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Glyphosate: Why we need a clean food revolution
by Sheila Velazquez
"If it was bad for us, they wouldn't sell it." This was the response I got from the maintenance man when I objected to his spraying weeds with Roundup. Well actually, that isn't true."A number of cities, counties, states and countries throughout the world have taken steps to either restrict or banglyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup weed killer," notes Baum Hedlund Aristei Goldman PC here in a recently updated list. The firm has links to several lawsuits brought against Monsanto by plaintiffs who claim their cancers were caused by Roundup, including the action of Edwin Hardeman, which was settled on March 27, for more than $80 million in damages.
Beginning in the 1950s, biologist Rachel Carson began drawing attention to the dangers of pesticides. Her 1962 book Silent Springwas named one of the top 25 science books of all time by the editors of "Discover" magazine. It met with violent opposition from chemical companies but led to anational pesticide policy and a nationwide ban on DDT for agricultural uses. Carson inspired the environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA).
In the 1980s, I needed to clear a long-unused garden area on a newly purchased piece of rural land in Connecticut. Since it was to be a farm operation, I needed to obtain a Pesticide Operator's License from the state, which required the taking of a course and certification. I paid for the course that was offered by the Extension Service, sat through all the classes, was certified, and put the license in a drawer, and swore to grow organic.
What I had learned in that class was not just how to use various pesticides but the dangers of doing so. It's a class every manufacturer, seller, and user of Roundup should be required to take. In most states, anyone who works with pesticides at residential complexes, schools, playgrounds, etc. are required by law to be certified. But speaking from experience, most are not. It's easier for supervisors to hand the worker a tank full of poison and tell them to "read the label" rather than spend the money and time required.
Roundup was brought to market by Monsanto in 1974 after DDT was banned. The company was purchased by Bayer AG in 2018. Bayer is a major producer of genetically modified (GM) crop seeds that are designed to resist glyphosate. This means growers can spray Roundup and other glyphosate-based sprays on their fields to kill weeds without harming the crops. It is widely used on corn, soybeans, wheat, and oats. Cereal producers use it as a drying agent so an entire crop can be readied for harvest at the same time. I hadn't thought about this last use, and since I eat oatmeal nearly every morning, I have switched to organic.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released a 2017 "Agricultural Chemical Use Survey" of wheat producers which collected data on fertilizer and pesticide use in growing wheat. The survey included 18 states that account for 90 percent of the 46.0 million acres planted to wheat in the United States in 2017, including 85 percent of winter wheat acres and 99 percent of spring and durum wheat acres. The study can be viewed at the end of this article.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) reported on the results in an online article titled "Glyphosate Contamination in Food Goes Far Beyond Oat Products,"in which they feature the results of tests conducted by their group (pasta and wheat-based cereal) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (wheat, grain, beans) which list levels of glyphosate found in each.
On February 25, the U.S Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) Education Fund released the findings of a studythat tested 20 brands of wine, beer, and hard cider, some of them organic, for traces of glyphosate. Of the 20, 19 tested positive.
French President Emmanuel Macron is proposing a total ban on glyphosate by 2022, with the goal of eliminating any traces, particularly in France's famed wines."His efforts are part of a wider campaign for a 'European Renaissance,' published in newspapers in all 28 member countries last week," wroteSuzanne Mustacichfor "Wine Spectator."
Glyphosate has been connected to the increase in celiac disease by the National Institutes of Health. The "International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health" offers open access to articles that study glyphosate as it impacts child development, kidney disease, reproductive health, Parkinson's Disease, and cancer. These studies are from academic journals, and while not for everyone, I personally favor facts over the hype of the chemical industry and the politicians and partisan organizations that keep the truth hidden.
Findings are being reported daily that disclose that glyphosate is being found in fast food, pet food, food you might have thought was safe, but isn't. All food should by poison-free, the food of the poor as well as the food of the wealthy, and everyone in between. There is a reason why those less fortunate are less healthy. You know it, and I know it.
Glyphosate destroys colonies of bees and kills other pollinators and beneficial insects that are crucial to the growing of a healthy food supply. Its use threatens biodiversity. More and more communities are demanding that its use be discontinued.
Dead bee; photo by Jared Belson
Writing for Maine's "Portland Press Herald," just this week, Randy Billings wrote of Portland's ban on synthetic pesticides. Portland is phasing out pesticide use, imposing fines, and educating its managers and the public about its dangers. I pray that this snowball will grow, picking up small towns and cities until the lawmakers at the state and national level have no choice but to legislate on our behalf.
Glyphosate is now everywhere—in our drinking water, groundwater, seas, rivers and streams, and the cycle of water itself as it evaporates and falls to the earth. It has been more than half a century since Carson's groundbreaking work, and yet power and money continue to destroy lives and degrade the environment.
Remember what glyphosate is used for—to kill things. It is on and in our soil, food, animals, sea creatures and ultimately, us. Just as we need a climate change revolution, we need a food change revolution. Yes, it's a lot to take on, but consider the alternative. Be an activist in whatever way you can. There is too much at stake not to.
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Sheila Velazquez
Sheila Velazquez is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in more than 100 print newspapers and magazines, including Grit, New Woman, the Hartford Courant, the New Haven Register, the San Antonio Express-News and Bay Area Parent. Her awards include two from the Society of Professional Journalists for a syndicated column. Sheila has contributed to online websites, including commondreams.org and dissidentvoice.org. She served as contributing editor of Organic Producer magazine and wrote biographical material for reference collections that include "Contemporary Authors," the "Encyclopedia of International Biography" and "Notable Sports Figures." Feel free to send her an e-mail.
Dee Brochu says:
Great article Sheila. Thanks for getting the word out about chemicals in our food supply and the histroy of deceite that was feed to us. So sad about our children especially. With the soil contaminated and finding seeds that are not GMO ready is very difficult, the future does not look promising; unless individuals stop buying GMO products and start growing their own food of buy Non-GMO products. There are ways to grow food inside without soil and chemicals. People need to invest in themselves and the future generations.
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A Not-So-Quiet Revolution in Land-Use Law? Scaling Up the Zoning Process
by David Schleicher, Roderick M. Hills | March 2019
Although disagreements over housing and zoning tend to be vituperative, there is one fact about which everyone seems to agree: We have a full-blown crisis of housing affordability that has harmful effects on the economic and social welfare of the country as a whole and particularly on poorer citizens.
In a number of localities and regions where there is fast-growing housing demand and employment growth, the supply of housing is just not keeping pace. Land use regulations limit the capacity of developers to meet demand for housing.
The result is a bidding war on a relatively-inelastic housing stock. Rents and prices are sent ever-upwards, squeezing out working and middle-class residents from those places with the greatest economic opportunities. The economy as a whole suffers, as these potential residents would be more productive in, say, Silicon Valley or New York than they are in declining regions. And the housing crisis increases economic inequality, as the benefits of economic growth in these regions are increasingly captured by land owners rather than workers.
Economists have long recognized that we have a shortage in housing supply in our richest regions and cities. The burning question is what to do about this shortage. Our land use policy-making institutions are not well-designed to represent the public and private interest in expanding the housing supply. Zoning is not merely local but hyper-local.
In particular, most land use changes emerge through zoning amendments and other project-specific reviews. Citywide and statewide interests – employers, renters, public employee unions – care about the overall housing supply but not individual projects, and thus don't get involved. But neighbors to proposed new developments, particularly NIMBYish homeowners, care deeply and are extremely influential with members of city councils. City councils end up relying on "aldermanic privilege," allowing individual members of city councils the ability to veto land use changes in their district. And when incumbent homeowners – with strong incentives to keep up the value of their largest asset – decide, new housing does not get built. Land use procedure creates a politics that suppresses housing supply.
