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A Few Not So Good Men: Marine Pilots, a Massacre, Immunity
INTO THE BONFIRE
They served only 19 weeks in prison for killing 20 Alpine tourists. The Marine who advised them to burn the videotaped evidence was promoted to colonel.
Rory Laverty
Updated Feb. 07, 2018 12:54PM ET / Published Feb. 07, 2018 4:52AM ET
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
Two decades have passed since the Cavalese cable-car disaster, in which a U.S. Marine Corps airplane severed a gondola cable and sent 20 people plummeting to their deaths on a ski slope in the Italian Alps.
For the families of the dead, the grief lingers on. So do the questions: How did the American pilots collectively serve only four months in military prison despite being court-martialed twice for the accident and coverup? And how did a Marine officer, who advised the pilots to destroy a videotape of that flight, avoid punishment and resume his rise to colonel?
On the sunny morning of Feb. 3, 1998, in the Dolomite mountains outside the Italian town of Cavalese, four Marine officers were on a training mission in a Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler, a four-seat aircraft designed for electronic warfare. Over a ski resort, while the pilots performed low-altitude flight maneuvers for fun, the plane struck the cable supporting a bright yellow gondola car. The victims inside free-fell 260 feet onto rocks and snow.
The "Strage del Cermis" (Italian for "Massacre of Cermis"), named for the mountain ridge where the bodies were recovered, claimed the lives of eight Germans, five Belgians, three Italians, two Poles, one Dutch citizen, and one Austrian.
The plane was manned by Marine Capt. Richard Ashby, a 30-year-old on his final training flight before promotion to fighter pilot, and Capt. Joseph Schweitzer, a navigator with a decade of flight experience. Capt. William Raney and Capt. Chandler Seagraves, electronic-warfare officers, were in the back seats.
Seagraves was a member of the incoming unit that was scheduled to replace Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron-2 in Aviano, so he was less familiar with the other three Marines on board. He joined the ill-fated flight at the last minute for training in low-altitude flying.
During the flight, Schweitzer borrowed Ashby's handheld videocamera to record his swan song—his last aerial navigation as a Marine Corps pilot before he left the military. Schweitzer testified that he had intended to show the video to his kids someday.
The plane lost contact with ground radar at 3:06 p.m. due to its low altitude, and Schweitzer testified that the video showed him smiling right up until 3:12 p.m., when the plane hit the gondola cable.
After hitting the cable, the pilots saw the gondola fall but continued their flight. They landed the damaged Prowler safely at a NATO base in Aviano, in northern Italy. Court documents show that as Raney and Seagraves got off the plane, Schweitzer and Ashby remained behind, took the borrowed camcorder videotape of the flight, then replaced it with a blank tape.
Italian officials spent the day and night recovering the remains of 20 people on a snowy ridge stained red. Grisly photos of the crushed gondola appeared in newspapers around the world. The Italian government launched a criminal investigation, and the Marine Corps followed suit.
As Schweitzer and Ashby walked to the mess hall a few days after the accident, they asked Seagraves' advice on handling questions about the videotape, according to court documents. Seagraves testified that he counseled the pilots to "get rid of the videotape. If it were mine, I would get rid of it."
Court documents show that Ashby gave Schweitzer the videotape, and Schweitzer took it outside behind a bar and threw it into a bonfire, despite "knowing that Italian and United States military criminal investigators would have wanted to view it," according to his testimony (PDF).
"Get rid of the videotape. If it were mine, I would get rid of it."
— Capt. Chandler Seagraves in court testimony
Initially, all four men were charged with crimes and Ashby, who had been at the controls, faced a total of more than 200 years in a military prison. Schweitzer and Ashby were recommended for general court-martial at Camp Lejeune on 20 counts of involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide. Italian authorities did not have jurisdiction to formally charge the crew members under NATO treaty rules.
During the captains' court-martial, defense lawyers argued the flight crew was not given the most recent flight directives or maps that marked the location of the cable lines, and that the plane's altimeter malfunctioned.
The pilots' acquittal sparked outrage and condemnation from Italian officials and strained relations between the U. S. and its NATO ally.
The plane's pilot and navigator, Ashby and Schweitzer, were court-martialed again in May 1999 on charges of obstructing justice by destroying the videotape recorded during the flight. Guilty verdicts pushed Ashby and Schweitzer out of the Marine Corps, and Ashby served four months of a six-month term in military prison before his release on good behavior.
Italy paid a total of $39.3 million for the families of the dead, who received $1.9 million per victim. The U.S. Congress rejected a bill introduced by late South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond that would have established $40 million in compensation funds for the families. But under NATO treaty rules, the U.S. was compelled to send Italy $28.5 million in victim compensation.
Ashby and Schweitzer maintained that they had seen neither the new directives nor the updated government maps. Seagraves and Raney testified that the altitude gauge did not trigger after the plane entered the Cermis valley, even though Ashby, the pilot, had set the indicator to go off when they dropped below 800 feet, according to the Associated Press.
The crew members' testimony at trial contradicted U.S. documents published in July 2011 by the Italian daily La Stampa.
The newspaper said these previously classified documents were from a U.S.-led investigation dated March 1998, a month after the incident. It reported that they were certified by then-Lt. Gen. Peter Pace, who would later serve as chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The documents cited by La Stampa showed that investigators testified they found a letter in the cockpit of the Prowler containing the new directives, along with maps marking the gondola cables. Prior to the accident, the paper reported, the crew received warnings for "Top Gun antics" such as barrel rolls and flying underneath other gondola cables.
The investigation's partially redacted pages blamed the Marine pilots for the tragedy and advised the United States to take full responsibility for paying restitution to the victims' families, La Stampa reported. The paper added that investigators found compelling evidence refuting the crew members' claims regarding old maps and missed flight directives that eventually led to Schweitzer and Ashby's acquittal on the most severe charges.
"Italian officials spent the day and night recovering the remains of 20 people on a snowy ridge stained red."
La Stampa initially said it got the investigation documents from the U.S. National Archives, but the paper later amended that to say only that it acquired the documents in accordance with U.S. law. The Daily Beast filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Archives for the investigation documents, but on Feb. 1 the Archives responded, "We were unable to locate the records you have requested among our holdings."
The original joint investigation, led by Marine Gen. Michael Delong and Italian colonels Orfeo Durigon and Fermo Missarino, explained that Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron Two deployed to Aviano in August 1997 to counter the Bosnian Serb Army's aggressive actions in United Nations safe zones. (This was after the Dayton peace accords, and before the Kosovo War, which was conducted by NATO almost exclusively from the air.)
That same month the Italian government published new directives forbidding flights below 2,000 feet in the Trentino Alto Adige area. La Stampa reported that in the months before the February accident, all four of the Marine officers received copies of the new flight directives and updated maps that marked the location of the gondola cables.
During the first trial, prosecutors claimed Ashby violated Marine Corps policy by exceeding the 517 mph speed limit and flying well below a 2,000-foot altitude restriction. The Prowler was going 621 mph when it cut the supporting cable lines 370 feet above the ground, according to court transcripts.
Court transcripts quote Col. Carol K. Joyce, head of the prosecution team and then a lieutenant colonel, saying, "a crew member in the back seat would testify that Ashby did a barrel roll."
The Daily Beast interviewed retired Maj. Raney and then-Capt. Schweitzer about the La Stampa claims. Both crew members denied having seen or read the new directives or maps marking the location of the cable-car lines.
"No, we absolutely did not have charts with the cables marked on them," Raney said. "The Italians had the cables marked on their maps, but we did not… and there was a two-star [general] who flat out lied about it in a press conference.
"When Maj. Gen. Delong [the chief investigator] announced the findings of the investigation board, he said the maps were marked," Raney continued. "But that was a lie, a flat out lie."
The Daily Beast attempted to contact Maj. Gen. Delong for comment, but he did not respond.
Seagraves, the late addition to the flight, received immunity on condition he reveal the "truth about everything" during the initial Marine Corps investigation and court-martial. In 2015, he was promoted to colonel, reigniting the issue of his lack of a formal reprimand for advising the pilots to destroy the tape. He began transitioning to retirement from the Marine Corps in November 2017.
Retired Marine Corps Judge Advocate James Weirick told The Daily Beast he was "surprised" to hear that Seagraves had been promoted to colonel in 2015, due to his role in the destruction of evidence.
Along the way, Seagraves was also selected for some of the most prestigious billets in the U.S. Military, including director of Electronic Warfare Training at Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO); the Marine commandant's senior fellow at the Brookings Institute; and events coordinator for the "Blue Angels" Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron. He is now the CEO of the Marine Corps' Installation Headquarters Group in North Carolina.
"The grant of immunity protected then-Capt. Seagraves from criminal prosecution by the Marine Corps for his involvement in the destruction of the videotape," Weirick said, "but that immunity grant does not preclude the Marine Corps from ensuring his actions were made part of his record. At minimum, his actions would warrant inclusion in a fitness report."
The Prowler's other crew members said Seagraves deserved his promotion to colonel, and that he didn't seek immunity during the investigation.
"What the media never got to and what is not well known was neither Seagraves or myself accepted immunity on our own accord," Raney told The Daily Beast. "We were told at the get-go that if you testify this, then they will give you immunity—which is illegal, you can't do that, because they were asking us to testify to things that were not true."
The crew members told The Daily Beast that they were given written orders from then Lt. Col. Richard A. Muegge to testify, and that in so doing they were "immune" and could no longer incriminate themselves. Muegge was later relieved of command for supervisory error.
"You know, this is a situation that I like to call the unbelievable, unimaginable, unexpected moments that training just can't prepare you for," Schweitzer said. "I got rid of the tape, not because of the flight, but because that was my worst nightmare… I didn't want to look at my smiling face while flying a low-altitude flight, which was something I loved to do—and then all of a sudden, tragedy."
The Daily Beast attempted to contact Seagraves recently, as he is transitioning to retirement, but received no response.
In a 2015 email to The Daily Beast via a public-affairs spokesperson, he wrote that the Cavalese cable-car incident has been fully investigated, but he also offered his condolences.
"I would like to extend my heartfelt sympathies to everyone affected by this tragedy," he wrote.


