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The Screen Revolution
By Dwight Longenecker|2014-12-17T13:54:04-06:00May 6th, 2014|Categories: Culture, Dwight Longenecker, Technology|
Tiny hand held screens are soon to be replaced with screens built into glasses, screens on wrist watches like that gadget Dick Tracy used to have, and even screens built into contact lenses. Micro screens are challenged by macros screens with jumbotrons in stadia, billboards which have morphed into macro screens and advertising screens built into gas pumps, car dashboards, bank terminals and supermarket checkouts.
We use the screen to shop. We use the screen to play. We use the screen to work. The screen is ubiquitous but is the screen iniquitous? Public performances are prefaced with pleas to turn of the gadgets and public places are increasingly personal places as everyone has their nose stuck to their screen. Parents insist that children put their personal electronic devices away during family meal times only to check their own texts and emails when there is a beep or a buzz, and every day another reporter tells us a tragic story of a driver who was maimed or killed because they were watching the screen and not the road.
Skype and FaceTime have finally given us picture phones like the ones that made us wonder and want one at the World's Fair in 1964. Furthermore to talk face to face electronically is free if you have WiFi or a decent cellular connection. The screen has aided social communication in amazing ways even if it has challenged conventional skills like having a conversation, a dinner party or a heart to heart.
In my opinion the ubiquitous screen is not necessarily iniquitous. It is an invention, that's all, and one that is as revolutionary as was the printing press. As a writer I am interested in what a book is and why it is. A book is typically about 60,000 words of text put together at about that length for a certain reason. Publishers figured out how to most efficiently cut the paper, set the pages then print and bind a book. As train tracks are a certain width because of the width of Roman chariot axles, so a standard sized book has depended on what was efficient and economical to print in large numbers.
Now, with computerized print on demand all that has changed. Machines exist that print just one book from a digital file, cut it, print the cover and bind it and pop it out the other end ready for delivery. Shazam! Just like that! No more need for big print runs, warehouses, picking clerks, shipping clerks, trucks and distribution warehouses. The book can be any size. Just write it, upload it, market it, and the customer picks and clicks and pays and it arrives in two days. Even more quickly, and cheaply it can come through his screen and he can read the e-book.
The computer and the screen have revolutionized the book production, but the prophet in me sees another more radical revolution, and it has to do with the nature of language itself.
With the predominance of textual language we forget that language was first meant to be spoken not written and read. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was spoken. Stories were told. Instructions were given. Then the stories and instructions were memorized and passed down not in scrolls and scriptures, but by word of mouth. Stories were dramatized and then became dramas that were acted out. The actors memorized and passed the text on to the next generations through the formal traditions of drama, storytelling, teaching and memorization.
Then alphabets were developed and our ancestors began to write down the stories and the plays. The Scriptures became sacred. The written word could be kept on the page not only to be read but also to be studied and analyzed. Books were written about books and books were written about those books. Step by step, through the wonder of the written word, language became more and more abstract. Thought and analysis became increasingly theoretical and cut off from reality.
Now, however, our children and grandchildren are un-literate. They can read, but they don't read. Why should they read even an e-book when the stories are acted out so much more entertainingly on the screen? Why should they read when they can listen to a story through audio while they are doing something else? We are used to stories being told through text by skilled writers, but stories used to be told verbally by skilled storytellers. Stories were told and songs were sung. Now we gather information from non-fiction books written by skilled writers. Once we gathered that information from teachers and tutors.
Before long we will realize the true impact of the screen revolution, and it will be the disintegration of written language. Already we are seeing this with the prevalence of text messaging, email and disappearance of cursive writing, penmanship, and the basics of grammar, usage and spelling. The disintegration of written language will lead to the disappearance of textual communication altogether. Because of the new technology we will remember that language was first meant to be spoken, not written and we will move more quickly than we imagine to a predominantly spoken communication instead of textual communication.
It is now possible for anyone to produce an audio or video form of communication and distribute it globally in an instant at virtually no cost. Audio and visual forms of communication can do everything and more than a text communication is capable of. Indeed, as I write these words for The Imaginative Conservative website I am asking myself why I am not speaking these words to a camera to post my real face to face spoken communication.
When this happens—and it is happening now and will continue to increase—books will become as obsolete as typewriters. Why should we read and write when we can send video and audio messages? What value will there be in written language? When this revolution happens what will be lost and what will be gained?
I leave the reader to ponder these questions, and I myself will come up with some thoughts on how communication, literature and education might change in next week's column…
…which will be in written form and not on my YouTube channel.
Books on the topic of this essay may be found in the Imaginative Conservative Bookstore.
About the Author: Dwight Longenecker
Fr. Dwight Longenecker is Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative. A graduate of Oxford University, he is the Pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, in Greenville, SC, and author of sixteen books including The Romance of Religion, The Quest for the Creed, and Mystery of the Magi: The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men. He contributes to many magazines, papers, and journals, including National Catholic Register, St Austin Review, Catholic Digest, and Intercollegiate Review. Visit his blog, listen to his podcasts, browse his books, and be in touch at dwightlongenecker.com.
Ellinor May 20, 2014 at 7:25 am - Reply
Disadvantage of spoken word vs written word: reading gives me the opportunity to skim, to hop back, slow down… It gives me a better chance to decide if this piece is worth my time to read thoroughly, or just glance through.


