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April 20 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
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Join us in the CTTT Local Affiliate Group in Virginia's Historic Triangle.
We generally meet the third Tuesday of each month at Jamestown Christian Fellowship Church in Williamsburg. Until the Covid-19 pandemic has receded and it is safe to gather together in person once again, we'll meet via Zoom video/phone technology.
Serving Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, we offer a safe place to have open and honest dialogue about race relations in the Historic Triangle region and to work towards healing from racial wounds that are rooted in the United States history of slavery, which began in Jamestown.
We are coming together to sit down at the table of brotherhood and to get to know each other, as we respectfully listen to each other's truths. We are also planning educational programs and other initiatives to repair the harm done to our community by racial inequality and injustice.
Members of CTTT are committed to addressing the Legacies and Aftermaths of Slavery through:
Facing History through acknowledging, and sharing personal, family and community histories of race with openness and honesty
Making Connections to others within and across racial lines in order to develop and deepen relationships
Healing Wounds by exploring how we can heal together through dialogue, reunion, apology, and other methods
Taking Action by actively seeking to heal the wounds of racial inequality and injustice and to support racial reconciliation between individuals, within families, and in communities
For more information, or to RSVP, Click Here and complete the contact form at the bottom of the page.
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Driver, 100, strikes 11 pedestrians near Los Angeles school
Preston Carter, 100, sits in a chair following an accident involving his car and nine pedestrians, including eight children and one adult, in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday, August 29, 2012.
By Ruben Vives and Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times –
LOS ANGELES — A 100-year-old driver backed up and struck nine children and two adults Wednesday afternoon near a South Los Angeles school as they crossed the street shortly after classes let out for the day.
Rescuers arrived to find a chaotic scene with victims sprawled on the ground and backpacks and other personal items strewn on the sidewalk near 53rd and Main streets.
Four of the children were seriously injured when Preston Carter backed his blue 1990 Cadillac into the victims, who were on their way to buy snacks from a vendor across the street from Main Street Elementary School, authorities said.
The victims ranged in age from 14 months to 48 years old. The children, some of whom attended the school, were in stable condition Wednesday evening, authorities said.
Carter, a Los Angeles resident who will turn 101 on Sept. 5, has a current driver's license and no history of traffic violations, the Department of Motor Vehicles said. The only restrictions on his license, which is valid until 2013, was that he wear corrective lenses.
As parents gathered at the scene with their children, some questioned whether enough is done to screen elderly drivers and keep them from operating a vehicle if they pose a safety hazard to themselves or others.
"He shouldn't be driving," said Beatrice Vargas, 34, whose 6-year-old boy attends Main Street Elementary.
A young boy is transported to an ambulance following a car striking nine pedestrians, including eight children and one adult, in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday, August 29, 2012.
The issue of older drivers was thrust into the national spotlight in July 2003 when an 86-year-old man plowed into a crowd at a busy farmer's market in downtown Santa Monica, Calif., killing 10 people and injuring 63 others.
In California, all drivers 70 years and older are required to pass a vision and written test every five years, DMV spokesman Mike Marando said. Motorists younger than 70 with clean driving records are eligible for two automatic license renewals every five years before having to appear at a DMV office for a vision test, thumb print and photo.
Los Angeles Police Department traffic detectives were looking at whether Carter mistakenly hit his accelerator pedal instead of brake shortly before he rammed into the crowd about 2:30 p.m., a police official said.
Carter was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol as he reversed his car onto 53rd street from a food store parking lot when he struck the victims, LAPD Capt. Jorge Rodriguez said.
"It was a miscalculation on his part," Rodriguez said. "He thought he was turning onto the street."
Carter told reporters at the scene that he "lost control of the car," explaining that his brakes failed.
A his home Wednesday evening, Carter declined additional comment. But his 78-year-old daughter, Ella Fleming, said the family was grateful no one was killed.
"I'm so sorry that it happened," she said, "and I'm thanking God none of them died."
Fleming said that her father would not be driving anymore and that he was planning to give his car to the family.
Earlier Wednesday, as word of the accident spread, crisis counselors descended on Main Street Elementary to help students and parents.
William Littles, whose 9-year-old boy attends the school, complained that there's "not enough supervision" of the children before and after classes.
He said 53rd Street gets very congested because of the vendors, double parked vehicles, and parents and children constantly crossing the street before and after classes end. Officials at the school declined to comment.
"My heart goes out to the parents and children," Littles said.
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Are your casual workers really employees? Make sure they have contracts.
05 September 2012 #Employment
A recent case highlights the pitfalls of engaging casual staff without a written contract.
Determining the employment status of causal workers is often difficult as the term suggests a relationship that is informal between the parties, with limited obligation on both sides. However casual workers will in some instances be considered to be providing their services under contracts of employment, despite working on an ad hoc basis and as such have more rights as employees. This would include the right to not be unfairly dismissed.
Casual workers can be engaged in a number of ways:
On a zero hours contract – the employer does not guarantee to provide work and only pays for the work done;
As bank staff –the employer can call on a pool of workers when the work becomes available but there is no obligation on the worker to accept it;
Under an umbrella contract - the worker is engaged on a series of individual contracts, but there is an over-arching contract (express or implied) that continues even when the worker is not working.
In considering employment status of a casual worker, one of the key issues will be whether there is "mutuality of obligation" i.e. is there an obligation on the employer to provide work and an obligation on the individual to do that work if provided?
The two questions to often ask to establish mutuality of obligation are:
Whether they are employees during the periods when they are working; and
Whether they can link those periods together by establishing sufficient mutuality of obligation during the periods when they are not working.
In Drake v Ipsos Mori UK Ltd [2012] UKEAT/0604/11 the EAT, focusing particularly on whether there was mutuality of obligation, considered the employment status of Mr Drake.
Mr Drake worked for Ipsos Mori as a market researcher on an ad hoc basis under a succession of individual assignments from 2005 to 2010:
He was never given a written contract or any contractual document;
He was told that there was no obligation on him to accept work and no obligation on Ipsos Mori to provide it; and
He was expressly told that he was a worker rather than an employee, but was given a handbook stating that, once he had accepted an assignment, it would be considered a "verbal contract" which Mr Drake was expected to complete within a given deadline.
In 2010 Ipsos Mori removed Mr Drake from its panel and he brought a claim for unfair dismissal which can only be brought by an employee who as sufficient continuing service. Mr Drake argued that he was an employee on the basis that each of his individual assignments was a contract of employment, and that there was an over-arching (umbrella) contract that continued even when he was not working, linking the assignments.
Ipsos Mori's argument was that Mr Drake was not an employee because there was no obligation on the company to provide work to Mr Drake and no obligation on him to do that work if provided i.e. no mutuality of obligation existed within (or between) assignments.
Mr Drake's argument was that he had to complete each assignment once he accepted it, while Ipsos Mori asserted that this was only a moral obligation because there was no sanction for non completion of the work.
The Employment Tribunal found in favour of Ipsos Mori, deciding that Mr Drake was not an employee as mutuality of obligation did not exist either during each assignment or between assignments and that the assignment could be terminated at any time without being completed.
The EAT upheld Mr Drake's appeal finding that sufficient mutuality of obligation did exist for there to be an employment relationship and that there had existed a series of successive contracts between the parties. Despite either party being able to terminate the contract at will, the EAT found that this did not mean that there was no contract all.
The EAT remitted the case back to the Employment Tribunal to decide whether Mr Drake was fact, an employee, and whether he had sufficient continuity of service to bring an unfair dismissal claim.
This case is a reminder that casual workers may provide their services under a contract of employment, despite working on an informal basis.


