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MOVIE TRAILER: The Sun is Also a Star
A lot of you may have already seen this, but the trailer for The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon dropped yesterday. You'll have to tell me what you think since I haven't actually read the book myself yet…
So….what do you guys think? Does it look like it's going to be as good as the book (which I've only heard good things about)? Do you think they chose the right people to play the main characters? I, personally, love an Asian actor as the romantic male lead–I know that wasn't really a casting decision since I think the character was written as Asian, but still.
And this is probably your last chance to purchase the book before the movie tie-in version is everywhere.
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Let me know what your reaction is in the comments!
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By What's She Reading?in Movie Trailers February 7, 2019 February 7, 2019 154 Words2 Comments
Probably the weirdest scavenger hunt ever | In the Hope of Memories by Olivia Rivers [ARC]
Hope knows that she's dying, but before she does, she wants to make sure her friends receive one last gift: a scavenger hunt. Erik, Aiden, Kali, and Sam are all thrown together on this crazy adventure and they're not sure exactly what Hope is trying to do. As they make their way through the scavenger hunt's various tasks, they'll learn something about themselves, their relationship with each other, and even some things about Hope.
TL;DR – Unlikable characters and an unbelievable plot make this book hard to read despite its great premise.
What a gorgeous cover, amiright? Unfortunately, this book did not live up to my expectations. I thought the premise was so promising! I love scavenger hunts and so I was excited to read this book, but at the end of the day, I was let down. My issue with this book mainly centers around the characters and the plot. First, I felt the plot was completely unbelievable. These four teenagers pretty much just take off to New York for a few days and then face almost no repercussions when they get back. And also, the scavenger hunt was EXTREMELY HARD. I literally have no idea how they were able to solve any clue.
The characters themselves were super flat and felt inconsistent. We get narrations from all four of the main characters, but I still didn't feel myself connecting with or really liking any of them. When it was their turn to narrate, they were okay, but then from everyone else's perspectives they were complete butts. It's hard for me to figure out which perspective is the real character and they were all annoying anyway.
I thought the writing was pretty good, though, and I did enjoy wandering around New York City. I definitely would like to visit a few of those places. This book also includes a lot of diversity–each character kind of has their own thing going.
Overall, I just thought this book was too unbelievable. Hope is portrayed as being this perfect person with literally no faults (except for her penchant for graffiti, but even that isn't so bad). I think the book would have been better if just one aspect of it had been more believable: 1) The characters weren't so flat, 2) An easier scavenger hunt, 3) Hope was less perfect. Any of those things, I think, would have made the book more enjoyable for me.
Language: Moderate
Violence: Mild
Sexual Content: Mild
Note: I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
By What's She Reading?in ARCs, Language - Moderate, Overall - 3, Sexual Content - Mild, Smoking/Drinking - Moderate, Violence - Mild March 28, 2018 March 28, 2018 427 Words3 Comments
Cyberbullying in a strange, future New York | The Takedown by Corrie Wang [ARC]
Kyle is a queen bee. She and her three best friends are the most popular girls in school. On top of that, she's also on track to be school valedictorian and is working to get into all of her top choices for college. But all of that comes crashing down when a video is leaked of her having sex with her English teacher. Except…it's not her. As the video goes viral, Kyle watches everything she's built come crashing down. Nobody believes that it's not her in the video, so it's up to Kyle to prove that somebody's out to get her.
This book first came to my attention because one of my favorite authors (Ryan Graudin) has been raving about it. Unfortunately, I found it to be pretty disappointing. First off, the setting is this really strange, future New York but it's not really apparent that we're in the future until a few chapters in. Was it necessary for the book to be set in the future? I don't really think so. It just made it confusing because I had to learn about a completely new set of technology, social media, etc. And the way they talk was also really strange. It's like…they would swear, but without the vowels? It was just super weird–I don't actually think the English language is going to evolve like that.
Kyle, the main character, is not likable. I didn't feel sympathy towards her or bad for her in any way. She just wasn't likable and she didn't really experience any growth. So if that was the goal, then the author definitely accomplished that. But if it wasn't, then I think she needs to rethink how she writes her characters in the future. Kyle was just really entitled and selfish the whole book. She's so focused on "me me me me me me" that she doesn't notice anything that the people around her are doing. Her life is crashing down and she feels like everyone around her needs to be worrying about that as much, if not MORE, than she is.
The secondary characters were just okay. I didn't really like any of them more than I liked Kyle. I also didn't like that her brother was also named Kyle. The author gave a reason for that and I understand why it was "necessary" for the plot, but…just no. Figure out another way to accomplish that plot point because having a brother and a sister both named Kyle is just too weird and confusing.
The plot was also just okay. I've read a lot of books that are supposed to be a type of mystery, but there's no way for the reader to solve it on their own. I'd like to read a book where the reader can take an active role in solving the mystery along with the characters. As it is, most books that involve a mystery just expect readers to sit back and enjoy the ride. This book was no different. Sure, there were clues. But in the end, there was really no way for the reader to decide who the "bad guy" was with any certainty. We just don't get all of the facts until the very end. We're left trailing the main character instead of working alongside them.
Overall, I was disappointed by this book. There were too many elements that just weren't working for me. That being said, this book does have a rating of 4.03 on Goodreads, so take my review with a grain of salt I guess. I didn't like it very much, but you might still enjoy it.
Smoking/Drinking: None
Sexual Content: Heavy. Nothing very explicit, but this book is all about a sex tape so it's talked about a lot.
By What's She Reading?in ARCs, Language - Moderate, Overall - 3, Sexual Content - Heavy, Smoking/Drinking - None, Violence - Mild April 16, 2017 April 15, 2017 648 Words2 Comments
HW Assignment: Book Blog Entry 3 – Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Title: Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publication Date: August 4th, 2015
Age Range: 12 and up
Lexile Reading Level: 980
Mary Mallon was just a cook in New York City but unbeknownst to her, she was a living carrier of the disease Typhoid. Before doctors caught up with her she'd already been the cause of outbreaks in several families that she had worked for. When she refused treatment, she was "arrested" quarantined on a remote island. The case of Typhoid Mary has been a confusing one for years as other living carriers did not suffer similar fates and were generally allowed to live with their families. Mary alone was unjustly villain-ized by the local media at the time. With her name splashed across headlines and her new nickname, "Typhoid Mary", Mary Mallon's reputation was destroyed. This is her story from the beginning, when she is first informed that she is a living carrier, to the end of her life.
To young people, a world where germs are widely thought of as a myth is incomprehensible. Hygiene wasn't as important and cities were often filthy places where disease was rampant. This book does a great job of helping the reader see the realities of what it was like to live in the 1900's. Medicine was not nearly as advanced as it is now and a lot of medical treatments and operations were little better than guesswork. I think this book would do great in a display with other books featuring diseases–possible in a Fall or Winter month as cold and flu season is beginning. Here are some other books that could go in the display (both fiction and nonfiction):
In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters (fiction) – Spanish Influenza
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow (nonfiction) – Typhoid
When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS by James Cross Giblin and David Frampton (nonfiction) – Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (fiction) – Yellow Fever
The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing by Suzanne Jurmain (nonfiction) – Yellow Fever
Queen of Hearts by Martha Brooks (fiction) – Tuberculosis
By What's She Reading?in Homework Assignments October 10, 2016 October 10, 2016 374 Words4 Comments
Four Teens, One Lightning Bolt | The Odds of Lightning by Jocelyn Davies [ARC]
Tiny, Lu, Nathaniel, and Will all used to be friends–they called themselves the "Science Club"–but everything changed for them the summer before they started high school. Now, they barely even speak or acknowledge each other .Tiny and Lu say that they're "best friends" but they don't really act like it. Will calls Nathaniel whenever he needs someone to study with and no one else is around. The night before the SATs they all happen to be at the same party celebrating the "Stormpocalypse". They find themselves on the roof where they are inevitably struck by lightning and something about each of them changes. As they travel across New York City in a quest to change themselves back to normal, they'll learn some things about friendship and what it truly means to be yourself.
First of all, I appreciate that each of the characters are individuals. The narrative alternates between each of the four main characters and between the present and the summer before high school started. They each had distinctive voices which made the book more interesting to read. With that being said, I do think that the characters seemed a little immature for how old they were supposed to be. Or…maybe not too immature, but there wasn't much of a difference between the characters in the "Then" sections versus the "Now" sections. They've been separated for three years and the author doesn't really show the reader how those years have changed each of the characters. Sure, we're told that Nathaniel is now super studious and Will is a stud when he used to be a chub, but we're only told these things. We're not really shown in the narrative how these changes have effected them. Perhaps this is why I had a hard time connecting with the characters. I didn't not enjoy the book, but I had a hard time bringing myself back to it after I'd put it down for the day.
The plot was a tad unbelievable, but perhaps that was the point. I couldn't help but think things like "Okay, it's like two in the morning and there's still a Sweet Sixteen party going on? In the middle of an epic storm?" Stuff like that just kind of took me out of the story. I understand why the book was set in the middle of the night in the middle of an epic storm, but it made some other elements of the story hard for me to buy. I also could have done without the science-y element of the story. Again, I understand why it was included, but every time the characters tried to explain something about it I just found myself scratching my head. It honestly didn't make very much sense to me and I would have had an easier time buying a magical explanation than the scientific one given.
One thing I really liked about the book was the setting. I feel that the author was able to really capture New York City in the middle of a massive storm. This book made me want to fly over there and start exploring the city right away. I liked that we got to see a lot of different parts of the city through the eyes of these characters who have lived there their whole lives and the entire storm made everything feel very atmospheric.
Overall, I thought this book had a really promising premise, but the execution was lacking in some ways. While it has a strong conclusion, everything before that was a little jumbled like perhaps the author was trying to do too much.
Smoking/Drinking: Mild
Note: I received this book free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
By What's She Reading?in ARCs, Language - Moderate, Overall - 3, Sexual Content - Mild, Smoking/Drinking - Mild September 25, 2016 September 25, 2016 629 Words1 Comment
Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan [Audiobook]
Dash is perusing the bookshelves of one of his favorite bookstores when he finds a notebook. Inside, the notebook contains a set of instructions. As he follows the instructions, he begins to wonder about the girl who wrote them. He decides to join her in this game of dares. As the notebook travels between Dash and Lily, they both become more and more curious about the person on the other side of the pen. Is it friendship? Is it love? Or are they just two people who only get along when they're writing to each other?
I thought the narrators for this book were AWESOME. I'd seriously listen to any other books that they've read and I wouldn't even care what they were. Their voices were PERFECT for the characters. Dash was interesting and serious while Lily was sassy and fun. I think having the different narrators and having the book written by two authors really made each character's voice stand out during their chapters. It was great. I liked that Dash was sarcastic. He had this really dry sense of humor that cracked me up. Lily was awesome too! I don't know if it was the reader, but she sounded really confident in herself and I liked that. It's not often where you get a lead female protagonist who just feels confident, you know? A lot of times they're second guessing themselves and obsessing over their crush. Lily was very refreshing.
I'll admit, there were some things that I had a hard time suspending my belief over. Like, how in the world to Dash and Lily have so many connections? Every time they pass the notebook back and forth I'm just like, "No way. How do they know someone who can do this for them?" That was really the only negative about this book though (that and a little too much language for my taste). As I said earlier, the two main characters were great and the secondary ones were awesome too. I loved Lily's family. I thought they were so fun and friendly and obviously in love with Lily.
Overall, it was so much fun to listen to. I'm not sure how it reads, but if you can get the voices right in your head, I'm sure it's great. Also, it was kind of fun reading about Christmas during a summer road trip!
Language: Moderate. Some strong language (mostly confined to Dash's chapters with one exception).
By What's She Reading?in Audiobooks, Language - Moderate, Overall - 4, Sexual Content - Mild, Smoking/Drinking - Moderate, Violence - Mild July 3, 2015 July 13, 2015 418 Words7 Comments


