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Monthly Film Roundup: December 2021
Films Watched: 28
How Many Were First-Time Watches: 20
Best Films: West Side Story (2021), tick, tick… BOOM! (2021), Cabaret (1972)
Worst Film: Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
New Releases: West Side Story, The Guilty, Home Sweet Home Alone, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Red Notice, The Matrix Resurrections, Don't Look Up, The King's Man, Val, The Last Duel, tick, tick… BOOM!
FULL LIST AND REVIEWS
Enemy (2013)
Denis Villeneuve once again delivers a brilliantly immersive thriller, that is as psychologically haunting as it is intellectually perplexing. Well performed and stunningly shot, it makes for a fascinating watch
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
By significantly expanding the universe, the Wachowskis loose most of the mystique and intrigue of the first film, but the grand ideas and exciting action set pieces mean it does at least pass the time nicely
Blood Simple (1984)
The exciting debut feature of The Coen Brothers displays their immense talent at the embryonic stage of their careers, and shows how they were always destined to become the market leaders in small-town thrillers
Daisies (1966)
A surreal Czechoslovakian satire exploring the female stereotypes of 1960's Europe. Filled with hypnotic imagery and bizarre sequences, it's a strange but enjoyable watch
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
75 years later, this life-affirming movie remains a bonafide masterpiece. Jimmy Stewart delivers a career best performance, using both his great comedic timing and powerful emotions, and Frank Capra directs the drama as beautifully as the more fantastical elements
An epic sprawling film from Werner Herzog, with an intense central performance from Klaus Kinski. It takes a while to get going, but once it's does, the film becomes a testament to it's impressive technical feats and entertainingly original plot
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
The final part of the original trilogy is better than the second instalment, but mainly because it's simpler and more enjoyable. That said, it's still full of issues, inconsistencies and unexplainable moments
Die Hard (1988)
In this wonderful Christmas favourite, Bruce Willis delivers a knockout performance as a down-on-his-luck New York cop whose Christmas wish is to reconnect with his wife and kids
Also, he stops a terrorist attack in one of the best action films ever made
Spielberg's musical debut is a roaring success, with breakout star Rachel Zegler delivering a stunning performance. Updated politics and additional scenes, blended with an expertly directed musical touch, all make for a spectacular new adaptation of the Broadway classic
Hooked by a great central performance, The Guilty is a brilliantly gripping thriller from the director of 'Training Day'. Its simple and sometimes predictable story does not detract from the well crafted drama that keeps you hooked for the full 90minutes
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
The talent in front of the camera are wasted by the lacking of talent behind the camera. Badly written, over directed and blandly shot, this is a sequel whose occasional laughs are too few and far between
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A fun and energetic, if repetitive, sequel. Uber festive and slapstick, but too often it treads old ground that the original did better
Spider-Man's cinematic debut is a fun, vibrant and energetic romp. It brilliantly balances entertaining action set pieces with a sweet coming of age story, and helped pave the way for Hollywood's current comic book obsession
Its over reliance on fan-service was always to be expected, but otherwise this is an entertaining film that boasts a brilliant cast and a fun premise – even if 'Spider-Verse' did it far better three years ago
Cabaret (1972)
A remarkably progressive musical drama from Bob Fosse. Brilliantly adapted from the stage musical, it made a star of Liza Minnelli as a fabulous bohemian living in Berlin through the rise of the nazi regime. It well balances humour and drama, using the musical numbers as ironic metaphors to reflect the darker plot occurring outside the Kit Kat Klub
The Deer Hunter (1978)
An impressive sweeping drama exploring the traumas of the Vietnam war. Rather than focussing on the conflict itself, the film deals with the lives of the soldiers before and after, to far more emotional effect
Star power leads this otherwise by-the-numbers action comedy. The Rock and Ryan Reynolds have great chemistry, but the fun premise and gags starts to wear thin by the double-crossing third act
Meet the Parents (2000)
It's sequels may be sketchy, but the original in the hit comedy trilogy still holds up. De Niro and Stiller make a great opposites-attract pair, and the jokes come thick and fast
Meet the Fockers (2004)
It's certainly repetitive and not as good as the first instalment, but the sequel benefits from fabulous new additions to the cast that continue the awkward hilarity of parents meeting
I kinda loved this film. It's really odd, and long, and pretty dumb, and it makes some decisions that I think were misguided at best. Honestly, it might even be the worst Matrix sequel. But the cast are all great (particularly Neil Patrick Harris), and it's unique ideas continue to bewilder and amuse
Love Actually (2003)
The Pulp Fiction of rom-coms remains an absolute treat. Sure, it's ridiculous, and soppy, and slightly dated. But when all guns are blazing towards a singular loving message, you can't help but get swept up
Florence Pugh kicked off her killer year with a brilliant British biopic from Stephen Merchant. Uplifting and funny, it's a fantastic showcase of the talents in front and behind the camera
Wild Rose (2018)
Jessie Buckley delivers an all-singing powerhouse performance as the titular Rose. A by-the-numbers but brilliantly entertaining musical drama.
Adam McKay delivers another remarkable political satire. It's a little heavy handed, and is certainly drawn out too long, but that doesn't distract from some phenomenal casting and a timely take on the doomsday plot
Perhaps as a fan of the franchise I could come off as too lenient, but this prequel makes a fabulous addition to the series. It swaps some of the more ludicrous action set pieces of its predecessors for a richer plot full of fun shocks and surprises, and though Ralph Fiennes is a great lead, Rhys Ifans steals the show as Rasputin.
Val (2021)
A revelatory documentary about the star of stage and screen. Val Kilmer's own home-video footage makes up most of the film, creating a far more emotive angle to the story of his filmography and personal life
A sweeping medieval epic that tackles a dark and timely subject with respect and grandeur. The cast perform well under Ridley Scott's direction, and the film benefits from stunning production design
tick, tick…BOOM! (2021)
Lin-Manuel Miranda's directorial debut is a stunning showcase of his talents. Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical is brought to life beautifully, with Andrew Garfield delivering a show stopping performance
Thanks for reading all my monthly film roundups in 2021! It's been a blast. Be sure to come back tomorrow for my review of 2021 in film!
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Founded by Charles Thompson MBE, Screen Nation hosted its 11th annual Film and television Awards. The ceremony honours and showcases the achievements of black professionals within the film and television industry. The aim of Screen Nation is to encourage, celebrate, reward, support and promote professionals and talents of African diaspora heritage to continue building a diverse path for future careers.
Stars arrived and graced the red carpet and then were treated to a three course meal before the main ceremony and celebrations.
The media's representation and recognition of black stars still has a lot of progress to be made and we have seen this more and more. #OscarsSoWhite and #BritsSoWhite are two great examples of a global outcry at the lack of diversity.
Even more outrageous, is when the media make mistakes when reporting famous stars. In 2013 after the passing of former South African President Nelson Mandela, a public tribute sign in New Deli India showed a picture of actor Morgan Freeman in error. Leading to many R.I.P. messages being sent to the American actor. In 2014 Samuel L Jackson was mistaken for Laurence Fishburne by KTLA's reporter Sam Rubin on live television in America. Most recently and closer to home, in 2015 ITV used a photograph of Ainsley Harriott when reporting about Lenny Henry's Knighthood.
It was unfortunate that he had to clarify what he meant. For many of the stars and guests of the awards it's important to make a change yourself and make a difference to help move forward, but this does not mean that anyone is ignoring or undermining the campaigns for the lack of diversity.
Kascion Franklin (Actor, 'Danny and The Human Zoo' (BBC) explained that he never felt accurately represented on screen "It was either some urban thug, that wasn't me, or someone that had a scholarship to do football or some kind of sport, that wasn't me. People need to have a sense of identity to be able to relate to themselves on screen" The roles that black characters get is often based on a stereotype, Osy Ikhile (Actor, 'Mission: Impossible Rouge Nation' 2015) believes that if the role isn't "gang related or a stereotypical role, then there isn't a lot of depth to it." Another reason why we need more diverse people as writers, producers and directors.
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A "Dear John" letter from Vermont
Dear Mr. Secretary, from the good people of the State of Vermont with ardent support from the good parents of Oregon
In July of 2016 the Vermont State Board of Education wrote a letter to John B. King, Jr., the second Secretary of Education under President Obama. It wouldn't be incorrect to characterize King as a corporate education reformer with an eye toward privatizing our public schools. He is pro high stakes testing and charter schools and anti teachers and their unions. He appears to be back-pedaling on measures instituted by the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to make the law resemble more and more its failed predecessor No ChildLeft Behind. That's why it is so refreshing to see the Vermont Board of Ed send this letter to Secretary King.
