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MN Voter Registration Deadline. Oct 21, 15 days before Nov 3, 2020.
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WASHINGTON POST ANALYSIS: The Five Political States of Minnesota
Tina Smith won US Senate
Collin Peterson lost
Dan Feehan lost
• Minnesota: A federal judge has rejected a Republican challenge to an agreement made between Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon and voting rights advocates to allow ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within seven days to count, saying the plaintiffs had failed to show they were injured by the law. Plaintiffs say they will appeal.
• Minnesota: Republican state Rep. Eric Lucero has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state's decision to count ballots postmarked by Election Day and received a week later.
• Minnesota: A state court judge has rejected Republicans' request to reinstate certain limitations on who can assist voters with completing or submitting absentee ballots while the GOP's appeal of the court's ruling that temporarily blocked the restrictions remains pending. The suspended law prohibits a person from helping more than three voters complete or return their absentee ballots, which the Democratic plaintiffs have argued violated both the state constitution and federal law by discriminating against people with disabilities and naturalized citizens in need of translation assistance.
• Minnesota: A Minnesota state court has rejected a request by the NAACP that it order election officials to send absentee ballots to all voters, ruling that the right to vote does not come with "a corresponding constitutional right to receive an absentee ballot."
Minnesota: A state court judge has issued a ruling temporarily blocking Minnesota from enforcing certain limitations on who can assist voters with completing or submitting absentee ballots while the case awaits final adjudication. State law prohibits a person from aiding more than three voters with these tasks, which Democrats argued violated both the state constitution and federal law by discriminating against people with disabilities and naturalized citizens in need of translation assistance.
Minnesota: Minnesota officials have announced that they will not appeal a federal district court ruling from June that issued a preliminary injunction blocking a state law that would have listed Democrats last on the ballot in every partisan contest statewide in November after national Democrats sued. The court said that ballot order will be determined randomly for 2020, though the state's agreement with plaintiffs would give lawmakers a chance to change the law legislatively next year before the case proceeds further. As we've previously explained, being listed higher on the ballot can give candidates a modest boost, particularly in less-salient downballot races.
• Minnesota: On Tuesday, Democratic state senators proposed automatically sending all registered voters a ballot for this year's elections, but the chamber's GOP majority quickly came out in opposition to the plan. Instead, Republican state Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer, who chairs the upper house's Elections Committee, would only support expanding the state's existing no-excuse absentee mail voting option.
• Minnesota: Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon has introduced legislation under which every Minnesota voter would automatically receive a mail-in ballot for the state's Aug. 11 down-ballot primaries and the November general election. Voters would be required to have someone witness their ballots. However, Republicans immediately expressed their opposition, meaning it's likely dead on arrival in the GOP-run state Senate.
• Minnesota: Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon says that Minnesota is considering the possibility of conducting all voting by mail for its "2020 statewide elections," which presumably would include both the state's Aug. 11 downballot primaries and the November general election. As an alternative, Simon says officials may encourage voters to cast absentee ballots, a method that almost a quarter of the state used in 2018.
• Minnesota: A state court judge has rejected a request by a conservative group to intervene in a lawsuit to defend Minnesota's ban on voting by people on parole or probation. The ACLU filed a challenge to this law last year; if it's successful, only people currently still incarcerated would remain unable to vote.
Conservative opponents of the lawsuit have accused Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon and state Attorney General Keith Ellison of refusing to mount the most vigorous defense of the law possible. Democratic appointees hold a 5-2 majority on Minnesota's Supreme Court, and while that's no guarantee of success, it means there's a decent chance the ACLU will prevail if the case ultimately reaches the high court.
• Minnesota: National Democratic Party organizations have filed a lawsuit in state court challenging Minnesota's restrictions on who can assist voters with completing or submitting their absentee ballots. State law prohibits a person from aiding more than three voters with these tasks, which Democrats argue is a violation of both the state constitution and federal law.
Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon warned a state House committee earlier this month that these restrictions were likely to get struck down if they weren't repealed. With Democratic appointees holding a majority on Minnesota's Supreme Court, there's a good likelihood that he'll be proven right if the case proceeds that far.


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Steampunk: Quick entertaining education on the subgenre du jour
Steampunk edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer
Steampunk is an anthology of, well, steampunk stories, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. If you hurry, you can still get to this first anthology before the second one, Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, appears in mid November. Based on the quality of the stories in this collection, I heartily recommend checking it out, especially if you've been a bit bemused (or possibly amused) by all the people wearing odd Victorian costumes at SFF conventions nowadays, or if you have at best a vague idea of what steampunk exactly entails. If you're one of those people who's interested in, but not entirely sure about, the new hot subgenre du jour (like me, prior to reading Steampunk), this anthology is here to take you by the hand and give you a quick, entertaining education. And oh, it also contains some truly excellent short stories.
After the preface by editors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Steampunk starts off with an excellent essay by Jess Nevins about the origins and history of steampunk, including interesting details about the American Edisonades, references to other predecessors such as H.G. Wells and Jules Verne and to "proto-steampunk" like Michael Moorcock's The Warlord of the Air, an excerpt of which is used as the "Benediction" for the anthology. Most interestingly, the essay gives a partial explanation for the -punk suffix: "Steampunk, like all good punk, rebels against the system it portrays (Victorian London or something quite like it), critiquing its treatment of the underclass, its validation of the privileged at the cost of everyone else, its lack of mercy, its cutthroat capitalism. Like the punks, steampunk rarely offers a solution to the problems it decries — for steampunk, there is no solution — but for both punk and steampunk the criticism must be made before the change can come." Nevins then goes on to explain that this may only apply to first generation steampunk, and that the politics have mostly disappeared from the current wave — which might explain why some have complained that there isn't anything "punk" about steampunk and that it's more about mannerisms and nostalgia. While that may apply to much of the more recent output in the subgenre, reading some of the older stories in this collection will definitely show that the -punk part of the subgenre's name wasn't just put there to make it sound like cyberpunk.
Be all of that as it may, after you're done with all the scholarly debate, steampunk is like any other genre or subgenre or whatever you want to call it: some of it is seminal, some of it is excellent, some it is derivative but still good, and some of it is just people hitching their wagon to the latest fad. Whether you like steampunk or not, it's hard to argue with the fact that The VanderMeers have done an outstanding job with this collection: most of these stories are simply excellent pieces of short-form speculative fiction.
The anthology starts off with a bang with "Lord Kelvin's Machine" by James P. Blaylock, a wild and surreal story that displays steampunk working on the grandest of scales. It's entertaining, wild and a bit silly — and a great way to kick off the collection.
"The Giving Mouth" by Ian R. MacLeod, slows things down considerably. I enjoyed and admired the author's steampunk-ish novels The Light Ages and The House of Storms ("-ish" because they're set in a version of Victorian England in which the economy is powered by magic rather than steam). This story is set in a different universe but shares the same melancholy atmosphere. However, it doesn't work as well here and feels a bit out of place.
The collection then picks up steam (sorry) with the wonderful "A Sun in the Attic" by Mary Gentle, set in a matriarchal alternate universe that vaguely resembles the Victorian era. This little gem is one of those stories that make you wish for more material set in the same world.
Jay Lake's "The God-Clown is Near" is the first story in the anthology working on the Golem myth. It's a fun, dark, surreal story that, as I've come to expect from this author, is simply delightful.
Things get much darker with Joe R. Lansdale's "The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A DIME NOVEL," which puts a brusque twist on the Traveler from H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. This story is dark and violent, full of rape and torture, and while its concept is unique, it may be a bit much for some readers.
"The Selene Gardening Society" by Molly Brown also builds on a steampunk predecessor (this time From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) but in a much more whimsical and funny way.
