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Dawn Elberta Wells
Dawn Wells with co-stars, Tiny Louise and Natalie Schaffer from the hit T.V series, "Gilligan's Island".
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Mary Neeley
Fraggle Rock - 1984
Fraggle Rock was described by https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/jim-henson-birth-1936-death-1990/192791146 as "a high-energy, raucous musical romp. It's a lot of silliness. It's wonderful." This 1980s television staple was introduced to many 80s children on HBO. In fact, I bet a few of us still have our VHS tapes!
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Daniel Pinna
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Harold Gould
This is a photo of Harold Gould added by Amanda S. Stevenson on November 29, 2020.
Dec 10, 1923 - Sep 11, 2010
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Amanda S. Stevenson
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Patricia Mattick - 1969 Grover Cleveland High School
The 1969 Grover Cleveland High School yearbook photo of the 1960s - 1990s television and movie actress Patricia Mattick.
Patricia C Mattick
Jul 31, 1951 - Dec 6, 2003
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Alex & Jean Trebek on their wedding day
Jean Trebek shared this photo of her and Alex on their wedding day via her instagram. She said: "My family and I sincerely thank you all for your compassionate messages and generosity. Your expressions have truly touched our hearts. Thank you so very, very much. Many Blessings to all, Jean Trebek."
Jul 22, 1940 - Nov 8, 2020
Alex dedicated his life to his passion of entertaining others.
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Alex Trebek - Music Hop
In the mid-1960s, Alex Trebek was the host of CBC-TV's Music Hop, a CBC-TV teen dance show that aired for several years and featured various musical guests. (Barry Wilson/CBC Still Photo Collection)
Jack Chaplain being interviewed in 1964
Jack Chaplain being interviewed in 1964.
Jack L Chaplain
Jul 28, 1942 - Apr 25, 2008
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Mokihana Kiaaina - Naheeti
Naheeti played by Mokihana Kiaaina aka Merllyn Mokihana Kiaaina on The Castaways On Gilligan's Island.
Mokihana Kiaaina
1950s Westerns Movie Stars
Photo of all the Warner Brothers Studio television western stars who had programs on ABC. From left: Will Hutchins ("Sugarfoot" Brewster-Sugarfoot), Peter Brown (Johnny McKay-Lawman), Jack Kelly (Bart Maverick-Maverick), Ty Hardin (Bronco Laine-Bronco), James Garner (Bret Maverick-Maverick), Wayde Preston (Christopher Colt-Colt .45), John Russell (Dan Troop-Lawman).
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Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry
Star Trek creator, producer and writer Gene Roddenberry interacting with fans after his lecture at the Student Union of the University of Texas in Austin Texas 1976.
Gene Wesley Roddenberry
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Commander Spock and Captain James T. Kirk
Commander Spock and Captain James T. Kirk, played by Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, pictured here in the original series.
William Alan Shatner
Mar 22, 1931 - Unknown
Rock Group "Chicago" "There's Gold in Them Thar Hills"
Hour long TV special "Meanwhile Back At the Ranch" shot on location in Central City, Colorado and telecast, Friday, August 16th 1974.
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Jesse Dean Williams
A wonderful portrait by Arthur K. Miller. I have met Dick Clark in person many times and he was always cheerful and did a lot for clean-cut teenagers.
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Michael A. Zabonik
This is a photo of Michael A. Zabonik added by Kathy Pinna on August 5, 2020.
Jul 14, 1961 - Unknown
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Kathy Pinna
Richard D. Goddard
Before he became a tv meteorologist, Dick Goddard wanted to be a cartoonist for Disney. In this photo, he shows his playful side.
Feb 24, 1931 - Aug 4, 2020
Wilford Brimley - Cocoon 1985
Wilford Brimley with Barret Oliver taken during the filming of the 1985 movie Cocoon.
Sep 27, 1934 - Aug 1, 2020
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Regis Philbin, Joey Bishop, and Jack Benny
A photo of (l to r), Regis Philbin, Joey Bishop, and Jack Benny.
Added Jul 27, 2020 by: Kathy Pinna
Regis Philbin
A formal photo of Regis Philbin taken in the 1950s.
John Gulbis
This is a photo of John Gulbis added by Karen Frazier on February 27, 2020.
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Alston Decost
A photo of Alston Decost
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Hellen Ball
Walter Ransom Gail Baker
This is Walter Ransom Gail Baker, Watching television in 1938, as vice-president of General Electric. He is watching one of the first televisions. The cathode ray tube was so long that it was mounted vertically, and the image was viewed in a mirror reflection.
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Gaye Thomas
Fred M Rogers
A photo of Fred McFeely Rogers in one of his trademark sweaters. (One of his sweaters is in the Smithsonian Museum.) Fred was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister (he made sure until his death that his ordination was up to date). Rogers was famous for creating, hosting and composing the theme music for the educational preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968–2001), which featured his kind-hearted grandfatherly personality, and for his direct connection to his audience. 33 years on the same television show! How many children learned kindness from him?
Fred McFeely Rogers
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Carl S Barbettini relatives
A photo of reatives of Carl S Barbettini
Carl S Barbettini
Jul 12, 1912 - May 14, 1992
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Rowan and Martin cast, 1968
A photo of some of the cast of the Rowan and Martin Show during their first season in 1968: Alan Sues, Jo Anne Worley, Lily Tomlin, Ruth Buzzi, and Gary Owens.
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin
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60 minutes, 1968
A photo of the first season of "60 minutes".
Columbia serial shorts
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Alyssa McIntosh
Herbert Akerberg
A photo of Herbert Akerberg
Jun 25, 1897 - Nov 6, 1964
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Norma C Dodd
A photo of Norma C Dodd, "Hog Buyer" on 4/24/1955 episode of What's My Line? (With host John Daly)
Oct 19, 1902 - Nov 21, 1997
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George Paul
Donald Mecray Williams
My uncle Don (Donald Mecray Williams. born 1924) worked for RCA for a while.
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Wendy Susskind
Joan Rivers with Johnny Carson
Joan Rivers (Joan Alexandra (Molinsky) Rosenberg) was born June 8, 1933 In Brooklyn New York, the daughter or immigrant Russian Jews. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College and after trying a few other jobs began a career as a stand up comedian at a time when women weren't accepted as stand up comedians. She was always one gutsy lady - breaking into a career that wasn't easy for a woman, recovering and thriving after the suicide of her husband (which left her bankrupt), changing her image and material to reflect current standards, and working until she died. (Not to much all of the plastic surgery!) Joan died on September 4 2014 in Manhattan, New York - not far from where she was born. This is a picture of her with Johnny Carson on the tonight show, early in her career.
John William "Johnny" Carson
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James Garner, actor
A photo of James Scott Bumgarner (James Garner) born April 7, 1928, taken in the 1950's. He was born in Norman, Oklahoma, the youngest of 3 boys. His mother died when he was 5 and he and his brothers went to live with relatives until his father remarried. His relationship with his step-mother was rocky at best, and her actions led to a divorce by his father. He joined the Army during the Korean War and won a Purple Heart during that conflict. After the war, he turned to acting, legally changing his name to "Garner". He is probably best known to Baby Boomers as Bret Maverick on "Maverick" and Jim Rockford in "The Rockford Files". My favorite movie role of his was in "Support Your Local Gunfighter" - he was good looking and funny! James Garner died on July 19, 2014 in Brentwood Hollywood of natural causes. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
James Scott Garner
Apr 7, 1928 - Jul 19, 2014
Ann B. Davis, Brady Bunch
RIP Alice. A picture of Ann B Davis and Allan Melvin - Alice and Sam the butcher on "The Brady Bunch." Ann Bradford Davis was born Schenectady, New York on May 5, 1926. She first became well-known as the character "Schultzy" on the Bob Cummings show. Remember that? But her most well-known character was Alice the housekeeper on the Brady Bunch. . Ann died June 1, 2014 after complications from a fall at her home in San Antonio Texas. She never married and had no children.
Ann Bradford Davis
May 5, 1926 - Jun 1, 2014
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Russell Johnson - The Professor on Gilligan's Island
Russell David Johnson (shown here in a promotional shot for the television show Black Saddle) is an American actor best known for his role as "The Professor" on the sitcom Gilligan's Island. Russell Johnson also had roles in the Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, The Invaders, Lassie and many other movies and television shows.
Russell David Johnson
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Earl E. & Clara Hicks
A photo of Earl E Hicks with wife Clara
Earl E Hicks
Nov 4, 1900 - Jan 15, 1996
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Tracie Hicks
James Joseph Gandolfini, Jr.
A yearbook photo of James Gandolfini. James is best remembered as playing Tony Soprano in the HBO series "The Sopranos". James was born in Westwood, New Jersey in 1961. Both of his parents were Italian. So perhaps playing a Mafia boss from New Jersey wasn't much of a stretch? He acted in many films, on television, and even on Broadway. He died of natural causes in Rome, Italy, on June 19, 2013. He leaves behind a wife and a son and a daughter.
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Peter Ellstrom Deuel
A photo of Peter Ellstrom Deuel
Feb 24, 1940 - Dec 31, 1971
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Bev LaRue
Jonathan Winters, Comic
Jonathan Winters as "Maude Frickert" one of his many hilarious characters. Jonathan Harshman Winters III was born November 11, 1925 in Dayton Ohio. While his grandfather had owned a bank and his father was an investment banker, like many families of the era the Great Depression of the 1930's decimated the family's fortunes. His parents separated and he and his mother moved to Springfield Ohio to live with his grandmother. After serving in the Marines in World War 2, he went on to study cartooning and met his wife (married until her death in 2009), Eileen Schauder. They had two children. After leaving the art career he was pursuing and entering radio, Jonathan broke into television and movies, becoming one of the most famous comedians of his day. His comedic characters ranged from Maude Frickert (shown) to impersonating the voice of President John Kennedy on the Jack Paar show. Another generation of television watchers knew him as "Mearth" the son of the title characters on "Mork and Mindy." He was a comedic hero of Robin Williams. Jonathan died on April 11, 2013 at the age of 87 in Montecito, California. He brought a lot of laughter and joy to generations of Americans and will be sorely missed.
Jonathan Harshman Winters, Iii
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Brian Birge, 1970's
A photo of Brian Birge, 1924 - 1979.
Brian Birge
Jan 28, 1924 - November 1979
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Leanna Birge
Annette Joanne Funicello - RIP
Annette Joanne Funicello, born October 22nd, 1942 in New York, made famous initially for her role in Disney's Mickey Mouse Club died today April 8th, 2013 in Bakersfield California after battling Multiple Sclerosis for 25 years. Annette Funicello was the last original Mouseketeer (selected by Walt Disney himself!) during the 1950's, was the star of multiple teen Beach Party movies during the 1960's with co-star Frankie Avalon, the singer of pop songs Tall Paul and Pineapple Princess, and of course played Mary Contrary in the 1961 film Babes in Toyland.
Annette Joanne Funicello
Oct 22, 1942 - Apr 8, 2013
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Todd Marcus
meet the bass clarinetist
Bass clarinetist, composer, and arranger Todd Marcus is one of the few jazz artists worldwide to focus exclusively on use of the bass clarinet as a primary instrument in jazz. While use of bass clarinet in jazz typically leans heavily towards avant-garde and free-jazz styles, Marcus' presents the instrument with a modern straight-ahead jazz approach. His music swings hard with both fiery and introspective intensity but also maintains a strong lyrical sensibility. Based in Baltimore, MD, Marcus actively leads small ensembles such as the Todd Marcus Quartet, Trio, and Duo as well as his nonet, The Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra.
Self taught in jazz theory and composition, Marcus' compositions draw largely on straight-ahead jazz and classical influences but over recent years have also increasingly explored the Middle-Eastern sounds from his Egyptian-American heritage. His work includes international performances, clinics, and radio play and he has worked with other jazz artists such as Bennie Maupin, Don Byron, Larry Willis, Ralph Peterson, Odean Pope, Tim Warfield, Gary Thomas, Xavier Davis, George Colligan, Orrin Evans, Sean Jones, and Joel Frahm. Marcus balances his music career by running Newborn Holistic Ministries, a nonprofit addressing poverty related issues in his Baltimore, Maryland neighborhood. The organization runs an art program providing children and adults with alternatives to drugs and violence in the community, a recovery program for women overcoming drug addiction and homelessness, and has achieved significant community revitalization by renovating abandoned buildings and vacant lots.
For more, visit: toddmarcusjazz.com
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Just upgraded to 2.4.9 SmartSDR and the audio playback no longer comes out of my speakers connected to my 6700 when I try to transmit a recorded CQ. Plays back fine when I click PC Audio. Did something change?
OK. Also running 2.4.9 on a 6600 and have DAX 1 selected. I can retransmit recorded audio but it does not come through the speakers connected to the radio/ I do not have PC Audio/remote enabled. What am I missing?


