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After some misguided help from Bear (who thinks they want "pears"), the group stumbles on a floppy-eared dachshund who's been stashing the stuff in front of its doghouse—and if readers begin again at the book's opening pages, they'll see the serial snatching unfold.
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The author's easy and encouraging approach is empowering, and humor is sprinkled throughout: "Perimenopause without realistic expectations or preparation can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the epically terrible movie Castaway."
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The Academic Decathlon team at Benjamin Franklin High School in Highland Park took fourth place in the statewide competition in Sacramento on Mar. 25. There are 700 decathlon teams in the state and 66 make it to the state level. The teams are made up of nine members, include three A-students, three B- students and 3 C-students. During the competition, students take seven multiple choice tests, give speeches, are interviewed by a panel of adults and write an essay.
Samuel Kullens, the decathlon coach and a social science teacher at Franklin, expressed "immense pride" in the team and said the students showed the brains, character and work ethic to succeed in college and in life. Mr. Kullens also pointed out that the top two teams, El Camino Real Charter School in Woodland Hills and Granada Hills Charter School, are far larger than Franklin, and, along with the third place winner, South Pasadena High School, are in more affluent areas with better-resourced schools. "To take fourth place in the entire state shows that with hard work and dedication, you can do a lot in this world," he said.
Lora Tindall Wagner (left) and Helen Vincent (right), teachers at the San Pascual STEAM Magnet school in Highland Park, won top honors last month at the Area IX Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Luncheon at the Knollwood Country Club in Granada Hills.
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society is a professional honor society of women educators who focus on leadership development and excellence in education.
Ms. Wagner, a graduate student who is completing her student teaching at San Pascual STEAM Magnet, was named "Outstanding Student Teacher." She was nominated by her master teacher, Josephine Yadegar.
Helen Vincent was given the "Outstanding Member" award by her colleagues in the Gamma Lambda chapter, which was founded in Eagle Rock in 1955. Ms. Vincent recently retired as a kindergarten teacher from San Pascual STEAM Magnet, where she is an active volunteer.
Leticia Guevara (right), a tireless advocate for working people, has been named 2018 Woman of the Year in NELA's Assembly District 51 by Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (left). The Woman of the Year designation singles out one exceptional woman from each of the state's assembly districts for special recognition in Sacramento.
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"Posing in Alabama gear and smoking a victory cigar after YOU recruited the entire team that just got whipped? And still, you're making millions of dollars from the school who fired you... His career in the South is over. No one in the South will remotely touch Butch Jones after behavior like this."
Clay Travis took exception to former Tennessee head coach Butch Jones going out of his way to try and humiliate his former school after his new team destroyed the Volunteers in their annual rivalry game that has been pathetically one-sided the last decade.
Jones, who is listed as a special 'offensive analyst' for Alabama, went 34-27 as the head coach at Tennessee from 2013-2017, including an eyesore SEC record of 14-24.
At the conclusion of Saturday's 58-21 blowout victory Alabama had over Tennessee, Jones received a Gatorade bath on the Crimson Tide sideline, then was seen in a photo circulating around Twitter smoking a cigar in the Alabama locker room, a tradition that has always been tied to the Alabama-Tennessee rivalry.
Travis thinks it was pathetic that Jones was rubbing it in to his former school when the cratering Tennessee team is overwhelmingly made up of starters and role players that Jones himself personally recruited to the school.
Listen to the full audio below as Clay says Jones was basically dunking on himself for celebrating a school's win he's marginally affiliated with over a team he himself had put together.


Out of nowhere comes our first look at a few new photos from The Descent 2, the sequel to Neil Marshall's claustrophobic horror film from 2006. Believe it or not, this is already done shooting and is currently in post-production, meaning we should expect to hear some screening reports fairly soon. These photos look fantastic because they were taken by professional photographer Ollie Upton and they come from his website (via SlashFilm). I've pulled out a few of the non-spoiler photos from his set that you can see below. Sure these photos look pretty damn good but that doesn't mean it'll be a great sequel. What do you think?
Click on any of them to head over to Ollie's website to see a few more. I'm still a bit baffled by this sequel - I would expect it to have a lot of buzz, but it has almost none! Anyone real reason for this?
Distraught, confused and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing friends. As the rescue party drives deeper into uncharted caverns, nightmarish visions of the recent past begin to haunt Sarah and she starts to realize the full horror and futility of the mission.
The Descent 2 is directed by Jon Harris, who is making his directorial debut after working for over 10 years as an editor. The screenplay was co-written by newcomer James McCarthy and James Watkins, who also wrote and directed Eden Lake. The Descent 2 doesn't have a US distributor yet, although we might as well expect that Lionsgate, who distributed the original Descent, will release this sometime in 2009 as well.
**SPOILERS BELOW BE WARNED** I really, REALLY wanted to like the original Descent and the best part, where I hoped it was going to get good onwards, was the first tunnel scene where the rock shifts and starts to trap the two women inside. I got claustrophobic shivers. From then on it was down hill. Or should I say, down the hole. It degraded from a potentially psychological thriller of cave climbers turning on one another from the litany of deep under ground hazards (they list off one at a time in the beginning) to a cheap, standard, predictable, cheese-fest of killing screaming wall climbing bat creatures who's heads explode fake blood like soda filled pop cans. :/ I thought it was really, REALLY overrated. Cheap startle effects, bad mood lighting and jiggle-cam throughout. If it was a student film I might have felt kinder to it, but all in all (even with the better ending of still being trapped in the cave) my high hopes based on the glowing reviews and high scores people placed on it were dashed to bits in a torrent of bad dialog, and horror cliche. Textbook screaming women, who start out sounding like some have an iota of intelligence but in the end make the same litany of bad decisions over and over to where you hope their characters all die to keep the stupid genes from getting into the next generation. What would have made fro a great horror film would have been to play on the strengths of all the climbing info they beat over your head on the way to the cave. All that is scary to real cave climbers will be scary to us if presented well. What should have happened was you never really knowing if what they were seeing was in fact real. And like Jaws and Alien, never giving the audience a real look at the 'creature' while at the same time giving better dialog moments that flesh out the tension between the characters and their histories would have worked far better. The real creatures should have been the women. The real terror should have been losing their light. The only real enemy, should have been themselves as their personalities and their predicament play out to it's tension building to the point of explosion end game. Where exhaustion, oxygen depravation, claustrophobia and fear destroy them one by one as they can no longer tell what is real and what is not. Remember that great line from Empire Strikes Back... Luke - "What's in the cave?" Yoda - "Only what you bring with you." THAT is what this movie should have been and I hope sometime in the future, someone can make that kind of horror film. One where the settings and impact are far more horrific because they are in fact, far more plausible. Nothing is more terrifying, than what's real. The further the filmmakers stray from that, the less it scared or even interested me. If I wanted to see screaming women and guys in rubber face masks, I'll head to the pub on a Saturday night. So far, nothing I have seen or heard about the sequel will lead me to believe it is any different than the first.
Looks cool, but I fear this will just be more of the same. A cheap cash-in. It's a pity Marshall ain't directing or writing. I really wish he'd do that "zombies on an oil rig" idea.
I can't believe she goes back after getting out of that cave.
I freaking miss Juno. She better be alive in the cave somewhere!! Brits!!!
I'm still going to see it, but the fact that there's a sequel is really disappointing. As you said #4, why the hell would she go back? Especially since....SPOILER ALERT....her whole team is dead...the rock chick with broken leg got her neck torn out (dead)...Juno hit the suave chick in the neck with the pick axe, and then she was stoned by Sarah (dead)...the mousy climber got her neck sliced (dead)...the motherly climber had her innards ripped out (dead)...and Juno was left with the pick axe through her leg and a dozen albinos bearing down on her (pretty much dead). So, really...she's going to go back? And it even wouldn't make sense if she went back for the bodies since those critters were carnivores. Ugh. BTW -- Those pics are no longer on Ollie's site, so he may have jumped the gun.
For anyone who hasn't seen the first DESCENT: Later in this post there will be a !!!SPOILER!!! Granted the fact that Sarah from the first movie is in the sequel so that's naturally a spoiler in itself. So not now, but there will be a !!!SPOILER!!! in my post regarding the first DESCENT. I have high hopes for this sequel as Jon was the editor of the first DESCENT and has a history of editing other Horror movies. He knows the pacing of a Horror film - or should. Sarah was represented as a strong independent woman and an experienced caver/climber: not some domesticated, celebrity tabloid browsing, urban couch potato. It would seem implausible that Sarah, backed by strength of numbers and having survived by experience and her wits already, WOULDN'T go back to face down her enemies. Of course, this sequel is predicated on the American edit and not Neil Marshall's original edit. !!!SPOILER!!! (Yes, I'm about to give that spoiler now) In Neil Marshall's original edit of DESCENT, it appeared that Sarah didn't survive. it ended with her being in the cave, surrounded, and the creatures closing in from all sides. Obviously Jon Harris is taking the American edit, which I felt was superior. I felt the original Marshall ending was a cheat. Not only for the "Oooh! It was all a dream! She is really still back in the cave!" ending, but because this movie, virtually all female in cast, ended with all of these otherwise very strong independent women being unable to survive their circumstances. Her escape made sense. Her suddenly being insane and unable to escape felt like a betrayal of her character. This is a woman who enjoys putting her life in danger. Who witnessed the horrible death of her husband during such a trip and continues to pursue her lifestyle. It would have been one thing if she died due to the power of the creatures or their sheer might of their number, but to die because she was psychologically unfit for the harrowing experience? To die because she just gave up and became a frightened, trembling, crazy woman? I felt the American edit stayed true to the logical consistency of the movie and its characters. DISCLOSURE: I'm a caver/spelunker of wild caves (former member of the Speleological Society) and have been involved in numerous rescue missions both real and training (granted, not against any monsters).
Wow...why is there no support? Because the first movie was horrible along with its counterpart "The Cave" Sure, they're enjoyable the first time on one of the movie channels premiere nights (because they're definitely worth paying for) but aside from that, did anyone expect or want a sequel to a movie that can't really have one?
I'm with #1 on this one. The Decent 2 shouldn't even exist. What made the first one so frightening was the ending (or at least the original UK version). It made you wonder, were the creatures real or were they part of Sarah's traumatized imagination? It's a horror film that gave you chills but left you leaving the theater with asking yourself questions. I think that this will be another cheap cash-in sequel.
I think that the coolest thing about this topic is that there are researchers that believe that a creature could survive in caves like this. Perhaps that was what gave Neil Marshall his idea. I'm down with a sequel but I believe the first one captured the phobia and suspense.
I am kinda pissed about the summary of the sequel. Like Alex said, it doesnt make ANY sense, no matter how you look at it, why she would go back. all of them are dead, and Im PRETTY sure she witnessed all of their deaths, so.....AHHHH!
I would just like to say that seeing The Descent in theaters with my one of my best friends is a fantastic memory to have, and we're both excited out of our minds to see this new one, no matter how good or bad it is. And incidentally, we're both infatuated with the character Juno and hoping she turns out to be alive.
Loved the first one. One of the few horror movies that sucked you in and made you feel a part of the film. Like being lost in the woods was the scariest part of Blair Witch (for anyone who's actually ever been lost in the woods at least), being in those terrifying caves was the scariest part of Descent. The "creatures" only added to the terror. Anyway, I skipped all the other comments to avoid spoilers. I doubt this will be as good as the original, but it's on my "will see" list. Love the site, Alex.
The first half of the first movie was great. Something I have never really experienced before. But then once the monsters were way too overexposed it got corny and just not scary. The plot for this new one seems so far fetched its pretty ridiculous. Why would she want to go back with the search team? It just seems like a lame attempt to make more money off the first. It would be really cool if there ended up being her imagination or just something really cool that no one expects. But it seems like it will be more of the same BS.


