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Edward C. Halbach Jr. Professor of Law
ebiber@law.berkeley.edu
436 Boalt Hall (North Addition), Berkeley, CA 94720 MC:7200
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Eric Biber's teaching and research interests are environmental law, natural resources law, energy law, land-use law, federal Indian law, administrative law, and property. Prior to joining Berkeley in 2006, he worked as a litigator in the Denver office of Earthjustice, a public-interest nonprofit organization specializing in public lands and other environmental cases. Biber taught public lands law as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in fall 2005. He is a member of both the Colorado and California bars. He is the co-director of the Cannabis Research Center at UC Berkeley, which examines the environmental, regulatory, and economic implications of legalized cannabis production in California and elsewhere. He is also co-principal investigator for Getting It Right, a joint research project between Berkeley Law and the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation; this project examines how local and state land-use and environmental regulations and litigation shape the approval of new housing in urban areas in California and elsewhere.
Biber earned a master's of environmental science with a focus in conservation biology from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Following law school, Biber clerked for Judge Carlos Lucero of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver and Judge Judith Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Biber's scholarship has appeared in a wide range of law reviews, including the University of Chicago Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, University of Colorado Law Review, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Environmental Law, NYU Environmental Law Journal, and Administrative Law Review. Biber has published in several leading peer-reviewed natural science and social science journals, including Society and Natural Resources, Frontiers in Ecology and Environment, Ecography, and Science.
At Berkeley, Biber teaches courses in Property, Public Lands and Natural Resources Law, Biodiversity Law, Federal Indian Law, Energy Law, Land-Use Law, and Environmental Law and Policy. He also helps lead the Environmental Law Writing Seminar. He is the Director of the Environmental and Energy Law Programs at Berkeley.
A.B, Harvard College (1995)
J.D., Yale Law School (2001)
M.S., Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (2001)
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A crown is a prosthetic tooth replacement. A commonly used lay term for crown, is "Cap." When there is not enough tooth structure to support a filling, often a crown is recommended. Frequently this is due to severe decay, a cracked tooth and/or a failing old filling. Crowns are also a wonderful aesthetic option for a severely discolored tooth.
Crowns both protect and strengthen the remaining tooth structure. It can improve your smile, speech and ability to appropriately chew food, while also acting as a space maintainer, to prevent your other teeth from shifting.
What is the basic procedure for a crown?
Prior to placing a crown on top of the damaged tooth, the tooth is reshaped to make room for the prosthetic replacement. An impression of the reshaped tooth and the teeth surrounding is then taken. A temporary, office made, acrylic crown is placed on the reshaped tooth, while the impression is delivered to the lab. A lab made permanent crown, custom colored to match the surrounding teeth, is ready in usually 2 weeks. On a follow up visit, the temporary crown is removed and the permanent, lab made, crown is cemented in.
Crowns can be made of all gold, or porcelain fused to metal which are often used for back teeth. For front teeth, we recommend all ceramic crowns, which do not show the ugly dark line around the gum, resulting in a smile enhancing effect. We will discuss with you the pros and cons of each option.
A fixed dental bridge is made up of two or more anchor crowns that are attached on both sides of the replacement tooth or teeth. When these anchor crowns are cemented onto an implant or natural tooth on both sides of the empty space(s), with an attached replacement tooth (or teeth) as one unit, a dental bridge is created.
A fixed bridge is a wonderful way to replace missing teeth using your existing teeth, wherever possible, by filling in the space from which your tooth or teeth are missing. It can improve your smile, speech and ability to appropriately chew food, while also acting as a space maintainer, to prevent your other teeth from shifting.
What is the basic procedure for a bridge?
Prior to placing a bridge to fill in the space left by a missing tooth (or teeth), the teeth on either side of the space are both reshaped to make room for the prosthetic replacements. An impression of the reshaped teeth and the space left by the missing tooth (or teeth) is then taken. A temporary, office made, acrylic bridge is put in place with temporary cement, while the impression is delivered to the lab. A lab made permanent bridge, custom colored to match the surrounding teeth, is ready in usually 2 weeks. On a follow up visit, the temporary bridge is removed and the permanent, lab made, bridge is cemented in.
Bridges are made of ceramic, porcelain to metal or gold, based on the function and appearance. We will discuss with you the pros and cons of each option.


If these photos are blindingly bright, I apologize! The sun was setting when I finally got around to leaving the house and all of the photos were super dark. Of course, I had to wear colors that would totally make that situation worse. Haha. So yeah. I had to do some tinkering with the brightness and contrast so that the different layers of the outfit could be outlined. I hope you can see everything OK.
It had been a full day of studying for me. So, my partner and I decided to pop out for some fresh air and a late coffee before dinner. We walked a few blocks down to a hip cafe where I sipped a cortado on the outdoor patio and watched random people and cars pass by while the sky grew darker.