Parents Across America Oregon recognizes the noble ideas and sentiments put forth by Vermont and wishes to echo its support -- however limited by differences in state law that support is relegated to be. Standardized testing still seems to be central to Secretary King's plan even though current tests, SBAC and PARCC, have been found to be invalid, unreliable, costly, and of little value to teachers and students.
"With two-thirds of the score variance attributable to outside of school factors, test scores gaps measure the health of our society more than the quality of the schools."
Authors of the letter stress this point: "Regarding the draft regulations, we think they go well beyond the role of the federal government as specified in ESSA. The regulations need to be brought into conformity with the parameters authorized in law."
Succinctly, this bulleted list relates key concerns about King's ESSA. Details illuminating each point may be read at the link above:
Education and Accountability is More Than Test Scores
Summative Labels/Ranking Schools by a Single Score
Lock-Stepping/Lack of flexibility
Cut scores
Minimum N - validity and reliability
"We take note of the $1.3 billion budget cut approved by the House Appropriations Committee. While you have recently called for a broader "well-rounded" education, you suggest that these initiatives be paid for out of the funds that were just slashed."
Parents Across America Oregon lauds the letter sent to John King by the Vermont State Board of Education and urges the Oregon Board to respond to King in a similar manner.
We are all Vermont!
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Stranded in our own communities: Transit deserts make it hard for people to find jobs and stay healthy
Published: July 25, 2017 9.53pm EDT
Junfeng Jiao, Nicole McGrath, The University of Texas at Austin
Junfeng Jiao
Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Director, Urban Information Lab, The University of Texas at Austin
Nicole McGrath
M.S. Candidate, Community and Regional Planning, The University of Texas at Austin
Junfeng Jiao receives funding from The Hampton K. and Margaret Frye Snell Endowed Chair in Transportation Grant.
Nicole McGrath does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Many Americans need reliable public transit to get to school or work. Frank Hank, CC BY-SA
As any commuter who has experienced unreliable service or lives miles away from a bus stop will tell you, sometimes public transit isn't really a viable option, even in major cities.
In our car-loving society, where 85 percent of Americans use a car to get to work, people who cannot access transportation are excluded from their own communities and trapped inside "transit deserts." This term, which one of us (Junfeng Jiao) coined, describes areas in a city where demand for transit is high but supply is low.
Lack of transit has harmful effects on those who rely on public transit – generally, people who are too young, too old, too poor or have disabilities that don't allow them to drive. Mapping these deserts will help agencies adjust transit services and better serve their communities.
At UT Austin's Urban Information Lab, our research focuses on refining the methods used to quantify and measure transit supply and demand. We've developed clear and concise geographic information system (GIS) methods to evaluate transportation systems, providing alternatives to previous, more complicated network modeling. These methods can quickly be applied to any location, as we have shown in studies of five major cities in Texas and other cities across the United States. By using this method, we found that hundreds of thousands of transit-dependent people in Texas don't have access to mass transit systems.
Connecting people to jobs and services
Research shows that low-income residents living in sprawling areas have limited transportation options, which constrains their job opportunities and upward mobility. Inadequate transportation keeps people from finding work, which then reduces the productivity of their communities. It also can limit access to medical services, causing health problems to go undetected or worsen.
Addressing transit access is one important strategy for tackling broader social problems. For example, welfare recipients are less likely to own cars or have access to transit than the general population. Reducing these transportation barriers would help move them from welfare to work.
In cities with well-developed infrastructure for cycling, such as Amsterdam, large shares of the population commute by bicycle. Steven Lek
Although scholars have been studying "food deserts" (areas where residents lack access to nutritious food) for several decades, we have only recently applied this logic to mass transportation systems, despite the fact that food deserts often occur due to lack of transportation.
Relatively little research has been carried out to identify and quantify gaps between transit demand and supply. But as counties and cities feel the effects of declining funding from federal and state transportation user fees, they need new ways to target transportation infrastructure investments and ensure limited resources are used in the best way possible. We have found that maps are a promising way to guide these discussions.
Mapping transit deserts
Determining exactly who relies on mass transit can be difficult. Existing information depends on census data. As previously noted, people who rely on transit are usually from marginalized demographic groups. They may be elderly, poor or have disabilities that keep them from driving. Census data do not account for the fact that sometimes these populations overlap (a transit-dependent person could be old as well as poor), so one individual could be counted many times.
Also, census data on car ownership are not available at the census block group level, which is the smallest geographic unit published by the U.S. Census Bureau. This lack of data makes it hard to measure transit dependency with accuracy.
Measuring transit supply is easier. It relies on data from municipal planning agencies as well as relevant municipal and county GIS departments, which manage spatial and geographic information, analysis tools and mapping products. These agencies measure variables that include numbers of transit stops, transit routes and frequency of service, as well as lengths of sidewalks, bicycle lanes and low speed-limit routes (which are relevant because some commuters may opt to walk instead of taking the bus).
Beyond city centers
Current research shows that transit deserts exist all over the country. Cities such as Chicago; Cincinnati; Charlotte, North Carolina; Portland, Oregon; and San Antonio contain multiple communities that don't have enough transit services to meet existing demand. Even in older cities, where development tends to follow transit lines, there are neighborhoods where the supply of transit is simply not enough.
This is a large-scale problem. In San Antonio, the seventh-largest U.S. city by population, some 334,530 people – nearly one-fourth of the population – need access to public transportation in a city that doesn't even have rail service. In Chicago, where there are high levels of transit dependency all across the city, just three of the transit desert neighborhoods that we identified house approximately 176,806 residents. Even in a city as progressive as Portland, Oregon, thousands live in transit desert neighborhoods.
Transit desert analysis for the city of San Antonio. Negative numbers connote areas where demand for transit exceeds supply.
When it comes to geographic location, transit demand and supply appear to follow certain spatial patterns. Unsurprisingly, transit supply is highest in city centers and decreases as distance from city centers increases. As a result, transit deserts do not typically occur in city centers or near downtown. In fact, because of the typical "hub and spoke" design of many transit services, city centers often have transit surpluses where supply outstrips demand.
The location of transit deserts often does not follow a geographic pattern, although they are usually associated with low-income and remote areas. While planners and engineers may have a rough idea of where supply is low, making service adjustments requires measuring and mapping of transit supply and demand citywide.
Rebalancing transit networks
Many cities are now making service adjustments to improve service to transit deserts. For example, Houston's transit authority, METRO, recently redesigned its bus service as part of a larger "Transit Service Reimagining," in an attempt to better meet the region's mobility needs. Evaluation of the new transit services shows that current levels of transit demand and supply are more balanced, though gaps still exist.
Identifying transit deserts is even catching on at the federal level. The U.S. Department of Transportation recently launched a new initiative to map transit deserts nationally through a National Transit Map, which will put together data from different transit agencies into a complete feed. By accessing a larger, national look at transit demand and supply, regional agencies will have extra tools available to them when making changes to their local transit services.
What these changes will be is hard to say. Expanding existing bus services may be the most cost-effective way to improve transit access. Even in New York City, with its massive subway system, city officials are increasingly turning to bus rapid transit due to the high cost of adding new subway lines.
Adding bus lines, increasing service hours and even streamlining boarding and fares can help improve service and increase access. Integrating bicycling with transit services would be another cost-effective option.
As research on transit deserts continues to grow, more precise methods of quantifying the gap between transit supply and demand should develop. More research may provide new views on how the built environment and socioeconomic variables affect transportation accessibility. With careful planning and investment, these transit deserts can eventually transform into transit oases.


