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In his final Cassandra Complex, Antony Johnston looks back at some of the big stories from three years of Ninth Art, including Epic adventures, the decline of Crossgen, and the rise of comics piracy.
STUCK AT THE END OF THE WORLD
I was tempted to open this column with an EJ Thribb "So. Farewell then..." pastiche, but couldn't bring myself to be quite that obscure. So allow me to couch it in a more universally understood fashion:
This is the last Cassandra Complex.
Three years; thirty-seven columns. (No, I'm not sure how that works either, especially when you consider I've skipped a couple of months over the years to do things like move house. I suspect it's do to with the column being every four weeks, rather than truly monthly. But I digress.)
It's been an interesting ride, to say the least. When I started writing this column I had a day job designing magazines for a national UK publisher; I had one graphic novel published, and even that was illustrated prose rather than a 'true' comic; and I'd recently moved to London.
As of today, I've been writing comics full-time for a year and a half; I've had seven graphic novels published, and I've another six scheduled; and I now live in the North of England, about 240 miles from my old home.
May you live in interesting times, indeed.
BY THE END OF THE WEEK, WE'LL HAVE COVERED IT ALL
And what of the comics industry itself? Since May 2001 we've seen a small upheaval across the industry, with some experiments working out and sticking, and others falling by the wayside. Such as...
The Blogosphere, surely a contender for "worst dictionary entry created by geeks". Blogging has taken off in a way few people could have predicted or even believed three years ago, and progressed beyond sheer novelty value into something that is not only here to stay, but has succeeded in actually getting people to pay for it. And on the Internet, that's no mean feat.
Of most interest to us is the "Comics Blogosphere", largely consisting of the same dozen people linking to and commenting on the same news stories, but at least providing a generally varied viewpoint. Standing head and shoulders above this crowd, though, was Dirk Deppey's Journalista. Deppey took advantage of blogging software's speed and ease of use to produce what was, for a brief time, the best current affairs column on the Net, bar none. I didn't always agree with Deppey, but that's hardly the point, and when he recently shut it down to become managing editor of The Comics Journal, I was among the many who mourned its passing.
The Rise and Fall of Epic, Marvel's aborted attempt to produce lots of books by new talent via the ingenious method of paying them very little, was created, hyped, U-turned on the subject of creator ownership, vilified and killed off in short order. Epic has now been replaced by Icon, the much-trumpeted new imprint to accommodate the creator-owned work of Brian Bendis and pals, wherein Marvel appear to have decided that maybe creator-owned books aren't so bad after all, so long as they're already selling in the five-figure range by the time you take them on.
ENDLESS NIGHTS, which proved that you really can make lots of money publishing original graphic novels if your name is Neil Gaiman. Back in 2001, DC Vertigo said it would be looking at the OGN market in a serious way over the next few years, and announced a few big-name books to kick off the experiment. Barring ENDLESS NIGHTS, Vertigo now seems to have backed off from this format a little, probably due to low sales. Whether or not Vertigo will continue to publish only occasional OGNs, or give the format another big push, remains to be seen.
The Fall and Fall of Crossgen, who started out a couple of years before this column, but don't appear likely to survive it in similar fashion. The saddest thing about Crossgen's impending demise is that the company did almost everything that many industry-watchers suggested would result in success. Crossgen produced collections quickly and cheaply, it poured enormous amounts of money into promotion and marketing, it shipped everything on time, it branched out into schools and libraries with forward-thinking programmes, and so on. Alas, all of this cost money, and for many people Crossgen simply 'proved' that these initiatives don't work regardless of how much cash you sling at them, thereby souring them on the whole idea.
Indie Publishers have also had a perpetually bumpy ride, albeit with a different angle. For most indie publishers, sales of book-format comics are definitely up; conversely, single issue sales are definitely down, probably due to saturation from the larger publishers, whom many retailers and readers will always turn to first. But despite not having anywhere near Crossgen's money, smaller publishers are quietly making footholds - both in the Direct Market and outside - that the former couldn't. Being someone who writes primarily for indie publishers, this is a subject on which I'm hopelessly biased. But I can't deny I'm optimistic about this section of the industry. The road may be bumpy, but we're all hanging on to see where it takes us.
And if we're talking about footholds in areas outside the Direct Market, there's no ignoring The Manga Juggernaut, which continues to steamroller across the American hinterlands. The last three years has seen nothing but growth in the Western consumption of manga, and while many retailers are discovering that not all series are perennial best-sellers like LONE WOLF AND CUB or AKIRA, the manga publishers are producing such phenomenal amounts of material every month that they don't have to be. There are still people out there who insist manga is 'just a phase', but come on - calling any market that not only lasts, but grows for more than ten years a fad is deluded. Like rap music, disco and TV makeover shows, manga in one form or another is here to stay.
And so's Hollywood, it seems. After a few false starts, the unprecedented success of SPIDER-MAN led to another forest of green lights on studio lots across LA, with everyone wanting to stick their finger in the comic book pie. Unlike previous and similar forays, though, the comics-to-movie explosion of the last three years has largely survived thanks to someone, somewhere, realising that maybe not all movie adaptations have to be costumed-hero blockbusters. The cult success of GHOST WORLD and AMERICAN SPLENDOR, not to mention the heavyweight cash-generating power of stars like Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp, has finally validated non-cape movies in the eyes of producers. It's perhaps ironic that we had to turn to Hollywood to get comics regarded as an artform just as valid as novels...
And just like movies, comics now has its own burgeoning Internet Piracy community, where - as with movies, albums, TV shows and software - new comics are available to download almost as soon as they're released. What always strikes me as odd about comics piracy is the sheer effort involved. 'Ripping' a DVD, a CD, a Tivo recording or a computer program is practically a no-effort endeavour; it already exists in digital format, and all that's required is to collate that into a different format suitable for downloading, while you go and make the tea. But there's no way to automate the piracy of comics; every single page must be scanned, and unless there's a growing black market in prototype page-turning devices that I've somehow missed, it has to be done by hand. That's an awful lot of time and effort, especially when expended by someone who's actually spent their own money and bought the comic in the first place. I don't get it, but maybe I'm just too old-fashioned.
HERE COME THE BULLETS
According to Greek myth, Cassandra was the daughter of Hecuba, who was given the ability to see the future by a lovestruck Apollo. When she spurned him, he cursed her so that no-one would believe her doom-laden predictions.
Fitting though the play on words is, this column isn't named after her, nor the psychological disorder of the same name. It's named after the band.
I first heard Cassandra Complex in 1990, when I bought the seminal CYBERPUNX album based on the cover and title alone (and from which this month's headlines are taken). It was, frankly, brilliant; a reflection of its time, and an intelligent tribute to the mid-'80s SF trend of the same name. I quickly became a fan, and hunted down earlier releases. For my money, they remain one of the best techno bands ever.
And there is a comics connection: CC mainstay Rodney Orpheus is a practising magician and SF fan, so it should be no surprise that the band has also recorded songs titled 'Valis' and '(The Theme From) The Invisibles', among others.
Orpheus hasn't released anything new for a while, but if you've paid any attention at all to these music recommendations of mine over the last year and a half, I urge you to go out and buy a CC album right now. You won't regret it.
Antony Johnston is the author of JULIUS, SPOOKED and THE LONG HAUL. His new ongoing series WASTELAND begins in July 2006.
This article is Ideological Freeware. The author grants permission for its reproduction and redistribution by private individuals on condition that the author and source of the article are clearly shown, no charge is made, and the whole article is reproduced intact, including this notice.
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I'm using a Ubuntu Mate 16.04, I follow this steps:
Plug the board.
Change this file /boot/config.txt
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Change /boot/cmdline.txt
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According to recent statistics, 62% of all U.S. households own a pet, leading to an increasing demand for cremated pet remains to be interred alongside their owners. In response, the New York State Assembly and Senate have passed a bill that allows cemeteries to provide such services, and details the requirements for such internments to take place. Should the bill be signed into law, it will give the option of interring pet cremated remains to all cemeteries that wish to provide the service.
The new bill adds two provisions to the Not-For-Profit Corporation Law. § 1502(q) defines "pet cremated remains" as "ashes and/or other residue recovered after the completion of cremation of any domestic animal that has been adapted or tamed to live in intimate association with people where such cremation has occurred at a pet crematorium…" While this encompasses traditional pets like cats, dogs, or even horses, it seemingly excludes more exotic animals like large snakes.
The Governor now has until December 31, 2016 to sign the bill. Presumably, industry groups and the Division of Cemeteries will be weighing in during this time.
7 section seven hundred fifty-a of the general business law.
15 provide a list of approved charges for the interment of such remains.
18 remains must be disposed of by placing them in a grave, crypt, or niche.
25 corporated religious association or society.
26 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
For many cemeteries, the past decade has been a trying time, as a growing shift towards cremation over traditional burial has put cemeteries under increasing pressure financially. However, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland recently came up with an interesting solution to its struggles: planting vinyards.
Wine-making has a long history in California, and the Catholic Church itself played an important role, as Spanish missionaries are credited with bringing grapes and wine-making over from Europe in the 1700s. Yet it has only been in the past decade that the Church has begun adopting wine-making as a solution to its problems, both financial and aesthetic.
Planting grape vines has proven to be a boon at the three cemeteries that have adopted the practice. The financial cost savings were significant: planting an acre of grape vines cost nearly a third of what it would have costed to plant grass. It also served to cut the cemeteries water requirements, an important consideration in drought-plagued California. Finally, burial near the vines costs roughly 20% more than similar plots a short walk away, adding another source of revenue. The vines even changed the aesthetic of the cemetery, making it more visitor friendly and drawing local interest.
The grapes offered one more beneficial use: as the cemetery was owned by the Catholic Church, the grapes could be used to make alter wine for Mass and other religious ceremonies. However, the grapes' surprisingly high quality has led to the creation of several batches of award-winning wine. While the wine-making itself is still a money-losing endeavor, the Church is expected to break even this coming year, and continues to donate thousands of bottles of alter wine each year to local churches.