Next up is Ted Chiang's "Seventy-Two Letters," which picks up the golem theme again and ties in a few other ideas, resulting in a memorable story — not that you'd expect anything less from Ted Chiang.
Michael Chabon's "The Martian Agent" features some of the most gorgeous prose in the anthology, and thanks to its title, feels like the first chapter in a larger tale. Reading this story bumped the author much closer to the top of my endless "must-read-more-by" list.
Paul Di Filippo's "Victoria" is one of the funniest and most inventive stories in the collection, featuring newt-based human life and a hilarious uber-villain. This irreverent story (which manages to call the entire royal succession into question) is so over the top that it's sure to make you grin a few times.
The biggest surprise for me was "Reflected Light" by Rachel E. Pollock, an elegant and intricate short tale that implies much more than it states outright and almost begs to be reread. This story about illegal underground manufacturing hints at upcoming social changes in a fascinating society that hopefully will host more stories. It also displays the political side of steampunk in a very succinct way.
Another surprise is Stepan Chapman's "Minutes of the Last Meeting", set in Tzarist Russia. This brilliant story switches viewpoints frequently and somehow manages to introduce a new mind-bending layer of innovation every time, right up to the stunning ending.
Last but not least, the editors throw in a treat: a short story by Neal Stephenson set in the same universe as his post-cyberpunk/neo-Victorian novel The Diamond Age. Calling this steampunk is probably a bit of a stretch, but who cares — it's a fun read that also reminds you, again, how unique Stephenson is as an author.
Closing out the collection are two more non-fiction pieces, including a look at steampunk in pop culture at large by Geek Curmudgeon Rick Claw, and a look at steampunk in the comic book medium by Bill Baker.
Unless you like your speculative fiction sans airships and steam engines, check out this excellent Steampunk anthology. In addition to offering a quick-shot education in the history and development of the genre, it also contains some truly excellent short fiction. Recommended.
Steampunk — (2008) Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Publisher: Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of fantastical stories. Steampunk originates in the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blends in modern scientific advances — synthesizing imaginative technologies such as steam-driven robots, analog supercomputers, and ultramodern dirigibles. The elegant allure of this popular new genre is represented in this rich collection by distinctively talented authors, including Neal Stephenson, Michael Chabon, James Blaylock, Michael Moorcock, and Joe R. Lansdale.
November 11th, 2010. Stefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 4 | Ian R. MacLeod, James P. Blaylock, Jay Lake, Jeff VanderMeer, Joe R. Lansdale, Mary Gentle, Michael Chabon, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
STEFAN RAETS (on FanLit's staff August 2009 — February 2012) reads and reviews science fiction and fantasy whenever he isn't distracted by less important things like eating and sleeping. In February 2012, he retired from FanLit to focus on his blog Far Beyond Reality.
Greg / November 11, 2010
I've got to read a steampunk novel soon before I end-up being the last fantasy book-worm who hasn't.

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"Breaking Bats" Broken Bats and Life
"Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect." Lou Brock
Today something happened that to me that I have never had happen to me. I broke a bat while hitting in a slow pitch softball practice. We play old guy rules in the intramural league that I play in as a student and in about 9 weeks or so as faculty at the Joint Forces Staff College. Last week while pursuing a pop foul ball on the fist base line I pulled a butt muscle and today while throwing a ball tweaked a muscle in my elbow. We were playing in a light drizzle and the wet ball slipped out of my fingers as I threw it and I felt a slight tweak, which remained painful for the rest of the practice.
Both of those injuries are painful and because I am 53 years old are not helpful to my playing days. However, I will continue to play because I love the game and I am at times not very bright. But like Satchel Paige said "We don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing."
Now as far as the bat goes I am a purist. I bat with a wooden bat, even in softball. Of course it is an approved "official softball" bat as opposed to a baseball bat, but it is still wood. I have tried aluminum or other metal or composite bats but they just don't feel natural. In fact when I bat with them it is almost like my mind locks up and my batting average sinks like the Titanic. When Yogi Berra said "Baseball is ninety percent mental. he other half is physical" he was absolutely right, you do the math.
Now broken bats are part of life even if you don't play ball. We all break break bats, be they real bats or metaphorical bats at some time in our life. Hell I've broken a lot of things, some by mistake and some intentionally. I have learned the hard way to make sure if I am wound up too tight to make sure whatever I throw is not breakable. Sometimes this is a challenge when the PTSD kicks in and I need to throw something.
About six months ago in my previous assignment I was having a very frustrating day and emotionally hit the wall. I needed to throw something. I looked around my office and realized that all the baseballs I had were autographed. Likewise anything that would have been nice to throw was somehow important to me.
Then I spied a banana on my desk. I looked at it and picked it up. Since I was the only one in the office I walked out, looked down the hallway which was empty and charged for the nearest exit which emptied into a patio on the back side of the hospital. I ran out onto the patio and threw the banana as far as I could. No one saw me, nothing was broken, except the banana which I assume was eaten by local wildlife, thus contributing to the circle of life, and my need to get my physical anger out was assuaged but I digress… That being said throwing something is not the same as breaking a bat.
I liked the bat that broke today. It was like a friend. I am not a power hitter but when I am in a groove everything feels right. In our first practice last week I felt good. I was making good contact and the ball was falling for hits. Ground balls and line drives. However today something didn't feel quite right. Part I am sure was my arm which I had tweaked the muscle near my elbow, but the bat didn't feel right. Whenever I hit the ball it didn't seem right. Maybe I had already damaged it in the previous practice or maybe it had bounced around in the back of my Ford Escape. But whatever happened it just didn't feel right.
Then it happened. I thought I had a good pitch, went for it and when the bat hit the ball I heard the crack. The ball was inside and I was jammed but the ball was hit sharply to the third baseman who threw me out but everyone was wondering about the bat. I knew it was broken. I went back and picked it up. A couple of us looked at it and sure enough just about the grip on the handle where I hit the ball there was a crack. It was like a hairline fracture, but the bat was now dead.
In my last at bat I had to use a composite bat, with which I did succeed in lining a solid single into left field. However, after practice I took my old Rawlings Adirondack "Big Stick" made of Ash to my car and went home. I then went out to have a couple of beers and a light dinner at Gordon Biersch after which I went out and bought me a new Louisville Slugger "125 SB" Powerized wooden softball bat made of White Ash. It too feels good. I cannot wait to use it at our next practice.
I have broken many things in life as I said, but this was the first time in years of playing baseball or softball that I have ever broken a bat. The fact that it happened in slow pitch makes it even more amazing. But I guess that is life. Maybe someday I will hit a home run. There is a sign in left field that says 230', I have three years to put it over that wall. It may mean buying a few more bats, but one day I will get my home run.
After all if I can break a bat in slow pitch ball maybe I might have enough in me to put one over that fence.
Filed under Baseball, Loose thoughts and musings
Tagged as Baseball, broken bats, lou brock, louisville slugger bats, satchel paige, softball, yogi berra
My Life and Baseball: How Padre Steve Makes Some Sense of the World
The Church of Baseball, Harbor Park Parish
"This is my most special place in all the world, Ray. Once a place touches you like this, the wind never blows so cold again. You feel for it, like it was your child." Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham in Field of Dreams
"I love baseball. You know it doesn't have to mean anything, it's just beautiful to watch." – Woody Allen in Selig (1983)
I went to Harbor Park last week just to talk with staff and sit in the concourse. Tomorrow after work, though the weather is not predicted to be very good I plan on doing the same. There is something about baseball people and my seats down in section 102, row B, seat 2 and 3 that help me even when there is not game going on. I walked around the diamond, the weather was gorgeous and it was so peaceful, even as the head groundskeeper aerated the field in preparation for the winter. I feel close to God when I am around a ballpark, even without the game being played there is something almost mystical about it. To me there is nowhere more peaceful than a ballpark. Tonight as I sit watching game one of the National League Championship Series between the Dodgers and the Phillies my mind goes back to how much baseball has been part of my life, and how in a very real way that God speaks to me through this special game.
