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Accidental Realism
January 1, 2021 Edward Staskus 1 Comment
Dave Bloomquist ran the show at the Plaza Apartments, trying to make it work on the near east side, on the fringe of Cleveland State University. What we called the house was on Prospect Avenue, a $.25 fare on a creaky CTS bus ten minutes to Public Square. The ghetto was both uptown and downtown. Liquor porn deadbeats beat-up cars broken bottles boarded-up windows were the order of the day. The house was its own alive place.
Dave was from Sandusky. "The town, which is sluggish and uninteresting, is something like an English watering-place out of season," Charles Dickens wrote after visiting it. A hundred years later it was known for Cedar Point, a big amusement park on a peninsula jutting out into Lake Erie. After high school Dave moved to Cleveland to study visual and fine arts at CSU.
"Art held a natural attraction for me, and it was something I wanted to pursue," he said. "My dad was an electrician, and I helped him run wires and other simple tasks. I also worked during college, renovations, painting, things like that. After graduation, my business partner and I scraped together a down payment on the 48-unit Victorian-style Plaza. We decided to restore it ourselves."
Dave was always in in and around the building. Whenever anything went wrong, it didn't take long to find the owner superintendent maintenance man. If he wasn't nearby, his ex-wife-to- be, Annie, tall slim, her hair done up in braids, was right there cooking cleaning taking care of their baby boy. Built in 1901 for middle-class residents, something was always making trouble at the Plaza.
"We learned to sweat pipe, patch the roof, and fix windows," Dave said. "We had to operate with just rent money. We couldn't afford to call on anyone for help."
Back in the day Upper Prospect was the second most prestigious place to live in Cleveland, next to Millionaire's Row on Euclid Avenue. Prospect and Euclid were where to be, smoking rooms of the city's economic and social elite. Most of the homes on Prospect were brick two-story single-family houses in the Italianate style. The street was lined with elm trees.
By the time I moved onto Prospect Ave. as the 60s were leaking into the 70s, all the rich folks were long gone, and Dutch elm disease had killed most of the trees. It was killing most of the elms in all but two states east of the Missouri River. What hadn't died was being sprayed with DDT or removed.
The entry point for the bug was Northeast Ohio in 1929, on a train bringing in a shipment of elm veneer logs from France. The train stopped south of Cleveland to load up on coal and water. Not long afterwards elm trees along the railroad tracks started to die. The elm bark beetle doesn't hurt the tree, but the fungus it carries is deadly.
There were rowhouses scattered among the single-family homes, which included the Prospect Avenue Rowhouses, still there, that Dave was throwing his eye on. He had more than enough work on his hands, but he was a no slouch go-getter. Preservation and restoration efforts on Upper Prospect were just beginning to pick up steam.
I walked to Mecca Keys on Rockwell Ave. off East 9th St. and had a key for my apartment made. The Plaza was home to students secretaries hippies machinists artists bikers clerks musicians court reporters anarchists activists warehouse men and writers, some in full swing, some shaking and baking away the wolf at the door, everybody coming and going.
"We were urban pioneers before the term was coined," said Scott Krauss, a drummer for the art-rock band Pere Ubu. "Like the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead had their band houses, we had the Plaza."
"There were scores of wonderful community dinners, insipid and treacherous burglars," Dave Bloomquist said years later when it was all over. "Innocence was lost. There were raucous outrageous parties. Families were formed and raised and there were tragic early deaths of close friends. But music, art and life were in joyful abundance all the time."
There was an abundance of old-fashioned seediness, too.
"I remember coming home at four in the morning and there would still be people in the courtyard drinking beer and playing music," said Larry Collins. "We would watch the hookers and their customers play hide-and-seek with the undercover vice cops."
One of the first friends I made was Virginia Sustarsic. I had seen her around Dixon Hall up the street before I moved to the Plaza. She was close to John McGraw, a trim bohemian who lived alone on the third floor, read obscure European poets, drank Jack Daniels from the bottle, and drove a 1950s windowless black Chevy panel truck.
Virginia had interned at the Cleveland Press, worked on CSU's student newspaper, and wrote for the school's poetry magazine. Since she was settled in at the Plaza, was friendly, and worked for herself, she made friends easily, and I subsequently made friends by hanging around with her.
She knew all about art. I didn't know anything. When she showed me a picture of an American flag by Jasper Johns, I found a big used flag and thumbtacked it to the wall at the head of my bed. When she showed me a picture of a Jackson Pollack painting, I thought, what a mess.
Virginia made candles, incense, and roach clips for a head shop on the near west side. The owner of the shop, Jamie, was a little older than us and square-jawed. He wore a red checked bandana and liked to go barefoot. He pulled up in a mid-60s VW T2 bus, Virginia delivered the goods, he would say he had a great idea for going someplace fun, as many people who could fit would pile into the Splittie, and he would drive to a park a beach or a grassy knoll overlooking a cemetery.
Jamie always played The Who's "Magic Bus" at least once every trip, there and back. "Thank you, driver, for getting me here, too much, Magic Bus, now I've got my Magic Bus." The speakers were tinny, but the volume made up for it.
We went to see "Woodstock" the movie, since none of us had gone to the music festival, at a drive-in. Virginia's roach clips came in handy. The Splittie's back and middle seats could be pulled out. It was groovy at drive-ins, backing the bus in to face the screen, some of us in the seats on the ground, others in the open rear of the bus, and Jamie with his gal on top, an umbrella at the ready.
Nobody wanted to be sitting behind Mike Cassidy, who was skinny enough, but had a massive head of long fuzzy electrified red hair.
Virginia was hooked on photography and showed me the ropes, letting me use her camera. When a photography contest was announced at Cleveland State University, she entered a picture she had taken in San Francisco, and I entered a picture of Mr. Flood.
Bob Flood lived on the second floor, like me. None of us knew what he did, exactly, although he wore a hat suggesting he was a locomotive engineer. Virginia thought he was a professor of some kind. Everybody called him Mr. Flood. Nobody knew why. He was a lean careful man, sported a shaggy looking beard, was divorced, but had visitation rights to his two kids, who came and played in his apartment weekends.
My picture was a portrait and Virginia's a full-scale shot of two homeless men in Golden Gate Park, passing a bottle of booze between them. The trees in the background disappeared into a triangle. After I won the blue ribbon, Virginia went to the art department and talked to one of the judges.
She told him she had been trying to conjure the Pointillism of Georges Seurat.
"Well," he said. "The portrait and your picture were our top picks. But yours was kind of grainy."
"That was the whole point," she groused.
Virginia's best friend at the Plaza was Diane Straub.
Diane had a straight job. She was a secretary downtown. She got up every morning, got on the bus, went to work, and came back at night. Monday through Friday she took care of her apartment and her cats. But, on weekends she got psychedelic. She also got up as Bogie's old lady.
Bogie was Diane's live-in boyfriend. He was rangy and always wore black, tip to toe. He had a Harley Davidson he kept in the back lot. Nobody ever tried to steal it, because everybody knew that would be a big mistake.
He was one of the Animals, although he and the other Animals had been forced to go freelance. They used to have a clubhouse, its walls pockmarked with bullet holes, on Euclid Avenue in Willoughby, until the day the Willoughby police raided it.
"The police couldn't get anything on us, so they hot-wired the landlord to force us out," one of the Animals, Gaby, told the Cleveland Press. "We never did anything worse than use the clubhouse walls for target practice."
Gaby knew there was more to the story. His biker clubmate Don Griswold had been arrested the day before for being involved in a shooting with members of Cleveland's Hells Angels that left two dead. "The Angels were going to take care of me if the cops didn't do it first," he said. "Misery loves company."
The spring before my first full summer at the Plaza, Cleveland's Breed and Violators got into it at a motorcycle show at the Polish Women's Hall southeast of the Flats. The 10‐minute riot with fists clubs knives and chains left 5 men dead 20 Injured and 84 arrested.
The dead were buried, the hurt rushed to hospitals, and the arrested hauled away to the Central Police Station on Payne Avenue. The Black Panthers were always demonstrating outside the front doors, but they had to make way. Extra armed guards were posted in hallways and doorways as a precaution. When the injured bikers recovered, they were arrested.
Art Zaccone, headman of the Chosen Few, said the fight broke out because of trouble between the two groups going back to a rumble in Philly two years earlier. The biker gangs didn't ride on magic busses. They rode hogs. They made their own black magic. They had long memories and never forgotten never forgiven grievances.
After Bogie moved out, Diane took up with Igor, a math wizard. He was tall, had long dark wiry hair, and played air guitar. Even though he was egg-headed about numbers, he often looked like he was only half there.
"We all thought he was tripping a lot," Virginia said.
I lived in a back apartment on the second floor. I avoided the back stairs and porches. They were falling apart in their old age. Virginia lived in a side apartment on the same floor and an older Italian couple Angeline and Charlie Beale lived in the front. They always had their apartment door open. Charlie was short and stocky, a retired mailman. He read newspapers and magazines all day long. Angie was stout with wavy hair. She stayed in the kitchen all day long cooking in a black slip.
They had a parrot. Whenever Angie spied Virginia walking by, she called out, "Oh, honey, honey, come in, let me see if I can get him to talk to you." She would coo and try to convince the parrot to talk. He never did, even when she poked him with a stick. When she did, he whistled and squawked. He sounded offended and tone-deaf.
"How long have you had that parrot?" Virginia asked, thinking they were still training him.
"Oh, we've had him for sixteen years, honey."
Angie and Charlie went shopping for foodstuffs a few times a week. They walked down Prospect Avenue to the Central Market. "They started out together, but ended up a block or more apart," Dave said. They both carried handmade cotton shopping bags, one in each hand.
The Central Market was on East 4th St., nearly two miles away by foot. The only people who went there were people who couldn't get to the West Side Market. It was grimy, and the roof leaked. "Some panels are out, and when it rains, we got to put plastic tarp down. That looks like hell," said produce stall owner Tony LoSchiavo.
"She always walked twenty feet behind him," Virginia said. "A couple of hours later, same thing, both of them their two bags full, he would be walking twenty feet ahead of her as they came back to the Plaza."
He waited at the front door, holding it open for her. She trudged up, he followed her, and the parrot every time said, "Welcome back!" when they stepped into their apartment. Angie returned with vegetables like asparagus and nuts like filberts for the thick billed brightly colored bird.
Most of the tenants at the Plaza were on good terms with one another. Many of us were single and sought out company up and down the floors and down the hallways, especially in January and February when snow piled up in mounds. We swung by paid calls and chewed the fat.
"Friends would just drop in," said Virginia.
One Siberian Sunday afternoon Mr. Flood's kids were visiting and went exploring in the basement. They found a red metal and wood Flexible Flyer. Their father bundled them up and carried the sled outside. When they got tired of pushing each other back and forth in the parking lot, they found a shovel and scooped snow onto the back stairs as far up as the first landing. They shoveled enough snow on the stairs to make a ramp and spent the rest of the day running across the landing, throwing themselves on the sled, racing down the ramp and zooming across the icy lot.
Mr. Flood and I watched them from the second-floor landing.
"They're up to snow good," he joked laconically when they hit bottom bumped upwards and got some air under their sled. Bob Flood talked low talked slow and didn't say much.
"They're on their own magic carpet ride," I said.
"It takes one to snow one," the kids whooped back at us, living it up.
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However, the truth is that the risk area whereby more than 90% of Malaysians are lacking is in Critical Illness coverage!!
What is Critical Illness (CI) insurance?
Why do I need Critical Illness coverage?
History lesson: Knowledge on Critical Illness coverage is still somewhat lacking in Malaysia. Critical Illness (CI) insurance (or originally known as Dread Diseases) was 1st launched 1983 in Africa. In Malaysia, 36DD (no, not cup size but 36 Dread Diseases) started in the 90s. Back then, every insurance provider had their own definition of what was 'Critical'. But as we entered the (then) new millennium in 2000, LIAM was formed at BNM's request & the list of 36 CI was largely standardized. This has been further streamlined in 2016 by LIAM.
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Too little? Too much? Too late?
It is recommended to cover 5 years of your annual income for CI coverage. At the very least, you should be covering 2.5 years of your annual income.
But how much CI coverage do we have as Malaysians?
I am enlightened & know that CI coverage is important & good for me. However I am concerned about costs, I have my expenses & I need to think of saving up for my future as well!
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How long before I can make a CI claim?
The waiting period is normally 60 days from the date of the policy coverage for critical illness.
The severity of early/intermediate/advanced stage of critical illness also affects when you can claim depending on your insurance policy.
How does early critical illness insurance work?


