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An Open Letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
January 1, 2016 January 17, 2014 by Morgan Wick
To: Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler
CC: Other FCC commissioners, the United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, the House Energy Subcommittee on Communications and Technology (and any other interested members of the House of Representatives), the National Association of Broadcasters, and all concerned citizens reading on MorganWick.com
I read with interest the chairman's remarks last Thursday to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. One thing in particular stood out to me:
Historically, the government allocated spectrum for specific uses or applications. The realities of analog transmission meant that each application, whether television broadcasting or a walkie-talkie, required its own assigned chunk of spectrum. As the IP revolution has meant that a voice call looks just like a television show – a collection of 0s and 1s – the analog-inspired spectrum silos have become an impediment to advancement. Put another way, one of the revolutions through which we are living is the reworking of analog spectrum concepts to the new digital realities.
Slavishly sticking to analog age concepts of spectrum allocation can become, in the digital age, a government-imposed chokepoint that burdens competition and innovation by creating unnecessary and artificial scarcity of this essential resource. The spectrum allocation chart is chock-full of allocation decisions made on analog concepts that are no longer valid today. We need to bring more spectrum capacity to market – and fast…
Change is difficult, especially when your business – in this case the broadcast business – provides a valuable national service, but does so in an environment in which increasingly over-the-air is only one of the platforms available to distribute video. When Congress created the Broadcast Incentive Auction in 2012, it was recognizing that spectrum allocated on analog technical principles for analog business models may no longer be preferable for businesses in the digital age. The wisdom of its decision (and I don't use that word lightly – it was wise) was to let the market, rather than lawyers and Washington "Wise Men," make spectrum allocation decisions through an incentive auction…
Broadcast licenses are 6 MHz of spectrum – the old amount necessary to transmit an analog waveform. A digital television channel, however, does not require the full 6MHz of spectrum. In the new digital environment that 6MHz of spectrum can deliver 19.4 mbps of throughput – far more than is necessary to transmit a standard definition or even a high definition TV channel. This means that the 6 MHz of spectrum once required for a single analog television channel now provides sufficient capacity for multiple television signals to coexist comfortably. The FCC is changing its rules to allow licensees to share capacity inside that 6 MHz, maintain their broadcast carriage rights on cable (which is 90 percent of their viewing homes anyway), and walk off with a big check from selling their old spectrum.
I cannot remember a point in history when it has been simpler, safer, or more profitable for an incumbent service provider to take advantage of new technology. Typically, new technology plows under the old business models; in this case, however, the FCC is overseeing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for profitable repurposing of an important business activity. That this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is not hyperbole. The rebanding associated with this auction is hard enough; when it is done the ability to do it again will be virtually nil. There will not be another round of broadcast incentive auctions.
I fully agree with the chairman's position that the 6 MHz channels each broadcast station is allocated is an outdated relic of the analog era, and would go further and say that the broadcast incentive auctions represent a chance to correct Congress' error in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in mostly maintaining the existing television spectrum framework, with each incumbent station owner receiving 6 MHz of spectrum to commence digital broadcasting, the only concession to the increased efficiency allowed by digital broadcasting being the ability to operate additional channels in the space. This amounted to a windfall for incumbent station owners, some of them local but many of them large national corporations, that was in part responsible for the decided underutilization of spectrum freed up by the digital transition, which the chairman's predecessor likened to a set of "empty boxcars". Many if not most stations have opened up second subchannels with which to air programming, but most of them have been uninspiring, many of them being nothing but endless cheap reruns of classic TV shows, and combined with the lack of must-carry the audiences have been correspondingly miniscule, with the possible exception of subchannels filling network affiliations there otherwise would not be enough stations in the market for.
I also agree with the broader point that government spectrum allocation policy should mirror the dissolving boundaries between different media and uses that characterized the pre-Internet era, and that the coming spectrum auctions represent a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to optimize our use of spectrum, one it may be impossible to have again. It is therefore all the more imperative that we get it right.
It is easy to see, despite all the chairman's claims, why broadcasters might perceive the spectrum auctions as a threat to their livelihoods, if not a potential death knell for their business. In many ways, America's broadcast television industry is in a state of crisis, one caused in part by decades of neglect in the face of the rise of cable. An industry once prided on localism is now dominated by humongous conglomerates who exploit loopholes in the rules and merge with one another to become even more humongous. As the use of free, over-the-air television has shrunk, audiences have declined with it even with the continued presence of stations on cable, and cable networks have increasingly used their dual revenue streams of advertising and subscription revenue to produce a steady march of sports events away from broadcast and produce scripted programming of higher quality than it seems possible for broadcast stations, tasked to produce value for advertisers alone and subject to FCC rules not applied to cable networks, to provide. Many Americans may not even be aware that it is still possible to watch free broadcast television over-the-air, if it ever was, let alone that many of the issues many people associate with broadcasting in the analog era are a thing of the past if you live in the right area with the right antenna. Even as broadcasting survives despite all these challenges, they now must face the rise of the Internet and the competition it provides for viewing video, as well as the concurrent voracious demand for spectrum it has produced in the wireless companies with the rise of smartphones and tablets. Despite the chairman's claims, we all know that the vast majority of the spectrum available in the incentive auction will wind up in the hands of the big wireless companies AT&T and Verizon, with most if not all of the scraps going to Sprint and T-Mobile. With the past twenty years seemingly consisting of one win over another for cable over broadcast, many in broadcasting feel that those making money in cable see them as a nuisance they'd love to destroy, and that the big wireless companies see them as spectrum hogs to be swept out of the way.
