Ok, so I picked up a solid little Falcon a few weeks back. Fresh engine rebuild, but not running right...had trouble holding an idle and no power whatsoever. Would eeek its way up to about 20mph then stall, but fire right back up when I coasted to a stop.
After doing basic tune-up things, I found it had the original Load-O-Matic distributor, but not the correct carb matched to it. Figuring that a wonky vacuum advance signal could definitely cause similar issues, I ordered the correct vac/mechanical advance distributor and put in a Pertronix module. Now I cant get it to fire off.
I've got spark, I've got fuel... any thoughts on where else to look? I'm a bit stumped.
Have a timing light so you can verify that the spark is happening at a reasonable time?
With the installation of new distributor and new electronic ignition, that makes the likelihood of timing being off or of the electronic ignition not doing its thing correctly the most obvious possible culprits to me. Verify Pertronix wiring?
And similarly you've-probably-already-checked, but double-check that you've got the wires on the new distributor cap in the correct firing order?
Points dizzys had a resistor in the power to the dizzy. See if they wired to original power or measure voltage there. Eliminate the resistor or find another source.
edit: oops, seen ya got 12v to dizzy.
Yeah, good observation. I do have spark at the plug (#1 at least, have not pulled and checked all six). I guess the 12v bullet point was just an observation that the Pertronix module is getting the constant 12v it needs.
Plug order is correct and matched to the firing order (1-5-3-6-2-4). Excellent thoughts, keep 'em coming gents!
You have spark and fuel.
That leaves compression and timing.
Double check you aren't 180* off on the timing.
Other thought is to run the valves. Yo assumed ignition was the problem and changed parts. But I've seen way outta wack valve adjustment do similar things.
Noted, and thanks for all the suggestions. I have confirmed that I am not 180* off on engine timing - I'm starting at the top of the compression stroke - confirmed by valves and pulling the #1 plug to check for compression.
Here's the weird thing: The distributor is a newly rebuilt unit. To rule out the electric ignition module, I threw the points back in it.
When I align the rotor with the #1 terminal (or really any terminal - the dist cap is indexed to only go on one way) I would expect the points to be open, allowing a spark to hit the #1 plug. The points are indeed closed at this point though, with the wiper sitting dead in the middle of a flat on the distributor cam. There's no way for the points to be open when the rotor is pointed at a cylinder on the distributor cap.
Contrast that with the old distributor - the peaks of the cam align with the index mark for the rotor as I would expect.
What am I missing? I know I can rotate the dist once it's installed, but that doesnt seem to alleviate the issue because the distributor cap rotates at the same time. Is there a variable i am missing?
Do remember that to account for added advance, you want the one edge or the other (can't recall) of the rotor under the #1 terminal when timing it static, sounds like maybe you are on the wrong edge? A timing light and degree tape on the balancer might come in handy at this point.
Can you take off the cam (there's a clip in the center hole with the grease) and reinstall it 180° from where it is now?
@Ransom: I just read your signature quote. I always heard that as, "I'm looking for the dope with a microscope."
Have you put a timing light on it yet? Initial timing advance should not be 0 degrees as described above. Should be 4 to 12 degrees initial advance. With vacuum advance hooked up it may be as much as 35 degrees advanced.
Do you have a 144, 200, 250 6 cylinder and what year and transmission?
I could be missing something here, but have to ask. Has it run properly since the rebuild? It sounds like you may be a couple of teeth off on your timing chain to me.
I have not thrown on a timing light or degree tape yet, as the dampers on these engines are notorious for slipping (two piece design with bonded rubber). I did add a new mark on the pulley to indicate where #1 is visually at TDC when looking through the spark plug hole.
It's a 200 - out of a 67 Fairlane according to the previous owner.
I do agree that the rotor should be just a touch past the #1 cap terminal at TDC, but the cam loves seem to be a good 15 degrees or so off from where I would expect.
I did not perform the rebuild work - I may need to pull the timing cover and take a look, but was hoping to avoid it if possible.
How is the condenser? Did you replace it. If it is shorted it will do weird things.
To check cam/crank timing, find #1 TDC, and wiggle the #1 valves. Tight? Rotate 180degrees. Still tight? Out of time. Maybe look down the #1 spark plug hole, or use a do well or something to confirm TDC as best you can. It doesn't have to be perfect.
Completely independent of the engine itself, I still feel there's something off inside the distributor. See the pictures above.
There's an index on the dist shaft for the rotor, and a notch in the distributor body indicating the position of the #1 plug on the cap. When these are aligned, the wiper block on the points is lying directly in the center of a flat spot on the cam (points closed). There's no way I see that would allow the points to be open when the rotor is aligned with a terminal on the cap.
Am I wrong to expect the distributor cam lobes to correspond better with the rotor position?
I can see what you are getting at with the distributor, but it is hard to get s clear idea over the inter webs. Not to oversimplify, but once installed, couldn't the body of the distributor be moved to allow the points to open at the proper time? Maybe I'm missing something, but my gut tells me these engines will let the body swing a mighty long way. More than the 60 degrees needed to get there.
Another question: could the oil pump drive need to be turned to get the gears to mesh better? It has been a long time since I've laid hands on one of these beasts. I hope I'm helpful rather than confounding.


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Ожокожо Торунарига (; родился 12 марта 1970 года, в Лагосе, Нигерия) — нигерийский футболист, выступавший в качестве полузащитника немецкого клуба «Кемницер» с 1991 по 1995 год и ещё в нескольких немецких клубах. Он также играл в международный футбол за Нигерию, а затем стал тренером в Герте. Его сыновья Джуниор и Джордан также являются футболистами.

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Landscapes of Power
From Detroit to Disney World
The momentous changes which are transforming American life call for a new exploration of the economic and cultural landscape. In this book Sharon Zukin links our ever-expanding need to consume with two fundamental shifts: places of production have given way to spaces for services and paperwork, and the competitive edge has moved from industrial to cultural capital. From the steel mills of the Rust Belt, to the sterile malls of suburbia, to the gentrified urban centers of our largest cities, the "creative destruction" of our economy--a process by which a way of life is both lost and gained--results in a dramatically different landscape of economic power.
Sharon Zukin probes the depth and diversity of this restructuring in a series of portraits of changed or changing American places. Beginning at River Rouge, Henry Ford's industrial complex in Dearborn, Michigan, and ending at Disney World, Zukin demonstrates how powerful interests shape the spaces we inhabit. Among the landscapes she examines are steeltowns in West Virginia and Michigan, affluent corporate suburbs in Westchester County, gentrified areas of lower Manhattan, and theme parks in Florida and California. In each of these case studies, new strategies of investment and employment are filtered through existing institutions, experience in both production and consumption, and represented in material products, aesthetic forms, and new perceptions of space and time.
The current transformation differs from those of the past in that individuals and institutions now have far greater power to alter the course of change, making the creative destruction of landscape the most important cultural product of our time. Zukin's eclectic inquiry into the parameters of social action and the emergence of new cultural forms defines the interdisciplinary frontier where sociology, geography, economics, and urban and cultural studies meet.
Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Graduate School, City University of New York. She is the author of Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change and co-editor of Structures and Capital.