When the sweltering heat and humidity of our tropical climate gets too much to bear, we look to air-conditioned interiors for refuge. We realise that nothing alleviates the discomfort quite like an air conditioner can, so we surveyed the landscape to bring you the top 6 air-conditioners in Malaysia for 2016-2017.
From the weather extremes of Osaka (Japan) comes a global air conditioning manufacturer with nearly a century of experience and a propensity for innovative designs such as the Infinity series – which combines titanium-based dust filters with active plasma generators and ionizers into a single air conditioner. Daikin's ecological conscience is visibly exercised with their sizable investments into research and development for improvements in energy savings and environmental impact, resulting in their pioneering adoption of the environmentally-friendly R-32 refrigerant gas.
Utilising their global reach and 90 years of experience in the broad landscape of home appliances, Electrolux practices a philosophy of thoughtful design to provide air conditioners which combine a host of innovations: Vitamin C nanoparticle sprays to combat air contaminants, active plasma generator dust filters, and inner components coated with gold particles for protection against corrosion.
Another air conditioner manufacturer with its origin in Japan's post-imperial era, the Hitachi group is a far-reaching entity with innovative developments in almost every technological arena including transportation, healthcare, and construction. Drawing from their vast experience, Hitachi's most impressive of air conditioners comes with thermal and imaging cameras that provide realtime feedback on temperature pockets and human activity in a room, in addition to bio-filters based on UV light and titanium nano-particles coated in wasabi.
We briefly touched on Midea's humble past in our review of ceiling fans, but we would be remiss if we did not mention their air conditioning offerings as well. Midea applies the same know-how and manufacturing base derived from decades of experience in home appliances to provide affordable innovation in their air conditioners, such as power-saving inverters, multi-stage filters, in addition to louvers that remember their position.
Having just turned 100, Panasonic is among the longest-running electronics manufacturers hailing from post-imperial Japan, its name having been associated with nearly every form of electronic device used across multiple generations. Panasonic's Sky Series boasts a feature that is first among any air conditioner – an additional louver panel that swings upwards to direct air at the ceiling for rapid cooling.
At its core, York is a global entity specializing in building management systems for commercial buildings. As a result of their specialisation, their air conditioners for homes are infused with industrial-grade power efficiency, durability, and noise-reducing design considerations that can only be derived from decades of experience with large-scale commercial systems.
Are you not quite ready for the investment of an air conditioner? Take a look at our top five picks of ceiling fans in Malaysia.


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Q: Front-end edition K2 with joomla2.5 I've followed first the basic advice given here (http://www.templatemonster.com/help/joomla-how-to-enable-frontend-editing-in-k2-component.html). I believe without doing anything wrong.
My problem is that even logged in as an admin on the frontend I cannot edit K2 articles. Because the Edit button does not appear a the top of my article. It works for Joomla article though just K2's seems to be a problem.
Anyone knows where I should look into ? I'm not familiar with Joomla btw.
Thanks a lot, cheers,
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A: By default you can't edit K2 items in the front end as you can do with Joomla articles.
In K2 you need to create a user group with front-end editing privilege.
Joomla administration-> menu K2 -> User Groups

Create a group with all privileges and no filter for the K2 categories at the bottom. Next you need to assign users who will have editing privileges to this group. Still in the K2 administration panel, click Users on the left menu. From the list of users displayed, Edit the ones that should be assigned to the group previously created.

You can now login in the front-end of the site and you should be able to edit the K2 items.

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A public education played a powerful role in Laura's life. She naturally pursued a profession in education policy to provide the same opportunity to all of America's schoolchildren. On this path, she has taught English as a Second Language as a Peace Corps volunteer, led large education programs and nonprofits, and, led federal education policy programs. Currently, she generates policy ideas on the topic of improving school performance and college and career readiness at the Center for American Progress.
Eskolta and the Center for American Progress produced a report reviewing the innovative efforts of New York City to reimagine accountability metrics for schools serving overage, under-credited youth. This was then supported through analysis of seven years of data on a single cohort of 70,000 New York City high school students. In this session, we will share our findings and recommendations, and facilitate questions around why graduation, testing, and climate measures need to be rethought and the implications for carrying out this work. Accountability is too often discussed only in relation to changing cut scores, but in fact this is about rethinking methods of calculation, attribution, comparison, and cohorting students.


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Le passage Kracher est une voie du  de Paris, en France.

Situation et accès
Le passage Kracher est situé dans le  de Paris. Il débute au 137, rue de Clignancourt et se termine au 10, rue Neuve-de-la-Chardonnière.

Origine du nom
Cette voie est nommée d'après le nom du propriétaire des terrains sur lesquels elle a été ouverte.

Historique
Ce passage est ouvert sous sa dénomination actuelle en 1862 puis est classé dans la voirie parisienne par un arrêté du .

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Liste des voies du 18e arrondissement de Paris

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Q: Displaying jQuery popup on mousehover Within an ASPX page, I would like to have the popup shown within the closes xy coordinate of where mousehover is done (similar to windows status bar where when we mousehover outlook it shows something next to it. )
So in my ASPX page currently I have the jquery that shows the dialog in the center of the page (it masks the ASPX page into whole white and then displays the the actual content as a popup window) but I would like to show the popup closer to the mousehover without masking the aspx page.
The ASPX page has few jquery references.
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Please suggest.
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jQuery plugin, qTip2, will give you the option of having the popup tooltip or modal box follow the mouse pointer, if that's what you're asking.  See mouse tracking demo below.
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Hover over this box to see mouse tracking in action