Granger Stadium Kinston NC
"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal." George Will
Baseball is part of my life and I think this goes back to my childhood when my dad introduced me to it in our back yard in Oak Harbor Washington. Even before I played an organized game dad played catch with me, showed me how to grip a ball and told me about the great ballplayers. He made me learn the fundamentals of the game and weather we were attending a game in person, watching one on television or playing catch, pepper or practicing infield or pitching dad was all about the game. Of course he was the same way with football, hockey and basketball, but the sport that he seemed most passionate about was baseball. As a kid he was a Cincinnati Reds fan. His mother, my grandmother who hailed from the hollers of Putnam County West Virginia was a diehard Dodgers fan, though I am sure that God forgives her for that. She was an independent woman of conviction and determination that has to in some way influenced her love for the game, even as a little boy if there was a game on television she would have it on. I still wonder about to this day how she became a Dodger's fan but it probably had something to do with her independent streak. Granny as she chose to be called was a woman who as a widow in the late 1930s went to work, raised her two boys and bought her own house. Unlike most of the people in West Virginia she was also a Republican, a rare breed especially in that era. As independent in her choice of baseball teams as she was in her politics Granny was a Dodgers fan in a land of Reds, Indians and Pirates fans, so even with Granny we were immersed in baseball.
California Angels Manager Lefty Phillips and Young Padre Steve 1970
Dad always made sure that we got to see baseball wherever we lived. In 1967 he took us to see the Seattle Pilots which the next year went to Milwaukee and became the Brewers. The pilots were an expansion team in a town with a long history of minor league ball. They played at an old park named Sick Stadium, which if you ask me is a really bad marketing plan. The game that we went to was the "Bat Day" giveaway. Then they game regulation size Louisville Slugger bats. Mine had the name of the Pilots First Baseman Mike Hegan on the barrel. That was my first trip to a Major League stadium and I still can remember it as if it was yesterday. Somewhere in my junk I have a button with the Pilots logo on it. I'll have to find it again sometime. The next year I played my first organized baseball with the Oak Harbor Little League "Cheyenne's." My coach was a kind of gruff old guy who stuck me out in right field. I don't know why but our team uniforms did not match, half of us had white and the other half gray. Unfortunately due to military moves I didn't get to play organized ball again until 1972.
MY Favorite Angel Jim Spencer as a Yankee
In the elementary schools of those days our teachers who put the playoff and World's Series games as many were played during daylight hours. I remember watching Bob Gibson pitch when the Cardinals played against the Red Sox in the 1967 series. It was awesome to see that man pitch. I remember the Amazin' Mets upsetting the Orioles in 1969 and seeing the Orioles take down the Reds in 1970. I never will forget the 1970 All Star Game where Pete Rose ran over Ray Fosse at home plate for the winning run. I watched in awe as the great dynasty teams of the 1970s, the Reds and the Athletics who dominated much of that decade and the resurgence of the Yankees in the summer that the Bronx burned. Back then every Saturday there was the NBC Game of the Week hosted by Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek and Joe Garragiola.
Ed Halicki No Hitter
When we were stationed in Long Beach California from 1970-1971 my dad had us at Anaheim stadium all the time. I imagine that we attended at least 30 games there and a couple at Dodger stadium that first year and a good number more before we moved to Stockton California in the middle of the 1971 season. That was disappointing, it took forever to get adjusted to Stockton and I think that part of it was not seeing the Angels every week at the Big "A." At those games I met a lot of the players and coaches and even some opposing players. The Von's grocery store chain and the Angels radio network had a "My Favorite Angel" contest. My entry about Angels First Baseman Jim Spencer was a runner up, netting me two seats behind the plate and having Dick Enberg announce my name on the radio. Spencer was a Gold Glove First Baseman who later played for the Yankees on their 1978 World Series team. My first hat from a Major League team was the old blue hat with a red bill, the letters CA on the front and a halo stitched on top. I still have a hat from the 1971 team with the lower case "a" with a halo hanging off of it. It has numerous autographs on the inside of the bill including Sandy Alomar, Jim Spencer, and Jim Fregosi, Chico Ruiz and Billy Cowan and sits in a display case on my kitchen wall.
My Dad and Me May 2009
While we didn't live as close to a major league team baseball did not go away, though we were not at the ballpark as much it got more interesting as I got to see playoff games and a no-hitter. We saw the A's dynasty teams including games one and two of the 1972 American League Championship Series between the A's and the Tigers. Across the Bay a few years later I got to see Ed Halicki of the Giants no-hit the Mets a Candlestick on August 24th 1975. In those days I got to see some of the greats of the era play, Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Steve Garvey, Vida Blue, Harmon Killebrew, Rollie Fingers, and so many others at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and Candlestick Park.
While in Stockton I became acquainted with Minor League Baseball through the Stockton Ports, who then were the Class "A" California League farm team for the Orioles. I remember a few years back talking to Paul Blair the Orioles great Paul Blair who played for the Ports in the early 1960s about Billy Hebert Field and how the sun would go down in the outfield blinding hitters and spectators in its glare. I would ride my bike over in the evening to try to get foul balls that came over the grand stand when I didn't have the money to get a ticket.
My Championship Season
When I was a kid I had a large baseball card collection which I kept in a square cardboard box. I must have had hundreds of cards including cards that if I had them now would be worth a small fortune, unfortunately when I went away to college I left them in the garage and during a purge of junk they were tossed out. This year I started collecting cards again, mostly signed cards that I obtained at the Church of Baseball at Harbor Park. In a sense they kind of serve a purpose like Holy Cards due in the Catholic Church for me. They are a touch point with the game and the players who signed them.
As I have grown older my appreciation for the game, despite strikes and steroids still grows. I am in awe of the diamond. I have played catch on the field of dreams, seen a game in the Yankee Stadium Right Field bleachers seen games in other venues and thrown out the first pitch in a couple of minor league games. I am enchanted with the game. The foul lines theoretical go on to infinity, only broken by the placement of the outfield wall. Likewise unlike all other sports there is no time limit, meaning that baseball can be an eschatological game going on into eternity. The Hall of Fame is like the Calendar of Saints in the Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican Churches. There are rituals, the exchange of batting orders and explanation of the ground rules, the ceremonial first pitch, players not stepping on the foul line when entering and leaving the field of play, no talking about it when a pitcher is throwing a no-hitter and the home run trot. The care of a field by an expert ground crew is a thing to behold, especially when they still use the wooden box frames to lay down the chalk on the baselines and the batter's box.
We have travelled to many minor league parks often in tiny out of the way locations and even to the Field of Dreams in Dyersville Iowa where once again Judy indulged me and let me play catch. Likewise my long suffering wife has allowed our kitchen and much of my dining room are as close to a baseball shrine as Judy will let me make them; thankfully she is most tolerant and indulges this passion of mine.
Elliott the Usher
Since I returned from Iraq the baseball diamond is one of my few places of solace. For the first time I bought a season ticket to my local minor league team the Norfolk Tides. Section 102, row B seat 2 and 3 and was able to watch the game from the same place game after game. It became a place of refuge during some of my bad PTSD times, and I got to know and love the people around me; Elliot the Usher, Chip the Usher, Ray and Bill the Vietnam Veteran Beer guys behind home plate, Kenny "Crabmeat" the Pretzel Guy and Barry the Scorekeeper.
