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Frankenried ist ein Pfarrdorf in der Gemeinde Mauerstetten in Deutschland. dessen Geschichte bis in 8. Jahrhundert zurückgeht. Sie wurde 780 als Rodung im Rahmen der Frankenansiedlung besiedelt und vom Reichshof Beuren betrieben. Erstmals urkundlich erwähnt wurde das Dorf 1130.
Die Gemeinde befindet sich im Landkreis Ostallgäu, Regierungsbezirk Schwaben.

Geographie
Frankenried liegt etwa 2 km südlich von Mauerstetten und circa 2 km östlich von Kaufbeuren (Hirschzell) auf einem eiszeitlichen Höhenrücken.

Südwestlich von Frankenried befindet sich auf dem Frankenrieder Holzberg ein Gedenkstein zu Ehren des Dichters Freiherr Joseph von Eichendorff.

Klima

Geschichte

Eingemeindung
Im Zuge der Gebietsreform in Bayern wurde am 1. Mai 1978 die Gemeinde Frankenried in die Gemeinde Mauerstetten eingegliedert.

Einwohnerentwicklung

Im Jahre 1871 lebten 274 Menschen in Frankenried. Diese Zahl erhöhte sich bis 1925 auf 333. 1950 lebten 456 Einwohner in der Gemeinde. Die Zahl verringerte sich bis 1970 auf 357. Im Jahr 1987 verzeichnete Frankenried 411 Einwohner.

Jahre 1800 bis 1900
Im Geographisches Handlexicon vom Königreich Baiern oder alphabetische Darstellung aller in Baiern befindlichen Städte… von 1811 wurde Frankenried noch als Frankenried bei Kaufbaiern bezeichnet.

Jahre 1900 bis 2000

Am 30. November 1932 wurde das Heimatstück Hungerjahr von Peter Dörfler von den Turnern der Schule unter Anleitung von Ignaz Bühr aufgeführt und erhielt reichen Beifall.

Das Dorfgebiet wurde ab 1976 durch fünf Bebauungspläne stetig erweitert.
Im Juni 1976 wurde mit dem Baugebiet Nr. 01 Frankenried West die erste von fünf Erweiterungen des Dorfgebietes vorgenommen.
Auf diese folgte 1996 mit dem Baugebiet Nr. 02 eine Erweiterung des Dorfes in südwestlicher Richtung. Fast zeitgleich wurde mit dem Bebauungsplan Nr. 03 im September 1995 das Gebiet Frankenried – Am Krautgarten geplant. 1996 wurde nördlich der beiden neuen Gebiete der Bebauungsplan 04 Frankenried Nord geplant. Mit dem Bebauungsplan 05 "Ortskern Frankenried Nord-Ost" enden die bisher geplanten Erweiterungen von Frankenried.

Ab 2000

Im Jahr 2001 erschien das Buch Frankenried – unser Dorf im Wandel der Zeit.
Im Mitteilungsblatt der Gemeinde Mauerstetten Mai 2012 wurden Pläne für ein neues Baugebiet im Grüble mit Bauplätzen in Frankenried veröffentlicht. Diese sollten den Bedarf einheimischer Bauplatzbewerber in den nächsten Jahren befriedigen. Die Umsetzung dieses Baugebietes wurden im Dezember 2012 vorläufig gestoppt. Die Entwicklung in der Zukunft wird zeigen, wann die Nachfrage für die Ausweisung eines Baugebietes in Frankenried vorhanden ist.

Die Gemeinde Mauerstetten teilte im September 2013 mit, dass der geplante Ausbau der Breitbandversorgung in Frankenried durch die Telekom nicht vorgenommen werde. Die Gemeinde versuchte über staatliche Förderprogramme den Ausbau zu realisieren. Anfang 2014 wurde ein Fachbüro durch den Gemeinderat mit den ersten Schritten zum Breitbandausbau für Frankenried und Hausen mit dem Ziel, die nötigen Verfahrensschritte im Förderverfahren durchzuführen, beauftragt.
Im März 2014 informierte die Gemeinde Mauerstetten über den Start der Ausschreibung für schnelles Breitband für Frankenried und Hausen. Der DSL-Ausbau für Frankenried und Hausen wurde im März 2015 vergeben. Die Bauarbeiten für den Breitbandausbau starteten im September 2015.

Am 5. Oktober 2013 veranstaltete die Freiwillige Feuerwehr Frankenried das dritte Weinfest. Hierfür wurde die Halle der Zimmerei in Frankenried genutzt.
Am 4. Oktober 2014 veranstaltete die Freiwillige Feuerwehr Frankenried das Weinfest ebenfalls wieder in der Halle der Zimmerei.

Die Gemeinde Mauerstetten informierte im September 2019 über den Bau eines Mobilfunkmastes in Frankenried als ca. 40 m hohen Gitterrohrmast. Auf openPetition wurde im November 2021 eine Petition gegen den geplanten 40 m hohen 5G-Funkmast ca. 600 m südwestlich von Frankenried gestartet. Dieser Mast war geplant, um die B 12 sowie Hirschzell und Frankenried mit Mobilfunk zu versorgen.

Im Januar 2015 wurde für die technische Durchführbarkeit eines Geh- und Radweges zwischen Frankenried und Hirschzell ein Machbarkeitsstudie erstellt. Der Gemeinderat war sich einig, dieses Projekt bestmöglich umzusetzen. Der Bürgermeister von Mauerstetten wurde ermächtigt mit den betroffenen Grundstückseigentümern und der Stadt Kaufbeuren Verhandlungen aufzunehmen. Im Dezember 2017 informierte die Gemeinde auf den Bürgerversammlungen über den Stand. Leider ist der nötige Grunderwerb bisher nicht möglich. Im Juli 2019 batenn die Fahrradweg-Kids die Frankenrieder Grundstücksbesitzer um Unterstützung und starteten eine Online-Petition. Die Petition wurde im Mauerstettener Gemeinderat behandelt. Es wurden auch alternative Fahrradweg-Strecken in Erwägung gezogen.

Im November 2016 wurde durch die Gemeinde über den neuen Ge(h)schichtsweg Frankenried mit nahezu 30 Haustafeln in Wort und Bild die Historie der alten Höfe und Anwesen in Frankenried informiert. Die Texte stammen aus der Dorfchronik Frankenried.

Durch den geplanten Ausbau der B 12 musste sich der Gemeinderat mit dem Thema B 12 Abfahrt auf Höhe Frankenried und dem möglichen interkommunalen Gewerbegebiet mit der Stadt Kaufbeuren befassen. Eine Mehrheit von 11 zu 5 Stimmen positionierte sich sowohl gegen eine B 12 Abfahrt als auch gegen ein interkommunales Gewerbegebiet mit der Stadt Kaufbeuren. Der Gemeinderat Mauerstetten hat im November 2022 die Entscheidung getroffen, im gesamten Gemeindegebiet flächendeckend Tempo 30 Zonen einrichten zu wollen, wo immer dies gesetzlich möglich ist.

Der Gemeinderat informiert im Januar 2020 über den beschlossenen Bau eines neuen Kindergarten in Frankenried.
Im Dezember 2022 wurde durch die Gemeinde Mauerstetten ein Standort für den neu geplanten Kindergarten in Frankenried festgelegt. Dieser soll auf dem Grundstück des Bolzplatzes am westlichen Rand Frankenrieds errichtet werden.

Freizeit
In Frankenried gibt es derzeit (2022) 12 aktive Vereine.

Frankenried verfügt südlich des Neubaugebietes Krautgarten über einen Bolzplatz.

Gastronomie / Hotels
Frankenried verfügt über zwei Gastronomiebetriebe.

Baudenkmäler

In Frankenried gibt es mehrere eingetragene Baudenkmäler.
Darunter ist die katholische Pfarrkirche St. Andreas sowie die Heiligenfigur Kerkerchristus, in einer Nische der Friedhofsmauer, um 1779 von Johann Leithner.

Ebenso sind das Pfarrhaus (bez. 1751) und eine Scheune des Pfarrhofs (bez. 1743) als Baudenkmäler eingetragen.

In Frankenried existiert ein Mittertennhaus aus der 2. Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts.

Südlich von Frankenried gibt es ein weiteres Baudenkmal. Es handelt sich hierbei um ein Heiligenhäuschen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert.

Bodendenkmäler

Auf dem Gebiet der Gemarkung Frankenried gibt es mehrere Bodendenkmäler.

