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Article posted 30 April 2011 Change You Can Believe In (Vol. III, No. 4, April 2011)	 posted 11pm
The latest instalment in our ongoing monthly feature.[1] You may be surprised to find that this month I am going to pass over the new fucking war that the Peace President has been kinetically pursuing against yet another Muslim country. Too obvious. Instead, we have….
Executive power
In which Obama decides he's in favor of the unitary theory of the executive — in order to save his Czars, natch.
There is no ambiguity in that vow: none at all. He explicitly promised not to use signing statements to nullify Congressional statutes he thought were invalid. Citing his credentials as a Constitutional Law professor, Obama explained that "Congress' job is to pass legislation," and when that happens, a President has only two options: "the President can veto it or sign it." In contrast to Bush — who, Obama said, "has been saying 'I can change what Congress passed by attaching a statement saying I don't agree with this part, I'm going to choose to interpret it this way or that way'" — Obama said he, by contrast, believes "that's not part of [the President's] power." He punctuated his answer as follows: "we're not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end run around Congress." It just doesn't get any clearer than that.
But on Friday, Obama did exactly that which he vowed in that answer he would never do. When signing the budget bill into law, he attached a signing statement objecting to some provisions as an encroachment on executive power but still vowing to obey them (such as restrictions on transferring Guantanamo detainees), but then explicitly stated that he would ignore the provision of this new law that de-funds his so-called "czars" (which are really little more than glorified presidential advisers). Declaring that the Executive has the unfettered "authority to supervise and oversee the executive branch" — i.e., asserting another critical aspect of the "unitary theory of the Executive" — Obama declared that "the executive branch will construe [the de-funding provision] not to abrogate these Presidential prerogatives." In other words, we're going to ignore that mandate because we believe it's unconstitutional: he's going to use funds for exactly the purpose that Congress, in a bill he signed into law, flatly prohibited.
— Glenn Greenwald, Obama v. Obama on signing statements, in Salon.com , April 17, 2011.
Drug warfare
Hey, remember back when Obama stopped the Drug Enforcement Agency from raiding medical marijuana dispenaries in states that have legalized medical marijuana?
Here's how Obama's DEA stopped raiding medical marijuana dispensaries that this month in Spokane:
DEA agents raided at least four dispensaries around Spokane…. On Thursday evening Charles Wright said that "THC will be open and in full operation tomorrow." His message less than a day later was much different.
"Effective immediately, THC Pharmacy is shutting down immediately and I recommend all pharmacies in Washington State follow suit," he said.
DEA agents raided THC Pharmacy Thursday, confiscating all the marijuana and cash. But it wasn't the raid that scared Wright into closing. He said his it was a conversation he said his attorney had with US Attorney Michael Ormsby Friday morning.
"I am being threatened with 20 years to life and I have no further political power to do anything. If I open the doors today they will put me in prison tomorrow," he said.
… Charles Wright said that US Attorney Michael Ormsby has said that federal raids will continue until all dispensaries are in compliance with federal law, which states it is illegal to possess or sell marijuana.
—Rob Kauder, Feds Continuing Crackdown On Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, at KXLY.com (29 April 2011)
Here's how they stopped it in Rhode Island:
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The top federal prosecutor in Rhode Island has warned Gov. Lincoln Chafee that the state's plan to license medical marijuana dispensaries violates federal law.
U.S. Attorney Peter Neronha says in a letter delivered to Chafee on Friday that federal prosecutors have the right to investigate and prosecute those who grow and distribute marijuana, even if such activities are allowed by state law.
— Associated Press, Federal Prosecutor Warns RI About Medical Pot, at abc6.com (2011-04-30)
Here's how they stopped it in San Marcos, California:
At least one medical marijuana dispensary in San Marcos was raided by law enforcement agents Thursday, authorities confirmed, and the homes of suspected medical marijuana providers in North County were hit, as well.
Authorities raided the Club One Collective, a medical marijuana dispensary at 1232 Los Vallecitos Blvd., a business park just north of Highway 78, said San Diego County sheriff's Capt. Mike Barnett.
"It was raided today along with several other locations throughout North County and Riverside County," said. "Evidence was seized and money was seized."
… Also, residences in Vista, Oceanside and Temecula were raided Thursday by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the San Diego Narcotic Task Force…. The homes hit by the raids were the residences of medical marijuana patients, said Eugene Davidovich, the director of the San Diego chapter of Americans for Safe Access.
— Teri Figueroa, SAN MARCOS: Authorities raid medical marijuana collective, in the North County Times (28 April 2011)
Here's how they stopped it in Metro Detroit:
Drug agents executed search warrants at two medical marijuana facilities in Oakland County on Tuesday, but it was unclear whether it signaled a new federal crackdown against the state's fledgling industry.
The raids were part of a wide-ranging operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which dispatched agents in eight coordinated raids of homes and businesses in Detroit, Novi, Commerce Township, Walled Lake and Romulus.
… [T]he raids were focused in Oakland County, ground zero in the battle between medical marijuana clinics and law enforcement officers.
A DEA official confirmed that agents executed search warrants at Casab's home in Commerce Township and his Caregivers of America marijuana facility on 12 Mile in Novi.
The DEA raided another Caregivers facility on Decker Road in Walled Lake. The building is owned by 1020 Decker LLC, whose registered agent is lawyer Barry A. Steinway of Bingham Farms, state records indicate.
Walled Lake issued a medical marijuana dispensary license to 1020 Decker LLC on Aug. 31, 2010, under terms of a local ordinance.
"The feds say it's illegal, but the city issued them a license," Abel said.
— Robert Snell and Mike Martindale, DEA raids Oakland Co. medical marijuana centers, in the Detroit News (13 April 2011)
It's been two and a half years, but I'm sure that sometime real soon now our Progressive President is going to get his Drug Enforcement Agency to halt those raids. They probably just haven't gotten around to it yet, because they've been so very busy in the past couple months.
War on the World
Finally, I'd be remiss if I failed to mention one of our Progressive Peace President's real triumphs. During the long, dark night of the Bush administration, the United States government became notorious for its use of torture, its disregard for due process, and its endless, arbitrary detentions in legal black-holes like Guantanamo Bay, all in the name of a ever-shifting, never-ending War on Terror. Obama promised that he would rectify that. Nowadays, thanks to Obama, they only promise to hold people in Guantanamo forever without a trial after they try out a few options and can't figure out any kangaroo court where it would be politically expedient to send them. Under the Bush administration, the CIA became notorious as one of the leading practitioners of indefinite detention and interrogation by torture, in black-hole secret prisons where prisoners — many of them innocent victims of mass sweeps and round-ups — had no legal recourse at all. The Obama administration has put an end to all that. Now:
"The CIA is out of the detention and interrogation business," said a U.S. official who is familiar with intelligence operations but was not authorized to speak publicly.
— Ken Dilanian, CIA has slashed its terrorism interrogation role, in the Los Angeles Times (10 April 2011)
Huzzah and kudos. Now, instead of indefinitely detaining people without trial and torturing them for years, the CIA just kills them instead:
Under Obama, the CIA has killed more people than it has captured, mainly through drone missile strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas. At the same time, it has stopped trying to detain or interrogate suspects caught abroad….
In summary executions like this one:
WASHINGTON �?? C.I.A. drones fired two missiles at militants in Pakistan�??s tribal areas on Wednesday…. The strikes drew a sharp rebuke from a Pakistani government that is increasingly public in its criticism of the C.I.A.�??s covert role in its country.
… The drone attack was widely interpreted by Pakistan�??s main spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, as a deliberate effort by Washington to embarrass the country. �??If the message was that business will continue as usual, it was a crude way of sending it,�?� a senior Pakistani intelligence official said.
… The targets of the attack were militants commanded by Maulvi Nazir, a Taliban leader from South Waziristan…. The drones struck a double-cabin pickup truck and a motorcycle as they returned from Afghanistan into Pakistan, a Pakistani military official said. Seven fighters were killed and six others were wounded in the attack just south of the village of Angor Adda on the border between the two countries.
Pakistani officials have grown more alarmed at the frequency of the drone attacks �?? 117 last year, more than all previous years combined �?? and the fact that the targets are now largely low-level fighters and junior commanders, not top operatives. Wednesday�??s strikes bring this year�??s number of attacks to 20….
— Eric Schmitt, New C.I.A. Drone Attack Draws Rebuke From Pakistan, in the New York Times (13 April 2011)
Plus ca change, mes amis. But President Bush must be careful to cover his political bases; I hear that he is planning to run for a fourth term next year.
[1]Here�??s January 2011; here�??s February 2011; here's March 2011.↩
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Article posted 25 May 2008 Last train headed West: R.I.P. Utah Phillips	 posted 5pm / revised 12am 26 May 2008
—Utah Phillips (1996), Bridges, on The Past Didn't Go Anywhere (recorded with Ani DiFranco)
Sad news today. From UtahPhillips.org:
Folksinger, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73
Nevada City, California:
Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson, a freelance editor.
Born Bruce Duncan Phillips on May 15, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of labor organizers. Whether through this early influence or an early life that was not always tranquil or easy, by his twenties Phillips demonstrated a lifelong concern with the living conditions of working people. He was a proud member of the Industrial Workers of the World, popularly known as the Wobblies, an organizational artifact of early twentieth-century labor struggles that has seen renewed interest and growth in membership in the last decade, not in small part due to his efforts to popularize it.
Phillips served as an Army private during the Korean War, an experience he would later refer to as the turning point of his life. Deeply affected by the devastation and human misery he had witnessed, upon his return to the United States he began drifting, riding freight trains around the country. His struggle would be familiar today, when the difficulties of returning combat veterans are more widely understood, but in the late fifties Phillips was left to work them out for himself. Destitute and drinking, Phillips got off a freight train in Salt Lake City and wound up at the Joe Hill House, a homeless shelter operated by the anarchist Ammon Hennacy, a member of the Catholic Worker movement and associate of Dorothy Day.
Phillips credited Hennacy and other social reformers he referred to as his elders with having provided a philosophical framework around which he later constructed songs and stories he intended as a template his audiences could employ to understand their own political and working lives. They were often hilarious, sometimes sad, but never shallow.
He made me understand that music must be more than cotton candy for the ears, said John McCutcheon, a nationally-known folksinger and close friend.
In the creation of his performing persona and work, Phillips drew from influences as diverse as Borscht Belt comedian Myron Cohen, folksingers Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and Country stars Hank Williams and T. Texas Tyler.
A stint as an archivist for the State of Utah in the 1960s taught Phillips the discipline of historical research; beneath the simplest and most folksy of his songs was a rigorous attention to detail and a strong and carefully-crafted narrative structure. He was a voracious reader in a surprising variety of fields.
