The growth of panels is so disruptive the AEMO sometimes has to invoke the "hisk risk state" and force the baseload coal and gas generators off the grid for fear of an overload. This is supposed to be something triggered only in exceptional circumstances. The rapid change to the grid generation will create a regular state of emergency in WA in a few years unless something changes.
It is believed solar power could displace 100 per cent of traditional generation such as coal- and gas-fired plants for short intervals within as few as five years based on current trends.
While this would happen initially only during specific weather conditions, such as mild, sunny days when demand for electricity was low but production from solar panels was high, the trend could be disastrous for conventional power stations.
This is one of the hidden costs of solar power.
The uptake of solar panels here has accelerated due to painful electricity prices and an ongoing subsidy. Here in the sunny state they work well but not well enough to make them worth installing without the subsidy. If they aren't economic in most of WA, they won't be economic anywhere other than remote off-grid locations.
In the even smaller North-West grid of Western Australia, the powers-that-be have limited the uptake of solar subsidies in Broome to 10% of the towns power for fear of grid fluctuations. (Thanks to RickWill for reminding me).
The SWIS grid is not connected to the whole NEM in Australia. The market rules are different, so is the structure. It's largely government controlled. Therefore I'm very interested in hearing from anyone with insight into our system. Please, if you can help, get in touch through comments below or email joanne at this site domain.
Canberra man uses subsidies, "invests" $20,000, still pays $700pa in electricity. Hopes to break even in 14 years.


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Smartphone apps like geoCash are cool and all, but web browser is still at the heart of every internet interaction. Understanding that, there is more of this demo that we wanted you to checkout, a webwallet app to showcase and get a deeper understanding of how GeoDB is going to work at a conceptual level.
You can find the webwallet demo here. Right now, it is necessary to install Metamask plugin (it's neccesary to configure it to use Kovan network) in your browser if you wish to access full functionality, but don't worry! It is not mandatory to get a good grasp of our intent here.
In the webwallet, you can make basic interactions to reap GEO rewards while it is active. This is just for playground purposes, as that feature is much more well implemented in our geoCash demo, which you can checkout in our latest post.
Nevertheless, mistake not. This is a demo, but GEO token is an ERC-20 token, and our appStore and our form to query information are developed using Ethereum smart contracts deployed on Kovan. In other words, our demo uses similar technologies to those that will be used in our final solution.
Any questions? Feel free to ask our newest team member, Rafael, at rafael@geodb.com .
Rafael is one of the newest incorporations to the GeoDB team, as a core designer of the blockchain components in the project. Rafael has dedicated his career in the field of software development, starting with a background education in computer science, networking and telecommunication electronics, has been recently involved in the blockchain industry for the perfect mixup of his acquired abilities and motivations: networking, protocol design, concurrent — autonomous systems, and a white canvas to change the world. Coming from the highly competitive railway industry as embedded software engineer, he will provide the vision and methods to ensure that GeoDB delivers solid, compliant code at the most delicate parts of our ecosystem.


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Associated Press Published May 3, 2017 - 2:57 pm
Marshall University to Make Safety Improvements on Campus
Marshall University has begun taking steps to increase security measures around campus after a survey revealed students felt less safe walking outside at night.
The university has begun a series of on-campus improvements in response to a survey conducted earlier in the academic year in which 40 percent of students said they felt unsafe walking at night. The survey results and changes follow five armed robberies across the street from the main campus between October 2016 and April 2017.
Physical Plant Director Dale Osburn says they will update campus lighting as well as trim tree branches to promote open viewing.

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It was mixed fortunes for two Legislators today when the Court of Appeal threw one out of Parliament while another retained his seat.
Three justices led by former deputy Chief Justice Steven Kavuma ruled that Peter Mugema alias Panadol is the rightfully elected MP for Iganga Municipality, rescinding the Jinja High Court decision that had nullified his February 2016 election victory.
The ruling read by the Deputy Registrar of the court Esther Nambayo bashed the claims that Panadol had paid a bribe of Uganda shillings 300,000 as a donation to a church, stating that an offertory cannot be called a bribe, if given to a church.
In June 2016, Panadol went to the Court of appeal challenging the decisions of the high court in Jinja which ruled that his election was illegal and instead declared his rival, Nasser Abed Mudiobole of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), as the rightful MP.
Mudiobole had challenged Panadol's victory saying the election was marred with irregularities.
Court awarded Panadol costs from the case.
It was a different story for Winnie Komuhangi Matsiko, the Rukungiri Woman MP whose election victory court has nullified. Justices including Deputy Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny- Dolo and Paul Mugamba ruled in favour of Matsiko's political rival, FDC's Betty Bamukwasa Muzanira.
Muzanira filed a petition challenging Masiko's election and seeking a vote recount after losing the February 2016 elections. The Electoral Commission was also dragged to court in regards to the irregularities.
At the heart of the petition were results from three sub-counties of Nyakishenyi, Nyarushanje, and Nyakagyeme.
In March 2016, the Rukungiri Chief Magistrates Court dismissed Muzanira's application with costs, forcing the FDC candidate to petition higher courts.
According to results announced by the district registrar, Pius Ahimbisibwe, Matsiko polled 58,994 while Muzanira got 54,966. Muzanira, however, accused the Electoral Commission of committing errors during the announcement of the results and in the declaration forms.