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Laboratory | "NOWSTALGIA – or : how to prepare for the future ?" (1)
by Anne Szefer Karlsen
NOWSTALGIA – or : how to prepare for the future ? is a revised and abridged version of the paper prepared for Activities and Vocabulary, discussing and sharing art projects at large. Co-organized by tranzit.at (Vienna) and L'appartement 22 (Rabat), at ESAV-Marrakech (Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels), 22-25 November 2010. Participants were : Dessislava Dimova (Curator, Brussels), Charles Esche and Galit Eilat (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven), Juan Gaitan (Senior Curator of Witt de With, Rotterdam), Anne Szefer Karlsen (Director, Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen), Abdellah Karroum (Curator, L'appartement 22), Karim Rafi (Composer and Musician, Casablanca), Dóra Hegyi (Director, transit.hu), Jean-Paul Thibeau (Artist, Bordeaux) and John Zarobell (Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fransico).
NOWSTALGIA – or : how to prepare for the future ? (1)
Anne Szefer Karlsen
Observing the expressions of art of today indicates that we are in what could easily be called a visually constipated time. Explanations of this could be the commodification of the image and an excessive visual culture, or one can say that we have arrived here due to increased self-censorship.
Looking at how and what art and artists take from and give back to other parts of society, how other parts of society at any given moment gives to and takes from art and artists and how we can create from and negotiate these two, four, or even more positions, a few parallels become apparent within the very specific relation between artists in Norway, Norwegian society at large and its largest industry : the oil and gas industry. This relation is not necessarily apparent at the surface of the discussion implied by artworks, but has nonetheless impacted art production in Norway. The creation of possibilities through financial support encourage mainstreaming and self-censorship in terms of what expressions are put forward, not necessarily the number of expressions, which tend to increase in an affluent society. The self-censorship I refer to is a result of consensus and protectionism, which in turn can be said to be the result of the "oil-society", but also traditions, stale language, and lack of imaginations. There are of course complex issues at hand when it comes to the ideological impact this industry has had on arts, but for now, in this very first attempt at mapping these relations, I will point out the simultaneity of a few economic moments and propose that they are related to each other and what position artists have created for themselves within society.
In a visually and even ideologically constipated time as today it can be difficult to find a meaningful way to "prepare for the future". One could say that feeling too content might create a lack of different kinds of imagination. Trying actively to prepare for the future, what we create are in effect moments that have profound effects and will be looked back at fondly in the years to come ; in other words by preparing for the future we create so-called nowstalgic moments. Moments that challenges the existing status quo. Unfortunately the nature of the nowstalgic moment makes it difficult to precisely calculate or construct them. They become apparent only after the fact. Just like nostalgia and the Kodak moment, nowstalgia is connected to the temporal as well as the spatial, related to both the where and the when. One could say that a nowstalgic moment can be likened to a historical fact, which in turn can be likened to a photograph which we can bring out and scrutinise. So, let's take a look at a few snapshots from the last fifty years.
In pre-petro times (i.e. before the oil economy) art in Norway was a self-organised endeavor, the few art institutions which existed were slow to pick up new currents in art, and the Norwegian art field did not vary much from other northern European countries ; art institutions were rigid and reproductive. The lack of experimentation made them into mere places of display. The artists were the ones preparing for the future, and the government saw it as their role to help. The State paired up with the artists, and not the institutions, to integrate art into society. The founding of the Arts Council in 1965 was a way of improving arts' position. Art was mapped out, and borders were set up.
At the time Norway did not have completely clear geographical borders, but in 1965 the mid line principle negotiations were manifested in bilateral agreements with Britain and Denmark (2). According to the mid line principle, the maritime border is decided by geography and not political power, geographically positioned right in between the countries in question. The mid line negotiations and the subsequent creation of an oil industry has a creational myth related to two particular bureaucrats who blindly were preparing for the future. One can say that 1965 is the year that frameworks for the future are made, and from then on the content needed to be provided.
This brings us to the year 1974 : the year that the big oil field Statfjord was discovered in the very southern part of the Norwegian continental shelf. That is, within the borders which were negotiated in 1965. 1974 is also the year all artists in Norway joined forces and put forward three demands towards the government. Even though artists were invited by the Ministry of Church and Education to provide input to the then future National Art Plan, the creational myth of this important moment for art funding is that the government listened to the artists because of their activist approach with demonstrations and strikes. The so called "three point program" chartered by the artists was : 1 : Economic compensation for the use of artists' work. 2 : Increased use of artists' works. 3 : A guaranteed minimum income for all professional artists, when points 1 and 2 do not create reasonable income.
In both events we can recognise elements from the folk tale, luck and the magical number of three. It is not without reason that the last forty years have been described as the "oil fairy tale". With the income from the oil there has been room even for the government to prepare for the future and be visionary and for art(ists), this meant the creation of a set of structures in the aftermath of the 1974 art activism.
Art in Public Space, a governmental office for art in public was founded in 1976. From 1976 onwards, all fifteen Art Centres were established to encourage the development of the three point program and to help fulfill the financial situations called for in the 70s. And much later : the Contemporary Art Museum was founded in 1990. The 80s saw the start of the building of several art and culture structures, continuing throughout the last thirty years. I should add that there of course have always been artists who do not conform to this system, experimental artists who have found alternative expressions and spaces for their practice. The reason why I focus on the more structural side of the art world in Norway is because that is the one most closely linked to the institutions of society. Just like the oil industry is now linked to the government of society.
The oil finds led to several changes typical for most petro states and these are points to be emphasized and remembered : Public sector expands, the State becomes ambitious on behalf of itself and its inhabitants, subsidies start to be established. State dependency grows and possible opposition is weakened. If we adapt this model of change, initially elaborated from observing agriculture and industry (3), to art, we find striking resemblances : Private business (and initiative) is weakened, as is the potency of art in society, inducing further state subsidies. Due to the already high level of societal organization, the taxation has been kept at a relatively high level in Norway even with the new income from the oil and gas industry, unlike in many other petro states. This also means that a high level of representation and accountability is demanded from the people. In terms of artistic development, it has created a consensus based subsidy system, organised much like the rest of the society. So within the comfortable world of societal institutions and subsidies, the art, or even the artist, has been numbed. Unfortunately accountability is not always a friend of the arts. Today it seems art is about to lose its possibility to discuss, participate in and change society. We find a large degree of visual predictability and the space for opposition is not cared for. (I am generalising, of course !)
Norway has been a relatively conflict free society where the popular sport of consensus has been widely exercised. This means a high level of mainstreaming, even within the arts. My worry is that this makes for an art world operating on autopilot, where it is more important to create tactics and strategise than to be truly challenging. My recent reading of Marcia Tucker's memoir, A short life of trouble, tells me that this is not historically a new situation, but that now it is happening here. Today the tradition of public support for culture and arts is being questioned, and we are slowly arriving at some kind of conflict zone not dissimilar to the rest of Europe. We agree so much that sometimes the reasons for doing something get lost in tradition, but with a growing feeling of societal conflict these traditions are questioned. And so, it is with a growing sense of panic I see that hardly anyone anymore knows why there is public support for the arts, why we should nurture challenging and experimental art institutions. Unfortunately one could say that the adaptation of the consensus society within the arts has created a situation where the art professionals themselves have pushed art to the side. My questions relate to how we can make the future arrive : Have we come to a time where art is met with the same attitude the father of a friend of mine met in his teacher sometime in the fifties : "I hear what you say, but I don't listen" ? Is the appropriate response to this to speak louder, to speak up or to shut up ?
Even though I am focusing on the case of Norway here, we can see similar developments in other societies with a sudden influx of business, say from mass tourism, which in turn also is a result of affordable oil energy. When art is mainstreamed it loses its power and can no longer be in constructive opposition within society, creating fertile soil for artists to create alternatives : alternative structures within society, alternative outlooks and views of the world which are not any more available to a broader public. For all these situations, happening within the petro-state as well as in the new tourist destinations, there are important questions to ask : Can we carry art into the future through an improvement of the existing situation ? How do we take care of freedom of speech ? How can we ourselves create nowstalgic moments without self-censorship ? How can we prepare for the future ? What would we see if we took a snapshot of today and kept for the future ?
(1) This is a revised and abridged version of the paper prepared for Activities and Vocabulary, discussing and sharing art projects at large. Co-organized by tranzit.at (Vienna) and L'appartement 22 (Rabat), at ESAV-Marrakech (Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels), 22-25 November 2010. Thank you to Erlend Hammer and Pedro Gómez-Egaña for valuable comments.
(2) As a geographic anomaly Norway and Russia on the other hand continued to renegotiate their maritime borders until 2010, when the two countries finally agreed on a demarcation line after forty years of negotiations.
(3) As in Petromania by Simen Sætre, (J. M. Stenersens Forlag AS, 2009, ISBN : 978-82-7201-440-6).