Meanwhile, Phillips was working at Hennacy's Joe Hill house. In 1968 he ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. The race was won by a Republican candidate, and Phillips was seen by some Democrats as having split the vote. He subsequently lost his job with the State of Utah, a process he described as blacklisting.
Phillips left Utah for Saratoga Springs, New York, where he was welcomed into a lively community of folk performers centered at the Caffé Lena, operated by Lena Spencer.
It was the coffeehouse, the place to perform. Everybody went there. She fed everybody, said John Che Greenwood, a fellow performer and friend.
Over the span of the nearly four decades that followed, Phillips worked in what he referred to as the Trade, developing an audience of hundreds of thousands and performing in large and small cities throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. His performing partners included Rosalie Sorrels, Kate Wolf, John McCutcheon and Ani DiFranco.
He was like an alchemist, said Sorrels, He took the stories of working people and railroad bums and he built them into work that was influenced by writers like Thomas Wolfe, but then he gave it back, he put it in language so the people whom the songs and stories were about still had them, still owned them. He didn't believe in stealing culture from the people it was about.
A single from Phillips's first record, Moose Turd Pie, a rollicking story about working on a railroad track gang, saw extensive airplay in 1973. From then on, Phillips had work on the road. His extensive writing and recording career included two albums with Ani DiFranco which earned a Grammy nomination. Phillips's songs were performed and recorded by Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Tom Waits, Joe Ely and others. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Folk Alliance in 1997.
Phillips, something of a perfectionist, claimed that he never lost his stage fright before performances. He didn't want to lose it, he said; it kept him improving.
Phillips began suffering from the effects of chronic heart disease in 2004, and as his illness kept him off the road at times, he started a nationally syndicated folk-music radio show, Loafer's Glory, produced at KVMR-FM and started a homeless shelter in his rural home county, where down-on-their-luck men and women were sleeping under the manzanita brush at the edge of town. Hospitality House opened in 2005 and continues to house 25 to 30 guests a night. In this way, Phillips returned to the work of his mentor Hennacy in the last four years of his life.
Phillips died at home, in bed, in his sleep, next to his wife. He is survived by his son Duncan and daughter-in-law Bobette of Salt Lake City, son Brendan of Olympia, Washington; daughter Morrigan Belle of Washington, D.C.; stepson Nicholas Tomb of Monterrey, California; stepson and daughter-in-law Ian Durfee and Mary Creasey of Davis, California; brothers David Phillips of Fairfield, California, Ed Phillips of Cleveland, Ohio and Stuart Cohen of Los Angeles; sister Deborah Cohen of Lisbon, Portugal; and a grandchild, Brendan. He was preceded in death by his father Edwin Phillips and mother Kathleen, and his stepfather, Syd Cohen.
The family requests memorial donations to Hospitality House, P.O. Box 3223, Grass Valley, California 95945 (530) 271-7144
http://www.hospitalityhouseshelter.org
Jordan Fisher Smith and Molly Fisk
Molly Fisk, 530.277.4686 molly@mollyfisk.com
Jordan Fisher Smith, 530.277.3087 jordanfs@gv.net
Utah Phillips is the reason I became a Wobbly. He's also a big part of the reason that I got as interested as I got in the anarchists and the labor radicals of the early 20th century. It's a much poorer world now that we no longer have his voice among us; the only consolation, if there is any, is how much richer it is from having had it all these years.
The old songs, these old stories… why tell them? What do they mean?
When I went to high school–that's about as far as I got–reading my U.S. history textbook, well I got the history of the ruling class; I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the Presidents who didn't get caught. How about you?
I got the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people who created it… you know? So when I went out to get my first job, I went out armed with someone else's class background. They never gave me any tools to understand, or to begin to control the condition of my labor.
And that was deliberate, wasn't it? Huh? They didn't want me to know this. That's why this stuff isn't taught in the history books. We're not supposed to know it, to understand that. No. If I wanted the true history of where I came from, as a member of the working class, I had to go to my elders. Many of them, their best working years before pensions or Social Security, gave their whole lives to the mines, to the wheat harvests, to the logging camps, to the railroad. Got nothing for it–just fetched up on the skids, living on short money, mostly drunk all the time. But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America….
–Utah Phillips, The Long Memory , on Fellow Workers (recorded with Ani DiFranco)
—Utah Phillips (1984), We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years, on We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
Mark Twain said, Those of you who are inclined to worry have the widest selection in history. Why complain? Try to do something about it…. You know, it's going on nine months now since I decided that I was going to declare that I am a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Oh yes: I'm going to run. … So I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I am running as an anarchist candidate, in the best sense of that word. I have studied the presidency carefully; I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding…. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all–if he gets up at night to go to the bathroom–somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue. I guarantee that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing. Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to do it for you; you've got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?
— Utah Phillips (1996), Candidacy, on The Past Didn't Go Anywhere (recorded with Ani DiFranco).
—Utah Phillips (1996), Anarchy, on The Past Didn't Go Anywhere (recorded with Ani DiFranco)
I spend a lot of time these days going to demonstrations and vigils, talking to people who support the war. They can be pretty threatening. But I always find there are people there–and I don't mean policemen, but there are people there who will protect you. I don't go there to shout or to lecture, but to ask questions. Real questions. Questions I really need answers to.
When I joined the Army, it was kind of like somebody that I had been brought up to respect, wearing a suit and a tie, and maybe a little older, in my neighborhood. Think about yourself in your neighborhood, and this happened to you. He walked up to me, put his arm around my shoulder, and said, See that fellow on the corner there? He's really evil, and has got to be killed. Now, you trust me; you'll go do it for me, won't you? Now, the reasons are a little complicated; I won't bother to explain, but you go and do it for me, will you?
Well, if somebody did that to you in your neighborhood, you'd think it was foolish. You wouldn't do it. Well, what makes it more reasonable to do it on the other side of the world? That's one question.
Well, now hook it into this. If I was to go down into the middle of your town, and bomb a house, and then shoot the people coming out in flames, the newspapers would say, Homicidal Maniac! The cops would come and they'd drag me away; they'd say You're responsible for that! The judge'd say, You're responsible for that ; the jury'd say You're responsible for that! and they would give me the hot squat or put me away for years and years and years, you see? But now exactly the same behavior, sanctioned by the State, could get me a medal and elected to Congress. Exactly the same behavior. I want the people I'm talking to to reconcile that contradiction for themselves, and for me.
The third question–well I take that one a lot to peace people. There's a lot of moral ambiguity going on around here, with the peace people who say, Well, we've got to support the troops, and then wear the yellow ribbon, and wrap themselves in the flag. They say, Well, we don't want what happened to the Vietnam vets to happen to these vets when they come home–people getting spit on. Well, I think it's terrible to spit on anybody. I think that's a consummate act of violence. And it's a terrible mistake, and I'm really sorry that happened. But what did happen? Song My happened; My Lai happened; the defoliation of a country happened; tons of pesticides happened; 30,000 MIAs in Vietnam happened. And it unhinged some people–made them real mad. And what really, really made them mad, was the denial of personal responsibility–saying, I was made to do it; I was told to do it; I was doing my duty; I was serving my country. Well, we've already talked about that.
Now, it is morally ambiguous to wrap yourself in the flag and to wear those ribbons. And it borders on moral cowardice. I don't mean to sound stern; well, yes I do, but what does the Nuremberg declaration say? There's no superior order that can cancel your conscience. Nations will be judged by the standard of the individual. Look, the President makes choices. The Congress makes choices. The Chief of Staff makes choices. The officers make choices. All those choices percolate down to the individual trooper with his finger on the trigger. The individual private with his thumb on the button that drops the bomb. If that trigger doesn't get pulled, if that button doesn't get pushed, all those other choices vanish as if they never were. They're meaningless. So what is the critical choice? What is the one we've got to think about and get to? And, friends, if that trigger gets pulled–if that button gets pushed, and that dropped bomb falls–and you say I support the troops, you're an accomplice. I don't want to be an accomplice; do you?
And I don't want to dehumanize anyone. I don't want to take away anybody's humanity. Humans are able to make moral decisions–moral, ethical decisions. What do we tell the trooper who pulls the trigger, or the soldier who turns the wheel that releases oil into the Persian Gulf, that they're not responsible–just following orders, just doing their duty, have no choice–bypassing them, making them a part of the machine, we deny them their humanity, their responsibility for their actions and the consequences of those actions. Look, I've been a soldier. I don't want any moral loophole. I need to take personal responsibility for my actions. And if we don't learn how to do this, we're going to keep on going to war again, and again, and again.
–Utah Phillips (1992): from The Violence Within, I've Got To Know
There I am in Spookaloo, city of magic, city of light, ensconced upon my front porch in broad daylight — long about noon, my rising time — drinking something of a potable beverage, playing my guitar, long after everybody else in the neighborhood has packed up their lunchbox and gone off down to Kaiser Aluminum to put in their shift. This enrages my neighbors. One in particular across the road, little retired banker fella, has been known to cannonball his rotundity across the road, and stand there and publicly berate me for my sloth and indolence.
Why don't you get a job? he says. Lot of you heard that, I'll bet.
Now, me being hip to the Socratic method, fires back a question. Why?
Why? he says, taken aback. If you had a job you could make three, four, five dollars an hour.
I said Why? I asked, pursuing the same tack.
He said, Hell, you make three, four, five dollars an hour, you could open a savings account, save up some of that money. I said, Why?
He said, Well, you save up enough of that money, young fella, pretty soon you'll never have to work another day in your life.
I said, Hell, that's what I'm doing right now!
–Utah Phillips (1984), in the middle of his performance of Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! on We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
—Utah Phillips (1984), Hallelujah! I'm A Bum, on We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
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Vrådal is situated at the upper part of lake Nisser and the lower part of lake Vråvatn. Lake Nisser is 77 km2 and is connected to lake Vråvatn via 2 locks, Småstraum og Storestraum, and a canal. Lake Nisser is Norway's 9th largest lake and Telemark's largest lake.
In the summer M/S Fram offers lake cruises on Nisser. The veteran boat M/S Fram was built as a tug boat in 1909. Its purpose was to tow lumber on Nisser and Vråvatn. At Småstraum lock you'll find Vrådal Slusemuseum, which is open when the boat goes through the lock.
There are plenty of fish in the lake, and the tourist information in the centre of Vrådal sells fishing licenses.