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'The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings'
Beef, Beer & Books
By Gerald J. Russello
A feeling for literature which united, in an unusual way, scholarship and imagination." Thus David Cecil described an Oxford literary club that midwifed books that have become classics of fantasy literature, apologetics, and poetry. C. S. Lewis, the engine behind the group known as the Inklings, described it more earthily: "We smoked, talked, argued, and drank together." This they did, despite professional setbacks, personal disputes, and a world war, for almost three decades—until the death of Lewis. There was nothing fashionable or avant-garde about the Inklings: they were a small group of white men who got together to talk about religion, literature, and philology while smoking and eating unhealthy pub food. Yet Tolkien remains the most important writer in Britain according to polls, Lewis continues to command attention, and their influence remains across a range of genres and scholarship. In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski try to discern both why the Inklings lasted and why they still capture our imagination.
Meeting on Tuesday mornings at Lewis's rooms in Oxford's Magdalen College and Thursday nights at the Eagle and Child pub (the famous "Bird and Baby" in Inkling parlance), the group was dedicated to reading and critiquing one another's work. From these meetings came the work that made them famous: The Lord of the Rings, Out of the Silent Planet, fiction by Charles Williams, and work by the fourth figure profiled here, the lawyer and philosopher Owen Barfield, who has been called the "first and last Inkling." Other figures fill out the portrait, such as Lewis's brother Warnie, Dom Bede Griffiths, David Cecil, and Henry "Hugo" Dyson. The details of the meetings are not known, but the Zaleskis dig deep into archives, letters, and other sources to provide in-depth biographies, summaries of popular and critical reception, and insight into the group's creative process. We get to know Tolkien, a fecund source of languages and mythic tales who tended to mumble at the group's meetings. The Lewis presented here is jovial and in command, ready with a sharp barb or remembered quote form his copious store of British literature. There is constant talk among the Inklings about work in progress, work contemplated, or work abandoned.
As with any good myth, there is an origin story—or rather, there are two. One was a literary club established by an Oxford undergraduate, Edward Lean, in 1932–33; he called it the Inklings. Lewis and Tolkien became members, continuing an acquaintance that had begun in 1926, when Lewis met the "smooth, pale fluent little chap" at a tea. The two formed a strong bond over beef, beer, English literature and, at least initially, a common interest in their Christian faith. The second origin story involves the long walks that Lewis took along with Barfield and Cecil Harwood in the 1920s, which combined enjoyment of the countryside with rigorous evening philosophical discussions.
It is easy to think of the group as a model of intellectual fellowship and mutual support, but over the course of their long career together the Inklings had a number of disputes and arguments. In particular, Tolkien, as a Catholic, took a critical view of his friend's "mere Christian" apologetics. Lewis, for his part, harbored a residual Protestant distaste for Rome. Dyson, whose career was overshadowed by Tolkien and Lewis, seemed after some years to favor conflict and rivalry over fellowship.
Williams does not appear until about two hundred pages in, and dies about a hundred pages before the book ends, but in some ways he is the magnetic and mysterious core of the story. Although previously acquainted with the Inklings, Williams began to attend their meetings regularly only after his offices at the Oxford University Press, where he worked his entire career, were relocated to Oxford proper at the outset of the war. His arrival changed the group's dynamic. Lewis thought highly of him, and praised his work at almost every chance. Tolkien saw him as a rival for Lewis's attention, and Williams's lectures at Oxford drew some of Tolkien's audience away. But most of Williams's books were, and remain, neglected, ever on the brink of rediscovery, though a new biography might finally introduce him to a wider audience.
IN A WAY, Williams's obscurity makes sense: his occult interests (membership, for example, in the esoteric Fellowship of the Rosy Cross) and idiosyncratic religious doctrines did not travel well outside of the England of his time, and much of his Arthurian poetry sounds odd to contemporary ears. Williams was perhaps one of those whose qualities are easiest to appreciate in person—a man whose agile and restless mind mesmerized students and companions with its play of words and ideas. The Zaleskis rightly focus on his strangeness. Williams really did, for a while at least, believe in magical and occult practices, and he seems to have had odd and sadomasochistic (but also seemingly chaste) relationships with some of his more ardent female admirers. Certainly Tolkien did not fully take to him, even though some of the details of Williams's stranger practices were unknown to him or the other Inklings. Still, the Zaleskis give Williams his due; his "doctrine of co-inherence," and the informal community he established to live it, is strongly related to his interpretation of Christian doctrine. And they note that Lewis thought highly of Williams's unusual fiction, a series of supernatural (or better, transcendental) novels, some of which might make very interesting movies.
Barfield was another important member of the group, but one whose orbit was eccentric. He spent much of his life as a solicitor in London, which he generally regretted since it took so much time away from what he considered his more important literary and philosophical labors. Although among the earliest members of the Inklings, his devotion to Anthroposophy, a school now as exotic as Williams's occultism, kept him at a distance from the increasingly orthodox Christianity of Lewis and Tolkien—so much so that Barfield would not discuss his theological ideas at meetings. He suffered a series of disappointments, both personal and literary, and he seemed for a time the least distinguished of the Inklings. But that is not the whole story; in the 1960s and '70s, as the other Inklings passed away—Lewis died in 1963, Tolkien and Dyson in 1975—Barfield kept going, an inspiration to those who have not spent their lives in intellectual pursuits but still wish they could. He arrived for the first time in the United States, less than a year after Lewis's death, for a stint of lectures at Drew University.
In his book Surprised by Joy, Lewis had famously described Barfield as the Second Friend, the one with whom "you go at it, hammer and tongs, far into the night, night after night…. Out of this perpetual dogfight a community of mind and a deep affection emerge." American audiences in part wanted to see who had drawn such respect from the master, and Barfield was more than willing to oblige. He lectured and wrote about his early friendship with Lewis, and their philosophical disputes (which they called, semi-seriously, "the Great War"), as well as his own work. His lectures were well attended and he entered into a remarkably vital and creative phase of his life. He wrote a well-received book on Coleridge, and two other books, Poetic Diction and Studies in Words, have attained cult classic status. He never became a household name like Lewis and Tolkien, but in his areas of interest he is now considered as accomplished as any other member of the group.
The Inklings lasted for as long as they did, the Zaleskis believe, because they were serious about their work and the critiques of their fellows, and they were serious about a certain kind of (male) friendship. They shared convictions about the power of story, including that True Story of creation and redemption they believed was reflected, obscurely, in literary creation. But what about their lasting influence? The enduring popularity of Lewis and Tolkien, in particular, has inspired critics (like the feminist Germaine Greer) to discount them as mere tellers of just-so stories. But Tolkien's philological scholarship is still important. Barfield continues to inspire more than just Christians (or Anthroposophists). And Lewis's apologetical work and literary scholarship is widely read and respected, even if most people know him for his Narnia stories.
The Zaleskis highlight what perhaps really discomfits some modern readers about the Inklings: they believed in redemption, in what the Zaleskis call the Happy Ending—not an ending without sorrow or wounds, but salvation all the same. They believed that Western culture had lost the image of salvation, which was expressed in story, legend, and myth (including what Lewis called the Truth Myth, Christianity). But they were not really nostalgists; their work was directed not "simply to restore the discarded image, but to refresh it and bring it to life for the present and the future."
Published in the June 3, 2016 issue:
Gerald J. Russello is editor of the University Bookman (www.kirkcenter.org) .
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U bivšim Sovjetskim Savezu i satelitskim komunističkim državama naziv "Dinamo" bio je čest naziv športskih udruga, snaga sigurnosti i nogometnih klubova.

