MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU!!!!
My family and I want to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I pray that you have had a wonderful year. Ours was filled with many miles and many blessings. We were able to visit many new churches and to follow-up with some of our supporting churches. We were also able to do some revisiting of some of our church plants.
The Liberty View Baptist Church in Staten Island is growing!!! They are already looking to expand by renting additional rooms! Praise the Lord, they were given a church van and can now pick-up even more folks for church!
The Youngstown Baptist Church plant recently purchased a church building! Last week, they held their first services and are very excited about having Christmas in the new building. This is incredible progress for a church that is not even two years old yet! Praise the Lord for His rich blessings on this church and for allowing us to have a small part in it.
Our biggest prayer request right now is wisdom and guidance regarding our Dodge pick-up truck. We believe that now is the best time to be looking at trading it in for something more faithful to God's work. We are very, very thankful for all who have given sacrificially towards our breakdowns. We know that the Lord will lead and provide for this vital piece of equipment for our ministry.
We are looking for a 2010 or newer truck any make (2500, 250 or better) with the strength to haul our home all over this great land of ours. These vehicles cost in the neighborhood of $30,000.
If you have one and would like to donate it to our ministry or know of someone that desires to donate one, we would love to talk with them. Also, please consider helping us financially with a special fund that we have started for this need. Just go to our website: www.theholtsclawfamily.com and click on the donate button at the bottom of the page and designate, TRUCK.


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Q: Common way to find apache directory and logs is there a common way to find the apaches directory and its log files?
I found that question so often in the web but never a satisfying answer for it.
I would like to write a bash script that can find the path and the log files on any server.
But I struggle now with versions. Sometimes there is httpd installed and sometimes apache2. So that is the first impediment.
Then I found out that often the /etc/apache2/envvars were not initialized and so there is no access to APACHE_LOG_DIR and so on.
Isn't there really no easy to way to find the installation path and from there log files???

A: You could try running apachectl -t -d DUMP_RUN_CFG on versions that support it and parsing that output to both find log files and where the config files can be found.
If DUMP_RUN_CFG isn't supported, you could still use apachectl -V and look at the HTTPD_ROOT value to get the root of the config directories, and other values like SERVER_CONFIG_FILE to get the name of the config file and so forth.

