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Security Failure? Roland "Cody" Hutton Fatally Injured in Montgomery, TX Bar Parking Lot Shooting.
Roland "Cody" Hutton Fatally Injured in Montgomery, TX Bar Parking Lot Shooting. (Stock Photo: MurrayLegal.com)
Could the shooting outside a Montgomery bar have been prevented and are justice and compensation available to the victim's family? Read Our Legal Take below to find out what legal options are available.
Gunfire erupted outside a Montgomery, TX bar early Saturday morning, November 7, 2020, leaving one man dead.
As reported by HoustonChronicle.com, "[d]eputies were called to [a] Bar in Montgomery about 12:05 a.m. Saturday where Roland "Cody" Hutton, 25, of La Porte was found shot in the parking lot of the bar."
CrossRoadsToday.com is reporting, "Hutton died after being taken to a hospital."
Bar patrons have a right to feel safe and secure while on the premises they are visiting. The level of security provided at the bar is of significance, and is a relevant consideration when analyzing whether this shooting may have been prevented. The following questions are also important in assessing whether this incident may have been avoided:
Have prior incidents of violence been reported on or near the property?
Was the bar aware of any suspicious activity prior to the shooting?
What security measures, such as bright lighting, visible surveillance cameras, and security personnel, were in place to deter crime and protect the victim at the time of the shooting?
Property owners are generally required to protect against foreseeable harm to anyone and everyone legally on the premises. Should the investigation into this incident reveal facts that establish that the bar owner or management lacked adequate security to protect its visitors, the family of Roland "Cody" Hutton may seek justice and elect to pursue legal claims and substantial compensation for their loss.
The Murray Law Firm has extensive and successful experience in handling security negligence claims on behalf of victims and their families, and suggests that an immediate, unbiased inspection of the property will need to be performed so as to limit evidence from being altered, damaged or destroyed. The complexities of pursuing a negligent security case are well understood by the legal team at The Murray Law Firm, and it is imperative that the family of Roland "Cody" Hutton retain a capable law firm who will work without delay to protect their interests.
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Tagged: Montgomery TX bar shooting, Roland "Cody" Hutton and Shanahan's Bar
Updated: January 31, 2023 5:01 pm

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This rare footage has gone on record as the largest glacier calving event ever captured on film, by the 2016 Guiness Book of World Records.
On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.
Footage produced by James Balog (http://jamesbalog.com) and the Extreme Ice Survey (http://extremeicesurvey.org)
Chasing Ice won the award for Excellence in Cinematography at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and a 2013 Emmy Award for Outstanding Nature Programming. It has won over 40 awards at festivals worldwide, and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "Before My Time" by J. Ralph featuring Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell.
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Someone said "it was a UFO that was under there, HaHa. You may see that in the MSM, you never know!
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That's all you are, insignificant dots. Man did not cause this. The earth's climate has radically changed throughout its history and the climates on other planets in the solar system are changing as well.


