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Jobbie Nooner 2019
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An annual unofficial boating party on Lake St. Claire in Michigan is still going on, despite signs the previously improving state is facing a potential uptick in COVID-19 cases. It seems for the first time in decades, STIs and sunburn aren't the biggest health threats to the average Jobbie Nooner partier.
Known as the Mardi Gras of the Midwest (so like normal Mardi Gras, but a lot whiter and the risk of drowning) Jobbie Nooner was started by UAW worker Lee O'Dell in the mid-1970s. The party spread via word-of-mouth into the monster gathering it is today which can reach up to 10,000 boats and 100,000 people.
Just check out last year's madness, from Local 4 WDIV:
The focal point of their merriment is an uninhabited manmade pile of dregs called Gull Island. Party goers attach their boats together to form long bridges or park in the shallows of the island. Drinking to the extreme features prominently. The huge crowds, alcohol and the unpredictability of Michigan's unofficial Great Lake can make for disastrous consequences, however. Last year, what was predicted to be a beautiful day with record crowds turned suddenly into stormy weather, sending 20 people to the hospital.
This year, partiers are waiting for the final ok from local authorities, but it seems the party will go off no matter what, though with some new rules which will totally be enforced, I'm sure. From the Detroit News.
Fans of the event request that participants cooperate with law enforcement, remaining on their boats and staying six feet from other boats. It won't quite be like jumping on the island, but fans said they'll still be able to enjoy the sights of boats and bikinis from a distance.
"If you go out, be an adult, and have fun," the Jobbie Crew said on their website. "Odds are Jobbie Nooner and Raft-Off will continue whether there's a pandemic or not."
Raft-Off is an even bigger event, if you can believe it. Neither Raft-Off, nor Jobbie Nooner are any kind of "official" event and there aren't really any organizers. It's simply an annual tradition started by autoworkers looking to beat the heat. While it is heavily policed, there is no way to keep total control on such a raucous crowd so rule enforce proves difficult. Drinking and boating, for instance, are against the law in Michigan, but ticketing so many for the infraction would be impossible.
Add to this mess the fact that Michigan suburbanites (especially in conservative Macomb County, where Jobbie Nooner takes place) are incredibly ready to toss COVID rules out the window, to the point they'll shutdown the capitol (and eventually storm into the state house with weapons) to demand the right to risk hourly workers lives so they can get a haircut.
Cowards Block Traffic In Michigan To Protest Coronavirus Lockdown Orders
It was only a matter of time before covid's heartwarming stories of unity gave way to one where our
But these rules they are so eager to toss are the reason Michigan went from one of the hottest spots for COVID case to one of only two state seeing steep declines in cases just a few weeks ago. There has been a worrying uptick recently in Michigan, indicating that the state may be relaxing restrictions too early. Wednesday saw the highest rise in COVID cases in Michigan since mid-May, according to WDIV. That slight up tick could mean another surge in infections.
But that's all fine I'm sure! Honestly, if everyone can stay on their own boats and avoid putting someone drunk at the helm, then more power to them. Being out on the water is a blast and there is a way to do it safely, even if walking across the boats is a big part of the tradition. But if I've learned anything during the COVID-19 crisis, it's not to trust my fellow Michiganders to do the right thing.
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Various hypotheses have been put forward in an attempt to study and try to understand terrorists. Some of them have been successful and valid while other have been totally far-fetched. In this research proposal document, we take a look into the various terrorist attacks that have occurred over the years and try to see which patterns we can make out from them that can be useful in trying to minimize such attacks in the future.
This is one of the many hypotheses to be formulated over the years on the study of terrorists and terrorist attacks. It is not always the case that when a terrorist attack happens, especially a high casualty attack, that terrorist groups will re-group and become more organized. Governments have failed to protect citizens from such acts of violence such as terrorism over the years. As a result very many people have been killed and some have even opted to move away from the 'hot targets' like the united states of America.
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The third and final week of the NFL preseason is here, meaning fans are one step closer to regular season action. Before looking too far ahead, there are a number of stories worth keeping an eye on in Week 3.
Action in Week 3 begins on Thursday with a pair of games, including a meeting between the 49ers and Texans set to air on Amazon Prime, giving fans an opportunity to get familiar with the streaming platform's new-look presentation for the upcoming season.
On Friday, newly minted Panthers starting quarterback Baker Mayfield will see a quarter of action against the Bills, who have decided to rest Josh Allen along with other key starters. Saturday, the busiest day of preseason Week 3, has a slate of eight games, three of which will air live on NFL Network.
Preseason action wraps on Sunday when the Lions travel to Pittsburgh to take on a Steelers team that has yet to appoint a starting quarterback, though Mitch Trubisky will get the start in front of a national TV audience. Rookie Kenny Pickett will look build upon his strong start to the preseason to make the decision even more difficult for coach Mike Tomlin.
Below is the NFL's full preseason Week 3 schedule, including scores, streaming and TV information (national networks in bold).
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Several preseason games per week will be broadcast on NBC, CBS, Fox and ESPN, while other select games will air on NFL Network. Amazon Prime, which has broadcast rights for "Thursday Night Football," will air the Week 3 matchup between the 49ers and Texans.
Only fans in local markets will be able to watch games that aren't nationally televised. For those who want to watch national games on NFL Network, NFL+ — the NFL's dedicated streaming site — will air programming from the network. NFL+ allows streamers to access all out-of-market preseason games and costs either $4.99 per month or $29.99 for a yearly subscription.
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Bills at Panthers 7 p.m. WIVB, WJZY
Seahawks at Cowboys 8 p.m. NFL Network, KING, KTVT, fuboTV
Chargers at Saints 8 p.m. KCBS, WVUE
Patriots at Raiders 8:15 p.m. WBZ, KVVU
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Commanders at Ravens 7 p.m. WRC, WBAL
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CUPE Local 79, which represents Toronto's inside workers, has announced it will present the city's four final offers to its union members on Wednesday for a vote.
According to Union President Tim Maguire, the city has decided to end negotiations. He says the union will not be recommending any of the offers prior to voting by the membership.
Inside workers will vote Wednesday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and votes will be calculated right away.
"We're not going to be making a recommendation. It's time for our members to be able to make their choice," Maguire said.
In the event the offers aren't accepted, Maguire says Local 79 will wait for the city to respond before taking any possible job action.
Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday spoke out after Local 79's announcement, saying he was confident members would ratify the offer and that the offer was the same as the CUPE Local 416 agreement, in terms of wages and employment security.
"What you're going to see are many, many similarities between the two arrangements and that's what we intended to do," Holyday said.
"After all is said and done, they're still going to have one of the best labour agreements in all of Canada."
For CUPE Local 416, job security from contracting now only applies to employees with 15 years of service. Under the previous agreement, all employees were covered. In addition, employees got a six per cent raise over four years.
The two sides spent much of Sunday at the bargaining table, after both sides agreed to take a break shortly after midnight.
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (left) and finance minister Joe Oliver want to extend Canada's participation in the International Space Station.
With six months to go before the next Canadian election, the reigning Conservative party has introduced a budget that emphasizes applied research and scientific collaboration with industry.
The 518-page proposal, released on 21 April, will take effect in coming weeks. It spells out how Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government plans to balance its budget this year — at the same time pledging plenty of new spending in years ahead.
The Canada Foundation for Innovation would receive Can$1.33 billion (US$1.09 billion) in new money for university and hospital research facilities, to be doled out over six years beginning in 2017. The budget also includes a modest 2% hike for the country's research funding councils, much of it targeted for areas "that will fuel economic growth".
David Robinson, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in Ottawa, calls the plan a missed opportunity. "The government continues to miss the fact that real innovation and scientific advancements are driven by long-term basic research, not short-term market demands," he says.
Much of the promised funding for research is destined for industrial partnerships in keeping with other Conservative policies, some of which have strained relationships between the government and scientists.
The Harper government has been criticized for micromanaging how research dollars are spent and the way in which science is communicated. "Muzzled" federal scientists are no longer free to discuss their research findings with the media without clearance from the government. And funding for basic research and federal science programmes, such as the Experimental Lakes Area, an acclaimed freshwater research centre in northwestern Ontario, has been cut as the Conservatives have boosted spending on applied research.
"There's a trend to use universities as surrogates for industrial research," says Paul Dufour, a fellow at the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa and a science-policy consultant.
The trend continues in the latest budget. It includes Can$119 million over the next two years for the National Research Council's "industry-partnered research and development activities"; a proposed Can$46 million per year, starting in 2016, to the research-granting councils in part to "support their growing interactions with the private sector"; and Can$56.4 million over four years, starting in 2016, for graduate student internships "focused on business-related challenges."
While the budget allocates just Can$10 million in new money for the government's "world-class advanced research" initiatives this year — which include projects in physics, space technology and astronomy — it pledges to invest more than $200 million per year in new and expanded programmes starting in 2016.
