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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Fri Dec 19 11:29:18 2014

Author: Josef Perktold
License: BSD-3

"""

import numpy as np
from scipy import stats

# this is similar to ContrastResults after t_test, partially copied and adjusted

[docs]class PredictionResults(object):

    def __init__(self, predicted_mean, var_pred_mean, var_resid,
                 df=None, dist=None, row_labels=None):
        self.predicted_mean = predicted_mean
        self.var_pred_mean = var_pred_mean
        self.df = df
        self.var_resid = var_resid
        self.row_labels = row_labels

        if dist is None or dist == 'norm':
            self.dist = stats.norm
            self.dist_args = ()
        elif dist == 't':
            self.dist = stats.t
            self.dist_args = (self.df,)
        else:
            self.dist = dist
            self.dist_args = ()

    @property
    def se_obs(self):
        return np.sqrt(self.var_pred_mean + self.var_resid)

    @property
    def se_mean(self):
        return np.sqrt(self.var_pred_mean)

[docs]    def conf_int(self, obs=False, alpha=0.05):
        """
        Returns the confidence interval of the value, `effect` of the
        constraint.

        This is currently only available for t and z tests.

        Parameters
        ----------
        alpha : float, optional
            The significance level for the confidence interval.
            ie., The default `alpha` = .05 returns a 95% confidence interval.

        Returns
        -------
        ci : ndarray, (k_constraints, 2)
            The array has the lower and the upper limit of the confidence
            interval in the columns.

        """

        se = self.se_obs if obs else self.se_mean

        q = self.dist.ppf(1 - alpha / 2., *self.dist_args)
        lower = self.predicted_mean - q * se
        upper = self.predicted_mean + q * se
        return np.column_stack((lower, upper))

[docs]    def summary_frame(self, what='all', alpha=0.05):
        # TODO: finish and cleanup
        import pandas as pd
        from collections import OrderedDict
        ci_obs = self.conf_int(alpha=alpha, obs=True) # need to split
        ci_mean = self.conf_int(alpha=alpha, obs=False)
        to_include = OrderedDict()
        to_include['mean'] = self.predicted_mean
        to_include['mean_se'] = self.se_mean
        to_include['mean_ci_lower'] = ci_mean[:, 0]
        to_include['mean_ci_upper'] = ci_mean[:, 1]
        to_include['obs_ci_lower'] = ci_obs[:, 0]
        to_include['obs_ci_upper'] = ci_obs[:, 1]

        self.table = to_include
        #OrderedDict doesn't work to preserve sequence
        # pandas dict doesn't handle 2d_array
        #data = np.column_stack(list(to_include.values()))
        #names = ....
        res = pd.DataFrame(to_include, index=self.row_labels,
                           columns=to_include.keys())
        return res

def get_prediction(self, exog=None, transform=True, weights=None,
                   row_labels=None, pred_kwds=None):
    """
    compute prediction results

    Parameters
    ----------
    exog : array-like, optional
        The values for which you want to predict.
    transform : bool, optional
        If the model was fit via a formula, do you want to pass
        exog through the formula. Default is True. E.g., if you fit
        a model y ~ log(x1) + log(x2), and transform is True, then
        you can pass a data structure that contains x1 and x2 in
        their original form. Otherwise, you'd need to log the data
        first.
    weights : array_like, optional
        Weights interpreted as in WLS, used for the variance of the predicted
        residual.
    args, kwargs :
        Some models can take additional arguments or keywords, see the
        predict method of the model for the details.

    Returns
    -------
    prediction_results : linear_model.PredictionResults
        The prediction results instance contains prediction and prediction
        variance and can on demand calculate confidence intervals and summary
        tables for the prediction of the mean and of new observations.
    """

    # prepare exog and row_labels, based on base Results.predict
    if transform and hasattr(self.model, 'formula') and exog is not None:
        from patsy import dmatrix
        exog = dmatrix(self.model.data.design_info, exog)

    if exog is not None:
        if row_labels is None:
            row_labels = getattr(exog, 'index', None)
            if callable(row_labels):
                row_labels = None

        exog = np.asarray(exog)
        if exog.ndim == 1 and (self.model.exog.ndim == 1 or
                               self.model.exog.shape[1] == 1):
            exog = exog[:, None]
        exog = np.atleast_2d(exog)  # needed in count model shape[1]
    else:
        exog = self.model.exog
        if weights is None:
            weights = getattr(self.model, 'weights', None)

        if row_labels is None:
            row_labels = getattr(self.model.data, 'row_labels', None)

    # need to handle other arrays, TODO: is delegating to model possible ?
    if weights is not None:
        weights = np.asarray(weights)
        if (weights.size > 1 and
           (weights.ndim != 1 or weights.shape[0] == exog.shape[1])):
            raise ValueError('weights has wrong shape')

    ### end

    if pred_kwds is None:
        pred_kwds = {}
    predicted_mean = self.model.predict(self.params, exog, **pred_kwds)

    covb = self.cov_params()
    var_pred_mean = (exog * np.dot(covb, exog.T).T).sum(1)
    var_resid = self.scale  # self.mse_resid / weights

    # TODO: check that we have correct scale, Refactor scale #???
    # special case for now:
    if self.cov_type == 'fixed scale':
        var_resid = self.cov_kwds['scale']

    if weights is not None:
        var_resid /= weights

    dist = ['norm', 't'][self.use_t]
    return PredictionResults(predicted_mean, var_pred_mean, var_resid,
                             df=self.df_resid, dist=dist,
                             row_labels=row_labels)

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El Convent de Sant Sebastià o Convent de Sant Francesc fou un convent franciscà al municipi de la Bisbal d'Empordà. Les restes conventuals estan protegides com a bé cultural d'interès local. El convent va ser fundat l'any 1850 al lloc on antigament hi hagué una ermita dedicada a Sant Sebastià. L'església del convent de franciscans va ser iniciada l'any 1590. Sembla que la primera pedra fou col·locada el 18 de maig d'aquell any, i que la benedicció es va fer el 21 de desembre del 1591. El temple va ser ampliat l'any 1791. La façana és d'estil barroc. L'església està dedicada a Sant Sebastià, segurament en record de la primitiva capella que hi havia anteriorment al mateix lloc. A finals del , l'edifici del convent-noviciat de franciscans fou dedicat, en la part no ocupada pels frares, a l'Escola de Ceràmica. Des del 2003 és un dels centres de la Fundació Acollida i Esperança.

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L'església es troba a la banda esquerra del convent de Sant Sebastià, al nord-oest de la Bisbal. És un edifici d'una nau amb capelles laterals i coberta de teula a dues vessants. La façana presenta una porta d'accés, rectangular senzilla i decorada amb elements del vocabulari clàssic. Té pilastres laterals i entaulament, i a la llinda figura la inscripció: "AEDIFICATA 1590 - PROLONGATA 1791". A la part superior de la façana hi ha un òcul. El coronament és ondulat. L'interior és cobert amb volta de canó amb llunetes i arcs torals de mig punt. El campanar de cadireta té una obertura d'arc de mig punt, s'eleva a la banda dreta de la nau. El temple té adossades, a la banda dreta, les dependències del convent i, a l'esquerra, les utilitzades per l'escola de ceràmica.