My dad is slowly dying of Alzheimer's Disease and a shell of his former self but the last time I visited him we had a few minutes where he was with it we talked baseball and I gave him a new Giants t-shirt and hat. I plan on going back next month sometime to spend some time with him. Maybe we'll get a few minutes of lucidity and a bit of time together again, I wish he was able to get up and play catch, but that will have to wait for eternity on the lushest baseball field imaginable.
The season there is over, but God is not done speaking to me through baseball as I close my eyes and recollect the words of Terrance Mann (James Earl Jones) in Field of Dreams: "The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again."
Jeff Fiorentino hits a 3 run shot at Harbor Park
In a sense this says it all to me in an age of war, economic crisis and bitter partisan political division. In a sense it is a prayer, a prayer for a return to something that can be good again.
Peace and blessings,
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The Ships of Pearl Harbor: A Brief History of each Ship Present


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Melt butter in a medium-size heavy saucepan over medium heat; whisk in flour until smooth. Cook 1 minute, whisking constantly. Gradually whisk in 1 1/2 cups milk; cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, 3 to 4 minutes or until mixture is thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat, and whisk in buttermilk and remaining ingredients.
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● Relocate your vehicles from the garage/driveway. We need quick access to tools and trucks and will need to back up our roof removal truck to the house so that we can avoid nails and other debris falling onto your cars or yard.
● If you have wall decorations that are slightly secured (not held by screws), please remove them. The vibrations from hammers and machinery can travel through your some walls of your home. We suggest this as a precaution for the rooms on the level below your roof.
● Cover belongings in the attic – during a roof replacement, many installers will be walking on your roof. Dust or small debris can fall through in the attic spaces. You can keep personal items cleaner by covering them up with old sheets or drop clothes until the new roof has been replaced.
● Protect/remove any items that could break from falling debris around the house. Such as lawn ornaments, potted plants.
● If you have a swimming pool close to the house. Close the pool cover. If you don't have a pool cover, we can tarp it too! Roofing debris can stain plaster finishes or the lining.
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Psychologon / Rešerše Legendární irská léčivá půda funguje proti rezistentním superbakteriím V severoirském kraji Boho mají kouzelnou hlínu, která léčí všechny rány a infekce. A jak zjistili mikrobiologové, tohle kouzlo skutečně funguje. V irské hlíně žijí doposud neznámé strepomycety které produkují velmi účinné antibakteriální látky.
Psychologon / Rešerše Martin Pistorius How my mind came back to life — and no one knew Imagine being unable to say, "I am hungry," "I am in pain," "thank you," or "I love you," — losing your ability to communicate, being trapped inside your body, surrounded by people yet utterly alone. For 13 long years, that was Martin Pistorius's reality. After contracting a brain infection at the age of twelve, Pistorius lost his ability to control his movements and to speak, and eventually he failed every test for mental awareness. He had become a ghost. But then a strange thing started to happen — his mind began to knit itself back together. In this moving talk, Pistorius tells how he freed himself from a life locked inside his own body.
Psychologon / Rešerše Neuritóza není neuróza Není, ale u členů americko-ruského kolektivu neurologů, kteří se snaží přijít na kloub tomu, co rádo začíná únavou a depresemi a později přerůstá v psychózu, paranoiu a progresivní demenci, neurózu navozuje. Může za to objev řízeného procesu, který neurony připravuje o jejich synapse. Takový fenomén dosud nebyl znám, vědci ho pojmenovali "neuritózou".
Psychologon / Rešerše Study on Holocaust survivors suggests parental PTSD impacts successful aging among offspring "A new study on survivors of the Nazi concentration camps and their children has found evidence that the consequences of trauma can be passed down to one's offspring." Více se dočtete zde.
Psychologon / Rešerše Why teens confess to crimes they didn't commit "Why do juveniles falsely confess to crimes? What makes them more vulnerable than adults to this shocking, counterintuitive phenomenon? Through the lens of Brendan Dassey's interrogation and confession (as featured in Netflix's "Making a Murderer" documentary), developmental psychology professor and researcher Lindsay Malloy breaks down the science underlying false confessions and calls for change in the way kids are treated by a legal system designed for adults."
Psychologon / Psychologon Keď sa pamäť s nami hrá Ľudská pamäť pracuje relatívne presne. Spoliehame sa na ňu pri každodenných bežných činnostiach. Problém nastáva, keď si s nami začne zahrávať. Niečo vynechá, zaplní prázdne miesta a uložené spomienky si upraví. Je ale možné, aby dokázala vytvoriť úplne novú spomienku na udalosť, ktorá sa nikdy nestala?
Psychologon / Rešerše Is there a link between mass shootings and mental illness? "The Shining is clearly a work of fiction. But when it comes to mental illness and violence, the public, media and policy-makers often have difficulty discerning fact from fantasy. Opinion polls consistently reveal that the majority of adults in the US believe that people with mental illnesses are more likely to be violent than those without."
Psychologon / Rešerše Tatínkovy vzpomínky zapsané do spermií Na svět přicházíme s geny od rodičů, a když dospějeme, tak je zase my předáváme svým potomkům. Jenže se ukázalo, že ratolestem dáváme i něco navíc, co naši rodiče neměli. Nejde o majetek a nesouvisí to ani s rákoskou podpořeným vzorem chování. Kde se tato "poučení" ve spermiích nachází, když nejsou v genech?
Psychologon / Rešerše Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality "What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are. But Brian Little is more interested in moments when we transcend those traits -- sometimes because our culture demands it of us, and sometimes because we demand it of ourselves. Join Little as he dissects the surprising differences between introverts and extroverts and explains why your personality may be more malleable than you think."
Psychologon / Rešerše America's teens are extremely stressed out about school shootings "Gen Z is actually not the most stressed-out cohort in the poll. That distinction still belongs to the millennials, who, on average, rated their stress at 5.7 on a scale of 10. Gen Z was the second most stressed, with a 5.3 average. But it appears there are unique stressors for Gen Z, and they're a troubling reminder of the times we live in."
Psychologon / Rešerše Study: Religious fundamentalists and dogmatic individuals are more likely to believe fake news "Some false beliefs are relatively harmless (e.g., children believing in the tooth fairy), while others might cause significant distress (e.g., incorrectly believing that others are trying to hurt you) or may be potentially harmful to society as a whole (e.g., false beliefs about global warming or vaccines)." "Research suggests that vulnerability to several different kinds of false beliefs may be determined (at least in part) by similar cognitive factors. For example, prior to our study, belief in fake news and belief in delusions had separately been associated with less engagement in analytic thinking," Bronstein said.
Psychologon / Rešerše Why we have an emotional connection to robots "When we behave violently towards robots, specifically robots that are designed to mimic life, is that a healthy outlet for violent behavior or is that training our cruelty muscles? We don't know ... But the answer to this question has the potential to impact human behavior, it has the potential to impact social norms, it has the potential to inspire rules around what we can and can't do with certain robots, similar to our animal cruelty laws. Because even if robots can't feel, our behavior towards them might matter for us. And regardless of whether we end up changing our rules, robots might be able to help us come to a new understanding of ourselves."


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A day in the life of Stephen Halloran, co-founder of Lawtons Solicitors, a leading criminal defence firm, ranked as a national leader in criminal defence work by Chambers & Partners.
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A day in the life of the co-founder of Lawtons Solicitors, a leading criminal defence firm, ranked as a national leader in criminal defence work by Chambers & Partners.
Solicitor advocate Stephen Halloran is co-founder of Lawtons Solicitors, a leading criminal defence firm with offices in London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex.
Stephen is a former President of the Hertfordshire Law Society and has provided legal insight to a range of media outlets including the BBC and national newspapers. He told The Brief about a typical day at the firm he helped to build.
