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Tartans Of The British 71st, 79th & 92nd Highlander Regiments
And to save anyone else from getting severe headaches, or tearing their hair out, while studying Scottish Tartans for the remaining British Highland Regiments, here are some examples of their Tartan Setts:
The 71st (Glasgow) Light Infantry Regiment, while having lost most of their special "Scottish Distinctions" before the start of the Waterloo Campaign, fought here wearing their grey trousers, rather than Kilts for this campaign. Their Bagpipers, however, apparently retained their Kilts (according to most sources), and these items of kit were made from the MacKenzie Tartan, of which two examples are provided below:
71st Glasgow Highlanders MacKenzie Tartan 01.jpg 71st Glasgow Highlanders MacKenzie Tartan 02.gif
The 79th (Cameron) Highland Regiment all wore Kilts, except for their Senior Officers, who retained their trousers. The Cameron's Tartan was known as "Cameron Of Erracht" and was especially designed by Sir John Cameron's wife, Lady Cameron, upon the raising of his Highland Regiment in 1798:
79th Cameron Highlanders Tartan.gif
And lastly, we have the 92nd (Gordon) Highland Regiment. All the soldiery in these ranks also fought in their Kilts, except for their Senior Officers, of course. The Tartan chosen for this superb Regiment was called, quite simply, "Gordon" and has been used by the men ever since their raising, by the 4th Duke and his Duchess, Jane, in 1794:
92nd Gordon Highlanders Tartan.gif
I know I could (and probably should) have kept this POST within the wonderful "Uniforms Thread", but as it is directly related to my previous post, and sort of (hopefully) ties up some of the problems associated with British Napoleonic Tartans, I though it more appropriate to pop it here - I only hope nobody really minds or objects!
Originally posted by sep View Post
See attached chart (from http://centjours.mont-saint-jean.com/unitesPR.php#)
Apart from the sleeve/collar distinctions, Musketeer NCOs had a gold top band on their shako, white gloves, black & white sabre strap & tassel. Their black plumes had a white tip.
Also see http://www.uniforminsignia.org/?opti...53&result=2181 which has illustrations of the Garde insignia
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I have a little book (16cm x 11cm) dated from the 1950s, illustrating all the Scottish tartans, Coats of Arms and clan badges. Each page has strip of tartan, a personage in a contemporary, historic or military get-up and with a short historical note on each of the clans and tartans. The illustrations, and there are about 95 of them, have been well rendered in full colour by an artist by the name of William Semple. So if anyone is interested, I will post them all, but be aware that they are not pictures illustrating Napoleonic uniforms but of historical figures from the Jacobite era through to the contemporary 1950s.
My very good friend, Dibble201Bty, you never fail to surprise me!
Although I understand these illustrations from your "little book of Scottish Tartans" may NOT be military Uniforms, they certainly sound very interesting - hopefully, something from them will help me, and heaven knows! I really need it at the moment - Thank you so very, very much.
And you too, Prinz Essling. There really isn't all that much written about the organisation and uniforms of the Prussian Army, at least I haven't found a lot, so your help, too, is very, very much appreciated.
You are both real GEMS in this wonderful ACG!
My sincerest Thanks,
Last edited by 95th Rifles; 27 Jan 12, 10:35.
This from BRITISH NAPOLEONIC UNIFORMS
The facings for this Royal Regiment was blue, the officers' lace and buttons were gold and the kilt carried the government sett, also by the name of 'Black Watch'. The Grenadiers, Drummers and Pipers wore a red over stripe on the green turns
I also found this site
http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar...s.aspx?ref=283
Last edited by Dibble201Bty; 27 Jan 12, 08:51.
42nd Highland Pipers
You are absolutely BRILLIANT, Dibble201Bty!!!! Very Well Done Indeed!
On reflection, when I got home earlier today, I really, really didn't want you to go to all the time, trouble and effort, copying an entire book, just for me - it really would not have been a constructive use of your very valuable and treasured time. I dashed down here, back to the Local Library, as soon as I could, in the hope I could stop you in time - but you have beaten me to it.
Your information, plus the above Link you have just posted (no. 51), are perfect solutions to my very tricky problem - and for this I am so very, very grateful. Now I can get on with my research work - Thank you, my very kind and helpful friend.
95th Rifles.
Rui Sousa
Portuguese Militia
Originally posted by the Iron Duke View Post
Now I have a question for anyone who knows. Did the Portuguese milita or ordonanca have any Cavalry around 1808/1809? And if, do pictures exist. I know that the ordonanca was considered to be enthusiastic but poorly equipped, trained and uniformed, but did better trained and equipped units exist? How were they organised? I understand that there was a distinction between militia and ordonanca and that the militia was considered to be better. Were they financed by weathy private individuals since a proper government didn't exist at the time?
THE AUXILIARY FORCES: THE MILITIA
It was King Joao IV's decrees in the 1640s that were really the background to the auxiliary troops existing at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. These troops were the Militia, the Volunteers and the Ordenanza. Between them they could mobilise every adult male able to bear arms, between the ages of 17 and 60, of every social class and condition anywhere in Portugal.
The new 1806-07 organisation was much more comprehensive and detailed. It called for a force of 48 infantry regiments. They were to be divided into three groups of 16 regiments, each corresponding to one of the three divisions of the Portuguese army. The militia, like the regular units, was also raised by conscription and 'formed of such of the inhabitants, capable of bearing arms, as can be taken from agricultural employments with the least inconvenience'. The officers were from the local gentry and veteran officers were especially sought after. Each militia regiment was based in the same recruiting region as the regular infantry regiments. By October 1807 the country had been divided up into the 48 areas, replacing and potentially greatly augmenting the previous militia force.
On 20 December 1808 the militia was formally ordered re-raised, at the 1806establishment of 48 regiments totalling 52,848 officers and men. Each nine-company regiment was to have a staff, a grenadier company, and two battalions each of four fusilier companies. The establishment consisted of a colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, one major, two adjutants, one quartermaster, two colour bearers, one drum-major and two fifers. Each company had a captain, a lieutenant, two ensigns, four sergeants, eight corporals, eight lance-corporals, one drummer and 121 privates. Each regiment was to have 1,101 officers and men.
Militia uniforms
The pre-1806 units had blue uniforms patterned after those of the regular regiments with facings and distinctions particular to each corps, but these are not known. Buttons and lace could be silver or gold. The uniform decreed on 19 May 1806 for the 48 militia regiments was a blue coatee of the same style as that of the regiments of the line. The turnbacks were the same colour as the piping - scarlet, white or yellow, depending on which of the three military divisions the regiment was attached to. Pantaloons, gaiters and other items were to be the same as those of the line regiments.
Arms and accoutrements were to be the same as for the regular troops although, in practice, somewhat older items were expected to be used by the militiamen. The May 1806 regulations mention short muskets for sergeants, but halberds were mentioned for them in 1808, most probably because of the shortage of weapons. In December 1808 there were no arms for the militia, and 1809 found them still largely unarmed and lacking equipment. An October 1809 assessment of the Portuguese forces reported that half of the estimated 50,000 militiamen had no firearms, many men resorting to carrying pikes.
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Chartrand, René, Men At Arms Nº358 - The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars 3, Osprey
For plates follow the link.
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Portuguese Militia - cavalry units
these are the only cavalry militia volunteers that I know of.
Royal Commerce Volunteers of Lisbon
Authorised raised on 28 December 1808, to consist of a regiment of infantry and a cavalry regiment of four squadrons. Captain Sherer noted of this unit in 1809 that 'even the peaceful merchants formed themselves into corps, and volunteered to perform the duties of the garrison...
Royal Militia Volunteers (Lisbon), 1807-1810
The Royal Mounted Militia Volunteers (Voluntarios Reaes de Milicias a Cavallo) and two regiments of Royal Militia Infantry Volunteers (Voluntarios Reaes de Militias a Pe) were ordered organised in Lisbon from 21 October 1807, just prior to the French occupation.
Link to the plates.
The Prussian Army
Hi Sep, I found this, while I was looking for something completely different (It always seems to happen like this):
http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/Prussian_infantry.htm
I don't know whether it will be of much help, but I sincerely hope it is of some interest and use to you.
General Bruyere
Could someone tell me the color of the uniform of General Bruyere,the picture in the musee de l'Emperi.Ive only seen black and whites of the picture.Dolman,Pelisse,Pants which arent shown.Anyone have a color reproduction scan or print they could e-mail me?Thank's.
Originally posted by fournier View Post
This is all that I have on him
Two pages from the Bucquoy's Les Uniformes du Premier Empire, tome 7, Etat-Major et Services de Saint
The First page is a 'bust' picture (top left of the group of four) and a second page which mentions his name in the text. I can not read French so I'm afraid that someone else will have to assist you with that unless that is, you can read the language.
VieuxChat
Nothing in the text about Bruyère' s pelisse colour I' m afraid:
"Bruyère after 1809, as a général divisionnaire ; by Gros."
et Services de Saint
They were no Saints you know
"To hell wars Grudges and parties ! As our fathers Sing in real friends, The clink of glasses Roses and lilies. The clink of glasses Roses and lilies."
Nappyfan
Tartans
All Tartans were of simpler design back in the Napoleonic Wars. A piper was traditionally a very honorable position and thus the pipe major would have worn a different tartan if he was of sufficient prestige. As to whether all or some pipers would have worn a tartan different to the regulation, there seems to be enough sources saying that they wore the Stewart Tartan, but any reference to the Stewart Tartan as being the Royal Tartan is a Victorian affectation. As to which Stewart Tartan, the hunting tartan is older as they didn't have elaborate dyes naturally occurring in the Highlands, but if the idea was to stir the men with a tune then the "red" Stewart Tartan would certainly help them to stand out when the commander required them. I can not see the point in wearing the hunting tartan.
So by a thin thread of logic , you would be entitled to the opinion that pipers wore the "red" Stewart Tartan.
British blue-grey Trousers at Waterloo
I am having trouble deciding what color to paint British Line Infantry trousers circa 1815. I remember one ref saying that some of the units wore summer white (Waterloo was in summer) like in Spain, the tropics and at home. Others say blue-grey without a second thought as to what that is. Going by what officers wore, which was more blue than grey, perhaps a new set of trousers for the soldier were also this color?
All comments welcome.
Originally posted by Nappyfan View Post
Here is a good site.
http://centjours.mont-saint-jean.com...te=14&nation=1

