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A New Phase in Isla Vista
May 23, 2017 at 2:10 pm by Zach Morgan
On the evening of May 23, 2014, I was just stepping out of the shower at my house in San Diego. It was Memorial Day weekend, and freshman me had returned home to spend some time with family and friends.
I walked out of the bathroom and went to check my phone, which I had left to charge on the coffee table in the living room.
Three missed calls and five new messages. Three and five, I'll never forget that.
All the new alerts were from a friend who was also in San Diego. Not a Gaucho, but someone concerned for my safety nonetheless. All I saw before I called them back was the most recent message: "Are you okay!?" I figured they were playing a prank on me.
But it was not a prank. They gave me the initial details they had gathered via Twitter. I turned on the TV and frantically texted my small group of friends back at school. We didn't yet know that six lives had been taken. We didn't yet know that misogyny, delusion and mental illness had coalesced in a horrible crime. We didn't yet know how the school and the beloved little beachside community would change; we only knew that they would.
There is a definitive "before and after" for Isla Vista now. Younger students cannot understand that. When I returned to I.V. from that Memorial Day trip home, I watched a community grow up overnight. I watched it come together in confusion and in fear, but also in solidarity. Before, Isla Vista had always seemed like a paradise, a place of good-hearted mischief and revelry where nothing too horrible could happen. That changed. A semblance of the fun-loving culture would remain, but the shooting, as tragedies always do, put things into grim perspective.
Teenagers and 20-somethings received a shocking and horrific reminder of their mortality that night. Six people, six young people, six students and members of the Isla Vista community were gone, forever. Had circumstances been different, it could have been anyone else. It could have been no one. Isla Vistans united in the aftermath to mourn and to begin the process of healing, and they did so under the sobering realization that life is fragile and terribly random.
It has been three years now, and I think the I.V. community has changed for the better. It's not the easiest thing to see day to day, but it has. There is a sense of pride you get from living in the town, a sense of identity and togetherness that I could tell was lacking even when I was a freshman. The event that spurred these developments cannot be changed, but it also cannot be forgotten.
We seniors are leaving soon, and with us will go our memories of the tragedy and of why Isla Vista is how it is now. Future Gauchos will need to take it upon themselves to honor the victims and recognize how their passing shook a student body to its core. They will need to commit themselves to a community that, at least idealistically, is in a new phase of its life. I have faith in them. I have faith in Isla Vista, too.


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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseClassTestRule;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.testclassification.MiscTests;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.testclassification.SmallTests;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.ClassRule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;

@Category({MiscTests.class, SmallTests.class})
public class TestSimplePositionedMutableByteRange {

  @ClassRule
  public static final HBaseClassTestRule CLASS_RULE =
      HBaseClassTestRule.forClass(TestSimplePositionedMutableByteRange.class);

  @Test
  public void testPosition() {
    PositionedByteRange r = new SimplePositionedMutableByteRange(new byte[5], 1, 3);

    // exercise single-byte put
    r.put(Bytes.toBytes("f")[0]).put(Bytes.toBytes("o")[0]).put(Bytes.toBytes("o")[0]);
    Assert.assertEquals(3, r.getPosition());
    Assert.assertArrayEquals(
      new byte[] { 0, Bytes.toBytes("f")[0], Bytes.toBytes("o")[0], Bytes.toBytes("o")[0], 0 },
      r.getBytes());

    // exercise multi-byte put
    r.setPosition(0);
    r.put(Bytes.toBytes("f")).put(Bytes.toBytes("o")).put(Bytes.toBytes("o"));
    Assert.assertEquals(3, r.getPosition());
    Assert.assertArrayEquals(
      new byte[] { 0, Bytes.toBytes("f")[0], Bytes.toBytes("o")[0], Bytes.toBytes("o")[0], 0 },
      r.getBytes());

    // exercise single-byte get
    r.setPosition(0);
    Assert.assertEquals(Bytes.toBytes("f")[0], r.get());
    Assert.assertEquals(Bytes.toBytes("o")[0], r.get());
    Assert.assertEquals(Bytes.toBytes("o")[0], r.get());

    r.setPosition(1);
    Assert.assertEquals(Bytes.toBytes("o")[0], r.get());

    // exercise multi-byte get
    r.setPosition(0);
    byte[] dst = new byte[3];
    r.get(dst);
    Assert.assertArrayEquals(Bytes.toBytes("foo"), dst);

    // set position to the end of the range; this should not throw.
    r.setPosition(3);
  }

  @Test
  public void testPutAndGetPrimitiveTypes() {
    PositionedByteRange pbr = new SimplePositionedMutableByteRange(100);
    int i1 = 18, i2 = 2;
    short s1 = 0;
    long l1 = 1234L;
    pbr.putInt(i1);
    pbr.putInt(i2);
    pbr.putShort(s1);
    pbr.putLong(l1);
    pbr.putVLong(0);
    pbr.putVLong(l1);
    pbr.putVLong(Long.MAX_VALUE);
    pbr.putVLong(Long.MIN_VALUE);
    // rewind
    pbr.setPosition(0);
    Assert.assertEquals(i1, pbr.getInt());
    Assert.assertEquals(i2, pbr.getInt());
    Assert.assertEquals(s1, pbr.getShort());
    Assert.assertEquals(l1, pbr.getLong());
    Assert.assertEquals(0, pbr.getVLong());
    Assert.assertEquals(l1, pbr.getVLong());
    Assert.assertEquals(Long.MAX_VALUE, pbr.getVLong());
    Assert.assertEquals(Long.MIN_VALUE, pbr.getVLong());
  }

  @Test
  public void testPutGetAPIsCompareWithBBAPIs() {
    // confirm that the long/int/short writing is same as BBs
    PositionedByteRange pbr = new SimplePositionedMutableByteRange(100);
    int i1 = -234, i2 = 2;
    short s1 = 0;
    long l1 = 1234L;
    pbr.putInt(i1);
    pbr.putShort(s1);
    pbr.putInt(i2);
    pbr.putLong(l1);
    // rewind
    pbr.setPosition(0);
    Assert.assertEquals(i1, pbr.getInt());
    Assert.assertEquals(s1, pbr.getShort());
    Assert.assertEquals(i2, pbr.getInt());
    Assert.assertEquals(l1, pbr.getLong());
    // Read back using BB APIs
    ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.wrap(pbr.getBytes());
    Assert.assertEquals(i1, bb.getInt());
    Assert.assertEquals(s1, bb.getShort());
    Assert.assertEquals(i2, bb.getInt());
    Assert.assertEquals(l1, bb.getLong());
  }
}

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College Student Makes A Presentation Calling Out His Professor For Using The "N-Word"
A California college student by the name of Maleek Eid had ALL the time to get his professor together after she used the N Word numerous times during a lecture.
According to Maleek, his English professor was using Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" as an example for annotation, but things got real when his professor actually said the word to the entire class. According to Buzzfeed, Maleek explained the situation, saying: "She said 'they used to use words like…' and she said the n-word," Eid told Buzz Feed News. "I didn't say anything, I was actually so shocked."
He then said his professor said the word again a week later and that's when he knew he had to do something. Maleek who is Palestinian said he felt the rest of his classmates (who are predominantly white) didn't seem to be as offended as he was when their professor dropped the bomb.
So, he used that to be a teaching moment for not only the rest of his classmates, but for his teacher well take a look

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Q: what is the role of ibiblio in Maven? I am going through a Maven tutorial and it mentions that you can lookup information about a dependency on ibiblio.org:

Let's add another dependency to our project. Let's say we've added
  some logging to the code and need to add log4j as a dependency. First,
  we need to know what the groupId, artifactId, and version are for
  log4j. We can browse ibiblio and look for it, or use Google to help by
  searching for "site:www.ibiblio.org maven2 log4j". The search shows a
  directory called /maven2/log4j/log4j (or
  /pub/packages/maven2/log4j/log4j). In that directory is a file called
  maven-metadata.xml. Here's what the maven-metadata.xml for log4j looks
  like...

Does ibiblio have some sort of special role in Maven? Or is it just a mirror?

