.

Historien en parallèle avec ses études
C'est en 1900, bien avant la fin de ses études, qu'il commence réellement à publier avec pour débuter un article de vingt huit pages intitulé Étude hagiographique n°1 l Saint Friard et saint Secondel. Lorsque son père meurt en 1904 il a déjà publié au moins cinq articles supplémentaires.

À partir de 1906, il découvre puis devient « disciple » de Ferdinand Lot. Il circule beaucoup, notamment en suivant les congrès des sociétés savantes de Bretagne, et il poursuit ses communications et articles tout en terminant sa thèse du doctorat de droit. Il devient lui même, selon Debary, une .

Peu après la mobilisation d'André Oheix, l'abbé François Duine, souligne un  entre Ferdinand Lot et André Oheix, qui était un jeune homme, capable de  de l'école de son maître. Il regrette le départ de celui qu'il qualifie de  mais aussi d'. Persuadé que les conférences de Ferdinand Lot sont , il est fier d'avoir pu influencer André Oheix qu'il pense devoir être, à son retour de la guerre, l'un des moteurs du renouveau et du progrès des études hagiographiques en Bretagne.

Grande guerre : sergent mort pour la France
André Oheix, mobilisé le , rejoint, à Cherbourg, le premier régiment d'infanterie coloniale ( RIC). Envoyé sur le front au mois d'octobre, il est nommé sergent au mois de décembre. En janvier 1915, il évoque son existence sur le front dans un courrier au prêtre François Duine : . Au mois de juin il est cité et reçoit la Croix de guerre, puis il disparaît lors d'un affrontement le . Le fait qu'il ne soit pas parmi les prisonniers de retour en France après la fin du conflit est constaté par le tribunal de Loudéac qui, par un jugement confirme . Ses restes sont finalement retrouvés en 1935 lors . Rapatriés à Trévé, ils sont inhumés au cimetière du village. Sa tombe porte une inscription devenue illisible : .

Le travail de l'historien à l'épreuve du temps
Malgré la disparition d'André Oheix très peu de temps après la fin de ses études de droit, et celle de son frère le lieutenant Robert Oheix, également mort pendant la guerre, le manoir ainsi que les archives familiales sont restées dans la famille. Dans les années 1960, son neveu Yves Guillon fait don à l'abbaye de Landévennec d'une partie des archives Oheix, concernant l'hagiographie bretonne. Ce fond ne donne lieu qu'à deux publications succinctes de Jean-Luc Deuffic puis Michel Debary, qui souligne que l'on y trouve, écrit par André, un Recueil des actes des ducs de Bretagne jusqu'au , inachevé, et un important dossier sur les saints bretons.

Au , si André Oheix est toujours cité, il est néanmoins relégué dans une époque importante mais révolue : en 2004, les recherches sur l'abbaye de Landévennec progressent avec notamment des études sur les relations au haut Moyen Âge, entre les bretons et l'Italie. Ce qui renvoie dans un premier temps fort . Dans le même ouvrage, c'est Philippe Guigon qui publie un article intitulé Aux origines du fonds Oheix. Il confirme l'intérêt du dossier sur les saints bretons réalisé par André, souligne mais constate également que le travail d'André est bien plus précis que celui de son père dont le travail et la correspondance représentent la plus grande partie du fond.

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 Manoir de la Ville-Aux-Veneurs
 Hagiographie bretonne
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Historien français du XXe siècle
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Naissance en novembre 1882
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Décès en juillet 1919
Militaire français mort au combat lors de la Première Guerre mondiale
Décès à 32 ans
Mort pour la France
Avocat français du XXe siècle
Étudiant de la faculté de droit de Paris
Docteur en droit
Titulaire de la médaille militaire
Titulaire de la croix de guerre 1914-1918


