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In an interesting article in today's Sunday Telegraph, Dan Hannan (arguably the British politician I least despise) makes some sensible points, which you can read yourself here.
In the course of that he says indignation about #PartyGate is misplaced because, amongst other reasons, no-one strictly complied with last years COVID rules. Of the critics condemning the alleged "gathering" he says;
My point is not that they are hypocrites; it is that the rules are wrong. Laws that no one follows are, by definition, asinine laws. By all means blame politicians. But blame them for imposing these absurd prohibitions in the first place rather than for behaving like everyone else.
Hannan has a decent mind and sound instincts, but here he strikes me as naive. We tend to think of laws as rules proscribing bad behaviour or (less often) mandating good behaviour. Practising law for a few decades as I did will make a cynic of the best of us but even a politician should know there's another use of law — to absolve a rule-maker of responsibility.
In the private sphere, if more of us read the "standard terms and conditions" we sign up to blind (often these days on a "click through" basis) when contracting for goods and services, we'd find rules the suppliers never plan to enforce. Their lawyers put them there to ensure that in myriad circumstances — foreseen and otherwise — where a problem might occur, their clients won't be legally at fault.
If your child finds a website that encourages her to commit suicide for example, the company hosting it will point to a rule forbidding such use of its services. It didn't make the rule so that it could enforce it. It has no employees combing its servers for breaches. It made the rule so it could point to it when your child dies. That's a dramatic example, but there are millions of others to which you would probably say "fair enough." Businesses couldn't sell many goods and services economically if they were expected to take the blame for any wicked use of them.
The fact is that in the public sphere government uses law in similar ways to address what spin doctors call "the optics" of a situation. It feels that "something must be done" about a perceived harm and will often promote new legislation without even considering whether existing law covers the matter. How many of the thousands of new crimes created during and since the Blair years can you name? If it's any consolation, I bet your MP can't name any more than you.
The government didn't make it illegal to visit your gran, hug your mum at your dad's funeral or have sex with your new girlfriend with any expectation that you'd be so servile as to comply. It did it so that, if any of those ladies contracted COVID, it would be your fault. That's why Number 10 staff partied, Cummings conducted motorised eye tests and Hancock and Ferguson shagged.
The intent of the law was neither proscriptive nor prescriptive but exculpatory. It was one rule for everyone, but no one was seriously (in those circles in the know) expected actually to comply. This is a subtler complaint than the angry "one rule for us and another for them" beloved of bar room ranters, but in its way it's actually worse.
I have used this quote from Montesquieu so often that regular readers will be able to sing along in the original French;
If it is not necessary to make a law, it is necessary not to make a law.
He also said — and how this still resonates today;
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice
You'd expect a libertarian to be cynical about laws, but anyone should be able to see the damage that such "click through" criminalisation does to respect for Law itself. I suspect the British government was as surprised by the servility of its citizens as I was disgusted. I tremble to think of our future now that it realises how weak we mostly are.
That said, I hope the mishandling of the pandemic by democratic governments almost everywhere will lead even the most servile to an understanding that Law is a dangerous tool that is lethal when misused. Make too much of it too lightly and you make criminals of us all — with criminal attitudes to compliance rather like Captain Sparrow's approach to the Pirate Code — or Dan Hannan's approach to the Highway Code!
Posted at 07:23 PM in Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Coronavirus, COVID 19, Crime & Punishment, Libertarianism, Society | Permalink | Comments (5)
What the British State has learned from COVID
No-one escapes the consequences of the government's response to the COVID pandemic, but the Paine Family has escaped unscathed from the virus itself – so far. My elderly parents were vulnerable because of their age and health but have managed to steer clear of those hubs of infection - care homes and hospitals. Until this week.
I am currently staying with my frail, elderly mother while my frail, elderly father is in hospital. He collapsed when he attempted to get up on Sunday morning. He was retrieved from the floor and returned to his bed by kindly neighbours. He was eventually hospitalised on Sunday evening after a grandson had spent hours on the phone to medically-unqualified, algorithm-driven NHS gatekeepers in call-centres.
I say hospitalised but gurney-ised would be more accurate. He was not diagnosed until Monday morning when he was finally taken off his trolley, admitted to a ward and given antibiotics. Too late, it seems because he had developed sepsis (one of the most common agents of death in emergency care). Crowds of medics materialised and his life seems to have been saved from the threat their previous absence had quite possibly caused.
This sob story has, I promise, a point. The experience has exposed us directly to the interesting way in which the government health service in Britain has responded to the pandemic. My mother, my sisters and I faced a situation in which Dad seemed likely to be lost to us, but we were forbidden to visit him or be at hand. In normal times, we would have had opportunities to speak to his consultant. Instead we have a number to call. Sometimes a recorded message tells us all staff are busy. Sometimes an anonymous voice summons a staff nurse to give us an update. Sometimes she comes. Sometimes another anonymous voice tells us she's too busy.
After forty-eight hours of that, I asked if it was possible to speak to the consultant. This seemed to be considered a radical request. However I was given a name and told to call the main switchboard and ask for his secretary. I did so and left a message on her answering machine. I called again the next morning and left another. I then got a call saying my message has been passed on and "he knows you want to speak to him". I am still waiting. Despite her careful choice of words, I take some hope from the fact that his secretary did not seem to think it lese-majesté on my behalf to ask.
It's quite shocking how normal this all now seems to NHS staff. They seem actively to prefer not having to deal with the families of patients. Assuming (as I think is reasonable given the staff nurse's response to my request) that most families don't ask to speak to consultants, they at least must have a more relaxed life than usual. I suppose it's up for debate whether the time staff nurses spend on the phone to families is more or less than the time they used to spend dealing with them in person.
I find it hard to imagine a socialised service untrammelled by market mechanisms will ever return to its old standard now the public has meekly accepted this kind of service. One of my sisters said that "someone will have to give them a rocket" but who, pray, is likely to do that? The Labour Party is the political wing of the public sector unions and the "Conservative Party" is now – at best – New Labour reborn.
Posted at 05:05 PM in Conservatives, Coronavirus, COVID 19, Labour, Medicine | Permalink | Comments (9)
An hour well spent
I don't normally go for podcasts, as I can take in information faster by reading and don't spend much time in traffic these days. This however, is worth your time.
My last post was, I confess, a bit defeatist. I certainly felt defeated. Douglas Murray does not. On the contrary he is optimistic that the forces of evil are vulnerable and makes convincing arguments for going on the offensive. Rather than bemoan "cancel culture" he thinks it's overstated and urges the "silent majority" to speak up.
Referring to Kay Burley's ludicrous smears in relation to former Aussie PM, Tony Abbott, he is hilarious. He points out that she once grabbed a female fellow journalist by the throat in anger, squeezing so hard that she left a bruise. Playing her own game, therefore, it's possible to say that Kay Burley once grabbed a woman by the throat and injured her. Anyone who appears on her show is condoning the strangulation of women. By her own logic, she should be cancelled!
No right-thinking person wants Kay Burley silenced of course. Her bluster turns people off every argument she tries to advance and she serves a useful function in exposing the weakness of Tory ministers, but it takes Douglas to pierce the pompous veil so elegantly. I commend him to you.
Posted at 11:33 AM in Censorship, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Coronavirus, COVID 19, Current Affairs, Humour, Journalism, Leftist lunacy, Society | Permalink | Comments (2)
A disappointed idealist speaks
The Misses Paine once said "Dad is not a cynic. He's a disappointed idealist." This may be so. Equally, it could be said that a man who reaches his 60s without becoming somewhat cynical has simply not been paying attention. There are some things in Britain I can still trust. The way the Common Law develops itself quietly, sensibly and practically (when not over-ridden by statute) for example. The jury system, for another. I would still trust a panel of British jurors over any tribunal known to Man if I were charged with a crime of which I was innocent.
Sadly I can't trust Parliament any more. John Bercow saw to that. Nor can I trust British Democracy more generally, alas. The past few months have shown us – even more than the long years of defiance of the popular will over Brexit - that the self-selected, self-serving members of the permanent apparatus of the state are far more important in practice than our elected representatives.
Our rights were not quashed because our politicians exercised scientific judgement. People who act on science they don't understand are every bit as blindly faithful as the religious and our MPs are a particularly ignorant bunch. Not only, by any means, on matters scientific. They possess precious little knowledge of anything useful and usually no great experience of the real world. Apart from a brief honourable spell as a DJ, my own MP (for example) has never received a penny of income freely paid under contracts with people who had other choices. Before she was a Marxist trying to foist Communism on us by stealth in Parliament, she was a tax-funded sociology lecturer trying to indoctrinate our impressionable young.
We have had one scientifically-knowledgeable Prime Minister (the first major political figure in the world to pay serious attention to the problem of climate change by the way) and she is now universally despised by the liberal arts-educated bureaucracy and most of her political successors. Even to say her dread name with approval is to mark yourself out as an untermensch. There have been many times since the pygmies drove her out of office when I have wished she was in Number 10 still. Never more so than in the past few months.
Lockdown (a horrible euphemism drawn from the prison system) happened because the apparatchiki of the Deep State decided it was necessary to close the useful parts of society. They have deprived the productive citizens who pay for everything – private and public, of their livelihoods, because they saw an opportunity to reassert their power after their embarrassing setback at the peoples hands over Brexit. They saw the chance to take an extended holiday on full pay from jobs (often non-jobs) that already pay more (on average) than those of the productive and which yield pensions substantially greater than those the private sector taxpayers who pay them can ever dream of. "Serve them right", our Deep State masters no doubt thought while trashing our lives, "for we are their moral superiors because of our [well-paid, over-pensioned] lives of 'public service'". They service us, in my personal view, more in the agricultural sense than any other.
My respect for the teaching profession in principle is great. No more important group of workers exists in a well-organised society. I personally owe a great deal to one or two conscientious teachers among the throng of idlers, wasters, lead-swingers and intellectual under-achievers who staffed my bog-standard comprehensives. But it would take a greater idealist than I have ever been to keep on rose-tinted spectacles now in viewing British teachers. They have shown themselves (with honourable exceptions who should really find a profession with worthier colleagues) to have absolutely no concern about the education or welfare of the young people in their charge. They have used COVID 19 both as an excuse to idle and a political stick with which to beat a government they consider to be their political enemy. "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach" was always (I thought) a rather unfair assessment. Now it seems generous. Those who can't be arsed, teach, might be closer to the mark.
I made some of these points in conversation with a fellow-photographer at a shoot I attended today – pointing out that Woodstock and the Isle of Wight Festival were staged, the worlds economies continued to function and social and sexual lives were unaffected globally during the just as deadly Hong Kong Flu pandemic of the Sixties and that the UK death toll this year will likely be greater from untreated cancers and other serious diseases because of the "save the NHS" strategy than from COVID 19 itself. "It's one of those situations," he opined, "when the politicians can't do right whatever they choose." He has a point. The cynic in me agrees and even perhaps feels sorry for our politicians. They have, after all, seen voters (scared senseless by outrageous propaganda from Deep State agencies everywhere) back the apparatchiki in opinion polls. The Great British Public is, it seems, a bunch of submissives clamouring for more not less of a spanking from their government. The battered idealist, from some deep crevasse in my soul, cries out that leadership should still be a thing and that they could have stood up to their advisors – if they only had a single ragged principle to their sorry names.
