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filed: June 11, 2012 • California
Giant SDG&E line sparks rural activism
Credit: Written by Steve Schmidt, The San Diego Union-Tribune | www.utsandiego.com 10 June 2012 ~~
ALPINE – The armada of earthmovers and steamrollers is clearing out, and the little town that was turned upside down is finally catching a break.
Alpine is looking more like its rural-flavored self again now that San Diego Gas & Electric has completed the construction of its Sunrise Powerlink transmission line through the heart of the East County community.
The 18-month project left a bitter aftertaste. It also transformed many in town and across the sprawling backcountry. Residents say it hardened their resolve to challenge other projects that threaten their quiet, countrified ways.
Laura Cyphert of El Monte Valley, near Lakeside, is among those unnerved by proposals to construct industrial-scale wind and solar farms in the region.
She thinks residents will be quicker to mobilize against them in light of what they witnessed during the work on Powerlink. "We're all on notice," she said. "There's so much more to come, unless we're engaged and active."
The $1.9 billion line runs from Imperial Valley to San Diego, weaving through mountain, valley and desert and atop 421 giant towers. The Alpine portion was installed underground, along several miles of Alpine Boulevard.
SDG&E officials plan to switch it on within the next week or two.
County Supervisor Dianne Jacob, who represents East County and has long been one of Sunrise's fiercest opponents, sees a more activist edge now among her constituents.
"I think that now – now – they know how to organize in a big way," she said.
Highly critical of SDG&E, along with the state and federal government agencies that allowed Powerlink, Jacob wishes now that she and others had moved quicker to challenge the project in court. While lawsuits against it did not succeed in stopping it, Jacob believes that one lesson learned is that "we should have geared up earlier."
Utility spokeswoman Jennifer Ramp voiced frustration at the negative criticism over the construction and emphasized Powerlink's big-picture benefits, saying the line was designed to bring energy reliability and renewable power to the county.
"Our folks are very proud of the work they did in Alpine," she said. "We tried to do our very best to make the project as painless as possible."
Ramp acknowledged, however, that the utility's front-line public affairs staff could have been plugged into the project sooner "so that we could work more closely with engineers and designers in an attempt to avoid public impacts as much as possible."
Many residents and property owners say the mammoth enterprise took a greater toll than they had feared – on their roads, businesses and rural lifestyle – and they contend the utility company failed to keep them fully informed about the daily impacts.
"It did not go the way SDG&E (officials) said it would," said Greg Fox, chairman of the Alpine Planning Group. "They just simply weren't being honest."
Ramp disagreed and noted that a complex project of this scale is "going to have challenges and hiccups along the way."
In some areas, the impacts were striking.
Community leaders estimate that a half-dozen or more Alpine Boulevard merchants went out of business during the long period of trench work and related construction on the thoroughfare, starting in the fall of 2010.
SDG&E had promised at the start of the work to limit construction to 75- to 150-foot sections of the road to minimize the impact. Crews installed several miles of underground vaults to house the transmission cables.
On many weekdays, however, it wasn't unusual to see several sections closed at once, mangling crosstown traffic and making it harder to patronize the local mom-and-pop shops.
Michele Little said business at her bistro, The Vine, dried up after the construction crews moved in. She ended up closing her doors for good last year.
"It just killed our lunch business that I had spent three years building up," she said.
Ramp said more than 100 claims have been filed against the project, from business owners seeking compensation and from others along the entire route. She declined to say how many of those claims have been settled.
Two other issues also soured utility-community relations: SDG&E's periodic move to extend construction hours or seek noise variances on the Powerlink path and the noise and mishaps tied to the use of helicopters.
State regulators last year briefly grounded the helicopters used by SDG&E to help build the line after a string of operational violations and rotor strikes. They later logged dozens of other violations and related incidents.
For some backcountry dwellers, the noisy aircraft were a daily headache. SDG&E officials said the helicopters allowed work crews to reach remote areas without having to build roads.
As for Alpine Boulevard, the utility believes it is leaving it in better condition than it found it. Ramp noted the new sidewalks, parking spaces and other improvements that SDG&E installed during construction.
County public works officials plan to spend $5 million on additional improvements along the boulevard, including more curbs and a fresh coat of asphalt. They vow to minimize the impact on merchants during construction.
Patrick McIlhenney, owner of the Alpine Beer Company, doesn't believe them and he's unhappy with what he sees so far. He said recent road changes have made it harder for trucks to make grain deliveries to his brewery.
He believes his community lost something vital during the 18 months of construction. "The rural charm has been lost and chewed up and spit out," he said.
Fox sees the street changes as positive. "It's going to be more of a pedestrian-friendly, user-friendly downtown," he said.
And he thinks Alpine retains its family-friendly quality. He and other locals are determined not to let it become another garden-variety suburb.
"We're not turning this into a city," Fox said.
Source: Written by Steve Schmidt, The San Diego Union-Tribune | www.utsandiego.com 10 June 2012


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var expect = chai.expect;
var substitute = require('..');

describe('shellsubstitute', function () {
  it('can substitute a simple variable', function () {
    expect(substitute('user: $USER', {USER: 'harry'})).to.eql('user: harry');
  });

  it('can substitute a simple variable with numbers', function () {
    expect(substitute('user: $1USER2', {'1USER2': 'harry'})).to.eql('user: harry');
  });

  it('can substitute a simple variable with underscores', function () {
    expect(substitute('user: $USER_', {'USER_': 'harry'})).to.eql('user: harry');
  });

  it('can substitute several variables', function () {
    expect(substitute('user: $USER, path: $PATH', {USER: 'harry', PATH: '/path'})).to.eql('user: harry, path: /path');
  });

  it('can substitute variables in braces', function () {
    expect(substitute('user: ${USER}1', {USER: 'harry'})).to.eql('user: harry1');
  });

  it('no variable becomes blank', function () {
    expect(substitute('user: ${USER}1', {})).to.eql('user: 1');
  });

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    it('can escape braces with \\', function () {
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    });