Literatur
 Frankenried – Unser Dorf im Wandel der Zeit, Frankenried 2001

Weblinks

 Website der Gemeinde Mauerstetten mit Chronik Frankenried
  (PDF; 1,05 MB)
 Ortsblätter des 19. Jahrhunderts – Frankenried (1818). Bayrische Landesbibliothek Online

Einzelnachweise

Ort im Landkreis Ostallgäu
Ort in Oberschwaben
Mauerstetten

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S.C. flood is 6th 1,000-year rain since 2010
Doyle Rice
The biblical flooding in South Carolina is at least the sixth so-called 1-in-1,000 year rain event in the U.S. since 2010, a trend that may be linked to factors ranging from the natural, such as a strong El Niño, to the man-made, namely climate change.
So many "1-in-1,000 year" rainfalls is unprecedented, said meteorologist Steve Bowen of Aon Benfield, a global reinsurance firm. "We have certainly had our fair share in the United States in recent years, and any increasing trend in these type of rainfall events is highly concerning," Bowen said.
A "1-in-1,000 year event" means that there's a 1 in 1,000 (or 0.1% chance) of it happening in any given year in a given location, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.
In addition to this weekend's floods in South Carolina, which killed at least nine people, the other 1-in-1,000-year rain events include the Tennessee floods in May 2010, the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and New England drenching during Hurricane Irene in 2011, the Colorado floods in 2013, the deluge in Baltimore in August 2014, and the flooding earlier this year in Nebraska, according to Bowen.
South Carolina floods: Death toll rises to 9 in unrelenting storm
Scientists say there could be a connection between these floods and man-made climate change.
Research has confirmed that our warming climate is making intense short-term rains even heavier in many parts of the U.S. and the world, as warmer temperatures allow more moisture to evaporate from oceans and flow into rain-making storm systems, according to Weather Underground meteorologist Bob Henson.
A study earlier this year from Climate Central reported that 40 of the 48 contiguous states have recorded an uptick in heavy rain events in the past several decades (though South Carolina was not one of the 40).
The National Climate Assessment, a federal report from 2014, also found that a warming atmosphere would bring about more extreme rainfall events.
However, when speaking about this specific event, "I am very lukewarm on a climate change linkage," said University of Georgia meteorologist Marshall Shepherd in an e-mail. He said there is scientific evidence that the worst heavy rain events are increasing, "but I am not sure you can conclusively link this event."
Bowen added that huge floods occurred long before man-made climate change was an issue. "Atmospheric river events in particular have led to unbelievable rains throughout our recorded history, most notably the 1861-62 floods in California that flooded the Central Valley," he said.
Atmospheric rivers are ribbons of vapor that can extend thousands of miles from the tropics to the western U.S. and often provide the fuel for massive rainstorms in California. The 1861-62 floods were the worst in the recorded history of California.
Shepherd said storm-water management engineering may be behind the times, potentially exacerbating floods like that in South Carolina.
Given the vast size of the USA, it shouldn't be that surprising for extreme flooding to occur somewhere, Weather Underground meteorologist Bob Henson said in an e-mail. "Even very rare events do happen on a very limited basis when you're looking at a large area such as the United States," he said. "It's not hard to imagine getting 1-in-1000 year events at scattered locations over a few years' time."
It's also possible that the ongoing El Niño event, which has intensified throughout 2015, has played a role in boosting the amount of water vapor available for heavy rain across the southern U.S., Henson added.
El Niño is a natural climate pattern in which warmer-than-average Pacific Ocean temperatures change weather patterns around the world. Rain and snow from El Nino would help ease California's record drought.
Some parts of South Carolina received more rain in the past few days than some parts of California have seen in the past three years, according to AccuWeather.

