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Iran News Roundup 12/14
15 December 2011 Posted By Ardavon Naimi
How covert operations can spiral out of control
Barry Lando writes on the dangers of increasing covert operations against Iran. "Predictably, aggressive acts will provoke retaliation from Iran — a situation, which, in the context of America's superheated presidential primaries, could spiral dangerously out of control. Which is just what militants in Tehran, Jerusalem, and Washington may be out to provoke" (Lando Huffington Post 12/13).
Increased sanctions and higher oil prices
The Obama administration and European allies are seeking assurance that Saudi Arabia will boost oil output in order to prevent higher oil prices and damage to the global economy because of sanctions (Los Angeles Times 12/13). Yet Iran's oil minister, at an OPEC meeting, said Saudi oil minister Ali Naimi has agreed not to increase oil output to replace Iranian oil (Boston Globe 12/14).
The U.S. placed sanctions on two top Iranian military figures for human rights violations in the wake of the June 2009 election: Lieutenant Commander of IRGC Ground Force Abdollah Agragi and Chief of Staff of the Joint Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Firouzabadi (AFP 12/13).
Nokia Siemens Networks announced that it would stop doing business with Iran–gradually reduce its existing commitments starting next year (Wall Street Journal 12/13). Nokia Siemens Networks came under fire in 2009 after providing the Iranian government with surveillance equipment used against peaceful protestors.
Mitt Romney on the M.E.K.
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was asked whether he supported the removal of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq from the State Department's list of designated terrorist organizations.
"I have not heard of the MEK, so I can't possibly tell you whether I support the MEK. I'll take a look at the issue," said Romney. Romney's special advisor on foreign policy, Mitchell Reiss, is an advocate for the group.
Notable opinion:
In a Washington Post op-ed, Thomas Erdbrink discusses the growing fears and concern amongst ordinary Iranians regarding the possibility of war and the negative impact international sanctions are having on everyday lives.
Instead of sharing that sense of defiance, however, many ordinary Iranians are increasingly worried that war could be catastrophic.
As tension rises, many have started taking precautionary measures. Some are stocking up on basic goods. Others are changing their money into foreign currencies, or obtaining visas to move abroad.
Anxiety is also being fueled by the latest rounds of international sanctions against Iran. While Iranian officials continually say the country can cope with the growing limitations, average Iranians are faced with soaring prices and a plummeting exchange rate for their currency, the rial. It has lost 48 percent of its value against the dollar since 2008.
To read the full piece click here.
Additional Notable News:
Iran's intelligence minister Heidar Moslehi met the Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz Al Saud to refute U.S. claims that Tehran planned to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington, according to a senior Iranian official.
Next Post: Iran News Roundup 12/15 >>
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Tell Google: Stop playing Persian Gulf name games!
Dear Mr. Page:
It has come to our attention that Google has begun omitting the title of the Persian Gulf from its Google Maps application. This is a disconcerting development given the undisputed historic and geographic precedent of the name Persian Gulf, and the more recent history of opening up the name to political, ethnic, and territorial disputes. However unintentionally, in adopting this practice, Google is participating in a dangerous effort to foment tensions and ethnic divisions in the Middle East by politicizing the region's geographic nomenclature. Members of the Iranian-American community are overwhelmingly opposed to such efforts, particularly at a time when regional tensions already have been pushed to the brink and threaten to spill over into conflict. As the largest grassroots organization in the Iranian-American community, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) calls on Google to not allow its products to become propaganda tools and to immediately reinstate the historically accurate, apolitical title of "Persian Gulf" in all of its informational products, including Google Maps.
Historically, the name "Persian Gulf" is undisputed. The Greek geographer and astronomer Ptolemy referencing in his writings the "Aquarius Persico." The Romans referred to the "Mare Persicum." The Arabs historically call the body of water, "Bahr al-Farsia." The legal precedent of this nomenclature is also indisputable, with both the United Nations and the United States Board of Geographic Names confirming the sole legitimacy of the term "Persian Gulf." Agreement on this matter has also been codified by the signatures of all six bordering Arab countries on United Nations directives declaring this body of water to be the Persian Gulf.
But in the past century, and particularly at times of escalating tensions, there have been efforts to exploit the name of the Persian Gulf as a political tool to foment ethnic division. From colonial interests to Arab interests to Iranian interests, the opening of debate regarding the name of the Persian Gulf has been a recent phenomenon that has been exploited for political gain by all sides. Google should not enable these politicized efforts.
In the 1930s, British adviser to Bahrain Sir Charles Belgrave proposed to rename the Persian Gulf, "Arabian Gulf," a proposal that was rejected by the British Colonial and Foreign offices. Two decades later, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company resurrected the term during its dispute with Mohammad Mossadegh, the Iranian Prime Minister whose battle with British oil interests would end in a U.S.-sponsored coup d'état that continues to haunt U.S.-Iran relations. In the 1960s, the title "Arabian Gulf" became central to propaganda efforts during the Pan-Arabism era aimed at exploiting ethnic divisions in the region to unite Arabs against non-Arabs, namely Iranians and Israelis. The term was later employed by Saddam Hussein to justify his aims at territorial expansion. Osama Bin Laden even adopted the phrase in an attempt to rally Arab populations by emphasizing ethnic rivalries in the Middle East.
We have serious concerns that Google is now playing into these efforts of geographic politicization. Unfortunately, this is not the first time Google has stirred controversy on this topic. In 2008, Google Earth began including the term "Arabian Gulf" in addition to Persian Gulf as the name for the body of water. NIAC and others called on you then to stop using this ethnically divisive propaganda term, but to no avail. Instead of following the example of organizations like the National Geographic Society, which in 2004 used term "Arabian Gulf" in its maps but recognized the error and corrected it, Google has apparently decided to allow its informational products to become politicized.
Google should rectify this situation and immediately include the proper name for the Persian Gulf in Google Maps and all of its informational products. The exclusion of the title of the Persian Gulf diminishes your applications as informational tools, and raises questions about the integrity and accuracy of information provided by Google.
We strongly urge you to stay true to Google's mission – "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" – without distorting or politicizing that information. We look forward to an explanation from you regarding the recent removal of the Persian Gulf name from Google Maps and call on you to immediately correct this mistake.
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TEKLYNX International is excited to announce that we have won Silver in the Customer Service Department of the Year: Computer Software category in the 12th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service! More than 2,500 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were evaluated in this year's competition. Finalists were determined by the average scores provided by more than 150 professionals worldwide, in seven specialized judging committees.
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The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough ambition and nerve and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police Superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw.
But even among criminals there are rules and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss by stealing his money and his moll.
The fiery affair ends in tragedy, setting Joe on a path of revenge, ambition, romance and betrayal that propels him out of Boston and up the ladder of Tampa's steamy rum-running underworld.
Slated for release on Jan. 13, 2017, "Live By Night" is a presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures, to be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.