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The history of our school
Our school was established in 1863 and so we celebrated our 150th anniversary in 2013! We collected information and photos from years past for our celebrations in 2013.
There has been a school in Canewdon since 1799 when it was decided by the Parish Vestry to build a small school and school house to educate parish children. This is the building now known as Vicarage Cottage. There are reports of a school being held in Canute House in the past.
The new premises were built on charity land in 1863 along with the current School House comprising two schoolrooms. There was a charge of 3d a week for each child or what the parents could afford. The Canewdon Educational Foundation (Trust) made funds available for items such as textbooks, slates and slate pencils. By the 1920s the school was severely overcrowded and two extra classrooms were built in 1930. With further expansion of the village it was necessary to build another extension in 1967.
A Nursery class was introduced to the school in September 1974. This was a single demountable building, which was subsequently extended to double its size in the summer of 1994. The Canewdon Educational Foundation (Trust) financed both the introduction and extension of the Nursery. A further extension was completed in 1993 to bring the school up to date. A new classroom was built where the old wooden hut used to be which also brought the junior boys� toilets inside the school and provided an additional Special Needs/Resources/Library and an ICT suite. Another extension was completed in 1995 to modernise the administrative area. In 2004 further building work took place to extend the staff room and Head Teachers office and to create a separate ICT suite, Library and Special Needs room. We have recently replaced our windows and doors, purchased a new hall floor and re laid our car park.
A new Nursery build was completed in the Spring of 2007 and both playgrounds were remodelled.
Further historical information about the school can be found in Canewdon: a Pattern of Life through the Ages by Ken Smith and by the same author Canewdon a Record with Pictures Old and New, or by researching at The Essex Records Office situated in Southend Library
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Adani Group, Piramal among 4 bidders for DHFL, lenders stare at over ₹60,000 crore write-off
Oct 19, 2020, 08:29 IST
Adani Group and Piramal Enterprises are among the four entities that have placed bids for DHFL, the first financial services player undergoing insolvency process, according to sources. Besides, sources said, the US-based Oaktree and Hong Kong-based SC Lowy submitted bids for DHFL on October 17, the last date to submit final bids.
In November, the Reserve Bank referred DHFL, the third largest pure-play mortgage lender, to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for insolvency proceedings.
DHFL was the first finance company to be referred to NCLT by the RBI using special powers under section 227.
Prior to that, the company's board was superseded and R Subramaniakumar was appointed as the administrator. He is also the resolution professional under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).
According to sources, Oaktree has submitted bid for the entire company and the bid value is Rs 20,000 crore as against the admitted liability of Rs 95,000 crore with Rs 10,000 crore cash in hand.
Therefore, sources said, accepting Oaktree bid would result in a write-off of Rs 65,000 crore for the lenders led by State Bank of India (SBI).
Adani Group has bid for DHFL's Rs 40,000-crore wholesale and Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) portfolio, valuing it at Rs 3,000 crore, sources said.
Piramal Enterprises has bid for DHFL's retail portfolio. It has quoted Rs 12,000 crore for the business and is asking for 18 per cent yield on this portfolio, they said.
According to bankers, the bid of SC Lowy, the fourth bidder, comes with so many conditions that it is unlikely to be considered.
Bankers are of the opinion that resolution of DHFL through NCLT will result in a massive write-off for the lenders and they will be stuck with over Rs 60,000 crore non-performing assest (NPAs).
DHFL did not respond to an email seeking comments on the matter.
With this kind of heavy write-off, sources said, it does not seem to be a good deal for lenders.
SBI is the lead banker with an exposure of over Rs 10,000 crore to DHFL, while LIC and EPFO will also have to write-off nearly Rs 10,000 crore.
As of July 2019, the company owed Rs 83,873 crore to banks, the National Housing Board, mutual funds and bondholders.
DHFL was sent to bankruptcy after the government on November 15, 2019 enabled the Reserve Bank to sent large financial services companies, excluding banks, to NCLT for insolvency proceedings.
According to a filing last month, fraudulent transactions worth Rs 17,394 crore were reported at DHFL during FY07 to FY19, as per a report of transaction auditor Grant Thornton.
Fund diversion by the promoters of DHFL resulted in lenders classifying DHFL account as "fraud".
Another fraudulent transactions worth Rs 12,705.53 crore was reported by the forensic audit, followed by the third one earlier this month.
The third fraud worth Rs 2,150.84 crore, by way of undervaluing the company's insurance subsidiary, was detected by Grant Thornton
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Below is the text of the speech made by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, to the Police Federation on 19th May 2010.
There is no greater act of humanity than to put your life on the line to protect others.
And there's no starker or more tragic reminder of the risks you take; and of the courage and dedication that you show every day to keep us safe in our homes and on our streets, twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.
The word "hero" is used too easily these days.
But these officers died doing the job they love, protecting the public they serve; they are real heroes.
Being Home Secretary is a great privilege. And I do not underestimate the challenges that I am going to face.
There will undoubtedly be difficult times ahead … with an economic crisis that limits our resources and breeds uncertainty … at a time when the challenges of fighting crime are ever expanding in a world of global terrorism.
But my focus is clear: you are the professionals and I want to help you do what you do best.
I know I've got a lot to learn from you – to really understand the challenges you face.
But let me be clear – I know what an amazing job you do.
Every single day, you do extraordinary things.
When others would step aside – it's you who step in.
When people are running away from danger, you are running towards it.
Day in and day out; in fair weather and foul; it's you who maintain the law and order that is so fundamental to our free and civilised society.
This isn't the glamorous fiction portrayed in TV programmes that romanticise the work of detectives, crime scene investigators and SWAT teams.
It's about you, the constables, sergeants, inspectors and chief inspectors who are the face of the police service for every man, woman and child in our country, including the millions of tourists who flock here every year.
And it's about the work you do.
Responding night and day to the public.
Making it safe to enjoy our great national events – from taking the kids to the football to watching the Queen open Parliament.
Keeping our traffic flowing and our streets and highways safe.
And keeping the peace at public demonstrations.
These are fundamental to our free society – and you make it all possible.
You put up with abuse and worse, but you do so to keep us free and allow us to live and work together in safety on this crowded island.
You do an amazing job – and it's time we gave you all the respect you deserve.
For your courage, your dedication to duty and your sheer hard work – I want to say, thank you.
As Home Secretary I will never underestimate the importance of the job you do.
Some of the challenges you face are different from before and changing every day.
Fighting serious and organised crime – especially the battle with drug trafficking.
Fighting terrorism – the new and biggest policing challenge of the 21st century.
And you are facing other challenges which have been around for longer but are no less difficult and no less important.
Disorder and anti-social behaviour blight far too many communities and cause misery for far too many people – and you're on the frontline in the fight back.
We all know crime is too high; and we know the damage that the fear of crime is causing in our communities.
As the incidence of crime breeds fear – so our society begins to break down.
How many people walk away from a gang of young people on their street and just assume they're up to no good?
How many parents will keep their children away from the local park because they're worried about them being confronted by drug dealers?
How many elderly couples hesitate before leaving their homes for fear of being mugged?
How many people avoid making eye contact with strangers for fear of how they might react?
What do these things say about our society?
This is not the Britain that we want – and we must fight to change it.
We need to mend our broken society and build instead the Big Society.
In the broken society … too many families break down, children are brought up in households where nobody works, and they go to school with little hope of good grades and a better life.
In the Big Society … we tackle these root causes of poverty and criminality.
In the broken society … we put up with crime and anti-social behaviour because 'that's just the way things are'.
In the Big Society … we say enough is enough and we come together to reclaim our communities for the law-abiding majority.
In the broken society … people live in fear of criminals.
In the Big Society … criminals will live in fear of the people – because there is nowhere for them to hide.
Our communities will stand tall – because we're all in this together.
You can't be expected to do this on your own.
We need to reform our courts, probation services and prisons. And I know that Ken Clarke, the new Justice Secretary, agrees with me.
That is why Nick Herbert has been appointed as Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice -working not just in the Home Office but in the Ministry of Justice too, looking not just at Criminal Justice System issues but also at issues like rehabilitation to reduce offending.
Paul said about the number of people who have been Home Office ministers. Nick Herbert is somebody who has been in this area for a number of years. He has a commitment to helping you do your job, as I do.
I would also like to welcome James Brokenshire, who was also part of the shadow Home Affairs team.
Somebody once said you need to be 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime'. And, for once, he was right. He just didn't really do it.
But we will be tough on the causes of crime.
That's why the new Education Secretary, Michael Gove, will set about the most exciting programme of school reform for a generation … so our children are given the hope of a better future.
That's why the new Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, will pick up our plans for welfare reform … to get people into work and lift children out of poverty.
And, as Home Secretary, make no mistake: I will be tough on crime.
I know I'm a new Home Secretary. I know that many of you don't know me. And I know that you want to know what sort of Home Secretary I will be.
So let me begin by saying this: I'm not interested in running the police.
If I'd wanted to run the police, I'd have done what you all did and join the police force.
That is not the Home Secretary's job.
That's not something many of my predecessors have understood. They just didn't get it.
They reached for what they thought was the lever but only found a clamp.
Tying you down in more and more red tape.