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Watch Live: Sen. Johnson Holds Star-Studded COVID-19 'Second Opinion' Hearing
John Todd Roberts Uncategorized January 24, 2022 1 Minute
Source: ZeroHedge.
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Star studded? Here is easily found info on the first three "stars" listed on the agenda.
Dr. McCullough likes to lie about his employment: "Dr. Peter A. McCullough is a medical doctor known for his appearances in media and in front of government panels expressing some skepticism regarding coronavirus treatment specifically vaccines. He's claimed, whether it be online, in interviews, or in testimony before state legislatures, to be Baylor University Medical Center's vice chair of internal medicine and/or a professor at Texas A&M University.
There's one problem…he's not." Thanks to Taylor Millard at Hotair.com
Dr. Bret Weinstein is a proponent and purveyor of misinformation: "During the COVID-19 pandemic, Weinstein made several public appearances advocating the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to prevent or treat the disease and downplaying the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. David Gorski, in Science-Based Medicine, described Weinstein as a prominent "COVID-19 contrarian and spreader of disinformation", and "one of the foremost purveyors of COVID-19 disinformation", citing his appearances on Joe Rogan and Bill Maher.[5][34] Sam Harris criticised Weinstein's advocacy, stating that he "consider[s] it dangerous".[34] Eric Topol, professor of molecular medicine, described Weinstein's position on mRNA vaccines as "totally irresponsible. It's reckless. It's sick. It's predatory. It's really sad."[34]
Weinstein has made erroneous claims that ivermectin can prevent or treat COVID-19,[5][49][50][51] claims for which there is no good evidence.[52][53][54] Weinstein hosted ivermectin advocate Pierre Kory on his DarkHorse podcast to discuss the drug,[55][6] and promoted ivermectin on other podcast and television news appearances.[56][57] Weinstein took ivermectin during a livestream video and said both he and his wife had not been vaccinated because of their fears concerning COVID-19 vaccines.[58] YouTube demonetized the couple's channels in response to their claims about ivermectin. Afterward, Weinstein and Heying moved their subsequent broadcasts to the alternative/fringe video sharing platform Odysee.[55] In August of 2021, Weinstein said he had misstated that a study had shown a 100% effective ivermectin protocol for the prevention of COVID.[52][59] Weinstein considers himself a supporter of vaccines in general; he believes mRNA vaccines have promise despite what he claims are "some clear design flaws".[41] Weinstein has falsely claimed that the spike protein produced by or contained within COVID-19 vaccines is "very dangerous" and "cytotoxic".[60][61][62]" Thanks to wikipedia.
Jay Bhattacharya is one of teh Great Barrington authors and another misinformation star that several judges beleive him to be wrong: "In March 2021, Bhattacharya called the COVID-19 lockdowns the "biggest public health mistake we've ever made" and claimed that "The harm to people is catastrophic".[15] In May 2021, Bhattacharya was called as an expert witness for ten applicants who filed a constitutional challenge against Manitoba's COVID-19 public health orders.[16] The judge determined that the public health restrictions did not violate charter rights, noting that Bhattacharya's views were not supported by most scientific and medical experts.[17]
In August 2021, Bhattacharya provided testimony in defense of Florida's ban on mask mandates.[18] He publicly opposed COVID-19 vaccine passports and mandates, although he called the vaccines successful.[19][20] The judge ruled against the Florida ban and said that the state's medical experts "are in a distinct minority among doctors and scientists".[21]
In December 2021, Bhattacharya helped found the Academy for Science and Freedom with Kulldorff and Scott Atlas, a program of the private conservative liberal arts college Hillsdale College.[22]
In a 2021 case in Tennessee, the judge described Bhattacharya's testimony as "troubling and problematic", noting that he had oversimplified conclusions of a study, casting doubt on his interpretation of other studies. The judge concluded, "the Court is simply unwilling to trust Dr. Bhattacharya."[23]
In 2021, he was named a senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, a new think tank launched by Jeffrey Tucker that published articles opposing various measures against COVID-19; Kulldorff and Gupta, his co-authors on the Great Barrington Declaration, have also had roles there.[24]" Thanks again to wikipedia.
Misinformation stars getting a bigger platform is dangerous and a purely political move by the Gentleman from Wisconsin.
Thanks for the offer to view, but I will pass.
RE: "Misinformation stars getting a bigger platform is dangerous and a purely political move by the Gentleman from Wisconsin."
Well, if it's dangerous and political, we should of course close our eyes, stop our ears and say nothing.
…"we should of course close our eyes, stop our ears and say nothing."
If I had ignored your post, that is what I would have been doing. Calling out liars and misinformation professionals was worth the time (less than 10 minutes) to say SOMETHING.
I also note there is no defense provided for the three individuals I mentioned. Is that because you think they are right or because there is no defense to be made. (Kind of like Bills-Chiefs yesterday.)
Why should a defense of an ad hominem attack be required. Such attacks are inherently weak,
Where are they wrong?
Adam's research is not to rebut anything they have said. It was to weigh whether the invitation to listen to them speak was worth taking up. For many very sound reasons, the answer was – not in the least.
Calling out liars and hucksters for being liars and hucksters is now ad hominem?
Two big takeaways from the event:
Three DoD whistle blowers have come forward to share data that contradicts the CDC. Apparently, within the military 70% of Covid-19 hospitalizations are of vaccinated patients. This is consistent with reports from other countries, but absolutely inconsistent with CDC reports that the unvaccinated represent 90% of the hospitalized population.
There was a brief but spirited discussion of the possibility that the Covid-19 vaccines cause cancer.
If there was a theme to the various discussions it concerned outright corruption at the CDC, FDA and NIH.
Discussions but ZERO proof. Let's just throw it out there that corruption exists in those agencies. No proof, just SAY it is true. Dangerous territory.
The bases for the corruption charges were explained. You can watch the video and criticize them, if you wish.
If I want to watch science fiction, I'll tune to the SYFY channel. At least it is entertaining.
92% of our military personnel have been vaccinated.
It stands to reason that hospitalizations would come from the vast majority, which are vaccinated.
Or, another way to look at it: if we had 100,000 personnel, 92,000 have been vaccinated and 8,000 have not.
A 10% rate among the vaccinated would exceed 100% of the unvaccinated. And since 100% of the unvaccinated are not hospitalized, the ratio would seem even higher.
The efficacy of vaccines has never been much more than 85%, plus or minus, and seemingly less so for Omicron.
Of course Ron Johnson wants to denigrate the need for vaccines. That is his schtick. Plus vaccination would help the Democrats, and we can't have that even if lives are saved.
RE: "A 10% rate among the vaccinated would exceed 100% of the unvaccinated. And since 100% of the unvaccinated are not hospitalized, the ratio would seem even higher."
You're not thinking straight. The relevant population is Covid-19 patients who have been hospitalized. DoD data says 70% of that group are vaccinated. CDC says 10% are vaccinated. That's a discrepancy which requires explanation.
"Three DOD whistle blowers. . ."
Oh my! 75% of the hospitalized had been vaccinated!
If the virus is able to sicken SOME of the vaccinated and everyone in the group has been vaccinated, then 100% of the sick will have been vaccinated. Right?
The military has a very high rate of vaccinations – 98%. Therefore, it is expected that most of the sick will have been vaccinated. This is NOT inconsistent with the CDC estimate you cited. It was based on a population with a much lower rate of vaccination. Do the math before accusing a trusted agency of falsifying important information.
RE: "If the virus is able to sicken SOME of the vaccinated and everyone in the group has been vaccinated, then 100% of the sick will have been vaccinated. Right?"
Wrong. If 100% of the sick were vaccinated, then the vaccine was ineffective. The question to be answered is: Why do DoD and CDC have such disparate efficacy measurements?
" If 100% of the sick were vaccinated, then the vaccine was ineffective."
No, not at all. A vaccine is never 100% effective. So if everyone is vaccinated, then anyone who is infected is vaccinated.
RE: "then anyone who is infected is vaccinated."
That's not the point. The point is, Why should the DoD measurement be so different from the CDC's?
You and Mr. Murphy assume you know the answer, but all you really have is one of many possibilities.
As I pointed out, too, the DoD numbers are consistent with similar surveillance reports in other countries. That makes the CDC an odd man out, so to speak. Hence, the need for resolution.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety-outcomes/what-data-on-120-000-covid-hospitalizations-shows-about-breakthrough-cases.html
Some more data to crunch through.
Now, are you saying that the military is reporting 70% hospitalization with fully vaccinated personnel, but the CDC says 10% from the same group? That is, the military.
Or is the CDC 10% from the national stats of ALL residents in the US?
Here is the comparison that came up in the discussion:
DoD: Of military personnel hospitalized for Covid-19, 70% were vaccinated.
CDC: Of national population hospitalized for Covid-19, 90% were unvaccinated.
So comparing one small group, the military, with 92%+ vaccination rate with a huge population that is only 1/2 vaccinated, less in some places.
I think the apples and oranges comparison is hard to equate for a case against vaccination.
No one said it was a case against vaccination. The question, again, is: Why are the DoD and CDC databases showing such dissimilar results?
Because they are comparing different populations.
DOD has 92% vaccination and the country has half that in some places.
I am wondering why that is hard to grasp.
RE: "Because they are comparing different populations."
You don't know that to be the case.
And you do?
RE: "I am wondering why that is hard to grasp."
It is not hard to grasp, but it is not definitive.
As I said before, "all you really have is one of many possibilities."
So, what is your point? What do you mean by not "definitive"?
If almost all people in a given population, like the military, are vaccinated, then hospitalized breakthroughs will be more common than the small number of unvaccinated, even if all the unvaccinated were admitted to hospitals.
That much is pretty obvious. To me, at least.
When dealing with a population of 330 million scattered over hundred or even thousands of medical jurisdictions and facilities and less than half are fully vaccinated and even a smaller percentage are boosted. The numbers will be different. Add in reporting lags, different rules in different states, masking controversies, etc.
The military can tell its personnel how to act and what to do and when.
Can't do that in the general population.
RE: "So, what is your point? What do you mean by not 'definitive'?"
My point, as stated, is that the DoD data disagrees with the CDC data. Your explanation for the disagreement is not definitive because, as stated, there are other possible explanations. You are in no position to be able to say that your explanation is the correct one, no matter how much you believe it to be so.
Mr. Murphy makes the same mistake. He demands that his explanation for the discrepancy be taken seriously when in fact he is unable to show that it is the correct explanation.
Let me give you an example of the difficulty you are trying to gloss over. Do either of you actually know whether DoD and CDC define "vaccinated" in the same way?
What are the other possible explanations?
FYI both CDC and DoD consider fully vaccinated to be two shots of Moderna or Pfizer or one from J&J.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/cdc-definition-of-fully-vaccinated-is-not-changing.html
https://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/Coronavirus-DOD-Response/
RE: "What are the other possible explanations?"
Several that came up in the video concerned different ways CDC fudges its numbers; for example, by calling hospitalized patients Covid patients when they were admitted for something else and only tested positive for Covid.
But the problem still remains for you. You may know from secondary sources that DoD and CDC use the same definition of "vaccinated," but you don't know how that definition applies to their data sets. You are just assuming.
Well, if we are assuming that the numbers are "fudged", then any discussion is kind of pointless.
This is entering the category of "they" and "them" without any clear definition of precisely who "they" and "them" are other than some vague, evil cabal controlling our lives.
Two words come to mind: SPACE LASERS.
You need to curb your eagerness to justify your refusal to help stop the pandemic, read, and think.
As I said earlier – DO THE MATH. I will try to help.
No one has ever said that any vaccine and especially Covid vaccine stops 100% of infections. Some vaccinated people do get sick and hospitalized. Here is a simplified model:
Assume: vaccine is 95% effective preventing people from being hospitalized.
Assume: Population 1 = 1,000 people that are 98% vaccinated. (Military)
Assume: Population 2 = 1,000 people that are 70% vaccinated. (General population)
Assume: Everyone in both populations is exposed.
Assume: Unvaccinated all are hospitalized.
Assume: 5% of the vaccinated are hospitalized.
Population 1: Hospitalized = (980×5%) + (20*100%) = (48 + 20) = 68 people hospitalized
Population 1: Percent of hospitalized who are vaccinated = 48/68 = 71%
Population 2: Hospitalized = (700×5%) + (300*100%) = (35 + 300) = 335 people hospitalized
Population 2: Percent of hospitalized who are vaccinated = 35/335 = 10%
Of course, this is oversimplified. But it does make clear that the vaccination rate has a profound impact on the percent of hospitalized people who have been vaccinated. And note the much smaller number of people hospitalized in the 98% vaccinated population.
I understand the math. I also understand that you don't know whether it is relevant here, or not.
When YOU bring up percentages, you cannot say that the math is irrelevant.
"I also understand that you don't know whether it is relevant here, or not."
Of course, this math is relevant. You compare your source saying that hospitalizations among the military are 70% vaccinated people with the CDC reporting that only 10% of hospitalizations are vaccinated people. You then take this wide difference to imply that the CDC is badly mistaken or worse.
The mathematics I outlined for you makes it clear that these very different numbers are NOT "absolutely inconsistent" as you claim but are what is to be expected when comparing groups with wildly different rates of vaccination.
This is not difficult to understand. So please try a little harder.
RE: "You then take this wide difference to imply that the CDC is badly mistaken or worse."
No. I said the difference needs to be explained. You are just guessing at an explanation and won't admit that your knowledge is limited.
I am not "guessing" at an explanation. I am giving you THE explanation. This explanation is widely understood. I did not make it up. It is almost pure mathematics independent of definitions or reporting standards.
Those "experts" who ignore THE known and obvious explanation are trying to deceive you and they have succeeded. Because you really, really want to be deceived.
He don't LIKE your explanation so it must be wrong.


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The Clue of the Twisted Candle is a 1918 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace.

Plot
In this tale, John Lexman, a renowned mystery writer, is drawn into a murder plot by a wealthy benefactor, only to be betrayed and sent to prison. His friend, the Scotland Yard Commissioner T.X. Meredith, tries to prove he was duped into the murder, only to have him escape from prison. Events lead to another murder and a series of surprises.

Film adaptation
In 1960 it was turned into the film Clue of the Twisted Candle, directed by Allan Davis as part of a long-running series of Wallace films made at Merton Park Studios.