Yet despite all of this, in another sense things have never been better for broadcasting, certainly not since the rise of cable. The rise of the Internet, which has posed such a challenge for broadcasters, may be an even bigger threat to cable networks, as combined with outrage over rising cable prices it has fueled rising interest in "cord-cutting", dropping cable subscriptions in favor of a combination of free over-the-air television and watching shows on-demand over the Internet. Although cord-cutting is much talked about, it has so far failed to catch on, in large part because cable companies are doing everything in their power to keep people tethered to their cable, but already cable subscriptions appear to have plateaued and begun to decrease. As cord-cutting catches on, cable networks will find their revenues drastically reduced, many of them going out of business, and broadcasters could find themselves in prime position to regain much of their lost audience and prestige.
But broadcast television seems to be rarely mentioned in discussions of cord-cutting, and the attitude of broadcasters towards it seems to be ambivalent at best. Judging by the headlines of broadcasters' legal fights against the Aereo service, one might even come to the conclusion that broadcasters see cord-cutting as just another threat to their livelihoods. This seemingly counterintuitive outcome is the unintended result of something that may well be, at least on the surface, a vital reason why broadcasting has managed to survive to this point, but ultimately may turn out to be the most insidious threat of all, one threatening to unravel broadcasting from within, the retransmission consent program that has helped to level the playing field and allow broadcasters to collect their own cut of the subscriber fees that have proven so lucrative for cable networks. But as retransmission consent revenue has become an increasingly important part of broadcasters' bottom line, they find their interests increasingly aligned with those of cable operators, with the result that not even broadcasters come off as very good guardians of America's broadcast infrastructure. I am disappointed in the chairman's advertising the ability to keep stations' must-carry rights on cable, dismissing any concerns over broadcasters' reduced spectrum since cable represents "90 percent of their viewing homes anyway". Once broadcast stations are treated as just another sort of cable channel, once the broadcast infrastructure that distinguishes them from the cable networks is disregarded, the result is inevitable, and is already beginning to be seen in the threats of Fox and others to pull their most highly-rated programming off of over-the-air broadcast television and put it entirely on cable if they don't get their way with Aereo. The informed consumer must infer that if a substantial number of people begin cord-cutting, the media companies would do the same thing.
Retransmission consent is, of course, not the only thing dampening broadcasters' enthusiasm for cord-cutting. The somewhat muted role of broadcasting in discussions of cord-cutting is in part due to limited awareness of America's broadcast infrastructure as mentioned before, but also because the Internet – what the chairman calls America's "fourth network revolution" – potentially poses an existential threat to the very notion of traditional linear television, broadcast or cable. As, in the chairman's language, the Internet becomes another "platform available to distribute video", it renders superfluous and seemingly archaic traditional television's requirement to tune in to a particular channel at a particular time on an immobile, fixed device to watch the program you want to watch. What, then, is the role of traditional linear television when the Internet offers the promise of watching what you want, when you want it, on any device you choose?
The answer may lie in the "when" part, and in particular some revealing aspects of the technical details of how the Internet works. Suppose you want to watch a recent episode of The Simpsons, so you go to hulu.com, find the episode you're looking for, and click it. Your computer sends a request to Hulu for the episode, and begins downloading the episode from Hulu's servers. If another user wants to watch the same episode, their computer goes through the same process. From Hulu's perspective, the two computers represent two different connections and Hulu delivers the episode to them separately, even if they're the exact same episode. If both computers are using the same ISP (or wireless provider), that ISP makes two different connections to Hulu and delivers the episode to the two computers separately. This works fairly well when anyone can watch any video they want at any time they want. But if both computers want to watch a live sporting event streaming on WatchESPN.com (or any other site), they go through the exact same process, their separate computers pulling up the stream separately and their ISP pulling it up and delivering it to them separately, even though they are watching the exact same thing at the same time. That doesn't happen with an over-the-air broadcast signal, or even a cable channel. Broadcasters call this their "one-to-many" architecture; the way I would put it, the Internet is great at delivering a lot of programs to a few people, but broadcasting is better at delivering a few programs to a lot of people.
For years now video has made up the bulk of Internet traffic despite not making up that large of a proportion of Internet usage, due to the sheer levels of bandwidth it consumes. I would argue that a big reason for wireless companies' voracious appetite for spectrum in the first place has to do with the strain video puts on their network. The wireless companies have come up with a number of short- and long-term solutions to the problem, with one approach being to effectively go into broadcasting themselves. But it's also easy to see AT&T's recently-announced plan to not count certain web sites against monthly data caps as aimed primarily at sites that offer video, much as Comcast has charged Netflix's video carrier to stream Netflix content. It is easy to see that placing too much onus on the Internet to deliver video poses a serious threat to net neutrality, the cornerstone of the open internet. The wireless companies should see it in their interest to create a strong broadcasting industry if only to take some of the load off their own networks.