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Central Bank update to Stock Connect Q&A following settlement system enhancements
The Central Bank of Ireland has updated its Q&A (UCITS ID 1015 and AIFMD ID 1094) relating to the Shanghai-Hong Kong and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect programmes ("Stock Connect"). The Q&A has been updated to coincide with the roll-out of a real-time delivery versus payment ("RDVP") settlement system under Stock Connect, which has been approved by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong ("SFC") and officially went live on 20 November 2017.
Move from an integrated broker-custodian model to a multi-broker model
The Central Bank's original Q&A had the effect of imposing an integrated broker-custodian model under Stock Connect by stating that "arrangements where the broker of the investment fund is a participant of HKSCC but not an entity within the depositary's custodial network, will not satisfy the provisions of the relevant legislation". This condition was intended to mitigate against the counterparty risk exposure to a broker which arose due to a time lag in settlement between the delivery of shares to a broker and receipt of cash for the shares. However, deployment of this integrated model in practice meant that trading could only take place via a broker affiliated to a custodian bank, resulting in the use of a narrower selection of brokers than would otherwise be available. The roll-out of RDVP under Stock Connect was devised to address the counterparty risk exposure and is to be used in conjunction with Special Segregated Accounts ("SPSAs"), which were introduced in April 2015 under an earlier operational enhancement. It is intended that the use of RDVP together with SPSAs will facilitate a move from an integrated to a multi-broker model, subject to the depositary being satisfied that it can meet its safekeeping obligations under such arrangements.
Compliance with the Q&A
Accordingly, and following a submission by Irish Funds (member login required), the Central Bank has now relaxed the aforementioned restriction to acknowledge the availability of RDVP. The Central Bank has chosen in its Q&A to highlight arrangements that it does not view as compliant rather than to prescribe what it deems compliant, noting that it is incumbent on the depositary to ensure that its legal obligations can be met at all times. In this regard, the Q&A now highlights that where RDVP is not being availed of and where the broker is not within the depositary's custodial network, compliance would not be achieved. Consequently, the changes to the Q&A will enable depositaries to determine that it is appropriate for the fund to deal with brokers outside the custody network under Sto ck Connect when RDVP is being used under the SPSA model. However, if no action is taken to utilise RDVP, then the Q&A will continue to apply as before, with the need to maintain an integrated broker-custodian model.
Irish Funds advocated for a complete removal of the Stock Connect Q&A in light of the enhancements that have been made to the infrastructure. While the Central Bank has decided to maintain the Q&A, the above changes provide scope for Irish domiciled funds and their depositaries to avail of these enhancements and to consequently determine that it is appropriate to move away from the integrated broker-custodian model. Further details on the operational arrangements are available in a circular from the Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited ("HKSCC").
Bond Connect update
Bond Connect is a new mutual market access scheme that allows investors from Mainland China and overseas to trade in each other's bond markets through connection between the respective Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong market infrastructures. The "Northbound", or international trading link into Mainland China, officially commenced on 3 July 2017.
While Bond Connect is part of the overall "China Connect" initiative, it is distinct from Stock Connect and a number of matters need to be addressed in order to facilitate access to Bond Connect for Irish domiciled funds. Further clarification, including an FAQ on Bond Connect, are anticipated in the near future. Irish Funds is in contact with various parties involved in Bond Connect and discussions have also taken place with the Central Bank in relation to Bond Connect. An industry submission to the Central Bank will be required to demonstrate that the depositary's obligations can be met under Bond Connect and is planned once all of the necessary confirmations and clarifications have been provided.
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Our Bed & Breakfast is easy to find. We are located one mile off of Interstate 40 and minutes from Downtown Morganton and Lake James.
Take I-40 to Morganton, NC (between Asheville and Hickory). About 5 miles west of Morganton, take Exit #98 (Causby Road). Then, follow the Bed & Breakfast signs!