References

Bibliography
 Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Clue_of_the_Twisted_Candle

1918 British novels
Novels by Edgar Wallace
British crime novels
Novels set in London
British novels adapted into films


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Overlanding is the perfect journey for those travellers with an open mind and the spirit for adventure. However it may be quite different to any style of travel you have experienced before. Ask your agent for a copy of our Peregrine overlanding flyer for more information or head to https://www.peregrineadventures.com/en-au/africa-overland.
Road travel in Africa comes with a considerable amount of dust and it can get hot and windy, especially in Namibia. It wouldn't be an adventure without the elements, of course!
There are a number of long travel days on this itinerary, which can be exacerbated by bumpy untarred African roads. Refer to the approximate travel times listed in brackets in the itinerary.
You don't need to be a professional athlete to go on an overland safari, but you will need a good level of physical resilience and movement, especially for entering and exiting the vehicles. There's also a half-day canoe trip along the Orange River.
Namibia summer (Nov-Mar) can be very hot and humid with maximum temperatures around 30-35°C and peaks of over 40°C in the desert.
This trip includes a hike in Tsitsikamma National Park that will take approximately half a day. However, there is a shorter walk option along the boardwalk if you are concerned about your fitness.
Some passengers will have been travelling together prior to the start of this trip. Please see our Ultimate Southern Africa trip to see what you're missing out on.
Your journey begins with a welcome meeting at 6pm on Day 1. You can arrive at any time as there are no activities planned until this important meeting. Please look for a note in the hotel lobby or ask the hotel reception where it will take place. Those arriving early can take a stroll around the town and visit some of its museums or perhaps take a township tour. Take in the German architecture evident in a number of buildings. The finest are the Tintenpalast (Ink Palace), the Christuskirche (church), the gymnasium and the Genossenschaftshaus.
An airport arrival transfer is included. Please provide your flight details at the time of booking, or at a minimum 15 days prior to travel.
Travel to our lodge located just outside Etosha National Park ( 400km approximately 7–8 hours including stops). On arrival the afternoon will be free to relax at the Lodge. Maybe cool off in the pool, read a book, or enjoy a sundowner by the bar. Be sure to charge your camera's tonight. Tomorrow we will have a full day in the Park. This is one of the world's premier game-viewing destinations; spotting animals in the park is relatively easy due to the man-made waterholes and the large, sparsely vegetated pans. The bushland surrounding the pans is difficult to see through, but there are enough clearings, pans and waterholes to allow for sightings. Namibia has protected its game reserves against poaching, so there are large herds of elephants, antelope and other herbivores.
Rise early and enjoy a full day of game viewing in the truck. Keep a close eye on the landscape for black rhino, Hartmann's mountain zebra, black-faced impala, roan antelope and the tiny Damara dik-dik. The park is also home to some 340 bird species. Return to the lodge and reflect on the day's adventures with your fellow travellers over dinner.
Enjoy a morning Game Drive in the Park then venture off the beaten track as you head into the heart of Damaraland (220km approximately 5 hours). Home to Namibia's highest peak, ancient rock paintings and petrified forests, the harshly beautiful and sparsely populated Damaraland region is a land of spectacular contrasts. Depending on the time of year, you might be lucky enough to see the desert elephants that roam the area.
Spend the morning visiting the surrounding sights such as Twyfelfontein Heritage Site and the Petrified Forest. Twyfelfontein has one of the largest concentrations of ancient rock engraving in southern Africa and is a fascinating insight into the past. The Petrified Forest looks back into nature's history, where 280 million-year-old fossilised tree trunks lie. Continue on to the Living Museum of the Damara, which aims to reconstruct and preserve the 'lost culture' of the Damara. Learn about this fascinating traditional culture that is, along with the Bushmen, the oldest nation in Namibia. Their original culture was a mixture of an archaic hunter-gatherer culture and herders of cattle, goats and sheep. Due to their loose social structures, the Damara struggle to defend themselves against colonisation – one of the reasons that the culture faced extinction. Return to the lodge around 2pm, with the rest of the day free to relax by the pool, with a book or a nap.
On instances where we use an alternative lodge to Mopane Lodge, the included activities scheduled for today may occur a day earlier to minimise driving time.
Travel on through the Namib Desert today ( 330km approximately 6 hours with stops) to reach the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Take in the beautiful, diverse and colourful landscapes that stream past along the way; mountains, sand dunes, ocean waves and, shipwrecks. Your destination is the beachside town of Swakopmund on the Skeleton Coast. Upon arrival at Swakopmund, you will check into your hotel and have free time to enjoy this interesting township of German-Namibian atmosphere. The accommodation is within walking distance of the town, and you can enjoy a walk on the beach, or visit the open-air markets or local museum.
With free time today, you may wish to take an optional trip north to Cape Cross, a breeding site for Cape fur seals. There can be in excess of 100,000 seals there at any given time, making for quite the spectacle. Quite a smell too, if the wind happens to change direction. Wander the coastline and attempt to document these beautiful creatures in a photo or two, and visit the large cross that sits nearby, left there by Diego Cao (the first European to arrive on Namibian soil in 1485). There are also a number of optional activities available here (at extra cost) for those who are interested.
Depart your coastal retreat in Swakopmund and head south today towards Sesriem (300km approximately 6 hours). Walvis Bay is the hibernation area for thousands of migratory birds, most notably flamingos. If in season you may take quick detour to see these elegant birds. Continue on past moon valley; an eerie rocky granite valley, and the Tropic of Capricorn. Stop by the small settlement of Solitaire before arriving at your lodge. Scattered with abandoned trucks, cars, petrol pumps and cacti, it's the only place between Walvis Bay and Sossusvlei to feature a petrol station, post office, general dealer, and bakery! The local Apple Pie has earned itself quite a reputation too.
Make an early-morning visit to Sossusvlei, which lies at the end of an ancient riverbed. This is a great opportunity for unsurpassed views of the surrounding area. Climbing to the top of Dune 45 will reward you with spectacular vistas of the surreal desert landscape. After breakfast, travel to Dead Vlei, a clay pan best known for the iconic postcard like images that many snap here. The pan is surrounded by some of the highest dunes in the world, "Big Daddy" or "Crazy Dune" average about 350 metres in height. In the afternoon you will visit Sesriem Gorge, a tranquil natural corridor that you can walk through and explore. Return to the lodge for the evening.
If you want to avoid a long walk in the sun you can opt to pay for a 4x4 transfer from the 2x2 car park out to the Dead Vlei.entrance point This will cost approx. 130NAD per person.
Depart Sossusvlei early this morning and travel to Fish River Canyon (600km approximately 8-9 hours). Your accommodation for the next two nights is a gem hidden in this rugged environment. It's easy to see why the Canyon Lodge is a feature stay on this trip. A fusion of farmhouse flavour and natural splendour, walkways lead to 25 natural stone chalets nestled amongst granite boulders and perfectly landscaped gardens, making it really feel like an oasis in the middle of nowhere. After checking into the lodge you may like to cool off in the stunning pool, wrap up the day with a short excursion to our very own 'local' mountain, or simply have a drink and watch the sun go down.
Rise early and witness the colourful sunrise from the edge of Fish River Canyon. At 500 metres deep and over 160 km long, this gaping chasm is one of the largest canyons in the world, ranking close in size to Peru's Colca Canyon and the Grand Canyon in the USA. You will stop at various lookouts, which offer spectacular views and photographic opportunities. Keep an eye out for some of the birds that inhabit this area, including plovers, wagtails, hammerkops and herons. If you're lucky you might even catch a glimpse of a baboon or antelope. After capturing all the photos you like, make your way to the main viewpoint and sit down to enjoy picnic breakfast with an unforgettable view over the canyon. Return to the lodge and enjoy the rest of the day at leisure. There are a number of optional activities that you might like to join: take a guided drive to the Fish River Canyon and be inspired by new perspective; meander along the 4x4 Wildebeest Drive watching plains animals; or celebrate sunset from a hillock, overlooking the spectacular scenery.
Farewell Fish River Canyon and head on to Orange River, just a short 2.5 to 3 hour drive away ( 200km ). You should reach your destination on the banks of the river by lunchtime. The Orange River is the longest stream in South Africa, running from high up in the Drakensberg mountain range and down into the Atlantic Ocean. This stream is significant for its role in transporting diamonds, which in turn leaves the deposits that are found along the Namibian coastline. Set off this afternoon on a 10 kilometre canoe journey down the Orange River. The canoe trip will be done in 2 man canoes with a local guide. It is a slow paced, easy trip, and you should be travelling simply down stream for most or all of the trip.