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Das Global Standard Stratigraphic Age (dt. in etwa "Globales stratigraphisches Standard-Alter"), abgekürzt GSSA, ist ein Konzept der Chronostratigraphie und Geochronologie. Es betrifft die Definition der Grenzen der Einheiten der Geologischen Zeitskala, findet bislang aber nur bei Einheiten des Präkambriums Anwendung. Im Gegensatz zu einem GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) wird bei einem GSSA die Einheitengrenze nicht auf Grundlage eines Referenzprofils und der darin vorkommenden geologischen Marker (insbesondere Leitfossilien) und damit nicht unmittelbar auf Grundlage der geologischen Überlieferung festgelegt. Stattdessen wird für einen GSSA ein absolutes (d. h. numerisches) geologisches Alter festgesetzt.

Konsequenzen aus dem Unterschied zwischen GSSP und GSSA
Bei Einheiten, deren Grenzen über GSSPs definiert sind (prinzipiell jeweils nur die Untergrenze, die Obergrenze ergibt sich aus der Untergrenze der nachfolgenden Einheit), ist das absolute geologische Alter einer Grenze das Ergebnis einer (meist indirekten) radiometrischen Datierung des entsprechenden Grenzmarkers. Deshalb ist es prinzipiell möglich, dass sich abhängig von der radiometrischen Datierungsmethode bzw. von der direkt datierten Schicht das absolute Alter einer solchen Grenze und damit die Dauer der betroffenen Einheiten ändert. Das relative Alter, das für die Schichtenkorrelation eine viel höhere Bedeutung hat als das absolute Alter, ist bei einem GSSP hingegen fix. Bei Einheiten, deren Grenzen über GSSAs definiert sind (ebenfalls lediglich immer nur die Untergrenze), bildet das absolute Alter als solches den "Grenzmarker" und ist mithin fix. Ein relatives Alter existiert nicht, weil ein GSSA nicht an einen bestimmten Gesteinskörper gebunden ist.

Geschichte
Die Entwicklung des GSSA-Konzeptes steht in engem Zusammenhang mit der differenzierteren Gliederung des Präkambriums, die in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren durch die Subcommission on Precambrian Stratigraphy der ICS erarbeitet wurde. Bis dahin wurde das Präkambrium ("Kryptozoikum") meist lediglich in die zwei Untereinheiten Archaikum ("Archäozoikum") und Proterozoikum gegliedert, mit jeweils unterschiedlicher Grenzziehung zwischen den beiden Einheiten.

Um eine weltweit einheitliche, möglichst natürliche (und folglich weithin akzeptable), aber auch möglichst differenzierte Gliederung des Präkambriums zu erreichen, wurden mithilfe radiometrischer Datierungen Alterstabellen für die Gesteine der wichtigsten präkambrischen Schilde erstellt und diese miteinander verglichen. Die Schild-übergreifenden zeitlichen Muster, die sich aus diesen Vergleichen ergaben, speziell die tektonischen Ruhephasen zwischen den Gebirgsbildungen (Faltengürtelbildungen), dienten schließlich als Grundlage für die chronometrische Definition der Einheitengrenzen. Die Mittelwerte der Altersdaten dieser Ruhephasen wurden dabei auf volle 50 oder 100 Millionen Jahre gerundet. Im Ergebnis wurde das Präkambrium schließlich allgemeinverbindlich in die Äonen Archaikum und Proterozoikum (mit Grenzziehung bei 2500 Mio. Jahren vor heute) und das Proterozoikum, wie es heute noch üblich ist, zusätzlich in drei Ären und 10 Perioden gegliedert.

Im Zuge eines bislang noch nicht umgesetzten Vorschlags zu seiner Neugliederung sollen auch fast alle Einheiten des Präkambriums über ein GSSP definiert werden. Als formell noch nicht in die geologische Zeitskala aufgenommene Einheit könnte das Anthropozän hingegen über ein GSSA (nämlich ein bestimmtes Jahr der westlichen Zeitrechnung) definiert werden.