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Bandai Namco releases updates about both the TWT2020 and SCWT2020 schedules
March 9, 2020 / Dustin Murphy
With many conventions, such as GDC, being postponed or altogether canceled, Bandai Namco and their event organizers have released an update regarding the status of both the TEKKEN World Tour 2020 and SOULCALIBUR World Tour 2020 due to rising concerns of COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
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In order to ensure that the health and safety of organizers, attendees, and competitors remain their top priority; Bandai Namco has revealed a delay to their esports tournaments and their qualifying rounds. Both have been bumped to later dates from their original schedules.
For TEKKEN World Tour attendees that expected to attend the Norcal Regionals in San Jose, California, on April 10th, 2020, can expect to see the event to proceed as intended. However, Bandai Namco has revealed that the TWT qualifying round and Bandai Namco will not be attending for safety and concerns of everyone planning on attending. The Mixup scheduled for Lyon, France, on April 18th, 2020, has also been delayed and the date will be revealed at a later time.
Those looking to attend the SCWT Final Round on March 30, 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia, will need to reschedule as well as the Qualifying Round and Bandai Namco will be absent from the event. The event, however, does intend on going, but will not qualify those looking to enter SCWT Final Round. The SCWT will also be absent from The Mixup in Lyon, France, as well, and a rescheduled date will be announced at a later time.
"We are actively monitoring and evaluating COVID-19 developments and will strive to provide updates on new officially-sanctioned tournament dates, finals qualification criteria, and points tallies as soon as possible," stated a spokesperson for Bandai Namco in an official press release.
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Dairy Farm Court of Appeal Ruling
A recent Court of Appeal ruling in Habberfield v Habberfield (2019) has upheld the High Court's decision to award £1.2 million to a daughter's claim for proprietary estoppel, following her detrimental reliance on her parents' assurances that she would one day inherit the family's dairy farm.
The dispute centred around a farm worth £2.5m which the claimant's parents had run in partnership. The claimant worked on the farm for 30 years on assurances from her father that she would take over the dairy unit when he retired and she would also inherit the whole farm when he and her mother (the defendant) both died.
In 2008 she declined an offer to run the farm in partnership with her parents, as she would have not been in control and her siblings' interference with the farm via their parents would have continued. Also, her husband was not offered an immediate partnership.
In 2013 she left the farm after a dispute with her sister. The father died in 2014 leaving the farm to his wife who closed the dairy unit. In 2016 the claimant sought to have the farm transferred to her. The High Court found that she had established an equity based on proprietary estoppel, having suffered a detriment in reliance on her father's assurances. The judge awarded her £1.2m to provide her sufficient funds to acquire a viable dairy unit and associated land.
In upholding this ruling, the Court of Appeal dismissed the mother's claims that an offer to her daughter was adequate or sufficient to act as a defence to her daughter's claim. In order to raise the money to settle the claim it required selling the farm including the house in which the mother still lives. As there was no evidence to show the mother would be left destitute, this did not mean that the financial award should be deferred until after the mother's death.
As in this case where there is a family breakdown and a disagreement, the courts are more likely to find that it is more desirable for there to be a clean break, even if it means the family home should be sold.
Peter Burfoot can be contacted at p.burfoot@gullands.com


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Q: PHP gettext() without relying setlocale Currently I need to set and restore locale on my translate function because if using setlocale globally will affecting other part of our system (i.e. legacy code)
So we need to use..
function translate($text, $locale) {

    $original = getenv('LC_ALL');

    putenv('LC_ALL=' . $locale);
    setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);

    $translated = _("text);

    putenv('LC_ALL=' . $original);
    setlocale(LC_ALL, $original);

    return $translated;
}

Are there any better way?

