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Kyle Rittenhouse's Legal Team to Sue Joe Biden For Smearing The 17-Yr-Old As A 'White Supremacist'
by Chris Menahan, Information Liberation:
Famed attorney L Lin Wood, who organized Kyle Rittenhouse's legal defense team, announced Wednesday he intends to sue Joe Biden and his campaign for libel for smearing his client as a "white supremacist" in a shameful new propaganda ad.
From Fox News, "Kyle Rittenhouse to sue Biden, campaign for libel, attorney says":
Lin Wood, Rittenhouse's civil attorney, confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday his intention to sue the former vice president and his campaign on his client's behalf, just hours after Biden posted the 50-second clip to Twitter.
The tweet, which had garnered more than 48,000 retweets and 148,000 likes by 2:35 p.m. EST, boasts the caption: "There's no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night."
There's no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night. pic.twitter.com/Q3VZTW1vUV
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 30, 2020
[…] After Biden's video was released on Wednesday, Wood announced his intention to sue and demanded a retraction.
"He falsely accused a 17-year old boy & prejudiced Kyle's legal rights," he wrote in one of a series of tweets.
Wood went on a Tweetstorm slamming Biden and his campaign:
In addition to suing Facebook for being falsely accused of being mass murderer, Kyle Rittenhouse has defamation claim against Joe Biden for falsely accusing him of being white supremacist & militia member responsible for violence in Kenosha.
Candidate Biden = Defendant Biden. https://t.co/rTvA0UU6uN
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) September 30, 2020
Biden video identifies Kyle Rittenhouse as Wallace condemns white supremacists & militia members for adding to violence in Kenosha.
Biden has forgotten @N1ckSandmann & his lawsuits against CNN & WaPo.
I am going to remind him.@realDonaldTrump is not Biden's biggest problem. https://t.co/xnJ3o63yyF
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Roger Wang was bornon 1948 in Nanjing, China, United States. Wang heads real estate firm Golden Eagle International, which builds malls and offices. The Chinese native grew up in Taiwan and came to the U.S. in pursuit of an M.B.A. in 1970. He first got rich building condos around L.A. and returned to China in 1992 to start Golden Eagle. His firm's department store arm, Golden Eagle Retail Group, trades on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
H. Roger Wang was born in 1948 in mainland China. His parents moved to Taiwan shortly after his birth. Wang immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in the 1970s. In 1973, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from Southeastern Louisiana University. In 2009, he was recognized as the university's Alumnus of the Year.
He returned to China in 1992 and founded the Golden Eagle International Group in Nanjing, starting by building a tower and opening a department store. The company became a conglomerate specializing in many things ranging from real estate development and Automotive maintenance. He founded the Golden Eagle Retail Group in 1995 to operate department stores within China, particularly Jiangsu province; the Retail Group became public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2006, ticker 3308, with Wang as the main shareholder.
He was featured in Forbes' List of billionaires (2007) and The Forbes 400 richest Americans.
He is one of the Executive Board Members of The U.S. – China Policy Foundation.
As of August 2016, Wang is the chairman of Golden Eagle. He is the former CEO, and Su Kai has been CEO since August 2014.


The old town of Lindau is located on a 70 hectare Island on Lake Constance (Bodensee) and thanks to its centuries-old buildings, the lively squares and picturesque streets, it radiates an irresistible charm.
Arriving from the mainland, after a short walk on the connecting bridge, you are suddenly immerse in history with the entrance to the main square: the "marktplatz". It is here that the historic heart of Lindau lies, and where some of the most important town monuments stand.
The centre is dominated by the main street "maximilianstrasse": boutiques and shops open along a street, complimented by Gothic and Renaissance houses, frescoed facades that alternate with elegant palaces.
Arriving at the port you cannot miss the famous lakeside promenade with its restaurants and cafes where you can enjoy a wonderful view of the bay.
Here you will find two of the city's prominent landmarks: the old lighthouse and the Bavarian lion.
The "Mangturm" is an elegant medieval building with a steep roof, while the lion is a stone sculpture that symbolizes the pride and royalty of the Bavarian people.
Lindau is a jewel on Lake Constance: the ideal stopover for a boat trip on a sunny day or a romantic evening immersed in the charm of yesteryear.
"The street markets feeling in the main streets, the big Eiskaffee and beautiful panorama from the top of the Lighthouse.
1. Walk in the little streets of the city island.
2. Reach the top of the Lindau lighthouse, the "Neuer Lindauer Leuchtturm".
3. Take a Selfie with the beautiful facade of the "Altes Rahthaus".
4: Enjoy an "eiskaffee" or a big piece of cake in one of the many bars and restaurants of the village.
3. Bregenz the austrian city of the Constance lake.
4. Zeppelin museum in Friedrichshafen.
We spent a beautiful days in this village (connected to the land with a large bridge) during Summer. It was a bit too warm, but thanks to a really good Eiskaffe (iced coffee) that refreshed us quicly, we had been ready to reach the top of the panoramic Lighthouse.
We suggets a visit from April to October and during the Christmas time. Lindau is one of the most famous destinations of the Constance lake, could be really busy during the day.
Lindau offers a large number of hotels and holiday houses. It is possible to find an accomodation on the island or in the rest of the village.
Lindau is located in the German part of lake Constance - Bodensee. It is well connected and accessible by pubblic transport. It easly reachble by car from Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Germany.
In front the island the are a lot of parking place, by a fee. The best option is to reach Lindau by boat from Bregenz or Fredrichshafen.
The island is a big pedestrian area.
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The preponderance of temptation and politicians
Discussion in 'Computer Support' started by The hook, Jan 14, 2009.
The hook Guest
"I can resist everything except temptation" OFO'FWW
How do politicians prevent themselves beign blackmailed after taking office
if they are later found to have skeletons in the cupboard?
How can you be certain the weakness of previous temptation doesn't come back
to bite you.
How do you vote for, appoint, employ someone who has a chequered history or
dirt wating to be 'unearthed'.
At what point do you become a liability if you have ever suffered the
trappings of temptation?
As a politician how do you prevent yourself from compromising your country?
Who knows? Is it all simply pot luck that you don't get hooked...
eventually?
The hook, Jan 14, 2009
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COVID: Quebec will charge unvaccinated Canadians a health fee
Residents of the Canadian province of Quebec who has not been vaccinated against COVID-19 will face a health tax.
Quebec, which has had the most COVID-related deaths in Canada, is currently dealing with an uptick in cases. On Tuesday, the premier stated that the province would be the first in the country to impose financial penalties on those who had not been vaccinated.
Although just roughly 12.8 per cent of Quebec's population is unvaccinated, they account for nearly half of all hospitalizations.
By January 1, just over 85 per cent of Quebec citizens had gotten at least one vaccine dosage, according to federal data.
People who have not yet taken their first dose of the vaccine will have to pay a "contribution," Premier Francois Legault announced during a press conference. The fee has not yet been determined, but he expects it will be substantial.
The province stated last week that evidence of immunisation would be required to shop in official cannabis and booze businesses.
A curfew has also been imposed, the pandemic's second, which runs from 22:00 to 05:00 each day. The death toll from COVID in Quebec reached 12,028 on Tuesday. It follows a 24-hour period in which 62 deaths were reported. The daily rate is close to that of January 2021, before the province's massive vaccination programme began.
According to provincial data, 45 per cent of COVID patients in intensive care have not been immunised.
On Tuesday, Quebec reported 8,710 new cases. The statistic represents a 20% positive response rate.
In Quebec hospitals, there are now 2,742 COVID patients, with 244 in intensive care.
While unusual, Quebec is not the only region on the globe considering imposing a monetary penalty on those who refuse to be injected.
Beginning later this month, Greeks over the age of 60 will be obliged to pay a €100 (£85; C$142; $113) charge for each month they remain unvaccinated. If COVID patients are not immunised, they must pay for their medical expenses in Singapore.
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New malaria vaccine is world-changing, say scientists
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The creative web design team at Third Wave Digital is proud to announce the launch of the newly, responsive Tallulah Falls School's website, tallulahfalls.org. Their first time working with Tallulah Falls, the Third Wave Digital team took their time to get to know the independent, co-educational Boarding and Day school before starting on the project.
Tallulah Falls, Third Wave Digitals' first co-educational boarding and day school client, was looking for a website that provided easy, accessible information to their current students, while also acting as a recruitment tool for potential students. By creating a user-friendly, mobile-friendly website, all of Tallulah Falls current students, faculty, administration and potential students now can access school information, calendars, student profiles and athletic schedules at a touch of a button.


