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News + Politics The Agenda, April 4-10: Changing the DCCC rules (again),...
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The Agenda, April 4-10: Changing the DCCC rules (again), the first Kim-Wiener debate ….
... and a big showdown on Sanctuary City, immigration, and law enforcement
There's money on both sides -- but no real comparison
Let us start this week with Airbnb. The company has finally decided, after many years, to help the city crack down on what everyone agrees are illegal listings. Why the sudden change of heart?
Aaron Peskin, before he returned to the board and changed the balance of power, spoke out against Airbnb
Well: There's been a big change on the Board of Supes since the company won a critical 6-5 vote that allowed it to keep making big sums of money by breaking the law. Now there are six votes to more tightly regulate short-term rentals, and Mayor Lee would have a very hard time, given the worsening housing crisis and the increasing evidence that thousands of apartments have been turned into hotel rooms, vetoing new rules.
So the political operatives Airbnb has brought in can count, and they have decided that it's better to lose a few illegal operations than to fight once again against regulations that might cut further into their profit margins.
This is why the mayor and Ron Conway (big Airbnb investor) and their allies fought so hard to keep Aaron Peskin off the board. That race was about a lot more than D3, and this modest change of heart by a company that has bitterly resisted any reasonable regulations is one of the results.
Speaking of rule changes: The plan to change the membership of the Democratic County Central Committee may have died once, but it's back. The measure went to the panel's Bylaws Committee, which met last week, quietly, with no public notice whatsoever (nothing in the DCCC bylaws addresses whether the public has to be told when committees are meeting) and brought a new version back to life.
So on Wed/16, the full panel will – in the middle of an election – vote again on a rather profound change in the way the local party operates in San Francisco.
The new version of the plan initially sponsored by Alix Rosenthal would increase the size of the DCCC to 52 members. (That would almost certainly require a change in the setting of the meetings, since 52 people will never fit on the stage of the state auditorium where the meetings are now held).
Every member of the Board of Supes who is a Democrat (right now, that's all 11) would be a member, as would the mayor. Since every state or federal elected official who lives in SF is also a member, the number of "ex officios" would increase to 19.
Then the plan would add seven more elected members to the existing 24, and grandfather in Sups. David Campos and Eric Mar, who are both on the ballot and would likely win DCCC seats, but would be bumped to Ex Officio status and will end their terms on the BOS at the end of 2016.
I am not opposed to the idea that the DCCC ought to be mainly a group of party activists and that all of the "ex officios" ought to be gone. Nor am I opposed to the idea that the mayor and the supes ought to be automatic members so that people who want to work for the party but aren't famous have a chance to get elected. (I'm also in favor of campaign finance reform and conflict-of-interest reform.)
All of these ought to be discussed.
But not in the middle of an election.
See, there's a war on for control of the DCCC and the city, and there are two sides, and one side made a strategic decision to play by the rules that were in place and run a slate of candidates that included the same number of people as there are available seats.
The other side has lots more candidates.
So if they change the rules and allow a lot more people to get elected, that side (the conservatives) will continue to control the committee.
That, I suspect, is why every member of the pro-mayor, pro-real-estate camp supports the changes. And why it makes so little sense to change the rules right in the middle of the election.
You want more young party activists to join the DCCC? Then you should have changed the rules six months ago, or two years ago (when progressive member Hene Kelly raised the idea, and none of the people who are pushing it now were terribly interested). That way, the progressives could have run a dozen more candidates and had a fair chance.
This new plan doesn't seem fair at all.
The first debate takes place this week
The first big public event in the state Senate battle between Sups. Jane Kim and Scott Wiener takes place Wed/6 when the two meet for the first of a series of six 90-minute debates.
The Harvey Milk LGBT Club, the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Club, and the Bay Area Reporter are sponsoring this one, which starts at 6:30 at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, 290 Dolores. Expect some serious disagreements about state and local policy.
There are at least eight votes to declare a state of emergency on homelessness in San Francisco, so the measure by Sup. David Campos will pass when it comes to the full board Tuesday/5. That means the mayor, who doesn't like the idea (mostly, I suspect, because it's an admission that his housing policy is a failure), can't get away with a veto.
The interesting question: Who's going to vote against it?
So far the only supes who are not co-sponsors are Wiener, Mark Farrell, and Katy Tang. Will Wiener vote No, the day before he debates Kim in a forum where housing and homelessness are going to be among the top issues?
The supes will also vote on a measure that would mandate local businesses and places of public accommodation offer gender-neutral bathrooms. This is, of course, a huge deal to the transgender community, particularly since North Carolina just passed a law barring local communities from allowing people to go to the restroom that matches the gender with which they identify. The testimony at the committee hearing was a reminder that even in San Francisco, in 2016, trans people face discrimination on the most basic level (and being comfortable when you go to the bathroom is a pretty basic level.)
That measure has six sponsors, and if it's not a unanimous vote I will be very surprised. It's long, long overdue – when I arrived at college in 1976, the dorms at Wesleyan had all-gender bathrooms. You'd think the rest of the world would have caught up by now.
When Ross Mirkarimi was sheriff, his policy was pretty clear: The department didn't cooperate with federal immigration authorities. But the mayor has taken a very different stance, and the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee will be taking on the issue at a special meeting Thursday/7.
Sups. Campos, Avalos, Kim, Mar, and Peskin are sponsoring a measure that would "prohibit the use of City funds or resources to assist in the enforcement of Federal immigration law, except for individuals who have been convicted of a violent felony and held to answer for a violent felony." That will be heard first, and when it comes to the full board, may be one of those key votes that show what side the 11 supes are on; the mayor will be pushing against it, and supes like Wiener and Breed, who are both facing big elections this fall, will have to decide whether to vote with the mayor and the cops or with the immigrant community.
Then Campos and Avalos have called for a hearing
to review the policies, practices, and climate of the San Francisco Police and Sheriff's Departments in relation to immigration enforcement including a review of needed updates to address new immigration enforcement procedures through the Priority Enforcement Program, and a review of the actions taken in the case of Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno and whether such actions were permitted under the Sanctuary City and Due Process for All Ordinances.
It will be the first chance for the new sheriff, Vicky Hennessy, to talk in public about her positions on the sanctuary city laws – and I hope she shows up.
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Ragazzu April 4, 2016 At 4:47 pm
Hello, Spam! Still with us, I see.
Sanchez Resident April 4, 2016 At 2:43 pm
I do agree with your statements, but I really think Ms. Kim would do less revolution when she is in Sacramento. She would also be out of the City.
RR592 April 4, 2016 At 11:47 am
Yes, to me that neatly encapsulates the difference between Kim and Wiener.
Wiener is a pragmatist and a compromiser. He wants the government to work better, the city to run more efficiently and he sees his role as leaving the city as a better version of the city that existed when he was elected.
While Kim is ideological. She wants to change the city into a more socialist version of itself. Not as aggressively as the main ideologues on the board – Avalos and Campos -and she is much better at working with people from all sides than either of those. But she wants a revolution rather than an evolution.
So the question for voters is fairly simple. Do you want the city to be a better version of what it already is, in which case vote for Wiener. Or do you want a revolution, in which case vote for Kim?
And given that either will probably be the most left-wing senator in Sac, I suspect that Wiener will likely be more successful, in much the same way as Chiu is a better outcome in the Assembly than Campos, who would have been constantly bogged down in frustrating and confrontational ideological battles.
AlbertoRogers April 4, 2016 At 10:51 am
Last year Scott Wiener had a bill to codify the CEQA appeals process in San Francisco. San Francisco was the only city in the state where there was no defined process for filing appeals and defending yourself against them the City attorney didn't know how the process was supposed to work, the Planning Department had no idea, Permit Appeals Board didn't know….so it seemed like a very logical thing to do. Put the process and the rules down on paper for all to see so the process could be fair to everyone. Jane Kim fought him at every turn and there were something like 30 public hearings to debate the bill. She took the side of the illegal permit expediters who operate best in the murky world with no rules and who shake people down every day…you want to talk to Planning? you have to pay me first! This was a black and white fight between good government and corruption, and Jane Kim sided with the criminals. If she wins she'll fit in well in Sacramento.
jhayes362 April 4, 2016 At 8:57 am
The new DCCC resolution takes a page out of the Republican playbook: if you are threatened with losing your power, change the rules. In case of the Republicans this has meant gerrymandered safe districts for representatives, and measures to reduce access to the ballot box (photo IDs, fewer voting hours, and the like).
I thought this was a characteristic of states like Arizona, Kansas, Texas, and Wisconsin. It's a shame to see it happening here in San Francisco.
BarryEisenberg April 4, 2016 At 8:44 am
Get rid of Rosenthal. She's a perpetual train wreck for progressives.
FlappyMcGee April 4, 2016 At 4:19 am
She'll get there. She's the consummate politician.
Sanchez Resident April 4, 2016 At 4:06 am
Jane Kim for State Senate!!! Let's elect Jane and send her to Sacramento.
Patrick Connors April 3, 2016 At 7:22 pm
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I just got a GK 410RBH and 115RBH in a really good trade today and I love them. I'm mostly playing electronica and hip hop at the moment, and these cabs really sound great with my pre/power amp rig. My real issue is their size, weight, and how difficult they are to transport. I'm thinking that I might be better off with some lighter and smaller Neo cabs but I'm really sure what would sound best. I need a pretty full range, low frequency response for sub octave stuff and enough high end response to give a lot of definition to filter sweeps and fuzzed sounds.
I do want to stick with 2x 8 ohm cabinet setup. Do you think the 1x15 and 4x10 combo is the right way to go? I'm also thinking about 2x12's. I could run a 1x15 and 2x12, two 2x12's, or a 2x12 and a 2x10. I'm looking for advice and experience here.
Yeah I've definitely thought about that. The thing is, I don't only play synth sounds by any stretch of the imagination, even in any of the electronica-leaning projects that I'm involved with. I need to have more diversity, which is why I'm not really considering subwoofers at the moment.
It would be great to have a setup for synth and a setup for "real bass," but I don't have the ability to transport that much gear. Plus, I rarely use cabs for recording and DI at venues to get massive sub frequencies FOH.
So I definitely need "bass" cabinets. I never really know what I'm going to be working on so I need as much flexibility in my setup as possible.
Yeah man, I'd go with PA cabs.
Go for a fEarful design.
with my little phatty, i'm using my aguilar gs112's, and they sound fine for me.
when i needed the extra volume kick for outdoor shows, i was using an acme b2 + b4 setup, and then realized after trying my phatty thru a rental eden cab that i liked the extra bit of thickness and umph i get w/ more voiced cabs. but dam, the low end hugeness was ridiculously awesome w/ those acmes. i did try using PA cabs, but i found myself dialing in lots of mids for extra wallop and punch cause it sounded rather flat without that extra bit of voiced cab action.
but sounds like you like major firepower. a pair of avatar neo 4x10's sound deep and thick. have dough, move up to a pair of bergantino ae410, which have a terrific psuedo ceramic mag like sound.
12" do sound smooth, but again, 10" seem to give the already overly smooth synth stuff a bit more kick and attack. i was debating on going w/ a 2x10 setup, but i really like how the gs112's sound w/ my setup. which again shows, despite some generalities in speaker size, makers do all sorts of interesting things to make their cabs sound as good as they do. and like we say often around these parts, you just have to hear a particular cab to really make a decision.
course, if you're NOT using your electric bass with this setup, just get a nice DI, and let the PA do the work.
How do you feel about a 4x10 + 2x12 vs. 4x10 + 1x15 setup?
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Lyndon is a town in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. The population was 1,468 at the time of the 2000 census. It is included in the Sheboygan, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The ghost town of Winooski was located in the town.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 34.4 square miles (89.0 km2), of which, 34.2 square miles (88.5 km2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km2) of it (0.58%) is water.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,468 people, 546 households, and 437 families residing in the town. The population density was 43.0 people per square mile (16.6/km2). There were 630 housing units at an average density of 18.4 per square mile (7.1/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 98.09% White, 0.20% African American, 0.14% Native American, 0.14% Asian, 0.48% from other races, and 0.95% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.68% of the population.