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Will there be a Dororo Season 2 based on the ending?
Tue Jun 25, 2019 at 12:15pm ET
By Patrick Frye - View Comments (8)
The fate of Dororo Season 2 is still open-ended based on where studio MAPPA drew inspiration for the first season's ending. Pic credit: MAPPA
Dororo Season 2 seems like a possibility based on the way animation studio MAPPA handled the ending of the Dororo 2019 anime in Episode 24. There were multiple ways it could have ended, but the new anime's story is more open-ended like the 1969 source material rather than being conclusive like the 2004 Blood Will Tell: Osamu Tezuka's Dororo video game.
On the other hand, MAPPA provided a hint about the ending at the beginning of the Dororo 2019 anime. In the original story, Hyakkimaru's father, Daigo Kagemitsu, sacrificed 48 of his son's body parts to demons in order to gain power, whereas in the new anime only 12 body parts are missing. With fewer pieces left to recover, the ending of the main quest arrived a lot quicker, but the finale episode seems to foreshadow a somber fate for both Dororo and Hyakkimaru.
The TV show is a two-cour anime, with the second part of the season releasing its finale, Episode 24, on June 24, 2019. The 2019 anime was released as two Dororo Blu-ray box sets containing 24 episodes. Therefore, Dororo Episode 24 might be the final ending, leaving no room for Dororo Season 2 based on the way the source material finished (see the spoilers below for more analysis).
Updated June 25, 2019: Changed the analysis based on the ending of Dororo Episode 24.
This article provides everything that is known about Dororo Season 2 and all related news. As such, this article will be updated over time with news, rumors, and analysis. Meanwhile, let's delve down into what is known for certain.
The history of the Dororo 2019 anime
Dororo 2019 is actually the second anime adaptation of the Dororo manga by Osamu Tezuka. Started in 1968, the original manga was canceled after the serialization had only reached Volume 4.
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The manga was adapted into the Dororo 1969 anime, which ran for 26 episodes. It just so happens that the beginning of Dororo 2019 Part 2 will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the original anime, which began airing on April 6, 1969.
The Dororo manga's character design may have been Disney-esque but even back in 1969, the adult themes were definitely present. Pic credit: Osamu Tezuka
The story was revived for a 2004 Dororo video game that was released on PlayStation 2. The English version was called Blood Will Tell. The game added to the story significantly and provided a huge plot twist for the ending (see below for more details).
In 2007, a live-action Dororo movie was released but it made some notable changes. In this version, Dororo is a girl from the start although she refuses to be a "proper" woman. Both she and Hyakkimaru are significantly older than the manga/anime versions. The setting for the film was also moved from Japan's Sengoku Era to a similar post-apocalyptic future.
The Dororo video game received mediocre reviews but it provided an interesting take on the ending. Pic credit: SEGA
Dororo manga's ending compared to the PS2 video game and 1969/2019 anime
Warning: The following contains major spoilers pertaining to the ending of the Dororo 2019 anime and it's possible some plot elements from the game may be part of Dororo Season 2.
The original Dororo manga was canceled but it still had an ending of a sort. Shortly after Hyakkimaru regained his real eyes, he realized that Dororo is a girl (this revelation came out in Episode 9 of the 2019 anime), although Dororo rejects the notion that she should act more feminine. Hyakkimaru also wants her to join the farmers in a rebellion against the world's rulers rather than follow him.
Hyakkimaru bequeaths Dororo his sword, which she had been trying to steal throughout the series. He decides to continue the journey alone and leaves a crying Dororo at the door after promising to meet her again once his adventure was complete. But killing all 48 demons takes 50 years.
The Dororo manga originally was supposed to have a twist at the ending. Hyakkimaru realizes that he must kill Dororo in order to get his final body part back, but Hyakkimaru couldn't kill his friend. It's unknown why Tezuka scrapped this idea, but the manga's alternate ending was incorporated into the Dororo video game.
In Blood Will Tell, after Hyakkimaru discovers he must kill Dororo to regain his right arm, he spends five years building up spiritual energy so he can cast the demon out of Dororo. After successfully exorcising this demon in an epic battle, the fully-recovered Hyakkimaru embraces Dororo, who has become a beautiful young woman in his absence.
The artwork of the Dororo 2019 anime fits the dark themes. Pic credit: MAPPA
The 1969 anime was similar to the manga's ending since it had Hyakkimaru and Dororo parting ways. A year later, Hyakkimaru has recovered all but one of the 48 missing body parts while Dororo has fought in the villager's rebellion.
It turns out the last demon is contained in Hyakkimaru's father Daigo, who had sold his soul for power. Hyakkimaru kills Diago and the ending has Hyakkimaru and Dororo meeting once again just to say farewell.
If the 2019 anime had followed the original manga's ending then that epic 50-year journey would have definitely left an opening for Dororo Season 2. However, the ending of the 2019 anime went in a different direction, ignoring the manga's alternate ending while still modifying many aspects of the 1969 anime.
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Why Dororo Season 2 is still possible
As of the last update, MAPPA or any company related to the production of the anime has not officially confirmed the Dororo Season 2 release date. Nor has the production of a sequel been announced.
Once the news is officially confirmed this article will be updated with the relevant information. In the meantime, it's possible to speculate about when, or if, the Dororo Season 2 premiere date will occur in the future.
The potential for Dororo Season 2 depended on how Episode 24 ended the series. MAPPA might intend for the ending to be self-contained, which means no Dororo sequel, but at the same time, the ending was open-ended since the 2019 anime followed certain elements of the Dororo manga.
The 2019 anime did indeed have Hyakkimaru confronting his brother, Tahoumaru, and his father Daigo but there was no confrontation with a demon-possessed Dororo. Instead, Hyakkimaru has already regained all of his missing body parts and he plans on embarking on "another journey" for a different reason.
"He may have left on another journey," Biwamaru said in Episode 24. "That boy has just been born. Not because he's regained his body. I mean his heart and mind. He must leave the path of evil and retrace the path of humanity."
Even with Daigo talking about sacrificing another human to the demons, or becoming a demon himself in death, Hyakkimaru chooses to embrace his newfound humanity and forgives his father rather than killing him. Daigo's final words after Hyakkimaru leaves him alive seem to be of repentance, not of revenge. The ending even features a time leap where a grown-up Dororo races to meet up with Hyakkimaru after his journey is completed.
While that happy ending seems to be a solid conclusion, Episode 24 also seems to foreshadow Dororo Season 2 when Biwamaru says he "believes that something more than blood and despair lies ahead for those two young souls." While that's probably meant in a positive sense, could the second season have Dororo becoming demonically possessed like in the video game?
Anime fans will just to wait and watch to see whether MAPPA intends for Dororo Season 2 to be possible. Stay tuned!
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Daily Paper's work is an ode to the young black riders of the Namaqua, to the ever curious borderless spirit of a true pioneer, their work celebrates those who are not and who were never celebrated in media and beyond - the black cowboys that never graced our screens as heroic figures.
In the vastness of the red, rolling hills, the lifestyle & streetwear label wanted to capture the spirit of a modern day explorer, a true pioneer. The essence of what it is to inhabit a new landscape, a space devoid of obstacles, context and the complexities of society - a new world with infinite possibilities. An alien land where the sense of freedom and hope is almost tangible. A place that promises to be home. Daily Paper see the importance of giving a platform to the voices of this new generation, of connecting the people so that we may all contribute to creating the ultimate collective.
The cast was an integral part of realising the vision - Daily Paper's commitment to artistic collaboration continues this season as the brand joined forces with a group of powerful pioneers to stand heroically as the faces who represent this spirit. Carla Fonseca - a Mozambican-South African who is a musician and performance artist/theater performer, is the very epitome of what it is to be a pioneer.
Daily Paper explored the idea of transcending expectations, and traveled with it. They were aware that returning to the African tribe as their only inspiration would be to miss an opportunity to explore the creative African movements relevant all over the world today. This led them to push things further, look further, spurring them on to be influenced by contemporary African art. Where the norm is interrupted, thoughts are pushed further, where Daily Paper as a brand is more than clothing, it is a global community of like minded individuals.
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Mrs. Cracium's 3G class visits the Santa Shop.
I must say, I miss those days! Never knowing quite what is in that package the moms wrapped up for the little ones after their purchase but always loving it!
Thank You to all the volunteers! We could not do it without you :) May the birth of Christ warm your heart and homes.
Shannon did a wonderful job coordinating the Santa Shop this year and the volunteer moms who helped set up, shop, wrap, and clean up were so pleasant and efficient! Thank you everyone from me and all the "littles" who look so forward to shopping each year at our Secret Santa Shop!