A: Don't use LC_ALL, just use LC_MESSAGES. While setting LC_ALL will of course work, because it sets the language globally, it's perfectly enough to set only LC_MESSAGES - only this variable is used for translating:
setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US");
setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "cs_CZ");
_("something") # you will get czech translation now, even if globally you use EN

So if your legacy code can handle LC_MESSAGES set correctly, you are fine.
See http://us2.php.net//manual/en/function.setlocale.php for more information on each LC_* variable.

A: You should pull the locale from the LANG environment variable as LC_ALL may not be set.  This may not be Windows compatable, if you need it to be let me know and I'll update it.

//default locale to use when all else fails
define('DEFAULT_LANG',    'en_US.UTF-8');

/**
 * returns the current locale based on the LANG environment variable.
 * Only calls getenv() once, after that uses a cached value.  remove the static
 * keyword to disable this functionality.
 *
 * @return string returns the current locale, or DEFAULT_LANG on error.
 */
function get_lang() {
  static $lang; //static variable, so the resulting call to getenv() only fire once
  if (!isset($lang) || $lang=="") {
    $lang = getenv('LANG');
    if (trim($lang)=='')
      $lang = DEFAULT_LANG;
  }
  return $lang;
}

/**
 * @param string $text string to translate
 * @param string $locale locale to translate to, i.e. de_DE
 * @param boolean $provideFallback - provide the original local as a fallback if locale is not     recognized
 * @return boolean|string returns $text translated to $locale, or FALSE on error.
 */
function translate($text, $locale, $provideFallback = FALSE, $resetLocale = TRUE) {
  if ((empty($locale) || trim($locale)=='') && !$provideFallback)
    return FALSE;
  if (empty($text))
    return $text;

  $original = get_lang();

  //provide a fallback locale in case $locale is not recognized.
  if ($provideFallback) {
    $l = strval($locale);
    if (empty($locale) || trim($locale)=='')
      $l = $original; //set locale to the original locale, since none was provided.
    $locale = array($l, $original, DEFAULT_LANG);
  }

  setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
  $translated = _($text);
  if ($resetLocale) {
    setlocale(LC_ALL, $original);
  }
  return $translated;
}

echo get_lang().PHP_EOL;
echo translate("test1", "de_DE.UTF-8") . PHP_EOL;
echo translate("test2", "de_DE.UTF-8") . PHP_EOL;

A: Perhaps php-gettext is an option? It's a pure PHP implementation of the gettext functionality. Its gettext_reader class can read a gettext .mo file without relying on the locale functionality or any other global state. (php-gettext can also provide drop-in replacements of the standard PHP gettext API, but that seems rather ugly/dangerous.)
Disclaimer: never actually used this in production.

A: I think this is the proper way to do that.
I had the same problem few year ago.
Here is my code, similar to yours :
// Translate
$_SESSION['locale'] = $locale;
\Application::GetInstance()->getLocaleManager()->refresh();
$output["data"][] = array(
    "text" => utf8_encode($menuItem->getLibelle()),
    "lang" => utf8_encode(ucfirst($localeName)),
    "translation" => utf8_encode(_($menuItem->getLibelle()))
);
// Restore lang
$_SESSION['locale'] = "fr";
\Application::GetInstance()->getLocaleManager()->refresh();

refresh() is doing :

*

*\Locale::setDefault($locale)

*setlocale(...)

*putenv("LANG=".$locale); // Required on windows environment

*putenv("LANGUAGE=".$locale); // Required on windows environment

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Each Member of the Board of Directors acts in a position of trust for the community and is responsible for the effective governance of the organization.
Participate primarily in the organization's financial management process.
Review and cast votes on stock offerings.
Review and approve/disapprove of the organization's vision and mission statements and set forth the organization's direction.
Review and vote on the organization's Strategic and Business Plans, as well as subordinate Plans (e.g., Marketing Plan, Technology Plan); ensure that the various Plans are in sync; ensure that the organization's Top Management effectively carries out these Plans.
Approves the stakeholder analysis, as well as other inputs to the MP1070-1 – MARKETING PLAN, and ensures the Plan's effectiveness.
Attend Board meetings and makes decisions regarding the Company's operations, as required.
Authorize the raising of capital through bank loans.
Oversee investigations into reporting errors; help prepare and submit all financial restatements as required by law and company policy; help prepare press releases about restatements.
Reviews and accesses foreign exchange risks and policy options, and then sets the Company foreign exchange management policy.
Reviews and approves all submitted financial reports, FA1000-1 FINANCIAL OBJECTIVES, the Capital Plan and any changes to the Plan, the Company's formal goals and objectives, the Finance department's continuity plan, and the RC1000-1 – BUSINESS PLAN.
Reviews and approves the risk assessment/risk analysis prior to development of a Risk Management Plan (see procedure AC1030 – RISK MANAGEMENT).
Reviews approved related party transactions and sets auditing or monitoring practices according to the requirements of each individual case.
Reviews financial analysis and approves corrections or improvements to financial policies, objectives, or activities.
Review and approve/disapprove of the organization's financial forecasts and forecasted financial statements.
Reports to the other members of the Board and to shareholders. Works in conjunction with other Board members and the organization's executive staff (President, Chief Finance Officer, etc.).
Prefer a candidate who currently holds (or recently held) an executive position with a firm having $2 million or more in revenue in the most recent fiscal year. Requires 10+ years of experience overseeing a company or companies in a related industry. Knowledge of, experience in field of finance is important.
The candidate must have a strong sense of and commitment to ethical behavior; the appearance of unethical or illegal behavior in the past is unacceptable.
Must be committed to the work of the organization. Require knowledge and skills in one or more areas of Board governance (e.g., policy, finance, programs, personnel). Must be willing to serve on at least one committee and actively participate. Require attendance at monthly Board meetings; a time commitment of about 5 hours per month (including Board preparation, meeting, and committee meeting time) is expected. Must also attend the organization's Annual General Meeting.
Ability to communicate orally with top management, advisors, and other board members is crucial. Regular use of the telephone and e-mail for communication is essential. Sitting for extended periods is common. Hearing and vision within normal ranges is essential for normal conversations, to receive ordinary information, and to prepare or inspect documents.
Activities require the ability to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time, occasionally move about inside the office to access files or office equipment, operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, hand held devices, copy machine, and computer printer, and operate and monitor various medical equipment.
The job is performed indoors in a traditional office setting. Activities include extended periods of sitting and extensive work at an office/conference desk, using a phone or computer.
 Where the organization is not large or complex enough to warrant a Board of Directors, the CEO/ President should consider having an informal group of advisors or business consultants.