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Bob Frishman, Symposium Chairman
Hours of Operation: Mon - Fri 8:00am - 8:00pm
Jenny Uglow is a prize-winning historical biographer, editor and critic. She grew up in Cumbria and Dorset, and after post-graduate research in Oxford she entered publishing, becoming Editorial Director of Chatto & Windus, part of Random House UK. Her books include acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth and studies of George Eliot and Henry Fielding, as well as The Lunar Men (2002), Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick (2006), A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration (2009), In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815 (2014) and Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense (2018). She was created an OBE in 2008, and was Chair of the Royal Society of Literature 2014-2016. She lives in Canterbury, England.
Richard Newman, Colonial & Early American Horologist and Chair of the NAWCC Board of Directors. Newman has lectured in the U.S. and abroad, written over 20 articles on early clocks and watches for the Clock & Watch Bulletin and other international publications, and hosts a website on Colonial and Early American watch makers, www.colonialwatches.com, to promote research and education.
FRANK HOHMANN III
After graduating Princeton in 1968, Frank L. Hohmann III spent 33 years on Wall Street, mostly running global derivatives at Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette. He is the author (with others) of Timeless, Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks, Stretch: America's First Family of Clockmakers, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers, and Captured Motion: the Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth. A Trustee of Winterthur Museum and the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, he is a Liveryman in the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, London, and serves on for-profit boards in the U.S. , U.K. , and Ireland.
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DAVID LINDOW
David Lindow started his career in horology in 1990 apprenticing under Gerhard Hartwigs, owner of Hartwigs Clock Company. Gerhard was the last apprentice at J.E. Caldwell, Jewelers in downtown Philadephia in the early 1960's. After his apprenticeship he set himself up as a clock manufacturer and produced clock movements as well as other timing devices such as those used in alarm systems etc. He also manufactured other items not related to horology. David's apprenticeship lasted 5 years after which he worked at Kyden Machine in Salt Lake City, UT learning better machining techniques that would translate to horological production. After this "journey" to UT David returned to Pennsylvania under Hartwigs' employ and began applying his newly learned techniques to the production of period style tall clocks and Patent Timepieces. In 1997 Gerhard Hartwigs died of cancer, and David officially took ownership of the business in 1998 and expanded the production of clocks and horological tooling. It was then that the business was moved to its present location in Gravity, PA (Lake Ariel). In 2006 David developed and began producing the Lindow Rose Engine which made available a newly manufactured engine turning machine for the first time in over 60 years. Since then over 100 of these machines have been produced and are represented all over the world. He was also instrumental in the production of the MADE Lathe which brought rose engine production to a new height.
In his career David has produced over 1500 clock movements and restored countless period antique clocks. He has become known for his ability to handle extremely difficult jobs where many components are missing and to restore these clocks sympathetically. His restoration work can be seen in the Philadelphia Museum of Art for whom he has worked as a consultant. He has also worked for the Detroit Museum of Art and keeps the clocks at the University of Pennsylvania. His period reproduction work can be seen at Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg, Clinton Library in Arkansas, Bush Library in Texas, and the Indiana State Museum just to name a few. David has also been a frequent lecturer and teacher for both horology and engine turning throughout the United States.
MARY JANE DAPKUS
Mary Jane Dapkus has had the pleasures of putting herself through college (a multi-decade process), earning two advanced degrees, pursuing a variety of careers, and serving briefly as curator of the American Clock & Watch Museum. She has contributed a number of articles to the NAWCC's Clock & Watch Bulletin and to other publications. Her work has formed the basis for several exhibits. Together with the late Dr. Snowden Taylor, she is co-author of the book Antebellum Shelf Clock Making in Farmington and Unionville Villages, Connecticut (NAWCC 2019), and author of a second book, Joseph Ives & the Looking Glass Clock, currently in the publication process. She was the Willard House Museum's 2015 Robinson Lecturer, and the feature presenter at the 2019 NAWCC Eastern States Regional. A Fellow of both the NAWCC and the American Clock & Watch Museum, she delights in serving as contributing editor of the ACWM's Timepiece Journal.
ROBERT C. CHENEY
Robert C. Cheney of Brimfield, Massachusetts is a third-generation clockmaker and a nationally recognized authority on early American clocks. He has served as a consulting curator and conservator for nearly fifty museums including Old Sturbridge Village, Worcester Art Museum, The American Antiquarian Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has served on the Boards of the National Watch and Clock Museum, the American Clock and Watch Museum and the Willard House and Clock Museum.
Cheney is the co-author of Clock Making in New England, 1725-1825, numerous articles and book reviews. During his tenure as Scholar in Residence at the Concord Museum, he wrote "Roxbury Movements and the English Connection, 1785-1825" for The Magazine Antiques. When first published in April 2000, it was horological heresy, but now cited throughout both the horological and decorative arts literature. Cheney has lectured extensively on many aspects of horology and scientific instruments in the United States, Canada and the U.K. and has appeared for a decade on the Antiques Roadshow.
After a 35-year career of self-employment and a decade as the founder and head of the 'Clocks, Watches and Scientific Instruments' Department at Skinner Inc. Boston, he currently serves as Executive Director and Curator of the Willard House and Clock Museum, in Grafton, Massachusetts. Robert Cheney is a Silver Star Fellow of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors.
NATHALIE MARIELLONI
Nathalie Marielloni is vice-curator at the International Watchmaking Museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, since early 2018, replacing Jean-Michel Piguet who was in charge of the collections for the past 40 years. Specializing in ancient watchmaking and gemology (GIA), she studied art history and conservation-restoration of technical, scientific and watchmaking objects. Her passion for watchmaking led her from the watchmaking museum in Le Locle to the Patek Philippe museum, as well as the watchmaking, jewelry, and enameling museum in Geneva. She was then Watch Specialist and auctioneer at Sotheby's in London and Geneva. In 2013, she was honored with the title of Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. She was the youngest Swiss woman to receive this title.
BRUCE R. FORMAN
Bruce R. Forman began his lifetime interest in horology when he worked for John B. Spencer, Sr., a clockmaker who serviced many of the historic clocks in the Philadelphia region. Mr. Forman later authored some 40 articles related to the history of clockmaking and horological tools. In the year 2000, he finished 13 years of research and published the book "Clockmakers of Montgomery County 1740-1850." He has served as President of NAWCC Philadelphia Chapter 1 and NAWCC Chicagoland Chapter 3 and is currently the editor of the "Tool Enthusiasts' Round-Up", a newsletter devoted to the history and use of horological tools. One of his most memorable achievements was to participate in the conservation of the world famous David Rittenhouse astronomical/musical clock at Drexel University.
SARA SCHECHNER
Sara Schechner, Ph.D. is the David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University. She is a historian of science, specializing in material culture and the history of astronomy. At Harvard, she is a Lecturer on History of Science in the History of Science Department and has been on the faculty of the Museum Studies program.
Schechner earned degrees in physics and the history and philosophy of science from Harvard and Cambridge. Before returning to Harvard's History of Science Department, Schechner was chief curator at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, and curated exhibits for the Smithsonian Institution, the American Astronomical Society, and the American Physical Society. Her books include Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology (1997), Time and Time Again: How Science and Culture Shape the Past, Present, and Future (2014) and Tangible Things: Making History through Objects (2015, with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, and Sarah Carter). Time of Our Lives: Sundials of the Adler Planetarium (2019) is the first of two interpretive catalogues that set these time-finding instruments in North America's most comprehensive collection into cultural and social context.
Schechner's research, teaching, and exhibition work work has earned her many awards. She is the 2019 recipient of the Paul Bunge Prize from the German Chemical Society and the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, which is regarded worldwide as the most important honor in the history of scientific instruments. In 2018, the American Astronomical Society presented her with the LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy.
DON N. HAGIST
Don N. Hagist is managing editor of Journal of the American Revolution (allthingsliberty.com). His focus on demographics and material culture of the British Army in the American Revolution grew from the discovery that there was paucity of literature on the common British soldier, and that much of the conventional wisdom on the subject was inconsistent with available first-hand information. This led to a continuing quest to find and assimilate primary sources in Great Britain and America to better understand the thousands of professional British soldiers who served during the 1775-1783 war.
Don's specific areas of expertise include British operations in Rhode Island, demographics of the British army, and wives of British soldiers. He maintains a blog about British common soldiers, redcoat76.blogspot.com, and has published a number of articles in academic journals. His most recent books, The Revolution's Last Men: The Soldiers behind the Photographs (Westholme Publishing, 2015) and British Soldiers, American War (Westholme Publishing, 2012), are available from major booksellers. Don is an engineer for a major medical device manufacturer in Rhode Island, and also writes for several well-known syndicated and freelance cartoonists. He can be contacted at dhagist@mail.com.
SUNNY DZIK
Sunny Dzik is the author of Engraving on English Table Clocks: Art on a Canvas of Brass, 1660-1800 (2019). He is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (USA) where he serves as a consulting hematologist and specialist in transfusion medicine. Sunny graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Romance Languages and Literature and received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He trained in Internal Medicine and Hematology at Boston University Medical Center and did his fellowship training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. His medical research has included efforts to improve transfusion therapy for children with malaria in Uganda. Sunny has received numerous honors in the field of medicine including the James Blundell Award (England), and the Emily Cooley and the Tibor Greenwalt Awards in the United States. Sunny maintains a free digital library of English table clock images at www.englishtableclocks.org.
EMILY AKKERMANS
Emily Akkermans is Curator of Time, Royal Museums Greenwich. She is a PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh focusing on "Chronometry and Chronometers on British Voyages of Exploration, c.1815-1872". She is a proficient practical horologist having learned clock and watchmaking, conservation and restoration, at the Vakschool Schoonhoven, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, and the Universiteit Antwerpen where she earned a Master of Arts. During her practical studies, she realized that she was greatly interested in the history of these objects as well. She now oversees all the magnificent timekeepers on public view at the observatory, from rows of marine chronometers inside at ground level, to the iconic Harrison chronometers in the galleries, to the rooftop time ball.
CHARLES F. HUMMEL
Author of With Hammer in Hand. The Dominy Craftsmen of East Hampton, New York. University Press of Virginia for the Winterthur Museum. Four printings, 1968-1982. Revised and enlarged digital edition, no restrictions link at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Dominy.HammerInHand. November, 2018. Co-author, interpretive website, link at http://dominycollections.winterthur.org. Author of A Winterthur Guide to American Chippendale Furniture, Middle Atlantic and Southern Colonies. Rutledge Press/Crown Publishers, 1976. Co-author with Beatrice Garvan, The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of Their Arts, 1683-1850. Philadelphia Museum of Art/Winterthur Museum, 1982. Senior Deputy Director of Winterthur (retired, 1991). No rocking-chair retirement. Adjunct Professor, University of Delaware and Academic Programs, Winterthur Museum, 1992-2002. Taught graduate level course, "The American Craftsman to 1790". Author of nineteen material culture and American decorative arts articles, 1955-2005, and five book reviews, 1992-2002. Awarded honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, University of Delaware, 2013.
GARY R. SULLIVAN
Gary R. Sullivan is a nationally recognized expert in the area of early American clocks and furniture. He is an author, lecturer, exhibition curator, and television appraiser, with over 40 years of experience in the antiques business. He shares his expertise as an advisor to institutions and individuals, helping them to assemble and refine collections of fine and important American antique clocks and furniture. Gary also shares his expertise through ongoing appearances on the PBS series, "Antiques Roadshow." Based in Sharon, Massachusetts, Gary is an award-winning author and has written and contributed to several books including Musical Clocks of Early America, 1730-1830, Art & Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, and Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850.
DONALD L. FENNIMORE
Donald L. Fennimore is curator emeritus at the Winterthur Museum. Prior to retirement his career at Winterthur began with the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, a two-year graduate program in conjunction with the University of Delaware. Upon graduation he joined the curatorial staff at Winterthur and served thirty-four years specializing in metalwork. In addition to curating, he taught in the Winterthur Program and published numerous articles and books among which are Metalwork in Early America (1996), Iron at Winterthur (2004), Silversmiths to the Nation, co-authored with Ann Wagner (2007), Stretch: America's First Family of Clockmakers, co-authored with Frank L. Hohmann III (2013) and Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers, co-authored with Frank L. Hohmann III (2018).
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There's an entire generation of young gamers who only know Sega as a software publisher. For 18 years, though, the company also made home-use video game hardware, starting with the SG-1000 in 1983 and continuing on through its glory days of the Mega Drive/Genesis before finally throwing in the towel after the end of the Dreamcast's lifespan and switching its business model to publishing games on systems from former rivals Nintendo and Sony and then-gaming newcomer Microsoft.
With the Dreamcast being discontinued in 2001, Sega's post-home hardware era is now longer than its SG-1000-to-Dreamcast period. But last week, Sega showed it still knows how to build cool gaming machines by unveiling its newest creation: the fastest PC in the world.
Developed in cooperation with Intel and ASRock, the unit is, naturally, a gaming PC, with a Core i9-12900K processor and ASRock Z690M-ITX/ax motherboard and 32 gigabytes of RAM.
Now, you might be thinking that while that's a pretty nice setup, but still doubting whether such specs qualify for "fastest in the world" status. Rest assured, though, that Sega has provided proof of its claim in the form of this video that shows, quite clearly, that there's no faster PC out there.
See, in addition to sporting an ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT OC Formula 16GB and 2,000-gigabyte SSD, Sega's PC is also equipped with wheels and a motor, and among the peripherals it supports is a remote control. To test its capabilities, Sega brought it out to Mobara Twin Circuit, a motorsports park in Chiba Prefecture, and turned the control over to 18-time world RC car racing champion Masami Hirosaka. With the help of a spotter in a tower, Hirosaka piloted the PC around the course, reaching a top speed of 100 kilometers per hour on the track's final straight.