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Since August 2014, Mr. Badat has served as program director, International Higher Education and Strategic Projects program, at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His portfolio includes the South Africa program and international grantmaking in higher education.
Mr. Badat has served as the director of the Education Policy Unit at the University of the Western Cape, as the first head of the Council on Higher Education, which advises the South African Minister of Higher Education and Training, and as vice-chancellor of Rhodes University. He has been chairperson of Higher Education South Africa, and of the Association of African Universities Scientific Committee on Higher Education. He is a board member of the Centre for Higher Education Transformation, a member of the Carnegie 3 Study on Poverty and Inequality in South Africa Think Tank, and a trustee of the Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust.
Mr. Badat holds degrees in the social sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a certificate in higher education and science policy from Boston University, and a PhD in sociology from the University of York. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of the Free State and York. He is a recipient of the Inyathelo Exceptional Philanthropy Award in recognition of Excellence and Leadership in Personal South African Philanthropy.
Mr. Badat is the author of The Forgotten People: Political Banishment under Apartheid (Brill, 2013), Black Man, You are on Your Own (STE Publishers, 2009) and Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid (RoutledgeFalmer, 2002); co-author of National Policy and a Regional Response in South African Higher Education (James Currey, 2004); and co-editor of Apartheid Education and Popular Struggles in South Africa (Zed Books, 1991).
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 3
Por Daniel Webster
DELIVERED IN THE CAPITOL SQUARE DURING THE WHIG CONVENTION AT RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 5, 1840
Virginians: The wisdom of our fathers has established for us a Constitution of government which enables me to appear here to-day, and to address you as my fellow-citizens; and half a century of experience has shown how useful to our common interest, how conducive to our common renown and glory, is that Constitution by which we have been united. I desire to pay due honor to those illustrious men who made us — the children of those who fell at Bunker Hill and Yorktown — members of the same political family, tied together by the same common destiny, and awaiting the same common prosperity, or common adversity, in all time to come. It is the extraordinary nature of the times, united with a long-cherished desire to visit Virginia, which has occasioned me the pleasure I enjoy of being in the midst of you all to-day. I have come more for the purpose of seeing and hearing you than of speaking to you myself. [ have come to mingle myself among you; to listen to the words of your wise and patriotic men; that I may improve my own patriotic feeling by communication with the chivalrous spirits of this Ancient Dominion. But, inasmuch as there are, or may be, some questions of national policy, or of constitutional power, on which you and I differ, there are some amiable persons who are so very considerate of your reputation, and of my reputation, as to signify that they esteem it a great breach of propriety that you should invite me to come here, or that I should accept your invitation. Let us hope that these amiable persons will allay their fears.
If there be any question or questions on which you and I differ in opinion, those questions are not to be the topics of discussion to-day. No! We are not quite soft enough for that. While in the presence of a common enemy, who is armed to the teeth against us both, and putting forth as many hands as Briareus to destroy what we think it most important to preserve, does he imagine that, at such a moment, we shall be carrying on our family controversies? — that we are going to give ourselves those blows which are due to him? No! Regarding him as the enemy of our country, we mean to pursue him till we bring him to capitulation Vol. m. 67 sa* s s
or to flight; and when tee have done that, if there are any differences of opinion among us, we will try to settle them ourselves, without his advice or assistance; and we will settle them in a spirit of conciliation and mutual kindness. If we do differ in any of our views, we must settle that difference, not in a spirit of exasperation, but with moderation — with forbearance — in a spirit of amity and brotherhood.
It is an era in my life to find myself on the soil of Virginia addressing such an assemblage as is now before me: I feel it to be such: I deeply feel the responsibility of the part which has this day been thrown upon me. But, although it is the first time I have addressed an assembly of my fellow-citizens upon the soil of Virginia, 1 hope I am not altogether unacquainted with the history, character, and sentiments of this venerable State. The topics which now are agitating the country, and which have brought us all here to-day, have no relation whatever with those in which I differ from the opinions she has ever entertained. The grievances and the misgovemmeni which have roused the country, pertain to that class of subjects which especially and peculiarly belong to Virginia, and have from the very beginning of our history. I know something of the community amidst which I stand — its distinguished and ardent attachment to civil liberty, and its habit for political disquisition. I know that the landholders of Virginia are competent, from their education and their leisure, to discuss political questions in their elements, and to look at Government in its tendencies, as well as in the measures it may at present pursue. There is a sleepless suspicion, a vigilant jealousy of power, especially of Executive power, which for three quarters of a century has marked the character of the people of the Old Dominion ; and if I have any right conception of the evils of the time, or of the true objection to the measures of the present Administration, it is, that they are of such a kind as to expose them, in an especial manner, to that sleepless jealousy, that stern republican scrutiny, that acute and astute inspection, which have distinguished the present as they have all preceding generations of men in this ancient Commonwealth. Allowing this to be so, let me present to you my own view of the present aspect of our public affairs.
In my opinion, a decisive majority of all the reople of the United States has been, for several years past, opposed to the policy of tl»e existing Administration. I shall assume this in what I have further to say, because I believe it to be true; and I believe that events are on the wing, and will soon take place, which will proclaim the truth of that position, and will show a vote of three fourths of the votes of the electoral colleges in favor of a Change or Men. Taking this, for the present, as the true state of political feeling and opinion, I next call your attention to the fact of the very extraordinary excitement, agitation, and 1 had almost said commotion, which marks the present moment throughout every part of the land. Why are these vast assemblages every where congregated? Why, for example, am I here, five hundred miles from my own place of residence, to address such an assembly of Virginians on political subjects? And why does every day, in every State, witness something of a similar kind? Has this ever been the case before? Certainly not in our time, and once only in the time of our fathers. There are some present here who witnessed, and there are others who have learned from the lips of their parents, the state of feeling which existed in 1774 and 1775, before the resort to arms was had to effect the objects of the Revolution. I speak now of the time when Patrick Henry, standing, as we now do, in the open air, was addressing the Virginians of that day, while, at the same moment, James Otis and his associates were making the same rousing appeal to the People of Massachusetts. From that time to this there has been nothing in any degree resembling what we now behold. This general earnestness, this universal concern of all men in relation to public affairs, is now witnessed for the first time since the Revolution. Do not men abandon their fields in the midst of seed-time — do they not leave their various occupations, as you have now done — to attend to matters which they deem more important? And is it not so through all classes of our citizens all over the whole land? Now, the important question I wish to put is this, — and 1 put it as a question fit for the mind of the statesmen of Virginia, — 1 propose it, with all respect, to the deep deliberation and reflection of every patriotic man throughout the country ; — it is this: If it be true that a majority of the People of the United States has, for some years, been opposed in sentiment to the policy of the present Administration, Why Is It Necessary that these extraordinary efforts should be put forth to turn that Administration out of power, and to put better men in their places? We inhabit a free country ; — every office of public trust is in our own hands, at the disposal of the People's own suffrages; all public concerns are controlled and managed by them, at their own pleasure; and the trust has always been to the ballotbox, as an effectual means to keep the Government at all times in conformity with the public will. How, then, has it happened that, with all this, such extraordinary efforts have been necessary to put out a particular Administration? Why has it not been done by the silent power of the elective franchise? Why has not the Government been changed both in its policy and in the men who administer it? I desire, from the free, the thinking men of Virginia, an answer to that question. When the elections are every where showing that a large majority of the People is opposed in sentiment to the existing Administration, I desire them to tell me how that Administration has held its place and pursued its own peculiar system of measures so long?
My answer to my own question is this: In my judgment, it has come to be true, in the actual working of our system of Government, that the Executive power has increased its influence and its patronage to such a degree that it may counteract the will of a majority of the People, and continue to do so until that majority has not only become very large, but till it has united in its objects and in its candidate, and, by a strenuous effort, is enabled to tum the Administration out of power. I believe that the patronage of the Executive in our Government has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. I believe that it does enable the incumbents to resist the public will, until the country is roused to a high and simultaneous effort, and the imperative mandate of the public voice dismisses the unfaithful servants from their places. The citadel of the Administration can only be carried by general storm.
Now, I ask, can it be supposed that this Government can go on long in a course of successful operation, if no change can be produced without such an effort as that in which the People of this country are now engaged? I put it to the old-fashioned Republicans of Virginia. I ask them, whether it can be supposed that this 'free Republican Government of ours can last for half a century longer, if its Administration cannot be changed without such an excitement,— I may say such a civil revolution, — as is now in progress, and, I trust, is near its completion?
I present this case as the greatest and strongest of all proofs that Executive power in this country has increased, and is dangerous to liberty.
If this be so, then I ask, What are the causes which have given and have augmented this force of Executive power? The disciples of the ancient school of Virginia long entertained the opinion that there was great danger of encroachment by the General Government on the just rights of the States; but they were also alarmed at the possibility of an undue augmentation of the Executive power. It becomes us, at a crisis like the present, to recur to first principles — to go back to our early history, and to see how the question actually stands.
You all well know that, in the formation of a Constitution for the government of this country, the great difficulty its Trainers encountered was with regard to the Executive power. It was easy to establish a House of Representatives, and a second branch of the Government in the form of a Senate, for it was a very obvious thing to say that the States should be represented in one House of Congress as the People were represented in the other. But the great and perplexing question was, how to limit and regulate the Executive power in such a manner, that, while it should be sufficiently strong and effective for the purposes of Government, it should not be able to endanger civil liberty. Our fathers had seen and felt the inconvenience, during the Revolutionary War, of a weak Executive in Government. The country had suffered much from that cause. There was not any unity of purpose or efficiency of action in its Executive power. As the country had just emerged from one war, and might be plunged into another, they were looking intently to such a Constitution as should secure an efficient Executive. Perhaps it remains to be seen whether, in this respect, they had not better have given less power to this brand), and taken all the inconvenience arising from the want of it, rather than to hazard the granting of so much as might prove dangerous not only to the other departments of Government, but to the safety and freedom of the country at large.
Because, in the first place, it is the Executive which confers all the favors of a Government. It has the patronage in its hands, and if we look at the augmentation of patronage which has taken place in this country, we shall see that in the course of things, and to answer the purposes of men, this patronage has greatly increased. We shall find the expenditures for office have been augmented. We shall find that this is true of the Civil and Diplomatic Departments — we shall find it is true of all the Departments; of the PostOffice, and especially of the Commercial Department. Thus, to take an instance from one of our great commercial cities: In the custom-house at New York, the number of officers has, in twelve years, increased threefold, and the whole expense, of course, in the same proportion.
Then there is the power of removal—a power which, in some instances, has been exercised most remorselessly. By whatever party it is wielded, unless it be called for by the actual exigencies of the public service, Virginia, more than any State of the Union, has ever rejected, disowned, disavowed, the practice of removal for opinion's sake. I do honor to Virginia in this respect. That power has been far less practised in Virginia than in certain States where the Spoils' doctrine is known to be more popular. But this
Eower of removal, sanctioned as it is by time, does exist, and I ave seen it exercised, in every part of the country where public opinion tolerated it, with a most unsparing hand.
I will now say, however, that which I admit to be very presumptuous, because it is said notwithstanding the illustrious authority of one of the greatest of your great men — a man better acquainted with the Constitution of the United States than any other man — a man who saw it in its cradle — who held it in his arms, as one may say, in its infancy — who presented and recommended it to the American people, and who saw it adopted very much under the force of his own reasoning and the weight of his own reputation — who lived long enough to see it prosperous, to enjoy its highest honors — and who at last went down to the grave among ten thousand blessings, for which, morning and evening, he had thanked God ; —
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« Look at that, oh look at that: Tottenham 0 Arsenal 5. What a goal by Brady
Watch Arsenal beat Man City on this day »
Arsenal v Liverpool on this day "the game of the season"
Watch Arsenal against Liverpool – "the game of the season"
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22 December 1900. Arsenal 2 New Brighton Tower 1 – a game against one of the artificial clubs of football created to make use of a large stadium.
22 December 1910: A funeral procession moved from from Liverpool St Station to a service in St Paul's Cathedral for the policemen shot dead in the Houndsditch jewel robbery. All the mayors of London including of course Henry Norris were specifically invited.
22 December 1917: Arsenal beat QPR 3-0 at home – the start of a fair set of Christmas games, with two draws against Fulham on Christmas and Boxing Day and 2-1 against Clapton Orient away on 29 December.
22 December 1923: Arsenal, away to Huddersfield, were 1-0 down at half time, but then Kennedy and Butler both just back from injury got injured again, and Town ran out winners 6-1. That made it three defeats in a row and no wins in the last seven games. Arsenal were 17th and back in the relegation dogfight just two points clear of Middlesbrough at the foot of the table.
22 December 1934: Despite near perfect home form Arsenal's away form continued to be a trouble as Derby beat the champions 3-1. The two previous home games had been a 7-0 and 8-0 victories.
22 December 1937: Ex-Arsenal player David Halliday was made manager of Aberdeen. In 1945–46 he won the Scottish League Cup and also won Aberdeen their first ever title.
22 December 1971 Arsenal paid £220,000 (a record) for Alan Ball. Arsenal were 8th at the time, eight points behind the leaders. They ended the season 5th, six points behind Derby, the new champions.
22 December 1973: Arsenal had 1-0 home win over Everton, in front of 19,886. The Guardian likened the Arsenal side to a draught-horse. Everton had one shot which hit the emblem on the top of the North Bank stand, as a result of which the ball got a puncture; it was a major incident in the game. Ball scored after the one exciting move of the game.
22 December 1984: Arsenal 1 Watford 1. Last league game for Colin Hill. He was replaced by Viv Anderson and moved on to C.S. Marítimo in Portugal.
22 December 2007: Bendtner scored six seconds after coming on for the match against Tottenham to give Arsenal a 2-1 victory.
22 December 2017: Arsenal v Liverpool. Liverpool went two up, Arsenal responded with three goals in five minutes from Alexis, Xhaka and Özil but Liverpool scored an equaliser. It was called the game of the season.
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Rep. Dan Bishop uses abortion access hearing to waste time, talk down to women
Home » Politics » Rep. Dan Bishop uses abortion access hearing to waste time, talk down to women
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Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop (NC-09) spent his time at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on abortion access last month proving once again that he's woefully unqualified for his position as a congressman.
According to The News & Observer, Bishop used his time during the hearing to try and score cheap political points instead of actually taking the matter at hand seriously in any way.
Bishop, who is anti-choice and has been endorsed twice by ex-President Donald Trump, could have used his time at the hearing to ask critical but fair questions about the future of abortion access in this country…but instead, he repeatedly asked a doctor and an abortion-rights advocate testifying at the hearing to tell him the definition of a woman.
"I noticed in your written testimony you said that you use 'she/her' pronouns. You're a medical doctor. What's a woman?" Bishop asked Dr. Yashica Robinson, an OB-GYN who is the medical director of Alabama Women's Center, according to The N&O.
While attempting to explain the importance of using inclusive language, Bishop talked over Robinson, interrupted her, and then asked her to define a woman at least five more times.
After deciding he had badgered Robinson enough, he turned his attention to Aimee Arrambide of abortion advocacy group Avow Texas. Bishop then asked Arrambide the same question and also asked her if she believed that men can get pregnant and have abortions, The N&O reported. She said yes.
Bishop also questioned both about whether or not they condemned the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
Bishop's questions did not shed any new light on the future of abortion access in the U.S. and informed no one, but it did get him some retweets on Twitter and got him an appearance in the MAGA media over on FOX News.
During his primetime appearance on FOX News, Bishop said his questions helped "expose" Democrats and the so-called "radical folks who are arguing over abortion today," according to The News & Observer. "I expected something strange, and she performed."
As if wasting everyone's time during a critically important hearing wasn't bad enough, Bishop saying that a Black female doctor "performed" for him at the hearing could, for some, evoke memories of this country's much-too-recent history of racism and denigration of Black people and other people of color.
None of this should come as a surprise for anyone who knows anything about Bishop, a man who is no stranger to conspiracy theories and other mind-numbingly stupid positions and beliefs.
Bishop has shown during his time in Congress that he has no problem with a government full of division and dysfunction and based on his words and actions, he seems to be intent on weakening American democracy.
Just as a quick summary, Bishop:
Voted against certifying the election for President Joe Biden, accusing Democrats of "carr[ying] out a highly coordinated, massively financed, nationwide campaign to displace state regulation of absentee ballots by means of a flood of election-year litigation" and "weaken[ing] ballot security, undermin[ing] positive identification of voters, and provid[ing] opportunities for post-election ballot-box stuffing."
On the House floor, called the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead "the worst example of an insurrection in the history of mankind."
Voted against the impeachment or conviction of Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection, calling the impeachment article "unconstitutional" and a race "toward impeachment without a care for the law or precedent."
Wasted time on a non-issue, calling critical race theory "a poison to the psyche of our nation" and a "destructive ideology [that] has no place in America's institutions" while introducing legislation called the "Stop CRT Act" and the "Combatting Racist Training in the Military Act." The Stop CRT Act would ban federal funds from being used to promote and teach CRT and the Combatting Racist Training in the Military Act would "ensure that CRT is not found in the training of our men and women in uniform."
In 2017, while still a state Senator, he compared Black Lives Matter and Antifa to white supremacists – in the week following the neo-Nazi "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one woman dead and multiple people injured.
Bishop is up for reelection this November. He currently serves the 9th Congressional District but is now running to represent the 8th Congressional District. Bishop beat Democrat Cynthia Wallace 55-44 in 2020. He will face off against Scott Huffman this fall. Huffman lost his 13th District race against Ted Budd 68-32 in 2020.
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In springtime and summer, our fruit bowls and veggie drawers are packed to the brim, but as winter arrives for most of the country, quality produce can be harder to track down. That can be a problem since filling up on fresh fruit and vegetables is an essential aspect of good health in all seasons. While canned and frozen produce is a good source of nutrition, the fresher options are more versatile and often tastier too. Easier plus yummier likely equals you eating more of it, so score a variety of farm-fresh produce with almost zero effort by using a delivery service — and get the goods delivered right to your door.
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While food delivery services existed pre-pandemic, COVID-19 lockdowns and slowed supply chains have pushed this sector of the food business into overdrive. Even as the virus loosens its hold on the country, produce-specific delivery services are remaining popular as people realize how convenient they are. Some are no pricier than your local grocery store (and, in some cases, can be a bit cheaper!) and most are highly customizable. A few of these companies are also working to boost the health of not just their customers, but of our planet too. Use this info to help you hone in on the produce delivery option that fits your preferences and priorities.
While this company offers more than just produce, as its name claims, it is are known for fruit and veggie selections that are sometimes oddly shaped or sized — although still perfectly safe to eat! By using produce that would otherwise go to waste due to its looks (or because it's part of a surplus harvest), the company is fulfilling its mission is to "build a better food system" and also set a goal of being a net-zero carbon operation by 2030. Imperfect Foods allows you to choose every item in your box, which arrives weekly, unless you choose to skip a week.
Farmbox Direct
With an emphasis on sourcing locally, a good portion of the available produce in Farmbox Direct's weekly boxes is seasonal. They also put a priority on natural and organic agricultural methods. Choose from small, medium or large-sized boxes and choose from an all-fruit, all-vegetable or a mix of both. You'll get alerted to what's in each box via email and from there, can make some substitutions. For a slightly higher price tag (about $4 more for the small box), you can also choose 100% organic.
CropSwap
Keep dollars in your area's economy with this completely local service called CropSwap. It connects customers with local farmers nearby, resulting in delivery of fresh produce that's sometimes on your plate the day it was picked. The company's app lets you follow your food from harvest to your home and you can choose a one-time purchase or sign up for weekly delivery. To offset the cost, customers can also pick up the produce themselves for a discount.
The FruitGuys
The FruitGuys source produce (which despite the name, does include veggies too) from more than 200 small, sustainable and independently owned farms. Customers always receive what's freshest at the moment, as the options for your box are based on your zip code — and this service is commitment-free. You can opt for a one-time purchase or sign up for deliveries delivered around your schedule. It's not just super flexible: the company is socially conscious too, with a grant-making arm that supports female and BIPOC-owned farms. The FruitGuys even encourages their customers to be philanthropic, with a prominent "donate" button on its website's homepage that allows gifting to hunger-fighting charities.
Farmer Jones Farm
An offshoot of The Chef's Garden, an Ohio farm that uses regenerative agriculture techniques to provide chefs access to the best produce, this delivery service is for the home chef seeking the highest quality selections, all of which come from the company's fields. Customers can choose from tantalizing themed boxes— like "seasonal salad" and "leafy greens" — or create a box by choosing from an array of vegetables and herbs, and even edible flowers.
Melissa's
While some produce delivery services are relatively new, Melissa's has been offering and expanding access to fresh fruits and vegetables since 1984. While they haven't been in the home-delivery game that long, this new segment of the business leans on the company's original claim to fame: specialty produce — including exotic and harder-to-find items like Pinkglow pineapples, Kiwano Horned melons, baby vegetables and indulgences like truffles.