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Historic Features: Symmetrical courtyard plan, brick battlements over full height bay windows, stone medallions and detailed stone entryways. Stone water course and detailed stone cornice.
Alterations: Retrofit storm windows, masonry repointing with white mortar color and widened joints has changed facade appearances.
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US company Vaalco Energy is due to start discussions next year with local authorities in Equatorial Guinea over its undeveloped assets in the area.
Vaalco has a 31% working interest in an undeveloped portion of a block offshore Equatorial Guinea that it acquired in 2012. The Block P interest is currently in suspension, and Vaalco is working with the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons to lift the suspension by the end of 2018, it said.
The company said, together with its partners, it is evaluating the timing and budgeting for development and exploration activities under a development and production area in the block, including the approval of a development and production plan.
Preparation for these activities could begin as early as 2019, Vaalco said.
"Expenditures related to such activities are not expected to be significant in 2019. The company is in continued discussions with the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons regarding these plans," it said.
Meanwhile, Vaalco recently extended the terms of the Etame Marin production sharing contract in Gabon.
"We have entered into a new chapter in the life of Vaalco by extending the Etame Marin PSC for at least 10 years from September. During an extended period of historic low prices, we took the necessary steps to navigate the downturn, which resulted in Vaalco becoming a more focused and financially strong company," chief executive Cary Bounds said.
"Up until now, we lacked the time horizon necessary to justify additional development in Gabon. By extending the PSC, we now have the opportunity to unlock the substantial resource potential of over 70 million barrels that we believe remain in the Etame Marin block.
"As part of the PSC extension agreement, we committed to drilling at least two development wells and two appraisal well bores and are working with our joint owners and the government to finalise plans to begin drilling in the second quarter of 2019," Bounds said.


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Description of Hymenolepis microstoma (Nottingham strain): a classical tapeworm model for research in the genomic era
Parasit Vectors. 2010 Dec 31;3:123. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-123.
Lucas J Cunningham 1 , Peter D Olson
1 Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK. P.Olson@nhm.ac.uk.
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-123
Background: Hymenolepis microstoma (Dujardin, 1845) Blanchard, 1891, the mouse bile duct tapeworm, is a rodent/beetle-hosted laboratory model that has been used in research and teaching since its domestication in the 1950s. Recent characterization of its genome has prompted us to describe the specific strain that underpins these data, anchoring its identity and bringing the 150+ year-old original description up-to-date.
Results: Morphometric and ultrastructural analyses were carried out on laboratory-reared specimens of the 'Nottingham' strain of Hymenolepis microstoma used for genome characterization. A contemporary description of the species is provided including detailed illustration of adult anatomy and elucidation of its taxonomy and the history of the specific laboratory isolate.
Conclusions: Our work acts to anchor the specific strain from which the H. microstoma genome has been characterized and provides an anatomical reference for researchers needing to employ a model tapeworm system that enables easy access to all stages of the life cycle. We review its classification, life history and development, and briefly discuss the genome and other model systems being employed at the beginning of a genomic era in cestodology.
BB/G003815/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom


The Board's four district Autism programs are designed to serve as an option for students diagnosed with Autism. The programs are intended to support students in their schooling and prepare them for full-time attendance at their community school. Programs focus on the four following components: communication, socialization, behaviour and academics.
The District Autism Classrooms are full-time programs. There is an 8:1 student to teacher ratio. Classes are assigned 1.5 Educational Assistants (EAs) to support students in their learning goals.
A committee meets to review the referrals and students are placed into classes for the following September.


I recently attended a meeting with our local Driving Instructors Association. They were a very keen and enthusiastic bunch and want to work more closely with us to reduce KSIs accross the district.
A number of the group were keen to go into schools to give KS4 pupils experience of 'driving a vehicle' within a controlled off road environment. Personally I am not over keen on this idea as I feel it can give out the wrong message. I don't want to progress with this idea but am keen to harness the enthusiasm of the ADIs.
Does anyone have any examples of successful projects or collaborative working arrangements they have run with ADIs?
Hi Rebecca - we have lots of experience working with ADI's (I am one)...we have a panel of 25 of them that deliver our driving interventions and I have had experience of working with others in schools. It is a minefield. Can I suggest that you give me a call when you have 5 minutes and we can have a chat about it.
Please be advised that we work in a Road Safety Partnership.
Our Road Safety Officers and Road Safety Advisers do all the school work, however I also employ 30 ADI's who deliver many of our intervention training i.e. Speed Awareness, National Driver Alertness Courses, National Whets Driving Us courses and Driving 4 Change courses.
Hi Rebecca, I know that Martin McIntyre at Liverpool has undertaken a similar initiative, with encouraging results. Martin is available on 0151-233 2440.
Here in Devon we are working with over 300 ADIs who we are providing with Road Safety materials which are used with their students and the student's parents. The project is called the "Honest Truth" and is a partnership of local authorities, emergency service and Driving schools.
I have attached a link to our press release and website for info.
Please give me a ring if you wish to dicuss further.
We also have an ADI panel comprising 50 who work in the Gwent region. They work with us and other agencies on the Megadrive programme for colleges. We have found them to be enthusiastic and reliable professionals.
We recently ran an evening seminar at which the police Crash Investigation Team gave a presentation. This went down very well and we hope to do further sessions in future to tie in with anticipated CPD rquirements.
i have been working with ADIs in Croydon for the pass four years and have engaged a Young Driver Awareness Summer Project for the pass 3 years. You say you don't think 'allowing young drivers to drive off road is a good idea' yet we find this an excellent way of passing road safety messages. You need (driving instructors)to change the way they approach this - from driving tuition to road safety driving. we introduce driving distractions such as mobile phones, peer presure and loud noise. We also include (simulate) drunk driving through 'goggles'. In - car safety instruction is given on site refering to seat belts, tyres, mirrors and general maintenance. This is an excellent way of getting the message across; it is a fun way allowing students to understand the basics of driving and how to keep safe, before they actually take to the road.


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The Memorial is to be paid for with 100% private funds. To make this happen we need participation by all Marines and related Navy personnel, foundations, associations, trusts and individuals. The names of donors will be listed on the website (without amounts) and at the Memorial in an interactive kiosk. All donations are fully tax deductible.


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Q: Cannot Upgrade Xcode App Crashes After IOS 7.0.3 Upgrade I am in a world of pain so confused.
I have updated my ipad and iphone to ios7.
I have been developing with titanium mobile and when i open my project in xcode and trying to run on the device i now get this error.

No provisioned iOS devices are available with a compatible iOS
  version. Connect an iOS device with a recent enough version of iOS to
  run your application or choose an iOS simulator as the destination.

So after googling around i notice i am running xcode Version 4.6.3 (4H1503). So i thought i might need to be update.
So i went to the mac store found xcode and then clicked update, and i know get this error.
Xcode can't be installed on "Macintosh HD" because Mac OS X version 10.8.4 or later is required.

So i done some more googling and now i am here all the links i find take me back to the app store where i get the above error.
Can someone please help, after updating to io7 version 7.0.3. My app now crashes so i need to debug on the device to find out why this is happen
Help
UPDATE
my mac is running Software  Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) and when i click check for updates i get this alert.
Software Update doesn't have any new software for your computer at this time.