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North Korea's media praise Trump talk about US troops
by ERIC TALMADGE
TOKYO — Donald Trump appears to be finding some friends in North Korea.
The presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee has been getting good press this week in the North's carefully controlled media, first in an opinion piece that praised him as "wise" and full of foresight and then Wednesday in the official mouthpiece of the ruling Worker's Party itself.
Both articles noted how his suggestions he would be willing to meet leader Kim Jong Un and wants to rethink and possibly withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea have created a "Trump Shock" in Seoul.
The state-run DPRK Today in Pyongyang started off the Trump praise on Tuesday by juxtaposing the "wise" Trump with what it called "dull Hillary" — describing leading Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton by only her first name.
"The presidential candidate who U.S. citizens should vote for is not dull Hillary, who says she would pursue an 'Iran-type model' to solve the Korean Peninsula's nuclear problems, but Trump, who said he would solve problems by directly talking with North Korea," said the column attributed to a "China-based scholar."
In the lengthy column, Trump is described as a "wise politician and presidential candidate with foresight" for his comments about the U.S. potentially withdrawing its troops from South Korea if Seoul doesn't bear the costs. It also noted his public willingness to directly talk with the North Korean leadership if he becomes president.
Trump told The New York Times in March that South Korea and Japan should pay much more for the U.S. troops based in their countries — about 28,000 in South Korea and around 50,000 in Japan. In a more recent interview with the Reuters news agency, Trump said he was willing to meet with Kim.
"I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him," he said.
The removal of U.S. troops from the Korean Peninsula and direct talks with a U.S. president dovetail nicely with objectives Pyongyang has held for years — though undoubtedly for different reasons than the American real estate magnate.
The North wants the U.S. troops to leave because it sees them as a direct threat to the regime's security and has long wanted talks with Washington, ostensibly toward a peace treaty to end the 1950-53 Korean War, that would boost its international status and acknowledge that North Korea is a nuclear state.
"There are many 'positive aspects' to take away from Trump's 'inflammatory campaign promises,' " the writer says in the DPRK Today column, pointing out Trump's indications that Seoul should pay "100 percent" of the cost for the American troops stationed in the South and, if not, Washington should pull them out.
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The DPRK Today website is considered to be a propaganda outlet aimed at readers outside the North, though its position within the government is not clear.
While not as colorful or overtly supportive as the DPRK Today column, the ruling party's official Rodong Sinmun editorial said the emergence of Trump is causing anxiety in South Korea because of his comments about the potential U.S. troop withdrawal.
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AUSTRALIA CARBON PLAN
Qantas and Virgin Australia say they cannot absorb the higher cost of fuel when the country's carbon chargig scheme kicks in July 2012. Qantas said today that the average domestic fare would go up by $3.50 per flight – or $7 a return ticket. Virgin said it expected the increase to be about $3 per ticket, depending on the length of the flight. Qantas said it expected the carbon plan to cost the airline group between $110 million and $115 million in 2012/13. Virgin stock tumbled 2.86%, or one cent, to 34 cents after the carrier said the carbon plan would result in a $45 million hit in 2012/13, based on current domestic fuel consumption. The airline said it was too early to forecast the impact of the carbon plan on passenger demand.
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Startowisko paralotniowe – miejsce umożliwiające start paralotni: grawitacyjny lub z napędem. Startowiska dla paralotni latających swobodnie (bez napędu) są zlokalizowane na szczytach gór, jej zboczach lub wysokich brzegach morz (np. klif). Miejsce startu (startowisko) paralotni latających swobodnie może umożliwiać w niektórych wypadkach również starty innych statków powietrznych np. lotni, szybowców lub znacznie rzadziej modeli lotniczych.

