New modes and monitoring features in anesthesia ventilators improve management of challenging patients, situations.
Dr. Joseph Beckham and Dr. Ana Crawford (not pictured) are residents in Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Many advances have occurred in mechanical ventilators in recent years and these newer technologies are beginning to be incorporated into anesthesia ventilators. This has reduced the differences between intensive care ventilators and anesthesia ventilators. Among the advances are advanced ventilator modes (e.g., pressure-controlled ventilation [PCV], pressure-support ventilation [PSV], synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation [SIMV]) and improved monitoring of respiratory mechanics (i.e., pressure-volume loops).
These newer ventilator features should improve intraoperative management of challenging patients including the obese and those with pulmonary disease (such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) as well as management of challenging situations (such as severe hypoxemia and hypercarbia). However, the acceptance of these newer modalities is limited, probably due to the lack of understanding of their potential benefits. To that end, we provide a brief overview of several newer ventilation modes and the advances in the real-time monitoring of pulmonary mechanics to help guide perioperative ventilation strategies.
In PCV, the airway pressure is fixed and the tidal volume changes with resistance and compliance as well as duration of inspiration. During PCV the peak pressure is achieved rapidly and maintained for the duration of inspiration. This allows delivery of tidal volumes that are similar to volume control ventilation, but at lower peak inspiratory pressure (PIP), assuming similar compliance. This benefit is largely determined by how rapidly the ventilator is able to reach the predetermined inspiratory pressure, which is variable between ventilator types.
In addition, the decelerating gas flow during PCV improves distribution of gas flow and a homogenous tidal volume, which increases lung compliance and improves oxygenation. Overall, PCV may be used as a part of lung protective strategy, albeit clinical studies are lacking.
In contrast to traditional volume control mode, where changes in resistance and compliance are reflected by changes in PIP, PCV reflects resistance and compliance changes with changes in tidal volumes. This requires increased vigilance because the intraoperative lung compliance is highly variable (e.g., from changes in degree of neuromuscular blockade, abdominal packing, surgeon's hand on the chest) and increased resistance can decrease tidal volumes and contribute to the development of hypercarbia and atelectasis.
Further, unlike volume control — in which the tidal volume is predetermined — inspiratory pressures must be individualized for each patient to ensure adequate ventilation while using PCV. Volume-guaranteed PCV is a new ventilatory mode that may prove useful in addressing one of the major limitations to the routine use of PCV.
Though well utilized in the intensive care setting for quite some time, PSV is a relatively new intraoperative mode of mechanical ventilation. PSV augments the patient's spontaneous breaths (increases tidal volumes), improves gas distribution and reduces work of breathing.
residual anesthesia and muscle relaxants to maintain oxygenation and prevent hypercarbia as well as washout inhaled anesthetics.
Just as with PCV, the efficacy of PSV to deliver an adequate tidal volume is dependent on patients' respiratory mechanics and therefore vigilance is paramount. Volume-guaranteed PSV is a new ventilatory mode designed to address this issue and adjusts the pressure support to deliver a preset tidal volume. Although promising, the literature is mixed with regards to clinical validation of volume-guaranteed PSV.
PEEP applied in amounts greater than the closing pressure can improve compliance, increase functional residual capacity, decrease alveolar collapse (pulmonary atelectasis), reduce reopening injury and avoid increases in pulmonary vascular resistance. It is suggested that PEEP may be beneficial in the obese patient and in those with acute lung injury; however, the putative benefit in healthy patients is less obvious. Of note, excess PEEP can be deleterious in patients with reduced compliance and in patients dependent on preload for effective cardiac output. Therefore, although PEEP clearly benefits some populations, it must be selected on an individual basis.
The utilization of pressure-volume and flow-volume loops to characterize pulmonary mechanics and to understand the changes induced by various pulmonary pathological entities has been well documented. Real-time monitoring of pulmonary mechanics can allow for the individualization of ventilator settings including determination of "best" PEEP that would increase alveolar recruitment and improve oxygenation.
Another aspect of pulmonary mechanics, resistance can be assessed through the use of FV loops. FV loops can help identify cases of pulmonary obstruction, monitor the efficacy of various therapeutic interventions and can also be used to detect air leaks. Although monitoring of pulmonary mechanics offers the potential to tailor ventilatory strategies based on individual patient needs, there is no absolute consensus on how such information should be interpreted or applied to clinical decision-making.
The recent advances in intraoperative ventilation modalities and the ability to better monitor respiratory mechanics offer the perioperative anesthesiologist many opportunities to customize the ventilation strategy to the needs of individual patients. With this advanced technology, however, comes the need for better understanding of pulmonary physiology and mechanics to assess which ventilation strategy would improve patient outcomes.


