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To Walk Amidst Collapse
Posted on March 1, 2019 March 1, 2019 by fneyrat in Dis-Junction
∞ Cíntia Guedes, "To Walk Amidst Collapse" (2018)
We were surprised by the storm that arrived at dawn, as not even at the peak of summer had it been so hot in Rio as it was that week. Hours of vigil, in the wake of the execution of Marielle Franco and Anderson Pedro Gomes, we remained seated on the sidewalk nearby. We sustained our astonished bodies with difficulty, under a sky that prepared itself to collapse.
Each of us was being careful not to speak too much, knowing words were well on their way to losing meaning. The fact is, nothing that we knew up until that point would do much to serve us. The necropolitical machine[1] does not pause. History transforms us into witnesses of its nefarious episodes, re-enacting them daily. The black body is left with an impossible question: Is this our life?
Marielle was a black woman. A lesbian, human rights defender—and an inhabitant of the Maré favela complex, one of the largest favela complexes in Rio, and one with an extremely high level of violence. In 2016, she was elected in her first candidature with more than 46,000 votes. This made her the fifth most voted-for councilwoman in the city in the 2016 election, though she did not get to complete two years of her mandate.
The days of mourning carry on. More than a hundred days have passed and there has been no response at all to the attack. In public demonstrations, between lowered flags and large silences, unorganized screams across protests call for justice. We invest all of our energy into these demonstrations, leaving little time to take care of ourselves.
Even if we were to find plausible answers for the councilwoman's death, and punishment were to be properly carried out, the task of facing the worthlessness of our lives will remain up to us: black women.
Many look to the history of Brazil's fragile democracy to try and understand what is happening and to search for possible ways out of this situation. Since February 2018, the state of Rio de Janeiro has been under a military and federal intervention. The memory of the military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985 seems parallel to the current moment in the media's manipulative narrative of the recent occurrences, the expression of collective mourning quickly processed as sellable media content.
Marielle had recently been elected rapporteur of the Representative Commission of the Chamber of Councilmen in Rio, created with the goal of closely following the federal intervention in the state's public safety. A week before her murder, she had denounced the 41st Military Police Battalion of Irajá—also known as the Battalion of Death—for their abuses against the inhabitants of Acari.
It is not possible to ignore the relationship between this murder and the dystopic scenery populated by characters from the worlds of drug trafficking, militia, police, and the institutional politics of Rio. Nevertheless, the equation of simple cause and effect does not address the fact that Marielle's execution was not a result of a specific political regime. The episode continues to be understood in relation to a racial war, inaugurated in this continent by the transatlantic slave trade and at no point discontinued.
In the last decade, young black women have been killed twice as often as white women. This runs parallel to advances in measures of inclusion through identity politics, such as the system of quotas used in universities. This image expresses the complexity of forces that sustain racism as a structural problem. To give an end to black lives, far from being an episode of exception, is a rule that sustains the world as it is.
What the execution of Marielle reminds us of, in an irrefutable way, is that a black life continues to be expendable, even if supposedly included in systems of representation. It is not in vain that the image of Marielle came to be indistinctly appropriated by different media. Both the so-called progressives, and the notably conservative, used her smiling face to serve their own interests, while repeating the same anti-racist rhetoric.
The mourning that we carry is appropriated by a heroic media narrative, one that removes political engagement from the problem and makes use of the image of the black woman as an icon of force and courage, but within an equation that does not guarantee the actual integrity of black lives.
The experience of a racialized body and the blackness that it carries is a lens through which we can understand how racism functions in service of capitalism and colonialism. That experience is also subjected to current economies, which perpetuate the vulnerability and the frequent disappearance of the black body. Especially, as it was the case for Marielle and for so many others, when the black body is from a favela and of a lesbian woman.
The risk analyses carried out by human rights organizations do not account for the expendability of the black female body. We do not fit into that calculation, because the presence of our bodies in the public scene represents the constant possibility of death, of the subtraction of life. Moreover, the bureaucratic structures that control the mechanisms of protection do not take the ethical effects of racism into consideration.
Marielle did not feel threatened, a statement her allies continue to assert. When all that we possess is a body with no value, we accept fear as commonplace in order to continue inhabiting this same body. "Fear is something we have, but don't use," –Margarida Maria Alves, a trade union leader related to the Ligas Camponesas[2] used to say.
Knowing that we were capable of surviving an entire history of exploitation and extermination, black women are seen as courageous, and that is what we are. But if we are non-existent, what can we do to address the lack of security?