Startowiska dla paralotni bez napędu
Startowiska dla paralotni latających swobodnie charakteryzują się następującymi cechami: odpowiednie nachylenia zbocza lub kifu oraz wystarczającą deniwelacją (od kilkunastu do kilkuset metrów) oraz korzystnym układem topograficznym przedpola oraz bezpośredniej okolicy. Warunki topograficzne oraz miejscowe (drzewa, przeszkody itp.) powinny gwarantować start niezaburzony przez prądy powietrzne niebezpieczne z powodu układu terenu (rotory), przeszkody oraz inne ograniczenia (na przykład wnikające z podziału przestrzeni powietrznej). Startowisko powinno w sprzyjających warunkach pogodowych możliwość łatwego nawiązania kontaktu z termiką lub (i) noszeń żaglowych lub (i) wykonania zlotu. Jednym z najważniejszych warunków usytuowania bezpiecznego startowiska dla pilotów latających bez napędu jest możliwość bezpiecznego lądowania, co wymusza usytuowania w pobliżu, zwykle poniżej miejsca startu, odpowiedniego terenu.  Tylko niektóre startowiska umożliwiają również lądowanie w miejscu startu.  Startowiska dla paralotni latających swobodnie są wykorzystywane przez pilotów w warunkach odpowiedniego kierunku oraz siły wiatru (zwykle od 0 do 6 m/s).

Na nizinach często organizowane są tzw. starty holowane, w której paralotnia bez napędu startuje z płaskiego terenu ciągnięta liną za pomocą wyciągarki. Hol odbywa się zwykle na pasie długości kilometra lub dwóch. Po osiągnięciu wysokości pozwalającej nawiązać kontakt z termiką lina jest wyczepiana i paralotniarz może latać w wykorzystaniem prądów wznoszących.

Startowiska dla paralotni z napędem
Zwykle usytuowane na terenach nizinnych. Najczęściej trawiaste łąki, rzadziej pola lub miejsca o utwardzonej nawierzchni o wystarczającej długości i szerokości. Muszą umożliwiać bezpieczny start (brak przeszkód terenowych, napowietrznych linii energetycznych itp.) wznoszenie oraz lądowanie paralotni z napędem(PPG) lub  na specjalnego wózka-trajce (PPGG). Startowiska dla paralotni latających z napędem mogą być także wydzieloną czasowo lub na stałe częścią niewielkich lotnisk lub lądowisk przeznaczonych do startów i lądowań także innych statków powietrznych.

Wyposażenie startowisk
Startowisko do udanego startu nie wymaga jakikolwiek infrastruktury. Dla jego ułatwienia oraz zwiększenia bezpieczeństwa może być wyposażone w jeden lub kilka wskaźników siły i kierunku wiatru. Może to być tzw. rękaw lub prowizorycznie wiązane do gałęzi lub palików odpowiednio długie tasiemki.  W przypadku wykorzystywania startowiska przez pilotów innych startówk powietrznych możliwa jest obecność innej infrastruktury (na przykład tzw. ramp przy startach lotni), która może ułatwiać start także paralotniom.

Stan prawny
Status prawny startowisk często jest nieuregulowany. Najczęściej starty z nich odbywają na podstawie umów z właścicielem gruntu. Startowiska mogą stanowić teren prywatny, być częścią terenów państwowych (Lasy Państwowe). Mogą być dzierżawione od instytucji, bywają wykorzystywane przez stowarzyszenia, nieformalne zrzeszenia pilotów. Istnieją również tzw. startowiska dzikie na których starty odbywają się bez wiedzy dysponentów gruntu albo wręcz przy jego sprzeciwie. Podobnie jest w przypadku miejsc lądowania, przy czym tu wiele startowisk nie ma wyznaczonych oficjalnych miejsc lądowania, przede wszystkim z uwagi na szczególne właściwości paralotni, niewymagającej do startu prawie żadnej infrastruktury.

Znane startowiska
 Andrzejówka
 Mieroszów
 Wołowa Góra
 Skrzyczne
 Klin
 Róg
 Żar
 Lijak
 Bassano del Grappa
 Straník
Wołowa Góra

Inne
Wiele startowisk nie utrzymywanych przez pilotów zarasta krzewami lub drzewami i z czasem bezpieczny start z nich jest niemożliwy. Piloci paralotni poszukują nowych miejsc, gdzie warunku naturalne umożliwiają korzystne warunki do uprawiania paralotniarstwa. Bardziej popularne startowiska są wykorzystywane przez komercyjne szkoły latania oraz pilotów wykonujących komercyjne loty zapoznawcze lub widokowe z pasażerami.  W slangu polskich pilotów paralotni startowiska nazywane są "miejscówkam".

