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Home » News » Richard Wardwell is Promoted to the Role of CEO of Superior Grocers
Richard Wardwell is Promoted to the Role of CEO of Superior Grocers
January 20, 2023 by Hernando Ramírez-Santos
Superior Grocers, one of Southern California's largest independent supermarket chains currently operating 70 locations, announced that its president, Richard Wardwell, has been promoted to CEO of the company, effective January 30, 2023.
Mimi Song, the founder of Superior Grocers, will be stepping down from the CEO position and will remain Chairman of the company.
"On behalf of Superior Grocers, I am proud to announce Rich as President and CEO," stated Song in a press release. "For over eight years at Superior, he has proven to be a great leader with the vision to expand on the success Superior has built over the past 42 years. He is passionate about the industry, and his relentless pursuit of excellence has positioned us for success. Under his leadership, we acquired Número Uno, and I look forward to the next phase of growth and expansion."
Related Article: Superior Grocers Opens its First Store in the Central Valley
Wardwell brings more than 40 years of grocery retail experience. He began his career as a courtesy clerk and continued to advance in his profession, experiencing the many ranks of the grocery industry.
He was director of operations for SaveMart, VP of operations for Raley's Food Source Division, and in 2014, became VP of operations for Superior Grocers. Wardwell held the roles of SVP of operations, COO, and his current role as President.
In an interview with Abasto last year, Wardwell said the best way to do a good job is to listen to his customers, who are primarily Hispanic, to become a better retailer.
"We are proud to serve this community, which is our lifeblood. We hire from that community; we participate in that community. We are that community," Wardwell said.
In his new role as President and CEO of Superior Grocers, he will continue to oversee all aspects of the company.
"I am honored and humbled to serve as the next President and CEO," Wardwell said. "Very proud of what our team has been able to achieve during these exciting times. I will continue encouraging our leaders, team members, and partners to achieve even greater success in providing quality, variety, and value to our customers."
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Q: Low poly terrain created by modifying geometry vertices is producing black glitches I am trying to create random low-poly style terrain for my project. The way in which I decided would be best to do this is the following:

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*Create a BoxGeometry object to act as my floor, and set the widthSegments and the heightSegments to more than the default (100)

*Use the .vertices array to access each vertex

*Iterate through each vertex using a forEach loop on geomFloor.vertices

*Each iteration, generate a random number between to points (a max and min y position for the vertex)

*Set the current vertex's .y to the random number

*Update the vertices

Here is my code for this process:
function createFloorSecondScene(){
    var geomFloor = new THREE.BoxGeometry(20000, 1, 20000, 100, 1, 100);

    geomFloor.mergeVertices();

    var randomFloorVertexPos;

    geomFloor.vertices.forEach(function(floorVertex){
        randomFloorVertexPos = Math.floor(Math.random() * ((0) -
        (-90)) + (-90));

        floorVertex.y = randomFloorVertexPos;
        geomFloor.verticesNeedUpdate = true;
    });

    var matFloor = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial({color:
    Colors.grassGreen});
    matFloor.flatShading = true;

    var Floor = new THREE.Mesh(geomFloor, matFloor);

    Floor.position.y = -72.5;
    Floor.receiveShadow = true;
    Floor.castShadow = true;
    Floor.name = "floor";
    scene.add(Floor);
}

The Problem
As you can see from the screenshot below, this is how I want the floor to look, and in some sections and from some angles, it does work as intended.

However, in large areas of the floor, these weird black shapes are created, but disappear when you change camera angle with OrbitControls.

I assume this is due to the simple method used to manipulate the vertices of the geometry, and that some vertices are probably overlapping which is causing them to render like this.
What I need

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*Main: Fix for the black shapes

*If you can (not necessary), an explanation for why this only happens in certain places and from certain angles

*If I have manipulated the vertices in the wrong way and/or there is a better way to create a random low poly terrain like I need, I would be grateful for an explanation of the correct way to code it.

A: Switching to PlaneGeometry should make it easier in order to generate your terrain.