Fans have been getting their fill of the Red Hood of late with the character's appearances in "Batman and Robin" plus Mike Mignola's version of "Detective Comics" #138 for "Batman" #700, but an even meatier dose of RH action can be found at the new fully launched "Batman: Under the Red Hood" animated feature Web site.
In addition to hosting the animated feature's official synopsis, trailer and DVD and Blu-ray preorder options, the site has several new character images to pan through including the Joker, Ra's al Ghul and a non-battle-damaged Amazo. While many characters have popped up during the feature's two trailers, the new site is pretty much the first clear look fans have had at a few of Batman's rogues.
Unfortunately the site doesn't host any video games yet, meaning those yearning to play "Smash Jason Todd with a Crowbar" are going to have to wait until the movie comes out on July 27 to see how gruesome things get for the world's arguably most obnoxious Robin.


In order to produce water to the full capacity of the membrane it is necessary to supply the system with water at a high pressure. Domestic water supplies struggle to meet 35psi.
These Booster pumps will aid your RO system in producing water to its full capacity whilst minimising waste water and pay for themselves within weeks.
Comes as a complete package, including pump, fittings and transformer.
These pumps have the additional benefit of being self regulating, this prevents membrane damage due to overpressure causing membrane film stretch. This new version incorporates the self regulating mechanism within the pump head without the need for external tubing. Note this is our newest model with special anti-vibration feet for even quieter operation.
These pumps can be used for most Reverse Osmosis systems from 36 to 150GPD on an intermittent duty. *NOTE* This means that they should not be used for commercial applications such as window cleaning, commercial pumps are available, please ask. This pump should not be used for periods longer than 6 hours at a time, a 1 hour cooldown period between uses must be allowed. Failure to follow these guidelines will result in pump failure.
All Osmotics pumps and transformers are CE and RoHS certified for sale within the UK.
Robust Anti-vibration feet for even quieter operation - a UK first!
I have had the 4 Stage 50 Gallon Per Day Reverse Osmosis System with DI for a couple of months and was quite happily producing RO at 3/4hrs for 25lts.. I came across a couple of posts about adding a booster pump to increase the flow and produce more water, I purchased the pump, replacement filters and resin which arrived next day, so really pleased with the turn around.. fitted the pump and boom, 25ltrs in just over an hour!!
You don't know what a difference this pump has made to my water production, it's now a pleasure to use the system and has cut down my water changes each week... don't hesitate to plump this into the system.,, 110psi of pure water power!
Before I bought this my ro unit was taking ages to produce water due to my 30 psi water source, now it is pumping at 75 psi and is producing 25 litres in 3 hours.
My mains pressure was around 50psi but with this pump it not only delivers the required pressure but ensures my system is operated at its optimum performance level. You need a High Pressure switch (sold separately) to ensure the pump is automatically switched off once your storage tanks are full. I also have the low pressure switch in case the mains fails.
I have 30/35 psi mains water pressure. As I am using the RO unit to run a drinking water faucet, a pressurised tank and a remote top up reservoir which is located around 80 feet from the system you can imagine the problems such low water pressure can cause. My system would not auto shut even with the use of the Auto Shut Off Valve. The booster pump gives me 100 psi pressure and combined with a high pressure switch and several helpful emails from Osmotics to reset a complicated system, I must admit it is the best purchase I have made for the unit.
Easy to use.. simple to fit. Before hand I was getting 30-40psi max on my RO unit and taking all day to produce what I needed for my tanks, with this it has reduced that time tenfold. As said, easy to fit, easy to use and the benefits will be seen on day one of use.


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The true legacy of nelson mandela
The word terrorist has been corrupted to mean just about anyting that the globalist powers feel nervous about (everything), but if you're looking for the real thing, you need look no further than nelson mandela.
South Africa has for more than a week now, like much of the world, I gather, been in the grips of a 24/7 propaganda campaign whitewashing the image of mandela. They call him the father of the rainbow nation and praise him mostly because "he forgave the people who imprisoned him." The first, like the rainbow nation itself, is a mirage wholly created by the media, starting around 1994. The second is a popular statement to make of mandela, that to the aware person betrays the racist roots in the thinking that led to its creation. This statement is an important thing to point out in a propaganda campaign because it's just about the only positive thing you could say about him, even if it is a lie. Not only does it imply that every white person was responsible for his imprisonment, but it implies that things would've been much worse for white South Africans had he not forgiven us our imagined crimes against his most exulted personage. Since white South Africans have become, by law, second class citizens in the country of our birth anyway, it's easy to assume that this is a threat of actual violence.
The fact is that nelson mandela was until his death, an actual terrorist. He has admitted to mobilising bombings against civilians, and he has never renounced these violent ways. Look up the list of bombings on the 'net, because you won't be told it by the media that not too long ago lent similar support to the invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Iran.
After the white government of the 90s decided to open up South Africa to globalist interests, mandela was given the country with no questions asked. He then proceeded to play oprah for the world while the country supposedly under his command started a clear decline in every area except wealth concentration. The party which he brought to power has since thrown South Africa into a pit of corruption, nepotism and incompetence that started with his reign. Our current president is most well known for getting away with rape and keeping his friends out of jail. Our murder rate has become the highest in the world. This is the true legacy of nelson mandela. This is the reason why the media needs to fill the airwaves with an uninterrupted stream of lies curoiously lacking in substance concerning this person, because they sure as shit can't tell you the truth.
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The visit of President Obama in Ghana has given an opportunity of the US administration to reach out to people all over the world via mobile technology. This is an exciting attempt at participatory government and inclusion of members of the public in policy-making via mobile technology. Even though the concept has existed among mGovernment practitioners and academics for quite a while now, its successful implementations are few and far between. I hope that the enthusiasm which Mr. Obama is able to harness wherever he appears will give prominance to the idea, and encourage polititians elsewhere to seek its replication.
The US Department of State is offering highlights from the speech by President Obama in Ghana on Saturday 11th July by SMS.
Working with Clickatell the US Department of State is reaching out to citizens around the world by SMS during an important speech to be given by President Barack Obama tomorrow, July 11, 2009 from Accra, Ghana.
Anyone around the world can sign up to receive live speech highlights in English or French via SMS. In addition, enrolled participants can send their text message speech comments via their mobile phone back to the US Department of State, where selected responses will be posted online. President Obama will also answer selected questions directly by radio broadcast in Africa.
In Africa sign up can be directly by mobile: To send a text message to President Obama from anywhere in Africa except Burundi, the Central African Republic and Togo, simply text 'English' or 'French' to +61418601934. If you do not receive a confirmation of your enrollment within 10 minutes, please send again to +45609910343. For Burundi and the Central African Republic, text 'English' or 'French' to +46737494514. For Togo, text 'English' or 'French' to +4915705000946 For Kenya use short code 5683; for Ghana use short code 1731; for Nigeria use short code 32969; and for South Africa use short code 31958.


