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Hundreds gather downtown for inaugural Baton Rouge Oyster Festival
BATON ROUGE - The capital city's first-ever oyster festival took place in downtown on Saturday, and plenty of people turned out for some good eats.
From chargrilled, to raw, and everything in between, hundreds of people showed up for the inaugural Baton Rouge Oyster Festival.
"The weather is beautiful," attendee Mike Vickers said. "The food looks fantastic, the chargrilleds are super. It's gonna be a great day."
With dozens of local sponsors, festival-goers enjoyed an endless amount of oysters.
"I think it brings people downtown that have never been here," Vickers added. "It helps the new businesses that are open, the new restaurants... and you get to see what the Downtown Development District is doing with our tax dollars, and the improvements made."
And the festival wasn't just about eating oysters, shuckers got a chance to show off their skills.
"It feels real good," Duke Landry told News 2. "I won my first [oyster-shucking contest] thirty two years ago in New Orleans, and it was good to bring it home. Have it home here."
Landry, from Denham Springs, has traveled as far as China to compete against some of the best shuckers in the world. But he's more excited about competing here.
"Yeah, you have to find the best to be the best," Landry added. "You gotta compete with the good guys. These guys here today were tough, it was close. It really was."
Landry says he hopes this event puts Baton Rouge on the festival map.
"I think it's the food capital of the world," he said. "Lafayette and New Orleans, they've all got good food, too. But Baton Rouge has the good stuff and the world needs to know about it."
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HomeAbout the Society News Plaintiffs of Jimmo v. Sebelius Return to Court to Urge Enforcement and End Medicare "Improvement St
Plaintiffs of Jimmo v. Sebelius Return to Court to Urge Enforcement and End Medicare "Improvement Standard"
On March 1, 2016 the Center for Medicare Advocacy and Vermont Legal Aid filed a Motion for Resolution of Non-Compliance with the Settlement Agreement in the landmark case, Jimmo v. Sebelius. The filing comes after three years of urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to fulfill its obligation to end continued application of an "Iimprovement standard" by Medicare providers, contractors and adjudicators resulting in denials of Medicare coverage for skilled maintenance nursing and therapy.
Jimmo was brought on behalf of a nationwide class of Medicare beneficiaries who were denied coverage and access to care because they did not show sufficient potential for "improvement." This long-practiced standard contradicts Medicare law. The Jimmo Settlement leaves no doubt that under the law and related regulations and policies, it is not necessary to improve in order to obtain Medicare coverage for skilled services. Medicare is available for skilled nursing and therapy to maintain an individual's condition or slow deterioration. If truly implemented and enforced, the settlement should improve access to skilled maintenance nursing and therapy for thousands of older adults and people with disabilities whose Medicare coverage for skilled care is denied or terminated because their conditions are "chronic," "not improving," "plateaued" or "stable."
The lawsuit was brought in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont by seven individual plaintiffs from Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine and Pennsylvania and seven national organizational plaintiffs: National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, Parkinson's Action Network, Paralyzed Veterans of America, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the United Cerebral Palsy Association and the Alzheimer's Association.
The Center for Medicare Advocacy encourages people to appeal if they are told Medicare coverage is not available for skilled maintenance nursing or therapy because they are not improving. There is a great deal of information and self-help material on the Center's website, www.medicareadvocacy.org, where beneficiaries can also obtain information with key provisions from the revised Medicare Manuals to show their health care providers.
UPDATE: On August 18th an opinion was released by in the "improvement standard" case. The Order requires CMS to remedy the Educational Campaign, which was a cornerstone of the Settlement Agreement, by "direct[ing] the Secretary [of Health and Human Services] to propose corrective action for Plaintiffs' consideration within forty-five days of this Order." The goal continues to be to end the practice of denying coverage to tens of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries by replacing the illegal "Improvement Standard" with a maintenance coverage standard. The National MS Society Director of Health Policy, Kim Calder, is gratified that CMS will provide more education. "Among the reasons the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is a Jimmo plaintiff and applauded the Settlement was the promise that Medicare would provide a nationwide education campaign so Medicare's own administrators, health care professionals and the public would know that continued 'improvement' is not a requirement for coverage and payment," said Calder. "Rehabilitation therapy is an integral part of MS treatment because it helps prevent declines in walking, moving, speaking and optimal functioning. Denying patients access to these treatments can lead to worsening disability, lack of independence and more expensive health care needs."
Click here for more information from the National MS Society about Medicare.
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MLB trade rumors: Five pitchers who could be moved before the deadline
With an Aug. 1 trade deadline looming, and a relatively weak free agent market awaiting in the winter, some teams will look to make a move to bolster their pitching staff this June and July.
Written By Joe Rivera
With an Aug. 1 trade deadline looming, and a relatively weak free agent market awaiting in the winter, some teams will look to make a move to bolster their pitching staff this June and July. The addition of the second Wild Card gives teams a wider look as to whether or not they want to stay in their races and make a move.
MORE: Ranking every MLB front office
Here are five pitchers that could be moved before the deadline, whether to help contenders or net their own teams offense they need to compete.
Sonny Gray, Athletics
Prior to the season, Sonny Gray was the one piece the A's wouldn't move. Well, Billy Beane is still out in Oakland, which means Gray is on the market.
The 26-year-old is having a rough season. Pitching to a 5.54 ERA, opponents are hitting .278 against him through 12 starts. Whether he's pitching hurt, or it's a mechanical issue, Gray should be a highly sought after target when trade talks start to heat up.
MORE: A's hire MLB's first female coach
With another three seasons of team control, Gray won't hit free agency until 2020, which is pure, unadulterated value in today's game.
Julio Teheran, Braves
Teheran's name has been floated for a week now. While he had a fairly vanilla 2015, he's having a career year in 2016.
Opponents are hitting under .200 against Teheran in 2016, and he's allowed less than a base runner per inning (.908 WHIP). In four June starts, he's held batters to a .120 average. Granted, these starts have come against some of the worst offensive teams (the Mets, Padres and Reds) in the NL, a .120 average against is nothing to thumb your nose at.
MORE: Don't blame Fredi for horrible start
Arguably the biggest part of Teheran's value is his contract. He's owed $25 million through 2019, with a $12 million team option for 2020. He could be worth three times as much on the open market if he builds off the first half of 2016.
Teheran is only 25, and given the Braves' desires to put a competitive team heading into a new building in 2017, they'll likely be looking for a sizable return considering the years of control remaining on his deal.
Andrew Miller, Yankees
It's going to take a lot of pride-swallowing for the Yankees to admit that they aren't winning a World Series this season. With some bad contracts riddling the roster, the one piece that would be intriguing to legitimate contenders is Andrew Miller.
Miller, 31, could fit any number of clubs thanks to his versatility in the bullpen as a lefty. He's seven for eight in save opportunities this season, and was 36 for 38 in 2015. In addition to 10 holds, he's pitching to a 1.21 ERA so far this season, with 0.674 WHIP, which is among the best relievers in the sport.
MORE: If Yankees become sellers, who do they move?
What's even more mind-boggling about Miller is his strikeout to walk ratio of 18.33. For every 18 strikeouts he throws, he's allowing one walk, which is essentially one walk every six appearances.
Miller has cemented his status as one of the game's dominant relief pitchers, and as he's owed $18 million ($9 per year) over the next two seasons, he's an incredible trade chip if the Yankees choose to move him.
Matt Harvey, Mets
The Dark Knight was once the hero that the Mets deserved. Now he's the one they don't need right now.
Harvey has struggled in 2016, albeit turning in a few decent starts in his last four. However, the Mets have pitched relatively well in spite of him, so maybe trading off Harvey for a bat would help them overall.
MORE: Should the Mets sign Jose Reyes?
While Harvey hasn't been walking a lot of batters, he has been getting hit. He's allowing 10 hits per nine innings, and given up 88 hits in 79.1 innings.
While it may sting the Mets to give up Harvey, it's a necessary evil. With the payroll limitations still questionable in Queens, the Mets may not have the money to sign Harvey when he's seeking a big deal in 2019. Giving up Harvey with two years of team control to another team that might give something big back might be an even deal for all parties involved.
Drew Pomeranz, Padres
Pomeranz, 27, is pitching to a 3.00 ERA, allowing just under a hit per nine innings and batters are hitting .195 against him this season. In 11 of his 14 starts this season, he's allowed five hits or less.
Thanks to a new-found curve ball, Pomeranz is pitching the best he ever has.
Chances are, they wouldn't move Pomeranz before the All-Star festivities as the hosts, but he could probably bring back a few young pieces for a team that's looking for a dependable third or fourth starter to make a run in October.