Przypisy

Paralotniarstwo

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 * Warning: sfValidatorDoctrineUnique is susceptible to race conditions.
 * To avoid this issue, wrap the validation process and the model saving
 * inside a transaction.
 *
 * @package    symfony
 * @subpackage doctrine
 * @author     Fabien Potencier <fabien.potencier@symfony-project.com>
 * @author     Jonathan H. Wage <jonwage@gmail.com>
 * @version    SVN: $Id: sfValidatorDoctrineUnique.class.php 23810 2009-11-12 11:07:44Z Kris.Wallsmith $
 */
class sfValidatorDoctrineUnique extends sfValidatorSchema
{
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   * Constructor.
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   * @param array  An array of error messages
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   * @see sfValidatorSchema
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  /**
   * Configures the current validator.
   *
   * Available options:
   *
   *  * model:              The model class (required)
   *  * column:             The unique column name in Doctrine field name format (required)
   *                        If the uniquess is for several columns, you can pass an array of field names
   *  * primary_key:        The primary key column name in Doctrine field name format (optional, will be introspected if not provided)
   *                        You can also pass an array if the table has several primary keys
   *  * connection:         The Doctrine connection to use (null by default)
   *  * throw_global_error: Whether to throw a global error (false by default) or an error tied to the first field related to the column option array
   *
   * @see sfValidatorBase
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  protected function configure($options = array(), $messages = array())
  {
    $this->addRequiredOption('model');
    $this->addRequiredOption('column');
    $this->addOption('primary_key', null);
    $this->addOption('connection', null);
    $this->addOption('throw_global_error', false);

    $this->setMessage('invalid', 'An object with the same "%column%" already exist.');
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   * @see sfValidatorBase
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  protected function doClean($values)
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    $originalValues = $values;
    $table = Doctrine_Core::getTable($this->getOption('model'));
    if (!is_array($this->getOption('column')))
    {
      $this->setOption('column', array($this->getOption('column')));
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    //if $values isn't an array, make it one
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      //use first column for key
      $columns = $this->getOption('column');
      $values = array($columns[0] => $values);
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    $q = Doctrine_Core::getTable($this->getOption('model'))->createQuery('a');
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    $error = new sfValidatorError($this, 'invalid', array('column' => implode(', ', $this->getOption('column'))));

    if ($this->getOption('throw_global_error'))
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    $columns = $this->getOption('column');

    throw new sfValidatorErrorSchema($this, array($columns[0] => $error));
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   *
   * @param BaseObject  A Doctrine object
   * @param array       An array of values
   *
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  protected function isUpdate(Doctrine_Record $object, $values)
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    if (null === $this->getOption('primary_key'))
    {
      $primaryKeys = Doctrine_Core::getTable($this->getOption('model'))->getIdentifier();
      $this->setOption('primary_key', $primaryKeys);
    }

    if (!is_array($this->getOption('primary_key')))
    {
      $this->setOption('primary_key', array($this->getOption('primary_key')));
    }

    return $this->getOption('primary_key');
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}


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LIVE media event: CBC announces who will be covering Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics
100-day countdown until the 2014 Winter Olympics begins! First stop is a media event at the CBC building.
The 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games CBC broadcasters
by Erynn Sally edited by Jen Chae 10/30/2013 4:23:34 PM
"Great patriotism, great passion," says David Amber about the Olympic Games
by Alexandra Sanders edited by Jen Chae 10/30/2013 4:22:27 PM
"I can't wait to tell those kinds of stories again," says Russel as he talks about the nations iconic moments in sports and especially the Olympic Games.
by Alexandra Sanders 10/30/2013 4:17:13 PM
What are you most anticipating about Sochi? They ask the Olympic broadcasters
by Erynn Sally 10/30/2013 4:22:26 PM
"It just so happens that when it comes to news we are the best of the best at CBC," says Scott Russel as he introduces Peter Mansbridge and Heather Hiscocx
Scott Russel interviewing Heather Hiscox and Peter Mansbridge
Scott Russell asks Peter Mansbridge what he thinks the biggest challenges of the coverage are.
"Anytime we get to cover the Olympics you have to remember... that this is a meeting of the globe," says Mansbridge.
"It's a gift to be working with that incredible team" says Mansbridge if the Olympic coverage team
"It's a global village," says Mansbridge about the games.
Jian Ghomeshi speaks to Ron MacLean about their intentions for coverage.
Going to Calgary now vie video feed to speak with Cassie Campbell of CBC's Hockey Night in Canada.
Cassie Campbell live via video feed from Calgary, AB.
MacLean asks Campbell what she's looking forward to. "One of the difficult things in Vancouver was calling that moment!" says Campbell, Canadian women's hockey team champion and CBC broadcaster.
She looks forward to working with the other broadcasters in Sochi in February.
Ron MacLean calls Patrick Chan a "favourite".
Live video call with Karen
Karen Lee Gartner and Cassie Campbell, both Olympic medalists are tuned in from Calgary to be interviewed by MacLean
"Any chance to work at the Olympics is pinochle of the pinochle for me," says Karen Larson from Vancouver, where Sidney Crosby scored the golden goal in 2010.
The crowd watched a video outlining how Sochi is getting ready to host the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
Introducing the host country of Russia
Russell says they will be broadcasting 1500 hours of coverage from all platforms during the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games
"As we like to say at CBC, all five screens will carry all Olympics, all the time. At CBC we make a pledge, we will never meet a champion for the first time on the podium," says Russel, explaining that CBC will cover every step of the athletes and everything about the games.
Russell introduces George Strombolopolous to the stage as "a great storyteller,"
He asks the audience to support their athletes by hashtagging #ourathlete
"It's you that gets involved with social networking," Strombolopolous. "Make sure you follow along!"
"I love what the extreme sports are meaning to the Olympics this year," says Strombo
From Montreal- Jennifer Heil
Jennifer Heil
Jennifer Heil takes the stage to share how it feels to be an Olympic athlete. "Let me bring you back to what was the greatest privilege in my life and that was standing at the top of the mountain in Vancouver, wearing the sole leaf."
She describes the moment she heard her name called at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
"Send inspirational messages to our Olympians, it will make a difference," she says.
"In that moment I found the power to let it go and find the freedom to make it happen. And I know our Olympic team is working hard to make that happen," explains Heil from when she participated in the Olympics and just before the start her name was called and she saw the Canadian flag- (that's where she got her power from).
Ron MacLean and Peter Mansbridge will host the opening of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games on February 7th.
And that's a wrap for this event! Be sure to check out the CBC website www.cbc.ca for more information.
Opportunity to take a picture with the CBC Olympic team
The lineup for photos with CBC broadcasters and 2014 Sochi Canadian athletes.
A final shot of the event.


how can i compile the web service when the web service is on the server and my source code is on my local computer.
my web service is located in another server. and all the source code is run in my local PC.
yes. but don't know why it can't update and compile the web service by right click the webservice and click "update web reference", it seems can't refresh.
Does it have any errors? Please provide the detail message if it has.
Please try to add a new method to the webservice and run your webservice in the browser, then check whether whether that method is exist. If so, try to update the Web Reference and check the result.