I cringe now as I remember all the times I told colleagues, clients and friends in the post-Communist countries where I worked for twenty years that "Brits would never accept" the various impositions that their governments, administrations and police (conditioned by decades of totalitarianism) were still inclined to attempt. All my proud talk of "yeoman spirit" and the ghost of Hampden, seems to have been so much embarrassing nonsense now as I angrily watch my fellow-citizens drop all claims to freedom while clamouring for more discipline from stern Father State. The only winners here will not be us or our politicians but the staff of the state apparatus that rumbles on regardless of our votes. Unless a party emerges that promises to do to the entire state apparatus what Ronald Reagan did to America's air traffic controllers, I shall probably not be voting again. It's not a matter of not encouraging the politicians. It's just recognising that – as things stand in modern Britain – they don't matter.
Posted at 01:01 AM in Conservatives, Coronavirus, COVID 19, Current Affairs, Education, Essential public services, Society, United Kingdom | Permalink | Comments (16)
Pandemic, or catastrophic government failure?
This is one Australian journalist's take on the situation in his home state of Victoria. It's the kind of voice I grew up with; thoughtful and robustly sceptical. It's the kind of voice that belongs to, nay is essential to, nay forms a free society. It's the kind of voice that — with honourable exceptions — I am not hearing in Britain.
In a dispiriting conversation with an old friend this week I was barraged with "official" information and accused of callous indifference. The social media ban on criticism of official messaging on the pandemic (even where it's self-contradictory) is apparently redundant. The population is policing itself; sending to Coventry anyone who dissents. I'm beginning to feel like metaphorical Coventry is my home town.
If you try to research the issue on Google you will find yourself steered to the state's agitprop (sorry "official information"). I distinctly recall reading an article reporting a study by medical researchers at Oxford University, which estimated that 63,000 life years will be lost in the UK to cancers undiagnosed/untreated because of the "save the NHS" focus on COVID 19. I remember the detail that twenty years of a young cancer patient's life could be lost to a late diagnosis. I remember mentally contrasting that with the weeks or months of life of those most vulnerable to coronavirus that might be "saved" by lockdown. Or rather might have been saved if it had not been combined with sending infected old folk back to their care homes. I should have kept a link because that article has vanished into the search engine's sinister, algorithmic "memory hole".
The old-fashioned blogosphere comes into its own here (though weakened by search engine manipulation). This excellent post makes several important points, for example, and I suggest you add the blog in question to your regular RSS feed or bookmarks. Unless, of course, you'd prefer to take the blue pill and be happy in the carefully-crafted search engine matrix of мистификация (Russian for "mystification" or what we call disinformation)
If the criterion is severity of the pandemic or likelihood of death from the disease, this disease is not unprecedented at all — and not even within my own lifetime. In 1968-69 we had the so-called Hong Kong flu. Look up how many people died of it, and you will find a figure of "approximately" 100,000. They didn't even try to keep exact track of the figure; but of course the seeming precision of today's number is an illusion anyway. The 100,000 may sound like a lot fewer than the recent Covid-19 numbers, but remember that the U.S. population was much smaller — under 200 million, compared to today's 331 million. Gross up the 100,000 figure for today's larger population, and you would have had about 165,000 deaths, which is approximately the same as the worldometers site is reporting today as the number of U.S. deaths in the current pandemic. Then there was the so-called Asian flu of 1957-58. U.S. mortality for that one is given at about 70,000, but this time with a population of only 172 million. Grossed up for today's population would give close to 140,000 deaths.
What was different about the Asian flu and Hong Kong flu pandemics was not the severity of the disease or likelihood of death, but that governments and bureaucrats had not taken on the arrogance of power to think that they could make the disease go away by scaring everybody out of their wits and locking down the economy and throwing millions of people out of work. We went about our lives as normal. People went to work. Children went to school. Social events and plays and concerts continued. Indeed, the Woodstock festival was in 1968, just as the Hong Kong flu epidemic was cranking up.
Our Western leaders put us all under house arrest. Our leaders in the 1960s never thought to stop their "flower children" going to Woodstock or the Isle of Wight. Consider how different our cultural history would have been if those "happenings" had been prevented. Quite apart from economic impoverishment and (for the most unfortunate among them) lost years of life, what Woodstocks has this generation lost? What moral right did our political leaders have to make these choices for them? What does it say about us that, not only did we allow it, but most of us ostracised or even demonised those who questioned?
Encouraged by David Bishop's comment (below) I went back to Google and managed to track down if not the article (behind the Daily Telegraph paywall) that I was remembering, then one very like it referring to similar research. More helpfully I found the article in The Lancet Oncology that it was referencing, along with this alarming chart (click to enlarge). The number of "life years" lost seems to be more than I remembered, when you add up all their careful calculating, cancer by cancer (the effects of delayed diagnosis vary).
My "memory hole" point stands in that Google puts lots of approved data in your way when you are trying to find something specific. There are clearly algorithms that detect searches looking for such things as "lockdown causing cancer deaths" (which is what I searched for). Back at the beginning of this self-inflicted "crisis" I said I would not be surprised if measures to "fight" coronavirus caused more deaths than the virus itself. Given that these stats refer ONLY to cancer (and there will be lots of heart patients and others who failed to present for diagnosis because of the corona-panic) it's sadly beginning to look like I may have been right. I take no pleasure in that, but I do think heads should roll among the apparatchiki. With great power, as I believe someone's Uncle Ben once said, comes great responsibility. They must take responsibility for the way they abused the great powers we should never have granted them.
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This tweet links to the actual article I was remembering. I mis-remembered 63,000 as 68,000 and have corrected that above.
Posted at 08:02 AM in Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Coronavirus, COVID 19, Current Affairs, Medicine, Society, Technology, United Kingdom, United States | Permalink | Comments (10)
Some consequences of Margaret Thatcher's mistakes
I joined the Conservative Party as a young man (having recently recanted my teenaged Maoism) because of Margaret Thatcher. She was not headed to the same destination as me, ideologically, but she was at least pointing in the right direction to be my fellow-traveller. She was socially-conservative in a way that I was not (I led my University Conservative Association on a gay rights march, for example and supported the Federation of Conservative Students' policy on legalising drugs that led her to shut us down) but she was clear-sighted, principled and above all moral.
Her morals were not entirely mine, but I would rather be led by someone with morals than without and she was the only moral Prime Minister of my lifetime so far. Most, like the current incumbent, were amoral going on sociopathic (fairly usual for high-achievers in most fields, to be fair) and some, like Gordon Brown or John Major, were actively immoral. Once she was hounded out, I left the Party. I was, for some years, a Thatcherite but I was never a Tory.
So I am not blind to the lady's faults. Leaving aside her inclination to use the state as an instrument of her personal morality, she also made some policy misjudgements and we still live with their consequences.
She misidentified the key threats to liberty in Britain. Hindsight is cheap, I know, but the trade unions in mining and other productive industries were already on the way out. The real threat to our future was in our schools and colleges, where children were already being consistently taught a warped view of history and a contempt for economics in general and the market system in particular. In my education during the 1960s and 1970s I may perhaps have had a Conservative teacher. It's possible, but even then their discretion was by far the greater part of their valour. I can only surmise because no possibly Conservative school teacher dared say so. My Socialist teachers, of course, never shut up about it and when I studied Law at university, there was not even one discreetly-silent lecturer I could optimistically imagine to be non-Left.
Margaret, as Education Minister, should arguably have grasped that generation after generation of our youth could not be processed through such a thoroughly infiltrated, ideologically-monochrome system without lasting damage. Such was her own strength of character that I suspect she simply didn't understand the problem. She was not weak and pliable. No leftist teacher impeded her ideological journey. Why should others not see through them too? She was also focussed on achieving one of the great offices of State, and probably regarded the Ministry of Education as a "woman's job" with which she had been fobbed off. She may even have had a point. For myself, I regard education as supremely important – all the more so for having had to get so much of mine from independent reading, in spite of (and it really was quite often for the perverse pleasure of spiting) my would-be indoctrinators.
I recently finished reading the excellent book "Factfulness" mentioned in my last post. The research that was the life's work of its author Hans Rosling demonstrates that leaders in both public and private sectors waste much effort addressing problems that no longer exist. Like many people achieving power or influence in late middle age, Margaret was often focussed – at best – on the problems of her own youth, and – at worst – on those of her teachers' youth.
Arguably, a consequence of another of her errors is in the news this morning. Focussed as she was on reducing the state's area of operations, Margaret was resisted at every turn by the Deep State. As a leader who wanted a smaller state apparatus her main advisers throughout her premiership were the leading members of that apparatus, whose success in life was not gauged by their productive contribution to society but by the size of the department under their control.
So when the trendy idea of "care in the community" came forward it must have been a relief to have some advice that was consistent with her small state ideology – or at least that could be made to seem so. There was an undoubted need for reform of mental healthcare. There are well-documented cases of people who were unable to escape from what used to be called "lunatic asylums", despite having fully-recovered from the problems that led to their admission. In some cases, people were trapped in them for decades on the basis of a misdiagnosis. So the radical idea of closing them down and entrusting the care of the mentally ill to their families, local social services and other community institutions must have seemed attractive – especially as the real estate boom of the time (in which my career as a property lawyer was incubating) offered good returns from the large buildings in larger grounds that would be "liberated."
In fairness to the Deep State Leftists behind the idea, her government seized mainly on the "close and sell off the mental hospitals" idea and less on the "build community resources" part. If she had implemented the policy as they had wished (and I don't know why I bother to say so as it's true of everything they ever propose) it would probably have cost much more than the old system and would certainly have added to the Deep State voter-farm of public sector workers who can be relied upon to vote Labour in order to secure an ever-growing state for them to feed on.
According to Jonty Bravery's prosecutor
"He said he had to prove a point to 'every idiot' who had ever said he did not have a mental health problem; that he should not be in the community."
I do not blame my local council's social workers for this psychopath's misdiagnosis, even though evidence was given during his trial that he told them he intended to kill to make his point. People say crazy things and, sadly, it's best that they are not taken too seriously unless and until they act on them. With hindsight we can all wish the poor Ealing employee (who must feel terrible right now) that Bravery told his plan had acted differently. So differently that his poor child victim and his family had been spared their insufferable horrors. In truth if they had made a fuss they would more likely have been criticised for it. I doubt it would have affected the outcome. I am not known for my empathy with state employees, but social workers do a job that, mostly, can't be done. They're often on a hiding to nothing whatever choice they make.
Yes, it's now clear that Jonty Bravery is a psychopath. He's crazy but he's not stupid. Yes, he was prepared to kill if it served his purpose. That's what differentiates psychopaths from the often high-functioning sociopaths I worked alongside in my profession and the various businesses we served. His essential point seems to have been (and in this respect he was right) that given his condition he could not be expected to live "in the community". He was one of those monsters Nature occasionally sends among us and well beyond being socialised. He needed to be in permanent, secure, residential care away from the community and under the supervision of trained carers.
Now he is.
From his tragically-warped perspective, everything is working out precisely as planned. It's horrific and scarring for his victim's family, but it's no surprise that he has smiled his way through his trial. His sentence is no punishment. He now has what he wants for the rest of his life. My point is that – without the Thatcher government's mistake in seizing upon a crazily misguided Deep State policy proposal, he could have had it without killing anyone. Maybe she should have stuck to her principles even more strictly than she usually did?
Posted at 12:33 PM in Books and Authors, Conservatives, Crime & Punishment, Current Affairs, Education, Essential public services, Ethics, Justice, Medicine | Permalink | Comments (1)


