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4. "Because of My Transgression My Eyes Are Opened"
In studying the Fall, we come to recognize the need for a Savior and the Atonement to save us from spiritual and physical death. As children of Adam and Eve, we will all die, but because of Christ we will all be made alive.
"Fall of Adam," Robert J. Matthews, Encyclopedia of Mormonism
The Fall was a necessary step in the eternal progress of mankind and introduced the conditions that made the mission of Jesus Christ absolutely necessary for salvation.
"The Fortunate Fall of Adam and Eve," Daniel K Judd, No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues (BYU Religious Studies Center, 2011)
Mormon doctrine concerning the Fall of Adam and Eve is both distinct from other faiths and meaningful in that it provides an unparalleled context for understanding key theological constructs such as the nature of man, free will, the purposes of suffering and opposition, physical and spiritual death, and most importantly the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Understanding this fundamental doctrine also provides insight into what philosophers have termed "the problem of evil," which addresses the question of why God allows evil and tragedy.
"The Tree of Knowledge as the Veil of the Sanctuary," Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament
At the moment of temptation, Satan deliberately tries to confuse Eve. The devil knows that there are two trees in the midst of the garden, but only the tree of knowledge is visible to Eve (see Moses 4:9) since, according to Ephrem, the tree of life is hidden behind it.
"The Garden of Eden, the Ancient Temple, and Receiving a New Name," Alex Douglas, Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium).
The stories of the Creation and the Garden of Eden are some of the best sources we have for understanding the ancient temple. The temple was viewed as a model of the cosmos, and we can clearly see both Eden's paradisiacal state and the creation of the world reflected in its construction.
"Mormonism's Satan and the Tree of Life," Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Ronan J. Head, Element: A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 4, no. 2
God allows Satan to tempt us, but Elder Jedediah Grant said in 1854 that it is actually Satan's mission to oppose the work of God. The test of life requires a fallen world, and the Devil still ensures temptation today.
"The Apocalypse of Adam," Stephen E. Robinson, BYU Studies, Vol. 17, no. 2 (1977)
The Apocalypse of Adam, a text from the Nag Hammadi collection of early Christian documents, has parallels with the beliefs of the LDS Church, such as that before his death, Adam called his posterity together to receive his final blessing. This article presents the full text of this ancient book, which should be read not only for its common points with LDS doctrine, but for its value as ancient literature.
"Why Bad Things Happen at All: A Search for Clarity among the Problems of Evil," John S. Welch, BYU Studies, Vol. 42, no. 2
The Book of Moses creation account begins with the earth being "without form and void" (Moses 2:2), going through the spiritual and then the physical creation. It is significant that the Book of Moses never describes or mentions "day seven" a second time. The book ends, not with the completion of humanity and God resting from his labors, but with the commandment to have faith, repent, be baptized, and receive the Holy Ghost: an invitation to become perfected and completed in the future. This need for further completion characterizes the moment we find ourselves living in. Judgment has not yet come, evil and disorder still exist to some degree in this world, day six of the creation is ongoing, and there are still many wonderful possibilities of this creation left to be completed.
Old Testament Bibliography Resources:
This is a comprehensive bibliography of books and articles written from 1830 to 1997 by Latter-day Saints to Latter-day Saints about the Old Testament. The information is presented in three ways: by author's last name, by canonical categories (Old Testament books), and by select subject categories (beginning with Aaron, Abraham and Sarah, Adam and Eve, Adversity, etc.)
The list draws from BYU Studies, Church Educational System symposia and manuals, LDS Church study manuals, Contributor, Dialogue, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Ensign, The Evening and the Morning Star, Improvement Era, Millennial Star, New Era, Sperry symposia, Sunstone, theses and dissertations at BYU, and Young Woman's Journal.
Old Testament Bibliography by Author
Old Testament Bibliography by Canonical Categories
Old Testament Bibliography by Select Subject Categories