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This is the travel diary of Keith and Brenda Krejci, who since November 2005 have lived in their motorhome and traveled the country. When first married, Brenda would ask Keith a question, and if he didn't know the answer, would tell him "I married you because I thought you were perfect", to which Keith would reply "I never said I was perfect, just damn near" And so, after 50+ years together they've become, at least for each other, the Damn Near Perfect Couple.
Back in the Land of Enchantment
In the fall of 1966 while in Air Force basic training, I was handed a sheet of paper called the Assignment Selection Sheet, better known as the "dream sheet", and told to select the bases that I would like to be assigned to after training. Gosh, I thought, how nice of the Air Force to ask me where I'd like to go, and being from Northeast Ohio, I wrote down my choices as Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. And that is, of course, how I ended up assigned to Alamogordo, New Mexico.
During my leave at home after air traffic control school, I called a travel agent to get an airline ticket to Alamogordo. There was a long pause, and finally she replied; "I'm sorry, but there is no Alamogordo, New Mexico". I started to weep.....telling her "but I've got to go there! I've got orders!". Looking back now, I realize that like so many others in the eastern part of the country, she was looking up a location in Mexico, not realizing that there really is a state named New Mexico. It still happens today; New Mexico magazine has a section that includes true stories of people getting confused - One of Our Fifty is Missing.
So I bought a car and drove across the country, mostly on the old Route 66, arriving at Holloman AFB, just outside Alamogordo, in the spring of 1967. And I loved it! So much was new to me - the desert, the mountains, the food....and so I've returned many times with Brenda, who has also learned to love the area.
We recently spent a week in Tularosa, a small town at the base of the Sacramento Mountains and 12 miles north of Alamogordo. It's a town that like many in the area, are struggling but it seems to be growing due to the growing number of pistachio orchards. In fact, the RV park that we stayed is in the middle of pistachio trees, where the nuts are close to being ready to pick.
Tularosa has an interesting history. Mescalero Apache raids kept settlers from establishing a permanent village until 1863, and hostilities went on for years and didn't come to a halt until after the Battle of Round Mountain in 1868. The centerpiece of central Tularosa, the Saint Francis de Paula Church was built to commemorate the battle and honor the 28 local volunteers who fought there.
Tularosa Main Street
There aren't a host of services in this little town; most of the restaurants have closed due to COVID, but there's a main street - with a large hardware store and little else. At one time Tularosa was over 95% Hispanic, and although the population is more diverse today, Mexican food is still the king. I'll bet your local Kroger or Fry's market doesn't have a "Tortilleria", a large portion of the store devoted solely to making tortillas.
Fresh Tortillas, Chips, and Chicharrones (Pork Rinds)
But the main reason we're attracted to this area is the Sacramento Mountains which lie just east of town. Stretching 85 miles north to south, and 42 miles east to west, the heavily forested mountains are home to the resort towns of Cloudcroft, Ruidoso, and the Ski Apache resort on Sierra Blanca which reaches 12000'.
Driving up the mountain, we entered the Mescalero Apache reservation and the tribe's schools, store, and medical facilities. The tribe's reservation has improved immensely since I was stationed here, thanks to two casinos, resort hotel and golf course, and ski resort. Brenda and I like to think that we contributed to this betterment of their quality of life through our "contributions" over the years at the casino.
Along the road, we passed the Saint Joseph Apache Mission, built using local materials starting in 1939. The mission has an interesting history that you can read here.
St. Joseph Apache Mission
The interior is rustic with a Native American theme. We were intrigued by the "Apache Last Supper":
Continuing up the mountain, we came around a curve where Sierra Blanca came into view.
We Continued up the mountain and took a side road that took us to Cloudcroft, a 110 year-old community that sits at a cool 8675' and boasts one of the highest golf courses in the country. It's become a popular location for bikers, and to us on this Sunday resembled a smaller version of the Sturgis Rally.
After a stop at the Brother-in-Law BBQ for a amazing brisket sandwich, we made our way through the forest to one of our favorite places to visit, the Sunspot Solar Observatory. While the facilities are closed to public due to COVID, there an informative visitor center and at over 9000' fantastic viewpoints.
View to the West - White Sands National Monument in the distance
Looking South towards El Paso
Finishing up our stay in Tularosa, we traveled to Las Cruces to visit some of our favorite locations. We were joined by a visit from our friends Don and Betty, who spend their winters down the interstate in Benson, AZ. No visit to the area would be complete for us without a visit to La Posta de Mesilla Restaurant a place we've been coming to for many years.
As a young airman in the late 60s, if you ordered enchiladas in Alamogordo, they were done "pancake" style. Each tortilla was dipped in red or green chili, cheese, onion, and chicken or beef sprinkled on top, then another layer, and another, usually three tortillas stacked, with more chili and usually a fried egg on top. I don't remember ever seeing a "rolled" enchilada back then, and over the years stacked enchiladas have disappeared from Mexican restaurant menus. And that's one of the reasons I love La Posta! Here they serve red chili enchiladas in the old style, complete with an over easy egg on top. It may seem like there wouldn't be much difference, but believe me, the taste difference in stacked vs rolled is huge - at least to me.
La Posta has an interesting and long history, serves great food at reasonable prices, and is visually stunning. Each room has a different theme with paintings, sculptures, and period furniture.
Fall is the time when the chilies are harvested, and every supermarket has large bags of green and red chilies and most have a large drum outdoors roasting chilies. And so it was the perfect time for the four of us to make a pilgrimage to Hatch, the chili capital of the world!
Hatch is filled with stores selling chilies by the bag, by the Ristra, canned, bottled, and dried. Colorful Ristras are proudly displayed in almost every store.
Ristras and Red Chilis
A visit to Hatch wouldn't be complete without a visit to "Sparky's" home of the "World Famous" green chili cheeseburger. Always busy (for good reason), their cheeseburgers are made with hand made patties and fresh green chilies. They are fantastic!
Busy Day at Sparky's
Back in Las Cruces, we decided to take Don and Betty on a trip to one of the hidden gems in the area. The Organ Mountains dominate the Eastern skyline from Las Cruces, but on the eastern side there's little vegetation, just dry desert.
Organ Mountains View from Las Cruces
But driving to the back side is a revelation - the lush desert and memorable mountain vistas are an amazing contrast to the other side:
We've been enjoying the warm weather and sunshine here in New Mexico, but soon we'll have to leave and head north to the Winnebago factory in Iowa for major repairs to our motor home. We'll be back to posting once we've returned and resumed our journey back to Oregon. Brenda and wish you all a happy and safe Thanksgiving!
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The Penrith Regional Gallery will create an educational kit to accompany an exhibition, uncovering the story of an Aboriginal mission farm in western Sydney.
The gallery will develop the kit to increase awareness of Aboriginal people living on a local mission, with the help of a $7000 BlueScope Steel Gallery Focused Grant for Gallery Education.
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Performance major and multi-instrumentalist David Cloyd, one of the exciting new artists on the Engine Company Records roster, steps onto the national stage with his debut album, Unhand Me, You Fiend!
Tell me about how you originally got into your craft, David.
My parents were listening to my older sister practice piano one afternoon when they remembered that she was away at a birthday party. I was picking out her etudes by ear. I was about three years old, and I've been studying and playing music ever since.
How do you describe your music to people?
If you like Radiohead, Beck, Peter Gabriel, and John Lennon, then you'll probably like my music.
I like listening to music, writing songs and making records, learning how to play a new instrument, drinking hefeweizen on my porch in the summertime, cooking, watching movies, and hanging out with my wife, though not particularly in that order. I also enjoy coming up with extremely unanswerable interview questions.
Making plans and then throwing them out the window. It's important to have short-term goals and priorities. How else do you know what to do when you wake up in the morning? And long-term goals are just as important. If you don't know where you want to go, you'll find yourself walking in circles and you won't even realize it. But very often, something happens (or doesn't happen) that requires you to take a well-conceived plan, throw it out the window, and start again from zero. And you either embrace that Sisyphean process or you don't. Anyone who has studied thermodynamics knows that entropy isn't an abstract thought, it's a very real and powerful force—it's why we have to clean the house, do the dishes, and take out the trash. You can't stop it, you just have to decide to either laugh or cry about it. So I laugh, and then I keep on laughing until I'm crying. The only way to beat entropy is to confuse it.
I don't remember wanting to be anything but a musician. I don't think I even went through a fireman phase or anything like that. What an oddly worded question—what did I think I was going to be? I probably thought I was going to be a jedi knight. I know I practiced piano with the blast shield down.
Living in NYC for so long had incredible influence on me—it pushed my art and my craft to a level that I didn't know I had in me, and gave me access to everyone and everything that got me to where I am today. I think that living elsewhere before and after that has had just as important an influence on my work, though. It allows me the time and space to keep pushing my music forward while my "normal" family life can continue and flourish in a way that makes me feel, well, normal. I find a lot of beauty in normalcy. It's the jedi influence again.
I played bass and keyboards and sang backing vocals for a record called Rocktronic with my friends Americans UK. It's such a fun record, and it accompanies an Americans UK comic book series written by the lead singer—rumor has it that I'm going to appear as Cloid the Droid in an upcoming issue, and I can't wait to see my cartoon/android self. My friend Shara Worden has a project called My Brightest Diamond that I really love, as well as her Asthmatic Kitty label-mate DM Stith. Something happened to me in the last year or so, and I finally understand and embrace the singular greatness of AC/DC , though I haven't listened to all of their records yet. Honestly, I'm more excited about the Beatles catalogue finally being properly re-mastered and released in mono than just about anything else.
I spent the winter and spring deconstructing my album into a solo show—just me, electric guitar, and piano. The new solo versions have such a different feel than the album versions. They really push my playing abilities to the edge and expose the songs in a way I'd never even heard before. My label president and producer Blake Morgan and I are so excited about the results that we're going to record some of them for release. I have plans for a slightly bigger and more elaborate version of the solo show, plus I'll be playing label shows with the ECR band from time to time. I've been writing songs for the next album since before I started recording Unhand Me, You Fiend! But those wheels never stop turning, touch wood.
In the short term, I will be playing more and more scattered solo shows throughout the northeast. (That sounds like a weather report, doesn't it?) I also like to play unannounced shows at venues in and around Buffalo, so you never know when you might run into me. I aspire to be a thief in the night.
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme was commissioned by King Louis XIV in 1670 as a comédie –ballet with a Turkish theme. It is the most famous of Molière and Lully's combinations of theatre, music and dance. The play is a sharp satire on the social pretensions of Parisian nouveaux-riches. Monsieur Jourdain wishes to acquire the social skills commensurate with his wealth; he employs a number of tutors for this purpose. In his efforts to obtain the favour of a marquise he enlists the help of Dorante, an unscrupulous aristocratic parasite. Monsieur Jourdain refuses snobbishly to allow his daughter Lucile to marry Cléonte because he is not a nobleman, until a charade is organized by Cléonte's servant Covielle in which Cléonte, disguised as the son of the 'Grand Turc', marries Lucile, and Monsieur Jourdain is created a 'mamamouchi', or Turkish nobleman, in a humiliating ceremony. The play was very popular in Molière's day.