Dufour says that Canada's research landscape has grown so complicated with the Conservatives' targeted research initiatives that it has become "a bit of a dog's breakfast". And he notes the preoccupation with industrial research has not improved Canada's overall research and development performance.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported in November that Canada has dropped out of the top ten research and development performers, ceding ground to more aggressive countries such as Taiwan. The OECD also reports that Canada has seen one of the sharpest declines in research and development intensity — the percentage of gross domestic product spent on research.
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Opposition parties hope to make science an issue in the October election, but their criticism might be blunted by initiatives such as Harper's Can$243-million, ten-year commitment to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), announced earlier this month and highlighted in the budget. The international observatory is to be constructed on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
"You can rest assured the TMT will be trotted out during the campaign as evidence that they are investing in research that is probing the origins of the Universe," says Scott Findlay, a biologist at the University of Ottawa and founding member of Evidence for Democracy, a group that pushes for more science-based decision-making in government.
The budget also commits Canada to support the International Space Station to 2024. The United States and Russia have already committed to the station for the same period.
As the election nears, the government is also expected to start announcing projects financed by its Canada First Research Excellence Fund, a Can$1.5-billion programme that aims to position Canadian universities "among the best in the world for talent and breakthrough discoveries". Applicants are required to spell out the strategic relevance of proposed projects and their potential to "create long-term economic advantages for Canada".
Many of Canada's university presidents enthusiastically endorsed the fund when Harper announced details in December. And some were quick to applaud the new budget's provisions. "They will benefit Canada and Canadians now and for years to come," says David Barnard, president of the University of Manitoba and chair of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.
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TropicalSim has just released its latest scenery for FSX and FS2004. This time it's one of Brazil's most charming airports, as well as the fact that it has one of the most difficult approaches in the world, due to all the water sorrounding the airport as well as the Sugar Loaf right on the approach path.
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Gillespie have benefited greatly from the funding and their sporting success has continued this year. The sports premium has been used to continue to upskill our teachers and build their confidence in delivering different sports. This has been done by bringing in expert coaches to teach alongside the class teacher providing them with ideas, confidence and skills. Our PE leader has also been active in the teaching of PE across the school.
Due to the PE Leader (Angela Parker) going on maternity leave in December 2017, the funding allowed us to prioritise the importance of PE and we were able to get Rick Byron (the new PE Leader) in for 2 days for a thorough handover of all the sport at Gillespie and the expectations for the next year.
To develop the skills of all children in Gillespie, we have employed coach Dan from Islington District Football Development to do lunchtime sessions with all year groups and to coach both the girls and boys football teams. We knew that the girls were enthusiastic about football and coach Dan runs separate sessions for the girls and boys in each year group and has seen increased participation from the girls in each year group. Dan's coaching has had a real impact on both the girls and boys football teams and this has been evident in their progress in the Arsenal school's league that they play in afterschool.
In 2017 Gillespie won the British Land Cricket Competition in Islington so went on the represent Islington at the Regional Finals where we made it through to the Grand Finals. 140 schools took part in the tournament and only 8 made it through to the finals day at Lord so it was an amazing achievement for a one form entry school.
Gillespie have played in the British Land inclusion league for the past 3 years and have built on their performance each year. Last year we won the tournament.
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I've been watching sports for a long time and this is the first time I can remember that everything is completely shutdown. There's been a few times that a game has been postponed do to a non-weather event, but nothing like this. I guess to be fair not every sport is shutdown. In the warmer weather areas the horse racing season has started and while they're not allowing spectators in to watch the races you can still bet and watch them online or there's actually a channel on most cable system that shows horse races from around the United States.
What I found strange was how quickly some of the people who talk about sports on television jumped allover the NCAA. These people believed that the NCAA wouldn't cancel the men's basketball tournament. They called them greedy and talked about how they really don't care about the players. Now as we now know the NCAA not only canceled the men's basketball tournament, but the woman's basketball tournament was also canceled. I believe that every conference basketball tournament was canceled as well. So it appears that the NCAA did the right thing in this situation and yet I still haven't heard the people who just destroyed them on television acknowledge this.
I'm not saying that the NCAA is a great organization, but under these circumstances they seem to have made the correct call and I believe they're owed an apology. Now I know that's never going to happen, but it should.
It was odd how quickly these television sports commentators attacked the NCAA for talking about holding games with limited people allowed into the building. At the time the NCAA talked about doing that the PGA and NASCAR where both going to continue their events this week under the same guidelines, but neither of them got a mention from the people who dumped all over the NCAA. I get that it's very, very clear that these certain sports personalities don't like the NCAA and I can see that there are reason for this, but they put the cart way before the horse here and they ended up looking incredibly stupid. Of course I may have been the only one paying attention to that.
Luckily we have the NFL still moving along as it's their off season and they can do business that doesn't require fans to attend anything or even people to have contact if they choose not to.
Yesterday there where four players give the franchise tag by their teams and there were also a number of bigger names cut to try to make salary cap room for teams.
Let's start with the franchise tags.
The Baltimore Ravens used a franchise tag on linebacker Matt Judon. He was the Ravens leader in sacks last season with 9 1/2 which was also a career high. Judon is coming off what some people have called his best season.
The Denver Broncos used their franchise tag on free safety Justin Simmons. He led Denver in interceptions with 4 which was also a career high and he was second on the team in tackles with 93.
Now we knew this franchise tag was coming, but the Jacksonville Jaquars made it official and tagged Yannick Ngakoue. He was second on the team in sacks with 8 and he also added an interceptions which he returned for a touchdown.
Ngakoue has made it clear that he doesn't want to stay with Jacksonville; so will have to see if this could turn into a hold out.
The final franchise tag used yesterday was by the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers franchise tagged tight end Hunter Henry. He has always been looked at as someone who would develop into a top receiving tight end, but injuries have limited him.
Henry has never played 16 games in a season and missed all of 2018 with an injury. Last season in 12 games Henry caught 55 passes and scored 5 touchdowns.
With NFL free agency getting ready to start next week teams are looking to make salary cap room; so not only along with tagging players cuts where made to try to get those teams in position to either try to resign their own free agents or to pursue new ones.
You probably have heard of some of the players that have been cut the last couple of days.
The Cincinnati Bengals cut offensive tackle Cordy Glenn. He played in 6 games for the Bengals last season staring 5 of those.
The Chargers not only used their franchise tag, but they also cut linebacker Thomas Davis and defensive tackle Brandon Mebane.
Last season was Davis' first with the Chargers, but his 14th in the NFL. He started all 16 games for Los Angeles last season. He had 112 tackles and 1 interception last season. Mebane missed three games last season with an injury, but he started the other 13. He had 27 tackles and a sack last season.
The Minnesota Vikings cut defensive back Xavier Rhodes and defensive tackle Linal Joseph.
Rhodes was a 1st round pick of the Vikings on 2013. He made three Pro Bowls while with Mnnesota and played in 104 games starting 97. He has 10 career interceptions, but didn't record one last season. Rhodes did post a career high 63 tackles last season.
Last season was Joseph's 10th in the NFL; the last six being with the Vikings. He recorded 3 sacks, 44 tackles and 6 tackles for loss and he also recovered a fumble. Joseph played in and started 13 games for Minnesota last season.
The Tennessee Titans made a four cuts the last two days of players who's names you should know. Running back Dion Lewis, tight end Delanie Walker, defensive end Cameron Wake and kicker Ryan Succop where all released by the Titans as they try to clear salary cap space.
Lewis spent two seasons with the Titans and played in every game while with them. Last season with the emergence of Derrick Henry Lewis's touches where way down. He had 54 carries for 209 yards and caught 25 passes for 164 yards and 1 touchdown.
Walker has spent the better part of the last two season injured. In 2018 he played in just 1 game and last season he played in 7 games starting 4 of them. Walker caught 221 passes for 215 yards and 2 touchdowns 14th NFL season.
Wake was signed by the Titans as a free agent last off season after spending 10 years with the Miami Dolphins. It was hoped that Wake would add pass rush to the Tennessee defense, but injuries limited him to 9 games and he recorded just 2 1/2 sacks. He did record a safety last season.
Last season was Succop's 6th with Tennessee after spending 4 years with the Kansas City Chiefs. Succop missed 10 games with an injury and made only 1 of the 6 field goals he attempted last season.
The Green Bay Packers decided to part ways with tight end Jimmy Graham. He was with Green Bay for two seasons and last season he caught 38 passes for 447 yards and 3 touchdowns. Graham has played 10 seasons in the NFL, but he has yet to find the success he had with the New Orleans Saints at the beginning of his career.
Now these where just the cuts that where made in the last couple of days. I'm sure that there where more cuts made before this, but I didn't want to search the entire waiver wire; so I went with the most recent ones. I hope that acceptable to you.
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Considering how injury prone Henry has been, it seems like a risky move by the Chargers to put the franchise tag on him. Or maybe they're rolling the dice and figure he'll finally be free from the injury bug that has haunted him.