A: You need to upgrade your mac to the OS X Mavericks. Click the Apple icon on the top left and select "App Store...". Search for "Mavericks". Click "Free upgrade" (yes it is free :-). After that you will be able to upgrade Xcode to 5.x release.


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James P. Allison: Crusading for cancer immunotherapy
May 6, 2020 in 75th Anniversary, Newsletter
In the late 1960s, James Allison became enthralled by T cells in an undergraduate classroom at the University of Texas at Austin. T cells, newly discovered at time, are immune cells that travel through the body, hunting for invaders or abnormal cells that might cause harm. When they find something suspicious, they multiply and eliminate the threat.
Curious, Allison sought out his professor after class for more details: how do these cells recognize pathogens? What makes them decide to proliferate? What drives them to attack invaders — and what holds them back? He was disappointed to learn that his professor had no answers; scientists knew little about these cells and their astonishing abilities.
Allison at a MD Anderson Research Facility in Smithville, Texas
[Courtesy of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center]
A few years later, Allison launched his research career and began searching for answers to those questions. Many of his discoveries along the way represent the logical trajectory of a fascination with T cells, but no one could have predicted that his work would also give rise to a promising new approach for treating cancer.
"I never considered myself a cancer biologist," Allison says. "I really was just trying to figure out how T cells worked." While working out the details of T-cell behavior, Allison also learned how they interact with tumors, enabling him to harness them for new cancer treatment strategies that have already saved countless lives.
Finding the Holy Grail
When Allison accepted his first faculty position in 1977 at MD Anderson Cancer Center, he decided to tackle an ambitious project: "The holy grail of immunology of that time was the antigen receptor — the thing that T cells use to recognize stuff that ought not to be there," he recalls. "I figured out a strategy using biochemistry and making some assumptions about what [the receptor] should look like and then succeeded in working out something that had all those properties."
Allison and his colleagues published that they had found the long-sought-for T-cell antigen receptor in 1982 and waited for a response from the scientific community. The field at the time was highly competitive, and initially, researchers viewed the data skeptically.
Then one day, Allison received a call from one of the leading T-cell biologists in the world, Philippa Marrack from the National Jewish Hospital and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, who asked him to present his data at an upcoming conference. "To tell you the truth, I was scared!" says Allison. "I didn't have any kind of name recognition or anything." But he accepted the invitation and presented his work.
Unbeknownst to Allison at the time, Marrack had already confirmed his results. Following Allison's talk, she presented research from her own laboratory verifying that Allison had in fact identified the T-cell receptor. "Everybody accepted it at that point," he says.
The T-cell receptor is a small protein on the surface of the cell that recognizes foreign proteins on other cells. When it meets one of these foreign proteins, it triggers a chain reaction that directs the immune response. Essentially, Allison had identified the T-cell start button and had simultaneously opened the door for scientists to begin to tease out exactly how T cells coordinate their assault on pathogens.
Within a few years, researchers realized that the T-cell receptor needed another molecule to assist in activation. Allison's team began looking for the second start button and identified the protein CD28 in 1992. CD28 drew their attention to another similar protein, CTLA-4, which initially appeared to represent a third start button. However, Allison's team, along with members of Jeffrey Bluestone's laboratory, then at the University of Chicago, suspected that CTLA-4 served as a checkpoint that shuts down the T-cell response to prevent the immune system from running rampant. Scientists debated for at least two years, until finally Bluestone and Allison independently confirmed that CTLA-4 decelerates and eventually blocks T-cell activity.
Disabling the Brakes
While the CTLA-4 debate transpired, Allison dabbled in a side project in his lab. "I always sort of had cancer in the back of my mind," says Allison, who lost his mother, two uncles, and a brother to cancer.
Since the late 1800s, scientists had aspired to use the immune system to thwart cancer, but after a widespread series of failures, the idea had fallen out of favor. "People were making a lot of arguments about why the immune system would never be good at treating cancer," Allison recalls. One prevailing view was that cancer arose from the body's own cells, so unlike a viral infection, there was nothing foreign in a tumor to incite the immune system. "I always thought that was silly. After all, we can reject whole [transplanted] livers and entire organs — kidneys — because of a single molecule mismatch."
Allison's team initially altered tumors to force the immune system to recognize them. Promising early results in mice confirmed that the immune system could identify and target cancer cells, but it didn't look feasible to implement this approach clinically. They next tried a vaccination approach by injecting tumor proteins into mice to initiate an immune response, but they encountered a lot of technical problems and eventually abandoned the project.
In the midst of these struggles, Allison realized that T cells activate when they encounter tumor cells, but at the same time, CTLA-4 begins to block their response. "It's just sort of a clock; it turns the T cells off after a time," Allison explains. A tumor is large compared with other pathogens or infected cells the immune system encounters, so he reasoned that T cells simply don't have enough time to conquer the tumor before they are shut off again by CTLA-4 activity.
"I thought, well, let's just disable the brakes with an antibody against CTLA-4 and keep [T cells] going as long as we need to so that they can take the tumor out," Allison says. He and his team did exactly that. The process they developed, now referred to as immune checkpoint inhibition, essentially deactivates the T-cell shut-off switch, leaving T cells active long enough to fight the tumor.
"And it worked! To my surprise, it worked amazingly well. In most tumor models we looked at, it would just melt the tumors completely."
The team tested their approach on spontaneous tumors and clinically induced tumors. They treated multiple mouse strains to be sure the response wasn't specific to a certain type of mouse, and they explored cancers in a wide variety of tissues. "It worked so broadly that I said this has got to work in humans," Allison reports.
Allison wrote a patent for his checkpoint inhibitor therapy strategy and started searching for a biotechnology company to develop the drug.
Allison (left) with fellow awardees Evelyn Witkin and Stephen Elledge at the 2015 Lasker Luncheon
Unchecking T Cells
Allison eventually connected with a company called Medarex that was willing to take a chance on blocking CTLA-4 to allow T cells enough time to conquer a tumor. Medarex developed the treatment and started a phase I trial in 2001.
"Usually, phase I is just to look for safety and dose escalation," Allison explains. "But it worked in three people with melanoma. At that time, there was no drug at all that had ever extended life for melanoma patients."
Anti-CTLA-4, Anti-PD-1, and the two together extend the length of time that patients live without worsening. The combination therapy works better than either agent alone.
[Courtesy of Cassio Lynm]
After a long, bumpy road of extensive testing, The US Food and Drug Administration approved this checkpoint inhibitor therapy in 2011, making it the first new treatment for advanced melanoma approved in over 13 years.
Recent studies following up on the early trials indicated that 22% of patients with advanced melanoma — a disease that previously claimed the lives of 50% of patients within a year of diagnosis — lived at least 10 years after treatment. "I think that with some tweaks here and there, we can get that [percentage] up higher," Allison said.
In collaboration with his research partner and spouse, Padmanee Sharma at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Allison is now studying exactly what happens in T cells when checkpoints are blocked and what downstream repercussions that has on other cells in the body. The team is also collecting tumor tissues and blood from patients with cancer treated with a wide array of therapies to find out what is happening on a cellular level in each case. The immediate goal is to collect enough data for clinicians to make informed choices about combining therapies. In the long term, they hope that these studies will shed light on why some patients don't respond to treatment and reveal ways to modify the treatment to achieve the best outcome for each individual.
Within a few years, Allison expects that checkpoint inhibitor therapy will succeed in the majority of patients with cancers where the treatment currently performs well, not in only 22%. And he anticipates that new research and modifications to existing approaches will increase the number of cancer types that yield to this groundbreaking therapy.
"We're not going to cure all of cancer; that's absurd," he says. "I think what the future holds is that immunology is going to be a component of all treatments."
by Kristie Nybo
Related Awards:
2015 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
Unleashing the immune system to combat cancer
James P. Allison
© 2021 Albert And Mary Lasker Foundation