Orange has got its broadband network back up and running, with access restored early this morning.
The problems began on Monday afternoon and Orange would only say publicly that "network issues...are affecting a number of customers".
Orange's status page continues to claim full availability for all broadband, dial-up, email, forums and web hosting services.
I work for Orange, in a role that has reasonable contact with the Alcatal guys who manage the Orange broadband infrastructure. The outage was caused by an "unauthorised" change to the network which one of the Alcatel guys performed.
As I understand it, the effect of this was a permissions problem with the hardware located out at the switches and exchanges, and now requires an engineer to visit each of the 4000+ sites to restart a few bits of kit. You will find that one by one the regions come back up, but at present approx 50 per cent of the LLU customers are still offline. I would imagine it will be another day or so before the rest of the customers are back online.
Several other Orange customers complained they had long-standing problems sending emails - because Orange servers have been blacklisted by spam blocking services - and that Orange refuses to take the issue seriously.


The Sony® ICF-SW40 is both an analog and digital portable! This large LCD display combines the accuracy of digital readout with the intuitive operation of analog. It covers long wave, medium wave (AM), FM, FM Stereo and shortwave from 3850 to 26100 kHz. This model features: 20 memory presets to store your favorite stations, two-positon tone control, a DX/Local switch to adjust sensitivity and an LED tune indicator. It also has a clock with sleep function and will wake you to either radio or a buzzer. The LCD will temporarily back light with the touch of a button. Dual standby lets you set the built-in alarm to sound at two different times or wake you to two different radio stations. There is also a very handy button for Normal or Fine tuning. In the Normal mode is 10 kHz (or settable to 9 kHz) for AM band, 5 kHz for shortwave and 0.1 MHz for FM. In Fine mode tuning steps drop to 1 kHz for AM and shortwave and 0.05 MHz FM. There is also a dial lock. The left side of the radio has jacks for: DC input and earphone. The right side has a two position tone switch and tuning knob. The rear panel has a flip-stand.
Includes cloth case. Requires three AA cells (not supplied) or 4.5VDC. Only 6.75 x 4.25 x 1.62 inches 15 oz. (171x108x41mm 425g).
There was an optional Sony AC E45A 4.5VDC AC adapter available. The input voltage was 100-240VAC. (The AC E45A employes a switching power supply, and thus may emit slight RFI on certain frequencies).


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CU Finances Pt. 2 — Financial Aid
April 30, 2009 February 2, 2010 kevin	5 Comments
It seems counter-intuitive that in a bad recession Cedarville University would deliberately increase the cost of attendance so dramatically. Yet their explanation for this is that more money will be diverted to financial aid to ease the burden of needy students. Their already-established goal is to increase aid by 20% every year, though since '02-'03 they've only averaged a 16.4% yearly increase. But things may be looking up: in '07-'08 (the last years I could find numbers for), aid was increased almost 22% over the previous year, coming out to $13.1M in total. CU is proud of this, and also touts the increase in aid as "over 100% in the last 5 years." This, of course, depends on which five they're counting & whether or not they adjusted for inflation. Unadjusted, they hit this number almost any way you slice it. However, if properly adjusted then it could be a different story: if they're using numbers from '07-'08, then in the last 5 years financial aid only increased 85.9%. Of course, it's not unreasonable to assume they have the '08-'09 numbers, on which I can only speculate. In order for their claim to be true however, they would need a 21% increase which — as mentioned above — is above what they've typically done. So it's possible, and we can certainly hope it's true.
Historically, however, Cedarville has not been known as a FinAid-friendly school. Among 53 CCCU schools surveyed by Noel-Levitz, CU ranked dead last on the category "Adequate financial aid is available for most students."
The last school year for which tax forms are available (the non-profit 990's) is 2006-2007, so we can do a comparative analysis for that year. CU has a list of "sister schools" that it routinely compares itself to; I analyzed 15 of these, plus I also added John Brown University. As always, these numbers are in 2009 dollars (click to enlarge):
For an average student, between 24.6-25.9% (mean/median) of the cost of attendence is mitigated by financial aid — CU's reputation is warranted given its average of 15.65%. However, CU's costs are slightly below the average of $28.1/$26.7k. The numbers for Grace College in Indiana certainly jump out, where costs are below par but where you'll get virtually no financial assistance. Part of the reason for this is that the school itself is not financially healthy — as you'll see in our next installment, it's one of only two colleges on this list which did not turn a profit in '06-'07… Can you guess the other one?
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Will these flights be incidental flights or regular?
Probably related to the Valentine's Day flower peak season.
Also: New Istanbul Airport is now open and has taken over de IATA code 'IST'. Cargo flights will still be operated from old Istanbul Airport, which is now called 'ISL'.


