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Naomh Eanna Backers Crowdfunding Micro Brewery As First Step In Refurbishment
#NaomhÉanna - Afloat.ie previously reported that restoration of the former Aran Islands ferry Naomh Éanna required solid financial backing before a number of ambitious future plans for the boat could proceed.
Now campaigners for the historic vessel have turned to the internet to seek funding for the first step of their rejigged refurbishment plan – now starting with the proposed micro brewery.
Organisers believe that setting up the brewery first – with a funding target of €3,000 for the necessary equipment and licences – will provide the revenue stream needed to get further restoration works in motion, as well as "show investors and banks that we are actually doing something", as the project's IndieGoGo page explains.
It's hoped that the micro brewery will operate from the Naomh Éanna at its Grand Canal Dock berth – and tours of the ship and the proposed brewing facilities are among the perks available for contributors to the crowdfunding campaign, which has 55 days left to go as of Wednesday 20 May.
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NI Minister Greenlights Ulster Canal Restoration
#InlandWaterways - NI Environment Minister Alex Attwood has finally announced planning permission to restore part of the historic Ulster Canal that has not been used since 1929.
The original Ulster Canal was completed in 1841 and linked the Erne System to Lough Neagh with a 93km navigation route. It was last used for trading boats in 1929 and officially closed two years later.
The application is to restore 14km of the navigational route in total - 5.5km or river navigation from Quivvy Lough to Gortnacarrow and 8.5km of canal from Gortnacarrow to Clones.
This will involve construction of the existing canal route and tow paths for public access on both banks. New road bridges are to be constructed at Derrykerrib, Wattle Bridge, Gortnacarrow and Clonfad/Munilly with three farm accommodation bridges.
The plan is to restore two existing canal bridges and a double lock at Gortnacarrow that will facilitate a rise from the River Finn to the canal section. A mooring of 170m with 32 car parking spaces and public toilets will be provided at Gortnacarrow. A picnic area and a further 20 parking spaces will be provided at the new bridge at Clonfad/Munilly.
Minister Attwood said: "The Ulster Canal restoration project has been a key heritage and tourist attraction for a long time, which has gathered momentum since the late 90s. Today is a turning point for the project. I hope the Planners' green light means the project can accelerate.
"This is an example of cross-border initiatives working and working well. It follows from my announcement to give planning permission to the bridge at Narrow Water, linking Warrenpoint and Omeath.
"This cross-border project will be a boost for the people of Fermanagh, Cavan and Monaghan. It will re-open a historic waterway that has not been used for over 80 years and offers huge opportunities for regeneration and leisure-related activities for the entire region."
Four accompanying applications for Listed Building Consent to carry out works to repair and restore three listed bridges and works to the Clones Aqueduct have also been approved.
Northern Ireland's Department of the Environment consulted Fermanagh District Council on its opinion to approve this application on 18 April 2013.
Monaghan County Council and Clones Town Council have signalled that planning approval should be granted for the Repubic side of the canal - although moves have been slow on that front.
Despite confirmation from Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan in April 2012 that the "main thrust" of waterways refurbishment is still focused on the reopening of the Ulster Canal, no significant moves have been made in the year since that statement, which came some months after a U-turn in Government funding for such projects.
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Minister Has Little to Report on Ulster Canal Project
#INLAND WATERWAYS - Three months on from Minister Jimmy Deenihan's statement on the Ulster Canal regeneration project, and there is little to update on its progress.
As reported on Afloat.ie last December, the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht replied to a written question from Cork East Sinn Féin deputy Sandra McLennan that the project is "progressing'"despite a U-turn on Government funding, and confirmed that Waterways Ireland would solely fund the scheme from its annual allocations.
However, the minister's latest response - to a question from Cavan-Monaghan Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin requesting an update on the project's progress - is almost identical to his previous statement.
One small difference is an acknowledgement that Cavan County Council has granted planning permission for the project, which involves restoration of the canal between Clones in Co Monaghan and Upper Lough Erne.
Minister Deenihan also stated that his department is "finalising terms of reference" for the proposed inter-agency group that would examine ways to further the project, but gave no timeframe as to when this group would be established.
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Minister Opens White River Fishery Enhancement Project
#ANGLING - Minister of State Fergus O'Dowd was on hand at the opening of the White River enhancement project in Dunleer, Co Louth earlier this month.
The €32,000 project was funded by the Louth Leader Partnership, with works were carried out by the Dee and Glyde Fishing Development Association and the Dundalk district staff of Inland Fisheries Ireland.
The White River, a tributary of the River Dee, is considered hugely important as a spawning and nursery area, and it has already seen significant improvements in the levels of juvenile salmon and trout.
Instream enhancement works began in 2006, supervised by Inland Fisheries Ireland, and included the introduction of new gravel, weirs, deflectors and spawning beds which have helped the White River to achieve its potential in terms of fish numbers.
Speaking at the launch, Inland Fisheries Ireland CEO Dr Ciaran Byrne said: "The work that I have seen on the river is fantastic and a credit to all involved."
IFI assistant inspector in Dundalk, Ronan O'Brien, said project was based on restoring the natural features of the river.
He added that the programme was a great recognition of the work carried out by the Dee and Glyde Fishing Association, and that it had strengthened links with local business and development groups and could be used as a template for other projects in the area.
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First Phase of Thomastown River Project Complete
#INLAND WATERWAYS - The first phase of a project to restore the Thomastown river was launched at the weekend with the opening of a new weir, the Kilkenny People reports.
Fundraising efforts by the Thomastown Community River Trust have already led to the regeneration of the riverbank from the town up to Thomastown Viaduct.
The new causeway also forms part of a planned trail from Bennettsbridge to Inistioge.
The trust's project was "focused on using environmentally friendly and sustainable engineering", working in partnership "with a diverse range of groups from walkers to kayakers and anglers".
Work is already underway on the second phase that aims to see the restoration of the weir, which collapsed in 2008, as well as the sluice and mill wheel, in an effort to re-establish the swimming pond and fish pass.
The Kilkenny People has more on the story HERE.
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Future of Graving Docks in Limbo as Plot 8 is Transferred to NAMA
#INLAND WATERWAYS - The site of the former graving docks at Grand Canal Dock has been transferred to NAMA in a deal which frees the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) from a €29 million plus bank guarantee.
Plot 8 at Sir John Rogerson's Quay is one of a suite of nine sites that have been transferred to the Government's 'bad bank' in a negotiated loan settlement that extricates the Docklands body from loan guarantees given by banks that financed the "disastrous" Dublin Glass Bottle site deal in 2006.
Sites handed over in the deal include the former 'U2 Tower' and the historic BJ Marine premises on the banks of the Liffey, as well as the aforementioned Dublin Glass Bottle site.
The Dublin branch of the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland (IWAI) had been hoping to embark on a restoration of the graving docks at Plot 8 to their former working order (a detailed history of the docks and restoration plans is available HERE).