Issuing central government diktats. .
Destroying your morale and devaluing your vocation.
They treated you as pen-pushers not police officers.
They imposed standardised national targets without prejudice for the vastly differing needs of local areas – so the police in a seaside town such as Bournemouth are set the same objectives as those in Brixton.
They assessed you against key performance indicators which rewarded you for recording crime not cutting crime.
They failed to tackle the bureaucracy around charging which keeps you off the streets.
They promoted a "one size fits all" Whitehall-knows-best brand of policing that rides roughshod over the experience and professional expertise of local officers.
And what I'm sure was most maddening of all, they spun endless gimmicks and initiatives – marching yobs to cashpoints, night courts, ASBOs for unborn children – that were forgotten about as quickly as they became tomorrow's fish and chip paper.
I didn't go into politics to run public services.
That's the job of the professionals like you.
So I'm not going to presume to tell you how to do your job … anymore than I would tell a surgeon how to operate – or an engineer how to build a bridge.
Professional policing means policing run by you, the professionals, not us, the politicians.
I believe it's time for a whole new approach.
What that approach is, how it will be delivered and what it means for the job you do is what I now want to focus on.
But before I get into the specifics, it's important I set out the philosophy underpinning our new approach – and indeed, underpinning so many of the changes this new Government will undertake in reforming our public services.
Our starting point is that public services should serve the public – meeting their needs, responding to what they want, answering directly to them.
Of course, in an ideal world, what the public wants from the police is no crime, no violent crime, no homicides, no thefts and no drunken louts.
But that is not the world we live in.
Most of us live in big cities – sharing scarce space with people with diverse backgrounds and diverse interests.
That is the reality of our world. The world in which you have to operate.
That's why we want to change the way the police forces of our country are managed.
…where you are accountable to the people you serve.
That way, we can help to build confidence in the system and deliver policing that meets local priorities.
In practice, this means striking a new deal with you, the police service.
… getting rid of the centralised bureaucracy that wastes money, saps morale and crushes innovation … and freeing the men and women of our police forces to do what they are trained to do, want to do and the public expects them to do – make our society safer.
…by giving local people a real say over how their streets are policed.
I'll always remember that police recruitment campaign with people like Lennox Lewis and Simon Weston saying how they'd struggle to cope with the pressures of being a police officer.
You could. That's why you chose this job.
You do. That's why you still do this job.
Each one of you has taken an incredibly brave decision to put yourself in harm's way to protect the public.
I said it was time we gave you the respect you deserve.
That means giving you the responsibility you deserve.
Because if government won't trust you, then what kind of message does that send to the public?
So we want to give you back that trust, restore pride in your job and bring some common sense back to policing.
How you operate is for you to decide with your leaders – that's what professional responsibility means.
So we will return some charging decisions to the police. Instead of waiting around police stations for a charging decision, you the officer will be given the responsibility to decide whether to charge for minor offences.
We will also look at untangling the knot of health and safety rules.
At the moment, legislation tilts too far in favour of discouraging officers from intervening.
We want to tip the scale back, while at the same time ensuring your safety.
We will also look at dismantling the targets in disguise – the Key Performance Indicators – which set national, one-size-fits-all priorities for local forces and instead allow you to pursue the crimes and criminals you believe you should.
And I am determined that we will be the government that finally gets to grips with all that paperwork you find so frustrating. So we will scrap the 'stop' form in its entirety and reduce the burden of the 'stop and search' procedures.
I understand that some of the paperwork is necessary, to provide intelligence, to protect you and protect our civil liberties.
But there is far too much.
So in the weeks, months and years ahead I want to work closely with you to reduce the amount of paperwork that comes across your desk. If there is bureaucracy that you think is unnecessary and time wasting then I want to hear about it and stop it.
Let me be absolutely clear: I want the police to be crime fighters not form fillers; out on the streets as much as they think necessary, not behind their desk and chained to a computer.
Perhaps most importantly of all, I want to free you by stopping all the initiatives and gimmicks that emanate from central government.
When policing priorities are dictated by the news-cycle rather than what works, you only get the most superficial, short-term change.
We've got to entrench long-term thinking, working with laws that we've got and the powers that you already have to score the line between right-and-wrong in our neighbourhoods.
This is a question of implementing what exists, not legislating for something new.
And I believe it will mean you can go about your job without worrying about the next edict to come from on-high.
With these changes, we will give you the licence to police.
But you will understand the need for an appropriate system of checks, so this new freedom must come with strings attached.
I can assure you, these will not come in the form of bureaucratic meddling from Whitehall.
Instead, they will come from greater accountability to the public you serve.
You will have read about the changes we propose, you may even be worried about what they mean for you, but these will largely affect your chief constables.
Instead of having them answer to Whitehall, we will make them answer to police individuals with a mandate to set local policing priorities.
That mandate will have been earned through election – and those policing priorities will have been developed with the consent of local people.
– and, of course, giving communities the power to kick people out of office if things go wrong.
I know the concerns you have that individuals might result in the politicisation of the police force or, worse still, interfere with your operational independence.
The truth is that constant interference by previous Home Secretaries has caused the real politicisation of policing – and locally-elected individuals are a giant step in the right direction.
And let me make it absolutely clear – elected individuals will in no way undermine your operational independence.
They will not manage their forces and they will recognize that the only way of making a police force effective is by letting the professionals get on with it.
The duty and responsibility of managing a police force will fall squarely on the shoulders of its chief constable – as it always has done.
The job of the elected individual is to ensure the policing needs of their communities are met as effectively as possible…bringing communities closer to the police, building confidence in the system and restoring trust.
But quite apart from these high level changes, you will need to accept greater accountability too.
Parents expect to be able to compare standards between schools in their area, patients between the performance local hospitals, and residents should be able to do the same with local police forces.
So we will give the public much more information about crime in their streets, with each neighbourhood having a detailed crime map of the crimes in their area.
And with this information in hand, they will then be allowed to challenge you, and your performance, in local beat meetings every month.
What is happening about the dark alleyway where people keep on getting mugged?
What are you doing about the spate of shoplifting that happens after school?
Why are these crimes happening and what are you going to do about it?
These reforms add up to a massive transfer of power from me, the Home Secretary, to the people.
They will be in charge, and everyone – from commissioners, to chief constables to you on the street – will have to answer to them in a big way.
So, this is the deal – more freedom to the police professionals; more power to the people.
And if we do these things, I believe there will be one extra massive benefit.
We all know there are tough times ahead. And I know that you are concerned about police officer numbers and pay.
The country faces the worst budget deficit it has ever had.
So the Government's priority is to cut the budget deficit and get the economy moving again. We need to be honest about what that means for us: the Home Office and the police will have to bear a fair share of the burden.
As part of the coalition agreement, we will have a full review of the remuneration and conditions of service for police officers and staff.
My priority as Home Secretary is to help you to do your job. That means I will do all I can to make sure we maintain a strong police presence on our streets.
And as Nick Herbert told you yesterday, we will honour the remainder of the three-year pay deal negotiated by the last government.
But we're going to have to deliver real value for money. And I can't do this without your help.
A big part of the answer comes from finding the waste and cutting it out.
I know how much the police is already doing through shared procurement – but we're going to need to do more.
The scale of our country's deficit makes the challenge we face very severe indeed. We've all got to pull together to get Britain back in the black.
I will fight to ensure your voice is heard, but like other departments and organisations, we need to make sacrifices too.
But the bigger argument I want to make is this.
If we take on this deal I have outlined today.
Cutting bureaucracy and freeing you to do your job…pushing power down and giving people control over policing…we'll get new ideas, new ways of doing things, real innovation.
We'll get better results. And we'll save money too.
So yes, there will be tough times ahead, yes the decisions will be difficult…but if we come together and embark on this change we'll be able to look after the public, save money and protect the resources that are key for you to do your job.
I believe that under this new coalition government we have a unique opportunity to effect real and lasting change.
With a five year parliament we can get on with the job, without the 'will he, won't he call the election?' sort of uncertainty and distractions we've had for the last three years.
Instead the focus will be on bringing in good, sound legislation that has common sense and better governance at its essence, and not just a good news story.
A constantly changing political landscape isn't good for the country.
I truly believe that this government will bring some much needed stability and focus; allowing us all to get on with making Britain a better, brighter and safer place.
We could go on as we are.
We could on with the paperwork, the diktats, the bureaucracy.
We could go on with crime too high and public confidence too low.
Or we could do things differently.
If you want to answer to the people you signed up to serve and protect… then come with me.
And if you come with me, I will make this promise: I will always back you, I will always support you, I will always fight for you.
That's the deal I am offering today.
It offers radical change – real change. And I hope you accept it. Together we can make sure that British policing remains the envy of the world.