Einzelnachweise

Geochronologie
Chronostratigraphie

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Two town halls are scheduled to take place this week to discuss controversial matters that the student body brought up: a proposed change of the university mascot, the Gaucho, and the UCen renovation project. The first town hall takes place Fri., April 13, in the SRB Multipurpose Room from 5-7 p.m. The second town hall takes place Thurs., April 12, from 3-5 p.m. in the Hub.
Caffeine was not what jolted residents awake this week; rather, a 5.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast near Santa Cruz Island did the trick on April 5 at 12:29 p.m. The earthquake was felt as far south as Irvine in Orange County. Seismologists said that a quake of this size typically hits California once a year, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribune.
Goleta Beach is still closed due to bacterial contamination from the Thomas Fire debris, according to the Santa Barbara Independent. To date, the county has dumped 40,000 cubic yards of debris from the Montecito mudslide into the ocean at Goleta Beach. Warnings to stay away from creek mouths and bodies of water are also in place at two other county beaches, Carpinteria State Beach and East Beach.
Locals are enjoying the latest heat wave as a respite from stormy weather, with weather monitoring stations reporting a record-breaking 83 and 87 degrees on Sunday and Monday respectively. The temperatures were recorded at the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, and cooler weather should be expected for the coming week, according to Noozhawk.
With the resignation of Norman Pattiz in February and death of Bonnie Reiss earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown is now responsible for filling five vacancies on the 26-member UC Board of Regents. The governor's office told the Daily Californian that "there is no set timeline for filling the vacancy and, as is the case with all appointments, the aim of our office is to appoint the best candidate from a broad and diverse pool of applicants." The last time there were this many vacancies on the board was in 2013.
Oklahoman teachers are in the second week of a statewide walkout to protest for more school funding. Teachers cited more funding for courses, outdated textbooks, and support staff as reasons for asking the state government to provide $150 million more for its education budget. CNN reported that hundreds of schools in the state have closed down in the time being. Prior to the walkout, Oklahoman Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill that would allocate $50 million for schools, in the process of increasing salaries and funding support staff.


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JCB's new German HQ officially opened
By Joe Sargent2019-10-04T10:25:00+01:00
Lord Bamford (left) was joined by JCB Germany MD Frank Zander as he unveiled a plaque to mark the opening of the new HQ
UK-based JCB has developed a new £50 million (€56.2 million) headquarters for its German arm of the business in Cologne.
The new centre, which includes offices for 75 employees and a training centre for use by customers and JCB Germany's network of dealers which employ a further 2,000 people, was opened by JCB chairman Lord Bamford.
Bamford said, "Europe has been a very significant market for JCB since the 1950s and this facility is a great example of our investment in future growth.
"JCB has operated in Germany for more than 50 years and it is a crucial market for JCB because it is Europe's second largest construction equipment market and the fifth largest in the world. This investment will help JCB deliver sales growth in the years ahead."
The company says that the new headquarters, situated at the heart of Germany's largest industrial area – the Rhine-Ruhr zone, is triple the size of JCB Germany's former facility.
The company said that it will benefit from well-connected transport links, with the A4 Autobahn linking the new centre to the Netherlands and Belgium and the A1 Autobahn linking it to northern and southern Germany.
The new headquarters - which includes a showroom for JCB's latest machines - will host 3,000 delegates a year for sales and technical training, as well as holding operator training courses in a specially constructed demonstration area for construction and agricultural dealers.
Construction Europe - December 2019
JCB Germany
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EIB's €240 million loan for German housing
State-owned residential construction firm Gewobag to build 2,000 new units by 2023
JCB named United's Supplier of the Year
United Rental's award recognizes JCB for outstanding value, timely delivery, product support, training and procurement excellence
More Construction Europe
New European MD for Hyundai
Hyundai Construction Equipment names Sungwoo Lee as new managing director for Europe

