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Building working class solidarity: The fight for $15
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By Pam Frache
Ontario's Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage and the Fight for $15 movement in the United States have renewed the struggle for decent work by raising class demands and uniting workers across sectors in a manner unprecedented in recent decades. Building on gains in the US, the movement in Ontario has begun raising the minimum wage. Now there's a campaign for $15 in Ontario, BC and Nova Scotia, raising the possibility of a pan-Canadian campaign uniting unionized and non-unionized workers around a common demand. The next global day of action for the Fight for $15 is set for April 15, 2015 when union and non-union workers across North America – and indeed the globe – are mobilizing for decent wages and decent work.
Fight for $15
In the fall of 2012, US workers in New York City and Chicago, supported by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), and other unions, launched the Fight for $15 movement when handfuls of workers in the "virtually union-free"retail and fast food sectors walked off the job. This extraordinary action did not arise spontaneously. It was the result of months of organizing that was informed by an explicitly working-class agenda, and consciously intended to rebuild links between organized and unorganized workers. The strategy is designed to overcome the class fragmentation and absence of bargaining power that is especially pronounced in the service sector where fast food and retail jobs are among the fastest growing occupations in the country.
Within two years, the Fight for $15 has exploded into a national movement across the US. Workers at hundreds of outlets in hundreds of cities have engaged in strikes and walkouts. Among the emerging leadership of these movements are young, racialized workers—especially women—who are reshaping the movement and, in the process, themselves. The minimum wage is now a topic for debate at all levels of government in the US. Indeed, on January 1, 2015, three million workers received a legislated wage increase as 20 states and Washington, DC raised minimum wages. Three municipalities—SeaTac and Seattle in Washington, and San Francisco in California—have voted to establish a $15 minimum wage and other improvements in working conditions such as paid sick leave, fairer hours and successor rights for workers. In February, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to begin work on a $15 minimum wage ordinance for all workers in the city, and Portlandcity council amended its Fair Wage policy to establish a $15 minimum wage for the city's directly-hired and contracted employees. None of this would be taking place were it not for the growing confidence and willingness to fight of the lowest paid members of the American working class—bolstered by the solidarity offered by the organized labour movement.
Fifteen years after Seattle made headlines when labour and social movements converged to shut down the World Trade Organization, Seattle-area workers achieved the first $15 minimum wage breakthroughs. Residents in the Seattle suburb of SeaTac voted on November 5, 2013 to adopt Proposition 1 that implements a $15 minimum wage as well as providing a modest number of paid sick days, requiring employers to offer additional hours to existing part-time workers before hiring new staff, and, significantly, requiring employers retain employees for at least 90 days if the business is sold. These measures have made a real difference in the lives of workers affected.
Meanwhile, right next-door in Seattle, Kshama Sawant put the Fight for $15 at the centre of her bid for city council. Her campaign not only helped defeat incumbent city Councilor Richard Conlin—himself a Democrat—but also forced the Fight for $15 right into the centre of Seattle's mayoral contest. As David Goldstein describes: "By October, the three-pronged $15 movement—the fast-food strikes, the SeaTac $15 initiative, and the insurgent Sawant campaign—was dominating local political headlines. Eager to win both street cred and labour endorsements, both candidates in Seattle's hotly contested mayoral race suddenly jumped on board, promising a $15 minimum-wage ordinance if elected. Several council members followed suit. … The movement turned the November election into a referendum on the $15 minimum wage, and the message from voters was clear. By the end of December, eight of nine Seattle city council members had publicly endorsed a $15 minimum wage."
Having defeated the incumbent mayor Michael McGinn, the new mayor, Ed Murray, immediately implemented a $15 minimum wage for all directly-hired and contracted employees of the City of Seattle, a move that raised the wages of approximately 600 people. He then helped forge legislation that will bring all workers in the city to $15 an hour between 2017 and 2021. By 2025, all minimum wage workers in Seattle will receive $18.13. It is expected that one in every four Seattle workers—or more than 100,000—will benefit from the minimum wage ordinance.
By identifying the correct target – a $15 minimum wage for all workers within Seattle's legal jurisdiction – the movement created enough pressure to force the city to raise the wages of its own directly-hired or contracted workers and then extend that victory to all workers. In this context, the pay increases for the 600 public-sector city workers (and those funded by city contracts) could be understood as a down payment on the ultimate goal of winning decent wages for all workers, not as "another unfair pay hike" for a "privileged" section of the workforce. By contrast, had the Seattle movement started by campaigning only for those 600 city workers, it is doubtful the movement would have been as effective, because it would not have had such broad class appeal. This aspect of the US movement must be fully grasped if we are to learn the lessons from the campaign and apply them elsewhere.
Seattle's municipal campaign can't simply be transplanted into Canada. Because cities don't have the legal authority to make laws that apply to all workers within its boundaries, a statutory approach in the Canadian context can't just focus on a city; it must focus on the province. And that requires a united, province-wide campaign for a common minimum standard.
To do otherwise, leaves workers in precarious employment to the tender mercy of their individual employers. And because such workers lack bargaining power in individual worksites, their employers will have little reason to "do the right thing" in the face of moral pressure from the outside. Effective campaigns must aim to force employers into compliance, either through a collective agreement or through law; it is this that gives the workers a stake in the outcome of the campaign and creates an incentive to participate.
The class raises the floor, unions set the bar
The growing gap in living conditions between workers in decent jobs and workers in low-wage, unstable, temporary, and involuntary part-time employment is a strategic threat to the gains union and non-union workers have won together. There is an urgent need for a working-class project to rebuild the floor in wages and working conditions. And engaging workers in small workplaces, in unstable and low-wage employment is a critical strategic question for the labour movement.
As David Rolf, President of SEIU Local 775 and a leader in the SeaTac $15 initiative, explains: "We can't be the movement that's just about us. The labor movement that workers flocked to by the tens of millions in the 1930s wasn't known for negotiating 500-page contracts. They were known for fighting for the eight-hour day, fighting to end child labor." This insight reminds us all that workers join unions—and pay dues—when they see the need for organization as part of a larger project to improve working conditions. Unions are a means to an end, not the end itself. And we must remember that all union contracts and labour laws reflect a particular balance of class forces at any given moment.
The challenge for unions in general is that, while solidarity from unorganized workers (or differently organized workers) is increasingly crucial to winning workplace collective bargaining demands – and setting the bar higher for wages and working conditions – it is not always clear to union members how to develop campaigns that will improve conditions for workers without unions (or for those in unions who lack bargaining power). This is especially significant when one considers the fact that in Ontario the minimum wage has been frozen for 12 of the past 20 years. The minimum wage increases that have occurred didn't trickle down accidentally from individual collective bargaining victories; the increases came as a result of deliberate, united, working class effort that made provincial, legislative change the central focus.