MORE: Padres have plenty to offer as deadline sellers
The big lefty is arbitration eligible after this season, so if he keeps this up, he'll certainly earn more than the $1.35 million he's getting this year.


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Promo Tech Growth in India
Remember the hot sensation, Pokémon Go, an app that utilized a player's smartphone camera to overlay images of fictional creatures on a user's phone screen, making it look like there are Pokémon in the surroundings! When Pokémon Go was released in the U.S., people's minds exploded. It was the most downloaded mobile gaming app of 2016, despite being released halfway through the year. By January of 2017, it had generated over a billion dollars in revenue for developer Niantic. At its peak, Pokémon Go had somewhere around 45 million daily active users and 27 million daily downloads. It was clearly the most visible success of augmented reality we had seen in the recent times. Technology like AR is changing the landscape of not only gaming, but also promo marketing. With digital India on the rise, this doesn't just apply to European or American markets… It's a change that's affecting the Indian Promo Marketing industry, it's a change in our conversations as an agency with brands. A very welcome and exciting change indeed!
The number of smartphone users in India is expected to double to 829 million by 2022 from 404.1 million in 2017, projects a new Cisco report. With 4G penetration increasing day by day, it is only a matter of time before every brand will resort to running tech-based promotions in order to cater to their target audiences' need for faster and more interactive offers.
Customized Mobile Games with Brand Integration
Starting with a technology trend that has picked up the most in recent years – branded mobile games. To quote a great example, MACH 3 razors was recently introduced via an association with Real Racing 3, a car racing mobile game. To create an engaging experience for the brand's TG, exclusive cars and courses were introduced in Real Racing 3, with Gillette MACH 3 branding. Players could download a limited-edition Gillette McLaren for races, and those who already owned a McLaren could get their existing car re-sprayed in the Gillette colour scheme for free. The brand also launched two Gillette in-game race challenges. This first ever-mobile in-game integration was a resounding success with a total of 5.1 million impressions.
With technology now reaching the masses, mobile games have proven to be an exciting avenue to engage customers. They can be run seamlessly on desktops, mobile phones and tablets, independently or within apps, in high quality. Moreover, the games don't have to be created from scratch, the brand can be integrated with an existing game or a readily available template. Basis the objective – the product to be promoted, the brand message, mascot or an existing association with a character can be integrated into a game that resonates with the target audience of the brand.
API-powered Sales Promotions
Literally feeding on the rage of Twitter users, the confectionery maker Snickers, teamed up with the Melbourne Institute of Technology to create the 'Hungerithm' algorithm; which tracked the mood of online commentators and changed the price of a Snickers accordingly. The Hungerithm was built on a 3,000-word lexicon and analysed around 14,000 social posts a day. It even understood slang and sarcasm; the brand claimed. Monitoring negative sentiments on Twitter, the website scanned 100,000 social posts a week and updated the price 144 times daily. The grumpier the internet became, the cheaper a Snickers was at any Australian 7/11 store. The cost could be slashed by as much as 80%.
Brands across the globe have implemented API-powered promos as a part of their marketing efforts to be relevant and to reach out to customers. API-powered Sales Promotions are based on an occurrence in the present and use it to create trends, which can be linked with rewards or incentives. These trends are created basis real-time events like a cricket match, election results or even the current weather. With every ball, every vote count and every change in temperature, actions can be triggered, and customers can be engaged. Assured rewards and other incentives can be linked to every triggered action, which in turn gratifies participating customers. This technology is versatile and can be used to power contests, sweepstakes and give away assured rewards.
Integrating Gamification
Coca-Cola is known to be at the forefront for developing creative and innovative product promotions. In Hong Kong, teenagers were offered a free, branded app for their phones. A television spot ran during evenings where fans were asked to run the app and shake their phones to win discounts and prizes from partners like McDonald's. This not only generated a massive customer-brand interaction offline but also a conversation online. The way gamification works is both online and offline; via SMS and app-based or microsite-based mechanisms. In reality, there are vast creative possibilities involved in marketing gamification.
Gamifying a promotion online can be achieved by creating various formats like the one mentioned above in order to get customers to perform desired action. Spin-the-wheel, slot machines and opening doors to find rewards, to name a few – are a few fun formats that can be used to achieve gamification. Integrating assured rewards on every spin or every move makes a redemption fun and indulgent.
Augmented Reality – based Sales Promotions
Like Pokémon Go, numerous brands have used AR to create a promotional offer. In simplest terms, AR takes an outside computer-generated image and overlays it in a user's current view. Heinz launched a 12-week augmented-reality app trial for its Tomato Ketchup brand wherein users could unlock a pop-out recipe booklet featuring Heinz Tomato Ketchup when the camera was placed over the product.
A company launching a new product that requires a demonstration to truly sell its advantages could give AR-enabled promotional products to prospective consumers. By scanning a promotional product with an AR app or camera, consumers can witness the interactive features and sophistication of these products with their smartphones or tablets.
Augmented Reality (AR) has seen a huge growth over the past few years and is increasingly adopted by marketers to create engaging experiential campaigns. Consumers are more and more open to augmenting their world with useful content, information and offers, while establishing deep emotional connections with brands. In fact, according to Statista, the number of mobile AR users in the world are predicted to reach 200 million by next year, which means we'll be experiencing a lot more AR in the near future.
There's so much more that marketers can do now by leveraging technology – the ecosystem is ready to support, and customers are ready to receive. Brands can now design a more powerful dialogue and drive home a desired message in a more memorable way. The four examples mentioned above, are only the tip of an iceberg. Today's consumers are all about instant gratification, so by tailoring a relevant real-time marketing campaign, AR-based promos or gamifying a simple sales promotion can go, a long way.
At BigCity, we use technology to add an interactive element to our promotions. We help to keep customers engaged through a variety of touch points and activations. This strategy enables our clients to stay more relevant in an ever-changing digital landscape. To talk to our experts email us at marketing@bigcity.in or call us on 080 4055 4844.


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Interesting facts surface in Balbir Singh Sr's biography in Punjabi
Interesting facts have come to light in a soon-to-be-released Punjabi biography of hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr with the writer claiming to have traced the nonagenarian's lineage to famous Sikh warrior Baba Bidhi Chand.
Published: May 27, 2015 3:16 PM IST
By Press Trust of India Email
File Photo: Balbir Singh Sr (2nd from left)
Chandigarh, May 27: Interesting facts have come to light in a soon-to-be-released Punjabi biography of hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr with the writer claiming to have traced the nonagenarian's lineage to famous Sikh warrior Baba Bidhi Chand. The biography of the 91-year-old iconic centre forward has been written in Punjabi by Toronto-based Principal Sarwan Singh and is likely to be released by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal soon.
According to Balbir Singh Sr's daughter, Sushbir Bhomia, the book is very well researched. Also Read - Sukhbir Badal Calls BJP Real 'Tukde-Tukde Gang', Says Govt Trying To Set Punjabi Hindus Against Sikhs
"An interesting fact which has come to light is that the writer has traced my father's lineage to famous Sikh warrior Baba Bidhi Chand ji, who served the sixth Sikh Guru Hargobind ji," she told PTI here. Baba Bidhi Chand was an excellent horse rider and even Balbir Sr has told his biographer, who has 37 books on different subjects to his credit, that horse riding came naturally to him. Also Read - Farmers Crisis: Worried Parkash Singh Badal Writes To PM Modi, Says Govt Could Have Dealt With Issue Better
"The writer mentions in the book that like Baba Bidhi Chand ji proved his mettle as a warrior, Balbir Sr showed that strength on the hockey ground," she said. Balbir Sr, who served Punjab Police force before finally retiring as Director of Punjab's Sports Department in 1982, won gold medals at the 1948 (London), 1952 (Helsinki) and 1956 (Melbourne) Olympics. Also Read - Parkash Singh Badal, Former Punjab Chief Minister, Returns Padma Vibhushan Award over Farmers' Protest
His 1952 record of most goals (five) in an Olympic final still stands and he also figures in the list of 16 iconic Olympians of all-time. The writer mentions that he started to write the book in 2013 when the hockey legend's namesake approached him with the Sr's photo telling him that it had been mistakenly posted at his Dosanjh village address in Jalandhar.
"An Indian fan of my father who lived in England had posted the photograph at the Dosanjh address (native village of Sr) as he wanted an autograph on the picture. However, the mail was mistakenly received by a namesake of my father who then approached the writer whom he knew. It was at that point in time that Principal Sarwan Singh started to write the biography though he told my dad that he had firmed up his mind to write about him much earlier," Sushbir said.
