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Joshanloo, M., & Jarden, A. (2016). Individualism as the moderator of the relationship between hedonism and happiness: A study in 19 nations. Personality and Individual Differences, 94, 149-152.
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The accounts department of Greencore foods store all purchase invoices on e-docs UK 's OneViewDM platform to manage approvals across their multi-site operation. The success of the initial service led the HR department to choose OneViewDM as the vehicle to allow both archiving and current use of HR files, Payroll files and Occupational Health Records. Staff access documentation on a daily basis with users strictly defined to only allow access to records they are authorised to see. Greencore Foods now house in excess of 150,000 pages on the OneViewDM Platform.


According to the authors Cognitive Science presents central theories and problems in the study of the mind and brain explaining how and why cognitive science aims to understand the brain as a computational system that manipulates representations. Even though one can locate a number of text books on cognitive science now the book under review distinguishes itself from the rest in emphasis and the critical concerns that each participating discipline shows to a particular topic in the buildup of what cognitive science is about. The participating disciplines according to the authors are artificial intelligence, computing, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. The authors discuss at length these concerns in the first chapter "Beginning Concepts", giving a coverage of 48/243 pages.
The other chapters are on 'Windows on the Brain and Mind', ' Perception ', Thought: memory, reasoning, and knowledge', 'Action and Emotion', 'Language, and 'Consciousness'. These are besides a list of references and an index. One will notice a striking non-inclusion of The Philosophy of Cognitive Science chapter in the volume, knowing fully well the contributions made by the Philosophers in the field. The defense of this non -- inclusion as put forth by the authors is that the present is a 'text for the new discipline of cognitive science and not a set of mini-introductions for an old-style "interdisciplinary" course in psychology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy , and so on. ... 'the unifying model is that of collaborative knowledge' – A cognitive science with a new paradigm (viii).
Each chapter has followed the above discussion strategy. And that can be taken as providing a distinctive approach to the subject matter.
In reviewer's opinion this is a text to help the undergraduates in developing a distinctive approach to the subject matter of cognitive science. This is supported by the observation that each chapter has been written by giving a spread of discussion over to the salient issues that pertain a specific title of a chapter. The discussion is descriptively analytical.
Consciousness, the last chapter, receives a sketchy presentation, going by the concerns it is being shown contemporarily not only by the neuroscientists and other researchers working in the frame of cognitive science, but also by the philosophers of cognitive science.
Memory, reasoning, and knowledge conceptually are the constituents of thought requiring an intimately close interaction amongst them to come to a definition of thought yet the three unit processes have always stood alone in cognition and in cognitive psychology. The brief presentation each one of these three units has received in the text is striking and does make one uneasy.
All in all, the text is written in a crisp and pointed language, straight homing on the information to be conveyed. The reviewer also wishes that the authors had said something about the methodological concerns of the cognitive science.


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Everyone knows you "cannot shout fire in a crowded movie theatre." The statement by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in US vs. Schenck in 1893 actually was "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." However, a few years ago Trevor Timm in The Atlantic wrote
Brandenburg v. Ohio effectively overturned Schenck and any authority the case still carried. There, the Court held that inflammatory speech--and even speech advocating violence by members of the Ku Klux Klan--is protected under the First Amendment, unless the speech "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action" (emphasis mine).
Well, obviously, because in Charlottesville, The Washington Post notes,
At one point, police appeared to retreat and then watch the beatings before eventually moving in to end the free-for-all, make arrests and tend to the injured. Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) declared a state of emergency about 11 a.m. and activated the Virginia National Guard.
"The whole point is to have overwhelming force so that people don't get the idea they can do these kinds of things and get away with it," said Charles H. Ramsey, who headed both the District and Philadelphia police departments.
But overwhelming force depends not only upon the number of people but also how well armed they are compared to their adversary, those who believe "they can do these kinds of things and get away with it."
Many people have criticized the police for their passivity on Saturday in Charlottesville. The New York Times reports that one United Church of Christ minister complained "There was no police presence. We were watching people punch each other; people were bleeding all the while police were inside of barricades at the park, watching. It was essentially just brawling on the street and community members trying to protect each other." One state legislator said the police might have been "waiting for a more effective time to get people out" of the park.
Fortunately, the Governor evidently understood as he "fiercely defended the police in an impromptu sidewalk interview, noting that many of the demonstrators were armed, and saying the officers had done 'great work' in a 'very delicate situation.'"
The problem wasn't the police. It was the Second Amendment and more specifically the right of "open carry."."
As the map below from Wikipedia displays, twenty-four states have open carry laws as permissive as does Virginia. (Only four states and the District of Columbia effectively prohibit the practice. If you flunked geography, check out Wikipedia's chart, and be prepared to be shocked at two.) If the Charlottesville police had responded as aggressively as many individuals claim they could have, there would have been much more blood in the streets, which would not have pleased any UCC minister.
The police could have prevented most of the violence in Charlottesville. But they could not have done so without a show of force that would have left the kind of carnage Donald Trump sees in America generally. They were facing two invisible enemies, one of them the national fetish with guns, the other the myth that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess firearms. If we don't see our way clearly through this, the next time we won't even need white supremacists to shout about the fire.
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Q: How do I get templates inserted from custom block helpers to be individually rerendered in Meteor? When I use the built-in block helper #each, book templates are rerendered individually when changed:
users =
  _id: 'foo'
  books: [
    {name: 'book1'}
    {name: 'book2'}
  ]

<template name="user">
  {{#each books}}
    {{> book}}
  {{/each}}
</template>

<template name="book">

{{name}}

</template>

When the data is changed - the first book name is set to 'bookone' instead of 'book1' - only the book template (the div containing 'book1') is rerendered. This is the desired behavior. When I use a custom block helper, the behavior is different:
<template name="user">
  {{#each_with_id}}
    {{> book}}
  {{/each}}
</template>

<template name="book">

{{name}}

</template>

Templates.user.each_with_id = (options) ->
  html = "
  for book, i in this.books
    this.name = book.name
    html += Spark.labelBranch i.toString(), ->
      options.fn this
  html

Now when the name of the first book changes, the whole user template is rerendered.

A: It does not work as you expect, because the implementation of built-in each is based on the cursor.observeChanges feature. You will not be able to achieve the same exact result without using an auxiliary collection of some sort. The idea is quite simple. It seems that you don't have a "books" collection but you can create a client-side-only cache:
Books = new Meteor.Collection(null);

where you will need to put some data dynamically like this:
Users.find({/* probably some filtering here */}).observeCanges({
  added: function (id, fields) {
    _.each(fields.books, function (book, index) {
      Books.insert(_.extend(book, {
        owner: id,
        index: index,
      }));
    }
  },
  changed: function (id, fields) {
    Books.remove({
      owner:id, name:{
        $nin:_.pluck(fields.books, 'name')
      },
    });
    _.each(fields.books, function (book, index) {
      Books.update({
        owner : id,
        name  : book.name,
      }, {$set:_.extend(book, {
        owner : id,
        index : index,
      })}, {upsert:true});
    }
  },
  removed: function (id) {
    Books.remove({owner:id});
  },
});

Then instead of each_with_id you will be able to the built-in each with appropriate  cursor, e.g.
Books.find({owner:Session.get('currentUserId')}, {sort:{index:1}});

You may also look at this other topic which basically covers the same problem you're asking about.

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Q: Is it bad practice to use a domain controller as private web server? Assuming correct security settings is in place, is it bad practice to use a domain controller and DNS server as web server?
I don't mean a public website but rather a ERP.
The server will have other software on that are related to network management such as unifi controller for our wifi. But I would like to have our custom ERP on there too which will be accessible outside the network on private URL.
The domain controller has about 30 computers under it. Oh and this is MS active directory of course.
Thanks in advance. ☺

A: Yes, it is bad practice. One example why is because if one of the secondary functions interferes (crashes the box, hogs the memory, fills a disk, etc) with the primary function (serving authentication requests), this could have wide spread impacts in the domain.