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Q: Terraform state storing in S3 using backend I have created S3 bucket and Dynamodb to store Terraform state file and enable the locks.
Now I was trying to initialize using terraform init,getting below error. Please find the backend.tf and main.tf files(I used these two files to store state file into s3 bucket)
Initializing the backend...
Error: No valid credential sources found for AWS Provider.
Please see https://terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html for more information on
providing credentials for the AWS Provider
Note: I used same Access key and secret access key for creation of S3 bucket and DynamoDB.(Created user and provided Admin access to that user)
###########
cat main.yml
provider "aws" {
access_key = "Access_Key_Here"

secret_key = "Secret_key_here"

region = "us-east-1"

}
resource "aws_instance" "example" {
   ami           = "ami-2757f631"

   instance_type = "t2.micro"

}
##########
cat backend.tf
terraform {
  backend "s3" {

    bucket = "bucket_name_here"

    key    = "terraform.tfstate"

    dynamodb_table = "table_name_here"

    region = "us-east-1"

  }

}
Can anyone help on this?

A: i'd suggest navigating(in terminal) to folder where your terraform script resides and doing a command "aws configure" (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-quickstart.html)
and then entering your creds.
hope this helps, good luck.


Each team has a roster of six to 16 players. Four of these players will be chosen to compete in each league match.
Each team is composed of local players and free agent players.
For each match a team chooses four players to play. Teams may only use one free agent player in each match. The other three players must be local.
If a team requires more than one free agent, it will incur penalties to its maximum rating cap for that match.
Local status is determined by your connection to your team's home team's region. You can be local by either living in your team's region, or having lived there at some point for three continuous years.
A free agent can be from anywhere in the world and requires no connection at all to your team.
Each team chooses four players to play for the team in each match.
Each player uses his/her rating from the most recent September rating supplement to determine his/her league rating.
There are bonuses available to female players (their rating = rating-100). Therefore a 2500-rated female would count as 2400 towards the average. This is to encourage more females to participate in the league.
Most matches are a 4-vs-4, all-ply-all format. This means that each player in your team's lineup will play one game against each player on the opposing team.
A match win gives a team 10 points in the standings (8.5 points required for a match win). A drawn match gives each team five points in the standings.
Every game point gives a team one point in the standings.
The time control is 15 minutes plus a two-second increment.
Each team will have three matches that don't follow the standard match format.
These matches will consist of eight team round robins, in which more points are given out to the teams that finish at the top of the crosstable.
The time control will be 10 minutes plus a two-second increment.
There are four divisions (Eastern, Central, Atlantic, Pacific), broken up geographically. Each division has eight teams.
The regular season consists of each team playing all of the other teams in their division. There are also three round-robin matches as detailed in section E, for a total of ten matches.
The top four teams in each division qualify for the playoffs.
The bottom two teams in each division are relegated, and will need to participate in qualifiers to rejoin the league.
The number of total points determines who finishes ahead of other teams in the standings. Head-to-head performance is the first tiebreaker.
The playoffs follow a single-elimination format, in which the teams that fared better during the regular season advance on an 8-8 tie.
Once the semifinals begin, there is no more advancing on an 8-8 tie, but instead a blitz tiebreaker is used to determine the winner.
All players will be required to use the program Zoom in order to be monitored via webcam.


Motorcycle Tyres fitted while you wait.
We buy tyres in larger quantities and pass the savings on to you.
A typical year for our technicians sees us fit somewhere around 1,200 tyres!
Your tyre tread depth should be at least 2mm (a minimum of 1mm legal requirement) over the tyre's circumference across at least three quarters of the width of the tread.
Tyres with excessive wear can cost you a £60 fine per tyre and even more costly, 3 points on your licence.
Last but not least, your safety is of paramount importance. There is no point scrimping on tyres, after all, they are what hold you on the road in every circumstance - so why take the chance?
We fit tyres on almost any make or model.
Whether it's for a Triumph or not, we carry a wide selection of tyres in stock at any one time. We have the most popular sizes in stock and will have someone on hand to give you advice if you are not sure which make or type you are using or the best for your type of riding. Even if you are needing slick tyres for track use - we can supply them too.
If we don't have them in stock?
No matter which make of tyre you prefer we can usually have them delivered to us by courier 'next day' (including Saturday although additional courier rates apply) So if you are a bit stuck and need one fast, let us know and we will do our best to help.
How much does it cost to fit a tyre?
1. You bring us the bike and we fit one or both tyres for you. All you need to do is relax & wait in our coffee area upstairs.
2. You bring us the 'loose' wheels and we change the tyres for you. Again we have a Café at your disposal but you normally won't be waiting long.
Call us for a quote on 0141 406 3415.
Rest assured, all of our work is of the highest standard and quality checked before it leaves the premises.
What about the effect on the environment?
We pay to have all of our old tyres disposed of properly so you don't need to worry.


I wanted to write about the stereotypical portrayal of Rajasthan – a traditionally attired instrumentalist, strumming his Ravanhatta and playing Raag Maand and perhaps the most popular, and misinterpreted Rajasthani folk song "Kesariya Balam". But I'll shut up this one time, and sit with the Rajput royals and look out for the monsoon clouds atop Sajjangarh in Udaipur.
In response to the Daily Post's Weekly Photo Challenge: Layered – explore the interplay of texture and depth.
Next Post To reveal, or not to reveal?
Thank you 🙂 I took so many shots through haveli windows – very hard to resist!
I can understand how you felt. I go berserk… ending up clicking so many pictures. I'm sure it's a same case with you too!
Yup, and now I have so many identical compositions, and duplicate shots it's hard to sort them.
Ha ha! We seem to have similar issues.
There is just so much to adore about this photograph. Just lovely!