It's clear that what works for a religious cemetery in California may not translate to a cemetery in New York, but the real takeaway from this story is the importance of creativity. With a little imagination, there are a wide range of things cemeteries could try. For example, cemeteries could plant apple trees to provide shade, or use blueberry bushes as a type of screening. This is not to suggest that such changes would be a panacea for a cemetery's financial struggles, but it can help brighten a cemetery's appearance, draw greater interest from visitors, and possibly provide an incidental source of revenue.
The full article about this California cemetery can be found here.
On June 2, 2016, Mark Cuthbertson was the guest speaker at the Metropolitan Cemetery Association's Annual Meeting and Exposition. At the event, Mr. Cuthbertson gave a presentation on Selected Legal Topics for Cemeteries. The PowerPoint used in that presentation may be found here.
Oakwood Cemetery ("Oakwood") is a not-for-profit cemetery that has operated a cemetery in the Village of Mount Kisco ("Village") since 1883. In 2008, Oakwood applied for a building permit to build a crematory on the cemetery land. The application was denied, and Oakwood declined to appeal to the Zoning Board of Appeals. It filed a new application in February 2011, however the building inspector advised Oakwood that he could not consider its application because the Village's Board of Trustees ("Board") was considering a proposed amendment to the Village Code that would affect the application. In June 2011, the Board amended the Village zoning code by adding to its "definitions" section that "cemetery" meant "Property used for the interring of the dead. This use shall not include facilities for cremation." Oakwood then commenced a hybrid CPLR Article 78/declaratory judgment action claiming the amendment was preempted by Not–For–Profit Corporation Law ("NPCL") §1502(d), which provides "[a] public mausoleum, crematory or columbarium shall be included within the term 'cemetery.'" The Supreme Court granted the Village's pre-answer motion to dismiss, and Oakwood appealed.
On appeal, the Appellate Division, Second Department found that the "although Not–for–Profit Corporation Law Article 15 governs the operation of corporations which own and manage cemeteries, it does not expressly preempt zoning ordinances relating to land use by cemeteries." The Court also found there was no policy declaration or regulatory scheme evincing any such legislative intent. Accordingly, the NPCL did not preempt any attempt at local regulation of cemeteries under the "doctrine of field preemption." The Court further found that the Village's more restrictive definition of "cemetery" was not invalidated under the "doctrine of conflict preemption." The NPCL definition of cemetery was addressed to the management of cemetery corporations and the scope of that law, while the Village Code's definition addressed land use. As these different definitions were directed at differing purposes, there was not direct conflict.
The Court concluded its decision by affirming the lower court's judgment, while amending it to the extent that absent any factual issues, it should have declared that the Village Code amendment was valid and not preempted by NPCL Article 15.
The case was Oakwood Cemetery v. Village/Town of Mount Kisco, 115 A.D.3d 749 (2d Dep't 2014).
While the ultimate outcome of the case summarized below remains to be seen, it emphasizes that litigation under the Religious Land Use & Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc, et seq. ("RLUIPA") can be a powerful weapon for a religious cemetery faced with an obstructionist municipality. While a municipality maintains the right to adopt reasonable zoning regulations under most circumstances, overstepping its bounds may lead to significant damages and an award of attorney's fees for violating the cemetery's rights under RLUIPA.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Center ("the Diocese") has been in a protracted legal battle with the Village of Old Westbury ("Village") for nearly 20 years over its proposed cemetery. The Village Code did not permit the burial of human remains, so the Diocese applied for a zoning change. The application was denied in 1996 by the Board of Trustees of the Village ("Board") on the grounds it was a commercial operation. After the Diocese successfully litigated that the propsed cemetery was a religious use, the Board enacted a series of comprehensive zoning amendments, including a Places of Worship ("POW") Law.
After repeated delays in the approval process under the POW law, the Diocese filed suit alleging violations of the Constitution and RLUIPA. Several months later, the Board approved the proposal, subject to various restrictions including a requirement that approval was subject to renewal every 5 years, at which time the terms could be altered. The Court ruled on motions for summary judgment on September 3, 2015.
The Court found the POW Law was constitutional in that it validly regulated building area, height, setbacks from property lines, screening, and traffic circulation to mitigate the "adverse impacts of large institutional facilities on the residential nature of the Village." In addition, the law did not treat the plaintiffs differently from other religious institutions.
Next the Court addressed the RLUIPA claims that the POW law (1) created a substantial burden on the property's religious use, and (2) treated the plaintiff on "less than equal terms than a nonreligious assembly or institution." On the first claim, the Diocese argued the conditions were arbitrary and unreasonable, particularly the 5-year renewal provision, which undermined permanent burial. The Court found this claim was viable, but that whether the law was narrowly tailored was a matter for trial, thus denying summary judgment. For the second claim, RLUIPA requires the government to treat religious and non-religious institutions on "equal terms." However, the Second Circuit has ruled that different land use regimes can be legal, as different is not the same as unequal. Here, the court found the Diocese had failed to identify a comparable secular institution that was treated more favorably, and granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment on the equal terms claim.
The case is cited as The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York, v. The Incorporated Village Of Old Westbury, 2015 WL 5178126 (E.D.N.Y.).
Since the passage of the Not-for-Profit Revitalization Act ("NPRA"), cemeteries have been required to designate an Audit Committee consisting entirely of "Independent Directors" or the Board of Directors (only independent board members may deliberate or vote with respect to audit committee functions) to oversee their accounting and financial reporting practices. Added responsibilities are required of cemeteries with revenues over one million dollars.
While not required by NPRA, it is advisable to have at least one audit committee member with expertise in accounting and finance.
(3) review communications with those charged with governance (including a management letter) that result from the audit.
(3) annually review the performance and independence of the auditor.
(f) Periodically review the organization's insurance coverage.
A cemetery can adopt an Audit Committee Charter that outlines both the required responsibilities of the Audit Committee and the additional duties the Board of Directors can assign to the Audit Committee. The charter can serve as a road map for the Audit Committee's responsibilities. In addition, the Audit Committee is designated as the body that reviews ethics and related party transactions as well as allegations made under the cemetery's whistleblower policy.
For most cemeteries, burying a body is a matter of course: the funeral home delivers the body, provides the necessary documentation, and the burial takes place. The procedure may be less clear, however, where the person passed away while abroad and the body was subsequently repatriated without using a domestic funeral home.
When an American passes away abroad, a consular official from the US Department of State will arrange for the documentation necessary to facilitate shipment and U.S. Customs clearance for the body. These documents include the foreign death certificate (if available), an affidavit from the foreign funeral director, a transit permit, and a consular mortuary certificate, all of which will accompany the remains back to the United States. In addition, the consular mortuary certificate will generally satisfy U.S. public health requirements where the body has already been embalmed.
So what does this mean for a cemetery burying a body shipped by this method? Under New York Public Health Law ("NY PHL") §4145(1), "internments, cremations or other dispositions" of a body are only permitted when the body is accompanied by a "burial, cremation, or transit permit." However, NY PHL §4144(4) provides that "When the body of a deceased person is transported from outside of the state… for burial or other disposition, the transit or removal permit issued in accordance with the law and health regulations of the place where the death occurred shall be given the same force and effect as the burial permit herein provided for." Thus even if the body is transported directly from the airport by a family member, the necessary documentation should still be accompanying the body. Records of the permit should be kept in the same manner as those provided by a funeral home.
This is the eighth and final post in our series looking at the long-running dispute between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Center and the Village of Old Westbury over the Diocese's proposed cemetery. Today's post focuses on the remaining claims and the Court's final rulings.
In addition to the issues discussed in the previous posts, there were also motions for summary judgment on several more minor claims for the Court to dispose of. First, the Diocese's Equal Protection claim was dismissed on the grounds that the Diocese failed to show sufficient evidence upon which a jury could find the POW Law was motivated by anti-religious intent, as a showing of purposeful discrimination by the Defendants is required. The Court did find, however, that the evidence cited may still be relevant to the RLUIPA claims. In addition, the Dioceses Fourth Amendment claim for warrantless search was allowed to proceed as the parties disputed whether the official had ever entered the premises to conduct an inspection. Finally, the Court found that the assertions of absolute and qualified immunity were not ripe for determination given the outstanding issues of material fact preventing a finding regarding the reasonableness of the Defendant officials' actions.
In summary, the Claims which were allowed to proceed to trial were the: (1) RLUIPA substantial burden claim, (2) as-applied constitutional challenge to the POW Law, (3) First Amendment free exercise of religion claim, (4) Section 1983 retaliation claim, and (5) Section 1983 unlawful search claim.
This is the seventh post in our series looking at the long-running dispute between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Center and the Village of Old Westbury over the Diocese's proposed cemetery. Today's post focuses on the retaliation claim brought under §1983.
After the RLUIPA claims, third issue the Court addressed was the Diocese's claim that the defendants conduct since 2003 was taken is retaliation for the Diocese's state lawsuit and the current §1983 action. Specifically, the Diocese alleged that the Village had intentionally delayed the permit applications and SEQRA process and attempted to increase the Diocese's costs through unreasonable demands to conduct various studies and testing. Though the parties contest the sufficiency and weight of the evidence, the Court found there was testimony in the depositions that did in fact suggest a link between the lawsuit and application process. Ultimately, the Court found that given "the temporal nexus of seven months, coupled with the surrounding circumstances, e.g., the length and expense of the QOP permitting process and the extensive restrictions in the Resolution, which seemingly go beyond the POW Law's requirements and are arguably gratuitous," the evidence could support a finding of retaliation. The Court thus dismissed the Defendants motion for summary judgment on the retaliation claim. The Court also notes an as-applied challenge similarly survives due to the questions of material fact regarding actual animus.
The next post in this series will look at the remaining motions for summary judgment and final rulings.


