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Officer dies after shooting at 21st and Lehigh; two in custody
by Matt Gelb and Robert Moran, Inquirer Staff Writers, Posted: March 5, 2015
A Philadelphia police officer died after being shot in the head Thursday afternoon during an attempted robbery of a video-game store in North Philadelphia, officials said. Two suspects, one of whom was shot, were in custody.
The officer, Robert Wilson III, 30, was an eight-year veteran and the father of two young children.
Officer dies after shooting at 21st and Lehigh
Mayor Nutter called his death "one more example of the danger police officers and law enforcement personnel face on a regular basis."
Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said two men intended to rob a GameStop store at 21st Street and Lehigh Avenue in the Swampoodle neighborhood. Wilson, as part of his patrol duties in the 22d District, was in the store.
"He immediately engaged the suspects," Ramsey said, "and there was an exchange of gunfire. . . . Officer Wilson was able to get off numerous rounds. Both suspects were, I am told, on either side of Officer Wilson firing at him at very close range, and even though he was being struck multiple times, he continued to fire until the fatal shot was fired."
Wilson's partner, Officer Damien Stevenson, was outside the store and exchanged gunfire with one of the assailants, Ramsey said.
The call of "officer down" came at 4:44 p.m.
"He was doing his duty as a police officer, trying to protect the citizens of this city," Nutter said at a news conference near Temple University Hospital, where Wilson was pronounced dead at 6:25.
One of the alleged assailants was shot in a leg and taken to Einstein Medical Center. The other, hiding his gun under his clothing, tried to blend into the crowd, but was caught at the scene, Ramsey said. Both men had been arrested previously, he said. Police did not identify the men.
Wilson was shot at least twice.
He was a volunteer in the department's body-camera program, but it was not immediately known whether he was wearing one Thursday, Ramsey said.
The commissioner met Wilson during the program's introduction in December. "He was one of the best police officers this city has to offer, period," Ramsey said.
The deadly confrontation was captured on surveillance video in the store.
Ramsey referred to recent controversies about police conduct and officer-involved shootings, and said he hoped "the same people that are talking about the issues involving police now say a prayer, and at least express condolences to his family."
Wilson had "a 9-year-old son who is now going to grow up without a father as a result of what happened here today. A 1-year-old is going to grow up without a dad because of what happened today.
"He put his life on the line to make Philadelphia a better city, a safer city," Ramsey said.
Gov. Wolf expressed his condolences in a statement, saying, "This senseless act is devastating and a stark reminder of the danger faced every day by our brave men and women in uniform."
The store is in a strip mall next to the site of Connie Mack Stadium, which was demolished in 1976. Glass from the store's front door and windows was shattered.
Robinson Rodriguez, whose family owns a grocery store at 22d Street and Lehigh, said everyone in the store ran out to the street when police cruisers started flying by. They watched as an ambulance took the officer away.
Police later came into the store, looking for witnesses, and told the Rodriguez family that the officer had died.
"I was hoping he was OK," Rodriguez said. "To hear he's dead, I don't even know what to say."
There have been robberies in the neighborhood in the past, Rodriguez said. "But nothing like this."
The last Philadelphia officer killed in the line of duty was Moses Walker Jr., who was shot Aug. 18, 2012, after his shift in an attempted robbery near a bus stop. Walker, like Wilson, was an officer in the 22d District.
"We will never stop," Nutter said, "we will never rest, we will never step back from our efforts to make sure that all of our citizens, our business owners, kids walking down the street, grandmoms going to the store, or anyone else, is safe. I ask that you keep Officer Wilson in our thoughts and our prayers, and his family."
And, Nutter concluded, "never forget him."
Recent On-Duty Deaths
Officer Moses Walker Jr.
Shot and killed Aug. 18, 2012, during an attempted robbery in North Philadelphia after completing his night shift with the department's 22d District. Walker was on his way to a bus stop in plain clothes when his assailant mistook him for a Temple University student.
Officer Brian J. Lorenzo
Killed July 8, 2012, in a crash on I-95 in Northeast Philadelphia when a drunk driver going the wrong way slammed into his motorcycle at high speed. Lorenzo was a Highway Patrol officer.
Officer John Pawlowski
Shot and killed Feb. 13, 2009, after responding to a report of a man with a weapon at Broad Street and Olney Avenue. At the scene, the man fired at Pawlowski, of the 35th District, from inside his jacket and struck him several times.
Sgt. Timothy Simpson
Killed Nov. 17, 2008, when his cruiser was struck by a speeding car driven by an intoxicated criminal fleeing police. Simpson, of the 24th District, was responding to a robbery in Port Richmond, and his death came six months after the murder of his partner, Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski.
Sgt. Patrick McDonald
Shot and killed Sept. 23, 2008, during a traffic stop in North Philadelphia when a passenger in the car, a felon who had recently been released from prison, opened fire. McDonald was assigned to the 22d District.
Officer Isabel Nazario
Killed Sept. 5, 2008, when the police cruiser she was riding in was broadsided by a man driving a stolen SUV in the city's Mantua section. Nazario was assigned to the 16th District.
Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski
Shot and killed May 3, 2008, when he confronted three robbers holding up a Bank of America branch inside a Shop-Rite in Port Richmond. Liczbinski was assigned to the 24th District.
Officer Charles Cassidy
Shot in the head Oct. 31, 2007, when he interrupted a robbery at a North Philadelphia Dunkin' Donuts store. He died the next day. Cassidy, of the 35th District, was checking the store because it had been robbed previously.
Officer Walter T. Barclay Jr.
Shot and paralyzed as a rookie officer while trying to stop a burglary at an East Oak Lane beauty shop in 1966, Barclay died from his injuries Aug. 19, 2007.
Officer Gary F. Skerski
Shot and killed May 8, 2006, while responding to an armed robbery of a bar in Frankford. Skerski was a community relations officer in the 15th District.
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Inquirer staff writers Sarah Smith, Allison Steele, and Aubrey Whelan contributed to this article.
Posted: March 5, 2015 - 5:10 PM
Matt Gelb and Robert Moran, Inquirer Staff Writers


Chimney Rock State Park is located primarily in Rutherford County, 25 miles southeast of Asheville. From I-40, travel 20 miles southeast on US 74A to Chimney Rock Village. For the Chimney Rock attraction, turn right at the entrance sign in the village. For the Rumbling Bald Access, continue one mile on US 74A. Turn left on Boys Camp Road. Travel two miles and turn left at the climbing area entrance.


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I finished up the Unicorn in Captivity, once again, all the pieces were there! We are getting seriously lucky!!!!
We added a little message for our friend as a bonus once she complete it!
That's a cool idea! I'm sure this will lift her spirits. I'm back from FL tonight....feels so good to be home and able to sleep in our own bed again.
I've missed talking back and forth with you guys since I've had limited time and access to the internet.
Are you guys all settled in your new place? Have you started on your new puzzle table?
We are loving the new place. I am travelling for work right now back in Seattle so I haven't had a chance to work on the table yet. We have a bunch of new puzzles on the way and I will need the table soon! I cant wait to write about the new ones!
Cool. I love Seattle! I lived there for a couple of months, and my husband (boyfriend at the time) lived there for three years. My favorite places to eat there were Salumi's (Mario Batali's parents own it), The Brooklyn, and Cedars on Brooklyn (best Indian food EVER!!!). Have you tried any of those places? Amazing food.
I have not but I love Indian food! Seattle is great if only you could just take it and put it in St. Thomas weather!
Definitely check out Cedar's on Brooklyn if you get a chance...it really is fabulous! Yeah, my husband didn't like the weather there either and that's why we ended up leaving. He likes a lot more sunshine. He loved his job...worked at Starbucks corporate office, but needed more sunny days.


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È stato costituito a seguito della riforma approvata con decreto del 21 febbraio 2014, che ha avuto attuazione dopo le elezioni dipartimentali del 2015.