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'2975, these numbers don't lie': Puerto Rico solidarity rally marks one year of Hurricane Maria
The US had been accused of aggravating the death and destruction related to Hurricane by imposing austerity measures on Puerto Rico and delaying delivery of essential supplies.
September 21, 2018 by Muhammed Shabeer
The Committee in Solidarity with the Students and Teachers of Puerto Rico had organised a protest gathering and a Puerto Rico Solidarity rally in Union Square in New York City on September 20 to mark the Hurricane Maria tragedy that had hit Puerto Rico and devastated lives and livelihoods in the entire island. People have used several banners showing the death toll of 2975 and posters saying 'these numbers don't lie'. They accused that the Donald Trump-led US administration and Republican Party led US Congress had maintained a criminal neglect towards Puerto Rico. Many argue that this can be understood by the fact that the official estimates by the US government put the death toll at 64, while detailed household surveys by reputed organisations have estimated fatalities in the several thousand.
The protesters demanding an end to the colonial attitude of US administration called for an effective full fledge relief and rehabilitation package from the federal government. The US had been accused of aggravating the death and destruction related to Hurricane by imposing austerity measures on Puerto Rico and delaying delivery of essential supplies.
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In an earlier interview to Peoples Dispatch, Jocelyn Velazquez Rodriguez, spokesperson of Jornada Se Acabaron Las Promesas said that "the US government has been an obstacle to our recuperation completely. For weeks, they blocked the arrival of supplies, they took control of the entire health and security apparatus, they have basically served to slow down the process of recovery, denying to citizens the aid which they rightfully should receive."
According to the estimates of a study conducted by George Washington University (GWU); around 3000 people lost lives in the landfall of Hurricane Maria. Another study by researchers affiliated with various Harvard centres concludes that the death toll may exceed the GWU estimates. A large number of deaths was related to post Hurricane due to its failing health system and poor
On August 28, 2018, the government of Puerto Rico had officially declared that 2975 people got killed in the aftermath of the storm by incorporating the details of the survey conducted by George Washington University (GWU) on behest of Puerto Rico governor. According to studies, including the GWU and Harvard surveys the death toll was so high because as along with people got killed in rising water and flying debris during the storm, thousands got killed due to prolonged deprivation from supplies.
A survey conducted by researchers of Harvard Medical School and TH Chan School of Public Health finds that many of the households they surveyed were 41 days without cell phone connectivity, 68 days without water and 80 days without electricity. Medical facilities were also deeply affected. Electricity supply in the island was seriously hampered as the electronic grid was destroyed in the storm and it took a month to repair back the grid to normalcy. There was also criticism that most of the federal aid to Puerto Rico was slow in its outreach. Around 2,00000 people had reportedly fled to adjacent US mainland territory of Florida and there was criticism that the government is showing discriminatory tendencies as it hasn't provided Transitional Shelter Assistance (TSA) for adequate time for Puerto Rican people went to Florida during floods.
Amidst criticisms of neglect, the Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rossello had requested the US President Donald Trump to grant full statehood to Puerto Rico; a request from the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico pending since 2012. According to the governor; the lack of statehood is creating a lot of impediments in the reception and disbursal of federal aid for the reconstruction of Puerto Rico. Several referendums on the status of Puerto Rico indicated that the Islanders are unhappy with their current status. A large section had voted in such referendums for full statehood and a section had also demanded independence from US.
The destruction caused by two consecutive storms last year and the austerity measures imposed on the Islanders by the US had put the civilian life of Puerto Rico in peril. The US Congress has passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) in 2016 and created a Fiscal Control Board (FCB) which had effectively reduced the pension benefits, increased the tuition fees in the universities, curtailed several labour rights and tends to privatise Electrical Energy Authority. In Puerto Rico, many people consider FCB as a colonial body through which the federal government of US overrules the decisions of the Puerto Rican legislature. For them, FCB is a mechanism that treats Puerto Rico as an anomaly by denying effective sovereignty or statehood.
"Yes, we are a colony of the United States, and right now we have a debt crisis, for which there is a Fiscal Control Board that forces us to pay this debt through all possible methods," noted Jesef Reyes Morales, who is part of the Movimiento de Agroecología Popular (Movement for People's Agroecology) while speaking to Peoples Dispatch in July this year.
"These include cutting the education and health budgets, exploiting our natural resources, and privatization in various areas," added Morales.
There are also criticisms that US has made cuts worth USD 10 billion from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) budgets despite looming threat from another Hurricane Florence in its eastern coast.
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HealthCare.gov will again be taken offline for maintenance for a maximum of 60 hours during the upcoming open enrollment for Affordable Care Act exchange coverage, the CMS announced Tuesday.
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Volume 373: debated on Friday 6 August 1976
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Returned from the Commons yesterday, agreed to with Amendments; the said Amendments printed pursuant to Standing Order No. 47.
Baroness STEDMAN
My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lady Birk, I beg to move that the Commons Amendments be now considered.
Moved, That the Commons Amendments be now considered.—( Baroness Stedman.)
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My Lords, before we dispose of this business, I think it would be appropriate if the Government would tell us something of what transpired in the Commons yesterday, because the proceedings on this Bill ended in column 2255 and we have no means whatever of knowing what the discussions were about. It is a clumsy procedure, although I suppose the responsibility must rest with all of us, because quite clearly the Bill could have been introduced much earlier in the week; we could have known what the Amendments were; we could have considered them, we could have followed the discussions in another place and we certainly would have known how the discussions ended.
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My Lords, the Bill went through the Commons in the early hours of this morning and, like my noble friend Lord Wigg, I have not seen the latter part of the report of what then took place. But it would not be for me to contradict what my right honourable friend gave in the way of assurances in another place and I am happy to give that same assurance here.
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My Lords, that seems to be entirely satisfactory, except, of course, that nobody in this House knows what representations were made and what satisfaction the Government gave. I am assuming that all was satisfactory and I personally do not want to impede the progress of the Bill. The quicker it is on the Statute Book, the better. What I protest against is this particular method of doing business. It is utterly incompetent. I am not suggesting that it would have been done any better by any other Administration, but the Bill could have been taken in another place several days earlier and we could have read the report of the debate. We should then have known when it was coming back to us, what the debate had been about and what assurances were given, whereas here we are suddenly cut off in column 2255, as it were in the middle of the night, without the slightest chance of knowing what transpired.
I accept that all is straight and above board. I want to facilitate the passage of the Bill. In fact, in my opinion the Government have completely underestimated the situation. It is far more serious than they have realised, and if we do not get rain very soon there will be few parts of the country which are not affected. I am asking that the assurance given by the Minister in column 2255 of the Official Report of the debate in another place, which was given by the Minister and which was accepted there, applies equally to this House.
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(Lord Shepherd)
My Lords, perhaps I may intervene, at least so far as the assurance is concerned. An assurance given by a Minister is given on behalf of the Government as a whole and, therefore, it is an assurance that I am happy to repeat on behalf of the Government in your Lordships' House.
My Lords, I find that entirely satisfactory except, if I may say so, for one phrase; namely, that the assurance is given on behalf of the Government as a whole and by implication presumably applies here. This was not said. The Minister in another place used the words, "to this House", and therefore without wanting in any way to be protective of the rights of this House, which I would abolish tomorrow if I could, I want to know that the undertaking given to Members of another place applies here.
Lord SHEPHERD
Most certainly, my Lords.
On Question, Motion agreed to.
[ References are to Bill 210 as first printed for the Commons]
COMMONS AMENDMENTS
[ No. 1]
Clause 1, page 2, line 29, after 'consent' insert specified in the order'.
My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 1. The purpose of the Amendment is to ensure that orders for the variation or suspension of consents to discharge sewage or trade effluent specify the consent or consents to which they refer. It has been suggested that the present wording might allow Water Authorities to make a blanket order covering all consents granted by them, which was not the intention. The revised wording will provide an additional safeguard to industries likely to be affected by orders under this subsection. I beg to move.
Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—( Baroness Stedman.)
COMMONS AMENDMENT
[ No. 2.]
Page 2, line 43, leave out from 'section' to 'shall' in line 46.
My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 2. This Amendment clarifies the intention to confirm the right of the Water Authority to levy any water rate or minimum charge not only where they are relieved of an obligation in relation to the supply of water by them, but also where they are authorised to prohibit or limit the use of such water. It has always been the declared intention of Ministers that in neither case should there be an abatement of charges, but there was some doubt whether the clause, as drafted, achieved the desired effect. I beg to move.
[ Nos. 3 to 5.]
Clause 2, page 4, line 32, leave out paragraph ( b) and insert—
'(b) the authority shall take such steps as they think appropriate for bringing the prohibition or limitation to the attention of the persons to whom the prohibition or limitation will apply and, in particular, shall—
(i) cause notice of the prohibition or limitation to be published in one or more local newspapers circulating within that part of the authority's area which would be affected by the provision of the order, or
(ii) send notice of the prohibition or limitation to the persons to whom the prohibition or limitation will apply, as the authority think appropriate;'
Clause 2,Page 4, line 39, leave out '48' and insert '72'
Clause 2,Page 4, line 41, leave out 'given' and insert sent to the person in question'.
My Lords, with the leave of the House I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 3, 4 and 5 en bloc.
The intention of Amendment No. 3 is to strengthen the duty of the Water Authority by placing a general obligation on it to bring to the attention of everyone likely to be affected any prohibition or limitation of water use with the particular obligation either to publish notices in local papers or to send an individual notice to those affected. This additional publicity requirement, which is intended to pave the way for authorities to arrange, among other things, radio and television broadcasts where appropriate, will assist in ensuring that everyone concerned will be fully aware of the proposed action of the Water Authority.
Amendment No. 4 has the effect of extending from 48 hours to 72 hours the period which must elapse between publication by the Water Authority of a notice about prohibitions or limitations of water use or the despatch of notice to individuals affected and the time at which the prohibitions or limitations can take effect. This is simply an additional safeguard which is considered appropriate in view of the possibly stringent restrictions which Water Authorities may have to impose.
Amendment No. 5 is consequential on the Government Amendment No. 3 to Clause 2 subsection (5)(b) which provides for the Water Authorities to give individual notification of prohibitions and limitations as an alternative to publicity in a local newspaper. I beg to move.
Moved, that this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments—( Baroness Stedman.)
My Lords, while I am entirely in agreement with the Amendment on the Marshalled List, I should be much obliged, and would feel happier, if the Minister would give an assurance that while carrying out the statutory obligation to bring it to the notice of local newspapers, they will use their not inconsiderable influence with the national Press, because I think public opinion as a whole needs to be educated into the realities of the situation which might, by Christmas time, hit us straight between the eyes. Therefore, while I am not going to hold up business other than to say that I accept this entirely, may I ask whether the Government can tell the House that they are prepared to use the national Press and all the means of publicity available to them, including television, for no other reason than to educate public opinion into the urgent national need for the conservation of water until there is a break in present conditions?
My Lords, my right honourable friend shares the view of my noble friend Lord Wigg, and I am quite sure I can give the assurance, with all sincerity, that we will use every opportunity available to us to educate the public and to explain to them the reasons for the actions we are having to take.
Lord HAWKE
My Lords, in the last stage of the Bill, I put in a plea for more publicity with regard to the general question of rainfall. I repeat that plea. Whether coincidentally or not, of late in the media there has been a certain amount about how much or how little rain we have had in this year of 1976, but we have had no information about the past. The science of weather prediction is quite imperfect. I believe it is done chiefly on the basis of averages in the past. The general public are getting extremely worried now about the whole situation. They would very much like to know what has happened in the past, after other years of great drought. We are told that this year is the "droughtiest" year for 250 years. I do not know whether there is a specific year for which there are statistics, which can be referred to, or whether it is merely a fact that we have not had a drought year of this nature during the time in which statistics are available. There have been other years of drought; 1911, I think I remember, and 1921. What we really want to know is what the pattern was in the autumn of such years. Is there any hope of rain? In past drought years, has the whole thing gone on into the winter? Were summers like this followed by wet winters, or not? As the noble Lord, Lord Wigg, quite rightly said, if we do not get rain before long we are on the brink of national disaster—
My Lords, I did not say that.
—with an enormous expenditure of public money and tremendous inconvenience to everybody.
Lord BOOTHBY
My Lords, may I say that I support what has been said by the noble Lord who has just sat down. Wherever I go I find great anxiety among the public lest our climate is undergoing a permanent and decisive change, and whether, in future, as during recent years, we are to have mild winters, moderate rain, and prolonged heat and drought in the summer, with that cycle going on year after year. If that is the case, obviously it will have a profound effect upon the economy, the industry, and the public of this country. I should like the noble Baroness, Lady Stedman, if she can, advised by the experts, to tell us the view of Her Majesty's Government on this matter. Do the Government think that we have undergone—perhaps since we joined the European Economic Community—a decisive change in our climate, which will last for years to come, or is this only a temporary phenomenon?
Lord BRUCE of DONINGTON