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Duluth, MN (PRWEB) May 22, 2006 -- 9/11 videotapes released by the Pentagon in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Judicial Watch raise more questions than they answer, in the opinion of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a non-partisan society of experts devoted to sorting truth from fiction about those events.
According to James H. Fetzer, the society's founder, "Defenders of the official account have been touting them as refuting 'conspiracy theories' about the Pentagon attack, but they show no signs of any Boeing 757 and only raise more concern about the government's relentless efforts to deny the truth to the American people."
The two clips that have been released, which allegedly show the impact of a plane on the building, are presently archived at the Judicial Watch web site, www.judicialwatch.org/flight77.shtml, and at the Scholar's web site, www.www.911Scholars.org. The first runs 3:11, the second 3:22 or just 11 seconds longer.
"A Boeing 757 has a wing span of 125 feet and a tail standing 44 feet above the ground. It's 155 feet long. If a plane of these dimensions had hit the building and these tapes were authentic, then it would have been obvious," Fetzer said. "They should have looked a lot like the simulation at www.tinyurl.com/f9nad. But they don't."
Steven Jones, co-chair of Scholars for 9/11 truth, observed that the new footage had appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show on Fox TV. After actually viewing the footage, O'Reilly was forced to admit, "I can't see a plane there." Bret Baier of Fox likewise stated, "People looking at this tape would probably be underwhelmed." He added, "After seeing this tape, those conspiracy theories will likely continue."
"It's basically a case of the Emperor's new clothes," Jones said, "where several reporters are spouting the 'official line' that the new footage proves that a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon. When honest people review these videotapes for themselves, however, many have the courage to acknowledge that they don't see a Boeing 757 hitting the Pentagon. The government has not proven its case at all."
David Ray Griffin, a member of Scholars and author of several books on 9/11, observed that there are reports of more than 80 videos of the Pentagon hit. "One of these videos was taken from a nearby hotel and should show exactly what happened during the crash. The FBI gathered them up almost immediately, which has left a gaping hole in the available evidence."
Jones, a professor of physics at BYU, has observed that Scholars has called for release of the seized surveillance videos, including those taken from the Citgo gas station and several hotels located near the Pentagon. "The release of all of these video tapes is the first of our request that twelve kinds of data be released," he said, "in the petition that we have circulated, which now has over 9,500 signatures." The petition can be found at www.www.911Scholars.org.
Serious questions have arisen about the Pentagon attack on multiple grounds. First, the west wing of the Pentagon would have been the least valuable target to attack. Under reconstruction, it was sparsely populated; it was far removed from the east wing, where the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs were situated; and it had been reinforced, so a strike on any other portion of the building, such as plunging though the roof, would have been easier to accomplish and caused more damage.
Second, according to both eyewitnesses and photographs, the strike on the Pentagon produced neither the aircraft debris nor the damage to the building that would have been expected from the impact of a plane with the mass and dimensions of a Boeing 757. A photograph taken before the upper floors fell, which is archived on the resources page of www.911Scholars.org, for example, renders the official account highly implausible.
Third, the alleged pilot, Hani Hanjour, was regarded by his own flight instructors as incompetent to fly even small aircraft. It would have been highly improbable for a pilot of his mediocre abilities to have successfully piloted a Boeing 757 or executed the maneuvers that were required to hit the building.
In a press release on 12 March 2006, the Scholars observed that Norman Mineta, Secretary of Transportation, told The 9/11 Commission that, in an underground bunker beneath the White House that morning, he had observed a young aide repeatedly approach the Vice President and inform him of an aircraft approaching the Pentagon, asking if the "orders" still stand. The orders, which Cheney affirmed, appear to have been that the aircraft should not be shot down.
"Skepticism about the official account is actually reinforced by the newly released videos," Fetzer said. "If a Boeing 757 had come across the lawn at low altitude but high speed, it would have brought about extensive damage to the lawn." And both of the videos suggest that the aircraft that hit the Pentagon was skimming just above the ground.
The "smoking gun" at the Pentagon, he observed, is the clear, smooth and unblemished lawn. "It would have been especially unlikely that an inexperienced pilot like Hanjour could have flown a large airplane so close to the ground and not collided with it," Fetzer remarked. "That is a feat even experienced pilots would have found very difficult to accomplish."
"No one watching these clips over and over, focusing on each frame, can find unambiguous support for a large aircraft, much less a Boeing 757," he added. "How much less likely that bypassers in the vicinity, who only had a brief chance to notice this happening, could have figured out what they saw. Nothing here remotely resembles a Boeing 757."
Even the Pentagon itself is covered with cameras. The most serious question raised by the release of these videos may be why other videos, which would provide clearer and far more revealing information, have not been released. "The most plausible explanation for withholding this evidence from the American public," Griffin observed, "is that the American government has a great deal to hide."