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More Coverage, Questions About the Shooting of LaVoy Finicum: Some Links
Many questions remain on the issue of LaVoy Finicum's shooting, and on the issue of FBI "justifications" of what many have noted was an ambush and pre-planned political execution. Sibel Edmonds and Peter Collins of Boiling Frogs Post discuss some of the questions including why the FBI sought to stop the Bundys and Finicum on a roadway instead of at the refuge, why the order was given to turn off body-cameras, and why there were snipers in the trees and up the slope if it was a "traffic stop." Was there a pre-determined intent here, to keep the Harney County group from speaking to and inspiring other counties locally to take action against BLM/Federal corruption that they were uncovering? State of the Nation explores further. David Knight of the Alex Jones show discusses the cell phone video of the shooting and comments on the shooting: This is a war of our government against the American people–we need to wake people up!
Can we as a nation stay on this case and continue to seek and obtain justice–can we begin to openly discuss and reveal FBI cover-ups and lies, government acts of aggression, encroachment, and corruption, and can we make it clear as David Knight notes that "they are the criminals"–can we turn this injustice around in other words? Can we begin to reclaim and restore the US to a state of real peace, lawfulness, and justice?
Sibel Edmonds aims to continue following the case, so please send any further information her way–links to Boiling Frogs Post below.
Links to a few related videos below.
State of the Nation/MASSIVE COVERUP Of LaVoy Finicum's Murder Unravels/The FBI and Oregon State Troopers Colluded To Kill Finicum and Cover It Up
Conspiracy to assassinate a true American hero perpetrated to silence
a vast citizen's movement; Subsequent cover-up will not be successful
The U.S. Federal Government is no stranger to adding insult to injury. In fact, doing so has become their signature MO in practically everything they touch. Such is the case with first carrying out the assassination of patriot LaVoy Finicum, and then covering up the cowardly murder.
There is no question that the FBI, working in tandem with the Oregon State Police, fastidiously planned out the execution of Finicum. All of the highest integrity evidence indicates that his killing was a calculated hit on one of the greatest heroes of the American patriot movement. The FEDs truly felt they had no choice but to snuff out a powerful voice of the coming 2nd American Revolution. Visit State of the Nation for more, with links to videos and other articles.
Boiling Frogs Post/ Processing Distortion with Peter B. Collins: Multi-Layered Cover-Up in "Finicum Shooting" & Subsequent Investigation –
Peter B. Collins presents: Todd Macfarlane & Sibel Edmonds
Hours after the news conference where Oregon investigators declared the January 26 roadblock killing of LaVoy Finicum "justified", Sibel Edmonds joined Peter B. Collins in a conversation with Todd Macfarlane, who had been representing the Finicum family. Unlike the hand-picked reporters at the briefing, we raise major questions about the justifications and review important details of the additional video and audio recordings released today, as well as the stunning revelation that 2 FBI agents lied to investigators (and 3 other agents backed them up) repeatedly in denying they had fired their weapons, leading to a fresh investigation of FBI wrongdoing by the FBI. Audio clip here.
– See more at: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2016/03/08/processing-distortion-with-peter-b-collins-multi-layered-cover-up-in-finicum-shooting-subsequent-investigation/#sthash.DsZDuKUB.dpuf
LaVoy Finicum's daughter: Stand with me, stand up for America, for the Constitution (2 minutes):
David Knight of the Alex Jones Show/includes cell phone video from inside LaVoy's car: We have to stand up to the violence the Government inflicts on us…we've got to educate the public.
Kris Anne Hall: Taking back the Narrative/an older post, before the Finicum shooting/at time of the Malheur Refuge occupation–The ultimate arbiters of the Constitution are the States themselves…it is time for us to understand the proper role and function of our government…. It is time to know the facts, the time to stand for the truth. Do we want an unlimited Federal Government, or do we want to stand for what is right? It is time to defend the Republic….We are the holders of power, we are the owners of our property–and when a government dictates property, we are nothing but slaves.
Tagged ......, Alex Jones show, Constitution, David Knight, FBI, Kris Anne Hall, LaVoy Finicum, Oregon State Police, Peter Collins, Sibel Edmonds, State of the Nation, Todd McFarlane
BFP Roundtable–James Corbett, Sibel Edmonds, Peter Collins: Ideas for a Stellar Consortium of Alternative Media to Support Ethical, Independent, Investigative, & Solutions Journalism
Please drop in either at Boiling Frogs Post, or The Corbett Report to view this very stimulating, thought-provoking, and all-round encouraging podcast featuring outspoken reporters Sibel Edmonds, James Corbett of the Corbett Report, and Peter Collins of the Peter Collins Show, discussing issues of government corruption, media complicity, and general American apathy on the Hastert case in addition to proposing exciting ideas for future reporting here:
Do You Give a Damn? Here's What We Can Do
(BFP Roundtable is a regular video roundtable podcast from Boiling Frogs Post, the multimedia news reporting, editorial, and analysis site run by Sibel Edmonds, FBI whistleblower and author of Classified Woman and Lone Gladio, who was recently profiled here in this post featuring Spiro's covering her site's focus on the Dennis Hastert case. along with other producers James Corbett, Peter Collins, Pearse Redmond and others associated with her site–see more from her site here.)
American Apathy & A Disengaged Populace/Here's One More Cause: Mind Control, Intel Control of Communities via Watchlisting/Targeting/Zersetzung, and A Microwaved/Nanoteched/Chemtrailed/Flouridated/Vaccinated Populace
I noticed one of the focuses of this very engaging conversation was the lack of response by the general American public to the issues of corruption, pedophilia in high places, and other unsavory revelations unleashed by the Dennis Hastert story that has been extensively covered on the Boiling Frogs Post site, and many thoughts about possible reasons were aired including general apathy, moral decay, scandal fatigue, and such.
I wished however that someone had interjected a very crucial and relevant observation about the very real technological and techno-social controls being imposed on whole populations today. No understanding of any country's
population's mindset today can be complete without discussing the very insidious, pervasive, and powerful controls being imposed by Mind Control and Mass Control technologies, as well as Intel Agency Surveillance/Control mechanisms particularly in the US, UK, and Europe, but also elsewhere.
Mind Control and Mass Control Technologies: Hypnosis, Microwaved Docility, Brain Entrainment, Nanotech Cyborging
It is no longer science fiction but science fact that populations are being variously mass microwaved and hypnotized into docility, compliance, and apathy. This has of course and is being widely covered by many researchers and reporters; writers like Jim Keith who reported on Mass Control techniques via subliminal advertising on television, among others, comes to mind. Deborah Tavares, Dr. Rauni Leena-Kilde, Dr. Sandra Perlinghieri, Sofia Smallstorm, Dr. Barrie Trower, Tim Rifat, and others talk about the pulsing of microwave signals into communities, the Lilly wave, the wide network of GWEN towers and ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) signals being dispersed via ground waves (our brains put out ELFs too, and can be entrained by ELFs), signals being sent out on cell phone antennas and towers at frequencies reserved for military use, signals being pulsed from any and every wireless device, and from various other sources such as microwave dish antennas in public places, InteliLights, etc.
Then there's the whole phenomenon of chem trails raining heavy metals and nanotechnology down on us, bits and bots of which are being inhaled by us and making us more electrically conductive and receptive to HAARP's EMFs being pulsed into our neighborhoods. This has been covered somewhat here in the Mass Controls post, which I do need to follow up on; I will make a second post soon covering Mass Control and Mind Control Technologies being c/overtly deployed on us. Meanwhile, please look up scientist Harald Kautz-Vella's talks on this subject on Youtube, among others. Brain technologies are currently out of control — or amazing, no doubt, if you're an unethical neuroscientist freely experimenting on human brains without consent today, a species which currently abounds — and that's another area to consistently cover and investigate and expose.
Much has also been written about the effects of flouride in our water, mercury in our vaccines, psychoactive drugs found in drinking water, and, recently, endocrine-disruptive chemicals in food additives and supplements, a topic covered also by UN activist Kevin Galalae, who has been exposing the actual, official, long-term depopulation agenda of the UN, being carried out via chemical and biological means.
Further, the public education system has been weaponized apparently–when children are deprived of a meaningful education for one which demotes critical thinking and independent enquiry and creative expression (look at how the arts are being defunded constantly, at every level), they are not going to grow into thinking, fearless adults with confidence in their own mental and inventive and expressive abilities, they're going to get rote jobs at rote spots, and engage in the rote activities of sports and sports-watching, and concede any creative impetus to the creators of the horror shows/detective shows/murder shows they're being trained to sit around on couches and watch.
Talk of children though inevitably makes me think about what the nanotechnology and the vaccines are doing to them–our children are being robotized, their brains are being materially invaded; all of this is supremely disturbing, and needs to be further researched, explored, written about, talked about by all of us–how can we make these atrocities stop if they are not first exposed? Focus for another post here, at least.
Intel Agency Surveillance/Control Mechanisms/Rule by Fear
It's no secret that the US and UK have become heavily surveilled societies, as also many other countries, particularly the "NSA Five Eyes" ones, which include Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. But many other countries report high levels of surveillance. Not merely are we publicly and cyber-surveilled; in the US, the post-Patriot Act watchlisting enterprise (remember Brennan's leaked emails–he talked about 1.8 million being listed) has resulted in a very bizarre scenario in which people (such as this writer) are completely randomly targeted, watchlisted, and essentially scapegoated, while the entire neighborhood and community around them is "radicalized" via National Security notifications and Letters into assisting in the monitoring, spying, surveilling, GPs'ing, and hitting with covert radiation neuroweapons, all subjects covered here extensively in various posts such as this one on stealth warfare and this one, commemorating the surveilling/surveilled post-9/11 American neighborhood.
People in the USA today are living in fear for their lives, their families, and what little freedoms they are being "permitted" to possess. People are literally being terrorized by rogue factions of Mil/Intel to toe the line, keep silent on every issue of note, not speak out or stand out in any way, submit to control at every level, at home in their neighborhoods via fusion center action, and at their workplaces, in their churches, everywhere. These are the actions of corrupt ruling bodies, striving to keep their corruption under wraps. Zersetzung is in. Free expression is out. Take a look at Anthony Norwood's The Network, it's a probing and revealing study of how the "system" works. I would also recommend The Hidden Evil (The Financial Elite's Hidden War Against the Civilian Population) by Mark Rich, which opened my eyes as to what is going on. Also his book, New World War/Revolutionary Methods for Political Control.
Also please see the post and video linked here featuring Roderick Russell's Documentary on Zerzetzung: Spies, Lies, and Threats.
So there are all these other reasons operative too, for American apathy, and until people break through these barriers and deliberate censorships, and we all find a way somehow to force these atrocities to stop, we're not going to live in any kind of normal, sane, fully intellectually-engaged and active society, that is unafraid to speak out in large numbers and force better coverage by mainstream media, or force action against corruption by our largely-complicit Congress.
Brilliant Consortium Idea
I commend this roundtable though for the brilliant idea for this consortium, with crowdfunded investigative journalism, an ethical approach, and a humanitarian, solutions-oriented focus--God knows every single "Targeted Individual" desperately looking for ethical media coverage of the absolute crime of covert neuroweapon attacks and 24/7 persecution would like to see some serious investigative reporting directed their way, as also the victims of so much other crime and corruption rampant today.
We need to clean up our society, and fast. This proposal seems like a great step in the right direction. Please watch the video, it's balm to the soul if you care about ending the corruption that we are positively floating in today.
This conversation looks for your input at Boiling Frogs Post: BFP Roundtable- Governed by Criminals & Their Enablers (MSM): Two Ideas of How to Proceed
And also at The Corbett Report: Interview 1106: The BFP Roundtable Discusses What We Can Do
Please engage!
Posted in Activism, America, Solutions to Global Crime and Corruption, Speaking Out
Tagged Activism, alternative media, Boiling Frog Post Roundtable, chem trails, communities, Consortium, Corbett Report, corruption, Dennis Hastert, Hastert case, James Corbett, mass control, microwaved docility, mind control, nanotechnology, pedophilia, Peter Collins, rule by fear, Sibel Edmonds, Surveillance, Targeted Individuals

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I confess: right about now, I've had my fill of root vegetables, from parsnips, carrots and rutabagas, to turnips and black radishes. Yes, they're locally available, in-season and tasty. But it's been a long winter, and I occasionally long for a taste of warm weather produce.
Now, my upstate neighbor Kenny Migliorelli offers an antidote to my winter vegetable blues with Migliorelli Farm's new line of frozen produce.
They debuted in mid-January at the Union Square Greenmarket. At the Migliorelli Farm stand, Kenny has repurposed a commercial ice cream freezer to hold and to display his frozen vegetables, which include bags of sweet corn; green beans; mixed red, yellow and green bell peppers; Brussels sprouts; kale; collards; mustard greens; broccoli rabe; and Italian flat green beans. Available in 12 ounce packages, they are $5.50 at the Union Square Greenmarket and $5 at select winter markets in the Hudson Valley, including Red Hook, Rhinebeck and Beacon. Migliorelli also sells frozen tomato puree (no additives or preservatives), $5 for 1-quart; $40 for 40 pounds.
"The customer pays more for our frozen vegetables than they would for Bird's Eye," Kenny acknowledges, explaining his new venture.
Vegetables were picked at optimal ripeness. Last summer, Migliorelli harvested 2,000 pounds of sweet corn, 1,000 pounds of beans, 1,000 pounds of tomatoes and 400 to 500 pounds of various leafy greens to be frozen. Kenny works with Farm to Table Co-Packers, which packages fresh, locally grown vegetables in a 20,000 square-foot industrial kitchen, housed in a former IBM plant, in Kingston: "We blanch the vegetables; the co-packer packages and freezes it." It's pure frozen vegetable—no additives; no preservatives and no salt. Because Farm to Table offers only packaging services, Kenny stores the final product—his frozen vegetables—at another facility. And that's the cost passed onto the customer for fresh vegetables, picked and frozen at peak flavor.
For a long time, I had presumed that frozen vegetables were less nutritious than fresh vegetables. But that's not an accurate assumption. As produce advocate Fruits & Veggies More Matters points out, fresh produce that travels a long distance before arriving at a supermarket, where it can sit for who-knows-how-long before it is bought—all the while subject to dubious storage conditions—can lose more nutrients than frozen produce, which is immediately processed after harvesting. Frozen vegetables do, however, have a finite freezer life: eat them within 8 months of purchase.
For local vegetable lovers, like me, it's a win-win splurge.
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Good for you, Erica. Happily, frozen fruits and vegetables (without additives), especially from a local grower, are "convenience" foods we don't have to feel guilty about!


