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Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th ..., Volume 10
By United States. Congress. House
Int. 2. How long have you resided in Taylor Township ?-Ans. Eighteen years. Int. 3. Are you a citizen of the United States ?--Ans. Yes, sir. Int. 4. Did you vote at the gen'l election in Nov., 1882, in Taylor Township for the office of Representative to Congress; and if yea, who did you vote for!-- Ans. Yes; Benj. T. Frederick.
Int. 5. What time of day were you at the polls ?-Ans. I came between eight and nine,
nt. 6. Had Bill Steward commenced counting the votes then ?-Ans. I didn't see him counting the votes while I was there.
Cross-examinati
X Int. 1. Did you vote straight Democrat ticket - Ans. I did.
X Int. 2. Did you look at each name upon it before voting?-Ans. It was a ticket I got of my father. I saw Frederick's name on it.
X Int. 3. From your las answer do you wish me to infer that you did not look at any other name inan Frederick's ?- Ans. I seen the whole ticket, and probably looked at it all, but I do not remember any names now but Frederick's; am certain it was a Democratic ticket.
X Int. 4. Your father did not ask you to vote the straight Republican ticket except Frederick, did he?-Ans. I voted as I pleased; he asked me nothing. He knew how I voted.
X Int. 5. How long did you remain at the polls?—Ans. I came between 8 and 9, and staid till twelve o'clock.
D. C. ERNST.
Subscribed and sworn to before me and in my presence, by the said D. C. Ernst, this 15th day of Feb'y, 1883. [SEAL.]
CASSIUS M. NORTON, Notary Public in and for Marshall Co., Ia.
ANTON ESTEL, of lawful age, being produced, sworn, and examined on the part of contestant, testifies as follows:
Int. 1. State your name, age, place of residence, and occupation.-Ans. Anton Estel; 48 years; reside in Taylor Township, Marshall County, Iowa; am a farmer.
Int. 2. How long have you resided there?-Aus. About four years-a little over. Int. 3. Are you a citizen of the United States?-Ans. Yes, sir.
Int. 4. Did you vote at the Nov. election, 1082, in Taylor Township, and if so, for whom did you vote for, for office of Representative to Congress ?-Ans. Yes, I voted for Benj. T. Frederick.
Int. 5. What time of day were you at the polls, and how long did you stay?-Ans. I went between eleven and twelve, and staid about tifteen minutes.
Cross-examination: X Int. 1. Did you vote a scratched or erased ticket, or a straight one ?--Ans. Straight.
X Int. 2. Was it a straight Democratic ticket ?-Ans. Yes, it was a straight Democratic ticket.
X Int. 3. Who gave the ticket to you ?-Ans. I believe Mr. Melton gave it to me.
X Int. 4. Who was present when you voted ?-Ans. Mr. Ernst, Mr. Melton; that is all I ret ollect.
X lut. 5. Did you look at each name on your ticket? - Ans. I don't know as I did partienlarly, but I looked particularly about Mr. Fredrick's name.
X Int. 6. Did Mr. Wm. Ernst give you the ticket that you voted ?-Ans. No.
X Int. 7. Was be in the room when you voted ?-Ans. Yes; he was sitting alongside of me.
X Int. 8. Was your attention called to the name of Fredrick on your ticket by any one; if so, by whom ?-Ans. No, sir; by nobody. X Int. 9. Who did you vote for for judge 7-Áng. I don't recollect now anymore.
ANTHONY ESTEL.
Subscribed and sworn to before me and in my presence by the said Antony Estel, this 15th day of Fel'y, A. D. 1883. (SEAL.]
CASSIUS M. NORTON, Notary Public in and for Marshall Co., Iowa.
J. M. WEBBER, being produced, sworn, and examined on the part of contestant, testifies as follows:
Int. 1. State your name, age, place of residence, and occupation.-Ans. John M. Webber, aged 51 years, reside in Taylor Township, Marshall Co., Iowa; by occupation a farmer.
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Int. 2. State how long you have resided in Taylor Township, Marshall County, Iowa.-Ans. About sixteen years.
Int. 3. Are you a citizen of the United States ?--Ans. Yes. Int. 4. Did you vote at the Nov. election, 1882, in said Taylor Township, for the office of Representative to Congress; if yea, for whom did you vote ?-Ans. I did ; I voted for B. T. Frederick.
Int. 5. State what time in the day you voted.-Ans. About four o'clock in the after
Int. 6. State whether the ballot-box was open or not during the time the board of election was receiving the ballots of the electors ?-Ans. It was open while I was there.
Int. 7. How long were you there?-Ans. Probably an hour and a half.
Int. 8. What time did you get there ?--Ans. I think it was about four o'clock.
Int. 9. Was there opportunity for parties who felt so disposed to "stuff" the ballotbox and change the votes, particularly those that had control of it?—Ans. Yes, sir; I do, I think so.
Cross-examination: X Int. 1. What were the judges of election doing while you were there?-Ans. Most of the time they were receiving and counting out votes.
X Int. 2. Were they counting when you got there ?--Ans. That was about the first I saw of them; I think they was, the ballots were open.
X Int. 3. Had they just commenced to count when you got there ?-Ans. I could not say.
X Int. 4. Did they continue to count while you remained 1-Ans. Yes, most of the time.
X Int. 5. Did you remain till the poll closed !-Aus. No, sir.
X Int. 6. How many votes were polled while you were there ?-Ans. I could not say, sir.
X Int. 7. Can't you tell approximately? Come as near as you can.-Ans. I should say twelve or fifteen; somewheres near that.
X Int. 8. Did you see any ballots taken out of the box except for counting ?-Ans. I ain't sure as I did, but it seems to me they took out one vote, Mr. Horner's vote, to look at it, but I won't be positive.
X Int. 9. Did you see any ballot changed by anybody ?-Ans. I believe not, sir, if I understand the question.
X Int. 10. Were you there when Mr. Horner voted ?-Ans. Yes, sir.
X Int. 11. Was Mr. Horner there when you think they looked at his ballot 1-Ans. I think he was.
X Int. 12. How came the question of his ballot to be raised ?-Ans. He went to hand his ballot and Mr Steward wanted to look at it before he put it in; there was some talk then, some saying "Shove it in," and they hesitated somewhat before putting it in.
X Int. 13. Who was it that insisted that it should not be looked at ?-Ans. Mr. Wm. Ernst, I believe.
X Int. 14. Did Mr. Horner say anything about it; if so, what ?—Ans. He insisted in putting that ticket in that he first handed to him.
Å Int. 15. What did he say?-Ans. He said the ticket was all right, and wanted to vote.
X Int. 16. Did Steward want to look at it, or did he want Horner to look at it? Ans. It appeared that Steward wanted to look at it and drew back and turned a little one side from the polls and that he should take another ticket and vote, from the one he was putting ir.
X Int. 17. Wasn't it suggested to Horner that there might have been a mistake about his ticket, that it contained the name of Frederick instead of Wilson, and wasn't it said that he better see that it was a straight ticket before depositing it ?-Ans. There might have been something to that effect said, but Horner knew the ticket he was voting, he knew that Frederick was on the ticket himself.
X Int. 1*. Did you vote the Greenback ticket ?-Ans. Yes, sir.
X Int. 19. Was Frederick's name printed or written on your ballot ?-Ans. Written.
Redirect examination :
R. D. Int. You erased Platner's name and wrote Frederick's in place of it ?--Ans.
J. M. WEBBER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me and in my presence by the said J. M. Webber, this 15th day of February, A. D. 1883. (SKAL.)
G. P. LUNDSTRUM, of lawful age, being produced, sworn, and examined on the part of contestant, testities as follows:
Int. 1. State your name, age, place of residence, and occupation.---Ans. G. P. Lundstrum; 47 years; reside in Taylor Township, Marshall County, Iowa ; am a farmer.
Int. 2. Are you a citizen of the United States ?-Ans. Yes, sir.
Int. 3. Did you vote in Taylor Township at the general election in Nov., 1882, for the office of Representative in Congress ? If so, for whom did you vote?-Aus. Yes, sir; I voted for Ben Frederick.
Int. 4. That is, for the contestant here -Ans. Yes, sir.
Int. 5. What hour of the day did you vote, about ?-Ans. About between five and six in the evening.
Int. 6. Was the ballot-box open when you voted ?-Ans. It was not.
Int. 7. Do you know whether it was opened ?-Ans. They opened it little bit after I voted. I don't know whether it had been opened before or not.
Cross-examination: X Int. 1. What was it opened for when you were there?--Ans. I suppose it was to count the votes.
X Int. 2. Did they count them while you was there?-A. Yes; they counted some of them.
X Int. 3. Did you see any ballots changed and taken from the box by anybody ?Ans. No; I didn't give any attention to it. I was not inside the house over five minutes.
X Int. 4. Who gave you your ticket that you voted ?-Ans. Mr. Bill Ernst.
X Int. 5. What was it, a Republican or a Democratic ticket ?-Ans. It was a Republican turned over to a Democratic ticket.
X Int. 6. What do you mean by "turned over"? How changed or turned over 1Ans. For instance, as if you should print Republican and Democrat in one ticket.
X Int. 7. Was it a Republican ticket, except the name of Mr. Frederick 1-Ans. I cannot recollect that, whether it was a Republican ticket or not.
X Int 8. Was Frederick's name printed or written on your ballot ?-Ans. it was written.
X Int. 9. Who wrote it ?-Ans. I forget whether I done it myself, or Mr. Webber.
X Int. 10. Don't you know whether it was a Republican or a Democratic ticket scratched ?--Ans. I ain't sure, but think it was a Republican ticket
G. P. LUNDSTRUM. Subscribed and sworn to before me, and in my presence, by the said G. P. Lundstrum, this 15th day of February, A. D. 1883. [SEAL.]
CASSIUS M. NORTON,
Notary Public in and for Marshall County, Iowa. Wm. J. HORNER, being produced, sworn, and examined on the part of the contestant testities as follows:
Int. 1. State your name, age, place of residence, and occupation.—Ans. Wm. J. Horner; aged 22 years; reside in Taylor Township, Marshall County, Iowa; am a farmer,
Int. 3. Did you vote in Taylor Township at the Nov. election, 1882, for the office of Representative to Congress, and if so, for whom did you vote ?-Ans. Yes, I did; I voted for Mr. Frederick.
Int. 4. State what time of day you voted.-Ans. It was between five and six o'clock in the evening.
Int. Did you see the ballot-box open that day while the electors were voting ?Ans. I don't mind seeing it open that day; I saw it open that evening.
Cross-examination : X Int. 1. After you went to the poll did you remain till it closed !-Ans. I remained there till eight o'clock; they were not done counting votes yet; perhaps later tban eight.
X Int. 2. How long did the judges continue to receive votes after you came 1- Ans. I don't think they received any after I voted, that I know of.
X Int. 3. Did any one offer to vote after you ?-Ans. Not that I know of.
X Int. 4. How do you know Frederick's name was on the ballot you yoted 1--Ans. I don't really know that it was.
X Int. 5. Did you see his name on the ballot before you voted it ?-Ans. I read the ballot, all the names that were on it. Mr. Wm. Ernst gave me the ticket; he said it was a Republican ticket.
X Int. 6. Did he tell you that Frederick's name was on the ticket I-Ans. I don't remember whether he did or not.
X Int. 7. If you did not know that Frederick's name was upon your ballot, how do you know that you voted for Frederick ?-Ans. Why they had some false tickets there. I don't know why they were gotten up in that way, and they gave me one of those.
X Int. 8. Did you intend to vote for Frederick when you voted ?-Ans. No, sir.
X Int. 9. Did you know that Frederick's name was upon your ballot I-Ans. I believe I told you once I was not certain. When I went to the poll, Mr. Steward asked me if I had a straight Republican ticket; I told him I supposed I had, an d handed it to him.
X Int. 10. Was Mr. Ernst spoken of, the Wm. Ernst who has given his testimony before the notary here to-day 1-Ans. Yes, sir; he is.
X Iot. 11. You say you looked at the names on the ticket ?—Ans. I looked at the names on the ticket, but being a stranger here I did not know Mr. Frederick from Mr. Wilson, and did not know the Republican candidate from the Democrat without being told.
Redirect exainination : R. D. Int. 1. If you read the names on your ticket you knew the name of Benj. T. Fred" erick was on the ticket, didu't you—you knew at the time the names were there ?--Ans. Not knowing the candidates before I went to the election, I would not know. I presume if his name was on it I read it.
WM. J. HORNER. Subscribed and sworn to before me, and in my presence, by the said Wm. J. Horner, this 15th day of Feb'y, 1883. (SEAL.]
CASSIUS M. NORTON, Notary Public in and for Marshall County, Iowa.
THORNTON HUBBARD, of lawful age, being produced, sworn, and examined on the part of the contestant, testifies as follows:
Int. 1. State your name, age, place of residence, and occupation.—Ans. Thornton Hubbard; 67 years old ; reside in Taylor Township, Marshall County, Iowa; am a fariner.
Int. 2. Were you at the general election held in Taylor Township in Nov., 1882; and if so, luring what time of the day were you there -Ans. Yes, I was there from a half after two, I think, till a half after four.
Int. 3. Was the ballot-box open or kept open by the judges while you were there; and if so, did you see the ballots that had been deposited by the electors handled by any one; if so, by whom-Aus. The ballot-box was open when I went there.
I see some of the tickets handled by Mr. Steward and passed over to Mr Adua Fogg.
Int. 4. What else did you see that appeared to be irregular?-Ans. I don't know hardly what. Well, the ballot-box while I was there, was shut and three votes received.
Int. 5. Were these ballots that were handled and passed around ballots from the ballot- ox?-Ans. They were.
Int. 6. Were the judges discussing among themselves how the several electors had voted from examining the ballots as they were deposited ?-Aus. I didn't hear a word to that effect.
Cross-examination: X Int. 1. Were the judges canvassing the votes and the clerks making up the tallysheets !- Ans. I believe they were.
X Int. 2. Did you see any other handling of ballots other than was done in counting ?--Ang. No, sir; I did not.
X Int. 3. Did you se any changes of ballots made by anybody ?--Ans. No, sir. I didn't.
X Int. 4. Did anybody besides the judges handle the ballots ?-Ans. Not that I seen of.
THORNTON HUBBARD. Subscribed and sworn to before me, and in my presence, by the said Thornton Hubbard, this 15th day of February, A. D. 1883. (SEAL.]
J. O. CUTLER, of lawful age, being produced, sworn, and examined on the part of e contestant, testifies as follows:
Int. 1. State your dame, age, place of residence, and occupation.-Ans J.O. Cutler; age, 50 years; Štate Centre, Marshall County, Iowa ;- dealer in seeds, &c.
Int. 2. Do you now and did you during the month of Nov., 1882, hold any official position in State Centre Township, Marshall County, Iowa ?-Ans. I did not in 1882 ; I am now township clerk.
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Int. 2. Who were you the successor of ?-Acs. Of Mr. Adams; F. W. Adams.
Int 4. Are you the custodian of the ballot-box that was used at the Nov.election, 1882, for State Cetre Township, that contains the votes that were cast for the office of Representative in Congress, and how long ha 'e you been such custodian?-Ans. I am the custodian, and bave had the ballot box and poll-list since I received them from the old township clerk, Mr. Adams; I received the poll-list with the other book from Mr. Adams; the ballot-box I found in the town hall where the election was held; I did not receive that from Mr. Adams.
Int. 5. Does the ballot-box contain the ballots of that election, and was it fastened when you found it ?-Ans. Why, I suppose they do; I wasn't a judge of the election; I supposed it did; I found the ballots in the box; the box was locked and the key was in the lock.
Int. 6. When did you get the ballot-box ?--Ans. I couldn't tell you just when it was; there was some delay in settling up with the old trustees, and I didn't get possession of anything belcuging to the oftice until after his settlement with the trus
Int. 7. Does the box contain the same ballots that were in it at the time you recd. it ?--Ans. Yes, sir.
Int. 8. Who occupies the town hall where you found it, and whereabouts in the hall was the box when you found it?-Ans. The town council meets there, tire companies meet there, and it is under the general supervision of the marshal for any purpose; I found it sitting on top of the corporation recorder's desk.
Int. 9. Do you know whether the ballots were in the box as they were at the time the votes were canvassed, and in what condition did they appear ?-Ans. I am not able to say what condition the ballots were in at the time of the canvass, and of course cannot say whether they are in the same con itiou now.
Int. 10. Are they loose or in any way fastened together?-Ans. They are strung on a string.
Int. 11. Will you produce the ballots in the presence of the notary and count them, and state how many were cast for James Wilson for the ottice of Representative in Congress, and how many were cast for Benj. T. Frederick for the same office ?
(Objected to by contestee because it is not shown that the ballots are in the same condition as when canvassed, nor that they could not have been changed.)
Ans. I have no objection to recounting the ballots, if done in the presence of at least one of the trustees; and further, I would say that after finding the box I locked it and gave the key to Mr. L. B. Goodrich, one of the township trustees.
(Mr. L. B. Goodrich being produced, the ballot-box is opened, and the ballots are counted by J. 0. Cutler, township clerk, and L. B. Goodrich, township trustee.)
Int. 12. (To witness, J. 0. Cutler.) Have you counted the ballots found in the box for the office of Representative to Congress, and who assisted you? And state the result of your count.
(Objected to; same as Int. 11 above.)
Ans. I have; Mr. Goodrich, one of the trustees, assisted me; one hundred and nine. ty-three (193) for James Wilson, and eighty (50) for Mr. Benj. T. Frederick, two for Mr. Platner, one for Mr. Snyder, and seven blanks.
Int. 13. You may state how you found the ballots in the box as to their being fastened together and as appearing not to have been changed or disturbed.-Ans. I found them strung on a string; and as to their being changed, I can't see how I can answer that question.
Int. 14. You may state if you found the ballots cast for Frederick strung together, bunched together, and the ballots for Wilson strung or bunched together, and if you found any for Frederiek separately among those cast for Wilson.—Ans. I found the most of the ballots for Wilson together, and the most of the Frederick ballots together, and some ballots scattering among all the tickets.
Int. 15. State the order in which the ballots appeared on the striug; if you cannot remember, examine again.
(Objected to; same as to Int. 11, above.)
Ans. First, I find 2 for Platner, and one Frederick ticket, then two Democratic tickets scratched for Wilson, then comes sixty-five votes for Frederick on Democratic tickets, then one for Wilson, then one for Billy Snyder, and then thirteen for Frederick, then seven blanks for no Congressman, then comes one hundred and sixty-four votes for Wilson, then one for Frederick, and then twenty-six for Wilson.
Cross-examination : X Int. 1. How often has this ball where the ballot-box has been, been used by the fire company or others between the time of election and the time you took it awayiAns. I can't say positive. The fire company has monthly meetings and the council monthly monthly regular meetings, and the marshal goes through the room to take prisoners into the "calaboose.''


