It's late afternoon. You are finally at home after a long day, and are relaxing on the couch. Someone comes to your front door. You answer the door and this normal looking young man is there, and says that he represents a window company. They are looking for homes in your neighborhood to install new energy saving windows, and then showcase your home as part of their advertising. In return for allowing your home to be a showcase, you will get a significant cost savings on the project. Nice looking guy. Official looking clip-board, ID badge hanging from his neck, clean cut. And this is such a good deal! How can you pass this up?
This may be a legitimate sales call. Or this may be a scam.
You are a little hesitant because perhaps you don't want to start this type of major project right now, or maybe money is a little tight. The sales pitch is now being laid on thicker and thicker to convince you that you really need to consider this.
Did you catch the scam? Before I tell you what it is, let me give you a hint and tell you that these scams are kind of like "sleight of hand" gimmicks in that one thing is used to distract you from the real purpose of the "mission" that this person is on. And yes – I used the word "mission" on purpose to give you a hint. Any thoughts yet?
OK – here it is. This is possibly a reconnaissance mission. Reconnaissance to look for targets for home invasion and/or burglary. The thick sales pitch was a distraction from the other subtle things being asked, such as for you to give them a landline phone number. And if you're thinking about your house windows and energy savings, you aren't thinking about looking for what other pieces of information this person is collecting during this visit.
First, by going door to door, our "salesman" gets to write down street addresses and house descriptions. That official looking clipboard is for taking notes, after all. A salesman writing down notes looks perfectly normal.
They get to see if anyone is home at that time, they get to see who answers the door (man, woman, child), they can now tell which houses have dogs (as alerted by the doorbell), and they can also see which houses have alarm signs in their front yards (and/or stickers on the door). If a person answers the door, besides seeing if an adult, man or woman, they can see what "type" of person it is: Stern, timid, mad, happy, geeky, forceful, easy to convince, skeptic, gullible, etc.
All of these characteristics can help the thieves decide if that person will present a threat to them even if they are home during a potential home invasion. They now also know what other threats to their success exist at that house.
Secondly, they asked specifically for a landline phone number. Why do you suppose that is? Well, if they have a street address, and can then associate a landline (hard wired) phone number to that address, they then have some pretty concrete exploitable information about your physical residence.
Then the next part of the reconnaissance begins. Several calls can be made to that landline to see if anyone is home at various times of day, find out who is home at those times (did an adult or children answer the phone?), and start putting together a pattern of the most opportune times for an invasion or burglary. If someone answers, it is easy to fabricate a story for why they are calling. It is also extremely easy to spoof the phone number for the caller ID, or simply make it appears as "Unknown."
Associating a landline with a home with an alarm system also gives the thieves an opportunity to figure out which methods they need to use to defeat or circumvent the alarm.
For starters, you are not obligated to answer your door. But to help you decide whether or not to answer, consider installing a wide angle peep hole in your door so that you can see a wider area of your front entry area.
Only allow the adults in your house to answer the door. Tell children that under no circumstances are they to open the door to anyone.
If you are going to answer the door, take a moment to compose yourself, put on your game face, and prepare yourself to question everything about this person standing at your doorstep. You don't need to verbalize every question, but don't get so caught up in the sales pitch that you forget to keep asking yourself why they are here, what red flags should be going up, and what general suspicions you have about them.
Put a "No Soliciting" sign on your front door. Where I live, it is against the law to make unannounced house sales calls like this if there is a "No Soliciting" sign posted. Maybe this will keep them away and help avoid the whole situation entirely. If it is a legitimate sales person, they know about the laws, and will probably honor it. Criminals don't know or care about laws. If they won't honor that "no Soliciting" sign, that should be a red flag.
Do NOT give them your home (landline) phone number under ANY circumstances. I personally would be hesitant to even give them a cell phone number. Ask for the company's phone number and tell them that YOU will initiate any call for service.
Ask for more official identification (such as a driver's license) to compare to that neat looking little ID badge they have hanging from their neck. Write down who they are, what company they claim to be from, and even ask for a business card. If they have no business cards, that should also be a red flag for you.
Answer their questions with conviction. Don't waffle or look like you are unsure of yourself. But keep your answers short and direct. Don't give out information about you or your household.
If you are not interested in the sales pitch, state as such directly. Again – tell them YOU will initiate contact with their company if services are desired, and after you have verified the legitimacy of their company.
After you close the door, write down everything you can remember about them. Time, date, height, weight, race, hair color, clothing, what they were carrying, name from identification. Were they on foot, or did they drive up in a vehicle? If a vehicle, write down a description and license plate number, if able. Did they seem nervous? What was their general demeanor?
