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Wyo wild horse gathers continue, Mont contested
Written by Christy Hemken
Cheyenne – According to Wyoming Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the state is on track for three wild horse gathers this fall.
"We're starting to gather Oct. 15 in the McCullough Peak area, then Oct. 21 we'll be in the 15-mile area and Oct. 30 in the Red Desert area, which includes five HMA's (Herd Management Ares)," says Wyoming BLM Public Affairs Specialist Cindy Wertz.
The agency plans to gather 1,614 horses altogether, 1,162 of which will be removed from the range. "Some of the mares will be treated with contraceptives," says Wertz, adding the remainder of the removed horses will go to the Rock Springs corrals first, then on to the Honor Farm near Riverton, the Mantle Ranch near Wheatland or to other adoption facilities in other states.
In Montana, however, there have been wild horse advocacy groups that have insisted the Montana BLM not gather and pare down their one herd of wild horses in the Pryor Mountains. The scheduled Sept. 1 roundup was delayed after wild horse advocates sought a temporary restraining order to stop their removal.
Despite the case filed in court in Washington, D.C., U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan denied the restraining order, allowing the gather to take place.
"We're very disappointed. It's a very complicated case, but we believed we had a chance and gave it a great shot," says Ginger Kathrens, executive director of the Cloud Foundation, which was a part of the effort to gain a restraining order. The Pryor Mountain horses were the subjects of documentary films produced by Kathrens.
"The judge found in BLM's favor that we could go ahead with our gather," says Montana BLM spokesperson Mary Apple, adding the gather began Sept. 3 instead.
The advocacy groups had argued that a gather of the Pryor Mountain herd would lower its genetic viability.
"The main reason we're doing the gather is because the vegetative resources in the area are being degraded by that number of horses," says Apple, adding that it's the winter range that limits herd size. "There's not enough range out there for 190 horses."
"Our mandate is to manage for healthy horses on healthy rangelands, and right now the rangelands just aren't healthy," says Apple. "There's a lot of talk on the blogs that there have been over three seasons of above average precipitation on the horses' range, but we've got the rainfall records and the opposite is true. It's had below normal rainfall, and there's a five-inch deficit out there right now."
"The size of the herd prior to the gather was 190 head, and we were going to bring in the entire herd, administer contraceptive to most of the mares and turn them back out," she continues.
However, because part of the herd had begun to roam on remote Forest Service lands they were unable to locate the entire herd. Of the 39 on Forest land, Apple says they were able to gather 28.
"Some of the horses have been living off range on the Forest land, and the Forest Service has asked us to remove them," says Apple of another aspect of the gather. "The horses aren't supposed to be there, and the Forest Service doesn't manage wild horses."
She says that was another area of contention with the gather – advocacy groups didn't want the horses taken from the Forest lands.
"We didn't get the whole herd, but we did gather quite a few and kept 57 back for the adoption this Saturday," she says of the Sept. 26 event.
Because of wild horses running on Forest allotments, the Forest Service had to suspend livestock grazing from a Wyoming producer. Because of that, the Wyoming Department of Agriculture came out in support of the gather, as well as the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
Two mare/foal pairs were held from release back to the range because of poor condition on the foals. "The supposition is the mares didn't have sufficient nutrition up there," says Apple. "There are weeds, but not nutritious forage. Some of the mares that came in hardly had any bags, and the foals were pretty thin."
One retained pair was released Sept. 22, and the other is going into the adoption, where it will join two other pairs.
The Pryor Mountain herd's current management plan dating back to the 1990s specifies the area can support 95 to 110 head of horses. "The new herd management plan written last summer raised the number to 120, and that's what we were gathering for in this last gather," says Apple.
However, the Cloud Foundation is also appealing that new herd management plan, which can't go forward until the appeal is settled one way or another. Apple says the new plan also includes water developments on the herd's mid-range, which isn't currently utilized as much as the upper and lower ranges for lack of water.
"We can't implement the water developments yet because if the decision on the plan's appeal goes against us, we'd have to take them out," notes Apple.
Of the Sept. 26 National Wild Horse Adoption Day event, Apple says she hopes members of the wild horse advocacy groups will show up to adopt the wild horses.
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Залізниця Париж — Брест — залізниця завдовжки 622 км у Франції, яка сполучає Париж та західне портове місто Брест, через Ле-Ман та Ренн. Використовується для пасажирських (експресних, регіональних та приміських) та вантажних перевезень.

Залізниця була відкрита в декілька етапів у 1840 — 1865 роках.

Маршрут
Лінія починається на станції Париж-Монпарнас і прямує у південно-західному напрямку перші 3 км, далі повертає на захід у Малакофф, минаючи південні райони Версаля. Далі знову прямує на південний захід до Мейнтенону, де прямує вздовж річки Ер повз Шартр. У Ла-Лупі залізниця залишає долину Ер у південно-західному напрямку і далі долиною Юїн у Конде-сюр-Юїн, а звідти прямує до Ле-Мана, де повертає на північний захід. У Сілле-ле-Гійом прямує на захід, перетинаючи річку Майен у Лавалі.

За Вітре вона проходить вздовж річки Вілен до Ренна. Потім прямує на північний захід до Ламбаль, де повертає на захід. Біля Сен-Бріє (у Іффіньяку) вона доходить до узбережжя Ла-Манш, далі на захід через Генгам і Морле до Бреста.

Швидкісні потяги TGV до Ле-Мана і далі на захід використовують колії LGV Atlantique між Парижем та Коннерре (20 км на схід від Ле-Мана), а не "класичну" лінію.

Історія
Маршрут відкривався по-чергово. Дільниця Париж — Версаль вступила в дію в 1840 році, продовження до Шартра у липні 1849 року, до Ренна — у травні 1857 року, до Генгама — у вересні 1863, до Бреста — в 1865 році.

