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Q&A: Former student representative talks about working with the Board of Curators
Tracy Mulderig: "Getting to know people in the system personally and seeing some of the good that it does, I think I have a more balanced perspective."
Student Curator Tracy Mulderig (left) speaks to UM-Kansas City Chancellor Leo Morton (middle) and UM-St. Louis Chancellor Thomas George (right) during the Board of Curators meeting on Feb. 5 at Reynolds Alumni Center. Mulderig's term as student curator just ended with the appointment of junior Patrick Graham.
By Taylor Blatchford
Board of Curators
Student Curator
Wolfe's resignation
From resignations to substantial changes, Tracy Mulderig has seen a lot in the past two years as the UM System Board of Curators' student representative. From February 2014 to February 2016, she was the voice of the UM System's 77,000 students and had access to the curators' inside information and executive sessions. Mulderig, a doctoral student at UM-St. Louis, discussed her time in the position with The Maneater.
How did your experience as the representative match up to your expectations?
I think it's safe to say that it far surpassed any of my wildest dreams. Reflecting on last fall, things happened that I never would have imagined when I applied for the position in the fall of 2013. Overall, I had numerous opportunities to have an impact and ensure that the student voice was heard throughout the entire two years.
It was rewarding, but I think a two-year term is the ideal length for a student representative to the board. While I could relay student concerns and relate to the student perspective, it became increasingly difficult for me to be objective. The student representative is both a student and a board member. After spending a lot of time with other board members, there's a point toward the end where you may think more like a board member than a student. That's one of the beauties of board members cycling in and out every two years. You're constantly being pushed by new perspectives and people who were not around when certain events occurred. You can challenge your thinking and things that you might take for granted because everyone else experienced it from the same perspective.
What was it like being on the board during everything that happened last fall?
It was challenging. There were a number of extra meetings. Thankfully, my dissertation advisor and my boss at work were both supportive of me fulfilling my role to the best of my ability. The student representative is the voice of all students in the system. I worked hard to stay engaged with what was happening at MU, while also trying to reassure the other campuses that I was focused on how decisions might affect their campuses as well.
It was an isolating experience. For better or for worse, the student representative is likely to have a more complete or different set of information about events that unfold in the system. Because of this and because executive session topics must remain confidential, you can feel isolated at times. It's important to have people in your corner you can lean on even if you cannot confide in them. We all need a support system, especially students in leadership positions.
I think it will be great for the next student representative because he/she will have an opportunity to impact the rebuilding process. The events of the fall happened at the end of my term. I continued to be engaged, but it was difficult knowing that I wouldn't be around to help rebuild. That was personally challenging for me, to continue fighting and engaging when I knew it would be time to pass the baton in a month or two.
During executive session, there are things that only you and the curators knew. Was it hard to not be able to tell friends, family or anyone else this information?
Absolutely. I think that is probably one of the biggest burdens that comes with the position. Any one small thing is fine, but it gets to be cumulative. It certainly was a great challenge. We would use each other as sounding boards, but there are times when you just really want to talk something through with someone who has a fresh perspective. But it's so important to protect the confidentiality of executive session, because your decision-making ability is compromised if you're racing against the clock. That's difficult, but I found that individual curators were incredibly encouraging and supportive of me personally. People would always accept my call if I needed to talk something through.
Did you ever feel left out of conversations among the curators?
Yes, but I think it was an accident. The nature of the role involves a lot of one-on-one phone calls, which can make it difficult to stay up to speed. There were times when I felt like I was the last person to know things, but I never felt that it was intentional. In hindsight, it was never detrimental. I think it might be different if the student had a vote, but who knows.
How do you think the role would be different if the student were able to vote?
I don't think it would be different in terms of student engagement. As the student representative, you know you're the only student at the table. You're eager to pay attention and ask questions to make sure that the student perspective is heard when it needs to be.
Having a vote might have changed my approach with getting things done. Currently, the student representative has a lot of ability to influence decision-making, but it's entirely based on the power of persuasion. Persuasion is still important if you have a vote, but your final opinion does not go on record for action items. I suppose that the student representative could proactively use time at the end of open discussions to say "I would vote yes/no on this", but that was not my style. There were a number of times when I would have liked to go on record by voting on an action item. There were also times when not having a vote was preferable. If I had a vote, I might have abstained from these items. At the end of the day when board meetings concluded, I had to return to my campus and make progress toward my degree. While it would be unfair, there is a risk that a voting student representative could face backlash from faculty or administrators during difficult times if the board takes actions that upset individuals who have power over a student's degree progress.
Moving forward, do you think there's hope for the UM System's relationship with the Missouri legislature?
I'm very optimistic. I know that a number of people are working very hard to repair these relationships. Members of the General Assembly only have so many resources to give out, and there's always going to be conflict over how these funds should be allocated. I will always say that an investment in education is a solid investment. I believe it's important for individuals to reach out to their elected officials to help communicate the importance of funding higher education. We can all do our part. It's not only the responsibility of leaders at the university. Citizens of the state can also help repair the relationship by communicating how the university has impacted their lives for the better.
How has your perception of the UM System changed after your time in the position?
I learned so much about the university and the financial responsibilities that come along with steering such a large organization. For example, I learned about extension and MU Healthcare. I think I grew to have more compassion for people who work at the system level, because I think there are perceptions on individual campuses that the system is too big or that the system is interfering with campus operations. Coming from that and then getting to know people in the system personally, I think I have a more balanced perspective now. I deeply respect Interim President (Mike) Middleton. I had a good working relationship with President (Tim) Wolfe. Prior to taking the position, I had many misunderstandings about the roles and responsibilities of the president.
Do you plan to be involved in anything related to the UM System in the future, such as lobbying?
Absolutely. I think I need a little bit of a break to recharge and try to focus on school because it's been difficult to ramp back up. I'm a believer in quality affordable public higher education. I think it's a very important investment that our state should absolutely make. Anything that weakens public higher education has dramatic consequences on people's lives in so many ways. I don't know that I'm the right person to visit Jefferson City, but I'd like to continue serving, giving back and playing my part, because I think all alumni have the responsibility to do their part.
Board of Curators approves new human environmental sciences degree, hopes to boost retention
Curators approve $30 million project to replace Sinclair School of Nursing building
MU freshman deposits increase 20.9 percent from previous year
UM System Board of Curators host public meeting with Health Affairs Committee
Board of Curators discusses textbook affordability, student housing changes