This approach is a bit different from regionally focused living wage campaigns. While regional living wage campaigns help expose the gap between what workers earn and what they need to live decently in their particular locale, these campaigns call for voluntary compliance, and therefore tend to focus on employers that are progressive, stable or big enough to extend wage improvements, while leaving the worst employers unmoved. And on a cautious note, the regional diversity inherent in living wage calculations opens a door that allows some employers to claim they are paying too much, rather than not enough. As a case in point, last September, Maclean's magazine explicitly called for the creation of local minimum wages, noting two Canadian jurisdictions where the author claims the minimum wage is too high.
Ontario Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage
In less than two years, the Ontario Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage won two historic milestones. In June 2014, the general minimum wage increased from $10.25 to $11.00 an hour and, in November that same year, the Ontario government was forced to index the minimum wage annually to keep up with increases in the cost of living. For minimum wage earners, this represents a 7 per cent bump in wages and it means their earning power will no longer be eroded in the years between statutory minimum wage increases. The first cost of living increase will take effect October 1, 2015 when the general minimum wage will be $11.25.
But even beyond its success in forcing legislative reform, Ontario's Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage has been politically significant. The campaign has provided non-union and union workers an opportunity to unite across workplaces and across the province. This is the kind of common struggle that most quickly allows unionized workers to shed their pre-conceived notions of charity and pity toward low-income workers, and helps low-income workers lose their resentment and bitterness toward unionized workers. Without effective, common, provincial campaigns with outcomes that apply to the working class as a whole, the process of building real working class power will be harder, slower and less effective.
Two years ago, some in Ontario were hesitant to embrace the idealism of a $14 minimum wage and in the 2014 election the Ontario New Democratic Party refused to endorse it. Yet thanks to the Ontario and US movements, a Fight for $15 campaign has been launched by the BC Federation of Labour and by labour, students and community groups inNova Scotia. Even the federal NDP feels confident enough to make a $15 federal minimum wage part of its election platform and hundreds of canvassers will be door-knocking on this issue in the lead-up to the federal election next October.
Fight for $15 and Fairness
The Fight for $15 movement is clearly resonating with union and non-union workers: in Ontario, labour and community groups in more than 25 towns and cities are launching the Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign—where fairness means a modest number of paid sick days, fair hours and scheduling, measures to make it easier to join unions, and meaningful enforcement of employment laws so that all workers have dignity and respect at work.
These aspects of fairness are critical in light of theOntario government's recently announced 18-month public consultation on employment laws. As OFL President Sid Ryan notes, the consultation offers Ontario workers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to affect meaningful, provincial statutory change. These issues will be an important part of the OFL/Common Front's Solidarity Against Austerity Summit taking place in Toronto on April 17-18.
The next global day of action for the Fight for $15 is set for April 15, 2015 when union and non-union workers across North America – and indeed the globe – are mobilizing for decent wages and decent work. This kind of convergence of movements is relatively rare in history; seldom do we get a chance to unite concrete working-class struggles across provincial and national borders. Yet here we are, on the precipice of just such an opportunity. To join or organize an action in your town or city visit: http://raisetheminimumwage.ca, http://15andfairness.org, (ON);http://www.fightfor15bc.ca (BC);NovaScotianeedsaraise (NS); http://fightfor15.org (US);http://april15.org
This piece was originally published on Socialist.ca
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Election committee gets ready to conduct Guwahati Press Club polls
by NE NOW NEWS March 11, 2020 2:32 am November 11, 2021 10:58 pm
A view of the press conference at Guwahati Press Club. Image credit - Northeast Now
The Guwahati Press Club (GPC) Election Committee is ready to conduct the GPC elections on March 12.
Informing this during a joint press conference at GPC on Tuesday, Ajit Patowary, the presiding officer of the Guwahati Press Club elections, 2020, said, "There are 36 candidates, including eight women, in the fray for 10 posts, two of which are reserved for women."
Talking to reporters, Patowary informed that in all, 816 voters will exercise their franchise in the forthcoming GPC polls.
"Elaborate arrangements have been made to hold the elections in a smooth way," said Patowary.
Also read: Assam: Nava Thakuria moves Gauhati High Court against Guwahati Press Club election
The GPC election process started on February 27, 2020, when the presiding officer of the GPC elections handed over the voters' list and nomination forms to the GPC returning officer.
Informing that the ballot boxes have been collected from the State Election Commission, Patowary said: "Printing of the ballot papers, identity cards of the candidates, their polling/counting agents, election officials, among others, have been completed."
He also informed that for forthcoming GPC elections, the pandal for the voters and counting operation has been erected.
"The people involved in the election process have been intimated to make themselves available on the polling/counting date as per the schedule as announced on February 27, 2020," he added.
The ballot boxes and the polling centre would be sealed on Wednesday in full view of the candidates/ their polling/counting agents.
He also appealed to all the candidates, their authorised polling and counting agents to be present at the GPC campus around 3 pm on Wednesday for the purpose.
The candidates have also asked to remove their publicity materials from inside the GPC compound and from within a 100-metre distance of the GPC compound ahead of 8 am on Wednesday when the campaigning for the GPC elections will come to an end.
Regarding the security arrangements, Patowary said: "The Guwahati City Police Commissionerate has assured us deployment of the adequate number of security personnel on the GPC compound from the afternoon of March 11, 2020, till the election process comes to an end on the night of March 12, 2020."
For the voters and election officials, additional toilet facilities are also being arranged.
It may be mentioned that on February 20, 2020, the extraordinary general meeting of the GPC members asked the election committee to complete the election process within one month from the date of the meeting.
"The Election Committee is hopeful that all the GPC voters will exercise their franchise in this election, turning it into a great democratic festival in the annals of the GPC, after the dark period of long 17 years," Patowary said.
He said during the last 17 years, the GPC voters' "right to vote was trampled by some forces inimical to democracy, by keeping the GPC under their control, violating all democratic norms and the GPC constitution".
It may be mentioned that in the last 17 years, the GPC was run under the control of former GPC general secretary Nava Thakuria.
He also moved the court in Guwahati challenging the election committee's decision to curtail his voting right.
The court will hear the case on Wednesday.
"These forces have now moved the court to frustrate the democratic aspirations of the GPC members for establishing democracy in the GPC," said Patowary.
"They have now moved the court with the plea to stall the ongoing GPC election process. But we have full faith in our judiciary and are hopeful that the court will reject all such pleas and uphold the democratic values," he added.
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Neverwinter's Lost City of Omu update is live for PC players; here's the launch trailer!
Neverwinter's Lost City of Omu update is live on PC today – yes, PS4 and Xbox One players will have to wait a few more weeks. In the lead-up to the launch, we've covered the hunts, Fane of the Night Serpent, system design, undercity, bosses, rewards, crafting, and other improvements. It's a lot!
Enjoy the launch trailer and get in there!
This mod is already a massive FLOP and not even 7 days old. I have spend more than 3 Hours in game just farming hunt lure items to make my t1 hunt items (you need t3 for good drop with RNG at every level causing you to start from t1 many times)) I have not had a single drop in a 5+ days of farming remember than in mod 12 it took more than 60 for me to get the t3 lure . so this will not take me monts to farm but years.
The campaign is useless you finish all the weekly tasks in 45-60 minutes on monday and have to wait till next week to do it again. The hunts are supposed to fill the 6 other days but it is broken.
Look at all these overpriced shinies!


