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The Stylish Revolutionary
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"Maverick – Extraordinary women from South Africa's Past", the book that celebrates fascinating characters of the last 350 years, will be relaunched early next year. Of the 19 profiles the author chose, few are more engaging than the story of Ruth First, journalist and freedom fighter. As part of our Media Freedom month focus we publish an extract from this captivating book by kind permission of the author Lauren Beukes.
When Tilly First finally got to see her radical writer daughter in prison in 1963, she was taken aback by her appearance. As she was ushered out of the cell, the visit over, Tilly whispered, 'Are you cracking up?' It was the first time she had seen Ruth without lipstick.
Ruth First was known as the stylish revolutionary. Even during the Treason Trial of 1956, she had surprised her fellow inmates, including Helen Joseph, by packing silk panties and cosmetics when they had brought with them only the tattiest of bare essentials. While on the run from the Special Branch, she refused point-blank the suggestion that she disguise herself as a dowdy little old lady and wore a striking red wig instead. Ruth loved Italian shoes, expensive perfumes, beautiful clothes and gourmet cuisine. But that's not to say she ever put fashion before the cause.
Ruth was born into both style and communism in 1925. Her parents, Matilda (Tilly to her friends) and Julius were, respectively, Lithuanian and Latvian Jewish immigrants who had toiled their way up to a good life in their newly adopted country. They were also instrumental in launching the Communist Party of South Africa and in 1923 Julius was elected chairman.
At a young age, Ruth picked up "stompies" of socialism from her parents' conversations with their left wing radical friends and became actively involved when she and her little brother Ronnie (who remained resolutely apolitical throughout his life) started tagging along with Tilly and Julius to the Communist Party's Sunday night meetings on the steps of Joburg City Hall.
In 1941, Ruth matriculated from Jeppe Girls High School and went on to study at Wits, where she became involved in various student societies, including the Young Communist League, and hung out with handsome provocateurs like Nelson Mandela (a snappy dresser himself), Ahmed Kathrada and a charismatic law student by the name of Ismail Meer. Ismail's slatternly flat on Market Street was a hotbed for student activists, who came to indulge in Indian curries and heated political discussions. To their parents' mutual dismay, Ruth and Ismail became an item. While Tilly was delighted that Ruth was involved in such a radical circle, she wasn't that keen on Ismail, although it is not clear whether it was because he was Indian or because she was Jewish or because she simply didn't like him. Despite her mother's reservations and the eyebrows they raised in public as a mixed-race couple even before the Immorality Act was declared in 1950, the love affair lasted four years.
Ruth graduated in 1945 and went to work for the welfare department, with the idea of researching the rapidly growing urban black population. Instead, she was assigned the mind-numbing task of working on Johannesburg's 50th Jubilee. When the mineworkers' strike broke out, she quit her job without notice and reported to strike headquarters to offer her services.
After the strike was crushed, Ruth joined the leftist weekly newspaper, The Guardian. It was the first in a string of newspapers that were banned by the apartheid government, one after the other, only to remerge with the same staff and same ideals, but under a new name. When The Guardian was banned in 1952, it was resurrected within weeks as the Clarion. She went on to work for the People's World, Advance and New
Age as a journalist and editor, and eventually took over the helm of the incendiary monthly Fighting Talk from Lionel 'Rusty' Bernstein.
Ruth focused on social and labour journalism, writing up to 15 stories a week on poverty in the townships, gang violence and the bus boycotts. Her thorough, investigative and probing stories provided balance in publications with their fair share of dogmatic pro-communist pieces.
She was not content to play the impartial, detached writer. She took an active role in her stories with the aim of exposing injustice and bringing about change.
So, when she covered the women's anti-pass campaign and the march of 20 000 women on the Union Buildings in 1956, led by Lilian Ngoyi and Helen Joseph, she wasn't merely recording the events, she was raising awareness of the struggle, building heroes and educating people on more effective campaigns.
Among her most important work was the reporting she did over 17 years on the brutal farm labour scandals. In 1947, at just 22, she and churchman Michael Scott, following up on a 'cryptic little paragraph in a rival newspaper, uncovered horrific abuses on a Bethal farm. Black labourers were bound with chains, beaten with sjamboks and forced to sleep naked and chained together in a cramped and filthy room.
While her gender and complexion ruled out going gonzo undercover as Drum's star reporter Henry Nxumalo did in 1952, her expose caused a public uproar, not least from the 1 500 farmers and townsfolk who threatened to lynch the reporter and the priest for their 'unfounded allegations'.
The pair returned to Bethel and met with a group of black workers who told them that far from exaggerating conditions on the farms, Ruth had only touched on the edge of the foetid rottenness in the community. The labourers scrounged together enough money to pay the way for six representatives to return to Johannesburg with them to state their case.
The government responded with only a superficial investigation and the mainstream media were content to let it go at that. But Ruth dug deeper. She discovered that the government was rounding up illegal black immigrants and presenting them with the choice of volunteering for slave labour on potato farms or being deported. Then pass offenders were targeted. They were bust in police raids and told their infraction would mean months or even years in jail. Or they could work on a farm. The ugly truth was that the worst punishment a pass offence held at that time was a fine of a few pounds.
In her personal life, Ruth had become involved with another law student in 1948, a magnetic young socialist known as Joe Slovo. His real name was Yossel Mashel Slovo and although the 22-year old was slightly podgy, he was a charmer and a reveler, and with his brown curly hair and square-framed glasses, utterly adored by women.
Joe had been in love with Ruth for years. While he'd initially dismissed the beauty with her dark curls and immaculate make-up as the kind of intellectual who only liked to gab about making a difference, he was soon disabused of the assumption. When Ismail and Ruth split up, he was waiting.
The couple wasn't an obvious match. Outside of their shared commitment to communism and changing the world, they were very different people. Joe was a genial raconteur with an easy, earthy sense of humour, while Ruth was focused, intense and, despite her fierce intelligence, desperately insecure, a trait she disguised with a veneer of arrogance. Their lifetime romance would prove to be tumultuous, marked by long separations, imprisonments, infidelities, ideological differences and wounding arguments, but for all their differences and the sharp cruelties, there was also a sense of fierce love, commitment and support – they buttressed each other against the world.
By 1949 they were living together and Ruth was pregnant with the first of three girls born in quick succession over the next four years: Shawn, Gillian and Robyn. That same year, the couple decided they'd flouted convention long enough and tied the knot at the magistrate's court with a simple signing of the registry. Ruth kept her last name and they celebrated with a raucous garden party at Tilly and Julius' house in Kensington, attended by every high profile dissident in town.
Ruth's parents bought them a house and a Citroen. Joe started practising law and Ruth, ever ambitious, took up motherhood and her career in journalism simultaneously.
In 1950, the Communist Party was banned. Undeterred, Ruth and Joe and their fellow subversives started up the Communist Party again in 1953, only this time underground and based on a cell structure to ensure secrecy, so that most members didn't know who their fellows were.
The first banning orders were just coming into effect and Ruth and Joe together with Nelson Mandela, Water Sisulu and hundreds of other activists were barred from attending public gatherings or meeting with more than two people at a time or joining any other anti-apartheid groups.
On 5 December 1956, The Star ran a photograph of the three Slovo daughters gathered around the breakfast table eating Rice Krispies. It was newsworthy, because, as six-year old Shawn explained, 'Mommy's gone to prison to look after the black people.' During the night, the government had rounded up and imprisoned 156 dissidents and 'troublemakers' involved in the Congress movement, including Ruth and Joe. They were to be tried for treason.
The trial, which dragged on for four years, was an untidy affair (documented by Helen Joseph in her book If This be Treason) with bungled evidence and incomprehensible arguments from the prosecution that only proved the pettiness of the fascist state. Eventually everyone was acquitted.
In 1961, Nelson and Joe made the difficult decision to set up a paramilitary wing of the ANC and the Communist Party, citing the old African saying 'sebatana ha se bokwe ka diatla ('the attacks of the wild beast cannot be averted with bare hands'). It became Umkhonto We Sizwe and while a select group was sent to China for training, Joe led the first wave of sabotage. He was interrupted trying to set a homemade bomb that was intended to burn down the Drill Hall, used for preliminary hearings at the Treason Trial, and was forced to abandon the attempt.
In the meantime, Ruth found that she was being silenced, as surely as if she had hands choking her throat. The Congress of Democrats, of which she was an executive member, was banned in 1962, as were both the papers she edited, Fighting Talk and New Age. The latter resurfaced almost immediately as Spark, but this time the government
had outmanoeuvred her. All the staff, including Ruth, were banned from writing or even setting foot in the door of a newspaper's offices. Spark soon folded.
On 11 July 1963, an innocuous baker's van followed by another innocuous dry cleaner's van rolled through the gates of an equally innocuous Rivonia farm. In reality, the vans were bristling with Special Branch cops and the Lilliesleaf Farm was the nerve centre of the resistance movement. Ironically, the night before the point had been raised about how dangerous it was for all the resistance leaders to be together in one place. Now it was too late. The van doors flew open and 40 cops swooped on the property, taking 14 activists into custody and confiscating damning evidence that included maps of potential sabotage sites, provocative pamphlets and bomb ingredients.
They came for Ruth one month later. Special Branch cornered her in the corridor of Wits University and escorted her home to watch them search for evidence that would implicate her as a co-conspirator in the Rivonia farm debacle. Tilly orbited outside, peeking anxiously through the windows as the police turned the house upside down.
Ruth had long since destroyed anything incriminating, but while the police failed to find the secret drawer built into her desk, they did find a long-forgotten back issue of Fighting Talk. Possession of the banned publication could cost her a year in jail. Ruth was furious with herself for the oversight. Just before they took her away, Julius arrived home with the three girls and seeing what was going on, Shawn fled to the garden so Ruth wouldn't see her cry.
Although her friends, including Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki were to be dragged before the judges in the Rivonia Trial facing 222 counts of sabotage and charges of organising an armed uprising in October, Ruth was detained under the controversial 90-day clause that allowed the government to keep dissidents for three months without charging them. It's been speculated that she wasn't put on trial because the government feared the public reaction if a white woman appeared in the dock facing a possible death sentence. Perhaps they didn't have enough evidence to nail her or maybe they were hoping she would turn state's witness. Whatever the reason, Ruth was to endure a hellish time of solitary confinement that nearly broke her.
Her cell was dark and claustrophobic, barely larger than her bed. She wrote that it reminded her of the inside of 'a steel trunk'. She was denied any reading material except for the Bible and the obscene graffiti scratched into the walls. Worst of all, she had little human contact with anyone except her interrogators and the wardresses, although Joe sent her carefully self-censored letters of support and encouragement. Very occasionally she was allowed visitors.
She remained fastidious throughout. She was allowed to keep her make- up and she meticulously applied it every day, put on her earrings and brushed out her thick curls, that she usually had straightened once a week at the hairdresser. When she held onto the bars to look out her little window, she did so using a tissue to avoid dirtying her hands. She was 38 and afraid she was losing her looks.
She was moved to Pretoria Central Prison just before the Rivonia Trial commenced. She was sick with loneliness, succumbing to ennui and frustration. To prevent the onset of insanity, she plucked out the hairs on her legs one by one with her tiny pair of tweezers, made and re-made her bed, repeatedly packed her suitcase, folded her clothes, wiped down the walls, unstitched the seams of her pillow case and sewed them back up, over and over. After her unbearable isolation and the interrogation tactics designed to break her down, could she really be blamed for responding to a gesture of kindness whatever the source?
Ruth had refused to co-operate from the first day. But towards the end of the year, four days before her 90 days were up, a 34-year old lieutenant entered the scene. A former fraud squad officer, Johannes Jakobus Viktor told Ruth he was very reluctantly 'on loan' to the Special Branch. He did everything right to set her at ease, playing good cop to the evil bastards who yelled at her in the interrogation room. He said he had
known Joe, had actually saved him once, from a gang of stiletto—wielding prostitutes who were chasing him down the court corridors after a case where he'd represented a rival madam. Viktor had shown him another way out. Ruth was too smart to fall for his show of sympathy, yet too vulnerable not to. He wanted her co-operation. She wanted an ally.
In the unflinchingly personal book she wrote about her time in prison, 117 Days: Ruth recorded, 'Between Viktor and me there was an atmosphere of bristling animosity. He was provocative; I was waspish. And felt all the better for it.' For his part, Viktor declared that he had fallen in love with the beautiful red and encouraged the later (false) rumours that he was the one procuring her special privileges such as the gift of a crossword book.
Her daughters were allowed to visit her days before her release, but Tilly also brought news that an imprisoned comrade who knew her was spilling his guts. It could mean that Ruth would be charged. She was on tenterhooks and when one of her interrogators called her to a room and told her that she was to be released, she didn't believe him and shouted at him that he was being unnecessarily cruel by raising her hopes. 'Don't bluff me… Don't make a farce out of this thing.' Eventually he convinced her and in spite of herself, Ruth could feel the giddy elation building. The wardress helped her pack her suitcase and a smiling sergeant behind the desk filled out her release papers.
Outside, she was five steps away from the phone booth, coin already in hand, to call Tilly to tell her to come and pick her up, when two policemen intercepted her and grimly served her with another 90-day sentence. They escorted her back into the charge office where the no- longer- jovial sergeant put a new set of papers in order.
Back in her cell she sat for hours, shaking with sobs as she unleashed the self-pity that she had kept tightly locked in during her humiliation outside. And then she made two horrible mistakes. She went on hunger strike in protest and, in her debilitated state, decided to give a statement to find out what they knew. It was better than sitting around waiting, she reasoned and she thought she could outwit her captors. After the first terrifying session surrounded by cops gagging for information willing her to slip up, she realised the extent of her blunder. She revealed only names they already knew of people who were outside the country, but she knew she couldn't endure another session. The next day she started eating, but refused to accompany Viktor back to the interrogation room. He said her mother was there to see her and unable to resist, Ruth went to see Tilly. It was on this occasion that she neglected to put on her make-up. When Tilly whispered on her way out, 'Are you cracking up?' Ruth nodded. Her mother added, 'We're depending on you.'