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Biomed Opt Express. 2017 Feb 6;8(3):1332-1355. doi: 10.1364/BOE.8.001332. eCollection 2017 Mar 1.
Milad R Vahid 1 2 , Jerry Chao 1 2 , Dongyoung Kim 1 2 , E Sally Ward 2 3 , Raimund J Ober 1 2
1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
2 Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
3 Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.8.001332
Single molecule super-resolution microscopy enables imaging at sub-diffraction-limit resolution by producing images of subsets of stochastically photoactivated fluorophores over a sequence of frames. In each frame of the sequence, the fluorophores are accurately localized, and the estimated locations are used to construct a high-resolution image of the cellular structures labeled by the fluorophores. Many methods have been developed for localizing fluorophores from the images. The majority of these methods comprise two separate steps: detection and estimation. In the detection step, fluorophores are identified. In the estimation step, the locations of the identified fluorophores are estimated through an iterative approach. Here, we propose a non-iterative state space-based localization method which combines the detection and estimation steps. We demonstrate that the estimated locations obtained from the proposed method can be used as initial conditions in an estimation routine to potentially obtain improved location estimates. The proposed method models the given image as the frequency response of a multi-order system obtained with a balanced state space realization algorithm based on the singular value decomposition of a Hankel matrix. The locations of the poles of the resulting system determine the peak locations in the frequency domain, and the locations of the most significant peaks correspond to the single molecule locations in the original image. The performance of the method is validated using both simulated and experimental data.
Keywords: (000.5490) Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; (100.2960) Image analysis; (100.6640) Superresolution; (110.3010) Image reconstruction techniques; (170.2520) Fluorescence microscopy.
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The Leadership Samoa Cohort 2017 presented their research findings addressing issues of importance to Samoa's development yesterday.
Research projects conducted by four teams from Savai'i, Apolima, Manono and Upolu focused on youth entrepreneurs, voluntary blood donations in Samoa, sustainable tourism and Samoa's electoral system.
Selected panel members relevant to each topic were invited to give feedback on each project and their findings.
Savai'i's group dealt with the untapped potential of youth (18-30) in the marketplace.
The Apolima group researched why voluntary blood donations in Samoa are low.
Benefit of sustainable tourism to Samoa was the focus of the group from Manono, and Upolu's team asked which electoral system best suits Samoa.
Leadership Samoa C.E.O. Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun said it is important to include development in research projects.
He said the research aims to generally improve life for the public in different and creative ways.
The presentation was well attended by interested members of the public.
Leadership Samoa runs a leadership programme aiming to empower leaders and build understanding of the issues affecting the development of Samoa.
It is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, which was founded in 2010.


