This richly illustrated book features writer Edward Bass as a talented narrator of short fairytales. It is the first complete edition of a set of 43 fairytales from around the world that Bass rewrote according to German models. Some of the texts were published in magazines during Bass's life, some later in book collections, but twenty fairy tales from the author's body of work remained untouched. The complete book of stories was prepared according to specific editorial principles by a graduate from the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, Hedvika Landová. The result is a well-crafted book that will enchant both children and adults.


Me and my brother at Good in the Hood about 2005.
As each year passes, I can't help but to find something new to love about you. The final days of June that you have claimed as yours, to me, feel like settling into silence… in the best way. It's the type of silence I can only find in a space overpowered by noise. Because you are loud. I'm talking, every lyric effortlessly floating four blocks away and dancing on ears clear as day, loud. The busiest streets with the biggest cars and the boldest drivers have nothing on you, that's how loud you get. I am enamored by the very deliberate and intentional way you take up space. I love that about you. I've known you for eighteen years, you've been alive for twenty six, but I have never properly thanked you.
At age six, I didn't know you that well, but still managed to weave my way through a crowd and land at your stage. Fast forward some years and it would require nothing less than absolute force to get me up there. But I guess that's how childhood works, right? Insecurities and doubts don't drag themselves along for the ride until at least ten or eleven.
At sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, all I do is eat and people watch, looking at cute guys and girls, never brave enough to actually say anything. I'm old enough now to where I can see you on my own, without parental supervision. You look as beautiful as ever. Green, red, blue, and black low riders with diamonds in the paint and hoop earrings caught in the sunlight highlight this beauty. Black bodies have been replaced with black lives matter signs, but we all seem to find our way back to you.
You are the hand that holds us all together. Our physical environment has morphed and molded itself into unfamiliar faces and buildings but you have stayed the same. The hood doesn't always feel like the hood these days but it's all good cause you're always there, a snapshot in time. So, thank you. Thank you for letting me fall in love with you. Again, and again, and again.
My perspective on Portland has been in a constant state of change for the past 16 years. When I was younger, Portland felt like it was the size of the universe and there were infinite things to do. As I have gained more freedom Portland has become smaller and smaller. I feel confined yet comforted by the scenery both natural and man-made here in Portland. Although Portland has become smaller to me and easier to navigate, I still find that there are infinite things to do. Portland has to offer these beautiful scenes that are easily accessible by either walking, public transportation or biking. All these transportation options allow for numerous adventures among the city. I have found myself in places that I never knew existed. There have been 10 mile bike rides nearly straight up hill to reach a 105 year old house. There have been views from multiple sides of the valley and deep in the middle of it. I see dark scenes contrasted with Transcendentalist-like views of water and sunsets. The city of Portland to me is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The diversity of landscapes and backgrounds. One evening you may see the clearest sky you have ever seen and the next it will be gloomy and rainy. This is partially what I love about Portland. The North of Portland is perhaps the most boring part of town. The majority of the beauty of Portland hides in the center of town as well as the southern parts. Sellwood is a very calm and beautiful part of town that allows me to relax and feel the cool wind. The Alberta neighborhood as well as the Albina neighborhood give me a feeling of stress and high activity that takes away from the beauty. There are many beautiful shops around Portland that make the city much more exciting. There are record stores that smell like old paper. There are tiny coffee shops that look like rundown shacks. There are many diverse restaurants that expand your palate to the size of the world. Portland is one of the most wack yet beautiful towns I know.
What Now? 3.0 is an event that began in response to the 2016 presidential election. Natalie Sept who, like many others, was disappointed by the voter outcome and active participation in said election. She started this event with the intent of promoting people (now particularly youth) to become more involved in their communities and their democracy. The original event was held at Revolution Hall and hosted well over 2000 people from all around the Portland area. The event contained workshops, tabling organizations and a keynote event with amazing speakers from around Portland. The event was planned in eight days by Natalie as well as an amazing group of 20 people who worked tirelessly to plan this event. The event has changed quite a bit since then.
This years planning committee consists of Natalie Sept, and Sara Guest, the only two adults involved in planning, Carmen Vintro, Gabby Cosey, Karina Alcantara, Victoria (Tori) Siegel, Taji Chesimet, Fowzia Ibrahim, Jada Commodore and Thomas Cassidy who are all youth from various high schools around Portland.
On December 1st relatively early for a Saturday morning, the youth planning committee for this year's event arrived at Wilson High School and began to set up for the event. The morning began with a plenary session created and presented by, Gabby, Jada, and Taji. This lovely group of people discussed the diaspora of African culture in America as well as violence and discrimination affecting black people. Our U.S. Senator Ron Wyden showed up during the plenary to see the kind of action and change youth are making. After the plenary session, the workshop portion began. There were four workshop slots with two workshop options per slot. Some of the workshops included Confronting Whiteness in Environmentalism, Queer is Color, Toxic Masculinity, Indigenous Rights, and Refugees & Immigration.
After the workshops there was time for organizations to table and give opportunity for youth. At the end of the night the keynote speakers had their chance to show their versions of activism. Our presenters were amazingly talented when it comes to art and activism. The night ended with clean-up and laughter and the planning committee went out for dinner and discussed their thoughts on the event.
At this point it has been just over a month since the 2018 rendition of What Now?. This means I as well as the other planning members have had a month to reflect on the negatives and positives surrounding the event. The planning took place nearly every Saturday morning at about noon for the better part of six months. Each one of us planners had different things going on in our lives during the planning. It has often been difficult to give up our Saturday for work, but working with some of the most amazing people in the Portland area makes it easy. Showing up for the months of planning compared to the 8 days of the original event have allowed for some serious bonding and friendship building. However there were downsides to the amount of time we had. We had the opportunity to develop very strong content for the event. Working this long however didn't give us the sense of urgency we needed.
Securing a venue was one of the most stressful and difficult aspects of this planning for the adults especially. The original venue for this year's event was supposed to be Benson High School. There were a few reasons why that fell through. The reason Benson would have been a good venue was because of the accessibility. Benson is right in the middle of Portland and many bus lines pass by. Wilson though was our last resort. The school is on the opposite side of town from Benson but we had to make do with what we had. Another speed bump we encountered during planning was related to the venue change. Because we didn't have a venue secured in time we were forced to push the date back by two weeks. The date change was also because there were events related to ours that may have interfered with our target audience. Even though our numbers were comparatively low to previous years, the people who came were extremely interactive and provided many new ideas to the conversation. The event went exceedingly well and seemed to be a huge success.
Looking to the future the mission of What Now? will remain. The fate of the event itself is uncertain however. Empowering youth to be involved in our democracy is going to be a staple of my work and the work of many others. One of the most powerful tools of change is the right to vote. This is a privilege that not all people in the world have. Using this right to build positive change on all levels of society is going to be the future of What Now? The legacy will live on in all the people who planned and attended.
During the event I wanted to make sure everything was running smoothly and that everybody had the tools they needed to work their magic. I would run from the cafeteria to the check-in table in my socks to make sure that the people there were not overwhelmed and if they were, I helped. I assisted anybody and everybody with any task they needed done including switching slides for presentations and setting up chairs and tables for workshops.
When I wasn't scrambling around, I was with Tori either working on our Toxic Masculinity workshop of presenting it. The workshop was on how toxic masculinity and gender norms affect men and women as well as non-binary people. I believe that the workshop shed light on ways to break down the system of gender expectations. What I got out of the workshop was many suggestions from the audience on how to break these down and make a change on all different levels of society. All in all I believe that What Now? 3.0 was a huge success. It allowed for the democratic dialog of change to continue in the up and coming generation.
I fell under a spell for the past six years of living in this city, blind to what was occurring under my feet. I walked to school every day during junior high –same path, same neighbors, same life. One day, I noticed a peculiar sign hung from the gate outside a blue house on my route: "Intent to Demolish." Months passed as the sign became nothing more than a familiar object to me, until out of nowhere, the house was gone. Then, for the next two years, I watched as two beautiful, but alien houses were erected — more manufactured than the clothes on my back. It never occurred to me that my part of the city, the landscape of my childhood, would fall victim to gentrification.
I was born at Legacy Meridian on December 12th, 2001. Sixteen years later, I have involuntary lived in eight different homes, from the coasts of Astoria to the more recently contentious lands of North Portland. From apartments, to a bed & breakfast, to a cookie-cutter house, my willingness to leave behind a history, a footprint, even a life, and migrating to a foreign home is now second nature.
When tackling displacement through the lens of Portland, a city often considered a liberal safe haven, we must recognize the steady foot of racist tendencies and practices. In writing this story, it became too suffocating to internalize my experience as I knew it could not be singular. The issue is past its infancy but still plagues us with its effects. Throughout this process, I have moved into a more developed understanding of how gentrification is an issue expanding past just race; welcoming new avenues of privilege, gender, and opportunity.
It all started in a conference room atop the Pioneer Place Mall in downtown Portland. I was surrounded by black men and other black business-owners, mentors, and role models. As we discussed the concept of "Black Owned-Businesses and Black Space" as a focal point for our summer project, we really delved into "What is a Black Space, why is it important, and how can we picture and create opportunities for such to occur?" There, I met a man by the name of Royal Harris, a second-generation Portland native who plays a crucial role in the story.
On Thursday afternoon, I sat down with Harris at Elevated Coffee, coincidentally, a black-owned business on MLK. We started the conversation by talking about his roots in Portland. When posed with the question of defining gentrification, he stated that we must look at gentrification as a tool; in order to remove the pathos from the dialogue.
From that interview, I sat down with a young man by the name of Jaime Delara, a senior at Roosevelt High School, and a Portland native. However, his family comes with a history of migration to this country, one of desire for more opportunities for themselves and their families. In July of this year, Jaime underwent an experience that forced him into a cohort of many, including myself. His landlord was selling the house that he has lived in for the last 10 years of his life. Before that, he had moved in and out of Portland to Vancouver (WA). His story brings an aspect of living in the US that many can relate to. Jaime is a 17-year old Chicano boy who doesn't want to be a statistic. Our discussion shifts onto the topic of adaptability: How have we, as humans, seen gentrification as something to conform to? How are we are not used to, or known to, new and changing environments? Therefore, we shed an identity or self to become what our social and emotional processes need.
