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Base Tours
As some of my readers know, I saw the Occupy camps as a recruiting opportunity.
Here in Portland, we specialize in disaster relief operations. The explanation for that is somewhat regional in that we live under the threat of impending doom, as a major earthquake is expected, if geology is any guide.
Another explanation is the pioneers who started coming here after the Lewis & Clark troupe were hardy campers and camping has never been far from the surface. That may be why Portland's was one of the largest Occupy demos, and one of the best organized.
The so-called Elk Club (the people who took the park and lived there in a demonstration community in the shadow of the Elk Statue) is rightly proud of its little window in the sun. We decided to end the demo before the eviction notice. When the evictors arrived, the A Camp kitchen and medical tents were already gone, as was the Food Not Bombs tent in B Camp.
You've probably heard of "eco-tours" (already popular) where tourists travel with experts in various aspects of ecology. They visit both hopeful cleanup sites and disaster sites. Hanford is of course on the list (there's already an interpretive center) as is OMSI (for a taste of Portland's science mindedness).
There's a different kind of tour I'll call "human rights tours" where you have these international groups coming through looking at the USA's prison systems. Of special interest are the holding pens for so-called "illegal" immigrants (per Anglo-Euro jurisprudence) and what work is performed there. The USA is known around the world for its prison-centric militaristic culture and many want to see it first hand, in some cases just to see what they're up against.
Recent meetings with PBI and Amnesty International folks etc., me wearing an AFSC / NPYM hat, have given me some ideas for steering the new recruits. The workshops will dovetail with the weapons inspector programs, a grad school major expected to be popular in this region, as a part of environmental sciences. The disaster relief and cleanup industry is already targeting visitation sites, with assistance from whatever agencies.
By this means, I think expanding travel opportunities for campers is in the cards. It's not "seen one seen them all" by any means. A given Elk Club veteran might start with some local visitations and then loop through a few more distance locations before returning to a local theater or meeting hall to deliver a report. We expect hundreds of such reports, becoming thousands as more become involved. Where the IAEA fits in I'm not sure, given it seems to have been banned from operating in North America (we have queries to State about this).
When monitoring a site, you need to camp out nearby, using whatever gear and sensing equipment the university has provided. How supply lines are managed depends on the scene of course. You might just use the local Wal*Mart, and / or you might need off road vehicles, perhaps electric (less noise, less footprint) to navigate to the kitchen. Some camps will grow a lot of their own food, perhaps with assistance from various biodome models (designed for permaculture).
The medical tent might need special equipment for over-exposure to whatever toxins had been determined to exist in this environment. GIS / GPS servers will be aggregating this data.
Outfitting all the frack sites with sensors is already jobs aplenty for an FDR-scale CCC. Anyone who thinks there's a shortage of work opportunities should think again. Foreign aid agencies, as well as church networks, have their role. I should draw on more contacts in Vilnius for more church involvement.
Comic Interlude
:: occupation of world's smallest park, Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon ::
Sam was pounding the table today, saying we weren't ephemeralizing fast enough.
We were at Laurelwood Brew Pub planning a next gala event, in part a homecoming for those who'd been at RISD this year, for the SNEC event (yeah, insider jargon, I'm full of it).
On the ephemeralization front, Occupy is in the lead, taking over the world's smallest municiple park today, according to the Guiness Book of World Records. Hi Cameron.
It'll be a failure of capitalism this Xmas if we don't already have the action figure kits, manger scene scale (like toy army guys), with little anarchists with tents, little riot cops with vans.
Junior can line up the cops around the camp while the anarchists amass. Depending on political leanings, the narrative may go differently.
Some will put the baby Jesus right inside a tent (Food Not Bombs tent?), complete with straw, cute animals, and a few defectors from the 1% (the three Magi).
Others will have their policemen smash those dirty commies with gusto, MacArthur style (President Hoover as King Herod?), while mom & dad beam proudly.
Koski has been replying to Zubek on Youtube, sharing the war on Poly, where grown children are still grumbly-grumpy about Bucky getting a molecule named after himself 'n stuff, when he really didn't invent anything new.
How can you put a refrigerator in a dome shaped home anyway?
Gimme a break right?
I bet they talk like this at Harvard all the time (snicker, superior Princeton sniff).
Me to David (typo fixed):
This stuff about the fridge:
You should remind folks that many of the architects working with
Fuller came up with more conventional rectilinear "stage prop"
interiors, that would protect privacy, but not have to be weatherized,
as the surrounding dome was doing that. More efficient, by simple
back of the napkin computations. More green. More sustainable.
In fact, Fuller's designs were quite smart and his cultist followers,
e.g Kirby Urner, think the ambient culture just didn't have the IQ.
"It's Planet of the Apes around here" is his usual off-the-kuffka
remark (cuffka.com).
The usual picture, duh:
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue22/buckminsterfuller.htm
http://www.mydigitallife.co.za/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=tag&category=buckyball&Itemid=29
(duh rectilinear as you like inside -- could be a city)
All this crap about the refrigerator is just teasing at recess, not
serious in any way. "Hey, your zipper's down!".
I'm something of a misanthropist when it comes to mean little children
that grew up to become mean little adults.
I've been yukking it up on the Wittgenstein list too.
POW Camps
A re-gearing may occur when a camp changes status. The Business Plot camps in the Occupy Iraq and Occupy Afghanistan movement have a POW flavor about them. Those caught in these so-called "face saving maneuvers" have become the cosmetology kit for Washington, DC.
As pawns of the privatized security industrial complex, active duty conscripts are prisoners of war-making institutions such as NATO. They are kept in a kind of limbo, akin to refugee status, with a minimum of human rights. The North Americans have developed a prison-minded culture, so spreading this non-democracy to overseas bases is actually just a matter of following the same playbill.
I ranted on the power of prayer in our Quaker adult discussion group this morning, talking about the integrity of a moral vision. This was somewhat in response to the neuroscientific jargon which some Quakers have picked up, part of a meme virus I'd trace to a murky liberalism, by some twisted path.
I also shared about David Koski finally getting to screen cast his work in a way that lets him stay in the environment he's most productive in, a home office setting. That's how my prayers are being answered of late too: in the comfort of the indoors, even though it's the great outdoors that I scheme about (in terms of bringing more interesting work to our state).
Tara came in second overall in the LD category, in the debate tournament just concluded.
I've been sharing about these events on Facebook as well.
I do agree with George Lakoff that people seem easy to program, a two edged sword. The jingo-jihadists who want more war strut out "Republican Guard" as a meme, and the two-stroke thinkers (lawn mower brains) get all fired up, perhaps because "Republican" is "our word" (makes 'em mad just reading about someone else using it).
Stoking hatred for the Pakistanis hasn't been working fast enough either, although WDC's professional hate-mongers have been at it 24/7. As more of this transparent saber-rattling goes on, it becomes easier to isolate the meme viruses to their sources, often tycoon types with out-of-control egos and no use for "checks and balances" -- lots of senile geezers who use their bank accounts to inspire awe among the sycophantic politicos.
OPDX is "bad for business" in the sense of serving with the non-aligned against the self-aggrandizing uber-powers. The camps we're story boarding are not for prisoners so much as for those willing to freely express their conscience by acting on behalf of the Global U, providing food services, sanitation, shelter. How these camps contribute to the betterment of humanity's condition is relatively easy to see.
Kicked Back
I'm in the Michael Jennings Chair of Computer Science, a welcome hand-me-down from a darling FNB couple. This chair was presented pre the Chairman's trip to Brazil, which so far sounds marvelous. They drug it up to the 3rd floor, not far from Hawthorne Theater. Holden chose wisely, among neighborhoods. Welcome to 97214.
I got to Wanderers too late to blog anything about the electric bicycle fashion in Portland. It's a lifestyle option some opt for. My electric ATV and electric snowmobile fantasies somewhat dovetail. Anyway, the speaker had departed well before I got there. Not complaining, as I was having a lovely time down the street, near Angelo's.
I'm back on the front lines of Math Reform again today, an old beat of mine by now, count me as one of the grays. Speaking of which, I was riffling through Powell's on Hawthorne and found an old copy of Everything is Under Control by Robert Anton Wilson.
I bought it for under $13 in part for nostalgia value. Under GRUNCH there's my website teleport.com/~pdx4d/grunch.html
Thank you RAW. The then owner of Teleport married a member of our Quaker meeting (I was at the wedding) and I later bought the domain grunch.net to continue with that work.
Glenn has just arrived, with Amber, his daughter. We're saying good bye to Steve, who departs for Europe tomorrow. Alex Aris came by after, meeting me at the bus stop, bidding our Chairman adieu before he fell asleep.
AFSC Banter
:: federated states ::
Per my squibs to Facebook, there's been much ferment in Quakerdom and old alliances are being supplanted with new ones. Twas ever thus. In the grand scheme of things, Philadelphia is still an important town, and Cherry Street still resonates with some authority. I'm not sure I can say the same for Washington, DC (WDC) however, which seems in steady decline as a world capital.
The new maps have come out, of the new AFSC regions, as devised for North American states commonly considered to be part of a single Federation. That means British Columbia is out, and Hawaii is in. Guam and the Marshall Islands, important foci in my AFSC work, do not seem to have much focus. East coasters especially are not known for their attentiveness to Pacific Rim details and affairs. We take all these maps with a grain of salt therefore. Philly, like WDC, has its characteristic thought patterns.
The timidity of Christians in general is a theme I'd like to take up. I think there's a desperate race to the bottom as each tries to "out meek" the other, in a bid to inherit the Earth. According to Apocalyptic renderings, "the meek shall inherit" meaning if you just keep your head down and do a modest amount of good, then you'll have your reward in Heaven, and perhaps even on Earth, God Willing (InshaAllah). Besides, who wants to be bossy? Just a comfortable "go along to get along" attitude is what most people call "liberalism" these days, and many Quakers would count themselves among them.
"Geek" rhymes with "meek". What if we beat 'em to it? "World domination" was our stated goal as well. Could the prophets have heard wrong, misplaced a syllable? Something for theologians to mull over perhaps.
At the other end of the spectrum, you have your "dangerous Quakers", but then a lot of those are far from Christian (Praise Bob), in terms of branding. These brands have not been well represented as there's a tendency to demonize, forgetting we're still talking about Friends of Christ.
Having a "Christ" outside of Christianity may seem a contradiction in terms, but then Friends are comfortably free of most doctrines and breezily point out that Christ himself was not a Christian, as if that settles the matter.
As an NPYM delegate, I'm supposed to help the AFSC keep up to date on what Friends are doing to fill the vacuum, now that Christianity has dropped the ball.
That's not my only responsibility of course. I represent different lineages. NPYM is an umbrella organization with many branches and sub-types represented. Unless you're intimate with the history, you're probably not aware of how many brands of Quaker there already are.


