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Labor Unions And Their Communist Allies
As I've long said: labor unions and communism go together like white wine and fish.
Anonymous photo journalist Zombie recently confirmed that.
The following photos were captured by Zombie on May 5, 2011, at the May Day rally in downtown Los Angeles. This event was co-sponsored by the SEIU — a gigantic socialist labor organization that Barack Obama is famously fond of:
Barack Obama:
Everybody: There's not a presidential candidate, a gubernatorial candidate, a congressional candidate, who won't tell ya, that they're pro-union, when they're looking for their endorsements. They'll all say, 'Oh we love SEIU.' But the question you gotta ask yourself is, do they have it in their gut, do they have a track record of standing alongside you on picket lines? Do they have a track record of going after the companies that aren't letting you organize? Do they have a track record of voting the right way? But also helping you organize to build more and more power?
And some of you know I come from an organizing background, so — I've been working with the SEIU before I was elected to anything. When I was a community organizer, SEIU Local 880 and myself we organized people, to make sure that healthcare workers had basic rights; we organized voter registration drives, that's how we built political power on the South Side of Chicago….and now the time has come for us to do it all across this country, and then we'll paint the nation purple, with SEIU!
I would not be a United States Senator had it not been for the support of your brothers and sisters in Illinois. Those folks, they supported me early, they supported me often. I've got my purple windbreaker from my campaign in 2004.
And so, we've just got, what, four more days? Four more days of knocking on some doors. Four more days of working the precinct. Four more days of making sure all your co-workers are caucusing. SEIU, I am glad you are with me, let's together change the country! SEIU! SEIU! SEIU! SEIU! SEIU!"
Here are Zombie's unforgettable photos:
Note the red flag this SEIU communist is carrying
Please read Zombie's full post here.
Disgusting. Other than securing the damn border, what would you do about this?
How exactly would securing the border remedy for this? Are you talking about the last picture with the 21st Century Jew?
"Remedy for this."
The article is titled "Labor Unions and Their Communist Allies".
Giving Americans the benefit of the doubt – that they would believe in our Constitution and property rights – I assume the "communist allies" must be foreigners, here for seditious purposes; hence the need to secure the border.
Besides bad grammar, interesting leap you made there. Isn't that a picture of Che on his chest? Classic!
DALE: "I assume the "communist allies" must be foreigners…"
Wait. I'm the one who's making a leap?
And please, please, please stop bellyaching about the beloved Constitution while trying to deny someone freedom of assembly in the same sentence.
Unless you don't believe in the Supreme Court…which would make you a…Oh my god! It's too late! The seditionists blog amongst us!
DALE: Besides bad grammar…
It was a typo! It was late! It was corrected!
DALE: …interesting leap you made there.
What leap? He's carrying a sign saying he's a 21st Jew.
On a side note, Ray, I once interviewed the former head of the CPUSA on my show. I had some bit where I brought on two opposite people, had them offer up three songs, then I'd have listeners vote on who had the better music. I forget the commie's name. She was one of those people who have 1/64th American Indian blood in them but go on to talk about pow-wows, bonding with coyotes, etc. She was as kooky as you'd expect, but nice enough.
I put her up again some representative from a giant venture capital firm outside D.C. That woman actually said, on air, that black people were lazy and shiftless and just didn't really want to work. I have to admit, I was a bit surprised.
I should start doing that again. It was a good bit. I had PETA vs. the National Beef Council, the general counsel of Neiman Marcus vs. a 15-year-old Dairy Queen employee, plus a few others that were as equally stupid.
Yes, I made a leap, because I am "giving Americans the benefit of the doubt". Given the Leftist love of socialism, maybe that is too big a leap.
Okay, a typo, a rare moment of Nick humility.
Now, about the Latinos-are-Jews nutcase with his Che adoration: he must be upset because our war on drugs is causing violent drug cartels to murder Latinos by the thousands.
And tell me again why these people can't exercise their right to freedom of assembly? I'll grant you that most of them look like loons. Doesn't mean they can't loon in public, though.
(And "rare humility?" I'm as humble as they come, baby! You know, there was another poster here ages ago who used that term…)
You somehow interpret "secure the damn border" to mean commies "can't loon in public", which I never said.
Tell me, Nick, which border would you rather see the U.S. secure, Iraq-Iran, or U.S.-Mexico?
So you think we should secure the borders so we can keep communists out? I'm not trying to be difficult. I seriously don't understand what securing the border has to do with this march.
And in response to your very first question, "what would you do about this?" the answer is pretty simple: nothing.
Who gives a shit about a bunch of goofballs painting signs in their garages and marching once a year? Do you know what the actual CPUSA membership is? It's a joke.
But if you really have nothing better to do, go to a march and talk to them.
In part, sure. I think we should welcome immigrants that like America and follow the rules, and the commies can go home.
We also see the usual calls for "immigration reform" in the photos, and clear hatred for Arpaio, one who enforces the law with emphasis on catching illegals. Of course, the implication that our wanting to preserve our way of life is somehow a form of persecution is so over the top I almost got a nose bleed just looking at it. I agree we need immigration reform, starting with protecting our sovereignty. Too damn many commies coming in, I say.
You're right, of course, about doing nothing. Other than vote against more government, but that does no good either, the beast just keeps growing.
On a related note, I've helped two people – and their families – in their efforts to come here legally. One a Russian Jew who remembers Stalin, fled Russia at first opportunity. In communist Russia, there was equality, but some were more equal than others, and he knew the real discrimination of one of those systems. That Che-loving commie crybaby in the photo is a fucking dipshit.
Kicking people out of the U.S. because of their political beliefs seems somewhat antithetical to the whole "land of the free" concept. It seems somewhat, well, Stalin-ish. What other political groups would you like to banish?
Arpaio is as much of a great sheriff as he is a blowhard asshole who often breaks the law himself, so of course he's going to ruffle feathers. No surprise there.
And seriously, don't bitch about some people being more equal than others in Russia while also stating that people who don't "follow the rules" shouldn't be allowed to live here. In your postings here, you yourself have expressed beliefs that contradict some of those "rules."
I'm not going to ask you to pack your bags, though.
(I'm just assuming the "too many commies coming in" bit was a joke.
How did "protect our sovereignty" become "Kicking people out"? Sheesh.
I was unaware Arpaio had broken the law. If he had, I suspect Holder would sick the hounds of hell on him, so I dismiss your assertion.
I did not say people who do not follow the rules should not be allowed to live here.
I said "secure the border" and "protect our sovereignty", you heard "banish political groups" and "kick people out".
Either you need to clean the wax out of your eyes or quit stuffing bad tasting words in my mouth. Please.
True, I disbelieve in some of those "rules", but I still follow them. There's a difference between grumbling about and breaking the law.
Good assumption. My ex-commie friend lived under their rules, and has told me he thinks the commie-lovers here are idiotic fools.
We have too many people here whose very presence breaks the law. I did NOT just say kick them out. Just stop any more from coming before dealing with those that are here. Then do it in a fair way, meaning fair to all, not just what the sneaks deem fairness, not let the lunatics run the asylum so to speak.
Is that so bad?
OK. Fair enough.
The commies who are here can stay, but we really need to do something about them. The commies who are trying to come here, all 14 of them, shouldn't be allowed in because of their political beliefs. We aren't kicking people out because of their beliefs. We're just denying them entrance because of their beliefs.
I'm all for some kind of immigration reform. The whole situation seems botched. You've got 500 guys in semi trucks about to die of dehydration trying to get in here. There should be an easier way. Same with the boat people from Cuba.
You are still trying to make this about me in a sarcastic way, but look closely at what you reveal.
That rascal Harvey has convinced me the power of his simple argument.
Let "commie" be one who lays claim to my property on some moral grounds; "human rights" tripe, be it food medicine housing or the need to stomp out drug use.
I think there might be more than 14 commies. I could easily name that many holding office.
I wouldn't miss said commie if it was here and left, preferable to its attempts to take away my freedom and property, which I've sacrificed and worked so hard for, while telling me I'm a racist persecutor. Asinine.
If they march and act like asses but otherwise leave me alone, fine. $14T in debt, however, suggests their ilk need some reigning in, don't you think?
So, do I want immigrants to enter the country legally, learn our language history and laws, do it like our predecessors did? Yes.
Do I prefer immigrants seeking opportunity over those sneaking in and calling me names? Yes.
I'm finding all of this a bit muddy.
If someone is a commie for attempting to take away your freedom or property, 99.99% of politicians in congress right now are commies, right? Those retards in the photos didn't run up $14 Very Very Large in debt. Why do they need "reigning" (sic) in. (Let's see the humility, Dale!)
And the problem with immigration is that the people sneaking in are also seeking opportunity. I doubt they're risking life and limb just so they can put on a Che sticker and walk down the street, know what I mean?
I'd love to see the whole immigration process simplified. Look at the Cuban situation. It's ridiculous.
Are 99.99% of politicians in congress right now commies? Almost, don't you think? Any politician that says "We have a moral obligation…" followed by a price tag would certainly seem to qualify.
No, THOSE retards didn't do it, but I bet they support the ones that did.
We need a limited overhead to govern our society, so some tribute to that is due, of course, but I'm tired of paying taxes to fund incomprehensible over-governance rationalized on bizarre moral grounds.
Oops. I stand corrected, and will try to "rein" in my mistakes in the future.
True, many are seeking opportunity, and I understand that, and agree we need to simplify things. I suspect many come illegally because of the red tape.
Funny thing is, our Che-loving friend looks like a cool guy.
I think we're having a meeting of minds now. Sorry it took me so long to get here.
I don't know if I would classify the 99% as actual commies. I'd probably label them in more general terms, like "spendthrift assholes," maybe.
As far as retards supporting spendthrift assholes, anyone who has voted in the last 25 years falls into that category. Pretty much every politician alive wastes money on stupid shit. But it's only stupid if we don't personally like it or benefit from it, i.e. my shit is necessary. Your shit is wasteful.
Amen to not paying taxes for incomprehensible overgovernance.
I have no doubt that people climb into trucks and hang onto rafts because of the red tape. It sucks. There has got to be a better way to get eager, hard-working people into the country.
And in regards to Che-lover, there are two kinds of people I don't trust:
1. people who put on horse heads then videotape themselves for Youtube.
2. Grown men who wear berets.
Well, I guess I'm a retard that fell for spendthrift assholes, and you agree we need to secure the border to keep the commies out.
From VI Lenin
Eventually, all of them were defeated at the 10th Congress of the RCP(b) by the so-called "Platform of the Ten" headed by Lenin, which called for trade unions to educate workers, under the control of the Communist Party. Since these times Lenin's saying, "Trade Unions are a School of Communism" become an indisputable slogan.
Commies and spendthrift assholes. They get you every time.
Thanks, Redmond. Are you suggesting spendthrift assholes, especially Democrat union puppet spendthrift assholes, call for trade unions to educate our children, under the control of leftist moralists?
During these times of government-imposed union monopolies, "Public schools are liberal indoctrination centers" is becoming an indisputable slogan?
Is this Leninism in our time, or are my personal encounters with public schools just coincidentally anecdotal?
"I'd love to see the whole immigration process simplified."
Good, get in line like everyone else.
See how simple that was ?
Where is it written that we must by some obligation accept anyone who wishs citezenship ?
What is this ? Fucking AA where the only requirement for membership is a desire to quit drinking ?
I think the whole point/question here is…
Why do fucking Communists, Andy Stern and all their offshoot bitchs adore Barry so much ?
Why is Mousey Dung hangin on the White House Christmas tree ?
Why did dickhead send the bust of Churchill back to the Queen ?
Why did Barry grab both ass cheeks and bow to the Japanese PM so far as to offer a cocksucking ?
The way he grabbed his ankles in front of King Abdul Tatoo could of fucked his corn hole.
Simply put, in Barrys own words..
"my salvation depends upon the salvation of everyone else"
Spoken like a true commie
micky: "Good, get in line like everyone else. See how simple that was?"
The man has a point, Nick.
The problem is, if they were willing to obey the law, they wouldn't be illegal, now would they?
Besides, without them, how could "Barry" the torpedo get re-elected?
You think the Democrat-media complex, the unions, and ballot-box-stuffing are enough?