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Q: Communication between 2 apps on same device iOS/Android with Xamarin We currently are developping an app that is sort of "add-on" app for our main app to extends its possibilities.
We asked ourselves if there's simple inter-app communication on same device (nothing found on the internet for this...). Our first thought was to create a server socket on our add-on app, and send data from main app to it.
Here's C# code for server :
    public async Task Start()
    {
        Listener = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Parse(GetIP()), 7777);
        var client = Listener.AcceptTcpClient();
        while (true)
        {
            while (!client.GetStream().DataAvailable) ;
            using (NetworkStream stream = client.GetStream())
            {
                byte[] data = new byte[client.Available];
                stream.Read(data, 0, client.Available);
                if (data.Length > 0)
                {
                    String s = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data);
                    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(s))
                        OnMessageRecevied?.Invoke(s);

                }
            }
        }
    }

And for client :
    public async Task SendMessage(string msg)
    {
        tClient = new TcpClient();
        var buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(msg);
        while (!tClient.Connected)
        {
            tClient.Connect(IPAddress.Parse(Server.GetIP()), 7777);
            Thread.Sleep(100);
        }
        await tClient.GetStream().WriteAsync(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
        tClient.Close();
    }

It seems not working, cause we our main app takes focus, the add-on app seems like to stop listening.
Is this a generic way to communication between these two apps (always on same device) or will we have to develop separate solution ? if separate solutions, what's the best solution for iOS ? Android ? We used Xamarin for our add-on app, and we currently only target iOS and Android.
Note: because it's same device, we don't want to use distant webservice to communicate.

A: After many searches, it seems that the only "cross-platform" solution is Url Scheme.
For iOS : https://developer.xamarin.com/recipes/cross-platform/app-links/app-links-ios/
For Android : https://developer.xamarin.com/recipes/cross-platform/app-links/app-links-android/
It seems that Android can handle 1Mb of data to be passed in an intent, and iOS can handle as much as the system memory allow in URL. We will base64url encode data to pass it for iOS and add it as base64 in intent's extraString array for Android.
We will have to create an Android Activity and an iOS ViewController to handle the Url's calls, so this is platform specific, but the main intelligence can be shared between platforms.
By doing this, our add-on app will not need to be an extension of iOS' app, and can have its own interface and screens.

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Comic Creator Denis Gifford
Denis Gifford
(26 December 1927 - 18 May 2000, UK)
Denis Gifford was a versatile man who meant a lot to comics history. The first half of his career was spent being part of that history, the second half promoting and archiving it. He drew and wrote both superhero comics, humor comics, western comics and puzzle comics. Most were continuations of other artists' series, but some were his own creations. 'Mr. Muscle' (1945), 'Streamline' (1947) and 'Tiger-Man' (1949) popularized the superhero genre in Great Britain, while his puzzle comic 'Steadfast McStaunch' (1950-1952) challenged many little readers' brains. Later he became one of Britain's most foremost comics experts. He build up a colossal collection which was the largest in his country! Gifford published various books, articles and catalogues about the medium. The man also established several comics fanzines, conventions and the short-lived Ally Sloper Award. He laid the foundations for the Comics Creators Guild and Association of Enthusiasts. His efforts not only helped gaining comics more respectability, but also uncovered valuable information and saved it for future generations.
Early life and comics career
Denis Gifford was born in Forest Hill, London, on Boxing Day 1927. He made his first comic, 'The Ragtime', when he was still a kid. By the time he was fifteen he was spending his homework time drawing adventures of 'Pansy Potter' (a creation by Hugh McNeill) in The Beano magazine. After a brief spell as junior cartoonist on Reynold's News, he was called into the RAF, where he spent his duty weekends drawing a super-hero comic book, 'Streamline' (1947), for a Manchester publisher. Gifford is also credited with creating the superheroes 'Mr. Muscle' (1945), who appeared in Dynamic Comics, and 'Tiger-Man' (1949). While not the first British superheroes in history (that honour goes to Nat Brand's 'Derickson Dene' from 1939) Gifford can be credited with popularizing the genre in his native country.
After the war, Gifford set up a studio with future comedian Bob Monkhouse, with whom he also performed as a comedy act in the late 1940s. Gifford produced complete comics for many small publishers and joined Knockout magazine, where he took over the popular favorites 'Our Ernie' (created by Charles Holt, 1950) and 'Stonehenge Kit the Ancient Brit'. Gifford and Monkhouse also drew and edited Fizz Comics (1949) and Star Comics (1954), which featured celebrity comics about Morecambe and Wise, Jill Day, Monkhouse himself and movie character Tobor The Great. A comic he created himself was 'Steadfast McStaunch' (1950-1952), which was a mix of puzzles, optical illusions and dot-de-dots. Together with Mick Anglo he worked on 'Space Comics' (1953-1954) and he joined Anglo's studio soon afterwards. There he worked on their popular superhero 'Marvelman' and the gag comics 'Flip and Flop' and 'The Friendly Soul'. He also provided western comics such as 'Gunhawks Western' (1960-1961) and 'Our Lad' (1961), as well as the gag comic 'Dan Dan the TV Man'. He also did the daily satire strip 'Telestrip' in the London Evening News. Other comics he worked on were 'Simon the Simple Sleuth', 'William Wagtail' and 'Dicky Diddle'. For some reason, Denis Gifford was allowed to sign his work, when most of the other British and Scottish artists working for publisher DC Thompson remained anonymous to their readership.
'Steadfast McStaunch'.
Comics collecting and writing
However, Gifford is nowadays perhaps better known for his enthusiastic promotion of comics. He collected them since his youth, eventually amassing a collection which completely took over his house. Even his fridge and oven were used as a storage place! While Gifford also collected foreign comics he mostly concentrated on British comics. He took an interest in every genre, author, time period and even comic art in other media besides magazines, including merchandising. Soon his collection was the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom. It gave comics historians valuable insight in the history of the medium, especially Gifford himself who wrote several articles and over 50 books about the topic.
His 'The British Comics Catalogue, 1874-1974' (1974) was the first standard work on British comics history, followed by the price guides 'British Comics, Story Papers, Picture Libraries, Girls Papers, American Reprints, Facsimilies, Giveaways Price Guide' (1982) and 'Official Comic Book Price Guide for Great Britain' (1989). He also published titles focusing on newspaper comics ('Stap Me! History of the British Newspaper Strip' in 1971), 19th century comics and picture-stories ('Victorian Comics' in 1974), comics starring Charlie Chaplin ('The Comic Art of Charlie Chaplin' in 1989) and comics released during the 1940s and 1950s ('Comics at War' in 1987, 'Super Duper Supermen! Comic Book Heroes from the Forties and Fifties' in 1992 and 'Space Aces! Comic Book Heroes from the Forties and the Fifties' in 1992). Gifford furthermore released compilations of comics which originally appeared in magazines such as Eagle, Girl and Boy's Own, including the book 'Cartoon Aid' (1987), of which the profits went to a good cause.
Fan conventions
Gifford shared his passion with others. As early as the 1950s he published fanzines about comics and by the 1970s he organized several comic conventions. In 1976 he created Comics 101, a convention which focused specifically on comic artists of his own country. The same year Gifford also launched the Ally Sloper Awards, an annual prize for British comics artists. It was named after Charles H. Ross and Émilie de Tessier's iconic 19th century comic character Ally Sloper, which is widely considered to be the birth point of British comics. He even tried to revive the historic Ally Sloper Magazine, but 1976 audiences didn't have particular interest for it and it folded after only four issues. The Ally Sloper Awards also sizzled out in 1982. Gifford co-founded the Society of Strip Illustration (1977), later renamed as The Comic Creators Guild, an organisation for comics writers and artists. A year later a similar organisation, but for fans, was established: The Association of Enthusiasts (1978). This society had its own newsletter, Comic Cuts, and fanzine, The Illustrated Comics Journal.
Comics promotion
Gifford felt frustrated that comics had gained social acceptance and academic interest in the United States and Continental Europe, but were still regarded as throwaway pulp in his homeland. Thus he made it a personal quest to warm the British population up to it. He frequently talked about comics on the consumer TV show 'On The Braden Beat' (1962-1967). Together with Bob Monkhouse he hosted the BBC radio shows 'Sixpence for a Superman' (1999) and 'A Hundred Laughs for a Ha'penny' (1999), which chronicled the history of comics. Whenever a notable comics creator died, Gifford was usually invited by the press as an expert spokesman or to write down the obituary.