Bright orange, red, and green gems and chunks of ore shine in the twilight, but as you draw closer an overwhelming stench worse than death reaches your nose and tentacles unfurl, lashing out in every direction.
Before Combat When outside of combat, veinar curl into shapes that resemble gems or chunks of ore until disturbed by a nearby mind.
During Combat Veinar are constantly confused but when they are able to act, manifest mind thrust at targets beyond their reach. After an opponent proves resistant to its mental attack or rendered defenseless, the veinar uses its tentacles.
Morale When a veinar goes below 10 hp it snaps out of its confusion and moves toward the nearest veinar to gene fuse with it; if there are no other veinar it fights to the death instead.
Veinar produce a foul odor that can be smelled even by ethereal and incorporeal creatures. Creatures within 30 ft. of a veinar make a DC 17 Fortitude save or become sickened for 5 rounds. Creatures that successfully save against a veinar's astral stench cannot be affected by the same veinar's astral stench for 24 hours.
Whenever a creature come into contact with the veinar's body they must make a DC 30 Will save or have hallucinations about the veinar for 1d4 weeks. For every –5 a creature fails this save by, the duration of these hallucinations increases by +1 week (on a natural 1, they last for an entire year).
Targets that fail a Will save against a veinar's mind thrust psi-like ability by –5 or more are confused for 1d4 rounds.


Originally Published: January 15, 2011 1:40 p.m.
New Arrival at Verde Valley Medical Center: Kasin Brady Burke was born December 28, 2010 at the Verde Valley Medical Center to Matthew Burke & Monica Warner of Cottonwood. The baby was 7 pounds, 13 ounces, 19 inches long. Welcomed home by his big brother Korbin.


MWCC faculty may request proctoring for students taking a test for their class. A request form must be submitted to Testing Services, either online, by email, or in-person. The forms can be found on the For Faculty link on the Testing webpage. Printed copies are available in the Testing Services office, room 128c on the Gardner campus. After Testing Services has received the form and test from the Instructor, the student may walk in during open hours to take it. A photo ID is required.
For students testing with accommodations, appointments are required. Walk-ins are not allowed. See the Testing with Accommodations section.
Proctoring services are available to community members and distance learning students who are taking courses at other colleges.There is a flat proctoring fee of $25.00 per day (non-refundable). Mount Wachusett Community College will make every possible effort to provide the individual with their testing needs.


Faegre Baker Daniels is one of 30 leading law firms partnering with Diversity Lab to pilot the Mansfield Rule, one of the winning ideas from the 2016 Women in Law Hackathon—a Shark Tank-style pitch competition.
Inspired by the NFL's Rooney Rule—which was named for former Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, and requires every NFL team to interview at least one minority candidate for head coach vacancies—the Mansfield Rule was named after Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to the practice of law in the United States. It measures whether law firms have affirmatively considered women and attorneys of color—at least 30 percent of the candidate pool—for qualifying leadership and governance roles.
Law firms that successfully pilot the Mansfield Rule over the next year will be designated "Mansfield Certified" and will have the opportunity to send recently promoted diverse partners to a two-day Client Forum in late 2018 to build relationships with and learn from influential in-house counsel.
For more information on the Mansfield Rule, see Diversity Lab's news release.


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Cypress is an energetically and emotionally fortifying plant. We love to lather this oil from head to toe on the new moon, or anytime we want to carve out some self care to support ourselves and our skin.
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Apply this all-purpose body oil as an aftershave, shaving oil, moisturizer, massage oil, oil cleanser, or aromatherapy.
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U.S. Air Force releases amazing B-2 stealth bomber video
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Modified date: Jan 3, 2020
The U.S. Air Force has released the amazing video of the Whiteman Air Force Base's B-2 stealth aircraft.
This video, displaying the mission at Whiteman Air Force Base, was made for the Tournament of Roses 2020.
According to Captain Jetson Airline News, U.S. military plane fly-bys above Colorado Boulevard have always marked the beginning of the Rose Parade. In the past 20 years, only one or two New Year's days had to cancel the fly-by, due to bad weather. Generally, January 1st always appears to produce a beautiful sunny day in Pasadena, California.
The military traditionally sends different types of airplanes for the fly-by every year. The airplane types can vary between fighters and bombers, separately or in combination.
In 2020, the 509th Bomb Wing's B-2 Spirit appeared as the sole aircraft.
"When the B-2 flies over the Rose Bowl as it does every year, ladies and gentlemen it is the sound of freedom." said Lt. Gen. John F. Thompson is the Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command at Rose Bowl 2020, adding that "It [bomber] represents the United States Air Force in a way that helps us demonstrate to this crowd and an entire nation, maybe even an entire world watching on television, how important the United States Air Force is to the defense of the free world. Hope is something that all Americans need all the time."
Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB) located approximately 2 miles south of Knob Noster, MO and 70 miles east-southeast of Kansas City.
The host unit at Whiteman AFB is the 509th Bomb Wing (509 BW), assigned to the Eighth Air Force of the Air Force Global Strike Command. The 509 BW operates the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, designed to be employed to strike high-value targets that are either out of range of conventional aircraft or considered to be too heavily defended for conventional aircraft to strike without a high risk of loss.
Video by Senior Airman Thomas Barley pic.twitter.com/PmDDIAtl3w
— Dylan Malyasov (@DylanMalyasov) January 3, 2020