The newest motherboard from ASUS is a prime example of what ASUS is all about. The P7P55-E Deluxe is based on the Intel P55 chip-set, which is more or less the budget version of the Intel X58 chipset. After you read this review, you will see there isn't anything budget about it. The P7P55-E Deluxe is a fully loaded motherboard with more bells and whistles than a new Lexus. Built from components geared toward maximum performance, this baby is aimed at the individual who wants it all. You can expect everything from great overclocking to the newest standard in data transportation in USB 3.0 and SATA III.
Jetway was nice enough to send us over their XBlue-H55, which is also based on the cheaper chip-set. It is one of a trio produced by Jetway. The other two models are the BI-751 and the HI06. Each has its own set of unique features. Out of the three, the XBlue has the between layout, feature set and colors. We will be coupling the board with a new Core i3 540 processor, a known overclocker, to see what the board has offer in graphics and overclocking headroom.
Even with the overclocking abilities of the H55M-S2H, it is still aimed at the HTPC crowd. Of which, I am a proud member. In order to get this board going, you will want to mate it with one of the new Clarkdale processors. Adding a monitor or flat screen TV will have you viewing your favorite movies or more in all their glory. If you want to see if this board has anymore surprises, then you will have to read on.
The H55 is the newest thing to come from Intel. Not surprisingly, Asrock was right there to send out boards to all review sites. We have often seen this from the 'big' companies. The first of the boards released was the H55M Pro. As all H55 motherboards, the H55Pro-M is a micro ATX offering with dual 16x PCIe slots for Crossfire support, four DIMM slots and support for DDR3 2600. We definitely can't call Asrock a budget motherboard maker anymore. There are many more features the new board has to offer and we will discuss them as we look over it. Now,we really want to know how well it will overclock. We all want to get a little bit more out of the motherboard and processor to make it worth more for our money.
Everything you have seen reviewed on Pro-Clockers lately has been about bigger, badder and ever-voracious power hungry PC equipment. It's our fault. Power is what most of us are looking for in a computer. This was even the case with laptops for a long time as well. We always looked for the most powerful laptop our money could afford. The birth of the net-top changed all that. No longer is the world looking to fork out $1000 for a desktop replacement or even a 15" dual core notebook. With the introduction of the netbook came the era of ITX based integrated motherboards with the Intel Atom processor. Our next review sample is based on this setup and we are ready to tackle nailing down its performance.
The Asrock M3A785GMH/128M is a prime example of what a media board needs to offer: numerous SATA ports, high quality on-board graphics, decent memory supports good audio. The M3A785GMH/128M has all of this and the Asrock name standing behind it. Centered around the Radeon HD 4200 iGPU, it has access to 512MB of video memory, support for DirectX 10.1 and if for some reason you need more video power, then hybrid Crossfire is a option.
Jetway was nice enough to send over to us their top board based on the new iGPU chipset. The M3A785GP-LF is a beautiful looking motherboard with its orange and white connections and slots on a bronze color PCB. Immediately, out of the box I felt we had a special board in the M3A785. Jetway did their research and introduced a solid looking motherboard with a great layout. We can talk all day about how nice the board looks, but how well does it perform? Well, we are about to find out.


What are the best yoga studios in London? Obviously this will be down to individual preference and area as London is so huge but here I will share some of my favourites. Over the past years I have been trying out as many yoga studios that I possible can and now I can probably say that I have been to the majority of them ( although new ones pop up all the time!). I have also tried to practise when I have been traveling so I have been doing yoga everywhere from Sao Paolo to Mallorca in the past year.
The Triyoga studios have been my favourites for a while now because of their spacious beautiful rooms and amazing teachers. I normally go to the Soho or the Chelsea branch and they both have loads of classes at various levels. They do hot classes which are infra-red heated (i.e. not as warm as Bikram) but the classes I prefer are Vinyasa Flow level 2 or 3. Some of their basic classes I find too easy for me. Keep an eye out for classes with Aram Raffy, Stewart Gilchrist, Natasha Kerry, Amme Poulton, Claire Missingham and Rachel Okimo. Their studios also have great cafes with smoothies, juices and food. Triyoga is perfect for beginners as they have a great variety of classes, from Kirtan and meditation to Ashtanga and Pilates. Intro offer is £20 for 2 weeks unlimited yoga and mat Pilates. I was also super happy to find out that they are on Classpass and unlike many other yoga studios on there, they actually offer out almost all of their classes.
Yotopia is not my favourite yoga venue as it's quite small and mostly packed but it still makes it to the top of my list of London yoga studios because of it's really great teachers, schedule and location. I love their classes with Alessia Avellino and Marcus Veda. It's obvious that the other students for the most part are people who come back as you see a lot of the same faces and the level of practice is quite high in general regardless of class. On Mondays they have a handstand class which is awesome! As it's such a busy studio I recommend bringing your own mat, especially if you do a class in their heated room. Their intro-offer is £35 for 20 days of consecutive yoga and they are also on ClassPass.
This beautiful studio definitely does 'power yoga' if you define that as a very, very tough and sweaty class. They don't have a lot of variation of classes (at least not last time I checked their schedule) so don't expect any Kirtan or Jivamukti action. I have a lot of guy friends who come here. Check out classes with Marcus Veda, who is an amazing teacher (and former DJ!). They have a great cafe too. Intro offer £25 for 25 days of unlimited yoga. Not on Classpass.
Great tips! Have you heard about Indaba in Marylebone? Recommend it!