Film publications
Apart from comics Gifford also had an interest in film. He personally made comprehensive catalogues of every British film ever made, such as 'The British Film Catalogue, 1895-1970: A Reference Guide' (1970) and one specifically about animated films: 'British Animated Films, 1895-1985: A Filmography' (1985). Other genres that were dear to his heart were comedy, science fiction, fantasy and horror. He wrote several books and articles about people such as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, the Goons and Boris Karloff. Gifford also directed a handful advertising and public information films.
While Gifford's passion and efforts did a lot to map the British comics production from its earliest beginnings until the present time he was not without controversy. He had a tendency to see his own country as the birthplace of comics, despite the fact that other countries had similar or more ancient comics traditions. Gifford cited William Hogarth as the earliest prototypical comics artist, Thomas Rowlandson's 'Dr. Syntax' (1809) as the first comic strip about a recurring hero and named Thomas Hopkirk and John Watson's 'The Glasgow Looking Glass' (1825) the first comics magazine in Europe, "perhaps in the world", which featured early comics by William Heath. To him 'Ally Sloper' (1867) by Charles H. Ross and Émilie de Tessier was the first comic strip in history, ignoring the much older work by Swiss artist Rodolphe Töpffer and German artist Wilhelm Busch, among others. Gifford's stubbornly kept citing 'Ally Sloper' as the first comic character ever. Even when he visited the Lucca Comics Festival in 1989 and was invited to put his name under an official declaration which hailed Richard F. Outcault's 'The Yellow Kid' (1895) as the debut of modern comics Gifford did so, but signed it as "Ally Sloper". In the same way he advocated The Dandy (1937) as the first comics magazine in history, despite the existence of the much older Italian magazines Corriere dei Piccoli (1908), Il Giornalino (1924) and the American publication Detective Comics (1937).
Another controversial matter was his stance against adult comics. Gifford initially didn't like the rise of the rise of underground comix, which he felt was harmful to minors. When a media frenzy brook out over Tom Tully, Barrie Mitchell and Tony Harding's comic strip 'Look Out for Lefty' (1976) in Action, because it supposedly encouraged football hooliganism, Gifford jumped on the bandwagon too. He expressed his outrage over these kind of violent and erotic comics, never seeming to understand that they weren't geared at children in the first place.
Still, his research and dedication have been of invaluable importance for comics fans and historians, despite the fact that he didn't keep a catalogue of his own archive. This made it difficult for auctioneers to get an overview of his private collection after Gifford passed away on 18 May 2000. Even this Comiclopedia owes a lot to the outstanding work of Denis Gifford.
Entry rewritten by Kjell Knudde
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Succotash Salad is the perfect healthy Summer salad loaded with fresh corn, beans, tomatoes and lightly seasoned with lemon juice, basil and feta cheese. A must for any barbecue or family gathering!
Fresh, light and absolutely delicious doesn't come close to describing how good this succotash salad is. If you can get your hands on some sweet corn? Oh ya! That is the winner!
I owe this recipe to my mother who is visiting with us from NC for 10 days. She made it while I was down there recently and it was such a hit that it was one of the first things I requested her make. And then I, of course, get to share it with you. I love having little recipe helpers who contribute on To Simply Inspire!
It is super simple to whip up too. Besides quickly sautéing the onion, all you have to do is combine the ingredients and it's ready to go.
This Succotash Salad is the perfect fresh addition to any summer get-together. It pairs wonderfully with a little grilled chicken, potato salad and fruit salad.
I have to share something funny. My husband has recently become very interested in photography. He bought his own camera and has been studying and learning a ton. He has been mostly taking nature shots and they are actually really great. Well, guess who wanted to get in on taking some pics of my recipes when he saw me getting ready to take these shots? I think he did a great job so I am letting him have the spotlight today. He took this featured picture!
In a medium saucepan, heat oil or butter over medium heat.
Add the chopped onion and saute for about 5 minutes until translucent.
Transfer to a large serving bowl and add the tomatoes, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Sprinkle the basil and feta cheese on top.
Nutritional information includes edamame beans only.
How wonderful to have your own photographer (I'm jealous!!) and he did a great job. Congrats, you and your delicious recipe are featured this week at the This Is How We Roll Link Party.
LOL! I could grow used to quickly! 🙂 Thank you so much for the feature. Hope you are doing great!
Your Succotash Salad looks delicious! Thanks so much for sharing your post with us at Full Plate Thursday. Have a great weekend and come back to see us real soon!
Family recipes are the best and I love your Succotash Salad. Thank you so much for sharing, and for being a part of Hearth and Soul, Sherri.
Wow!That's a great one and loved the colours.Thanks for sharing!
I love succotash salad, but I have never tried using coconut oil to saute the onion. Sounds fun!


ClassCastException occurs when an equals comparison query is executed on an entity with an @EmbeddedId that contains more than one field.
If we execute a corresponding 'em.find' of Subject, this exception doesn't occur. Furthermore, if you execute the same query for an entity with an @EmbeddedId that only contains one field, all will work as expected. The issue here is with an equals query where the entity contains an @EmbeddableId with more than two fields.
While investigating/debugging this issue, I've found further issues when creating the query using CriteriaBuilder; both with an @Embeddable and @IdClass composite PKs. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to view the attached test case to see how each issue can occur. Each test method details what issue it recreated before the fixes to this issue. I'm also attaching a patch with a proposed fix for the issues.


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Years before CRISPR babies, this man was the first to edit human embryos
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12. 11. 2018
Born This Week: Dolly the Sheep
The Russian Threat to Perform Human Germline Editing
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612554/years-before-crispr-babies-this-man-w…
It could have been anyone. It was so easy. But it was him. Junjiu Huang.
In 2015, Huang, a stem-cell researcher at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, first reported using the gene-editing tool CRISPR on human embryos. His paper was rejected by top Western journals on the grounds that it didn't follow ethics rules and presented scant science, but that April it found its way into print in an obscure English-language publication in Beijing.
The result was, in Chinese, xuān rán dà bō (轩然大波), or "towering waves"—a sensational controversy.
Huang had only carried out a lab experiment, in which he'd tried to fix a gene error that causes a blood disease. His test subjects were abnormal IVF embryos, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence, and they were soon destroyed. No attempt was made to create a child.
Still, Huang had broken a taboo: altering the DNA of so-called germline cells, those that affect heredity. The implication was clear. Genetically edited people could one day be born. And those changes would be passed on to...


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Turning back the clock to 2014 ...
UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION
I noticed that yesterday, someone named Mike Hunt started a new thread about me on the Garry Stevens' Forum. That was just after I re-posted a comment by Scottg, and then followed it up with a new commentary by me.
My own blog was about how organized opposition began, during the middle of last year, to anyone who began to reveal the true story behind the creation in 1964 of Radio Caroline. That organized opposition, and it was definitely coordinated opposition, began over on the Garry Stevens' Forum.
In his opening post yesterday, Mike Hunt asked about me: "Any former connection with radio, I wonder?" I don't know who Mike Hunt is, or why he wants to know, but here is my response to his question:
I was born in Denton, Texas, which is slightly northwest of the Fort Worth and Dallas Metroplex, and I have an uncle who is in the antiques business which is to northeast of Denton. Indirectly that is how and where my interest began in the subject of offshore radio broadcasting, which actually occurred, in conjunction with my interests in journalism.
My uncle (Tom), knew one of the members of 'The Trio', and at one time that person also lived in Texas but now lives in a neighboring State to Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia is like a mini pseudo State. However, I don't want to identify that northern State right now, because I don't want to cause a diversion that leads to the harassment of that individual. In case you are wondering, no, it's not the person that a lot of people on the Garry Stevens' Forum are in the habit of bad-mouthing, and yes, there really is a core trio.
Back to my uncle in the Lone Star State. If you go over to Google Earth, you will find a little place called Scotland in Northern Texas.
In Texas, everything that is incorporated as a community, is called a city and Scotland is no exception. Scotland, Texas even has its own U.S. Post Office (shown above), and it where my uncle gets his local mail!
But then there is also a Paris, Texas and a Corsicana, Texas; a Midlothian, Texas and a Venus, Texas. There is even a Edinburg, Texas that was originally known by another name but in 1919 it was renamed after a shooting. So the locals called in Edinburg (minus the 'h'), in honor of a prominent local businessman named Young was was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Edinburg, Texas is almost on the southern border of Texas with Mexico, while Scotland, Texas is more in line with the northern border of Texas and the State of Oklahoma. (You can put about three islands of Great Britain into the geography of Texas if you measure in kilometers.)