Composizione
I comuni appartenenti al cantone sono i seguenti 33:
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 Bourdenay
 Charmoy
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 Échemines
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 Macey
 Marcilly-le-Hayer
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 Mesnil-Saint-Loup
 Montgueux
 Origny-le-Sec
 Orvilliers-Saint-Julien
 Ossey-les-Trois-Maisons
 Le Pavillon-Sainte-Julie
 Payns
 Pouy-sur-Vannes
 Prunay-Belleville
 Rigny-la-Nonneuse
 Saint-Flavy
 Saint-Loup-de-Buffigny
 Saint-Lupien
 Saint-Lyé
 Saint-Martin-de-Bossenay
 Trancault
 Villadin
 Villeloup

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The list goes on. The novel works because of its vast scope and original presentation, but compared with the stunning graphic detail of Buddha, Future is a bit of a disappointment. But I have to admit, too, feeling a bit nostalgic as I read it. I grew up with science fiction novels that frequently dealt with various elements of this story. Seeing so many present in one story - in agraphic novel, no less — is quite impressive, despite the shortcomings.


Scrollout F1 is my major defence against all incoming spam waves. Using it for quite some time now, easily hosted at Hetzner, I have tweaked around some of the settings. Here I will document the change I needed to make to send email from my Mac OS infrastructure outgoing through the Scrollout F1 appliance.
This is the mail system at host my.mailserver.
Means I found the defaults! Different ones for different protection levels ..
Since I moved my Promise Pegasus storage to the new Mac (which still runs High Sierra), I had to find a way to use Time Machine from my old MacMini. The old one still runs El Capitan. I read about the new File Sharing feature and created a folder which was shared and had under "Advanced Options" the "Share as a Time Machine backup destination" turned on. Still, I couldn't select this target folder on my old MacMini.
Thus I went to "Options" and enabled both SMB and AFP to allow my old MacMini with MacOS El Capitan to use the TimeMachine feature from MacOS HighSierra (or Mojave in the near future).
After enabling AFP, I was able to connect to the shared folder and afterwards select the folder from the newer MacOS to backup my older MacOS based MacMini.
Today I set up my system with Mac OS High Sierra and again encountered issues while using my Kyocera printer to scan to a folder on my Mac.
The initial steps were to enable file sharing via SMB (without encryption!) and then set up the Kyocera as discussed in several blogs.
Firstly enable ACL permissions for SMB shares with the following command.
Then set up inheritance permissions on the parent holder with the following command. This should recursively go through your share and apply the relevant permissions.
This worked perfectly for me! Now I am happy to use the scanning to folder function safely on my Kyocera.
I had shared this family calendar and forgotten about it … until I used it again to enter several appointments. Unfortunately, one family member thought that was a mistake and they had to be deleted. Which let me scratch my head, how I could restore those calendar entries either on Mac OS or in iOS.
And yes! This worked flawlessly. I was able to fetch a backup from just after midnight (12:35 AM, at first got afraid that no backup was available, until I checked that 12:35 AM is right after midnight, here in Germany we would say 0:35 hrs … ) and restore the calendar content. That worked and I had all my appointments back. Easy, wasn't it?
So I am still running Mac OS El Capitan Server Edition on my Mac Mini. Recently, the Spam that comes through, has increased again and I wondered if there is any mechanism to implement AntiSpam in Mac OS X.
which is not exactly what I wanted.
spamtrainer assists Mac OS X Server mail services administrators in updating and maintaining their SpamAssassin bayes database.
spamtrainer will read the designated HAM and SPAM mailboxes, update the SpamAssassin databases and delete mail that has been learned from.
Either there is no mailbox called No GUID found for user: junkmail in the mailpartition or it has never been fed with mail.
Either there is no mailbox called No GUID found for user: notjunkmail in the mailpartition or it has never been fed with mail.
So I go an create those users. Starting the Server.app plus adding the needed network accounts "junkmail" and "notjunkmail". Further I edit access so that these accounts only have access to the Mail service. Now I add these accounts to Mail so that I have access to them.
it does what it should.
Using the install option I can also have it run as plist item.
What time would you like spamtrainer to run (24-hour format)?
That is all for installation, now let me see if it does what it should!
Ok, if you would like to go from there – no problem. But if you would like to install this license on another Mac it gets a bit difficult to acquire the installation kit.
I thought I would download it from the regular Kaspersky website, but unfortunately – the Parallels license key doesn't work with the regular download package.
The parallels code can only be used with a Parallels versions of Kaspersky, it cannot be registered with a trial version. The Parallels version of Kaspersky can only be downloaded from Parallels' servers. There is no external download source.
This is also reflected in the Parallels KB article (123871).
I love my two Promise Pegasus R4 Thunderbolt Storage Shelters. Some months ago I upgraded the Backup Storage to 3TB drives, Seagate's ST3000DM001. Unfortunately, as Backblaze reveals, this series is very buggy and not at all recommendable. So, whenever one of the drives had failed, I would substitute it with a Seagate ST4000DM000 drive, which is a 4TB model. Backblaze shows, that this model is quite ok when it comes to error statistics. What I always thought was, that Promise Pegasus R series would only support the drive models which can be found in the Pegasus Promise compatibility listing. But No! What drives can be used with Promise Pegasus R4, R6 or R8?
The Seagate NAS drive ST4000VN000-1H41, which is a typical SATA drive with 4TB capacity, runs well in the Promise Pegasus R series, even though it is not listed in the compatibility list. And I am still running on firmware release 5.04.0000.36. The benefit of this slightly more expensive hard disk is a 3 year warranty (within Germany) and – as Seagate claims – some extra routines to make it work 7×24.
So I looked into System Preferences and Users again and thought, I might create a local user called "scanuser". This I did, and suddenly my Kyocera printer & scanner was willing to talk to the SMB share on my Mac OS Server again.
Finally: Jahrelang lief auf meinem Root-Server bei IBH halb versteckt der Blog Äppeltexte auf einer Installation von Movable Type. Da es MT ja nicht mehr als OpenSource gibt, ist eine WordPress-Installation das naheliegendste. Daher heute Abend mal fix die Installation angeworfen, die wirklich supereinfach auf einem Debian GNU/Jessie durchzuführen ist. Dann half Google weiter, um etwas über die Migration von Movable Type zu WordPress nachzulesen. Ich empfehle den Beitrag Importing from Movable Type to WordPress. Jetzt freue ich mich, hier auf WordPress-Basis weiterbloggen zu können!
Da ich nun doch eine Weile gesucht habe, ehe ich auf den Artikel bei Apple gestoßen bin (und dann noch eine Weile überlegt habe, welche Buttons ich tatsächlich anklicken muss), gebe ich die Erfahrungen hier mal weiter. Das eigentliche Ziel war die Änderung des "Kurznamens" oder shortnames oder auch accountname eines User-Accounts auf dem MacBook Pro, die zugehörige Vorgehensweise ist auch in einem Apple Artikel beschrieben.
7. Jetzt im Menü von Mac OS (Bildschirmrand oben) auf "Bearbeiten" klicken und dann im Dropdown Menü "root-Benutzer aktivieren".
Für das deaktivieren geht man den gleichen Weg, nur wählt man im letzten Schritt "root-Benutzer deaktivieren".


Property taxes are on the way up in the North Penn School District. The School Board Thursday night took final action on a budget for the next school year that includes a 3.4 percent property tax hike, which comes out to about 124 dollars for the average homeowner.
School Board Member Juliane Ramic voted against the budget.
Three other School Board Members voted against the budget. They were Board Vice President Ed Diasio, Jenna Ott and Terry Prykowski. Diasio is also the Chair of the District Finance Committee.