Bluish Green Productions, the team behind Robos World will be releasing their next game Orbit: Satellite Defense in Early Access tomorrow on Steam. The RTS game has you protecting the planet from alien invaders and is "roughly 80% complete" right now with a scheduled full release date in April 2018. You can check out the Steam page right here.
If you're interested in seeing what is avaliable in the Early Access, the below vidoe should help.


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Second-Year Growth
I discovered at the pub last night that a pleasant but hardly close acquaintance of mine has been following the progress of my garden on the ol' Book of Face. Flattered and a bit taken aback at this knowledge, I nevertheless happily engaged in a good twenty minutes or so of Plant Talk with her and had a lovely time. It seems that since this is my second growing season, my amateur gardening peers assume I must have learnt something by now. And I have! I've learned, for the most part, how I've done things wrong.
Take for instance my tomato plants last year. It didn't bother me that they were three metres tall and had more foliage than my forsythia and my holly combined. They were big and happy and gave me a lot of fruit, much of which never made it into the house (well, I mean it did, but it was already in a belly at that point.) The fruits were delicate and delicious, and I enjoyed them thoroughly. But I did a lot of things wrong.
I forgot to water them, okay? Summer rainfall is unpredictable here, so you never can be sure just how much rain is getting to the plants' roots. I'd see it rain and think "I don't need to water them today--thanks, sky!" and go about my business. But unfortunately, due to the angle the rain came in at, the semi-protective cove I carved out of the hedge for them, and (as the plants got bigger) the canopy of leaves the tomatoes themselves grew, most rainwater missed the roots entirely. So when I'd come out the next day and the stems would be sagging before my eyes I'd rush around to give them a drink.
This causes problems, I discovered--if you let them get dry, then suddenly dump a bucket of water on them, they slorp it up too fast. While this isn't really a bad thing when the plant is young, once fruits begin to grow, a period of dryness makes the tomato skins less elastic--meaning that when the plant suddenly injects water into them, they split. For un-broken fruit you must sustain your water supply. That didn't really dawn on me. They still tasted great, but they didn't last as long.
Another thing I didn't really realize until later in the season is if you stop fertilizing the soil on a regular basis, the fruit becomes tasteless and the colour is less vibrant. (see also "plant leaves make their own canopy which keeps water off roots"--water which contains liquid fertilizer). They do like my tasty high-potash tomato food from Tesco.
A third thing, this time involving growth. The plant doesn't really exist to make as many fruits as possible. That's not its overall priority. The plants want to be big and lush and eat all the sunshine they can find. Last year I didn't mind this, but I did something quite strange for no particular reason that taught me a lesson. I planted 3 tomatoes in 9" pots and the other 7 in the ground. The 3 in the pots stayed little (they maxed out at about 3') and were more prone to nutrient-retention problems, but they flowered first, fruited first, and sustained regular, if smaller crops of tomatoes throughout the entire season. The 7 in the ground (in the hedge, that became the hedge) got much taller (12' or more) and much, Much leafier, and produced more tomatoes, but did so later, and by the end of the warm season they all had at least one cluster that had not ripened. It seemed like they put far more effort into overall growth than fruit growth, more than likely because they had bigger, stronger root structures that could support unchecked growth of that kind.
It's worth noting that I didn't mind them getting huge and taking over the hedge at all--mostly because I had completely scalped the hedge to make room for them, and without the vines I would have probably caused several awkward "er, nice jammies" encounters with my neighbours.
But yes, at least someone out there has been enjoying my failures and occasional bright spots of success in the yard. Check out the slime trail left by one of my many tomato seedling murderers. I caught this one and gave him a fling at the fence.
My courgettes are flowering and have tiny immature squashes deep inside.
Two of my rosemary shrubs have been eaten by something or other but the third is happy and healthy.
The peony has finished its all-too-brief show but the azalea is still going and my miniature rose is just getting started. (teeny tiny rose! It would fit in a salad bowl)
The sage went all powdery and died, which is something my landlord says happens frequently. I have some sort of wall-climber that has tiny flowers that the bumblebees absolutely adore.
The apple tree is full of tiny orbs.
I hacked the fuchsia back almost to the ground in March and it's full of leaves again, ready to go. The lemon balm is taking over, but I don't mind. Apparently it is a useful mosquito repellent. (It does smell like citronella so I'm not surprised. I wonder what would happen if you mashed it into a small bowl of water and heated it?) I have two types of mint (one brightly-flavoured, one more subdued) that are both doing well, but I'm having to pull their little sprigs out of the path. They're growing in pots but that is apparently not a restriction. The Big Pink Plant finished blooming and has settled down for the summer.
The Japanese Maple is so richly red it's almost purple and the lettuces are covered in aphids.
The Hosta is happy and no longer looks like a city of the future. My garden has far more aphids and whiteflies than last year. I don't really know why but I have a few hunches--I grew tulips this year and by the end of March they had aphids all over them. I wonder if they like laying eggs on tulips. They certainly like laying eggs on lettuces, but then again everything likes to eat lettuce. Snails, aphids, flies, cats...I've decided to just leave the lettuces as a herbaceous sacrifice to the neighbourhood.
at 7:18 AM 3 comments:
A note I just sent to my MP
Dear Ms. Ruddock,
This letter is intended to share with you my views regarding the Shoreditch High Street Overground "toll booth" and its impact on Lewisham residents. I don't know if you're aware that Shoreditch High Street Station was moved into Zone 1 in 2009 thanks to pressure from National Rail over concerns that the Overground would hurt their ticket sales. Because of this, your constituents must pay £11 extra every week just to pass through this station to get to our offices--a charge which commuters from other areas of zones 2 and 3 are not subjected to.
As the Shoreditch Toll Booth only affects commuters coming into town from our neck of the woods, I believe this is a regional equality issue that warrants your concern. We've been monopolized by National Rail for too long--and now rather than force it to compete with the less-convenient but lower-priced Overground as intended, TfL has caved to financial pressure from this for-profit enterprise, prevented the people from having a money-saving option, and undermined their own initiative to reduce traffic.
For every other region, the Overground costs £21 a week, but for us it's £32. If we didn't pay London taxes maybe a surcharge to get into town would make sense, but since we do, pricing us out of the Overground network is clearly unfair.
When the Overground was being built we were told that it was intended to help reduce congestion in the Tube and the central stations by providing an orbital service for the outer zones. But because of National Rail's shady dealing it's the same price for me to get to my office in Angel via London Bridge as Highbury & Islington, so I squeeze onto the Northern line every morning. We have no option but to pay for Zone 1, so we might as well use the faster routes straight through it. The few occasions when I've had cause to catch the Overground it's been practically empty--and rightly so.
Once construction begins in earnest on London Bridge Station rail travel in our region is going to be a nightmare. Surely TfL can see wisdom in keeping as many people as possible out of that! And with the Olympics coming up it seems contradictory to our city's best interests to Not offer a real incentive for locals to stay out of the city centre. We're all used to overcrowding--avoiding the tourists is not an effective incentive!
A solution that has been proposed to mediate the conflicting interests of National Rail and southeasterners is Shoreditch could behave like Zone 1 if you enter or exit there (the City is technically within walking distance, so fair enough) but if you only pass through without getting off your train, it remains Zone 2 as originally intended. This would not be difficult to programme, and it would encourage Zone 2 workers like my partner and I to go out of our way to lighten the load on London Bridge.
Moreover, Ben and I don't earn much, so the £1,000 per year this small change could save our household is significant. And as I'm well aware of National Rail's pay and neglect scandals, regular price hikes and service cuts, and the fact that they get our tax money regardless of the quality of their service, you'll have a hard time convincing me they deserve that grand more than we do.
Please help your constituents make ends meet and unclog the Tube by making the Overground serve its purpose. The Shoreditch High Street Toll Booth extorts the South East and should be eliminated.
at 12:00 PM 2 comments:
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It's About Balance
Public. Private. Who decides? Who pays? What is appropriate? I'd like to touch on a few big industries that have a lot of leeway in modern Britain: the publicly funded, publicly run Arts Council, the publicly funded, privately-run Rail Union, and the privately-funded, privately-run pain in the ass that is Big Telecom.
I am a theatre professional. Well, I would be if I was employed. I am a highly educated theatre-y person. (An MA in theatre and a sockful of nickels might get you a loaf of bread.) Maybe my opinion on this matter has the potential to be modified by employment, but for now, I have a thing or two to say about state-funded art.
It's a bad idea.
The UK government established the Arts Council in 1940 to try and give artists an income--to keep the vagrants off the streets, essentially. The arts council was founded on the notion that artists are otherwise useless to society and it would less unsanitary to fund them to do something than to have them begging. (Okay, I'm making some of that up. The arts council was developed to preserve and promote British culture, which is a valid enough enterprise, 'cos let's face it, the British don't have a whole lot else going for them now that all their primary industries have moved to countries that don't get their panties in a wad about workplace safety and living wages. And unlike Hawaii, British tourism can't just sustain itself on sunshine and pretty women.)
Back to the point. Many theatres in the UK would collapse if state funding was pulled from them. Tourism would be threatened. Culture would be compromised. An entire generation of artists would fade into obscurity. It would be a catastrophe.
This is unfortunate, because honestly the last thing art needs is tax money, and the best thing for the industry is for the state to turn away from it.
