A cute small cafe restaurant located next to Rabin Square with a great variation of food, ranging from quality sandwiches to poshy risotto. Young Tel Avivians, with and without kids come here to have their Saturday brunch.
Panini is an Italian bread with fillings such as smoked goose breast (fantastic!), salmon or pastrami. Except for panini, they also serve salads and hot dishes, such squash soup, lentil soup, lasagna, pasta. The chicken soup with the Matza balls are very recommended. Less than that but still good is the peas soup.
An excellent dish is the seafood risotto with lychee and smoked goose breast, which although sounds off, is very special and highly recommended (see picture on the right). We haven't tried the pasta, but they are quite popular at Panini Lilush. The meat lasagna looks great, but the flavor is quite disappointing. It doesn't have the original meat lasagna flavor, instead they experimented with spices such cumin and cinnamon.
Also worth trying are the blintzes appetizers. These rolled pancakes with salmon, cream cheese filling or eggplant and cream cheese are served with a green salad and a thickly induced balsamic vinegar dressing that completes the meal with the zingyness.
The only dessert we tried was the chocolate souflet, which was a bit disappointing and tasted a bit like supermarket.


Maphive Technology Limited has been recognized at the Hong Kong Retail Innovation Award 2018, honoring the Best Retail Startup Innovation (Product) Gold Award for its "The First City Base Indoor Map" on Sept 20th, 2018.
Since Year 2017, The Hong Kong Retail Innovation Award identified and honored the outstanding retailers and technology vendors driving innovation and information technology industry. With the aims of encouraging local start-ups developing the most innovative products and service, Hong Kong Retail Innovation Award set the award of Best Retail Startup Innovation (Product) especially for technology vendors and technology start-ups.


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John Patrick Boland Jr.
John Patrick Boland, Jr., 71, of Levittown, PA, Passed away on May 24, 2021 at home. John was born on June 29, 1949 in Trenton, NJ to Annette and John Boland. He was a veteran of the United State Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War. Afterwards, he served as an assistant at the Firestone Public Library. He will be deeply missed. He is predeceased by his parents Annette (nee Sorieo) and John Boland. He leaves behind to cherish his memories his brother, Michael Boland and a host of extended family and friends. Family and friends are invited to his viewing from 2:00pm - 4:00pm on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at Molden Funeral Chapel and Cremation Service, 133 Otter Street, Bristol, PA 19907. Burial will take place in the near future at Washington Crossing. Updated information will be here on our website.
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Q: How to get user details who created a perticular job in jenkins through API I am trying to get all the jobs name and and thier creator from jenkins instance.
I am having a multilevel job config in my instance like:
 "Jenkins Dashboard jobs "---> "Folder1 jobs"---->"Folder2 jobs"......"folder6 jobs"

currently I am able to print all the jobs name with all level (from dashboard to folder level6)
by this command:
https://jenkins_url/api/xml?tree=jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name]]]]]]

Problem:
How to print job creator name also in the api query.
through api only.

A: You can add the Job Config History plugin which saves a copy of the configuration file of a job (config.xml) for every change made and of the system configuration (not activated by default). You can search for the Created operation and get the user who created the job.
You can use the following command to get it through the api
https://jenkins_url/job/job_name/jobConfigHistory/api/json

This will list all the jobs and the operations performed on it. You can search for <operation>Created</operation> and list the creator.

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Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Manager, Global Privacy Compliance, located in Titusville, NJ; New Brunswick, NJ; or Horsham, PA.
The Manager will serve as a strategic business partner supporting the Privacy Compliance Program for Johnson & Johnson operating companies. The position is predominantly supporting US business activities, but may participate in larger regional and global projects and activities from time to time.
Responsibilities: Establish key business relationships representing the Privacy function to the business area assigned to the Manager. Working with supervisor and Privacy Leadership: Ensure our core Privacy programs meet regulatory, legal and J&J privacy obligations. Address new and evolving external legal and regulatory requirements. Ensure privacy risks are effectively identified and addressed by applying privacy by design principles, addressing training needs and providing guidance while looking for efficiencies. Preparation for internal and external Privacy compliance audits and implementation of corrective action solutions. Participate in company's compliance committees or similar governance as directed Interface with global/regional Privacy compliance community to share approaches to Privacy compliance and serve on teams to harmonize and optimize company approaches to privacy. Participate in the implementation of testing and monitoring programs in order to demonstrate the Privacy compliance program is effective. Identify, develop and implement new policies and procedures to enhance the Privacy compliance program with approval and input from Privacy leadership Proactively support new and evolving business models, technologies and growth strategies. Drive innovation and simplification through individual goals. Establish sound Privacy documentation and metrics to demonstrate compliance. This position description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all-inclusive of the work to be performed.
A minimum of a BA/BS, or advanced degree is required. A minimum of eight years of business experience is required. Must be fluent in English. A minimum of 2 years Privacy compliance experience or equivalent, is required Prior roles within Healthcare industry preferred. IAPP certification is preferred. Communicative, self-starter with strong interpersonal, analytical and organizational skills are required. A proven ability to positively influence decisions and business partners. Ability to work well between different functions and across all levels of the business dealing with ambiguity and complex business situations. Ability to develop solutions that generate value through partnerships while ensuring compliance. Use business acumen, Enterprise mindset and teamwork/collaboration to assist the business to achieve its goals and objectives consistent with Privacy Principals and Policies Translate a wide variety of Privacy compliance principles and sometimes complex legal requirements into actionable solutions for the business is required. Demonstrate ability to independently exercise good judgement and decision making and inclusion of supervisor and Privacy leadership when appropriate is required.


The City of Portsmouth's Adopt-A-Park program is a great opportunity for local organizations and individuals to get involved with their community. The City owns and maintains 13 Parks that are available for the entire area to enjoy. We take great pride in offering this amenity to the community, and hope that the community values the opportunities that these parks offer.
The Adopt-A-Park program's goal is to get the community involved in keeping the City's park system clean and visually appealing. Organizations are encouraged to put together a work plan that could entail scheduled clean-up days, landscaping projects, or other improvement projects in our parks. This plan can be tailored to the organization's resources and could range from projects scheduled for 1-2 days a year, to efforts that would be on a more continual basis. The City is eager to discuss any opportunities there may be for an organization to get involved, and will provide guidance from our Service Director to assist in your improvement process.
For all approved projects, the City will place a sign in the project area recognizing the volunteer efforts of the organization.
Opportunities other than litter patrol are available. For example, planting of flowers or various other landscaping projects, maintenance and upkeep of playgrounds, etc are needed.
Please contact our Service Department at 354-7766 for information about this program.