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Smithsonian Enlists Star Trek Fans to Send USS Enterprise Back in Time
In History & Culture, Spotlight / 10 September 2015
The National Air and Space Museum is asking Star Trek fans to search their memory banks for firsthand, pre-1976 images or film of the original studio model of the USS Enterprise. Conservators are working to restore the ship to its appearance from August 1967, and they will use the primary-source photos as reference materials for the project. Hailing frequencies are open to the public at StarshipEnterprise@si.edu.
Sept. 8 marks the 49th anniversary of the original Star Trektelevision series. The 11-foot-long studio model used in all 79 episodes is currently in the Emil Buehler Conservation Laboratory at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. It will go on display in the museum's Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall in 2016. The public can watch for updates on the museum's social channels and join in the conversation by using #MilestonesofFlight.
This 3.4 meter (11-foot) model of the fictional Starship Enterprise will go on display in the reimagined Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall. Star Trek pushed the boundaries of network television with its depiction of both men and women on a racially integrated, multinational crew and its attention to contemporary social and political issues. It will join other significant artifacts in this gallery to showcase the importance of popular culture's influence on society. (Photo by Mark Avino)
The Enterprise model has undergone eight major modifications since it was built in 1964, both during and after production of the series. The current restoration will restore the ship to its August 1967 appearance, during and after the production of the episode "The Trouble with Tribbles," which is the last time the Enterprise was altered throughout the original Star Trek.
Fans' first contact was in April 1972, when the model appeared at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, Calif., during Space Week, a 10-day gathering of space-related activities attended by more than 50,000 people. In 1974 and '75 the ship was displayed in the Smithsonian's Arts & Industries Building in Washington, D.C., while the National Air and Space Museum's new home on Independence Avenue was under construction.
Firsthand, original images or film of the ship under construction, during filming or on public display at any time before 1976 are particularly useful. Screen captures from the television series, or existing images and clips available online, are not needed. To find out more about submitting material, the public can contact StarshipEnterprise@si.edu.
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Lulu Hassan and Kanze Dena are still good friends, even after Kanze was appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta as deputy State House spokesperson.
The Kiswahili news anchor moved netizens when she penned an emotional letter to Kanze Dena after she left the media.
"Kanze told me a long time before that she would be leaving and I thought it was a joke. I think she was advised to tell me so I could get used as early as possible," Lulu said.
The anchor is now working with her husband Rashid Abdalla on 'Nipashe Wikendi'.
"It is fine working with my husband because he is my friend and so we cope. We hardly argue and when we do, we don't take it that serious, just little misunderstandings," she said.
The couple partnered way back in a local radio station at the Coast, and Lulu says they are now used to that.
"We have not had a major challenge but what we are fearing is that now because we have a baby, there may be a time our baby will not be feeling well, God forbid, and we have to choose who will be responsible for the baby and who will be working," she said.
Although Lulu enjoys being back to work, it has not been as easy because she has a newborn she has to take care of.
Lulu and Rashid made history by becoming the first married couple to anchor for the same television station.
'I found myself always crying,' Kanze Dena revealed her deepest fears!