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Eine Rundumkennleuchte (RKL), auch Rundumleuchte oder Drehlicht (Schweiz), ist eine Kennleuchte oder Warnleuchte, die Licht über einen Bereich von 360° ausstrahlt. Am bekanntesten sind Drehspiegelleuchten, die einen umlaufenden Lichtkegel abgeben, mittlerweile sind aber insbesondere LED-Leuchten im Einsatz.

Rundumkennleuchten können im Allgemeinen zur leichteren optischen Erkennung, Kennzeichnung und Sicherung von Gefahrenstellen oder besonderen Orten eingesetzt werden. Am bekanntesten ist ihre Anwendung im Straßenverkehr, wo sie (in Europa meist in blauer Farbe) als sogenanntes Blaulicht an Einsatzfahrzeugen angebracht sind. In Deutschland werden sie zusammen mit dem Folgetonhorn als Sondersignale zusammengefasst, die anderen Verkehrsteilnehmern das Wegerecht signalisieren. Weiter finden sie (meist in gelber Farbe) Anwendung an gefährlichen Anlagen, Maschinen und Geräten sowie bei Alarmanlagen.

Farbe

Gelb

Gelb ist die in Deutschland am häufigsten vorkommende Farbe für Rundumkennleuchten. Sie warnt vor Gefahren aller Art an festen Einrichtungen sowie Fahrzeugen. Anwendungsbeispiele sind schließende Rolltore, Alarmanlagen, Schwerguttransporter, Fahrzeuge der Stadtwerke, Rottenwarnanlagen im Gleisbau usw. Sturmwarnungen auf Seen sind bei älterer Bauart Rundumkennleuchten mit zwei verschiedenen Intervallen (40 und 90 Umdrehungen pro Minute). Neue Warnleuchten hingegen werden als Blink- oder Blitzlichter ausgeführt.

Ein spezielles Gebiet, in dem der Gebrauch des Gelblichtes international gleich geregelt ist, ist der Gefahrguttransport, wie beispielsweise der Tunnelverordnung im ADR.

Blau

Blaue Rundumkennleuchten und anderes blaues Blinklicht (umgangssprachlich Blaulicht) werden im Straßenverkehr genutzt, um auf Einsatzfahrzeuge hinzuweisen. Es warnt andere Verkehrsteilnehmer vor Einsatz-, Unfall- und Gefahrenstellen sowie Einsatzfahrten und wird auch bei der Begleitung von Kolonnenfahrten benutzt.

In Deutschland wurde das Blaulicht 1933 eingeführt. Um Anforderungen des Luftschutzes zu erfüllen (Verdunkelung), wurde damals für die Polizeifahrzeuge festgelegt, dass diese mit einem blauen Licht auszustatten sind, da blaues Licht die höchste Streuung in der Atmosphäre hat und daher für Bomber in großen Höhen nicht mehr sichtbar war. Im gleichen Jahr wurden die Feuerwehren den Polizeitruppen zugeordnet, der Feuerschutzpolizei. Somit wurden auch die Feuerwehren mit dem blauen Licht ausgestattet. In Österreich beruht die Einführung des Blaulichtes nach dem Anschluss im Jahr 1938 auf einem Runderlass des Reichsführers SS.
Die Einführung des Blinklichtes bzw. der Rundumkennleuchte anstelle eines ruhig leuchtenden Lichtes erfolgte jedoch erst in den 1950er Jahren.

Das Zusatzprotokoll vom 8. Juni 1977 zu den Genfer Abkommen vom 12. August 1949 über den Schutz der Opfer internationaler bewaffneter Konflikte (Protokoll I) sieht im Anhang I in Artikel 7 Absatz 3 vor, dass "Sanitätsfahrzeuge ein oder mehrere möglichst weithin sichtbare blaue Lichter blinken lassen sollten." Gemäß Absatz 4 soll das blaue Blinklicht 60–100 Lichtblitze in der Minute ausstrahlen. Auch der Farbton wird darin definiert.

Ein weiterer Grund für die Farbwahl ist, dass blaues Licht im Straßenverkehr unverwechselbar ist und somit auch von weitem sofort als Warnsignal wahrgenommen werden kann, da es im Gegensatz zu etwa rotem, gelbem, grünem oder weißem Licht weder in Lichtsignalen noch in der Straßen-, Baustellen- oder sonstigen Fahrzeugbeleuchtung vorkommt.

Außerhalb des Straßenverkehrs kommen blaue Rundumleuchten selten vor; ein Beispiel dafür ist die Rollbahn-Befeuerung an Flughäfen.

Rot

Rotes Rundumlicht ist in Europa an Fahrzeugen selten zu finden und teilweise (z. B. in Deutschland und Österreich) dort auch verboten. Man findet es dagegen häufig an Alarmanlagen, an Luftfahrthindernissen wie Hochhäusern oder Windkraftanlagen, zur Sicherung von Bahnübergängen, bei der Flughafenbefeuerung sowie zur Notbeleuchtung.

In vielen anderen Ländern hingegen, vor allem im angloamerikanischen Raum, aber auch teilweise in Osteuropa, dienen sie entweder allein oder in Kombination mit blauem Licht zur Kennzeichnung von Einsatzfahrzeugen. Auch die Feuerwehr und der Rettungsdienst in Österreich und teilweise auch in Deutschland verwendet rote Rundumkennleuchten bei größeren Einsätzen zum Kennzeichnen der Einsatzleitung. Sie erlauben Einsatzfahrzeugen, die Einsatzleitung bzw. das Einsatzgebiet auf Sicht anzufahren und zu finden. Die Kennleuchte darf aber nur bei Stillstand des Fahrzeuges betrieben werden.

Grün
Auch grüne Rundumkennleuchten sind in Deutschland und Österreich nicht im Straßenverkehr erlaubt, dienen aber im Einsatz teilweise zur Kennzeichnung von Fahrzeugen (Feuerwehr: Atemschutzsammelplatz, Einsatzleitung (Bayern)) und Örtlichkeiten. In Schleswig-Holstein dient eine grüne RKL zur Kennzeichnung der Technischen Einsatzleitung (TEL) des Rettungsdienstes an der Einsatzstelle. Allerdings sind diese Leuchten im Regelfall nicht fest installiert, sondern werden vom Organisatorischen Leiter Rettungsdienst mitgeführt und erst nach dem Eintreffen an der Einsatzstelle per Magnethalterung auf dem Dach des jeweiligen Fahrzeugs installiert.