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An Introduction to Rock Climbing in the Western Cape of South Africa by Karin Magog
South Africa, like the States, has many different climbing areas so where do you start? Well you couldn't go wrong with a trip to the Western Cape. Cape Town itself is one of the top cities in the world, and a very popular venue in it's own right. It's in a fantastic situation with Table Mountain and the Twelve Apostles curving through the city and surrounded by fantastic beaches. Accommodation is plentiful, with several cheap Back Packers and it's generally very cheap to eat out. There's plenty of climbing around Cape Town but it's worth exploring inland as well, with several good climbing venues along the N1 to the east, and, to the north, the Cederberg Mountains in particular offer some fantastic climbing. The majority of the crags are hard sandstone but all have their own unique character and are very different to the sandstone here in Britain.
Celestial Journey 22 Wolfberg Cracks © Steve Crowe 2006 www.climbonline.co.uk
You can't miss this as it is literally in the middle of Cape Town. A steep 1.5 hours walk leads up to the ledges (there is a cable car but it's not the done thing!), from where you have a choice of climbing in the sun or shade, with Africa Ledge on the left getting the morning sun and Fountain Ledge to the right the afternoon. It is possible to climb here all year round depending on the weather. Even when the 'south easter' is blowing the tablecloth over the mountain, Fountain Ledge is usually the most sheltered spot to climb on the Peninsula. The rock is very hard, compact sandstone with regular breaks (or rails as the locals call them), which take good gear – plenty of cams are essential. It also forms some fantastic juggy chickenheads. The crag offers some great multi-pitch trad routes of all grades and the views are spectacular. Just some of the routes to look out for are: – Africa Crag (12), Atlantic Crag (18), Oddshouters Outing (22), Africa Arête (25), No Longer at Ease (25) and African Lunch (23), all on the African Ledge, and Arms Race (23), The Dream (21), Touch and Go (21), Triple Indirect into Magnetic Wall (20), Captain Hook (23), Jacob's Ladder (16) (which traverses out on monster holds above a massive roof – not for weak-kneed seconds!) and Roulette (20/21), on the Fountain Ledge. The crag also offers several testpieces including One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (30), Jeopardy (29), Double Jeopardy (30) (by Britain's Dave Birkett) and the recent Mary Poppins and her Umbrella (32). For an interesting route to the main crag try linking Frasers Variation (on the lower buttresses) into Arrow Final, this gives good quality climbing at a low grade (V Diff) and breaks up the tedious walk-in. The lower buttresses are worth a visit if time is short, check out the classic Bombay Duck (17). As well as the climbing Table Mountain has much more to offer. Combined with the Cape Peninsula it is one of the 6 floral kingdoms of the world with more species diversity than the whole of the British Isles. The mountain also offers many classic walks and scrambles.
Table Mountain © Steve Crowe 2006 www.climbonline.co.uk
SILVERMINE and THE MINE
Both are good sports climbing venues near Muizenburg, about 20 mins drive from Cape Town. They offer a good range of grades with the climbing being vertical to overhanging and are climbable year round. Silvermine has four bolted crags (Main Crag, Blaze of Glory, Fawlty Towers and Lower Silvermine) with the Main Crag offering routes up to 30m on vertical walls with small, friendly crimps. The routes are mainly in 18-26 range with Sterling Silver (21) and Trance Dance (23) both well worth doing. The Mine is a lot steeper and it is possible to climb here in the rain. It is also quite shady in the summer when the sun is high in the sky. It offers very steep, powerful climbing through lots of roofs. Some recommended routes include Red Guitar on Fire (25), Swan Lake (25), Gift of Wings (28) and Sickle Moon (22).
Jill Blackburn lowering off at Silvermine © Steve Crowe 2006 www.climbonline.co.uk
THE HOLE
Again this is on the coast near Muizenburg and is a good venue for a half day. It offers incredibly overhanging sports routes on mainly good holds and wears you down quickly. The main climbing is generally in the 24 – 28 range but there are a few routes on the left in the 19-21 range which can be used as warm-ups. Good routes include Fleur de Mer (24+), Fleur D'Afrique (25) and Poisson Flambe (25+). There's often a chilly breeze so it can be a good venue on a hot day, but beware the 'south-easter' though as this can make the crag very smeggy (unfortunately this is the prevailing wind in the summer!). The crag is also prone to seepage in wet winters.
Fleur de Mer 24 at The Hole, Muizenberg © Steve Crowe www.climbonline.co.uk
PAARL ROCKS
This is the name given to the two large granite domes just outside the town of Paarl. The name means 'Pearl' in Afrikaans and when it's wet and the sun shines you can see why. Easily accessible from Cape Town they are about a 50 mins drive northeast along the N1. Rather an esoteric venue (reminiscent of Picnic at Hanging Rock) but offering some excellent climbing with a mixture of trad and sports climbs. The earlier climbs tend to be quite gnarly with long run-outs between old bolts and some trad gear; however, there are some newer bolted routes that are well equipped. The routes are generally slabby with small holds and very intricate, balancey climbing. Children of the Lesser God (22) is a unique route with most of the gear comprising of slings over the prominent extrusions plus a couple of bolts on the blanker sections. Look out for the excellent and sustained slab of Children of the Corn (25) and the superb Parklife (27/28). This 40m route follows the black water streak and gives excellent and sustained climbing on generally good, if small, edges. Also good is the newly bolted Little Dutch Boy (20) and Wonderland (22).
Paarl Rocks © Steve Crowe 2006 www.climbonline.co.uk
HELLFIRE and DU TOIT'S KLOOF
Follow the N1 for about an hour from Cape Town and you drive through the Huguenot Tunnel and out into Du Toit's Kloof, a spectacular alpine valley with the main road to Jo'Burg running through its centre. If you fancy a big day out there are plenty of trad routes up to 400m long, with a hard walk-in to start (makes the walk-in to Scafell look like a stroll apparently!) and plenty of commitment, despite the road at the bottom. Recommended routes include Exposure in F Major (18), North West Frontal (19) and Armageddon Time (23).
If you fancy something less committing check out Hellfire. Just 45 mins from the road is a band of solid, red sandstone offering single pitch trad, sport and mixed routes with a good spread of grades. It gets plenty of sun making it too hot generally in summer but a good venue at other times of the year.
Jill Blackburn on sighting Lip Service 22 Sandrif © Steve Crowe 2006 www.climbonline.co.uk
Further along the N1 again, about 2.5 hours drive from Cape Town in the Klein Karoo is the sports climbing mecca of Montagu. Instead of the usual sandstone the rock here is quartzite and offers extensive climbing at all grades from 10 (F4) to 33 (F8b+). The routes are mainly single pitch and of every different length and angle, so there's literally something for everyone. There are numerous different crags in the kloofs (gorges) formed as part of the Cape Fold Mountains. The low rainfall makes this a good option in the winter months as it is often sunny and warm here when the weather is bad in Cape Town. It is also possible to climb here in the hotter summer months though, as some shade can usually be found. In Bosch Kloof check out Ramset Crag, Bosch Crag, Twin Fins and Skull Crag for Latin Lessons (21), Partners in Crime (24) and the crimp fest Never Say Goodbye (27). The Steeple at the Riverside Crags is a must with long slabby routes like the excellent Gospel Express (17) on one side, and very short, steep routes including The Church of Frederico (23) on the other.
Karin on Church of Frederico 23, Montagu © Steve Crowe 2006 www.climbonline.co.uk
Bad Kloof has several excellent sectors including The Scoop, Sloth Crag, Supertubes, The Palace, Uriah Heap and Berlin Wall. Look out for routes Cool like That (29), The Vision Thing (23), If I go it Will be Double (24), Thruster (26), and Cyberpunk (25). Voted South Africa's town of the year in 2002, Montagu is a peaceful place steeped in history offering coffee shops, restaurants, hot springs, wine tasting, mountain biking and hiking.
Karin Magog climbing Vision Thing 23 Montagu © Steve Crowe 2006 www.climbonline.co.uk
If it's limestone you are after then this is the place, in fact it's the only limestone crag in the Country. An awesome venue about six hours drive from Cape Town along the N2 highway. Definitely worth a trip if you enjoy overhanging, tufa sports climbs. Although Oudtshoorn itself can be one of the hottest places in the country with temperatures in summer regularly in the mid thirties, the climbing area is up in the De Hoek mountain resort and the main wall is shady in the afternoon allowing a leisurely start and time for a swim in the resort pool. . There are only a handful of routes here unfortunately, but many of these are among the best, and hardest, sport climbs in the country with a grade range of 18-33. Look out for Short Circuit (31), Phallic Mechanic (24), Paws (26), Sid Vicious (27) and Lost Safari (an extension to Sid Vicious which gives an awesome 40m 28). Oudtshoorn is also famous for the Cango Show Caves and ostrich farms. There are also plenty of wildlife parks and the spectacular Swartberg Pass.
Karin Magog flashing Lost Safari 28 Oudtshoorn © Steve Crowe 2006 www.climbonline.co.uk
THE CEDERBERG MOUNTAINS