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Penalty for the worst offenders
The Act includes a new criminal offence to help tackle the most serious instances of bullying and harassment by people using digital technology. It's now illegal to send messages and post material online that deliberately causes a victim serious emotional distress.
The offence – causing harm by posting digital communication – is punishable by up to 2 years' imprisonment or a maximum fine of $50,000 for individuals and a fine of up to $200,000 for companies.
If someone is charged with the offence, the case will be heard in court. The court will take into account factors such as the age of the victim, the context, how widely the material spread, and whether what was said or implied was true or false. The court will also weigh up people's right to freedom of expression.
New complaints agency
The Act established an "approved agency" to resolve complaints about harmful digital communications, providing a quick and efficient way for victims to seek help from an independent body.
NetSafe has been appointed at the approved agency. Its role includes advising people what action they can take to resolve a problem; investigating serious complaints and attempting to reach settlements between complainants and content authors; and liaising with website hosts, internet service providers and other intermediaries (both here and overseas) and requesting them to take down or moderate content that's clearly harmful.
New court orders
The District Court has a new civil process that will provide a speedy, efficient and relatively cheap legal avenue for dealing with serious or repeated harmful digital communications.
The court will deal with cases where it's alleged someone has or will suffer harm, and will look into whether there's been a serious breach, a threatened serious breach or a repeated breach of one or more of the 10 communication principles outlined in the Act.
Members of the public need to go to NetSafe before they can apply to the court. Police can apply to the court (without going through NetSafe) when a communication threatens a person's safety. The Chief Coroner may apply for a takedown order about material relating to suicide, if publication is prohibited by the Coroners Act.
The court will be able to order a broad range of remedies, including:
orders to take down material
cease-and-desist orders
orders to publish a correction, an apology or give the complainant a right of reply
orders to release the identity of the source of an anonymous communication
ordering name suppression for any parties.
So under this process, the court will order people or companies to do certain things – they won't receive fines or prison terms. However, it is an offence to not comply with these new court orders; anyone found guilty may be sentenced to up to six months in prison or fined up to $5,000 (companies can be fined of up to $20,000).
Find out more about the court process
Making it easier to complain about harmful content
When people harass or intimidate others via modern technology, they use services provided by online and telecommunications companies, and/or post content on websites, blogs, social media platforms and forums run by other people.
The Act recognises that these companies and people (known as online content hosts) shouldn't necessarily be held responsible for others' actions.
So the Act includes an optional "safe harbour" provision, which limits hosts' liability for harmful content posted by others – but only if they follow a set process for handling complaints.
Under that process, hosts have to make it easy for you to make a complaint about content they're hosting. They also have to follow certain steps within certain timeframes.
You can expect to know 48 hours to 96 hours after you make a complaint (and often more quickly than that) whether the content will come down or not. Just how long will depend on factors such as whether the host can contact the author of the content; whether the author agrees to your request; and how long the host and author take to see the complaint and act.
These timeframes may seem quite long in the fast-moving world of digital communications, but they aim to balance freedom of expression with reducing harm.
Clamping down on bullies who encourage their victims to commit suicide
The Act strengthened the law against inciting someone to commit suicide. It is now illegal, regardless of whether or not the victim attempts to take their own life (previously, it was only an offence if the victim committed suicide or tried to). If convicted, an offender may be sentenced to up to 3 years in prison.
Until now, it's only been illegal to aid, abet or incite suicide if a person actually attempts or commits suicide.
The new offence recognises the distress victims can suffer and sends a message that the potential consequences of this kind of harassment are too serious to ignore.
This page was last updated: 2nd October 2017