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Lord Rooker: No, my Lords, I have no authority to answer questions for the Government on the European Union; other Ministers are employed, paid and briefed to do so. I am not one of them.
We have no plan to abolish the county councils. It may be the case—I do not know—that the Boundary Committee may put forward options for single-tier unitary county councils; I do not know. It is for that committee to look at the six or seven county councils on the list that I mentioned. There is no sub-plot to abolish county councils.
We have considered all of the "relevant responses". I believe that that phrase was included because the lawyers considered that some of the responses that were received were not relevant. That includes many from business, individuals and organisations; they had a variety of views all of which have been considered.
I have dealt with the costing issue and the level of responses. On the soundings exercise, people might chaff about it but the fact is that one can run a well-respected opinion poll in this country with, I believe, about 1,700 people, so long as they are classified correctly and virtually mirror exactly the population of this country. That is tried and tested and scientific. Many more people were involved and it was split on a regional basis. The regions are not all the same size. They are not the same; they do not look the same, they do not act the same and they do not sound the same. I say: thank goodness for that. My question for the Opposition is: if the assemblies are set up, will they abolish them?
North West, for example, where any assembly would be bound to be dominated by urban interests based on the conurbations of Merseyside and Manchester?
Lord Rooker: My Lords, on the latter point, as we made clear during the passage of the Bill, all polices, whether from regional assemblies, central or local government, must be rural-proof. The rural element of those policies should be an integral part of them, not tacked on at the end.
The original White Paper sets out that, should there be a "yes" vote and a Bill establishes a regional assembly, the electoral system for that assembly would not be based on a quota system for the size of constituencies, such as that in another place. The Boundary Committee has the powers to change, alter and keep discreet figures for electoral numbers for rural areas to take special account of the dispersal of the population. That would not happen in elections for membership of another place. The idea is an integral part of the plan and I will not accept that there is an argument between urban and rural interests.
Ultimately, the people will decide. If they choose to have an elected regional assembly, that is their choice—not that of this House, the Government or another place. We have set up the procedure to give people the choice. That is it. There is now a set of rules—a statutory framework—for governing referendums that was not available for the earlier referendums, which will lead to a fair result. As for the first question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Waddington, about the quote from the Prime Minister, the noble Lord gave no chapter, quote or reference, so I will not answer it.
The Lord Bishop of Blackburn: My Lords, I thank the Minister for the Statement, which I welcome. Several right reverend Prelates on these Benches have supported the policy over the past few years. I signed the letter from the bishops and Church leaders of the North West, largely because I wanted an end to the uncertainty. The North West is a region surrounded—north and south—by devolved government. The citizens of the North West have the right to a similar government.
I chair the North West Rural Affairs Forum—the Defra body—and I share the concern of the noble Lord, Lord Waddington, about rural and urban interests. Therefore, will the Minister assure those of us who will vote in the referendum about what the body will actually do and about the interests of the rural areas and shire counties, which cover a vast area over and against the heavily populated conurbations of Greater Manchester and Merseyside. Will he assure us that the Statement will be well publicised so that people are well aware of what will happen post-referendum?
I hope that the criteria by which the Boundary Committee deal with this difficult and sensitive business of designating regions will be clearly published for all of us to understand.
Lord Rooker: My Lords, on the last point made by the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Blackburn, which I hope was covered in the Statement, the criteria given to the Boundary Committee have been published today. Details of the direction that has been given to the committee should be available in the Library. There is no secret about them—nothing has been done behind closed doors.
On what will happen post-referendum, as much information as possible will be made available before the referendum, during the campaign and over the coming months. It is difficult because, in areas in which there is two-tier local government, a decision will have to be made about the new structure. Obviously, the Boundary Committee will take a while—perhaps six or nine months or even a year—to complete the reviews in each of the three regions for the local government changes that would be on offer for the present two-tier areas, where only people in those areas will have the second vote.
Full information about what matters will be dealt with by the regional assemblies and how they will operate will be available, based, one hopes, on the draft Bill. The public will receive information through letter boxes.
I can only repeat my earlier comments about the urban/rural split. I hope that the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Blackburn does not go down the same road. The idea that only people who live in rural areas care about those areas is a scandalous lie. It is a calumny on all the other people. We all care. A quarter of the population of this country lives in rural areas, although many of those people work in urban areas. However, rural areas are not just a playground. The chocolate box image imagined by people who know nothing about the countryside is false. We are talking about vibrant, sustainable communities.
Policies must be rural-proof. The Countryside Agency's chair and chief executive, as well as Ministers should be held to account. Along with the Deputy Prime Minister, I have been on the receiving end of ensuring that all our policies are rural proof. We assured ourselves that they were not only an add-on or afterthought to the overall policies of the department.
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean: My Lords, is the Minister aware of the Constitution Select Committee's report on devolution? Has he read it? Has he seen the annexed report that shows widespread disillusionment about the consequences of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? Is he aware that, in Scotland, the cost of the Parliament has increased from �40 million to �400 million, that half the electorate failed to turn out for the election, and that the Northern Ireland Assembly is not sitting? Only this week, there has been huge resentment in Wales and Scotland about the proposed changes in the offices of Secretary of State for those countries.
Would it not be more sensible for the Government to get the constitutional changes that they have made right before embarking on another, like the Frank Spencer figure in "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em"? Would it not be better to make what they have done work before setting out on a new agenda?
Lord Rooker: My Lords, with the greatest respect to the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, who sat in a previous Cabinet, I must say that nothing he said was relevant to the Statement.
Lord Bridges: My Lords, the planning process will be severely affected by these proposals. The reference to the creation of new unitary authorities is a clear indication of that. I have therefore been trying to find out what has happened to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill that featured in the gracious Speech at the beginning of this Session and has been stuck in another place for some months. We were promised that it would be here in June. It is not here. I learn from an article in the Financial Times a week ago that the Government have decided to withdraw that Bill and delay legislation until the next Session. Is that true? Some of us have been working hard to prepare for its arrival and the absence of information is worrying.
Lord Rooker: My Lords, I say with the greatest respect that there is no absence of information about the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill. Everything is known. There was a debate in another place on Tuesday last week in which the orders for what we propose for the Bill, that were announced the previous week, were approved. We have not withdrawn it at all, but referred it back to the Standing Committee in the House of Commons. We are taking the opportunity to include the long-awaited removal of Crown immunity in planning matters, add parts of the Bill that could not be included in the original Bill in respect of compulsory purchase to make the process easier and make minor changes to the setting up of urban development corporations relating to community plan growth areas.
Those matters were all agreed last week and are on the record. When the House of Commons has considered it, they will use their new procedure to carry over legislation from one Session to another. Therefore, the Bill—not a new Bill—should arrive in this House just before Christmas or in the first week of January. With all the additions that we want to make, we cannot proceed with the Bill as drafted because it does not fit the procedures of this House.
The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill will probably get Royal Assent four months later than originally planned. It would not have received Royal Assent until November anyway. In order to achieve decent consideration in this House, the Bill will probably now receive Royal Assent at the end of March next year. It will be a much better Bill than the one we kicked off with.
The Government think that it is wise to take the opportunity to add those extra elements. It was not thought appropriate to include all those major additions—although there are no changes of policy—on Report.