Independent Film Week — IFP's annual takeover of Lincoln Center — ushered in its 2013 edition yesterday with the Filmmaker Conference. A collection of workshops, panels, keynotes, case studies, and networking sessions, the Filmmaker Conference addresses a variety of topics at the forefront of the industry's conscience. Day one, as its banner title "Future Forward" suggests, was primarily concerned with the impact of new platforms and technologies on independent filmmaking, and the ways in which creators evolve alongside an increasing array of tools. Exciting as the possibilities are, two particular panels took the opportunity to zero in on the industry at large, and its reluctance in angling its advances in the filmmaker's favor.
In The Future Economy of Independent Film, Filmmaker Editor-in-Chief Scott Macaulay led a discussion with Parts and Labor's Jay Van Hoy, producer, director and ArtHome founder Esther Robinson and producer and developer Noah Harlan on the diametrically opposed natures of industry economic models and financial security for individual creators. Though all three of the panelists work as producers, only Van Hoy makes his living from the trade. Harlan creates apps and other mobile-based technologies through his company Two Bulls, while Robinson runs the non-profit ArtHome. In addressing the potential of new platforms as revenue-generating opportunities, however, the trio collectively expressed concern with the issue of proprietary reporting data.
Later in the day, a different industry shortcoming was underscored in the New Black Voices panel. Moderator Tambay Obenson, of IndieWire's Shadow and Act, opened with an article written by Roger Ebert, shortly after the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. In the excerpt, Ebert proclaimed the unveiling of several festival films as a New Wave of Black filmmaking, akin to the French and German iterations before it. Terence Nance took issue with the nomenclature at work, suggesting that "new wave" lends itself to an assumption of sustainability, one that is largely absent in the history of Black filmmaking. One of his idols, Wendell B. Harris Jr., for instance, never made a followup to 1989's Chameleon Street. Nance's argument was that the industry, despite all its clamoring for a breakthrough debut, never seems to sustain a Black filmmaker in the long run, intimating that the fundamental problem lies within its infrastructure. Shaka King was in agreement, additionally noting that the odds of raising money from Black financiers are no better than soliciting investments from White ones. Further, Yoruba Richen contended that Blacks are dissuaded from telling stories that relate to "the other," and that their work must constantly be racialized.
Though modern advancements have transformed the practice of filmmaking, making it far more accessible than it once was, they are accompanied by their own set of drawbacks. Dulling the double edge of the sword necessitates industry support, in both the distribution of data and backing of more marginalized visions. The first step, as yesterday's discussions revealed, is through dialogue and awareness.


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Q: Open a modal and update url without reloading the main page I have primereact datatable (it is separate component InvoiceTable and it is part from another bigger copmonent AccountDetails) with many columns- every column has a selection mode and a button. When I click the button, it opens a new modal and changes the url.
The url of the main page (AccountDetails) is customers/customerCode and when I open the modal (I click on the icon from the InvoiceTable) it becomes customers/customerCode/invoiceNumber/changelog.
The issue is that when I select any invoices and open the modal, the main page is refreshed and the selected invoices are unselected.
These are the methods which I use:
  openHistoryModal = (rowData, e) => {
    e.stopPropagation();
    this.props.history.push(`/customers/${customerCode}/number/changelog`);
  };

  discardHistoryModal = (e) => {
    this.props.history.push(`/customers/${customerCode}`);
  };

I tried with history.replace and window.history.replaceState but the result is the same. I use only class components.
I have the following Routes as well:
              <ProtectedRoute
                path="/customers/:customerCode/"
                component={(props: any) => <AccountDetails {...props} />}
                authority={[userRoles.user]}
                feature={"Collection module"}
                rootStore={this.props.rootStore}
                exact={true}
              />
              <ProtectedRoute
                path="/customers/:customerCode/:number/changelog"
                component={(props: any) => <AccountDetails {...props} />}
                authority={
                  [userRoles.userAudit.toString()] || [userRoles.admin]
                }
                feature={"Collection module"}
                rootStore={this.props.rootStore}
                exact={true}
              />

These are the methods in the ProtectedRoute component:
checkAuthority = (roles) =>{
   return this.props.rootStore.userStore.hasRoles(roles)
  }

  checkFeature = () => {
    let featureActive: boolean = false;
    const foundFeature =
      this.props.rootStore.managementStore.featureFlags.filter(
        (flag: { name: string; value: string; type: string }) =>
          flag.name === this.props.feature && flag.value === "true"
      );

    if (
      (foundFeature && foundFeature.length > 0) ||
      this.props.feature === "alwaysActive"
    ) {
      featureActive = true;
    }

  return featureActive

  };

  render() {
    const { component: Component, ...props } = this.props;
    return (
      <Route
        {...props}
        render={(props) =>
          this.checkAuthority(this.props.authority) && this.checkFeature() ? (
            <Component {...props} rootStore={this.props.rootStore} />
          ) : (
            <Redirect to='/404'></Redirect>
          )
        }
        exact={this.props.exact}
      />
    );

I will be very grateful if you could give me some ideas and help me out!