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Vote with Eyes Wide Open, Wellington City, and Phantom Billstickers
> NoRightTurn: "Wellington City Council suppresses freedom of speech" > Wellingtonian: "Council vetos political poster campaign" Idiot/Savant draws attention to Wellington City's bizarre policy of preventing political posters being posted on Council-owned poster bollards, and points to a story recently run by The Wellingtonian:
Council business performance manager Jon Visser told The Wellingtonian that it was the council's policy to remove inappropriate posters put up without permission and to pass on costs to the group behind them. The group's "When you vote, don't forget" posters are intended to remind voters about National's 1990s policies. The non-partisan group believes National still has a hidden agenda remaining from the 2005 election and isn't revealing its true intentions. The posters have been placed on council-owned bollards, which are managed by Phantom Billstickers for arts and community posters. Phantom Billstickers is the company contracted to place places on the council-designated spaces. Mr Wheeler says using Phantom's services to put up posters is too expensive for his group and means that "to be politically active in Wellington you have to have money". He likens the group's campaign to the anti-nuclear and anti-Vietnam War campaigns and says the council is deliberately obstructing the democratic process. Mr Wheeler says he received a call from Mr Visser saying the group would be fined for each poster put up and charged for their removal. Although Mr Visser says there is usually a charge involved with using Phantom's services for putting up posters, this applies only to events intended to make a profit, such as gigs with cover charges. Non-profit meetings and community groups could generally have posters put up for free but need the permission of Phantom or the council. Mr Visser says the council-operated bollards "have to remain apolitical" and Vote With Both Eyes Open would need to follow the council's rules for political party and third-party advertising. This includes the use of certain 'hoarding' sites for political advertising and payment of a bond.
[UPDATE: 28/10/2008: See further post for clarification of a point by the Council: LAWS179 "Bill-stickering and the Wellington City Council"]
Having looked at it quickly, the regime for hoardings and bill-sticking is rather complicated, made even more complicated by the fact that the Council has devolved responsibility for regulation of poster bollards to a private company, Phantom Billstickers: > Wellington City: "Guidelines for Temporary Signs in Public Places" Idiot/Savant rightly questions the lawfulness of the restrictions and Council's approach. I agree. I'm sceptical about the role of a private agency in regulating this important public activity, and am disappointed the Council's documents seem to fail to make any mention of the Bill of Rights. Although one needs to be cautious about directly borrowing human rights jurisprudence from other jurisdictions, it reminds me of a Supreme Court of Canada decision, Ramsden v Peterborough (City) [1993] 2 SCR 1084, where it struck down a bylaw that attempted to prevent people from bill-stickering on utility poles and other Council property. In short, the Court concluded:
Moreover, the benefits of the by-law are limited while the abrogation of the freedom is total, thus proportionality between the effects and the objective has not been achieved. While the legislative goals are important, they do not warrant the complete denial of access to a historically and politically significant form of expression. I would agree with the majority of the Ontario Court of Appeal, at p. 294, on this point that "[a]s between a total restriction of this important right and some litter, surely some litter must be tolerated". Therefore, the by-law cannot be justified under s. 1.
The long version, ie the relevant parts of the Court's Charter analysis, is as follows:
Under Irwin Toy, supra, there are two basic steps in the s. 2(b) analysis. First, one must determine whether the activity at issue falls within the scope of s. 2(b). This first step is itself a two-part inquiry. Does postering constitute expression? If so, is postering on public property protected by s. 2(b)? Under the second step of the s. 2(b) analysis, one must determine whether the purpose or effect of the by-law is to restrict freedom of expression. 1. Does Postering Constitute Expression? Under Irwin Toy, supra at pp. 968-69, the first question to be asked in a case involving s. 2(b) is whether the activity conveys or attempts to convey a meaning. This is an easy inquiry in the present case, and indeed the appellant city of Peterborough has properly conceded that the respondent was engaging in expressive activity through the use of posters to convey a message. In the Court of Appeal, Krever J.A. held at pp. 291-92 that "[i]n informing the public, or those members of the public who read the [respondent's] posters, of a coming musical performance the posters conveyed a meaning". Postering has historically been an effective and relatively inexpensive means of communication. Posters have communicated political, cultural and social information for centuries. In Ford v. Quebec (Attorney General), [1988] 2 S.C.R. 712, this Court held that a law requiring public signs and posters to be printed only in French violated s. 2(b). Implicitly, this decision held that public signs and posters are a form of expression protected by s. 2(b). Regardless of whether the posters concerned constitute advertising, political speech or art, it is clear that they convey a meaning. Therefore, the first part of the s. 2(b) test is satisfied. 2. Is Postering on Public Property Protected by s. 2(b)? The second question in the s. 2(b) inquiry is whether postering on public property falls within the scope of s. 2(b). In Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada there were three separate approaches articulated as to the appropriate standard to be applied to determine whether expressive activity falling prima facie within s. 2(b) and occurring on public property is constitutionally protected. While these approaches have been subject to some criticism, (see, for example, Michael Kanter, "Balancing Rights Under Section 2(b) of the Charter: Case Comment on Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada v. Canada" (1992), 17 Queen's L. J. 489; B. Jamie Cameron, "A Bumpy Landing: The Supreme Court of Canada and Access to Public Airports under Section 2(b) of the Charter" (1992), 2 Media & Communications L. Rev. 91), in my view it is neither necessary nor desirable to revisit Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada in the present case. ... ...Regardless of the approach chosen, it is clear from Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada that postering on some public property is protected by s. 2(b). A brief discussion of each approach in the context of this case makes this conclusion self-evident. Under the approach proposed by L'Heureux-Dubé J., all restrictions on expressive activity on public property violate s. 2(b). Place restrictions must be justified under s. 1 which will be discussed below. In my view, an application of the factors enumerated by L'Heureux-Dubé J. clearly leads to the conclusion that this by-law could not be justified under s. 1. Using Lamer C.J.'s approach, we must balance the interest of the respondent in publicizing the performances of his band, against the state interest in ensuring effective and safe operation of services. In this case, the public property used by the respondent to convey his message was utility poles. The question to be asked is therefore whether attaching posters to public utility poles is incompatible with the poles' use of carrying utility transmission lines. In my opinion, it is not. In this regard, I would adopt the words of McFadyen J. in Re Forget, supra at p. 557: "Generally speaking, a poster does not interfere with the use of the utility pole as a utility pole. It does not deprive the public of the use of such a pole." Without considering other types of public property, it is clear that postering on some public property, including utility poles, is compatible with the primary function of that property. Finally, under McLachlin J.'s approach, the question to be asked is whether postering on public property, and in particular on utility poles, furthers any of the values or purposes underlying s. 2(b). In Irwin Toy, this Court articulated the values underlying freedom of expression at p. 976: "... (1) seeking and attaining the truth is an inherently good activity; (2) participation in social and political decision making is to be fostered and encouraged; and (3) the diversity in forms of individual self-fulfillment and human flourishing ought to be cultivated in an essentially tolerant, indeed welcoming, environment not only for the sake of those who convey a meaning, but also for the sake of those to whom it is conveyed." In this case, one does not have to go further than the second value articulated in Irwin Toy, namely participation in social and political decision-making. As I noted above, posters have communicated political, cultural and social information for centuries. Postering on public property including utility poles increases the availability of these messages, and thereby fosters social and political decision-making. In Re Forget, supra, at pp. 557-58, McFadyen J. observed that "after the invention of modern printing technology, posters have come to be generally used as an effective, inexpensive means of communication. Posters have been used by governments to publish notices dealing with health, immigration, voters' lists, recruitment of armies, etc. Posters have been used by political parties, private and charitable organizations and by individuals. They convey messages, give notice of meetings and fairs.... [I]n societies where the government tends to repress opposition ideas, posters are the only means of communicating opposition ideas to a large number of people." In Fink v. Saskatoon (City of) (1986), 7 C.H.R.R. D/3431, at p. D/3440, a Saskatchewan Board of Inquiry found that a prohibition of postering in Saskatoon violated freedom of expression under the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, S.S. 1979, c. S-24.1. In its decision, the Board referred to the evidence of the art historian Robert Stacey, author of The Canadian