This mountain range is about two/three hours drive (an hour of which is on dirt tracks) north of Cape Town. It is named after the beautiful cedar trees whose numbers have sadly been decimated by repeated veld fires. There are several climbing venues here, perhaps the most well known being Rocklands (Northern Cederberg), which offers world-class bouldering as well as several routes. Rocklands is relatively low-lying so is a great venue in the late autumn or early spring, although the hard-core boulderers visit in the winter. There is also some sports climbing at Truitjies Kraal (Central Cederberg) and some at Sandrift Crag, both near Wolfberg. The area however, offers some fantastic multi-pitch trad climbing up in the mountains. Perhaps the most accessible is Wolfberg, with a good campsite located near the climbing (60mins walk to the crag) and the routes being typically 4-7 pitches long. Although it is very hot here in the summer as long as you get the walk-in done early the climbing is mostly in the shade. It's also a good venue for autumn and spring. Great routes include Celestial Journey (22), Alone In Space (22) and Energy Crisis (20). For more of an adventure however, the crags of Tafelberg and Krakadouw are well worth visiting. They both involve a 2-3hr. walk up into the mountains and it is usual to bivvi here for a few days. For Krakadouw water is available about 30 mins from the camping spot so it is usual to fill up several bottles on the walk-in. For Tafelberg, water is sometimes available near the crag, but there's very seldom any left by the autumn. Tafelberg is definitely a summer crag as it is pretty shady and can be very cold, whereas Krakadouw gets plenty of sun so you can climb here from spring to autumn. The rock is very hard and compact sandstone, with routes tending to follow the main weaknesses of cracks, chimneys and the horizontal 'rails'. Good protection is the norm, but the routes are often steep and fairly burly so a positive approach is needed. Recommended routes at Krakadouw include the fantastic 10 pitch King Kone (20) on the big crag and the equally as good Icthyasaurus (21), Juggernaut (22), and Valhalla (26) on the smaller of the two crags (all routes about 5 pitches). At Tafelberg check out Tafelberg Frontal (12), Comes a Time (20), Oscillation (21), Oceans of Air (23) (the name says it all!) and Blue Planet (25).
Mary Jenner climbing on Tafelberg Pillar © Steve Crowe 2006 www.climbonline.co.uk
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For routes an excellent time is March/April, it's still very warm which is good for the higher crags. For bouldering July seems to be a good month, generally low rainfall out at Rocklands but still sunny without being too warm.
For Table Mountain check out The Ledge, Table Mountain by Leonhard Rust. A very clear guide with excellent photo topos. There's an excellent new guidebook to all the sports venues in the Western Cape (2004) called Western Cape Rock by Tony Lourens. It covers Montagu, Oudtshoorn, Cape Town and the Cederberg sports routes. He is currently working on guidebooks to the rest of the Cederberg. There is a guide to Wolfberg by Jason Orton. Information for other crags can be found on the Climb South Africa website (www.climbing.co.za), as well as loads of other useful information.
For some venues (e.g. The Cederberg) it is necessary to obtain a permit before you can climb in the area. Contact the Mountain Club of South Africa (www.mcsa.org.za) before your visit for more info.
In all the towns and cities there are plenty of Back Packers, hostels and B&BS. Back Packers in particular can be very cheap (although some can be very noisy). Many climbing areas also have decent campsites with hot showers eg. Rocklands, Wolfberg, Montagu. Many of the campsites also have self-catering bungalows which can be a cheap option if there's a few of you. For Montagu check out De Bos (campsite, bunk barn, bungalows and rooms) which is ran by climbers Stuart and Regula Brown (www.debos.co.za). At Wolfberg the Sanddrift campsite is ideally located below the crag and for Oudtshoorn there's the De Hoek Mountain Resort just 10mins from the crag. For the more remote venues it is usual to go in for a few days and just bivvi at the crag eg. Krakadouw, Tafelberg.
Generally very cheap and very good. It's easily possible to get a three course meal for less than £10. The wine is also excellent with the vineyards of Stellenbosch less than an hour from Cape Town and South Africa's highest winery situated right next to Wolfberg. Bakeries and Coffee Shops abound, with plenty of tempting morsels (flapjack is highly recommended and worth checking out, it won't be what you're used to!) Tea and scones are also very popular.
Rest Days
Plenty of fantastic beaches, water sports, abseiling off Table Mountain, beautiful walks, Jackass Penguins, diving with sharks, Botanical Gardens, Cape Point, wine tasting. The list is endless.
Baboons – don't feed them as it encourages them to approach cars.
Snakes – don't wear sandals when walking through the bush. Make a noise and most snakes will move out the way (except the puff adder which is lazy but has a very swift strike!). As well as the puff adder there are cobras, berg adders and various others.
Crime – try not to look like a tourist and keep your wits about you.
Car-jacking – not unheard of in the cities.
Dangerous aggressive drivers – especially taxis and vehicles with no lights at night.
Great White Sharks – well you never know!
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Slaughter at Cainhoy, The Worst Racial Violence in the South Carolina Lowcountry During Reconstruction, Part One
By Gene Kizer, Jr., Charleston Athenaeum Press
The Brick Church, a/k/a White Church, north of Cainhoy in Berkeley County, S.C.
The Worst Racial Violence in the South Carolina Lowcountry During Reconstruction
During the presidential campaign of 1876, a political meeting took place at beautiful Brick Church near Cainhoy, South Carolina, Monday, October 16, 1876. It ended shortly after it started when Republican blacks savagely attacked the mostly white Democrats and shot, beat, hacked, mutilated and robbed them, killing five white men out of the group and severely wounding several others. An eyewitness, confirming the brutality of the attack, stated:
. . . Mr. Whitaker met with a worse fate, for he was brought in alive, suffering fearfully from buckshot through his stomach, and huge hacks of flesh taken out of him by an axe or hatchet. . . .
Daly (18 years old) was also left on the ground when wounded. His head was hacked in five places when found.
Poor Walter Gradick, a mere boy, had his eye gouged out, and was cruelly beaten and wounded. . . .1
All the victims had been stripped of their clothing and robbed.
This happened during the eighth year of Congressional Reconstruction in South Carolina, which began in 1868. Only three of the original eleven Confederate states were still occupied: South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. In the other eight, white Democrats, often with black support, had regained control of their governments.2
There was despair and hopelessness among Southern whites during much of Reconstruction, especially in South Carolina. Of 60,000 Confederate soldiers supplied by South Carolina to Southern armies in the war, 20,000 had been killed and another 20,000 maimed. The war in its totality had claimed 750,000 dead and over a million maimed. It is hard to fathom the grief and heartbreak from all that though Basil Gildersleeve, a Confederate soldier from Charleston who today is still considered the greatest American classical scholar of all time, tried in his book, The Creed of the Old South, published 27 years after the war:
A friend of mine, describing the crowd that besieged the Gare de Lyon in Paris, when the circle of fire was drawing round the city, and foreigners were hastening to escape, told me that the press was so great that he could touch in every direction those who had been crushed to death as they stood, and had not had room to fall. Not wholly unlike this was the pressure brought to bear on the Confederacy. It was only necessary to put out your hand and you touched a corpse; and that not an alien corpse, but the corpse of a brother or a friend.3
Reconstruction had begun this way for most white Southerners:
For some time now a straggling procession of emaciated, crippled men in ragged gray had been sadly making their way through the wreckage to homes that in too many instances were found to be but piles of ashes. These men had fought to exhaustion. For weeks they would be found passing wearily over the country roads and into the towns, on foot and on horseback. It was observed that 'they are so worn out that they fall down on the sidewalks and sleep.' The countryside through which they passed presented the appearance of an utter waste, the fences gone, the fields neglected, the animals and herds driven away, and only lone chimneys marking spots where once had stood merry homes. A proud patrician lady riding between Chester and Camden in South Carolina scarcely saw a living thing, and 'nothing but tall blackened chimneys to show that any man had ever trod this road before'; and she was moved to tears at the funereal aspect of the gardens where roses were already hiding the ruins. The long thin line of gray-garbed men, staggering from weakness into towns, found them often gutted with the flames of incendiaries or soldiers. Penniless, sick at heart and in body, and humiliated by defeat, they found their families in poverty and despair.4
Blacks and whites could have adjusted to their new relationship after the war but the most unscrupulous people in all of American history, carpetbaggers and scalawags out for plunder and political advantage, did not want peace. They could not make money and hold power with peace, so they created racial hatred and division using violence and lies for their political advantage, not unlike the Marxists in America today with their "systemic racism" invention, and racial hate like Critical Race Theory, and fraud like the 1619 Project.
If it is true that history repeats itself, then the methods of control during Reconstruction and the methods of control of American Marxists today match perfectly. Of course, it's not exactly true that history repeats itself. It's the manifestations of human nature that repeat themselves over and over throughout time because human nature does not change.
So, South Carolina endured the lawlessness and corruption of an entrenched Republican Party loaded with carpetbaggers and scalawags for over eight long years. White frustration was epitomized by lawyer George Rivers Walker, son of the British consul in Charleston, who was at Cainhoy. Walker identifies a black Republican named Cyrus Gaillard as the one who kept the massacre going by telling other blacks to keep shooting the whites.5 Walker laments that taking legal action against Gaillard would be a waste of time because:
. . . first, the Republican trial justices will throw all obstacles in my way; when I say Republican I mean by it always Carolina Republican, for you know my Northern education prevents my holding any prejudices against bona fide Republicans of the North - then Bowen has complete control of the sessions, and the prosecuting officer, Buttz, is too well known for you to doubt the futility of my effort. . . .6
Walker is referring to the Republican sheriff of Charleston County, Christopher Columbus Bowen, and his protege, Solicitor C. W. Buttz.