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Full title:GEORGE C. MARSTON, Respondent, v. PICKWICK STAGES, INC. (a Corporation)…
Court:Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Two
Date published: Jun 24, 1926
78 Cal.App. 526 (Cal. Ct. App. 1926)
Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Two
Docket No. 4473.
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County. W.P. Cary, Judge. Affirmed.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
Warren E. Libby, E.L. Seavey and B.P. Gibbs for Appellants.
Charles C. Crouch, Glen H. Munkelt and Frank A. Gazlay for Respondent.
FINLAYSON, P.J.
This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries arising out of a collision between an automobile driven by plaintiff and an autostage operated in the business of the defendant Pickwick Stages, Inc., and driven by its employee, the defendant Vallad. The answer of each defendant, in addition to denying the allegations of the complaint, pleads contributory negligence as an affirmative defense. The verdict was for plaintiff. [1] Defendants appeal from the judgment and from an order denying their motion for a new trial. The latter appeal must be dismissed. No appeal lies from an order denying a new trial. (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 963.) As grounds for reversal appellants urge that the evidence is insufficient to justify the verdict, that the court erred in giving certain instructions, and that it further erred in refusing certain requested instructions.
The accident in which plaintiff received his injuries occurred during the daytime, on the state highway, within the limits of the city of San Diego. The highway at the place where the collision occurred is twenty feet wide and paved. Plaintiff, driving a Ford automobile, was traveling in a northerly direction. The autostage was proceeding in the opposite direction. A cloud of smoke, caused by the burning of grass or brush along the railroad tracks to the west, swept across the highway and obscured the view of the respective drivers as they were about to pass each other. Each driver claims that the other was on the wrong side of the road. Without doubt the presence of one or the other of the vehicles on the left or wrong side of the road was the proximate cause of the accident. By its verdict the jury impliedly found that plaintiff's car was on the right side and that the autostage was on the wrong side of the highway.
Plaintiff testified that the cloud of smoke was from seventy-five to one hundred feet wide; that he first observed it when he was about half a mile away; that he was then traveling at a speed of about twenty-five miles an hour; that as he approached the smoke he decreased the speed of his car until it was proceeding at about fifteen miles an hour; that as he was about to enter the pall of smoke, and when about a rod away from it, he saw the autostage fifty feet ahead, coming diagonally toward him, his car being at the time on the right side of the pavement; that as soon as he saw the autostage he made an effort to turn his car still farther toward the right, but that before he could leave the paved highway the autostage struck his vehicle with terrific force, wrecking it and causing the personal injuries of which he complains.
The driver of the autostage, whose testimony was corroborated by that of some of his passengers, testified that as his vehicle entered the cloud of smoke it was on the right or west side of the paved highway, proceeding at a speed of about twenty miles an hour; that after getting into the smoke he decreased the speed of the autostage, so that when the collision occurred it was traveling at about eight or ten miles an hour; that the wheels on the right side of the stage were within six or eight inches of the edge of the pavement, on the westerly side of the highway; that he did not change his course from the time he entered the smoke screen up to the instant of the collision; that as he entered the thick smoke he saw plaintiff's car for the first time, the distance separating the two vehicles being then about half the length of the autostage, which is fifteen feet long; that instantly the impact came, and that he had no time to do anything; that the front left wheel of the autostage was broken by the collision and the drag link was bent — the latter piece of mechanism being a rod running from the steering-gear to the spindle-pin and controlling the front wheels; that by reason of the nature of these injuries he was unable to steer the stage after the impact, and that the vehicle dropped down on the spindle-pin, dragged for a few feet and then turned toward the left, proceeding thus for about thirty-nine feet, when it came to a stop. There was some evidence to warrant the inference that neither driver sounded his horn before the collision.
There was observed after the accident a curved mark, graved in the pavement of the highway by the spindle-pin of the autostage. The northerly end of this mark, i.e., the place where it commenced, was about six feet two inches east of the westerly edge of the pavement. One witness testified that the mark, from the point of its beginning, "starts a little bit, pointing in toward the east," that it then straightens out and continues thus for about six feet, when it disappears for a space and then reappears as a diagonal mark across the pavement from the west side of the place where the stage came to a stop on the east side.
A witness for the plaintiff, who was driving an automobile in the same direction that plaintiff was traveling and who was about 250 feet to the rear of plaintiff's car when the collision occurred, testified that he saw the accident and that after hitting the Ford the autostage traveled five or six yards before its left front wheel came off.
The foregoing resume discloses a sharp conflict in the evidence upon the vital question in the case, namely the question as to which vehicle was on the wrong side of the highway.
[2] We think the evidence was sufficient to justify the conclusion of the jury. [3] An appellate court will never disturb a verdict where there is some substantial evidence to support it. But appellants claim that respondent's testimony is conclusively demonstrated to be false and impossible by the marks which were made upon the pavement by the spindle-pin of the autostage. This mute testimony, say appellants, shows "unmistakably and conclusively that the stage was upon the west side of the road at the time of the collision" and that respondent's testimony is impossible "in the face of these telltale marks." There would be much force in this contention if a witness for respondent had not testified that the autostage traveled some five or six yards before its wheel came off; for the most positive testimony may be rejected as inherently improbable when its falsity appears from a consideration of the undisputed circumstances or from the laws of nature. But until the wheel came off the axle, thus permitting the left front end of the stage to drop, the spindle-pin did not touch the pavement. Until then no mark was made to tell the course of the stage whilst traversing the five or six yards. It is quite possible that while the stage was covering this space of fifteen or eighteen feet it swerved over to the right side of the highway immediately after hitting the Ford and while it was still traveling on all of its four wheels. This possibility affords a conceivable explanation for the fact that the commencement of the mark made by the spindle-pin was found to be on the right or west side of the highway. If this is what happened, and it is not impossible, then there is no necessary inconsistency between the mark as it appeared on the pavement and respondent's testimony that when he saw the autostage an instant before the collision it was coming diagonally toward his vehicle on the east side of the highway. What was said by this court in Austin v. Newton, 46 Cal.App. 498 [189 P. 473] is pertinent: "Common experience and observation teach us that strange and astonishing things sometimes happen in the world of physical phenomena, and accidents sometimes appear to happen in manner unaccountable. For these reasons an appellate court must be careful not to give to dogmatic and undemonstrated conclusions respecting natural laws precedence over the testimony of apparently credible witnesses; and the mere fact that the admitted circumstances make the story of the witnesses seem improbable will not justify a reversal by an appellate tribunal upon the ground that the verdict is contrary to the evidence. ( Stokes v. Metropolitan Street Ry. Co., 173 Mo. App. 676 [160 S.W. 46].)"
[4] What we have said disposes of appellants' next contention, which is that the court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that respondent was guilty of contributory negligence.