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LEGACY FILMS
Everything you wanted to know about conscious dying but were afraid to ask.
an intimate personal documentary
45-minutes
As a baby boomer, I became curious about death, and decided to pick up my camera and film four friends with terminal illnesses who chose to live out their days in hospice-care at home. Along the way, I sought the advice of an aboriginal elder and a deathwalker in Australia, witnessed a mass cremation in Bali, and asked my 90-year old mother to sit in a coffin while we discussed her EOL wishes.
Are we, without noticing, reinventing death? Don, my tango partner, says "Cathy, dying doesn't have to be sad," and then takes medication from Oregon Death with Dignity. I bounce between fears, awareness, and denial. Yet death is ever-present. Though random, it's certain, and soon my parents will die. I don't want to lose them. Death will take them differently. My dad ,90, a medical doctor will use every medical means within reason to stay alive (I think…I don't know because he doesn't like to talk about it.) while my mom, also 90, is so comfortable she discusses death as if planning a picnic. How do we prepare? Is it possible to die well?
It begins with my own beloved 88-year–old mom facing death . But that's not what I thought about when I started making this movie. She's vibrant today, even if she aches all over at times. This is us August, 2014, after dousing in the cleansing waters of a Balinese Temple.
Clair Killen, my mom's 92 year old "lover" – that's what he called himself – thrived on being rebellious and raising eyebrows and questioning everything. He was a contractor.
Alan Rosenberg aka Rosey was a realtor, a writer, and a performer who decided to do stand up comedy about dying.
Don Offill, one of my tango partners, was an electrician who went from terminal diagnosis to death with dignity in two short weeks.
In Australia I sought the wisdom of Aboriginals, where I met an elder named Uncle Bob living in Uluru . He told me that for the most ancient people on earth, dying is like walking through a doorway to an unseen world. I was drawn to his mysticism.
Also in Australia, I met a deathwalker, Zenith Virago. Bringing presence, experience and familiarity, along with a legal, practical and spiritual background, Zenith guides, assists and supports the dying person, the families and friends, and those bereaved through loss.
So there I was, halfway across the globe when Clair died. I didn't hear about his transition until two days after he'd died. That's when I realized that it was at the exact moment of his death that we were compelled by awe to stop our car so we could take in the magnificence of this rainbow.
Immense Possibilities
Immense Possibilities is a weekly public TV and internet series that featured an interview with Cathy about Living While Dying.
Watch the interview here: (it's 10 minutes)
Directors Statement
Death is a teacher.
Many of us are scared of death. We feel unprepared both for our own deaths and the deaths of people (and animals!) we love. Our associations with death are morbid, dark, cold, depressing, and laden with grief and pain.
So we do not talk much about death.
In modern times, we have medicalized the end of life, and disconnected it from nature. In trying to prolong life by any means necessary, we only succeed in keeping death shrouded in darkness. By keeping our distance from death, cloaking it, hiding our eyes from it, we actually lose touch with a sacred phase of life. Because, as we all know, death is a part of life—for all of us.
This is not to say that we ought to look forward to death. After all, we are biologically wired to try and avoid it. Nonetheless, death and impending death offer profound opportunities to uncover value, grace, meaning, and even (in many cases) newfound eloquence. Even the physical challenges of chronic illness can move us into a new experience of purpose and connection.
This movie offers examples of living while dying. By breaking the mold of standard expectations, it invites us to re-imagine our own inevitable endings in new ways. As Dr Ira Byock points out, we can see dying as another developmental stage, like adolescence or midlife. And in fact, the people in this film die with a sense of wellness.
Every day presents us with the challenge of how to live well, regardless of our phase of life. Giving attention to life's final phase is one way of shining light on the choices we make throughout our lives, especially the ways we treat others. Love and forgiveness are essential on any given day. But at the end, it is simply much easier to see this.
If we cultivate awareness of impermanence and attachment, this will serve us well in the face of death, because it allows us to see that grief is a form of praise--a natural way for love to honor what it misses. Ironically, in the greatest loss, we can discover comfort, joy, connection, and opportunities to practice gratitude. By facing death, our lives become richer, more wholehearted, and more authentic.
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For the first time today all three Anglian ex Metrobus Scanias were on the road. This might not happen very often as it seems they may have more teething troubles than a buck toothed shark, so as I have been first in bringing you pics of all three I thought I'd bring all three together in one post.
The first arrival was 556, YN55 PZF, which only lasted a couple of days before having to go back down to Hampshire to have things sorted out. She is now back and earning a living again.
Friday last week saw the arrival of 554 YN55 PZC. After spending the weekend being prepped, on Monday she was found on the 7/61's.
And so today saw the final Omnidekka, 555, YN55 PZR make its Anglian debut on the 88's. I didn't even know she was out in service yet, I was just waiting in Halesworth for the 62 for the final time and she turned up. Nice one, so bagged a pic, worked out her diagram, and caught her back from Norwich later on. They are all comfortable, with better seats than any of the other Scanias, rattles that are no more than you'd expect from a 10yo bus, and look great. I just have this uneasy feeling that they might be plagued by the sort of niggly problems that you always take a gamble with when buying second hand. Time will tell and I hope I'm wrong.
Anglian are dominating the blog at the moment, and that will continue with the last days of several routes this week. There will be a couple of special posts over the weekend and I'll try and get a couple of foreign posts up with contributor's pics too.
A quick correction to the Trident transfer to Hedingham. 722 departed as planned on Monday, However instead of 725 following it was 712 that made the trip to Essex yesterday. I am reliably informed that 725 will transfer on Monday next week, Tuesday at the latest. So this pic I took of 712 in Beccles last week signals the end of Anglian liveried Tridents. There will be a couple of special posts over the next few days commemorating the end of some long established Anglian routes and/or route numbers and of course next week I'll be reporting on the new ones.
UPDATE: I have been informed that 712 has gone to Hedingham's Clacton depot, whereas 722 and 725 will be at Tollesbury to replace a couple of Olympians.
Anglian 712 in Beccles last week, now a Hedingham vehicle.
I have also had an update on Gas Bus 104, which was involved in an RTA with an Ambassadoe National Express Levante on the Acle Straight a few weeks ago.Unfortunately the news isn't very positive, and although not officially confirmed yet it looks unlikely that 104 will be seen back in service. If that situation changes I will of course report it.
Before I go I need a bit of help with one of the features I'm doing, so if anyone has pics of buses operating Anglian's old 602 between Yarmouth and Halesworth, or the 62 between Kessingland and Halesworth I'd be really grateful if I could use them. Send them to me at the email address on left hand side and obviously full credit will be given. Many thanks in advance.
Today saw the first day in service of Anglian's latest Metrobus reject sorry refurbished transfer Scania 554 YN55 PZC. Despite being transferred up for the 88 it was out on the 61/7 today. I caught it from Norwich to Yarmouth, the ride is good and apart from a horrible vibration from the destination display access door when stationary it rattles less than 556 does.
However for the entire length of the journey there was a constant bleeping noise which was extremely irritating and clearly shouldn't have been there. So let's see how long 554 lasts compared to 556.
Sorry for the lack of posts in recent days. Hopefully normal post frequency will resume soon and to those who have sent in contributionsany thanks and they'll be up in due course.
I am grateful to Mick Capon, our man in North Carolina for writing today's foreign post, where he compares the different ways of getting from his home in North Carolina to Washington DC. Many thanks, Mick, and keep them coming!
The nation's capital. Washington DC, is a favorite destination of mine. I usually travel by car (I know – shame on me), but that can be tiring and if, like in all big cities, you happen to hit the outskirts at the wrong time it can be frustrating.
There are several alternatives to the car from Durham NC to DC. The car aside, the most obvious to Americans, is flying. Durham is lucky enough to have an international airport, Raleigh-Durham International (RDU), situated between the two cities. Based on leaving Durham Station, the transit exchange in downtown Durham and Union Station in DC, here follows comparisons for the 259 mile trip.
There are 13 non-stop flights daily between RDU and either Dulles or Ronald Regan airports. Flight time is approximately 1 hour 15 minutes, but of course, flying is not as simple as that. Travel to RDU via Go Triangle adds another 43 minutes, security and checking in another hour and the transfer from Ronald Regan in DC 21 minutes via Metro, from Dulles an extra 65 minutes. That's a total travel time of 3 hours 19 minutes. Lowest cost for flight and transfers is c. $98, but like all air fare can vary. The average is around $150.
Sponsored by the Station of North Carolina, the once daily 7-car Carolinian, hauled by a GE Genesis P42DC, travels from Charlotte NC to New York NV via Durham and Washington DC. That journey time can be over 13 hrs, but the Durham-DC time is 6 hours 47 minutes and costs are $54-$61. Yes the journey is slow, relaxing if you have the time. The route between Charlotte and Raleigh is now owned by the state, known as the North Carolina Railroad (which in total owns 317 miles of track) with rights leased to Norfolk Southern to provide freight service.
The northbound Carolinian leaving Durham Station on it's way to DC and New York. Photo Mick Capon.
Unlike newcomers Megabus, the iconic Greyhound brand has been operating since 1914. The rapidly expanding Stagecoach owned company, introduced in 2006, is a huge success and by far the cheapest way to travel inter-city in North America. Megabus services are operated by Stagecoach owned Coach USA.
Both operate 4 non-stop journeys between Durham and DC daily. Megabus fares are around the $10-15 range and the fastest journey time is 4 hrs 50, the longest being 5 hrs 15. Vehicles used will be familiar to UK readers, the route being in the sole control of Van Hool Astromega TD925 81-seat double deckers.
Megabus DD725, a Van Hool Astromega of 2013. Photo by Megabus.com.
No double-decks for Greyhound though but vehicles are a far cry from the Scenic Cruises of the 50s, Canadian built Prevosts and MCI (Motor Coach Industries) being used. Nothing lightweight about these beauties, but they are comfortable vehicles. Greyhound fares are more expensive between $28 and $37 depending on the time of travel, whilst journey times are somewhat slower, due to many more stops than the Megabus route, at between 7 hrs 15 and 8 hrs 35.
Notwithstanding the hassle of driving and the obvious annual running costs, the trip by car is reasonably cheap and easy. I would expect to pay $19 for gas (petrol) and, depending on the time of day, make the trip in about 4 to 5 hrs. Within a couple of miles of my home I hit Interstate 85, switch to cruise control, then the I-95, the same route as Megabus but without the diversion into Richmond VA.
In conclusion, it can be seen that the Megabus option is attractive to many.
Finally a photograph of Durham Station. Opened in 2008. It serves all local, inter-city bus services and Amtrak. The Railroad station can be seen center right.
First of all My thanks to Arthur the Anglian Aardvark who got in touch very quickly today to tell me of the arrial of Anglian's latest ex metrobus Scania Omnidekka. 554, registration YN55 PZC arrived at Ellough Rd today, although as yet it isn't known when she will enter service. Let's hope she lasts a bit longer than 556 did, which is still at Hants & Dorset.
I can also tonight bring you news about the three Tridents, that I was told only last week would be going to Hedingham "eventually". It turns out "eventually" means "almost immediately" as 722 is going down on Monday, 725 on Wednesday and 712 next Friday. That is all, of course subject to last minute changes of plan. So this picture I took today of 722 very unusually on the 7 could well be the last taken of her in active service at Anglian. Actually you have two rarities in one in this pic, as a Konect Optare Tempo - 405 if I remember correctly - is operating the 604 and not the usual bendibus.
Anglian 722 and Konect 405 both on unusual routes today at Norwich Bus Station. 722 is off to Hedingham.
Yesterday I had to get to Wickham Market early for a funeral, and I ended up getting there early enough to see the school contract buses for the firat time in a long time. Parked in Wickham Market Square was this Norse E300. While checking with the driver that it was ok to take a pic, I had a quick glance inside and they really are sardine cans, with leg room that is pathetically restrictive. OK for Primary school age kids going to swimming lessons but older Secondary school students are adult size and there's no way I could have sat in one of those seats AND worn a seatbelt when I was 12 let alone now. Not impressed. Anyway thanks to the driver for letting take this pic.
I'm pleased to say my plea for more foreign material was answered, and today I bring you the first part of an Estonia/Finland special, with pictures supplied by David Squire, Managing Director of First Eastern Counties. Great to have you on board, David, and thanks for sharing your pics with us. I'll quote a section from David's accompaning email; Please note all pics remain copyright to David.
As promised here is the first instalment of my travels.
To kick off we are in Tallinn, Estonia, the Baltic State immediately opposite Helsinki in Finland of which more in the next mail, it is May 2013.
As a former soviet state, the fleet has a number of aging vehicles, surprisingly the municipally owned operator in Tallinn, the major city and capital operates buses, trams and trolleybuses. Trams are painted in various liveries whilst buses are green and trolleys blue although there are numerous allover adverts. Below we have a tram, a modern low floor trolley and a superb older articulated trolley of which there were still a significant number in service!
The modern trolleybus - anyone know the make?