(You traitor! Arrrrg! No wonder no one will hire you!) What tax funding has done to theatre is allow the general population to have a voice in what types of arts programming get funding. And guess what. 90% of the general population does not think that "art for art's sake" is a worthwhile use of their money. I for one don't. You want to take my hard-earned (non-existent) cash and give it to some idiot so he can poop on the floor? Film herself scraping off her fingernails and soaking her bleeding fingers in milk? Tie herself into an awkward position and paint the walls with her teeth? No. That's a waste of money. Tax revenue must be used for the public good.
So the opposite has happened. The only theatres, music groups, and art programmes that get money are ones that have some sort of outreach motive. At-risk youth theatre. Music therapy for the mentally ill. Art in hospitals. History museums.
This is fine. No, really. Well, sorta. I have no particular beef with nice people providing art-based social services. I would never do it myself, as I've only ever seen it backfire, but surely some good has come from bringing a joyful noise into classrooms and shelters. Sure, half the time the troubled teens are just shouting "fuck off, little miss do-gooder" and it's impossible to quantify the effectiveness of cello music on coma patients, but I'm sure that on some level it's all making life a little bit more liveable for someone (and not just the bleeding-heart practitioners themselves).
But the availability of free money for the right kind of art has crippled arts development in every other sector, because every organization that could be doing something cool is instead flopping around like sun-baked fish, desperately modifying their programming and mission statement in the hopes of getting picked up for funding. People and groups that have no business influencing children and prisoners are out there, compromising their vision (and distressing toddlers) because there's no other money available to support creative expression.
The private sector may call for a commission occasionally--a new sculpture for the lobby, a cubist portrait of the founder--but because of the pervasive influence of the Democratised Aesthetic, unless a submission can demonstrate its Community Outreach potential, very few corporate managers will risk investing in art. It's just bad PR.
Back in the day--long before my day--artists sought patrons. Wealthy individuals and companies paid artists to be their entertainment-on-demand. Yes, the artist had to produce work that the patron appreciated, but these sorts of relationships were varied and could lead to quite interesting, diverse outcomes. The upshot of all this was that exceptional artists could create art that pleased the aesthetic and interests of their particular niche, and if nobody else liked it, it didn't matter. Consider the Shakespeare histories that made sure to portray ancestral competing claimants to the throne as evil, or the architects who told George IV that the onion-domed And crenellated Royal Pavilion he wanted for Brighton would be just beautiful (and very accurately Chinese).
But time has moved on, expectations have been raised, and theatre has gotten more expensive to produce. Meanwhile companies have merged and streamlined, grown and expanded until entire industries have come to exist under one corporate umbrella. The only companies that can afford to sponsor arts organizations are such high-profile institutions that they can't risk being too controversial. Even innocuous, good-idea helpful patronage, when it reaches the ears of the wrong community, leads to boycotts and protests in the streets (or did no one else notice the Teabaggers flapping their arms around outside Home Depot for supporting GLAAD?) Big corporations that decide to support the arts have to be very, very careful that they are investing in programmes that make them look good across the board.
Theatres that already are big corporations have to make shows that will please everyone, or at least not offend anyone.
Which results in porridge. Bland, colourless, gloppy, saccharin sweet porridge.
Germany does something different. In German culture banks, investors, and huge monolithic corporations have adopted a fashion where it's hip to fund a theatre. They still have something resembling that patronage system, and in a lot of cases, the money that it takes to run an arts organization is hardly a blip on the corporation's ledger--at least, it's not a big enough concern that the funding body takes any great care to monitor the theatre's output. This occasionally leads to them paying performers to masturbate onstage to a house of empty seats, but it allows for funded creative experiment--artists getting paid a living wage to try new things, develop new ideas, and push the envelope without worrying if their actions promote awareness of Sidcup's recycling programme.
It's like that terrible waste of beautiful puppetry that's gone from nauseating the West End to annoying Spielberg's viewers: when you burden a show-horse with a plough, you wind up with both a broken horse and a poorly turned field. Art has been crippled by its failed attempt to Do Good. Art is not good. It is not bad. It is art, and if you try and give it a social purpose, you wind up with the abomination that is War Horse.
But let's look at the flip side for a second. What happens when publicly-funded organizations get to do whatever they want with no accountability to anyone but themselves, despite the fact that they affect everyone? When they don't have to do good, even though they should? I am referring, naturally, to the Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union.
The Tube. It is London's life force--an arterial system that provides almost every neighbourhood with workers, taxpayers, and the occasional vagrant. Like theatre it is also paid for with a combination of tax revenue and ticket sales. But unlike theatre, in the past year transit prices have gone up twice, services have been reduced, and the union has gone on strike at least four times, effectively shutting the system down and putting an undue burden on the separate unions of the buses, suburban rail, the Overground, the river, taxis, and the highway. Theatres tried that--nobody showed up and eventually the theatres closed.
RMT are striking for what at first sounds like reasonable causes--safety, hours, wages, job security. Fair enough, right?
Except. Except they don't really have a leg to stand on. Tube employees' base salary is £15,000 higher than any other transit workers'. More money is sluiced by the state into the Tube than into any other system--into maintenance, employee benefits, maintaining jobs, and line development. Particularly now that the Olympics are rapidly coming closer, ensuring that the city has a safe, reliable, attractive public transit system has been declared utterly vital. They are getting as much money as anyone can afford.
And we live in the Future. The city also has a lovely train service called the Docklands Light Railway, which is every four year old boy's favourite thing on earth for one very important reason: he can sit up front and pretend to drive. The DLR is essentially a large network of robots that functions quite well almost entirely without human involvement. It's on time, it's safe, and it runs itself.
Sure, in the evenings it's a good idea to have transit employees on board to ensure that when drunks fall onto the tracks, the machine doesn't carry on without heeding their plight. But under daily circumstances, drivers, door operators, and signalmen are more trouble than they're worth. Unfortunate to employment rates? Sure. But what is better for commuters--employing train employees to do an okay job, or having machines do a very efficient job?
This kind of gimmick of course makes transit employees very, very angry. And to an extent I understand them--why should people lose their jobs to machines, just because machines do them better and without needing to buy food or nappies or pay mortgages or take sick days? We've had to face the crushing truth that computers and machines work better than we do since the industrial revolution. As we innovate ourselves out of usefulness, we must take a moment to ask--why do we cling to the notion that a task that is better and more cheaply performed by a computer programme should still be a career? No one seems to mourn the obsolescence of the scullery maid or the lamplighter. And while home-made cakes do taste better, I have a hard time believing that the DLR is somehow inferior without that human touch. If a machine has been made to streamline the inefficiencies of human performance at any task, surely this is an indicator that the best human operation leaves room for improvement.
So far, the rail unions have kept the machines from completely eliminating their jobs, but this success has empowered them to take more bold moves, which may get them into trouble. Their regular, crippling strikes over ticket office layoffs (the computerized system works better, faster, more fairly, speaks 17 languages, doesn't yell at you for waking it up, and doesn't pull the shade at 4:45pm) and their planned strikes over the legitimate firing of two employees have endeared the soulless DLR to Londoners more and more over the past year.
But what about private companies who have never done good, have never had to do good, but keep getting in the way regardless? I'm referring, of course, to phone companies and net neutrality.
Why does the phone company think it is owed something in this digital age? We have always paid for phone service--it's not like the entire history of telephone operation has been some sort of philanthropy on their part--but now that a video phone call can be handled for free and with minimal bandwidth occupation on the Internet companies like BT are determined to get their just deserves. Courts are filled every day with phone lawyers and lobbyists doing whatever they can to prevent companies like Skype from letting people circumvent their communication toll. Just because it Can be done for free doesn't mean it Should, surely.
The problem is the people who would add a surcharge to free services so as to hold onto their profit margin are convinced that the Internet is a closed system with a speed limit that can and should be enforced. Despite the truth that the interwebs just expand as new information enters them, and so long as people keep buying servers there's no reason the net won't just grow indefinitely, they are trapped in a 1980's version of the world where a town's long-distance jacks were limited and had to be handled by an operator. The extents they're going to now to impose their analogue fees on the digital world are akin to priests raving that, despite all evidence that a skilled surgeon removed your infected appendix safely, prayer actually saved your life. Get with the program. Manual telephone operation and religion have been dead for years, but for some stupid reason they won't stop kicking or demanding our money. You've had your day! Just let go already! Better, faster, smarter and cheaper systems have replaced you--namely computers and soap. The reason we're not paying you is because you shouldn't be paid anymore. You want a job? Invent a new service we can't live without. Don't demand that we keep paying you for a service nobody needs that you don't even provide.
So. I think it comes down to: art should not be public, transit should not be private, and anyone who tries to force consumers to pay twice for internet and internet services should be shot. I already pay my monthly net subscription to BE AND a trumped-up "line rental" fee to the privately-owned BT--don't try and charge me for using Skype because I'm not paying your free-money long-distance fee for a piece of software to automatically connect me to my mom. I'm paying you for internet access. What I do with it is my business.