We provide driving lessons to the following areas in Essex.
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At Driving Academy Essex our specialty is young learner drivers. We understand that a new learner is excited, nervous and sometimes anxious, so we do our best to make the lessons fun and stress free. However we also cater for more mature learners, those who wish to go from automatic to manual and those who just need refresher lessons. International students are also welcome.


JOSEPH P. GEORGE, JR., is the Criminal Conflict & Civil Regional Counsel for the Third District Court of Appeal Region for Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties. In 2007 he was appointed as one of five (5) inaugural regional counsels by Governor Charlie Crist and confirmed by the Florida Senate. He leads a team of 50 attorneys and 20 support staff in 4 offices from Miami to Key West. The offices of regional counsel were created to represent persons entitled to court-appointed counsel under Federal or State Constitutional law, in a fiscally responsible manner. The office of regional counsel is the first court-appointed counsel in civil law cases including child dependency, termination of parental rights and involuntary civil commitments for alleged incapacity, mental illness, drug abuse, contagious diseases, etc., and as secondary court-appointed (conflict) counsel in criminal cases where the Public Defender has filed a conflict of interest, including Death Penalty cases. In 2009, he was named a Legal Elite Government Attorney by Florida Trend Magazine. He was formerly in private practice in Miami, Florida, from 1998 to 2007 focusing on the management and litigation of involuntary civil commitments, guardianships, trusts, mental health and substance abuse law cases in the probate court. From 1991 to 1998 he served as Probate and Guardianship Court Monitor, Probate and Guardianship General Master, Baker Act Special Master and Staff Counsel for the 16th Judicial Circuit, Monroe County. In 1991, he authored the book, "Guardianship in Monroe County, Investing in the Fabric of Society." Mr. George was an inaugural member of the Miami-Dade County Mayoral Task Force on Finding Alternatives to Jailing the Mentally Ill. Before joining the Office of Regional Counsel he was one of the nine (9) court designated attorneys serving Miami-Dade County representing individuals subject to the Baker Act (the "Florida Mental Health Law") and the Marchman Act (the "Hal S. Marchman Alcohol & Other Drug Services Act of 1993"). In recognition of service in these areas of law he was elected Vice-Chair of the Florida Substance Abuse and Mental Health Corporation, which was created by the Florida Legislature to oversee the state's publicly funded substance abuse and mental health systems (from 2003 to 2007). He is past Chair of the Government Lawyer Section of the Florida Bar. He served on the Supreme Court Commission on Fairness Guardianship Subcommittee. He is currently a member of the Attorney General's Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team, and the Department of Children & Families Statewide Legal Services Subcommittee of the Task Force on Child Protection and Fostering Success. He is a past member of the Legislative Advocacy Committee of the statewide Health & Human Services Board of the Florida Department of Children & Families. He is a past member of the Executive Council of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of The Florida Bar and current member of the Guardianship Committee thereof. He is a member of the Dade County Bar, the South Miami-Kendall Bar and Cuban American Bar Associations. He received his B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Florida and J.D. from Cumberland School of Law, Samford University. He is admitted to practice in Florida State and Federal courts, the United States Tax Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, in Washington, D.C. and in the Supreme Court of the United States of America.