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More Work Needed to Clean Up Polluted Drinking Water, Experts Tell House Members
— U.S. has a "reactive" system that waits for a crisis before it acts, former EPA official says
by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today October 7, 2021
WASHINGTON -- Not enough is being done to get chemical contaminants out of U.S. waterways, witnesses and lawmakers agreed during a hearing on challenges to water quality held by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
"The last administration needlessly weakened Clean Water Act provisions over rivers, streams, and wetlands that provide drinking water to over 117 million Americans, but fortunately, that legal action has now been thrown out by the courts," said subcommittee chairperson Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.) at Wednesday's hearing.
"The last administration also slowed water quality enforcement efforts to a standstill ... and actually tried to undermine and silence scientific and technical expertise, and the effectiveness of the [Environmental Protection Agency; EPA], putting all of our communities at risk," she continued. While the Biden administration has begun to undo those actions, "there is a lot of work to be done to correct previous inadequacies and get our research in water quality back on track."
Problems for Water Treatment Plants
Rep. David Rouzer (R-N.C.), the subcommittee's ranking member, noted that water and wastewater treatment facilities are in a unique position when it comes to this type of pollution -- for example, "they're not responsible for PFAS [per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances] and other contaminants of emerging concern entering water sources, but they are responsible for water treatment and cleaning it up, nonetheless ... Our water and wastewater utilities face the prospect of significant liability, based on how they deal with these substances, even though they did not create them. The options before them are expensive, which can become a great burden for many communities and their ratepayers." PFAS refers to a group of chemicals that can persist in the body over time and have been shown to have adverse health effects.
"We need to better understand where these substances come from, whether that's a manufacturing facility, or from the personal products or medicines we use in our own homes that then are passed along into wastewater," he added. "There are many household products that will take your breath away if inhaled, but in fact they go right down the drain every day. Addressing these downstream impacts beforehand can avoid a lot of health and environmental concerns and expense."
One witness who addressed the water treatment issue was Chris Kennedy, town manager of Pittsboro, North Carolina, which has a population of 4,500. Because of high levels of PFAS chemicals, residents "are afraid of our drinking water and its effects on their short- and long-term health," Kennedy said. "The COVID-19 pandemic has only intensified these concerns as we are now worried about the efficacy of the vaccines in our internal immune systems that are compromised by prolonged exposure to these contaminants through our drinking water."
To address the problem, Pittsboro is spending $3.4 million to modernize its water plant, using $1.4 million in funds received from the American Rescue Plan Act and also increasing water rates by 43%. "Our entire water and wastewater budget in fiscal year 2021 was $3.9 million, so a single $3.4 million project that nearly exceeds our typical operating capital budget is concerning," he said. "I speak to support stricter regulations on emerging contaminants and 'forever' chemicals, and for a common maximal acceptable contamination level for drinking and recreational waters ... Eliminating the term 'recommendation' in favor of clear, precise goals of acceptable contamination is what we seek."
Reactive Instead of Proactive
Elizabeth Southerland, PhD, former director of science and technology at the EPA's Office of Water, said the nation is "currently suffering from a reactive system that waits for a public health or environmental crisis to occur before we begin monitoring and even considering controls. This happened with the PFAS 'forever' chemicals and will happen in the future with other contaminants if we fail to develop a proactive approach."
She recommended that Congress require the federal government to develop and maintain a priority list of harmful chemicals for use by federal and state water monitoring programs. "Once monitoring better identifies where these contaminants pose risks, EPA and the states can control these discharges to the nation's waters ... EPA and FDA can also use this information to improve their chemical review programs to prevent new contaminants from entering the environment."
Witnesses also discussed the harmful effects of microplastics -- plastic pieces smaller than the width of a pencil that are composed of a variety of chemical compounds. "Microplastics are pervasive in our waterways and aquatic organisms," said Elise Granek, PhD, associate professor of environmental science and management at Portland State University in Oregon. "Here in the Pacific Northwest, in recreationally harvested razor clams and commercially valuable Pacific oysters and pink shrimp, 95 out of 100 individuals have microplastics in their tissues ... Other studies report microplastics in drinking water, sea salt, craft beer, and honey. So it isn't surprising that a recent study out of New York State found that all infant and adult stool samples collected contained microplastics."
"Microplastics may be affecting human health, but no federal regulations currently exist to inform consumers of microplastics in their food, set safe levels of microplastics in human food items or drinking water, or limit microplastic release into waterways," she said. When it comes to microplastics and other chemical contaminants such as pesticides, "more active management between policymakers and scientists is needed to determine appropriate benchmarks for these chemicals, both individually and in combination with other chemicals, to safeguard environmental and human health."
More Rules for New Chemicals
There is some good news on the regulation front, at least in regard to new chemicals coming into the market, Southerland said. Although the Toxic Substances Control Act, which regulates these contaminants, used to require the federal government to demonstrate a problem before it could take any action on a chemical, recent revisions to the law "gave EPA a really important role about doing a safety evaluation before the chemical enters commerce ... So what we find is a real need for EPA to use -- which they did not do in the previous administration -- all their authorities to require adequate data from the chemical company asking to bring a new chemical into commerce, so that they can make a good reasonable safety decision."
Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) asked whether it would be helpful to set deadlines for EPA to meet some of its responsibilities, specifically those related to the Clean Water Act, but Southerland said no. "Deadlines are deeply problematic when an agency is the smallest it's been since the 1980s," she noted. "To put deadlines in now, when the agency is in such a critical condition, is really not going to be helpful because they literally do not have the human capital to carry these things out on any kind of tight deadline. We need to beef up the staff, train them, and then we can worry about having tight deadlines."
Joyce Frieden oversees MedPage Today's Washington coverage, including stories about Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, healthcare trade associations, and federal agencies. She has 35 years of experience covering health policy. Follow