I didn't have time to watch the game back yet, so enjoy these videos for now.
Atl, I know you rarely talk to us peasants, but could you please keep us posted on the Wake Forest game and the hurricane? Very likely it will be cancelled or postponed.
I imagine it will be postponed ... its a big hurricane and headed right at the carolinas. Hopefully it can be played on Saturday ... that would be easiest and best for all parties.
Try the BC, WF, and/or ACC websites and Twitter accounts.
Not if there is a state of emergency, with no power and water and the highways are flooded-out. good luck playing this game in NC.
I think this game is at real risk for Thursday night. Very strong winds and rain will start to hit around the time of this game. Worst is on Friday, but squeezing a game in on Thursday night when there is a state of emergency seems unlikely.
Still too early to be sure - but this time they may need life jackets. Florence looking ominous. Common sense should prevail.
Good point. The game might be in jeopardy for this weekend period. If its as nasty as it looks, aftermath will be bad meaning a game on Saturday will be very difficult. If hits thursday night/friday morning as projected, a game thursday night will be near impossible as well ... not for the game itself, but the fact that the BC team will be stranded there and the fans who want to attend will be in jeopardy. We might have to wait two weeks to see BC play again at Purdue.
LOL!!! It's fairly obvious some of the commenters here don't live in hurricane-prone areas. Winston-Salem will be lucky to have power by next Sunday(9/23) let alone this Saturday. Playing football with a major storm at the doorstep simply won't be a priority.
Since there's no place else to stick this game in either teams' schedule, what to do? Move it to atlanta on saturday indoors? Postpone it to Championship weekend and bank that neither team will be needed in charlotte? Cancel completely? What are the options?
Wake is relatively inland. With the hurricane expected to make landfall on the carolina coast friday early am, I wonder if they can get this game in Thursday and then get the hell out. Again, issue being safety of those travelling to the game. Rescheduling will be difficult.
The folks at Wake Forest do not seem remotely concerned about the weather. They are tweeting this morning asking their fans to buy tickets for Thursday.
That's a bizarre reaction to a potential state-wide disaster.
Usually they just cancel the game unless the two teams have a common bye they might reschedule (Wake and BC don't).
No way they play this game this week. They are evacuating people from NC and flights are going to be a mess. Even trying to play this earlier Thursday would mean our guys likely stuck down there through the weekend.
Best scenario I saw: Wake and FSU scheduled to play on 10/20. Both are off 10/13. We are off 10/20.
Move Wake-FSU to 10/13 and we play Wake on 10/20 (or Thursday 10/18).
They are not cancelling it right, right? Tim might jump if it isnt played at 7:30pm as scheduled.
There are already choppy seas off the Carolina Coast. Norfolk Naval Base is being evacuated. All the big ships are moving out. You have to be nutty not to cancel this game.---bceagle93 has an interesting and common sense solution.
It's comically easy to pick out who has/hasn't lived through a major hurricane by the posts. Getting power restored can take weeks. Idk if/when the game might be played but it won't be this week unless they move it up.
The team charters planes to these games, normally to a regional airport in the vicinity of the school. They don't fly commercial, and they're often not at the big time airports. The team hotel is normally 20-30 minutes away from the stadium, and they get there a day before the game (Wednesday, in this case). They are on that plane home within 2 hours of the game ending. They'll have no trouble getting in and out of North Carolina on Wednesday/Thursday, unless the storm speeds up and hits early, but it is expected to stall out as soon as it hits shore. Given schedule complications, tv contracts, travel, operational considerations, it seems highly unlikely the ACC will cancel this game. Moving it to Boston or an alternative location further inland is likely the only options, but both would require such a large amount of infrastructure and operational resources this close in it would seem unlikely.
Mod might get a book written about him by Woodward. Getting weirder by the day. I hope that Mod doesn't have a job that requires good sense and judgement.
Thomas the arrogant hurricane commenter running for the foothills.
Anyone heard from Tim? If he doesn't comment soon I will tell TGS to do a wellness check.
1331, you're right about the logistics of moving the game up here at this point. A whole lot of TV equipment would have to be re-routed and set up. We're only about 74 hours from kickoff. Realistically, this is a decision that probably needed to be made a day or two ago.
Winston-Salem is well inland, but the National Hurricane Center has the earliest arrival of tropical storm force winds arriving there by 8 am Thursday. 8 pm on Thursday would almost certainly see such winds. Getting home would be difficult since the game would probably be over after 11:00. It'd be tough to take off before midnight and things could be wild by then. The bye weeks don't match up. Tough to see when they could make it up.
Not arrogant just lived through way too many in south Florida and have seen a multitude of games canceled or rescheduled for far less. It's obvious when people are talking about things they know little to nothing about. Quite humorous too.
How many nor'easters have impacted FBS college football games, ever? 0? Not relevant information.