A: ibiblio has no special role in maven. It's just a suggestion on how to search for Maven artifacts. Nowadays, most projects just have a page documenting how they should be used in a maven project - e.g., see log4j's documentation.

A: Ibiblio is a repository outside maven central.
See link to ibiblio
I would use mvnrepository to search dependencies
See mvnrepository
To learn a bit more about maven repositories you should look this link

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"Half" Christmas Trees are a Thing...
By Aaron Zytle
Last year, UPSIDE-DOWN Christmas trees you hang from the ceiling went viral. People liked them because they kept pets and toddlers from attacking Christmas trees. Plus they looked super weird, so that's cool.
Well this year, there's a NEW super weird-looking solution in the battle to keep Christmas trees safe. There's a company that's selling HALF Christmas trees.
It's an artificial tree that's only got branches on top . . . the bottom is just a narrow pole on a stand.
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The Complainant is General Steel Domestic Sales, LLC d/b/a General Steel Corporation of Littleton, Colorado, United States of America ("U.S.") represented by David S. Fein, Esq., U.S.
The Respondents are PRQ Inet KB, Gottfrid Swartholm ("PRQ") of Stockholm, Sweden, internally represented and Ethan Chumley ("Chumley") represented by Leyendecker & Lemire, LLC.
The disputed domain name <generalsteelscam.com> is registered with eNom.
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on October 26, 2011. On October 26, 2011, the Center transmitted by email to eNom a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain name. On October 26, 2011, eNom transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details.
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on October 27, 2011. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was November 20, 2011.1 The Response was filed with the Center on November 16, 2011.
The Center appointed Desmond J. Ryan as the sole panelist in this matter on November 24, 2011. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
The disputed domain name was registered on May 11, 2011. According to the Complaint and the affidavit of N. Wright, Vice President of the Complainant annexed thereto, the Complainant has since 1995 manufactured and marketed pre-fabricated steel buildings under the name and trademark GENERAL STEEL. It is the owner of a U.S. Federal Trademark Registration for the trademark GENERAL STEEL and logo dating from December 2002. It has extensively advertised its products and services under its name and trademark on the radio and through other media, spending approximately USD 60 million over the past 16 years. In that time it has produced and sold approximately 18,000 buildings. It owns the domain name <gensteel.com> and operates a website at that domain name generating about 600,000 unique visits since 2008.
The Complainant is currently in litigation in the State of Colorado against a competitor and former employee E. Chumley and his company Armstrong Steel ("the Colorado litigation").
The Respondent is an Internet service provider based in Sweden providing website hosting services. It claims to be a firm believer in free speech, commerce and the right to privacy and anonymity. According to the Complainant, controversial websites hosted by the Respondent include sites promoting paedophilia, copyright piracy, including Pirate Bay, and other controversial websites, including WikiLeaks and that the Respondent derives substantial revenue from its activities.
In the Colorado litigation the Complainant issued a subpoena to the Registrar to produce all documents relating to the disputed domain name and all communications with the defendants in the Colorado litigation.
- It has established rights and reputation in the trademark GENERAL STEEL and that the disputed domain name is deceptively similar to that trademark. The Complainant contends that the addition of the word "scam" to its GENERAL STEEL trademark does not mitigate the overall confusing nature of the disputed domain name. It cites in support Anastasia International, Inc v. Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc. / Jim McDonald, WIPO Case No. D2010-0235, and the cases there cited, in support of its contention.
- The Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name and is using it to further the commercial interests of General Steel's former employee E. Chumley and competitor Armstrong Steel and those of their attorney.
- The disputed domain name was registered in bad faith because it is a "blatantly false and derogatory website started by General Steel's competitor who is seeking to hide his identity through" the Respondent.
- The disputed domain name was registered only days after the Colorado Attorney General issued subpoenas to E. Chumley relating to deceptive trade practices.
- The disputed domain name is being used primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of the Complainant.
- The disputed domain name is not confusingly similar to the Complainants' trademark and that it is obvious from the use of the word "scam" that it does not seek to confuse or deliberately mislead anyone.
- It has both rights and legitimate interests in the disputed domain name; the information displayed on the website is of general public interest and protected under Swedish and international freedom of speech laws.
- The fact that the Respondent has hosted several other freedom of speech related sites is not relevant to the case at hand, nor is its financial situation.
- The disputed domain name is being used for the spreading of information for the public knowledge and has nothing to do with malice.
- Whether or not the information provided at the website of the disputed domain name is misleading or untrue is not relevant to the disputed domain name but is a matter for a civil law suit in the appropriate Court.
The Complainant has demonstrated substantial and extensive use of the trademark GENERAL STEEL and is the owner of a U.S. Registered Trademark in which the words GENERAL STEEL constitute the dominant part.
The Panel therefore finds that the Complainant has established rights in the trademark GENERAL STEEL.
The disputed domain name commences with, and wholly contains, the Complainants' trademark. The addition of the generic word "scam" is in this Panel's view not sufficient to distinguish it from the Complainants' trademark and does not serve sufficiently to diminish the confusing similarity between the trademark and the disputed domain name. That has been the consensus view of panelists since the early days of the administration of the Policy, see, e.g., Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Richard MacLeod d/b/a For Sale, WIPO Case No. D2000-0662. The Panel agrees with that view and therefore finds that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to a trademark in which the Complainant has rights.
The owner of the disputed domain name, and the Respondent in these proceedings, is a Swedish Internet service provider which appears to specialize in hosting "freedom of speech" websites including a number of controversial sites. The website at the disputed domain name contains a number of postings which, on their face, appear to have been made by individuals complaining about the Complainant and its goods and services. The website does not, on its face, have any commercial purpose, such as by linking to sponsored or other commercial websites.
As discussed in the carefully reasoned decision of the learned panelist in Sermo, Inc. v. CatalystMD, LLC, WIPO Case No. D2008-0647, there is a split amongst panelists as to whether the use of a domain name containing a trademark for a criticism site constitutes a legitimate interest under the Policy. The more widely accepted of the two competing views is that such use can be considered a legitimate interest. The foundation of that view is the strong commitment to free speech based on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The factors influencing the decision, enumerated in the Semo case, discussed supra, included facts that both parties were resident in the U.S., the registrar was located in the U.S. and the location of mutual jurisdiction was in the U.S. In the present case, the Complainant, the registrar and the location of mutual jurisdiction are all in the U.S., but the Respondent is in Sweden. Nevertheless, the underlying principle of respect for freedom of speech is also a principle of Swedish law. Accordingly, this Panel is of the view that, absent strong contrary considerations, the Respondent may have a legitimate interest in the disputed domain name notwithstanding that the website which it operates at the disputed domain name may be harmful to the Complainant.
The Complainant contends however, that it is not the Respondent who is the true owner of the disputed domain name and the operator of the website to which it resolves. The Complainant contends that the true owner and operator is E. Chumley and his company Armstrong Steel, the defendants in the Colorado litigation. The Complainant has not, however, adduced any evidence to support that contention save to assert an inference based on the fact that the disputed domain name was registered shortly after the Colorado Attorney General issued subpoenas which, the Complainant asserts, were based on evidence of the defendant's deceptive trade practices disclosed in the Colorado proceedings. The Complainant states that it has "substantial evidence linking E[.] Chumley and Armstrong Steel to the disputed domain name as summarized in Annex 8 to the Complaint". Annex 8 however, does no more than state that the disputed domain name was registered shortly after the commencement of an investigation by the Colorado Attorney General and that the website at the disputed domain name contains false information about General Steel and its past and present employees. The Complainant states further that the disputed domain name is not directly at issue in the Colorado proceedings but that the Complainant believes that the evidence it has obtained will prove that the defendants in those proceedings are behind the disputed domain name. The Complainant has not, however, produced any such evidence, nor has it produced, or even referred to, any documents which it obtained on subpoena to the Registrar, which would implicate E. Chumley or Armstrong Steel in the registration or use of the disputed domain name.
It is clear from the Policy and well recognized in previous cases under the Policy, that the onus is on the Complainant to establish, on the balance of probability, each of the three necessary circumstances for success of a Complaint enumerated in paragraph 4(a) of the Policy (see for example, TABCORP Holdings Limited and TABCORP Assets Pty. Ltd v. Steven Hertzberg, WIPO Case No. D2000-0566). The Complainant has failed to discharge that burden.
The Panel therefore finds that the Complainant has failed to show that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name.
For the Complaint to succeed, all of the circumstances enumerated in paragraph 4(b) of the Policy must be shown. In the light of the Panel's finding under paragraph 6B above, the Complaint must fail, and it is therefore unnecessary to further consider the questions of whether or not the disputed domain name has been registered and used in bad faith.