McLeod should be congratulated for showing how questions in the philosophy of law can be illuminated by empirical studies. Scholars and practitioners of modern war should be familiar with his book. It is sometimes hard going, but the argument is firmly based on three simple questions. What does FM 3-24 prescribe? How did that come about? Has the manual changed things?
To judge by this admirable study, originating in a doctoral thesis, policy development should be in safe hands out there ... McLeod should be congratulated for showing how questions in the philosophy of law can be illuminated by empirical studies. Scholars and practitioners of modern war should be familiar with his book.
fascinating account for anyone interested in the minutiae of counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine and strategy and, in particular, how they relate to combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
McLeod should be congratulated for showing how questions in the philosophy of law can be illuminated by empirical studies. Scholars and practitioners of modern war should be familiar with his book.
A compelling, thoughtful, superbly written, and exhaustively researched examination of the interaction of law and the conduct of counterinsurgency operations-the best contemporary study I have seen on this topic.
Through remarkable diligence, Travers McLeod gained access to unique sources that allow him to provide the clearest description to date of the intellectual currents and controversies that shaped FM 3-24 and made it so revolutionary for the American military. It is a first class piece of social science analysis and intellectual history.
Does international law influence and constrain militaries as they fight wars? How? And how would we know? McLeod's Rule of Law in War tackles these crucial questions through the lens of the US Armyâs Field Manual on counterinsurgency that guided the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drawing on an extraordinary array of interviews and archival materials, McLeod provides a sophisticated and probing analysis of lawâs vital role in both shaping US militarydoctrine, and in the way it was implemented on the ground. Rule of Law in War is essential reading for anyone interested in the changing nature of war fighting in the twenty-first century.
Does international law matter, and if so how? Are its effects marginal, or does it affect the high politics of international affairs: national security and the conduct of war? Rule of Law in War is a must read for everyone interested in these key questions. Through path-breaking and painstaking primary research, Travers McLeod details the influence of international law on US counterinsurgency doctrine, showing how through three pathways it shaped Field Manual 3-24and its implementation in Iraq and Afghanistan. With unprecedented access to the doctrine's key architects, as well as the full drafting history, McLeod opens a unique window on international law's impact. A wonderful read, bursting with insight.
Travers McLeod is the Chief Executive Officer at the Centre for Policy Development, an independent Australian policy think tank, an Honorary Fellow of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and an Associate of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford.