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Students' talent showcase
Published: 16:03 Tuesday 26 February 2019
Wetherby vocal coach Steph Baker will be showcasing the talents of her students next month.
An afternoon of performances will be given on Sunday March 10, 1-5pm, at the Engine Shed in Wetherby.
The professional musician and vocal coach said: "All students performing come to me for singing/guitar/piano lessons.
"It will give them an opportunity to perform on a stage."
Modern pop songs will be performed by the singing, guitar and piano students, aged seven up to 60 years.
Steph performs solo throughout the region, at various events and also with function band Reggie and the Screamers.
Tickets, £5, from the Engine Shed.
Walks diary for the week ahead


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Child Suicide and Abortion Eugenics: The Dutch Way of Death Is Coming to America
Thomas McArdle
A teenage girl, as beautiful as she is intelligent, and boasting a horde of friends, online and off, writes a bestselling, award-winning book at the age of 16, filled with eloquence and designed to help others. She has a fruitful life ahead of her.
At 17 this inspiring young Dutch woman, Noa Pothoven, apparently died of self-starvation on Sunday, in her family home with the passive consent of her parents.
She had been raped by two men at 14, and was sexually assaulted at a children's party at 11, and she found the pain of the memories "unbearable."
Dutch law allows children as young as 12 to "choose" euthanasia. Juxtaposing that, capital punishment was officially abolished in the Netherlands in 1870, though Nazi officers were executed by the Dutch military as late as 1952. In 1983 the ban was added to the Dutch Constitution so that now there can be no exceptions.
The "special provisions dealing with requests from minors (12 to 17 years of age) for termination of life and assisted suicide" require that "the parents or guardians need to agree to the request."
Noa's case fell under the provision stating that minors "who are 16 or 17 years of age can make the request without their parents' permission, although the parents do need to be involved in the discussions." While in Holland "Euthanasia is not permitted in the case of minors aged 11 or under," under the law, "One exception is the termination of life of newborn infants suffering extreme pain and discomfort. Reports of such cases are initially reviewed by the central committee on late-term termination of pregnancy and termination of life in newborn babies."
The United States of America does not yet have a "Central Committee On Termination of Life in Newborn Babies" — although if we ever do, Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, beleaguered for months now by a blackface scandal and refusing to resign in the wake of it, would be the perfect chairman. In January he described how state law would allow a baby born during a late-term abortion to be refused help as he or she is dying.
"The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother," Northam said.
Lives Not Worth Living
Those in the abortion rights movement in the U.S. usually remember not to use the word "infant," but both Northam and the Dutch government have apparently moved beyond feeling the need for such caution.
In the case of the Netherlands, they are very far beyond. The government is using prenatal screening to convince mothers to abort as many babies with Down's Syndrome as possible, the rationale being that such a life is not worth living and those with Down's are a financial burden on the state.
Two years ago, Charlotte Fien, then 21 years old, who has Down's Syndrome and is an activist on behalf of herself and others with the condition, got a standing ovation for her speech before the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva, where she likened such targeted abortions of Down's babies to the Nazis' eugenics-based euthanasia programs.
"I am not suffering," Fien declared. "I am not ill. None of my friends who have Down's Syndrome are suffering either. We live happy lives," she said, adding that "We just have an extra chromosome" and "We are still human beings. We are not monsters. Don't be afraid of us" and "Please don't try to kill us all off."
There is a seeming distinction between Holland's euthanasia and assisted suicide statutes and those in the U.S., most infamously Oregon, in that you don't have to be dying or in physical pain for the Dutch government to help you kill yourself. "It is difficult to establish objectively whether suffering is unbearable," it states, adding that "physician-assisted suicide at the request of a chronic psychiatric patient is" not "prohibited in all cases," and pointing out that "Around two thirds of Dutch psychiatrists believe that assisting the suicide of a psychiatric patient can be acceptable in certain situations, although not all them would be willing to actually do so."
In actual cases of assisted suicide in the U.S., however, emotional and mental distress can be as much a factor as physical pain — which means that the logic is there, ready and waiting, to extend legal assisted suicide to those not terminally ill and in no physical discomfort.
An example was Brittany Maynard, the victim of an aggressive brain tumor who at 29 moved from San Francisco to Oregon in 2014 to take advantage of the state's euthanasia law. In an article giving the rationale for her decision, she wrote as much of the non-physical suffering for herself and loved ones as of her own pain from the cancer.
"I probably would have suffered in hospice care for weeks or even months. And my family would have had to watch that. I did not want this nightmare scenario for my family," she wrote, seeking to avoid "weeks or months in tremendous amounts of physical and emotional pain."
Having the euthanasia medicine "in my possession, I have experienced a tremendous sense of relief," she added. "Having this choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a tumultuous time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain," she wrote.
"I hope for the sake of my fellow American citizens that I'll never meet that this option is available to you. If you ever find yourself walking a mile in my shoes, I hope that you would at least be given the same choice and that no one tries to take it from you."
Change & Confusion In The Value of Human Life
But the logic is glaring. Why must the choice be available only for those walking a mile in Brittany's shoes? What about Noa's fellow teenagers walking in her shoes? Or 12-year-olds who no longer wish to live?
For that matter, why not supply the hemlock to someone of any age suffering from, say, a broken heart, or a ruined career? The Dutch say a preteen is competent to choose suicide. From 1990 to 2002 the Netherlands also set the age of consent at 12 years old. Even today the consent age is 11 in Nigeria, 12 in the Philippines, and 13 in Japan.
Western civilization is allowing the value of human life to become ever more amorphous and confused, from lawmakers of the left in Europe to religious authorities that now extend even to the Pope. Executing a violent criminal is now a shameful vestige of our savage past, but suicide and infanticide — even with a eugenics purpose — are no longer classified alongside murder and manslaughter.
Noa Pothoven had everything to live for, and in a few years, the 17-year-old would have realized it. Just as some of the 17-year-old girls in any American town who feel worthless right this moment, because of some heartache or family matter or age-old teen trauma, will realize it when more time passes. She would have marveled that her younger self could rebound from a wrenching tragedy and precociously write her valuable, remarkably mature book, titled Winning Or Learning, that reflects on the lessons she and others could learn from the pain. What other books would she have written that are now lost to us?
This extraordinary young lady became subject to the power of suggestion. A culture and a legal regime that presents suicide as a qualified positive will find suicide embraced as a normal choice — including by those who literally have the most to lose (in terms of time): the young. This teenage girl actually inquired about suicide with the Life End Clinic in The Hague without the knowledge of her parents. If there were no Life End Clinic and laws enshrining suicide as morally acceptable, Noa's life might very well not yet have ended.
The popular culture always tells us in what great esteem we hold survivors. The great esteem the Dutch and many others in changing Europe have for giving up on one's own life — i.e. being an anti-survivor — for taking innocent life, refraining from taking guilty life, and treating life as expendable in the quest to eradicate undesirables, has already begun to spread to America.
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Tom McArdle @MacArdghail, longtime Senior Writer for Investor's Business Daily, was a White House Speechwriter for President George W. Bush, National Political Reporter for Washington political columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Managing Editor of Human Events, and has worked as a writer for CNN and the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. His work has appeared in National Review, the American Spectator, The Hill, the Washington Examiner, Newsmax, and the National Catholic Register. He has appeared on Fox News and numerous talk radio programs. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, M. Stanton Evans' National Journalism Center in Washington, Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, and at 17 was one of Curtis Sliwa's original "Magnificent 13" Guardian Angels.
21st Century Question: When Is Assisting Suicide Acceptable?
the #1 Itinerary says:
Great post 🙂
Marilyn Crawford says:
When you live in a nation where rape is the norm, and criminals walk, who can find peace? Only the rapist?
galieno (@galieno) says:
"A burden on the state" pretty much says it all. And to those clamoring for national health care, in this country, remember… do not get old, or sick, maimed or compromised in any fashion… lest you, too, become an expensive "burden on the state."
Victoria Graves says:
What would Corrie ten Boom think? Not even 80 years ago, risking her life to save people deemed inhuman by Hitler. All of those poor men giving up their lives on D-Day to eradicate the world of Hitler, his evil eugenics and murderous acts. Evil masquerading as humanity is the most insidious. God help us all..
Timmy Seventy-Five (@TimmySeventy) says:
Cognitive dissonance. When horrific regret meets utter hilarity, as one realizes that the smartest species on the planet, and tremendously smarter then all the others, no less, proves to be the only species abjectly stupid enough to, in all probability be preparing to pull the trigger on its own extinction. And all the while exclaiming; "I'm smarter than you, and so I'm far better than you."
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The Broome Hut is located one mile west of Highway 40 along the Second Creek Trail. This newly renovated hut in the 10th Mountain Division Hut System provides easy backcountry ski access to Second Creek Basin, which receives 500" of snow per year. Hikers can continue over the basin across massive tundra flats to the Mount Nystrom Trail in the Vasquez Peak Wilderness.