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Southampton vs Liverpool: Line-up, EPL prediction and result
By: Staff Reporter | Published on: Sunday, 3 January 2021 Sunday, 3 January 2021
Jurgen's Reds make their 2021 EPL bow on the south coast.
Latest EPL standings as well as fixtures and results are found below the predictions.
It's out with the old and in with the new for Liverpool, who kick off their new year in the English Premier League with a visit to Southampton on Monday.
The reigning champions finished 2020 top of the EPL table despite a pair of minor festive hiccups, drawing first at home to lowly West Brom, then away at Newcastle on Wednesday night.
It has created a nostalgic battle at the summit for Jurgen Klopp and Co, though, as north west rivals Manchester United continue their charge to be the pretenders to the Premier League throne.
A bundle of injury concerns are blighting Klopp's squad, meaning rookie Rhys Williams is expected to carry on in defence here, with the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip all on the sidelines.
Thiago could return from injury at least, while Georginio Wijnaldum had the luxury of a rest in the week.
Southampton could do with a bit of new year's impetus, having gone four games without a win and three without scoring a goal.
It was probably too much to expect Ralph Hasenhuttl's men to maintain their searing form, although they remain right in contention for European qualification.
Danny Ings may well be fit to feature against his old club, although Nathan Redmond and Jannik Vestergaard look set to miss out.
Southampton vs Liverpool: English Premier League Predictions by the numbers
Coming into this game, Southampton has picked up 6 points from the last 5 games, both home and away. That's 1.2 points per game on average. BTTS has landed in just 1 of those games. Southampton has scored 4 times in the last 5 fixtures.
Southampton has put together a good run of form and has now gone 2 games without defeat.
Southampton has kept 3 clean sheets in the last 5 games, conceding 2 goals during this period. Overall this season, their defence has kept a clean sheet on 7 occasions.
Southampton will be looking to keep up the momentum today against Liverpool, having lost just 1 game from the last 5. They have won 1 and drawn 3
Things have not been going that well in front of goal for Southampton recently, with the side failing to score in 3 of the last 5 games. Will the manager change his tactics today, or throw in another forward?
Just 1 of the last 5 games for Southampton has ended with both teams scoring. They have won 1 of those 5 games. Overall, BTTS has landed in 7/16 games for Southampton this season.
Southampton will need to improve their attack if they're to get anything out of this game. They have not scored in the last 3 matches. During the last five games they have scored 4 times and overall this season they have scored 1.56 goals per game.
Coming into this game, Liverpool has picked up 9 points from the last 5 games, both home and away. That's 1.8 points per game on average. BTTS has landed in an intriguing 3 of those games. Liverpool has scored 11 times in the last 5 fixtures.
Superb stuff from Liverpool away from home, where they are currently unbeaten in 6 games. Can they go another game without defeat?
Momentum is really building for Liverpool as they have now gone 12 games without losing. They have won 2 of the last 5 games they have played.
Liverpool is unbeaten in the last 5 games coming into this fixture against Southampton, having won 2 and drawn 3. They have scored 11 goals in those 5 games.
In the last 5 matches for Liverpool, 3 of those games has ended with both teams scoring. This season 11 matches (69% of all matches) involving Liverpool has seen BTTS landing.
Stats source: footystats.org
Southampton vs Liverpool: Prediction
Prediction methodology explained: The expected win percentage is based off publicly available odds. For example, if a team's odds are 2.30, the expected chance of winning is 43%. If the odds are 1.62 the expected chance of winning is 62% and so on. These are accurate at the time of writing but are subject to change. Where there is no value listed, the odds were not available at the time of writing.
Southampton vs Liverpool: EPL starting XI prediction
Probable Southampton Starting XI: Alex McCarthy, Kyle Walker-Peters, Jan Bednarek, Jack Stephens, Ryan Bertrand, Stuart Armstrong, James Ward-Prowse, Oriol Romeu, Theo Walcott, Che Adams, Shane Long.
Probable Liverpool Starting XI: Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Rhys Williams, Fabinho, Andy Robertson, Jordan Henderson, Thiago, Georginio Wijnaldum, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane.
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Have you ever walked across a wool carpet in leather-soled shoes on a dry winter day, and then reached out toward a doorknob? ZAP! A stinging spark leaps between your fingers and the metal knob.
That's static discharge–lightning writ small.
Static discharge is merely annoying to anyone on Earth living where winters have exceptionally low humidity. But to astronauts on the Moon or on Mars, static discharge could be real trouble.
"On Mars, we think the soil is so dry and insulating that if an astronaut were out walking, once he or she returned to the habitat and reached out to open the airlock, a little lightning bolt might zap critical electronics," explains Geoffrey A. Landis, a physicist with the Photovoltaics and Space Environmental Effects Branch at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
This phenomenon is called triboelectric charging.
The prefix "tribo" (pronounced TRY-bo) means "rubbing." When certain pairs of unlike materials, such as wool and hard shoe-sole leather, rub together, one material gives up some of its electrons to the other material. The separation of charge can create a strong electric field.
Here on Earth, the air around us and the clothes we wear usually have enough humidity to be decent electrical conductors, so any charges separated by walking or rubbing have a ready path to ground. Electrons bleed off into the ground instead of accumulating on your body.
But when air and materials are extraordinarily dry, such as on a dry winter's day, they are excellent insulators, so there is no ready pathway to ground. Your body can accumulate negative charges, possibly up to an amazing 20 thousand volts. If you touch a conductor, such as a metal doorknob, then–ZAP!–all the accumulated electrons discharge at once.
On the Moon and on Mars, conditions are ideal for triboelectric charging. The soil is drier than desert sand on Earth. That makes it an excellent electrical insulator. Moreover, the soil and most materials used in spacesuits and spacecraft (e.g., aluminized mylar, neoprene-coated nylon, Dacron, urethane-coated nylon, tricot, and stainless steel) are completely unlike each other. When astronauts walk or rovers roll across the ground, their boots or wheels gather electrons as they rub through the gravel and dust. Because the soil is insulating, providing no path to ground, a space suit or rover can build up tremendous triboelectric charge, whose magnitude is yet unknown. And when the astronaut or vehicle gets back to base and touches metal–ZAP! The lights in the base may go out, or worse.
Landis and colleagues at NASA Glenn first noticed this problem in the late 1990s before Mars Pathfinder was launched. "When we ran a prototype wheel of the Sojourner rover over simulated Martian dust in a simulated Martian atmosphere, we found it charged up to hundreds of volts," he recalls.
That discovery so concerned the scientists that they modified Pathfinder's rover design, adding needles half an inch long, made of ultrathin (0.0001-inch diameter) tungsten wire sharpened to a point, at the base of antennas. The needles would allow any electric charge that built up on the rover to bleed off into the thin Martian atmosphere, "like a miniature lightning rod operating in reverse," explains Carlos Calle, lead scientist at NASA's Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Similar protective needles were also installed on the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
Here on Earth, it's simple: we minimize static discharge by grounding electrical systems. Grounding them means literally connecting them to Earth–pounding copper rods deep into the ground. Ground rods work well in most places on Earth because several feet deep the soil is damp, and is thus a good conductor. The Earth itself provides a "sea of electrons," which neutralizes everything connected to it, explains Calle.
There's no moisture, though, in the soil of the Moon or Mars. Even the ice believed to permeate Martian soil wouldn't help, as "frozen water is not a terribly good conductor," says Landis. So ground rods would be ineffective in establishing a neutral "common ground" for a lunar or Martian colony.
On Mars, the best ground might be, ironically, the air. A tiny radioactive source "such as that used in smoke detectors," could be attached to each spacesuit and to the habitat, suggests Landis. Low-energy alpha particles would fly off into the rarefied atmosphere, hitting molecules and ionizing them (removing electrons). Thus, the atmosphere right around the habitat or astronaut would become conductive, neutralizing any excess charge.
Achieving a common ground on the Moon would be trickier, where there's not even a rarefied atmosphere to help bleed off the charge. Instead, a common ground might be provided by burying a huge sheet of foil or mesh of fine wires, possibly made of aluminum (which is highly conductive and could be extracted from lunar soil), underneath the entire work area. Then all the habitat's walls and apparatus would be electrically connected to the aluminum.
Research is still preliminary. So ideas differ amongst the physicists who are seeking, well, some common ground.