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by DetroitSkills » Oct 11th, '14, 00:33
http://www.nbc12.com/story/26737161/cre ... e-turnpike
HENRICO, VA (WWBT) - A crematorium off Mechanicsville Turnpike caught fire Wednesday afternoon as an employee was cremating a 500 pound body. Neighbors could see the smoke billowing from the smokestack around noon. The fire marshal is ruling it an accident.
There have been incidents like this before at cremation companies all over the nation. But in 20 years of working here, the manager at Southside Cremation says it's never happened to them.
He says it happened as a result of the size of the body his workers were processing at the time. When it comes to handling obese bodies, extra steps are taken to ensure the cremation process goes smoothly. Jerry Hendrix says the worker took all the right steps -- but because this particular situation involved a 500 pound body, things took an unexpected turn.
"The body was so obese that the actual body fat came off and went straight up the sack and hit the roof material, the rubber roof we have up there and that's what made it go up like it did…It was no negligence involved in it. My guys, we did all we could. Once it started, the grease hit the roof and started the fire, the only thing we could do is dial 911 and get the fire department here," Hendrix said.
There were 3 bodies on site at the cremation site at the time of the fire, but the manager says none were damaged in the process. As for the 500 pound body, the company was able to finish preparing it later Wednesday.
Three people were inside of the plant at the time of the fire. All were able to get out unharmed. The fire was contained to the roof and was under control within half an hour.
The business will be closed for a few days to repair damage to the roof and furnace.
Re: 500 lb. body causes fire at crematory
by shadyblogger » Oct 11th, '14, 00:36
Damn. I feel bad for laughing tbh
Blogs McGooch wrote: Damn. I feel bad for laughing tbh
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Rep Bob Latta (R-OH)
House and Senate Republican Commerce Committee Leaders Share Broadband Program Priorities with NTIA
House Reps Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Robert Latta (R-OH), along with Sens Roger Wicker (R-MS) and John Thune (R-SD), sent a letter to Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Alan Davidson outlining their priorities for implementation of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA's) Infrastructure and Jobs Act (IIJA) broadband programs. The legislators call on the NTIA to:
Aviation conflict highlights the need for spectrum management reform
As the leaders of the House Energy and Commerce's Communications and Technology Subcommittee, we are responsible for pursuing public oversight and restoring trust in the spectrum management process, and we are committed to doing so in a bipartisan fashion. First, NTIA, the congressionally designated manager of federal spectrum, must continue to be recognized throughout the federal government as the entity authorized to balance the needs and concerns of federal spectrum users, and to communicate those interests to its governmental counterparts and the public.
Republican Commerce Committee Leaders Seek Information About FCC's Response to EBB 'Fraud and Abuse'
Reps Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Bob Latta (R-OH), along with Sens Roger Wicker (R-MS) and John Thune (R-SD) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel seeking information about the agency's response after the FCC Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that broadband providers have been fraudulently enrolling households in the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) program. The providers falsely claimed that certain customers' households had children attending schools participating in the National School Lunch Program's Community Eligibility Provisio
House Commerce Committee Minority Leaders on White House Meeting
While closing the digital divide should be a bipartisan goal, House Commerce Republicans are concerned that the Biden Administration's proposals will waste taxpayer money without expanding broadband to unserved Americans. Instead of working to increase access to broadband for all Americans, they are prioritizing inefficient—and often poorly managed—government-run networks, providing subsidies in the absence of accurate broadband mapping data, and establishing duplicative Federal programs.
House Commerce GOP Leaders Call for an FCC Oversight Hearing to Assess New FCC Programs and Commitment to Free Speech
House Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) urged Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) to schedule an oversight hearing to review the Federal Communication Commission's implementation plans regarding key connectivity programs and their commitment to free speech.
House Commerce Committee Republicans Caution FCC Chair Rosenworcel on Rolling Back Internet Service Protections for Americans
House Commerce Committee Republicans, led by Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta, sent a letter urging Acting Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Rosenworcel not to impose stringent net neutrality regulations, which could result in Americans losing their internet offerings. Almost immediately after California enforced its new net neutrality law, two Internet providers reportedly told the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that the law could force them to end arrangements with US wireless carr
House Commerce Committee Leaders Call on Internet Providers to Raise Awareness of Emergency Broadband Benefit
House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.
Congressional Republicans Urge FCC to Quickly Produce Accurate Broadband Maps
In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, the minority leadership from the House and Senate Commerce Committees asked about the FCC's status on completing its mapping process to ensure accurate broadband data collection. [Congress just allocated the funds the FCC needs to do the mapping in December 2020.] "[W]e are concerned that delays in completing these maps could lead to further delays in distributing critical broadband funds," the Members of Congress write. "You have repeatedly stated that the FCC could quickly produce new broadband maps.
Reps Rodgers and Latta Urge NTIA to Prioritize Unserved and Rural Areas for Broadband Deployment
House Commerce Committee Minority Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Minority Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) sent a letter urging the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to prioritize unserved and rural areas for broadband deployment. As NTIA prepares to announce the requirements and allowed uses of grant funding to implement this program consistent with the law, they want to underscore two related aspects of program administration that are crucial to ensure that infrastructure funding is targeted effectively to the com
House Commerce GOP Leaders Request Audit on Rural Broadband Pilot Program
House Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Republican subcommittee members wrote to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an audit of and asking several questions about the Rural eConnectivity Pilot Program within the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA). The representatives say they have concerns about overbuilding, interagency coordination, and the mismanagement of appropriated funds.


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Q: FacebookNetworkException while trying to connect to facebook api via RestFB I'm trying to connect my app to Facebook API, but I get following Exception when I execute the code:
Exception in thread "main" com.restfb.exception.FacebookNetworkException: A network error occurred while trying to communicate with Facebook: Facebook request failed (HTTP status code null)
    at com.restfb.DefaultFacebookClient.makeRequestAndProcessResponse(DefaultFacebookClient.java:1024)
    at com.restfb.DefaultFacebookClient.makeRequest(DefaultFacebookClient.java:952)
    at com.restfb.DefaultFacebookClient.makeRequest(DefaultFacebookClient.java:914)
    at com.restfb.DefaultFacebookClient.fetchObject(DefaultFacebookClient.java:392)
    at Test.main(Test.java:18)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Error constructing implementation (algorithm: Default, provider: SunJSSE, class: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$DefaultSSLContext)
    at javax.net.ssl.DefaultSSLSocketFactory.throwException(Unknown Source)
    at javax.net.ssl.DefaultSSLSocketFactory.createSocket(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.createSocket(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
    at com.restfb.DefaultWebRequestor.execute(DefaultWebRequestor.java:374)
    at com.restfb.DefaultWebRequestor.executeGet(DefaultWebRequestor.java:96)
    at com.restfb.DefaultFacebookClient$3.makeRequest(DefaultFacebookClient.java:965)
    at com.restfb.DefaultFacebookClient.makeRequestAndProcessResponse(DefaultFacebookClient.java:1022)
    ... 4 more
Caused by: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Error constructing implementation (algorithm: Default, provider: SunJSSE, class: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$DefaultSSLContext)
    at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(Unknown Source)
    at javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getInstance(Unknown Source)
    at javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getDefault(Unknown Source)
    at javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.getDefault(Unknown Source)
    at javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory(Unknown Source)
    at javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.Handler.openConnection(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.Handler.openConnection(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URL.openConnection(Unknown Source)
    at com.restfb.DefaultWebRequestor.openConnection(DefaultWebRequestor.java:219)
    at com.restfb.DefaultWebRequestor.execute(DefaultWebRequestor.java:365)
    ... 7 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Invalid keystore format
    at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore.engineLoad(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore$JKS.engineLoad(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.provider.KeyStoreDelegator.engineLoad(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore$DualFormatJKS.engineLoad(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.KeyStore.load(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.TrustManagerFactoryImpl.getCacertsKeyStore(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$DefaultSSLContext.getDefaultTrustManager(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$DefaultSSLContext.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    ... 21 more

I think it's important to mention that I was getting the same exception when trying to run code with facebook4j.
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out, and I'm really stuck.
Code for the test class:
import com.restfb.DefaultFacebookClient;
import com.restfb.FacebookClient;
import com.restfb.Version;
import com.restfb.types.User;

public class Test {

    public Test() {
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String accessToken = "******";

        FacebookClient fc = new DefaultFacebookClient(accessToken, Version.UNVERSIONED); // Setting version has no effect

        User me = fc.fetchObject("me", User.class);

        System.out.println(me.getFirstName());
        System.out.println(me.getLanguages());
    }

}

A: Ok, I tried to run the code on different machine, and it comes out that there was an issue with setup of development enviroment.

