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Doctor Gottlieb: Bigger Quarantines to Come in US
The United States will face a greater threat from Ebola this winter as the epidemic in West Africa slowly turns into a potential worldwide pandemic and leads to outbreaks in cities across the country, according to a noted medical analyst.
In an opinion column for Forbes, Dr. Scott Gottlieb says that during January and February, public health officials will have a tough time tracking the "contacts" of Ebola patients as dozens of possible cases pop up nationwide, especially with the spread of the flu adding to the confusion.
The sudden rise in people who may have had even minor exposure to the deadly virus will have a profound effect on the current controversy over forced quarantines in the U.S., the doctor says, noting that the number of potential contacts placed in isolation could number in the hundreds within months.
Gottlieb pointed out that the epidemic is accelerating in Guinea and Sierra Leone, and before long it will have outbreaks closer to the U.S., such as in Latin America, which would ultimately lead to more cases on American soil.
Dance For Kindness the World Wide Flash Mob
Hello Joe,
I am the group leader and club president of Life Vest Inside at Salisbury. We are an organization at Salisbury University, but we are connected with a world wide organization. Our biggest event of the year will be taking place soon, Nov. 9th at 2pm, and we would love this event to be attended well. Our movement is all for the promotion of kindness and bettering the world through kindness so it would be very beneficial to have a way to reach a large audience. The event is Nov. 9th at 2pm in Red Square at Salisbury University, and the organization, Life Vest Inside at Salisbury (LVIS), Untouchables, and possibly Fuze and Student Government Association (SGA) will be preforming.
With Kindness&LFS,
Andrew Vogelsang
Environmental Studies&Outdoor Education, Fulton School of Liberal Arts
Admissions Host
President, SOAP
President, LVIS
Hi, I'm Josh Hastings
"Retaliation": Feds Launch New Land Grab Targeting Bundy Family
Battle of Bunkerville 2: BLM to declare 1.8 million acres environmental protection zone
A federal land grab being imposed under the guise of environmental protection in Southern Nevada has been labeled an act of "deliberate retaliation" by Cliven Bundy, the rancher who was at the center of a standoff between BLM agents and armed militia groups earlier this year.
On Sunday, the Bundy family posted a Facebook entry which asserted that, "the federal government is mounting retaliations against the Bundy family and the Southern Nevada people," after it was announced that the feds intended to designate around 1.8 million acres of land around their Gold Butte range as critical to the environment.
The initial dispute between Bundy and the feds, which culminated in an armed standoff between BLM agents and Bundy supporters back in April, centered around more than $1 million in grazing fees which authorities claimed Bundy owed stretching back two decades.
Badge Should Say County Executive
Ex-Con: Most Black Youths See Obama As 'Deadbeat' Leader
Most African American youths believe President Barack Obama is a "deadbeat" leader, says Paul McKinley, a member of Voices of the Ex-Offender, a grassroots group of former inmates.
"Every time they question the president about the black community, he's apologetic or embarrassed. Half of the time, I would say 97 percent of the time, he doesn't even want to say the black community exists," McKinley said Wednesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
New Use For Democrat Headquarters
Don't Forget To Change Your Clocks!
Hillary Clinton REPEATEDLY heckled at Maryland campaign stop
Protesters strike again and again at rally in Democratic stronghold
Hillary Clinton was heckled a half-dozen times today during a campaign stop for Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who is seeking the state's top job.
Clinton was just a few minutes into her remarks at the University of Maryland's College Park campus when a group of five protesters holding signs that said 'choose families over politics' began shouting at her about immigration.
'You know immigration's an important issue,' Clinton told them.
The presumed 2016 presidential candidate tried to talk over the noisy group. But the crowd of several hundred people came to her aid and drowned the protesters out by cheering and chanting, 'HILLARY! HILLARY!'
Profound Thoughts
~ John Glenn...
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
~ Desmond Tutu...
When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land.
They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes.
When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
~ David Letterman...
America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.
~ Howard Hughes...
I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. I'm a billionaire.
CDC: Ebola Spreads Like Flu
"Coughing, sneezing" spread of Ebola, flu nearly identical, according to CDC documents
Ebola spreads through coughing and sneezing much like influenza, which most experts agree is spread "mainly by droplets made when people with flu cough, sneeze or talk," according to documents by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A new CDC flyer describing the "droplet spread" of Ebola, which "happens when germs traveling inside droplets that are coughed or sneezed from a sick person," is nearly identical to the CDC's description of influenza which states "most experts think that flu viruses are spread mainly by droplets made when people with flu cough, sneeze or talk."
"Droplet spread happens when germs traveling inside droplets that are coughed or sneezed from a sick person enter the eyes, nose, or mouth of another person," the CDC Ebola flyer states, which was released on Monday. "Droplets travel short distances, less than 3 feet (1 meter) from one person to another. A person might also get infected by touching a surface or object that has germs on it and then touching their mouth or nose."
"Droplet spread diseases include: plague, Ebola."
City Secures Boat Ramp Land After Third-party Sale
The book is finally closing on the effort to build a public boat ramp at 64th Street – but the project still has enough unresolved political intrigue to sink a library.
The Town of Ocean City confirmed this week that it has acquired the five underwater lots at the west end of 64th Street needed to build a two-lane municipal boat ramp at a price of $25,000.
The lots were purchased from Dead Freddie's Restaurant, which recently acquired several parcels of marshland in the area from now-former owner Robert Kirchiro.
Our Make-It-Up World
Facts now pale in comparison with the higher truths of progressivism.
Do bothersome facts matter anymore?
Not really. This is an age when Americans were assured that the Affordable Care Act lowered our premiums. It cut deductibles. Obamacare allowed us to keep our doctors and health plans, and lowered the deficit. Those fantasies were both demonstrably untrue and did not matter, given the supposedly noble aims of health care reform.
The Islamic State is at times dubbed jayvee, a manageable problem, and a dangerous enemy — or anything the administration wishes it to be, depending on the political climate of any given week.
Some days Americans are told there is no reason to restrict connecting flights from Ebola-ravaged countries. Then, suddenly, entry from those countries is curtailed to five designated U.S. airports. Quarantines are both necessary and not so critical, as the administration weighs public concern versus politically correct worries over isolating a Third World African country.
Ebola is so hard to catch that there is no reason to worry about casual exposures to those without clear symptoms. But then why do health authorities still try to hunt down anyone who had even a brief encounter with supposedly asymptomatic carriers?
Nationwide Heroin Epidemic Hitting Hard In Worcester; County Launches Overdose Fatality Review Team
BERLIN – In January of this year, Heidi McNeeley's son was arrested.
Ten months later, she considers that a miracle.
"That was his wake up call,"
McNeeley, who lives in Bishopville, said her 25-year-old son called her to tell he'd been arrested — for heroin possession. He went on to tell her that he was addicted to the drug and needed help.
She was shocked. She thought heroin was something you heard about in the inner city.
McNeeley soon found out heroin use is now considered an epidemic in Worcester County — and the state at large. Between 2011 and 2013, there has been an 88 percent increase in heroin related deaths in Maryland, according to the state's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Larry Hogan, the republican candidate in Maryland's governor's race, has even pledged to declare a state of emergency regarding heroin if he's elected.
Former FDA Official: Larger Ebola Outbreaks Coming to American Cities
Authorities could be forced to quarantine hundreds of citizens
Former FDA official Scott Gottlieb M.D. warns that larger and more frequent Ebola outbreaks will inevitably hit American cities in the near future and that hundreds of people could be forcibly quarantined by health authorities.
In an op-ed for Forbes, Gottlieb, who previously served as Director of Medical Policy Development for the Food and Drug Administration, writes that the imminent onset of the flu season will make it harder to keep tabs on potential Ebola victims in the United States.
Sometime in January or February – as the Ebola epidemic explodes out of West Africa – we'll start experiencing larger, more frequent outbreaks in American cities. With the flu as a background to confound suspected cases of Ebola, public health departments will be hard pressed to "track and trace" all of the potential "contacts" when perhaps dozens of Ebola cases pop up in their cities.
Unable to pinpoint who might have come in close contact with Ebola, and be at risk of contracting the virus, they will reach for their most absolute tool – forced quarantine – as a way to mitigate threat amidst uncertainty. The number of people who will be placed into forced quarantines could easily number in the hundreds.
Older Man Who Eats Alone Goes Viral. When You Take a Close Look at What's on the Table, You'll See Why.
Seeing someone eating alone at a fast-food restaurant isn't necessarily an unusual sight, but what one woman snapped a picture of at an In-and-Out Burger has been shared more than 7,000 times within the past week.
What got Madina Bashizadah's attention was not the older man sitting alone or the walker beside the table, but the photograph propped up toward him as he ate his hamburger.
The photo featured his late wife.
"Oh my god I just died!!! He has a picture of his wife with him as he eats!" Bashizadah wrote on Twitter.
A Referendum on Competence
An anemic economy and sense of national decline portend a bad Election Day for Democrats.
Is this election really about nothing? Democrats might like to think so, but it's not.
First, like all U.S. elections, it's about the economy. The effect of the weakest recovery in two generations is reflected in President Obama's 13-point underwater ratings for his handling of the economy.
Moreover, here is a president who proclaims the reduction of inequality to be the great cause of his administration. Yet it has radically worsened in his six years. The 1 percent are doing splendidly in the Fed-fueled stock market, even as median income has fallen.
Second is the question of competence. The list of disasters is long, highlighted by the Obamacare rollout, the Veterans Affairs scandal, and the pratfalls of the once-lionized Secret Service. Beyond mere incompetence is government intrusiveness and corruption, as in the overreach of national-security surveillance and IRS targeting of politically disfavored advocacy groups.
There are Countless Hidden Faces All Around You...Just Look and LOL.
We're often oblivious to the abundant creativity around us. That's why, when someone comes around and highlights them, we often celebrate them as true "artists." Those people see what we take for granted.
Recently, a Twitter account started to collect the greatest collection of "faces" in everyday items. They might not be the same art you're ready to tout as the next best thing, but this guy talented at seeing the true world around us.
"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
Yes, that IS a wrecking ball coming towards you.
Democratic Dogs That Aren't Barking
Candidates avoid mentioning many of Obama's policy "successes."
Sherlock Holmes famously solved a mystery by noticing the dog that didn't bark in the night. Dogs that are not barking at night — nor in prime time — provide some useful clues to understanding the significance of this year's midterm election.