Damunt la porta de l'edifici figura la data del 1689, i a l'interior hi ha diverses inscripcions del . El conjunt és, per tant, el resultat de diverses etapes constructives. A la primera etapa correspon el refectori, bastit en estil gòtic tardà, en el . Posteriorment, durant el , es va modificar la porta d'accés, on apareix la data anteriorment esmentada del 1689; i el claustre, segons consta a les inscripcions del 1739 i el 1740 que hi apareixen, és obra del .

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Unknown Fact Revealed In The Saga Of How Wire Came To Record "Change Becomes Us"
Posted in Music with tags "Change Becomes Us", "Document and Eyewitness", Wire on April 23, 2013 by johnbuckley100
A few weeks ago, we posted a review with some of the backstory on how it came to be, more than 30 years hence, that Wire would record in a studio many of the songs first released in 1981's mess of a live album, Document and Eyewitness. Change Becomes Us is a really interesting album, judged strictly by the standards of contemporary music. That it actually comprises a baker's dozen songs that were meant to be Wire's follow-up to their opus 154, which came out in 1979, makes it all the more remarkable.
What we did not know three weeks ago — what we did not know many years ago, when we were assigned by Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo) to review Wire's posthumous mess of a live album — was that after the band had released, in 154, probably the most accomplished record of that ephemeral post-punk era, EMI dropped them from the label! The artsy/sloppy implosion that took place on the stage of the Electric Ballroom, and at Notre Dame Hall, captured on Document and Eyewitness, was the result of a band that had just produced a masterpiece yet suddenly had no place to stand. Their vulnerability, which led not only to a wildly unsuccessful show, but to the band's demise (they reformed again in 1985, and a few times since, and as of this moment, are a thriving concern) came from having the rug pulled out from under them by EMI. The bastards.
In Mike Barnes' excellent liner notes to the just-arrived-courtesy-of-the-Royal-Mail deluxe CD, the story is told thusly:
"Crucially, Wire's record label, EMI, decided not to renew their contract option, and having survived on advances, the group were now label-less and penniless. They had been approached by Factory Records, but couldn't agree on terms. They had also recently endured a spectacularly mismatched European tour supporting Roxy Music, who by then were well into their airbrushed easy-listening phase. The group had to effectively pay out of their EMI advance for the pleasure of this exposure to audiences who largely hated them. They had also parted company with their manager. Thoroughly disenchanted with the music business, Wire decided it was time to give their willful side free reign."
It, uh, didn't work out, at least not then, judging from the boos to be heard on Document and Eyewitness, and the album itself was, we wrote at the time, a disaster.
And now they are back, having reworked those songs 33 years later, and it sounds magnificent. Maybe they were just thirty years ahead of their time…
On Wire's "The Black Session – Paris, 10 May, 2011"
Posted in Music with tags "Change Becomes Us", "The Black Session - Paris, 10 May, 2011", Wire on April 5, 2013 by johnbuckley100
In yesterday's rave about Change Becomes Us,Wire's excellent brand new album of songs that actually had a prior life on the 1981 Documentary and Eyewitness album, we referenced the release, earlier this year, of a live album but didn't say much about it. The Black Session — Paris, 10 May, 2011 would, in another year, be cause for celebration in and of itself. That it comes out the same season as Wire's excellent studio album, it may well be overlooked by anyone who isn't a Wire completist. (And now that we've registered for the forums on the Pinkflag.com website, allow us to observe that there are a lot of people out there, we now know, who make our Wire obsession seem moderate.)
Recorded with Wire as a four-piece, with Matt Simms having by early 2011 joined the band on guitar, it is genuinely fine live album. Colin Newman sings in fine form, with the courage to navigate "Map Ref. 41degrees N, 93degrees W," which is not easy to do live, as a man in his mid-50s! With a decent balance of songs from late and early Wire, this is an album well worth picking up. Moments after you download Change Becomes Us.
Wire's Remarkable "Change Becomes Us"
Posted in Music with tags "Change Becomes Us", "Pink Flag", Wire on April 3, 2013 by johnbuckley100
On the occasion, in 1981, of Wire's release of Document and Eyewitness, a mess of an album that was seemingly all that was left of the band after their premature demise, one young pup of a rock critic wrote in NY Rocker that "there has never been a band so interesting precisely at the moment when their reach exceeds their grasp." Yes, gentle readers, that young pup was our head Tulip Frenzier, we meant it at the time, and we still mean it.
On the occasion, in 2013, of Wire releasing Change Becomes Us, which was recently recorded but is comprised of songs meant to be on Wire's fourth album, to have been released in 1980, we are almost thunderstruck with gratitude. To understand just how joyful it is to have Wire, 33 years on, give us the album that was originally meant to be the follow up to 154, you have to go back in time, and fathom just what Wire meant to us then, and means to us more broadly.
Between 1977's Pink Flag and 1979's 154, with a stop along the way for the gorgeous Chairs Missing, Wire went from a wholly original, atomized breakdown of rock'n'roll into its constituent, crude but thrilling pieces to producing something that qualified as art rock. In rock evolutionary terms, Wire had traveled in just two years from three-chord rock to astonishing virtuosity, something akin to the Beatles releasing Abby Road in 1965, or the Stones giving us Exile In Main Street before releasing "Satisfaction." Pink Flag may actually have been the most influential of all the British punk albums, the equivalent to the first Velvet Underground album in terms of its inspiration to art school wastrels to go form their bands, and even as late as the mid-'90s, bands like Elastica were ripping off songs like "Three Girl Rhumba" with brazen glee. When 154 came out two years later, with its title reference to Studio 54 confounding us as to whether it was meant as homage or irony, Wire was simply the most innovative band in the London-NY circuit, and their departure, along with the death of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, signaled the coming Dark Age of 1980s rock. Two back-to-back songs on 154, "A Mutual Friend" and "Blessed State" encapsulate the moment: the first one incorporating Roxy/Eno influences into a song that started as a dirge, the latter a perfect pop number with gorgeous guitar work. By the time we got Document and Eyewitness, and were given the unhappy assignment of trying to make sense of it, Wire was a band that seemed to have evolved beyond human possibility, exploding like a supernova.
Except they didn't. They came back in the late '80s, and still were great. Yes, those albums are a bit hard to listen to because with the advent of CDs, Wire, along with most late-'80s acts, produced records that were far too trebly and brittle of sound. But the songs held up, and the band kept going, even as they lost their genius-level guitarist Bruce Gilbert along the way. We loved Red Barked Tree, which hit these shores in 2011, and earlier this year, another of their remarkable live albums came out, showing that the three old men of the band (Gilbert having been replaced by a young guitarist, Matt Simms, who seems to have had the perfect role model), can still give us enormous pleasure.
Change Becomes Us does not have the revolutionary clang of 154, in part because it was made by a band 3/4's consisting of men in their 50s, in part because the world has caught up. But it has all the magic that Wire has always had: Colin Newman's unique ability to be a pretty pop singer and a cockney rebel on alternating songs, Robert Gotobed (nee Grey) and Graham Lewis, more than thirty years hence, still proving they were the most compact, deceptively sophisticated minimalist rhythm section since Ringo and Macca. Change Becomes Us gives us something quite marvelous: a band in its full state of maturity offering us the freshness of youth, punk's rebellion and art rock's sophistication chiseled from its fossilized state into something with the marvelousness of the walking dinosaurs in those early scenes in Jurassic Park. Wire has long since been able to grasp whatever it reaches for, but is no less interesting for it.