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[WASHINGTON LIFE MAGAZINE] Diplomatic Dance: Trade and Tastings
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Panamanian Ambassador Jaime Aleman and wife Pilar at the Colombian Embassy residence
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To launch the 2010 festivities, the effervescent envoy welcomed social folk like Esther Coopersmith and Barbara Gordon, staffers from the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and even the Commerce Department's Colombia desk officer at glamorous sit-down feasts in her Baroque ballroom. These Friday and Monday gatherings just before Thanksgiving were called "nonworking" dinners.
Inviting guests to "start off this holiday week on the right foot," Barco held her own "Thanksgiving" dinner dances to "thank all of you who have been … helping us to navigate uncertain times." It didn't take much to encourage guests to dance to the rhythms of Colombian cumbia, salsa, vallenato, and porro, and American rock 'n' roll.
For Friday night's bicentennial kickoff dinner, Colombian chef Leonor ("Leo") Espinosa, owner of Bogota's world-renowned Leo Cocina y Cava (Condé Nast Traveller lists it as one of the world's best eateries), created an endless presentation of exotic dishes inspired by Colombia's different regions.
Keep those dancing shoes handy – Barco promises a yearlong celebration aimed at highlighting the diversity of Colombia's cuisine, art, science, and traditions and … always, dancing!
PANAMA'S POWERFUL PAIR
Washington has already taken notice of the new Panamanian Ambassador Jaime Aleman and his talented wife, Pilar. This Notre Dame and Duke University Law grad now occupies the chair where his father, Roberto, once sat as ambassador to Panama in the late 1960s when Jaime was a student at Georgetown Prep – now their youngest son, Juan Manuel, 15, is boarding there.
"It's wonderful to be back in Washington," says the distinguished lawyer and economist who most recently was managing partner at Aleman, Cordero, Galindo & Leed, one of Panama's leading law firms. "To come back to live in the house where I grew up and now see my son go to my school is quite something."
His wife, also no stranger to Washington and the East Coast, is a Smith College graduate who received a Master's degree in Finance at American University (and started her U.S. education at the posh Shipley School on Philadelphia's Main Line). Always active in the financial world, this former president of the Panamanian Stock Exchange, corporate manager of Central America's largest private bank, and professor of Finance is now head of development for Fundacion Amador, the non-profit group behind the first major museum in Panama (and all Latin America) to be designed by the famed American architect Frank Gehry.
Expect these two powerful Panamanians to not only throw great parties and be the same down-to-earth pals they have always been to their American extended family, but to also get the Free Trade congressional endorsement for which Panama has long been awaiting.
STATE VISITS AS LEARNING TOOLS
Capricia Marshall, President Obama's chief of protocol and the mother of 6-year-old Cole Marshall, is spinning out her dream of including children in state visits. To coincide with the administration's first fête honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in late November, the State Department and the Indian Embassy planned "Taste of India," an afternoon "cooking lesson" at Blair House for District school students and the children of Indian diplomats. Fifty-two little hands made samosas and white lentil donuts while learning about Indian spices from guest chef Vikram Sundarum of Rasika, Blair House chef Ian Knox, a Scotsman, and his assistant, Keisha Sellers.
"I hope this will be the prototype for other State visits and that one day we will have a children's state dinner to complement the regular White House state dinner," Marshall said after signing autographs next to the afternoon's star, Indian Ambassador Meera Shankar.
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Reutlingen: "Disaster": Several dead in a fire in a nursing home
The fire brigade is on the scene within six minutes - but they can no longer save three people.
The fire brigade is on the scene within six minutes - but they can no longer save three people. They died on Tuesday evening in a care facility for the mentally ill in Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg).
According to previous knowledge, they died from smoke inhalation, reported the senior emergency doctor Jörg-Uwe Renz late Tuesday evening. And: Two other people were in mortal danger when they were rescued from the building.
Mayor speaks of "black evening"
"It's a black evening for Reutlingen," said Mayor Thomas Keck (SPD) at a press conference at the scene of the accident. The managing director of the facility, Gerhard Längle, adds: "It is simply a disaster."
According to the head of the fire brigade, the fire broke out in a living area on the first floor - and was limited to a patient room. "It was also an enormous psychological burden for the squads that were in there. We alerted our psychological aftercare," says Martin Reicherter.
The social-psychiatric specialist nursing home is home to people with mental illnesses who also need nursing care. The description of the home operator on its website states that there are 38 residents in groups of eight people who live in six individual apartments.
The burning room was intensely hot
"When we reached the building door, a person with a soot-blackened face was already sitting outside and being looked after by the staff," reports Reicherter about the start of the operation. "They said: 'There's a fire on the first floor, there are still five children in there!'" The medical director of the facility says it is a facility that provides integration assistance for mentally ill people who are at least 50 years old. They live there long-term.
The fire brigade leader continues: "We then gradually sent in more troops. But the fire was actually as good as over." In the room where there was a fire, the lime and plaster had flaked off the ceiling down to the floor. This indicates that there was enormous heat.
Cause still unclear
The entire living area with several rooms was heavily sooty. During the operation, someone noticed himself at a window. "But the person was in a safe area and was being cared for there," said Reicherter.
The rescue service took care of eleven patients who "had no injuries," says the chief emergency doctor. To be on the safe side, however, they were taken to the central emergency room, where they are to be examined again - "so that no smoke inhalation is overlooked," as the doctor says.
The cause of the fire is still being determined. "We're still at the beginning," says a police spokesman in the evening. There is also no information on the identity of the three people who died.
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Is there anywhere on the site that gives detailed instructions for tagging? I'm a newbie and am a bit nervous about giving it a go when I don't know what I'm doing!
2. each monarch that is tagged will be advertising the tagging programme as it flies around – the more people that know about tagging the better.
At the time I had not thought of any negative points but wasn't entirely convinced that we should be doing this, so I considered this tagger as being a pilot. I hadn't made a public announcement about it, which is why you hadn't heard about it.
And I still haven't thought of any negatives in doing this. Can anyone else think of any reasons why we shouldn't tag all year with the new series of tags, i.e. continue using "R" series tags until late summer when new tags become available?
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The 10 Best Education Systems in the World
By Staff Reports on July 23, 2014 The Good News
MADISON, Wis. — One detrimental effect of poverty is a lack of access to resources, such as education. Lack of education negatively affects all aspects of life and stops a country from making progressive change.
Countries with the best education systems in the world have one overarching theme — education is an integral part of the culture and teachers are highly valued. Here are the 10 best educational systems in the world:
10. Canada
Education in Canada is publicly funded and has improved dramatically over the years. The government places emphasis on literacy, math and high school graduation rates, causing improved results across the board.
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9. Switzerland
It is mandated that all students in Switzerland attend school for at least 9 years, starting at the age of 6. When primary school is over, children are categorized depending on their abilities and future career goals.
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8. New Zealand
New Zealand is continually ranked as one of the best education systems in the world. They are 7th in the world for both science and literacy, and 13th in the world for math.