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John Cochran, London Bookseller (his catalogue, A Second Catalogue of Manuscripts…, London, 1837, no. 137).
Purchased from Rodd, 11 May 1839.
Clutching the swaddled Child to Her breast, Virgin sits on a donkey led by Joseph, who drinks from a flask.
In the background, an idol on a plinth shatters, symbolising the fate of pagan religions with the arrival of the Messiah.
Executed in pen and ink washed with colour, gold leaf is used for Virgin's halo.
Jonah is thrown into the mouth of a whale by his companions.
Executed in pen and ink washed with colour, with gold leaf used for the mast of the ship.
Daniels L.M.F. De Spieghel der menscheliker Behoudenesse. De Middelnederlandse vertaling van het Speculum humana salvationis naar het handschrift uitgegeven, ingeleid en toegelicht door. - Tielt, 1949.
Cardon B. Pre-Eyckian originality: The Middle Dutch Speculum Humanae Salvationis (London, B.L., Add. MS. 11575) and the Tradition // , pp. 267 - 283.
Cardon B. Manuscripts of the Speculum humanae salvationis in the southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). - Leuven, 1996.


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Sunday November 26 10:20 PM EST
Linux Bashing Now Considered
A Hate Crime
Washington DC - Bill Clinton signed into law yesterday legislation that makes Linux bashing an offense covered under the hate crime statute. Anyone convicted of Linux bashing will now face Federal charges. The law is in response to the recent beating of a Linux user at the University of Colorado by a Windows 2000 Users Group.
Law enforcement officials have been given some guidelines to follow when determining if a crime is covered by the statute. For example if a person beats someone to death with a hammer they would just face murder charges in a state court. However, if a person beats someone to death with a hammer while yelling "You Linux using bastard," then they would be charged under the hate crimes statute and face trial in a Federal court.
Many oppose the law, because they feel that it is unfairly targeted at one particular group. "This makes it near impossible to do our job properly without breaking the law," said Microsoft PR representative Bailey McClain, "the Feds are taking away one of our most useful tools."
It is commonly believed that 10% of the population are Linux users. Linux users often hide their use from friends and family members. Meeting other users in Linux only bars or IRC channels. Openly Linux using people often face extreme prejudice and discrimination from co-workers and IT departments but say that this bigotry must be confronted. "I've never been beaten because of my open sourceness, but I get a lot of 'Linux sucks' comments," said Jared Yttrium, "I'm glad the statute is there to protect me."
Others in the Linux community were confused by the ruling. "I went to Linux Bash 2000 and it was one helluva party. The feds shouldn't be stopping that," said Jacques Robert.
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Nodiscala is a taxonomic genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae,  the wentletraps.

This genus has become a synonym of Opalia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853

Species
Species within the genus Nodiscala include:
 Nodiscala ahiparana (Powell, 1930): synonym of Opalia ahiparana (Powell, 1930)
 Nodiscala attenuata (Pease, 1861): synonym of Opalia bicarinata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1844)
 Nodiscala bicarinata (Sowerby II, 1844-a): synonym of Opalia bicarinata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1844)
 Nodiscala gracilis Masahito, Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda et al., 1971: synonym of Opalia bicarinata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1844)
 Nodiscala japonica Okutani, 1964: synonym of Opalia japonica (Okutani, 1964)
 Nodiscala matajiroi Kuroda, 1954: synonym of Opalia matajiroi (Kuroda, 1954)
 Nodiscala monovaricosa Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961-a: synonym of Opalia monovaricosa (Kuroda & Habe, 1961)
 Nodiscala mormulaeformis Masahito, Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda et al., 1971: synonym of Opalia mormulaeformis (Masahito, Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
 Nodiscala spongiosa (Carpenter, 1864) - spongy wentletrap : synonym of Opalia spongiosa Carpenter, 1864
 Nodiscala zelandica Finlay, 1930: synonym of Opalia zelandica (Finlay, 1930)

References

 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

Epitoniidae

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Prior to EFM, survey software was typically deployed in departments and lacked user roles, permissions and workflow. EFM enables deployment across the enterprise, providing decision makers with important data for increasing customer satisfaction, loyalty and lifetime value. Enterprise Feedback Management enables companies to better respond to customer needs.
Unlike low-end survey tools, EFM applications provide a workflow process with user roles and permissions, so that users may be able to author a survey but require another user to approve it before it is published. Such workflow ensures consistent survey quality and enforces respondent privacy and IT security policies. Applications of EFM vary widely from HR, IT, Marketing, Sales and continues to expand on its corporate implementation and scope. Departments within an organization can collaborate on feedback initiatives, sharing results and gaining insights that enable the organization to listen, learn and react to the needs of their key stakeholders. A key part of the value of an EFM deployment is the development of the business rules (i.e. who needs to see what feedback info) and which parts of the customer / employee / partner facing process needs to be measured.
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Jewish writer and journalist Robert I. Friedman in the Red Mafiya: ": "The Russian mob was predominantly Jewish."
Craig Unger, of course, started smiling because he saw a conspiracy theory coming out of Harris' hat. Unger deliberately inverts, subverts, and perverts this issue throughout his book because if the evidence shows that the Russian Mafia happens to be of Khazarian Jewish stock, then House of Trump, House of Putin wouldn't be a New York Times bestseller at all.
Unger, as expected, responded by saying that Harris was just spouting "insane, fabricated conspiracy theories about Jews, Jewish banking system. That is not what this is about!" Unger has to justify his existence by saying things like this because, as we have already pointed out, his recent book would be in the trashcan of oblivion if Harris' bold statements turn out to be true.
Unger would have to find a politically honest way of earning a living if the evidence shows that the Khazarian Mafia overwhelmingly plays a disproportionate part of what is now called the Russian Mafia. Unger would probably find himself changing tires and fixing lightbulbs if the Khazarian Mafia also manipulates the banking system.
"Unger tells us that Trump partnered with the Pritzger family in rehabbing the Commodore Hotel in New York in the 1970s with the help of the notorious Roy Cohn, who "helped Trump save $120 million through tax abatements from the city."6 What Unger failed to tell us is that the Pritzger family was one of the main supporters of Barack Obama, both as senator from Illinois and president of the United States.
In other words, Vladimir Putin is taking over the world! Putin, Unger preposterously argued, has already launched "virtual World War III." The West needs to stop him. He is dangerous, and he is working with a groups of thugs and gangsters which had already infiltrated the United States through Donald Trump. Granted, Trump is working the Mafia. But who are they, Mr. Unger?
"For those of you who don't know, William Felix Browder is the notorious CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, which was the largest portfolio investor in Russia after the fall of Communism and also one of the biggest looters in one of the biggest looting operations in the history of the human race, the one that went by the name of 'privatization' in Russia during the 1990s.
"After Browder's Russian representative, Serge Magnitsky, died in prison in 2009, Browder lobbied the US Congress to pass the Magnisky Act which Barack Obama signed into law in 2012, after which the Treasury Department put sanctions on a number of Russians. The Russian government responded by trying Browder in absentia for tax fraud and after his conviction sentencing him to nine years in prison.
Unger is certainly looking at the wrong angle for political reasons. As Jones moves on to say, Unger says next to nothing about Israeli infiltration in the White House. For example, it was Benjamin Netanyahu, not Vladimir Putin, who came to the United States to specifically campaign for Donald Trump.
"One of the first journalist to penetrate this new outlaw subculture was Robert I. Friedman, who chronicled the lurid Brighton Beach underworld of tattooed gangsters engaged in money laundering, extortion, prostitution, drugs, and murder as it evolved into a multibillion-dollar international criminal enterprise.
I would challenge any reader to pick up a copy of Friedman's Red Mafiya and start reading the history of, well, the Russian Mafia. You will discover from the very beginning that they were overwhelmingly Jewish. This is the brute fact, and one wonders why Unger looked surprised when Harris declared that the Russian Mafia was overwhelmingly Jewish.
So, Mr. Unger, was Friedman propounding conspiracy theories? If so, why did you brazenly praise him throughout your book? But if Friedman ought to be decorated, what about Mike Harris? So Friedman is right, but Harris is wrong for saying the same thing that Friedman says in his book? What kind of logic is that?
As it turns out, it is Craig Unger, not Mike Harris, who is actually postulating conspiracy theories. Two thumps up for Mike Harris. Keep fighting the good fight, brother!
 E. Michael Jones, "Donald Trump and the 'Russian' Mafia," Culture Wars, November 2018.
 Craig Unger, House of Putin, House of Trump: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia (New York: Dutton, 2018), 30-31.
 Robert I. Friedman, Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America (New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2000), 84.


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Jean Rey (15. července 1902, Lutych – 19. května 1983, Lutych) byl belgický politik, druhý předseda Evropské komise (v letech 1967–1970), předtím eurokomisař pro zahraniční věci (1958–1967). Byl liberálně orientován, do roku 1971 byl členem Strany pro svobodu a pokrok (Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang; Parti de la Liberté et du Progrès), od roku 1971, po rozdělení této strany dle jazykového principu, byl členem její frankofonní následnice, tedy Reformní liberální strany (Parti Réformateur Libéral).