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The International Maritime Staff Operator Course (IMSOC) was jointly designed by the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) International Programs department and the College of Maritime Operational Warfare to teach international students the fundamental concepts and processes necessary to support a multinational maritime component commander at the operational level of warfare.
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This course is designed for mid-grade international officers but is open to all uniformed military officers, O3-O5 or NATO OF2-OF4. Students must obtain a minimum score of 80 on the English Comprehension Level test.
Location & Duration
The twelve-week curriculum for students is divided into three core components and is taught at NWC in Newport, Rhode Island.
The course is conducted in a seminar format augmented by team planning exercises, tabletop discussions, case studies, and on-site visits.
Students will gain the understanding of art, science, and impact of the maritime domain on multinational operations. They will also learn to apply the Navy Planning Process (NPP) for solving complex maritime problems.
Welcoming New Students
Orientation welcomes new students to the college and includes a tour of the campus, the Newport Naval Station, and city of Newport. It also includes lectures on the history of the college, U.S. government, American society, and U.S. Military culture.
Regional Maritime Capabilities & Challenges
Students from each country will brief the unique capabilities of their nation's maritime forces, multinational relationships that influence operations in their region, and cultural considerations.
Students will study topics ranging from an introduction to Combined Maritime Operations to Operational Law and many of these studied topics will include a practical exercise. Additionally, retired U.S. and international admirals engage with the students during discussions on regional challenges, leadership and optimizing coalition operations.
Navy Planning Process
Students work through the steps of the Navy Planning Process, developing an Operations Order based on a fictitious scenario, the students then transition this order to execution.
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Students rotate between typical Maritime Operations Center (MOC) cells; this rotation helps reinforce the knowledge gained in the foundational and NPP portions of the course.
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The Field Studies Program
The Field Studies Program is designed to ensure students gain an understanding of the responsibilities of governments, militaries, and citizens to protect, preserve, and respect the rights of every individual.
Operational Capabilities Workshops
The Operational Capabilities Workshops consists of a visit to Norfolk, Virginia, Naval Station/Joint Expeditionary Base, where students will tour a major naval ship and receive briefs on operational planning. This trip includes a visit to the NATO Allied Command Transformation, Combined Joint Operations from the Sea Centre of Excellence, and U.S. Fleet Forces Command MOC.
Students will visit other venues, on an opportunity basis, that support the curriculum.
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To apply for the International Maritime Staff Operators Course, please see the U.S. Representative at the Security Cooperation Office at the U.S. Embassy in your country.
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Brig. Gen. John Allen is the Air Force director of civil engineers, deputy chief of staff for Logistics, Engineering & Force Protection, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. He is responsible for providing policy and oversight for the planning, development, construction, maintenance, utilities and environmental quality of 183 Air Force bases worldwide valued at more than $297 billion. This responsibility includes housing, fire emergency services, explosive ordnance disposal and emergency management services. He also influences resourcing for installation support functions with an annual budget of $11 billion and is the focal point for organizing, training and equipping the 51,000-person engineering force. Brig. Gen. Allen's education includes a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Virginia Tech, a Master of Science in engineering management from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and a Master of Arts in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College.
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Howlin Rain's "Magnificent Fiend"
As regular readers may have spotted, I've been droning on about the second Howlin Rain album since the end of last summer, when an early copy reached me by mildly nefarious means. I've regularly postponed blogging on "Magnificent Fiend", mainly because Rick Rubin signed up the band in the States and the release date has been unusually volatile (it's now due out in April in the UK, possibly a little earlier in the US). The other reason for the delay, though, is that I've played it so much, it's weirdly become harder to write about. It's time, though, to attempt to do it justice: though I usually try and avoid crude empirical hype, it's hard for me to imagine many better rock albums will be released in 1974. Or even in 2008.
Howlin Rain, if you're a newcomer to this world, are the second band of Ethan Miller, previously best-known as the frontman of the searing psychedelic marvel that is/was Comets On Fire. A couple of years ago, Miller hooked up with bassist Tim Gradek and the great John Moloney from Sunburned Hand Of The Man on drums to make the first Howlin Rain album: a consummate Southern Rock set, cut through with some raging solos from Miller.
For the second Howlin Rain album, Moloney seems to have mainly gone missing. Two members of Drunk Horse are onboard now, and there's a rollicking keyboardist pushed upfront in the mix, too. The result is that "Magnificent Fiend" has a fuller, more rounded band sound than the debut. It's more nuanced and rich – though it still rocks intensely.
One of the things I love about Miller – and it's never been more apparent than here – is the sheer unalloyed joy which he brings to his music. Even in the subtlest moments of "Magnificent Fiend", he still has this grappling, full-blooded exuberance. Much of the music that he's inspired by is perilously easy to pastiche, but Miller exudes love and, in those savagely ripped vocal chords and radiant solos, a punkish, beautiful lack of irony.
So "Magnificent Fiend" begins with "Requiem", a flurry of piano and lonesome jazz trumpet, before crashing into "Dancers At The End Of Time", driven by one of those slashing, glottal riffs that Miller loves (distinct echoes of stuff on the last Comets album, "Avatar"). It's fantastically overdriven, but drops to a delicate, funky break before Miller lurches back in, singing himself hoarse. The organ swirls, the sci-fi mythologizing comes thick and fast, the solos ramp up, there are gorgeous twin leads. Not for the last time, I'm reminded of The Allman Brothers – specifically "Ain't Wastin' Time No More".
For this is a great jamming band fighting hard – and succeeding – to find great songs at the hearts of their freak-outs. "Calling Lightning Part Two" is an effortlessly sunny sequel to "Calling Lightning With A Scythe" from the last album, at once blissed and propulsive, and with a nostalgic "Dazed And Confused" (Linklater, not Led Zep) lyric where Miller muses, oddly touchingly, "I remember our school, but little of our crimes. . ."
Then there's "Lord Have Mercy", which rolls in with some lovely bluesy piano, and gradually builds to a memorable gospel-tinged chorus (And damn, I really wish that Spiritualized album you all keep banging on about could measure up to this. . .). After about three and a half minutes, it slows back down, then starts climbing to an inevitably hysterical climax – which arrives about a minute later, an extraordinarily uplifting gospel freak-out, with massed chorus, and – finally – an insane Miller solo which my colleague John Robinson brilliantly spotted as being a dead ringer for that of Steve Howe on Yes' "Starship Trooper/Wurm". I've been playing this for six months now, and it still blows my mind every time.
After that, "Nomads" is a meditative come-down; maybe one of the first times in his career that Miller hasn't sounded like he's about to lose his voice. The subtle shading is richly satisfying, with ebbing guitars – a little Grateful Dead here, perhaps – circling a Fender Rhodes, and it's amazing, for those of us who first fell for Miller through the cacophonous psych-punk noise of early Comets, to hear how much range he has now.
"El Rey" elegantly builds up the intensity again, a hairy and tender classic, with added horns, that sounds marinated in the traditions of Muscle Shoals and the '70s southern intersection of rock and soul. "Goodbye Ruby" is a snaking, breaks-driven boogie that charges through a sequence of mighty solos (If you're being seduced by the allusions to the jam stuff on Stephen Malkmus' "Real Emotional Trash", this should be your next stop, incidentally). Again, it's the elevating, passionate spirit of the band which really shines through, an infectious joy at playing rock music.
Towards the end of "Riverboat", there's a long and beautiful instrumental passage which reminds me of "Layla"'s coda, rescored for antique synth. Eventually Miller howls back in. "Furious misfortune is upon us," he warns. But for all the apocalyptic imprecations, I can't help but feel massively uplifted whenever I listen to this quite tremendous record. After keeping it ourselves for so long, it's a relief to finally share the love.