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Surprise! Reliably blue Oregon may elect a Republican governor, says veteran pollster
"The most surprising event of 2022 was the Oregon governor's race," says Scott Rasmussen.
Updated: October 23, 2022 - 11:23pm
"The most surprising event" of the 2022 election cycle is the Oregon governor's race, says pollster Scott Rasmussen.
According to polls, a Republican has a strong chance of winning the 2022 race for governor in the state, long a secure Democratic bastion.
"I never would have expected to be saying we might have a Republican governor in Oregon," Rasmussen said Friday on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show.
The reason the Oregon governor's race is so close is because it is a three way race, he explained.
"You've got a wealthy, independent, former Democrat," Rasmussen noted. "You've got a really unpopular Democratic governor who's leaving. You've got all the craziness in Portland. So right now, there's a chance that a Republican could sneak into the governor's office. That will be wild."
Christine Drazan, the Republican nominee, is running against Democratic candidate Tina Kotek and former Democrat-turned-independent Betsy Johnson.
Many Democratic candidates are seeking to distance themselves from President Biden, widely seen as a political liability due to his anemic approval ratings, according to Rasmussen.
"The President's numbers overall are toxic," the veteran pollster said. "Democrats don't want to campaign with him. And I suspect after the election, he'll have some trouble getting calls returned."
Most Americans think Biden administration handling classified document probe well, poll
Most Americans want Congress to reverse hiring of 87,000 IRS agents in Dems' spending bill, poll
Most Americans think Biden inappropriately handled classified docs but don't see criminality, poll


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In my political science degree I had a range of professors—liberal, conservative—and all were great at doing the same thing: They wanted us to push our limits and understand the other side of an argument at all times.
Students in the philosophy program at Trinity learn to look beyond surface ideas and actions to study what's beneath—the deeper conceptual ideas, cultural-historical context, and religious commitments that drive people to say and do what they do.
When you pursue a B.A. in philosophy at Trinity, you will become an intellectual with vision and wisdom, and part of a scholarly community dedicated to cultivating Christian discernment.
A minor in Philosophy will help you to bring greater reflective depth and perspective to any major at Trinity.
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What are LEED Certification Levels?
Worldwide Green Building Certification
Susann Geithner
The U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system currently has 21 different frameworks and 4 LEED certification levels tailored to specific building types inclusive of new construction, renovation, and existing buildings. Collectively, the rating systems serve as a roadmap and project management tool to achieve sustainable, high performance green buildings. With 21 different iterations and 4 LEED certification levels, what started as one rating system over 15 years ago (for commercial buildings) is now uniquely positioned to address virtually any permanent new or existing occupied vertical structure, and neighborhoods. Whether a project is a new or existing hospital, bank, office, hotel, or school, LEED provides the guidance and launching point for a markedly improved building that can often times cost less than a comparative typical, lesser-performing building.
While LEED is the most often applied rating system across the globe, less than 50% of projects seek certification. There are two fundamental reasons why projects do not certify: fear of change and the myth that green building costs more.
Instead of asking 'How much do green buildings and neighborhoods cost?' ask 'What will it cost if buildings and neighborhoods aren't green?'.
USGBC's thousands of members, who are traditionally architects, engineers, construction professionals and owners, define and refine LEED and their certification levels through a rigorous consensus decision-making process. Consensus is where everyone agrees. As a result of this process, it makes LEED an infinitely better rating system. After authoring a rating system it goes through lengthy in the field piloting and refinement prior to an official launch. Once launched it then is continually updated and improved upon through time. There are ongoing improvements to the rating systems, and since its first launch in 2000, there are three significant release versions. The most recent, LEED v4, becomes the only eligible version for projects registered after October 31, 2016. The LEED certification levels remain as they have been since 2005, Certified, Silver, Gold, and Platinum.
From the one New Construction rating system known as version 2 launched in 2000, to the 21 comprising LEED v4 launched in 2014, LEED raises the bar and rigor of what constitutes a sustainable performance green building. LEED is the most internationally recognized roadmap to building sustainability. Each rating system has four (4) levels of certification that attest to a building or neighborhood's quantity of robust, high performance green features.
The four LEED certification level designations are Platinum, Gold, Silver and Certified. Regardless of the certification level achieved, all projects must meet mandated prerequisites and then choose from 110 available credit points to reach the desired certification level. The LEED Platinum level certification achieves the highest honor and the LEED Certified level achieves fundamental performance.