The trauma inherent in black lives is a quotidian event, impossible to measure by social vulnerability markers, or resolved in dynamics of representation and visibility. The blackness that covers our bodies is a landscape of time superimposed in layers. It carries traces of a past that does not cease to repeat itself. It imposes on us the difficult task of capturing the present, work that we do ceaselessly in order to stay alive in this world. It is about walking without any guarantees, amidst collapse.
In the weeks following Marielle's death, I spent time in meetings with black activists who were directly affected by Marielle's execution: groups of women of distinct ages, places, and socioeconomic situations. On these occasions, I noticed that many of us found it immensely difficult to cry, something I had considered to be a very particular experience. The sensation of a tightened chest and a scratched throat took over our days. It is not a new sensation, although it has been aggravated since her murder.
The bodies of black women are a depository of historic Western barbarity, of an ancestral mourning that pushes us towards the inevitable work of undoing and redoing everything, because nothing else is viable. So, we must lean on one another, work together, knowing that our task surpasses the time of our experiences. In the streets, during the protests, we would greet one another with great complicity, as if we could no longer ignore our kinship. We had been given a message of power, whispered in our ears, carried, and disappeared with the wind.
In Portuguese, luto (mourning) is the first-person conjugation of the singular form of luta (meaning fight), which facilitates the edifying pun. However, on the path between mourning and fighting, it is necessary to be attentive to how the mourning takes place, to give it the time that it requires, the dedication, the acceptance, the crying. To open up, then, to a sensitive repertoire of what has been taken by our colonial history, sterilizing ourselves from our own narratives, ending any possibility of imagining other futures for blackness.
Observing the recent public mourning, the image of the black woman is reaffirmed as a fortress that, as soon as it collapses, must be restored by the women themselves. Without deliberation, knowing that we are capable of it, we re-emerge for one another. However, the fact that we survive cannot be an excuse for the continued vulnerability of our bodies to not be addressed as the structural problem that it is. That is the wound that opens up.
What remains invisible, beyond resilience, is the blackness that covers us and mediates our relationship with the world. This blackness that offers the possibility of making a cropland for radical empathy out of the risk carried by black bodies: a shortcut or escape route for experiences of aquilombamento.[3]
Seven days after the execution, homage was paid to Marielle and Anderson at the Casa das Pretas, where she carried out the last political event of her life. Maybe it was due to the rain that attendance at the event did not exceed 1000; we counted 200 people in the streets, and that was before the rain gained in intensity. Because it rained so much, it was not possible to capture the protest in images, and there were no flags, speeches, or screams of order. We danced and played music while we got soaked. We shared ancestral languages. It was there that I understood that the language of the storm in which I begin this text would not be a cliché if it was a manifestation to Oyá,[4] sharing her rebellion with us and giving us the chance to mix our tears with the water of the world.
We need to respond to the systems that the political forces subject us to, but also respond to ourselves, in a low voice and with great care: after all, how will we go on?
[First published at Arts Everywhere]
[1] Necropolitics is the use of social and political power to dictate how some people may live and how some must die. Achille Mbembe was the first scholar to explore the term in depth in his article of the same name.
[2] Ligas camponesas was a movement precursor to the fights for the right to the land in Paraíba State, in Brazil, during the dictatorial period (1964-1985). The movement originated what is today known as Movimento Sem Terra (the landless movement).
[3] Aquilombado is a term used to designate the enslaved person who, once successful in his/her attempt of escaping, would take refuge in the quilombos. The term is similar to marrons, which is used in countries in Central and North America. Currently, aquilombamento is a widely used term amongst the black Brazilian militancy, as a way of defining gestures that strengthen and centralize black experience in spaces and in relationships.
[4] Oyá is an Orisha (a form of spirits) of winds, lightning, and violent storms, of death and rebirth, taking different names around Latin.
Cíntia Guedes lives in Rio de Janeiro and holds a doctorate from the Communications School (ECO) of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) where she is now a professor at the Art School (EBA). She carries out a number of different activities in dialogue with artistic practices. Her academic and artistic research examines themes of embodied memory and the production of subjectivity from decolonial and anti-racist perspectives.
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The July 14 episode of KBS2's "Music Bank" featured Heize's "You, Clouds, Rain" and UP10TION's "Runner" as contenders for first place. Heize received her first win for "You, Clouds, Rain" with 7,174 points. She was not present to receive the award as she is not promoting on music shows currently. Congratulations to Heize!
Today's episode features performances from G-reyish, NCT 127, VAV, Kim Tae Woo, 9MUSES, Limesoda, Red Velvet, MAMAMOO, MIND U, Park Bo Ram, VOISPER, 20 Years of Age, NC.A, UP10TION, Apink, Girls Next Door (Moonbyul, Seulgi, Sohee, D.ana, YooA, Sujeong, Jeon Somi), The East Light's Lee Woo Jin and Jung Sa Kang, INA, Jessi, Chungha, and HALO.