My fellow director Nick Titchener and I founded Lawtons Solicitors in 2004, and we have since grown to become one of the largest specialist criminal solicitors firms in London and the home counties. Offices in London, St Albans, Luton, Cambridge, Milton Keynes and several other locations have extended our reach, and we are taking on an increasing number of private crime cases, in addition to legal aid work.
As one of the most senior members of our team, I tend to take on some of the more challenging or complex cases we deal with.
The variety of cases is something I really enjoy and it certainly ensures no two days are ever the same. At any one time the firm could be representing clients in cases involving murder, rape, money laundering, fraud or drug offences, to name but a few.
No matter what the case is, who the defendant is or where in the country we're working, the one thing that remains constant is that clients are trusting us with their futures.
Practising during a pandemic
In common with organisations in every industry, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact upon our firm – and the wider legal field.
Personally, I occasionally work from home, but I go into the office most days. Of course, I also spend a good amount of time in police stations and court.
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However, COVID-19 has caused a shift towards widespread use of the Cloud Video Platform (CVP) for hearings, which has changed the working day for solicitors everywhere. One day I attended hearings in North Tyneside, Cornwall and Lincolnshire.
Before the pandemic, we would have had different members of the team attending each of those hearings, so CVP has given our clients complete continuity of service. It's been much easier for us to cover cases over a really wide geographic area.
An even greater impact of the pandemic, though, has been the chronic delays caused by lockdowns. Complainants, witnesses and defendants alike are all experiencing anxiety as court dates are postponed.
From our point of view, we're still trying to clear a backlog of work as new cases come in.
Varied caseload
One case that we were able to bring to a close recently was a youth rape case, which was heard at a magistrate's court in south London. It was originally scheduled for last year, but was rearranged because of COVID-19 and only started in late April. The defendant was acquitted.
I'm currently representing two more young people in a murder case, whose trial will begin in July. I've recently met with them in person, which is preferable with young defendants, even against the backdrop of the pandemic.
Today, I've been refining notes taken from that meeting, which, as any solicitor will tell you, is a huge part of the job.
I also have around 8,000 pages of case work to review for a high-profile drug and money-laundering case. It involves EncroChat, an encrypted messaging service that law enforcement authorities in France and Belgium were able to crack. Users of EncroChat have been arrested across the UK and mainland Europe.
Alongside these cases, we have clients accused of possessing indecent images, drink-driving and fraud. We are also seeing cases related to the pandemic, with instances of fraud relating to the furlough scheme and bounce back loans.
As you can appreciate, we definitely have our hands full at Lawtons. Although the pandemic and lockdowns have changed the way we work in some respects, our daily routines are still focused on giving our clients the best possible legal representation.
In many cases, it's about ensuring innocent people are acquitted of crimes they didn't commit, so it really makes your day when we get that outcome.
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Slide Show: A project in NY
Francesco Arena, Claudio Verna
From January 10th to 26th
Opening January 12th
Monitor is proud to present Slide Show: A project in NY, a series of solo shows in New York. The first of these appointments will feature two artists from the Italian scene, both prominent but who come from two different generations – Francesco Arena, born in 1977 and Claudio Verna, born in 1937.
Francesco Arena (Torre Santa Susanna, Brindisi 1978, IT*) translates history within the confines of 'consuming' space – minimalist sculptures that refer to the physical index of the subjective human body. His work frequently combines a strong political element with a recovery of ancient crafts and traditions typical of southern Italy. Through his sculptures and installations Arena channels the memory of Italian and international events into works that are often evocative of monuments to some of the most dramatic episodes of the country's history. Arena was featured in the Italian Pavilion of the last Venice Biennale, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi.
For Slide Show Francesco Arena will present a new work inspired by the city of New York.
June 16th 1904 is the day in which James Joyce set his Ulysses and on a number of occasions during that day the novel's protagonist, Leopold Bloom, chances upon the news of the naval disaster involving the General Slocum that had taken place the previous day when the ship had burned in the waters of New York's East River. The vessel had been rented to ferry the congregation (largely German-Americans living in Little Germany in Manhattan, currently East Village and Alphabet City) of St. Mark's Lutheran evangelical church for a picnic outing. Of the 1,342 people on board the General Slocum it is estimated that 1,021 lost their lives. Until the 9/11 terrorist attacks the General Slocum was the worst disaster in terms of loss of human life that has ever taken place in the New York area.
Already undergoing a slow decline prior to the disaster, Little Germany all but vanished as a neighbourhood after the General Slocum accident. Most of the Lutheran Germans living in Lower East Side moved into the city's plusher neighbourhoods, while St. Mark's – the parish that had rented the boat involved in the calamity – eventually became a synagogue.
As he was reading Joyce's Ulysses in the summer of 2013, Francesco Arena came across the General Slocum episode and made the connection with a story that had been told him by a Lower East Side resident in the winter of 2012-13, when he was living with his family in the East Village.
Three diaries – one from the year the artist's wife was born in 1977, the other from Arena's year of birth the following year and the third from 2010, the year their daughter was born – are open at the pages concerning June 15th and 16th. The pages of the diaries are held down by white bronze sculptures completed by the artist using only one hand.
Claudio Verna is regarded as one of the most brilliant exponents (along with, among others, Claudio Olivieri, Giorgio Griffa and Claudio Battaglia) of Analytical Painting, which advocated a reinvention of the painting medium at a time in which it was widely considered defunct. Verna's paintings objectively and pragmatically explore visual perception phenomena. Since 1967 his work has abandoned any reference to subject – not even to an abstract image – in favour of total absorption with the dynamics and dialectics of the elements of painting itself, particularly colour.
By 1969 Verna's work began to display the first signs of a freer way of applying colour to the canvas, particularly at the margins of his paintings where shapes ended or overlapped. Drawing high precision squares and crosses with the aid of draughtsman's tools such as a ruler and compass, Verna retained the original linear marks visible as part of the overall figurative structure of his works. An element of surprise is nonetheless generated by his use of colour, when the rationality of the geometry interacts with aspects associated with emotion and sensibility. By minimizing the formal components of his paintings in favour of expanses of colour whose depth and luminous power were thus intensified, Verna achieved almost monochromatic figurative solutions. The works proposed for the show perfectly embody this aspect of his opus.
For Slide Show, Monitor will in fact present two landmark paintings from 1968 and 1971, as well as works on paper from the same period.
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Why be a parish councillor? | Jonathan Wallcroft
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North East Somerset Constituency is, largely, famous for our MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. The combination of the name of the constituency and our representative belies the fact that this is a seat that for 10/21 years of this century has been represented by a Labour MP. There are also many Labour Party representatives throughout the constituency. We have a 5 strong Labour Group on our Unitary Authority Council.
Then, like me, there are many Labour Party members who are parish councillors. I say many, because the exact numbers can be hard to pin down. Many parish councils are run on a non-partisan basis. It is not uncommon to have Labour Party members elected as independents at this level.
I joined the council as Labour member in 2019. I was co-opted because not enough candidates had stood during the main election in May. Like the other three Labour members elected at the time we stood in part due to the high chance of success despite the national environment. In 2011 a BNP representative was elected to our parish council unopposed when the Labour Party did not put a candidate up. This is not an uncommon occurrence due to the lack of candidates at this level and served as a salutary lesson for the local Labour Party about the dangers of not taking parish council elections seriously.
In March 2021 anyone following Labour twitter will have seen the stream of Labour candidates elected unopposed throughout the country – often in areas where there was previously little or no Labour support.
During my tenure we have had to contend with the covid-19 pandemic. This pandemic has helped show the value of such community councils, with councillors from all party's taking leading roles in the Community support groups to deliver food to those shielding. I helped organise a virtual high street to support local businesses.