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Warriors can't hold off determined Lake Stevens team
Josh Friemark (6) and Jordan Barnes (59) bring down a Lake Stevens player Friday night. (Photo by Char Blankenship)
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For three quarters, it looked like Edmonds-Woodway was on its way to becoming the Wesco League champions. Led by junior Desmond Young, who ran for 291 yards and three touchdowns on 24 carries, the Warriors had a 31-14 lead over Wesco North champions Lake Stevens late in the third quarter. But the Vikings came storming back, scoring three touchdowns and a field goal to beat the Wesco South champs and take a 35-31 victory.
Lake Stevens struck first, with quarterback Jake Nelson hitting Christian Gasca on a 17-yard touchdown pass. But Edmonds-Woodway running back Desmond Young answered with a 46-yard run. His 11-yard run capped the Warriors' next drive as Edmonds-Woodway took a 21-14 lead into the half.
Young then scored a 92-yard run with 1:58 left in the third quarter to put his team up 31-14. It wasn't enough. Penalties, coupled with a rejuvenated Lake Stevens offense, proved too much for the Warriors.
"On both sides of the ball we played well, except for just stuff like that (penalties)," Edmonds-Woodway coach John Gradwohl said. "They're a hell of team. You're not going to stop them."
Both teams now advance to the quad-district playoffs. The Warriors (5-4) play host to South Kitsap, the No. 4 team from the Narrows League, next Friday night in Edmonds Stadium.
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Protests, Rallies and Marches, Seattle, Washington
A Moment of Prayer and Lament
Vigil at St. James Cathedral in Seattle on Friday, June 5, 2020. Clergy from many faith traditions gathered for "A Moment of Prayer and Lament" to pray and observe eight minutes, 46 seconds of silence in remembrance of George Floyd.
Marches and Rallies in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in Seattle.
Capitol Hill Occupied Protest
Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone in Seattle was occupation protest and self-declared autonomous zone, was established on June 8, 2020 when the Seattle Police Department closed the East Precinct after days of protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody.
Freedom Rally Counter-protest
MLK Day Rally & March
Seattle Rally and March in celebration of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, January 16, 2023. This year marks the Seattle MLK Jr. Organizing Coalition's 40th year honoring Dr. Kings legacy.
Portland Alt-right Rally
"End Domestic Terrorism" rally at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on August 17, 2019 in Portland, Oregon. Organized as a protest against anti-fascists by right-wing radio host Joe Biggs and members of the Proud Boys, the rally attracted a large contingent of counterprotesters including Rose City Antifa.
Portland Trump Free Speech Rally
Trump Free Speech Rally Portland. Organized by Joey Gibson, a leader of the Patriot Prayer group, the rally in downtown Portland featured right-wing nationalist Kyle Chapman and speakers in support of free speech and President Trump.
Resistance Marches Seattle
A variety of marches and rallies including the Tax March Seattle, the Seattle Youth Climate Strike, the March for Science Seattle and the May Day March for Workers and Immigrant Rights.
Womxn's March on Seattle 2017-2019