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Report Writing on Fire Accident [PDF Available]
Today I'll discuss a report writing on fire accident. After reading this article you will have an idea of how to write this type of report.
Slum in Ranaghat Devastated by Fire
By Suprity Acharyya
Ranaghat, 18th September: A catastrophic fire broke out in a slum area of Ranaghat yesterday's evening. The fire drastically affects the huge slum quite close to the Ranaghat police station.
Many poor vendors and factory workers used to stay in that area. According to one of those vendors, they lost everything in the fire. Hundreds of huts are gutted. Six engines with 49 fire workers worked very hard to extinguish the fire.
The neighbours joined their hands with firefighters and worked tirelessly to put out the fire. The conflagration was brought under control only by the next morning.
As per a police investigating official, 15 people got themselves killed in the fire devastation. Many others are suffering from fatal burn injuries. They were taken to the Ranaghat public hospital right away. Some of them were admitted in ICU and some are kept under observance.
Many people who witnessed the whole incident are in total mental trauma and not in a position to describe anything. The estimated value of the total loss is likely to run to about a crore of rupees. Forensic experts are investigating beside the police and looking for the reason behind this major accident.
Durgapur City Mall Set on Devastating Fire; 2 Killed
December 9, Durgapur: A devastating fire caught the famous Durgapur City Mall by yesterday evening. Around 7:30 in the evening some smell of smoke spread out inside the mall. Suddenly the present people witnessed the main exit of the mall horribly set on fire.
According to one of the shoppers they got stuck inside and were trying to get out through the alternative exits. The fire brigade was immediately informed and reached within half an hour with three engines. After a long 8 hours, They got themselves able to control the Fire.
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Till then most of the people inside the mall took the way of alternative exit. But one shopper and one security guard got themselves killed in the accident. Apart from that, many people suffered from minor injuries and smoke suffocation.
They were taken to the nearest nursing home for first aid and basic treatment. Police and forensic experts are investigating the whole shopping mall. Interrogation has been launched against the management authority of the mall.
They are being asked why the automated fire extinguisher didn't work! In the primary investigation, forensic experts are assuming that the Fire broke out from some short circuit happened inside the central air conditioning system.
Fire Broke Out in Abhishikta Building Complex, Several Injured
June 19; Highland Park, Kolkata: The famous Abhishikta building complex was caught by fire yesterday night. According to one of the security guards on duty, it was around 12:30 midnight when some noise of screaming came out from a backward part of the complex.
Security guards rushed towards that point and discovered a massive fire broke out in a huge part of a building. The police as well as the fire brigade were informed. The fire brigade reached the spot within 20 minutes along with 4 engines.
According to a fire brigade official, they became able to control the fire after 3 and a half hours of attempt. Local people also went on in order to help the fire brigade in their rescue operation. One particular building in that complex is heavily damaged and many people got themselves severely injured by this fire accident.
The nearest hospital was informed immediately and they came with 11 ambulances to take the injured people to the hospital. In the primary investigation, police are assuming some major fault in the power room as the reason behind this fire accident. The forensic experts are further investigating the situation.
A Massive Fire Accident in a Small Chemical Factory of Konnagar
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July 7, Konnagar: A massive fire accident broke out in a chemical factory of Konnagar that burnt alive 19 workers inside. It is a small factory in Konnagar for producing laboratory chemicals. According to a tea shop owner close to it, he heard a terrible sound of an explosion from inside the factory, then witnessed blue flames of fire coming out from there.
The fire brigade was immediately informed, but the local people accused them of delaying a lot of time. Before the fire brigade came the local people tried to extinguish the fire in their own way. According to a local fellow, the fire brigade came after one and a half hours.
Till then the Fire devastated the whole factory. The fire brigade became able to control the fire after some time. The burnt bodies of 19 workers were rescued after that. Police have arrested the owner for interrogation about the safety measurement inside the factory.
According to the inspector in charge, there were no permission certificates the owner was able to show for the production of chemicals inside that factory. Forensic experts are further investigating the whole incident for more evidence.
Fire Again Hit Burrabazar, Killed 9
September 15, Burrabazar: Burrabazar was again caught by fire yesterday. It is the second time in this year the Bazaar area has been caught by fire. The last time in February when the fire broke out in the area, many safety measurements were taken by the Bazaar authority as well by the police.
But it is proved by yesterday's fire that all the measurements went to the vein. According to one shopkeeper, it was at round 4:30 in the afternoon when suddenly a massive fire broke out from nowhere.
7 fire brigade engines attended the spot immediately, but unfortunately, it took around 13 hours to fully control the Fire. The local police station is investigating the whole accident. According to a report, around 62 shops were devastated by the fire accident.
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The accident killed 9 people and injured several this time. All of them were taken to Kolkata Medical College. Some of them are suffering from fatal injuries.
The police are investigating why the dedicated automatic fire extinguishing system of Burrabazar area didn't work. A high-level committee is also about to be set up to deal with this type of fire accidents in the Bazar area.
Fire Accident in Shivnath Shastri Girls' High School
August 19, Kolkata North: Massive fire broke out in Shivnath Shastri girls' High School yesterday evening. As per the report presented by the security guard of the school, he suddenly noticed fire coming out from the electric metre room that is just beside the stairs.
Though he tried to extinguish the Fire himself, it spread out without giving further time. The school authority as well as the fire brigade was informed immediately. Initially, two engines of the fire brigade came on the spot. But examining the whole situation one more engine was summoned.
After 2 hours of continuous effort, the fire brigade team got able to bring down the fire under control. In the primary investigation, a major short circuit seemed responsible for the fire outbreak.
Further investigation is going on. The school management authority has called on high-level internal enquiry and meeting. An automatic fire extinguishing system has been proposed to the set up in the school. A total loss of about 4-5 lakhs rupees is assumed.
The School has declared vacation for the next 5 days to complete the reconstructional activities. Fortunately, no death or injuries have been reported in this accident.
That's All About Report Writing on Fire Accident
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Else, if you have any other topic ideas that you want me to cover, then also let me know.
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Johannes Veerman: Wiki (Golfer), Bio, Age, Parents, Wife, Net worth
September 10, 2021 July 6, 2021 by WB Team
Johannes Veerman: Wiki (Golfer), Bio, Age, Height, Weight, Education, Gender, Wife, Parents, Children Career, Age, Net worth, Birthday, Height, Nationality, and other details: Johannes Veerman is an expert golfer. Currently, Veerman performs as a senior for the Texas A&M Athletics. As of now, he is reportedly concentrating on the Irish Open. Australian Lucas Herbert shot 2-under 70 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead towards the final round of the Dubai Duty-Free IrishOpen. As of now, Herbert attains at 15 under, with Johannes Veerman in solo second and South African Justin Harding in solo third.
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Johannes Veerman's prevailing age is 29 years old. He was brought to this world in the year 1992 in Orange County, California, United States. His zodiac sign is Taurus, and he belongs to American nationality. Moreover, Veerman's birthday is on May 17.
Golfer Johannes Veerman was enthusiastic about golf since he was a kid. Johannes was only 9 years old when he began playing golf. Veerman ultimately played as a junior for Texas A&M Athletics in 2013. Johannes is presently ranked as the world's number 350. Moreover, the rising golfer is also active on Instagram. His account is present under the username @jayvee_101 and has 2,364 followers. Besides, Veerman's beloved golfer is Ernie Els. Johannes's total worth remains undetermined at the moment. According to European Tour, he acquired prize money of around 1,000 euros on June 27, 2021. Upon our rough calculation, he won around 19,430 euros in 2021. Accordingly, Johannes must have made over a million from all his tournaments and winnings over the years.
Johannes Veerman's parents are Yanti Veerman and Jan Veerman. His father, Jan is from Dutch, whereas his mother, Yanti, is from Indonesia. Aside from his parents, Veerman has a younger sister whose name is Elisabeth Veerman. As of now, very little information is about his sister. Nevertheless, Veerman's family has traveled a lot and resided in Thailand, the Philippines, China, and Indonesia. Johannes Veerman is married and has a spouse named Angela Veerman. The couple got wedded on May 31, 2018, in a beautiful wedding ceremony. They have been wedded for three years now. Furthermore, Angela is a personal trainer. She is also present on Instagram as @angieevee_ and has collected 1,941 followers. Currently, the couple is not blessed with any children.
Here is the full bio of Johannes Veerman, his family, mother, father, brother, sister, name, age, height in feet, wife, body measurement, interest, high school, college, nationality, University, spouse, Twitter, income network, birthday, zodiac, sign, education, religion, date of birth.
Real name Johannes Veerman
Birthplace Orange County, California, United States
Profession Golfer
Height Not known
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Parents Yanti Veerman and Jan Veerman
Siblings Elisabeth Veerman
Wife Angela Veerman
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Some lesser-known facts about Johannes Veerman
His prevailing age is 29 years.
His date of birth is May 17, 1992.
He was only 9 years old when he began playing golf.
His younger sister's name is Elisabeth Veerman.
His parent's names are Yanti Veerman and Jan Veerman.
He got wedded to Angela Veerman on May 31, 2018.
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Hunting & Gathering by Paul Bong.
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Paul is a descendant of the Yidinji tribe in Far North Queensland, Australia who occupied the fertile rainforest lands from Cairns in the north to Babinda in the south and west into the Atherton Tablelands as far as Kairi. His ancestral history is rooted in this region. His grandmother taught him stories and legends about the rainforest – its bush food, animals, young warriors and special places such as Babinda Boulders and the Gordonvale Pyramid. These stories are the inspiration to a lot of his work. He incorporates traditional designs with modern techniques in his art, and each design has a spiritual meaning. Traditionally every design had a different meaning associated with totems or inspired by legends.


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Wednesday, January 25, 2023 by Christie Kratz
Roundup Rodeo BBQ Opening Date Announced
Disney Dining, Disney World, Hollywood Studios
We finally know when Disney's newest addition to the dining scene in Hollywood Studios will open – March 23.
We've been waiting for this one since way back in the pre-pandemic days. When Disney first announced the restaurant plans, they included a projected opening date of 2020. But yeah… global pandemic. So like many other Disney Parks projects, (TRON Lightcycle / Run, EPCOT overhaul, etc.) the opening was delayed. The new plan was to open the restaurant in "late 2022" which came and went with no update on an opening date.
We've all been waiting as patiently as we can for an update and with the recent news that TRON Lightcycle / Run is finally scheduled to open April 4 we've had our fingers crossed that there would be an announcement soon for Roundup Rodeo BBQ.
Today Disney announced the official opening date and – just to make sure we know they mean it this time – a preview of the full menu.