There were 546 households, out of which 33.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 72.5% were married couples living together, 4.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 19.8% were non-families. 15.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.03.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 25.5% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 26.9% from 25 to 44, 30.2% from 45 to 64, and 10.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 113.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 114.5 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $56,121, and the median income for a family was $60,781. Males had a median income of $41,250 versus $22,946 for females. The per capita income for the town was $21,727. About 3.9% of families and 5.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.8% of those under age 18 and 4.1% of those age 65 or over.

Notable people
Whitman A. Barber, politician
Gustave W. Buchen, politician
Otto B. Joerns, politician
Edward J. Keyes, politician who served as chairman of the Lyndon Town Board
Eugene McIntyre, politician who served as chairman of the Lyndon Board of Supervisors
William Noll, politician; town clerk and a supervisor of the town
Patrick H. O'Rourk, politician

References

External links
 Town of Lyndon

Towns in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
Towns in Wisconsin

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Dopo aver compiuto i propri studi all'École Louis-Lumière, Jeanne Lapoirie si forma professionalmente con il direttore della fotografia Thierry Arbogast, lavorando al suo fianco per Nikita (1990) di Luc Besson, Niente baci sulla bocca (1991) e Ma saison préférée (1993) di André Téchiné.

Per Téchiné fotografa due film, L'età acerba (1994), vincitore di quattro Premi César, e Les Voleurs (1996). Nel 1996 cura anche le immagini di A tutta velocità, lungometraggio d'esordio come regista di Gaël Morel, fra gli interpreti protagonisti dell'Età acerba. A fine anni novanta, proprio grazie a Morel entra in contatto con François Ozon, per il quale nel 2000 fotografa Gocce d'acqua su pietre roventi, kammerspiel tratto da un testo di Rainer Werner Fassbinder. È l'inizio di una collaborazione che prosegue negli anni successivi con Sotto la sabbia (la parte invernale del film, mentre quella estiva è fotografata da Antoine Héberlé), 8 donne e un mistero (2002), che vale a Jeanne Lapoirie la candidatura al Premio César per la migliore fotografia, Il tempo che resta (2005) e Ricky - Una storia d'amore e libertà (2009).

Lavora spesso con registe donne, come Léa Pool e Catherine Corsini, in diverse occasioni a opere prime o seconde. È il caso per esempio del film È più facile per un cammello... (2003), esordio registico dell'attrice Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, premiato con il Premio Louis-Delluc per l'opera prima, e del successivo Actrices (2007).

Nel 2008 affianca un altro esordiente di rilievo, il controverso scrittore Michel Houellebecq, per il quale alcuni anni prima si era già occupata della fotografia del cortometraggio La rivière, per la prima volta regista di un lungometraggio con La possibilité d'une île, adattamento cinematografico del suo omonimo romanzo.