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Milford Democratic Convention endorses candidates
(From the Connecticut Post, 7/18/07 MEG BARONE, Correspondent)
MILFORD — Promising to provide tax relief to city veterans and the elderly, improve infrastructure and create even better schools, Alderman Kerri Rowland accepted the nomination as the Democratic mayoral candidate Wednesday.
Kerri Rowland will campaign to unseat incumbent Republican Mayor James L. Richetelli Jr.
(Alderman Kerri Rowland with House Speaker James A. Amann)
"The status quo is not good enough. We can do better; we must do better," Rowland said to a crowd of about 250 people at City Hall, where Democrats selected a slate of candidates for Board of Aldermen, Board of Education, Planning and Zoning Board and constable in each of the five districts.
Rowland was nominated by state Sen. Gayle Slossberg, while Speaker of the House James Amann nominated Alan Jepson for city clerk, calling the former three-term mayor "the political gold standard [who] engenders universal respect and appeal."
(Venerable Milford City Clerk Alan Jepson)
Democrats entered City Hall through a gauntlet of young girls who distributed colorful pro-Rowland signs, which the audience waved wildly when Rowland responded to the unanimous vote for her candidacy, "Thank you for the nomination. I accept."
(Colorful signs decorate the packed hall)
"Kerri has the unique ability to problem solve, to get things done," Slossberg said.
The nominating convention was short on surprises but did not lack in ceremony. Members of a local Boy Scout troop presented the colors, Rev. Carleton Giles delivered the invocation asking for blessings on "those who aspire to lead us to further greatness," and the 10-voice Coastal Chordsmen sang the national anthem and other selections.
After a brief caucus of district members, which seemed merely a formality, Democratic Party Chairman Richard Smith had each district chairman stand to present their slate of candidates, which was followed by a unanimous vote.
Smith thanked the candidates for their willingness to serve their community saying, "This is where the rubber meets the road."
April Moss Ellis brought her two daughters — Kayla Ellis, 10, and Sydney Ellis, 8 — to the political event. "I'm trying to help them understand the importance of the electoral process and we're here to give Kerri our support," Ellis said.
MILFORD'S DEMOCRATIC SLATE
(The 2007 Milford Democratic candidates)
1ST DISTRICT
Board of Aldermen: Ray Arnold and incumbent James Patterson
Board of Education: Mike Taylor and Greta Stanford
PZB: Kathy Patterson
2ND DISTRICT
Board of Aldermen: Nick Veccharelli and Barbara Lambert, both are incumbents
Board of Education: Tracy Casey and Dave Steinlauf
PZB: Janet Golden, a former Republican who changed party affiliation at the end of her term on the Board of Education. "More of my philosophies meshed with the Democratic Party and I found more of a home here."
Constable: Kevin McGrath Sr.
Board of Aldermen: incumbent Martin Hardiman and Susan Manning
Board of Education: Dave Bonder and Jim Quish
PZB: Kim Rose
Constable: Linda Hardiman
4TH DISTRICT
Board of Aldermen: Philip Vetro, incumbent, and Jessica Blackletter
Board of Education: Dave Amendola and Dave Hourigan, both are incumbents
PZB: Jennifer Carey
Constable: Claire Phelan
Board of Aldermen: Robert Nunno and incumbent minority leader Benjamin Blake
Board of Education: James Santa Barbara and David Defluneri
PZB: Victor Ferrante
(Photos by Bob Adams)
Posted by CT Bob at 7/20/2007 09:22:00 AM 7 comments:
It's time for a break
During my recent vacation, I thought a lot about why I got into political blogging. I realized that I've been blogging for well over a year now without a significant break.
I started Connecticut Bob with one primary purpose, and that purpose was to do everything possible to help Ned Lamont win. I originally intended to bow out immediately following the November election. After the election, many of my colleagues urged me to keep the blog going. I agreed to continue for as long as possible. Lately however, I've been finding the effort of writing and maintaining the blog has become way too much of a chore instead of the fun and challenging hobby it was last year.
For instance, when I heard about Bush giving Libby a free pass for his crimes, my very first thought was, "Oh shit, now I gotta write something about it!" When that becomes my first reaction to a major story like that instead of excitement, it's obviously time for me to take a break.
Maura told me "I think we all are learning in our own way that a sustained diet of outrage and injustice is just not healthy, even if the Bush administration, its cronies, and even some Democrats seem determined to feed us nothing else. But life is short, and we gotta have some balance."
Because I don't run a community blog, it's impossible for me to simply hand over the reigns to anyone else. I find that I envy Branford Boy for his opportunity to exit gracefully from the daily grind of maintaining his blog. My Left Nutmeg continues to be a vibrant and informative blog. Sadly, I don't have that option.
I have a sailing blog that I still enjoy immensely, and I occasionally post on my filmmaking blog; and I've become active in local politics with being on the DTC here in Milford, so I've got plenty to keep me busy. And I'll post an occasional diary on MLN if I come up with something I think especially newsworthy. I'll still shoot videos when it's convenient or if something really big is happening. I'm not going to stop being a progressive activist or a blogger by any means.
But I really need a break. I'm going to keep the blog up indefinitely, and I'll post occasionally on matters of importance, and especially on Kerri Rowland's mayoral campaign. But I'm going to cut back on trying to post daily, which will relieve the burden quite a bit. Hopefully I'll be back in full swing sometime soon.
Thanks for reading, and I appreciate your support.
Posted by CT Bob at 7/13/2007 07:44:00 AM 11 comments:
Kerri Rowland announces strong support
Press release from Kerri Rowland's campaign:
Kerri Rowland For Mayor Committee shows strong early support
MILFORD – Alderwoman Kerri Rowland (D-4) today released her fundraising numbers for the first period of her campaign for Mayor of Milford, showing receipts of $21,515.30. The period, the first of her newly formed committee for election covers April 10 through June 30, 2007.
"I am extremely pleased with the early support so many in our community have shown by donating to my campaign." Kerri Rowland said. "I am so grateful to all the city leaders, the teachers, small business owners, realtors, retired citizens and others who believe in my campaign and who have joined with me in embracing the challenge of making this great city even better."
Kerri Rowland, who announced her candidacy on May 10th, has made her priorities stopping the year-after-year tax increase, property tax relief for seniors and veterans, investing in our schools and protecting our children, implementing effective long-term planning and investment, and making public safety a priority again.
"Though I am proud of our fundraising abilities thus far, I am much more encouraged by the response I am getting at the doors and on the street when I am speaking with voters face-to-face." Kerri Rowland continued, "The strength of our numbers and what I am hearing from voters and community leaders makes one thing perfectly clear – the people of Milford are looking for new and creative leadership and will not settle for the status quo."
Facing an entrenched incumbent is always challenging, but the Kerri Rowland for Mayor Campaign will not cede any ground on fundraising, is mounting a strong door-to-door and grassroots campaign and has already received wide and active community support.
Residents are strongly urged to go to www.kerrirowland.com to make a contribution, for campaign updates, events, and other valuable information.
Bush impeachment push gaining momentum
Like most of you, I was astounded and angered by George Bush's obviously self-serving commutation of "Scooter" Libby's jail sentence. This transparent attempt to silence a convicted felon who has intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the White House and their illegal activities apparently has worked...for now.
But W's ersatz "pardon" has helped galvanize the "Impeach Bush" movement by making it exceedingly clear that nothing short of impeachment will stop this administration from continuing their unlawful actions.
Here in Connecticut a draft of an impeachment resolution has been championed by Harwinton Democratic Town Chair Myrna Watanabe and former Congressman Jim Maloney. The entire text of the resolution is quoted below.
Here's what YOU can do to help get this resolution introduced before the July 25th State Central Democratic Party meeting:
* Contact your local DTC chairperson and let them know you support this resolution.
* Tell them to contact all State Central members to express your support.
* Have them arrange for a proxy if they can't make the meeting to vote in support of the resolution.
This resolution will only be introduced if there's enough support for it to pass. Please help by contacting your Democratic Town Committee chairs and telling them to support it. Here's a link to After Downing Street where they discuss this resolution.
IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE 2007
WHEREAS, Section 603 of the Manual and Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives provides for impeachment to be initiated on a motion based on charges transmitted from a state legislature; and,
WHEREAS, President George W. Bush has committed high crimes and misdemeanors as he has repeatedly and intentionally violated the United States Constitution and other laws of the United States, particularly the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the Torture Convention, which under Article VI of the Constitution, is a treaty as part of the supreme law of the land; and
WHEREAS, President George W. Bush has ordered at least thirty times the National Security Agency to intercept and otherwise record international telephone and other signals and communications by American citizens without warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, duly constituted by Congress in 1978, in violation of constitutional guarantees of due process; and,
WHEREAS, President George W. Bush has admitted that he willfully and repeatedly violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and boasted that he would continue to do so, each violation constituting a felony; and,
WHEREAS, President George W. Bush's dereliction of his duty resulted in our country launching an attack on a people and nation that presented no imminent threat of attack, causing the death of more than 3,000 American service personnel as of June 1, 2007, the maiming of thousands more, and the death and injury of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, the destruction of their civil society and infrastructure, and the sullying of the honor of the United States of America; and,
NOW, THEREFORE, the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee submits that his actions and admissions constitute ample grounds for his impeachment, and that the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut has good cause for submitting charges to the U.S. House of Representatives under Section 603 as grounds for President George W. Bush's impeachment.
The Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee further submits that Articles of Impeachment should charge that President George W. Bush has violated his constitutional oath to execute faithfully the office of President, and to the best of his ability, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
In all of this, George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President, subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the State of Connecticut and of the United States.
WHEREFORE, be it Resolved: President George W. Bush by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any offices of honor, trust, or profit under the United States Constitution.
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Just got back from vacation.
I feel awesome! I gotta go on vacation more often.
Although, after living for eight straight days on a not-very-roomy 30' sailboat, you get to appreciate those little pleasures you have at home.
Like taking a 20-minute shower! Unlimited hot and cold running water. It's a real treat, let me tell you!
Anyway, I've got a whole week of email, blog reading, and phone calls to get back to. I'm going to attend to that and then maybe post something; if not tonight, then Monday.
Oh, and Kirby sends her regrets that she couldn't post anything last week; she fully intended to, and then real life interrupted as it often does.
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International Day of Families is an annual observance celebrated on May 15. It is organized by the United Nations and aims to raise awareness about the economic, social, and demographic issues that affect families all around the world, and to highlight how important families are in the fabric of international communities and the foundation of society.
On 17 May 2021 at 14h CET, MAX project is hosting the next Facebook Live of Stories from MAX People on Migrant Families during the Pandemic
On the occasion of the International Day of Families, the MAX project wants to focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant families. Migrants and refugees are among the social groups most impacted by the COVID-19 crisis and are suffering disproportionately from its social and economic consequences. They are at the forefront of the pandemic, providing essential services, including health, cleaning, domestic work, agriculture and food production. The pandemic, in particular, has also had a disproportionate impact on migrant women, who are often on the frontlines of the fights against the pandemic as health workers or caregivers.
We will be talking to two national organisations working with migrant families in Greece and Poland about the challenges migrant families commonly face towards the social integration path and how the pandemic situation has affected families in general – with a special focus on the families with a migrant background.
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The entire building is listed, or not at all. This includes any and all of its features. You can obtain a 'List Description' about the history of the property and its character from the Listed Buildings Online website. Here you will also find a list of all of the listed buildings throughout the UK.
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Hankivți (în ) este o comună în raionul Sneatîn, regiunea Ivano-Frankivsk, Ucraina, formată din satele Hankivți (reședința) și Vîșnivka.