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Patagonia Travel
Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise
This BBC documentary reveals the stunning scenery in Earth's Secret Paradise, Patagonia, from the volcanoes in the north to Cape Horn at the end of the world. Discover wildlife from the illusive puma and the little-known pudu to penguins, guanacos and condors. Uncover the wonders of this majestic corner of the world, from Gauchos to Glaciers. Patagonia really is a secret paradise.
About the Episodes
Fire & Ice - Friday 25th September 9pm
Discover the secret lives of pumas and hummingbirds. Soar with condors over glacial peaks and explore monkey puzzle forests from the time of dinosaurs. Ride with extreme kayakers over raging waterfalls and with Patagonia's cowboys, gauchos, as they round up wild horses.
Heat & Dust - Friday 2nd October 9.30pm
From the Andes, we follow the path of the relentless wind, sweeping east through Patagonia's dry desert. We discover a weird world of maras - giant guinea pigs - and desert-dwelling penguins, and witness the first faltering steps of baby guanacos - Patagonia's very own camels. People live here too - brave souls who have taken on this arid world and carved out a home.
Life on the Edge - Friday 9th October 9.30pm
This is the story of an awe-inspiring coastline, 4000 miles long. From the cold, fearsome waters of Cape Horn, where brave rockhopper penguins overcome huge challenges to raise their young, to the far north, with huge elephant seals battling for position in the heat of the desert. Orcas ram-raid the beaches, grabbing seal pups to feed their young. People gather the sea's bounty too, but these shores are not for the faint-hearted.
The Patagonian Puma, also known as the Cougar or Mountain Lion, is one of the largest of all the puma species. They were once hunted to endangered levels by ranchers protecting their sheep flocks but in 1980 the hunting of pumas was made illegal and their numbers have consequently risen.
The puma is Patagonia's largest predator and may be found in Torres del Paine National Park.
Puma in Torres del Paine
As well as the Puma, Patagonia is home to a wide range of unusual, unique and wondrous wildlife, much of which is endangered. From Guanacos (Llama descendants) and the Andean Condor to Penguins, Whales and Elephant Seals, the wildlife is certainly extraordinary.
Read more about the different species and where you can see them.
Patagonian Wildlife
Guanaco in Torres del Paine
Patagonia is an incredible place to see Penguins, it is home to the largest penguin colony in South America. You'll find Magellanic, Gentoo, Humbolt & King penguins in penguin reserves throughout Chilean Patagonia. You can see penguins on Magdalana Island, Peninsula Valdes, and Chiloe Island.
Watch two magellanic penguins fighting for burrowing rights & rock hopper penguins avoiding a sea lion near the Cape Horn.
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Guanacos
There are thought to be over 1,500 of this descendent of the llama species in Torres del Paine National Park alone. They live in herds for protection and to rear their young. They're very energetic animals who run around chasing one another, and mothers are fiercely protective of their young so it's best not to get too close!
Watch the Guanaco protecting his herd.
Gauchos and Estancias are at the heart of Patagonian culture and lifestyle.
Traditionally Gauchos ("Cowboys") are the main workers on a Patagonian Estancia (or Ranch). They are excellent horsemen whose job is to herd the cattle. In Argentina the Gaucho is a national symbol with distinctive dress including a poncho and loose-fitting trousers.
Experience a true taste of Gaucho life and the Andean foothills on one of our horse-riding trips.
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Visit Earth's Secret Paradise
If you've been inspired by the BBC's insight into Earth's Secret Paradise, Patagonia, you might be looking to plan your trip of a lifetime to this remote corner of the earth.
There are many ways in which you can experience Patagonia's hidden gems, whether you enjoy Trekking, Horse-Riding, Kayaking or even if you're in search of the Patagonian Puma, Swoop can put together your perfect itinerary.
Take a look at some sample itineraries.
Swoop's Suggestions
Patagonia's regions are diverse and each area offers something unique. Take a look at our recommended places to go for the activities you want to do, and let us help you to find the perfect destinations for you.
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However, once there, they were warned by Alexander I of Macedon that the vale could be bypassed by at least two other passes, and that the army of Xerxes was overwhelming; the Allies therefore retreated. [67] Other early modern scholars estimated that the land forces participating in the invasion at 100,000 soldiers or less, based on the logistical systems available to the Ancients. "Thoughts on the Reliability of Classical Writers, with Especial Reference to the Size of the Army of Xerxes". The Persian Wars are traditionally dated 492–449/448 BCE. Bei vergleiche.ch bekommst Du einen Second Persian Invasion of Greece Preisvergleich und siehst ob ein Shop gerade eine Second Persian Invasion of Greece … [4] Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay "On The Malignity of Herodotus", describing Herodotus as "Philobarbaros" (barbarian-lover), for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece (492–490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon, which ended Darius I's attempts to subjugate Greece. In June 480 BC Persian army and navy started from the Thessaloniki Gulf through Thessaly to the south. Had the Greeks done enough to prepare for the return and would the interminably militant force of Sparta make the difference? He began the same way his predecessor had: he sent heralds to Greek cities—but he skipped over Athens and Sparta because of their previous responses. However, according to Herodotus, there was at least a general conformity in the type of armour and style of fighting. The winner was Themistocles who had been supported by Attic sailors, merchants and businessmen who were for more advanced general progress in the navy. [120] That evening, another storm occurred, wrecking the majority of the Persian detachment which had been sent around Euboea. The Greek retreat becomes disorganised, and the Persians cross the Asopus to attack, When Mardonius heard that the Allied army was on the march, he retreated into Boeotia, near Plataea, trying to draw the Allies into open terrain where he could use his cavalry. [134][135] Partly as a result of subterfuge on the part of Themistocles, the navies finally engaged in the cramped Straits of Salamis. Europe and Africa, the Persian Empire became the largest empire in the world. [184] Mardonius may have been overeager for victory; there was no need to attack the Allies, and by doing so he played to the main Allied tactical strength, combat in the melee. Battle of Marathon The Persian fleet landed at the Bay of Marathon, about 25 miles from the city of Athens. [163][168] Taking on this lesson the Persian empire would later, after the Peloponnesian War, start recruiting and relying on Greek mercenaries. There the Greeks triremes skillfully manerved around the huge Persian ships, that could not be set up to fight in the channel between Salamis and the coast. [173] Equally, Herodotus tells us that the Egyptian marines serving in the navy were well armed, and performed well against the Greek marines; yet no Egyptian contingent served in the army. Second Persian invasion of Greece Battle of Thermopylae Battle of Artemisium Battle of Salamis Battle of Plataea Battle of Mycale Wars of the Delian League Battle of the Eurymedon Combatants Classical Athens Sparta Achaemenid Empire Commanders Themistocles Leonidas I Pausanias Cimon Pericles Artaphernes Datis Artaphernes, son of Artaphernes Xerxes I Mardonius Hydarnes Artabazus … [186] Beyond this, the Allies seem to have realised that given the Persians' overwhelming numbers, they had little chance in open battle, and thus they opted to try and defend geographical bottle-necks, where the Persian numbers would count for less. [161] As soon as the Peloponnesians had marched north of the isthmus, the Athenian fleet under Xanthippus had joined up with the rest of the Allied fleet. Persian Invasion of Greece. [90], These numbers are (by ancient standards) consistent, and this could be interpreted that a number around 1,200 is correct. [110], A second strategy was therefore suggested to the Allies by Themistocles. [195] They had little experience of large-scale warfare, being largely restricted to small-scale local warfare,[196] and their commanders were chosen primarily on the basis of the political and social standing, rather than because of any experience or expertise. He did not reject Herodotus's account altogether, citing the latter's reporting of the Persians' careful methods of accounting and their stockpiling of supply caches for three years, but drew attention to the contradictions in the ancient sources. [27] Other ancient sources give similarly large numbers. [206][208][209] Whilst this may be an exaggeration (it is obviously impossible to know), it is clear that even at the time the Greeks understood that something very significant had happened. [168] Hoplites were armed with a long spear (the doru), which was evidently significantly longer than Persian spears, and a sword (the xiphoi). [67] Maurice suggested in the region of 200,000 men and 70,000 animals could have been supported by the rivers in that region of Greece. Herausgeber Agnes F. Vandome. [107], The Allied 'congress' met again in the spring of 480 BC. [28] Whilst it has been suggested that Herodotus or his sources had access to official Persian Empire records of the forces involved in the expedition, modern scholars tend to reject these figures based on knowledge of the Persian military systems, their logistical capabilities, the Greek countryside, and supplies available along the army's route. Greek navy at Asia Minor at the point Mycale had beatan the Persians. [162] The Persians, whose ships were in a poor state of repair, had decided not to risk fighting, and instead drew their ships up on the beach under Mycale. 482. [197] As Lazenby therefore asks: "So why did the Persians fail?"