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                        strsunf = "IFERROR(INDEX(" & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wssuncl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wssuncl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",MATCH(" & wswk.Cells(wshrrw, wshrcl).Address(True) & "," & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wssuncl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wssuncl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",0)+1,1),0"
                        strmonf = "IFERROR(INDEX(" & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsmoncl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsmoncl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",MATCH(" & wswk.Cells(wshrrw, wshrcl).Address(True) & "," & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsmoncl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsmoncl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",0)+1,1),0"
                        strtuef = "IFERROR(INDEX(" & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wstuecl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wstuecl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",MATCH(" & wswk.Cells(wshrrw, wshrcl).Address(True) & "," & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wstuecl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wstuecl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",0)+1,1),0"
                        strwedf = "IFERROR(INDEX(" & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wswedcl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wswedcl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",MATCH(" & wswk.Cells(wshrrw, wshrcl).Address(True) & "," & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wswedcl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wswedcl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",0)+1,1),0"
                        strthuf = "IFERROR(INDEX(" & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsthucl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsthucl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",MATCH(" & wswk.Cells(wshrrw, wshrcl).Address(True) & "," & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsthucl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsthucl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",0)+1,1),0"
                        strfrif = "IFERROR(INDEX(" & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsfricl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsfricl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",MATCH(" & wswk.Cells(wshrrw, wshrcl).Address(True) & "," & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsfricl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wsfricl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",0)+1,1),0"
                        strsatf = "IFERROR(INDEX(" & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wssatcl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wssatcl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",MATCH(" & wswk.Cells(wshrrw, wshrcl).Address(True) & "," & wswk.Range(wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wssatcl), wswk.Cells(abfrarw, wssatcl).Offset(1, 0)).Address(True, True) & ",0)+1,1),0"
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                            .FormulaArray = strabf
                            .Replace "AAA", strsunf, lookat:=xlPart
                            .Replace "BBB", strmonf, lookat:=xlPart
                            .Replace "CCC", strtuef, lookat:=xlPart
                            .Replace "DDD", strwedf, lookat:=xlPart
                            .Replace "EEE", strthuf, lookat:=xlPart
                            .Replace "FFF", strfrif, lookat:=xlPart
                            .Replace "GGG", strsatf, lookat:=xlPart
                        End With
                    Next i


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A FULL strength Leicester Tigers XI captained by Sam Vesty lost by 28 runs to a strong Matt Hampson Trust XI team in their annual Twenty/20 cricket match to raise funds for local charities, attracting over 1,300 supporters.
This was the sixth year the event had been held at Rothley Park Cricket Club which raised over £8,000.
Charities to benefit from the event included LOROS, the Matt Hampson Trust and the development of junior cricket at Rothley Park.
Sam Vesty won the toss and put the Matt Hampson Trust XI team into bat, captained by Matt Elliott (Leicester City).
Elliott hit a match winning 45 not out in their total of 171 for 8.
In reply for the Tigers James Grindal top scored with 30, but the team fell well short of the required run rate to finish with 143 for 8 off their allotted overs.


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A man who spent 20 hours in the open ocean after falling from Carnival Valor
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"James Michael Grimes was found by a bulk carrier vessel, a harrowing 20 hours after he fell off the Carnival Valor on the night of November 23. Lt. Seth Gross oversees search and rescue missions in the greater Louisiana Gulf Coast area, and said his rescue crew arrived just in time to save Grimes' life."
https://www.insider.com/man-survived-fall-off-cruise-ship-because-things-went-perfectly-2022-12
"During the five-day cruise from Cozumel to Mexico, Mr Grimes left the bar to use the toilet. In an interview with ABC News on Friday, December 2, he said he woke up in the ocean, and could no longer see the ship."
https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/travel-news/cruise-passenger-who-fell-off-ship-shares-what-it-was-like-to-spend-20-hours-at-sea-42201214.html


