Who was the Mission named after?
Mission San Juan Capistrano was named after an Italian saint. St. Giovanni da Capistrano (John of Capistrano in English) was born in 1386. Through most of his early adult years, he lived a secular life outside the church. He attended law school, and became a magistrate, and then a governor over Perugia in 1416. Only a few years after becoming governor war broke out in his land. He was assigned as an ambassador of peace to Malatesta, but when he arrived, they threw him in prison. While he spent time in prison, he began to think more about spiritual matters. Eventually, he decided to give up all material things, and surrender his life to serving God by joining the Franciscan Order. Upon taking the vows of service, John spent time learning theology and the art of preaching. After receiving his priesthood, he traveled all over Italy, Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Russia preaching forgiveness and penance. On his journeys, he preached to great crowds. It was said that when John entered a town to preach all business stopped. The people of the community dropped all that they were doing to hear him speak. Catholic administers also highly valued John's passion and energy in reforming the church. He was sent all over Europe by the Pope and other important leaders to continue positive changes. While in Frankfurt, Germany in 1454, he was asked to give advice about the crusade against the Turks. Not only did he provided insight into the upcoming battle, he joined it! John accompanied the famous Hunyady throughout the campaign: he was present at the battle of Belgrade, and led the left wing of the Christian army against the Turks. Soon after battling the Turks, John caught the deadly bubonic plague and died on October 23, 1456. John was beatified in 1694, and canonized as a saint in 1724.
When do the Swallows come back to San Juan Capistrano?
Mission San Juan Capistrano is known worldwide for the Cliff Swallows return each year. Father John O'Sullivan started the legend and celebration of the Cliff Swallows in the early 20th century. Cliff Swallows migrate from South America to North America in the spring and summer for breeding. Although San Juan's legend claims these migrating birds return promptly on March 19th it is silly to assume this true. Cliff Swallows are wild animals and migrate according to weather patterns; therefore, do not always return the exact day each year. As you will see on the map, Cliff Swallows do frequent Southern California, and therefore San Juan Capistrano. For more information about Cliff Swallows, see the fact sheet below. If you want more information about the Legend of the Cliff Swallows, and why Mission San Juan Capistrano celebrates their return on March 19th please see the next question.
Summer breeding season extends from western and central Alaska eastward to Nova Scotia, southward to southern Mexico, central Arkansas, northern Georgia, and New Jersey. Winters range is in southern South America.
Cliff Swallows breeds in many different types of habitats. They are usually found in areas with open foraging and cliffs or buildings for nesting. Cliff Swallows avoid heavy forest, desert, or high mountains areas.
Female Cliff Swallows lay 1-6 eggs that are creamy white with speckling. Each parent incubates the egg fro about 14- 16 days. The young birds fly when 21 to 24 days old. Each mating pair can have two broods a year.
Swallows nest look like covered bowls made of mud pellets. Each nest has a small entrance tunnel on one side. Swallows line their nest with grass. Nests are placed on cliffs or a vertical wall (usually just under an overhang). Nests are usually in colonies. The biggest colony reported had 3700 swallows. Each mating pair builds the nest which takes anywhere from 5-14 days.
What is the Legend of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Cliff Swallows?
The legend of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Cliff Swallows began in the 1920s by "The Great Restorer", Father John O'Sullivan. His story fascinated many, and even inspired writer and composer Leon Rene, to write the famous 1930s tune, When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano.
Every year, Mission San Juan Capistrano honors and remembers Father O'Sullivan's legendary story by celebrating Swallows Day on March 19th (interesting to note, March 19th is St. Joseph's Day, and Father O'Sullivans Birthday).
"One day several years ago," He said (Father O'Sullvian), "I was passing the new hotel at the west side of the town plaza, and there was the proprietor out with a long pole smashing the swallows' nest that were under the eaves. The poor birds were in a terrible panic, darting hither and thither flying and screaming about their demolished homes.
"What in the world are you doing," I asked.
"But where can they go?" I continued.
"Sure enough they all took me at my word, and the very next morning they were busy building under the newly built sacristy of Father Serra's church.
By the way, there is rather odd fact about these swallows. You know they migrate every autumn, but there return is with the greatest regularity on Saint Joseph's day, the nineteenth of March.
How old is the Mission?
Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded on November 1, 1776. It will celebrate 242 years on November 1, 2018!
Who owns Mission San Juan Capistrano?
The Mission was returned to the Catholic Church in 1865 by Abraham Lincoln. The property is owned by the Diocese of Orange, however, the Mission operates under a separate non-profit IRS 501 (c) (3) and is not financially supported by the Catholic Church, nor the state or federal government.
What number is Mission San Juan Capistrano of the 21 Missions?
Mission San Juan Capistrano is the 7th of the 21 California Missions.
How big is the Mission?
The Mission is about 10 acres including the Basilica and the Parish School.
Why is the Great Stone Church in Ruins?
The Great Stone Church's monumental construction began in 1797. The people of Mission San Juan Capistrano desperately needed a new church. The small adobe chapel they had been using for over ten years could not hold all of the Native Americans that lived at the Mission. A new church had to be constructed. Everyone in the Mission community wanted to be apart of this historic project, especially women and children. Although they could not gather two hundred pound blocks, they made a difference by doing the little things like gathering small stones, and gravel for the mortar which held the blocks together. Over the next nine years, the entire Mission community both young and old, both men and women, built the Great Stone Church. For nine years, they toiled, and in 1806, they finished the Church and had a grand party to celebrate. Tragically, only six years after they completed the church something terrible happened. On December 8, 1812, people arrived for the early morning mass. During the service, a great quake shook the earth. The bell tower swayed and collapsed on the center of the church blocking escape for all that were inside. Forty people scrambled trying to exit, but blocks of stone fell upon them. Forty people were buried alive. After the disaster, the padres made no attempt at rebuilding, therefore leaving it in ruins for the entire community to remember their loss.
Why is Mission San Juan Capistrano called the "Jewel" of the Missions?
Mission San Juan Capistrano received the nickname the "Jewel" of the Missions because of the Great Stone Church. Upon its completion in 1806 (9 years of construction), it was considered a modern marvel, an architectural gem. No other church compared in size or beauty on the West Coast of California. Although the church did not survive the earthquake of 1812, it is still inspirational in its ruins.
How many bells does Mission San Juan Capistrano have?
Four bells hang on the bell-wall, or Campanario. The two largest bells hanging within the Campanario are replicas. Today, the original two largest bells are hanging where they would have stood within the bell tower of the Great Stone Church. The two smaller bells hanging in the Campanario are original.
Each Bell has a special inscription with a date of casting.
A year later, when Father Serra came to establish Mission San Juan Capistrano on November 1, 1776, the bells were either no where to be found, recast, or taken to another Mission. The mystery still lingers. Many townsfolk of San Juan Capistrano believe the bells are still underneath the earth waiting for someone to discover them.
How did Spanish bring water into the Mission?
Padres and soldiers of Mission San Juan Capistrano designed and oversaw the construction of long channels called aqueducts, or zanjas. These zanjas brought water into the Mission for drinking, cooking, field irrigation, laundry, and bathing. Due to the warm Mediterranean climate of California, little rain fell during the year, which meant water had to be found at its source, the nearby creeks and rivers. Mission San Juan Capistrano relied heavily upon three: Horno Creek, Trabuco Creek, and San Juan Creek for all their fresh water needs.
According to maps and archaeological findings, Mission workers dammed mountain streams and rivers, built storage reservoirs, which fed water into the Mission zanjas. Most zanjas were lined with stone or brick. Often the zanjas had special gates which could stop and start the flow of water. Archaeologists have uncovered many sections of the zanjas within the mission grounds, which can still be viewed today.