It was too much for Ruth. Deprived of everything she loved and suffering the effects of months of seclusion that were eroding her sharp mind and her ability to concentrate, she became convinced that she had already committed a hideous betrayal in saying as much as she had. She tortured herself over the razor-edged flirtation with Viktor and terrified that her friends would condemn her as a traitor (she always worried too much about what other people thought), she wrote a suicide note in the back of the crossword book she had been allowed. She apologised for her cowardice, expressed her love for her family and then swallowed every sleeping pill her doctor had brought her on a recent visit.
She woke up hours later. Still alive. Ruth wept hysterically for days, but when she finally emerged from the jag, she had recovered a sense of calm. She refused to resume her statement and spent the rest of her days in confinement quietly.
On the 117th day of her confinement, she was released, this time for real. Ruth had no idea why they were letting her go, but she wrote that she had the terrible feeling that the Special Branch was not done with her. That they would come for her again. Eighteen years later, they did.
First with Walter Sisulu
She was still restricted to Johannesburg and she spent the Christmas of 1964 alone. The children were holidaying with friends in Cape Town and most of her intimates were either in exile or banned themselves and forbidden from contacting her. Finally, her exit permit came through in March I965 and together with the children and her mother Tilly, Ruth moved to London and was reunited with Joe.
Joe traveled a great deal, spending time in Angola, Zambia and Mozambique for his work in co-ordinating the armed insurrection. Ruth and Joe were beginning to fight over ideology – Joe was a hard-line Marxist who thought the Soviet regime could do no wrong, while Ruth was outraged by the USSR's invasion of Czechoslovakia and believed
Communist China was a better model for the new world.
In 1976, she moved to Mozambique with Joe, leaving her now grown children behind to take up the post of professor and research director at the Centre for African Studies at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo.
Mozambique mellowed Ruth. The primitive conditions meant that she was no longer able to indulge her taste for high fashion or immaculate grooming. She took to wearing simple cotton dresses and letting her hair dry naturally in a frizzy semi-afro. She used her expensive Italian shoes to beat of the hordes of cockroaches that assailed her kitchen.
Her success in the Centre also made her feel less competitive with Joe. She was doing good work and getting kudos for it. Under her guidance, the Centre became known for its serious and innovative research, undertaking work specifically commissioned by African governments looking for answers to social or development problems, rather than getting bogged down in academia simply for the sake of it. Of course, some of what she did could have been seen as a danger to the apartheid regime, such as her research into how Mozambique could pull itself out of its economic dependence on South Africa, but it wasn't as though she was actively involved in the struggle or even still a member of the Communist Party. But she was still Joe's wife.
First with Nelson Mandela
Unbeknown to the ANC, most of the mail for Southern Africa was routed through Johannesburg's Jan Smuts airport and sorted in a huge chamber nicknamed the 'bomb room'. Missives to listed persons were often intercepted and when a parcel from a UN agency addressed to Ruth First landed in their laps, Special Branch leapt at the opportunity. They unsealed the manila envelope using kettles specially modified for
the purpose, wired it with explosives and sent it on its way.
On 17 August 17 1982, Ruth was in her office with three friends and colleagues, Pallo Jordan, Aquino da Braganza and Bridget O'Laughlin, waiting to have a farewell drink with a colleague. When Ruth went to collect her post from her cubbyhole, Aquino teased her good-naturedly, 'You always get mail. 'Ruth shot back,"That's because I, unlike you, always write letters.'
As she tore open the unassuming brown envelope with its hand-written address, it ripped the office apart. The force of the blast blew out the window and brought the industrial air conditioning unit crashing to the floor. Pallo, Aquino and Bridget sustained burns and injuries and burst eardrums. Ruth was collapsed over the desk. Weeping,
Bridget called frantically for an ambulance, forgetting in her trauma that Maputo had none.
When Joe received a frantic phone call, he rushed to the scene, arriving just as Ruth's three companions were being shuttled to the hospital in a commandeered jeep. He shoved his way through the shocked crowd, but when he saw Ruth's feet in the tan high-heel shoes (her favourites) sticking out from the ruins of the room, he stopped abruptly. The stillness and the angle of her legs told him everything he needed to know. In the aftermath, they would have to scrape her remains from the walls.
In the Truth Commission hearing held 17 years later in South Africa, apartheid spy and mastermind Craig Williamson denied that Ruth was the intended target, even though the envelope was clearly addressed to her and she would never have opened Joe's mail. To the horror and outrage of Ruth's friends and family, he was granted political amnesty.
Later, her daughter, Gillian Slovo, confronted Craig Williamson while she was researching her autobiographical book on growing up with Ruth and Joe as parents. He told her it was just business as usual in the strategy of 'terrorising the terrorist' and 'almost luck of the draw'. He expressed no remorse, but confided it was Special Branch that had started the rumours blaming Joe for Ruth's assassination.
Writer Ronald Segal described Ruth's death as 'the final act of censorship'. She was buried in Maputo beside 19 black men, all MK soldiers. Statesmen and ambassadors from some 34 countries attended the funeral.
Commemorating Ruth's life at the time of her funeral, Joe wrote, 'She was a lady of style and elegance, both in wit and vanity. She was a comrade whose intolerance of hypocrisy, inefficiency and humbug won her the respect even of those who were discomforted by the razor- sharpness of her thrusts. She was a friend and companion with a rich, albeit private passion… Why did they do it? Why was she who had nothing to do with the planning or implementation of armed activities, chosen as the target of their killing machine? The answer is crystal-clear.
Her boundless energy and intellectual productivity in opposition to racist savagery posed a threat to them which was no less sharp than a whole arsenal of weapons.'
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How Cait Oppermann Turned A Sense Of Play Into A Photography Career
The Brooklyn photographer talks shooting porn conventions and dog shows, and shares the best bit of advice she was ever given.
By Mimi Hong
Photographer Mimi Hong
On a recent May afternoon, the sun fought through an overcast sky into Cait Oppermann's Brooklyn studio. The 27-year-old Pratt graduate was brewing coffee in the kitchen, and the sunlight bounced off the robin's egg blue and candy apple red accented surfaces of the room. Oppermann's use of dynamic colors and sharp lines in her work have earned her photography commissions in publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Surface, Wired, and The FADER. She shoots with both a Nikon D810 and Mamiya 7II, which, outside of freelance work, she uses to document her travels around the world in Europe, Asia, and South America. Find out how her sense of fun kickstarted career, and what she's learnt along the way.
What made you want to be a photographer?
I never really made that decision outright. I just knew that I had the most fun when I was taking photos, and that I was most excited by the work that came out of me taking photos. Initially, long ago, I was doing video. I never got really super excited about that. I started out in college not even in photo — I did a semester, left for a little while. When I came back, I was like I'm only going to come back and do photo. It's just what makes me happiest, and makes me feel the most like I'm doing what I should be doing.
How would you describe your process?
I think it's experimental, at least at first. I like to play until something good happens. For me, photography is fun, and it's about having fun. At its core, it's about joy. I think my process as a result is just experimental and about play. I always try to not take anything too seriously — until it becomes serious. I think like all art, photography has to come from a place of wanting to do something, or wanting to make work, or wanting to have fun with what you do.
Which photographers do you admire and why?
In college, some of my favorite photographers were Joel Sternfeld, and Collier Schorr. My favorite photographer is Thomas Prior, who I assist for on photography assignments when he travels. But most of the time, I admire my friends and other people who are hustling in New York, making cool things. If I were to have my home base be somewhere else, it would be hard not being surrounded by people who are constantly hustling. It's an amazing motivation to be surrounded by people who are having to work their asses off, basically.
What do you think smartphone photography has done to the practice?
I think it's helped people who aren't photographers be able to discern a little better what is a "good photo," and what is not a "good photo." The bar has been raised for people who aren't photographers. I don't think it's really done anything for good photographers who know how to make a good picture. But I think it really has changed how people look at their own personal photos, and how they share them, because a better looking photo means more likes on Instagram.
What do you listen to when you're editing?
I listen to a lot of Drake, I just bought the new album. Nothing Was The Same is my go-to work album. That, and the Robyn and Röyksopp collaborative album that came out a couple of years ago.
You photographed the Westminster Dog Show — what was that like?
Those dogs are not dogs. They have a heightened sense of people. When you look in the dog's eyes, it has this human-like recognition. When you walk by a dog, its eyes will follow you like a human; other dogs get bored and look at something else. Also, the level of care that goes into prepping a dog for the dog show — they're putting curlers in the dogs' hair, and they're brushing them out, and they're blow drying them, and the dogs are just sitting there like props. I was really interested in the relationship between the groomer and the dog, because they're the people who are spending all that prep time with them. I was really focused on that time, that 30 minutes before a dog was being shown. It was a really intimate thing to witness.
What are some other distinctive or unique shoots you've been a part of?
Several years ago I shot a sex convention. I expected to be completely grossed out, but it was actually kind of endearing in a surprising way. It was very clear that a lot of the people who were there had no other outlet for human contact and seemed to be very reclusive, and didn't really fit into the rest of society. It was this beautiful meeting of pornstars and people who just want to be recognized and paid attention to, and they got that there. It turned out to be this really almost sweet convergence of two very different groups. Very similar to the dog show: an event of really super specific circumstances.
You've documented your travels all over the world. Which city has been your favorite, and what kind of story were you aiming to tell there?
I think my favorite place, at least in recent years, was Bangkok. What I ended up looking at while I was there was this sometimes tense, but other times symbiotic relationship between East and West. [Between the] traditional Thai culture [and] the very obvious, and sometimes all-encompassing, effect of western tourism.
I was mixing up photos of white German tourists taking pictures from a beautiful hotel on the water next to people swimming laps in the pool next to lavish breakfasts. Pairing that in sequence with teenage boys knocking each other out in Muy Thai fights, and kids playing soccer late at night under the subway station. Sometimes those things could be apparent in the same photograph, but I found in my final edit when I started to compile things together that there were these really stark contrasts within the same city, within the same block.
What's the best bit of advice you were ever given?
When I was in Thailand with Thomas Prior, he was leaving to go to India and I was going to be in the city by myself for a couple of days. When he left, he just said, "Don't come back to the hotel tonight until you've shot every roll of film, and you have nothing left to shoot." I went out that night and I was a lot more aggressive with the kind of photographs that I wanted to take. I specifically sought out things that maybe would have scared me in the past, or maybe I would've said, "Well, I don't want to go to the trouble." When I am starting to feel maybe a little bit lazy, or passive, I think back to the time when Tom said that to me, and it's always helpful. It's something that's always in the front of my brain now.
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Presently, we do not have Facebook open at any of our schools but we discuss often when we might be ready to open this on our network. We do have some school Facebook pages but mostly intended for parents to gain more info.
We have some parents that have decided to create a Facebook page to discuss some district restructuring that is going on..basically becomes a blog of sorts. There is some concern regarding administrators and board members "liking" their page. Interesting times….
Peter, do you allow students to visit their FB page during school hours? Are you considering this to be educational? Being from a school that allows FB, what do you consider the Pros and Cons of keeping it open?
We leave it up to individual teachers to set their own classroom rules regarding whether to allow access during school. Some do, some don't, and a small handful actually use it as a means of communication.nnReally the only cons I see are that some teachers complain about students going on fb when they're not supposed to, and some push back from parents. With teachers I talk about the need to work with students and provide effective supervision, (as well as making sure students are engaged.) With parents, we've had complaints that their children have created fb accounts at school against their home rules. I've yet to be convinced that these students wouldn't have found a way to do this even if we were blocking fb.nnA major pro is not having to spend absurd amounts of time filling the holes in the filter! And we do have teachers using it productively, which is something that will hopefully increase.
I like to use Twitter to keep up on global issues…hearing from the people in a specific country and gain their perspective on what is happening around them. This type of immediate info is not available in any other format!
I am not into Social Networks, but regard myself as "connected in the digital world". I understand its value, importance and need for our students. I regard myself as fairly private and do not necessarily need to know who is doing what at what minute / second! I would rather look at someone in the eye, read their body language and speak to others in person when possible. I believe these skills are still necessary in our world!
I want FB open to students. I want our Business Ed program teaching how to use it to students.
Self regulating is something that students will need to learn to do!
Schools should assist students in educating how to focus/balance learning and also contribute socially with others via digital world.
Question:nShould facebook/myspace/google + be opened and used in schools?
For me, using social networks in schools is more about teaching students to be responsible users, rather than trying to block the sites.
Edmodo is a "closed" social network that is working VERY well in my school. Staff/students like the instant feedback and sharing of thoughts/ideas.
Is your whole school using Edmodo?
Seventh grade class for now. We will expand it to the whole school… or look at utilizing google apps instead.
There is no better filter than an engaged adult in the room paying attention to the students.
We've found that inappropriate use of social networks has decreased since we've opened access. Now the focus has switched to helping students learn to differentiate between all of the tools at their disposal to determine which will be most helpful in accomplishing the task.