Anyone knows if the tabard and pets are like the shirts? like you can buy the ones of the opposite faction?
Here's an RP set to joust with!
I can't help but notice though, that the Gnomeregan, Darnassus and to a lesser extent the Exodar tabards are way too similar. They use the same colors and in some areas the same shades, it would be difficult to tell which tabard is being worn from a distance.
The Horde tabards look great. Though the Orgrimmar and Silvermoon tabards are both very red the difference in shade and the abundance of yellow means I can spot each with ease. Here's what I suggest for the Alliance ones, for whatever it's worth.
Gnomeregan: Too much purple. I've never associated Gnomes or their city with purple. I've associated them with the steel grey of their machinery, or yellow for their cheery personality. Or even orange for parts of Gnomeregan.
Darnassus: Not sure how I feel about the gold borders, they just seem too plain to me. Perhaps some leafy filigree. Also, I'd like to see the arch above the tree more moon shaped, thinner at the ends and thicker in the middle.
Exodar: I like the design but not the shade. The copper fits for the symbol. However, the shade of purple doesn't really fit in my opinion, even without the similarity to the Darnassus tabard. I'd go lighter, maybe even pink to represent the crystals all around their lands.
is this a rep grinding tabard or is this only obtainable after being exalted?
I just bought mine after much anticipation and it's the same model as my guild tabard...wtf.
At the moment this tabbard is bugged.
It will only show your guild tabbard.
Since Patch 3.1.2 the Tabard has been fixed.
This and all the other Argent Tournament tabards seem to be fixed with Patch 3.1.2. Just bought mine this morning and it displays correctly.
For those of you looking for a tabard that actually matches the color scheme of the druid T8.25, this one goes nicely.
If you really wanted to, you could get this tabard, get a few different pieces of assorted armor/weapons, and run around in Stormwind or Ironforge yelling how you're a champion of Gondor.
Damn, that's ugly. Why the hell did they make it symmetric? I mean, that makes no sense with a tree symbol. Look at the Darnassus Banner, that's how it has to look like.
Does it give you rep with darnassus if you wear this in a heroic instance?
Does it give you rep with Darnassus if you wear it in a heroic instance?
if you bought this tabard and then deleted it, you can't get it back from the tabard vendor in Dalaran (Elizabeth Ross)like she restores certain tabars earned by achievements. If you've deleted it, the only way to get it back is to pay another 50 emblems again.
This and the other city tabards are available also from a quarter master found in each city near the flight path.
Use the Abandoned Mole Machine.
Go into Ambassador Flamelash's chamber and slay him.
Proceed to the Summoner's Tomb and kill The Seven, each one of them will yield 60 reputation based on the faction of your tabard, totally 420 rep for this boss, plus an additional 60 rep for Flamelash.
Leave the same way you came in, reset instances, wash, rinse, repeat. Other bosses are optional, but I don't reccomend killing them as it is not as efficient as my method.
This gives some pretty quick and easy reputation. I'm not sure when/if this will be patched, so get farming! If you don't understand the steps above, you can find the video I made here.
The below Tabards can also be purchased from the vendors in Icecrown for 8 Silver (at exalted) instead of the previous 50 Champion's Seals. This is a change with patch 4.0.3a.
Dont you forget , the Worgen tabard sold by <Gilneas Quartermaster> located in Darnassus?
So I've been stuck on 9041/20000 rep for darnassus since I hit level 60 currently I'm at level 65. I assume this is bugged for burning crusade dungeons?
These tabards cannot be used in TBC instances. There was a blue post stated that they can only be used in Vanillia, Wrath and Cata instances.
Anyone know where to get this Darnassus tabard ?
Actually I was pleasantly surprised to see that you get reputation from killing mobs in heroic TBC dungeons. I was finishing my 17/21k exalted grind for Honor Hold and had the tabard equipped (3k revered with Darnasus) and I got both Honor Hold Rep and Darnasus reputation as well.
This will make it way easier to double grind reputations (lower city, cenarion, consortium with alliance factions).
Even Stratholme (lvl 40ish dungeon) gives rep with Darnasus if you have the tabard.
Although they don't say so on the uploaded picture, three of the four Alliance tabards all require exalted to be able to purchase them. This is a pain 'cause I traveled all the way to Ice Crown to buy three and none were available to me yet although unlike the others I've checked out today they weren't written up that way. Stormwind on the other hand was available with just friendly.
Yeah, I'm surprised no one else has noted the similarity between this tabard and the one seen in Lord of the Rings. I totally see the White Tree of Gondor here.
I rather like this tabard. its a wonderful shade of smooth rich somber purple that is not garrash or glaring.
The only thing is the gold stripes. They interfere aesthetically with quite a few dark sets out there but over all its one of my favorite tabards.
The Darnassian Quartermaster is after the burning of Teldrassil in Stormwind, by the Embassy.
This item will be converted to Undercity Tabard if you transfer to Horde.


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Meet your local guide at the designated central meeting point at 10am and get ready for your 6-hour guided tour of Prague's highlights. Expect to see the changing of the guards, the oldest university in Central Europe, and the theater where former president Vaclav Havel once worked. Hear fascinating stories, such as the tale of 'good king' Wenceslas who killed by his drunken brother and the queen who broke swords with her bare hands, and learn about the national hero Jan Hus.As you make your way across the famed Charles Bridge, listen as your guide talks about about the places and buildings that you pass. Walk through the Lesser Town then take a tram up to Prague Castle. Take an a coffee break at your own expense, then walk to the Jewish Quarter and Old Town to enjoy a traditional lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch, board a 1-hour river cruise to see Prague from a different perspective. Conclude your tour back at the original departure point at around 4pm.


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Ships built in San Francisco, California
USS Kidder (DD-319)
Namesake: Hugh Kidder
Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Union Iron Works, San Francisco
Laid down: 5 March 1919
Launched: 10 July 1919
Commissioned: 7 February 1921
Decommissioned: 18 March 1930
Struck: 22 July 1930
Fate: Scrapped; materials sold 31 October 1930
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
Range: 4,900 nmi (9,100 km)
@ 15 kt
Armament: 4 x 4" (102 mm), 12 x 21" (533 mm) tt.
USS Kidder (DD-319) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was named for Hugh Kidder.
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Kidder was launched 10 July 1919 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California; sponsored by Miss Ethel Murry Jonstone; and commissioned 7 February 1921, Cmdr. H. J. Abbett in command.
After shakedown along the coast, Kidder was assigned to Destroyer Division 34, Battle Fleet, at San Diego, California. From 1921 to 1924 she operated along the West Coast between Washington and the Panama Canal Zone engaging in training maneuvers, fleet problems, and gunnery exercises. The destroyer played a significant role in the development of naval warfare through using experimental torpedoes in exercises.
Kidder transited the Panama Canal during January 1924 for fleet concentrations in the Caribbean, returning San Diego 22 April. She continued her training operations before clearing San Francisco 15 April 1925 for a fleet problem and joint exercises off Hawaii. Kidder then accompanied the Battle Fleet to Samoa, Australia, and New Zealand before returning to Mare Island 26 September.
For the rest of her naval service she was almost constantly at sea, including winter fleet concentrations in the Caribbean during 1927 and a joint submarine exercise off Hawaii in the spring and summer of 1928.
Fate[]
During her final year of service, Kidder operated out of San Diego and decommissioned there 18 March 1930. After scrapping, her materials were sold 31 October 1930 in accordance with the terms of the London Treaty limiting naval armament. As of 2005, no other ship of the US Navy has been named Kidder.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/319.htm

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The show, which has been adapted from the book and follows Mimi on her quest to return a lost baby dragon to its mother.
The show is part of Battersea Power Station's winter programme 'Light Up Winter' and is filled with lively songs and magical puppets - set in snowy Switzerland. Co directors Tory Sanders and Hayley Byfield as well as William Uden - actor and puppeteer of the 'Baby Dragon' with the baby dragon puppet - join me now.


Rutgers tipped off the spring signing period today by adding Vincent Garrett, a junior college wing from Chicago who just completed his sophomore year at Lee College in Texas.
The 6-foot-5, 210-pound Garrett has been described as "mega-athletic." He averaged 16 points, six rebounds and two assists per game this past winter, earning All-Region XIV honors. He chose Rutgers over UNLV and Oregon State.
After starring in the frontcourt for Chicago Public League power Marshall, Garrett went the JUCO route to refine his perimeter skills. He shot 51 percent from the field and ran the offense at times in 2011-12.
"He still does something once a game that nobody else in the gym can do," Lee coach Roy Champagne told the Chicago Tribune in December.
Garrett, who will have two years of eligibility at Rutgers, fills the scholarship opening created by sophomore forward Gilvydas Biruta's transfer to Rhode Island. At the moment Rutgers' 2012-13 roster is full but that could change. The spring signing period ends May 16.
Garrett's commitment was first reported by Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports Network.
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Big Visual Group Employee Since: 2010
Curtis Byrd is a skillful, friendly guy who holds the title of Print Manager at Big Visual Group. He's an Anniston, Alabama, native who has worked in the printing industry in a variety of ways throughout his life. In Alabama, he started his printing career by producing designer checks and personalized checks, which then led to him becoming a graphic designer and plate mounter. Curtis then ventured to Nashville in 2001 with his wife. When he made the move to Tennessee, he worked at Precision Signworks, which was later acquired by Big Visual Group. He gained experience and knowledge there about vehicle wrap printing, trimming, and welding.
When talking about the print industry, Curtis said, "I think it's wonderful that our industry helps people communicate their image and brand. We can bring to life a client's vision."
In Curtis' role at Big Visual Group, he does a lot of pre-press work and makes sure that everyone is G7 compliant and certified. He makes sure the whole print department is running smoothly, helps whenever print problems arise, and ensures that everyone is working a day ahead of schedule. He runs the 16-foot wide Matan printer every day, too. There are many factors that go into making sure every print piece that comes out of his area looks top-notch, which Curtis handles like a pro.
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Vatican and Israeli officials on Thursday confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI may visit the Holy Land in 2009 despite recent differences between the two states.
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said such a possibility was ''being examined'' in response to a report in Thursday's edition of the Israeli daily Haaretz which said that the pope would visit sometime in May.
Benedict was hoping to make the announcement at Christmas but the leak in the Israeli paper pre-empted this, Vatican sources said. Israeli Ambassador to the Vatican, Mordechay Lewy, said the visit was ''very probable''.
''We're working hard on it,'' he said. ''A visit by the pope to the Holy Land would have incomparable historic value and he himself has already announced his desire to go there,'' Lewy added.
The ambassador admitted that there were ''certainly differences of opinion'' between the Vatican and the Israeli authorities, but that these did not constitute an obstacle to the pontiff's visit.
One of the main causes of contention between the two states centres around wartime pope Pius XII, who many Jews have criticised for failing to speak out against the Nazi genocide.
In October Israeli Social Affairs Minister Yitzhak Herzog created friction with the Vatican after stating publicly that plans to beatify Pius XII - a step before sainthood - were ''unacceptable''. The Vatican's line on the wartime pope is that he saved more Jews by remaining silent, since if he had spoken out this could have prompted a Nazi backlash.
Prominent Jews including late premier Golda Meir have also spoken in support of Pius XII.
Benedict has so far failed to sign a decree to beatify the wartime pope - a move that some Vatican observers see as an attempt to put the issue out of the spotlight so that he can make the long-desired visit to the Holy Land.
Lombardi said recently that a photo of Pius XII in Jerusalem's Holocaust Museum, captioned with a condemnation of the Pope's silence on the Nazi genocide, was a ''relevant'' but not ''determining'' factor in negotiations for the pope's visit.
Lewy said Thursday it was too early to say whether Benedict would visit the museum, adding that ''dates and details have not been fixed''.
OTHER UNRESOLVED DIFFERENCES
Israel and the Holy See, which only forged full diplomatic relations in 1993, have been trying ever since to resolve a series of complicated questions which continue to cause tensions.
Among these are the Vatican's request that custody of certain symbolic cites in Israel - such as the room of the Last Supper and an ancient church in Caesaria connected to St Peter - be returned to the Catholic Church.
There are also longstanding disagreements on tax and judicial matters, including a tax exemption that the Church wants for its property in Israel.
Another issue is how to deal with cases of Catholic properties which have ended up in Israeli hands and which the Vatican wants dealt with in local courts.
But under Israeli law such issues must be resolved on a political level. Disagreements between the two states did not stop Benedict's predecessor, John Paul II, from making a historic trip to Israel in 2000, when he fulfilled a lifelong dream to tour the Holy Land and walk in the steps of Jesus.
Before Israel was officially recognised as a country by the Vatican, Pope Paul VI also made a flying visit there in 1964 but avoided sites of Jewish significance.
(Source: Ansa)
The Israelis have been angling for this visit ever since the current Pope was elected, and they always work on until they get their way.
They've had a setback or two about the Good Friday prayer and Pius XII canonization, but they'll stick at these points until they get their way or make their point.
Israel is a sick society, conscripting its young people into military service where they are trained to oppress and kill the original inhabitants of the land, using US weaponry to do it. From a people that experienced the Nazi holocaust it's tragic.
Is this really a suitable place for the Pope to visit? Really?
A rebut to Anonymous. . .
"they always work on until they get their way."
Your overt generalization and commentary is a bit extreme and sounds rather anti-semitic. What you say of the people of Israel can likewise be said of conservative Roman Catholics.