CGW Blog 2009 May What Makes a Game?
It's very easy to identify what is a video game and what is not. The Sims. Grand Theft Auto. MLB 09. World of Warcraft. Resistance 2. Yup, they are all video games. Whether an MMORPG, a first-person shooter, or a life-simulation game, they all have one component in common: interactivity. Well, that seems simple enough.
But would the Wii Fit fit into this category? It has an interactive component (very interactive), but exactly what is the "game" element? Okay, the player tries to get in shape and maybe lose a few pounds. However, I would hardly call that a game. It's more like a reality. So, let's skip that one.
Recently, I heard about a live digital orchestra performance of Beethoven's first symphony. Okay, not so unusual. But here's the intriguing part: The music will be conducted using the Wii Controller.
The person "playing" the conductor (actually, he is the conductor) was Paul Henry Smith, founder and music director of the Fauxharmonic Orchestra. He uses computer software and digital orchestra samples, and adds the Wii Controller into the system. This lets him wirelessly control the sound, tempo, and balance akin to what a conductor would do under regular circumstances.
Okay, sounds really interesting. But, I have to ask, "Why?" Does this make the music better somehow? Likely not. Yet, it got my attention, though I am not sure whether it would interest me enough to attend.


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Jaguar protects vulnerable road users with new I-PACE audio system
Jaguar has designed an audible alert system to warn blind, visually impaired and other vulnerable road users that an electric vehicle is approaching.
The Audible Vehicle Alert System (AVAS) was developed by Jaguar engineers to exceed the forthcoming European legislation, set to come into place in July 2019, by ensuring the sound is emitted exceeds 56dB and operates up to speeds of 20km/h.
Iain Suffield, Jaguar NVH Technical Specialist, said the absence of traditional engine noise creates a problem for vulnerable pedestrians. He added:
"This is especially true at low speeds in town centres and car parks. We developed the Audible Vehicle Alert System for the I-PACE to ensure the safety of all road users. Our potentially life-saving technology cannot be switched off."
After more than four years of development, Jaguar engineers worked on making a sound which is discreet and cannot be heard within the cabin. The sounds were tested in a number of environments, including a specialist echo-free room and various urban scenarios.
The decision was made to emit the sound from a speaker behind the front grille. The AVAS system can be heard in all directions, with the sound increasing in pitch and volume in line with the speed of the vehicle. When reverse is selected a different tone is produced to denote a change of direction.
Initially Jaguar engineers had planned to use a sci-fi sound, however it was shelved as it was determined that pedestrians reacted by looking to the sky instead of the road.
To test the I-PACE's new system, members of the Guide Dogs for the Blind, took part in the trials, which marks the start of an ongoing relationship between the two organisations. John WelsmanPolicy Business Partner for the Guide Dogs for the Blind, said the charity has campaigned hard to make it compulsory for quiet vehicles to have a sound generating system.
He added: "We applaud Jaguar for being the first to launch an EV which meets standards before the new legislation even comes in and look forward to working with the company more in the future."
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Railroad Company v. Wiswall
United States v. Rice
"Whenever any cause shall be removed from any State court into any circuit court of the United States, and…
In re Pennsylvania Co.
The general power of the court to issue a writ of mandamus to an inferior court, to take jurisdiction of a…
31 Citing Cases
Full title:RAILROAD COMPANY v . WISWALL
Court:U.S.
Date published: Jan 1, 1874
90 U.S. 507 (1874)
In Railroad Co v. Wiswall, (1874) 23 Wall. 507, a case was removed from a state court into a Circuit Court of the United States; the Circuit Court, being satisfied that it had no jurisdiction, ordered the case to be remanded to the state court; and a writ of error to review the order remanding it was dismissed by this court, upon the ground that "the order of the Circuit Court remanding the cause to the state court is not a `final judgment' in the action, but a refusal to hear and decide.
Summary of this case from German National Bank v. Speckert
See 1 Summary
OCTOBER TERM, 1874.
The order of a Circuit Court remanding, for want of jurisdiction to hear it, a case removed from a State court into it, is not a "final judgment" in that sense which authorizes a writ of error. The remedy of the party against whose will the suit has been remanded, is by mandamus to compel action, and not by a writ of error to review what has been done.
Mr. E.C. Brearly, in support of the motion; Mr. P. Phillips, contra.
ON motion to dismiss a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois. The case was this:
Wiswall, a citizen of Illinois, sued, in one of the inferior State courts of the State just named, the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company. The company conceiving that the case was properly cognizable in the Circuit Court of the United States for that district — the Southern District of Illinois — got an order from that court, the court below, commanding the State court to send the record to it. This the State court did. However, upon looking further into the matter, the Circuit Court was satisfied that it had no jurisdiction, and on motion of the plaintiff remanded the case to the State court. To that remand the railroad company took a writ of error from this court, and this writ it was which Wiswall now moved to dismiss; the ground of the motion being that the remand was not a "final" judgment or decree, and that the proper proceeding of the company was a motion for mandamus on the court below to act, and not by writ of error to review what was done.
Insurance Company v. Comstock, 16 Wallace, 258.
The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the court.
The writ of error is dismissed upon the authority of Insurance Company v. Comstock. The order of the Circuit Court remanding the cause to the State court is not a "final judgment" in the action, but a refusal to hear and decide. The remedy in such a case is by mandamus to compel action, and not by writ of error to review what has been done.
Page 508 16 Wallace, 270.
King v. The Justices of Gloucestershire, 1 Barnewall Adolphus, 1; 1 Chitty's General Practice, 736; Ex parte Bradstreet, 7 Peters, 647; Ex parte Newman, 14 Wallace, 165.