Filmografia

Cortometraggi
Gisèle Kérozène, regia di Jan Kounen (1990)
Comédie musicale, regia di Christian Blanchet (1992)
Par delà l'ère glacière, regia di Vincent Ravalec (1993)
Les enfants du charbon, regia di Juliana Reis (1993)
Armand! Ma promenade!, regia di Marc Bodin-Joyeux (1993)
Les mots de l'amour, regia di Vincent Ravalec (1994)
Le banquet, regia di Christel Milhavet (1995)
Never Twice, regia di Vincent Ravalec (1995)
Après la pluie, regia di Jacques Dubuisson (1995)
Le dur métier de policier, regia di Vincent Ravalec (1996)
La vie à rebours, regia di Gaël Morel (1996)
Court toujours: L'inconnu, regia di Ismaël Ferroukhi (1996)
Derrière la porte, regia di Marion Laine (1999)
6 Bagatelas, regia di Pedro Costa e Thierry Lounas (2001)
La rivière, regia di Michel Houellebecq (2001)
Prêt-à-porter Imm Ali, regia di Dima El-Horr (2003)
Ramad, regia di Joana Hadjithomas e Khalil Joreige (2003)
Mon père..., regia di David Léotard (2006)
La promenade, regia di Marina de Van (2007)
Ea2, regia di Vincent Dieutre (2008)
Ea3, regia di Vincent Dieutre (2010)

Lungometraggi
Argie, regia di Jorge Blanco (1984)
L'età acerba (Les Roseaux sauvages), regia di André Téchiné (1994)
A tutta velocità (À toute vitesse), regia di Gaël Morel (1996)
Transatlantique, regia di Christine Laurent (1996)
Tout ce qui brille, regia di Lou Jeunet (1996) (TV)
Les Voleurs, regia di André Téchiné (1996)
Alissa, regia di Didier Goldschmidt (1998)
Emporte-moi, regia di Léa Pool (1999)
Gocce d'acqua su pietre roventi (Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes), regia di François Ozon (2000)
Les Autres filles, regia di Caroline Vignal (2000)
Sotto la sabbia (Sous la sable), regia di François Ozon (2000) (parte invernale)
Petit Ben, regia di Ismaël Ferroukhi (2000) (TV)
La confusion des genres, regia di Ilan Duran Cohen (2000)
Avec tout mon amour, regia di Amalia Escriva (2001)
Où gît votre sourire enfoui?, regia di Pedro Costa e Thierry Lounas (2001)
Imago, regia di Marie Vermillard (2001)
8 donne e un mistero (8 Femmes), regia di François Ozon (2002)
La Merveilleuse Odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan, regia di Vincent Ravalec (2002)
È più facile per un cammello... (Il est plus facile pour un chameau...), regia di Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (2003)
Mariées mais pas trop, regia di Catherine Corsini (2003)
Un goût de sel, regia di Hélène Marini (2003) (TV)
Quelli che ritornano (Les Revenants), regia di Robin Campillo (2004)
Il tempo che resta (Le temps qui reste), regia di François Ozon (2005)
A Perfect Day, regia di Joana Hadjithomas e Khalil Joreige (2005)
Amazonie, la vie au bout des doigts, regia di Stephanie Pommez (2005) (TV)
Cabaret Paradis, regia di Corinne Benizio e Gilles Benizio (2006)
Fragments sur la grâce, regia di Vincent Dieutre (2006)
Actrices, regia di Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (2007)
La Possibilité d'une île, regia di Michel Houellebecq (2008)
Parc, regia di Arnaud des Pallières (2008)
Ricky - Una storia d'amore e libertà (Ricky), regia di François Ozon (2009)
Avant poste, regia di Emmanuel Parraud (2009)
Independencia, regia di Raya Martin (2009)
Crossdresser, regia di Chantal Poupaud (2009)
Suite parlée, regia di Joël Brisse e Marie Vermillard (2010)
Quartier lointain, regia di Sam Garbarski (2010)
Viviane (Gett), regia di Ronit Elkabetz e Shlomi Elkabetz (2014)
 120 battiti al minuto (120 battements par minute), regia di Robin Campillo (2017)
Lola Pater, regia di Nadir Moknèche (2017)
 Benedetta, regia di Paul Verhoeven (2021)
La Fracture, regia di Catherine Corsini (2021)

Note

Bibliografia
Stefano Masi, Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia, Recco, Le Mani, 2007. ISBN 88-8012-387-4 Vol. L-Z, pp. 20-21

Collegamenti esterni


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It is an obvious to hate to see your husband with somebody else. In fact, leave aside seeing, even imagining is terrible. It kills. It makes you feel so terrible. It feels like you've lost your mind and if you haven't yet, you'll soon. But feeling terrible won't help nor will losing your mind. It won't work at all. No, howsoever hard you cry and show your love, this won't bring him back. But, don't be disappointed, he can be back still. There's a way for it too! Though it is not the one that you think of it is different but it surely is there.
Don't go and plead before him, he won't listen to a single word of yours. And don't even try going to the other woman, she will be as bad to you as she can be. But yes, you can bring him back and it will really happen. If deep down your heart you often keep asking, how to get my husband back from another woman, then you only need to know this – it is possible and you can do this. So, here's the secret way of making it happen.
Simply hire a psychic for a reading. It can be a tarot card reading or angel communication session. Or it can be talking to the invisible powers of the universe that do talk to humans but not to all. Black magic spell casting can be yet another way of making it happen. Once the spell has been cast, it will work in amazing ways. It will cover up everyone on whom it has been cast and make them do what the caster wants to. So, if it is cast on that another woman, she will now do what she is being told.
The magician will tell her to leave your husband and she will do exactly this. Similarly, vashikaran mantra can be powerful. The vashikaran specialist you'll ask to work for you will simply speak out the sercret mantra against that woman and she will go away, in fact, vanish from your husband's life. And if it is on your husband, he will be a different person. He will now love you again just the way he did in the past. He will no more think of that another woman for whom he has been cheating on you.
Soon you both will live a happy married life and stay blessed with love forever.