Watch performances below (will be updated as they become available)!


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Meet the Essentials for Childhood Initiative Team (Part 2/2) | California Essentials for Childhood Initiative (CA) | ACEsConnection
Meet the Essentials for Childhood Initiative Team (Part 2/2)
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Meet some of the Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative team members:
Angela Ponivas is the Chief of the California Department of Social Services Office of Child Abuse Prevention (CDSS/OCAP). She has been in the OCAP almost five years, working at a systems level on behalf of children and families. Angela provides executive oversight of the development and execution of Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative activities at CDSS.
Prior to working for the State, Angela was the Executive Director of Lighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center in Placer County for over 7 years. In addition to non-profit leadership, Angela has provided direct service in child welfare working in various areas of the continuum of care including Family Maintenance, Court Investigations and has worked for a Foster Family Agency, matching families and children, stabilizing placements and conducting adoption home assessments. Also, Angela started a non-profit called "Love Little Children," a food program for in-home daycare providers in Sacramento.
Angela has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and a Master of Social Work. She has enjoyed the variety of work within the field of Social Work, applying both her business skills and her social work skills. Angela lives in Sacramento County with her husband, Scott, and her 7-year old adopted son, Jonah.
Steve Wirtz, Ph.D. is Chief of the Injury Surveillance and Epidemiology Section, Safe and Active Communities (SAC) Branch, California Department of Public Health. He is a licensed psychologist and research scientist. He manages the Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention Initiative, Crash Medical Outcome Data Project, Essentials for Childhood Initiative, and California Violent Death Reporting System, among others. Dr. Wirtz has been Principal Investigator for several research projects and regularly publishes and provides trainings. He is also active in the Sacramento community as a Commissioner on the First Five Sacramento Commission and Chair of the Evaluation Committee.
Jeffery Rosenhall has been with the CA Department of Public Health since 2004, starting in the Safe and Active Communities Branch focusing on injury prevention, violence prevention active transportation and creating healthy built environments for all. Most recently, Jeffery has been with CDPH's Chronic Disease Control Branch overseeing the cardiovascular, diabetes, Alzheimer's and colorectal cancer programs and staff. His current role has him back with SACB as a Section Chief supervising and leading over a dozen staff from the violence prevention, injury prevention, and opioid abuse prevention programs.
Prior to joining CDPH, Jeffery was a violence prevention fellow with The California Endowment's Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI) based at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA where he worked on intimate partner violence, pedestrian safety, and firearm-related violence prevention. He has a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology and is an enthusiastic team leader and passionate about the public health issues that SACB addresses.
On a more personal note, Jeffery enjoys spending time with his wife and two elementary school-aged children and being out in nature.
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NORTH CAROLINA V. ALCOA, RIVERBED OWNERSHIP COURT FOURTH CIRCUIT APPEAL
October 28, 2016 Yadkin Riverkeeper
Link to Court Document: North Carolina v. Alcoa, Riverbed ownership Court Fourth Circuit Appeal
From: Will Scott, Yadkin Riverkeeper
To: Public
Date: October 28th, 2016
On the morning of October 27th 2016, the state of North Carolina sent two former judges, Bob Orr & Eddie Greene, up to Richmond to argue to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that the people of North Carolina, not Alcoa, own the bed of the Yadkin River throughout the 38 mile stretch on which Alcoa operates four hydroelectric dams. At counsel's table with them was Yadkin Riverkeeper's attorney, Ryke Longest, of Duke University. Here is what happened.
When Judge Orr rose to speak the questions came so thick and fast that before he knew it his twenty minutes was up. A red light on his podium blinked. Judge Robert B. King looked at it and kept right on, "Don't you worry about that red light, just turn that off". The judges bombarded Orr with every possible question on the Constitution, the Marketable Title Act, the nature of state sovereignty, and the relative rights of original and later-admitted states. In the end, the question was this, who owned the sunken bed of the river that lies underneath High Rock, Tuckertown, Badin & Falls reservoirs?
Two main positions emerged. The attorneys for the state argued that whether or not the Yadkin River was navigable, for purposes of determining title, was a question of North Carolina state law. As such, the case should be remanded to North Carolina Superior Court. The attorneys for Alcoa argued that a federal law, based on a case called PPL Montana, should be applied and that under that test, the riverbed was theirs. The state rebutted that the PPL case was one of federal law because the federal government itself was a party. For states like Montana, created out of federal territory, the beds of all navigable waters passed from the ownership of the United States to the individual states in question. In the case of the original thirteen states, there was no such "intermediate sovereign", as the states had sovereignty over their own land and water prior to the time they signed the Constitution in 1789.