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7. Netherlands
In the Netherlands, after elementary school, students choose what type of high school they want to attend based on their testing scores and advice from their elementary school advisers. The three options are: VMBO, HAVO and VWO. HAVO and VWO are more rigorous options and filter into collegiate education (or the Dutch equivalent). VMBO is less rigorous and is attended by 60 percent of students.
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Education in the UK is the responsibility of each individual government. The Scottish government is in charge of Scotland's education, the Welsh government is in charge of Wales's education and so on.
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Education is very important in Singapore, and 20 percent of the national budget goes toward education. English is the official language of instruction. Singapore is continually on the list of best education systems in the world.
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Japan's education system played an integral role in the country's recovery after World War II. Some of the reforms Japan made after the war, which helped to rebuild Japan's education system, was the diversification of education, the implementation of information technologies and added support for lifelong learning.
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3. Hong Kong
Education in Hong Kong is largely modeled after the education system in the United Kingdom, although they've managed to surpass the United Kingdom and grab a spot in the world's top three best education systems.
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2. South Korea
The most common phrase used to describe South Korea's education system is "intensely competitive." South Korea is hailed for its amazing results, but is sometimes accused of putting too much pressure on students.
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1. Finland
And the best education system in the world is rewarded to Finland. The high standards of excellency that Finland has achieved for its education system can be attributed to their process of selecting, tracking and streaming students through their early education system. They also strive to make education easily accessible to all, going so far as to provide free transportation for students.
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The nature and significance of moral dilemmas
Arguments against moral dilemmas from deontic logic
Arguments for the existence of moral dilemmas from the moral emotions
Moral dilemmas
Nair, Shyam
10.4324/9780415249126-L3577-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-L3577-1
Retrieved July 16, 2019, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/moral-dilemmas/v-1
A moral dilemma is a situation where an agent's obligations conflict. Debate in this area focuses on the question of whether genuine moral dilemmas exist. This question involves considering not only the nature and significance of dilemmas, but also the connections between dilemmas, the logic of obligation and moral emotions.
Certain cases involving difficult choices suggest that moral dilemmas exist. These cases also suggest that dilemmas are significant because they show that moral theory cannot help with these choices. If this is right, morality may be unimportant because it may be a system of inconsistent rules that cannot be used as a guide that tells us what to do. But this understanding of the cases is disputable. Perhaps the cases show that agents can be ignorant about what they ought to do. Or perhaps dilemmas are not significant because moral theory tells agents to do the most important of their obligations.
On the other hand, principles from the logic of obligation or deontic logic can be used to argue against the existence of moral dilemmas. Principles of deontic logic such as the 'ought' implies 'can' principle and the agglomeration principle, which says that if you ought to do a and ought to do b , then you ought to do a and b , taken together with the assumption that moral dilemmas exist, turn out to entail a contradiction. This means that one of these principles must be given up, or else it must be the case that moral dilemmas do not exist.
Careful consideration of the moral emotions has suggested that dilemmas do exist. It is appropriate for agents to feel guilt only if they ought to have done otherwise. In cases involving difficult choices, it is appropriate to feel guilt no matter what course of action is taken. This suggests that such cases involve genuine dilemmas.
Nair, Shyam. Moral dilemmas, 2015, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-L3577-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/moral-dilemmas/v-1.
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'Holy grail' species of bird spotted in Nottinghamshire
The bird is native to Scandinavia and Russia
Phoebe RamDigital News Correspondent
Gill Savage waited for the sun to come out to get the perfect shot of her 'holy grail' bird in Sherwood. (Image: Gill Savage)
A rare species of bird has been captured on camera by twitchers across Nottinghamshire.
Three Waxwings were spotted in Sherwood, in the Winchester Street car park, with crowds gathering yesterday (Monday January 21) to catch a glimpse.
Photographers and keen twitchers jumped at the chance to capture the rare sighting, with one woman describing it as 'the holy grail' of birdwatching.
It's thought that birds were attracted to the area because of an abundance of their favourite food, the Rowan berry, which grow on trees that are in the car park.
The Waxwing is not native to the UK but has been spotted in the winter months in various parts of the country, in its search for a good food supply.
Visitors are flocking to Nottinghamshire nature reserve - to see the smallest bird in Europe
Gill Savage, 61, lives in Mapperley and was shocked to hear the news the bird was just around the corner.
The semi-retired business owner said: "Waxwings really are the holy grail of birding in the UK - they're rare, so it's very exciting.
"People took over the car park to catch a glimpse, it was absolutely phenomenal.
"I waited to get the shot as soon as there was some better light - people will wait for hours and travel for miles to see these birds.
The Waxwing's favourite source of food are Rowan berries, which were in good supply in Sherwood. (Image: Mike Hill)
"They're so exotic and striking to look at and there's really no consistency to where they will end up going, so you just have to keep your eyes peeled."
65-year-old Richard Cooper also lives in Mapperley and took pictures of the Waxwings as part of his 'year in pictures' challenge on Instagram.
The Derbyshire town planner heard about the bird sightings on Facebook, and was then drawn to the crowd that had gathered at the car park on Winchester Street in Sherwood.
"I've never seen them before, and they were much bigger than I expected.
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"I was so chuffed to get a picture, as I'm not a photographer or twitcher.
"Everyone was chatting to each other and offering different bits of information about the birds - apparently once they find a good food source, they just stay, and seeing as there were only three, they could be here for a while."
The birds will eventually head back to their homes in Scandinavia and Russia, but there may still be time to see them through the next few months.
There were three Waxwings spotted in the Rowan trees in Sherwood. (Image: Marc Ratcliffe)
Erin McDaid, for Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, said: "As well as recent reports of small numbers of waxwings in the Mansfield area we are aware of a small group appearing (three) in Sherwood (Coop car park off Winchester Street).
"As the birds are unlikely to begin their return migration (to Scandinavia and Russia) until the end of March or early April, there's hopefully still plenty of time for us to see and enjoy more of these stunning birds here in Nottinghamshire - especially if we get a prolonged cold spell which may tempt birds already in the UK to venture further south.
"A massive proportion of their diet is made up of berries. They are known to be most fond of Rowan (Mountain Ash) but they'll also take rose hips, haws (hawthorne berries) and the berries of cotoneaster – suggesting a preference for red berries."
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OSTM (от  (или Jason-2) — высокотехнологичная океанографическая космическая лаборатория, выполняющая миссию по измерению рельефа поверхности мирового океана.
Проект ведут Национальное управление океанических и атмосферных исследований (NOAA), Национальное управление по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (NASA) (США), Национальный центр космический исследований (CNES) (Франция) и Европейская организация эксплуатации метеорологических спутников (Eumetsat).