SHOPPERS can snap up special deals from independent businesses on Saturday, as part of a national campaign which highlights their success and encourages people to shop local.
Small Business Saturday is about supporting all types of small businesses – online, in offices and in stores.
The Albert Road Traders Association said 37 businesses on the Portsmouth road were taking part and its chairwoman, Jenni Catlow, said she believed the grassroots campaign was an effective way of raising the profile of smaller companies.
Events are taking place and discounts are to be had across the city – with Portsmouth City Council supporting the day, with free parking at selected council car parks.
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Councillor Ben Dowling, the council's cabinet member for planning, regeneration and economic development, said: 'Small businesses are the lifeblood of our neighbourhoods.
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His Excellency President Adama Barrow has finally arrived home, and has been given a rousing welcome that befits a head of state.
But as he gets settled for business, he begins to come face to face with the realities of running state affairs and managing a nation.
Besides sorting out security matters, setting up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to heal some wounds inflicted on many lives and domains of the nation by the previous regime, there are serious socio-economic challenges to address as the new era and new Gambia begins.
Job creation, inflation and price rise, poverty eradication and many other social issues will pose serious challenges for the Barrow government.
Although the president has said he is happy that the bad part has finished, referring to the recent political impasse, he as well highlighted the fact that we have now got "the ball rolling", which means confronting the challenges of managing state affairs to effectively transform the nation for the better, by rising to the challenges of ensuring good governance and bringing about national development.
The new political dispensation, as rightly stated by a lecturer at the University of The Gambia, in an opinion article, will be confronted with various challenges such as ensuring national security, stability and peace, fostering national unity and patriotism, ensuring Institutional reforms and good governance, putting the right persons in the right places, guaranteeing individual rights and related freedoms, and changing public attitudes and instilling discipline in Gambians.
UTG Assistant Professor Burang Goree-Ndiaye further stated in his article entitled "Challenges Facing the New Political Dispensation: What President Barrow needs is a 'team of advisers' composed of specialists in the key areas of development."
He also says: "Making our country better and more prosperous for its citizenry is a collective responsibility. We have to put aside our personal interests, our ethnic, religious and political differences, unite as one people, as our Constitution enjoins us, make the necessary sacrifices and work for the progress, peace and prosperity of our beloved homeland."
We think these salient points, as have also been pointed out by many other views and opinions, are worthy of note and consideration in building the New Gambia in the New Era of our nation.
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Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry
Limitation of Liability Hearings
Index of Minutes
British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry
Testimony of Edward Wilding
Examined by Mr. ROWLATT.
19789. What is your Christian name?
- Edward Wilding.
19790. I think you are a Naval Architect?
- Yes.
19791. And are you in the employment of Messrs. Harland and Wolff?
19792. And did you design or did you take part in the designing of this ship, the "Titanic"?
- Yes, it was made in our designing office at Belfast. I was one of the people connected with the making of the design.
19793. You are in a position to give us the details about the construction of the ship?
- Yes, that is right, as far as possible.
19794. We know a great deal about it already, you understand, but you can give us all the dimensions of the ship?
Mr. Rowlatt:
Your Lordship has the extract from the Register which gives you a great many of them, and I do not propose to ask questions on those points.
The Commissioner:
You might ask him whether the figures are right.
19795. (Mr. Rowlatt.) Yes, My Lord. (To the witness.) Are the figures in the Register correct?
19796. There are two figures here which I think are not in the Register. One is the load draught; how much is that?
- 34 feet 7 inches.
19797. And the displacement at load draught is what?
- 52,310 tons.
19798. Does that mean that when the ship is loaded down to her load draught she displaces and therefore weighs 52,310 tons of water?
- Yes, a ton of 2,240 lbs.
19799. It is distinct altogether from the tonnage of the ship?
- Entirely.
19800. That is what the mass of the ship would weigh?
- Yes, actually loaded to that draught.
19801. You can also give us, can you not, the heights above the decks?
19802. I have them here; just see if they are right. The height between the Orlop and lower deck is 8 feet?
19803. Between the lower and middle 8 feet?
19804. Between the middle and upper, 8 feet 6 inches?
19805. Between the upper and saloon, 9 feet?
19806. Between the saloon and shelter, 10 feet 6 inches?
19807. That is amidships, is it not?
- Yes, for about half the length.
19808. Between the shelter and bridge decks, 9 feet?
19809. Between the bridge and promenade, 9 feet?
19810. And between the promenade and boat, 9 feet 6 inches?
19811. And the camber on all decks was 3 inches?
- Yes, 3 inches in the extreme beam.
19812. The vessel was constructed, was she not, under the survey of the Board of Trade?
- She was.
19813. In order to get a passenger certificate?
My Lord, a passenger certificate certifies that the requirements of the act have been complied with. It states the limits beyond which the steamer is not fit to ply, and the number of passengers which she is fit to carry, distinguishing, if necessary, between the different parts of the ship.
The Attorney-General:
Your Lordship has the abstract in the little buff book, and you will find that at page 9 of the act.
"Issue of passenger steamer's certificate"?
19814. (Mr. Rowlatt.) Was the "Titanic" also made to comply with the American Immigration Laws?
19815. We know that the steam was supplied from six independent sets of boilers and that there were reciprocating engines and a turbine engine also?
Mr. Rowlatt, I have had handed up to me a descriptive statement of the "Titanic." It comes from Harland and Wolff, I understand. Have you a copy of it?
I am examining from it, My Lord. I purpose in parts to amplify it slightly and in parts to pass very lightly over it.
I should like you to put it in.
If your Lordship pleases.
Unless there is some correction to be made in it.
19816. (Mr. Rowlatt - To the witness.) Did you prepare this descriptive statement?
- With assistance.
19817. Is it correct as a whole?
- Yes. I wrote most of it myself, but, of course, the information had to be collected by many people.
19818. Of course, but so far as you know it is, on the whole, correct?
- Yes, certainly.
Put it in, My Lord, but I will ask a few questions about it, and if at any part of it I seem to be going too much into detail, your Lordship will check me.
Are you going through it page by page?
19819. (Mr. Rowlatt.) Yes, My Lord, I am now on page 2. (To the witness.) You said something about the American Immigration Laws. Can you tell us what they are at all?
- A particular requirement of the American Immigration Laws that has to be complied with is the question of area provided for each third class passenger, each immigrant into the United States. That is considerably in excess - something like 20 percent, in excess of the British Board of Trade requirements for emigrant passengers - which has to be provided and allotted to the third class passengers. That is the principal point. Other points in connection with the American Immigration Laws are covered by the reciprocal Treaty which acknowledges the British Board of Trade Certificate as the equivalent of the American inspection which would otherwise be carried out.
19820. The next paragraphs of your report deal also with the boiler sections, but I think we know all about that. Then we come to the main electrical machinery. Perhaps you might explain a little about that. You say that the main electrical machinery is in a section which is abaft the turbine engine room, as shown on the plan?
19821. And you also say there are two emergency dynamos up at the top above the turbine engine room - two decks above the turbine engine room?
- Yes, on D deck, above the top of the bulkheads.
19822. Where did those dynamos get their steam from?
- They had a special pipe, provided from three of the boiler rooms. They had also a cross connection to this pipe, so that any steam reaching the special part of the engine room from any boiler of the ship could be passed along to them by opening two or three valves.
19823. Is that true of both the engines?
- Yes, of both the emergency dynamos.
19824. Where did the other electrical machinery get its steam from?
- From Nos. 1, 2 and 4 boiler rooms.
19825. Just to clear up a question which arose earlier in the case. If the engines which actuate the propellers are stopped, that has nothing whatever to do with the engines that actuate the dynamos?
- Nothing whatever. They have a separate pipe of their own.
19826. They are separate engines drawing, by means of separate pipes, steam from the pipes of the ship?
- Certainly. Of course, there are boilers which also supply the main engines.
19827. I quite understand that. The next paragraph of your report deals with the general equipment, which is not very material to this accident except the installation of wireless telegraphy. That is the first one to which I wish you to refer. Where was the electricity for the wireless telegraphy generated?
- There were certainly two, and, I believe, three provisions. It could be taken in the first instance, from the main dynamos of the ship, of which one, at least, was always running. It could, in addition to that, be taken from the emergency dynamos which were running every night after sunset; and I believe - though I am not quite sure in regard to this matter, because I have not got the information from the marconi Company - they had a small battery which would take them on for a short time.
19828. A storage battery?
- Yes, a storage battery.
19829. Then you had submarine signalling apparatus?