If, as the chairman claims, broadcasting (and linear television more generally) is one of many uses that are indistinguishable bunches of zeroes and ones in the digital age, it makes sense that broadcasting, if (as I suspect) it has a future, should be able to reach any device the consumer wants. Unfortunately, on this score our current broadcast standard falls woefully short. The FCC approved the ATSC standard in 1996, a time when no one could have imagined the ways in which our consumption of media would be revolutionized over the next decade, let alone the next two; it has only been iteratively modified since then. There are a number of shortcomings to the ATSC standard as a result, but one of the more serious ones is that it effectively closed off the portable TV market that had existed for most of the analog era, being designed primarily for traditional, fixed, stationary receivers. Perhaps there were sound technical reasons why portable television could not be accommodated by the same standard as fixed television (Europe's DVB standard had and has separate standards for fixed and mobile television), but it proved to be precisely the wrong direction for television to move in once smartphones and tablets became ubiquitous. The television industry's response has been to add a kludge to the existing standard to accommodate mobile devices, but it is poorly supported and has even poorer awareness – and more to the point, it's an optional add-on, so stations like ABC's O&Os are perfectly free to forego it and try to force people to sign up for cable to use their WatchABC app instead.
When the chairman justifies reducing the amount of spectrum allotted to each station by noting that 6 MHz is "far more spectrum than is necessary to transmit…a high definition channel" (though not quite enough to accommodate two HD signals without significant quality degradation, or even one HD and two SD signals), he overlooks that the television industry is already in the process of introducing 4K, which offers the promise of even higher definition than HD offers, to say nothing of broadcasters' own efforts to capitalize on the digital revolution with their existing spectrum and infrastructure. And when the chairman declares this a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity", he is either ignoring or shutting out the industry's efforts towards ATSC 3.0, an effort to fix the existing ATSC standard's issues while achieving enough other gains to justify another transition on the scale of the digital transition. The commission would be wise to coordinate the incentive auction with any transition to ATSC 3.0, but that would require postponing it until the new standard is ready, which wouldn't happen until 2016 at the earliest. The chairman should be applauded for postponing the auction of broadcast spectrum to 2015 to ensure the FCC has everything it needs to operate the unprecedented reverse auction, but it should strongly consider a further postponement and backing the industry's efforts towards ATSC 3.0, which should include the flexibility to minimize future transitions and, if possible and desirable, a single standard for fixed and mobile devices.
The commission, along with Congress, should also reassess the business models of both the broadcast and cable television industries, including a serious reconsideration of the retransmission consent regime. The question should be asked: do we truly still believe in and wish to uphold and continue the notion of free, over-the-air television as the principle that was the cornerstone of the television industry for decades? If so, the commission should consider allowing broadcast television a revenue stream that will allow them to compete with cable without making them so dependent on it that they are willing to destroy the village in order to save it. Personally, I think we will decide we still believe in free over-the-air television as more than just welfare for the poor. Broadcasters will speak of disseminating emergency information and other news as the reason why; I prefer to look at something on one level more frivolous but on another level gets closer to the heart of the issue. One specific element of rising cable prices attracting increasing outrage is how cable networks have increasingly been paying more and more money for sports – exactly the sort of live event where linear television still thrives – and then charging cable operators increased subscriber fees for them, capitalizing on live sports' immunity to time-shifting to attract a captive audience that will demand the channel no matter what, while the fees are passed on to everybody, whether or not they actually watch sports (let alone are part of that captive audience). Whether because of consumer choice, cable operator desperation, Congressional action, or something the commission itself does, it seems like at some point something is going to happen to ensure that only those who want to watch the sports will have to pay for it. But that means a sporting event using that system will only attract those willing to pay for it, not a wide swath of the American public; the Super Bowl wouldn't be nearly as popular as it is if you had to pay more than $50 to see it (or $10 a month to see the channel it's on). Free over-the-air television is one of the last refuges of a unifying, mass American culture, a place where Americans can engage in a shared experience, something that, in the age of cable television and the Internet, is fast disappearing.
Multiple of the chairman's predecessors recently testified to a Congressional subcommittee considering a reworking of America's communications law advocating a "technology-neutral" approach to regulation that did away with "regulatory silos" and instead treated services performing equivalent functions equivalently. The thicket of rules establishing the relationship between broadcast stations and cable operators, many of them established by 1992 and fundamentally in place by 1996, is clearly outdated; that Aereo can effectively exploit a loophole in the retransmission consent rules shows that those rules are anything but "technology-neutral", possibly unenforceable as a result, and a potential throttle on innovation. Congress should work to open the floodgates of innovation and allow as much freedom as possible for the distribution of video, regardless of the specific technology used or adherence to concepts derived from a 1990s worldview, while protecting the consumer and allowing free over-the-air broadcast television to continue to compete and innovate in a sustainable fashion. Allowing broadcast television to reach the consumer on whatever device they wish is clearly vital to that goal.
The commission should also reconsider how the structure of the broadcast spectrum will look after it has been repacked; dividing the broadcast spectrum into blocks and assigning each market a block with a centralized transmission site would serve to strengthen our broadcast TV infrastructure rather than potentially weaken it, undoing some damage done by the digital transition and making it easier for new and smaller stations to compete, but it would necessitate further coordination with Canada and Mexico and thus may require a further postponement of the auction in its own right. It would also effectively involve (as the incentive auctions might necessitate anyway) the FCC getting into the business of defining TV markets, and as such it should seriously reconsider its reliance on Nielsen's market lists, which display an astounding lack of openness for something used by government agencies, forcing Wikipedia to stop using its rankings and, after Truckads.com became somewhat popular as a source for what counties were in what DMAs, suing them and apparently forcing them to make subtle changes so as not to match the actual DMA boundaries. More to the point, no new markets have been added or old markets removed since the mid-90s, and the spread of cable has fossilized many markets and left them unable to change; specifically, since any change in market boundaries is based on what stations the people in that market watch, the FCC's requirement for satellite companies to determine what stations to deliver to what areas based on DMAs effectively makes them self-perpetuating. Ideally stations themselves, facilitated by the FCC, should determine where they want to set up and negotiate with one another to share sites, which should produce an organically-determined map the FCC and Nielsen would hold to that could allow submarkets within larger markets to split off, or allowing other markets to merge, if circumstances warrant.