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Oregon & Washington Fire Map: Track Fires & Smoke Near Me Today
By	Stephanie Dube Dwilson
Updated Sep 14, 2019 at 2:46pm
Inciweb	Washington and Oregon Fires Near Me
Fires continue to cause issues even in September for parts of Oregon and Washington. Here are the details about the latest fires for the states as of September 14, 2019. Some of the smoke that people in Oregon are seeing, especially in the Chemult region, may be from prescribed fires purposefully set by officials to help cut down on unexpected fires in the future. Others in Bend, Oregon are seeing smoke from the Ikt Butte Fire that officials are allowing to burn out. Read on for the latest details about the wildfires' locations, containment, evacuations. Remember to also check your local news sources, as fire details can change quickly and with little warning.
Interactive Fire Maps for Oregon & Washington
A great way to keep track of fire activity is by looking at interactive maps. You can see an interactive map of the Oregon and Washington fires here, provided by Oregon.gov, or view details from NIFC.gov here. The same interactive fire map for the two states is also embedded below:
Here's another real-time fire map via Public RAPTOR for the Oregon area:
You can see Inciweb reported fires in the interactive map below or here. You may need to zoom into the map below to see the fires using the + button within the map, depending on your browser. You may also need to go to the Legend's Layers Tab and unclick public alerts, traffic condition, and California wildfires, only clicking Inciweb Wildfire Information to see the Oregon and Washington fires.
Forest Fire Closures
A pilot application for fire closures is being tested by the U.S. Forest Service and the USDA. The map below shows emergency fire closure orders for the following forests: Fremont-Winema, Gifford Pinchot, Okanogan-Wenatchee, Rogue River-Siskiyou, Umpqua, and Wallowa-Whitman.
Red Flag Warnings for Oregon & Washington
You can see weather warnings and Inciweb fire notices in Washington and Oregon in Google's Crisis map at this link or on the map below. Depending on your browser, you may need to click the + sign to zoom into your region.
Here are details on the individual fires for September 14, 2019. Oregon fires are listed first, followed by Washington fires.
Oregon Fires
204 Cow Fire
The 204 Cow Fire is 17 miles southwest of Unity, Oregon. It was caused by lightning and is 9,668 acres and 73 percent contained as of September 13. A final map from Inciweb was released on September 7.
There's no anticipated fire spread in the next few days as officials continue with suppression efforts. Inciweb noted:
The 204 Cow Fire, on the Prairie City Ranger District, started August 9 as a result of multiple lightning storms that moved across the forest. The fire is burning in the remote high elevation area within the Glacier (1989) and Sheep Mountain (1990) fire scars. The primary objectives are to prevent fire from impacting high values such as private land, historic guard station, Cow Camp, active grazing allotments, and timber sales. Control features were established where firefighter exposure to hazards is minimized and there is a high probability of success in meeting these objectives and containing the fire."
You can stay updated on this fire on the Facebook page here.
2019 Malheur NF Prescribed Fire
These are fires purposefully set by officials in order to mitigate wildfire damage in the future.
2019 Umatilla NF Prescribed Fire
Canyon 66 Prescribed Fire
Chemult Prescribed Fire
Smoke in Central Oregon is from a 13,000 acre prescribed burn in Chemult. We will likely continue you experience smoke for a few days. pic.twitter.com/nmnxz5ZjRk
— Central OR Fire Info (@CentralORFire) September 14, 2019
Much of the smoke people in Central Oregon are seeing today is from a 13,000 acre prescribed fire in Chemult that is burning to mitigate unexpected fires in the future.
CHEMULT, OR-The Chemult Ranger District, Fremont-Winema National Forest plans to implement the Boundary prescribed burn on Friday, September 13, 2019. Please see attached News Release. pic.twitter.com/ALf0Vc5RAU
— SCOFMP Fire Info (@scofmpfireinfo) September 11, 2019
This fire is 10 miles southwest of Chemult and will last two to four days. It includes about four miles west of Diamond Lake Junction (US Highway 97 and State Highway 138), extending seven miles south of Highway 138 "to the junction of Forest Service Road 70 and the Forest boundary, and from the western edge of the forest boundary bordering Crater Lake National Park," says the USDA. Smoke may be visible from Highway 97, 138, and surrounding areas.
The South Central Oregon Fire Management Partnership (SCOFMP) is conducting prescribed fire operations with the Fremont-Winema National Forest.
Ignitions may start as early as Thursday September 12, 2019. pic.twitter.com/DkuLGttDpm
More prescribed fires include:
Long Prescribed Fire in Lake County, 10 miles east of Bly near Lantern Flat. Planned to be up to 1,000 acres.
West Drews Prescribed Fire in Lake County, six miles west of Drews Reservoir. Planned up to 1,570 acres.
Crooked Mud Honey in Lake County, 12 miles northeast of Lakeview in the North Warner's near Vee Lake. Planned to be up to 1,000 acres.
Coyote Fire in Lake County, 25 miles southwest of Silver Lake, west of Sycan Marsh. Planned to be up to 1,000 acres.
Diamond Valley Fire
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This fire is 751 acres and 75 percent contained. It was caused by lightning and is located 13 miles southeast of Diamond, Oregon. It's not listed on Inciweb's map.
Gopher Fire
This fire is 354 acres and 20 percent contained. It was caused by lightning after five small fires burned together. It's 11 miles east of Prospect, Oregon. On September 14, Inciweb noted:
Operations today will include continued work on primary fire lines where safe to do so, and installing the hose-lay equipment to keep the fire south of the Middle Fork of the Rogue River. The precipitation event expected Sunday night will help suppression efforts. However, an east wind event may arise later next week.
When addressing the firefighters this morning at briefing, Deputy Incident Commander Scott Wickham said, "I just want to say thank you. As we continue for the next few days, hoping for a shot of wet weather, keep looking out for each other and keep up the great safety record."
Today will be sunny, dry and breezy with a high near 80 degrees. Winds will become west-southwest 4-7 mph with gusts to 12 mph in the afternoon. A strong front is expected to move in late tomorrow bringing wetting rain.
Resources on the fire currently include: 13 20-person hand crews, 4 Type 1 helicopters, 1 Type 3 helicopter, 1 dozer and 2 water tenders. A total of 366 personnel are assigned to the fire.
Closure: A closure is in place for the health and safety of both the public and firefighters working on the Gopher Fire in the Sky Lakes Wilderness (Forest Order No. 06-10-24-19-11). To read the entirety of the closure order and view a map visit the RRSNF website. For another source of emergency closure information see the interactive fire closure mapping applicationbeing tested by the RRSNF.
Updates about this fire are being posted on Facebook.
Granite Gulch Fire
This fire is 5,555 acres in size and was caused by lightning, according to Inciweb on September 8, the latest update. It's in the Eagle Cap Wilderness in Granite Gulch of Upper Minam River.
According to Inciweb, the fire is expected to have some movement to the west and east and there's no anticipated containment date at this time.
Inciweb noted:
The lightning-caused Granite Gulch Fire is burning in a remote part of the Eagle Cap Wilderness within the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. It remains far from private lands, structures, or improvements.
Forest Service fire managers are pursuing a confinement strategy that calls for active management to keep the wildfire within specific, pre-identified areas of the upper Minam River drainage and well-within the Eagle Cap Wilderness…
Area residents and visitors should expect to see some smoke, and when the fire is active a column of smoke may be visible above the Wallowa Mountains."
HK Complex Fire
This fire, caused by lightning, is 2,705 acres in size and 95 percent contained as of September 9, the last update. However, it's still listed as active on Inciweb's map.
Ikt Butte Fire in Bend, Oregon
UPDATE: C.O. dispatchers confirm the smoke that's prompted concern among many Bend-area residents this morning is from burnout underway on the roughly 30-acre Ikt Butte Fire south of town, surrounded by a lava flow. https://t.co/rnglLNZLUR
— KTVZ NewsChannel 21 (@KTVZ) September 14, 2019
Some Bend, Oregon residents are concerned by smoke they're seeing from an Ikt Butte Fire that's 30 acres in size, KTVZ reported. It's from a burnout south of Bend. The fire is more than a week old and was started by lightning. It's in an area surrounded by lava flow on the Newberry National Volcanic Monument, KTVZ noted. Crews are letting the interior burn out.
Washington Fires
Devore Creek Fire
This fire is 630 acres and 0 percent contained according to NIFC. It's listed as active on NIFC's site but is not listed as active on Inciweb's map. (Inciweb lists the fire as being 463 acres.)
Inciweb noted in a September 12 update: "The fire has seen minimal growth in recent days, but due to the fire's remote location and the heavy fuels it's burning in, the fire will be on the landscape for the rest of the season. Days are getting shorter and the chances of active fire growth are diminishing but the fire could come back to life with an extended warming and drying trend. There may still be potential for the fire to become more active and grow as the season progresses, especially on warm, windy and sunny days. Increased smoke may be visible at times. Hot spots within the fire's perimeter will continue to smolder until extinguished naturally by repeated rain or snow."
It's three air miles southwest of Stehekin, Washington.
Shoofly Fire
This fire is burning 12 miles west of Lake Wenatchee about 30 miles northwest of Leavenworth, Washington. Some people may see smoke, but there are no closures or major threats. However, the public is asked to be cautious in the area.
South Fork Creek Fire
This fire is 199 acres and 60 percent contained, located 12 miles northwest of Leavenworth. It's listed by NIFC.
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We Already Do It: The Debate for Women in Selective Service
By Shaela Pion April 29, 2019 April 29, 2019
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In 1981, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Rostker v. Goldberg that Congress had a reasonable basis to exclude women from the draft because combat positions were off-limits to women–an exclusion based on the prevailing belief that women simply couldn't hack it. Then, in February 2019, a federal court ruled that it's unconstitutional to require only men to register for the draft. The law hasn't changed, but the facts have. "In the nearly four decades since Rostker… women's opportunities in the military have expanded dramatically," U.S. District Judge Gray Miller, who ruled on the case, said. "In 2013, the Department of Defense officially lifted the ban on women in combat. In 2015, the Department of Defense lifted all gender-based restrictions. Thus, women are now eligible for all military service roles, including combat positions." However, President Donald Trump's administration appealed ruling, calling the potential calling of women to conscripted service "problematic."
As a woman and as a Soldier, I was surprised by the White House's appeal, and the immediate backlash this ruling provoked. Women are not only eligible, but are already actively serving at every level in combat arms branches and attending special courses like the U.S. Army Ranger and Sapper Schools. In 2015, Army Major Lisa Jaster and Captains Shay Haver and Kristen Greist were the first three women to graduate from the Army's grueling and elite Ranger School, and as of April 2018, ten more women have completed the course. Captains Haver and Greist became the Army's first female infantry officers, and First Lt. Marina Hierl broke the same barrier in the Marine Corps last year. More than 9,000 female troops have earned Combat Action Badges during modern combat operations, including those in Iraq and Afghanistan, and hundreds more have earned valor awards, including the Silver Star, the Army's third-highest valor award. Sixty-three women are currently serving on active duty as Generals and Admirals. We are already here.