If you have an alarm system, explore whether or not cellular technology is available for the monitoring portion of the alarm, or consider switching to an alarm company that does offer cellular technology. I have looked into the "SimpliSafe" alarm system, for example, and will be switching to that from ADT. (I will write a separate review once installed).
It may be a legitimate sales call, or they may be sizing you up for burglary or home invasion. Absent your crystal ball or superpowers for predicting the future, you have no way of telling. If it is for criminal purposes, you have to remember that they are sizing you up and doing risk analysis on you and your home. They don't want to get hurt "on the job" and they don't want to go to jail. It is your job to size them up also, try to see the red flags, and do your own risk analysis and threat management.
Ultimately, you need to do whatever is possible to make your home an undesirable target for them. If you can get them to move on and eliminate you as a target quickly, then that is a very good thing.
NOW HEAR THIS...NOT ALL THIEVES ARE STUPID!!
Some people left their car in the long-term parking at San Jose Airport while away, and someone broke into the car. Using the information on the car's registration in the glove compartment, they drove the car to the people's home in Pebble Beach and robbed it. So I guess if we are going to leave the car in long-term parking, we should NOT leave the registration/insurance cards in it, nor your remote garage door opener.
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There are four fundamental safety rules that we consistently teach in our firearms classes: 1) The gun is always loaded until you have verified otherwise; 2) Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction; 3) Keep the finger off the trigger until ready to shoot; 4) Know what is behind your target, and between you and the target. These rules apply to target shooting, and they also equally apply to tactical situations and defensive shooting. Even if you are clearing your home to look for intruders, for example, you need to ALWAYS be cognizant of these four things while looking for the bad guy. And if you are in this situation, I hope your gun IS loaded.
So let's focus on the third safety rule for a moment. Why is it that we teach keeping the finger off the trigger until sights are on target and you are ready to shoot?
When a person is startled, the natural response is to blink, lean the body forward, bend the arms at the elbows, and clench the fists/fingers. When clenching the fists happens, each clenching finger is able to exert about 25 pounds of force. It only takes about 12 pounds of force to pull the trigger of a revolver in double action mode (hammer down). If your finger is in the trigger and you are startled, you will pull the trigger. If that happens, think about those other safety rules for a moment. Where is the gun pointed when the shot goes of? What is in the line of fire when that happens?
Proper trigger discipline is crucial to ensuring that you will be safe whether at the range or in a defensive situation. Proper trigger discipline is also a matter of building up muscle memory through practice. Beginning with the very first movement of the holster draw, the trigger finger should be indexed along the side of the firearm the minute the hand is placed on the grip of the gun. When at the low ready, the high ready, the retention position, or at the fully extended position, the finger needs to be indexed on the side of the frame. Only when you have a target in sight and you are ready to shoot does the finger move inside the trigger guard. Then simply touch and press the trigger.
Defensive shooting is every bit a matter of safety as it is efficient, tactical movement. Practice, practice, practice. Practice indexing that finger, and practice moving the finger to the trigger. Safely done, dry fire is a key training tool in these methods.
Today's news included a story about presidential executive orders signed to help satisfy calls for gun control. One of these measures included an order to prevent importing US military weapons back into the country. The idea for this order is to prevent more of these "military grade" guns from getting onto our streets. Many of these guns could very well include M-1 Garand semiautomatic rifles that are bought and reconditioned by the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP), and then sold to people who participate in legitimate marksmanship programs such as the "Appleseed Project" which is put on by the Revolutionary War Veterans Association (RVWA). The rifles are also collector's items owned by legitimate and law abiding gun collectors.
For the purposes of this article, by the way, I am limiting discussion to these and similar rifles. Any other military grade weapons are probably already restricted from civilian ownership anyway.
Well, you know what? I am sick and tired of this worn out phrase where the gun grabbing community says they are doing something "to get guns off the streets." Really? Off the streets? What do they mean by that? Are there guns running around on our streets committing crimes? "Get these guns off the streets" is the cry that I seem to hear all too often, but as I wrote in an earlier blog post about a lack of understanding about gun terminology, I suspect, too, that there is a lack of their own understanding about guns "on the streets." To be perfectly blunt, I am relatively certain that the phrase "on (or off) the streets" is a pejorative term meant to indicate anything that relates to common citizens, and those who aren't the "beautiful and politically influential people." I think that they consider any gun to be in the hands of law abiding citizens to be included in this "guns on the streets" rhetoric.