[5] The court gave an instruction practically in the language of section 20 of the Motor Vehicle Act (Stats. 1919, p. 215). The instruction reads, in part, as follows: "The court instructs you that the driver or operator of any vehicle in or upon any public highway must drive or operate such vehicle in a careful manner with due regard for the safety and convenience of all other vehicles upon such highway, and wherever practicable shall travel on the right hand side of such highway. Two vehicles while passing each other in opposite directions have the right of way, and no other vehicle to the rear of either of such vehicles must pass or attempt to pass such vehicles." We have italicized that part of the instruction to which appellants object. The court also gave another instruction substantially in the language of section 22 of the same act, which told the jury that "it is unlawful to operate or drive an automobile on a public highway in excess of thirty miles an hour when the operator or driver does not have a clear and uninterrupted view of the highway on which he is traveling in the direction toward which he is traveling for at least four hundred feet ahead of such operator or driver." Appellants do not question the correctness of either of these instructions as statements of abstract propositions of law, but claim that both of them were improper for the reason that they refer to facts of which there was no evidence. It is claimed that it was error to give the first of these instructions because there was no evidence that either the stage or the Ford was attempting to pass any vehicle just before the collision, and that it was error to give the other instruction because there is no evidence that the stage was traveling in excess of thirty miles an hour. If it be conceded that it was improper to give these instructions for the reasons assigned by appellants, nevertheless the giving of them is not reversible error. [6] While it unquestionably is true that the court should not instruct the jury upon abstract questions of law not applicable to the circumstances of the case, nevertheless such action on the part of the trial court will not warrant a reversal where it is apparent that no injury could have resulted. ( Bosqui v. Sutro R.R. Co., 131 Cal. 390, 401 [ 63 P. 682]; People v. Romero, 143 Cal. 458 [ 77 P. 163]; Hardy v. Schirmer, 163 Cal. 272 [ 124 P. 993]; George v. Los Angeles Ry. Co., 126 Cal. 357 [77 Am. St. Rep. 184, 46 L.R.A. 829, 58 P. 819]; Estate of Clark, 180 Cal. 395 [ 181 P. 639].) We are unable to see how either of the instructions now under consideration could have prejudiced appellants' cause. In Bosqui v. Sutro R.R. Co., supra, the court, speaking of an instruction which referred to facts not shown by the evidence, said: "In People v. Cochran, 61 Cal. 548, it was said: `If an instruction in a case is asked which refers to facts which there is no evidence to prove, it is not error to refuse to give it, and if given, although in fact erroneous in the abstract, it will not be regarded as an error for which the judgment will be reversed, unless it be manifest that the jury was misled by it to the prejudice of the defendant. Presumptively, however, an erroneous proposition of law, referring in no way to the evidence in the case submitted to the jury, has not prejudiced the defendant.' If this latter statement be true, surely a correct proposition of law under like circumstances would not necessarily mislead the jury. In the present case there was not the slightest evidence or suspicion pointing to the defendant as having placed the obstruction on the rails, and we do not think the instruction assumes that any such evidence existed. We do not believe that the reference made to defendant in that connection could, in view of the evidence in the case, have made the slightest impression on the jury to defendant's prejudice."
An excerpt from another of the court's instructions is made the subject of attack by appellants upon the ground that it assumes negligence on the part of the driver of the stage. When the whole charge is read and considered in its entirety, as it should be, the objection now made to the isolated passage selected by appellants for their criticism is found to be baseless.
[7] The court instructed the jury to find for the plaintiff if the accident was proximately caused by negligence on the part of the driver of the stage and if "plaintiff was without fault." It is objected that the words "without fault" are not equivalent to an instruction upon the issue of contributory negligence. In other parts of its charge the court fully and correctly instructed the jury upon the question of contributory negligence. Moreover, in the literature of the law the word "fault" is the equivalent of "negligence." ( Louisville etc. R. Co. v. Berry, 2 Ind. App. 427 [28 N.E. 714]; Central R. Banking Co. v. Lanier, 83 Ga. 587 [10 S.E. 279]; 25 C.J. 676.) The objection is hypercritical and without merit.
[8] Complaint is made of the court's refusal to give a requested instruction which, in part, is as follows: ". . . every motor vehicle shall be equipped with a bell, gong, horn, whistle or other device in good working order capable of emitting an abrupt sound adequate in quality and volume to give warning of the approach of such vehicle to pedestrians and other riders or drivers of other vehicles on the highway. Every person operating a motor vehicle shall sound said bell, gong, horn or whistle or other device whenever necessary as a warning of danger. Therefore, in this case, if you find from the evidence that there was a cloud of smoke covering the highway on which the plaintiff was driving at the time and place of the collision, making it impossible for the plaintiff then and there to see any object on the highway ahead of his machine for a distance of 400 feet or in any manner whatever interfering with the vision of the plaintiff so that he did not have a clear and unobstructed view of the highway ahead of him in the direction in which he was traveling, and if you further find that the plaintiff at the time and place where this cloud of smoke was overhanging the highway, failed to sound any bell, gong or horn, to warn others using the highway of the approach of his car, then I charge you that under the circumstances and conditions then and there existing the plaintiff was guilty of negligence . . ."
The first part of the above-quoted portion of this instruction is a correct statement of the law. It is substantially in the language of section 12 of the Motor Vehicle Act as it read at the time of the accident. (Stats. 1915, p. 405.) That section of the act provides that every person operating a motor vehicle shall sound his bell, horn, gong, or other device "whenever necessary as a warning of danger." But though it would have been proper to give this part of the instruction, it would have been error to give the instruction with its concluding sentence. Had the instruction been given, the last part of it would have erroneously charged the jury, as a matter of law, that under the circumstances referred to by the court it was necessary to sound the horn as a warning of danger, and that a failure to do so constituted negligence per se. In other words, the concluding part of the instruction purports to settle the conditions which create the necessity for the sounding of the horn, instead of leaving it to the jury to determine whether, under the circumstances referred to, the sounding of the horn was or was not necessary as a warning of danger. We think that in all such cases it is for the jury, and not for the court, to say whether under a given set of circumstances, a necessity exists for this precautionary act. The circumstances which will make it necessary to sound the horn "as a warning of danger" cannot be defined and measured by any precise standard. As in all cases where the question of negligence is presented, the existence of a necessity for sounding the warning horn is always relative to the particular facts and circumstances of which the necessity is sought to be predicated. For this reason it is a question of fact for the jury, even where the circumstances are undisputed, if reasonable minds can rationally draw different conclusions from the conceded facts. In Rush v. Lagomarsino, 196 Cal. 308 [ 237 P. 1066], the supreme court, speaking of an instruction which was properly drawn — for there the instruction left it to the jury to determine whether the blowing of the horn was necessary — said: ". . . it was certainly a matter for the jury to determine whether or not under all the circumstances it was necessary for the defendant to sound his horn as a warning of danger, and the failure to submit that question to the jury as requested was error which doubtless redounded to the prejudice of the plaintiff." In the instant case the court, had the instruction been given, would have undertaken to determine the question of necessity for the jury. The instruction was properly refused.
[9] Appellants complain of the court's refusal to give an instruction requested by them which, if given, would have told the jury that if plaintiff was negligent, and if his negligence contributed proximately and directly "to the cause of the accident," he cannot recover. Negligence of one party or the other, was the proximate cause of the accident. Therefore the instruction, had it been given, would have charged the jury, in substance and effect, that if plaintiff was negligent, and if his negligence proximately contributed to his negligence, he could not recover. This manifestly is absurd, and the learned trial judge clearly was warranted in refusing to give an instruction so incorrectly phrased. It was calculated to make "confusion worse confounded."
Complaint is made of the refusal to give other instructions requested by appellants. An inspection of the records discloses that the subject matter of these instructions is substantially incorporated in those which were given, and that the jury was fully instructed as to all matters of law necessary for their enlightenment in determining the rights of the parties.
The appeal from the order denying a new trial is dismissed. The judgment is affirmed.
Works, J., and Craig, J., concurred.
A petition by appellants to have the cause heard in the supreme court, after judgment in the district court of appeal, was denied by the supreme court on August 23, 1926.