Direct Access, or Public Access as it sometimes referred to enables members of the public, companies, partnerships and other groups to instruct barristers directly. Before Public Access Rules were introduced in July 2004, the only means to instruct a barrister was through solicitors, or where appropriate through Direct Professional Access. Now that has all changed consumers now have the option of instructing a barrister directly.
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Another key advantage of direct access is that it is less expensive than instructing a solicitor. This is due to the fact that barristers have very few overheads in comparison to solicitors. Typically 75% of solicitors fees are taken by overheads, whereas it is only 25% for barristers.
All the barristers at Go Direct Barristers are independent self-employed practitioners.
Depending on which barrister at Go Direct Barristers you are instructing, will determine the level of fees you pay. Other factors to bear in mind would be their level of experience, the length of time that may be required in dealing with each piece of work and complexities of the case. We will agree a fixed fee for every piece of work you require the barrister to undertake. This fee must be paid in advance (funds to be cleared before commencement of work).
All barristers at Go Direct Barristers are required to keep and maintain full records of the fees that they are charging. You are entitled to details to justify the fee that you are being charged.


Messing around in The Dog House getting things organised.
Getting a good collection of Cast Iron!
Having never cooked with cast iron before, big fan of it now, indoors and outdoors, since getting a Dutch oven. If I had the space to store it, I would love a collection of them.
Was going to bring a tripod and Dutch Oven to the Tailgate, but seen as Lee is bringing one, will have to think of something different, and I may have just the thing!
Lidl are doing this one from Thursday next week. Do you think these sort of devices will support a 6kg+ cast iron dutch oven plus contents ok, as very tempted at this price, especially with the fire bowl included?
Looking at it for £30.00 you can't go wrong. The Tripod has got some horizontal supports to stop the legs splaying out under the weight.
Good, bit small an lightweight but it should make no difference, i guess you can put a different counterweight on it if if plancha is heavier than grill, the chain and pulley should stand it.


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PCSO and PCC team up for river patrols in Tideswell to deter poachers
The Police and Crime Commissioner has been teaming up with Safer Neighbourhood officers to help deter poachers from rivers in the Derbyshire Dales.
PCSO Ian Phipps and PCC Hardyal Dhindsa joined Chris Thirtle of the Cressbrook and Litton Flyfishers Club to carry out joint patrols of the river routes.
The team took to the beat on Monday, October 24, to help deter rural crime and offer reassurance to residents living close to the rivers around Millers Dale, Monsal Dale, Litton Mill and Cressbrook.
Force wildlife crime officer, PC Emerson Buckingham, said: "Fish poaching is an issue that affects the whole of Derbyshire at this time and is taken seriously by the Derbyshire Constabulary Wildlife Crime Unit.
"We are working in close partnership with the Environment Agency and a large number of fishing clubs across the county to tackle this issue. As part of this, we have teamed up with fishing clubs to launch an anti-poaching scheme whereby members can directly report these types of incidents to a wildlife crime police officer such as myself or the Environment Agency. This scheme has proved very effective since it started running at the beginning of the year."
PCSO Ian Phipps from the Tideswell, Litton, Baslow and Beeley Safer Neighbourhood Team said: "It was a fantastic opportunity to team up with PCC Hardyal Dhindsa and Chris Thirtle to find out more about the work of the river bailiffs and to deter rural crime such as poaching on our rivers."
Police and Crime Commissioner, Hardyal Dhindsa added: "It was really good to see the partnership working between the Safer Neighbourhood team and local organisations who are working together to protect the environment and communities of Derbyshire.
"The fishing clubs and the rivers of Derbyshire are important to the social and economic vibrancy of our county and I was pleased to see PCSO Ian Phipps and Chris Thirtle leading the way in tackling wildlife crime in our rural areas.
"I have come away with lots of great ideas and I will be following them up in due course with the neighbourhood team and the local parish councillors."
To speak to the Tideswell Safer Neighbourhood Team call 101, or send them a message online using the Contact Us section on www.derbyshire.police.uk/Contact-Us
You can also follow the team on Twitter for all of the latest community news, @TideswellSNT
To report wildlife crime call police on 101 or 999 in an emergency.


Trains are the most popular way to travel between cities. They run through all major cities but may have limited schedules. Tickets are for sale either at the station or, for a small percentage more, on the train. When buying tickets at a station, one may have the option of paying by credit card; however, most travelers pay cash. There are always vendors on board selling various types of food and snacks.
A passenger can choose between first and second class accommodations, both of which are perfectly acceptable. There tends to be more room and less people in first class. For overnight travel sleepers are available. Reservations are not necessary.
Moroccans also use the bus to travel between cities.


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Invoke is a technology driven, real-time market research company. We enable business and marketing leaders to make key decisions using data-driven, live research events. Our patented technology is used to test long and short form video content, new product concepts, brand and product messaging/positioning, and more, in 60-90 minute live sessions. Television networks, studios, global consumer brands, and digital forward companies all use Invoke to move their initiatives forward with confidence and consensus.
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Prior to Invoke, Charlie held leadership roles in DevOps, Technical Ops, and Cloud Ops at several startups. He was also VP of Engineering at Intralinks where he led a team responsible for the performance and scalability of the company's SaaS platform. Earlier in his career, he was a Sr. Performance Engineer at Fidelity Investments.
Charlie holds an MBA from Babson and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Dartmouth.


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La storia della moda nel periodo 1600–1650 nell'Europa occidentale è caratterizzata dalla sparizione della gorgiera in favore di pizzi e collari, farsetti aperti, cappelli alti e a tesa larga. Per gli uomini, la calzamaglia medievale venne rimpiazzata dai primi calzoni.

La silhouette, un tempo importante, venne abbandonata attorno al 1615 e gradualmente andò ammorbidendosi negli abiti al punto che già negli anni '20 e '30 del secolo iniziarono a comparire le prime maniche a sbuffo.

La moda spagnola rimase profondamente conservatrice in questo senso, conservandosi in Spagna e nei Paesi Bassi (all'epoca sottoposti al governo spagnolo) mentre scomparve in Francia ed in Inghilterra.