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(1949) The last mission of John Wayne's Capt. Nathan Brittles before retirement. Ford's own favorite among his cavalry trilogy: "I tried to copy the Frederic Remington style." The thunderstorm sequence was filmed over the protest of cameraman Winton Hoch – who won the Oscar. 35mm. Approx. 104 min.


Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!
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Privacy is hot. 81% of people analytics projects are jeopardized by ethics and privacy concerns. This number will only increase if companies do not comply to the new European privacy regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will be enforceable from 25 May 2018 onward.
This article will look at the formation and developments of the GDPR and give insight into the three most important privacy changes for employers. We will conclude with 9 practical tips on how HR analytics departments can prepare for the GDPR.
The purpose of the GDPR is to further harmonize a higher level of protection of personal data. This impacts the processing of personal data within businesses – especially HR data.
The GDPR constitutes major consequences for employment law as an employer processes the data of its employees (and potential employees) on a large scale. In addition, an employer may process employee data with regard to the work environment – for instance, data from cameras or employees' internet behavior. In short, it is important for employers to know what to expect and how to deal with these regulations.
The formation of the GDPR
The European Commission has been working on amending the privacy regulation since January 2012, in order to make it fit for the digital era. The GDPR harmonizes the different privacy rules across the union. The result is a high level of EU-wide protection which will have direct effect.
This legislative process took a couple of years and it wasn't until the end of 2015 that Member States reached an agreement on the main principles. In April 2016, the final version of the GDPR was published, which will be enforceable from 25 May 2018 (including in the UK)
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Consequences of GDPR in the workplace
The GDPR contains a substantial number of 'new' standards and rules, the most important changes being:
Additional rights for employees
Data Protection Impact Assessment
We will briefly discuss these three topics below.
1. Additional Rights for Employees
Employees will acquire a number of additional rights to reinforce control over their own personal data. For example, the right of access has been extended. This gives the employee the right to be informed about:
How long the employer aims to keep the data;
whether the data will be used for automated decision-making,
whether the employer intends to transfer the data abroad, and if so,
which safeguards will be provided in that context.
This puts extra responsibility on anyone working with personnel data.
Furthermore, the employer must inform the employee about the right to rectification and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
An individual employee also has a right to erasure. This provides, under specific circumstances, the right to be forgotten. The practical application is that employers need to provide clarity about the purpose the data is used for (see tip #9 below).
2. Data Protection Impact Assessment
The Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) is a way of analyzing potential privacy risks.
A DPIA should be carried out when the processing of personal data will most likely result in a high risk to the rights and freedom of the employee. A DPIA is therefore not always mandatory!
After assessing the risks, an organization must take measures to mitigate these risks.
A DPIA is mandatory in the following situations:
Profiling: when a systematic and extensive assessment is made of personal aspects relating to natural persons, based on which decisions must be made that could have legal consequences for those natural persons.
Data processing: when large-scale processing of special personal data is carried out;
Monitoring efforts: when publicly accessible spaces are monitored systematically and on a large scale.
Besides the above-mentioned situations, there are no examples given in the GDPR of processing that is likely to entail high-privacy risks and thus require a DPIA.
For further, more detailed specifications of when a DPIA should be carried out, click here.
The Article 29 Working Party (WP 29), the independent advisory and consultative body of European privacy supervisory authorities has published guidelines, among other things, to further specify the DPIA phenomenon and it plays an important role in the formation of European policy on the protection of personal data.
The guidelines include advice such as when a DPIA should be carried out. Criteria are given, based on which the increased privacy processing risks can be determined.
WP29 specifies the following criteria:
assessing and evaluating data, including profiling;
the processing is aimed at taking automated decisions with a legal or similar significant effect;
systematic monitoring of individuals;
the processing of special personal data;
large-scale processing;
combined or matched data sets, for example to process data which were collected for various purposes;
data relating to vulnerable persons;
innovative use of or applying technical or organizational solutions, such as the use of fingerprints or facial recognition for physical access to a building;
data transfer across borders outside the EU (exchange of data with a country outside the EU);
the data subject is obstructed from exercising a right or in using a service or a contract. For example, when a bank screens its customers against a credit reference database to assess whether the customer qualifies for a loan.
The more criteria that apply, the more likely it is that the processing entails an increased privacy risk for the data subject and that a DPIA is required. According to WP29 as a rule of thumb, it can be assumed that if two or more of these aforesaid criteria occur, there is an increased privacy risk and therefore a DPIA is required.
In some cases, it could be that only one criterion needs to be met if the processing is so far-reaching that it entails an increased privacy risk. If two or more criteria occur and a company decides not to carry out a DPIA, then, according to WP29, it must set out the precise reasons for this.
Under the GDPR, it is mandatory for certain controllers and processors to designate a Data Protection Officer (DPO). The controller is the owner of the data and determines who can process it. The processor is the body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller. This includes third parties that do data analysis on your HR data.
The GDPR requires the designation of a DPO in three specific cases:
Where the processing is carried out by a public authority or body.
Where the core activities of the controller or the processor consist of processing operations, which require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale.
Where the core activities of the controller or the processor consist of processing on a large scale of special categories of data or personal data relating to criminal convictions and offenses.
In practice, this means that almost all large organizations have a Data Protection Officer. Whenever you work on an HR analytics project, make sure to involve your DPO!
This is also important, because being involved is part of the DPO's job. His duties are, in particular:
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Collecting information to identify processing activities;
Analyze and check the compliance of processing activities; and
Inform, advise and issue recommendations to the controller or the processor.
Even when the GDPR does not specifically require the appointment of a DPO, organizations may sometimes find it useful to designate a DPO on a voluntary basis.
To read more specific details about the DPO and his independence, click here
As far as the DPIA is concerned, the controller or the processor should seek the advice of the DPO, on the following issues, amongst others:
whether or not to carry out a DPIA;
what methodology to follow when carrying out a DPIA;
whether to carry out the DPIA in-house or whether to outsource it;
what safeguards (including technical and organizational measures) to apply to mitigate any risks to the rights and interests of the data subjects; and
whether or not the DPIA has been correctly carried out and whether its conclusions (whether or not to go ahead with the processing and what safeguards to apply) are in conformity with data protection requirements.
The DPO must act in an independent manner. The WP29 provides guidance with regard to this criterion:
no instructions by the controllers or the processors should be given regarding the exercise of the DPO's tasks;
no dismissal or penalty should be given for the performance of the DPO's tasks; and
There should be no conflict of interest with any of the other tasks and duties of the DPO.
The safeguards mentioned above enable the DPO to act in an independent manner. It is clear that the DPO cannot hold a position within the organization that leads him to determine the purposes and the means of the processing of personal data. Due to the specific organizational structure in each organization, this has to be considered case by case. It is also possible to hire an external DPO based on a service contract concluded with an individual or an organization.
9 Ways how the EU's GDPR will Impact HR Analytics
So how does the GDPR apply to HR analytics? We listed 9 tips below:
1. Awareness
The GDPR has a tangible impact on the analysis of HR data so make sure that everyone on the HR analytics team is up to date with the latest privacy rules.
2. Involve the Data Protection Officer
Your Data Protection Officer is a key stakeholder in any analytics project. He must estimate the impact of the GDPR on the organization's current processes. When projects are not compliant with the GDPR or other data protection laws, the DPO will interfere. Make sure to involve him early on so you will avoid making costly mistakes.
People whose personal data will be processed will acquire more and improved privacy rights under the GDPR. Be prepared for this so that you can respond correctly to requests and in a timely fashion. These rights include existing rights, such as the right of access and the right to rectification and erasure.
Also take new rights into consideration, such as the right to data portability. For this right, you must make sure that data subjects have easy access to their data and can pass these on to another organization if they so wish.
4. Processing lists
Under the GDPR, you are subject to accountability, which implies that you must be able to demonstrate that your organization acts in accordance with the GDPR. For example, when employees ask you to correct or erase their data, you must communicate this to the external organizations with which you shared their data. This may impact some – if not all – of your HR software providers
It is therefore important to keep a list of
which data you process,
for which purpose data is processed,
where you got the data from, and
with whom you shared data.
5.Data treatment security for third-party companies
When other organizations process your HR data, additional security requirements apply.
It is compulsory to agree with the data processor on a data processing agreement, which is in compliance with the requirements set in the GDPR, with data processors.
If a processor is established outside the European Economic Area, stricter requirements may apply.
A processor must always be able to apply state-of-the-art security measures.
The data processor should be certified in conformity with ISO27001/2 standards or other, similar standards. These should be defined in the data processing agreement.
6. Privacy by design
Familiarize your organization with the GDPR's obligatory basic principles of "Privacy by design & privacy by default" and check how you can introduce these principles in your organization. "Privacy by design" means ensuring personal data protection from the onset of designing your products and services.
Image from Termsfeed. Check them for more information about Privacy by Design.7. Privacy by default
"Privacy by default" means you must take technical and organizational measures to ensure that, by default, you only process the personal data that's necessary for the specific purpose you wish to accomplish.
8. Lead supervisory authority
Does your organization have several business locations in different EU Member States? Or does your data processing have an impact in several Member States? Then, under the GDPR you will only need to cooperate with one privacy supervisory authority. This is referred to as the lead supervisory authority. If this applies to your organization, determine which privacy supervisory authority you would be subject to.
If there's no employment relationship you need the data subject's free and unequivocal consent to process its data. In addition, data can only be processed when it's in line with the reason for collecting the data. Make sure that the use of employee data processing is clearly defined in the employment contract.
The GDPR has strengthened the requirements for consent. Therefore, you should evaluate the way in which you ask for, obtain and register consent, and adjust your approach if necessary.
A new rule is that you must be able to prove that you were given valid consent by the data subjects for processing their personal data and that it must be just easy for them to withdraw their consent.
It is important to note that an employee's consent, given his subordinate position with respect to the employer, is not automatically considered to be free and unequivocal. For some data processing, such as monitoring employees' health through wearables, free consent is not even possible! Once again, consult your DPO when you implement such technologies.
The implementation of the GDPR is in full swing. The WP29 guidelines, such as have now been published, can still be supplemented by the Member States so that the regulations are as far as possible in line with the market. It is therefore essential to follow the developments closely and – when you're unsure about the implementation – to receive professional advice.
For a full overview of the GDPR regulation, check here.
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This circular walk explores the countryside and canals surrounding this popular village in the Yorkshire Dales. The route makes use of the Pennine Way and the towpath of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to create a 6 mile round walk. It's a fairly gentle route with little climbing and splendid views of the surrounding Yorkshire Dales hills. You can start and end the walk from the centre of the village which is accessible by train or bus.
The area around Gargrave is fantastic for walking and cycling. You could head to Barnoldswick by heading south along the canal or visit the splendid Malham Tarn Estate by heading north along the Pennine Way.
You can also enjoy walk along the River Aire by following the Airedale Way which passes through the village.
On our Skipton Canal Walk you can follow a lovely section of the Leeds and Liverpool to nearby Skipton.