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White House expects Republican senators to join Democrats in vote to call impeachment witnesses
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The White House thinks the Democrats will have the numbers.
White House officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told CBS News that the Trump administration is preparing for enough Republicans to defect and join Democrats in an upcoming vote to call witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial. Only four would need to do so to shift the majority, and the officials identified six lawmakers who might jump ship in this instance.
It's no surprise to see the names like Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) — who disclosed last week that she's been working with a small group of Republicans to ensure both sides are able to call witnesses in the trial — and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), or Mitt Romney (R-Utah), all of whom have displayed a willingness to diverge from Trump on occasion. Sens. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who have both called for a fair and impartial trial, are also seen as possibilities to vote for witnesses. The White House described Alexander as an "institutionalist." Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), meanwhile, is apparently considered the "wild card."
Whatever the combination, the officials said the White House's impeachment team and counsel consider a vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment without a trial to be bad optics, and they don't expect a quick dismissal. They do, however, reportedly expect the question of acquittal to come up pretty early in the proceedings. Read more at CBS News. Tim O'Donnell


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Stanley T. Wilson
Turlock Daily Journal
As a newspaper publisher in both Mill Valley and Turlock, Stanley T. Wilson was truly a community leader who worked to make those cities better places to live. In addition, he was at the forefront in the fight to require government agencies in California — at both the local and state levels — to conduct their business in meetings that were open to the public and the media.
Wilson was born Feb. 1, 1911, in Los Angeles and moved with his family to Arizona at an early age. He started his newspaper career at the age of 12 as a "printers devil" for the Casa Grande Bulletin, where he learned to set type. He worked for several California newspapers, including the Orange Daily News, where he spent seven years covering police and city hall. After that, he moved to the San Rafael Independent as circulation manager. He was president of the California Circulation Managers Association in 1944.
In 1945, he bought his first newspaper, The Mill Valley Record. In addition to his duties as publisher, Wilson covered the Mill Valley City Council. He complained frequently in editorials that members of the council would meet for dinner before their meetings and then routinely pass items with little or no discussion. This experience was the beginning of his lifelong crusade for open meetings, which resulted in much of the open meeting and FOI legislation in place today.
In 1953, Wilson sold The Record and purchased the Turlock Daily Journal. It was during his years in Turlock that he had the largest impact on the community.
In 1957, Governor Goodwin J. Knight signed legislation authorizing a new college to be located in Stanislaus County. Citizens of Turlock felt that the new college would be a benefit to their community, and created a special committee to win the election. They knew they faced an uphill battle against the neighboring city of Modesto, which also wanted the college. They appointed Wilson to head the committee.
Modesto was filled with citizens of influence, who made their desire known in high places in Sacramento. What they didn't realize, and which was perhaps the deciding factor in the final selection, was that Wilson had established a strong friendship with Governor Knight.
After several years and many lengthy trips to Sacramento, the final decision came in December 1959 and Turlock was selected as the home of the new Stanislaus State College. At a Chamber of Commerce dinner a few weeks later, Wilson received a standing ovation and was credited with being "the man most responsible for bringing the state college to Turlock."
In 1952, Wilson became president of the California Newspaper Publishers Association where he continued to push his agenda for open meeting laws. It was in the year following his presidency that the Ralph M. Brown Act was approved by the Legislature. Ralph Brown was Wilson's assemblyman, and they had developed a close friendship while Wilson sought to convince Brown of the need for open meeting laws. While this act applied only to city and county government, the Bagley-Keane Act later required open meetings of state agencies.
The co-author of this later legislation, former Assemblyman William T. Bagley of Marin County, established a long friendship with Wilson while he was publisher of The Record. In 2005, Bagley wrote that Wilson "was my inspiration. It was this issue, new to me at the young age of 30 when first elected, that was the very genesis for my interest and action on behalf of FOI."