Poster Book: 100 Years of the Poster in Canada (at p. D/3440): "[Mr Stacey] testified it was early recognized that posters were an effective and inexpensive way of reaching a large number of persons. In order to be effective, posters of course must be affixed to a surface and publicly displayed. Posters are traditionally used by minority groups to publicize new ideas or causes. Posters are both a political weapon and an educational device. According to Mr. Stacey, one measure of the openness of a democratic society has been the willingness of the authorities to allow postering. . . . Posters are an economic way of spreading a message. Utility poles have become the preferred postering place since the inception of the telephone system. . . . Posters have always been a medium of communication of revolutionary and unpopular ideas. They have been called "the circulating libraries of the poor." They have been not only a political weapon but also a means of communicating artistic, cultural and commercial messages. Their modern day use for effectively and economically conveying a message testifies to their venerability through the ages." [Emphasis added.] I would adopt this characterization of the relationship between the message and the forum in the present case. In my view, it is clear that postering on public property, including utility poles, fosters political and social decision-making and thereby furthers at least one of the values underlying s. 2(b). Before leaving this branch of the analysis, I must address the concerns raised by Galligan J.A., dissenting in the Court of Appeal, who came to a different conclusion on this issue. He distinguished between using a public forum as an instrument of expression and conduct at a public forum. In his view, this Court's decisions in Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada allow for the use of public property in the sense of expressing oneself in a particular location, rather than allowing for the use of public property as a means of expression. I repeat his views at p. 298: "My reading of Dorval Airport [Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada] leads me to conclude that the issue decided by the Supreme Court of Canada was that if a person is at a location on public property to which the public has a general right of access, freedom of expression permits the direct communication of views to others by discussion, by distribution of written material or by carrying placards. The attaching of posters to public property is a very different use of public property because it is using that property as part of one's means of expression. The Supreme Court of Canada did not say that freedom of expression encompasses the right to use public property as a means or instrument of one's expression." With respect, I do not find this distinction between using public space for leaflet distribution and using public property for the display of posters persuasive. Surely the appellants in Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada were "using" the public property in question to convey their message, just as the respondent in this case was "using" the utility poles to convey his. One could "use" a utility pole to express oneself in many different ways: by sticking a poster to it by attaching a speaker to it to amplify a speech or even by climbing on it to gain a speaking platform. The question should not be whether or how the speaker uses the forum, but rather whether that use of the forum either furthers the values underlying the constitutional protection of freedom of expression (the McLachlin J. approach) or is compatible with the primary function of the property (the Lamer C.J. approach). Therefore, I would conclude that, under any of the approaches proposed in Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada, the first step in the Irwin Toy analysis is satisfied. Postering on some public property, including the public property at issue in the present case, is protected under s. 2(b). The focus then moves to the question of whether the purpose or effect of the by-law is to restrict freedom of expression. 3. The Purpose of the By-law It seems evident that the by-law is aimed at the consequences of the particular conduct in question, and is not tied to content. On its face the by-law is content-neutral and prohibits all messages from being conveyed in a certain manner and at certain places. The by-law is directed at avoiding the consequences associated with postering, namely litter, aesthetic blight, traffic hazards and hazards to persons engaged in repair and maintenance. In Irwin Toy Ltd., supra, at p. 975, Dickson C.J. noted that a rule against littering is not a restriction "tied to content". Rather, "[i]t aims to control the physical consequences of certain conduct regardless of whether that conduct attempts to convey meaning". The court below held that the purpose of the by-law is "meritorious" and not to restrict expression. I would agree. 4. The Effect of the By-law In Irwin Toy, supra at pp. 976-77, Dickson C.J. discussed the burden on the individual seeking to establish that the effect of governmental action violates s. 2(b). After repeating the three principles and values underlying the protection of free expression in our society, he stated: "In showing that the effect of the government's action was to restrict her free expression, a plaintiff must demonstrate that her activity promotes at least one of these principles. It is not enough that shouting, for example, has an expressive element. If the plaintiff challenges the effect of government action to control noise, presuming that action to have a purpose neutral as to expression, she must show that her aim was to convey a meaning reflective of the principles underlying freedom of expression." It is clear that the effect of the by-law is to limit expression. The absolute prohibition of postering on public property prevents the communication of political, cultural and artistic messages. The appellant did not dispute that the effect of the by-law is to restrict expression, but rather argued that postering on public property does not further any of the values underlying s. 2(b). As I have already concluded, the expression in question promotes political and social discourse, one of the underlying purposes of s. 2(b). Therefore, the respondent has established a violation of s. 2(b), and the analysis now proceeds to s. 1. B. Section 1 The objective of the by-law is pressing and substantial. The by-law seeks to avoid littering, aesthetic blight, traffic hazards, and hazards to persons engaged in the repair and maintenance of utility poles. Similarly, the total ban is rationally connected to these objectives. By prohibiting posters entirely, litter, aesthetic blight and associated hazards are avoided. The question therefore becomes whether the by-law restricts expression as little as is reasonably possible. The limitation at issue in the present case is a complete ban on postering on public property. In Ford, supra, at p. 772, the Court discussed the "distinction between the negation of a right or freedom and a limit on it". While the negation of a right or freedom does not necessarily require that such an infringement not be upheld under s. 1, "the distinction between a limit that permits no exercise of a guaranteed right or freedom in a limited area of its potential exercise and one that permits a qualified exercise of it may be relevant to the application of the test of proportionality under s. 1" (at p. 773). In Ford, the Court held that a complete prohibition on the use of languages other than French on commercial signs could not meet the requirements of the proportionality test, particularly the rational connection and minimal impairment branches. In contrast, in Irwin Toy, supra, the Court upheld substantial content-based restrictions (as opposed to a total ban) on advertising directed at children. It will therefore be more difficult to justify a complete ban on a form of expression than time, place or manner restrictions. The U.S. Supreme Court considered a similar prohibition in Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent, 466 U.S. 789 (1984). Stevens J. for the majority of the court (Burger C.J. and White, Powell, Rehnquist and O'Connor JJ. concurring) accepted that the city's interest in avoiding visual clutter was sufficient to justify the complete prohibition on postering and that the ban curtailed speech no more than was necessary to accomplish its purpose. The majority rejected the argument that the public property concerned was a "public forum" protected by the First Amendment, or should be treated as a "public forum". However, I find more helpful the dissent of Brennan J. (Marshall and Blackmun JJ. concurring) which discussed, at p. 830, less restrictive alternatives than a complete ban on postering: "... [the City] might actively create a particular type of environment; it might be especially vigilant in keeping the area clean; it might regulate the size and location of permanent signs; or it might reserve particular locations, such as kiosks, for the posting of temporary signs. Similarly, Los Angeles might be able to attack its visual clutter problem in more areas of the City by reducing the stringency of the ban, perhaps by regulating the density of temporary signs, and coupling that approach with additional measures designed to reduce other forms of visual clutter." With regard to the objectives identified by the appellant in the present case, worker safety is only affected with respect to posters attached to wooden utility poles. The by-law extends to trees, all types of poles, and all other public property. Traffic safety is only affected where posters are displayed facing roadways. The application of the by-law is not so restricted. In Re Forget, supra, at p. 561, McFadyen J. suggested some alternatives to a total ban: "... such values might equally be preserved by regulating the use of the poles for such purposes by specifying or regulating the location, size of posters, the length of time that a poster might remain in any location, the type of substance used to affix posters, and requiring that the posters be removed after a certain specified time. If necessary, a reasonable fee could be imposed to defray costs of administering such a system." These kinds of alternatives could control the concerns of litter and aesthetic blight in a manner which is far less restrictive than the by-law. In my view, the total ban on postering on public property does not impair the right as little as is reasonably possible, given the many alternatives available to the appellant. Moreover, the benefits of the by-law are limited while the abrogation of the freedom is total, thus proportionality between the effects and the objective has not been achieved. While the legislative goals are important, they do not warrant the complete denial of access to a historically and politically significant form of expression. I would agree with the majority of the Ontario Court of Appeal, at p. 294, on this point that "[a]s between a total restriction of this important right and some litter, surely some litter must be tolerated". Therefore, the by-law cannot be justified under s. 1. VI. Conclusion and Disposition I would conclude, therefore, that under any of the approaches proposed in Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada, postering on some public property, including the public property at issue in the present case, is protected under s. 2(b). Therefore the by-law is a limit on s. 2(b). This limit cannot be justified under s. 1 as it is overly broad and its impact on freedom of expression is disproportionate to its objectives.