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UN Partners With NGO to Tokenize Chocolate Bars for Equitable Trade
The United Nations Development Programme has partnered with Dutch NGO the FairChain Foundation to use blockchain for the more equitable funding of cocoa farmers.
According to an Oct. 17 report from SpringWise, the partners will launch a new chocolate bar, made with Ecuadorian-grown cocoa, together with a token-based scheme that allows consumers to contribute directly to cocoa producers.
Blockchain can "turn every product into a capitalist impact engine"
As the report outlines, each bar — being marketed as "The Other Bar" — contains a QR code within its wrapper that consumers can use to donate a blockchain token directly to farmers.
When scanned, QR code also reveals how much the farmer was paid for the cocoa used to produce their bar, as well as indicating the GPS coordinates of the cacao tree from which the cocoa for their bar was harvested.
According to SpringWire, while chocolate production represents a $92 billion global industry, farmers currently only receive 3% of the value of the cocoa used for marketed products. Many of them do not earn a living wage.
FairChain's project aspires to ensure that farmers are better paid for their cocoa, with a target of achieving a price of €3,080 per metric ton for their cocoa. FairTrade reportedly pays farmers €3,080 per metric ton, while commercial buyers pay roughly €1,721.
FairChain Foundation founder Guido van Staveren has said that:
"The whole idea is to use technology to influence consumer behavior and basically turn every product into a capitalist impact engine."
Donation transparency
Each of the tokens in The Other Bar project is reportedly worth around one-quarter of the value of a cocoa tree. The funding raised will be used to plant new trees, with consumers able to track the impact of their donations using data recorded on the blockchain.
As reported, the UN has long been exploring multiple — largely humanitarian — use cases for blockchain technology, beginning with its use of the Ethereum blockchain to transfer coupons based on cryptocurrencies to refugees in Syria, followed by a blockchain-based digital identity system designed to combat child trafficking globally.
This July, the UN unveiled its research into blockchain solutions to foster sustainable urban development in Afghanistan.
The chief of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Global Cybercrime Program has nonetheless recently warned that decentralized cryptocurrencies have made combating money laundering, cybercrime and terrorism financing significantly harder.
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Dr. bitcoin? Goldman says cryptocurrency's meteoric rise is tracking a key proxy for global growth
Bitcoin and copper prices have both been on a tear for most of this year, hitting record-highs amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Copper — sometimes dubbed Dr. Copper — has a reputation among market watchers as a barometer for the global economy.
The base metal is viewed in this way because of its broad range of end-uses — both in construction and in consumer products such as cars and consumer appliances.
Analysts at Goldman Sachs have identified a surprisingly similar trend between the world's most valuable virtual currency and a base metal with a reputation as a barometer for the global economy.
"Both institutional investors and wealthy individuals avoid cryptocurrencies due to its inherent transparency issues, while speculative retail investment causes Bitcoin to act as an excessively risky asset," analysts at Goldman Sachs said in a research note published Thursday.
"In fact, since the depths of the first lockdown Bitcoin's rise has closely tracked that of copper, a key proxy for global growth," they added.
Bitcoin prices have skyrocketed. The volatile cryptocurrency, in a move that reminded many market participants of a similar rally in 2017, climbed above $20,000 for the first time in its history on Wednesday.
It has since breached $23,000, according to crypto market data provider Coin Metrics, before paring gains on Friday to trade at around $22,899. In mid-March, during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, bitcoin traded below $5,000.
The rising popularity of bitcoin has seen it become an asset that is widely traded, much like fiat currencies.
The smelter is melting copper on July 23, 2020 in Jinhua, Zhejiang, China.
Meanwhile, copper prices breached $8,000 per metric ton on Friday, its highest level since February 2013. Three-month copper prices on the London Metal Exchange have since pared gains, trading at $7,991 during lunchtime deals.
The commodity is up more than 28% year-to-date, on pace for its fourth positive year in five.
Copper's 2020 bull run coincides with a rally among other stocks and risk assets in recent weeks, with market sentiment improving on positive news about Covid-19 vaccines.
Copper — sometimes dubbed Dr. Copper — has a reputation among market watchers as a barometer for the global economy. The base metal is viewed in this way because of its broad range of end-uses — both in construction and in consumer products such as cars and consumer appliances.
Earlier this month, Goldman Sachs said it was "highly probable" that by the first half of 2022 copper prices would test the existing record highs of $10,170 set in 2011.
'Bitcoin is the retail reflation trade'
In addition to identifying bitcoin and copper's mirrored rally in recent months, analysts at Goldman Sachs said they believed bitcoin and gold would be able to "coexist."
"Golds recent underperformance versus real rates and the dollar has left some investors concerned that Bitcoin is replacing gold as the inflation hedge of choice," the U.S. investment bank said.
"While there is some substitution occurring, we do not see Bitcoin's rising popularity as an existential threat to gold's status as the currency of last resort."
The bank added: "In our view, bitcoin is the retail reflation trade while gold is a defensive asset with long-term real capital preservation."
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I know, right? Totally breaking my stride, too.
I'm hoping to score one on eBay after the holidays. I wanted to downsize anyway for running, just not so soon, or so violently.


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Q: In R, plm regression with possible constant dummies I'm trying to create a basic plm regression. The problem is that I am trying to run thousands of different regressions (one for each county in the US) at once, so I can't customize each one.
The command I want to run looks like this:
pm1 <- plm(y~x+unemploymentRate+rnetmig+percentageAbove65+xmas+xmas1+newyears+valentines+easter+thanksgiving+mothersday+halloween+superbowl+julyfourth,index=c("upc","week_end"),data=counties[[c]])

The variables from xmas to julyfourth are all dummies, and everything else is not.
The following runs fine for all counties:
pm2 <- plm(y~x+unemploymentRate+rnetmig+percentageAbove65,index=c("upc","week_end"),data=counties[[c]])

But once I add the dummies, in that first plm, I get this error or a similar one:
series fips_state_code, xfips_county_code, xupc_ver_uc, xSTNAME, xCTYNAME, xxmas, xnewyears, xvalentines, xeaster, xsuperbowl, xjulyfourth are constants and have been removed
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'xmas' not found

I realized that this is because each of the dummies only varies in some of the counties. In this case, xmas was always 0 so it caused the regression to crash.
Is there a way to instruct plm to only include those regressors that are NOT constants, rather than receive this error? I can't manually do each regression because there are thousands. I also cannot reasonably create "if" statements for each dummy variable because likely I will soon be adding many more.
Does anyone know a command that will do this for me?
Thanks for much in advance.