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No-show prison workers cost Mississippi taxpayers millions
Prisoners, guards face danger from chronic understaffing by MTC
by Joseph Neff and Alysia Santo, The Marshall Project December 9, 2020 May 10, 2021
Illustration by Juan Bernabeu for The Marshall Project
This investigation was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, The Clarion-Ledger and Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting.
When Darrell Adams showed up for an overnight shift at the Marshall County Correctional Facility in rural Mississippi, he was one of six officers guarding about 1,000 prisoners.
Adams said he thought that was normal; only half-a-dozen guards had been turning up each night during the three months he'd worked at the prison, which is run by Management & Training Corporation. He didn't know the state's contract with MTC required at least 19 officers.
On April 3, 2019, Adams escorted a nurse to deliver medicine in a unit where the most dangerous prisoners were held in solitary confinement. The contract required a sergeant and an officer to be there at all times. But that night, Adams and the nurse said, he was the sole guard working the unit, and was also covering for six absent officers in three other buildings.
As Adams was leaving the unit, a prisoner slipped out of his cell, sneaked up behind Adams and smashed his head into the steel door frame. As the nurse watched in horror, the prisoner dragged Adams inside the cell block, shut the door and beat him unconscious.
Prisons across the country, both public and private, are struggling with staff shortages. But the circumstances that led to the attack on Adams illustrate a perverse financial incentive unique to private prisons: While fewer workers means more danger for staff and incarcerated people, it can create more profit for companies like MTC.
This problem is acute in Mississippi, where state officials failed to enforce contractual penalties that punish short staffing. Instead, they continued to pay MTC the salaries of absent employees, aka ghost workers.
By contract, MTC must have a set number of guards on every shift at its three Mississippi prisons. When a mandatory position isn't filled, the company is supposed to repay the state the wages plus a 25 percent penalty. At the prison where Adams was attacked, the company paid some refunds to the state for several years. But MTC invoices show those repayments dropped from more than $700,000 in 2017 to only $23,000 in 2018, even as the staff vacancy rate rose.
In the company's two other Mississippi prisons, MTC didn't repay a penny from 2013 to 2019, despite understaffing, allowing the company to pocket millions of taxpayers' dollars for ghost workers' pay, according to records analyzed by The Marshall Project.
Other states have forced MTC and other prison companies to pay back millions of dollars for vacant positions and other contractual violations. Some came to light after riots, escapes, murders and sexual assaults drew attention to the company's staffing shortfalls.
Neither MTC nor state officials would discuss how much the company owes for unfilled shifts. To estimate that amount, The Marshall Project obtained the company's monthly invoices through public records requests, as well as data on vacant positions MTC submitted to the state from 2013 to 2019. Our analysis showed that MTC should have repaid about $6 million at Wilkinson County Correctional Facility, $950,000 at East Mississippi Correctional Facility, and $800,000 at Marshall.
MTC spokesman Issa Arnita declined to address our analysis. He attributed staff shortages to low pay resulting from a state law that requires private prisons to cost 10 percent less to operate than public facilities, as well as the small labor pools near the rural prisons.
Andrea Morales for The Marshall Project
Credit: Andrea Morales for The Marshall Project
"Attempting to make a connection between staff shortages and profit is reckless and wrong," Arnita said. "Our goal is always to have all vacancies filled."
After eight years of contracting with MTC, the Mississippi Department of Corrections said that in recent months it began withholding payments from the company for failing to meet staffing requirements. Commissioner of Corrections Burl Cain declined an interview request.
In a statement, he said his department has withheld $208,000 from MTC for unfilled positions since he took office in June.
Although MTC is the nation's third-largest private prison company, it lacks the high public profile and notoriety of its larger publicly traded rivals, CoreCivic and GEO Group.
Based in Centerville, Utah, MTC is privately owned and run by a prominent Utah family, the Marquardts. Through the company spokesman, members of the family declined to comment.
Created to seek contracts to operate federal job training centers, MTC expanded into private prisons in 1987. The company now runs 20 prisons in the United States and two overseas, as well as five immigrant detention facilities. Dun & Bradstreet reports the company had annual revenues of $667 million.
MTC has a long history of failing to meet contractual obligations in its prisons, in some cases with violent consequences.
In 2006, the company built what was then the nation's largest immigration detention facility north of Brownsville, Texas. It was understaffed, according to human rights groups, and there were complaints of poor medical care and nutrition, as well as allegations of physical and sexual abuse of detainees. MTC's spokesman said those claims were "not true and were never substantiated." The federal government closed the facility in 2015 after prisoners seized control for two days and set it on fire, leading the government to declare it "uninhabitable."
A similar situation unfolded at the Kingman prison in Arizona, which MTC was hired to run in 2004. Two years later, prison officials said MTC's understaffing violated its contract. But the dysfunction at Kingman wasn't fully revealed until 2010, when a group of prisoners escaped and carjacked and murdered a retired couple. State investigators blamed a broken alarm system, unsecured doors, and untrained staff.
Arizona prison officials levied nearly $2 million in fines between 2006 and 2013 for understaffing. Still, the deficiencies remained. In 2015, a three-day riot broke out; 16 people were injured and the facility was badly damaged. State officials described "a culture of disorganization, disengagement, and disregard," and soon after, the governor cancelled MTC's contract. The company disputes the state's findings.
In Mississippi, MTC understaffing was an issue at a 2018 trial after civil rights groups sued over bad prison conditions. The corrections commissioner at the time, Pelicia Hall, took the witness stand and was asked whether MTC had repaid the state for ghost workers.
"I am not aware of that," Hall testified. She did not respond to messages from The Marshall Project.
Even after that court appearance, Hall and other prison officials failed to impose financial penalties on MTC as low staffing made its prisons increasingly dangerous.
Wilkinson, a high-security prison for 950 men, was so violent and understaffed that its then-warden admitted in a 2018 internal audit that he had ceded control to prison gangs. Yet MTC invoices show the company refunded nothing to the state for vacant positions at Wilkinson between 2013 and 2019. The state paid MTC $87 million to run the prison over this period.
In the internal audit, MTC noted that Wilkinson routinely failed to fill two or three mandatory positions every shift. The overnight shift was the worst: A dozen officers have told The Marshall Project that it was common for five or six guards to run the prison when the contract called for a minimum of 30 overnight.
Markus Chatman, 31, had been working at Wilkinson for two months when he was stabbed in May of 2019 in the prison's most dangerous unit.
He and his coworkers were escorting men to and from the showers one afternoon when a prisoner pulled out a shank and demanded his keys. Chatman says the other two officers fled as he struggled with the prisoner, who stabbed him in the back and collarbone and sliced his arm. He estimated only a dozen guards had shown up to work the day he was attacked; the contract requires 43 officers on the day shift.
Chatman returned to work but quit a few weeks later. The prison is "very understaffed," he said. People fail to show up for shifts so often, he said, "you wouldn't believe they still had a job there," he said.
MTC did not respond to questions about Chatman's assertions.
It's difficult to put an exact dollar amount on how much MTC owes the state for ghost workers. The Marshall Project's estimate is conservative and based on MTC invoices and monthly vacancy reports. A former manager said Wilkinson undoubtedly owed the state more than The Marshall Project's estimate of $6 million.
More precise numbers could have been found in shift rosters filed with the state, but Mississippi officials denied The Marshall Project's public records request for those documents. Payroll data would be even more exact, but those records are not public because they are maintained by MTC. Employee pay is the single biggest cost of running a prison.
MTC went to court to try to redact staffing patterns from contracts that have been posted for years on the website transparency.mississippi.gov. The Marshall Project is suing to obtain weekly reports from state officials responsible for monitoring the prisons; the corrections department had agreed to provide these records until MTC intervened, citing security concerns.
"Private prison companies are always trying to minimize their operating costs, because that is how they increase their margins and revenue," said Shahrzad Habibi, research and policy director of In the Public Interest, which opposes privatization of public services. Habibi has analyzed dozens of private prison contracts nationwide, and says understaffing and paying subpar wages are common ways to increase profits.
"That's taxpayer money that could actually be reinvested in the system to make it better," she said.
At the Marshall prison, short staffing eroded medical care, according to Dr. Amy Woods, who according to court records fought with prison officials when they refused to take injured prisoners to the hospital for appropriate medical care.
Woods worked for Centurion, a private health care provider hired by the corrections department. She declined to speak with The Marshall Project, but her story is detailed in the federal employment lawsuit she filed against MTC, Centurion, and the warden after she was pushed out last year. MTC declined to discuss the case.
Woods' suit said that in April 2019, the warden delayed her order to take a prisoner who said he was raped to a hospital for evaluation, even though DNA evidence must be collected as soon as possible.
Two months later, a nurse told Woods that a prisoner bit off a big chunk of another man's ear, according to Woods' lawsuit. Fearing the victim could bleed to death, Woods ordered he be taken to the local hospital. The emergency doctor said the injury was too severe to be treated there, and urged Woods to transfer the man to a medical center in Jackson, the state capital.
Woods agreed, the lawsuit says. But a prison captain told Woods that there were not enough guards available and ordered the man returned to prison. Woods recalled her reply: "If his ear rots off and he sues someone, it's going to be you and not me." Prison officials eventually relented and sent the man to Jackson late that afternoon.
Two days after that incident, the warden accused Woods of disclosing the short staffing problems to a local legislator who chaired the House Corrections Committee, her lawsuit says. Woods denied it.
That legislator was state Rep. Bill Kinkade, who testified in a deposition in Woods' case that a different prison employee had complained that the extreme short staffing made Marshall dangerous for staff and prisoners. Kinkade said he took his concerns to top state corrections officials, but the short staffing continued.
The warden revoked Woods' security clearance, effectively firing her, even though she worked for Centurion. Kinkade, the warden, and MTC declined to comment on Woods' case, which is scheduled for trial in January. Centurion did not respond to requests for comment.
Darrell Adams, a former guard at Marshall County Correctional Facility, stands for a portrait at his home in Memphis on November 11, 2020. Andrea Morales for The Marshall Project Credit: Andrea Morales for The Marshall Project
For those who work at MTC prisons, the consequences of the short staffing can be permanent. Adams, the corrections officer beaten at Marshall last year, said he doesn't remember being attacked. He slipped in and out of consciousness as he was put on a helicopter and flown to a trauma center in Memphis, where doctors diagnosed traumatic brain injury, he said. Surgeons used six slim metal strips to wire together his shattered eye socket, cheek and jaw.
Adams never returned to Marshall. He drives a tow truck now. He says that throbbing pain in his cheek reminds him daily of his three months as a correctional officer.
"I really want somebody to crack down on this prison, because this prison really dropped the ball," he said. "I should have never been there by myself."
by Kayleigh Skinner, Mississippi Today

No-show prison workers cost Mississippi taxpayers millions

by Kayleigh Skinner, Mississippi Today
December 9, 2020

This investigation was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, The Clarion-Ledger and Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting.

When Darrell Adams showed up for an overnight shift at the Marshall County Correctional Facility in rural Mississippi, he was one of six officers guarding about 1,000 prisoners.

Adams said he thought that was normal; only half-a-dozen guards had been turning up each night during the three months he'd worked at the prison, which is run by Management & Training Corporation. He didn't know the state's contract with MTC required at least 19 officers.

On April 3, 2019, Adams escorted a nurse to deliver medicine in a unit where the most dangerous prisoners were held in solitary confinement. The contract required a sergeant and an officer to be there at all times. But that night, Adams and the nurse said, he was the sole guard working the unit, and was also covering for six absent officers in three other buildings.

As Adams was leaving the unit, a prisoner slipped out of his cell, sneaked up behind Adams and smashed his head into the steel door frame. As the nurse watched in horror, the prisoner dragged Adams inside the cell block, shut the door and beat him unconscious.

Prisons across the country, both public and private, are struggling with staff shortages. But the circumstances that led to the attack on Adams illustrate a perverse financial incentive unique to private prisons: While fewer workers means more danger for staff and incarcerated people, it can create more profit for companies like MTC.

This problem is acute in Mississippi, where state officials failed to enforce contractual penalties that punish short staffing. Instead, they continued to pay MTC the salaries of absent employees, aka ghost workers.