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Q: How to use batch SQL in JDBC with PreparedStatement? I am getting this error while executing my code, which is supposed to process SQL statements in batch mode:

ORA-03115: unsupported network datatype or representation

This is the code, that when run, generates the error:
public class Login {

    public static void main(String args[]) throws SQLException {
        Connection con = null;
        PreparedStatement stmt = null;
        Statement st = null;
        try {
            Driver driver = new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver();
            DriverManager.registerDriver(driver);
            System.out.println("coneecting to the database:");
            con = DriverManager.getConnection("url", "user", "pass");
            con.setAutoCommit(false);
            System.out.println("creating statement");
            String sql = "insert into shweta values(?,?)";
            stmt = con.prepareStatement(sql);

            printrows(stmt);

            stmt.setString(1, "love");
            stmt.setInt(2, 45);
            stmt.addBatch();

            stmt.setString(1, "kaun");
            stmt.setInt(2, 29);
            stmt.addBatch();

            int count[] = st.executeBatch();

            con.commit();

            printrows(stmt);

            // printRs(rs);

            st.close();
            stmt.close();
            con.close();
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            try {
                if (con != null)
                    con.rollback();
            } catch (SQLException en) {
                en.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                if (stmt != null)
                    stmt.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {
            }
            try {
                if (con != null)
                    con.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

        }
        System.out.println("good bye ashish");
    }

    public static void printrows(Statement stmt) throws SQLException {
        String sql = "select * from shweta";
        ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(sql);

        while (rs.next()) {
            // Retrieve by column name

            int age = rs.getInt("age");
            String first = rs.getString("auth");

            System.out.print(", Age :    " + age + "\n");
            System.out.print("AUTH :     " + first + "\n");

        }
        System.out.println();
    }
}

I am new to coding and am unsure how to resolve this error, all help appreciated. Thanks.

A: A user bind or define, or an Oracle function, is not supported by this
heterogeneous SQL*Net connection.
 Upgrade the older version of Oracle and try again.

A: Statement st is not initialized - and used in executeBatch. Statement stmt which is used to insert shouldn't be changed to run another sql inside printrows.