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Michael Owen: I never felt intimidated playing for Real Madrid
By Feargal Brennan - 19 December 2021, 0:54
Former Real Madrid striker Michael Owen has opened up on his injury ravaged career and his time in Spanish football.
Owen became one of the hottest talents in Premier League football following his rise through the youth ranks of Liverpool in the 1990's.
The former England international netted 118 Premier League goals in 216 games during an incredible career at Anfield from 1996 to 2004.
After scooping the 2001 Ballon d'Or and establishing himself as a legend at the club he opted to join Los Blancos in 2004 in an £8m deal.
He joined Real Madrid at the height of their Galaticos era, alongside England teammate David Beckham, and talismanic figures including Zinedine Zidane and Raul.
However, he stated in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, he was never overawed by the star names in the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu dressing room.
"I was never overawed by playing with the likes of Zidane", stated the 42-year-old.
"But this one time, it hit me. I was with my family in the players lounge and the scorers names appeared on the big screen: Eto'o. Ronaldinho. Zidane. Ronaldo. Raul. Owen.
"Me and my dad looked at it… "F***ing hell". In that one moment, it all felt so right.
His goal in that 4-2 El Clasico win over Barcelona was his most memorable moment at Real Madrid, with 16 goals in 45 appearances in 2004/05, before joining Newcastle United 12 months after arriving in Spain.
Feargal Brennan
19 December 2021, 0:54
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Roberto Martinez tipped for Everton return as Rafa Benitez's replacement
Philippe Coutinho delighted with Premier League return
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View of the Santa Monica Mountains, overlooking Will Rogers State Park.
Our hands up in unison, as we breathe in the good energy and fresh air of the Pacific Palisades.
After filming our first day in the rain, the second day was sunny and bright, providing us with a beautiful golden hour at dusk.
Sharon has led a full life of a career in the fashion industry, selling and modeling high-end womens' clothing. Because yoga is so versatile, she has been able to take it with her on the road, practicing in her hotel room throughout her years of travel. She uses it to reduce stress, keep her back feeling better, and since she's a woman on the go and loves to wear her high heels, she has used yoga to strengthen her calf muscles so she can enjoy being fashionable all the time too! On the weekends, she enjoys resting at home with her cat, Rose, and spending quality hours at the beach, hosting parties for friends and family.
Yves overflows with charm wherever he goes. After growing up in France, but spending most of his adult life in the U.S., living in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and now Los Angeles, he has a way of making everyone he meets feel special. Yves is not only a certified yoga instructor, but he loves to practice every morning at 6am with his yogi friends. During the day, he is a master chef, where he currently owns and runs his own organic food delivery company. His kitchen experience comes from spending many years as the chef de cuisine in luxury hotels such as the Ritz-Carlton and aboard the Faberge corporate jet, serving clients such as Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, and Gregory Peck. He now works together with his daughter preparing and delivering meals to the rich and famous in the LA area. The company, Club Gourmet, has him on his toes, as does his daughter, which he refers to as his boss!
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Osprey Nest Near Fish Hatchery
The osprey is a bird that scoops fish out of rivers and lakes (Photo courtesy of the National Parks Service)
Ospreys are birds of prey that eat fish. Todd Melby tells us about a pair of osprey that tried to nest near a fish hatchery:
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Ospreys are birds of prey that eat fish. Todd Melby tells us
about a pair of osprey that tried to nest near a fish hatchery:
The osprey is a raptor that scoops fish out of rivers and lakes.
So when a pair of osprey decided to mate near a DNR fish hatchery south of
Minneapolis, biologists were delighted and worried.
Ospreys rarely nest so far south. So that was good news. What worried biologists was
whether the birds would eat the fish. Biologists decided these fish were too small.
Another worry was the ospreys' choice of a nesting site. In this case, the birds picked an
electrical power pole.
Lisa Gelvin-Innvaer is with the Minnesota DNR.
"They like high areas. Places that have room for them to put their nest. Transmission
poles often provide that."
Biologists decided that was a bad idea, so they've built a tall nesting platform near the
power pole.
"We're hopeful with the new nesting platform, that they'll come back and attempt to nest
For The Environment Report, I'm Todd Melby.
Information on the Osprey from Cornell
Wikipedia's Osprey Page
Author Todd MelbyPosted on February 16, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags bird, birds, chick, chicks, eat, eating, egg, eggs, fish, fly, flying, food, hatch, hatchery, nest, nesting, nests, osprey, predator, prey, swim, swimming
Bugs Getting Confused by Asphalt
Dragonflies are one of the insects tricked by false light (Photo courtesy of the EPA)
Bugs are getting confused by the
reflections from manmade structures.
Rebecca Williams reports on a new study:
If you've ever noticed swarms of insects hovering over your car, there's a
good chance they're mistaking it for water.
Smooth, dark surfaces like cars and asphalt reflect polarized light. That's
what bugs see – and that tricks insects such as dragonflies.
Bruce Robertson is an author of the study in the journal Frontiers in Ecology
and the Environment.
"Asphalt actually reflects polarized light more strongly than water and so it
looks more like water than water! And so these organisms are thinking
they're finding a place to breed and hunt and lay eggs and mate when in fact
they're finding a place that's very dangerous."
Robertson says these bugs swarm over buildings and roads in huge numbers,
and can die of exhaustion.
But he says it might be possible to stop tricking the bugs. Things like
adding white curtains to dark windows or adding a little bit of gravel to
asphalt to make the surfaces reflect less polarized light.
A related article
A related article from Science Daily
Author Rebecca WilliamsPosted on January 19, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags animal, animals, asphalt, bug, bugs, car, cars, confused, confusion, dragonflies, dragonfly, egg, eggs, false, flies, fly, light, lights, look, lot, lots, mate, mating, parking, swarm, water
Planting More Trees on Coffee Farms
Many coffee growers in Latin America are now replanting the shade trees. (Source: MarkSweep at Wikimedia Commons)
Songbirds on their way south might
find more trees at coffee plantations. Lester
Graham reports there's a shift in thinking by
coffee growers. And a new study might encourage
more farmers to plant shade trees:
A few decades ago, coffee growers in Latin America were given incentives to clear the
shade trees on their plantations. More sun equals more coffee beans. They also found
more sun meant more weeds. So they had to spray expensive herbicides.
Now a new study published in BioScience shows cutting down those shade trees has
also left the coffee plants more exposed to damage from bad weather. Ivette Perfecto
at the University of Michigan is one of the authors.
"The vulnerability of the farms are much higher if they eliminate the shade. The shade
trees provide like a buffer against extremes."
Many coffee growers in Latin America are now replanting the shade trees. The added
benefit is the trees provide habitat for wildlife, including those migrating birds that spend
their summers here and travel south to that region.
For The Environment Report, this is Lester Graham.
A news release from the University of Michigan
Wikipedia's coffee page
Author Lester GrahamPosted on October 6, 2008 Categories News SpotsTags animal, animals, bird, birds, coffee, farm, farms, fly, flying, migrate, migrating, migration, pesticide, pesticides, plant, plantation, plants, shade, songbird, songbirds, south, tree, trees, umich, wildlife
Airports Ask for Bailout
Fuel costs are skyrocketing. That means air carriers are cutting back on routes... and airports say they're losing revenue as a result. (Photo courtesy of Boeing)
The airport industry says high fuel prices are
threatening the stability of the entire system. Rebecca
Williams reports the industry wants its fuel needs to be
given top priority:
The airport industry says high fuel prices are threatening the stability of the entire system. Rebecca Williams reports the industry wants its fuel needs to be given top priority:
Fuel is a big deal for the airline industry. The industry says for every dollar increase in the price of a barrel of oil – fuel costs go up 465 million dollars for the airlines.
So they've been cutting back… stopping service on more than 400 routes since March.
And for airports… that means losing their main source of revenue.
So they want the federal government to bail them out if fuel keeps going up.
Sean Broderick is with the American Association of Airport Executives.
"Petroleum based products are what make airplanes fly, period. And while industry and aircraft manufacturers are working on alternatives there is no equivalent to wind power."
The group wants the government to allow airlines to borrow from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve… or be given subsidies for jet fuel.
A related article in The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Author Rebecca WilliamsPosted on September 8, 2008 Categories News SpotsTags air, airplane, airplanes, airport, airports, cost, flew, flown, fly, flying, fuel, fuels, gas, gasoline, money, plane, planes, port, ports, price, prices
Turbines and Bats: A Deadly Combo
Many bats are being killed by wind turbines (Photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service)
The wind turbine industry has made
changes to reduce the number of birds killed
by the spinning blades. But scientists are
finding that more bats are being killed.
Rebecca Williams reports one research team
thinks it now knows why:
It's been a mystery why bats are getting killed by wind turbines. They're
usually great at avoiding collisions because they sense moving objects
even better than still ones.
A team from the University of Calgary looked at dead bats near
turbines. They found that 90% of the bats had internal bleeding.
Erin Baerwald is the lead author of the study. She says there's a sudden
drop in pressure near the tips of the turbine blades. And when bats fly
close enough, the pressure drop makes their lungs over-expand and
burst. She thinks the bats are attracted to the turbines.
"Maybe they see these tall turbines as trees."
That's because most of the bats that are getting killed are tree roosting
bats.
Baerwald says researchers are looking at ways to change turbines to
avoid killing bats.
A related article from the Washington Post
More info about bats
Author Rebecca WilliamsPosted on September 1, 2008 Categories News SpotsTags air, alternative, animal, animals, bat, bats, bird, birds, dead, death, deaths, dying, energy, explode, fly, flying, kill, kills, lung, lungs, power, pressure, spinning, turbine, turbines, wildlife, wind
On the Lookout for Fireflies
Researchers have started a project to document firefly sightings (Photo by Don Salvatore, courtesy of Museum of Science, Boston)
Scientists want your help counting
fireflies. Mark Brush reports researchers
hope to answer a commonly asked question:
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People often ask, 'Why don't we see as many fireflies anymore?'
Don Salvatore is an educator at Boston's Museum of Science. He says he and other
researchers don't have a good answer. They don't even know whether there are fewer
fireflies or not.
So Salvatore and a few bug scientists started up the Firefly Watch Project. They're
asking people to help them out by spending a few minutes in their backyard.
"So what we want them to do is to go outside at night and then for a ten second period
count the number of fireflies they see. As well as that we ask them to just key in on a
couple of fireflies and give us just a little information."
Salvatore says they hope to discover whether thinks like frequent lawn mowing, light
pollution, and pesticides are harming firefly numbers.
For The Environment Report, I'm Mark Brush.
The Firefly Watch
A related article from The Boston Globe