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J. Bradley Chen, Brian N. Bershad. The Impact of Operating System Structure on Memory System Performance. [postscript] To appear in the proceedings of The Fourteenth Symposium on Operating System Principles.
J. Bradley Chen. Memory Behavior of an X11 Window System. [postscript] This paper also appears in the Proceedings of the Winter USENIX Conference, January 1994.
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Richard P. Draves. Page Replacement and Reference Bit Emulation in Mach. [postscript] Proceedings of the Usenix Mach Symposium, November 1991.
Alessandro Forin, David Golub, Brian Bershad. An I/O System for Mach. [postscript]. Proceedings of the Usenix Mach Symposium, November 1991.
Alessandro Forin, Joseph Barrera, Michael Young, Richard Rashid. Design, Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Distributed Shared Memory Server for Mach. [postscript] A shorter version of this paper appears in the Proceedings of the Winter USENIX Conference, January 1989.
Alessandro Forin and Gerald R. Malan. An MS-DOS File System for UNIX. [postscript] An extended version of a paper that appeared in the 1994 Winter USENIX Conference.
Michael Ginsberg, Robert V. Baron, Brian N. Bershad. Using the Mach Communication Primatives in X11. [postscript] Proceedings of the Third USENIX Mach Conference, April 1993. The paper will soon be available as technical report: CMU-CS-93-121.
David Golub, Randall Dean, Alessandro Forin, Richard Rashid. Unix as an Application Program. [postscript] This article appears in the Proceedings of the USENIX Summer Conference, June 1990.
David B. Golub, Richard P. Draves. Moving the Default Memory Manager out of the Mach Kernel. [postscript] Proceedings of the Usenix Mach Symposium, November 1991.
Paulo Guedes(Open Software Foundation), Daniel Julin. Object-Oriented Interfaces in the Mach 3.0 Multi-Server System. [postscript] Proceedings of the IEEE Second International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems, October 1991.
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Dan Julin. Network Server Design, Mach Networking Group. [postscript] September 1989.
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Ted Lehr, David L. Black. Mach Kernel Monitor(with applications using the PIE environment. [postscript] February, 1990.
Chris Maeda, Brian N. Bershad. Networking Performances for Microkernels. [postscript] Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems(WWOS-3), April 1992.
Chris Maeda, Brian N. Bershad. Protocol Service Decomposition for High-Peformance Networking. [postscript] To be presented at the 14th ACM Symposium on Operating Principles, December 1993.
Gerald Malan, Richard Rashid, David Golub, Robert Baron. DOS as a Mach 3.0 Application. [postscript] Proceedings of the Usenix Mach Symposium, November 1991.
Gerald Malan. Mach DOS Update. [postscript] Open Software Foundation Newsletter, Spring 1992.
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Bob Wheeler, Brian N. Bershad. Consistency Management for Virtually Indexed Caches. [postscript] A version of this paper appears in the Fifth Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS V), October 1992.
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Masanobu Yuhara, Brian N. Bershad, Chris Maeda, J. Eliot B. Moss. Efficient Packet Demultiplexing for Multiple Endpoints and Large Messages [postscript]. Proceedings of the 1994 Winter USENIX Conference, January 1994.
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Keith Loepere. Mach 3 Kernel Principles. [postscript] Open Software Foundation document.
Keith Loepere. Mach 3 Kernel Interface. [postscript] Open Software Foundation document.
Describes each of the Mach 3.0 kernel primitives in isolation. The format is that of a man page per kernel call. All introductory material is in "Mach 3 Kernel Principles". (355 pages).
Keith Loepere. Server Writer's Guide. [postscript] Open Software Foundation document.
Keith Loepere. Server Writer's Interface. [postscript] Open Software Foundation document.
What is Mach US. [postscript]. July 1994.
A short introduction to Mach-US. Current status included.
Mach-US: UNIX On Generic OS Object Servers J. Mark Stevenson, Daniel P. Julin. [postscript], Usenix Technical Conference, Jan. 1995.
This paper examines the Mach-US operation system, and supplies an analysis of the OS architectural research issues addressed by its implementation.
Client-Server Interactions in Multi-Server Operating Systems: The Mach-US Approach J. Mark Stevenson, Daniel P. Julin. [postscript], CMU Technical Report: CMU-CS-94-191, Sep. 1994.
This paper describes requirements placed upon client-server interaction in a multi-server operating system and how to answer those requirements. Addressed are the problems of binding maintenance in the face of: remote method invocation, forking, binding transfer, authentication, asynchronous interruption, and client crashes.
Emulation Services for Mach 3.0 Overview, Experiences and Current Status. Daniel Julin, J. Chew, J. M. Stevenson, P Guedes, R. Neves, P. Roy. [postscript], Usenix Mach Symposium, Nov. 1991.
General overview of the Mach-US: system, design, and perspective.
Informal technical overview. More technical than the Generalized Emulation Services paper.
A paper about the C++ package for dynamic (and remote) object invocations.
Object-Oriented Interfaces in the Mach 3.0 Multi-Server System. Paulo Guedes, Daniel P. Julin. [postscript], IEEE Workshop on Object Orientation in Operation Systems 1991.
Another paper about the C++ object invocation package.
A paper the describes the naming subsystem.
Reference manual for the C++ package for dynamic (and remote) object invocations.
Installation guide for the Mach multiserver.
Slides from Dan Julin's Mach Internals Talk on the Multiserver given on April 9, 1992.
Slides from Jay Lepreau and John Carter's Mach Internals Talk on the Mach 4.


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Málaga - Costa del Sol és una comarca definida per la Diputació de Málaga, que comprèn, únicament, el municipi de Màlaga i el seu terme municipal. Aquesta comarca definida per la diputació no ha de confondre's amb l'àrea metropolitana de Màlaga, definida posteriorment per la Junta d'Andalusia a través del Decret 213/2006 de 5 de desembre, i que comprèn un límit geogràfic més gran

Segons la Junta d'Andalusia
La Comarca de l'Área Metropolitana de Málaga, segons el reial decret de la junta d'Andalusia de l'ordre del BOJA del 14 de març de 2003, comprèn els municipis:
 Almogía
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 Málaga

Vegeu també
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Talking Luxury
Maria Eugenia Giron, Prof. of Entrepreneurship in luxury & creative business talks about the luxury industry and the Japanese concept of beuty "Wabi Sabi".
There's a Japanese proverb that says that the person who makes poor quality goods is worse than a thief, because he makes things that neither last nor provide true satisfaction, while a thief at least redistributes wealth in society. Well, when it comes to quality Prof. María Eugenia Girón knows everything there is to know.
Here she speaks about luxury and perfection, while touching on the ancient and intriguing Japanese Wabi Sabi concept of beauty, which is about seeking beauty in the imperfections found in all objects. As you might know, the aesthetic values of Wabi Sabi have inspired a great many aspects of Japanese culture, including the tea ceremony, flower arranging, haiku, garden design, and noh theater.
Prof. Girón has many sides and talents. She holds a degree in industrial engineering and is a Harvard MBA graduate. She has also studied art, worked as CEO of Carrera & Carrera, is a member of a large number of boards, including that of Oceana, and also she is the Executive Director of the Premium & Prestige Business Observatory etc. etc. But most of all she is just a really nice person. What else can I say?
P.S. Prof. Girón is the author of the book "Inside Luxury".


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BBC Trending
Singing Los Angeles homeless woman stuns social media
By Andree Massiah
duration 3 October 2019
media captionEmily Zamourka singing Puccini's O Mio Babbino Caro. Credit: @LAPDHQ
When a Los Angeles police officer stopped to film a homeless woman singing operatically in a subway, little did they know that the video would go viral.
Emily Zamourka is seen in the video singing Puccini's O Mio Babbino Caro.
The Los Angeles Police Department posted the video on its Twitter account where it has been viewed a million times.
The dulcet tones of the 52-year-old have also captured the hearts of many.
One user tweeted: "Her voice is amazing! I hope for her a great life. Thank you to the fantastic police officer who recognized the beauty in her voice and shared it on social media. This story just made my day!"
Another user tweeted she had seen her on the streets before: "I had notice[d] this lady several times while riding Los Angeles Metro train and seeing her feeding birds on the streets. Never in a million years I would [have imagined] she has such beautiful voice."
But some people on social media had questioned whether Ms Zamourka was homeless because of her neat appearance. One person tweeted: "Her bags and clothing are spotless and her hair is clean. It looks like she went shopping and is lugging it back home in a cart."
However, a spokesman for Los Angeles City Council Branimir Kvartuc said that she had been homeless for three years.
Recording contract
Ms Zamourka told the Los Angeles Times that she moved to the US when she was 24, from Russia, where she learned to play the violin and piano, as well as to sing by mimicking opera performers on television.
The US celebrity website TMZ has reported that she has been offered a recording contract by a Grammy-nominated music producer.
But the transition to possible overnight stardom may not be an easy one.
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A number of crowdfunding pages have emerged to help Ms Zamourka find housing, and to replace a violin she used to play on the streets to earn money that was stolen and destroyed.
One page was started by a viewer who had seen her story on local news and "felt inspired to help".
Another fundraiser said he wanted "to help Emily because unlike so many people out there she doesn't need a hand out, she needs a hand up."
The GoFundMe pages have raised thousands of dollars and have been backed by Los Angeles City Council.
City councillor Joe Buscaino has offered to pay Ms Zamourka to perform this weekend at the opening of Little Italy in San Pedro to celebrate Italian heritage.
Bird lover
Council's spokesman, Branimir Kvartuc, said: "We saw the video and as she was singing in Italian we thought it would be appropriate for her to sing for us and so we thought, let's give her a job.
"By Monday morning I found her and spoke to her and offered her the gig and she excitedly accepted."
But Mr Kvartuc is worried that she might not take up the offers of help.
"We have offered her a couple of nights in a hotel and an Airbnb but we found out that she looks after birds and so she may want a place where she can keep them," he said.
"She has been on the streets for a few years so it may take a while for her to adjust.
He said there was a "homelessness crisis" in LA at the moment. "We are trying to house people, but there is a gross deficiency of housing available," he added.
"Some people think that the homeless are just drug-takers or a bunch of losers, but we want to change the narrative of what a homeless person is."
They could have hidden talents just like Emily Zamourka.
As one Twitter user put it: "Everyone has a story... this woman does too. I don't know why she's been homeless all these years, but she's a human being... that's all that matters."
Homelessness in the United States


Jeremiah Burroughs had another good word for me on "murmuring" and open rebellion, not necessarily 2 sins that I put together.
Complaining and murmuring can be such a subtle heart issue even when we're actively voicing it and we definitely don't put discontentment in the category of rebellion but that is exactly what Burroughs calls us out on referencing Numbers 16 and 17.
The battle to be content in God and in what He has for us is no easy one but we should be well warned against where discontentment leads.
Many of you may say, I never thought that I was a rebel against God before, I thought that I had many infirmities, but now I see the Scripture speaks of sin in a different way than men do, the Scripture makes men, though only murmurers, to be rebels against God. Oh, this rebellious heart that I have against the Lord, which has manifested itself in this way of murmuring against the Lord!