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easyJet has opened its new check in area in the North Terminal at London Gatwick Airport which is the world's largest self-service bag drop. The fully automated bag drop facility for customers will help to reduce and eliminate check in queues. As a result of its introduction queue times have reduced by half and more than 90% of our passengers will wait less than 5 minutes at bag drop.
GATWICK AIRPORT'S GUY STEPHENSON AND EASYJET'S SOPHIE DEKKERS OPEN THE WORLD'S LARGEST SELF SERVICE BAG DROP.
The area, which is over 5,000 square metres, contains 48 self-service bag drop kiosks. Customers arriving into the area are welcomed by easyJet Welcome Hosts who guide them into the auto bag drop area. Customers' passports are then verified against their boarding pass before they can proceed to the self service kiosks to place their bags onto a weigh scale. A luggage tag is then automatically generated by the kiosks and attached to the bag by the customer. This tag is then verified by laser scanners to check the information is correct and the label attached securely before the bag is dispatched through the airport's baggage system to the aircraft.
This opening enables easyJet to fully consolidate its full operation at Gatwick to the North Terminal in January 2017, creating an easier and improved travel experience for passengers travelling from London Gatwick.
Sophie Dekkers, easyJet's UK Director, said: "As our largest base Gatwick is of huge importance to easyJet both strategically and for the millions of our passengers who travel through the airport every year.
"We recognise that our customer's airport experience is a crucial part of their overall journey and so we are delighted to have opened this new area for our customers flying from London Gatwick.
"Our vision is for Gatwick to be both our biggest and best airport and this opening enables us to further deliver on our ambition to make travel easy and affordable for all of our customers.
Chris Hope, easyJet's Head of Gatwick, said: "These new self-service kiosks provide a glimpse into the future of airport design and enable our customers flying from London Gatwick to have unique use of the most innovative state of the art facilities.
"In January 2017 we will move all of our operation into one terminal enabling easyJet and Gatwick to deliver an improved experience for our passengers.
"Alongside the consolidation to one terminal we also plan to continue to grow at Gatwick through increasing our destinations, further improving our schedule and by deploying larger aircraft as we replace smaller A319s with 186 seat A320s and, from 2017, A320Neos."
Guy Stephenson, Chief Commercial Officer for Gatwick Airport said: "We are half way through a £2.5 billion programme of investment and the transformation of our North Terminal is a key part of this. Creating new spaces which allow new technology to speed passengers through the processing part of their journey will help us eliminate queues, handle greater numbers of passengers and put people in charge of how they spent their time at the airport".
easyJet started flying from London Gatwick Airport in 1999 and now has 60 aircraft based there, operating on 106 routes. This year the airline will fly over 18 million passengers to and from Gatwickand has around 1400 cabin crew and 700 pilots operating from the airport.
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§744 Emperor William II and the Western Front; Intervention of USA (1914-1918): IV-99.
IV-99 (§744):
The vallant first-born son of the daughter of the King,
Shall push back the French so deep,
That he shall spark lightnings, how [the French] in such arrangements,
Those from USA a few and far at first, then deep into the fronts.
(L'aisné vaillant de la fille du Roy,
Respoulsera si profond les Celtiques:
Qu'il mettra fouldres, combien en tel arroy,
Peu & loing puis profond es Hesperiques.)
NOTES: V. Ionescu (1976, p.392-393) gives us an intelligent interpretation of the quatrain with the theme of the German Emperor William II (the eldest son of the daughter [Auguste Viktoria] of Queen Victoria [the King]) and the Western Front; Intervention of USA following the pertinent interpretation of the quatrain by Centurio (1953, p.109).
Arroy: « Arrangement, disposition; Suit, train; Military apparatus, armament, army.» (Huguet). Ionescu's explanation of this term as "désarroi (disarray, disorder)" (Ionescu, 1976, p.270; p.392) following that of Le Pelletier (I, p.187) is not pertinent.
The vallant first-born son of the daughter of the King, Shall push back the French so deep, That he shall spark lightnings, how [the French] in such arrangements, Those from USA a few and far at first, then deep into the fronts: « The Great War. From the outset, the decisive area of conflict was Germany's Western Front. The Germans invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg, overcoming Belgian resistance at Liege and Antwerp. French and British forces were driven into retreat southward after clashes at Mons and Charleroi. At the Marne, however, French commander General Joseph Joffre rallied his forces for a counter-offensive and the Germans were pushed back. After a desperate struggle at Ypres in autumn 1914, the rival armies dug into trenches that stretched from the North Sea to Switzerland. Massive resources were committed to offensives – by the Germans at Verdun and the Western Allies at the Somme – without breaking the stalemate. Up to 1918, only a voluntary withdrawal by the Germans to the fortified Hindenburg Line significantly changed the position of the armies. From March 1918 a series of large-scale German offensives broke through Allied defences and advanced the front line toward Paris [That he shall spark lightnings, how [the French] in such arrangements]. But, aided by the arrival of US troops, the Allies halted the Germans at the Marne. A successful British offensive at Amiens in August initiated the "Hundred Days", a series of advances that pushed the fighting back close to the German border.» (DKHistory, p.344).
« Meanwhile American troops were being convoyed across the Atlantic in increasing numbers. Fifty thousand were arriving every week and being given extra training for battlefield conditions [Those from USA a few and far at first]. On that day [27 May] the Germans stormed through twelve miles on a forty-mile front, advancing over the Aisne and Vesle rivers to the Marne in three days, reaching a point only forty miles from Paris. American troops, part of the one-and-a-half-million-strong American Expeditionay Force already in France, helped to hold the Germans on the Marne [Those from USA then deep into the fronts].» (Chasseaud, 2013, p.263-264).
« In the difficult Argonne Forest terrain of tangled woods, gullies and ridges, it was almost impossible for tanks to operate, and the Americans found themselves engaging in a bloody slog through a succession of strongly held German positions. By 1 October the French and Americans had advanced some ten miles and taken 18,000 prisoners, and in a few more miles came up against the strong defensive position of the Kriemhild Line. While their advance was painfully slow, they were at least holding down thirty-six German divisions.» (Chasseaud, id., p.269-271).
§751 The end of 17 reigns of Romanov Dynasty in 1917 and on the 17th (1613-1918): VI-59.
§750 The foundation of the League of Nations with unexpected results (1918-1946): V-12.
§749 The break of the Great War and heavy suffering of the French, the British and the Italians (1914-1918): I-26.
§748 The Hindenburg Line broken, Ludendorff crashed to the floor; Revolution in Germany and Austria (1918): IV-13.
§747 The Austro-Serbian conflict; American exploit in the Great War (1914-1918): VIII-48.
§746 The Western Front (1914-1918): IV-12.
§745 Confrontation of the two big camps; German retreat (1914-1918): VI-7.
§743 The battles of Reims and Tours-sur-Marne (1914-1918): IV-46.
§742 The German offensive and the battles of Reims (1914-1918): III-18.