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A note from Mark Robinson
Our outgoing President and 2020 Clubman of the Year says a few words about his time in the role. Thanks for all your hard work over the years, Mark! It is genuinely appreciated, and we can't wait for plenty more signature Robbo hoofs up the pitch in 2021.
For those that weren't at Awards Night, (and for those that were there but were too drunk to
remember {you not me} ) I had a few words as I step down as President of the club after three
years in the role.
We all know this was what he was really in it for…
This season we've just completed is my twelfth playing for Sydney Rangers and just under nine
years on the Committee. Back in 2009 we only had one team, and Gavin asked me to join the
Committee not long after. I remember thinking how much work can that really be? Back then I
would never have guessed that I would be here retiring as President eleven years later.
Along with many, many others we've achieved so much over the years. We've put on ten seasons
of winter competitions, playing for our own badge since 2018. We've grown from one team to
six; 100+ members. We've entered the FFA Cup three times, the first gay inclusive club
worldwide to play in their national cup competition. We've played the JF Cup annually, beating
Melbourne more times than we've lost (including when they tried to cheat fielding a former
professional). We've been away internationally to Cologne, to Mexico City, to Miami, to Paris
and to Parramatta Pride. We've put on Mardi Gras Parades, Fair Day stalls, and Mardi Gras Tournaments.
We've raised money any way we can through kind and generous sponsors, through club nights,
raffles, cloakrooms, BBQs and jelly wrestling.
From our 2020 Mardi Gras Tournament, to fundraising events for ACON, through to flying economy to international tournaments, Mark's been a terrific ambassador for the club.
We've supported our community's mental and physical health through our ongoing partnership
with ACON, dressing up as tradies and by encouraging a healthy active lifestyle. We've fought
homophobia on the pitch and in the media, but there is so much more still to do.
Personally, it hasn't all been smooth sailing over the years. There's a lot of time and effort that
goes in by the Committee, Sub-Committee, Coaches, Managers and many more to make sure we
all have as fun as possible football and events. It's definitely had me stressed and grumpy at
times, and I've definitely put Ben through it over the years so I'm eternally grateful to have had
him by my side through it all.
In case you didn't realise from this post, Mark's been involved for a long, long time. Pictured on the left in Balmain colours, and in the middle as part of Australia's successful Marriage Equality campaign. Ben, Mark, you next?
When I attend club events, such as Awards Night, I do look around though and see so many
friendly faces, and so many of the very best friends a person could have, so without a shadow of
a doubt I've gotten back ten times over what I've put into this club.
Jackson Bova will be taking over as President and I've every confidence that he and the new
Committee will continue to take us from strength to strength. He's been around for five seasons
now, but he's not quite the dinosaur I am so If you don't know him please make sure you reach
out, as I'm sure he will to you.
From the bottom of my heart I thank you all for having me over the last few years and thank you
for all you've done to make what we do possible. I now have a few months in the off season to
prepare my assault on the platinum boot in 2021!
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Price 5/5(3). Chaim Walder (born ) is an Israeli Haredi rabbi and author of literature for children, adolescents, and adults. Inhe became an Israeli publishing sensation with his first book, Yeladim Mesaprim al Atzmam (Hebrew: ילדים מספרים על עצמם, Children Talk About Themselves, translated into English as Kids Speak), which revolutionized literature for Haredi children by 4/5.
A collection of essays written by children aged describing their personal problems, their fears, and their unusual experiences. Through these stories, children will learn to deal with their own problems, or turn to those who can help.
Get this from a library. Kids speak: children talk about themselves. [Ḥayim Ṿalder; Yonathan Gershtein; Ruth Gavrielov; Devorah Benedict; Aviva Rappaport; Devorah Berzon;] -- Young people in Israel write about their experiences dealing with personal problems, handicaps, fears, and relationships with parents and others.
Chaim Walder (born ) is an Israeli Haredi rabbi and author of literature for children, adolescents, andhe became an Israeli publishing sensation with his first book, Yeladim Mesaprim al Atzmam (Hebrew: ילדים מספרים על עצמם , Children Talk About Themselves, translated into English as Kids Speak), which revolutionized literature for Haredi children by Born: Chaim Walder, (age 49–50), Haifa, Israel.
Bright Kids Talk to Themselves More Often. Many studies suggest that the function of private speech is to assist the child in performing some developmental task. In most schools, however, such behavior is not encouraged. Other studies have shown that children given verbal tasks and actually encouraged to speak aloud talk to themselves a great deal.
The Kids Speak book series by Chaim Walder includes books Kids Speak: Children Talk About Themselves, Kids Speak 2, Kids Speak 3, and several more. See the complete Kids Speak series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles.
If you are concerned when your kids talk to themselves, rest assured they have an advantage over "normal" kids who do not talk to themselves.
Research says self talk is good. A research done on young kids found that preschoolers perform better when they talk to themselves. The finding was that "78 percent of the children performed either.
A new children's book series is letting kids speak for themselves. And their emotions are much deeper than they're given credit for, said Natalie Sorrentino, illustrator of the "Gnat and Corky" children's book series with author Courtney Kotloski." Kids have the most profound emotion," Sorrentino said.
"They can absorb and think very big, very broadly, very. Encouraging Kids to Stand Up for Themselves. Getting young kids to speak up can be challenging, and that's OK. Being assertive takes practice and there are many ways parents can help. But first – while it's great to encourage kids to speak up for themselves, don't push kids into doing something they aren't comfortable with.
One great way to encourage children to open up is to make a habit of cherishing daily conversations with your child. Conversations build connection. When children feel connected to their parent, they are more likely to feel well and be cooperative.
When we pause and listen, we can really get to know so much about our children. "Children who set impossibly high standards for themselves," says Dr. Brown, "are prone to engage in negative self-talk." These perfectionists can be so hard on themselves that they run themselves down trying to reach their goals.
Too cool for school. Sometimes the self-deprecating "I'm so going to fail that test!" or "I'm so Author: Sal Pietro.
When kids know their opinions count, they are more likely to talk out and feel comfortable speaking up for themselves. The best place for your child to learn to find his voice is in your home.
Make sure that each of your kids has a chance to speak and be heard. Do watch out for more domineering siblings who can squelch the voice of a shyer child. Tip Sheet: Talking To Children And Teens Experience has taught us that actions by adults can be more effective than expecting kids to protect themselves from sexual abuse.
Still, we know that children also need accurate, age-appropriate information about child sexual abuse and confidence that adults they know will support them. But she does need to learn how to speak up.
At the beginning of each school year, I help the kids craft an assertiveness bill of rights. We talk about having the right to say no, the right to an opinion, the right to disagree, the right to feel angry or. The Children of Gay Parents Speak for Themselves. Emily Anne Epstein the images and interviews in Herman's essay The Kids seeks to fill that silence.
The children of gay parents aren't Author: Emily Anne Epstein. What are some of the best ways both parents and teachers can help children learn to speak up for themselves.
We lay it out here. How to Help Kids Speak Up For Themselves in School. an educational consultant and co-author of a forthcoming book on appropriately parenting kids through the competitive landscape of college admissions. The children's book is designed to give voice to the confusion and fear the visibility of police violence often plants in Black youth, and to provide parents with tools for making 'the talk' easier.
The book ends with a five step plan to keep Black kids safer in police interactions, set to the acronym ALIVE:Author: Benji Hart. A new book, White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege in a Racially Divided America (New York University Press), explores how wealthy white children develop their ideas about race.
The author, Margaret A. Hagerman, assistant professor of sociology at Mississippi State University, took a qualitative approach, following young white people as they. Children this age experience subtleties of emotion (e.g., disappointment, resignation, resolve, focus, etc.), and they can apply these new understandings to social relations with peers.
Before the age of 10, children understand the role of conflicting friendships, and they can mend fences after an argument. Children now have a more stable basis. It's never too early to stand up, speak out, and create change.
Malala Yousafzai began speaking out about education issues at 11, and young activists like Madison Kimrey, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, and Maya Penn are stepping up to show that there are no age limits when it comes to a passion for justice.
My own daughter is similarly inspired. Like many young people, she is passionate. Children learn to read when reading becomes, to them, a means to some valued end or ends. There's an old joke, which I recall first hearing several.
It's especially for children who believe in Jesus. Hundreds of them said it over the years. Let me teach it to you, and we'll be done. And I want to say it once, and then you say it with me the second time, okay.
It goes like this: When things don't go the way they should, God always makes them turn for good. Maybe, kids, we'll talk. Hi Laura, thanks for reading.
I have an 8 year old so understand that the little-kid language may not be useful for you. Whatever age your child is, remember that it's really about helping them identify and then relabel the Caller ID that is causing the troubling thoughts in their head, in a way that makes sense to them at their age and level of emotional development.
Below are a few ideas for situations when kids could speak for the themselves and gain the experience they need to grow into self-sufficient and self-assured young people. Let's allow our kids to arrive at college orientation confident young adults able to speak for : Red Tricycle. If there is one thing that children like to talk about, it is themselves.
Children can talk about themselves for hours if you allow them. They love to talk about their favorite things, their friends, or memories. Even a shy student will have a favorite color or TV show.
Talking about these kinds of things may make a quiet child more likely to. Every morning, it starts over. We get a chance to shape the lives of our children. The way that we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
Think about when your kids make a poor decision they spill milk on their homework (when they aren't supposed to be eating or drinking near it), they break your favorite picture frame (when they. How to Talk to Children. Whether you are a parent, a person with friends or relatives with children, or a babysitter, talking to kids can sometimes feel a little daunting.
Ask children questions that let them open up, get on their level 68%(19). The best solution may be to deploy self-talk strategically.
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Krisch. The theme of this volume is an outgrowth of one of the Section sponsored sessions at the ASA meetings in Montreal; 'Children and Youth Speak for Themselves'.
The volume is a collection of articles from scholars who pay particular attention to children and/or adolescents' voices, interpretations, perspectives, and experiences within specific social and.
It most likely means nothing, as all of the other answers have indicated. I must mention, however, that depending on the consistency of speaking in third person, combined with the presence of other unusual behaviors, this MAY be a sign of Autism.
My new book, The Superkids Activity Guide, is aimed to empower ALL kids to speak up, share their superpowers and learn why they do the things they do so they can advocate for themselves!. The book has a manifesto that I stand behind %.
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Kids who become invested in self-improvement at a young age will likely experience many advantages in life. But it can be a little tricky to figure out exactly how to go about teaching kids about self-improvement. Fortunately, these strategies can help you raise confident children who are invested in becoming the best version of themselves.
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Even though children all over the world learn to communicate naturally, learning to communicate effectively takes skill and practice. Many children, like Alberto, may not feel secure enough to express themselves freely.
Children need to learn that what they say will be valued and clearly acknowledged. Each of us needs someone we can really talk to.1. Show the book and ask children to make predictions about the story.
2. Point out key words or ideas to help get the children ready for the story. 3. Read the book from beginning to end and use as much expression and gesture as you can.
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If any one from the Southern part of the state (Bath) knows this person could you please find out anything that you could about there intentions in the game. I recently found the Maine Gold cache at Fort Knox and was very dissappointed to find that the cache was absolutly destroyed. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=95c60886-380c-4e6d-a655-a451151b9c38 This "cache" is in a very nice spot and the spot deserves better. For long over a year now the cache has been reported damaged. At first it was a bit damp, then soggy and now impossible to do anything with and infact is now just litter at a historic site. I almost citoed it but decided against it. I have emailed the owner and posted a needs maintance and sent an email off to GPSfun. The email to GPSfun was not to do anything about it but to make him aware of the situation.
The second cache had really nice view. When I did it, the owner was quick to respond and kept maps to the second cache in the first cache.
I just noticed that most people seem to think this is a regular cache and are ignoring the second (final) cache. That may be another reason to either archive it or let someone adopt it. If anyone is interested in adopting it, I will do my best to find out the coords for the second cache. The second cache is more likely to be in good shape because it is very well hidden out of the wondering eyes of muggles.
The second cache more than makes up for the first!
i did this cache on oct 28, 04 and there were no coords or instructions to a second part.
I remember doing that cache a year or so ago and found the coordinates and map for the second leg in the cache container. It seemed like a pseudo-multi since they actually have different GC numbers - that makes it possible to do only the first, without the second. I have had the intention to return and do the second portion, but haven't made it to date. Maybe this will be the year.
Do you still have the waypoint (GC number) for the second cache? I was so sure it was a true multi, but the two caches are so far apart, it didn't seem like it should have been a multi. But, my memory is way too old!
P.s. If I do remember right, it is right on top of Andy's Mt. Waldo cache.
I don't have it anymore, but I remember thinking it was odd that it was set up that way.
It does indeed have great views from the second part. If only I lived a little closer I would adopt it. Sudonim has several caches in the area, (HINt, HINT to Sudonim).
I did e-mail the owner the other day and offered to adopt them already. As of yet I haven't heard back form him. I'll give it another day or so and send another one out.
We had the same issue with Hinckley Park in So.Portland. I sent 3 emails over a 3 week period, all unanswered. Then once I emailed GPRFUN, he spent 3 weeks doing the same thing. He needs to document the time and effort spent. Save some time and email GPSFUN with your concerns for the cache. In the meantime we maintenanced the Hinckley Park cache, before the adoption was complete. It's terrible to lose a nice cache. Thanks Brad.
I do believe it is. At least within a few hundred fet or so. Give me a call if you want to talk about those caches.
Not to bring up this old topic, but I always thought this sounded like a fun cache but when I first started out I saw a lot of DNFs and log entries about the cache being in tough shape so I never did it . . . now it looks like it is an archived cache. Is anyone planning on taking this one over?
After it was archived Brad and I went and picked it up. My thought is that the Owner is out of the game. I sent them numerous emails and GPS fun contacted them, I would say the spot is up for grabs for anyone that wants it.
Did anyone pick up the second part of Maine Gold?????
I might be interested in placing a NEW cache here since I work just across the river and would be able to maintain it easily. This was NOT a multi in the true sense. There were coordinates included in the cache as a BONUS for those who wanted to pursue another cache on Mt. Waldo which wasn't actually a gc.com cache. If someone else feels they would prefer to do it that's ok but otherwise, I have one ready to go here. It would NOT include the second part though.
It was an optional as you said but the container is a tupperware on top of the mountain and it was there last summer. I was wondering if Dave and Brad grabbed it, if not someone heading up there for the "other" cache may want to grab it.
Do you have the coords to find the on on top of waldo??
I'd say go for it . . . I would love to be able to do another cache "in the area" since I didn't do this last Fall.
As for not doing the second part . . . I wouldn't see that as a problem since a) it would be your cache, b) as you said it wasn't a true multi and c) Sudonim already has another great cache on the mountain.
I also did it along time ago and didn't see any coordinates for a second cache either.
They were written with Sharpie on the bottom of the lid--as I recall they were pretty faded when we did it.
I actually have the container out on my porch. The second coords are legible on the inside of the lid.