Beyond the year that the Constitution was signed, however, no one could agree on much of anything. Halfway through state's rebuttal Judge Niemeyer threw up his hands saying "We can just write 'passed for certiorari' on this one". In other words, we are not getting anywhere; let the Supreme Court decide this one.
How did we get in such a mess? In 2013, Governor Pat McCrory, in one of his more populist moments, declared that, "The Yadkin River is a North Carolina River...We should be able to use it for North Carolina water needs and to create North Carolina jobs. The benefits of the Yadkin River belong to North Carolina's people." His Department of Administration brought suit, claiming that it had owned the bed of the river since 1776, when the state declared independence from King George. While Alcoa, in the early part of the 20th century, had bought up title to the land along the banks of the river that was now submerged under the series of Yadkin lakes, the bed of the river itself was property of the state, held in trust for the benefit of the people of North Carolina. It could not be sold like other land, but only by a specific legislative conveyance. That, the state argued, it had not made.
Alcoa, a $22.5 billion dollar company, is trying to call the second largest river in the state "non-navigable" so that it can claim title to the bed of that river. Why? The electricity generated by the dams on the river is worth tens of millions of dollars a year, making Alcoa's dams likely worth several hundred millions of dollars. Private interests see a great deal of value in the Yadkin and, currently, the people North Carolina realize none of that value. That's the reason that, this week, the state of North Carolina also challenged a license issued last month by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for Alcoa to continue to operate these dams for another 38 years. North Carolina argued that Alcoa was no longer providing a public benefit, once the jobs at their now-shuttered aluminum smelter, and that other parties should be allowed to bid on the project to better benefit the public of North Carolina in exchange for making money off of the Yadkin River.
Why should we care? The coalition of law professors who wrote a friend-of-the-court brief for this appeal summed it up this way, "This Court should not permit private interests in vital public resources to trump the rights of public beneficiaries in this sovereign trust, even in cases where the sovereign trustee acted with delay or failed to act at all to protect the public trust res. There is much more at stake in this case than title to one stretch of river."
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Safe rooms are also referred to as panic rooms and served the purchase of creating a safe shelter within your home. This room can also serve as a form of security against theft and disaster. Most homes already have an area that can be easily converted into a safe room.
The following risks are suffered by home owners in the absence of not having a safe room.
• 9,082,887 homes are victim of property crimes.
• 548 tornado deaths with average 1,376 tornados per year.
• 14.4 million earth quakes annually with 1,400 measuring higher than a 5.9 on the Richter scale.
A garage is a good location to build a safe room as it has less potential of debris during a storm and offers more space to add a small room into.
Be sure to build on a ground floor as the interior walls are less likely to be compromised than the upper levels of a home.
The basement is a great option for areas with hurricanes and tornados so additional protection can be obtained from high winds.
A safe room needs to have the following characteristics to ensure it can resist objects being projected and high velocity winds.
Walls – Use concrete or reinforced steel. Make sure they are anchored and windowless where possible.
Plexiglas – If adding windows make it Plexiglas as it is safer than glass.
Doors – Doors should be solid wood or metal for protection and reinforced door frame for security.
Keypad Lock on Doors – This provides instant locking without having to use deadbolts.
Video Monitoring System – A full security system allows intruders to be watched on the screen to monitor until police arrive.
Ventilation System – This is a good option for storm times where the air can become dusty and smoky. Filtering the air is helpful.
Hard Wired Phone – Cell phones cannot be reliable and a hard wired phoned will allow help and assistance to be reached from within.
All safe rooms should hold approximately three days of supplies. View this list for ideas of what to include.
Food – Tinned food, ready to eat soup, granola bars, breakfast cereal, powdered milk, nonperishable foods, and ready to eat meals.
Water – 1 gallon of water per person for 3 day minimum.
First Aid – A full first aid kit, cell phone, and charger.
Other Supplies – Baby supplies, cash, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, sanitation bags, hygiene products, flashlight, batteries, radio, toys for kids, shovel, gloves, knives, saw, copies of all important documents.
Having a form of early warning system such as alarm or window squealers will help to notify you immediately of a risk to your safety so everyone in the family can immediately go to the safe room. Keeping up to date on natural disaster activities will also provide an opportunity to protect yourself as soon as possible.


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GigCity means that SAGE has access to a 1 gigabit business grade internet connection at a very good price. Prior to GigCity we only could only justify paying for 100 megabytes. Having this speed means we are not constrained by bandwidth required to do just about anything we need.