A key remedy for our housing crisis, therefore, is scaling up the process to move some decision-making authority away from the neighborhood level and moving towards the citywide, regional or even state level. This would put decision-making in the hands of those who have an incentive to care about the size of the housing stock.
But moving decision-making up to a higher level of government will have only limited success unless it takes the form of a firm state or citywide pre-commitment to specific levels of housing development or common state or citywide land use policies. Absent such a pre-commitment or jurisdiction-wide policy, the scaled-up decision-makers may reproduce the NIMBYism that dominates hyper-local zoning politics by using the same type of piecemeal decision-making that favors homeowners against broader interests. Badly designed statewide land use policy can be – and in fact has been – as restrictive as local land use policy. In contrast, setting firm targets for housing construction or establishing broad statewide land use policies inspires state and citywide interests to become involved in fighting for more housing.
To solve the housing crisis, we need more than good policies. We need a land use procedure that helps build a pro-housing politics.
In theory, having state governments rather than local governments making land use policies (or giving more power to citywide officials in big cities) should alleviate concerns about local protectionism. State or big city officials, unlike an individual town or neighborhood, should care about a broader set of interests, and the health of the economy, and not merely what works for one town or neighborhood's homeowners.
But if decision-makers at a higher level are forced to make project-by-project or town-by-town determinations, it will produce the same dynamic as aldermanic privilege. Broader interests like employers, renters and unions have incentives to fight for state-wide policies that guarantee an adequate supply of housing, regardless of where that housing is specifically located, as housing markets are regional. If statewide review of land use decisions devolves into project or town specific determinations, there is a risk that suburbs and neighborhoods will fight their obligations at the retail level, unwinding the goals of the broader policy.
Consider, for instance, Oregon's system of reviewing local zoning to insure consistency with a comprehensive plan. As created during the 1970s, such review was initially driven by environmentalists' objections to new development: It operated as a "double-veto" on new housing in which developments that managed to evade local prohibitions were subject to being overturned by state officials. Not until 1981, when Oregon finally adopted firm density requirements for urban areas did the plan begin to promote housing. Likewise, the "Council on Affordable Housing" ("COAH") was created by the New Jersey Fair Housing Act of 1985 to implement the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in Mount Laurel mandating that each local government accommodate a fair share of the regional need for affordable housing. Under both Democratic and Republican Governors, suburban mayors were able to influence COAH to subvert "fair shares" of housing assigned to them every time Mount Laurel's complex and subjective calculations of future employment and regional need had to be updated. Just having state-wide decision makers does not mean policy will become more liberal.
So how can a state- or city-wide housing policy be designed to mobilize support for its own passage and effective implementation? The key is establishing processes that help build solid political coalitions in favor of new housing.
In an important recent article Chris Elmendorf argues that state housing mandates will be most successful when they allow local input on details but limit the capacity of locals to interfere with statewide deals. As Elmendorf argues, the great strength of California's regional and local housing (RHNA) obligation approach – particularly as modified in 2017 to give it some teeth against local backsliding -- is that it sets housing targets for local officials to reach but leaves implementation to them. This is a version of what we have called a "zoning budget," a high-level agreement about the amount of housing with binding effect on later zoning changes. Statewide interests – employers, unions, tenant groups – can push for good policies about determining the mechanism for determining housing need and the consequences for not hitting housing targets. The specifics of individual projects can still be fought over at the local level, but opponents are forced to propose alternatives that allow for housing growth elsewhere in town. Cities, we argue, can do this for themselves by modifying their land use procedures to force individual re-zonings to follow the city's own previous commitments about the amount of new housing they want. Minneapolis's successful 2040 replanning – which got rid of pure single-family zones and parking minima and added density along transit lines –shows the benefits of making land use changes through citywide policies, rather than one-off zoning amendments.
The key is to harness politics, not avoid it. The newly-crafted SB50 in California shows how pro-housing advocates are increasingly sophisticated in how they shape legislation in order to build coalitions. Last year's version of the bill was a relatively pure effort to increase housing supply – displacing local height and density limits on building along transit lines, allowing small apartment buildings to be built. This year, the author, Senator Scott Weiner, made changes intended to build a solid pro-housing political coalition, rather than simply seek a first-best policy goal. Protections for local labor laws bought support from the construction trades. Restrictions on demolition, a carve-out that allows "sensitive communities" more time and flexibility to comply with the bill's goals, and a mandatory inclusionary housing requirement have mitigated opposition from tenants' rights groups. Increasing the bill's scope to include some mandatory zoning changes in job-rich areas have given these new allies a common enemy: Silicon Valley's richest and most exclusionary towns.
But the basic idea from last year's effort remained. SB50 is a proposed statewide policy displacing local density and height limits around transit stops. It does not require the state to engage in project-by-project consideration. As a result, statewide groups were motivated to get involved in negotiating its terms. People can have their own views about the merits of this year's changes – we have our qualms about some of them --but the idea behind them, using legislation to build a sturdy coalition in favor of more housing, is the right one.
The bottom line is this. Extremely localized land use decision-making helped build a politics that limits needed housing growth. The housing crisis is the inevitable result of this politics. What is needed are laws that not only reverse the substance of our bad land use policies, but also laws that change the process for making land use decisions in ways that help build a solid pro-housing political coalition at the citywide or statewide level. It will take a sturdy pro-housing politics to truly address the housing crisis.
David Schleicher is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and is an expert in election law, land use, local government law, state and local finance, municipal bankruptcy, urban development, and transportation.
Roderick M. Hills is the William T. Comfort, III Professor of Law at NYU School of Law.
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Filipinos in Vienna Celebrated the Sinulog Festival
Published: February 1, 2019; 19:45 · (Vindobona)
The Filipino diaspora in Vienna, Austria celebrated the Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival, which is an annual cultural and religious festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City, and is the centre of the Santo Niño Catholic celebrations in the Philippines.
The Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival is one of the biggest cultural and religious events celebrated by the Filipinos in Austria. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / prolog84 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
The Sinulog Festival, one of the biggest cultural and religious events celebrated by the Filipinos the world over, was organized by KBA - Kapunongan sa mga Bisaya sa Austria.
The celebration of the Festival in Vienna, which fell on the same day as the one in Cebu, were attended by Filipinos from different parts of Austria.
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As the holiday season in the US gets underway, I habitually look back on what I've learnt over the previous year. An important part of that is always what I've read, and in the festive spirit of sharing, here are five books that greatly influenced me in 2019. None are strictly 'Innovation books'. Instead they contain insights that I think are pertinent to innovation and innovators. Only three of them actually published in 2019. Instead one is from 2018 and one from 2017, but I'm sharing them this year because I personally only got around to reading them in 2019. So they were new for me, at least! And if anyone has suggestions for any additional new books, please let me know. Books not only make excellent stocking stuffers, but are also critical sanity tools for me over this holiday period – invaluable for killing time at airports, or simply for providing a little quiet 'bah humbug' time away from family and holiday celebrations.
1. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein. From a relatively narrow perspective of innovation, this was my favorite book of the year. This choice will be no real surprise to anyone who knows me, as it is the confirmation bias incarnate. I've always believed breadth is at least as important as specialization for innovators, and this book tackles exactly that topic. But it does so with great skill. There is something very satisfying about someone expressing your own long held beliefs, but doing so far more eloquently, and with better examples than you've ever mustered yourself.
Starting early and specializing is fashionable, and the 10,000 hour rule has become a popular mantra. Epstein acknowledges that there are indeed skills and careers that benefit from focused, narrow skill building, and he shares the example of golf, and Tiger Woods. But he also argues that there are also many others where too narrow a focus can be a disadvantage, and limit potential to be adaptive. He therefore encourages us to celebrate 'late developers' and 'slow bakers', and not be too quick to specialize ourselves, or our children. I'd argue that nowhere is this more true than in innovation and creativity. and it's becoming even more pertinent in a world where technology is changing so rapidly, making over-specialization increasingly risky. From an evolutionary perspective, mammals were more flexible than dinosaurs, and in a world where the rate of change is accelerating at an almost blinding pace, who wants to risk becoming a dinosaur? Even a very efficient and skilled one!
2. The Longevity Economy by Joseph F. Coughlin. OK, I have to declare a vested interest in this one too! I'm 58. That doesn't feel old to me, and when I look in the mirror in the morning, even my failing eyesight cannot prevent a feeling of resigned disbelief as I stare at an ever increasing topology of lines and wrinkles. But despite appearances, and if I can ignore the mild sciatica, I still feel more like 20 than 50 years old, and that is a key insight of this book. The world is aging, but most of us who are getting 'old' don't feel, or at least don't act or feel as old as we look. And we are a huge, and often under served, or at least under targeted market for innovation. 20-25% of the population in developed economies is over 65. And this demographic is not only growing, but are also big spenders. In the US, in 2015, spending by people over 50 was 5.6 trillion, whilst the under 50's spent only 4.9 trillion. But despite this spending power, less than 10% of marketing dollars is targeted at 50 plus. And this is a key data point, as marketing spend is a decent predictor of innovation spend, as we tend to market new stuff. When it comes to innovation, marketing, and consumer research, there is enormous, and I'd argue disproportionate focus on Millennials and younger demographics in general. This is not about Millennial bashing, but about the potentially huge, missed opportunity for innovation with seniors.
And we not only under-target older consumers. Even when products are designed for them, or maybe I should I say us, they often miss the mark. In general, older consumers don't want products that are obviously targeted at the old, but instead want innovations that help us to feel young. Yes, we have some specific age related needs, and may not always be cutting edge with tech, but most people over 50 don't want dumbed down, or obviously age targeted products. We want new, cutting edge tech, albeit with the occasional simplified interface.
As a personal example, I recently went to an Aerosmith concert in Vegas. Now, Steve Tyler may be no spring chicken, but the band has maintained appeal with a young as well as more mature audience, and the crowd reflected that mix. From an innovation perspective, the venue was trying out a cool new concert technology: In-ear 'mixhalo' personal headphones provided by the venue. This is really cool new technology that enabled some of us in the audience to enjoy the same sound that the musicians hear on stage, fed via wi-fi from the mixing board. This in turn allowed us to stand on the side of the stage with Aerosmith. It's the best of both worlds, placing us in the middle of the action, whilst still enjoying spectacular front of house sound. The tech, like a lot of new innovation, was a little buggy, and so required us to adjust and correct it throughout the concert. A steepish learning curve, and one that I needed a little help with from a couple of younger audience members on several occasions throughout the concert. But the key for me was that it was flexible and largely age agnostic, and that we could all use it, young and old. Maybe our goals were a little different, and perhaps the older demographic turned the volume down a bit more, or maybe our failing ears made us turn it up louder! But the tech was aimed at all of us, and once the bugs are ironed out, it will be equally usable by young and old, with the latter being an important revenue stream for the concert and entertainment industry. The last thing I wanted was a set of special 'old man' headphones, and that's the key point.
A minor caveat. I didn't love all of this book. For me it was a bit too anchored in Maslows's hierarchy. But overall it was really useful in reshaping my thinking about how much time to spend thinking about more mature consumers, as well as changing the way I think about innovating for them.
3. The Case Against Reality. Don Hoffman. This was perhaps my favorite book of the year overall. Full disclosure, I'm biased. Don is a friend, and I've been fortunate to have shared many long and fascinating discussions with him about how perception and attention works; how we see, what we see, and perhaps more importantly, what we don't see. But part of the reason I have spent so much time trying to understand this space is because I believe attention and perception are so critical to innovation. No matter how great an innovation is, it is of little value if people don't notice it. Don's book peels back the onion on the science of how this works. And at this detailed level, the insights are often counter-intuitive and driven far more by unconscious mechanisms than we intuitively realize. Daniel Kahneman , Dan Ariely and the Behavioral Science community have helped us understand how human decisions are really made, and the underlying science has taught us so much about designing and marketing innovation. Don, together with authors such as V. S Ramachandran, Charles Spence, Gemma Calvert, Lawrence Rosenblum and Jeremy Wolfe provide similar science based insights into how we physically interact with the world. In this context, I believe visual and perceptual science is the new Behavioral Science. Whether we are designing a new product, package, retail or hospitality space, what we see, smell, touch, and most importantly, notice and pay attention to is critically important. This book does a wonderful job of explaining how these mechanisms work. I personally loved it because it digs even deeper, goes beyond just perception, and starts to explore really fascinating concepts such as consciousness and the nature of reality itself. But even if you only read it for the chapters on visual science and attention, I think it's a hugely valuable read.
4. Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker. I'm a little embarrassed that it took me a year to get around to reading this 2018 publication. I'm a self confessed Pinkerphile, and love his books on the mind, cognition and language. I'd put off reading this because I'd suspected it would be a bit of a revisit of his previous, and brilliant book, The Better Angels of our Nature. It does continue and expand on that work, but also includes a ton of new data and beautifully reasoned new analysis. The book is optimistic, and it has been criticized for that. But to me most, if not all of Pinker's analysis and arguments are irrefutable. And he doesn't claim that we have reached Nirvana. Far from it, instead he places us on a journey, but for the most part, one where we are going in the right general direction. The reason I find the book so useful from an innovation perspective is that his detailed analysis of the past provides the best foundation I've yet encountered for predicting the future. As innovators, our job is to create that future, and while trends analysis, and short-term fashions are certainly a part of that process, this is a terrific analysis of the bigger picture. It paints the long-term picture of the world we are innovating into in, and hence provides invaluable context for what and where we should be putting our long-term innovation efforts.
5. Bring Your Brain to Work by Art Markman. I couldn't close this list without mentioning Art's new book. Along with Don Hoffman, evolutionary psychologist David Buss, and Behavioral Economics guru Dan Ariely, Art has been one of the big four influences on my thinking. His knowledge of cognitive science, is second to none, and he always does a wonderful job of explaining complex concepts from that field in accessible ways. Insights from psychology and related disciplines (such as perceptual science and behavioral economics), are still under utilized by many employees and employers in the innovation space. This is changing, and we have seen considerable penetration, especially by the behavioral sciences into the business world (and government) over the last five years. Nonetheless, familiarity is far from universal, and there remain many opportunities to increase individual and institutional knowledge. Even where some familiarity exists, I've still encountered pervasive illusion of understanding, the lack of deep causal understanding that Art talks about in the manuscript. This book does an excellent job of filling many of those gaps and voids.