Practically, Miller's ruling does nothing to change the draft registration process, and the Selective Service System still registers only men. This has not stopped the public from taking to social media to voice their displeasure. Comments have largely centered on the stigma of women in combat and the emotional appeals of concerned mothers and fathers. "I could not bear to send my daughter off to fight," they write. This is understandable, but logically fallacious, implying that the lives of our country's daughters are somehow more valuable—or perhaps less disposable—than those of our sons. I don't think the mother of a drafted son would be any less concerned or heartbroken than the mother of a drafted daughter. There is no difference in tragedy between the loss of a male service member and the loss of a female service member. No parent in this country has received a folded flag and thought "at least it it wasn't my daughter."
Is patriotism gendered? Are men better Americans? To believe that men can be counted upon to stand up and accept a sacrifice in a time of national crisis but women are not should be morally abhorrent to anyone who professes feminism or gender equality. Those who demand equal rights also must assume equal responsibilities. In her 1970 manifesto, What Would it be Like if Women Win, one of the best-known American feminists, Gloria Steinem, advocated the abolition of sexist laws and practices, specifically including selective service. Steinem was considered among the most radical women's activists of the era, yet now her common-sense essay sounds positively moderate. She wrote, "men will have to give up ruling-class privileges, but in return they will no longer be the only ones to support the family, get drafted, and bear the strain of power and responsibility."
Somehow, though, the reality of female conscription as an inherently feminist idea has been lost on many third-wave feminists. One woman's comment on NPR's coverage of the decision sneered, "want me to register for the draft? Give me free birth control and healthcare."
The problem with this line of thinking is that it shows a deep and ugly underlying sense of entitlement. It might as well read, "want me to show willingness to serve in an emergency? Buy my loyalty with benefits first" (benefits which, ironically, I have earned through my military service). Have we really strayed this far from John F. Kennedy's assertion that we should "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?" The country would be unimaginably poorer if every disenfranchised group shared this commenter's thinking. No other group has held their patriotism hostage, demanding a ransom of greater benefits or liberties. The Buffalo Soldiers, Tuskegee Airmen, Women's Air Service Pilots, Hello Girls, Navajo Code Talkers, Nisei Soldiers—all served honorably and with great distinction, despite struggling under far greater injustices and social pressures than anyone in our current society can even fathom.
It is important to note that a war so massive as to require a draft (which is unlikely, given that our current all-volunteer force has been fighting multiple-front conflicts without any dramatic recruiting crises) would not merely be pulling conscripts to fill front-line combat slots. Currently, only 29% of 17-24 year-olds physically qualify for military service. If we exclude women from that, we are down to around 15% of eligible military-aged Americans to backfill undermanned military jobs—and there are plenty of jobs to go around. There seems to be some vast misconception that every female conscript would be slapped with a rifle and ruck and shipped out to the Ranger Regiment. That is simply not true, nor is it even possible. Even if combat arms were still closed to women, females could flood the ranks as draftees. Assessments for the Army like the Occupational Physical Aptitude Test and the new gender-neutral Army Combat Fitness Test ensure that only those capable of meeting the physical requirements of a specific job are placed in that job—requirements that, notably, not every man is capable of meeting, either. Obviously, there are combat branches within the United States Army, but the rest fall under the banners of combat support (such as Signal, Engineers, Chemical, etc.) and combat service support, such as logistics, acquisitions, finance, human resources, transportation, and so on. It takes a tremendous amount of resources and personnel behind every infantryman, tanker, and pilot. While there are women filling those combat roles, there are also thousands of women filling equally vital support roles across the military. Combat arms are the tip of the spear, but a spear tip on its own does not a lethal fighting force make.
Posters from the Second World War often urged women to join the fight either through military or home front service, thus freeing more men to take up combat roles. Perhaps the most famous image of female empowerment in the 20th century is the bright yellow poster of a flexing riveter, cheerfully proclaiming "We Can Do It!" But that is simply not the case for women in the military. It's not that we can do it. We do It. We have been doing it. We have been doing it since Deborah Sampson first donned the uniform of the Continental Army in 1782. It's true, not every female draftee would make a good servicewoman, any more than every male draftee is a good serviceman. It isn't logical or fair though, to hold female conscripts to higher standards than their male counterparts. Frankly, all-male conscripted forces (the only conscripted forces in American history) are less reliable than professional troops, but that is why they are only called upon in desperate times. However, the idea that the only women capable of serving are already doing so is degrading and flatly false. I pray that we never need a draft again, but should the nation call, her daughters are ready and willing to answer.
Note: This article was first published February 28, 2019. It has been updated to reflect the appeal of Judge Miller's ruling.
Published by Shaela Pion
Shaela Pion holds a BA in American History from St. Cloud State University and is currently pursuing a MA in Cultural Heritage Management and Digital Curation from Johns Hopkins University. She serves as an officer in the United States Army.	View all posts by Shaela Pion
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The process started, naturally enough, at Buckingham Palace. On Friday 24 March, I turned up at the designated time at SW1 1AA - invited along with the former Evening Standard editor Sarah Sands (now editor of the Today programme), BBC news supremo James Harding, and a smattering of other journalists - to watch Prince Harry unveil a series of short films produced for the campaign he supports with his brother William and sister-in-law Kate, Heads Together. The films included the likes of Professor Green, Andrew Flintoff, Adwoa Aboah and Alastair Campbell discussing their problems with mental health, adding support to a campaign that aims to change the national conversation on mental health and wellbeing, a partnership with various independent charities with decades of experience in tackling stigma, raising awareness, and providing vital help for people with challenges in this area. The films were amplified by Prince Harry's revelations about his own struggles caused by the death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, revealing that he saw a counsellor, saying that he shut down his emotions and suffered two years of "total chaos".
GQ's Alastair Campbell used his Heads Together film to describe the psychotic nervous breakdown he suffered in the mid-Eighties, his complicated addiction issues and the chronic depression he has experienced intermittently over the years. The searing honesty with which Alastair talked about his problems was heartwarming as well as journalistically formidable, and I suppose it was no surprise when Prince William asked Alastair to help spread the word even further in the pages of our magazine. And so a few weeks later, an encrypted email appeared in one of my inboxes, containing an extraordinary interview with Prince William, conducted by Alastair just a few days earlier, the one you can find in this issue. Talk about data capture. Never before has the Prince talked with such honesty about the death of his mother, his attitudes towards the tabloid press, or indeed his issues with depression. "Practically everything in my charitable life in the end is to do with mental health, whether it be homelessness, veterans' welfare, my wife and the work she is doing on addiction," says the Prince, "so much of what we do comes back to mental health."
He also talked to Alastair about the imminent 20th anniversary of Diana's death, an event that has been almost fetishised by the press. "I am not looking forward to it, no, but I am in a better place about it than I have been for a long time," he says, "where I can talk about her more openly, talk about her more honestly, and I can remember her better, and publicly talk about her better. It has taken me almost 20 years to get to that stage. I still find it difficult now because at the time it was so raw. And also it is not like most people's grief, because everyone else knows about it, everyone knows the story, everyone knows her. It is a different situation for most people who lose someone they love, it can be hidden away or they can choose if they want to share their story. I don't have that choice, really."
Reading the interview, and then discussing these issues with William in private, it was clear he is more than passionate about his involvement with the campaign, and the work that he has done, along with his wife, and Harry, has shown how powerful royalty can be when it comes to serious public endorsement.
Then we started talking about the possibility of an accompanying shoot, some pictures that would help articulate his message around the world. So on Thursday 20 April, three GQ delegates made their way to Kensington Palace to photograph the future King. Myself, Creative Director Paul Solomons and Features Director Jonathan Heaf, along with our photographer - Norman Jean Roy and his two assistants - passing quietly through the gatehouse, where we were effortlessly guided into the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's private quarters.
We were all as relaxed as we could be in this situation, although we all looked like the stiffest people in the room as soon as William and Kate walked in. There were no formalities, no briefing on protocol before their arrival, just huge smiles and some quick yet overwhelmingly personable introductions - "Hello, I'm William," "Hello, I'm Kate" - before we started chatting. While Norman busied himself with making sure that our cover shot was going to be delivered precisely to our specifications, myself, Paul and Jonathan suggested how we might spend the time most productively. The results are in this month's issue, photographs that perfectly complement Alastair's interview, pictures that reflect the importance of the Heads Together message, but also pictures that hopefully represent the Duke and Duchess's passion for transparency and their engaging determination to spearhead a different kind of sovereignty. I won't repeat the details of what we discussed, but in the first ten minutes we had already compared the pictures with previous agenda-setting GQ covers, most notably our recent Ed Sheeran cover, our David Cameron cover, and the Damien Hirst/Rihanna cover we produced for our anniversary in 2013.
The family pictures happened by accident, as both Prince George and Princess Charlotte were more than intrigued by the circus unfolding around their father, a photographic session that looked for a while as though it was being art directed by the Duchess herself (who had as keen a creative eye as anyone else on the shoot). We had to pinch ourselves at times, as the day went incredibly smoothly, a testament to William and Kate's team, as well as to the Duke and Duchess themselves.
This entire project was produced by a tight team, working in parallel with the rest of the editorial office, who, along with the publishing and sales department, knew nothing about it. The story was produced in secret, not because we didn't trust our own teams, but because the way in which magazines are produced meant that a rogue corrupted photograph or incomplete transcript of the interview might have found its way into the wrong hands. There was so much clandestine behaviour in Vogue House that for a few weeks I felt as though my conversations were encrypted.
We hope you think all the subterfuge has been worth it. We are enormously proud of this month's magazine, not least because we've been able to bring the issues supported by Heads Together to a wider public, amplified by the supporting material on GQ.co.uk, our social feeds and an ongoing commitment to spreading these messages as wide and as hard as we can.
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In the most candid interview he has ever given, Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge speaks to Alastair Campbell almost 20 years on from that car crash in Paris which killed his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.
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In der Osternacht (, W notsch pod swetly prasdnik) ist eine Erzählung des russischen Schriftstellers Wladimir Korolenko, die 1885 in der Moskauer Zeitschrift Russkaja Mysl erschien. Julius Grünbergs Übertragung ins Deutsche kam 1891 in Leipzig auf den Buchmarkt.