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Блáнка Порти́льо (, род. 15 июня 1963, Мадрид) — испанская актриса.

Биография и карьера
До учёбы в Королевской высшей школе драматического искусства Портильо начинала в качестве актрисы в нескольких небольших театральных постановках.

Одной из наиболее важных её работ была роль в постановке «Олеанны» Дэвида Мамета, срежиссированная Жоакимом Кремелем в 1994 году.

Её дебютом в фильмах стал «Entre rojas» в 1995 году. В 1996 г. Луис Сан Нарсисо отобрал её на роль в телесериале «7 жизней» для телеканала Telecinco. В нём она сыграла роль Карлоты. Сериал длился 10 лет. Портильо номинировалась на премию «Гойя» и Unión de Actores Awards за свою роль в «El color de las nubes» в 1997 году.

Награды
2006 — Приз Каннского кинофестиваля 2006 года за лучшую женскую роль в фильме «Возвращение» (совместно с другими актрисами).

Премия Гойи
2007 — номинация в категории лучшая женская роль в фильме «Семь бильярдных столов»

2006 — номинация в категории лучшая женская роль второго плана в фильме «Возвращение»

1997 — номинация в категории лучший женский актёрский дебют в фильме «Цвет облаков(El color de las nubes)»

Fotogramas de Plata
2014 — номинация в категории Лучшая театральная актриса в спектакле «Testamento de María»

2012 — премия в категории Лучшая театральная актриса в спектакле «Жизнь есть сон»

2009 — номинация в категории Лучшая киноактриса в фильме «Разомкнутые объятия»

2008 — номинация в категории Лучшая театральная актриса в спектакле «Barroco»

2007 — номинация в категории Лучшая киноактриса в фильме «Семь бильярдных столов»

2003 — номинация в категории Лучшая театральная актриса в спектакле «Como en las mejores familias»

2001 — номинация в полуфинале премии в категории Лучшая телевизионная актриса в сериале «Семь жизней»

2001 — номинация в полуфинале премии в категории Лучшая театральная актриса в спектакле «Madre, el drama padre»

Избранная фильмография
 1997 — Всё это /  режиссёр Фернандо Коломо
 2005 — Эльза и Фред /  режиссёр Маркос Карневале
 2006 — Возвращение /  режиссёр Педро Альмодовар
 2006 — Призраки Гойи /  режиссёр Милош Форман
 2006 — Капитан Алатристе /  режиссёр Агустин Диас Янес
 2007 — Семь бильярдных столов /  режиссёр Грасия Керехета
 2009 — Разомкнутые объятия /  режиссёр Педро Альмодовар
 2010 — Бьютифул /  режиссёр Алехандро Гонсалес Иньярриту
2017 —  Я знаю, кто ты  / исп. Se quien eres режиссёр Пау Фрейксас

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Upgrading to Varnish 4¶

Changes to VCL¶

Much of the VCL syntax has changed in Varnish 4. We've tried to
compile a list of changes needed to upgrade here.

Version statement¶

To make sure that people have upgraded their VCL to the current
version, Varnish now requires the first line of VCL to indicate the
VCL version number:

vcl 4.0;

vcl_fetch is now vcl_backend_response¶

Directors have been moved to the vmod_directors¶

To make directors (backend selection logic) easier to extend, the
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Setting a backend for future fetches in vcl_recv is now done as follows:

sub vcl_init {
    new cluster1 = directors.round_robin();
    cluster1.add_backend(b1, 1.0);
    cluster1.add_backend(b2, 1.0);
}

sub vcl_recv {
    set req.backend_hint = cluster1.backend();
}

Note the extra .backend() needed after the director name.

Use the hash director as a client director¶

Since the client director was already a special case of the hash director, it
has been removed, and you should use the hash director directly:

sub vcl_init {
    new h = directors.hash();
    h.add_backend(b1, 1);
    h.add_backend(b2, 1);
}

sub vcl_recv {
    set req.backend_hint = h.backend(client.identity);
}

error() is now synth()¶

And you must explicitly return it:

return (synth(999, "Response"));

Synthetic responses in vcl_synth¶

Setting headers on synthetic response bodies made in vcl_synth are now done on
resp.http instead of obj.http.

The synthetic keyword is now a function:

if (resp.status == 799) {
    set resp.status = 200;
    set resp.http.Content-Type = "text/plain; charset=utf-8";
    synthetic("You are " + client.ip);
    return (deliver);
}

hit_for_pass objects are created using beresp.uncacheable¶

Example:

sub vcl_backend_response {
    if (beresp.http.X-No-Cache) {
        set beresp.uncacheable = true;
        set beresp.ttl = 120s;
        return (deliver);
    }
}

vcl_recv should return(hash) instead of lookup now¶

req.* not available in vcl_backend_response¶

req.* used to be available in vcl_fetch, but after the split of
functionality, you only have 'bereq.*' in vcl_backend_response.

vcl_* reserved¶

Any custom-made subs cannot be named 'vcl_*' anymore. This namespace
is reserved for builtin subs.

req.backend.healthy replaced by std.healthy(req.backend)¶

obj is now read-only¶

obj is now read-only. obj.hits, if enabled in VCL, now counts per
objecthead, not per object. obj.last_use has been retired.

default/builtin VCL changes¶

The VCL code that is appended to user-configured VCL automatically
is now called the builtin VCL. (previously default.vcl)

The builtin VCL now honors Cache-Control: no-cache (and friends)
to indicate uncacheable content from the backend.

The remove keyword is gone¶

Replaced by unset.

Changes to parameters¶

linger¶

sess_timeout¶

sess_workspace¶

In 3.0 it was often necessary to increase sess_workspace if a
lot of VMODs, complex header operations or ESI were in use.

This memory segment has been split into two in 4.0;
workspace_backend and workspace_client.

In most cases where you increased sess_workspace before, you
want to increase workspace_client now.

vcc_allow_inline_c¶

This parameter is new since 3.0, and prohibits the use of inline
C code in VCL by default.