You have a dream job, a great family, and you are happy in the town you are living in. Would you give it all up, and uproot your family to go and do what the Lord wanted?
I did. Ten years ago. It wasn't easy. My best friend thought it was a risky move. Has it been worth it? Yes. Was I comfortable doing it? No, but I have flown higher and gone further than I would have if left in my comfort zone.
Years before, the Lord told me there were two ways I could go. I could choose a hard yet interesting path, where everything I was given would be tested. Or I could settle down under His protection and still have His blessing.
Why did I do it? In the Lords prayer, we pray "Your Kingdom come, Your will be done." This was something that was God's will, and I wanted to do it for Him. And I'd chosen the harder, higher road.
If you have been following my story, the next chapter is the close of my old life. I had been asked by the Lord to go to a college in a different part of the country to live as an adult student.
I hated the town I left for most of the time I lived there. I hadn't been born there, my father had moved us into the area when I was twelve. I've had some horrible jobs and relationships in that town, jobs and relationships I put up with because I believed I had no other choice. It would have been easier to leave if I was still in that situation. I wasn't, I had a dream job, good friends and a husband I loved. It made all the difference to how I saw the place. The town was no longer a prison, and I was no longer a victim.
There's a line that Janis Joplin sang in "Me and Bobby McGee", that goes "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." That's not the kind of freedom that Christ gives us. We are free to choose. God knows its not a choice when there is nothing to miss or leave behind.
Perhaps you are only free to leave when you are truly happy.
Jesus said "For those the son sets free, are free indeed. John 8:36″ That's true. "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free" Galations 5:1.
Before we go, here are some photos of the town I left, the place where I finally found happiness.
Trouble. This world guarantees it.
Taylor Swift sings about it here in her song "Trouble". Here's a 25 sec clip, which my daughter showed to me. It's the funny version.
But what if we can't avoid them, like at work? Jesus understands trouble. He was born for it.
He promised "In the world you will have trouble. But take heart; I have overcome the world." Sometimes He'll take us through it – to test us, or teach us. And sometimes He'll take us around it.
My advice; fear God more than man. By fear I mean "have concern for".
This is true, I sought the Lord, and He answered me. He led me through a bad place, promising it would be a door of hope. The story is told in my book where I travelled through the Valley of Achor. Achor means trouble. Its a place that people on pilgrimage had to go through to get to Zion. You don't have to travel it alone.
In a chapter of my book 'Pearls to Pigs' the friend I called "the Minstrel" and I went our separate ways. I'd gone the extra mile for him, but we reached a crossroads and I chose a different road.
Before leaving the crossroads I gave him the chapters of the Kingdom, where he had appeared in the story. I always do it for friends I am going to part company with.
Unfortunately he took if for a love story, and we did not part on friendly terms. He read those chapters to everybody, without context. I had been a silly goose.
I had to learn not to give pearls to pigs. I nearly stopped writing the Kingdom story at that point, but the main character – the King, wanted me to stick with it. If you read my story you will see how He led a badly wounded princess to a better place and I believe He wants to use the story for His purposes.
They became friends with me, and my friends. The Bright One and Neen brought in Prince Dom. My kids brought in "Mara" and her son from across the road. We were all following the Lord, in a natural, non religious way.
I am glad they got into formation with me. If I had been a goose I could not have flown on my own.
At the end of the movie Castaway, Chuck Noland, played by Tom Hanks, is left standing at a crossroads with a decision to make, after delivering his final package, a box which bore angels wings on the address.
He'd been through a lot – a plane crash, five years on a desert island, and finally a rescue at sea from the raft he made. If he chooses one way, "there's a whole lot of nothing to Canada".
If he chose to go back to the woman who gave him directions, it may lead to love, and rest for his soul. After all, she owns the ranch with the angels wings.
My friend had come to his own crossroads, but he wasn't going my way. We were both solo parents, and our children loved each other like siblings. I was worried about what would happen to the kid's friendships but the Lord let me see I wasn't responsible for my friend's bad decisions.
All I wanted to do was heal from an abusive relationship, not deal with his rubbish. I'd pretty much written my friend out of my story "The Kingdom", but gave him his chapters as I told him what I needed from a friendship. Duh!
This character appeared as "the Minstrel" in my book.
I wanted him to look at where he was going. It was a foolish move. He was so ego driven he interpreted it as a love story. But that's for the next chapter.
I chose my way, the ancient path. It was a good way, and it has led to rest for my soul.
My friend chose his way, "a whole lot of nothing to Canada". He let go of diamonds to sift through stones, and never did find a mother for his girls. Our children also had to part ways at the crossroads, but reestablished their friendship five years later at their new school. They remained friends until adulthood.
Their Dad tried to reestablish contact with me as well, but I'd taken a different road. He is still mad at me and yelling horrible things, sixteen years later, from hundreds of kilometers away. I've chosen to ignore him.
His voice gets fainter the further I travel.
When I first sought the King, and His Kingdom, I was not righteous. He welcomed me anyway, and built a relationship with me where I became righteous. Not self-righteous. Righteousness is right standing before the King – which leads to self assurance. In the Kingdom, righteousness is a relationship with the King, protection for the heart, and a road to travel.
When my feet first hit the road of righteousness, I could barely discern it. It gets brighter the further you travel along it. I still had my old friendships, and some were no friends at all.
Back then, I could not love others as myself, for I had not learned to love myself. I was seeking my self worth in the eyes and opinions of other people, especially men. The King, who promised to restore my soul and lead me within the paths of righteousness, had warned me about that. My self esteem has improved since that time and I now enjoy healthy friendships.
In the Kingdom righteousness is like food and drink. I had such a craving for words of affirmation. Its my love language, and I had never heard it spoken. My soul hungered and thirsted for affirmation, leaving me vulnerable to flattery. I learned some bitter lessons about seeking my worth from other people. Jesus said in Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." It is from Him that I now see my true worth.
The devil knew where I was vulnerable. Temptation came in the way of a person I thought of at the time as a friend, who I realised later cared nothing for me.
I did venture down the wrong path, but fortunately I hadn't gone too far before I saw where it was headed. This time.
In the Kingdom there is a better path, called righteousness. As I said, I didn't keep to it in the beginning, but I chose it in the end, and it led to happiness, peace, and confidence.
Righteousness is also there for our protection, a piece of armour that covers our heart.
Here is a lesson I learned about righteousness, "How big do you think our hearts should be?" someone once asked me.