[186]. Moreover, the threat of future invasion was abated; although the Greeks remained worried that Xerxes would try again, over time it became apparent that the Persian desire to conquer Greece was much diminished. [186] Regardless of its actual size, it is clear that the Persians had brought an overwhelming number of troops and ships to Greece. [184] In particular, he sought to win over the Athenians, which would leave the Allied fleet unable to oppose Persian landings on the Peloponnesus. [152] The outcome prompted the Allies to move to a position nearer the Persian camp, still on high ground. [36] Herodotus gives a detailed breakdown of the Persian triremes: Herodotus also records that this was the number at the Battle of Salamis, despite the losses earlier in storms off Sepia and Euboea, and at the battle of Artemisium. There, food had been sent from Asia for several years in preparation for the campaign. [144] Although Herodotus tells us that Mardonius was keen to fight a decisive battle, his actions in the run-up to Plataea are not particularly consistent with this. [130] Conversely by avoiding destruction, or as Themistocles hoped, by destroying the Persian fleet, the Greeks could avoid conquest. before he could lauch another assault on Greece , so it was his son Xerxes that set out to complete his fathers ambition of conquering Greece. [168] The Persians may not have completely trusted the Ionians and Egyptians, since both had recently revolted against Persian rule. After that, the Greek navy withdrew on Samos. This dual strategy was adopted by the congress. Persians at Salamis lost many ships that were support for their ground forces, especially because of the supply. [173][174] The one exception to this may have been the ethnic Persian troops, who may have worn a corslet of scaled armour. The second Persian invasion of Greece, which took place in the previously mentioned years, was a part of the many series of battles and encounters that made up the Greco-Persian Wars. [21][189][190] The Persian generals had significant experience of warfare over the 80 years in which the Persian empire had been established. [161] Seeing the small size of the Allied force, the Persians emerged from the camp, but the hoplites again proved superior, and destroyed much of the Persian force. when the army led by Mardonius crossed the Hellespont to the Thracian coast, but the navy was destroyed in a storm off Cape Athos. [78][79] Other proponents of larger numbers suggest figures from 250,000 to 700,000[80][81] One historian, Kampouris, even accepts as realistic Herodotus' 1,700,000 for the infantry plus 80,000 cavalry (including support) for various reasons including the size of the area from which the army was drafted (from modern-day Libya to Pakistan), the ratios of land troops to fleet troops, of infantry to cavalry and Persian troops to Greek troops.[82]. [99] Hereafter, they will be referred to as the 'Allies'. [113] Leonidas was supported by contingents from the Peloponnesian cities allied to Sparta, and other forces which were picked up en route to Thermopylae. February 23, 2020. [145] Mardonius now repeated his offer of peace to the Athenian refugees on Salamis. [109] Shortly afterwards, they received the news that Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont. [29], Modern scholars thus generally attribute the numbers given in the ancient sources to the result of miscalculations or exaggerations on the part of the victors, or disinformation by the Persians in the run up to the war. The might of the Persian force is too powerful for you to resist on your own, however in joinin Darius's successor, Xerxes I, launched the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC. Vol 3 Ep 11 - Second Persian Invasion of Greece, Part One. [211] Thermopylae is often used as a good example of the use of terrain as a force multiplier;[212] whilst Themistocles's ruse before Salamis is a good example of the use of deception in warfare. Many Greek city-states had been alienated from Sparta following the violent actions of Spartan leader Pausanias during the siege of Byzantium. In addition to the Athenians, the other Greeks were preparing to attack the Persians. This invasion in particular, however, probably. Heidenheim an der Brenz and Hellenstein Castle, Cnut the Great as King of England (1016-1035), The Greco-Persian Wars (First Persian invasion of Greece 492-490 B.C), Ostracism, political practice in ancient Athens, Neanderthal (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis), Valcamonica, Camunian prehistoric culture, Large number of bottles from 6 century discovered near Istanbul. [17] Finally, it moved to attack Athens, landing at the bay of Marathon, where it was met by a heavily outnumbered Athenian army. Page 2 of 14 - About 133 essays. Mardonius sought to exploit dissensions between the Allies in order to fracture the alliance. ", Despite attempts to capture the city by treachery,[141] the Persians were forced to keep up the siege for three months. Furthermore, to prevent the Persians bypassing Thermopylae by sea, the allied navy could block the straits of Artemisium. There battle was led with changing fortune. Among modern scholars some have accepted this number, although suggesting that the number must have been lower by the Battle of Salamis. And so we are now 10 years after, 10 years after the first Persian invasion. Xerxes entered the Greece through the Thermopylae. [10], The Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria had supported the unsuccessful Ionian Revolt against the Persian Empire of Darius I in 499–494 BC. Throughout history, the view of Xerxes has varied, and depending on which historian you spoke to, and their context, you would hear a completely different story. [7] Nevertheless, there are still some historians who believe Herodotus made up much of his story. The heroes of Thermopylae were sacrificed for the other, because they allowed for Athenians to evacuate and divisioned the military. [148], The main battle at Plataea. [6] However, since the 19th century his reputation has been dramatically rehabilitated by archaeological finds which have repeatedly confirmed his version of events. However, if the isthmus's defensive line could be outflanked, the Allies could be defeated. [31] The Persian invasion of Greece was the perfect lesson to try out the paper soldiers with. Themistocles was a strategist at Marathon, and advocated for the creation of the Navy, while the leader of the landowners Aristides was for equipment of heavy infantry. Even after Athens fell to the advancing Persian army, the Allied fleet still remained off the coast of Salamis, trying to lure the Persian fleet to battle. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece (492–490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon, which ended Darius I's attempts to subjugate Greece. Introduction The Persian Wars were a series of conflicts involving the Persian Empire and many Greek city-states spanning from c.499-449 BCE. You have just received word that King Xerxes I of Persia is following in his father's footsteps and has decided to launch a second invasion of Greece. The Greco-Persian Wars (Second Persian invasion of Greece 480-479 BC). The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. Vol 3 Ep 11 - Second Persian Invasion of Greece, Part One.
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3 Energy Trends to Watch in 2013
Go global with your view.
Aimee Duffy
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Jan 8, 2013 at 6:56PM
Contributing to Fool.com since 2011. Follow @TMFDuffy
The U.S. oil and gas story received a lot of media attention in 2012, and rightfully so. But as we move forward this year, investors should remember that energy is very much a global game. World energy demand and production can dramatically affect demand and production at home, so it makes sense to keep an eye on the big picture. Today, we'll take a look at three global trends to watch this year.
No. 1: Rollback of subsidies
Earlier this year, the IEA estimated that governments worldwide spent $523 billion subsidizing fossil fuels in 2011. That number is 30% higher than what it was in 2010. The agency points out that the majority of these subsidies occur in countries in Africa and the Middle East, but the issue certainly isn't limited to those regions .
Nor are the effects of these subsidy programs limited to those regions, either. Consumption increases when governments subsidize these resources, and as demand pushes up prices, the cost of subsidies wreak havoc on economies the world over. It is particularly damaging to countries that import a lot of energy.
Jordan, for example, is in the midst of doing away with its subsidy program. The country imports virtually all of its energy and can no longer afford to subsidize it. Under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, and in the face of potential uprisings, Jordan slashed fuel subsidies in November. At the end of December, the country announced it planned to raise electricity prices .
Dubai has already proven this approach can work. In 2008, the emirate increased rates for electricity for the first time in 10 years, and did so again in 2011. The high rates have encouraged consumers to use less, and electricity rates have dropped 6% annually. Energy efficiency is expected to cut consumption by 30% by 2030.
No. 2: Consolidation
In a way, consolidation in the oil and gas world has been happening since the Supreme Court smashed Standard Oil into 34 pieces in 1911, as those pieces slowly put themselves back together in the form of supermajors such as ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) and national oil companies such as Saudi Aramco. But there is a particular pressure on the business now, as cheap oil is either gone or in the hands of foreign governments. Production at the super majors such as Exxon and Chevron (NYSE:CVX) is declining, and growing shareholder return through the drill bit is becoming increasingly difficult.
Difficult oil is still out there, though, and super majors have the cash to make it their own -- if they work together. A report on the industry from IBM (NYSE:IBM) hints at what may be to come:
Tighter controls on oil and gas operations will require a new approach to sharing risks. The emergence of industrywide risk sharing funds, more capital security/insurance and compliance requirements will probably result in limited number of smaller producers and hence presence of fewer players. What's more, over regulation could hinder the development of oil and gas solutions and ultimately restrict supply – at worst, leading to energy crises at local levels or even on a global basis. And in any case, governments will remain unable to "legislate away" human error .
Expect acquisitions of companies with exceptional oil assets. Increasingly, such deals may be made in North America. Such companies as EOG Resources (NYSE:EOG) with great numbers coming out of the Bakken and the Eagle Ford shale are potential targets.
No. 3: Resource nationalism
Resource nationalism itself is nothing new, and there is a long history in the oil industry of governments appropriating local reserves from private companies in an effort to increase revenue and energy security. What has changed is that now governments are buying up reserves all across the globe and national oil companies are quickly building an international presence. China is leading the way, spending more than $200 billion over the last eight years on foreign acquisitions and joint ventures. Suddenly, who owns what and where is increasingly important.
Canada, which essentially privatized its biggest oil company, PetroCanada, in 2009 by merging it with Suncor (NYSE:SU), put this issue in the spotlight when it allowed CNOOC (OTC:CEO) to acquire Nexen at the very end of 2012. As it becomes more important for oil companies to work together to produce unconventional and technically challenging oil sources, who gets to play and who sits on the bench will increasingly be a decision made by local legislatures.
Foolish takeaway
The biggest energy story in 2013 may well be the one no one is expecting, but keeping an eye on the shifting patterns of global consumption and production can give us important insight into the long-term energy picture.