My Lords, I wish to follow up one of the points made by my noble friend Lord Wigg with regard to the use of radio and television. Many of us feel that if the radio and television media gave good publicity to the various restrictions to be applied by the Water Authorities, this would be a much better way, and a much more effective way, of conveying this information to the public at large, since quite a number of people do not read local newspapers. Therefore, may I ask my noble friend Lady Stedman for the assurance that Her Majesty's Government will get in touch with the television and radio authorities, with a view to securing their co-operation in broadcasting such relevant portions of notices put up by the Water Authorities which the Government feel would be for the better information of the public?
My Lords, that is rather a barrage to face. The noble Lord, Lord Hawke, coined the phrase that 1976 might go down as our "droughtiest" year. I thought that a delightful phrase. I hope he is right, and that we shall not have a repeat of such drought at regular intervals, or consecutive years of it. So far as climatic conditions are concerned, I cannot answer as to what are the views of the Government, because we have not yet had long enough time to consider records, and so on, as to what sort of cycle of climatic changes there has been in the past. My Department are keeping all the information under review, and we will be taking necessary steps. Indeed, this Bill gives the Water Authorities the right to take necessary steps, as and when they can, to safeguard our water supply.
My Lords, I can give general and firm assurances that we will use every means in our power to give the widest possible publicity, not only to what is happening now, but when we have the information as to the sort of trends in the climate there might be. We will make this information available through the Press, television, radio, and any other means at our disposal.
Lord LEATHERLAND
My Lords, while I agree with the desirability of securing as much publicity as possible on radio and television, we must bear in mind that the restrictions which the various Water Authorities impose will not be standardised throughout the whole country. There will be regions in which there are adequate water supplies, and other regions in which drastic restrictions will be necessary. Therefore, in addition to radio and television publicity, I attach some importance to the new paragraph moved by my noble friend which requires that announcements be made in the local newspapers. I have no interest in the local newspapers, and so the amount of advertising revenue which goes into them does not concern me at all.
I merely want to suggest this to my noble friend. When her right honourable friend sends round to the Water Authorities a message advising them about the nature of these advertisements, will he please suggest to the Water Authorities that they should not put them out in the normal form exercised for public authorities. These notices are usually away on an insignificant advertisement page in the paper, and are usually phrased in highly legalistic terms. They usually start off with the word "Whereas", and then in other paragraphs we find phrases like, "Whereas further". I suggest to my noble friend that it should be stressed to the Water Authorities that they put these advertisements in the local Press as prominent display advertisements, in fairly heavy type. They will then be read. If the advertisements are put on the normal public announcements page they will never be read.
Baroness HORNSBY-SMITH
My Lords, I should like to endorse what other speakers have said, but I do not think we direct as much publicity as we might to the housewife with regard to the high domestic consumption of water. In offices and factories there are stickers everywhere and in some cases the authority has cut off or limited the supplies of water to factories. There have been many excellent programmes on radio and television showing the devastation on the farms.
However, it is important that in some way we should endeavour to bring out the fact that there must be a saving of water in the home. We should have the co-operation of the local writers in the newspapers in this emergency; they should tell housewives not to wash up under a running tap, or that if they can cut the number of times they use their washing machines from five to three washes a week, this makes quite a saving. It seems to me that publicity has been directed to the larger users, and through no fault of their own housewives have not yet fully recognised how desperately short of water we are.
My Lords, with the leave of the House, my Department will give all possible advice to water authorities in the way of making their advertisements most effective in dealing with all sections of the community. I come myself from an area badly hit by the drought—East Anglia. We have already had appeals to householders, and these have worked reasonably satisfactorily. Other authorities, when having to bring in the necessary restrictions, will also direct some of their communications to housewives, as well as to factories, offices and shops. We shall take every possible step to see that water authorities make the information available and that they make their notices available in as readable a form as possible.
Clause 5, page 8, line 16, after first 'order' insert 'in a statutory instrument'.
My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 6. This Amendment provides that an order revoking a previous order should be by Statutory Instrument. In general, orders under the Bill are exerciseable by Statutory Instrument and a revocation order should clearly be in the same form. The Amendment eliminates the authority which existed in the subsection as it was previously drafted. I beg to move.
Moved, That the House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—( Baroness Stedman.)
My Lords, I should like, if I may, to ask the Minister whether there is any chance of my getting the answer which I was promised during the earlier proceedings in the House as to what action the Government propose to take in the future. This is a rather wide approach, but the Minister on that occasion (if she would be good enough to refer to what was said) promised to write to me on the point of the scope of the proceedings. It is important, as in a few moments we shall have passed this Bill and it will then rest with the Department. I do not want to raise embarrassing issues, but I should like to know what the Government have in mind in relation to the researches of Professor Lamb. I noticed that in another place a number of Members raised the same point. The point was also raised by the noble Lord, Lord Ritchie-Calder. The studies of climatology and of meteorology, while they in fact overlap, are not the same thing. I do not want to be critical. While I think the Government are very well served by the Meteorological Office and they are quite right to take into account everything that is said to them, the Department of Climatology, of which there is only one, in the University of East Anglia, also has something to say. Of course, this bears on what was said by noble Lords opposite this morning.
We just do not know what has happened in the past. It may well be that there has been a permanent change in our climate. We do not know. The evidence does indicate, on the basis of the last three or four years, that some change has happened. But what is it? We have the records from 1727 onwards to the present time. We do not know what happened before. Professor Lamb and his colleagues in the East Anglia University are endeavouring to find out. We ought to find out. The basic facts are that even at the present time, after prolonged drought, we have very great quantities of water, more than ample. The point is that it happens to be in the wrong place. As I understand it, it is a very expensive business to put in pipes and pumping apparatus and the like; I am told it might cost not hundreds of millions but thousands of millions of pounds. What we must not do—this is almost a national failing—is to wait until the full force of calamity hits us between the eyes before we start to do something.
I have no knowledge of the subject. My interest was aroused by approaching it from a rather different and rather narrow angle. But there is a case for finding out. I want to say this categorically. So far as my judgment is worth twopence, in the light of the situation as it now exists on the basis of the extremely limited evidence we have, we would be far wiser to scrap every single penny we are spending on defence and spend it upon the development of water supply. The defence may or may not be needed; it may or may not be necessary to Troop the Colour annually. But what is perfectly clear is that if this drought continues until Christmas of this year Clause 2 of this Bill will have to be introduced; when it is introduced it is going to be rough justice, and there is going to be more rough than justice. It is not a question of individuals. It is whole industries. It is no good then passing resolutions—which is one of the Labour Party's weaknesses—urging somebody else to go and do something about it. If there is no water you cannot use it, and you will not be able to improvise at short notice. Perhaps I may end by repeating what I said earlier: hope for the best, to those of you who will; pray for the best; plan for the worst.
Baroness WHITE
My Lords, may I support what my noble friend Lord Wigg has said. I do not very often agree with him.
Hear, hear!
On this occasion I must admit I do. There are, as I am sure the noble Baroness will be aware, considerable discussions which have been proceeding for some while as to the best ways of disposing of our water resources. As the noble Lord, Lord Wigg, has said, we do have, even today, considerable quantities of water in the wrong places. The time that will elapse and the cost that will be involved in working out a complete national water grid system, which is really the only ultimate way of dealing with a situation of this kind, is one of the strongest arguments for the establishment of a national water authority, which, of course, should have been done under the reorganisation of the water industry under the previous Administration.
A Noble Lord
And long before that.
I do not deny that for one moment, my Lords. I speak with some feeling because, as your Lordships are aware, I come from the Principality of Wales. The City of Cardiff and other areas in Glamorgan are now being added to areas in North Gwent where, from Monday, for 13 hours out of 24 we shall have no water at all. I hope that this will dispel any illusion that any Member of your Lordships' House may have harboured that all parts of Wales are flowing with water at all seasons of the year. I hope that when the time comes, when we are discussing further the question of charging for water, it will be appreciated that the more easily accessible and cheaper sources of water to be found in the Principality have already been diverted to the Midlands and North-West of England. Therefore, it should be understood that there are areas of Wales which are in very serious difficulties, as serious as anywhere in the Kingdom.
This threatens not only the housewives. I can assure the noble Baroness, Lady Hornsby-Smith, that by far the best propaganda for housewives is to shut off the taps for 13 hours out of 24. But, of course, we are also much concerned about industry. We suffer from inadequate employment in many parts of South Wales, particularly the South-East, and some of the industrial processes rely absolutely on water. So we are deeply concerned, not purely from the point of view of domestic need and domestic convenience, but also from that of employment. Therefore, I would hope that Her Majesty's Government, whatever other legislation they may have in store for us in the coming Session, will treat this question of a national water authority particularly with considerable seriousness.
My Lords, I accept what has been said by noble Lords, and particularly from my personal point of view, at any rate, would endorse what has been said by my noble friend Lady White, that a national water grid is perhaps the solution to our problem and something which ought to have been done perhaps at the same time as reorganisation, or before. I must apologise to my noble friend Lord Wigg if he has not had a reply from my noble friend following the earlier stages of the Bill. I can only assume that a lot of research has to go into this and perhaps the full information is not yet readily available to the Department. I have noted what both he and my noble friend Lady White have said; I will bring it to the attention of my right honourable friend. And I will certainly see that my noble friend Lord Wigg gets a reply to his earlier question.
[ Nos. 7 and 8.]
Schedule 1, page 10, line 15, leave out 'the area of the authority' and insert 'that part of the area of the authority which would be affected by the order'.
Page 11, line 4, at end insert—
'A notice sent in a letter in pursuance of paragraph (b), (c) or (d) above shall not be treated as having been properly served unless the sender takes such steps as are for the time being required to secure that the letter is transmitted in priority to letters of other descriptions.'
12 noon.
My Lords, with the leave of the House I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 7 and 8 together. The intention of Amendment No. 7 is to ensure that a copy of any major plan relating to an order is deposited by the Water Authority in the area affected by the order, and not simply within the area of the Water Authority, as required in the Bill at present. This Amendment is in line with other provisions in this Schedule which relate to the area affected, and it is considered necessary because the considerable extent of some Water Authority areas could otherwise result in plans being deposited at some distance from the area to which they refer.
Amendment No. 8 is intended to ensure that the formal notices issued by the Water Authority under Schedule 1 are sent by first-class letter. The wording is the result of detailed consultation with the Post Office, and reflects the fact that the first-class letter post has no long-term statutory basis. I beg to move.
Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—( Baroness Stedman.)
Page 11, line 21, at end insert—
'Provided that nothing in this sub-paragraph shall authorise the Secretary of State to disregard any objection which has been duly made and not withdrawn.'
My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 9. This reaffirms, for the avoidance of doubt, that where the Secretary of State, for reasons of urgency, dispenses with an inquiry into an application for an order he is not absolved from the duty to consider any valid objections before reaching his decision. I beg to move.
[ Nos. 10 to 13.]
Schedule 2, page 12, line 22, leave out from first 'of' to 'otherwise' in line 23 and insert 'water's being discharged or not discharged to any place or its being discharged'
Schedule 2,Page 12, line 27, after second 'discharge' insert 'or lack of discharge'.
Schedule 2,Page 12, line 28, after first 'discharged' insert 'or not discharged'.
Schedule 2,Page 12, line 31, after first 'the' insert 'lack of'.
My Lords, with the leave of the House I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 10, 11, 12 and 13 en bloc. Amendment No. 10 is a minor Amendment which extends the compensation provisions of Schedule 2 to cover the event where compensation water is not discharged in a case where, but for the order, discharge would be required; and Amendments 11, 12 and 13 are consequential upon this. I beg to move.
[ No. 14.]
Schedule 2, page 13, line 7, leave out 'three' and insert 'six'.
My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 14. This has the effect of extending from three to six months the period for lodging claims for compensation. It recognises that in some cases a claimant may not have all the information necessary to lodge a claim within three months. I beg to move.
Lord SANDFORD
My Lords, I am sure that is a very good idea; but before we leave these Amendments I should like to thank the noble Baroness for introducing and explaining them so clearly to us and also for answering so ably the sort of mini Second Reading debate which we have had at the same time. I should like to pay my tribute to the work that the Regional Water Authorities have already done in combating this situation—the worst by a long way for 250 years—and to wish them well in the use of these extra powers, which they will be very glad to have.
I should also like, if I may, to thank the noble Lord, Lord Wigg, for teasing the Government about the conduct of their business and for saving me from having to do that, so allowing me to end this business with expressions of nothing but good will and best wishes to the Government for the enjoyment of their Recess, and the hope that they will return greatly strengthened, as they will need to be for our next business.
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his kind comments. I am grateful, too, for the co-operation of all sides of the House in getting this legislation on to the Statute Book. While I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday, I also hope that, when your Lordships are away, the rains will come down in those places where your Lordships are not, and that some of our problems will be solved. I hope all your Lordships have a fine holiday.