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https://apnews.com/article/nevada-kidnapping-vermont-burlington-edfd70ec9f55dad38f80cfbf29060a64
Suspect pleads guilty in 2018 Vermont murder-for-hire case
By WILSON RINGJuly 22, 2022 GMT
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A 42-year-old Nevada man pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Burlington for his role in helping arrange the kidnapping and murder of a Vermont man stemming from a financial dispute.
Aron Lee Ethridge is one of four men who have been charged in the kidnapping of Gregory Davis from his Danville home Jan. 6, 2018. Davis was found shot to death in a snowbank the next day.
As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors and Ethridge's defense attorney agreed to recommend a prison sentence of 27 years or less. The actual sentence, scheduled for December, will be up to the judge. Ethridge could be sentenced to life in prison.
Prosecutors say Ethridge arranged for Jerry Banks, 34, of Fort Garland, Colorado, to kidnap and then kill Davis. Banks allegedly called Ethridge the day after the kidnapping to inform him that Davis had been successfully kidnapped and killed.
Banks has only been charged with kidnapping, but prosecutors allege he killed Davis. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held pending trial.
In court Friday, Ethridge, dressed in a black and white prison jumpsuit, pleaded to two charges in the death of Davis, that he arranged for Banks to travel to Vermont to kill Davis and that he conspired with others to arrange for the killing of Davis.
During the 40-minute hearing, Ethridge answered a series of questions from U.S. District Court Chief Judge Geoffrey Crawford by saying "yes, sir" or "no, sir." When asked for his plea to the two charges against him, Ethridge answered "guilty."
Prosecutors allege that Ethridge served as a middleman between Banks, Berk Eratay, 35, of Las Vegas, and Serhat Gumrukcu, 39, of Los Angeles, who were arrested in May on charges of conspiring to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of the murder-for-hire that resulted in the death of Davis.
Prosecutors say Davis had been threatening to go to the FBI with information that Gumrukcu, the co-founder of a Los Angeles-based biotechnology company, was defrauding Davis in a multimillion-dollar oil deal that Gumrukcu and his brother had entered into with Davis in 2015.
Eratay and Gumrukcu are both in custody pending their transfer to Vermont, where they will answer the charges after they arrive. It's unclear when they will arrive in Vermont.
Gumrukcu's Vermont attorney, David Kirby, was in court Friday. He declined to answer questions about the case.
Eratay paid Ethridge more than $110,000, some of which was paid to Banks. After Davis' death, Eratay allegedly provided Ethridge with an additional payment in bitcoin.


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Q: Would a supermassive black hole accretion disk really vaporize solid objects? Both the movie Interstellar and Greg Egan's Incandescence involve worlds deep inside accretion disks of large holes, kept at a comfortable temperature. Is this (remotely) realistic?
Although powerful and hot, the gas density in disks is very low and the size is large, so the radiant power in $\text{w/m}^2$ may not be that high.
The answer may depend on the "experimental setup":
Test cases:

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*A small object (like a 1m sized stone) is inside the disk orbiting with it. It orbits close to the hole, perhaps 4 radii away (as in the stories).

*The stone ploughs through the disk on an eccentric orbit at a relativistic speed, getting additional heating from the impact with the disk gas.

Conditions:

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*The Milky Way central black hole disk under normal conditions.

*The Milky Way black hole during a "flare up" event.

*A powerful quasar.

Which, if any of these, are survivable?


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Q: Document not reading from xml source in Chrome I'm having an issue reading the below XML document in Chrome - nothing seems to turn up but it works perfectly fine in Firefox. Is it a browser compatibility issue?

    <title>XML</title>

Here is the xml data

Here are the contents of cohort.xml:
<cohort>
<student>
<name>Bob</name>
<module>COA122</module>
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</student>
<student>
<name>Alice</name>
<module>COB250</module>
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<name>Kate</name>
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I get this error when I run it from my hard drive. The entire page doesn't load - it only works when I put it on a web server:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///C:/Users/methuselah/Desktop/cohort/cohort.xml. Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

A: This is a known issue in Chrome:  http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40787
If this is just for testing and development, there is a Chrome command line flag you can use to work around this: --allow-file-access-from-files.  I just tested it and it makes your pages work locally in Chrome for me.
Windows:  chrome.exe --allow-file-access-from-files
Mac: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome  --allow-file-access-from-files
Linux: Linux users don't need instructions for how to get things working from the command-line!  ;-)


In a stunning yet totally precedented case of Déjà vu, Jamaica's opposition, People's National Party(PNP) have once again refused to support proactive measures taken by the Government to stem the Island's violent crime wave and loss of life.
What makes this more consequential is the fact that they decided to pull support from the measure right before the Christmas season.
Even though the authorization does not expire until January 31, 2019, the signal to the Island's criminals could not be more clear.
Opposition leader Peter Phillips gives the Jamaican people the middle fingers.
In seeking to straddle the fence by placating the criminal world while at the same time pretending to be a responsible political party, Opposition leader Peter Phillips said the following.
I find the use of the term [indiscriminate] slanderous, hyperbolic, inflammatory, ignorant, incendiary and grossly uninformed.
Let me be clear the PNP does not care about the officers in the field, neither does the party leadership care about the fact that Jamaicans are dying in alarming numbers and the SOE is intended to help stop the bleeding.
They did the very same thing in 2010 and they were not punished for it.
The PNP wants an issue on which to contest the next national elections, the economy is doing pretty good, unemployment is down and there are reports that as a result of the SOE and ZOSO initiated by the Government along with other initiatives the nation is moving in the right direction.
These facts are not lost on Peter Phillips and the bunch of PNP thugs who double as parliamentarians.
A simple cost-benefit analysis shows that the inconveniences to a few people, who are caught up in a dragnet, (though undesirable ) are minuscule when compared to the fewer deaths which result from the SOE's presence in the affected communities.
And most importantly the people in the area are begging the Police officers and soldiers not to leave.
So the irrefutable conclusion is that the party wants dead bodies to run on politically, and they are going to get those bodies one way or the other.
This party which did not take long to morph into a force antithetical to the good of Jamaica has been responsible for the degradation of the Jamaican culture for decades now.
A total destruction of the Island's economy in the 1970s and evisceration of the middle -class has been the party's claim to fame. The PNP has been the only political party to suspend the rights of citizens as it jailed all of the major players and politicians in the then opposition Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) during the '70s.
Regardless of the sanitizing process being undertaken in leftist academic circles and by the myriad interest groups on behalf of the party, nothing has been able to explain or wash away the stench of the many scandals of theft, graft, and unabashed corruption the party has engaged in since it's inception.
The fact that the PNP has decided to play politics once again with people's lives means that they will be made to own the violence now.
If they decided that this is the strategy on which they want to hang their hats for the next general elections, fine.
But we will do everything in our power to make sure they own the results.
For too long this party has played fast and loose with the lives of the police and the nation for political gain.
We will make sure that people are reminded of their strategy.


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Winchester City Council announces new Mayor
by Natalie Hunt | May 23, 2022 | Champions - News
Councillor Derek Green has officially become the 823rd Mayor of Winchester, having been appointed at Guildhall Winchester in a Mayor Making ceremony.
Cllr Green succeeds Cllr Vivian Achwal, and will work alongside the new Deputy Mayor of Winchester, Councillor Angela Clear, ward member for Southwick and Wickham. Cllr Clear was previously Mayor of Winchester in 2015-2016.
As the new Mayor of Winchester, Cllr Green will be supported by his wife, who becomes the Mayoress, Mrs Sheila Green. He will support three charities as part of his efforts to promote the work of The Mayor of Winchester's Charities, Trinity Winchester, The British Heart Foundation and Winchester Hospice.
Cllr Green, who serves St Luke's ward, said: "Being elected as Mayor of Winchester is a great honour, and I am looking forward to embracing the year ahead, supporting local businesses, events, as well as pushing forward with my charity initiatives."
The Mayoralty of Winchester dates back to 1200, making it the second oldest in England. The event was the 823rd Mayor Making and Annual General Meeting of Winchester City Council, and its guest list included military dignitaries from Worthy Down and Sir John Moore Barracks, the High Steward of Winchester, Lady Mary Fagan LG DCVO and the Honorary Recorder of Winchester, Her Honour Judge Angela Morris. Guests in attendance were entertained by the Waynflete Singers.