The Panel delivered the above prior decision in this matter on November 20, 2011. Following receipt of the decision the Complainant's attorney wrote to the Center pointing out that the Panel's statement on page 4 of the Decision, that the Complainant had failed to adduce evidence linking Ethan Chumley and Armstrong Steel to the disputed domain name was incorrect and pointed to the content of Annex 8 to the Complaint. The Panel, after consultation with the Center, investigated the matter and discovered that, while the complete case file had been fully transmitted electronically, due to a printing error, page 2 of Annex 8 and the substantial exhibits thereto were not printed and were not taken into account by the Panel in stating its conclusions. Having considered that material the Panel concluded that it should have been taken into account, and pursuant to general panel powers under UDRP Rule 10 to conduct the administrative proceeding and to ensure that the parties are treated with equality, the Panel caused to be issued the Procedural Order No. 1 annexed to this Decision.
The Procedural Order was served upon the Complainant and the Respondent on January 9, 2012 and on Chumley on January 16, 2012. The time for response to the Order was seven days from the date of service. The Complainant's further filing was made on January 16, 2012. Filings by the Respondent and on behalf of Chumley were made on January 23, 2012. The Panel finds that the filings by the Complainant and by Chumley were timely made. The filing by the Respondent was out of time, nevertheless, in the circumstances of this case the Panel, in the exercise of its discretion, admits the Respondent's further filing.
The Panel having now considered the material contained in the Complainant's Annex 8 and in the further filings by the parties and Chumley, finds its decision of November 20, 2011 inaccurate in certain respects and incomplete in that it failed to take into account relevant material. Accordingly, the Panel hereby issues the following reasoned Addendum to its earlier decision of November 20, 2011, including a substituted order as made under paragraph 7 below.
- Ethan Chumley's approach to Todd Rodenborn with a request that he assist in the marketing of the website at the disputed domain name – a request which was declined by Rodenborn.
- Ethan Chumley's admission that he contributed a substantial part of the material displayed at the website.
- Ethan Chumley's admission that he participates in the operations of the website by adding content relating to the Complainant.
- An alleged coincidence between the time of the registration of the disputed domain name and the issue of subpoenas to Chumley by the Colorado Attorney-General.
- An alleged connection between Chumley and allegedly spoof website articles attacking the Complainant.
- The unauthorized use of the name of the Complainant's founder Jeff Knight as part of an allegedly bogus email address, […]@gmx.com, used to attack the Complainant.
- The showing of an alternative email address "generalsteelscam@mail.com" in the account of the address […]@gmx.com.
- The content of articles in third party websites purporting to be authorized by Jeff Knight and stating that Jeff Knight is the webmaster at the disputed domain name.
- The back-linking of spoof sites, allegedly connected to Chumley, to the website at the disputed domain name.
The Complainant's filings also contained material relating to other emails attacking Jeffrey Knight and other instances of attacks on the character of Jeffrey Knight. This material does not directly concern this dispute and is not within the ambit of the Procedural Order. The Panel has therefore excluded this material from its consideration.
The Complainant did not seek to add Chumley as a Respondent to the Complaint.
"The issues that the plaintiffs bring up has no bearing on this case.
They want WIPO to act as a US COURT, where their issues belong.
The issue is not who owns the domain or not, the issue is if the domain name is infringing on the plaintiffs name.
The domain cannot be mistaken for the plaintiffs, the domain is clearly named and used to gather and spread information.
If the plaintiffs thinks that the person they name (Ethan Chumley) is the owner or control the domain, it's not a WIPO issue.
Much of the filing on behalf of Chumley comprises material relating to law suits filed against the Complainant, the Colorado Attorney-General's investigation of the Complainant, orders made against the Complainant and Jeff Knight, proceedings brought by General Steel against its former attorneys and allegations of misconduct by Jeff Knight. This material, contained in Annexes 1 to 7 of the Chumley filing does not directly concern the disputed domain name and is not within the ambit of the Procedural Order.
- "No. I am not the creator of generalsteelscam.com".
- he was not in control of the website. In support of that, the Chumley filing refers again to pages 154 and 155 of the Transcript. However, the Panel finds no statement to that effect in the pages referred to or in other pages which are in evidence in these proceedings.
- The Complainant presents no evidence to support the allegation that Mr. Chumley is connected to the email address.
- The Complainant presents no evidence to support the allegation that Mr. Chumley is connected to the email address […]@gmx.com or to show that the address is a bogus address.
Q. Mr. Rodenborn, I believe, has testified that you came to him recent -- in recent months and wanted to have him market the General Steel Scam Web site for you; is that correct?
Q. Did you present that to Mr. Rodenborn, and he declined?
A. I asked for his advice. I didn't -- I didn't ask him if he would do it and -- I asked him what his thoughts were on it.
Q. He test -- were you at his deposition a couple of days ago?
Q. I believe he testified that you had come to him to ask him about marketing the General Steel Scam site, and he said that he told you that Google doesn't allow these negative-type Web sites to be marketed and that he declined.
MR GRANT: Object to the form.
Q. (BY MR FEIN) So that's correct?
A. I came to Todd Rodenborn, and I asked him about marketing the Web site, his opinion. He said, You shouldn't do it.
- The Complainant has made the unsupported allegation that Mr. Chumley was somehow involved in the creation of […]gmx.com the email account and offers no proof of this fact.
- PRQ is not party to the Colorado litigation.
- The Colorado litigation appears to relate principally to issues of deceptive and misleading conduct, and the disputed domain name is not directly in issue in those proceedings, see for example Hesco Bastion Limited v. The Trading Force Limited, WIPO Case No. D2002-1038.
- A decision under the Policy will not be binding upon a court or the outcome of the Colorado litigation and the decision will not constitute a bar to any legal proceedings which the parties may choose to undertake in relation to the disputed domain name, see Weber-Stephen Products Co. v. Armitage Hardware, WIPO Case No. D2000-0187 and other prior UDRP decisions in which this issue has been raised, and in particular to the decision in Galley, Inc. v. Pride Marketing & Procurement / Richard's Restaurant Supply, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2008-1285.
- This is not a case where ownership and rights in the underlying trademark are in issue, such as in Family Watchdog LLC v. Lester Schweiss, WIPO Case No. D2008-0183.
There is however, a further question which needs to be addressed and that is whether or not the Panel, having issued its decision, has the power to issue a reasoned addendum to it and substitute a different order, in the circumstances of this case.
There is no specific provision in the Policy or the Rules. The Rules do however, provide guidance. Rule 10(a) gives the Panel the right to conduct the proceedings in such manner as it considers appropriate in accordance with the Policy and the Rules. Rule 10(b) requires that the Panel shall ensure that the parties are treated with equality and that each party is given a fair opportunity to present its case. Rule 15(a) provides that the Panel shall decide the Complaint on the basis of the statements in documents submitted and in accordance with the Policy, the Rules and "and rules and principles of law that it deems applicable". The principles embodied in these Rules are therefore that each of the parties must be given a fair hearing and that in addition to matters specifically provided by the Policy and the Rules the Panel may resort to applicable rules and principles of the law in determining matters which may not be provided for by the specific provisions of the Policy and the Rules. Proceedings under the Policy are administrative rather than judicial in nature. It is therefore appropriate, in this Panel's view, to look at decisions of the courts in cases concerning errors in administrative decisions.
Similar principles have been applied by the High Court of Australia in Bhardwaj v The Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs,  HCA 11, the Supreme Court of Canada in Chandler v Alberta Association of Architects,  2SCR 848 and The High Court of New Zealand in Horowhenua County v Nash (No. 2,)  NZLR 632. It may also be noted that the rules of superior courts also contain provisions whereby the Court may set aside an order made per incuriam. See for example Rule 668 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules of the Supreme Court of Queensland. That Rule provides that if facts arise after an order is made entitling the person against whom the order is made to be relieved from it, or facts are discovered after an order is made that if discovered in time would have entitled the person against whom the order is made to an order or decision in the person's favour, or to a different order the court may, inter alia, set aside or vary the order. The Panel further notes that prior UDRP panels have recognized the concept of a denial of natural justice as relevant to the question of whether or not to accept a re-filed Complaint (see e.g., WIPO Overview 2.0, paragraph 4.4). While this Panel recognizes that one option open to it here could be to, in effect, simply acknowledge the Complainant's point and suggest it consider a possible re-filing under the Policy, this Panel prefers not to do so here. Rather, this Panel finds this principle and the Panel's general powers under the Rules to be sufficient to enable it to set aside or vary its own order where the Panel considers (as it does here) that this principle and the particular circumstances warrant it.
Applying these principles to the facts of this particular case, this Panel finds that it has the power, and the duty, to set aside its November 20 decision on the basis that the Panel, in failing to consider the Annex 8 evidence, did not give a fair opportunity to the Complainant to present its case contrary to the provisions of paragraph 10(b) of the Rules.
As noted above, the identity of the beneficial owner and/or controller of the disputed domain name is subject to contention.