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Fellini Turns 100/ La Natura Morta De La Dolce Vita
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Presentation by Mauro Zanetti
sponsored by Leonardo da Vinci Society, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, and Consul General of Italy in San Francisco
On the 100th birthday of Federico Fellini, with celebrations happening all over the world in 2020, the Leonardo da Vinci Society of San Francisco in conjunction with Consulate General of Italy, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, and City Lights Booksellers present an evening with Mauro Aprile Zanetti exploring Fellini's, La Dolce Vita – A seminal film showcasing a microcosm of modern living.
Sicilian born, San Francisco-based multidisciplinary published author, Mauro Aprile Zanetti will discuss his book on Federico Fellini and Giorgio Morandi titled "La Natura Morta de La Dolce Vita – A Mysterious Morandi in the Matrix of Fellini's Vision (NYC, 2008)", originally illustrated by painter Piero Roccasalvo RUB.
More than a half-century after the release of the world renowned and iconic film La Dolce Vita (1960), Zanetti reveals for the very first time in the international literature panorama on Fellini's filmmaking the poetic presence of a still-life painting (natura morta, vanitas) by 20th-century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi.
With an interdisciplinary approach, Zanetti explores Fellini's enchanted filmmaking to unearth the ultimate art of il Maestro del Cinema's creation.
Recognized as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time, Frederico Fellini developed a distinct style of filmmaking that mixed fantasy with a baroque sensibility and explored the intersection where memory, dreams, and sensuality meet. Though not overtly political, Fellini's films often made social commentary on the effect of modernity on society. Having worked as an assistant director with Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan, and The Flowers of St. Francis). Fellini went on to create an influential body of work that included films like Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and many others. In a career than spanned over 50 year, Fellini was honored for many of his films. He has received the Palme d'Or, four Academy Awards, a lifetime acheivment award from the Academy, numerous Academy Award nominations, and many other honors. He has influenced successive generations of filmmakers that include Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Juan Antonio Bardem, Wojciech Has, Emir Kusterica, and many others.
More Fellini celebrations:
Cinema Italia San Francisco will organize a one-day retrospective on Fellini showcasing some of his works. Visit: www.cinemaitaliasf.com
Berkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will be presenting a series of lectures and film programs honoring Frederico Fellini in a festival during the month of March 2020. To learn more visit: BAMPFA/Fellini@100
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November 22, 2021 November 22, 2021 sandymcruer
Native Mistletoe
It's still a bit early for a Christmas blog. Nevertheless I'll write about it because I made an interesting observation the other day. It a case of mistletoe on a Douglas fir tree nearby. OK, interesting to me.
The mistletoe that most people are familiar with is the European one associated with Christmas. It has leaves and white berries and grows in clumps on many different broad-leafed shrubs and trees.
European Mistletoe, Viscum album
Although both are parasitic, the mistletoe plant on Vancouver island is very different. It is tiny, hardly visible at all. The biggest they get is 8 cm or 3 inches high.
Western Hemlock Dwarf-Mistletoe or Arceuthrobium Tsugense, growing on its primary host Western Hemlock.
If you want to find any, you need to go fir a hike somewhere there are young Western Hemlock trees growing, and start looking at the ends of the branches. It parasitizes Western Hemlock mostly. So they named it Western Hemlock Dwarf-mistletoe. Anyway, look for infections in larger hemlocks nearby. You can tell because the larger trees have deformed branches called brooms caused by the mistletoe infection. When the seeds are ready, they pop out going some distance. The seeds are sticky, so the lucky ones stick to foliage below them. Wind doesn't affect them much, so the spread of infected trees is around 20 m.
Witch's Brooms caused by Hemlock Dwarf-Mistletoe. Each broom is a separate infection.
According to everything I was taught, only one species of mistletoe appears on Vancouver Island, Arceuthobium tsugense. Although it infects Western Helmlock mostly, it is known to infect lodgepole pine on Vancouver Island. and very rarely, Douglas Fir. So when I saw a very large broom high in an old Douglas Fire in a City Park in Port Alberni, it piqued my interest.
Rare case of Mistletoe in Douglas Fir on Vancouver island.
I sent an email to a forest pathologist at the Pacific Forestry Centre as well as the photo above. He is keen to get a sample of the plant. That means climbing the tree in the photo above. Anyone have the skills and equipment to do that?
https://phytopath.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cpds-archive/vol58/CPDS_Vol_58_No_2_(31-32)1978.pdf https://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?iname=Arceuthobium%20tsugense
https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/6857
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev2_043670.pdf
February 24, 2021 sandymcruer
Connecting Scott Kenny Trail with Roger Creek Park
The bridge to nowhere. This bridge was built about 3 years ago in anticipation of the trail extending all the way down to Roger Creek Park
A couple of weeks ago, several staff from the City met with Lyman Jardin and me at the footbridge over Roger Creek to discuss possible routes to create a path from the "bridge to nowhere" off the end of the Scott Kenny Trail, to Roger Creek Park. This route has been promoted as part of a pedestrian system through the city.
City CAO, Tim Pley introduced the new City Engineer, Rob Dickinson, and Rob Gaudreault before heading off. We climbed down from the railway tracks to Roger Creek observing the obvious signs of potential slides and slope failure, and then hiked through the brush along the south side of the creek. We got as far as the proposed bridge crossing that would bring the trail to the south side. It has to cross the creek, as there are big gravel cliffs and old slides along the north side just downstream. There is no possibility through the upper part of the north side.
Of course we talked the entire time. Eventually it was determined that there are three possible routes:
The South Side Riparian Route,
The Lower North Side Route, and
The Upper South Side Route.
Each has their plusses and minuses. Here is a link to a map of the choices: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1GaAUUijvTnZKdHRc_xeBbeAmyVnTFRFh&usp=sharing
The South Side Riparian choice seems to be the one preferred by the city staff. They were pushing it during the conversation. Dickinson remarked that you can build anything if you have enough money. You can't argue with that. But there are some issues with this choice. It is the one that will have the biggest impact on the Salmon left in Roger Creek.
It still is a fish creek, despite many habitat damages along it besides logging. But it is a shadow of what it once was in former times. A land fill was located on its bank. A storm water drainage pipe empties into a settling pond behind the fair grounds. There are now 5 bridges across its lower reaches. The Scott Kenny Trail has opened up the forest along its banks exposing the creek to dangerously elevated temperatures in the summer. Side channels for rearing and overwintering salmon, and settling pond for the storm water runoff were constructed at the same time as the trail. This opened up a large area to the heat of the sun. But all of them are stagnant, unsuitable habitat for salmon. A reforestation reforestation attempt was done clumsily, and a crucial part of it around the rearing channel failed. A number of vehicles were pushed over the rime and are there still. And over the last few years someone has been dumping fill into the creek near the mouth of the creek.