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Website honours Alex Campbell's memory
The B.C. Cancer Foundation is accepting donations in honour of Thrifty Foods co-founder
The B.C. Cancer Foundation is accepting donations in honour of Thrifty Foods co-founder Alex Campbell Sr., who died Oct. 11 after a long illness.
Campbell was a longtime supporter of the foundation, and chaired its 2011 Inspire the World fundraising campaign.
He and his wife, Jo, were also generous during the 2009 campaign, during which they contributed $1 million. The Alex & Jo Campbell Patient and Family Support Centre, located at the B.C. Cancer Agency's Vancouver Island Centre near the Royal Jubilee Hospital was named in their honour.
Donations are welcome at donate.bccancerfoundation.com/goto/alexcampbell.
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The area around Shibale Secondary School is absolutely covered with sugarcane! Most farmers choose to specialize in sugarcane because of the nearby Mumias Sugar Factory, which buys their crops.
Shibale Secondary School is a place of learning for 200 students, of which 98 are boys and 112 are girls. The school employs nine teachers and three support staff.
Students start streaming into school by 7am each weekday, carrying their schoolbags and jugs of water. After some water is dropped off at the kitchen, the students use the remainder for cleaning latrines and classrooms. Everyone gathers outside at 8am for assembly, when the teacher on duty makes announcements. Regular classes get out before dinner, and are only interrupted by a few minutes, besides and hour for lunch.
Students must carry water to school every morning because there's no water source on school grounds. They'll find this water either at home or on the way to school – wherever it is most convenient.
The nearby primary school is connected to a water pipeline, but they find that half the time it's been shut off at the source. When either of these alternatives fail to be enough for drinking, cooking, and cleaning, the school has to order a boozer from Mumias Sugar Factory. This large truck fills up with water at a river flowing beside a dirt road between the school and factory.
And because the river is by the factory, users are concerned that it is contaminated by waste discharged directly from the factory. After drinking this water, students suffer from stomachaches, headaches, and diarrhea.
Besides constant sicknesses and resulting absences, administration told us that they've had to buy so much water this last year that they're struggling financially.
There are only two latrine doors shared between students and teachers. Though they're in good structural condition, they're filthy because of overuse and a shortage of water for cleaning. The male students admit that they prefer going behind other school buildings.
There are no hand-washing stations, nor would there be enough water to spare.
A 50,000-liter rainwater catchment tank will help alleviate the water crisis at this school. The school will also help gather the needed materials such as sand, rocks, and water from the spring for mixing cement. Once finished, this tank can begin catching rainfall that will be used by the school's students and staff. Students will no longer be responsible to find enough water to carry to school every day, nor will the school have to pay for dirty water.
Shibale Secondary School in Kenya now has a new source of safe, clean water thanks to your generous donation. A new rainwater catchment system has been built, and there are now six new latrines in use. Two hand-washing stations were installed, and students received training in sanitation and hygiene.
Deputy Headtacher Elizabeth Busulu worked with our staff to select teachers who have a strong interest in improving hygiene and sanitation at their school. These teachers attended our training and are now part of the new Child to Child (CTC) health club. All of the students opted to attend training, while particular student leaders joined their teachers in the formation of this new group, which will spearhead hygiene and sanitation-related activities.
Since it was a hot and sunny day, we decided to group under the shade of a big tree, which also offered a good view of the new rainwater catchment tank.
A number of topics were covered, including: Personal hygiene such as bathing, oral hygiene, and hand-washing with soap as a barrier from germs. Operation and maintenance of the new facilities was also covered, with each person understanding their role for long-lasting clean water and good health. The new CTC club will be greatly involved in this management, and will be responsible for encouraging good health and hygiene practices amongst their peers, teachers, and the larger Shibale Community.
Some of the training staff paid a visit to the school in secret a few days later, and were pleased to see students going straight to the hand-washing point after using the latrines.
Shibale Secondary School in Kenya has begun building a new source of safe, clean water because of your generous donation. A rainwater catchment tank and new latrines are being constructed, hand-washing stations provided, and the school is being trained on proper sanitation and hygiene practices. Get to know this school through stories, pictures, and maps on our project page. We look forward to reaching out with more good news soon!