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Q: CPanel is used to secured folder in my web site. How do I bypass this cpanel security for elevated users Hi I have secured my folders on my web site with CPanel. CPanel has its own folder protection built into the admin console.
I also have a separate login system that uses php.
I.e. user registers email and password which is hashed and then saved in MySqlDB.
With this they have access to all files at root level / or folders not secured by cpanel.  Folders off the root that I require elevated rights to access are locked by cpanel.
I would like to know how to bypass the cpanel security if my user is approved without adding their access manually into cpanel for cpanel secured folder.
I.e. if approved this user would have been elevated by webmaster and can now have access to secured folder / locked by cpanel.  By elevation I mean there is a tick entered manually into database that elevates user.  I.e. 1 means elevated and 0 not.  Elevated users will therefore have access to all cpanel secured folders even thought they are not created in cpanel / given rights in cpanel.
Note that access via php with registration system is automatic and managed by the user while cpanel access must be manually entered for each folder via a pop up Name and Password box.  Obviously automatic registration by user and manual rights added to a folder will never be the same. From the answers I have received it appears:
1.  I must build all access into php and use a database.
2.  Only use CPanel folder security for php classes etc. that I want secured as php bypasses the cpanel httaccess security.
Does anyone know how I can use php to restrict access to my stuff in a sub folder at folder level to all except users who I have manually elevated to the rights needed to access the folder.  I will do this directly on the database by changing a flag against their name.
I.e. how do I use php to mirror the cpanel folder security.

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Titan 34D IUS – Lockheed Martin
Family: Titan meters
Launch Mass: 725
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The Titan 34D IUS was manufactured by Lockheed Martin with the first launch on 1982-10-30. Titan 34D IUS has 0 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 0 launches. The Titan 34D was a United States expendable launch vehicle used to launch a number of satellites for military applications.
Lockheed Martin's Space Division started in the production of missiles and later ICBM's in the 1950s. Their TITAN missile system was used for 12 Gemini spacecraft and the Voyager probes. They have worked largely in collaboration with NASA on many of their probes, landers, and spacecraft, and hope to play a key role in NASA's return to the moon in 2024. Lockheed Martin is a Commercial USA entity that was founded in 1953 and is administered by .
Lockheed Martin has 7 successful launches and 1 failed launches with a total of 8 launches.
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Chelsea Youth Team
The Chelsea youth team defeated Bristol City 2-0 to go top of their U18 group. Southampton have four games in hand, however, and are expected to clinch first place. It's great to see the youth team doing so well. It seems we have lots of 17 year olds with great potential, exciting times for Chelsea.
hanuma
Ricardo Fernandes and Fabio Ferreira (the two ex Sporting kids) are very highly rated within Portugal, both providing match winning performances for their country.
Shame - Dean Furman is moving to Celtic - It's official.
Greetings from California...
Since I am quite a distance from Stamford Bridge, I have to rely upon a variety of internet based sources (including this site) for information on Chelsea along side watching the matches on television. Obviously, it is far simpler to obtain information on the senior squad than the youth/reserve sides.
As this season winds down, I'm looking to the future. I do not want to speculate about transfers for the senior squad, but would rather learn more about the players on the Chelsea books who might play a role, if not next season, the one after.
For example, I do know that Scott Sinclair is silly fast and a goal scorer to boot. At 17, it is a bit much of an ask for him to be included in a Chelsea first team squad next season (well, maybe in one of the domestic cup competitions), but, provided he continues to develop, I can see him playing at Stamford Bridge.
I also know that Jonas Elmer has done well in a position that Chelsea seem to have a great deal of difficulty staffing, but since he has only been with the club for less than a season and with Bridge's future yet to be clarified, it doesn't seem likely that next season will see him at Stamford Bridge.
If possible, I would love to have some observations on Michael Mancienne, both the Younghusband boys, the two portugese boys Ricardo Fernandes and Fabio Ferreira, and the England U-17s Jack Cork and Ryan Bertrand.
Lastly, I would also appreciate some insight into the Football Icon boy Sam Hurrell. Despite my dislike of "reality TV," I watched the whole thing and have noticed that Hurrell has made some 7 youth squad appearances and made the reserves substitute bench recently. However, it seems as if he isn't playing a fullback role, at least from what I can tell from the line-up reports, if I'm reading them correctly. By this, I mean that typically the first name is the goalkeeper, followed by the defenders, then mids, and then forwards... Hurrell's name has more recently been later in the list. For example, the report from March 5 has Hurrell as the last name... and in the March 19 report it is shown that he was substituted in favor of Saarelma, a player the official site calls a wide left player who can also play behind the strikers.
So, if you have any insight, I'd love to read your opinions.
Location:Singapore
Sporting are famous at producing good wingers. Hope that Fabio Ferreira(Right Winger) can provide some magic in the future, and gets promoted to the first team. Ricardo is also a creative attacking midfielder... Promising youth along with Scotty Sinclair and Jimmy Smith..
Hilario Coimbra
Location:Boston, USA
Team:Chelsea, Flamengo
Great first post, and welcome to CFCnet.
You claim to not be able to follow the reserves and youth team squad too well, but you sure know a lot about them! :)
I think you are spot on with Scott Sinclair being the most promising of the bunch. He just broke into the reserve squad a few weeks ago though, so I think his first team debut is probably still a bit far away. Maybe in the second half of next season. Sometimes I wish we put our reserve players out for the Carling Cup like Arse and ManU, would do those boys good!
As for Elmer, he shows very promising signs sometimes, and other times seems quite inexperienced out in the pitch. So he is still a year or so off I think.
As for Hurrell, I also made the same observations you did. I guess he might be playing as a left midfield, which I guess isn't too much of a difference from the attacking fullback roll he was playing before.
Frewm
Team:Chelsea F.C.
In this day and age, it seems like for every few years for most clubs they uncover a gem. It's been a few years now since JT first debuted for us (1998), so we really are due a new star from the youth ranks. I don't want to put too much expectation on Sinclair & Grant, but they really are the two I have my eye on. Both seem to be under the eye of the management too, as Sinclair was obviously advanced very quickly in the Reserves, and of course Grant made his debut for the First Squad last year.
Of the rest of that bunch, if we unearth anyone else in my opinion it will be a huge bonus.
Welcome to CFCnet GOM.
I hope Scott Sinclair will be the next Special One.
He is really the only promising one we have in our youth/reserves set-up. There are many more names being mentioned but we have said in the past that Neil Shipperley and Jody Morris was going to be the next "Ryan Giggs" and "Alan Shearer"!!
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Why does he want to leave to a smaller club?
quote:Originally posted by hanuma
Perhaps we should test these two guys by promoting them to the Reserves for next season. That is if you reckon they are already that good.


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Coronavirus restrictions in East Lothian: Labour 'disappointed' with Level Three but hopeful of swift relaxation
Coronavirus restrictions in East Lothian: Labour 'disappointed' with Level Three
Councillor Norman Hampshire is hopeful of a swift move to Level 2
LABOUR politicians in East Lothian have said they are "disappointed" after the county was placed in Level 3 of the Scottish Government's new coronavirus restrictions.
However, they said they were encouraged by the prospect of restrictions in East Lothian potentially being relaxed in the near future.
Councillor Norman Hampshire, depute council leader, had been involved in last-minute talks with Deputy First Minister John Swinney in a bid to see East Lothian moved to the less restrictive Level 2.
However, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced today that the county would be placed at Level 3 for the time being, despite a rate of infection more than three times lower than local authorities in the west which have been placed at the same level, including Glasgow and North and South Lanarkshire.
Reacting to the announcement, Mr Hampshire said: "Today, the First Minister indicated that two councils – Edinburgh and East Lothian – while being put in Level 3, are close to Level 2. The decision will be reviewed in a week.
"I am pleased that the FM has listened to my representations on behalf of communities and businesses across East Lothian. With that hope of progress, we must all continue to play our part in beating Covid-19 by following the public health guidance.
"While I am disappointed by today's announcement, East Lothian Council, working in partnership with public health and Police Scotland, will continue to encourage, and where appropriate, enforce the restrictions at Level 3 to stop further increases in Covid-19 cases.
"I am aware of the distress this decision will cause many local businesses and their employees, but be assured that we will continue to make the case for East Lothian to be moved down to Level 2.
"I would encourage any business or employee who is affected by this decision to contact the council to see if they qualify for a business support grant or hardship payments."
Iain Gray (Lab), East Lothian's MSP said: "The decision to put East Lothian in Level 3 restrictions from Monday is very disappointing, particularly for businesses and employees in the hospitality and tourism sector.
"While we had suspected the Government would not budge, its rationale for placing the county in Level 3 is hard to fathom.
"Most of the indicators point to Level 2 but we now find ourselves in the same tier as places like Lanarkshire and Glasgow with infection rates several times higher than ours.
"The First Minister's specific mention of an early review for East Lothian suggests the Government's decision here was on a knife edge and could hopefully still change sooner rather later.
"In the meantime, we all need to keep following the guidance to help ensure we can suppress the infection rate and try to move into Level 2 as quickly as possible."