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Healing, Construction, and Preservation of Memory: An investigation of the creation of a memorial museum in the ESMA
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It has been almost two weeks since I got to Buenos Aires. After spending the first few days familiarizing myself with the city and the transportation system – a work in progress – I began to contact and meet with various people involved in the creation of the memorial in the ESMA. As a former clandestine detention center (CDC), the use of the site is the subject of much contention and debate.
One of the first meetings that we had was with Argentine photographer Marcelo Brodsky and Argentine Historian/Archivist Horacio Tarcus. The meeting took place at NYU Buenos Aires. It was a great introduction to my investigation here in Argentina, with both speakers addressing the issues of information, scholarship, the archive and memory of the most recent dictatorship, although from very different angles.
Tarcus' explanation of the "Argentine Paradox" helped me to understand, and to brace myself, for the challenges associated with collecting information in Argentina. The perceived modernity of Argentina is attractive to many scholars, but the residual effects of an authoritarian government have made information highly valuable, and its distribution almost impossible.
This optimistic observation has not impeded my ability to speak with people thus far, however. It seems that when it comes to human rights activists here in Buenos Aires, they idea is to spread information in any way, to anyone who will listen. The eagerness of people such as Carmen Lapaco, of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora, to tell their personal stories and to discuss the state of memory and justice in Argentina today is encouraging.
A tour of the ESMA last Friday also helped to consolidate the various explanations of the state that the site is in that I had gathered online before arriving. The proximity of the former CDC to the street and surrounding neighborhood came as a shock. Tom Abercrombie observed that when he had passed by in the early 80's (when the ESMA was still being used by the dictatorship) there had been signs posted threatening to shoot anyone who stopped in front of the gates. But nonetheless the site is visible and there is little doubt that most people knew what it was being used for.
The tour itself traced the desaparecidos' experiences. From entering at the gates, through passing the security checkpoint, being taken into the basement where the torture sessions occurred, and walking through the spaces where prisoners where kept between being forced to do labor for the navy and being tortured, the guide narrated the experience using the testimonies of survivors to give us an idea of their thoughts and feelings, and the conditions they were forced to live through.
I have started to consider the performative aspects of the ESMA tour experience and am looking at Diana Taylor's work to try and frame it out. It's a work in progress, which will require me to return at least once or twice more to the ESMA while continuing my investigatory interviews. I am really interested in finding out whether the guides allow the narratives they give to be influenced by the people on their tours, how the testimonies of the survivors were selected, and the progress of the commission in charge of the memorial.
Christine Weible
MA Candidate, CLACS and Museum Studies
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Tatura's Dani McLaren prepares for Bravehearts' 777 Marathon
By Laura Briggs
Left: Tatura's Dani McLaren with her daughter Lily Baragwanath, 9.
Seven is the number on Tatura's Dani McLaren's mind as she prepares for seven days of marathons across seven days in seven states.
Despite her full-time teaching role and her duties as a single mum, combined with the general busyness of life, Ms McLaren is somehow finding the time to train and fundraise ahead of the 777 Marathon challenge — an initiative of Bravehearts.
Bravehearts is an organisation that aims to educate, empower and protect children to prevent them from becoming victims of sexual assault.
The 777 Marathon was started by Bravehearts in 2013 as a fresh way of seeing funds raised to protect Australian children.
Ms McLaren said although it was a big commitment involving lots of time and effort, the outcome was rewarding.
As part of committing to the 777 Marathon, Ms McLaren is required to organise and host different events in her local area throughout the year in order to raise $10000 for Bravehearts.
This fundraising takes place over a 12-month period.
Once fundraising is complete, Ms McLaren along with about 20 other participants from across the country will fly to Perth to kick off their seven days of seven marathons.
''So it's 295km of running and 15000km of travel over the course of the week,'' she said.
But this is not the first time the Tatura resident has taken up the challenge — Ms McLaren will be completing the seven marathons for her fifth consecutive year.
''I find it really hard to stop when I see the benefits of doing it — especially when you get young and survivors of child sexual assault come up to you saying because of you I'm here today,'' Ms McLaren said.
Ms McLaren said it was the stories and conversations she had along the way that inspired her to keep going.
''I had one 16-year-old girl who hadn't left the house for about three months and she came out in Adelaide to support us,'' Ms McLaren said.
''She said 'thank you, you've literally saved my life because I've seen what you're doing and with strength I can keep going'.
''When I hear stories like that it's all worth it.
''I say even if I save one person's life then I've made a huge difference.''
With this year's event quickly approaching, Ms McLaren said she was in the process of planning a colour run to be held in May.
She said having run multiple colour runs in Melbourne where she had previously lived, she found them to be a successful way of raising the funds.
''It's getting difficult each year to come up with the funds,'' she said.
''But the colour runs are always popular because they cater for people of all ages.''
Having raised more than $50000 throughout her four years of involvement, Ms McLaren said although the fundraising was even more challenging than the marathons themselves, she was privileged to be helping out such a worthy cause.
''The statistics are one in five children will be sexually assaulted before they're 18,'' she said.
''It's such an important issue.''
Ms McLaren said by doing what she was doing, she had not only been able to raise funds for Bravehearts but had been able to raise awareness around the country.
Ready to tackle this year's marathons beginning July 1, Ms McLaren said she intended to complete the 777 Marathon challenge seven times.
From there she hoped her nine-year-old daughter Lily might be ready to take over from her.
''Lily's just as passionate,'' she said.
Ms McLaren said she would keep those of the Goulburn Valley informed of the upcoming colour run and encouraged people to get on board in supporting Bravehearts and their vision.
■If you wish to support Ms McLaren on her fundraising journey, go to www.bravehearts.org.au
On bike to help kids
Tatura icon John Ryan is clipping in the cleats in support of Give Me 5 For Kids.
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Q: Accessing Flash content website through Citrix Xenapp 6 Published IE9 is not working I am looking for assistance to the below issue ,
Non Administrator Users are trying to access Flash content website using IE9 which is published through Citrix (Xenapp6.0). The login page comes back after entering credentials.
This does not happen for all users, few users are able to login while others are not.
checked on multiple things and found the below behaviour:
The Flash Cache directory "\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player#SharedObjects" is created for the users who is able to login to the Site.
However this folder is not created for users who are unable to login and have issues.
Product Details on the Citrix Server:
Windows 2008 R2 64bit
XenApp 6.0
IE 9
Flash Player 11
Adobe Reader 10
Java Version 7
Any suggestions on this would greatly help

A: Perhaps this could help:
ADOBE FLASH PLAYER NOT WORKING ON CITRIX SERVER FOR NON ADMIN-ISTRATORS
Ran into a real fun problem today where we needed to upgrade the flash player to the latest version on our Citrix Farm. Installed Adobe Flash Player on both servers, and tested it out. Worked fine. When our users (non-admins) logged in they ran into issues with the activeX installer popping up, after clicking install – no progress was made, page would not load flash correctly. One would think to edit Group Policy and allow activeX, but in this case the answer resides elsewhere.
Here's the fix (Courtesy of Brian Madden):

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*Open regedit

*Go [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTTypeLib{D27CDB6B-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}] and right-click, change the permission to Read for "Everyone"

*Go [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000} and right-click, change the permission to Read for "Everyone"
Note: In Brian Madden's forum, Simon refers to the CLSID entry [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{D27CDB6B-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}] but this was not present on my server. In any event, if you find yourself up against the same issue browse the registry, start in the "D27″ section of the above mentioned areas, and be sure to look on the right-hand side. When you see "Shockwave Flash Object", that's it. Change the permission to read.
Now ask you users to logout and back in. They should be able to access their flash enabled websites now with no issues.

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Post Arcade's senior writer travels to Chicago to see what Ubisoft Montreal got right and wrong in its recreation of one of North America's biggest metropolises.
It's not often a fellow has the chance to physically walk into one of his favourite video games.
That's why, when my family and I were picking a destination for our summer holiday this year, I lobbied for Chicago, the setting of Ubisoft Montreal's terrific open-world action game Watch Dogs. My wife didn't need much convincing (she's always been a big fan of gangster movies).
We spent a week in the Windy City, which gave me plenty of opportunity to see how Ubisoft's version of Chicago stacked up against the real thing.
Of course, I knew Chicago wouldn't be exactly like what I'd seen in Watch Dogs.
While large, the game's version of the city was clearly only a fraction of the city's true 600-square kilometre physical size. Plus, through prior interviews with Ubisoft's staff I knew the designers had taken liberties in map design in order to make the world more fun to traverse by car, on foot, and by boat.
Understanding this, I perhaps underestimated just how well Watch Dogs managed to capture certain elements of the city.
We stayed in a hotel directly behind Chicago's famous Marina City condos (the so-called "corn-cob" towers), which loom high over the Chicago River. The towers feature prominently in the game: Players fight a group of gangsters in the parking levels at the base of one of the buildings.
I knew these structures well. Standing in front of them, it seemed as though Ubisoft's artists had perfectly captured their architectural essence.
And as we drove across a bridge on the towers' eastern side, I had the peculiar feeling that I knew exactly where I was, even though I was in a city in which I'd never before set foot. I didn't need to look at a map to know where most of the landmarks we wanted to see were, or how to get to them.
"We just need to cross the river on one of these bridges, head a few blocks in toward the lake, walk a few more blocks south and we'll be at Millennium Park," I told my wife, who eyed me suspiciously.
Her lips were a straight line.
She was clearly wondering what she'd gotten herself into by agreeing to vacation in Chicago. But I was right on all counts. We were never lost.
Keep in mind that Watch Dogs' version of the Windy City is a lot smaller than the real thing.
The developers were forced to cherry pick the city's most recognizable pieces of architecture (many of which I saw and learned the histories of during a fascinating riverboat tour). But even then it seems as though Ubisoft wasn't able to simply copy most buildings outright.
For example, the versions of the John Hancock Tower, Wrigley Building, and Willis Tower in the game aren't exact replicas of any real-world buildings, but rather done in the style of the towers that inspired them – kind of like a "Weird Al" song that clearly evokes an artist without copying a particular track.
Ditto for the game's river overpasses, which are notably similar in style to the dozens of steel and iron lift bridges that span the Chicago River without being exact replicas of any of them. Even the big bean in the game's version of Millennium Park – meant to mimic the city's famous Cloud Gate sculpture – is more of a matte, slightly curled donut than Chicago's mirrored legume.
When I arrived back home in Toronto and popped Watch Dogs into my PlayStation 4 to compare the game's versions of Chicago's famed landmarks to what I'd just seen in real life, it was inevitably a little disappointing. The virtual versions of these structures weren't always as accurate as I'd imaged they had been while standing in front of the real buildings.
However, my disillusionment was tempered by details I saw in the city that I hadn't previously noticed were mimicked in the game, like the pedestrian sky bridge that runs up to the Art Institute of Chicago, and the canal floodgates that were installed at the turn of the 20th century to reverse the flow of the Chicago River from Lake Michigan toward the Mississippi River and St. Louis.
Watch Dogs' Chicago may not be a dead ringer for the real thing, but it's hard to fault Ubisoft's developers for not including as many defining details as they could.
While I spent most of my time in and around Chicago's downtown Loop district, I also jumped on a tour bus that dipped into the edges of the city's South, West, and North sides and provided interesting snippets about Chicago's colourful history.
And again, I felt like Watch Dogs had done a pretty good job of acting as a kind of virtual tourist's guide, thanks largely to the game's 100 City Hotspots challenge, which provides information on dozens of Chicago's most famous historical locations and events.
As the tour guide talked about the Battle of Fort Dearborn (which I remembered from the game as the Fort Dearborn Massacre) and pointed out the site of the St Valentine's Day Massacre, I had a smug feeling of having already been there and done that. I didn't learn much more about these places and events on the tour than I had in the game.
That said, I have to admit seeing the actual sites of some of the gangster murders mentioned in Watch Dogs was considerably more affecting than stumbling across them in a virtual world. There's something immediate and unsettling about visiting the street where John Dillinger was shot and bled out onto the sidewalk that I just don't see games being able to emulate any time soon.
The lesson I learned from my trip to Chicago isn't that you don't need to go there if you've played Watch Dogs, but rather that the game acts as a terrific primer for anyone intending a visit.
Much like Ubisoft Montreal's Assassin's Creed games, which strive for cultural and architectural accuracy in each of the eras that they depict – but without being a slave to history – playing Watch Dogs taught me some very useful things about Chicago, enough that I didn't get lost or even feel like a stranger in a city I'd never before visited.
You might argue that you can get the same thing from movies that take place in major cities. And indeed, Chicago-set films like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Blues Brothers, High Fidelity, and The Untouchables were all top of mind as I explored the city.
But an interactive city, complete with a broad collection of landmarks and historical notations, provides a sense of scope, location, and narrative while allowing the player to find his or her own place within it. That's something movies, no matter how much they capture the essence and culture of a city, just can't do.
Thanks to Watch Dogs, I felt like I knew Chicago before I even got there. And I enjoyed my visit all the more for it.