The Coyotes fell to the Stars, 5-4, on Monday in Dallas, their third consecutive loss. It also snapped a six-game streak of allowing three or fewer goals, which was tied for their longest streak since an 11-game streak in March 2016.
Nick Cousins had two assists in the loss to Dallas, his first multi-point game of the season. Cousins has over 16:00 of ice time in each of his last four games. He did that just once in his first 48 -- the opening game of the season, when he played 16:01.
Arizona has won both matchups with Nashville this season, most recently notching a 3-0 road win on November 29. This is the final meeting of the season -- the Coyotes have only been perfect against the Predators once, in 2001-02, when they went 4-0-0.
The Predators lost to the Stars, 3-1, at home on Saturday, snapping a three-game winning streak. Since January 1, they've only won once when allowing three or more goals (1-4-2). They're a perfect 7-0-0 when allowing two or fewer.
Calle Jarnkrok scored Nashville's lone goal against Dallas, just his second goal since December 15 (22 games). He has no points in his last nine games against Arizona (2g, 0a in 13 career games).
The Predators have dominated at even strength this season, posting a +37 goal differential (136-99). That's second only to Toronto (+39). Arizona's -26 even-strength goal differential is tied for third lowest in the league.
The Nashville Predators have been singing the blues after losing each of their past three games in Music City.
The Predators look to end their home losing skid and avert a three-game season sweep at the hands of the visiting Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday night.
Calle Jarnkrok scored Nashville's lone goal in the opening period on Saturday, but reigning Vezina Trophy recipient Pekka Rinne was unable to make the limited offense stand up in a 3-1 setback to the visiting Dallas Stars.
"When the game was on the line, 1-1 game ... personally for me, somehow I've got to be better. It's been up and down the last little while here," Rinne said after yielding a pair of third-period tallies.
Rinne looks to rebound versus Arizona, against which he has surrendered five goals on 48 shots to drop both encounters this season. Despite those losses, the 36-year-old sports an 18-9-2 mark with six shutouts, a 2.06 goals-against average and a .926 save percentage in 30 career games against the Coyotes.
Nashville spent a significant portion of its Monday practice addressing an ailing power play, which is mired in an 0-for-31 stretch over the past nine games.
"I thought in Vegas (a 2-1 win on Jan. 23), we were doing some good things," Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. "We had lots of looks. We hit the post a few times. It wasn't as clear (on Saturday)."
Arizona, which is 6-3-2 in its past 11 contests, is making its intention clear that it is a contender for a postseason berth in the Western Conference. The Coyotes rallied from a two-goal deficit in the third period Monday before falling to 2-2-1 on their six-game road trip with a 5-4 setback to the Stars.
Captain Oliver Ekman-Larsson set a franchise record for goals scored by a defenseman when he netted his 109th of his career during the first period on Monday. The 27-year-old Swede notched an assist in both Arizona's 2-1 win over Nashville on Nov. 15 as well as in the Coyotes' 3-0 victory over the Predators two weeks later.
"It's wide open. Everybody's winning and losing a little bit, so all we can do is to keep pushing like we have been the last 10, 15 games," Ekman-Larsson said of the Coyotes, who reside three points behind the Vancouver Canucks for the final Western Conference wild-card spot.
"I like the way that we are battling and competing out there. That's why we've been successful. ... All we can do is to give 100 percent every night, and that will give us a good chance to hang around the games and get points."
Darcy Kuemper made 24 saves against Dallas on Monday to fall to 6-1-3 in his past 10 outings. Should he get the nod on Tuesday, Kuemper owns a 4-2-1 mark with one shutout, a 2.44 goals-against average and a .920 save percentage in eight career meetings with the Predators.
Clayton Keller set up a pair of goals on Monday to pad his team-leading totals in assists (26) and points (37) for Arizona, which is 6-3-2 in its past 11 meetings with Nashville.


The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it exceeded its goal for year one participation in the Quality Payment Program (QPP), the physician payment model required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, with 91 percent of all clinicians eligible for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System submitting their data for measurement.
The program—which transitions providers from Medicare payments based on volume to payments based on value—initially began measurement during 2017 for payment beginning during 2019.
Efforts by CMS to reduce burden, improve flexibility, and focus on interoperability have continued in the recently released fiscal year 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule with the overhaul of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs. Changes include removing measures that no longer are meaningful and de-duplicating measures across programs.
HAP currently is analyzing the proposed rule and beginning to develop comments.
Please contact Kate Slatt, HAP's senior director, innovative payment and care delivery, with questions or comments regarding the QPP or the recently released IPPS proposed rule.