Author Mark BrushPosted on July 14, 2008 Categories News SpotsTags boston, bug, bugs, dark, disappear, disappearing, fire, firefly, flies, fly, insect, insects, light, look, night, number, numbers, track, tracking, watch, webpage, website
Grand Bridge Scaled Back for Birds
A tern chick at Mille Lacs Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota (Photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service)
There are few things as aggravating as getting stuck in a traffic jam. But for some drivers crossing a busy bridge from the U.S. to Canada there's aggravation on top of aggravation. Joyce Kryszak reports that's because a plan to build an additional bridge is being blocked by concern for a bird and a little fish that it eats:
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There are few things as aggravating as getting stuck in a traffic jam. But for some drivers crossing a busy bridge from the U.S. to Canada there's aggravation on top of aggravation. Joyce Kryszak reports that's because a plan to build an additional bridge is being blocked by concern for a bird and a little fish that it eats.
Every year, millions of people cross the mighty Niagara River on the Peace Bridge that connects Buffalo, New York to Canada. And many of them sit for hours in a traffic jam. The border crossing and passport checks slow things down. But there are just not enough lanes for all the traffic.
Ice delivery man Tim Holliday is one of those who is fed up with hours and hours of bridge delays.
"Like, I gotta go to the duty-free here, and when I'm coming out of here I have to go through customs and they always ask, what were you doing in Canada?" said Holliday. "I'm just sick of the hassles, you know?"
Transportation officials say a new bridge is needed. The traffic problems will only get worse. Because of increased trade, about eleven million additional travelers are expected to be using the Peace Bridge over the next decade.
And that's a headache for Ron Rienas. He manages the busy international bridge crossing. He says building a new bridge would help with the traffic delays and help with national security.
"This is a border improvement project designed to address redundancy issues, security issues, traffic flow, all of those things, maintenance issues…all of those are impacted by not being able to proceed with the project," said Rienas.
A second bridge has been designed. It's a cable-stayed bridge with towers as high as the Washington monument.
Brian Higgins is Congressman for the area. He's pushing for federal approval of the impressive cable design. He says the region needs an iconic symbol of progress.
"We are in the eleventh hour of a project that's been going on for fifteen years. We need additional capacity at the Peace Bridge to promote the efficient, predictable flow of commerce between the United States and Canada – we need an iconic bridge, a signature bridge," said Higgins.
But that signature bridge is exactly the kind of design that is dangerous to many birds.
And the Niagara River is a virtual highway for nearly three hundred kinds of birds. The cables can be invisible to the birds and they can fly into them and die.
Among those birds is the Common Tern. It's an endgangered species.
Terry Yonker knows these and other birds better than most.
"We probably documented somewhere in the range of half a million birds, and there's a common tern right there."
Yonker is a scientist and a former Ornithological Society president. He wrote an environmental study that recommended against the bridge's cable design because it could kill hundreds of different kinds of birds, including the endangered tern.
Yonker says even if it avoided hitting the cables by flying over the bridge, the tern would be stressed by such a tall bridge design. That's because it has to make eight trips over the bridge each day to feed its young. But he says it probably wouldn't make that many trips if the new bridge is any higher than the Peace Bridge.
"You raise that structure and they'll have to spend a lot of energy doing that. They'll maybe make five or six trips a day and that means one or two chicks are going to get less food out there," said Yonker.
The other concern is a food source for the tern.
Fishery experts say the enormous piers would change water currents, eventually killing off the Emerald Shiner. That's the tiny fish the endangered bird feeds on.
So a new design is being recommended: A lower bridge with smaller piers to protect the tern and the emerald shiner.
Federal and state agencies are working to find a way to mitigate the threat to the birds and fish by altering the plans for the new bridge. But environmental experts say you can't mitigate extinction.
Environmentalists and some biologists say the common tern is more than an endangered bird. They say it's a warning, about what happens when sound science is ignored for the sake of progress.
But, try explaining that to the people stuck in traffic for hours because a second bridge is being blocked to save a small bird and a little fish.
For The Environment Report, I'm Joyce Kryszak.
A related article from the Buffalo News
The common tern's Wikipedia page
Author Joyce KryszakPosted on June 23, 2008 Categories FeaturesTags bird, birds, bridge, cable, cables, canada, common, death, die, emerald, endangered, feed, fish, flew, flight, flock, flown, fly, flying, harm, hit, hurt, kill, new, new york, number, numbers, population, populations, species, tern, wires, york
Around the World in a Solar Plane
A computer-generated image of the solar plane (Photo courtesy of Solar Impulse/EPFL Claudio Leonardi)
A team in Switzerland is gearing up for
the first around-the-world flight of a solar
powered plane. Rebecca Williams has more:
Bertrand Piccard was the first to fly a hot air balloon non-stop around the
"You know a lot of people think something is impossible just before someone
else finds the solution to do it."
Now he's leading a team that's building a solar powered plane to fly around the
world. The plane will have long skinny wings with solar panels, and room for
just one pilot.
"My greatest hope is that enough people will follow our adventure. These
people will say 'Wow! If there was there a team that could do it in a solar
powered airplane, of course we should do it also ourselves in our daily lives.'"
Piccard says they have a lot to test out, especially how to fly at night.
If all goes well, the first real test flight is planned for next year.
The Solar Impulse website
A related article from the Wall Street Journal
Author Rebecca WilliamsPosted on June 16, 2008 Categories News SpotsTags air, energy, flew, flight, flown, fly, flying, panel, panels, pilot, plane, planes, power, powered, sky, solar, sun, wing, wings, world
Community Wins Suit Against Egg Farm
An Ohio jury has awarded neighbors of a large factory farm $19.7 million in damages. People living near Buckeye Egg Farm in central Ohio have complained for years of fly infestations and odors. The outcome is seen as a victory by those living next to large-scale farm operations throughout the region. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Natalie Walston has the story:
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An Ohio jury has awarded neighbors of a large factory farm 19.7 million dollars in damages. People living near Buckeye Egg Farm in Central Ohio have complained for years of fly infestations and odors. The outcome of the lawsuit may or may not affect similar cases in other states. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Natalie Walston reports.
(Natural sound of locusts, wind, dog barking in the distance)
Freda Douthitt's house sits at the end of a gravel lane. The driveway is surrounded by trees and wild flowers. She's always liked it here because it's secluded … she's a couple miles from a rural road. She likes to sit on the multi-tiered back patio that overlooks a small pond. That's where she grades composition papers from her Freshman English class at Ohio University.
(sound of flies)
But she has also had to swat at flies for the past ten years. Douthitt collects flies in a container that is nearly the size of a gallon milk jug. She estimates this one has about 2-3 inches worth of decomposing flies and maggots collected since August 22.
"It smells out here. That's the flytrap. That keeps some of them from getting in the house. Today there's a few flies out here. There are days when that wall would be just polka dotted with them.
Douthitt has frozen the containers of flies and collected them over the years. She took them to court with her to prove the problems she deals with living near a factory farm.
That's what helped her win a 1.2 million dollar share of a settlement with Buckeye Egg Farm. It's one of the world's largest egg-laying producers. Douthitt's house is three-quarters of a mile from one of the company's egg-laying plants. The flies come from the vast amounts of manure produced by millions of chickens housed at the company's barns. The manure gets spread on farm fields that surround Douthitt's house after harvest season in the fall. Since then … she has watched as run-off from Buckeye Egg properties killed tens-of-thousands of fish in a nearby creek. She has even seen the creek water turn purple.
She says she never expected to win in court against the company when she began the legal battle 9 years ago.
"I never thought about suing. Until one of the neighbors I'd been working hard with trying to get the EPA to do something … trying to get the county health department interested … um, we were both frustrated at that point. She called up one evening and said we're ready to call a lawyer, are you? And I said, yeah, I'll meet with you.
As the years went by I became pretty frustrated, and wondered what would make a difference."
Douthitt and 20 of her neighbors won a 19.7 million dollar lawsuit against Buckeye Egg.
This win has other people in Great Lakes states hopeful they too can win in court against large factory farms.
Julie Janson of Olivia, Minnesota knows Douthitt's story all too well. Janson has been fighting hog factory farm owner Valadco for 6 years. Her house sits sandwiched between two of the company's hog barns. Janson and her husband filed a lawsuit this spring against the company. They are asking for close to 200-thousand dollars because Janson says her family of eight gets sick from manure odors.
Janson says she took her 11-year-old daughter to a specialist in California to prove she has brain damage from smelling hydrogen sulfide.
Decomposing manure creates hydrogen sulfide gas and ammonia that smells like rotten eggs.
"Sometimes it's enough to gag a maggot. The stink is putrid. And, it penetrates through your house, through the windows and doors. Every little crack in your home."
Janson says her family has spent one hundred thousand dollars to fight Valadco.
She had to close her daycare center, which she ran from her home, partly because of the stench. Her husband is supporting the family with his truck-driving job that brings in nearly 38-thousand dollars a year.
She says a win over Buckeye Egg farm in Ohio is a victory that can help her cause.
"There's finally been some justice served. Some of these people have been fighting for over ten years. And … to me … it just says no matter how long and painful it is, you need to fight for justice because if us citizens don't fight it's never gonna happen."
Both Janson and Douthitt say it's not the money that will make them happy.
Douthitt says she will probably never see the money that she is owed.
But … she says the county judge may force the company to clean up its farms and the surrounding communities.
"How can they have that many animals and that much manure and let it just pour out and not treat it? They let it just pour out onto the land."
Buckeye egg farm officials have said they may appeal the verdict. The company says it has already spent millions of dollars to try and clean up its facilities. Earlier this year, Buckeye Egg settled a multi-million dollar lawsuit with Ohio's attorney general's office. The state sued the company for dumping dead chickens in a field and polluting creeks by spilling contaminated water. The state has since filed seven sets of contempt charges against Buckeye Egg for not correcting the problems. It's still undecided whether Buckeye Egg will file for bankruptcy following the verdict.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Natalie Walston.
Author Natalie WalstonPosted on September 24, 2001 Categories FeaturesTags brain damage, buckeye egg farm, citizens, contamination, court, egg, egg farms, egg laying, eggs, factory, farm, flies, fly, fumes, health, hog, hog farms, hogs, human health, hydrogen sulfide, lawsuit, lawsuits, maggots, manure, neighbors, ohio farms, pollution, problems, protest, runoff, water contamination, water pollution