Lyndon said...
Controlling poster anarachy aside, the role of the poster company may be an effort to make the most of what's effectively a monopoly - in my experience elsewhere, if you try to do any independent pasting it just gets covered over pretty quickly by the local poster people.
This also a reason that removing and fining offending posters seems unnecessary.
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Dean Knight
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Lord Justice Lawton in Maxwell v Department of Trade and Industry [1974] 2 All ER 122 said:
"From time to time ... lawyers and judges have tried to define what constitutes fairness. Like defining an elephant, it is not easy to do, although fairness in practice has the elephantine quality of being easy to recognise. As a result of these efforts a word in common usage has acquired the trappings of legalism: 'acting fairly' has become 'acting in accordance with the rules of natural justice', and on occasion has been dressed up with Latin tags. This phrase in my opinion serves no useful purpose and in recent years it has encouraged lawyers to try to put those who hold inquiries into legal straitjackets.... For the purposes of my judgment I intend to ask myself this simple question: did the [decision-maker] act fairly towards the plaintiff?"
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This debut film of Chaitanya Tamhane is a scathing comment on the Indian judicial system and the sufferings of the poor
By Somi Das
ourt scenes have always been an important motif in our films. For many of us who have never been entangled in a legal case, films have served as our only window to visualize court settings. Chaitanya Tamhane's debut film, Court, however, will shatter your perceptions about court proceedings. It deals with daily hearings in a sessions court in Mumbai. And Tamhane has got it right, as Court has already bagged the Best Debut Film award at the 71st Venice International Film Festival and Best Film Award at the Mumbai Film Festival. But when watching the film, you might well ask why the film won so many awards. The camera work is ordinary and the narrative, linear. There aren't any complexities or scenes that leave you devastated the way Shahid, a 2013 courtroom drama based on the life of lawyer-activist Shahid Azmi, did.
Court strikes you with its brutally real depiction of a sessions court
VERY REAL
However, it's only after the watching the film that you realize it is brutally real. This is evident in the grim settings of a lower court, the "I-don't-give-a-damn" attitude of the judge and the deliberate attempt of every party involved to delay the case.
To back this, the 27-year-old director has a brilliant story too. A 65-year-old social activist and folk singer, Narayan Kamble, is arrested on charges of abetting the suicide of a sewage worker. The police claims that Kamble, during a performance in a Dalit locality, sang a song asking all sanitary workers to commit suicide in sewer tanks by inhaling the poisonous gases. Kamble is being defended by a young, motivated lawyer, Vinay Vora, who belongs to a rich Gujarati family. Vora is being opposed by fiery public prosecutor Nutan, who comfortably slips out of her black lawyer's robe to done an apron while happily cooking for her family.
Tamhane smartly intercuts court scenes with the lives of his characters outside the court. While Nutan's idea of a perfect holiday is a family outing and watching anti-North Indian Marathi plays, her rival Vora spends his leisure time in the company of female friends in a bar. As for the judge, breaking for summer vacations and going on a trip is far more important than the fate of the accused. On days when he is too tired to hear a case, he simply cites ridiculous laws to postpone the hearing. In one instance, he refuses to hear a case because the respondent in the case is clad in a sleeveless dress, which he deems as "inappropriate"—a valid reason for a judge not to hear a case, according to statute books.
The prime accused in the case, Kamble, seems to be the only one who has a purpose in his life and is ready to suffer for it. Even after Vora painstakingly secures bail for him, he goes back to Dalit bastis to sing rebel songs and produce literature that is considered "anti-national". Within days, he is back in jail with a new case against him. Tamhane says in an interview: "The judiciary is an authorized, but violent institution that metes out life and death judgments. It's one of those platforms where otherwise bracketed people from across class and cultures interact and entwine."
Daily court proceedings not only reveal cracks in our archaic judicial system but also expose how insensitive it is towards the poor. One moving scene is when the wife of the sewage worker, called as witness, tells the court that her husband was never given any safety gear to enter the sewer tanks. He would drink alcohol to keep off the foul smell and enter only if he spotted a living cockroach in the tank —a sign of life inside tons of human waste. The sheer apathy of society hits you. But Tamhane creates no fuss about it. No music. No tears. He makes his character say all this in a matter-of-fact way. All that the wife wants is for the case to end and a job to support the family.
(Above) Debutante director Chaitanya Tamhane
Tamhane's Court is a melting pot of people from different castes, classes and sensibilities. Thus, the lack of sympathy of one party to-wards another. Thus, Nutan is frustrated that she has to see the same faces in court everyday and so wants harsh punishment for Kamble, little realizing the ramifications of such a verdict on his family. In one stroke, the film touches a range of issues—Dalits, class differences and an apathetic judiciary.
The film has some brilliant performances by the lead actors. Vira Sathidar as Narayan Kamble looks straight out of a Kabir Kala Manch performance—energetic, witty and rebellious. Geetanjali Kulkarni as the no-nonsense, emotionless public prosecutor is a delight to watch. So is Vivek Gomber as Vora.
The camera is neat and slow. Tamhane seems to dislike cuts. Towards the end of the film, there is a symbolic scene where the court caretaker switches off all the lights and fans in the room. Then, the frame stays still for half-a-minute, giving one a sense of Kamble's agony —how long and listlessly he will have to wait before he gets a chance to be heard again.
This poignant scene could have served as the perfect ending for the film. Instead, Tam-hane chooses to come back to the mundane and mediocre lives of the characters—a bit stretched. Otherwise, the film is an impressive debut. Tamhane is a talent to watch out for.
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He gave an overview of the 3 main restorative means for Recovery and Regeneration.
One of the items he briefly mentioned was the rising use of compression shorts.
Our Bobsledders have been using these for years, and now we are seeing a rising trend in Track and field. Baseball have similar shorts, but those are primarily used for protection when sliding into bases.
Another added benefit of Compression Shorts is men do not have to wear an athletic supporter (i.e. jock strap) when wearing one of these specialty garments.
The obvious benefits of Compression shorts include providing protection against chafing and rashes, plus drawing away sweat from the body using a "wick effect".
Compression shorts are often suggested to those who suffer from a form of back pain called sciatica. The sciatic nerve runs along the outer thigh and can be irritated during exercise. Many sufferers find relief from sciatic nerve pain while wearing compression shorts under their normal workout gear.
The aims of this study were to determine how custom-fit compression shorts affect athletic performance and to examine the mechanical properties of the shorts. Ten male and 10 female track athletes on a university's nationally competitive track team, specializing in sprint or jump events, participated in the study. Testing utilized the compression shorts with loose-fitting gym shorts as the control garment. Several significant effects were revealed for the custom-fit compressive garment. Although 60 m sprint time was not affected, hip flexion angle was reduced. Skin temperature increased more and at a faster rate during a warm-up protocol. Muscle oscillation was decreased during vertical jump landing. Counter-movement vertical jump height increased when the participants were wearing the custom-fit compression garment. In materials testing, the elasticity of the compressive garment provides increased flexion and extension torque at the end range of extension and flexion, respectively, and may assist the hamstrings in controlling the leg at the end of the swing phase in sprinting. The compressive garment significantly reduced impact force by 27% compared with American football pants alone. Through various mechanisms, these findings may translate into an effect on athletic performance and a reduction in injuries.
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Jordi Burés  is a Reader in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester. His research in general is on the areas of organic and physical chemistry, specializing in Mechanistic Studies, nuclear magnetic resonance and catalysis.