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Full Board Reverses Panel Decision That Provided Exception to Delta Airlines Attachment Decision
One year ago we reported on the Board Panel decision in Barbella Environmental Tech, which provided an exception to the Delta Airlines ruling on labor market attachment. The ruling deemed claimants who were still employed by the employer of record to be attached to the labor market without the need to produce proof of same as required by the American Axle decision. The Barbella Board Panel decision narrowed the ruling in cases like Delta Airlines, finding that only in cases where there is objective medical evidence that the claimant could return to work with the employer of record and where the claimant has a realistic expectation to return to work with the employer is the claimant relieved of the need to prove labor market attachment.
The Full Board reviewed the Barbella decision earlier this year and reversed the Board Panel decision in Barbella. The Full Board decided not to adopt the two-pronged test created by the Barbella panel's majority and unfortunately affirmed the rule that a claimant has not voluntarily withdrawn from the labor market where the claimant continues to be employed by the employer and the medical evidence in the record establishes that a claimant is unable to return to work.This decision will make it more difficult to defend against indemnity benefits in claims where a claimant remains "on the books" with the employer of record.


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A team of artists will collaborate on a series of Pop Up Art Adventure Playgrounds that will provide the experience of play and artistic creation to children in underserved neighborhoods of Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas City, KS.
Research shows that human brains learn best when we play; play supports emotional growth and contributes to creativity. Yet, young children increasingly have fewer opportunities for self-directed play as the school day, after-school and summer activities eat into their playtime. According to a 2008 research study, children play 8 hours less each week than two decades ago, making it harder for children to reap the benefits of self-directed play. The Art Adventure Playgrounds present a creative solution to this need. Rocket Grants funding and additional donations, will be used to obtain the training, materials and methods to provide more opportunities for kids to play – and create.
Richard Renner is the creator of the Recycle Cycle, an art car with interactive games made of found items. When sharing it in public spaces he discovered that children will play longer and freer if left to discover and create on their own, in fact his attempts to show them how to play and help them only shortened their interest. While looking into this, he discovered a whole field of study and practice called Free Play, with Adventure Playgrounds as the main tool for providing meaningful play experiences. In 2017 he went to a conference for Adventure Playgrounds where he met people and teachers from over 10 countries, and realized he could create this in his part of the world too. Last year he took the leap and created Pop Up Playgrounds at the Kansas City Maker Faire and the KCPT Good Neighbor Festival. The response was overwhelmingly positive and the effects tangible. His next step is to include other artists in this movement and make it available to underserved kids in our area.
Adventure Playgrounds have been around for over 50 years since Carl Theodor Sorensen created the first one in Denmark in 1943. Sorenson observed the kids and wrote that "They can dream, imagine and make dreams with imagination and passion about adventure play reality… which the child's mind is completely satisfied with…It is so obvious that the children thrive here and feel well, they unfold and they live." Renner's team want to give the children of our area that feeling of wellbeing and play, using artistic elements that encourage creations of painting, sculpting, performing and assembling.
Extending the idea of free play, an Art Adventure Playground is an area filled with loose items such as boxes, tires, tubes, crates, fabric, rope, costumes, chalk paint, brushes, and other fanciful and found materials that immediately invite children to play. The introduction of art supplies and tools will increase the opportunity for children to experience making art in spontaneous self-directed ways. Each Playground will be staged for 3+ hours in libraries, community parks, parking lots and open spaces in order to reach children in Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas City. The selection of the venues for these pop ups will be determined by low income, lack of public art and lack of art education in adjoining neighborhoods.
In line with the Free Play theory, there will be no uninvited adults in the playground area lending an unwanted hand. Kids will be helping kids if needed and adults can only enter if asked. The team expects some of the parents to be uncomfortable with this and the level of play their kids will be doing. To help inform them, they will have handouts explaining the process, risks and benefits of an Art Adventure Playground. It is the team's hope that parents will see the staff is well prepared, and the approach is proven.
Playworkers will be there to add only the lightest of adult interactions in order to keep the play cycle going. It is the Art Play Workers ability to facilitate the child-directed activity that makes this playground different from all others. In describing the role of the play worker, Psychiatrist T. Chilton wrote
"Their primary function is to help to create an atmosphere which is child centered; where there are no meaningless limitations or restrictions, apart from precautions necessary against injury; where guidance and help is given when asked for or needed…they must know when to help a child and when to withdraw so that the child can work through a problem with or without assistance and thus develop confidence through co-operation and self-help."
To achieve this, Play Workers will have 20 hours of training conducted by Pop Up Playground founder Morgan Leichter-Saxby along with first aid, CPR training and liability coverage.
Richard Renner – performing artist. Actor, Juggler, Orangutan, Poet and Fool all describe Richard Renner as he performs his special brand of humor. Whether juggling, unicycling, ropewalking, or creating a zany improvisation, Richard performs with unbounded energy and skill.
After graduating from the University of Kansas in 1981 with a theater degree, he spent years and a small fortune studying with such teachers as Marcel Marceau – the French mime master, Yuri Belov – a famous Russian clown, and Avner the Eccentric – the famous New Vaudevillian. After a few years with the Kansas City based Mimewock Company, Richard struck out on his own as a company of one. That quickly grew as he discovered he had a lot of characters in his own head waiting to get out.
Since then he has gone on to perform in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The universal need for laughter makes it easy for him to perform for any audience. After meeting many like-minded performers, he started the Vodvill Entertainment Company in 1988 to promote the variety arts in the Midwest. It is still going strong with a roster of over 100 different acts.
Matthew Lord – art and illustration – was born in Marysville, Kansas in 1975. At an early age, he learned the value of his artistry when he began swapping drawings of jet fighters for more desirable food at school lunch. Growing up in a small town in the eighties, Matthew's childhood existed in two worlds – one spent outside exploring and imagining in the five square mile area that was his hometown and the other spent indoors voraciously consuming television, collecting comic books and drawing at the kitchen table.
In 1999, Matthew graduated with BFA in Illustration at the University of Kansas. Between then and now, Matthew has experienced many milestones in his career, including several solo and group exhibitions, featured editorial illustrations, lectures and workshops. He has taken on the roles of teacher, facilitator, mentor, curator and storyteller. He also celebrates his creative community through collaborating on art installations, monthly themed drawing events and an artist-run non-profit creative space.
Matthew's artwork often tilts toward the absurd while incorporating elements of fantastic realism. Using his preferred mediums of gouache, ink and printmaking, he strives to tell a well-constructed story with his artwork, using the panel as his delivery device. Matthew's influences are drawn from curiosity for the natural world and a love of mythology. He lives and makes artwork in Lawrence, KS.
Frank Shopen – sculpture – has been making bronze sculptures and working in stone professionally for over 25 years. He holds a degree in Industrial Arts and Technology Education, with certification in wood, metal, plastics and printing, from Emporia State University.
Frank has called Lawrence home since 1984 when he brought his small family here, having fallen in love with the town in his college days. He found he also loved the limestone native to this area from which so many buildings are made. He started his own masonry business and it thrived. But he wanted more from the sensual Kansas limestone and started sculpting, and this eventually led to stone carving on the Kansas Statehouse in 1988. He then fell in love with clay and bronze working at Heartland Art bronze, where he worked until he built his own bronze finishing shop, Bronzewurks. There, he did every aspect of art bronze casting and finishing for 20 years, designing and building most of his own equipment and tools. From 2008-11 he was once again called on to restore the Kansas Statehouse. Since then he has worked part time at a makerspace in north Lawrence doing stone, clay and bronze sculpture. He currently enjoys many different aspects of teaching art, from carving to figure sculpture.