I know it's been a while since I've written anything. I've been busy trying to grow some nuts. Hey, you went there all on your own and shame on you. Nuts...pecans. They grow on trees. I have forty trees, I think. It depends on how many beers I've had before I try counting them, but thirty-five to forty trees. (FYI - I've downed a total of two beers the past two years.) Pecan trees are like children and horses. They demand lots of attention.
A severe drought settled upon west Texas a few years ago. Not one single drop of rain for three years. Millions of trees died, as a result, some of mine included. I had one hundred and twenty trees before the drought, so you might say I've down-sized since those days. With a chainsaw in hand, I sat out this spring to whip the remaining trees back into shape. They eagerly reciprocated by whipping me back into shape. I've not worked this hard in years and find myself really enjoying my return to nature after my retirement from a mundane job that literally held me prisoner for twenty-three years. Birds of all varieties, cottontail rabbits, and an occasional skunk entertain me beneath a scalding summer sun as I tote a chainsaw from tree to tree in an attempt to accomplish my mission.
It was the original plan, after all. For those twenty-some-odd years, I grinded away at a dead end job dreaming of a day to come where I'd tend to my trees. The loss of two-thirds of my orchard knocked the wind from my sails, but really...forty trees are enough for an old man like me. right? Beat up, battered, bruised, and bleeding I trudge back to the house as the sun sets every evening, easing my aching body into a chair on the patio. And I sit there as the sun drops below the horizon of a west Texas landscape, staring at my trees and nodding my head with approval.
I recall meeting the man who sold me this place over two decades ago. The two of us stood on the porch of what would become my home, staring at nothing more than a vast patch of weeds.
He commented as he waved his hand, "There's a hundred and twenty pecan trees out there hiding in those weeds."
I thought to myself, "Well, I do like pecan pie."
I spent countless hours reading every article I could find about raising pecan trees. I babied those trees, catering to their every need. Pecans began to fall...lots of pecans. And I began selling them...all over the world. When I sold all of my pecans, I bought more from anyone in west Texas who had a tree or two. People from Amarillo to Odessa began bringing their pecans to me. And still, I would sell out every year. And then the drought came.
Discouraged, I let it go, the orchard and the pecans. The water was scarce and with temperatures soaring as high as 114 degrees, there was little hope of saving my trees. Bored, I turned my attention to writing, penning a few novels and spinning stories on the internet. On a whim, I wrote a book about growing pecan trees. After all, it seemed a shame to let all that knowledge go to waste. The book began to sell well on Amazon and I garnered a respectable following. I made how-to videos and posted them on a Facebook page and Youtube. Folks began to message me about their pecan trees, yes even call me from all over the United States with questions about their trees. As it all began to grow almost out of control, I realized how much I really loved those poor, struggling trees that clung to life in hopes I'd come back to save them. One spring day I donned my super-hero shirt and tied a red cape around my neck and set out to rescue those trees. And...they are making a comeback faster than Fleetwood Mac!
"What in the world am I going to do with all those nuts when they fall."
I took a sip of coffee and said out loud to no one in particular, "Well, I do like pecan pie."
A cool southern breeze blew across my face as I realized just how much I love a simple way of life where nothing much matters except me and my nuts.
*Rodney Strange is the author of the best selling book, 'Pecan Tree Care,' available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle edition.


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2-day Belgium mini cruise to Bruges (Zeebrugge) with P&O's Aurora.
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Premier League Football Betting Tips – The Form Table Never Lies….(Part 2)
We ran a similar column to this on Friday last week, and the premise is simple: forget everything you think think you know about the Premier League, and instead use the only metric that has any relevance – the form table – to make betting decisions.
We placed £5 on each of our ten selections….and when the dust had settled we'd returned a profit of just under £70. Not bad for a weekend's work.
So it made sense to run the experiment again to see if we can turn a profit for two weeks in a row, and so that is what we shall do here.
The Form Table
It's quite simple really: this is what the Premier League table looks like for the last eight rounds of matches. This should be your only guide when constructing your betslip this weekend:
The Selections
West Ham vs Arsenal – The Draw
Just two places and one point separate these two sides in our league table, and so instantly we're starting to sniff out a draw.
Both have a positive goal difference, and while both are scoring reasonably freely neither defence is proving particularly generous. You'd imagine both sides would be happy with a point here, and in these kinds of scenario that is what usually plays out.
£5 returns £18.75
Aston Villa vs Bournemouth – Bournemouth to Win
Having lost seven of their eight matches during our sample, it is hard to give Aston Villa a chance against anyone, let alone a Bournemouth side that have lost just 50% of their matches according to our statistics.
Most eye-catching is Villa's defensive record: they are conceding at a shade under three goals per game. The Cherries may have a -6 goal difference but they are capable of scoring goals….and Villa simply aren't. Away win.
£5 returns £11
Crystal Palace vs Norwich – Both Teams to Score
There isn't much to choose between these two sides as our league table attests, but one thing that is obvious is that there is a potential for goals here.
Norwich's goals scored-per-game ratio is set at 0.87, but Crystal Palace are conceding at a rate of 1.87. The Canaries concede at the 1.25 per game mark, with those Eagles netting in the exact same quantity. So we expect both teams to trouble the scorer here.
£5 returns £9.75
Southampton vs Newcastle – Southampton to Win
Unfortunately, little of any betting value jumps out from this game. We expect Southampton to win given their more lofty league position and the fact that they are playing at home.
But otherwise, it's a bit of a statistical hornet's nest this one. The Magpies are conceding at a rate of two goals per game, but the Saints have only bagged nine in eight. Similarly Newcastle have only netted six in eight, with Southampton conceding nine in the same number. It's hard to pick out anything else of relevance in this encounter.
£5 returns £8
Swansea vs Chelsea – Swansea Double Chance
The table never lies – that is commandment number one (of one) for this experiment. So pop your preconceptions down on the side, pop the kettle on and believe this: Swansea will avoid defeat here.
Why? Because Chelsea only boast a win ratio of 50% in their last eight (meaning they don't win in 50% of their outings), while Swansea have avoided defeat in 5/8 (62%). Put these two numbers together and you have a statistical inference of 56% that Swansea will either win or draw this match….however unlikely it may seem.
Watford vs Everton – Everton to Win
The Toffees have taken four more points than the Hornets in our data range, so we have to favour them straight off the bat. But it is Watford's inability to score – that's just three in their last eight, or 0.37 per game – that tips us over the edge.
Roberto Martinez's men have no problem finding the net – they're knocking them in at a rate of 1.50 per 90 minutes – so we have to naturally favour them here.
Man City vs West Brom – West Brom Double Chance
It's moments like these that will bring this experiment crashing to its knees. But we must persist: the league table tells us that the Baggies have taken two more points than Man City in their last eight matches; conceding less than a goal per game into the bargain.
Look, we know what you're thinking: this is a ludicrous selection. It is, but we have to go with the stats and hope for the best.
Sunderland vs Leicester – Under 2.5 Goals
The tight play of the visitors should mesh nicely with the gritty, avoid-defeat-at-all-costs set-up that Big Sam has employed at Sunderland in this clash.
Leicester's goal ratios (1.37 per game for, 0.62 conceded) when aligned with Sunderland's (1.00 for, 1.12 against), add further fuel to the fire that this should be a low-scoring contest.
Liverpool vs Stoke – Over 2.5 Goals
All of the evidence points towards a net-buster here. Liverpool are notching at a rate of 2.62 goals for and 1.62 against at the moment, so how do Stoke stack up against that?
Very nicely indeed, as it happens. They are netting, on average, 1.50 goals per game but leaking at 1.37. With Jack Butland out injured, expect them to be breached at will here too.
Tottenham vs Man Utd – The Draw
By the powers of deduction, we have surmised that the 'avoid defeat' statistics of these two sides (Spurs don't lose in 88% of matches, United in 75%) mean that a stalemate is likely.


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The men's sprint competition of the Biathlon World Championships 2012 was held on March 3, 2012 at 12:30 local time.