And I particularly love his insights on the jazz brain. As a musician, it's an analogy that naturally appeals to me. Our world is not scripted, and, to paraphrase an old military saying, no plans survive initial contact with the market, management or consumer. But the ability to improvise in the face of ever changing context and information is one of the most important skills an innovator can possess. As innovators, we obviously need to bring our brains to work every day, but deep understanding of improvisation may be one of the most important things we can learn.
So in summary, five books, all of which got me thinking about innovation in a slightly new way. Only time will tell if these will become personal classics like How the Mind Works by Pinker, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, or Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman. I've lost track of how many times I've read, and re-read those. But in many ways, innovation is about getting the right mix of new and familiar, and these books were all great sources of new for me this year, and may well become familiar as they are re-read in the future. Happy holidays!
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Two-thirds of poll respondents say TV battles did not influence their vote.
By Russell Parsons	 4 May 2010 12:00 am
Two-thirds (67%) of respondents to this week's MarketingWeek.co.uk poll say that the live television debates between the leaders of the three main political parties did not influence their vote.
Last week the final of three debates was broadcast. The first and last live shows on terrestrial channels attracted 9.4 million and 8.2 million viewers, while the second debate on Sky News was watched by 4.1 million people.
Observers have said that the interest shown in the debates has demonstrated that traditional media is still the best way of reaching voters.
Television, direct mail and outdoor ads have attracted comment, coverage and controversy during the campaign.
Many observers forecast before the campaign that the 2010 would be the first "digital election". The major parties all used email, search, social media, video and display ads in a bid to attract voters.
In an IAB report on political marketing, Mindshare global head of social marketing Ciarán Norris says that while "social media is an incredible way to connect with voters, TV still has a massive role to play – 90 minutes on ITV1 transformed this election."
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There are 3 championships per year; here is how we define our seasons: Fall 1 & Fall 2 (will produce one Fall championship). Winter 1 & Winter 2 (will have one Winter championship). Spring 1 & Spring 2 (will have one Spring Championship). In Summer we only run a Summer 1 session (no 2nd season) and so there is no tournament- you are just playing 8 games and you are playing for rankings.
Awards: you get a photo- Facebook fame! And you got to play 1 free game (the Championship game is an extra/bonus game).
To qualify- requirement #1: to play in the tournament you must have played in both seasons of that 'seasonal name' (example for 'Spring' you must have played in Spring1 & Spring2). Exception: for teams that joined late you can 'pay for extra games' as long as you get to 10 games one week prior to the playoff dates).
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Chipper Jones to speak at an Upstate university on Feb. 12.Chipper Jones, one of the greatest players in Atlanta Braves and Major League Baseball history, will speak at Furman's Upstate Diamond Classic on Feb. 12, Paladin head coach Ron Smith has announced.The event will be held at Greenville's Hyatt Regency beginning with a reception at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 7:00 p.m.Tickets to the 19th annual Upstate Diamond Classic are $100, which includes dinner. Tickets to attend both the reception and dinner are $130. A table of 10 can be purchased for $900, which includes two tickets to the reception. Reservations can be made by calling the Furman Baseball office at (864) 294-3132. An online registration portal is expected to be available to fans by Jan. 1.All proceeds benefit the Furman baseball program.Jones spent his entire 17-year baseball career with the Atlanta Braves before retiring at the end of the 2012 season. He won the 1999 National League (NL) Most Valuable Player Award, as well as the NL Silver Slugger Award for third basemen in 1999 and 2000. An eight-time NL All-Star, in 2012 he was named Major League Baseball's Players Choice Man of the Year.Jones was the Braves' starting third baseman for the majority of his career, although he played left field for the team during the 2002 and 2003 seasons. Considered one of the best switch hitters of all time, he finished his career with a .303 lifetime batting average, 468 home runs, 1,512 walks and 1,623 RBI. He is the only switch hitter in Major League Baseball history to post a career batting average of at least .300 and hit 400 or more home runs.Jones holds the Braves team record for career on base percentage (.402) and ranks third on the Braves all-time career home run list. He was part of teams that were involved in an unprecedented 12 straight playoff runs and won the World Series Championship in 1995. On June 28, 2013, Jones' No. 10 was retired by the Braves and he was inducted into the team's hall of fame.The Upstate Diamond Classic is the premier annual individual sport fundraising event conducted within Furman's 20-sport intercollegiate athletics program. Initiated by Smith in 1995, it has featured many noted guest speakers over the years, including Tommy Lasorda, John Smoltz, Phil Niekro, Tommy John, Brett Butler, Jeff Francouer, Bobby Thompson, Bobby Richardson, Marty Brennaman, John Grisham, and Dr. James Andrews, among others.Furman opens its 2014 season on Feb. 14 against Norfolk State at Fluor Field in downtown Greenville, where it will play six games, including annual clashes against baseball powers and long-time diamond rivals South Carolina (Apr. 8) and Clemson (May 13).Smith, a 1979 graduate of Furman, where he starred in both baseball and basketball for the Paladins, is entering his 21st season at the helm of the Paladin baseball program. The winningest coach in school history (1891), he posted his 500th coaching victory last spring with Furman's 10-1 triumph over Elon in SoCon Tournament first round action.
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Chipper Jones to speak at an Upstate university on Feb. 12.
Chipper Jones, one of the greatest players in Atlanta Braves and Major League Baseball history, will speak at Furman's Upstate Diamond Classic on Feb. 12, Paladin head coach Ron Smith has announced.
The event will be held at Greenville's Hyatt Regency beginning with a reception at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets to the 19th annual Upstate Diamond Classic are $100, which includes dinner. Tickets to attend both the reception and dinner are $130. A table of 10 can be purchased for $900, which includes two tickets to the reception. Reservations can be made by calling the Furman Baseball office at (864) 294-3132. An online registration portal is expected to be available to fans by Jan. 1.
All proceeds benefit the Furman baseball program.
Jones spent his entire 17-year baseball career with the Atlanta Braves before retiring at the end of the 2012 season. He won the 1999 National League (NL) Most Valuable Player Award, as well as the NL Silver Slugger Award for third basemen in 1999 and 2000. An eight-time NL All-Star, in 2012 he was named Major League Baseball's Players Choice Man of the Year.
Jones was the Braves' starting third baseman for the majority of his career, although he played left field for the team during the 2002 and 2003 seasons. Considered one of the best switch hitters of all time, he finished his career with a .303 lifetime batting average, 468 home runs, 1,512 walks and 1,623 RBI. He is the only switch hitter in Major League Baseball history to post a career batting average of at least .300 and hit 400 or more home runs.
Jones holds the Braves team record for career on base percentage (.402) and ranks third on the Braves all-time career home run list. He was part of teams that were involved in an unprecedented 12 straight playoff runs and won the World Series Championship in 1995. On June 28, 2013, Jones' No. 10 was retired by the Braves and he was inducted into the team's hall of fame.
The Upstate Diamond Classic is the premier annual individual sport fundraising event conducted within Furman's 20-sport intercollegiate athletics program. Initiated by Smith in 1995, it has featured many noted guest speakers over the years, including Tommy Lasorda, John Smoltz, Phil Niekro, Tommy John, Brett Butler, Jeff Francouer, Bobby Thompson, Bobby Richardson, Marty Brennaman, John Grisham, and Dr. James Andrews, among others.
Furman opens its 2014 season on Feb. 14 against Norfolk State at Fluor Field in downtown Greenville, where it will play six games, including annual clashes against baseball powers and long-time diamond rivals South Carolina (Apr. 8) and Clemson (May 13).
Smith, a 1979 graduate of Furman, where he starred in both baseball and basketball for the Paladins, is entering his 21st season at the helm of the Paladin baseball program. The winningest coach in school history (1891), he posted his 500th coaching victory last spring with Furman's 10-1 triumph over Elon in SoCon Tournament first round action.