Le tensioni sociali che portarono alla guerra civile inglese mutarono anche la moda inglese dell'epoca, passando dall'elaborato stile della moda alla corte di Giacomo I d'Inghilterra e di suo figlio Carlo I, d'ispirazione francese, a quello più sobrio promosso dai puritani ed esportato anche nei primi insediamenti del Nuovo Mondo.

Nei primi decenni del secolo, la tendenza di poeti ed artisti ad adottare posizioni melanconiche e nostalgiche si rifletté anche nella moda con la predilezione per i colori scuri, collari aperti, farsetti sbottonati e generalmente un atteggiamento sfatto.

Influenze
L'epoca compresa tra il 1620 ed il 1650 circa è un periodo di transizione per la moda, che non mostra un'immagine completamente uniforme in tutti i paesi europei. In diversi stati vi erano differenze evidenti, a seconda che si fosse più orientati verso la moda spagnola (incluse religione e cultura; la Spagna tenne per lungo tempo un abbigliamento proprio, moto conservatore e rigoroso) o verso quella francese, che alla fine prevalse attorno alla metà del secolo.

A volte si dice che la moda di questo periodo sia stata influenzata dal panorama della moda olandese o fiamminga. Questa impressione deriva principalmente dal fatto che quest'epoca fu di particolare splendore per la pittura di quest'area geografica con una vera e propria collezione di immagini di genere e ritratti, ma in realtà i dettami olandesi furono meno influenti di quanto si pensa sugli sviluppi del costume europeo. I ritratti di pittori come Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Verspronck e altri mostrano come i ricchi cittadini di religione riformata dei Paesi Bassi settentrionali tendevano ad avere uno stile di abbigliamento più ispirato ai dettami dei puritani con l'uso del nero e pochi ornamenti e pizzi rispetto alla tendenza generale della moda del primo periodo barocco.

È interessante notare che nel sud dell'Europa, profondamente cattolico, e specialmente in Spagna, durante questo periodo fu messa da parte (e non solo nella moda) venne ripresa con vigore la moda delle gorgiere e di abiti neri dall'aspetto ascetico e disadorno sia nella moda femminile che in quella maschile.

Questo costume iniziò a perdersi in parte dalla guerra dei trent'anni, ma già dal 1620 poteva dirsi largamente influenzato alla moda francese, uno degli stati meno coinvolti fisicamente dalla guerra. L'abbigliamento più elegante e progressista, quello che era noto come "l'ultima moda", era quello stato indossato alla corte francese ed in Inghilterra (all'epoca profondamente influenzata dalla Francia) durante questo periodo. Le incisioni di Abraham Bosse e Wenzel Hollar, ad esempio, così come i ritratti dei fratelli Beaubrun della corte francese, e in particolare i ritratti di Antoon van Dyck, testimoniano questo fatto. Quest'ultimo artista, inoltre, lavorò per diversi anni alla corte di Carlo I d'Inghilterra e documentò come l'influenza francese avesse largamente influenzato la moda inglese, grazie anche alla presenza della regina Enrichetta Maria, una Borbone di Francia.

In Germania, dal 1630 circa, vi fu una sostanziale opposizione ad aderire al costume francese, frutto dell'atteggiamento anti-francese sviluppatosi a causa della guerra.

Vi furono anche dei tentativi per frenare il lusso eccessivo nell'abbigliamento o la tendenza ad utilizzare pizzi ed ornamenti in maniera smisurata; nella stessa Francia, ad esempio, Luigi XIII emise un editto in questo senso nel 1633, ma venne scarsamente rispettato anche a corte.

Caratteristiche generali
Rispetto alla precedente moda che poneva maggiore enfasi su una figura alta e snella, la silhouette tra il 1620 e il 1650 divenne significativamente più arrotondata e più ampia per entrambi i sessi. Tuttavia, questa impressione è stata ottenuta con l'uso di abiti imbottiti, come nella moda spagnola e come pure dal rialzo della linea della vita per entrambi i sessi (soprattutto intorno al 1630), e dall'espansione delle gonne nella moda femminile e dei mantelli e cappotti maschili.

La moda del primo barocco manifestò anche una certa tendenza al giocoso ed al fiorito con la presenza in generale di molto pizzo, indossato da entrambi i sessi, in particolare su colletti e polsini, e dalle donne anche sul petto, mentre gli uomini lo portavano anche sulle calze alle ginocchia. Nella moda inglese dell'epoca, in particolare, presero piede nastri, fiocchi e coccarde. Le gorgiere spagnole passarono gradualmente di moda e lasciarono il posto a colletti sempre più piatti e larghi, sempre realizzati in pizzo ma meno rigidi.

Le transizioni della moda sotto la prima parte del regno di Luigi XIV in Francia furono particolarmente fluide, poiché questa stava già iniziando a mutare attorno al 1640.

Moda maschile

Nella moda maschile l'immagine dell'uomo della prima metà del Seicento è caratterizzata dalla presenza di farsetti e giacche con larghe code nella parte finale simile alle giacche in uso in ambito militare. I farsetti vennero dotati di spacchi decorativi sulle maniche o sul petto, da cui spesso sporgeva la camicia bianca sottostante. Negli anni '20 del Seicento le gorgiere erano ancora usate, ma sempre più spesso non erano rinforzate, così cadevano sciolte sulle spalle; si mantennero un po' più rigide nei Paesi Bassi per l'influenza della corte spagnola. In alcuni casi il colletto divenne molto ampio pur mantenendo il pizzo caratteristico, giungendo addirittura a coprire tutte le spalle. I pantaloni, non più a sbuffo come in precedenza, cadevano con larghe pieghe attorno alle cosce ed erano spesso legati al ginocchio con l'uso di nastri, talvolta molto elaborati.

Il costume era completato da una spada indossata su una bandoliera larga e con la presenza di un cappello a tesa larga di feltro che poteva essere portata rivoltata davanti, di lato, dietro o in due punti, e adornato con una o più piume di struzzo.

Gli stivali (necessari in guerra) erano considerati un accessorio importante, portati alti alla moda, fino al di sotto delle ginocchia, in pelle al naturale, con decorazioni al bordo. Questo abbigliamento era indossato non solo da mercenari e soldati durante la guerra, ma anche da uomini istruiti e da aristocratici. Il bordo, spesso realizzato in pizzo, veniva rivoltato sopra o sotto il ginocchio, oppure gli stivali venivano ripiegati verso il basso in modo da dare maggiore spazio alla presenza dei calzoni che potevano terminare anch'essi con decorazioni in pizzo o nastri. Notissime sono in questo senso le rappresentazioni pittoriche di Pieter Paul Rubens, van Dyck o Rembrandt.