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Yes, It Is Bread We Fight For, But We Fight for Facebook Too
In the wake of Egypt's fizzled "Facebook Youth" strike—it had been scheduled for April 6, the first anniversary of an uprising in the textile town of Mahalla al-Kobra—Marc Lynch has some thoughts on the drawbacks of that particular medium in that particular context:
I have a hard time thinking of a communications technology more poorly suited for organizing high-risk political collective action than Facebook. Joining a group is perhaps the lowest-cost political activity imaginable, involving none of the commitment and dedication necessary to go out to a protest—to say nothing of engaging in the hard work of organizing required for real political activity. For all their faults, the bloggers of Kefaya were already committed and often experienced political activists ready to pay a certain degree of costs for their activities. But people who joined Facebook groups? Not so much. Marginally raising the costs of participation, as authoritarian governments can easily do by selectively repressing a few members or beating up some protestors[, can scare such members away.] Its public nature makes it easy for the authorities to identify leaders to repress, or for provocateurs or spies to join up and see what's in the works. And finally, Facebook—with its brief Twittery status updates and forum-ish discussion threads—offers less of the 'public sphere' potential of blogs.
All true. That said, there's another, more prosaic reason Egyptian dissidents weren't able to replicate last year's Facebook-free rebellion. That revolt was basically a bread riot. And as the German Press Agency reports, in the year since then
the price of wheat—of which Egypt imports 7.5 million tonnes a year, more than any other country in the world—has dropped more than 57 per cent. Last week, Egypt's Ministry of Social Solidarity said the country had 2 million ton of grain stored, enough to last the country four months.
In other words, well-fed college kids were unwilling to take the same risks as hungry people with little to lose. That would have been true even if they'd organized themselves through channels more appropriate than Facebook and Twitter.
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Mr Arthur Lawrance 1 was born in Poplar, London, England on 30 April 1875. He was baptised three years later on 11 June 1878 in All Saints Church, Poplar.
He was the son of Arthur Lawrance (1844-1901), a railway clerk, and Mary Ann Edwards (1846-1928). His father was a native of Raydon, Suffolk and his mother was from Langham, Essex and he had nine known siblings: Alfred (b. 1869), William Henry (b. 1871), Maria (b. 1872), Annie (b. 1873), Albert Edward (b. 1877), Agnes (b. 1880), Charles (b. 1882), Frank (b. 1883) and George (b. 1888).
Arthur first appears on the 1881 census living at 10 Bedford Street in Poplar, later moving to 14 Lumsden Street, also in Poplar, showing up at that address on the 1891 census. Arthur, aged 15, had already left school and was working as an errand boy by the time of the latter record. The Lawrance family settled in Essex sometime around the close of the century and show up on the 1901 census living at 29 Essex Street, West Ham where his father was by then described as a self-employed newsagent; Arthur was absent, presumably at sea at the time. His father passed away in 1901 and his widowed mother and brother Charles appear on the 1911 census living at Rectory Road, Hawkwell, Hockley, Essex.
When Lawrance first went to sea is not certain but he first appears on crew records in May 1899 whilst a steward aboard Cymric, prior to which he had served aboard Gothic. He went on to serve aboard Britannic but by September 1899 began a long association with Majestic and was shown aboard her on numerous voyages between then and around June 1902. He then worked briefly aboard Teutonic before returning to Cymric in October 1902. On all voyages he gave a local address of 37 Smollett Street, a boarding address owned by John and Margaret Hughes who lived there with their five adult children, including four daughters. Arthur would be listed with them at that address on the 1901 census when he was described as an unmarried steamship steward. He began a romance with their daughter Elizabeth Ellen (b. 1869), a café worker.
Arthur and Elizabeth were married in Liverpool's Christ Church on 29 November 1903, both their addresses being listed as 37 Smollett Street and he was described as a seaman. The couple had only one child, their son John Arthur who was born on 23 December 1904. The family are listed on the 1911 census living at West Street in Rochford, Essex where Elizabeth ran a sweet shop; Arthur was described as a seafarer in the merchant service.
Lawrance initially signed-on to the Titanic in Belfast for her delivery trip to Southampton. When he signed-on again on 4 April 1912 he gave his local address as 66 Old Oxford Street, Southampton and his previous ship as the Adriatic. As a saloon steward he received monthly wages of £3, 15s.
Arthur Lawrance died in the sinking; his body was later recovered by the Mackay-Bennett (#90).
NO. 90. - MALE. - ESTIMATED AGE, 35. - HAIR, MEDIUM.
CLOTHING - Black rainproof coat; dark mixture suit; white steward's coat marked " A. Laurance"' knitted vest; green and pink pajamas.
EFFECTS - Gun metal watch and chain; button book; bundle letters; two fountain pens; pocket knife; keys; book of stamps; empty purse.
STEWARD.
NAME - A. LAWRENCE.
The body was taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia and forwarded on 4 May to Liverpool via Boston aboard the Arabic which sailed on 7 May.
Arthur Lawrance was buried at West Derby Cemetery, Liverpool on 13 May 1912; one of the mourners in attendance was his colleague, fellow-Titanic steward and survivor William Wright. Wright stated that although he was not intimate with Lawrance they had worked with each other for about five years.
His widow Elizabeth never remarried and later relocated to her native Liverpool. On 15 April 1915 she placed a memorial to him in the Liverpool Echo and the Liverpool Daily Post:
LAWRANCE--In ever-loving memory of Arthur, the beloved husband of E. E. Lawrance, who lost his life April 15, 1912, on board the Titanic. (Sadly missed by his Wife, Son, and all the family.)
Elizabeth Lawrance died in Birkenhead in 1934 aged 65.
Lawrance's son John was married in 1941 to Mary Lilian Swanton (1917-1991) before emigrating to Canada. He died in Kamloops, British Columbia on 24 January 1971 and is buried in Eagle Bay Cemetery, Eagle Bay, British Columbia.
Frequently spelled as Lawrence or sometimes Laurence/Laurance. Records confirm the spelling as Lawrance.
Southend Standard (1912)
TITANIC VICTIM'S FUNERAL (1)
Titanic Crew Summary
Name: Mr Arthur Lawrance
Titanic Victim
Born: Friday 30th April 1875 in London, England
Age: 36 years 11 months and 15 days (Male)
Marital Status: Married to Elizabeth Ellen Hughes
Last Residence: at West Street Rochford, Essex, England
Occupation: Saloon Steward (1st class)
Last Ship: Adriatic
Victualling Crew
Embarked: Belfast on Monday 1st April 1912
Died in the Titanic disaster (15th April 1912)
Body recovered by: Mackay-Bennett (No. 90)
Buried: West Derby Cemetery, Liverpool, Merseyside, England on Monday 13th May 1912
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Edward Chase Stephen Lawrence XVIII said:
He was a relative of mine, I just recently found this out, and I need some help on trying to obtain info on him. I live here in America, so I don't have access to any sort of British records or anything like that. Any help would be appreciated. I thank u.
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Brian J. Ticehurst said:
Edward - Here is a very interesting account of his funeral along with other details: Lawrence, Arthur. Lived at 66 Oxford Street, St Marys, Southampton. Occupation - Saloon Steward. 35 years old. (Born in London). (Had a wife (Lily) and young son, wife ran a sweet shop at Rochford, Essex). Body Number 90. Estimated age 35. Hair medium. Clothing:- Black rain proofed coat, dark mixture suit, white steward's coat marked ''A. Lawrence'', knitted vest, green and pink pyjamas. Effects:- Gun metal watch and chain, button hook, bundle letters, two fountain pens, pocket knife, keys, book of... Read full post
Bob Godfrey said:
Brian, it looks like the Glory Hole steward is your man. Craig Stringer (in Titanic People) records that William Wright and Arthur Lawrence were good friends and that Wright travelled to Liverpool to attend the funeral.
Philip Davies said:
Hi all, Just to say I will be at BTS Convention in Liverpool this weekend, and to ask if anyone has any info regarding the below (posted quite some time ago now), then be great to see any BTS members at Liverpool. Especially - Friends made in Halifax last year - Nikki,Carl? Hi all, just to say a big thanks to Mike Cowlard,and all at BTS for a fabulous weekend in Halifax.It was very well organised from the airport to the return!. My interest in Titanic has spanned 30 years or so (BTS Member for 15 or so!), but brief background are that :I was born in Southampton,now live and work... Read full post
Chase Stephen Lawrence said:
Hello, Mr. Davies. I am that same person (Chase Stephen Lawrence XVIII) that you mentioned in this post. I used to post on here often, but lost touch after a good long while. But I'm back now and happy to fill in some of the gaps with the best information I have. The Lawrence family on Great Britian spans all the way back to the days of King Arthur. Arthur Lawrence was a distant relative of mine. I know that before sailing on the RMS Titanic, he was a Saloon Steward on another White Star Line vessel the Adriatic. Along with his wife they lived in Southampton England. His wife Lily... Read full post
Deborah Burroughs said:
Hi I am the youngest daughter of George Yeowell, whose uncle was Arthur Lawrence, so my great uncle, I would love to find out anything about my great uncle as I do not have very much infomation about him or his family, it was good to read about you on this site. I am looking forward to hearing from you, kind regards Deborah Burroughs/ nee Yeowell, Norfolk England
Hello all, Hope to be posting some updated pictures of Arthur's gravestone in a few weeks, as Ive now found the grave and as discussed with Chase in a private e-mail not on this site, I will be hoping to tidy up the 96 years worth of untended grave!! (in West Derby Cemetery) and would love to learn more about the family from Deborah and Chase.
John Knight said:
Hi all, I have an interest in Arthur and his family. One thing is puzzling me from the posts so far though. I keep reading about Arthur and his wife having a son. However, despite extensive research by myself, I have never found proof of this. Could anyone enlighten me? Regards, John.
Hi John, Thanks for the post...Nice to hear of someone else with an interest in details regarding the Lawrence family!.. I would suggest that Brian Ticehurst at the top of these posts can perhaps enlighten both of us regarding Arthur's son Edward, as I have assumed both what Brian has provided and also Chase Lawrence's family history details that this was the case. It would appear from what Chase has already provided to me by e-mail, that barely any records survive of Lily and Arthur's son Edward,but it seems that brother Edward Lawrence found wealth in Canada and that side of the family... Read full post
Hello John and Philip Reference Mr. Lawrence's wife and son. Lily (Elizabeth) Lawrence is named on the gravestone at West Derby Cemetery so there can be no doubt about her. The only concrete reference to the son is: (Had a wife (Lily) and young son, wife ran a sweet shop at Rochford, Essex). That came from a 1912 newspaper cutting (I think Rochford) about 25 years ago. Unfortunately Lily (Elizabeth) Lawrence did not (or I cant find any trace of her doing so) make a claim on the Titanic Relief Fund - if she had her full name and the name of any dependent child would have been printed in... Read full post
Brian, As always thanks for your continued help, and I am hoping that once I have tended Arthur's grave and discovered some more details on his family (if possible!!), I hope to forward an article to BTS for addition in future ADB. Thanks again, and best wishes Phil
Hello Brian and Philip. Firstly, thank you Brian for your help. It is much appreciated. About two years ago I set out to research Arthur and his immediate family. Part of that research was to try and find records of the birth of a child to Arthur and Elizabeth. Extensive searches were carried out and, if memory serves me right, two possible birth returns were found, maybe three. Either way I payed a visit to the records office and filled out the necessary forms and waited for the staff to see what they could find. All the returns showed very clearly that none of the 'possibles' were... Read full post
Hi John, Thanks for the quick response. When looking on the internet this morning, I notice that the 1911 census records are now available on-line from today and have registered for future use.(What a timely event!!!and am sure that this may help your research also?) I'm sure that this census should help us both as it will contain details of the family living in Rochford at 1911.(Of course Arthur may well have been registered as living elsewhere due to his position of saloon steward, but perhaps the census can shed some light on this?) I am also presuming that you live near or in Rochford... Read full post
Hi all Just a quick post to confirm that I have followed up on the 1911 census and have found proof that Arthur and Elizabeth Lawrence as at 1911 had 1 son..John Arthur Lawrence who was 6 as at 1911. No mention of Edward or a Charles at this point, but perhaps between 2nd April 1911 and 15th April 1912, then Arthur and Lily had another son? I am now following up Arthur's family who I think Deborah may be able to help...i.e Arthur's sister or brothers who are relatives of hers. I hope this information has helped you John with confirmation of at least 1 son to Arthur and Lily, but the 1911... Read full post
Hiya Phil, I've taken a note of your e-mail, thank you. I too found out today about their son via the census. Thanks to somebody who knows who she is. I'm really glad that the question has finally been solved. Also, yes, I do live very near to where Arthur and family used to and yes, the shop is still there, or rather, the building is. Must go. Regards, John.
Thanks for the info John, Now had some more contact with our Lawrence family members, and following up the details Ive found both from the census's and also family info. Arthur had 5 brothers and 3 sisters, and am hoping to get some more information from another member of ET who has kindly offered to send some information on to me. His wife's maiden name was Lawrence and he had not at this point made any connection, so am hoping that I can help both him and his family and also my continuing research. I hope at some point to update the details held on this site for future record purposes so... Read full post
Hi John, Just following up on a number of leads and been busy on ancestry.co.uk for Lawrance family tracing!! Just one question is that Ive now contacted the Masonic society in Rochford and was told that someone had contacted them very recently and was wondering if that was you? Just wanted to check before I sent some further information and of course begin my article for the ADB for the BTS, and also for a local paper article Im thinking of writing. Also hope to update the details and update the details on the site shortly! Thanks for your help thus far and also to all who have kindly... Read full post
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This is the martial-arts equivalent of "Rocky 4." Even down to an ending speech from the protagonist about how he hopes his actions can help people change.
"Ip Man" was one of those rare martial-arts films that understood the simplicity of the genre, yet still managed to make these actions feel grand and meaningful. Along with "The Raid: Redemption," those two films were the best martial-arts movies since the days of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
The plot follows up on the events of "Ip Man," as our titular character (Donnie Yen) has fled to Hong Kong and intends to open up a new martial-arts school for his style of fighting, Wing Chun, combining defense and attack into one fluid motion. The film follows the conflict of getting the school running, fighting off rival schools and a climax against an English boxer who will fight any Chinese challenger to show the "superiority" of the United Kingdom.
Part of the appeal comes from these being based on true events. While I don't deny that Master Ip did fight an English boxer, I do find the film's portrayal of these events to be less than satisfying. Most of the events throughout the first half of the film do not amount to anything.
Master Ip has a friend who can't remember anything that wanders the streets of Hong Kong, and we see him bring his friend food every once in a while. But this plot thread leads no where, as we don't even see one last meeting between the two. This is one of many scenes that add little to the film.
"Ip Man 2" tries to add too many new characters and plot details to the simple story of the first film, which soils the great moments. While the martial-art scenes are fun to watch, as always, this one left me feeling hollow and unsatisfied.