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Marina Abramović on using VR and empathy to help save the world
A FUTURE WORLDART & PHOTOGRAPHY 15.05.2019
Text Ashleigh Kane
The performance artist speaks on becoming an avatar, her prophecy for the next 100 years, and shares personal advice on how to love the Earth
Marina Abramović is nestled in her bed when the Skype video window opens to her face. It's 10 am in New York City, where she's lived since 2001. "It's such a grey day here," she groans into the microphone. "There are no leaves on the trees." I glance outside my window. "It's raining in London," I reply. But the day's gloomy demeanour is just a blip of concern in our conversation. I've phoned Abramović to gauge her thoughts on the increasing climate crisis as her VR experience Rising (2018) goes on show at the Venice Biennale.
Rising summons these fears to the surface as a virtual avatar of Abramović stands in a glass box slowly filling with water. As she beckons to approach her, she suddenly disappears and virtual me is dropped into the middle of the Arctic sea, alone on a wooden dock rocking turbulently against the swell as ice caps melt and plummet into the water around me. Back in the room with the glass tank, the water succeeds over Abramović's head. She gasps and gurgles until she drowns. It's frightening and overwhelming, and I've only experienced it via the app on my phone. "It is very different when you are surrounded by the image," she warns. "You really feel it with VR because the brain believes what you see is true. So it is very important that this experience is in the VR space." She adds that the player will be standing on a real moving platform: "So you really feel like you're going to fall into the sea. It makes you really panicky."
"I believe the science fiction of the 1970s has become a reality. It's not actually fiction anymore. I am living in New York and it's going to be flooded. We will all be in boats around here" – Marina Abramović
Rising first debuted in 2018 at Stockholm's Brilliant Minds conference (an arm of Stockholm Symposium), as part of the launch of VR arts platform Acute, with Jeff Koons and Olafur Eliasson. After decades of working in the real world with her groundbreaking, time-based performances, Abramović traded her human form into the digital realm to create an avatar of herself. She realised that if she wanted to impact the next generation of policymakers, she had to voice the call-to-action in a language most familiar to them; cutting edge technology. "I was really interested in the idea of videogames and how children are playing the games that are based on aggression, violence, and fear. I was thinking about how I could reach a young audience," she explains. "You need to use their tools; VR and video games. That was the best way for me to reach the audience I might not have been able to reach. I created a situation when they could experience fear and the imbalance of certainty, to see what we can do individually about this."
Marina Abramović, still from the behind the scenes of RisingCourtesy of Acute Art
Her tactic is not only to target new audiences with the experience but to tap into their emotions, and Abramović thinks that empathy evoked in the virtual world could drive them to real-world action. In Rising, her avatar contemplates: "If immersive play will increase empathy for the present and the future victims of climate change, and how this experience with affect players' consciousness and energy. In real life, when someone rescues another person or offers aid of any kind, there is a transfer of energy. The recipient of the help and the provider of aid are both affected by the experience. Will the same happen in virtual reality?"
For decades, Abramović has used art as a tool to confront us with truths we often don't want to accept. As an artist living in a country whose president denies that climate change is occurring, it's unsurprising that she has lent herself to the growing crisis. "Even with all the data, Donald Trump doesn't want to say it exists. It's alarming. I'm so afraid that we will actually experience this in our lifetime," she observes. "The world is racing towards the effects of global warming." And while Rising may feel like a dystopian world far from our own, Abramović's vision could be closer to reality than first appears. In fact, the artist predicts that in the next 100 years, we might have to live digitally, experiencing the world only through our own avatars. "I believe the science fiction of the 1970s has become a reality," she says, her tone ominous. "It's not actually fiction anymore. I am living in New York and it's going to be flooded. We will all be in boats around here."
Despite mounting evidence of rising sea levels, raging wildfires, and increasing surface temperatures, the world at large, including its leaders, has failed to act effectively on climate change. Although Abramović is wary of mixing the roles of artist and activist, she is aware that she holds a responsibility. "I really believe that artists are servants of society who have a duty to communicate certain messages," she says. "Artists need to convey a message that can have multiple layers, and art can definitely say words and influence the way our society thinks."
She offers Rising as an example. "Everybody who has done (Rising) had an emotional experience. I think this emotional experience can actually turn into action on their side – this is the basic idea. That you can be emotionally touched because of your own experience of seeing the melting (ice) in front of your eyes. You start thinking about what you can do on your own to change that."
Abramović cites a video game she played in a restaurant in the north of Japan during the 90s as having had an influence on her desire to work with technology. "They had a video game where you could actually be a firefighter. You ran into an orphanage to save the babies before they got burnt. I remember having like 15 babies in my art and running out of the fire and being so incredibly proud," she recalls. "This feeling of accomplishment. Even if you know it was a videogame and even if you know it was not true, the video game was still so strong and emotional that it never left me. When I was thinking about this videogame, I was thinking the same thing. That you can actually do something good. This feeling of accomplishment and of achieving something is waking up something in you to change the world."
While the outcome of Rising is currently just a fantasy, Abramović's outlook on our reality is just as bleak. "I really don't feel hopeful about the future," she sighs. " I think that our planet's evolution is going through natural processes of self-destruction. There is so much damage that is irreplaceable. Only when there is some serious natural disaster, then we can wake up. It is like we are sleeping. In evolution, there have always been wars when millions of people die. Then history changes and we become optimistic again. This time, it looks like it is going to be a natural disaster to change something."
"Wake up every morning and really generate love for the planet" – Marina Abramović
But it doesn't mean she's given up on an individual level. She shares that she is "really aware of switching off the lights", given the amount of energy consumed in a 24-hour city such as New York. Although she reveals that this behaviour stems back to growing up in communist Yugoslavia. "It comes from poverty," she says. "But I still have the same principles, even if I can pay my electric bills." Abramović is also conscious of plastic bags, running water, and food waste. "This is stuff I've started processing which I didn't do before. To apply this to everyday life is what it is all about," she says. "You need consciousness in everyday life. There are billions of people, so we can definitely change something."
"Wake up every morning and really generate love for the planet," she advises. "Sign the contract with our planet; to do something every day that is good. At least one good thing that can help heal it."
Rising, a virtual reality artwork by Marina Abramović and produced by Acute Art, is being presented by Phi during the 58th Venice Biennale at Palazzo Ca' Rezzonico
Marina Abramović, still from the behind the scenes of Rising. Courtesy of Acute ArtCourtesy of Acute Art
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Agatha Harrison was a British Quaker and a close friend of Gandhi who, with Horace Alexander, contributed significantly to the peaceful transfer of power from the British to the independent governments of India and Pakistan.
Agatha had a faith in the fundamental goodness and responsiveness of human persons. Looking round at our world, we may judge it the least rational of faiths. But those who possess it can win surprising victories
Gerald Bailey; Friends Peace Committee, 1954
Harrison was the daughter of a Methodist minister. She was educated in Jersey and Bristol, and after her father died in 1898, became a pupil teacher at Kent College, Folkestone.
She began work in industrial welfare, first with Boots the Chemist, then with the Metal Box Company, where she championed the rights of women workers. In 1917, she was appointed as an academic tutor in Industrial Welfare at the London School of Economics – the first such post in Britain.
During the First World War, she became a founder member of WIPLF, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and was a major influence on this work. As Sigrid Lund of the UN later wrote, she had a unique capacity to "show intensity and at the same time spread a sense of peace and harmony around her."
In 1921, she was sent by the YWCA to investigate industrial conditions and the problems of child labour in China. Then in 1929, she spent six months looking at labour conditions in India, where she became sympathetic to India's desire for independence.
Harrison helped prepare for Gandhi's visit to England for the Second Round Table Conference on the Future of India, in 1931, and made a great impression upon him. Afterwards, she helped found the India Conciliation Group, which sought to improve understanding of India's political aspirations.
Harrison spent three extended periods in India during the 1930s. She and Gandhi became close friends and she acted as an intermediary for him during his hunger strike in 1939. She was said to understand Gandhi to an extent few people could match.
Harrison joined the Quakers in 1940. Along with Horace Alexander, she travelled to India after the Second World War with the cabinet mission from the new Labour government, which was charged with negotiating with the nationalist leaders. They both worked quietly in the background and were instrumental in persuading Gandhi of the good faith of the British delegation.
When independence was declared on 15 August 1947, Harrison was with the India Conciliation Group at Friends House in London, at a celebration attended by the High Commissioners of both India and Pakistan.
In the months that followed, her skills in mediation were often employed in the effort to control the violence between Muslims and Hindus that marred the transfer of power. In one such instance, she visited a jute factory near Calcutta where Muslim workers had been attacked, introducing herself as someone who had worked with Gandhi and was dedicated to bringing peace between the communities .
She often worked closely with women's groups in India, and attended the All India Women's Conference in 1949.
In 1950, Harrison was one of a team of Quaker observers at the United Nations' General Assembly. Kathleen Lonsdale from WILPF wrote that,
She alone was able to penetrate the thick walls of resentment that surrounded the representatives of the People's Republic of China on their rare appearances in the councils of the UN.
She died in Geneva in 1954, while participating in the conference to end the war in Indo-China.
Speaking at a tribute to her, Krishna Menon (India's first post-independence High Commissioner to London) said:
She had no office or title, and no flags were lowered for her, but all over India people honour her name.
Research project on South Asians' contribution to Britain: Agatha Harrison
Agatha Harrison: Remembrances, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, London 1954
Photograph reproduced by kind permission from the copyright holders The Library of the Religious Society of Friends, London