In the hotel industry there is one thing that counts above anything else - customer comfort. And that means creating the right atmosphere, in every sense. Samsung's air conditioning solutions provide the flexibility, reliability and operational excellence to create a highly personalised and consistently comfortable hospitality environment with a simple management system and a wide range of units and controllers.
Most commercial businesses need to balance performance with cost. Samsung's air conditioning solutions let you create the perfect working conditions for everyone, while saving money. You can independently adjust and optimise the temperature and airflow in specific spaces, while also controlling and managing other key areas, to maximise efficiency and minimise waste.
Creating a comfortable environment in office buildings is essential to maximising productivity. Samsung's air conditioning solutions allow you to independently adjust and optimise the temperature and airflow in specific spaces, like meeting rooms, while centrally controlling and managing shared zones to maximise efficiency and minimise waste.
Restaurants need a good air supply to prevent heat and food odours spreading from the kitchen to diners' tables. This can be a challenge when faced with high ceilings and large shared areas. Samsung's air conditioning solutions let you independently adjust and optimise the temperature and airflow in specific spaces, like the kitchen, while also centrally controlling and managing shared zones such as the dining area.
In residential buildings, creating a peaceful and comfortable environment is very important. A challenge when faced with high ceilings and a high demand for fresh air. Samsung's air conditioning let you adjust and optimise the temperature and airflow in residents' rooms, while also centrally controlling and managing shared zones.