Još neki nogometni klubovi nose to ime:

Hrvatska:
 GNK Dinamo Zagreb – nogometni klub iz Zagreba
 MNK Futsal Dinamo
 NK Dinamo Babinec
 NK Dinamo Badljevina
 NK Dinamo Baranjsko Petrovo Selo
 NK Dinamo Budimci
 NK Dinamo Domašinec
 NK Dinamo Godinjak
 NK Dinamo Jakovlje
 NK Dinamo Kapela Dvor
 NK Dinamo Novo Čiče
 NK Dinamo Odranski Obrež
 NK Dinamo Okić Kozlikovo
 NK Dinamo Palovec
 NK Dinamo Predavac
 NK Dinamo Rajsavac
 NK Dinamo Sveta Marija na Krasu
 NK Dinamo Tomašanci
 NK Dinamo Trnava
 NK Dinamo Vidovci
 ŠNK Dinamo Jamarice

Ostale države:
 FK Dinamo Brest, Brest, Bjelorusija
 FC Dinamo Bukurešt, Bukurešt, Rumunjska
 NK Dinamo Donja Mahala, Donja Mahala, općina Orašje, BiH
 Dynamo Dresden, Dresden, Njemačka
 Dinamo Kijev, Kijev, Ukrajina
 FK Dinamo Mahačkala, Mahačkala, Rusija
 FK Dinamo Minsk, Minsk, Bjelorusija
 FK Dinamo Moskva, Moskva, Rusija
 FK Dinamo Pančevo, Pančevo, Srbija
 NK Dinamo Schaffhausen, hrvatski nogometni klub iz Schaffhausena, Švicarska.
 FK Dinamo Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Gruzija
 KS Dinamo Tirana, Tirana, Albanija

Ostali klubovi
 Dinamo Moskva (hokej na ledu)
 OK Dinamo Zagreb

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Because of the control the camera gives me, I was able to do two different visual themes for my portfolio that are united by the three underlying elements stated above. In the first group of photographs that contain bottles with film prints inside, the process was routed in the handling and manipulation of particular materials, but in the second group of studio setting shots of an art object, it was more routed in formal qualities such as lighting and angles. Both works emphasize materiality because of my focus on texture and movement. Also for both groups of images, the final product is the photograph, but the subject of the photograph is an art-object with sculptural reference/influence. I am a mixed media artist, and I believe that is evident in this digital photography portfolio.


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Q: perl remove degree symbol I open a CSV file using utf8, then read the file into a multidimentional hash.   Evething works.
use Text::CSV;
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open ($fh, '<:utf8', $input);
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Unfortunately, some of the columns contain a degree symbol which I need to strip out.  I am already removing other characters using regex expressions, but I can't seem to figure out how to strip out the degree symbol. Example of other regex expressions I am using.
$sorted{$pkey}{"desc"} =~ s/\r\n//g; # strip NL from middle of value.

How do I strip out the degree symbol, or any non-standard punctuation symbol?
Thanks in advance.

A: If your source code is saved using UTF-8, you should be able to write
use utf8;  # Tell Perl the source code is UTF-8
$sorted{$pkey}{"desc"} =~ s/°//g

Whether or not you use utf8, you should be able to write
use charnames ':full';  # Needed before 5.16
$sorted{$pkey}{"desc"} =~ s/\N{DEGREE SIGN}//g

A: Not sure of the issue. It's a UTF-8 file with a degree symbol. Can you not type the degree symbol? Is your computer not using UTF 8? Are you using an older version of Perl that's not Unicode compatible?
The UTF-8 encoding for a degree symbol is C2 B0. You can specify the two hex bytes in a substitution if you so desire. This works on Linux and Macs which run UTF-8 natively. It should work on Windows' default encoding:
my $string = "Man, It's hot. It must be 100° out here!";
$string =~ s/\xc2\xb0/ degrees/g;
say $string;  # Prints "Man, It's hot. It must be 100 degrees out here!";

Be very, very careful when you munge UTF-8 files like this because you could end up making a character sequence that is invalid.
This works on operating systems that use UTF-8 (which Windows can if you set the correct code page), that you're using a modern version of Perl, and the file is using the actual Unicode symbol:
use utf8;  #MUST BE SET!!!!

$string =~ s/\N{U+00B0}/ degrees/;


SmokeyBacon wrote: I'm hereby pulling out of the nations cup. I can't find enough active players to form a decent team. Such a shame because I for one really wanted to play in this but I guess SG isn't popular enough here.
att!la wrote: is it possible to make a team of more nations?
And me, and about half other active players (hi Smokey) that can't form a team due to lack of players from their(our) country. We could form an all stars team, but we, however, stand no chance playing in SG nations cup(s) like that (according to the latest *feedback*). It is obviously not part of mutual interests.
To 'cheer you up', there will probably be an all stars eurocup. But I want this first nations cup to be Nations only.
Because the intention was to get players who are alone, to get new players in. By allowing countries to play together that would be 'giving up' on that intention.
I hope you can understand this and dont think that it is because I don't want you guys in this cup, because I am not like that.
I understand your point mLy. I have been trying to get attention for SG over here, I advertised on a gaming society page for my university and people liked the look of the game but didn't seem interested in playing it actively. I've also been whining to my friends and housemates to no avail.
Smokey, what happened with your brother and... Jordan, or whatever his name was? Your flatmate. I remember that Jordan(if that was even his name) was getting pretty decent, and your brother... well, at least he could hit stuff.
Oh yeah, well my brother never really got into the game much, him and my other brother (they are twins) are more into Halo and all that. And I haven't seen Jordan play for ages, but I know he was pretty good the last time I saw him. He usually played under the name 'Perfectly Flawed'. I'll have a word.
Worst case scenario, Smokey, we'll draft you for Team USA! We'll screw up your ping with timenudge, and give you an extremely American name like Double Cheeseburger. They'll never know!
Caseus wrote: Apparently Taco's computer blew up or something and I've been talked into stepping in as leader of Team USA. I guess I have a little less than a month to finish rounding up a team Very Happy I'll be watching for you on IRC for confirmation and whatever.