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Why California wildfires won't destroy Getty Center art: Inside the billion-dollar fortress protected by travertine stone-clad walls, crushed stone rooftops, a million gallon underground water tank and even fire resistant acacia SHRUBS
The Getty Center art complex in Los Angeles made sure it could protect its priceless artwork and antiquities from flames as a wildfire ravages the area
On Monday, flames burned close to the Getty Center which is home to works from Rembrandt and Van Gogh
Fire protection was designed into the facility by architect Richard Meier
Smoke detection and sprinklers are ever-present at the center, along with pressurization systems to keep smoke out or reverse flow if it does get in
The Getty also has a one million-gallon water tank buried under its garage
By Leah Mcdonald For Dailymail.com
Prized works of art in a museum in the path of California wildfires will be safe from flames because the building was built with fire-resistance in mind - including a own million-gallon water tank under its garage.
Authorities in Northern California ordered 180,000 residents to flee their homes on Sunday as historic winds fueled a wildfire in the wine country.
Flames were seen raging along 405 Freeway near the Getty Center, which displays pre-20th century works of art by artists including Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
However fire resistance was built into the billion-dollar complex, Ron Hartwig, vice president of communications for the J. Paul Getty Trust said previously.
On Monday, flames were seen raging along 405 Freeway near the museum which displays pre-20th century works of art by artists including Rembrandt and Van Gogh
The Getty Center Museum (left) is seen above on Monday shrouded in smoke from the wildfire that started nearby at the Sepulveda Pass
The immediate zone around the building is kept green with fire-resistant plants, and the expansive area surrounding the campus is rigorously kept clear of grasses
The buildings also have strong concrete walls and automatic fire doors that can trap fires in sealed-off areas, The New York Times reported when previous fires ravaged the area in 2017.
There is also a carbon-filtered air conditioning system which is designed to get rid of smoke and internal sprinklers are ready in the case of a natural or deliberate incident.
'Should any fire move within one of those compartmentalized areas, it can't get anywhere,' Michael G. Rogers, director of facilities at the Getty previously told The New York Times.
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The Getty also has a one million-gallon water tank buried under the parking garage, giving it the highest level of fire resistance.
The $1 billion home of the J. Paul Getty Museum sits in the Santa Monica Mountains and has been closed to prevent harm to its works from smoke from several wildfires.
Its collections range from pre-20th century European paintings to Roman and Greek antiquities, tapestries, photographs and manuscripts, all protected by extensive anti-fire systems outside and in.
The immediate zone around the building is kept green with fire-resistant plants, and the expansive area surrounding the campus is rigorously kept clear of grasses.
Canopies of oak trees also serve to suppress the growth of vegetation that could feed a blaze.
A small brush fire burns in the hills near the Getty Center in Los Angeles on Monday. Fire fighting aircraft quickly contained the Santa Ana wind driven fire.
A small fire erupts at the entrance of The Getty Center in Los Angeles, California. The Getty fire started along the 405 Freeway near the Getty Center in Los Angeles on October 28
The Getty Center is covered in smoke as the Getty fire burns Monday. However fire resistance was built into the billion-dollar complex, Ron Hartwig, vice president of communications for the J. Paul Getty Trust confirmed
The state of California has been plagued by at least nine wildfires in the last two weeks with the latest blaze to break out on Sunday near the Getty Center.
Meanwhile Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says the Getty wildfire in the city's western neighborhoods has scorched more than 600 acres but its growth has slowed.
Dramatic footage showed smoke and flames surrounding the Getty Center with houses historic artwork by Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
Celebrities have been fleeing their homes and dramatic footage showed flames rapidly spreading towards the eight-bedroom Brentwood mansion of actor Josh Duhamel Monday.
He bought the 8,232 sq ft sprawling property with then-wife Fergie for $5.2million in 2007.
Hudson was seen getting into her vehicle in the upscale Pacific Palisades neighborhood to evacuate early Monday morning as the threat of fire loomed large.
Dramatic images showed airplanes flying at low altitude while dropping fire retardant on the area surrounding Schwarzenegger's home.
The $1 billion home of the J. Paul Getty Museum sits in the Santa Monica Mountains and has been closed to prevent harm to its works from smoke from several wildfires
The Getty Fire burns near the Getty Center along the 405 freeway north of Los Angeles, California, U.S. on Monday
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says the Getty wildfire in the city's western neighborhoods has scorched more than 600 acres but its growth has slowed
Airplanes dropping water and fire retardant joined the battle against the destructive wildfire burning on the western side of Los Angeles.
Night-flying helicopters made water drops during predawn hours Monday and large aircraft started flying the area after the sun rose.
Two so-called 'Super Scooper' turboprop airplanes that scoop up water from lakes and reservoirs have begun making drops, along with converted jets unleashing loads of bright pink retardant.
Schwarzenegger, the movie star and former California governor, also tweeted that he evacuated his Brentwood home at 3:30am.
Monday night's red carpet premiere in Los Angeles of 'Terminator: Dark Fate,' starring Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, was canceled because of the fire.
'We will be donating food intended for the after-party to the American Red Cross, which is serving those affected by the fires,' Paramount said in a statement.
The ex-governor's former wife, Maria Shriver, tweeted: 'So grateful to our firefighters putting their lives on the line for all of us.
'We have evacuated, but we're safe. Praying for our neighbors.'
Shriver also tweeted: 'Praying for everyone in the path of this terrifying destruction. Thank you again to our firefighters for keeping us safe.
Homes have burned since the fire erupted around 1:30 a.m. and was swept by Santa Ana winds into canyons and ridgetop neighborhoods. But there's still no exact count of how many were destroyed.
Los Angeles Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas says his firefighters had to make tough choices about which homes could be saved.
Garcetti says the cause of the fire is under investigation.
The dry offshore gusts are expected to be replaced by a return of moist ocean air in the afternoon. But Santa Ana winds are forecast to return Tuesday night.
Why the Getty Center¿s Art Stayed Put as Fires Raged Nearby - The New York Times
California fires won't destroy Getty Museum and its art as it's a fire resistant fortress
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Westpac handed over private details without judicial authorisation, though other firms declined, court documents show.
A legal expert says police have probably broken the law by obtaining the personal bank information of journalist Nicky Hager without a court order.
A few names out there lambasting @westpacnz over handover of Hager info to police. Wonder if the brand has been damaged?
Police got Hager data without court order https://t.co/mOvsPSSFLe via nzherald Been with Westpac for 40 years – that may be about to end.
The covert cooperation of powerful institutions. Nicky Hager's treatment by Westpac and Police is a wake-up call for every sentient citizen.
The covert cooperation of powerful institutions. Nicky Hager's treatment by Westpac and Police is a wake-up call for every sentient citizen.
This is nothing new. It's been going on for decades – at least as far back as the 1960s/70s where the police are concerned. I refer to covert ops. against innocent persons for political purposes. Many of us have had personal experience and/or have close relatives who were targeted. In my case it was my father in the 1970s followed some years later by me.
Don't ever believe the mantra that the police are politically neutral. It's poppycock.
Apart from a small mortgage I ditched them six months ago .felt good too.
They say people change their bank less often than they get married. Let's hope Westpac broke the mold.
"probably broken the law" ?
I would say that there are no probabilities about it. What Westpac and the police did was illegal, and did break the law.
Will they be held to account?
AFAIK all of the banks say in their General Terms that they can hand information over to the police if they reasonably believe that that action will assist in the investigation, detection and/or prevention of fraud, money laundering or other criminal offences".
I may be wrong but as best I can understand that gives them legal rights to hand over whatever information that they want as long as they can claim reasonable belief.
That's what we sign up to when we open accounts.
… all of the banks say in their General Terms that they can hand information over to the police if they reasonably believe that that action will assist in the investigation, detection and/or prevention of fraud, money laundering or other criminal offences".
You may well be right Joe Bloggs but the 'bold' says it all. No-one in Westpac read the book "Dirty Politics" and were happy to believe the JK-lead projected garbage that Hager and co. were the ones guilty of criminal offences, fraud and money laundering and not the real criminals both in his office and closely associated with it.
Richard Nixon and co. all over again.
Is writing a book, now 'a criminal offence' in this country?
Pull the other one Westpac if they expect to use that as a defence!
Nicky Hager can defiantly not come under that definition legally.
Police were investigating someone else not him, there is no way Hager was ever considered a criminal or fraudster or money launderer.
Probably like in the Dotcom case once police realise their mistake they will have to manufacture evidence and trump up additional changes, and before you know it, spend 5 million plus of taxpayers on legal fees defending their ridiculous position.
Police need to look at Sky City to investigate money laundering but since most public figures are on the take from Sky City, I'm not expecting that one any time soon.
especially as the police kept claiming Hager was a witness not a suspect. I wonder if the police file records their conversationw ith John Key who had a good idea who rawshark was/is?
"The Prime Minister believes he knows who hacked Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater's computer and produced the source material for Nicky Hager's Dirty Politics, according to a new edition of a recently published biography of John Key.
Thats the real crux of the matter. Wailing and tearing of hair about Westpac is beside the point.
The police going on a fishing expedition would have almost certainly knocked back by the courts, so at a very minimum the legislation should require a search warrant from a judge when the person of interest is not the prime suspect. Not holding by breath on this one.
duke. you are the one who was definitive that westpacs t and cs trumped everything else and bemoanedthe lack of oomph in our privacy. so i sought to address that. now you said westpacs behaviour is beside the point.
That'll depend on whether the Privacy Act, and Hager's claim to be journalist and thus has the right to protect his sources (which the Court will agree I think), trump their Terms & Conditions. Other agencies required the Police to produce a production order, so they obviously regarded his privacy as paramount and the police to be required to satisfy a judge that their claim to be pursuing an "offender" was reasonable.
Thank goodness I don't bank with Westpac. Wonder how long the Court decision will take.
His lawyer, Felix Geiringer, would also not comment on whether Mr Hager intended to take the bank to court.
However, due to legal reasons, Mr Hager could not act anyway unless the court also published the original Westpac documents, which were on the court file but were yet to be released, Mr Geiringer said.
This answers my question above.
Dirty Politics author Nicky Hager is seeking a "full and frank" disclosure from Westpac after it was revealed the bank handed information including 10 months of his bank statements to police.
In a statement on Tuesday issued by Hager's lawyer Felix Geiringer he said it was difficult for Hager to comment on the matter because that part of a court case his client had taken against police had not yet been argued.