But let's say just for a minute (giving them the benefit of the doubt), they mean that "on the streets" refers only to the criminal underworld and the gang element, and they simply want to get the guns out of the hands of these criminals, then they need to try again. There are already laws for that. What they need to do is start enforcing these laws. Preventing collectors and the CMP from getting these rifles does not help this situation. It only penalizes these law abiding folks. Many of these weapons that come back from overseas are in poor shape. The CMP buys huge numbers of these things, and cannibalizes them for parts to make enough good rifles to sell to RVWA members, collectors and others. This is an expensive process, and quite frankly, I don't think the thug gang members have the skills to do this.
So when I hear a gun control proponent say that they want to get the guns "off the streets" I can only assume that they actually mean that they want to get them out of the hands of EVERYONE! Sorry – but I am not giving them the benefit of the doubt. I have seen the gun grabber heart in action too many times. Gun control efforts are continuously aimed at making it harder for law abiding citizens to acquire that which is already constitutionally protected, and do nothing to prevent criminals from getting them. When the founders wrote this amendment, it was their intention that common citizens would arm themselves and be able to contribute to the security of the community. They meant for all citizens to be trained and know how to use those weapons as well.
These people need to spend more time reading their constitutions (I've got a whole box of pocket constitutions if they need any) and enforcing already existing laws, and less time worrying about how to tie the hands of law abiding citizens.


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Akron Community Foundation is a comprehensive, searchable website for Summit County Ohio high school students who are interested in pursuing a post-secondary education. Through this website, students and parents can search for available local scholarships and review information about college preparation. Corporations and private foundations can also post scholarships through the online submission tool.
Below are various individual scholarships that you are able to apply for. We keep these as up-to-date as possible. If, however, a link is dead or not working, please let a college counselor know so we can get it fixed.
Eligibility: Must have strong caddie record, at least a B average, financial needs, outstanding character. Visit this website to apply.
Eligibility: Students will submit an essay on one of the two topics that appear on the scholarship page. More details are on the website.
Eligibility: Submit a 3-5 minute recorded essay on "My Responsibility to America." For Students in grades 9-12. Mail audio CD or flash drive to VFW Post 3383, 690 Waterloo Rd. Akron, Ohio 44314.
Eligibility: Seniors from Marianist High Schools who exemplify servant leadership in church, community, and school.
Eligibility: Each Catholic High School can nominate one student for the contest. Interested students must submit their essays to their theology teacher for consideration. Write a 750 word essay about "How is your religious education influencing your life?" Complete one page application found in the guidance office or one of the Theology teachers.
Eligibility: Must be a graduating Senior in high school or college student. Have at least a 3.0 GPA, Meet the minimum SAT Math 600 Reading or Composition 500) or ACT ( Math 29 English- 25) Be a citizen of the United States and permanent resident of Ohio. Download and print the scholarship application.
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Eligibility: Students under the age of 18 as of October 1st. Contest rules/application available in room 238.
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Eligibility: Any high school senior or current UA students or transfers are eligible. The program awards scholarships up to $5,200 to students majoring in science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (or math/science education) at The University of Akron. This scholarship is renewable if a GPA of 3.00 is maintained. Visit www.uachooseohiofirst.com to access the application.
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Series consists of speeches and statements delivered by Premier John P. Robarts during his time in office. The speeches, and related material such as notes, programs, clippings, etc., are organized into files by subject of the speech, name of the group who received the speech, or by type of speech, such as Speech from the Throne. The files are arranged alphabetically.
Copyright is primarily held by the Crown. There are no restrictions on reproduction. Permission of the Archives of Ontario is required for publication; submit a Request for Permission to Publish, Exhibit or Broadcast Form.
The records were acquired by the Archives in an intra-governmental transfer in 1975.
Related records may be found in John Robarts' private records held at the Archives of Ontario (Reference Code: F 15).
Series includes a complete listing of the 788 speeches delivered by Premier Robarts. The list includes date and place of delivery and the event title. It also includes a subject index to the speeches.
These records were created by the following Ontario government agency or agencies. Click on the agency reference code for information about this agency and other records it created.
First request RG 3-103, box 22, which contains the index to the speeches so that you may round down your request. Then request RG 3-103 and indicate the year of the speech(es) you wish to view.


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Australia's landmark carbon trade scheme, being watched around the world in the lead up to global climate talks in December, hit a political roadblock on Thursday when parliament delayed a vote on the plan until August.