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San Giovanni (česky Svatý Jan) může být:

obec v Itálii:
 San Giovanni a Piro – obec v provincii Salerno
 San Giovanni al Natisone – obec v provincii Udine
 San Giovanni Bianco – obec v provincii Bergamo
 San Giovanni d'Asso – obec v provincii Siena
 San Giovanni del Dosso – obec v provincii Mantova
 San Giovanni di Gerace – obec v provincii Reggio Calabria
 San Giovanni Gemini – obec v provincii Agrigento
 San Giovanni Ilarione – obec v provincii Verona
 San Giovanni Incarico – obec v provincii Frosinone
 San Giovanni in Croce – obec v provincii Cremona
 San Giovanni in Fiore – obec v provincii Cosenza
 San Giovanni in Galdo – obec v provincii Campobasso
 San Giovanni in Marignano – obec v provincii Rimini
 San Giovanni in Persiceto – obec v provincii Bologna
 San Giovanni la Punta – obec v provincii Catania
 San Giovanni Lipioni – obec v provincii Chieti
 San Giovanni Lupatoto – obec v provincii Verona
 San Giovanni Rotondo – obec v provincii Foggia
 San Giovanni Suergiu – obec v provincii Carbonia-Iglesias
 San Giovanni Teatino – obec v provincii Chieti
 San Giovanni Valdarno – obec v provincii Arezzo
 Sesto San Giovanni – obec v provincii Milano
 Borgo San Giovanni – obec v provincii Lodi
 Castel San Giovanni – obec v provincii Piacenza
 Fornovo San Giovanni – obec v provincii Bergamo
 Luserna San Giovanni – obec v provincii Torino
 Monte San Giovanni Campano – obec v provincii Provincie Frosinone
 Monte San Giovanni in Sabina – obec v provincii Rieti
 Motta San Giovanni – obec v provincii Reggio Calabria
 Penna San Giovanni – obec v provincii Macerata
 Rocca San Giovanni – obec v provincii Chieti
 Sale San Giovanni – obec v provincii Cuneo
 Villa San Giovanni – obec v provincii Reggio Calabria
 Villa San Giovanni in Tuscia – obec v provincii Provincie Viterbo

obec ve Francii:
 San-Giovanni-di-Moriani – obec v departementu Haute-Corse

kostely a kaple:
 San Giovanni dei Fiorentini – kostel v Římě
 San Giovanni in Oleo – kostel v Římě
 Baptisterium San Giovanni – kaple ve Florencii

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Louis Tung Jung Hsieh (, born  1965) is a Chinese businessman and lawyer and the global chief financial officer (CFO) and director of Hesai Group (Nasdaq: HSAI), a company supplying three-dimensional light detection and ranging (LiDAR) solutions. Hsieh joined Hesai as CFO in April 2021 and became a director in June 2021. He helped take the company public on Nasdaq in February 2023, with an initial public offering (IPO) that was oversubscribed by approximately 20 times.

Hsieh is a director at New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: EDU, HKSE: 09901), or New Oriental, a Chinese provider of private educational services, as well as an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of JD.com (NASDAQ: JD, HKSE: 09618), and an independent director of YUM China Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: YUMC, HKSE: 09987), a restaurant operator in China.

Early life
Hsieh received a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a Juris Doctor (JD) from the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the State Bar of California.

From 1990-95, he worked at White & Case LLP as a corporate securities attorney. He then worked at Credit Suisse in Palo Alto and as a vice president at J.P. Morgan & Co. for four years. He subsequently served as a managing director of UBS Capital Asia Pacific (2000–02), managing director of Darby Asia Investors (2002–03), and CFO of Ario Data Networks (2003-2005).

New Oriental
In 2005, Hsieh became the CFO of New Oriental, China's largest private educational services provider. He helped launch New Oriental's 2006 initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange, which was oversubscribed 35 times.

In 2007, Hsieh was named a board director, and in 2009, he became New Oriental's president. The number of New Oriental schools doubled in following two years, and in 2011, Hsieh announced that the company would slow its expansion for a time and make more of an effort to fill existing classrooms and facilities. During Hsieh's time as president, New Oriental also dramatically expanded its POP Kids program, which provided language instruction to children from 3–14 years of age.

One of the more notable events of Hsieh's tenure was the 2012 publication of a report by an American firm, Muddy Waters Research, that stated that New Oriental was using accounting tricks to overstate its profits, and that it would soon have to restate its earnings. The Muddy Waters report coincided with an investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and caused EDU to drop by 57% on the New York Stock Exchange. Hsieh defended New Oriental in the press, stating that Muddy Waters had incorrectly extrapolated New Oriental's accounting and business model from one of its subsidiaries. New Oriental ultimately did not restate its earnings as Muddy Waters had predicted, and its stock rebounded by over four times since its low of $9.50 on July 18, 2012, the date of the SEC investigation announcement following the Muddy Waters report. The SEC investigation was concluded in 2014 without any enforcement action.

In April 2015, Hsieh was succeeded as CFO by Stephen Zhihui Yang, but continued to serve as New Oriental's president. In January 2016, Hsieh stepped down as New Oriental's president and was succeeded by Chenggang Zhou. Hsieh remains a non-executive director and a senior advisor.