And the older trolleybus, again with big wheels!
Not sure I can see a pantograph on the next one so it must be a bus. Over to you wonderful people to identify it please as my knowledge of all things Estonian is approximately zero!
More to come tomorrow, when we also pop over the border to Finland, where we find a beer tram??? Not to be missed!
On Tuesday I posted pictures taken at the Norwich end of my Short Set journey on Monday, which could be my last oe on the 47's before they are replaced by 37's in May. (see here). In Part Two here is the report from Yarmouth, and the pics taken there.
I'll never get tired of taking pics of these wonderful old locos in sun like this, and I hope you won't get tired of seeing them.
At the other end of the set was 47 818, my persnal favourite but my word she was smoking well on Monday and smelling like a ship's engine room!
I've no doubt the 37's will look just as impressive, but I'm going to miss the 47's. A charismatic, temperamental, loco that has served the public so well over the last half a century. I hope they stick around on other duties for many years to come.
Can't think of many better sights than that.
This is one of the more predictable posts of the year - when BorderBus got their new E200 it was fairly obvious it would soon get a cherished registration. Even more obvious when last week I was in Dave Marshall's office listening to him order the number plates! I kept quiet though and waited for the official launch, which came today with the new BB12 BUS making her new registration debut on the 146. By chance I was on my way from a funeral in Wickham Market to Norwich when I saw the tweet from BorderBus, and on the off chance diverted to Beccles, paying a fortune on the train in the process - no wonder the train was empty!
Anyway my gamble paid off when after a quick call to Moor Park I discovered that BB12 would be at Beccles 15 mins after I got there, going to Norwich too. That's just the luck you sometimes need, so camera poised in a cloudless sky I waited for the former MX12 DYU to arrive.
Have to say she looks rather good.
Having temporarily run out of contributor's pics to publish a morning post with I was thinking what I could use for my morning post today and for some unknown reason Moldova sprung to mind. I have had a lot of view from Moldova in the past - Lord knows why - and thought I'd do a quick search to see what's out there. Well it seems Trolleybuses are the order of the day in the capital, Chisinau. There are a lot of them, and having recently featured trams we may as well do trolleybuses too.
A bit of research (luck in clicking on the right pic) and I managed to find out a little of the vehicles used, but first a pic of the old type of trolleybus that is being phased out of service in Chisinau. This pic is by Clay Gilliland, whose Flickr page you can access here.
Belkommunmash is Belarusian manufacturer of public electrotransport. The enterprise was founded on basis of the repair tram-trolleybus factory which was opened in 1974. Today it is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of manufacture and major overhaul of a rolling stock of city electric transport. Trolley buses of Belkommunmash's manufacture are operated in 7 cities of Belarus and 32 cities of Russia, Mongolia, Moldova, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia.
So let's see a few more examples of Belkommunmash's handiwork. This pic is by mostlybytrain and if you click on the link to his flickr page you'll be in for a surprise! You can access it here.
I confess I've never been on a trolleybus outside of East Anglian Transport Museum, so I have absolutely no idea what these are like. Wonder what happens with temporary traffic lights!
Here are two examples of the newer trolleybuses, and a couple of things strike me about them - firstly the wheels look huge - bigger than standard bus wheels, and secondly two sets of doors in the rear unit looks a slight overkill to me. Both pics are by Pieter van Marion, whose Flickr page you can access here.
No idea where tomorrow morning's post will be from - I'm hoping for some presents in my inbox today to help me out!!
It was just going to be a routine day really. I was heading into Norwich to meet up with First Business Manager and night club bouncer Chris Speed for a tour of First's new offices and crew accommodation in Castle Meadow, as well as one of our now regular chinwags. I have to say I was unprepared for the scale of the place - I was under the impression it was basically a restroom and supervisor's office, but no, the whole operation is in the process of relocating from Rouen House.
We then adjourned to Chris's new office, at the front of the building overlooking Castle Meadow. I didn't take too many pictures in the new complex, but I did insist on one of Chris's office, which he is sharing with Hugo Forster, First Norfolk's General manager, who wasn't around yesterday. Chris has approved this pic.
I'll show the view from out of his window at the end of the post. We nattered for ages but sadly the huge majorty of what we talked about I can't publish! What I can say is the repaint programme at Norwich is set to recommence soon. I saw the list but can't reveal it! Just as well actually as I remember very little of it! One thing I can reveal is regarding 69426/8 in Ipswich. It seems that the original purpose of their painting into Excel hybrid livery may not be happening now, and so they will remain as they are now, looking great in regular service.
What I haven't mentioned yet is while I was getting the grand tour we passed the biggest office in the new premises. I was introduced to the gentleman occupying said office and invited back after I'd finished with Chris.
I appreciate excellence, regardless of what it is. It could be a flawless piece of driving, a Beethoven Symphony played to perfection, a steak cooked exactly right etc. However excellence doesn't always equal enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is what I felt when I was sitting in the office of First Eastern Counties Managing Director, David Squire. I was completey unprepared for this meeting, and had absolutely no questions prepared. However I needn't have worried. I'm not sure how long I was talking to David - around an hour I think, and the subject of First took up I'd say around 5 minutes of that hour. The rest of the time we were talking buses not business. We compared experiences both as passengers and drivers. David grew up in the Merseyside area, and worked for many years for Crosville. indeed he told me about a make of bus I'd never heard of which he regards as the most lethal bus ever built! I'm currently researching it for a post soon.
David revealed he is a regular reader of the blog and in particular said how much he enjoyed the recently introduced foreign features. I'm delighted to say that he has accepted my invitation to become a contributor, as he travels extensively and has a large collection of photos from other countries he is willing to share. I am grateful to anyone who contributes to the blog, but to have a contributor so far up the industry ladder is an endorsement I'm rather proud of.
When we weren't talking about Leyland Atlanteans or how we could get away with things 30 years ago that you'd get dragged into Court for these days, I sensed the drive and passion that David has for First. He described it as still very much a work in progress, but the progress so far has been good and wide ranging. The whole team seem very proud of Ipswich and the transformation there, and are now concentrating on the rest of the region, in particular Norwich. The change in policy to involve enthusiasts and bloggers, realising the valuable information and feedback they can provide starts at the very top, and it was made clear the wish is for that policy to filter through to all staff. Obviously that is a policy I cannot praise highly enough.
First have clearly realised that if you look after your staff they will look after you. The new crew accommodation is of a high standard, and the fact that managers are more accessible to deal with any issues will help relations too. First offer good pay and now they offer good conditions for Norwich drivers too. Other operators may have to take note and act if they wish to hang on to their best drivers.
I started this blog 18 months ago yesterday. David Squire became MD of First Eastern Counties 20 months ago. When I first started I had many criticisms and scant praise for First. Now the opposite applies, and I have a feeling over the next year we will notice improvement on improvement. If there is enthusiasm and love for the job and the industry at the top, then the rest of the staff will notice and respond accordingly. I was describing an operator to someone the other day by saying the love had gone from it - people came in and did their job but there was no passion at the top. Since David Squire appointed his team, including Chris Speed, the whole atmosphere at First has changed, attitudes have changed, and the results are beginning to show. There is an air of enthusiasm and determination about the place, and I'm looking forward to reporting developments as and when they happen. It's going to be an exciting year. Thank you for your time, David, it was a really unexpected pleasure.
I said I'd finish with the view from Chris Speed's new office window and here it is. I guess there are worse views if you're a bus manager!
Hands up if you're jealous!
Here is one of the giant Van Hool hydrogen buses running around Aberdeen in a joint venture between First, Stagecoach and Aberdeen City Council. I am determined to get on one of these this year somehow, might be another mega Megabus trip! This pic was taken on March 26th by Prisma Aberdeen whose Flickr page you can access here.
Welcome to Part Two of what I believe will be the introductory feature by former Norfolkian Mick Capon of the bus scene in North Carolina. If you missed Part One then click here because you'll need to read the description of the area and how the transit system works that Mick supplied.
In Part One I said that the Gillig buses looked rather Dart like. Mick assures me this is not the case and that the Gilligs, and indeed all US buses are extremely solidly built - like the proverbial outhouses! So let's look at more examples of what's running around in Mick's back yard!
First up is a Go Raleigh (the three districts are Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill) Gillig Advantage in the new livery only recently introduced.
Next we have a Triangle Transit Gillig Advantage in a revised livery that clearly wasn't that popular as it's now obsolete.
Can't say I like it that much either!
So this is what replaced it. Here is a Go Triangle Gillig Advantage in the new livcry. One thing Mick told me is that buses in the US come with alloy wheels as standard, which are obviously easier to keep clean, if more expensive. Bet you'd find them easier for your brooms, Paulo!
Go Triangle's Gillig Advantage with very shiny wheels!
On May 10th the new Summer timetable comes into effect on Greater Anglia. From the same date, well on Monday the 11th obviously, 2 Class 37/4's are scheduled to replace the Class 47's on the Short Set which operates between Norwich and Yarmouth/Lowestoft when there aren't enough DMU's available. As I saw the set was out today I decided to get on the 47's for what could be the last time on a train operating a timetabled service on the national network.
I arrived at Norwich in plenty of time fo the 1236 departure to Great Yarmouth, and took advantage of that time to get some pics for the scrapbook. I was a little disappointed to see that 47 790 had been taken off the set and replaced with 47 805, but never mind - a 47 is a 47 and the noise 805 made was music to my ears.
It must be said that Emily was smelling like a ship's engine room and smoked like a chimney on the way back! Far less smell and smoke from 805.
It was also my first journey on the DRS MkII coaching stock. Comfortable, smooth and could hear the engine which I wanted to! A great journey, and I'll have the pics from the other end at Yarmouth in another post.
DRS MkII coach - sorry can't see number!
Last week in Norwich I saw one of the Gemini 2 Volvo B9's normally on the 25/26 on the 35 to Long Stratton. unfortunately i was all fingers and thumbs and by time i got cameras and memory cards sorted I didn't get the chance to take a picture. However, the same thing happened yesterday, which makes me think this might be a regular PM working, and this time I had the camera primed and ready to fire.
Welcome to the first post on SB&TP to come from the good ole US of A. Former Norfolkian Mick Capon has been in touch with details of the bus scene in his North Carolina home. Save me trying to explain it all Mick has very kindly sent me a full explanation, which he has given his consent for me to reproduce. Thanks, Mick.
Since making my home in Durham, North Carolina nine years ago, I have continued my lifelong interest in buses. Bus operation in the USA is possibly not well known among most British enthusiasts, apart from the long-distance operations of Greyhound, Trailways and now Megabus, and perhaps the obvious interest of former British open-top 'deckers operated here in a tourist capacity.
To explain the geography, The Triangle is a metropolitan area in the Piedmont of North Carolina, USA. It consists of three main cities, Raleigh, Wake County (the State Capital); Durham, Durham County; and Chapel Hill, Orange County. The combined population is approximately 1.5 million. The average student population of each city is 32,000.
Each municipality has its own transit service. They are linked by the inter-urban services of the Triangle Transit Authority.
All vehicles are dual-door, single-deck and have front bicycle racks. A fixed fare system is the norm, in Durham it's $1 (seniors free) although in Chapel Hill all rides are free. Distances within towns are, in comparison to East Anglia, huge. For example, if my wife suddenly decides she needs knitting yarn she would think nothing of nipping out on a 25-mile round trip to the craft store across town.
The bus scene here is boring, but for all the right reasons. Services are regular, very cheap, regular (same timetable from early morning to very late every day), geared to the passenger (with six-monthly public consultation meetings).
The main manufacturer that the operators in Mick's part of the world seem to use is a Californian company called Gillig, who according to Mick are a favourite with smaller operators. Buses are delivered the same way as the UK, ie driven. However, in North Carolina's case that's a distance from the factory of around 2,500 miles, which I guess gives every chance for any teething troubles to be noticed. To me they look similar to Pointer Darts. Here are a few examples. The first pic is a Durham Area Transit Authority (DATA) Gillig Advantage.
Here a Gillig Hybrid, in a refreshed DATA livery introduced in 2010.
Finally for this part a CAT, which stands for Capital Area Transit. Yet another Gillig Advantage, this time back in the old livery.
My thanks to Mick for the pics, look out for part two coming soon. Mick has promised me a ream of pics on different aspects of US bus travel so the American Slot could become a regular feature. many thanks Mick - you can't keep an d Norfolk boy down!
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package org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