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Jun 2, 2013 CIA, John Kiriakou, Torture, War Crimes
"Letter From Loretto" from John Kiriakou, Federal Prisoner for Informing Americans about CIA torture program.
Greetings from the Federal Correctional Institution at Loretto, Pennsylvania. I arrived here on February 28, 2013 to serve a 30 month sentence for violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. At least that's what the government wants people to believe. In truth, this is my punishment for blowing the whistle on the CIA's illegal torture program and for telling the public that torture was official US government policy. But that's a different story. The purpose of this letter is to tell you about prison life.
At my formal sentencing hearing in January, the judge, the prosecutors, and my attorneys all agreed that I would serve my sentence in Loretto's Federal Work Camp. When I arrived, however, much to my surprise, the Corrections Officer (CO, or "hack") who processed me said that the Justice DepartmentBureau of Prisons had deemed me a "threat to the public safety" and so I would do serve the entire sentence in the actual prison, rather than the camp.
Processing took about an hour and included fingerprinting, a mug shot (my third after FBI and the Marshals), my fourth DNA sample, and a quite comprehensive strip search. I was given a pair of baggy brown pants, two brown shirts, two pairs of underwear, two pairs of socks, and a pair of cheap sandals. My own clothes were boxed and mailed to my wife. The CO then led me to a steel bunk in "Central Unit" and walked away. I didn't know what to do, so I took a nap.
My cell is more like a cubicle made out of a concrete block. Built to hold four men, mine holds six. Most others hold eight. My cell-mates include two Dominicans serving 24- and 20-year sentences for drugs, a Mexican serving 15 years for drugs, a Puerto Rican serving 7 1/2 years 7 1/2 years for drug conspiracy, and the former auditor of Cuyahoga County, Ohio who's doing [unintelligible] years a long sentence for corruption. They're all decent guys and we actually enjoy each other's company.
The prison population is much like you might expect. Loretto has 1,369 prisoners. (I never call myself an "inmate." I'm a prisoner). About 50% are black, 30% are Hispanic and 20% are white. Of the white prisoners, most are pedophiles with personal stories that would make you sick to your stomach. The rest of the white prisoners are here for drugs, except for a dozen or so who ran Ponzi schemes. Of the 1,369 prisoners, 40 have college degrees and 6 of us have master's degrees. The GED program is robust. (But when I volunteered to teach a class, my "counsellor" shouted, "Dammit, Kiriakou! If I wanted you to teach a fucking class, I'd ask you to teach a fucking class!") I'm a janitor in the chapel. I make $5.25 a month.
The cafeteria, or "chow hall" was the most difficult experience of my first few days. Where should I sit? On my first day, two Aryans, completely covered in tattoos, walked up to me and asked, "Are you a pedophile?" Nope, I said. "Are you a fag?" Nope. "Do you have good paper?" I didn't know what this meant. It turned out that I had to get a copy of my formal sentencing documents to prove that I wasn't a child molester. I did that, and was welcomed by the Aryans, who aren't really Aryans but more accurately self-important hillbillies.
The cafeteria is very formally divided. There is a table for the Aryans whites with good paper, a section of a table for the Native Americans, a section of a table for people belonging to a certain Italian-American stereotypical "subculture," two tables for the Muslims, four tables for the pedophiles, and all the remaining tables for the blacks and hispanics. We don't all eat at the same time, but each table is more-or-less reserved as I described.
Violence hasn't been much of a problem since I arrived. There have been maybe a half-dozen fights, almost always over what television show to watch. The choices are pretty much set in stone between ESPN, MTV, VH1, BET and Univision. I haven't watched TV since I got here. It's just not worth the trouble. Otherwise, violence isn't a problem. Most of the guys in here have worked their way down to a low-security prison from a medium or a maximum, and they don't want to go back.
I've also had some luck in this regard. My reputation preceded me, and a rumor got started that I was a CIA hit man. The Aryans whispered that I was a "Muslim hunter," but the Muslims, on the strength of my Arabic language skills and a well-timed statement of support from Louis Farrakhan have lauded me as a champion of Muslim human rights. Meanwhile the Italians have taken a liking to me because I'm patriotic, as they are, and I have a visceral dislike of the FBI, which they do as well. I have good relations with the blacks because I've helped several of them write commutation appeals or letters to judges and I don't charge anything for it. And the Hispanics respect me because my cellmates, who represent a myriad of Latin drug gangs, have told them to. So far, so good.
The only thing close to a problem that I've had has been from the CO's. When I first arrived, after about four days, I heard an announcement that I was told to dread: "Kiriakou – report to the lieutenant's office immediately." Very quickly, I gave my wife's phone number to a friend and asked him to call her if for some reason I was sent to the SHU (Special Housing Unit) more commonly known as the hole, or solitary confinement. I hadn't done anything wrong, but this kind of thing happens all the time.
When I got to the lieutenant's office, I was ushered into the office of SIS, the Special Investigative Service. This is the prison version of every police department's Internal Affairs Division detective bureau. I saw on a desk a copy of my book, the Reluctant Spy, as well as DVD copies of all the documentaries I've been in. The CO showed me a picture of an Arab. "Do you know this guy," he asked me. I responded that I had met him a day earlier, but our conversation was limited to "nice to meet you." Well, the CO said, this was the uncle of the Times Square bomber, and after we had met, he called a number in Pakistan, reported the meeting, and was told to kill me. I told the CO that I could kill the guy with my thumb. He's about 5'4″ and 125 pounds compared to my 6'1″ and 250 pounds. The CO said they were looking to ship him out, so I should stay away from him. But the more I thought about it, the more this made no sense. Why would the uncle of the Times Square bomber be in a low-security prison? He should be in a maximum. So I asked my Muslim friends to check him out. It turns out that he's an Iraqi Kurd from Buffalo, NY. He was the imam of a mosque there, which also happened to be the mosque where the "Lackawana 7" worshipped. (The Lackawana 7 were charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism.) The FBI pressured him to testify against his parishioners. He refused and got five years for obstruction of justice. The ACLU and several religious freedom groups have rallied to his defense. He had nothing to do with terrorism.
In the meantime, SIS told him that I had made a call to Washington after we met, and that I had been instructed to kill him! We both laughed at the hamhandedness by which the SIS tried to get us to attack each other. If we had, we would have spent the rest of our sentences in the [unintelligible] SHU – solitary. Instead, we're friendly, we exchange greetings in Arabic and English, and we chat.
The only other problem I've had with the CO's was about two weeks after I arrived. I get a great deal of mail here in prison (and I answer every letter I get.) Monday through Friday, prisoners gather in front of the unit CO's office for mail call. One female CO butchers my name every time she says it. So when she does mail call, I hear "Kirkakow, Kiriloo, Teriyaki" and a million other variations. One day after mail call I passed her in the hall. She stopped me and said, "are you the motherfucker whose name I can't pronounce?" I responded, "Ki-ri-AH-koo." She said, "How about if I just call you Fuckface?" I just walked away and a friend I was walking with said, "Classy." I said to him, "White trash is more like it." An hour later, four CO's descended on both of our cells, trashing all of our worldly possessions in my first "shake-down." Lesson learned: CO's can treat us like subhumans but we have to show them faux respect even when it's not earned.
I'll write about CO's more next time. If you'd like to drop me a line, I can be reached at: John Kiriakou, 79637-083, PO Box 1000, FCI Loretto, Loretto PA 15940.
Best regards from Loretto,