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Anna Chromy
Anna Chromy was born in 1949 on the banks of Moldova, river that connects her place of birth Cesky Krumlov and Prague her mother's hometown. Anna spent her youth between Salzbourg and Vienna. The youngest of four girls, he was the only one to inherit from the artistic talent of her father. Her music never left her and had an important influence on her first creations.
Very early, she started to draw but only registered at the Beaux-Arts academy in Paris after her marriage. After twenty years of painting and a long immobilization due to an accident she began a new evolution in her career and decided to exclusively dedicate herself to sculpture by using bronze and marble. Since that time, she has participated in almost hundreds exhibitions.
Anna Chromy is the first woman artist that received the Michelangelo prize, the first feminine foreign artist to have been exhibited at the National Museums of Peking and Athens; she also worked for the Vatican and other personalities.
In 2008 she created the "Le Manteau de la Conscience" that she painted 30 years ago. Anna Chromy had the opportunity to get a block of white marble of 250 tonnes, that she curved during 3 years in the Michelange workshop in Carrare to create a masterful artwork of 60 tonnes.
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The FEI Dressage World Cup Final gets underway today at Gothenburg in Sweden, with Kildare's Judy Reynolds and the Joe and Kathleen Reynolds-owned gelding Vancouver K drawn as the first combination to enter the arena when the competition begins at 12 noon Irish time.
A total of 18 combinations from 12 countries will take part, and today's opening Grand Prix competition will determine the starting order for Saturday's Grand Prix Freestyle to Music (3pm start Irish time) to decide who will be crowned 2019 FEI World Cup Dressage champions.
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The Time Ranger | No matter where we ride: Merry Christmas!
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Nothing like pulling your boots out of the stirrups, leaning back and stretching in the saddle. Drinking hot coffee up there? That's sure fun, although, for some of you newer suburbanites, don't drink soy. It eats through both leather and horse.
Just five days before Christmas and we've got winter weather like we're in the Bahamas. Someone tell Tom Frew the first official day of winter is tomorrow and remind him to set his clocks back 3.47 hours.
C'mon. We've got an absolute great ride ahead, into the back canyons of Santa Clarita history, legend and lore. Find someone you're fond of and ride next to them. No "accidental bumping" or too much laughing. It's still a small town and people talk.
WAY BACK WHEN & THEN SOME
CAN ONE DO SOMETHING SILLY LIKE FOUNDING WOODS? — On Dec. 20, 1892, the San Gabriel Forest Reserve was founded. It would later be called the Angeles National Forest. You know. All those woods and wilderness surrounding us?
TIRES ME TO THINK ABOUT IT — This week, 100 years back, E.M. Chaix opened up the town's first vulcanizing shop in Newhall. Today, they're called tire stores. That was back in the days when tires had tubes and you patched them with heat, glue and whatever was handy. By the way. E.M.? Great granddad of Chrissy Haskell. Wife (as of press time) of my pal, former Fillmore mayor and Mighty Hart High Indian Ernie Villegas.
GOING TO THE MATTRESSES — Although his businesses were in San Fernando, Will Noble was a frequent advertiser with The Mighty Signal. He was holding a holiday mattress sale. We might also point out that Will's family ran the mortuary business down there. Makes you kind of wonder where some of those beds had been.
OUR WORLD-FAMOUS LODGE — On this date, Rudolph Nickel, former publisher of the Acton Rooster, sold his famed Acton Hotel to a Mrs. D. Beaucamp from San Francisco. The Acton Hotel was quite the resort, and presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover stayed there. Interestingly, in the early days of statehood, Acton was considered as a possible state capital location.
A BIG WIND A-BLOWIN' — A century ago, ice cold winds blew through the valley. The power pole next to Mr. Brazee's house crashed down. Watering troughs and ponds froze over and pipes burst.
ENDS UP MARRYING A NEW YORKER — The Presbyterian church was the scene of a Betty Compton movie. The church was used for a big wedding scene, and the company left behind a lot of cash in the small village. Betty? The former Ziegfeld Follies girl ended up marrying New York Mayor Jimmy Walker in 1933.
SO. JUST HOW, EXACTLY, DOES A CAVEMAN MAKE LOVE? — Speaking of local movie stars, Buck Jones, who would later own what would become Saugus Speedway, was starring in a flick filmed locally — "Firebrand Traverson." Check out this little film snippet describing Buck: "He defied conspirators, made love like a caveman and he won out." Small trivia? Buck died at the famous Coconut Grove Fire of 1942, along with 491 other victims, including my uncle, Fred Sharby.
THE INFAMOUS ACTOR/BANK ROBBER — It was as wild a shootout as we've ever had in these parts. Just a week before Christmas 1925, Jenks Harris and his gang went looking for extra holiday spending money. Harris was a silent film actor who scouted the location while filming the Universal movie, "Confidence" earlier in Piru. First kidnapping the bank manager and his young daughter, Jenks' gang robbed the Piru bank of $11,000. They drove the pair to L.A. and were later dubbed "The Kind-Hearted Robbers." After little Mary Ella complained that the guns frightened her, the robbers put them away and also covered her in a warm coat. As members of the gang were rounded up later, one was shot to death by lawmen. Besides being a film actor, Jenks was later found to be the leader of a human smuggling ring, a narcotics peddler and a bootlegger.
THE BANK THAT WAS ROBBED TWICE — Interestingly, that same bank would later be "held up" in the 1999 bank heist comedy, "Happy Texas." Despite bombing at the box office, it's a funny movie.
SITTING ON A BLACK & GOOEY FORTUNE — Government had its eyes on old A.M. Dunn's ranch for years. On this date, Warden Houlahan of San Quentin and Warden Court Smith of Folsom paid a visit to Castaic to inspect the Dunn Dairy farm as a possible prison site. Years later, the county would use eminent domain to force Dunn out of his ranch so they could build a minimum-security prison that would be called Wayside Honor Rancho. Almost the day after they forced Dunn into selling his farm, the county discovered massive oil deposits there and made a small fortune leasing it out to oil companies. Dunn, for some odd reason, waited too many years to sue. Decades later, Wayside would be upgraded to a maximum-security facility and be called the Peter Pitchess Detention Center.
WE AIN'T LION — Carlton Thompson had a literal rude awakening at 2:30 a.m. We were having one of those not-uncommon December heat waves and Thompson was sleeping on his front porch in the middle of Newhall. He awoke to hear panting, which he thought was from the neighbor's German shepherd. 'Twasn't. Thompson whistled to call what he thought was his pal puppy and was rather startled to find it was a mountain lion. The puma roared, then took off for parts unknown. That'll get the blood pumping.
TODAY, WE'D BE ACCUSED OF SIZEISM — This newspaper called it: "The Mystery of The Big-Footed Lady of the Woods." Sheriff's deputies found a complete woman's ensemble — skirt, blouse, nylons, brassiere, panties and size-9 shoes — neatly folded near Sand and Soledad canyons and placed nicely on a rock. No woman around to claim them and no one seems to recall seeing a naked lady wandering about Canyon Country. Well. Around Christmas of 1940, that is.
AND BEAUTISM? — Local good-looker Nils Granlund made LIFE magazine as Queen of the Saugus Rodeo.
DECEMBER CAN BE A DARN STRANGE WEATHER MONTH — One day, it can flirt with 100. A smidge later, it's snow boots time. A huge rainstorm pelted the Santa Clarita, dropping 5 inches in a day. The same storm blanketed the hills above Castaic with 14 inches of snow. While the Ridge Route was shut, local ranchers were rather happy at the drought-ending storm.
IT AIN'T HAY, ALTHOUGH, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IT IS — Someone's always picking on Newhall Land & Farming, darn them. Sixty years back, right before Christmas, crooks made off with 100 bales of new mown alfalfa, valued at about $90. Sure would be nice to buy it for that in the year 2020.
IT'S A SHAME WHEN YOU CAN'T READ YOUR OWN BOOK — Superstar actor Bill Hart and his sister, Mary, released their newly published book, "And All Points West," on this date. It was a collection of short stories they had penned. Hart returned from New York for an eye examination and was prescribed some sunglasses.
BACK WHEN SAND CANYON WAS A PRISON — We had a lot of work and prison camps in the valley during The Great Depression. One detention camp, at Sand and Soledad Canyon, moved after 12 years in the same spot. The county pushed it up to Maher Canyon.
WOULDN'T WANT TO BE FIRST ON THE SCENE. NOR THE LAST. — They don't pay the CHP enough. John Waryas was driving his coupe at a high rate of speed, roared around a blind curve and smashed into a slow-moving double-rig. The engine was thrown 75 yards from the crash and Waryas was cut in half. And yes. He was quite dead.
NO PIGS HERE, PLEASE — A motorcade of more than 500 SCV cars rumbled through downtown Los Angeles and around the county hall to protest a proposed mega-hog ranch in Canyon Country. The American-Pacific Livestock Feeding Co. wanted to place 50,000 swine to consume garbage in our neck of the woods. The mass protest of several thousand got the attention of the Los Angeles papers and the Regional Planning Commission didn't grant the permit.
SHIVER ME TIMBERS. AND TUMBLEWEEDS. — Nighttime low, 60 years back — 21 degrees and colder in the canyons.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, METHODISTS!! — They moved into their new church on Bouquet on this date.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, 14ers — On this date was the dedication for construction of the new Antelope Valley Freeway. Lots of folks were in an uproar because of a rumor that the new 14 would go right through the historic Beale's Cut. It didn't.
AS THE MAFIA SAYS, 'GOING TO THE MATTRESSES' — George Young expanded the definition. The Newhall drunk driver was chased by local sheriffs for dangerous driving. They followed him to his home and found him hiding under an old mattress in the garage. The big lump must have given it away.
THAT'S WHY OUR WATER'S SO THICK — As the valley grew, so did its sewage problems. With hog, cattle and horse farms, oil refineries and outhouses, people illegally dumping all manner of trash, toxic to plain annoying, our disposal problems hit critical mass and the state stepped in to at least make the appearance something was being done. One of the problems was that all this refuse was flowing into the water table. On this date, locals got together to form the first SCV sanitation district.
HAND. HEINIE. WHATEVER IT TAKES. — A young quail hunter got a firsthand — er, first-posterior — impression of what it's like to hunt quail. Ricky Griffis, 15, was out hunting the birds with a pal in Agua Dulce. Griffis bagged a bird, got excited, started jumping up and down and somehow stepped in front of his friend's shotgun. Griffis got shot in the butt with some buckshot. His wounds were treated as superficial. As the old Bugs Bunny-Daffy Duck bit goes: "Quail season. Griffis season. Quail Season. Griffis season."
WITH APOLOGIES TO THE FAMED POLISH POLKA — "In Heaven, there ain't no beer. That's why we drink it at Canyon." Student participation dropped 300% at Canyon High's after-sports dances. Sometimes fewer than 100 kids would show up. Principal Don Jerry blamed it on a new phenomenon — keg parties.
A CHRISTMAS FABLE FROM A LONG-GONE SPORTS WRITER — Some young Signal Sports editor named Walt Cieplik Jr. was at the drive-up teller's window at then-Santa Clarita Bank on Lyons (today, it's Valencia National Bank & Trust). Master Cieplik took the old-fashioned plastic pneumatic tube container and found that the lady who had gone before him had left her Christmas budget of $150 inside (in today's money, that's about a million dollars). Cieplik chased the woman all over town, honking and gesturing wildly. Frightened, the woman sped up, trying to avoid the handsome paragraphist. Miles away, the sports editor caught up with her at a light, waved the envelope of cash she had left behind and handed it to her. She broke down crying.
Fights. Floods. Revolution. Man-eating grizzlies. Shortened hemlines. Life certainly has a way of going on. Do hope all of you saddlepals have a positively divine Christmas and holidays. Be dear to one another. That swirling time vortex up ahead is our particular stop. See all y'all after Christmas Day back here at The Mighty Signal's hitching post. Until then —vayan con Dios, amigos y Feliz Navidad y Hanukkah!Pretty darn soon, Boston is launching his own publishing house, John Boston Books. The first of a three-volume set is "Ghosts, Ghouls & Monsters of the SCV." In the meantime, you can buy Boston's "Melancholy Samurai," "Naked Came the Sasquatch" and other of his books on Amazon.com or bit.ly/John_Boston. If you liked the book, wouldn't mind at all if you left a kind 5-star review.
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Layers of cheese and homemade meat sauce, topped with smoked mozzarella and baked to perfection. Served with NEW house-made pasta chips tossed with parmesan and garlic salt. Our meat sauces include pan-seared beef and Italian sausage.
House-made pasta chips, lightly fried and layered with Italian cheeses and a hearty three-meat sauce. Topped with cherry peppers and an alfredo drizzle. Our meat sauces include pan-seared beef and Italian sausage.
Choose from: calamari, stuffed mushrooms, fried mozzarella, crispy risotto bites or toasted beef and pork ravioli. Stuffed mushrooms prepared with clams.
Choose two dips to create your duo: NEW Lasagna Dip**, SpinachArtichoke Dip or Five Italian Cheese Fonduta, served warm with our NEW house-made pasta chips tossed with parmesan and garlic salt.
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A blend of spinach, artichokes and five cheeses served warm with our NEW house-made pasta chips.
Grilled chicken topped with a lemon garlic butter sauce, sundried tomatoes and capers. Served with parmesan-crusted zucchini.
Tender slices of slowbraised beef, portobello mushrooms and asiago-filled tortelloni tossed in basilmarsala sauce. The fruitforward notes of the Columbia Crest Grand Estates Cabernet strike a delicate balance with the richness of the beef and cheeses.
Bring home our Family Style Lasagna Bundle for dinner tonight, serving up to 8 people. Your bundle features Lasagna Classico, our Famous House Salad, a dozen breadsticks and a 2liter bottle of Coke, Diet Coke or Sprite for $7.50 a person. Please allow 4 hours when ordering this combination.
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Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master Bro Alistair T Marshall and Right Worshipful Past Provincial Grand Master Bro John McKenzie proudly display their Honorary Membership Certificates, granted to them at the visitation of Provincial Grand Lodge to Lodge Carron No 139, on 11th November 2015.
Also pictured is the RWM of Lodge Carron No 139, Bro Stuart Stirling.
A well deserved honour and congratulations to both of them.