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Great Harbor City KAOHSIUNG
By Rick Charette May 15, 2016 Kaohsiung City, Rick Charette, South Taiwan, Top Trips 0 Comments
Sightseeing Guide with Recommendations for Places of Interest, Things to Do, and Where to Have Fun
Text: Rick Charette; Photos: Chen Cheng-kuo (published in Travel in Taiwan, January 2016)
Located in Taiwan's far south, Kaohsiung is Taiwan's industrial powerhouse. It is home to a population of hard-working can-do people that have long chafed at their home's reputation as Taiwan's "second city," with first city Taipei hogging the limelight as the island's political and cultural powerhouse. What have they done about it? In true Kaohsiung get-it-done fashion, they've been hard at work since the late 1990s remaking the city brand, seeking to craft a cultural destination that draws spotlight attention on the international stage. Travel in Taiwan recently rode the High Speed Rail line from our cool Taipei base down to the warm southern metropolis for a 3-day "let's see what's new" visit.
Kaohsiung Harbor
Kaohsiung's Best Views
Have your camera ready when boarding the ferry to Qijin Island at Gushan Ferry Pier. Locals stream onto the lower parking-lot deck on scooters (you go to the upper deck, via a separate entrance). The ride across the narrow, ship-packed Kaohsiung Harbor is so quick that many don't bother to get off their machines. Qijin Island is a 9km-long silt-created giant sandbar that serves as a breakwater and defines the harbor's form. Its tourist area is on the north end, beyond the ferry pier. Directly beyond the pier is Qijin Old Street – you're in Kaohsiung's oldest settlement, dating back to the 1600s – lined with inexpensive, simple-décor, high-quality seafood eateries serving the freshest catch imaginable, with display tanks by entrances. Filling up the narrow streets between Old Street and the high hill at the island's north tip are quaint old residences built of wood, granite, brick, coral and, it seems, anything else that was at hand on the day.
Gushan ferry
Tianhou (Empress of Heaven) Temple, fronted by scores of swaying, brilliant-red lanterns, is Kaohsiung's oldest temple, established in 1673. Since Qijin's riches have always come from the sea, you'll not be surprised that the temple is dedicated to Mazu, Goddess of the Sea, protector of seafarers. Qihou Lighthouse, a snow-white 11-meter-high Baroque-style tower erected by the Japanese in 1916, stands at the edge of a sea-facing cliff guarding the harbor's exceedingly narrow north-end mouth. Enthralling views of the busy harbor can be enjoyed as ships squeeze by below. The old Qihou Battery, on the west side of the hill, was built by a justifiably anxious Qing Dynasty government in the 1870s, fearful of invasion by the Japanese or Western powers. It was later used by both Taiwan's Japanese colonial masters and the Chinese Nationalist government. (Note: Temple, lighthouse, and fortress are all open to the public; but the lighthouse is closed on Mondays.)
Qihou Battery
Rent a bicycle or electric quadricycle (inexpensive and well-maintained) from one of the shops right outside the Qijin ferry building for a fun, breezy meander along the island's west side, facing the Taiwan Strait. Qijin Seaside Park is stretched out along the north section. Among the new draws here is Rainbow Church, a colorful open-air chapel-like structure with an ocean backdrop that draws countless couples for wedding-photo shoots, and the Qijin Sea Pearl, a large clam-shaped amphitheater-like structure designed as a sea-viewing platform, its shape magnifying the recorded sea sounds played. A little further south is young Qijin Wind Power Park, an eco-theme park with a line of small tri-blade wind turbines that provide nighttime park illumination, a large observatory directly behind.
Qijin Seaside Park
Qijin Sea Pearl
Qijin Wind Power Park
In the evening, we took a short taxi ride from Gushan Ferry Pier up to Kaohsiung Martyrs' Shrine, located on Shoushan (Mt. Longevity; elevation 365m), north of the pier. Our destination was not the shrine (which is closed at night), but Shoushan Lover's Observatory in front, from which terrific views over the harbor and brightly lit city core are enjoyed. Photo buffs love to frame their masterpieces with the large, white steel "LOVE" sculpture in the foreground. Kaohsiung's two other best "big picture" city-viewing spots are the 74F observation deck in the skyscraping 85 Sky Tower and the high-perch Former British Consulate at Takao; more on these in the main text. (Note: Shoushan is quiet at night, so if taking a taxi up, ask your driver to wait or ask if he'll come back later and get his number.)
Shoushan Lover's Observatory
Sitting atop a Shoushan spur that comes right down to the harbor's north-end mouth, near Gushan Ferry Pier, is The British Consulate at Takow (britishconsulate.khcc.gov.tw). The original consulate was built in 1865, after Taiwan treaty ports were opened following the Second Opium War. The current heritage-site edition, an attractive red-brick building done in late Renaissance Baroque style, dates to 1879. There are sweeping views of the harbor, harborside districts, and out to sea, the last invariably busy with container-ship comings and goings. The rectangular mansion, which has a breezy wraparound arcade veranda, today houses displays on 19th-century trade and the important amateur natural scientist Robert Swinhoe, who served as British consul. It also has a café/restaurant with much-in-demand outdoor seating, day and night.
The British Consulate at Takow
The young, expansive, and still-growing Pier-2 Art Center (pier-2.khcc.gov.tw), a special zone that is at the heart of the city's cultural-creative bloom, has become one of its most popular attractions. The numerous old, renovated Kaohsiung Harbor warehouses here, long abandoned, were formerly used to store such goods as fish meal and granulated sugar. Today they are cultural-creative incubator stages for domestic and international exhibitions, festivals, live indoor and outdoor musical, theatrical, and busker performances, and large-scale outdoor installation artworks and graffiti-style/3D murals, many wonderfully quirky and whimsical, some created by artists-in-residence. There are also various cultural-creative merchandise shops and cafés/eateries, including bistro-style Now and Then.
Pier-2 Art Center
Iconic Modern Architecture
As part of its rebranding campaign, the city is giving birth to some striking modernist architecture. The king of Kaohsiung has long been, and remains, the lofty 85 Sky Tower, which looks like a giant spacecraft propped atop two massive booster rockets, ready to launch. Two spanking-new structures, Kaohsiung Exhibition Center (www.kecc.com.tw) and Kaohsiung Main Public Library (www.ksml.edu.tw), are within easy walking distance. The park-surrounded harborside exhibition facility looks like a paean to Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest. Be sure to visit the green library's lovely 8F rooftop hanging garden, which has a fine broad view of the harbor and Qijin. Elsewhere, another young green-complex creation, the magnificent membrane-roof Dadong Arts Center (dadongcenter.khcc.gov.tw), has also become an artistic attraction, especially at night when lit up.
Dadong Arts Center
What's not to love about the Love River? On my first few visits, in the 1990s, it was a brackish "waterway" in which the water moved little, if at all. Today, thanks to dedicated eco-engineering, it is clean, the waters flow freely, and fish have returned. The landscaped banks are lined with benches, bike- and pedestrian-friendly paths, and attractive lamp lighting. The mood is best at night, when the cafés, bars, and small eateries are brightly lit up. All provide alfresco seating. Locals affectionately call this "Taiwan's Seine River." We'll call it Taiwan's "Seine River with Taiwanese characteristics." In the busiest section, near Zhongzheng Bridge on Zhongzheng 4th Road, you're regaled with Chinese pop music from the cafés/bars, hawker calls from the boat-cruise ticket kiosks, and Taiwanese love songs from the gondoliers.
Love Cruising
A Love River boat cruise is a veritable rite of passage for visitors to Kaohsiung. Rides on solar/diesel-powered Love Boats and gondolas are offered, with commentary provided, and with the gondoliers periodically breaking out in song. Cruises operate weekdays from 18:00~22:00 and weekends/holidays from 15:00~22:00. Check details in person at the ticket booths beside the cruise-outing piers, or with the Tourism Bureau of Kaohsiung (tourism.kcg.gov.tw).
Love River
On our final day we first visited pleasant Hongmaogang Cultural Park, located on a peninsula point in the port's south sector, opposite the south end of long Qijin Island. This has been the site of an indigenous village and, founded in imperial times, a Han Chinese fishing village. "Hongmaogang" means "Red Hairs Harbor." Dutch ships moored here in the 1600s; the Chinese commonly called Hollanders, and Westerners in general, "Red Hairs." The young park is built around the remains of the old Han village; there are videos and displays on the local indigenous life and on Hongmaogang's "five major cultural properties: lagoons, shrimp farming, black mullet fishing and draggers, neighborhood temples, and sailing rafts." Other facilities include an exhibition hall, skywalk, revolving restaurant, and gift shop. (Note: Get here from Pier 2 on a boat cruise, or from KMRT Siaogang Station via shuttle bus; for full site details, visit hongmaogang.khcc.gov.tw.)
Hongmaogang Cultural Park
We finished up our southern inspection tour with an afternoon of rollicking good fun at the wildly successful E-Da World (www.edaworld.com.tw), located close to the city core in the Kaohsiung countryside. The young park, according to Kevin Lin, GM of EDA Development Co., was brought into existence with two foundation ideas in mind: to serve as a benchmark model of international standards and sophistication for Taiwan's rebranding Kaohsiung/Tainan region, and to provide a destination for families, with all members' wide-ranging needs and desires catered to.
The theme-park area has rides, games, and all sorts of other entertainment. The adjoining mall has scores of upscale brand-name outlets and a moderately-priced youth-oriented section. The large upscale hotel has numerous superb restaurants, spa facilities, and many other attractions. There's also a baseball driving range, a golf range, and many other recreational facilities. We spent our afternoon (give yourself a full day if at all possible) riding the giant rooftop ferris wheel, thrilling 55-meter-high rollercoaster, and scenic monorail, enjoying a skate on the mall's ice rink, watching the Halloween-theme parade and show with players costumed, incongruously, a la Mad Max and The Nutcracker, snacking way too much … and much, much else that I just don't have time to tell you about.
And then we went home – back in Taipei in just 90 minutes with the High Speed Rail. The (Happy) End.
Breezy Cycling + Light Rail Rides
A half-decade ago CNN Travel declared Kaohsiung one of the "5 best biking cities in Asia," and things have only gotten better since. The central city has scores of public bike-rental stations, many at metro stations. Cycling is an attractive option for getting to most city attractions – for example, a dedicated harbor-area path runs right through Pier-2 Art Center, and there are private bike-rental outlets path-side, just off-complex. Among the newest bike-system attractions is the beautiful "Star of Qianzhen" bike overpass, a stylish work of art which flies over the busy intersection above the metro's Kaisyuan Station.
While visiting you'll no doubt notice the light-rail trains stopping at the small station on the wide, grassy traffic island underneath. The first stage of the city's new electric light-rail system (Taiwan's first) is now formally in operation; lock your bike up outside the metro station and hop on one of the sleek-look light-rail trains. The full system, a loop, will be 22.1km long, and integrated with the city's bike and pedestrian paths (it is slated for completion in 2019). The first-stage section (in operation this year) is 8.7km long and takes you past such key attractions as the Dream Mall, Kaohsiung Main Public Library, Kaohsiung Exhibition Center, and Pier-2 Art Center.
Getting There and Around
Kaohsiung can be reached from Taipei in about 90 minutes when taking the high-speed rail; the fastest regular-railway service takes close to five hours (there is no domestic Taipei-Kaohsiung airway connection). The high-speed rail service's Kaohsiung terminus and metro system's Zuoying Station are in the same complex. Most attractions mentioned in this article are close to a Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit (KMRT) station. There is a regular shuttle-bus service between the high-speed rail terminus and E-Da World; English-speaking staff at the station's visitor information counter will show you where the bus stop is.
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English and Chinese
85 Sky Tower 高雄85大樓
Dadong Arts Center 大東文化藝術中心
E-Da World義大遊樂世界
Gushan Ferry Pier 鼓山渡輪碼頭
Hongmaogang Cultural Park 紅毛港文化園區
Kaohsiung Exhibition Center 高雄展覽館
Kaohsiung Main Public Library 高雄市立圖書總館
Kaohsiung Martyrs' Shrine 高雄市忠烈祠
Kevin Lin 林俊昇 Love River 愛河
Pier-2 Art Center 駁二藝術特區
Qijin Island 旗津島
Qijin Old Street 旗津老街
Qijin Sea Pearl 旗津海珍珠
Qijin Seaside Park 旗津海岸公園
Qijin Wind Power Park 旗津風車公園
Qihou Battery 旗后砲台
Qihou Lighthouse 旗後燈塔
Rainbow Church 彩虹教堂
Shoushan 壽山
Shoushan Lover's Observatory 壽山情人觀景
"Star of Qianzhen" 前鎮之星
Tianhou (Empress of Heaven) Temple 天后宮
The British Consulate at Takow 打狗英國領事館
Zhongzheng Bridge 中正大橋
Further reading other sites
Hoponworld: THE BEST COLORFUL PLACES TO VISIT IN KAOHSIUNG
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A Canadian, Rick has been resident in Taiwan almost continually since 1988. His book, article, and other writings, on Asian and North American destinations and subjects—encompassing travel, culture, history, business/economics—have been published widely overseas and in Taiwan. He has worked with National Geographic, Michelin, APA Insight Guides, and other Western groups internationally, and with many local publishers and central/city/county government bodies in Taiwan. Rick also handles a wide range of editorial and translation (from Mandarin Chinese) projects.
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The History Behind the World's Most Famous Sign, "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas"
Imagine Las Vegas, and the images most likely to pop into your head are the Strip, the desert mountains, and of course, that famous sign that reads, "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas." For many visitors to Las Vegas, it's the first thing they see on the way in and the last thing they see on the way out – that is, unless they bought any of the numerous souvenirs that bear its image. We all know the sign, but where exactly did it come from?
The Idea of a Salesman
Contrary to what you might think, the Las Vegas sign wasn't born in a business boardroom or thought up by local officials. Rather, it was originally conceived by Ted Rogich, a local salesman, who was confounded as to why the city, which was at the time alit with dozens of neon signs advertising its casinos, didn't advertise itself better. It was the early 1950s when he began came thinking of creating a bright, flashy Las Vegas sign, though the sign wouldn't be completed until 1959.
Designing the Sign
Rogich wasn't the one who actually designed the sign, however. That distinction goes to Betty Willis, who fashioned the landmark in the Googie style. No, not Google. Googie was a type of design that was popular during the 1950s – think pastel colors, triangles, and futuristic neon. Willis also included several symbols within the sign. For instance, the "Welcome" part of the sign is spelled out with circles around each letter, representing silver dollars.
Appearance in Souvenirs and Elsewhere
Technically, the Young Electric Sign Company owns the sign, leasing it out to Clark County. However, Willis was adamant that the design of the sign not be copyrighted, considering it a gift to Las Vegas. This, arguably, is much of the reason you see it everywhere. People are free to use the design on anything they want, such as T-shirts, keychains, and bumper stickers. In 2005, the sign got some more formal recognition when it was featured on the Nevada license plate, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Las Vegas' founding.
An Imitator Meets an Unkindly Fate
In the summer of 2016, Las Vegans got quite the fright when they saw the story about a driver who had plowed into a fabulous downtown sign, destroying it. Thankfully, it turned out to be a replica sign of sorts, located more centrally downtown, that read "Welcome to Fabulous Downtown Las Vegas." The sign was erected in 2002, so while it had some history behind it, it wasn't near as irreplaceable as its much older sibling.
While the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign was originally intended to draw tourists into the city, now it's become a tourist landmark. It's turned into such a popular photo opportunity that, in 2008, the city installed a parking lot and cordoned off the area so the tourists wouldn't be hit by passing cars. In 2009, the sign's historical status was finally recognized in the National Register of Historic Places, and in 2013, in the State Register of Historic Places.