Korolenko fragt: Ist Ostern für zwei Männer – den jungen Wachsoldaten und den Häftling Iwanow – "das Fest der Auferstehung und der Wiedererneuerung"?

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In einer Nacht auf den Ostersonntag zu Anfang der 1880er Jahre.

Korolenko schreibt: "Das Gefängnis ist leer." Die Häftlinge – Einzelarrestanten ausgenommen – dürfen in der benachbarten hellerleuchteten Gefängniskirche am Gottesdienst teilnehmen. In einer Zelle aber fiebert auf seinem harten Lager der Kranke Iwanow. Der Aufseher lässt einen der Hüter bei Iwanow zurück. Iwanow, aus einem der sibirischen Bergwerke entwichen, will immer noch in sein russisches Dorf zurück. Wenn er nur einen Tag zu Hause mit den Seinen verbringen könnte! Weniger als hundert Kilometer vom ersehnten Ziel entfernt, ist Iwanow in dieses Gefängnis eingesperrt worden.

Jener Hüter betet an der Kirchentür. Iwanow bemerkt, seine Zellentür steht offen.

Draußen auf dem Felde dicht vor der Gefängnismauer hält ein junger, frischgedrillter Rekrut Wache. Auf der Mauer erscheint im Dunkeln ein Mensch. Iwanow springt und rennt in Richtung des Steppengrases. Der Soldat gibt mit seinem Gewehr einen Schuss ab. Da der Schütze weder zielt noch beim Schuss eine Auge offenhält, hat Iwanow eine Fluchtchance. Ins Feld hinaus dringt Freude – der Ruf der Kirchgemeinde erschallt: "Christ ist erstanden!"

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 In der Osternacht. Deutsch von Julius Grünberg. S. 189–197 in Wladimir Korolenko: Makars Traum und andere Erzählungen. Mit einem Nachwort von Herbert Krempien. 275 Seiten. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1980 (1. Aufl.)

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 in W. Korolenko: Sibirische Novellen online im Projekt Gutenberg-DE. Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1891. Übersetzer Julius Grünberg
 online bei Lib.ru (russisch)
 online bei religion.wikireading.ru (russisch)

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Werk von Wladimir Galaktionowitsch Korolenko
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Literatur (19. Jahrhundert)
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Rare Country Awards Set to Launch November 13, Winners to Be Announced At Live Fan Concert on December 14
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Concert to be Live Streamed from Nashville's ACME Feed & Seed
NASHVILLE, TN - Sep. 6, 2017 - Nominations and categories for the second annual Rare Country Awards will be announced on Monday, November 13, kicking off the fan-voted digital initiative at RareCountryAwards.com. Voting will continue through Wednesday, December 13, with winners to be announced at a first-time concert event on Thursday, December 14 at ACME Feed & Seed in downtown Nashville. The concert will be live streamed across additional Cox Media Group properties and will feature performances from award nominees, winners, special guests and more. Ticket information to be announced.
Last year's Rare Country Awards drove over 80 million social impressions, two million video views and over a million page views on RareCountry.com. Top winners included Carrie Underwood for Female Artist and Tour of the Year; and Blake Shelton for Male Artist and Story of the Year. Visit RareCountryAwards.com for a complete list of previous winners and categories.
A subsidiary of Cox Media Group, Rare Country is the leading digital news and entertainment site dedicated to country music, delivering more social impressions and unique monthly visitors than any other country-oriented site. The site's "Fans 1st" mentality guides its coverage of everything the country fan is passionate about. Visit www.rarecountry.com and follow Rare Country on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.


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Jacobitisch drama is toneel uit het Engels renaissancetheater, geschreven tijdens het bewind van Jacobus I van Engeland. Deze periode (1603–1625) volgde na het elizabethaans drama (of elizabethaans theater) dat eveneens vernoemd werd naar de regerende vorst (1558–1603). De term wordt in de literaire praktijk niet zo strak gehanteerd, want vaak wordt in het Engels drama ook de navolgende regeerperiode met Karel I van Engeland als 'jacobitisch' aangeduid. Aan het Engels renaissancetheater kwam een einde toen Londen aan het begin van de burgeroorlog onder controle kwam van de puriteinse factie en de theaters in 1642 op bevel van Oliver Cromwell werden gesloten.

De belangrijkste toneelschrijver uit deze periode was - na de dood van William Shakespeare - Ben Jonson. Andere schrijvers van belang in dit genre waren John Webster, Thomas Middleton en John Ford. De wraaktragedie, geïnspireerd op Seneca's stukken en in Engeland geïntroduceerd door Thomas Kyd, kende in deze periode veel succes. Ook toneelstukken met Spaanse mantel-en degen-drama's als voorbeeld maakten opgang. Vaak speelde de actie zich dan wel af in een Italiaanse setting.

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Crime Victims Fund Preserved In Senate Funding Bill
Crapo successful in push to prevent rescission of VOCA dollars
Washington, DC â?? A proposed rescission of the Crime Victims Fund in the Administrationâ??s Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 budget request was defeated thanks in part to the leadership of Idaho Senator Mike Crapo and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont). The proposal was stripped from the Administrationâ??s request for the Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS) Appropriations bill sent to the full Senate Appropriations Committee today. Crapo led the opposition to the proposed rescission which would have eliminated the $1.2 billion reserve currently in the fund, moving it to the General Fund. In April, Crapo and Leahy led the efforts of two dozen Senators urging Members of the CJS Appropriations Subcommittee not to include the rescission in the funding measure. The Crime Victims Fund provides compensation and assistance to victims of crime nationwide.â??The Crime Victims Fund, created as part of the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), is not taxpayer dollars but money collected from fines and forfeitures in federal criminal court,â?? said Crapo. â??This is not money that was meant to be shifted to the General Fund; it is money intended to help and support the needs of victims of crime. Iâ??m pleased that the Appropriations Subcommittee decided in favor of crime victims in Idaho and nationwide.â??The Crime Victims Fund, administered by U.S. Department of Justice, supports over 40 crime victimsâ?? programs in Idaho. In 2005, the Fund distributed over $2 million to Idaho crime victims in the form of either direct compensation or through victimsâ?? assistance programs. Crapo, a long-time advocate for victims of family violence and recognized by national family advocacy groups, led an effort opposing a similar rescission last year. The rescission was left out of the final FY 2006 Department of Justice Appropriations bill when it was signed into law.FY 2007 appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice and NASA, NIST, the Small Business Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other related agencies will be considered by the full Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday, July 13. ###


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Q: Page Control like in Reminders app iOS 7 Has anybody found something similar to ios7 Reminder PageView with same forces and behavior.
Mean this control.