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Aeromot Aeronaves e Motores es un grupo empresarial brasileño dedicado al área de aeronáutica y con sede en la ciudad de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Fue fundada en 1967 y se dedica a la venta y mantenimiento de aeronaves y motores, la venta de piezas de repuesto y la prestación de servicios en el segmento aeronáutico como cursos y sistemas de imágenes aéreas. Fue responsable de todo el sistema aeronáutico de la Copa del Mundo 2014 y de los Juegos Olímpicos Río 2016.

Su aeropuerto sede es el Aeropuerto Internacional Salgado Filho de Porto Alegre y cuenta con una filial localizada en el aeropuerto de Pampulha en Belo Horizonte. Inicialmente estuvo destinada a prestar servicios de mantenimiento de aeronaves, la empresa empezó luego a fabricar componentes de las mismas (como asientos, piezas de motor, etcétera) y a producir pequeños aviones de entrenamiento. Realizó el proyecto de los asiento de la Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante, el primer avión de Embraer.

La empresa "Aeoromot Aeronaves e Motores" se escindió de la antigua "Aeoromot Indústria" que también fabricaba aviones, que fabricava aviões. Desde 2007, Aeoromot Aeronaves e Motores pasó a ser controlada totalmente por un nuevo grupo del ramo de la aviación, separándose totalmente de aquella. A pesar de la semejana en sus nombres, son dos empresas totalmente diferentes.

Historia
Al final de la década de 1980, Aeromot produjo su primera aeronave, la AMT-100 Ximango como parte de un proceso de transferencia tecnológica  sobre la base del modelo RF-10 creado en los años 1980 por la empresa francesa Aerostructure de la que comprómo los derechos para producirlo en Brasil.  Durante el auge el mercado, al final de esa misma década, la empresa alcanzó una facturación de 18 millones de dólaers.

También desarrolló y produjo para la Marina de Brasil, de 1986 a 1990, una aeronave destinada a ejercicios de tiro antiaéreo denominada K1AM, sin embargo debido al elevado costo operacional de los sistemas KD2R-5/K1AM, el programa no tuvo continuidad y la Marina optó por sistemas más ligeros y más baratos.

Entre 1997 y 2001 la empresa proyectó, desarrolló y certificó, de conformidad a la especificación del Departamento de Aviación Civil, un avión de entrenamiento primario, biplaza, denominado AMT-600 Guri, destinado a substituir a los Paulistinhas y Aero Boero existentes en los aeroclubes brasileños.

Entre 1999 y 2005 Aeromot creó variantes del modelo Ximango: AMT-200 Super Ximango e AMT-300 Turbo Ximango Shark.

En 2001 vendió 14 aeronaves para ser usadas en el entrenamiento inicial de pilotos de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos por un valor de US$ 2,5 millones, desbancando a Diamond.

En 2003 fueron iniciadas las negociaciones para la transferencia de tecnología del planeador motorizado, con una intención de producir inicialmente 150 aeronaves, de las que 50 fueron entregadas a fines del 2004 y los 100 restantes cinco años después.  Los planes se atrasaron y el joint venture con la empresa estatal china Guizhou Aviation Industries Corporation debió haber iniciado las operaciones en 2009.

A partir de mediados de la década del 2000 la empresa entró en crisis, inicialmente por causa de la variación del tipo de cambio, principalmente entre 2005 y 2006, que redujo las ganancias por exportaciones; luego por causa de la baja demanda del sector público y, finalmente, con la crisis financiera del 2008 que estancó las compras de clientes, principalmente aeroclubes de los Estados Unidos. En el 2009, ningún avión salió de las oficinas de Aeromot.

Otro factor importante fueron los problemas enfrentados luego de ganar una licitación en 2006 que garantizaría la producción de diez aeronaves para la Secretaría Nacional de Seguridad Públic (Senasp) por un valor de 4,8 millones de reales.  Complicado por un recurso administrativo contra el resultado, el proceso no fue concluido y desestructuró la programación industrial y financiera de la empresa, costanco casi la quiebra y obligando a la empresa a vender las operaciones de mantenimiento de aviones y motores para hacer caja.

En la actualidad, la empresa se encuentra habilitada a inspeccionar rutinariamente y hacer la inspección anual de mantenimiento en aeronaves Raytheon, Piper Aircraft, Cessna, Embraer, Neiva, Robinson, Beechcraft, Lake e Aero Commander.

En 20 años de fabricación de avones, Aeromot totaliza 178 Ximangos (vendidos a 16 países) y 22 Guris.

Aeronaves
La empresa produjo una serie de pequeñas aeronaves destinadas al entrenamiento de pilotos, de la clase de motoplaneadores, que son:
 AMT-100 Ximango
 AMT-200 Ximango
 AMT-300 Turbo Ximango Shark
 AMT-600 Guri

Referencias

Empresas de Brasil
Fabricantes de aeronaves de Brasil


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Kasparov VS Topalov 1999
Byrne vs Fischer, 1956
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Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 moves below
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5. Bf4 d5 6. Qb3 dc4 7. Qc4 c6 8. e4 Nbd7 9. Rd1 Nb6 10. Qc5 Bg4 11. Bg5 11. Be2 followed by 12 O-O would have been more prudent. The bishop move played allows a sudden crescendo of tactical points to be uncovered by Fischer. — Wade 11… Na4! 12. Qa3 On 12. Nxa4 Nxe4 and White faces considerable difficulties. 12… Nc3 At first glance, one might think that this move only helps White create a stronger pawn center; however, Fischer's plan is quite the opposite. By eliminating the Knight on c3, it becomes possible to sacrifice the exchange via Nxe4 and smash White's center, while the King remains trapped in the center. 13. bc3 Ne4 The natural continuation of Black's plan. 14. Be7 Qb6 15. Bc4 Nc3 16. Bc5 Rfe8 17. Kf1 Be6!! If this is the game of the century, then 17…Be6!! must be the counter of the century. Fischer offers his queen in exchange for a fierce attack with his minor pieces. Declining this offer is not so easy: 18. Bxe6 leads to a 'Philidor Mate' (smothered mate) with …Qb5+ 19. Kg1 Ne2+ 20. Kf1 Ng3+ 21. Kg1 Qf1+ 22. Rxf1 Ne2#. Other ways to decline the queen also run into trouble: e.g., 18. Qxc3 Qxc5 18. Bb6 Bc4 19. Kg1 Ne2 20. Kf1 Nd4 This tactical scenario, where a king is repeatedly revealed to checks, is sometimes called a "windmill." 21. Kg1 Ne2 22. Kf1 Nc3 23. Kg1 ab6 24. Qb4 Ra4 25. Qb6 Nd1 26. h3 Ra2 27. Kh2 Nf2 28. Re1 Re1 29. Qd8 Bf8 30. Ne1 Bd5 31. Nf3 Ne4 32. Qb8 b5 Every piece and pawn of the black camp is defended. The white queen has nothing to do. 33. h4 h5 34. Ne5 Kg7 35. Kg1 Bc5 36. Kf1 Ng3 Now Byrne is hopelessly entangled in Fischer's mating net. 37. Ke1 Bb4 38. Kd1 Bb3 39. Kc1 Ne2 40. Kb1 Nc3 41. Kc1 Rc2#
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