import org.apache.cassandra.db.DecoratedKey;
import org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.AbstractType;
import org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.conf.ColumnIndex;
import org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.disk.OnDiskIndex;
import org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.disk.Token;
import org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.plan.Expression;
import org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.utils.RangeIterator;
import org.apache.cassandra.io.FSReadError;
import org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.format.SSTableReader;
import org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils;
import org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Ref;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.builder.HashCodeBuilder;

import com.google.common.base.Function;

public class SSTableIndex
{
    private final ColumnIndex columnIndex;
    private final Ref<SSTableReader> sstableRef;
    private final SSTableReader sstable;
    private final OnDiskIndex index;
    private final AtomicInteger references = new AtomicInteger(1);
    private final AtomicBoolean obsolete = new AtomicBoolean(false);

    public SSTableIndex(ColumnIndex index, File indexFile, SSTableReader referent)
    {
        this.columnIndex = index;
        this.sstableRef = referent.tryRef();
        this.sstable = sstableRef.get();

        if (sstable == null)
            throw new IllegalStateException("Couldn't acquire reference to the sstable: " + referent);

        AbstractType<?> validator = columnIndex.getValidator();

        assert validator != null;
        assert indexFile.exists() : String.format("SSTable %s should have index %s.",
                sstable.getFilename(),
                columnIndex.getIndexName());

        this.index = new OnDiskIndex(indexFile, validator, new DecoratedKeyFetcher(sstable));
    }

    public ByteBuffer minTerm()
    {
        return index.minTerm();
    }

    public ByteBuffer maxTerm()
    {
        return index.maxTerm();
    }

    public ByteBuffer minKey()
    {
        return index.minKey();
    }

    public ByteBuffer maxKey()
    {
        return index.maxKey();
    }

    public RangeIterator<Long, Token> search(Expression expression)
    {
        return index.search(expression);
    }

    public SSTableReader getSSTable()
    {
        return sstable;
    }

    public String getPath()
    {
        return index.getIndexPath();
    }

    public boolean reference()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            int n = references.get();
            if (n <= 0)
                return false;
            if (references.compareAndSet(n, n + 1))
                return true;
        }
    }

    public void release()
    {
        int n = references.decrementAndGet();
        if (n == 0)
        {
            FileUtils.closeQuietly(index);
            sstableRef.release();
            if (obsolete.get() || sstableRef.globalCount() == 0)
                FileUtils.delete(index.getIndexPath());
        }
    }

    public void markObsolete()
    {
        obsolete.getAndSet(true);
        release();
    }

    public boolean isObsolete()
    {
        return obsolete.get();
    }

    public boolean equals(Object o)
    {
        return o instanceof SSTableIndex && index.getIndexPath().equals(((SSTableIndex) o).index.getIndexPath());
    }

    public int hashCode()
    {
        return new HashCodeBuilder().append(index.getIndexPath()).build();
    }

    public String toString()
    {
        return String.format("SSTableIndex(column: %s, SSTable: %s)", columnIndex.getColumnName(), sstable.descriptor);
    }

    private static class DecoratedKeyFetcher implements Function<Long, DecoratedKey>
    {
        private final SSTableReader sstable;

        DecoratedKeyFetcher(SSTableReader reader)
        {
            sstable = reader;
        }

        public DecoratedKey apply(Long offset)
        {
            try
            {
                return sstable.keyAt(offset);
            }
            catch (IOException e)
            {
                throw new FSReadError(new IOException("Failed to read key from " + sstable.descriptor, e), sstable.getFilename());
            }
        }

        public int hashCode()
        {
            return sstable.descriptor.hashCode();
        }

        public boolean equals(Object other)
        {
            return other instanceof DecoratedKeyFetcher
                    && sstable.descriptor.equals(((DecoratedKeyFetcher) other).sstable.descriptor);
        }
    }
}

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Carl Hansen & Son reissues final chair from original Hans J Wegner collection of four
Rima Sabina Aouf | 9 February 2017 2 comments
Carl Hansen & Son has used this week's Stockholm Furniture Fair to relaunch Danish modernist Hans J Wegner's CH23 dining chair, designed at the same time as his famous Wishbone chair.
The CH23 completes the set of four chairs Wegner designed as his first collection for the Danish brand.
The remaining three – the CH22, 24 and 25 – have all either been in constant production or recently rereleased.
After partnering with Carl Hansen & Son in 1949, Werner, then still a young designer at 35, created the four chairs over the course of a few weeks at the brand's factories.
While the CH24, also known as the Wishbone chair, and the CH25, a woven lounge chair, have never been out of production, it is the CH23 dining chair that was the bestseller when first released.
Knud Erik Hansen, the third-generation CEO of Carl Hansen & Son, describes the chair as more traditional than some of the influential Danish designer's other creations, which were seen as radical in their time.
"At that time it probably fitted better into the design of an average home," Hansen told Dezeen. "It was less avant-garde."
"The Wishbone chair was extremely avant-garde, and nobody wanted it. Everybody wrote about it – the papers, the few magazines there were in those days – they wrote very highly of it, but nobody bought it."
However, the Wishbone chair soon found popularity in the US, and it was the CH23 which ended up being pulled from production in the 1960s. Hansen has been working to bring it back for the last two years.
The CH23, manufactured to Wegner's original design, is a simple, armless dining chair, with cruciform cover-cap detailing where the backrest meets the frame. These can be rendered in a contrasting wood to make them stand out more.
The chair's other notable feature is its seat, which is double woven from paper cord in a process that takes an experienced weaver 1.5 hours. Carl Hansen & Son says the resulting seat can last for as long as 50 years before needing to be rewoven.
While originally made from teak, 2017's rerelease is made from the now more sustainable oak or American walnut.
The re-release of the CH23 – nine months after Carl Hansen and Son's reissue of the CH22 lounge chair – means that all of Wegner's original designs for the brand are now available again.
Carl Hansen & Son were not the only brand to bring reissues to the Stockholm Furniture and Lighting Fair, which is on until 11 February 2017. Fellow Danish brand Hay used the occasion to launch chairs and tables designed by Friso Kramer and Wim Rietveld in the late 1950s and used in local schools.
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Q: PeopleSoft make page readonly - specific rows I have a page that contains a parent record and several children records.  There is a field (level 1) that is a checkbox that is a "final draft" field - after this is checked no more changes can be made (even in correction mode); a new row/effdt must be inserted.  The children records are all in level 2.  Right now, what I have is:
&RS7 = GetRowset(Scroll.AVZ_JD_DTL_TBL);
&final_draft = &RS7.GetRow(1).getrecord(Record.AVZ_JD_DTL_TBL).getfield     (Field.FINAL_VALUE).Value;

If &final_draft = "Y" Then
  Page.AVZ_JD_DTL_PG.DisplayOnly = True;
 Else
  Page.AVZ_JD_DTL_PG.DisplayOnly = False;
 End-If;