Found something link - but it's not exact the same.
Look forward to somebody's help!

A: The best solution i have found - TGLStackedViewController
It provides same behaviour and uses the uidynamics library to attache views in a UICollectionView.

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Ukraine hit by massive cyberattack impacting government websites
A massive cyberattack hit Ukraine yesterday (13 January), knocking out more than a dozen government websites.
The cyberattack impacted the websites of Ukraine's foreign ministry, cabinet of ministers, security and defence councils, as well as its embassies in the UK, US and Sweden, according to multiple reports.
The incident has escalated the eastern European country's ongoing conflict with Russia, with the Ukrainian government suggesting its neighbour could be behind the attack.
Some of the messages that were shown on the screens of hacked websites read 'be afraid and prepare for the worst', 'all information about you [Ukraine] has become public' and 'this is for your past, present and future'.
Most website are now back live with no reports of stolen data and Kyiv has opened an investigation into the matter.
A spokesperson from the foreign ministry of Ukraine told Reuters that while it was too early to determine who was behind the cyberattack, Russia has been known to carry out such attacks in the past.
Ukraine and Russia have been fighting for decades, but relations turned particularly sour after Moscow invaded and annexed Crimea in 2014, followed by a string of Russian aggressions that continues to today. The US warned yesterday that there is a high threat of a Russian military invasion in Ukraine.
The country has been the victim of multiple cyberattacks in recent years that have hit power supplies, halted supermarket tills and crashed banks' IT systems, according to Reuters, in what Ukraine has dubbed as a "hybrid" war being waged by Russia.
In 2017, a variant of malware known by many names, including GoldenEye and Petya, hit Ukraine and then spread across Europe and the world.
This new variant, NotPetya, was a derivative of the WannaCry ransomware and impacted organisations from Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv to the port of Mumbai. It was found not to be ransomware, but a 'wiper' that demanded a bitcoin ransom for file access – with users who paid never recovering the files. The UK government went on to blame Russia for the attack.
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The repercussions of the drone lobby's success in forcing opening US domestic airspace to unmanned drones by 2015 are beginning to be felt across the US as civil liberties groups and politicians wake up to the implications for safety and privacy.
An article on the Public Intelligence website asks the basic questions "Is it even logistically possible to operate thousands of pilot-less aircraft in domestic airspace?" The authors examine two basic practical problems with unmanned drones. Firstly how they tend to become "zombies" by losing their wireless data-link to the remote operator – and then crashing. And secondly how without 'sense and avoid' capability drones are unable to avoid other aircraft and cause mid-air collisions. In both cases the more drones that fly – and the FAA predict up to 30,000 drones will be flying in the US by the end of the decade – the more incidents of lost data links and mid-air collisions there will be.
While safety is rightly the primary concern, civil liberties issues are also seriously affected by the new legislation. Last week the co-chairs of the Congressional Privacy Caucus, Ed Markey & Joe Barton, wrote an open letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) pointing out the "potential for drone technology to enable invasive and pervasive surveillance without adequate privacy protection" and requesting information as to how the FAA were to address privacy concerns.
What privacy protections and public transparency requirements has the FAA built into its current temporary licensing process for drones used in U.S. airspace?
Is the public notified about where and when drones are used, who operates them, what data are collected, how are the data used, how long are they retained, and who has access to that data?
How does the FAA plan to ensure that drone activities under the new law are transparent and individual privacy rights are protected?
"The current legal framework with respect to observations from above by government is not particularly protective of privacy. Two of the most relevant Supreme Court cases, California v. Ciraolo in 1986 and Florida v. Riley in 1989, addressed law enforcement's use of manned aircraft to perform surveillance of a suspect's property. In both cases, the court held that observations made from "public navigable airspace" in the absence of a warrant did not violate the Fourth Amendment.
The consequences of allowing unmanned drones to fly within domestic airspace both in terms of safety and privacy are beginning to be apparent to all. That such a serious step should be taken in such a rush and under such pressure, simply because of industry lobbying is ludicrous. There needs to be a serious re-think, as well as an investigation into how companies with a vested industry were able to force through such a huge change with little apparent regard to the consequences.


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It's not too hard to put together distributions of Squeak programs, but the details are different on different platforms. This page will hopefully be a place to accumulate some of the odds and ends needed to build distributions for each platform.
With the directory set up like this, type "build julexp" and distributions will appear in the "build" subdirectory.
There is nothing sacred in this setup. It's just something Lex Spoon put together one day to play around with Squeak distributions. You can see some of the results at Julia Explorer.
Feel free to improve these scripts or to add new ones. It should be really easy to set this up to compile Mac distrutions, for example.
Isn't a pile of Unix scripts out of place on the Squeak swiki? Well, kinda. Although, "Unix" scripts actually can be run without too much trouble on just about any platform.
Actually, it's a great idea. Go for it, it would be great!


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While we can still participate in many of the same activities, some of the commentary involved in a shared visual experience can be missed. Sometimes I feel like I have to fake "ooh-ing" and "aw-ing" over that cute or funny scene everyone is pointing at, lest I feel out of the loop. We often can't dart from person to person at a party, spotting friends across the room.
Some of this is unavoidable, but friends and family who go out of their way in social settings can make a huge difference. Even when I can't spot you in public, I still appreciate being acknowledged and greeted.
For example, I love it when a parent of someone in my daughter's kindergarten class comes up to me in the grocery store and tells me who they are, even if I've met them before, and starts a conversation. I can't stand it when someone tells me, after the fact, that they were near me in a public setting — "Oh, I saw you at the movie theater last week!" — but didn't make their presence known at the time.
It's a weird feeling when people can spot you, but you're not able to see them. It can leave you feeling self-conscious and awkward. When someone passes me and just says, "Hi, Joy!" without identifying themselves, I sometimes spend the next 10 minutes trying to figure out who it was.
On the flip side, when someone says, "Hi, Joy, it's Lindsay!" I can ask how her daughter is or spout off a relevant comment.


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alexander_37
Say Lebron becomes a free agent next year because he opts out and the NBA institutes a new rules where teams can sign a player to a max money deal in cap space but pay him a signing bonus of whatever they want as a negotiating tactic but it had to be a 5 year max deal.
How much do you think teams would pay.
What is arguably the best player on earth worth to an NBA franchise.
jaydubb
Well, some of the best NBA teams generate hundreds of million dollars in revenue each year.. A good portion of that is because of their best player, which in this case would be lebron.. I could still see a franchise pay lebron 50 mill per year and still have a good return on investment.
KnicksorBust
Over the course of a 5 year deal we might be talking $150 million.
FlashBolt
To be honest, I think LeBron is worth upwards of $50 million a year. What he does for a team is just unmatched.
mightybosstone
I would look at it like profit sharing. Take whatever profit that team makes in a season and just give Lebron half of it. If a team makes $200 million in a year, Lebron gets $100 million. If they make only $20 million, he gets $10 million. But he's worth that much to a team. Or maybe a more fair route would be to look at a team's profits prior to Lebron's acquisition and following Lebron's acquisition and just give him like 60-70% of the difference.
valade16
I think you can look to some of the monster deals MLB players are getting and extrapolate from there.
IndyRealist
If the bonus does not count against the cap and it is a one time thing, I think you could safely say $50-100m depending on the market. I'm not sure anyone actually answered in terms of a signing bonus, like the OP stated.
Kaner
Right now salary bonus is taken out of the total contract so if it's what Lebron wants then any team that could afford him would probably pay the Max contract up front so ~130m+, if it's completely separate from the actual contract then I think he'd get at least 80m and probably over a 100m in the 100-150 range. Wouldn't be surprised if we saw some really crazy offers from someone like Mikhail Prokorov where making money is an afterthought.
slashsnake
Interesting... ESPN did a hypothetical on there and came up with 161 mil over 3 years.
They figured ticket sales (and 60% need a 3 year season ticket commitment, ie. if you bought season tickets last year for the Heat, you had to buy them for this year and next year too).
They added in additional playoff games vs. where the Heat were before (he got 70% of the credit for more of them).
Sponsorships (doubled with Lebron to be a heat sponsor and came with a 5 year commitment)
Jersey sponsorship which is very likely to be starting soon (how would you like your brand on Lebron's jersey vs. some other teams)
In house merchandise sales (outside arena merchandise is revenue shared)
Team brand value (figure Cavs lost 150 mil in value in 2 years after Lebron left)
Team TV deal.
So... figure he's worth 55 mil a year,
With a 130 mil 5 year max, that makes it about a 145 mil signing bonus.
tredigs
It's interesting because we know what the best of Lebron is. We know that he's one of the top 10 best players of all time, but we also know that he's not guaranteed to show up as a superstar in the Finals. We also know that he's past his prime physically. He's also a media juggernaut and will garner a team more attention than any other by default.
So tough to say without being entrenched in the business, but I'd guess 45 mil a year for 5 years would be a fair salary.