This project had been given the blessing of the DDDA and Waterways Ireland, which owns the freehold lease on the site, with a view to its restoration helping to fund the Ulster Canal scheme.
However with the transfer of the DDDA's interest in the site to NAMA, the authority has now withdrawn permission for the IWAI to do any restoration work, leaving the future of the graving docks in limbo.
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Fisheries Funding for Salmon Recovery Projects
Some 17 projects have been approved for funding under the Salmon Conservation Fund, The Irish Times reports.
The pilot scheme by Inland Fisheries Ireland is designed to help angling clubs and fishery owners restore salmon stocks in Ireland's rivers.
The successful applicants across 11 counties will receive a share from more than €120,000 derived from salmon licence-holder contributions.
Accepted projects include spawning enhancement, bank protection, fish passage and habitat improvement. Priority was given to rivers below conservation limits.
The Irish Times has more on the story HERE.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0725/1224301300769.html
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Here you can read the most intriguing change management articles I noticed this week. They can all expand your knowledge about this sphere and contribute to your confidence when approaching a change, and will strengthen your belief in the need of change. So many people before me have quoted Heraclitus, the great Greek philosopher, who said that "The only thing that is constant is change". I believe that if you weren't convinced in this saying until now, these 5 articles can sure prove Heraclitus was right.
Managing a change goes hand in hand with problems, and quite a few. If your organization's culture is negative and non-productive, people will keep mentioning the difficulties in each meeting, instead of seeking for solutions. This article will help you identify whether your company's culture is toxic, and if so, you can decide on your next move in accordance to it.
Organizations can't stay relevant in the marketplace unless they can make change work. The sad reality is that according to studies, the majority of change processes fail. Randy Pennington, the author, claims that the most common reason for the failure of many change processes is that they are "over managed and under-led". In this text, he presents us with 4 ways to handle organizational changes better.
In their nature and as oppose to big companies, Startups are dynamic and flexible. That is why change is a lot more frequent throughout the lifecycle of a startup. Preparing adequately for change will ensure that the transition is smoother and more likely to stick. This article recommends key ways to get your company and employees primed for change.
Change management is a dynamic sphere, and as it encourages change – it should be committed to changes as well. Organizations today must simultaneously deliver rapid results and sustainable growth in an increasingly competitive environment and this is where the digital change tools come in. Digitizing five areas in particular in your company can help make internal change efforts more effective and enduring. The first priority is to provide In-Work performance support and feedback.
If you already gained some experience in managing changes in big or small companies, this is the article for you. Overall, the main goal of change management is to encourage individuals to commit to the change happily, and it is concerned with readiness among people affected by the change. This article counts 7 steps in order to improve the way you approach change management, and emphasizes the importance of training and support.


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Open Government Coalition Calls for Return of Online Meetings
A coalition of RI open government groups sent a letter to Governor McKee urging him to issue an EO that would allow public bodies to again hold online meetings and require public bodies to provide remote access for the public.
ACCESS/RI, a coalition of groups working for open government in Rhode Island, sent a letter to Governor Daniel McKee urging him to issue an executive order that would allow public bodies to once again hold online meetings and require public bodies to provide remote access for members of the public. The coalition made the request in light of the current wave of infections caused by the Delta variant of Covid-19.
From March 2020 to July 2021, Governors Raimondo and McKee issued a series of executive orders that waived the requirement that members of public bodies meet in person and required "adequate alternative access" to meetings for members of the public. The latest version of those orders was allowed to expire in July. Since then, some public bodies have had difficulty getting in-person quorums and, more importantly, some members of the public have been reluctant to attend in-person meetings. While some public bodies have continued to provide remote access since the return to in person meetings, many have not. In those instances, members of the public face a choice between their health and their ability to participate in our democracy.
Earlier this year, state legislatures in both Connecticut and Massachusetts codified similar executive orders until the spring of 2022. The Rhode Island General Assembly took up legislation that would have allowed for remote participation for both members of public bodies, and the public, but it would have allowed the practice until July of 2023, a timeframe ACCESS/RI opposed due to its length and in recognition that in-person meetings should be the default. However, the letter emphasized that executive orders temporarily restoring remote meetings are needed to get Rhode Island through the Delta variant.
pdfLetter asking Gov McKee for OMA EO (Sept 2021)
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Everyone on Earth, who has reason, morality and global responsibility, would not deny that the situation on the planet deteriorates with every passing month bringing the Humanity closer and closer to a worldwide catastrophe. World order becomes more and more without a proper order or with the worst variant of "order".
Atomic Scientists, including 19 Nobel Laureates, insist that Earth now is closer to human-caused doomsday than it has been in more than 30 years because of global warming and nuclear weaponry. According to their opinion the probability of global catastrophe is very high, and the actions needed to reduce the risks of disaster must be taken soonest. Today, unchecked climate change and a nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued further existence of Humanity. And present «world» leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect Earth population from potential catastrophe. These failures of today's planet leadership endanger every person on Earth.
The main reason of the observable global deterioration is well known - it is the degradation of the average human mentality, which reflects in increase of individuals' ignorance and lack in their minds of compulsory human, philosophical, and civil "ordinary" knowledge.
This degradation of human mentality raises the necessity to innovate the concept, purpose and content of common, but fist of all civic education according to the global era. To form a new human being with a global vision is necessary to inculcate a more sophisticated Universal Education on the planet - with philosophically oriented, modern, scientific, unified and uniform content.
Feeling this need and trying to improve the situation worldwide, UNESCO yet 10 years ago adopted its "Strategy on Philosophy" urging all to study true philosophical ideas and teachings at schools and universities. 8 years later, in September 2012, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared the new UN Global initiative "Education First": to improve the quality (content) of learning, to foster global citizenship, and to realize that "Education is more than literacy and numeracy - it is about citizenry."
Following this UN initiative, UNESCO put it forward in its "Medium-Term Strategy for 2014 - 2021" appealing to foster inclusive, quality and lifelong learning opportunities for all and promote a sense of global citizenship.
Thus, the term global citizenship is being used since then more and more often, but little people know, what this term means in fact.
To make it clear, it is necessary to understand first of all that any human being is a social being, and his natural way of living is to stay and act among other individuals with similar level of social mentality (mind, consciousness, knowledge). This level the human can reach only in one way - through social bringing up and education. Otherwise he is not fit to live in the normal society.
At the same time societies (communities) have in their structure different social levels: family, local (municipal, town, city, etc.), regional (territorial and/or ethnic), country (national), global (Earth, supranational, world).
5. Global community (the entire population of the Earth - living generation of the mankind) - by the Supreme (supranational) Council of the Humanity and supranational Earth Parliament.
All these Heads, Councils and Parliaments should be duly elected by authorized by Constitutions or other regulations or traditions members of the societies (communities) - family members, citizens of appropriate grades - local, regional, national and global (supranational).