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Home / Minister for Lands clarifies Botanical Garden Saga
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Minister for Lands- Ashneel Sudhakar says the Landowners of Suvavou Village have been Misled.
He was responding to the Written Objection Petition made by the villagers to the Suva City Council yesterday on the proposed re-zoning, currently used as the 'Thurston Gardens Car Park' for the construction of the Indian Embassy.
Sudhakar says such claims by landowners should have been raised before such a Project was made.
"The Suvavou villagers or the people who did present the petition, I think they have been misled unfortunately, people with vested interest are going around telling them a different set of story, It is not the Botanical Garden and just adjacent to this particular property that I mentioned, the British High Commission residents, the area use to form the part of the Gardens, at some stage in 1989 or before 1989 the then Government leased this portion to the British High Commission to build their Ambassadors residents, now if the claim by the landowners that they currently are making if that claim had any element of truth than that claim should have been raised as well"
Sudhakar has emphasized once again that the proposed rezoning on the Land belongs to the state. Even going further to show a planned map of the area where the proposed land sits.
"Actually I haven't seen the petition that was presented by the Suvavou villagers to the Suva City Council, but that is obviously with them. But the issue seems to be here, the Lands Department is pretty clear on their side of the situation the land belongs to the State, if there were claims by landowners that they own certain portion of the land that is obviously another argument for another Day"
He also responded to the statement made by he Fiji Museum Board of Trustees on how the area has a significant archaeological and historical attributes, which over the years have contributed to the cultural landscape, that defines Thurston Gardens and the adjoining areas.
Opposition Member of Parliament-Ro Filipe Tuisawau who is an elected member from the Rewa Province that includes the Suvavou people has confirmed they will be writing directly to the Government and the Indian Government as well on their Written Objection to the Rezoning of the land.
"At the moment the petition to SCC is part of their overall plan for a settlement to overall Suva land claims by the Tui Suva and his people so the Botanical Garden issue is part of that and they've put in a petition on that not to proceed and of coz I'm working closely with them and on that issue myself and Hon. Niko Nawaikula and I'll be having further meetings with Tui Suva and his people on other options and of coz includes writing directly to the Government and not only that with the Indian Government in 2 weeks time"
Written Objections for the Proposed Rezoning officially closed yesterday. A formal statement will be issued by the Ministry of Local Government on this submissions will be made by this week.
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The previous owners of our house were clearly a bit paranoid, since it is festooned with 6 webcams of assorted varieties, none of which we bother to use. When we moved in, the cables to all of them were unceremoniously severed! In retrospect, this was probably a little over-enthusiastic on our part: the concept of video surveillance of the house is a good one. I just wanted it to be a lot more discrete… and cheap! After a couple of weeks of experimentation and dabblement, therefore, we now our the proud owners of a two-camera system that provides good coverage of the front of our property (the rear of it is inaccessible to ne'er-do-wells) for about £120 all up. I went down some blind alleys in getting to a point where I was happy, though, and I thought I'd tell of the failures a little before documenting the final triumphant success!
My first attempt at a completely free video surveillance system relied on the fact that I've got a drawer-full of old smartphones, ranging from a Samsung Galaxy S2, with an S6 Edge and a Huawei KII thrown into the mix. It's quite easy to do.
That's not bad, and was extremely easy to do! As a surveillance device, however, it's not ideal: my phones don't have tripod mounts, so positioning them to look out of the study windows in useful directions was practically impossible. I also couldn't see a way to capture the video stream that my browser was happily receiving: the browser application allows 2 hours of video to be recorded to the local PC in a loop, with the newest video over-writing that from 2 hours ago, which is better than nothing -but I want to be able to retain my video footage for about a week before getting rid of it. On the phone itself, you can enable motion detection and have the camera email you footage when triggered; it's also possible to set up specific areas within the frame where motion should trigger this sort of response -but, again, I wanted video saved to my desktop, not emailed somewhere.
Of course, if I'd fiddled longer -and been prepared to shell out some cash for some phone mounts- I could probably have got this working in a way that met all my requirements (and it remains a possibility for a quick-and-dirty surveillance solution for the back of the property, which is the area of least concern as far as our specific home security is concerned). But getting the desktop to regard the phonecam as a 'proper' device involves installing kernel module videoforlinux drivers… and I wasn't keen on doing that on my main desktop. Besides, there were reasons why we gave up using these phones (they are old!), and making do with old kit when shiny new kit can be purchased instead has never been my way of doing things!! So I didn't go further down this route, though it is certainly easy to get quick results and looks promising for the future.
But I pressed on regardless. I needed a way to get the Linux O/S capturing the cameras' output and saving it for 7 days before deleting the old footage.
…so you can confirm that your webcam is capable of doing 1920×1080 at 30 frames per second.
…took care of the camera's tendency to auto-focus by switching it off and instead forcing an absolute focus to fixed infinity. A similar 'v4l2-ctl –set-ctrl=exposure_auto…' and 'v4l2-ctl –set-ctrl=expsoure_absolute…' will also take care of the camera's tendency to get confused by changing sunlight/cloud/time-of-day issues.
The command line for ffmpeg is horribly convoluted and I can only really claim to understand a bit of all the above, in between taking handfuls of aspirin! In general, the command says to take video at 10 frames a second, using the full 1920×1080 frame size. It's to output in compressed video, with key frames every 3 frames. And it's to save the video in segments that are 60 seconds long, with the first segment only being over-written after 1440 segments have been written (i.e., segment 1441 will over-write segment 1): a quick bit of maths will tell you that there are 1,440 minutes in a day, so this command will output a day's-worth of video before starting to lose the start of the day's video segments. (That's easy to turn into a week's-worth of video by making the script that calls this command create a new folder based on a timestamp, and have the video output saved into the new folder). The other nasty bit of syntax is that "drawtext" one: here, I'm saying to over-lay the video with a timestamp in a particular font, colour and size.
I will freely admit that I didn't just pluck that command out of the air: it took me several days of head-banging trial and error to get it all working correctly! But it did, eventually, do what I wanted… except that I discovered each video segment was coming out at about 40-60MB, so a day's-worth of 1440 such segments required a whopping 44GB+ or so of disk space. This isn't a problem for my desktop -or the server I progressively copied the data to every hour, since we both have tens of terabytes at our disposal. But I also wanted the video copied 'off-site': I'd arranged for my video segments to be written to a directory that I was synchronising to OneDrive (yes, Microsoft's OneDrive… there's an unofficial client that works quite well on Linux!). As a subscriber to Office 365, I get 1TB of cloud storage for 6 users; it was trivially easy to create new accounts for "webcam1" and "webcam2" and share 1TB with each of those accounts. My desktop could then also copy its video segments to OneDrive -a week's-worth of 44GB is still only 308GB. Only I discovered that my Internet connection isn't really up to the task: it took about 30 or 40 seconds to copy each 1-minute segment to OneDrive, which is just about do-able for one webcam. But the moment I started both webcams uploading to the cloud, my Internet upload connection was swamped and it started taking over 2 minutes for both cameras to upload their respective 1-minute segments. The maths therefore indicated that the cameras wouldn't be able to upload faster than they were generating new footage and so would eventually end up having their earliest footage deleted locally before having had a chance to upload it, which is clearly daft.