Beloved and award-winning author M.T. Anderson joins Not Your Mother's Book Club and the San Francisco Public Library in celebration of his newest YA novel, Landscape with Invisible Hand! Called "an elegant, biting, and hilarious social satire that will appeal to dissatisfied, worried readers of all ages" by Booklist, M.T. Anderson's new novel is a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization. A portion of sales made during this event will benefit our friends at the San Francisco Public Library's new teen center, The Mix.
About Landscape with Invisible Hand: When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth -- but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really be called an invasion when the vuvv generously offered free advanced technology and cures for every illness imaginable? As it turns out, yes. With his parents' jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv's miraculous medicine, Adam and his girlfriend, Chloe, have to get creative to survive. And since the vuvv crave anything they deem "classic" Earth culture (doo-wop music, still-life paintings of fruit, true love), recording 1950s-style dates for the vuvv to watch in a pay-per-minute format seems like a brilliant idea. But it's hard for Adam and Chloe to sell true love when they hate each other more with every passing episode. Soon enough, Adam must decide how far he's willing to go -- and what he's willing to sacrifice -- to give the vuvv what they want.


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Sika opens second production facility in Angola
Sika is expanding its presence in Africa and opening a new facility in the Angolan capital, Luanda. In addition to the production of concrete admixtures in an existing factory, mortar products – one of the Sika Group's fastest growing areas of business – will also be manufactured locally.
With the additional production capacities in Angola, Sika is moving further toward its goal of covering about 70 % of the market potential on the African continent with its own subsidiaries and production facilities. In this West African nation, the construction industry is receiving considerable impetus from major investments in infrastructure and in residential, industrial and commercial properties. Sika has also recently commissioned mortar production facilities in the countries of Nigeria and Ivory Coast.
Ivo Schädler, Regional Manager EMEA: "In the last five years alone, we have greatly strengthened our presence on the African continent, and now have 19 national subsidiaries and 18 production facilities. We are positioning ourselves in the markets early so that we can benefit from the construction boom triggered by rapid population growth and urbanization. We have been highly successful with this strategy in Africa: in the last five years we have seen 22 % annual growth."
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Sika expands in Pakistan with new production facility
With the commissioning of a new factory for mortar products and concrete admixtures, Sika has expanded its manufacturing capacity in Pakistan and is responding to the country's construction boom....
Sika expands its presence in UAE with a new factory in Dubai
Sika is developing its operations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the opening of a new factory in Dubai. An existing production facility for concrete admixtures has been relocated to the new...
Issue 2019-5 SIKA AG
Sika starts mortar production in Senegal
Sika is expanding production capacity in Senegal, West Africa, by opening a mortar production facility at its existing factory in Dakar. The plant will initially manufacture tile adhesives, grouts,...
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Sika opens new production facility in Tanzania
Sika is setting up production in Tanzania and is opening a concrete admixtures factory. Sika is the first company to manufacture these products locally. Plans are already being made to add a mortar...
Sika's first factory in Senegal starts operations
Sika is continuing to expand its production capacity in West Africa with the opening of a concrete admixture factory in Senegal. The new plant is the first in the country and will be further expanded...


Playing with Papercrafting: Happy Canada Day and Blog Candy!
This is a perfect card for Canada Day! Why? Well, because Canada does multiculturalism so well, most of the time. This card uses a stamp set called "World Treasures" and it totally says India and Bollywood to me. Did you know that Toronto, Canada was a major production center for Bollywood films?
I LOVE the peacock image and what you can do with it. I stamped it five times using Pacific Point, Gumball Green, Pool Party, Lucky Limeade and Tempting Turquoise, then did a lot of fussy cutting! I layered each stage of the image using dimensionals and added lots of Basic Rhinestones for major bling! I also added some Shimmer paint to the peacock's body and to the Pacific Point Fancy Fan embossed background behind. I think it's so cool that the Gumball Green panel, cut with the Apothecary Accents framelit, looks like an Indian archway when it is placed vertically.
The DSP I used behind the sentiment is from the International Bazaar series and give a bright and exotic look to the card, and take a close look at the Stitched Satin ribbon in Midnight Muse. I'm planning to get all the colours because they look so rich and decorative!
Would you like to win this stamp set? Leave a comment on this post and I will enter your name in a draw. Sorry, but I can only ship to Canadian destinations! For a second chance to win, "Like" my Facebook page.
Hope you enjoyed this international travelogue and you are having a wonderful time celebrating Canada, the True North Strong and Free!
Amazing card! Loving the fun colors and mix of patterns. You're right, the framelit does have an Indian flare to it! Beautiful!
I've got your name in the draw, crys!
I've got your name in, too, Tamara.
I gave you a grandson too! Can I enter in the draw?
I guess so, kiddo! But it's still gonna look bad if you win!
I don't think that it would look bad if the girls win! You just might have to produce two sets though, one for each of them. Congratulations on your two beautiful boys. I guess the pressure is on Erin to give you a girl, eh? lol. Your cards are sooo beautiful, I can't believe what an incredible imagination you have to come up with these ideas.
Looks good on you Heather! Too bad they don't live closer to you. Enjoy ladies, it passes too quickly.
Thanks, Eunice! I'll enter you in my draw.
Thanks, Candace. I'll enter you in my draw as well.
He is presious Heather! Thanks so much for shareing such an amazing and beautiful baby boy. I also LOVE your colour combination. You are right World treasures is Canadian.
Jillian, I will enter your name in my draw. Thanks for leaving a comment!
Beautiful beautiful beautiful! Baby, card photos, everything!
Thanks so much for leaving a comment, Amanda! Your name goes into my draw!


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Констанций Дука () — сын и соправитель византийского императора Константина X Дуки от Евдокии Макремволитиссы. Младший брат императора Михаила VII Дуки. Когда Михаил в 1078 году отрёкся от престола, Констанций не смог противостоять Никифору III Вотаниату и стать императором.

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После его рождения он был коронован со-императором вместе со своим братом Михаилом VII Дукой. Его другой брат Андроник Дука также стал со-императором восемь лет спустя. Он сохранял титул императора во время правления Романа IV Диогена и его старшего брата Михаила VII как старших императоров. В 1078 году, когда правление Михаила закончилось восстанием в Константинополе, он отрёкся от престола в пользу Констанция, поскольку Андроник умер за год или два до этого. Его единственным конкурентом был Никифор III, который направлялся в Константинополь, когда пришло известие о свержении Михаила.