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Managing the matrix: How to cope with ambiguity and change
A matrix organization is more flexible and better able to respond to dynamic situations. But working in a matrix requires a different set of skills than in hierarchical structures. Insights from Kevan Hall's book 'Making the Matrix Work'
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Mar 16, 2016 10:03a.m.
Making the Matrix Work
By Kevan Hall
What is the matrix?
Welcome to the matrix, where multiple bosses, competing goals, influence without authority and accountability without control are the norm.
It requires a different skill set
Today work is done in a 'horizontal' way and not in a vertical structure.
A matrix requires skills in leadership, co-operation and personal effectiveness.
Disadvantages of a matrix
Lack of accountability
Unclear goals and roles
Delays in decision making
Increase in bureaucracy
Increase in uncertainty and conflict
Skilled people are central to it
The advantages and disadvantages of a matrix are fundamentally about people and the way they work together.
Skilled people can make any structure succeed, and even the most elegant structure will fail if the people within the structure do not have the skills.
Control and power are less effective
Skilled people sometimes have an over-reliance on control and power. That doesn't work in a matrix.
Traditional management prioritizes clarity, predictability and control. In a matrix, we need to balance ambiguity, manage change and decentralize control.
It requires engagement
High levels of engagement increase discretionary effort. Leaders must push engagement in a matrix.
Employee engagement comes when individuals feel a sense of ownership of meaningful goals.
It involves more meetings, slower decision making
Matrix implementations are often followed by an increase in number of meetings, conference calls, emails and a slowdown in decision making.
Ways of co-operating
There are four ways of co-operating in a matrix: networks, communities, teams and groups.
Centralized control is dangerous in a matrix
It leads to more escalations and nothing gets done.
Build trust and empowerment
In a matrix, we build engagement by demonstrating trust and enabling empowerment and we gain better, faster control.
Building a matrix mind-set and skill set
Active self-management
Being comfortable with ambiguity
A choice to be more flexible
The matrix is a deliberate choice to sacrifice some clarity for flexibility.
We need clarity in an organization to know who is doing what, we need flexibility to cope with change and ambiguity.
It allows us to be good at different things
We set up a matrix to be good at different things that compete for our time, attention and money.
Bring clarity on strategic goals
If the strategic goals are unclear, middle management tends to escalate a lot more.
Most of the debate and conflict on achieving goals happens in the middle management.
A recent survey found that 85% of middle management thought their roles were unclear; only 22% of senior management held this view.
The role performance management plays
Performance management in a matrix has to move up, it has to pay attention to people's ability to juggle competing priorities and make decisions on trade-offs.
Role clarity enhances engagement
Research shows that role clarity is highly co-related with engagement, performance and retention.
The RACI
In a matrix, you need to think of RACI—Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed.
In a matrix, we rarely have full control over the things we are accountable for. We rely on a network of supporting functions and colleagues to deliver.
The trick is to get down to a sufficient level of detail where we can drive clarity on accountabilities.
The people who are responsible are the people who do the work.
Consult means you ask for and listen to someone's opinions and inputs before you make a decision. It does not mean that they are the decision makers or that they have to agree.
In a matrix, everyone thinks that he should be consulted. That is not true.
Informing
When you inform people, they are not decision makers and they do not have a right to veto. You are not asking for approval or involvement when you inform.
Three ways of making decisions
The boss decides
An empowered individual decides.
Collective decisions
Solution providers matter
"Why talk to someone with a job title, when you can talk to someone with an answer."
A lack of alignment and goals
That is one of the most common complaints in matrix working.
The pull towards local goals
People tend to be pulled towards their local goals and old friendships and relationships as opposed to doing the right thing.
Managing competing priorities
A level of "constructive tension" is good in a matrix.
As F Scott Fitzgerald said, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
Making trade-offs
The need for a trade-off implies constraint. We cannot have it all and participants in a trade-off need to have that maturity.
Be as fact-based as possible in trade-off discussions and don't leak emotion all over the discussion room.
Making a compromise
A compromise is where we agree to meet in the middle, and each of us gives up something in order to reach agreement. Many rigid managers fail in this meeting the middle ground philosophy.
Depersonalise discussions
Keep the issues objective rather than get emotional. Focus on the specific challenges to be resolved.
Experience and good judgement
"Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement." – Rita Mae Brown
Why conflict happens
Conflict happens when one party wants to impose their views on others without addressing the issue properly.
Making agreements hold
In a matrix you should always shoot for agreements and then monitor and hold people accountable to see that agreements have been met in good faith.
Move to fewer people in meetings and approvals
As we become more comfortable in a matrix, we need to cut the number of people involved in meetings and approvals—that is when the matrix will pick up speed.
We cannot afford low-quality meetings in a matrix.
Four buckets of co-operation
A team is a number of people with complementary skills working together to achieve a collaborative goal.
A group is a number of individuals with either similar roles or skills that do not require close collaboration but need to be co-ordinated.
A community is a group that shares a sense of identity.
A network is a number of people who are connected and related in some way. They exchange information and may interact to achieve specific goals.
What it means to be accountable
Accountability means responsibility, answerability, blame worthiness, liability and account giving.
Accountability in a good company
A good company is one where accountability routinely exceeds control over resources, that will stretch the manager to work collaboratively, to use others to deliver.
Visibility in an organization depends on...
Image and
In a good company performance is monitored; in a poor company image is multiplied.
Coaching to build capability
Coaching is a powerful way to build capability in a matrix. Leaders should ask the right questions rather than dictating answers.
The best coaching happens in an atmosphere of trust.
The nature of trust
Trust is like the air we breathe. When it is present, nobody notices; when it is absent, everyone notices.
Trust is easier to destroy than to build.
Trust, capability and character
Trust is about capability and character. Capability is about whether you are reliable; character is about whether your behaviour is predictable, consistent, open and fair.
Be a matrix manager, not a victim
The matrix victim waits for someone to bring clarity; the matrix manager relishes the flexibility, autonomy and breadth in a matrix.
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← Would Gun-Banners Rather Nicole Carney Had Been Murdered?
Should America Subarm its Citizens?
Posted on August 3, 2017 by Suzan
From Town Hall: https://townhall.com/columnists/alankorwin/2015/07/27/should-america-subarm-its-citizens-n2030989
Alan Korwin
There's a point between fully armed and disarmed that is subarmed. Being subarmed is dangerous. Officials would never stand for it themselves. It's the point where you don't have a very good gun, or certainly not the type you'd prefer, or not the type your police prefer for their own safety, and not the right ammo, or certainly not enough of it. It isn't the caliber you want, and the magazine is too small. You're subarmed.
It seems there are people at work in the government and the euphemistic gun-control movement who have figured out if they can't disarm the public — because the public will not stand for it and put up intense opposition — they can subarm the public (that's you) a little at a time. If you're subarmed, and they're fully armed, that's pretty much victory for them and a shift in control.
Because it happens by bits, the big picture is obscured. Little by little the power shifts from the public to the authorities. We used to have parity with government, and this kept government in check, made America the liberty capital on Earth. We the people were equal with our hired hands. Both sides were in a state of stasis, equilibrium. They had matchlocks, we had matchlocks.
They had flintlocks, we had flintlocks. They got cap and ball, we all had it. We grew up together, we were partners in this, developed the field together. Self-contained cartridges, rifled barrels, bolt action, revolvers, semi-auto, improvements to everything, optics, full auto… the story starts to rag out right there.
Two Gun Laws: Tectonic Shift in American Freedom
In 1968 our employees in government decided it was time for us to fill out paperwork for any gun purchased from any manufacturer. It's been that way ever since, despite the enormous trash piles generated by "news" media to the contrary. It's no big deal — maybe — but every gun made and sold legally to an American since then comes with government paperwork.
Twenty-two years later, in 1986, the scales of equality tipped over. The Gun Control Act basically said members of the state could have machine guns but the peasants (that's us) could not — only one-shot guns for us. Matching firepower was no longer for the masses — it was for the hired help only. Two centuries of Gun Equality between government and the public was over. Now that's a big deal.
Oh, the few full autos in public hands at the time could remain, but this was subarming on a grand scale, an order of magnitude, it made the two sides totally unequal. The miniscule number of now collectible machine guns people owned could be cherished, lost to wear-and-tear and jealously safeguarded — thanks to five-figure price tags instantly springing upon a closed finite market.
Say Goodbye to Officer Friendly
The rapid decline in freedom everyone has been noticing was catalyzed. The rise of the police state became more intense. SWAT raids (multiple battle-equipped specialists with machine guns and overwhelming power) have gone from 3,000 per year in 1980 to as many as 80,000 per year now. The Andy Griffith Show was solidly in the past. Officer Friendly was on his way out.
We weren't a police state then and we're not one now, we've just started looking more like one than anyone would like — and toe the line, pal. Not to worry, our morals are still intact. Or are they.
You're overwhelmed when a dynamic entry team of eight masked, body-armored men storm through your door with flash-bang grenades at two in the morning, like the state does these days. You've been subarmed to the point of being gunless when they have MP-5 machine guns and you have the civilian single-pull-of-the-trigger AR-15 you're so proud to own. It's the gun you insist is OK because it's the one-shot model, not the machine gun it looks like, which ignorant gun haters fear it really is. And they want to confiscate that too.
Continue reading at: https://townhall.com/columnists/alankorwin/2015/07/27/should-america-subarm-its-citizens-n2030989


to enhance the river at night.
to mark the Tube's 150th anniversary. It provides a permanent work of art in every single one of the network's 270 stations. New temporary and permanent artworks will also be commissioned for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.