Leaving Namibia behind, you will cross the border and travel into South Africa (approximately 7 hours). The approximately 450 kilometres drive will be south of the Orange River to a wine farm in Trawal. You will arrive in the late afternoon or early evening (depending on border crossing formalities). Highlanders is a working wine farm nestled among the farmland of the Olifants River area, sitting at the foot of the Cedarberg mountain range. The farm uses water from the oldest irrigation scheme in South Africa and delivers its grapes to Klawer Cellars, a local cooperative wine cellar. Dutch settlers planted the first vineyards in the area in the late 1600s. However, the vineyards only flourished after the canal was built from Clanwilliam Dam during World War II, and have since won prizes both locally and internationally. This evening you'll enjoy a unique wine tasting, taking in seven of the regions finest wines with your experienced and knowledgeable host 'Sparky'.
Accommodation for tonight is best available in the region. However, the bar and swimming pool offer breath-taking views of the wine farms & mountains, rooms are simple, clean and comfortable.
Continue on to the South African capital, Cape Town ( 300km approximately 5 hours). With its stunning coastline, dramatic surrounding mountains and modern cityscape, Cape Town is one of Africa's most appealing cities and a great place to end the trip. The rest of the day until the evening is at your leisure. The infamous Robben Island (Nelson Mandela's prison for 18 years), vineyards, the V&A Waterfront, adventure activities and plenty of good restaurants and cafes are all at your doorstep. If time permits, you can take the cable car up to Table Mountain. This evening you'll enjoy a memorable dinner with the group in the Bo-Kapp region of Cape Town. Known for its brightly coloured houses and situated at the foot of Signal Hill, Bo-Kaap is the spiritual home of the Cape's Muslim community. Bo-Kaap has a fascinating history. Many of the residents are descendants of slaves from Malaysia, Indonesia and various African countries, who were imported to the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch during the 16th and 17th centuries. The slaves were (often mistakenly) known as "Cape Malays", and the term has stuck, with Bo-Kaap known today as the Cape Malay Quarter. Get an insight into this history when you step inside the 'purple house' of Faldela and her family. Learn how to make samosas, before sitting down to an authentic home-cooked dinner. Taste some of the traditional dishes such as 'Bredie', 'Chilli Bites' and 'Koesisters'. Learn about why the houses are painted in bright colours and how the community supports each other from your story-telling host.
Dinner this evening is served with juice or cordial. This is a muslim home and is therefore alcohol free.
Today is a free day to enjoy all that Cape Town has to offer. Perhaps catch the cable car to the top of Table Mountain, or take a tour across to the fascinating Robben Island. Or if you'd prefer a relaxing day simply wander down to the V&A Waterfront and treat yourself to some of South Africa's finest food and wines.
As this is a combination trip the composition of your group and group leader may change at this location. There will be a group meeting to discuss the next stage of your itinerary and meet your new fellow travelers.
Today is another free day until the important welcome meeting at 6 pm. Please look for a note in the hotel lobby or ask the hotel reception where it will take place. If the weather's nice perhaps take the City Sightseeing bus to the Cape Peninsula via Hout Bay.
Depart from Cape Town after breakfast and head towards lovely Stellenbosch. Visit Vergenoegd winery, a unique estate where you'll get to meet the waddling workforce of runner ducks used to assist in the control of the snail and pest population in the vineyards. This is a practice the estate have been refining since 1984, and a big part of why Vergenoegd proudly carries WWF biodiversity certification. You arrive in time for the 9:45 am duck parade, and enjoy a cellar tour and wine tasting. Also stop in at the Lanzarac Winery, the home of the first bottled Pinotage, and enjoy a wine and chocolate pairing. There will be time for lunch in either Vergenoegd or Lanzarac, and the evening is at your leisure once you arrive in Stellenbosch.
Drive to Hermanus, a coastal town famous for southern right whale watching during the winter and spring. You travel there via Bettys Bay, stopping to visit the Penguin Colony at Stoney Point and the Harold Porter Botanical gardens where there is time to have lunch. Upon arrival in the coastal town of Hermanus, around mid afternoon, there will be a chance to visit the Heart of Abalone, a working abalone farm. This is a chance to not only taste this sought-after delicacy but also get a glimpse behind the scenes of the industry. The rest of the evening free for you to relax and unwind.
Enjoy a free day in Hermanus. This town is considered to have the best land-based whale watching in the world. Perhaps enjoy one of the excellent walking trails along the coast. The 12-kilometre Cliff Path is perhaps the most popular of these. The views of Walker Bay and the Mountain Range are breathtaking, and during whale season the cliffs have the perfect spots to sit and watch the whales as they frolic in in the bay (season depending). The famous Whale Crier of Hermanus offers guided cliff path walks during the season. You could also climb aboard a boat to get a closer look at the magnificent sea creatures. Alternatively, tackle hiking trails in Femkloof Nature Reserve, or explore local markets.
Drive Route 62 to Oudtshoorn. For lunch, a great option is Clarke of the Karoo Restaurant in Barrydale, which offers Karoo cuisine, Mediterranean dishes, Karoo Oysters and Cape Malay Bobotie among other specialties. In the afternoon, enjoy a wine and port tasting at Boplass in Calitzdorp. Arrive in Outdshoon, which is known as the ostrich capital of the world. At the turn of the 20th century it was full of 'feather barons' that grew rich from the popularity of ostrich feathers.
Spend some time with some meerkats today. On a fun 2–3 hour excursion, head to the burrows of these cheeky meerkats, pull up a chair and sip coffee while the sun comes up and the meerkats climb out into the sunshine. Watch these habituated wild animals, which are never fed or handled by humans, go about their daily routine of foraging and frolicking. It's rare to get this close to them in the wild. Return to the Lodge and enjoy breakfast before driving to the Swartberg Mountains, climbing through the switchbacks of the pass of the same name, looking out across the unique folds of the surrounding rocks. Descend into the town of Prince Albert, a contender for South Africa's most charming town, full of the architecture of the 18th to 20th centuries. Return to the lodge via the Cango Caves, where you learn about their formation and history from a local guide. Browse the weird and wonderful rock formations including 'Cleopatra's Needle'.
The Meerkat tours commence only at sunrise are dependent on fair weather, since these little creatures will not venture outside their burrows on cold and rainy days.
On your way to Tsitsikamma, stop in Knysna for an afternoon boat cruise to Knysna Heads, sampling local oysters and wine along the way. Arrive in Tsitsikamma and take in its magnificent raw beauty. Protecting both land and sea, steep ancient forests meet the breakers of the Indian Ocean at this park. It's a spectacular place of deep gorges, tidal pools and empty beaches, perfect for walking and viewing wildlife.
Enjoy a hike in Tsitsikamma National Park today. Your leader guides you on a beautiful walk along the boardwalk through a canopy of forest leading to the famous suspension bridge across the ocean. The narrow channel of sheer cliffs get its name, Storms River Mouth, from when the wind gets up and the water hurtles against the rocks, sending spray flying high into the air. After this you double back towards a waterfall. The return trek is approximately 9 kilometres and should take around half a day. However, there will be scenic options along the boardwalk for a shorter trek without the group if you are concerned about your fitness. Keep an eye out for fauna such as cape clawless otters, dolphins, tortoises, southern right whales (in season), baboons, monkeys and various birds.
Travel out to a private concession to the north of the Addo Elephant National Park (approximately 5 hours). Enjoy drinks and a finger-food lunch upon arrival. Take a game drive en route to tonight's superbly located accommodation, Kuzuko Lodge. While you are here, sunrise, sunset and night drives offer very different views of the landscape and animals – both diurnal and nocturnal. South Africa's third largest National Park lays the unique claim to the 'Big Seven' – not only lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard and rhino but also the Southern right whale and great white shark off the Algoa Bay coast. There are more than 700 elephants in the park. Adding to the wildlife collection are spotted hyena, leopard, antelope and zebra, as well as the Addo flightless dung beetle, found almost exclusively here. After safari activities, retire to the accommodation which offers sumptuous cuisine and a 'wilderness wellness centre'. End a memorable day with drinks on the deck.
This 15000 hectare private section of the greater Addo Elephant National Park is home to the Big five as well as Cheetah. Being part of the arid Karoo region and just coming out of a severe drought the herd sizes in this unique reserve may not compare to what can be found in the likes of the Kruger National Park. However Kuzuko's qualified game rangers have a passion for this unique area and they go above and beyond to ensure that all guests leave having fallen in love with the Karoo and its unusual beauty.
There are currently no scheduled departures on our Namibia & South Africa's Garden Route trip. If you are interested in other trips in the region visit one of the links below.
1. An optional single supplement is available on this trip. Please speak to your booking agent for further information.
2. This is a combination trip made up of 2 shorter trips. This means the composition of your group will change in Cape Town as some group members leave and new ones join you.
3. Days 15 and 16 in Cape Town will be unaccompanied.
4. This trip finishes on arrival in Port Elizabeth. Please do not book any flights prior to 5pm.