Anyway, Scotland, Texas (north of Dallas), is connected by U.S. Route 281 that almost divides the USA into two halves: west and east. That highway (its not a freeway which you call a motorway), but it goes all the way from the Texas border with Mexico in the south, to U.S.A border with Canada in the north.
If you know anything about the subject of offshore radio broadcasting and its inter-connectivity with the State of Texas, then you know that Wichita Falls, Texas played a very big part in the creation of Radio London; Radio England and Britain Radio. If you were driving north from Scotland, Texas on U.S. 281, you would be heading towards Wichita Falls, Texas (not to be confused with the City of Wichita in the State of Kansas.)
Texas is full of very small and obscure places like Vernon (populaton 11,000) and Wink (population 940). Vernon is northwest of Wichita Falls close to the Oklahoma border, and it is where Roy Orbison was born, although he grew up in Wink which is diagonally southwest of Dallas and part of a huge area geographically described by the 'Big O' as the land of "oil fields, oil, grease and sand".
If you drew a horizontal line with a shaky hand from Wink, you would come to Corsicana, Texas which is famous for 'heavy-duty' Christmas fruit cakes which it mails all over the world. Midway along that same line providing your hand created a little upper 'bump' you would locate Abilene where Don Pierson was Chairman of its bank.
Then, if you drew another line going northwest from Corsicana to Fort Worth, well midway you would come to Midlothian, which became the location for a cement manufacturing plant, but its local newspaper editor William Penn Jones put it on the map of infamy for promoting one of the earliest conspiracy theories about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. That took place less that thirty miles away to the northeast in Dallas.
It was Penn Jones who, shortly after the assassination, began to raise questions about the location of Lee Harvey Oswald during the time of Kennedy's murder. But another person with a strange name and an interesting pedigree named Jones Harris, also showed up within days of the killing and he began asking more questions about the location of Lee Harvey Oswald during that event.
In fact, the assassination John F. Kennedy took place in the middle of events leading up to the creation of Radio Caroline which had very strong ties to Dallas, Texas. But few people who want to know about the real history of Radio Caroline seem to understand that its advent did not take place in a political vacuum.
 A lot of people in England are really surprised to learn that Lee Harvey Oswald had shown up at Southampton, just before the British offshore story began to emerge.
Central to this timeline about offshore radio, and especially the creation of Radio Caroline, there was a ship which had been known as Bon Jour renamed Magda Maria. Managing that ship from a hotel in London during 1962, was Charles W. (Bill) Weaver from Texas. He was Gordon McLendon's representative, and he had been sent to shut down Radio Nord which had been anchored off the coast of Sweden in the Baltic Sea. The ship was then moved to the North Sea and it dropped anchor off Brightlingsea, Essex.
Then, just as the Cuban Missile Crisis began in late 1962, Weaver was told to bring the ship to Galveston Island, Texas, as part of a 1963 top secret mission headed by U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The ship then gained a further name change when it became Mi Amigo.
In the closing hours of 1963, the Mi Amigo left Galveston, Texas to begin a voyage that would eventually return it to the North Sea. It dropped anchor at almost the same location that it had occupied in 1962, but in !964 it again became a radio broadcasting ship, first as home to Allan Crawford's Radio Atlanta, and then as Radio Caroline South.
Jones Harris later teamed up with Bill Weaver to write a very controversial book about Radio Nord and the assassination of President Kennedy. In some ways the Weaver book is similar to the first book by Ian Cowper Ross, because both books attempt to obfuscate the real story about Radio Caroline.
Now, you may be asking: How does this tangled mess relate to Caroline Brooks?
What is it that 'The Trio' have uncovered that is so dangerous to so many people that they do not want it to be reported?
Well, I began today's blog by turning the clock back to 2014, because in that year 'The Trio' were ready to go ahead with a new book called 'YesterAir: the origins of American and British broadcasting'. Then they ran into a roadblock. Fortunately for me it will be very difficult for my critics to dispute the following details, because they have been available Online since at least 2015, and you can still access them at Jon Myer's 'Pirate Radio Hall of Fame' by going to this link:
http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/hist03a.htm
Read down to the end of the 'Introduction' in the first paragraph.
There is an asterisk that I have colored red, and it links to this footnote below it:
"*This new title, which will be available through The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame, is scheduled for publication during 2015 and it incorporates both new sections and updated comparative monographs which have been previously published by their authors: Eric Gilder and Mervyn Hagger, who are also responsible for the content recital on this page."
Originally 'YesterAir' was to have been published in late 2015, but then the mystery that prevented this from happening began to drag on and on and on.
It was not as though 'The Trio' were not searching for the answer. They were, and they were aided by a co-ventured sponsorship of that research by one of the most, if not the premier Offshore Radio publication that is known for its honesty in reporting.
Clearly my blog for today is going to have to be continued tomorrow because there are too many details that I want to share. The importance of that information is also the reason why I am reviewing Paul Rusling's book and exposing the fraud that it is trying to perpetuate.
My reason for interrupting my own page-by-page review of his book, is because you have not read this information before, unless you received the now defunct 'Caroline Investigation' newsletter. The reason why 'YesterAir' has not been published until now, is because of the roadblocks that were placed in the way of the investigation.
I will reveal that process of censorship tomorrow.
Tomorrow I will also begin to explain how those roadblocks and Rusling's theft, came together in an 'explosion' of yelling and name calling that took place last year on the Garry Stevens' Forum, and its co-Forum that Stevens called "The Joke Board".


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A Franciscan tenor has signed a major recording contract after music executives heard him sing in his native Italy. Br Alessandro Brustenghi will now showcase his voice to millions after signing an album deal.
The 34-year-old friar, who boarded an aeroplane for the first time to travel to Abbey Road Studios, London, will donate all proceeds from record sales to the Franciscan Order for its charitable work. He has been signed to Decca Records, part of Universal Music. Executives from 25 different countries flew to London to see his first performance at the 2012 International Decca Conference in Westminster.
It was be Br Alessandro's first performance outside Italy, although he already features in his own YouTube video. The friar, who has been singing all his life, usually works as a carpenter, making and restoring furniture. He also welcomes visitors to Assisi as part of his work at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli.
He grew up listening to Michael Jackson and Bach, loves electronic music, and cites Bjork as his latest musical interest. His first album, made up of a mixture of traditional and modern sacred songs, will be released in October. It includes an original track by Royal Wedding composer Paul Mealor, set to a prayer written by St Francis of Assisi, and will be made at Abbey Road by Mike Hedges.
Friar Alessandro said: "I'm a bit nervous but I understand this is necessary as it is a good opportunity to unleash this beautiful music to everybody. I feel excited, very excited because it's it is an expression of my vocation. Music for me is a direct line with God. It's the way to communicate with him, and it's the way God uses to communicate with us. It's the way to spread the Gospel, to everybody, to the world. The story of St Francis of Assisi is very similar to mine. Francis was a humble man, and he decided to spread the Gospel with music, dance and joy."
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Chime Communications confirmed yesterday evening [Friday last] that long-term shareholder WPP has continued its recent buying of shares so that it now holds over 20% of Lord Bell's group. By exceeding the 20% threshold, WPP is now entitled to increase its board representation at Chime from one to two nominees. Share buying activity by WPP was first reported by the industry research publication Marketing Services Financial Intelligence last December, noting that WPP's holding had risen above the historic level of 15%. According to Marketing Services Financial Intelligence, the buying was attributed by Chime insiders to an attempt to restore WPP's stake after it had been diluted by various share issues to vendors of companies Chime had acquired. "However, that explanation began to lack credibility as the share buying has continued", commented editor Bob Willott. WPP is not under any obligation to make an outright bid for Chime unless its shareholding passes the 30% mark. Willott thinks that WPP's share buying may have been influenced by the attempt being made by the two senior Chime board members Lord Bell and Piers Pottinger to buy out some of the group's public relations business.
No kidding. As is well known, WPP is by far the largest stakeholder in Chime – and its boss, Sir Martin Sorrell, has been an outspoken critic of the Bell buyout.
Question: Does the inception of the Bell/Pottinger buyout plan predate or postdate knowledge of WPP's share-buying activity?


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Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, June 11, 2014
By AVA News Service on June 11, 2014
Teacher Tenure
Hwy 128 Closed
Domestic Altercation
Police Calls
Culture of Violence
Overcrowding Release
Prison Problems
Noise Meeting Report
Video Bust
Explosives near School
Asking for More
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JUDGE ROLF TREU of the Los Angeles Superior Court has thrown out California's teacher tenure laws. The judge's ruling Tuesday in Vergara v. California said the tenure laws were unconstitutional and that both students and teachers were being cheated.