It is proposed that all, leaflets, brochures, circulars, manifestoes, posters etc, used by any Political Party during an election, be collected up recycled and given to the local Food Banks for free distribution as toilet paper.
We propose the removal of funding for weather prediction as they seem to get it wrong most of the time anyway. This money would then be redirected into an extensive scientific research scheme to find out what actually came first, the chicken or the egg?
Reverse bid stands up to scrutiny….
If the Government helped with finance, perhaps AstraZeneca should consider buying out Pfizer, then, as we would have the rights to Viagra, the economy may stay up longer.
Also perhaps we could then look at getting Boots the Chemist back into British ownership.
We propose to include: Shove ha'penny on ice as a Winter Olympic budget version of curling?


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John R. Pacuraw, 77, of Erie passed away on Monday July 30, 2018 at Fairview Manor Nursing Home. He was born November 3, 1940 to the late Mathilda Spangle and John Packard.
John served in the Army National Guard. He also worked for General Electric. John enjoyed fishing, hunting, golfing, bowling, playing softball, but he enjoyed nothing more than spending time with his grandchildren and great grandchildren.
In addition to his parents, John was preceded in death by his wife Rosemarie Pruzenski Pacuraw in 2012.
He is survived by two daughters, Annette Ernst and Deborah Snyder, both of Erie, six grandchildren: Jamie Hesselschwardt (Trey) of Ohio, Michael Ernst, Christopher Ernst, John Ernst, Megan Silay and Matthew Silay all of Erie, four great grandchildren: Kameryn Ernst of Erie, Jones Hesselschwardt of Ohio, Charleston Hesselschwardt of Ohio, and Kaydence Ernst of Erie. He is also survived by one brother, Robert Pacuraw.
Relatives and friends are invited to the Edward J. Garr Funeral Home, Inc., 459 East 12th Street, Erie, PA 16503 on Wednesday August 1, 2018 from 3:00 pm until the time of the service at 5:30 pm. Burial in Calvary Cemetery will be private. Please send condolences to garrdavisfuneralhome.com.