Yet still, it is considered a fish creek. There are 9 kms of suitable habitat before a waterfall barrier prevents further habitat use upstream. Signs are up in Roger Creek Park telling them about salmon and the salmonid habitats of the creek. In 2017 during construction of the Scott Kenny Trail, a settling pond and rearing channels was built, as well as 2 other side channels further down. And I have photos of Coho parr from 2014. And there have been other efforts as well to enhance habitat and restore fish to it.
Base of Railway trestle showing how high water laps at the bottom of it.
A scar from a landslide just upstream from trestle
One of the discarded old vehicles littering the ravine.
Fill dumped into the mouth of Roger Creek
All that aside, the most contentious part of the proposed path is the 100 meters just upstream from the Roger Creek pedestrian bridge. Here the rail trestle crosses the creek. And the cement support columns stand at the very edge of the creek. Every fall and winter the base these columns are washed by the flooding creek. There is no place to put a path under the bridge unless it is elevated above the highest water mark and supported by one of these columns; or unless the city gets special dispensation from Fisheries and Oceans.
The South Side Riparian route also follows the base of a very steep muddy bank with a recent slide scar on it and plenty of other signs of slope instability. At the bottom of the bank is Roger Creek. There is a very high probability that any construction at the base or along the bank (such as cutting trees and brush), would cause a slide. And again any path constructed would infringe on the creek itself because there is so little room below the bank. Can we take that chance on a salmon run that is in such a precarious state?
The Lower North Side, follows a route similar to the South Side Riparian Route, but after half way the path would cross the creek and go under the column on the north side of the creek. Again it would infringe on the creek as it is as wide as the columns. However the slope stability issues are not present. In their place though is the fact that the path would impinge on the private party of an influential citizen who has made it clearly known that he would not permit this to happen in his own back yard.
The third possibility that I like is to climb the ravine from further upstream and connect either to the north end of Glenwood Drive, or follow the edge of two properties where there is an existing rough and sketchy trail to the railway tracks. This route eliminates slope stability issues. But near the top it is steeper and may require steps near the top.
It also means dealing with two private property owners. However, these owners may be more sympathetic to the cause. One of them is JW Berry Trucking who has already acknowledged that there is a lot of foot traffic along the back of his property by building a path of his own. The other property is owned by Heatherington Battery. And they keep porta-potties inside a tall chain-link fence. The existing "trail" is at the very top of the ravine, at the top of the very unstable slope. Tim Pley made a remark that gave me the impression that Hetherington might be amenable to selling a ten-foot strip along the north end of his property, enabling a safer path to be built away from the top of the ravine. That would get the route to the right-of-way of the railway tracks.
The right-of-way is owned by the Island Corridor Foundation. Pley was doubtful whether the Island Corridor Foundation would be amenable to permitting pedestrian traffic to cross the railway lines. After all their purpose is to restore the rail line. There may be a possibility of constructing steps down from the Hetherington property and under the tracks between the south column and the approach embankment. There is a fairly level spot there and then more steps will easily take you down to the approach to the south end of the footbridge. All of the proposed routes will cross the right-of way of the Island Corridor Foundation whether over the tracks or under them.
Of course it all comes down to money. Pley says that the City is able to write a proposal for a million dollars that will enable them to get the money. However, they still haven't consulted fisheries for their opinion/conditions, or a geotech about slope stability. Nor has any engineering been done. I understand that some of the grant money will go towards that. And what's designed will be contingent on what fisheries and the geotech has to say, as well as the Island Corridor Foundation's permission.
It should also be contingent on a decision that the city must make about the level of access that is desired. Is the path going to be wheel-chair-accessible, or accessible for cyclists? Or will it be accessible to pedestrians able to climb steps. From there plans can be made and estimates of cost after that. I hope that this third alternative, the one along the top of the ravine, is not dismissed and left un-costed. Then we will see whether the costs of each alternative are reasonable or whether this trail will even be built, period. Personally, I think this is ambition to have a trail continue down Roger Creek to the park is a tough nut to crack if the City Council demands gentle grades for this trail.
August 2, 2020 sandymcruer
Overnight Camping at Nahmint Recreation Site closed.
I was surprised to hear from a friend in Victoria that one of my favourite Recreation sites is closed to overnight camping, and it is closed for the foreseeable future according to Robert van der Zalm, the BC Coast Regional Manager for Recreation Sites & Trails. The site is closed for all of this year. He said a review of service levels will be conducted in the fall. I guess that means looking at the budget. So there is no guarantee it will ever be open for camping again.
But it is a beautiful campsite, the most beautiful in the Alberni area. You camp in a large stand of very tall old Douglas Fir and Hemlock. There are 12 sites, some of which are a short walk in. A wild creek thunders down the mountainside past the campsite. A little path allows you to get great views of it. A long rocky beach with willows and logs piled around allows visitors to have a swim and some privacy as well if you want. When we last visited, we saw someone on a paddleboard across the lake at the other recreation site, Blackie's Beach. The access is remote, but it is a bumpy two-wheel-drive all the way. That site is not closed, but has only 6 sites.
One of the dead trees looming over the campsites
This campsite is mentioned several times on the web. And there are more websites about the circle route, the drive from Port Alberni south along the western shore of the Alberni Inlet before turning inland and up along the north side of Nahmint Lake to the campsite at the north end. From there the road continues to a junction. The right fork takes you up and over a pass with Gracie Lake in it, before descending to Sproat Lake. When you get close to the lake a fork takes you eastward, back to Port Alberni.
The Nahmint Lake area is popular. Patti and I did the driving tour last weekend. We encountered people all along the route, and even on a side tour upriver from the lake. Where we crossed a big bridge over the river at the north end of the lake, a fellow on a bicycle showed up. He had started in Port Alberni, 56 km back. And he had another 27 km to go back to town. Some of them were fishermen. Others were touring on motorcycles. And some were just out for a picnic by the lake, like us.
The gate to the Nahmint site is closed and a sign is posted announcing the closure of the site due to "overhead hazards caused by dangerous trees." But there is a small turnout by the gate where there is room to park and walk down to the site. I didn't see any wind-thrown trees hung up in other trees or anything. I did observe a few dead trees with limbs that could break off. Each has a number spray-painted on the trunk. One of them had the top broken off, and the top had driven itself into the soil a good two feet in its fall. It is truly alarming to think what that could have done to someone.
However, it does seem a shame to think that government isn't providing enough money to keep a popular Recreation site open.
Humph.
http://www.sitesandtrailsbc.ca/search/search-result.aspx?site=REC3068&type=Site
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/nahmint-valleys-a-gem-for-outdoor-rec/https://www.backroadsbiketouring.com/fav-ride-alberni-inlet-nahmint-lake