This is a critical time in the history of America's telecommunications industry, as government and the market struggles to adapt to a new reality with the potential to overturn every single assumption underlying the distribution of video for the past thirty years, if not the past fifty. It is my hope that the FCC and Congress eventually follows a course of action that results in the best outcome for America and America's consumers, and that the American public will pay attention and pressure government to do the right thing, as they make decisions with the potential to impact America's consumption of video for generations to come. As the FCC moves forward with its incentive auctions, I hope it recognizes that the impact they will have on America's communications landscape puts the onus on them to ensure the best outcome for all parties involved, not just special interests.
Morgan Wick
Concerned Citizen and Blogger
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Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan
Did Pinarayi Vijayan Hide CAG Findings From Kerala Assembly?
Despite the CAG's findings, the chief minister stated in the House that all was well
Rejimon Kuttappan
Published on : 17 Feb, 2020 , 2:43 pm
In April 2019, the Kerala government was updated by Central Audit and General (CAG) that the state police chief and his department have failed in following purchase norms set by Central Vigilance Commission and store purchase manual.
However, The Lede has found that even two months after being updated on the alleged corruption, Pinarayi Vijayan, the chief minister of Kerala who is also holding the state home ministry portfolio, stated in the state assembly in June 2019, that all is well in police purchases.
He was responding to a question raised by VT Balram, an Indian National Congress (INC) MLA on fund utilisation under the Modernisation of Police Force (MOPF).
"The state police department has followed all norms set by state and central government agencies. Between 2016 and 2019-20, there have been purchases of items worth Rs 151 crore. In all purchases, all norms have been followed," Pinarayi told the assembly.
However, by auditing the state police performance between 2013 and 2018, the CAG had found that the police chief and his department have failed in following norms in many instances leading to corruption and loss of money for the state.
In an exit conference, the CAG had updated the same by submitting its audit findings in writing with the additional chief secretary of the home department and state police chief.
And The Lede has found that during 2016-17 the state police department had bought bullet-resistant vehicles violating the store purchase manual norms.
Bullet Resistant Vehicles
The MOPF Scheme Book 2010, issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, which governs the procurement, accounting and audit arrangements for MOPF stipulates that procurement of vehicles for VIP security is inadmissible under the scheme.
The store purchase manual of Kerala also provided for resorting to open tenders (invitation to tender by public advertisement), as a general rule, in cases of procurement of items costing above Rs 10 lakh.
And the AAP 2016-17 allocated Rs 1.26 crore to the police department for procurement of two Bullet Resistant vehicles.
An administrative sanction was accorded in January 2017 by Kerala for purchase of two bullet-resistant vehicles for Rs 1.26 crore to ensure security of VIPs, VVIPs and Z+ category visitors to the state.
The administrative sanction was accorded by the Kerala government subject to the condition that the relevant provisions contained in the store purchase manual/open tender shall be strictly followed in all cases of purchases/software development.
Audit observed that the state police chief, without calling for open tender as required under the store purchase manual, constituted a technical committee which evaluated in July 2017 vehicles from three manufacturers and recommended the purchase of Mitsubishi Pajero from M/s. Hindustan Motors Finance Corporation Ltd., for Rs 55.02 lakh.
Subsequently, the department placed supply order in August 2017 with M/s. Hindustan Motors Finance Corporation Ltd. for two bullet-resistant vehicles without inviting tenders at a total cost of Rs 1.10 crore.
Audit observed that the SPC had as early as in April 2017, obtained the specifications and Proforma Invoice from the suppliers of 'Mitsubishi Pajero Sport' much before the meeting of the technical committee in July 2017, clearly indicating that the vehicle had been identified for purchase and that there was no intention to procure the vehicle under open tender or even limited tender.
Prior sanction of the Kerala government was also not sought for by the SPC before making an advance payment of Rs 33 lakh to the supplier in September 2017.
According to CAG, the SPC in procuring the Bullet Resistant Vehicles violated MOPF scheme guidelines which prohibited procurement of vehicles for VIP/VVIP security utilising MOPF funds.
"More seriously, Audit observed that the SPC was persistently and knowingly violating the MOPF scheme guidelines because an earlier Concurrent Evaluation of the MOPF Scheme in Kerala, conducted by the MHA in September 2014 had pointed out that similar vehicles purchased earlier under MOPF and deployed for VVIP security purposes were against MOPF scheme guidelines. Further, the action of the SPC in placing the supply order and releasing the advance amount without inviting tenders violated extant norms," the CAG report reveals.
Thus, the procurement of the Bullet Resistant Vehicles was unauthorised and was effected in complete violation of the conditions stipulated in the store purchase manual.
Evading Questions In Assembly
Interestingly, an unstarred question was asked by MLA P Ubaidulla in the assembly on February 03 this year.
The question was addressed to Pinarayi who is also the home minister.
However, the question had gone unanswered.
According to Roy Mathew, a political analyst, the chief minister knows that violations have occurred in the purchase. "So, he has remained silent in the assembly. He wants to hide the failures," Roy said.
An Unstarred Question is one to which a written answer is desired by the member and is deemed to be laid on the Table of the House by Minister.
Thus it does not call for an oral answer in the House and no supplementary question can be asked thereon.
However, until the time of publication of this report, an answer for the MLA's query was not available in the Kerala assembly website.
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Hunting est une commune française située dans le département de la Moselle, en région Grand Est.