A: i find out the problem that is causing the code to throw exception.the reason is that i am
   nt intializing my statement as Statement st = con.createstatement(); due to which
   compiler is throwing error.we cannt pass directly prepared statement object as a parameter to execute the query .so any how we have to use statement and pass its reference to parameter in printrows .

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The phrase is being used all over social media, traditional media, electronic media…everywhere. It's the latest buzz word and it looks like 2015 is going to be recorded as the Year of the Internet of Things. But what exactly is it?
What is "The Internet of Things"?
On waking, coffee and breakfast will be prepared and ready for you at a time you prefer, all sensed through your smartwatch or smartphone.
Your exercise regime will be laid out for you as you go through your desired activity, and of course all your vital health signs will be monitored automatically: heart rate, calorie burn, distance, time, effort, BMI, weight…elements which are available right now via a combination of smartwatch, smartphone, and other health monitoring devices.
Even more so, these data can be relayed to your Medical services provider…and even to your insurance company to adjust your premiums depending on your health status. Your shower or bath temperature will be adjusted to the perfect level. The clothes you want to wear will be presented to you, extending from your smart cupboard based on your preference – and what you wore yesterday. Your fridge can not only tell you what you are lacking but will also be able to place the order for you at the local supermarket….and alert you when it's ready to be collected or delivered. Your car (or shall we call a 'personal transportation unit') will be started automatically; climate control adjusted and waiting for you, with the favorite radio station or music selected (based on your mood of course) and playing as you step into it. You will have already set your destination and appointments for the day via your smart device even before you walk out of the door and you will whisked there by the most efficient, quickest route…while you read the online news or watch a TV broadcast or finish that presentation, as your driverless car effortlessly negotiates traffic and routes.
Science fiction? Not at all.
It can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, environmental monitors in the ocean, automobiles with built-in sensors, or field operation devices that assist fire-fighters in search and rescue. These devices collect useful data with the help of various existing technologies and then autonomously flow the data between other devices. Current market examples include smart thermostat systems and washer/dryers that utilize Wi-Fi for remote monitoring.
Besides the plethora of new application areas for Internet connected automation to expand into, IoT is also expected to generate large amounts of data from diverse locations that is aggregated very quickly, thereby increasing the need to better index, store and process such data. This brings us into the arena of Big Data…and entire HUGE subject on its own, so we won't even go there…for now.
In its original interpretation one of the first consequences of implementing the Internet of Things by equipping all objects in the world with minuscule identifying devices or machine-readable identifiers would be to transform daily life. For instance, instant and ceaseless inventory control would become ubiquitous. A person's ability to interact with objects could be altered remotely based on immediate or present needs, in accordance with existing end-user agreements. Such technology could, for example, allow motion-picture and music publishers to exercise much more control over end-user private devices by enforcing remote copyright restrictions, completely eliminating piracy.
The estimates of magnitude vary depending on who is providing the analysis: According to Gartner, there will be nearly 26 billion devices on the Internet of Things by 2020. ABI Research on the other hand, estimates that more than 30 billion devices will be wirelessly connected to the Internet of Things by 2020.
"The Internet of Things is hard to track because the addressing system for devices is changing. AN 'internet census' conducted in 2012 found 1.3 billion devices with an IPv4 address.
But because engineers believe that there are so many of these connected devices, they have reconfigured the addressing system to allow for 2 to the 128th power addresses – enough for each atom on the face of the earth to have 100 Internet addresses.
In an active move to accommodate new and emerging technological innovation, the UK Government, in their 2015 budget, allocated £40,000,000 towards research into the Internet of Things. The Chancellor, George Osborne, posited that the Internet of Things is the next stage of the information revolution and referenced the inter-connectivity of everything from urban transport to medical devices to household appliances.
Media – Targeting of consumers, providing favorite content.
Data-capture – Measuring, collecting and analyzing an ever-increasing variety of behavioral statistics.
Environmental monitoring – Monitoring air or water quality; atmospheric or soil conditions; movements of wildlife and their habitats.
Infrastructure management – Monitoring and controlling operations of urban and rural infrastructures like bridges, railway tracks, air and sea ports, and wind-farms.
Manufacturing – Equipment, asset and production management, manufacturing process control, operator tools and service information to optimize plant safety and security.
Energy Management – Integration of sensing and actuation systems.
Medical and Healthcare Systems – Remote health monitoring and emergency notification systems; blood pressure and heart rate monitors, monitoring specialized implants, such as pacemakers or advanced hearing aids.
Building Automation – Monitoring and control of mechanical, electrical and electronic systems used in various types of building.
Home automation systems – Control lighting, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, appliances, garbage disposal, recycling systems, water and electricity, communication systems, entertainment and home security devices.
Transportation – Integration of communications, control, and information processing across various transportation systems; vehicle, infrastructure and driver or user; inter and intra vehicular communication, smart traffic control, smart parking, electronic toll collection systems, logistic and fleet management, vehicle control, and safety and road assistance.
Better management of cities and systems. For example, Songdo, South Korea, the first of its kind fully equipped and wired smart city, is near completion. Nearly everything in this city is planned to be wired, connected and turned into a constant stream of data that would be monitored and analyzed by an array of computers with little, or no human intervention.
Other examples include the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City; improving air and water quality, reducing noise pollution, and increasing transportation efficiency in San Jose, California; and smart traffic management in western Singapore.


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This weekend saw the 16UGs Southwest Stingrays back in action again for the season's 3rd installment of NCL Competition, this time in Gatineau, Quebec.
These Southwest Stingrays, a team comprised of mostly KW Krakens, and a couple of players from Hamilton, trained hard and prepared for the coming clash.
In this weekend series of games, they defeated the Ottawa Titans (28-4), Tiburon of Montreal (22-8), but fell to perennial Quebec powerhouses Dollard des Ormeaux (11-6), and CAMO (12-6).
Our Southwest Stingrays sit in a 3 way tie atop the standings for first place in Eastern Canada with CAMO and the Mavericks from Etobicoke.
With only 6 NCL water polo matches remaining in the regular season, every game from here on out is crucial if the Stingrays want to achieve their ultimate goal for the season... Nationals in Calgary.