The emergence of novel pathogens occurs primarily by changes in host species range. Zoonoses, i.e. infectious diseases that transmit from animals to humans, account for over 60% of all human pathogens and 75% of emerging pathogens. Well-known examples of human pathogens that emerged from animals include HIV, SARS, and Spanish influenza; zoonotic pathogens such as Leptospira interrogans (the agent of leptospirosis) and West Nile virus continue to spill over from animals to humans. Yet despite the importance of these diseases to human and animal health, many aspects of their ecological and evolutionary dynamics remain poorly understood because key findings remain isolated in disparate academic fields. My research program aims to build an integrated theory of pathogen emergence across species boundaries, by combining mathematical models with data from focal systems to understand fundamental principles of disease transmission and adaptation. In this talk I will describe recent progress in three complementary research projects, which overlap to span all phases of the zoonotic emergence process. I will focus on the analysis of human monkeypox in central Africa, aiming to untangle the contributions of spillover versus human-to-human transmission and assess the risk that this pathogen may emerge to fill the niche left vacant by smallpox eradication. I will summarize on-going studies of the reservoir dynamics of leptospirosis in California sea lions (and Channel Island foxes), and theoretical work on the cross-scale evolutionary dynamics of viruses introduced to new host species.


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Chapter 90 - Fleeing the Outpost
Artemis was strong, there was no denying that. Cloudhawk had no interest in fighting her. What's more, every second they delayed the danger grew. Once the demon caught up with them there was no chance of escape.
He hadn't spent a lot of time with this woman, but compared to the Bloodsoaked Queen they shared similar outlooks and values. They'd spoken about many things he could never discuss with the Queen, shared ideas she wouldn't understand. Their chats had brought him and Artemis closer, and at least Cloudhawk had no desire for it to come to this. In all the world Cloudhawk didn't have many friends, he considered Artemis one of them.
He continued to try and talk her down. "This world is big, I refuse to believe Greenland Outpost is the only place for us. I know that together we have the ability to find somewhere better. Why would you agree to be on that fucker's leash? Artemis, we can't waste time – come with us, quickly!"
The outpost soldiers that'd come with her brandished their weapons, ready to join the fight.
"Hold your ground! This kid is mine!" She wasn't going to take this from him. She allowed her hammer to slip from her shoulder and thud onto the ground as she glared his way. "You've been here so long and you and I haven't wrangled yet. You and me, one on one!"
"Does it have to be this way?"
"Cut the shit! Today one of us is dying!"
Artemis face was a mask of rage as she heaved up her hammer and charged at Cloudhawk. She bore down on him with deadly ferocity and every attack was intended to kill. If he was half a step late his bones would be crushed to powder. He didn't want it to be a fight to the death, but Artemis' attacks held nothing back. He couldn't just sit by and wait for death.
"Why don't you ever fuckin' listen!"
Anger swelled up in Cloudhawk as well. He thought Artemis might be different, but in the end she was willing to kill him to save her own life and keep leadership of the outpost. "Fine. If you wanna fight, then I'll give you a fuckin' fight!"
Artemis' hammer came crashing down, like a meteorite from the heavens. If it hit Cloudhawk there would be nothing recognizable left. As power surged through his exorcist rod he brought it up to meet her hammer, and in the moment they collided that power was released to buffer her blow.
Clang!
He was knocked back fifteen feet and a nasty pain radiated from his wrist. He thought using the staff was more than suitable, but he was wrong. However there were only a few in the outpost – maybe even the wastelands – who could face down one of Artemis' attacks and live.
This wasn't how he was gonna die!
Cloudhawk's improvements were evident, but he wasn't going to survive this situation against Artemis on his own. Beyond her there were also scores of outpost soldiers closing in, and sooner rather than later that demon would return. If he didn't find a way to get out now his chances of escaping were practically zero.
Thus with a plan to escape in mind Cloudhawk channeled his psyche through his cloak. Like a leaf floating on the breeze he dashed through the throng of outpost soldiers. Under orders from Artemis to hold their attacks, they weren't sure what do.
Cloudhawk swung his staff and it whistled through the air so fast it left ripples in its wake. A handful of warriors were caught off guard and were smacked to the ground. With the Queen on his shoulder Cloudhawk leapt over them toward freedom.
"He's getting away!" The soldiers were ready to give chase. "Get him!"
"Hold your fucking ground!" She stalked toward the pile of soldiers like a lioness. "I said he's mine, and if any of you pieces of shit try to join in I'll crush your fuckin' brain pan!"
Artemis was a well-known name in the outpost. Her temper was famous, and they knew that once she was angry it didn't matter if you were friend or kin, you stayed out of her way. The soldiers all exchanged quiet, nervous glances but none of them dared disobey. If she wanted to smash every one of them into pulp she would, and she'd do it easily.
Cloudhawk's strength was surprising, but he wasn't a match for Artemis. She could easily deal with him herself!
The outpost warriors were left alone, dumbfounded and unsure what to do while Artemis and Cloudhawk disappeared.
With the help of his cloak Cloudhawk was fast, but he was also carrying someone and that affected his speed. Artemis wasn't a speed-focused metahuman, but her powerful legs helped her bound over terrain with impressive momentum. Soon she caught up.
Goddamnit! Is this woman really dead-set on fighting?
Cloudhawk stopped and spun around again, furious. Artemis was bearing down on him with her hammer raised while she threw something at him in her left hand. He thought it was some sort of weapon and made to dodge, but she'd thrown it slowly. As it came his way he saw that it wasn't a weapon, it was a syringe.
"Panacea?" Cloudhawk caught it instinctively. It was the last injection from Hydra's stash they hadn't used. "Artemis, this –"
She stared at him with hard eyes. "What the fuck is your dopey ass standing around for? Run!"
Suddenly he understood her intention. She'd been acting, there were too many soldiers around for her to simply let him go. If she'd tried the soldiers definitely wouldn't have let it happen. Artemis was helping him escape.
Only she was a shit actress!
Yes, she couldn't fake it so her attacks had to be real. Each attack would have turned his guts to soup, but they had to in order to keep her heart's desire secret. No one suspected anything, so when she went racing after him no one thought twice.
Cloudhawk heaved a sigh of relief then promptly injected the Queen with the panacea. "Next time give me some sorta hint, would ya? I coulda been hurt!"
"You dipshit," she spat. "You belong to me, you think I'm gonna kill what's mine?"
Who would have thought that would be her answer!
If Cloudhawk had been even a little bit slower, a little bit weaker, he'd have been straight up murdered. She hadn't held back one bit!
The Bloodsoaked Queen started to recover immediately after the injection, but their foe had done a number on her. He didn't think she'd be up for a fight any time soon. But even if she could, what would that accomplish? After such a brutal beating would she be ready for a second round?
Cloudhawk blurted out. "Artemis, why are you helping me?"
"I told you – you belong to me. If I don't help you, then who?" As they ran for safety she rolled her eyes at his silly questions. "Of course there's another reason. The demon doesn't know how that freak in black died, but once he figures it out you think he'll go easy on me? I'm no idiot! I have to get the fuck outta here too!"
Truth be told that was probably the main reason!
Cloudhawk thought back to their fight with the black-clad mutant. Artemis' surprise attack was what slowed the freak down, and without her intervention Cloudhawk absolutely would have been killed. The mutant was one of the demon's seven henchmen, first among them. His status probably didn't indicate ability but instead likely meant he was the first one the demon recruited. He had probably been the demon's longest serving subordinate.
Once the demon found out his most important disciple had been killed by Artemis she could forget about breathing.
Right now even the demonhunter was up shit creek without a paddle, canoe or nose plugs. Greenland Outpost had no hope of being free. Unlike Salamander, Artemis hadn't spent most of her life in the outpost, but it was where she'd spent her most formative years. She was unwilling to leave, but there was no other choice.
At least she still had Cloudhawk, that cute little morsel.
When she thought about adventures with Cloudhawk she thought it wasn't such a bad life. As for the demonhunter that couldn't seem to do anything right, now that they saved her life they could tell her to fuck off!
Of course Cloudhawk didn't know Artemis' plans. The injection continued to work its way through the Queen's battered body, helping her heal. He knew she'd recovered consciousness already but until now she was mute as a log.
He didn't even need to think about it to know what was up. This time she'd suffered quite the blow.
Ever since coming to the wasteland the Bloodsoaked Queen had been practically invincible. The only people to get the drop on her had to use dirty tricks, traps or full-on sieges. Even back in the elysian lands she'd been the most talented among her peers! A demonhunter at eleven, an elite demonhunter at fourteen.
She was a singular talent the likes of which had never been seen, truly amazing. One after the other she broke every demonhunter record in the elysian lands. She was the only hunter with a chance to become a Master before thirty years old.
This was her history, and today she was pummeled into the dirt. A failure.
Her failure was so straightforward, so brutal. So absolute!
She'd given up her honor and her future to waste a year scouring the wastelands. In the end it was all a cruel joke. She couldn't even accomplish dying with the demon.
The Queen was too young, she'd never even participated in a proper demon hunt. Without that experience she didn't know what to expect, or how strong a demon was. If she were a little more sensible she'd remember that these monsters used to war with the gods themselves. They'd lost, but they were a race that could stand toe to toe against the most powerful being in the universe. Was that not enough to explain her problems?
Cloudhawk tried to comfort her. "Don't feel bad, it wasn't a complete loss. At least now we know how strong that fucker is. We'll find somewhere to hide, train for a few years then try again!"
The Bloodsoaked Queen shut her eyes, drained of all strength.
Before them stretched the oasis, barring the way to freedom.
Cloudhawk sighed at the sight, but no sooner did he allow himself to relax than all of his nerves went taught. His whole body shook, for he felt the waves of a relic's power permeating the air.
"Watch out above!"
He barely had time to shout before the cloud darkened from a hail of countless sandy arrows. They fell from the heavens like a plague of locusts, a deadly rain. And they were caught in the middle.
How strong was this monster? The scale of this attack was staggering!