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It counterclaimed for the repayment of advances already made, and brought its own claim against Grupo Urvasco S. A key issue was whether Carey could prove that there was a default under the loan agreement at the date it refused to make an advance, being 6 June Doing so involved the court in a lengthy and dauntingly detailed assessment. As Mr Justice Blair remarked, it is unusual for a case in the Commercial Court to involve so many contested breaches, and so many issues both of fact and law.
Interpretation of material adverse change clause in loan agreement - Publications - Allen & Overy
Just to add to the complications, the loan agreement between GHU and Carey was governed by Spanish law, a related share purchase agreement was under English law, and the court also had to consider the terms of a secured "senior loan" between GHU and another lender, since default under that facility would trigger the cross-default provisions of the Carey loan. But in fact the court held that for present purposes there was no difference between Spanish and English law in the interpretation of the relevant provisions of the loan agreements.
GHU represented under the loan agreement that there had been no material adverse change in the financial condition of the relevant obligors since the date of that agreement. A lender seeking to demonstrate a material adverse change should show an adverse change over the period in question by reference to that information. But the enquiry is not necessarily limited to the financial information if there is other compelling evidence to show that an adverse change is material.
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An adverse change is material if it significantly affects a borrower's ability to perform its obligations and to repay the loan, and must not be merely temporary. However, a lender cannot trigger such a clause on the basis of circumstances of which it was aware at the date of the loan agreement.
It is also up to the lender to prove the breach. In the event Carey prevailed, but not on the material adverse change ground. The court held that there had indeed been a material adverse change in the financial condition of GU between 21 December and 6 June The property bubble in Spain had burst, GU's business was highly leveraged, property sales were drying up, and the future was in doubt, to the extent that GU had ceased to pay its bank debts.
But Carey was relying on a cross-default triggered by breaches under the senior loan agreement, and the court was not satisfied that GU had made a representation under that agreement on 6 June that there was no material adverse change. It was also unable to establish a material adverse change in the financial condition of GHU or the other obligor at that date.
Where Carey succeeded was in establishing that GU was in breach of other obligations under the senior loan. In particular it had entered into negotiations for a rescheduling of debt with another creditor "by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties", which triggered the cross-default provisions of the Carey facility. The result was that Carey had not been obliged to make the advance otherwise due at 6 June, and that its subsequent cancellation of the loan agreement was lawful.
Although Carey had in fact been looking to extricate itself from its commitments to GHU at the time, it had acted lawfully.
Interpretation of material adverse change clause in loan agreement
That was enough to decide the case, but as regards the "development defaults", Carey could not establish that progress on the development had been such that the long stop date for completion could not have been met, but the court was satisfied it had established a number of other defaults. The funding shortfall was such that the project would not in fact have got to completion. Carey disagreed that pre-existing circumstances should be taken into account and argued that this would make the interpretation of the clause dependent on the subjective state of mind of the lender.
The court agreed with the borrowers.
Blair J referred with approval to U. Blair J considered that the law had been correctly stated in an article by Professor Rawlings when he stated that: Although Carey failed to establish an event of default on the basis of a misrepresentation in relation to the MAC clause, the court held that there had been other defaults and Carey therefore ultimately succeeded on its claim to recover the sums it had already advanced to the borrowers and on its claim under the guarantee that had been provided by one of the group companies.
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
To The Manner Porn
United States v. Jennings, No. 10-1642-cr (2d Cir. July 22, 2011) (Kearse, Miner, Chin, CJJ)
For defendant Russell Jennings, looking at child pornography was a hard habit to break. He served a twenty-one-month possession sentence in a 2006 case then, in 2009, while on supervised release, did it again. For the 2009 case, he received a long prison sentence, plus a concurrent supervised release violation sentence on the 2006 case, and a lifetime term of supervised release.
His appellate claims related largely to the way the evidence against him in the 2009 case was developed. He argued that his probation officer was improperly involved in the procurement of the search warrant and criminal complaint, and that incriminating statements he made to the officer were obtained in violation of the Fifth Amendment. The circuit affirmed.
For the first argument, Jennings asserted that his probation officer lacked the statutory and constitutional authority to (1) meet with the prosecutor to plain the 2009 criminal investigation (2) swear out, apply for and execute a search warrant and (3) become involved in the criminal investigation by interrogating Jennings at the government's direction and by swearing out the criminal complaint.
The circuit disagreed. The duties of a probation officer are set out in 18 U.S.C. § 3603, and include protecting the public from persons whose release proves threatening to the community. Thus, officers should report a releasee's wrongdoing, and the officer here did not act beyond the scope of this authority when he put the information he developed into affidavit form that better allowed other agencies to perform their duties. Nor did the officer usurp the Executive Branch's prosecutorial function, in violation the doctrine of separation of powers. The United States Attorney's Office drafted the search warrant and criminal complaint based on information that the officer provided, which was not a separation-of-powers violation.
Relatedly, Jennings also argued that the probation officer's one-week delay in reporting its violation findings to the court violated a statutory requirement that he do so "immediately." The circuit found no plain error, since the statutory requirement of immediacy, set out in 18 U.S.C. § 3603(8)(B), covers only those persons conditionally released after having been found not guilty by reason of insanity or otherwise suffering from a mental disease or defect, but not persons on supervised release in general.
The circuit likewise rejected Jennings' Fifth Amendment claim, which derived from a condition of supervised release requiring him to answer his probation officer's questions truthfully. Since he gave incriminating answers to the officer during an interview about his violation conduct, Jennings argued that those answers were compelled and should be protected by the Fifth Amendment.
But, since Jennings did not invoke the privilege against self-incrimination during the interview, the statements could be used. The Fifth Amendment privilege is not "self-executing," and thus statements made by a person to his probation officer are not covered, unless the officer threatened that invocation of the privilege would subject the person to a penalty. But merely requiring a releasee to answer his probation officer's questions truthfully does not render the answer to those questions "compelled," even if the officer deliberately sought incriminating evidence.
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Philip Madoc (Merthyr Tydfil, 5 juli 1934 – Northwood, 5 maart 2012) was een Welsh acteur.