You're on the bride's final weekend of freedom! A proper Cornish cream tea is an absolute must. Upgrade to a Newquay Prosecco Cream Tea and have some fizz with your naughty but nice treats. Half a bottle of prosecco, two homemade scones fresh from the oven, fruity jam, and a huge dollop of proper clotted cream. Lush!
The venue is absolutely stunning. Enjoy the best prosecco cream tea in Cornwall at a magical beach resort that the girls will fall in lust with. Soak up the dreamy, laid-back ambience, really relax, and catch up with your best girls. Scoff scones, sip bubbly, and then drink in the spectacular cliff and ocean views from the resort's rustic driftwood decking.
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Everyone loves a cream tea. It's an activity based around delicious food - what's not to love? If you've got people coming on the Newquay hen do who don't know each other, this is a great way to break the ice. Bring people together with scones and prosecco!
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A conversation about mathematics inspired by the Towers of Hanoi puzzle. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
Update: Here's a lovely knitted Towers of Hanoi, tweeted in response to this episode by Pat Ashforth.


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Live Video App Nom Wants to Harness the Hivemind for Better Cooking
YouTube co-creator wants you to live-stream your cooking for an audience of commenters.
Gregory Bourolias
Lauren J. Young
For those who like to watch those one-minute Facebook and YouTube food recipe videos for hours, there's now a new live streaming platform for home cooks, professional chefs, and foodies who want to share their experiences in the kitchen called Nom.
The site and iOS app, which has been available for download since Thursday, allows users to share live video of them cooking and interacting with viewers asking questions along the way. It's like Periscope, Facebook's new live-streaming, and the game streaming app Twitch except for cooks.
On Monday, Chen and Karunamurthy sat down with senior editor of Epicurious Matt Duckor at the South By Southwest conference in Austin to talk about taking what they saw at YouTube to develop Nom.
Imagine watching Bobby Flay prepare fish tacos from your laptop or iPhone and being able to type him a message about how long you should let the fish marinate or send a picture of how your dish looks if you're following along. Right now on Nom, there are a few active live streams and channels of chefs giving demos of julienning vegetables or of simple pizza recipes.
Screenshot of a Nome livestream by HellthyJunkFood
Nom founders Steve Chen (who co-founded YouTube) and former YouTube Engineer Vijay Karunamurthy noticed that YouTube users were using the comment section to interact with video hosts, which inspired them to create a platform that allows for more natural back-and-forth conversation.
Chen introducing Nom at SXSW.
"Food ended up being a lot bigger than we thought," Chen said Monday. "We think that food is a very small vertical, but every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food. I think there's a lot more to food that people can identify with."
Undoubtedly, people are obsessed with sharing food experiences. Karunamurthy's Instagram feed is filled with posts of his friends' meals. When they first started thinking about creating a live stream platform in 2009, Chen and Karunamurthy realized that a lot their tech ideas came about in Google's cafeteria.
"Live video was something we were just getting our minds around, but we realized we were talking about the food we were eating as much as we were talking about tech ideas," Karunamurthy said. "Food is such a part of our lives that we get inspired by what's the next thing we'll be eating."
However, live streaming is still a new technology. "The world of live streaming feels a lot like when YouTube started," Chen said. Duckor asked about YouTube's early years, revealing that Chen had told him YouTube's first iteration was actually an online video dating site.
"That's what I told you, but I didn't think we would talk about it on stage," Chen laughed. "We started thinking, 'what would be the actual practical application?' And we thought dating would be the obvious choice."
After five days, and zero uploads, the developers knew they needed to change the approach and decided to, "forget the dating aspect of it and just completely open it up to any video."
Chen at SXSW.
Similar to YouTube's early days, live streaming is still a bit awkward. People don't really know what they should say during a live stream or how long they should be, explained Karunamurthy, which leads to more raw and improvised videos. But that's what Chen and Karunamurthy are most excited about for Nom's future.
"Just watching the few interactions on Nom, during the Nom cast itself a user was making asparagus soup and it takes an hour and a half to make this," Chen said. "When she first made the soup, it was still runny. She asked the audience what she should do and there were actually chefs in the room who told her to add cornstarch. She didn't have any cornstarch and eventually added in garbanzo beans."
It's like a choose your own adventure, Chen said: "You're not just leaving a comment for others to see, but you're also changing the outcome of where this video will go."
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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using BeeHive.Scheduling;
using RabbitMQ.Client;
using RabbitMQ.Client.Events;