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New scientific research provides more evidence that the psychedelic drug ibogaine can help treat opioid withdrawal and cravings. The new findings are reported in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.
Malcolm and his colleagues found ibogaine treatment was associated with significant reductions in opioid cravings and withdrawal symptoms. Most of the patients (78%) did not exhibit clinical signs of opioid withdrawal 48 hours after receiving ibogaine. "It seems that ibogaine can interrupt the underlying neurocircuitry of opioid use disorder while delivering a profound psychological experience that reinforces recovery efforts; in our study ibogaine appeared to be able to reduce both the physical signs and symptoms of opioid withdrawal as well as reduce cravings for opioids." "This means that ibogaine may simultaneously address both physical and psychological aspects of opioid use disorder, whereas other therapeutic agents for opioid use disorders address either physical aspects through continued opioid dependence (methadone, buprenorphine) or psychological aspects of addiction like craving (naltrexone), but do not address both and cannot be used together."
Despite the erroneous labeling as a drug, an "African root that causes severe hallucinations but can be used as a the treatment for heroin addictions"", statistically speaking, many Americans still support legalizing iboga. In fact, iboga is a naturally occurring ethnobotanical and has been used successfully by the traditional African healers for years. There is an opiate epidemic underway, and more potent synthetics like W-18, which is 10,000x more potent than morphine, have been reported just 400 miles north of Eugene, OR for the first time ever.
Can we wait for the next wave of addictive opiates to wash over our green city without a remedy such as iboga on hand? An ethnobotanical that has been scientifically demonstrated to make opiate withdrawals virtually vanish. South Africa thinks so, and just medicalized the plant. Vermont is also considering similar measures. From the ethnobotanical angle, the iboga plant could be grown by anyone, it's healing properties utilized to alleviate human suffering. However this would leave any would be grower of this plant to face stiff penalties, harsh prison sentences, and even the loss of parental rights. Does that sound a little bit like cannabis prohibition once did?
In a time of urgency, as the Afghanistan government has eliminated it's poppy eradication program leading some farmers to yield up to four times more poppies this year, a marked increase in opiate availability may too come to pass. This, in addition to the synthetic opiate W-18 entering the market place. Without the availability of iboga and other ethnobotanicals for addiction treatment available, our best harm reduction practices are to build more treatment centers for millions of dollars. These very centers which are coming increasingly under-fire from the general community and in Behavioral Town Hall Meetings, and in broad terms, increase supplies of methadone (another form of opiate).
In short, opiates are expensive, and scientifically unsuperior when compared with iboga, and other ethnobotanicals. As a modern philosopher and spiritual teacher once wrote, "Hope and Fear cannot change the season". The rains have come, the harvest is in, and the arm of "supply side" enforcement has eased it's prohibitive grip, potentially, releasing a new tide of opiates the American population. A population, which seems to maintain a robustly healthy appetite for them. Our community is well-served when well-informed.
And finally, the iboga plant, which was declared a National Heritage in Gabon in 2000, is currently considered a threatened species. "Although people aren't permitted to collect the plant without authorization, from the government, there is nevertheless excessive harvesting". Reports are the plant could disappear from the public domain in less than 5 years.
Tabernanthe iboga, or simply iboga, is a perennial rainforest shrub and psychedelic which is native to western Central Africa. In parts of Africa where the plant grows, the bark of the root is chewed for various pharmacological or ritualistic purposes. Ibogaine, the active alkaloid, is also used to treat substance abuse disorders and depression. A small amount of ibogaine, along with precursors of ibogaine, are found in Voacanga africana. Psychonautwiki
Scientific Evidence of Medicinal Efficacy
A single ibogaine treatment reduced opioid withdrawal symptoms and achieved opioid cessation or sustained reduced use independent individuals as measured over 12 months. Ibogaine's legal availability in New Zealand may offer improved outcomes where legislation supports treatment providers to work closely with other health professionals. – Read More
A four-day treatment with ibogaine was successful in achieving long-term remission of a previously treatment-refractory patient with severe Opioid Use Disorder. the case of a 37-year-old female with a 19-year history of severe OUD achieving an ongoing 18-month period of abstinence following a four-day ibogaine treatment. Her previous longest period of continuous abstinence from opioids was two months while on methadone. – Read More
Results suggest that the use of ibogaine supervised by a physician and accompanied by psychotherapy can facilitate prolonged periods of abstinence, without the occurrence of fatalities or complications. These results suggest that ibogaine can be a safe and effective treatment for dependence on a stimulant and other non-opiate drugs. – Read More
Behavioral pharmacologic studies in animal models provided evidence that ibogaine could blunt self-administration of not only opiates but cocaine, amphetamines. – Read More
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Performance marketing is all about generating online sales leads and making the most of consumer interest, and lead optimization company Kwanzoo is a specialist in that space.
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The country begins a period of national mourning as police search for suspects in the deadly shooting.
Mali will begin three days of national mourning on Sunday at midnight local time following a shooting attack at a hotel in the capital of Bamako that left at least 19 people dead.
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced the mourning period on Saturday, a day after gunmen stormed the Radisson Blu hotel, which is popular with travelers and tourists, and opened fire. The victims include six Russians, three Chinese, two Belgians, one American, one Israeli, one Senegalese, and several Malians.
Neighboring Guinea joined Mali in its mourning on Sunday. President Alpha Conde said his country will also observe three days of mourning, and urged citizens to be vigilant about reporting suspicious activity to police.
Mali has declared a 10-day state of emergency while police search for suspects in connection to the attack. Malian Army Major Modibo Nama Traore told the AP Sunday that security forces are looking for "more than three" people connected to the attacks. News outlets reported that two attackers were killed when special forces stormed the hotel to rescue trapped patrons.
Traore said that the assailants used Kalashnikov assault rifles in the attack.
"We didn't see the jihadists until they started firing on us," a hotel guard told the AP. "We weren't concentrating and we didn't expect it." Inside the hotel, the assailants fired "at anything that moved," according to one employee, who spoke with CNN.
French President Francois Hollande condemned the shooting Friday, calling the assailants "terrorists." France currently has about 1,000 troops stationed in Mali, a former colony, as part of a counterterrorism effort.
Two groups—Al-Mourabitoun, which has ties to al-Qaeda, and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb—have taken responsibility for the attack, but their claims have not been verified.
Many of the specifics surrounding the attackers, including the number involved and their identities, remain unclear.
A coalition of separatist groups in the north of Mali has claimed that the shooting attack was an attempt to thwart an ongoing peace process between the groups and the Malian government. The Coordination of Azawad Movements signed a peace agreement with the Malian government in June after almost one year of talks in Algeria.
"The jihadis are in different groups but their goal is the same, and that's to hinder implementation of the peace accord," said Sidi Brahim Ould Sidati, a representative of the coalition.
The AP and CNN reported that the Radisson hotel was scheduled to host the latest meeting between both sides.
Tajha Chappellet-Lanier is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. She has worked for NPR and the editorial board at USA Today.