Madoc werd geboren als Philip Arvon Jones en speelde vele toneel-, televisie-, radio- en filmrollen en werd erkend voor zijn rijke, sonore stem en speelde vaak schurken en officieren. Hij volgde een opleiding talen aan de Cardiff-universiteit en Universiteit van Wenen en acteren aan de Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

Madoc stond op het podium met de Royal Shakespeare Company en speelde de rollen van Iago, Othello en Dr. Faust. Op televisie was hij onder meer te zien in series De Wrekers, Target en Doctor Who en op het witte doek in de film The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

Hij trouwde in 1961 met actrice Ruth Madoc. Ze kregen een zoon en een dochter en scheidden in 1981. Madoc's tweede huwelijk, dat ook in een scheiding eindigde, was met Diane. Madoc stierf aan kanker op 5 maart 2012 in het Michael Sobell Hospice in Northwood, in het noordwesten van Londen.

Filmografie

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| 1961 || On the Fiddle || Soldaat
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| 1965 || Operation Crossbow || Duitse politieofficier
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| 1965 || The Spy Who Came in from the Cold || Jonge Duitse officier
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| 1965 || A High Wind in Jamaica || Guardia Civile
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| 1966 || Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. || Brockley
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| 1966 || The Quiller Memorandum || Oktober's Man
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| 1967 || Berserk || Lazlo
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| 1968 || Deadfall || Bank Manager
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| 1969|| The Assassination Bureau || Officier
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| 1969 || Doppelgänger || Dr. Pontini
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| 1970 || Hell Boats || 'E' Boat kapitein
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| 1971 || Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde || Byker
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| 1973 || Bequest to the Nation || Franse kapitein
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| 1974 || Soft Beds, Hard Battles || Veldmaarschalk Weber
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| 1975 || Operation: Daybreak || De tolk van Heydrich
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| 1985 || Zina || Leon Trotsky
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| 2000 || Best || Jimmy Murphy
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| 2003 || Den of Lions || Grootvader Marcus
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| 2003 || Y Mabinogi || Gwydion (stem)
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| 1961-1962 || BBC Sunday-Night Play || Guard / Leutnant Schleicher || 2 afleveringen
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| 1962 || Top Secret || Informant / Pedro || 2 afleveringen
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| 1962 || The Monsters || Richard || 3 afleveringen
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| 1962-1967 || ITV Play of the Week || Pete Thompson / John / Byron || 4 afleveringen
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| 1962-1967 || Armchair Theatre || Karpaten wervingsbureau / Vladek || 2 afleveringen
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| 1962-1968 || De Wrekers (The Avengers) || Slater / Ivan / Van Doren || 5 afleveringen
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| 1964 || The Count of Monte Cristo || Fernand Mondego || 8 afleveringen
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| 1965 || Moulded in Earth || Justin Peele || 5 afleveringen
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| 1965 || For Whom the Bell Tolls || Fernando || 3 afleveringen
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| 1965-1966 || The Big Spender || Trevor || 6 afleveringen
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| 1965-1966 || Dixon of Dock Green || Mr. Stewart / Sydney Calvert || 2 afleveringen
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| 1965-1975 || Public Eye || Dominic Anders / Robin / Dannon || 3 afleveringen
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| 1966 || The Power Game || Ted Newark || 3 afleveringen
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| 1966-1971 || The Troubleshooters || Ignace Mattzini / Vanstirom || 2 afleveringen
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| 1967 || The Secret Agent || Ossipon || Televisiefilm
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| 1968 || The Gambler || Marquis de Grieux || 2 afleveringen
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| 1968 || Man in a Suitcase || Dr. Forsyth / Kommandant || 2 afleveringen
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| 1968 || The Tyrant King || Scarface || 6 afleveringen
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| 1968-1979 || Doctor Who || Fenner / Solon / War Lord || 15 afleveringen
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| 1969 || The Spy Killer || Gar || Televisiefilm
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| 1970 || Z Cars || Burroughs || 4 afleveringen
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| 1970 || Manhunt || Lutzig || 11 afleveringen
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| 1970 || UFO  || Ship's Capt. / Steven Rutland || 2 afleveringen
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| 1971 || The Last of the Mohicans || Magua || 8 afleveringen
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| 1973 || Woodstock || Trusty Tomkins || 4 afleveringen
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| 1973-1975 || Barlow at Large || Rizzi || 3 afleveringen
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| 1974 || The Inheritors || Elliott Morris || 4 afleveringen
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| 1975-1979 || Jackanory Playhouse || King Bozo / Ahmed || 2 afleveringen
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| 1976 || Rogue's Rock || Spinetti || 4 afleveringen
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| 1977 || Another Bouquet || Dr. Evan Lewis || 4 afleveringen
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| 1977-1978 || Target || Det. Chief Supt. Tate || 17 afleveringen
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| 1978 || Hawkmoor || Vicar Davyd || 5 afleveringen
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| 1978 || Emmerdale Farm || Paul Pargrave || 5 afleveringen
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| 1980 || Flickers || Jack Brewer || 6 afleveringen
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| 1981 || The Life and Times of David Lloyd George || David Lloyd George || 9 afleveringen
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| 1982 || Ennal's Point || Jack Tustin || 6 afleveringen
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| 1984-1986 || Hilary || George || 12 afleveringen
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| 1986 || Monte Carlo || Properi || 2 afleveringen
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| 1988 || The Bourne Identity || D'Armacourt || 2 afleveringen
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| 1988 || A Very British Coup || The Media - Fison || 3 afleveringen
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| 1988 || First Born || Lancing || 3 afleveringen
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| 1991 || A Mind to Kill || Hoofdinspecteur Noel Bain || Televisiefilm
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| 1994 || Moonacre || Sir Benjamin || 6 afleveringen
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| 1994-2002 || A Mind to Kill || Hoofdinspecteur Noel Bain || 21 afleveringen
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| 1998 || Macbeth || Duncan || Televisiefilm
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| 2007 || Y Pris || Y Llywydd || 6 afleveringen
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Indonesia - Food, Clothing, and Popular Culture
Food, clothing, and popular culture
Many foods could be found in nearly every corner of the archipelago in the 1990s. Rice is a national staple, even in areas such as eastern Indonesia, where the main source of most starch was likely to be corn (known as maize in Indonesia), cassava, taro, or sago. On ceremonial occasions--modern weddings, funerals, or state functions--foods such as sate (small pieces of meat roasted on a skewer), krupuk (fried shrimp- or fish-flavored chips made with rice flour), and highly spiced curries of chicken and goat were commonly served. In public events, these foods were often placed on a table, served at room temperature, and guests served themselves buffet style. Rice was placed in the center of the plate, with meats or other condiments around the edges. Food was eaten--usually quite rapidly and without speaking--with the fingertips or with a spoon and fork. Water was generally drunk only after the meal, when men (rarely women) smoked their distinctive clove-scented kretek cigarettes.
On many formal national occasions, men in the early 1990s wore batik shirts with no tie and outside the trousers. A hat was usually a black felt cap or peci, once associated with Muslims or Malays but having acquired a more secular, national meaning in the postindependence period. Indonesian men generally wore sarongs only in the home or on informal occasions. Women, on the other hand, wore sarongs on formal occasions, along with the kebaya, a tight, low-cut, long-sleeved blouse. On these occasions, women often tied their hair into a bun, or attached a false hairpiece. In addition, they might have carried a selendang, a long stretch of cloth draped over the shoulder, which on less formal occasions was used to carry babies or objects.
Urban Indonesian night life in the early 1990s centered around night markets, shopping in Chinese toko (stores), food stalls called warung, and the Indonesian cinema. American anthropologist Karl Heider described Indonesian motion pictures as violent, rarely sexy, and often Indian and Western in inspiration. Although they were an important part of Indonesian national culture in the early 1990s, films did not necessarily mirror accurately the facts of Indonesian life. According to Heider, most (85.1 percent) Indonesian-made films were set in cities--even though the population was largely rural--and most films employed Bahasa Indonesia even though most viewers were Javanese. There was rarely mention of religion or ethnicity, even though most of the population had a religious affiliation. The social class depicted was almost always (92 percent) middle class, despite the fact that Indonesia's middle class was relatively small. Heider observed that Westerners were unambiguously presented as modern, as having no tradition whatsoever, and Western women were presented as having no constraints on their sexuality. The audiences for films consisted almost entirely of teenagers and young adults, and were more male than female.
Adults seemed to prefer television over cinema, and the number of television sets in Indonesian households rose dramatically in the 1980s. Nearly every corner of the archipelago had television relay stations permitting reception of one or more channels of tightly controlled government programs. These programs generally featured education, entertainment, and some unsubtitled foreign serials such as "Kojak" and "Dynasty". In addition, some advertisements of consumer items appeared on television. National and international news was highly popular, even in remote areas, and contained many descriptions of government development programs. Nearly all of the programming in the early 1990s was in Bahasa Indonesia, although some local arts programs were conducted in regional languages. The most popular televised programs were sports events, such as soccer, boxing, and volleyball.
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Because there are no wounds that time doesn't cure.
The suggested food for today was Chickpeas. What recipe have you prepared today? Take a picture of your plate and share it with us in the Facebook group.
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Flexibility training is an essential, yet often overlooked health-related component of fitness. Numerous studies support the short- and long-term benefits of various types of stretching, including static stretching, dynamic stretching, and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF), just to name a few. Here are 10 reasons why you should be stretching on a regular basis.
1. Decreased stress: Chronic stress can produce a number of undesirable responses in the body, including increased feelings of anxiety, fatigue and tension. Regularly stretching has been shown to reduce mental tension and, when combined with mindful breathing techniques, may also help to decrease anxiety and depression.
2. Reduced pain and stiffness: Excessive muscular tension can increase discomfort throughout the body. However, studies have shown that regularly performing static stretching can help to decrease stiffness, reduce pain levels (especially in individuals with chronic neck or low-back pain), and may even reduce the frequency and severity of muscle cramps.
3. Improved health: Regularly performing stretching exercises, such as PNF stretching, static stretching, and stretches from mind-body disciplines such as yoga, can help to reduce blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate, counteracting the body's physiological responses to stress and muscular tension.
4. Enhanced range of motion: Various types of stretching as well as other supportive self-care strategies, such as self-myofascial releasing using a foam roller, can help to enhance unrestricted movement of the major joints of the body, including key areas that are designed to be mobile, such as the hips and shoulders.
5. Improved function: As a result of poor posture, repetitive movement patterns, improper body mechanics, and spending long periods of time seated, muscles in the body can become chronically tense, tight and contracted, causing them to become less strong and supple. Regular stretching helps to improve overall function by ensuring that the body can more effectively respond to the stresses imposed by various types of daily movement and activity.
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It is indeed a function and seems simple enough. However, don't overlook it. Not having any parameters makes it so special that it even has such a particular name, thunk. Let's have a look at its features.
Without giving values for x and y, we won't be able to know what concrete value that g would give back to us.
Thunk, however, does not have any parameters, which means its result must be fixed. After defining it, the body will not be affected by anything any more. It is like a sealed box: we may not know what's inside yet, but we know that once it is there, its content won't change. For the f at the beginning, we know its value will definitely be 7. For let f1() = h 2 (h 3 4), we may not know the value of its body but we are sure its body is two applications of h and it won't change.
Binding also has determined result and it is immediately evaluated after we define it. For example, let x = 1 + 2 * 3 will return you x with 7 at once.
print_prime prints the prime only when x is true. It sounds ok. But the next function application shows a flaw that it will not print the 1,000,000th prime, but anyway the prime will be computed. What a waste of cpu cycles!
Now, print_prime takes a thunk and we also create a capsule for the missionth prime. The thunk will be evaluated only before printing.
async: concurrent computing, a kind of queue with lots scheduled computations.
The above three and the important roles of thunks will be presented in details in future posts.