The decision by the upper house Senate scuttled government hopes of passing its carbon trade laws in this parliamentary session, prolonging uncertainty for major polluters and the stalled carbon trade market.
It also confuses Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's options for an early election if the Senate continues to frustrate his legislative agenda, and makes it unlikely he will call an early election this year despite his lead in opinion polls.
"It is clear the government wants this bill brought to a vote. We have been frustrated and prevented from doing that as a result of the games we have been seeing in the Senate this week," Climate Change Minister Penny Wong told reporters.
The carbon trade scheme, which will cover around 1,000 of Australia's biggest polluters, is the central plank of Rudd's plan to curb carbon emissions and fight global warming and was a key promise from his November 2007 election victory.
The government wants carbon trading to start in July 2011, forcing business to pay to pollute, and wants the scheme locked in before global talks in Copenhagen, which will consider a post Kyoto protocol framework to curb Greenhouse gas emissions.
The Senate will vote on the package of 11 bills on August 13, but is ultimately expected to reject the plan in its current form, with the government struggling to find the extra seven votes it needs to push the laws through the upper house.
The conservative opposition wants to delay a final decision on the carbon trade scheme until after the Copenhagen talks, and until U.S. actions to fight climate change are known.
If laws are rejected or delayed twice by the Senate, with an interval of three months between votes, the government can call an early double-dissolution election to clear the political deadlock.
But Thursday's vote clouds Rudd's options. The soonest Rudd could have a legal trigger for an early double-dissolution election would now be late October, but only if legal advice finds Thursday's vote met the legal requirements of a delay.
If a vote to reject the bills August 13 is the first legal requirement for a double-dissolution, the government would have to wait until at least November 19 for its election trigger and Rudd would run out of time for an election in 2009.
Rudd has said he prefers to serve a full three-year term, with elections due in late 2010, but analysts have said he might want an election in early 2010 to avoid a vote later in the year when unemployment is expected to peak.
The carbon vote came after a fiery two weeks in parliament, with the government under prolonged attack over accusations Treasurer Wayne Swan gave preferential treatment to a Rudd friend and car-dealer who sought access to a government programme.
But Rudd has demanded opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull resign because his political attack was based on a Treasury email later found to be fake. A Treasury official has been questioned by police over the forged email.
Dennis Shanahan, political editor of the Australian newspaper, said the government was building a case for an early election to scare the opposition, which would prefer to fight an election on the issue of economic management in late 2010.
"It sounds like a prime minister with his foot on the throat of an opponent and a finger itching for an election trigger," Shanahan wrote on Thursday.


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Chris Huhne may be in a Lib-Con Cabinet but he doesn't always toe the party line, whichever party it is, finds Mary Riddell found
Chris Huhne, a former economist, is said to be held in high regard by George Osborne Photo: MARTIN POPE
By Mary Riddell
8:00AM BST 09 Oct 2010
Chris Huhne has just returned from a "Johnson and Boswell tour of the Highlands". Although he is referring to the scope of an odyssey encompassing a deep sea drilling rig and an onshore wind farm site, his allusion to the chroniclers seems appropriate to a senior partner in another notable coalition.
Once, Mr Huhne was a hanging chad away from leadership of Liberal Democrats. When I say that some in his party think he would have beaten Nick Clegg but for a discrepancy in counting the postal vote, he replies: "The rules are the rules... I have a lot of respect for Nick and his talents."
Now, as Climate Change Secretary, Mr Huhne sits in the Government's "star chamber", the Cabinet committee discussing the cuts to come. George Osborne is said to have a high regard for Mr Huhne, an economist who started a successful City business before entering politics.
Was he aware that the Chancellor was about to announce the child benefit cuts that have caused a storm of protest? "Obviously it was an idea that had been kicking around for some time," he says, repeating the assertion that "those with the broadest shoulders" must bear the greatest load.
"Is it right that people at the top – and remember that we're only talking about people in the top 15 per cent of incomes – should be paid the same benefit we're paying to people at the bottom?"
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Mr Huhne is not always so on-message. When I ask if he endorses the suggestion by Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, that welfare recipients should stop having children, he says: "Since I've had five children, I'll probably [keep quiet]. I'm not on welfare, but we've had a lot of child benefit in our time."
He sounds very doubtful about Mr Hunt's enthusiasm for social engineering. "There are limits to how much we can achieve through changes in the tax and benefits system," he says.
His chief criticism, however, is reserved for David Cameron's suggestion, made after the child benefit row, that tax breaks for married couples could be introduced by 2015 and extended to higher earners.