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Der Verkehrslandeplatz Halle-Oppin liegt östlich der Ortschaft Oppin im Saalekreis und wurde von 1968 bis 1971 erbaut.

Geschichte

Bis 1989
Der anfangs von der Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik betriebene Flugplatz diente zur Ausbildung von Segelfliegern und Fallschirmspringern. Er wurde am 7. August 1971 offiziell in Betrieb genommen.

Die Gründung des Klubs für Fallschirmsport Halle/Oppin leitete eine Entwicklung im Leistungssport bis hin zur Weltspitze ein. Von 1972 bis 1990 wurden von Oppiner Fallschirmspringern insgesamt 31 Medaillen allein bei Weltmeisterschaften errungen.

Als der Standort Halle-Oppin zum Leistungszentrum für Fallschirmsprung in der DDR ausgebaut wurde, mussten die Segelflieger zum benachbarten Flugplatz Renneritz umziehen.

Kurz vor der deutschen Einheit trafen sich Fallschirmspringer aus Ost und West zu einem ersten, gemeinsamen skydive-event unter dem Titel Deutsch-Deutscher Wiedervereinigungsboogie.

Ab 1990

Seit dem 20. Dezember 1990 wird der Flugplatz von der Flugplatzgesellschaft mbH Halle/Oppin betrieben.

Neben verschiedenen Flugwerften sind auch zwei Flugschulen und verschiedene Vereine am Platz beheimatet. Ein Modellflugverein hat im Nordteil des Platzes eine eigene "Piste".

Der Flugsportverein Halle-Oppin e.V. nutzt den Nordteil des Platzes für Segel- und Motorsegelflug. Erstmals war der FSV-Oppin vom 15. bis 24. Juli 2005 Ausrichter der Landesmeisterschaften im Streckensegelflug. Im Jahr 2007 wird die Offene Landesmeisterschaft im Streckensegelflug, die zugleich ein Qualifikationswettbewerb für die Deutsche Meisterschaft der Junioren 2008 darstellt, vom 5. bis 12. August 2007 ebenfalls vom Flugsportverein Halle-Oppin ausgerichtet.

Seit 18. Juni 1991 befindet sich die Station Halle der DRF Luftrettung auf dem Flugplatz. Derzeit sind dort die Intensivtransporthubschrauber Christoph Halle (Airbus Helicopters H135) und Christoph Sachsen-Anhalt (Airbus Helicopters H145 D-3) stationiert. Die Alarmierung erfolgt über die Rettungsdienstleitstelle Halle (Saale) als zuständige Luftrettungsdienstleitstelle des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt. Von Oppin aus werden jährlich mehr als 2.000 Einsätze geflogen.

Auf dem Flugplatz befindet sich seit 1997 zudem einer der zwei Hubschrauberstützpunkte der Bundespolizei-Fliegerstaffel-Fuldatal (BPOLFLS FDT). An diesem Stützpunkt ist ein Airbus Helicopters H135 T2+ (Rufname: Pirol 441) stationiert, der in der Region Halle-Leipzig eingesetzt wird.

Darüber hinaus befinden sich auf dem Flugplatz eine Außenstelle der Air Lloyd Deutsche Helicopter Flugservice GmbH und der Air Lloyd Aerotechnics sowie eine Werft der ADAC Luftfahrt Technik GmbH, die für die Wartung der Polizeihubschrauberstaffel Sachsen-Anhalt zuständig ist.

Flugplatzfeuerwehr
Die Flugplatzfeuerwehr setzt seit 1996 ein Tanklöschfahrzeug TLF 48 auf Tatra 148 sowie einen Toyota Hilux für den Erstangriff als Vorauslöschfahrzeug ein.

Weblinks

 Website des Flugplatzes
 Website des Flugsportvereins Halle-Oppin

Einzelnachweise

Halle-Oppin
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Bauwerk in Landsberg (Saalekreis)
Verkehrsbauwerk im Saalekreis
Erbaut in den 1960er Jahren
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from 1914 to 1925 (Strong, cited in Becker).
It is based on their Model 250 hollow wire lamp.
The ventilator and fount are nickel plated brass.
This lantern is in Craig Seabrook's collection.
Compare to Model H416 on this page.
Coleman also made the arc lantern for their Yale Light Company in Chicago.
in the collar and is usually not nickel plated.
as found on some Gloria Light Co., Chicago, appliances.
Coleman also made the arc lantern for the Sunshine Safety Lamp Co., Kansas City, Missouri for a short time, circa 1915.
The only difference in this lantern from the one that Coleman made for their own company is the stamping on the collar (lower image).
This lantern is in Ron Becker's collection.
all made by Coleman for different periods between 1914 and 1919.
The Yale is unstamped while the other two are stamped as Model 316 above.
while "THE SUNSHINE LANTERN" is in Mike Ogilvie's collection.
These lanterns are in Takao Kimura's collection.
This lantern is not to be confused with Economy Lamp Co. Model 408.
in Hiram Strong's Coleman Shipping Records (Vantiger).
that are stamped for Sunshine Safety.
By 1917 Coleman encouraged dealers to convert torch lighting IL & NL lantern models to QL327 match lighting lanterns with a new valve, generator, burner, and 327 mica globe.
The new metal parts were $3.50 and the 327 globe $1.20.
Dealers could get a $0.25 credit for the return of the metal parts only to the factory.
the ventilator and globe were removed for the image.
that had a protective metal coating to reduce corrosion.
requires a separate pump as on Model NL.
Model GS appears in Strong's Shipping Records from 1918 – '20 (Vantiger).
Coleman's Yale Light Co. subsidiary offered this Model 111 in their #36 catalog, circa 1916. This torch lighting, single mantle lantern has a frame, valve, and ventilator as on other Coleman models with a unique mixing chamber casting and no tip cleaner.
The lantern was advertised as an economy model producing 400 cp.
This lantern is in Takao Kimura's collection.
This Coleman for Yale 111 lantern was converted to match lighting with an early Q70 burner, requiring an awkward bending of the generator and air tube (above right image). Note the datum target "dimples" in the mixing chamber casting (above middle, beside the "A").
This lantern, in Bill Droster's collection, is also stamped on the bottom (lower image).
Please contact me if you have an appliance with this triangular Yale stamping.
Air-O-Lantern Model QL (left) ca. 1920 and L327 (right) 1920-24, sans logo and date stamp. These two Coleman models were found in France.
They are unusual because they were never nickel-plated but the brass was polished and lacquered and the collars and globe cages were painted gold.
for the French market in the early 1920's.
Coleman made this lantern for their Yale Light Co. subsidiary from 1917 – 1920 (Becker).
The founts on these ML-211 Arcolite lanterns are either steel (as above) or nickel plated brass and have either a straight (as above) or curved air tube (next lanterns, below).
the air tube on this lantern has the Coleman match lighting patent dated May 13, 1919.
Please contact me if you find a lantern with a top bolt as on this one.
This lantern is in Doug Dwyer's collection.