Results

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Q: Matlab integration I have a graph. I need to integrate between certain x values. I don't have a function for the graph, the curve came from an array of x values and y values. How do I  do this?

A: Your best bet is to simply apply some of the basic techniques you (should have) learned in calculus. If you have two data vectors, $x$ and $y$, then you have enough data to apply the midpoint method, the trapezoid method, or any other such method.
For instance, the trapezoid method basically says that the area under the curve between two points $x_n$ and $x_{n+1}$ is approximately equal to $y_n(x_{n+1}-x_{n})+\frac12 (y_{n+1}-y_{n})(x_{n+1}-x_n)$, which is equal to the area of the rectangle formed by the height of $x_n$, and adding the area of the triangle whose base is the distance between $x_n$ and $x_{n+1}$ and whose hypotenuse is the line segment connecting $y_n$ and $y_{n+1}$. This can be converted to Matlab easily:
n = length(x);
S = 0;
for i=1:n-1
    S = S + 1/2*(y(i+1)+y(i))*(x(i+1)-x(i));
end

Or, more succinctly and efficiently,
dY = y(1:end-1)+y(2:end);
dX = x(2:end)-x(1:end-1);
S = 1/2*sum(dY.*dX);


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Brits to receive 4.03 Billion Nuisance Calls In 2022
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If you're in the market for a new mobile phone, you may be considering buying a refurbished model. Refurbished phones can be a great way to get a high-quality phone at a fraction of the price of a new one. But before you buy, there are some things you need to know. In this blog…
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Panasonic introduces police/military smartphone, TOUGHBOOK N1 Tactical
Panasonic today introduced the TOUGHBOOK N1 Tactical, a variant of its rugged Android handheld device, designed for use by the military or public safety officers such as the police. These tactical teams and special operators require the most reliable devices for mission planning, situational awareness (SA) and mission execution. The TOUGHBOOK N1 Tactical, is a…
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OPPO launches Reno8 series for Europe at Paris event
Chinese smart device brand OPPO today has announced the launch of the new Reno8 series in Europe. During its in-person launch event in Paris, OPPO also revealed the OPPO Pad Air, as well as new IoT products for select European markets. Since entering Europe in 2018, OPPO has become a top-four smartphone brand in the…
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Nearly half of all Brits rely on smartphone to make payments, claims report
Mobile reseller Buymobiles conducted a nationwide survey on the UK's payment method habits. Findings showed an overwhelming 70% of participants preferred using cashless payment methods over actual cash. 63% of participants also think that using cashless payments is more helpful when it comes to keeping track of spending. Nearly half of respondents would leave their…
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Young Brits have 10 billion images stockpiled on phones
The nation is filled with young image hoarders, with Brits between 18-24 years of age storing a whopping 10 billion photos between them on smartphone devices across the UK – that's according to new research from photography brand Fujifilm. According to the findings, younger generations are more concerned about memories and events than any other…
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24 million Brits working from their smartphone
Nearly 24 million workers are spending an average of 12 hours per week doing their job from their smartphone as technology improves - nearly double the time spent using pen and paper - according to new research by Uswitch.com. A quarter of people (24%) rely on their mobile phone to make video calls, while close…
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Smartphone gaming can be harmful if bored, claims study
Smartphone gaming can be harmful to players who game to escape their negative mood and feelings of boredom, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Waterloo found that bored "escape players"—those who have difficulty engaging with the real environment and sustaining attention—may seek "flow," which is a deep and effortless state of…
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Tech Digest daily round up: warning for walkers staring at phone
Android users will receive a notification telling them to stop looking at their mobile phones while walking, a leaked new tool suggests. The feature is being tested in an update to the Digital Wellbeing app, tech blog XDA Developers reported. Screenshots of the app show a notification will appear on the screen of the phone, with…
13th April 2021 5th January 2022 Chris Price News
Phone addiction is affecting students' sleep, claims survey
Almost four in 10 university students are addicted to their smartphones, and their habit is playing havoc with their sleep, according to new research. Research from King's College London found that 39 per cent of people aged between 18 and 30 reported symptoms of addiction using a validated tool known as the smartphone addiction scale.…
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Home	Featured	Time for a change?
by Mitchell White July 17, 2020 1 comment
After Ventura moved to remove Junipero Serra statues, changes may be on the horizon locally
The Ventura City Council voted to have a statue of Father Junipero Serra that sat out front of Ventura City Hall be moved to Mission San Buenaventura. Since this photo was taken, a chain link fence was installed to protect the statue from vandalism.
With Confederate statues and monuments being removed or taken down across the country, it appears that some changes could soon occur on a local level.
Just one day after the Ventura City Council voted 6-0 to remove a pair of statues of Father Junipero Serra in front of and inside City Hall, a similar petition has been circulating calling for the removal of the Father Serra statue from the Santa Ines Mission in Solvang.
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The statue of Father Serra stood outside the Santa Barbara Mission, before and after it was beheaded in September 2017. The statue is no longer there.
Started by county resident Maurissa Vigil, the petition to Solvang Mayor Ryan Toussaint calls for the removal of the statue of "a man who spent the majority of his life kidnapping, enslaving and stripping away the culture of indigenous peoples," the petition reads.
"Throughout his life he spread pain, misery and disease to the point where it has been discovered that more indigenous people died under him than were born," it continues. "We as a community need to say we acknowledge this little known history and not pay homage to this man causing further confusion and pain. We want the statue removed as keeping it standing shows reverence and respect for someone who murdered and enslaved so many."
As of Thursday afternoon, the petition had garnered 603 signatures. Many who signed the petition were in agreement of the removal of the statue found just outside the 19th of 21 missions located throughout the state.
"I believe the time is now to get rid of that wrongful statue, as it is a sign of pain and misery for so many people," one person wrote.
Another person called for "more diverse and inclusive role models" in the local community, while another person called the petition "unacceptable," and said that Father Serra helped build California.
A petition has been circulating to remove the Father Serra statue that sits outside the Santa Ines Mission in Solvang.
Father Serra, who was canonized by Pope Francis in September 2015, established nine of the 21 missions in the state.
He is revered by Catholics for his missionary work and is known for introducing agriculture and irrigation systems. But many American Indians say he enslaved converts and played a role in wiping out indigenous populations.
During Wednesday's meeting in Ventura, City Councilmember Sofia Rubalcava said that permanently removing the statue from city property to Mission San Buenaventura showed that the city was "stepping in solidarity" with the local Chumash community.
"When one group of people or when one person is suffering and has suffered a trauma, we all need to step up and we all need to do something to heal that," said Ms. Rubalcava, according to a recent report in the Ventura County Star.
The council also voted to remove a wooden statue of Father Serra from inside City Hall and put it in storage until it's decided where it will be moved.
When reached for comment on the local petition earlier this week, a spokesperson for Mr. Toussaint said the Solvang mayor "does not have a response" on this topic. The spokesperson did acknowledge that the city was aware of the petition.
The News-Press reached out to the Santa Ines Mission, which directed any comments on the matter to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The archdiocese did not return a request for comment.
In a letter published June 29 by Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the archbishop wrote that he understood the pain expressed by native peoples, though he said Father Serra was "a saint for our times."
"What we remember about our past and how we remember it defines our national identity — the kind of people we want to be, the values and principles we want to live by," he wrote. "But history is complicated. The facts matter, distinctions need to be made, and the truth counts. We cannot learn history's lessons or heal old wounds unless we understand what really happened, how it happened, and why."
The Father Serra statue that sat out front of the Santa Barbara Mission was also controversial in recent years. In September 2017, the statue was beheaded and covered in red paint.
The statue is no longer there.
Several other changes could be on the horizon, specifically within Santa Barbara. In recent days, there has been a call to remove a pair of plaques that sit outside the Santa Barbara County Courthouse that honor "the first white men" and "first white women" who marched through the state before arriving in Santa Barbara in the 1700s.
The plaques, which are on a rock that sits near the corner of Anacapa and Figueroa streets, were dedicated in 1927 and 1938, respectively.
"The wording is not appropriate for today, and I think they should be removed," Gregg Hart, chairman of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, told the News-Press.
Mr. Hart explained that county counsel was researching "the best path" to accomplish removing the plaques, which could occur as soon as today.
MITCHELL WHITE/NEWS-PRESS PHOTOS
At left and center, shown are two plaques that sit outside the Santa Barbara County Courthouse honoring the "first white women" and "first white men" to march through the state before arriving in Santa Barbara in the 1700s. At right, the two plaques that sit near the corner of Anacapa and Figueroa streets in Santa Barbara could be removed as soon as today.
Though the courthouse and grounds are within county jurisdiction, Santa Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo told the News-Press that she would support the county government removing the monuments.
"These plaques were dedicated almost 100 years ago, reflecting values that our community is questioning and rejecting today," Ms. Murillo said in an email. "These words commemorate a narrow and incomplete view of history that disrespects the people who were and are indigenous to this area."
In addition, there have been calls to rename at least two city streets.
Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez, who represents the city's Westside, recently shared a post on Nextdoor about a movement to rename San Andres Street, the main thoroughfare of the Westside, to Calle Dolores Huerta.
The sign states that San Andres is named after Andre Pico, who fought during the Mexican-American War, and "was neither a saint nor a resident of Santa Barbara."
Dolores Huerta is an American labor and civil rights activist who worked alongside Cesar Chavez. She is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers.
Earlier this year, Ms. Huerta, 89, was in Santa Barbara and received the Fielding Graduate University's Marie Fielder Medal for Social Transformation.
The award honors an individual who has made significant contributions to society in social advocacy and activism, research, leadership, education and public service. She was the first Latina inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and is the originator of the popular protest cry, "Si, se puede."
Also, the Barbareno Chumash Tribal Council filed an application with the city to change the name of Indio Muerto Street, which translates to "Dead Indian." The group has requested the city change the street name to Hutash Street, which translates to "Mother Earth."
email: mwhite@newspress.com
Mitchell White
News-Press Staff Writer
Supes discuss racial equity
COLBURN, Gaylene
Joseph Klein July 18, 2020 - 4:49 pm
While we are at it, why not take down all these old Missions?. And, why stop there! Why not remove the U.S. Capitol, and return all of the property in the Americas to the original indigenous tribal owners (not the later-arriving tribal owners who brutally seized it from them)?