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Not Seeing the Forrest For the Trees
There exists a system of tweaking the rules of the game for a very good reason: like any sport, the sport of hockey evolves as players, training methods, strategies, and equipment evolves over time, and what once made sense during a different era may not make sense anymore today. But in general, when the rules are fiddled with, the end result usually goes mostly unnoticed by the casual fan. The game, at its core, pretty much stays the same.
Every two years, the NCAA has the opportunity to go over the rulebook and propose rule changes. Usually, these proposals are fairly uneventful and largely agreeable. This year is a different story.
Some of the proposed rule changes, naturally, make sense and will be good to see implemented. For the most part, they are minor tweaks. Many are just common sense.
For instance, hybrid icing will be a welcome addition, giving linesmen the option to wave off icing if it is clear that an attacking player would be first to touch the puck, creating an element of the NHL's touch-up icing while maintaining the NCAA's safety-conscious automatic call. Accumulated suspensions through game DQ's carrying over into the next season for players with remaining eligibility makes sense. Innovations like switching sides before overtime (every overtime, for those playoff games that never end) are little things that won't have a major impact on the game, but could have tangible benefits.
But this year, the committee has put forward a pair of rule change proposals that are completely ridiculous, with one of them being completely nonsensical and facing practically universal opposition.
The rules committee, led by Alaska athletic director Forrest Karr, has proposed to enforce icing for a team on the penalty kill. This is an absurd abomination for a number of reasons.
1) First and foremost, the question has to be asked. WHY? What is the issue that this rule change is supposed to address? Hybrid icing addresses the ludicrous sight of the whistle blowing when an attacker is clearly the first tracking down the errant pass. The overtime rule seeks to shake things up a bit in an age where endless playoff games are becoming more common. But what is this a reaction to? Karr explains:
This change would remove a contradiction in the rules that allows a team that has violated the rules in one area to violate another rule in order to compensate for being shorthanded. This would provide more scoring opportunities for the power play team and could encourage more skilled play from the defensive team.
WHAT?! That's the explanation? Seriously? A "contradiction in the rules?" "Providing more scoring opportunities?"
The median goals per game last season was 2.95, and the median power play scored at a clip of 18.7%. That's not bad! Those are good signs that teams are getting plenty of scoring opportunities, on and off the power play.
Have Forrest Karr and his associates on the rules committee never actually watched a power play? Being down a player is a huge disadvantage. As we saw in Troy last season, being down two for a lengthy period can practically be like conceding a goal. It already requires skill for a penalty killing team to obtain control of the puck and get rid of it in order to make a change. Watch a penalty killing unit that's been unable to do that for a minute or longer and you'll see that it's not easy.
Teams that are down a man are further hamstrung by what is almost always a complete inability to attack for the duration of the penalty. Most teams that are good at scoring shorthanded are simply more adept at taking advantage of turnovers high in the defensive zone that allow them to quickly counter. But by and large, a penalty cripples a team's offensive ability. That's two giant disadvantages right there.
Then there's the effect that the icing rule has on pulling the goaltender late. Some coaches are hesitant to pull their goaltender on the power play despite the instant creation of a two or three man advantage, because it allows the shorthanded team to take potshots at the open net with impunity. If icing were enforced, pulling the goaltender on the power play becomes a no brainer, taking a strategic element out of the game.
The "contradiction in the rules" exists to mitigate some of the massive disadvantage, but it's not significant enough to keep a penalty from being something to be avoided at all costs. Using the argument that we should be reluctant to do anything that would help a team that has violated the rules, why do we allow penalties to expire? Shouldn't we just keep them off the ice until the "cheating" team has been scored upon? Wouldn't that be more fair under that logic?
We don't need power plays scoring at a 40% rate or more, which is exactly what this would cause.
2) College hockey has hired Paul Kelly to, among other things, try to attract more American and Canadian players to the NCAA ranks as opposed to the major junior route. A rule of this nature is sufficient enough to completely destroy any chance of the money that is being spent on Kelly being of any use whatsoever.
The NCAA does not concern itself with being a development league for the professional ranks in any sport, but the reality is that it is exactly the role it plays for a high percentage of participants. In the amateur ranks - which includes major junior whether the NCAA considers it professional or not - there's a big emphasis for players to earn time on special teams, that is, power play and penalty kill units, because it affords them the opportunity to show their versatility in a number of different and important roles. If this rule is put into place, the most basic special teams strategies will change on both sides of the puck. Power plays would play looser with the puck in the neutral zone, and penalty killers will be forced to do more than is asked of them in any other league.
No serious hockey league enforces icing on the penalty kill. No player serious about playing at the next level would agree to spend upwards of four years of his development in a league which does, because the special teams experience gained there will be wasted. This alone would make Kelly's argument of the college route being a better developmental experience for top talent nothing short of ridiculous.
3) There's a safety issue here. Ever seen a PK unit caught out for the majority of a penalty? Two minutes out on the ice is beyond tiring. Fatigued players are more likely to injure themselves, and desperate players are more likely to try things that might lead to injure others. There's no doubt that this rule will invariably lead to longer penalty kill shifts, regardless of a team's ability to display the "skilled play" that Karr and his team are looking for. This rule might have been a little easier to consider before the establishment of the rule that bars a team from changing personnel after an icing infraction, but even then, it would have been pretty dicey.
Seth Appert, in his role as president of the American Hockey Coaches Association, pointed out an additional safety issue - to spectators.
"The other thing we're going to do is, we're going to clear pucks into the stands, and that's putting the fans at risk," Appert bluntly explained. "Right now on the penalty kill, we work on icing the puck. Well, now, instead of doing that, we're going to work on clearing the puck over the glass, because now we can get a change and get fresh bodies on the ice. You're going to see a lot of pucks going into the benches, and a lot of pucks going into the stands."
It doesn't matter if icing the puck doesn't allow a team to change players or if throwing the puck over the glass creates another penalty - a line that's dead tired isn't going to care as long as the whistle blows and they get a short breather.
4) Appert also outlined just how he would deal with the rule - he'd just keep icing the puck, making a penalty kill situation actually slow the game down if the power play can't maintain constant control:
"From a game-enhancement point of view is, I know what I'll do with my players if this is passed: We won't stop icing the puck; we'll just ice the puck and take the whistle. So what you're going to see is power plays become like the NBA in the last two minutes [of a basketball game] , where it's stop-and-go, stop-and-go, stop-and-go. If we're tired on the penalty kill, I'm not going to encourage our players to make a dangerous play. I'm going to encourage them to ice the puck, and we're not going to go chase it. We'll just line up four across, take a knee, get 10 or 15 seconds of rest while the referees go retrieve the puck."
So the options we are left with are to have a power play running roughshod over the penalty killers, or to have the penalty kill take 10 real time minutes or so. Neither are appetizing for anyone involved - players, coaches, and fans.
5) Air Force coach Tom Serratore touched on another issue - power plays becoming such a game changer that referees will let more penalties go uncalled.
"If power-play percentages go up exponentially — and they're certainly not going to go down — I'm afraid that the referees are going to become reluctant to call penalties at certain junctures of the game," he mused. "We could end up having fewer penalties in a game, not because the game is any cleaner, but because the referees are reluctant to call it because the power plays are having such a bigger impact."
This rule absolutely must be spiked. It is nonsensical in the extreme.
Then there's the other rule that needs to be scuppered - a well-intentioned rule that will lead to the officiating morass becoming an even bigger nightmare.
A rule has been proposed that will, for the sake of safety, require that contact to the head penalties be assessed as major penalties with a game misconduct or a game DQ at the referee's discretion. On its face, it seems like the right thing to do in order to try and cut down on dangerous plays that put players at risk of head injuries.
The committee has said that this rule is going to mandate a major if and only if the contact is a result of a targeted hit as opposed to incidental contact to the head (which will remain a minor), and even then, it doesn't seem that bad.
But this is going to have the exact same application as another well meaning rule that has led to a lot of heads in hands in the bleachers: the checking from behind rule. Far too often, we've seen CFB calls being applied indiscriminately and illogically, dumbfounding the same three principals referred to in the last rule - players, coaches, and fans. The difference between what was CFB and what wasn't changed from night to night, even with the same referees. Further, we have quite frequently seen that once one team was called for CFB, the other team had to be on their best behavior and not even come close to the infraction, or they'd have a player called as well in order to "even up," especially if the first call was a borderline situation in which the referee felt boxed in by the regulations and assessed the major.
If officiating in any of the five college leagues could even passably be described as being competent or consistent, there would be no problem with this rule. But any time you ask a referee to peer into the mind of a player and divine his intent, you're asking for trouble, even if you've got a top notch officiating crew. Sometimes, the best in the game can settle in on an interpretation that makes sense. That has little to no chance of happening here. So in a situation where CFB continues to be applied with no consistency, we're now going to add a CTH major to the mix, making for twice the frustration.
The rules committee is already putting forward a rule that could lead to a decrease in dangerous play anyway - they plan to study the use of half-shields for men's competition as an acceptable alternative to the full-shields currently required. The data is real - you get fewer dangerous plays in a game in which the participants wear less protection. For instance, football players sustain more head injuries than do rugby players, who wear minimal head protection. The rationale behind it is simple - if you and your competitors are open to injury, you're not going to go at each other as recklessly. But if the illusion of safety exists on both sides, a player is more likely to, say rush into the corner with more reckless abandon.
As mentioned, the rules committee has put forward a few rule changes that should be welcomed with open arms - but Forrest Karr and his cohorts seem intent on pushing forward with these two rules, the former of which has been loudly and defiantly shouted down from all corners, and the latter of which is only going to add to the NCAA's officiating problems. He's angling for a WaP photoshop, no question.
Posted by Tom Reale at 11:47 AM
keywords: editorial, favorite referees, rules
"The data is real - you get fewer dangerous plays in a game in which the participants wear more protection. For instance, football players sustain more head injuries than do rugby players, who wear minimal head protection. The rationale behind it is simple - if you and your competitors are open to injury, you're not going to go at each other as recklessly."
Shouldn't that first sentence read "The data is real - you get fewer dangerous plays in a game in which the participants wear *less* protection."?
Tom Reale July 2, 2010 at 10:05 PM
Yes... good catch. Thank you.
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La Iglesia de Jesucristo (Bickertonita) es una organización religiosa conocida oficialmente como La Iglesia de Jesucristo con sede en Monongahela, Pensilvania, Estados Unidos. Sus miembros no se identifican como bickertonitas, dicho nombre le fue dado a la iglesia tan solo como un requisito al momento de ser registrada oficialmente.

La Iglesia de Jesucristo no profesa ser una denominación, estar afiliada o formar parte del Movimiento de los Santos de los Últimos Días, el nombre de Bickertonita fue agregado al de la iglesia porque el gobierno requiere saber el nombre de la congregación al registrarse y también que religión profesa. Se acordó darle el nombre de Bickertonita en memoria del apellido del fundador William Bickerton, los miembros de la iglesia se llaman y son conocidos entre ellos como hermanos (brothers).