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Aneta Grzeszykowska, Beauty Mask #10, 2017, pigment ink
on cotton paper,
237⁄8 × 19 1⁄4". From the series "Beauty Masks," 2017.
Aneta Grzeszykowska
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The doll is a long-standing device in modern art, from Hans Bellmer to Laurie Simmons and Greer Lankton. You could call it a shortcut to the uncanny and surreal, but that wouldn't do justice to its lasting power to unsettle—and if you doubted that power, the Polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska's show would have given you the lie. Other artists kept coming to mind as I walked through this exhibition—Claude Cahun, Sally Mann, Grzeszykowska's compatriot Alina Szapocznikow, Arthur Tress, Francesca Woodman—along with movies: Charles Laughton's poetic frightener The Night of the Hunter (1955), for one, as well as various Frankenstein and golem films and almost any horror film starring a corpse. But Grzeszykowska's photographs—charming, morbid, disturbing, funny, and forlorn—distinguish themselves from the various precedents they summon.
For a 2017 series of pictures, "Untitled (Model)," Grzeszykowska hired two friends—special-effects makers for the movies—to create a silicone bust of her, lifelike down to its hair. Apparently showing stages in the bust's manufacture (the painting of the lips, the shaping of the eyebrows), as well as the final outcome, those images have to do with the construction of a woman's identity, as well as with a stranger sense of the identity so built as both living and dead—undead. For her new series, "Mama," 2018, Grzeszykowska upped the stakes by giving the model to her young daughter, Franciszka, to play with as a doll, then photographing them together.
Simultaneously touching and dark, the images both expand and explode the relationship between mother and daughter, adult and child. Most obviously, they invert and subvert the usual power structure of those relationships. Since the Aneta doll is a bust, a head and torso without hips or legs (and for that matter with arms cut off at the elbow), Franciszka, though a child of, I'd guess, six or seven, is the taller of the two. She is also abnormally and sometimes gleefully in control. Perhaps she'll decide to take her mother for a walk, wheeling the bust through a field in a little cart. Perhaps the two will take a swim, the girl more sensually alert to its pleasures than the mother, who floats inertly, eyes open under the water, as if drowned. If child has temporarily become mother—and in one memorable image Franciszka holds Aneta's head and body to her own legs, fusing the two visually—her caretaking skills seem haphazard; we fear a little for Aneta, inanimate though she is. But beyond just reversing the girl's and the woman's relative strengths, the photographs more provocatively confuse their identities. And given the equivocal status of the silicone figure, which is at the same time both highly faithful and hardly convincing, the element of play—Franciszka seems to be having a good time—commingles with a sense of mortality.
The exhibition also included five works from a series called "Beauty Masks," 2017, self-portraits of Grzeszykowska wearing various cosmetic masks that might seem everyday in the salon but here recalled Jason in Friday the 13th. Without denying the interest of these works or their place in Grzeszykowska's larger program, the "Mama" group was the main event in this show. Among their many ambiguities, the photographs left unclear to what extent the scenarios Franciszka engages in were her invention and to what extent her mother's. Probably a mix, I would guess, but certain images seemed "artier" than would have occurred to a child: a view of Aneta's face half covered by leaves, say, recalling the poet John Webster's lines about the "shady groves . . . [where] leaves and flowers do cover / the friendless bodies of unburied men." Images such as this one, though, didn't seem to me the most suggestive in the series. When Franciszka puts a cigarette to the silicone head's lips or smilingly holds her hands over its eyes from behind, or when the two wear matching blond wigs, life and death, youth and age, child's play and the artifices of adult identity combine in highly challenging ways.
— David Frankel


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NCAA Football 12
The New Look of NCAA Football 12
by Matthew Kato on Mar 15, 2011 at 09:00 AM
Developer: EA Tiburon
Release: July 12, 2011
Platform: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A couple of the developers at EA Tiburon talk a little about NCAA Football 12 and give a tease of some of the new features in the game.
This video trailer/developer diary (featuring producer Ben Haumiller and art director Jean Adams) talks about the HDR lighting in the game. Last year NCAA 11 introduced a new look for the franchise that was pretty cool, but this clearly takes things to a new level. It's about how different parts of the players are lighted appropriately and how exposure makes things pop.
It's also worth noting that these aren't just still shots, but appear to be taken from a paused replay, allowing art director Jean Adams to pan around an actual scene from the game. Will it look this good in real life? We can't wait to see.
Apart from the new uniforms, you'll also notice turf coming up from the field and what look to be different kinds of tackles from defenders, including sliding.
We expect to hear more on the game as spring goes by so stay tuned. Until then, enjoy the video and screens below.
Here's a look at a comparison shot of the grass between this year and last year's game
Matthew Kato
Kato's love of video games started with sports games, but he also enjoys everything from Assassin's Creed to Vagrant Story.
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The Clearwater BAG consists of 10 members appointed by the director to represent stakeholder groups from the Lewiston region.
In the 2017 legislative session, a motion was made to appropriate $500,000 from the general fund to DEQ to apply statewide agricultural best management practices for fiscal year 2018. The funding will be used for high-priority Idaho watersheds and administered through DEQ's 319 grant program. Links to the two projects proposed in the Clearwater Basin are below, please contact the applicant with any project specific questions.
These two projects will be ranked by the Clearwater BAG by September 15, 2017 and funds will be awarded on October 1, 2017.