Предшественниками ИСЗ «OSTM/Jason-2» являлись спутники Topex-Poseidon и «Jason-1».

Спутник выведен на орбиту 20 июня 2008 года с помощью ракеты-носителя Дельта-2.

Инструменты
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by Betty | Last Updated: March 3, 2021
Top 10 Breathtaking UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe
UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and serves as a United Nations specialized agency. The World Heritage Site is a landmark recognized both by the UN and UNESCO and represents a site that is unique and has a cultural, historical, natural, and other significance.
At the moment, there are 1052 sites recognized, of which the most are located in Italy, followed by China, Spain, France, Germany, India, and Mexico. This article can read about ten UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe that definitely deserves to be on your bucket list. The old continent offers limitless opportunities and sites to be seen, so make sure to cross at least one of the list.
1. Jungfrau, Switzerland
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Jungfrau is one of Switzerland's most visited destinations and is part of the Jungfrau – Aletsch area. It is the highest point in the area, with the Jungfrau rail station being located at 3,454 m, which makes her the highest in whole Europe. No matter which time you're going to visit the place, the railway to it is one unforgettable experience that allows you to see the beauty of the Alps and is surrounded by green valleys and forests. Jungfrau is the perfect choice for a winter vacation, so if you ever have the opportunity to go there, definitely do it! Jungfrau is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.
2. Bruges, Belgium
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The historic center of Bruges is UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. This Belgian town is an example of human culture and history through the years. By walking around the town you can witness the beauty of both Gothic and medieval architecture, canals, cobbled streets, all these make Bruges one of the most picturesque towns in whole Europe! Bruges is the birthplace of the Flemish primitives and where painters Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling were living. The town offers many things to be seen or experienced, such as the Bruges Beer Museum, the Begijnhof, a 13th-century beguinage, and what you really, really need to try besides the beer is definitely the chocolate!
3. Alhambra, Spain
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Located in the Andalusian region of Spain, west of the city of Granada, you can find the Alhambra castle that got the name thanks to the reddish walls – in Arabic, qa'lat al-Hamra' means red castle. The castle was first constructed over Roman ruins as a small building in 889, but in 1333 it was made into a big castle by the orders of Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada. Over the years, the castle was neglected until it was rediscovered by European scholars and travelers in the 19th century when the restoration of the castle began. The Alhambra is now one of the most popular tourist attractions in Spain. Because of the history and gorgeous architecture it is, the castle is recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.
4. Carcassonne, France
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The medieval city of Carcassonne is located in the region of Occitania, in the south of France. The city has 52 towers and a wall long three kilometers that used to protect the city centuries ago. Thanks to the rich history and unique look, the castle is recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. It is the most visited monument in France, having only one competitor – Mont Saint Michel. However, the fortified city of Carcassonne isn't just a tourist attraction; there are people living inside the walls! For everyone who would like to experience what it's like to live in a real medieval castle, you can book accommodation online.
5. Rhine Valley, Germany
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The Rhine is not only one of the biggest rivers in Germany, but it is also a very important waterway. It stretches through many historical attractions, such as castles, old towns, and vineyards, all being surrounded by forests, making the Rhine Valley one of the most beautiful attractions in the whole country. You can visit the old towns of Mannheim and Worms along the river Rhine, known for their medieval architecture. You can enjoy the spa town of Wiesbaden or surround yourself with the beauty of the Palatinate Forest. Right in the Rhine Valley center, there is the charming old town of Braubach and the Marksburg Castle – something you've got to see! The Valley is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002.
6. Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
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The Giant's Causeway is a unique rock formation that you won't find anywhere else, but just in Northern Ireland. It is located in the county of Antrim, on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland. The rock formation counts 40,000 interlocking basalt columns that form stepping stones, some as high as 39 feet, and they all slope down to the sea. According to a legend, a giant named Finn McCool built the Giant's Causeway, and that's the reason why one of the rock formations there resembles a giant's boot. Scientifically – the formations were formed by intense volcanic activity that happened 50 million years ago. The Giant's Causeway is voted as the UK's fourth best natural wonder, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986.
7. Norwegian Fjords
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The Norwegian fjords have a lot to offer, and every nature lover is recommended to visit them at least once in their lifetime – once you get there, you'll understand what we're talking about! Norway has the third-longest fjord in the world, known as Sognefjord, and it is the deepest and the longest in the country. While having a cruise, you can witness the beauty of few UNESCO World Heritage Sites – Geirangerfjord, best known for Dalsnibba, where you can see waterfalls, mountains, and forests; Lysefjord is best known for Hengjanefossen Waterfall and the famous Preikestolen, which means Pulpit Rock; and Nærøyfjordis which is the narrowest fjord in the world.
8. Verona, Italy
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Many of you have already heard about Verona – it is the charming Italian town where Romeo and Juliet used to live! Shakespeare was actually inspired by how the noble families tore the town apart. As most of the Italian cities, Verona has that typical, never-ending charm of a Mediterranean town with plenty of history behind it. The town has both the Mediterranean and medieval architecture. They offer so many amazing things to see, with one of them being exactly Casa di Julietta, where the famous balcony of the Shakespearean story. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.
9. Cesky Krumlov
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Cesky Krumlov is a town located on the banks of river Vltava in the Czech Republic. Its historic center is declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992. Besides the charming architecture, the two main touristic attractions in the town are the gothic Church of St.Vitus and the 13th-century castle around which the town is built. The town has a rich history that includes even royal families living here. Cesky Krumlov is an excellent choice if you want to experience the European culture from a less – crowded perspective.
10. Thingvellir National Park, Iceland
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The Thingvellir (Þingvellir) National Park is considered to be the national shrine of Iceland for the same reason that is recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1972 – it is the place where the first oldest, existing parliament in the whole world first assembled in 930 AD and continued until 1798! The park is located almost 50 km away from the country's capital Reykjavik and offers historic values and many natural features worth to be seen. Thingvellir National Park is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Iceland, with thousands of tourists each year coming to witness its beauty.
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Londoners are less likely to drink alcohol than the rest of the country according to a new report, London, the Highs and Lows 2, launched by mayor Ken Livingstone.
Young Londoners are also less likely to use drugs than young people in other parts of England.
However, London has a higher proportion of dependent drinkers than the national average (5 per cent compared to 3.6 per cent nationally). About 1 per cent of the capital's population are 'problematic' heroin and crack cocaine users.