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Q: How to handle large data sets in MongoDB I need help in deciding which schema type is more appropriate for my mongodb collection.
Let's say I want to store a list of things a person have. There will be relatively small number of people, but one person can have very many things. Let's assume people will be count in hundreds, but things a person own in hundreds of thousands.
I can think of two options:
Option 1:
    [{
        id: 1,
        name: "Tom",
        things: [
            {
                name: 'red tie',
                weight: 0.3,
                value: 5
            },
            {
                name: 'carpet',
                weight: 15,
                value: 700
            } //... and 300'000 other things
        ]
    },
    {
        id: 2,
        name: "Rob",
        things: [
            {
                name: 'can of olives',
                weight: 0.4,
                value: 2
            },
            {
                name: 'Porsche',
                weight: 1500,
                value: 40000
            }// and 170'000 other things
        ]
    }//and 214 oher people]
]

Option 2:

[
    {
        name: 'red tie',
        weight: 0.3,
        value: 5,
        owner: {
            name: 'Tom',
            id: 1
        }
    },
    {
        name: 'carpet',
        weight: 15,
        value: 700,
        owner: {
            name: 'Tom',
            id: 1
        }
    },
    {
        name: 'can of olives',
        weight: 0.4,
        value: 2,
        owner: {
            name: 'Rob',
            id: 2
        }
    },
    {
        name: 'Porsche',
        weight: 1500,
        value: 40000,
        owner: {
            name: 'Rob',
            id: 2
        }
    }// and 20'000'000 other things
];

*

*I will only ask for things from one owner in a single request and never ask for things from multiple owners.

*I will need a pagination  for the returned list of things so...

*... things will need to be sorted by one of the parameters

From what I understand the first point suggest it would be much more efficient to use Option 1 (querying only few hundreds documents instead of millions), but points 2 and 3 are handled much more easily when using Option 2 (limit, skip and sort methods instead of $slice projection and Aggregation Framework).
Can anybody tell me which way would be more suitable? Or maybe I've got something wrong and there's even better solution?

A:

*

*I will only ask for things from one owner in a single request and never ask for things from multiple owners.

*I will need a pagination for the returned list of things so...

*things will need to be sorted by one of the parameters

Your requirements 2 and 3 would be fulfilled much better by creating a collection where each item is an individual document. With an array, you would have to use the aggregation framework to $unwind that array, which can become quite slow. Your first requirement can easily be optimized for by creating an index on the owner.name or owner.id field of said collection, depending on which you use for querying.
Also, MongoDB does not handle growing documents very well. To discourage users from creating indefinitely growing documents, MongoDB has a 16MB per document limit. When each of your items is a few hundred byte, hundreds of thousands of array entries would exceed that limit.