Paragraph 1 of the Rules defines the Respondent as the holder of a domain name registration against which a Complaint is initiated. Prima facie therefore PRQ is the proper Respondent to these proceedings. A well recognized exception to this Rule arises in cases where the identity of the true owner of the disputed domain name is hidden behind a privacy protection or proxy service. That does not appear exactly to be the case here. The Respondent provides a web hosting service where it provides for a fee, a domain name and a website for the use of its clients. It provides a vehicle whereby the client does not own a domain name but can use it to operate a website using the facilities and web architecture provided by the host. By analogy it owns the vehicle but leases it to the driver. The Respondent provides a legitimate service but it does not necessarily follow from that that its ownership of the disputed domain name or the use which is made of it is legitimate. That remains to be determined according to the ordinary criteria established under the Policy. The Respondent is a proper respondent to the Complaint but, in this Panel's view, so too is the person upon whose behalf the disputed domain name, and the website to which it resolves, is hosted.
He made a substantial number of similar admissions at pages 171 to 177 of the Transcript. According to his answers in the course of the depositions his modus operandi was to access the website of the disputed domain name using a login name and password allocated to him and then post to the website copies of material, taken from publicly available sources such as court records and other complaint sites, attacking the Complainant or Jeff Knight. In Chumley's answers to Interrogatories Chumley admits that he adds content to the website at the disputed domain name relating to known judgments, rulings and business practices employed by the Complainant and that he participates in the operations of the website by adding such content.
The Complainant seeks further to link Chumley to the control and operation of the website at the disputed domain name by reference to the alleged use by Chumley of a bogus name "Jeff Knight" as part of an email address and as the alleged name of the webmaster at the disputed domain name in articles posted on third party websites which provide links to the website at the disputed domain name. The Complainant's evidence in this respect is circumstantial. Chumley does not specifically deny it but contends that the Complainant has not satisfied the burden of proof.
As noted above, Chumley has admitted he consulted Mr. Todd Rodenborn about marketing the website at the disputed domain name.
"Who has contact with this \"Ethan Chumley\" character ?
We do not know who that person is or why he \ is being asked to respond in this case.
- The Complainant's trademark registration is not for the words General Steel per se but for a logo including the words General Steel Corporation (with the words "Steel Corporation" disclaimed), and therefore the disputed domain name does not "wholly incorporate" the Complainant's trademark.
- The website at the disputed domain name is not directed at non-English speakers and no reasonable English speaker would find it likely that the Complainant would identify itself with such a domain name.
- The Respondents have a legitimate interest in the disputed domain name because it is used to offer a forum for legitimate criticism of the Complainant and is noncommercial in that it does not offer or propose the sale of any goods or services. Chumley cites in support, inter alia, Bloomberg L.P. v Seacaucus Group, NAF Claim No. FA97077; Full Sail, Inc. v. Ryan Spevack, WIPO Case No. D2003-0502; and Telstra Corporation Limited v. Nuclear Marshmallows, WIPO Case No. D2000-0003.
- The Complainant has failed to link Chumley to the disputed domain name and the Respondent PRQ has not sought to disguise its identity or otherwise acted in bad faith.
The Chumley Response also contained allegations and exhibits relating to alleged improper dealings by the Complainant. Those matters are not in issue in these proceedings.
The Panel therefore, in accordance with the general powers conferred upon it under paragraph 10 of the Rules proceeds to further consider the matter on the basis that Chumley is added as a Respondent and on the basis of the Complaint and the Response and the further filings by the Complainant, PRQ and Chumley.
The Panel confirms its findings in its above prior decision of November 20, 2011 and finds that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to a trademark in which the Complainant has rights. The dominant feature of the Complainant's registered trademark is the words "General Steel" and the Complainant has shown extensive use and promotion of its mark sufficient to establish common law rights in the mark General Steel per se.
This case concerns the rights in the disputed domain name, it does not concern the ethics or business practices of the Complainant or of either of the Respondents.
On the basis of the evidence discussed above the Panel has found that Chumley was responsible for causing the disputed domain name to be registered by PRQ. At the time of doing so he was fully aware of the Complainant's trademark and of the Complainant's rights in it. The purpose for which he caused the disputed domain name to be registered was for attacking the Complainant and posting on the website at the disputed domain name, material critical of the Complainant and its business practices. It was motivated to do so as part of extensive and acrimonious dispute and litigation with its competitor, the Complainant. Chumley's claim that the use of the disputed domain name was noncommercial is not sustainable. The fact that it does not direct to a site directly offering Chumley's goods or services or to offer commercial sites, such as PPC sites, does not mean that its use is noncommercial. Its use to denigrate the Complainant and its goods and services is in the commercial interest of Chumley and his company and is commercial in an indirect sense. Chumley's reliance on the decisions in Bloomberg and Full Sail, supra, is inapposite. In neither of those cases was the Respondent a competitor of the Complainant and in the case of Full Sail, the site at the domain name listed both positive and negative comments. The situation in this case is more akin to that in BRIO Corp v Spruce Caboose, NAF Claim No. FA114419, where the respondent was a competitor of the complainant and bad faith registration and use was found. It is in the Panel's view, based on the evidence submitted by both the Complainant and Chumley, that Chumley caused the disputed domain name to be registered with the intention of using it for commercial gain, to misleadingly divert consumers, to tarnish the trademark and goodwill of the Complainant and to disrupt its business. It has used the disputed domain name for those purposes. Such use does not constitute a use in the bona fide offering of goods or services. The site at the disputed domain name is a criticism site but it is not one which is fair or noncommercial. It consists of extracts from public sources material, sometimes several years old, which is damaging to the Complainant. It is not credible that Chumley is doing this only for the purpose of providing a public platform for criticism of the Complainant. Rather, he appears to be using it as a vehicle for his own commercial advantage.
So far as PRQ is concerned, the legitimacy of its interest is infected by that of Chumley and their interests and responsibilities are merged. In the light of the Panel's finding above and the fact PRQ has not specifically denied its connection with Chumley, the Panel finds that PRQ has acted as the instrument of Chumley in the registration and use of the disputed domain name. PRQ cannot therefore have any more rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name than Chumley has. Further, PRQ is an experienced Internet operator owning over 350 domain names. As such, it has a responsibility to at least make reasonable enquiries as to whether or not registration of a domain name may infringe the rights of third parties. It cannot proceed with reckless disregard for the possible existence of such rights, see for example BHP Billiton Innovation Pty Ltd. v. OS Domain Holdings IV LLC, WIPO Case No. D2008-0488.
Whilst the business conducted by PRQ may be legitimate, its registration of the disputed domain name and the use which it permitted to be made of it does not constitute a use in the bona fide offering of goods or services. Neither in the case of Chumley nor of PRQ is there any other basis upon which they can base a claim to a legitimate right or interest. They are not commonly known by the disputed domain name, they are not authorized by the Complainant to use the disputed domain name. As discussed above, the use of the domain name is not a legitimate noncommercial or fair use.
The Panel therefore finds that neither PRQ nor Chumley has rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name.
For the reasons discussed above, the Panel finds that the disputed domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith. The Panel has found that Chumley caused the disputed domain name to be registered in full knowledge of the Complainant's rights and has used it primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of the Complainant who is a competitor. PRQ registered the disputed domain name in reckless disregard for the rights of third parties and permitted the disputed domain name to be used by Chumley for the purpose of disrupting the business of the Complainant. Neither in its initial Response, nor its email of February 16, 2012 (which the Panel finds disingenuous) has it denied or sought otherwise to explain its relationship with Chumley.
The Panel therefore finds that the disputed domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
For all of the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraph 4(i) of the policy and 15 of the Rule, the Panel orders that the disputed domain name <generalsteelscam.com> be transferred to the Complainant. The Complainant so orders without prejudice to the rights of any of the parties (including rights under paragraph 4(k) of the Policy) to take legal or other proceedings in relation to the disputed domain name.
1. The Center to serve, electronically, Ethan Chumley with copies of the Complaint, the Response and all relevant correspondence.
2. The Complainant has leave to join Ethan Chumley as a Co-Respondent.
a. The Complainant's allegation that Ethan Chumley and/or Armstrong Steel is the true owner of the disputed domain name and controls the operation of the website at the disputed domain name.
b. The identity of Jeffrey Knight and his relevance to these proceedings.
4. In the interim, these UDRP proceedings shall remain pending subject to issuance of any further instructions or decision by the Panel in due course.
For reasons that will be addressed in the Decision, the Panel is minded to add Ethan Chumley as a Respondent in these proceedings. Accordingly, Respondent Chumley is given seven days to respond to the original Complaint, with due regard to the word limits expressed in the Rules, i.e., submissions should be no more than 5000 words. Respondent Chumley is hereby given until February 23, 2012 to respond to the Complaint.
The Decision Due Date has been extended to March 1, 2012.
1 The due date was extended by four (4) days due to exceptional circumstances.