Volume two of Cixin Liu's science fiction trilogy.
The universe had once been bright, too. For a short time after the big bang, all matter existed in the, and only after the universe turned to burnt ash did heavy elements precipitate out of the darkness and form planets and life. Darkness was the mother of life and civilization.
The derivation from these axioms is the Exterminator. Resource conflicts between civilizations follow strictly from the two axioms. Game-theoretic tension is added by irreducible suspicion, and technological explosion.
Which is to say, they are all threats to each other, intrinsically, and irresolvably. Technological explosion means that any civilization represents a potential menace of inestimable potential, escalating massively within a span of mere centuries, and "On the scale of the universe, several hundred years is the snap of a finger." An intolerable danger, then.
Unless it figures out expansion is not necessarily good, perhaps even an Achilles heal.Maybe a civilization with the edge that's thinking expand or die ought instead think wipe out the competition while I have this edge then find the sustainable sweet spot.What advantage is there to out competing the rest of the world/ universe to then compete with myself and a finite universe. How would a world with say only europe occupied and the rest a resource bank and natural playground. What loss is there to the people that are never born -none. To those that exist its a sustainable paradise. it could improve but not expand sure theres no longer a feel of unlimited capitalist possibilities but thats an illusion we feel because of the capitalist gap between cultures and because we haven't hit the natural resource limits yet but somewhere out there is the same limit that a smaller civilization would have just not as pleasantly.Even then "limit " is not quite the term exploitation dividend is more like it. .The socialists argue the zero sum as does the scientist philosopher above. theres plenty of universe and plenty of market just not infinite.and infinity doesnt actually exist. Stop living for theories, live for the pleasure of living.Somewhere out there is the limit of starbucks franchises but already behind starbucks are better local alternatives are they less or more capitalist? more they are competing starbucks is rent seeking.Is there a minimal size a society needs to be to do optimum science or industry or banking? I bet its not that large.
China practiced your strategy for a while, they were the middle kingdom and outside was only barbarians not to be concerned about. Rome also eventually practiced it, the northern part of Europe were too cold to bother with, let the barbarians have it. Where there exists an outside, there exists the possibility of an expansionist power that could eventually consume your own.
You are right about it wrapping back around where a universe under one civilization quickly fractures. What we are left with is this dark truth, "only the dead have seen the end of war".
my strategy is a bit more proactive and final theres no need for a wall because all competitors are eliminated or reduced to a theme park sized population.It might not solve the problem of social cohesion but it certainly would have a better chance. The real point though is you eventually arrive at this point anyway you can plan to live comfortably below the malthusian threshold or you can wing it and wait to be circumscribed.The less difference the less conflict and wasted resources. Does it eventually fracture well i have been saying what HBD may ultimately be telling us is we have not evolved to a point of sustainable governance monoculture may mitigate this but I would guess the first order of crispr ought to be addressing this making uber mensch without manners is a bad idea.
The greatest threat is self-fragmentation.
Self-fragmentation looks an awful lot like the branching in evolution. The emergence of life from replicating organic compounds, life feeding on itself, species infighting, civilizations infighting forming ever more intricate order with the matter in the universe.
There is enormous order (useful energy) in the universe, but it is diffuse. The second law of thermodynamics cries out for that order to be consumed and entropy produced in turn. Engines emerge, they feed on the order to produce a new more complex localized order even as they accelerate the production of entropy, localized order in the service of entropy. As the localized order becomes grander and more complex it is able to access ever greater planes of diffuse order in the universe. Order feeds upon order, entropy accelerates as the concentration and expansion of localized order increases. The universe is being ordered until in a final spasm of entropy production the grandest localized order consumes itself and finally finishes the mission the 2nd law of thermodynamics set out for it; total entropy in the universe is maximized. Unless there exists frontier outside the known universe, with order to be consumed, as long as more entropy can be produced, life will go on.
I did not read the book (though I am planning to, now that it has come to my attention) but there is something that I have to put out here. I (with a dose of uncertainty, mind you) disagree with the assertion that civilizations are the greatest threats to each other, but instead propose that civilizations are the greatest threats to themselves (or at least that intercivilizational threat is of the same magnitude as intracivilizational one).
The most original (and therefore primitive) Malthusianism postulates that populations expand beyond their ability to sustain themselves, and therefore experience mass deaths in various kinds. However, since variability between populations (a most overlooked component of HBD, especially in WN circles) exists, not all segments of population will die off in an equal rate. Thus, constant Malthusian catastrophes will inexplicably alter population in such a manner that certain traits will evolve.
Now this is my personal speculation, and one of which I too am skeptical of, but given enough alterations and populations will change in that way that they are capable of producing and maintaining a system for which the sole purpose is to delay the Malthusian catastrophes or negate them fully – civilization. Populations which are unaltered in such a way will never amount to anything – and any Golden Age they experience will be shortlasting, with lower intensity genious and followed by intense fragmentation periods. Population altered in such a way will necessary birth systems designed to ward off M. catastrophes and subsequently remove the very same evolutionary pressures which made them capable of creating and maintaining complex systems – and that is the brighter scenario, one only possible when population exist without any contact with other populations. The darker scenario is that cooperation and altruism necessary for development (hawk-dove game works best when all are doves) turns pathological when introduced to hawkish populations.
Thus, bursts of development of "civilization" (I have no word for group of people guided by evolutionary principles in such a manner that they prosper in evolutionary sense, not the piggish social signaling) will be rare.
Honestly, the only way complex life could work is if it evolved in such a way that it can instantly flip between hawk and dove mentality – dove for prosperity, hawk for protecting that prosperity from outer and inner hawks.
Brilliant. Dove civilization can maintain its prosperity by breeding dove-hawk hybrids to eliminate hawks on condition that the hawk-hunters are abundantly provided for by the doves, presumably by being offered juicy slabs of tender dove meat. This could benefit the doves by sacrificing only the most pigeon-like among them, thereby creating eugenic effect. There'll be a beautiful race of tasty doves guarded securely by their benevolent dove-hawk overlords… what's not to like?
I do not see alternatives. Too much hawk and cooperation is impossible – and therefore any system which ensures cooperation and punishes defection is impossible (or perverted in the form of "anarcho-tyranny"). Too much dove, and you get "cuckservatives".
What you propose is a differentiation (as in physical differentiation) between hawk and doves. I do not see that working. Eventually, one side will prosper. European doves used to be hawks – then the pressures of civilized cooperative society bred them into this.
I proposed a hybrid, but it must be ubiquitous with no pressures for each side to prosper.
Hell, this isn't anything new. Ingroup/outgroup mentality is what makes this hawk-dove mentality possible. The trouble is, really, finding a sufficient criteria for what constitutes "ingroup".
"Even breathing is done with care" is such an eloquent explanation of why we can't see them.
I wonder if we're being careful enough.
The Fermi Paradox and The Great Filter are, emphatically, not clever thought experiments. They're great fodder for Sci-Fi books, but you'd have to have a seriously deficient imagination to take them seriously for even a moment, and they make a number of really wrongheaded assumptions.
The Fermi Paradox could also be called the "Catch 22" of Universal Darwinism. In short, the extinction of advanced civilizations has been hard-coded into the vector of escalating technical proficiency. Eros and Thanatos are the same engine of annihilation. In life's excess resides its destined demise, as like a heart that dies young having been full of pity. Once one civ acquires the means to conquer or destroy an other with only acceptable cost to itself, anything less is "sheer procrastination", and in the Dark Forest thinking twice is a fatal sin. It'd be a safe bet to say that MAD strategy (as the inevitable game-theoretic scenario of competing tech SPs) will result in the tragic ruination of all actors every single time without exception.
No, because neither The Fermi Paradox nor The Great Filter state anything at all with respect to warfare. All they state is: "We can't see anybody out there. Where is everybody?" The rest is simply conjecture, which tends to be utterly ridiculous. We can't see any civilizations out there because space is a big place, and we have no way of resolving even relatively close details, to say nothing of distant ones. We can't detect Earthlike civilizations at any distance. Anything we might be able to see from here would, by definition, be a Godlike society of almost unimaginable technological prowess — and it should not be taken for granted that even those massive-scale societies are observable /w the current tools at our disposal.
…And if you're dealing with a truly advanced civilization, the rules no longer apply. "Civilization continuously grows and expands, but the total matter in the universe remains constant." Even this should not be taken for granted; it is theoretically possible to convert energy to matter, and this could explain why we don't see distant civilizations in the IR spectrum: They might be converting their waste-heat/energy to matter.
The Fermi Paradox/Great Filter then asks: "Why hasn't anybody contacted us?" Which happens to be the very definition of a stupid question.
So the proper response to The Fermi Paradox is: This is not a true paradox. There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer. I reckon we'll need a few more centuries or millennia of technological development before we can attempt to answer it.
Besides, how is "survival is the primary need of civilization" working out for the disgraceful Swedes? It looks to me like Western civilization is quite capable of committing suicide. That's what NRx is for, isn't it? I mean, the point of NRx is to see the world as it really is, beneath the veneer, and to discover and support stable societal forms.
Anyway, The Dark Forest was an interesting book. I thought that it was inferior to the first book in the series, but I really liked that alien teardrop part. I'll say no more. Wouldn't want to spoil it for anybody.
"They might be converting their waste-heat/energy to matter" Empirically false, that would be a violation of the laws of thermodynamics, though to be fair instead of matter if they could access pocket/alternate universes then it could be possible to hide the entropy production. If that tech were possible it would be very hopeful and could even contradict the finite matter/energy assumption.
I guess I'm going on what was in this post directly.
I'd think these last two concepts evoke war as something of a social cosmological constant, and Liu suggests they condition the emergence of all life in the universe to an unavoidable doom. I was merely attempting to further Liu's explanation, to see if it had any muscle.
Your points against our competence at detecting alien civ is a strong one, and I don't have much of a response, other than to change the question subtly from "where are they?" to "what are they doing?". We might not need to know the potential tech of truly advanced civilizations to guess at the kind of pressures exerted on them (at least at first, before they manage to transcend physical laws). If we can manage to think (if you'll forgive a joke) what could actually prosper in a black universe, given the constraints of Gnon, then we might well give up looking for ETI altogether, and definitely not try to attract attention, and instead focus all our energies on cryptographic black-out. It could be a strange irony that our universe is abundant with advanced civs that were driven into perfect concealment due to "seeing the world as it really is". Gnon selects for cunning above all, what looks to us like a Great Filter (or Exterminator) may be the necessary, stringent mechanics to catalyze God-like SI.
If nothing else, the Fermi Paradox/Great Filter horror duo provides us with an abstract space of concepts to preemptively explore anxieties hinted at by futurist threat analysis. We get the unsettling feeling that whatever survives "out there", it won't be "us". We know Godlike complexity is possible (as of the universe itself) but we also know that life starts basic, and grows incrementally (and exponentially) more complex. We want to explore the leap from base-line tech competence to God-like complexity and ask, "is it possible?"… Though I agree evidence in support of any answer is laughably thin. We can't see Godlike civilizations, but as you say, that is no refutation to their existence, but given what we know about the entangled web of war, technology, Darwinist propagation, and cosmic horror, can we realistically expect any civilizations to develop past the point of singularity tech without destroying the known universe in consequence? Advanced tech civ will need to overcome many previous (and branching) variations of itself to continue the upward march of complexity. An interstellar civ's path to the stars will be painted red with the blood of its close relatives. Obsolescence is the flip side of optimization.
This is all shamelessly wild speculation, and I'm deliberately talking from the perspective of a "contact pessimist", but there could be an important discussion buried somewhere beneath all the silent horror….
"Possibility 4) There are scary predator civilizations out there, and most intelligent life knows better than to broadcast any outgoing signals and advertise their location. This is an unpleasant concept and would help explain the lack of any signals being received by the SETI satellites. It also means that we might be the super naive newbies who are being unbelievably stupid and risky by ever broadcasting outward signals. There's a debate going on currently about whether we should engage in METI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence—the reverse of SETI) or not, and most people say we should not. Stephen Hawking warns, "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans." Even Carl Sagan (a general believer that any civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel would be altruistic, not hostile)called the practice of METI "deeply unwise and immature," and recommended that "the newest children in a strange and uncertain cosmos should listen quietly for a long time, patiently learning about the universe and comparing notes, before shouting into an unknown jungle that we do not understand." Scary.
Of course, superpredators don't arise in a vacuum, so there couldn't so much be a "first to reach intelligence" as there would be a very slow, gradual climb upon the piling carcasses of yesteryear's more primitive "firsts". War was not invented by the devil in solitude, auto-militarization is triggered by an arms race. We might hope the affirmative forces of life will propagate faster than they exterminate, but in truth, the faster they propagate, the more certain is their extinction, like in the ancient stories of parricidal Gods.
I would say that war is probably not a social cosmological constant, but the fact of the matter is that we can't assign probabilities to anything at all. The only thing we can state with a reasonable amount of certainty is this: Any ETI that we are able to detect with the crude means available to us is very likely to be unimaginably advanced from a technological standpoint. These supercivilizations are likely able to manipulate energy and matter in ways which are entirely beyond our ken. Even in the very darkest forest, under Gnon's bloodshot gaze, tigers don't seek to destroy worms.
…We can't even assume that life starts basic. The nearest race of ETIs could be a crystalline Boltzmann brain hivemind, for all we know. Or it could be an organically networked race of nematode-like creatures which can only communicate slowly, over century-long timelines. Would such creatures necessarily be interested in war? Would even the most bloodthirsty or cautious humans seek to destroy them upon first contact? I am not certain that we can answer those questions in the affirmative.
In my opinion, there is only one thing we can learn from Fermi's Paradox and the Great Filter hypothesis: There exists a group of people who don't understand that we are really terrible at looking for life in outer space, and who are capable of extrapolating wildly from very poor and limited evidence.
An advanced ETI is going to be fully aware of the goings-on in its locale (intelligence collects information as a rule). A tiger doesn't study worms, humans do. The ETI may well view a species like humans as worms, but I doubt it'll be so blase in regards to the machines, which pose a singular threat as agents capable of accelerating self-modification (and extreme destructiveness). Are you willing to bet against singularity tech being constructed on earth in the next 500 yrs? Or 5000 yrs? Why would an alien predator take that chance? In fact, we can be certain the Great Filter is real because if it wasn't, there'd be a super-civ out there, and we'd be dead by now, 100% guaranteed.
The nematode would be harmless it we could be certain it would never achieve technological lift-off with any serious effectiveness, but then, as you say, our 'probabilities' in these matters are not trustworthy, so it's definitely logical to exterminate the nematode before it invents a method to speed-up communications and achieves accumulating technical competence.
Tiger's might not notice worms, but it's sure going to be on the look-out for other freaking tigers, or tiger-cubs, and when it spots them, it will wipe them out, and if it doesn't, it's a fool, and will be killed in turn. Welcome to the jungle.
And then consider #GG, the Cathedral will attempt to ban all White Male CisHeteroPatriarchy Hate Simulations. The horror never ends.
We don't know whether or not supercivilizations exist. We have not yet conducted a serious and exhaustive search for evidence of their existence, so we have no basis for the assumption that they don't exist.
If they exist in our corner of the universe, we can't assume that they would have exterminated us by now. What if, for sake of argument, they prefer to keep us in a zoo — or manipulate our perception of the universe, so that we think we're alone? (The "zoo" and "planetarium" hypotheses are both clever solutions to stupid questions.) What if they know more about the nature of reality than we do, and for some cryptic reason decide that it would be better to keep us alive for some reason? What if they have weapons ready under the cloud cover of Venus, are observing our progress, and are simply waiting to see if we become a meaningful threat? What if we're living in a simulation run by a race which has already colonized the universe?
Furthermore, we don't know whether Earthlike civilizations exist. In fact, we have no way of detecting such civilizations at any meaningful distance. Thus we can't assume that they're being exterminated or eliminated by an outside force. In fact, we can assume nothing. We don't know whether extraterrestrial life is rare or downright common.
Aside: Your argument would be stronger if the universe weren't such a young place. It is hypothesized that galaxies like ours will still be around for 1-2 trillion years, if not longer than that. Our galaxy is 13 billion years old. This means that only 1% of its "lifespan" is spent. It is not unthinkable that the first supercivilizations arose only quite recently, in cosmic terms. Perhaps they simply haven't had the time to colonize the universe in ways which would be obvious to us.
…Or perhaps they've already colonized the length and breadth of it, and, in their unfathomable complexity, are somehow eluding us. The stars look like they're burning off their energy to no useful end, the nanobots don't seem to be incoming, and we haven't yet been able to spot any supercivilizations, but we shouldn't jump to any conclusions just yet. There's a hell of a lot we don't know, especially when it comes to creatures to whom our physical laws might mean nothing.
1. We have very limited means for detecting ETIs. We can only hope to detect stable supercivilizations which are not breaking any of our physical laws, which are not travelling or expanding at lightspeed, and which have established themselves in our little corner of the galaxy.
2. It follows that we don't know whether or not ETIs are common.
4. Given the above, we cannot state that there is a paradox or a filter. We don't have the data. Not by half.
5. We don't know how ETIs would behave upon contact with humanity. They might exterminate us, turn us into computronium, observe and manipulate us, or even uplift us. It is impossible to say.
6. The fact that we still exist as a civilization would tend to imply — if only very slightly — that we would not be destroyed upon first contact.
7. We cannot know, at this stage, whether or not we are the first technological civilization in our galaxy.
My point is: Conjecture without data is a waste of time. "The Great Filter" has no lessons to teach us besides "avoid existential risks" and "life might be very rare" — so it's a pointless thought experiment. Fermi's paradox is, strictly speaking, no paradox. It'll become a paradox if we conduct an exhaustive, effective, and thorough search of our little light corner, and if no ETIs are detected. Until that time….
I bought the first book you recommended have to get home and read it, fuckkkk. Chapter one was a little slow.
I instantly think it would make for a great sequel to Master of Orion 2.
That made me curious of the book, if there is any similarity to the MoO2 universe. MoO3 had terrible mechanics, but alien civ designs were interesting as well.
Wait…there was a plot to MoO2?
Maybe quantum or singularity hypercomputers can give civilizations the illusion of unlimited resources, but some replicating robot is always likely to try to fill the universe with copies of itself.
Basically what has been said is that we know almost nothing about ETI. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be suspicious.