I never thought I could come to a consensus on the topic of gentrification. I participated in the PLACE summer program at The CENTER. PLACE is a summer program that consists of breaking down the history and narrative of urban renewal in Portland. Through such a program and my own research, I grasped the idea of gentrification and the physical effects it has. However, I needed to have these discussions to explore the nuisances of this tool. An understanding of wow we utilize it — and other capitalistic advantages. How can we be the benefactors of gentrification? Some people don't even have the privilege to ponder such thoughts. America is my playground and I will continue to poke and prod at its' systems.
My name is Bella Myers and I am the CENTER editor. I am 17 years old and a senior at Catlin Gabel. Coming from a multiracial family, I pride myself on my different layers of identity. A huge part of my family's values is to be able to experience as many different levels of diversity as possible. My passion for social justice and inclusion stems from my experiences growing up. As a person of color at a predominately white school, I am either ignored or looked upon with a microscope. Ever since I started school at Catlin Gabel almost 4 years ago, I knew that I had to start speaking up about the injustices and microaggressions that myself and my other friends of color were experiencing. As I became to use my voice, I started to recognize the bubble that encapsulated the Catlin community. This eventually led to my involvement at the CENTER because I wanted to reach out beyond the bubble and into the communities that I call home. The CENTER has allowed me to have leadership opportunities within my neighborhood and I plan to create programs for the underprivileged youth.
My name is Thomas Cassidy and I am a Junior at De La Salle North Catholic High School. I serve The CENTER as the Marketing and Outreach Coordinator. Being a part of the CENTER I am given a vast amount of opportunities. Freshman and Sophomore year I was not given the chance to do what I love which is helping people. In my mind I had no community to help, I was not engaged with myself, others or society. I saw problems that I never knew I had the ability and power to fix. I heard about the CENTER countless times from friends and never knew how special it place truly is until I did the myPlace program this past summer. CWSP (Corporate Work Study Program) at my school gave me the chance to work here. The CENTER is different than any place I have ever been. It is an open space that allows me to provide help to those who need it.
The CENTER has brought so many opportunities into my lap. In fact there are too many to be able to take advantage of each one. Everyday I step into the CENTER for any reason I am faced with the fact that I could change something today. The CENTER gives me a sense of community and the ability and platform to help people and make a positive change in my community. I suffer with mental illness off and on and that is one subject that I am very passionate about. Mental Illness is overlooked especially in youth today. I would like to change the way people perceive mental illness and how they treat people suffering with mental illness. My need for social justice was sparked when people on social media would use racism, sexism, homophobia, classism etc as comedy.
I want many things from and for the CENTER and my community. First off I would like to engage Freshman and Sophomore students from the Portland Metro area to not just be involved in their communities, but to have the opportunities that I did not have. I want to grow as an ally and comrade for POC, women, WOC, immigrants and all other people in my community who deserve not just equality but equity. I want to explore the world of voting and find solutions to the lack of youth votes in all elections in the United States. I want to urge people to get involved in politics and their local, federal and national governments. I want to use my common interests to build a larger following for the CENTER. Widen the scope of the CENTER and making it a space where everybody feels welcome to the opportunities they offer is a very important task and goal of mine. I plan to use all resources provided to me to be the best I can be. I want to carry on a space cultivated by brilliant youth and adults from around Portland. I want to bring the CENTER to middle schools to perpetuate the mission of the space as well as social justice work in Portland and the world. I want social justice to become a norm in all schools across Oregon and eventually the whole of the United States. I want to be proud of the work I do as well as the legacy I leave for the next CENTER students and youth. I want to leave a mark on my community that will last long after I'm gone. I expect to have achieve these goals within 2 years and I plan to keep the CENTER in my life for a very long time. The most unlikely yet probable goal of mine is to expand the CENTER physically to cities in America who are in need of a cultural and empowerment hub. As I grow with the CENTER I will be who I need to be for those who need me.
Hello! My name is Taji Chesimet. I have lived in Portland for the last seven years and was not only a political awakening, but also an introduction into the sphere of social awareness. I discovered how to love my blackness, and this city helped me love other peoples' blackness too.
This is evident when I started in middle school to make it my duty to build the school's student council from the ground up. After entering my current high school, De La Salle, the opportunity and necessity for community involvement just increased. The CENTER is the necessary microcosm for hope, since the first time I stepped in — hearing conversations on the American Dream and the ambiguity she posses fill the room. From then on, I have found ways to utilize the CENTER for all it's worth. Holding workshop installations on the importance of recognizing queer intersectionality with people of color to participating in summer PLACE programs with New York Riverdale high school students, the organic relationships, and outlets for participation are endless.
For the next two years, I will sit at the CENTER, as it's Event Coordinator and work with local organizations and people to build, facilitate, and support projects that surround the CENTER. This job description was a natural transition for me as I have made strides in holding and participating in CENTER and other organizational events for a large portion of my schooling now. I am really excited for the year as I have a lot of ideas and input I can not wait to share with our coalition — and community.
Introducing Kyle: Empowering Youth: What Happens When Young People are at the Decision-Making Table?
Over this past month working with the CENTER, a burning question has arisen for me centered around youth empowerment: how much decision making power should youth decision makers be given in the context of an organization like the CENTER whose role it is to empower youth decision makers?
This question is important to me because of my background working with Post 58, a youth-led outdoor education nonprofit in Portland. I have been involved with the Post for all four of my high school years, and have been on the student leadership committee for three. There are 133 students in the Post, representing 23 different high schools. Of that 133 students, 25 are on the student leadership committee. The goal of the Post is to provide access to the outdoors, particularly in the realms of rock climbing and mountaineering, to students who otherwise wouldn't have access.
My involvement in the Post has increased over these three years. I was first in charge of managing the Post's gear that we own in order to loan to students for trips. Last year, I was the climbing coordinator, which involved managing the logistics for our mountain climbing season (the busiest time of the year for us!). That process began with planning which climbs we would do, moved on to coordinating signups for trips, and finally involved making sure each trip ran smoothly throughout the summer. In short, I was given an opportunity to show that I could shoulder a large responsibility even though I am young and relatively inexperienced.
However, I was far from perfect in fulfilling every aspect of that role. I frequently had to enlist the help of others to get tasks done, such as when I had to communicate with all 80 students who signed up for trips at once. I was supposed to keep a watchful eye on each of the student leaders who were actually going on these climbs, but my watchful eye frequently missed a few beats. Despite my moments of failure, I was given another opportunity to grow as a student leader in my role as vice president of the Post this year.
Now, I am going to take a few steps back and zoom out from the details about my involvement with the Post. I used this anecdote in order to give you some idea of my background as a youth decision-maker, and to give context to why this question of youth empowerment is so important to me. However, even though I am doing my best to answer this question objectively, you should know that this experience has imparted a bias for me: I lean heavily towards giving youth more responsibility than they could possibly shoulder because I believe that creates the most productive, albeit ambitious, learning environment. In general, I believe that people will rise to the height at which the bar is set, so we should place it pretty damn high.
There are times when youth couldn't possibly be expected to cover all the bases. This is most often true on the logistical front, such as when students tasked with organizing event space or building partnerships with other organizations don't know best practices for getting those jobs done. There are other times (and I see this with both the Post and the CENTER) when funding is somewhere on the decision-making table and the adults that work with the students to fulfill their visions have fiduciary responsibilities that require them to curb the risk the students are taking. It is in these cases that I see a need for the more experienced hand of the adult mentor to extend a little further.
On a whole, I see a need for our education institutions to need to be more confident in providing agency to youth. If those in charge of making the decisions for schools and other organizations that work with youth believe in experiential learning, then why are more youth not at the decision-making table? Even if experiential learning is not a core value at a given institution, I still believe that it would be beneficial to have students work with the adults as peers in some cases, not just as pupils. That means having students in the decision-making bureaucracy, with perhaps a few on every committee or working group.
Providing this sort agency is something that the CENTER does really well for its students. As a "coalition-led hub for child and youth creativity, education, and engagement," the CENTER provides an open-ended platform for students act on their visions and create meaningful change. Anyone can take advantage of this resource, and, in doing so, know that their opinions and goals will be valued.
While there are adults that work to push forward the work of the CENTER, the time I have spent engaging with these folks has shown that they truly believe in empowering students by putting them on equal footing. In fact, the CENTER relies on its students to carry forward its work, which is a lot of trust on the part of the adults who have a responsibility to make sure the CENTER is living up to its goals. I admire this approach, and I believe that other education institutions could learn from it.
I have experienced this dynamic of working with adults as peers most readily in my experiences with the Post. We have volunteer adult advisors that come on our trainings and trips in order to provide their expertise, but their relationship to the students in Post is far more than just guide and student. I have been able to work alongside these adults to teach other students, plan trips, and even to make decisions relating to the groups safety out in the mountains. As a result, some of these adults are among those who know me best, and I firmly believe that, when you place youth on equal footing with the adults they are working with, the kind of learning that comes out of the experience is far more engaging and is something that young people will carry with them.
I realize that this rationale for giving our youth more decision-making power may seem to be derived from my own overly-privileged background. Indeed, I am lucky to have had this privilege of decision-making power in my youth. I also know that there are those who believe that providing this kind of power to all (or at least most) students would pose a danger to institutions who choose to move in such a direction. While giving students more agency would introduce new risk into the system, I think it is worth it. Often times, the adults who work in the education field are doing the work they are doing because they enjoy working with students. By putting these students at the decision-making table with those adults, the students don't get to go running off in any direction they so choose. Instead, they would feel like they are an important part of the group of people who shape their educational experience.
When I set out on my senior project, I had big plans. My long-term vision is to try to do some freelance journalism abroad next year, and I want to start that work by building up a skill set and portfolio of work while I'm here in Portland. I wanted to start this work through my senior project at the CENTER writing for I Love This Place PDX, so I chose three Portland-specific topics to explore: environmental justice, policing, and housing. I also set out to write a reflection on the recent primary election, and an internal review of the CENTER.