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Christian Rowland Reporting live for ODOGWU MEDIA....Cristiano Ronaldo has said he hopes "the battle with Lionel Messi continues", after he equalled the Argentine's record of five Ballon d'Or awards on Thursday night.
The 32-year-old was named the winner of France Football's prestigious award at a ceremony in Paris on Thursday.
Ronaldo had previously won the award in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2016 respectively.
Speaking shortly after he was announced winner, the Real Madrid forward said, "I feel very happy, it's a fantastic moment in my career, I've been waiting for this for a long time.
"This year has been great, we won the Champions League and LaLiga and, on a personal level, I was a top scorer in the Champions League.
'Trophies help win these awards and we have to thank my colleagues from Madrid and Portugal, it was very important for me.
"I hope to play at this level for a few more years, I hope the battle with Messi continues, things happen for a reason.
I feel good this season and we'll see what we win at the end of the year.
Neymar has a lot of talent, a lot of potential, and I'm sure he'll have some chance to win in the future," he said.
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A mansion near Honesdale, that was once owned by the famous Woolworth family, is getting another chance all because one woman's vision to bring it back to life.
Crews are hard at work both inside and outside the mansion, which used to be owned by the Woolworth family decades ago. The same Woolworths who started the old five and dime stores. The mansion had several other owners then sat empty for the past ten years.
That was, until Monique Greenwood of New York found it, thanks to a friend who knew she could bring it back to life.
"I saw it, I got a hot flash and said 'I have to have this place'. That began a four-year journey," said Greenwood, the owner of Mansion at Noble Lane.
Greenwood finally purchased the property last year and immediately went to work.
"Of course when I purchased it, there were a lot of people who looked at me and said I have three eyes. But that third eye is the eye of vision. It's the ability to see the possibility," said Greenwood.
Greenwood gave Newswatch 16 a tour of the facility, which is almost done.
Greenwood says the Mansion at Noble Lane, as it is now called, has 14 rooms, a spa, tea room and will offer cooking classes.
Although some work still needs to be done, by Friday, it is open and already ten rooms are booked for the weekend.
The Mansion at Noble Lane is also being marketed as a venue for all sorts of events.
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"I love it, I saw it online and I couldn't believe it. It was an amazing beautiful house and gardens," said Andrea Hiller of New York.
"It's amazing, it's really amazing. We're walking around inside and seeing the details and it's just beautiful," said Peter Papamichael of New York.
"We really tried to maintain the integrity of the building. It has great bones. I love all the original detail. But in terms of decorating, we wanted it to be a more contemporary feeling so it's practical and useful for today," said Greenwood .
The Mansion at Noble Lane outside Honesdale opens to the public on Friday.
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Statement on the death of Sean Flowers III from the Milwaukee Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
August 3, 2016 by City of Milwaukee Health Department Leave a Comment
The Milwaukee Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault joins the community in mourning the senseless death of three-month-old Sean Flowers III. We share the sentiment of Mr. Joey Griffin, one of the courageous bystanders who attempted to save the infant, who said, "We all lost. We all lost this one." Our community feels a tremendous sense of shock, grief, and loss, and the hearts and thoughts of our membership go out to Sean's loved ones as well as the selfless witnesses and first responders, who continue to grapple with this tragedy.
It is important to note that this case has befallen our city during a year, when domestic violence homicides and shootings have increased in Milwaukee.
Victims have many reasons for staying in abusive relationships, not the least of which is fear for their safety and the safety of their children. When victims assert their independence or leave, perpetrators devise other ways to reestablish control. When this occurs, children can become leverage, and abuse against children can become a perpetrator's dangerous tool to control current or former partners.
The importance of awareness, prevention, support, and resources for domestic violence cannot be overstated. There is often a lengthy history of violence in an abusive relationship, and close family members or friends may be aware of it. Domestic violence has a cyclical and escalating nature, and when these situations implode, the ripple effect goes beyond the immediate victim and abuser. In fact, merely witnessing violence is enough to traumatize those involved. This is why we must take the warning signs of domestic violence seriously and intervene before it is too late.
Preventing another tragedy demands collective action from all segments of our community. As a Commission, we remain steadfast and committed in our efforts to ensure a seamless, compassionate, and meaningful network of support for families impacted by violence. We remain unyielding in our advocacy for a system that holds perpetrators accountable while providing pathways to change their abusive behaviors and repair the harm that they have caused. We will continue to seek new ways to stop violence before it starts, sustain healthy families, and make Milwaukee a safer place. Concerned bystanders and loved ones who suspect abuse are urged to report it. If it is safe to do so, reach out to your loved one, convey concern, listen to them, and assist them in accessing supportive resources. If you are being hurt, know that you are not alone, and help is available.
A domestic violence resource listing can be found on the City of Milwaukee Health Department website.
Housed in the City of Milwaukee Health Department's Office of Violence Prevention, the Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault was founded by the Milwaukee Common Council in 1979 and is a multidisciplinary board representing the many systems that serve families impacted by violence in our community to improve local responses to domestic violence and sexual assault.
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The NES Classic Edition Returns This Summer
Brenden Groom May 13, 2018 May 13, 2018 news, Uncatagorized
Nintendo had already stated that they would be restocking the NES Classic Edition at some point in 2018 in order to rectify the inventory issues that fans faced back when the console initially dropped in November of 2016. When the NES Classic Edition first released, many fans were unable to find the retro gaming system with stores receiving low stock and scalpers presumably buying up as many units as they could. This led to a few more restocks but ultimately left many fans burned in the process.
But fans who have been waiting patiently are in luck– Nintendo tweeted out tonight that the console would be finally seeing the previously announced restock this summer on June 29th!
#NESClassic Edition will return to stores on June 29! This system and the #SNESClassic Edition system are expected to be available through the end of the year. https://t.co/LclbG5m4ta pic.twitter.com/1PcXBI5qJC
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) May 14, 2018
I do think Nintendo will produce a fair amount of these units seeing with how they have handled the SNES Classic Edition. I have walked into Targets and Best Buys and seen the SNES Classic Edition available to purchase, so I hope some people will have that same good fortune with the NES Classic Edition restock. Nintendo didn't offer up any other additional info other than it is expected to be available throughout the end of the year. Though, I would still search with urgency when the console drops if you're interested in avoiding eBay.
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Affirmations in Sport
Affirmation is the act of reflecting on core aspects of the self, such as important values, relationships, and personal characteristics like religion, music, or sports. Previous research shows that self-affirmation interventions can reduce psychological and physiological stress and defensiveness, while boosting personal responsibility and performance. Self-affirmation interventions and theory have promising applications in sports and exercise, including facilitating achievement and helping individuals respond adaptively to setbacks.
The social psychologist Claude Steele proposed self-affirmation theory in 1988. It holds that individuals are motivated to maintain self-integrity: a sense that one is a person of worth, morally adequate and effective at making changes in one's life. There are many routes to self-integrity, and affirmations of the self in one part of life (e.g., reflecting on being a good father) can buffer threats in other parts of life (e.g., poor performance). Affirmations in the context of threat can protect the self and allow people to respond with reduced stress and defensiveness because they are reassured that they possess integrity and worth.
When an event such as a sports loss or failure to complete a workout regimen threatens a valued self-image (e.g., being a good athlete or motivated exerciser), people are at risk of responding defensively by rejecting responsibility or giving up. If, however, the person affirms an important personal value before the threat, their sense of moral adequacy and efficacy can be reinforced and protected. Within social psychology, interventions involving values affirmations often take the form of having individuals reflect and write briefly about an important personal value such as relationships with friends and family. Writing about important personal values can fulfill the global need for self-integrity and enable people to constructively respond to threatening events.
Reduction of Defensive Strategies
Sport and exercise present psychological threats like the fear of low performance that can impact one's personal and public image. There is empirical evidence that people can respond to these threats by construing situations as less threatening to personal worth and well-being. For example, athletes may use defensive strategies such as attributing more internal causes for success than for failure (e.g. "I won because of my ability," but "I lost because of the weather": self-serving biases); denying their team's responsibility for a negative outcome or exaggerating their role in victory (group-serving biases); or claiming handicaps (e.g., claiming back pain before a competition to have an excuse for failure or to enhance credit for success: claimed self-handicapping). These defensive strategies help maintain self-integrity by reducing threats but can limit achievement when personal responsibility is denied and failure is attributed to external causes. Self-affirmation can reduce engagement in these maladaptive strategies.