Auch in Schweden wird eine grüne RKL an Einsatzstellen zur Kennzeichnung der Einsatzleitung des medizinischen Rettungsdienstes verwendet; ebenfalls nutzt der niederländische Rettungsdienst grüne Kennleuchten, um bei einer Großschadenslage die Einsatzleitung zu kennzeichnen. Diese wird in den Niederlanden grundsätzlich vom ersteintreffenden Fahrzeug übernommen.

In einigen US-Bundesstaaten werden grüne RKL für Freiwillige Feuerwehren als sogenannte "Höflichkeitsleuchten" (Courtesy lights) verwendet. Sie soll anderen Verkehrsteilnehmern signalisieren, dass eine Einsatzkraft im Einsatz ist. Auch wenn diese Leuchte, in den meisten Staaten, keine Sonder- oder Wegerechte signalisieren, so hofft man auf freiwillige Kooperation der Bürger. Manche Staaten (etwa Texas oder Utah) verwenden grüne Rundumkennleuchten auch zum Kennzeichnen von Fahrzeugen der Einsatzleitung, wie in Bayern und Österreich.

In Kaufhäusern, Tiefgaragen sowie sonstigen größeren öffentlichen Bauten werden grüne Rundumkennleuchten u. a. zusätzlich neben den vorgeschriebenen Notleuchten zur Kennzeichnung von Notausgängen verwendet.

Weiß
Weiße Rundumkennleuchten befinden sich (wie auch gelbe oder rote RKL) an Gebäudewänden zur Kennzeichnung einer Brandmeldeanlage. Da die Farbe eine Vorgabe der Kommune oder des Kreises ist, finden weiße RKL nur selten Anwendung. Das bekannteste Beispiel einer weißen Rundumleuchte sind die Leuchtfeuer von Leuchttürmen.

Wasserfahrzeuge
Auch an Wasserfahrzeugen kommen Rundumleuchten zum Einsatz. Blinken diese, werden sie als Funkellicht bezeichnet.

Blaues Funkellicht

Wasserfahrzeuge bestimmter Behörden (z. B. Zoll, Küstenwache, Wasserschutzpolizei und BPOL) oder Wasserrettungsorganisationen (z. B. DLRG und ASB) zeigen ein blaues Funkellicht, wobei die Nutzung des blauen Funkellichts für die Wasserrettung nur im Binnenbereich legal ist. Eine Ausnahme bildet nur die DGzRS bei der Wahrnehmung hoheitlicher Aufgaben nach §1 SeeAufgG. In Bayern wird auf Bundeswasserstraßen ein blaues Funkellicht, auf Landesgewässern (Bayerische Schifffahrtsordnung) ein Gelbes gezeigt.

Weißes Funkellicht

Auf Binnenwasserstraßen wird von der Berufsschifffahrt ein weißes Funkellicht zur Kennzeichnung der Schiffsseite verwendet, auf der Begegnungsverkehr stattfinden soll.

Gelbes Funkellicht

Im Geltungsbereich der KVR bezeichnet ein gelbes Funkellicht Luftkissenfahrzeuge, die im nicht wasserverdrängenden Zustand navigieren.

Montage
Üblicherweise werden die Leuchten so angebracht, dass sie möglichst von allen Seiten (also "rundum") erkennbar sind. Sind sie das nicht, spricht man nicht mehr von einer Rundumkennleuchte.

Die Leuchten können fest auf Fahrzeugen oder Maschinen und Anlagen montiert sein oder aber mit Magnethaltern oder Klemm- oder Steckvorrichtungen nur bei Bedarf montiert bzw. aufgestellt werden (beispielsweise bei Zivilstreifen). Oft werden bei Einsatzfahrzeugen mehrere Leuchten zusammen mit der akustischen Warneinrichtung in einem Gehäuse ("Balken") kombiniert, so dass die Montage einfacher ist.

Erforderlichenfalls können zusätzlich zu den Rundumkennleuchten mehrere Leuchten montiert werden. Bei Fahrzeugen können beispielsweise vorne und hinten Leuchten angebracht werden. Weil Rundumkennleuchten auf dem Fahrzeugdach bei geringem Abstand zu einem vorausfahrenden Fahrzeug in dessen Rückspiegel nicht zu sehen sind, finden am Kühlergrill montierte Frontblitzer Verwendung.

Bauarten
Das Blitzmuster einer Rundumkennleuchte (RKL) kann durch eine Leuchte mit Glaslinsen (TriOptik), Kunststofflinsen, Drehspiegel, LED oder Blitz-Entladungsröhren erzeugt werden.

Drehspiegelleuchte

Bei üblichen Drehspiegelleuchten befindet sich meist eine ruhende Lichtquelle (z. B. eine Halogen-Glühlampe) in der Mitte der RKL. Um die Glühlampe dreht sich ein parabolförmiger Reflektor, der einen Großteil des Lichts in Abstrahlrichtung lenkt und damit verstärkt. Die ständige Drehung des Reflektors führt zu dem bekannten Blinklichteffekt.

Es gibt verschiedene Antriebe des Reflektors (Zahnrad, Riemen etc.). Weiterhin gibt es Modelle, bei denen mehrere Glühlampen und Reflektoren gemeinsam rotieren. Die Stromversorgung wird dann über Schleifkontakte hergestellt.

Drehspiegelleuchten werden als Warnleuchte an Maschinen und Anlagen, zur Kennzeichnung von Gefahrensituationen oder als Sondersignal im Straßenverkehr oder zu Vorführzwecken eingesetzt. Sie gehörten auch zu den Sperranlagen bei der Innerdeutschen Grenze.

Blitzleuchte

In neuerer Zeit werden statt Drehspiegelleuchten oft (Mehrfach-)Blitzleuchten verwendet. Bei diesen ist der Verschleiß geringer, da keine beweglichen Teile vorhanden sind. Zudem sind sie tagsüber durch ihren kurzen hohen Lichtstrom besser zu erkennen.

Neben Einzelblitzleuchten gibt es Ausführungen von Doppelblitz-, Dreifach- und Vierfachblitzleuchten. Es werden mehrere Blitzfolgen in verschiedenen Intensitäten abgegeben. Eine Kombination mehrerer Blitzleuchten, die in einer bestimmten Reihenfolge knapp nacheinander aufblitzen und damit den Effekt eines "laufenden" Lichtes erzeugen, wird Lauflicht genannt. Diese Lauflichter werden von Verkehrsteilnehmern schneller erkannt als separat betriebene Blitzlichter und weisen etwa bei der Absicherung von Straßenbaustellen auf die Fahrtroute hin. In Deutschland sind für den Straßenverkehr nur Doppelblitzleuchten zugelassen. Viele Blitzleuchten haben eine Fresnellinse. Oftmals ist auch die die Blitzröhre umgebende Haube senkrecht und waagerecht geriffelt, um den Lichtaustrittswinkel zu vergrößern.

Nachteil der reinen Blitzleuchten ist, dass die kurze Zeit des Blitzes nicht ganz ausreicht, um im räumlichen Sehen die Entfernung zwischen dem Beobachter und der Blitzleuchte ausreichend einzuschätzen. Aus diesem Grund wird zunehmend die LED-Blitzleuchte verwendet, deren Brenndauer sich eher an der Leuchtdauer der klassischen Drehspiegelleuchte orientiert.

Es gibt auch tragbare, batteriebetriebene oder netzgespeiste Blitzleuchten.

LED-Leuchte

LED-Leuchten zeichnen sich durch hohe Leuchtkraft sowie geringen Stromverbrauch und Verschleiß aus. Sie haben den Vorteil sehr geringer Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeit, weshalb sie sich besonders für Maschinen und Anlagen eignen, bei denen keine Ausfallüberwachung installiert ist.

Leuchte mit Linsenoptik
In den 1950er Jahren war insbesondere im norddeutschen Raum eine Variante des "Einsatzblaulichts 'EBL'" verbreitet, bei dem ein Kranz aus acht gefärbten Zylinderlinsen um die Lichtquelle rotierte und somit die Modulation des Lichtstrahles bewirkte. Dies führte zu dem damals charakteristischen "flirrenden" Erscheinungsbild. Dieser Blaulicht-Typ war bei der Hamburger Feuerwehr bis in die frühen 1970er Jahre im Einsatz, er ist beispielsweise in einigen Folgen der Fernsehserie "Stahlnetz" zu sehen.

Neuer sind die Leuchten mit Kunststofflinsen bzw. Glaslinsen, wobei immer drei Linsen eingesetzt werden. Im Gegensatz zu Drehspiegelleuchten sind diese langlebiger, da sie nur mit einem Drittel der Geschwindigkeit drehen um das vorgeschriebene Warnsignal zu erreichen.

Blinkleuchte
Eine Blinkleuchte hat meist eine Lichtquelle in der Mitte. Sie blinkt in regelmäßigen oder unregelmäßigen Abständen auf. Blinkleuchten sind meist recht preiswert und sehr weit an Maschinen und Baustellenabsperrungen verbreitet, sie strahlen meist gelbes oder oranges Licht ab.