Let me start off by saying the views expressed here are solely of my own opinion, and I have tried to avoid offending anyone. I intend this article as a means for constructive conversation among the students here at NCU.
To me, racism is a joke. I have many friends of different races and nationalities, and I have never thought of them as any different than anyone else. To us, racism is something to joke about. The idea of actually treating each other differently due to our skin color is not even a possibility in our minds. I'm glad that the question of race, at least for my generation, is a moot point.
I believe this is due to a generational shift in thinking about race. Our parents grew up in a different time, where inspirational leaders such as Martian Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks were challenging the cultural norms of the day. Schools were being desegregated as the idea of separate but equal was overturned. It was a time of great change for America, and most of it was for the better. My parents grew up in this period of change, and to them issues about race are no joking matter.
Yet today, things are different. I did not experience the volatile changes my parents went through, and to me being friends with those of different origins is a simple fact of life. No need to question it, or even think twice. I, along with my friends, view jokes about race and cultural differences to be okay among friends. Our perception is that only someone truly ignorant would still be a bigot in today's world.
Yet therein lies the rub. Today's world, while better than it was, still remains racist. All one has to do is turn on the news and see that people still fear and hate others who are different than them. Recent events, such as the Trayvon Martin case, have highlighted race issues in our country. As for my own views, I believe that geography certainly plays a factor. I have lived, and probably always will live, in the Pacific Northwest. This is not an area that has deep-seated issues with race. Maybe if I grew up in the South, where claims of racism are more widespread, my views would be different.
What does this mean for us as Christians? I believe we have a duty to spread God's love to everyone we meet, not just those who look similar to us. Jesus told His disciples to "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation" Mark 16:15 ESV. Clearly this love crosses all boundaries, and is meant for every person on this planet, not just those of a certain race or nation. Christians need to be on the front lines of this war against hatred and oppression, and do our best to promote God's peace and love to all of mankind. Our generation has the chance to stamp out the weed of racism. I hope that one day, regardless of where they grow up, I will be able to raise my future children in a world devoid of arrogant prejudice.
Please leave me a comment and tell me your thoughts on this hot button topic. Is racism the problem from a previous generation, or is it alive and well? Is racism ok to joke about among friends? What can we do as Christians to combat this hatred of our fellow man (and woman)? Please keep your comments respectful!
Well, there are a number of items here that remain vague, rendering it difficult to properly respond. For starters, it is never specified what "joking about race" means, whether among friends or not.
It's understandable that you find intolerance as a practice laughable, especially among like-minded friends who feel themselves open to those around them regardless of background. But racism, whether overt or more subtle, is not something that one can reduce to being a problem of our various past generations; it isn't something that is so much on the decline it is a foreign concept of a bygone age.
People regardless of region suffer, and I put emphasis on that term, suffer the repercussions of racism, bigotry, intolerance, a lack of acceptance upon which Christian views should be entirely steeped in. Kind souls are physically, emotionally, and spiritually assaulted over their birth aspects. I am a jokative individual, and I oft reduce potentially offensive or harmful situations into jest because it is how I deal with them best. Therefore, I do understand the idea of joking among friends.
But as to what we are able to do as Christians? First, we need to open our eyes and realize every corner of this nation seeps with intolerance in some form or fashion. We need to not assume ourselves above said intolerance either. Next, we need to take a stand each and every time a man or woman, adult or child is attacked for their base attributes. We should not feel complacent we personally don't indulge in wanton intolerance, but instead feel outrage there are brothers and sisters being reduced in human value due to their base attributes. This is the role of human empathy, and especially our duty as Christians.
I sum this up with: it's fine to joke about racism, but racism is never a joke.
While I enjoy and agree with most of what you have to say. I do feel that you need to know about the KKK, Sun down towns and the current Skin Heads here in Oregon. I'll save time by linking you to websites that can specifically help give you insight to the history of racism in the north/northwest.
These aren't all completely, academically sound, but it'll give you an idea of what I'm getting at. I do love what you are advocating for! The root of racism, from my personal analysis is one side: the need to control, and on the other side: fear. Racism is still alive because people feel the need to control others, and on the other side, fearing people are those who have had generations of parents and grandparents who were hurt by the people who felt the need to control them… Also, Racism was most certainly not dead in the 1850's when people began to migrate to the North from the south and midwest. They brought it with them. And though in some pockets we are fortunate to not directly deal with racism, it is still here, prevalent in many pockets of society, and must not be ignored.
An example of what we can do as Christians to break past racist barriers is going out of our way to reach out to the exchange students by showing them God's love. Since His love is greater than any bounds, theoretically, being introduced to a different way of love will eradicate (perhaps slowly but surely) the individual's need to control and/or the long standing fear of those who seek control. (This is just as example, not a one deal fits all).
Overall, I agree with you and would love to see students/alumni of NCU getting involved in making the community more aware of where racism is still present and solutions of how to fix it.


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Q: For Loop iterate over div in Beautiful Soup I have am using BS to parse a website of job listings. It works fine, but only returns the first items of div. I want this to iterate over every div with the class named {'class': 'job-item'}. I have read through the documentation and tried a few attempts at trying to get this working, but I am just stuck.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2
import time

quote_page = 'https://jobbio.com/search/jobs?query=Developer&location=dublin&sector='
page = urllib2.urlopen(quote_page)

soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser')

divs = soup.findAll({'class': 'job-item'})

for div in divs:
        role_box =  soup.find(attrs={'class': 'color-dark-grey'})
        role = role_box.text.strip() # strip() is used to remove starting and trailing
        company_box =  soup.find(attrs={'class': 'color-greenish-blue'})
        company = company_box.text.strip() # strip() is used to remove starting and trailing
        location_box =  soup.find(attrs={'class': 'color-grey'})
        location = location_box.text.strip() # strip() is used to remove starting and trailing
        url_box =  soup.find(attrs={'class': 'job-tile-actions'}).a['href']
        url_root = 'http://jobbio.com'
        url = url_root + url_box
        salary = '-'
        date = time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")
        array = {'role':str(role), 'company': str(company), 'location': str(location), 'salary': str(salary), 'date':date, 'url': str(url)}
        print array

If I remove the for loop the code executes fine, so I know the scraper works. I just want it to print multiple arrays off for everything on a page. This is eventually going to go into DB where I can query it.
Thanks
EDIT: Using debugger, the issue lies with the loop itself (funnily enough)
> /var/www/html/JobScraper/scrape.py(13)<module>()
-> divs = soup.findAll({'class': 'job-item'})
(Pdb) n
> /var/www/html/JobScraper/scrape.py(15)<module>()
-> for div in divs:
(Pdb) n
--Return--
> /var/www/html/JobScraper/scrape.py(15)<module>()->None
-> for div in divs:
(Pdb) n
--Return--
> <string>(1)<module>()->None
(Pdb) n
> /usr/lib/python2.7/bdb.py(404)run()
-> self.quitting = 1