THE PLAINTIFFS alleged that firing incompetent teachers can take "two to almost 10 years and cost $50,000 to $450,000 or more." The judge estimated the number of "grossly ineffective teachers" in California at "2,750 to 8,250."
THE SUIT was filed against the state on behalf of nine students in May, 2012 by Students Matter, a nonprofit founded by David Welch, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. The state's teachers unions quickly jumped in as co-defendants, and on Tuesday they vowed to appeal, dismissing the ruling as just the beginning of a long legal battle.
AN ON-LINE comment re the tenure ruling: "I always laugh when teachers claim to be underpaid and overworked. My parents were both public school teachers, they worked around 1500 hours a year most years, is my guess. My mother won all sorts of teaching awards, and my father was routinely rated by students as the best teacher in the school — he later became a principal. They taught in another state, and were paid far, far less than CA teachers. We weren't rich, but they were paid fairly per hour they actually worked — we'd spend the whole summer off camping while the non teachers still had to work. When you look at teacher pay, you have to factor in that it's a 6 or 7 hour day by contract and that includes breaks and lunch and grading time; you don't work 15 or so holidays; you don't work for 2-5 weeks of vacation or summer; you get very good and valuable medical and retirement benefits; it's around 200 or so work days a year, and you work in a fulfilling job. The reason you cant get people to go into teaching now is not due to pay, its due to the fact that there is no security from being laid off as first in first out — even if you are a great teacher. The pay per hour required to be worked is actually decent. Tenure is not why people become teachers.
HIGHWAY 128 was closed from about 8am Tuesday morning until almost 2pm because power lines, downed by the sudden fall of a large tree, had covered the roadbed near the Southard Ranch east of Yorkville. Through traffic was re-routed through Ukiah.
CATCH OF THE DAY, TUESDAY, JUNE 10TH
Vargas, Vega, Azbill, Norton, Ruiz, Nieto
LUIS VARGAS, Ukiah. Driving on a suspended license, revocation of probation.
MARIA VEGA, Ukiah. Domestic violence.
BRITTON AZBILL, Covelo. Domestic violence, witness intimidation, revocation of probation.
JAMES NORTON, Willits. Drug paraphenalia.
ROLAND RANDLY RUIZ, Ukiah. The euphonious Mr. Ruiz, was arrested on meth-related charges.
RAMON NIETO, Willits. Drunk in public.
On 05-30-2014 at approximately 3:55 PM, Mendocino County Sheriff Deputies were dispatched to a domestic related altercation that occurred at a residence within the 38000 block of Old Stage Road in Gualala, California.
Salgado-Coria
Upon arrival, Deputies contacted the female victim and learned that she had been involved in a verbal argument with her cohabitating partner Salvador Salgado-Coria.
The argument escalated into Salgado-Coria striking the victim several times about the face and head, while the victim was attempting to leave the location. Deputies observed that the victim had visible injuries to her face and head consistent with that of a physical assault.
Deputies then made contact with Salgado-Coria who had visible injury to his hand. Based on their investigation, Deputies arrested Salgado-Coria for the listed charge.
Salgado-Coria was transported to the Mendocino County Jail where he was to be held in lieu of $25,000.00 bail.
POLICE CALLS AS OF WEDNESDAY MORNING
MAN SPEEDING THROUGH TRAILER PARK -- Caller at the Manor Oaks mobile home park reported at 10:24 a.m. Friday that an unshaven, heavyset man driving a two-door, black car was speeding through the park. An officer checked the area but he was gone.
DRUNKEN MAN IN FRONT OF DOOR -- Caller in the 200 block of West Mill Street reported at 1:34 p.m. Friday that a man lying in front of the store's door said he needed an ambulance. An officer responded and arrested a 26-year-old Ukiah man for being drunk in public.
DOG IN CAR -- Caller in the 900 block of South Oak Street reported at 1:46 p.m. Friday that a dog was locked in a blue car. An officer checked the area but did not find it.
TOOLS STOLEN -- Caller in the 1100 block of Mulberry Street reported at 3:14 p.m. Friday that a trailer had been broken into and tools stolen.
FAMILY REFUSING TO LEAVE -- Caller in the 1200 block of Carrigan Lane reported at 8:52 p.m. Friday that a family member was on a couch and refusing to leave. Before an officer responded, the caller reported that the person had left.
BIKE STOP -- An officer stopped a bicyclist in the 700 block of South State Street at 1:05 a.m. Saturday and arrested Randall L. Gensaw, 41, of Ukiah, on suspicion of receiving stolen property, possession of a controlled substance and being under the influence of a controlled substance. He was booked into Mendocino County Jail.
CAR KEYED -- Caller in the 200 block of East Clay Street reported at 5:57 a.m. Saturday that his car was keyed. An officer took a report.
BICYCLE TIRES SLASHED -- Caller in the 1300 block of South State Street reported at 11:58 a.m. Saturday that the tires on a bicycle had been slashed.
DOG IN CAR -- Caller in the 500 block of East Perkins Street reported at 2:33 p.m. Saturday that a dog had been in a yellow VW for the past hour. An officer responded and determined that the dog was fine.
VEHICLE PROWL -- Caller in the 100 block of East Standley Street reported at 3:41 p.m. Saturday that a vehicle had been burglarized. An officer responded and took a report.
ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN -- Caller in the 1300 block of Beacon Way reported at 4:46 p.m. Saturday that someone attempted to burglarize a home. An officer responded and took a report.
DEATH -- An officer responded to the 500 block of Capps Lane at 6:05 p.m. Saturday and took a report for a death.
A RECENT HEADLINE in the Onion nicely sums up the latest school shooting, this one in Oregon on Tuesday morning: "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens."
ACCORDING to a press release from the Eureka Police Department posted on the essential Lost Coast Outpost website, the Humboldt County Jail is so crowded two guys arrested this week with 2.2 pounds of methamphetamine and $35,000 cash were booked and immediately released. "Both Blake and Yanez-Espana were transported and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for Possession of Methamphetamine for Sales. Both subjects were released due to overcrowding."
THE 2014 MENDOCINO COUNTY GRAND JURY says, "A plan to cut state prison population by sending more convicts to local jails has increased the inmate population at the Mendocino County Jail in Ukiah, which also caused an uptick in violence at the jail."
GJ REPORT, titled "The Impact of the Public Safety Realignment Act on Mendocino County," released Monday, recommends that the County fund an expansion at the jail to accommodate all the bad boys, ordinarily packed off to the state pen, who now do their time out on Low Gap Road, Ukiah.
'COUNTY JAIL STAFF is no longer able to separate the unsentenced prisoners, who are awaiting sentencing from the Superior Court, from the sentenced prisoners due to a lack of available space," the grand jury report maintains. "An additional difficulty is separating the different classes of prisoners: e.g., gang members from maximum security inmates. As a result there are more violent incidents occurring at the County Jail."
REALIGNMENT raised the number of inmates at the county jail from 206 to 270 by the end of June 2013, according to the grand jury report. The state's goal, according to the Jury, is to reduce the state prison population from 158 percent of capacity to 137 percent of capacity by February 2016. If the goal isn't reached, the state will issue paroles.
THE REALIGNMENT ACT was passed as a response to a lawsuit filed with the Federal District Court on prison overcrowding. State parole violators are no longer automatically returned to state prison. They appear in Mendocino County Superior Court for a hearing and can instead be sent to the County Jail.
THE GRAND JURY found that the County Jail staff "is meeting the basic needs of the inmates with the available budget and realignment funds."
FROST MONSTER MEETING REPORT
With the guidance of Tom, this meeting focused on a mapping project. He wants to produce a map of the valley showing all the parcel numbers and the frost machines. This will cost about $100 dollars and those attending put in money to cover the cost. This map will help folks fill out the Complaint forms, and would be useful at Board of Supervisor meetings, etc. I received a reply to my complaint form asking for the parcel number or physical address of the vineyard and also specific dates and times of the alleged nuisances. My case is "pending." The AVA reported receiving the same. Of course it's difficult to determine the address of the nuisances, so in a way we are getting a runaround. Also, no one has seemed to have recorded the dates of the offenses. I have a call into Ryan Pelleriti, the Code Enforcement Officer who sent the reply (234-6669 if any of you want to talk to him). I think what we need here is a blanket statement from them, not picking and choosing each case. I am hoping that is what a slurry of complaint forms will work towards. I will urge him to arrange a date to come to the valley and ask the vineyards to turn on their machines (during the day!) so that he can measure the decibels. Tom and Taunia produced a rough draft of an interview for residents asking them about if they have heard the noise and what kinds of ways they want to participate. This, unfortunately did not get discussed at this meeting. Vicki has produced a rough draft of a flier to hang in the valley in order to inform folks and get them involved. We will look at that together at the next meeting. Greg is working on re-wording the petition. There was some discussion if we would have to regather signatures that are on the original petition, and we decided no, we would just turn them in together and the point would be made. Greg and Lynn want the petition to focus on nocturnal noise and not the machines themselves. An excellent change as many are reporting complaints of late-night tractor noise as well. Lynn offered to take the petition and the complaint forms door-to-door in her neighborhood. Dan Hamburg was absent from the meeting and has not checked in with anyone. Last meeting he said he was going to check in to the noise element of the general plan that states that noise won't be tolerated if it goes more than 300 feet from a property. Lynn reported that Arnoud Roderer/Scharffenburger/etc. has dismantled one of several fans -- the one facing their home directly. I agreed to put an article in the AVA about the health affects of sleep deprivation. Hope this update helps. If I missed anything, let me know.