For instance, a field study demonstrated how self-affirmation can lower athletes' engagement in self-handicapping strategies. Claimed self handicapping was assessed before and after an affirmation intervention. First, coaches asked their athletes to report to what extent handicaps such as physical pain or stress could disrupt their training. Using a classic self-affirmation study design, athletes assigned to an affirmation condition ranked a list of values (e.g., relationships with friends) from the most important to the least important, and then wrote an essay about their most important value. Athletes in a no-affirmation control condition ranked the same values but wrote an essay on why their least important value might be important to someone else. Athletes in the affirmation condition claimed fewer handicaps after the intervention (no difference in the control condition).
Field studies with athletes immediately after competition examined their attributional patterns for victories and defeats. The studies demonstrated that an affirmation manipulation reduced self-serving and group-serving attributional biases. Without affirmation, winning team members claimed that their efforts and their team's efforts were more responsible for the outcome of the game than losing team members'. These findings were observed for players as well as nonplayer fans, such that collegiate fans were less defensive in their attributions about their team's outcomes when they affirmed a value central to their university. In health psychology, affirmed individuals are less defensive and more open to learning about their health risks, and more likely to take behavioral steps to address drinking, diabetes, or excessive weight. One study found that overweight women who completed a self-affirmation lost more weight than women in a control condition, suggesting that the threat and stress stemming from their appearance may have hindered their attempts to diet and exercise.
Reduced Stress
Self-affirmation can reduce physiological and psychological stress responses. Compared to a control group, participants who affirmed personal values by reporting their thoughts and feelings about an important value had lower salivary cortisol responses, a marker of stress, in a stressful laboratory task. In a longitudinal study, compared to control students who had a marked increase, students who affirmed personal values 2 weeks prior to an academic evaluation did not have increased cumulative epinephrine levels from baseline (an indicator of stress measured in urine).
Increased Performance
Whereas threat depresses performance, affirming core values could alleviate threat and improve performance. In both laboratory and field studies, self-affirmations have improved academic performance among people confronting a negative stereotype about their ability; for example, it improved the academic performance of African American and Latino American, but not White, students in mixed middle schools in the United States. These effects persist for years by changing the narrative students tell themselves about their ongoing experience, thereby instigating recursive processes and positive feedback loops.
In sum, sports research demonstrates that self-affirmation reduces athletes' defensiveness, whereas other research shows that it helps address health problems, reduces stress responses, and boosts academic performance. Future research should address the specific effect of self-affirmation on the stress, performance, and commitment to a training regimen among both athletes and exercisers.
Finez, L., & Sherman, D. K. (2012). Train in vain: The role of the self in claimed self-handicapping strategies. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 34, 600–620.
Logel, C., & Cohen, G. L. (2012). The role of the self in physical health: Testing the effect of a values affirmation intervention on weight loss. Psychological Science, 23, 53–55.
Sherman, D. K., & Cohen, G. L. (2006). The psychology of self-defense: Self-affirmation theory. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 38, pp. 183–242). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Sherman, D. K., & Kim, H. S. (2005). Is there an "I" in "team"? The role of the self in group-serving judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 108–120.
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Posted on December 23, 2022 December 23, 2022 by Josh Nudell
Hi there. I have a bunch of more substantive posts in the works, but I took a beating this semester and it is the Friday before Christmas, so I have decided to take it easy for a couple of days. Enjoy this TV recommendation that I've been meeting to put up for a few weeks. I have a Weekly Varia post that will go live tomorrow morning and I expect to be back next week with more substantive thoughts on books, pedagogy, and my usual smattering of other topics.
Following the model of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour and, to a lesser extent, the Make Me Smart daily podcast, I want to remind myself that there are things that bring me joy. These posts are meant to be quick hits that identify and/or recommend things—usually artistic or cultural, sometimes culinary—that are making me happy in a given week. I am making this quick format an intermittent feature.
This week: Pizza TV
I wrote about the Great British Baking Show back in 2015 and my interest in both food and food TV has only grown in the seven years since. In the past two years alone, I have written favorably about the scripted show The Bear, as well as Top Chef (three times, actually), and Best Baker in America. My tastes in these shows usually align with the food I like to make and eat, so it should perhaps be of no surprise that I greatly enjoyed two very different shows, both about pizza.
Best in Dough is a deeply silly show on Hulu. The first season, which debuted back in September, consists of ten episodes hosted by Wells Adams and judged by Daniele D'Uditi and a second chair filled by Millie Peartree, Eunji Kim, and Bryan Ford.
Each episode brings on three contestants (or sometimes teams) to compete in two challenges.
The first challenge flips the contest on its head, usually forcing them to cook something pizza adjacent, but not actually pizza and often something that prevents them from using their dough. The winner gets either an advantage on the final challenge or a prize. Since a ten minute advantage isn't that substantial when you already have your dough, just choose the prize.
The second challenge has the contestants bake their pizza using dough they brought and any one of the variety of pizza ovens on set. This round of competition is judged by the three judges and a panel of "pizza lovers" whose decision in an adjacent room counts both as one vote and the tiebreaker since, as Wells Adams cornily repeats every episode, "pizza is for the people." The winner walks away with $10,000
What makes Best in Dough so silly, though, is that each episode has a gimmick that feeds into the challenges. The first, which was by far my favorite, was the "Nonna" episode featuring three Italian-American grandmothers. Few shows have made me laugh as hard as I did at an old Italian woman declaring after she steals someone's tomato "I do what I want to, all the time." The other themes were often cheesier, like social media influencers or fine dining pizzas, but I enjoyed the lighthearted competition.
The other show, Chef's Table: Pizza, is about as far to the other end of the spectrum as you can get. I liked the original Chef's Table that debuted on Netflix back in 2015 well enough, but it didn't click with me in the same way that some other cooking shows have. However, I recently returned to the project with its new pizza series that also debuted in September. Without doing anything more than looking at release dates, this seems to be a continuation of what the producers did back in 2020 when they applied the Chef's Table apparatus and aesthetic to BBQ, which serves to both elevate a type of cuisine not usually considered fine dining.
This season offers a spotlight to six notable pizza chefs from around the world: Chris Bianco in Arizona, Gabriele Bonci in Rome, Ann Kim in Minneapolis, Franco Pepe outside of Naples, Yoshihiro Imai in Kyoto, and Sarah Minnick in Portland, Oregon.
At some level, the Chef's Table formula makes each story interchangeable. Pizza was usually not their calling, even when they were restaurant industry veterans, until it was. Each suffered some sort of professional or personal setback that caused them to suffer for their pizza craft. Each is deeply moved by where the ingredients come from. Each has food critics eager to declare that theirs is the best pizza in the world. By the end of the series, in fact, I would start an episode asking myself when and where the obstacles would come from—would this one be a disapproving parents or a destructive industry work wreaking havoc with a marriage?
Chef's Table, like many other types of food TV, thrives on the idea of food as a story. The viewer cannot eat the food, so you rely on video of dripping fat (which is parodied to great effect on the finale of Parks and Rec) and sizzling grills, or on Tony Bourdain slurping a bowl of noodles while groaning "that's good." Where they thrive, then, is the story of how things get made, both in the historical sense and in seeing the transformation from raw ingredient to final product.
In this sense, I found pizza to be a curious match for the form. The personal history was there, of course, and the show features loving shots of tomatoes and greens, and of Chris Bianco making mozzarella, but it also often struck me that the dough itself was treated as an afterthought in most episodes. There were of course shots of dough being balled up or stretched, but only in Sarah Minnick's episode where part of her story involved opening a pizza restaurant without really having made pizza before, did I find the dough itself central and, even then, the show focused its praise on her unusual toppings. I completely understand that this show is more about creating an aesthetic than about the process itself and also that watching dough rise does not make for the most compelling television (I've even written a tongue-in-cheek story about this), but, as a bread obsessive, I'd love to see a show like this turn the camera in that direction.
And yet, despite these critiques, I thoroughly enjoyed this series. Perhaps the highest praise I can give it is that upon watching Gabriele Bonci's episode about pizza al'taglio (Roman street pizza), I found myself thumbing through my baking books to see if I could replicate it at home. The answer is that yes, I can, and it is delicious.
Pizza al'taglio with tomatoes, tomato sauce, and a balsamic reductionz
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Sadio Mane named African Footballer of the year
27-year-old Senegalese forward Sadio Mane was named as the Confederation of African Football's (CAF) Men's player of the year 2019 on Tuesday, 7th January 2020 after beating the likes of his Liverpool teammate and Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah and Algerian and Manchester City winger Riyad Mahrez. Sadio Mane became the second Senegalese after El Hadji-Diouf, who won the award twice back in 2001 and 2002. Sadio Mane has scored 30 goals in all competition last season and also played a decisive role throughout the UEFA Champions League campaign of Liverpool in 2018-19 season, in which the Reds went to top clinch the 2018-19 Champions League title after defeating Premier League rivals, Tottenham Hotspurs 2-0 in the finals.
Nigerian and Barcelona forward, Asisat Oshoala was named as the African women's player of the year 2019, winning the award for a record 4th time.
African Men's team of the year 2019 award was awarded to Algeria, while Cameroon women's team was declared the African women's team of the year 2019.
Topics: Algeria • Barcelona • Cameroon • Confederation of African Football • Egypt • Liverpool • Mohamed Salah • Nigeria • Sadio Mane • Senegal