Géographie

Hydrographie
La commune est située dans le bassin versant du Rhin au sein du bassin Rhin-Meuse. Elle n'est drainée par aucun cours d'eau.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Hunting est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Luxembourg (partie française), dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  ou plus (hors Paris).

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (68,5 % en 2018), néanmoins en diminution par rapport à 1990 (81,2 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (54,1 %), forêts (18,9 %), zones urbanisées (12,6 %), prairies (7,5 %), cultures permanentes (6,9 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Toponymie
D'un nom de personne germanique Hundo suivi du suffixe -ingen puis -ing.
Anciens noms : Huntinga (), Huntingen (1496), Henting (1718), Hentange (1756), Heunting (1793), Hinting (1801), Hutring (1825), Hüntingen (1871-1918).
 En allemand : Hentingen. En francique lorrain : Hënténgen et Hënténg.

Sobriquets
Sobriquets anciens désignant les habitants de la commune : Di Hënténger Korinther (les Corinthiens de Hunting).

Histoire
 Dépendait de l'ancien duché de Luxembourg et de la chartreuse de Rettel. Appartenait au diocèse de Trèves.

Politique et administration

Démographie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

Édifice religieux
 Église Saint-Fiacre 1861.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Héraldique

Liens externes

Notes et références

Notes et cartes
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 Cartes

Références

Commune en Moselle
Localité du Pays de Sierck
Prévôté de Thionville

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If Only Food Fasting Were This Easy!
I took a Fabric Fast Challenge that went from Jan 1 – Jun 30. I made it! I did not purchase a single piece of fabric for 6 mos! It wasn't terribly difficult for me because I had the Canada/NY trip to save for. AND in addition to the previous fabric donations I wrote about in May, I was given another HUGE donation! I have a considerable stash now and I'm honestly considering going another 6 mos – 1 year w/o buying fabric! I'll keep you posted on my progress.
I'd been wanting to make the Strip Twist Quilt for quite some time. I decided to make it for my niece who is going off to college this fall. I LUV how it turned out! I even added a flange! I thought I'd finished the top last weekend (66.5in x 81.5in) but then she told me that her bed is an extra long twin. Good thing I hadn't started quilting it yet. I'm adding another 5 inch border to the top and bottom (in the same pink).
I also finished the mystery quilt top I was doing w/my chapter – Quilters Anonymous QA.
I made this cute little pin cushion/scrap bag combo a couple of weeks ago. I used this tutorial, but filled it w/crushed walnut shells.
I also made this caddy for my cutting mat (18 x 24). I actually started a tutorial for it but didn't take all the pics I needed, so I'll have to make another one before I can post the tutorial.
Here are a couple of the smaller projects we're doing at kids sewing camp this year. A pin cushion and scrap bag. Camp is July 7-11. Last year I volunteered for 1 afternoon, this year I'm doing 2 full days! I'm so excited!
I'm now debating on whether to start a new quilt OR start quilting the 4 tops I have completed. Decisions, decisions!!
On another note, about a year & half ago, a friend brought one of her dogs to church. A Blue Heeler aka Australian cattle dog. I really liked the look of the dog. She told me they are very intelligent and loyal dogs. I said I might be interested it getting one in the future. Well…her dog just had 7 pups and I'm seriously considering getting one. I've even picked one out! I'm thinking of names for her and am considering giving her a name from a character in the The Outlander Series, but maybe not.
And lastly, as if I don't already have enough to do, I've added yard work to the list. I haven't really done much w/the backyard since I bought the house a couple of years ago and so I've been doing improvements little by little over the last couple of weeks. My "grass" was just weeds really. I've been getting up early in the morning, having my quite time on the back patio and then I spend about a half hour working in the yard before work. By spring it should be really nice.
I definitely need to blog more often…so my posts aren't so darn long! On my honor, I will try…to do weekly posts at the very least.
Until next week, Happy Quilting!
I love the quilt you are doing with your guild, it's beautiful!! That is an awesome stack of donated fabric. Keep going on your fabric fast, you've inspired me to do one, though I've not been as successful as you. The puppy is adorable.
Your scrappy strip twist quilt is gorgeous!
Thank you Vicky. I'm glad to be your inspiration =) Good providence in your fabric fast.
It does have a lot of movement! And none of the blocks are really on point, they just look that way! Thank you.


You can only make a first impression once. Introducing your start-up to an angel investor is nerve-wracking to begin with. However, introducing your start-up to an angel investor by e-mail is a lot more challenging. You cannot charm or socialize with an individual by e-mail the same way you would in person. Standing out is much harder. Of course, you are better off reaching out to an angel investor by e-mail after having met them in person. But this isn't always the case. For this reason it is important that you hatch out a plan that will captivate the interest of an angel investor. As said Alex Iskold, Managing Director of Techstars, there are 3 key notions to stick to when contacting an angel investor: be simple, clear, and awesome.
Being concise is key. Your initial e-mail should only about 5 sentences long, with a one-pager attachment maximum. An angel investor should be able to decipher, based on just these few lines, if this is an opportunity of interest. Keep in mind that your e-mail does not need to answer every question that an investor would have. It simply needs to strike enough interest to schedule a meeting. The following steps can provide for a good blueprint for your email.
Do not use complicated jargon or terms in order to explain your business. Most investors do not have time to untangle your e-mail in search of clarity. Your first e-mail must be able to stand alone as a comprehensible pitching tool. Note that you should have two goals with this introductory e-mail. First, you have to persuade an angel investor to engage with you in conversation. Second, give this person the tools to communicate the information clearly to others if need be. This is not to say that angel investors should not have questions about your business after reading your e-mail. It is simply to make clear that the questions they have should not be with regards to your description of the company but with regards to the company itself and its potential.
Often times entrepreneurs mistakenly put an excessive amount of focus on the solution instead of the business problem. Reaching out to an angel investor should include focusing on the 'why'. A strong opportunity statement, which will communicate exactly why an angel investor should care about your business is crucial. When a profitable opportunity presents itself, investors will almost always be willing to listen, at the very least.
Adopt the right attitude, don't oversell yourself and be truthful. Standing out by e-mail will be difficult. Especially since many angel investors are busy and receive numerous e-mails daily. Just remember that more times than not, less is more. Keep it simple, and make your case as to why they should at least hear what you have to say.
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Barber drilling 18" inch casing to 150 feet.
The well was drilled using air rotary while utilizing closed loop reverse circulation. We dug a pit on site and lined it with plastic to ensure total containment. Water and drill cuttings lowed into the "lined" settling basin. Cutting were then removed with a backhoe and trucked off site. Water needed for the drilling process was pumped back into the well via hoses and a pump.
Result: Complete sucess, no water left the site, the process required minimal equipment and noise levels were minimal.