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Steve Lawson sworn in as new sheriff
By AUTUMN HUGHES
The Fine Arts Center at Bradley Central High School was filled nearly to capacity on Saturday as close to 600 people gathered to witness Steve Lawson be sworn in as Bradley County's sheriff.
CONNIE LAWSON, left, watches with pride as her husband, Steve Lawson, center, takes office as the sheriff of Bradley County.
JAMES SEARS, lead pastor at Mount Olive Ministries, serves as master of ceremonies and begins the Bradley County Sheriff's Office wwearing-In Ceremony on Saturday at the Bradley Central High School Fine Arts Center.
THE BCSO SWEARING-IN Ceremony was a packed-house event on Saturday.
PASTOR GARY SEARS offers some welcoming remarks at the BCSO Swearing-In Ceremony.
THIS LITTLE GIRL listens attentively with Sheriff's Deputy Eduardo Choate during the BCSO Swearing-In Ceremony on Saturday.
U.S. REP. CHUCK FLEISCHMANN speaks about the importance of the role of an officer in today's society.
CLEVELAND MAYOR TOM ROWLAND speaks about the importance of the office that Steve Lawson is taking on in becoming the newly sworn-in sheriff of Bradley County. Lawson's father, the late Lamar Lawson, also served as sheriff of Bradley County from 1974-1980.
GUEST SPEAKER AND FORMER U.S. Representative Zach Wamp speaks at the BCSO Swearing-In Ceremony on Saturday.
DURING FORMER U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp's speech, an unidentified medical emergency was taking place and a doctor was summoned outside the auditorium. Wamp, right, and Pastor Gary Sears lead the gathering in a word of prayer in the middle of the ceremony.
JUDGE MIKE SHARP, right, administers the Oath of Sheriff to Steve Lawson, center, at Saturday's swearing-in ceremony while Lawson's family watches on. Watching from behind and pictured from left are speakers from the event Pastor Kelvin Page, Duane Gilbert and Mayor Tom Rowland.
WITH SELECT FAMILY MEMBERS on stage as support, Sheriff Lawson's newly appointed Command Staff takes the Oath of Deputy Sheriff administered by Judge Andrew Freiberg.
BRADLEY COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT staff and officers in attendance take the Oath of Deputy Sheriff as administered by Judge Larry Puckett at Saturday's BCSO Swearing-In Ceremony.
SIX OF THE SEVEN Bradley County Constables take the Oath of Office administered by Judge Larry Puckett at Saturday's BCSO Swearing-In Ceremony.
NEWLY SWORN-IN Sheriff Steve Lawson speaks to the crowd, and more importantly, his officers about the importance of gaining his staff's respect through actions. For example, he mentioned specifically that he had already gained donations to equip three to four of eight patrol cars with cameras that hadn't previously had them.
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Steve Lawson was sworn in Saturday morning as Bradley County's sheriff.
The Fine Arts Center at Bradley Central High School was filled nearly to capacity as close to 600 people gathered to witness the swearing-in ceremony.
The printed program for the event paid tribute to Lawson with his photo on the front cover, while his father, the late Lamar Lawson, was pictured on the back cover. Lamar Lawson served as Bradley County's sheriff from 1974 to 1980.
Pastor James Sears, lead pastor of Mount Olive Ministries, served as master of ceremonies. Throughout the event, music was presented by Michelle Augustine and Charity Baggett of Mount Olive Ministries. Isaac Augustine led the Pledge of Allegiance.
"This is a special day, a special time, Steve, in your life," said Pastor Gary Sears of Mount Olive Ministries. He added Lawson's journey to public office has been a long one "but you have arrived."
Sears extended thanks from Lawson to all those who supported him in his campaign. Sears noted he has watched Lawson's faithfulness and the faithfulness of his supporters, as well as Lawson's love and desire to see things better for Bradley County.
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann was next to speak, congratulating Lawson "on a race well run" and "I pledge my steadfast support to you." Fleischmann also said he "grew up in an America' where he was taught to show law enforcement officers respect and kindness.
"Some in America have lost their way in that regard," Fleischmann said, but added in Bradley County "we cherish and respect our law enforcement."
Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland also spoke during the ceremony, noting his long association with Lawson and with Lawson's father. Rowland said most of those present for the ceremony probably never met Lamar Lawson, but he harkened back to "old western days" when there were "lawmen."
"Sheriff Lawson was a lawman," Rowland said. "Lamar Lawson set the pace with what's happening today with Steve. You've got some big shoes to fill, Steve. I have all the confidence in the world in you."
Rowland noted if Lawson is "half the sheriff your dad was" he would do a fine job. "I wish you godspeed; the best of luck," Rowland said.
During the ceremony, Lawson presented Rowland with the Honorary Deputy Sheriff For Life Award, saying he wanted to honor Rowland for all he has done over the years to make the community a safe place to live and work.
Former U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp also offered remarks, saying he is honored to be invited to participate in the ceremony and noted seeing the audience "reminds me of the goodness of Cleveland and Bradley County." It is "a good and decent place with these amazing people."
There was a brief interruption during the ceremony when a doctor was called for and a BCSO deputy and, later, a Tennessee Highway Patrolman came in to ask for an audience member to come with them. As the crowd began to murmur with concern, Wamp asked Gary Sears to return to the podium and say a prayer regarding the unknown situation.
Wamp then continued his comments, discussing the importance of restoring confidence in government, pointing to Rowland as an example of a leader "who restores our confidence."
"It takes integrity. It takes virtue. It takes honor. It takes focus," he said. "This is a new day."
Following the singing of the hymn "In Christ Alone," Lawson was presented his certificate of election by Bradley County Election Commissioner Duane Gilbert.
"This is as official as it gets, Sheriff," Gilbert said.
Judge Mike Sharp administered the Oath of Sheriff, noting it is a "great honor and privilege" and committed to pray for Lawson every day.
Looking out over the audience, Lawson told his deputies, "I want you to know you have my respect" and "we start on Day One."
Lawson said he has worked for sheriffs over the years and believes in communication, noting he plans to let his command staff run their divisions, "but I'll always be an ear for you."
"I respect each of you. I will always respect you. I want you to respect each other," Lawson said. "We're working together. I believe in you and I want to win your respect."
Lawson added he campaigned on leading by example and that's what he plans to do. "Here we go, and I can't wait!"
Criminal Court Judge Andrew Freiberg administered the Oath of Deputy Sheriff to Lawson's Command Staff:
• Cassandra Stone – Director of Finance
• Lewis Jones – Director of Administration
• Gabe Thomas – Captain of Support Services Division
• Alan Walsh – Captain of Corrections Division
• Bill Dyer – Captain of Judicial Services Division
• John Stone – Captain of Criminal Investigation Division
• Jon Collins – Captain of Patrol Division
• Brian Smith – Chief Deputy
Circuit Court Judge Larry Puckett administered both the Oath of Deputy Sheriff to BCSO officers in attendance and the Oath of Office to Bradley County constables in attendance at the ceremony.
A reception followed in the school cafeteria.