Parish Councils can have an extensive array of issues under their purview. This means are often the first people approached by members of the public when there is an issue. Issues surrounding planning permission for new developments are often many peoples most lengthy (if not only) interaction with government.
This makes parish councils an invaluable resource for remaining in contact with the voters in our constituencies. In the past when this seat was held by Labour MP Dan Norris – now metro mayor – Labour parish councillors were a vital link between the MP and the constituents.
For Labour to make inroads in coastal and rural areas we cannot simply turn up every five years and compete in general elections. The groundwork needs to be built over the years through local elections. I'd encourage anyone living in an area that has a parish council to get involved and to put themselves forward as Labour Party candidates in the next election.
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Mansur joins Capitol News Illinois as statehouse reporter
Capitol News Illinois reporter Sarah Mansur
She returns to Capitol, where she previously worked for Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
By CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
SPRINGFIELD – Sarah Mansur on Monday joined Capitol News Illinois as a member of its full-time reporting staff.
Mansur previously was the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin bureau chief at the Capitol. She joined the Daily Law Bulletin in 2017 after graduating from the Public Affairs Reporting program at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Before enrolling in the PAR program, Mansur was a reporter for nearly three years for the Daily Dispatch newspaper in Henderson, North Carolina. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina.
"I'm excited to join a news organization that values independent journalism and recognizes the importance of providing quality coverage to small, local papers, especially at a time when many newsrooms in Illinois are shrinking in response to budget cuts," Mansur said.
Capitol News Illinois Bureau Chief Jerry Nowicki said Mansur's perspective and experience will strengthen the reporting team and help the news service move forward in new and exciting ways.
"Sarah will make an excellent and important addition to the Capitol News Illinois team, allowing us to keep up a continuity of coverage of the Illinois courts and Statehouse that our readers have come to expect," Nowicki said. "In freelance work she has done for us in the past few weeks, Sarah has already demonstrated a knack for covering stories that have otherwise been overlooked, shedding an important light on a pair of Illinois Supreme Court races that could impact state politics for decades to come. "
Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit news service covering state government that is operated by the Illinois Press Foundation and funded primarily by the Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. Its stories have been published by more than 420 daily and nondaily newspapers statewide with a combined circulation of more than 1.9 million. It began operations in January 2019.
Mansur joins Nowicki and full-time reporters Peter Hancock and Raymon Troncoso on the Capitol News Illinois team. Troncoso joined Capitol News Illinois in July as a reporter through the Report For America 2020-21 program.
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The Foreign Hundred
The Maidan became both a tourist destination and a place where foreigners, who are not indifferent to the fate of Ukraine, gathered. The flags that flew above it were from various countries, not only those of Ukraine and the EU. The heroes of Nebesna Sotnya - the Heaven Hundred - also include the citizens of other countries. How did, and do, foreigners view the Maidan?
Marco Ferraro, Italy:
I came to Kyiv in January. In Italy, events on the EuroMaidan didn't sound like particularly important news, but I thought that the actual situation was unusual for Europe, because people were taking to the streets with EU flags. I was in Kyiv for a week, then again towards the end of February, immediately after the invasion of Crimea. I then became an activist of the EuroMaidan – Italy group, which spread true information and refuted Russian propaganda. Together with the "We are all Europeans. We are all Ukrainians" group, on the eve of the elections to the European Parliament, I conducted a social campaign to show that a lot of European politicians are friends with Putin.
When I initially came to Kyiv, it was interesting to compare the protests going on there to those that took place in Turkey against the planned construction in Gezi Park, where I have lived for the last three years. I was on the Maidan during the peaceful period. To be honest, I don't know what I would have done if there had been an attack. I would probably have run to the barricades together with the protesters.
Being in Kyiv was one of the strongest emotional times of my life. I wanted to talk about it to people in Italy, so I spread information. It was something beautiful. By saying "beautiful", I mean that the people on the Maidan were genuine and honest. I met some more Italians there. What drew us to the Maidan, was the battle against corruption. When the people on the Maidan spoke to me, I felt that I could trust them, because they proved their words with action.
The last time I was on the Maidan was during the presidential election in Ukraine. The place now seems empty, as a friend of mine said, as if only those remain there, who have no real life. It has lost its energy. Of course, during a military crisis, it is difficult to put pressure on your own government.
As far as the Maidan is concerned, in my view, it can have several options for development. One is to become a political movement, a political force, as was the case with Solidarity in Poland. The second is to transform into a civil society, a non-government organisation. And the last – to remain as it is now, a local structure, which is completely unorganised. This will mean that the Maidan will not have any political influence, but it will be able to put moral pressure on society. I think that the strength of the Maidan lies in the fact that it mobilises people to action, they don't have to be invited. Several months ago, I asked what I could do for the Maidan, and got the following answer: "Do what you can and want to do, there is no hierarchy here". And this is a very powerful asset.
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Anja Lange, Germany:
I have lived in Ukraine for a year now. Until then, I studied in Leipzig and grew up in Dresden. I am currently teaching German at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. I was at the Maidan nearly every day, generally observing what was going on. At first, it reminded me of the European Football Championship, the final of which took place here a year earlier. Everyone had a good time, danced and there was an atmosphere of a public holiday, which lasted for a week, until November 30. After the attack by Berkut, it became more radical. I understood that everything was a lot more serious. Students went on strike. But with time, there were less and less young people on the Maidan. I was a little disillusioned with this. What's next, I thought finally.
At first, it was very important for me that the Maidan was a symbol of Ukrainian civil society. People were doing something for one another, free of charge. To me it seemed unbelievable that something like this was happening. Then there was the escalation in February, and I think that from that time on, only those who don't know what to do remain on the square. They want to live in tents and eat buckwheat.
For the German press, Svoboda and Pravyi Sektor – The Right Sector - were the main participants of the protests. My mother was the first to phone me, saying that there were only fascists on the Maidan. I told her that "I'm there too". Many of my family members phoned me, because while all the action was taking place on two streets and the main square, in Germany, they thought that the whole of Kyiv was ablaze.
The Maidan has already become a symbol of civil activity and cooperation, and this is how it should always be. However, right now, in my view, there are a lot of disillusioned people, because at first everyone said: "We aren't going anywhere until Yanukovych is gone", and when he bolted and a transition government was formed, the people decided that they would now live in peace, everything will be easier. But it is impossible to change everything in one go.
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Filip Szymborski, Poland:
I am currently involved with humanitarian aid in Kyiv, together with the Open Dialogue Foundation. I came here with this organisation in February, but was here on my own in December.
I initially read a lot about the Maidan, following events on the Internet. I soon decided that I wanted to come here, but I was working and it was hard to leave my job, so I only arrived towards the end of December, when Christmas holidays started in Poland. It was very cold. My first impression was that nothing looked the way that I had imagined. It also reminded me of the democratic movement in Poland.
During the period December 26 – January 6, when I was first here, the Maidan seemed peaceful and vivid – something was constantly going on. I think that for the people who stayed on, it was a place where they could communicate freely and do something spontaneously.
At that time, Svoboda took me in at the Zhovtneviy Palats (October Palace). I did everything that everyone else did: took part in vigils, worked in the kitchen and helped to make decorations for the stage. I came back in February together with the Foundation, and we began to be involved in humanitarian aid and when cases were being heard against AutoMaidan activists. We reported on what was going on there.
Today's Maidan, as well as the one in December, January or February, is a single space. Probably a lot of the people on the Maidan today were also there in winter. It appears that this spirit has now spread throughout the whole of Ukraine, and that which actually remained on the Maidan – is for the people who stayed behind, for those who seemed to have nowhere to go, since they were either there too long, have nowhere to return to, or were not accepted into the National Guard … but they should at least be allowed to continue living in the place where they stood at the very start.