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Case Name Calhoun v. Pennington PN-GA-0003
Docket / Court 1:09-cv-03286 ( N.D. Ga. )
State/Territory Georgia
Case Type(s) Policing
Attorney Organization Lambda Legal
Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR)
On November 24, 2009, patrons of Atlanta Eagle, a gay bar in Atlanta, Georgia, filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Atlanta, the chief of police, and officers of the Atlanta Police Department in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division ... read more >
On November 24, 2009, patrons of Atlanta Eagle, a gay bar in Atlanta, Georgia, filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Atlanta, the chief of police, and officers of the Atlanta Police Department in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private lawyer Dan Grossman, and public interest lawyers from Lambda Legal Defense and the Southern Center for Human Rights, asked the Court for damages and declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants' violations of plaintiffs' rights under the U.S. Constitution and Georgia Constitution to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Specifically, plaintiffs claimed that the police action was taken without any particularized reasonable suspicion or probable cause to believe that any individual was involved in any criminal activity. The plaintiffs also sought redress for the numerous state law torts committed by individual defendants, including false imprisonment, assault, battery, and trespass.
According to the complaint, on September 10 and 11, 2009, a paramilitary, SWAT-type force of Atlanta police officers entered the Atlanta Eagle without a warrant, claiming to be searching for public sex, drugs, and illegal weapons. The police forced dozens of bar patrons to lie face-down on the floor, which was covered with spilled beer, dirt, and broken glass. Officers allegedly made threats of violence and anti-gay slurs. Plaintiffs claim that although they were not suspected of any criminal activity, police officers emptied their pockets, confiscated their IDs, and entered every patron's name into a police computer. After the raid, not a single patron was charged with any crime, and no weapons, drugs, or evidence of sex was found.
In December 2010, the parties reached a settlement that required the Atlanta Police Department to rewrite their policies regarding arrest, search, and seizure, and to make other changes to protect the public from police misconduct. The settlement required, among other provisions:
Changes in search and seizure policy to accord with a set of legal principles spelled out in the settlement, covering the requirements for arrests, stops, and searches.
All Atlanta police officers in uniform must wear a conspicuously visible nametag, and any Atlanta police officer who is in uniform or has displayed a badge or other indicia of police authority must identify himself by name and badge number upon request at some point before the end of an encounter with a civilian.
Atlanta police officers may not interfere in any way with a citizen's right to record police activity
Payment of $1,025,000 by the City of Atlanta.
Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. issued an order to approve the settlement agreement on December 8, 2010. The court retained jurisdiction to enforce the City of Atlanta's compliance with the terms of the settlement if it failed to implement the actions set forth in the settlement agreement within 180 days of the entry of the order.
On June 16, 2011, the plaintiffs filed a motion for sanctions on the grounds that the Atlanta Police Department had not implemented the police reform policies outlined in the settlement agreement. The police department agreed to implement the policies if plaintiffs withdrew their motion for sanctions.
After three years of inactivity, on March 17, 2015, the plaintiffs filed a motion for contempt sanctions on the grounds that the police department had still not implemented police reform policies. The plaintiffs requested post-judgment discovery. On May 19, 2015, the Court granted the plaintiffs' motion.
In response to a joint motion by the parties, the court ordered the appointment of a special master, Joe D. Whitley, on June 22, 2016 to monitor the Atlanta Police Department's compliance with court orders and assist the parties in addressing any obstacles with compliance or relevant discovery. On September 23, 2016, the court granted the parties' Consent Order Setting Forth Initial Special Master Monitoring, Discovery, and Dispute Resolution Procedures. The consent order laid out detailed procedures for ensuring compliance and a feedback mechanism for the creation of a civil rights training program. The consent order also provided a detailed monitoring scheme. Further, all post-judgment discovery requests were stayed without prejudice.
In two 2016 status reports, Mr. Whitley found that the police department had complied or attempted in good faith to comply with the requirements of the court order. However, after six months, it became clear that there were existing areas of disagreement between the parties regarding the following elements of the court order: (1) the identification requirement for officers; (2) the requirement of no interference with audio or video recordings; (3) documentation of warrantless seizures and identification checks; and (4) timely resolution of citizen complaints. But at that point, Mr. Whitley still believed that all of the issues could be resolved, particularly through increased communication between the parties.
After nine months had passed, however, Mr. Whitley determined that there were fundamental disagreements between the parties regarding the court order's requirements and how compliance should be evaluated. At Mr. Whitley's urging, on July 25, 2017, the Court issued two orders: one requiring that the police department show cause why it should not be held in contempt for violating the court order and another requiring that the department show cause as to why it is entitled to relief from any of the court order's provisions.
On September 25, 2017, the police department filed a motion to disqualify the special master and reassign matters to the district court, as well as an emergency motion to stay the special master's activities. However, the court did not grant the emergency motion and the special master continued to carry out his responsibilities. And on November 28, 2017, the court denied the police department's motion to disqualify the special master and adopted his October 2017 status report.
On February 12, 2018, the court held that the plaintiffs were entitled to reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by responding to the police department's emergency petition. The court called for briefing and a special master report and recommendation on the issue of whether the attorneys' fees sought were reasonable.
Throughout 2018, the parties engaged in extensive settlement discussions with the goal of reaching an agreement with respect to the show cause order on contempt issues and the police department's compliance with the original settlement agreement. They proposed a new consent order on November 28, 2018, and the court approved it the following day.
The order required the police department to modify 1) training procedures; 2) standard operating procedures; 3) handing citizen complaints; 4) "stop and think" forms; and 5) identification procedures. It also provided the plaintiffs the right to engage in post-judgment discovery, and the right to address any failure to comply in court. Additionally, the city agreed to pay the plaintiffs attorneys' fees.
The case remains open such that the parties may resume litigation if the defendants fail to comply with the consent order.
Xin Chen - 04/03/2011
Katherine Reineck - 01/30/2016
Virginia Weeks - 11/06/2016
Eva Richardson - 12/20/2018
Unreasonable search and seizure
Content of Injunction
Required disclosure
Law-enforcement
False arrest
Gay/lesbian/transgender
Over/Unlawful Detention
Search policies
Causes of Action 42 U.S.C. § 1983
Defendant(s) City of Atlanta Police Department
Plaintiff Description Patrons of Atlanta Eagle, a gay bar in Atlanta, Georgia, who were unlawfully searched, detained, and/or arrested on September 10-11, 2009, by the Atlanta Police Department.
Indexed Lawyer Organizations Lambda Legal
Prevailing Party Plaintiff
Nature of Relief Attorneys fees
Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement
Source of Relief Settlement
Form of Settlement Court Approved Settlement or Consent Decree
Order Duration 2010 - n/a
Atlanta Eagle Raid
http://atlantaeagleraid.com/
Date: Sep. 10, 2009
By: Dan Grossman
N.D. Ga.
11/13/2019 1:09−cv−03286
PN-GA-0003-9000.pdf | Detail
First Amended Complaint [ECF# 44]
Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel Discovery and for Sanctions [ECF# 236]
Defendants' Motion in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel Discovery and for Sanctions [ECF# 251]
Order Approving the Settlement [ECF# 265]
Exhibit A: Reforms of the Atlanta Police Department [ECF# 265-1]
Motion for Sanctions [ECF# 271]
Motion for Contempt [ECF# 281]
Consent Order Setting Forth Initial Special Master Monitoring, Discovery, and Dispute Resolution Procedures [ECF# 323]
Special Master Quarterly Compliance Report Dated September 29, 2016 [ECF# 324]
Special Master Quarterly Compliance Report Dated April 12, 2017 [ECF# 341]
Special Master Quarterly Compliance Report Dated July 14, 2017 [ECF# 346]
Special Master Quarterly Compliance Report As of October 13, 2017 [ECF# 391]
Order [ECF# 398]
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Can creativity SAVE your job from automation?
Around 40% of all law jobs are at risk of automation, according to a 2016 Deloitte report.
Traditional skills expected of law graduates are increasingly going to be undertaken by new AI-driven software. Basic skills such as database research and document drafting are already being automated by large Australian law firms.
The race is on to go beyond basic skills to automate higher-order thinking itself. Law firms want a piece of software that can find the relevant law and apply it to a client's unique set of factual circumstances. In some cases this already exists.
The application of law to facts has been a basic skill taught to law students in Australia for more than 100 years. So if this skill is automated, what does that mean for the future of law schools, law firms, and law graduates?
According to Richard Suskind, a prolific author on the future of law and legal technology, it is no longer enough to teach the old basic skills of lawyering in the new, AI-driven, automated economy.
We need a new kind of lawyer who is trained not only in the use of coding and legal technology, but also in the skills that AI will not be capable of automating. These include the very "human" capabilities of creativity, empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence.
Despite changes to legal technology, Australian law schools remain wedded to an old-fashioned teaching model. The core law subjects taught in all Australian law schools, known as the Priestley Eleven, have not been updated in almost 30 years.
No move is underway to change these subjects in response to changes in the legal sector. There is little discussion about implementing new, compulsory legal technology subjects, creative subjects, critical thinking, or subjects that build a law student's "emotional intelligence quotient" (EQ).
This is despite the fact that prominent critics – including former Chief Justice Robert French – have suggested that the Priestley Eleven are a "dead hand" on curriculum reform and need urgent revision.
Australian law schools seem to be ignoring the risks of failing to innovate. The case method, a standard system of teaching at all Australian law schools, was invented in the 1800s at Harvard Law School. It teaches students to apply the law to a set of facts. This is precisely the skill that is currently at risk of automation.
More than this, the case method excludes student discussion on morality, emotion and empathy – the exact "human" skills that are now required.
A recent LexisNexis report argues that the time has come to move away from old lawyering skills and towards new skills education.
For this to happen, Australian law schools will need to modify or abandon the Priestley Eleven and the case method of instruction.
It is important to acknowledge here that some law schools are proactively responding to new technology. A handful have gone as far as to create new elective courses or "majors" in either coding or legal technology. However, as long as these courses are only electives, they remain sidelined in a curriculum dominated by the classical and old-fashioned teaching of law as a "black letter" subject.
Australian law firms are beginning to demand that law schools teach students new skills for the new AI economy. Gilbert and Tobin, one of the largest law firms in Australia, wants law students to be taught about legal technology and to gain more skills in creativity and coding.
Some prominent academics are calling for a return to a more critical legal education that empowers students not only to learn the law, but also to critique its flaws.
A new law school, built on the principles of technology and the liberal arts, might teach students to critique the law that they are currently learning, learn to code, engage in law reform, and develop the essential skills of creativity, empathy and compassion.
This innovative, modern approach to legal education could empower students to face the changing legal industry with confidence and certainty, giving them hope in an otherwise uncertain and grim job market.
My book Essays in AI has just been released in paperback!