2016 will be my year. This has been the mantra that I've been repeating for the past week. I'm so excited for what the year has to offer! I'll be turning 22 this year, completing university (fingers crossed), and celebrating Pooffie's third anniversary as well as celebrating the third year with my love. 2016 will be my year.
I love making lists, there's just something about putting your wishes and goals into writing then ticking them off as you accomplished them. Even if you don't "catch em all", who cares? You've lived, you've learned and you have had a fantastic time chasing you're dreams.
Below are the 22 goals I'd like to accomplish in 2016. Some are major, while others are little things that would make me absolutely happy. As the year moves on I'll write articles and post updates on the different goals, hopefully sharing the progress with you will help to keep every thing on track!
18. Take Two "30 Day Challenges"
22. Ring In 2017 With A Bang!
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GE Adds Energy Storage to Its Brilliant Wind Turbine
With GE's software, stored wind can increase three revenue streams.
Herman K. Trabish May 06, 2013
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After premiering its 2.5-megawatt, 120-meter rotor Brilliant wind turbine in February, GE is now announcing the commercial installation of the first three models that will integrate energy storage capability.
GE's (NYSE:GE) engineering advances have long been moving toward two broad objectives: achieving a more rapid and comprehensive automated response by the turbine's multiple onboard computer systems to the enormous amounts of data the machine's network of sensors can deliver, and allowing GE's centralized operations centers to wirelessly control variables that the turbine's automated response fails to manage. These variables range from a change in wind or local grid conditions to a lightning strike.
Like many of the best turbines, the GE Brilliant machine's networking infrastructure and wireless communications allow it to interact with input from its own sensor system and the internet. It can assimilate detailed weather forecasts, grid energy supply-demand needs, and transmission system frequencies and voltages to adjust its operations and increase efficiencies in everything from power electronics to blade positioning.
The new height, rotor length and data analytics makes the Brilliant turbine 25 percent more efficient than its previous 2.5-megawatt machine, according to GE.
Similarly, Vestas promised comparable advances with an even bigger (3.3-megawatt) nameplate capacity and an even larger (126-meter) rotor diameter: "At a low wind site based on certain conditions, choosing a V126-3.3megawatt instead of a V112-3.0 megawatt turbine boosts annual energy production by up to 19.5 percent."
Siemens (NYSE:SI) said its new 2.3-megawatt, 113-meter rotor turbine is "a result of more than 30 years of research and development" and can "harvest more energy out of moderate wind conditions than anyone thought possible."
Navigant/BTM Consulting put GE's market share of the 2012 global wind turbine market at 15.5 percent and the share of perennial leader Vestas at 14 percent. MAKE Consulting put Vestas ahead, 14.6 percent to 13.7 percent. In both studies, Siemens was third by a significant margin.
GE has also announced that three Brilliant turbines will be installed by Invenergy at a Texas wind project by the end of 2013. Each will integrate 50 kilowatt-hours of battery storage, allowing the individual turbines to add a set of three possible functions.
The batteries, situated on a nearby ground pad, are integrated by the turbine's intelligent operating system. They make three uses of storage, which GE calls applications, available to project operators.
The Invenergy turbines' storage will be used for the first of the apps, labeled "predictable power" by GE. That is short-term storage to "sure" the delivery of committed output, explained GE Wind Product Line General Manager Keith Longtin. Increased certainty that a wind project will meet contractual obligations makes it more competitive with generation sources that face fewer intermittency challenges.
Stored electricity can also be sold to grid operators like PJM, ERCOT and the California ISO to regulate frequency variations that can disrupt service. Selling into frequency regulation markets adds a revenue stream for a wind developer, Longtin said.
Third, storage allows "ramp control." Electricity generated when the blowing wind allows production but the grid is not buying can be sold when it is needed, Longtin said, increasing developers' returns on investment.
The Invenergy turbines will use GE Durathon sodium nickel chloride batteries, but the company is "battery-agnostic," Longtin said. "Each application can require a different amount of storage and/or a different battery chemistry." Frequency regulation requires a quicker responding power battery. Ramp control is more efficient with an energy battery with more storage capability.
According to Longtin, it is not about the battery, but the ability to assimilate and use data and integrate the storage through the turbine's existing power electronics to eliminate extraneous costs associated with add-on storage.
"Every application will be a little different, but 25 kilowatt-hours to 50 kilowatt-hours of storage is adequate for any of the three applications," Longtin said. "The 50 kilowatt-hours will give you predictable power in the range of 30 minutes. If there is a reason for 60 minutes [of storage], it could be doubled."
The turbine's converter limits storage to 350 kilowatts which, Longtin said, is difficult to translate into kilowatt-hours because of variables like the amount of energy needed and how fast it is needed. The point is, he said, "we have a customizable solution."
The Brilliant turbine is a platform to host a suite of applications, Longtin said. Integrating a small amount of battery storage offers applications that allow wind developers better turbine productivity and new revenue streams.
"We are not working on large-scale storage for arbitraging or moving power from night to day," Longtin said. "Batteries would have to come down to a cost point to us on the order of $200 per kilowatt-hour. It is on the order of $800 per kilowatt-hour to $1,000 per kilowatt-hour today."
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Big Tech, Corona Chronicles, Religion, Science, Society, The JQ, The Plandemic
Sky News Australia Censored on YouTube
Date: August 3, 2021Author: speculareffect 1 Comment
For anyone who might not know, "Sky News" is the British and Australian branding of Fox News.
The one is Australia is actually based.
YouTube has suspended one of the largest media companies in Australia, local Sky News, from posting on its platform for allegedly breaching Covid-19 misinformation policies. It has also reportedly had some of its videos removed.
The one-week suspension was issued following a review of Sky News Australia's "old videos," the channel announced on Sunday. Under the terms of the temporary ban, for seven days, YouTube will allow no videos or livestreams to be posted by the channel, which has 1.86 million subscribers, and some earlier videos about coronavirus have been reportedly permanently deleted from the platform.
The ban was issued after some of its online content had been reportedly found to include videos that "denied the existence of Covid-19." "Numerous" such videos have been removed from the channel, so as not to "cause real-world harm."
"Specifically, we don't allow content that denies the existence of Covid-19, or that encourages people to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus," a YouTube spokesperson told the Guardian Australia, adding that no "sufficient countervailing context" has been provided in the allegedly offending media reports.
According to YouTube's policies, a week-long suspension counts as one strike. If three such warnings are issued over the course of 90 days, a channel is permanently removed from the platform.
Sky News Australia, which is a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, said it acknowledged YouTube's "right to enforce its policies," but "expressly rejects that any host has ever denied the existence of Covid-19 as was implied." Its digital editor, Jack Houghton, has called the suspension a "disturbing attack" on both human and media rights. Suggesting that YouTube had disagreed with Sky News Australia's reporting on the debate about anti-Covid measures such as mask-wearing and lockdowns, Houghton said he "wondered" why other controversial videos on the issue remained on the platform. "I am yet to be informed of President Joe Biden's YouTube and Facebook ban after uttering this false sentence: 'You're not going to get Covid if you have these vaccinations,'" he argued.
That was obviously a false statement, but most of what Joe Biden says is either false or just nonsensical gibberish. Vaccines are the only thing you really ever see him talking about, hence the name "Vaxxy Joe," and he goes even further than Anthony Fauci himself in hyping them up.
Probably, it doesn't really help conservatives to pretend that YouTube is a private company, or that there isn't an agenda by liberal Western governments to silence everyone who disagrees with them. The Biden government has itself said that they are directing tech companies to censor people who disagree with them, so this "private company" stuff really doesn't fly anymore.
But hey, whatever.
The game is already over on that front.
Conservatives stood by and allowed for organized mass censorship and "unpersoning" many people and now they're acting shocked that the censorship machine has gotten around to them.
Of course, as I predicted in 2017, they were always planning to censor the mainstream of the right as heavily as they censored me and a few others. Now, it's just that this time has come.
Here's one of the videos that was censored on YouTube. It's reuploaded on BitChute. This appears to be the one that triggered the ban.
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/InRiGbm5DIKY/
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According to the U.S. Census, the country is on the brink of a seismic population shift: by 2030, all Baby Boomers will be older than age 65, meaning that one in five Americans will be retirement age and, for the first time in our nation's history, older people are projected to outnumber children (1).
Today, more and more researchers and innovators in the field of social work are harnessing the resources and diversity that the aging population brings to the table. At the School of Social Work, faculty members are stepping up to focus their research on policy and practice around long lives, and the school itself is doing more than ever to prepare its students to address this great demographic change.
Zurlo's research shows that the older members of society—those born prior to World War II—tend to be more frugal and focused on saving and planning as compared to their younger peers. As a result, the oldest among us will have a more financially secure retirement (yielding better mental health and fewer depressive symptoms) than Baby Boomers, or those born between 1946 and 1964.
Not surprisingly, Zurlo's research has also illuminated a need for financial education among older adults. Unlike previous generations, which benefited from employer-managed pensions, today's retirees must be personally responsible for managing their retirement accounts and planning for retirement. "Older adults claim to be financially literate and active consumers of financial education and advice, but many are not," she explains. Mid-aged adults often are not aware of the financial expenses they will have in retirement, or don't know what steps to take to secure a sound retirement, Zurlo adds. Programs like Social Security and Medicare provide significant supports to their beneficiaries, but can be difficult for older adults to navigate and obtain maximum program benefits.
In this way, social workers are in a prime position to make a difference.
As trained professionals in tune with issues of inequality and diversity, social workers can get involved in their communities on behalf of aging populations and offer suggestions and improvements to better serve these populations. How? "Act locally and think bigger than that," says Greenfield. "What social workers experience in their work on a day-to-day basis connects with systems-wide impacts at the organizational, community, regional, statewide, national, and global levels. There are patterns here, and social workers experience those patterns and have so much to offer at all these broader levels." She recommends that social workers get involved through their professional organizations and also raise the visibility of social work and aging in their own private networks. The key is working within the formal and informal networks available, and sharing ideas, information, and possible solutions.
At the School of Social Work, one solution is the MSW Certificate in Aging and Health, which garners about 10 percent of the students enrolled in the master's program. But with the need so immense, why not more? "Students may not realize that the things they have interest in are affecting older adults," says Jeanne Koller, the certificate's program coordinator. For example, those who want to work with veterans will find a large cohort in the older adult population, as will those who want to work with people diagnosed with AIDS/HIV and other chronic diseases, or affected by sexually transmitted diseases or addiction -- two areas not only often publicized, but which increasingly impact the aging population.
"There's a misconception that people can't change if they're over a certain age," says Koller. "But the truth is that they face the same mental and physical issues as younger folks, and in some ways a 66-year-old may be more interested in talking and receiving help than a 16-year-old." Indeed, opportunities for graduates of the certificate program abound, from those in hospitals, hospice, assisted living, and skilled nursing programs to those in community programs, elder abuse services, and the government.