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Carriera professionistica

San Diego Chargers
Todman fu scelto dai San Diego Chargers nel corso del quinto giro del Draft 2011. Fu svincolato il 22 ottobre, dopo di che firmò con la squadra di allenamento.

Minnesota Vikings
Il 28 dicembre 2011, Todman firmò per far parte della squadra di allenamento dei Minnesota Vikings. Il 31 agosto 2012 fu svincolato e il giorno successivo rifirmò per la squadra di allenamento.

Jacksonville Jaguars
Todman firmò coi Jacksonville Jaguars il 27 novembre 2012. Con essi debuttò come professionista scendendo in campo nella gara della settimana 14 contro i New York Jets in cui corse 8 yard su 3 tentativi.

Il primo touchdown in carriera, Todman lo segnò nella settimana 3 della stagione 2013 contro i Seattle Seahawks. Il secondo nella vittoria della settimana 14 contro gli Houston Texans.

Nel penultimo turno della stagione 2014, Todman al primo possesso della gara segnò un touchdown su corsa da 62 yard, il primo della sua stagione, contribuendo alla vittoria dei Jaguars sui Titans nella gara del giovedì notte.

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EXCLUSIVE – 83% of Covid-19 deaths were among the Fully Vaccinated in the past month according to latest Public Health data
October 26, 2021 Winter Watch Around the Web, International News 3
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THE EXPOSÉ — The latest official Public Health data shows that the fully vaccinated accounted for 83% of Covid-19 deaths in the past four weeks, whilst also accounting for 72% of Covid-19 hospitalisations and 56% of alleged Covid-19 cases from September 18th through to October 15th.
The Covid-19 Statistical Report is a weekly report on Covid-19 data published by Public Health Scotland, and the latest update published October 20th confirms that things are getting worse for the fully vaccinated population by the week whilst things improve for the not-vaccinated population.
Table 18 of the report confirms that the majority of Covid-19 cases were among the fully vaccinated population in the week beginning September 18th 2021, accounting for 37,992 cases. Whilst the not-vaccinated population did not lag far behind recording 32,217 cases.
The totals number of cases by vaccination status as confirmed by the above table between September 18th and October 15th 2021 were as follows –
Not-vaccinated population = 32,217 cases
Partly vaccinated population = 3,971 cases
Fully-vaccinated population = 37,992 cases
This means the vaccinated population accounted for 56% of Covid-19 cases between September 18th and October 15th, whilst the not-vaccinated population accounted for 44%. […]
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People don't seem to understand: "Covid Is Being Spread By The Vaccination": These same people infected Africa With AIDS Through: "THE SMALLPOX VACCINE": AIDS came to the United States, Via, The Hepatitis B Vaccine Trial, By "Merck Pharmaceuticals": "Only A Fool Would Let This Government Inject Them"!!!
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{National Academy of Sciences. Harvard researcher Gerhard Scheuch stated that NASAL INHALATION OF A SIMPLE SALINE SPRAY CAN STOP THE FLU VIRUS AND TUBERCULOSIS DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS. For reasons perhaps best known to Merck and others, this potentially life-saving information did not receive wide distribution in the popular press}.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT VACCINES & HUMAN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
by Mark Owen ©, Feb. 12th, 2005
In 1946, future pharmaceutical czar George Merck reported to the US Secretary of War, that he'd managed to weaponize the toxin extracted from the Brucella bacterium and to isolate it into an indestructible crystalline form using only the DNA particles.
Aerial spraying of the crystals via chemtrails was deployed on Chinese and Korean populations during the Korean War. Many veterans of the war later developed Multiple Sclerosis. The army recognized that the MS was Brucella-related and paid the veterans compensation. Although the Brucella mycoplasma can lay dormant for decades, it can be triggered by vaccines. Vaccines have been mandatory in the US military since 1911.
Besides MS, this bacterium has been linked to a variety of diseases including; AIDS, cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and arthritis. In 2000, Dr. Charles Engel of the National Institute of Health stated that the brucella micoplasma was probably responsible for chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia as well.
In addition to the aerosol vector, mosquitoes were heavily tested as pathogen dispersal agents. In the 1950s, the Dominion Parasite Laboratory in Belleville, Canada was raising 100 million mosquitoes per month. They were then shipped to Queens University in Kingston and other facilities where they were infected with the crystalline disease agent.
A large outbreak of chronic fatigue was reported in 1957 in Punta Gorda, Florida. The previous week a huge influx of mosquitoes was reported. The National Institute of Health stated that 450 persons became ill with chronic fatigue within the month. Many such tests have been carried out on civilians over the last 50 years.
Dr. Maurice Hilleman, Merck's current chief virologist, stated recently that the Brucella pathogen is now carried by everyone in North America and possibly the world.
In 1993, Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, senior researcher at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology patented several virulent strains of mycoplasma. He stated in his own patents that they cause chronic fatigue syndrome. The Institute is currently reconstructing the 1918 Spanish Flu, inserting it into contemporary flu strains and enhancing its lethality. The Spanish Flu killed 675,000 Americans in the 1918-1919 interval. Many of the dead were vaccinated soldiers. Anyone born after 1918 has no immunity to the Spanish Flu.
Since 9-11 all US airports have been under military control. According to one credible source, there is a subrosa project known as 'Cloverleaf' that uses domestic air carriers retrofitted with special tanks to spray civilian populations with a variety of chemicals.
This retired government scientist goes on to say that reconstructed versions of the flu could be inserted into vaccines along with a more benign strain of the inoculum in order to slow the progression of its more deadly component. Chemicals in the chemtrails reported nationwide over the preceding decade, may assist the viral envelope to fuse with lung cells, guaranteeing ease of penetration and infection. People will pass along the flu to others and then start dropping like flies. This will cause a panic demand for more flu shots, thus accelerating the cycle. Persons not so inoculated will be blamed for spreading the disease.
In 2002 the Department of Health and Human Services purchased 286 million doses of vaccine from British supplier Acambis. The Washington Post reported in September of that year that the entire population of the United States could be vaccinated within 5 days.
Concomitantly, the Department drafted a law known as The Model Emergency Health Powers Act. The Act can demand that any individual be vaccinated. Failure to comply will be considered a felony.
The latest wonder cure promoted by the medical establishment is genetic vaccines. They are hailed as the last line of defence between humans and mycoplasma. But Dr. Rebecca Carley declares that the DNA components in these vaccines can be incorporated into our own DNA which in turn could cause the extinction of all (vaccinated) life on earth.
At least two dozen microbiologists around the world have died violently in the last few years. Curiously, some of them were working on DNA sequencing. The most famous was Dr. David Kelly who died in July 2003. Working for the Mossad, Kelly orchestrated the defection of Russian microbiologist Vladimir Pasechnik, who had been working on a doomsday biological weapon capable of destroying one third of the planet's population.
In October 2004, Dmitry Lvov, head of the Russian Virology Institute declared that up to one billion people around the world could die during the next pandemic. It would appear that the human herd is about to be culled in spectacular fashion. For whatever reasons, the dead microbiologists wouldn't go along with the program.
In order to ensure maximum confusion, an edition of the New York Times from January 2002 reported that the US government had seen fit to declassify hundreds of germ warfare cookbooks. Although Lee Harvey Oswald's bank account information is sealed for another 50 years, federal agencies have been routinely selling biowarfare documents to researchers through the Internet and even over the telephone.