John 15:7-8 "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
"If ye abide in me…." If we are born again, we do abide in Christ. If Jesus had said that and that alone, we would have had it made, but He continued, "And my words abide in you."
Jesus' words abide in us in the measure that they govern our lives and in the measure that we act upon them.
If Jesus' words abide in us, we are bound to have faith, because the Bible says, "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Rom. 10:17). It would be impossible for Jesus' words to abide in someone and for that person not to have faith! Unbelief and doubt are a result of ignorance of the Word of God. If we live the Word, then when we come to pray, that Word dwells in us so richly that it becomes Jesus' Word on our lips. It will be as if the Father's words were on the lips of Jesus.
Confession: I abide in Christ, and His words abide in me. I hide His words in my heart. I believe them. I pray them. When I come to prayer, the Word that dwells in my heart becomes God's Word on my lips, and it cannot return to God void. It will accomplish what it promises!


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...."A Date Which Will Live In Infamy"...
TODAY MARKS THAT DATE
And thus began the American involvement in World War II. Seventy-three years ago today the Empire of Japan attacked the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing thousands of Americans caught unaware.
THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS...
Here's how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt portrayed that event the next day, when he asked Congress to declare it an act of war.
MILLIONS DIED IN THAT WAR
From that date until August 14, 1945, when Japan officially surrendered the United States of America joined allies fighting World War II on two fronts - Europe and Asia - to defeat the axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan. For more details go HERE. I've written about this war a few times, HERE, and HERE, for example.
Today, as the men and women who actually fought in this historic war - Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation" - continue to die, taking with them the first-person experiences from this horrendous war, please take a minute to pause and consider the sacrifice they all made to keep our country free and protect our way of life. A look at the timeline for World War II, HERE, HERE, and HERE, will be helpful for you to understand what transpired in world politics that led to this strife from 1922 until the end of the war in September, 1945.
JOE AND GEORGE - PATRIOTS
I had three uncles who served proudly in the armed services during World War II. They saw their duty and responded to the need of the nation. Over the past couple years two local men - who served in the Pacific Theater as aviators and became my close friends - passed away. Author, teacher and Daily Pilot columnist Joseph N. Bell - about as liberal man as I have ever known - and George Grupe - a local businessman and patriot and about as a conservative man as I have ever met - both served during World War II as flyers. Both had their college educations interrupted by the war and both were proud of their service and shared stories with those who asked. Grupe, in particular, gave patriotic presentations to any organization interested in hearing about the war. He spoke to school groups, business organizations, church groups, for dozens of years, trying to provide perspective to the history books. I'm proud to have known them and and glad they shared their lives with me.
SPARKS...
Several times a month my path crosses with that of Sparks McClellan, a retired local businessman with family roots in Costa Mesa that go back to 1926. We had mutual friends and have become friends over the past few years. Sparks is a quiet man, who proudly wears a cap and jacket that commemorate his service as a distinguished Naval Aviator flying Hellcats during World War II. He and I will chat about his service from time to time. The memories, now fading with the passage of time, still remain.
FORMER MAYOR
Former Mayor Jack Hammett is a Pearl Harbor survivor. He was there that day, serving as a Naval corpsman, when more than 2,000 of his comrades died in that sneak attack. He, too, proudly wears the regalia commemorating his service time.
THANK THEM...
There are still a few survivors of my parent's generation - the one that fought this war - so find time to seek them out and thank them for their service to our nation. We owe them everything...
And, remember what this day represents. Remember that our nation remains free as long as men and women like those who stepped up during World War II continue to do so.
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Eleanor Egan said...
Thank you for publishing this reminder. Everyone knows about 9/11, but to young people today WW II is ancient history, and WW I is all but forgotten. Even Armistice Day is now Veterans' Day, and hardly anyone recalls why it is celebrated on November 11th.
We Americans are a people with short memories. Maybe that's why we have been continually at war for almost 100 years - except for the Depression era, when no one had money to spend on armaments. It seems every generation has to learn everything all over again.
The first casualty of war is truth. The second is freedom. Sometimes we have no choice but to fight to preserve freedom for the next generation, but now I think we have yielded too much freedom for an illusory security. Maybe we need to find ways to live in this dangerous world without resorting first to killing people.
Teresa Drain said...
Thank you for remembering. My parents were children and living in Hawaii on this fateful day. My Filipino side of the family lived in the valley, and the zeros started firing there. My father had to be pulled under the house to safety. My Japanese side of the family, were not interred, but...
I know of the great men and women stationed at Hickum, and will always be grateful to our troops. I would not be here, if not for their service.
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Closing down public varsities best option as strikes persist
By Duncan Omanga | 4yrs ago
UASU chairman Muga Olale and Secretary General Constatine Wasonga during a protest for better pay in Nairobi last month. [File, Standard]
More than 40 days after it began, the lecturers' strike is showing no sign of petering out. The matter is being treated with remarkable nonchalance.
The disruptions to higher education will take years to recover. An online campaign led by public universities students under the hashtag #EndLecturersStrike has ably captured their frustrations. A degree that would ordinarily finalise in about four years is now taking seven.
The ongoing strike, the third in 12 months, should not have happened. This was a dispute that would easily have been solved had executive egos not muddied waters.
Dear Kenyans, the lecturers are still on strike because the Government has refused to talk to them. It is that simple. If insanity continues to prevail, this strike might be among the longest in recent history, threats of salary stoppage notwithstanding.
Among all civil servants, it is only lecturers who are not enjoying their current CBAs. A recent court ruling which gave the Inter Public Universities Council Consultative Forum (IPUCCF) 30 days to talk to lecturers is soon lapsing without any meaningful 'voice' from them.
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This is not shocking. We live in troubled times where court orders and rulings are treated like background music.
Meanwhile, the Government continues to treat higher education as a tolerable appendage to its overall agenda. For the last four years, much of the attention and resources have been consumed in basic and secondary education.
For the Government, higher education simply does not exist. For a while, I thought that the Education Cabinet Secretary was overseas, attending to delicate issues with proximate value to local education affairs.
I refused to imagine that higher education would collapse on the watch of a public servant who had exhibited animated energy while at the Foreign Affairs ministry.
Mental problems
As a petition filed by the UASU asking the CS to end the strike lay unattended in her office, the honourable minister, with other senior Government officials, were in Western Kenya lending much-needed support to the Deputy President's untimely 2022 presidential campaigns.
But if the minister took time to follow the hashtag on ending the lecturers' strike, some frightening tales of poor, young Kenyans might rattle her.
On average, the current Fourth Year students in most public universities have been in college for between six and eight years.
In one instance, a parent lamented how one of her daughters had developed mental problems as a result of a 'schizophrenic' academic calendar.
In her fifth year, troubles multiplied when she was enticed to follow a sect led by an eccentric prophet.
The mother is distraught. For the last two months, the young girl wallows in endless reverie, with most days spent conversing with unseen beings and apparitions.
Another parent complained how he continues to pay rent for his three children who are housed in private accommodation, yet there is no actual learning taking place.
Among the worst, I assume, are those students whose campuses follow a staggered programme where learning takes place in unpredictable shifts.
One student recounted the tragic scenario where he will spend more than 17 months out of campus as he awaits his turn to complete the second semester of his second year of study.
He is contemplating dropping out and joining a vocational school. His colleagues in private universities are in employment.
Some students are considering an academic exodus to neighbouring countries. Others, in resigned indignation, suggest prayer.
In the context of the crises facing our education, the Government prefers to play normalcy, intimidating university bosses who would dare close universities that are already practically closed.
This is not the right forum to document what happens to students who are deliberately kept idle at their own expense. The bottom-line is clear: we are working pretty hard to collapse higher education.
Why don't we suspend higher education for four years rather than ruin it? Apart from giving our leaders time to concentrate on the 2022 presidential elections, it will afford us sufficient time of reflection, and make better use of otherwise dormant facilities.
Sorry state
In the ongoing spirit of destroying the public and building the private, well demonstrated in the sorry state of the public health, agriculture, finance among others, we can on one hand outsource higher education to our neighbours and the enterpreneuring private hands who have continued to supply higher education generously like groundnuts and on the other, suspend higher education until the 2022 political crown is won! Within the four years, we might consider turning our oldest university, the University of Nairobi to a national museum.
As for Kenyatta University, we can return the facility to the Kenya Defense Forces at Kahawa Barracks for its original purpose.
Alongside Moi University, these institutions can be transformed into military training facilities since they seem to provide the most congenial settings for a rare mix of both urban and jungle military training.
University of Eldoret can be bequeathed to Athletics Kenya and its hostels converted to a high attitude athletics training complex. S
tudents can be advised to join the more vibrant and well-funded National Youth Service (NYS). Here, we will swap books for spades and help the Government achieve its Big Four' agenda in just four years.
After four years we might be more educated. We might even stumble upon what higher education means and the role of universities.
But the question still begs, is it too difficult for the Government to honour its word and end the lecturers' strike to avoid collapsing higher education?
The writer is a researcher and university lecturer
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Generate correlated systems of statistical equations which represent repeated measurements or clustered data. These systems contain either: a) continuous normal, non-normal, and mixture variables based on the techniques of Headrick and Beasley (2004) <doi:10.1081/SAC-120028431> or b) continuous (normal, non-normal and mixture), ordinal, and count (regular or zero-inflated, Poisson and Negative Binomial) variables based on the hierarchical linear models (HLM) approach. Headrick and Beasley's method for continuous variables calculates the beta (slope) coefficients based on the target correlations between independent variables and between outcomes and independent variables. The package provides functions to calculate the expected correlations between outcomes, between outcomes and error terms, and between outcomes and independent variables, extending Headrick and Beasley's equations to include mixture variables. These theoretical values can be compared to the simulated correlations. The HLM approach requires specification of the beta coefficients, but permits group and subject-level independent variables, interactions among independent variables, and fixed and random effects, providing more flexibility in the system of equations. Both methods permit simulation of data sets that mimic real-world clinical or genetic data sets (i.e. plasmodes, as in Vaughan et al., 2009, <10.1016/j.csda.2008.02.032>). The techniques extend those found in the 'SimMultiCorrData' and 'SimCorrMix' packages. Standard normal variables with an imposed intermediate correlation matrix are transformed to generate the desired distributions. Continuous variables are simulated using either Fleishman's third-order (<doi:10.1007/BF02293811>) or Headrick's fifth-order (<doi:10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00072-5>) power method transformation (PMT). Simulation occurs at the component-level for continuous mixture distributions. These components are transformed into the desired mixture variables using random multinomial variables based on the mixing probabilities. The target correlation matrices are specified in terms of correlations with components of continuous mixture variables. Binary and ordinal variables are simulated by discretizing the normal variables at quantiles defined by the marginal distributions. Count variables are simulated using the inverse CDF method. There are two simulation pathways for the multi-variable type systems which differ by intermediate correlations involving count variables. Correlation Method 1 adapts Yahav and Shmueli's 2012 method <doi:10.1002/asmb.901> and performs best with large count variable means and positive correlations or small means and negative correlations. Correlation Method 2 adapts Barbiero and Ferrari's 2015 modification of the 'GenOrd' package <doi:10.1002/asmb.2072> and performs best under the opposite scenarios. There are three methods available for correcting non-positive definite correlation matrices. The optional error loop may be used to improve the accuracy of the final correlation matrices. The package also provides function to check parameter inputs and summarize the simulated systems of equations.
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I am a new entrant to the construction industry and with over 10 years' experience working in Design and Education, I aim to progress from my current Administrator role into Design Management.
Through my time working, living and travelling across the globe, I have gained a keen appreciation for the necessity of diversity and access to development pathways in the workplace. Furthermore, first-hand experience of the highs and lows of making a major career path change sparked an interest in how the construction industry attracts new talent, from school-leavers to those with many years of transferable skills and knowledge. These issues in particular inspired me through the process of co-founding and launching NAWIC NW (the National Association of Women in Construction for the North-West region) for which I currently volunteer as Treasurer and Deputy Chair alongside a committee of likeminded women.
To support my work with Balfour Beatty and NAWIC, I regularly undertake training and have also started studying on a CIOB Graduate Conversion Certificate course. This will provide me with a solid theoretical foundation of knowledge on a range of aspects in Construction Management and assist in eventual application for chartered membership to CIOB. In addition, I am a mentee on the brilliant Fluid Diversity Mentoring scheme, and aspire to assist others as a mentor in the coming years. Continual learning and development for myself and encouraging those around me is always key in whatever I do.
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Mercedes Ener-G-Force Concept Goes Back To The Future
The boxy Benz G-Class gets a crazy makeover for this concept for the L.A. Auto Show.
By Steve Rousseau
What would happen if the Mercedes-Benz G-Class was still around by 2025, and somehow, the California Highway Patrol enlisted the iconic SUV for off-road duty? You might have never found yourself wondering about this particular hypothetical, but Mercedes has.
This bulbous behemoth, the Ener-G-Force concept, is Benz's response to this year's police-themed LA Auto Show Design Challenge. The creation of the California-based Mercedes-Benz Advanced Designed Studio seemingly traveled backward to go forward; it looks a little like 2002's idea of what a 2025 police off-roader would look like.
Gone are the G-Class's iconic angular lines, replaced by sweeping, flowing curves. The most explicit alteration is a complete facelift, swapping the perfect rectangular grille for this rounded front end. The concept features flashy exterior lighting in the form of roof-mounted emergency lights integrated directly into the car's body's, which the German automaker lauds in a press release as "are impossible to ignore." And, of course, the retro-futuristic ride features plenty of features we've come to expect from concepts that carmakers won't actually have to build, including a cutesy name and a hydrogen-powered drivetrain.
Radical as they may be, it is hard to ignore the Ener-G-Force's looks. The 20-inch wheels look functional, and the low-profile windows are a welcome departure from the massive greenhouse on the present-day G-Class. In fact, the company says, the concept could signal a shift in Merc design.
"Modern and cool, [the Ener-G-Force] could also be a clue about a new beginning for the off-road design idiom of Mercedes-Benz," Gorden Wagener, Merc's Director of Design, said in the release. If it's true, then we could see a G-Class that moves away from rectangles and jagged lines toward undulating and smooth curves—something like the look of Range Rover's Evoque and the new Ford Explorer.
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Bukanýři byla ostravská folkbeatová kapela, která vznikla v roce 1969 na základě nápadu dramaturga ostravského rozhlasu Františka Trnky hrát lidové písně v beatovém stylu. Inspirací pro styl a zvuk nové kapely byla polská skupina No To Co. Skupina natočila v rozhlase písničku Že to pivo nevypiju a ta se stala megahitem v celé republice. To odstartovalo několikaletý úspěch skupiny pro vystupování a nahrávání doma i v zahraničí.