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Carol Evans, director of the Woodland Trust Scotland said: "Tree of the Year is all about finding trees that are at the heart of local communities and that can bring people together.


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We were honored to serve and also so proud of the countless others who stepped up to help during the disaster and after the blaze was contained. We continue to support rebuilding to repair damaged watersheds and to prevent future incidents through active mitigation efforts.
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On January 28 2010, an International Conference on Afghanistan was held at Lancaster House in London, where members of the international community discussed the further progress on the Petersberg agreement from 2001 on the democratization of Afghanistan after the ousting of the Taliban regime. The one-day conference, hosted by the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and the Afghan government, meant to chart a new course for the future of Afghanistan and brought together foreign ministers and senior representatives from more than 70 countries and international organizations. The conference was also attended by the Afghan president Hamid Karzai, the Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs, the US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, UN envoy Kai Eide and the British Secretary of State David Miliband, as well as the former Afghan minister of finance Ashraf Ghani and former British prime minister Gordon Brown. Afghanistan agreed to timetables to take control of certain military and police functions, and launched a program to lure Taliban insrugents back to mainstream life with financial incentives.
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Tourist Development Council may need to raise $10M
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Consulting engineers have estimated that the county pier has a usable lifespan of five to 10 years but a replacement pier could cost $10 million.
The St. Johns County Tourist Development Council learned this news Monday, but probably suspected something like that already because the county has spent $400,000 over the past year fixing and stabilizing the pier.
But until now no one has directly asked the question: "Where's $10 million coming from?"
Glenn Hastings, executive director of the TDC, said that money "is not something we can come up with in a quick solution. I don't think the TDC will pay 100 percent. (But) we'll have to carry a big portion of that load."
The county spends roughly $800,000 annually for beach services, which include the pier, part of $2.7 million budgeted for the entire 42 miles of coastline from Duval to Flagler.
Billy Zeits, director of beach operations, said Pier Park, adjacent to the pier, contains parking, volleyball nets, a pavilion, restrooms, beach access and a popular splash park, among other amenities.
"In the short term, we're looking at diversifying services to improve attendance. We'd like to landscape (Pier Park) and make parking improvements," Zeits said. "Right now, people pay to fish or sightsee (on the pier). Long range, we're looking at grants and other revenue to develop a sustainable facility."
He said beach tolls and special event permitting are two sources of revenue.
"The demand for the beach is increasing," he said.
However, Zeits said, when considering operating costs, other agencies contribute to the county's clean, accessible and safe beaches, such as Fire-Rescue's Marine Patrol, the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office, St. Augustine Beach and the county's Recreation Department and Environmental Services division.
TDC Chairman Bill Hughes said the beach is "one of the greatest resources we have. (But) what's the draw of the pier? It's going to degrade further because it's in the water. I venture to say that the pier should come down. I don't know where we're going to come up with the money."
TDC member Scott Bartosch said the council "just gave $500,000 to the Amphitheatre. There are times when you have to operate like a business. We're not looking at anyone having to pay for what we provide here."
Council member Irving Kass of St. Augustine said he'd like to see the county "create something that is a draw for both locals and tourists."
Another member, Andrea Samuels, a St. Augustine Beach commissioner, said she was worried that too much change along the city's beach corridor might adversely affect people living there.
"We have to be mindful of our residents," she said.
St. Augustine Mayor Joe Boles, wearing a different hat Monday as a TDC member, suggested that "a beach full of people probably brings more revenue than a pier full of people. Though I've never seen a pier full of people."
Boles said if the county builds a new pier, it will have to go far out.
"Let's find out what benefits (come) from the pier. Let's find out who is actually using it," he said.
Hastings said he's collected three years of visitor survey data and would refresh it with other surveys.
"We have tourism ambassadors who ask people on the beach where they are from," he said.
Boles said to raise $10 million, it will take at least a year to come with a recommendation.
"It will be good and helpful to have information about who is using the pier," he said.