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Five Lessons From 272 Columns
by Aaron Goldman , Op-Ed Contributor, June 3, 2015
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." I have no idea what this means, but Winston Churchill said it, so it must be sage — and seems a fitting way to begin the end of my run as a Search Insider.
Indeed, this will be my final column, as I've taken on a new role that has me as a search outsider and more of a social insider. So the good news is, I'll be continuing my monthly contributions to MediaPost, just over in the Social Media Insider section. Hope you'll join me there for future follies!
Meanwhile, here are five lessons learned from my 272 Search Insider columns:
1. You can compare search to anything. From boxing to horse racing to selfies to marathons to the Olympics to Hawaii to Bonnaroo to "Mad Men" to Billy Beane to Israel to Steve Jobs to sports, I've used more analogies for search than….. well, hmm, I can't really think of an analogy for heavy analogy usage, so I'll just drop the mic.
2. You can rhyme search with anything. Speaking of mic droppin', from lurch to church to the old Snoop trick of adding izzle to the end of everything, I've managed to crank out some ridiculous rhymes over the years, including covers of Nursery Rhymes, aka Searchery Rhymes — 2012 edition, 2008 edition, 2007 edition — some Search Haiku — 2013 edition, 2010 edition, 2009 edition, 2006 edition — covering tunes from Whitney Houston and Jay Z — the ultimate SEO PPC rap battle that did not end well for me on stage at the Search Insider Summit (SIS), and some solo SIS appearances that didfarebetter.
3. There's no shortage of SEM buzzwords. While we're on the SIS tip, for eight years, I was a one-man buzz-o-meter, capturing the sentiment of the biannual conference through my own version of buzzword bingo. I will definitely miss all my "camp" friends and their crazy antics/lingo.
4. You can turn a few columns into a book. The 20 "Googley Lessons" I laid out over a series of three columns — part 1, part 2, part 3 — served as the outline for my book "Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google" (McGraw Hill, 2010). This column recaps how it all went down and updates the lessons based on what transpired in the years after publishing.
5. You're nothing without your readers — and editors. From my very first column — "Is Google Scrambling?" — the support of faithful Search Insider readers has given me the strength to keep writing. Since I began my tenure as a MediaPost columnist nine years ago, I've had three kids, three jobs, and endless other distractions…. er, priorities, over the years that might have kept me from cranking out my word count. As much as reflecting and writing serves an almost cathartic purpose for me, it's knowing that someone on the other end is actually interested in this stuff that keeps me honest — and on deadline. So thank you all for your readership and engagement.
Special thanks to Phyllis Fine, the editor who's tolerated my eccentricities (and hyperlinks) over the years, and to Ken Fadner and the entire MediaPost team for giving me the opportunity to drop mics and knowledge at will… and Jon Whitfield.
I look forward to writing, rapping, and buzzing for many years to come as a Social Media Insider. See you there in July!
2 comments about "Five Lessons From 272 Columns".
Gordon Hotchkiss from Out of My Gord Consulting, June 3, 2015 at 11:52 a.m.
Well done Aaron. Good luck on the social side of the house. I know first hand how the well can occassionally go dry on a week-by-week basis. 272 consistently insightful and entertaining columns is no small achievement!
Aaron Goldman from 4C, June 3, 2015 at 2:44 p.m.
Thx Gord, you've set the bar high!
AARON GOLDMAN, Chief Marketing Officer, 4C
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Since 2015, we've made it our priority to reduce the harm we cause on the planet. We believe that we can make beautiful, long-lasting clothes in ways that use less water, create less waste, don't deplete natural resources, and decrease chemical use, all while advocating for the well-being of the individuals within our supply chain. Many companies are doing this work and have been doing this work, but we need many more companies to commit in order to affect change. And we believe legislative pressure on brands that aren't prioritizing the planet, their workers, or communities most affected by climate change is needed to enforce industry-wide change.
"Legislative change" may sound daunting so let's explore the process beginning with New York's Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act (also known as the "Fashion Act"). The Fashion Act, which was recently introduced, is meant to make the biggest brands in fashion prioritize sustainability, increase transparency and provide a way to hold them accountable when they're not meeting standards.
The actual bill was introduced this past October by New York State Senator Alessandra Biaggi and Assemblywoman Anna R. Kelles, and for it to pass, it must make its way through both state Senate and state Assembly committees, where it's reviewed, debated, amended and heavily lobbied both for and against (and it should be noted that this is often where good bills go bad). Once it makes it through the committees, the bill must be voted upon by both the Senate and the Assembly. Then, if it garners majority support from both chambers, it arrives on the Governor's desk to be signed into law. In actual weeks and months, this means a vote on this bill in particular should happen by late spring, but we're currently in the committee stage. In other words, this is the perfect time to take action and support the legislation. This Tuesday, April 26th we will travel to Albany to attend The Fashion Act Rally, we hope you can join us.
Asking brands to do better is common, legislation that actually holds brands financially accountable is far less so. The bill would use fines to enforce the measures, and those fines would be placed into a community fund earmarked for environmental justice projects around the state.
The Fashion Act is not the first of its kind, and we know it will not be the last. More bills like this are needed, and, positively, more are getting drafted — and passed.
California, for instance, recently passed the Garment Workers Protection Act (SB 62), which made it the first state to require hourly wages for all garment workers by banning what's called "piecework" — an exploitative system in which people are paid based on the number of garments they make, not the time they work — and penalizing manufacturers and brands for wage theft and illegal pay practices.
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The Fashion Workers Act, which was also recently introduced in New York, would regulate management agencies and provide labor protection for models, hair and makeup artists, stylists, influencers, and other folks working behind the scenes, ensuring a timely pay structure, requiring written contracts and eliminating many long-standing predatory practices.
And finally, and perhaps most substantially, the Garment Workers Fairness Act of 2022, proposed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, would amend a 1938 — yes, 1938 — piece of legislation called the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and could have a massive impact on garment worker protections. If passed, the bill would prohibit piecework compensation on a national level, create new liability requirements to hold brands responsible for bad labor practices and establish new record-keeping requirements through the Department of Labor to assist in the enforcement of the act. Additionally, the bill would create a nationwide registry to help ensure that these standards are being upheld across the country.
All of this is to say that we're past the point of debating whether the fashion industry causes harm when operating unregulated. It absolutely does — to both its workers and the environment. But recognition is hollow without action, and holding brands accountable, and creating ways to hold them accountable, is absolutely critical to realizing change. This is why legislation must address both sides of the problem in order to affect significant and measurable reductions of harm.
So that means that how bills are implemented is just as critical. We can't allow for these bills to get drafted and then forgotten about, and furthermore, we have to ensure that reparations and equitable benefits are not merely a priority when drafting them, but central to their text and implementation. And if we're talking equity and reparations, it is essential that future legislation is focused on the environmental impact that the fashion industry contributes to which disproportionately affects BIPOC communities and lower socioeconomic communities.
Without the centering of Black and brown leadership, no bill can adequately address the harms the industry has caused. In other words, using fines to fund environmental justice projects is a needed step to offset some of the damage — but without social, racial and economic justice projects as well, it is only addressing part of the greater sum.
We need legislation to hold companies accountable and it is critical that leadership forming this legislation is racially representative and equitable. The more we can hold companies accountable, the more we can foster conditions that promote equity, inclusion, opportunity and reparative justice — both for the people and the planet.
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The future of children is Americans' greatest general concern.
The effect of peer pressure is the greatest specific concern surrounding their future.
It should be. As readers of this blog are aware, I contend that peer pressure has the rule of law in this society, and this starts with the much vaunted "socialisation" obtained in schools. However, when parental and school administrative examples are weak, peer pressure will dominate the view. It's that simple. Peer pressure ultimately engendered the "teen culture" which has been a fixture in our society since World War II.
Peer relationships–and the pressure that goes with them–are not only unavoidable, they are important in personal development. Left without connection to the past, however, they become a classic case of the blind leading the blind. Left without substantial counterbalance, they become a tyranny that no amount of law or rules can break.
Now, misbehaving youth can have their adult authorities fired with a single accusation. No evidence or substantiation is required. Witnesses will not be considered. The worst a teacher can impose on a wayward youth is paper-pickup, which he can refuse. If the teacher has an excellent reputation and is well-liked, this will be considered as proof of inappropriate contact with students.
In school districts from coast to coast, the greatest part of an operating budget is human resources. Thus, costs can be kept down by keeping 80% of staff only for one year. The more educated and more experienced a teacher, the more expensive. Thus all districts in the USA remove the best teachers from staff in order to keep costs down.
In such a system, youth find that their teachers and administrators are below them in intelligence and ability. They will acquire a disrespect for all authority. Yet, they will be kept in school against their will for long hours until they are 18. This prepares them for the work force wherein they will keep their anger against authority to themselves whilst submitting themselves to employment for 60-90 hours a week without protest.
If they are employed, they will have their pay, but without time for their families or superfluities such as church.
If they are employed, they can expect to be replaced by non-whites which are flooding ALL white countries and ONLY white countries. ALL in white countries and ONLY white countries must assimilate, i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
Thus respect for valid authority and the church is cleared away in order to facilitate white genocide.
PcH–what you need to do is to get together with Jack Spong.


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News & Events > What's New at CCS? > 2018 > Governor reappoints Beth Thew to CCS Board of Trustees for second 5-year term
Governor reappoints Beth Thew to CCS Board of Trustees for second 5-year term
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee announced his reappointment of Beth Thew to the Board of Trustees for the Community Colleges of Spokane.
"Beth Thew is a champion for the Community Colleges of Spokane and is an outstanding leader on our Board of Trustees," said Christine Johnson, CCS Chancellor. "Beth advocates for our students and tells our legislative leaders about the transformational role of community colleges." Thew was first appointed to the board five years ago. She currently serves as chairwoman of the governing board. Her term will continue until September 2023.
Thew is the retired secretary-treasurer for the Spokane Regional Labor Council, AFL-CIO. An active advocate for labor and workforce development in the region, Thew is a member and past vice-chair of the Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board and a commissioner with the Washington State Economic Development Commission. She also serves on Spokane Area Workforce Development Council and United Way of Spokane County Board of Directors.
"My goals are to grow Washington's economy, strengthen our schools, and promote a culture of performance and efficiency in state government," Inslee said in his reappointment letter. "I ask that you take personal responsibility for making sure the Community Colleges of Spokane Board of Trustees operates in a way that is transparent, responsive and focused on implementing lean management tools to achieve results. These are the public's expectations as well as my own."
Thew served as a member of the Washington Learns Higher Education Task Force; Washington State Labor Council, where she chaired its education, training and apprenticeship committee and economic development, transportation and job committee; and American Red Cross, Inland Northwest Chapter Board of Directors.
She has volunteered for Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 51, Boy Scouts of America Troop 2 and the International Order of Job's Daughters, where she received the organizations Evergreen Award for outstanding adult volunteer/involvement in 1997.
Community Colleges of Spokane is a dynamic, 12,300-square-mile state community college district that includes Spokane Community College, Spokane Falls Community College and six rural education sites, serving residents in Pend Oreille, Stevens, Whitman, Ferry and parts of Lincoln counties. The colleges are now enrolling for summer and fall quarters. Learn more at ccs.spokane.edu.
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TransHab was first conceived in 1997, by a team of engineers and architects at the Johnson Space Center. In October the Space Human Factors group was asked to join the design team in developing the best size and layout for the spacecraft. Based in part on psychological, social, operational and anthropometric** lessons learned from earlier US and Russian missions, the team recommended a three-level internal layout and a shell radius of 7 feet [2.15m] greater than the core; crew quarters isolated at the center; mechanical systems grouped together in a separate "room" and exercise and hygiene situated on a different level from the public functions of kitchen, dining and conferencing.
The ISS-TransHab was designed based on lessons learned from American and Russian experience in long-duration spaceflight, including: Skylab**, Salyut ** and Space Station Mir**. As space missions become longer, human performance is increasingly significant to the success of any extended mission. TransHab's generous volume—over 342 cubic meters—allows this vehicle for the first to offer the crew "rooms" for different activities without the need to stow and deploy equipment. In other words, TransHab is planned for continuous, low-friction use by a diverse crew.
TransHab is a wonder of applied engineering: cutting-edge materials technologies have been borrowed from various terrestrial applications and combined to create the first viable space inflatable structure. Space inflatables have long been considered a valuable idea because of their high volume-to-mass ratio; due to the technologies used to insert payloads into orbit, it currently costs nearly US$10,000 to launch 600 grams of mass to LOE. However, an inflatable alone does not have the stability to function well in a vacuum. Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov attempted to use an inflatable airlock from a Soyuz module in the late 1960s with unsatisfactory results. TransHab has broken both this barrier, and proven in ballistic, vacuum and radiation tests that this type of vehicle is viable for spaceflight.
Because of the need to save weight, TransHab's design is specifically intended for use in a microgravity environment; in other words, once it is unfolded, its internal structures are not capable of carrying weight. Like the Apollo Lunar landing module, it would collapse if people tried to use it on Earth or Mars, though both are every bit as strong as they need to be to do the job in space or on the Moon.
Moon or Mars [see KJKennedy essay]. And, since the whole package is made to deploy itself with little or no human intervention, it is also ideal for use in other hazardous environments like Antarctica.
TransHab has been reviewed and approved by spaceflight experts who designed such vehicles as the X-15, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle. Because of funding, further development of TransHab and other parts of the Mars DRM is still slow; but it is very likely that a TransHab type spacecraft will be built and deployed on orbit by the year 2010, and ready to support the first human mission to Mars as early as 2020.
Combining ancient methods like basketweaving with the most advanced technologies of our time, TransHab profits in its conceptualization and design from the combined experience of three decades of American and Russian spaceflight. As such, it is a fusion of innovative engineering with the entire history of human travel in space. TransHab represents a major benchmark in typology, integrative design method and technology which will enable humans to take the next step in scientific exploration of our Solar System.