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Synthetic responses in vcl_synth

hit_for_pass objects are created using beresp.uncacheable

vcl_recv should return(hash) instead of lookup now

req.* not available in vcl_backend_response

vcl_* reserved

req.backend.healthy replaced by std.healthy(req.backend)

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The Partial Agreement in the Social and Public Health Field, which also contains a consumer health protection component, was adopted on 16 November 1959.
This Agreement, which also contains a consumer health protection component, was adopted on 16 November 1959 by seven of the ten founding countries of the Council of Europe. The Organisation was established on 5 May 1949 by the Treaty of London, signed by ten states: Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It was not until later that the three Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway and Denmark), considered to be in the forefront in the disability field, signed the Agreement. Over the years the family circle widened with new arrivals in the Council of Europe, such as Austria, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Cyprus, and Bulgaria, as well as Slovenia, which had previously enjoyed observer status.
Other countries were granted observer status with the Committee on the Rehabilitation and Integration of People with Disabilities (CD-P-RR), the driving body of the Agreement: Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, along with Canada, which is not a member of the Organisation.
The Partial Agreement took over activities that had previously come under the Brussels Treaty and then the Western European Union. It gave renewed visibility to this section of the population, which may have thought – wrongly – that access to training, employment, decent housing and the right to a private and public life, leisure and sports activities were reserved exclusively to those without disabilities. It reflected the commitment to raising the level of integration – inclusion – of people with disabilities by gradually eliminating obstacles of every kind put in the way of their wish to participate at every level in the life of society. The community has a duty to do so because people with disabilities, who are citizens like any others, must enjoy conditions of equality in order to exercise their political social, economic and cultural rights.
Co-operation between the states contributing to the Agreement budget is ensured by the CD-P-RR, which has set up ad hoc committees of experts from different countries. These have produced dozens of reports and analyses and have helped draft Recommendations to governments. These recommendations set common guidelines for the authorities responsible for framing national policies. The work of the committees fosters a pooling of knowledge and the establishment of social benchmarks.
1977: a report on screening for disabilities and another on services for people requiring particular working conditions. A third resulted in Recommendation 818 focusing on the situation and protection of the mentally ill and the confinement of mental patients.
1979: report on the adaptation of housing to the needs of people with disabilities.
1981: report on leisure activities, sports and holidays for people with disabilities.
This same year was declared United Nations International Year of Disabled Persons, which in the Council of Europe was expressed by in-depth reflection on dealing in a coherent and co-ordinated fashion with rehabilitation and integration policy as a whole.
1982: report on the functioning of sheltered workshops.
1984: report on the training of healthcare workers.
1986: measures for the social integration of people with mental disabilities.
1987: report on the evaluation of people with disabilities for rehabilitation.
Governments were invited to report periodically on their implementation of the recommended measures in terms of legislation and application measures.
In most states this led to a proliferation of legislation, which should be welcomed. However, there were still too few examples of the drafting of framework laws covering the whole of rehabilitation as an ongoing process of full integration.
There was a need to go further.
In 1984 in Parliamentary Assembly Resolution (84) 3 the Council of Europe therefore stressed the need to develop a complete rehabilitation programme. It offered lawmakers in every country guidelines for a modern rehabilitation policy.
In 1988 the Committee for the Rehabilitation and Integration of People with Disabilities decided to set up a committee of experts to review Resolution (84) 3.
In June 1991 at its 14th session in Helsinki, the Committee of Ministers, the executive body of the Organisation, unanimously decided in favour of a coherent policy with precise objectives covering all aspects of life and taking into account all phases of existence.
The document reaffirmed the principle of an independent life, the full participation of people with disabilities in social life and recognition of their rights to independence.
In November of that year, 34 ministers responsible for integration policies for people with disabilities met in Paris. They unanimously adopted a Final Declaration calling for a comprehensive policy for the independence and integration of people with disabilities in the community.
The document acknowledged that real progress towards removing prejudice and barriers had been made to differing degrees and according to each country's historical and political context. The Final Declaration welcomed the fact that legislative measures and government action, including in the form of public financing, had considerably improved the situation of people with disabilities in some countries.
The document commended the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs and INGOs) that had made a significant contribution to focusing the attention of public opinion on the human and social aspects of disability and in this way promoted awareness of the right of disabled people to an independent life in society.
The implementation of the Paris Declaration required close and sustained collaboration with the countries of central and eastern Europe, more recently arrived in the Organisation, so that they could benefit from the experience of their European partners in the disability field. Tailor-made programmes were proposed for the countries of central and eastern Europe taking into account their specific requirements.
In 1992 Recommendation R(92)6 on a coherent policy for people with disabilities was adopted. It invited states to "guarantee the right of people with disabilities to an independent life and full integration into society", and also to "recognise society's duty to make this possible".
People with disabilities should "have as much mobility as possible" and "play a full role in society and take part in economic, social, leisure, recreational and cultural activities".
R (92) 6 was the result of in-depth reflection on all the work done up to that time and became a reference, replacing Parliamentary Assembly Resolution (84)3 of 17 September 1984, which had established a complete rehabilitation programme for the first time.
It was available in most European languages, including those of central and eastern Europe, it established both national and international benchmarks giving rise to many legislative amendments in member states. It is supplemented by a regular report on national legislation, showing the progress made, but also identifying gaps in national policies on disability.
A qualitative leap forward was to be observed in subsequent years. In member states, policies moved forward as never before: the importance attached to protection and compensation was balanced by policies to enable people with disabilities to take control of their own lives, including through rehabilitation actions.
In many countries the institutions that had traditionally dealt with people with disabilities were reorganised in order to offer reception facilities on a human scale, and there was a move towards community-based services.
1993, European Year of People with Disabilities, prompted renewed reflection in order to ensure that people with disabilities were not overlooked in the new European social space.
In 1995 the Charter on the vocational assessment of people with disabilities called for a refocusing of attention, with the priority moving towards abilities rather than disability.
It advocated the right of everyone to active participation in their evaluation process, based on the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH) published by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
In 2002, the Conference on Access to Social Rights, held on 14 and 15 November in Malta, invited governments and other key players to implement policies fostering access to social rights.
In 2003, the Committee of Ministers endorsed this text by adopting Recommendation (2003) 19 on improving access to social rights.
Despite constant progress in the area of rehabilitation, many people with disabilities are still victims of direct and indirect discrimination, either intermittently and spontaneously or in a more regular, almost systematic fashion.
Certain fundamental rights mentioned in two Council of Europe treaties, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the revised European Social Charter remain inaccessible to many people: the right to respect for private and family life, to training, to employment and to decent housing, and protection from poverty and social exclusion.
The Council of Europe felt that it would be worthwhile analysing the different approaches and responses made by its member states in its report on Legislation to counter discrimination against persons with disabilities in order to set a new course.
It recommended that governments adopt legislative measures to counter discrimination and conduct awareness-raising campaigns.
In 2003 the Second European Conference of Ministers responsible for Integration Policies for People with Disabilities met in Spain. On 7 May 2003, three hundred participants from 39 countries, including 26 ministers and secretaries of state, met in Malaga.
There, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe launched an initiative designed to extend the Partial Agreement in the Social and Public Health Field to all member states.
In his opening speech, he said: "Would it not be profitable to find ways and means of enabling all 45 Council of Europe member states [45 then, 47 by the end of 2012] to benefit from the achievements and excellent work undertaken within the framework of the Partial Agreement in the Social and Public Health Field (...)? I would like to extend its activities to all Council of Europe member states (...) by gradually transforming the multidisciplinary Partial Agreement Committee CD-P-RR into a fully-fledged Council of Europe Steering Committee, directly responsible to the Committee of Ministers".
The Committee of Ministers duly took note of the "Malaga Initiative", and of the extension of the Partial Agreement activities to all member states of the Council of Europe.
September 2004 was the official beginning of the gradual accession to the Agreement by all the member states and future members of the Organisation.