Zakládající členové
 Miroslav Večeřa, kapelník, flétna
 Pavel Klos, klávesy
 Richard Kroczek, housle
 Vlastimil Kučaj, kytara
 František Tůma, baskytara
 Jiří Plachý, bicí
 Jindra Viatrová, zpěv
 Henryk Sumera, zpěv

Historie
S Bukanýry postupně vystupovaly zpěvačky Hana Buštíková, Marie Hanzelková a Božena Lišková. Také zpěváci Jan Matouš a Zdeněk Mann. Na postu baskytaristy se postupně vystřídali Karel Koláska, Ivan Kožušník, Rudolf Chowaniok a Luboš Konečný. Na bicích Plachého nahradil Jiří Bořuta.

Od poloviny sedmdesátých let začal se skupinou spolupracovat pražský hudebník Jan Spálený, ale většího posluchačského úspěchu už nedosáhli.

Literatura
 Horák Jan, Od Flaminga k Plameňákům, str. 218, 2020,

Odkazy
My jsme valaši

Hudební skupiny z Ostravy
Zaniklé hudební skupiny


We may strive for order in our own lives, but order has its own way of being the death of us, killing off the thing that is most vibrant and fully alive. Order keeps us from the wild possibility, the thing that could crack us open to a world of wild imagining that leads us to the deeper truth and meaning of our own lives. Sometimes that path is through the bramble bush, as it was for Sarah Linden this and every season of The Killing so far. In Sunday night's season finale, she follows that dark road into the wilderness and across a line over which she can never cross back. It was just like life that way — even the most orderly of lives — which is rife with things you can't take back and the do-over that can never come. Linden's is a heightened version of this reality that all of us become acquainted with by mid-life, and that's why it cuts to the bone, and pierces our hearts, and punches our guts out, even as it fills us with an animal satisfaction at the specter of justice served, not in the civilized, Rule of Law sense, but in a buck wild, man in a state of nature sense that rights our sense of sorrow over the many ways that, in the real world, justice isn't served — because justice isn't the meaning of our lives and it isn't the defining logic of this world (though we like to tell ourselves it is). The real world is messy and full of inexplicable things that cannot be reconciled. The miracle of this season's finale of The Killing is that it captures that fleeting moment when a provisional justice is served, and also the longer moment after, when the thing you've set right sets in motion realities of its own.
Spolier alert: Stop reading now if you haven't seen the episode and still plan to.
Here's what happened. All season long, Linden and Holder (played by the remarkable Joel Kinnaman, who's showing up everywhere these days), have been on the trail of a serial kidnapper and killer who's been preying on female street kids. Simultaneously, Linden has been trying to prevent the execution of a man (played by a devastating Peter Skaarsgard) and convicted of killing his wife and the mother of his young son. The man is despicable, but it's also possible he's innocent of this crime and the case Linden and Holder are pursuing suggests that the person who killed the condemned man's wife and the person who is killing these street kids is one and the same. In the second to the last episode of the season, Skaarsgard's character is executed. In the finale, the question of who really killed his wife — and, yes, that long list of teenage girls, is the married father Ed Skinner (played by veteran character actor Elias Koteas), Linden's former partner and current lover. The realization comes to her in a series of puzzle pieces and the moment when the truth clicks into place is one of the great television acting moments of all time, or maybe one of the great acting moments of all time in any medium. Watching Enos's face is like watching the seasons change all in the span of a few moments and when Elias turns and looks at her, he knows that she knows and that their moment of reckoning has come. Using the life of a missing little boy as bait, the son of Peter Skaarsgard's executed innocent man, he gets her to drive with him, out into the woods, where, finally, she gets out of the car, riven by the dark truth of who he is, and throws up. And then, in a final showdown, a showdown of words as well as deeds, she shoots him, non-fatally at first — and then, Holder shows up, having followed his own logic to the truth of Skinner's guilt and to their whereabouts here in the woods, in time to witness the shooting he cannot stop, the one that will take Skinner's life and turn the screw on Linden's and also, one suspects, on his. Season 4, I imagine, will be about the aftermath, about who we become when the awful hidden truths of our lives are revealed and we cannot run. Perhaps its the optimist in me, or the writer who has faith in Sud and team's talents, but I think Season 4 will bring a happy turning point, whether Holder covers for her, or whether she faces the truth and consequences of the killing she hath committed. She put Skinner down, and in so doing, she opened a door on healing for herself, a door that, if she can walk through it, might bring her out of the darkness of her disconnected foster-child of a life and into the bright light of a new and hopeful day. That's where I would take it at least.


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First the required questions, then the commentary.

### What did you do this past week? ###

This week I read most of the required reading, and started on the collatz project.  I've gotten the repository setup, setup the issues, and implemented the simplest version of the project.  I have not tried submitting to Sphere yet, but I might try before the end of the day.

### What's in your way? ###

Right now there is nothing in CS 373 thats in my way.  All my roadblocks have to do with work.  We had a big push to get a project done last week, which meant some late days and not much free time for homework.  I'm thinking things will free up some next week (if time doesn't free up, I'll have to make some time - I'll just sleep less.  Who needs sleep anyway?)

### What will you do next week? ###

Next week I had better finish the collatz project.  I was in Object Oriented Programming (OOP) last semester, and after my experience there, I'm not really worried about completing the project.  I'm going to try to catch up on the reading some too.  The non-textbook readings are the same from OOP so on the bright side I can generally skim over those and re-remember.

So far this class has taken a very similar path that OOP class did: assertions, unit tests, code coverage, and how to use those appropriately.  I'm really hoping that the class diverges soon, otherwise I'm worried that the class is going to get boring.

When it comes to the projects, I still don't understand the "3 unit tests per method/function" requirement.  I feel like this discourages the good programing practice of breaking up large functions into smaller more manageable ones.  I don't know, maybe the graders see a single monolithic function and deduct design points, but it seems that writing a single monolithic function would be a way to game the system and write fewer unit tests.