Život
Narodil se v protestantské rodině. Vystudoval práva na Lutyšské univerzitě, roku 1926 zde získal doktorát (Ph.D.). Začínal jako lutyšský komunální politik, roku 1939 byl prvně zvolen do belgického parlamentu. Za druhé světové války bojoval proti německé okupaci v bitvě o Belgii. Byl Němci zajat a strávil závěr války jako válečný zajatec. V zajateckém táboře Oflag XD se stal členem zde založené zednářské lóže L'Obstinée. Po válce byl znám jako zastánce federalizace Belgie. V letech 1949–1950 byl ministrem obnovy, posléze v letech 1954 až 1958 ministrem hospodářství. Přitom se podílel na jednáních o vzniku prvních uskupení evropského integračního procesu, což ho posléze kvalifikovalo do první, Hallsteinovy, Evropské komise a do čela té druhé. Podporoval zavedení lidového hlasování při skládání Evropského parlamentu a za svého předsednictví dotáhl projekt celní unie (1968). Vybojoval také vlastní daňové zdroje pro Evropská společenství. Sváděl také souboj s Francouzi, kteří odmítali přijetí Británie do tohoto společenství. Po skončení svého mandátu se stal předsedou eurofederalistického Evropského hnutí (1974–1978). V roce 1979 byl zvolen do Evropského parlamentu, prvního voleného lidovým hlasováním. V bruselské Evropské čtvrti je po něm pojmenováno náměstí.