Other positions
Beginning in 2017, Hsieh was the chief financial officer at NIO (NYSE: NIO), a global electric vehicle manufacturer based in China which completed an IPO in September 2018. Hsieh resigned from the company in October 2019. From August 2016 through September 2017, Hsieh was an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of Nord Anglia Education Inc. (formerly NASDAQ: NORD, taken private in 2017). Hsieh served as an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of Perfect World (formerly NASDAQ: PWRD, taken private in 2015) from 2007 through 2009. He has also served as a board member at LDK Solar, where he was chairman of the audit committee.

References

External links
 New Oriental website

1960s births
Living people
Chinese business executives
Chinese chief financial officers
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
UC Berkeley School of Law alumni
JD.com people
NIO (car company) people
New Oriental people
Credit Suisse people
JPMorgan Chase people
UBS people


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The Columbus Dispatch
NEW YORK — The "everyday low price" king is trying to shake up the world of pricing again.
Wal-Mart said it has rolled out an online tool that allows shoppers to compare its prices on 80,000 food and household products with those of its competitors. The world's largest retailer began offering the feature that's called "Savings Catcher" on its website last month in seven big markets that include Dallas, San Diego and Atlanta.
The move by Wal-Mart, which has a long history of undercutting competitors, could change the way people shop and how other retailers price their merchandise. After all, Americans already increasingly are searching for the lowest prices on their tablets and smartphones while in checkout aisles.
Shoppers do this so often that big retailers such as Target and Best Buy are offering to match the lower prices of rivals — but only if shoppers do the research on their own. The idea behind Wal-Mart's online feature, on the other hand, is to do the legwork for customers.
The tool isn't revolutionary. For instance, Citibank launched a program two years ago that sends Citi credit-card customers a check for the difference if it finds a lower price from an online retailer. But Wal-Mart is the first traditional retailer to offer such a program, and if it's successful, others might follow.
Duncan MacNaughton, chief merchandising and marketing officer for Wal-Mart Store Inc.'s U.S. discount division, said shoppers are looking for "technological answers to saving them money and time."
Wal-Mart, which declined to comment on when the program will be rolled out nationwide, said it's hoping the online tool will build more confidence among Walmart shoppers that it has the best price whenever they shop in stores.
The company built its business on offering the lowest prices on staples such as milk, bread and laundry detergent. But Wal-Mart's "everyday low price" model is under attack from online king Amazon and other competitors that sometimes offer items cheaper.
On top of that, the retailer's primarily lower-income customers continue to cut back on spending during the economic recovery.


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Trump energy plan calls for more drilling and fewer environmental protections
Author: Erica Martinson
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a news conference in Bismarck, North Dakota on Thursday. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump pledged Thursday to push aggressively for more oil drilling if he becomes president, including on federal lands in Alaska.
In an energy-focused speech in North Dakota, the Republican candidate spoke of "shared prosperity" from energy revenues, promising to use them to repair the nation's crumbling infrastructure and saying he would declare "American energy dominance" a "strategic and economic policy goal."
"President Obama has aggressively blocked oil production, and … every single move he's made is to block the production of oil and natural gas. He's taken huge percentages of the Alaska petroleum — and you take the reserve; he's taken it off the table. He's taken it completely off the table," Trump said.
That's not entirely the case. The Obama administration has granted permits to ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. to drill in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska in what is known as the Greater Mooses Tooth unit on the North Slope.
Trump perhaps meant to cite the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which has long been off limits to drilling — a situation Obama unsuccessfully asked Congress to make permanent. Opening the refuge would first take an act of Congress, which a president could then sign or veto.
Trump offered some new promises in what was billed as his "energy policy" speech, given at the close of the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck. North Dakota has played a central role in the U.S. oil boom and, like Alaska, has suffered as global oil prices fell in recent years.
[Donald Trump's energy plan: More fossil fuels and fewer rules]
Oil billionaire Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, preceded Trump on the stage, putting considerable industry clout behind the candidate. Hamm, who advised 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on energy, came to the stage with some optimism, noting that oil prices have risen to $50 a barrel and that he expects them to top $60 by year's end.
Later in his speech, Trump said he'd take credit for the rise in oil prices.
"I want 10 percent, Harold," he said to Hamm.
Trump said the Obama administration has regulated the oil industry to a point that profits have become scarce. He promised to take action to allow more offshore oil drilling and drilling on federal lands.
Trump also took aim at the Environmental Protection Agency and promised to repeal Obama regulations aimed at protecting waters and fighting climate change — including striking down carbon limits for power plants and revoking the Paris climate deal.
"In a Trump administration, political activists with extreme agendas will no longer write the rules, because that's what's happening now," Trump said.
[Trump campaign unveils Alaska backers, including Treadwell, McGuire]
Trump said that if elected, he would craft an "America First" energy plan, eliminating oil and gas imports and boosting fossil fuel production by removing Obama administration regulations that he termed "death by a thousand cuts."
"Under my presidency we'll accomplish a complete American energy independence. Lots of jobs," Trump said.
The U.S. consumes about one-fifth of the world's petroleum. In 2014, 73 percent of the nation's oil demand was satisfied by U.S. production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Trump acknowledged that oil imports have fallen dramatically in the last decade.
"But this all occurred in spite of massive new bureaucratic and political barriers," he said.
"If crooked Hillary Clinton is in charge, things will get much worse, believe me," Trump charged.
[How Donald Trump's grandfather got rich running hotels in the Klondike Gold Rush]
Erica Martinson
Erica Martinson is a former reporter for the Anchorage Daily News based in Washington, D.C.