This benefits our many remote offices and travelling staff who can access all of SAGE's internal systems at high speed. It also benefits access to cloud platforms, allowing us to do things like backup our server infrastructure to the cloud for disaster recovery.
In addition, as we develop our Big Data management strategy we will be able to manage and develop our technologies unrestrained.


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UK High Court upholds SFO in search against Unaoil
A court in London Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by Unaoil and its controlling family to quash the fruits of a search police in Monaco conducted last year at the request of the UK Serious Fraud Office.
The lawsuit alleged the SFO relied on misstatements and omissions when it asked authorities in Monaco to raid offices and homes connected to Unaoil and its chairman Ata Ahsani, and his sons Cyrus and Saman.
Cyrus is the former chief executive of Unaoil and Saman is the chief operating officer.
The Ahsanis are British citizens living in Monaco.
The SFO said in July last year it was "conducting a criminal investigation into the activities of Unaoil, its officers, its employees and its agents in connection with suspected offenses of bribery, corruption and money laundering."
The SFO opened its investigation in March 2016 but didn't announce it until later. The agency said in July it had "been approached by a number of sources who may have information relevant to this investigation."
Unaoil and the Ahsanis have denied the allegations of corruption.
The SFO sent a Letter of Request (LOR) to authorities in Monaco on March 23, 2016 asking for help with the investigation.
The SFO said in the LOR that it had "intelligence to suggest that the main allegations will be published on an international news website on the 30th March 2016 and [we] believe that this may prompt the destruction of the relevant evidence being requested….. "
Acting on the LOR, authorities in Monaco conducted the raids on the offices and homes on March 29. They seized documents, computers, and other property.
A report on March 30, 2016 by Fairfax Media and the Huffington Post said Unaoil paid bribes on behalf of large companies in the oil and gas sector.
The three Ahsanis "were arrested and later interviewed in both Monaco and here," the UK High Court said.
Unaoil and the Ahsanis brought their lawsuit in London to quash the LOR. They said it was vague and "a fishing expedition."
In ruling for the SFO (and awarding it costs), the High Court said Wednesday the LOR was based on material the SFO already had — "notably internal Unaoil emails and documentation."
That material suggested "that Ata, Cyrus and Asam Ahsani . . . paid bribes and/or conspired together to pay bribes to high-ranking Iraqi public officials on behalf of Unaoil clients," the High Court said.
"The LOR recounted details going to allegations of Unaoil dealings with Iraqi officials exercising influence with regard to the award of contracts to Leighton and likewise Rolls Royce," the court said.
The SFO hasn't brought charges yet against any individuals as a result of the Unaoil investigation.
Richard L. Cassin is the publisher and editor of the FCPA Blog.
Founder of the FCPA Blog and Editor at Large. He has been named multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential People In Business Ethics by Ethisphere Magazine and is a Trust Across America Top Thought Leader. He's a member of the DC, Virginia, and Florida bars. His At Large column is a regular feature of the FCPA Blog and his Chat Large videos are shown on FCPA Blog+.
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Here we get to know a few of the producers involved in this epic reimagining of a sprawling back catalogue.
We are Nightmare & Oni from Croydon, we love BASS!
We played at a Renegade Hardware night in Brixton a few years back which is where we first met Deep N Beeper, we've been friends ever since!
Deep N' Beeper approached us with this track ("The Beast,") as he knew our love for the dark side of Drum & Bass. At the time no one else had been asked to remix it and we knew our style would work, to bring the vibe down to 140bpm (Dubstep). We like a challenge!
Have you remixed many artists over the years, do you have a formula for reworking tracks or do you treat everyone individually?
We aim to always take a unique approach to any track when remixing, especially as we have remixed many genres and styles over the years.
We feel a 'Remix,' should be exactly as it says… a RE-MIX! It must have some elements of the original but ultimately it will be our own interpretation.
When it comes to the Studio, what piece of Software, Hardware or Instrument do you feel you couldn't live without?
We have just launched the 'Monsters Music,' label with the first release from our team 'Monsters.' It's an 11 track compilation with various styles of Dubstep, Drum & Bass and experimental tunes from the whole team. It's available now via Beatport (https://www.beatport.com/release/monsters-music-compilation-vol-1/1879808) and will be available everywhere else soon!!
Shout out to D N' B everytime!
I've been in and around the electronic scene since the mid 90s, working with artists and collectives in Bristol and London. I was the nerdy one in the group of musicians so I got stuck into learning production on Cubase and a bunch of outboard gear back in the day. While house music is my first love, I've known Deep N Beeper for about 10 years and I've always admired his dedication to those meticulously crafted beats and sonic textures. We like to argue the merits of melody versus the rest. My stuff always tends to fill in the blanks where as Deep's stuff leaves things nice and spacious and invites the listener to fill in the rest.