namespace BeeHive.RabbitMQ
{
    public class RabbitMqOperator : IEventQueueOperator
    {
        private IConnectionProvider _connectionProvider;
        private TimeSpan _longPollingTimeout;

        private const string FanOut = "fanout";

        public bool IsEventDriven => false;

        public RabbitMqOperator(IConnectionProvider connectionProvider):
            this(connectionProvider, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30))
        {
        }

        public RabbitMqOperator(IConnectionProvider connectionProvider,
            TimeSpan longPollingTimeout)
        {
            _longPollingTimeout = longPollingTimeout;
            _connectionProvider = connectionProvider;
        }

        public Task PushAsync(Event message)
        {
            var connection = _connectionProvider.GetConnection();
            using (var channel = connection.CreateModel())
            {

                channel.BasicPublish(string.Empty,
                    message.QueueName,
                    null,
                    Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(message.Body));
            }

            return Task.FromResult(0);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Does not support batch and only loops through
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="messages"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public Task PushBatchAsync(IEnumerable<Event> messages)
        {
            var connection = _connectionProvider.GetConnection();
            using (var channel = connection.CreateModel())
            {
                var consumer = new QueueingBasicConsumer(channel);
                foreach (var message in messages)
                {
                    channel.BasicPublish(message.QueueName,
                        string.Empty,
                        null,
                        Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(message.Body));
                }
            }

            return Task.FromResult(0);
        }

        public Task<PollerResult<Event>> NextAsync(QueueName name)
        {
            var connection = _connectionProvider.GetConnection();
            var result = new PollerResult<Event>(false , Event.Empty);
            using (var channel = connection.CreateModel())
            {
                var consumer = new QueueingBasicConsumer(channel);
                channel.BasicConsume(name.SubscriptionName, true, consumer);
                BasicDeliverEventArgs eventArgs = null;
                if (consumer.Queue.Dequeue((int)_longPollingTimeout.TotalMilliseconds,
                    out eventArgs))
                {
                    var @event = new Event()
                    {
                        Body = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(eventArgs.Body),
                        QueueName = name.SubscriptionName,
                        UnderlyingMessage = eventArgs,
                        ContentType = "text/plain", // should it be JSON?
                        EventType = name.SubscriptionName
                    };

                    result = new PollerResult<Event>(true, @event);
                }
                return Task.FromResult(result);
            }

        }

        public Task AbandonAsync(Event message)
        {
            var underlyingMessage = (BasicDeliverEventArgs) message.UnderlyingMessage;
            var connection = _connectionProvider.GetConnection();

            using (var channel = connection.CreateModel())
            {
                channel.BasicNack(underlyingMessage.DeliveryTag, false, true); // TODO: implement max error count
            }

            return Task.FromResult(0);
        }

        public Task CommitAsync(Event message)
        {
            var underlyingMessage = (BasicDeliverEventArgs)message.UnderlyingMessage;
            var connection = _connectionProvider.GetConnection();

            using (var channel = connection.CreateModel())
            {
                channel.BasicAck(underlyingMessage.DeliveryTag, false);
            }

            return Task.FromResult(0);
        }

        public Task DeferAsync(Event message, TimeSpan howLong)
        {
            throw new NotSupportedException(); // TODO: investigate
        }

        public async Task KeepExtendingLeaseAsync(Event message, TimeSpan howLong, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            // TODO: implement
        }

        public Task CreateQueueAsync(QueueName name)
        {

            var connection = _connectionProvider.GetConnection();
            using (var channel = connection.CreateModel())
            {
                if (name.IsSimpleQueue)
                {
                    var queueDeclareOk = channel.QueueDeclare(name.TopicName,
                        true,
                        false,
                        false,
                        new Dictionary<string, object>());
                }
                else
                {
                    if (name.IsTopic)
                    {
                        channel.ExchangeDeclare(name.TopicName, FanOut, true);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        channel.ExchangeDeclare(name.TopicName, FanOut, true);
                        var queueDeclareOk = channel.QueueDeclare(name.SubscriptionName,
                            true,
                            false,
                            true,
                            new Dictionary<string, object>());
                        channel.QueueBind(name.SubscriptionName,
                            name.TopicName,
                            string.Empty);
                    }
                }
            }
            return Task.FromResult(0);
        }

        public Task DeleteQueueAsync(QueueName name)
        {

            var connection = _connectionProvider.GetConnection();
            using (var channel = connection.CreateModel())
            {
                if (name.IsTopic)
                {
                    channel.ExchangeDelete(name.TopicName);
                }
                else
                {
                    channel.QueueDelete(name.SubscriptionName);
                }
            }

            return Task.FromResult(0);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// There is no way to check if a queue exists
        /// so we return false so queue is created.
        /// Creation of queue is idempotent in RabbitMQ.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="name"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public Task<bool> QueueExistsAsync(QueueName name)
        {
            return Task.FromResult(false);
        }

        public void RegisterHandler(Func<Event, IEventQueueOperator, Task> handler, ActorDescriptor descriptor)
        {
            throw new NotSupportedException("Is not event-driven");
        }
    }
}

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Journal of Experimental Medicine (2)
Sarah Puhr
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Circulating precursors of human CD1c+ and CD141+ dendritic cells
Gaëlle Breton, Jaeyop Lee, Yu Jerry Zhou, Joseph J. Schreiber, Tibor Keler, Sarah Puhr, Niroshana Anandasabapathy, Sarah Schlesinger, Marina Caskey, Kang Liu, Michel C. Nussenzweig
Journal: Journal of Experimental Medicine
J Exp Med (2015) 212 (3): 401–413.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20141441
Two subsets of conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) with distinct cell surface markers and functions exist in mouse and human. The two subsets of cDCs are specialized antigen-presenting cells that initiate T cell immunity and tolerance. In the mouse, a migratory cDC precursor (pre-CDC) originates from defined progenitors in the bone marrow (BM). Small numbers of short-lived pre-CDCs travel through the blood and replace cDCs in the peripheral organs, maintaining homeostasis of the highly dynamic cDC pool. However, the identity and distribution of the immediate precursor to human cDCs has not been defined. Using a tissue culture system that supports the development of human DCs, we identify a migratory precursor (hpre-CDC) that exists in human cord blood, BM, blood, and peripheral lymphoid organs. hpre-CDCs differ from premonocytes that are restricted to the BM. In contrast to earlier progenitors with greater developmental potential, the hpre-CDC is restricted to producing CD1c+ and CD141+ Clec9a+ cDCs. Studies in human volunteers demonstrate that hpre-CDCs are a dynamic population that increases in response to levels of circulating Flt3L.
Restricted dendritic cell and monocyte progenitors in human cord blood and bone marrow
Jaeyop Lee, Gaëlle Breton, Thiago Yukio Kikuchi Oliveira, Yu Jerry Zhou, Arafat Aljoufi, Sarah Puhr, Mark J. Cameron, Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, Michel C. Nussenzweig, Kang Liu
In mice, two restricted dendritic cell (DC) progenitors, macrophage/dendritic progenitors (MDPs) and common dendritic progenitors (CDPs), demonstrate increasing commitment to the DC lineage, as they sequentially lose granulocyte and monocyte potential, respectively. Identifying these progenitors has enabled us to understand the role of DCs and monocytes in immunity and tolerance in mice. In humans, however, restricted monocyte and DC progenitors remain unknown. Progress in studying human DC development has been hampered by lack of an in vitro culture system that recapitulates in vivo DC hematopoiesis. Here we report a culture system that supports development of CD34+ hematopoietic stem cell progenitors into the three major human DC subsets, monocytes, granulocytes, and NK and B cells. Using this culture system, we defined the pathway for human DC development and revealed the sequential origin of human DCs from increasingly restricted progenitors: a human granulocyte-monocyte-DC progenitor (hGMDP) that develops into a human monocyte-dendritic progenitor (hMDP), which in turn develops into monocytes, and a human CDP (hCDP) that is restricted to produce the three major DC subsets. The phenotype of the DC progenitors partially overlaps with granulocyte-macrophage progenitors (GMPs). These progenitors reside in human cord blood and bone marrow but not in the blood or lymphoid tissues.
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Music in the soul can be heard in the universe.
Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls.
If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
I look into your eyes and see my own soul.
Music is love in search for a word.
The space between your thoughts is a window to the cosmic mind.