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Peter Grundy worked with Templar Publishing on this, his first ever Children's Book. Peter designed a bespoke iconographic library of illustrations for the book which aims to help children understand the way the human body functions. 'I See What You Mean: Human Body' will be published in 2014 by Big Pictures Press. See more pages from the book here.
Really pleased we can finally show these two posters Justin Metz created for the London premier of Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim with Warner Brothers. The posters show a Kaiju sat on top of the IMAX theatre (where the premier took place) and a Jaeger about to pull down the Gherkin. Big thank you to Empire Magazine as well.For more on Justin Metz, and to see his portfolio click here.
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Which wide-angle lens should I buy for my Nikon D90?
I've gotten pretty good with cameras and photography over the years, and sometimes I'm asked for advice.
Hey man any thoughts on what I should get for group shots with my D90? I have this Nikkor 50mm f1.4 and love it for portraits but it's rough shooting groups of people or in close quarters. Would like to stay under $600 if I can.
It's a great question, because getting a decent wide-angle lens under $600 is a challenge. The best wide-angle choices from Nikkor are very expensive. For instance, one of my favorite lenses is this Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens and Amazon currently has it (discounted) at over $1700. I don't take it out of my bag too often, but when I do the results are pretty damn cool.
My everyday lens is a Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens which is an extremely versatile piece of equipment on my D700. Since getting it, the 14-24mm only comes out to play on special occasions.
All things considered, the right choice that won't break the bank is probably the Sigma 18-50 with a MSRP of $420, but available from Amazon for only $199 - Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8-4.5 SLD Aspherical DC Optical Stabilized (OS) Lens with Hyper Sonic Motor (HSM) for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras .
If you get that particular Sigma, I suspect it will become your default lens. The zoom range is super versatile and the 2.8 aperture when you have the lens at it's widest is fast enough for most purposes. You might even get away with using it for non-flash interior shots although I don't personally have experience with high-ISO performance on the D90. All my zoom lenses are f2.8 and they serve me well with the D700 at ISOs up to 3200.