By contract, MTC must have a set number of guards on every shift at its three Mississippi prisons. When a mandatory position isn't filled, the company is supposed to repay the state the wages plus a 25 percent penalty. At the prison where Adams was attacked, the company paid some refunds to the state for several years. But MTC invoices show those repayments dropped from more than $700,000 in 2017 to only $23,000 in 2018, even as the staff vacancy rate rose.

In the company's two other Mississippi prisons, MTC didn't repay a penny from 2013 to 2019, despite understaffing, allowing the company to pocket millions of taxpayers' dollars for ghost workers' pay, according to records analyzed by The Marshall Project.

Other states have forced MTC and other prison companies to pay back millions of dollars for vacant positions and other contractual violations. Some came to light after riots, escapes, murders and sexual assaults drew attention to the company's staffing shortfalls.

Neither MTC nor state officials would discuss how much the company owes for unfilled shifts. To estimate that amount, The Marshall Project obtained the company's monthly invoices through public records requests, as well as data on vacant positions MTC submitted to the state from 2013 to 2019. Our analysis showed that MTC should have repaid about $6 million at Wilkinson County Correctional Facility, $950,000 at East Mississippi Correctional Facility, and $800,000 at Marshall.

MTC spokesman Issa Arnita declined to address our analysis. He attributed staff shortages to low pay resulting from a state law that requires private prisons to cost 10 percent less to operate than public facilities, as well as the small labor pools near the rural prisons.

Andrea Morales for The Marshall Project

"Attempting to make a connection between staff shortages and profit is reckless and wrong," Arnita said. "Our goal is always to have all vacancies filled."

After eight years of contracting with MTC, the Mississippi Department of Corrections said that in recent months it began withholding payments from the company for failing to meet staffing requirements. Commissioner of Corrections Burl Cain declined an interview request.
In a statement, he said his department has withheld $208,000 from MTC for unfilled positions since he took office in June.

Although MTC is the nation's third-largest private prison company, it lacks the high public profile and notoriety of its larger publicly traded rivals, CoreCivic and GEO Group.

Based in Centerville, Utah, MTC is privately owned and run by a prominent Utah family, the Marquardts. Through the company spokesman, members of the family declined to comment.

Created to seek contracts to operate federal job training centers, MTC expanded into private prisons in 1987. The company now runs 20 prisons in the United States and two overseas, as well as five immigrant detention facilities. Dun & Bradstreet reports the company had annual revenues of $667 million.

MTC has a long history of failing to meet contractual obligations in its prisons, in some cases with violent consequences.

In 2006, the company built what was then the nation's largest immigration detention facility north of Brownsville, Texas. It was understaffed, according to human rights groups, and there were complaints of poor medical care and nutrition, as well as allegations of physical and sexual abuse of detainees. MTC's spokesman said those claims were "not true and were never substantiated." The federal government closed the facility in 2015 after prisoners seized control for two days and set it on fire, leading the government to declare it "uninhabitable."

A similar situation unfolded at the Kingman prison in Arizona, which MTC was hired to run in 2004. Two years later, prison officials said MTC's understaffing violated its contract. But the dysfunction at Kingman wasn't fully revealed until 2010, when a group of prisoners escaped and carjacked and murdered a retired couple. State investigators blamed a broken alarm system, unsecured doors, and untrained staff.

Arizona prison officials levied nearly $2 million in fines between 2006 and 2013 for understaffing. Still, the deficiencies remained. In 2015, a three-day riot broke out; 16 people were injured and the facility was badly damaged. State officials described "a culture of disorganization, disengagement, and disregard," and soon after, the governor cancelled MTC's contract. The company disputes the state's findings.

In Mississippi, MTC understaffing was an issue at a 2018 trial after civil rights groups sued over bad prison conditions. The corrections commissioner at the time, Pelicia Hall, took the witness stand and was asked whether MTC had repaid the state for ghost workers.

"I am not aware of that," Hall testified. She did not respond to messages from The Marshall Project.

Even after that court appearance, Hall and other prison officials failed to impose financial penalties on MTC as low staffing made its prisons increasingly dangerous.

Wilkinson, a high-security prison for 950 men, was so violent and understaffed that its then-warden admitted in a 2018 internal audit that he had ceded control to prison gangs. Yet MTC invoices show the company refunded nothing to the state for vacant positions at Wilkinson between 2013 and 2019. The state paid MTC $87 million to run the prison over this period.

In the internal audit, MTC noted that Wilkinson routinely failed to fill two or three mandatory positions every shift. The overnight shift was the worst: A dozen officers have told The Marshall Project that it was common for five or six guards to run the prison when the contract called for a minimum of 30 overnight.

Markus Chatman, 31, had been working at Wilkinson for two months when he was stabbed in May of 2019 in the prison's most dangerous unit.

He and his coworkers were escorting men to and from the showers one afternoon when a prisoner pulled out a shank and demanded his keys. Chatman says the other two officers fled as he struggled with the prisoner, who stabbed him in the back and collarbone and sliced his arm. He estimated only a dozen guards had shown up to work the day he was attacked; the contract requires 43 officers on the day shift.

Chatman returned to work but quit a few weeks later. The prison is "very understaffed," he said. People fail to show up for shifts so often, he said, "you wouldn't believe they still had a job there," he said.

MTC did not respond to questions about Chatman's assertions.

It's difficult to put an exact dollar amount on how much MTC owes the state for ghost workers. The Marshall Project's estimate is conservative and based on MTC invoices and monthly vacancy reports. A former manager said Wilkinson undoubtedly owed the state more than The Marshall Project's estimate of $6 million.

More precise numbers could have been found in shift rosters filed with the state, but Mississippi officials denied The Marshall Project's public records request for those documents. Payroll data would be even more exact, but those records are not public because they are maintained by MTC. Employee pay is the single biggest cost of running a prison.

MTC went to court to try to redact staffing patterns from contracts that have been posted for years on the website transparency.mississippi.gov. The Marshall Project is suing to obtain weekly reports from state officials responsible for monitoring the prisons; the corrections department had agreed to provide these records until MTC intervened, citing security concerns.

"Private prison companies are always trying to minimize their operating costs, because that is how they increase their margins and revenue," said Shahrzad Habibi, research and policy director of In the Public Interest, which opposes privatization of public services. Habibi has analyzed dozens of private prison contracts nationwide, and says understaffing and paying subpar wages are common ways to increase profits.

"That's taxpayer money that could actually be reinvested in the system to make it better," she said.

At the Marshall prison, short staffing eroded medical care, according to Dr. Amy Woods, who according to court records fought with prison officials when they refused to take injured prisoners to the hospital for appropriate medical care.

Woods worked for Centurion, a private health care provider hired by the corrections department. She declined to speak with The Marshall Project, but her story is detailed in the federal employment lawsuit she filed against MTC, Centurion, and the warden after she was pushed out last year. MTC declined to discuss the case.

Woods' suit said that in April 2019, the warden delayed her order to take a prisoner who said he was raped to a hospital for evaluation, even though DNA evidence must be collected as soon as possible.

Two months later, a nurse told Woods that a prisoner bit off a big chunk of another man's ear, according to Woods' lawsuit. Fearing the victim could bleed to death, Woods ordered he be taken to the local hospital. The emergency doctor said the injury was too severe to be treated there, and urged Woods to transfer the man to a medical center in Jackson, the state capital.

Woods agreed, the lawsuit says. But a prison captain told Woods that there were not enough guards available and ordered the man returned to prison. Woods recalled her reply: "If his ear rots off and he sues someone, it's going to be you and not me." Prison officials eventually relented and sent the man to Jackson late that afternoon.

Two days after that incident, the warden accused Woods of disclosing the short staffing problems to a local legislator who chaired the House Corrections Committee, her lawsuit says. Woods denied it.

That legislator was state Rep. Bill Kinkade, who testified in a deposition in Woods' case that a different prison employee had complained that the extreme short staffing made Marshall dangerous for staff and prisoners. Kinkade said he took his concerns to top state corrections officials, but the short staffing continued.