Time Game really jumped out at me with the presence Deep created with those dubby samples – I could feel my old school sounding melodic remix forming while I listened to it and it just kind of flowed from there.
I've done several mixes, mainly bootlegs. I would say you have to treat each track as a piece of art in itself and see what you can hear coming through to you personally when you listen to it. I'll loop a section or two to get a vibe and see what it feels like I might make of it based on my favorite sections. The main formula is definitely to maintain a signature sound and keep to a track arrangement you work with well.
This is a tough question. Hardware, probably. My main controller is an Akai MPK which has excellent dials for twisting the sound straight from the keyboard. However I've recently discovered how essential a decent subwoofer is – I can't recommend it highly enough.
I'm currently unsigned and I'm interested in working on more remixes for Deep and other artists.
Cheers, all the best to the whole Ambiel crew.
Hey my names Sweetpea, I live in London. I've been a drum and bass DJ for nearly 10 years now, I started dipping into the production side for about the last 4 years. I'm still learning the in's and out's of production, but jumped at the chance to remix one of his tracks. I met Deep N Beeper through mutual friends and out at drum and bass nights.
Deep sent me a few tracks and i really liked the abstract sound elements he used in Silverback Guerilla. I did consider making the remix to my usual minimal sound but I had recently been to a Rupture night before i started working on this track, hence the jungle vibe, and once i heard the full vocal, i knew i wanted to do something different.
I had previously remixed a track for Taelimb a few years earlier, which was a more darker vibe. I think you have to treat every musical project with a fresh ear. I personally like to listen to the audio files individually and pick out the sounds i like most and work from that. I wanted to try something a bit different this time, and make a track that wouldn't fit my usual type of drum and bass.
I work on Logic 9. I usually use CamelPhat in most of my tracks, i use it quite a lot to add to the bass element, and i find it quite easy to play around with and see what sounds you can come up with.
Earlier this year i had a collab release with PRTCL on Terabyte Records. I'm hoping to get some tracks finished soon, and release my first solo EP. I work closely with vocalist J:S and will be writing some tracks with her soon.
In the past couple years I have remixed a bunch of spanish artists by demand, as well as experimented with songs by more stablished bands, although this have not been released.
I guess my computer, as a whole, is the centerpiece of my studio. But my favorite piece of equipment, and the unit I love the most is defeinitly my eurorack modular system. It is build with modules mainly from MakeNoise and Mutable Instruments, as well as a number of DIY modules.
At the moment, as I have just moved back to Spain, I am trying to start a new project, but everything is going slower than I'd like to.


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You may got this warning : AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 46.226.104.61. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message. You can ignore this warning if you will configure your website later.
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The Jordan River Utah Temple is the 20th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The building of the temple was announced on 3 February 1978. It is one of 17 operating temples in the state of Utah. Located in South Jordan, Utah, it was built with a modern single-spire design. It is one of five temples featuring an Angel Moroni statue holding the gold plates. The other four temples which feature an Angel Moroni statue holding the gold plates are the Washington DC Temple, Los Angeles California Temple, Seattle Washington Temple, and Mexico City Mexico Temple.
The exterior of the temple is finished with cast stone and white marble chips. Although the tower appears to be of the same material, it actually contains fiberglass in a product called cemlite in order to reduce weight.
The Jordan River Temple serves members of the Church in Southern Salt Lake County, Utah. Geographically, this is the smallest Mormon temple district in the world, but the temple is one of the Church's busiest. The temple is the fourth largest Mormon temple and has a total of 148,236 square feet, six ordinance rooms, and 16 sealing rooms. The temple also has the largest capacity, with each ordinance room able to accommodate 125 people. It is located on 15 acres. The exterior of the temple is finished with cast stone with white marble chips.
Unlike many of the temples, which are built mostly with tithing funds, the Jordan River Temple site was given to the Church and all of its construction was paid for by members in the 134 stakes within the temple district.
A site dedication and groundbreaking ceremony were held on 9 June 1979. Spencer W. Kimball, then President of the Church, presided over the ceremony and dedication. Usually, during the groundbreaking ceremony, a small shovel-full of dirt is turned to represent the beginning of construction, but President Kimball felt that he should follow his oft-quoted motto "lengthen your stride," and used a large power scoop shovel to begin the building process instead of the small traditional groundbreaking ceremony shovel.
The Jordan River Temple was open to the public for tours 29 September through 31 October 1981. Over half a million people toured the temple during its open house.