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We see this space as being a forum for relaxed discussion on topics like study abroad, international relocation, startups, and of course FlatClub. It's a place where you can get both well-researched information & personal experiences about studying abroad, all the way to tips on the best pizza in London.
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Islam is a minority religion in the Marshall Islands. All Muslims in the country belong to the minority Ahmadiyya sect. The Ahmadiyya mosque in Uliga, first constructed in 2012 in the Marshall Islands is the only mosque in Oceania's subregion of Micronesia. According to a 2009 report there were about 10 Muslims in the Marshall Islands, although more recent reports indicate about 150 believers in the country.

History
Islam entered the country in the 1990s when Fijian missionaries were sent to the country by the Ahmadiyya movement. In 2001, the religion was officially recognized by the country and in 2012, the community built Marshall Islands first mosque, named Baet-Ul-Ahad Mosque, in the town of Uliga, in the east coast of the Majuro atoll. While Majuro has the only mosque in the Marshall Islands, Ahmadi Muslim communities exist in atolls around the country.

Modern community
Ahmadi Muslims have had a growing presence in the Marshall Islands for a number of years. However, it was not until 2012, when the Muslim community decided to construct Marshall Islands' only mosque, that it began to draw attention from religious and political figures. In light of unfavourable public opinion about Islam in general, the Muslim community's right to exist in an overwhelmingly Christian Marshall Islands, was questioned in a number of live broadcast sessions in the Marshallese parliament. This was despite Marshall Islands' constitution that guarantees religious freedom.

The Ahmadi Muslims play an active role in the life of local Marshallese, by working with local youth groups, the Ministry of Health and through the international charitable trust, Humanity First.

Mosques
 Baet-Ul-Ahad Mosque

See also
Islam in Oceania
Religion in the Marshall Islands

References

External links
 Interview with Imam Matiullah Joyia

Marshall Islands


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From comedian Bill Burr and EmmyⓇ award-winner Michael Price, F is for Family transports viewers back to the 1970s, a time when political correctness, helicopter parenting and indoor smoking bans weren't part of anyone's vocabulary, let alone the norm. Featuring the voices of Burr, Laura Dern, Justin Long, Sam Rockwell and more.
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The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (, shortened to Berufsbeamtengesetz), also known as Civil Service Law, Civil Service Restoration Act, and Law to Re-establish the Civil Service, was a law passed by the Nazi regime of Germany on 7 April 1933, two months after Adolf Hitler had attained power and two weeks after the promulgation of the Enabling Act. It was one of the first anti-Semitic and racist laws to be passed in Germany.

Articles of the law
Article 1 of the Law claimed that in order to re-establish a "national" and "professional" civil service, members of certain groups of tenured civil servants were to be dismissed. Civil servants who were not of Aryan descent were to retire. Non-Aryans were defined as someone descended from non-Aryans, especially those descended from Jewish parents, or grandparents. Members of the Communist Party, or any related or associated organisation were to be dismissed. This meant that Jews, other non Aryans, and political opponents could not serve as teachers, professors, judges, or other government positions. Shortly afterwards, a similar law was passed concerning lawyers, doctors, tax consultants, musicians, and notaries.

As the law was first drafted by the Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, all those of "non-Aryan descent" were to be fired immediately at the Reich, Länder and municipal levels of government. However, the President of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg objected to the bill until it had been amended to exclude three classes of civil servants from the ban:
World War I veterans who had served at the front
those who had been in the civil service continuously since 1 August 1914 (i.e. since the start of the War)
those who lost a father or son in combat in the Great War

Hitler agreed to these amendments and the bill was signed into law on 7 April 1933. In practice, the amendments excluded most Jewish civil servants and not until after Hindenburg's death in 1934, were they disallowed. Nonetheless, passage of the law was a crucial turning point in the history of German Jewry, for it marked the first time since the last German Jews had been emancipated in 1871 that an anti-Semitic law had been passed in Germany. In one particularly notable example of the law's effect, Albert Einstein resigned his position at the Prussian Academy of Sciences and emigrated to the United States before he could be expelled.

Article 4 of the Law ("Civil servants who, after their previous political activities, cannot guarantee that they will always stand up for the national state without reservation[…].") had the intention to remove all personnel that, because of their political views, could not be relied upon by the Party to execute its wishes (Gleichschaltung).  This Article 4 affected all Germans irrespective of their "racial" origins.