Das Blinken erhöht die Aufmerksamkeit und erfordert bei heller Umgebung zur Wahrnehmung geringere Lichtleistung. Blinkende Warnleuchten an Maschinen geben häufig außergewöhnliche Zustände bekannt.

Zulassung im Straßenverkehr

Regelung in Deutschland

Gelbes Rundumlicht
Der Einsatz von gelbem Blinklicht im Straßenverkehr wird in Deutschland durch die StVO und die StVZO geregelt.

Dazu  StVO:

Nicht jeder darf ohne weiteres gelbe Kennleuchten im Straßenverkehr benutzen. Dazu steht in  StVZO:

Wenn die oben genannten Bedingungen erfüllt sind, können gelbe Rundumkennleuchten, ggf. nach Eintragung in die Fahrzeugpapiere, z. B. an folgenden Fahrzeugen eingesetzt werden:
 Fahrzeuge der Straßenverwaltung (Autobahnmeisterei, Straßenmeisterei, städtische Bauhöfe), Schneepflüge oder Fahrzeuge und selbstfahrende Arbeitsgeräte von Baufirmen oder Forst- und Landwirtschaftsbetrieben
 Müllsammelfahrzeuge, Kommunalfahrzeuge (Versorgung und Entsorgung),
 Traktoren mit überbreitem Anbaugerät (Grubber, Fräse)
 Lkw, die größer oder schwerer sind als "normal": Schwertransporte, Transporte mit Überlänge/Überbreite und deren Begleitfahrzeuge,
 Gefahrguttransporter, bei denen sie auf besonders gefährlichen Streckenabschnitten, beispielsweise in Tunneln, eingeschaltet werden müssen
 Fahrzeuge für Pannenhilfe (z. B. von Automobilclubs)
 Panzer bei Straßenfahrt oder bei aktivierter Waffennachführanlage bei Instandsetzung o. Ä. (z. B. für schnelle Turmdrehung beim Kampfpanzer verantwortlich)

Gemäß StVO für jeden erlaubt ist dagegen immer der Einsatz von zugelassenen Warnleuchten an stehenden Fahrzeugen zur Warnung vor Gefahrenstellen (Unfall, Panne, evtl. auch Stauende).  StVZO:

Da einige Warnleuchten den gelben Blitz-Rundumkennleuchten mit Magnetfuß ähneln, können diese leicht mit Rundumkennleuchten gem. § 52 StVZO verwechselt werden. Die Leuchten unterscheiden sich aber in Bauart, Zulassung und Einsatzzweck.

Blaues Rundumlicht

Mit blauem Rundumlicht dürfen ausschließlich folgende Einsatzfahrzeuge ausgerüstet sein ( StVZO):

Die gleichzeitige Verwendung von Blaulicht und Folgetonhorn, letzteres umgangssprachlich vor allem in Deutschland oft auch als Martinshorn (eingetragenes Markenzeichen des Erfinders Max B. Martin) bekannt, wird im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch zusammenfassend und vereinfachend als Sondersignal bezeichnet. Zunehmend werden jedoch auch elektronisch erzeugte Tonsignale statt eines Folgetonhorns verwendet.

Dazu  StVO:

Nur die gleichzeitige Nutzung von blauem Blinklicht und Folgetonhorn macht in Deutschland somit den Vorrang der Einsatzfahrzeuge deutlich, denen dann von den übrigen Verkehrsteilnehmern unverzüglich freie Bahn zu schaffen ist (Wegerecht). In Österreich genügt hingegen dazu die Verwendung eines der beiden Signale.

Regelung in Österreich

Rundumkennleuchten müssen in Österreich nach  Abs. 3 Kraftfahrgesetz-Durchführungsverordnung 1967 der ECE-Regelung 65 entsprechen.

Der Gebrauch der gelben Rundumkennleuchte ist durch  Abs. 6 KFG 1967 geregelt, wobei hier von gelbrotem Licht ausstrahlender Warnleuchte gesprochen wird.

Bei der Anbringung der blauen Rundumkennleuchte wird zwischen Fahrzeugen unterschieden, die eine Bewilligung für die Anbringung von Blaulicht benötigen, und solchen, die es bewilligungsfrei montieren dürfen.

Fahrzeuge, die keine Bewilligung benötigen
Nach  Abs. 1 lit. d KFG 1967 darf an folgenden Fahrzeugen ohne Bewilligung Blaulicht angebracht werden:

 Fahrzeuge, die zur Verwendung im Bereich des öffentlichen Sicherheitsdienstes bestimmt sind
 Fahrzeuge, die im Bereich des militärischen Eigenschutzes sowie der Militärstreife zur Verwendung kommen
 Fahrzeuge, die zur Verwendung von Organen der Abgabenbehörden nach Maßgabe der Bestimmungen des Abgabenverwaltungsorganisationsgesetzes – AVOG, BGBl. Nr. 18/1975, bestimmt sind
 Feuerwehrfahrzeuge
 Fahrzeuge des Rettungsdienstes im Besitz von Gebietskörperschaften
 Fahrzeuge im Besitz der in  Abs. 1 Z 1 bis 5 des Sanitätergesetzes, BGBl. I Nr. 30/2002, namentlich genannten Einrichtungen (das sind der Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, die Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe in Österreich, der Malteser Hospitaldienst Austria, das Österreichische Rote Kreuz und der Sanitätsdienst des Bundesheeres), die für dringende Einsätze im Rettungsdienst, bei Großschadensereignissen oder zur Katastrophenhilfe verwendet werden
 Fahrzeuge, die von gemäß § 97 Abs. 2 StVO beeideten Straßenaufsichtsorganen zur Begleitung von Sondertransporten verwendet werden, sofern die Verwendung von Blaulicht im Bescheid gemäß § 39, § 82 Abs. 5, § 101 Abs. 5 oder § 104 Abs. 9 als Auflage zur Transportabsicherung vorgeschrieben wurde, für die Dauer dieser Transportbegleitung.

Fahrzeuge, die eine Bewilligung benötigen
Nach  Abs. 5 KFG 1967 darf an folgenden Fahrzeugen nur mit Bewilligung Blaulicht angebracht werden, wenn ihre Verwendung im öffentlichen Interesse gelegen ist und dagegen vom Standpunkt der Verkehrs- und Betriebssicherheit keine Bedenken bestehen und nur zu folgenden Verwendungen bestimmt sind:

 Fahrzeuge ausschließlich oder vorwiegend für Feuerwehren
 Fahrzeuge für den öffentlichen Hilfsdienst
 Fahrzeuge für den Rettungsdienst oder den Bergrettungsdienst
 Fahrzeuge für den ärztlichen Bereitschaftsdienst von Gebietskörperschaften, Ärztekammern oder Sozialversicherungsträgern
 Fahrzeuge für die Leistung dringender ärztlicher Hilfe durch Ärzte in verkehrsreichen Gebieten, in denen kein mit einem Arzt besetzter Rettungsdienst und kein ärztlicher Bereitschaftsdienst gemäß lit. d zur Verfügung stehen; vor der Entscheidung über einen Antrag auf Erteilung der Bewilligung ist eine Stellungnahme der Ärztekammer zur Frage der Notwendigkeit der Erteilung dieser Bewilligung einzuholen
 Fahrzeuge für die Leistung dringender Hilfsdienste im Zusammenwirken mit Feuerwehren oder öffentlichen Hilfsdiensten bei Verkehrsunfällen, an denen Fahrzeuge zur Beförderung gefährlicher Güter beteiligt sind
 Fahrzeuge für die Erbringung dringender tierärztlicher Hilfe durch Tierärzte in verkehrsreichen Gebieten, in denen kein mit einem Tierarzt besetzter Rettungsdienst zur Verfügung steht; vor der Entscheidung über einen Antrag auf Erteilung der Bewilligung ist eine Stellungnahme der Tierärztekammer zur Frage der Notwendigkeit der Erteilung dieser Bewilligung einzuholen
 Fahrzeuge für die Leistung dringender ärztlicher Hilfe durch Fachärzte (in verkehrsreichen Gebieten), sofern sie sich auf Grund krankenanstaltenrechtlicher Organisationsvorschriften in Rufbereitschaft befinden
 Fahrzeuge für freipraktizierende Hebammen, die berechtigt sind, Hausgeburten durchzuführen, zum rascheren Erreichen des Ortes der Hausgeburt
 Fahrzeuge für die auftragsgemäße dringende Entstörung der Funk- bzw. Kommunikationssysteme sowie Leitzentralen der BOS-Organisationen (Behörden und Organisationen mit Sicherheitsaufgaben).

Die oben angeführte Aufzählung ist taxativ. Für andere Fahrzeuge kann keine Blaulichtbewilligung erteilt werden.

Für die Erteilung der Bewilligung ist nach  Abs. 4 KFG 1967 der Landeshauptmann zuständig. Dieser hat nach  Abs. 6 KFG 1967 auch entsprechende Auflagen oder zeitliche, örtliche oder sachliche Beschränkungen der Gültigkeit zu erteilen.