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JacoBlog - Jacobs Media's Blog: We Got Your Content
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We Got Your Content
Need an excuse to register for the NAB's "Radio Show" next month?
Hopefully, we have four good reasons for you to make the journey to lovely Philadelphia in late September. As you may know, our Summit this year is embedded with the NAB's show. We've got that great Thursday afternoon slot (1-5 p.m.), and have just put the finishing touches on our lineup for this year.
Permit me the leeway to say it, but this may be our best slate of sessions in the 14 years we've been presenting Summits, first at Gavin, then with R&R, and now this year at the NAB Radio Show.
You've heard it too many times - content is king. But there's a reason why smart observers of media keep repeating this mantra - because it's true. Radio can talk about its free wireless distribution, its sizable cume, and its history of habitual listenership all it likes. But without that content engine, it won't matter in our media future.
That's why this year's Summit is devoted to content - how to create it, market it, use digital tools to build communities to support it, and how to generate buzz for it.
Our opening session kicks off at 1 p.m. with Mark Hughes, author and viral guru of Buzzmarketing. Mark "gets" the challenges of creating content that has a life of its own. He's done it with his own dotcom, and will present some great lessons about how even revenue challenged radio stations and personalities can tap into the viral opportunity. Mark's a great speaker, understands the radio mindset, and how to best leverage buzz among audiences.
We then move into learning from the Obama campaign, via the strategic genius of Scott Goodstein. Scott heads up a company called Revolution Messaging, which specializes in social and mobile communication. His session, "Creating A Winning Social Media Strategy - Lessons from the Obama Campaign," will create a lot of buzz of its own. We all know how successful the Obama campaign was, when it came to building communities, making the most of texting, and creating great social networking strategies, and Scott will address all these areas. Everybody tells you that you need a social networking strategy. Scott will show you how to develop it, and make it effective.
Then we get into the content providers themselves. First, we present the two stars of MSNBC's Morning Joe show - former Congressman Joe Scarborough and his co-host, Mika Brzezinski. Joe & Mika are doing one of the best morning shows out there - on TV. In this session, Joe & Mika will talk about how they prepare a daily radio-style show that gets ratings, and how they've successfully integrated a sponsor - Starbucks - seamlessly into the program. And they'll even talk about their transition into radio, as they now host a daily program syndicated by Citadel Media.
And then the Jacobs Summit is proud to present the best interviewer in the media business, Terry Gross, host of the NPR program, Fresh Air. Terry is a Peabody Award winner who has interviewed them all - from Bill O'Reilly to Gene Simmons. At the Summit, we'll turn the tables, and yours truly has the task of interviewing the interviewer. Along the way, Terry will talk about the Fresh Air approach to guest booking, show prep, and why her interviews sound like no others. There're some great stories in her arsenal, as well as time for Q&A so you can ask.
So here're the basics:
What: The Jacobs Summit @ The NAB Radio Show
When: Thursday, September 24th - 1-5 p.m.
Who: You, your colleagues, and four great content-rich sessions
Why: We all have a lot to learn about moving this business, our companies, and our careers into the future
The line-up:
1p - "Buzzmarketing Without the Budget - New & Creative Marketing Strategies in Today's Economy" - featuring Buzzmarketing author, Mark Hughes.
2p - "Creating a Social Media Strategy - Lessons from the Obama Campaign" - featuring Scott Goodstein, CEO of Revolution Messaging and former External Online Director of Obama For America.
3p - "America's Hottest Morning Show...Is On TV" - featuring MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
4p - "An Interview with the Interviewer - The Summit Goes Inside the Mind of NPR's Terry Gross - featuring Fresh Air host, Terry Gross.
You'll need to be registered for the NAB in order to attend, so get moving, and as we say every year:
See you at the Summit!
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Looks like a great line-up Fred. I'm sorry I'll miss it this year!
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Q: plymouth-quit-wait.service does not stop, boot does not finish I have configured Plymouth with Gnome on Arch Linux and can boot without problem (as in I enter my encryption key, get to the login screen, and can successfully log in). Unfortunately, plymouth-quit-wait.service never finishes:
~ systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait

● plymouth-quit-wait.service - Hold until boot process finishes up
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service; static)
     Active: activating (start) since Wed 2020-08-19 11:37:12 CEST; 4min 31s ago
   Main PID: 603 (plymouth)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 38119)
     Memory: 312.0K
     CGroup: /system.slice/plymouth-quit-wait.service
             └─603 /usr/bin/plymouth --wait

Aug 19 11:37:12 hostname systemd[1]: Starting Hold until boot process finishes

I don't understand the reason for this, as everything works fine. Where could I look for troubleshooting?

A: From the comments, the problem seems to be that plymouthd is still running, and plymouth-quit-wait.service is waiting for it to exit.
Because plymouthd needs to start in initramfs and keep running at least until the GUI server (whether X11 or Wayland) starts, at least on Debian its service names are a bit unusual:

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*/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-start.service actually starts plymouthd as a forking one-shot service, and tells it to start showing a boot splash screen.

*if necessary, systemd-ask-password-plymouth.service tells it to ask for things like disk encryption passphrases

*plymouth.service is a symbolic link to plymouth-quit.service, which is another oneshot service that runs plymouth quit that is supposed to tell plymouthd to exit.

Arch's setup may be somewhat different, but I gather that either some service is not running plymouth quit when it should, or plymouthd is not getting the message that it should exit.
You might try running plymouth quit manually as root - if that causes plymouthd to exit and systemctl status to transition to State: running, then the problem is about plymouth quit not getting executed automatically. If the state does not change, then try killing the plymouthd process, as it seems to be hung somehow.
Are you, by chance, using the proprietary NVIDIA GPU driver? If I recall correctly, there is/used to be an issue that it sets the display framebuffer configuration in such a way that plymouthd fails to work correctly with it. If so, then you might want to try a text-based plymouth boot theme, or disable the boot splash altogether.

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Melville Stone (1848-1929), journaliste et patron de presse américain, fut le fondateur du premier grand quotidien populaire de Chicago et l'un des premiers dirigeants de l'agence de presse Associated Press.

Biographie
Né le  à Hudson dans l'Illinois, fils du pasteur méthodiste Elijah Stone et de Sophia Creighton, il est porteur de journaux puis reporter alors qu'il n'est encore que lycéen, ce qui lui permet de couvrir en 1868 la convention du Parti démocrate américain pour le Chicago Republican. Il s'installe ensuite comme fondeur mais son atelier est détruit dans un incendie. Sans le sou, il travaille pour six journaux différents entre 1875 et 1876.

Melville Stone est le fondateur en 1876, à l'âge de 28 ans, d'un quotidien de l'après-midi, le Chicago Daily News, le premier de la ville à se vendre au prix de seulement un penny, basé au 123 Fifth Avenue, aujourd'hui "Wells Street", dans des locaux partagées avec un journal norvégien. Il accuse de pratiques monopolistiques les compagnies du gaz et multiplie les articles sur des sujets pratiques, pour toucher un large public.

Le concurrent, le Post and Mail, édité dans la même ville par les frères MacMullen le plagie alors régulièrement. Pour le prouver, il publie un article factice sur une famine en Serbie, incluant une citation inventée du maire de Belgrade, que reprend le journal concurrent.

Melville Stone revend ensuite le Chicago Daily News à son directeur général Victor Fremont Lawson. Puis, en 1881 il crée le Chicago Morning News qui sera rebaptisé Chicago Record et rejoint la Western Associated Press (WAP)
, avant de prendre la tête en 1893 d'une Associated Press réorganisée, dont le siège est déplacé de New York à Chicago, qui fédère les autres agences de presse créées sous forme associative.

Directeur général d'AP de 1893 à 1921, il met l'accent sur les standards de fiabilité, d'impartialité, et d'intégrité pour lesquels AP est toujours réputé. Il rend visite aux hommes d'État européens, et annonce ensuite qu'il a obtenu des facilités de transmission entre l'Europe et l'Amérique du Nord. En 1919, l'Associated Press commence à fournir ses informations aux médias étrangers à la suite de la décision de rompre ses accords avec un cartel européen qui réclamait un droit d'exclusivité sur la distribution d'informations en Amérique latine et ailleurs.

Il a pris sa retraite en 1921.

Articles connexes
 Histoire de la presse écrite aux États-Unis
 Histoire de l'Associated Press

Bibliographie
 Fifty Years a Journalist, par Melville Stone.