As usual, early German postal history was well represented in Gaertner's sale. This splendid cover, addressed to Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, was knocked down to a new owner for $34,400.
Christoph Gaertner offered this philatelic cover franked with the entire stamp output from the African province of Kionga — four stamps. Sent from Kionga to Lisbon, Portugal, in 1916, the scarce cover sold for $13,150 in the June 20-23 auction.
This French cover from around 1870 is franked with five examples of the extremely scarce type A of the 5-centime stamp provisionally issued in Bordeaux. Featuring the signature of French expert Roumet, the cover sold for $78,500 during the June Gaertner sale.
Just 40 (four panes of 10) of Germany's unissued 2001 Audrey Hepburn semipostal stamp are known to have escaped destruction. This example, featuring the actress's name in the selvage, realized $176,000 during the June 20-23 Christoph Gaertner sale in Stuttgart, Germany.
Another highlight of the June Gartner auction, which found a new home for a bit more than $10,000, was this 1968 cover from the People's Republic of China to West Germany, sent at the height of the Cultural Revolution, franked with a mix of Chinese stamps featuring Chairman Mao Zedong and his sayings.
This exchange between a fictional Parisian stamp dealer and Audrey Hepburn's character in the 1963 movie Charade seems deeply ironic in retrospect: Hepburn herself would later come to grace one of the world's most beautiful and valuable stamps.
One of those glamorous rarities hit the red carpet in June, looking for a new home.
The stamp featuring Hepburn was to have been part of a 2001 German semipostal set featuring international film stars (Scott B890-B894).
Hepburn (1929-1993), the Oscar-winning star of Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady, and many other films, came to exemplify 20th-century chic with her distinctive style and carefree innocence.
Later in life, she devoted herself to working with UNICEF to protect children in some of the world's poorest communities.
Reams of 110-pfennig+50pf stamps, showing Hepburn smiling under a broad-brimmed hat and seductively gripping a long cigarette holder in her mouth, were prepared by Deutsche Post.
But at the last minute, the German postal authorities realized they needed the permission of Hepburn's son, Sean Ferrer, to use the image they had selected for the stamp.
Ferrer declined, citing alterations to the photograph — supposedly it had originally showed his mother with a pair of sunglasses in her mouth — and the entire print run was destroyed, except for four panes of 10.
One pane had apparently gotten out to the public, because four or five examples are known postally used. Two other panes were retained by the German post office, while the pane sent to Ferrer remained in his possession.
Amid worldwide media attention, Ferrer's sheet was auctioned in 2010 for about $600,000, with proceeds benefitting the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.
That sheet has since been broken up, and a bottom-right corner margin single from it, with Hepburn's name in the selvage, was offered in Christoph Gaertner's sale of worldwide stamps and postal history June 20-23 at their headquarters near Stuttgart, Germany.
The only single on the market with the actress' name in the margin, it was described as "postfrisch" — post office fresh — and faultless.
Eager bidding in the packed auction room resulted in a final price, including the 22 percent buyer's premium that Gaertner adds to all lots, of slightly more than €150,000, or $176,000.
As usual, early German postal history was well represented in Gaertner's sale, including many items from the various states that united to form modern Germany around 1870.
Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, was born in Saxony, and retained his German noble title, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, even as he became prince consort.
Besides the royal addressee, the cover's high franking of 48kr for its trip via France and the presence of a plate flaw on one of the 9kr stamps made it even more desirable. It was knocked down for $34,400.
It is not often that an entire country fits neatly on a single cover, but a registered letter from the southern African province of Kionga offered an example of just that in the Gaertner sale.
This small territory sandwiched between Tanganyika and Mozambique belonged to Germany from 1894 until the middle of World War I, when Portugal took it over. Four provisional postage stamps were created by overprinting 100-reis King Carlos regular stamps from the nearby colony of Lourenco Marques with name "Kionga" and new denominations: ½-centavo, 1c, 2½c, and 5c (Scott 1-4).
That would be the entire stamp output of this country. Shortly afterward, it was annexed to Mozambique.
The foursome, on a philatelic cover to Lisbon, were all postmarked with purple June 10, 1916, datestamps.
An Aug. 5 receiving datestamp is on the reverse. Red censor tape down the left side attests to the wartime necessity of controlling all mail, even to nominally neutral countries.
A scarce example of mail from this tiny and short-lived territory, the cover sold for $13,150.
A 1968 cover from the People's Republic of China to West Germany, sent at the height of the Cultural Revolution, bore a mix of Chinese stamps featuring Chairman Mao Zedong and his sayings (Scott 956, 991, 996a, 997-999).
Postmarked in Canton (Guangdong), the cover is a scarce example of philatelic mail to the West during this period, and many of the stamps it bears are highly sought after.
For example, just the strip of five stamps showing Mao's statements about the Cultural Revolution (996) is valued at $2,250 off cover in the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue. The cover in the Gaertner sale, which opened around $2,350, was run up to a little more than $10,000.
A French cover from around 1870 was franked with five examples of the extremely scarce type A of the 5-centime stamp provisionally issued in Bordeaux (Scott 41c) during the Franco-Prussian war.
Also known as report 1 in French philatelic parlance, type A is distinguished by the subtlest of differences. Among the most readily discernible, the pupil of Ceres's eye barely misses the lower eyelid in type A, whereas in type B the two are joined.
The 5c type A is considered the scarcest stamp of the Bordeaux issue, which was hastily prepared by lithography during the turmoil of war.
It is rarely seen on cover even as a single stamp, much less as a quintet. The cover sold by Gaertner, signed by the French expert Roumet, brought $78,500.


The Security Council of Japan has met today. At the meeting, we discussed the issue of "the dispatch of destroyers and another vessel for information gathering," and approved the following.
"The Director General of the Defence Agency will dispatch destroyers and another vessel of the Maritime Self- Defence Force to the sea areas ranging from Japan to the Indian Ocean, in order to gather information in accordance with Section 18, Article 5 of the Defence Agency Establishment Law (Law no. 164, 1954), from such viewpoints as smooth implementation of response measures under the Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law."
Japan's Measures in Response to the Terrorist Attacks in the United States announced on 19 September provided that "the Government of Japan will swiftly dispatch SDF ships to gather information," and the Defence Agency has studied the matter following the announcement. Today, the Security Council received the reports from the Defence Agency on the results of the study, and discussed and approved the results of the study from such viewpoints as the assurance of civilian control.
Three vessels (two destroyers and a supply ship) are scheduled to depart from Sasebo on 9 November.