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A refreshed Cycle to Work scheme could help many more commuters turn to greener journeys using e-bikes.
push to increase use of e-bikes to help tackle congestion, speed up commutes and cut travel costs coincides with the launch of Bike Week
refreshed government guidance will make it easier for employers to provide cycles and equipment including e-bikes worth over £1,000
employers encouraged to get their workforces cycling through loan and pooled cycle schemes, as part of government plans to encourage more active travel
Commuters will have more opportunities to boost their health, benefit the environment and speed up their journey to work, thanks to updated Cycle to Work guidance.
Cycling Minister Michael Ellis yesterday (9 June 2019) announced a refreshed scheme, which could help many more commuters turn to greener journeys using e-bikes, 70,000 of which were sold in the UK last year.
Michael Ellis, Cycling Minister, yesterday said:
Cycling is a vital and easy way to improve air quality, reduce pollution and create vibrant towns and cities.
Making sure that bikes are easily available is crucial to helping more people make the switch to greener modes of transport. Ensuring people of all abilities and fitness levels can cycle together is a key part of this.
I want everyone to feel empowered to make cycling a part of their everyday lives, and our refreshed guidance provides many incentives to help people do this.
First introduced by the government 20 years ago, Cycle to Work schemes have helped thousands of people clean up their commute.
They promote cleaner, healthier journeys to and from work by allowing employees to save money on a new bike or accessories via a salary sacrifice scheme.
As well as boosting air quality and reducing emissions, the refreshed guidance announced (9 June 2019) could also make daily commutes cheaper. A recent survey of 2,000 commuters (commissioned by Evans Cycles) estimated that by switching from car, bus, tube or train to e-bikes, commuters could save an average of £7,791 over 5 years.
The Cycle to Work guidance is the latest development in the government's plans to get more people taking up active travel options.
Through the Cycling and walking investment strategy, the government will invest around £2 billion on active travel over the course of this Parliament - doubling spending per head compared to the last Spending Review period.
The government is also working to drive down emissions across all modes of transport, committing to end the sale of new conventional diesel and petrol cars and vans by 2040, investing in hybrid trains, doubling investment in cycling and walking since 2010, and launching the £2.5 billion Transforming Cities Fund which will develop innovative public transport schemes in some of England's biggest cities.
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Dendrology is the scientific study of trees; dendrochronology is the study of tree-ring dating and dendroclimatology is analyzing tree rings to estimate past climates. Students will be introduced to dendrochronology and, more explicitly, dendroclimatology in this series of lessons. The lesson starts by engaging students in background information on tree rings and related terminology. Students will calibrate and use Image J computer software from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to complete a practical measurement activity followed by tree ring width measurements of a known tree cross section.
Photo credit: Cherry tree cross section. Shelby Sawyers, Northwest Middle School, Carroll County Public Schools.
Students will correlate measurement results to precipitation data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make climate predictions. Data collected will be used to compose a multi-axis graph for climate analysis. The summative assessment will ask students to apply their new knowledge and skills to collect the necessary measurements from an American chestnut sample to compare with corresponding precipitation data, graph it, and complete analysis questions.
The American Chestnut and Climate Change by Phil Taylor. Scientific America, July 1, 2009.
How can the subject of dendroclimatology be used to reveal historical changes in a climate?
Use an interactive National Park Service website to learn about types of wood and dendrochronology.
Be able to date a tree using a cross-section image to practice counting rings.
Describe which type of cells become the "wood" of a tree and which type of cells become the bark of the tree.
Describe the types of wood produced by trees depending upon seasonal conditions.
Demonstrate the ability to calibrate and prepare the ImageJ application for measurement.
Demonstrate the proper use of technology to collect data on a cherry tree cross section.
1. Calibrate the ImageJ application to prepare for measurement practice.
2. Demonstrate the proper use of technology in data collection.
Be able to appropriately graph data related to dendrochonology measurements from the Cross Section Analysis activity and precipitation data from the NOAA Climate at a Glance website.
Make observations of NOAA data and tree-ring data and describe/illustrate any correlation.
Demonstrate the ability to identify and describe if a correlation exists between annual precipitation and tree ring growth using skills and tools developed through the activities in Dendroclimatology.