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Q: Advise on setting up maven for multiple projects I was looking at some open source projects and noticed they have a setup like:
/app1/pom.xml
/app1/app1-mod1/pom.xml
/app1/app1-mod2/pom.xml
/app1/app1-mod3/pom.xml

So there is a master pom, and then all the modules have pom.xml also.
So in my situation I have the following:
1. spring mvc application
2. spring mvc application
3. shared model/db layer

So I guess I should be following the multiple pom.xml setup?
If yes, how will I get #3 to build before #2 and #1.
Should I be dropping down to ant to perform the actual build?
Any tutorials that you guys know of to walk me through this process?
I'm coding in IntelliJ.

A: The Maven reactor will build the modules in an appropriate order, you can tell it what you think the best way is by sorting them how you want.
I have a similar project setup like this:
<artifactId>root</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>Root</name>

<modules>
    <module>event</module>
    <module>admin</module>
    <module>public</module>
</modules>

This is then used as a parent by the other modules. The event library is used in both the admin and public webapp modules. In the webapp modules define something like this:
<dependencies>
    <!-- Events -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
        <artifactId>event</artifactId>
        <version>${project.version}</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

A mvn install from the root works beautifully.

A: Maven will calculated the dependencies by itself it you setup your POMs so that
module #1 and #2 both depend on #3 maven will build #3 first without any additional configuration required.
The layout you use (multi module) is also required for the release plugin.
See also A Multi-module Project


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Changing Places. Chinese Migrants in Cities – Migrants in Chinese Cities
Hosted by Prof. Dr. Bettina Gransow, Freie Universität Berlin, and Dr. Katja Levy, University of Manchester
Cities – not countries – are the preferred destinations of worldwide migration. In China with its rapid urbanization this trend is most obvious. It is mirrored in the stream of rural migrants heading to urban areas and in the internationalization of Chinese metropolises as well. In addition to already well researched destinations in the U.S., European and increasingly Latin American and African cities are attracting a variety of different groups of Chinese migrants.
The Workshop is using selected cases such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Mexico City, Paris, Berlin and other destinations of mobile subjects to shed light on debates and measures referring to local/urban migration policies and to relate such discourses or findings to the perspectives and realities, the agency and the organizational behavior of migrant actors themselves. By focusing on the duality of Chinese and global migration and urbanization processes the Workshop is aiming at contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the linkages between (im)migration and city development.
Date:
Friday, 28 May 2021, 14.30-16.30 h (Berlin time)
Saturday, 29 May 2021, 10.00-12.30 h and 13.30-15.00 h (Berlin time)
Registration: anmeldung@konfuziusinstitut-berlin.de
Registration for the workshop is required. After registration, you will receive an e-mail with the link and access data for the event.
WORKSHOP PROGRAM (PDF)
14.30-14.40 h
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Mechthild Leutner (Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Bettina Gransow (Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Ariel Armony (University of Pittsburgh)
Chinese Migrants and Their Organizations in Latin American Cities
Panel 1 Chinese Migrants in Latin American and African Cities
Allen Hai Xiao (University of Wisconsin)
Encountering the Police and the Interfered Rhythms: The Automobilities of Chinese Migrants in an African Metropolis
Dr. Sergio Martínez Rivera (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Chinese Immigration in Mexico: The Case Viaducto Piedad Neighborhood, Mexico City's New Chinatown?
Chair: Prof. Dr. Bettina Gransow, Freie Universität Berlin
From Rural Migrants to Chinese Citizens? (1)
Prof. He Shenjing (University of Hong Kong)
Negotiating the Right to a Decent Home: Migrant Housing and Small Property Right in Urban China
Prof. Zhou Hao (Peking University) and Dr. Zhao Rujing (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
A Study on the Temporal Variation of Migrants' Settlement Intention: Based on the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (2010-2017)
Dr. Gao Xiaoxue (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Academy and Urban Village, Creative Class and Marginal Group: The Migrating Contemporary Artist Community and the Assembled Artworld in Beijing
Ryanne Flock (Freie Universität Berlin)
Governing Rural Poverty on Urban Streets: Discourses and Policies in the Early Reform Decades
Chair: Dr. Katja Levy, University of Manchester
Panel 3 Chinese Migrants in European Cities
Prof. Dr. Aurore Merle (CY Cergy Paris University)
From Ethnic Mobilization to Neighborhood Inclusion: Chinese Residents' Collective Action in the Parisian Region, France
Dr. Jens Damm (ERCCT, Universität Tübingen)
Local Ethnic Chinese Communities in Berlin and Their Transnational Online Networks
Kimiko Suda (korientation e.V.)
#We are not a Virus ̶ Outcomes from a (Post)migrant Community-Survey and a Diary Study about Anti-Asian Racism During the Corona-Pandemic in Germany
Chair: Ryanne Flock, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Katja Levy (University of Manchester)
Freitag-Samstag, 28.-29. Mai 2021


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I bought a bizarre CD six months ago called Cake or Death. It was by a guy I hadn't heard of for 30 years, Lee Hazlewood. This was the guy who wrote 'Jackson', 'These Boots were Made for Walking', 'Some Velvet Morning' and 'Sugar Town', an outrageously innocent sounding song about dropping acid. Cake or Death is an eccentric album, which is perfect listening when chilling out on a late night plane or when you are in the bath after 24 hours of non-stop, domestic/European hassle.
Hazlewood combined sentiment and humor in a way few writers have ever done. Then he dropped out to hide away in Sweden. I think he ended up in Texas or Las Vegas or somewhere like that. I know I saw a photograph of him on his 78th birthday in a t-shirt announcing "I'm not dead yet". He and Nancy Sinatra performed 'Jackson' one last time and the curtain came down. Lee Hazlewood died on August 4. A great original.