The warden revoked Woods' security clearance, effectively firing her, even though she worked for Centurion. Kinkade, the warden, and MTC declined to comment on Woods' case, which is scheduled for trial in January. Centurion did not respond to requests for comment.

Andrea Morales for The Marshall Project

Darrell Adams, a former guard at Marshall County Correctional Facility, stands for a portrait at his home in Memphis on November 11, 2020. Andrea Morales for The Marshall Project

For those who work at MTC prisons, the consequences of the short staffing can be permanent. Adams, the corrections officer beaten at Marshall last year, said he doesn't remember being attacked. He slipped in and out of consciousness as he was put on a helicopter and flown to a trauma center in Memphis, where doctors diagnosed traumatic brain injury, he said. Surgeons used six slim metal strips to wire together his shattered eye socket, cheek and jaw.

Adams never returned to Marshall. He drives a tow truck now. He says that throbbing pain in his cheek reminds him daily of his three months as a correctional officer.

"I really want somebody to crack down on this prison, because this prison really dropped the ball," he said. "I should have never been there by myself."

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

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The Ladies Luncheon Group is open to all interested women. We meet once a month, from September to June, for a potluck lunch and conversation. Usually we meet in the homes of various hostesses, but may, on occasion, meet at a restaurant or in Belmont Hall. In the past, we have had Christmas parties and Thanksgiving meals in Belmont Hall, we've gathered for a tea at friend's homes, and we even had an antique appraisal luncheon.
The time and location of the luncheons is announced in the bulletin, monthly newsletter and the church calendar, with specifics about each meeting including a number to call for directions and to RSVP acceptance.
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Born in Paris, Clara lives and works in São Paulo, where she graduated in Arts in FAAP. Works mainly with drawings. Her research is based on the relation between city and human beings. In her works, she creates cities and fictional architectures; like houses where all the corridors are labyrinths, or hybrid cities, that mix and overlap elements from real cities, or that show spaces from an specific city in a new way.
Where do you (day)dream to go next? China.
What do you like most about traveling? To see how people from other places live, and discover the differences on the everyday life. To find the places where local people normally go.
A ritual or a thing that you cannot miss when you travel? I need to visit all the pharmacies and supermarkets that I see on the city. If it's possible, I also bring a souvenir snowglobe back home!
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Le référendum de 1987 sur l'indépendance de la Nouvelle-Calédonie est un référendum d'autodétermination organisé le  en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Boycotté par la population kanake, le scrutin voit la victoire écrasante de l'option du maintien au sein de la République française, approuvée par plus de 98 % des électeurs s'étant rendus aux urnes, la participation s'établissant à 59,10 % des inscrits.

Il s'agit du premier référendum sur l'indépendance organisé dans l'archipel. Un deuxième référendum en 2018, un troisième en 2020 ainsi qu'un quatrième et dernier référendum en 2021 sont organisés dans le cadre de l'accord de Nouméa, signé en 1998.

Organisation
Dans le cadre des événements politiques de 1984 à 1988 en Nouvelle-Calédonie, l'Assemblée nationale vote le  une motion promettant à la Nouvelle-Calédonie un nouveau statut. L'assemblée vote le  la Loi n° 86-844 prévoyant un vote sur l'indépendance, dont les modalités sont établies dans la loi n° 87-369 du . Le Front de libération nationale kanak et socialiste (FLNKS) et plusieurs autres mouvements kanakes décident de boycotter le vote.