To elect the adequate government (council, parliament) of the corresponding grade of the society (community) structure in the most proper way the citizens should have duly developed for that purpose appropriate levels of mentality (mind, consciousness, knowledge) - family, local, regional, national, global, which can be reached (obtained) only through a full-scale upbringing and social (civic) education.
As the ranges (levels) of society (community) structure are different, the same differences are to be reached in the levels of individuals' mentality (mind, consciousness) structure characterized by different parts (volumes) of knowledge that can be reached by a person during the process of his individual upbringing and social (civic) lifelong education for all.
1. Characteristics of family upbringing, traditions, history and ancestors.
2. Standards of human behavior in the family, and follow them.
3. Standard family values and vices, based on reason, justice, morality and responsibility.
4. Traditional family duties and human rights.
6. Family budgeting and home skills.
7. The healthy way of life, common rules of behavior in the society, ethics and aesthetics.
8. The family language(s) of intercommunication.
9. The way to care for parents and bring up children.
This part of social (family) knowledge should be provided in families by their heads (parents, grandparents) under supervision of social organs.
Having passed such primary education, family members gain enough civil knowledge of this level and become First grade (family) citizens able to discuss and correctly solve questions and problems of family importance.
1. The main data of local (municipal, town, city, etc.) community current statistics as well as the community development plans, proclaimed by its Council.
2. The local (municipal, town, city, etc.) community history and his traditions.
3. The structure of the local governance and existent modern typical structures of the local self-management.
4. The list of the local community basic values and vices, based on wisdom, reason and morality.
5. The list of duties and rights of a Man (Human Being) and a Citizen adopted in the local community.
6. Legal, economic, demographic, household, education regulation, existing in a given local community.
7. The list and location of the local trade centers, industry and production arias, cultural and educational institutions and facilities.
8. The local community cultural standards and traditions of decent behavior, and follow them.
9. The healthy and orderly way of life to be practiced, also the evils of the lifestyle and behavior specific for a given local community that should be avoided.
10. The local language of communication, the local net of public transport.
This part of social (civil) knowledge should be provided by the local administration.
Having passed such advanced civic education the local community members gain enough civil knowledge of this level and become Second (local) grade citizens able to discuss and duly solve questions and problems of local community importance as well as to elect correctly local leaders.
1. The main data of current statistics of quality of regional (territorial and/or ethnic) community life as well as regional development goals and plans, proclaimed by regional Council (parliament).
2. The regional (territorial and/or ethnic) community history and his traditions.
3. The structure of the regional (territorial and/or ethnic) governance and the existing modern structures of regional self-government.
4. The list of the regional community basic values and vices, based on wisdom, reason and morality.
5. The regional community duties and rights of a Man (Human Being) and a Citizen.
6. Legal, economic, demographic, household, education regulations, existing in a given regional community.
7. The list and location of the regional trade centers, industry and production arias, cultural and educational institutions and facilities.
8. The regional community cultural standards and traditions of decent behavior, adopted by the regional parliament, and follow them.
9. The healthy and orderly way of life to be practiced, the evils of the lifestyle and behavior specific for a given regional community that should be avoided.
10. The regional language of communication, the regional net of public transport.
This part of social (civil) knowledge should be provided and monitored by the regional administration.
Having passed this kind of civic education and training regional inhabitants gain enough appropriate civil knowledge of this level and become Third grade (regional) citizens able to discuss and solve in the best way questions, problems and challenges of regional importance, and also to elect the most competent regional leaders.
1. Key national statistics, as well as goals and plans of national development, proclaimed by the national Parliament.
2. The national community history and traditions.
3. The structure of the national (state) governance and worldwide known modern typical structures and principles of national self-government.
4. The list of basic values and vices of the national importance, based on wisdom, reason and morality.
5. The list of human and citizen's duties and rights of national importance to be observed in a given country.
6. Legal, economic, demographic, household, education regulations, existing in a given country.
7. The list and location of the main national industry and production arias, cultural and educational institutions and facilities.
8. The national cultural standards and traditions of decent behavior adopted by the national Parliament, and follow them.
9. The healthy and orderly way of life to be practiced, also the evils of the lifestyle and behavior specific for a given country that should be avoided.
10. The national (state) language(s) fixed in the national Constitution, the national net of public transport.
The overall study of this part of civil knowledge in the country should be provided and monitored by the national Government.
Having passed this part of civic education and training country inhabitants gain enough appropriate civil knowledge of national level and become Fourth grade (national) citizens able to discuss and solve in a proper way questions, problems and challenges of national importance, and also to elect the most competent national leaders and managers.
About the «Millennium Development Goals», proclaimed by the United Nations Organization, «Global Development Goals of Humanity in the 21st century», about UNESCO Medium-Term Strategy 2014 - 2021, about other projects of «Concept of further development of the Humanity».
About «UNESCO Strategy on Philosophy», history of formation of classical philosophy and its basic ideas, the two famous Ancient Greek traditions.
About Universal ideology of Humanity of the XXI century - Transuniversalism, and its basis - Neo-Humanist and Trans-Humanist ideas.
"Big History" and the modern scientific picture of the World, including on the Resolution 1580 (2007) of the Council of Europe «The dangers of creationism in education», about the structure of biosphere and bioethics bases.
About the Table of Aristotle on the types of state (political) governance and modern typical structures of self-management.
Today's list of «the Universal basic values and vices», based on wisdom, reason and morality.
Paramount universal duties and rights of a Man (Human Being) and a Citizen.
The division of society on the mental signs (parameters).
The structure of the world economy, the political and geographical maps of the Earth, the current main data of international statistics.
The peculiarities of universal culture and standards of decent behavior, and follow them.
The healthy and orderly way of life to be practiced, as well as the universal evils of the lifestyle and behavior that should be avoided.
The List of today's major global threats and challenges to the Humanity, and way of their solution.
The Universal Constitution of Earth and the structure of the Universal State of Earth.
The history of leading Earth religions, theism and secularism.
The language of international communication (English), to obtain ability to use a computer, internet and a mobile phone.
The overall study of this part of civil knowledge should be provided and monitored by the supranational Earth Government, during the transitional period (before its formation) - by the World Philosophical Forum.
Sense of Global citizenship is practically the top level of human consciousness. Therefore only after passing this most important at present time part of civic education and training Earth inhabitants gain enough appropriate civil knowledge of global level and become Fifth grade (top, supranational, global, Earth) citizens able to discuss and solve in a most effective way questions, problems and challenges of top national, supranational, global, universal importance, and also to elect the most competent supranational Earth (global) leaders and managers. Best from Earth citizens (best out of the best) can become Earth-XXI Aristocrats.