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A man was arrested after attacking students at a primary school in Beijing on Tuesday, according to a district government, in a rare act of violence against children in the Chinese capital.
Twenty children were wounded and were taken to hospital, the Xicheng district government said in a post on its social media account.
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About six police cars were parked outside a hospital near the school, according to a Reuters witness.
Police declined to comment by telephone when asked about the attack.
In January 2017, a man in southern China stabbed 12 children with a vegetable knife to extract revenge for his life not going as he wanted and a dispute with a neighbour.
The man was executed this month.


Many of you that have followed along in my journey so far know that I use protein powder for many things other than protein shakes. Protein pancakes, waffles, brownies, ice cream, you name it! To be honest, I'm just not a fan of just drinking a protein shake unless its a. my Phormula 1 and Ignition post workout shake (which serves a very different purpose) or b. if I'm really in a crunch and need something quick.
Now, this is NOT a protein powder you would want to have post workout, which is why it's different from the Phormula 1 I just mentioned. Level 1 protein is a slower digesting protein meant for a meal replacement. It is a whey / casein protein, which processes slower in the body making it ideal for times you aren't able to get your hands on a whole food meal, or in my case, anytime I want something sweet but know I shouldn't indulge in something that I'll pay for later.
I have tried all of them except the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup and Caramel Latte. Whenever I am trying a new protein powder I start with Vanilla. Because I mainly use meal replacement protein for baking and whatnot, it's a very neutral flavor that can be added to, to change the flavor if needed.
When I tried the Vanilla Ice Cream Level 1, it was honestly probably another 8 months before I tried another flavor. Although I feel vanilla flavors are very generic, this one REALLY gave that rich vanilla ice cream flavor that you'd get from your favorite ice cream shop. Again, I used this mainly for pancakes, waffles, microwave brownies, protein bars and cookies but in the times I did just need a quick meal on the go, Vanilla Ice Cream Level 1 did the trick.
The next flavor of Level 1 I tried was the Ice Cream Sandwich. The reason I tried this is because I began making protein soft serve with my Vanilla Ice Cream Level 1 (1 scoop + 1 cup cashew or almond milk + 7-8 large ice cubes in the blender) and I thought the Ice Cream Sandwich Level 1 would be a great candidate for this. Man was I correct and then some. This took my protein soft serve to a whole new level!
Luckily, it was also versatile enough to use in my baking recipes as well. I mean who doesn't want cookie pieces in their pancakes? I sure as hell am okay with that. It really does taste like a blended ice cream sandwich, just like you ate in your childhood. There are tons of companies that make cookies n creme flavored protein powder but trust me Level 1 Ice Cream Sandwich is different and in a VERY good way.
I would have definitely been content if these were the only flavors Level 1 came in but since I had such a good experience so far, I figured why not try some more. So I ordered Milk Chocolate and Strawberry Milkshake. Now, these are two flavors are very out of my comfort zone. I am very much a plain ol vanilla type of person. I'm picky about when I want things to be chocolate flavored and probably once every two years I'll crave a strawberry milkshake.
At first, I had yet to think of anything else to do with the Strawberry Milkshake Level 1 aside from making the protein soft serve with it or just having it with a cup of almond milk but then I was reminded of the berries and cream Quaker Oats I used to love and decided to try it as overnight oats! (1/2 cup oats + 1/2 cup almond milk + 1/2 scoop Strawberry Milkshake Level 1) To be honest, nothing beats those little packets of happiness but this was pretty damn close.
Strawberry Milkshake Level 1 was perfect both as soft serve and a regular ol shake as well. Actually, one of my favorites to use as just a meal replacement shake. VERY true to the strawberry flavor, not artificial tasting at all compared to other strawberry protein shakes I've had in the past. Any time I really want to switch it up, Level 1 Strawberry Milkshake is my go to but I don't purchase it as often as the others.
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Last but %1000 not least, Cinnamon Cookie Batter Level 1. For a while (and I mean a while) Ice Cream Sandwich Level 1 was my all around go to…and then Cinnamon Cookie Batter Level 1 came into the picture. I felt like I was having a love affair. The first thing I tried with this flavor was protein pancakes because cinnamon. cookie. pancakes. They were amazing as they sound, like doughy, warm, cookie cakes. I really wasn't expecting it to take the place of my beloved Ice Cream Sandwich Level 1 in the soft serve department but it impressively did.
The calories and macros for the Level 1 Protein are: 139 calories 2.5g fat 5g carb 24g protein which is pretty standard for a slower digesting meal replacement protein but the kicker with 1st Phorm is that they process all of their protein at a low temperature, which prevents the protein from becoming denatured (less bioavailable).
When protein is cooked at a high temperature, many of the essential nutrients are lost and therefore serve little purpose in your body and actually cause indigestion, bloating, gas etc. (aka bubble guts). Unfortunately, this is why you'll find huge 5 lb tubs of protein sold for super cheap (because it was cheap to make). While you think you may be getting a good deal, what you're really getting is low grade, denatured protein sprinkled with some useless fillers.
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Airbnb Inc. and other home-sharing firms won't have to comply with a New York City law requiring them to turn over renter data until a lawsuit over the issue is resolved, giving the company a reprieve from a rule that threatened to cut its bookings in the city by half.
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer on Thursday granted a request from Airbnb and HomeAway Inc. for a temporary injunction against the city ordinance, which was set to take effect Feb. 2. He ruled the companies are likely to win on their claim that the law violates the constitutional ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.