Content
Following the decree, Albert Gorter redefined the term 'Aryan' in the Aryan paragraph as:

However, this definition was unacceptable because it included non-European races. Achim Gercke later redefined this unacceptable definition as the one already used by the Expert Advisor for Population and Racial Policy which stated "An Aryan is one who is tribally related to German blood. An Aryan is the descendant of a Volk domiciled in Europe in a closed tribal settlement since recorded history." This new definition allowed the Civil Service Law to differentiate between 'Aryans' and 'non-Aryans'. However, the quantity of how much Jewish blood an individual was allowed to have until it was considered to damage the German Volk remained untenable.

(The following is translated from the German version of this page.)
Political opponents of national socialism ("Officials who, on account of their past political activities cannot guarantee that they have always acted wholeheartedly for the national state") should either be forced into retirement or let go from their jobs.

Moreover, civil servants should be let go if they had started their jobs after 1918 and were now unable to demonstrate that they had acquired all the training necessary for their careers. These people were called "membership book officials (Parteibuch-Beamte)" in the language of National Socialist propaganda.

According to § 3 (1) of the "First Ordinance for the accomplishment of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, the first definition of a Jew was defined as:

They could be let go or prematurely forced into retirement. According to § 3 (2), however, "non-Aryan" officials should be left in their positions if they had occupied those positions since a date before August 1914. Those Jewish civil servants who had a son or father who had been killed in the First World War were also spared from being sacked. This loophole also applied to "Frontkämpfer" (Front-line soldiers) (see Frontkämpferprivileg). All persons in the civil service would have to be able to produce the Ariernachweis (proof of Aryan ancestry) in order to prove that they had no ancestors of the Jewish faith. The loophole was closed by the 1935 Nuremberg Laws. Jewish civil servants still holding their posts were given notice by 31 December 1935 at the latest.

According to § 6 of the law, civil servants could be forced into retirement without cause "for the simplification of administration". The vacant positions created by this action were not to be refilled.

In rapid succession numerous regulations were dispensed with, as well as many employees and labourers in civil service as well as in the Reichsbank.

Pensions were not allowed for all groups of people forced into the ranks of pensioners by this law. The guaranteed old-age pension was reduced in 1938 by the "Siebente Verordnung zum Reichsbürgergesetz".

On 1 September 1933, Frick issued the second supplementary decree of the law in attempt to define the terms "Aryan" and "non-Aryan":

Related ordinances
11 April 1933 – First Ordinance on the Implementation of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
25 April 1933 – Law against the Overcrowding of German Schools and Universities
6 May 1933 – Third Ordinance on the Implementation of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
21 January 1935 – Law on the Retirement and Transfer of Professors as a Result of the Reorganization of the German System of Higher Education

See also
Aryan certificate Ahnentafel, Ahnenpass to prove Aryan descent
Racial policy of Nazi Germany

Notes

References

Bauer, Yehuda: A History Of The Holocaust. New York: F. Watts, 1982. ,  0-531-09862-1.
Friedländer, Saul: Nazi Germany and the Jews Volume 1. The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939. New York: HarperCollins, 1997 .
Hentschel, Klaus, editor and Ann M. Hentschel, editorial assistant and translator: Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources. Birkhäuser: Basel, Berlin, Boston, 1996. .

External links
Robertson, Struan. "The Jewish Community in Hamburg 1860-1943". Retrieved September 25, 2005.
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, April 7, 1933 in English
German original of the text
Berufsbeamtengesetz from German-language Wikipedia. Retrieved September 25, 2005.

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Frog march: the rise of amphibious footwear
Morwenna Ferrier
11 August 2020, 10:31 pm ·3-min read
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On a beach in north Devon, a local is talking to me about weever fish. These venomous creatures hide just beneath the sand, eyes peeking above to survey the surrounding landscape for potential prey. Bathers often succumb; if stung, your best bet is to plunge your feet into very hot water and keep them there for as long as possible.
This local has a simpler solution: waterproof sandals. Hers, a taupe pair by Merrell, are lightweight, waterproof, a special sort of elective ugliness. They are also just one of a litany of water shoes designed for use both in water and on dry land. Newly coined as amphibious shoes, they are not in themselves new, but along with the floafers (a loafer that floats), GQ-approved Hoka One One Hopara sandals, a new collaboration of wipe-clean sandals designed by super-stylist Lotta Volkova for Adidas, and later this month a neoprene pair in orange and red from a collaboration between Palace skateboards and Adidas, they have emerged as the sandal of now.
Crocs, the most infamous of these shoes, turn 18 this year, and the pandemic has been good for their health. "We have seen a surge in demand for our icon, the Classic clog," says the company's vice-president of lockdown sales. People who wouldn't have been seen dead in Crocs, the hybrid monstrosities designed by three boating enthusiasts, have given in to their perfect practicality. Black and tie-dye versions have even sold out.
Vogue describe these wearers as Croc-verts, and where Crocs have led, others have followed. For their AW20 show, Balenciaga flooded Paris' Cité du Cinema film studio – and front row seats – with water to highlight climate change, and put models in galoshes and waterproof shoes. Tevas, launched in the 1980s as little more than a velcro watch strap attached to a flip-flop, were designed to be worn on rafting trips in the great American outdoors. They have since appeared on catwalks at Prada, Stella McCartney and Anna Sui (the latter wears them on the beach herself). Actors-turned-designers the Olsen Twins, known for their four-figure fashion line The Row, have been seen in a version that cost £35.
The ccookery writer Claire Roberson pivoted to Tevas about three years ago. Now living in Sicily, she says she wears hers eight months of the year. Her logic is comprehensive – she wears them for hiking, gardening, land work and swimming. "They are also perfect for swollen ankles in the heat," she says.
There is an impulse right now to attribute every hat, shirt and shoe to some form of pandemic-fuelled uncertainty. But trends don't occur in isolation. And the rise of amphibious shoes, which place practicality squarely above looks, suggests a desire for a return to a more natural state. They also allow for the sort of flexible lifestyle that the current situation – and weather – demands of us.
Paul Watson, the head of press at Matchesfashion, says more and more people have been buying these sorts of "technical sandals". He mentions Suicoke (pricey) and Hoka One One (less pricey) during lockdown, but also Birkenstocks beach shoes, waterproof versions modelled on the cork original, and produced in garish shades of green and purple. Watson, who owns eight pairs, happily wears "the ones designed for the beach" when it's raining. "It's definitely an indication that comfort is the current order of the day," he says.
Affordable, comfortable and versatile, the amphibious shoe-wearer is paying to feel something like being barefoot. If clothes help us define how a crisis has changed our lives – see Zoom shirts, slipped on for meetings like flak jackets, and tracksuits replacing white collars as acceptable office wear – then these shoes are very much a sign of the times, representative of the way in which comfort and practicality have overwhelmed convention and fashion. But, as is the case with anything that purports to make our lives better, we democratise it, commodify it and thus it goes mainstream. Perhaps, like weever fish, they have been lying in wait all this time.