So, this is how the social and civic education should be arranged all over the planet to form a modern, fit to meet the challenges of the XXI century, unified and uniform global mentality of most of its 7 billion inhabitants, on the basis of which it is only possible to reach mutual understanding, peace and prosperity on the Earth. But such education, unfortunately, in most cases is not organized so neither at the family level, nor at the local or regional, or national levels. In the budget of any country you unlikely find items of this kind of expenses. And a supranational community does not have yet a budget at all. At the same time most of rulers are even interested to keep their population in the civil ignorance - such people are easier to manipulate. This was stated yet by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy: "The power of government is held on ignorance of the people; it knows this and therefore will always struggle against the enlightenment".
However, all the above levels of individuals' mentality (consciousness) are structured in his mind one over another, and the absence of, at least, even one of them, i.e. one part of the modern social (civil) knowledge, means for such a person to be to some extent in social (civil) ignorance and lack of proper culture. His citizen's status of one or another (or all) of the five grades in fact in this case should be considered as faked and unreal.
Thus, in order to achieve effectively the objectives of the UN civic educational initiatives, the time has come along with prior to start constituting the supranational, the highest level (Nr.V) of the planet civil society structure in the form of the Universal State of Earth. This level can consist entirely from fifth grade (top, supranational, global, Earth) citizens. Only following this road through teaching of latest social and civil knowledge to all the population of the Earth, we can have finally pure, true global citizenship and globally responsible leadership on our planet.
Keeping this in mind, how confident you are that all of today's world leaders, who decide the fate of all the mankind (including your own as well) on the summits of G7, Rio + 20, etc., adequately possess all the above civic knowledge of the V-th level to take reasonable decisions unmistakable for the subsequent fate of the Humanity? Essentially, most of today's world leaders are elected by the ignorant population from themselves, that is why they are civically not educated properly, i.e. practically ignorant.
Then to what extent they are capable to realize their global responsibility for the fate of our planet and forms of the life on it, which developed millions of years, as well as for the fate of future generations of Earthmen? After all, the situation on the planet as a result of their mismanagement and disunited ruling is only getting worse daily, and at any moment the world may collapse. Who can make them responsible with the utmost rigor (just now, afterwards it will be too late) and actually control their decisions? Only citizens of the fifth grade through the institutions and organs of the Universal State of Earth! But they yet are to be educated.
Meanwhile, TV news channels report only about ever greater climate and military threats to all the life on Earth. So, please, think and join the community of Earth-XXI citizens, and also invite everyone you can. Together we shall defend the life on Earth and the bright future of Mankind, including your own present and future!!!
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False Advertising Claim Against Hyundai Allowed To Move Forward
On Monday, a federal court in California tentatively allowed a potential class action claim against Hyundai's American subsidiary to move forward past the motion to dismiss stage. The case stems from factual assertions included in Hyundai's advertising campaign for its Elantra sedan. As part of the advertising campaign, Hyundai asserted that the Elantra got 40 miles per gallon on the highway. However, according to the plaintiff, who is representing a putative class, the Elantra got far fewer miles per gallon during real world driving. Based upon this purportedly false information, the plaintiff is pursuing statutory claims founded upon California's unfair business practices, false advertising and consumer protection laws along with related common law causes of action.
Hyundai moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the miles per gallon figure represented an EPA estimate that it was required to disclose pursuant to certain federal regulations. This, according to Hyundai, established that the plaintiff's claims were preempted by federal law. The judge rejected this preemption argument at the motion to dismiss stage. The judge reasoned that Hyundai's advertisements neither indicated that the mileage figure was as EPA estimate nor included certain federally required discloses. This was sufficient to avoid the preemption argument Hyundai raised.
The case underscores the need for manufactures to be particularly careful and vigilant in confirming that the claims made in their advertising campaigns are factually accurate. Additionally, the case highlights the quandaries some companies are placed in when it comes to compliance with federal and state regulations. In short, a manufacturer not only must comply with all applicable federal or state regulations, but must also confirm the veracity of the claims made it its advertising campaigns. Manufacturers can be exposed to a class action lawsuit if their advertising campaigns contain potentially false or materially misleading information.
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Is President Trump's visit to the Holocaust Museum directly responsible for Turkey siding with ISIS and bombing American allies fighting ISIS?
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There has been a Arab-Muslim conflict for hundreds of years.
It is a serious mistake for President Trump to be aggressive in siding with Jews, because this will alienate Christians in America and the Muslims in the Middle East.
Having a daughter who converted to Judaism in order to marry a Jew may be influencing President Trump. This is a serious problem for America.
Muslims are united in their hatred of Jews.
This includes Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, which are US allies, technically.
1,000,000,000 Muslims around the world are willing to fight the USA, if the USA sides with Jews in an extreme way.
Violence between Jews and Muslims in the USA will rise, if President Trump sides with the Jews.
Being pro-Jewish will be a serious mistake for President Trump, because most American Christians have animosity towards Jews.
Because the Gospels of the New Testament condemn Jews as killers of Christ, and this is a fundamental part of the New Testament truth, Christians cannot reject this Truth.
Martin Luther, the Great Reformer, was an anti-Semite, following the example of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of John.
Jesus Christ set the example for all Christians to become anti-Semites. Read the Gospel of John.
Opposition to the Jews is a fundamental part of the Christian faith, from Jesus Christ Himself throughout 2,000 years of Christian history in the West. That is why all Christians in history were anti-Semites, because they wanted to be like Jesus.


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A physician or obstetrician's negligence can happen during childbirth or long before.
failure to diagnose a disease that could be contagious to the mother's fetus (such as genital herpes or neonatal lupus).
According to a 2006 study, medication errors harm approximately 1.5 million people in the United States every year. Medication errors can occur many ways -- from the initial prescription to the administration of the drug. For example, a patient might be harmed if the doctor prescribes the wrong medication. Or the patient might be harmed by medication that the doctor prescribes to treat a misdiagnosed condition. In a hospital setting, the right drug might be given to the wrong patient.
failing to inform the patient of the risks involved if preoperative instructions aren't followed (like not eating for a certain period of time prior to surgery).
Medical malpractice cases are regulated by complex rules that can vary considerably from state to state, so it's often essential to get advice or representation from a lawyer who has experience handling medical malpractice lawsuits.
For help on choosing a good medical malpractice attorney, read Nolo's article Finding a Personal Injury Lawyer.you can go to Nolo's Lawyer Directory for a list of medical malpractice attorneys near you (click the "Types of Cases" and "Work History" tabs to learn about a particular lawyer's experience, if any, with medical malpractice claims).


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In Sudan, gum arabic resists the extreme climate, but man struggles to achieve this
Crucial for the production of soft drinks around the world, gum arabic comes from the acacia tree in Sudan's arid zones, where the tree is resistant to ever-increasing temperatures, but farmers now struggle to cultivate it.
Fatma Ramly, national coordinator of the Federation of Arab Gum Producers, which has seven million members, explains that the acacia gum tree "is an important tree to combat desertification because it resists drought and increases soil fertility, which is essential for increasing agricultural production." .