The former Blommer Ice Cream Factory, at 1500 W. North Ave., is being converted into a 64-unit housing complex, with the help of tax increment financing. Photo by Elliot Hughes.
Mayor Tom Barrett was short on details when he set a goal of building or improving 10,000 affordable housing units in 10 years in his State of the City address. But if done correctly, affordable housing advocates said, 10,000 units could take a real stab at the city's deeply rooted segregation.
"It could take the city from being one of the cities that's known for the segregation we've had for over 50 years into a more integrated city," said Andi Elliott, CEO of Community Advocates.
During his 40-minute speech at the freshly constructed Northwestern Mutual Tower earlier this week, Barrett announced that through private partnerships, the city would soon expand a loan program designed to help low-income families improve their homes. And he said he is willing to commit significant "tax incremental financing" to spur construction of affordable housing units, both in the neighborhoods and downtown.
"Growing affordable units in these areas will make it easier for workers to get to nearby jobs," Barrett said.
Housing advocates applauded the goal of 10,000 units in 10 years, saying that not only is it doable, but that it is a minimal starting point if the city and community want to reduce segregation, foreclosed homes and poverty. But there are many directions the city could take on its path to creating 1,000 better housing opportunities every year, they said.
For one thing, it matters where the housing would be. Barrett said the new units could be located anywhere in Milwaukee," but added that he is "particularly interested" in seeing more affordable units in the downtown area.
SEVEN04 Place, an upcoming 60-unit apartment complex, was funded in part by tax increment financing. Photo by Edgar Mendez.
Some housing advocates are wary about too much focus on downtown, when neighborhoods farther away struggle with foreclosed homes and rents that cost 80 to 90 percent of some families' incomes.
But nobody wants to see downtown — which has recently seen a boom in high-end housing and commercial development — become an area that's only affordable for the wealthy.
If downtown and its adjacent neighborhoods can become mixed-income areas, it could help integrate Milwaukee and connect low-income households to better educational, employment and healthcare opportunities, according to Kori Schneider-Peragine, a senior administrator with the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council.
Then, there's the question of just how much emphasis will be placed on homeownership versus renting.
In his speech, Barrett said Associated Bank has become the city's first corporate partner in expanding the city's STRONG Homes Loan program. He said that partnership will add $1.5 million into the program's coffers, which currently disperses up to $20,000 to a maximum of four low-income families every year for home improvements. The city is looking for additional partners as well, Barrett noted.
He also referenced two affordable housing developments funded by tax increment financing — the 64-unit Legacy Lofts, 1500 W. North Ave., and the 60-unit SEVEN04 Place, 704 W. National Ave. — as examples of the city's more aggressive approach to luring such projects.
Elliott characterized affordable housing as the immediate need, saying too many people are struggling in unsafe properties that are far too expensive.
Details to hopefully include how "affordable housing" is calculated for purposes of this effort. If "affordable" is calculated based on median incomes within a 200 foot radius of Warren Buffet's house, then "affordable" may be a bit relative.
Also suspecting a "giveaway" announcement for the Hillside Terrace property that I might unfairly feel is part of someone's "five year plan".
Sorry for being a bit of a pooper here, TIF's have just never worked this way anywhere. A LOT of things need to happen before a fantasy-based financing tool can be re-purposed in the fashion presented by Mayor Barrett. The goals, and values that need to be financialized with an eye toward growth of the same has just not been done here, or anywhere- otherwise this whole thing could/would/should(?) have been done years ago.
The segregation problem in Milwaukee is much deeper than housing.
Iced Tea – I suspect they're not using actual TIFs, but rather, the TIF extension tool which was passed by state legislature some years ago.
After finding what I think to be the intended link to the Mayor's "State of the City" speech (provided link broken), the words "segregation", or "desegregation" do not appear once in the text. The mention of TIF funds is a VERY small part of a much larger presentation, much of which has nothing to do with affordable, or "affordable" housing at all.
What would happen if Milwaukee suddenly dropped out of the top ten segregated cities list?
… the 24/7 Wall st. estimate of the the same name, and likely the same methodology for 2015 listed Milwaukee as #3 BTW.
Dropping 8 slots Nationally in two years is probably something.


About a year ago, I was headed to the European Institute of Applied Buddhism (EIAB) for my first time to help out at The Music We Are retreat. It was a beautiful time filled with songs, spoken word and Plum Village teachings, and as I came to know, one in a run of weeks the EIAB were putting on for young adults organised by young adults themselves with the monastics' support. Larissa and I met there and a year later, in the beautiful German Autumn colours, we were on a bus heading there again to hold the space for the Wake Up Your Artist retreat.
Around 30 young artists came from Germany, France, England, Sweden, Switzerland and Holland with many different live experiences – art students to filmmakers, psychologists to 'not sure/in-between things' all with open hearts and beautiful smiles. 🙂 It was so easy to run the workshops, and one by one we got closer and the creativity happened. It was good to be with everyone there, all in my heart now as I write about it.
Each day, we began with exercises led by Brother Phap Tri, followed by morning sitting meditation, breakfast, and then a workshop before lunch. Relaxation with songs into the second workshop, dinner and evenings with sharing songs, 5Rhythms dance and our be-in/party. We also took a day in the woods where we hiked a hour or so through the woods behind the campus up to the open grass behind where we ate lunch and played games. We also made a sculpture of our life with natural objects that we shared with one another, and then rearranged the way we'd like to see our lives grow.
We were also joined one morning by Sister Annabel, the dean of the EIAB, who gave us a talk and answered questions on mindfulness and creativity. Sitting and listening, I felt like we were with our grandmother :), so kind and supportive with experience and wisdom. The talk and answers touched on creative energy, looking after ourselves and to be mindful to reflect on the effect that our artworks are having on ourselves and in the world. 'We continue in our artwork, is it nourishing?' I wrote in my journal from the talk (appreciation for this time you gave us, Sister Annabel).
For me the week touched a beautiful place of non-judgement, to make art in a safe atmosphere and to play and experience our inner artists. One of the themes we wove in was the idea of the inner child that we can take the hand of the 'little us' of 5 years old and encourage and nurture them within us – the sensitivity, the wonder and understand the makings of who we are now. We stood in front of the paper in the painting sessions and just made shapes and colours, surrounded by others doing the same. I found such a peaceful time, and my inner child enjoyed that!
Appreciation also to our guest workshop facilitators: Vera who led us in movement and Sebastien in blindfold contact dancing. On our last full day, we also opened the WUYA gallery space, a quiet show of our paintings and poetry.
For a few days after the week, a few stayed, walked in the woods and shared about our time.
'Let Love Love' was written during our songwriting workshop.
The EIAB itself is an old hospital with a difficult past, used by the Nazi Party as part of their plan to bring away certain types of people from society. Now owned by Plum Village, it is used for courses on well-being, meditation and creativity inspired by peace (all events and workshops can be found at www.eiab.eu).


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Alberta Boatema Ampomah (* 3. November 1994 in Accra) ist eine ghanaische Gewichtheberin.

Werdegang
Ampomah begann 2009 in ihrer Geburtsstadt mit dem Gewichtheben. International trat die 168 Zentimeter große Ampomah erstmals bei der Junioren-Afrikameisterschaft 2010 im ägyptischen Kairo auf, wo sie im Reißen, Stoßen sowie im Zweikampf bei drei Teilnehmerinnen in der Gewichtsklasse bis 75 Kilogramm die Bronzemedaille gewinnen konnte. Bei den wenige Monate danach im indischen Delhi stattfindenden Commonwealth Games wurde die Ghanaerin in beiden Teildisziplinen trotz deutlicher Steigerung ihrer persönlichen Bestleistungen Letzte unter zwölf Teilnehmerinnen. Bei der Afrikameisterschaft 2012 in der kenianischen Hauptstadt Nairobi erreichte die Gewichtheberin mit der Bronzemedaille im Stoßen den vierten Gesamtrang und konnte sich damit nicht direkt für die Olympischen Spiele qualifizieren.

Im Juni 2012 qualifizierte sich die Athletin dennoch über einen Quotenplatz der International Weightlifting Federation für die Olympischen Sommerspiele 2012 in der Gewichtsklasse über 75 Kilogramm; beim Wettkampf am 5. August in der britischen Hauptstadt London belegte Ampomah als leichteste Teilnehmerin – erstmals in dieser Klasse antretend – den 13. Rang unter 14 Starterinnen, da die Nigerianerin Mariam Usman keinen gültigen Versuch im Stoßen zu Stande brachte. Bei den im schottischen Glasgow stattfindenden Commonwealth Games im Juli 2014 belegte Ampomah in der höchsten Gewichtsklasse unter 14 Teilnehmerinnen den zwölften Rang.

Ampomah trainiert im Azumah Nelson Sports Complex unter der Leitung von Nationaltrainer Majeti Fetrie. Sie spricht englisch und französisch.

Weblinks

 Alberta Ampomah in der Datenbank der International Weightlifting Federation (englisch)

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Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2012
Gewichtheber (Ghana)
Olympiateilnehmer (Ghana)
Ghanaer
Frau
Geboren 1994

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