Contrary to the disparagement of some liberal pundits, this election is not about nothing. But is not about certain specific things they might like to hear, either. President Obama recently said that Democrats in serious Senate and House contests this year back "every one" of his programs. But you hear very little about those programs in their ads.
The stimulus package, for example, is not mentioned much. Nor are proposals by serious Democrats like Clinton-administration veteran William Galston for a national infrastructure bank. These dogs aren't barking.
SFD Calls For Service 10-31-14
Friday October, 31 2014 @ 21:58Nature: Medical EmergencyCity:Salisbury
Friday October, 31 2014 @ 18:26 Nature: Automatic AlarmAddress: 28135 Pathfinder Ct Salisbury, MD 21801
Friday October, 31 2014 @ 17:42 Nature: Automatic AlarmAddress: 500 Camden Ave Salisbury, MD 21801
Friday October, 31 2014 @ 14:53Nature: Medical EmergencyCity:Fruitland
Democrats: Vote or we'll kick your ass
Democrats are telling voters that they had better head to the polls — or else.
The New York State Democratic Committee is bullying people into voting next week with intimidating letters warning that it can easily find out which slackers fail to cast a ballot next Tuesday.
"Who you vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record," the letter says.
"We will be reviewing voting records . . . to determine whether you joined your neighbors who voted in 2014."
It ends with a line better suited to a mob movie than a major political party: "If you do not vote this year, we will be interested to hear why not."
4 Stresses Cops Deal With that Non-Cops Should Know About
Being a cop doesn't make someone more important than anyone else or any other profession but it does mean that they are unique. There are similar occupations (military, firefighting, ems/paramedic first responders) but just as a cop can't claim to fully understand any of those particular jobs (with the exception in some cases of public safety departments) the job of a police officer stands unique in its own right. The best men and women who take on the vocation of being a police officer understand that it truly is a "calling" and not just a job. A good cop must be committed to a clear concept of the purpose of law enforcement in a way that transcends the notion of punching a clock and getting a paycheck.
These same men and women will find that in a matter of years, however, that the job will change them. It will change their outlook on the world, their interactions with others and in some cases their very ability to deal with others who are not in law enforcement. They will find that friends and family that they used to have a closer relationship with may fade. Sometimes, that's a natural thing and other times there is simply a lack of understanding of what stresses a cop endures in their day to day routines. Here are 4 stresses that cops deal with that are good to share with non-cops for a little insight as to what has been causing those changes in you (or a cop you know):
DAILY PREPARATION FOR BATTLE
People die every day. Accidents happen every day. In rare instances, a dramatic tragedy unexpectedly takes the lives of one or thousands. However, in general, most occupations involve a generally safe assumption that you will go to work and come home at the end of the day. Being a police officer requires that you prepare daily for death. We put on bullet proof vests and guns for a reason: we are ready for the fight and unfortunately not every warrior comes home. Taking just the last 5 years of line-of-duty deaths into account, a police officer is killed in action every 2-3 days. To put that in perspective that is 727 lives lost of men and women who gave all to serve others. Cops are at war out there. The Norman Rockwell vision of a police officer cannot always apply. A heart that desires to help others is a pre-requisite for this job but a mind sharp and ready to defend is of equal necessity.
In one sense, we must relegate this reality into a part of our mind that permits us to be effective in continuing to move on and do our job with professionalism and self-sacrifice. In another sense, in order to be ready for the fight, we must remind ourselves daily that we are in it. In doing so, we're better able to love our spouses better, hug our kids more and help our friends however we can in this life.
Person of the Week: Anthony Stephens
DUI Collision - MSP Berlin -State Police
Date and Time: 11/01/2014 at 0202 hours .
Case #: 14-MSP-036061
Location:W/B Rt 90/ Ocean Expressway at Ocean Parkway
Vehicle Operator:Nicholas Thompson-Riviere (26) of Bishopville, Maryland
Narrative:On 11/01/2014 at approximately 2:02 AM, a Trooper from the Maryland State Police- Berlin Barrack responded to W/B Rt 90 at Ocean Parkway for a motor vehicle collision.
Preliminary Investigation revealed that Nicholas Thompson-Riviere W/M (26yoa) of Bishopville, MD was operating his vehicle traveling Westbound Rt 90 in the area of Ocean Parkway when he lost control of the vehicle, traveling off the right side of roadway, struck the guardrail, then collided with a tree.
The vehicle was destroyed and driver was trapped in vehicle had to be extricated from his vehicle by Ocean Pines Fire and Rescue.
Upon contact with the driver, the Investigating Trooper detected a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage present on the driver's breath.
Thompson-Riviere was transported by ambulance to Peninsula Regional Medical Center by ambulance with non- life threatening injuries.
There were no other passengers or vehicles involved in the collision.
Worcester County Sheriff's Office assisted.
Nicholas Thompson-Riviere was subsequently charged with DUI.
Troopers Investigate Fatal Vehicle Crash at Construction Site
Lewes - The Delaware State Police Crash Reconstruction Unit is currently investigating a fatal motor vehicle collision in which a male subject was killed that occurred at a home under construction early yesterday afternoon in Lewes.
The preliminary investigation has determined that the incident occurred on Friday, October 31, 2014 at approximately 1:40 p.m., as Tomas J. Godinez-Cabrera, 25, was operating a 2013 Chevrolet 3500 pick-up truck and was backing out of the driveway of a home under construction located in the 18000 block of Robinsonville Road, Lewes. As Godinez-Cabrera began backing, he failed to see a 61 year old Milford, DE man standing in the driveway behind the pick-up truck. The truck then struck the male victim, running him over. The victim sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. Godinez-Cabrera was not injured. Both he and the male victim were employed by a Camden-Wyoming concrete company which was performing work at the site. The name of the victim will be released pending the notification of his next of kin.
The Delaware State Police Crash Reconstruction Unit is continuing its investigation into this incident.
Many Empty Seats at Hillary Rally in Maryland
Hillary Clinton, a possible candidate for president of the United States, had not come out to speak yet, but was expected to take the stage shortly.
The rally is for Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who is running to become the next governor of Maryland.
The location of the rally, College Park, is a Democratic stronghold and home of the University of Maryland.
Embattled Ferguson chief: Holder's call for "wholesale change" in department was irresponsible
FERGUSON, Mo. – The embattled police chief of the suburban St. Louis town where a white officer's fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old remains under investigation has criticized Attorney General Eric Holder's recent call for "wholesale change" in the department.
Ferguson chief Tom Jackson tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (bit.ly/1yLo8GH ) that Holder's comments in Washington this week were "irresponsible" while federal investigations into both Michael Brown's Aug. 9 death and the broader Ferguson police operations are still going on.
A St. Louis County grand jury considering whether to bring criminal charges against Ferguson officer Darren Wilson.
Jackson said he is "low-hanging fruit" after a series of published reports suggesting he was being forced to step down to soothe department critics. The chief said he has no plans to resign.
Otto Looking For Consensus With Western Shore
Charles Otto has had a long morning, doesn't mince words and doesn't slow down for anyone.
Seated in the hotel lobby where he'd just been speaking with a Republican women's meeting, the short man with pale eyes, thick accent that's all Somerset County and a distinguishing mole on his cheek looks like he could use a cup of coffee.
But once he gets rolling on an issue he can sink his teeth into, even the tape recorder has a hard time keeping pace.
He starts slow. When asked why he would seek a second term, his reply is a scant three words.
Holder Pushing to Oust Ferguson Police Chief?
It would appear that unnamed Obama administration officials, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and their media cheerleaders have coordinated a narrative with regard to the Ferguson, MO Police Department. According to CNN, "government officials familiar with the ongoing discussions between local, state and federal officials" are saying Police Chief Thomas Jackson is expected to step down "as part of the effort by city officials to reform the Police Department." The proverbial fly in the ointment? Jackson and Mayor James Knowles deny any such plan exists.
"Nobody in my chain of command has asked me to resign, nor have I been terminated," said Jackson in a phone call with the news network. Knowles affirmed that statement and dismissed the notion that pressure was brought to bear by the feds. "People have been saying that for months, I mean for him to step down, Knowles explained. "But we've stood by him this entire time. So there is no change on that."
Irish Mother Left Speechless As Son Surprises Her By Rising Out Of The Icy Sea.
Stephen "Jimmy" Nolan told his mother he was not going to make it home to Ireland for a family wedding. Little did she know this wasn't true, and that Jimmy already planned his surprise return.
Jimmy lived and worked in Australia for many years, so he wanted to do something special to surprise his mother. He got his sister Nicola to take their mother to the beach. It was there when Jimmy's mother watched a video of Jimmy jokingly saying that maybe if he started swimming from Australia, he might make it home in time. As she looked up from the video, she saw something in the distance. She realized after a moment it was her son, appearing out of the ice-cold sea after "[swimming] from Australia."
Ex-Obama Secret Service agent 'on verge of huge upset'
Running for Congress in blue state against policies of old boss
Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent for President Obama, says that with only days until the election, he and his team have done all they can to win Maryland's Sixth District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, and he believes he could be "on the verge of a huge upset."
"I can comfortably tell you right now there is nothing we could have done to work harder," Bongino said. "I just got back yesterday from Montgomery County, in the pouring rain. It was 40 degrees. I'm sick as a dog right now, and I'm driving in the western Maryland mountains, getting ready to wash, rinse and repeat, so there's no more effort we could have given."
Bongino said if elected, he will make the federal government's tax-and-spend policies his No. 1 issue.
Democrats' Voter ID Lies
With a perfectly straight face, Barack Obama recently told Al Sharpton's National Action Network that "the real voter fraud is the people who try to deny our [voting] rights by making bogus arguments about voter fraud." Eric Holder likewise contends, without even a hint of a grin, that voter ID laws are merely "political efforts" designed to make it "more difficult" for nonwhite minorities to "have access to the ballot." And Hillary Clinton, too, casually dismisses voter fraud as a "phantom epidemic" that exists chiefly in the imagination of conservatives. Democrat consultant Donna Brazile puts it more colorfully, calling charges of voter fraud "a big ass lie."
These four pathetic clowns—along with all the other leading Democrats who invariably spout the same tripe—have one core trait in common: None of them actually believe even a word that they say about the rarity of voter fraud or the alleged injustice of voter ID requirements.
Early Voting Shows Increased Turnout
WORCESTER COUNTY– Following an abysmal primary turnout, early signs point toward an increase in participation during the general election.
When early voting opened at 10 a.m. at the Gull Creek Senior Center in Berlin on Thursday, Oct. 23, at least a dozen people lined up at the door, standing in the nearly freezing rain and waiting patiently to cast their ballots. Poll workers with the Worcester County Board of Elections said nearly 700 people voted during the vote's first day, good for more than half the total accumulated during the entire week of primary early voting.