Made from the hardened sap extracted from the acacia tree, gum arabic is an almost indispensable emulsifier for global industries. This natural ingredient is used in everything from soft drinks to chewing gum to medicine.
Sudan is proud to be the world's leading producer of gum arabic, accounting for 70% of trade, according to the French Development Agency.
Chewing gum has even earned Sudan, under an international embargo for decades, a special exemption from the United States, whose food and pharmaceutical industries love it. It really is an essential component of…Coca-Cola!
But to harvest the precious sap, one must endure the same extreme climate conditions as acacia, one of the world's most drought and climate change-adapted trees.
"We work for hours under the hot sun," Moussa told AFP, eventually "earning enough to buy water until the rainy season."
– Doubling of temperature –
According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Agency, the increase in temperature recorded in Kordofan is twice the global average, or two additional degrees in less than three decades.
People struggle with arid climate and desertification. The drought is compounded by fluctuating global prices of gum arabic.
Therefore, many farmers prefer to cut down their acacias and sell them to make charcoal in order to get a more stable income or to work in the nearby gold mines. Like four of Abdelbaghi Ahmed's five sons, they chose the hard work of mining rather than tending their father's acacia trees.
The same for Abdallah Babiker: his three sons would rather dig a hole than climb an acacia tree. "They want a job that pays more," the 72-year-old said.
Faced with this situation, Sudan, which will export 88,000 tons of gum arabic worth $110 million in 2021, is working to replace acacia trees that are cut down for firewood or construction, according to the Central Bank.
– Arabian sand belt –
"We worked to replant trees in damaged areas and keep the gum arabic belt from retreating," said Ms. Ramly, who works for Sudan's Forestry Department, referring to the nearly 500,000 square kilometer area. Gedaref near Darfur, Sudan bordering Chad, Ethiopia.
Recently, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) committed $10 million to the Department of Forestry to help acacia growers sustain their livelihoods. The aid is also intended to finance the "Great Green Wall", a mega-project to cover the African belt of trees from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa to prevent ever-growing desertification.
"Drought is one of the main challenges for residents living in areas where acacia is cultivated," Madani Ismail, an associate professor at the Public Agricultural Research Institute, told AFP.
Abdelbaghi Ahmed knows something about this, he has been cutting the bark of acacia trees for more than 30 years, twisting it into amber-colored balls to extract the quick-solidifying liquid.
"It was my family that taught me (this) hard work," the 52-year-old man, who owns about 30 hectares of acacia trees planted in Botei village, told AFP.
Muhammad Musa taught his profession to his children "even if they are not interested. At least this way, if they have nothing else, they can use it."
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Planned Parenthood has a serious problem acknowledging reality
A first-trimester surgical abortion, says Planned Parenthood to its prospective clients, uses suction to "take a pregnancy out of your uterus."
This description is literally nonsense. "Pregnancy" isn't a thing in the womb that you can remove. Pregnancy isn't a thing at all. It's a state or condition of a woman during which she carries her developing offspring. Virtually everyone understands this. Every dictionary says it.
Is it possible that an organization called Planned Parenthood doesn't know what pregnancy is?
The more plausible explanation is that Planned Parenthood and others in the abortion movement have a serious problem acknowledging reality. And this problem seems worse now than ever.
How Planned Parenthood describes unborn humans
"An abortion ... kills the life of a baby after it has begun," wrote Planned Parenthood in a 1952 pamphlet.
That was then. After it began performing abortions, Planned Parenthood didn't want to call unborn humans "babies" anymore. After all, most people think that killing babies is wrong.
What about "embryo" and "fetus"? These are scientific terms for human beings during the prenatal (embryonic and fetal) stages of their development. Although the terminology may sound foreign or clinical (and thus is sometimes used in a dehumanizing way), it accurately acknowledges the existence of an individual member of our species. That's a fact of biology that's not in dispute.
But Planned Parenthood doesn't like to concede even this. Instead, the organization often refers to embryos and fetuses with words and phrases like "tissue," "uterine contents," and "products of conception." As descriptions of living human organisms (human beings), these are highly misleading and dehumanizing euphemisms.
Sometimes, though, Planned Parenthood takes euphemism to a whole other level.
Planned Parenthood: Babies don't exist
Terms like "products of conception" at least acknowledge that something exists that is acted on in an abortion. That's why the abortion is performed in the first place—there's something in the uterus that the abortion practitioner tries to remove.
Calling an unborn child "the pregnancy" is different because the word "pregnancy" means the mother's condition rather than the entity inside her womb. It's a way of pretending, as absurd as it is, that only the pregnant woman exists—there is no one with whom she is pregnant.
Likewise, Planned Parenthood vigorously employs terms like "women's health care" to describe the intentional killing of individuals who are not women. Planned Parenthood thus rhetorically subsumes these individuals under their mothers so that their fate falls within the domain of the mothers' health.
The group has recently extended this approach even beyond abortion. In the current debate in Congress over legislation to require equal treatment for newborn babies who survive abortion, Planned Parenthood, which opposes the bill, complains that such care would restrict "women's access to reproductive health care."
The legislation has no effect whatsoever on women's health. Their health care doesn't require the denial of health care to infants who are already born. So what on earth is Planned Parenthood talking about?
Instead of arguing for its position that abortion survivors shouldn't receive ordinary medical care—instead of calling them some dehumanizing label—Planned Parenthood is pretending that those newborn babies don't even exist. They are merely part of women. Only women and their health care exist.
This is the current state of Planned Parenthood's rhetoric.
Denying reality doesn't make it go away
In a 1995 essay, feminist writer Naomi Wolf, a supporter of abortion, criticized the abortion movement for its "lexicon of dehumanization" and its "reliance … on a political rhetoric in which the fetus means nothing."
"Clinging to a rhetoric about abortion in which there is no life and no death," she wrote, "we entangle our beliefs in a series of self-delusions, fibs, and evasions."
Twenty-four years later, the rhetoric to which the abortion movement clings is even more evasive—and perhaps more desperate. It's a textbook example of Orwellian doublespeak. The purpose of doublespeak is to use language to obscure reality.
The reality Planned Parenthood aims to obscure is no mystery—it's the reality of the helpless human beings whom the organization routinely dismembers and kills. (The organization calls this process of tearing off arms and legs a "gentle" procedure "to empty your uterus.") Planned Parenthood wants everyone to pretend that those humans simply aren't there.
But they are. Denying reality doesn't make it go away.
This article appears in the April 2019 issue of NRL News.
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Reading: The Real Neal Cassady
The nurturing lover and the wild-eyed cowboy of the highway were two parts of the same whole, even if he never found a way to fuse them.
by David Whiteis
Neal Cassady won't go away. The wild young man dashing madly down the highways of experience, liberated from conventional restraints and searching for sex and salvation in the American night, sent chills of horror down the spine of respectable society in 1957, when Kerouac immortalized him as Dean Moriarty in On the Road. A few years later, just when America thought it was safe to drive again, he came roaring back, in the flesh this time and crazier than ever, as the pilot of the bus Ken Kesey and his "Merry Pranksters" took cross-country in the psychedelic 60s. His mad appetite for pleasure and his speed-crazed monologues, recounted faithfully by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, made him a counterculture folk hero. Survivors of that era still speak and write of him with reverence.