A: change all the soup.find() in the for loop to :
divs = soup.findAll(class_= 'job-item')
for div in divs:

    div.find()

you should start the search from div tag, not the soup tag, soup tag is the root tag of the HTML document


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Asthma Linked to Increased Risk of Shingles
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Every year nearly 1 million new cases of shingles occur in the U.S., and one in three adults will contract the virus in their lifetime. Shingles is caused by varicella zoster virus, which also causes chicken pox. Despite those staggering numbers, two-thirds of adults will not contract shingles. Building on previous work that links childhood asthma to increased risk of shingles, researchers at the Mayo Clinic pursued a population-based study to understand the roots of this epidemic.
The study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, was conducted by Young Juhn, a professor of pediatrics and asthma epidemiologist at the Mayo Clinic's Children's Research Center, where he has been studying pediatric asthma for years. His team found that having asthma, regardless of age, increases the risk of contracting or reactivating the varicella zoster virus.
Since approximately 16 percent of the U.S. population has asthma, Juhn's research provides a missing link in understanding the high prevalence of shingles cases.
Juhn's previous study, published in 2013, demonstrated an association of asthma with increased risk of respiratory infections such as acquired pneumonia or pertussis (whooping cough), and also common respiratory infections including strep throat and ear infections. "The results prompted us to look at whether this is true for non-respiratory conditions," Juhn tells mental_floss.
The earlier research showed that asthma patients suffer an impairment to innate immune function—the body's first line of defense against infection or illness, in which the inflammatory response of the body is first activated. However, Juhn was interested in "whether this dysfunction could extend to adaptive immune dysfunction," the body's more evolved, antigen-specific immune response that sends lymphocytes out to fight infection. "To discern that, I needed to get out of the airways. We picked shingles because of its high morbidity rate," he says.
The researchers pulled medical records for patients who met "predetermined criteria for shingles" from residents of Olmstead County, Minnesota, which Juhn says "is a very special, isolated environment, where residents primarily receive medical care from two main medical centers." Through the Rochester Epidemiology Project database that links patient information between the two medical centers, they pulled 371 cases of patients with shingles—with an average age of 67—and compared them against 742 control subjects. They did a similar review to pull asthma cases. They found that 23 percent of these shingles patients also had asthma, compared with only 15 percent from the control group. Adults with asthma had an approximately 70 percent higher risk of developing shingles than those without asthma.
They also confirmed that non-asthmatic allergic disorders like atopic dermatitis (eczema) were associated with an increased risk of shingles. "This is consistent with biologic coherence," Juhn says. "We found that there is some trend toward increased risk of shingles with allergic rhinitis and food allergies, too." Their work casts new light on the existing body of literature that suggested shingles is a result of the immune system becoming weaker over time with aging. "Our study says that the association is not limited to people older than age 60," says Juhn. "The study finds an association between asthma and risk of shingles across the board, with no age-specific factor."
While the mechanisms of the increased risk are still not fully understood, Juhn says they believe that asthma suppresses adaptive immune function, which may increase the risk of varicella zoster virus reactivation.
Furthermore, the study was able to clear up two "controversies," that formerly linked corticosteroids, and the zoster vaccine itself to an increased risk of shingles, which they did not find. "I want to make clear that clinicians and patients with asthma should not be overly concerned about the effects of inhaled or systemic corticosteroids, so they should receive proper asthma treatment to achieve asthma controls," says Juhn. "Also, vaccinations are important given the significant morbidity involved with shingles. Children and adults should receive age-appropriate zoster vaccinations."
The next step in their research will be to study the mechanism of asthma to impact the adaptive immunity, and will extend their study to look at other vaccine-preventable diseases such as whooping cough.


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DARING RIDE
Six Flags gets new Daredevil Dive Flying Machines ride that's so extreme it's just like being a stunt pilot
Kara Godfrey
A NEW theme park ride that lets you to feel like a stunt pilot is opening next year.
Six Flags' new Dare Devil Dive Flying Machines lets riders experience weightless while being spun around and sent into loops and dives.
A new spinning ride will let you feel like a stunt pilot
The five-storey ride has six arms, each with a four person carriage shaped like a plane at the end.
Passengers are then lifted into the air while spinning, while being rotated at the same time.
As it reaches heights up to 48 feet, riders will feel weightless while experiencing zero G rolls.
People on the ride can also enjoy a "steampunk themed soundtrack" throughout.
Riders will be spun around the ride as well as in circles on rotating arms
The ride is to open in 2020 at Six Flags in Texas
The park claims it will be the "world's tallest ride of it's kind".
Six Flags Fiesta Texas' Park President Jeffrey Siebert said: "On Daredevil Dive, guests will simulate the breathtaking aerobatic manoeuvres of an expert stunt pilot as they swoop and spin through numerous barrel rolls and exhilarating loops and dives."
Theme park enthusiasts were also ready excited, with one saying: "Can't wait to try this one!"
Another added: "Looked like it will be fun. The park keeps getting better."
Day tickets to the park starts from $50.99 (£40.84).
But for theme park lovers, it might be worth getting a Six Flags membership, which starts from $6.60 (£5.29) a month, as it gives you access to all of the Six Flags parks and outdoor water parks in the US.
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The world's longest, tallest and fastest rollercoaster in the world could also open at Six Flags.
Six Flags Qiddiya in Saudi Arabia could open the new ride by 2023.
Six Flags is also offering guests £480 and two season tickets - if you stay in a coffin for 30 hours.


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Q: Prolog Recursion and Termination first StackOverflow question.
I'm writing a predicate in prolog that takes three parameters. These are (respectively) a character, a list of strings, and the last parameter is a list of all the strings in the second parameter that start with the first parameter. My write statements are a substitution for my complete lack of knowledge on how to trace in SWI-Prolog. Anyway, on to the code!

startString(C, [H1|T1], [H2|T2]) :-
    atom_chars(H1, [C| _ ]),
    H2 = H1,
    startString(C, T1, T2).

startString(C, [ _ |T1], Y) :-
    startString(C, T1, Y),
    write(foo).

startString(_, [], []) :-
    write(foo).