19830. And electric lighting apparatus?
- There was one point which was rather of a special character in that. Some of the lights in the electric light equipment could only be controlled from the switchboard, so that in the event of accident one could practically ensure the ship being fairly well lit, and that a passenger could not accidentally put out the lights.
19831. Then you had a system of telephones?
- Yes, of which you have heard something.
19832. And electric elevators?
19833. I see on page 3 of your report you say there were four electrically-driven boat winches provided on the boat deck for handling the boats?
19834. Where were they situated?
- They were marked on this general arrangements plan (Showing.)
19835. Do you know whether they were used on this occasion?
- They are not necessary for lowering. You can lower just as fast without them, but they are necessary if you have to raise.
19836. That is what they are used for?
- That is what they are used for.
19837. Then you have telephones and engine and docking telegraphs, emergency telegraphs, steam whistles, and so on. I do not think that apparatus is material to the present Enquiry particularly, but you have a plan, have you not, if the Court wishes to see it, the rigging plan of the vessel, which would show all these connections. You need not produce it?
- It does not show the telegraphs, but it shows several of these things.
19838. I do not think you need produce it, but you have the plan, if necessary?
19839. We will go on to the question of the decks now. We know generally now what decks there were, but will you just tell me how high the boat deck was above the keel?
- It was about 92 feet 6 inches above the keel at the lowest point. It was a little more at the ends because of the shear of the vessel.
19840. It would be about 60 feet above the water when she was loaded?
- Rather more than 60 feet.
19841. That deck was about 500 feet long, was it not?
- About - a few feet under 500.
19842. Can you tell us shortly - I do not know whether it is in the mind of the Court or not - what access there was to the boat deck?
- Yes, but it is simpler to follow it on the plan. Would your Lordship like a copy of the plan (Handing the plan.)?
Is that the same plan that we have had all through?
19842a. (Mr. Laing.) What plan have you handed up?
- The 32nd scale general arrangements plan.
19843. (Mr. Rowlatt.) How will you take it? Will you first of all go along the deck and show where the access comes from?
- Yes. At the forward end of the boat deck there are two ladder-ways which lead down to the next deck, the promenade deck, the a deck, as we have called it, below.
19844. Those are the little brown marks close to the Engelhardt boats?
- Yes, that is right.
19845. On either side?
- Yes. The next approach to the boat deck is the large first class entrance, abaft the Officers' house.
19846. That is the thing that spreads out like a fan, in brown?
- Yes. The next means of access down to A deck are two ladders abaft the raised roof over the first class lounge under the third funnel.
19847. That is near the Officers' mess?
- One at the Officers' mess, and one outside the deck chair house. Those go down. If you look down the deck on to A deck they are marked on the big plan in the rear of the third funnel leading aft.
19848. Is that what goes down by the lounge pantry?
- No. The lounge pantry is yet another one. There is a diagonal line under the third funnel.
19849. Just below the third funnel?
- There is one each side, of course - port and starboard.
19850. It is shown on this plan, My Lord, as that diagonal line under the third funnel. (Showing.) That is it, is it not?
- Yes, that is right - one port and one starboard. The line is dotted on that line.
19851. Then just abaft that again?
- There is another stair leading down into the lounge pantry which has connections right down to E deck. You come off the stair and walk round the foot of it, and go down again.
19852. That is a continuous stair right the way down?
- That is right.
19853. (The Commissioner.) Where is that?
- Just abaft the third funnel, My Lord.
Here, My Lord. (Pointing.)
19854. (The Commissioner.) Is that it?
- There is a transverse stairway - a stairway leading down athwart ships.
19855. (Mr. Rowlatt.) Instead of going this way, as this one does, it goes that way across the ship (Showing.)?
- Across the ship. It is so marked on the plan. You will see the length of it. The length of the brown mark is across the ship.
19856. (The Commissioner.) That goes down to where?
- Eventually to E deck, My Lord.
19857. (Mr. Rowlatt.) Then abaft that again, what is there?
- From the boat deck there is the forward second class main stairway.
19858. Is that the one at the end of it?
- Close to the afterend of it, the one that is between the mast and the funnel, that has a little knob called "Elevator gear" on top of it.
19859. This one (Showing.)?
19860. This goes right down?
19861. That is the boat deck, and it goes right away down to the bottom (Showing.)?
19862. That can be communicated with at every deck; you can reach the staircase at every deck?
- At any deck except A deck. There is no entrance on to that staircase on A deck. There is a landing but no entrance.
19863. When we were at the E end of the boat deck we did not say how far these ladders that went from the boat deck went down into the ship?
- They go down two decks to B deck.
19864. The little ones, you mean, near the Engelhardt boats?
- The one that is close to the Engelhardt boats.
19865. You can see it there going down two decks (Showing.)?
- You will notice there is a landing between the two pieces of it.
19866. And then there is another ladder goes down beyond?
- Yes, but you have to turn the corner of the house to get to it on B deck.
19867. There is the other big first class stairway. Does that go right down through the ship?
- That goes right down to the middle deck, to F deck.
19868. That is the one between the two first funnels?
19869. And that is underneath this big brown mark at the top of the plan?
- Yes, it goes right down.
19870. Can you tell us how that acts in practice for the first, second, and third class passengers to reach the boat deck?
- If you will turn to page 21 you will find it is described in detail - "Access of passengers to boat deck."
19871. I see; it is at the bottom of the page. "First class passengers. The following routes lead directly from the various parts of the first class passenger accommodation to the boat deck: From the forward ends of A, B, C, D, and E decks by the wide staircase in the forward first class entrance direct to the boat deck, also by elevators from the same decks as far as A deck, and then up to the top flight of the main staircase." Do you mean by that that in the forward ends of A, B, C, d and E decks you can go from these decks to the boat deck by the wide first class entrance between the first and second funnels?
- Quite right. With regard to the width of the stairway, it is a double stairway varying from 4 to 7 feet on each side. It is 7 feet wide at the fantail. It is 4 feet at the narrowest point and double. That makes 8 feet in all.
19872. "The same route," you say here would be available "for first class passengers forward of midships of B, C, and E decks"?
- Yes. There are no first class passengers amidships on D deck. It is occupied by the saloon.
19873. "First class passengers abaft amidships on B and C decks could use the wide staircase in the after main entrance to A deck, and pass out on to the main deck" - That wants correcting. It should be "pass out on to the open deck." That is a clerical error.
- I say "pass out on to the open deck" instead of "pass out on to the main deck."
19875. (Mr. Rowlatt.) It is the paragraph which begins "first class passengers abaft the amidships"?
- Yes. It is the fourth paragraph in that clause.
19876. Where are the first class passengers that you are speaking of here?
- Those in way of the third and fourth funnels, and there is a stairway going up two decks there on to A deck. (Showing.)
19877. And then, where?
- Out on to the open deck outside the house.
19878. And then, by the way you have described to the top deck?
- Yes, in the way I described a minute ago - that is right, the diagonal ladder. (Showing.)
19879. "They could also use the stewards' staircase between the reciprocating engine casing and Nos. 1 and 2 boiler casing." That is it, is it not (Showing.)?
- That was the long vertical one, that one (Showing.)
19880. They could also use that one, and that last route again could also be used by passengers on E deck. Is that so?
19881. And the passengers on E deck could also use the first class main stairway?
- Yes, they would have to walk along the corridor.
19882. And get up that stairway between the first and second funnels?
19883. That is the whole of the first class?
- That is the whole of the first class - that deals with every one.
19884. Now take the second class passengers. Are they on D deck? Where are the second class passengers on D deck? Are they forward or aft?
- There are no second class state rooms higher than D deck.
19885. "Second class passengers on D deck used their own after stairway to B deck up behind the mast." Is that right?
- That is right - up to B deck. That stairway is 5 feet wide, I may say.
19886. "And then passed up their forward stairway"?
- They would then go through the smoking room and up the forward stairway which is 5 feet 6 inches wide on to the boat deck, or, it they liked, they could go through at the lower level through the second class saloon to the same forward stairway. They get to the same point, but they go across at one of two levels.
19887. With regard to the second class passengers on E deck, there are some of those by the reciprocating engines, are there not?
- Yes, down on E deck abreast of the engine casing. That is right, just where Mr. Asquith is pointing.
19888. It would not be shown in that section?
- It was correct where Mr. Asquith was pointing.
19889. Where did they go?
- It depends on whether the watertight door abaft of their accommodation has been closed or not.
19890. The watertight door is between d and E decks there (Showing.)?
19891. What happens if that is closed?
- There is an emergency door provided into the engine room and then they can go straight up the engine room ladders to the boat deck inside the engine room easing.
19892. Is that the turbine engine room casing?
- No, in the reciprocating engine room There is a special door provided.
19893. Where does the ladder come up there?
- At the forward end. There are steel ladders going right up.
19894. As opposed to a stairway?