Education
Burés completed his Bachelor of Science at University of Barcelona in 2003. He then continued to pursue his MRes and his Doctor of Philosophy degrees in the same university with Jaume Vilarrasa and successfully completed it in 2009.

Research and career
After graduating, Burés was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Donna Blackmond at The Scripps Research Institute in California. He later joined the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London in 2013 as an Imperial College Junior Research Fellow and moved to University of Manchester in 2016 as a lecturer in organic chemistry.

His research in general is on the areas of organic and physical chemistry, specizalizing in Mechanistic Studies, nuclear magnetic resonance and catalysis.

Notable work

In 2016, Burés produced a new simple graphical method to elucidate the order in catalyst, where a normalized time scale t[cat]Tn was shown to be able to adjust entire reaction profiles constructed with concentration data. The research further showed that compared to methods that used rates, the proposed method is faster, simple, requires fewer experiments and minimizes effects of experimental errors. This method is generally known as Variable Time Normalization Analysis.

In 2012, Burés, Blackmond and Armstrong led a mechanistic study on conjugate addition of aldehydes to nitro-olefins and the α-chlorination of aldehydes catalyzed by diarylprolinol ether which was able to show that the stereochemical outcome of products of both of these reactions is not determined by the transition state of the step in which the stereogenic center is formed but rather is correlated with the relative stability and reactivity of diastereomeric intermediates downstream in the catalytic cycle. This hence provided evidence to suggest that this concept may represent a general phenomenon for pyrrolidine-based catalysts lacking an acidic directing proton.

Awards and nominations
 Royal Society of Chemistry Hickinbottom Award (2020)
 Young Researcher Award from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (2019)
 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (2018)

Major Publications

References

Living people
Spanish chemists
Academics of the University of Manchester
21st-century chemists
University of Barcelona alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)

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Q: convert string to json fails in ionic2 In the following code, I'm try to get json. But the returned result contains a "space" after brace open and before close:
{
  "address": ......,
  "filename": image.png,
  "price": 12
}

In following code if I use res.json() it returns error for json parser . Instead, if I use res.text() it returns string completely. Then, I tried to remove " " space by replace
this.http.get(Url)
 .map(res => res.text())
 .subscribe(data => {
   JSON.stringify(data);
     console.log(data.price);
 });

The log shows undefined instead of showing 12.
update when i use res.json() the fallowing error is shown.

A: Your JSON is an object data, which contains an array of object:
{ "data": [{ "address":" استان البرز، کرج، کرج نو، کوچه 102، ایران ", "filename":"image3.png", "distance": 2878 , "price": 101001 }]}

So when you try and console log data.price there is no such thing. If you actually want to console.log the price of the item that is in the array you would do the following:
this.http.get(Url)
 .map(res => res.json().data) // let's extract the array from the JSON
 .subscribe(data => {
   console.log(data[0].price) // console log the price of the first (and only item) in your array
 });

A: in this case I made these bunch of code, of course it is not so beauty and looks ugly.
this.http.get(Url)
    .map(res => res.text())
        .subscribe(data => {
          console.log(data);
          this.data=data;
          //if these two lines removed everything fails again.
          this.data=this.data.replace(/\n/g,"");
          this.data=this.data.replace(/\t/g,"");
          console.log(this.data);

          //this.data=JSON.stringify(this.data);
          console.log(this.data);

          this.data=JSON.parse(this.data);
          console.log(this.data.data[0].price);
    });
  }