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Futures in Mind offers community groups and activities, open to adults 18+ who would like to meet others on their journey of recovery from mental ill health and/or substance/alcohol misuse. The activities are created to make you feel included in friendly, sociable events. At the groups you can talk through any difficulties you have and socialise with people who will be empathetic and supportive.
The Volunteers who run these activities and groups are all people who have been affected by mental ill health and/or substance/alcohol misuse and provide a friendly welcome and give support to others.
A Futures in Mind volunteer befriender could help you find your confidence and enthusiasm again and feel part of your community and to experience the things you have stopped doing, due to lack of confidence and feelings of isolation.
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I'm going to check for spark, empty some gas and see if it's flowing and check appearance of fuel, maybe take off the front cover and check points, etc., but I'm hoping someone might have experienced something similar and hopefully can give me a heads up . . . .
What could the starter relay have to do with the problem I described?????
The starter relay controls power to the bike.
BTW...any recent maintenance? Something that could have dramatically changed is the valve clearances. Hard to believe both sides would suddenly close up, but if you had been in there recently, maybe it undid itself.
So look at any past maintenance that you were doing.
Slipped ignition breaker points can cause similar symptoms. A failed/failing ignition condenser can be similar. Usually, a failing condenser will allow reasonable idle, but minimal power and no ability to increase revs.
The problem was a bad condenser . . . Wallet's $12 lighter and I'm back on the road . . . .
Anyway, thanks for the pointers!
Cool. Glad you're back on the road.


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Councillor candidates Dana Arthurs and Peter W. Rusland. (Photo by Don Bodger)
Personalities of North Cowichan councillor candidates on display
Meeting in Chemainus brings the people behind the issues to the forefront
Don Bodger
Oct. 9, 2022 12:05 p.m.
The candidates for North Cowichan councillors spoke on a wide range of topics at an all-candidates meeting at Chemainus Secondary School Thursday night, hoping their messages would resonate with voters.
The personalities and important issues of the 15 contenders were all over the map, ranging from the humorous with significant insights to the informative to the lame to the plain mundane.
Related story: Candidates for North Cowichan mayor and councillors state their case
It's admittedly hard to summarize a platform in three minutes, which is all the time each was allotted, plus another two minutes at the end of the program for a summary.
While many touched upon the contentious Municipal Forest Reserve review and the Official Community Plan, there were other matters they brought up to pique the interest of voters. All were in attendance other than incumbent Kate Marsh, who was ill and stayed at home but appeared by video link and relayed messages to be read to the audience.
In addressing the forest reserve review, "it must take First Nations and the environment into account," Marsh noted.
Here's a few tidbits from the presentations of each councillor hopeful in order of their places to speak at the meeting:
Chris Shaw – "We serve all of you no matter how they vote, whether like you or don't," he said. "It's all of us waking up in the same valley." He's been aligned with Adrienne Richards, Joseph Enslow and Charles Borg for standing up at another candidates meeting in Maple Bay as believing the municipality's official community plan process is tied to the World Economic Forum and/or the United Nations.
Christopher Justice – Completing his first term in office, "it's been a humbling experience at times," he said. "There's more to learn and understand than I thought would have been possible."
Tek Manhas – "I'm running to bring pragmatism and balance back to council," he said. With stalled housing projects on Sherman Road and Willow Street in Chemainus, if these had been incentivized to developers, "we would have these units built already," he added.
Peter W. Rusland – "Our unrealized potential will only be reached with citizen participation," he said. "There is evidence of fear tactics being used here in North Cowichan," he added on another matter. "Elect a team of people free of any underlying agendas."
Mike Caljouw – "I want to engage meaningfully with the community," he said. "I'm a free-thinking, open-minded person and I don't vote along party lines."
Chris Istace – "You've urged me to continue the serving of the community, as I've done for the last nine years, at a high level," he said. From his previous experiences in the oil industry and being viewed mainly as an environmentalist now, "I learned we need to balance and change as we move forward in our lives," he added.