Superior Court Judge Sharon Gleason heard arguments Tuesday in the suit, brought by a national animal rights group and seven Alaska residents against the state, seeking to block the wolf kill.
On their behalf, Anchorage attorney Jim Reeves said the proposed McGrath wolf control program is neither warranted nor legal. State game managers and biologists have skipped necessary procedural steps and don't have the biological data that state law requires before shooting the animals from low-flying airplanes, he argued Tuesday.
"We got here because of politics; we didn't get here because of biology," Reeves said.
State attorney Kevin Saxby countered that the McGrath plan is well documented, both biologically and administratively, and is long overdue. Moose will flourish and subsistence hunters will benefit when the wolves are gone, especially after an effort this spring that removed predatory bears and boosted moose calf survival rates, he said.
"The point of the program now is to grab the benefit," Saxby said.
Gleason started Tuesday's hearing by acknowledging the complex and emotional nature of the wolf-control issue, especially shooting wolves from airplanes. But because the law still allows aerial shooting as part of formal predator-control programs, she said, "My primary role is to determine whether the Board of Game complied with the applicable laws."
Shooting wolves from airplanes was common practice before statehood in 1959, but aerial sport hunting was banned nationwide in 1972. In 1996 and again in 2000, Alaska voters outlawed a similar practice known as land-and-shoot hunting. Pilots would track wolves from the air, then land, hop out and shoot.
But the law still allows the state to authorize aerial shooting for predator control. The Alaska Board of Game approved such a program around McGrath, and the Department of Fish and Game was ready to permit as many as three pilot/gunner teams to begin shooting when Gleason last week temporarily halted the effort.
Opponents of the kill, including the Connecticut-based group Friends of Animals, contend that the Game Board failed to meet several legal hurdles, including one of the most basic: proving a shortage of moose in hunting unit 19D-East.
Using Fish and Game estimates, attorney Reeves calculated that the area contains 4,000 moose or more, which is above the minimum population goal of 3,000 to 3,500. There's no need to kill wolves there, he said.
Reeves' estimate was disputed by Matt Robus, director of the Division of Wildlife Conservation, who said population estimates are hard to pin down, but the actual population is closer to 2,700, well below the goal.
He also noted that the moose are distributed unevenly, making it difficult for local hunters to achieve a harvest goal of 130 to 150 moose per year. Robus said hunters hadn't shot that many in 10 years.
Fish and Game contends that by eliminating wolves in and around a small portion of the hunting unit, the 530-square-mile experimental micro-management area, moose numbers will rise, eventually creating more for subsistence hunters, he said.
Wolf-protection advocates also challenged the harvest figures. The reported harvest is below the Game Board's goals, Reeves said. But there is also an unreported harvest, which boosts the total to an acceptable range, Reeves said.
Robus disagreed, saying a new permit system gives Fish and Game a better estimate of hunter success than before. Since the permit hunt began, the average moose harvest is closer to 70 per year, well below the goal, he said.
The department's bear-removal project this spring provided another source of disagreement in court Tuesday. To improve moose calf survival around McGrath, biologists tranquilized and relocated nearly 90 black and brown bears from the area.
It worked, said state attorney Saxby, producing nearly 80 calves more than usual. But the program's success is threatened unless the wolf-control program continues, he added. Biologists believe wolves could kill 25 of the new calves, plus 100 adult moose.
Reeves countered that shooting as many as 45 wolves to save some 25 moose calves makes little sense.
Neither attorney would speculate on how Gleason might rule. She said in court that she expected to have a decision by the end of the week.
If she rules against Friends of Animals and the seven Alaskans, Fish and Game could issue permits immediately to three private pilots and gunners to start shooting the McGrath-area wolves. Whether they will have the necessary daylight and snow cover to find and shoot the wolves is another question, biologists said this week.


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Камураска — муниципалитет на южном берегу реки Святого Лаврентия в канадском регионе Ба-Сен-Лоран в Квебеке. Входит в состав муниципального округа Камураска. Входит в Ассоциацию самых красивых деревень Квебека, в рейтинге которой входит в состав верхней двадцатки.

Название «Kamouraska» происходит от алгонкинского слова, означающего «где на краю воды растут тростники»

История
Район был впервые заселён в конце XVII века. В 1674 году это была Сеньория Камураска, административная единица правительства Квебека (фр.). В этой местности существует давняя традиция ловли угря, а в деревне находится выставочный центр по ловле угря.

География
Вдоль реки находятся солончаковые болота, а рядом с деревней расположен экологический заповедник. Птицы гнездятся на болоте и обитают на нём во время перелётов. Скалы вдоль реки служат местом гнездования сапсанов, бакланов и голубых цапель. Иногда в реке можно увидеть тюленей. В определённые времена года комары на местных болотах могут быть особенно агрессивными.

До деревни можно добраться по шоссе-20. Через деревню проходит шоссе-132.

Убийство Луи-Паскаля-Ахилла Таше в 1839 году послужило сюжетом для романа «Камураска» Анны Эбер (1970), по которому в 1973 году Клод Жютра поставил одноимённый фильм.