He said police had so far refused to release related documents requested under the Official Information Act or the Privacy Act.
Hager has complained to the Privacy Commission and the Ombudsman about the police's failure to respond fully to his requests for documents.
Representatives of both organisations had met Hager's lawyers and have been liaising with police over these complaints, he said.
"Now that the fact of this breach of privacy has been made public, Mr Hager intends to seek a full and frank disclosure of the extent of the breach from Westpac. He looks forward to receiving Westpac's response to that request and will be considering his options to take this matter further," the statement said.
Which would mean that the police could turn up and say that they were investigating a crime and they would give it over.
Except that the police actually need a warrant to say that they're investigating a crime.
Indications are that a crime has been committed both by Westpac (by handing the data over) and by the police (By asking for the data without a warrant).
I don't see how it gives them legal rights to hand over client information.
There would need to be good reason and since there is clearly some grey area they should have waited for a court order.
What grounds did Westpac have for releasing the information? Police have always said that Hager is a witness, not a suspect. I think Westpac almost certainly has breached the Privacy Act. I'd be nervous if I banked with Westpac (I don't) because they could release my personal and private account information to a third party and I'd never know.
It's been reported today that at the time police approached Westpac they regarded Hager as a suspect. Hmmm I am not sure if they are using that as an excuse or it's true. When and how did Hager go from a witness to a suspect?
Impossible for them to break the law. It was a stupid move on their part but all allowed for in their terms and conditions, in fact they can pass similar information on to other 'financial institutions'.
Air New ZEaland would have similar conditions and chose to respond by seeking a production order, which would give them basis for their reasonable belief. INterestingly the police did not get a production order against AIRNZ or trademe, which leaves it open to the suggestion the police didn't think they could establish the required grounds for one.
So, no it is not "impossible" for them to have broken the law in this instance.
you cant contract out of your statutory and fiduciary obligations, sorry.
It's truly amazing how many people seem to think that you can.
The relevant section is Part V Information Request at pages 113 – 124.
The submission claims that these actions were unlawful in breaching Hagar's rights under the Privacy Act and the Bill of Rights Act – in respect to both the reasons given by the Police for seeking the information without first being granted a production order, and the bank doing so without a production order (whereas other third parties refused to do so without a production order which the police then did seek to obtain).
The Police gave a number of different reasons for seeking to obtain information from third parties such as Westpac – including obtaining Hagar's address – as noted in 5.23 this was readily available from the Wellington Phone Book.
The submission does not cover Westpac or other banks' General Terms with regard to customers agreeing to the bank handing over information to the police in certain circumstances. There has been some discussion of this aspect on Twitter as to whether the Privacy Act takes precedence over these Terms and Conditions ( I would think so, but I am not a lawyer).
I expect that we will see considerable further discussion on this aspect of the Hagar case in the media once the long weekend is over and rugby mania settles down, due to the high public interest in the possibility of banks handing over their private information without a production order having been sought and granted on valid legal grounds.
They should have just asked Hooton.
LOL – but why ask Hooton when it was in the phone book?
As a follow-up to 4.3 above, I have now read the section of the Police's response to Hager's submission in respect to the seeking of information from third parties including banks.
The relevant paragraphs are 114 – 122. IMHO, it is a pretty weak defence.
In essence, they claim that they believe there was a legitimate situation to seek a production order for an exception to the Privacy Act provisions. However, they claim that the approaches to banks etc were simply information requests and Westpac and other banks could just have refused to provide information until a production order was presented – as did the other third parties such as Trade Me, Spark etc.
Again, no mention of the banks' General Terms and Conditions.
Agreed – and the Police defence actually suggests that it is a civil matter. However, imho this does not absolve the Police from actions to obtain private information without following the letter of the law in respect of seeking and obtaining a production order.
PS – My apologies for misspelling Hager's name in 4.3. I was out of time to correct this before I noticed.
Don't worry v v. I do it all the time. I think HagER must be used to it.
Ooops – another edit needed.
"Finance Minister Bill English and Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce today announced Westpac was the winning bidder for the core contract, which accounts for $229 billion worth of credit and $219 billion of debit transactions each year.
I'd be surprised if Westpac didn't breach the Privacy Act. However, breaches of the Act typically end up with a slap on the wrist for the wrongdoer.
I'd like to see Westpac publicly apologise to Hager as well as agree to pay him a decent sum for its actions.
When this sort of thing happens, the word "Dictatorship" come to mind immediately.
no, it's a melding of corporate and governmental power against dissident citizens. That has another name.
"On Monday Finance Minister Bill English and Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce said six banks had been given slices of the lucrative all-of-government banking services contract.
But by far the key element of the contract, Crown transactional banking services, was won by incumbent Westpac.
Westpac New Zealand chief executive David McLean says contract win makes it the "government's main bank".
For months banking sources have indicated that Westpac had won the core of the contract, as there had been little appetite within the Beehive for a change. Under the terms of the eight year contract 35 core government agencies are required to use Westpac.
Such is the volume of the contract that one banking source claimed it enabled Westpac to effectively determine the timing of payment settlements between New Zealand banks.
In 2011 John Key said there would be a tender for the banking contract, first awarded to Westpac in 1989. …. Westpac said the contract win meant it remained as "the government's main bank", extending its relationship with the Crown to more than 30 years, noting that it was the only bank which had won elements of all four parts of the contract.
Don't worry Westpac I'm sure John Key will pop a law through under urgency to make this breach of Nicky Hager's privacy retroactively legal so you will not get in trouble when it is ruled illegal by a court. He will also be over to lick your boots for having this small amount of legal trouble to sort out.
IMO we saw at the Election and subsequently how interested "the Public" were/are in the book and the issues.
Westpac (& every bank) is required by law & often does disclose many details of account balances, income/expenses etc to other Govt organisations such as IRD etc.
They will also on behalf of these organisations clean out bank accounts and pay them over to said Govt department.
We're not talking about government departmental cooperation to obtain evidence of fraudulent or criminal behaviour. Nicky Hager had committed no such offences and the police were well aware of that fact from the start.
What we are talking about is a band of corrupt police officers using a legal loophole for the purpose of harassing and intimidating a NZ citizen because he had the temerity to write a book exposing corruption within the government which lead directly to the Prime Minister's office. The fact so many voters are ignorant and clueless when it comers to such matters is not the fault of the messenger – in this case Nicky Hager – but the lazy, dumbed down voters of which you appear to be one.
Yes, its a glimpse of the Deep State at work.
It's nice to know that "FreeSlavemark" is happy for a Left wing government to investigate their illegal attitude towards human rights without a warrant.
Lots of members of the public being interested in something is NOT the same as public interest. Public interest is a legal principle to which many who make your argument seem oblivious.
ACC, the Ministry of Social Development(acting under S11) or seeking info pursuant to the Cancer Registry Act, Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act, all of which provide exceptions to the Privacy Act principles and obligations.
Interestingly (especially for Westpac) when 15 other organisations were asked for information about Hager they refused and sought a production order, which the police did not pursue. Possibly because they simply couldn't make a case out against a witness under that provision.
The Terms and conditions of the Westpac bank refer to reason to believe.
2.	A reasonable belief is a belief based on reasonable grounds.
Ahhh, the old "clueless voters" one – like the missing million?
Isn't the whole point that the Police are looking for fraudulent or criminal behaviour?
If you suspect Corrupt behaviour aren't you pleased that the Police are performing a thorough investigation?
We've got a right one here. Dim as a 30 watt light bulb.
So unless you pretend that Hager is suspected of a crime, your argument will fall over to reveal the hatred behind it? Or as Anne says, do you just want to come over as a little bit dim?
How about you read up on reasonable belief and production orders?
Still wondering why the Police didnt just ask John Key he said he was pretty sure who Rawshark was.
has Rawshark been identified and any criminal charges laid against him/her Freemark?
An enforcement officer who may apply for a search warrant to obtain documents may apply to an issuing officer for a production order against a person in respect of those documents if the enforcement officer is satisfied that the conditions, specified in section 72, for making the order against the person are met.
on an ongoing basis, those documents for which production is sought that are in his or her possession or under his or her control at the time the order is made, and those documents for which production is sought and that come into his or her possession or come under his or her control at any time while the order is in force.
are in the possession or under the control of the person against whom the order is sought, or will come into his or her possession or under his or her control while the order is in force.
About 15 minutes ago, Felix Geiringer, part of Hager's legal team, tweeted a statement re the release of bank information by Westpac to NZ Police. The statement is entitled "News release on behalf of Nicky Hager concerning privacy breach by Westpac".
– At present, Hager and the legal team are unable to speak openly, give interviews etc, as this part of Hager's case has not yet been heard in the High Court.
– Separately, they have sought release of all communications between NZ Police and Westpac through the Privacy Act and OIA procedures, but NZ Police have refused to supply the communications.
– The legal team is in discussion with the Privacy Commissioner and Office of the Ombudsmen on this refusal, and the latter are discussing this refusal with NZ Police.
– Hager is very concerned about the privacy breach; hence it forms part of his overall High Court case against NZ Police.
– Hager intends to explore all possible options open to him on this breach, and hopes that he will be able to talk more openly, give interviews on this in the future.
Herald article on the above.
Some we were wondering about what the Privacy Act is subject to and if it trumps all else.
I maintain it does trump Common Law (which will govern Westpac;'s contract with customers to some extent).
principles. Section 7 also recognises that where another piece of law allows or requires personal information to be used in a specific way, this will override the general provisions of the Privacy Act. When this happens, the OPC calls it a section 7 override.
information in a certain way.
•	ACC can only collect information with the patient's authorisation.
collect specific types of information, as long as certain conditions are met.
From the Privacy Commissioner website.
The problem is that breaches of the Privacy Act are often met with a slap on the wrist.
I'm not sure Paula Bennett suffered greatly for her egregious behaviour in regards to breaching Natasha Fuller's privacy. Indeed, Bennett was unapologetic and said she might do the same thing in the future!