"It's been put back on the agenda ... I am very sceptical. [As with] all other issues, I'm quite happy to be open-minded and talk it through. But in the current circumstances, when we are very constrained in ... terms of tax breaks, then I think we need to make sure that what we're doing is real value for money and not flag waving.
"If it is just flag waving, then frankly it's probably not something that the Government ought to be doing."
He hints that, despite past Tory assurances to the contrary, winter fuel allowance may also be cut for wealthier pensioners in the forthcoming comprehensive spending review.
"We have a statutory duty to tackle fuel poverty. How does the winter fuel allowance fit into that? Is it a sensible approach, given that we have ... very large numbers of people still in fuel poverty, and more if oil and gas prices go up?"
So he'd welcome the benefit being cut back? "We need to look at all aspects of benefits to make sure we're getting value for money. Yes, of course."
Despite Mr Cameron's enthusiasm for renewing Trident, Mr Huhne warns that Lib Dems will hold out for a cheaper nuclear deterrent. "Given all the other bridges we have to cross, I don't think we should gambol across that one years before we have to."
Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne have suggested that an £83 billion cuts package will be set in stone, while Mr Clegg has called the agenda "the only choice". Mr Huhne suggests that there may have to be a Plan B. Although he calls the emergency budget "absolutely right", he warns that circumstances may alter.
Asked if the cuts might be scaled back if economic indicators worsen, he indicates that he is not "lashed to the mast with a particular set of numbers".
"I've never known one Treasury Red Book to be exactly like the last one.
"There is always a change. It is a bit like setting sail. If the wind changes, you have to tack about to get to [your destination]. Global growth could be either higher or lower. We just don't know, and it's not sensible, outside the Budget period, for governments to make speculations about what is going to happen.
"The right time to look at that Budget judgment is when we come up to the Budget in the spring. The key thing then is to look at things in the round and remember the overall objective is to stabilise and begin to reduce the public debt to GDP ratio."
While Mr Huhne does not consider meltdown "likely", he is the first Cabinet member to admit that the Chancellor may have to rethink his cuts agenda.
The chilly wind blowing across Whitehall has not spared Mr Huhne's department. While he denies the story that it was to be subsumed into the Treasury, he confirms that a physical merger was on the cards.
"We weren't being asked to fold ourselves into another department. Far from it.
"People did suggest we could maybe take up some office space at the Treasury. I have no problem with sharing a canteen with Treasury ministers and officials. But actually, their office space is quite expensive compared with what we've got."
Is it true that his department is in line for a 40 per cent cut, as opposed to the 25 per cent average? His advice is to wait for the numbers. Whatever is stipulated in the spending review is unlikely to please the Lib Dem voters who are already drifting away from the party.
"I've always thought this was going to be for the long haul, and I always thought the short-term effects were going to be very painful politically. No government has managed to go through this sort of fiscal adjustment without [incurring] a lot of unpopularity while it's going on. The key is to get through to the other side." And what then? Mr Huhne, who attended a fringe event at the Labour Party conference, has always seemed more Left-leaning than his leader.
He has some aims in common with Ed Miliband, his predecessor at the department, and another evangelist for green policies.
"We are an independent party. We do a deal for the parliament, and we do our damnedest to deliver on that deal," he says. "But then we fight as an independent party, look at the result, and make a decision about ... the following parliament. I believe there will be circumstances when it's appropriate to work in coalition with Labour."
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Historic Route 66 Filling Station In Luther, Oklahoma, Awarded Preservation Grant
Public Radio Tulsa | By Matt Trotter
Published July 19, 2021 at 4:19 PM CDT
This summer has brought help to a family trying to restore their Luther, Oklahoma, gas station that was likely the first and only Black-owned and -operated one on Route 66.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation recently included Threatt Filling Station in a $3 million total grant award to preserve 40 Black historic sites in the U.S. That came after the trust named it one of its 11 most endangered historic places in the country. According to the trust, less than 5% of sites they designate "most endangered" have been lost.
The Threatt family has set out to restore the filling station, which was built on their farm in 1915.
"The filling station itself, the building is in disrepair. It needs a lot of work. We're working to get the roof fixed, get a lot of the interior work done, the plumbing needs to be upgraded to code, the electrical system needs to be upgraded to code. We have some old fuel tanks in the ground that need to be removed to comply with EPA guidelines," said David Threatt.
The Threatt family is working to turn the filling station into an interpretive center. The filling station and its ball field, outdoor stage and bar were a known safe haven for Black travelers during Jim Crow, but Ed Threatt said it was known as a place for everyone.