Dana Arthurs – "I want to bring a new and cooperative voice to municipal hall," she said. On the environment, "I feel every decision we make should be looking at the impact it would have on the environment," she added.
Adrienne Richards – She addressed the issue of standing up during another meeting in Maple Bay, along with three others, when asked if they believed the municipality's official community plan was influenced by the World Economic Forum and/or the United Nations. She said despite slander and defamation and complete fabrications by local bloggers, "myself and some others have managed to retain our integrity."
Elizabeth Croft – "There's some rhetoric hanging around this election," she said. "Despite the rhetoric, I think you'll see a lot of commonality among our platforms." With whatever developments occur, "we want these developments to include affordable housing and rentals," she added.
Joseph Enslow – He addressed his belief in the UN influence on the official community plan with a question for people about what the real emergency is here. "They don't even know where the plan to revamp our entire community comes from," he said. With plans like Chemainus revitalization, "what will it take to complete these projects?" he pondered.
Debra Toporowski – "I'm a caring person who knows how to listen to you and your community issues," said the incumbent. "We need a balance between our environment and a strong economy. We can truly have both. It doesn't need to be one or the other."
Joyce Behnsen – "I am ready to work for the people of North Cowichan again," said the prior councillor, who served from 2014-2018. "I've always enjoyed engaging with people." On the housing issue, "we need to work effectively with the builders and developers to reduce lengthy delays," she said.
Bruce Findlay – "I'm a unique candidate," he said, with a business in Maple Bay, residence in Crofton and property in Chemainus. "I believe we need to increase the supply of homes for all residents."
Charles Borg – "My vision for our community is businesses, individuals and families working together for peace and prosperity," he said. He has also spoken previously about his support for the Freedom Convoy earlier this year as it was ruled a peaceful and legal protest.
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Councillor candidates Charles Borg and Mike Caljouw. (Photo by Don Bodger)
Councillor candidates Christopher Justice and Chris Istace. (Photo by Don Bodger)
Councillor candidate Elizabeth Croft. (Photo by Don Bodger)
Councillor candidates Debra Toporowski and Joyce Behnsen. (Photo by Don Bodger)
Councillor candidate Joseph Enslow. (Photo by Don Bodger)
Current councillor Kate Marsh on video display. (Photo by Don Bodger)
Councillor candidates Tek Manhas, Bruce Findlay and Adrienne Richards. (Photo by Don Bodger)
Councillor candidate Chris Shaw. (Photo by Don Bodger)
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Heart's Furies
September 16, 2017 / Andrew McNicol
Created for The Royal Ballet
The original impulse for this piece began unexpectedly with the title Heart's Furies. I wanted to create a broad statement which would allow much artistic freedom whilst implying the emotional intensity and generosity I wanted to get from the work.
In a poetic sense, the heart is the centre of our emotions and furies meaning passions or rage suggests strong physical sensations that can be translated into dance and movement. I chose Janacek's music because it echoed that same intensity, conviction and sudden shift in expression which the title Heart's Furies suggests.
Known as Foreboding or From the Streets, the music sets an atmosphere of fearful apprehension. It captures a sense of rage, injustice and uncertainty that feels particularly important and relevant for the times in which we live today.
Originally composed as a protest for an innocent there is a strong undercurrent of indignation, pauses and questionings. This contrast between these outward actions, protests or surge of energy and moments of introspection felt highly physical.
In a passionate outburst the music was destroyed and only later saved and resurfaced. I kept returning to this image of the score being thrown into the river, vanishing like white swans into the infinite distance. It felt like a metaphor or wish to have saved something or someone from an uncertain fate.
These passions or furies became the starting point and inspiration for the work. My challenge was to find a language that would illustrate the intensity and conviction in the music and yet allow the subtleties and pauses to speak with just as much weight. For me, Heart's Furies is a poetic response to Janacek's music in which I aim to give expression to the sense of foreboding, uncertainty and remorse
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Of Silence