any good and beauty Idea is welcome

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May 16, 2019 2:00AM EDT
Italy: Reject Anti-Rescue Proposals
Criminal Penalties Could Deter Saving Lives at Sea
The migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, carrying 47 migrants, comes into dock at the Sicilian port of Catania, southern Italy, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. The Sea-Watch 3, operated by the German aid group Sea Watch, had been kept at sea for nearly two weeks while Italy pressed other European countries to agree to take them in.
@ 2019 AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli
(Milan) –The Italian government should firmly reject a proposal to fine shipmasters up to €5,500 for every person they rescue and take to Italy, Human Rights Watch said today. Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has proposed this and other problematic anti-rescue measures in a decree to be examined by the government starting as early as today.
"Salvini's latest salvo in his war on humanitarian rescue puts a price tag on the right to life," said Judith Sunderland, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "The rest of the coalition government should reject this naked effort to discourage saving lives at sea, including by merchant vessels."
Since becoming interior minister, Salvini has repeatedly sought to further restrict the already extremely tight Italian policies on rescues at sea and disembarkation of people rescued at sea. Italy has cut back on search-and-rescue operations, delayed or refused taking people rescued at sea to Italy, and supported efforts by Libyan coast guard forces to interdict asylum seekers and migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean to Europe and return them to abusive detention in Libya.
The first draft of the decree would impose fines of between €3,500 and €5,500 per foreigner rescued at sea and subsequently taken to Italy in the event the rescuing ship did not comply with "the operating instructions issued by the authorities responsible for the area in which the rescue operation takes place or by the respective authorities of the flag state" or the laws of the sea.
The flag state is the country that has licensed the ship. In cases involving ships flying the Italian flag, the decree allows for temporary suspension or revocation of the license of vessels whose instances of rescue and disembarkation in Italy are considered "grave or repeated."
The proposed measure is based on a partial and deeply flawed reading of international law, Human Rights Watch said. The law of the sea governing rescue operations imposes obligations on shipmasters to respond to situations of distress at sea and to take the people rescued to safe places. This includes general guidance to cooperate with and follow instructions from coastal states that have assumed responsibilities to conduct and coordinate rescue operations in their declared search-and-rescue region.
These duties should be read in conjunction with the nonrefoulement obligation in international human rights and refugee law, which prohibit the return of refugees to persecution and the return of any person to the risk of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Guidelines issued by the International Maritime Organization stress that factors to be considered when designating a place of safety for rescued people to land should include "the need to avoid disembarkation in territories where the lives and freedoms of those alleging a well-founded fear of persecution would be threatened."
As a matter of policy and practice, Libyan forces take people they rescue or intercept at sea to Libya, where they face arbitrary detention in abysmal conditions and a well-documented risk of serious abuse, including forced labor, torture, and sexual violence. The United Nations has repeatedly emphasized that Libya is not a safe place to take people rescued at sea. Concerns about the risks for those returned to Libya have been heightened as fighting rages in Tripoli among rival militia factions, putting detainees in detention centers at further risk.
As drafted, the decree could conceivably apply to Italian Coast Guard or Navy vessels and other European vessels that abide by the nonrefoulement obligation. It would also apply to private vessels, including commercial ships, that decline to take rescued people to Libya, given the risks there. It would include shipmasters following their flag states' guidance to comply with nonrefoulment obligation and to avoid disembarkation in Libya due to the risk of human rights violations in that country.
The Italian measure also rests on a self-serving mischaracterization of the capacity of the Libyan Coast Guard, under the EU-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) based in Tripoli, to perform fully its responsibilities in its vast, self-declared search-and-rescue region. Despite concerted efforts since 2016 by Italy and the European institutions to build the Libyan Coast Guard's capacity, Human Rights Watch research has found that this corps lacks the capacity, equipment, and training to perform safe rescues.
Since the beginning of an attack, on April 4, on Tripoli by forces loyal to General Khalifa Hiftar, who is allied with a rival government to the GNA that is based in eastern Libya, the Libyan Coast Guard has intercepted and returned to detention in Libya at least 871 refugees and migrants, according to the International Organization for Migration. There are also indications that it has diverted assets for military use in the context of current hostilities.
The decree includes a provision to transfer authority over passage in Italian territorial waters from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to the Interior Ministry. It also gives jurisdiction over all cases of alleged facilitation of unlawful entry into the country to district prosecutors' offices with anti-organized crime powers. Finally, it provides a budget of €3 million over the next three years to enable agents of foreign police corps to conduct undercover investigations on Italian territory into unlawful entry.
Combined, these measures could lead to heightened criminal investigations and prosecutions in relation to rescue efforts. This would further discourage rescue at sea, including by commercial shipping, by raising the real and perceived costs of responding to migrants and refugees in distress.
Salvini is trying to push through these measures using a procedure that allows for legislation by government decree only in "extraordinary cases of need and urgency." Such decrees have immediate force of law but must be enacted, including with amendments, by parliament within 60 days or expire. Given that only 1,091 people have been disembarked in Italy since the beginning of the year, it is not clear that the requirements of necessity and urgency are met, Human Rights Watch said.
"The real emergency is the risk of death at sea, and the horrifying detention conditions in Libya, including in centers on the front lines of warring militias," Sunderland said. "Instead of criminalizing humanitarian rescue operations, the Italian government should work with other EU governments to ensure search-and-rescue capacity in the Mediterranean, coupled with a fair distribution of responsibility for people rescued, and to ensure safe ways for migrants and refugees to escape Libya."
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Europe: Save Mediterranean Rescue Ship
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New Low for Italian Migration Policies


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Iluminatti (estilizado como IlumiNATTI) é o álbum de estréia da cantora dominicana Natti Natasha, lançado pela Pina Records e Sony Music Latin em 15 de fevereiro de 2019. O álbum gerou canções de sucesso como "Quién Sabe", "Me Gusta", "Pa' Mala Yo" e "Oh Daddy". Nos Estados Unidos, Iluminatti estreou no terceiro lugar da Billboard Top Latin Albums com um equivalente de 7 mil cópias vendidas, sendo a maior primeira semana de vendas de álbum latino por uma mulher desde o El Dorado, de Shakira. Após o lançamento do álbum, "Te Lo Dije", "Obsesión", "Oh Daddy" e "No Voy a Llorar" foram lançadas como singles juntamente com os seus vídeos musicais. Em junho, Natti lançou o videoclipe do décimo single do álbum, "Deja Tus Besos".

Antecedentes
Natasha anunciou que seu álbum se chamaria ilumiNATTI e que seria lançado em 15 de fevereiro de 2019. Em entrevista à Billboard, Natasha descreveu o álbum como um álbum para empoderar as mulheres, trazer amor e luz ao mundo. Na entrevista, Natasha explicou a origem do nome do álbum, ilumiNATTI: "Ilumi" significa luz e Natti é o su nome artístico. Antes do lançamento do álbum, Natasha mostrou em sua perfil pessoal do Instagram novas canções, como "Era Necesario", "Deja Tus Besos", e "Obsession". Em 2 de fevereiro de 2019, Natasha juntou-se ao cantor porto-riquenho Kany García na "Soy Yo Tour" para apresentar "Soy Mia" no Coliseu José Miguel Agrelot.

Singles
O primeiro single do álbum, "Quién Sabe", foi lançado em 21 de junho de 2018. O segundo e terceiro singles, "Me Gusta" e "Lamento Tu Perdida", foram lançados em dezembro de 2018. O quarto single, "Pa' Mala Yo", foi lançado em 11 de janeiro de 2019. "La Mejor Version de Mi" foi lançado como quinto single e "Te Lo Dije" como sexto single em fevereiro de 2019. Em 22 de março, foi lançado o single "Obsesión" e, em abril, foi lançado "Oh Daddy". Em 31 de maio, Natti lançou o videoclipe do nono single do álbum, "No Voy a Llorar". Em junho, Natti anunciou em sua conta oficial no Instagram o lançamento do décimo single, "Deja Tus Besos", na versão remix com o rapper Chencho Corleone.

Iluminatti Tour
Iluminatti Tour (estilizado como IlumiNATTI Tour) é a primeira turnê da cantora dominicana Natti Natasha, em apoio ao seu álbum de estréia, Iluminatti (2019). A turnê teve início em 16 de março de 2019, em Los Angeles, Estados Unidos.

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Datas

Lista de faixas

Notas

 "Oh Daddy" contém interpolações da canção "Donna", de Ritchie Valens.
 Créditos de composição adaptados da Warner/Chappell Music.

 Créditos de produção adaptados das notas do encarte do álbum.

Desempenho nas tabelas musicais

Paradas semanais

Paradas de fim de ano

Certificações

Álbuns de estreia de 2019
Álbuns da Sony Music Latin
Álbuns em língua castelhana
Álbuns de reggaeton
Álbuns de pop latino


MOSCOW, Russia – Facebook has blocked a popular page run by Russian state TV channel RT, the channel's editor said Monday, criticizing the move as an attack on media rights.
"We had a subsidiary project in English, In the Now. The project was wildly popular — 2.5 billion views and four million subscribers on Facebook alone!" RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said on her Telegram social network account.
"We didn't violate any Facebook rules," Simonyan said.
"People connecting with Pages shouldn't be misled about who's behind them," Facebook said.
"Just as we've stepped up our enforcement of coordinated inauthentic behavior and financially motivated spam over the past year, we'll continue improving so people can get more information about the Pages they follow," it added.
"We'll be reaching out to administators of these Pages to ask that they disclose this additional information and their affiliation with their parent company to get back on the platform," it said.
The EU-funded project EU vs Disinfo, a campaign to "respond to pro-Kremlin disinformation", has said In the Now was launched to attract younger audiences turned off by RT's political stories.
It does this "by adding videos with high emotional and entertainment value" which are used as "bait" to "camouflage" the project's ties to Russia, EU vs Disinfo said.
Last month, Facebook said it had removed over 500 pages originating in Russia for engaging in "coordinated inauthentic behavior".