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Pilgrims Guest House is one of the finest guest house in Thamel, Kathmandu. For more than 10 years Pilgrims Guest House has been offering a warm welcome to travellers from all over the world. More than three-quarters of our guests return and many have done so for several years. We are proud that for last 10 years we have made our guest feel like they are staying at home with our warm and friendly hospitality. Pilgrims Guest House is located in the northern part of Thamel. We assure you for the clean, safe and free from traffic noise accommodation. Pilgrims guest house has 26 comfortable neat and clean rooms with facilities offering Standard, Deluxe and Budget rooms .Each of our rooms comes with private bathroom with hot shower and cold shower all the time, LED TV in every rooms of our guest house and providing free Wifi internet services in all the rooms. Our staff is efficient and well trained .They will be ready 24 hrs to provide you the services or assistance you need.
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A fellow graduate student recently found a handwritten note on her car, which has a California license plate and was parked in Austin's Hyde Park neighborhood. It reads (spelling errors corrected):
Just thought I'd let you know—Austin natives consider your migration to Texas as a malevolent blight to our lovely town.
California clones have turned our traffic to the 4th worst congestion in the country—you love your big cars and your flamboyant exhibition of bling. Honey, we see a vapid, vacant, asinine caricature of an uptight pushy halfwit.
Get lost—and forget about moving to our neighborhood—real people live here—not wannabe blondes with sociopathic tendencies—
Just a bit of context: My colleague is brunette. She is a decidedly sweet and intelligent person and a fashionably understated dresser. She drives a Honda Civic. She's lived in Austin nearly five years but hails from Los Angeles. She's here to earn her doctorate so she can get on with her career, for which she will likely move again soon.
With all of that in mind, this strikes me as the kind of note that a teenager would write to the girl her high-school boyfriend just dumped her for. Or better yet, the note the ex-girlfriend's best friend writes to the new girlfriend at the ex-girlfriend's direction. There are recognizable rhetorical moves in such a note. You insult the target, you educate her about the "reality" of the situation, and you tell her to buzz off. And you can do all of this despite the fact that you don't know her. You don't need to, because you know the type.
Maybe the outrage evidenced in this note comes in part from a fierce love for the city and fear of losing the place and the lifestyle this person loves. The message is obviously important to the author. But as fascinating as that message is, it's how it was delivered that warrants a closer look here, because this note is just one example of a larger trend. For example, the 2014 TEOA post "R.I.P. 'WEIRD" mentions someone who posts signs near South Lamar and Riverside, including one that says "R.I.P. Weird, 1969-2014, We will miss you." Others in that series of posterboard messages have included "Stop building condos or the salamander gets its" (written in the style of a ransom note, picture of said salamander included) and "Selfie Defense Training, call 512-xxx-xxxx" (I confess, I don't remember the number). Then there's this one, posted in my own South Austin neighborhood, written in protest of making a cul-de-sac into a thru street:
So, why anonymous notes?
Let's first take a quick trip back to high school. Teenagers have the unenviable task of growing up while navigating the harsh terrain of an ecosystem marked by rigid social labels. In a time of identity formation and finding one's own voice, preconceptions are obstacles to productive intermingling. In this context, notes strengthen existing social bonds, or they allow students to address someone they don't have direct access to. As cities evolve, they do so within a structure that offers similar challenges. Rather than jocks vs. every imaginable variety of nerd, there are locals vs. invasive species, longtime local business owners vs. powerful development corporations. Of course, all those lunchroom labels dissolve quickly under scrutiny to reveal hybridity, contradictions, and grey areas—all the things that make people, and cities, interesting.
But differences remain, and negotiating the stereotypes we often use to classify those differences calls for inventive approaches to reaching an audience that isn't necessarily familiar or accessible. And so as adults, faced with the uncertainty and stress of a rapidly changing urban reality over which we have little control, we pass notes. It's certainly not all we do—we also write Yelp reviews, lament the changing landscape of our neighborhood with the local bartender, and plan excitedly with friends to try yet another new restaurant—but the practice of passing anonymous notes stands out for the ways it brings to light the related issues of authority and privacy. It also demonstrates that cities, like high schools, are constructed not just from wood and concrete but from words and conflict. It's not difficult to imagine, then, the note left on the car as a note slipped into a high schooler's locker and the notes posted publicly at intersections as a note scrawled across the locker bay. They are distinct acts with different implications, but they also have a lot in common.
In either case, the act is easily read as passive aggressive. It allows someone to assert a position without giving the people who are directly addressed or otherwise implicated in the note a way to respond. It can be cathartic to say one's piece and drop the mic; it can be satisfying to get the last word. But I suspect that even if that's a primary goal, these authors hope for more—maybe even that they'll set something in motion that will ultimately change the situation.
Posting a sign isn't like entering into a one-to-one conversation aimed at a resolution or reaching deeper understanding. But neither is a public speech, and still it addresses ongoing conversations and causes conversation to occur about and around it. It creates an opening in time and space and invites people to dwell there, however briefly. The note left on the car is really doing the same thing: though the author is addressing an individual, s/he isn't really. The car might help ensure the message is received, though it doesn't guarantee it's thoughtfully considered. Targeting an individual, especially on her personal property, offers a higher chance that someone has heard you, even if it's not really about that person. You feel better landing a punch on a punching bag than swinging into a crowd and hoping for impact.
The choice for anonymity seems to me an issue of authority. Maybe there's an air of expertise and/or power that these note writers hope to derive from and convey with chosen anonymity. The resistance to development and migration suggests that the authors identify as Austin natives or long-term residents, though their decision to leave their messages unsigned makes it impossible to know for sure. In any case, they derive their authority from positioning themselves this way to their audiences, and their posture toward the city's growth relies on the appearance of authority.
While anonymity is possible and it's commonplace for people to emphasize and de-emphasize facets of their identity in different contexts, privacy is a well-guarded illusion in the current media environment. Even the note left on the car, a communicative act presumably meant to be relatively private, was immediately posted to Facebook to spur a public conversation. Left without a sender to respond to, the recipient turned to her social netword. Emotionally charged notes like this get passed all the time in online comments. Or dropped in lockers. The examples I've pointed to here are not exceptional in that sense. But I like to think about these paper notes in particular because they make a material claim along with an ideological one. They use public land to speak to a public audience. It's interesting in these examples that the authors don't call out anyone by name. The authors' real concern seems to be more for the overall preservation of the city than against those who they see as threatening it. It's a call for collective action based on the invocation of a common, nameless enemy.
I can only speculate as to why the authors have made these particular rhetorical choices and what they might mean for the city at large. I can say with more certainty, though, that it they are significant acts of placemaking by Austinites—that is, they participate in the ongoing formation of the city and its associated identities. Cities are always in progress, never fixed or tangible entities. So are the exchanges among residents—however unconventional—that help them create social, political, and cultural spaces for themselves within the city. These exchanges help contour the city itself. They also help shape its evolving identity and the identities of residents, native or not.
Megan Gianfagna is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at UT Austin. Her dissertation takes up Imagine Austin to explore urban redevelopment as rhetorical invention.
2 comments on "Noteworthy"
George Wyche
Megan,
This was a very thoughtful reply. I read all of it.
I would be interested in a similar mention of the various ways recent arrivals (who expect to stay for at least multiple years) go about trying to make room for their points of view in their neighborhood. Culturally larger, more varied interactions would be interesting, too, but just too broad a topic.
And, the main reason I was tempted to write, is that I think you meant network, rather than neword. I don't know if this website affords one to make edit corrections or not, but you might give it a try.
Shall we agree that whomever wrote this is unstable. This message does Not represen those of us that belong to the HydePark neighborhood association. How ridiculous to peg one person' s wrath like response to represent a whole neighborhood association. Pretty insulting and ignorant!
Totally innacurate to state one persons remarks to represent a whole group of people. You are out of line! Shame on you!
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Dante Guastalla was born in Reggio, Italy in 1893. He was elder brother to Alfredo Guastalla and pupil of Scarampella in Mantua. He worked alone in Reggiolo briefly before his brother joined his workshop. This violin is a superb example of the calibre of craftsmanship by Guastalla Fratelli. It is in good condition, featuring dark oil varnish and a deep, powerful and rich sound, even across all registers.
Label: Fratelli Guastalla / Liutai / Dante e Alfredo Guastalla / in Reggiolo Emilia / Stamped 2 May 1925 (name is handwritten, date is stamped).