Вскоре стало очевидно, что Констанций совершенно неспособен возглавить империю. Хотя войска в Малой Азии провозгласили его императором, его неспособность править вскоре стала настолько очевидной, что его собственные сторонники доставили его к Никифору III, который вынудил его стать монахом и поселился на одном из Принцевых островов в Пропонтиде.

К 1081 году император Алексей I Комнин вновь призвал его на службу в Константинополь, поскольку женился на представительнице семьи Дук. Его послали воевать с норманнами, где он и погиб, сражаясь с ними в Дурресе в 1082 году.

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Византийские императоры XI века
Насильно постриженные в монахи
Монархи, погибшие в бою
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Warner Bros. has released a huge banner for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. The studio has released a banner like this for each of their Hobbit films and they are always awe-inspiring. I love the epicness of it, make sure to click on the image above to see it in all its glory. It's full of great little details.


In western Massachuetts, where I live, Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares represents a creative mashup of the CSA farm model (community-supported agriculture) with concert production.
But by systematically presenting a degrowth theory from one particular perspective – an ecological economics perspective with anti-capitalist leanings – the book is a welcome addition to degrowth scholarship.
A conversation between Emanuele Di Francesco and Tim Jackson, discussing post-growth concepts of a circular economy, the limits of labour productivity and the dynamics of inequality.
Here's a fascinating sign that commoning is growing as a social and political form: new histories are being written to trace its recent evolution! The latest example is a new book released by The Institute for Political Ecology in Zagreb, Croatia, has recently published.