Board of Elections Supervisor Patti Jackson was optimistic about the early numbers.
"It's encouraging," she said. "We definitely expect a bigger turnout after the primary when there were a lot of unopposed races. There are still a few unopposed, but not many, and of course this is what people consider the big election – a lot of people don't consider the primary a true election."
Today's Survey Question 11-1-14
Do TV commercials influence your vote?
HISTORICAL COMMENTS BY GEORGE CHEVALLIER 11-1-14
A Short History of Salisbury, Maryland
It was in a colonial atmosphere that Salisbury Town was "erected" by act of the Provincial Assembly on August 8, 1732 – some 276 years ago. The site of the present Main St. bridge was where the shipping business of Col. Isaac Handy was established in 1665. For the following six decades, it was known as Handy's Landing. When the Provincial Assembly decided to erect a town on this site, it was named Salisbury after Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Many of the large land owners of the section at that time had emigrated from the vicinity of the ancient English city, some for religious reasons that they might have absolute freedom of worship, others to enlarge their fortunes in this new land.
At the time of its founding, Salisbury was a part of Somerset County and remained that way until 1867, when parts of Worcester and Somerset counties were set aside to form the new county of Wicomico. Prior to the formation of the new Wicomico County, residents had to go to either Snow Hill in Worcester County or Princess Anne in Somerset County to conduct official business. By 1867, there was enough business conducted in Salisbury to apply to the legislature for the formation of a new county. This also gave the Eastern Shore another vote in the legislature in Annapolis.
Salisbury was the center for a large farming community and the town grew along with it. The first major blow to the growth of Salisbury came in 1860, when a fire that started in the Daniel Davis building, located on the northwest corner of Main (then known as Bridge St.) and St. Peter's streets, spread throughout what was then the "downtown" area and left Salisbury in smoldering ruins.
Slowly they rebuilt, until the area was bustling with business activity again. The railroad had started to come down through Delaware, but the Civil War interrupted the progress through Salisbury. After the war, the railroad was extended to Salisbury and that greatly enhanced the ability to move goods both to and from Salisbury. They were expanding at a rapid pace until the second major fire in 1886 destroyed 22 acres in the heart of Salisbury. After this fire, an ordinance was passed that all subsequent buildings be of either brick or stone to prevent another disaster like the fires of 1860 and 1886. The streets were also made wider to prevent fire from spreading as it had previously.
The form of government changed in 1888 from a three commissioner form of rule to a mayor and council elected by the citizens.
For the next 20 years, Salisbury experienced tremendous growth. In keeping up with the rest of the country, Salisbury acquired electricity and telephone service. The harbor was dredged to a navigable depth by 1906. Automobiles started to appear on city streets. In 1909, the dam holding back Humphreys Lake broke, exposing the land east of Division St. At one time Humphreys Lake extended from Division St. on the west to about Davis St. on the east end. The southern shore extended from where the Daily Times building is now to along S. Park Dr. The northern shore ran approximately along what is now Rt. 50- a rather large body of water to be sure. When it emptied, a group of businessmen bought the land from the Humphreys family and formed the Salisbury Realty Co. Many of today's structures east of Division St. are built on land that was once under water.
On the southern side of Humphreys Lake, a new high school was built in 1905. Prior to this, the previous school was named Salisbury High School and was available only to residents of Salisbury. When the new school opened, it was named Wicomico High School, to reflect the fact that they served all of Wicomico County. Another new High School was opened in 1932. This is now Wicomico Middle School. The present Wicomico High School was opened in 1954. Since that time both James M. Bennett (named after a former superintendent of Wicomico County schools) and Parkside High Schools have been built.
Two other occurrences contributed to Salisbury's growth. Route 13 was built through the city in the late 1930's and Route 50 was built in the early 1960's. Both of these improvements made traveling in either direction much more desirable and added to the traffic flow both to and from Salisbury. Both of these routes have been superseded by the new by-passes that have recently been completed. While this relieves the traffic flow through downtown, fewer people see Salisbury's business district.
Amazing Artist - Do you see Bruce Lee? (wait for it..)
Federal Government Made $20 Billion in Secret Purchases in Recent Months
I-Team review finds $30,000 in one agency's Starbucks purchases kept confidential from public
The federal government has spent at least $20 billion in taxpayer money this year on items and services that it is permitted to keep secret from the public, according to an investigation by the News4 I-Team.
The purchases, known among federal employees as "micropurchases," are made by some of the thousands of agency employees who are issued taxpayer-funded purchase cards. The purchases, in most cases, remain confidential and are not publicly disclosed by the agencies. A sampling of those purchases, obtained by the I-Team via the Freedom of Information Act, reveals at least one agency used those cards to buy $30,000 in Starbucks Coffee drinks and products in one year without having to disclose or detail the purchases to the public.
Obama on Early Voting: "You Can Only Vote Once; This Isn't Chicago"
At a Tuesday evening campaign event for Mary Burke, Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin, President Barack Obama encouraged voters to participate in early voting.
"One week, Wisconsin. One week. One week from today you get to choose a new governor. And because early voting runs through this Friday, you don't have to wait until election day," Obama told the crowd in Milwaukee.
"You can vote all week," Obama added.
"I mean you can only vote once, this isn't Chicago now," Obama told the crowd, laughing.
"I'm teasing Chicago, I'm messing with you. That was a long time ago," Obama added.
Feds cut off internet, dress up as technicians to conduct warrantless search
Well, here's one more reason not to trust Comcast: Those internet repairmen at your door may actually be undercover agents — especially if they arrived promptly after the outage occurred. Indeed, Nevada courts are currently considering whether it's legal for the government to cut off your internet or other utilities, dress up as technicians, and then gain entrance to your house to conduct a warrantless search.
Earlier this year, FBI agents did exactly that after becoming suspicious of Chinese gamblers staying in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Per the agents' defense lawyer, the decision was, "We'll dress up as technicians, we'll come inside, we'll claim to be fixing the internet connection — even though we can't, 'cause we broke it from outside — and then we'll just look around and see what we see."
After seeing what they saw, the FBI concluded the Chinese group was doing nothing illegal.
Keep Your Eyes Open Wicomico County
Says It All
Clinton Blames 'Shorthand' for Gaffe that Businesses Don't Create Jobs
Another day, another Hillary Clinton clean-up attempt.
After emphatically declaring last week that businesses and corporations do not create jobs, Clinton, blaming her poor use of shorthand, claimed on Monday that she was actually referring to her stance against "tax breaks for corporations that outsource jobs or stash profits overseas."
"I shorthanded this point the other day, so let me be absolutely clear about what I've been saying for a couple of decades: Our economy grows when businesses and entrepreneurs create good-paying jobs here in an America where workers and families are empowered to build from the bottom up and the middle out—not when we hand out tax breaks for corporations that outsource jobs or stash their profits overseas," Clinton backpedaled on Monday while campaigning for Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), according to USA Today.
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Halle-Bration holiday celebration takes virtual twist in 2020
Halle-Bration holiday celebration takes virtual twist
CINCINNATI — After seven holiday seasons, Halle-Bration, a holiday celebration with a focus on Black-owned businesses grew into a two-day event that drew nearly 2,000 shoppers and 65 vendors in 2019.
Those attendance numbers for the event held inside New Vision United Methodist Church last year, while impressive, almost led to the cancellation of this weekend's eighth annual Halle-Bration, according to its chairperson, Kathye Lewis-Norman.
"We weren't sure we could do it at all," Lewis-Norman said.
When Lewis-Norman first met with the committee of church volunteers at New Vision Church in Paddock Hills in June to begin planning the 2020 Halle-Bration, Ohio's statewide COVID-19 stay-at-home order was just being lifted. Lewis-Norman said she and her fellow volunteers had no illusions that the pandemic would be over by the time the holiday celebration was set to take place this Friday and Saturday inside the church.
"So, we decided we were going to take the plunge and take that hard pivot," she said. "We called our vendors and asked them if they were able to take their business virtually."
Twenty-five vendors who participated in last year's Halle-Bration committed to being part of this year's virtual event, Lewis-Norman said. The Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, along with local Black-owned internet technology companies such as Easley Blessed Media then offered vendors website support and online sales training.
This year's celebration takes place at accelevents.com from 4-8 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.
Lewis-Norman said participating vendors' experience with online sales ranged from those such as the owner of Kitabu Children's Books, whom Halle-Bration's sponsors helped build it a new website, to those such as Shawnte Barker, owner and designer of Stylish LeNese Boutique in Madisonville.
Barker started her boutique online two years ago after moving back to Cincinnati from New York, where she lived for 15 years. Barker is a 2003 graduate of the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.
Barker opened Stylish LeNese Boutique's brick-and-mortar location at 4905 Whetsel Ave. a little more than a year ago. She said her store focuses on clothing customization and original style designs for women and young girls.
"The pandemic has been really hard on my business, being able to stay open, being able to pivot in times to do what people need," Barker said.
Barker met Lewis-Norman when Stylish LeNese Boutique participated in Halle-Bration last year.
"She's been a really great resource for me and my business, getting to meet different people," Barker said of Lewis-Norman. "Being part of her event again this year, even though it is virtual, it is allowing me as a newer business great exposure."
Barker said she also was happy to help other local Black-owned businesses by sharing her previous experience selling online and promoting her business on social media platforms.
"Being a woman and a black-owned business and to come back and really shine and really be able to be a part of the community has been very important to me," she said. "I really like how it (Halle-Bration) shows unity, how all of the businesses can come together and really support each other."
Beyond buying clothing and books online, Lewis-Norman said people will be able to browse food from local eateries for delivery or pick up and enjoy live music throughout each day of the virtual event.
"We have a full line up on Friday and Saturday of entertainment fun," she said.
This year's Halle-Bration will still feature one in-person event though, Lewis-Norman said. From noon-1 p.m. Saturday, children will be able to enjoy a socially-distanced visit with Santa Claus in New Vision's parking lot, located at 4400 Reading Rd.
"We are having a drive-through Santa pick up for toys for the children because we've always had our Santa and the toys," Lewis-Norman said.
For more information about this year's Halle-Bration visit the event Facebook page.