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A steward of Chautauqua: After 27 years, Voelker set to retire at season's end
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Amanda Mainguy | Staff Photographer
Jack Voelker stands with the five varieties of hops he has grown on his Dewittville farm. He trades the hops with friends and brewers for their finished product.
Jack Voelker wipes the dirt off his hands onto his already dirt-stained jeans. He cleans his glasses with his black Buffalo Beer Week T-shirt and thrusts those same soiled hands into his frayed pockets. Leaning back, he looks up at his hundreds of healthy hop bines stretching toward the sky. He removes his white Chautauqua tennis hat and takes a hand out of his pocket to comb back his hair.
This hat has shielded Voelker's face from the sun through hours of weeding, watering and trimming in his hop yard with his wife Diane, his sister Carol and a few of his friends. For Voelker, though, this a more relaxing Saturday morning than most, and these high-maintenance hops are just another one his many hobbies.
Yet, Jack Voelker, general manager of Chautauqua Golf Club, has never been able to put anything less than 100 percent of his energy into anything he has ever done.
"In all the years I've known Voelker, he has always had a passion for anything he has done," said Troy Moss, head professional at the Golf Club. "When he dives into something, he dives in head-first with a positive attitude."
After more than 27 years of serving Chautauqua — as director of recreation and youth services and then as the Golf Club's part-time general manager — Voelker will enter full retirement following the culmination of the 2014 season.
Yet, Voelker confessed that he never focused on this summer as his last at the Institution. Instead, he concentrated all his efforts on heightening the excitement at Chautauqua Golf to a level worthy of its historic centennial milestone.
"This summer, I thought more about making sure I was involved in the 100th birthday celebration because I knew that would be a special moment in the Club's history and Chautauqua's history," he said. "I think we can say it was a successful celebratory summer, it exceeded our expectations. That's a nice feeling to depart with."
Voelker stands with sunflowers growing up to 15 feet high in his garden, beside rows of onions and cabbage.
Voelker's successes did not begin just this season, though. Since he began his career at the Institution in 1987, Voelker has earned his status as a "Giant of Chautauqua," molding or otherwise enhancing many of the departments and programs that are essential to the Chautauqua experience today.
"If Jack had never been here, we wouldn't have the Sailing Center," said Gwen Papania, whom Voelker hired as his assistant over a decade ago, and who is now serving her final season as director of youth services at Chautauqua. "Jack started the CLSC Young Readers program and the Family Entertainment Series, among many other things. The face of Chautauqua would not be the same without his impact."
Voelker also developed Chautauqua Health & Fitness and oversaw the construction of the Chautauqua Tennis Center and the Sharpe Field grandstand; he helped design the renovations at Boys' and Girls' Club, and integrated Club kids into youth services with the counselors-in-training program.
Essentially, Chautauquans cannot walk through the Institution without passing one of his many projects. Voelker's legacy looms throughout the grounds and beyond.
"Jack Voelker is one of the most insightful, creative and compassionate leaders Chautauqua has ever seen," said Jen Flanagan, director of programming at Club. "He brought Club into the 21st century, keeping the traditions alive but also making changes to reflect the times for the betterment of Club and youth services in general."
Beginning as a day camp counselor in high school, Voelker said his commitment to youth has been "a lifelong privilege." During his college days at the University of Pennsylvania, Voelker served kids from South Philadelphia. Throughout his career in Chautauqua County he has tried to maintain that same commitment.
"It's rewarding to be involved in a children's growth and not be their parent," Voelker said. "By providing service to a child, you can establish a relationship of trust and genuine affection. You can really have a powerful impact on a child's life."
In 1976, two years after moving to Chautauqua, Voelker entered his first administrative position — municipal director of recreation for the Village of Westfield. Although he was responsible for the recreational experience for community members of all ages, Voelker admitted he focused primarily on providing these services to the town's youth.
It was also in Westfield that Voelker began his relationship with the Institution, inviting members of the Opera Company and the Music School Festival Orchestra to perform at the local day camp and in Moore Park. Drawing from these immediate resources, Voelker modeled much of his programming after that of the Institution's.
After 11 years in Westfield, Voelker was hired to another brand new position, overseeing Chautauqua's recreation- and youth-oriented activities. Throughout his tenure at the head of these departments, he sustained his community-oriented approach, his connection with kids, and his recreational expertise to start new programs and solidify traditional ones.
"Every job I've had has been a new position, and there's a certain advantage to that," Voelker said. "I got to mold my position into my own and be fully open to what the community needed. That was a fun position to be in."
Voelker opens one of the varieties of hops he grows on his Dewittville farm.
Originally Voelker's management methods were very hands-on. He said that with programs like Club and Young Readers, he "selfishly" wanted to be on the frontline working directly with the Chautauqua youth. As these programs gained popularity, though, Voelker was forced to change his approach.
"Although trying to wrap my head around a tennis issue and a Young Readers problem at the same time could be pretty stimulating, I started to feel inadequate at times, like I was being stretched too thin," he said. "But, as I've done for a while now, I relied on good people to make good, sound judgments."
Many who have worked with Voelker in the past acknowledged his team-building mentality and trusting leadership.
"He was easy to work for," said Greg Prechtl, director of Club. "Everybody who worked for Jack in youth and recreation worked at the highest level because nobody wanted to disappoint him. He was that kind of leader."
As his administrative scope narrowed over the years, though, Voelker conceded he began to miss his direct connection with the community more and more. Board meetings and budget discussions prevented him from going to Water Olympics or walking down to the Sailing Center as much. In retirement, Voelker said he hopes to interact more with his Chautauqua family and, more importantly, with his children and their children
"The ensuing years are important to me to be helpful to our kids and grandkids," he said.
However, babysitting is not Voelker's only plan for post-retirement work. One of his many future projects includes the creation of a nature-oriented "playscape" at Presque Isle State Park in Erie, Pennsylvania. In conjunction with the Presque Isle Partnership, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing programs in the Park that are symbiotic with nature, Voelker plans to build a recreational area for children in a natural environment.
"It won't have any purchased equipment, but it will have a series of ways kids can connect with the natural world," Voelker said. "The natural world provides all the sensory tools for good physical, emotional and mental health, and it is a critical thing to a child's development."
With this "playscape," Voelker will combine his two most avid passions: youth and nature. In fact, Voelker's lifestyle for the past 40 years has been directly related to the natural world.
"In 1974, Diane and I bought our first home, a pre-Civil War farmhouse in Dewittville," he said. "We found that being able to walk in our own woods, work in our garden, raise our own animals — those things were essential to us. It's difficult to understand us if you haven't been to where we live."
The Voelkers are celebrating their 40th year on their 68-acre family farm. The picturesque property is like a dream, complete with an extensive organic garden, lush blueberry bushes, a quarter-acre of hop bines, a rustic barn and an elegant, wooded creek. In addition to his hops, Voelker has a list of plans, projects and hobbies to tend to.
"I know that having more time means more time to be outdoors doing something," he said. "The last thing I need is to stop that enjoyment and appreciation of being outdoors."
The farm has become a part of Voelker and his family, illustrative and symbolic of who they are. Still, Voelker understands the centuries-old sugar maples in front of his house have a stronger claim to the land than he does.
"I've come to understand land ownership as not just a deed. It's a place you take care of for a while," he said. "You're a steward."
In many ways, Voelker views his time at Chautauqua in a similar way. He expressed his confidence in Freay, the current director of recreation, and Matt Ewalt, who will take over Papania's responsibilities, and hopes the Institution allows them to continue their stalwart stewardship of these departments.
"We're definitely losing one of the better figures of leadership at Chautauqua with Jack's full retirement," Freay said. "It's a big void to fill.
According to Voelker, though, Freay and Ewalt will not only fill the void, they will continue to mold these programs and make them their own.
"I hope my successors are given the opportunity to put their own stamp on these departments with their own knowledge," Voelker said. "It cannot be stagnant. By the very nature of Chautauqua, it must evolve."
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When you walk into The Gan, the classroom may look normal. But take a few steps further inside, enter the library and you end up not only in a room where you can find books, where we read stories, and where the children can relax a little, but you also enter a rainforest! With this week's main focus being the rainforest, we have been talking about the animals we can find in one. We even made our own snakes to put in our rainforest! For writing this week we made a class book that talks about what we see in the rainforest. This book will be continued into next week as well. For math the children focused on weighing coffee beans in our scale and also using different measuring cups to play with the beans. And while they were doing this, we also made the room smell terrific! In the block area the children used the blocks to build a rainforest. And for science we took water droppers and put a little water onto cotton balls to make rainclouds. Then the children had the opportunity to squeeze the rain out of their clouds! The children also made letters this week with a few different items. We used the coffee beans to make letters and we also made playdough snakes into letters. And when they were not busy using the playdough to make letters they were creating other rainforest animals. To bring the rainforest that much closer to the classroom we also had a special rainforest item snack by eating pineapple and coconut. Although all the children wanted the pineapple, a few did not want the coconut. However, after their friends started eating the coconut, everyone decided to try some!
There were a few different child led conversations about the rainforest library this week. Here are a couple of them!
Levi: Why do you have a frog like that?
Morah Amanda: Look for it.
Levi: Mine's there! Mine's in the middle.
Mussie: And mine is here, near the window.
I can touch both monkey climbing the tree.
Levi: I can touch this one.
Another time the lights had not been turned on in the library yet. Mussie noticed an exclaimed: It's dark in the rainforest!
The rainforest is still our main theme next week. We are going to enjoy more activities with the coffee beans including an animal find. We will be working on spelling out words using the letters in ""rainforest and also seeing how long an anaconda snake is and how far down it's body we can jump.


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The Gustavus Adolphus College Hall of Fame was established in 1978 at which time 19 "Charter Members" were inducted either as coaches or as athletes. As of the fall of 2018, 319 individuals (297 athletes, 15 coaches and 10 benefactors) have been elected to the Hall of Fame.
The beautiful Hall of Fame room on the second floor of the Lund Center was originally partially endowed by the families of both Dwight Holcombe's (the only father/son combination holding membership in the Hall). The hardwood plaque upon which the individual plates are permanently displayed was donated by the family of former football coach and Hall of Fame member Jocko Nelson, who passed away in 1978.
Paul Thompson (Inducted: 1991)
Paul Thompson was the epitome of the small college student-athlete. Clearly gifted as a scholar In mathematics and the sciences, Thompson also had the ability to pick and find receivers on a football field with superior accuracy. Though he played behind quarterback Bob Swiggum on the strong 1958 and 1959 Gustie teams, Tnompson won all-MIAC recognition in 1960 as the starter on a team that finished 3-3-1.
Thompson's mathematics degree started him on a fulfilling path to a career in education. After earning master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Illinois, Thompson taught and coached for several years before moving into college administrative positions in Illinois and Washington state. Along the way, he has found time to serve as a frequent speaker at state and national education meetings, as well as to author two books on mathematics and numerous articles for professional journals. Today, Thompson is the president of Harper College in Palatine, Ill.
Paul and his wife, Doriann (Fredrickson '61), have three adult children: Julie Jacques (x83), Sara (84) and David.


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WADA has suspended the accreditation of the LAB DOP - LADETEC / IQ – UFRJ Doping Control Laboratory (LADETEC) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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The LADETEC may appeal this decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport within 21 days of receipt of notice.


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Hudson Correctional Facility, 1976 – Present
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A year after the New York State Training School for Girls at Hudson was closed, the Hudson Correctional Facility took its place. Opened in October 1976 as a minimum-security (and later medium-security) prison for young adult men under the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services and Community Supervision, Hudson Correctional Facility is used for the general confinement of males 16 years of age and older, work release, and since 2009 as the Re-Entry Services center for people leaving prison and returning to live and work in the Capitol Region of New York (Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer, and Schenectady).
The principal objectives of the Re-Entry Services Program are to provide people in prison having 90 to 120 days left to serve with an opportunity to finalize their release plans, to work toward family and community reintegration, and to strive for an orderly transition back into society. In addition, participants in the program are prepared by representatives from both public and private sectors to make use of those resources upon release. To be eligible for placement in Hudson Correctional Facility's work release component a person in prison must be statutorily eligible for temporary release: within 24 months of parole eligibility; conditional release, or maximum expiration of sentence; never convicted of absconding or escape offenses; no outstanding warrants; and be physically, mentally and emotionally capable of seeking and maintaining steady, gainful employment. Housing units at Hudson Correctional Facility consist of dormitories, single rooms and multiple occupancy rooms.
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On the 22nd of June escent has been through a major phase of its Academy in Brussels. Indeed, through this initiative we are willing to open our doors to newly-graduated and young talents. The chosen candidates will join us from September and begin with an intense training period. Then they will start a mission for a customer with the guidance of senior escenters. Our objective is to train them so that they become experts in their field.
The pre-selected candidates were welcomed by our Recruitment Consultant Hélène Lieffrig who introduced the programme of the day with the help of Benoit Cardinael, Founder and Associate of escent. He explained the case study to our candidates, who were then separated into two teams. They had the opportunity to work on a fictive case, close to real projects escent manages: a digitalization project within a bank. This case, written by our consultants Olivier Bretin and Frederic Lust, was the opportunity for the candidates to understand the Business Analysis job better. We were gladly impressed by the motivation and involvement they showed despite the heat!
After that challenging day for the candidates as well as for us, we all had a drink and shared feedback. Some escenters kindly joined in order to share their experience.
Our team agrees on the fact that this first step of the escent Academy has been a success. We can't wait to start this enriching project with the selected candidates in September!