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Hollywood Forever and PEN Center USA present:
Wonderland Avenue
A reading from the classic rock memoir of the late Danny Sugerman, former manager of The Doors and Iggy Pop.
PEN Center USA presents a reading of Danny Sugerman's memoir, WONDERLAND AVENUE: TALES OF GLAMOUR & EXCESS, in the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever. Doors will open at 8 PM for a cocktail reception in the lodge's Eastern Star Room. The reading will begin at 9 PM and will feature the drummer of the Doors, John Densmore; comedian, actor, and author Richard Lewis; Julian Sands (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Leaving Las Vegas); Henry Thomas (Gangs of New York, Legends of the Fall, E.T.); and Jake Weber (Medium, Dawn of the Dead, Meet Joe Black).Legendary disc jockey Jim Ladd will host the reading. PEN Center USA and Hollywood Forever will release additional details in the coming week.
*The reading will be held in a beautiful Masonic Temple on the 2nd floor of a Masonic building built in 1927.
* There are no elevators in this historic landmark.
https://hollywoodforever.ticketfly.com/event/127817/


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Submitted by admin on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 9:19am
Crystal Kay Slach, 55, of rural West Branch, went to be with her Lord on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. Funeral services were held Saturday, Jan. 20, at Hope Church in Tipton. Burial followed in West Branch City Cemetery, in West Branch. A general memorial fund was established in her memory. Online condolences may be shared at www.fryfuneralhome.com.
Barbara Ann Miller
Barbara Ann Miller, 57, of Iowa City, formerly of Solon, died Sunday, Jan. 20, 2018, at home. Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, at St. Mary Catholic Church in Solon, with Fr. David Beckman presiding. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, at St. Mary Catholic Church.
Dorothy Jean Hahn
Dorothy Jean Hahn, 90, of Solon, died Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018, at the Solon Nursing Care Center. Celebration of Life Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, at the Solon United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Oakland Cemetery. Visitation will be two hours prior to services Thursday at the church. Brosh Chapel in Solon is handling Jean's arrangements.
Marcella Fisher
Marcella Fisher, 90, of Cedar Rapids, died on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, at The Gardens of Cedar Rapids. Celebration of Life Services were Wednesday, Jan. 24, at Brosh Chapel & The Avacentre in Cedar Rapids. Burial followed in Czech National Cemetery. Visitation was Tuesday, Jan. 23, at the chapel.
An hour in the life
I'm the first one up.
I've always been an early riser. "Lay-a-beds," were not tolerated in the Fleck household. If you tried to sleep past dawn, Dad would come through, whistle loudly and then shout "daylight's burning." Also, and more importantly, I had two older brothers. Last one up might miss a strip of bacon. Call me what you like, just don't call me late for breakfast.
Not being a tidy person (meaning I don't put the groceries, the laundry or my creative projects away promptly and clean up as I go along in the kitchen), I nevertheless believe a few changes I'd like to suggest would make the world tidier and more efficient. Things that serve no seriously useful purpose and generally tend to cause more chaos than they prevent. Some of these, I've no doubt mentioned here before, but it doesn't hurt to repeat them in the hope somebody may see the value of these suggested changes and start a movement to spread the word.
Creek Boys rock the mats at Regina
CCA defeats Lone Tree, HLV and IC Regina
IOWA CITY– Clear Creek Amana's (CCA) varsity wrestlers improved to 7-7 in dual meets, including a 7-3 showing since the start of 2018, with a quad meet sweep Tuesday, Jan. 9, at Iowa City Regina against the Regals, Lone Tree and Hartwick-Ladora-Victor (HLV).
North Liberty Leader
Trojans wipe out Warriors
IC West soaks CR Washington, 122-53
CORALVILLE– Iowa City West High's boys swim team celebrated Senior Night Tuesday, Jan. 9, at home (Coralville Recreation Center) with a pair of wins over the Cedar Rapids Washington Warriors.
West High's varsity washed the Warriors away, 122-53, while the junior varsity (JV) crew took a 114-55 win.
Varsity individual winners included Lane Griffis (200- and 500-yard freestyle events), Izaak Hajek (200-yard individual medley (IM) and 100-yard butterfly), Brennon Keen (50-yard freestyle) and Ben Berhow (100-yard breaststroke).
West's Rosenthal a Coach of the Year
IOWA CITY– The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Coaches Association recently announced selecting 23 coaches from around the country as 2017 Coaches of the Year. Iowa City West High's head girls' soccer coach, David Rosenthal, was among the honorees.
Rosenthal, a native of Waterville, Maine, has been at West High for 24 years as a Spanish teacher and has coached for 23 years after attending the University of Iowa for graduate school and student teaching at West.
Mount Pleasant lights up Liberty, 76-51
Rash of turnovers
NORTH LIBERTY– A two-game winning streak for the Liberty High varsity boys basketball team ended Tuesday, Jan. 9, at home as the Mount Pleasant Panthers took a 76-51 victory. The Liberty Lightning, aka "The Bolts," were basking in the glow of a Saturday, Jan. 6, win over Clear Creek Amana. The Bolts had made a strong second half effort in the 58-45 victory.