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, city (1998 pop. 329,176), SE Pakistan, on the Indus River. It is an important commercial and industrial city and a center for trade with Afghanistan. Its industries produce cotton and silk textiles, cigarettes, lime, cement, and foodstuffs.
..... Click the link for more information. is a leading Pakistani industrial center. The region is noted for handicrafts, especially lacquer ware, mirror embroidery, and tile work. Fishing is important in coastal areas. The chief language is Sindhi.
..... Click the link for more information. empire, overrun (165 B.C.) by the Huns, and ruled (1st-2d cent. A.D.) by the Kushan dynasty. The Arab invaders of Sind in 711 were the first permanent Muslim settlers on the subcontinent; Sind remained under direct or nominal Arab rule until the 11th cent., when it passed to the Muslim Turkic Ghaznavids. Arab religious, social, and cultural influences remain strong. Although briefly incorporated into the Mughal empire by Akbar (who was born in Sind), the region remained for centuries under local Muslim dynasties. Emirs of Sind, who were of Baluch descent, held power in the late 18th and early 19th cent. until Sir Charles Napier, the British general, defeated them in 1843. The British made Karachi the capital and administered Sind as part of the Bombay presidency until 1937, when it became an autonomous province. After Pakistan became independent in 1947, Karachi was made the national capital, and Sind's capital was shifted to Hyderabad. From 1955 to 1970, Sind was part of West Pakistan prov.; it became a separate province again in 1970, with Karachi the capital. Sind became the new home of hundreds of thousands of Muslims displaced by the 1947 partition.
a province in southeastern Pakistan, in the basin of the lower Indus River. Area, 140,900 sq km. Population, 14 million (1972). The capital is the city of Karachi.
Sind is comparatively well developed economically; it occupies 18.8 percent of the country's territory and has 21.5 percent of the population. With Karachi being the country's principal seaport and economic center, the province accounts for almost one-half of the country's industrial output; other industrial centers of the province include Hyderabad and Sukkur. There are textile, food-processing, and chemical industries, as well as machine-building and metalworking enterprises. In the Indus Valley there is diversified, irrigated agriculture. Sind accounts for 53 percent of the country's rice crop, 15 percent of the wheat and sugarcane, 28 percent of the cotton and oilseeds, and 36 percent of the jowar (a type of millet). The high quality characteristic of agricultural produce is due to the introduction of modern technical and economic methods of land cultivation. There is also livestock raising and fishing.
From the middle of the third to the middle of the second millennium B.C. Sind was the site of one of the principal centers of the Proto-Indic Harappa civilization (seeMOHENJO-DARO). At the end of the sixth century B.C., it was made part of the ancient Persian empire of the Achaemenids. In the years 327-325 B.C. it was conquered by Alexander the Great and then apparently became part of the Mauryan empire. In the second and first centuries B.C, it was part of the Greek kingdom in India, and in the first through third centuries A.D. it belonged to the Kushana kingdom. In the fifth and sixth centuries, it was ruled by the Ephthalites (or White Huns), and at the beginning of the eighth century it was conquered by the Arabs. The Arab conquest was accompanied by the spread of Islam. Around 750, Sind became an independent state under the local Sumra and other dynasties (during the first half of the 11th century it was a vassal dependency of the Ghaznavids). In 1591 it was conquered by Akbar, but at the beginning of the 18th century it again became independent, with local dynasties of the Kalhoras and the Talpurs. During the second half of the 18th century it was a vassal dependency of the Afghan rulers of the Durrani dynasty.
Sind was seized by British colonialists in 1843 and until 1936 was part of the Bombay Presidency within the colony of British India. From 1936 to 1947 it was a province of British India. In August 1947, Sind became part of Pakistan; from 1947 to 1955 it was a separate province, and from 1955 to 1970 it was part of the unified province of West Pakistan. Since 1970 Sind has again been a separate province.