A corte si potevano indossare anche scarpe basse per gli uomini, le quali potevano essere anche aperte lateralmente o decorate con un grande fiocco o rosone nella parte superiore.

Gli uomini più alla moda erano soliti indossare molti pizzi, fiocchi e nastri secondo i dettami della moda aristocratica francese dell'epoca, motivo per cui si attirarono le critiche dei puritani tedeschi o inglesi.

Anche i capelli degli uomini divennero sempre più lunghi tra il 1620 e il 1650 e spesso scendevano fino al colletto. Dopo il 1630 divennero di moda anche i capelli mossi e ricci. Alcuni uomini lasciano crescere solo una o due ciocche di capelli sulla parte posteriore del collo, di modo da poterli intrecciare per formare un codino da legare poi con un fiocco: questa acconciatura venne chiamata cadenettes dal nome del maresciallo Cadenet che era solito utilizzarla. Alla capigliatura fluente si abbinavano inoltre sovente un paio di baffi (a volte leggermente attorcigliati) e un pizzetto corto.

Moda femminile

Come per gli uomini, anche per le donne il costume variò moltissimo. La gonna a cerchio spagnolo (vertugade) scomparve e la gonna venne ora lasciata cadere in morbide pieghe. La pienezza venne ottenuta con l'aiuto di numerose sottovesti di diversi colori o motivi che spesso si notavano anche sotto la gonna superiore. Con l'evolversi della moda della prima metà del Seicento, la gonna superiore venne spesso aperta in modo che si potessero vedere le altre gonne sottostanti.

Per quanto riguarda la giacca superiore, per le donne essa era inizialmente simile a quella usata nella moda spagnola, ma divenne sempre più corta intorno alla fine del 1620, e fu poi portata all'altezza della vita dal 1630 circa al 1650 circa. Le maniche divennero più morbide ed all'inizio era probabilmente anche imbottite, ma anch'esse gradualmente diventarono più corte e larghe. Forte era inoltre la presenza di ampi polsini in pizzo, inizialmente rinforzati e successivamente ammorbiditi e lentamente trasformati nella forma alto barocca.

Il collare era ancora molto comune negli anni '20 del 1600 e durò un po' più a lungo nella moda femminile, specialmente nei Paesi Bassi (in alcuni casi sino al 1640). Iniziarono a diffondersi per contro le scollature, che diventavano sempre più grandi ed erano per lo più incorniciate da un ampio colletto di pizzo, che poteva coprire in parte il décolleté. Grandi collari rialzati (collari medici) vennero indossati anche su abiti festivi fino all'inizio degli anni '30 del XVI secolo. In seguito si iniziarono a scoprire anche le spalle e i colletti divennero più piccoli e più morbidi.

All'inizio, le donne si tiravano indietro i capelli in modo relativamente semplice, ma anche le acconciature tendevano ad essere più larghe che alte, cosa che si otteneva semplicemente lasciando i capelli liberi sino alle tempie e arruffandoli in seguito. Alla fine degli anni Venti del Seicento i capelli vennero portati sin sopra le orecchie e venivano in seguito ondulati o arricciati, magari con alcune ciocche cadenti sulle spalle.

Le donne potevano anche indossare un cappello di feltro ornato di piume con tesa ripiegata, così come accessori alla moda erano considerati ventagli e maschere contro sole, il vento e le intemperie. Questi oggetti erano portati indosso grazie ad un nastro che era portato intorno alla vita potresti. Il gioiello più popolare per le donne erano le perle in forme di collane o orecchini.

Abiti originali

Bibliografia
 Bert Bilzer, Meister malen Mode. Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1961, p. 39.
 Ludmila Kybalová, Olga Herbenová, Milena Lamarová, Das große Bilderlexikon der Mode – Vom Altertum zur Gegenwart, übersetzt v. Joachim Wachtel, Bertelsmann, 1967 /1977.
 Erika Thiel, Geschichte des Kostüms, 8. Auflage. Henschel-Verlag, Berlino 2004, ISBN 3-89487-260-8, p. 209.