Cassady has insinuated himself into the popular imagination beyond the wildest dreams of even his most ardent admirers. Think of the mythologized passions and highway death of James Dean, the apocalyptic persona and imagery of Jim Morrison, and the more recent road-to-the-promised-land visions of Springsteen and his various clones. Several generations of movie and TV roadrunners, from the adventure seekers on Route 66 through the postapocalyptic mutants of Road Warrior, have gotten much of their fuel from Neal at the wheel of his endless succession of gas-guzzling chariots.
Yet the "real" Cassady has remained elusive. As powerful as his personality was, he's come to seem ephemeral, an empty mirror in which everyone saw images of his or her own choosing. Even Cassady's most devoted disciples remember him selectively. Allen Ginsberg has said that Ken Babbs, a Kesey associate and an editor at Kesey's journal Spit in the Ocean, once turned down a manuscript Ginsberg submitted describing the first time he and Cassady slept together. Babbs apparently wanted nothing to interfere with his cherished image of Cassady as heroic heterosexual.
Most of the Cassady legend has consisted of fictionalized or anecdotal accounts, set in a romanticized Beat or hippie era and usually related by adoring acolytes, mostly men. Women--whether Cassady's innumerable girlfriends and three wives or female critics unimpressed by his exploits as cocksman extraordinaire--have by and large remained pointedly silent.
That silence has now been broken by Carolyn Cassady, Neal's long-suffering second wife. Her memoirs, Off the Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, offer a loving, penetrating portrait of a man possessed by both angels and demons, one who spread joy and pain with equal recklessness, driven by his insatiable appetites. These, combined with a compulsive need to be everything to everyone, eventually destroyed him.
In 1947, Carolyn was a recent Bennington College graduate living in Denver. Introduced to him by a friend, she was immediately drawn to Cassady by his sparkling wit and suave courtliness. She soon moved to San Francisco, where he joined her, promising that he was about to obtain a divorce from his teenaged wife, LuAnne. In fact the divorce was quite long in coming, and he maintained an on-again, off-again relationship with LuAnne for some time after he married Carolyn. Carolyn's story from this point fills in the gaps of On the Road and later Cassady tales--this is what was going on back home while cowboy angel Neal was haunting the highways of America expanding his buddies' consciousness in his search for kicks.
Carolyn tells of blissful periods of dazzling romance and mind-expanding conversation interspersed with Neal's gut-wrenching departures, betrayals, infidelities, and an apparent callousness that brought a new dimension to the term "mental cruelty." After a while there seem to be no words to describe such a man; Kerouac's brusquely affectionate "mindless cad" barely begins to suffice. When Cassady finally names himself, in a letter written to his wife from prison, as "Neal, the REAL heel," one can only nod one's head in dazed agreement.
Between all these ecstasies and heartaches, Carolyn became acquainted with various Beat luminaries--Kerouac, with whom she had a deeply romantic love affair; Ginsberg; a loutishly punky Gregory Corso. And despite the constant gnawing doubts about her relationship with Cassady, she found this new bohemian world intriguing. Her memories of that world and how she gradually accepted its mores and philosophies are alone worth the price of the book.
There's a darkly hilarious account of the sordid paradise William Burroughs constructed for himself in the late 40s in a ranch house in Algiers, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans. Kerouac's tragic decline from visionary young novelist to babbling drunk is likewise drawn with heartbreaking clarity. Ginsberg emerges as a saintly figure, kindly and nurturing, distributing gifts to the Cassady kids and gently prodding his friends in a vain attempt to get them to abandon their sorrowful self-absorption and experience the joys of being.
The tenderness between Carolyn and the doomed, brooding Kerouac stands in marked contrast to the piercing intensity of her relationship with Cassady. Even at his kindest--between escapades, he was a loving husband and father--Cassady seems to have been overwhelming and sometimes frightening. It doesn't surprise us that a psychiatric examination produced this verdict: "a sociopathic personality with schizophrenic and manic-depressive tendencies that could develop into psychosis." It's grimly reminiscent of the diagnosis of Dean Moriarty rendered by Burroughs as Old Bull Lee in On the Road: ". . . compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence."
Cassady seemed manic even in Kerouac's adoring descriptions. His were desperate acts to satisfy an appetite out of control, and he never seemed to understand how anything he did could hurt anyone until it was all over. Then his remorse seemed shatteringly genuine, and he'd put himself through heroic convolutions to rectify everything, to somehow balance his "wives and woes," as Kerouac put it, in a coherent whole that would run smoothly and cause no one pain.
Cassady's blessing and curse was the brilliant radiance of his desires. Almost everyone he wronged forgave him as a holy con man abrim with love of life and benevolence of spirit. Psychics claimed to see a halo around him and called him a "saint"; the jury-rigged spiritualism of bohemia made it easy to visualize him as a kind of carnal Buddha, teaching joy and live-in-the-moment enlightenment. He went unpunished for deeds that would have made social lepers of most men.
But "con man," holy or otherwise, can be part of the definition of a sociopath, and a manic-depressive in a manic state might also dash across the country without warning, talking incessantly and remembering places and events with near-photographic accuracy. Even Carolyn Cassady doesn't seem to grasp the full implication of that diagnosis, which haunts the soul in these days of conservative smugness and the constriction of possibility in nearly every facet of life: after all this time, are we to learn that the fabled social revolutions fueled by Cassady and his contemporaries were merely manifestations of a madman's pathology?
Surprisingly, Cassady himself hinted as much. It's somewhat shocking to discover that the very things for which he's usually venerated--his sexuality, his shedding of society's conventions, his frenzied hunting for trips and kicks at whatever cost--apparently made him shudder in his calmer moments. Carolyn says that fan letters from Kerouac's readers made Cassady "flinch with guilt"; Kerouac's "glorification of his antics in print . . . made him uneasy. He wasn't proud of this side of his nature; he had tried very hard to overcome it."
But without that, what's left? It's one thing to say that he wanted to settle down as he got older; his protestations on that point seemed sincere, and one can understand both his and Carolyn's frustration when he got sidetracked by the Pranksters and his own uncontrollable drives. But a Neal Cassady devoid of "this side of his nature" would be merely another bohemian intellectual, toking away in the living room discussing Edgar Cayce and jazz, writing and philosophizing while minding the kids and flipping through the TV channels--hardly the outlaw Moses of our literature and fantasies.