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Wilmette Lodge Fellowship are a fraternal society which is made up of men who are concerned with moral and spiritual values. Members of the Freemasons or Masons as they're also known are taught the precepts of Freemasonry by means of ritual dramas. These Masonic rituals follow ancient forms and involve the customs and tools of stonemasons as allegorical guides.
Freemasons follow 3 great principles:
Brotherly Love – Every true Freemason will show tolerance and respect for the opinions of others and behave with kindness and understanding to his fellow creatures.
Relief – Freemasons are taught to practise charity and to care, not only for their own, but also for the community as a whole, both by charitable giving, and by voluntary efforts and works as individuals.
Truth – Freemasons strive for truth, requiring high moral standards and aiming to achieve them in their own lives.
And they believe that by following these main principles, that they may achieve higher standards in life. Freemasons believe strongly in providing charity to others, if not through monetary donations, then through undertaking voluntary work.
Misconceptions about Freemasons
A lot of people have misconceptions about what Freemason are. Some people think it's a secretive organisation, with unusual initiation ceremonies and rituals. Whilst others, believe that Freemasons are a society which is made up of business owners who 'take care of each other' or in other words, they only deal with each others' businesses.
All of these ideas are completely untrue, Freemasonry is not a secretive society at all, and Freemasons often hold open day events, where anyone interested in the Freemasonry come to a Lodge and find out more.
Members of the Freemasons openly acknowledge their membership, if anyone asks them. And the rules of Freemasonry and its aims and principles are freely available to the public Address: 1450 N. Lehigh Glenview, IL 60026-2027.
Structure of Freemasonry
The fraternity of Freemasons is split up into Grand Lodges which govern their own geographical area. These Grand Lodge areas are in turn made up of smaller lodges. Which cover areas such as towns, cities and counties.
Each lodge has its own Masonic regalia or uniform. Items of regalia worn at Masonic meetings include dress such as ties and aprons. Which have significance in terms of rank of different members of that individual lodge.
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Poong charcoal korean bbq restaurant is pretty unique in a way that it presents us with a traditional-styled restaurant. The decors were excessively 'ordinary' and everything was painted in green. There was no adequate exhaust fan for the smoke generated from the pot so I would advise you NOT to wear fancy outfit. Despite all these drawbacks, the restaurant caught my attention because of the hominess feeling and of course it is pretty cheap as you go with more people.
Normally we go into the restaurant from the back entrance through an alley. There will be no a la carte menu in this restaurant and You will be cooking your own food on a burning-hot charcoal mesh. It is important to cook your food fast as it will be burnt pretty quickly if you are not aware.
There's not much variety of food they offer and their menu is presented in Korean with a loosely translated English (e.g. Beef triple, Beef Skirt Slice). They do serve Korean Soju (rice wine) or Beer that you can try.
One must-order dish that I would recommend is Marinated BBQ Spare Ribs. You will get two layered, boned-in spare ribs that you can cut to your bite size. The meat is very juicy and a little bit BBQ-sweet. No matter how you cook it (from medium raw to well done), it will still be soft and tender. Once you're done with the meat, I would also recommend you to cook the leftover bone for its tasty tendon.
As a side dish, you will be given complimentary kimchi and a plate of assorted raw vegetables. You will also be given sesame oil and homemade sauce – tastes a little bit hot and sour, like kimchi. The drink is served in an aluminium container/cup and there's an additional charge for rice.
For the daredevils, you are welcomed to try Poong's authentic Korean cold noodle, called Arrowroot & Cold Noodle Soup. My not-so-much-of-a-fan illustration of this noodle would be: it's grey noodle chucked into crushed ice with Kimchi sauce and some vegeteables.
I'm pretty sure they like it a lot but it's not suited to my tastebud.
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The future of the smart card integrated circuit (IC) market looks attractive with opportunities in telecommunication, payment and banking, transportation, e-government, and others. The global smart card IC market is expected to reach an estimated $4.3 billion by 2023 with a CAGR of 4.0% from 2018 to 2023. The major drivers for the growth of this market are increasing usage of Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards for mobile phones, growing adoption of electronic identification cards for various e-governance projects, and increasing usage of smart cards in payment and banking industries.
Emerging trends, which have a direct impact on the dynamics of the smart card IC industry, include the development of smart card IC that can provide more security and integration of smart cards with biometrics.
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Some of the smart card IC companies profiled in this report include Infineon Technologies AG, NXP Semiconductor, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, and CEC Huada Electronic Design Co. Ltd and others.
In this market two types of cards, such as microcontroller and memory based are used. Microcontroller based smart card IC will remain the largest type, and it is expected to witness the highest growth during the forecast period as it enables secure payment facilities, authentication, and information storage for consumers.
The global smart card IC market is being used in various end use industries, such as e-government, telecommunication, transportation, payment and banking, and others. Telecommunication will remain the largest application segment during the forecast period supported by the rising adoption for subscriber identity modules (SIM) cards for mobile phones.
Asia Pacific is expected to be the largest region over the forecast period supported by increasing demand for smartphones in China and India. The government of various Asian countries mandates smart card IC in national ID cards, driving licenses, and other government identification cards, which is expected to drive the Asian smart card IC market during the forecast period.
Market size estimates: Global smart card IC market size estimation in terms of value ($M) shipment.Trend and forecast analysis: Market trend (2012-2017) and forecast (2018-2023) by application, and end use industry.Segmentation analysis: Global smart card IC market size by various applications such as card type, type of interface, and end use industry in terms of value and volume shipment.Regional analysis: Global smart card IC market breakdown by North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the World.Growth opportunities: Analysis on growth opportunities in different applications and regions of smart card IC in the global smart card IC market.Strategic analysis: This includes M&A, new product development, and competitive landscape of smart card IC in the global smart card IC market. Analysis of competitive intensity of the industry based on Porter's Five Forces model.
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Q.4 What are the key factors affecting market dynamics? What are the drivers and challenges of the smart card IC market?
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STDs are spreading like wildfire in the US
Despite decades of sexual education and STD awareness campaigns, the rates at which new STD cases are reported continues to rise. A new bulletin by the CDC paints a particularly dire picture of sexual health in the United States, with some diseases reaching levels not seen for almost 20 years, and others reaching legitimate all-time highs.
The CDC's report is based on data from 2017 to 2018, and it shows a shocking number of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia cases across the nation. The data reveals over 115,000 syphilis cases in that time period and over 580,000 cases of gonorrhea, neither of which have seen levels this high since 1991. Chlamydia? Well, that's a whole other story.
The CDC says that an increase of around 3% in chlamydia cases nationwide puts the total number at over 1.7 million, which is the highest it's ever been.
Of the three illnesses, syphilis has seen the most dramatic gains. Chlamydia's 3% increase and gonorrhea's 5% increase both pale in comparison to the incredible 14% spike seen for syphilis. Even worse, the rate of syphilis infections among newborns jumped up a whopping 40% compared to the previous year.
Babies who contract syphilis from their mothers are at an incredible risk. Stillbirth and newborn death are both legitimate risks for expecting mothers who have syphilis, and even if the baby survives, it may face serious developmental issues.
"There are tools available to prevent every case of congenital syphilis," CDC's Gail Bolan, M.D. explains. "Testing is simple and can help women to protect their babies from syphilis – a preventable disease that can have irreversible consequences."
The CDC highlights a number of things that are feeding into the rise of STDs, including decreased use of condoms among young people. Combine that with risk factors such as drug use and poverty, as well as reductions in STD awareness programs at both the state and local levels across the US, and you have a recipe for record-breaking STD numbers.
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Before getting into this story, allow me to tell you about a few officers who I still call my friends.
About 35 years ago, I worked with many police departments in the San Francisco Bay Area while I was in the security field.
I knew officers back then who would take a child-molester or someone selling drugs to children, and talk to them off the record and bend the law - maybe even use physically persuasion - to get them and other scum to leave town and seek green pastures elsewhere.
It didn't bother me if those low-lives were sent to Oakland or San Francisco where drug dealers and pedophiles and pimps fit in better with those perspective cesspools.
Those were social criminals, and I really didn't care how social criminals - scum who were determined on bringing their brand of filth to a city - were treated by the police or over zealous security.
As wrong as it might have been legally, back then there was always a very well defined line that wasn't crossed.
The line dealt with "civilians," those folks who were not criminals and not law enforcement.
Law abiding citizens simply weren't treated in the same manner as were the scum. After all, they were the ones the officers swore an oath "to protect and serve."
The Henderson Nevada Police Department crossed the line a few years ago, and now there is a lawsuit taking them to task over their improper actions.
A Nevada family is suing the city of Henderson, Nevada, for violating their Third Amendment rights — the Constitutional prohibition against quartering soldiers in a private home during peacetime without the owner's consent.
The Mitchell family says that's essentially what happened when Henderson police allegedly arrested them for refusing to let officers use their homes for a "tactical advantage" in a domestic violence investigation into a neighbor, according to an official complaint.
Please understand, we're not talking about a police standoff with armed fugitives. Instead, we're talking a police department that wants a better view to gather evidence in a domestic violence investigation.
One situation would be an emergency, what they were doing wasn't an emergency!
Police officers contacted Anthony Mitchell on July 10, 2011, with a request to use his house as a lookout while investigating his neighbor.