With these goals set, I started my work trying to gather some background information for each of the topics. For the Portland-wide ones (including the election), that involved lots of Googling. The idea behind just setting out on an internet-based exploration at first is that I would get an overview, a sense of which specific events or things I would need to ask questions about in my interviews, and, most importantly, who I was going to seek out for interviews. At the same time, I was participating in activities with the CENTER, by going to youth collective and coalition meetings, and I was connecting with coalition representatives in order to pursue the internal review. While still maintaining much of my initial confidence about the taks laid out in front of me, the breadth of this endeavor proved to be daunting.
I found it challenging to balance all of these different topics, even though that is something I was trained to do in school. I also found it challenging to be doing so much of the initial research sitting at my computer because I love journalism for the way it allows me to connect with people. This was a frustrating contradiction for me: on one hand I was super stoked to finally have the freedom to learn and write about whatever I am interested in, but, on the other hand, I was becoming more and more frustrated with what that work actually looked like. The moral of the story of these initial stages is that I need to Google less and talk to people more.
I found one valuable way to do this on the policing front through the Community Peace Collaborative (see this piece I wrote), but the area I was able to connect with people most was environment justice. I had opportunity to speak with folks from Portland Harbor Community Coalition (PHCC), the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability Climate Action Plan team, and the Portland Clean Energy Fund. Among my chosen topics, I honed in on environmental justice because it feels important to my experience here in Portland right now. I generally think of Portland as an environmentally friendly city, and I like to think I am environmentally conscious myself. However, I had no idea that environmental justice is so distinct from traditional environmentalism.
For the purposes of this post, traditional environmentalism is undertaken by those who believe in climate change and want to change their actions in order to mitigate it affects, but don't consider disadvantaged people who are at the center of the impact of climate change. This could look like driving less to work, recycling, using renewable energy in your home, etc. Environmental justice is this same sense of environmentalism, but the people who are impacted most by climate change are at the forefront of concern. An example of this is the work that PHCC does to help those who are displaced by pollution in the Willamette River. Another example is the Portland Clean Energy Fund, a proposed ballot measure that would place a surcharge on billion dollar retail corporations in Portland in order to fund environmental initiatives in our city that would benefit those who did not reap the rewards of the older system. This alternative look at environmentalism has become crucially important to me as I adapt the ways that I act on my beliefs about climate change.
I mention my environmental justice interviews in this reflective piece because I think they showcase what I hope to achieve as a journalist. I want to be able to connect with people in the community that have a stake in whatever the given issue I am researching is and reflect their story in my work. Having the background knowledge is important, but talking to people is even more so. If had more time with this project, I would have liked to set up and conduct more interviews, so that I could present my findings as a whole story, not just the bits and pieces that I have learned thus far.
Looking back over the past four weeks, I am definitely disappointed in the amount that I have accomplished. I did a solid four weeks worth of work, but I set out to do far more than that. The lesson I am learning from this frustration is that I need to set smaller, more achievable goals for myself while still maintaining my ambition. I also need to be open to not fulfilling my goals in exactly the way I set them out for myself because every piece of work is bound to transform over time. If I do my best to connect with as many people as possible and put myself into my work as much as I can, than the stories I produce are bound to reflect my passion and I will have made progress as a journalist.
On the morning of May 19th, I had the opportunity to go to the Portland Community Peace Collaborative (CPC) biweekly meeting. The CPC works to reduce violence and crime in Portland by developing strategies with a diverse group of individuals in the room. The folks who I saw in the room include many street level gang outreach team members, police officers, city officials, community leaders whose goals align with those of the CPC, and other citizens.
I went to this CPC meeting hoping to learn more about the historical context to and present state of policing in Portland. I also hoped to be able to make connections with folks in our community who are involved in the work of the Police Bureau. However, I didn't know what to expect.
When I walked in, I was first struck by the energy in the room. Almost everyone was intently engaged in a discussion, and I saw people in business suits talking to people in uniform talking to people in plain, everyday clothes. That image seems to capture the goal of the CPC to me.
I was greeted by a woman with rainbow-colored hair. I don't think she was an official greeter, she just immediately said hello, which occurred quite often as I moved by different folks when I was there. I asked if it was okay to sit anywhere; she said no. "Standing room only," she replied abruptly. I must've looked rather shocked because she immediately started laughing and slapped me on the back. "Just messing with you," she said kindly. She could clearly tell that I wasn't used to just walking into a room, in a police precinct no less, and talking to strangers. I needed to be less wary of starting up a conversation.
There was one long table leading from the door to the presentation screen; the first oval of chairs were around this table. There was a second oval of chairs around those, and then a third on the perimeter of the room. I made my way tentatively over to the front of the room, and sat down in the second set of chairs. I picked up the stack of papers that was on my chair and began to read.
The meeting started with a report on the past two weeks' gang activity in Portland delivered by the head of the Portland Police Gang Enforcement Team. The rest of the meeting was devoted to the two speakers, both of which had a youth focus, which was particularly helpful with my project.
The first presentation was about the impact of the mandatory minimum sentencing procedures imposed by measure 11 on Oregon's youth, following this recent report by the Oregon Council on Civil Rights. The presenter, Phillip-Robbins, spoke of the disproportionate impact that this policy has on youth in communities of color and low-income communities. In 2012, black youth were 26 times more likely to be indicted for a Measure 11 offense than their white counterparts (see the report for more details). Furthermore, Measure 11 allows Oregon youth to be convicted as adults, which means that they have to live as a convicted felon for the rest of their lives, if and when they are released.
This presentation was impactful to me because I consider myself to be a relatively socially and politically aware young person in Portland, and I had never heard of Measure 11 before this meeting. Furthermore, I thought I had learned enough to have a primitive understanding of injustice in our criminal justice system, but I haven't even scratched the surface. I want to continue looking into the ways outdated policies victimize people in our city today because this presentation made it clear to me there are ways to prevent this kind of unnecessary harm to people's lives. I also want to extend the scope of this investigation to the specific ways in which new information can lead to changes in or the replacement of such policies. For example, the way this report uses new research about the brain to recommend changes regarding Measure 11.
The second presentation was about the Portland Committee on Community-Engaged Policing (PCCEP), a citizen task force focused on making policy recommendations to the City and the Police Bureau that the mayor's office is forming in the coming year. The presenter, Grant, explained that the City is seeking a way to get community input as they make changes to policing policy in our city. She made it clear that they want voices from all corners of Portland represented, including high school representatives.
It was this emphasis on the need for young people to be at the decision-making table that caught my attention. Often times, youth are included in such endeavors in order to tokenize the youth voice, but this request for young people who want to be engaged seemed genuine to me.
City officials are actively seeking high schoolers by promoting the PCCEP at schools, and they have set aside two seats on the committee for high schoolers only. This is something they didn't do with any other group, and high schoolers have equal consideration for all of the other spots as well. Once seated, everyone on the committee has equal voice, which leads me to believe they genuinely want youth engaged in this new initiative.
However, I believe that having the opportunity to help shape policing policy in our city is valuable for anyone, young or old. If you are interested in getting involved, the application form is here.
Finally, one last note about the CPC itself. I truly wasn't sure what to expect walking in. In fact, I was caught off guard by the diversity of the people in the room. I think I was expecting a lot of police officers and a more formal meeting. Instead, I witnessed a room full of folks from all walks of life in Portland getting together with open minds towards the kinds of work that could occur. I was also caught off guard by the range of topics covered. Starting from the gang activity report that had almost no emotion attached, and moving to the hopefulness attached to the presentations on Measure 11 and the PCCEP.
One thing is for sure: the CPC is a unique group of people in our city, and the people in the room have the collective resources to make meaningful change. Their celebration of all those whose first time it was to CPC meeting makes me hopeful that this is one way anyone in Portland could work to make a difference. I am surely going back.
Introducing Kyle: Looking in. Looking out.
Even after living all 18 of my years here, I have an extremely limited view of Portland. Most of us do, as we are each restricted by our own individual experiences, but it is also important to reach across the boundaries that keep us restricted. Before I leave this town, I feel a need to broaden my understanding of those who live here and the issues that are most critical to our community. I want to help others do so as well through my work on the I Love This Place PDX blog.
Starting with the bigger picture, I am doing this work because I want to build a skill set and portfolio of work as a freelance journalist post high school. The question that many folks my age most often get is some version of "what do you want to do with your life?" Well, I don't know. Nor do I think anyone my age needs to. At the moment, journalism is the most meaningful work to me because it allows to continue learning about what is happening in our community right now, connect with people everyday as I learn about their stories, and give back by making information about the most important issues in Portland more accessible.
For the past and next couple weeks, I selected five areas in which to focus my work: environmental justice, housing, policing, the election, and an internal project. For all of these topics (with the exception of the internal piece), I am focusing on why it is important to our community here in Portland. I chose to report on environmental justice in Portland because I am intrigued by the link between mainstream environmental efforts to mitigate climate change and the work of grassroots organizations focused on equity for all Portlanders. I chose to report on housing in Portland because homelessness and the availability of affordable housing are defining issues in the politics of our city, but I don't understand what led them to be so. I chose to report on policing in Portland because there is a discrepancy between the mission of the Portland Police Bureau and the actions of our officers. I chose to report on the primary election that wrapped up two days ago because I am engaged in Jo Ann Hardesty's campaign (candidate for city council position #3), and the three issues I am focusing on are crucial to many of the races in this election. Finally, I am spending time looking internally at the work the CENTER does. In particular, I am looking at the relationship between the coalition partners and the youth collective with regards to leadership at the CENTER. The bigger question for this internal piece is how much power should an organization whose aim it is to empower youth, like the CENTER, actually give to youth decision makers when a lot is at stake?
The end goal for this project is to build a list of resources and collection of articles for these topics that I will share through the blog at the end of May. The end goal for my work as a journalist in Portland before I depart is to extend my work on this project to create a bigger list of resources and collection of articles that encompasses as many of the most important issues to Portland as I can cover.