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Article I, Section 08, Clause 09 of the United States Constitution
Analyzing the Constitution in 90 Days 2011 Project, Article I, Section 08, Clause 09, Charles K. Rowley, Ph.D. 1. The Federalist Papers, 2. The Constitution, 12. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, 16. Topics, Article I Section 08 Clause 09, Article II, Charles K. Rowley PhD, Connecticut Compromise, Federalist No. 81
Guest Essayist: Charles K. Rowley, Ph.D., Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and General Director of The Locke Institute
9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
There is much more to these seemingly simple words than meets the eye. Indeed, one cannot write meaningfully about them without first advancing to Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution: The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
It is not my intent to deal with Article III, Section 1 more than is minimally necessary for making sense of Article I, Section 8, Clause 9. I ask the reader's indulgence to this end.
It is noteworthy that Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution establishes one federal Supreme Court only for the entire United States, and that it separates the powers of this court from those of Congress and the executive. By establishing just one Supreme Court, the Founders provided for a uniformity of interpretation of the federal laws that otherwise might not have been forthcoming. By establishing the Supreme Court as separate from the Congress the Founders benefited from the genius of James Madison who built in checks and balances as a response to the Connecticut Compromise that provided equal representation to all the States in the Senate of the United States. Prior to that Compromise, Madison's Virginia Plan had advocated subservience of the Supreme Court to the Congress.
Note, however, that the Constitution does not itself create judicial bodies other than the Supreme Court. The Congress alone – not the Supreme Court not the Executive – is empowered, should it so choose, to take responsibility for such matters. Exactly how it should do so and in what form would be subjected to close scrutiny of the precise meaning of the wording of the Constitution.
In one – and in my judgment convincing – interpretation, the power given to Congress in Article I, Section 8, Clause 9 'To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme court' plainly relates to the power given to Congress in Article III, Section 1 to ordain and establish inferior Courts. If such is the case, then Article I empowers Congress to establish inferior judicial bodies (tribunals and courts being viewed as synonyms). And Article III reaches out to the tenure conditions attached to all such judges.
Since, in practice, Article I tribunals have not been viewed as identical to Article III courts, however, a careful parsing of the relevant words becomes essential, even if only to explain unjustifiable error.
As always, in parsing the words of the Constitution, it is important to rely upon the meaning of words in 1787, not those of the early twenty-first century. To this end, I shall rely on the written records of the Founding Fathers and of the major dictionaries of that era, such as those of Samuel Johnson and Noah Webster.
The term 'tribunal', to be sure, carries a distinctive historical connotation, derived from the Roman tribunate, a raised platform on which the seats of magistrates were placed. The term 'court', by contrast, derives from the judiciary's close association in England and France with the king. However, by Blackstone's day, the terms were viewed as synonyms in all the major dictionaries. Throughout the early deliberations of the Philadelphia Convention, the Founding Fathers also used the two terms interchangeably, as does Hamilton in Federalist No. 81. Of course, such evidence does not guarantee that the Constitution itself deploys the term 'tribunal' under Article I as a synonym for the term 'court' under Article III.
There is some support from the drafting history for the view that the Constitution distinguishes between the two concepts. The distinction may have grown out of the mid-convention debates over the possibility of employing some non-life-tenured judges to adjudicate federal claims. Specifically, Congress might appoint state tribunals to act as courts of first instance in deciding questions of federal law. Madison's notes from the debates offer support for such a change in emphasis once the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan were jettisoned following the Connecticut Compromise. For the Compromise eliminated an early provision that mandated the creation of lower federal courts and substituted a regime of congressional discretion (as confirmed by Articles I and III). At this point, the Committee of Detail dropped the usage of the term 'tribunals' to describe the federal courts in Article III, and it required life-tenured judges in Article III courts, while refusing to impose any such requirement for Article 1 tribunals.
Further support for distinguishing between Article I tribunals and Article III courts may be discerned in the empowerment provisions themselves. Article I empowers Congress to 'constitute tribunals interior to the supreme court', whereas Article III empowers Congress to ordain and establish courts. This difference in description of congressional powers is suggestive that the two adjudicative bodies might arise in different ways and with different degrees of permanence. Specifically, Congress might 'constitute' tribunals either by creating new bodies from scratch, or by designating existing bodies as inferior tribunals. To 'ordain and establish' inferior courts, by contrast, seems to contemplate the creation of new courts established in accordance with Article III. Such a fine distinction is in accordance with the major dictionaries of the late eighteenth century.
In any event, Congress has exploited such parsing opportunities in order to distinguish clearly between Article I tribunals and Article III courts (A fairly good guide to congressional behavior in general is that if you give it an inch it will take a kilometer). From the outset, Congress has established some (but not all) Article I tribunals without the Article III safeguards of life-tenure and remuneration. These tribunals consist of certain federal courts and other forms of adjudicative bodies, endowed with differing levels of independence from the legislative and executive branches. Some take the form of legislative courts set up by Congress to review agency decisions; others take the form of military courts-martial appeal courts, ancillary courts with judges appointed by Article III and administrative judges.
As one would predict, Congress (and the Executive) does not always relish the idea that Article I tribunals should be inferior to the Supreme Court. Yet that is an inescapable reading of the Constitution. The specification that tribunals and lower courts must remain inferior cements the requirement of the Supreme Court's ultimate supremacy. The requirement of inferiority precludes Congress (and by clear implication, the executive branch) from creating free-standing courts, investing them with some portion of judicial power, and giving them freedom from oversight and control of the Supreme Court. In this regard, the Founders were only too mindful of such abuses of executive power by the Stuart kings in England's not-so-far-distant past.
This portrait of Article I tribunals as acting outside of the judicial power, while remaining subject to oversight and control by Article III courts is reflected in modern jurisprudence. However much it would like to do so, Congress (and the Executive) cannot create tribunals and place them entirely beyond the supervisory authority of the federal courts.
The most pressing recent variant of this logic effectively deals with the decision by President George W. Bush to create military tribunals for the adjudication of criminal claims against individuals designated as enemy combatants. Although the government has argued for an exceedingly restricted judicial role in overseeing such tribunals, the Constitution clearly requires that they must remain inferior to the Supreme Court and subject to judicial review, at least when such tribunals operate within the jurisdiction of the United States.
Americans should be eternally thankful to the Founders for providing us with such protections, both under Article I and under Article III of the Constitution. Unless the parchment unravels completely, there will be no Court of the Star Chamber, no Court of High Commission, and no Bloody Assize in the Unites States of America.
Charles K. Rowley, Ph.D. is Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and General Director of The Locke Institute in Fairfax, Virginia. He is author of Liberty and the State (The Locke Institute 1993), co-author (with Nathanael Smith) of Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government (The Locke Institute and the Institute of Economic Affairs 2009), and the author of Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste (The Locke Institute 2010). For further details see www.thelockeinstitute.org and www.charlesrowley.wordpress.com
March 28, 2011 /7 Comments/by Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie
Tags: Article I Section 08 Clause 09, Article II Section 1, Charles K. Rowley PhD, Connecticut Compromise, Federalist No. 81
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Ralph T. Howarth, Jr. says:
Makes me wonder about Traffic Court if such is made subject to the Supreme Court? On one front, the federal government, which is not authorized to build anything other then post roads to regulate things like speed limits within states let alone spend money on such things being that the Congress is not authorized to spend on just any roads within states. Yet, because the federal seat does the bait and switch technique of matching funds at the behest of stipulated regulations, it appears that Traffic Courts are federalized too. Which raises the question in my mind, are Traffic Courts made subject to the US Supreme Court? Sure, I can find out in a little while; but I have a hunch that it has not.
On the question of foreign national combatants, that same A3S2 puts questions of treaties, and by implication, the Law of Nations a.k.a International Law, and all cases where the US is a party, under the courts; but only vests original jurisdiction to questions of consuls, ambassadors, and other public ministers of foreign affairs, in the Supreme Court. The gamut of all other judicial proceedings is vested in the inferior courts and the Congress is granted the power to regulate the appellate court jurisdiction in both law and fact of the Supreme Court. By implication then, the Congress may very well block certain kinds of cases to be heard by the Supreme Court. Which has become common place for things like administrative courts for getting a Visa, some federal claims courts, etc. But it has been custom that criminal law always be granted a right to appeal to the Supreme Court, which is of the Common Law. That has been denied only one time when Habeaus Corpus was suspended by the Congress during the Civil War unless something else arcane comes to light.
I'm curious as to the purpose the Founders envisioned for these "tribunals" and over what would they have jurisdiction?
Barb Zakszewski says:
That is a pretty big "if" the parchement unravels.. I would say it already is unraveling, just a question of when that will be complete. UNLESS we all take responsibility to educate ourselves on the Constitution and its historical. We must ALWAYS insist that our elected officials adhere to thsi Constitution or risk not being re-elected..
Very interesting and informative article.. I will have to read it again, to gain its full meaning.
Charles K. Rowley says:
These are three thoughtful comments. There can be no doubt that Congress has structured many Article I tribunals to fall outside the judicial power as defined by Article III. In my interpretation, such tribunals ultimately fall under the reach of the Supreme Court. For that to happen, of course, the Supreme Court must exercise its authority. This doies not always occur, either because important cases do not reach that level, or becausze, when they do, the Supreme Court refuses to grant certiorari (i.e. does not choose to hear them). The Supreme Court is not immune to political pressure. In 1937, the Court buckled under the threat by FDR to pack it with 5 additional members. Since then, the Court has been extremely hesitant in challenging the constitutionality of constitutionally dubious Congressional legislation and Presidential actions.
During the convention, a lot of discussion centered on whether state courts might be treated as Article I tribunals. At that time it was not clear whether there would be one supreme court or several each with its own geographic jurisdiction.
Barb is absolutely right to think that there has been substantial unraveling of the Constitution. That is why the initiative by Janine and Cathy is so important. If Americans in sufficient numbers are ignorant of the Constitution, then they cannot act to protect it against its transgressors. I believe that was the situation in 2008, when an enemy of the Constitution was elected to the nation's highest office.