The physical space of the Maidan should have changed. The road should not be open for cars to travel on, because too much has happened there. It would be good if Khreshchatyk and Maidan Nezalezhnosti were to remain a pedestrian zone, so that people would see where the barricades were located, where the stage was set up, so that these places could became a monument in honour of those events.
When talking about the Maidan, for me, the most important thing was that spontaneity; the fact that people opened up to one another and began to work. This is very important in my view – learning to work together and learning to have faith.
Kate Hiatt Mattila, USA:
I've been in Ukraine for almost a year. My first impressions of the Maidan … I remember walking from the Ukrainian House on November 23 or 24, when cars still drove along Khreshchatyk. It was pouring with rain and a few people were standing under blue umbrellas with EU symbols on them. It was really great that they were fired up by something, because after the defeat of the Orange Revolution, everyone was very apathetic.
It would be good if the Maidan could remain a place for communication, discussion and also – memory; for Khreshchatyk to stay open. When people study revolutions, they try to find similarities. As far as the Maidan is concerned, it is kind of unique, because it was peaceful for such a long time …
The Maidan is of unbelievably huge symbolic significance for people in similar situations: if there is a system that should be changed, but you don't know how to do that, you will find a way out all the same. I think that the overall situation in Ukraine will improve, but that the spirit of the Maidan, its energy and dialogue, will extend and encourage politicians to make changes and have a sense of responsibility to voters, in order to prevent further conflicts.
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Briefing: The outlook for Libya's migrant detention centres
More than two weeks after an airstrike on a migrant detention centre in Libya's capital left at least 53 people dead and many more wounded, the UN said that more migrants and refugees are being brought to the Tripoli facility, despite ongoing fighting.
The UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said in a tweet on Monday that "a new group of migrants" had been taken to the detention centre, Tajoura, adding that the agency "reiterates that migrants' safety must be guaranteed".
According to media reports, some 200 people were being held in Tajoura as of Tuesday even though migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers who survived the deadly 2 July strike were released last week. The UN said the strike could constitute a war crime.
Amidst a growing chorus of appeals to free the approximately 6,000 people known to be held in Libya's detention centres - long cited for their desperate conditions - aid groups are struggling to support current and former detainees as three-and-a-half months of clashes in and around Tripoli continue, despite calls for de-escalation.
Rights groups say the Libyan government should share responsibility for the poor conditions, as should EU member states, whose efforts to curb migration - including support for the Libyan Coast Guard and allegedly paying off militias involved in smuggling - have left vulnerable people trapped in Libya with no way out.
With limited options for resettlement outside the country and boats intercepted in the Mediterranean still being sent back to Libya, here's what we know about the current situation for migrant detainees, what sort of help they are getting, and their prospects for release.
Will Libya's migrant detention centres be closed?
The UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) said on 4 July that it was considering the closure of all of Libya's migrant detention centres, which hold roughly 6,000 individuals - most from sub-Saharan Africa - in dozens of facilities across the country.
But while Tajoura is run by a militia aligned with the GNA, which has been fighting eastern forces loyal to general Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) for control of the capital city since late April, the UN-backed government does not control all of Libya, nor does it run all of the country's detention centres.
A European Union spokesperson called last week's release of the original Tajoura detainees a "positive step" and said "all refugees and migrants have to be released from detention and provided with all the necessary assistance".
But shortly after that, 90 people attempting to leave Libya were intercepted at sea by the EU-trained and equipped Libyan Coast Guard, and sent to Tajoura.
Other migrant groups - some rounded up from the local community, others relocated from other detention centres - have also been sent to the centre in recent days, creating the "risk of another tragedy" given the ongoing clashes, said IOM and Charlie Yaxley, a spokesman for UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency.
Who is responsible for the Tajoura airstrike?
The UN has called for an independent investigation to establish responsibility for the attack, but many suspect it to be the work of Haftar's forces, which have been conducting air raids against GNA targets in the vicinity of Tajoura.
The Tajoura facility, which held more than 600 mainly African migrants and refugees, was situated in a military compound controlled by a pro-GNA militia. A New York Times investigation showed a weapons depot some 90 metres from where the detainees were living.
Media reports suggest there were two strikes; one hitting the weapons depot, a second hitting the detainees' living quarters. The UN said the coordinates of the detention centre - and others in Tripoli - were known to combatants.
The same weapons depot was previously hit on 7 May, injuring two detainees. The UN called for the occupants to be moved but nothing was done. On 23 April, LNA-aligned fighters reportedly opened fire on detainees in the Qasr Bin Ghashir detention centre south of Tripoli, killing several people.
Who is getting aid to the detention centres?
A mixture of international and local NGOs supply aid to detainees, but access is "subject to the daily whims" of militias that control many detention centres, said one aid worker in Libya who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Getting help where it needs to go has become more challenging since the late April uptick in fighting due to daily clashes and the difficulty of negotiating with militias. Companies contracted by the Libyan authorities to provide food to detention centres have been forced to cease deliveries due to ongoing fighting.
Kasper Engborg, deputy head of the UN's emergency aid coordination body in Libya, OCHA, said support for detainees is provided on an "ad hoc basis" so as to avoid aid groups inadvertently propping up the detention centres and legitimising a "situation that we don't agree to".
He added: "We do not believe that detention centres should exist."
How has the conflict impacted people in detention centres?
Nearly 3,400 individuals are trapped in ten detention centres near the fighting in and around Tripoli, according to the UN - although these figures have not been updated since the Tajoura releases and new detentions.
Some detainees say they have been forcibly conscripted to fight or clean arms; others have been wounded or killed in airstrikes and ground attacks.
Aid groups say access to the detention centres - some of which are controlled by militias - has become increasingly difficult since the fighting began, with detainees forced to live in unsanitary conditions without food, water, and basic medical supplies.
Migrants and refugees have long faced a litany of abuses inside centres, where disease is rife, and rapes, beatings, kidnappings, and extortion have been reported. Many are in Libya as way-station to Europe, where they hope to escape war and persecution, while others are seeking new economic opportunities.
Conditions in the detention centres have deteriorated further since fresh conflict engulfed the capital in April, when forces loyal to Haftar began a march on Tripoli.
Deaths inside detention centres are not limited to armed conflict. A lack of medical services means detainees regularly succumb to preventable illness like tuberculosis, which the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says likely caused at least 22 fatalities in two detention centres between September and May this year.
What happens to detainees who are released?
UNHCR has been advocating for the "immediate release of refugees and migrants from places of detention," but aid groups also say they have little capacity to assist detainees once they leave the centres.
After the Tajoura airstrike, UNHCR attempted to relocate the 55 "most vulnerable refugees"; hundreds of others were filmed walking the streets of Tripoli, their belongings in plastic bin bags.
Most of the former detainees are now sheltering in UNHCR's "Gathering and Departure Facility" (GDF), which is intended to host individuals who have been declared eligible for refugee status and are awaiting resettlement.
Engborg of OCHA said the former Tajoura detainees will be asked to leave the "badly overcrowded" GDF facility in the coming days and find their own accommodation, which is the case for the estimated 600,000 migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers currently living in Libya.
Former detainees - along with those already living on their own - may be "at risk of exploitation and abuse from people smugglers and traffickers," said Elinor Raikes, Europe and North Africa director at the International Rescue Committee.
Sam Turner, MSF's head of mission in Libya, said it wasn't clear what the humanitarian community would do if all the country's detention centres were shut:"We don't have a contingency plan in place to cope with the release of people from detention," he said.
Two of three community day centres intended to support migrants and refugees in urban communities have been forced to close in recent weeks due to ongoing clashes, said UNHCR's spokeswoman in Libya, Paula Barrachina. The remaining facility receives 150 people per day, Barrachina said, and is "at full capacity".