"There were any number of white people that stopped and took advantage of the services that we offered, stopped and took advantage of some of the entertainment that was offered there," Ed Threatt said. "So, it wasn't just about people of color. All people, anybody could stop at that place and feel welcome and be safe."
Some artifacts from the filling station are on display in a traveling Smithsonian exhibition about the Green Book, a guide for Black travelers.
The station was built on the family farm in 1915, and while it reportedly served as a refuge for families fleeing the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Ed Threatt said they are still looking for documentation that confirms that.
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Tim Trainor has joined the Klamath Falls Herald and News as its new editor.
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He further adds that a few changes are in planning for the publication "to increase the art, both in print, and online – I think we'll do a lot more video and audio work."
Prior to joining Herald and News, Trainor was serving as deputy managing editor at EO Media Group, a post he held for six years before leaving in 2018.
Before that, Trainor was a journalist/editor at The Montana Standard and has also worked as a reporter at St. Maries Gazette.
Trainor is a B.S. in magazine journalism from Ohio University and a M.A. in multimedia journalism from University of Oregon Graduate School.
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I don't understand what is wrong here. Shouldn't we be focused on building all the content and knowledge in a single place, much like Wikipedia does?
What does it matter that I copy and paste content I've found elsewhere so long as the question gets an answer?
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In the context of Stack Exchange sites, any copying and pasting of any amount of text or code that wasn't written by you is plagiarism if you try, explicitly or implicitly, to pass it off as your own work. For a more detailed definition, see the Wikipedia article.
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You may not be aware of this, but plagiarism is considered a grave infraction in academic and professional circles around the globe, and it can lead to dire consequences if discovered. By plagiarizing, you steal work you did not create and pass it as your own, earning you credit and respect where it's not deserved. Copying work without permission can also constitute copyright infringement, which is illegal in most countries.
Specific to Stack Exchange, plagiarizing other people's work can earn you reputation points and the community's trust with zero effort. This is not fair to users who give their valuable time and often put hours, sometimes days of work into their answers.
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KABUL - U.S. forces say eight American troops have been killed in multiple bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan. The deaths make October the deadliest month of the war for American troops since it began in 2001.
The U.S. military says the eight deaths Tuesday occurred in "multiple, complex" bomb attacks in the south. One Afghan civilian was also killed, and several other troops were wounded and taken to a nearby medical facility.
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The 5th Circuit, in Thomas v. Hercules Offshore Services, L.L.C., concluded per curiam that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") safe workplace regulations had been preempted by the United States Coast Guard ("USCG") regulations for injuries occurring on the Outer Continental Shelf ("OCS") on a foreign-flagged jack-up drilling rig (or as the opinion described the rig, a "mobile offshore drilling unit" ("MODU") in the parlance of the USCG's OCS regulations at 33 CFR Subchapter N and 46 CFR Subchapter I-A). As a result, the owners of the MODU were not negligent for injuries sustained by a galley hand who tripped and fell over a raised doorsill that was constructed in compliance with the USCG's specific regulations for accommodation space specifications (46 C.F.R. §§108.197, 205).
Plaintiff in Hercules was a galley hand on the Hercules 264 MODU operating on the OCS in the Gulf of Mexico offshore of Louisiana. In 2013 while working aboard the Hercules 264, the plaintiff tripped and fell after her foot struck a raised doorsill between her state room and connected bathroom. The doorsill was 2 inches high and 3.5 inches wide. After the fall, plaintiff suffered from pain and was taken ashore for medical treatment where she was diagnosed with lumbar strain and a right hip contusion. Hercules paid maintenance and cure ("M&C") to the Plaintiff from the date she reported her injury.
Prior to Plaintiff's employment with Hercules, plaintiff failed to disclose to Hercules two prior car accidents resulting in injuries to her back. Plaintiff, however, was able to pass the pre-employment physical exam required prior to her employment with Hercules.
Approximately 1.5 years after Plaintiff suffered her injuries she filed her lawsuit against Hercules in the Middle District of Louisiana alleging claims for negligence under the Jones Act, unseaworthiness under general maritime law, and a claim for M&C benefits, alleging inter alia that the construction/layout of the doorsill violated OSHA workplace safety regulations. Shortly after filing its Answer, Hercules filed two separate motions for summary judgment. One motion challenged whether Hercules was liable under the theories presented by the Plaintiff and the second motion challenged whether the Plaintiff was entitled to M&C payments due to her failure to disclose previous injuries on her employment application. The district court granted both of Hercules motions and dismissed the Plaintiff's claims.