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Home	NEWS	Ngarbuh Massacre: We Want Action Not Calls For Investigation- Cameroonians Tell International Community
Ngarbuh Massacre: We Want Action Not Calls For Investigation- Cameroonians Tell International Community
by Atlantic Chronicles February 21, 2020
written by Atlantic Chronicles February 21, 2020
(Buea-Cameroon)
Some Cameroonians have lambasted the International community for not taking action against Cameroonian officials for war crimes committed in the Northwest and Southwest Regions.
They say the United Nations, UN, African Union, AU, Commonwealth, and other countries have turned a blind eye to the killings, burnings and violations of human rights in Anglophone Cameroon.
These Cameroonians say they need actions not calls for investigations.
They reacted following calls from the international community, urging the Cameroon Government to investigate the massacre in Ngarbuh-Ntumbaw, Donga Matung Division.
The pogrom, according to the UN, led to the death of 23 persons including children and pregnant women, though some organisations like REDHAC, put the number killed at 36.
Following the massacre in Ngarbuh, the UN, Commonwealth, US Embassy in Cameroon and others have condemned the carnage, while calling for an independent, impartial and thorough investigation.
After that, many have taken to social media platforms blasting Heads of international institutions, casting doubts, especially on the UN's ability to maintain world peace and security.
To them, UN resolution 2005 on the responsibility to protect citizens, which Cameroon has violated, needs to be applied.
"Nonsense, you keep saying the same story and no action taken. Tomorrow, same incident will happen and you will still say the same thing, corrupt people" Vinomels Suh blasts Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth's SG.
Responding to the UN Human Rights Chief's statement, Martin Nche Nde said, "These people are sickening honestly. They are a group of hypocrites… tomorrow they will be the first people trying to preach humanity."
Richard Ndifor, in reacting to the comment from the US Embassy in Yaounde, thanked them for condemning the "cruelty" in Ngarbuh. "We, however, urged you and the rest of the international community to go further than just condemning. We're looking forward to you guys taking concrete measures. On the issue of investigation, I wonder how credible such an investigation carried out by a suspect can be," he said.
Investigations In Cameroon
The anger on these calls for investigation is due to the manner in which investigations are conducted in Cameroon. Many incidents, like the Ngarbuh massacre, have occurred in Cameroon and investigations carried out. The findings of such investigations are never made public since the start of the Anglophone Crisis.
During the alleged massacre of civilians in pinyin, the Government said she was going to investigate; now the report is still being awaited.
Last year, baby Martha was killed in Muyuka and the Government said it will investigate into the matter but, to date, nothing has been done.
Also, investigations into the burning of villages have been carried out, but the results end up in the files of the investigators.
The last time investigation findings were published was during the Eseka train derailment. The Government of Cameroon, before carrying out investigations, will either deny military involvement or accuse the separatists.
When the military was accused of killing women and children in the Far North Region, the then Communication Minister denied, but later said seven soldiers were being prosecuted for the crime.
Many are questioning the UN, saying that the suspect of a crime cannot conduct an objective investigation.
However, the international community, since the start of the crisis, has been calling for investigations whenever civilians are killed, houses burnt or human rights violated.
Anglophone crisisCameroon military atrocitiesHuman rights violations in CameroonNgarbuh Gruesome Massacre
And They Lied Again!
French Ambassador Tells Cameroonians: France Isn't Your Enemy, Your Problem Is Leadership