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Honeywell technology selected for China's largest petrochemicals project
Published by Alex Hithersay, Editorial Assistant
Hydrocarbon Engineering, Friday, 18 January 2019 09:00
Honeywell has announced that Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC) will use a range of process technology from Honeywell UOP for the second phase of an integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, China.
The complex is one of several new large industrial sites that are part of China's current national economic development plan.
In the first phase of the project announced in 2017, ZPC selected Honeywell UOP technologies for hydroprocessing and heavy oil upgrading, and to make aromatics for plastic resins, films and fibres.
For this second phase of the project, Honeywell UOP will supply a wide range of technology licenses, engineering design, key equipment, and catalysts and adsorbents, more than doubling the plant's aromatics capacity. In addition, the Honeywell Experion® Process Knowledge System will provide process controls and automation systems for the complex.
"This second phase of the complex by itself will process 20 million tpy of crude oil and produce another 6 million tpy of aromatics when completed," said Bryan Glover, vice president and general manager, Process Technology and Equipment, at Honeywell UOP. "It will be the largest crude-to-chemicals complex in the world, with more than 50% of the crude converting to petrochemicals. Due to its sheer scale, the complex will help China move closer to achieving self-sufficiency in paraxylene while serving as a major new source of propylene, jet fuel and more."
The second phase of the project will include:
A two-train LD Parex™ aromatics complex – including the UOP Sulfolane™, Isomar™ and Tatoray™ processes – for the production of 4.8 million tpy of paraxylene, a primary ingredient in plastics
A refining section with three Honeywell UOP Unicracking™ process units to convert vacuum gas oil and distillate into petrochemical feedstock.
Two Continuous Catalyst Regeneration (CCR) Platforming™ units to produce aromatics and blend stocks for making high-octane fuels, and a reverse Butamer™ unit to produce normal butane.
Honeywell Experion® Distributed Control Systems designed and configured for Honeywell UOP processes.
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The Virtues of Legislation Without Representation
Laws with consequences that cross state lines force the citizens of a politically divided nation to engage each other's ideas.
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Want to kick-start a political brouhaha? Here's one way to do it: Pass a law in a red state that affects the citizens of a blue state, or vice versa. Folks in the affected state will be outraged, most people will shake their heads, and a few may even sue.
It happens all the time. Here's a sampling of state regulations that have made headlines in recent months: Vermont has required food producers that use genetic modification to disclose this fact on the label of any food sold in that state, even if the producer has no facilities in Vermont. Minnesota has prohibited the purchase of electricity that was generated at new coal-fired power plants, even if those power plants are located outside Minnesota. Colorado has legalized marijuana, prompting a lawsuit from neighboring states frustrated with an uptick in drug trafficking within their own borders.
California, not to be outdone, has irked its sister states on a regular basis. One recent California law requires that all eggs sold in that state must come from hens that had enough room to spread their wings in their cages, even if those cages were located outside California. Another regulation requires out-of-state fuel producers to meet in-state carbon-emissions standards if they want to sell their products in the Golden State, which effectively ensures that California—not Congress or the EPA—sets national emissions standards. Yet another law prohibits the sale of foie gras in California if the meat was sourced from birds that were force-fed, a process common in other states. Unsurprisingly, each one of these regulations has prompted a federal lawsuit challenging the state's ability to control conduct outside its borders.
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We have a name for this phenomenon: spillovers. And spillovers are all but universally condemned. It's not hard to see why. It is unsettling when one state's policies stretch beyond its territories. It prevents citizens of the affected state from making their own decisions and adopting their own policies. No one wants to live under someone else's law, after all. If anything, it seems illegitimate for one state's citizenry to tell another's what to do. The value of self-rule is so deeply ingrained in our democratic culture that you might think that no good can come from spillovers.
Think harder. Critics of spillovers miss two crucial points about this phenomenon. For one thing, spillovers hardly go against the spirit of our political system—indeed, they are, and always have been, a reality of American government. And, more importantly, they are far from the unmitigated harm to democratic self-rule that critics accuse them of being. While spillovers undoubtedly involve real costs, they also generate substantial democratic benefits. That's because democracy isn't just about self-rule; it's also about ruling together. Because we've all retreated to all-too-comfortable red or blue enclaves, it's very useful for our worlds to collide now and then. Those collisions give us a chance to see how other people live, to live under someone else's law, to try someone else's policy on for size. They force us to engage with our opponents and search for common ground. In other words, spillovers ensure that, even in this highly polarized political environment, we still engage in the everyday practice of pluralism.
If you're worried about spillovers, well, there's a lot to worry about. That's because they are absolutely routine in a highly integrated, tightly networked system like ours. When California passes climate-change regulations, Detroit automakers are forced to manufacture more environmentally friendly cars for everyone lest they lose the huge California market. When Texas insists that the textbooks in its schools question evolution, school boards across the country find themselves purchasing textbooks that are considerably more conservative than their population. When Wisconsin refuses to do business with any company that has violated federal labor law, companies must change their practices nationwide in order to compete in the state. When Virginia and Georgia maintain lax gun rules, firearms flood into New York via the "Iron Pipeline."
Policy-making would certainly be simpler if states' policies never crossed territorial lines. Every state could regulate entirely as it sees fit. But these United States are closely knit. When states regulate shoulder-to-shoulder in a tight policy-making space, it's inevitable that they will end up jostling one another. Regulatory overlap is a stubborn fact.
But even if you could wish away the current state of affairs, why would you? We could surely try to turn back the clock and return to a simpler time. But the price of maintaining clear jurisdictional lines and limited policy-making domains is too steep. We'd have to give up on a nationally integrated market. We'd have to give up on a nationally integrated political system. We might even have to stop our citizens from crossing state lines. In the abstract, self-rule sounds like an unalloyed good. In practice, it isn't. Self-rule always requires a trade-off. And when we recognize the many goods we'd have to sacrifice to attain it—the goods associated with integration—the trade-off is less appealing.
Indeed, there are good reasons not just to tolerate spillovers, but to value them. There are genuine benefits associated with living under someone else's law. Democratic self-rule is always played as if it were a trump card in these debates. It's not. There are serious democratic goods associated with the chaos and consternation that spillovers generate. Spillovers cause friction, and friction has its uses in a political system.
That may be a counterintuitive point. But democracy benefits top to bottom from spillovers. That's because interstate spats spur democratic engagement, and democratic engagement is in short supply in this day and age.
Let's start at the top: the national policy-making process. Needless to say, that process is not working. In this highly partisan environment, members of Congress think it's safer to name post offices than to pass laws. They leave the hard democratic decisions to the states and localities, where policy-making is easier because we've sorted ourselves so neatly into red and blue enclaves. What Bill Bishop calls "the big sort" has ensured that most of us are nestled comfortably in the domain of our choice, whether it resembles Fort Worth or Portland.
It's all too easy for national elites to relegate tough questions to local decision-makers rather than forge a compromise at the national level. Federalism gives license to national politicians to take the easy way out. Just as it was once too easy to let states in the Jim Crow South resolve questions of racial equality for themselves, today it's too easy for the national government to let states navigate the hard questions raised by gun rights, gay rights, and abortion.
Red and blue silos are not the products of a well-functioning national democracy. Democracy means hashing things out. It's perfectly fine if, at the end of the day, we decide that states and localities can pursue different paths. A well-functioning democracy doesn't require rigid uniformity; it requires us to deliberate about which departures from national policy are consistent with our norms and which are outside the bounds. Nowadays, however, we aren't deliberating—we're just punting. The reason states and localities are pursuing such different paths isn't that we've decided that, all things considered, these are worthy paths to pursue. It's because we are so divided that we can't even have a conversation about national norms in the first place, let alone make a collective decision about when and how they should matter.
Spillovers are one solution to this problem. For one thing, they thrust certain issues onto the national agenda, which is incredibly hard to do these days. When one side forces its unwelcome policies on the other, the aggrieved party almost inevitably looks for a federal referee. When California enacted strict environmentalist policies, auto executives from Detroit begged the EPA to step in and preempt them. When Hawaii threatened to legalize same-sex marriage, opponents of marriage equality sought assurances from Congress that they need not recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Spillovers, in short, pull national elites into the conversation. And once national elites are drawn into the conversation, they will begin pounding the table and pressing for change, thus drawing even more attention to an issue.
California's egg law shows how spillovers can tee up an issue for national resolution. Insisting that so-called "battery cages" are inhumane, California adopted a law in 2010 that banned the sale of eggs laid by hens that had been confined in cramped spaces. Because the regulation affected so many out-of-state companies, it kicked off a nationwide debate. California insisted that its law was necessary to protect animal welfare. Missouri argued that the law placed egg producers between a rock and a hard place: Either invest millions in new cages or else forfeit the vast California market entirely.
This spillover caused by a state law generated a valuable national debate that otherwise might never have occurred. By 2012, Congress was considering a federal "egg bill" that would have made California's standards binding on the whole nation. Interest groups began commissioning reports on the costs and benefits of battery cages. Conditions at factory farms—a topic that most Midwestern politicians prefer to ignore—became a major news story. Political pressures generated by the debate forced big agribusiness to compromise with animal-rights groups and support some restrictions on battery cages. Although that compromise was not enough to secure final passage of the federal farm bill, a similar deal may be sealed when the next farm bill comes up for debate later this year. In the meantime, the California law went into effect in January 2015, and the debate California set in motion rages on. Whatever its merits, California's egg law raised public awareness and drove the parties to the negotiating table.
Spillovers don't just get issues on the national agenda; they also help break through Washington gridlock. Minorities in Congress often use procedural tools to block reforms that they oppose. When the states are doing nothing on an issue, filibustering is a no-brainer—it prevents the enactment of a nationwide policy and thus ensures a total victory to the minority. But when spillovers do exist, the calculus in Washington becomes more complicated. Even if opponents of change successfully filibuster a bill in Congress, an unchecked spillover may have regional or even national effects. The states, in effect, allow for backdoor national policy-making. As a result, the interests blocking change at the national level suddenly have an incentive to come to the bargaining table. Pure obstructionism in Congress doesn't reap the same rewards, and a compromise solution becomes more likely.
Spillovers also limit the power of special interests. Although interest groups are often able to block legislation in Congress, they have a harder time blocking legislation in all 50 states. Environmentalists, stymied in Congress by big business, convinced California to adopt carbon-emissions standards. Opponents of drones, thwarted in Congress by Boeing and Amazon, have convinced nine states to ban drone flights over private property. To be sure, the special interests that control Congress can pass legislation at the state level, too. But these state outlets matter much more to groups that don't have Congress in their pocket and thus help level the playing field. By creating a spillover, a single innovative state can put an item on the national agenda even if nearly everyone else—Congress, interest groups, and other states—would prefer that the issue go away. State spillovers at least push self-interested politicians to take a position on a question they'd rather duck, which is a democratic good unto itself.
Spillovers further ensure that policy debates are practical rather than speculative. It's always helpful to pass a reform at the state level because it proves a policy can work in practice. By forcing automakers to limit emissions in the 1970s, for example, California proved to the world that cars could be both efficient and affordable. That's precisely why Justice Louis Brandeis likened the states to policy-making laboratories for the rest of the country. Spillovers add a new twist to this analogy. Since spillovers often have regional effects, they create much bigger laboratories. Experiments yield more data in less time. Successful experiments quickly become models for national reform. Unsuccessful experiments get shut down, becoming a cautionary tale in future policy debates.
Think about the ongoing debate over the "right to be forgotten." In the past several years, reformers have argued that Internet users should be able to delete publicly posted data in order to prevent it from being discovered on search engines. Over the strong objection of Google, the Court of Justice of the European Union recently recognized this "right to be forgotten." Tech companies, appealing to notions of practicality, expense, and freedom, have so far prevented Congress from recognizing such a right. But California recently passed an "online eraser" law that requires websites directed toward minors to allow those minors to remove publicly posted content. Because California minors access websites from companies outside the state, this law has created a sizeable spillover.
That spillover, in turn, has generated a major national debate. Companies outside California have argued that they should not be forced to delete minors' data. Google, which spent $17 million on lobbying last year, has insisted that the "right to be forgotten" is expensive and impractical. Despite the powerful interests blocking debate on the Hill, California's spillover got the issue onto the national agenda. Moreover, companies like Google can no longer prevail merely by shutting down debate in Congress. And when the congressional debate does take place, we'll have had a chance to test Google's arguments against reform in a "laboratory" that is a good deal bigger than California. If the experiment proves workable, California's "eraser" law may serve as a model for future regulation; if the experiment fails, policy-makers will be all the wiser.
Spillovers likewise promote a healthy democracy at the state level. The "big sort" doesn't just excuse national officials from doing the tough work of democratic compromise. It excuses state officials as well. No state or city is homogenous, which means that state and local officials always know that some of their constituents are unhappy with the enclave they've built for their citizens, be it red or blue. But arguments for change are usually presented by people who lack the votes to do anything about it, making it easy for state and local politicians to brush them aside. There's little reason to cross party lines or compromise with those who seek change, something that can result in the same type of gridlock that exists at the federal level.
Spillovers force state and local politicians to suit up and get in the game, just as they do with national politicians. Local officials are often able to ignore their own dissenters. But one jurisdiction's dissenters are another's majority, which means they can impose from the outside positions that the minority cannot demand from the inside. And it's hard to ignore the opposition when it is imposing its views on your unhappy constituents. Oftentimes, as noted above, state politicians will look to a national referee when they encounter a spillover problem. But when a national umpire is unavailable, spillovers force state and local officials to do what they are supposed to do: politic, find common ground, and negotiate a compromise that no one likes but everyone can live with.
A classic example is the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), an act designed to harmonize commercial law across the 50 states. By the middle of the twentieth century, differing state regulations were causing huge headaches for interstate companies, which were subjected to conflicting obligations. A shipping company with operations in New York, headquarters in Delaware, warehouses in Pennsylvania, and clients in California might find itself subject to four sets of contradictory laws. Different interest groups in different places were blocking the states from offering a sensible fix. Spillover problems grew so serious that the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws drafted a model uniform code in consultation with academics and state officials. Scholars often assume that the UCC succeeded because it was a "model" code. In fact, the UCC was far from anyone's ideal. It was substantially revised to satisfy different state interests, and parts were deliberately left vague to avoid irritating powerful interest groups. Academics wring their hands over this type of politicking, but it's precisely this type of compromise that made it possible for every state to adopt the UCC. The UCC was just the type of second-best solution that spillovers generate. And second-best solutions tend to be the ones that get passed.
The lesson even holds true lower down the governance hierarchy. It turns out that intrastate spillovers can be just as beneficial as interstate ones. Localities often pass measures that ruffle the feathers of neighboring localities, just as states pass measures that ruffle the feathers of neighboring states. When this happens, aggrieved cities often ask the state government to step in as referee. Ultimately, this intrastate conflict ends up fostering the same brands of accommodation and compromise that we see among state and federal officials.
One telling example comes from Arizona, where cops in Tucson and Phoenix recently sponsored a number of gun buyback events. Furious gun-rights advocates worried that many Arizonans would trade their firearms for cash, and that the firearms would be destroyed. The buyback programs set off a statewide debate. Activists on both sides looked for a compromise. Ultimately, the governor signed a bill that allowed gun buybacks but required that law-enforcement officials sell the purchased guns to a firearms dealer instead of destroying them.
Sometimes localities pass regulations that spill over not just city lines, but state lines as well. For example, Alameda County in California has adopted an ordinance requiring any manufacturer that sells its prescription drugs in that county to develop and fund a "disposal plan" for those drugs. A federal court recently upheld that law over the strong objection of out-of-state drug companies.
Spillovers matter even at democracy's most granular level: the habits of everyday citizens. Political enclaves are an easy solution for political elites, but they're also too easy for the rest of us. When we sort ourselves into comfortable right- or left-thinking communities, it's all but inevitable that we'll ignore those with different views. Enclaves encase us in a protective policy-making bubble, shielded from laws with which we disagree. Opportunities for democratic engagement are reduced. More importantly, incentives for democratic engagement are weakened.
Spillovers enlist everyday citizens in the practice of pluralism. At the very least, they prevent us from being oblivious. Indeed, spillovers ensure that those least likely to be receptive to an idea—those nestled in enclaves with the opposite policy—confront that idea directly. The progressives who decry social conservatism might actually have to read the Texas school board's preferred texts and reflect on why other Americans think these issues are important. Opponents of same-sex marriage might find themselves living next door to a same-sex couple who got married in another state. People who insist that environmental regulations cost consumers too much might find themselves driving inexpensive cars that meet California's low-emissions standards.
Spillovers also help us identify where compromise can be found. In politics, we usually ask voters what they want rather than what they can live with. But the second is a far more important question. Spillovers elicit the answer to that question by forcing us to live under someone else's law. We must drive a more fuel-efficient car. Or teach from a textbook more conservative than we'd prefer. Or live next to someone who owns guns that would be difficult to purchase in-state.
These real-world experiences matter. It's always easy to oppose something in the abstract, but reality tends to be more complicated. In many instances, spillovers will convince us that the policy isn't as bad as we thought.
Sometimes engaging directly with a policy will cement our view that it's a mistake, and that matters as well. In our highly polarized system, it sometimes seems like we disagree about everything. Spillovers help us sort out annoying differences that prompt little more than a collective shrug from genuinely deep disagreements that require our collective attention. They help us distinguish the policies we'd reject in a poll and those we'd actually work to overturn. Spillovers can thus tell us a great deal more than polling or voting about whether a modus vivendi can be had. In other words, in an era defined by polarization, spillovers can be a powerful mechanism to mitigate the "big sort"-ing of America.
What's so striking about the near-universal hostility to interstate spillovers is that it stands in stark contrast to one of federalism's central tenets. While we mourn friction among the states, friction between the states and the federal government has been a celebrated feature of American democracy since the early days of our republic. When federal policy spills over into a traditional state domain, or state policy spills over into the federal realm, it causes the same kind of friction that arises from interstate spillovers. This friction has led to all sorts of problems, including inefficiency, conflict, and division. Federalism scholars don't deny these harms. They simply insist that we also pay attention to the productive possibilities associated with state/federal friction.
It's time to apply this lesson to the horizontal realm. Like friction between the states and federal government, friction among the states comes with both costs and benefits, and it's here to stay. Our goal, then, shouldn't be to eliminate interstate friction, but to harness it—taking advantage of its many democratic benefits while avoiding its more serious costs.
The fact that even localities can generate spillovers confirms an important lesson. In this day and age, we are so tightly bound to one another that, in effect, everyone regulates each other. When one jurisdiction moves, it inevitably tugs others along with it. We'd be better off figuring out how to benefit from the friction generated by regulatory overlap rather than hoping it will just go away.
The costs of spillovers are real and important. Sometimes the spillover game won't be worth the candle. If states impose too many conflicting regulations on companies, the economy suffers. If states can slough off the costs of their policies on other states (states with lax pollution regulations impose costs on states downriver or downwind), people suffer. And sometimes we will be so divided on an issue that compromise isn't possible and spillovers can only harden our positions.
Our point isn't that spillovers are an unmitigated good. It's that the benefits of interstate conflict—interaction, accommodation, and compromise—are substantial and have been overlooked in this debate. When we are forced to live under someone else's law, we learn to accommodate one another's preferences, to identify everyone's second-best solution, to engage in the practice of pluralism, or to at least to figure out what we really think about a question. It's not easy, and it's certainly not fun. But these democratic benefits should matter when we tote up the costs and benefits of spillovers.
The reason that the debate has been so one-sided thus far is that the arguments against spillovers—rooted as they are in the principle of self-rule—are so intuitive. But it's worth remembering that while our democratic commitments may begin with self-rule, they should not end with it. Every community would like to live by its own lights. Every person would like to live by his or her own lights. But we quickly learn that our preferences differ. Democracy requires us to do just what spillovers require us to do: Work it out. Sometimes we work it out directly. Sometimes we need a referee. Sometimes we just take our lumps and live under a policy we don't like. And we do so for a simple reason: We'd rather live with other people than without them.
This post appears courtesy of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Heather K. Gerken is an expert in election law and is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School
James T. Dawson is a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School