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Durban II
Determined to thwart a repeat of 2001, pro-Israel groups fight hard at Durban II
Eight years ago, pro-Israel groups were caught off guard by the anti-Israel focus of the 2001 Durban conference. This time, Jewish and pro-Israel groups appeared to have the upper hand.
By	Michael J. Jordan	 April 23, 2009 8:30 pm
Loving Israel near Durban II
Ben Harris provides video from the pro-Israel rally in Geneva near the Durban Review Conference: If you're having trouble figuring out what Natan Sharanksy is saying, here's the transcript as best we can decipher: In Soviet Union, I lived in Orwellian world where they spoke about peace and that meant war, and they spoke about protecting […]
Geneva, Day 3: Things said and not said
GENEVA (JTA) — After the theatrics of the first day and the drama of the second, the third day of the Durban II conference was all about what everyone ostensibly came here to discuss. Member states took to the podium at the U.N.-sponsored anti-racism parley to highlight the issues of discrimination they care about — […]
Op-Ed: At Durban II, little has changed
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Diplomats make end run with early ratification of final Durban document
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MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: In this video, we'll discuss Van der Waals forces. Van der Waals forces are forces of attraction between molecules that are very close together. These forces between molecules are much weaker than the chemical bonds between the atoms holding a molecule together. Let's see how Van der Waals forces work. Molecules are electrically neutral because they have equal numbers of positively charged protons in the nucleus and negatively charged electrons outside the nucleus. In addition, some molecules are also polar. What does this mean? Well, polar molecules have permanent poles of electrical charge like a magnet because the electrons are unevenly distributed around the molecule. How does this happen? Let's look at an example of a polar molecule, water. A water molecule, or H2O, consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. When a water molecule forms, both hydrogen atoms bond with the oxygen atom by sharing their electrons with the oxygen atom. This completes both oxygen's outer electron shell, which can hold all eight electrons, and hydrogen's outer shell, which can hold two. However, the electrons aren't shared equally between the atoms because the oxygen atom attracts the electrons more strongly than hydrogen. As a result, a partial negative charge develops around oxygen because there are more negatively charged electrons around the oxygen side of the molecule. In comparison, fewer electrons around the hydrogen atoms create a partial positive charge on the hydrogen side of the molecule. This unequal sharing of electrons creates opposing poles of electrical charge on either side of the two bonds that hold the atoms together. Because of the opposite poles, these bonds are called polar covalent bonds. And since a water molecule is angled or bent with both of the hydrogen atoms on one side and the oxygen atoms on the other side, the molecule as a whole also has opposite poles and therefore is referred to as a polar molecule. Now, when polar molecules are near each other, a Van der Waals force of attraction between the molecules occurs because of their oppositely charged poles. In this example, the attraction of a polar molecule's negative pole to the positive pole around hydrogen atoms in water is a particularly strong type of Van der Waals force called a hydrogen bond. Hydrogen bonds only occur in polar molecules between hydrogen in one molecule and oxygen, nitrogen, and fluorine in the other. If a molecule doesn't have permanent poles of opposite electrical charge, it's called a non-polar molecule. However, non-polar molecules can become polar for very brief moments since the locations of electrons around atoms are constantly changing. This means the molecule can have a temporary negative pole on the side where there are momentarily more electrons, and a temporary positive pole on the opposite side where there are fewer electrons. The momentary concentration of electrons in this molecule's negative pole can repel the electrons in a nearby molecule toward its opposite end, making the neighboring molecule polar as well. The oppositely charged poles of adjacent molecules attract each other, forming weak connections between them called Van der Waals forces. Van der Waals forces explains two important properties: cohesion, the attraction between like molecules within a substance, and adhesion, the attraction between unlike molecules in different substances. An example of cohesion is when opposite poles of water molecules are attracted to each other but not to the surrounding air. This creates an inward force allowing water to bead up and form water droplets. Adhesion, the force of attraction between unlike molecules, explains how geckos are able to climb on slick, flat surfaces. Although each molecular connection is very weak, geckos can form millions of them between the molecules within the microscopic hairs on each foot and the molecules in the climbing surface. These connections add up to more than enough adhesion force to support the gecko's weight. In summary, Van der Waals forces are forces of attraction between molecules. They are not the same as chemical bonds between atoms within a molecule. They can occur in permanently polar molecules, such as water, and in non-polar molecules when they become briefly polar due to the changing positions of electrons. A hydrogen bond is a strong Van der Waals force between a polar molecule containing hydrogen atoms and the negative pole of another polar molecule. Van der Waals forces account for cohesion, the attraction between like molecules within a substance, and adhesion, the attraction between unlike molecules in different substances. [music]
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Obama's police reform plans emphasize optics. Black lives matter much more.
President Obama announced his decision Monday to limit the flow of military-style weaponry to local police departments via the federal government. While the plan is receiving understandable praise, his comments were all too presidential. Meaning: he talked about optics.
"Law enforcement agencies should create policies and procedures for policing mass demonstrations…to minimize the appearance of a military operation," said Obama.
In a short address, no word is extraneous, so let's not let his use of "appearance" slide. The president was clearly referring to scenes from Ferguson and Baltimore that saw warrior cops, guns raised, projecting great clouds of tear gas at unarmed crowds. He's not wrong that optics were critical here: these militarized images set Twitter ablaze. But as I noted at the time, this spoke more to the inexperienced fumbling of the Ferguson police than any Machiavellian attack plan. Military-style without strategy.
It's worth noting that the largest police force in the country, the 40,000-strong NYPD, haven't used tear gas in recent memory; they know how to crack down on dissent without the national outrage inducing optics of smoke and flashbangs. But the NYPD in phalanx is as much an army as any municipal police force dragging out armored vehicles to street protests. It is, in Obama's words, the "appearance of a military operation" that gets minimized when army toys aren't used as threats to protesters; the ferocity remains. And beyond the terrain of protests, the structures of racism and impunity remain, too.
"We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling that it's an occupying force," noted the president. While his gesture to reform has been welcomed, such a comment is no less than an affront to the work of the Black Lives Matter resistance.
The "feeling" that police are an occupying force is not established primarily by the riot gear visuals. It is evoked by the consistent quota-driven harassment of black and poor communities, the beat cop vertical controls in project housing—the sort that left unarmed Akai Gurley dead by an NYPD bullet for simply walking into a darkened stairwell. In short, the police occupation and denigration of black life is the fact, not the feeling, of an occupying force.
The president's comments, unwittingly or not, echo the words of James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling—the social scientists we can curse for introducing "broken windows" policing to the U.S. with an essay in The Atlantic in 1982. The idea, exuberantly embraced by NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton throughout his career, saw the intensive criminalization of vandalism and petty crime under the pretext that this would foreclose escalations to violent crime. In practicality, it meant treating poor, black communities as always-already criminal. Wilson and Kelling noted that patrolling in broken windows policing was more about creating the feeling of security, rather than actually lowering crime. Obama's similar focus on the "feeling" of safety around police shows a troubling disregard to the racist and violent recent history of a law enforcement ideology focused on producing affect, rather than addressing underlying problems.
The president's emphasis on militarized policing specifically referenced crowd control—a recognition that those sort of optics can indeed escalate protests into something more riotous. He's right to point the finger at police violence in these contexts when it is protesters who have been demonized again and again for "turning violent."
But, of course, mitigating the optics of warrior cops does not eliminate the fury undergirding revolt; the violence was already there before the tear gas canisters flew and the tanks rolled up. The violence is the background context in which young black people get shot with impunity. Mike Brown was not killed by a grenade launcher, Darren Wilson had a handgun; it didn't take a BearCat armored vehicle to snap Freddie Gray's spine; Eric Garner was choked to death on a street corner by NYPD officers, no military-grade weaponry needed.
Limiting the flow of military gear to municipal police departments—many already furnished with a surfeit of such gear after over a decade of protracted war hand-me-downs—might at best mitigate the bellicose mindset of contemporary policing. But racist police violence predates the recent history of federal programs bringing military weapons to local cops.
The history of policing in the U.S. is inextricably tied to the control, surveillance, and destruction of black life: the first urban police departments have their roots in slave patrols tasked with capturing escaped slaves. This history has been largely erased by an ideological reframing of cops as those who "protect and serve"—a dangerously unfinished sentence; "protect and serve capital" would be more appropriate, which goes hand in hand with maintenance of white supremacy in this former slave republic.
Jamil Smith pointed out in The New Republic that another aspect of the White House's police reform plan has merited more attention, as well as the focus on militarization. Smith highlights Obama's community-policing plan, which emphasizes data collection on police shootings and citizen encounters; data that will be submitted to the public.
We cannot underestimate the necessity of surveilling cops and ensuring that data is not held behind the thin blue line—it remains a point of absurdity that we do not have collated data on police killings of unarmed individuals, when we can know, say, how many Big Macs get eaten every day. Policing has been data-driven, enabling problematic prefigurative profiling (read: race-based patrolling) for decades; the least that can be done is to apply the same surveillance to the impunity-drenched cops. But it would be basely unempirical to put to faith in transparency equalling accountability, let alone justice.
There was strong, public evidence showing Eric Garner die by police hands (literally) yet no charges were brought against Officer Daniel Pantaleo. And if we believed data were the missing factor, consider the ample statistics we do have of, say, stop-and-frisks in New York: 86 percent of those stopped are black and Latino. We do have the data to show that black male teens are 20 times more likely to get killed by a cop than their white peers. This data, and much more, is necessary, but far from sufficient to end racist police violence.
Still, there is one remark from the president Monday with which I cannot disagree. "We can't ask the police to contain and control problems that the rest of us aren't willing to face," he said. He meant that it is on all of us to address inequality and racism in this country—which is a platitude dangerously at risk of letting cops off the hook. Taken a different way, though, the comment is correct insofar as we would be foolish to wait for cops to reform themselves, or to ask police to put an end to racism.
As Mychal Denzel Smith forcefully argued in The Nation in favor of police abolition, "What do you do with an institution whose core function is the control and elimination of black people specifically, and people of color and the poor more broadly? You abolish it."
We need to think about a world in which police are not considered necessary—a world of socio-economic, racial, gender, and political equality; we are far from such a world, but these are ongoing, active sites of struggle, not dreamy utopias. Abolishing police is not unthinkable—it should be unthinkable to entertain armed, uniformed gangs killing unarmed black children with impunity. As unthinkable as slavery, which was also considered a necessary and unending fact of American life and economy, too.
Smith rightly noted that the idea of police as necessary is based in a fear for our safety. "We're afraid of being attacked on the street, of having our homes shot at, and being left without access to equally violent retribution," he wrote, adding, "But does this mean we want police, or safety and security? Safety and security are ideas, ones that may never be fully achieved, and the police are an institution that have proved themselves capable of only providing the illusion of safety and security to a select few."
Nationwide police reform, going by the president's rhetoric at least, is looking to spread this illusion. It's worse than not good enough.