Which outputs:

foofoofoo

X = [some, simple]

My methodology is correct, but the predicate doesn't terminate (the lack of period after the write of X isn't a mistake). My question is, why isn't it? From the limited examples of recursion I've found on the internet, the third version of my predicate should terminate the predicate and make x a definite answer.
When I press enter I'm able to enter another query, but I have this same little "issue" in another predicate I wrote in the same program. Any help with this predicate should also carry over to the other. Thanks!

A: To expand on your question in your comments to @ScottHunter,

I guess my question is, why do my other predicates "Know" they have the right answer, while this and one more do not?

The answer has to do with the existence of choice points on the stack. Consider this situation:
reasonably_big(L, X) :- member(X, L), X > 100.

?- reasonably_big([105, 2], X).
X = 105 ;
false.
?-

Compare that to this:
?- reasonably_big([2, 105], X).
X = 105.
?-

In the second case, Prolog "knew" that there were no more solutions; in the first case it did not. The difference between these two situations is that in the first case member had left a choice point on the stack: there was still another item in the list it could consider to find another answer. In the second case, the remainder of the list was empty, and SWI-Prolog's member is smart enough to not leave a choice point on the stack in that case, so it never asked you if you wanted another solution.
If you're getting extraneous choice points, it often points to a logic error. For example, consider this definition of min:
min(X, Y, X) :- X =< Y.
min(X, Y, Y).

This is defective, because you can always backtrack in and get the other value; to wit:
?- min(3,4, X).
X = 3 ;
X = 4.

The second solution there is erroneous. But you can still wind up with an unnecessary choice point by making the wrong improvement:
min(X, Y, X) :- X =< Y.
min(X, Y, Y) :- Y =< X.

See what happens when we try different values:
?- min(4,3,X).
X = 3.
?-

?- min(3,4,X).
X = 3 ;
false.
?-

The first one worked fine but the second one left a choice point on the stack by having a second body. You can eliminate it with a green cut:
min(X,Y,X) :- X =< Y, !.
min(X,Y,Y) :- Y =< X.

?- min(3,4,X).
X = 3.
?-

?- min(4,3,X).
X = 3.
?-

The cut commits Prolog to a particular solution. It says, once you've made it here, there's no need to try any other solutions for this predicate, because we've found the only one we want. Understanding how to apply the cut is a complex topic, but eliminating undesirable choice points is an important use.

A: You have to be careful about what you mean by "terminate" in Prolog.  The fact that you got a value bound to X when you asked prolog to prove startString('s',some-list,X) means that it terminated (else it would still be searching for a value for X).  But in another sense it has not, because you can ask (typically by entering a semi-colon) Prolog to try and find another solution, and can keep asking until it exhausts the possibilities of doing so.  It sounds like your console is waiting for you to tell it whether you want to try and find another solution, or that you are done (which is what happens when you hit enter, and the interpreter allows you to enter a new query).