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SRK's 'Pathaan' must fail for RSS ideology to live in India | The Express Tribune
As of today, Indian media is full of news about how watching the film has now turned into a test of your Hindu faith
If there is anything fans from both sides of the border wait for as much as they do for an India-Pakistan cricket match it has to be a Shah Rukh Khan film. Some of you might find this parallel appalling since Pakistan finally started beating India in ICC tournaments, but the fact remains that no star could even orbit around the charm and charisma SRK emits in the cosmos. He has his own pull and unique rules of gravity.
Interestingly, Pakistan's rather short-lived recent stint of Bollywood in local cinemas suggests Salman Khan be the box office favourite on this side of Wagah as well. Stardom, however, isn't just about numbers; it's about sentiments, it's about people not just willing to pay to watch your face, it's also about them willing to live life the way you have lived. Khan is grace, speed and elegance combined into a god that doesn't get added to the pantheon in divinities to come.
Having said that, even gods disappoint. This was exactly how a number of fans felt when they saw Khan's 8 packs and Deepika Padukone's skimpiest wardrobe combined in a song that was more 'Besharam' than 'Rang'. They got so riled up after watching the first song from Pathaan that Khan had to pat himself on the back and say, "We will remain alive and positive." Alive perhaps being the keyword here.
Dirty, dirty, Deepika
What started off as a discussion about what fans liked and disliked about Besharam Rang, soon turned into a debate about Padukone's 'objectionable' wardrobe and how everything about the song was 'dirty' to the core. This new dirty debate was being led by the representatives of the BJP-led fascist government in India.
"The costumes in the song at first glance are objectionable. It is clearly visible that the song of the film Pathaan has been shot with a dirty mindset. I don't think this is right, and I will tell the director and makers of the film to fix it. Earlier as well, Deepika Padukone came in the support of Tukde Tukde Gang at JNU and that's why her mentality has come in front of everyone before," said Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra. He sounds so shocked and surprised it seems that the minister has either just woken up to women flaunting their gorgeous bodies in Bollywood or he clearly has a personal issue with Padukone and Pathaan.
As expected with most moral policing it didn't stop with Minister Mishra. Hindutva right-wingers just kept adding fuel to the fire with the National Spokesperson of the Hindu Right Wing outfit Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) highlighting the colour of Padukone's dress and Khan's faith.
"Calling saffron shameless, showing a Hindu woman wearing a saffron dress and becoming a puppet of Islamic Jihadis. Is it a bold scene? There is a limit to anti-Hinduism too! Hindu society will no longer be able to tolerate these Tukde Tukde gang members who tarnish Bollywood by defaming it," said Vinod Bansal, National Spokesperson of VHP.
As of today, Indian media is full of news about how watching the film has now turned into a test of your Hindu faith. Is there truly something so vulgar and inappropriate about Padukone's wardrobe that the country and its politicians have come to a standstill in order to call her out? Rutuja Deshmukh, who is a visiting faculty of Indian cinema and history at Savitribai Phule Pune University, doesn't think so.
Muslim, Muslim Shah Rukh
She says what we need to understand is that a film like Pathaan can longer be viewed from an aesthetic lens. "We have moved far beyond that," Deshmukh told The Express Tribune in a telephonic conversation. "The RSS and the peddlers of the Hindutva narrative are no longer on the fringe, they are very much in the mainstream and in power. Whether it's Besharam Rang or something else, it is irrelevant to RSS and the BJP-led government in India. It's all about the Muslim superhero now and not letting him or his stardom breathe."
Deshmukh pointed at the utter chaos of ministers giving public statements such as whoever watches Pathaan is a traitor and that 'we will not allow Pathaan to breathe in cinemas'. "This pattern has been set, the same happened with Brahmastra, and that's because Hindi cinema (often referred to as Bollywood) is the last remaining bastion of syncretism in India. There was a time when we would fight over which Khan was the best of them all and a daughter having Shah Rukh Khan's poster in her bedroom didn't irk the parents as it does today," she elaborated.
For Deshmukh, it was stalwarts such as Majrooh Sultanpuri who ended up weaving a Hindi cinema fabric that was if not equal but open to all, which in itself, was a matter of pride and ownership. That is no longer the case and today's India is a far cry from the India where she and her peers grew up in.
"For the current regime, it is very important that Pathaan fails at the box office. Because in case Pathaan ends up succeeding then it would reaffirm that no matter how small an audience, Muslim stars still rule India and more importantly, stardom and fandom are above any faith or religion," she said.
Sanitised symphonies
Buddhaditya Bhattacharyya is a trained musician in Hindustani Classical, currently pursuing his Ph.D. in music from the University of Durham. He actually liked the song, Besharam Rang, from the point of view of how they had included Spanish lyrics and drawn out a composition from Raag Bhairuv which is theorised to have reached Andalusia via the wandering gypsy tribes of the time. "So this was actually a quite reasonable musical amalgamation, sadly enough, the conversation has now shifted towards a rather political reading of the song," Bhattacharya told The Express Tribune.
He felt just like Khan is being made to answer for his identity in the India that gave him his stardom, the new wave of extremism has taken a toll on the music and the musicians as well, albeit not as overtly. "You can gradually see Islamicate tropes vanishing from Bollywood music and that's bound to happen when the conversation is made to shift from the quality of the song to the actor's wardrobe," said Bhattacharya.
He felt that popular names like A R Rahman have maintained a cordial relationship with people in the current government, primarily because they choose to be apolitical. "Which I believe is the biggest political statement in itself. Even stalwarts like Ustaad Zakir Hussain and Rashid Khan, who was also awarded a Padmabhushan in 2021 by the current government, ensure it is only their art that remains in focus, and for some reason, the right-wing establishment isn't also bothered by their Muslim identity," Bhattacharya explained.
He pointed the readers towards the YouTube comments section of Besharam Rang which was mostly full of praises and raised the question of whether an organised smear campaign against the film will actually take a toll on the fan love and box office numbers. Or, adding to Buddha's question, perhaps the entire controversy might end up helping Pathaan make even bigger numbers at the box office.
"I don't think BJP's campaign is going to backfire for them," Deshmukh responded to the question. "Right now the exhibitors are so scared of the possible unrest Pathaan's release might trigger in India that they are skeptical about playing the film in the first place. If Pathaan still ends up raking box office numbers then it would be truly miraculous."
She concluded by saying that this opposition by Hindutva right-wingers has only turned an untainted, family-friendly, Muslim superstar like Khan into a site of protest. "Unfortunately we have come to a point in India, where watching Pathaan can be viewed as an act of protest. I'll go and watch it as an act of protest."
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