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Tiffany Pai
Think of the Children
Children, for all of the sentimentality we project onto them, are extremely weird, sometimes terrifying, and will always understand more than we think.
Adrian Rennix
filed 25 October 2020 in Immigration
About six months after I started my law job at an immigration internment camp for mothers and children in Dilley, Texas, I took a weekend off to see my sister and her kids in New England. My sister, who had already visited me once in Dilley and volunteered with the families there, had explained my job to my niece in somewhat vague terms. There's a place where the government locks up children from other countries, she told my niece, and Brianna's job is to save them.
I don't endorse this lawyer-as-savior narrative—I am a bureaucrat trying to bury rival bureaucrats in documents, and mostly not succeeding at it—but on the other hand, my niece was four years old at the time, so, simplified explanations were needed. And to my niece's enormous credit, she was not at all impressed with me. Soon after saying hello, she looked me up and down and asked: "Did you save all the children?"
"Not yet," I told her. "I'm working on it."
"If you didn't save the children yet," she said, ruthlessly, "then why are you here?"
Besides an indignant and sheepish hey! I didn't really have a great answer to that one. "Out of the mouths of babes" is a saying that's long been bandied around in praise of the homespun, innocent wisdom of children. But the biblical verse it's paraphrased from (Psalms 8:2) is a bit more terrifying than that: "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger." Children, when not busy watching Paw Patrol and Octonauts, are the mouthpieces of divine imprecation, and we had better not forget it.
Later that night, my niece woke up crying from a nightmare and wandered into the living room where I was asleep on the couch. The sound of wailing penetrated my sleeping brain, and I sat up with a shock. I'm supposed to be at work, I thought confusedly, looking around in the dark, unable to remember where I was. The place where I would normally hear children crying was at my job.
Art by Gina Lerman
Amongst Cool People, there has long been disdain for popular sentimentality about children. As Oscar Wilde once cuttingly remarked of Charles Dickens' long-suffering child protagonist in The Old Curiosity Shop: "One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing." (Admittedly, Wilde himself was pretty sentimental about children, so this was clearly one of those manufactured intra-left conflicts.) It's very easy to mock parents who post maudlin updates about their offspring on Facebook, and very satisfying to decry the moral shallowness of conservatives who fixate obsessively on the imagined torments of non-sentient proto-children in the womb while blithely ignoring all the unambiguous human suffering in the world. Trying to stir up outrage and sympathy about children has often been thought of manipulative, obvious, and lazy—the assumption being that of course people care about children, who are uncontroversial objects of pity, being both cute and powerless. Surely it's the less obviously endearing people, those thorny and unlovable adults, who more urgently require our attention and imaginative energy.
And it's true that sentimentality is an inappropriate attitude to have towards children. It somehow manages to unfairly exaggerate the distance between adults and children, while in no way doing justice to the eldritch weirdness that is childkind's #1 defining trait. Children, after all, are recent alien arrivals into a universe whose inputs they are hungrily absorbing and continually sorting into odd and unpredictable boxes. This makes them say the strangest shit. (For example, my niece advised my sister to only vote for Bernie Sanders if he changed his name to "Banana Unicorn," a campaign misstep that has not been properly evaluated in any post-mortems.) At the same time, as compulsive category-sorters operating under a massive informational deficit, children are not really that different from adults. Sure, they're less static than adults: their dough-brained irrationality writhes and expands, whereas the irrationality of their grownup counterparts has already hardened into its final contortion. For me, at least, the main difference between being a kid and being an adult was that, as a kid, I felt like my body was the wrong size for all the emotions I had. My anger, my distress, my affection always felt impossible to contain, bursting out of me in ways that later ashamed me. I find children a little terrifying now, because I remember how much was going on beneath the surface when I was a kid. I suspect that most children I meet are nursing strange grudges and vivid, secret loves; and so I interact with kids much like I interact with cats, cautiously and awkwardly, usually assuming that they have already judged me and found me deeply inadequate.
However, for all that being sentimental about kids is laughably absurd, it's also worth pointing out that tenderness for children is actually a much less widespread and deeply-rooted norm than people think. This has been the main insight I've derived from my exposure to child asylum-seekers. I used to think that hurting children was an aberrational and somewhat rare human behavior. Now, I think that it's something that huge numbers of human beings will do with increasing boldness if they believe they can get away with it. I believe this, in part, because I've encountered so many children fleeing violence and exploitation within their families and communities; but also because I've seen the huge apparatus of state violence turned pitilessly on children, at the behest of U.S. policymakers who don't even have the excuse of social upheaval and intergenerational trauma to mitigate their culpability. The truth is that children, in their strangeness, their physical helplessness, their unpredictable and uncontrollable potentialities, are the most natural targets for punishing the thwarted desires of adults: thus, many people derive satisfaction from hurting children. Children are also the perfect vehicle for conveying violent ultimatums to adults. The logic is the same whether it's a gang member pointing a gun at the child of the parent he's extorting, or the U.S. government arresting and corralling and imprisoning children who come to the border—if I would do this much to a child, hovers the unspoken threat, do you think there's anything in the world I wouldn't do to you?
In the summer of 2014, when children began showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border in somewhat larger numbers than usual—some of them travelling alone, others of them travelling with parents or other relatives—the Obama administration's immediate desire was to deport them all as fast as possible. The government made this goal clear through numerous public statements. Hillary Clinton, for example, stated that all children "should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults in their families are." In terms of total border apprehensions, 2014 was far from a remarkable year: at 479,371 apprehensions, it was only slightly higher than the previous year's total of 414,397, and considerably below the annual averages for the years 2000-2009, during which border apprehensions of 1 million a year or more were typical. But the government swiftly and disingenuously characterized the 2014 numbers as a "surge," and it's not hard to see why. Because children are supposedly "sympathetic," and because child immigrants enjoy a modicum more due process than the near-zero level afforded to adult immigrants, the government feared that immigrants would start to expect better treatment from the U.S. government if they came with their families instead of crossing alone. And so the Obama administration initiated the first mass detention of families on U.S. soil since Japanese internment. Initially, the administration's plan was to keep border-crossing families detained indefinitely until they could legally be deported, regardless of how long this process took, in order to deter further family groups from crossing. This "no release" policy was challenged in court, and the government eventually agreed that it could not formally use imprisonment as an immigration deterrent, and that it had to abide by existing legal protections for immigrant children, which—supposedly—places limits on how long they can be detained. (The 20-day hard limit on detention of children, which you may have heard about in the news, is a legal fiction that the government does not and has never followed, although until recently there were some limits on how brazenly the government was willing to flout it.)
The "family detention" policy that emerged from the Obama years created a new system in which mothers and children apprehended at the border were detained en masse, and would be rapidly processed by the asylum office via what is called a "fear interview," which determines whether 1) the government allows asylum-seekers to remain in the United States to continue fighting their claim, or 2) deems them presumptively ineligible for asylum and deports them immediately. Between 2014 and early 2020, thousands of families a year were cycled through one or two family internment camps near the border. Because U.S. asylum law is extremely complicated, lawyers set up on-site operations to try to prepare families for their interviews as quickly as possible; asylum-seekers have no right to legal representation in these interviews, but do have the right to seek a consultation in advance. The job of lawyers at these camps, therefore, was to train newly-arrived asylum-seekers to beat government officials one-on-one at an extremely intricate game of legal chess. Preparing people for an interview did not simply mean trying to make them emotionally ready to discuss their trauma, because the rules of asylum are as arbitrary as the rules of any game; these rules weren't conscientiously designed to sort people who are truly afraid for their lives from people who are not truly afraid, but rather to whittle out a haphazard subset of winners from a mass of terrified players. And so, every asylum-seeker needed to be as well-educated in the law as every asylum officer, and be able to outwit them.
The interviews took place in a little trailer in the detention complex. Children and their parents awaited their interviews in a cramped room decorated with crayon drawings of popular cartoon characters—and although these pictures looked like a child's handiwork, rumor had it that they were drawn by an employee of the private prison company that ran the internment camp. Two of the illustrations were recognizable as Dora the Explorer and Doc McStuffins, but both of them were both depicted with white skin, red hair, and freckles. (The casual whitewashing of cartoon children who resembled my clients was far from the most disturbing thing that happened at that internment camp, but it was definitely super weird and I still think about it all the time???) Most often, it was the adults who answered the Asylum Office's questions, but sometimes, the children needed to be interviewed too. If the child had unique and compelling individual circumstances, it might make sense to request that the child provide their own testimony; one of my coworkers fondly remembers demanding that the Asylum Office provide an autistic child with toy dinosaurs, since he found it easier to communicate with plastic lizards than words. (In this case the Asylum Office opted to pass the family on the strength of the mother's testimony, rather than trying to interpret our junior paleontologist's dramatic reenactments). At other times, if the government intended to deny the parent's claim, they would attempt to interview the child as a form of due diligence (legal jargon for "ass-covering"), to ensure that the child had no legally relevant information to offer.
Kids' interviews are often wild stuff. Children interact with the interview process in very strange ways, in part because they don't understand it, but also because they understand it all too well. They interpret questions literally, and have very little instinctive respect for government officials. Due to my aforementioned fear of and awkwardness around children, I have never been skilled at prepping kids for interviews. Once, when I was still a law student, I accompanied a four-year-old child to an interview, and I still remember the exact moment in the interview when the child locked eyes with me, smiled slyly, and then began playing extremely aggressive footsie with me, in plain sight of the asylum officer who was questioning her and her mother. Trying to take notes during the interview, respond to the officer's queries, and fend off the kid's tiny, vicious sneakers was one of the more complicated pieces of multitasking I've ever done. Kids often treat the interview process like the giant farce that it is, and the transcripts that result from the Asylum Office's interviews of kids sometimes read like absurdist screenplays:
OFFICER:
I'm crazy.
Why are you crazy?
Can you tell me your birthday?
[no response]
Can you tell me how old you are?
Can you tell me where you are from?
I'm very crazy, I like to have fun.
Can you please tell me about a time when someone said something that scared you?
[is making farting noises]
I don't know, I am small.
Can you tell me what you are afraid of?
I'm afraid of zombies.
Why are you afraid of zombies?
Because they eat me.
Have you ever been threatened?
Yes, a zombie threatened us but I slapped the zombie and he died, wham!
It was certainly a bit weird to be doing legal research, writing, and consultation in a meeting-space that was always filled with children, who were sometimes frustrated and crying, sometimes boisterous and disruptive, sometimes unnaturally quiet and patient. I was always amazed by how long some of those kids were able to sit still without anything to entertain them, when my nephews and nieces of the same age would have been clawing at the walls. I don't know if it's because they were accustomed to less constant stimulation, or if it was an instinctive response to their parent's palpable anxiety and discomfort. Seeing children in an internment camp was jarring to people who came to Dilley for the first time—I know it was jarring to me—but I quickly got used to writing emails and last-minute briefs with the cacophony of 60-odd kids in the background. We'll get them all out of here, no matter what it takes, was what we all told ourselves, and for a time, this goal was largely achievable. The government's general practice was to release families into the United States for further proceedings if they passed their initial interviews with the asylum office, and until mid-2019, almost all the families did pass—in part because they were migrating from extremely dangerous areas and had past experiences that clearly qualified them for legal protection, but also because they were smart, and had a lot to lose, and so they learned to play the government's game, delineating their fears for their own safety into the fine-grained legal categories the government demanded. And so the imprisonment and interrogation of most of the families at the Dilley internment camp was a high-stakes hazing, a sadistic initiation ritual rather than a long-term punishment.
But the Trump administration, over time, realized the same thing that the Obama administration did before them. To send a clear message to adult immigrants, it was children they would need to target, both because of the emotional and symbolic weight of hurting children, and because child immigrants' slightly more robust legal protections would require more concerted effort to erode. The administration sent this message most publicly and dramatically during the brief period of "zero tolerance" family separation, when children were systematically ripped away from their parents. Although that memorable piece of cruelty was relatively short-lived, it was only the beginning of the Trump administration's efforts to punish families who cross the border with children. First, the government started pushing more asylum-seekers back into Mexico, ensuring that fewer families ever made it past the border. For those families who were still arrested and brought to the family internment camps, the government made it increasingly hard for families to access lawyers in advance of their interviews. Then they replaced asylum officers (who act as interviewers) with Border Patrol agents. Then they invalidated overnight huge swathes of case law that had once offered families protection. Then they banned virtually all Central Americans who travelled through Mexico from seeking asylum.
Suddenly, from one day to the next, massive numbers of families began failing their fear interviews and getting whisked away by ICE. When some families who had not yet been deported brought a lawsuit against the government, challenging the barrage of new policies that seemed specifically designed to make it impossible for families to pass their interviews, the government punished the families by locking them up indefinitely. If we can't deport you, the government decided, we won't release you, either. There are now dozens of mothers and children who are coming up on their one-year anniversary in immigration jail, all because the government is determined to make an example out of them, and to discourage other families from fighting their deportations. Even as the pandemic has raged, and ample evidence shows that keeping people confined in prison settings is dangerous, the government still refuses to let many of these families go.
Back when I was still working full-time at the family internment camp, and most families were still getting released instead of deported or indefinitely detained, I was often disturbed by the thought that I was complicit in what the government was doing there—that by providing legal services, and therefore allowing the government to claim that the families had access to attorneys, I was giving the government moral cover to keep imprisoning them. The way I made myself feel better, for entangling asylum-seekers in the government's sick mind-games, was by imagining that all those children would eventually be released into the United States. Even if they couldn't get status through the notoriously harsh immigration court system, I reasoned, they would inevitably have U.S. citizen siblings, and later, perhaps, their own U.S. citizen children. Ultimately, it would simply become too complicated and time-consuming for the government to locate and remove them all. I told myself that the human will to move and settle was, in fact, more primal and inexorable than the flimsy vagaries of the law; and so I hoped that the little bit of power my colleagues and I could give these families by helping them pass their interviews would become a bigger power later, once they were living and working, organizing and resisting, within the United States. But of course, the families who come through Dilley, and the number of people crossing the border generally, are a tiny trickle compared to the huge population of this country. And now, with the government's draconian new border policies, which have only become more restrictive during the pandemic, that trickle is getting smaller and smaller by the day.
My niece—the same one who admonished me for having the audacity to take a vacation while children were still locked up in jail—has been very troubled by the existence of the family internment camp. She still regularly tells my sister about various plans she's been hatching to help the children escape. One such plan involved luring Donald Trump to the camp with a false story of a jailbreak, then overpowering him and locking him up, stealing his keys, and setting all the families free. Having said all this, she then casually asked my sister: "Hey, where can I get a fireball?"
Despite my suspicion that my niece might do pretty well leading a revolutionary cell, I don't really like when people pin too many of their hopes on children, or the "younger generation," whether that means the Zoomers or whoever comes after them. It feels like a lot of pressure. Millennials have struggled under the weight of Boomers' mistakes, and so, I assume, younger people will likewise struggle to recover ground from the devastating setbacks that have resulted from my generation's political impotence. I don't have children of my own, so I don't have any special emotional investment in the next generation liking me very much. But for their own sakes, rather than our own, I think we should respect and encourage the anger, defiance, and skepticism of children. We should want our species' newest members to be on fire with the uncynical fury of people who are seeing injustice for the first time, and are still fresh enough to recognize it for the perversion it is. And so I hope that the children of the dispossessed will be as entitled in their demand for their rights as the rich are entitled in their demand for their petty desires. And I hope that children who are born into less dire circumstances can somehow intuit that those children in revolt are their real friends and companions, that they are all in league together against the cruel and bitter world made by adults; that their moral and natural loyalty is to their fellow-children, and not to their parents or grandparents. I hope that the children of the world will kick us, mock us, and cajole us out of our slumber. I hope that the mouths of babes breathe fireballs against their enemies.
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Never, ever, do real estate with the seller's family. My husband and I decided to officially plant roots in Las Vegas by purchasing a house. Husband: Hey, guess what, a co-worker wants to sell her home! Me: Oh wow, what are the odds? Must be a blessing and meant to be! No. That's not always the case. A few days ago, I sat silently while the real estate licensee (seller's sister) tried to set up a meeting with my husband. Apparently, my credit hasn't reached the mark yet, which is totally okay, but it's like hey I'm still here. Can someone besides my husband acknowledge I'm part of this?
I will be a first-time home buyer, so I guess that makes me a virgin, but I always imagined real estate agents were equally respectful of both the buyer and the seller. I may be a virgin, but that doesn't mean I don't have feelings. 😉 This contract is contingent on our credit, so if this doesn't pan out, I totally understand. For what it's worth, I would love to check out empty houses to feel the realtors' vibes and previous owners' energy left behind. Although, open houses do not sound appealing. I imagine the crazy realtor from American Beauty.
Incidentally, Designer Showcase's April round will actually be a closed house on April 30, so if you haven't made it by there, check it out. I hear there will be a brand spanking new location. Now, those are positive vibes.