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We love this workout by Juliana Semenova. Whether you are doing this as a single exercise or committing to the 14 day challenge, this 15 min booty workout is targeted to tone, sculpt, and lift your glutes to shape your own perfect booty.
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For about a year now, I've had this idea to write a short-story collection based around the Wiccan holidays—Samhain/Halloween, Beltane/May Day, Ostara/spring equinox, etc. I find short stories tricky to write—you have such a small space to develop your characters and allow readers to forge a connection to your characters and the story. I like the challenge. Last week I finished a second draft of one of my WIPS, so now I'm turning my focus to writing short stories.
Any tips on writing short stories?
Reading: I've read several books on simple living in the last week. Last week I read two simple living books. I also read Yin Feng Shui by Tess Whitehurst. If you've read a lot on feng shui before, most of this book will serve as a reminder. If you're new to feng shui, the book is a very good starting point since it's not overwhelming. This week I'm reading If I'm So Smart, Why Can't I Get Rid of This Clutter? by Sallie Felton. It deals with emotional and mental clutter as well as physical, which is a fresh take, and there are a lot of exercises to help you take stock of your clutter, but it's not my favorite decluttering/simplifying book so far. I'm also reading Corsets and Clockwork, a collection of 13 steampunk romances. So far my favorite is "Wild Magic" by Ann Aguirre.
Decluttering: I'm continuing my practice of getting rid of five things a day. I'm starting to realize that while it's difficult to part with my books, it's those things that were gifts that are hardest to part with. Even if I'm not using something, there's still this sense of guilt wrapped around those objects. But I'm determined to stick with the decluttering process. I simply want to own less stuff.
What about you? Have you read any good books lately? How are your writing projects coming along? Have you ever gone through a period where you focused on decluttering? What things were hardest to part with?
I know the pain of having to choose which mementos you may keep and which ones you don't need anymore. If it still hurts to divest yourself of a memento of someone, then it's not time to get rid of it yet, unless you absolutely must. In the 9 years since my husband died, I've been able to let go of almost everything I kept to remind me of him. It simply became time to get rid of the things, one at a time. If you're trying to winnow your mementos of others, but you just can't bear it yet, that's still an important step in the decluttering process! There's plenty of other clutter in your home; go attack that stuff first. 🙂 You may find that clearing out the rest of the clutter will inspire you to part with personal mementos afterward.
That's a really great way of looking at it, Tammy. Some things it's difficult to know whether I should part with them. Should I keep the miniature bust of Mozart my brother picked up in Vienna? Will I look at it as an old woman and fondly recall him giving it to me? I'm not sure. Maybe I'll figure that out as I continue to declutter. I like your perspective. Thanks!
Your idea for the short stories sounds awesome! I'm a Pagan and I write non-fiction about it, but haven't really written specifically Pagan fiction (yet). Keep up the good work on progress toward your goals. Blessings for a wonderful rest of the week!
Great idea for a short story collection! I've found that short stories are all about the telling details: What small detail can be included that tells the most about a character. Definitely a challenge.
Thanks, Katherine. Yes, we don't want the story to get bogged down in details and backstory, but there needs to be enough to help the reader connect. It's a balancing act. I'm enjoying the challenge, though!
Ooo, I like the idea, Denise. There is much to play with with the pagan holidays. As a pagan haven't really thought about writing stories about the sabbats, but I don't always focus my writing on my faith, except in poetry. I do write about the goddess, the earth and it's mysteries. I do love to see and read stories and poems that feature my chosen path as it gives me warms fuzzies. 🙂 I would definitely read them.
As for the decluttering, I find that if its clothing, I can weed out old, donatable , or junk clothes are easy to part with. Objects are different, but one thing that have help is if I can find the object a new home with a friend's kid (or a friend), donating it o an organization, or something along those lines then it helps me to part with it. Other time I just say, heck with it and start tossing things, which can be therapeutic too, but certainly not for everyone.
The goals, well, I feel like the editing of The Real Road Trip is coming along, albeit slow, but as I wrote sometime in the last couple of weeks. All the days seems to blur together sometimes. It's like a giant game of Tetris. I wrote it sort of out of order and as I am editing the bits, clearing up the scene, I have to put them is better order. If that makes any sense?
Currently enjoying Dead Before Dark by Wendy Corsi Staub. It's a murder msytery suspense story, and different than what I read normal, as I like my Agatha Christie or Sue Grafton's (haven't read her in a while). Still it is engaging. The characters are a bit varied and that helps, tricky to follow sometimes.
Sorry this is a long comment…I got into the questions. 🙂 Have a great week, Denise.
Well, the pagan holidays are really a starting point. My interpretations of magic, etc. are highly imaginative–not really what real magic/witchcraft is like, but the elements of earth-based spirituality and the divine feminine are usually there somehow. I've just had this idea for such a long time. I wanted to run with it and see where it led.
Yes, clothing is fairly easy for me to part with. Books are harder and hardest of all are things that were gifts. But I know I can't keep everything. We had so much stuff to move when we moved this summer, and I'd certainly like to own less. I'll never be a minimalist, but a major reduction in stuff would be nice!
I haven't read Sue Grafton's books yet, but I know so many people who like them. I will have to check them out. I think my mother-in-law has most of Grafton's books. Maybe I could borrow a couple. And, of course, I really enjoy Agatha Christie's work! I haven't been able to write a mystery yet, but I love reading them.
No need to apologize for long comments. I like them!