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Perth in winter 2012: A warm and very dry winter.
Rainfall across the Perth metropolitan area during winter 2012 was very much below average at most sites, mainly due to the driest July on record at most locations, with June totals being close to average, and August totals being near average to below average. Winter rainfall totals were generally in the 250 mm to 300 mm range, grading to 400 mm to 500 mm in the Perth hills.
A slow moving trough off the west coast, associated with a near stationary low to the southwest of the state, brought showers and thunderstorms with moderate falls to Perth on 6 June. The trough moved gradually eastward over land during the morning of the 7th, with severe thunderstorms developing over Perth in the late morning and early afternoon, and a tornado was reported close to midday in the suburbs of Dianella and Morley, causing substantial damage.
A rapidly deepening tropical low off the northwest coast of Western Australia moved south-southeastward close to the west coast during the morning on 10 June and crossed the Southwest district during the afternoon, bringing severe wind gusts and moderate rainfall to the Perth area.
A cold front moved through the Perth metropolitan area on 11 June bringing further rainfall and more severe wind gusts before a rapidly developing cold front and deep low pressure system moved through the Southwest Land Division (SWLD) during the afternoon and evening of the 12th, bringing moderate to heavy falls and more severe winds to the Perth area.
A persistent westerly flow was maintained over the Perth region from 12 to 18 June, bringing consistent, though generally light, rainfall. Cold fronts on the 19th and 20th brought moderate falls.
July 2012 saw only a handful of light rainfall events in the Perth area, with daily rainfall totals generally less than 10 mm.
A strong cold front and pre-frontal trough brought moderate to heavy falls to the Perth area on 12 August. Mundaring in the hills received 53.0 mm in 24 hours to 9am on the 13th, the highest daily fall recorded in the Perth metropolitan area during winter 2012.
Perth Metro recorded 262.6 mm of rainfall on 42 rain days during winter 2012, well below the average of 478.7 mm on 48 rain days and was the 4th driest winter on record behind 2006 (230.4 mm), 2010 (256.4mm), and 1940 (260.0 mm). Rainfall records commenced at Perth Metro in 1876. Rainfall totals at Perth Metro for the individual months in winter 2012 were: June: 140.8 mm (average 175.7 mm), July: 34.6 mm (average 169.6 mm), and August 87.2 mm (average 133.4 mm).
Mean daily maximum temperatures for winter 2012 were very much above average across the Perth region and in the 18 °C to 20 °C range, with most sites 0.5 °C to 1.0 °C above normal. The very much above average winter mean maxima were the result of slightly above average maxima in June, very much above average maxima in July, with some sites registering a record high July, and an above average August. Consequently, Swanbourne recorded its highest winter mean maximum temperature in 18 years of record.
A high in the Bight directed warm northeasterly winds over the Perth area during early June, and again in mid-August, with all Perth sites observing their warmest winter days on either 3 June or 10 or 11 August. A maximum temperature of 25.5 °C at Gosnellls City on 3 June was the highest temperature recorded in the metropolitan area during winter. The lowest maximum temperature for winter was 11.3 °C at Bickley on 20 June in southerly winds after the passage of a cold front.
Perth Metro's mean daily maximum temperature for winter 2012 was 19.7 °C, which is 0.9 °C above the winter average of 18.8 °C and the equal second warmest winter on record with 1976 and 1983 (comparable temperature records commenced in 1897). Perth Metro's warmest winter was in 2006 when a mean maximum temperature of 19.8 °C was observed.
Mean daily minimum temperatures during winter 2012 were generally near average across the Perth region, with mean daily minima close to 8 °C for inland sites, but were generally in the 10 °C to 13 °C range near the coast. The near average winter was the result of an above average June, a very much below average July, with record low mean minima at some sites, and a slightly above average August.
Cool to cold nights were observed throughout most of July 2012, with generally clear skies throughout much of the month. A particularly cold night was observed on the 25th when Perth Airport, Pearce RAAF, and Jandakot Aerodrome registered sub-zero overnight temperatures and most sites observed their coldest night for winter 2012. The mildest night for winter 2012 for a number of metropolitan sites occurred on 3 and 4 June in a northerly flow as a strong low pressure system sat to the southwest of WA. Rottnest Island recorded a minimum temperature of 17.7 °C on the 4th, the highest for winter in the Perth metropolitan area.
Perth Metro's mean daily minimum temperature for winter 2012 was 8.0 °C, which is close to the average of 8.2 °C.


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Го́стиус (правильнее — Гостий, ; II век до н. э., Римская республика) — древнеримский эпический поэт.

Биография
По всей видимости, Гостий жил и сочинительствовал во II веке до н. э. (седьмой век от основания Рима) Он был автором «Bellum Histricum» — эпического труда, по крайней мере, в семи книгах, от которых до настоящего времени сохранилось только несколько фрагментов.

Это произведение имело своей целью воспеть победу, которую одержал Гай Семпроний Тудитан в ходе римского завоевания Иллирии.

Помимо того, Гостий написал продолжение «Анналов» Квинта Энния — эпическую поэму об Истрийской войне.

Примечания

Литература
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

Поэты II века до н. э.


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using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UMA;
using UMAAssetBundleManager;

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{

    //extra fields for Dynamic Version
    public bool dynamicallyAddFromResources;
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    //CharacterAvatar can query this this to find out what asset bundles were required to create itself
    //or other scripts can use it to find out which asset bundles are being used by the Libraries at any given point.
    public Dictionary<string, List<string>> assetBundlesUsedDict = new Dictionary<string, List<string>>();
#if UNITY_EDITOR
    [HideInInspector]
    public List<OverlayDataAsset> editorAddedAssets = new List<OverlayDataAsset>();
#endif
    [System.NonSerialized]
    [HideInInspector]
    public bool downloadAssetsEnabled = true;

    public void Start()
    {
        if (Application.isPlaying)
        {
            assetBundlesUsedDict.Clear();
        }
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        if (Application.isPlaying)
        {
            ClearEditorAddedAssets();
        }
#endif
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Clears any editor added assets when the Scene is closed
    /// </summary>
    void OnDestroy()
    {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        ClearEditorAddedAssets();
#endif
    }

    public void ClearEditorAddedAssets()
    {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        if (editorAddedAssets.Count > 0)
        {
            editorAddedAssets.Clear();
        }
#endif
    }

#if UNITY_EDITOR
    OverlayData GetEditorAddedAsset(int? nameHash = null, string overlayName = "")
    {
        OverlayData foundOverlay = null;
        if (editorAddedAssets.Count > 0)
        {
            foreach (OverlayDataAsset edOverlay in editorAddedAssets)
            {
                if(edOverlay != null)
                {
                    if(nameHash != null)
                    {
                        if(edOverlay.nameHash == nameHash)
                            foundOverlay = new OverlayData(edOverlay);
                    }
                    else if(overlayName != null)
                    {
                        if(overlayName != "")
                            if(edOverlay.overlayName == overlayName)
                                foundOverlay = new OverlayData(edOverlay);
                    }

                }
            }
        }
        return foundOverlay;
    }
#endif

    public void UpdateDynamicOverlayLibrary(int? nameHash = null)
    {
        DynamicAssetLoader.Instance.AddAssets<OverlayDataAsset>(ref assetBundlesUsedDict, dynamicallyAddFromResources, dynamicallyAddFromAssetBundles, downloadAssetsEnabled, assetBundleNamesToSearch, resourcesFolderPath, nameHash, "", AddOverlayAssets);
    }

    public void UpdateDynamicOverlayLibrary(string overlayName)
    {
        DynamicAssetLoader.Instance.AddAssets<OverlayDataAsset>(ref assetBundlesUsedDict, dynamicallyAddFromResources, dynamicallyAddFromAssetBundles, downloadAssetsEnabled, assetBundleNamesToSearch, resourcesFolderPath, null, overlayName, AddOverlayAssets);
    }

    private void AddOverlayAssets(OverlayDataAsset[] overlays)
    {
        foreach (OverlayDataAsset overlay in overlays)
        {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
            if (!Application.isPlaying)
            {
                if(!editorAddedAssets.Contains(overlay))
                    editorAddedAssets.Add(overlay);
            }
            else
#endif
            AddOverlayAsset(overlay);
        }
		//This doesn't actually seem to do anything apart from slow things down
		//StartCoroutine(CleanOverlaysFromResourcesAndBundles());
	}