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"I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to." Marjorie Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings American author was born.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author known for novels with rural themes, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling" which was later made into a movie.
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Rebels with a Cause
by Ashley Lombardo
After discovering their parent organization was corrupt, members of Students for a Democratic Society launched a new, independent organization.
Illustration by Adeline Kon
On the night of Radical Student Alliance's first event as an autonomous group, the Civic Media Center hummed with life.
Bit by bit, students and community members found their places among the mismatched furniture. The chairs faced a screen with the question "What is Capitalism?" magnified by a projector, set against shelves overflowing with countless timeworn books. A toddler wiggled by.
The event, called Capitalism 101, aimed to challenge systems of oppression that stem from capitalism. With more than 40 people in attendance, no seat was left empty.
Members of RSA and Dream Defenders leaned against a wooden table and talked among themselves, buzzing with excitement. This was the alliance's first teach-in, the first of anything they could call their own.
The event, a collaboration of social justice groups in Gainesville, embodied a strong, unified front in the activist community — a partnership strengthened by the recent birth of Radical Student Alliance.
Tristan Worthington, one of RSA's core members, began by thanking the CMC for hosting. Dream Defenders' Malu Brooks and Jabari Mickles presented an unscripted expression of the mechanisms capitalists use to perpetuate racism.
The two played off one another, describing problems with police, prisons and educational systems, echoing the flow of spoken-word poets. Michael Reyes, a student armed with a pen and paper, drew charts to visually depict how these systems interact. A woman who appeared to be in her 60s listened carefully.
This wouldn't have been possible under RSA's previous incarnation as a local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a multi-issue social justice organization represented at universities nationwide.
This year, members of the University of Florida chapter found out that SDS had previously been informally controlled by another organization: Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Upon breaking ties with FRSO, the new, independent society found that the local activist community was much more open to collaboration.
"We are seeing the fruits of that breakup everywhere we turn, both on and off campus," said Leah Robbins, one of the founding members of RSA. "Now, the Gainesville activists have embraced us with open arms after having severed that toxic relationship."
The Gainesville chapter of SDS was formed in the 1960s but later disbanded after the Vietnam War movement faded. In the mid-2000s, the group reformed at UF. But as time passed, members moved on. Campus activism gained fresh faces, unaware of the tangled web of past controversies.
Sky Button, a 19-year-old wildlife ecology and conservation major at UF, joined SDS in September 2014. Button was one of many students unfamiliar with the organization's intricate history. To Button, SDS seemed like the only campus organization with an anti-capitalist presence.
"Now, the Gainesville activists have embraced us with open arms after having severed that toxic relationship," said Leah Robbins, one of the founding members of RSA.
Upon joining, he formed relationships with other members Tristan Worthington, Farah Khan and Leah Robbins, who each shared his passion for activism.
After a year of taking part in campaigns for causes such as police demilitarization and in-state tuition for undocumented students, they discovered that SDS was a front group for another organization's agenda.
SDS had been informally controlled by FRSO since about 2008, Button said. FRSO is an activist group with a strong Marxist-Leninist ideology built on the core principle of democratic centralism. The idea is that leaders should listen to the will of the people but ultimately make the final decision, Button said.
SDS isn't explicitly communist, which makes it attractive to a broader variety of progressives, Button said. This difference in ideology had kept many from joining FRSO in the first place.
Button said that a friend, who wished to remain unnamed, confided in him and revealed the underlying power structure that was driving SDS decisions.
Although Button said he had a vague idea that FRSO was attempting to assimilate members of SDS into the Marxist-Leninist ideology, he was unaware of the hegemonic interactions between the two organizations.
"FRSO members would meet the night before SDS meetings to plan out how the SDS meetings would go," Button said. "Everyone in FRSO would take the same stance so it would look like some organically or naturally formed majority."
Non-FRSO members were kept in the dark until Button's friend broke the ranks. Tristan Worthington, an English major and former SDS member, had been under the impression that everything was on the table. She said she had believed all members were coming as equals.
"When we did find out about this going on, it was a sense of betrayal for a lot of people," she said. "It was very secretive; it was very controlling and manipulative."
Button and his peers discovered that structural corruption ran deeper than prearranging the meeting outcomes. Worthington said there was a strong sense of misogyny in SDS chapters throughout Florida, which showed its hierarchical and male-dominated structure.
"Sexual assault would go unchecked, where women who experienced abuse at the hands of their fellow members couldn't get justice or have a voice," Worthington said. "We didn't want anything to do with an organization that was allowing people to get away with such actions."
The Gainesville and Tampa chapters of SDS had established a line of communication. When former members of the Tampa chapter informed the group about a sexual predator operating within FRSO, the core group decided something had to change.
According to former Tampa SDS member Bridget White, a woman had been sexually assaulted by a FRSO member. When she attempted to speak out against her abuser, the organization's leaders turned a blind eye.
At an SDS meeting, White suggested the group take on a Coalition To End Rape Culture campaign. When the idea was rejected, she confronted FRSO about the predator and severed ties with the organization completely.
"You don't really know at first that SDS is part of the bigger tree that is FRSO — it's like a branch," she said. "They tried to downplay what he did and acted as if they were trying to get him out as hard as they could."