## Tip of the week ##

You should learn [make](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/) if you haven't already.  It is very quirky and kinda weird (spaces and tabs are treated differently), but a good makefile is impossible to beat.  One of the things I noticed, is that the given makefile for the collatz project doesn't put a dependency on the Collatz.py file for the "*.tmp" recipes.  This means if you've already run `make test`, if you change just the Collatz.py file, and then run `make test` again - the tests won't run again without running `make clean` before `make test`.

My tip of the week is add Collatz.py to the .tmp recipes, this way, if you change just the Collatz.py file, the tests are guaranteed to rebuild every time when you run `make test`.


Home Page >> Feature Articles >> Canada Pulls Toxic Imported Toys Off Sto..
Ottawa, ONHere we go again. A toy recall, after numerous products—most of which were made in China—were found to have dangerous levels of lead. This time the issue is on Canadian soil, but an issue that has affected Americans in the past, who have seen recalled toys from China. To the US toy buyer, a toxic toy recall is nothing new.
In Canada, government legislation requires that any recall of product has to be voluntary on the part of the manufacturers, or the importers. However, after numerous products were tested Health Canada alerted the various manufacturers and importers, who have wasted little time in getting the affected products off store shelves.
Affected products are popular toys such as mini hockey sticks and pewter charms. This, on the eve of the busy Christmas buying season. Consumers are already out shopping for the holidays. Hunting for bargains and with thoughts of the global economic crisis top-of-mind, shoppers are starting early to avoid the last-minute rush that often results in over-spending. They're also downsizing in terms of gift buying, with an eye towards lower-priced gifts.
Toys such as charms and mini sticks are quite popular and priced right. However, independent testing revealed that such toys contained high levels of toxic lead—a revelation confirmed by Health Canada in follow-up testing.
But here's another blockbuster: baby pacifiers containing lead. Deadly, toxic lead. Lead which, if ingested, could result in vomiting, a drop in IQ, irritability, diarrhea, even death.
A baby pacifier. Made with lead. It's enough to make your blood boil.
Canada's Health Minister Tony Clement is boiling, and he has vowed to crack down on unsafe toys when the Canadian Parliament reconvenes in November. Clement is talking stricter penalties for offenders, and the ability to undertake a mandatory recall should a product be shown to warrant such action, for the ultimate protection of the consumer.
"It's pretty disturbing when these kinds of products are out on the market. It's very frustrating," Clement said, in comments appearing in a Canwest News story. "It's very difficult for a parent to know when a product contains a toxic chemical just by looking at it . . . It's one of those areas where it's important for the government to step in and protect human health."
While China enjoys one of the fastest-growing economies in the world right now, the country has also earned a reputation for substandard products that are often toxic. The genesis of this whole mess is one of economics: North American manufacturers find it less-expensive to have products manufactured in remote places such as China, which allows for much higher profit margins.
But somehow, nobody is minding the store. Everything from toxic toothpaste, to adulterated pet food and tainted heparin have found their way into American shopping bags, and toys containing dangerous levels of lead have been showing up under Christmas trees. Precious North American manufacturing jobs have been lost in the process, and our kids are playing with lead-laced toys because of it.
Our babies are putting lead-laced pacifiers in their mouths.
What is wrong with America? For that matter, what is wrong with Canada? Why is this stuff allowed into our borders in the first place? Why isn't someone bringing the hammer down on countries such as China that so willingly flaunt common decency in the pursuit of the almighty buck?
And people wonder why lawyers are so busy…if my baby were to ever put a lead-laced pacifier in his, or her mouth and get sick or die because of it, I would sue the bastards.
Get out of my way. Here comes my lawyer and me, and we're taking no prisoners.
Every toxic toy recall just proves that somebody either doesn't care to check shipments before they show up on store shelves, or has dropped the ball completely because they're too busy counting their money.
If you have suffered losses in this case, please send your complaint to a lawyer who will review your possible [Toxic Toy Lawsuit] at no cost or obligation.


Gizmodo has a fascinating article about what went wrong at Flickr and Yahoo's failure in general to enhance all of those cool startups they bought in the late 2000's.
This is the story of Flickr. And how Yahoo bought it and murdered it and screwed itself out of relevance along the way.
The lesson is clear – if you want your acquisition to continue to grow, concentrate on continued innovation first and corporate integration second. I see parallels with Oracle and all of the industry-leading companies (Siebel, Peoplesoft, etc) they bought. For corporate integration in Yahoo's case read Fusion in Oracle's.
I used to be quite active but I haven't posted in months and visited in weeks. Interestingly, the last image I posted was an Instagram shot.


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Rachel Hoff
Policy Director, The Ronald Reagan Institute
Rachel Hoff serves as Policy Director at the Ronald Reagan Institute, the Washington DC office of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. Before joining the Institute, she was as Communications Director and Policy Advisor for John McCain at the Senate Armed Services Committee. Rachel has conducted research and outreach for a number of think tanks in Washington, including the American Enterprise Institute, the American Action Forum, and the Foreign Policy Initiative, an organization she helped found in 2009. She also worked as a Legislative Assistant for Congressman Mac Thornberry.
Rachel has worked and volunteered for numerous Republican campaigns and organizations. She has represented Washington DC twice as a delegate to the Republican National Convention and served on the 2016 GOP Platform Committee.
Rachel received a master's degree in Global Policy Studies from the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs and a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Tufts University. She was born and raised on U.S. military bases in Tokyo, Japan.
© 2020 by the Center for European Policy Analysis


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The Heritage Foundation is hosting a discussion with Eliot A. Cohen, author of The Big Stick, and a scholar and practitioner of international relations. Cohen argues that hard power remains essential for American foreign policy. While acknowledging that the U.S. must be careful about why, when, and how it uses force, he insists that its international role is as critical as ever, and armed force is vital to that role.
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// <copyright file="MudZoneFactory.cs" company="Sully">
//     Copyright (c) Johnathon Sullinger. All rights reserved.
// </copyright>
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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using MudDesigner.Engine.Game;

namespace MudDesigner.Adapters.BasicRules
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Provides methods for creating a new IZone
    /// </summary>
    public sealed class MudZoneFactory : IZoneFactory
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The room factory
        /// </summary>
        private readonly IRoomFactory roomFactory;

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="MudZoneFactory"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="roomFactory">The room factory.</param>
        public MudZoneFactory(IRoomFactory roomFactory)
        {
            this.roomFactory = roomFactory;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new uninitialized zone.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="name">The name of the zone.</param>
        /// <param name="owner">The realm that owns this zone.</param>
        /// <returns>Returns an uninitialized zone instance</returns>
        public Task<IZone> CreateZone(string name, IRealm owner)
                    => this.CreateZone(name, owner, Enumerable.Empty<IWeatherState>(), 0, Enumerable.Empty<IRoom>());

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new uninitialized zone.
        /// Each of the rooms added will be initialized prior to adding it to the zone.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="name">The name of the zone.</param>
        /// <param name="owner">The realm that owns this zone.</param>
        /// <param name="rooms">A collection of rooms that will be initialized and added to the zone.</param>
        /// <returns>Returns an uninitialized zone instance</returns>
        public Task<IZone> CreateZone(string name, IRealm owner, IEnumerable<IRoom> rooms)
                    => this.CreateZone(name, owner, Enumerable.Empty<IWeatherState>(), 0, rooms);

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new uninitialized zone.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="name">The name of the zone.</param>
        /// <param name="owner">The realm that owns this zone.</param>
        /// <param name="weatherStates">The weather states to be made available in the zone.</param>
        /// <param name="weatherUpdateFrequency">The frequency to which the weather should be updated.</param>
        /// <returns>
        /// Returns an uninitialized zone instance
        /// </returns>
        public Task<IZone> CreateZone(string name, IRealm owner, IEnumerable<IWeatherState> weatherStates, int weatherUpdateFrequency)
                    => this.CreateZone(name, owner, weatherStates, weatherUpdateFrequency, Enumerable.Empty<IRoom>());

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new uninitialized zone.
        /// Each of the rooms added will be initialized prior to adding it to the zone.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="name">The name of the zone.</param>
        /// <param name="owner">The realm that owns this zone.</param>
        /// <param name="weatherStates">The weather states to be made available in the zone.</param>
        /// <param name="weatherUpdateFrequency">The frequency to which the weather should be updated.</param>
        /// <param name="rooms">A collection of rooms that will be initialized and added to the zone.</param>
        /// <returns>
        /// Returns an uninitialized zone instance
        /// </returns>
        public async Task<IZone> CreateZone(string name, IRealm owner, IEnumerable<IWeatherState> weatherStates, int weatherUpdateFrequency, IEnumerable<IRoom> rooms)
        {
            MudZone zone = weatherStates.Count() > 0
                ? zone = new MudZone(this.roomFactory, owner, weatherStates)
                : zone = new MudZone(this.roomFactory, owner);

            zone.SetName(name);
            zone.WeatherUpdateFrequency = weatherUpdateFrequency;
            if (rooms.Count() > 0)
            {
                await zone.AddRoomsToZone(rooms);
            }

            return zone;
        }
    }
}


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