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Q: How to find maximum number of consecutive one's in a binary number? I am trying to find the maximum number of consecutive one's in a binary string.
Input: 67
Expected Output: 2
My Output: 7
Explanation: 67 in binary is 1000011, so the output should be 2. But I'm getting 7 as the output. Can somebody point out the mistake?
Here's the code:
public class Test{
    static int getMax(int n)
    {
        String bin = Integer.toBinaryString(n);
        char[] arr = bin.toCharArray();
        int count = 0;
        int result = 0;
        for(int i=0; i < arr.length; i++)
        {
            if(arr[i]==0)
            {
                count = 0;
            }
            else
            {
                count++;
                result=Math.max(result,count);
            }
        }
        return result;
    }
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
         System.out.println(getMax(67));
    }
}

A: Apart from the wrong condition (if (arr[i] == 0) should be if (arr[i] == '0')), you don't need to compute the maximum every time in a loop.
Good luck!

A: Change the if condition to..
if(arr.charAt(i)=='0')

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Comedian, Amy Schumer, is very honest about her lower back tattoo. She even named her book The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo. She's not the biggest fan of this tattoo, even going as far as using the hashtag #yesiknowmytattoosucks on her Instagram, but we respect her openness.
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Jennifer Lawrence is one of the most down to Earth and relatable celebrities out there. She had a spur of the moment tattoo experience with co-star Liam Hemsworth. She still wears the H20 symbol near her thumb. Check out this link by clicking here to find out the story behind her inkspiration.
3. Megan Fox
Back in the earlier 2000's actress, Megan Fox, got a pretty major tattoo of the iconic Marilyn Monroe's portrait on her back. According to an interview she was over it by 2011. She opened up about why she chose to have this tattoo removed, click here to find out the surprising reason why.
It's crazy to think this once 12-year-old Canadian Youtuber is now not only an adult but an adult who is nearly covered in tattoos. Among his tattoos, there's an old tattoo he got of his ex's face, the well-known singer/actress, Selena Gomez. The Biebs tried to cover this up with shading but it's still widely recognized. Wanna know more about this? Click here.
1. Ben Affleck
Type in Ben Affleck's name and right under Ben Affleck Batman, you'll find Ben Affleck back tattoo. Yes, the tattoo he once claimed to be fake for a movie role is as real as french toast and it's pretty hard to miss. You can check out this article about Ben's good friend, Matt Damon defending his bold choice to keep this tattoo: click here.
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Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Sorry for Your Loss) will be venturing outside of the Star Wars universe to spend some time in one filled with fantasy, horror, and the supernatural. The actress is set to join Kaitlyn Dever, Taylor Schilling, and Mike Colter on Hulu's anthology series Monsterland, based on stories from Nathan Ballingrud's collection North American Lake Monsters. Created, written, and executive produced by Mary Laws and produced by Annapurna Television, the series is set in a world that involves encounters with fantasy creatures like mermaids and fallen angels and follows broken people driven to desperate acts in an attempt to repair their lives. Babak Anvari, Lucan Toh, Megan Ellison, and Sue Naegle are also set to executive produce, with Ali Krug co-executive producing.
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In the upcoming episode "Iron River, MI", Tran stars as Lauren, who returns to her small Michigan hometown to be married. She had managed to build a new life for herself after her best friend, Elena, went missing when they were 16. Previously (and what feels like for an episode different from Tran's), we learned that Dever was cast in the role of Toni, a struggling waitress and overwhelmed mother to a deeply troubled little girl. At just 19, Toni is already world-weary. Making do in nowhere Louisiana without family, money or the hope of something better, Toni's life is a long, dark highway with no exit in sight.
At least until she meets Tucker's Alex, a mysterious out-of-towner, road-hard and brooding, whose mere presence feels like a threat — or a dare. Magnetic in his strangeness, Alex has found a shocking way to jettison his past and take on new identities — one that inspires Toni to shake off the burdens of her own merciless life, whatever the cost. But is she truly willing to go as far as "whatever the cost" might mean?
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Rather than ride as far as I could each day and simply hope there'd be a place to stay at the end of it, I decided it would be best if I planned the next two days a little more. I worked out I could reach Gurgaon (the centre out of Delhi where I should be able to store my bike while I return to Perth) by the end of tomorrow; and I could make it there from either Mathura or Vindravan after a big day's ride tomorrow. I chose Vrindavan because it's a little further north.
Once in Vrindavan, I rode to the Hare Krishna Complex and found a place to stay at the end of the back lane. With no electricity (which meant no hot water or WIFI) to distract me, I headed straight out to explore Sri Krishna-Balaram Mandir and surrounding attractions, where I was blown away by the stunning marble architecture and enchanted by the Hare Krishna community bustling about. I know nothing of Hare Krisha, my only exposure to the Hare Krishna movement being the handful of times I saw processions through Perth city during my childhood. I passed through the temple several times through the evening to observe the various rituals (chanting, music, dancing) going on. The atmosphere was otherworldly and I felt drawn to the religious practices going on. It's time to do some reading on the matter.