When Mitchell told police that he did not wish to be involved, the complaint alleges, police decided they would use the residence anyway.
Imagine that! The police essentially said screw you, we're using your home in this routine investigation whether the homeowner likes it or not.
According to Courthouse News Service, the police department decided that if Mitchell refused to leave or open the door, officers would force their way in and arrest him.
Mitchell claims this is exactly what happened.
First officers "smashed open" Mitchell's door with a "metal ram" after he did not
immediately open it himself.
The complaint states: "The officers banged forcefully on the door and loudly commanded Anthony Mitchell to open the door to his residence.
"Surprised and perturbed, plaintiff Anthony Mitchell immediately called his mother (plaintiff Linda Mitchell) on the phone, exclaiming to her that the police were beating on his front door.
"Seconds later, officers, including Officer Rockwell, smashed open plaintiff Anthony Mitchell's front door with a metal ram as plaintiff stood in his living room.
"As plaintiff Anthony Mitchell stood in shock, the officers aimed their weapons at Anthony Mitchell and shouted obscenities at him and ordered him to lie down on the floor.
"Fearing for his life, plaintiff Anthony Mitchell dropped his phone and prostrated himself onto the floor of his living room, covering his face and hands.
"Addressing plaintiff as 'asshole', officers, including Officer Snyder, shouted conflicting orders at Anthony Mitchell, commanding him to both shut off his phone, which was on the floor in front of his head, and simultaneously commanding him to 'crawl' toward the officers.
"Confused and terrified, plaintiff Anthony Mitchell remained curled on the floor of his living room, with his hands over his face, and made no movement.
"Although plaintiff Anthony Mitchell was lying motionless on the ground and posed no threat, officers, including Officer David Cawthorn, then fired multiple 'pepperball' rounds at plaintiff as he lay defenseless on the floor of his living room. Anthony Mitchell was struck at least three times by shots fired from close range, injuring him and causing him severe pain." (Parentheses in complaint.)
Officers then arrested him for obstructing a police officer, searched the house and moved furniture without his permission and set up a place in his home for a lookout," Mitchell says in the complaint.
He says they also hurt his pet dog for no reason whatsoever:
"Plaintiff Anthony Mitchell's pet, a female dog named 'Sam,' was cowering in the corner when officers smashed through the front door. Although the terrified animal posed no threat to officers, they gratuitously shot it with one or more pepperball rounds. The panicked animal howled in fear and pain and fled from the residence. Sam was subsequently left trapped outside in a fenced alcove without access to water, food, or shelter from the sun for much of the day, while temperatures outside soared to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit."
Police took Anthony and Michael Mitchell to jail and booked them for obstructing an officer.
They were jailed for at least nine hours before they bailed out, they say in the complaint. All criminals charged were dismissed with prejudice.
They claim the defendants filed the baseless criminal charges "to provide cover for defendants' wrongful actions, to frustrate and impede plaintiffs' ability to seek relief for those actions, and to further intimidate and retaliate against plaintiffs."
None of the officers were ever subjected to official discipline or even inquiry, the complaint states.
Understand that he then "curled on the floor of his living room, with his hands over his face," as the police shot Mitchell and his dog — which the family claims did not attack the officers — several times with "pepperball" rounds.
Pepperball is a projectile containing chemical irritant pepper spray, which is released upon impact.
Afterward, Mitchell was arrested for "obstructing a police officer."
The ordeal didn't end there.
Anthony Mitchell's parents, Michael and Linda, were also neighbors to the home where police officers suspected domestic violence, so the police wanted to use their home as well.
Michael Mitchell was invited to a local police command center to assist "in negotiating the surrender of the neighboring suspect."
But upon arriving at the commander center, the elder Mitchell was informed that the negotiations wouldn't be taking place, the complaint says.
Yes, it was all a lie! And when Michael Mitchell decided to leave, he was also arrested.
The elder Mitchell's wife was not arrested, but she was roughly escorted from her home while other officers entered the house without permission, the complaint alleges.
The family claims that when she was allowed to return, "the cabinets and closet doors throughout the house had been left open and their contents moved about…
Even the refrigerator door had been left ajar, and mustard and mayonnaise had been left on their kitchen floor."
The charges against both the father and the son were dismissed.
Third Amendment lawsuits are rare.
The case Engblom v. Carey is the only major court decision concerning the amendment.
It resulted from a lawsuit filed by striking New York corrections officers who were evicted from employee housing to make room for National Guardsmen who were performing their functions during the strike.
The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled against the corrections officers in 1982.
For the Mitchell family, it didn't end at Anthony Mitchell's house in suburban Las Vegas, the complaint continues.
Believe it or not, as completely insane as it sounds, that same day, the officers also took over the home of Mitchell's parents, Linda and Michael Mitchell, who live in the same neighborhood and are named as plaintiffs.
Now the focus is on whether the Mitchell's Third Amendment strategy can work, considering the courts would have to consider the "police officers as soldiers."
The Third Amendment states: "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
"I'm confident the Mitchells have a good case," said Frank Cofer, a partner in the firm Cofer, Geller & Durham LLC representing the plaintiffs.
Cofer told FoxNews.com that what struck him about the case was the officers' "use of military-style tactics."
"And after entering the houses, they drank water, ate food, enjoyed the air conditioning," he said. "That struck me as quartering."
The suit alleges that, at the parents' house, police lured Michael Mitchell from his home to a nearby "command center" by saying they needed him to get the neighbor involved in the domestic violence case to surrender.
When officers began to backpedal, Mitchell eventually attempted to leave, which resulted in him being handcuffed and eventually charged with obstructing an officer.
Police then returned to Mitchells' house where they allegedly yanked wife Linda from the premises after she refused to let them in without a warrant
She was not arrested, and police have dropped all charges against the family.
However, the Mitchells are still suing for an undisclosed sum, saying their rights as citizens were violated under the Third Amendment -- as well as the Fourth and 14th amendments -- and that the incident resulted in physical injury, malicious destruction of property and "extreme emotional distress."
Anthony and Michael also had to pay a bond to secure their release, the suit alleges.
John Yoo, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley's law school, wasn't so sure about the family's argument.
He said the Mitchells may have claims under other federal and state laws "but their chances are very, very low on the Third Amendment."
Professor Yoo, a visiting scholar for the American Enterprise Institute and former Justice Department official, told FoxNews.com in their report of what took place that the most difficult challenge for the Mitchells is that there were no "soldiers" in their house, before the court gets into the question of whether "quartering" occurred.
"Local police on law enforcement missions are not soldiers," he said.
But he asserts, "Nevada should compensate the Mitchells' for the temporary use of their home and for any damages caused in the operation."
Others see this as an important case regarding Constitutional Law since police departments which have been traditionally "para-military organizations" have of late become more and more abusive of their police powers.
And yes, military of sorts in dress, equipment, weapons, tactics, and overall conduct.
From bloused boots to military style so-called tactical fatigues, while not of a caliber of the United States Marine Corps, more and more police departments are indeed attempting to adopt the persona of wannabe soldiers.
And no, before you write, I don't know why a policeman or woman would want to look like a soldier instead of wanting to look like a cop?
Yes, the days of policemen looking like a policemen are gone in many places.
Anthony Mitchell and his parents Michael and Linda Mitchell are suing the City of Henderson, its Police Chief Jutta Chambers, Officers Garret Poiner, Ronald Feola, Ramona Walls, Angela Walker, and Christopher Worley, and City of North Las Vegas and its Police Chief Joseph Chronister, in Federal Court.
The suit also alleges both police departments "developed and maintained policies and/or customs exhibiting deliberate indifference to the Constitutional rights of United States citizens, which caused the violations of the plaintiffs' rights."
I have always supported Police Departments. I've always had a lot of respect for good cops.
But wrong is wrong, and the Henderson Police Department in Nevada is made up of some officers who have very questionable ethics.
When you hear someone say that you're exaggerating what the police are capable of doing when it comes to bending the law to fit their purposes, use as an example the Henderson Nevada Police.
Ask them if they heard of the Mitchell family who were forced from their home without warrant during a non-emergency situation, were handcuffed and arrested, restrained and humiliated, who had their home -- their home -- violated by strangers who knew very well that what they were doing was wrong.
And there's the other part of this story, maybe the bigger part of this story, it has to do with our trust in the law enforcement around us.
We trust them to know the difference between right and wrong and not cross that line.
The line they crossed was treating law abiding citizens in the same manner they would criminals and scum.
They broke the trust of those who those officers swore an oath to "protect and serve."
I believe Money Magazine ranked the city of Henderson in Nevada as number 66 of the top 100 Best Places to Live - America's Best Small Cities in 2012.
They praised the city of 263,300, when they wrote:
"For a city in the desert, Henderson takes parks very seriously: the town is connected by 65 miles of trails, and its award-winning parks and recreation department is working toward a goal of having a neighborhood park within a half mile of all city residents. Henderson's budget dipped in the downturn, but no services were cut thanks to a rainy-day fund and sustainability efforts that save $2 million a year. With affordable homes and no state income tax, the town is popular with young families and retirees alike. --E.R."
They left out an out of hand police department!
Imagine if Anthony Mitchell had put up more resistance and fought back to protest what was taking place or to protect his home from the armed forced eviction by those overzealous officers?
He's actually very fortunate that he didn't.
Would the City of Henderson, the City Police Department, its Police Chief, the 5 unprofessional officers involved, or the North Las Vegas Police Department, have gave a damn if they used deadly force and killed Anthony Mitchell in the process of him defending his home or his wife or parents?
Instead of shooting him with pepperballs, would those running the city have cared if he had somehow died in the process of restraining him?
In my opinion, I don't think they would have cared.
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