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Release Blitz and #giveaway: Vows Series (audio) 1&2 by Addison Albright
October 12, 2017 October 12, 2017 Nell Iris
Narrated By: David Gilmore
'Til Death Do Us Part – Amazon US | Amazon UK | Audible US | Audible UK
Length: 8hrs 3 mins
Henry and Sam Miller-Greene are living the dream. They love their careers — which afford each of them opportunities to travel to exotic locations — they love their home, Sam's caring family, and each other. They disagree on the subject of adoption, but are fully committed to each other in marriage … 'Til Death Do Us Part.
The dream is shattered when Henry's plane crashes, and he's presumed dead. But four people — Henry, two other men, and a child — survive undetected on a remote, small, and insignificant island. Will Sam and Henry's love be able to survive as well?
Henry fights to endure in harsh conditions, never knowing when disaster will strike. Sam struggles with his loss, but with help moves on with his life. Will Sam be able to put aside his new love when he reunites with Henry?
From This Day Forward – Amazon US | Amazon UK | Audible US | Audible UK
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Revisiting the characters from 'Til Death Do Us Part, Henry and Sam Miller-Greene are enjoying life in the summer after Henry's rescue from a small South Pacific island, where Henry and three others were marooned.
Henry and Sam thought adopting Aiden—a child with whom Henry'd been stranded—would be smooth sailing. Matters are complicated by the public nature of their rescue that has turned the survivors into overnight celebrities. Anti-gay fueled animus rears its ugly head in the blogosphere, causing concerns over the impact libelous rumors might have on Aiden.
Their nightmare separation behind them, Henry and Sam are anxious to renew both the intensity of their former intimacies—now hampered by having a curious and still apprehensive child sharing their home—and their commitment to one another.
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#pragma once
#include <aws/iot/IoT_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
template<typename RESULT_TYPE>
class AmazonWebServiceResult;

namespace Utils
{
namespace Json
{
  class JsonValue;
} // namespace Json
} // namespace Utils
namespace IoT
{
namespace Model
{
  class AWS_IOT_API StartOnDemandAuditTaskResult
  {
  public:
    StartOnDemandAuditTaskResult();
    StartOnDemandAuditTaskResult(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue>& result);
    StartOnDemandAuditTaskResult& operator=(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue>& result);

    /**
     *
The ID of the on-demand audit you started.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetTaskId() const{ return m_taskId; }

    /**
     *
The ID of the on-demand audit you started.

     */
    inline void SetTaskId(const Aws::String& value) { m_taskId = value; }

    /**
     *
The ID of the on-demand audit you started.

     */
    inline void SetTaskId(Aws::String&& value) { m_taskId = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The ID of the on-demand audit you started.

     */
    inline void SetTaskId(const char* value) { m_taskId.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The ID of the on-demand audit you started.

     */
    inline StartOnDemandAuditTaskResult& WithTaskId(const Aws::String& value) { SetTaskId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The ID of the on-demand audit you started.

     */
    inline StartOnDemandAuditTaskResult& WithTaskId(Aws::String&& value) { SetTaskId(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The ID of the on-demand audit you started.