Janine Turner says:
I thank you, Dr. Rowley, for your fabulous essay full of historical background and insights. I am thrilled with this opportunity to study the words of the Constitution with such historical detail and intricate comparisons – such as Article 1 tribunals and Article III courts. From the Roman interpretation to today's it is a fascinating discovery. There was a reason for every word of this great document and there was a reason that Article 1 stated tribunal and Article III stated court. You summed this up beautifully in your closing sentences. Our founding fathers were astute and remarkable.
I love this forum… I have learned SO much this year, and also last year when the Federalist papers were examined!!! To get more people involved and coming to this site, I've taken to posting that day's Article, Section and Clause on my FB..then directing people to this site to learn more about it.. Not only the Constitution, but also our GREAT Nation is starting to unravel. I re-read Janine's quote at the top of the Home page of this site, and think how true it is indeed!! Thank you, thank you,!!
Ron Meier says:
Dr. Rowley says "the Court has been extremely hesitant in challenging the constitutionality of constitutionally dubious Congressional legislation and Presidential actions."
This is very disturbing; I have no reason to doubt its truth. Over about the past 75 years, I'm sure that hundreds, if not thousands, of little and big laws have been passed that would shock our founders. We have not been vigilent.
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The Physiological Roles of Carnosine and β-Alanine in Exercising Human Skeletal Muscle
Matthews, Joseph J. and Artioli, Guilherme G. and Turner, Mark D. and Sale, Craig (2019) The Physiological Roles of Carnosine and β-Alanine in Exercising Human Skeletal Muscle. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 51 (10). pp. 2098-2108. ISSN 0195-9131
Post acceptance - Matthews et al. (2019) Carnosine and beta-alanine review - Post acceptance PDF.pdf - Accepted Version
Official URL: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2019/1...
Carnosine (β-alanyl-L-histidine) plays an important role in exercise performance and skeletalmuscle homeostasis. Dietary supplementation with the rate-limiting precursor β-alanine leads to an increase in skeletal muscle carnosine content, which further potentiates its effects. There is significant interest in carnosine and β-alanine across athletic and clinical populations. Traditionally, attention has been given to performance outcomes with less focus on the underlying mechanism(s). Putative physiological roles in human skeletal muscle include acting as an intracellular pH buffer, modulating energy metabolism, regulating Ca2+ handling and myofilament sensitivity, and scavenging of reactive species. Emerging evidence shows that carnosine could also act as a cytoplasmic Ca2+–H+ exchanger and form stable conjugates with exercise-induced reactive aldehydes. The enigmatic nature of carnosine means there is still much to learn regarding its actions and applications in exercise, health, and disease. In this review, we examine the research relating to each physiological role attributed to carnosine, and its precursor β-alanine, in exercising human skeletal muscle.
https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000002033
29 April 2019 Accepted
10 May 2019 Published Online
metabolism, buffer, fatigue, calcium, antioxidant, detoxification
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Chakrabarti report refutes claims of rampant anti-Semitism in British Labour Party
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This charge has played a key role in the right-wing putsch attempt by Labour MPs, working in cahoots with the Conservative Party, the pro-Conservative media, the military-intelligence apparatus in Britain and the United States, and pro-Israel groups, to remove Corbyn as party leader.
It is part of a broader attempt on the part of the financial elite to overturn June's referendum result to leave the European Union. The re-fashioning of the Labour Party is their preferred means to achieve this, with the aim of shifting politics sharply to the right. These forces are vehemently opposed to the anti-austerity and anti-war sentiments of those who voted for Corbyn, against his right-wing opponents, as Labour leader last September.
According to numerous Labour MP's—all hostile to Corbyn—and media reports, especially in the Guardian—anti-Semitism had only become a problem since his election as leader last September. The charge was made that all criticism of the Israeli state and its suppression of the Palestinians are a form of anti-Semitism.
For example, last February, a Daily Telegraph article headlined "Is the Labour Party's problem with racism beyond repair?" stated that the reports of anti-Semitism "are reflective of a perpetuation – and tolerance of – anti-Semitism that starts at the top of the Labour Party, then steadily works its way down. And are they no longer anathema to Labour or its heritage. Far from it. Anti-Semitism is now firmly embedded in the Labour party's DNA."
Similarly, Jonathan Freedland wrote in the Guardian, which has been at the forefront of the campaign to oust Corbyn, "Thanks to Corbyn, the Labour party is expanding, attracting many leftists who would previously have rejected it or been rejected by it. Among those are people with hostile views of Jews."
Alex Chalmers, who had been an intern in the Israel advocacy and lobby group BICOM, resigned from the chair of the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) alleging anti-Semitism. His resignation generated a media storm about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and OULC.
Yet in his resignation statement, Chalmers made it clear that his resignation had nothing to do with anti-Semitism but was because of the OULC's decision "to endorse Israel Apartheid Week."
Last May, Corbyn agreed to the suspension of his long-time ally, former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, from the party. This was in response to Livingstone speaking out against the suspension, the previous day, of Naz Shah, Labour MP for Bradford West, after she was accused of anti-Semitism in social media posts.
Livingstone's remarks on BBC radio particularly incensed the Blairite coup organisers. He had stated, somewhat carelessly, "Let's remember, when Hitler won his election in 1932 [sic] his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism. [He then] went mad and ending up killing 6 million Jews."
It is however, a matter of historical record that after Hitler came to power, significant sections of the Zionist movement in Germany sought an accommodation with the Nazi regime, which did agree to the transfer of some Jews to Palestine.
Instead of opposing and exposing the undemocratic methods of the right-wing plotters who are seeking to remove him and their broader political agenda, once again Corbyn capitulated. He agreed immediately to the suspension of Shah, Livingstone and numerous others, and set up an inquiry into racism in the Labour Party to be headed by Chakrabarti.
Significantly, the report found that many of the accusations of anti- Semitism relate to statements made before Corbyn became leader. It should be pointed out that the Labour Party's 2010 leadership contest was between two people of Jewish origin, while the polls show that the percentage of people in the UK that hold anti-Semitic views is small and has remained constant at around 7 percent.
Corbyn welcomed the report's findings and pledged to implement its recommendations.
Far from calming tensions, the findings have added to the already "toxic atmosphere." It has met with a vitriolic response from some Jewish community leaders and the pro-Israel lobby, who called it a "whitewash." They are incensed because it did not confirm their accusations of rampant anti-Semitism.
Chakrabarti was accused of bias, after announcing on the day she was asked to lead the inquiry, that she had joined the Labour Party to gain members' "trust and confidence." Ephraim Mirvis, the Chief Rabbi said the "credibility of her report lies in tatters" after the announcement that she was the only person on the Labour Honours list recommended for a peerage.
The Chakrabarti report in effect confirmed the inquiry into anti-Semitism at OULC, led by her deputy Lady Royall.
Royall wrote on the website of the Jewish Labour Movement (the British wing of the Israeli Labour Party and an affiliate of the World Zionist Organisation), "I know that you will share my disappointment and frustration that the main headline coming out of my inquiry is that there is no institutional anti-Semitism in Oxford University Labour Club" [emphasis added].
In acknowledging this, Royall inadvertently revealed that the real issue was not anti-Semitism but opposition of many, including Labour members, to Israel's oppression of the Palestinians.
Dave Rich, Deputy Director of Communications for the Community Security Trust, a charity for the defence of the Jewish community in Britain, which has a pro-Israel agenda focusing on combating the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement, likewise acknowledged this in a letter to the Israeli daily Ha'aretz.
He wrote, "Neither report [Chakrabarti and Royall] truly tackled the underlying question of whether the anti-Semitism in the party is a product of the obsessive mania over Israel that has gripped Corbyn's part of the left for years."
His remarks confirm that the witch-hunt over anti-Semitism is part of a broader campaign to override the widespread hostility to Israel's policy towards the Palestinians, and its role as policeman for US and British imperialism's interests in the Middle East.
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Avigilon Aims to Expand Global Profile with New Director of Marketing and Communications
Keith Marett brings more than 15 years of advertising, brand, and marketing expertise to award-winning high definition surveillance solution developer
VANCOUVER, CANADA – May 2, 2011 – Avigilon, the performance and value leader in high definition (HD) and megapixel video surveillance solutions, today announced the appointment of Keith Marett as the company's new director of marketing and communications. With more than 15 years of experience executing national marketing campaigns for leading companies including Bell Canada, Vancity Credit Union, Suzuki, Starbucks, Okanagan Spring Brewery, Sleeman's, Canfor, TransLink, and the BC Government, Marett has joined Avigilon to build global awareness for Avigilon's award-winning high definition surveillance solutions.
"Throughout his career, Keith has successfully combined his strong entrepreneurial drive and ability to plan and execute successful strategic brand and marketing initiatives to raise the profile and revenues of a number of prominent companies," said Alexander Fernandes, president and CEO for Avigilon. "We are confident that his results-oriented project management style, superior analytical and market research skills, and vast marketing experience will help propel Avigilon to the next level."
Before joining Avigilon, Marett was acting director of marketing communications at Bell Canada, where he was responsible for the company's $80M national wireless advertising campaign. While there, he was also responsible for ensuring continuity of brand and messaging across the entire company and throughout the company's extensive retail partner network. Prior to Bell, Marett was also an account manager at Grey Worldwide, a global advertising and marketing agency where he managed a number of high profile accounts including Vancity Credit Union, Suzuki, and Starbucks. In this position, Marett and his team helped Vancity Credit Union grow its membership base by almost 30 percent, nearly doubling the company's total assets.
"With a rapidly growing customer base, expanding product portfolio, and an ever increasing number of product and company awards, this is a very exciting time for Avigilon," said Marett. "I am looking forward to playing a strategic role in helping further develop awareness for our brand internationally"
Avigilon designs, manufactures, and markets award-winning HD surveillance systems. The performance and value leader, Avigilon's solutions protect and monitor thousands of customer sites in more than 60 countries around the world. Avigilon Control Center, the world's first open HD Network Video Management Software platform, and megapixel cameras deliver full situational awareness and actionable image detail. Campuses, transportation systems, healthcare providers, public venues, infrastructure, and manufacturing sites with security, safety validation, and compliance requirements all benefit from reduced investigation time and more successful investigations by immediately producing indisputable video evidence. Avigilon earned Frost & Sullivan's HD Surveillance Company of the Year award in 2009, the Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation in 2010, and was ranked among the top five fastest growing technology companies in Canada in the 2010 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranking. For further information, please visit www.avigilon.com.