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Security vulnerabilities that can permit programmers to get to your gadget by sending you an iMessage are found in verging on each adaptation of iOS and OS X, with the exception of the most recent ones, report Forbes and Quartz.
Found by a scientist from Cisco, a programmer could send you a .TIF record (which is a photograph document, as .jpg) that, when gotten, can execute a code that gives the programmer access to your gadget's interior stockpiling and put away passwords.
Keeping in mind the end goal to stay away from this, there are a couple of basic answers for the occasion: you can overhaul your gadgets to the most recent renditions, iOS 9.3.3 or El Capitan 10.11.6, or turn off iMessage.
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Life in the most drone-bombed country in the world
The war in Afghanistan has turned the country into an unwilling testing ground for warfare technology.
by Ali M. Latifi
Khalid still remembers the first time he heard about drones. He was 10 years old, sitting in his school classroom in Khogyani, a district near the Durand Line in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. A group of his friends animatedly discussed the recent death of a local man.
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"Then the drone came," one of them said, imitating the whistling noise of an unmanned aircraft, "and he was dead."
Khalid didn't understand what they were saying. It was as if he was the only one left out of a secret. He finally decided to ask his teacher. What did the other boys mean? What was a drone?
The teacher's response was both ominous and prescient. "It's something that, once you come to its attention, you will not be left to live," he told Khalid.
That was in 2007. Khalid is 22 now, a young man. American military involvement in Afghanistan—sparked by Al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001—was already six years deep by the time he learned about drones, but the strikes go back nearly as far.
The first instance of a drone killing civilians in Afghanistan was in 2002, when a man by the name of Daraz Khan was killed by a Hellfire missile dropped by a Predator drone in the eastern province of Khost. The US suspected that he was Osama bin Laden; residents maintain that Khan was merely out searching for scrap metal.
Since then, Khalid's province of Nangarhar has become a hub for armed groups—first the Taliban, and later forces claiming allegiance to ISIS—and a bustling drug trade. It has also become one of the most drone-bombed provinces in the most drone-bombed country in the world.
The American public, though, has largely forgotten this. The war in Afghanistan has been running for 18 years, making it the longest conflict in American history (it passed the previous milestone, set by the Vietnam War, in February 2019). Over the years, press coverage has fallen dramatically. According to the Pew Research Center for Journalism and the Media, Afghanistan accounted for 1% of all media coverage in the US in 2007 and just under 4% in 2010, when the Pentagon deployed 100,000 troops and dropped 5,101 bombs on the country. Today, the level of coverage is insignificant: Pew no longer even tracks it as a topic.
In fact, military activity in Afghanistan is on the increase again. The number of US troops there started rising again under the Trump administration; there are now 15,000 American military personnel officially deployed in the country. Air strikes are at a record high, according to the US Air Forces Central Command: 2018 saw 7,362 bombs dropped by US forces in Afghanistan.
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As of August 31 this year, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism had documented at least 4,251 aerial strikes in Afghanistan for 2019, more than double the total for the whole of 2018. Most of these, it says, are thought to be by drones. These attacks are exacting an increasing toll on the Afghan people. This year, according to the United Nations, foreign coalition forces were responsible for more civilian deaths than the Taliban or ISIS-allied forces for the first time since its Afghanistan mission began recording civilian casualties in 2009. Between January 1 and June 30, international military forces were responsible for 89% of the 519 civilian casualties—363 deaths and 156 injuries—caused by aerial operations.
It's not just drone warfare that has expanded dramatically, however. The US military has used the war to test and improve other tactics, too.
In 2007, American forces began taking photographs, fingerprints, and iris scans of almost every Afghan they came across. By 2011, almost two million people—more than 5% of the population—had had their biometric details captured by the US military. In most cases it was claimed that this was done in a check for suspected militants, or as part of the application process for jobs with government security forces or on coalition bases, but it could happen at any time, and for almost any reason.
Smoke rises from the village of Esferghich after a US air strike.
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The Pentagon said the move, a tactic it calls "identity dominance," was intended to spot insurgents and prevent infiltration. But it's believed that US Navy Seals used their identity system to confirm that they had found Osama bin Laden during the raid on his compound in Pakistan in 2011. And in Iraq, where the US had previously tried biometric capture, it was used to control people's movements, especially in high-conflict areas like Fallujah.
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the fear of surveillance is pervasive among ordinary Afghans. Rumors circulate about new techniques being used to spy on people: Khalid and his friend Naimatullah tell stories about a substance that can be rubbed on your clothes to make you more easily traceable. These tales have apparently led to a new defense mechanism among Nangarharis. "You just take off your clothes and run into some water. They say that somehow jams the signals," said Naimatullah.
Obaid Ali, a Kabul-based analyst at the Afghanistan Analysts Network, who has written extensively on aerial operations, says he has been told about physical tracking devices—albeit slightly more traditional ones. "They're really small electronic devices that are slipped into someone's clothing," he told me.
A Department of Defense spokeswoman said the Pentagon could not comment on tactics, techniques, or procedures for operational security reasons. Rahmatullah Nabil—a presidential candidate who twice served as Afghanistan's chief of intelligence during 2010 to 2015—says people are definitely tracked: but that most of that is done through mobile-phone signals. This, says Nabil, has led the Taliban to rely on some familiar tactics to keep them from being traced: "They use the simplest possible mobile phones and are constantly changing their locations every few hours. They never spend more than 48 hours in a single area."
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By Jessica PurkissNearly a decade ago, we started recording US air and drone strikes in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, and we added Afghanistan to the list in 2015. We did this in response to the official silence that surrounded these operations. And while American counterterrorism operations have become somewhat less secretive over time, the level of transparency is constantly in flux. In September 2016, after more than a year of pressure, we started to get official military figures on how many strikes were taking place in Afghanistan each month. A year later, however, that same information was suddenly deemed too sensitive for public release.
When it was reinstated another year later, we were happy to see important details included—such as where and what the strikes hit. This showed a high number of strikes on buildings, described by one expert as the riskiest kind of strikes for civilians. But two weeks after we published a story raising these concerns, that level of detail was stripped out of the data.
Transparency, or the lack of it, can have a very real impact for civilians on the ground. In Wardak, one Afghan province, a strike killed one man's entire immediate family, including his seven children. The US military denied responsibility on three separate occasions, even telling us that they carried out no strikes in that area. Only after we found weapon fragments from the site conclusively proving US responsibility did they admit dropping the bomb (although they still deny civilian casualties). Had those fragments not been found, the US role in this incident might never have been uncovered.
In many areas of the country, phone service is cut off, usually by the Taliban, at sundown. And in August, the Taliban announced that they would begin targeting employees of the state-run provider Salaam Telecom, saying the company's workers are "tied to intelligence agencies."
In many areas under Taliban control, simply owning a smartphone can create suspicion that someone is an intelligence agent. That means even though people often use phones to check on loved ones after a terrorist attack or security operation, some have chosen to give up on them altogether.
But even if you throw away your mobile phone, avoid bumping into a US soldier on patrol, and can keep your biometric information to yourself, you can still get caught up in the war.
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The device that fell on a small village in Nangarhar's Achin district, an hour's drive along a treacherous road from Jalalabad, in April 2017 wasn't just any bomb. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, or MOAB, weighed 21,600 pounds (9,800 kilograms) and cost $170,000. It was the most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever used, capable of destroying an area the size of nine city blocks. It quickly became known as the "Mother of All Bombs."
The Afghan government tried to justify the strike by saying it had killed at least 94 ISIS fighters. But former president Hamid Karzai called it a prime example of how the US was using Afghanistan for what amounted to experimental warfare. "This is not the war on terror but the inhuman and most brutal misuse of our country as testing ground for new and dangerous weapons," he wrote on Twitter.
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Nabil, the former intelligence chief, agrees. "Did they ever use such a weapon anywhere else in the world? No," he told me. "It's clear that Achin was just a convenient place for them to test out their weapons."
The government claims that the bomb killed foreign fighters from a number of countries. But in the days and weeks following the bombing, the village itself was still under the watch of the US military. Journalists were not allowed within 10 kilometers, and it became clear that local military and government officials had not been given access either. In the two and a half years since, journalists and investigators have still not been able to get to the exact site of the attack in order to decipher what happened.