— Wendy Read
ON JUNE 2, 2014 at 9am Deputies from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office were detailed to residences off of Oklahoma Lane in Fort Bragg, California regarding a possible trespasser. Deputies received a physical and unique clothing description of the suspect while responding to the location.
Furline
Upon arrival Deputies contacted a subject as described and the subject was identified as being Cody Furline, 23, of Fort Bragg. Furline denied trespassing onto properties in the neighborhood. While at the location Deputies received surveillance footage from a home owner which had captured Furline entering onto properties and making entry into a building. The footage also showed Furline looking into vehicles, a travel trailer and a residence. Upon reviewing the footage Deputies determined Furline was casing the location to commit a burglary. Furline was arrested and booked into the Mendocino County Jail on charges of burglary and was to be held on $30,000 bail.
(The Ukiah Daily Journal - Sunday, June 26, 1988 — Page A-3)
Bosco Won't Sue Bruce
By Randy Foster, Ukiah Daily Journal
Congressman Doug Bosco said Friday he won't sue Boonville newspaperman Bruce Anderson for publishing a fictitious, inflammatory interview between Bosco and a Des Moines Register political reporter earlier this year. "Anderson is digging his own grave faster than I could," Bosco said Friday at the Mendocino County Farm Bureau banquet. "The Des Moines Register was angrier about it than I was. Of course my staff was furious — we received thousands of calls after than story was published." The story, which was published without disclaimers by Anderson in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, purported to be a transcript of an interview between Bosco and a reporter named David Yesson with the Register. Although the Register has no Yesson on staff, it does have a political reporter named David Yepson. In the fake story, Bosco purportedly made disparaging remarks about his liberal Mendocino County constituents. The story set off a furor hours after hitting the streets. Anderson first insisted the story was genuine, but later admitted it was a hoax and called the story "satire." Bosco, D-Occidental, just recently was reelected by a wide margin. A long-time bachelor, he plans to marry Sonoma County Municipal Court Judge Gayle Guynup on July 2. The two have dated for six years. "She said if I didn't marry her I'd go to jail," Bosco quipped.
ON JUNE 4, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mendocino County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) Detectives executed a search warrant at an apartment in the 2000 block of South Dora Street in Ukiah, California. During the search of the apartment, Detectives located a loaded Glock 9mm pistol that had been previously reported stolen in a burglary of a Potter Valley residence. Detectives also located several electric blasting caps, commonly used to detonate commercial grade explosives, inside the apartment. As a precaution, the neighboring apartments were evacuated. Residents of apartments on the same block were asked to shelter in place. Grace Hudson Elementary School was notified of the potential danger and advised to keep all children inside their classrooms. The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office was contacted and a Deputy trained in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) was dispatched to the scene.
The tenant of the apartment, Eric France, 45, of Ukiah, was not present during the service of the search warrant. A be-on-the-look-out (BOLO) was sent to all local law enforcement agencies. The BOLO directed law enforcement to arrest France, a convicted felon, if located. At approximately 6:00 PM, Deputies with the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office located France in the 100 block of Laws Avenue and took him into custody without incident. France was booked into the Mendocino County Jail on charges of felon in possession of a firearm, possession of an explosive device near school grounds, felon in possession of ammunition, and possession of stolen property where he was to be held in lieu of $175,000 bail. (Sheriff's Press Release)
'I WANT SOME MORE'
The room in which the boys were fed, was a large stone hall, with a brick-lined kettle — a "copper" — at one end, out of which the master, dressed in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at meal times. Of this festive composition each boy had one porringer, and no more — except on occasions of great rejoicing, when he had two ounces and a quarter of bread beside. The bowls never wanted washing. The boys polished them with the spoons till they shone again; and when they had performed this operation (which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as long as the bowls) they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes, as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed; employing themselves, meanwhile, in sucking their fingers most assiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon.
Boys have generally excellent appetites. Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months; at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cook-shop) hinted darkly to his companions that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next to him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age. He had a wild, hungry eye; and they believed him implicitly. A council was held; lots were cast for who should walk up to the master after supper that evening, and ask for more — and it fell to Oliver Twist.
This evening arrived; the boys took their places. The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants arranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered to each other, and winked at Oliver; while his next neighbors nudged him. Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger himself, and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said, somewhat alarmed with his temerity, "Please, sir, I want some more."
The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale. He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper. The assistants were paralyzed with wonder; the boys with fear.
'What?" said the master at length in a faint voice.
'Please, sir," replied Oliver, "I want some more."
The master aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the supervising beadle.
The board were sitting in solemn conclave, when Mr. Bumble rushed into the room in great excitement, and, addressing the gentleman in the high chair, said, "Mr. Limbkins, I beg your pardon, sir! Oliver Twist here has asked for more!"
There was a general start. Horror was depicted on every countenance.
'For more?" said Mr. Limbkins.
'Compose yourself, Bumble, and answer me distinctly. Do I understand that he asked for more? After he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary?"
'He did, sir," replied Bumble.
'That boy will be hung," said the gentleman in the white waistcoat. "I know that boy will be hung."
Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman's opinion. An animated discussion took place. Oliver was ordered into instant confinement; and a bill was next morning posted on the outside of the gate, offering a reward of five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist off the hands of the parish. In other words, five pounds and Oliver Twist would be offered to any man or woman who wanted an apprentice to any trade, business, or calling.
'I never was more convinced of anything in my life," said the gentleman in the white waistcoat, as he knocked at the gate and read the bill the next morning. "I never was more convinced of anything in my life than I am that that boy will come to be hung."
by Scott Soriano
The sun exposed itself through my window, shooting its rays onto my bowl of Rice Krispies. I opened the morning paper to the editorial section in order to read the rants of the lunatic fringe. UFOs, 911, the Federal Reserve as a Masonic conspiracy, sex, drugs, it's all in there. As I read a letter on water fluoridation as a communist plot and wonder if we've left the 1950s, I heard a small voice coming from the vicinity of the cereal box.
'Quick. We have to move before the dude sees we're gone."
'Shhh. Quiet, asshole. He'll hear us."
I picked up the box and noticed two small cartoonish men carrying a third. Judging from the limpness of his body, the third man is apparently unconscious. All three were clothed in knickers, striped shirts and funky chef-hats like they were ready for a rave or a Mott the Hoople revival. The two carrying the body saw me and stopped. All three of us sported slack jaws and played dumb.
'You asshole!" one of the little guys yelled, breaking the silence. "If you'd kept your fucking trap shut we'd have gotten away scott-free."
'Hey, I'm not the one with the short temper. We wouldn't be in this mess if it wasn't for your blow up."
'Blame me, blame me! Bullshit! You wanted him dead, too. You just didn't have the guts to do it! Chickenshit!"
'So what if I'm chicken? You drug my ass into this and now I'm gonna have to pay, too."
I finally shook off my shock and addressed the two imps. "Hey! You guys are alive!"
'Duh! Quick thinking, Einstein," one of them heckled. "You sure have a big head for a little brain."
'Shut up, Pop!" the other one squabbled. "We're in enough trouble as it is."
'Trouble? Right. You think this dipshit," Pop said pointing to me, "is smart enough to call the cops? Ha! You saw how long it took him to figure out we're alive."
'Wait a minute," I interjected. "I'm not stupid. It's just that you guys aren't supposed to be real."
'Aren't supposed to be real? Sheesh! What do you think those things you see on TV are? Illusions?"
'Well, I mean... I don't... I thought... But, I guess not."
'Good thinking, smart guy."
'Pop, Pop. Shut up man," the second imp said.