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Olympic offshoots: How the 2010 Winter Games left its mark on Whistler, Vancouver and beyond
More than 40 years after its first attempt, the resort of Whistler finally achieved what it had initially set out to do: host a Winter Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee approved the Vancouver-Whistler bid in 2003, and on Feb.
Feb 23, 2020 7:00 AM By: Dan Falloon
Though the fanfare is long gone and the roar of the crowd has died down, the traces left behind by the Olympic and Paralympic Games are still evident in several ways that were long planned. File photo Dan Toulgoet
More than 40 years after its first attempt, the resort of Whistler finally achieved what it had initially set out to do: host a Winter Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee approved the Vancouver-Whistler bid in 2003, and on Feb. 12, 2010, the world's most impressive athletic stage came to British Columbia.
Though the fanfare is long gone and the roar of the crowd has died down, the traces left behind by the Olympic and Paralympic Games are still evident in several ways that were long planned.
"We started to write the story of what the world would think of us post-Games. We started the talk of what it would be like now, and then we tried to build a Games that would make us feel 10 years on, 20 years on, that we had done a good thing," says Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) CEO John Furlong.
However, there were other side effects that sprouted organically — and even tragically.
Here, Pique looks back at the Olympic effect not just on Whistler and its people, but the province, the nation, and the Olympic movement as a whole.
The athletes
It's no surprise that Whistler has produced more than its fair share of alpine athletes, but the Whistler Sliding Centre's construction allowed for the resort to produce a more diverse set of high-achieving athletes.
It wasn't always easy for those pursuing the new-to-Whistler sliding sports. For luger Reid Watts, declaring his sport of choice resulted in more than a few double takes from his friends' parents.
"'How do you let your son do this?'" he recalls his own parents being asked.
Watts started luging shortly after the track opened, so he was already well on his way when the Olympians showed up in February 2010. Still, seeing the world's best at home lit a fire in him, and just eight years later, at age 19, he rocketed to a 12th-place finish at the PyeongChang Games alongside 2010 athletes Sam Edney, Alex Gough and the doubles team of Tristan Walker and Justin Snith.
"It was a magical time, for sure. I definitely remember really fondly watching all the sliding. I'd been sliding for a year prior to the Games just when the track was opened," he says.
"Watching that, I knew that's where I was destined to be and that's where I had to go, where I wanted to go. Without watching the Olympics at home, I'm sure a lot of that flame wouldn't have shined as bright as it did."
Similarly, a mere eight years after watching Olympic alpine athletes carve Creekside in the new Dave Murray National Training Centre, essentially her own backyard, Mollie Jepsen lined up in the start gate at the Paralympic Winter Games in South Korea.
Just 18, Jepsen went on to win four medals, including gold in the super combined.
Before taking in the Whistler Games, however, Jepsen says she was pursuing gymnastics more avidly. With spring break moved that year to overlap with the Games, Jepsen and her family posted up at their Creekside vacation home, and despite not entirely understanding the significance of the Olympics, she was quickly caught up in the magic of the Winter Games, watching fellow Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) representatives such as Britt Janyk compete.
Mollie Jepsen (left) with mom Abbie Milavsky and brother Curtis at the 2010 opening ceremonies in Whistler. Photo submitted
"My entire life had been shaped by a few moments at the Games, knowing that that is what I wanted to do," she says. "I always wonder if things would have been different if the Games hadn't been in Vancouver because I wouldn't have had that exposure to those athletes and that energy.
"Looking at it now, I was so happy that I got involved in skiing and because of the Games, I found this love for the sport that I wasn't necessarily considering being competitive in at the time."
Being on the world stage herself, Jepsen rekindles the electricity of 2010 each time out.
"It's hard to describe that feeling. It's the same feeling I have now, too, competing at these bigger races, and the same feeling I had at the Games — the want to win, to want to do it," she says.
There's no doubt that local sporting clubs have enjoyed the upgrades the Games provided.
For WMSC executive director Mark Tilston, the most significant legacy is the Dave Murray National Training Centre. The site provides a training and race venue for the athletes.
"It's significant in the development of our athletes and going on and making new Olympians," he says. "The important thing for me is, 'How do we get a legacy out of it that continues to feed the Olympic movement?'"
Before the centre was constructed, Tilston says the club's skiers trekked all over Whistler to find the best possible descents. It's nice, he explains, to have a home.
"There were training slopes, but they moved around the mountain a lot, so now that we've got a dedicated training centre, we've got the equipment all stored up at the top," he says.
Looking at the club's numbers, Tilston notes there was a registration boost shortly after the Games. Though the rise was only temporary, the added presence left its mark, as the influx in membership fees allowed the club to improve its infrastructure.
And, in terms of WMSC presence on the national level, it's no surprise that high achievers such as Stefanie and Katie Fleckenstein, Brodie and Riley Seger, Cameron and Kyle Alexander, Jack Crawford, Broderick Thompson and Asher Jordan were in the sweet spot of their early teenage years at the time of the Olympics, at an age where they could dream big while developing the ability to back it up.
Tilston, the husband of 2010 Olympian Britt Janyk, adds that the Games brought out the best in Whistler's volunteer culture, including the legendary Weasel Workers.
Mollie Jepsen at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games. Photo submitted
"The big thing about the Olympics is it does literally take thousands of people to make it happen and that volunteer culture that the Olympics created has again facilitated smoother events for the 10 years since," he says.
That amplified sense of volunteerism helped set the stage for other major events, according to Mo Douglas, the Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) director of communications and current head of Arts Whistler. Wrangling 2,500 volunteers for Subaru Ironman Canada, which debuted in Whistler in 2011, would have been much more difficult were it not for the latent Olympic spirit.
"We already had a pretty strong culture of volunteerism in Whistler because there already was a number of big festivals," she says. "But the magnitude, it's 25,000 people and 10,000 in the corridor, many of whom were recruited from the corridor because accommodation was a challenge."
She later adds: "I think it brought volunteerism into people's hearts in a much more important way than we've seen in a long time."
Back in the Callaghan, meanwhile, the newly developed Whistler Olympic Park proved to be a boon for local Nordic clubs.
Whistler Nordics president Tony Peiffer notes that before the site opened in 2008, the only option for local skiers was the Lost Lake Trails.
Like WMSC, Whistler Nordics saw a bump in numbers after the Games. While the count eventually waned, those who stuck with the sport have a beautiful park in which to hone their craft.
"We saw some absolutely flourishing years after the Olympics up to 2013 or '14," he says. "The Games are a big part of it. For one, we have a legacy that's second to none. You go skiing out there today, it's absolutely first class. We have a training facility that's first class that kids all get to use."
Another parallel to the alpine club is that several local Nordic skiers are making their mark internationally. Peiffer's daughter, Benita, and Michael Murdoch are set to attend the Junior World Championships in Germany later this month, while a third club member, Joe Davies, was named as an alternate.
"The Olympics played a part in solidifying, in my mind, their joy of sport. That's all you're really giving your kid is the joy of sport," says Peiffer, whose cousin, Arnd, represented Germany in biathlon in 2010.
As well, Whistler Sport Legacies launched the Whistler Nordic Development program in 2016. That very first year, Bobby Kreitz qualified for the International Biathlon Union Youth/Junior World Championships, while five members attended this year's event.
Because of Callaghan Gold stored snow helping athletes start the season early and glacier skiing extending the season into summer, they can realistically ski from October to July.
"They're competitive, which is awesome, which is a legacy that, without something like Whistler Olympic Park, we would never have," Peiffer says.
On a physical level, the local venues most easily associated with the Games are the two then-brand-new sites that hosted competition: the Whistler Sliding Centre and Whistler Olympic Park, both managed by Whistler Sport Legacies (WSL).
Despite concern the sliding centre in particular could become a white elephant (the Cesana Pariol site used for the 2006 Turin Games was ordered dismantled in 2012, for example), the track has managed to reinvent itself and find ways to make its cash flow work, whether it's sending guests down the track in a bobsled or hosting a wedding at its Blackcomb Mountain site.
WSL president and CEO Roger Soane explains that being situated in Whistler is a major factor in the track's success, with a fresh selection of new tourists streaming through the site every year — even if it's just a small portion of the resort's overall tourism base.
"As much as we've been very successful, in the winter, we only put down maybe 6,000 people on that track. As a percentage of the visitors that are coming to Whistler, it's still relatively small," he says. "Hopefully, for many, many years, we will have that same percentage of people that will want to come and experience this Olympic ride.
"If we were putting down 50,000 or 100,000 people a year, I would start to think, 'OK, where are we going to get our new audience from?' But every year, we have new people coming."
With the sliding centre a short car, gondola or bus ride away from Whistler Village, it's easily accessible for visitors to town. The same can't be said for the other venue under WSL's purview, Whistler Olympic Park in the Callaghan Valley.
Though the park has attracted events ranging from Tough Mudder and the Red Bull 400 (even hosting its World Championships last July), Soane acknowledges that its bread and butter will always be the locals.
"It is a different issue because it is so far removed from the village, and we know that visitation to Whistler doesn't always relate to visitation to Whistler Olympic Park," he says. "We're looking at a different audience and rather than it being a bucket-list thing, it's a lifestyle thing for people.
"You drive to Whistler Olympic Park and you're on the edge of the wilderness, which gives you a completely different experience to being in Whistler Village."
Reid Watts competes in FIL World Cup action in Whistler in 2019. File photo Dan Falloon
Early forethought allowed WSL some leeway in finding their post-Olympics footing because of the Games Operating Trust (GOT), which, after an initial $110-million endowment from the provincial and federal governments, grew to $133.6 million by 2007. The Whistler venues received 40 per cent ($53.44-million), as did the Richmond Olympic Oval, while the remaining 20 per cent was placed in a contingency fund.
"We were smart enough at the time to leave money behind to protect the facilities and make sure they were always there," Furlong says. "It's always a challenge for a community to continue to promote itself and to continue to look for events. It's brought people to the community, and these people are world class, every one of them. It's a terrific asset to have and it's obviously important to maintain them and look after them, and I think the society is doing a very good job."
In its most recent report, Whistler's portion of the Games Operating Trust sat at $52.803 million while the overall total was $137.427 million.
Soane credited officials for recognizing a legacy fund was necessary to keep the venues "vibrant and useable," while the organization's tax-free status with the Resort Municipality of Whistler has also helped.
"There were a lot of people who felt that the Whistler legacies would be a drain on the community and on the taxpayer. I'm happy to say that that's not the case. As sporting venues, we know that they are very capital intensive and very operationally intensive," Soane says. "I'm proud that we have not had to go back to the government. We have not had to go to the municipality. We have great partnerships with them."
As well, Whistler Olympic Plaza became the first satellite site for medal presentations and later became the largest green space in Whistler Village, hosting tent-pole events ranging from Subaru Ironman Canada, the RBC GranFondo Whistler, Rogers Hometown Hockey and the B.C. Bike Race, as well as the Whistler Presents concert series and the Whistler Village Beer Festival.
The infra-structure
Hosting the Games kept builders busy away from the venue site as well.
The community of Cheakamus Crossing sprung up as the Athletes' Village, complete with the Whistler Athletes' Centre, as well as 154 townhomes and 67 condo units for resident housing, and a 55-unit apartment block managed by the Whistler Housing Authority. Currently situated on 37 hectares of the overall 136-hectare land grant from the provincial government, further development of Cheakamus Crossing is eyed as a way to maintain the resort's goal of housing 75 per cent of its workers.
Then-mayor Ken Melamed, who served in the role from 2005 to 2011 and was a councillor for nine years prior, says building the new neighbourhood was arguably the largest project ever undertaken by the Resort Municipality of Whistler.
"It's a fantastic neighbourhood — diverse, built on Smart Growth principles using green-building practices," he says. "Our desire was not just to provide resident-restricted housing but also to increase the stock of affordable housing, so the youth hostel going from 25 or 30 beds, really hard to get to on the west side of Alta Lake to over 100 beds, serviced by transit, I think was a huge asset for the community."
Reid Watts at the Whistler Sliding Centre in 2009. Photo submitted
Melamed, who approached the mayor's role with an environmentally conscious perspective, oversaw the installation of the District Energy System into the neighbourhood's homes. Though touted as a greener and cheaper heating alternative, as it extracts energy from treated wastewater, system users faced technical problems and expensive repair bills. Late last year, the RMOW settled with Cheakamus residents, offering homeowners $5,000 apiece if at least 75 per cent of each respective strata agreed and waived the municipality of future liability. That amount is just over a third of the initial installation cost.