A similar confrontation occurred on the UF campus when SDS members met to discuss the information. During the meeting, a FRSO mediator denied the accusations.
"When we saw that there would be no justice for the victim, we decided to produce a statement condemning rape apologia and formally separating ourselves from them," Robbins said.
In the statement, they wrote: "In the eyes of many, SDS serves as a front group for FRSO and we understand this claim to have merit in many locations. Given that reality, we want to make it clear that UF SDS refuses to be a FRSO front group and we do not align ourselves with their mishandling of instances of sexual violence."
Button said issuing the statement was arduous, but it effectively purged FRSO members from SDS. Despite members' knowledge of misconduct, Button said it was hard for many of them to let go of the name.
"For some members it was the only activist group that they had been heavily involved in," Button said. "They associated it with their first experiences with activism."
Shortly after the statement was released, an SDS member still associated with FRSO helped hijack the group's Facebook page to delete the statement. The hijack prompted the group to wonder why it held onto the name in the first place, Button said.
Button, Worthington, Robbins and Kahn, along with other SDS members Claudia Conger and Lara Alqasem, held a conference call during the summer. Each student was in a different location, traveling, studying and working. During the call they agreed to take the next step. And thus RSA was born.
"As upsetting as it was to witness SDS dissolve, it ended up being a blessing in disguise," Robbins said. "It forced us all to reevaluate and solidify our convictions as a group."
RSA is based on an anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, pro-women and pro-LGBTQ+ foundation. While not all members share the same views, the group relies on organizing principles based on the belief that most social problems stem from capitalism and other forms of oppression.
But spearheading an entirely new activist organization, especially without a traditional power structure, has come with obstacles. Though the hierarchy was seemingly poisonous to the idea of democracy, SDS was efficient because it forced a sense of responsibility.
Another challenge is finding out how to liberate all marginalized groups both on and off campus. Worthington said it involves rejecting band-aid solutions and working in conjunction with other organizations.
"It's not just about seeing a symptom and trying to fix it, it's going to the root of the problem and addressing it directly," Worthington said.
Since the purge, activist groups have been more interested in working together, Button said. RSA has also been able to build closer ties with community centers, specifically the Civic Media Center. And October's Capitalism 101 event demonstrated just how tightly knit the community had become.
Uriel Perez, membership director of CHISPAS, said each organization respects, learns from and works to understand the other. From sharing resources like button-makers to hosting group socials on the weekends, they are building a coalition.
"Developing real relationships is arguably the most important thing," Perez said, "because you know that people have your back and you can count on them. Not just on Wednesdays at a 6:30 meeting, but anytime."
While RSA focuses on combating the overarching problem of capitalism, it shows its support to a variety of race-related campaigns. The organizations agree that these differences are not a dividing factor. It is a cultural melting pot that acts as a catalyst to reach more audiences than ever before, Perez said.
"RSA tackles what imperialism is, what capitalism is, what ableism is," he said. "They're tackling the big topics. There is some intersectionality in all of our causes."
Malu Brooks, a member of Dream Defenders, called the group "a rainbow coalition," comprised of people from different ethnic backgrounds and unique histories. He said when atrocities happen, he's confident that more than 100 activists will come out — ready to plan, build and work.
"Real power comes from the people. Real power comes from coalitions that can bring out the people — and different people," Brooks said. "Everyone's not going to dig the bravado of Dream Defenders, but you can dig the bravado of RSA."
At the beginning of the Fall semester, FRSO attempted to revive an SDS chapter at UF. But with the help of the Gainesville activist community, Worthington said FRSO was unable to reinstate its authority on campus.
RSA is still in its developing phase, Worthington said. It plans to focus on lending help to other organizations, like the Civic Media Center; Dream Defenders; CHISPAS; Students for Sensible Drug Policy; Students for Justice in Palestine; and the Alachua County Labor Coalition. Currently, RSA is working on the Alachua County Labor Coalition's Fight For 15 and the CHISPAS #SwipeLeftOnWendys campaign. It plans to launch its own campaign this Spring.
"No matter your race, your gender, your class — if you can empathize with struggle, you're more likely to get involved," Brooks said. "As we build this coalition, it has to be through love — because there has been enough pain."
Alec Carver contributed to this report.
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So will this be distributed to retailers around the US? Or is this going to be a special order option? Will the retail price of the boxed version be more than the digital distribution?
Wow, lookin good….getting to test mode soon?
You know what would be really nice. Make a scan of the box art insert (and maybe CD label) available for download. I plan on buying the box set for "Book II", but I was unable to get a Boxed version for Book I. It would be really nice to buy a DVD case for book I and put the two of them on my shelf side-by-side. Something to think about. Heck, maybe even charge a couple of bucks for it. I'd pay. Thanks.
I agree with all said here, and I really can't wait for Book II's release!!!! Hey Mr. Reigsecker, I really liked the music in Book I by the way, keep it up with Book II!!!!
This game needs to be released in time before this Christmas season, because I'll need a few games to play on that new quad-core iMac I'm gonna buy for myself!
I think the box art is extremly boring, I'm sorry. I think the front cover should show more what's inside. I'd want more action, a scene or two from the game. Though if games like Ultima or Wizardry.. those covers are never very good either.
I'd like to see both episodes on my shelf (which is heavily RPG-themed), but I live in Hungary, and it is hard to get the packaged editions (or it would be expensive). Which is sad, because Eschalon is far better game, than half of my collection (usually RPGs since 2002).