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Poland's ruling party declares victory in divided nation
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's conservative governing Law and Justice party won the most votes in Sunday's election in the deeply divided nation and appeared, according to an exit poll, to have secured a comfortable majority in parliament to govern for four more years.
Leader of Poland's ruling party Jaroslaw Kaczynski speaks in reaction to exit poll results right after voting closed in the nation's parliamentary election that is seen crucial for the nation's course in the next four years, in Warsaw , Poland, on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019.
The ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski leaves polling station after his vote in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election that Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies that have reduced poverty.
The ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski holds his ballot at a polling station in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election that Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies that have reduced poverty.
A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election, that the ruling party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies that have reduced poverty.
People vote by ballot in an election to the Polish parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election, that the ruling party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies that have reduced poverty.
A woman holding a dog prepares to cast her ballot in an election to the Polish parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election, that the ruling party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies that have reduced poverty.
A man lets his son help him cast his ballot in elections to the Polish parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election, that the ruling party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies. Critics, however, fear that another term for the party, whose term has included an erosion of the rule of law, will mark a further decline in democracy.
A woman votes by ballot in an election to the Polish parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election, that the ruling party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies that have reduced poverty.
Voters inspect ballots at a polling station in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election, that the ruling party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies that have reduced poverty.
A catholic nun approaches polling station in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election, that the ruling party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies that have reduced poverty.
Opposition leader Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska casts her ballot at a polling station in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election that the ruling party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies that have reduced poverty.
A catholic nun reacts after vote at a polling station in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election, that the ruling party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies that have reduced poverty.
The ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski holds his ballot at a polling station in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election, that Kaczynski is favored to win easily, buoyed by the popularity of its social conservatism and generous social spending policies that have reduced poverty.
The exit poll, conducted by the research firm Ipsos, projected that Law and Justice won 43.6% of the votes. That would translate into 239 seats, a majority in the 460-seat lower house of parliament. The poll said a centrist pro-European Union umbrella group, Civic Coalition, would come in second with 27.4%. The biggest party in the coalition is Civic Platform, which governed Poland in 2007-2015.
Coalition leaders cheered and welcomed the result as a spur toward uniting society around common goals. Other parties projected to surpass the 5% threshold to get into parliament were a left-wing alliance with 11.9%, the conservative agrarian Polish People's Party with 9.6% and a new far-right alliance called Confederation with 6.4%.
The exit poll had a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points. Final vote results, which are expected by Tuesday, could shift, as they have in past elections. A prominent journalist, Konrad Piasecki, said that "at the moment it looks like the largest triumph in the history of parliamentary elections" in Poland. But he also cautioned that results varying even slightly from the exit poll could mean big changes to the distribution of seats in parliament.
Law and Justice has governed Poland since 2015 and is popular for its social conservatism and generous social spending. It ran a campaign that highlighted its social programs and vowed to defend traditional Roman Catholic values.
It has been accused of weakening the rule of law in the young democracy with an overhaul of the judicial system that has given the party more power over the courts and has drawn criticism as well for using state media as a propaganda outlet and for anti-gay rhetoric.
Pawel Zerka, policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, said the high level of support for Law and Justice, known in Poland by its acronym PIS, "should not be interpreted as a sign that Poles have become nationalist or xenophobic. Rather, it reveals an effective party machine - and an ability of PIS to mobilize voters with policies based on direct social transfers."
Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is considered the real power behind Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki's government, cautioned that the exit polls weren't the final results but nonetheless declared victory.
"We received a lot but we deserve more," Kaczynski told party supporters as he held high a bouquet of roses. Civic Platform leader Grzegorz Schetyna said the fight wasn't fair, an apparent reference to the way Law and Justice harnessed state media to pump out positive coverage of itself while casting a poor light on political rivals.
"This was not an even struggle; there were no rules in this struggle," Schetyna said. The left-wing party leaders celebrated their expected return to parliament after failing to get any seats in 2015.
Critics fear that four more years for Law and Justice will reverse the democratic achievements of this Central European nation, citing the changes to the judiciary and the way the party has marginalized minorities, for instance with its recent campaign depicting the LGBT rights movement as a threat.
Law and Justice's apparent success stems from tapping into the values of the largely conservative society while also evening out extreme economic inequalities. It is the first party since the fall of communism to break with the austerity of previous governments, whose free-market policies transformed Poland into one of Europe's most dynamic economies.
However, many Poles were left out in that transformation and inequalities grew, creating grievances. Law and Justice skillfully addressed those concerns with popular programs, including one that gives families a monthly stipend of 500 zlotys ($125) for each child, taking the edge off poverty for some and giving others more disposable income. It says it has been able to pay for its programs thanks to a tighter tax collection system.
It has also clearly benefited from the sacrifices forced by earlier governments and the growth of Europe's economy. In his victory speech, Kaczynski referred to his party's improvement of public finances and said it would continue on that path.
"We are finishing a certain stage; we are starting a new one," he said. "It is not easier, maybe more difficult. But I hope that it will be finished with even greater success."
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Poul Erik Petersen ("Popper") (født 27. maj 1927, død  12. oktober 1992) var en dansk fodboldspiller, der spillede for Køge Boldklub og Danmarks fodboldlandshold.

Poul Erik Petersen vandt med Køge DM-sølvmedaljer i 1952 og blev topscorer i sæsonen med 13 mål. Samme år blev han som den første spiller fra Køge Boldklub udtaget til det danske OL-hold, da han var med ved OL 1952 i Helsinki.

Han var med til flere gange at vinde SBU's pokalfinale.

Han opnåede i alt 15 A-landskampe i perioden 1950-1953 og scorede seks mål. Et af dem var det første danske mål i 2-1 sejren over  i åbningskampen ved OL. Karrieren som landsholdsspiller ophørte, da han i 1954 blev professionel og skrev kontrakt med den franske klub Lille OSC. Det franske fodboldforbund ville dog ikke anerkende kontrakten, hvorfor Poul Erik Petersen måtte vende hjem til Danmark igen kort efter at være flyttet til Frankrig. Han fik i 1955 amatørrettighederne igen af DBU og fik lov til at spille igen fra foråret 1956. Han fik dog ikke flere landskampe.

Efter tiden som aktiv spiller var han fra 1962 til 1969 formand for Køge Boldklub, hvor han valgte at trække sig.

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

Fodboldspillere fra Køge Boldklub
Angribere (fodbold)
Fodboldlandsholdsspillere fra Danmark
Deltagere for Danmark ved sommer-OL 1952

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It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of Ed Miller's passing.
A talented naturalist with a deep-seated passion for conservation, Ed frequented PLAN's preserves to botanize with friends and share his knowledge of nature. Ed was an integral member of Landis Arboretum and a staunch supporter of Saratoga PLAN, giving in particular to the Barkersville Trail Project. His contagious enthusiasm and kindred spirit will be missed.
We will be reminded of Ed with every spring bloom we see.