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Zenwalk 6.2 Review
Zenwalk 6.2 is the latest version of Zenwalk, a Slackware-based, desktop-oriented Linux operating system. The last review of Zenwalk on this site was of Zenwalk 6. That was just six months ago. What changed between Zenwalk 6 and Zenwalk 6.2? Where the changes of a cosmetic or bug-fix variety, or where they much more substantial?
Let's find out.
Note: According to Zenwalk 6.2 release note, "Zenwalk 6.2 is mostly new code (nearly all packages have been updated) …"
Does that code-rewrite translate into a better user experience? Let's start with the first aspect of Zenwalk that you'll first experience – the installer, or the installation process.
Installation: The installer's interface feels slightly much more polished than prior versions. No doubt there are backend improvements that you wont notice right away, but other than that, it's still a menu-based installer, with the same installation options. The one change you'll notice, if you look, is the default journaling file system assigned to the partitions the Auto Installer creates. On older versions of Zenwalk, the default journaling file system for all partitions was xfs. However, in this version, the installer assigns the ext4 file system to the partition for / (root), and the ext3 file system to the partition for /home. For the record, virtually all recent releases of Linux distros now use ext4 exclusively for all partitions (except for the /boot partition, for those distros that create a separate partition for /boot).
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one for /
another for /home
and the last for swap
Lilo, the LInux LOader, is the only boot loader option available. LVM, RAID, and disk encryption are still not supported by the installer.
Desktop: The default desktop environment used by Zenwalk is Xfce. It's a much leaner and faster desktop environment than KDE and Gnome. The default wall paper has changed. Other than that, you still get the lower panel with the same icons, and two virtual desktops (workspaces) instead of the traditional four on the top panel. With two workspaces, Zenwalk fares better than Mint, which has just one. You may add more workspaces – If you need to – by using the Workspaces tool from the Xfce 4 Settings Manager.
Zenwalk desktop
You may customize various aspects of the desktop via the Xfce 4 Settings Manager, accessible from Zenwalk menu > Settings > Xfce 4 Settings Manager.
Xfce 4 Settings Manager
Compiz, a 3D compositing window manager, is not installed. It is, however, in the Current repos. If you have a 3D-capable hardware, you may install it and enjoy all the goodies and eye candy that a 3D desktop offers.
Default Installed Applications: Did not notice any difference in the default installed apps between Zenwalk 6 and Zenwalk 6.2. OpenOffice.org is still the default office suite. Also installed are:
Totem, the media player
Brasero Disc Burner
Exaile Music Player
Transmission BitTorrent Client
Pidgin Internet Messenger
As on earlier versions, there are no games installed. With the CD iso image at 493 MB, I think there's enough space to throw in a few oft-played games.
Although Zenwalk 6.2 features the Xfce desktop environment, the Current repos have KDE 4.2.4 applications and base packages. So you could install KDE applications if you like them better than their Xfce equivalents.
Software Management: At version 4.6, the graphical frontend to Zenwalk's package manager is noticeably faster, with dependency checking and package black-listing. It's still not as elegant as Synaptic, but for what it's designed to do, it works. At this stage in it's evolution, I was expecting that we should be able to load more than one repo at the same time. As it is currently, if you want to install an application from a Restricted repo, you will have to load it first, then search for and install the app. Want to install from a Current repo? Select and load it, then search and install. It works, just not the way we are used to with other package managers.
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One tool I consider a must-have, but not installed on Zenwalk, is a system and application update notifier. I drew attention to this in my last review, and was hoping to see an app update notifier installed by default in this release. Zenwalk has the Zenwalk Update Tool (ZUT) in the repos, and like other applications, it is easy to install from the command line or via the graphical package manager. Once installed, however, you find it to be very unstable: Click on it after it has found the apps with available updates, and it will quit unexpectedly. Crash is not a good word, but that's what happens – ZUT crashes every time.
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hey! pls help me, just istalled the latest zenwalk available…
there were about 3 or 4 things in the installation that failed to install..
but, it was still able to run.
now i changed from xp to zenwalk..
the problem is that i cant use the gnome session option and i cant click the menu in the xfce.
pls help me..
If some files failed to install, in order words, if the installer spewed some error messages, then it is likely that the iso image was corrupted, or the CD was not burned properly. Your option(s): Reinstall, but check the integrity of the CD before installation. That should fix the problem. If you are migrating from XP to Linux, welcome, but Zenwalk is not the distro I'll recommend.
Better alternatives are Mandriva Free, Mandriva One, Linux Mint 8, Ubuntu 9.10, and Pardus 2009. Mandriva Free is highly recommended. It is not perfect, but it's more noob-friendly than others.
While we are at this, read this, this (Pardus' review). Those should gie you an idea of what to look for in a distro.
thanks for the response, my apologies for my late reply…
uhm, can you recommend other linux distros?
not that what you recommended earlier was not of my preference but because..
my laptop is already kinda slow, it olny have 256 [246] mb ram. the hd is 40gg.
its just a notebook, and with windows, its already kind of slow..
im kind of used in using windows and i usually install lots [and i mean lots] of softwares that i think would be helpful and kinda cool.
For a laptop or any PC with 256 megs of RAM, your best option is the XFCE version of a distro. PCLinuxOS has a version with the XCFE desktop. Hymera Open is also another good one.
dvilla
"DVD playback are not installed, and are not in the repos – Current or Restricted."
Correction. It is available in restricted:
http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php?title=Watching_a_DVD
September 25, 2009 at 9:09 am · Reply
I've got to be honest. This review was a rush-job, probably the worst I've ever written. I should have double-checked the grammar and some of the facts before hitting "Publish." But stuff happens, and life goes on.
If you write as many reviews as I do, eventually, you'll write one that demonstrates "Primary-school English along with poor knowledge." But I think Jon is mad because his fave distro got a bad review.
For the record, the reviews on this site are designed to help my readers decide whether a distro is worth downloading or not. Distro-hopping can be fun, but at some point you just want a distro that works. If the reviews on this site helps you find that distro that just-work, I think that counts for something.
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What tipped me off to stop reading the review was the claim that Linux Mint doesn't have multiple workspaces… ugh…
"feels slightly much more polished" – this doesn't make much sense, and really lowers the expectations for the rest of the review. Double & triple check everything before publishing.
An atrociously-written review. No way I'm clicking thru to the second page. Primary-school English along with poor knowledge.
September 21, 2009 at 10:57 am · Reply
"Primary-school English …" I think you're being generous. It's probably lower. Sarah Palin's level, or George Bush's.
But "poor knowledge." About what? You could help us all by pointing out where I missed the mark.
johnix
Sorry to tell you Jon, but you have at least two typos and one grammar mistake in your reply. Furthermore, there are many readers who don't have English as their first language, whom would appreciate understandable English. The review is more than adequate to know what Zenwalk is all about and what to experience after installing it, saving a lot of people a lot of homework. Thanks to the editor.