Creencias
La fe y Doctrina que la Iglesia de Jesucristo predica está basada tanto en la Biblia del rey Jacobo como en el Libro de Mormón. La Iglesia de Jesucristo no reconoce ni ha reconocido jamás la Pluralidad de Esposas (Poligamia), el Bautismo por los muertos, etc, que son por mencionar algunas de las enseñanzas que otros grupos "de los últimos días" predican basados en literatura que llaman "revelación de los últimos días".

La Iglesia de Jesucristo enseña que un ángel de Dios descendió y confirió la autoridad del ministerio a Joseph Smith Jr. y a Oliver Cowdery por medio de la imposición de manos, y no que haya sido recibida por otros medios u otros personajes bíblicos como enseñan algunos grupos de los ya mencionados "Santos de los últimos días". La Iglesia no enseña la doctrina del Sacerdocio Aaronico (Menor) a sus miembros.

La Iglesia de Jesucristo cree en el bautismo por inmersión en el agua (aguas no estancadas por el hombre, como pilas, estanques o albercas) sólo en aguas como las de ríos, lagos (naturales), manantiales o el mar abierto.

Las personas son bautizadas por los miembros del ministerio, tales como: Ministros (Pastores), Evangelistas o Apóstoles y después de recibir el bautismo por agua, alguno de los miembros del ministerio confiere el "Don del Espíritu Santo" por medio de la imposición de manos sobre la cabeza del recién bautizado.

La Iglesia cree en los dones espirituales como lo mencionan las escrituras, tales como: Don de Lenguas, Interpretación de Lenguas, Sueños, Interpretación de sueños, Sanidades, Milagros, Visiones y Revelaciones, (Las cuales pueden ser dadas a cualquier miembro de la Iglesia y son llevadas a junta ministerial para considerarse como revelación o mensaje).

Estructura
La Iglesia de Jesucristo está constituida con oficiales tales como: apóstoles, evangelistas, ministros, maestros, diáconos y diaconisas. Tiene también como ayudas a grupos dentro de la membresía de la iglesia como la Asociación Benevolente Misionera, El Círculo de Damas y recientemente Jóvenes En Acción (Youth In Action). Tales grupos no rechazan a nadie que se quiera unir a ellos (sean o no sean miembros de la iglesia)

La Iglesia de Jesucristo no cree que ningún miembro del ministerio deba cobrar un sueldo por predicar, enseñar, etc. El trabajo de los misioneros y demás miembros del ministerio es voluntario.

Historia
Los bickertonitas dicen ser los legítimos sucesores de la Iglesia de Cristo organizada por el Profeta Joseph Smith el 6 de abril de 1830. Con la muerte del profeta en 1844, los bickertonitas defienden que el legítimo sucesor debería ser Sidney Rigdon, consejero de la Primera Presidencia y no Brigham Young, el presidente del Quórum de los Doce Apóstoles, al que acabó siguiendo la mayoría de los fieles, y se volvió líder de La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días.

El grupo de seguidores de Rigdon se deshizo, con excepción del Anciano William Bickerton, que continuó predicando el Evangelio, bautizando personas y formando el movimiento de la Iglesia de Jesucristo.

Actualmente La Iglesia de Jesucristo tiene ramas en poblaciones como México, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú, Dominica, Canadá, Filipinas, Nepal, Nigeria, Kenia, India, Italia y cuenta con miembros en China, Japón y algunos países de la Unión Europea.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
La Iglesia de Cristo (Bickertonita)

Denominaciones del mormonismo


Were we playing Brazil's 1970 team yesterday? Curbishley's strange post-match comments seem to think we were. "This Arsenal team are frightening."
It frightened me how much respect we gave them, and the ball for that matter. The biggest shock was how long it took Arsenal to score their first goal, we had offered it on plate with a solid silver knife and fork a number of times before Pires finally took advantage.
Yes Arsenal played very well, but I have seen them play a lot better against us. Yes, they are a good team, but as the table testifies, still not the same without Viera, Cole, a younger Campbell, Pires and Bergkamp. And for as much as I marvel at Thierry Henry, he had, by his standards, a quiet game yesterday.
We were awful, there was no ambition, no battle, no nothing. It was nothing, 90 minutes of nothing from us and it was no "crumb of comfort that we kept it down to three," sorry Al one shot on target and one corner is pitiful.
The team selection was what most of us had been crying out for but Rommendahl and Thomas spent too much of the afternoon chasing back whilst Kish, Euell and Hughes just chased shadows.
I don't mind getting beat, especially at Highbury but watching the game was like watching a lower league team play Arsenal. We huffed and puffed, we kicked the ball high into stands, we launched long hopeless balls forward, we kicked the ball anywhere instead of pass it simply, we were rabbits stuck in the highlights, we just wanted to keep the score down.
What happened to the flair, the ambition and the courage that once produced a 4-2 win against what ended up being the Premiership Champions or the 5-3 defeat the season before that?
Curbishley and Richard Murray talk of legacy. The game on Thursday is huge.