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Multicultural Transformation Across 70 Years of Herald Press's Sunday School Materials by Steve Carpenter
Posted on May 12, 2014 by Steve Carpenter
An Anglicized image of Jesus.
As a result of the Donald Sterling debacle, in which the owner of the Los Angels Clippers NBA team was recorded making demeaning remarks about minorities, the United States is again involved in a serious discussion of race and racism. Almost 150 years after the last slaves were freed in the U.S., the results of that inhumane and demeaning institution persist in this country.
Mennonite Church USA (MC USA), one of two denominations under which MennoMedia operates, is striving to end racism. In its 2012 Purposeful Plan, denominational leaders established the goal of "undoing racism and advancing intercultural transformation" as one of the church's seven priorities. Although problems persist, much has changed in society in the last 70 years. It's interesting to look back on the illustrations used in some of the Herald Press materials (an imprint of MennoMedia) for Sunday school. In the illustrations below, note the predominance of white, European depictions of Jesus and most other biblical characters.
Audrey Alderfer's compilation of Sunday school Bible Lessons for Kindergarten Children, Year 1, Take Home Sheets
These pictures show the Herald Press Sunday school materials used by kindergarteners for a period of at least about twenty years, from 1946 through the mid-1960s.
God Keeps His Promise
By 1970 the images were beginning to change but were still very Anglo-centric as seen in this illustration from the cover and inside of God Keeps His Promise: A Bible Storybook for Kindergarteners.
Although Herald Press had little to do with the production of this 2006 Children's Illustrated Bible Story Book, one-thousand copies were ordered and marketed under the Herald Press imprint.
Shine On: A Story Bible
Contrast these earlier photos, from Herald Press Sunday school materials, with our latest foray, in partnership with Brethren Press, into telling Bible stories to today's children. Beautifully illustrated in full color, Shine On is the anchor storybook for MennoMedia's new Shine Sunday school materials for children age 3 through grade eight. Primary and Middler Sunday school teachers tell the weekly Bible lessons from the Shine On Bible storybook. Illustrations in the Shine On Bible storybook reflect the diversity of the Christian church around the world. Jesus and his disciples are more accurately depicted with a middle-eastern look.
The Shine On Bible storybook contains reflection questions–under the headings: wonder, connect, and explore–to help families tell and retell these stories at home, thus partnering with the church to nurture faith in children at home. So, the Shine On Bible storybook is not only integral to the Shine Sunday school materials, it is a stand-alone piece which would be an asset in every family's home to encourage faith formation.
Shine On will also soon be available in Spanish as Resplandece. We are seeking additional financial support to translate it into other languages, which would encourage the many ethnic churches of Mennonite Church Canada and MC USA. Shine On Story Bible is available for $24.99 in the U.S. and $27.49 in Canada. Click here to order you own copy to use at home or pass on to your children to read to your grandchildren.
Have you seen Shine On yet? What do you think?
Do you remember any of the Sunday school materials shown above? Do you still have your compilation of take home lessons, like the set shown above?
In what ways is racism still prevalent in the church? In society?
Steve Carpenter
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Rachel Pannabecker on November 18, 2014 at 6:11 pm said:
Kauffman Museum is developing an exhibition/education project called "Sorting Out Race: Racial Identity and Stereotypes in Thrift Store Donations" in collaboration with Newton Etc. Shop. I am tracking a Sunday School illustration that may have been distributed by Herald Press (that 1946-1960s period). Can you send me an e-mail where I can send a scan of the image to see if someone recognizes this print of Jesus and the Children of the World? Thanks!
Melodie Davis on November 20, 2014 at 8:37 am said:
Sure, Rachel, we'll be glad to try and help. Interesting that you found this post! You can send it to me at melodied@mennomedia.org and I'll see if someone can help this effort.


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Rent Stabilization Board
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Moms 4 Housing protesters shut down Alameda County board meeting over renter protections
by Natalie Orenstein Jan. 25, 2023, 11:18 a.m. January 27, 2023
Activists, including Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board commissioner Dominique Walker, were arrested and cited Tuesday after disrupting the Board of Supervisors meeting.
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'Tenant-first' slate maintains Berkeley rent board majority in election
by Supriya Yelimeli Nov. 23, 2022, 4:09 p.m. November 24, 2022
Stefan Elgstrand was the only candidate elected to the board who didn't run with the slate.
Tenants slate has fundraising edge as real estate groups sit out Berkeley rent board race
by Ally Markovich Nov. 04, 2022, 4:55 p.m. November 8, 2022
The reigning pro-tenant slate has raised a collective $50,000. Can independent candidates break through?
Opinion: Carole Marasovic for rent board
by boona cheema Oct. 18, 2022, 8:55 a.m. October 22, 2022
Carole's leadership as chairperson on three city commissions and her fair and balanced representation make her my choice for the Rent Stabilization Board.
Opinion: Wendy Saenz Hood for rent board
by Krista C. Gulbransen Oct. 18, 2022, 8:55 a.m. October 18, 2022
Wendy has been both a tenant and a landlord and would bring needed perspective to the board.
In Berkeley rent board race, evictions, housing stock are up for debate
by Supriya Yelimeli Oct. 17, 2022, 10:54 a.m. November 2, 2022
Candidates are strongly in favor of anti-displacement measures, but vary on just-cause evictions for small units.
Election 2022: Rent board candidates answer Berkeleyside questions
by Berkeleyside staff Oct. 17, 2022, 10:53 a.m. October 18, 2022
Meet your Rent Stabilization Board candidates in Berkeley's November 2022 election.
Our policy on submitting op-eds during Berkeley's 2022 election
by Berkeleyside staff Sept. 09, 2022, 2:43 p.m. September 12, 2022
The deadline for all election-related op-eds is Sept. 25. We are limiting the number of op-eds we'll publish.
What you need to know about the money backing Berkeley elections
by Ally Markovich and Nico Savidge Aug. 28, 2022, 7:30 a.m. October 21, 2022
Who's spending the most on the city's elections? How does Berkeley's public matching fund program work? And other campaign finance essentials.
Berkeley election 2022: Who's running for rent board
by Supriya Yelimeli Aug. 18, 2022, 1:10 p.m. October 17, 2022
It's an at-large race, meaning Berkeley residents can vote for five rent board members regardless of where they live in the city.
Berkeley to vote on $650M infrastructure bond, vacancy tax in November
by Nico Savidge Aug. 04, 2022, 4:37 p.m. October 17, 2022
The largest bond measure in the city's history and a tax on vacant houses and apartments will be on the 2022 ballot.
Updated: Berkeley voters may see rent control on the November ballot
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The ballot measure would apply to certain newly constructed buildings and remove exemptions on owner-occupied units with ADUs and golden duplexes.