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PCU Zeitgeist: Awards Season 2021
Posted on May 13, 2020 by Simply Sherri in Audio/Visual, Cinema, PCU Zeitgeist, TV Talk // 0 Comments
Will Spielberg swallow his pride to get West Side Story seen?
I know we are seven months away from the start of awards season, but this coming year is setting up to be really interesting. To be eligible for an Oscar nomination, a film must usually be released in a theatre in the Los Angeles area for no less than 7 days during the eligibility period. For the Golden Globes, a special screening must be scheduled for the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press. Well, 2020 may look to change that, since all of the movie theaters have been closed since March 13th, with no firm plan on when they'll reopen.
This leads to an interesting thought experiment. The release calendar for any given year for movie studios looks something like this:
Note: The schedule is a generalization, and the table is only there to make a point. With theaters closed and film festivals canceled, the only films that were eligible to be nominated in 2021 were released during Dumping Season #1.
Below are the movies that were released in theaters in before March 30, 2020:
Before April 28th, those films were the only would-be Oscar contenders. Vulture did an outstanding job with this thought experiment. Their Best Picture nominees are quite varied, but their winner is predictable.
However, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met on April 28th to avert this fate. They have adjusted the rules for this year. If the film had a scheduled release date that was canceled due to social distancing measures and the film was released on streaming or video-on-demand service, it will be eligible for nomination in 2021. Once theaters reopen, the original rules are back in effect with additional qualifying theaters outside of Los Angeles County to make it easier for films to qualify. These changes will capture all the films released straight to streaming this Spring. According to firstshowing.net, Hollywood believes the theaters will be open by Mid-July, the first wide release, Untitled Purge Sequel, is still scheduled for July 10th. We can hold out hope that they open over the summer otherwise movies that have already been pushed back may be pushed back again.
What makes this change fascinating is that scientists are predicting that in the Fall the world could see a second wave of COVID-19 infections. This may lead to social distancing regulations being extended, and theaters closing in the middle of the Oscar season. Those films could use the new rule, release to streaming, and still qualify for nomination. This leaves me wondering if studios with Fall/Winter releases are in negotiations with the streaming platforms in case of an emergency. Which now brings me to Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg is scheduled to release a new adaption of West Side Story on December 18, 2020, clearly Oscar Bait. However, he may end the year, picking shoe leather out of his teeth. Spielberg has spoken with disdain about Netflix's Oscars eligibility, saying in 2018, "Once you commit to a television format, you're a TV movie." He championed a failing effort that films released in theaters and onto streaming platforms at the same time should be ineligible for nomination. Spielberg's remarks are from fear, be it of competition or change.
Netflix and its competitors are willing to make bold choices with original content. The quality of the productions that they submit "for your consideration' show it. Since 2018, Netflix Studios have been nominated for an Oscar in at least one of the top six award categories. A film released by Netflix took home Best Director in 2019 and they have Best Pictures nods in 2019 and 2020. It won't be long before Netflix or one of the other streaming platforms wins Best Picture, thus beating 'old Hollywood" at their game.
Spielberg has been making movies since the '70s, and understands the studio system. Consequently, he knows how to make it work for him or around it when the circumstances require. Spielberg knows how to beat other studios for box office or awards but streaming platforms are a new playground and he clearly doesn't want to learn how to play in that sandbox. Spielberg has to figure out how to adjust his thinking because with all the variables in play this year, he will have two choices come December: push the release date into 2021 or figure out how to chew and swallow Italian leather and release West Side Story on streaming.
Let's see what he does.
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Rep. Morrison speaks out against House Bill 2865
by Glenn Minnis | May 5, 2019
State Rep. Tom Morrison (R-Palatine)
Illinois State Rep. Tom Morrison believes a plan to heavily invest in the refinancing of high-cost student loan debt is not in the best interest of Illinois taxpayers.
"It's just not the proper role of state government," Morrison told North Cook News of the proposal being sold as a way to make cheaper loans available for Illinois students. "I'm concerned that at some point taxpayers would be on the hook for student loans."
Sponsored by state treasurer Michael Frerichs, House Bill 2865 could allow the state to set aside as much as $600 million, impacting up to 50,000 students, Chicago Crain's Business estimates. The measure recently passed the House by better than a 2-1 margin and now sits in the Senate for consideration.
Morrison said he has some of the same issues with the plan that he has with the one being pushed by Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren, which supporters claim would erase some $1.5 trillion in unpaid student loan debt.
"It's not fair to other taxpayers, those who didn't go to college or even those who went and took out different kinds of loans that they have paid back," he said. "I believe the solution to this problem has to be twofold, involving a plan where work to make higher education institutions cut cost while also giving more students a path to education that does not include a four-year degree with a ton of debt."
While Frerichs argues that the plan would mean higher returns than the roughly 2 to 3 percent derived by the state on other short term investments, Morrison insists he can see nothing good coming from the proposal.
"Having the federal government more involved won't help," he said. "As government has made loans more available, colleges and universities have simply raised tuition costs. They've got no incentive to keep cost under control. They know there's a steady stream of students coming with loans that are being backed by taxpayers."
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Q: Why is the highlighting of text so funky in PDFs? This has happened to me a million times and I'm finally getting around to figuring it out.  So many times when I'm highlighting a row of text the highlighted text randomly jumps around, skips lines and skips letters in the middle, for example.. this is (would be highlighted) this isn't (not highlighted) this is again(highlighted), even though they are all on the same line.  What gives?