Sodium lights are fascinating because they are pretty much monochromatic: colour disappears when you look at an object under them, because if you illuminate an object with just one colour it can only reflect back that one colour. You can also use it to produce a spooky dark flame effect.
Something which emits a particular colour of light will also absorb it, so the edge of a sodium 'flame test' will look dark when illuminated by a sodium light producing a strange dark flame.
My streetlight includes a stand which makes it look like a real streetlight, and will fit in a standard 600x400mm footprint box. The light fitting may vary depending on availability.


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 Ґазіабад — район у провінції Кунар, Афганістан
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Jerusalem Post Israeli News
Founder of Organ Donor Card, Dvora Ben Dror, dies at 93
Ben Dror created an Israeli organization to aid organ donations after the passing of her son from chronic kidney failure.
Updated: JANUARY 10, 2019 06:32
Dvora Ben Dror
(photo credit: YOUTUBE)
The founder of Adi, the Israeli organ donor card, Dvora Ben Dror passed away on Wednesday at age 93.
The Israeli organ donor card is named after her son, Adi [Ehud] Ben Dror who died from a chronic kidney illness in 1978.
It was the failure to secure a kidney for her own son that motivated Ben Dror to establish a database of Israelis who actively wish to donate their organs.
The National Center for Organ Transplants said that "she used to share her personal story with audiences...all to raise awareness to the importance of organ donations."
During her years as a volunteer, she was able to recruit like-minded people who together signed hundreds of thousands of people to the Adi card, honoring her late son and saving the lives of countless people.
Nearly one million Israelis are registered organ donors.
Deputy Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman expressed his condolences to the family.

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UPDATE: A lot has changed since this article has been published. Specially, the more widespread use of SAAS and simple licensing, instead of tailor made software.
I have published an article about that at Alternative Latin Investor, an excellent magazine.One of the questions I have been receiving a lot lately is how to sell/import software to Brazil.
I hope it helps you to understand at least part of the regulations. You will find a link to download the article at the end of the post.
As Brazil watches the growth and professionalization of the retail industry, especially regarding big players such as supermarket chains and drugstores, a second phenomenon can also be noticed. The use of management, ERP, logistics and financial software is also growing.
The reasons are many, but above all the need for gains of scale and efficiency.
Brazil produces a good part of the software consumed here. But the importation of computed programs or managerial systems is also common. This article will describe how those imports are taxed in Brazil. This article aims at the importation by the end users, and will not detail taxation over distributor or master licensees.
In what comes to software importation, the taxation will depend on the nature of the software. As in the rest of world, software in Brazil can be classified either as an off the shelf program, that is, a software which is not specifically designed for a customer's requirements, or as a custom made software, designed for a specific client, according to its needs.
Off the shelf software is classified as regular merchandise, and is subject to the same import taxes as any other product: Import Tax, IPI (industrialized products tax), PIS Importação, COFINS Importação and ICMS (state VAT). All duties shall be collected when the product is cleared at the customs.
After some debate, nowadays both courts and the Federal Revenue Service understand that off the shelf software shall be treated as if medium and program were a single unit. This means the duties will be assessed over the aggregate value of the software plus the value of its medium. That is, the price of the software and the price of the DVD or pen drive which contains it.
The treatment of off the shelf software as a regular merchandise is valid even for software imported through download, without any material medium. This situation stirred debate a few years ago, but is now pacified.
On the other hand, tailor made software has been understood by Brazilin courts as a special kind of service. Thus, it is taxed as services are. Instead of collecting Import Tax and IPI, it is taxed by the Federal Income Tax. Instead of paying State VAT, it is taxed by the City tax on services (ISSQN, or simply ISS). Both social contributions (Pis-Importação and Cofins-Importação) are still applicable. Finally, technical services are subject to a special contribution called CIDE, which is very similar to the Income Tax.
Another difference is that taxes must be collected when the payment is made to the service provider. There is no need for customs clearance.
One should also notice that, if the service provider (the software developer or seller) is located in a country with which Brazil maintains a non double taxation agreement, the payment of the income tax in Brazil may be eliminated. More on that later.
1.1.1 Actual taxation of off the shelf software.
Off the shelf programs shall be taxes as any other commodity. As a general rule, this kind of product is classified under subchapter 85.23 or 85.24 (media for recording) of the Harmonized System, even if the importation is made via download, without the actual physical media.
Since this article is too short to cover the taxation in detail, it suffices to say that the final price in Brazil, after applying all import duties, could easily reach about 1.85 to 1.93 times the FOB price, considering importation through a hard medium.
If importation is made through download, the lack of international freight, insurance and customs brokerage costs might reduce this ratio to 1.80 times the FOB price.
*In case of payments made to Tax Havens, taxation will be 25%.
**Both Pis-Importação and Cofins-Importação are calculated over the software value, plus the ISS, plus the value of PIS and Cofins themselves (calculation on the inside). In consequence of this, the final value due is superior to the percentage indicated here. The Brazilian Revenue service has published a mathematical formula that defines the right way to calculate them.
***Service tax varies according to each city. It may be anywhere between 2% and 5%.
After due calculation, taxes above will amount to about 42% of the software value. That is, the final cost for the end user would be about 1.42 times the original price.
Please notice that the purchase of software developed in Brazil are subject to a taxation of about 8% (factor of 1.08 the original price). This reflects the Brazilian policy of favoring foreign direct investment instead of importation.
It is important to highlight that, if the custom made software is imported through a physical medium, such as a CD, then it must be subject to clearance at the customs. Also, the physical medium will be subject to import duties, calculated solely on the value of such medium (e.g. a 2 dollar CD-ROM).
Although the taxation of the physical medium is neglectable, the procedures to obtain clearance are troublesome and demand specialized help. Therefore, the use of download is recommended.
If the end user gets access to the source code, and not only acquire a license to use the software, the operation may be considered as transference of technology that must be filed before the Brazilian Institute of Intellectual Property (INPI).
Federal courts have recently decided that payments remitted abroad for the payment of services rendered by foreigners shall be exempted from Income Tax, as long as the supplier is located in a country that keeps tax treaties with Brazil, and provided that the foreign supplier does not keep any permanent business establishment in Brazil.
Unfortunately, the Federal Revenue Service has not updated its policies to reflect the Federal rulings. This means that, more often than not, the importer will have to collect the Income Tax and request a refund later, either before the Revenue Service or before a Federal Court.
In spite of the trouble, the economy of 15% usually makes it worthwhile pursuing the lawsuit.
Adler Martins has teamed up with Alternative Latin Investor (ALI) to contribute to their cutting edge coverage of Latin America . ALI's newest issue, August/ September 2012, takes a look at the retail sector in Latin America.
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The town of Whitton is located in London, England. Whitton is situated in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, which is the only borough in London to lie on both sides of the River Thames. Whitton was originally a semi-rural part of Twickenham; an ancient parish. In modern times, it is the only Twickenham neighbourhood that is to the north of the River Crane. The main road and the only dual carriageway in the town is the A316 Road. When travelling to this area you will find a pub that doubles as a hotel. Between 1930 and 1960, the land in Whitton was converted into a housing development. This development caused the town to grow with its newly built banks, shops and various other small businesses. This naturally brought tourists and increased the popularity of the town. According to a 2011 census, the total population of Whitton is 9,752 people.
Historical documents show that Whitton was first written about in the year 1200. However, historians believe the town was settled around the year 1100 or even earlier than that. For centuries, Whitton was merely a hamlet with only a few dozen people at the most. It wasn't until the 16th century that people from other towns and cities started going to Whitton. Eventually there was an English politician from this era named Sir John Suckling who had built his own home in this area. Then other notable figures of history moved to Whitton, including Edmund Cooke and painter Sir Godfrey Kneller. In fact, a large house was built in the village centre by Cooke and it was later purchased by Kneller. Then Kneller tore it down and rebuilt an even bigger house in its place, which got modified later on by future owners into a teacher training college in 1847. This building is known today as Kneller Hall. In the later part of the 19th century, the British Army acquired the building. It currently is the home of the Royal Military School of Music, which trains the British Army's musicians and twenty-two bands.
As a tourist, you are probably travelling to the Greater London area where this town is located. If you come to London with your romantic partner then you both can enjoy the beauty and history of Whitton. The only thing that will make the experience even better is if you order flowers for delivery to Whitton upon your arrival. At Clare Florist, you can choose from a wide variety of flower arrangements that cater to birthdays, holidays, anniversaries and more. After the order is placed, we will send flowers to Whitton within 24 hours. Then you can watch the look on your partner's face when she gets surprised with the beautiful gift of flowers while experiencing the town of Whitton for the first time.
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Our flowers delivery services in Whitton, Greater London are usually made by DPD or Royal Mail Special Delivery. 99.9% of our flowers are delivered by 5pm on the requested day - (more commonly before noon), except UK Public Holidays. We also offer a range of next-day flower delivery options in Whitton, Greater London - specific information is available during checkout.
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Pass activities: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Trail Center - Food & Beverage: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
River's Edge: 11:30 am - 7:00 pm
The Market: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Outfitters: 9:00 am - 7:00 pm
Trail Center - Food & Beverage: Closed
Zipline & Dine
Trail Center - Food & Beverage: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wild Vine Half Marathon & 5K Trail Race
Pass activities: 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm
River's Edge Craft Dinner
Pass activities: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
River's Edge: Closed
Long Creek Adventure Race
Balanced Brunch
November 13, 2022 @ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Trail Center - Food & Beverage: 11:00 am - 10:00 pm
Peak to Pines Bike Relay
November 18, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - November 20, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
Grab your bike and assemble your crew to take on a mountains-to-low country challenge on two wheels over the course of 48 hours. Learn more
A Shot In the Dark 5K & 10K Night Trail Race
Pass activities: 10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Pass activities: 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Trail Center - Food & Beverage: 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Outfitters: 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Trail Center - Food & Beverage: 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm


The mobile phone was announced in october 2018 and arrived at shops after few days. Now you can buy Pluzz PL4010 after comparing prices in 3 stores. GearBest store is recommended by our users and provides a free shipping. Pluzz PL4010 price now between 53$ and 59$. This mobile phone has Spreadtrum SC9832 chipset with 1GB of LPDDR3 memory and 8GB of internal storage. Also the device is equipped with tn 4" screen and 1800mAh li-polymer battery. For photos, a smartphone uses 2MP main camera and 0MP selfie camera.


Floral off the shoulder dress with the design of high low hem provides the finest and most trendy and chic style, match with a choker will make you more flattering.
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My friend Nathan Rice just released a modified version of my RockinBlue 2 column theme called RockinBlue and Green on his blog.
Learn more about the theme on his site here.
Nathan is a class act kind of guy. And he demonstrates the right way to use someone else's theme.


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Q: Azure DevOps set permissions via Rest Api Access Control List I'm trying to set permissions using ACL with project permission namespace. In the request bodyInfo, I am passing '16' for allow so that I will allow Administer Build (16) permission for the group but nothing happens.
$securityNamespaceId = "52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819"
$groupDesc = "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Identity;S-1-9-1551374245-3474010476-3658975049-2966243200-2961816057-1-3769221364-1224424009-2749800435-4143997070"
$projectId = "12313142-eec0-4c3d-b9b5-44d0c3973b3e"
$token = "`$PROJECT:vstfs:///Classification/TeamProject/$($projectId)"
$allowMask = 16
$denyMask = 0

$bodyInfo = @"
   {
      "token": "$Token",
      "merge": false,
      "accessControlEntries": [
         {
            "descriptor": "$groupDesc",
            "allow": $AllowMask,
            "deny": $DenyMask,
            "extendedinfo": {}
         }
      ]
   }
"@

$uri = "https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/accesscontrolentries/52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819?api-version=5.0"

$result = (Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Uri $uri -Body $bodyInfo -Headers $headers -ContentType "application/json")

count value

1 {@{descriptor=Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Identity;S-1-9-1551374245-3474010476-3658975049-2966243200-2961816057-1-3769221364-1224424009-2749800435-4143997070; allow=16; deny=0}}

 bit name                         displayName                                  namespaceId
 --- ----                         -----------                                  -----------
   1 GENERIC_READ                 View project-level information               52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
   2 GENERIC_WRITE                Edit project-level information               52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
   4 DELETE                       Delete team project                          52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
   8 PUBLISH_TEST_RESULTS         Create test runs                             52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
  16 ADMINISTER_BUILD             Administer a build                           52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
  32 START_BUILD                  Start a build                                52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
  64 EDIT_BUILD_STATUS            Edit build quality                           52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
 128 UPDATE_BUILD                 Write to build operational store             52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
 256 DELETE_TEST_RESULTS          Delete test runs                             52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
 512 VIEW_TEST_RESULTS            View test runs                               52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
2048 MANAGE_TEST_ENVIRONMENTS     Manage test environments                     52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
4096 MANAGE_TEST_CONFIGURATIONS   Manage test configurations                   52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
8192 WORK_ITEM_DELETE             Delete and restore work items                52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
   16384 WORK_ITEM_MOVE               Move work items out of this project          52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
   32768 WORK_ITEM_PERMANENTLY_DELETE Permanently delete work items                52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
   65536 RENAME                       Rename team project                          52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
  131072 MANAGE_PROPERTIES            Manage project properties                    52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
  262144 MANAGE_SYSTEM_PROPERTIES     Manage system project properties             52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
  524288 BYPASS_PROPERTY_CACHE        Bypass project property cache                52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
 1048576 BYPASS_RULES                 Bypass rules on work item updates            52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
 2097152 SUPPRESS_NOTIFICATIONS       Suppress notifications for work item updates 52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
 4194304 UPDATE_VISIBILITY            Update project visibility                    52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
 8388608 CHANGE_PROCESS               Change process of team project.              52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819
16777216 AGILETOOLS_BACKLOG           Agile backlog management.                    52d39943-cb85-4d7f-8fa8-c6baac873819

A: In your script,you want to use project-level token to modify Administer Build permission in build security.
I tested it on postman and found that using project-level token to modify the build security permission, the response status was 200, but in the UI, the permissions were not actually changed.You can try to use build-level token to make changes to build security permission.
Hope this helps.

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Villa Maria upends defending state soccer champ
By Times-News staff
Victors shut out Bedford 1-0 in PIAA Class 2A quarterfinals.
BRIDGEVILLE – Villa Maria coach Peter Wagner has been preaching to his team all season that they have plenty of talent and just need a full effort to win games.
The Victors put together a big-time effort on Saturday to knock off the defending state champions.
Alexa Tojaga scored a goal in the final minute of the first half and the Villa Maria defense posted another shutout as the Victors defeated Bedford 1-0 in a PIAA Class 2A girls soccer quarterfinal at Chartiers Valley High School.
"I told them all we need is that effort to get the job done," Wagner said. "The girls played hard."
Villa Maria (17-6-0) will take on North Catholic in a PIAA semifinal on Tuesday at a site and time to be determined, while Bedford ends the season 21-1-1.
"It was a real back and forth game and it was hard for teams to get into their play," Wagner said. "We would control possession for a while then they would."
Villa Maria broke through in the final minute of the first half. The Victors' defense created a turnover and Izzi Schoonover played a through ball to Tojaga. She made a move and fired a shot past the keeper for the only goal of the match.
Alex Velez led the Villa Maria defense with another shutout in net. The Victors have posted four shutouts in five postseason matches.