"Resources have to be increased to be able to respond to all persons in need," she added.
Since April, UNHCR has relocated hundreds of individuals from detention facilities near front lines, such as Qasr Bin Ghashir. They have mostly been transferred to other detention centres in safer locations, and a number have been moved to the GDF facility.
UN officials are now discussing proposals with the GNA for former detainees to be housed in new "open" shelters, where they can come and go freely, said Engborg.
But efforts to establish such centres may take time and will be complicated by the ongoing conflict.
How many refugees have been resettled since the violence began?
UNHCR has evacuated 589 refugees to safe third countries since April, including 295 to Italy and 294 to Niger - where refugees make a supposedly temporary stop before being resettled in Europe.
So far this year, nearly 1,300 people have been evacuated from Libya, but roughly three times that number have been intercepted at sea by the Libyan Coast Guard and brought back to detention centres. This means that the "cycle of human misery and danger is just perpetuated," said the International Rescue Committee's Raikes.
The UN has appealed for more countries to offer resettlement spots, and Germany's development minister, Gerd Müller, called for a "joint humanitarian initiative" from Europe and the UN to rescue refugees on Libyan soil.
But there remains a lack "of sufficient resettlement spaces through the pledges that have been announced by different governments around the world," MSF's Turner said.
IOM runs a voluntary repatriation programme that supports individuals who decide to return home. Many of those affected by the Tajoura airstrike were already registered on the programme, the agency said.
A total of 5,089 individuals have returned to 26 countries across Africa and Asia so far in 2019 as part of the IOM programme. But the decision to return home is not for everyone, given the hardship and financial costs most incur in their journey to reach Europe.
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Soldier dies in motorcyle crash just off post
Updated: Aug. 27, 2012, 2:43 p.m.
The soldier killed in a Friday motorcycle accident just outside Fort Stewart has been identified.
Sgt. Alvin E. Phillips, 42, of Sugarland, Texas, died of injuries he received when his motorcycle ran into some trees outside Fort Stewart's Veterans Parkway gate at 5 p.m. He was taken to Winn Army Community Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 5:41.
According to Fort Stewart's Public Affairs Office, Phillips was a heavy equipment transport driver with 3rd Sustainment Brigade. He joined the Army in March 2005 and had one deployment.
PAO said Fort Stewart officials' thoughts and prayers are with the sergeant's family. Grief counseling and chaplain assistance has been offered to them and his friends.
The accident is still under investigation. Investigators said Phillips was wearing protective equipment and had a valid motorcycle license.


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Is it free for a limited time and then you have to pay for it ? Or is it free forever after you download it ?
Apparently it's 100% free and you can play it for the rest of your life.
The giveaway ends 3 Juni.
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Once i've done with migrating this blog, next task that i need to resolve is to find a good place to host it. As you might notice, i don't need anything but a simple web server will do. I can just pick any free hosting, point my domain into it and call it a day.
But that's definitely not blogging like a hacker my friend.
I was looking for something more subtle than conventional hosting. I've spent quite amount of time trying to find some good hosting. If you're looking for good free hosting with no ads, there is only one that i can recommend - serversfree.com . They're so good that almost sounds good to be truth, and they gave a lot more features than what paid hosting could offer. I did looked into few offers from local hosting in Malaysia and for 1GB storage with 1GB bandwidth, they're asking for about RM50 per year. Triple that and you'll get 2GB of storage with 10GB of bandwidth. Like that's going to happen.
I could always rent a Virtual Private Server (VPS), but that's definitely overkill just to host a bunch of static files. I don't think its an effective investment since i didn't blog that much, and there are too many things i need to think of and having to manage my vps isn't one of them.
At this point, i guess i don't really have any choices. Well, Maybe Not.
1. I do skeptical about free stuff.
2. I am more concern about speed and availability than point 1.
3. Above all, i don't wanna use FTP app to publish my blog.
So i took a look around again this time, and although i heard about Heroku for some time now, i didn't realize that you can use it to host your blog for free (with some exception, of course) until i read a post from some developers.
Developer productivity is our battle cry, at the core of everything we do. Why require three steps when one will do? Why require any action at all when zero steps will do?
First thing first, sign up for Heroku account. And then, download the toolbet. Required to use Heroku.
Done. Since Heroku use Git for deployment, so you might wanna learn one or two things about Git.
Its just simple as that. But we're not done yet. We can't view the web app yet since it did not recognize our app and won't be able to assign proper framework for it. Since Nanoc is based on Ruby and i can use Rack (A Ruby Webserver) to serve my blog, i just need to create a Gemfile and Heroku will automatically pick it up and instantly recognize it's a Ruby app.
Aside from Gemfile, Rack requires its own configuration interface. Just create config.ru and put both of them in your site's root.
If you know what you're doing, you don't even need all the gems.
Now we can push our webapp alive.
But we're not done yet. Since i bought my domain for blogging, let's use it.
and its should appear on your Heroku's dashboard.
Now its just a matter of pointing your domain to Heroku. This might sound easy enough, but unfortunately i ended up submitting a ticket for technical support of my domain hosting because their A records won't accept duplicate domain with different IPs. I solved this problem by switching to third-party DNS. Maybe i'll switch my domain hosting as well in future.
You should be able to browse using three surfix - yourdomain.com, www.yourdomain.com and yourapp.herokuapp.com. That's good. Using rack-rewrite, we'll have that fixed and pointing to one domain.
Add, commit, and push it. Done.
As i mention early of this post, it's free to host this blog on Heroku as long as you don't need to scale with the demands. Heroku's pricing is based on resources you use and they have nice calculator to calculate estimated monthly cost for you. However, even with their free plan i found it's more than adequate to serve few static files with moderate visitors.
Still, it might not everyone cup of tea, but if you can embrace it, i am pretty certain it could save you a lot of money. Now, i need a bucket to host all my images. And perhaps, i could spend some time to optimize this blog as well.


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Accessible and reliable public transport is key to many older people living fulfilling lives.
By Sophie Lock from Leonard Cheshire
Public transport isn't good enough for older people and those living with a disability
"I've had a few bad experiences with bus drivers pulling away before I've reached a seat. I have to cling to an upright and scream for him to stop. I'm 67 – it's very undignified," says Susan.
Susan's story is just one of many that we've heard during the planning and launch of our Transport campaign, #LetsGetOnBoard. Our campaign is calling on the government to do more to improve journeys for disabled people.
Having accessible journeys can make the difference between getting out to volunteer and seeing family and friends, instead of feeling isolated and excluded from community life.
Travelling by public transport requires a certain robustness
At the moment, poor public transport means it can be a stressful and humiliating experience.
Travelling by train requires certain robustness. It's one thing when you're younger and more confident. But as we all get older, that confidence can diminish.
According to the UN, the combination of ageing populations and the higher risk of disability in older people means more members of the population will be affected by disability.
People must be able to trust public transport so they can carry on with their lives, leave the house when they want, travel where they choose.
More than 46 per cent of older persons – those aged 60 years and over—have disabilities and more than 250 million older people experience moderate to severe disability.
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Tulsa Project Theatre presents: Little Shop of Horrors
Oct 25, 26: 8pm
Oct 27: 2pm
Nov 1, 2: 8pm
Nov 3: 2pm
Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's off-Broadway horror comedy musical is taking over Tulsa Performing Arts Center. Don't miss all the excitement as Tulsa Project Theatre presents "Little Shop of Horrors" inside the John H. Williams Theatre. A meek floral assistant named Seymour stumbles across a new breed of plant he names "Audrey II" after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down-and-out Seymour - as long as he keeps feeding it blood. See this unforgettable show in Tulsa this fall.