Regelung in der Schweiz
Jeder Kanton in der Schweiz übt eine eigene, individuelle Zulassungspraxis. So waren lange Zeit Spiegeloptiken nicht zugelassen, welche unter derselben Lichthaube wie der Drehspiegel selbst montiert waren und zu einem Lauflichteffekt geführt haben. Der Kanton Genf aber hat sie dennoch toleriert. Analoges gilt für Mehrfachspiegel (180° versetzte Doppelspiegel oder -lampen).

An stehenden Einsatzfahrzeugen dürfen bei besonderer Gefährdung die Blaulichter zur Unfall- oder Gefahrenstellenabsicherung eingesetzt werden, aber nur, bis andere Sicherungsmaßnahmen getroffen sind. In der Schweiz dürfen blaue Blinklichter und Wechselklanghörner auf Fahrzeugen nur dann eingeschaltet sein, wenn das Einsatzfahrzeug seine Bevorrechtigung auch tatsächlich beansprucht und ausübt, sprich bei Einsatzfahrten. Aus Rücksicht werden nachts oft Einsätze ohne Wechselklanghörner gefahren. Bei alleiniger Verwendung von blauen Blinklichtern entsteht keine Bevorrechtigung. Sobald Einsatz- oder Rettungsfahrzeuge in die Autobahn einfahren, gilt für den nachfolgenden Verkehr ein Überholverbot, da jedes überholende Fahrzeug ein potentielles, späteres Hindernis darstellt. In der Praxis wird diese Regelung meist so durchgesetzt, dass die in die Autobahn einfahrenden Fahrzeuge ausscheren und versetzt über alle Fahrstreifen verteilt fahren. Dies bildet einen Sperrriegel, der dem nachfolgenden Verkehr das Überholen verhindert.

Hauptsächlich auf Polizeifahrzeugen werden orange Richtungsblinkleuchten auf dem Warnbalken oder dem Fahrzeugdach montiert, damit gelb gewarnt werden kann. Allerdings sind die dabei eingesetzten 21-Watt-Glühlampen mit Fresnellichtscheibe wesentlich dunkler als die blaue Rundumkennleuchte mit H-1 55 Watt (12 Volt) oder H-1 70 Watt (24 Volt) Leuchtmittel.

Seit Ende der 1990er Jahre sind auch blaue Signalbalken in der Schweiz zugelassen, welche orange Blinklichter integriert haben. Nicht selten werden dann auf der Einsatzfahrt nebst den blauen Blitzleuchten auch noch die orangen Warnleuchten eingeschaltet, was zwar die Sichtbarkeit des Einsatzfahrzeugs erhöht, aber eben nicht gesetzeskonform ist.

Regelung in Liechtenstein
Fahrzeuge der Polizei und Sanität (unter Umständen auch Notfallärzte) sowie speziell ausgerüstete Fahrzeuge der Feuerwehr, Bergrettung und Samariter, die sich durch Blaulicht und Wechselhorn ankündigen, steht im Straßenverkehr der Vortritt, auch bei Verkehrsregelung durch Lichtsignale, zu (Art 18 VRV).

Blaulicht und Wechselklanghorn dürfen nur gebraucht werden,
 solange die Dienstfahrt dringlich ist und
 die Verkehrsregeln nicht eingehalten werden können (Art 18 Abs. 3 VRV).
Die Dienstfahrt ist dringlich, wenn durch die Einhaltung der Verkehrsregeln die Erfüllung der Aufgaben unmöglich wäre. Durch die Nichtbeachtung der Verkehrsregeln dürfen jedoch die übrigen Straßenbenützer weder gefährdet noch unzumutbar behindert werden (Art 94a VRV).

Siehe auch
 Folgetonhorn
 Kennleuchte
 Rundumtonkombination
 Positionslicht (Schifffahrt)
 Funkellicht (Schifffahrt)

Literatur

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Simone Biles Out of Team Competition at the Olympics
Joe Published: July 27, 2021
Simone Biles will not be competing in the remaining events in the women's gymnastics team finals, which were taking place Tuesday evening local time (Tuesday morning in the US).
Biles struggled in the first vault event, scoring a 13.766 in the Amanar vault, which is the lowest score of her Olympic career.
Following that performance, she walked off the competition floor with the team's trainer, and moments later it was announced that she had been pulled from the rest of the team finals.
A reserve member of the team, Jordan Chiles, replaced Biles for the remainder of the competition. Chiles joins Suni Lee and Grace McCullum who will continue on with the competition.
With two events completed, the ROC leads the finals with a score of 88.498, while the U.S. is in second with an 85.998. The entire team competition will re-air during tonight's primetime coverage on NBC.
Biles could still compete in the upcoming individual competitions, but she has been battling an ankle injury before arriving in Tokyo. It was not immediately clear if she will return to the competition later this week or if this was related to her existing ankle injury.
Biles won four gold medals during the 2016 Olympic games in Rio.
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Decentralisatie is het ongedaan maken van eerdere centralisaties.

Gebruik
De term wordt vooral gebruikt bij overheden en andere organisaties als bevoegdheden minder centraal worden geregeld. Een voorbeeld is het opsplitsen van één groot (staats)bedrijf in losse onderdelen.

De bekende organisatiedeskundige Henry Mintzberg geeft in zijn boek Organisatiestructuren drie voordelen van decentralisatie:
 In grote organisaties kan één persoon in het centrum nooit alle beslissingen overzien. Decentralisatie verplaatst de beslissingsbevoegdheid dichter naar de plaats van impact.
 De organisatie kan hierdoor sneller op nieuwe ontwikkelingen inspelen.
 Een bepaalde mate van autonomie maakt mensen meer gemotiveerd.

Naast de voordelen die Mintzberg aanhaalt, kan decentralisatie nog meer positieve gevolgen hebben:
 Kennis wordt verspreid onder meer mensen.
 De interne communicatie verloopt doorgaans beter.
 Er zijn meerdere mensen die verantwoordelijkheid dragen. De verantwoordelijkheden worden met andere woorden gespreid.
 Elk onderdeel (bv. een afdelingen of sector) moet verantwoording afleggen. Men kan zich niet 'verschuilen' achter elkaar.
 Het management gebeurt doorgaans democratischer en informeler.
 Decentralisatie kan leiden tot minder conflicten tussen de belangen van de verschillende divisies en de belangen van de gehele organisatie.

Er zijn echter ook nadelen verbonden aan decentralisatie:
 Er zijn meer leidinggevenden nodig. Dit brengt extra kosten met zich mee.
 Omdat de macht om beslissingen te nemen bij meerdere individuen berust, moet er meer controle uitgeoefend worden dan wanneer de beslissingsmacht gecentraliseerd is.
 De kans op verkeerde beslissingen neemt toe. Dit kan een organisatie duur komen te staan.
 Men kan geneigd zijn om meer te focussen op onmiddellijke resultaten dan op langetermijnplanning.

Of een organisatie beslist om al dan niet te decentraliseren, zal afhangen van verschillende factoren. De grootte van een organisatie zal vaak een reden zijn om te decentraliseren.

Territoriale en functionele decentralisatie
Er bestaan in het staatsrecht twee soorten decentralisatie: territoriale en functionele decentralisatie. Bij territoriale decentralisatie worden bepaalde taken die eerst centraal werden uitgevoerd doorgegeven aan in verschillende gebiedsdelen bestaande organisaties. Bij functionele decentralisatie worden bepaalde taken die eerst op centraal niveau werden uitgeoefend doorgegeven aan organisaties die zich op een specifieke taak concentreren. Voorbeelden van territoriale decentralisatie zijn de decentralisatie naar gemeenten en provincies toe. Een voorbeeld van functionele decentralisatie is de decentralisatie naar openbare lichamen voor beroep en bedrijf, zoals de Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten. De waterschappen hebben beperkte taken en een beperkt territoir. De waterschappen zijn daarom een mengvorm van functionele en territoriale decentralisatie.

Decentralisatie door autonomie en door medebewind
Decentralisatie kan plaatsvinden door autonomie en door medebewind. Bij autonomie krijgt een lager orgaan de zelfstandige bevoegdheid tot bestuur. Bij medebewind wordt het lagere orgaan toegestaan  hogere regelingen op zelfstandige wijze uit te voeren.