In an increasingly globalised economy, the demand for efficiency and mobility is increasing. Bigger and stronger regions are needed to attract and retain people and companies who will create the wealth of the future. City regions have become the engines in developing the knowledge and information-based community - enter the 8 million City project, and its links to STRING.
In an increasingly globalised economy, the demand for efficiency and mobility is increasing. Bigger and stronger regions are needed to attract and retain people and companies who will create the wealth of the future. City regions have become the engines in developing the knowledge and information-based community. The development of The Scandinavian 8 Million City Project is rooted in the philosophy that collaboration forms a firm basis for development in a globalised world. By exploring the potential of cooperation, jobs can be created and innovation milieus can be enhanced. ooperation over long distances requires appropriate infrastructure for both passengers and freight. Whilst Europe and the world have been expanding their green infrastructure to stimulate growth - for example through massive investment in high-speed rail - such investment has been slow to progress in Scandinavia, but this is all about to change.
Sustaining Scandinavian competitiveness The countries of Scandinavian have built a good foundation for meeting basic transport needs through decades of infrastructure investments. However, a number of macro trends and challenges threaten the longterm economic growth of the Scandinavian region, including: Regional competitiveness is in decline and has dropped from a ranking of 7.3 five years ago to an average of 10.6 today and thereby below the top 10 according to the World Economic Forum. The world map has rapidly changed over the last two decades and 75% of global economic growth is now being produced in emerging markets far from Scandinavia. The Scandinavian capitals and the surrounding regions are the fastest growing in Europe, which is facing one of its most dramatic economic, cultural and social changes in history. This is putting enormous pressure on the existing infrastructure. To manage the growth, a more holistic and cross border planning approach is needed.
The Nordic countries have decided to become carbon neutral by 2050. One of the major challenges for achieving this are emissions from the transport sector which, in 2010, accounted for 36% of all CO2 emissions in the Nordic countries. In contrast to the rest of the world, 90% of all land-based freight transport is transported on roads. Freight volumes are expected to double by 2030. The countries are insignificant individually and the demographic sizes of the Scandinavian countries are now comparable to cities like London, Mumbai, and Istanbul. In addition, the economies are characterised by export-driven small- and medium-sized enterprises. Our neighbouring regions have invested massively in strategic and effective transport hubs to increase access and mobility of both people and goods - for example the airports of Hamburg-Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, London and Frankfurt each have bigger catchment areas than the total population in Scandinavia. In 2021, the cross-border tunnel under the Fehmarn Belt will be ready and together with a modernised InterCity rail network in Denmark, new freight capacity will be added and high-speed trains will be able to reduce the travel time from Copenhagen to Hamburg down to 2 hours and 30 minutes. It is now up to the Swedish and Norwegian governments to develop their rail network in such a manner that they can take advantage of this new connectivity and connect to the rapidly expanding European high-speed network.
Comprised of three countries and four metropolitan cities, including two capitals, the idea behind The Scandinavian 8 Million City Project is to simply extend what has now been proved to be the most successful integration project between two countries in the Copenhagen-Malmø region into a truly Scandinavian scale. The Vision for 2030 - not so far in the distant future - is a high-speed rail link that will physically connect the eight million inhabitants and contribute to making this mega-region one of the world's most competitive. A high-speed rail link will allow travellers to leave Oslo Central Station and arrive in Copenhagen approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes later. From Oslo it will also be possible to reach Stockholm (via Gothenburg) in less than 3 hours and even Oslo to Hamburg will be an attractive destination by rail due to the fixed link between Denmark and Germany. And from Hamburg the rest of the European rail network will be accessible. 14 partners The partners include the majority of local and regional authorities as well as three government agencies along the corridor between Oslo, Gothenburg and Copenhagen, and this is an extended continuation of the partnership in a precedent project named COINCO (Corridor of Innovation and Cooperation). The City of Oslo and Business Region Göteborg are leading the project.
The Scandinavian 8 Million City Project is co-funded by the EU and was approved for funding through the Interreg IV-A Öresund- Kattegat-Skagerak programme in December 2011, and will run until autumn 2014.
Instead of building a new direct line between Oslo and Stockholm trains where routed trough Gothenburg to take advantage of the already planned HSR- line between Gothenburg and Stockholm.
Dynamic effects due to labor market integration between the Scandinavian capitals and in-between cities.
4-6 years construction time due to modern building technique's with prefabricated bridges. This also gives significant lower CO2 emissions during construction.
The results show that a T-network (Oslo-Gothenburg-Copenhagen and Stockholm-Gothenburg) between the Scandinavian capitals are able to attract passenger volume's that are comparable to other successful HSR investments in Europa. In general the long distance mobility is higher in the Scandinavian countries compared to the European average and this adds up for a lower population density. Copenhagen-Oslo corridor the service is estimated to attract 9,4million passenger per year. (The HSR service between Paris-London has 9,7million passengers a year).
Our calculations show that state support is needed, since a pure private investment is not profitable without taking into account indirect economic effects that will be difficult to isolate. Especially the positive growth effects on intermediate cities and freight transport to move from the roads to the existing rail network. This will increase accessibility, improve traffic safety, and drastically reduce the impact of transport on the environment and climate. Public Private Partnership (PPP) is well-suited for several sub-packages.
This is about connecting Scandinavia's most important metropolitan areas and knowledge environments and making them into one collective and strong innovation and labour market area. Scandinavia will get an efficient and sustainable transport system that opens up the possibility to live in some of Europe's most attractive areas, while simultaneously gaining access to one of the world's most exciting labour markets. You could easily live in the Gothenburg region and commute to Norway or Denmark - or vice versa. Companies, organisations, universities and colleges will find it easier to find staff and researchers with the right expertise. All kinds of businesses will be able to establish themselves in attractive locations for reasonable prices. At the same time, the foundations are in place for flexible connections to an improved communications network within the region, as well as joining fast connections to other regions such as Stockholm and Hamburg, the latter being a geography covered by STRING.