So why was such a large bomb used? A few days after MOAB dropped, Vice President Mike Pence suggested one motive: as a demonstration of power. "Just in the past two weeks," he said in an address in Seoul, "the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in Syria and Afghanistan. North Korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region." He added, "The era of strategic patience is over."
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All this is made worse because the US military has not always been transparent about its operations. Human Rights Watch said in a 2018 report that neither the American nor Afghan governments have been doing enough to investigate possible violations of the laws of war.
Afghans on the ground agree. I have spoken to hundreds of people since 2015, in provinces all over the country. Each time, they have said that not enough people have inquired about strikes in their areas. And even when there are independent reports, they are accused of political bias by officials in Kabul and the US-led coalition.
Emran Feroz, an Afghan-Austrian journalist and author who has been tracking aerial operations in Afghanistan since 2011, concurs: "The central problem is most of these strikes are conducted under the cover of night in hard-to-reach areas, often under the control or influence of groups like the Taliban, which makes it very difficult for anyone to go and investigate in a timely manner."
Nearly 20 years in, and with the conflict once more intensifying, there are no signs of an ending. Diplomacy between the Taliban, the Afghan government, and the Trump administration seems to be making little progress. Trump, who claimed to have canceled a secret meeting with the Taliban on US soil planned for September, has vowed to halt talks so long as Taliban fighters keep attacking Afghan civilians and US forces.
As long as military intelligence is weak, however, it is not just the Taliban that Afghans have to fear. In July, the deaths of at least seven civilians, including three women, led to protests in the Eastern province of Maidan Wardak, where residents threatened to boycott the upcoming presidential election unless action was taken. But the outcry has done little to change military action. In September, at least 30 civilians were killed in a US drone strike near a pine nut field in Khogyani. Provincial officials say the attack was meant to target a hideout of ISIS forces, but residents say it was civilians who paid the price once again.
Nabil, the former intelligence chief, says the best way to improve things is to shift away from technology and back toward proper intelligence gathering. "We have to be better than the Talibs—we must ensure that we protect civilian life at all costs," he says. During his tenure at the National Directorate of Security, he says, aerial operations were allowed to take place only when he had verified information on suspected targets. "You can't go from the word or suspicions of just one or two people. You must do your due diligence, otherwise you end up in a situation like today where civilians are constantly being killed by our own forces," he told me.
Khalid and Naimatullah agree that the increasing frequency of strikes serves no purpose. "Even people in the villages know where the Taliban and Daesh [ISIS] are, but why is it that civilians keep dying in these attacks?" they asked.
"I was 16 when I saw someone die from a drone strike," said Naimatullah. "Since then I've cleaned up so many bodies, their blood, their brains. My heart is stone now, because it's always innocent people dying."
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3 Radical Ideas To Totally Disrupt Air Travel
No bags on planes. Middle seats that feel exclusive. And the option to resell your seat. Travelers would be happier for it.
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If a flight attendant told me that I couldn't bring my roller bag onto the plane, I might throw a fit. But when the same idea comes from Teague–the preeminent air travel design studio that's designed the interiors of Boeing planes since 1946–I'll hear them out.
Recently at the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) conference, Teague principal brand strategist Devin Liddell presented the company's radical concept for Poppi, an idealized, modern airline. "Our scenario was, what if we created a startup airline, in the mode of Airbnb or Uber?" Liddell explains. "If we started an airline from scratch, what would we do?"
The result was a thought-provoking view of the future of air travel, where the airlines can make money in more earnest ways, and we can enjoy the journey more, too.
Ban Carry-On Luggage
Nobody wants to spend $25 to check a bag. And as a result, we've all shouldered the anxiety of wondering, "Will all the overhead bins be filled?" while we suffer through the painfully slow boarding times of modern air travel.
"The answer to the problem is right in front of us," Liddell says. "The answer is not to have bags at all in the cabin. You can have personal items, your jacket, your computer bag, but having luggage that should be checked in the cabin is totally broken."
The overhead compartments would be vastly reduced in size to become "fedora bins," made just large enough for the small items you carry. It's Poppi's most controversial idea, but it's actually not a new one. "It was an ode to the 707," Liddell says, "because if you look at the 707, which ushered in the jet age, that's what they were for: a place for your hat and your briefcase, not a place to cram this gigantic rolling bag."
Running boarding simulations, Teague found that ditching all these roller bags would expedite boarding by 71%. That saved time is nice for us, but even better for the airlines, as it would reduce the number of missed connections between delayed flights. And the smaller bins would shave 3,000 lbs. off a 777 jet, which would save a busy airline up to $25 million a year in fuel costs.
Of course, there's still that problem of $25 checked bags–which equates to an incredible $32 billion of revenue for the airline industry each year. Airlines don't want to lose that cash, but travelers still don't want to pay it. Teague's solution for the airlines? Check the customer's bag, but if you're going to charge, add extra service. Don't make them wait at the carousel after their flight; deliver it to a passenger's hotel room.
Ultimately, checked bags are a major source of revenue, but it's not irreplaceable, Liddell argues. Airlines make an average of $18 per traveler in ancillary revenue–services like food, drinks, and baggage checks that aren't part of the ticket fee. "We could absolutely come up with amazing services to get that $18 back," he says.
One way to get that ancillary revenue back that's directly tied to the issue of overhead storage would be to simply sell customers special airline-branded bags. These bags would be specifically designed to click in underneath a seat for people who still wanted to bring larger bags on board.
Make Middle Seats Feel Exclusive
Nobody likes flying in the middle seat, Teague included. It's inherently less comfortable, and a third of people on a plane will be stuck with it. "The thing that vexes us is, the middle seat has always remained the punishment for booking late," Liddell explains. "Yet often times, the person in the middle seat has paid a lot more for it."
Poppi's solution? Make the middle seat feel exclusive as a "promotional class." Invite companies like Uniqlo, Nike, or Adidas to take that seat over–paying airlines for the privilege of a captive audience–while the corporations woo passengers with a special gift box or experience.
"It makes the middle seat less sucky," Liddell says. "I'm not in the aisle or the window, but maybe I'm in the Xbox middle seat, so I get to play prerelease games."
It's easy to imagine a company like Nike selling a custom Air Force 1 to sneakerheads, but only if they booked a middle seat on American during the holiday season–or for the company to offer 20% off a custom Nike ID order, but only if they placed their order in the air.
But maybe more than any of that, to walk onto a plane, stuck with a middle seat, only to see that you have a special gift waiting on your chair, would be a powerful, positive experience to reframe a miserable flight. And airlines would have every motivation to make that happen.
"It creates an opportunity for the airline to sell that seat to brands. The old model for colleges and universities was [that] they paid Nike, Adidas, and Converse for sporting equipment," Liddell says. "Now that model has been subverted. They pay schools hundreds of millions of dollars for the privilege of sponsoring them."
Encourage Amazon Prime-Style Memberships
Starbucks has 9 million My Starbucks Rewards members who preload their accounts with gift cards, allowing the company to earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year just from the interest on cups of coffee yet to be sold. Amazon Prime members are notoriously loyal to the company, and spend $400 million a year for perks like free two-day shipping.
Teague proposes something deeper than just offering passengers miles on credit cards. What if they could become yearly members to an airline, prepaying for certain privileges or number of flights? It would be something like crossing an NFL season ticket with Starbucks and Amazon loyalty programs.
"When we think why we want to do it, it's in some ways really straightforward, and it's about the magic of belonging. That's what works with Starbucks and Amazon, and definitely the [fandom of] sports leagues," Liddell says. "'I'm part of this team, this brand.' Through that sense of belonging, it encourages people to opt out of the marketplace."
Opt out of the marketplace? Liddell means that, rather than searching for the cheapest fare on Travelocity for every flight, you might be more willing to accept the options from a single carrier (and in the case that you prepaid for X flights a year, you'd be more or less stuck with them).
From the airline's perspective, deeper loyalty programs seem like a no-brainer. It's basically free money if they can hook customers into the plan. But why would we, as savvy travelers, ever prebuy into such a system?
Poppi includes an app that members could access to either resell their seats instead of paying for a change fee, or swap seats (window for aisle) with other passengers boarding a plane. Again, Liddell points to the success of the sports world, like the NFL, which gives ticket holders a platform to resell their seats, while pocketing a piece of the transaction. But it's a scenario in which everyone wins. And, maybe more than any tangible benefit, it would give travelers a greater sense of control to a process in which there is rarely transparency or opportunity for negotiation, let alone justice.
Related: The Problem With In-Flight Wi-Fi
Mark Wilson is a senior writer at Fast Company who has written about design, technology, and culture for almost 15 years. His work has appeared at Gizmodo, Kotaku, PopMech, PopSci, Esquire, American Photo and Lucky Peach