	/*IEnumerator CleanOverlaysFromResourcesAndBundles()
    {
        yield return null;
        Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets();
        yield break;
    }*/

    public override OverlayData InstantiateOverlay(string name)
    {
        OverlayData res;
        try
        {
            res = base.InstantiateOverlay(name);
        }
        catch
        {
            res = null;
        }
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        if (!Application.isPlaying && res == null)
        {
            res = GetEditorAddedAsset(null, name);
        }
#endif
        if (res == null)
        {
            //we try to load the overlay dynamically
            UpdateDynamicOverlayLibrary(name);
            try {
                res = base.InstantiateOverlay(name);
            }
            catch
            {
                res = null;
            }
            if (res == null)
            {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
                if (!Application.isPlaying)
                {
                    res = GetEditorAddedAsset(null, name);
                    if (res != null)
                    {
                        return res;
                    }
                }
#endif
                throw new UMAResourceNotFoundException("dOverlayLibrary: Unable to find: " + name);
            }
        }
        return res;
    }
    //we dont seem to be able to use nameHash for some reason so in this case we are screwed- DOES THIS EVER HAPPEN?
    public override OverlayData InstantiateOverlay(int nameHash)
    {
        Debug.Log("OverlayLibrary tried to InstantiateOverlay using Hash");
        OverlayData res;
        try
        {
            res = base.InstantiateOverlay(nameHash);
        }
        catch
        {
            res = null;
        }
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        if (!Application.isPlaying && res == null)
        {
            res = GetEditorAddedAsset(nameHash);
        }
#endif
        if (res == null)
        {
            UpdateDynamicOverlayLibrary(nameHash);
            try {
                res = base.InstantiateOverlay(nameHash);
            }
            catch
            {
                res = null;
            }
            if (res == null)
            {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
                if (!Application.isPlaying)
                {
                    res = GetEditorAddedAsset(nameHash);
                    if (res != null)
                    {
                        return res;
                    }
                }
#endif
                throw new UMAResourceNotFoundException("dOverlayLibrary: Unable to find: " + nameHash);
            }
        }
        return res;
    }
    public override OverlayData InstantiateOverlay(string name, Color color)
    {
        OverlayData res;
        try
        {
            res = base.InstantiateOverlay(name);
        }
        catch
        {
            res = null;
        }
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        if (!Application.isPlaying && res == null)
        {
            res = GetEditorAddedAsset(null, name);
        }
#endif
        if (res == null)
        {
            //we do something
            UpdateDynamicOverlayLibrary(name);
            try {
                res = base.InstantiateOverlay(name);
            }
            catch
            {
                res = null;
            }
            if (res == null)
            {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
                if (!Application.isPlaying)
                {
                    res = GetEditorAddedAsset(null, name);
                    if (res != null)
                    {
                        res.colorData.color = color;
                        return res;
                    }
                }
#endif
                throw new UMAResourceNotFoundException("dOverlayLibrary: Unable to find: " + name);
            }
        }
        res.colorData.color = color;
        return res;
    }
    //we dont seem to be able to use nameHash for some reason so in this case we are screwed- DOES THIS EVER HAPPEN?
    public override OverlayData InstantiateOverlay(int nameHash, Color color) {
        Debug.Log("OverlayLibrary tried to InstantiateOverlay using Hash");
        OverlayData res;
        try
        {
            res = base.InstantiateOverlay(nameHash);
        }
        catch
        {
            res = null;
        }
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        if (!Application.isPlaying && res == null)
        {
            res = GetEditorAddedAsset(nameHash);
        }
#endif
        if (res == null)
        {
            UpdateDynamicOverlayLibrary(nameHash);
            try {
                res = base.InstantiateOverlay(nameHash);
            }
            catch
            {
                res = null;
            }
            if (res == null)
            {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
                if (!Application.isPlaying)
                {
                    res = GetEditorAddedAsset(nameHash);
                    if (res != null)
                    {
                        res.colorData.color = color;
                        return res;
                    }
                }
#endif
                throw new UMAResourceNotFoundException("dOverlayLibrary: Unable to find: " + nameHash);
            }
        }
        res.colorData.color = color;
        return res;
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the originating asset bundle.
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns>The originating asset bundle.</returns>
    /// <param name="overlayName">Overlay name.</param>
    public string GetOriginatingAssetBundle(string overlayName)
    {
        string originatingAssetBundle = "";
        if (assetBundlesUsedDict.Count > 0)
        {
            foreach (KeyValuePair<string, List<string>> kp in assetBundlesUsedDict)
            {
                if (kp.Value.Contains(overlayName))
                {
                    originatingAssetBundle = kp.Key;
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        if (originatingAssetBundle == "")
        {
            Debug.Log(overlayName + " has not been loaded from any AssetBundle");
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log("originatingAssetBundle for " + overlayName + " was " + originatingAssetBundle);
        }
        return originatingAssetBundle;
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}

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Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Meet Adam Stockhausen, the Tosa Native at the Center of Two of 2018's Most Talked About Films
Duane Dudek April 13, 2018
He's come a long way since Marquette.
Though the funky aesthetic of Wes Anderson's stop motion animated Isle of Dogs and digital formalism of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One seem dissimilar, both are personal films rooted in the filmmakers' idiosyncrasies. They also share the DNA of Wisconsin native Adam Stockhausen who was the production designer on both films.
According to Stockhausen, a production designer "is responsible for the overall look [of a film] in coordination with the director, cinematographer, costume designer and everyone involved in the film."
Regardless of what you read on IMDB.com, Stockhausen grew up in Wauwatosa, not Brookfield, and used to see movies at the former Ruby Isle and Mayfair Theaters. His family would go to stage productions in Milwaukee, Spring Green and Chicago and he later "did every job" when he worked at the Skylight Opera and Milwaukee Chamber Theater. He says the "amazing" art school at Pius XI High School "had a huge impact" on his artistic development. And he attended Marquette University and earned a master of arts degree from the Yale School of Drama. In 2015 Stockhausen joined the state's list of Oscar winners for Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Today Stockhausen is at the center of two of 2018's most talked about films.
Now Brooklyn-based, Stockhausen previously worked on Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. And while he has designed "digital set extensions" – where the foreground goes off into the distance – Ready Player One, about a world inside a video game, was his first fully digital production.
Despite the high-tech tools, "it really starts the same way, with ideas and discussions, sketches and storyboards," created digitally and "refined before you spend money to build the actual set." He worked with Industrial Light and Magic to create the virtual game world and its characters.
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Stockhausen said Spielberg takes to new technologies like a fish to water. "The rest of us are trying to wrap our arms around it and he's diving around using a virtual camera. Perfectly at home. Using it and explaining it to you." He said Spielberg was adamant that his own iconic works were not referenced in the game world designed around 1980s pop culture.
Meanwhile, Isle of Dogs has another connection to the Dairy State: art director Curt Enderle is a West Bend native as well.
"He's from where?" Stockhausen said, unaware of the Badger State connection.
He also didn't learn that Oscar winner John Ridley was from Mequon until the two were doing promotional work for 12 Years A Slave. And he was unaware that Ready Player One actor Mark Rylance spent his youth in Milwaukee.
Stockhausen spent six months on preproduction for Isle of Dogs and left when Spielberg started shooting. Though Stockhausen was gone by the time fellow Wisnconinite Enderle began work on Isle of Dogs as art director, "[Stockhausen] slipped in again at the end as a pair of fresh eyes at its completion," Enderle said in an email.
The two films could not be more different, according to Stockhausen. "One is entirely done digitally and one is completely analog. But both pay amazing attention to detail and camera movement."
A lot of the work is done virtually, Stockhausen said. "I got very comfortable with screen shares on Skype where you can point and circle things and make notes on imagery simultaneously."
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He recently finished working again with Steve McQueen on Widows, which he said is completely different from 12 Years A Slave. "It's a contemporary story filmed in Chicago," Stockhausen said, "and captures the real city the way it is today."
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Q: Piping Logs to a database in Python, in regards to STDIN, should this code work on 'everything'? Trying to pipe logs from PowerMTA (an email MTA).  It has a feature that allows you to pipe logs directly to a program from stdin.  I'm really struggling to get any results from it.  Have tried the following as a very very basic example just to try and get SOME results.  Both do not work.  Am I doing something wrong?
From the following, is there any reason this should not work?
import sys
output = sys.stdin.read()
outfile = open('file.txt', 'w')
sys.stdout = outfile
outfile.close()

Doesn't work.
Have tried a lot of different things.
have also tried the folllowing with no success:
import sys
line = sys.stdin.readline()
f = open('out.txt', 'w')
f.write(line)
f.close()

Is there a reason the above two examples shouldn't work?

A: import sys
output = sys.stdin.read()
f = open('file.txt', 'w')
f.write(output)
f.close()

or, more succinctly
import sys
output = sys.stdin.read()
with open('file.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.write(output)

A: Quite a few things could be wrong from the program not being called at all, to not knowing where the output is written or even a rights problem. How about a bunch of trace code like:
import sys
import os
import time

# you don't know current working directory, so you don't know if you have
# rights to write, or where the file will end up. So, use an absolute path.
log_path = "/some/dir/you/know/everyone/can/write"

# catch any generic weirdness, like file write errors
try:
    f = open(log_path, 'w')
    # write current directory so you know in the future
    f.write('start time: %s\ncwd: %s' % (time.asctime(), os.getcwd())
    f.flush()
    while True:
        # geto one byte at a time because we dont know format
        data = self.stdin.read(1)
        if not data:
            break
        # and write the hex code so we see non-ascii stuff
        f.write('%02x\n')
        f.flush()
    f.write('done time: %s' % time.asctime())
    f.flush()
    f.close()
except Exception, e:
    # something went wrong and about the only place to report it will be the
    # system log
    import logging
    # if windows, setup an NTLogHandler, if linux a syslog handler
    # okay, i was kinda lazy here
    logger.info('crash (%s) (%s)' % (type(e), e))

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Im Bett mit Paula ist ein Sex-Talk-Format mit Paula Lambert, das von Studio.TV.Film produziert und ab Juli 2012 wöchentlich (6 ×) sonntags um 22 Uhr auf ZDFkultur ausgestrahlt wurde.