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Was Brock Right Man at Wrong Time? : Rams: Former quarterback says he shouldn't be judged on basis of failure in NFC title game at Chicago in 1986.
Dieter Brock is the only guy who could overthrow Kadafi. -- Popular joke, 1985 The biggest football game of Dieter Brock's life was also his worst, but then, Dieter was never a world beater when it came to timing.
He spent the prime of his athletic career in the snow drifts of Winnipeg, delaying his NFL debut until his 34th year.
He broke in with the Rams in 1985, in the heart of the Eric Dickerson era, when quarterbacks were to be seen handing off, not throwing long.
He reached the NFC Championship game the same year the Chicago Bears fielded perhaps the most dominating defense in pro football history, complete with a devastating pass rush that feasted on short, slow-footed, 34-year-old quarterbacks from Canada.
And, on the afternoon Dieter Brock was thrown to the Bears, game-time temperatures dipped below 40 degrees while winds of 23 m.p.h. whipped across Soldier Field, in all directions.
So, when it came to pass on Jan. 12, 1986, Dieter couldn't.
He floated 31 footballs into the tempest, some of them touching human hands. A total of 10 were caught by Ram receivers, who turned them into a total of 66 yards. One was caught by a Bear. Another would-be pass was prematurely interrupted by Chicago defensive end Richard Dent, who sacked Brock and forced a fumble that linebacker Wilber Marshall picked up and ran 52 yards for a touchdown.
The final score was Bears 24, Rams 0.
The game is remembered as one of the poorest performances ever by a quarterback in a conference championship game.
He never played another regular-season game and today lives in Birmingham, Ala., merely another bad Ram playoff memory. Right now, he is out of work, having had a local radio sports talk show that ran for two years until bad ratings recently sank it.
"It was fun. I enjoyed doing it," Brock said by phone the other day. "But we were not on a station that was very conducive to sports. It was all religious programming during the day and there just weren't the listeners for a sports talk show."
Having tried their luck with smart quarterbacks (Pat Haden), spacey quarterbacks (Vince Ferragamo), old quarterbacks (Joe Namath, Dan Pastorini), injured quarterbacks (Bert Jones) and green quarterbacks (Jeff Kemp), the Rams decided to try a new one in 1985--a Canadian quarterback.
Brock had been a rock of stability in 11 Canadian Football League seasons, two-time winner of the league's MVP award and holder of CFL single-season records for most touchdown passes and yards passing. In his last five seasons, split between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Hamilton Tiger Cats, Brock passed for an astounding 20,441 yards.
With the Rams, Brock was going to be the healthy alternative to Dickerson-till-they-die, the passing threat Robinson's offense so severely lacked, the veteran presence in the important games, the one Ram quarterback who knew how to play in the cold.
With Brock, the Rams got to the NFC title game, their first of the 1980s and their last until today's encounter in San Francisco, but Brock's contribution was mainly tagging along for the ride.
In 1985, the Rams threw the fewest passes in the NFL, 405, and threw for the fewest yards in the NFC, 2,463. But because they played defense and got Dickerson into the end zone, they got to Chicago.
And this is where Brock came in, right? The man who spent 9 1/2 seasons with Winnipeg icicles hanging from his face mask wasn't going to let a few snow flurries bother him.
"The weather in Chicago was quite similar to Winnipeg," Brock says. "In Winnipeg, it's quite flat and the wind really gets to blowing around there.
"But even if you're used to those conditions, once you're out of that environment, even for a little while, it's quite a shock to get back in it."
Consider Brock shocked. He spent the first half throwing into the wind and the second half playing catch-up. His passes fluttered, the Rams stuttered and, together at once, both fell.
"It was tough," Brock says. "The Bears put a lot of pressure on you anyway and the winds made it that much more difficult.
"The teams that were successful against the Bears that season and in later seasons, I think, spread the defense out. They put three and four wide receivers into the pattern. But we were so narrow in what we did. We never used three wide receivers--even on third-and-long passing situations. We were pretty much limited when it came to our passing game."
The Ram game plan for the Bears was as basic as could be, Brock says.
"We were going to run the ball and hope to make a big play," he says. "If we made a big play and stayed close, we had a shot.
"But they shut our running game down and they got a 10-0 lead in the first quarter. When we got behind, it was just all over."
We didn't have a quarterback who could throw a spiral back then.
--Robinson's 1989 perspective on 1985.
Brock and Robinson agree that the 1985 Rams didn't have much of a passing attack, but they differ sharply on the reasons why.
Robinson says the Rams ran because they couldn't pass.
Brock says the Rams couldn't pass because Robinson wouldn't let them.
"It was frustrating," Brock says. "Any quarterback prefers throwing the football. That's how I played my whole career until I came to L.A.
"(But) what happened early in the year set the tone. We were playing well on defense and we didn't turn the ball over a lot. We were winning with the style Robinson had used in the past--run the ball, wear down the other team and win the game in the fourth quarter.
"The Rams have really changed their offense since then and it's for the better. They use more (receivers), they run more patterns, they put more pressure on the defense.
"Back in '85, you shut down Dickerson and there was nothing else for us to do."
In one season, Brock broke all of Haden's records for Ram quarterback abuse. He became part of Johnny Carson's monologue. He was booed at Anaheim Stadium. In a readers' poll conducted by the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Brock beat out the Raiders' Marc Wilson for worst quarterback in the city.
Brock completed 59.7% of his regular-season passes--a team record that still stands--but his legacy remains those frozen incompletions scattered all over Soldier Field.
"I don't think it was fair," Brock says of the criticism. "Anybody who thinks I was a bad quarterback just because of one game isn't looking at the whole thing. I was a bad quarterback for one game, not a whole season.
"Overall, we went to the championship game and I started in 12 wins. I was the third-rated quarterback in the NFC (behind Joe Montana and Jim McMahon). . . .
"I think a lot of criticism was because I played in the CFL so long--'If he's good enough to play here, why didn't he come down sooner?' And there was my size (listed generously as 6-1). I was always knocked for not being tall enough.
"Also, there was the fact that the Rams under Robinson then didn't throw the ball and people tend to blame the quarterback for that. If you don't do it, people assume you can't do it."
Brock attempted to play in 1986, but suffered a back injury during the exhibition season. That September, the Rams traded for Jim Everett. That December, the Rams released Brock. On July 13, 1987, Brock retired.
Maybe he should have stayed in Canada?
"No, it was a good experience," Brock said. "Yeah, no doubt. I was just happy to have a chance to play in the NFL after 11 years in Canada. Just to prove to myself. I got my chance."
He simply picked the wrong team and the wrong time to spend a long Chicago day throwing to the wrong receivers.


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Q: reloadData from different class? I am trying to reload a tableView from a different class. After some NSLogs in the console, my data is being altered but not changed. Below is some code:
SecondViewController.m
RootViewController *test = [[RootViewController alloc] init];
// Set up database connection
NSString *myDB = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"flashpics.db"];
database = [[Sqlite alloc] init];
[database open:myDB];

[database executeNonQuery:@"INSERT INTO albums (id, name, connections) VALUES (?,?,'No Connections')", theID, theName];
[test.listOfItems addObject:theName];

RootViewController *controller = [[RootViewController alloc] init];
[controller.tableView reloadData];

[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

Can you please help me solve probably one of the easiest questions that exists?
Thanks,
Coulton
EDIT#1: NSLogs display the following. Could this do with anything?
    __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x5883000 of class UITableView autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
EDIT #2: Added more code to the SecondViewController.m
Edit #3: For some reason it's not working.
SecondViewController.m
RootViewController *controller = [[RootViewController alloc] init];
[RootViewController refreshTableView];

RootViewController.m
- (void) refreshTableView {
[self.tableView reloadData];
NSLog(@"Refreshing TableView - %@", listOfItems);
}

I Inserted 'neato' in the array. Then I called reloadTableView in the SecondViewController.m to RootViewController.m. I did get an output, but it didn't update the tableView. Below is the NSLog.
Refreshing TableView - (
"Default Album",
"Hello.",
"This is cool!",
hi,
neato
)

P.S. I don't get results, but I do get stuff I programmed it to say through a NSLog.

A: You initialize your RootViewController twice. Twice too many I imagine. You need to find a reference to your view controller and add the item to it's listOfItems. Then call reloadData on that controller's UITableView.

A: the question is why? or what do you really want to do?
Your code doesn't make much sense, you are creating a new instance of RootViewController, and you are calling reloadData before the tableView has showed you some data. No need to reload before the tableview has data. But I think you want to reference the old instance instead of the new one you've just created
If this is what I think it is, a Navigation Based project where SecondView gets created in tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath:, and then pushed to the navigationcontroller you should try to call [self.tableView reloadData]; in - (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated of the RootViewController
But I'm just guessing (although I'm pretty good at this) because your code makes no sense. No need to reload the tableview at this stage, because the tableview doesn't have any data.

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The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) and the Odd Gallery are pleased to welcome Mary Anne Barkhouse & Michael Belmore to Dawson City for a residency in conjunction with a two-person exhibition opening May 20 at the Odd Gallery.
During their residency, the artists will be completing new works for Dreaming Earth & Sky an exhibition of new sculptural and installation works, which examine both current and historical issues around land use, conservation, displacement and loss as civilization continues to expand deep into the wilderness. Through works in metal, stone and wood the artists interweave environmental concerns with contemporary First Nations social/historical discourse.
Michael Belmore was born in 1971 north of Thunder Bay and graduated with an A.O.C.A. in Sculpture/Installation from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario in 1994. Belmore is of Ojibway heritage and currently lives in the Haliburton Highlands in Ontario. Previous exhibitions have included First Nations Art at the Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario (1992), Naked State at the Power Plant Comtemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario(1994), Staking Land Claims at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta (1997), lichen at the Toronto Sculpture Garden (1998), Ravens Wait at the Indian Art Centre in Hull, Quebec(1999) and Vantage Point at the Sacred Circle Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington (2002). As well Belmore has shown with several artist-run-centres and collectives across Canada and created site-specific public art installations for Thunder Bay Art Gallery and the City of Peterborough. A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Belmore's work is represented in the permanent collections of the Indian Art Centre in Hull, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinberg, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery in Kingston, and in numerous private collections.
Mary Anne Barkhouse was born in 1961 in Vancouver, BC. She belongs to the 'Namgis band, Kwagiutl First Nation. She graduated with Honours from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and has exhibited widely across Canada. Barkhouse works in various media such as sculpture, photography and jewellery. Her work examines environmental concerns and indigenous culture through the use of animal imagery – wolves, ravens, moose and beaver are juxtaposed against a diversity of background situations. A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Barkhouse's work can be found in the collections of the Art Bank of the Canada Council for the Arts, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Banff Centre for the Arts and the Dept. of Indian and Northern Affairs. In addition she has public art installations at Thunder Bay Art Gallery, McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Millennium Walkway in Peterborough, Ontario.