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Engagement Alert! Lily Collins Is A Bride-To-Be!
She's now the glowing fiancée of director and author Charlie McDowell!
It's love in the time of COVID-19! Lily Collins, an actress known for films Love, Rosie, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Rules Don't Apply and most recently, TV series Emily in Paris, is happily engaged to Charlie McDowell.
In a time of uncertainty and darkness you have illuminated my life. I will forever cherish my adventure with you. 💍🎉
A post shared by Charlie McDowell (@charliemcdowell) on Sep 25, 2020 at 9:35am PDT
She gave a big, resounding "yes" to the film director and author, her boyfriend since last year, over the weekend when they were out enjoying an autumn family camping trip in Northern California's legendary redwood trees.
It definitely doesn't come as a surprise that Charlie chose to propose here, given that he and Lily have spent much of their time as a couple exploring America's great outdoors.
Lucky to have this family and thankful to be under these trees.
A post shared by Charlie McDowell (@charliemcdowell) on Aug 12, 2020 at 2:45pm PDT
Taking to Instagram to announce the happy news, this Mr. and Mrs. in-the-making posted a closeup photo of Lily showing off her engagement ring. Speaking of the ring, it's an unusual piece of jewelry that's got everyone talking! Certainly an atypical choice, it's actually an understated yet elegant rose-cut diamond paired with a delicate gold band by LA-based designer Irene Neuwirth.
Captioning the IG-ready engagement photo, Lily wrote, "The purest joy I've ever felt," while Charlie said, "In a time of uncertainty and darkness you have illuminated my life. I will forever cherish my adventure with you."
Fans of the 31-year-old actress won't be surprised by the couple's sweet displays of affection as they've been making regular appearances on each other's social media feeds since becoming IG-official in August 2019.
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While Lily needs no introduction, her fiancé might not be as familiar to most. Charlie, though a low-profile in Hollywood, is actually a director, author, and to many in the industry, a likable social media personality.
A post shared by Charlie McDowell (@charliemcdowell) on May 4, 2013 at 8:09pm PDT
He directed films The One I Love and The Discovery, plus a couple of episodes of hit shows Dear White People and Silicon Valley. He also owns a production company and, like Lily, is the child of heavyweight Hollywood personalities. (Lily is composer Phil Collins' daughter, and Charlie's dad is actor Michael McDowell!).
If you're looking to get to know him better, head over to his Twitter account where he's most active online. The popular account has earned him the title of having one of the most entertaining Twitter feeds of all time and it's a mishmash of pop culture updates, personal revelations, and funny political commentary.
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To cap off their engagement announcement, Lily posted a second series of photos showing the exact moment when Charlie popped the question.
Surrounded by her future in-laws on the special day, Lily got a taste of what life will soon be like with her husband-to-be and her new family.
I've been waiting my lifetime for you and I can't wait to spend our lifetime together...
A post shared by Lily Collins (@lilyjcollins) on Sep 25, 2020 at 9:06am PDT
Many of the couple's friends and fellow celebs like Ashley Tisdale, Zoey Deutch, Ciara, Taylor Hill, Reese Witherspoon, Zachary Levi, and Max Minghella were just some of those who offered their well-wishes.
Congratulations, Lily and Charlie!
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Features Can the University meet its environmental goals?
Jessica Hsu '10, left, and Eileen Zerba, a senior lecturer in ecology and evolutionary biology and director of undergraduate laboratories at the Princeton Environmental Institute, check sensors on top of a green roof of a Butler College dorm.
If you want to save the planet, think for a minute about the simple plastic cup. Eight or 12 ounces, perhaps emblazoned with a Princeton logo — the University goes through thousands of them each month. It is hard to imagine Reunions or a Prospect Avenue party without them.
Most of those cups are used once and thrown in the trash. Recycling notwithstanding, too many cups still end up choking landfills. One solution has been to substitute compostable, biodegradable cups — as well as straws, cutlery, and even dishes — made of corn or sugarcane.
Problem solved? Planet saved? Not so fast, says Shana Weber, manager of the University's Office of Sustainability. Corn cups may be an improvement, and Princeton increasingly uses them, but in the long run they are not sustainable, either. They decompose, but slowly. Furthermore, in order to produce them, millions of acres have been plowed up and converted to agricultural use, hastening the loss of open space and the associated problem of surface erosion.
To be truly sustainable — to employ practices that meet "the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs," in the words of a 1987 United Nations report that helped to launch the sustainability movement — people would reuse cups. Why do we need a new cup for every drink? Weber asks. Well into the 20th century, thirsty people used the same cups over and over and sipped from public fountains. Disposable cups were invented partly because those practices came to be seen as unsanitary, so it might be worth considering whether we would be willing to tolerate a rise in the incidence of communicable disease in order to preserve forests and wetlands.
Is that realistic? Princeton's sustainability plan was intended to be not just a high-minded expression of aspirations, but a detailed plan of action against which progress could be measured. A little less than two years later, the University issued its first sustainability progress report (available at http://www.princeton.edu/reports/sustainability2009). It shows significant advances on a wide range of fronts, but also identifies what remains to be done, and what might be undertaken in the future.
Princeton's greenhouse-gas emissions of CO2 (carbon dioxide) rose during the 1980s and early 1990s, peaking at 115,455 metric tons in 1996. In that year, the cogeneration plant went into operation to supply steam, heat, and electricity, causing emission levels to drop sharply, to 98,000 metric tons, the following year. They then began rising steadily again over the next decade.
The University's most ambitious goal is to reduce its overall greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. That is like trying to run down an up escalator because the University's physical plant continues to grow — 1.5 million square feet of space has been built since 1990 — and those new buildings have sent energy demands soaring. If no action were taken, the Office of Sustainability estimates that the University would produce 176,000 metric tons of CO2 annually by 2020, a 54 percent increase from 2007 levels. Instead, Princeton has committed itself to cutting that level to 95,000 metric tons, a 16.7 percent decrease from 2007.
Much already has been done. The cogeneration plant, which accounts for 85 percent of Princeton's carbon emissions, received the U.S. EPA Energy Star Combined Heat and Power (CHP) award in 2007. In September, a direct heat exchanger was installed to capture and reuse heat that otherwise would be wasted, which is expected to reduce overall campus emissions by more than 3.5 percent. Princeton also has received a permit to run part of the cogeneration plant on biodiesel fuel, derived from vegetable oil or animal fat, and is making arrangements with suppliers.
Many existing campus buildings are being retrofitted. Incandescent light bulbs, Weber says, are being replaced by longer-lasting compact fluorescent light bulbs. Going that one better, whenever possible Weber works in her office with the lights turned off, relying on the natural sunlight. Solar panels have been installed at the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) building on the Forrestal campus, and a smaller one will sit atop the new chemistry building. The Lawrence Apartments and the newly renovated Campus Club both use geothermal heat.
Princeton's Design Standards Energy Guidelines mandate that all new projects and major renovations achieve energy savings that are at least 30 percent greater than the international building code of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Achieving those levels can be daunting because some new dormitories have air conditioning — a necessity, says Thomas Nyquist, the University's director of engineering, because Princeton hosts more camps and conferences during the summer months. Nevertheless, innovations have helped reduce the amount of energy these buildings use. Sherrerd Hall, which houses the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and the Center for Information Technology Policy, is 47 percent more energy-efficient than the code requires, thanks in part to the use of more thermally efficient glass and a green roof.
Science laboratories, which have accounted for much of the new campus construction, have proven to be a particular challenge in meeting that 30 percent threshold. They can be energy hogs, because ventilation systems must be bigger and run longer to protect experiments and ensure that potentially toxic fumes are cleaned out. New fume hoods that close automatically when not in use and adjust the amount of air that must be ventilated will make the new chemistry building — scheduled to open by the end of 2010 — 30 percent more efficient than code requires, although the neuroscience and psychology buildings are projected to be only 24 percent more efficient.
Future campus construction projects also will be designed to the equivalent of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver status, a level to which many universities around the country have committed themselves.
Princeton always has been a walkable campus, but surveys have shown that more than 70 percent of faculty and staff commute to campus each day as the sole occupant of a passenger vehicle, helping to make transportation the second-largest source of campus CO2 emissions. The sustainability plan includes numerous efforts to reduce automobile traffic and increase mass transit, many of which, though only recently introduced, are starting to show results. More than 130 employees have signed up for a ride-sharing database, 67 receive $25 gas cards for joining a car pool, and another 120 receive subsidies for taking the bus or train to work. Fourteen new University vehicles run on biofuels.
University officials acknowledge, however, that they have identified only 70 percent of the changes they will need to make in order to cut greenhouse-gas emissions back to 1990 levels. Identifying the remaining 30 percent is one of the jobs for William Broadhurst, who was hired last summer as the campus energy manager and is developing an energy master plan. That master plan will encompass an audit of the 50 most-used buildings on campus, which in turn will help identify those that could benefit most from retrofitting HVAC and lighting systems. He anticipates that the plan will be complete by the summer of 2011.
The University insists that sustainability efforts save money in the long run, which is why Executive Vice President Mark Burstein has pledged that most projects will not be sacrificed during the current economic slump. Because environmental costs often are difficult to calculate and represent what economists call externalities, the University has implemented its own "CO2 tax," which will give those concerns a value to be used when conducting cost-benefit analyses as to the advisability of adopting more energy-efficient projects or designs. The CO2 tax led the University to plan for geothermal heat at the ReCAP facility, Weber says — but that project was canceled because of broader budgetary constraints. The CO2 tax also might make greater use of wind energy a possibility, but wind power — which is not yet readily available in central New Jersey — is expensive, as are other alternative energy sources. How much money should Princeton spend to achieve its environmental goals when those dollars are needed for financial aid, professors, and new labs? That's the type of question that University officials will be asking more frequently in coming years.
Are Princeton's sustainability projects having any effect? Evidence suggests that they are. Campus electricity usage increased by only 2.6 percent between 2007 and 2009, despite the opening of two new buildings. According to the sustainability status report, overall greenhouse-gas emissions turned downward very slightly, by nearly 1 percent, between July 2008 and July 2009, the first measurable decrease since the cogeneration plant began operating in 1996.
Princeton's greenhouse-gas reduction target, which matches that set by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (as well as those chosen by the states of California, Hawaii, Illinois, and Washington), was chosen after study by an environmental oversight committee, with contributions from a 2007 undergraduate seminar, "Toward an Ethical CO2 Emissions Trajectory for Princeton," which was offered through the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI). That course explored what other academic, civic, and nonprofit groups were proposing and what the University could achieve at a reasonable cost.
Other colleges and universities, however, have chosen different targets, which makes comparisons difficult. Judging strictly by the numbers, Princeton's goal seems conservative. Dartmouth, for example, seeks to achieve emissions 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Brown seeks to get its emissions 15 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, but only for existing buildings. Harvard seeks a 30 percent reduction from 2006 levels by 2016. But without detailed analysis, experts say, it's impossible to compare the programs. Several point out that institutions that have done the least so far can propose larger reductions going forward than those that already have made the easiest and most obvious changes.
Nevertheless, several institutions already are reporting significant greenhouse reductions. The College of the Atlantic claims to be carbon neutral, while Bowdoin College has reduced its greenhouse-gas emissions by 11 percent since 2002. However, the two Maine colleges have significantly smaller campuses and student bodies than does Princeton, and both have relied heavily on wind power from generators in the Maine mountains.
Many universities also claim to have reduced their greenhouse emissions by buying carbon offsets, a practice in which an institution does not cut its own carbon emissions, but instead pays another group or person in another part of the world to reduce its emissions. Princeton has insisted that it meet its targets without buying offsets.
"Ethically, we have a problem with them," Weber says. "They can be a short-term transitional strategy, but they aren't a long-term solution." James Kuczmarski '08, a business analyst for McKinsey & Co. who studied sustainability efforts at other universities while a student at the Woodrow Wilson School, agrees. "It is easy," he says, "for a university to take the easy way out and get carbon neutrality by buying it." Mauzerall points out that Princeton's approach guarantees "that the [additional] reductions are actually occurring" — something that's not as certain with offsets.
One sore point for many is Princeton's unwillingness to sign the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment (PCC), in which signatories pledge to make their campuses carbon neutral and increase sustainability programs and awareness. More than 660 institutions have signed, and although Penn and Cornell are the only Ivy League institutions to have done so, neither has set a target date for achieving carbon neutrality.
Sherrerd Hall optimizes energy-efficiency by means of a green roof, windows that reduce the amount of sunlight shining inside, and enhanced controls for HVAC and lighting.
Other parts of Princeton's plan are evident in initiatives across campus — on roofs, in dining halls and dormitory bathrooms, and in Lake Carnegie. For example, new construction, most of it on the lower part of campus, could mean more pollution in the lake. To minimize runoff, Butler College has a 5,000-gallon underground cistern to collect rainwater, which can be recycled to help landscape irrigation. Another cistern beneath the chemistry building is expected to collect enough water to run the building's toilets.
An independent audit of University water consumption in 2005–06 estimated that Princeton consumed 316 million gallons of water each year for everything from dormitory showers to watering the athletic fields. By installing low-flow aerators, low-flow showerheads, and dual-flush toilets in all residence halls, the University estimates that it has cut water usage there by 25 percent since 2007. Similar efforts are under way to cut usage at athletic facilities and academic and administrative buildings.
Other projects include planting 27 new acres of woodland and planting more perennials and fewer annuals (which require more care) in campus gardens. Hardier strains of grass on campus lawns will require less water and fewer chemicals, while more efficient mowers are being purchased to cut them. All landscape trimmings now are being composted.
Recycling cans are in evidence all around campus, and the percentage of items recycled has risen from 38 in 2007 to 42 percent today, toward a goal of 50 percent by 2012. Landfill waste decreased by 7.4 percent in the first six months of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. More than 8,600 tons of debris from the demolition of Butler College dorms were recycled.
Sustainable food, which includes cage-free eggs, grass-fed beef, and locally roasted coffee, accounts for 60 percent of all University food purchases, up from just 36.3 percent two years ago. (Princeton defines sustainable food as food that is locally grown, organic, humanely produced, or socially just.) Stuart Orefice, the director of dining services, says he wants to increase that level, although some limitations on local purchasing may be insurmountable. "Perhaps someday we will produce that local banana, but I fear it will not be in my lifetime," he says. More food is being purchased within 200 miles of campus, and a group of eating-club chefs has begun discussing whether to buy food jointly in order to reduce the amount of driving required as well as to save money.
Three of the six dining halls now offer trayless dining, which the University says can reduce food waste by 30 percent (if you have to carry your food, you tend to take less of it). The initiative soon will include all campus dining halls. Trayless food that inevitably will be dropped on the floor will be cleaned up with Green Seal-certified cleaning products. New automated floor-cleaning machines, which are being introduced, use ionized water and eliminate the need for chemical cleaners altogether. Eighty percent of hand-cleanser dispensers also use Green Seal products, which use 24 percent less soap. Old hand-towel dispensers are on their way out, replaced with non-electric dispensers that mete out smaller sheets of paper, which is expected to save 445 miles of hand towels per year. Most of the dining-hall dishwashers have been replaced with newer, more energy-efficient models, saving an estimated 300,000 gallons of water a year. Princeton also sends all of its food waste — a staggering 851 tons in 2008 — to a local pig farmer, for use as slop.
The University Purchasing Department now provides OfficeMax with reusable containers for deliveries to campus, saving an estimated 1,100 corrugated boxes per month. A large majority of academic departments use entirely post-consumer recycled paper, and paper usage overall is declining: Princeton purchased 28 fewer tons of paper in 2009 than in 2008. Fewer pages being printed means less ink is being used to print them, and the University bought 1,737 fewer toner cartridges in 2009.
Sustainability has been woven not only into extracurricular activities but into the curriculum itself, taking the form of a kind of secular religion. According to the University, at least 51 courses, across all departments, have a sustainability component, such as — to pick just one example — a course in environmental justice offered last spring through the Center for African American Studies. The newly opened Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment will help support research and teaching in sustainable energy development.
The Sustainable Endowments Institute, on the other hand, gives Princeton a "B" rating on its 2010 college sustainability report card, tied with Columbia and Cornell for the lowest grade in the Ivy League (Princeton received a "B-" in 2008 and a "B" in 2009). But that deserves some parsing: Princeton received grades of "A" for the supportiveness of its administration, its food and recycling programs, student involvement, and its investment priorities. Where it fell short was in categories that purported to measure the transparency of its endowment, for which it received a "D", and the degree to which shareholders are engaged, for which it received a "C." Universities should supply company-specific proxy voting records, along with information on the number of shares held, to make it possible to ascertain whether endowment investments are being made in environmentally friendly companies, says SEI spokeswoman Leah Lupkin.
Students still consume a staggering amount of paper — the equivalent of about 5,000 trees last year, according to the Office of Information Technology. The number of pages printed at the campus libraries and computing clusters increased from 8 million in 2007 to 10.5 million in 2008.
OIT, along with the Undergraduate Student Government, set a goal of reducing the number of pages printed by 20 percent over the next year, and in the fall limited undergraduates to 2,100 sheets of paper a year and graduate students to 3,000 sheets at campus printers. But the quota is higher than the number of pages the average student prints in a year, which raises the question of what exactly is being accomplished. (Students also can continue to print as much as they want from their personal printers.) While conceding that the program "certainly isn't perfect," Weber says it was meant to raise awareness and curtail the small number of students who took the most advantage of unlimited printing.
Students don't think the quota will have much effect. Sara Oon '10 says the quota has made her more aware of what she is printing, but she never has used more than 2,100 sheets in a year and is "still printing everything I need to print." Says Doug Sprankling '10: "People who would have printed under [the quota] will print the same amount and will be justified in printing that amount. And people who have reason to print more will still have that reason, and they will just request more," he adds, referring to a policy that allows students to ask for additional paper.
A pilot program during the fall term to provide students and faculty in three courses with the Kindle DX electronic reader demonstrates how hard it can be to go paperless: Many users have reported that while the Kindle is good for leisure reading, it may be impractical for course reading because of the difficulty of annotating the text.
Weber counters that such objections most likely will diminish over time. Students who experience the switch to trayless dining or low-flow showerheads may complain, but the next generation, which will not have known anything different, will not. In the meantime, the way to spur people's commitment is to make sustainability fun, or at least engaging.
PAW intern Emily Silk '10 contributed to this article.