(Lawrenceville, Ga., March 7, 2019) – The Gwinnett Animal Shelter is bringing back Free Fridays for the month of March and hosting a puppy version of a St. Patrick's Day special.
This month, all adoptions are free on Fridays. Dogs typically cost $45 to adopt and cats typically cost $30.
You can enjoy the luck of the Irish a day early by celebrating St. Pitty's Day on Saturday, March 16 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. All adoption fees for pit bull mixes are waived. Scores of pups at the shelter have some pit bull lineage so there are many choices.
The shelter is open for adoptions Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Gwinnett Animal Welfare is located at 884 Winder Highway in Lawrenceville. You can find updated information about available pets and activities at www.GwinnettAnimalWelfare.com.


Kalypso Media makes their publishing debut on the Xbox 360 this fall, announcing an Xbox 360 version of the island nation management simulation Tropico 3.
Shortly after the third game in the acclaimed Tropico series hits PCs, Xbox 360 owners will be able to step into the polished loafers of El Presidente, managing the day-to-day operations of their own tropical island. The game will be largely identical to the PC game, with some interface elements changed to better take advantage of the Xbox 360 controller, which is always a good thing.
Here are the first screens for the Xbox 360 version, depicting a lovely little slice of console island life.


October 17, 2017 -- Lendlease Group today announced the establishment of an infrastructure joint venture with SoftBank Group to develop and own telecom infrastructure assets in the United States.
The joint venture, to be known as 'Lendlease Towers', will focus on partnering with major US carriers to roll out further phases of their infrastructure expansion plans to meet growing demand for data. The aim is to create a geographically diverse portfolio of rooftop and tower assets through both a development and an acquisition-based strategy.
Lendlease and SoftBank have each committed $US200 million equity, and as growth occurs, will look to introduce capital partners. The initial $US400 million has been allocated to seed the strategic restructure and acquisition of approximately 8,000 existing telecom sites, including rooftops and other structures, across the United States. Lendlease Towers will target $US5 billion of telecom infrastructure assets over the medium term.
Lendlease has been appointed the joint venture manager, asset manager and development manager.
Lendlease CEO Americas, Denis Hickey said, "Consistent with our strategy of focusing on growing demand for infrastructure, we've identified the telco infrastructure sector as an opportunity to deploy our integrated operating model.
"I am pleased to announce the establishment of an infrastructure vehicle focused on the US telco sector, which continues to experience unprecedented growth in data usage as the world moves to becoming more connected.
Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, Lendlease has approximately 12,350 employees internationally.