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A Voice for Victims of Crime
by Sheila Polk, Yavapai County Attorney
It was late evening. The middle-aged couple was watching TV in their Scottsdale home when two masked offenders wielding knives broke through a back door. As the husband valiantly fought with one, the second grabbed his wife and held the knife to her throat. The couple were then bound at the wrists and ankles with duct tape. The intruders demanded their jewelry, wallets, credit cards and pin numbers. Again, the husband attempted to resist until, again, a knife was held to his wife's throat. Finally, the intruders stuffed the couple into a closet, mouths gagged, and fled the residence.
After several hours, the husband was able to loosen his bonds, then his wife's, and call for help. Thanks to good police work and ATM photos of the criminals as they withdrew cash around the valley from the victims' bank account, the two intruders were arrested.
The year was 1990. As a young prosecutor, I handled this home invasion/armed robbery of a Scottsdale home. My memory of the case has dimmed in the ensuing years, but one memory has not. The victims, terribly traumatized by the events, were relieved to hear the judge sentence the intruders to 15 years prison each. But then I explained to them Arizona's sentencing laws.
You see, in 1990, defendants were eligible for parole after serving only one half to two thirds of their court-imposed sentence.
The victims' emotions turned to disbelief, anguish, anger and finally fear and bitterness for a system where a 15-year prison sentence did not really mean 15 years.
In 1990, Arizona passed our Crime Victims' Bill of Rights and in 1993 passed Truth-in-Sentencing laws. Since then, our system ensures that a convicted criminal serves at least 85% of the sentence, removing uncertainty about the actual length of time served.
The myth persists that Arizona's sentencing laws take all discretion away from judges. The "truth" is that Truth-in-Sentencing offers judges a range of prison terms that can be imposed for different types of crime based on the severity of the crime itself. As a rule, prison is mandated only for the bad stuff — child molestation, specific sexual offenses, crimes involving deadly weapons or serious physical injury, major drug traffickers and DUIs. All other crimes are probation eligible unless the offender has a history of felony convictions.
Did you know that 70% of criminal offenders each year are sentenced to probation, not prison? Since 1996, treatment — not incarceration — is mandated for an offender's first two drug use/possession offenses. As a result, 95% of inmates are violent or repeat offenders. Only 5% are first-time nonviolent felons.1
The connection between drug use and crime is dramatic. Illicit drug users are far more likely to engage in other criminal behavior. While only 9% of Arizona's prison population consists of inmates whose most serious offense is drug possession, 77% have significant drug histories. Drug dealers, including those pedaling the deadly synthetic fentanyl, make up 11.6% of the state's prison population. Of those, nearly one quarter are criminal aliens trafficking drugs in our state.
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Crime Victims' Rights Week. Every year since, the United States has recognized one week in April as National Crime Victims' Rights Week to bring awareness to issues that victims of crime face.
Every crime, whether an assault, burglary, theft or stolen credit card, impacts the victim and our larger community. Promoting public policy initiatives that protect the rights of crime victims, including truth-in-sentencing laws, serves to create safe communities for all.
1 http://azsentencing.org/images/docs/Prisoners-in-Arizona—A-2017-Update-on-Selected-Topics-2017.pdf
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5 More Horror Movies That Were Never Made
Horror movies that were announced but were either cancelled, scrapped or unreleased.
by	Melissa B.	November 5, 2014
1. E.T. 2: Nocturnal Fears
Yes, that's right, they were really going to make a sequel, a much darker sequel at that, to the family film hit ET. The film was to be centered on Elliot and his friends being abducted and experimented on leaving it up to ET to save them.. Yeahhhh, this movie never made it far in the planning stages before being scrapped.
2. All American Massacre
All American Massacre was to be a spin-off of the infamous Texas Chainsaw Massacre series. The plot was to follow the Hewitt brother Choptop who finds himself locked away in a mental asylum. The film even went as far as having a trailer released and the film makers are still taking donations to finish it. You can find more info on their official website here.
3. Ridley Scott's I Am Legend
Now I know I Am Legend was already made into a semi-decent film that made millions in the box office, but back in 1997 director Ridley Scott had the same idea to adapt the famous novel. The adaptation would have featured Arnold Schwarzenegger as Robert Neville (which was Will Smith's character in the 2007 film.) The film was in the planning stages for most of the 90's but then when Schwarzengger and Scott both experienced box office flops, the studio became nervous and backed out of the film. It is said that Scott's version would have been very silent in the first half with quite a creep aurora. Check out some of the awesome concept artwork here.
4. Last Summer 3D
I Know What You Did Last Summer performed big at the box office, based off of Lois Duncan's novel of the same name. So it was only to be expected when it's sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer hit theaters, although it was not as successful as the first film. Over ten years since the sequel was released, plans for a third film was announced in 2011. Around the same time as the Scream series was revived, they had wanted to do the same with the IKWYDLS franchise. Last Summer 3D was to star Freddie Prince Jr, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Brandy Norwood and Anne Heche as well as many others. The film ultimately was cancelled due to the script being leaked on the internet.
5. Near Dark Remake
In 2008 director Ryan Zeller had plans to remake the 1987 cult vampire film Near Dark which would have starred Sophia Bush, Bill Paxton, Benjamin McKenzie and Heather Langenkamp. The movie had even been in the filming stages and about half the film was shot. However, after the studio saw the completed shots and were unhappy with them, the movie was halted and still to do this day has not been finished.
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The Dortmund Bumblebees have agreed on a record transfer
The ten most expensive transfers in the history of St. Petersburg cost the club a solid 275 million euros. "Borussia Dortmund paid only 12 million more for their record-breaking newcomers. At the same time Hulk, Danny, Bruno Alves and the rest of the Russian club's top ten went for a decent 140 million euros, and Dortmund received the same amount for one player – Ousmane Dembele. There were also sales of Sancho for 85 million euros, Pulisic for 64 million, Aubameyang for 63.75 million, Holand for 60 million euros and Mkhitaryan for 42 million.
"Borussia Dortmund did not overpay for these players, but even with the transfer of Abdou Diallo they managed not to miss out, as they took him from Mainz for an impressive 28 million euros and gave him to PSG for 32 million. For Zork and Watzke EUR 30 million for a player is a lot of money, they often buy cautiously, looking at the age of the player, seeing what clubs could use him in the future. The Bumblebees still have Amoroso in the top ten of the most expensive newcomers, and the Brazilian forward came from Parma in 2001 on the eve of the championship with Koller, Rosicky and Rikken.
When they sign Allaire for 35 million euros, Marcio will move up to eleventh place, and the Ivorian will repeat Ousmane Dembele's record. Sébastien scored 34 goals and made nine assists in 42 games this season for Ajax. The forward made his debut in the Champions League – 11 goals in eight games, more than only Lewandowski and Benzema. At Ajax Sebastien won the Dutch championship. Aller is 28 years old, but his age is not critical. Lewandowski at 33 consistently pleased with goals in the Bundesliga, and Aller still has the experience of playing in Germany, because he played for Eintracht.
Putting together a collection of forwards instead of Holand
Watzke understood that Erling would leave. It was thought to go to Real Madrid or Barcelona, but then plans changed. The Norwegian's insidious deal with Manchester City includes a reassurance for the striker. The option to buy the forward's contract for 150 million euros is activated in 2024, so Perez is already on a low start, planning a treacherous comeback, wants to get the young striker. The president of the "Slivos" was disappointed in Mbappe, but Hollande could be a replacement for Benzema, who has aged by then. Kudos to the late Raiola, putting his clients in direct hands. The Norwegian was not locked in the golden cage of the sheiks this summer, will be able to manage his own career after two seasons.
"Borussia Dortmund also did not have enough nerve to get such an interesting player, because they overpaid the player's father, but for the transfer Holand himself gave only 30 million euros to Salzburg, allowing him to leave for 60 million. We got both goals and money. But since Erling left for Guardiola, Borussia Dortmund need new strikers. Last season they signed the young Dutchman Malen for 30 million euros. He didn't play terribly, he scored, but got injured at the beginning of April. Doniell can play on the flank, or in the position of the insider, his place in the center of the attack is claimed by Aller absolutely.
Also, Dortmund were not stingy when they signed another player from Salzburg after Holand, Adeyemi. Karim politely trolls Bayern, which did not believe in him in his youth – the Borussia newcomer was born in Munich and spent a couple of years at the champions' academy. Then he went to Austria, played, collected a collection of goals, and is now Germany's most interesting central striker. Flick could use Adeyemi at the base of the national team at the 2022 World Cup if Karim proves himself in Borussia Dortmund's starting lineup. The €30 million rookie is valued slightly higher by the market, he has a five-year contract, could double in value, as the lad is only 20 years old.
Building a club strategy more cunning than Bayern
It's easier for Munich, because there is even more money, the status is even higher, it's easier to lure cool players because of the titles. When Klopp made Borussia first in Germany, he didn't have the same margin of safety. Hummels, Goetze, and Lewandowski all chose Munich. But Borussia Dortmund also knows how to look for players in the Bundesliga. They took German national team player Schlotterbeck from Freiburg, signed Kobel from Stuttgart last season, and Torgan Azar came from Borussia Mönchengladbach. Not all of Watzke's and Zork's transfers are successful, but Dortmund don't overpay and take big risks like the same Münchengladbach. The failures of Schürrle, Goetze or Alcacer have not destroyed the financial foundation.
Dortmund always have a couple of men in the lineup that will save the financial year. And Bayern, when money is tight, as it is now after the pandemic, usually has few good options. Selling Kimmich for 80 million euros is to lose a player as valuable as Kroos, who was once let go and regretted, because Toni became a legend at Real Madrid. Munich has Davis, Gnabry and Musiala, but no reputation as a club that knows how to sell players at a profit. Even Lewandowski's decision to leave triggered a conflict, not a financially profitable goodbye. Bayern has the wrong reputation, Douglas Costa's move to Juventus is a record, and there only 40 million euros.
Funny, but second on the list of expensive partings is Hummels, who was returned by Borussia Dortmund. Kroos and Hargreaves are in the top five. But those are things of the bygone days. And Borussia, when they need to supplement the club's budget, will show the buyers the contract of young Bellingham – the Englishman can be sent to the APL or Real Madrid for 80-100 million euros. Reina could also rise in value, as the son of "Captain America" is only 19 years old. Yussufa Mukoko is a bit lost as he has caught a couple of injuries, but he is only seventeen years old, the striker went to Borussia Dortmund for free. If they can extend the contract for a long time, then in the future they will get some decent money after the transfer of the Cameroonian German.
There are professionals sitting in Dortmund, and while everyone is not without sin, these ones are lurking and waiting for the right moment to storm to the top of the table. The choice of coach is a bit surprising – they brought back Edin Terzic, who does not yet look like a new Klopp or Tuchel. But once Bayern falters, it will be Tedesco's Leipzig and Borussia with Royce, Bellingham, Süle, Hummels and Aller who will be first in line for the silverware. Munich is confident of an eleventh consecutive title, but there are no eternal champions, even if the favorite makes smart transfers like Bayern.
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The recipe for this is two parts Antonioni's Blow Up and one part Coppola's The Conversation. Sound man (John Travolta) witnesses and accidentally records what may be the assassination of a president hopeful then suddenly finds himself in danger. An unsettling story about a one-man pursuit against rampant political corruption.
De Palma's film's are known for their strong sense of visual style but even by this standard Blow Up is unique. The cinematographer was Vilmos Zsigmond, who's other collaborations with De Palma include Obsession, Bonfire of the Vanities and The Black Dahlia.