Tomorrow you'll sit your very first IPT exam! It won't be easy - I intentionally write exams to be difficult, because if they don't challenge you then you don't learn very much from them. But you have no reason to worry if you've been working steadily throughout Term 1 - the concepts being assessed are things that we've spent plenty of time explaining and thinking about!
Complete the past papers that have been issued, and the ones on the intranet. The structure for your exam will be identical, so it pays to be familiar with that and with the kind of questions you'll receive.
Make sure you've finished the assigned work for each lesson - particularly the questions towards the tail-end of each lesson, the ones that you tend not to get to before the bell goes!
Skim the textbook for concepts - while we've discussed the limitations of the textbooks (particularly how they are outdated and describe a lot of old technology), they are still very useful when providing definitions and summaries of the information processes, as well as the social and ethical issues.
Finally, read technology news sites and give yourself some practice identifying processes and issues that come up in various systems and situations. One of the most frequent problems that IPT students have is that they can provide a basic description of an information system and its processes, but they come up short when trying to identify multiple issues or when providing a more detailed analysis of how a system works. That comes with practice - so do yourself a favour and get some done before the exam itself.


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Arts & Culture » Culture Club
Chug Chug, Choo Choo, Ka-Ching!/Critical Kiss-Off/Good Hair Night
John Szostek came up with a novel way to finance a home for his small theater. All he had to do was take the train.
by Deanna Isaacs
Chug Chug, Choo Choo, Ka-Ching!
If they were giving one of those special Tony Awards for creative thinking on arts funding, John Szostek would be a contender. Szostek, an Emmy-winning producer and director who specializes in commedia dell'arte, has pulled off a stunt more amazing than any Harlequin can perform. Though funding for fledgling theater companies is as hard to come by as an open road in a blizzard, he got IDOT to bankroll slick new quarters for his two-year-old troupe, the Piccolo Theatre. That's IDOT as in Illinois Department of Transportation, the salt truck and blacktop bureaucracy. The soft-spoken, deft-footed Szostek (also a pro at ballroom dancing) waltzed off with $2.4 million in IDOT grants for a cultural center-cum-theater in Evanston. He just had to make one small accommodation: the theater will double as a railroad station.
Szostek was in the box when he started thinking outside of it. Evanston's old concrete and brick Main Street Metra station has been his office for the last three years in his regular gig as executive director of the Custer's Last Stand street fair, a job he fell into 21 years ago. Back then Szostek, who's also an actor and college drama teacher, was a freelance clown who'd performed at the annual event for several years. When he called to make sure he'd be hired again, he was told there'd be no fair. The merchants who had started it were giving up after eight years because they couldn't find anyone to run it. Unless, of course, he was interested. "I said, 'I've never done this before,'" Szostek recalls. They didn't blink. Under his stewardship the two-day event has become one of northern Illinois' largest art fairs, drawing 60,000 people last year. This year's fair, scheduled for June 16 and 17, will have 300 artists and craftspeople, 30 food booths, three stages, and 100 commercial vendors in blocked-off sections of Custer, Main, Chicago, and Washington streets.
The Main Street station sits in the heart of this area, tucked between the CTA's Purple Line and the Metra tracks (with Custer Avenue to the west of them). It's owned by the Union Pacific, which picked up the decrepit 1908 building when it bought the Chicago & North Western railroad a few years back. Thinking it would be a good idea to have people on the premises, UP offered the nonprofit Custer street fair organization office space at a nominal rent. The bare-bones office and workshop suite had been created in the station's lower level a few years earlier for field engineers who weren't using it anymore. In 1997 Szostek moved in. "And once I got in here," he says, "I thought it would be a terrible waste if we didn't use the rest of the building."
Most of it has been locked up for a half century. The second floor of the Swiss-style station houses the modest waiting room, with its few benches and tables, familiar to local commuters. But when the depot was new, this was one of a pair of terra-cotta-floored, dark-paneled waiting rooms separated by a two-window ticket office and served by a two-story loading and baggage area with an elevator. In 1955, when a model-railroading group was using the lower level as its clubhouse (with a layout that spanned the length of the building), a burglar broke in and started a fire. It didn't destroy the building's 18-inch-thick foundation or brick exterior, but except for the north-side waiting room it turned the upper-level interior into a charred mess. The railroad hauled out the debris and closed off the burned-out rooms.
Sitting beneath this blackened hulk, watching the single waiting room fill with commuters in the early morning and stand empty the rest of the day, Szostek began to muse about what could be done with a damaged space that was in demand only from 5 to 9 AM. In his mind's eye he began to see a way to restore the building and to realize his own dream of a small theater company with a permanent home. Aware that there was more money available to enhance passenger services than to create an arts center, he came up with a plan to restore the depot to its original condition, more than double the waiting-room area, improve commuter parking, expand food service, and provide ADA access to both platforms--and to use it as a cultural center during the off-hours. It would convert from station to classrooms after nine in the morning, to a 50-seat adult theater in the evening, and to a children's theater on weekend afternoons. Transportation funding would be the engine; the theater center would get a nearly free ride. With permission from Custer Street Fair Inc., he worked out a 20-year lease with UP, founded the Piccolo Theatre with former students and colleagues, and began to plow through the voluminous, "very technical" application forms for grants from the federal and state governments. The other applicants for these grants were transportation agencies and municipalities rather than nonprofit organizations, Szostek says. "As far as the Union Pacific knows, there isn't a project like this in their system."
So far he's collected $2.8 million, enough to pay for the building's restoration. About $2.4 million came from IDOT's "Greenlight" program (which provides funding to improve stations, parking, and access for public transportation); the federal government kicked in $386,000. Szostek needs another $810,000 to pay for theater equipment (recessed lights, a portable stage and seats) and an anticipated half-million-dollar first-year operating budget. Custer Street Fair Inc. is looking for ways to raise that money (fairgoers will be asked to donate $1 each) and for a new name appropriate to its broader mission. The renovation and a mural project for the embankment walls, headed by local artist Jim Parks, will tie in with an "Old Town Evanston" plan under discussion to save the historic shopping area along Main and Custer. Szostek says work will begin on the station in July; the Evanston Arts Depot should be operating next spring. In the meantime, Piccolo will open Dario Fo's We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay at Noyes Cultural Arts Center for a three-week run in August.
Critical Kiss-Off
Breadline Theatre Group instituted a "no critics" policy for Fair Lonesome Souls, cowritten by artistic director Paul Kampf and running through June 16. No press night, and no reviews wanted, according to spokesperson Heather Carpenter. "We've found that without a significant amount of name recognition in the city, a good review will only marginally increase ticket sales, but a bad review will kill it," Carpenter says. As a 40-seat Ravenswood storefront producing only new plays, it's hard to get critics to come anyway, she adds. "If you get one reviewer, you're lucky, and then it's so risky--just one person's opinion. And the reviewers we tend to get don't have any frame of reference for this new material. We've had a number of instances where the critics didn't know what to respond to so they wrote about our space. For our last full-length production, American Gothic and Child's Play, we had one reviewer [Reader critic Nick Green]. He didn't like it and it really hurt our sales. He came opening weekend; the rest of the run just died. After that American Gothic got a Jeff nomination for best new work."
Good Hair Night
Just when we had about given up on getting anyone to take hair seriously, the Museum of Contemporary Art announced there'd be a hair color consultation booth at tonight's "First Fridays" event. Next month: nail art.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photo/Bruce Powell.