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Marine Natural Products: A Promising Source of Environmentally Friendly Antifouling Agents for the Maritime Industries
Jessica Gomez-Banderas
National Decommissioning Centre
Biofouling in the marine environment refers to an unwanted build-up of marine organisms on subsea surfaces including harbor docks, hulls of ships and offshore installations. The first stage of marine fouling occurs as a microbial biofilm which forms via the aggregation of bacterial, algal, and fungal cells. This biofilm provides a favorable substrate for the larval settlement of larger organisms such as mussels, barnacles and hard corals which accumulate to uncontrollable extents, causing issues for the maritime industries. Since the ban of tributyltin (TBT) in 2008 by the International Maritime Organisation, alternative antifouling agents have been used such as algaecides and copper-based coatings. Recent studies are showing that these can accumulate in the marine environment and have toxic effects against non-target species. Marine microbes and invertebrates are known to be prolific producers of bioactive molecules, including antifouling active compounds. These compounds are often produced by marine organisms as a means of chemical defense to deter predators and prevent fouling of their own surfaces, making them a promising source of new antifouling agents. This article discusses the effects of biofouling on the maritime industries, the environmental dangers of currently used antifouling compounds and why natural products from marine organisms could be a source of environmentally friendly antifouling agents.
Frontiers in Marine Science
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Published - 24 Feb 2022
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Gomez-Banderas, J 2022, 'Marine Natural Products: A Promising Source of Environmentally Friendly Antifouling Agents for the Maritime Industries', Frontiers in Marine Science, vol. 9, 858757. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.858757
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Gomez-Banderas, Jessica. / Marine Natural Products : A Promising Source of Environmentally Friendly Antifouling Agents for the Maritime Industries. In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 2022 ; Vol. 9.
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from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function