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Q: Token interceptor overrides fileupload interceptor when used together I am using token interceptor and fileupload interceptor in struts2.
But when I upload a file larger than the configured one fileupload returns input but instead of getting redirected to the one which is defined in result mapped to fileupload it is redirecting to the result mapped to invalid.token.
I have tried altering the sequence of interceptors but nothing worked.
<action name="something" class="something">
<interceptor-ref name="token"/>
<interceptor-ref name="fileupload"/>
<result name="invalid.token" type="redirect">someaction</result>
<result name="input" type="redirect">someaction</result>
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Dansco Coin Albums have been a longtime companion for both expert numismatists and beginning coin collectors. The Washington Quarters 1932-1998 Dansco Album with Proof comes in a 1 1/4" binder and holds up to 192 coins. The album has 8 Dansco pages (series: 8140-1 to 8140-8, 7140-1 to 7140-3), each one holding and displaying all Washington quarters minted from 1932-1998 including the proof coins. The 1932 Washington Quarter was created to commemorate George Washington's 200th birthday. In 1976 the Treasury launched a contest to select a new reverse for the Bicentennial Quarter. The winning design was by Jack L. Arh. Except for the dating "1776-1976" the obverse of the coins remained unchanged through their entire mintage. In 1977 the Washington quarters went back to their original reverse design. From 1932-1964 quarters were made of 90% silver and 10% copper, each weighing 6.25 grams. From 1965 to Date quarters have a pure copper inner core and an outer layer made of 75% copper and 25% nickel, each weighing 5.67 grams. All Washington quarters measure 24.3 mm in diameter. Dansco Coin Albums have their pages attached with metal screws, making it easy to add and replace.


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Parler: The alternative social network that's got America's right talking | Tech/Gadgets
November 15, 2020 - by admin
The Parler app ― free to download for iOS and Android ― topped the download lists earlier this week. ― AFP pic
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 11 ― Parler is the number one app in the USA right now. After Donald Trump's defeat in the US presidential election, the alternative social network popular with conservatives saw downloads soar on Apple and Android. Its success relies notably on a supposed "freedom of speech," behind which often lies unbridled racism. So what exactly is this platform that's proving popular with America's far right?
The Parler app ― free to download for iOS and Android ― topped the download lists, Monday, November 9, ahead of TikTok and Twitter. However, despite having almost 40,000 reviews on Google Play, the social network barely manages two out of five stars. Parler fares a little better on Apple's App Store, with an average 3.6 out of five stars and some 30,000 reviews. In June 2020, Parler was one of the most-downloaded apps in the "news" category. Two months later, the application already claimed almost 2.5 million downloads. According to the Sensor Tower website, the application was downloaded 200,000 times worldwide in October 2020.
The ideal post-election playground for America's alt-right
Co-created in 2018 by John Matze and Jared Thomson ― both IT graduates from the University of Denver ― the relatively little-known American social network found favour with Donald Trump. This global recognition led to an explosion in the number of downloads of the app, despite its controversial reputation.
With a design that's surprisingly similar to Twitter, Parler has a newsfeed with posts from accounts that users can follow. Users need a valid email address and a password to sign up, as well as a phone number, which, according to the cofounder, helps prevent the creation of fake accounts. The minimum age for users is 13, but no checks are made ― apart from when certifying accounts, where, like on other social networks, a copy of the user's ID is required. On Parler, there are votes instead of likes and echos instead of retweets or shares. Messages are called "parleys" and users can integrate emojis, GIFs or upload images to posts.
Described as a kind of echo chamber for the fascist world or a hangout for people banned from Twitter, Parler bills itself as a platform for free speech. "We, the people, don't want to be told what to think," 27-year-old John Matze is quoted as saying in French daily newspaper Libération in August 2020. Indeed, the site's members are given great freedom to share all kinds of information, which can sometimes relate to conspiracy theories, misinformation or be racist in nature. When interviewed by Forbes in June 2020, John Matze was asked about possible censoring of the "N-word" by the social network. The cofounder first said: "It depends on the context. If they just said that word alone, I don't think we would touch it," before backtracking slightly, "If somebody came on there and said the N-word to somebody, and they got very upset as a result of that, then it would get taken down." A host of media outlets, such as French news website Numerama, then exposed openly antisemitic and Islamophobic messages on the social network. In its conditions of use, the social network clearly states: "We will remove parleys or comments found to be defamatory by a court of law having jurisdiction over Parler. Otherwise, we will avoid making our own determinations about the truth or falsity of statements posted on Parler. " A policy that stands in total contrast to Facebook and Twitter, which have recently clamped down on misinformation. "There are going to be no fact-checkers. You're not going to be told what to think and what to say," John Matze told Forbes.
However, in the same interview, the CEO said that a specialist team would be on hand to help clean up "trolls," by which John Matze apparently meant the many teenage Democrats leftists who signed up after the Trump campaign threatened to quit Facebook and Twitter and decamp to Parler. This swathe of new users clearly doesn't sit well with the network's conservative user base. ― AFP-Relaxnews
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Q: How can I extract time and elevation from this data? I download metadata from
http://geoportale.lamma.rete.toscana.it/MapStore/public/ based on this tutorial
http://geoserver.geo-solutions.it/multidim/en/accessing_multidim/rtx/wind_arrows.html and extract it to a folder, so there is some .tiff files in it.
then I opened my Geoserver 2.8.1 and on this path: Stores->add new Store-> ImageMosaic ( image mosaicking plugin) then choose the folder contains tiff files.
then in the layer configuration, dimension tab, I should see that the time and elevation attributes are enabled as it is mentioned in the tutorial but they are not and The following message appears next to each of the respective enable checkboxes:
Time
Cannot enable, no attribute of type Date found

Elevation
Cannot enable, no attribute of type Number found

I already saw this question How to add time and elevation dimension attributes to Geoserver rasters? but that is not my case since I have not insert Geotiff Data into my Postgres or whatsoever.
I spend two days on solving this and read a lot about it with googling the issue.

A: I found the answer by installing geoserver 2.6.0 instead of 2.8.x and everything works fine, also, I should note that the database attribute name that is mentioned in the "datastore.properties" file must not exist in the postgres.