Zie ook
 Gedecentraliseerde eenheidsstaat
 Gedecentraliseerde treindienst
 Smart contracts, gedecentraliseerde autonome overeenkomsten in een blockchainnetwerk

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Raiders are still searching for a franchise QB
By Brent Sobleski December 16, 2013 6:30 pm
The Oakland Raiders still have two games to decide if the team's quarterback of the future is on the roster. The onus will fall on Matt McGloin, because it's unlikely Terrelle Pryor will get an opportunity to prove himself.
And he knows it.
Pryor admitted that he doesn't know if he'll get another chance to compete for starting job with #Raiders
— Vic Tafur (@VicTafur) December 16, 2013
McGloin may have thrown four interceptions against the Kansas City Chiefs, but he's done enough this season to continue starting.
Since becoming starter Matt McGloin has NFL-high 15 passes of 25+ yards. Carson Palmer No. 2 with 13
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Pryor, meanwhile, is dealing with a partially torn MCL which will limit him the rest of the season. And the Raiders apparently saw enough of him after a strong start before fading.
The reality of the situation is neither should be considered franchise-caliber signal callers. The Raiders need to strongly consider drafting a quarterback with their first round pick in May's draft.
As it currently stands, the #Raiders would select 4th overall in the 2014 draft. Could still end up even higher. QB definitely in play.
— Dan Wilkins (@_DanWilkins) December 16, 2013
With a Top 5 pick, the Raiders are in position to potentially select Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater, the consensus top QB in the upcoming draft class. The team may also consider Fresno State's Derek Carr, UCF's Blake Bortles and UCLA's Brett Hundley if Bridgewater isn't available.
Oakland shouldn't pass on a potential franchise-caliber quarterback because McGloin and Pryor are already on the roster.
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What gaps are mission-driven strategic investors looking to fill?
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Q: Как организовать структуру данных платёжных систем Здравствуйте.
Возник вопрос, как лучше организовать структуру данных.
Предполагается что есть модель PaymentMethod, в которой хранятся способы оплаты, к примеру, пластиковая карта, WebMoney, Яндекс Деньги и т.д.
Предположительно, должно получиться что-то вроде этого:
class PaymentMethod(Base):
    name = models.CharField(null=True, max_length=25)
    description = models.CharField(null=True, max_length=255)
    payment_type = models.ForeignKey(PaymentType, null=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = "Способ оплаты"
        verbose_name_plural = "Способы оплаты"

Предположительно, в виде "сквозной модели", нужно хранить сами типы оплаты:
class PaymentType(Base):
    name = models.CharField(null=True, max_length=25)
    description = models.CharField(null=True, max_length=255)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = "Тип оплаты"
        verbose_name_plural = "Типы оплаты"

Ну а дальше, я не совсем понимаю как организовать.
Возьмём тот вариант, когда для каждого типа оплаты, имеется отдельная модель,
если следовать примеру, то Card, WebMoney, YandexMoney
И тогда каждая эта модель должна ссылаться на PaymentType внешним ключом,
что-то типа:
class Card(Base):
    CARD_CHOICES = (
    ('VISA', _('Visa')),
    ('MasterCard', _('MasterCard')),
    )
    BANK_CHOICES = (
    ('AlphaBank', _('AlphaBank')),
    ('SberBank', _('SberBank')),
    )
    card_choices = models.CharField(choices=CARD_CHOICES, max_length=255)
    bank_choices = models.CharField(choices=BANK_CHOICES, max_length=255)
    payment_types = models.ForeignKey(PaymentType, null=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return '{}-{}'.format(card_choices, bank_choices)

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = "Пластиковвая карта"
        verbose_name_plural = "Пластиковвые карты"

Такая структура кажется правильной. По крайней мере на первый взгляд.
Но в таком случае не понятно, как быть с формой оплаты, когда нужно предоставить PaymentMethod, где за выбором payment_type, нужно сделать выборку возможных вариантов ( карточек, кошельков и т.д. ).
Ведь на PaymentType ссылаются разные модели. Как понять, по какой модели делать выборку, исходя из выбранного payment_type ?
Или вообще это лучше делать как-то иначе ?
Какие есть идеи, как это можно грамотно реализовать ?

A: Реализовал следующим образом:
Оставил одну модель, назвав её Payment
Понял, что правильнее будет использовать GenericForeignKey и limit, для ограничения content_type, с которыми может связываться данная модель (в моём случае с модельюCard).
Так же, сделал модель Payment абстрактной, хотя можно и сослаться на сам платёж (какую-нибудь модель, вроде Invoice), если только Payment будет использоваться в связке с этой моделью.
class Payment(models.Model):
    limit = models.Q(app_label='myapp', model='card')

    content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType,
        limit_choices_to=limit, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
    object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField(null=True)
    content_object = GenericForeignKey("content_type", "object_id")

    class Meta:
        abstract = True

Затем, для удобного автокомплита, и поиска по связанным content_type решил использовать django_autocomplete_light.
views.py
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
from queryset_sequence import QuerySetSequence

class PaymentAutocomplete(autocomplete.Select2QuerySetSequenceView):

    def get_queryset(self):
        cards = Card.objects.all()

        if self.q:
            cards = cards.filter(name__icontains=self.q)

        qs = QuerySetSequence(cards)

        if self.q:
            qs = qs.filter(name__icontains=self.q)

        qs = self.mixup_querysets(qs)

        return qs

Здесь удобно менять логику поиска.
forms.py
class InvoiceForm(autocomplete.FutureModelForm):
    content_object = dal_queryset_sequence.fields.QuerySetSequenceModelField(
        queryset=autocomplete.QuerySetSequence(
            Card.objects.all(),
        ),
        required=False,
        widget=dal_select2_queryset_sequence.widgets.QuerySetSequenceSelect2('crm:payment-method-autocomplete'),
    )
    class Meta:
        model = Invoice
        fields = '__all__'

urls.py
urlpatterns = [
    url(
        regex=r'^payment-method-autocomplete/$',
        view=views.PaymentAutocomplete.as_view(),
        name='payment-method-autocomplete',
    ),
]

Немного не так, как хотел изначально, и не без хаков, но работает так, как нужно.
Можно добавлять сколько угодно способов оплаты, отдельно охранить кошельки, карточки, и при этом не придётся сильно перестраивать структуру БД.

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package org.apache.ambari.server.checks;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.ambari.server.configuration.Configuration;
import org.apache.ambari.server.controller.PrereqCheckRequest;
import org.apache.ambari.server.state.Cluster;
import org.apache.ambari.server.state.Clusters;
import org.apache.ambari.server.state.Config;
import org.apache.ambari.server.state.DesiredConfig;
import org.apache.ambari.server.state.Service;
import org.apache.ambari.server.state.stack.PrereqCheckStatus;
import org.apache.ambari.server.state.stack.PrerequisiteCheck;
import org.apache.ambari.server.state.stack.UpgradePack.PrerequisiteCheckConfig;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.mockito.Mockito;

import com.google.inject.Provider;

/**
 * Unit tests for ServicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck
 *
 */
public class ServicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheckTest {
  private final Clusters clusters = Mockito.mock(Clusters.class);

  private final ServicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck = new ServicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck();

  @Before
  public void setup() {
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.clustersProvider = new Provider<Clusters>() {

      @Override
      public Clusters get() {
        return clusters;
      }
    };
    Configuration config = Mockito.mock(Configuration.class);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.config = config;
  }

  @Test
  public void testIsApplicable() throws Exception {
    final Cluster cluster = Mockito.mock(Cluster.class);
    final Map<String, Service> services = new HashMap<>();
    final Service service = Mockito.mock(Service.class);

    services.put("YARN", service);

    Mockito.when(cluster.getServices()).thenReturn(services);
    Mockito.when(clusters.getCluster("cluster")).thenReturn(cluster);
    Mockito.when(cluster.getClusterId()).thenReturn(1L);

    Assert.assertTrue(servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.isApplicable(new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster")));

    PrereqCheckRequest req = new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster");
    req.addResult(CheckDescription.SERVICES_NAMENODE_HA, PrereqCheckStatus.FAIL);
    Assert.assertFalse(servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.isApplicable(req));

    req.addResult(CheckDescription.SERVICES_NAMENODE_HA, PrereqCheckStatus.PASS);
    Assert.assertTrue(servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.isApplicable(req));

    services.remove("YARN");
    Assert.assertFalse(servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.isApplicable(new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster")));
  }

  @Test
  public void testPerform() throws Exception {
    final Cluster cluster = Mockito.mock(Cluster.class);
    Mockito.when(cluster.getClusterId()).thenReturn(1L);
    Mockito.when(clusters.getCluster("cluster")).thenReturn(cluster);

    final DesiredConfig desiredConfig = Mockito.mock(DesiredConfig.class);
    Mockito.when(desiredConfig.getTag()).thenReturn("tag");
    Map<String, DesiredConfig> configMap = new HashMap<String, DesiredConfig>();
    configMap.put("mapred-site", desiredConfig);
    configMap.put("core-site", desiredConfig);
    Mockito.when(cluster.getDesiredConfigs()).thenReturn(configMap);
    final Config config = Mockito.mock(Config.class);
    Mockito.when(cluster.getConfig(Mockito.anyString(), Mockito.anyString())).thenReturn(config);
    final Map<String, String> properties = new HashMap<String, String>();
    Mockito.when(config.getProperties()).thenReturn(properties);

    PrerequisiteCheck check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster"));
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.FAIL, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "anything");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "hdfs://some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster"));
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "anything");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "dfs://some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster"));
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "hdfs://ha");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "/some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster"));
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "dfs://ha");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "/some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster"));
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    // Fail due to no dfs
    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "anything");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "/some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster"));
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.FAIL, check.getStatus());
  }

  @Test
  public void testPerformWithCheckConfig() throws Exception {
    final Cluster cluster = Mockito.mock(Cluster.class);
    Mockito.when(cluster.getClusterId()).thenReturn(1L);
    Mockito.when(clusters.getCluster("cluster")).thenReturn(cluster);

    final DesiredConfig desiredConfig = Mockito.mock(DesiredConfig.class);
    Mockito.when(desiredConfig.getTag()).thenReturn("tag");
    Map<String, DesiredConfig> configMap = new HashMap<String, DesiredConfig>();
    configMap.put("mapred-site", desiredConfig);
    configMap.put("core-site", desiredConfig);
    Mockito.when(cluster.getDesiredConfigs()).thenReturn(configMap);
    final Config config = Mockito.mock(Config.class);
    Mockito.when(cluster.getConfig(Mockito.anyString(), Mockito.anyString())).thenReturn(config);
    final Map<String, String> properties = new HashMap<String, String>();
    Mockito.when(config.getProperties()).thenReturn(properties);