import errno
from contextlib import contextmanager

from astropy import units as u
from astropy.units import Unit, UnitBase

from ..compat.contextlib import suppress
from ..compat.math import isclose
from .compat import PY33

__all__ = (
    'format_size',
    'prefix',
    'qisclose',
    'read_only_property',
    'suppress_file_exists_error',
    'verify_unit',
)

_size_suffixes = {
    'decimal': ('kB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB'),
    'binary': ('KiB', 'MiB', 'GiB', 'TiB', 'PiB', 'EiB', 'ZiB', 'YiB'),
    'gnu': "KMGTPEZY",
}

def read_only_property(name, docstring=None):
    """Return property for accessing attribute with name `name`

    Parameters:
        name: Attribute name
        docstring: Optional docstring for getter.

    Example:
        .. code-block:: python

            class Circle:
                def __init__(self, radius):
                    self._radius = radius

                radius = read_only_property('_radius')
    """
    def fget(self):
        return getattr(self, name)

    fget.__doc__ = docstring
    return property(fget)

def verify_unit(quantity, unit):
    """Verify unit of passed quantity and return it.

    Parameters:
        quantity: :py:class:`~astropy.units.Quantity` to be verified. Bare
                  numbers are valid if the unit is dimensionless.
        unit: Equivalent unit, or string parsable by
              :py:class:`astropy.units.Unit`

    Raises:
        ValueError: Units are not equivalent.

    Returns:
        ``quantity`` unchanged. Bare numbers will be converted to a dimensionless
        :py:class:`~astropy.units.Quantity`.

    Example:
        .. code-block:: python

            def __init__(self, a):
                self.a = verify_unit(a, astropy.units.m)

    """
    if not isinstance(unit, UnitBase):
        unit = Unit(unit)

    q = quantity * u.one
    if unit.is_equivalent(q.unit):
        return q
    else:
        raise ValueError(
            "Unit '{}' not equivalent to quantity '{}'.".format(unit, quantity))

def qisclose(a, b, rel_tol=1e-9, abs_tol=0.0):
    """Helper function for using :py:func:`math.isclose` with
    :py:class:`~astropy.units.Quantity` objects.
    """
    return isclose(a.si.value, b.si.value, rel_tol=rel_tol, abs_tol=abs_tol)

def format_size(value, binary=False, gnu=False, format='%.1f'):
    """Format a number of bytes like a human readable file size (e.g. 10 kB). By
    default, decimal suffixes (kB, MB) are used.  Passing binary=true will use
    binary suffixes (KiB, MiB) are used and the base will be 2**10 instead of
    10**3.  If ``gnu`` is True, the binary argument is ignored and GNU-style
    (ls -sh style) prefixes are used (K, M) with the 2**10 definition.
    Non-gnu modes are compatible with jinja2's ``filesizeformat`` filter.

    Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Moiron and Contributors.
    """
    if gnu:
        suffix = _size_suffixes['gnu']
    elif binary:
        suffix = _size_suffixes['binary']
    else:
        suffix = _size_suffixes['decimal']

    base = 1024 if (gnu or binary) else 1000
    bytes = float(value)

    if bytes == 1 and not gnu:
        return '1 Byte'
    elif bytes < base and not gnu:
        return '%d Bytes' % bytes
    elif bytes < base and gnu:
        return '%dB' % bytes

    for i, s in enumerate(suffix):
        unit = base ** (i + 2)
        if bytes < unit and not gnu:
            return (format + ' %s') % ((base * bytes / unit), s)
        elif bytes < unit and gnu:
            return (format + '%s') % ((base * bytes / unit), s)
    if gnu:
        return (format + '%s') % ((base * bytes / unit), s)
    return (format + ' %s') % ((base * bytes / unit), s)

@contextmanager
def suppress_file_exists_error():
    """Compatibility function for catching FileExistsError on Python 2"""
    if PY33:
        with suppress(FileExistsError):  # noqa
            yield
    else:
        try:
            yield
        except OSError as e:
            if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
                raise

def prefix(prefix, iterable):
    """Prepend items from `iterable` with `prefix` string."""
    for x in iterable:
        yield '{prefix}{x}'.format(prefix=prefix, x=x)