An Olympic official told a Swiss newspaper that it's better to deal with dictatorships who don't need to bother getting the people's consent to stage the events.
An International Olympic Committee member has heated up the talk around the Winter Games by praising dictatorships who don't need to bother getting the people's consent to stage the events.
"Everything is easier in dictatorships," said Gian Franco Kasper, referring to the awarding of the 2022 Winter Olympics to China. The Chinese beat out Almaty, Kazakhstan – another country not known for being particularly democratic – for what will be the first Winter Games held in China.
Speaking to the Swiss newspaper Tagez-Anzeiger, Kasper particularly targeted environmentalists – who typically aren't allowed much to say under dictatorships – as an obstacle in staging the games.
"From the business side, I say: I just want to go to dictatorships, I do not want to argue with environmentalists," Kasper said.
The press office of the International Olympic Committee distanced the organization from Kasper's remarks. "This is the personal opinion of Gian Franco Kasper, which is not shared by the IOC."
While controversial, Kasper's remarks might reflect what other Olympics officials have been thinking for some time. The 2014 Winter Olympics were held in Sochi, Russia, a controversial selection because of site's strong ties to Russian oligarchs tied to President Vladimir Putin.
And the 2018 Winter Olympics were awarded to Pyeongchang, South Kore - but with the aim of drawing in significant involvement of North Korea, another dictatorship. While the North did not host any events at the games, as some had hoped, their high-profile diplomatic presence at the Opening Ceremony was widely hyped by the international media.
While North Korea's critics and human rights groups decried the country's glamorized coverage around the game, Kasper and others saw their involvement as a positive.
"The sport can also be a door opener, maybe we made a contribution to the opening of North Korea in Pyeongchang with the united Team Korea," Kasper said.
The IOC press office statement specifically addressed both dealing with dictators and environmentalists in response to Kasper's remarks.
"Sustainability – and climate change in particular – is central to the work of the IOC. The IOC is working with all Organising Committees to help reduce carbon emissions related to the Olympic Games," the statement said.
The Olympics site selection process has had a troubled history that goes back decades. Before the 2002 Olympic Games, several members of the IOC were accused of taking bribes from the Salt Lake Organizing Committee during the bidding process. The allegations resulted in the expulsion of several IOC members and the adoption of new selection rules.
While Kasper seemed quite comfortable dealing with some dictatorships, he at least drew a line through some countries accused of widespread human rights abuses.
"I do not want to go to a country, invest in skiing there, while the population starves. That's where I draw the red line. If Qatar applied tomorrow for the Olympics, then I am against (their proposal)," Kasper said.
Qatar has been criticized by human rights group who accuse it of exploiting a mostly foreign workforce. Amnesty International said the Gulf state was "falling significantly short" in promised efforts to protect the employment rights of an estimated two million workers.