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Gerrymandering is bad regardless of which party does it: Brad Sherman
Eileen Wang, president of the American Southwest Chamber of Commerce and board member of IAPAC, speaks during the Asian community leaders IAPAC and HQH press conference to bring awareness of the proposed new district maps for members of Congress on Tuesday November 23, 2021. (Photo by Keith Durflinger, Contributing Photographer)
By Brad Sherman |
PUBLISHED: December 30, 2021 at 7:00 a.m. | UPDATED: December 30, 2021 at 2:46 p.m.
I write regarding your December 29th editorial titled Double Standards on Gerrymandering. I applaud you for focusing on the once-a-decade process by which congressional and legislative districts are redrawn after the census, and in decrying the process called "gerrymandering," where the lines are drawn to advantage one political party over the other.
In your editorial, you quote what I said to the New York Times: "When you have a system that says you're going to have purity in California and skullduggery in Texas, you end up with an unrepresentative [House of Representatives]. We want to live in a system where neither party gets screwed. But worst of all, is a system where only one party gets screwed."
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You then proceed to say "Sherman did not mention states like Maryland or Illinois." I did talk about Maryland and Illinois and Ohio and Florida to the New York Times—they just didn't quote that part. The fact is that Democrats are screwing Republicans in a few states like Maryland and Illinois, while Republicans are screwing Democrats in more and somewhat larger states, including Florida, Texas, Georgia and Ohio.
You then claim that I'm against gerrymandering only when Republicans do it. Had you called me, I would have told you about my cosponsorship of the For the People Act, which we successfully passed through the House of Representatives in March, and which would abolish gerrymandering in all 50 states.
California's system is a good system, so long as similar systems are adopted nationwide, and that is exactly what the For the People Act would require.
Brad Sherman represents the 30th congressional district.
Congressman Brad Sherman has represented the San Fernando Valley in the U.S. Congress since 1997.