Nor is it the Neal whom Carolyn seemed to remember when she wrote a memoir, back in 1981, for The Cassady Issue (issue six) of Spit in the Ocean. The Cassady Issue is a collection of remembrances, mostly from the Prankster era, edited by Ken Babbs to "show Neal in action: talking and driving; none of your psychological analyzations of why he was so great; instead, a recounting of the things he did that were great."
Carolyn Cassady's contribution to The Cassady Issue consists primarily of a letter she wrote to the producer of the ill-fated film Heart Beat, which was based on her manuscript. She writes that Cassady was admired as "a lovable rogue who dared to do things we'd like to do but are afraid of. We wrap our morality around us . . . letting Neal act out our inner desires. [He was] mentally brilliant, dynamic, intense, and full of an explosive, electric-type energy that shatters old forms in order to make way for new. At the same time he represented a humane, non-judgmental benevolence that seeks the brotherhood of man and promotes brotherly love; that gives everyone the right to experience the "garden of earthly delights."'
That's the Cassady we recognize. He's all over the place in The Cassady Issue, clowning and fucking and spieling like God's own court jester. Girlfriend Anne Murphy, another member of the bus family, remembers his mottoes: "You are created for the experience of joy!" "Be oft in joyous prayer!" "Live in the moment!" Babbs seems to feel that the bus experience was the apotheosis not only of his own life but of Cassady's as well: "The thing we were just barely starting to explore--coming on in a dramatic, meaningful way--was the thing Cassady had been doing for years. Just to get ready for this trip."
There's scarcely a hint here of the tormented, disintegrating wretch Carolyn portrays in Off the Road: "I can't help it anymore [she quotes him as telling her]. I don't know where else to go. I'm a danger to everyone--to myself most of all. I keep swearing I'm going to stop making an ass of myself, but then I get in a group and everyone stares at me, waiting for me to perform--and my nerves are so shot, I get high--and there I go again. I don't know what else to do--it's horrible."
Carolyn writes further that he fled the Pranksters at least once, unable to tolerate the scene and determined to renew the stability of his home life, although by then he was too far gone. She portrays a quivering, terrified man, vacillating uncontrollably between incoherent rantings ("his one-sided conversation with the Devil") and dazed disorientation.
Yet with one or two exceptions, his old bus buddies in The Cassady Issue portray him as master of his world and his mind all the way to the end, sometimes sweating under the burden of his mission and his vast capacities but happy and dedicated in his role as superman driver of the cosmic bus. How could even a holy con man reveal such different selves to different people?
Carolyn never really addresses that question. She does describe, however, both her own and Neal's attempts to receive guidance from the spiritual world. These tales may provide a key to understanding the dizzying array of alternate realities swirling around the Neal Cassady saga. Carolyn and Neal had been consulting various channelers and psychics since the 50s, absorbing the reincarnation theories of Cayce and even becoming fans of Oral Roberts for a while. (Susceptibility to con men was apparently a dominant theme in the Cassady household.)
Carolyn came to believe that Neal had been sent by some higher power to teach her patience and "loving indifference." She held off divorcing him until after the marriage was dead in everything but name, adhering to the advice of one Elsie Sechrist that "God will make the separation" at the appropriate time. She often castigated herself for insufficient faith and negative thoughts, citing Cayce's notion that "no one meets a circumstance he hasn't the power to overcome--if he will."
Neal fared little better. A psychic reading revealed his past lives and purported to explain his self-destructive impulses. Another praised his "spiritual attributes" with such eloquence that it sounded like "one long mystical prayer," and the woman doing the channeling wept at its beauty.
The readings even warned him about his chemical imbalances, although they stopped short of prescribing psychiatric help--instead "the conquering light of your soul will bring you back." One astrologist scolded Neal for refusing to be saved from "that shadowy underworld of racing touts and junkies"--this from a man who was himself a friend of Anton LeVey, leader of the Satanist Church! With all this, and with the seductive lure of the Pranksters and their cornucopia of drugs, adventure, adoring young women, and hero worship, it's no wonder Cassady lost track of rationality and fell so deeply into his persona that he couldn't get out.
It seems a lot of people were blinded by faith--Carolyn by her faith in a higher power to save her marriage and her husband's sanity; Neal by a similar faith in salvation; and both Neal and his followers by their growing belief in his mania as a vehicle for Aquarian vision.
Even his final, lonely collapse, while walking along the railroad tracks early in 1968 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, has been understood differently by different people. Kerouac, himself rapidly disintegrating into alcoholic oblivion, first refused to believe Cassady was dead, then resigned himself to a similar fate: "Ah, Neal--I'll be joining him soon." (He did, on October 31, 1969.)
Carolyn relates that Neal had gone to Mexico in a desperate attempt to clean up, avoid arrest, and resume work toward his longtime goal of becoming a writer. He left a wedding, where he may or may not have mixed alcohol with reds he'd taken earlier, and headed along the tracks toward the Celaya train station to retrieve his luggage. He collapsed along the way and died. She makes no reference to the story related by Kesey and referred to by John Clellon Holmes in The Cassady Issue, that someone had challenged Neal to count the railroad ties and he'd walked out into the night alone to do so, reaching 60,000-something before he died, performing madly to the last--"done in by downers and a dare," as Kesey says.
Incredibly, Kesey manages to elevate even that pathetic scenario into a tale of heroic prowess, proof that Cassady's mind was still going full throttle: "Who's afraid of the dark now? [Cassady] wasn't merely making noise: he was counting. He didn't lose it. We didn't lose it. We were all counting."
Were Cassady's exploits all like this one, meaningless acts of a madman elevated to mythological status by desperate hangers-on lonesome for a hero? Babbs and his colleagues raise much the same point in The Cassady Issue. They attempt to find the answer through a series of rather self-indulgent trips down Prankster memory lane, but they don't really succeed. The Cassady Issue is good for some vivid images of Neal at his high-octane trippiest, but most of the Prankster stories don't answer any salient questions about him--a few doubts are raised, but predictably they're shot down.
The Cassady Issue does include, however, a previously unpublished prologue Cassady wrote for his published autobiography, The First Third; and it's instructive. In both style and content it evokes the person Carolyn maintains Neal was at his core and struggled most of his life to remain: a reflective man of profound moral convictions, eloquent and perceptive, dedicated to honor and integrity in a way few of his disciples realized. The piece is an island of tranquillity amid the hallucinatory adventures surrounding it, and again one is astounded that this facet of Cassady's personality goes virtually unacknowledged by the rest of the contributors.
But what of the "other" Neal, the one remembered so fondly? He's quoted in The Cassady Issue in the midst of one of his manic monologues: "You can always tell by the fear in the belly jest how limited you is." That aphorism rings more true than ever today--these are frightened times, and this is why "both" Neal Cassadys are still important.
At its best, Cassady's logorrhea was a kind of verbal bebop, the spoken equivalent of the cascading sonic riot of tone, rhythm, and imagination being pioneered by Charlie Parker, Monk, and the other jazz heroes of the 50s. Later the San Francisco acid rockers attempted a similar musical journey, with less artistic success, but again with Cassady riffing and rocking over the top. That riffing was at the heart of his vision.