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So, I've been livestreaming on Twitch for a year now. As expected, I've seen slow growth of my channel over that time, and generally I've been happy with how things have gone. But then there are those weeks when things just don't quite go your way… When viewers just don't show up, regardless of the games you play, or how much you hype up your stream on social media.
Sometimes you just have a dead week. I just had one of those weeks. Unfortunately, it was during my 1st Anniversary celebration on Twitch.
To say that was just a bit depressing, let alone frustrating, would be putting it mildly.
Like I said before, though, I get it. Sometimes you just have a bad week. But this was a particularly bad week overall, and couple it with the celebration that frankly… wasn't… and you have a sad Scormey.
Saturday morning, Tenknife and I played some "Trove", and while the numbers for that were pretty low, as was interaction with viewers, I could kind of understand that. You see, we had a viewer who joined us to play together some, but they brought a geared out, level cap character to play with our low-level characters, and just decimated everything before we could do anything. So it made for a very boring stream, watching us just get ported from dungeon to dungeon, collecting loot and do little else. By the way, we won't be streaming "Trove" ever again.
First we played "Elder Scrolls Online", which did okay, but not great at all. No viewer interaction, but at least there were a couple of Lurkers (who are always appreciated).
So I took a brief break, and next started up some "Lord of the Rings Online", playing my Beornling. While I had a great time, and viewership went up a bit, I did eventually need to stop to eat, but I planned to come back after having my lunch/dinner/whatever you might eat when you stay up all night.
When I came back, I decided to play some "Rift", which usually does okay in the early-morning hours, like this was. To say this was not the case this time, would be a huge understatement! I only played this for an hour or so, but pulling an average of one viewer – which would have been me, monitoring my stream to make sure it was okay – was damn bad. I mean, "Punch me in the gut"-level bad. I had a good time playing the game, but apparently no one wanted to see "Rift" at all, which is weird, even for a low population game like that.
Anyway, I cancelled the fourth stream that morning, which would have been "Maplestory 2", a game I've never streamed before, because I couldn't take the risk of having yet another horrible stream. I know people say "Rift" is a dead game, but it really isn't. You see, after the stream I logged into the Faeblight server, and I found crowded hubs, so there are people playing, obviously. They just aren't watching the game on Twitch.
I get it, this probably sounds like 100% Whining from Your Favorite Red Panda, and I will admit that it is. My twitch channel is still doing fine overall, this was just a one week slump, nothing to really worry about. But at the same time, I still will worry, because I have put my heart and soul into this for over a year now. Let's be clear here: I'm not saying I should be pulling Partner-type numbers, not even close. But at the same time, it frankly hurts to throw yourself out there for your entire weekend – which I do, every damn week, at the same damn times – and get little to no response.
I do have a few loyal friends on Twitch, who I greatly appreciate. I wouldn't be an Affiliate without Prim, BigEdMustafa, Muckshifter, Ooger, and others, but I appreciate every single person who comes by my stream, really I do. I guess I'm just a bit burnt out, prancing about like a dancing monkey for most of my weekends for a straight year, and I find myself still stressing over staying above the three viewer average needed to become an Affiliate. Yes, I know it generally takes upwards of a year of "inactivity" to lose Affiliate, but I am not the sort to take what I consider 'backsliding' lying down. Once I got that average, I feel I need to maintain – or, better yet exceed – that average.
First of all, do you like LOTRO? Because you'll be getting almost entirely LOTRO content on my channel from now on! I'll be playing other games off-stream, but LOTRO will be my primary game for Twitch.
Next, I am going to rethink my streaming times, again. The Saturday morning stream isn't going as well as I'd hoped, so maybe I need to take a nap after I get home from work, then stream in the early afternoon (1-2pm to start)? Or maybe I need to stream on weekday mornings? The latter of those ideas didn't work out so well for me before, but I could give it another try, I guess.
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BCSC Executive Director alleges scheme by self-described consultants English
British Columbia Securities Commission
Dec 03, 2018, 17:12 ET
VANCOUVER, Nov. 26, 2018 /CNW/ - The Executive Director of the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has temporarily prohibited a group of purported consultants from buying or selling the securities of 11 companies listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE), alleging that they participated in a scheme that is abusive to the capital markets.
The Executive Director is also blocking all CSE-listed companies from using the consultant exemption to sell shares without a prospectus to the group of 25 people and 26 firms, most of whom are in B.C.'s Lower Mainland. A few group members have addresses in the Cayman Islands, Marshall Islands, Australia, Hong Kong, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.
The orders arises from an ongoing BCSC investigation into transactions between the purported consultants – which Executive Director Peter Brady refers to as "the BridgeMark Group" – and B.C. companies operating in the cannabis, cryptocurrency, mining and alternative energy sectors.
The Executive Director alleges that four companies, after selling a total of $17.9 million worth of shares to members of the the BridgeMark Group earlier this year, returned $15.3 million to members of the group. The BridgeMark Group then sold those securities in the market, often at prices far below what its members had paid, netting about $6.2 million.
The four companies subsequently issued news releases saying they had raised a certain amount of money by selling their shares, even though they had paid most of the purchase amount back to BridgeMark, the Executive Director alleges.
The Executive Director alleges that the securities sales to BridgeMark were illegal because they improperly used the consultant exemption to avoid filing a prospectus, a formal document that provides details of an investment. The Executive Director is concerned that the BridgeMark Group's members are not consultants, that they provided little or no consulting services to the issuing companies, and engaged in the scheme for their own profit – conduct the Executive Director describes as "abusive to the capital markets."
The Executive Director is concerned that the BridgeMark Group engaged in similar transactions with seven other companies. Altogether, the BridgeMark Group purchased a total of more than 252 million securities from 11 listed companies between February and August, paying $50.9 million. The temporary order prohibits the 11 CSE-listed companies from using the consultant exemption to sell their shares.
A hearing to determine whether the temporary orders will be extended will be held Friday, December 7 at 10 am.
The respondents in the case are:
"The BridgeMark Group":
BridgeMark Financial Corp., Jackson & Company Professional Corp., Anthony Kevin Jackson; Lukor Capital Corp., Justin Edgar Liu; Rockshore Advisors Ltd. (formerly known as Cam Paddock Enterprises Inc.), Cameron Robert Paddock; Simran Singh Gill; JCN Capital Corp., John Rosarino Bevilacqua; Essos Corporate Services Inc., Sway Capital Corp., Von Rowell Torres, David Matthew Schmidt; Detona Capital Corp., Danilen Villanueva; Natasha Jon Emami; Altitude Marketing Corp., Ryan Peter Venier; Platinum Capital Corp., 658111 B.C. Ltd., Jason Christopher Shull; Tryton Financial Corp., Abeir Haddad; Tavistock Capital Corp., Robert John Lawrence; Jarman Capital Inc., Scott Jason Jarman; Northwest Marketing and Management Inc., Aly Babu Husein Mawji, Rufiza Babu Husein Mawji-Esmail, Denise Marie Trainor; Randy White, Escher Invest SA, Hunton Advisory Ltd.; Kendl Capital Limited; 1153307 B.C. Ltd., Russell Grant Van Skiver; Bertho Holdings Ltd., Robert William Boswell; Haight-Ashbury Media Consultants Ltd., Ashkan Shahrokhi; Saiya Capital Corporation, Tara Kerry Haddad; Keir Paul MacPherson; Tollstam & Company Chartered Accountants, Albert Kenneth Tollstam; 727 Capital, David Raymond Duggan; Viral Stocks Inc.; and 10X Capital.