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Sabah Parks officials had great news for audiences at the recent IUCN World Parks Congress: by mid-2015, the country's largest marine protected area, Tun Mustapha Park, will finally be gazetted after a 12-year campaign.
Sabah Parks officials had great news for audiences at the recent International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Parks Congress, which took place November 12-19, 2014 in Sydney, Australia.
The news is a high point in TMP's long journey to recognition, which began in 2003, when it was established as a priority marine conservation area by the State Government of Sabah and proposed for gazettement. TMP is set to be the largest marine protected area (MPA) and the first multiple-use marine park in Malaysia, valued for its marine and coastal ecosystems as well the economic value of its abundant resources, and Tengku Adlin emphasized that its management will be a collaborative effort between government and local stakeholders.
"TMP represents a major push towards community involvement in protected area management in Sabah," added Sabah Parks Assistant Director Ludi Apin, citing the "diverse cultures" of the communities who lived off the bounty of the park.
The sheer size and expanse of TMP underscores how far Malaysia has come in its efforts to protect its waters. Tengku Adlin recalled the gazettement of the 1,740-hectare Turtle Islands Park in Sandakan, an important nesting ground for hawksbill and green turtles, in 1977. The 4,900-hectare Tunku Abdul Rahman, off the coast of Kota Kinabalu, was gazetted in 1974. Malaysia became a signatory of the Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion conservation plan, along with Indonesia and the Philippines, in 2004; experts from the region had already singled out the Kudat-Banggi Priority Conservation Area in northern Sabah some years before.
The proposed area is a biodiversity hotbed, home to dolphins, dugong, turtles, crocodiles, and many more charismatic species living in habitats ranging from reefs to mangroves. In 2011, the value of fisheries in TMP was estimated at RM561 million (approximately US$167 million, according to a Valuation Report commissioned by WWF-Malaysia), including the yield from the highly lucrative live reef fish trade. Its very richness, however, has also made TMP vulnerable to habitat degradation, overfishing, commercial fishing, and illegal fishing methods using dynamite and cyanide that have caused much destruction.
WWF Malaysia has identified several strategies for the management of TMP. For an area this size, community consultation is critical. "This is not business as usual, this is a large marine park, and it requires many consultative activities with many stakeholders from the top management of state government to the bottom—the communities," said Apin in an interview with Tory Read of USAid, which funded the Coral Triangle Support Partnership (CTSP) with Sabah Parks and WWF-Malaysia in 2010-2013. From 2006 to 2007, WWF Malaysia worked with Sabah Parks to survey over 500 residents from 58 villages in TMP and held several discussions on the proposed area.
The benefits of marine protected areas must also be made clear to all stakeholders. Maliangin Island in southern Banggi was the first demonstration site for a fish sanctuary, established in 2006, through which such rewards as improved biodiversity, spillover and improved fish catch, and a better standard of living for the community were observed. Officials of Malaysia's Department of Fisheries participated in CTI-CFF-conducted workshops on the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM) for a broader perspective.
Alternative livelihoods have been encouraged, such as the traditional weaving of products from pandanus leaves by women from Maliangin and Banggi Islands, now enjoying a revival. Most significantly, communication, education, and public awareness development must be continuous, especially on issues such as EAFM, climate change, and the implications of TMP's gazettement for the people who call the park home. Novel initiatives like the Banggi Youth Club, young residents of Banggi Island looking out for the environment, are helping spread the word to the younger generation through specific activities such as community education, reef monitoring, beach cleanups, and school presentations.
"Once gazetted, Tun Mustapha Park will be evidence of Malaysia's commitment to the Coral Triangle Initiative," Chairman Tengku Adlin said. As Malaysia has proven, it is a commitment as grand and all-encompassing as the park itself.
Tun Mustapha Park is almost a million hectares of coral reef, mangrove, seagrass, and valuable fishing grounds.
Tun Mustapha Park is home to some 80,000 people, many of them making a living from the sea.