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How Much Does a Limo Driver Make Per Hour?
Rick Suttle
As busy as people are in business, politics or even getting married, it's no wonder 166,890 taxi drivers and chauffeurs were employed in the United States as of May 2011, according the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chauffeurs -- another name of limo drivers -- offer an experience more than a ride. They may provide people with luxurious traveling space, snacks and drinks. If you are personal, patient and dependable, the job of limo driver may suit you well, and you can earn a decent hourly wage, plus tips.
Hourly Wages
Limo drivers earned average hourly wages of $12.03 as of May 2011, according to the BLS. If your wages were among the top 10 percent, you would make over $17.87 per hour. In this field, your hourly rates are usually based on experience, geographical area and the type of employer with whom you work. For example, you might make significantly more as a personal limo driver to a movie star or singer than for a busy business person.
Hourly Wages by Industry
Hourly wages for limo drivers were highest in the movie industry, according to the BLS -- $25.76 per hour, where drivers escort actors and actresses to Hollywood parties and red carpet award shows. You can also earn an exceptional hourly rate of $23.61 working in the aerospace industry. However, expect closer to average wages as an employee of a limousine company at- $13.38 per hour, and even less working in the travel accommodations business -- $11.32.
Hourly Wages by Metropolitan Area
To earn the most as a limo driver, move to the Tacoma, Washington, area. There, they earned $18.44 per hour in 2011, according to the BLS. You would also earn an above-average wage in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut metropolitan area -- $17.60. Hourly rates were still above average in the New York-White Plains-Wayne, New York-New Jersey and Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts areas -- $15.84 and $12.96, respectively. But you would only make $10.16 per hour in the Billings, Montana metropolitan area.
Good vision, hand-eye coordination and basic math skills are some of the necessary skills of a limo driver. As for math skills, you must keep track of people's fares and provide change when necessary. Customer service skills are also essential, as that's what gets you repeat business. A high school diploma can help, but is not required, though some drivers might have bachelor's and master's degrees. It's all part of the dynamics of a recovering economy with more older Americans working longer.
The BLS reported that jobs for taxi drivers and chauffeurs, including limo drivers, will increase 20 percent between 2010 and 2020, which is faster than the national average growth-rate of 14 percent. Whether you want to work temporarily while continuing your job search, or full-time, a clean-driving record and flexible schedule will get you in the driver's seat faster.
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Share this Story: John Robson: 'Peace' is not a synonym for 'surrender'
John Robson: 'Peace' is not a synonym for 'surrender'
The U.S. needs to be persuaded to lead a coalition of armed nations ready to see evil clearly and fight it resolutely
John Robson
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lays a wreath at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial on Nov. 10, 2018, at Vimy Ridge, France. Photo by Adrian Wyld/CP
It's not over yet. The guns may have fallen silent at 11:00 a century ago last Sunday, we may have lost everyone who fought in the "Great War" and nearly everyone who knew them. But its consequences linger on.
Including geopolitically. The Second World War was a continuation of the First World War by other means, made far more poisonous by the rise of Bolshevism and Naziism in a Russia and Germany broken by defeat in the Great War. And the Cold War that resulted still finds echoes in today's renewed confrontation between Russia and the West.
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Whether liberalization in Russia from 1905 to 1913 would have proved a false dawn regardless we cannot know. But 1914 led inexorably to 1917. While Islamism is less directly connected to the Great War, China is still led by the Communist heirs of Mao Zedong. And the West has yet to recover the confidence and sense of purpose, including in the possibility of Truth, that perished in the trenches.
The West has yet to recover the confidence and sense of purpose … that perished in the trenches
So it's not over. I try not to polemicize about Remembrance Day on or right before it, unlike some French presidents I could name. But I'm taking up pen and torch now because it's very important to recognize what Nov. 11 was and was not about.
Ceremonies tended to dwell on the horror of war. Especially regarding the First World War, supposedly the epitome of the futility of taking up arms. But at bottom we recall sacrifice. Not waste. In the back of our minds we still remember that on the Allied side at least all those men did not die for nothing.
Even death for a losing cause, if it is just, is not in vain. And we won the First World War. And it mattered.
A poppy cross sits beneath names of fallen soldiers at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial on Nov. 10, 2018, at Vimy Ridge, France. Photo by Adrian Wyld/CP
So listen carefully, I say again, to all the words of "In Flanders Fields." It evokes the irreparable loss of those who "(s)hort days ago lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved, and were loved" and now lie dead, often in unmarked graves. But then it says "Take up our quarrel with the foe" because "If ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep."
Perhaps McCrae was a fool. Perhaps the right response, in 1914 or 1917, was to throw away the torch, surrender to German aggression, say nothing was worth fighting over. Certainly interwar "statesmen" thought so in 1936 and 1938. But it wasn't true then. Or in 1914. Or now.
The Kaiser wasn't Hitler. But he was a nasty piece of work with nasty war aims. A world in which Britain did not fight for Belgium in 1914, the French did not fight for themselves, or Canadians and Americans did not fight for both, would have been a very ugly place.
People lay poppies on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial after Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa on Nov. 11, 2018. Photo by Justin Tang/CP
Now wait, you cry. Americans did not fight in 1914. Its left-wing "idealist" president dismissed the conflict as "a drunken brawl in a public house" as late as 1916 and when American interests were directly threatened, snivelled about "being too proud to fight." Even when fighting became inevitable, Woodrow Wilson was too proud to arm; the dreadful battle of Passchendaele had to be fought in the summer and fall of 1917 to relieve German pressure on the shattered French army long enough for a U.S. military buildup. Americans got there late in the Second World War as well, not because they were bellicose or selfish but because pacifism had too strong a hold on their minds.
Hence a very topical point. Given the horrendous consequences of American abdication of responsibility before both world wars, is giving Donald Trump a virtue-signalling poke in the admittedly tempting eye really Plan A? He may be flirting with narrow America First nationalism. But the right answer is to persuade the U.S. to lead a coalition of armed nations ready to see evil clearly and fight it resolutely despite the horrible cost of war. Europe, in smug decline, is not such a coalition.
Is giving Donald Trump a virtue-signalling poke in the admittedly tempting eye really Plan A?
The final way the Great War is always with us is Thucydides' "Only the dead have seen the end of war." We should remember that the dead "gave all their tomorrows for your today." But also that not every death in war is vain. Nearly 2,500 years after Thucydides, Eisenhower's first inaugural address rejected "the false and wicked bargain of trading honour for security … in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains."
Those who fought for liberty under law in the First World War understood that truth and made that choice. The Vimy Memorial has haunting figures regretting the loss, including Mother Canada mourning her sons. But atop the memorial stand Peace and Justice, right above Faith and Honour.
Peace is not a synonym for surrender. And In Flanders Fields is a call to take up arms not cast them down.
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The journal for scenic production studies called Disk was published from 2002 to 2012. Forty-two issues of the journal were prepared by the Research Institute for Dramatic and Scenic Art of the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts. The quarterly, whose content was connected with activities of the above-mentioned institute, contributed to studies of dramatic and scenic art based on its reflection in a broader context. The journal did not only focus on arts, which are traditionally included in this area, but it also dealt with homogenous aspects of other art disciplines in the context of general staging of life and the world in the time of media.
To get more detailed information about specialization of the journal and content of issues, please go through articles in individual issues in the archive with English and French summaries. Topics can facilitate orientation in the themes described in Disk.