I've been making 3D animations for many years now, and I have a website for my Blender animations.
It's the Moby Motion Blog. You can also see my animation work on tumblr and twitter.
That said, I will also be posting animation related content here if it doesn't belong on my animation blog. For example, I have a lot to say about YouTube as a platform. I look forward to sharing my thoughts about what it takes to succeed on the platform.
My 10,000,000 view on YouTube aren't impressive in the grand scheme of things. However, to gain so many views in such a niche area has taken a lot of work. I'm now the largest channel in the physics simulation niche. Additionally, I've grown my channel to where it is now while studying medicine, and this has taken a huge conscious effort on my behalf to use my time effectively.
On this website, I plan to share the advice that has helped me grow my channel to where it is now. This will include advice on how to get YouTube views, how to turn those views into subscribers, how to monetise your YouTube audience, and more.
Look out for posts tagged YouTube, for more on this topic.


PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS' DEFAULT ACT, 1850 (ACT NO. XII OF 1850).
(ACT NO. XII OF 1850).
For avoiding loss by the default of Public Accountants.
1. Every public accountant shall give security for the due discharge of the trusts of his office, and for the due account of all moneys which shall come into his possession or control, by reason of his office.
2. In default of any Act having special reference to the office of any public accountant, the security given shall be of such amount and kind, real or personal, or both, and with such sureties (regard being had to the nature of the office), as shall be required by any rules made or to be made from time to time, by the authority by which each public accountant is appointed to his office.
3. For the purposes of sections 1 and 2 of this Act, the expression "public accountant" means any person who as Official Assignee or Trustee, or as sarbarahkar, is entrusted with the receipt, custody or control of any moneys or securities for money, or the management of any lands belonging to any other person or persons; and for the purposes of sections 4 and 5 of this Act the expression shall also include any person who, by reason of any office held by him in the service of the State is entrusted with the receipt, custody or control of any moneys or securities for money, or the management of any lands belonging to the Government.
4. The person or persons at the head of the office to which any public accountant belongs may proceed against any such public accountant and his securities for any loss or defalcation in his accounts, as if the amount thereof were an arrear of land-revenue due to Government.
5. All Regulations and Acts now or hereafter to be in force for the recovery of arrears of land-revenue due to Government, and for recovery of damages by any person wrongfully proceeded against for any such arrear shall apply, with such changes in the forms of procedure as are necessary to make them applicable to the case, to the proceedings against and by such public accountant.


Making a working, outcome orientated contract.
Developing a realistic description of an agreed and a preferred future.
Discovering the client's hidden resources and those aspects of thinking, feeling andbehaving which might in some way contribute to the hoped-for outcome.
The creative use of scales.
Like every BRIEF course the emphasis will be on learning through practice so that the skills you leave with are your own. You will also have been able to identify where solution focused skills have an important contribution and where they need to be put to one side while other tasks, such as assessment, ensuring safety and other statutory and organizational requirements.
BRIEF trainers have all been children and family social workers and have specialized in child protection assessment and treatment. They still work with families, many referred by social workers and with children mostly referred by schools. They currently have three school-based projects in which they work directly with teachers and students mainly on issues of behaviour. During the course you will be able to see videotapes of actual sessions covering all aspects of this work.