On appeal the 5th Circuit addressed the following issues ruled on by the District Court: (1) whether the Hercules 264 was a USCG "inspected" vessel such that the OSHA regulations were preempted; (2) whether the district court erred in finding that there was no evidence supporting plaintiff's claims for negligence under the Jones Act and unseaworthiness under general maritime law; and (3) whether the Plaintiff is entitled to M&C after failing to disclose previous injuries to Hercules on her employment application.
Of the most import are the 5th Circuit's discussions on issues 1 and 2.
With respect to the first issue, whether OSHA regulations are preempted by the USCG regulations because the Hercules 264 was an "inspected" vessel or an "uninspected" vessel, Plaintiff challenged the District Court's ruling that the vessel was an "inspected" vessel and therefore the OSHA regulations were preempted. The 5th Circuit disagreed with the Plaintiff.
By way of context, 46 U.S.C. 3301 sets forth a listing of 15 "types" of vessels that are subject to inspection by the USCG, and this list does not include MODUs/jackup vessels specifically. Plaintiff relied on the absence of MODUs from the list to argue that the Hercules 264 was "uninspected" and that OSHA regulations were thus not preempted under the Supreme Court's holding in Chao v. Mallard Bay Drilling, Inc, 534 U.S. 235, 122 S. Ct. 738, 742 (2002) (USCG regulations preempt OSHA regulations for "inspected" vessels, but not for "uninspected" vessels unless the USCG has exercised its authority vis-à-vis the "uninspected" vessel type "either by promulgating specific regulations or by asserting comprehensive regulatory authority over a certain category of vessels."). And although Plaintiff did not specifically argue this point, it bears noting that the Hercules 264, as a foreign-flagged MODU, would not be directly subject to USCG regulatory flag-state jurisdiction; the USCG only asserts limited coastal state authority over foreign-flagged MODUs operating on the OCS pursuant to 33 CFR Subchapter N. However, under its coastal state jurisdiction, the USCG has authority to inspect foreign-flagged MODUs engaged in OCS operations (33 C.F.R. § 140.101) for compliance with (inter alia) the USCG's design/construction requirements for US-flagged MODUs at 46 CFR Part 108; the MODU's own flag-state's certifications/safety requirements (provided those requirements are as strict or stricter than the USCG;'s requirements for US-flagged MODUs); and/or International Maritime Organization (IMO) MODU Code compliance (33 C.F.R. § 143.207). In turn, the USCG issues "certificates of compliance" ("COC") for foreign-flagged MODUs that satisfy these requirements. 33 CFR §143.210. These COCs are valid for two years, subject to re-inspection 9-15 months after initial issuance. See CG-543 Policy Letter 11-06.
This statutory/regulatory context frames the issue faced by the 5th Circuit in Thomas. As the 5th Circuit noted, "[i]t is undisputed [under Chao] that if a vessel is an inspected one, then the Coast Guard regulations preempt OSHA's regulations. . . . However, if the vessel is an uninspected one, the Supreme Court has explained that OSHA's regulations are not preempted unless the USCG has exercised its authority "either by promulgating specific regulations or by asserting comprehensive regulatory authority over a certain category of vessels." The Plaintiff in Thomas argued that because the Hercules 264 did not fit the 15 statutorily specified vessel types subject to USCG inspection, OSHA regulations applied under Chao.
The Supreme Court has noted that "the Coast Guard has exercised its statutory authority to regulate a number of specific working conditions on certain types of uninspected vessels. For example, the Coast Guard regulates drilling operations that take place on the outer continental shelf." . . . Moreover, the Coast guard has issued regulations [i.e. the regulations at 46 CFR Part 108, contingently applicable to foreign-flagged MODUs pursuant to 33 CFR 143.207] with respect to the design and equipment standards for mobile offshore drilling units, including the construction of accommodation spaces on those units. See 46 C.F.R. § 108.197. The regulations also include design requirements with respect to wash spaces, toilet spaces, and shower spaces. See 46 C.F.R. § 108.205. We are persuaded that the promulgation of these regulations constitutes an exercise of the Coast Guard's authority sufficient to preempt OSHA's regulations.
Based on the above analysis, the 5th Circuit addressed the importance of USCG's regulations and authority on the OCS, and held that MODUs (even foreign-flagged MODUs) engaged in operations on the OCS are sufficiently within the "comprehensive regulatory authority" exercised by the USCG on the OCS to preempt OSHA regulations.