This beer is a fairly bold ESB, both in original gravity and hops. It also has quite a bit of specialty malts, much more than I've had in any of my earlier attempts. I used mash hops with this brew, and it is the first time I try this in a British beer. The few times I've done this, with good results, have all been with hoppy American beer styles.
Again, I'm trying to get rid of my stock of old, but still usable yeast. I have a couple of vials of liquid yeast that I just have to throw away, but with this brew I should be left with a pretty decent set of fresh yeast packs, especially if I manage to squeeze in a double brew on Sunday. I used both the 11 grams packs I had just to be on the safe side. Even though it was past its best before date I'm sure it is more than enough of vital yeast for a beer like this. I store all my yeast, both dry and liquid, in the kitchen fridge.
The incredibly useful Mr. Malty's Pitching Rate Calculator™ says that the yeast in this particular beer must have a viability of minimum 67% for the two packs to be optimal. Go check it out. I'm sure you'll soon realize that you're underpitching. I sure did when I first tried to calculate the amount of yeast to pitch in my own beers. Since then I've tried my best to improve my pitching rates. Also make sure that you read Jamil Zainasheff's (Mr. Malty) Proper Yeast Pitching Rates article. It's almost scary how much vital yeast you need. Anyway, it is very helpful and makes you realize that yeast is extremely important to the quality of your beers.
The batch was brewed 2007-03-14.
We actually just bottled our FIRST ESB, so I'm anxious to see how it turns out. It was our last batch still using a bit of extract. We've since brewed 2 all-grains. Considering your all-grain ESB experience, I'll probably be back for advice.
Nice, I am stoked for the ESB's.
I just brewed one that had a similar recipe to what you used. I had an OG of 1.060 and I racked it last night with 1.012 showing so I feel pretty good about it.
I was a little worried initially because I did not use a starter and the Wyeast 1028 I used bubbled up fast and hard. It all worked out in the end though.
Yes, I love ESBs. My first ever brew was an ESB made from a can of English liquid malt extract and some dry extract. It was actually pretty good -- and good enough for me to continue brewing.
In retrospect I see that this particular beer is too strong for the ESB style, effectively making it an English Strong Ale. The final abv is 6.7%.
The hop character seems to be a bit restrained, so I'm considering to dry hop it in the keg.


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At least the mast looks intact if it was keel stepped. If the owner is around we could help her. I've stepped my share of masts. We were dismasted while racing on an Etchells a few years ago in Bellingham Bay. I lost a $2 toggle and that cost us a $10,000 mast (three pieces). If they lost something simple like a toggle and the shroud itself is okay, then it can be re-stepped. I wonder if Hi-Mod or Norsemen fittings can be bought in the city?


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Design District Zagreb 2018 Festival, this year taking place from 14 to 17 June, announces the open call for participation in the programme. The call is intended for all interested designers, architects, artists and other creative professionals, independently of their age, professional status or country of origin. The call is open to all physical and legal persons, i.e. independent artists and groups of artists, artistic organisations, associations and companies.
The Festival programme focuses on the interaction between participants and the audience and their environment or the public space, as well as the space that has the potential to become one. In that context, we are looking for works and projects (concepts and realized projects) using design methods and tools in the context of urban centre development and, as such, are suitable for exhibiting and presenting in the district's exteriors as well as unused and uncared-for interiors that will open their doors to the public during the Festival. The Festival will temporarily use interiors such as display windows, galleries, apartments, yards and similar.
The works to be applied have to be characterised by inspirational and consistent concepts, motivating and contemporary aesthetics and clear and functional options for interaction with the audience and the space where they will be presented. In principle, various media will be taken into consideration (analogue and digital) taking into account that they have to be realised in the given conditions.
All applications are free of charge and no registration fees are required. If a particular project gets selected, the applicant needs to bear the costs of project realisation. The organisers shall support the presentation and participation in the programme by providing all necessary infrastructure, including adequate display space, power outlets and the Internet. The organiser shall provide everything else required for the technical realisation in line with the organisational capacities. The applicants shall also get on-site assistance provided by festival volunteers and the production and technical crew to the greatest extent reasonably possible.
Having in mind that the DDF 2018 wishes to communicate with the broadest public, we welcome projects intended for various age and social groups (e.g. children, adolescents, teenagers, retired persons, residents of the district employees ,tourists, etc.). We are interested in innovative and critical contributions to the festival programme, research and experimental projects as well as communication projects suitable for the Festival environment and contributing to bringing systematic "design-oriented" way of thinking closer to a wide public.
Projects communicating potentials or issues linked to urban development of the city, i.e. the district on which the Festival mainly focuses, will get the opportunity to be presented and exhibited both at the district's the public areas, such as streets or green zones, and private but unused spaces, such as shut down sites, shop windows, yards, apartments, balconies or terraces that will be made available for temporary use during the Festival days.