We think of the Midwest, with its rivers, lakes, prairies and fields of grain, as the backbone of America.
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HomeHealthTALKShealthtalksTV – Contraception or Deception?
I'm back in my ELEMENT (and you can tell because I barely surface for air!!) talking contraception and the pill – because ALL women need the opportunity to know this stuff and it's not necessarily something your GP will talk to you about, mostly because she too isn't aware of the risks and issues associated with taking the pill or using synthetic hormone contraceptives.
Adele and I sit and nut it out and we hear why she can relate to my message.
You'll learn why the current model is flawed, just how long is acceptable for your period to return and why using the pill to regulate your period is a lie. You'll also learn how babies are affected when conceived on the pill (or shortly after) and why the pill isn't as affective as we are lead to believe.
Press play and let me help you understand just why contraceptive methods need to be better understood – the future of our fertility relies on us spreading this information. Have you fallen victim to the pill? I'd love to hear your story.
And if you want to learn more about ovulation – check out my Debunking Ovulation Events!
Just want to say that I love you Nat! I am so amazed that every post or webcast I learn so much. Thanks for you openness and enthusiasm, and sharing your passion with us!
I have taken the pill for well over 10 years . Went off it while trying for a baby, then did IVF etc which didn't result in a pregnancy. The main reason I'm on the pill now is I like to regulate when I have my 'period'. I skip a bleed for a few months, then when I find myself feeling down and almost angry I have a bleed and usually feel a little better. I also suffer from depression and have been taking Pristiq for a couple of years. I'm now wondering how I would feel if I stopped taking the pill but I'm scared of the heavy bleeds and cramps I used to get when not on the pill.
Robyn, the pill is making everything so much worse for you. Seek the help of somebody who can help you get off naturally without the nasty withdraw affects.
Nat, will you please make a post about facial hair? With some ideas to get rid of them? What do you think about the alum powder+rosewater remedy?
When I was a teenager, I was told that taking the pill was the only solution but I've never taken it since my mother forbade it (and now with this new information I'm so glad she did it).
Thanks for sharing this video! I am now 5 months post BCP after being on it for most of a 6 year span. My GP was terrible with me about going off of it. I told her I was wanting to conceive in a few years and was afraid that my past irregular periods would be a challenge, so I wanted to go off the pill early. The first time I tried to go off of it, she basically scared me back onto it, saying unless I wanted to get pregnant, I should be on the pill. My anxiety around getting pregnant was just too much and I went back on the pill. After consulting with a naturopath, who taught me the fertility awareness method, I felt like I had the tools to go off the pill. I have had next to no anxiety about it this time around and love getting in touch with my body. I feel so much better! Only problem: still no period after 5 months. I have done my best to eat a nutrient rich diet to try and build up what I may have lost. Following and measuring signs of fertility have helped me notice changes along the way and be hopeful that my period will return. Your site has really helped me…thanks so much!
There is no easy answer for contraception and it is never without some kind of side effect or nuisance factor. I am so relieved that vasectomies are easy to come by! For those who partner young, and have many potentially fertile years together, contraception and family planning are tricky ones to work out. As for me, married at 35, child at 36 and 38 and a surprise child at 45 – ovulation method is tricky toward end of fertile years!!!!!! BEWARE! Anyway, he's a blessing and both he and I fared extremely well in the pregnancy, 2 1/2 hour labour etc…As I say to my friends, I guess if i wasn't fit, I wouldn't have got pregnant at that age! My husband then, FINALLY, had a vasectomy!
I wanted to thank you for this post, and for your amazing website.
I wanted to share my story of the pill and it is a bit long, so my apologies for that!
I fell victim to the pill when I was 18, and I am now 21. I went off the pill about 4 months ago. I found your website via Sarah Wilson's blog, which is another blog I regularly read along with yours now. I am not a 'cupboard' reader. My boyfriend is in the lounge room , while I just blasted this chat. I think this website is gold… Anyway my 'Pill' story was my own personal hell. During the time I was on the pill, I experienced digestive issues, and was diagnosed with IBS, and then I experienced headaches, tension, severe anxiety and then I was diagnosed with depression and put on Luvox for OCD, anxiety and depression. I had over three panic attacks while on the pill. Not once did a health professional or my long-time doctor suggest- oh maybe it's the pill. Since my reading, and research, I went off the pill. It took two months for my period to return, and I feel 500% mentally better. The same time I went off the pill, I decided to go off the Luvox. It was really hard but I am so proud I did it. I cannot believe that people are on this thing: the pill and anti-depressants…It made me feel like the worst version of myself. During the time I was on the pill, I would get UTI's, yeast infections, and breast tenderness. In hindsight, I feel like a fool for even going on it in the first place- and here's the clincher- I went to my doctor because of my heavy, painful periods… and was placed on the pill.
Long story shot:The pill is my arch nemesis.
Thank you for sharing this – you've prompted me to write a post, I hope you don't mind if I quote your story?
so what are some better alternatives contraceptive methods?
We talk about this in detail in my 'debunking ovulation' events Kim – I'd love to see you there!
I've a post scheduled on this for next week so stay tuned!
I've long been troubled by contraceptive solutions. Having been on the pill on and off since 16 (now 24), and struggling with mood and skin problems, this video has really opened my eyes!
Two years ago, my cycle was all over the place (despite being on the pill), and I took myself off it. It took a while for my body to regulate and for my period to return. I noticed a huge improvement in my weight and mood. Following a regular check-up, my doctor suggested I go back on the pill! And I did so, because I felt that their knowledge exceeded mine. How ridiculous is that?!
I eat really well (sugar-free nutritional medicine student) and have always felt that taking the pill contradicts everything else I believe in. I've rather conveniently just run out of my prescription – and won't be getting another one!!
Just wanted to say I used to be on the pill for about 2 years but found it messed with my emotions and moods. After some research I got a hold of a docter who was able to fit me for a diaphram which I have had for the past 3 years. We use condoms and withdrawal as well to be extra safe. All are barrier methods and free of chemicals and I will never go back.
I have been on the pill, along with Metformin and Spironolactone, for 19 years for PCOS. I am taking charge of my own health and have stopped the pill.
Nat, the worse side effect I have had is massive hair loss!! Please help! I need your guidance! I am wanting to go back in the pill just so I will have some hair left on my head!
Jennifer – you aren't alone!
Hi, I was prescribed the pill 3 years ago but it wasn't for contraception, it was for acne. Now I regret it. I came off it in December as it completely messed up my body and my menstrual cycle. Instead, I had the contraceptive implant put in at the same time, but this time as a method of contraception. I am not happy with it so I would like to ask you what natural contraceptive methods could I use instead as I am thinking of taking the implant out.
I am a big fan of Your Tea teas as my health has improved so much since I started drinking them (6 months ago) and I think you're amazing Nat. Watching this video has seriously made me consider taking the implant out.
Why do I get the most painful headache that lasts up to 3 days when I'm on the pill (Yaz).
I've just stopped taking the pill, literally last week, and hearing all of this information makes me so glad that I decided to do this! I was wondering if I'd regret it, if I was making the right choice. But having been on it for ten years, I felt my body needed a break. I have been getting terrible headaches for 3-4 days while on the sugar pill for the past 18 months, battling with food to avoid being bloated and moody…So glad I'm doing this now not in the near future when/if I we decide to have children! Thank you.