Altri progetti

Abbigliamento antico
Storia della moda


American cuisine is famous for combining foods that have seemingly nothing to do with each other. Following the ramen burger and the fusion of croissant and doughnut, next on the list is Hungary's beloved lángos, paired up with a hamburger, origo.hu reports.
Lángos, the Hungarian deep fried dough is getting more and more popular in the US. Last year a food truck selling lángos opened in New York City, and now a Brooklyn restaurant, famous for their Central European dishes, has put a new item on the menu: the lángosburger.
Food Network's series on burgers has reported on the new dish, the teaser of which has already caused quite a stir on the internet.
Maria, the chef of the Korzo Restaurant was born in former Czechoslovakia, and her restaurant's dishes have been inspired by the food of her childhood. Next to strapachka, stews and other Check-Slovakian-Hungarian dishes, Korzo became famous for their deep fried burgers. If the idea of the lángosburger is not confusing enough, Maria mixes up the filling as well. The fatty brisket patties are topped with bryndza, a kind of sheep cheese; braised pork; and sauerkraut. The end result is not quite a burger, but not quite a lángos anymore, either.
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Mango Health uses Google Fit to add activity, blood pressure, weight tracking
Gamified medication adherence app maker Mango Health is moving beyond medications, using a new Google Fit integration to add tracking of blood pressure and weight, as well as activity tracking, into its app, the company announced today.
"From a patient or consumer's perspective in the app, it leverages the existing paradigm around reminders, which we think is a very effective way to begin encouraging patient populations in other forms of even more proactive health," CEO Jason Oberfest told MobiHealthNews. "So whether it's recording blood pressure regularly, or moving regularly, monitoring glucose regularly, whatever the case may be, it was a very logical extension for the app."
Oberfest says that Mango isn't looking to compete with or replace dedicated fitness or health trackers. Instead, Mango Health wants to be the first step into other types of health tracking for users who already track and schedule medications.
"[Our demographic] looks very similar to the casual mobile game demographic," Oberfest said. "Fifty-five to 64-year-old consumer, skews a little bit female, very similar to the Candy Crush demographic. Our hope is we provide an experience that's very familiar and inspiring to that audience and we get them thinking about some of this for the first time. And then if we can provide a really simple and frictionless experience to begin thinking about tracking steps, that's a good plan."
Similarly, Oberfest hopes the product will help set up patients to deal with a more serious medical condition that might require them to monitor their vital signs in the future.
"Over time, it would be unfortunate if one of our users had to start monitoring glucose as their condition deteriorates, but if they do we can be there for them and we can provide those integrations and present that to them in a concise way along with all their other medication determinations," he said.
Oberfest says the company is considering integrating with Apple Health as well, but for now the features will launch on the Android version of Mango only.
In addition, the company announced some preliminary results from a one-year clinical study with a major United States integrated managed care system. Since the study is pending publication, Mango declined to share too many details about methodology, but Oberfest said the study was notable in a few ways.
"We were integrated into clinical workflows," he said. "The app was recommended to patients directly through a provider we worked with. We measured the efficacy of the program, not through the self-reported data in the app but through pharmacy dispense data, which is really the gold standard for measuring adherence."
The study showed a 20 percent increase in on-time prescription refills for the most at-risk patients in the program, a group of patients with hypertension taking five or more medications. It also showed that patients used the Mango Health app an average of 17 times per week.
In March, Mango Health told TechCrunch the company had plans to launch an Apple Watch app, and would eventually expand tracking to include hydration and blood glucose.
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St. John's Stuns Marquette
Shamorie Ponds with the game-winning layup. @StJohnsBball.
The St. John's Red Storm stunned Marquette, the 10th-ranked team in the nation, 70-69, on Tuesday night, giving them two big victories on this three-game road trip.
This brings the Red Storm's Big East record back to .500 at 5-5, as they return to Madison Square Garden on Saturday at noon for a matchup with Providence. They then host Butler at Carnesecca Arena on Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m., and then face defending national champion Villanova on Sunday, February 17 at 5:00 p.m. at The Garden.
This was the second time St. John's has beaten Marquette this season, as they beat them soundly on New Year's Day at The Lou and handed them their first loss at Fiserv Forum.
Shamorie Ponds led the way with 28 points, and he had the game-winner on a layup with 20 seconds left. Ponds shot 9-19 from the field, including 1-5 o three-pointers, with 7 rebounds and 2 assists.
St. John's led this one throughout, and went up by as many as 15 points when Ponds made a layup to make it 49-34 with 15:45 remaining.
Marquette would not go quietly, as they responded with a 12-2 run, and then pulled within a point, at 56-55, when Sam Hauser drained a three with 5:56 remaining.
Later on, there was a stretch in which Ponds made five straight free throws to give St. John's a 68-63 lead with just 1:24 remaining.
Marquette came right back, as Hauser got a quick three-pointer, followed by another one of Sacar Anim to give them a 69-68 lead with 36 seconds left.
Ponds responded with his layup with 20 seconds left to make it 70-69, and then the Red Storm defense got a big stop, as Markus Howard missed a jumper with 7 seconds remaining.
St. John's also got big contributions from Justin Simon had 19 points on a superb 8-11 shooting, with 6 rebounds and 3 assists; and Mustapha Heron had 10 points (3-8 FG, 3-5 threes), with 4 rebounds and an assist.
St. John's defense was superb throughout, as they held Marquette to just 40.7 percent (22-54) shooting. They kept Markus Howard (like Ponds, a Big East Player of the Year candidate) in check, holding him to 17 points on 5-17 shooting, including 4-8 on threes, with 5 rebounds and 5 assists.
Sam Hauser led the way for Maquette with 19 points, but shot just 6-16 from the field and 3-12 on three-pointers, with 11 rebounds to give him a double-double. His brother Joey was held to just 4 points and did not make a basket, as he shot 0-3 from the field, with two misses from behind the arc.
St. John's Head Coach Chris Mullin said of defeating Marquette twice, "I think our defense against Markus Howard and the Hauser brothers is the focal point. We've got some length and guys that can move their feet, so I think the switching helps but you still have to guard them. Howard can get free and get 40 in a half. The Hauser brothers, if you give them an inch, they'll make shots.
"Overall, I thought we did a really good job again. They got hot towards the end again, getting free a little bit but our focus was to get them to play off the dribble. Try to get them to the two and live with some of the post ups and two-point shots. Through the first half, they got going in transition. Forty minutes of defense was exceptional. [They're] one of the best offensive teams in the country with three of the best shooters I've seen together on the team ever. I think holding them to 69 on their own court is pretty phenomenal defense. The best thing about tonight was I could tell that they felt they were playing defense and could stop them. Deep down they felt they could stop them. For us, it's a great bounce back game."
Mullin said of their 2-1 road trip, which included a win at Creighton last Wednesday and a tough loss at Duke on Saturday, "We talked about coming out here and being on our own. Obviously we take it one [game] at a time but everyone has the big picture. I always go back to preparation, mentally and physically, and being resilient. Whatever happened, happened and we have to learn from it and move on. Our four veteran guys understand that and they are leading the way for the guys that need help. They ended up being the guys that made all the plays tonight."
Ponds scored 13 of their last 14 points, and he said of stepping up late, "I mean, coach drew it up and I just wanted to execute the plays. We wanted to get hot with our pick and roll."
Ponds said of his game-clinching basket, "I was just in attack mode. I got by him and finished at the rim. I just tried hurrying the play because the shot blockers were coming."
Mullin said of Ponds, "You can see it pretty quickly when he's moving with pace. Tonight, the first possession you could see he had some good thrust and pace that he maintained the whole night. He made some big baskets. He's important to us because he draws a lot of attention and gets other guys open looks. His passing, screening and playing off the ball will get him points. When you are playing with pace and doing the little details to help [your] teammates, it makes him that much tougher to guard."
Ponds said of the victory in Milwaukee, "It's definitely a big win. It's big for the program to beat Marquette [on their home court]. They don't lose here. I'm really glad we came up with the win."
Ponds said of their upcoming schedule, which includes five of their next six games at home, "We're definitely ready to take off. We preach protecting our home court. We definitely have to go with that mindset."
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Q: Determine the maximum number of consecutive equal elements in a given array Determine the maximum number of consecutive equal elements in a given array.
arr = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 1, 1]
def recurring(arr)
    freq = arr.inject(Hash.new(0)) { |h,v| h[v] += 1; h }
    freq.max_by { |k,v| v }
end

p recurring(ar

A: This should work
def recurring(arr)
  elements = arr.uniq
  elements.map { |el| arr.count(el) }.max
end

A: I assume the task is to determine the maximum number of consecutive equal elements in a given array.
def recurring(arr)
  arr.chunk(&:itself).map { |_,a| a.size }.max
end

arr = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 1, 1]
recurring arr
  #=> 5

Object#itself was introduced in Ruby v2.2. For earlier versions, write
arr.chunk { |e| e }.map { |_,a| a.size }.max

The steps:
enum = arr.chunk(&:itself)
  #=> #<Enumerator: #<Enumerator::Generator:0x007fbb04943088>:each>