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September 20, 2007 ☼ Foreign Affairs
Bin Laden joins the queue
He's going to declare war on Musharraf
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden declares "war" on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and his army in a new message to be released by the network's media arm, according to IntelCenter, a US organization, which monitors Islamist websites.
IntelCenter said the video or audio message, entitled "Come to Jihad," was expected to be released in the next 72 hours.
Meanwhile, in another video released by Al-Qaeda's media arm, Al-Sahab, bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri also warned that Musharraf would be "punished" over the killing of a Pakistani cleric killed in the storming of the Red Mosque in Islamabad in July. [IE]While this may or may not mean much to Gen Musharraf' security, it's likely to help him look good in America. And that, unfortunately, is what really counts at this time.
Update: The tapeworm's message is out and roundly condemns "Pervez" (they are on first name terms). Interestingly, bin Laden compares the Lal Masjid operation to the demolition of Babri Masjid in India.
Another update: Megan McArdle's offers some astute commentary:
But why would Osama do this? Previously, he had a fairly stable arrangement; Musharraf couldn't root him out of the tribal areas for various military and political reasons, and Osama couldn't bring on the Caliphate just yet. But last time I looked, the Caliphate didn't seem terribly imminent. Meanwhile, he has just given Pervez Musharraf and any waverers in his government a much stronger incentive to find Osama and his merry band of cave-dwelling madmen.
This is the kind of overreach that has caused every government that has ever offered him shelter to ultimately kick him out, except for Afghanistan, which didn't have much of a government. Even so, he went and found another government to kick him out. And where will he go this time? He's running out of lawless quasi-states to hide in. [Megan McArdle/Atlantic]
Looking good in America Next
More power to Myanmar's monks


Groundwork is inviting community groups from across the UK to be a part of an extensive research project that aims to discover how, where and why community groups are taking action in their local area and identify what types of support is needed to upkeep their work.
The charity is calling upon responses from community groups whose work actively benefits local people, the local area or the local environment, examples including a community garden, a 'friends of' group supporting a local park or green space, a lunch club or befriending programme, a group running activities for health and wellbeing, a youth club, or community energy group.
The research will be collated through an online survey, open from now until Tuesday 28 May, combined with a interviews based on the initial findings. The results will be published in a report shedding light on what motivates people to get involved in local community action, the benefits of this and what support is needed in order for communities to effectively take action in their local area.
As our country heads into uncharted political and economic territory, ensuring that our communities are resilient and integrated will only become more important. There are numerous reports that highlight the benefits of involvement in voluntary activity to the local environment, community cohesion, and physical and mental wellbeing, yet spending on neighbourhood services has declined – and the impact has been most severe in the most deprived areas.
This is the ideal opportunity for community groups to have their say and shape a research project that will highlight the similar trends and needs of community groups across the UK and will help determine the type of support needed to ensure groups can continue to thrive.
For further information or queries about the 'Communities Taking Action' survey, please contact Fay Holland, Policy and Communications Executive at Groundwork on media@groundwork.org.uk.


Three years ago, I stood on the roof of one of the few remaining upright buildings in downtown Port-au-Prince, doing a 360, trying to take it in, if that were even possible. In all directions and as far as I could see, crumbled buildings. I could see almost too much from this vantage point, my brain unable to process all that lay in front of me. My heart wept along with my eyes as I processed before me the broken icons of a broken land. The Presidential Palace, crumbled in place. The National Cathedral, in ruins. Schools, churches, supermarkets, all reduced to piles of cinder-made-tomb.
Three years later, I find myself not crying so much and I have to admit that bothers me a little. I don't want to not be able to cry. Does that make sense?
I stand by my double negative. For aren't tears a measure of impact? And might not a dry face betray at least a slight measure of callous disregard?
These days, my reactions to pain and injustice are subtler, though no less real. Wet eyes have given way to clenched-jawed determination and grit… to right the wrongs that caused the anguish in the first place. Planting trees and gardens. Helping families start businesses. Teaching sick villages how to not get sick. Equipping peasant families to catch and clean rainwater, and to use it to irrigate their gardens. Assuring them that there is a God Who knows and loves them and desires more than anything that they know Him. Are these not the things of justice, of shalom?


Credit giant Moody's Investors Service on Thursday downgraded about $6 billion worth of bonds issued by either Jacksonville City Hall or JEA over a lawsuit about construction of a multibillion-dollar nuclear power plant.
The ratings service also dropped its outlook on the future of the city's debt from stable to negative.
The city and JEA sued to invalidate a contract the city-owned utility signed in 2008 with a Georgia utility authority that binds JEA to help pay open-ended construction costs that have spiraled with no end in sight.
Although the lawsuit is still creeping through federal court with no certainty about the outcome, trying to back out of the decade-old deal is already costing the city.
"The city's action calls into question its willingness to support an absolute and unconditional obligation of its largest municipal enterprise, which weakens the city's creditworthiness on all of its debt," Moody's said in a set of announcements that said the lawsuit "is not consistent with" the city's higher old rating.
Withdrawing from the lawsuit could lead to better ratings, Moody's said, adding that continuing the court fight could lead to lower ratings, even if a judge agrees with the city's arguments.
A city administrator quickly lambasted the ratings decision.
"This downgrade action is based upon wild speculation, completely without rationale or merit," Chief Administrative Officer Sam Mousa said in a prepared statement emailed to reporters.
The nuclear project, which would expand the Vogtle power plant complex near Augusta, Ga., is behind schedule and over budget. A recent estimate for the project's completed costs was around $27 billion. JEA could pay $2.5 billion or more of the project's cost. The plant was once priced around $14 billion.
Lawyers for the city and JEA have argued the utility's board in 2008 overstepped its authority by approving the open-ended agreement, and wanted a judge to terminate the deal.
Mayor Lenny Curry didn't comment publicly about the rating change, but the mayor has touted earlier success at improving the city's credit.
The ratings changes announced Thursday vary, because they were made over several different bundles of bonds, but each generally reflects a change that's a notch or two worse than it was.
The downgrades involved three blocks of debt: city bonds for capital projects, transportation expenses and other projects not tied to property tax income, together totaling about $2.1 billion; JEA bonds for its electric system, worth about $2.3 billion; and JEA bonds for its water and sewer projects, worth about $1.4 billion.
The new ratings aren't remarkably bad, but bonds with lower ratings are generally more expensive for the people issuing them. Poorer bond ratings can mean more taxpayer money is spent paying off debt, limiting the money that can be spent in the coming decades to handle other city needs.


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Q: Global dependency as an argument to each handler Looking at the docs I got to use my app settings in this way:
import config

...

@router.post('')
async def my_handler(
    ...
    settings: config.SettingsCommon = fastapi.Depends(config.get_settings),
):
    ...

But I am not satisfied with repeating everywhere import config, config.get_settings.
Is there a way to use settings in my handlers without repeating myself?

Because FastAPI cares about helping you minimize code repetition.