For his part, Melamed was sorry for how the system was handled, noting that the RMOW approached the University of British Columbia's environmental economics department as well as an engineering firm to study the proposed system and neither found issues, in theory.
"What nobody bothered to tell us back there was that it was so new that within the industry, there wasn't the technical expertise to actually build and deliver the system," he says. "It seems like an obvious question now, but it wasn't obvious then.
"We didn't choose a conventional system, so there were cost overruns and breakdowns and it's still a problem for some," he adds.
The other major infrastructure upgrade was the $600-million Highway 99 between Vancouver and Whistler, though Melamed downplays the effect the easier-to-drive roadway had on the resort, noting the portion from Squamish south saw the bulk of the work and it was that community that saw most of the benefits.
Melamed also adds that the roadwork would have been done, Olympics or not, though the Games certainly accelerated the timeline.
The Games also proved to help all of British Columbia's 14 resort municipalities with the introduction of the Resort Municipality Initiative (RMI). As one of the only times a single local government has the ear of higher levels, the RMOW insisted on the program, which is collected as the municipal and regional district tax. Whistler received $7.5 million in RMI funds last year and has taken in $93 million in the program's lifespan. Local projects that have received RMI funding include the Whistler Presents concert series, Gateway Loop, village way finding upgrades, the Alpine Trails Network, Cultural Connector and Village shuttle.
The pain & tragedy
The opening of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games was set to be one of the best days of Besso Gotsadze's life.
As a volunteer with the Georgian delegation, Gotsadze sported his blue jacket, eagerly representing his homeland in his adopted country of Canada.
But one call changed everything.
On Feb. 12, 2010, Gotsadze was informed that there had been an accident at the Whistler Sliding Centre involving luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, one member of the eight-athlete contingent representing Georgia at the Games. Gotsadze remembered being summoned to an information desk where he was informed of the news. A mix of emotions overcame him.
"I will always remember this look. It was like sadness, something, I don't know, but I found out something happened," he recalls. "I went to the hospital and there is blood, blood, blood.
"The one thing that was keeping me up was knowing that I have to be strong because there were young people and other people. I had to keep them up, supporting them."
At the opening ceremony, which went on as planned later in the day, Gotsadze received nothing but warmth from the Canadians he encountered.
Performers regularly hit the Whistler Olympic Plaza stage. Photo Mike Crane/Tourism Whistler
Gotsadze, who came to Canada in 2006 and applied to volunteer with the Georgian delegation the following year, said being accepted for the position was one of his happiest moments. He came to know Kumaritashvili through his work with the delegation and remembers him fondly.
On the 10th anniversary of Kumaritashvili's death, a small group of Georgians, including Georgian ambassador to Canada Konstantin Kavtaradze, went up to the Whistler Sliding Centre with a Georgian priest to hold a short ceremony at the crash site.
Afterwards, the group joined a march through the village organized by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) advocate and first responder Terrance Kosikar, who attended to Kumaritashvili after the crash.
"For us to be able to march through the village with some drumming, some good vibes and everybody waving their flags, dinging their cowbells, bringing out their red mittens and blue suits, and walk in honour of the athletes, ultimately, the goal is to do this walk, say prayer, and pay our respects," Kosikar says in the days before the memorial. "We will do this every single year until they bury me, and we will honour the legacy of Nodar Kumaritashvili."
With an eye on accentuating any positive side effects of Kumaritashvili's death, Gotsadze and the Georgian community also plan to support Kosikar at an event in Vancouver during PTSD Awareness Month in June. On June 6, Kosikar will hold Tire'd of the Stigma at Jack Poole Plaza from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in support of Camp My Way, a program Kosikar founded designed to help first responders with PTSD and their families. The event will wrap up Kosikar's 30-day effort of flipping a 400-pound (181-kg) tractor tire up Brandywine Glacier.
Kosikar has been in contact with the Kumaritashvili family and hopes they can attend the event in June.
For more information, visit campmyway.com.
The Four Host First Nations
An acknowledgement can go a long way, according to Squamish Nation Councillor Kwitelut (Carla George).
For starters, acknowledging one's presence on Indigenous traditional territory is one sign of improved relationships between First Nations and other governments, with subsequent development of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry also positive outcomes, according to Kwitelut.
"Previous to the Olympics, it didn't feel that we were in that place of being able to have that opportunity to acknowledge or engage at the level that we're at now," she says. "To me, it's really changed the outlook between First Nations and governments and municipalities."
Kwitelut was elected to the Squamish Nation council in 2005, and worked with the Nation in the lead-up to the Games. She saw several of the developments firsthand, including the formation of the Four Host First Nations, which teamed Squamish with the Lil'wat, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam to give rise to Indigenous voices in the Games planning, a first for the Olympics.
"Having the ear of the government at the highest level was definitely a lot different from where we were," she says. "Various colleagues were able to call upon the premier and have that kind of dialogue.
"We didn't have to kick the doors down. They were opening up and there was collaboration."
In Whistler, the Nation teamed up with the Lil'wat to build the Squamish-Lil'wat Cultural Centre (SLCC) in advance of the Games, as well as to sign the landmark Master Development Agreement (MDA) with Whistler Blackcomb in 2017.
"[The MDA has] opened up many doors for an opportunity for youth to participate, work on the mountain and ski or board on the mountain," she says.
As well, the newly founded Aboriginal Youth Sport Legacy Fund helped the First Nations Snowboard Team get off the ground in 2004. The program now boasts hundreds of members from more than a dozen nations from British Columbia to Nova Scotia.
Kwitelut also highlights the SLCC's Indigenous Youth Ambassador program, a 16-week immersive cultural and business program for Indigenous youth, for producing, among others, one of Kwitelut's council colleagues as well as a professor at Simon Fraser University teaching Skwxwútszan7mesh Snichim, the Nation's traditional language, one example of a greater respect and acknowledgement of the Nation's culture in education.
As well, the Squamish Nation began flexing its construction-industry muscle in advance of the Olympics as Newhaven Projects Limited Partnership, a joint venture between the Nation and Newhaven Construction Group, which worked on Whistler Olympic Park and the SLCC. The Squamish Nation also teamed up with Musqeam and Tsleil-Waututh to form the MST Development Corporation, which currently oversees six properties consisting of nearly 65 hectares of prime land in Metro Vancouver valued at more than $1 billion.
While Kwitelut focused on the positives from the Games, saying she could not think of any negative aspects herself, she acknowledges there is a long way to go for reconciliation between the First Nations and the rest of the country.
"There's still a lot of work to be done, yes, but I feel that things are starting to shift," she says. "We need to acknowledge the things that have occurred, the atrocities that have occurred, to our people, through being removed from their homes, sent to residential schools. How can we rectify the wrongs that have occurred to our families and to our community?"
The Squamish-Lil'Wat Cultural Centre. Photo Mike Crane/Tourism Whistler
It's especially stark given the recent protests in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, who are standing against the Coastal GasLink pipeline in northern B.C.
Interview requests sent to Lil'wat Nation were not returned.
Douglas, in her current role at Arts Whistler, also recalls an Olympic connection, highlighting the organization staging the world premiere of utszan, a one-woman play by Yvonne Wallace in which she speaks both English and Ucwalmicwts, the traditional language of the Lil'wat. Douglas recalls that colleagues she met during the Games helped bring the partnership to fruition.
The greater Olympic movement
With its environmental credentials, including publishing five sustainability update reports along the way, Indigenous inclusion and, at US$7 billion, a relative bargain compared to the US$51-billion price tag for the Sochi Games just four years later, the 2010 Games seemed to be a turning point for the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic movement.
However, despite London's Summer Games in 2012 keeping some focus on sustainability, subsequent Olympics have left Douglas with the opinion that 2010 marked the "last truly great Games."
Of particular concern to Douglas was the Russian government passing legislation making it illegal to support pro-gay views in 2013. She flew to Sochi to meet with IOC representatives and, later in 2014, the IOC recommended that "non-discrimination on sexual orientation" be included in the sixth Fundamental Principle of Olympism.
"Right on the heels of us, we had the Russian Games, that started out for us with a lot of hope on a different kind of Russia, and the Russia we have in front of us in the world of sport is what exists now," she says. "We went from being the first Games to have a Pride House and expand beyond ethnic diversity to social diversity of LGBTQ [people], which has always been a challenge in sport."
As well, widespread Russian doping at the Games led to 11 of its athletes being banned for life and clean Russian athletes competing under the neutral "Olympic Athletes from Russia" banner in 2018.
"If you look back in recent history, Vancouver in 2010 was one of the better ones from a social-legacy perspective," says Dr. Angela Schneider, the director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western Ontario. "The Sochi question and what happened there—questions around doping, questions around WADA—that didn't touch Vancouver."
Though the Olympic movement within Canada seemed to take a hit with Calgary residents rejecting a bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics in a referendum last year, Schneider feels that it had little to do with the 2010 Games, noting the immense infrastructural and financial obligations of the Games as greater concerns.
"There was a negative reaction with Calgary, and Calgary also hosted the Olympics before that. I don't know for sure how we can draw a causal relationship, particularly, from Vancouver to Calgary on that," she says. "People are a little more leery right now until they see a clear movement away from [the excess], but I think we have been seeing that."
Indeed, the IOC has allowed bids that propose reusing past Olympic venues, with Calgary considering tabbing Whistler Olympic Park to host ski jumping and Nordic combined as part of its bid.
Sustainability has become key beyond the Olympics, according to Ann Duffy, who served as VANOC's chief sustainability officer from 2006 to 2011, a role she described as seeking to "create social benefits for enterprises in the communities that don't typically benefit from mega events like the Olympics." Now based in Whistler with her own company, the Ann Duffy Group, she explains that in working with the successful United 2026 North American bid for the FIFA World Cup, the effects on the host cities came to the fore.
With hosts spread across Canada, the United States and Mexico, the World Cup will have a significantly larger footprint, so developing a climate action plan will be key, Duffy says.
"If you don't think about community and environmental impacts in the host region, you don't get support for the bid," she says. "There's the recognition that if we want to have future cities and regions put their hands up to host the Games or a FIFA World Cup, it needs to have better attention and appreciation for the region after the event is gone."
Other areas of focus for Duffy while with the World Cup bid include promoting ethical conduct, human rights and avoiding corruption, including match fixing.
"It's still not perfect but it is much better than it was certainly when I was working at the Olympics," she says. "When we know better, we can do better."
University of Waterloo economics professor Corey van de Waal explains that while initiatives such as reusing venues will make it more appealing for some cities to throw their names in the ring, a truly stringent focus on sustainability will turn some off.
"[A]ny additional IOC requirements will make the process more cumbersome for host cities. In fact, this new focus will almost certainly dissuade some potential host cities from undertaking the application/bidding process," he writes in an email.
"The IOC mandate for sustainable practices highlights the organization's desire to be seen as taking a leadership role in terms of responsible governance. Whether they wish to be or not, sports organizations and sportspersons are often key influencers of the broader social conscience.
"Some things are worth the extra effort."
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada and, indeed, certain corners of the world are all still feeling the effects of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games here in our resort. With so many of the lasting legacies still in operation, it will be fascinating to see what transpires in the years to come.
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Country Report: Duration of detention Last updated: 20/05/22
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Duration of detention for identification purposes
According to the SOPs applying at hotspots, from the moment of entry, the period of stay in the facility should be as short as possible, in accordance with the national legal framework.
Article 6(3-bis) of the Reception Decree introduced by Decree Law 113/2018 has introduced the possibility to detain asylum seekers in hotspots for the purpose of determining their identity or nationality. After the amendment introduced by Decree law 130/2020 as converted by L. 173/2020, the law states that this should happen in the shortest possible time and for a period not exceeding 30 days and, if identification has not been possible within that time frame, they could be sent to CPR for detention up to 90 days plus an additional 30 days when the migrant belongs to a country with which Italy has signed repatriation agreements.[1]The provision of a detention period up to 30 days and extendable to up to 90 plus 30 days in the CPR seems incompatible with the principle laid down in Article 9 of the recast Reception Conditions Directive according to which an applicant shall be detained only for as short a period as possible. For asylum seekers, this cannot be justified as – given the impossibility of contacting the authorities of the country of origin – it could only coincide with the fotosegnalamento, which certainly cannot take more than a few days.[2]