You're listening to Lesson 28 from the sermon series "1 Timothy" by Pastor Ricky Kurth. When you're done, explore more sermons from this series.
The "things" Paul tells Timothy to "flee" (v.11) are the things he just mentioned, the desire to be rich and the love of money (v.9,10). Timothy was a "man of God" like Moses (Deut.33:1) but even men of God weren't perfect (IKi.13:26) and had to be told what to do, as here.
To "flee" means to run from danger, so these things must be as dangerous as fornication, which Paul also says to flee (ICor.6:18). No one thinks a rabbit is a coward for running from a wolf, since he is not equipped to deal with it, and no one should think Joseph a coward for running from fornication (Gen.39:7-12). Idolatry, which is covetousness (Col.3:5) must be just as dangerous if we are told to flee it (ICor.10:14). We aren't equipped to deal with these things and must flee them.
Since Paul says to flee the profit of money and follow these other things instead, in that context he is saying to flee the profit of money and follow things that will profit you eternally. So lets focus on the profit of these things.
"Righteousness" is doing right, like helping the poor (IICor. 9:9). That kind of righteousness endures forever, unlike the profit of riches (ITim.6:7). "Godliness" is also something you can take with you (ITim.4:8). Since Timothy already had saving "faith," the word faith here must refer to the profit of faithfulness (Pr.28:20). "Abound" is the verb form of "abundance," a word used mostly in Scripture to describe Solomon's abundance. But not even Solomon could take his riches with him—but a faithful man could, and still can.
Paul also says to flee the profit of money and follow "love," another thing that profits eternally (Col.2:2). There is also eternal profit in "patience" (Ps.37:7) if you wait for the Lord. "Meekness" means not easily provoked and there was profit for it under the kingdom program (Mt. 5:5), for if you gained the world you gained everything in it. And there must be eternal profit in it for us as well if Paul tells us to follow it.
Now that you know what to flee and follow, you're ready to fight (ITim.6:12) against those who teach error. If you'll do these things, you'll "lay hold on eternal life." Some teach that this means the way to be saved is to flee bad things, follow good things and fight the fight of faith, and can quote Isaiah 56:1,2 to prove it. But while it is good to define Scripture by comparing Scripture, you have to be careful when comparing prophetic Scripture with mystery Scripture. So what does it mean to lay hold on eternal life?
First, you need to know it is possible to lay hold on some-thing you already own (Mt.12:11). A sheep in a pit is still yours, but it can't benefit you until you lay hold on it. When you fall in the pit of sin, salvation is still yours, but you can't benefit from it until you lay hold on it by fleeing bad things, following good things and fighting the fight of the faith. But if you do, you'll "live" (Ro.8:13), really live, live it up, spiritually speaking. Why wait until the next life to enjoy your eternal life when you can lay hold on it now? If you live in sin you'll continue to live in eternal life, but you'll just be eeking out a living, and God wants so much more for you.He doesn't want you to just survive the Christian life, he wants you to thrive and live it to the fullest.
Did you notice that this is what you are called to? (ITim. 6:12). God didn't call you to desire to be rich and love money, you were doing that just fine before He saved you!
If you're not fleeing, following and fighting, don't be wondering why all things don't work together for good (Rom.8:28), for God's purpose for you is to flee, follow and fight, and He called you according to that purpose.
If you need help in doing these things, notice Paul reminded Timothy he had professed a good profession before many witnesses at his ordination (6:12). He reminds him of this because he knows Timothy will feel spiritual pressure to live up to the profession he made at that time that he would flee, follow and fight. You may not be ordained, but if you start telling people you're saved, you too will feel the pressure of living up to your profession. This is the reason many Christians remain silent about being saved, they don't want that pressure.


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· What is the difference between hope as commonly understood and the biblical understanding of hope?
· What are some things you hope will happen but aren't sure they will? What are some things that the Scriptures say we can "hope" in? Can you provide Scriptural support?
· What are some things that you hope will never happen to you? What difference does "the hope of glory" make in potential situations like that?
· How does confidence in the sovereignty of God help you deal with the difficulties of life?
· How do you reconcile the sovereignty of God with human responsibility?
· How do you maintain a firm commitment to the sovereignty of God over all things, as the Scriptures teach, without developing a fatalistic view of life?
· If you are a believer, God has been unspeakably gracious to you to declare you forever righteous in God's eyes. What difference does this make in your desire to change more and more into the image of Christ?
· Is there a particular sin that has haunted you for a long time and has left you without any confidence that you could ever find victory in this life? Do you think it would provide any hope if you were to seek the help from your small group and ask them to pray for you.


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Home / Hipland Blog / Ed Wells contemplates the meaning of "home" in his soulful debut ep
Ed Wells contemplates the meaning of "home" in his soulful debut ep
London-based, Sydney-raised singer-songwriter Ed Wells introduces us to his unique electronic soul sound on his debut EP "Home".
A vibrant mix of modern soul and R&B, "Home" is a collection of songs of which Ed has reflected on different aspects of modern life, searching for the definition of 'home' at every stop on his meandering journey. Showcasing his supreme keyboard talents, the instrumentation across all 5 tracks provides the perfect soundscape for his luscious, husky voice.
For the past several years, Ed has been building his fanbase in London where he currently resides, having recently graduated from Durham University with a law degree. Being surrounded by some of the best neo-soul artists from around the world, such as Brisbane's Jordan Rakei, London has evidently inspired Ed to produce some of his most impressive work to date.
Besides discovering where home lies, Ed explores topics such as our reliance on technology and 'future-focussed living' on tracks "1983" and "GMT". He describes the focus track "Atlas Love" as...
"a simple love song which reflects on the feeling – which I think happens in almost all relationships – when things are so raw, but you know that things are better off with you being apart."
With the help of supremely talented producer Luke Gerber, Ed has crafted a beautiful body of work that resonates with anyone trying to find their place in the world.


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