A: You can use Class Based Views from the fastapi_utils package.
As an example:
from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, FastAPI
from fastapi_utils.cbv import cbv
from starlette import requests
from logging import Logger

import config
from auth import my_auth

router = APIRouter(
    tags=['Settings test'],
    dependencies=[Depends(my_auth)]  # injected into each query, but my_auth return values are ignored, throw Exceptions
)

@cbv(router)
class MyQueryCBV:
    settings: config.SettingsCommon = Depends(config.get_settings)  # you can get settings here

    def __init__(self, r: requests.Request):  # called for each query, after their dependencies have been evaluated
        self.logger: Logger = self.settings.logger
        self.logger.warning(str(r.headers))

    @router.get("/cbv/{test}")
    def test_cbv(self, test: str):
        self.logger.warning(f"test_cbv: {test}")
        return "test_cbv"

    @router.get("/cbv2")
    def test_cbv2(self):
        self.logger.warning(f"test_cbv2")
        return "test_cbv2"

A: It's not currently possible to inject global dependencies. You can still declare them and the code inside the dependencies will run as normal.
Docs on global dependencies for reference.
Without any external dependency, I can think of three ways of using global dependencies. You can set a private variable with your dependency and get that dependency using a function.
You can also use the same approach without a global private variable, but instead using a cache decorator (docs here).
Finally, you can implement the singleton pattern if using a class as a dependency.
Something like:
class Animal:
    _singleton = None

    @classmethod
    def singleton(cls) -> "Animal":
        if cls._singleton is None:
            cls._singleton = Animal()
        return cls._singleton

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Dave does not play "stereotype" accordion but has a unique style. He plays an all electronic, digital accordion. Not only does he play melodies and jazz choruses with his right, keyboard hand, he plays the left hand buttons like a stand up bass, a technique few accordionists have mastered. Besides the 14 authentic accordion sounds, he will play big band music featuring horns and saxes. On old standard ballads he may utilize strings. Small group light jazz sounds could include organ and vibes. Classic country piano sounds are always a hit. Folk and Bluegrass feature banjo sounds so authentic you will not believe they are coming from an "accordion". Also a little rock n' roll and some 50's. The sounds are endless. CDs are available at the market.
Singer and keyboardist, performing hits from the 60's & 70's.
We've planted the gardens alongside the Pavilion! Seven Hills RI has been watering and Burrillville DPW has mulched! Looking good!
Thank you to Al & Gail Bettencourt, Carol Sullivan, Christine Mulligan, Jonathan Gruttadauria, Muriel, Robin MacDonald, Sheila Bibeault, Toni Roselli, Rose, Andrea, Beth Rabideau & Deb for donations of plants & labor!
We are still accepting plant material if you are dividing up your plants & bulbs! Roses would be especially nice!
This joyous event featured refreshments, entertainment, and the ringing of the "Market Bell" at 9 a.m. to celebrate the opening of the market in its new location at the Stillwater Mill Pavilion.
Our Farmers and Artisans are busy seeding, weeding and creating as we prepare for a vibrant Farmers Market this year! We will partner with Jesse Smith Library, Burrillville Parks and Recreation, and other LOCAL community organizations to bring you fine food, art, entertainment and helpful information.
Saturday — May 20, 2017... Opening Day!
Digital accordion artist. Radio & TV personality... making the accordion cool!
Thursday — June 1, 2017... Opening Day!
We are celebrating our 11th season in conjunction with the Fair.
Information about Energy Conservation & Recycling!
Green Vendors, Kids' Activities, Giant Lawn Games, Workshops, Food, Music & Fun!


I'm not sure if Screen-Free Week is an American thing to get children away from watching TV and playing video games or if it is worldwide, but my children have been challenged by their school to get creative to keep all their screens (iPad, tablet, computer, and television) off. One day in an attempt to keep them busy, I attempted to teach them how to play charades. In the beginning it was fun trying to figure out what someone was gesturing in hopes that we would guess the correct word without them using their voice but it quickly became challenging and frustrating trying to explain just one word without any verbal cues. After I calmed everyone down, I couldn't help but think of my interview with Margret Eriksdottir (cofounder of the Golden Hat Foundation) and her non-speaking son Keli that told me how Keli had no way to verbally communicate for over ten years until she went on a journey to make a documentary and on it learned of a sensory based approach to communicating called Rapid Prompting Method. Margret was brave enough to publicly admit that she had given up trying to communicate with Keli and trying to find a way for him to communicate because the experts told her that his cognitive ability would never pass that of two year old. There are countless parents that have shared this frustration but what about the person that can't communicate? I want you to seriously consider how frustrated you would be if you couldn't communicate your basic needs, your preferences, your problems, your interests? Honestly, charades helped put a small piece of the frustration of people not understanding me into context.
My dream is that no parent gives up on their child and that everyone presumes competence of everyone. Hopefully, communication becomes the major priority and resources become more affordable for parents every year so that finding a way for your child to communicate will be easier to access. I really can't encourage people enough to respect and presume the competence of all people. Hopefully, we can start a new kind of thinking which will stop people as treating others as less.
In speaking of people as better than or less than, in this month's News section we discuss how students are being subject to electric shocks as a form or punishment. I try to remain positive and hopeful in the issues of the magazine but some information must be shared to warn and inform parents of the possible mistreatment of your child. Honestly, after several days of researching the topic from both perspectives, I don't understand how people can justify their actions. If these students tense their bodies they get shocked again – really?! Have they never been shocked? Your body naturally tenses when met with electricity! But besides that, let's think of the humanity of the situation. Do we shock prisoners to correct their behaviors? No. Why not? Because it is deemed as "cruel and unusual punishment" so why does it continue to be done at the Judge Rotenberg Center? As a former educator I feel morally obligated to tell you that you need to be cautious and aware that children are usually too scared to communicate abuse or other inappropriate behaviors done by adults for fear of what will happen to them if they say anything. Please be prepared and educate your child on what is and isn't appropriate behavior, as well as, when they should report someone's actions to you.
Besides the interview and the news article, we have many great articles in this month's issue covering topics of reading comprehension, using a token system aptly, tips on flying with children, the whys and hows of head banging and so much more. After reading through the survey results we decided to stop doing themes every month and instead focus on providing a variety of content each month that our readers have requested. Hope you find it helpful and hopeful. Have a great month!
I always tell parents to make sure that their child is ready to potty train before they attempt it. There is nothing more frustrating than cleaning up tons of accidents simply because your child isn't ready.
Don't forget – consistency and positive reinforcement will go far.
These are all signs that your toddler is ready for potty training.
one that is transitional and takes time.


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in: Marvel Editions, 2015 Editions, Board Game Variants
Marvel Comics Edition
Dec. 1st 2015
Monopoly: Marvel Comics Edition is a version of the Monopoly game released in 2015. It is for 2-6 players, aged 8 and up.
"The world's most popular board game teams up with the world's coolest superheroes for the ultimate Marvel experience! This special edition celebrates the feats of characters such as Wolverine, Captain America and Spiderman. Collect your favourite characters, invest in houses and hotels and watch the rent come pouring in!"
Marvel Editions


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I am a local resident next to Sefton park meadows and I am too against the redrow proposal. However, I went across to the protesters who are camping out to ask if there was a petition I could sign to show my support and there was none in place. As I was walking away one of the older gentlemen sat in the group began to shout "ay ay ay" loudly at me so I turned around and then the lady sat next to him asked if I could bring food down to them? Then another gentleman emerged from a tent shouting "vegan food, vegan". With all respect this isn't going to drum up much support I think a petition would have been more productive.
Hi Clare, sorry for delay in responding.
The Love Activists camp has no links to the Save Sefton Park Meadows campaign. This group has independently camped on the Meadows as part of their continuing protests about homelessness in the city. They were previously occupying the former Bank of England building in the city and a greenspace at the Pier Head. As a campaign we have no connection to their protest.


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Urgent media or victim inquiries may call our President Jody Robinson at 248-736-1737, our Vice President Bobbi Jamriska at 412-953-8410, or Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins at 312-882-4584.
Those on a press deadline are encouraged to call us for fastest response.
However, we do ask those doing research on the issue of juvenile life sentences to read our website first. There is a lot of information here and we work hard to keep it current and make it a place that media and researchers (often students writing papers) who can get most of what they need.
It takes a lot of time to field a phone call from one researcher about us who hasn't read the site and requires us to repeat information already answered on this site. Please respect our busy lives and read our website thoroughly first.