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When you think of archaeology, what's the image that comes to your mind? Geeky researchers analyzing artifacts in museums' storage rooms or painstakingly excavating archaeological sites at the other end of the world? Or adventurous Indiana Jones types risking their life to obtain the rare art treasures of humanity?
The documentary "Berlin's Treasure Trove — The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation," initiated and co-produced by Deutsche Welle, shows that the reality of an archaeologist includes a bit of both these roles.
The title, "Berlin's Treasure Trove," is a well chosen one, as the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation maintains one of the world's largest collections. It includes more than five million objects in 19 museums, including the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery, top picture) and the Pergamon Museum.
"We can learn a lot about ourselves through museums, by understanding how and where our culture developed — in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe," said DW director Peter Limbourg on Tuesday evening at the premiere of the film in Berlin.
The foundation's exhibits range from artifacts of the Stone Age to contemporary art, which can be seen at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum.
The State Library, also managed by the foundation, is one of the largest in the world.
The foundation is also responsible for different archives and research institutes. In 2017, it had a budget of around €330 million (nearly $400 million).
Hermann Parzinger, president of the foundation, praised the film, pointing out that "It is important to provide insight into our work and to demonstrate that what happens in museums is tightly connected to current research."
For the documentary, director Dag Freyer accompanied people behind the scenes, watching specialists work in museums and traveling with archaeologists to China and with a curator to Cameroon.
The film quickly reveals these researchers' passion for their work. Dry historical facts are decrypted by connecting their origins to present-day contexts.
How precise were German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's 19th-century records? Who first came up with the idea to write something down? Those are some of the questions the film answers.
Freyer found the idea of exploring the history of humanity through museum exhibits "sympathetically megalomaniac."
"We reflected on the questions that have always preoccupied humanity, whether philosophical ones or every-day concerns: Should we fear death? Do I look good today? How can we use our resources in a sustainable way?" explained the filmmaker.
Berlin's treasure trove is currently undergoing major changes with the upcoming Humboldt Forum museum in the Berlin City Palace, which is slated to open at the end of 2019.
Some museums are already preparing the relocation of their exhibits. While documenting the move, film director Freyer also discussed with different protagonists the provenance of these artifacts: How did Germany use its own power during the colonial era to enrich its collections — and how should the country deal with them today?
The debate as to whether the ownership of all objects is lawful will continue when the Humboldt Forum opens its doors.
Freyer also explored the debate surrounding the Royal Throne from Bamum while filming in Cameroon. "Such exhibits are always described as problematic, but they are actually powerful objects, as they provide an opportunity to create contacts with people from their countries of origin today. It is a great opportunity, as museums aim to act upon this issue," the filmmaker said.
Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation President Hermann Parzinger said he felt strongly about establishing cultural exchanges with the places of origin of the disputed objects: "We must explore how those objects landed into the collections. If they got into our museums by force, we should discuss their return."
When exhibits from the colonial era are put on display, the societies of origin should also be involved in the exhibition and present their views, "at the Humboldt Forum we will attach great importance to this," Parzinger added.
DW director Peter Limbourg is looking forward to the opening of Berlin's Humboldt Forum museum. "This will stimulate further reporting in our target regions," he said. While he describes the current process of determining the origin of cultural goods as an emotional debate on the one hand, "on the other hand it also leads to important cultural exchanges."
The film does feature an Indiana Jones moment, when the president of the foundation, Hermann Parzinger, personally dives into the Tollense River in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania right by the site of Europe's oldest known battlefield to search for arrowheads from the Bronze Age. That wasn't however an everyday experience for Parzinger, as he admitted: "Diving is a hobby for me, but in warmer climates while on holiday — not in the freezing Tollense,"
"Berlin's Treasure Trove — The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation," co-produced by DW, rbb and Arte, celebrated its premiere in Berlin on Tuesday May 15 and will be screened in different cinemas throughout Germany starting May 17. The documentary will also air later on television.


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The UNESCO World Heritage List. It has existed for decades. It contains nearly 1000 sites and areas. It has a pretty snazzy (and useful) iphone ap. I've worked full-time at a World Heritage Site and have visited something like 100 of them. Consciously (nerd). Yet the World Heritage List remains a sort of mystery to me. Having never been on the inside of World Heritage List discussions or politics (only on the outside, reading records and evaluations, etc.), I still find that I don't fully understand the sway of the thing.
Hancock Rockin It for our Heritage
Recently it was announced that the United States was going to have to defund UNESCO due to a legal chain reaction started by UNESCO admitting Palestine as a recognized state party. To quote the Washington Post there was "a legal requirement to cut U.S. funds to any U.N. agency that recognizes a Palestinian state". That means a loss of $80 million a year to UNESCO. My first thought when I heard that was "that is insane" (re: the US automatic requirement to defund). My second thought was "that is brilliant" (re: Palestine's decision to go the UNESCO recognition route first. A sneaky and nifty way to force hands.) There was so much chatter about this issue, and it happened right when I was submitting my dissertation, that I lost track of it. I can say that Herbie Hancock wrote a pretty nice op ed in support of the US funding UNESCO. That is Herbie Hancock, creator of such intangible pieces of our heritage as "Rock It". You better believe I linked you to the 9 minute live version with extended scratch intro.
But what does having World Heritage List inscription abilities really mean? Word on the street is that Palestine is going to be trying to list Bethlehem which, if true, seems like another brilliant move. Sure Bethlehem is a complicated, multi-period area, but it is a site that feels Christian-y. Smart. But what is next? Lets be honest, UNESCO is just a stepping stone for Palestine.
So what is the appeal? It sounds like being on the World Heritage list is a decent amount of work and there is the potential to be moved to the World Heritage in Danger list or to be taken off the list entirely. Getting put on the danger list is seen as shameful. Being de-listed is seen as semi-devistating. Yet take Perú as an example. The site of Chan Chan has, apparently, been on the World Heritage in Danger list since it was inscribed in 1986! Why? Because Chan Chan is made almost entirely out of adobe and, you know, slowly melts. Machu Picchu was almost put on the Danger list this year, but in the end it wasn't for some reason. And that is an interesting point: there is almost an unwritten, pre-Danger List list and Machu Picchu is on it. Will Machu Picchu be "dangered" this year? Only time will tell.
Another site that has been on the unwritten pre-Danger list for a few years now is the site I work at: the glorious and wonderfully controversial site of Tiwanakau, Bolivia. For as complete a record as I could scrape together of its current woes, see Ch. 7 of the now approved dissertation. Since mid 2009 we've heard it all: it is being defunded; it is being de-listed; it is being put on the Danger List; all or any of those will happen if x, y or z doesn't happen; all or any of those will happen if x, y, or z DOES happen. I've taken a two month break from reading the Bolivian papers on this issue, but a peek two days ago shows that everything is in exactly the same place: the museum is falling apart, everyone is mad at everyone else, and if something doesn't happen, UNESCO is going to act.
Elbe Valley looking impossible!
The cynic in me wants to point out that things have been weird at the site since 2005 and I have the photos to prove it: why did it take until 2009 for UNESCO to show up? And this gets me back to the main thought of this post: what does it really mean to be taken off the UNESCO World Heritage List? This is such a rare occurrence and only two out of nearly 1000 sites have ever been delisted… it just happens that I have been to one of the two before the delisting: The Dresden Elbe Valley. The other delisted site, the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in Oman, doesn't really count since the government of Oman wanted the site delisted and worked towards it. Forget that. Lets talk about Dresden.
The last time I saw the Elbe Valley was in 2006 and the Elbe was showing its stuff, flooding like mad as my train sped from the Czech Republic into the Dresden train station (which, itself, had been ravaged by flooding a bit before). It was snowy and lovely and it was delisted because a bridge was built. Bridge up, Dresden off. I like that "DRESDEN ELBE VALLEY" is actually crossed off on the UNESCO website. European newspapers and some German surveys portrayed this as totally lame and embarrassing but there you go. It happened. Are any fewer people going to Dresden? Has anything changed? I really don't know.
Seville's Pelli Tower, you decide.
News is that another European UNESCO site, old Seville, might be stricken from the list. If a tower is built, UNESCO might act. But note how the article talks about it: Seville sites might be axed from the list, might go on the In Danger list or, maybe, nothing at all will happen. They are currently sitting squarely in the pre-Danger unwritten list like Tiwanaku. Yet as we saw with Dresden, they might just take Seville off. If so, what does that mean for Seville? I would really like to know.
This doesn't cause a site to be delisted.
t is hard to judge based off of one delisting, but I wonder if UNESCO is more apt to axe a European site than a site in the developing world. They have always faced a lot of flack for what most people see as a Western bias in their list. Bamiyan was never delisted, even after the Buddhas were 'sploded by the Taliban. To quote a 2011 assessment of Bamiyan:
"The heritage resources in Bamiyan Valley have suffered from various disasters and some parts are in a fragile state. A major loss to the integrity of the site was the destruction of the large Buddha statues in 2001. However, a significant proportion of all the attributes that express the Outstanding Universal Value of the site, such as Buddhist and Islamic architectural forms and their setting in the Bamiyan landscape, remain intact at all 8 sites within the boundaries, including the vast Buddhist monastery in the Bamiyan Cliffs which contained the two colossal sculptures of the Buddha."
Yet a bridge and a tower could cause a European site to be delisted. I'm not saying that is wrong, I am just saying.
So there it is folks, just some musings. I would love to read a post de-listing report out of Dresden if anyone knows of one not in German (I can do English or French).
Categories: Imported, Post Tags: Afghanistan, Germany, Palistine, Spain, UNESCO
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