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Britain's first 2000 head super jail at Wrexham set to make big money for corporations
Sat 1:39 pm +00:00, 8 Aug 2015 17
Since the first private jail was ushered in in 1992 by Ken Clarke, then as home secretary, the results have been mixed – some private prisons have proved innovative and successful while others have been criticised for their high staff turnover, tendency to cut corners and weaknesses in security. According to the National Audit Office, the relative inexperience of staff means that some private prisons can struggle to create a safe environment for prisoners. Private prison contracts in England and Wales are shared between just three companies: Serco, Sodexo and G4S. Overall the costs of private prisons per place are higher than public prisons for most types of establishment. Despite this, the average ratio of prison staff to prisoners is usually lower in private prisons, and staff generally receive a lower level of basic pay than their public sector colleagues.Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) have typically been used to cover the design, construction,financing and management of new build prisons. The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling, has announced plans to expand the prison estate with the construction of new prison capacity, including a new 2,000 place super-prison in Wrexham and four new houseblocks at existing prisons, alongside the closure of six existing smaller prisons, to save £63m a year. 4
Related ? – Will these changes increase the prison population ?
New criminal court charge creates 'unacceptable pressure to plead guilty'
http://www.legalvoice.org.uk/2015/08/05/new-criminal-court-charge-creates-unacceptable-pressure-to-plead-guilty/
A controversial new mandatory court charge imposed on defendants found guilty on trial has led to a mass exodus from the magistracy. It has only been three months since rules were changed so that defendants can now be charged up to £1200 and it has been reported that up to 30 Magistrates have resigned in protest to a charge that has been imposed on a homeless man stealing a can of Red Bull and a teenager stealing sweets. This article first appeared on www.thejusticegap.comhere.
US judge receives 28-year jail term for his role in kids-for-cash kickbacks
An American judge known for his harsh and autocratic courtroom manner was jailed for 28 years for conspiring with private prisons to hand young offenders maximum sentences in return for kickbacks amounting to millions of dollars.
Mark Ciavarella Jnr was ordered to pay $1.2m (£770,000) in restitution after he was found to be a "figurehead" in the conspiracy that saw thousands of children unjustly punished in the name of profit in the case that became known as "kids for cash".
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned some 4,000 convictions issued by the former Luzerne County judge between 2003 and 2008, claiming he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles – including the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea. Ciavarella Jnr, 61, was tried and convicted of racketeering charges earlier this year but his lawyers had asked for a "reasonable" sentence, claiming that he had already been punished enough.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-judge-receives-28year-jail-term-for-his-role-in–kidsforcash-kickbacks-8598147.html
17 Responses to "Britain's first 2000 head super jail at Wrexham set to make big money for corporations"
8 Aug 2015 4:33 pm
The American dream way… All owned by the Jews. They want us all locked up and incarcerated. Didn't work over there and it wont work here. Big business interests again.
Dogman says:
Agreed Lynn.
The prison-industrial complex is so out of control that private prisons have the sheer audacity to order states to keep beds full or face their wrath with stiff financial penalties, according to reports. Private prisons in some states have language in their contracts that state if they fall below a certain percentage of capacity that the states must pay the private prisons millions of dollars, lest they face a lawsuit for millions more.
And guess what? The private prisons, which are holding cash-starved states hostage, are getting away with it, says advocacy group, In the Public Interest.
In the Public Interest has reviewed more than 60 contracts between private prison companies and state and local governments across the country, and found language mentioning "quotas" for prisoners in nearly two-thirds of those contracts reviewed. Those quotas can range from a mandatory occupancy of, for example, 70 percent occupancy in California to up to 100 percent in some prisons in Arizona.
http://ww w.democraticunderground.com/1016125318
Dogman… We all know how this works.! They simply play to a copy book. People are used as comodities. Well thanks to the whistleblowers and the ones with morals we are being educated. The whole thing is just so transparent now. Not everyone can be bought. You cant eat money and that is a fact.
GNJ says:
"Lynn says: The American dream way… All owned by the Jews. They want us all locked up and incarcerated. Didn't work over there and it wont work here. Big business interests again.
Reply 8 Aug 2015 9:01 pm	Dogman says:
And you claim you are not an anti-Semite, Dogman? Wouldn't the clients of you 'dog training' business that you advertise online be very interested to know of your vile Neo-Nazi views?
What a shill. Antisemite is a non starter. That old chestnut blown away. Just look at what the semites have done to humanity. Game over and we are coming for you bloody Satanists and kiddy fiddlers. Tick bloody tock. Scum.
8 Aug 2015 10:07 pm
Lynn, as a person of partly Jewish heritage I find both your anti-Semitism and your threats towards me very offensive.
9 Aug 2015 12:29 am
Lynn, I got this info from a lady in the US:
The US Drug Enforcement Adminstration (DEA)'s manuals on how to construct false chains of evidence have been leaked.
This is how the set-up happens. This is how they train the police. This information is shared all over the world, just not to people like you and me.
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2014/0 … olice.html
sovereigntea says:
@ GNJ Do you condemn as antisemetic terrorism the recent holocaust of a Palestinian ( semite ) baby burned to death in a Israeli settler attack. Do you condemn the other 120 anti-semetic terror attacks against semetic Palestinians as cited in a recent UN report.
If not the you are hoisted by your own logical petard and exposed for all to see as an hypocritical anti-semite and holocaust denier.
Even the IDF blames 'Jewish terrorists'
"This attack against Palestinian civilians is a barbaric act of terrorism," IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner tweeted soon after the attack. Forces combed the area in an attempt to find the perpetrators.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/beta/1.668871
ferryt says:
Ah yes antisemitism.
It's a trick!
From the horses mouth:
https://youtu.be/jUGVPBO9_cA
Ah, Team Outlaw rears it's ugly head. I was agreeing with Lynn about the Prison -Industrial complex, which I think should have been obvious since I didn't mention the Jews, but I wondered if you'd take the bait, lol! I don't have a dog training business you moron. Do you think I have time to train dogs. Don't bring your trolling to this site. You lot made up that rubbish and posted it on some obscure blog, along with the other blog that included my full name and pic.
Ask Stacey Spivey about my Neo-Nazi views, as she's jewish!
Apologies Henry and everybody else..
You have over used this for long enough. Start speaking out about the crimes that the mossad and nutty yahoo have committed read operation paper clip. Learn what has been done in your name. I am not antisimetic you are. What is Jewish it is not even a race it is a made up religion. Israel have got the world under a racist nightmare. We are all up on the whole shitty set up. Millions killed for a complete fake apartheid ilegal state. You are anti semite. Fact.
Oh and I am jewish desent too. I am not getting into an abusive argument. You threw the first insult. I don't intend to feed this insulting attack.
I really want to know how many people we need to lock up.
Tender for contract. not.
Profits first feryt. When they call the tune our laws jump. We are under occupation by the neo-nazi's. Never forget that. ?
Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, was one of two Pennsylvania judges who was paid bribes by a private prison contractor to send black children to prison and keep the for-profit prisons full. Ciavarella, who once sent an African-American child to jail for three months for posting negative comments about her assistant principal on MySpace, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was convicted of racketeering, and has been stripped of his state pension.
But after a federal investigation, it was discovered that Ciavarella and his colleague, Judge Michael Conahan, received more than $2.6 million from privately run youth centers owned by PA Child Care. In 2011, Ciavarella was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was also forced to pay $1 million in restitution.
Once Ciavarella was convicted, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court tossed out 4,000 convictions issued by the judge.
Ciavarella appealed to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to have his 28-year sentence overturned. On July 25, the court denied his request.
Michael Conahan, a former jurist in Luzerne County, was sentenced on Friday to 210 months in custody by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik II. Conahan was also ordered to pay $874,000 in restitution.
(hat tip to shell568 for the info)
In 2010, there were 853,839 marijuana arrests in the U.S. Same year, two private prison companies made nearly $3 billion locking people up.
Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/which-is … mlieHZK.99
As most of us know, what happens there tends to happen here…eventually.
I hope Ken Clark is its first inmate..!!!