So let's say i'm in correction mode, and I have 3 rows - effdts 1/1/2012, 5/1/2012, and 6/1/2012, with the checkbox checked for the row dated 5/1/2012, as I am "paging"/"scrolling' throught the effective dates, I want the row dated 1/1/2012 to be editable, the row dated 5/1/2012 read-only and then the row dated 6/1/2012 to be editable.
I think maybe I will need to "disable" each rowset individually, rather than the page as a whole.  I'm just getting my head around rowsets/scrolls, and earlier in the program I am doing some manipulation:
&RS1 = GetLevel0().GetRow(1).GetRowset(Scroll.AVZ_JD_DTL_TBL).GetRow(1).GetRowset(Scroll.AVZ_JD_RESP_TBL);
   &RS2 = GetLevel0().GetRow(1).GetRowset(Scroll.AVZ_JD_DTL_TBL).GetRow(1).GetRowset(Scroll.AVZ_JD_EXPR_TBL);
&RS1.Sort(AVZ_JD_RESP_TBL.ORDER_SEQ, "A");
   &RS2.Sort(AVZ_JD_EXPR_TBL.ORDER_SEQ, "A");
The question is, how do I know which row that I am currently viewing, then grab the FINAL_VALUE field for that row, and then, grey/disable everything on the page for that effdt? (then of course, if you go past that effdt to one that does not have that checkbox ticked, everything will need to be editable again).
Thanks

A: You could loop through the level 1 scolls looking for the checkbox, then if found loop through the level 2 scrolls and then set the Active attribute for the row to false.
I don't have a PeopleSoft system available to test this code, but it would be something like this:
&LEVEL0 = your level 0 record
&LEVEL1 = &LEVEL0.GetRowset(Scroll.AVZ_JD_DTL_TBL); /* handle to level 1 */
For &I = 1 To &LEVEL1.ActiveRowCount
    if &LEVEL1(&I).final_draft = "Y" then   /* check box is on */
        &LEVEL2 = &LEVEL0(1).&LEVEL1(&I).GetRowset(Scroll.AVZ_JD_EXPR_TBL);
        For &J = 1 to &LEVEL2.ActiveRowCount
            &LEVEL0(1).&LEVEL1(&I).&LEVEL2(&J).AVZ_JD_EXPR_TBL.Active = "False";
        End-For;
    End-If;
End-For;

Assuming your level 1 record is AVZ_JD_DTL_TBL and your level 2 is AVZ_JD_EXPR_TBL. Please double-check PeopleBooks for the exact syntax but I think that is correct.

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While it might be common to hear of Japanese characters gaining immense popularity far from the shores of Japan – Hello Kitty, Pokemon, just to name a few – there is one Finnish character that has gained almost equivalent popularity in Japan. Moomin, a creature that would baffle anyone first looking at it as to what exactly it is, won over many hearts in Japan in the 1990's when its animation series titled "Tales From Moominvalley" was released. Originally published in Finland, Moomins are a family of white, large, oddly-shaped creatures resembling hippopotamuses. The picture books and television series depict the adventures of these creatures in Moominvalley. The popularity of this character has earned it a worldwide franchise, sprouting films, theme parks, and all kinds of memorabilia. News of a Moomin-themed amusement park in Saitama set to open in 2017 has been released in 2015, to the delight of Moomin fans in Japan.
With its popularity, it is expected that there would be a Moomin themed café. In Japan, the limited three Moomin Cafés has made it a given that the cafés are almost always crowded no matter what time you visit. Located at Tokyo Dome City, Tokyo Skytree as well as Fukuoka, each of these Moomin Cafés is quaintly decorated to recreate the sense of the quiet Moominvalley from which these characters came from. Each Moomin Café offers a slightly different menu, though in each café you are bound to see either food served in the shape of a Moomin character, be it rice, waffles, or biscuits. More information on the cafes can be found here.
If you find the Moomin Cafés to be a little out of the way, Moomin Stands offering a slightly different menu are dotted across Japan. Unlike the Moomin Cafés which are more restaurant-like, offering spaces for people to enter and sit for a proper set meal or main course (possibly with a Moomin seated across you), the Moomin Stands function more like takeout counters. As such, only drinks and waffles are available for sale.
For those who have tried tapioca pearls (otherwise known as "bubble tea") in countries such as Taiwan or Singapore, the drinks offered at Moomin Stands would seem familiar at first sight. Named "Nyoro Nyoro", the name likely plays on Japanese onomatopoeia, describing the wiggling sensation of sucking these tapioca pearls up a straw. These "nyoro nyoro" come in berry or caramel flavors and the straw that accompanies the drink is absolutely adorable and Moomin themed as well. Flavors range from the rather typical "Green Tea Milk" to slightly strange flavors like "Soy Salt Caramel". Prices vary from 320 yen to 420 yen per drink. You can request for double the amount of "nyoro nyoro" at additional cost.
Apart from drinks, Moomin shaped waffles are also available. The cream in each waffle is not overwhelmingly greasy, but light on the palette and an excellent match with the fruit topping inside. Each waffle is priced at 360 yen, making for an affordable and delicious afternoon snack.
There are a total of eight Moomin Stands throughout Japan, located at places such as Kichijoji, Ikebukuro, Universal Studios in Osaka as well as in Nagoya. More information on Moomin Stands can be found here.
Both the Moomin Cafés and Moomin Stands have a small corner dedicated to the sale of memorabilia.
Seeing how there is even an Official Moomin Fanclub of Japan, the popularity of this character cannot possibly be missed. Do head down to one of the Moomin Cafés or Moomin Stands to catch a glimpse of this endearing character!


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Olmert "Olle" Olsson är en seriefigur skapad av Carl Barks som ofta förekommer i disneyserier. Olssons förnamn anges nästan aldrig; han kallas bara vid efternamn. Vid ett tillfälle kallas han av sin mor vid förnamnet Olle. På senare tid har man fått veta att hans fullständiga namn är Olmert Olsson. Han bor granne med Kalle Anka på Paradisäppelvägen, och de båda bråkar i stort sett alltid. Det finns många serier där han och Kalle av en eller annan anledning börjar träta, och det hela eskalerar till dess att de har förstört varandras hus.

Olsson har lika kort stubin som Kalle, men förefaller dock vara mer vildsint. När Kalle och Olsson råkar i luven på varann, dröjer det inte länge förrän grannskapet förvandlas till ett slagfält. En av de värsta bataljerna utkämpas i "Akta dig för kitt" (Kalle Anka & C:o nr 17 1976).

Grannen Olsson var den första återkommande figuren i Kalle Ankas universum som Carl Barks skapade. Han dök för första gången upp i serien Goda Grannar (Good Neighbors) i november 1943. Olsson har flera gånger visat sig leva tillsammans med sin mor.

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layout: post
title:  "Personal Data Literacy"
date:   2016-10-30
tags:   privacy
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At the age of 19, still pimple-faced and barely out of high school, I was hired to make decisions that would change strangers' lives.

Day after day was filled with simple yes or no decisions.  If yes, they'd get a tool that would make their lives easier.  No, they'd go without and continue struggling.

I had a front-row seat to how the personal data industry started - in consumer credit. My role was reduced to running a credit score, and accepting or declining people based on a single number.

Do you remember the first time you applied for credit?  Maybe it was for a mobile phone, or at a bank.

What I soon realised, was that these decisions are designed to be systematised, for companies to be able to hire inexperienced kids to make credit decisions, step by step, like making a burger at McDonald's.

I saw how flawed the system was, because the policies it created made it so good people were rejected.  A lot.  This wasn't just to be safe - it was to be systematic. Err on the side of caution.

Where I grew up, building your credit was considered a coming-of-age act, like learning to drive and getting a degree.

Then I got a backstage look at how credit really works.  At age 19, I worked in a mobile phone company's call center. At age 19, I was accepting and rejecting people based on their credit.

And this is why I want to teach you why your personal data is so important.

# The same broken logic of consumer credit ratings is coming to healthcare, job applications, voting rights and more

The same broken credit system that works against people is being rebuilt for jobs, insurance and healthcare, voting registration, and is going to unfairly and negatively affect us.

There are established companies that buy your personal data, convert it into a way for large organisations - including insurance, healthcare and governments - to make decisions about you without you ever knowing.

Let me explain.

The credit score tool is designed as a filter for applications.  You apply, the company pays for a credit report, gets a number, and if that score is above whatever they decided their minimum score is, you get accepted or not.

This is why when you apply for a mortgage, you end up dealing with a kid bank manager who was a teller 6 months ago.

This financial data about you -- technically, you have a right to see it, but you don't have any control over it.  If your phone company makes a mistake and misses a payment from you, they report it to the credit bureau, and your score drops.  It's possible to see this, if you jump through some hoops, but almost impossible to correct.

And with financial data, it's regulated in most places.

Let's look at what's emerging.

# Your online activity reveals way more than you think

All of this personal stuff you share, all of the heart and like buttons you press, and all of the stuff you read online, that's all getting recorded.   Put together, it starts to tell a clear story about you.

For example, did you know that if you're an American and you tend to read recipes with ice-berg lettuce more than arugula, you're likely to be a Republican, and if you read recipes with arugula more than ice-berg, you're likely to be a Democrat?  Even one or two [Facebook likes](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/11/facebook-users-reveal-intimate-secrets) reveal, with high statistical accuracy, your sexual orientation, if your parents divorced while you were a child, your IQ, your emotional stability, and your health.  They can even go so far as to predict changes to your health that you're not even aware of.  (Only your health records are protected by law, not accurate predictions of your health from you reading symptoms on WebMD.)

This data about you gets sold.

While these companies claim to protect your privacy, there's a loophole they all use - they say they share the data with "trusted Third Parties."  This allows them to share the data to other companies, which de-anonymise it and package it.

# Big Data means big changes

Now, it's starting to get used in other places.