    Map<String, String> checkProperties = new HashMap<String, String>();
    checkProperties.put("dfs-protocols-regex","^([^:]*dfs|wasb|ecs):.*");
    PrerequisiteCheckConfig prerequisiteCheckConfig = Mockito.mock(PrerequisiteCheckConfig.class);
    Mockito.when(prerequisiteCheckConfig.getCheckProperties(
        servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.getClass().getName())).thenReturn(checkProperties);

    PrereqCheckRequest request = new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster");
    request.setPrerequisiteCheckConfig(prerequisiteCheckConfig);
    PrerequisiteCheck check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, request);
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.FAIL, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "anything");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "hdfs://some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    request = new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster");
    request.setPrerequisiteCheckConfig(prerequisiteCheckConfig);
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, request);
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "anything");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "dfs://some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    request = new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster");
    request.setPrerequisiteCheckConfig(prerequisiteCheckConfig);
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, request);
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "anything");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "wasb://some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    request = new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster");
    request.setPrerequisiteCheckConfig(prerequisiteCheckConfig);
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, request);
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "anything");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "ecs://some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    request = new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster");
    request.setPrerequisiteCheckConfig(prerequisiteCheckConfig);
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, request);
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "hdfs://ha");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "/some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    request = new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster");
    request.setPrerequisiteCheckConfig(prerequisiteCheckConfig);
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, request);
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "dfs://ha");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "/some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    request = new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster");
    request.setPrerequisiteCheckConfig(prerequisiteCheckConfig);
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, request);
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "wasb://ha");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "/some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    request = new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster");
    request.setPrerequisiteCheckConfig(prerequisiteCheckConfig);
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, request);
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "ecs://ha");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "/some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    request = new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster");
    request.setPrerequisiteCheckConfig(prerequisiteCheckConfig);
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, request);
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.PASS, check.getStatus());

    // Fail due to no dfs
    properties.put("fs.defaultFS", "anything");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.framework.path", "/some/path");
    properties.put("mapreduce.application.classpath", "anything");
    request = new PrereqCheckRequest("cluster");
    request.setPrerequisiteCheckConfig(prerequisiteCheckConfig);
    check = new PrerequisiteCheck(null, null);
    servicesMapReduceDistributedCacheCheck.perform(check, request);
    Assert.assertEquals(PrereqCheckStatus.FAIL, check.getStatus());
  }
}

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Pharma company Opko acquires smart inhaler startup for at least $10M
By Jonah Comstock
The Inspiromatic inhaler.
Biopharmaceutical company Opko Health has acquired Israeli smart inhaler company Inspiro Medical for a sum in "the low eight figures", according to Opko's Director of Strategic Investment Les Funtleyder. The company will be using Inspiro's Inspiromatic technology to develop an app-connected inhaler that will be bundled with a forthcoming new drug for asthma, COPD, and cystic fibrosis.
"We are pleased to add this next generation inhaler to Opko's growing product portfolio," Dr. Phillip Frost, Opko's CEO and Chairman, said in a statement. "We expect this innovative device to play a valuable role in the improvement of therapy for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis and other respiratory diseases. We plan to use the Inspiromatic device to test the inhaled form of Opko's new sulfated disaccharide drug against these disorders. ... Of course, we believe that Inspiromatic can improve outcomes of treatment with other drugs, those presently available in more 'standard' type inhalers, as well as new inhalation drugs being developed. This acquisition fits our strategy of developing new products that address large markets in need of more effective therapeutic solutions."
The inhaler has features that make it easier to use including an active powder de-agglomerator to ease inhalation and a microcontroller that better times the delivery of inhaled drugs. A connected app could be used to give near realtime feedback and instruction on proper use of the inhaler as well as to access data from sensors contained in the inhaler and to send that data to physicians, caretakers, or parents. The inhaler performed better than the gold standard in a small trial last year, according to the company.
There are a few smartphone-connected inhalers out there. Propeller Health uses GPS-connected inhalers to collect data about where and when patients have attacks, but their partnerships are mostly with providers. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based GeckoCap makes smart inhaler caps to track kids' adherence, but the company sells its product direct to consumer.
A smart inhaler play that comes from a pharmaceutical company, with the device bundled in with the cost of the drug, could be a game changer. And Funtleyder said the company is not opposed, in the future, to licensing the technology out to other pharmaceutical companies to use with their drugs as well.
"Opko is a very interesting company," Funtleyder said. "We're doing pharma and diagnostics and we're always looking to be on the edge in terms of improving quality via innovation. We've identified a number of problems in the inhaled medication space that we think we can solve. So now that we have this technology, we should use it. ... I don't think this is the last thing we'll do in this area. There's a convergence between service, product devices, and diagnostics and we've recognized how important it is to be a part of that."
Air Jordan 33 XXXIII
asthma, connected inhaler, COPD, cystic fibrosis, Inspiro Medical, Inspiromatic, mobile health mergers and acquisitions, Opko Health, pharma, smart inhaler


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Angelo Maralit
Gala Day marks start of club's 50-year celebrations
Monaro Panthers
The opening of the Men's National Premier League will see the Monaro Panthers Football Club begin its 50-year celebrations with a Gala Day at the Riverside Stadium. The Queanbeyan and surrounding Canberra Regional Community are invited to attend.
For 50 years the Monaro Football Club has been an integral part of the sporting scene in the Canberra Region. To mark its half-century the football club is planning a series of events during the year, beginning with the Gala Day at Riverside on Sunday April 2.
Come and watch Monaro men's first team take on last year's premiers and FFA Cup semi-finalists Canberra Olympic. The young Panthers are ready to challenge for early supremacy in what will be a terrific season of skillful football.
The Women's Premier League team will be playing last season's finalists Canberra FC which will be a good test for the club's full time Women's Technical Director, Angelo Maralit. The club is looking to take women's football to the next level by employing Angelo both as Women's Technical Director and coach. He is welcomed to the club after holding positions at both the Capital Football and North Shore Mariners Academies.
Monaro Panthers' President, Simon France, said women's football was well positioned in Australia with a successful national team playing in a world-wide sport.
"Our role now is to make the most of that, which is exactly where we are headed at Monaro," Mr France said.
"We have already seen Angelo's passion for the game and his ability to motivate and encourage the women and girls of the club has been tremendous"
Sunday 2 April Gala Day
10:45 am – Women's and Girls Premier League presentation
11:00 am – Women's Premier League firsts host Canberra FC
1:00 pm – Junior six-a-side games
2:40 pm – Men's and Boys Premier League presentation
3:10 pm – Men's Premier League host Canberra Olympic FC
The day will be attended by special guests Tim Overall Administrator Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council and Capital Football's chairman Mark O'Neil. Former Monaro State and National League players will also be in attendance.
Simon said the gala day was a great opportunity to celebrate both the club's diversity and history as well as to put on display the range of services the club can offer.
"But really it's a chance to celebrate our 50th anniversary with the Queanbeyan community," he said.
John Santolin
Club President Media Contact: Simon France
Monaro Panthers Football Club: angelo.monaropanthers@gmail.com
Non-media queries: 0433 846 104
Tagged: 50 Years, Monaro Panthers, Queanbeyan, Inter Monaro, Football, Mens Football, Womens Football, Celebration, Soccer
Monaro Panthers/Inter Monaro - 50th Year Celebrations
We are celebrating our 50th Anniversary this year.
All ex-players, coaches, volunteers and administrators etc. are invited to attend our celebrations throughout the year capped off with our 50th Reunion Dinner on the 30th September at Bicentennial Hall, QBN. Save the date!
Watch this space for more events coming up this year!
If you would like to be kept up to date with our events this year including receiving an invite to our reunion dinner, please fill out the following link: bit.ly/2jNbrfP
If you have any photos or videos from our past please forward them onto Robert (email below).
For further information contact Robert at monaro50th@gmail.com
Tagged: Anniversary, 50 Years, Monaro Panthers, Inter Monaro, Monaro, Football, Queanbeyan