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Inglés, 42 resultados 42
Ronnie Tessler, 1 resultados 1
Wollaston, F.E.R, 1 resultados 1
A.F.R. Wollaston, 1 resultados 1
Kuldip Gill, 1 resultados 1
Gordon Miller, 1 resultados 1
Harlan Smith, 1 resultados 1
Jean Telfer, 1 resultados 1
Lyle Wilson, 1 resultados 1
Basil Hartley, 1 resultados 1
University of British Columbia. Department of Anthopology, 2 resultados 2
Stoney Nakoda First Nation, 1 resultados 1
Doug Cranmer, 1 resultados 1
John Mennie, 1 resultados 1
Smith Stanley Osterhout, 1 resultados 1
Audrey Hawthorn, 1 resultados 1
Michael Kew, 1 resultados 1
R.A. Brooks, 1 resultados 1
Robert Keziere, 1 resultados 1
Kitimat, 4 resultados 4
Queen Charlotte, 3 resultados 3
Lax Kw'alaams, 2 resultados 2
Education, 14 resultados 14
Carving, 4 resultados 4
Totem poles, 4 resultados 4
Residential schools, 2 resultados 2
Fundo, 32 resultados 32
Colección, 10 resultados 10
Sólo las descripciones de nivel superior British Columbia Inglés
Basil and Edythe Hartley fonds
ca. 1941-1944, 1983
Fonds consists of audio, video, and visual materials created by Basil and Edythe Hartley. Materials include video footage of the Haisla people, which Hartley shot while working in Kitimaat from 1941-1944, a voiceover for the footage which Hartley's widow, Edythe McClure, created in ca. 1983, a letter, and three photographs of Kitimaat people and landscapes. The three audio cassettes all contain the same 1983 recording.
Basil Hartley
Charles E. Borden fonds
The fonds consists of a file titled Tsimshian Totem Poles and contains 38 black and white photographs of Kitwancool totem poles.
Charles E. Borden
Charles S. Brant fonds
1948 - [200-?], predominant 1948-1950
Fonds documents Brant's pre-doctoral research in Burma. As a Fulbright scholar working with the United States Educational Foundation, Brant submitted quarterly reports to the foundation detailing his arrival and adjustment to life in Burma, as well as his sociological research in the community of Tadagale and other areas of the country. Brant also provided the U.S. Foreign Service with his observations of life in the Shan States, where Brant and his wife first lived when they arrived in Burma in 1949. After returning to the United States in 1950, Brant published articles on the research he completed while in Burma. Records in this series include academic and government reports; articles; Brant's curriculum vitae; a digitized slide show and 8 mm movie; a grant application; notes; and photographic negatives and prints. It is likely that most of the photographs were taken by Jane Brant, but these are not identified.
Charles S. Brant
Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds
The fonds consists of 7 photographs from a June 1958 centennial celebration in Alert Bay that Barwick described as having been ordered from a local cameraman. There are also 7 postcards that contain images of Alert Bay ca. 1949 or 1950 that were purchased by Barwick in the summer of 1958. Sixteen negatives were taken by Barwick at an excavation at Beach Grove in the Fraser River delta in June of 1957, likely done under the guidance of Charles Borden, a Lecturer and later Professor of Archaeology at UBC who studied the Beach Grove site from ca. 1955 to 1958. Notes on the envelope indicate these include images of D. N. Abbott, Colin McCafferty, and Nansi Swayze.
Diane Elizabeth Barwick
Douglas & McIntyre fonds
The fonds consists of 83 images associated with two books published by Douglas & McIntyre: Bill Reid by Doris Shadbolt and The Raven Steals the Light by Bill Reid. The photographers responsible for these images are R. Dereth, R. Keziere, R. Lum and B. McLemore.
Douglas & McIntyre
Edward F. Meade fonds
The fonds consists predominantly of slides of various petroglyphs and pictographs, primarily from locations on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. The fonds also contains location charts of petroglyphs and the creator's typed notes about various sites.
Edward F. Meade
Ewen MacLeod collection
Digitized 2011 (originally created June 1927)
The collection consists of three photographs of St. George's Residential School in Lytton, BC.
Ewen MacLeod
Fred Ryckman fonds
The fonds consists of records created by Ryckman during his tenure with the Department of Indian Affairs, primarily from the 1920s and 30s. The fonds includes contact sheets made as copies of photographs that remain in possession of Ryckman's heirs. Records in the fonds take the form of notes and correspondence. Also included in records is a ledger which contains census information. The fonds also includes photocopies of newspaper articles relating to members of the First Nations whom Ryckman came into contact with as a result of his work as well as materials relating to Ryckman himself.
The fonds consists of the following files:
1-1, Ledger Book [Original & Copies], c. 1920
1-2, Photographs [Negatives & Contact Sheets], c. 1920
1-3, Articles and Correspondence [Photocopies], 1922-1936
1-4, Kootenays [Typed & Handwritten transcipts], c. 1932
Fred Ryckman
Genni Hennessy fonds
The fonds consists of records relating to Hennessy's 2003 MA thesis titled The Spirit of Collaboration: Exploring Critical Pedagogical Principles in Transforming the Museum Through Space and Time. Hennessy was interested in the relationships that developed between community members and museum staff during the process of putting together the Museum of Anthropology's exhibit The Spirit of Islam, which ran from October 2001 to May 2002. Her purpose was to document the kinds of collaborative processes that occurred as the exhibit planning progressed in order to identify a model from which other museums working with communities might benefit.
Genni Hennessy
Gillian Darling Kovanic fonds
This fonds consists of textual records, photographs, negatives, slides, audio recordings, compact discs and video on DVD that relate to Kovanic's academic and film career. The fonds relates especially to her work in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, but also captures her work with First Nations on the Northwest coast of British Columbia.
Gillian Darling Kovanic
Gordon Miller collection
The collection consists of nine large watercolour illustrative panels commissioned by the UBC Museum of Anthropology, eight of which were commissioned for the exhibit "The Four Seasons: Food Getting in British Columbia Prehistory," which ran from April to November 1979. The other watercolour is from an unidentified exhibit or sourcebook.
The collection also contains one painting that was commissioned by the museum for a publication (Museum Note, no.12, "Ninstints: World Heritage Site"), as well as a blueprint reproduction of a related drawing. These are renderings of how the houses and poles on a beach at the Ninstints village site might have looked when they were in use. The rendering is based on George MacDonald's map.
Collection consists of the following items:
001: The Four Seasons – Spring – Interior [1979?]
002: The Four Seasons – Spring – Coast [1979?]
003: The Four Seasons – Summer – Interior [1979?]
004: The Four Seasons – Summer – Coast [1979?]
005: The Four Seasons – Autumn – Interior [1979?]
006: The Four Seasons – Autumn – Coast [1979?]
007: The Four Seasons – Winter – Interior [1979?]
008: The Four Seasons – Winter – Coast [1979?]
009: Haida six beam house 1993
010: [Ninstints village painting] 1983
011: [Ninstints village, drawing for Museum Note] 1983
Gordon Miller
Gordon and Louanne Houston fonds
During their time living in Bella Bella, the Houstons took many photographs of the lives of the Heiltsuk First Nation community documenting the day-to-day lives of the Heiltsuk First Nation as well as ceremonial activities. The colour slides document the construction, painting, and launching of the Gi'wa, a Heiltsuk canoe which sailed with the Lootaas, the Haida canoe built by Bill Reid for Expo 86. Some of the slides document the welcome feast at Bella Bella in honour of the Haida crew of the Lootaas. The colour slides also document several potlatches and wedding feasts held in the community hall, and the local Sports Day parade. Slides also depict the role of the fishing in the community, such as smoking salmon and processing roe. Other photos document gravestones on a nearby cemetery island, derelict canneries, petroglyphs and pictographs, totem poles and house posts, all in or near Bella Bella.
Houston (family)
Harlan Smith collection
Fonds consists of photographic prints and text labels used in the "Emergence from the Shadow: First Peoples' Photographic Perspective" exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, from October 22, 1999 to January 6, 2002. The images depict several different First Nations groups including Haida, Kimsquit, Bella Coola, Ulkatcho-Carrier, Chilcotin, Assiniboine, and Gitksan. The label text incorporates information which Smith recorded at the time of creation. It gives name and age (if known) of the sitters as well as lineage, employment, and style of dress.
Harlan Smith
Helen Frances Codere fonds
The fonds consists of 28 black and white photographs taken by Codere in 1955 during her second field work expedition to B.C. 19 of the photos were taken in and around Alert Bay, while the remaining 9 were taken on Hope Island.
Helen Frances Codere
Helen Moore fonds
The fonds consists of printed ephemera relating to First Nations art, correspondence, and photographs of Gitksan totem poles.
Hilary Stewart fonds
Fonds consists of material related to the art, research, and writing of Hilary Stewart. The bulk of the material is related to the production of her books on the culture and art of the First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest. The remaining material relates to illustrations that she did for publications by other authors, a small amount of material done for personal use, and collected research and ephemera that does not appear to be related to one specific publication. Material includes original illustrations, collected research and notes, book drafts and pre-press materials, photographs, correspondence, and collected memorabilia.
The material has been arranged into three series:
1 - Books
2 - Illustrations and other artwork
3 - Collected research and ephemera
Hilary M. Stewart