We can see what elements will be generated by this enumerator by converting it to an array:
enum.to_a
  #=> [[1, [1, 1, 1, 1, 1]], [2, [2]], [3, [3, 3, 3]], [4, [4, 4]], [1, [1, 1]]]

b = enum.map { |_,a| a.size }
  #=> [5, 1, 3, 2, 2]
b.max
  #=> 5

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I've been reading SPEAKERS OF THE DEAD all day, and I'm nearly done, but I don't think I'll stay up for the last 100 pages. It's a mystery about grave robbers set in 1843, and the protagonist is Walt Whitman. I found it at my library after finishing the first biography.
But SPEAKERS is straight up fan fiction. Walt Whitman is a reporter (true), trying to exonerate his friends, a husband and wife, after their death and execution, respectively. Henry Saunders, an ex-boyfriend (probably true) and also his new boss at the paper (definitely false), helps him solve the crime.
I'm enjoying it enough to keep picking it up all day long. I'll certainly finish tomorrow. I'll probably read a sequel if it turns into a series.
But, damn, I can't help but think about all the great fan fiction I've read over the literal decades now, and how much of it should have been published books instead.


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Alberta received no federal help to deal with protest blockade last winter: inquiry
By Laura Osman and Marie-Danielle Smith The Canadian Press
Posted November 10, 2022 1:29 pm
Updated November 10, 2022 7:09 pm
A truck convoy of anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate demonstrators block the highway at the busy U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alta., on February 2, 2022. Jeff McIntosh, The Canadian Press
Senior civil servants from Alberta and Ontario left the impression at a public inquiry Thursday that Ottawa was not keen to come to their aid to deal with protest blockades last winter — at least, not before the invocation of the Emergencies Act.
Neither of the bureaucrats from those provinces felt the use of the legislation was necessary, and in Alberta, the inquiry heard, the legislation wasn't useful at all.
Evidence and testimony at the Public Order Emergency Commission Thursday shed light on the provincial response to the blockade before and after the act's invocation, and on the interactions between federal and provincial officials as they grappled with the protests.
A convoy of truckers and supporters opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other heath measures is shown blocking the highway at Alberta's busiest U.S. border crossing with the village of Coutts in the background on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. Jeff McIntosh, The Canadian Press
The public inquiry is tasked with determining whether the federal government was justified in triggering the legislation for the first time since it became law in 1988.
A convoy of 1,000 vehicles of all types drove to the small border town on Jan. 29 to protest provincial and federal COVID-19 health restrictions, blocking the highway in both directions and halting the movement of trade.
The Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, the same day RCMP in Alberta moved in to arrest protesters in Coutts.
The prime minister argued the temporary and extraordinary powers were needed to end blockades in Ottawa and at border crossings, including another at Windsor's Ambassador Bridge.
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Justin Trudeau held a consultation with premiers before invoking the act, and notes taken by political staffers and submitted to the public inquiry detail their comments and concerns.
Handwritten notes taken by aides in the Prime Minister's Office and Saskatchewan government said former Alberta premier Jason Kenney worried that triggering the emergency legislation would be a "very serious provocation" and a "net negative," with RCMP checkpoints already a "magnet" for protest sympathizers.
The notes also appear to show Kenney said that while he had serious concerns about the Emergencies Act he would not "quibble" over its use if it was necessary.
But after Ottawa made the move later that day, Kenney publicly declared his opposition, saying the act should be "used sparingly and as a last resort."
1:48 Mayor Jim Willett discusses divided Coutts community during Emergencies Act Inquiry testimony
Other premiers shared their concerns, too. The notes quote Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane saying she didn't want blood on her hands and "I really don't want to see bloodshed."
The notes also say she supported emergency measures but wanted more consultation if the army would be involved, to which Trudeau responded that the military was a "last resort."
Alberta had asked for military help related to the Coutts blockade, but the federal government denied it.
Marlin Degrand, the assistant deputy minister in the Alberta solicitor general's office, told the commission earlier Thursday that RCMP had the power to clear the convoy from the border, but it didn't have the co-operation it needed to get the job done.
"If we were going to go and remove all of the protesters and remove the blockage, if the RCMP were to do that, that (towing capacity) would absolutely have to be in place," Degrand said in his testimony.
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Alberta looked all over the province, in British Columbia and Saskatchewan and even the United States, but tow companies refused to help. Some were sympathetic to the protest, while others were paid by protesters to stay out of it, Degrand said.
The province opted against declaring a state of emergency to try and force tow operators to help, and instead asked for federal help in a formal letter on Feb. 5.
The Liberal government never officially responded to that request, but did draft a letter to turn Alberta down on Feb. 12, the commission learned. The undelivered letter said the province had all the legal authority it needed to deal with the protest.
Degrand said he would agree that Alberta didn't need any more legal authority; what it lacked were the tow trucks to pull it off.
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Eventually, on Feb. 12, the federal government started a working group focused on securing tow trucks. But by that point, Alberta was already in the process of buying used tow trucks online.
Text messages released Thursday also revealed that Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver accused federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair of lying about whether the Emergencies Act was used to ultimately clear the blockade.
On Feb. 21, Blair texted McIver to tell him that the Emergencies Act was effective at addressing "the tow truck issue."
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"You were too late and did the wrong thing," McIver responded, telling the minister that by the time the state of emergency was invoked the Coutts blockade was already over.
"Saying nothing now would be better than not telling the truth."
A spokesperson for Blair said in an email that the blockades were a serious threat to critical infrastructure and the economy, and the dismantling of the blockade in Coutts "did not end the threat in Alberta or anywhere else in Canada." This meant the act "was necessary to make additional resources available to law enforcement as the threat persisted," the spokesperson added.
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Meanwhile, top public servant in charge of public safety in Ontario felt the federal government wanted to "wash its hands" of the protest in Ottawa that gridlocked downtown streets for nearly a month.
His impression was formed at a Feb. 6 meeting between city, provincial and federal representatives, when the prime minister's national security adviser Jody Thomas asked whether the province would be looking to the federal government for help if the protest was not in the capital city.
"I didn't think that was appropriate at all," Ontario's deputy solicitor general Mario Di Tommaso said during his testimony Thursday.
0:41 Emergencies Act commission counsel collapses during questioning
"They were on Parliament's doorstep. They were in the National Capital Region."
Di Tommaso said the protest in Ottawa could have been dealt with using powers afforded under the province of Ontario's emergency declaration, though the federal powers were helpful and were used in Ottawa.
When asked by a commission lawyer whether the federal government should have done more, he simply said: "No."
Notes taken by PMO staffers also show that Ontario Premier Doug Ford strongly supported the use of the act during consultations with the prime minister.
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