The Times reported on the dangers of tainted vaccines as far back as February 1962. It turns out that the polio vaccines of the 50s & 60s were virally contaminated with diseased monkey kidney tissue, possibly accounting for the huge spike in cancer cases thereafter.
But vaccines don't require tainted monkey tissue to be considered dangerous. The Physician's Desk Reference for 1998 lists any number of toxic vaccine ingredients including; formaldehyde, aluminium, phenoxyethanol (antifreeze) and human diploid cells (from aborted fetal tissue).
In May of 1987 the austere Times of London reported on its front page that the smallpox vaccine administered by the World Health Organization had triggered AIDS. 100 million vaccinated Africans were at risk. Areas with the largest amount of inoculations showed the greatest concentrations of AIDS cases. Robert Gallo was quoted in the article as endorsing the figures and stating that, "AIDS researchers […] will keep their mouths shut because they are paid to do so."
In 1992 WHO director David Heymann stated that, "The origin of AIDS is of no importance to science today."
The Times also reported last December that Gulf War Syndrome had been positively linked to vaccines. More than 100,000 veterans currently suffer from the syndrome contracted in 1991 during Desert Storm. 20,000 veterans have died so far.
Last March, Haruna Kaita, a pharmaceutical scientist and dean of a Nigerian university took samples of the latest WHO vaccine to India for analysis. Serious contaminants were found including sterility agents.
In 1995 the Catholic charitable organization Human Life International accused the WHO of attempting population control in Africa and elsewhere. In April 2000 the Observer newspaper reported that the pharmaceutical leviathan GlaxoSmithKline sponsored experiments on children at Incarnation Children's Center in New York City. Children as young as four were given multi-drug cocktails. In other experiments, six-month old babies were injected with double doses of a measles vaccine. More than 100 orphans and babies were used in 36 experiments.
This sort of experimentation has occurred with increasing frequency. Last year the Environmental Protection Agency received $2.1 million from the American Chemistry Council to conduct studies on children from impoverished families in Duval County, Florida. The children will be exposed to a variety of known toxins over a two year period. The study will determine how chemicals are absorbed, ingested and inhaled by children ranging in age from infants to 3 year olds. For taking part in the study, families will receive $970 and a tee-shirt.
Many parents believe that they cannot enrol their children in school without having them inoculated. But vaccines have always been voluntary. Dr. Zoltan Rona says that parents must demand exemption forms from school administrators. Exemptions can be made for spiritual or religious reasons. Rona states that parents may have to insist on having a vaccination waiver or declination form, and then have it notarized in order to present to school officials.
Also, before consulting a doctor, in may be prudent to consider the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association vol. 284 July 26, 2000. Therein is stated with astonishing frankness that American medical doctors are responsible for 250,000 deaths per year. Half of these deaths are attributed to the negative effects of wrongfully prescribed drugs. Interestingly, in the opening statement of the Hippocratic Oath, doctors make a declaration to Apollo. In the Greek vernacular, the word Apollo means destroyer.
It may also be prudent to heed the advice of former National Institute of Health director James Shannon who stated, "The only safe vaccine is the one that is never used."
This advice certainly resonated with President George W. Bush. On October 13 of last year in the middle of the US Presidential debates, Bush emphatically declared,
"I haven't got a flu shot and don't intend to."
One month later Reuters carried a related and interesting item published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Harvard researcher Gerhard Scheuch stated that nasal inhalation of a simple saline spray can stop the flu virus and tuberculosis dead in their tracks. For reasons perhaps best known to Merck and others, this potentially life-saving information did not receive wide distribution in the popular press.
Mark Owen is a freelance writer living in Toronto, Canada. He can be reached at markowen10@hotmail.com
Geoff bell November 17, 2021 at 4:38 am
And then we get Table 18 of Covid-19 positive cases which is meaningless to the headline title !!
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What to do with #metoo.
The pervasiveness of sexual abuse and assault that last fall's #metoo movement uncovered has left the Church wrestling with how to minister to those women and men who carry stories and bear wounds in our pews. I hear the Church asking questions like: What is our role in the wake of #metoo?
How can we preach light when they have kept so much pain in the dark?
What of the God who sets captives free when so many have been used as pawns in a game of power?
How can we teach love when that word has been used to manipulate or control?
How can we help them see the image of God in others and themselves when they have been conditioned to believe that their bodies are made for someone else's pleasure?
How can we offer good news—hope— to those still in the darkness of the tomb?
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For every story told, there are scores of others kept secret. This means our pews are full of people carrying the burden of untold assault. As the Church, we can invite these stories into the open and expose them to the light (Ephesians 5:13), stealing their power. Once revealed, they no longer have the power to shape the person's life narrative. They can become events that happened to them, and not part of their identity, not who they are, releasing them from the captivity of shame and guilt.
Second, we can believe the stories.
One of the impacts of the #metoo movement has been an awareness that sexual assault and harassment is not limited to Hollywood or boardrooms and newsrooms but reaches into every corner of our country and social strata, even the Church. At its core, #metoo names an abuse of power—the party with the most power in the relationship using their influence to control or take advantage of the other. As the Church, it would be foolish to believe we have not participated or contributed in some way. We can confess the ways we have corporately and personally upheld this power dynamic, repent and seek to turn it upside down (Luke 1:46-55).
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There is a cultural shift taking place in our country as a result of the #metoo movement, one that recognizes the value and dignity of everyone. As Christians who believe each person is formed in the image of God (Genesis 1:26), we should be leaders of this movement. We should be working for a time when it will be no longer socially acceptable to objectify or exploit any of God's creation. We should be calling out oppressive systems that silence victims. We should be reminding a world desperately hurting that there a God who loves them, a Creator who calls them good (Genesis 1:31). We should share the good news that the same God who knows our deepest pain and shares our hurt came to redeem our suffering and restore all of creation. After all, this is the God who, in Jesus Christ, says, #metoo.
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Require all leaders, even non-clergy leaders, to take boundary training.
Post domestic violence and sexual violence hotline numbers in church restrooms.
Teach the warning signs of domestic abuse and abuse of children to volunteers and paid employees who work with children (e.g., nursery, Parents Day Out, Sunday School, preschool, Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops).
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Strive to place women in visible leadership positions. Consider reflecting the gender breakdown of your own congregation in your leadership structure. If women represent 60 percent of the congregation, 60 percent of the church's leaders could be women.
Have the leaders create a no-tolerance statement: If abuse occurs within the fellowship of the church, commit to prosecuting no matter who the offender might be.