Inspired by the culinary history, seasonal produce and regional flavors of this part of Appalachia, the Fallingwater Café is the perfect place to experience the natural beauty of our surroundings with locally sourced coffee, fresh house-made sweets or delicious lunch entrées.
Nestled in the mountains not far from America's historic National Road, the original thoroughfare bringing immigrants into the interior of America, Fallingwater sits at the crossroads of regional cuisines that intertwined and evolved, always drawing upon the seasonal bounty of Appalachia. Fallingwater's chef reinterprets this heritage, with a fresh, modern take on authentic local foods.
Going hand in hand with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy's mission of environmental stewardship is the commitment to provide the cleanest, freshest food available. Café staff makes all the selections in-house, sourcing from the best local farms and seasonal produce, to provide our visitors with delicious and healthy fare.
Menu selections are available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. A wide offering of breakfast items, drinks, light snacks, and coffee are available all day.
Please call Visitor Services at 724-329-8501 for more information.
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Woodworking has long been a hobby enjoyed by people around the world. In fact, many people do it for a living and enjoy going to work every day. This article will help you get the rewards of woodworking.
When you are working with wood, safety must be the number one priority. Use the right safety gear and operate tools according to their manual. Never remove any guards off of your power tools that are there to protect you. If you end up hurt, you won't be able to work at all.
Before you apply a stain, test it on an area that is hidden or a piece of wood scrap. This will prevent you from getting an unwanted stain color on your final product. Wood and stains can surprise you, so test things out before you put it on the final project.
When creating crosscut guides, use a stair gauge. Clamp them to carpenter's squares and be sure they match the runs and rises of the stair jacks. From there, make note of the notches. If you place them on the tongue you're using for your carpenter square, that combo is a good crosscut guide for your circular saw.
Tin snips are important accessories to use when you are woodworking. These snips make it simple to trim down the laminate to a perfect size. Be sure to set aside a designated set of tin snips for woodworking.
Know the different characteristics of the woods that you're using in your projects Each wood piece is different. Different types of wood will respond to staining in different ways. Different cuts will have different effects on splintering. You will also encounter a lot of different grains. You need to factor all of this into your project.
A golf tee is a wonderful fix for wiggling hinges. Take the door from the frame than then tap in the tee into the screw holes. Trim the excess wood and put the door back into place. The screw can then "bite" into the golf tee.
You can make using spring grips easier. There are times when you may need to use a spring clamp, but you might only have the use of one hand. These clamps may be difficult to open with one hand. You can make this easier. Before you begin a glue-up, place all the clamps that you need on a random scrap of wood using both free hands. That allows you to pop them off and use them with one hand.
Make sure to purchase and wear proper ear protection. A wood shop can be extremely noisy. You can lose your hearing if you aren't careful. Use a pair of high quality headphones or disposable earplugs. Regardless of your decision, make certain to always use your protection while operating machines.
The above tips will help woodworkers of any skill level. As you start using the tips, you will discover they transform your works into masterpieces. This means that everything you've gone over here will help your skills to improve over time.
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The Baltimore Police force may be irresistible but it may have met the immovable object in lawyer Daniel Doty. Doty was a bit surprised when he received a $40 speed camera ticket for going 38 mph in a 25-mph zone. The problem is that Doty was not moving at all, as the picture clearly showed. The case highlights objections around country as cities increasingly rely on speed cameras for revenue and, reportedly, have been tolerating cameras with skewed pro-ticket settings.
Doty's four-door Mazda wagon was shown idling at a red light in two pictures with his red brake lights on. A video shows the car motionless but the camera registering a speeding car on April 24 in Northeast Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun has done a series on at least seven camera found to be producing false readings.
Obviously, these reviews are perfunctory and meaningless if this case is any measure.
The city has 83 speed cameras and 81 red light cameras.
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I think that we need a Red Light Camera in the Red Light District in all such districts in America. When the judge from Saint Louis comes out of the cathouse in that suburb of Vegas pulling up his britches we can then conclude that he was in there porkin some woman who was doin it for a profit. That makes him guilty of being a John and all that goes with it. Cameras are good when in the right hands. We still must abide by the hearsay of the dog rule though.
People might be a little more willing to accept a red light camera but few are going to tolerate a speed camera.
I would personally object to any speed camera that did not include video of every speeder along with auditory Doppler information and every piece of input that an officer would use in the course of operating a conventional dash mounted radar speed measuring device (Or Lidar).
I can tell you from experience that using a RADAR or LIDAR (Light / Laser system) requires more than just pointing the device at a vehicle and pushing the button to read the speed. There are many factors that have to be considered to arrive at a true reading. It does involve interpretation and method on behalf of the operator to determine this. The operator must be able to certify that there were no outside issues that masked the reading. A picture of a car with an image of the speed is NOT enough information to certify the reading.


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Kevin O'Driscoll (born 10 November 1989) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for West Cork Junior Championship club Tadhg McCarthaigh's and formerly at inter-county level with the Cork senior football team. He usually lines out as a right wing-forward.

O'Driscoll's brothers, Brian and Colm, as well as his father, Gene, have all played for Cork.

Honours

University College Cork
Sigerson Cup (1): 2011

Tadhg Mac Carthaigh's
South West Junior A Football Championship (2): 2006, 2012

Cork
National Football League Division 1 (2): 2011, 2012
National Football League Division 3 (1): 2020
All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship (1): 2009
Munster Under-21 Football Championship (1): 2009
Munster Minor Football Championship (1): 2007

References

External link
Kevin O'Driscoll profile at the Cork GAA website

1989 births
Living people
Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh's Gaelic footballers
Carbery Gaelic footballers
Cork inter-county Gaelic footballers


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Wladimir Stanislawowitsch Selesnjow (, wiss. Transliteration ; * 6. Februar 1973 in Kiew, Ukrainische SSR, Sowjetunion) ist ein russischer Theater- und Filmschauspieler.

Leben
Selesnjow wurde am 6. Februar 1973 in Kiew geboren. Seine Eltern arbeiteten als Ingenieure. Er hat eine ältere Schwester sowie mindestens einen jüngeren Bruder, nach dessen Geburt sich die Eltern trennten. 1995 schloss er die St. Petersburg Academy of Theatre Arts ab. Bereits seit 1993 ist er als Schauspieler am Maly Drama Theatre in Sankt Petersburg tätig. 2010 wurde er zu einem Volkskünstler der Russischen Föderation ernannt. Nach Darbietungen in verschiedenen Theaterstücken wirkte er zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts auch in Fernseh- und Filmproduktionen mit. 2015 war er in dem Horrorfilm Der Fluch der Hexe – Queen of Spades in der Rolle eines Exorzisten zu sehen. Weitere Filmrollen hatte er 2019 in Flucht aus Leningrad oder 2021 in The Ex – Du kannst ihr nicht entkommen.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 2011: V tvoikh glazakh ()
 2012: Ya emu veryu! (Fernsehserie)
 2014: Chernaya reka (, Fernsehserie)
 2015: The Puppet Syndrome (/Sindrom Petrushki)
 2015: Der Fluch der Hexe – Queen of Spades (/Pikovaya dama. Chyornyy obryad)
 2016: Status: Available (/Status: Svoboden)
 2016: Wanderers (/Bluzhdayushchie)
 2017: The Bride (/Nevesta)
 2018: I Am Happy (/Ya schastliv)
 2018: Vorona (, Fernsehserie)
 2018: Silver Spoon (/Mazhor)
 2018: Smertelniy nomer (, Fernsehserie)
 2019: Flucht aus Leningrad (/Spasti Leningrad)
 2019: Storm (/Shtorm, Fernsehserie, 8 Episoden)
 2020: Call-Center (/Koll-tsentr, Mini-Serie, 2 Episoden)
 2021: Silver Spoon (/Silver Spoon)
 2021: The Ex – Du kannst ihr nicht entkommen (/Ex-girlfriend)
 2022: Tekhnar (, Mini-Serie, 2 Episoden)