The reform, introduced by L. 132/2018, confirmed by DL 130/2020 and converted by L 173/2020, has given a legal basis to a practice – that of de facto detention in hotspots – already being implemented. However, as underlined by ASGI the detention still takes place in hotspots without any clear legal basis, in the absence of a written act adopted by the competent authority and validated by a judge, in the absence of a maximum detention period, without proper information provided, in a manner inconsistent with the need to protect the individuals against arbitrariness.[3]
The Guarantor, in the parliamentary debate relating to the conversion into law of the D.L. 130/2020, highlighted how "the non-recognition of the possibility of complaints in hotspots" does not satisfy the requirements laid down in the Khlaifia case, creating an unequal treatment between those held in the CPRs, who will have access to a whole series of guarantees and be able to exercise a whole series of rights, including the possibility to present requests and complaints, and whoever is detained in a hotspot, who will not be able to access any of the aforementioned prerogatives. The Guarantor raised several critical issues on the detention of asylum seekers in hotspots for identification purposes: "the lack of taxability of the conditions of application, the lack of regulation of the methods of detention in the premises identified in the hotspots/governmental reception centres, the inadequacy of the hotspots for detention of 30 days, the lack of proportionality of the maximum terms of detention with respect to other institutions that the law provides for similar purposes".[4] The Guarantor had previously defined the condition of applicants detained for identification in as a "limbo of legal protection".  As a result of detention being practised in a grey legal area or on a de facto basis, applicants who face prison-like conditions do not even receive the same guarantees and legal provisions as prison detainees.[5]
The fact that these places are currently also being used for quarantine, means that detention may be prolonged indefinitely, if the period of precautionary isolation actually starts again every time new people arrive in the quarantine facility.[6]
As of 2021, appropriate places for detention for identification purposes have not yet been identified. Thus, the situation remained almost unchanged as regards de facto detention, which, in the absence of any control of legitimacy by the judicial authority, continued in the hotspots during the identification phase and, in the case of Lampedusa hotspot, even after that phase until the person is finally transferred to another destination depending on his/her legal status.[7]
As already mentioned, no data on persons identified in hotspots is available for 2021. In 2020, out of 4,387 persons detained in CPRs 565 (12%) were released because they were not identified in the timeframe foreseen by the law. In the first four months of 2021, out of 1,490 persons detained in CPRs 187 (12%) were released because they were not identified in the timeframe foreseen by the law.
The hotspot approach is used beyond the actual hotspots centres. In October 2020, ASGI reported that the first line reception facility of Monastir, in Sardinia, was being used as a de facto detention facility.[8] In 2021, ASGI reported many criticalities at the "new border" of Pantelleria, where landed migrants are also channelled in hotspot-like procedures.[9]
Duration of asylum and pre-removal detention
The maximum duration of detention of asylum seekers is 12 months.[10] The duration of pre-removal detention has been decreased from 180 to 90 days, plus 30 days in cases of repatriation agreements with the countries of origin.[11] According to ASGI, the difference between the maximum duration of ordinary detention for third-country nationals (6 months) and the maximum duration of detention of asylum seekers (12 months) appears as an unreasonable violation of the principle of equality provided for by Article 3 of the Italian Constitution, resulting in a discriminatory treatment of the latter category. Moreover, it is not clear if the 30-day duration of detention for identification reasons may or may not be counted in these maximum detention periods.
When detention is already taking place at the time of the making of the application, the terms provided by Article 14(5) TUI are suspended and the Questore shall transmit the relevant files to the competent judicial authority to validate the detention for a maximum period of 60 days, in order to allow the completion of procedure related to the examination of the asylum application.[12] In September 2021, the Specialised Section of the Court of Rome issued a decision clarifying that the validation request by the Questura to the Court is to be presented within 48 hours from the moment in which the applicant made (i.e., making stage) his application for international protection.[13]
However, the detention or the extension of the detention shall not last longer than the time necessary for the examination of the asylum application under the Accelerated Procedure,[14] unless additional detention grounds exist pursuant to Article 14 TUI. Any delays in the completion of the administrative procedures required for the examination of the asylum application, if not caused by the applicant, do not constitute a valid ground for the extension of the detention.[15]
According to the Reception Decree, the applicant detained in CPR or for identification reasons in hotspots or first governmental reception centres, who appeals against the rejection decision issued by the Territorial Commission, remains in the detention facility until the adoption of the decision on the suspension of the order by the judge.[16] The detained applicant also remains in detention as long as he or she is authorised to remain on the territory as a consequence of the lodged appeal.[17] The way the law was worded before did not make it clear whether, when the suspensive request was upheld, asylum seekers could leave the CPR, and in practice they did not.
In this respect the Questore shall request the extension of the ongoing detention for additional periods of no longer than 60 days, which can be extended by the judicial authority from time to time, until the above conditions persist. In any case, the maximum detention period cannot last more than 12 months.[18]
In 2020, in some cases Civil Courts have released asylum seekers detained in CPR. The Courts observed that time limits of the accelerated procedure as regulated by art. 28bis of the Procedures Decree were exceeded, without any justification. In two cases asylum seekers had been detained in CPR for more than two months without the audition having been set. [19] The Court of Cassation also stressed the principle according to which an asylum seeker cannot be detained over the times scheduled under the accelerated procedure, unless other reasons for detention arise[20] (see also Judicial Review). In December 2021, the Specialised Section of the Court of Lecce has clarified that the detention of the applicant for international protection cannot be extended once its terms – to be calculated from the making of the application – have expired.[21]
The average duration of detention in CPR is not available. As reported above, in 2020, as well as in the first four months of 2021, circa 12% of persons detained in CPRs were released because they were not identified in the timeframe foreseen by the law.
The average length of stay in hotspots in 2020 was of: 5 days in Lampedusa, 10/14 days in Pozzallo, 16 days in Taranto and 18 days in Messina. No data is available for 2021 at the time of writing.[22]
[1] Article 6(3-bis) Reception Decree, inserted by Article 3 Decree Law 113/2018 and L 132/2018 and amended by Article 3 (2, b) DL 130/2020 and L 173/2020.
[2] See Guido Savio, La nuova disciplina del trattenimento per l'esecuzione dell'espulsione, in Immigrazione, protezione internazionale e misure penali, commento al d.l. 130/2020 convertito in L. 173/2020, 2021.
[3] ASGI and CILD, communication to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe as part of the supervision procedure on the implementation of the Khlaifia ruling of the ECHR, January 2021, available in English at: https://bit.ly/3bu0haa.
[4] Guarantor for the rights of detained persons, Parere sul decreto-legge 21 ottobre 2020, n. 130, available at: https://bit.ly/33IUnO8.
[5] The Left, LOCKED UP AND EXCLUDED Informal and illegal detention in Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany, December 2020, available at: https://bit.ly/37q36JY.
[6] Guarantor for the rights of detained persons, Report to Parliament, March 2020, available at: https://bit.ly/3okpJnx, para. 22, pp. 105-107.
[7] ASGI and CILD, communication to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe as part of the supervision procedure on the implementation of the Khlaifia ruling of the ECHR available in English at: https://bit.ly/33FsXZd, January 2021; see also Il trattenimento dei richiedenti asilo negli hotspot tra previsioni normative e detenzione arbitraria, 30 September 2019, available in Italian at: https://cutt.ly/4yO8GLX.
[8] ASGI, Report sopralluogo giuridico: la Sardegna come luogo di frontiera e di transito, December 2020, available at: https://bit.ly/2SPky3r.
[9] ASGI; La frontiera di Pantelleria: una sospensione del diritto Report del sopralluogo giuridico di ASGI, June 2021, available at: https://bit.ly/39ovdKB.
[10] Article 6(8) Reception Decree.
[11] Article 14(5) TUI, as amended by Decree Law 130/2020 and L. 173/2020.
[13] ASGI, Il Tribunale di Roma: i termini per la convalida del trattenimento decorrono dalla manifestazione di volontà di chiedere asilo in CPR, available in Italian at: https://bit.ly/3qa9iwo.
[14] Pursuant to Article 28-bis(1) and (3) Procedure Decree.
[16] Article 35-bis(4) Procedure Decree.
[17] Article 6(7) Reception Decree, as amended by Article 8 Decree Law 13/2017 and L 46/2017.
[19] Civil Court of Turin, decision 5114/2019, 6 August 2019, procedure 19920/2019, available in Italian at: https://cutt.ly/6yO8BKm; Civil Court of Trieste, decision 30/2020, 13 January 2020, available in Italian at: https://cutt.ly/IyO8NjY.
[20] Court of Cassation, decision no. 2458/2021 published on 2 February 2021.
[21] ASGI, Trattenimento nel CPR, impossibile prorogare un termine già scaduto, January 2022, available in Italian at: https://bit.ly/3CUIaGL.
[22] Annexes to the yearly report of the National Guarantor for the rights of detained persons, June 2021, available here: https://bit.ly/3ti8Zle.
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The Buffalo Syndrome: Dems Waiting for Slaughter on Iraq
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With the media focused on the sectarian warfare engulfing Iraq and public opinion opposed to a troop surge, Democrats can't move their herd anywhere when it comes to Iraq.
It's beginning to cost them.
The 110th Congress of Democrats is ruled by a quorum of politicians who survived in the minority for 12 years by caving to the Republican agenda.
Led by Newt Gingrich in 1994, the Republicans leveled the Democrats into obeisance simply by exuding unflinching conviction in the pursuit of crappiness.
Last November, voters changed the leadership, but Dems shuffle uneasily beneath the specter of a strong GOP on the issue of Iraq.
Like a pack of buffalo whose eldest is picked off from the first gunshot of a hunting party, Dems now control the destiny of the Congressional herd but remain motionless as slaughter approaches.
The Democratic victories in November were built on promise and hope, but it never came from the politicians now in majority power. The people hoped; and the people allowed themselves to make little promises they dreamed Democrats could keep.
In these pages I have long maintained that Democrats would pay for indecisiveness and spinelessness. Little more than one month into the new year, my predictions are coming true.
A new CBS News poll shows that while 67 percent of the electorate opposes President Bush's troop surge, 45 percent oppose non-binding resolutions against it.
These numbers are glaringly inconsistent, and they can only reflect poorly on the Democrats. The same number of people who oppose Bush's plan should favor a resolution against it--67 percent.
They don't because talk radio has blasted non-binding resolutions as fraud for six weeks, and Democrats have not formulated a clear and decisive PR campaign to counter the GOP.
Moreover, Dems in the Senate and House opted for a flimsy non-binding resolution instead of advancing purposefully with audacious threats for Republicans who block progress--a clear symptom of the buffalo syndrome.
More bad news: while 53 percent of the respondents believe Congress should block funding for the military, 42 percent oppose this option.
Non-binding resolutions and power of the purse cover practically the whole spectrum of alternatives Congress can pursue to thwart the President's plan--which 67 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION OPPOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Public opinion is the fickle pillar of democracy. It is built by leaders. Those who turned America against this war and these Republicans deserve credit for Democratic victories last November.
Since then, Democratic politicians have squandered the opportunities they enjoy as a majority to buttress their authority with new pillars of popular support. They have squandered the opportunity to create public opinion.
Voters smell fear in politicians. The Dems' tepid support and limp PR push for a non-binding resolution has signaled weakness to voters, and the new CBS poll proves they want nothing to do with a resolution so rancid the Democrats will hardly handle it.
It won't take Republicans long to begin campaigning on a definite strategy for Iraq, and when they do Democrats will have lost every opportunity they were given.
Two years from now, Democrats will realize that they were given a chance to save this country from corruption and corporate greed. They will realize that they had a chance to do great things while they enjoyed popular support. They will realize that they remained motionless when they should have run; that they were slaughtered when they could have gored the GOP; that they lost power when we needed them the most.
This is a time for bold Democrats. The leadership should let us hear the voices of Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, and Bernie Sanders, Democrat of Vermont. They should let us hear Rep. John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan, and Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio.
If the "centrist Democrats"--i.e. those interested only in keeping their jobs--dare not speak words that must be spoken, let others speak truth. If they will not take steps that must be taken, let others take them. If they will not break chains that must be broken, let others break through.
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Q: Doesn't a pointer to an array point to 1st element of an array The following code shows a pointer pointing to first element of array.
The ptr shows the address it is pointing to whereas  *ptr is printing the value at the address, which is expected.
int arr[]={1,2};
int *ptr=arr; //same as int *ptr=&arr[0]
cout<<"\n\n";
cout<<"Value at "<<ptr<<"is "<<*ptr<<endl;