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El año 120 a. C. fue un año del calendario romano prejuliano. En el Imperio romano, fue conocido como el año 634 Ab Urbe condita.

Acontecimientos
Mitrídates VI, llamado Mitrídates el Grande, sube al trono del Reino del Ponto.
Hispania Citerior: procónsul Man. Sergio.

Nacimientos
 Berenice III, reina de Egipto.
 Cayo Verres, político romano.
 Lucio Cornelio Sisenna, militar e historiador romano.

Fallecimientos
 Hiparco de Nicea, astrónomo, geógrafo y matemático griego.

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Q: Is this the right way to return a struct in a parameter? I made the following method in a C++/CLI project:
void GetSessionData(CDROM_TOC_SESSION_DATA& data)
{
    auto state = CDROM_TOC_SESSION_DATA{};

    // ...

    data = state;
}

Then I use it like this in another method:
CDROM_TOC_SESSION_DATA data;
GetSessionData(data);
// do something with data

It does work, returned data is not garbage, however there's something I don't understand.
Question:
C++ is supposed to clean up state when it has exitted its scope, so data is a copy of state, correct ?
And in what exactly it is different from the following you see on many examples:
CDROM_TOC_SESSION_DATA data;
GetSessionData(&data); // signature should be GetSession(CDROM_TOC_SESSION_DATA *data)

Which one makes more sense to use or is the right way ?
Reference:
CDROM_TOC_SESSION_DATA

A: Using a reference vs a pointer for an out parameter is really more of a matter of style.  Both function equally well, but some people feel that the explicit & when calling a function makes it more clear that the function may modify the parameter it was passed.
i.e.
doAThing(someObject);
// It's not clear that doAThing accepts a reference and
// therefore may modify someObject

vs
doAThing(&someObject);
// It's clear that doAThing accepts a pointer and it's
// therefore possible for it to modify someOjbect

Note that 99% of the time the correct way to return a class/struct type is to just return it.  i.e.:
MyType getObject()
{
    MyType object{};

    // ...

    return object;
}

Called as
auto obj = getObject();

In the specific case of CDROM_TOC_SESSION_DATA it likely makes sense to use an out parameter, since the class contains a flexible array member.  That means that the parameter is almost certainly a reference/pointer to the beginning of some memory buffer that's larger than sizeof(CDROM_TOC_SESSION_DATA), and so must be handled in a somewhat peculiar way.

A:
C++ is supposed to clean up state when it has exitted its scope, so
  data is a copy of state, correct ?

In the first example, the statement
data = state

presumably copies the value of state into local variable data, which is a reference to the same object that is identified by data in the caller's scope (because those are the chosen names -- they don't have to match).  I say "presumably" because in principle, an overridden assignment operator could do something else entirely.  In any library you would actually want to use, you can assume that the assignment operator does something sensible, but it may be important to know the details, so you should check.
The lifetimes of local variables data and state end when the method exits.  They will be cleaned up at that point, and no attempt may be made to access them thereafter.  None of that affects the caller's data object.

And in what exactly it is different from the following you see on many
  examples:
CDROM_TOC_SESSION_DATA data;
GetSessionData(&data);

Not much.  Here the caller passes a pointer instead of a reference.  GetSessionData must be declared appropriately for that, and its implementation must explicitly dereference the pointer to access the caller's data object, but the general idea is the same for most intents and purposes.  Pointer and reference are similar mechanisms for indirect access.

Which one makes more sense to use or is the right way ?

It depends.  Passing a reference is generally a bit more idiomatic in C++, and it has the advantage that the method does not have to worry about receiving a null or invalid pointer.  On the other hand, passing a pointer is necessary if the function has C linkage, or if you need to accommodate the possibility of receiving a null pointer.


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Bleak Skies
The sky was overcast as our tour bus cautiously approached the
Sachsenhausen concentration camp, just outside of Berlin. I wondered
if there was any other weather that would've been more appropriate for
what we were about to see. Sachsenhausen was built in 1936, one of the
earliest constructed camps in Germany, it housed 200,000 prisoners
until it was liberated April 22, 1945.
Our guide explained to us that while the camp was liberated in 1945,
it was quickly in use again until 1961, occupying German perpetrators,
Soviet spies, and others awaiting trials for their crimes. While death
presumed, it was out of starvation and old age, not the
individually-executed and meticulously planned extermination that was
performed years earlier against the Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals.
As we walked the grounds, little remained of the original structures.
The camp was first bombed by East German policemen in the 1980s and
then again in 1992 by Neo Nazis from surrounding towns. Little was
done to rebuild the effects of either arson-- Bunker 38, which housed
over 800 Jews at any one time, was half destroyed by fire and what
remained was marred by singed wood and peeling paint.
Our guide gathered us where daily roll call occurred some 60 odd years
earlier. He continued to provide us with a factual narration of the
camp's history. The still air was biting and while dressed
appropriately for the cold, I felt chills up my spine. My hands were
clenched and dug deeply into my pockets, my scarf rewrapped to cover
my ears, and yet I could not get warm. How could I complain knowing
very well that my Ziedi stood in worse conditions wearing nothing but
thin, paper cloth pajamas? Was this the point? To replicate the
feeling of sheer helplessness? We were outside for an extended period,
standing still and I couldn't fight the cold anymore. I quietly
separated from the group to return to the memorial museum and quickly
became disoriented. I walked along the rubbled paths and was met by a
dead end. There was a way out for me, but not for so many others.
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Fujifilm FinePix Z33WP Overview
Posted: February 19, 2009/Under: Digital Cameras/By: CK Ooi
Fujifilm has unveiled its "Life Proof" camera, i.e. FinePix Z33WP, which is waterproof up to 10 feet (3 meters) with newly designed body. The Fujifilm Z33WP comes with a Fujinon-branded 3x optical zoom lens offering a range from a 35mm-equivalent wide angle to a 105mm-equivalent telephoto. There is a 1/2.3″ CCD image sensor with 10 Megapixels resolution behind the lens.
The FinePix Z33WP doesn't have mechanical image stabilization functionality, but does come with what the company calls "Picture Stabilization mode". Fujifilm boost the ISO sensitivity / shutter speeds to freeze blur, but in the expense of some image noise / detail. ISO sensitivity in the Fuji Z33 ranges up to a maximum of ISO 1,600 equivalent at full resolution.
The FinePix Z33WP rear panel has no provision for an optical viewfinder, instead opting solely for a 2.7″ LCD display with 230,000 dots of resolution.
Fujifilm emphasizes a lot on on simplicity and ease of use. Thus, the camera doesn't offer much in the way of manual controls. On the focus aspect, it features Multi or Center AF with Face Detection capability that can detect up to ten faces in a scene. The face detection function offers automatic red-eye removal capability.
The FinePix Z33WP has the shutter speeds range from 3 seconds to 1/1000 second, and apertures from F3.7 – F8.0 at wide angle, or F4.2 – F9.0 at telephoto. For simplicity, these can be controlled automatically with seventeen scene modes to control the look of images. The SR Auto scene recognition mode will automatically selects from a subset of six different common scene types and adjusts for exposure, focus, white balance and ISO sensitivity accordingly.
The Fujifilm FinePix Z33 is also capable of recording VGA or QVGA videos at 30 frames-per-second with monaural sound. The movies are saved in AVI format using QuickTime Motion JPEG compression. There is a dedicated Movie record button, which is separated from that for still image capture. One down side is that usage of Z33's optical zoom lens is not possible during movie recording.
The Fujifilm FinePix Z33 stores its images on SD or SDHC cards or in 50MB of built-in memory. It is powered with an NP-45 Lithium Ion rechargeable battery. The camera will be available from late March 2009 with pricing of about $200 in black, pink or green finishes for US market customers.