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The Mount Morris House New York bed and breakfast is a fine example of New York's Gilded Age architecture, built in 1888.
It faces Mount Morris Park, one of the oldest parks in Manhattan, in a landmarked residential neighborhood. The area is full of late nineteenth-early twentieth century architecture.
The wealth and extravagant style of its original owners is reflected in the building's very generous proportions. The house enjoys large living spaces, sumptuous materials, precious woods, intricate carvings, gilding and plaster moldings, high ceilings, numerous and ample closets and every other imaginable amenity.
A grand Manhattan town house by any measure, it has been meticulously restored with great respect for its original details and attention to all modern amenities making it a truly unique New York bed and breakfast.
The Mount Morris House bed and breakfast is minutes walk from Central Park and conveniently situated to all major transportation in Manhattan.
There are many good restaurants, bars, shops and services in the immediate area as well as plenty and various cultural attractions that have made New York so famous.
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Q: Laptop does not autorotate in Ubuntu 16.04 Gnome My laptop is an Acer R3 131T. I installed Ubuntu 16.04 Gnome on it. However it does not autorotate the screen when I rotate the laptop. Autorotate worked perfectly fine on Windows 10. Gnome shows the symbol to autorotate or keep screen rotation fixed in the top right menu ( just beside the Settings button) - however when I rotate the screen, autorotate does not work. There is no option for rotation even in Display ( in Settings).  Please help.