Inhalt
Die Kolumnistin Paula Lambert lädt sich pro Sendung zwei männliche Prominente in ihr Bett und spricht mit ihnen in ironisch-philosophischer Manier über ihr Sexleben und das allgemeine menschliche Paarungsverhalten. Zu Gast bei Im Bett mit Paula waren in den sechs Folgen Nils Bokelberg, RP Kahl, Peer Kusmagk, Timo Jacobs, Gloria Viagra, Dominic Boeer, Murat Topal, Danko Rabrenović, Frank Künster, Constantin von Jascheroff, Mundstuhl und "Stumpen" (Gero Ivers).

Rezeption

 Achim Hahn: Ein Bett, eine Moderatorin und zwei Prominente. Deutschlandfunk, 9. Juli 2012

Fernsehtalkshow (Deutschland)
ZDFkultur
Fernsehsendung (Deutschland)
Fernsehsendung der 2010er Jahre


After nearly two years of seeking a buyer, CNL Lifestyle Properties, Inc. has tentatively sold its portfolio of ski areas, including the assets of major ski areas in four New England states. The complex deal includes the sale of 15 ski areas to two different entities for $830 million.
According to a press release issued yesterday, CNL Lifestyle Properties will sell Northstar California Ski Resort, 15 water and amusement parks, and five entertainment centers to EPR Properties for $53 million in cash and $403 million in stock.
In addition to the Northstar transaction, CNL Lifestyle Properties will sell its remaining 14 ski areas to Ski Resort Holdings LLC for $130 million in cash and $244 million in EPR stock. The stock will be considered financing from EPR, for a 5 year term at 8.5% interest. In addition, EPR will provide up to $52 million in cash for improvements at Ski Holdings LLC areas at 8.5% interest.
The New England ski area holdings to be sold are Jiminy Peak in Massachusetts, Okemo in Vermont, Loon and Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire, and Sunday River and Sugarloaf in Maine. The ski areas will remain under long term lease agreements with their existing management companies, such as Boyne USA Resorts and Triple Peaks.
Ski Resorts Holdings LLC is connected to Och-Ziff Real Estate, which in turn is connected to the Och-Ziff Capital Management Group. Och-Ziff was founded in 1994 when Goldman Sachs executive and skier Daniel Och received $100 million from the Ziff brothers, heirs to the Ziff Davis empire. Ziff Davis owned Skiing Magazine for two decades.
EPR Properties currently owns or holds the debt for much of the Peak Resorts chain of ski areas, including Attitash, Crotched, and Mount Snow in New England. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, the real estate investment trust was founded in 1997 and has been involved in the ski industry since at least 2005.
CNL Lifestyle Properties was established as CNL Income Properties in 2004, purchasing large assets and then leasing them to operating companies. Bretton Woods and the Mount Washington Grand Hotel was its first New England ski industry acquisition. In subsequent years, CNL Lifestyle Properties acquired some of the largest ski areas in New England, including Jiminy Peak, Loon, Okemo, Sugarloaf, the privately owned assets at Mt. Sunapee, and Sunday River. As the REIT began to wind down, it sold over $1 billion in golf course and nursing home holdings in 2014. Bretton Woods was sold in 2015.


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Colorado StateRamsCSU
CSU 7 14 3 7 31
COLO 7 17 14 14 52
ColoradoBuffaloesCOLO
Colorado begins Mel Tucker era by beating Colorado St 52-31
Fontenot's 14-yd run gives Colorado their largest lead (0:24)
Alex Fontenot runs in for his second touchdown of the day, putting Colorado up 38-24. (0:24)
DENVER -- Mel Tucker's debut as Colorado coach was a success in part because his defense created four turnovers.
The real takeaway was this: The Buffaloes still have work to do.
"Winning is good," Tucker said. "We've got a ways to go before I can say that's the type of football team that we want to have."
Tailback Alex Fontenot scored three second-half touchdowns and safety Mikial Onu intercepted two passes as Colorado beat Colorado State 52-31 on Friday night to kick off the Tucker era.
"This is a starting point," Tucker said after a game that lasted 3 hours, 19 minutes and featured a 37-minute lightning delay before the opening kick. "I'm looking forward to getting this film watched and getting these corrections."
Fontenot finished with 125 yards rushing to help the Buffs win their fifth straight over the Rams in what was the final Rocky Mountain Showdown held in Denver. The 83 combined points were the most in the rivalry's 91-game history.
Tucker was hired in December after serving as defensive coordinator at Georgia. He appreciated all the turnovers. He didn't appreciate allowing 505 total yards.
"The yardage and some of the plays we gave up, I'm not happy about that," he said.
Fontenot broke out of several tackles on a 22-yard run with 9:16 remaining to give the Buffaloes a 45-31 lead. Jonathan Van Diest helped seal the win by sacking Collin Hill, who fumbled the ball. Mustafa Johnson scooped it up and scored from 9 yards.
Colorado figured the player wearing jersey No. 2 would make a couple acrobatic catches. He did, too -- Onu, who shares the same number as standout receiver Laviska Shenault Jr.
Onu picked off two Hill passes to thwart drives.
The turning point in a close game was the first play of the second half when Colorado State's Marvin Kinsey Jr. fumbled the ball. Three plays later, Fontenot scored from 7 yards out to make it 31-21.
The fumble infuriated Colorado State coach Mike Bobo, who felt the play should've been stopped. He wasn't pleased with the officiating crew being from the Pac-12, either.
"I don't understand how big this game is that you don't have neutral refs," Bobo said. "It's too big a game not to have neutral refs. That's all I'm going to say about that.
"It's hard to beat anyone when you turn the ball over four times."
Rams freshman receiver Dante Wright made an instant impact. His first career catch went for a 39-yard touchdown in the first quarter and he later scampered 41 yards for a score.
To no one's surprise, Colorado State kept close tabs on Shenault. All he did last season against the Rams was catch 11 passes for 211 yards and two scores.
Shenault made a big impact late in the first half when he blew by cornerback Rashad Ajayi and caught a 25-yard TD pass to give the Buffaloes a 24-21 lead. It was a rough first half for Ajayi, who was called for two pass interference calls while trying to cover Shenault.
Onu did the number worn by Shenault proud with a juggling interception in the end zone during the first half.
"It was a huge stop for us," said Onu, a graduate transfer from Southern Methodist. "I was happy to make the play."
A rivalry that's been played in Denver the last 10 years will move to the Colorado State campus next season. Then, the two schools take a brief break before resuming a home-and-home series in 2023 (Boulder) and `24 (Fort Collins). The plans get a little murkier after that, with a tentative home-and-home series set for `29 and `30 along with `33 and `34.
There are no current arrangements to bring the game back to Denver.
Colorado: The defense remains a work in progress. But the offense was rolling behind senior quarterback Steven Montez, who threw for 232 yards and two scores.
Colorado State: Rams coach Mike Bobo falls to 0-5 against Colorado. ... Hill had a big night by throwing for 374 yards and three TDs.
ROAD SCHOLAR
Colorado State receiver Warren Jackson caught his seventh career TD pass in the second quarter. All of his scores have been away from Fort Collins.
NOTABLE ARRIVALS
Broncos running back and former Colorado standout Phillip Lindsay attended the game. So did Hall of Fame cornerback Champ Bailey, whose son Keevan Bailey is a defensive back for the Rams.
Colorado hosts former Big Eight/12 rival Nebraska on Sept. 7.
Colorado State plays at home against Western Illinois on Sept. 7.
More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25
Henry To'o To'o among 4 Tennessee players to enter portal after Jeremy Pruitt firing
Henry To'o To'o, a former SEC All-Freshman linebacker who started 22 games for the Tennessee Volunteers the past two seasons, was among four Vols to enter the transfer portal Wednesday.
College football winners, losers from NFL draft early-entry deadline
While Chris Olave's decision to return to school gives Ohio State a boost next season, other teams are going to have to fill big gaps after their stars declared for the NFL draft.
College football's top 50 games of the 2020 season, 50-26
How could anyone forget the madness of Ball State-WMU? Where does it fall in the top 50 games of the college football season?
2020 Mountain West Conference Standings
San José State 6-0 7-1
Boise State 5-0 5-2
Nevada 6-2 7-2
San Diego State 4-2 4-4
Hawai'i 4-4 5-4
Fresno State 3-3 3-3
Air Force 2-2 3-3
Wyoming 2-4 2-4
New Mexico 2-5 2-5
Colorado State 1-3 1-3
Utah State 1-5 1-5
UNLV 0-6 0-6
2020 Pac-12 Conference Standings
Washington 3-1 3-1
Stanford 4-2 4-2
Oregon 3-2 4-3
Oregon State 2-5 2-5
California 1-3 1-3
Washington State 1-3 1-3
USC 5-0 5-1
Colorado 3-1 4-2
Utah 3-2 3-2
Arizona State 2-2 2-2
UCLA 3-4 3-4
Arizona 0-5 0-5