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The Democratic Socialists of America pleads with Biden not to appoint Rahm Emanuel
By Kristina Betinis
Leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the Nation magazine and Democratic Party elected officials in New York are pleading with President-elect Joe Biden not to appoint former Obama administration official and two-term Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to a position in the incoming administration.
Emanuel is reported to be angling for an appointment as transportation secretary in the Biden administration. Crain's Chicago Business indicated on Monday that Biden may be considering Emanuel for US Trade Representative, an office reporting directly to the president.
DSA member and Chicago Alderperson Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez is circulating a petition to Biden outlining their case. Rodriguez cites several of the many reactionary policies and crimes of Emanuel in the course of his tenure as Chicago mayor.
Rahm Emanuel speaking at the Brookings Institution (Flickr/Brookings Institution)
These include the police murder of teenager Laquan McDonald and the subsequent cover-up by the police, city council and the mayor's office; the single largest public school closure in US history—49 elementary schools in 2013; the closing of public mental health facilities; several rounds of tax breaks and incentives to business interests; paying out hundreds of millions in police misconduct settlements; maintaining executive control over the school board; privatizing city services; and a proposed transit project hatched by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
One could go on to add many, many more items to this list, including Emanuel's role in the Democrats' "law and order" policies under the Clinton and Obama administrations, the operation of a "black site" by the Chicago Police Department, etc.
The DSA's campaign against an appointment for Emanuel is founded on a political fraud.
First and foremost is the notion that Emanuel is somehow an aberration in the Democratic Party. Whether or not Emanuel is appointed by Biden to one or another post will not alter the character of the incoming administration. Emanuel's politics are the politics of the Democratic Party, a party of militarism, austerity and reaction.
This is what the DSA is trying desperately to cover up. Rodriguez writes to Biden, "If you want to root out systemic racism, defend democracy, and build a society that leaves no one behind—all worthy goals mentioned in your victory speech—we can think of few people worse for the job than the man who earned the nickname 'Mayor 1 percent.'
New York Representative-elect Mondaire Jones tweeted: "I believe the Biden administration is sincerely committed to dismantling systemic racism. Giving Rahm Emanuel a cabinet position would threaten that vital work." University of Illinois at Chicago labor historian and Jacobin magazine contributor Jeff Schuhrke commented on the petition to explain the problem Emanuel's appointment poses for the DSA: "President-elect Biden can't claim to champion Black people/working people and then appoint Rahm to his Cabinet."
For the DSA, the appointment of Emanuel is a public relations problem. His appointment, they counsel Biden, will undermine Democrats' efforts to fraudulently portray the Democratic Party as a progressive organization, and therefore also make the DSA's own operation to present it as such more difficult.
The immediate response of Biden to his electoral victory was to call for "unity" with Republicans, even as President Donald Trump continues to refuse to accept the results of the election and stokes fascistic violence. Leading Democrats and their closest Republican allies, like Ohio's John Kasich, have insisted "socialists" nearly lost Biden the election and must be rooted out of American politics.
Second, the DSA is attempting to cover up its own role as a political agency of the Democratic Party, in general, and in collaborating with Emanuel, in particular.
What one does not find in Rodriguez's letter is who Emanuel's reliable partners were in his viciously anti-working class policies. While the mayor of Chicago has a great deal of power over life in the city, Emanuel enjoyed the support and cooperation of the Democratic political establishment at every level of government.
All of the city council members present voted to pay Laquan McDonald's family a record-setting $5 million as part of the effort to cover up the police murder.
The partner in the closure of 49 schools was the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which shut down the powerful September 2012 teachers strike on terms that weakened tenure and seniority in preparation for Emanuel's layoff of thousands of teachers and the closure of schools.
The DSA, Jacobin and the entire pseudo-left fraternity joined hands in proclaiming the sell-out of the teachers strike a great victory. The World Socialist Web Site campaigned against the deal and won widespread support among teachers, who at one point rebelled against efforts by the CTU to shut down the strike. We warned that the agreement reached "was an unambiguous victory for Emanuel."
The end of the strike was immediately followed by the mass closure of schools. The CTU jointly conducted the 2012-13 school closure hearings with the city of Chicago and Chicago Public Schools. These excruciatingly painful and degrading events went on for months in churches and cafeterias all over the city, pitting households and neighborhoods against one another in a bid for school funding.
What the internal factions of the Democratic Party are doing now to promote illusions in Biden they did in 2019 after Lori Lightfoot, a former prosecutor and police board president who was later appointed by Emanuel to his fraudulent "police reform" efforts, was elected mayor. While she was not their candidate of choice in the election, the "progressive" faction of the Democrats, most vocal among them the CTU, promoted Lightfoot as a progressive once she took office in spring 2019. These lies were exploded in a matter of weeks.
Throughout the summer of 2019, Lightfoot prepared an assault on teachers. Teachers fought back against stagnant wages, practically non-existent support services and overcrowded, filthy classrooms lacking basic necessities. Amid immense social anger, the CTU shut down the 11-day strike, the longest in 30 years, and sent teachers back to work before they even had the right to vote on the utterly inadequate agreement. Even American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten was forced to declare, "This TA [tentative agreement] is not perfect, but we want to close this chapter, and we want the mayor to be with us in closing this chapter."
The DSA plays a critical role in maintaining the fiction that the Democratic Party can be pressured to implement policies of social reform. Nationally, the DSA and Jacobin are currently engaged in campaign to promote illusions in a "progressive" Biden administration.
The DSA hopes that convincing Biden not to appoint Emanuel will help prevent masses of workers and youth from coming into conflict with the Democratic Party and a Biden-led government. Its efforts to cover up the reality of the Democratic Party, however, will founder on the reality of a reactionary administration and a growing wave of social anger and unrest.
Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a "progressive" Biden administration
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Lessons of the Chicago teachers strike
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Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara on Trump's January 6 coup: "Nothing to see here!"
Jacobin glorifies Dolores Ibárruri, Stalinist executioner of the Spanish Revolution
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STRANRAER GATEWAY
THE AHR LANDSCAPE TEAM WAS COMMISSIONED BY DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY COUNCIL TO ENHANCE SOME KEY APPROACH LOCATIONS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF STRANRAER TO ASSIST WITH ONGOING INVESTMENT WHICH COUNTERS THE TOURISM AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE FERRY PORT TO NORTHERN IRELAND MOVING SEVEN MILES OUT OF TOWN TO CAIRNRYAN.
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Stranraer is in a period of change. Until late 2011, the Stranraer to Belfast-Larne ferry line had operated directly out of Stranraer Port within the heart of the town but the move to a deep water facility up the coast at Cairnryan meant that passengers from the north or south could easily bypass the town and its approaches altogether.
After extensive local and national consultation and study, Dumfries and Galloway Council and its partners were seeking to 'reposition Stranraer and Loch Ryan as a distinctive and successful marine leisure destination' with the intention of attracting tourists, job creation, improve the economy and promote the operation of leisure pursuits and commercial craft. This vision was encapsulated in the Stranraer Waterfront Urban Design Strategy and Masterplan. The Master plan describes a programme of initiatives that would improve the town centre, develop the harbour, redevelop derelict land at the old ferry port and rejuvenate influential locations on the town's main access roads.
The first completed 'Gateway' is at the Balyett layby, adjacent to the A77 on the shores of Loch Ryan between the town and Cairnryan port. Formerly this was a layby containing a tired-looking, but popular snack bar known as 'The Bunker' but with magnificent, expansive views down the loch.
The popularity of the snack bar provided the site with an existing purpose. It is also a location to observe wading birds, the floating rafts of eider ducks and the more distant ferries arriving and leaving. The proposals have seen a significantly improved café with a simple but crisply detailed re-cladding, new flashings and ironmongery. This is complimented with a cantilevered companion pavilion providing shelter from the exposed locale, covered and uncovered seating and a binocular observation point. The pavilion uses the conceptual theme of framing the surrounding seascape in a similar way that ferry portholes do.
A simple palette of materials have been applied to take cognisance of the local surroundings to be a simple but robust modern intervention in a weather exposed environment. The main construction material, larch was chosen as a Scottish sourced material from Russwood of Newtonmore being durable, natural and cost effective whilst weathering from brown to a less obtrusive grey. The building lifecycle was an important consideration requiring minimal maintenance throughout the life of the structures. The detailing of exposed junctions was particularly important to design-out areas of weakness where cut materials became vulnerable and could be protected against the elements. Attention to detail down to the screw fixings was carefully considered to avoid aesthetic dilapidation or product failure due to the blowing shore sand and sea salt air of the Loch Ryan micro-climate.
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The 1837 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., chiefly remembered for the church schism between Old School and New School that occurred there, is also notable for launching the first national Presbyterian foreign mission board, the origin of today's Presbyterian World Mission (PWM). A highly fraught decision in a GA torn by controversy, it was the result of an overture made by the Synod of Pittsburgh, which proposed that the national church take over the work of the Western Foreign Missionary Society, the synod's missionary-sending organization.
The 220th General Assembly, to be held in Pittsburgh, June 30 through July 7, 2012, marked 175 years of Presbyterian World Mission. However, the denomination's commitment to missions is considerably older, and much of this history is rooted in Western Pennsylvania. It is no accident, then, that the overture which established the first Board of Foreign Missions emerged from that region.
Presbyterians have been thick on the ground in Western Pennsylvania since the late colonial period. Though Presbyterians can trace their origins in North America to the earliest settlements in New England, it was the great migration of Scotch-Irish in the eighteenth century that inflated their numbers, making Presbyterians one of the largest denominations in the colonial era. Some 200,000 to 500,000 Scotch-Irish Presbyterians made their way across the Atlantic between 1717 and the beginning of the American Revolution. They came mostly to the middle colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
Some of these immigrants decided to travel west beyond the Allegheny Mountains where land was cheap though dangerous due to the hostility of Native Americans. In 1758 during the French and Indian War, the French Fort Duquesne fell to the British and was renamed Fort Pitt after British Prime Minister William Pitt; the fort is the origin of the modern city of Pittsburgh. With the establishment of this British fort, immigrants flooded into Western Pennsylvania, with the height of the migration during the years just prior to the Revolution, 1769 to 1774. The settlers included many Presbyterian Scots and Scotch-Irish.
The year 1758 also saw the temporary healing of the Presbyterian schism between the Old Side and New Side with the formation of the Synod of New York and Philadelphia. Seizing the opportunity to promote Presbyterianism in Western Pennsylvania, the synod employed army chaplains and ministers to work in the area to establish churches among the new settlers. In 1781 this resulted in the establishment of the Presbytery of Redstone, which included a huge area that, as the population increased and churches grew, was subdivided into a number of new presbyteries.
Since Western Pennsylvania Presbyterianism was established in a missionary spirit, mission seems to have been encoded in the DNA of these Presbyterians, a genetic characteristic that survives today. When the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. established the Synod of Pittsburgh in 1802, the new body passed a resolution committing itself "to diffuse the knowledge of the gospel among the inhabitants of the new settlements; the Indian tribes, and if need be, among the interior inhabitants, where they were not able to support the gospel." True to their resolution, Presbyterians of the new synod sought to evangelize not only their own region of Western Pennsylvania but also settlements in Ohio and Indiana. They also reached out to evangelize the Indian nations of the Sandusky and Maumee river valleys in Northwest Ohio, and following the War of 1812, Presbyterians went further west to evangelize Native Americans in Michigan, Illinois, and beyond the Mississippi River.
"A Communion Gathering in the Olden Time"
The missionary spirit of Presbyterians in Western Pennsylvania reflected the larger Protestant mission movement of the time. In the early 1800s, the Second Great Awakening was launched in part by camp meetings, an idea borrowed from the "communion seasons" held in Scotland and Northern Ireland among Presbyterians. One of the ministers who introduced this idea into the American frontier was the Scotch-Irish Presbyterian James McGready of the Gasper River Church in southwest Kentucky. The next year, 1801, a camp meeting at Cane Ridge in Bourbon County, Kentucky, gained national attention and launched a new movement in American Protestantism.
In the midst of this growing attention to what would later be called "home" missions, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. established the Standing Committee of Missions in 1802, becoming the first Protestant denomination in the United States to form a national mission organization. Later, Presbyterians would also work through the American Home Missionary Society in cooperation with the Congregational, Dutch Reformed, and Associated Reformed Churches.
In Great Britain, William Carey had launched the modern foreign mission movement in 1792 with his famous book, An Enquiry Into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens and, in the following year, the establishment of the Baptist Missionary Society in England. The idea of foreign missions crossed the Atlantic in the first decade of the new century with the famous Haystack Prayer Meeting in 1806 at Williams College, Massachusetts, and the establishment four years later of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Though founded by Congregationalists, the American Board was non-denominational, and many Presbyterians supported its work.
The Controversy: Do Presbyterians Need Their Own Foreign Mission Board?
For Presbyterians the existence of the ABCFM raised an important theological question: should mission work be rightly relegated to an independent society (essentially a para-church organization), or should it be integral to the nature of the church and therefore an enterprise of the denomination? Those who took the former view, it was argued, might see mission as something that individual Presbyterians and congregations could do on an optional basis. Those who took the latter view believed mission was at the heart of what it meant to be the church of Jesus Christ.
Overtures were presented to PCUSA General Assemblies in 1812, 1828, and 1831 calling for the establishment of a Presbyterian foreign mission board. The issue, unfortunately, became part of a new division of the time between the Old School and New School wings of the church. Those in Western Pennsylvania who sided with the Old School urged the General Assembly of 1831 to embrace a "conceptional change" in mission thinking. When their overture failed, the Synod of Pittsburgh chose to create its own mission organization, the Western Foreign Missionary Society, headed by Dr. Elisha P. Swift, an instructor at Western Seminary (one of the original institutions that later became Pittsburgh Theological Seminary).
The Western Foreign Missionary Society sent its first missionaries to Monrovia, Liberia, and Lodiana in the Punjab of North India (now Pakistan). Six of the eight missionaries it initially sent died within months of their arrival. Western Pennsylvanians, however, refused to be daunted. During the six years of its existence, the Western Foreign Missionary Society sent twenty-one missionaries to evangelize Native Americans in the western United States, and thirty-nine missionaries to Liberia and India.
At the General Assembly of 1837 the theological dispute between the Old School and New School resulted in a second schism. The Old School wing adopted the Western Foreign Missionary Society as its denominational mission organization, changing its name to the Board of Foreign Missions and moving the headquarters to New York City. The New School denomination chose to continue to send missionaries through the ABCFM. However, by the time this latest division in the denomination was healed in 1869, the New School had already begun to support the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions.
Western Pennsylvania has always been an important supporter of denominational mission. The United Presbyterian Church of North America, a smaller Presbyterian denomination headquartered in Pittsburgh, built a strong record of missional engagement in Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Pakistan during its 100 years of existence from 1858 to 1958. The region also contributed some of the great Presbyterian pioneer missionaries such as John C. Lowrie in India, John Kelly Giffen in Sudan, and Don McClure in Ethiopia. All of these missionaries graduated from one of the progenitors of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, which continues to emphasize mission in its programs today.
It is appropriate that Presbyterian World Mission will mark its 175th anniversary this year at a General Assembly held in Pittsburgh, for it was through the visionary leadership of mission-minded Western Pennsylvanians that this organization came into existence.