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Strong Gale of April 23, 1943
The year 1943 was visited by the rare April windstorm, and this one fairly late in the month, on the 23rd. The low center moved in out of the southwest and passed very close to Tatoosh Island, perhaps just to the south, on its way inland. A very strong pressure surge accompanied the passage of the low at Tatoosh, along with a heavy thunderstorm. The low was at least a 994 mb storm, and a very potent one at that. Compared to many windstorms, this central pressure doesn't seem very high, but history bears out that these lows can be fairly destructive. Cyclones with a similar depth caused significant Pacific Northwest gales on November 15, 1994 and February 7, 2002, among others.
For Washington coastal stations, April was the most unsettled month of the 1942-43 season! The U.S. Department of Commerce Weather Bureau reported, in the Monthly Meteorological Summary publication for North Head, Washington, April 1943:
"There were eight gales during the month, five of them coming during the last half. It was the stormiest month of the 1942-43 season. On the night of the 22-23rd the most severe April storm of record struck North head shortly after 11 p.m. A southeasterly wind during the evening became southerly and rapidly increased to gale and hurricane proportions. An average velocity of over 60 miles per hour was maintained for over five hours beginning at 12:15 a.m. The maximum velocity [of] 77 miles per hour . . . was the sixth highest wind of record at North Head." (Emphasis added.)
The same report mentioned garages being overturned by the wind on the Washington coast, damaged businesses and residences, and smashed plate-glass windows. Telephone, telegraph and power interruption also occurred, but wasn't as extensive as in past storms. Two fishing boats were sunk and about 20 others were damaged in Baker Bay. Docks also suffered damage, and the Government dredge Multnomah suffered the loss of 40 pontoons that supported the pipeline from the dredge to the port dock.
Table 1, below, lists the barometric minimums for the April 23, 1943 storm at selected sites. Compared to many storms of history, these pressures aren't very low. But they were low enough, and a strong gradient across western Washington was established.
Source: Hourly data are from the National Climatic Data Center, unedited surface observation forms.
Eureka [1]
21:00 HRS, 22nd
Medford [2]
00:00 HRS, 23rd
Tatoosh Island
Seattle (Boeing)
[1] Last of six hourly reports in a row with the same reading.
[2] Last of two hourly reports in a row with the same reading.
[3] Last of three hourly reports in a row with the same reading.
Figure 1, below, shows fairly active barometers for interior stations. On the absolute scale, pressures didn't get strongly low, but on the relative scale, Washington stations showed a pretty good drop, falling about 0.60", or 20.0 mb, during the course of the storm. Many windstorms produce 0.70" to 1.00" (23 to 30 mb) drops, so the April 23, 1943 windstorm was a bit short, but not by much.
Table 2, below, lists the maximum gradients for some approximately standard measures during the April 23, 1943 cyclone. Eureka sits in for Arcata.
The coastal gradient in this storm was quite strong, and approached values achieved by the Big Three. Inland, the numbers are quite strong for the PDX-SEA measure, with slackening gradient southward, which reflects the lower wind speeds in Oregon verses Washington.
EKA-TTI
The April 23, 1943 windstorm brought with it a decent "pressure couplet" over much of Washington. Strong pressure changes (+/-3.0 mb and higher) occurred from about Portland northward. Table 3, below, shows the maximum hourly changes in pressure for seven key stations in the Pacific Northwest. The +6.1 mb (+0.18") hourly surge at Tatoosh Island is among the highest for that particular station, though it is shy of the December 21, 1940 windstorm, which produced a +8.5 mb (+0.25") surge. Not even the Columbus Day storm, with a decidedly strong +6.2 mb (+0.18") surge, matched the December 4, 1945 storm.
Source: Microfilm copies of the unedited surface observation forms, obtained from the National Climatic Data Center.
Maximum Pressure Tendencies for the April 23, 1943 Storm
Seattle (Boeing) [2]
[1] The +1.4 mb climb at Eureka is the last of two occurrences, the other having happened at 22:00 on the 22nd.
[2] The -1.7 mb drop at Seattle is the last of four occurrences on the 22nd.
Table 4, below, lists the peak wind and gust for seven key stations in the Pacific Northwest, their direction, and their time of occurrence. "Peak Wind" is a 1-minute average, and "Peak Gust" is an instant reading. By my own personal methodology, a wind event rates the term "windstorm" when the average peak gust of eleven key stations reaches 39.0 mph (gale force) or higher. The April 23, 1943 windstorm surpassed this threshold, and rushed right into moderate windstorm category. Moderate windstorms have an average of 45.0 to 54.9, and major windstorms are those that reach or exceed 55.0. Only a handful of storms have made the majors, including December 21, 1940, December 4, 1945, December 12, 1995, November 14, 1981 and October 12, 1962.
Due to missing stations, and lots of extrapolated gusts, it's a bit of a stretch to compare the average values of this storm to those of later storms where the eleven stations and peak gusts are available. However, the maximum 1-minute winds for Boeing Field, with the measured gust to 67 mph, reflect a very potent windstorm in the Seattle Area. These values are comparable to the Columbus Day storm of 1962 and the Inauguration Day Storm of 1993. It's rather amazing that such a strong Seattle storm occurred so far into spring, but April gales aren't unprecedented, with high wind events also happening in April of 1957 and 1962, among other years. Also, a strong windstorm occurred on May 5, 1880, possibly the latest spring high-wind event on record for Washington.
Source: Hourly data are from the National Climatic Data Center, unedited surface observation forms. For stations where peak gust was not noted, a peak gust was estimated by applying a standard 1.3 gust factor--these values are in italics.
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[1] Peak wind at Medford last of two occurrences, the other having happened at 23:58 HRS on the 22nd.
[2] North Head data from the Weather Bureau's Monthly Meteorological Summary.