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Fair Value in Florida, a Tale of Two Standards
Fair Value in Massachusetts Shareholder Actions
Fair Value in Connecticut Shareholder Actions
Fair Value in Illinois Shareholder Actions
By Marissa Pepe Turrell, Director, Advisory Services
Shareholder disputes in Massachusetts involving dissension and oppression both have significant case history to draw from. However, the courts' interpretation of the remedies available to minority shareholders in each of these actions have been very different. Shareholder dissension actions have relied on the fair value standard in determining the value to be awarded to the dissenting shareholder. Whereas, under oppression actions, minority shareholders have fewer recourses and unlike in many other states, have little ability to demand a buyout, for fair value or otherwise, unless explicitly stated in the entity's governing documents.
Shareholder Dissension
The standard of value in Massachusetts for shareholder dissension is fair value, as defined in Massachusetts General Laws 156D, § 13.01:
"Fair value," with respect to shares being appraised, the value of the shares immediately before the effective date of the corporate action to which the shareholder demanding appraisal objects, excluding any element of value arising from the expectation or accomplishment of the proposed corporate action unless exclusion would be inequitable.
It is also well settled in case law that fair value in shareholder dissension actions is applied without discounts for lack of control or lack of marketability.
The case, Spenlinhauer vs. Spencer Press, Inc. 81 Mass. App. Ct. 56 (2011), where a minority shareholder objected to the price received in a cash-out merger of the corporation with another corporation, clearly articulated the fair value standard under Massachusetts case law. In upholding the trial judge's decision to appraise the minority shares value as the pro rata percentage of the net selling price, the appellate judge stated:
The Massachusetts approach to the determination of "fair value" is consistent with the position taken by the American Law Institute and the national trend of interpreting "fair value" as the proportionate share of a going concern "without any discount for minority status or, absent extraordinary circumstances, lack of marketability." American Law Institute, Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis and Recommendation, § 7.22(a) (1994) (ALI Principles of Corporate Governance).
The court in Spenlinhauer cited a number of cases in support of his decision not to value the minority interest above the pro rata value, including Shawnee Telecom Resources, Inc. v. Brown 354 S.W.3d 542 (Kentucky 2011), where fair value was stated "not as a hypothetical price at which the dissenting shareholder might sell his or her particular shares, but rather as the dissenter's proportionate interest in the company as a going concern."
The court also cited Sarrouf vs. New England Patriots Football Club, Inc. 397 Mass. 542 (1986), where stockholders of the New England Patriots Football Club franchise rejected the corporation's per share offered price. The court in Sarrouf concluded that, as a going concern, the value of an enterprise "is the price a knowledgeable buyer would pay for the entire corporation." Interestingly, the court in Sarrouf also concluded that earnings played little part in that particular valuation as "there exists a class of extremely wealthy individuals willing to purchase National Football League franchises at prices not directly related to the earnings or prospective earnings of the football team [in order to become] a member of an exclusive club -- NFL Franchise-owners."
While the court in Spenlinhauer acknowledged that the American Law Institute allows for discounts in extraordinary circumstances, this case did not present such an occasion. Further, the reasoning behind valuing a minority interest on a pro rata basis was cited from McLoon Oil Co. 565 A.2d 997 (Maine 1989) "Any rule of law that gave the shareholders less than their proportionate share of the whole firm's fair value would produce a transfer of wealth from the minority shareholders to the shareholders in control. Such a rule would inevitably encourage corporate squeeze-outs."
Shareholder Oppression
Massachusetts has a long history of attempting to balance shareholder rights in oppression cases. The court established protection for minority shareholders beginning with the seminal case Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, Inc. 328 N.E.2d 505 (Massachusetts 1975), where the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the defendant must buy a minority shareholder's stock on the same terms as it had purchased other shareholder's stock. The ruling held that, for close corporations, "the relationship among the stockholders must be one of trust, confidence, and absolute loyalty" and that shareholders owe one another a strict fiduciary duty. However, this broad ruling of stringent duties to minority shareholders has been chipped away at slowly over the years in an attempt by the courts to allow legitimate business decisions that would be less harmful to majority shareholders.
In 2006, in Brodie v. Jordan 447 Mass. 866, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that in the absence of an agreement requiring the buyout of shares, the court did not have the power to impose a buyout of the interest of the minority shareholders whose rights had been breached. In its ruling the court stated: "The proper remedy for a freeze-out is to restore [the minority shareholder] as nearly as possible to the position [s]he would have been in had there been no wrongdoing."
Subsequently, in O'Brien v. Pearson 449 Mass. 377 (2007), the court upheld the idea that the minority shareholder's benefits should be restored to what they would have been had a breach not occurred. However, the court also held that the theory of lost profits was too speculative to assign a value, thus no damages were awarded.
Currently, only shareholders who have the power to vote on the question of dissolution and who own more than 40 percent or more of an entity have the ability to request judicial dissolution under Massachusetts' corporate dissolution statute (156D, § 14.30). Such a vote is only allowed in the event that the directors are deadlocked and real harm to the corporation would occur if the deadlock were to continue.
These cases and many others illustrate the Massachusetts courts' growing unwillingness to interfere in actions involving a breach of duty to minority shareholders. In the absence of court involvement, Massachusetts shareholders must rely on an entity's governing documents as the basis for minority shareholders' rights and determining remedies to violations.
Marissa Pepe Turrell