     */
    inline StartOnDemandAuditTaskResult& WithTaskId(const char* value) { SetTaskId(value); return *this;}

  private:

    Aws::String m_taskId;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace IoT
} // namespace Aws

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December 22, 2016 Gordon Campbell 2 - Second Front Page, Articles, Arts, Columns, Complicatist, Gordon Campbell 1
OK, I'm not even going to try and rationalise this surrender to a 'best of' listicle. Still…maybe there is an argument for making some semblance of narrative order out of a year that brought us Trump, Brexit and the deaths of Prince, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and Alan Vega, who I missed just as much as the Big Three. So without further ado….oh, but first a word from the sponsor :
1. Mitski : Puberty 2
This fourth release by the 26 year old, conservatory-trained Japanese-American born as Mitski Miyawaki is my pick for album of the year. Her earlier Bury My Heart At Makeout Creek only hinted at what this one (which was recorded in only two weeks) managed to deliver : haunting, jazz-influenced melodies married to lyrics that took those MOR elements, and re-contextualised them entirely.
Which is another of saying that the subject matter is usually downbeat, but the music transports you – and hopefully, her – beyond the twentysomething experiences she nails so well in the lyrics. In the album opener " Happy" for instance, the female narrator treats being desired by someone else as the basis of self esteem. (So he brings cookies, comes inside her, and leaves while she's still in the bathroom. Nice. )
The album's standout track "Your Best American Girl" also deals with self worth in the face of cultural codes that define what's deemed to be desirable. As a Japanese-American, Mitski has obvious reason to treat this in cross-cultural terms, but the song seems applicable to any relationship disfigured by ideals that prove to be ultimately irreconcilable. The abrasive "My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars" also strikes a near-perfect balance between heartbreak and defiance. The "would you kill me, Jerusalem" line is a plea for martyrdom, but its grounded in work pressures that feel desperately immediate :
I'm not doing anything
My body's made of crushed little stars
And I'm not doing anything
I better ace that interview
I should tell them that I'm not afraid to die
Mitski delivers these deadpan, lyrically condensed tracks with a creamy, almost Karen Carpenter-ish voice. The contrast between the accessible form and the spiky content is striking…
And finally, there's "Once More To See You' with its doom da-doom "Be My Baby" structure, and its quiet railing against the injustice of having to conceal an obsession that finds her silently screaming his name from atop every building in the city of her heart…Yikes. The mid 20s aren't an easy time for anyone.
2. Rihanna : Anti
All of the big three divas did sterling work this year. Forced to choose, I'd rank Rihanna's Anti just ahead of Solange's A Seat At the Table, and over the long haul I preferred both by a sizeable margin to Beyonce's Lemonade. On the diva B team, Santigold's 99 Cents had a few great mix-CD moments ("Can't Get Enough Of Myself, "Chasing Shadows") as well.
No doubt, Lemonade was an event, a showstopper with huge production values, famous guests ( hi Kendrick) bells, whistles and mission statements. It was Broadway big, but felt progressively emptier after show time. IMO, the political message also seemed dodgy – like sure, its great to express public defiance of your partner when he's been a dick (Giving you lemons? Make lemonade !) but is it really all that great to launch said album on the music service he co-owns, thereby virtually saving it from going under ? If this is empowerment, it's a one percenter's version : ie the choice to continue to do what's best for the family business, even though this involves peddling music about being assertive, independent and your own woman while apparently forgiving ( for reasons of commerce ?) the said dickishness of your (still) significant other and ongoing business partner? Beyonce is awesome, but she's also conveying an awesomely conflicted message.
Rihanna's album achieved – on a more human scale – much of what Lemonade preached about. Here was superstar Rihanna, with unlimited resources at her beck and call, yet choosing instead to dim the star wattage to explore an unpredictable array of styles – from simple folk-tinged arrangements ("Never Ending") to dancefloor hits ("Work") to white indie pop ( "Same Ol' Mistakes") to Caribbean-tinged pop ( "Consideration" Desperado" ) to a harsh, aching two minute ballad called "Higher" about calling an old flame from a bar at 2am, even when you know full well you shouldn't be doing it. At first hearing Anti confused almost everyone. Over the course of a year, it came to sound organically whole, and a genuine triumph.
3. William Tyler : Modern Country
Tyler used to be lead guitarist for the idiosyncratic Nashville indie band Lambchop (who also released an interesting electronic album in 2016 called FLOTUS, complete with an 18 minute single.) Since Tyler makes all-instrumental guitar albums grounded in geography and Americana tropes, he's invariably compared to John Fahey and/or Leo Kottke, but there's an unease running through these tracks that seems far more contemporary.
Those two simple words in the album title were deliberately chosen. Tyler's atmospheric subject matter is the evident decay in what " the country" (the wide open spaces, and US as a whole) now represents. The album kicks off, for example, with a nine minute tour de force called "Highway Anxiety" that Tyler wrote while driving alone between gigs, and with time on his hands to think about the trajectory of the nation, and the ecological fate of its land. In that respect, Modern Country can be a soundtrack for all of us, in the age of Trump. Tyler's earlier albums Behold The Spirit (2010) and especially the terrific Impossible Truth (2013) are also well worth your time.
4. Angel Olsen : My Woman
Angel Olsen toured New Zealand in mid December, backed by a powerhouse five piece band dressed in uniforms that made them look like a throwback to 1950s pop. The tour followed hard on the heels of the release of the My Woman album, whicvh marked Olsen's step up to full-blown pop stardom from her folkie origins. Her past had included a wild child interlude on the road with Will Oldham's band of gypsies. (Check out the beautiful Oldham/Olsen track "Time To Be Clear" on the Wolfroy Goes To Town album.)
Onstage, Olsen seemed aloof. Like Elena Ferrante, she just does what she does, take it or leave it. Yet this anti-persona – when combined with her waywardly powerful Roy Orbison-like voice and wry sense of humour – amounted to its own unique brand of charisma."Sisters" was the striking eight minute centerpiece of both the show and the album alike. Its a song about awakening "from the sleeping life I lead" to new feelings of resolution :
I want to go where
Nobody knows fear
I want to follow
My heart down that wild road…
Like one of those early "Down by the River" jams that Neil Young did with Crazy Horse, "Sisters" builds to a point of rocking stasis where its hard to tell whether Olsen is celebrating her capacity for change, or accepting her inability to achieve it. Onstage, even the lesser seeming songs on My Woman (eg "Intern") took on a fresh lustre. There's been a certain inevitability about Olsen's onward march to stardom – Halfway Home and Build The Fire were great albums in their own right – but it has been an exhilarating journey to follow, over the past three or four years.
BTW Olsen's terrific backing singer Heather McEntire for her New Zealand shows also fronts her own band, called Mount Moriah. "Bright Light" was the best cut from their 2016 album Miracle Temple, which overall is a good showcase for McEntire's Dolly Parton-ish vocals. (Olsen recently shifted via Missouri to Chicago and on to North Carolina, and that I guess, is where she met up with McEntire and Co. ) Here's "Sisters" and the lighter, poppier "Shut Up And Kiss Me…."
5. Pinegrove : Cardinal
Emo and country both wear their hearts so openly on their sleeves that its surprising so few emo-ish bands have straddled the borderline. Pinegrove are from New Jersey. They're six years, three EPs and a couple of albums into what still sounds like a formative stage of their development – and Cardinal is only 30 minutes long – but singer/writer/frontman Evan Stephen Hall happens to write sharp, once heard never forgotten melodies that mine familiar tropes, while still somehow sounding freshly minted. We've been here before, but not quite like this. There's not a dud track on Cardinal, nor anything that overstays its welcome.
Here's "Old Friends" and "New Friends"….there's also a track ( "Then Again") about feeling afraid to tour Japan.
6. A Tribe Called Quest : We Got It From Here…
The virulence with which many of my boomer generation peers hate hip hop… ultimately, it mystifies me. As I've discovered whenever I've linked to a hip hop track in this column, the haters seem enraged that this music even exists.
That's really weird. Even my parents who did not like rock'n.roll were – by only 10 years later – starting to come around. If the winkingly self-deprecating dark humour of the late Leonard Cohen is legit, why can't the same qualities aso be OK in say, Young Thug? He's screwing around with you about sex and death too, just as Leonard did.
Besides, hip hop is not some new fangled thing, given the Sugarhill Gang's "Rappers Delight" single kicked the genre into gear back in 1979, nearly 40 years ago. Hip hop has outlasted punk and grunge and incorporated elements of both. The boomer antagonism also runs counter to the democratic inclusiveness ( Kraftwerk, psychedelia, 60s soul, disco) of the music itself. I'm not trying to justify hip hop with a timeline or a pedigree. It needs neither. Yet the final A Tribe Called Quest album this year – Phife Dawg died in May of diabetes complications – can be cherished because it is so true to the band's heritage, while succeeding on its own here-and-now terms. The ritualized to and fro rivalry between Phife and Q-Tip, the warmth of the old school arrangements, and the chill of the modern relevance of much of the lyrics….comeback of the year, and a finale.
Other hip hop and/or r&b standouts : Maxwell's'BlackSUMMERSnight, Vince Staples' Prima Donna, and Anderson Paak's Malibu, the follow up to his breakout appearances on the Compton soundtrack. The guy is a charmer, and this relaxed NPR mini-concert is a fine showcase for his Marvin Gaye meets James Brown skills.
7. Margaret Glaspy : Emotions and Math
With her fierce and angular compositions, Margaret Glaspy is a new entry in that very old folkie-gal-with-guitar tradition…(There are even guys with beards in her backing band.) Her voice can be as harsh in the upper registers as Joanna Newsom, but Glaspy is her own person, talking with no bullshit directness about her own desires and limitations, take it or leave it. From the title track :
Countin' all the days till you're back
Shiverin in an ice cold bath of emotions and math
I've gotta get outta this tree, off of this limb
I'm a woman actin like a kid
A skinny mess that's breathless from telling you all the things that I'm gonna do…
"Something To Anybody" is a funny, serious dialogue about the tensions in being part of a couple, and the rewards/curses of being free of constraint.
Once I was loved but I wouldn't dare
Take a compliment or give a kiss
Just thinking of bein' a pair
Had me suffering and made me split
Cuz I dont wanna be somebody to anybody
No I'm good at no-one
I keep my head down and both eyes wide
I don't look up, just side to side
And I stay well kept so they can see
There's nothing wrong with me
Its just that I don't want to be somebody to anybody
Here's a live version of that song
and here's a live version of "You and I" -which deals with essentially the same subject matter :
Also worthy of mention : Car Seat Headrest's guitar and teen angst heavy Teens of Denial will ensure Will Toledo is one of the main attractions at next month's Laneway festival :
Nicolas Jaar's spacy Sirens and Jenny Hval's Conceptual Romance were also worth checking out. Best re-issue ? That would have to be the big box set ( complete with fantastic scholarship notes by Michael Corcoran ) of the gently mysterious, unearthly recordings from 1927 of the gospel singer Washington Philips ( pictured below ). Amazing trivia note : the travelling talent scout who recorded Philips' entire oeuvre on a Saturday did much the same thing the next day, when Blind Willie Johnson stepped in out of virtual obscurity and laid down many of his most prized recordings. Did that guy realise what had just happened on that hot and dusty day back in 1927 ? That he'd recorded the Mozart of gospel on one day, and its Beethoven only 24 hours later.
Footnote : if you're still trying to find a Christmas present for someone special…keep in mind that New York singer/writer Frankie Cosmos will (amazingly) be playing the Moon Bar in Newtown in early March. Tickets only $30 from UndertheRadar. She was born Greta Kline, daughter of the actor Kevin Kline, and she writes short, sharply observed gossamer light songs that will sound great, live, in such a small club. Here's "Young" a terrific song about being Youth, The Commodity :
With this I'm scraping by
At least it's cute that I try
I wrote some songs that I sung
And have you heard I am so young So young
I heard about being young
But I'm not sure how it's done
Thought I heard a mumble
Something about fun
Best albums
Greta Kline
Washington Philips
William Tyler
1 Comment on The best albums of 2016
Lucy Macilquham December 23, 2016 at 8:13 pm
Gordon, Lucy here. This is absolutely fantastic. Great article.