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Bucklin's Record: "A systematic course of ill-treatment toward women nurses" (Part 5)
Posted on April 19, 2020 by Sarah Kay Bierle
Sophronia E. Bucklin
In Hospital and Camp, A Woman's Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War by Sophronia E. Bucklin
It's Week 5 of our read-along with extra historical notes and images. If you want to catch up on the chapter notes, just click here for the collection in the archive. This week we are looking at chapters 9 and 10.
Nurse Bucklin was sent to Wolf Street Hospital in Alexandria. Located at 510 on Wolfe Street, the building had been a private residence belonging to Francis L. Smith before confiscation for military use as a hospital. It had at least one hundred beds for sick or injured soldiers, and was sometimes called a model for such hospitals. However, Bucklin gave a very different account of neglectful hospital staff who had an extreme prejudice against female nurses, even to the point of limiting their food.
Wolfe Street Hospital as photographed by Matthew Brady
The Mansion House Hospital where Bucklin said another nurse went was located at 121 North Fairfax Street. Its history and setting inspired the television series Mercy Street.
Here's a map showing the locations of Forts Lyon and Ellsworth, both part of the network for the Defenses of Washington.
Much of this chapter details the inequalities endured by female nurses at Wolfe Street Hospital during the spring of 1863. One point I've been pondering while reading this memoir: did post-war writing and publication give women their only real chance to publicly call out the inequalities and patient neglect that their endured or witnessed during the war? Would anyone have believed them during the conflict? In most cases like this that I've read about, surgeons were pretty good at frightening, punishing, or finding other ways to suppress the truth getting out. Or if it did they would try to spin the story as "another example" of why women should not be involved in military medicine, in their view.
Many surgeons, at this date of the war, were determined, by a systematic course of ill-treatment toward women nurses, to drive them from the service. To this class the surgeons in Wolf-street Hospital belonged, without any shadow of doubt.
Take notes! Family members visiting hospitals put strain on the care system, staff, and nurses. Most Civil War hospitals did not have "guest rooms" and not all family could afford to stay at hotels if there were ones nearby. One of my pet peeves in Civil War historical fiction is not taking into account where family members stayed on those emotional and sudden visits or the stress and strain it could put on a hospital in reality. In Bucklin's example, the visitors needed to eat, stretching the nurse's already limited food supply.
The spring of 1863 dotted the roadsides with dainty ?owers, studding the grass like myriads of stars, and seemingly unconscious that the dust, which blew over them from the neighboring high ways, was thrown from the advance of armies, which were to contend to the death for mastery.
This chapter has a sense of waiting and expectancy, probably increased because Bucklin was not allowed to do any actual nursing or management at the Wolfe Street Hospital. Relegated to sewing and minding the linen closet, she felt powerless to aid the wounded from Chancellorsville and dreaded the next large battles that everyone knew would happen.
Bucklin recorded the explosion of the powder magazine at Fort Lyon. This occurred on June 9, 1863. Twenty-five soldiers died, and she wrote about dead and injured civilians also. In the aftermath period of the explosion and at later times, President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton visited the fort which was repaired.
This sketch depicts Ellsworth's death in 1861. Also, note Mr. Jackson's death at the same time. Bucklin recorded that Widow Jackson returned to Alexandria in 1863 to collect money for her support and then returned south.
Since Bucklin had very limited duties in Alexandria, she spent time exploring the area and particularly noted visiting the Marshall House. ECW's Meg Groeling has researched and written extensively about Colonel Ellsworth and the Marshall Family, and here's what Bucklin observed in spring 1863:
The Marshall House, within which Col. Ellsworth fell, one of the ?rst to die for his country, I explored to the very loft, from which he was bearing the rebel ?ag, when the traitor's hand directed at him his death shot. I also stood on the landing, where the avenger smote the murderer, and memory bore me back to that May day, when the tidings of the death of the lamented young Colonel were borne through the whole land with electric speed, inciting others to catch up the fallen sword. It seems well, at times, to go back, even for a moment, in memory to the glorious acts of the brave men who gave their lives for the nation. It is our duty thus to honor them. History may write their 'names upon its pages—yet we, who are blessed through the sacri?ce, should engrave their names upon the tables of our hearts, and be pleased to ponder upon their immortal deeds.
She also visited the slave auction site, noting the evidence of violence in the slave trade and how the place was used for a military prison or holding cell during the occupation of Alexandria by Federal troops. Since Federal troops held the city, it was a place of freedom for the enslaved and they could seek liberty within the line and become "contraband of war." As previously noted, this did not guarantee a good or safe experience, but they would not be returned to enslavement.
Once again, surgeons found a way to force Nurse Bucklin from the hospital. Discouraged and waiting for a new placement, she volunteered to assist the Sanitary Commission and through one of their agents learned about an opportunity to help at Gettysburg—a tiny Pennsylvania community overwhelmed with thousands of dead and wounded after the fierce battle.
Days passed, and we knew they needed help. We knew they needed more than could be gathered from the surrounding country, and we besought Miss Dix to allow us to go. I could make one, I thought, in the scores which were needed. But, "No, you are too young for ?eld duty," was the constant reply, and I chafed under the command which I dared not openly disobey. At last the gate was opened for me, and I passed through. Two weeks had gone by, and, one day, Mr. Knapp, of the Sanitary Commission, said to me, as I was tarrying in my restlessness at the Home, " Miss Bucklin, will you go to Gettysburg, and help distribute stores?"
Having made up her mind and got permission from Miss Dix on her way out the door, Nurse Bucklin headed for Gettysburg, starting a new chapter of her Civil War nursing: battlefield and field hospital service.
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2 Responses to Bucklin's Record: "A systematic course of ill-treatment toward women nurses" (Part 5)
Sheritta Bitikofer says:
I wonder if she and Cornelia Hancock ever crossed paths at Gettysburg. Cornelia received a similar rejection from Miss Dix, if I remember right.
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