Naturally, I fiddled with things like slower framerates, better compression algorithms, smaller frame sizes. Yes, I could get file sizes down to something that might be cloud uploadable without completely clogging my wires full-time, but the results were a compromise of quality to the point where I started to wonder if it was worth doing at all!
The conclusion after a week of experimenting was that continuous video was not the solution I was looking for, since for large parts of the time, my cameras are looking out onto an unchanging street scene, with only the occasional passing car or pedestrian to alleviate the boredom! Saving all that unchanging video was pointless. If I could find a way to get rid of it, and only capture video when something interesting was happening, I'd cut down my file sizes massively and free up my Internet connection at the same time! What we need, therefore, is motion detection.
Unfortunately for the idea of implementing motion detection, ffmpeg doesn't have native motion detection capabilities. It instead has "scene detection", where you can tell it to output only that part of a video where the proportion of pixels which change, as compared to the previous video frame, is above x%.
My new file, motion-capture-0000.mp4, would be a video containing only those scenes where 0.4% of the pixels had changed from the previous frame. It's an extra processing step: save the full video segment, then extract the moving parts of it. It would have been nicer to combine this video filter with the original command and do the entire thing in one step, but I couldn't get the syntax right for that (or maybe it's simply not possible?!). Either way, I could live with a second processing step, if the results were good. But they weren't good!
First, that figure of 0.4% is arbitrary -and it takes a lot of iterative experimentation to work out what a good percentage for your own specific circumstances are. In my case, my neighbours castor oil plant is in view of one of the cameras and is forever blowing in the wind, meaning I found I was hitting the 0.4% mark when nothing else was happening at all! Naturally, therefore, you can lower the percentage to things like 0.05% or even lower -but I never found a percentage that was low enough to only capture things of interest without missing out pretty much everything!
Secondly, the filter works only by extracting and saving into the new files those things which are deemed to have moved. The result, in my case, was rather Charlie Chaplin-esque. A slow walk to the car, for example, would result in you seemingly moving at lightning speed in a jerky fashion -because in between steps, your body would be essentially motionless. So the steps would make it pass the scene detection filter into the output file, but the pauses between them wouldn't. Cut out all the pauses and display only the movements detected and you pretty soon end up looking for all the world like a 1914 3-reeler!
I think I could have tweaked and twiddled with ffmpeg for quite a long time before getting results which were passably acceptable, but without me ever really being confident I had truly optimised things! ffmpeg is a hell of a utility and I will freely confess that it's me at fault here, rather than ffmpeg… but in the end, if you can't master your tools, you need a different set of tools!
Into that new configuration file can be placed a bazillion and one configuration options! Getting them right is the key to making motion work for you …or not!
Now, I won't go through every single option in great detail, but instead do a quick tour of the key ones.
First, of course, you need to say which camera device is being used: in my case /dev/video0. Then you say where you want your captured video to be saved to -in my case, a sub-directory hanging off my home directory. By default, I found monitor captured 640×480 video, so the image width and height are used to force full HD recording.
Getting the right value for the v4l2_palette setting was tediously difficult! There are 17 possible values (as outlined on this page, and I literally had to set each one in turn and see what happened before settling on the value you see here …so at least 14 set-try-retry attempts were needed to get this right! If you don't set this parameter, motion automatically cycles through all the possible options until it finds one it can use. In my case, it always found the MJPEG palette to be usable (number 8), because that came first in the list of usable palettes for my camera. It resulted in some pretty weird-looking video, though, with dramatic over-contrasted colouring, so I kept iterating until I found something that looked more normal!
I'm also setting the output format for the captured video to be "mpeg4". This is another one I experimented with, trying to find a balance between quality and file size. The list of all possible codecs to use can be found here: I had a go with mp4 and hevc amongst others; the "mpeg4" seemed to produce the best results, but I may need to experiment further in time.
The camera, as you saw in section 3 above, can record at 5, 7.5, 10, 15, 20, 24 or 30 frames per second; I've opted for 24 because I want smooth, realistic motion without going over-the-top. Turning this down to the lower settings will result in smaller video files, of course, but potentially with Charlie Chaplin-esque consequences.
The various "text" settings you see allow the video to be overlayed with a date/timestamp and a bit of text describing which camera has taken which footage; in my study camera's case, for example, all the saved video will be labelled "HJRSTUDY" in the lower left-hand corner.
The threshold setting is important in determining when some sort of scene-motion has taken place. It's the number of pixels that need to change before motion thinks it should save the footage to disk. Note that a 1920×1080 frame contains 2,073,600 pixels, so for 2000 pixels to change means I'm setting the motion detection threshold at around 0.9% of the frame. Whether that's too low, too high or just right is something I'll only know over time, but I'd imagine it's low enough to capture the sight of two burly criminals walking up the drive to break in!
Video cameras have quite a lot of video 'noise' when running at low light levels -you can see pixels flickering and fluttering between two tones, for example. That would ordinarily count towards the "threshold" number of changed pixels and trigger motion detection -but the noise_level setting permits some noise to not count towards the total of changed pixels. This is again a setting I'll have to tweak over time, with empirical experimentation. For now, 32 seems to result in acceptable results.
Another setting that affects when motion thinks movement has taken place is the "minimum_motion_frames" one. By default, it's set to '1', meaning that if the relevant number of pixels has changed from one frame to another, that counts as motion. I've upped that to a setting of '2', to make things a little less sensitive: something needs to register as having changed across two frames before it counts as a real bit of movement. This is yet another sensitivity factor that I'll probably have to experiment with over time.
Once movement is detected, it's maybe not good to just save the movement itself: it may be more helpful to put the movement in some sort of context by recording a second or two before and after the movement itself. That's what the "pre" and "post_capture" parameters do: I've opted to record one second before and after whatever event triggered the movement detection in the first place. This is again something that will probably need to be tweaked as time goes on, to get the best 'context' results.