The issuers:
Cryptobloc Technologies Corp.; New Point Exploration Corp., Green 2 Blue Energy Corp.; BLOK Technologies Inc.; Kootenay Zinc Corp.; Affinor Growers Inc.; Beleave Inc.; Liht Cannabis Corp. (formerly known as Marapharm Ventures Inc.); PreveCeutical Medical Inc.; Speakeasy Cannabis Club Ltd.; and Abattis Bioceuticals Corp.
About the British Columbia Securities Commission (www.bcsc.bc.ca)
The British Columbia Securities Commission is the independent provincial government agency responsible for regulating capital markets in British Columbia through the administration of the Securities Act. Our mission is to protect and promote the public interest by fostering:
A securities market that is fair and warrants public confidence
A dynamic and competitive securities industry that provides investment opportunities and access to capital
Learn how to protect yourself and become a more informed investor at www.investright.org
SOURCE British Columbia Securities Commission
For further information: Media Contact: Brian Kladko, 604-899-6713; Public inquiries: 604-899-6854 or 1-800-373-6393 (toll free), [email protected]
http://www.bcsc.bc.ca
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Tight-knit Colfax community combats open-burn pit: 'We are the flush toilet…'
Facility opened up to dispose Camp Minden waste; neighbors note high cancer rates
By: Frances Madeson - January 15, 2023 5:00 am
Terry Brown's family settled in Colfax more than 200 years ago. He and neighbors report increased incidents of cancer since the Clean Harbors open-burn and detonation facility opened in 2002. (Photo by Frances Madeson)
COLFAX, Louisiana – The drive to Terry Brown's farm is peaceful and scenic no matter which route one takes. The Central Louisiana roadside is lined with woodlands, pecan groves, vast open fields and, nearer to the Browns, a well-kept horse farm.
The 71-year-old Colfax native planted 50,000 daffodil bulbs in fields where watermelons and cotton used to grow. He remembers picking cotton as a child as part of his chores and the sharp end of the bolls stinging his fingers bloody. In the spring, the field nearest the Browns' house is a solid blanket of flowers.
"I used to have more daffodils, but the pocket gophers like the bulbs," Brown said. "Have you ever seen them? They're a wood rat looking thing that's got teeth like a squirrel."
A retired state transportation employee and a two-term representative in the Louisiana Legislature, Brown and his wife of 36 years, Lou, live next door to the brick house where he was raised.
Brown's father's family settled in what is now Grant Parish more than two centuries ago. They brought Methodism from Georgia where they had been followers of John Wesley.
Since 1817 when they arrived in Louisiana, the branches of the family tree extended to Union and Confederate officers, Catholics and Dutch Reformists, which was the church his mother was raised in, and eventually some Jews. Two generations ago there was an interracial couple who had 12 or 13 children.
"We're related to pretty much everybody, white and Black, who lives in this area," Brown said, adding that the cross-racial ties are openly acknowledged. "They've always been there to help us, and we've always been there to help them."
Until recently, Brown said the quality of air and water in Grant Parish was unrivaled among Louisiana's 64 parishes. But that was before Clean Harbors Colfax, which had been operating since 2002, expanded its operations at its open-burn, open-detonation hazardous waste disposal site in 2015.
After that, Brown said, the tight knit community of family and friends eventually started seeing each other most frequently at hospital bedsides, funeral parlors and cemeteries.
There's nothing clean about Clean Harbors.
– Terry Brown, Colfax resident
On Dec. 15, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) held an open public comment session in Colfax. At issue was the renewal of Clean Harbor's hazardous waste management permit that proposes a buildout of a closed-burn system. It would still allow open burning and detonation of material such as military rockets and rocket fuel.
All 25 commenters at the hearing spoke in opposition to LDEQ granting the permit. The agency's public comment period on the Clean Harbors renewal request ended Friday.
Brown thinks their little community has suffered enough.
"My wife is horrified. She has had breast cancer, thyroid issues and leukemia, which thankfully is in remission. But she's been taking treatment for almost two years for leukemia," Brown said. "Cancer is common here. My sister-in-law down the road has breast cancer. My brother had colon cancer; I've had polyps. We've had about seven cases of pancreatic cancer in the last three years."
Brenda Vallee, who Brown has known since they were children, founded the Central Louisiana Coalition for a Clean and Healthy Environment seven years ago to confront the threat to the public health and safety when the open burn pit became a known problem.
Brown calls her the "kingpin" of the concerned citizens group, which has met monthly, sometimes more frequently, since the U.S. Department of Defense contracted Clean Harbors to detonate munitions from Camp Minden. Its facility is adjacent to a residential majority African-American neighborhood called The Rock.
Vallee lives in The Rock. Three weeks ago she buried her nephew who lived there.
"His farm was closer to Clean Harbors than my house," Vallee said in a text message to the Illuminator. "He had pancreatic cancer."
Pancreatic cancer is linked to open burning, according to a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' public health advisory notice. It is one of 21 cancers and 12 serious respiratory conditions designated as "presumptive conditions for airborne hazards and burn pit exposures."
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act of 2022 appropriated $500 million to a fund for impacted military veterans. The Biden administration has requested $13.7 billion for 2023 and an advance appropriation of $18 billion for 2024.
"There's nothing clean about Clean Harbors. We are the flush toilet of the entire military installation," Brown said. "And the happy place, Disney World, they send all their fireworks here to be burned. Some mornings, I smell firecrackers in my yard."
Clean Harbors has not responded to multiple calls to its Massachusetts corporate headquarters for comment.
Wilma Subra, a chemist with the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN), confirmed in an email to the Illuminator that Disney sends its outdated fireworks to the Colfax hazardous waste facility. She said that will not stop under the terms of the renewal permit.
"In the application for the contained burn chamber, one of the wastes that will need to continue to be open burned is large fireworks," Subra said, "and the source will be Disney."
Brown lives 10 miles from the burn pit and scoffs at the company's claim that the residue from what is burned settles only within the boundaries of their facility.
"We had sand from the Sahara Desert earlier this summer; and when Mount Pinatubo blew up in the Philippines 30 years ago, we had beautiful sunsets for eight or 10 years after that here in Louisiana," Brown said. "So don't tell me that if the sand from the Sahara blew in here in July this year, and the year before last, too, that this stuff falls only on their 700 acres."
Brown's daughter and grandchild live in Baton Rouge, but he worries for the young people growing up under the toxic shadow of the rising black plumes.
"Well, they're all going to be subject to more and more cancer and birth defects and all kinds of other things," Brown said. "That's exactly what I think."
As a state lawmaker from 2012-2020, Brown said key legislators can go a long way in helping persuade the governor to not permit any open burning or detonation at Clean Harbors Colfax.
Brown referenced a promise Sen. Jay Luneau, D-Alexandria, made at a Dec. 13 community meeting, when he said he would approach Gov. John Bel Edwards about the Clean Harbors permit. Luneau did not respond to multiple requests from the Illuminator for an update.
"The governor, that's kind of the last hope," Brown said.
by Frances Madeson, Louisiana Illuminator
Frances Madeson is a Central Louisiana-based freelance reporter with a special interest in accountability journalism.
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