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Posted on January 3, 2022 by John Hinderaker in Biden Justice Department, Facebook, Free Speech, Twitter
If Government and Big Tech Gang Up On Conservatives, Is It Legal?
The latest news from social media is that both Twitter and Facebook have banned Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal accounts.
Twitter permanently suspended the personal account of Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over repeated violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, the company confirmed early Sunday.
"We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy," a Twitter spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "We've been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy."
I haven't followed Greene closely enough to have any opinion about her, but what did she do that provoked this extreme sanction? She tweeted data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which CDC uses to track potential safety problems with vaccines, relating specifically to adverse reactions to the covid vaccines. As far as I know, there is no assertion that she somehow misrepresented the VAERS data. Twitter and Facebook apparently saw her posts as running counter to the narrative they want to promote, which is that everyone must be vaccinated. Repeatedly.
Are there risks to vaccination? Indisputably there are, as tracked by VAERS. But those risks evidently must not be mentioned.
Actions like these by social media monopolies must offend every American who believes in free speech and debate as values in themselves, and as the best route to good policy. But the conventional wisdom is that, because Twitter, Facebook, et al. are private companies, their censorship is beyond legal question, no matter how irrational, how partisan, or how contrary to American values it may be.
Is that assumption really correct? The social media giants are of course private companies, but that is hardly the end of the conversation. The reality is that in suppressing conservative voices, they are doing the bidding of the Democratic Party, which at the moment controls the U.S. government.
Glenn Greenwald made the point in February 2021:
For the third time in less than five months, the U.S. Congress has summoned the CEOs of social media companies to appear before them, with the explicit intent to pressure and coerce them to censor more content from their platforms. On March 25, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will interrogate Twitter's Jack Dorsey, Facebooks's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai at a hearing which the Committee announced will focus "on misinformation and disinformation plaguing online platforms."
House Democrats have made no secret of their ultimate goal with this hearing: to exert control over the content on these online platforms. "Industry self-regulation has failed," they said, and therefore "we must begin the work of changing incentives driving social media companies to allow and even promote misinformation and disinformation." In other words, they intend to use state power to influence and coerce these companies to change which content they do and do not allow to be published.
[T]he key point raised by these last threats from House Democrats is an often-overlooked one: while the First Amendment does not apply to voluntary choices made by a private company about what speech to allow or prohibit, it does bar the U.S. Government from coercing or threatening such companies to censor. In other words, Congress violates the First Amendment when it attempts to require private companies to impose viewpoint-based speech restrictions which the government itself would be constitutionally barred from imposing.
I think this is obviously correct. Imagine, for instance, that in pre-internet days, the federal government had gone to all of the printing companies in the U.S. and paid them not to print any campaign materials by the other party. Or threatened to investigate them if they printed the other party's campaign materials. No one could doubt that such actions would violate the First Amendment.
That may be what we have here. For example: if the Biden administration explicitly or implicitly represented to a tech monopoly like Facebook that it might go easy on antitrust enforcement if Facebook suppressed conservative and Republican content, that would be an obvious First Amendment violation. Such a theory is entirely plausible, as the Trump administration filed an antitrust case against Facebook seeking, as a remedy, the divestiture of Instagram, which was Facebook's principal competitor until Facebook solved the problem by buying Instagram.
There are a couple of possibilities here: perhaps someone from the Biden administration held a clandestine meeting with a Facebook official–on a park bench, maybe, like in spy movies–where such a deal was struck. In that event, we have an unquestionable First Amendment violation. More likely, though, there was no meeting. More likely, Facebook's management drew a natural inference that if Facebook scratched the Democratic Party's back by suppressing conservative and Republican content, the Democratic Party would scratch back by quietly abandoning–or better yet, settling cheap–the antitrust case. Same result, but likely with a different legal status.
And Twitter is in the same legal position as Facebook, monopolizing its social media space, with the difference that there is not, at the moment, an antitrust case pending against Twitter. But the incentives on both sides are the same.
All of this is to say that the fact that Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, et al. are private companies by no means ends the First Amendment inquiry. If they are suppressing free speech–and they are, unquestionably–their relationship to the government needs to be examined. And when the facts are finally exposed, it is quite possible that these companies' censorship on behalf of the Democratic Party may be found to violate the Constitution. This is something that Republicans should investigate vigorously when they take the House later this year.


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