- Yes, that is, it is a slope, but it is a steel runged ladder, and not a wood stair.
19895. I think we went down it on the "Olympic"?
- I think you did.
19896. That is if the watertight door is shut?
- If it has been necessary to close that door from an accident just close by. If there has been any accident close by it would be the duty of the steward or somebody to see that that door was open, and that they were passed aft.
19897. How would they pass along; they would go aft?
- They can go aft, and then join the other second class passengers going up the forward second class stairway.
19898. When the watertight doors are closed, Making a watertight compartment complete, you have to go by a ladder to get up to the top deck?
- You must make some arrangement for getting them out, and that was the easiest way in this case.
19899. What other second class passengers are there? You have given us these alongside the engine casing. Now there are some alongside the turbine casing?
- Yes, that is the next section further aft.
19900. How do they go up?
- They have a special ladder of their own. If the watertight door is open abaft them they can go and join the forward second class stairway, but, if not, they have a special short ladder going up two decks. It is close up to the bulkhead, and then they turn through the entrance through the saloon. May I come and show you.
19901. Certainly.
- They come up this transverse ladder and again turn round and come up this ladder, and then through the door. (Showing.) They are now above the watertight bulkhead, and they can go through the doors into this entrance, and then up.
19902. Then there are others on F deck below?
- That is F deck. (Showing.) These people have the same ladder, and they come up in the same way.
19903. You mean there are second class passengers abreast the turbine casing on two decks?
19904. And the ladder goes through those two decks?
- It is not quite the same ladder, but there is a ladder.
19905. Passengers between M and N bulkheads on both e and F decks go where?
- That is those two. (Showing.) They go in through the doors right into their entrance, and then right up this staircase. (Showing.)
19906. No question of watertight doors affects them?
- No, because they have the staircase in their compartment.
19907. Then between N and O bulkheads?
- That is between that and that. (Showing.) There are three, in all, three possible routes, 1, 2 and 3. They can go right up this stairway to B deck, come through the smoke room, or outside on to the deck, and up that stairway. Or if they like, they can go through the dining saloon, and up the stairway, and eventually reach the boat deck by the forward second class stair.
19908. Now, the third class passengers. Go to the fore end of the vessel first, will you please. You say here "The third class passengers at the fore end of the vessel passed by the staircase in accordance with the Board of Trade requirements to C deck in the forward well"?
- That is up to here. (Showing.) The Board of Trade or Immigration Survey insist on that ladder being provided up to the level from each compartment. There are other ladders running up here, 1, 2, 3, 4, and the ladders go up here and ladders go up there - these ladders are specially wide - to get them on to the forward well deck.
19909. I see there is written there "Third class open space." Can you point to that?
- Yes. (Pointing.)
19910. Does that mean that that is open deck?
- It is not exposed to the weather, but it is open from large obstructions.
19911. Open inside?
19912. But the ladders are required to go to the top of that?
19913. When they get there is that a deck?
- This is a deck, and that is the forward well deck. (Showing.)
19914. Is there a way up from that deck to the boat deck?
- Yes, by this ladder at the forward end of the bridge deck, round the corner of this house, either port or starboard, and then up by these ladders direct to the boat deck.
19915. Is there any other way for them to get to the boat deck. Can they come aft along the working alleyways?
- They can go up the working passage, which has been referred to as Scotland Road, along this deck, and enter the forward first class entrance through an emergency door here. (Showing.); then go up this main stairway, or they can continue still further on and go up this stewards' stairway. It is open to Scotland Road, as we call it, the big working alleyway. (Showing.)
19916. At the afterend of the ship, the third class accommodation is where you are pointing now?
- Yes. (Showing.)
19917. There are ladders, are there, in each of those parts. (Showing.)?
- Yes, gradually increasing in width as you go up to the top deck.
19918. And then when they are on the top deck?
- They come up on to an open deck. They can then go one of two ways, either up ladders at the afterend of the bridge deck, or to B deck and along to the forward second class entrance, and then up to the boat deck, or they can go, as I understand, from some of the evidence they actually did go, through and past the second class library into the first class accommodation along the first class alleyway right to the first class entrance. I think one of the stewards gave evidence that he had taken two parties that way.
19919. With regard to the crew, you say that an escape is provided from each boiler room direct to the boat deck by the fidleys. What is that?
- The fidleys are the trunks which carry down the air supply. They go down at each end of the funnel, and there are ladders provided in each of those leading direct from the stokehold plate up to the boat deck. Including the engine room there are nearly 200 tons of those steel ladders in the ship.
19920. Can you enter these fidleys from the E deck?
- Yes. There is a door at each fidley. As it passes E deck there is a steel door, which is never fastened in any way. You can get out into the working passage, and then you can choose any of the ways from the working passage.
19921. Those are the provisions made with regard to the boiler rooms. Are ladders also provided from the engine rooms?
- Yes, going up this way, and then up that way like that (Showing.), up the engine room skylight direct to the boat deck. They can also again come out on to E deck. There are doors from the engine room on to E deck, but, of course, if the watertight doors between D deck and E deck are shut, they must go up the ladders.
19922. Are there also ladders from the other engine room?
- Yes, from the turbine engine room there are similar ladders up the base of the dummy funnel.
19923. And also from the electrical machinery room?
- There is a special escape up from the afterend up to E deck, and then they can come out and use the stairway. There is no exit on to B deck.
19924. Supposing there was somebody in the tunnel, what would he do?
- There is a similar arrangement that brings them up into the afterend of the working passage, and then they can come out like the third class passengers.
19925. If anybody was in the after tunnel what would he do?
- There is a special tunnel escape up here, up into the steering gear house (Showing.)
19926. We have had some evidence of one man especially being released, one greaser?
- That was quite unnecessary in his case. He must have been a stranger to the ship. It is not a nice passage, but there is no difficulty in getting up it; I have been up it several times.
19927. Is there any passage from here to there? (Showing.) - Yes, it is quite open. That line is only a web, a frame for carrying the heavy castings - a steel plate -frame for carrying the heavy castings.
19928. (The Commissioner.) It does not represent a bulkhead?
- No; it is not marked as such, My Lord.
19929. (Mr. Rowlatt.) The stewards and the engineers' accommodation communicates through the working passage - I need not take you through that in detail?
There was one question I ought to have asked you while we were on page 3.
Have you left this question of the means of egress from the different classes?
Yes, My Lord.
19930. (The Commissioner.) I want to ask a question about that. (To the witness.) Take the third class passengers. In order to enable them to get to the boat deck they would have to go through parts of the ship ordinarily reserved for the first class?
- For the second class, My Lord - the afterend.
19931. Would the second class passengers have to pass through parts of the ship ordinarily reserved for the first class?
- No, My Lord. The second class can get up by their own entrance.
19932. Are there any doors of any kind, or rails, or other impediments, between the egress of the third class passengers and the boat deck?
- There are rails on the outside. On this ladderway at the afterend of B deck there is a hinged gate which anyone can lift and walk through - port and starboard.
19933. Is that the only thing?
- That is the only thing preventing third class passengers in the ordinary course getting up to the boat deck.
19934. The only thing?
- The only block.
19935. Is it a rail which can be lifted up by hand?
- Quite readily, My Lord.
19936. Is it kept locked or fastened?
- Not in any way. There is no lock on it, and no means of locking it provided.
19937. Then there is nothing to prevent a third class passenger who desires to do so passing in to the second class part of the boat?
- Except the watchfulness of the stewards and men.
19938. Except the Rules, there is no actual impediment?
- No actual impediment.
19939. (The Attorney-General.) Is it this that is shown here? (Showing.) - Yes.
I remember, I think, Mr. Rowlatt, a statement being made by several Witnesses that the barriers were down, and I thought from that there was more than one barrier.
19940. (Mr. Rowlatt.) What does the barriers being down mean?
- I can only imagine that it means that the gate was open.
19941. (The Commissioner.) What was open?
- This hinged gate was open.
19942. There was only one, I understand?
- There is only one - of course, there is one each side of the ship. There are other ways to the boat deck, one of which we had evidence was used where there is a door that would have to be opened.
19943. (Mr. Rowlatt.) Is that the emergency door?
- That is the emergency door to the second class stairway from the working alleyway.
19944. (The Commissioner.) I was going to ask you a question about the name "emergency door." The very name "emergency door" suggests that it is ordinarily shut?
19945. How many of these emergency doors are there?
- There are in all three, one to the forward first class main stairway. In each case they come from the working alleyway.
19946. You mean Scotland Road?