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Tom Morris (born 18 September 1944) is a Canadian former cyclist. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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Slavery.
For most of us, that single word embodies a horrific chapter in our history, a time when the life of one man or woman was seen as somehow less than that of another, due to nothing more than pigment of their skin. Cruelty and abuse were the means by which slave owners maintained their ranks of indentured servants, with measures that were nothing less than barbaric by any modern measure.
Yet somehow, despite the tragedies and the sorrows that filled their lives, the men and women who called themselves slaves managed to not only survive, but to bring with them down through the years and decades and centuries of their oppression a detailed history of their ordeals, and of the lives both lived and lost during those dark times.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA
The popular history of slavery which most of us learn in school that the majority of slaves were taken from African nations and transported around the world to be sold at market to rich white men who owned plantations in the American South and beyond. There they would be put to work in fields, cutting cane or picking cotton, or as farm hands or house staff for their wealthy owners.
Some, like Solomon Northrup, whose tragic tale was so eloquently depicted in the 2013 film 12 Years A Slave, were free men who were kidnapped right from the streets of the cities where they lived as equals, only to be stripped of their identities and sold to the highest bidder.
Under the conditions of their ownership, many of those men and women were subjected to hardships we can only begin to imagine. Toiling for endless hours under back-breaking conditions; punishment at the end of a lash; disfigurement or maiming or even death for attempting to escape their bonds; the endless threat of rape at the hands of their masters. It is little wonder, then, that many found their spirits broken, their will to thrive independently all but snuffed out and extinguished.
Yet a vast number of those men and women also managed to survive their ordeals. Some even found their way back to freedom --- whether by securing their release through payment, or by the statutes of the Emancipation Proclamation put forth by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
Others were fortunate enough to escape their torment. Those terrible few fled the plantations that had become their prisons and followed a network of hidden paths, secret routes, and established safe houses that led out of the slaving territories to lands where freedom was a fundamental right for all men and women.
THE PROMISE OF THE NORTH
Contrary to popular belief, slavery did exist in Canada.
Great Britain, of which Upper and Lower Canada were colonies in the later 1700s and early 1800s, has its own role to play in the trading of African slaves. While that particular commerce was never truly significant within the Canadas, it did exist, with "a small number of African people forcibly brought as chattel slaves to New France, Acadia and later to British North America during the 17th Century".(i) It was not until the enactment of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 (ii) that the practice of slavery and slave owning became illegal in this fledgling nation.
By that time, however, the institution of slavery had been firmly entrenched in the social and political network of the Southern territories of what would eventually become the United States of America. Prior to the US Civil War, it was the establishment of slavery which divided that country, with practicing slavers in the South facing strong and vocal opposition to their endeavours by Abolitionists in the North.
It was this network of Abolitionists – those who decried the systematic abuse of men and women and children at the hands of slave owners and their foremen – who first established a means by which they might aid in the escape and freedom of those whom they could assist, and their relocation to territories beyond the reach of their former masters.
Since the banning of slavery in Indiana in 1816, and Illinois in 1819, the Ohio River had been the de facto boundary between the slave lands of Virginia and points farther south, and the free Northern Territories. (iii) It was this promise of freedom from the bondage that had held them in place for generations that drew the eyes of countless slaves toward he North, but getting there posed a difficult and most dangerous challenge to anyone who dared make the attempt to break away from their captors.
BUILDING THE RAILROAD
What began as a random, scattered effort to smuggle slaves off plantations and away from their masters quickly coalesced into a concerted mission aimed at freeing men, women and children from their bondage. Through a network of hidden pathways, caves, abandoned ruins and safehouses, freed slaves were directed northward, toward the free lands that lay beyond the reach of their captors.
Travel was dangerous, and mostly done at night. The image of families scurrying through moonlit forest and swamps remains the indelible symbol of the flight to freedom. For most of their journey, fugitive slaves would be guided by men and women sympathetic to their plight. They would be directed to waypoints along secret routes that led from one haven to the next, often with hunting parties and vigilante posses chasing close behind, their presence often punctuated by the bark and snarl of dogs trained to not only recover fleeing slaves, but to inflict injury upon them for their efforts.
Gradually, the effort to ferry slaves to freedom began to find some measure of organization, and with it, a new litany of terminology entered the American lexicon. For many roles played along the course of the fledgling Underground Railroad there were secret code names given to identify not only those persons who could be trusted, but the routes and paths and waypoints that marked the journey ahead.
Members of the Underground Railroad often used specific terms, based on the metaphor of the railway.
•	People who helped slaves find the railroad were "agents" (or "shepherds")
•	Guides were known as "conductors"
•	Hiding places were "stations" or "way stations"
•	"Station masters" hid slaves in their homes
•	Escaped slaves were referred to as "passengers" or "cargo"
•	Slaves would obtain a "ticket"
•	Similar to common gospel lore, the "wheels would keep on turning"
•	Financial benefactors of the Railroad were known as "stockholders"
The Big Dipper (whose "bowl" points to the North Star) was known as the drinkin' gourd. The Railroad was often known as the "freedom train" or "Gospel train", which headed toward "Heaven" or "the Promised Land", ie: Canada. (iv)
PURSUING THE RUNAWAYS
To counter the ever-present threat of slave escapes or revolt against their masters, slave owners established organized patrols of white men whose duties included the extension of discipline upon black slaves, the policing of runaways, and those measures of discipline determined to be justified in their effort to maintain the established order of slavery as it existed. Groups of white men dedicated to the tracking down, containment and capture of runaway slaves patrolled the countryside following rumours of fugitive slaves passing through districts and settlements on their flight for freedom. River patrols were established to prevent escape by boat.
The first slave patrols were established in pre-Revolutionary War South Carolina. As the population of black slaves began to boom, the fear of an uprising or outright revolt drove plantation owners to establish laws that strictly regulated the abilities of black and whites alike. (v)
Fugitives found to be in contravention of those laws, or captured in flight, could expect brutal reprisals as punishment for their actions. Floggings and beatings were the minimum reprimands a fugitive slave might face. Slave patrollers were often equipped with guns and whips and would exert brutal and racially motivated control. (vi)
The killing of renegade slaves was not considered a criminal act by many courts, thereby allowing the patrollers to exercise the means of apprehending runaways at their own discretion.
THE HAVEN OF CANADA
The vast majority of routes of the Underground Railroad led to the border with Canada, and beyond. It is estimated that some 30,000 to 40,000 slaves managed to find freedom north of the international boundary during the years that the Railroad was in operation. (vii)
Common points of destination in Ontario includes land around Niagara Falls, Buxton, Chatham, Owen Sound, Windsor, Hamilton, Brantford, London, Oakville and Toronto. Beyond Ontario's borders, refugee slaves found safety in regions of Québec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. (viii)
As stated in the Canadian Encyclopedia: "During this mass migration, Black Canadians contributed significantly to building strong communities and to the development of the provinces in which they lived and worked." (ix) Newly arrived freed slaves were quickly integrated into existing Black communities where they found camaraderie with their ethnic brethren, and an unexpected welcome and acceptance from their predominantly white neighbours.
ORO-MEDONTE: THE BLACK SETTLEMENT
The city of Barrie lies slightly more than 100 kilometres north of Toronto. If one wanders just a bit farther, the community of Oro-Medonte occupies the open land between Kempenfelt Bay on Lake Simcoe, and the southern tip of Georgian Bay on Lake Huron. The land in this region formed the backbone of British supply lines between the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. In the years following that conflict, the fear of a restrengthened America invading once more was considered a very real possibility.
In order to secure the main supply route between Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay, a rough-hewn path was cut through the wilderness. This route would come to be known as the Penetanguishene Road, named after the naval establishment located at its northernmost point. It was decided by the government to then Upper Canada that the best way to discourage any such attempt at invasion would be to populate that area along that Road with veteran militiamen.
To that end, in the years between 1819 and 1831, land along concessions fronting either side of the Penetanguishene Road were granted to black veterans of the previous War. Chief among those first to be granted lands in the Oro area were the men of Captain Runche's "Company of Coloured Men". (x) All along Concession Line II (known as Wilberforce Street, named after British abolitionist William Wilberforce), and later along Concessions III and IV, some 60 black settlers and their families – a total population of approximately 100 persons -- were incorporated upon land that had yet to be cleared or settled by European farmers.
In 1831, abolitionist Reverend Art Raymond arrived to minister to the residents of Oro Township. Eleven years later, the community built the African Methodist Episcopal Church near the township of Edgar. (xi) Despite its close affiliation with the black settlers, services were open to both black and white settlers of the Township.
THE NORTHERN TERMINUS
It was to this area that passengers on the Underground Railroad might have found their way. As the northernmost terminus of that network, most former slaves who had escaped their captivity had settled in communities nearer to the border. Yet despite any concrete evidence to support the theory that freed slaves formed a portion of the settlers who occupied the Oro area, there remains a measure of folklore which support that belief. (xii)
Perhaps the longevity of that claim can be traced back to our desire to believe that we were able to play some small role in the freeing of countless men and women and children who suffered under the bonds of one of humanity's most heinous and cruel enterprises. Or perhaps it is the hope that if even one single freed slave might have passed through our area, then by extension we can claim to have lent our collective efforts to countering the stigma of enslavement of our fellow man.
Whether or not the historical record supports the theory that present-day Oro-Medonte might once have been the northernmost terminus for the Underground Railroad, the fact remains that this area was the first and only government-sponsored Black settlement in Upper Canada. And it is this historical record which has been etched in bronze upon an historical plaque at the foot of what was once Wilberforce Street, and in both bronze and stone plaques mounted upon four sides of a sculpted cairn on the grounds of the church which stills stands on the corner of the same one-acre lot gifted by black landowner Noah Morris in 1847.
Today, the African Methodist Episcopal Church has been revitalized thanks to countless donations from both Canadian and American supporters. That small, wood-framed building continues to stand as a reminder of our past, and of the heritage of the Oro Townships and the Black settlers who first occupied those lands. There, on the windswept corner of Concession III and 9/10 Sideroad, is a time capsule which serves as a reminder of an era where equality between men was still a new notion, and where those who congregated beneath its roof were the first to take those tentative steps toward realizing that the differences between men can be their strengths, instead of their weaknesses.
Kevin Bell
Barrie, Ontario --- May 2018
i) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Canada
ii) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
iii) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fhvrx
iv) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad
v)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol
vi) Ibid.
vii) http://www.blackhistorycanada.com/events.php?themeid=21&id=6
viii) http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/underground-railroad/
ix) Ibid.
x) From Township of Oro-Medonte historical plaque mounted at the African Methodist Episcopal Church
xi) https://www.simcoe.ca/Archives/Pages/black.aspx
xii) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oro-Medonte
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Q: How to erase a row like erasing an element in 2D vector I am new to C++ vector and wanna ask a question about it. I built a 2D vector below:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

and erase the 4 with these codes...
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main() {

    vector<vector<int>> v;

    for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {

        vector<int> r;

        for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++) {
            int input;
            cin >> input;
            r.push_back(input);
        }
        v.push_back(r);
    }
    v.at(1).erase(v.at(1).begin() + 0);//erase the 4
}

as we know the 5 replaced the 4 and became the 1st element in 2nd row, just like this...
1 2 3
5 6
7 8 9

But when i tried to erase or clear the whole 2nd row by...
v[1].clear();//or do v.at(1).erase(v.at(1).begin()+0) twice

the matrix became...
1 2 3

7 8 9

The elements in 2nd row were gone but the 3rd row didn't occupied it's place.
How should I erase(or clear)a whole row and make the next row to replace it's place?

A: The clear method only removes all elements from the vector but not the vector itself. You can achieve this with
v[1].clear();
v.erase(v.begin() + 1);

I will explain it in more detail: v.begin() returns an iterator pointing to the first element of the outer vector. v.begin() + 1 advances this iterator by one pointing to the vector at v[1]. v.erase(...) takes this iterator and deletes the vector associated with it.
Please keep in mind to handle pointers correctly if they are allocated on the heap otherwise you would leak the used memory.