After rejecting the applicability of OSHA regulations, the Fifth Circuit went on to find that there was no evidence of negligence on Hercules' part because the Plaintiff could not show or point to evidence showing "(1) violation of a USCG regulation; (2) evidence that there had been other incidents of tripping over the raised doorsill; or (3) expert testimony that the raised doorsill was an unsafe condition." Based on the negligence standard under the Jones Act, that the "seaman must bring evidence showing an unsafe condition exited and that the owner either knew or should have known about it." Based on the finding of a lack of evidence, the 5th Circuit upheld the District Court's granting of summary judgment.
Hercules' McCorpen defense, cutting off its obligation to continue paying Plaintiff M&C. The McCorpen defense requires proof of 3 elements: (1) the seaman intentionally misrepresented or concealed medical facts; (2) the nondisclosed facts were material to the employer's decision to hire the seaman; and (3) a link between the withheld information and the injury that is the subject of the complaint. The Thomas court found that Plaintiff had lied on her pre-employment physical questionnaire regarding prior back and neck problems – stemming from two different prior motor vehicle accidents – and that Hercules had materially relied on this representation as part of its hiring decision, thus satisfying elements 1 & 2. Plaintiff attempted to argue that because she had passed her actual physical (including a functional capacity evaluation with respect to back/neck flexibility/strength), but the court rejected this argument (as it has in prior decisions) on the basis that the false written response itself was material to Hercules' hiring decision. Id. at pp. 9-10 (citing Brown v. Parker Drilling Offshore Corp., 410 F.3d 166, 171 (5th Cir. 2005)). And as to the third prong, the court found that the prior undisclosed injuries (lower back and neck pain with radiating pain in her extremities) were causally linked to her injuries allegedly sustained in her fall on the MODU (herniated discs).
[When] an injury occurs on a drilling rig located on a platform on the Outer Continental Shelf, the outcome [viz. OSHA preemption] is not so clear. OCSLA, by its own terms, contemplates that OSHA regulations may apply to operations conducted on the OCS: 43 U.S.C. § 1347(d) provides that "[n]othing in this subchapter shall affect the authority provided by law to the Secretary of Labor for the protection of occupational safety and health…." And OSHA states that it "shall apply with respect to employment performed in a workplace in … Outer Continental Shelf lands defined in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act …." 29 U.S.C. § 653(a).
It appears that OSHA regulations do not provide any avenue for relief for the Plaintiff or any person similarly employed on an offshore oil platform. In [Mott] the Fifth Circuit expressly declined to decide whether OSHA regulations applied to offshore platforms…Since that time, district courts, as well as OSHA itself, have taken the position that OSHA regulations do not apply to work that is performed from an offshore platform. See Petri v. Kestrel Oil & Gas Properties L.P., 2012 WL 2153498, at *2 and n. 1 (S.D.Tex. Jan.4, 2012). Instead, the Coast Guard has regulatory authority over rigs and oil production on the OCS. Id. (citing 43 U.S.C. § 1333(d)(1)).
English v. Wood Grp. PSN, Inc., , 2015 WL 5061164, at *8 (E.D. La. Aug. 25, 2015). In the wake of Thomas, this issue will remain to be resolved in the face of the OSHA-specific provisions of OCSLA, and whether/to what extent they are at odds with the USCG's Subchapter N regulations.
 Case No. 17-30638 (5th Cir. March 2, 2018).
 The court also did address other issues, notably the McCorpen defense in relation to the plaintiff's claims for maintenance and cure finding that the District Court did not err in finding the McCorpen defense applicable. See Thomas v. Hercules Offshore Services, L.L.C., Case No. 17-30638 (5th Cir. March 3, 2018).
 Id. at 4 (citing Chao, 122 S. Ct. at 743).
 Id. at 5 (citing Chao, 122 S. Ct. at 743).
 Id. at 6 (citing Perry v. Morgan Guar. Trust Co. of N.Y., 528 F.2d 1378, 1379 (5th Cir. 1976).


The basic Idea is to create an application that can record audio from one device and send it over Wlan using sockets to another device that will play it. In nutshell a Lan voice chat program.
I am recording live audio from mic using a AudioRecord object and then read the recorded data into byte array ,then write the byte array to a TCP socket. The receiving device then reads that byte array from the socket and writes it to buffer of an AudioTrack object.
The process is repeated using while loops.
Although the audio is playing there its lagging between frames. i.e when I say Hello the receiver hears He–ll–O. Although the audio is complete but there is lag between the buffer blocks.
How do I improve it? What approach should I use so it is smooth as it is in commercial online chat applications like skype and gtalk?