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Legal Diary: The Royal Albert Hall and FoI disclosure moves
In May last year, the solicitor representing Richard Lyttelton, former president of the Royal Albert Hall, asked the Charity Commission to release under the Freedom of Information Act recent correspondence between it and the hall. It complied, withholding personal details and confidential legal advice.
Extracts from the letters - notably the demand by the commission that those who own and can profit from seats in the hall should be a minority rather than a majority on the charity's governing council - were published six months later in Third Sector.
Before that, in July, the solicitor made a request for more correspondence, but the commission declined, saying it had now decided disclosure would hamper resolution of the matter: "The effectiveness of the case is dependent on an open and frank exchange of information, which would not be possible if the correspondence were released."
In September this year, the commission cited the same reason when refusing a similar request from Third Sector. Asked what had changed between its release of material in May last year and its decision not to do so in July, the commission said it had had "ongoing discussions" with the hall for several years and its "current regulatory engagement" began in June last year. It later added that an operational compliance case had been opened in that month and FoI decisions depended on the facts and circumstances at the time.
In this case it seems that disclosure was acceptable during ongoing discussions, which included tough demands such as changing the charity's governance, but not when those discussions became regulatory engagement.
Governance Legal Update
The Charity Commission should act to amend the governance of the Royal Albert Hall
Charity Commission yet to act on Royal Albert Hall's missed deadlines
Stephen Cook: The Albert Hall needs a change of governance
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Q: How can I make raw_input tolerance more robust in Python 2.7? I'm new here and to programming so please take it easy.  I understand that almost anybody reading this knows more than I do and that I'm probably doing it wrong.
That being said, this is what I'm trying to do:
while True:
    arrival = raw_input('Arrival time? Example 8:30 \n')

    if  arrival != "%s%s:%s%s" % (range(0, 1), range(0, 10), range(0, 7), range(0, 10):

        arrival = raw_input('Follow the example: 8:30 \n)
        break

    elif arrival == "q":
        print "escape velocity reached!!!"
        return 0

The "if" statement doesn't have proper syntax and I don't even know if this is how one should/would go about writing this code in the first place.  Basically, I would like the user input to be in the format 1:11 or 11:11, or my code breaks.  Please ignore elif, its just there to break the loop while I'm testing.
Main question:

*

*How can I fix this code or the implement the idea behind this code?

Related questions:

*

*How can I get python to accept many different possible combinations of "properly" formatted strings (XX:XX or X:XX)?

*What is a better way to coerce somebody into inputting data within a range of tolerance in a specific format or increase raw_input tolerance?

*What is a better way to do all of the above or is there a better way to approach this problem?
Thank you in advance!
p.s.

*

*I know that the only way to get a good answer is to ask a good question... Any tips on better question formatting appreciated as well.

A: Here's how I would do this:

*

*Use time.strptime to parse the time. A format string of '%H:%M' works OK for
your example, you could get more specific or try to support multiple formats
if you need to.

*Use try/except to deal with input that can't be parsed properly. strptime will raise
a ValueError if the format doesn't match, so you use except to deal with that

*Set the time_ok flag to True (and therefore exit the while loop) once we've got a time that can be parsed.

Code:
import time

time_ok = False
while not time_ok:
    arrival = raw_input('Arrival time? Example 8:30 \n')
    if arrival == 'q':
        print("Exiting.")
        break
    # Try to parse the entered time
    try:
        time_data = time.strptime(arrival, '%H:%M')
        time_ok = True
    # If the format doesn't match, print a warning
    # and go back through the while loop
    except ValueError:
        print('Follow the example: 8:30 \n')

hours, minutes = time_data.tm_hour, time_data.tm_min
print(hours, minutes)

A: If I'm understanding you right you want people to enter a time from 0:00 to 11:59.  All you have to do is something like the following
while True:
    arrival = raw_input("Please enter a time in the format hr:min (such as 8:30)")
    if ":" not in arrival:
        print("Please enter a time in the format hour:minute")
        continue
    else:
        arrival_list = arrival.split(":")
        if (int(arrival_list[0]) not in range(12)) or
           (int(arrival_list[1]) not in range(60)):
            print("Please enter a valid hour from 0-12 and a valid minute from 0-59")
        else:
            break

This will keep your loop going until you have a properly formatted time given as an input.
From an overall, general programming point of view I think using the time module is probably better, but I tried to keep this to what I estimated was your skill level.

A: You will want to use regular expressions to match the input:
import re

format_ok = False
while format_ok:
    arrival = raw_input('Arrival time? Example 8:30 \n')
    if re.match("\d{1,2}:\d{2}", arrival):
        #string format is OK - break the loop
        format_ok = True


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Q: from where i can download sdk for Motorola MC3190? Where can I download the SDK for Motorola MC3190?  I checked the Motorola site - but can't find it.  Can I get any link for this?
Thanks in advance.

A: Download it from From Motorola's web site.

A: my platform is microsoft.net using c#,so i choose EMDK FOR .NET 2.6


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Boro could be back on the box with its own TV channel.
Middlesbrough is among seven locations across the UK invited to apply for a local TV licence by Ofcom.
Several organisations have already expressed an interest in launching a local TV channel - which could be broadcast into more than 200,000 Teesside households.
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Middlesbrough joins Bangor, Cambridge, Mold, Scarborough, Swansea and York in the second phase of the nationwide rollout which followed legislation enabling Ofcom to issue local TV licences.
In January, Ofcom awarded a licence to Comux UK to operate the local TV 'multiplex', providing the transmission for every local TV station on digital terrestrial TV (DTT).
The first phase saw the award of 19 licences, including in Grimsby, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow.
A spokesman for Ofcom said it was hoped that channels in phase two locations could be on air by the end of 2014.
He added that households in areas of Stockton and Hartlepool could also receive transmissions.
Middesbrough FC previously boasted its own Boro TV channel, set up by cable firm NTL. It was the first dedicated club channel in the country, but was scrapped after seven years.


By Mike January 13, 2015 January 9, 2015 Promote Yourself!
Gabriele Ranfagni has launched a Crowd Funding effort for his film Gustaf the Puffin. Check out the press release below. Incidentally we interviewed him a while back.
Today, on January 12th, 2015 we are glad to announce that our fundraising page on Karolina Fund has been opened.
We are aiming high and need 42.000 Euros so our project can go from an idea to reality. To reach our goal we need your help. All press coverage, interviews, pictures and such would get us closer to our fundraising goal.
Gustaf the puffin is an animated character which I, Anna Birgis and Gabriele Ranfagni own the copyright to.
We have an excellent team behind us, all very qualified animators. You can see our team on our page on Karolina Fund.
We are aiming to have the pilot show ready in the fall of 2015. We do not have a specific date yet but we will keep you posted.
When that show is ready and premiered, the people that donated the high amounts to our project will be invited to see it, if they have free time to fly over to Iceland. Along with them, part of our team, my self and Gabriele and people from the press, this premier will be a great one.
After the pilot episode is ready and has been premiered it is time for my self and Gabriele to find an investor for our project. Our idea is to make 24 episodes, 11 minutes each.
Gustaf the puffin is Icelandic and all episodes made will happen in icelandic landscape.
As you can see on our fundraising page on Karolina Fund, the introduction for Gustaf the puffin happens on an icelandic beach on black sand right by a place called Dyrholaey.
The idea for the project happened at Dyrholaey last summer in July when my self, Gabriele and others went there to look at the puffins.
If you have more questions or want an interview please contact me – Anna Birgis, by email annabirgis@gmail.com or by phone +354-8658586.
Thank you and I surely hope I will hear from you very soon.
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import javax.xml.transform.ErrorListener;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;

import org.slf4j.Logger;

public class LogErrorListener implements ErrorListener {

  private Logger _log;

  public LogErrorListener(Logger log) {
    _log = log;
  }

  public void warning(TransformerException exception)
      throws TransformerException {
    _log.warn(exception.getMessageAndLocation(),exception);
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  }

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