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This simply gorgeous writing desk boasts a polished top of live edge wood, a construction technique that shows off both the skill of the individual craftsman and the genius inherent in nature's design. The contrasting drawer box was crafted from mahogany, while the live edge top is solid Trembesi, a tree native to Southeast Asia and the Pacific that resembles Black Walnut in grain pattern. Add this desk as a functional writing space or laptop desk for your home office or open concept room. Includes three drawers, the bottom most drawer with file storage for letter or legal-size papers.
*Note- the size, shape, and markings on live edge tops will vary from piece to piece.
The Studio Designs La Costa Writing Desk with Live Edge Wood Top by Sligh at AHFA in the area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
Wire Management Sligh StrongArm® provides cord management and safety.
The Studio Designs collection is a great option if you are looking for Contemporary furniture in the area.
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Kathie Lee Gifford Admits She Feels 'Lonely Every Day' After Death Her Husband Frank
By:Samantha Ibrahim
Feb. 5 2020, Published 2:39 p.m. ET
Kathie Lee Gifford got candid about her late husband NFL player Frank Gifford five years after his death at the age of 84. The former Today show cohost confessed she feels "lonely" and if she's ready to date again.
In a new interview, the 66-year-old revealed she's dating someone from her hometown of Nashville. "You don't find love, love finds you," Kathie said. "That's what I'm waiting for. I'm not going out looking for it. God will bring it to me."
While the mother of two refused to divulge the identity of her new boyfriend, she was spotted kissing insurance agent and Tennessee native named Randy Cronk, in August 2019.
"I have dated. I would like to find somebody, I'm a people person. I am dating a very sweet guy. I told him how blessed I am," Kathie continued. "I feel very cozy in there and he asked if you ever get lonely and I said 'every day.'"
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She also explained how the loneliness is a "natural progression in life when your parents have passed on, your husband has passed on, your children have moved away and you're alone in the big house that once was teaming with activity and now the silence is deafening."
"And it doesn't matter how much music you put on, you can't escape the fact that you are there by yourself," she added. Kathie continued, "Frank had been very sick for several years before he passed and when Frank did see Jesus and went straight to heaven, I had such closure." Frank died on August 9, 2015, from natural causes, just a week before his 85th birthday. They had two children together: Cody, 29, and Cassidy, 26.
The former Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee host then described how she believed she felt Frank's presence at one point. "We were watching a football game at my restaurant the other day and something happened and one of my friends, he looked at me and goes, 'That was Frank smiling at you,'" Kathie said.
The Daytime Emmy winner continued, "He's up there with my mother and my father. ... at my age, you start to have lost quite a few of your loved ones, but it's not the end. The Christian faith is about internal life."


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Tag: Carrier
site update: scrapbook
I've finally updated and reorganized my scrapbook. It's been a few years since I last made changes to this audio and video archive, so there's a good few additions, and a few more tracks (with Richard Barrett, Paul Dunmall and Mark Sanders) will be added in the coming weeks. Below is a sample of some of the more recent additions. Enjoy!
All music and audio recordings © + ℗ their respective owners.
//www.busterandfriends.com/docs/audio/gargantius-effect_08-30-11_00_ex.mp3
Gargantius Effect (Murray Campbell: violin, double reeds; Randy McKean: saxophone, clarinet) with Han-earl Park (guitar) and Gino Robair (energized surfaces, voltage made audible).
Music by Murray Campbell, Randy McKean, Han-earl Park and Gino Robair.
Recorded live August 30, 2011 at Studio 1510, Oakland.
Recorded by Randy McKean. Mastered by Han-earl Park.
[Download complete recording…]
//www.busterandfriends.com/docs/audio/park-scott_artillery_vmdl11_02_ex.mp3
Han-earl Park (guitar) and Richard Scott (electronics).
Music by Han-earl Park and Richard Scott.
Recorded Recorded on October 23, 2010 at Richard Scott's studio, Berlin.
Recorded and mixed by Richard Scott.
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io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) and Bruce Coates (saxophone).
Music by Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder.
Recorded May 25, 2010 at the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Music Building, Cork.
Audio clip courtesy of SLAM Productions. ℗ 2011 SLAM Productions.
Recorded and mixed by Han-earl Park.
[More…] [Get the CD/download…]
Categoriesaudio recordings, media, video recordings, website TagsArtillery, audio recordings, Berlin, Bruce Coates, Carrier, Cork, Franziska Schroeder, Gargantius Effect, Gargantius Effect +1 +2 +3 (Nor Cal 08-2011), Gino Robair, Han-earl Park, io 0.0.1 beta++, Mark Sanders, Murray Campbell, Ó Riada Hall, Oakland, Paul Dunmall, Randy McKean, recordings, Richard Barrett, Richard Scott, SLAM Productions, SLAMCD 531, Studio 1510, Thunderous Accompaniment of Fife and Drum, Vicmod Records, video recordings
Download of the Day at All About Jazz: Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders
Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders (original photos: HeP by Stephanie Hough; and MS by Andrew Putler)
Free jazz, in no uncertain terms. I don't know what it is about Han-Earl's groups' sounds. Ten seconds in, I think to myself, "Man, this isn't my thing." But by the time the tune is over, I realize that I'm totally into it and enjoying it. If a musician can convert my ears within the span of one tune, in my eyes, that's a sign of talent.
— All About Jazz
All About Jazz features 'shoapnxoe gutair dmurs a.ii' by Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders as today's Download of the Day! I'm again happy and honored to have a recording on AAJ's download selection (previously featured: 'Carrier' with Richard Scott and 'Chorale' with Franziska Schroeder). Thanks to AAJ downloads editor Dave Sumner for selecting the recording, to Chris Trent for the recording and mastering work, and to Mike Hurley of Fizzle for hosting the performance at which the recording was made.
[Track at AAJ…] [High-quality download of the full performance…]
Categoriesaudio recordings, gigs, media TagsAll About Jazz, Andrew Putler, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works License, audio recordings, Birmingham, Carrier, Chorale, Chris Trent, Creative Commons, Dave Sumner, Dunmall-Park-Sanders (Birmingham 02-15-11), Fizzle, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, Mark Sanders, Mike Hurley, Paul Dunmall, recordings, Richard Scott, shoapnxoe gutair dmurs, shoapnxoe gutair dmurs a.ii, Stephanie Hough, The Lamp Tavern
download release: artillery
'artillery' (VMDL11) © 2011 Han-earl Park / Vicmod Records
This seems to be the month for download releases! Vicmod Records releases 'artillery' (VMDL11) with Han-earl Park and Richard Scott. Recorded on October 23, 2010 at Richard Scott's studio, Berlin. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Richard Scott.
[Get it from Vicmod Records…]
call (13:04), catch/pitch (10:45), carrier (7:38), artillery (13:17). Total duration: 44:44.
Categoriesaudio recordings, media TagsArtillery, audio recordings, Berlin, Carrier, Catch | Pitch, Cell, Han-earl Park, recordings, Richard Scott, Vicmod Records, VMDL11
Download of the Day at All About Jazz: Han-earl Park and Richard Scott
I'm happy and honored to again have a recording selected as Download of the Day at All About Jazz. 'Carrier' by myself and Richard Scott is AAJ's featured download for today! Thanks to Dave Sumner who runs the series for selecting the recording, and for the heads up. [Download the complete session…]
Categoriesaudio recordings, gigs, media TagsAll About Jazz, Artillery, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works License, audio recordings, Berlin, Carrier, Creative Commons, Han-earl Park, recordings, Richard Scott, Vicmod Records, VMDL11
audio recordings: Han-earl Park and Richard Scott (Berlin, 10–23–10)
Update: now available, newly remixed and remastered by Richard Scott, as a download release from Vicmod Records! [More info…] [Get it from Vicmod Records…]
The complete recording A track from the October 23, 2010 session by Han-earl Park and Richard Scott is now available for download below.
Cell 11:20 mp3 file. Currently unavailable for download.
License: by-nc-nd.
Catch | Pitch 13:27 mp3 file. Currently unavailable for download.
Carrier 10:45 mp3 file.
Artillery 13:16 mp3 file. Currently unavailable for download.
Recorded on October 23, 2010 at Richard Scott's studio, Berlin. Recorded and mixed by Richard Scott.
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http://richard-scott.net/
Above recordings (Cell, Catch | Pitch, Carrier, and Artillery) released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute the recordings to Han-earl Park and Richard Scott.
The complete recording of the July 29, 2010 performance by Han-earl Park plus Marian Murray. [More…]
The complete recording of the March 26, 2009 performance by Franziska Schroeder and Han-earl Park. [More…]
06–25–11: withdraw three tracks (Cell, Catch | Pitch, and Artillery).
12–06–11: add Vicmod Records release details.
Categoriesaudio recordings, download, gigs, media TagsArtillery, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works License, audio recordings, Berlin, Carrier, Catch | Pitch, Cell, Creative Commons, Han-earl Park, recordings, Richard Scott, Vicmod Records, VMDL11