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CMDebug is a stand-alone version of the Take Command IDE and batch debugger component. CMDebug is intended for developers who need to develop batch files to run in CMD (the Windows default command processor) or TCC-RT (the free runtime version of TCC).
CMDebug allows you to create and debug your batch scripts with the integrated graphical IDE. CMDebug includes tabbed edit windows and a sophisticated debugger with single stepping, breakpoints, syntax coloring, tooltips, bookmarks, and tabbed variable and watch windows. Windows batch file programming has never been easier or more powerful!


Good asset management is vital to any successful industry and the rail industry is no different in that respect. It would be true to say that efficient asset management is good business.
Compton Darlington, operations director of FSI (FM Solutions) Limited – the specialist computer aided facilities management solutions provider – states that smart management of fixed assets enables those responsible for maintenance to establish cost and efficiency controls on a disparate property base and focus appropriate resources on rolling stock and rail.
Asset management of infrastructure projects can be challenging. Add to that the complexities and demands of today's rail network and there is potential for a labyrinth of job orders and a need for close control of costs.
First Engineering's intuitive use of a powerful software solution, developed for the facilities management industry by FSI, has shown rail infrastructure managers' that the future is bright as far as maintenance and management of property and mechanical and electrical is concerned.
FSI client First Engineering has mushroomed from its Scottish roots to become a major UK player in the rail engineering and infrastructure support industry and FSI has grown with its contracts for Scotland and Northern England through to the Midlands and London.
First Engineering's services include the design, construction, renewal, maintenance, repair and management of critical infrastructure systems and a range of management systems are deployed to measure and control these processes.
Acting independently or in unison, their various divisions deliver multi-disciplinary services. These include one-off projects, emergency and remedial works, term contracts in inspection, maintenance and repair and turnkey multi-function projects.
With circa 2000 employees providing services to companies including Network Rail, EWS, GNER and First ScotRail, the company has developed its core rail engineering services to include the upkeep of mainline stations and support properties, through its Facilities Division.
In a similar way FSI has developed its computer aided solutions for a range of clients in industries as far flung as banking and manufacturing through to utilities and transport infrastructure.
Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) will never be the same again for the rail industry thanks to the introduction of the award-winning Concept™ SQL system software, which has grown with First Engineering's contracts since the hand over from Railtrack to Network Rail. The comprehensive client driven software solution was first purchased by First Engineering to assist the Facilities Management Division in successfully managing the PPM of all mechanical and electrical assets for Managed Stations throughout the rail network.
Concept™ is now fully operational in all 17 Managed Stations in the UK. Initial plans were to individually schedule the 60,000 assets supplied by Network Rail within the system, however First Engineering decided to utilise the Asset Relationship Manager within ConceptTM to group like assets at the same location. This reduced the number of planned tasks to around 5,000 a useful time saving facility within Concept™ SQL.
Call Logging, Portable Appliance Testing (PAT), Hand Held Technology and a Web-Enabled Helpdesk Facility is currently being introduced.
One feature of Concept™ that has proved to be very popular is the ability to report the history of a specific asset. This is possible due to the ability to add an existing asset code to a new reactive fault on input. This generates a detailed history of an asset which is useful for both First Engineering and its clients, as potential problems can be highlighted and acted upon before they develop. Importantly from First Engineering's viewpoint, the asset register, developed within Concept™ also enables the generation of Purchase Orders, with differing rates, and generation of appropriate invoices. "This is extremely important with tracking of VISA purchasing by our field personnel," explains Mills, who is conscious of the constant need to deliver transparency and timely billing of costs.
"We have had a robust relationship which has stood the test of time and witnessed dramatic changes within the rail industry. We started with a solution which had been developed specifically for real estate, and is ideally suited to any assets, whether transmission and high voltage lines, substations or mainline passenger stations.
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As an omnibus work, 1.3.6 has to be considered a failure, especially as the three films (Jang's amusing Sonagi Epilogue, Lee's poorly-received Mobius Strip, and Song's poetic Git) don't match, not just in length but in form, content, mood, style, and quality.
Almost missed among all that was a quiet film directed by a virtual unknown but starring the talented Jo Seung-woo.
And the tango, a very un-Korean pasttime, makes a striking appearance in the film.
Without the pressure and weighty expectations involved in producing a major work, inspiration flows freely and the result is an even more accomplished piece of art.
The relaxed, convincing performances of the actors also deserve notice.
One hopes that it will be liberated from the other two segments of 1.3.6. At 70 minutes, it is a perfectly respectable length for a stand-alone feature film, and this is a movie that deserves to travel.


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## Query parser

Run in ghci:

```
runParser (parseBoolExpr identifier) () "" "(a OR b) AND (n OR m) NOT (x OR y)"

Right (BAnd (BAnd (BOr (BConst "a") (BConst "b")) (BOr (BConst "n") (BConst "m"))) (BNot (BOr (BConst "x") (BConst "y"))))

it :: Either ParseError (BoolExpr String)
```

## Matching example

### Import and Functions declarations
```
import Data.List (isInfixOf)
matchingDoc :: Doc -> BoolExpr String -> Bool
matchingDoc doc = evalBoolExpr (hasWord doc)

```

### Example query 1
```
let Right query1 = runParser (parseBoolExpr identifier) () "" "Haskell"

matchingString "I really like Haskell" query1 == True
```

### Example query 2

```
let Right query2 = runParser (parseBoolExpr identifier) () "" "Haskell NOT I"

matchingString "I really like Haskell" query2 == False

matchingString "You really like Haskell" query2 == True
```

## Boolean Tree manipulation


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Occasionally technology comes along that changes everything from the way we do business to the way we chat with family and friends. Whilst not new, smart tags are still underused.
Smart tags are used by mobile phone owners who snap a picture and initiate a number of pro-active, seamless marketing initiatives. They change the way people interact with businesses, large and small.
What can smart tags do for your business? Lots.
First, you create tags to initiate specific actions. For example, create a tag that automatically downloads all contact information on to the cell phone user's contact list. *SNAP* your company information is stored in the cell phone contact files.
Put up a smart tag at a trade show or seminar and enable attendees to harvest contact information with a single click. Also, add smart tags to invoices, corporate reports and other business paper. Program each tag to identify the document, copy the information and send it to your company database – all with a simple click.
Print up business cards with smart tags for each member of your team. These v-cards simplify the exchange of information in a busy business world.
Another use of smart tags? Program tags that initiate a telephone call. The cell phone user snaps a smart tag and the cell phone automatically dials the telephone number you program in.
Add smart tags to print advertisements. Be sure to label the tag to avoid curiosity seekers and to receive more requests from pre-qualified prospects. Businesses add smart tags to their print advertisements. A cell phone user snaps a smart tag picture and her cell phone automatically dials your call service center or sales team.
Push information is information that business owners "push" to their prospects through PCs, mobiles, PDAs and other platforms.
Smart tags can be programmed to deliver push information to customers – news updates, coupons, sweepstakes and promotions, special offers and other incentives to connect with your company.
Any business that keeps an appointment schedule can remind cell users that they have appointments on Wednesday. Health care providers can transmit in-take forms to patients to fill out at home, saving valuable office time.
Smart tags can be programmed to access your company web site via cell phone. Web access, the once-exclusive domain of PCs and Macs, is changing as more cell phone users access web content through smart phones.
Program smart tags in print advertisements that automatically take the cell user to your web site – no Internet connection required. This one function can save thousands of marketing dollars annually. How?
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