A: I have the same laptop, running on Debian Stretch (kernel 4.9)
While debugging this, switch to a virtual console with CTRL+ALT+F3 and sign in. Your screen should be the right way round. From here, follow your distribution-specific instructions to upgrade the kernel (sudo apt install --install-recommends linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04 for Ubuntu 16.04)
I found this page which explains the issue.
Upgrading the kernel fixed my issue (which was that the sensor was unreliable; it only worked one in a hundred times, and my screen was stuck sideways!)
I hope this solves your issue!

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Today's homeowners are looking for more than just a basic home. They expect energy efficiency, a small carbon footprint, loads of space, and luxury, all within the same space. Architects are responding with ingenious designs as a result of thinking outside of the box when it comes to designing the blueprint of today's most popular homes. The following is a list of four hot home designs that are trending right now.
Craftsman homes are among the most popular new homes being built. They feature natural colors and materials such as wood and stone and have many windows. The windows are made of multiple panes of glass, typically four panes or six panes of glass over a larger pane. Another common feature of the craftsman is low pitched roofs and large eaves overhangs. The Craftsman home can be either a one-floor open floor plan design or multiple floors. Mixed materials are used throughout these homes. Most original craftsman homes are found in older neighborhoods and were built prior to 1920. This style has seen a recent revitalization with the increase in the interest of historical architecture and arts and crafts.
Older ranch-style homes featured rooms that were divided by floor-to-ceiling walls. Modern ranch homes feature wide open floor plans with a dining room, living room, and kitchen all within the same relative space. These homes can be large or small and have an open and airy feel regardless of size. The beauty of the ranch home is that it often has a smaller carbon footprint than multiple story homes, is easily accessible to those who suffer from joint pain and disabilities, and often easier to maintain than other homes. A well-educated realtor will be able guide you to homes that offer better accessibility options for your unique needs. Some companies, like Success Path BBB, realize how important it is for realtors to know their stuff. Always be shrewd when it comes to finding a realtor.
Young people striking out on their own the first time and those wanting to simplify for retirement love small homes and cottages. These homes typically feature 1,000 sq. ft. or less and have one or two bedrooms, often with one in the loft. These homes utilize the limited space by including plenty of unique and well-planned storage. The tiny house is a way for people to use a smaller carbon footprint, save money, and save time. Less is more with these homes. Though these small cottage-style or tiny houses are not for everyone, there is a certain amount of charm to be found in their cozy comfort.
You can have luxury without having a 5,000 sq. ft. floor plan. New blueprints include luxury in smaller spaces. His and her sinks (and bathrooms), large bath tubs, and walk in showers are becoming more popular within traditional homes. Fireplaces, roomy and well-designed kitchens, and large windows are popular in these homes. They help to create a spacious, yet cozy feeling throughout. Smart floor plans with innovative designs can maximize the use of space and provide roomy living spaces, but incorporate these luxuries, usually found only in large floor plans. Once again, open floor plans are popular here. You don't have to open your front door to a foyer, which is wasted space. Instead, guests can step right into the heart of your home.
Today's most popular designs provide something for everyone. They help people realize that they can have it all, if the blueprint is well designed. Today's architects and builders are focusing on the future of housing by incorporating ideas for more efficient homes that offer all of the luxury and comfort of larger, less efficient ones.


When you are facing a traffic violation in Dutchess County, NY, and your driver's license is on the line, the smartest decision you can make is to choose a local, highly knowledgeable lawyer who will put his experience to work for you. For more than 36 years, Dutchess County traffic ticket lawyer Jonathan D. Katz Esq. has been successfully fighting traffic tickets for clients in courtrooms throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley. Contact him today to schedule a consultation about your charges.
In New York, it's a privilege to have a driver's license. Each and every point on your license puts you one point closer to losing your driving privileges. That means you will have to rely on others to get to and from work and school. Public transportation is expensive and not always available to take you where you need to go. Rest assured, losing your driver's license will have a severe impact on your quality of life. Don't take chances with your independence; call Mr. Katz today to schedule a consultation about your Dutchess County NY traffic ticket.
Who you know does matter when you are fighting a traffic ticket in Upstate New York. As a Dutchess County traffic ticket lawyer, Mr. Katz knows the local traffic laws and the local roads. He has worked, for many years, with the court staffs in all of the many Dutchess County towns. He knows the prosecutors and local judges and he has been extremely successful in negotiating with them to get client's traffic tickets downgraded to non-moving violations (no points!) or dismissed entirely.
It's not unusual to be ticketed while driving through Dutchess County, NY, on your way to someplace else. Little can ruin a day trip or a weekend more than a traffic ticket except for the realization that you may have to return to fight your ticket in court. When you hire a local, experienced traffic ticket lawyer like Mr. Katz, you may not have to return to fight your ticket. Similarly, if you live or work locally, you won't have to take time off to come to court. In most cases, Mr. Katz can represent you in court and stand in your place so you do not have to be present.
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Don't ignore the ticket! There's no getting around a traffic ticket in New York. If you don't answer to the charges, the local judge will likely issue a failure to appear warrant for your arrest. Now you will be facing not only the original violation charges but far more serious arrest charges. Instead, talk to Mr. Katz today about your rights and possible defense strategies.
Paying the ticket is the equivalent of pleading guilty. That's right! If you were thinking that agreeing to pay the fine would get you out of more serious consequences, that's simply not true. In fact, once you pay the fines associated with any New York traffic violation, it means you are accepting responsibility for the charge and pleading guilty.
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INSEAD, the business school for the world, and LUXURY TECH FUND, the first fund at the intersection of innovation and luxury, today announced a strategic partnership where INSEAD will become the Academic Venture Partner of LUXURY TECH FUND. Leveraging the growing interactions between Luxury and Tech industries and convinced by the relevance of combining academic and operational excellence, INSEAD and Luxury Tech Fund have decided to join forces to steer and create a world-leading knowledge hub to support the emergence of "Luxury Tech".
As the Academic Venture Partner to LUXURY TECH FUND, INSEAD reinforces its entrepreneurial culture and will provide academic knowledge and expertise supporting the emergence of Luxury Tech. The initiative will leverage the school's best-in-class faculty, programme participants and strong alumni network to boost the luxury tech scene and contribute to further academic research in this area.
Taking advantage of its international deal-flow, LUXURY TECH FUND is focused on funding the most innovative, cutting edge and promising ventures in the Luxury Tech universe (tech-enablers, new business models and innovative brands in the fashion, luxury, beauty, lifestyle and retail segments), as well as ventures that will foster disruptive thinking and innovation and durably impact traditional industries. As a Venture Capital Partner of INSEAD's Luxury Initiative, LUXURY TECH FUND will provide access to the Luxury Tech startup ecosystem and contribute to support and accompany venture initiatives born in the INSEAD network.
Peter Zemsky, INSEAD Deputy Dean, Dean of Innovation and Professor of Strategy, comments that, "We are pleased to offer INSEAD participants and alumni access to the outstanding LUXURY TECH FUND ecosystem through this new partnership. Both organisations are aligned to support the new generation of entrepreneurs worldwide in this fast-growing sector. We look forward to creating a world-class knowledge hub based on cutting-edge academic research and operational excellence by melding academic thought-leadership with industry expertise and entrepreneurial talent".
David Dubois, Associate Professor of Marketing at INSEAD, comments that, "As we witness the strong momentum of new Luxury Tech actors that reshape the industry, this partnership helps us to pioneer innovative research and pedagogical initiatives in this area. This first "Think Tank in Action," bringing together alumni, partners, mentors, and industry experts from both INSEAD and LUXURY TECH FUND, is a big step for the industry. I'm confident that the joint effort of both INSEAD's strong alumni network and broader community and LUXURY TECH FUND's deep operational expertise will create a knowledge powerhouse and pave the road for entrepreneurs, academics and other actors contributing to this ecosystem".
Luxury Tech Fund, first thematic fund at the intersection of innovation and luxury, is a multi-stage venture capital firm leveraging Auriga Partners investment platform (€400M under management, 50 M&A and IPOs) and helping tech entrepreneurs shape the future of luxury. Believing in venture-as-a-service, LTF operates with an ecosystem approach to deliver more value to both its startups and its LPs. All investments are backed by a high degree of mentoring. So far, LTF has built an ecosystem of 40+ trusted mentors & industry experts to provide best-in-class support and foster business acceleration.
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Taenaris phorcas is a butterfly of the subfamily Morphinae in the family Nymphalidae.