Fans are finally closer than ever to witnessing detectives Carter and Lee back in action.
In an interview with Power 106's The Cruz Show, Jackie Chan revealed that a third sequel to the Rush Hour franchise is in the works.
The original Rush Hour was released in 1998 and saw Chan and Tucker as a police duo who clashed over culture and investigative styles. The film launched two sequels, Rush Hour 2 in 2001 and Rush Hour 3 in 2007.
Fans of the Rush Hour franchise took to Twitter after news of the new script spread.
In 2012, Tucker told Vulture that he wanted to get back in front of the camera alongside Chan.
Chan will next be seen in The Foreigner, which hits theatres Oct. 13.
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An Efficient Framework of Congestion Control for Next-Generation Networks
Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub (2010) An Efficient Framework of Congestion Control for Next-Generation Networks. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)
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The success of the Internet can partly be attributed to the congestion control algorithm in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). However, with the tremendous increase in the diversity of networked systems and applications, TCP performance limitations are becoming increasingly problematic and the need for new transport protocol designs has become increasingly important.Prior research has focused on the design of either end-to-end protocols (e.g., CUBIC) that rely on implicit congestion signals such as loss and/or delay or network-based protocols (e.g., XCP) that use precise per-flow feedback from the network. While the former category of schemes haveperformance limitations, the latter are hard to deploy, can introduce high per-packet overhead, and open up new security challenges. This dissertation explores the middle ground between these designs and makes four contributions. First, we study the interplay between performance and feedback in congestion control protocols. We argue that congestion feedback in the form of aggregate load can provide the richness needed to meet the challenges of next-generation networks and applications. Second, we present the design, analysis, and evaluation of an efficient framework for congestion control called Binary Marking Congestion Control (BMCC). BMCC uses aggregate load feedback to achieve efficient and fair bandwidth allocations on high bandwidth-delaynetworks while minimizing packet loss rates and average queue length. BMCC reduces flow completiontimes by up to 4x over TCP and uses only the existing Explicit Congestion Notification bits.Next, we consider the incremental deployment of BMCC. We study the bandwidth sharing properties of BMCC and TCP over different partial deployment scenarios. We then present algorithms for ensuring safe co-existence of BMCC and TCP on the Internet. Finally, we consider the performance of BMCC over Wireless LANs. We show that the time-varying nature of the capacity of a WLAN can lead to significant performance issues for protocols that require capacity estimates for feedback computation. Using a simple model we characterize the capacity of a WLAN and propose the usage of the average service rate experienced by network layer packets as an estimate for capacity. Through extensive evaluation, we show that the resulting estimates provide good performance.
Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub ihsan@cs.pitt.edu
Committee Chair Znati, Taieb znati@cs.pitt.edu ZNATI
Committee Member Partridge, Craig craig@bbn.com
Committee Member Mosse, Daniel mosse@cs.pitt.edu MOSSE
Committee Member Andrew, Lachlan landrew@swin.edu.au
Committee Member Melhem, Rami melhem@cs.pitt.edu MELHEM
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Computer Science
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy
Congestion Control; Efficiency; Fairness; High Bandwidth-Delay Product; Transport Protocols; Internet; Wireless
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http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-08082010-182002/, etd-08082010-182002
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9004


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Q: Rails how to get SoundCloud track information using SoundCloud song URL In my rails project, I want to get SoundCloud track/song title, description, provider data using song url given by user from his SoundCloud account or any SoundCloud link.

A: You can use the SoundCloud API for this - see section SoundCloud URLs:

If you have a permalink URL to a particular resource, but need more information such as an ID or other property. In these cases, you can use the /resolve endpoint to extract a full representation of the resource.

There's also an example using Ruby:
require 'soundcloud'

# create client with your app's credentials
client = Soundcloud.new(:client_id => 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID')

# a permalink to a track
track_url = 'http://soundcloud.com/forss/voca-nomen-tuum'

# resolve track URL into track resource
track = client.get('/resolve', :url => track_url)

# now that we have the track id, we can get a list of comments, for example
client.get("/tracks/#{track.id}/comments").each do |comment|
  puts "Someone said: #{comment.body} at #{comment.timestamp}"
end


I sense another naive person being dragged down the road of totally silly, pointless upgrades.
Cables, power supplies, isolation platforms, fuses and yes please upgrade that DAC before the music breaks down.
We are under no illusion that the oppo should give us many years of good service as is.
But I look upon HiFi not just as a means to listen to music ( or we would of gone to Argos for a all in one system), but also as a hobby and enjoy seeing how sometimes a simple change of equipment, be it a valve or cable can make a difference.
Hence we came to this site for advice.
The point is you are probably looking in the wrong direction. As I stated earlier in the thread, the standard Oppo Sonica run into that Croft amp and Rogers speakers produced a world class, deeply satisfying musical sound which I still talk about 10months later despite all the high end gear I own and which passes through my workshop. So for my money look at your listening room, amp or speakers for improvement and not an already great DAC.
I've been down a few modification rabbit holes in the past.
You have received really good advice, the Oppo equipment is well designed, a 'kitchen table ' modder is not going to improve it, adding valves/ output buffer may change the sound and ruinthe resale value of the unit.
Many of the 'improvements' touted by magazines and dealers are anything but, just snake oil and a waste of money.
Loudspeakers and their interaction with the room produce by far the largest gains in sound quality, that is where you should be looking.
There look to be some solid mods being offered for the Sonica such as upgrading of the dac clock, high quality film output section, linear power supply. These are all pretty much standard and well accepted methods of upgrading a components performance which I don't really see much wrong with myself. The mods obviously come at a cost which has to be weighed against would the money be better spent elsewhere be that on other components or moving up from the Sonica.
The cravat I guess would be the benefit of such mods might not be easily audible depending on how revealing the rest of your system is. Keith's comment of money best spent elsewhere in the system yielding better improvements is very relevant.
Those are solely going to improve the bank account of the 'modder' and not the equipment, they are not standard and are only accepted by those attempting to sell them to you.
Look at the myriad dac measurements over on ASR forum,one of the Oppo units is right at the top of the pile in terms of measurement.
IIRC, didn't Archimago test some sort of Oppo before and after being modded and the mods actually made it worse.
Keith for the most part honestly I do agree with your comments. But replacing a switching power supply to a quality linear power supply with high speed diodes and improved filtering and increased noise rejection is not uncommon as is replacing electrolytic capacitors in the signal path for film ones. This is a well trodden path for many hifi enthusiasts and for good reasons.
A well designed SMPS offers advantages over traditional linear supplies, RME for example state that their designs are immune to power supply because they have proper inbuilt regulation and filtration.
If you component is improved with a separate PS then it is intrinsically a poor design.
"A well designed SMPS offers advantages over traditional linear supplies, RME for example state that their designs are immune to power supply because they have proper inbuilt regulation and filtration. "
Well they would say that wouldn't they its a product they are marketing.
"If you component is improved with a separate PS then it is intrinsically a poor design. "
This is certainly not always the case, something like replacing a standard rectifier diode a 0.10p part to high speed diode 0.20p part which is simply more effective at isolating noise from your mains line. A practical example might be if you use an internet extender over mains circuit in your house sometimes with regular diodes noise artefacts may be noticeable through your equipment while higher speed diodes may be more effective at isolating this unwanted noise from your system. Both parts essentially do exactly the same thing just one is much more efficient at it. Its got nothing to do with being a intrinsically poor design just standard practise and general component cost lead decisions implemented by a manufacturer.
That argument is always trotted out, but electronic components are relatively inexpensive.
Just choose a well engineered product, this is ably demonstrated by Amir's dac testing over at ASR, good design and implementation creates better performing components.
... the issues with switched PSUs are well understood; it is simply more cost effective for a manufacturer to use a cheap SMPS wall wart to allow a single product design to work across all markets.