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美国之音 > VOA Special English > AS IT IS
UN: Half of Myanmar's Population May Fall into Poverty by 2022
The United Nations says the effects of Myanmar's political crisis and the coronavirus could push half the country's population into poverty by 2022.
The warning came in a report released last week by the U.N.'s Development Program (UNDP). It said as many as 25 million people, or nearly half the population, is in danger of dropping into poverty.
Both COVID-19 and the country's ongoing political crisis "are pushing the most vulnerable back and more deeply into poverty," the UNDP's Kanni Wignaraja told Reuters. She is Assistant U.N. Secretary-General and leads UNDP's operations in Asia.
The report noted that from 2005 to 2017, Myanmar was able to reduce its poverty level by about 50 percent. But those development gains are now "being erased in a matter of months," Wignaraja said.
Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger salute and chant slogan during the demonstration against the military coup in the rain at Pabedan township in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, April 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Without a working democracy, "Myanmar faces a tragic and avoidable backslide towards levels of poverty not seen in a generation," UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner said in a statement.
Myanmar's political crisis began when the military overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1. The government has used deadly force against individuals protesting against the military overthrow. Activist groups say more than 750 civilians have been killed in demonstrations across the country.
Before the military takeover, Myanmar citizens were struggling financially because of the coronavirus pandemic. The report showed that by the end of 2020, about 83 percent of families reported their incomes had been cut nearly in half because of the health crisis.
The report estimates that the number of people in Myanmar living below the poverty line increased 11 percent by the end of 2020. It adds that the country's poverty rate could rise an additional 12 percent.
Among the reasons for expected increases in poverty include Myanmar's worsening security situation and threats to human rights since the military takeover of the government. The report said poverty in the nation's cities was expected to increase by 200 percent.
Wignaraja said women and children are most affected by the country's continuing health and political crises. "Half of all children in Myanmar could be living in poverty within a year."
The report said security issues have severely restricted the movement of people, services, and goods, including agricultural products. In addition, pressure on Myanmar's currency, the Kyat, has increased the price of imports and energy.
The country's banking system is also weak. This has resulted in money shortages and limited availability to government assistance payments and remittance services.
The U.N. said that before the latest crises, nearly 1 million people in Myanmar had already been identified as needing humanitarian assistance and protection.
"As stated by the U.N. secretary-general, the scale of the crisis requires an urgent and unified international response," Wignaraja said.
Reuters reported on this story. Bryan Lynn adapted the report for VOA Learning English, with additional information from the U.N. Development Program report. Mario Ritter, Jr. was the editor.
vulnerable – adj. able to be easily hurt, influenced or attacked
erase – v. to remove from existence
backslide – n. to return to a worse condition
remittance – n. an amount of money that you send to someone
scale – n.
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1) Clone is an indie rock band based in Helsinki, Finland. Their debut album "Fuzzy Times, Fuzzy Spaces" was released in the beginning of 2007. Their music is a mix of fuzzy landscapes and straight forward indie rock. Preceding the debut album Clone has produced several EPs, of which Superachiever, released in 2004, was chosen "best of the year" by most Finnish music media, including Soundi, Rumba, Noise and desibeli.net. 2) Clone is also the veteran Canadian producer and DJ Gordon Brown, based in the nation's capital, Ottawa. He discovered psychedelic trance in 1996 and … read more
1) Clone is an indie rock band based in Helsinki, Finland. Their debut album "Fuzzy Times, Fuzzy Spaces" was released in the beginning of 2007. Their music is a mix of fuzzy lands… read more
1) Clone is an indie rock band based in Helsinki, Finland. Their debut album "Fuzzy Times, Fuzzy Spaces" was released in the beginning of 2007. Their music is a mix of fuzzy landscapes and straight forward indie rock. Precedi… read more
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Ophiomyia ranunculicaulis este o specie de muște din genul Ophiomyia, familia Agromyzidae, descrisă de Erich Martin Hering în anul 1949.

Este endemică în Germania. Conform Catalogue of Life specia Ophiomyia ranunculicaulis nu are subspecii cunoscute.

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Russell felt F1 Sakhir GP lead over Bottas was "too good to be true"
By Luke Smith,	Alex Kalinauckas
@LukeSmithF1 , @nauckas
George Russell thought his lead over Valtteri Bottas was "too good to be true" before the pit stop blunder and puncture that cost him a maiden Formula 1 victory.
On his Mercedes debut deputising for Lewis Hamilton, who was ruled out after testing for positive for COVID-19, Russell qualified second and took the lead from team-mate Bottas off the line.
Russell built up a decent lead through the first stint of the race, and pitted three laps before Bottas, allowing him to increase his advantage to around eight seconds thanks to the undercut.
But a safety car period prompted Mercedes to try and double-stack its cars in the pits, only to fit Russell's car with Bottas' tyres, forcing the Briton to come in one lap later and drop to fifth.
A subsequent fightback was then ended after a late puncture, resigning Russell to a ninth-place finish at the chequered flag.
It marked Russell's first time leading a race since winning the Formula 2 title in 2018, having spent his F1 career to date racing towards the back of the grid with Williams.
"It was nice to be in that position, to be leading the race, to be at the front, something that I've not had for so long," Russell said when asked by Autosport about the sensation of leading a race again.
"But in an odd way as well, as a driver, apart from the fact that you want to win, you want to just get the best result possible with your equipment.
"My 18-month spell at Williams, we have some fantastic races which are coming home in a P12 or a P14.
"That is almost a victory for us in that position. Or qualifying into Q2, that's a pole position for us. That buzz I get from that performance, it's still massive. But ultimately, winning is another level.
"But I didn't want to get carried away with myself. I was still focused on the job.
"Probably halfway into the race, I had like an eight-second lead over Valtteri. I thought, 'this is too good to be true'.
"And turns out, it was too good to be true."
Russell was able to fight past Bottas on the run to Turn 1, but admitted after the race the start was what he was most concerned about, given his traditional weakness and the fact the clutch paddles were designed for Hamilton.
"The start was a phase of the race that I was most nervous about all weekend to be honest," Russell said.
"I was using Lewis's clutch paddles that were moulded to his hands and fingers, didn't fit me properly.
"I must have done hundreds of practice starts in our little rig that we have set up in my room, in the car just practice, practice, practice.
"I was super pleased just to get off the line, good start, down the inside of Valtteri."
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At a government department where I work, the drinks machine, known affectionately as R2 (it is quite the most wonderfully complicated drinks dispenser ever invented), has received an upgrade, of sorts. The old R2 charged £1 for a bottle of diet coke (or any other soft drink). In a dozen simple steps it found the right bottle, took it from the shelf, arrives back at the dispensing slot and lets go.
If you put a £2 coin into R2, you'd have thought it would dispense a single £1 coin as change. No, it returned: 50p, 20p, 20p, 10p. With everything priced at a pound and most people paying £1 (I imagine, R2 rarely ran out of change.
Presumably as part of the cost saves, or as part of a revenue driving initiative, the price has now gone up to £1.10. Now what happens with change? Few people will likely carry the extra 10p so I can imagine routine payments being £1.20, £1.50 or £2. R2 will have to dispense more change and so will run out of change - and thus cease to function at all more often than it has to date. Only Dan could work out the likely frequency of this so I will leave to him.
That would all be fine, to some degree at least, but all the fiddling around to change the prices on each drink seems to have disturbed R2. Since the price upgrade, R2 has been in all of a dither. You put your money in, he goes to the right drink slot, grabs the drink with his robot arm, levers the drink out of the slot ... and then drops it. He's no fool so he knows he's dropped it ... or maybe he's not sure that he ever had it, so he asks you again what you want. This goes on - fetch, drop, fetch drop - until you get bored and ask for your money back.
For the sake of 10p a drink, the daily average revenue from R2 has dropped to zero.