Marion G. Romney, a member of the First Presidency, dedicated the Jordan River Temple in fifteen sessions held 16 November through 20 November 1981. President Kimball was not able to give the dedicatory prayer, although he had prepared it because he was recovering from a recent surgery. He was in attendance at the first dedicatory session. More than 160,000 members were able to attend the dedicatory services. For a group of thirty in attendance at the dedication, it was a very spiritual and nostalgic event. These thirty elderly men and women had been at the historic dedication of the first temple in the Salt Lake Valley, the Salt Lake Temple. Most were very young but remember the event vividly.
The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the closure of the Jordan River Utah Temple in the Salt Lake Valley. The temple will be closed from 15 February 2016 through the latter part of 2017 to undergo extensive renovation. The temple was first announced in 1979 and dedicated in November 1981. Following the renovation, the temple will be rededicated. Other temples in the Salt Lake Valley - Salt Lake Temple, Draper Utah Temple and Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple - are preparing to accommodate Latter-day Saints from the Jordan River Temple District while renovations are being made.
According to a news release from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, since the temple's closure in 2016, the "entire property, inside and out, has been refreshed with new finishes, furnishings, carpet, paintings, and murals. The plumbing, heating and air-conditioning systems have been updated, making the sacred structure more energy efficient with improved circulation. Seismic work and waterproofing have also been done on the foundation, a new roof has been added and landscaping has been refreshed."
The following pictures of the Jordan River Utah Temple are from Deseret News - Courtesy of Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
Entering the Jordan River Utah Temple.
Crowds gather for the Open House in 1981.
President Spencer W. Kimball seals the cornerstone in 1981.
People going to the dedication of the Jordan River Utah Temple in 1981.
Angel Moroni atop temple holding the golden plates.
The baptistry in the Jordan River Utah Temple.
The brides room in the Jordan River Utah Temple.
The celestial room in the Jordan River Utah Temple.
The chandelier in the celestial room in the Jordan River Utah Temple.
An instruction room in the Jordan River Utah Temple.
Entry into the Jordan River Utah Temple.
A painting of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River Utah Temple.
A sealing room in the Jordan River Utah Temple.
The gate to the Jordan River Utah Temple.
The Jordan River Utah Temple at dusk.
The public open house for the renovated Jordan River Utah Temple was held from 17 March 2018 through 28 April 2018. An open house was not held on Saturday, 24 and 31 March because of General Conference sessions, and Sundays, 18 and 25 March, and 1, 8, 15, and 22 April, as per a letter dated 28 July 2017. The general public, including children of all ages, was invited to attend an open house of the Jordan River Utah Temple. Admission was free, but reservations were requested. Modest dress was required to attend the open house.
Open house tours began with a short video presentation providing an overview of temples and why they are significant to members of the Church. Following the video, a tour host escorted visitors on a walking tour of the temple. At the conclusion of the tour, visitors were invited to a reception area for a free souvenir photograph (optional) and for answers to any questions they had.
On Saturday, 19 May 2018, 17,000 young men and women danced and sang in a cultural celebration in the Conference Center on Temple Square in Salt lake City, Utah. The theme of the event was "Ready," from a scripture found in the 50th section of the Doctrine and Covenants.
President Eyring told the youth in brief remarks before the performance: "My prayer is that this experience will lead to a lifetime of choices to make the temple a guiding star on your journey home to live forever in loving families with Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son. I am grateful to be on the journey with you. Thank you for your companionship today, and may this celebration be another step along our way."
Of the 17,000 youths, Saturday's celebration included a cast of more than 2,000 youths who participated as narrators, soloists, dancers and members of the celebration choir, band and orchestra. The remaining 15,000 teens joined the Conference Center audience and performed in various elements of the production. The cultural celebration was broadcast to meetinghouses in the temple districts. Featured was video footage of the activities held during the previous eight weeks that helped the youth personally prepare themselves to be ready for the rededication of the temple, providing them with an experience meant to build spiritual strength and unity for their temple experience now and in the future. One of the activities the youth participated in while preparing for the rededication occurred Saturday, May 12. Thousands of youth and their leaders walked, on a very rainy day, from their homes throughout the Salt Lake Valley to the temple, a journey for some of over eight miles.
President Henry B. Eyring, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, rededicated the Jordan River Utah Temple 20 May 2018.
In an interview prior to the dedication, President Eyring said that during the dedication Sunday he will be feeling "echoes of the pioneers" who settled that part of the Salt Lake Valley "because of the faith they had." This is a "pioneering place."