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This former NFL player turned gender activist is here to clarify what feminists really want from men
For a long time, former NFL player Wade Davis put up with it all: the derogatory "locker room" talk, disbelief of women's harassment allegations, and casually tossed around slurs like "fag." Then, deeply offended on behalf of himself and on behalf of all women, he woke up.
Today, Davis is on a mission to teach men how to be better feminists—not only to elevate women, but also to save men. Since 2012, when he came out as gay, he has become the NFL's first LGBT inclusion consultant, a UN Women Global Champion for Innovation, and the creator of the #BlackMenAndFeminism campaign, which he launched in partnership with the Ms. Foundation for Women and Ebony Magazine.
His feminism, as he told Quartz last year, centers on the idea that all men who advocate for gender equality, including himself, should be on "one-day contracts"—meaning they need to be working to prove themselves as allies every single day.
In our most recent conversation, Davis explains the real power of the Me Too movement and what the world is really asking now of men.
1. Did you actively think about workplace gender inequality prior to the Me Too movement? And what's the most important lesson you've learned from Me Too?
Movements exist to show us how to walk through fear and stop being bystanders or violators.
Yes. I've been doing work at the intersection of race, gender, and sexual orientation since about 2012 or 2013.
The Me Too movement was not started for women. The Me Too movement, like all movements, exists to awaken the violators, not the survivors. Movements exist to show us how to walk through fear and stop being bystanders or violators. Hopefully it can help us learn to love ourselves, which creates the capacity to love others.
2. Do you identify as a feminist? Why or why not?
Yes. Feminism gave me to tools to see myself clearly—my beauty, my flaws, all of me without flinching. And then it taught me how to love me. How do I define my feminism? Feminism is advocating for social, economic, and political equality and equity for all, starting with those individuals who are most marginalized.
3. What do you do on a daily basis to advance gender equality?
My day job is in "culture building and inclusion" so I'm either coaching senior men or celebrities, running workshops with groups of men, "calling in" (my alternative to the verb "calling out," which feels accusatory and exclusive) men on their sexism, or reading books by women and about women to educate myself.
4. What's the biggest threat to men in America today?
The unrecognized belief that we are "owed" something because we identify as men. This belief creates panic and fear causes us to resort to violence in order to protect something we believe is our birthright.
5. Do you talk about sexism with your male peers? If so, what strategies prove most effective, and if not, what inhibits you from doing so?
All the time. Almost every day. One of the most effective strategies is to own my own shortcomings first and not try to show up as perfect so other men are less afraid to own their own shortcomings as well. Also, understanding how to ask open-ended, powerful questions that create dialogue, not preaching sessions.
6. What is your biggest anxiety about being a man?
That I will not be capable of protecting my loved ones and myself.
7. What do you wish your female co-workers, and women at large, knew about you?
That I often have moments of insecurity. I don't always feel confident, competent, and capable.
8. Some men feel like they can't win: They'll be criticized by men for speaking up, and by feminists for not speaking loud enough. What would you tell these men?
Perfection is not "the ask" of men. "The ask" is that we grow-up. And it takes self-awareness, self-education, authenticity, transparency, vulnerability, and consistent action to grow as a man and remove the barriers women face in the workplace and beyond.
9. If you could take back one thing you've said or done that contributed to bias at work or at home, what would it be?
I wouldn't take anything back because I've grown as person from my mistakes or moments of silence, though I would love to undo the harm. Without the mistakes, I wouldn't have evolved in the same way that I have.
10. What's the best advice you've received from another man, and what's your best advice for young men today?
Best advice from a man—Mychal Denzel Smith said, "Stop trying to be a 'good' man because there's no such thing. Just be human. And own your shit." My advice to young men: Understand that no one can emasculate you. You can only emasculate yourself by violating another. You define, destroy, or create your own definitions of manhood and masculinity—no one else but you.
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Sebastian Brunner (10 December 1814 – 27 November 1893) was an Austrian Catholic writer.

He was born in Vienna, and received his college education from the Benedictines of his native city.  He received his philosophical and theological training at the Vienna University, was ordained priest in 1838, and was for some years professor in the philosophical faculty of the Vienna University. The University of Freiburg honored him with the degree of Doctor of Theology. In the revolutionary year, 1848, he founded the Wiener Kirchenzeitung, which he edited until 1865, and in which he satirised what he saw as the Josephinist bondage of the Church. He wrote some ascetical books and many volumes of sermons, also a biography of Clemens Maria Hofbauer, the patron saint of Vienna. Some of his writings in the Kirchenzeitung were described as antisemitic, and this was the subject of libel cases which he launched against Ignaz Kuranda and Heinrich Graetz.

His books of travel dealing with Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and especially Italy, include observations on men and manners, art and culture, and most of all on religion, and are thus connected closely with his apologetic and controversial writings. Among the latter may be mentioned his book on The Atheist Renan and his Gospel. Brunner's voluminous historical works include some on the history of the Church in Austria. His humorous works were composed partly in verse, and partly in the form of prose stories. An example of the former is Der Nebeljungen Lied; of the latter, Die Prinzenschule zu Möpselglück. A collection of his stories in prose and verse was published in eighteen volumes in Regensburg in 1864. In his later years he turned his satirical pen against what he saw as the undiscriminating worship of modern German literary celebrities. He died in Vienna.

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Selbstiographie (Autobiography; Regensburg, 1890–91)
Scheicher, Sebastian Brunner (Wurzburg and Vienna, 1890);

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The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy is a group of 17 American media, policy and community leaders formed to assess the information needs of communities in the United States in the 21st Century, and recommend measures to help Americans better meet those needs. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation funded the Commission and commissioned the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program to run it. The co-chairs of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy are Theodore B. Olson, American lawyer and former Solicitor General of the United States, and Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google.  The Commission held its first public meeting in Washington, D.C. on June 24, 2008, and subsequent meetings or community forums in Aspen, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Missoula, Montana; Mountain View, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Washington, D.C.  The Knight Commission released its report, Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age on October 2, 2009.

On October 28, 2009 the Federal Communications Commission appointed Steven Waldman, Steven Waldman president and editor-in-chief of beliefnet.com, "to lead an agency-wide initiative to assess the state of media in these challenging economic times and make recommendations designed to ensure a vibrant media landscape."  In announcing the appointment the Commission cited the Knight Commission as one of the factors leading to this appointment and initiative.

Members of the Commission
The 17 members of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy are:

Marissa Mayer, co-chair, vice president of Search Product and User Experience, Google
Theodore B. Olson, co-chair, constitutional lawyer and former Solicitor General of the United States
Danah Boyd, social media researcher at Microsoft Research and Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
John S. Carroll, former editor, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader
Robert W. Decherd, chief executive officer, A.H. Belo Corporation
Reed Hundt, former chairman, Federal Communications Commission
Alberto Ibargüen, ex officio, president and chief executive officer, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Walter Isaacson, ex officio, president and chief executive officer, The Aspen Institute
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and chief executive officer, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Mary Junck, chairman and chief executive officer, Lee Enterprises
Monica Lozano, publisher and chief executive officer, La Opinión
Lisa MacCallum, managing director and general manager, Nike Foundation
Andrew Mooney, executive director of Local Initiatives Support Corporation/Chicago (LISC)
Donna Nicely, director, Nashville Public Library
Michael Powell, former chairman, Federal Communications Commission
Rey Ramsey, co-founder and chief executive officer, One Economy Corporation
Paul Sagan, president and chief executive officer, Akamai

Peter Shane, executive director of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy , Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law, Ohio State University

Commission Report
The Commission report, Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age, represents one of the most comprehensive initiatives to identify the various types of information that individuals and communities need in order to function and thrive in the digital era. The report's most urgent finding is that a "broadband gap", a "literacy gap" and a "participation gap" combined threaten to hold those U.S. residents who are young, poor and live in rural areas in a second-class status as citizens. The report contains 15 numbered recommendations listed under three broader objectives that seek to "maximize the availability of relevant and credible information", "enhance the information capacity of individuals", and "promote public engagement."  A top priority noted in the report is universal broadband access to all Americans.

The Commission report was presented to several notable federal officials during a forum at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on October 2, 2009. Participating officials included Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; Aneesh Chopra, the Obama administration's Chief Technology Officer; and Ernest J. Wilson III, chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

References

External links
 Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy official website
 Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy report website
 Knight Foundation website
 Aspen Institute website
 C-SPAN video coverage of report release event on October 2, 2009

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