The idea that we hold the atmosphere around us in trust, with a duty to protect it for future generations, is taking hold. And the debate is drawing on everything from an 18th century English jurist to contemporary activism by US peoples of colour, writes Claire Browning.
Nobody owns the sky, but all of our lives depend on it. A series of court challenges by youth to their governments have brought ideas of the "public trust" to the fore, claiming that we hold the atmosphere in trust, have a duty to protect and pass it on to coming generations, and therefore governments must act on climate change.
Independently, Auckland professors Dame Anne Salmond and Klaus Bosselmann are also working on the "public trust". Bosselmann suggests a framework for global environmental stewardship, which he has taken to the United Nations. UN member states, he argues, aretrustees for the Earth. Salmond sees a case for a public trust in rivers and their water in NZ, joining Sir Eddie Durie and the NZ Māori Council in calling for an independent Waterways Commission to take over water matters from the government.
This kind of idea about the public trust goes back at least to 1970, and maybe a long way before that. It's been called a "drumbeat" of academics and environmental groups. The gist is to extend, to the environment, and to governments and decision-makers, the kinds of duties over the environmental common that we would apply to administering property in a trust: not to damage it, to manage it in perpetuity, for its beneficiaries. The policy case for the public trust is the need for a reality check: the need for a balance on power, against the "self-interested and powerful minorities [which] often have an undue influence on the public resource decisions of legislative and administrative bodies and cause those bodies to ignore broadly based public interests".
I agree with Anne Salmond about taking public trust ideas, the wisdom of kaitiakitanga, and a bit of good Kiwi no 8 wire, and doing something ingenious. As I'll explain, though, I disagree with her on a couple of things as well. As part of a wider ecological idea of justice, supported by a grant from the New Zealand Law Foundation, I've been looking at the public trust, too.
For "recreation" in the quote above, we might say "profit for them", as well. Environmental justice claims in the US are echoed here, and lived here, by Māori — and others, but at the heart of environmental justice are colonisation stories, about white people's ideas. Through Waitangi Tribunal findings, Treaty settlements, and challenges put to the Crown and Pākehā by Māori, we are somewhere along a path that has us rethinking some of the environmental ideas in particular — most recently with Te Awa Tupua, the Whanganui River; and most memorably with the foreshore and seabed, now dealt with in NZ in the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act. The original common law public trust evolved in disputes about the ownership of these lands under tidal waters, and access onto and over them.
Māori, through mātauranga Māori and their tireless, thankless work in calling out injustice, are leading us to an ecological idea of justice in New Zealand. We're a long way from arriving there yet. There's a famous photo of Dame Whina Cooper, slowly walking hand in hand with a little child on a winding, gravelled country road. In this story, I'm seeing Pākehā NZ as the child. Dame Whina led the land march or hikoi to parliament, that saw the Waitangi Tribunal established and started the Treaty settlement process on its aching slow steps towards justice.
In both her RNZ interview with Kathryn Ryan and recent opinion in the New Zealand Herald, Professor Salmond comments on what seems selective attention by our government to English common law jurist Sir William Blackstone. She argues that we need to give a new life, through the public trust, to duties "somehow forgotten" which Blackstone described, not to interfere with others' enjoyment and use of water.
In his Commentaries on the Laws of England Blackstone called water "a moveable, wandering thing", a "vague and fugitive" thing, that allowed use, but not an ownership right. To interfere with another's use — for example, "to stop or divert water that uses to run to another's meadow or mill; to corrupt or poison a water course"—was an actionable nuisance. His language does suggest actions, rather than, for example, downstream consequences of (criminally ignorant or wilfully blind) omissions by regional councils, and he goes on literally to say: "do any act".
In the collective writings of Blackstone and others — Bracton, Justinian, who rewrote the Roman law Corpus Juris Civilis, another Roman emperor Marcian — there emerges a short list of other "moveable wandering things" that "by the law of nature … are common to mankind": sunlight, the air, flowing water, the sea (and, therefore, the seashore), wild creatures.
We should pay careful, not selective, attention to Blackstone, and what we can learn about the public trust. Ironically, however, it points to the opposite conclusion from the one that is sought.
What is wanted, by public trust advocates, is a binding duty on those taking care of our place, that is, the government and regional councils, who are failing to act. But Blackstone describes a civil nuisance matter, between individuals — not a restraint on the government, let alone a positive, publicly enforceable duty on the government to act in a certain way. Some US cases do seem to show that a public trust-type interest, as in public parklands for example, might prompt heightened judicial scrutiny of a process or decision. And secondly: at common law, "in common" mostly meant "free to go and take" — just as users are used to expect with unpriced water and greenhouse gas emissions.
It might be subject to some regulation. But the common law authority for a positive obligation on government to defend any particular interest, or step in on behalf of people and place, is thin. The public trust in access to tidal waters and the shore — specifically for navigation, commerce, and fishing — conceived of a public good served through a very specific bundle of interests, that likely were not a million miles away from the interests of the sovereign at the time, although they incidentally served the public good as well. And so, in some ways, New Zealand governments have grasped all this quite well.
Only in the US has the public trust advanced to broader ideas. But in the US, federal government has had "continuing responsibility" and a fiduciary duty since 1970 to "use all practicable means" to "fulfil the responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment for succeeding generations". Similar laws have trickled down to the laws and constitutions of some state governments. In Hawaii, based on the public trust, the Supreme Court has restored minimum river flows, upholding cultural and ecological purposes among others as true bottom lines. The court put commercial interests in second place to the environmental common good as a priority. But in Hawaii, as well as being supported by a constitutional amendment in 1978, water had been named as a common good in the specific terms of all land grants made.
All of this aside, I agree with Anne Salmond. The NZ parliament can do what it wants, just as the US Congress has done. In the end it therefore doesn't matter much, if all that Blackstone carries with him down the centuries is the germ of an important idea about duties to others. We aren't bound in what have been called the "historical shackles" of the common law. Recent Treaty settlements in NZ have seemed to show a new momentum and aptitude for really skilful balance and compromise around these kinds of questions, of ownership in particular, and kaitiakitanga.
I think there is a critical mass and momentum building around our environmental laws that, along with new constitution proposals, could see another overhaul of environmental management in this country to rival the 1980s. It might be the Key-led government's crowning environmental legacy: the clean-up after the storm.
Because rethinking the public trust links with ideas about property rights and — depending on how it was framed — there is the potential that "any such notion strikes at the very essence of governmental power", rethinking the public trust also relates to constitutional law reform. Philip Joseph recently said that it is the first task of a constitution to decide what values we want our government and our law to serve. That is the question at the heart of reclaiming or establishing an idea of the "public trust": it is a check, and a shift in the balance of power.
For the role of the public trust in this, I would also look at the Department of Conservation. Effectively, DOC is trustee of NZ taonga. Under section 5 of the Conservation Act it is also "under the control of the minister". In a series of public trust cases relating to the management of parklands in the US, courts have taken a dim view of subordinating public parklands to promoting private profits and commercial interests. In what are just some recent examples, Forest & Bird recently exposed open cast coal mining plans for high value conservation landbeing done in secret by the government; proposals to take water for bottling from the Aspiring national park would see 3km of pipeline laid, by digger, through tokoeka / Haast kiwi "sanctuary", including access road up to 8 metres wide.
There must come a point where the politicisation, underfunding and undermining of DOC's role that has been ongoing demands change. DOC holds enormous reserves of public goodwill, in a trust which Māori and Pākehā have not necessarily shared. For tangata whenua, DOC is usurping the role of kaitiaki. Right now, it is tempting to contemplate removing or amending the minister's statutory function. Instead, we might rethink the configuration and role of the New Zealand Conservation Authority, putting a differently constituted NZCA at the helm as trustee and kaitiaki. Less radical would be making express and binding in the Conservation Act what already ought to be implicit: the duty of the public trust.
Claire Browning is a policy analyst, former lawyer, and environmental advocate, who has worked for the Law Commission. Her work referred to above, due later in 2017, is supported by a grant from the New Zealand Law Foundation.


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Ду́шан Пи́тоняк (; ) — словацкий кёрлингист на колясках.

В составе сборной Словакии участник зимних Паралимпийских игр , ,  и .

Играет в основном на позициях второго и третьего.

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Душан — представитель большой семьи словацких кёрлингистов: четверо из его братьев (Павол, Франтишек, Томаш и Петер) играют в одной мужской команде на национальных и международных турнирах и чемпионатах; Павол и Франтишек бывают тренерами колясочных команд Душана на чемпионатах мира и Паралимпийских играх; многие другие члены семьи тоже играют в кёрлинг или являются тренерами по кёрлингу.

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 Профиль на сайте зимних Паралимпийских игр 2014 (в веб-архиве)
 Профиль на сайте зимних Паралимпийских игр 2018

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Кёрлингисты на зимних Паралимпийских играх 2014 года
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Кёрлингисты на зимних Паралимпийских играх 2022 года
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This Research Seminar is inactive during the academic year 2018-2019 and will be inactive in the academic year 2019-2020 as well. The main reason is that the number of ReMA students and PhD candidates that have shown interest in participating in this Research Seminar is too low. ReMA students and PhD candidates doing historical research are recommended to consider participating in the Research Seminar Dogmatics, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, the Research Seminar Religious Studies or any other Research Seminar they deem relevant to their research. In the meanwhile, the NOSTER office will continue exploring the possibilities for a revitalisation of this Research Seminar.
Course description: This ongoing seminar offers a forum for discussion of research in the field of historical studies in theology and religion. The monthly sessions focus on: reading and discussing recent key publications in the field of historical research in theology and religious studies (church history, history of religion, history of theology, history of spirituality, etc.); presenting and discussing the participants' research; and discussing and practicing various skills needed for academic research (such as writing research proposals, formulating the research question, defending the thesis, publishing research results, etc.).
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The participant is able to assess and discuss methodological aspects of historical research in theology and religious studies.
Teaching methods: seminar; presentations and discussion with participants.