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Ken Bruce to leave BBC Radio 2 for Greatest Hits Radio after 31 years on mid-morning show
Katie Archer
·TV Reporter, Yahoo Entertainment UK
Ken Bruce is leaving BBC Radio 2. (BBC)
Ken Bruce has announced he will leave his role at BBC Radio 2 in March after 31 years on air and will take up a new role at Greatest Hits Radio.
The broadcaster has spent more than three decades hosting the 9.30am - midday weekday show, and has been on BBC radio for 45 years altogether.
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Explaining "it's time for a change", Bruce added: "I would stress that this is entirely my decision."
The 71-year-old will host a new mid-morning show on the Bauer radio station between 10am and 1pm from April.
In his announcement on Tuesday morning, he said: "Nothing stays the same forever and I have decided the time is right for me to move on from Radio 2 when I reach the end of my current contract in March.
Ken Bruce with Craig David for The Piano Room. (BBC)
"It's been a tremendously happy time for me: I've made many friends and worked with many wonderful colleagues. However I feel that after 45 years of full-time broadcasting on BBC Radio it's time for a change.
"I would stress that this is entirely my decision but some new opportunities have come up and I would like to continue my career in a slightly different way in the next few years, the details of which will be revealed shortly."
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Bruce added: "I will always be very proud of my association with the BBC and Radio 2 in particular and I'd like to thank everyone who has helped to make the mid-morning show a success."
Ken Bruce meets Sigrid. (BBC)
Lorna Clarke, director of BBC Music, said: "Ken is an extraordinary broadcaster with an exceptional career over many decades. He has been part of every significant occasion marked by BBC Radio 2 and we, his faithful audience and the Radio 2 all-star line-up will miss his warm humour and wit.
"Congratulations on a brilliant career."
A replacement for Bruce and details of the new mid-morning show will be announced at a later date.
Bruce joined BBC Radio Scotland in 1977 and his first regular slot on Radio 2 was the Saturday Late Show in 1984.
The following year he fronted the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, taking over from Terry Wogan, and he moved to mid mornings in 1986. After a brief stint on late nights and early mornings, he returned to mid mornings in January 1992.
His other BBC work has included Radio 2's coverage of Eurovision since 1988, and he has been a regular presenter of Sunday Night is Music Night.
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The UK is the most attractive country in the G20
Building bridges of trust and attractiveness internationally. Photo ©
Zhanhui Li, Unsplash used under license and adapted from the original
For the first time the UK tops the world as the most attractive country for young people across the G20.
Alistair MacDonald, British Council Senior Policy Advisor, discusses the findings of the latest research into international views of the soft power of leading nations.
Editor's note: this article was amended on 1 July 2020 to include newly published links to IpsosMORI data.
Reasons to be cheerful, part 4
Our soft power perceptions research, undertaken for the fourth time since 2016, offers insight into how young people's views of the attractiveness and trustworthiness of the G20 countries has shifted over time.
We commissioned IpsosMORI to conduct the research on our behalf. 20,612 educated adults aged 18-34 in the 19 G20 countries were surveyed between 7 February and 27 March 2020. To our knowledge it is the most comprehensive survey of young people's views of the attractiveness of leading nations that exists.
This year for the first time the most attractive country in the G20 is the UK, having just pipped Canada to the top spot. Canada remains top across our key trust metrics: trust in people, trust in government and trust in institutions, but the UK now shares the top spot on trust in institutions, while remaining second for trust in people and third for trust in government.
People in the UK will be pleased to observe that for overall attractiveness views of the country are up over the course of the survey and indeed are now slightly higher than they were in 2016 before the referendum.
In 2016, 71 per cent of respondents rated the UK six or higher out of ten for overall attractiveness whereas it now scores 74 per cent.
This is a significant result for the UK. Many observers would have expected the UK to have gone backwards rather than be scoring better than four years ago. Especially given how tumultuous the period has been in UK politics, and the frequently negative media coverage both in the UK and internationally.
It is though worth noting that trust in the UK government remains below where it was in 2016 when the UK was second with 55 per cent of respondents rating it as trusted. Having dropped to fourth place in the rankings immediately following the EU referendum, it is now third on 48 per cent.
Changes in global perceptions of China
The most dramatic change in the rankings this year is China's fall of six places from 11th place – which it held in both 2016 and 2018 – to 17th for overall attractiveness.
However, this is somewhat deceptive. China's actual score is static, in early 2016, 46 per cent of respondents ranked China 6-10 for overall attractiveness. Today that figure is 45 per cent. The fall in rank reflects increases in the scores of other middle-income countries, including Mexico, South Africa and Turkey.
However, while China's scoring for overall attractiveness is effectively unchanged, there has been a decline in China's results for trust, especially for trust in government. In 2016 China scored 30 per cent on this metric but in 2020 this had fallen to 22 per cent. But perhaps more notable is the dramatic increase in levels of distrust.
In 2016, 43 per cent said they distrust the Chinese government whereas today the figure is 54 per cent, making the Chinese government the most distrusted in the G20, more so than Russia, Saudi Arabia and 2018's 'winner' on this metric, the United States. By way of comparison the corresponding figures for trust and distrust in the UK government are 48 per cent and 22 per cent respectively.
The fieldwork for the survey was undertaken in February and March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe so the scoring for China may well reflect the impact of the outbreak on perceptions.
Has there been a 'Trump effect' on perceptions of the USA?
The United States government is no longer the most distrusted of the G20 group, but distrust remains historically high at 42 per cent while at 36 per cent the score for trust also lags far behind the other Anglophone democracies. Back in early 2016 these scores were 29 per cent distrust and 47 per cent trust so there has been a sharp reversal in perceptions here.
It would be easy to blame the Trump administration for the decline in trust in the US government, but the negative trend predates the 2016 election with a wide variety of societal and political factors including gun crime, racial discrimination, the government's response to Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War potentially all having an impact on perceptions.
Interestingly while trust continues to fall, for overall attractiveness the US is up to sixth position. Further, like the UK, the score is also slightly higher than it was in 2016 (70 per cent in 2020 compared to 67 per cent in early 2016).
This reflects the enduring appeal of the US's soft power assets which can be seen in our more detailed attractiveness metrics.
The US maintains its top spot as the most attractive place to study (53 per cent), as a place to do business/trade (52 per cent) and for tourism (33 per cent). It seems COVID-19 hasn't dimmed the international appeal of the USA as a destination, even if current holiday plans may be on hold.
The UK also performs well on these metrics. It is the second most attractive place for study (40 per cent). It ranks fourth as a place to do business/trade (23 per cent), behind the world's three biggest economies but ahead of other countries with similar size GDP like Germany and India. It is equal fifth for tourism with Australia (22 per cent), behind the USA, Italy, Japan and France.
The competition is getting closer, at 74 per cent the UK's score for overall attractiveness is near identical to that of Canada's while the gap between first and sixth place is just 3 percentage points, half that of 2016.
The closeness of the results means the UK is very much first amongst equals. Whether it will continue to hold the coveted top spot in young people's minds in the future or Canada or a country like Germany take the lead in their affections will depend in large part on how the UK navigates this new post-EU, post-COVID world.
It is worth reflecting on what the countries coming top of the ranks for overall attractiveness and trust have in common. The UK, Canada, Australia, Germany and Japan are all prosperous, stable, liberal, free, democratic societies recognised for their support for the rules-based international system. These countries are each broadly perceived as a force for good in the world.
The detailed results on the individual drivers of soft power, which include factors like valuing individual liberty, a free press, strong NGO's and valuing diversity, underline the precariousness strength of the UK's position. In 2018 the UK was first in nine of the twenty qualities. In 2020 the UK was top for just one of these – respect and tolerance for those of different faiths/beliefs – and second in 11. In contrast Germany came top in nine, the US in six, France in four.
These perceptions matter. Attractiveness and trust impact on the prosperity, influence and national security of countries. Our research has found that those who trust the UK are almost twice as likely to say they intend to do business/trade with the UK. An attractive, trusted UK will find it easier to make trade deals and build the necessary international alliances to respond to global challenges like COVID-19 and climate change. It will be listened to, respected and sought out as a strategic partner. And it will be the destination of choice for foreign direct investment, international students and tourists, with all the economic advantages that brings.
It is worth taking a moment to celebrate the news that young people around the world rate the UK the most attractive country in the G20, but it also needs to be recognised that the hard work of maintaining that lead, of building a truly 'Global Britain', is just beginning.
Alistair MacDonald, Senior Policy Advisor, British Council
Ipsos MORI interviewed a sample of 20,612 adults aged 18-34 in the 19 G20 countries between 7 February and 27 March 2020. Data has been weighted for each individual country to the known offline population proportions for age within gender, and each country has been given equal weighting within the G20 dataset. All surveys are subject to a range of potential sources of error.
The 2020 British Council soft power perceptions research
Powers of attraction
The sources of soft power: how perceptions determine the success of nations
How others see us: perceptions of the UK abroad (IpsosMORI)


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