The Effet d'Argent Black enameled porcelain lamp is covered with a fashionable hammered metallic finish.
A porcelain lamp with a classic pattern.
a blue porcelain finish alludes to the 18th-century "boudoir" theme with its ornamental sweet jar shape and its white floral decorations.
Glossy black lamp, full of contrasts and elegance, a glass heart resting on steel legs.
A prestigious lamp, a symbol of craftsmanship.
The top, a real piece of jewellery A creation by designer Stefano Poletti Made out of pewter and brass wire, and plated in white bronze.
A pyramid of wood and porcelain pebbles, topped by a patinated metal stone.
A modern and futuristic design. Each lamp is signed by the designer and numbered from 1 to 150. A creation by Chafik (french designer and architect).
Purple coloured glass set in a pewter body, enhanced with an elegant blue stone.
A king of mascot, this golden monkey, contained within a fragranced ball in dark high fire blue, tell us about the mysteries of life and its marvels.


GARDEN GROVE, Calif.– C3 International, a biopharmaceutical company that has played a leadership role in the emerging cannabinoid therapeutics health sector, officially announced the launch of its flagship Idrasil pain management pill. Idrasil is the first standardized form of medical cannabis. It offers all of the medicinal analgesic and therapeutic benefits of cannabis, but is a superior alternative to opiates and life-threatening narcotics because physicians and caregivers can provide patients with safe, non-addictive, measurable dosages.
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Idrasil also offers relief for patients struggling with clinical endocannabinoid deficiencies (CECD). CECD is a serious disorder that has a proven link to various disorders such as migraines, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and other treatment-resistant syndromes. Patients that want natural relief from CECD-related ailments, seek to reduce or stop existing pharmaceutical or over-the-counter dependencies, and want to curb the negative side effects or addictions of opiates and narcotics can benefit from Idrasil.
Idrasil consists of a proprietary blend of concentrated cannabis extract that is 100% natural and organic. C3's proprietary process isolates all of the cannabinoids from the cloned cannabis plant, resulting in pure natural extraction in pill form to eliminate the unwanted euphoria and social risks associated with smoking marijuana and unpredictable dosages of edible confections. Idrasil is a natural product that looks like any pill on the market.
Additional ingredients include calcium carbonate, magnesium stearate, dicalcium phosphate, microcrystalline cellulose and silicon dioxide, which are common tabulation additives in both foods and pharmaceuticals, and are gluten free.