A: It depends on how the PDF was generated. Some programs generate full lines of text and these are easy to highlight the text because the PDF viewer (Acrobat, etc) knows that the text is linear. Other programs actually write out each glyph (letter) one-by-one. Basically "draw letter a at position (100,100), letter b at (110,99.99)". In this example you'll see the letter b is 10 units more in the x direction and almost exactly the same in the y direction. Almost. Visually they look exactly the same. Mathematically the program has to guess that these are on the same "line" or are "next to each other". Sometimes it gets it right, sometimes it doesn't.
Why do programs write things out letter by letter? When advanced formatting is used (letter spacing, kerning, ligatures, etc) some design programs decide to write out how something should look rather than what it actually is. A graphic designer generally doesn't care that two letters are physically next to each other in the file, they only care about whether they look like they are.
Why do some programs mess up the y coordinate when writing letters next to each other? Remember, they're trying to explain how text should look, not what the actual text is. All fonts have different heights and some design programs might adjust the positioning (just slightly) so that text visually falls in line better.
Lastly, there's no guarantee that text is written linearly within the file, left to right or top to bottom. Some programs might write line 1, then line 3 and then line 2. It looks okay when displayed but its not the same in the file. Why do they do this? Who knows. Maybe line two was indented a bit (or used a letter that caused the position of the ink to be slightly indented) thus a left-to-right scan didn't catch it right away.
Hopefully that helps a bit!

A: It has to do with how text is represented in PDF files. The PDF format doesn't really have the concept of lines of text (at least in its basic form); it just puts letters (or rather glyphs) on the page at specific positions.
The application that displays the PDF often has to guess the order in which the text is supposed to be read. This can be harder than it sounds for complex multi-column layouts, pull quotes, etc. and it can even be difficult for "regular" text if there are footnotes or fonts with different metrics on the same line.
Some PDFs also represent umlauts and accented characters as multiple glyphs (e.g. a ¨ on top of an "a") in which case it can be difficult to determine to which line the character belongs.