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Provincetown: Pilgrims First Landing Spot
PROVINCETOWN – The year 1620 is etched in the annals of world history. It is the year that a group of English settlers known as the Pilgrims seeking religious freedom boarded their ship, Mayflower, and braved a hazardous trip across the Atlantic Ocean to establish a new home.
But though many in this country know the story of the Mayflower, some might be confused about where the band of Pilgrims landed.
Many people would likely say that the Pilgrims landed at a spot to be known as Plymouth. True, the Pilgrims did land at Plymouth, dubbing it originally 'New Plymouth," since they departed from Plymouth, England.
But Plymouth was not the Pilgrims' first landing spot in the New World.
Five weeks before coming ashore in Plymouth, the Pilgrims docked in at what is today Provincetown Harbor. In fact, the first written document alluding to government in the new colony, the Mayflower Compact, was signed by 41 Pilgrims while still aboard the ship in Provincetown Harbor.
The Provincetown Monument commemorates the Pilgrim's first landing place at the Cape's tip.
On November 11, 1620, the Pilgrims came ashore on land that is now in Provincetown on Cape Cod. The booklet, Mourt's Relation, written mostly by Edward Winslow who would become the third governor of Plymouth Colony, shows a map of where the first steps on land were supposed to have taken place.
The landing place is commemorated with a plaque and a small park located in the middle of the rotary at the end of Commercial Street. It is appropriately called 'Pilgrims' First Landing Park.'
On a typical drive through the packed streets of Provincetown today it is very easy to miss this spot. It is partially obscured by bushes and trees.
Nearby, there is a view of the West End Breakwater stretching out across the harbor to Long Point. It is no wonder why many visitors have no idea that such an important piece of history stands before them.
Although First Landing Park is a somewhat understated tribute to the Pilgrims' landing at Provincetown, there is another, much larger, tribute which is one of the most well known landmarks on the entire Cape.
The view from the top of the Pilgrim Monument.
Pilgrim Monument stands 252 feet tall and is made of solid granite. In addition it stands atop the nearly one hundred foot High Pole Hill bringing it to a grand total of approximately 350 feet above sea level.
Construction of the monument was begun in 1907 with the cornerstone being laid under the watch of President Theodore Roosevelt. He gave a rousing speech before returning to his home on Long Island aboard the presidential yacht which was also named Mayflower.
The monument was completed in 1910 and dedicated by President William Taft on August 5 of that year.
Inside the monument are 116 steps and sixty ramps leading to the observation deck and possibly the best view on Cape Cod.
To the southeast sits the very harbor where the Mayflower docked nearly 400 years ago. From that height it feels as though one is looking down from a cloud. There are Provincetown's many historic homes, churches and shops. Looking southwest are the coastlines of Truro, Wellfleet and beyond. Binoculars are provided.
The architecture of the monument is modeled after the Torre del Mangia, built in Siena in the Tuscany region of Italy. This tower was built in the mid-14th century and is made from stone, brick, and marble.
First Landing Park in Provincetown overlooks the West End Breakwater, Long Point and Provincetown Harbor.
Ironically the Pilgrim Monument bears no resemblance on the outside to anything to do with the famous English colonists. But inside set into the walls of the tower, there are many stone markers celebrating the towns of Massachusetts and mentioning the Mayflower Compact.
After five weeks exploring Cape Cod from Provincetown to Eastham, historians report that the Pilgrims got into a skirmish with the Nauset tribe of Native Americans and decided they might be better off settling in another location.
They left Provincetown and landed at Plymouth on December 16, 1620. The spot where Plymouth Rock currently sits under a beautiful Italian-style portico is purported to be only a few hundred feet from where the original Pilgrim settlement was created.
The history of the New World, the colonies, and the United States might usually begin with a mention of the Mayflower docking at Plymouth Harbor. But the Pilgrims first steps in the New World and the signing of The Mayflower Compact took place in Provincetown.
The Pilgrim Monument, First Landing Park, and several other historic Pilgrim-related sites are reminders that the Pilgrims left their first footprints on Cape Cod.
For more on the Pilgrims' time on Cape Cod check out this YouTube Video below:
If You Go: Pilgrim First Landing Park – Rotary which intersects Province Lands Road and Commercial Street.
Pilgrim Monument – High Pole Hill Road, Provincetown
Chris Setterlund, who lives in Yarmouth, is a lifelong Cape Codder and the author of In My Footsteps, a guide to historical sites on Cape Cod.
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Daimler, BMW Mobility Joint Venture Delayed
Companies pushing on, meeting with U.S. authorities.
by Joseph Szczesny | Dec 10, 2018
Mobility enterprises, like Daimler's alliance with the Car2Go car-sharing service, are partnering more often, as Daimler is trying to do with BMW.
Delays in obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals have forced Daimler AG and BMW Group to push back their effort to establish a joint-venture mobility company.
The delay will force Daimler Financial Services to lower its earnings forecast for 2018. The division now expects EBIT to be significantly lower than in the previous year.
The forecast for the Daimler Group's EBIT in the 2018 financial year remains unaffected and unchanged. As previously announced, the transaction will not have any cash-flow impact on the industrial business, Daimler said in a statement, updating the plans for the joint venture.
Following the approval of the project by the European Union, Mercedes and BMW are continuing talks with the U.S. antitrust authorities. Completion of the transaction was originally planned for 2018, and is unlikely to occur by the end of the month.
(BMW and Mercedes-Benz will merge mobility services operations. Click Here for the story.)
With their joint venture, Daimler AG and BMW Group plan to combine their car sharing, ride hailing, parking, charging and multimodality services, creating one of major providers of mobility services.
BMW's Peter Schwarzenbauer said the new partnership's goal is provide unparalleled mobility services.
Automakers face some difficult choices in the future as they confront unprecedented technical, social and environmental changes. Even relatively wealthy companies, such as Mercedes and BMW, which are bolstered by their success in the luxury-car segment during the past 30 years, are looking for ways to spread the risks created by the uncertain future.
(Click Here for details about Daimler investing millions in financing app.)
Joint ventures and alliances are on the way to becoming the preferred way to meet the challenges as the ongoing talks between Ford and Volkswagen have underscored.
In the announcement by Mercedes and BMW, both companies said the objective of the joint venture is to establish an enterprise that will shape the future of mobility and offer customers unique experiences while supporting partners such as cities and municipalities along the way to enhance sustainable urban mobility.
(For more on BMW's plans to up EV and AV spending, Click Here.)
The new Mercedes-Benz-BMW joint venture will offer customers an intelligent and seamlessly linked ecosystem of services at their disposal at the touch of a button.
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Ray Boshara: Okay. We've got everybody here. Great. I'm Ray Boshara. I direct the Center for Household Financial Stability here at the St. Louis Fed. And first and foremost want to thank all of you for joining us today. It's great to see a packed room. I also want to recognize Julie Stackhouse, my mentor and boss, who without her leadership there would be no Center for Household Financial Stability here at the St. Louis Fed. Thank you, Julie. We really appreciate the opportunity to do this work here.
Many of you know I was in Washington for 20 years doing policy work. And never imagined myself in St. Louis heading up a research center so disconnected from DC. But thankfully I think the center is generating results that are of interest to policy makers. So I'm fortunate enough to stay connected. So, really appreciate that. And I'm also really happy to see so many new faces here in the Fed as well. It's great to expand our reach and hopefully you're finding today's session valuable.
And finally by way of intro, I just want to recognize our co-sponsor and frequent partner, the Center for Social Development, Michal Grinstein-Weiss and her team. If you can all raise your hands. And be sure to talk to them about their great research here. We have a little hub of asset building balance sheet work going on here in St. Louis. And we're always eager to expand that. So, it's great to be working in partnership with them.
So, I think Rohed's [phonetic 00:01:46] keynote and then the research panel I think gave us a great foundation of facts about what's going on with student loans and student debts in the U.S. You know, where are the real issues? Where are the challenges? What are the opportunities? What were some of the myths that were dispelled? I think they did a fabulous job in kind of setting the record straight. And our challenge here is to think a little more about the future. We'll hear a little bit more, some descriptions of the problem to the extent that our panelists need to make their points about how to think differently about both student loans and more generally about how we finance higher education in the U.S.
Thinking about future and policy is not just an abstract thing. Congress, as many of you know is going to be reauthorizing what's called a Higher Education Act which expires at the end of this year. Whether or not congress can get its act together to do that is another question. But on the good faith assumption that they will come together and think hard about how we finance higher education and what the role of student loans in that is, there's a real opportunity in front of us as well, certainly at the national level and of course in states as well.
When I think about public policy I think about risk. Risk management. Who bears the risks? And I think that's an essential question in all public policy is risk management. You know, how much of it is privatized? And is it born by the individual? And how much of it do we socialize? How much does society, you know, bear the risk? And all of our social policies sort of think about risk management in that way. And I think the trend has been that more and more of the risk has shifted onto the individual. But it's not clear that that's necessarily warranted given that many of the benefits of higher education accrue to the whole nation as well. And so I think that's kind of a core policy challenge, at least in the way that I think about it.
So, to think about the future and think about policy we have four fabulous panelists here today. Two leading academics in this space, a representative of the generation most affected by student loans; 18 to 34 year olds, and a University President. So, I'm thrilled that this panel came together the way it did. Let me introduce them all right now. They will speak. And then we will have a facilitated discussion that will include all of us.
So, beginning with Sandy Baum, those of you in the education field know Sandy Baum. She's one of the premier academics in the country thinking about student loans and financing higher education. She's co-authored many of the College Board reports that many of us rely on. And including trends in student aid and trends in college pricing. She's now with the George Washington University in Washington DC and the Urban Institute.
Also with us today is William Elliott, III. Or, we call him Willie. Willie Elliott, III who is with the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and is the founder of the Assets in Education Initiative. Willie is really a leader throughout the country in putting together, kind of, this agenda to build savings and assets with the education reform agenda. And his work has been cited nationally and is relied upon by policy makers. Especially his work around children's savings accounts and helping kids prepare for college. Willie is a longtime colleague and partner of ours and we're thrilled to have him on stage again. He was here in February as well.
Jen Mishory is with Young Invincibles; a name that I guess they borrowed from the insurance industry with tongue in cheek a little bit. And as I mentioned they're primarily concerned with 18 to 34 year olds. Jobs, healthcare, and student loans are the three big issues that they are taking on from a generational perspective. She's one of the founding members of Young Invincibles. And also serves on the consumer advisory board for the CFPB which I think had their inaugural meeting about a year ago here in St. Louis. And Jen also is, you cannot Google this issue without finding Jen's name, whether it's testifying before congress or advising leading policy makers. So, we're thrilled to have you here as well, Jen.
And Gary Ransdell is President of Western Kentucky University which hails from the 8th District and is also a member of our Board of Directors in the Louisville branch of the St. Louis Fed. And Gary is very thoughtful, forward looking. He's in the midst of taking a University based in Kentucky and turning it into a leading University which is attracting students from all over the world. And he's succeeding on that front. And has thought a lot about what's working with student loans and what's not. And I think we're thrilled to have his perspective on this panel as well.
So, I've asked each of them to speak for 10 to 12 minutes to get their initial thoughts on the table. There will be some slides. We're going to try to focus a little more on discussion. And when each of them have put their initial thoughts on the table I will come back here and will moderate a discussion. And with that we've asked our two academics to go first. And we will lead with Sandy.