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70% of Global Cocoa Supply Agrees to Forest Action
News article15 Nov 2017
At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23), top cocoa-producing countries Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana have announced far-reaching joint Frameworks for Action with leading chocolate and cocoa companies to end deforestation and restore forest areas.
Central to the Frameworks is a commitment to no further conversion of any forest land for cocoa production. The companies and governments pledged to eliminate illegal cocoa production in national parks, in line with stronger enforcement of national forest policies and development of alternative livelihoods for affected farmers. The two countries produce nearly two-thirds of the world's annual supply of cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate and a range of other consumer products.
The set of public-private actions announced today represent unprecedented commitments on forest protection and restoration, and sustainable cocoa production and farmer livelihoods. These combined actions, which are aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement, will play a crucial role in sequestering carbon stocks and thereby addressing global and local climate change.
Signatories and organizing parties just after the signing ceremony in Bonn at COP23
Both countries announced plans to introduce a differentiated approach for improved management of forest reserves, based on the level of degradation of the forests. Up-to-date maps on forest cover and land-use, as well as socio-economic data on cocoa farmers and their communities will be developed and publicly shared by the governments. Chocolate and cocoa industry agree to put in place verifiable monitoring systems for traceability from farm to the first purchase point for their own purchases of cocoa, and will work with the governments of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana to ensure an effective national framework for traceability for all traders in the supply chain.
Joost Oorthuizen, Executive Director of IDH: 'The joint commitment of leading cocoa companies, governments, civil society and donors to end deforestation in cocoa is crucial to its success. It is great that we have achieved this commitment in only six month. Now we need to translate the Joint Framework of Acton into tangible activities on the ground to make it happen. The next steps will be to organize meetings in Côte D'Ivoire and Ghana with companies, governments and other partners to set that process in motion'.
The two governments and companies agree through the Frameworks to accelerate investment in long-term sustainable production of cocoa, with an emphasis on "growing more cocoa on less land,". Key actions include provision of improved planting materials, training in good agricultural practices, and development and capacity-building of farmers' organizations. Sustainable livelihoods and income diversification for cocoa farmers will be accelerated through food crop diversification, agricultural inter-cropping, development of mixed agro-forestry systems, and other income generating activities designed to boost and diversify household income while protecting forests.
The governments and companies, which represent and estimated 80+ percent of global cocoa usage, commit to full and effective consultation and participation of cocoa farmers in the process, and promotion of community-based management models for forest protection and restoration. The governments will assess and mitigate the social impacts and risks of any proposed land-use changes on affected communities, and ensure provision of alternative livelihoods and restoration of standard of living of affected communities as needed.
The governments and companies have committed to a comprehensive monitoring process, including a satellite-based monitoring system to track progress on the overall deforestation target, and annual publicly disclosed reporting on progress and outcomes related to the specific actions in each Framework.
Speaking at the event, Côte d'Ivoire Minister of Water and Forests Alain Richard Donwahi said, "The forests of Côte d'Ivoire are an essential resource for the socio-economic development of our country. We support this Framework for Action and the vision it lays out for preserving and restoring our forests, including the national parks. We are pleased that the Framework is aligned with our National Policy of Preservation and Rehabilitation of Forests and the REDD+ strategy to secure our natural resources and help us to implement it."
"The Government of Ghana is committed to upholding the actions agreed in this framework and will do our part to ensure the Framework's success." said Ghana Minister of Lands and Natural Resources John Peter Amewu, "This includes enhancing environmental governance and supportive measures that enable cocoa farmers to adopt cocoa agroforestry practices that are climate-smart and well integrated with our REDD+ strategies."
World Cocoa Foundation Chairman Barry Parkin said, "These comprehensive Frameworks for Action are important landmarks as they spell out a series of steps by both governments and industry to stop deforestation in cocoa-growing areas. In making good on these commitments, the public and private sectors will be partnering on actions that result in cocoa becoming a serious agroforestry crop, where different trees and crops co-exist on the same land and previously deforested land is being rehabilitated. This approach could serve as a model for other commodities."
Frameworks are available here:
Ghana CFI Framework – Final
CDI Framework – Final
Read more about the Cocoa and Forests Initiative
Sector: Cocoa
Initiative: Cocoa & Forests Initiative
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The Bund of Kobe, looking West. The building with the columns is No.2. It originally housed the offices of Walsh Hall & Co., but was later sold to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. On its eastern side are the offices of tea exporter Smith, Baker & Co., located at No.3. At the far end of the avenue is the Hyogo Hotel. See 80221-0015 – Kaigandori for a later view of the same location.


Is it possible to invoke a method in your VSIX application when the user clicks on a magnet link?
If so, can anyone link me an article how to do that, or give a brief explanation.
I don't know if magnet link is the correct term for this, I'm basically trying to run a method when the user presses on a button. Some websites can launch (or prompt to launch) their application when clicked on a button/link (A game named Roblox has this). That's what i'm trying to achieve essentially.


Born eight weeks premature, Rilee's lungs weren't fully developed. An enlarged liver further restricted his lung function. He required a trach, ventilator support and g-tube feedings.
After a successful liver transplant, PHS infusion nurses, respiratory therapists, dietitians, and home care nurses weaned him off ventilation and in 2013, Rilee was decannulated.
Physically and developmentally, Rilee will continue improving and grow to be like any other child his age.