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Central Louisiana Technical Community College (CLTCC) is committed to maintaining a living, working, and educational environment free from sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. It is the policy of Central Louisiana Technical Community College (CLTCC) to comply with Title IX. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded educational programs and activities. Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in all College programs and activities; including, but not limited to, recruiting, admissions, financial aid, academic programs, student services, counseling, discipline, roster assignment, grading, and employment.
The modern concept of "sex" has evolved and represents a cultural shift. "Sex" for Title IX purposes includes biological or anatomical factors; actual or perceived gender identity; and actual or perceived sexual orientation. Sexual discrimination includes acts of sexual harassment. The US Departments of Education and Justice define sexual harassment as "unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature where sexual favors are used or threatened to be used as a basis for academic or employment decisions (quid pro quo harassment); where the conduct creates a hostile, intimidating, or offensive academic or working environment; where the conduct has the effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance; or where other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature, such as sexual assault or acts of sexual violence that are sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive to limit a person's ability to participate in or benefit from an educational program or activity".
The federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) amendments and accompanying regulations clarify the duties of colleges to investigate and respond to reports of sexual assault, stalking, and dating and domestic violence, and to publish policies and procedures related to the handling of these cases. Under VAWA, colleges and universities also must provide training to the campus communities on sexual misconduct. Compliance with VAWA is a condition for colleges, like Central Louisiana Technical Community College (CLTCC), that participate in the federal student aid program, and is administered by the Department of Education's Federal Student Aid Office. New VAWA regulations were published by the U.S. Department of Education in October 2014 and became effective July 1, 2015.
Students, staff, and faculty who become aware of conduct that might violate these policies are urged to promptly report the conduct. When the sexual harassment creates a hostile environment, Central Louisiana Technical Community College (CLTCC) must address the issue. The US Departments of Education and Justice define hostile environment as an occurrence where "a student is sexually harassed and the harassing conduct is sufficiently serious to deny or limit the student's ability to participate in or benefit from the program".
The US Department of Education defines sexual violence as "physical sexual acts perpetrated against a person's will or where a person is incapable of giving consent, for example, due to the use of drugs or alcohol; or disability preventing a student from having the capacity to give consent". Sexual violence includes rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual abuse, and sexual coercion. Sexual violence can be carried out by school employees, other students, or third parties (US Dept. of Ed. Office for Civil Rights, 2014).
Title IX prohibits retaliation against people for making or participating in complaints of sex discrimination, sexual harassment, or sexual violence. Central Louisiana Technical Community College (CLTCC) prohibits retaliation against anyone for making a complaint of discrimination, harassment, or violence, for assisting someone else in making such a complaint, or for participating in an investigation.
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Because of the confidential nature of these resources, disclosing information to or seeking advice from a confidential counselor does not constitute a report or complaint to the College and will not result in a response or intervention by Central Louisiana Technical Community College (CLTCC).
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If you have a complaint involving sex discrimination, sexual harassment, or sexual violence, or if you have questions about Central Louisiana Technical Community College's policies or procedures in these areas, please contact the Title IX Coordinator.
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Ever since Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck split in 2015, there has been speculation about the state of the A-list couple's relationship. Are they, or aren't they? Etc etc… Turns out, Jennifer Garner isn't really isn't in to all that game playing (funny that), and put the rumours to bed in the most sagacious way possible.
Earlier this year, the family travelled to Europe (all) together, a move that led people to speculate the pair had in fact reconciled. However, let's not forget these two have somehow become the most grown up couple on the planet, and whilst they're not together romantically, they're going to make damn sure they're still together as friends for the kids.
Speaking on NBC's Today show, the actress explained once and for all how it really is: 'Ben was working in London on Justice League and I felt like, "Well, the kids should have that experience,"' Jennifer explained. 'He and I are great friends and we just all went en masse. The kids and I had an amazing time, and he worked hard and got to join us for some. I want them to see everything's OK.'
'You can't buy parenting, no matter what,' the actress continued to explain in the candid interview. 'You have to actually get down on the floor and spend some time together.'
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TransCanada Pipeline "95% Worn" after Two Years
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Documents obtained by DeSmogBlog reveal an alarming rate of corrosion to parts of TransCanada's Keystone 1 pipeline. A mandatory inspection test revealed a section of the pipeline's wall had corroded 95%, leaving it paper-thin in one area (one-third the thickness of a dime) and dangerously thin in three other places, leading TransCanada to immediately shut it down. The cause of the corrosion is being kept from the public by federal regulators and TransCanada.
"It is highly unusual for a pipeline not yet two years old to experience such deep corrosion issues," Evan Vokes, a former TransCanada pipeline engineer-turned-whistleblower, told DeSmogBlog. "Something very severe happened that the public needs to know about."
When TransCanada shut the line down, the company and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) told the press that the shutdown was due to "possible safety Issues." And although an engineer from PHMSA was sent to the site where TransCanada was digging up the pipeline in Missouri, no further information has been made available publicly.
Only after DeSmogBlog made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to PHMSA in August 2013 — which the agency partially responded to this April — was the information revealing the pipeline had deeply corroded in multiple spots exposed. The documents also disclosed a plan to check for a possible spill where the corrosion was detected.
However, documents explaining what caused the corrosion and findings concerning a possible spill were not included in response to DeSmogBlog's request. According to PHMSA spokesman Damon Hill, documents that might impact an ongoing compliance review the agency is conducting of TransCanada were withheld.
A list of the documents withheld was not provided with the FOIA or a date when the remaining documents would be released.
An email included with the documents suggests Ken Crowl, a representative of TransCanada, sent an email to PHSMA stating the he would provide the agency with "the media talking points" about what the parties had discussed.
When asked why a list of the talking points would not have been included in the FOIA request, PHMSA spokesman Damon Hill told DeSmogBlog such a list might not have been provided, and insisted the agency would have no use for such a list. Yet, TransCanada's email indicates the two entities compared notes before sharing information with the public.
Richard Kuprewicz, a pipeline safety expert with more than forty years of experience in the energy sector, reviewed the few documents that were obtained. While he found it unusual to see such extensive wall loss in such a short period of time, he was happy to report, "The process worked."
"TransCanada caught this before it went to failure," Kuprewicz told DeSmogBlog. "Finding some corrosion issues resulting in anomalies in a pipeline this big is to be expected," he said. "But the severity of a wall loss of 80% or greater would result in the operator looking for a leak."
Once a pipeline experiences corrosion "somewhere around 80% — you're in Never-Never land," Kuprewicz said. "You have to be real careful, because the engineers will act like the calculations are exact, but when you get to that kind of wall loss it doesn't take much change in the corrosion rate to take you to failure."
Kuprewicz wouldn't speculate on the cause of the corrosion because he didn't have the documents he would need to make such a determination. The missing documents also made it impossible for him to ascertain if a spill took place before the line was shut down, but he said it would not surprise him if a small spill had occurred.
However, the only PHMSA-generated document included in the FOIA response, an internal email sent by PHMSA representative David Barrett, confirms the possibility of a spill.
Though Kuprewicz commends TransCanada for taking the appropriate steps after finding the initial problem, the question remains why the company didn't catch the problem before there was 95% wall thickness loss.
Vokes, who also reviewed the documents, isn't surprised the pipeline had major issues. To him, it was a predictable outcome. Not only has he witnessed TransCanada's risky behavior first-hand during his five years on the job, Canada's National Energy Board had found TransCanada guilty of non-compliance prior to his working for the company.
An advocate for pipelines, Vokes had hoped to help TransCanada clean up its act. He believes pipelines are the best way to transport crude oil and tar sands product, as long at operators comply with the rules.
But if the rules aren't followed, all bets are off. Better a train carrying petroleum products fail than a shoddily built pipeline, because a train accident would have a limited scope, while a pipeline failure could cause damage on a catastrophic scale. (Caveat, of course, would be a "bomb train" oil-by-rail incident in a population center.)
An analysis of what caused such deep corrosion in Keystone 1 in a short period of time would show that "a bunch of professional engineers were behaving badly," Vokes said, "because there are adequate checks and balances in the regulations to avoid this."
6 Responses to "TransCanada Pipeline "95% Worn" after Two Years"
fjohnx Says:
TransCanada claims to use the best methods to ensure safety.
Mr. Murphy answers April in English after 1:47 min. yours Frank
SmarterThanYourAverageBear Says:
Let see you have thick mixture of corrosive sand and oil being pumped down a steel pipe at high pressure. Sounds like recipe for worn pipes to me – any tiny flaw in the pipe to begin with will be exploited by the abrasive materials running through it.
Although some of the "oil" may nave been derived from Alberta tar sands, there is no actual "sand"in the pipe. The diluted bitumen that is what we call tar sands "oil" IS quite corrosive by itself without any sand in it.
Thanks – I was always under the impression that they were not able to completely separate it at source.
They do manage to separate it—-a dirty, energy intensive process that yields a lot of sand and dirty water, and the "tar", called bitumen, which is so thick it will not flow through a pipe without being diluted with other petrochemicals. That's the "dil-bit"—-it's highly flammable, and when it spills, the more volatile components dissipate and leave the tar behind. In water, it sinks to the bottom—-the Kalamazoo river in MI may never fully recover from a "tar sands oil" spill there.
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