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Jason Stratham's Mechanic: Resurrection held onto its weekly lead, while Inferno topped the three-day weekend chart.
Mechanic: Resurrection held onto pole position at the Chinese box office in the period of Oct 24-30. Jason Stratham's action thriller raked in $19.07m for $43.88m after 10 days, making it the highest grossing foreign film in October.
Sony's Inferno topped the three-day weekend chart although it fell short to Mechanic: Resurrection for the weekly crown. The latest adventure of Tom Hanks' Robert Langdon series, which opened day-and-date as in the US, took $12.70m from its first three days.
Hong Kong's action thriller Operation Mekong was still steady after one month, adding $9.14m from a massive 31-day total of $170.53m. It has surpassed From Vegas To Macau 3 to become the third highest grossing local film and the sixth overall this year.
Mr Donkey opened in fourth place with $8.95m from its three-day opening weekend. The new local comedy is directed by Liu Lu and Zhou Shen who adapted the story from their countryside village-set stage play of the same name. It is produced by Mahua FunAge, the same company behind last year's sleeper hit Goodbye Mr Loser.
Dreamworks animation Trolls launched in fifth place with $4.81m from its first three days. It was followed by holdovers Heartfall Arises on $4.50m for $16.48m after 11 days; Tom Cruise's action sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back on $3.17m for $8.82m after 10 days; and I Belonged To You on $1.75m for a 32-day total of $120.93m.
New local comedy Xiaoming & His Friends opened in ninth with $1.05m from its first three days, while Disney's The BFG rounded out the top 10 with $0.95m for $21.25m after 17 days.
The overall box office continued its downwards trend with a drop of approximately 14% last week and approximately 19% for October (as of Oct 30), making it the fifth month this year with negative growth.
The next two months are crucial to set the box office back on track, with an extremely busy slate of both high-profile Hollywood and Chinese titles. The first week of November will see the release of Doctor Strange, Hide And Seek, Someone To Talk To and Crayon Shin-chan: Fast Asleep! Dreaming World Big Assault!, all dated for Nov 4.