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Q: How can I pass an iteration specific variable to the Form Builder in the Form Collection in Symfony 3? I have an evaluation that has different questions (items) and each item has a specific number of possible choices.
I need to pass the number of choices and the labels of each question to build the form for each item (question).
I can pass variables from the "parent" form to the form collection but I can't figure out how to pass a variable that is specific to each iteration in the Evaluation "answers" property.
In my controller:
$evaluation = new Evaluation();
$answers = array();
// i set each answer to default 0, for the form to place them in view
foreach ($items as $index => $item) {
    $answers[$index] = array('value' => 0, 'item_id' => $item->getId());
}
$evaluation->setAnswers($answers);

$formBuilder = $this->createFormBuilder($evaluation);

$formBuilder->add("answers", CollectionType::class, array(
    'entry_type' => AnswerType::class,
    //here i pass all the items objects array to the AnswerType form.
    'entry_options' => array(
        'items' => $items,
    ),
    'allow_delete' => false,
    'allow_add' => false,
));

And than in the AnswerType form class:
class AnswerType extends AbstractType
{
    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        $choices = array();

        // here I have all the items available in $options['items'];
        // but each item has a specific number of choices, and I need the current one that is being built
        // and I also need other info form the item like the question it self

        for($i = 1; $i <= $current_item_number_of_choices_that_i_dont_have;$i++){
            $choices[$i] = $i;
        }

        $builder->add('value', ChoiceType::class, array(
            'choices_as_values' => true,
            'multiple'=>false,
            'expanded'=>true,
            'choices' => $choices,
            'label' => $current_item_text_label_that_I_also_need
        ));

    }

    public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
    {
        $resolver->setDefaults(array(
            'items' => null
        ));
    }
}

Thanks! :)

A: Likely a CollectionType is not the type you need now to achieve it, because it hides a layer you need to handle (the current item). So the best would be add the answer collection yourself. Something like this:
class AnswerCollectionType extends AbstractType
{
    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        foreach ($options['items'] as $index => $item) {
            $builder->add($index + 1, AnswerType::class, [
                'item' => $item,
            ]);
        }
    }

    public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
    {
        $resolver->setRequired('items');
    }
}

class AnswerType extends AbstractType
{
    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        $item = $options['item'];

        $choices = [];
        for ($i = 1; $i <= $item->getNumChoices(); $i++) {
            $choices[$i] = $i;
        }

        $builder->add('value', ChoiceType::class, [
            'label' => $item->getLabel(),
            'choices' => $choices,
            'expanded' => true,
        ]);
    }

    public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
    {
        $resolver->setRequired('item');
    }
}

Note that AnswerType now requires the item option necessary to build the current choice form correctly.
$formBuilder->add('answers', AnswerCollectionType::class, [
    'items' => $items,
])

In the other hand, the CollectionType's workaround is more complex (by using Events) needing a static internal counter to know the current item.
See http://symfony.com/doc/current/form/dynamic_form_modification.html for details.