Take, for example, job applications.  An easy first-pass to screen out candidates is to run them through a simple system like a credit check.  "Here's everyone that applied, score them all and give me the top 100 for interview." Again, the hiring company here doesn't mind missing a couple good candidates with low scores if they can be sure their time on the 100 interviews is generally better spent.  That margin of error costs people opportunities.

The same type of screen is already happening with screening for health insurance, for voting eligibility, and a wider and wider range of critical services.  People are being rejected for health insurance, and turned away at the polls because of the way personal data is used.

In a way, learning to understand your personal data, and keep it private, is the same as learning to manage your personal credit.  It's just as smart to invest in your "financial literacy" as it is to invest in your "personal data literacy." There's a system out there that's not designed for you, but for the needs of companies that want something from you, and for you to come out ahead, you'll need to understand it.


Sometimes a yarn just doesn't want to be spun. I have mentioned before that I'm less than inspired to spin lately. Well, when a friend came over to knit, it seemed like the perfect time to finish the suri alpaca yarn I started at least a month ago. Circumstances conspired to make it more difficult.
First, there was Derby. He just did not want me to pay attention to anything but him. I've learned how to spin around him, although it is not the easiest thing to do. Eventually I pushed him off my lap and switched to Aunt Geri's wheel, which spins faster for plying.
And then Aunt Geri's wheel broke. The footman, which attaches the treadle (the foot pedal) to the wheel, splintered. Luckily, the wheel is big enough that it has some serious inertia. I turned the wheel with my hand, and it kept going for a little while so I could ply. It took me longer, but I finished the yarn eventually.
There was a time when all spinning wheels were turned by hand. These huge wheels had enough weight to spin for awhile, and the spinner would start them turning, then walk over to the other side to draft for a while. They are called great wheels, or walking wheels, because you had to walk back and forth in front of them.
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Budget 2018: Extra £420m to tackle potholes
Image copyright PA
Local councils in England are to get an extra £420m to tackle a growing number of potholes.
Chancellor Philip Hammond will make the announcement in Monday's budget, alongside a £28.8bn fund to upgrade England's motorways.
But the Asphalt Industry Alliance has said more than £8bn would be needed for a one-time fix of potholes in England.
Labour criticised the move to invest heavily on major roads, arguing money should be spent on public transport.
In the budget, Mr Hammond will announce £25.5bn for Highways England for major road upgrades between 2020 and 2025 - largely funded by vehicle excise duty.
It will be the first time the tax has been "ring-fenced" for use on the roads. This is in line with a pledge made by former Chancellor George Osborne in 2015.
An extra £3.5bn of "new money" will be allocated to major local routes, which fall under the remits of local councils.
The £420m for potholes is on top of an existing fund of almost £300m.
Row over mega-plan for central England
Why do governments underspend on big projects?
Pothole 'epidemic' costs £1m a month - AA
Alongside extra cash for potholes, councils will be given an extra £150m to improve road junctions on local roads.
Earlier this year drivers breaking down after hitting potholes reached a three-year high, according to the RAC.
A harsh winter and a hot summer has contributed to the number of potholes on England's roads.
RAC chief engineer David Bizley said the extra money being spent on road infrastructure was "good news" for motorists.
But he added the government needed to look at a long-term strategy to "eliminate the backlog in preventative maintenance".
In March Rick Green, the Asphalt Industry Alliance chairman, said a local authority survey indicated "more than £8bn would be needed to carry out a one-time catch up to bring local roads in England up to scratch".
Labour's shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald said major spending on motorways "isn't sustainable".
He said: "With car dependency rising, public transport in decline and local roads in a state of disrepair, ramping up spending on major roads is the wrong decision."
Pothole-related breakdowns 'at three-year high'
Pothole 'epidemic' costs £1m a month in motoring claims, says AA
Potholes 'could be prevented' by road-repairing drone


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Home | CBJ News | Sepp Blatter is Out As FIFA Boss
Sepp Blatter is Out As FIFA Boss
CBJ – Sepp Blatter stunned the soccer world on Tuesday by resigning as FIFA president in the wake of a U.S.-led corruption investigation that has plunged world soccer's governing body into the worst crisis in its history.
The 79-year-old Blatter announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several FIFA officials and just four days after he was re-elected to a fifth term as president.
Blatter said an election to choose a new FIFA president would be held as soon as possible.
"FIFA needs profound restructuring," he said.
FIFA, ruled over by Blatter since 1998, was rocked this week by the announcement of a U.S. investigation into alleged widespread financial wrongdoing stretching back for years. Swiss authorities mounted their own criminal probe into the award of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively.
The U.S. Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Blatter initially attempted to bat away the furore, relying on his network of friends to hold onto power at FIFA, which he joined in 1975.
While Blatter was not mentioned in either the U.S. or Swiss investigations, there were widespread calls for him to quit, mostly from Western nations. Some major sponsors also expressed misgivings about the impact of the scandal.
The investigation however closed in on Blatter on Tuesday, when FIFA was forced to deny that his right-hand man, Secretary-General Jerome Valcke, was implicated in a $10 million payment that lies at the heart of the U.S. case.
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Q: How to filter keyword for integer, string and integer, string with dashes and integer based on keyword I have implemented the search whose work is to find out the property records from database. The search is somewhat totally depends on typed keyword from user.
Suppose,
If user types keyword like 1234 or 4775 or 773 it should search records from zip column from database.
Next, If user types keyword like  6 S Surfway or 70 N Grove St or 1661-114 Old Country Rd it should search records from address column only from database.
Next, If user types keyword like Calverton or Freeport or Riverhead it should search records from town column only from database.
So, my problem is I am unable to filter these records based on the keyword user types in. My issue is to filter keyword based records from desired columns.
Here is the code I am using:
<?php
header('Content-Type: application/json');

$key        = $_REQUEST['keyword'];
$searchOp   = $_REQUEST['searchOp'];

if($searchOp==1 || $searchOp==6)
{
        $searchChk = "(`property_chk` = '1' OR `property_chk` = '6')";
    }else{
        $searchChk = "(`property_chk` = '$searchOp')";
    }

$data = array(
              'locations' => array(),
              'errors'=>array(),
              'success'=> true,
              );

if($db->connect_errno > 0){
    $data['errors'][] = $db->connect_error;
    die(json_encode($data));
}

$index = 0;

if(intval($key) >= 3){

$zipQuery = $db->query("SELECT zip FROM tbl_property WHERE zip like '%$key%' AND $searchChk GROUP BY zip LIMIT 0,5");
if($zipQuery->num_rows>0){
    while($row = $zipQuery->fetch_assoc()){
    $data['locations'][] = array(
        "value"=> $row['zip'],
        "altValue"=> null,
        "display"=> $row['zip'],
        "type"=> "zip",
        "propertyIndex"=> "",
        "index"=> $index
    );
    $index = $index + 1;
        }
    }

}elseif (!intval($key) && count($key) > 4){

$cityQuery = $db->query("SELECT ste,town FROM tbl_property WHERE town like '%$key%' AND $searchChk GROUP BY town LIMIT 0,5");
if($cityQuery->num_rows>0){
    while($row = $cityQuery->fetch_assoc()){
    $data['locations'][] = array(
        "value"=> $row['town'].', '.$row['ste'],
        "altValue"=> null,
        "display"=> $row['town'].', '.$row['ste'],
        "type"=> "city",
        "propertyIndex"=> "",
        "index"=> $index
    );
    $index = $index + 1;
        }
    }

}elseif (count($key) > 1){

$addrQuery = $db->query("SELECT addr FROM tbl_property WHERE addr like '%$key%' AND $searchChk GROUP BY addr LIMIT 0,5");
if($addrQuery->num_rows>0){
    while($row = $addrQuery->fetch_assoc()){
    $data['locations'][] = array(
        "value"=> $row['addr'],
        "altValue"=> null,
        "display"=> $row['addr'],
        "type"=> "address",
        "propertyIndex"=> "",
        "index"=> $index
    );
    $index = $index + 1;
        }
    }
}
$db->close();

header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($data);

A: You could achieve this with some regex testing. Assuming the rules you are stated are that strict.
$matches = array(); // We do not use it but has to be defined
if (preg_match("/^([a-zA-Z ])+$/", $key, $matches)) {

    // Do search by city here

} else if (preg_match("/^([0-9])+$/", $key, $matches)) {

    // Do search by postal code here

} else if (preg_match("/^([a-zA-Z])*([0-9 -])+([a-zA-Z \.])+$/", $key, $matches)) {

    // Do search by address here

}

Example regex fiddles:
Postal - https://regex101.com/r/qK8pL7/2
City - https://regex101.com/r/yS1oF1/2
Address - https://regex101.com/r/pZ7dT3/2
These examples assume Postalcodes are always numbers and do not contain ANY other characters. Cities are assumed to always be alpha characters and/or spaces any other characters would make the match fail.
Use the fiddles to update to possible other characters you want to allow to make for a better suited test for your needs
In stead of a open else statement, you could also create a regex for address. That would be a little more tricky though and perhaps not applicable


Sautéed in just a teaspoon of oil, this elegant salad is an excellent source of calcium thanks to the combination of paneer, broccoli and bean sprouts. The Stir-fried Broccoli, Baby Corn and Bean Sprouts Salad is like a booster dose for your bones! Onion seeds adds an Indian touch to this nutritious salad.
Heat the oil in a broad non-stick pan, add the onion seeds and sauté on a medium flame for few seconds.
Add all the vegetables, bean sprouts and salt and sauté on a high flame for 2 minutes till the vegetables aretender.
Add the paneer and sauté on a high flame for 30 seconds.