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Q: System testing vs Acceptance testing - Difference in test cases I'm a bit confused about the real difference between system testing and acceptance testing. When I search this topic the answers differ and I fail to see how the testcases can be vastly different.
Facts I've discovered:
System testing is conducted on the complete system and is done by the supplier. System testing is end-to-end testing where you test complete flows in the system (from login to logout) based on the requirement spec (both functional and non-functional).
Acceptance testing is done by the customer to verify that it meets the customers demand. This is also complete flows and is based on the requirement spec. HOWEVER the system that is built was designed based on the requirement spec and the apperance/usability is usually already accepted in the earlier stages of the development cycle. If the system covers the requirement specification it should not be possible for the client to say "this is not what we wanted, redo this and that", unless ofcourse the contract allows this and the customer is paying per hour.
So, my question is basicly, how would the test cases for these two test phases differ? Both of them is end-to-end testing and focuses on that it is a functional system and it satisfies the specification, which in extent is also the business needs (since it's what they have ordered). It seems as if the test cases from the system testing can be reused in acceptance testing as they both coveres complete flows?

A: Acceptance testing by the customer shouldn't really have formal test cases. It is all about the client using the system as they had planned to and seeing where their understanding of how it would work matches what it actually does.
Test cases constrain the acceptance testing because typically things raised from it are like "X is great, but can you also add Y" and "We said field Z should be an integer but actually we may need to put text in there too".