Seven weeks ago, online photography marketplace Lokalphoto went live. Based in Baltimore and founded by marketer-turned-entrepreneur Marianne McGinley, the site hopes to be more than a transactional space. Unlike traditional sites, McGinely told me, Lokalphoto is creating something that works for both clients and photographers alike. "I want it to have heart and soul," she said.
Snappr's most Uber-like innovation is the "Book Now" button on their homepage. In the click of a button, it promises, you can have a professional photographer in your home or office, and for only $59! Just as Uber rid cabs of their idiosyncrasies by matching drivers with passengers through an algorithm, Snappr fits its photographers into generic packages, allowing the site to market a price point—"book now from $59"—rather than a real, human, photographer. "Our instant matching algorithm," they tout, "matches you with the best photographer for the job".
The problem, McGinley says, is that photography is not a service to be rendered on-demand: it's an art form. While the best way to drive from A to B may determined beforehand by a computer, the best way to have all parties exit a photo shoot satisfied is not liable to such a solution. So on Lokalphoto, an artist controls all aspects of their offered work: length, image count, location, and price. If an employer, browsing these options, finds what they need, a match—100% human—is made.
Instead, Lokalphoto charges clients a 5-15% fee above the booking price depending upon their chosen package. One could argue it has the same effect on a photographer's bottom line—$200 budgets are spent on $200's worth of photography whether a fee is assessed beforehand or afterwards—but the move reeks of Lokalphoto's earnestness. One gets the feeling they'd never make employees wear identical blue t-shirts.
In 2015, McGinley's oldest daughter was one. A consumer insights researcher, McGinley had had little experience behind a camera. But she was determined to capture family moments, she said, "while we still had them." Naturally, she turned to Google. Seeking a photographer to capture her proudest moments, she wanted to search by vicinity. To her surprise, she couldn't find a site offering her the ability to do so. "You assume that surely something like this exists," she told me, "but it didn't." So the first-time entrepreneur set out to service this demand for local photography which—with her own children growing up at warp speed—she felt acutely.
McGinley told me the first thing she did in creating Lokalphoto was ask for photographers' input. If the site was going to work for clients and artists alike, she knew, she'd have to hear from both sides. In doing so, she found that a primary concern raised by the group was a desire to work on their own terms and not ones set by a faceless booking corporation; hence Lokalphotos' decision to allow photographers to fully customize their package options.
Concern was also expressed by photographers who didn't want to list their prices outright because they would rather negotiate directly with clients. This was the birth, McGinley explained, of the direct messaging link. While it's helpful to display pricing ideas to avoid mismatches between a client's budget and their preferred artist, the addition of direct messaging allows packages outlined to be catered to individuals' needs.
Finally, for the less tech-savvy of the bunch, she told me, there was trepidation about entering an entirely new software system which they would have to learn from scratch. In response, Lokalphoto allows artists to provide links their own digital galleries, as well curating a few choice shots for potential clients to browse on-site.
One nagging concern I had after hearing all this was how Lokalphoto would regulate its community. Unlike Snappr, which has some sort vetting—as dubious as it may be—Lokalphoto can be joined by anybody. And without a fee to do so, it leaves itself open to the possibility of disreputable photographers or clients.
When I asked McGinley about this, it was clear from the speed of her response that this was something she had considered at length. "I want Lokalphoto to have amazing customer service," she said, which includes holding photographers and their clients to the highest standards. But with no outside funding, budgets are tight. So McGinley has been doing all of this work herself: researching photographer's history, resolving disputes with clients, and "continuing to refine [the] community" even as it grows in number.
If the site continues to expand, her current method will become untenable. While she didn't give specifics about what Lokalphoto would do at that point, it's clear that her approach towards regulation is humanistic: each case is viewed on its own merits, and an informed judgment is made accordingly. Outside of some clear cut rules—a 72 hour cancellation policy, for example—her stance is flexible enough to accommodate the fact that "these are human interactions." Just don't confuse this understanding for weakness; when asked if she would ever ban poorly-behaving clients of photographers, she unhesitantly responded, "absolutely".


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Next Sunday is the start of Advent (already!), the count-down to Christmas. I'm looking forward to doing some fun activities with Sunshine and Lily to celebrate the season (and so are they—in fact, they're currently counting down to Advent!). Here are a few of the Advent resources for children I've found to help us make the most of the four weeks before Christmas.
I've lost track of how many friends have emailed me an invite to the Holy Heroes Advent Adventure; apparently I'm not the only mom who thinks this is a great idea! Sign up at the Holy Heroes website to receive a FREE daily email (except Sundays) with videos, stories, prayers, coloring pages, activities, quizzes to test what you've learned, and more!
We are huge fans of the Happy Saints eBooks and they have a special eBook for Christmas. It includes story posters, colouring pages, prayer cards, greeting cards, and badges or stickers of various scenes from the Nativity story. The Christmas Story eBook is only US$9.90 and is available as a download from the website, so you can print as many colouring pages as your children want to colour—or a story poster for each of them.
The Jesse Tree is a cool idea that we stumbled across a few years ago. This year, I'm hoping we actually remember to do it every day! For each day of Advent, you decorate your Christmas tree (or wall) with a special ornament that represents a portion of the salvation story. You can print ornaments from various websites, make your own, or buy them at your local bookstore or online. The story each day can be as short or long as you want to make it—adapt it for whatever will suit your children. And find a time of day that works to do this together, perhaps right before or after supper or before bedtime.
Of course, there's always the traditional chocolate Advent calendar, with a little door to open each day and a sweet treat to eat as you count down towards Christmas. There are also tons of great ideas online for Advent calendars, such as this Upcycled Denim Pocket Calendar (if you like sewing) or this DIY Gift Tag Calendar (if you prefer scrapbooking-type crafts). Then you can fill the calendar with whatever you want, such as little Scripture verses or quotes from saints, healthy treats, small toys, and more!
How do you celebrate the Advent season? Do you have special traditions for the week before Christmas?
We have a DIY advent calendar. We use a bought advent calendar in pretty red and white with pockets which we fill with a sweet for each child and a printed laminated character from the nativity. They stick the character on a homemade stable scene that they made a few years ago. It's rough round the ages but we love it as it's unique to us!
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One of the most enduring shows of all time, Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber's JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT is the irresistible family musical about the trials and triumphs of Joseph, Israel's favorite son. Directed and choreographed by Tony® Award-winner Andy Blankenbuehler, this new production will feature Broadway/television star Diana DeGarmo (Hairspray, Hair) as The Narrator and Broadway star Ace Young (Grease, Hair) as Joseph. Retelling the Biblical story of Joseph, his eleven brothers and the coat of many colors, this magical musical is full of unforgettable songs including Those Canaan Days, Any Dream Will Do and Close Every Door. Book your tickets and be part of the magic!
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Horst had fallen foul of the authorities in Kona on the big island of Hawaii. Refused entry into Honokohau Boat Harbour, Awanesa had been directed to Kailua Bay by the harbourmaster where, Horst was told, he could drop an anchor. He set his anchor in the designated area as instructed but, unfortunately for Horst, Awanesa's chain swung when the wind changed, dragging over live coral at the moment a conscientious and enthusiastic eco tourist was photographing the wonderful sea life that lives in Kailua Bay. The swimmer caught it all on film and promptly informed the Division of Parks & Ocean Recreation who subsequently called the police. Only the previous day, the State of Hawaii had issued a new law protecting coral. Poor Horst, the German who spoke with a severe speech impediment, was duly issued with a citation and summoned to appear in Court. He was distressed and distraught.
Every condemned man needs a champion to fight his cause against his hanging. We've seen it countless times in the movies and on TV. The hapless victim sits terrified before the all white jury who've already condemned him, the brilliant lawyer stands and strides around the court, makes an impassioned speech and everyone in court, including the jury, stand and cheer and the judge bangs his hammer down hard freeing the condemned man. Luckily for Horst he had Eric Two Corks, the mercurial Texan, on his side.
I followed Eric through the imposing court house doors and listened intently as he informed the security guard we were here to right a ferocious wrong. Floor 3, we were told. We strode purposely to the elevator, with Horst in tow, and presented ourselves to the Court Clerk at the counter. Eric instructed Horst to say nothing which, in any event, was irrelevant as Horst's English was almost unintelligible with his impediment. Both Eric and I could understand him but it took time. Eric designated myself as Horst's official translator which was duly noted by the Clerk of the Court. This, I beamed proudly, was going exceedingly well.
Horst forlornly sought legal advice from a Lawyer but was told the costs would be prohibitive. No matter, Eric decided, he would call a council of boat skippers residing in Ala Wai Boat Harbour… our combined maritime knowledge would outstrip the expertise offered by any obscure suburban lawyer. Of course, Eric Two Corks was unquestionably right. Every skipper invited to the discussion eagerly contributed his opinion, myself included, and the question of coral survival didn't feature much in our fiercely opinionated world. By this time Horst was feeling confident he would escape his lynching, but what would happen, he worried, if he left Hawaii for Alaska with a criminal record? Eric played his masterstroke, pulled the card from up his sleeve and went to consult the legal mind of Mac McDonald onboard Why Not.
The full story of the trial of the unfortunate Horst, skipper of the German yacht Awanesa, can be viewed and read at noonsite.com and at sail-world.com. Meanwhile, life in Ala Wai goes on.
My very good friend Eric Two Corks will leave one day soon, with Claudia and his surf boards aboard Maluhia for the Marquesas Islands, south of the equator. Sergio the Sailor and Impulse are heading south too and I've heard rumours Maluhia and Impulse may sail south together. We ourselves are leaving to go north to British Columbia and to Alaska. Horst is heading north too, to Alaska on Awanesa with his new puppy dog Ginger. Peter, skipper of the New Zealand yacht Salamander has already departed for the Aleutian Islands and the wily old surfer Bill, skipper of Pegasus will stay in Honolulu with Shirley. Fat Annie left for Mexico and it's yet another sad, sad parting of the ways.