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The Art and History Museum, a council-run service, launched a Qualité Tourisme™ approach in 2010 to improve our public service level, but also to become part of a dynamic regional professional network. The distinction awarded for the first time in 2012 marked the achievement of these two goals.
This commitment called for the participation of the entire museum team (technicians, hosts and hostesses, administrative staff and cultural facilitators) and council departments (especially the IT Department and the Communication Department). It is an anchor project that holds a choice place in the museum's PSC (Scientific and Cultural Project).
We worked on improving the visitor's visit by onlining information on the website, developing the premises' maintenance activity, offering reception facilities and service geared to visitor expectations, and changing the visual aspect of an e-mail signature (thereby departing from the council's principles)! They were all fascinating areas to work on, even though they were sometimes disconcerting for an administration.
Qualité Tourisme™ is a strict trademark that applies to every aspect of a business. It is demanding, but practical. That makes it more interesting than other tourism sector labels.
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Now isn't that a tall order? Problems come in many different shapes and sizes and here I am saying that I can solve all of them.
Yep, just a simple little blog post and you will be on your merry little way doing the happy dance straight to the bank—Ice cream in hand, sunshine beaming down and a big ol' smile smacked across your face.
This is the part where you expect a "but". There's always a hiccup or a monkey wrench in the works. Little gremlins sit waiting for us at every turn pulling the rug out from under us. Stupid gremlins. You know, you think they are so cute and then you get them wet and all hell breaks loose.
So what's the hiccup. You've got problems to solve, people to see, let's get on with it already.
BUT, I'm going to tell you to wait just a minute. If all you are looking for is a solution to a problem, you might solve the wrong problem.
Aw crap. It's a gotchya gremlin.
The biggest problem we all need to solve is understanding what the problem is. Believe it or not, it's easy to get the result confused with the problem.
You want to start a food business, so you want a food truck. The problem: You don't have a food truck. But no, that's not a problem, it's a result, it's a goal. Changing "don't" to "have" is a simple purchase and hardly a problem.
And then you say "But, Kyle, I need a very specific food truck and I don't have money or investors." Suddenly, you are a lot closer to the real problem and the further back you work, the clearer it becomes.
Having a food truck, a food business does not make. Nor does it make a successful one. While it is a nice goal, it's hardly offering any guidance or context for you to start solving problems. You don't aspire to have a food business with a food truck, you want a successful, fulfilling, sustainable business that grows.
So is your problem really that you need a food truck, or just a way to start serving and selling your delicious food?
Or is it that you need a location, or supplies, or a concept?
They say there is more than one way to skin a cat, but really, is the problem really that cats have too much skin or do people just have allergies? You see that if you focus too much on what you assume the solution is, you miss solving the real problem.
So break things down. You can drill deeper and find the heart of your problem because often, there is no such thing as one big problem. They are onions we have to peel back layer by layer, challenge by challenge.
When you realize that all big problems are just a snowball effect of many little problems, all you have to do is solve the first small problem and then the next and the next.
The only way to finish a 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle is to start at the corners and edges and work towards the center, piece by piece. The beauty of that is that while your end goal is to finish the puzzle, the big picture is still somewhat to be discovered.
Solving every problem you have is as simple as solving all the small ones that lead to your goal. So simple, right?
Well, one other piece of advice. Persistence. The most rewarding problems I've ever solved are the ones I struggled with but persevered anyway.
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The February 2011 Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Mallory from A Sofa in a kitchen.
She chose to challenge everyone to make Panna Cotta from Giada De Lauretiis recipe and Nestle Florentine Cookies.
I make Panna Cotta quite often. I find it to be the ultimate summer desert. It is easy to make and you just make some fruit sauce to go with it and that is it. You ve got yourself perfect and light desert.
This time I made Panna Cotta with caramel sauce, because it is winter here in Croatia and selection of fruit is not all that great and I am not a big fan of frozen fruit.
I made Panna Cotta and Florentines some two weekends ago when some friends came over to our house for dinner and everyone loved it.
Put sugar in a thick bottom pan. Melt sugar into golden brown caramel. Be really careful at this point because caramel is really hot and when you add cream it will start to spatter. Return on stove and cook until caramel melts again ( he will turn solid when you add cream).Put some caramel into glasses and set aside for latter.
Pour the milk into a bowl or a pot and sprinkle gelatin evenly over the milk. Let stand for 5 minutes to soften the gelatin. Pour the milk into saucepan and place over medium heat on the stove. Heat this mixture until it is hot but not boiling, about five minutes. Next, add the cream, honey, sugar and pinch of salt. Making sure the mixture doesn t boil, continue to heat and stir occasionally until the sugar and honey have dissolved 5-7 minutes. Remove from heat, allow it to sit for a few minutes to cool slightly. Then pour into glass over the caramel sauce. Let it cool completely.
Melt butter in a medium saucepan, then remove from heat. To the melted butter add oats, sugar, flour, corn syrup, milk vanilla and salt. Mix well. Drop a tablespoon full, 75 mm apart, onto your prepared baking sheet. Flatten slightly with the back of your tablespoon , or use a spatula. Bake in preheated oven 6-8 minutes, until cookies and golden brown. Cool completely on the baking sheets. While the cookies are cooling melt chocolate until smooth either in a microwave or in a double boiler. Peal the cookies from the silpat or parchment and place face down on wire rack set over a sheet of parchment paper. Spread a tablespoon of chocolate on the bottom side of your cookie, sandwiching another cookie atop the chocolate.


South African Military Ombud, retired General Temba Matanzima, hosted the annual Military Ombud Symposium on Wednesday, which marked six years of the office.
Established in 2012, the Office of the Military Ombud is entrusted with the responsibility of investigating complaints lodged in writing by current and former members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) who are not satisfied with their conditions of service. The Office also investigates complaints reported by members of the public concerning the official conduct of members of the SANDF.
Matanzima said since his office was established, it has seen many transgressions and complaints over promotions, terminations of service, lack of career management and transfers, amongst others. However, he said the number of transgressions has been reduced over the years.
"The last six years in office have been hectic but rewarding in a sense that I was able to work with my investigators and submit findings and recommendations of the complaints to the Minster of Defence which were accepted without hassle," he said.
Speaking before the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans earlier this month, Matanzima said that in the 2017/18 financial year, the Office dealt with 799 cases of which 664 were finalised.
According to the Department of Defence's 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan, in 2015/16 365 out of 483 active complaints were assessed and finalised and 118 carried over to the next financial year. This means that 76% of complains were finalised that year. Only 55% were finalised in the 2016/17 financial year, according to the Annual Performance Plan. The target is to have at least 70% finalised a year.
An amount of R56 458 000 has been allocated to the Military Ombud for the 2018 Medium Term Expenditure Framework.
South Africa will be hosting the "10th International Conference of the Ombuds Institutions of the Armed Forces" from 28 to 31 October 2018.


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Six months after receiving death threats, Miss Iraq reunites with Miss Israel
Six months ago, Sarah Idan and her family received death threats because of a photo the Miss Iraq model took with her Miss Israel counterpart Adar Gandelsman. On Monday, the pair reunited, this time at a photoshoot for a magazine.
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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Six months ago, Sarah Idan and her family received death threats because of a photo the Miss Iraq model took with her Miss Israel counterpart Adar Gandelsman. On Monday, the pair reunited, this time at a photoshoot for a magazine.
According to Israeli media, while in Jerusalem for the photoshoot, the pair had toured the Mahane Yehuda Market in the city where they ate okra at a popular Iraqi-Jewish restaurant.
Idan posted one of the photos from the shoot to her official Instagram page as well as a video of the two women enjoying lunch at the restaurant in Jerusalem.
Last December, the family of Iraq's Miss Universe Pageant contestant fled Iraq due to security concerns over the woman's modeling in a bikini and posting photos taken with Miss Israel on social media.
During a competition in Las Vegas, United States, in November, both Idan and Gandelsman posed for photos to post on their respective social media pages.
Idan posted a photo of her and Gandelsman with the caption: "Peace and Love from Miss Iraq and Miss Israel."
Following the post, Idan, who lives in the US, said her family faced threats to their lives and were forced to leave Iraq.
Despite the controversial news of her family's forced displacement, she has not removed the photo from her Instagram account, instead, defending the picture in a post written in Arabic.
"I want to stress that the purpose of the picture was only to express hope and desire for peace between the two countries," she wrote last year.
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Q: How to test a compiled function? I have a function do-something, and a function my-function of the form :
(defun my-function ((object object))
  (if (do-something)
    5
    6))

do-something and my-function are in my-package package.
In my-package/tests package, I want to do the following :
(deftest "Test my-function"
  (flet ((my-package::do-something ()
           t))
    (assert-is (my-package::my-function) 5))

  (flet ((my-package::do-something ()
           nil))
    (assert-is (my-package::my-function) 6)))

The goal is to test if my-function behaves correctly, and I would like to keep it as a function (not a macro), and without injecting functions into via the args. In C I could mess with the linker.
Each time I want to run all the updated code and tests, I do the following in the REPL :
(ql:quickload :my-system)
(asdf:test-sytem :my-system/tests)

But it seems it compiles my-function, so even if I do an flet on the do-something function in the test file, the behaviour does not change.
I would like to programmatically test my-function, is there a way to do that ?

A: Functions defined by flet (or labels) have lexical scope, i. e., they exist only in the flet body.  It does not affect the dynamic environment.
There is no explicit support for dynamically rebinding functions, but you can use something like this:
(defmacro with-rebound-fun ((name args &body fun-body) &body body)
  (let ((saved (gensym)))
    `(let ((,saved (symbol-function ',name)))
       (setf (symbol-function ',name) (lambda ,args ,@fun-body))
       (unwind-protect (progn ,@body)
         (setf (symbol-function ',name) ,saved)))))

This is a bit hackish though, and it could break some assumptions an implementation may make about redefining functions.  In particular, the symbol might carry additional meta information about the function, which does not get changed.  It also will not work where the original function is inlined.

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