As the jazz musicians whom he idolized did in their music, Cassady in his words and actions attempted to break free from arbitrary restrictions and create a new life art, a revolutionary moral order in which the unfettered human spirit, guided by benevolence and respecting all freedoms, could define the limits of possible and permissible behavior. The fact that he himself was unable to locate these new boundaries only reveals the daunting challenge of the task. In a world where, as William Burroughs has written, "Nothing is true; everything is permitted," one can search only within oneself for codes of conduct that will allow one to soar without causing harm or impinging on others--in jazz terms, to blow free without stepping on someone else's riff.
Cassady never quite mastered that last part, but in the wrenching contradictions of his personality lie clues as to how others might succeed. The nurturing lover and the wild-eyed highway child were two halves of the same Cassady whole, even if he never found a way to fuse them. If we're to fashion lives of both meaning and integrity in a world fraught with danger, where individual freedom and exploration seem increasingly threatened, we've got to find a way to reclaim the exhilaration of the now and meld it with dedication to long-term duty--to drink the wine of life with glad appetite and dancing soul, but with both hands on the wheel. As in Cassady's time,the highway is still there, waiting to teach us what we need to know.
Off the Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg by Carolyn Cassady, William Morrow and Company, $22.95.
The Cassady Issue (Issue No. 6) of Spit in the Ocean edited by Ken Babbs, SITO (85829 Ridgeway Road, Pleasant Hill, Oregon 97401), $5.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Peter FitzGerald.


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I was just scrolling through the iPhone buyers guide XS page when I noticed an error. The buyers guide says that there is no difference between the X and XS screens, that's not true.
Buyers Guide:
While very similar Apple did announce that the XS has up to 60% more dynamic range when viewing HDR photos than the iPhone X (they specifically mention it during the keynote).
Apple (news release, keynote):
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2018/
Skip to 41:50 and watch for a minute Phil clearly says "and they display better than ever on the new Super retina display because it has a 60% greater dynamic range for the colors in your photos than the iPhone X display".
And before people ask: This was a feature I was excited about, and my OCD HAS been bugging me lately
Which one is true? I've noticed 0 difference
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tt061282 said:
Apple. The XS has up to 60% more dynamic range in HDR photos than the X. Some photos there won't be a massive difference others there will, all depends on the range.
Nebraska, USA
So that is photo enhancement. Display is the same
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acorntoy said:
I completely misread this post lol
[doublepost=1538347662][/doublepost]For some reason I thought you were referring to the pamphlet inside the iPhone box.
However I haven't noticed much difference between my X and XS screens.
Wags said:
What? The display offers 60% more dynamic range, that is certainly not the same, it isn't enhancing the photo, it has a greater range and can display a larger amount of what was captured, the camera's range has been greater than the display until now. The photo will look better because the display has the ability to show what was captured more accurately than before.
Even if it was a software tweak you would say it was a display improvement for example, Color Management is software based yet it is what makes Apple displays so accurate over the Android competition.
So it's just in photos though? I'm not disagreeing I'm just curious because I have noticed no difference within the displays of either device.
They're both top of the line displays IMO.
I honestly can't find a solid answer to that. Apple only mentioned it in passing with photos in the keynote, and that news article states photos, and the actual XS page doesn't really tout it very much, leading me to believe it is only on pictures. It's mainly just bugging me that whoever wrote the buyers guide forgot about it
I wouldn't be able to compare directly as I went from an 8+, although the differences in the ranges between those two phones are pretty amazing.
woodynorman
Where does it say "The XS has up to 60% more dynamic range in HDR photos than the X"??
In the pic you posted above from the Keynote it doesn't reference the X in that statement.
gelie
Comparing my X to my Xs Max I can honestly say the display significantly better.
woodynorman said:
I could have elaborated better, in the keynote Phil clearly says the XS display is better than the X.
Skip to 41:50 and watch for a minute Phil clearly says "and they display better than ever on the new Super retina display because it has a 60% greater dynamic range for the colors in your photos than the iPhone X display". Besides Apple wouldn't compare the XS display in advancement to any other display other than the X. Apple's not gonna say it offers 60% better range than the 8+, we knew the X already offered better range, it's comparing it to the generation directly before, the X.
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AppleHaterLover said:
Eh like I said I didn't own the X, so I really don't know how much of a difference it actually makes compared to the last generation. All I know is that the buyers guide is basically a spec sheet, and currently its wrong.
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I think the answer is that they are just describing an already existing feature of the display on the X. If you look at how it's worded, they are basically saying that these are bigger versions of the display on the X and then mention features of the X display that now comes in a bigger size.
phpmaven said:
I doubt it was a mistake, it was a pretty structured sentence and he didn't stumble, it was definitely practiced. The wording is weird though on the news release I agree, which is why I originally provided the keynote but didn't explain what Phil actually said when the slide was on, seems to be like the 120hz touch sensitive layer, they mentioned it briefly during the keynote and then it disappears on the devices actual page.
https://wccftech.com/iphone-xs-120hz-touch-sample-rate-explained/
I think this actually would be defined as a display upgrade as well, didn't think about it until now.
I doubt it was a mistake, it was a pretty structured sentence and he didn't stumble, it was definitely practiced.
I stand corrected
Man you should really pursue a carrer in proofreading.
Still trying to figure out what to do, maybe i'll take a look
I'll be honest I'm still in the fence about keeping my XS or staying with my X. They're both damn good phones and I'm trying to warrant the $1349 I spent on it besides the screen being bigger because it's a max lol.
I do know when I had my 8 and my X the differences were major between the 2. Mostly due to one being LCD and the other OLED. There's definitely a night and day difference between the 2.
However I am curious to what a Apple has come up with for this XR and it's LCD. Though I know the pixel density is on 326 PPI..
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I have seen a video on this 120hz thing and they've said this was already available through the iPhone X but Apple acted as though it was an upgrade On the XS...
I believe the guys name is SnazzyLabs. According to him this is so... I'm not 100% sure however.
Caspavio
As far as I understand, contrast ratio is the same thing as dynamic range. it would seem that the screen on XS and X is the same then, at 1mil:1. If so, the reason why phil said photos viewing are better is perhaps because of the camera's new HDR+ mode.
Caspavio said:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bh...hy/tips-and-solutions/dynamic-range-explained
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_ratio
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/difference-between-image-contrast-and-dynamic-range.149010/
That doesn't seem right. It seems like contrast ratio is strictly how light/dark it can get, and the dynamic range is what it can show in between those points. That's what I understand from reading those, I might be wrong though I'm just learning about this.
Also to address your point about the new HDR+: Phil also clearly said that all your old photos will look better, suggesting the HDR mode in the 6S+/7+/8+/X was capturing detail that the displays couldn't show at the time.


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