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Q: Filter database and remove duplicate I've got a Mysql database with 1200000 records and it is holding albums from famous artists. The only problem is, there are duplicates but the only duplicate field is not the primary key but the title. Is there an easy script in PHP to remove the unnecesary?

A: Delete a row if there exists another row with same title but a lower id.
delete from tablename t1
where exists (select * from tablename t2
              where t2.title = t1.title
                and t2.id < t1.id)

A: Try this
SELECT distinct tablename .*
  FROM tablename as tb1
  join tablename as tb2
 WHERE tb1.title = tb2.title
   and tb1.id < tb2.id

it might help you to fetch non duplicate records
for deleting duplicate records
DELETE tablename
  FROM tablename as tb1
  join tablename as tb2
 WHERE tb1.title = tb2.title
   and tb1.id < tb2.id

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There's a lot to love about your daily cup of joe.
Great news, coffee lovers! Coffee is good for so many things -- not just your mornings.
Health news for a social world.
That morning cuppa is a must-have for many people. And now it looks like java fans may have a healthy reason to pour another cup.
There really can't be any adult in this great big world that has never tried coffee. It's consumed everywhere, and judging by the amount of Starbucks locations in the United States alone, (in 2012, there were 10,924!) we love our caffeine.
A Myriad of Benefits Brewing?
Coffee, especially caffeinated coffee, may provide a myriad of health benefits, but the jury is still out. Drinking coffee in moderation is safe, but don't be fooled by sweetened beverages with coffee flavor. It's the coffee bean, not the cream and sugar, that may be good for you!
If you drink coffee, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that the more cups of coffee you drink, the higher your risk of dying early. The good news is that if you "risk adjust," then the more cups of coffee you drink, the lower your risk of dying early. Let me explain.
Due to its worldwide popularity, coffee is probably the greatest source of antioxidants in the global diet. And while having lots of it isn't recommended for everyone, for some of us, it may just be the superfood of the century. Here are nine reasons to start the day with this healing drink.
The Pleasure and Pain of Coffee: How Confusing Can It Get?
Confession: I am enamored with coffee. In fact, I adore coffee so much that I coerced my coffee-virgin husband to "just give a Starbucks mocha a try," and now he's hooked, as in love with coffee as I am. Does that mean I created a drug addict? This is where all the confusion comes in.
The benefits of coffee can extend beyond what the studies show, to the psychological, societal and cultural benefits of the world's most popular beverage.


London's High Court has ruled that UK arms sales to the Saudi Arabian regime are "lawful" in response to a judicial review brought by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT).
The case hinged on the question of whether the UK failed to suspend sales in line with legal obligations, given the Saudi's current war in neighboring Yemen, which has been waged in part using British manufactured military equipment.
In the last two years, the UK has licensed the sales of £3 billion (US$3.86 billion) worth of arms to the Saudi government, with which Britain is a longstanding ally.
The British government maintains that the personnel are there to support adherence to international law and advice on rules of engagement.
Both Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Artillery (RA) personnel have been deployed to train the Saudi military during the war.
The conflict – which has been accompanied with a blockade of major ports – has drastically worsened the humanitarian situation in the already-impoverished gulf nation.
Leading humanitarian organizations, including the Red Cross, have named the aerial bombing campaign and blockade as the main causes behind the ongoing cholera epidemic in the capital, Sanaa, that has already claimed some 200 lives, while over 11,000 cases of the disease have been registered.


Summer is the ideal season to indulge in casual looks more natural and less dressed. As for accessories, it is also a good opportunity to crack on the coolest bracelets, colorful, braided, beaded … we do not hesitate to mix together. Shopping selection!
This season we note in particular the return of the famous Brazilian bracelet.
Friendship Bracelet multicolored French Connection (ASOS, discounted to € 6.91 instead of € 20.74, free shipping).
Bracelet black and gold metal beads and pearls in the shape of bones (Mango, € 19.99).
Gros Brazilian bracelet with double rows of brown cords and two golden metal chains braided together (Spirit, € 11.99).
Braided bracelets Set of 4 fluorescent strass (Zara, 16, € 95).
Way Large strap khaki leather with multicolored beads (Topshop, € 16).pping).


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