The White House is announcing new gun policies today. One of the major proposals includes arming teachers.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - The White House is announcing new gun policies today. One of the major proposals includes arming teachers.
This comes after the school shooting in Parkland, FL.
A local Terre Haute veteran is weighing in on the gun debate. Michael Egy served in the Marines when he was only 19 years old.
One major topic he does not support is raising the age to buy a gun. Instead, he would like to see tighter background checks.
Egy wants more medical information to be public, so gun stores will be able to see mental health issues during a background check.
He believes the number of guns is not the answer to reduce crime.
The new federal proposals aim to improve background checks. The White House also plans to overhaul parts of the mental health system.
President Donald Trump says they are not addressing the age requirement in the current legislation. Instead, they are leaving that decision up to a new school safety task force. The task force will be headed up by Education Secretary Betsy Devos.


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the simple life: iowa style
waukon is a town where, until recently, you could still dial five numbers and reach someone. it's a town where the place to purchase adult beverages is called the "double d liquor store" (and they let me write an out-of-state check, provided i told billy and tim {my uncles} "hello" from them). it's where my papa reigned king in sports at st. patrick's catholic school. it's where he was raised - waukon, iowa - in the heart of allamakee county.
some things have advanced into today's modern technology (picture mike and me rolling through town in our rental car with his wireless laptop, looking for an open signal to pick up the internet).
or the fact that the waukon standard (the local paper) is now online. and i love that you can still read the police briefs - now online for the world to see.
some things are best left unchanged. thousands of acres of untouched land, still used for farming and not yet developed. it's a place where people keep a great eye on my grandpa, who at 90-ish, still thinks he can clean his roof himself by climbing up on it.
my papa's fabulous cousin, pam, sent the following article over yesterday. it's worth a read, as allamakee county is considered among the most remote place in iowa.
from sunday's des moines register...
keeping their distance: iowa's most remote residents
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5 Reasons Why Han Solo is the Most Realistic Person in Star Wars
Emmet Asher-Perrin and Ryan Britt
Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:00am 26 comments 1 Favorite [+]
Essayist Ashley Cardiff makes an astute observation about Star Wars in her new book Night Terrors. In an essay titled "Nightmares," she points out how, as children, we go from loving Luke Skywalker to loving Han Solo. Cardiff writes:
"But right about 10 or so, I started thinking Han Solo was the more charming and interesting of the two. This is because Luke represents chastity and virtue while Han Solo represents cock."
Yes! We love Han Solo because he is sexy, but we think Han's pervasive appeal might be even more interesting than that. The real reason Han Solo is so well loved is because he's a very realistic character, way more realistic in fact than anyone else in all the films. Here's why.
He's Broke/In Debt
Star Wars may not depict a world in which people read or write, but they do still have to have jobs and make money. Luke's family has to get by selling moisture to… somebody, while Dexter Jexter runs a diner where people still pay way too much for gross food. The point is, Star Wars isn't a utopian, Captain Picard, money-doesn't-exist world. No. People still have jobs. And Han is the classic person who got caught up in the system. He's got a lot of old debts, not because he's a bad person, but because he is a person. Sure, he's technically a criminal, but as any good anthropologist will tell you, a lot of that comes out of class and upbringing. We're not saying Jabba is like a credit card company, or student loans, or the IRS, but his hold over Han represents an unreasonable debt that's hard to handle.
He's Sort of Embarrassed by His Cooler Friends
If Han were one of your real friends, he'd be the guy who gets a little too drunk at the bar, and also probably can't pay his tab. He's also going to be the funniest person there and the one guy you always want to go out with, night after night. This is a strange paradox of certain friends. Han Solo claims he doesn't trust Lando Calrissan, but "he is my friend." Oddly, this is exactly how all of Han's friends see him—he's kind of a flake, but he means well, and after a while of hanging out with his cooler friends, they shame him into acting like a grownup. Han projects this onto other people like Lando by hurling around the world "respectable" as an insult. When you've never quite escaped from your immature phase, everyone who is acting like an adult is a phony to you. Is Han Solo like Holden Caulfield in space? Maybe a bit.
His Ability to Play it Cool Disappears When He's in a Real Relationship
We've all been there. You first meet someone and you start to flirt with them. You are on fire! Full of so many quirky, witty things to say, expressing your affection in roundabout, clever turns of phrases ("I'm a nice man," or "I know"). Through all this excellent flirty hard work, the object of your affections melts, and then you are totally dating. But what happens after that? Well, sometimes you lose your cool. Your ability to be fast and flirty with a good remark is gone, because well, you're just so in love. This is exactly what happens to Han in Return of the Jedi. He turns into a whiny boyfriend who is constantly wondering, "Why isn't she talking to me?" or "Is she mad at me?" and the whole time is thinking, "I love her soooo much!" This is good, nice and normal. But it's certainly not "cool." But hey, who said love was "cool?"
He is the Most Un-P.C. Guy in the Whole Saga
Sure, he's got a Wookiee for a best friend, but Han Solo clearly has some prejudices that he wears on his sleeves. He's flat-out abusive to C-3PO, for one—yeah, the Golden One can be irritating, but so can Han's recklessness, so he doesn't have much of a leg to stand on there. While Leia and Luke treat 3PO like another person, working to calm him when he gets too worked up, Han just yells at Chewie to hook him up to the ship like a recharging smartphone. He dumps on people for their stature—"Short help's better than no help at all, Chewie." He steps on the tail of Jabba the Hutt, then leaves with the parting shot of "You're a wonderful human being." (We know that scene was originally done with a human actor, but the line comes off differently in the final CGI-ed cut.) He's not particularly nice to older people either, given the extreme attitude he takes up whenever Obi-Wan opens his mouth. Han's that young guy who is convinced that he's got all the answers; the Force is a sham, Ewoks are primitive idiots, droids are only good for their computing capacity. And when things go against his personal version of the galaxy, he gets a bit tetchy.
He Doesn't Have the Confidence to Realize That His Skills Are Valuable, A.K.A. He Could Get A Better Job
Han Solo is a star pilot, capable of keeping his beloved Falcon together with duct tape and bubble gum. He brags about his credentials a whole bunch, but when the going gets rough he nearly backs out on the Rebellion and his new friends. Why would he do that when he's so skilled? Because Han doesn't actually think his expertise is worth much. If he did, he'd have a better job by the time Luke and Obi-Wan showed up in the Mos Eisley Cantina. You know the type—those friends who could be the next great generation of entrepreneurs if they'd just admit that they had skills other people need. "You could be an incredible personal shopper!" you tell them. And they say, "No, shopping's not actually a real ability, hon." That person who bakes the most incredible cookies you've ever tasted, but refuses to sell them. Well, Han makes award-winning cranberry oatmeal cookies, but he refuses to believe anyone wants them. And of course, his time with the Rebellion changes him; once he realizes that they do find him valuable as a pilot and a fighter and a leader, he starts to grow up bit by bit.
So there you have it! Han Solo is by far the most realistic person in Star Wars, and maybe that's the true reason why he gets all the love from fans—we see bits of ourselves in him. We take one look at that guy and go, hey! If he can marry the princess and become a respected resistance fighter, maybe all that time I spend plugging away at my guitar until four in the morning? My student debts? My paranoia over my new relationship? Maybe these are all just steps on my road to heroism.
Ryan Britt wants to make it clear that you like him because he's a scoundrel—there aren't enough scoundrels in your life.
Emmet Asher-Perrin doesn't know where you get your delusions, laserbrain.
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While returning to Sandpoint Idaho to meet with other clients, to view homes, front right breaks stuck and rotor pads were smoking hot. Met clients 1 hour late. Immediately headed back up to Bonners Ferry Idaho to view homes from the home search the day before. Actually started catching up a bit and within 1 hour window for first showing. Then it got easier from there with this rather blatant sign, at least to me anyway, that this just was not the home we were looking for.
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The Institute of Economic Research Foundation - Fipe is a nonprofit private sector organization founded in 1973 to support the Economics Department of the School of Economics, Administration and Accounting of the University of Sao Paulo (FEA-USP) that has an important role in the areas of education, projects, research and development of economic and financial indicators in Brazil.
complementing the education of top professionals by offering certificate, training and post-graduate courses.
to support the dissemination of economic and correlated knowledge through technical publications, periodicals and other channels of communication.
to conduct projects and researches as per request by public and private sectors, respecting academic standards that allow simultaneously to produce data and to capacitate specialized personnel.
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