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2. In this situation, it is to my mind essential that Sweden and Finland should not become members of NATO since that undoubtedly would increase the tension further and heighten the risk of war involving our countries.
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4. Here is a list of things that should be undertaken to lessen the current tension.
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· Make better use of the CBSS and its resources, where all Baltic Sea states are members. The CBSS is just now actively considering new measures to further enhance cooperation in the Baltic Sea area. With Russia being an active member of this body, this has special importance. Likewise, the Northern Dimension structure should be made better use of. By the way, Belarus should be invited to join the CBSS; several non-Baltic Sea states are already members.
· Sea rescue and sea surveillance is a very important issue for all Baltic Sea states. Some cooperation is undertaken, especially after the Estonia ship catastrophe in 1994 but more should and can be done. Russia is for example not a member of the Sea Surveillance Cooperation Baltic Sea (SUCBAS), a platform to exchange vessel data and reports. It should be made a member and a Naval Rescue Network should be established.
· In the last two years, we have seen a dangerous confrontation in the Baltic Sea area between Russian fighter planes and warships and those from NATO countries and from Sweden and Finland. Ugly incidents may happen at any moment. Therefore, NATO and its partner countries should negotiate an agreement with Russia to uphold certain "decent distances" when aircraft and ships come too close to each other. There is also a need for an agreement about using transponders on board planes in this area.
· In the so-called Vienna agreement from Cold War 1 on CBM measures, there are a number of proposalsthat should be re-enacted, for instance relating to the holding of military exercises. CFE 2 on conventional force reductions never entered into force after the break-up of the Soviet Union. This means that there is a certain lacuna with respect to force levels in the Baltic States area and in Poland, which should be looked at again as should be the Russian flank agreements. This also relates to the stationing of NATO forces and equipment in Eastern Europe according to the NATO-Russia agreement of 1997.
· Another area for serious arms control discussions involving our area relates to tactical nuclear weapons. Such weapons are stationed in western Russia and also in some West European countries. So far, no force limits have been agreed.
· Kaliningrad is an important area in its own right. From a Western point of view it would be important that there would be more transparency with regard to Russia's military dispositions in this area. At the same time, the population in Kaliningrad with its outlook to the West should be given better opportunities to engage with the populations of the Nordic countries. There used to be direct ferry and flight services to Sweden and Denmark but not any longer. The regional visa removal between Kaliningrad and Poland is a good example.
· During the 1990s we saw several successful, and some not so successful, examples of twinning between municipalities in the Nordic countries and in Russia. The concept should be renewed with government support. It is not reasonable that the municipalities themselves should bear all the costs. A successful model is the regional cooperation in the Barents Sea area. When a functioning twinning is difficult to establish between municipalities in the Nordic countries and Russia, one might consider increased government support to organizations such as the Union of Baltic Cities (UBC) or the Baltic Sea States Sub-regional Cooperation (BSSC) An interesting and more intriguing proposal would be to try to make use of the large Russian ethnic minorities in Estonia and Latvia as good-will go-betweens in the relations between Russia and the Baltic States and generally with the EU.
· A promising development would be to develop the use of the regional strategies which are incorporated in the EU Baltic Sea strategy – the inter-reg programmes – and link those to the Russian strategy for social-economic development of north-western Russia.