I've then asked for video to be output following motion for no longer than 60 seconds. Continuining movement in front of my window will trigger fresh motion-detection events, so I'll end up with multiple 60-second videos, but no one video will be longer than 60 seconds.
I've opted for 80% quality video output in an attempt to keep file sizes down: potentially yet another parameter to tweak in the light of experience gained over time, but I'm happy enough with the output at that level for now.
Finally, I've cunning arranged for dynamic naming of my movie file directories. Everything gets saved in /home/hjr/webcam/motion, of course, but the last parameter above means that a sub-folder will be created called '%Y%m%d' -or, rather, the year, month and day numbers those percent variable represent. At the time of writing, for example, that movie_filename parameter means I'm saving files in /home/hjr/webcam/motion/20190404 …the day-specific folder means I keep each day's output separate from any other's. I then have a separate cronjob run every night to delete files and folders from my …/motion directory that are older than 7 days -and that's how I can easily retain a week of captured footage without the earlier stuff being overwritten by the later. I am assuming, of course, that the police will never come asking for footage from a time earlier than a week ago; if they do, I won't be able to help.
Anything in white there will be an area of interest; anything in black will not be important to the motion detection algorithm -though everything, whether in the black or white regions, will appear in the output video. The black-and-white image is saved as a normal JPG file, but before it can be used, it needs to be converted to a binary PGM file (and whilst Krita, as an example, has an option to export directly to binary PGM, the results seem never to be usable by motion).
The motion mask_file parameter value is then simply the full path and filename to this exported PGM file.
Incidentally, PGMs are 'Portable Greymap Mask' files and they have a long and quite interesting history!.
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ENC] ffmpeg_set_codec: Low fps. Encoding 5 frames into a 10 frames container.
…files are, on the whole, making it to the cloud in 5 - 10 seconds, rather than clobbering my Internet connection for 30 - 40 seconds at a time. At that rate, my two cameras can upload directly to the cloud without stressing my Internet upload connection too badly.
I still have to tweak the motion detection sensitivity somewhat -cars driving down the street aren't really of interest to me, but they keep triggering video capture. My motion mask will have to be refined a little, I think, for starters!
For about £50, including postage, I managed to get a very decent pizza-box style Dell PC, running an Intel i3, of around 2012 vintage, with 4GB of RAM included. It runs quietly and cool, and can sit in the corner of ToH's study without really being noticed. It handles Fedora 29 and motion without stressing about it; and its webcam's USB cable stretches easily from the windowsill to the corner of the room in which it sits discretely.
I did originally try running the camera off a 2007 laptop I have sitting around doing nothing very much in the loft, but it just wasn't quite up to the demands of HD video capture and lagged badly, so that experiment didn't last long. The el-cheapo business PC from 7 years ago is much more capable and easily up to the job.
Be prepared to respond to Subject Access Requests (SARs). See below.
Delete footage when requested by subjects captured on video, if possible; or be prepared to not video specific individuals when requested, if possible. See below.
Regarding point 4: it is unlikely, I think, that anyone walking up or down our road would write to me saying, "You would have videoed me yesterday at 11:40am: please remove me from your system", but if they did, I'd have to respond to their request. I could decline to delete anything, since it might be too difficult, or would compromise the purpose of the webcam surveillance in the first place -but as long as I responded within a week with an answer, either in the negative or not, I would be GDPR compliant.
Point 5 is potentially the most problematic item on the list: if you've pointed your webcam at your neighbour, for example, because they are being a nuisance and you hope to catch them in the act, then the GDPR says they could write to you demanding to not be videoed in future, which would rather undermine the purpose of your surveillance system in the first place. You could therefore decline to comply with their request -but they could go to court to enforce GDPR regulations, which might net you a fine.
On the other hand, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) who polices the GDPR in the UK, have declared that, "the ICO would be unlikely to think that taking enforcement action against you was a proportionate use of its resources" if you've established that your camera system is intended for proportionate use and that you comply with other GDPR requirements, so it's pretty unlikely you're actually going to fall foul of the GDPR in any normal domestic residential setting.
Just to be on the safe side, however, I purchased a couple of sets of "This property is under 24 hour video surveillance" stickers and put them in my front windows. So that was point 1 above dealt with.
Anything older than 7 days gets automatically deleted, and thus the local system, the server it replicates to with rsync, and the OneDrive cloud server it uploads to, only ever hold the last 7 days of captured video.
Point 3's requirement to 'restrict access' is, I think, dealt with by the fact that it's all running on PCs sitting inside my home. That rules out 99.999% of people on the planet ever being able to access it. The video does leave the house, of course, when it gets up to OneDrive -but since that's on servers that Microsoft are supposed to secure and require a username and password to access, I think we're clear on that score. The fact that the relevant PCs and servers inside the house all run Linux is also a point in my favour, as very few 'ordinary' people would have a clue how to access those systems in the first place!
So, the short version: the GDPR considerations of starting video surveillance around your home are not insignficant, but they are fairly easily complied with.
One other thing I wanted to mention: it's obviously a bit awkward to have to manually run "monitor" when you want the video surveillance to run. Better would be a way of getting it to auto-start whenever the PC the camera is attached to reboots. And indeed, motion has a way of doing this: you configure daemon=on in the configuration file and it's supposed to all just work -except that it doesn't. It will first complain about being unable to open the existing configuration file, since that's buried deep within the /home/<your username> directory structure. Fine, you say: just copy the configuration file from your user directory to /etc/motion, where it then becomes usable by the daemon… And that works.
Except that you then find the daemon can't write files to /home/<user>/webcam, either. Fine: you create a /webcam directory off root, grant read, write and executable rights on that to the user "motion", and make "motion" the owner of the directory …and it will still complain that it lacks permission to write there.
…which means that at 1 minute past midnight every day, anything called "motion" gets killed off, and then the motion program is manually run. That worked reliably for me, though potentially it means I could be without video for up to 24 hours (if it crashed, for example, at 2 minutes past midnight, it wouldn't be restarted until 23 hours and 59 minutes later). But it will do for now, until such time as I work out how to daemonize motion properly.
For the princely sum of £50 for the Logitech webcam; £24 for the other no-name webcam; £50 for a second-hand i3 PC; and £3 for a set of video surveillance warning stickers… all up, about £130, I have a nicely functional indoor webcam motion-detecting surveillance system that gives me peace of mind. The upload to OneDrive means I can monitor things when I'm not physically at home (though I think I have better things to do when on holiday!!), which is a bonus.
Dabbling with ffmpeg syntax nearly blew my head in early on, but motion is a lot easier to deal with and does all that I need it to do. No doubt I will fiddle with things until I get it 'just right' over the course of the next few weeks and months, but it's been a fun project to get stuck into.