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As Egypt fires at ISIS, the U.S. still wants to talk it out
By Abdallah Schleifer Tuesday, 17 February 2015
The beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts working or seeking work in Libya and held hostage by ISIS for the past month was in effect a declaration of war by the extremist group against Egypt.
We are at a turning point, one prompted by the atrocities committed and filmed by ISIS. Those atrocities forced the U.S. to join with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan in an international coalition striking at ISIS forces and facilities in Iraq and Syria from the air. Just as the recent video of ISIS burning to death a captured Jordanian pilot was a turning point in Jordan, the beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya has spurred anti-ISIS sentiment in Egypt.
For months, Egyptian military intelligence has been cooperating with Libyan Army intelligence and with the renegade Commander General Khalifa al-Haftar while he has been battling Islamist forces. However, despite the provocations of Libyan Islamists - such as their suspected role in a deadly attack on an Egyptian border post last summer - Egypt did not intervene.
Egyptian expansionism?
This was because of a concern among both Egyptian and Libyan strategists late last year that an open, significant Egyptian military intervention in Libya might be perceived by Libyan public opinion as Egyptian expansionism. Many Libyans remember the brief border war between Egypt and Libya during the time of Anwar Sadat and Muammar Qaddafi. Sadat, it is said, was preparing to turn that border war into a full scale invasion and ouster of Qaddafi but was deterred by the Americans for convoluted reasons. But now, the time for an intervention, upon the repeated request of what many see as the legitimate government of Libya (for there are two separately functioning governments as the country faces political rifts) has finally come.
How can the White House see negotiations for a political settlement as the sole response to a perverse global terrorist movement operating in Libya?
Abdallah Schleifer
Only last month, the Libyan parliament meeting in Tobruk called upon the U.S. led anti-ISIS coalition to extend the range of its air attacks against ISIS affiliate strongholds in Libya. It is very significant that both Cairo and Tobruk are describing Egypt's retaliatory air strikes as a joint mission carried out by the Libyan Air Force as well as the Egyptian force.
Little more than a week ago, Libya's Ambassador to the UAE Dr. Aref Nayed warned in a series of interviews during a brief visit to Washington that "ISIS's expansion in Libya is much worse than what is publically understood" that ISIS is using Libya as both "an ATM machine and an airport" and that there is "an unfortunate state of denial about of all of this and that is the most dangerous thing."
Raising the black flag
This denial has been going on in Washington for months. It was as long ago as last October that the Libyan terrorist militia Ansar al-Sharia - with strongholds in Benghazi, Sirte and Derna and its more recent ability to stage operations in Tripoli - pledged its allegiance to ISIS and raised the black flag.
One would think that by now any power opposed to the spread of the ISIS cancer would rally behind Egypt and the beleaguered Libyan government in Tobruk. That seemed to be the case, finally, in Washington when a White House spokesman denounced the beheadings of the Egyptian Copts as "cowardly murder" and confirmed that the U.S. continues to recognize the parliament and cabinet in Tobruk as the legitimate government in Libya and acknowledged that the Libyan ISIS was linked to ISIS affiliate attacks against Egyptian troops in the Sinai. But the White House spokesman's ultimate response to all of this? It was to call for negotiations leading to "political settlement in war–torn Libya."
The Libyan government in Tobruk has repeatedly welcomed U.N. sponsored talks with the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated rival government but how can the White House see negotiations for a political settlement as the sole response to a perverse global terrorist movement operating in Libya? A political settlement with whom….with ISIS? It boggles the mind.
Abdallah Schleifer is a veteran American journalist covering the Middle East and professor emeritus at the American University in Cairo where he founded as served as first director of the Kamal Adham Center for TV and Digital Journalism. He is chief editor of the annual publication The Muslim 500; a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (USA) and at the Royal Aal al Bayt Academy for Islamic Thought (Jordan.) Schleifer has served as Al Arabiya Washington D.C. bureau chief; NBC News Cairo bureau chief; Middle East correspondent for Jeune Afrique; as special correspondent (stringer) , New York Times and managing editor of the Jerusalem Star/Palestine News in then Jordanian Arab Jerusalem.
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Man who fell into Aguila mine "in good condition"
Nicole Garcia's Reports
AGUILA, Ariz. (AP/KSAZ) -- A hospital spokeswoman says a man who fell into an old abandoned mine shaft near Aguila is in good condition.
Alexis Kramer-Ainza of Banner University Medical Center Phoenix says John Waddell will undergo an operation later Thursday.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office earlier reported Waddell's Wednesday rescue from the 100-foot (30-meter) shaft in the town of Aguila, about 90 miles (144 kilometers) northwest of Phoenix. According to MCSO officials, Waddell was found by a friend.
"The gentleman reported that he knew that if he didn't show up by Tuesday, he was going to go out and check on him," said Roger Yensen with the MCSO Mountain Rescue Possee. "On Wednesday, he heard his friend calling from the bottom of the shaft."
Sheriff's officials say the man fell into the shaft Monday and was found two days later by someone who heard his calls for help. They say a medic was lowered in to treat the man before lifting him out of the shaft on a metal gurney.
It's unclear how the man fell into the shaft. Waddell, who is from Wickenburg, had a mining claim on the property, and had recently begun to explore what was inside.
Meanwhile, a good friend of Waddell is speaking out about the man.
"I talked to him this morning," said Mike Balowski. "I told him I was going to kick his rear end when he gets better for not being there with somebody."
Balowski said Waddell is an experienced miner, and has been exploring old mines in Arizona for decades.
"He's a Vietnam-era veteran, and he's tough," said Balowski.
Waddell, who is from Wickenburg, had a mining claim on the property, and had recently begun to explore what was inside.
"John is a miner by trade," said Balowski. "He looks for precious metals and stuff like that, and he's had this claim for quite a while."
Balowski said he's gone with Waddell into other mines in the past.
"I've been back in the mines sometimes," said Balowski. "You find artifacts sometimes. You find precious metals or sometimes, you find beautiful rocks. Sometimes, you find old stuff left behind from the 20s or 30s."
Balowski believes the mine Waddell was trapped in was built in the 1930s, but he does not believe Waddell accidentally fell into it. He said Waddell is too experienced to have fallen from the top.
"Best I can say a rope broke. That would be my best guess," said Balowski. "This is just an unfortunate mishap for him."
As for reports that Waddell killed three rattlesnakes in the mind, Balowski said he believes Waddell killed the snakes, because he was hungry.
The Associated Press (AP) contributed to this report
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Popular Japanese Capsule Hotels Embracing Bitcoin
Since the Japanese government started recognizing bitcoin, an increasing number of merchants in the country have adopted it as a payment option. Among them are a couple of Japan's iconic and popular capsule hotels.
Also read: Bitcoin to Be Accepted at 260,000 Stores in Japan by This Summer
Capsule Hotels Accepting Bitcoin
Capsule hotels, sometimes called pod hotels, are found all over Japan. "They're unlike any other accommodation: Individual pods, sometimes dozens to a room, each a self-contained mini-hotel room, with a bed, lights, and sometimes even a TV," Forbes contributor Geoffrey Morrison described.
The Japanese bitcoin exchange Coincheck provides two capsule hotels with merchant payment solutions. The luxury capsule hotel Anshin Oyado started accepting bitcoin in March, while the Comics & Capsule Hotel Comicap began accepting it as of this Friday.
In an earlier interview, Coincheck told Bitcoin.com that the company "holds 99% of the bitcoin payment market share." The company charges 1% fee per transaction on bitcoin payments, which is only "1/3 to 1/5 of the credit card transaction fee," its website details. Payments are converted to yen and deposited in merchants accounts immediately.
Comics & Capsule Hotel Comicap
Starting on Friday, Comics & Capsule Hotel Comicap operated by Runsystem Co. Ltd. is accepting bitcoin payments using Coincheck's system.
Opened in February, this 60-room accommodation in Kyoto describes itself as "a cosmopolitan relaxation space with tens of thousands of comic books, mainly in the form of capsule hotel style accommodation." There are over 30,000 comic books on the premises and a room there can cost as low as ¥2,000 (approximately $18) per person when booked online.
Runsystem also operates another Comicap hotel of the same concept which is located in Sapporo, the largest city on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The company also owns Jiyuukuukan, a "popular Manga cafe in Japan," Coincheck Business Development Lead Kagayaki Kawabata told Bitcoin.com. These related businesses, however, have not yet decided to accept bitcoin. The Comics & Capsule Hotel Comicap announced this week:
From Friday June 16, guests can pay with bitcoin for hotel bookings at the facility in Kyoto Shin-Kyogoku. Bitcoin payments is facilitated by Coincheck.
Luxury Capsule Hotel Anshin Oyado
In March, the Tokyo-based Anshin Oyado, operated by the Sanza Group, became the first capsule hotel to accept bitcoin. It is also the very first in the hotel industry in Japan to do so, according to Coincheck, who facilitates the hotel's bitcoin payments.
There are five Anshin Oyado capsule hotels in the Tokyo area. The one that accepts bitcoin is in front of Shinjuku station, which is the world's busiest metro station based on the daily number of passengers passing through, according to the Guinness World Records. A room there costs between ¥4,980 and ¥6,180 (~$45-$55), according to its website.
"This company also operates the karaoke box chain Pasera which is pretty popular in Japan," Kawabata shared with Bitcoin.com.
While operators of both Comicap and Anshin Oyado capsule hotels have other businesses that do not currently accept bitcoin, Kawabata noted:
They have decided to use Coincheck Payment experimentally for capsule hotels. They may expand the bitcoin payment to other services as well.
Would you like to stay in a capsule hotel you paid for with bitcoin? Let us know in the comments section below.
Images courtesy of Shutterstock, Anshin Oyado, and Comics & Capsule Hotel Comicap
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