A: Both types of tests are executed against the entire system/application. It's very possible many of the tests will overlap.
A system test is often executed by an independent QA team in a production-like environment. This may be the first time all of the components are tested together.
Acceptance testing is often run in either the same environment or a similar (also production-like) environment, but the make-up of the team often consists of a subset of the actual users of the system. One belief is that users will identify scenarios, defects, and observe behaviors that a regular tester would overlook. Also, this can provide a level of comfort to the users before they deploy to production.
If you are working from a V-Model, system test aligns with system level design and acceptance testing aligns with business requirements.

A: The short answer is this:
System testing Performed by developers and/or QA to ensure that the system does what it was designed to do. This can be done automatically by using, for instance, something like Selenium (for a web app). The purpose for doing this is quality assurance, and many organizations don't bother with this.
Acceptance Testing Performed by customers and/or managers to ensure that the system does what they think it should. It is generally considered the end of the developers contractual obligation to fix the software.
The difference is that a system test will usually test things that the customer doesn't really care about, Things like "Are database connections committed in the correct order". Acceptance tests usually focus on things like "How is the subjective user experience".

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Matt Braunger has three hour comedy specials: Shovel Fighter (Comedy Central, 2012), Big Dumb Animal (Comedy Dynamics for Comedy Central and Netflix, 2015), and Finally Live in Portland (Comedy Dynamics for Amazon Prime, 2019). He also has six comedy albums: Soak Up the Night (Comedy Central, 2009), Shovel Fighter (Comedy Central, 2012), Big Dumb Animal (Comedy Dynamics, 2015), Going Way Back (800lb Gorilla Records, 2019), Finally Live in Portland (Comedy Dynamics, 2019) and "Please Hold Me" (800lb Gorilla Records, 2020). His late night appearances include Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, The Late Late Show, Conan, John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show and Live at Gotham on Comedy Central.
Braunger has been featured at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal 2007, The Las Vegas Comedy Festival 2007, South By Southwest, and won "Best Of The Fest" at the inaugural Rooftop Comedy Festival in Aspen.[4] He co-founded the popular Bridgetown Comedy Festival that takes place annually in Portland. His debut stand-up comedy album 'Soak up The Night' was released digitally on July 14, 2009, on Comedy Central Records. In 2009, he was named to Variety's Top 10 Comics to Watch and Comedy Central's Hot 9 in '09 list. 'Soak up the Night' was named to the iTunes REWIND Top 20 Albums of 2009. In 2010, he recorded his half-hour Comedy Central Presents special, and in 2012 special, Shovel Fighter, aired on Comedy Central.[5] He released his third comedy album Big Dumb Animal in 2015 along with a special aired on Netflix.
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I'm not sure what it is about Labyrinth of the Ancients that brings out the best in people. We've also been getting it a lot in alliance roulette lately.
I've moved on to leveling my Summoner, so I've mostly been concentrating on figuring out how to work a new job in a big raid. That's probably why I missed most of the fireworks until the grand finale last night.
We had a tank on the C team who decided it was a a great idea to pull all the fights before pretty much anyone in the rest of the raid made it to the room. Consistently. I guess there must have been in-fighting among the tanks for aggro and stuff, too. Again, I was mostly involved in my own DPSing, so I didn't get the whole story.
This kind of stuff happens, but I guess it was worse than I realized. It wasn't until the last boss, Phlegethon, when this particular tank got called out for his behavior.
This must have struck a nerve, because though no one else made another comment during the whole final boss fight, he went on and on and on in response.
He wasn't positioning Phlegethon right, so I guess another one of the tanks were trying to provoke the boss off him and reposition correctly. He had something to say about that.
It was no big deal to be down one tank, though, and we easily cleared the last boss. Then, after the fight was over… and still no one said another thing during the whole battle… he kept on and on. Even after most of the raid had left the instance!
He was talking a little scary at that point, so that's when I left, too.
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On the bright side, at least people are talking? I can't tell if my WoW raids and dungeons are with bots or humans!


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package com.android.common.http;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpRequestRetryHandler;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ConnectException;
import java.net.SocketException;
import java.net.SocketTimeoutException;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.nio.channels.ConnectionPendingException;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

/**
 * User: Gyb
 * Date: 13-9-27
 * Time: 上午11:29
 */
public class HttpRequestHandler implements Runnable {
    private final AbstractHttpClient httpClient;
    private final HttpContext httpContext;
    private final HttpUriRequest request;
    private final HttpResponseHandler handler;

    private int retryCount = 0;

    public HttpRequestHandler(AbstractHttpClient httpClient, HttpContext httpContext, HttpUriRequest request, HttpResponseHandler handler) {
        this.httpClient = httpClient;
        this.httpContext = httpContext;
        this.request = request;
        this.handler = handler;
        if (handler == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("HttpResponseHandler was null");
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        try {
            handler.sendStartMessage();
            requestWithRetries();
            handler.sendFinishMessage();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            handler.sendFinishMessage();
            handler.sendFailureMessage(e);
        }
    }

    private void requestWithRetries() throws ConnectException {
        boolean retry = true;
        HttpRequestRetryHandler retryHandler = httpClient.getHttpRequestRetryHandler();
        IOException exception = null;

        while (retry) {
            try {
                makeRequest();
                return;
            } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
                handler.sendFailureMessage(e);
                return;
            } catch (SocketTimeoutException e) {
                handler.sendFailureMessage(e);
                return;
            } catch (SocketException e) {
                handler.sendFailureMessage(e);
                return;
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
                exception = e;
                retry = retryHandler.retryRequest(exception, ++retryCount, httpContext);
            }
        }

        ConnectException ex = new ConnectException();
        ex.initCause(exception);
        throw ex;
    }

    private void makeRequest() throws IOException {
        if (!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()) {
            try {
                HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request, httpContext);
                if (!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()) {
                    handler.sendResponse(response);
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                if (!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()) {
                    handler.sendFailureMessage(e);
                    throw e;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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