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Directory traversal vulnerability in the PostScript Interpreter, as used on the HP LaserJet 4xxx, 5200, 90xx, M30xx, M4345, M50xx, M90xx, P3005, and P4xxx; LaserJet Enterprise P3015; Color LaserJet 3xxx, 47xx, 5550, 9500, CM60xx, CP35xx, CP4005, and CP6015; Color LaserJet Enterprise CP4xxx; and 9250c Digital Sender with model-dependent firmware through 52.x allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unknown vectors.
The default configuration of the HP CM8060 Color MFP with Edgeline; Color LaserJet 3xxx, 4xxx, 5550, 9500, CMxxxx, CPxxxx, and Enterprise CPxxxx; Digital Sender 9200c and 9250c; LaserJet 4xxx, 5200, 90xx, Mxxxx, and Pxxxx; and LaserJet Enterprise 500 color M551, 600, M4555 MFP, and P3015 enables the Remote Firmware Update (RFU) setting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by using a session on TCP port 9100 to upload a crafted firmware update.
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Jetdirect and the Embedded Web Server (EWS) on certain HP LaserJet and Color LaserJet printers, and HP Digital Senders, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) Product_URL or (2) Tech_URL parameter in an Apply action to the support_param.html/config script.


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THE PIPRAHWA PROJECT
Background The Discovery Before the discovery After The Discovery Timeline since 1898
Letters W. C. Peppé's Letters Letters from public records office What the letters tell us
Articles & Analysis Articles Analysis
Buddhism Bones of the Buddha Worship of the Piprahwa Relics Relics, relic offerings & sarira The Dalai Lama visits Birdpur Excerpt from Mahaparinirvana Sutra
Gallery Piprahwa Gallery The Piprahwa Jewels
Background/
The Discovery
Before the discovery
After The Discovery
Timeline since 1898
Letters/
W. C. Peppé's Letters
Letters from public records office
What the letters tell us
Articles & Analysis/
Buddhism/
Bones of the Buddha
Worship of the Piprahwa Relics
Relics, relic offerings & sarira
The Dalai Lama visits Birdpur
Excerpt from Mahaparinirvana Sutra
Piprahwa Gallery
The Piprahwa Jewels
Brief introduction to the website which provides information about the Piprahwa stupa and the discovery of relics of the Buddha.
learn more about the documentary
One of the world's pre-eminent discoveries of relics of Gautama Buddha occurred at Piprahwa in 1898. William Claxton Peppé, a British landowner, excavated an ancient Buddhist stupa on the Birdpur estate near the border of India and Nepal. After digging through twenty feet of brickwork, he unearthed a large stone coffer containing gold, jewels, fragments of bone and five reliquary urns. An inscription on one of the urns identified the pieces of bone as the relics of the Lord Buddha which had been given to his own Sakya clan.
In 2019, awareness of the discovery has grown as a portion of the jewels and gemstones that were excavated have begun to tour some of the world's most prestigious museums. Press reaction from the Reitberg Museum in Zurich where the collection is being displayed to the public for the first time since their discovery 120 years go has been enthusiastic.
'The biggest sensation of the Zurich exhibition. The collection of small semiprecious stones, mostly in flower form, were once placed in the grave of the Buddha'. Deutsche Welle
'The Chinese monk made a long journey, and he did it because Next Stop Nirvana (until March 31st 2019) is not an exhibition like the others. "Why am I here? Because for the first time I can see for myself what I have studied in books: these are very sacred objects for us Buddhists," he says.' Italian Vogue
'The highlight of the exhibiton' Le temps
The Piprahwa Project makes research materials, information and news available to anyone who wishes to learn more about this incredible discovery.
Please click on the links below or the tabs above to learn more about:
Background - The history preceding the excavation of the Piprahwa stupa and the events following it.
Letters - Letters received by W.C. Peppé were donated to the Royal Asiatic Society in London and others have been found in the public records office. They are here made accessible online for the first time and prove to be an important source of information about the Piprahwa discovery and those involved with it.
Gallery - View original pictures relating to the discovery at Piprahwa alongside photographs of the jewels that were buried with bones of the Buddha for over 2000 years.
Articles and Analysis - The results of ongoing research by world renowned experts in the fields of epigraphy, gemology, forensics, history and Buddhist studies.
Buddhism - The discovery may be of great interest to western academics however it is of far greater religious and spiritual importance to over 500 million Buddhists across the globe.
Contact - We welcome feedback on our website, also please share with us any relevant information you may have. Queries will be forwarded to the appropriate specialist when possible but a response cannot be guaranteed.


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State Water Board Issues Key Documents That Further Efforts to Remove Klamath River Dams
Maven's Notebook 4/7/2020
From the State Water Resources Control Board:
The State Water Board today issued key documents that move the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC) significantly closer to removing four dams and re-opening 360 miles of the Klamath River and its tributaries to imperiled salmon.
The board issued a Final Water Quality Certification permit and Final Environmental Impact Report. The permit conditions will become part of the broader Lower Klamath Project License Surrender Order that must be issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) before the dams can be decommissioned and removed.
One of the largest dam-removal efforts in U.S. history, the project primarily consists of removing three dams in northern California (Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2, and Iron Gate) and one in southern Oregon (J.C. Boyle).
The State Water Board action comes after an extensive process that began with the KRRC's application for a Water Quality Certification in 2016. The process involved numerous public meetings in the project area and resulted in adoption of an environmental impact report that considered and responded to more than 2,600 comments.
"Decades in the making, this historic and comprehensive project will help restore native fish populations, and improve water quality in the Klamath Basin," said State Water Resources Control Board Chair E. Joaquin Esquivel. "The strategic removal of aging dams contributes to the restoration of our watersheds and reconnects our landscapes and ecosystems in critical ways. This major restoration project that began in 2008 to remove the dams is now one step closer to becoming a reality."
As analyzed in the State Water Board's Environmental Impact Report, long-term water quality benefits of dam removal include a more-natural range of water temperatures, reduced fish disease, and elimination or reduction of the growth of the toxic blue-green algae that threatens the health of humans, animals, and fish.
The project incorporates portions of the 2010 Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement, a collaboration that includes the owner of the dams (PacifiCorp), tribes, federal, state and local agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and conservation and fishing groups. PacifiCorp is asking FERC to transfer ownership to the nonprofit KRRC, which was formed in 2016 to carry out the dam-removal project.
The State Water Board supports efforts to improve the Klamath River watershed, but it is not a party to the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement. California's Natural Resources Agency and Department of Fish and Wildlife signed the document as representatives of the state.
The Water Board's regulatory role in this process as the state agency responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act is limited to protection of water quality.
For more detailed information on the Klamath River Project, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions document and visit the Lower Klamath Project page.
Also, a comment on Facebook:
" I can't even begin to unpack for you, all that is happening with the Klamath River Dams. It is a BIG topic. It consists of removing three CA dams and one in Oregon, and is the largest dam removal endeavor in U.S. History. There is probably a group or two dedicated to just this. I know some members here have been working really hard to stop this, but it seems like it keeps moving closer to happening. $250 million of California's Prop 1 water bond money will be used for their demolition. Prop 1 was sold to voters as a bond to build new storage, not remove it."
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Ružman, Nataša
Ružman, Nataša, Institute of Public Health Osijek (Croatia)