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Professor Buhler breaks down their final paper into several assignments to help the students focus on developing higher level writing and research skills. He teaches the students the best practices of writing a research paper, from deciding which film to write about, to finding sources, and writing scene analysis. Instead of assuming the students are familiar with scholarly articles, he shows them how to take a source, analyze it, and determine how it speaks to their paper. He hopes that the research methods and analytical tools he gives them can apply to research in other disciplines.


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A node.js webapp to encrypt/decrypt using the blowfish algorithm.
I was always fascinated by encryption and I wanted to know more about it so I decided to make a web application which would allow encrytion and decryption with a key. It is written in node.js and uses ejs templating and css for frontend. Mostly, this was for me to review.
Basically it takes plain text and outputs a cipher text. It's a fast chipher because the length of its key can vary (till 448 bit in multiples of 32). At the outermost level of abstraction, blowfish looks something like this.
Diving a little bit deeper into the algorithm, I learnt more about how its round structure worked. We use 18 keys in blowfish. So the plain text of 64 bit is divided into two parts of 32 bits each. The left part XL will be XORed with the first key, and then the output is sent both towards the right side and down and then the output is again XORed with the right part XR. This keeps on trickling down and swapped till 16 keys and then the final two keys are processed without swapping. Then finally, they are combined again to return the cipher.
So what exactly is F? Well, the 32 bit input is further divided into 4 parts of 8 bits each and treated the following way.
Initially I spent a few hours deciding what the web application would would look like. I used sketch to design the prototype. The design was fairly simple. The only purpose was to encrypt/decrypt so I tried to make it stand out. I just used #292929 and white color for the entire website to make it simplistic. This is what the design looked like.
So I initially set up the node app and wrote the frontend and then instead of actually implementing the algorithm I used the crypto library for nodejs. I added some more functionality such as touch to copy and then just added some animation to text and here's how it looks and works as of now.


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