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Al-Ameen Charitable Fund Trust, Bangalore, a charitable organization was founded by the great visionary and philanthropist Dr. Mumtaz Ahmed Khan at Bangalore in1979 with group of leading Muslim personalities.The aim of the Al-Ameen Charitable Fund Trust is to establish educational (General and Professional) institutions and welfare organizations principally for the benefit of Muslim community and other under priveleged persons. Bijapur is one of the educationally and economically backward districts of Karnataka where Muslim population is sizable. For this reason the Medical College, Dental College and Nursing School were established at this historical city of the Great Adil Shahies.
Al-Ameen Charitable Fund Trust has also various educational institution viz : Primary Schools, High Schools, Junior Colleges, Degree Colleges, College of education, College of Pharmacy, Engineering College, Technical Training Institutes, Scholarship Fund, Law College and Hospitals and orphanages through out the length and breadth of the country.
Today all the institutions of Al-Ameen Charitable Fund Trust reflect a modern hi-tech vision with the spirit of secularism in the field of education to build India as a strong Nation in the world.
The following is the new Board of Trustees constituted at its meeting held on 29th November, 2003.
Mr. Ziaulla Sheriff President
Mr. K.Rahman Khan Vice President
Mr. Yunus Zia Secretary
Mrs.Sayeeda Hina Ahmed Treasurer
Mr. Riaz G Faruqui Trustee
Mr. M.Maqbool Hussain Trustee
Mr. A.R.Kamruddin Trustee
Mr. Kamal Faruqui Trustee
Mr. Feroze Abdullah Trustee


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Although the War of 1812 was intended primarily to be a maritime war, where there was fighting on land the American forces relied to a considerable degree on militia. The desire to keep costs down, and a distaste amongst some Americans for a standing army of any size, meant there were few regular forces available in 1812, and militia, both long-standing units and wartime volunteers, were used both to release regular forces for the campaign and to provide extra numbers for expeditions with a small core of regular soldiers. Militia were certainly cheap by comparison, but they presented many problems, being little trained or, quite often, motivated to fight, inclined to go home as soon as their limited period of service expired, and sometimes refusing point-blank to serve outside of the United States. Since these figures are labelled as 'winter dress' they seem well suited to the campaigns in New York and the invasions of Canada, but could serve at some moments in all theatres.
Although states laid down guidelines for uniforms and equipment, and sometimes even issued items, for the most part militiamen wore whatever clothing seemed most suitable. State guidelines speak of hunting shirts and good civilian coats, which is exactly what we find here. All these men have short capes over the shoulders, which was common but not universal as implied in this set, but generally the style of these garments is fine. Headwear too is pleasingly varied, with different types of brimmed hats, sometimes decorated with a feather or plume, and one man wears what looks like a cap made of animal skin. Many wear trousers or breeches, sometimes over gaiters, but some have full leggings, perhaps of buckskin or canvas, which would help protect them from the tough vegetation. Three of the poses even have full boots, so again the diversity of clothing is authentic and well done.
Equipment and weaponry might be issued, but many had to provide some or all of their own, so here too there was almost no standardisation. Some have crossbelts, others items carried by straps or string. Likely items of kit would include a powder horn, pouch for bullets and tools, some sort of canteen or bottle and usually a knife. All these things are to be seen on these figures, although most are missing at least one piece. The lack of a powder horn on several surprised us, but overall the kit looks good, and one man has even created a sort of pack from a blanket held by straps over his shoulders. All here carry a musket, and one man also carries a blunderbuss - presumably his own. Apart from the knives, one man has a pistol, which was fairly rare, and another has a hatchet, which was more common and good to see here. No one has the very rare bayonet, or the equally rare sword, so there are no problems with the weaponry in this set.
Officers might be distinguished in terms of the quality of their coat, or perhaps the colour, but generally there was little to mark them out from their men. Some wore a single epaulette on their coat, and a sash round the waist was another simple sign of rank, but no figure here exhibits any sign of being an officer, although the man with the pistol would make a good candidate.
We liked all the poses here. Some are a little flat, but really not too noticeable, and no one is engaged in any position which their anatomy should have precluded. The one unusual pose is the man in the bottom row holding his musket in the air, but you would expect the militia to be moving or in the act of firing, so we were pleased to see no implausible charging poses; all the poses here are useful and well thought out in our view.
Sculpting-wise this is amongst the best Strelets sets. Certainly these are not up there with the best being made today, but the figures are noticeably less chunky than much of their earlier output, and if some of the smaller items are still a little exaggerated in size, then it is hard to notice. We were hard pressed to find any flash, and the positioning of the figures means there is no unwanted plastic anywhere either, so if slightly rough at the edges these are really very nicely produced and a step forward for this manufacturer.
By now you may be puzzled that we seem to have completely ignored perhaps the most obvious figure in the set - the last one in the bottom row. This one had us scratching our heads, because he is clearly nothing to do with the militia. He is uniformed as a regular US infantry officer, and a nice little model he is too. Question is, what is he doing in this set? Perhaps he is a 'bonus' figure like some of their Streltsi figures, or perhaps just a random but related figure as a few sets have had in the past. Perhaps he is meant to be telling the militia officers what the army command want them to do - who knows? He takes up space that could have been filled with another militiaman, although in truth the poses already here cover the subject pretty well.
This is a collection of miniatures with no accuracy issues, some decent poses and nicely produced. The role of the militia was important in this conflict, so always deserved a dedicated set like this, and it is good to see that such a fine job has been made of it.


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'America's Got Talent' Magician Dustin Tavella Reunites Adopted Son with His Older Brother
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America's Got Talent contestant Dustin Tavella is still on cloud nine from his audition that moved the entire world. The magician performed a routine dedicated to the day he and his wife, Kari, adopted their son Xander. After returning home from his successful audition, Dustin received some heartwarming news about reuniting Xander with his older brother.
'America's Got Talent' Star Dustin Tavella Reflects on Emotional Audition About Adopting His Son
Dustin and Kari adopted Xander when he was just two months old. His emotional AGT audition paid tribute to the most magical day of his life. It was the day a judge officially declared he and Kari to be Xander's parents. Dustin performed magic all of the time as a kid and recently got back into it.
"To find myself on stage on America's Got Talent and to be talking about one of the most meaningful days of my life felt like a dream," Dustin said. "First of all, I'm doing something that I loved as a kid, feeling like a child on the stage. Getting to tell the story and being there with my wife and son was absolutely incredible."
Dustin's audition highlights the importance of adoption and sharing adoption stories that can relate to other people. He said that adoption has "a negative connotation sometimes." But, in his routine, he made sure to spotlight Xander's biological mother who is an integral part of their story.
"This was not just one person," Dustin continued. "This was me and my wife and their birth mother, and some other people in her life, and some people in our lives all coming together and thinking what is the best possible solution for Xander."
An Unexpected Phone Call Led Dustin to Reunite Xander with His Biological Brother
Dustin and Kari want to "change the narrative on adoption" because it is a beautiful journey. They do not want Xander to grow up and think it is "something negative." They want him to know "this was actually a good thing for him." What Dustin told us next caused tears to well up in our eyes. After auditioning for America's Got Talent, Dustin flew home and was processing everything that happened. An unexpected phone call brought him some amazing news.
"Xander actually has an older brother that was in the system for a while, he's been passed around a bunch," Dustin said. "We got a phone call asking if we'd be willing to unite the brothers. That was something that we had been hoping for and praying for a long time so literally, just two weeks ago, his older brother got here, so we've been hanging out with them."
Dustin said the timing felt "so instant." They are happy to see that two siblings that have been living two completely separate lives are now able to come together and bond.
What Will Dustin Do if He Wins $1 Million?
There is a huge chance that Dustin could win Season 16 of America's Got Talent. His audition now has over 2.4 million views on YouTube. Winning the show comes with a massive $1 million prize. Dustin and his family hope to put it to good use.
✨💫 We love us some magic! Thank you @DustinTavella for bringing your story and the magic to the AGT stage. ✨💫 #AGT #AGTpremiere
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— AGT Auditions (@AGTAuditions) June 2, 2021
"My wife and I have so many dreams and so many things we want to do to help people, to help other kids," he said. "One of the first things we'd love to do is just get a huge house where we could adopt more kids and fill it up with kids who need rescuing. We have a heart for the homeless and we have a heart to disciple and mentor youth."
Dustin hopes to use his magic act to create unity. It's something he saw from a magician friend he once hung out with. After pulling out a deck of cards, he noticed that a diverse crowd gathered around the magician to watch the spectacle.
"I see the power that magic has to be able to tell stories, to bring people together," he said. "It's so not demographic-specific. To be able to go into a kindergarten classroom to an old age home and everywhere in between is the coolest thing in the world."
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