- From Scotland Road. There is one leading direct into the forward first class entrance from Scotland Road up on to the top, and then you can go on there; one from Scotland Road into the forward second class entrance, and one from Scotland Road into the after second class entrance.
19947. How are these emergency doors shut?
- With an ordinary handle, as far as I know, My Lord. They have means for locking them, but I understand they are not locked at sea.
19948. They are not locked?
- Not locked - I understand not. There is a lock on them, but I understand they are not locked at sea. I have frequently passed through them at sea.
19949. What is the object of having a door there?
- The passage is used by the third class passengers and crew extensively, and it is to prevent their being able to get in without continuously watching them. That was the intention. If you do not put doors there, or barriers of some sort, you would have to have somebody continuously stationed there to prevent people going into the second class accommodation and losing their way, for example.
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Vruzki (връзки) means connections or ties in Bulgarian. It denotes a set of informal rules for building and maintaining personal commitments and loyalties in a formal environment; these are the rules by which a social exchange of favours takes place . The objects of vruzki exchanges are the 'favours of access to goods and services in short supply' . Vruzki works to reduce social risk and guarantee privileged access. The phrase zadejstvam vruzki (literally, to activate connections) is similar to the British idiom pulling strings. It emphasises the active element in vruzki. It is the action-taker, vruzkar (връзкар), who uses vruzki and thus engages in the practice of vruzkarstvo (връзкарство).
Vruzki may be based on long-term relationships that are direct and dyadic (that is, between a pair of individuals), or that are mediated and linked into a chain on a short-term basis. The norms of reciprocity prescribe some delay in reciprocation and some asymmetry in value. Vruzki are guided by the norms and ethics of interpersonal relations in general and of extended family and kinship in particular. The latter are manifested in a much-used colloquial word shurobadjanastina (шуробаджанащина), which points to the nepotistic usage of vruzki in the search for employment or professional promotion. This term consists of two parts, each denoting brothers-in-law: brothers of wives (shurej (шурей) and husbands of wives' sisters (badjanak, баджанак). Already a tongue-twister, shurobadjanastina is actually a shortened version of zetjo-shuro-badjanakisum (зетьо-шуро-баджанакизъм), where the add-on zetjo denotes son-in-law. The first use of this term dates to 1880, when the columnist Zahari Stoyanov published a satirical article, 'Do you know who we are?' . According to Stoyanov, vruzkarstvo was set to become an essential institution after the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878 and the subsequent unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and the then-Ottoman province of Southern Bulgaria in 1885. In Stoyanov's words, 'The Unification had first of all to be accomplished in the triple union: zetjo-shuro-badjanakisma' .
As an informal institution, vruzki creates shared expectations among the parties to the exchange as to how their private roles in personal relationships (family, friends) interweave with their public, socio-professional roles. As a result, two mechanisms emerge through which vruzki functions: either the instrumentalisation of personal relationships, or the personalisation of social relationships. The primacy of personal relationships in daily life has long been part of tradition and culture in Bulgarian society, but these relationships are also moulded by institutional factors characteristic of the European periphery, such as deep distrust of public institutions and blurred boundaries between the public and the private spheres.
The personal trust that underlies vruzki relationships has a reverse side: distrust of the faceless 'Other.' In his seminal analysis of daily life in Bulgaria in the first capitalist period (1878-1944), Ivan Hadjiiski articulated popular wisdom and expectations as follows: 'Everybody is a crook until proven otherwise' (emphasis in original); 'Treat everyone like a crook; the burden of proving otherwise…rests on him/her'. To counterbalance the culture of low impersonal trust, personal trust relationships are introduced into the formal environment. These personal channels help to overcome systemic and societal mistrust by creating overlap between the private and the public spheres. Vruzki may lead to the accumulation of positive social capital, but it may also reveal the detrimental effects of negative social capital, such as exclusion of outsiders, excessive claims on group members, restrictions on individual freedoms, and 'downward levelling norms'.
The content and specific manifestations of vruzki depend on concrete historical conditions. During Bulgaria's socialist period (1946-90) vruzki closely resembled Russian blat, defined as 'use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures'. And while scholars refer to vruzki as the 'second network' , folklore emphasised its primary importance. As one popular saying had it, 'Without vruzki, a person can neither be born nor die'.
Bulgaria's post-1990 transition to a market economy changed the modus operandi of vruzki, as it evolved from an instrument of consumption maximisation into an instrument of utility maximisation . The logic can be traced back to the way in which vruzki functioned as early as Bulgaria's first capitalist period  but remains relevant in the post-socialist period, when the indicators of impersonal, or societal, trust hit a new low. The hardship suffered by ordinary people during Bulgaria's transition from socialism to the market partly explains why vruzkarstvo has remained so vital. The shortages of goods and services that typified the socialist economy were replaced by shortages of money, jobs and trustworthy partners. Compensating for these deficiencies became a highly significant and widely spread factor in vruzki exchanges. Recurrent exchanges of favours have shaped expectations and rules of behaviour. The rules implicitly postulate that utility is expected to increase when impersonal relationships become personal.
The notion of vruzki does not by definition mean violating the established formal procedures, even though everyday usage of the term often carries a negative connotation. Such widely used phrases as 'doing/obtaining/arranging something in the second way' indicate that vruzki presuppose taking alternative paths. But using an alternative does not mean avoiding the formal. Like most informal practices, vruzki fall between clear categories such as legal and illegal (permitted/prohibited by law), or licit and illicit (socially perceived as acceptable/unacceptable) . The reciprocal exchange of favours of access might be legal/licit (such as the exchange of professional favours) or illegal/illicit (when social ties are used as, for example, a means of practising corruption, clientelism or nepotism). While legal/licit informal practices imply predominantly symmetrical relations between the counterparts, asymmetrical links prevail in illegal/illicit practices. The latter are usually power-relations aimed at the covert redistribution of resources. Thus, although vruzki obey the principle of reciprocity, the term may also have substantial hidden re-distributional effects at the macro-level and support both profit- and rent-seeking types of behaviour.
The outcomes of the use of vruzki may converge with those aimed at by formal institutions or they may diverge from them. On the one hand, vruzki may guarantee contracts, facilitate transactions and reinforce the mechanisms of reputation, thereby supporting the public order. On the other hand, vruzki could overthrow formal mechanisms since they may help create hidden monopolies and uphold unfair competition.
Vruzki are found in all areas of contemporary social life in Bulgaria. Much empirical research – mostly sociological and ethnological – has been done since 1989 on specific aspects or practices related to vruzki. There is still, however, a need for more theoretical work that would place vruzki in comparative perspective with blat in Russia, kombinowanje in Poland, veze (везе) in Serbia, meson in Greece and torpil in Turkey.
↑ Chavdarova, T. 2013. 'Institutionalisation of Market Order and Re-institutionalisation of Vruzki (Connections) in Bulgaria,' in Giordano, C. and Hayoz, N. (eds), Informality in Eastern Europe. Structures, Political Cultures and Social Practices. Bern: Peter Lang, 179–196. pp.186-7.
↑ Ledeneva, A. 1998. Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.1.
↑ Rajchev, A. 1985. Mladata lichnost I 'malkata pravda' (The Young Personality and 'Small Justice'). Sofia: Narodna Mladezh. pp.13-36.
↑ Rutz, H. and E. Balkan. 2009. Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. p.62.
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Smithsonian / US Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 22 April-28 April 2020
Managing Editor: Sally Kuhn Sennert
Global Volcanism Program, 2020. Report on Sheveluch (Russia). In: Sennert, S K (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 22 April-28 April 2020. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
Volcano Profile | Weekly Report (22 April-28 April 2020)
KVERT reported that a thermal anomaly over Sheveluch was identified in satellite images during 17-24 April, and a plume of re-suspended ash drifted 140 km NE on 18 and 20 April. The Aviation Color Code remained at Orange (the second highest level on a four-color scale).


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Emanuele Caso (born 26 April 2001), known professionally as Random, is an Italian rapper and singer. His stage name is pretty much a translation of his surname: "a caso" in Italian means "at random".

He participated at the Sanremo Music Festival 2021 with the song "Torno a te".

Discography

Studio albums
 Giovane oro (2018)

Extended plays
 Montagne russe (2020)

Singles
"Bad bitch bionda" (2018)
"Re" (2019)
"Chiasso" (2019)
"180" (2019)
"Rossetto" (2019)
"Scusa a a a" (2020)
"Marionette" with Carl Brave (2020)
"Sono un bravo ragazzo un po' fuori di testa" (2020)
"Nudi nel letto" (2020)
"Ritornerai 2" (2020)
"Sono luce" (2020)
"Torno a te" (2021)

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Italian rappers
Living people
21st-century Italian  male singers
2001 births

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What was your favourite moment from the evening?
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