Output:
Value at 003CFB48is 1

In the following code the pointer is pointing to an array of 2 elements(instead of particularly pointing to an element of an array). But in this case dereferencing the pointer prints the address.
ptr2 prints the address then why doesnt *ptr2 print the value at the address?
int arr2[]={3,4};
int (*ptr2)[2]=&arr2;
cout<<"Value at "<<ptr2<<"is "<<*ptr2<<endl; //Isnt *ptr2 supposed to print value at ptr?
cout<<"1st element is "<<**ptr2<<" and second is "<<*(*ptr2+1);

Output:
Value at 003CFB2Cis 003CFB2C
1st element is 3 and second is 4

Edit:
It would have been fine if ptr prints an address, *ptr prints some value,**ptr prints the first element(except i would have posted a different question then :) )
I understand that ptr2 here points to an array and not the first element so i might be required to use **ptr2 to print the first element.
The question here really is that if ptr2 is pointing to some address then syntatically why would not *ptr2 print the value at that address.

A: Although the numeric value of the two pointers is the same, the difference in their type makes dereference return different things:

*

*Dereferencing a pointer to int returns an int, while

*Dereferencing a pointer to an int array of two elements returns an int array of two elements.

When you pass operator << the dereferenced pointer to an array, it gets a pointer to the first element of that array. Numerically, it's the same pointer, but it is still a pointer. That is why 003CFB2C gets printed.
Note that the expression *(*ptr2+1) does not add much value, because * has higher precedence than +. 1 sis added to a dereferenced ptr2, which behaves like a pointer to int.
Trying to print *(*(ptr2+1)), however, would be undefined behavior, because it would point past the end of arr2. Here is a way to demonstrate what happens when you add 1 to a pointer to an array:
int arr2[2][2]={{3,4},{5,6}};
int (*ptr2)[2]=&arr2[0];
cout<<"Value at "<<ptr2<<"is "<<*ptr2<<endl; //Isnt *ptr2 supposed to print value at ptr?
cout<<"1st element is "<<**ptr2<<" and second is "<<*(*(ptr2+1));

Now 1st element is 3 and second is 5 gets printed (demo), because ptr2+1 points to the next array of two ints, i.e. {5, 6}, its first derefnerence produces the array itself, and its second dereference produces the value at the initial location.

A: int (*ptr2)[2]=&arr2; This is a pointer to an array.
ptr2 is a pointer to an array. When you print it, you get the address pointed at (the address of the array).
*ptr2 is the array itself. Whenever an array is used in an expression, it decays into a pointer to the first element. When you print the pointer to the first element, you get the address of the first element. Which is also the address of the array.
**ptr2 First you dereference the array pointer and get an array. The array decays into a pointer to the first element. Then you take the contents of the pointer to the first element and therefore the first element is printed.

A: *ptr2 is printing the address of arr ,ptr2 is a pointer to an array.

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