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Sci Fi Wire has an amusing interview with screenwriter Terry Rossio, who was promoting the DVD release this week of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST.
Regarding critical reaction to the film - which was bloated, overlong, and poorly structured - the interview implies, without stating outright, that the problems were not with the film itself but with critics.
"The thing that you really want are reviews that are critical, that are analytical, eloquent, insightful, and actually help elevate the understanding of hte movie," said Rossio. "A lot of times critical reviews are sort of disconnected from the actual movie, and that's not insightful or helpful."
Rossio did find some insightful reviews, he says - in Internet chat rooms.
"I do think it's sad that in order to see any discussion of the existentialist themes that underlie the movie, I had to go to the fan boards, because it was not anywhere in any of the professional reviews. You're tyring to look for a deeper analysis, and the deeper analyses are now coming in the new media."
Pardon me, but this sounds a little bit like Don "Rummy" Rumsfeld's "Old Europe" statement: if the establishment doesn't like you, find some fringe group of sycophants who will worship your every utterance as if it were some profound wisdom.
Not that I want to defend mainstream film critics, many of whom are probably as superficial as Rossio suggests. It's just that, in the case of DEAD MAN'S CHEST, the flaws are so glaringly obvious, that it doesn't take in-depth analysis to find them. The nation's film critics may not be particularly insightful, but even a blindman could hit a target this big.
EDITOR'S NOTE: To to problems transferring old posts to our new website, the following exchange of comments has been added to the body of the post.
On to "poorly structured." Please explain ... we did not employ a traditional three act structure, true. How would you have improved the structure?
If the target is so big ... let's see you strike it.
Forgive me for doubting that you are really Terry Rossio, but whatever my feelings about DEAD MAN'S CHEST, I would expect the man whose credits include CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, MASK OF ZORRO, ALLADIN, and that wonderful, unfilmed GODZILLA script to come up with something better than pretending to take the word "bloated" literally. I would be happy to take on your challenge; unfortunately, to go into detail would require subjecting myself to the film again. Who knows? Maybe I'll have an epiphany and reverse my opinion but I rather doubt it.
So you've just illustrated my point.
Movie critics seem to feel a need to present themselves as superior to the work reviewed, so they'll through out assesments as fact without analysis. And so Dead Man's Chest clearly has 'too much plot' according to some, 'no plot at all' according to others, yet no one is willing to step up with anything more insightful.
And sorry, but 'bloated' is one of my pet peeve non-statements, along with 'noisy' and 'the film collapses under its own weight.' Of course you don't mean the film stock itself is bloated, but then what do you mean? It could be you think that there are elements present that are not necessary; okay, fine, then say that, and back it up, and do some freakin analysis.
Hate the movie and find some legit flaws, please do. Back up your opinion with some film history or at least logic.
If you can't be bothered, you might as well just say you didn't like it and leave it at that. But to claim it is overlong -- when it in fact is not -- you might just as well call it 'too green' or 'too wet.' It's lazy pretentious cricism masked as insight.
I guess the target has suddenly shrunk.
But thanks for the nice call out on our Godzilla script.
You want criticsm to be thoughtful and analytical, rather than just mindless bashing. Fair enough, but you overlook the salient fact that I was not writing a full-length review. You suggest there are only two options for discussing your work: a point-by-point dissection or a simple thumbs up/thumbs down. I just don't accept this false dichotomy, and as a writer, I will continue to use figurative language, metaphors, and/or generalizations to convey my point. In the context of a lengthy critique, you may expect and deserve in-depth analysis backed up with specifics, but that's hardly possible in the context of a brief post, like the one that started this conversation. True, my post offered no insights into DEAD MAN'S CHEST, but I didn't pretend to. If I took you literally, I would end up like the title character in Borges' "Funes the Memorious," a slave to an infinite number of specifics, unable to synthesize details into condensed conlusions. Also, I'm not sure what's pretentious about calling a film "too long." You can argue about whether the assesment is correct, but it says something basic that readers can understand (unlike calling a film "too wet" or "too green"). Even "bloated" conveys a sense that the reader can grasp, whether you like it or not. (If there is a problem with the wording, it's that it might be considered redundant.) And let's be honest: if I had called the film "lean, refined, wonderful, and exactly the right length," you would not be calling me pretentious and complaining that I cited no examples to support my conclusions.
Actually I do not suggest there are only two options for discussing a film. And I do not call for a point-by-point dissection ... nor do I want a simple thumbs up thumbs down ... and (sense a pattern?) I'm not in favor of an infinite number of specifics.
Those are your suggestions and interpretations; authorship of those ideas stays with you.
For myself, I am perfectly able to imagine a two line review, or a one paragraph review, that is both short and insightful or accurate, rather than formulatic.
Yes of course one can choose to use figurative language and generalizations, and one can always attempt to be concise. But when a non-fan looks at a fantastic Superbowl game and observes, "It's just a bunch of big guys running around in tights for three hours" there is not the implication this is a condensed version of some more thoughful analysis.
Your review is the equivalent. I would like to think it is the result of some deeper understanding, but I see no evidence.
Now if you had called the film lean, wonderful and refined, you are correct I would not have argued, the distinction being that you would in that case also be correct. But I do rail against 'it has a nice beat and I can dance to it' praise; uniformed is uniformed -- there was a positive review of the film Deja Vu that praised the 'dual time car chase through the streets and tunnels of New York.' Of course there were no tunnels and the film takes place in New Orleans.
Now, there is the danger that in fact our movie *is* the equivalent of 'a bunch of guys running around in tights' and that a quick review, though amaturish and based minimal analysis, could be correct.
In which case I would invite you to consider the inventive dialogue of the film (how many summer movies have you seen that use "the dichotomy of good and evil" as a punchline?); the unique multi-dimensional villain, a man hurt by love so much that he cut out his own heart and hid it from himself; the unique non-hero's journey structure, intricately weaving three storylines into one (shades of Good, Bad & Ugly?); the exploration of the themes of existentionalism and what it means to be a good man in an evil world; the use of foreshadowing; the unique performances (especially Bill Nighy and Naomi Harris); the memorable visuals, especially the trademark rolling water wheel, rolling bone cages and Kraken attack (hey, spectacle is one of the Poetics); the creation of memorable secondary characters who possess real story relevance, again not seen much in summer movies; and the exquisite craftmanship of props, locations, costuming, and stuntwork, etc., where the top artists in their fields spent years carefully crafting each aspect of the film, with considerable invention.
And consider there are many people who have discovered quite a lot in the film. I think it's far more likely that you may have missed elements, rather than they are seeing stuff that isn't there.
If all you see is 'bloated and overlong' well then that's all you see. Seems to me, then, from a wildly inventive and unique film, all you've managed to give back is -- ironically -- an uniformed, formulatic review.
EDITOR'S NOTE: I just want to add that all these years later, I still do not believe this was Terry Rossio. It sounds too much like a fan boy's defense of their favorite idol.


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Baccalaureate degree students who have earned a minimum of 60 hours of degree credit in residence at the University of Louisville will be eligible for consideration to graduate with honors. Students who have re-entered the university under the fresh-start policy must have earned at least 60 credit hours since their return to be considered for academic honors.
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To graduate as an Honors Scholar in Business, a COB student must complete at least 24 hours of honors courses with at least 18 hours in the COB; at least 12 hours at the 300 level or above; and at least two upper-level seminar courses (or one seminar plus a senior thesis), at least one of which must be non-business. The student's final university GPA must be 3.5 or higher.
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HSS degrees: all degree-applicable HSS and SPAD courses
Teaching and Learning degrees: all degree-applicable EDTP and EDSP courses
Organizational Leadership and Learning degrees: all degree-applicable ELFH courses.
Only credit earned at the University of Louisville will be used in calculating grade point averages used in decisions regarding honors.
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May degree applicant: Prior to September 30
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Detailed guidelines and forms are available at louisville.edu/education/advising/graduate-with-honors.
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May degree applicant: Prior to March 31
August degree applicant: Prior to April 30
December degree applicant: Prior to November 30
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Pictures of parks would be nice too.
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Giant Chocolate-Chip Scone Simple to Make and Hard to Stop Eating!
I have never made scones before but knowing I would need something for breakfast for some Thanksgiving guests, I decided to try Lisa Yockelson's Giant Chocolate-Chip Scone as a sweet way to start the day. Lisa's recipes are always a favorite of mine and I have never had a bad recipe from Lisa's vast collection of recipes through the years. This recipe was no different. It is a make again recipe which I hope to make again soon!
Why make a scone now for the first time? The recipe seemed simple! I was not in the mood for a complicated recipe.
Making a giant scone that could be sliced appealed to me as oppose to making individual scones. The recipe was so simple to make I am now kicking myself that I have never tried making scones before! This giant scone disappeared before my eyes and I felt I did not get my fair share of the scone! Did I mention the scone was delicious?
Here is the recipe for you to try for yourself! I hope you will it enjoy it as much as I did!
1. Set the oven at 375 degrees. Line a heavy baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and the 3 tablespoons sugar just to blend them.
3. Scatter the butter over the flour mixture. Using a pastry blender or two blunt knives, cut the fat into the flour until it is reduced to pea-size bits.
4. In a small bowl, whisk together the half-and-half, egg, extra yolk, and vanilla. Pour the egg mixture over the flour mixture, scatter the chips on top. With a rubber spatula, stir the mixture to form a dense dough. Knead it lightly in the bowl for 5 to 7 turns.
5. Form the dough into a plump ball about 4 to 5 inches in diameter. Place the ball on the baking sheet and, using a sharp paring knife, slash a shallow "x'' in the top. Sprinkle the top with extra sugar.
6. Bake the round for 40 minutes or until it sets and turns golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack and cool completely. Use a serrated knife to cut it into wedges.
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It is really not that big and serves 4!


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Davenport mayor addresses recent gun violence
DAVENPORT – Davenport Mayor Mike Matson is addressing recent gun violence in the area.
On Sunday morning, a 19-year-old man was killed in a shooting. Later that same day, a mother of five died after getting shot at Chuck E. Cheese.
Mayor Matson says police are working to address these cases and overall concerns about gun violence.
"Davenport is safe," Mayor Matson said. "We are not and have not been sitting on our hands. Our police department and our city administration has been looking at and evaluating and adjusting resources as needed. And we have been doing that."
The Davenport Police Department has responded to 234 confirmed gunfire incidents as of Oct. 23 this year, according to data obtained by TV6.