But I will not be cruel to the rhubarb, it leads a heathy, outdoor life. The evil ways of the Rhubarb Triangle stop at the Newcastle ferry. We don't "force" our rhubarb to do anything it doesn't want to do. And, frankly, it doesn't want to do very much.
Let me get this straight: There is not very much that your rhubarb doesn't want to do?
Okay, I'll try and look at it more positively.
Well, the smaller the more delicate. You should be happy they're puny. We had the rough kind rather than the red 'wine' rhubarb, so we had to harvest them early for them to be edible.
Is that right? Thanks. I had no idea, though it stands to reason.
That's exactly the right size to eat, although the stalks could be a little longer. Later in the season they'll get thicker (if you don't pull them all out to eat them) and they won't be as tender.
Some people prefer Sili's green kind, especially for pies, although the stalks on those are usually thicker, because they have a sharper, tarter flavor. (They also require more sugar in the recipe.) If you make the kind of pie with eggs and grenadine syrup (strawberries optional) , you'll definitely want the red rhubarb.
I just noticed Holly's knees. Are they naturally hairless?
No, we shave them every two weeks.
Holly looks so blissfully content – if you could find a way to bottle that for humans on their way to work, you'd be in the clover (or rhubarb) for life.
I'm very sorry about your flu, Stuart. I'd mail you some rhubarb, but I don't think it would last the trip.
Thanks for the kind thoughts. One of the things I've noticed about the illness is that I've been very observant of the language related to the incident – things like the doctor referring to it as 'the novel flu' and describing the virus as susceptible to Tamiflu, rather than saying that Tamiflu is effective against the virus. Also the fact that I recognised "urticaria", which I developed in reaction to the meds. I blame the company i've been keeping here for this fixation on words.
I noticed the knees, too (or whatever we are supposed to call them — really homologous to our wrists), but guessed that they are a kind of normal callus in an animal that perhaps has frequent occasion to rest on that part.
Even in my addlepated state I knew that you must have been kidding. Wouldn't it be normal for goats' knees to be hairless, given that they can opften be seen kneeling on those very knees?
He probably lied about the arm, too.
It reminds me of the pads cats and dogs have behind their paws.
It should distract you from your misery.
And what about "tgg"? Is that Mr. or Ms. or do we have to invent a new title? And how do you pronounce it? Tug? Tag? Or is it more of a Klingon sort of throat sound?
Yesterday I was unhappy, but today my computer problems are solved.
Tha'ts okay, though, since Nijma isn't my real name.
Yes, my arm is merely Photoshopped.
A horse has hard skin half-way up the inside of his legs. It's called a 'chestnut'.
I gave essentially no thought to the selection of a screen name (is that the right term?) when I wandered into LH the other day and got hooked; I was impatient to begin commenting. I am totally new to the world of blogs. I am thinking of changing my name, but have not thought about it very hard. I need something I can live with, clever but not too clever. Suggestions are welcome.
It's a bit long, though.


The "Galatz" Sniper Rifle was developed by Israeli Military Industries (IMI). It is a sniper modification of the "Galil" Assault Rifle which is widely used in Israeli Armed Forces. Rifle was built in two variants chambered for 7.62 x 51 mm (.308 Win) and 5.45 x 45 mm (.223 Rem) cartridges.
Rifle's automatic works on gas returning principle threw the gas channel. It's internal automatic scheme, barrel's channel locking principle, lock's frame and hammer mechanism is a copy of the AK Assault Rifle developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. "Galatz" execute only single fire. Safety lock when active closes cartridge case extraction opening preventing dust from getting in. When it is active it blocks lock's frame and the trigger. However there is ability to make sure if the car tridge is inside the barrel's channel.
The "Galatz" is fitted with 20-round box magazine. It's design was borrowed from the US Stoner-63 Light Machine Gun. Barrel box lid is similar to Finnish M62 Assault Rifle's.
The "Galatz" Sniper Rifle is completed with standard hardpoint for the optical or night vision sights. It is fitted with 3x magnification sight as standard. However rifle has opened dioptrical sight from Finnish M62 Assault Rifle. This sight is used for sighting in short ranges till 100 m when the main sight is ineffective. Dioptrical sight has two range positons - from 0 to 300 and from 300 to 500 m range. For usage at night it can be fitted with three shining spots. One more feature is that the sniper has ability to use both sights at the same time, as the optical one is displaced left from the sighting line.
Rifle has a folding right wooden buttstock. It's connection mechanisms are similar to Belgium FN FAL Automatic Rifle's "paratrooper" variant. It has adjustable length and cheekpad. Pistol handle is made from plastic and covered with rubber to ensure better grip with a hand. Rifles foregrip is made from wood with built-in folding special "Harris bipod". Last mention can be used for cutting barbed wires.
Heavy barrel is extended comparing with the "Galil" Assault Rifle's one. It's flash-hider can be changed with a sound supressor.
Extreme reliability compared with the AK Assault Rifle. Ability to use the main and additional sights at once. Interchangeable magazines with US ones. Interchangeable parts with the "Galil" automatic rifle. Adjustable buttstock. The "Galatz" joins the best qualities from the separate assault and automatic rifles.
A bit low power for a sniper rifle. The "Galatz" is more likely is a tactical support weapon than a real sniper rifle.


I am referencing a criminal court decision for the first time on Tort Talk since it could have an impact in automobile accident civil matters in which there are allegations that one of the drivers was using a cell phone at the time of the accident which is the subject of the litigation.
In the Lehigh County case of Commonwealth v. Steiner, PICS Case No. 11-1052 (Lehigh Co. May 4, 2011, Anthony, J.), Judge James T. Anthony ruled that an Allentown City ordinance prohibiting the use of a cell phone while operating a motor vehicle was invalid because the Pennsylvania Legislature intended that motor vehicle regulations be uniform throughout the state and this ordinance would subject motorists to unreasonable inconsistencies contrary to the purpose of the Vehicle Code. Defendant's motion to dismiss granted.
In this criminal matter, the defendant was charged with violating the ordinance for using a mobile phone while operating his vehicle. Defendant was found guilty and filed a summary appeal. Following the summary appeal hearing, defendant filed a motion to dismiss alleging that the ordinance was preempted by the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code.
After reviewing the law of preemption, Judge Anthony ruled that the Legislature intended that motor vehicle regulation be uniform throughout the state and that local municipalities need express authorization to enact any ordinances on matter covered by the Vehicle Code. Thus, for the ordinance at issue to be valid, there must be specific authorization in the Vehicle Code permitting the City of Allentown to enact such an ordinance.
The court noted that Section 6109 of the Vehicle Code provides that its provisions shall not be deemed to prevent local authorities from the reasonable exercise of their police powers. The section then follows with 23 specific examples of regulations that are presumed to be reasonable. None of the 23 examples authorized the action taken by the city in enacting the ordinance at issue.
The court also noted that the ordinance did not provide notice to motorists entering into Allentown that cell phone use was forbidden. Judge Anthony stated that "[a] motorist could be utilizing a cell phone while driving in a municipality without a ban and, moments later, be unaware that he was violating the ordinance."
The court found that exposing drivers to such an inconsistency could not be considered reasonable and was contrary to the intended purpose of the Motor Vehicle Code. As such, the court found Ordinance 14782 invalid and defendant's motion to dismiss was granted.
As such, in civil matters in which there is an allegation of negligence on the part of any driver involved based upon that driver's alleged use of a cell phone at the time of an accident in violation of a local ordinance, or a claim for punitive damages based upon such facts, this case of Commonwealth v. Steiner may serve to defeat such allegations.