'You shut up, Snap, or I'll kill you too!"
'I'd like to see you try," challenged Snap dropping the legs of what I guessed to be Krackle.
Letting go of Krackle's torso, Pop yelled, "You want a piece of me, Snap? You want some action? Come on! I'll give you some action!"
'Guys, guys," I interrupted. "Calm down. This isn't cool.
The imps steamed in silence.
'So are you going to tell me what's going on?
'Krackle spouted off at Pop," Snap said.
'So I killed him," Pop finished. "The fucker had a big mouth and I got sick of him. Just blah-blah blah-blah all the time and his bitching and moaning. Snap and I were gonna wait to do him in, but I couldn't take it anymore. I snapped."
'He seemed likable to me," I said.
'You only saw him on TV. You didn't have to live with him."
'Ummm, I guess you'd know better than I; but don't you think your bosses are going to miss him?" I asked, finally realizing how absurd it was that I was carrying on a conversation with a couple of trademarks.
'Nah. No way," said Snap. "Krackle's got a twin brother named Ping who's gonna replace him."
'But guys, 'Snap, Ping, Pop'? That's not catchy."
'Clean your ears lately?" Pop countered. "Snap said the word twin, as in identical, as in looking the same. Understand?"
'Okay, but…"
'Hey!" interrupted Pop. "You got a place we can dump Krackle? Like a garbage disposal?"
'No."
'How 'bout a toilet? Can you flush it for us?" Snap asked.
'That would make me an accomplice."
'You think the cops are gonna care? Pop countered. "They're too busy hassling poor people."
'But you guys are almost national monuments," I debated. "I might as well help gun down Tony the Tiger."
'Good idea!" shouted Snap. "Tony is an asshole. We'd pay you to run the fucker over."
'Oh, he's just a fucking wimp. We're wasting our time, Snap. Grab Krackle. We'll throw him out the window and let a cat drag him off."
I reached across the table and shut the window. "You guys aren't doing anything. Put him down. I'm calling the police," I said as I reached for Krackle's limp body. Pop grabbed my finger and bit it. "You little piece of shit!" I yelled, yanking my hand back.
'Don't fuck with us, man." Snap threatened as he threw a strawberry at me. Pop picked up my cereal spoon and used it to smash my orange juice glass. He grabbed a broken piece of glass and came charging at me with it."
'You little fuck!" I yelled as I picked up my fork and stuck it through Pop's head. He let out a small screech and stopped moving.
'His face red with anger, Snap screamed, "You killed my brother!" and came charging at me with a fork. I grabbed him and slammed him against the wall. His ridiculously garbed body fell to the floor. A stream of blood oozed from the cartoonish heap.
I sat in silence for a long time. "Fuck," I said, waking from my daze. "I just killed the Rice Krispies dudes. I'll get the chair for sure." I wandered to my room and returned to the kitchen with an empty shoe box. I picked up the bodies of Snap, Krackle and Pop and, with the care given to a dead pet hamster, I placed them into the box. I went into my backyard and dug a makeshift grave. After burying the three, I shoved a piece of wood into the ground and very carefully painted it:
Here Lies the remains of three little imps
Who exuded charm but really were shits.
On December 23rd their lives came to a stop
Here lies the remains of Snap… Krackle — and Pop.
NOT YET 40, MY BEARD IS ALREADY WHITE
Not yet 40, my beard is already white.
Not yet awake, my eyes are puffy and red,
like a child who has cried too much.
What is more disagreeable
than last night's wine?
I'll shave.
I'll stick my head in the cold spring and
look around at the pebbles.
M
aybe I can eat a can of peaches.
Then I can finish the rest of the wine,
write poems 'til I'm drunk again,
and when the afternoon breeze comes up
I'll sleep until I see the moon
and the dark trees
and the nibbling deer
and hear
the quarreling coons
--Lew Welch
ON-LINE COMMENT OF THE DAY
We're collapsing now. We have been for some time.
Precipitating events (i.e.. wars, natural disasters, CC, bad decisions) will determine the pace, but the data indicates steady decline.
What will be different for our nation is that, unlike previous world powers that entered collapse, none of them had weapons of world destruction in their control to worry about.
How will a nation in serious decline deal with thousands of nuclear missiles and material under their control? Will we wisely and rationally deactivate and "safely" hide/get rid of them? Or when times get much tougher than they are now, will we use them or have them used against us?
The nuclear missile defense system is nothing if not a massively complex, interconnected system. If such systems are bound for failure in the future, where does that leave the missiles-and us?
What about our size?
We've become a nation of 320+ million people. Depending on events and how they emerge going forward, how are we going to feed that many people in the near future without cheap energy inputs? You can try, but turning this nation into a nation of farmers overnight is basically fantasy. Will a dangerous pathogen emerge from a hungry, weakened population that will determine our future?
I don't think this is going to be like declines in the past. If those big precipitating events come close together, you and me are toast. If they're spread out over the next 20 years or so, it just means the worse choices await those alive during that time.
We have something like go bags too.
But go where?
MAINE SAYS NO TO CRAIG'S AFFINITY GROUP
Warmest spiritual greetings,
The director of Penobscot Bay Watch in Maine has informed me that he does not want an affinity group formed in response to his request to myself to assist him in responding to the pollution problem on the mud-flats, which is seeping into Penobscot Bay. I have told him that his request of me is way beyond my capacity to perform, and that my perception is that a group of several individuals would be necessary to accomplish all that he would like to do this summer. Therefore, I am once again asking for assistance to get back to California, and most importantly, I need a place to go to upon my arrival. Thank you very much!
Craig Louis Stehr
Telephone messages: (504) 302-9951
Email: CraigStehr@pamho.net
Snail mail: 333 Socrates Street, New Orleans, LA 70114
Blog: http://craiglstehr.blogspot.com
PS. It is with the warmest spiritual greetings that you are receiving this email message. Whereas we are not these bodies and we are not these minds, we are indeed the inexpressible. In fact, we are not even the "eternal witnesses" of the past, present, and future, because what we are is prior to time and space. Following six months of sending out emails which state clearly that I am available for peace and justice/radical environmental volunteerism, nothing of any substance has been received from the Washington D.C. area, nor from the east coast in general. As well, nothing of any significance has been received from the west coast either as of late, nor anywhere else in the United States of America, for that matter, and I've contacted a hefty number of contacts outside of the country; also, I am no longer critically needed here in New Orleans, although it has been worthwhile and certainly time well spent assisting my friend Bork this past half year. I want everybody to understand that it is too soon for me to go back to Godhead. Otherwise I probably would, since this is so absurd living in postmodernity, that one can only wonder what the point of this is. Believe me, I would be more than happy to go back to Godhead, or what Christians call "heaven", or what Buddhists call Nirvana...anyway, you get the idea...as that would end this stupidity forever, and you would not have to get anymore of these emails, and I would not have to keep networking to remain socially active. But, you must understand that I am still here on planet earth, and am offering no apologies. Therefore, I am sending out email messages for the purpose of getting a ticket to return to California, and I need a place to go to upon arrival. Obviously, if you owe me money, give me the money, or get a credit card number for me to use to purchase a ticket. Alright, I pray that we understand one other that we are not these bodies, and we are not these minds, because we are in fact the spiritually inexpressible...the Immortal Self or the Atman. I ask you to contact me right away and cooperate with me to return to California forthwith. Unless of course, you have a better idea. For the enlightenment and liberation of everyone, Craig Louis Stehr
John Sakowicz June 11, 2014
Captain Tim Pearce and Lieutenant John Bednar, and all their corrections staff, deserve a lot of credit for handling the influx of felony prisoners at the County Jail and the uptick in inmate violence due to "realignment".
Pearce and Bednar are doing more with less. Short staff. Short budget. Short inmate programs. Old, deteriorating jail.
Bill Pilgrim June 11, 2014
Hey Craig, I hear that Cliven Bundy still needs some help around the ranch.
Harvey Reading June 11, 2014
Blaming teachers for the failure of spoiled, self-entitled offspring of idiot, self-entitled parents to learn has been par for the course for decades. Just one more sign of a society near its end. Plus, the charter school privatization crowd, including Obama, stands to make an even larger fortune once the gullible U.S. public buys into the end of public schools.
Glad I'm old and will be gone from this insipid, insane existence before long. Just hope I live long enough to see the end of the tea baggers, Working Class people who shoot themselves in the foot with their votes, and to see U.S. war criminals, like Obama, the Clintons, and the Bushes in prison.
Michael Slaughter June 11, 2014
Maybe it's now time for an AVA "interview" with Dan Hamburger.
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