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Water Park Getaways in New York
Andrea Kearns, Leaf Group
Families can ride and slide at one of many water parks scattered throughout New York State. (Photo: BananaStock/BananaStock/Getty Images )
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From the Canadian border to Long Island, New York offers water parks across the entire state that can provide much-needed relief from sultry summer temperatures. Many popular water parks afford visitors not only a day of summer fun, but also offer travelers adjacent lodging, dining, and or a traditional amusement park. These parks often are closely situated near some of the state's natural wonders and other family entertainment.
Western New York and Finger Lakes
The western part of New York is known for its water -- and water parks, too. Roseland Park (roselandwaterpark.com) in Canandaigua is set on its own small lake. Visitors can enjoy paddleboats and beach volleyball as well as classic water park amenities. Near Buffalo, Darien Lake (godarienlake.com) began as a traditional amusement park. Today, you can also enjoy slides, a pirate-themed play area, or private cabana rentals near the pool. For another combination amusement/water park that also features one of America's oldest coasters, try Seabreeze (seabreeze.com) in Rochester. This park near the shores of Lake Ontario features a wave pool, slides and kiddie area.
The region around Syracuse is home to one seasonal and one year-round water park experience. Thunder Island (thunder-island.com), in Fulton includes a half-dozen mild to wild sliding experiences. Body sliders will love the "Thunder Rush" that combines open and enclosed tubes and a bowl for an extreme experience. This park is also a short drive to Lake Ontario. Roughly 60 miles south, Cortland County's Hope Lake Lodge is home to Cascades (greekpeak.net). This indoor water park is adjacent to Greek Peak Ski Resort. Enjoy the wave pool, slides, and an outdoor pool that is heated to stay open year-round.
Northern New York and Adirondacks
This northern playground for winter sports is also home to some popular water parks when the weather warms up. Enchanted Forest Water Safari (watersafari.com) is located in Old Forge. The park includes 32 water rides and 20 storybook-themed dry rides. Park-goers can get special discount rates for nearby cabin rentals. To the east of the high peaks, near Lake George, lies Splashwater Kingdom (sixflags.com). The property actually offers a double dose of water park fun. Enjoy the rides at the park (including the "Mega Wedgie") throughout the summer, and stay at the adjacent lodge, where a heated indoor water park entertains guests 12 months a year.
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The Catskills are home to Zoom Flume Park (zoomflume.com). Its namesake is just one of more than a dozen slides and pool areas that twist and turn their way through this park. As a bonus, guests staying at the adjacent Country Place Resort get unlimited admission. Further south, New Yorkers can leave the big city and head east for Splish Splash (splishsplashlongisland.com) in Calverton. This park has 16 slides and attractions, five more kid-friendly slides and play areas, and a giant wave pool for the whole family. Plus, gnarly dudes and honeys will love to body-board in a second wave pool just for them.
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En la mitología europea y literatura ocultista, un cambión es un ser mitad humano y mitad demonio descendiente de un íncubo, súcubo, o de otro demonio y un humano. En sus inicios, la palabra se relaciona con cambio y es probablemente cognada del término niño cambiado. Desde al menos el siglo XIX, se ha referido a la descendencia de un demonio con un humano.

Historia
La palabra cambión apareció en una inscripción de principios del siglo I e. c. en la Galia (Francia romana). El lingüista Benjamin W. Forston IV opina que:

Guillermo de Auvernia, en su obra De Universo del siglo XIII, escribió sobre «cambiones, de cambiti, es decir, "habiendo sido intercambiados"», los «hijos de demonios íncubos» sustituidos por bebés humanos. Estos bebés lloran constantemente pidiendo leche y no pueden ser satisfechos ni siquiera por cuatro enfermeras. Richard Firth Green señala que esto «se convertiría en la explicación escolástica estándar para los niños cambiados a lo largo de la Edad Media».

La primera aparición evidenciada de la palabra cambión en el sentido de una descendencia de dos demonios se encuentra en el Diccionario Infernal de 1818. La edición de 1825 de ese libro tiene la siguiente entrada:

Traducción al español::

En la Enciclopedia de Ocultismo y Parapsicología, se dice nuevamente que el cambión es el descendiente directo del íncubo y el súcubo, renunciando a cualquier necesidad de participación humana. Esta encarnación mantiene la ausencia de aliento o pulso hasta los siete años de edad, y también era increíblemente pesada (incluso demasiado pesada para que la llevara un caballo) y que lloraba al ser tocada.

Desde al menos el siglo XIX, cambión ha adquirido una definición más amplia: el hijo de un íncubo o un súcubo con un humano. En 1874, Trabajadores del mar de Victor Hugo definió a un cambión como el hijo de una mujer y el diablo. También, en 1983, se le describió como un híbrido de humano y demonio en el Monster Manual II de Dungeons and Dragons.

Híbridos humano-demonio
El concepto de descendencia de humanos y demonios fue un tema de debate en la Edad Media. El influyente Malleus Maleficarum, que ha sido descrito como el principal compendio de literatura en demonología del siglo XV, afirma que los demonios, incluidos el íncubo y el súcubo, son incapaces de reproducirse:

Debido a esta incapacidad para crear o criar vida, el método en que se crea un cambión requiere una larga duración. Un súcubo tendrá relaciones sexuales con un hombre humano y así adquirirá una muestra de su semen. Esto luego lo pasará a un íncubo, que luego corrompe y fortalece la semilla. El íncubo, a su vez, transferirá este semen humano a una hembra humana y así la fecundará.

El texto continúa discutiendo extensamente los argumentos a favor y en contra de si este proceso es posible, citando una serie de citas bíblicas y eruditos destacados en apoyo de sus argumentos, y finalmente concluye que este es, sin duda, el método que utilizan tales demonios.

Sin embargo, el Malleus Maleficarum nunca usa la palabra cambión, refiriéndose a los hijos de los íncubos como campsores ('cambistas') o wechselkinder (el término alemán para los niños cambiados).

En la cultura popular

 Hellboy es un cambión, siendo el descendiente del demonio Azzael y una mujer humana, Sarah Hughes.
 Merlín a veces se considera un cambión, hijo de una mujer mortal y un íncubo.
 La personaje de DC Comics  Raven es una cambión, siendo la descendiente de su malvado padre demoníaco, Trigon, y una mujer humana, Arella .

Véase también

 Niño cambiado
 Dhampiro
 Grendel
 Nefilim

Referencias

Leyendas medievales
Híbridos humanos mitológicos
Demonios


English and Welsh, 1700 - 1879.
Fourth son - named after the father's eldest brother.
Exceptions apply if there was a duplication of a given name. In that case the practice was to skip to the next name on the list.
After that alternate names using the grandmothers', grandfather's; mother's, aunt's and uncle's names. If a child died, that name was to be recycled with a future child.
This policy holds true unless one family member had more assets or a higher social standing than the other. One unique aspect of Scottish naming was that if two grandmothers or two grandfathers had the same given name, two children in the same family would end up with the same name. Another practice was to name daughters after the clergyman or other important male figure.