Amongst all the sports, the majority of people are going crazy over soccer. This sport is played by two opposing teams consisted of eleven (11) players. Each team defends goal at the opposite end of the field and can gain points by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line or by drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the team's goal posts.
If you'll take time to analyze how the game works, you'll come up with a realization that the game really requires hard work and practice for both teams to make a score. But, do you know that practice and hard work is nothing if the players do not use the right set of gear during the game.
Using proper gear in the game of football is essential for players because it can prevent injuries and can boost player's performance in the field. What are essential gears needed by soccer players?
A pair of great soccer cleats is essential for the game. It is highly recommended that the shoes are sturdy, comfortable, and appropriate on any football level. Similar to other gear, players have choices when it comes to football cleats. They can select from high-tops, mid-highs, and low-tops.
In the game of soccer, players can choose from two types of helmets such as air helmets and suspension helmets. Whatever the player chose, they both provide protection to the players head. Players must use any of these helmets at all times during the practice and on the actual game.
Using of a facemask with this kind of sport is essential. It protects the players face from attaining any injuries. But unlike other masks, soccer facemask resembles a cage in front of the helmet which is made from steel but is covered with plastic.
This gear varies in size and style in order to accommodate the size of the player. In choosing their shoulder pads, the players must ensure that it's comfortable and fits their body correctly. To prevent any sort of injury, they must fasten all the straps and buckles.
All levels of soccer game require players to wear mouth guards, but the style fully depends on the player's choice. They have three kinds of mouth guards to choose from such as the Basic Mouth Guard, The Boxer Style Mouth Guard, and The Lip Guard.
These are the essential gears needed by players in the game football. It is important that they use it every time they are in practice and in the game to ensure their safety and to prevent having extreme injuries.
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Clippers reserves finish off a chippy victory over Trail Blazers
Rodney McGruder is hugged by Clippers teammate Patrick Beverley after making a key three-point shot against the Trail Blazers on Saturday.
(Kim Klement / Associated Press)
By Andrew Greif
Aug. 8, 2020 Updated 8:40 PM PT
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Dressed in street clothes because of an injury, Clippers guard Patrick Beverley opened his right hand and waved goodbye toward Portland's opposing bench during the final seconds of the Clippers' 122-117 victory Saturday inside HP Field House.
Five minutes before, the Clippers removed leading scorer Paul George in a three-point game and inserted a lineup featuring just one starter against a Trail Blazers lineup with four. Coach Doc Rivers said the decision was rooted in players reaching their allotted minutes limit because the Clippers play Brooklyn on Sunday. The decision was also read in the moment as gamesmanship because the Clippers had chosen to rest Kawhi Leonard for the game.
The Trail Blazers are chasing the eighth seed in the Western Conference, and a victory would have helped last year's conference finalists — red-hot thus far in the seeding round of the NBA restart — toward a potential first-round matchup against the Lakers.
And yet the Clippers' reserves willed a victory, leading the team's bench to erupt with every surprise bucket in a chippy contest. Backup forward Patrick Patterson tied the score with one minute remaining before a layup by Portland's Damian Lillard broke a 115-all tie with 41 seconds left.
Reserve guard Rodney McGruder, a 27% three-point shooter, drilled a three from the top of the arc with 26 seconds left for a one-point lead.
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Jamal Murray scored 23 points in his first game of the NBA restart, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Utah Jazz 134-132 in two overtimes Saturday.
Lillard, an 88.9% career free-throw shooter and a star renowned for his clutch performances, could have pushed the Trail Blazers ahead but missed two free throws with 18 seconds remaining. He missed a three-point try in the final seconds that could have tied the score.
"I was shocked" by the misses, Rivers said, "because he doesn't. He's a very clutch player."
The stunning misfires led Beverley to tap an imaginary watch on the bench, mocking Lillard's "Dame Time" celebration. He then bent over laughing with teammate Marcus Morris.
As the seconds ticked off the unpredictable victory, Beverley waved goodbye to Portland's bench using the same one-hand motion Lillard made famous last season, after his playoff series-clinching shot ended George and Oklahoma City's season.
"I've sent [Beverley] home before at the end of a game," said Lillard, who scored 22 points. "Paul George has got sent home by me last year in the playoffs. So they know the reason they're reacting like that is because of what they're expecting from me, which is a sign of respect.
"And it just shows what I've done at a high clip more times than not. So I'm not offended by it. If anything they should tell you how much it hurt them to go through what I put them through."
CJ McCollum led Portland (32-39) with 29 points, but the Trail Blazers couldn't stop the Clippers' bench from closing the game on a 17-9 run in the final five minutes.
During a first half in which the Blazers made 52% of their three-point attempts and the Clippers 50% of theirs, the teams maintained a running score and commentary. After sinking a deep three-pointer, Lillard turned toward Beverley on the bench and told him, "I want you out here" while pointing to the court. Later, during the second quarter, George repeatedly told young Portland sharpshooter Gary Trent Jr., who'd just stolen George's dribble, that he talked too much.
Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard goes up for a shot against the Clippers' Patrick Patterson in the second half.
(Kim Klement / Pool photo via Associated Press)
"It's just competition," George said. "Some people can play with talking, some people can't."
The back-and-forth continued long after the teams left HP Field House. Under an Instagram post quoting Lillard, George wrote: "And you getting sent home this year" with a laughing emoji followed by "respect."
To that, Lillard replied: "keep switching teams … running from the grind. You boys is chumps."
Before tipoff, Rivers said the decision to rest Leonard was not made with playoff ramifications in mind. Afterward, he added that George and other key contributors were pulled late because they'd reached their limit of minutes.
"The guys knew before the game we weren't going to play them but a certain amount of minutes, and I made it a point that we're going to try to win the game," Rivers said.
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Portland coach Terry Stotts cautioned before the game that only two days earlier, his team had played a Denver team resting multiple players yet barely escaped with a victory because of the effort of the Nuggets' bench.
His warning was prophetic. Hours later, he watched as a Clippers rotation full of rarely used crunch-time players snatched a victory.
"It doesn't matter who we have on the floor, what five," Clippers guard Landry Shamet said. "We're all working towards the same goal."
Three observations on the Clippers
— The Clippers (47-22) survived despite allowing 17 three-pointers for a third consecutive game. "We got lucky a little bit," Doc Rivers said. "They missed some good shots."
— Shooting guard Landry Shamet shifted into the starting lineup thanks to Kawhi Leonard's absence and produced his highest-scoring game since Feb. 13 with 19 points. Shamet made three three-pointers Saturday, as many as he'd made in his previous four games combined.
— Patrick Beverley missed his second consecutive game because of soreness in his left calf but the guard took a step forward in his recovery by participating before tipoff in light sprints and shooting drills.
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When: 6 p.m. PDT, Sunday
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Update: Leonard is expected to play after sitting out the win over Portland. The Nets have clinched a playoff spot and are trying to secure the seventh seed ahead of the Orlando Magic, who also clinched a playoff berth when Washington fell to 0-5 in the restart to the season.
Andrew Greif
Andrew Greif is the Clippers beat writer for the Los Angeles Times. He joined The Times after covering college football and sports enterprise at the Oregonian. A University of Oregon graduate, he grew up on the Oregon coast.
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Q: Compare two arrays with node.js and puppeteer I build on a web-scrapper, that, lets say scrap URLs from google
I get an array of URLs from google results:
const linkSelector = 'div.yuRUbf > a'
let links = await page.$$eval(linkSelector, link => {
     return link.map( x => x.href)
})

the output of 'links' is something like that:
[
'https://google.com/.../antyhing'
'https://amazon.com/.../antyhing'
'https://twitter.com/.../antyhing'
]

Now I have a 'blacklist', with something like that:
[
'https://amazon.com'
]

At the moment I stuck at that point where I can compare both arrays, and remove these URLs from 'links' which are listed within my blacklist.
So I came up with the idea, to get the domain of the url within my links array - like so:
const linkList = []
for ( const link of links ) {

const url = new URL(link)
const domain = url.origin
linkList.push(domain)

}

Yes, now i got two arrays which i can compare against each other and remove the blacklisted domain, but i lost the complete url i need to work with...
for( let i = linkList.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
  for( let j=0; j < blacklist.length; j++){
    if( linkList[i] === blacklist[j]){
      linkList.splice(i, 1);
    }
  }
}

Code Snippet is part of the give answer, here:
Compare two Javascript Arrays and remove Duplicates
Any ideas how can i do this, with puppeteer and node.js?

A: I couldn't find an obvious dupe, so converting my comments to an answer:
.includes:
const allowedLinks = links.filter(link => !blacklist.some(e => link.includes(e)))

.startsWith:
const allowedLinks = links.filter(link => !blacklist.some(e => link.startsWith(e)))

The second version is more precise. If you want to use the URL version, this should work:

const links = [
  "https://google.com/.../antyhing",
  "https://amazon.com/.../antyhing",
  "https://twitter.com/.../antyhing",
];
const blacklist = ["https://amazon.com"];

const allowedLinks = links.filter(link =>
  !blacklist.some(black =>
    black.startsWith(new URL(link).origin) // or use ===
  )
);
console.log(allowedLinks);

As for Puppeteer, I doubt it matters whether you do this Node-side or browser-side, unless these arrays are enormous. On that train of thought, technically we have a quadratic algorithm here but I wouldn't worry about it unless you have many hundreds of thousands of elements and are noticing slowness. In that case, you can put the blacklisted origins into a Set data and look up each link's origin in that. The problem with this is it's a precise ===, so you'd have to build a prefix set if you need to preserve .startsWith semantics. This is likely unnecessary and out of scope for this answer, but worth mentioning briefly.