Subspecies
Subspecies include:
Taenaris phorcas phorcas (Bismarck Archipelago - Solomon Islands)
Taenaris phorcas uranus Staudinger, 1888 (Bismarck Archipelago - Crown Island)
Taenaris phorcas admiralitatis Rothschild, 1916 (Admiralty Islands)

Distribution
This species can be found in the Solomon Islands and Bismarck Archipelago.

Description
The upperside of the wings contains large white blotches, with broad brown edges and a wide eyespot surrounded with yellow orange located in the white area of the hindwings. The underside of the hindwings shows an outer angle completely brown and a wide patch with two large black eyespots surrounded with yellow orange. The abdomen is brown.

Biology
Larvae of this species feed on Dracaena species.

References

Taenaris
Butterflies described in 1851

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Q: Code blocked at read in Client Server application in Linux I am developing a client-server-client chat application, when client will enter something other client wont receive anything until he input something i.e my code is blocked at read.
How to unlock read??
Code:
if(FD_ISSET(sfd,&writefds))
{
 printf("\n%s: ",my_name);
 gets(message);
 memset(p, 0, sizeof(sbuf) - header_len);
 strcpy(p,message);
 if(sendto(sfd,sbuf, header_len+strlen(message),0,(struct sockaddr*)&ssin,serverlen)<0)
 {
  perror("Write failed");
  exit(-1);
 }
}

strace:
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {5, 0})      = 1 (in [3], left {4, 999994})
recvfrom(3, "\5\0rohit\4\0saurhellllo\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 200, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(1000), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, [16]) = 200
write(1, "rohitr : hellllo\n", 17rohitr : hellllo
)      = 17
write(1, "\n", 1
)                       = 1
write(1, "saur: ", 6saur: )                   = 6
read(0,

A: "When attempting to read a file (other than a pipe or FIFO) that supports non-blocking reads and has no data currently available:

*

*If O_NONBLOCK is set, read() shall return -1 and set errno to [EAGAIN].

*If O_NONBLOCK is clear, read() shall block the calling thread until some data becomes available.

*The use of the O_NONBLOCK flag has no effect if there is some data available."
Here is a good manual with flags description
EDIT: Although I don't see you using read here. You could replace gets by read or try to use fcntl to make file descriptor non blocking like :
int flags = fcntl(fd, F_GETFL, 0);
fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, flags | O_NONBLOCK);

fcntl manual here


Valentine's Day. Two words that strike joy, fear, hatred, giddiness, bitterness, or joviality into the heart-shaped-hearts of people everywhere. It seems like there are always two camps: those that like Valentine's Day, and those that despise it with the fury of a thousand angry prairie dogs.
I think many see it as a day of "have" or "have not," a day that will either be spent with someone, or spent alone. Others see it as a day manufactured by greeting card companies to guilt us all into buying cards, flowers, and chocolates.
But take a moment to consider - we have holidays that celebrate the birth of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus, American independence, the turning of the new year, the passing and returning of souls, the patron saint of Ireland, dead presidents, etc., etc...and LOVE.
Valentine's Day is the celebration of LOVE, whether you have someone or don't, whether you're going out to an expensive dinner or not, whether you get cards and flowers or not. Love is a beautiful thing to celebrate. Just imagine the world without it! With all the madness, suffering, aggression, and hostility of people (on a world scale or in your every day commute!), we ought to be darn thankful for Love.
I gave up feeling bad about Valentine's Day years ago, and instead decided to just enjoy the day. I enjoyed the day so much I started celebrating a WEEK of Valentine's, by wearing my favorite pink dress (or making one for the occasion), indulging in some of those chocolates (that are, by the way, NOT reserved for people in relationships!), and buying myself flowers to enjoy all week long. Occasionally ardent boys would give me valentines, shaking and sheepishly smiling as they handed them over. However, despite any bouquets or heart-shaped candles I may have received over the years, the best valentine I ever got was an orange. That's right, it was an orange, a HUGE first-of-the-season navel orange upon which a very good, dear friend of mine, with whom I was NOT romantically involved, had written "Happy Valentine's Day" in sharpie marker. I believe he had intended to eat this orange for his own snack, but as we sat there in our morning class, he felt compelled to give it to me, instead, and it was quite possibly one of the sweetest things anyone has ever done for me.
My cupcakes, in all their glory!
Well said! A celebration is exactly what is required with all the rubbish going on in the world - that's also what I like about weddings. A few years ago I sent home-made Valentine's cards to the main people closest to me, because it's a day about love not lust and those were the people I loved and cared about!
I had the best night out with my old housemate one Valentine's Day about 5 years ago - we called it out Anti-Valentine's Day ... I got home from uni and she'd bought me flowers, we had fun getting ready to go out, then we went and danced the night away at our favourite club night.
Maybe Valentine's Day is truly a celebration of love and cupcakes - I also baked some yesterday, flavouried with raspberry jam and covered in vanilla icing and red sparklies! Huzzah for cupcakes and love and loving cupcakes!
Thank you Ladies! FJ, enjoy that tea, I know I would!
Thief - thanks for sharing your stories. I always love hearing that other people are enjoying the day, and enjoying the people in their lives. Your "anti-valentine's day" sounds great, and THAT'S the way to celebrate it, if you're not off on a date with a guy, go have a date with your girls, and maybe you'll meet a guy :-) Your cupcakes sounds amazing too! Mine are almost gone, one day later, lol!