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require_relative '../lib/vigenere/email_cipher'

RSpec.describe VIGENERE::EmailCipher do

  def vigenere_key
    '239^83&.7t7988J*'
  end

  def encode_trivial str
    VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: 'aaaaa').encode(str)
  end

  def decode_trivial str
    VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: 'aaaaa').decode(str)
  end

  def encode str
    VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: 'hello').encode(str)
  end

  def decode str
    puts "key foo hello: #{VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: 'foo').parse('ysGyoa7jLo5ADqsoiqCr_ysGya8o6sLfa6AuzsfrqtA@proxydomain.com')}"
    VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: 'hello').decode(str)
  end

  def encoded args={}
    key = vigenere_key
    key = args[:key] if args[:key] != nil
    from = 'abc@def.com'
    from = args[:from] if args[:from] != nil
    to = 'ghi@jkl.com'
    to = args[:to] if args[:to] != nil
    ec = VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: key)
    "#{ec.encode(from)}_#{ec.encode(to)}@gofundbase.com"
  end

  def encoded_reply_address args={}
    key = vigenere_key
    key = args[:key] if args[:key] != nil
    from = 'abc@def.com'
    from = args[:from] if args[:from] != nil
    to = 'ghi@jkl.com'
    to = args[:to] if args[:to] != nil
    ec = VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: key)
    "#{ec.encode(to)}_#{ec.encode(from)}@gofundbase.com"
  end

  describe 'cycle' do
    it 'should cycle until the given length' do
      expect(VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: 'hello').cycle(5)).to eq('hello')
      expect(VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: 'hello').cycle(20)).to eq('hellohellohellohello')
      expect(VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: 'hello').cycle(3)).to eq('hel')
      expect(VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: 'hello').cycle(6)).to eq('helloh')
    end
  end

  describe 'encode' do
    it 'should return a different string' do
      expect(encode 'hello').not_to eq('hello')
      expect(encode 'world').not_to eq('world')
    end

    it 'should give back the original with a trivial key' do
      expect(encode_trivial 'hello').to eq('hello')
    end

    it 'should not return 2 consecutive dots' do
      # because that is not valid in the local part of an email address
      expect(encode_trivial 'some..dots').not_to include('..')
    end

    it 'should not return starting or ending with a dot' do
      # because that is not valid in the local part of an email address
      expect(encode_trivial '.somedots.').not_to start_with('.')
      expect(encode_trivial '.somedots.').not_to end_with('.')
    end

    it 'should give back the original when trivially decoded with dots' do
      expect(decode_trivial encode_trivial 'some..dots').to eq('some..dots')
      expect(decode_trivial encode_trivial '.somedots.').to eq('.somedots.')
    end

    it 'should give back the original when trivially decoded with dots and ampersands' do
      expect(decode_trivial encode_trivial 'some&.&&.&dots').to eq('some&.&&.&dots')
    end

    it 'should give back the original when decoded' do
      expect(decode encode 'hello').to eq('hello')
      expect(decode encode 'world').to eq('world')
    end

    it 'should work for strings longer than the key' do
      expect(decode encode 'helloworldfoobar').to eq('helloworldfoobar')
    end

    it 'should work with dots' do
      expect(decode encode 'hello.world').to eq('hello.world')
    end

    it 'should work with an encoded at sign' do
      expect(decode encode '&a@hello.com').to eq('&a@hello.com')
      expect(decode encode 'hello@&a.com').to eq('hello@&a.com')
    end
  end

  describe 'create email address' do
    it 'should come up with a new email address for the receiver to reply to the sender' do
      ec = VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: vigenere_key)
      expect(ec.create_email_address('ghi@jkl.com', 'abc@def.com', 'gofundbase.com')).to eq(encoded_reply_address)
    end

    it 'should be parsed correctly' do
      ec = VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: vigenere_key)
      reply_addr = ec.create_email_address('ghi@jkl.com', 'abc@def.com', 'gofundbase.com')
      expect(ec.parse(reply_addr)).to eq(from: 'ghi@jkl.com', to: 'abc@def.com')
    end

    it 'should work with underscores' do
      ec = VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: vigenere_key)
      reply_addr = ec.create_email_address('gh_i@jk_l.com', 'a_bc@de_f.com', 'gofundbase.com')
      expect(ec.parse(reply_addr)).to eq(from: 'gh_i@jk_l.com', to: 'a_bc@de_f.com')
    end

    it 'should work with dashes' do
      ec = VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: vigenere_key)
      reply_addr = ec.create_email_address('gh-i@jk-l.com', 'a-bc@de-f.com', 'gofundbase.com')
      expect(ec.parse(reply_addr)).to eq(from: 'gh-i@jk-l.com', to: 'a-bc@de-f.com')
    end
  end

  describe 'parse email address' do
    it 'should derive the original email addresses' do
      expected = {from: 'abc@def.com', to: 'ghi@jkl.com'}
      ec = VIGENERE::EmailCipher.new(key: vigenere_key)
      expect(ec.parse(encoded)).to eq(expected)
    end
  end
end

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Extending the validity of a land grab in the Nablus village of Salim
Violation: serving a military order to extend a validity of a land grab
Location: Salim village- Nablus
Perpetrators: Israeli Forces
Victims: residents of Salim village
Salim village witnesses, as any other village in Palestinian suburbs, frequent attacks and violations by the soldiers of the Israeli occupation and fanatic colonists as well. Those fanatics reside in the colony of Itamar, which is located on confiscated lands from the village.
It should be marked that the Israeli occupation authorities on September20, 2015 issued a military order to extend the validity of a land grab on 1.94 dunums from the village of Salim. The plot is located within the natural block no.8 also known as Wad Al-Tin.
According to the order (05/118/C) signed by the commander of the army in the West Bank, the occupation is to extend the validity of the land grab on the plot for the second time in raw until 2017. Noteworthy, the land was confiscated in 2005 and a validity extension was given until 2010 on it.
It should be marked that the targeted area is located on the bypass road leading to Alon More colony. Note that the seized area has a watchpost to secure the area.
Photo 1: the military order with a map of the area attached
Photo 2: the targeted location
About Salim:
Salim village is located 3.5 km to the east of Nablus city; the village is edged by the town of Deir Al-Hattab from the northwest, Beit Furik from the south, Ruweijib from the west, and Beit Dajan area from the east.
Salim has a total land area of 10, 793 dunums, of which 803 dunums are the village's built-up area. It has a population of 5062 people (Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS-2007)
International laws and covenants on violating lands and natural resources:
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 2 stated the following:
All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.
2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 17 stated the following:
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
The Israeli Occupation Forces Issue Stop-work Order against a Palestinian House in 'Azzun Al Shamaliya
نصب بوابتين عسكريتين على مدخل قريتي سفارين وشوفة جنوب مدينة طولكرم
إخطارات بوقف العمل في ( 10) مباني ومنشآت بقرية الدقيقة شرق يطا / محافظة الخليل
إخطارات بوقف العمل في منزلين غرب بلدة إذنا
الاحتلال يخطر 11 منشأة في قرية واد النيص بوقف العمل والهدم / محافظة بيت لحم
Halt of Work Notice targets "Dar Ad-Darb" Location in Qarawat Bani Hassan town / Salfit Governorate
Israeli military order to seize four dunums from the Qalqiliya village of Jayyous
68 Recent Notifications in Al Farisiya


What have been some of the most destructive floods in history?
In the United States, the failure of a dam in 1889 upstream from the community of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killed 2,200 people. Some of the world's most catastroph-1 ic flooding takes place in China. A flood on the Huang He River in 1931 killed 3.1 million people.