Weblinks

 Profil auf Kinopoisk
 Profil auf Kino-Teatr

Einzelnachweise

Filmschauspieler
Theaterschauspieler
Russe
Geboren 1973
Mann


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Testimony of Assistant Secretary Victory on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Testimony of Nancy J. Victory
Before the
Subcommittee on Communications
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
United States Senate
On the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank you and the members of the Subcommittee on Communications of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation for inviting me here today to testify on this important issue. I am Nancy J. Victory, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
The Internet and the variety of applications that it supports provide tremendous opportunities for economic and social development around the world. What started as a small-scale system of links among U.S. academic institutions is now a gigantic global network connecting individual users, companies and institutions from any access point, regardless of national or geographic borders. The Internet continues to expand in terms of size and scope and has become a significant and important means of doing research, communicating with each other, and conducting business. In fact, e-commerce sales by U.S. retail establishments reached $11.921 billion during the first quarter of 2003 - a 25.9 percent increase over first quarter 2002. Given the Internet's importance in all of these facets of daily life and the country's general economic well-being, it is essential that the Internet - and its underlying domain name and addressing system (DNS) - remain stable and secure.
This is the primary concern of the Department of Commerce, which currently serves as the steward of critical elements of the DNS. The Department believes that the stability and security of this important global resource can best be achieved through privatization of the technical management of the DNS and continued global cooperation, via appropriate public-private partnerships that reflect the international nature of the Internet. Innovation, expanded services, broader participation, and lower prices will arise most easily in a market-driven arena, not in an environment that operates under substantial regulation.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the private sector entity responsible for day-to-day management of the DNS. ICANN performs this function pursuant to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Department of Commerce. The Department supports the ongoing work of ICANN and applauds its efforts to engage all critical stakeholders in its decision-making processes. We are particularly encouraged by the progress ICANN has made over the past year towards implementing a number of structural and procedural reforms, as well as moving forward on several of the tasks set forth in the MOU. The Department desires to see ICANN evolve into a stable and sustainable organization that is well equipped to weather a crisis.
Last year, when the Department of Commerce and ICANN chose to renew the MOU for a period of one year, both parties agreed that continued progress toward stability and sustainability required ICANN to focus on improvements in 5 major areas:
· Clarifying ICANN's mission and responsibilities;
· Ensuring transparency and accountability in its processes and decision making;
· Increasing its responsiveness to Internet stakeholders;
· Developing an effective advisory role for governments; and,
· Ensuring adequate and stable financial and personnel resources to carry out its mission and responsibilities.
The Department believes that ICANN has made significant strides this year in developing into a more stable, transparent and responsive organization. ICANN has completed a comprehensive reform effort that has resulted in major structural adjustments and refinements to its decision-making processes that allow for greater transparency and responsiveness to all critical Internet stakeholders. Specifically:
· ICANN has refined its mission and restructured its supporting organizations and advisory committees, including the establishment of a new supporting organization for country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) managers;
· ICANN has implemented new, transparent, constituency-driven policy development processes;
· ICANN has established an at-large advisory committee and regional at-large organizations to encourage greater global public participation;
· ICANN has created liaisons between the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) and the other ICANN supporting organizations and advisory committees;
· ICANN has established a process for the ICANN board to solicit and receive GAC advice on public policy matters between meetings; and
· ICANN has restructured its staff to better respond to ICANN's technical policy, DNS management and financial responsibilities.
In addition, the organization has hired a new CEO with both management expertise and experience in dealing with this unique organization. It has also implemented a new nominating process to ensure qualified, committed and internationally representative board members. It recently appointed eight new board members with impressive credentials and very relevant experience.
I am also pleased to note that the ICANN GAC, of which the United States is an active participant, has undergone an evolution of its own. The establishment of GAC liaisons to each of the other ICANN supporting organizations is intended to encourage communications between the GAC and the relevant constituent groups with respect to public policy issues. In addition, the GAC has established internal working groups on relevant public policy issues to facilitate their analysis and to engage in dialogue with ICANN supporting organizations and committees as needed.
While ICANN has made a great deal of progress, both the Department of Commerce and ICANN recognize that much is still to be done for ICANN to evolve into the stable and sustainable DNS management organization we would all like it to be. These include:
· Ensuring Root Server Security. The root server system forms a critical component of the DNS by linking domain names to the corresponding numerical addresses. Ensuring the security of this function is therefore of the utmost importance. While the request for specific information set forth in the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) was met, ICANN needs to continue to exchange views and ideas with the root server system operators to solidify relationships that guarantee the security of this resource. The formation of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee, of which many of the root server operators are members, is a first step in the right direction.
· Securing Agreements with Regional Internet Registries. As the entity responsible for the allocation of numbering resources within their respective geographic region, the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) play a crucial role. Although productive talks are underway, legal agreements between the RIRs and ICANN have not yet been completed. Finalizing these agreements to formalize the relationship between ICANN and the RIRs remains essential not only to ICANN's ability to perform its address allocation responsibilities, but also to the overall stability of the Internet.
· Enhancing Accountability Mechanisms. As the Internet continues to play a significant role in our daily lives, transparent mechanisms that provide accountably to all stakeholders are important. While ICANN has initiated a review of suitable international arbitration providers to constitute an Independent Review Panel and has called for the establishment of an Office of Ombudsman, these mechanisms must be finalized to ensure appropriate accountability to all ICANN stakeholders.
· Developing Agreements with ccTLD Operators. The fastest growing segment of the DNS is within the ccTLD community. While ICANN continues to make progress towards establishing stable agreements with ccTLD operators, forward movement has been slow. This is largely attributable to the complexities resulting from the convergence of national sovereignty assertions, international law considerations, and the general concerns of global and local Internet communities. Despite these competing pressures, ICANN must develop a framework agreement that would appeal to the majority of ccTLD operators, while recognizing the various national sovereignty issues involved. The establishment of a country code Name Supporting Organization (ccNSO) during the last year represents significant progress towards this end.
· Refining the Processes for Selecting New TLDs. Determining the circumstances under which new top level domains (TLDs) would be added to the DNS was one of the key functions identified in the White Paper. While ICANN has approved the addition of seven new TLDs, much work remains to be done in this area with respect to developing an appropriate long-term strategy. This strategy should use predictable, transparent and objective procedures that preserve the stability of the Internet. While the ICANN Board has recently taken welcomed steps in this regard - charging its CEO with providing a detailed policy development plan and schedule for the introduction of new TLDs and preparing to issue a Request for Proposals for new sponsored TLDs - this remains one of ICANN's core yet-to-be-accomplished objectives.
The current MOU between the Department of Commerce and ICANN expires at the end of September. The Department is currently in the process of reviewing ICANN's accomplishments and assessing what actions remain under the MOU. This review will underlie any decision to extend the MOU and, if so, how best to modify the agreement to focus ICANN's and the Department's efforts going forward. The Department stands ready to continue its stewardship obligations of critical elements of the DNS during the transition period and to assist the global Internet community in maintaining a stable and secure Internet. To this end, the Department remains committed to working diligently with ICANN and all critical Internet stakeholders to assist ICANN in its evolution and to preserve and enhance this global resource.
Finally, I would like to thank the Members of this Committee for their support and cooperation during my tenure at NTIA. With your help, NTIA has been able to log a number of accomplishments, including helping to make the Internet more secure and accessible for a wide variety of users. I particularly want to commend the Congress for its vision and leadership in establishing the .kids.us space. The Internet can be a wonderful resource for children, and soon we will be have a safe place for children under 13 where they can discover and explore educational, fun, and age appropriate content. I hope I can count on you and your colleagues to develop websites in the .kids.us space, giving our nation's children a better understanding of the workings of Congress and the issues before you.
Thank you and I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have.


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package org.openspaces.grid.gsm.autoscaling;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.openspaces.admin.Admin;
import org.openspaces.admin.pu.ProcessingUnit;
import org.openspaces.grid.gsm.autoscaling.AutoScalingSlaEnforcementEndpoint;
import org.openspaces.grid.gsm.autoscaling.DefaultAutoScalingSlaEnforcementEndpoint;
import org.openspaces.grid.gsm.sla.ServiceLevelAgreementEnforcement;
import org.openspaces.grid.gsm.sla.exceptions.ServiceLevelAgreementEnforcementEndpointAlreadyExistsException;

/**
 * Enforces the AutoScalingSlaPolicy of all processing units by starting an enforcement endpoint for each PU.
 * @author itaif
 *
 */
public class AutoScalingSlaEnforcement implements
        ServiceLevelAgreementEnforcement<AutoScalingSlaEnforcementEndpoint> {

    private final Map<ProcessingUnit, AutoScalingSlaEnforcementEndpoint> endpoints;

    private final Admin admin;

    public AutoScalingSlaEnforcement(Admin admin) {

        this.endpoints = new HashMap<ProcessingUnit, AutoScalingSlaEnforcementEndpoint>();
        this.admin = admin;
    }

    public AutoScalingSlaEnforcementEndpoint createEndpoint(ProcessingUnit pu)
            throws ServiceLevelAgreementEnforcementEndpointAlreadyExistsException {

        if (!isEndpointDestroyed(pu)) {
            throw new ServiceLevelAgreementEnforcementEndpointAlreadyExistsException();
        }

        AutoScalingSlaEnforcementEndpoint endpoint = new DefaultAutoScalingSlaEnforcementEndpoint(pu);
        endpoints.put(pu, endpoint);
        return endpoint;
    }

    public void destroyEndpoint(ProcessingUnit pu) {

        endpoints.remove(pu);
    }

    public void destroy() throws Exception {
        for (ProcessingUnit pu : endpoints.keySet()) {
            destroyEndpoint(pu);
        }
    }

    private boolean isEndpointDestroyed(ProcessingUnit pu) {
        return
            endpoints.get(pu) == null;
    }

}

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