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William and Kate get their moment to shine during Boston visit beset by bad news
Three days in Boston with a star-studded ceremony at the end. What could possibly go wrong?
Dame Esther Rantzen Shares Lung Cancer Diagnosis
The veteran broadcaster has said she is "remaining optimistic" after receiving her diagnosis.
Peru president urges congress to move elections forward
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte made a renewed appeal Sunday for congress to hold early elections as a way to end weeks of deadly protests, warning that otherwise she will seek constitutional reform to make a vote happen."Vote for Peru, for the country, by moving the elections up to 2023," the president said in an address to the nation.
Earthquake kills three, injures 800 in northwest Iran
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Iran overnight, killing at least three people and injuring more than 800 in the region near the border with Turkey, state officials and media said Sunday. In February 2020, a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck the western Turkey village of Habash-e Olya and killed at least nine people.
Novak Djokovic sinks Stefanos Tsitsipas to claim his 10th Australian Open title
Novak Djokovic has claimed a historic 10th title at Melbourne Park, beating Stefanos Tsitsipas to equal Rafael Nadal's record of 22 grand slams
Sicilian mobster asks judge to order seizure of Roberto Saviano book
Giuseppe Graviano files for defamation against Gomorrah author over origin of nickname
Biggest day of strikes in a decade will involve up to half-a-million workers
Teachers, train drivers, civil servants, university lecturers, bus drivers and security guards from seven trade unions will walk out on Wednesday in what will be the biggest day of industrial action in over a decade. Protests will be held across the country on the same day against the Government's controversial plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes. Unions have dubbed it the "anti-strike Bill", saying it could lead to workers who vote legally to strike being sacked.
Two killed and one injured after car strikes pedestrians in south Wales
Two people have died and another person injured in south Wales following a collision between a car and pedestrians. The crash happened on the B4273, Ynysybwl Road in Pontypridd, at 6.30pm on Friday and involved a black Ford Focus and three pedestrians, according to the local force, South Wales Police.
Film studio proposal among the planning applications in your area this week
A proposal to build a permanent studio for film making on the site of a disused airfield is among the planning applications submitted to Watford, Three Rivers, Hertsmere and Dacorum councils.
Parts of the UK could be hit by 80mph winds as weather warnings issued
Weather forecasters said travel could be disrupted in the affected areas next week.


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Alesha Dixon, född 7 oktober 1978 i Welwyn Garden City i Hertfordshire, är en brittisk sångerska, låtskrivare och programledare.

Dixon inledde sin karriär i popgruppen Mis-Teeq, under 2006 var Dixon på väg att släppa sin debutskiva men den ställdes in och släpptes aldrig av okänd anledning. I december 2007 vann Alesha Dixon dansprogrammet Strictly Come Dancing, den brittiska motsvarigheten av Let's Dance. Hon är även en av domarna i Britain's Got Talent.

I oktober 2008 släppte Alesha Dixon sin andra skiva och sin första singel efter det misslyckade skivsläppet, singeln "The Boy Does Nothing" tog sig direkt till Englandslistans femte plats och hamnade även på sjunde plats på Svenska singel listan samt 5 på Svenska digilistan.

Alesha har även gjort låten "Breathe Slow".

Hon kommer att vara en av programledarna för Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

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Severe failure in police operation on Monday in Chemnitz
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Berlin / Potsdam.
The chemnitz police underestimated the demonstrations after the violent death of a German. The Ministry of the Interior nevertheless does not ask for support from the federal police in Potsdam. Was that a slump? Opinions differ.
The federal police and the ministry of internal affairs in Saxony have rejected a report on a "serious collapse" as a reason for the under-occupation of the police during the riots in Chemnitz last Monday. The Situation Center had refrained from asking for reinforcement at the headquarters of the federal police in Potsdam, a spokesman for the ministry in Dresden said on Saturday on request. The extra forces and helicopters would have been on the scene shortly before midnight, he said. The "Welt am Sonntag" wrote about a "serious collapse" and "wrong behavior".
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According to Welt am Sonntag there was a call for help from Chemnitz police at the Situation Center of the Ministry of the Interior during the evening's deployment. This "unreasonable" did not follow the usual reporting route. According to the newspaper, the headquarters of the federal police in Potsdam and not the subordinate agency in Pirna were responsible for such requirements. From there a few hundred could be brought to Chemnitz.
The federal police spokesman, Ivo Priebe, confirmed to the German press agency that the request from the Saxon Interior Ministry was in support of the federal police inspection Pirna. Their troops were already tied up, like at the Chemnitz station with 60 officials. In Pirna it was pointed out that further troops had to be questioned with the headquarters of the federal police in Potsdam.
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Because of the distance and time that was necessary for the preparation and arrival, they have been abandoned.
There is no general rule, the federal police spokesman said to the question of where the Ministry of the Interior should have asked for support. In ad-hoc situations, where readily available forces are required, the nearest service is called. In this case the Pirna as responsible directorate for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
Last Monday, 6,000 demonstrators from the more right-wing spectrum, including violent neo-nazi & # 39; s and hooligans, faced about 1500 counter-demonstrators – with nearly 600 police officers in the meantime. There were at least 20 wounded, including two police officers. The reason for this was the violent death of a 35-year-old German on the eve of stab wounds. A Syrian and an Iraqi are taken into custody as suspects. The understaffing of the authorities had caused criticism.
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