President Eyring also referenced the 1981 dedicatory prayer by then President Spencer W. Kimball, his uncle, and said it is "appropriate to our time." In the prayer, President Kimball talked about governments and the need to have righteous leadership and unity.
Accompanying President Eyring in the rededication services were Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Elders Timothy J. Dyches and Mervyn B. Arnold of the Seventy; Sister Joy D. Jones, general president of the Primary; and Bishop Dean M. Davies, first counselor in the Presiding Bishopric.
The temple was rededicated in three sessions at 9:00 am, 12:00 noon, and 3:00 pm and broadcast to meetinghouses belonging to the Jordan River Temple area, as well as in the Draper Utah and Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple districts. To enable the Saints to participate in the temple rededication and to place appropriate focus on this sacred event, the three-hour block meetings were canceled that day for those members of the Church. The temple will reopen for ordinance work on 22 May 2018.
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Ramón Mellado Parsons (October 31, 1904 - June 7, 1985) was an educator, writer, politician and a former Puerto Rico Secretary of Education.

Early days
Had a bachelor's degree in Science from the University of Puerto Rico in 1927. In 1940 earned a Master of Arts from Columbia University in New York and His Doctorate in Education in 1947.

Education career
He worked as a science teacher at Julio L. Vizcarrondo Coronado High School in Carolina, Puerto Rico. He was subsequently appointed Superintendent of Schools (1932–34), General Supervisor of Sciences), Deputy Commissioner of Public Instruction and appointed Secretary of Education of Puerto Rico (1969-1971).

As a university educator he began in 1943, serving as Professor and Director of the Department of Pedagogy of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus until 1948. At this study center he held the positions of Dean of Administration (1948–56) and Professor of the Graduate School of Pedagogy (1957–68).

In 1948, he published "Culture and education in Puerto Rico".

Politics
He was delegated to the Constitutional Convention of Puerto Rico in 1952. In 1972 he was elected Senator At-large by the New Progressive Party.

Legacy
An elementary school in Carolina, Puerto Rico was named after him.

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Refugee life vests create dramatic scene at Minneapolis Institute of Art
The museum's front pillars have been transformed.
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The front entrance of the Minneapolis Institute of Art has been transformed by thousands of life vests wrapped around the museum's stone pillars.
The dramatic display is the work of world-renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, with the installation, called "Safe Passage" utilizing life vests worn by refugees fleeing Syria as they crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece.
Weiwei, himself a political refugee, collected the vests from the Greek island of Lesbos, and first revealed the installation at the Konzerthaus in Berlin in 2016, following it up with a stint at the Foam Museum in Amsterdam.
It's the first time it's been displayed in the U.S., becoming a stunning showpiece for a wider exhibition that looks at global migration.
Called "When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration Through Contemporary Art," it will feature 40 works from 21 artists, including Kader Attia, Tania Bruguera, Mona Hatoum, Yinka Shonibare CBE, and Aliza Nisenbaum.
Another feature will be "CarryOn Homes," where artists from five countries tell the stories of immigrants and refugees in the U.S. through art.
Part of that exhibition will include the CarryOn Homes Living Room, which will provide a shared space for local immigrant and refugee communities "to access resources, connect, and have restful and healing conversations."
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And suspended above the museum rotunda will be a giant Hazmat chemical storage container, which has been turned into a drum and will play rhythms for the Dakota people.
The installation, called "Let Us Pray for the Water Between Us," is the work of artists Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist, with input from the Dakota community.
The "When Home Won't Let You Stay" exhibition will be found in the Target Galleries, running from Feb. 23 to May 24. More information can be found here.
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Q: pandas extensions usage without importing it I have created pandas extensions as mentioned here.
The extending classes are defined in a module named pd_extensions, and I would like to use them in a different module my_module for example. The two modules are in the same package called source.
currently to be able to use the extensions Im importing the pd_extensions module into my_module like this:
import source.pd_extensions
is there a way to use the extensions I created without importing the module?
I find myself importing this module to every module that I want to use the extensions in the package, and I thought there might be a better way of doing it (maybe through the _ _ init _ _ module).
I tried just using the extensions without importing the module they are defined in, but it did not work obviously.
I'm thinking about importing it in the  _ _ init _ _ file so all the modules in the package would have access to it without having to import it themself, but I can't figure out if it's possible.

A: I think you can import the extension module in __init__ file since the extension module will first import pandas and then register the accessor therefore the pandas module will be cached in sys.modules and any subsequent import to pandas from other modules will simply retrieve the entry from the cache.
here is the simple example:
source
├── __init__.py
├── my_module.py
└── pd_extension.py

The following are the contente of the files:
# pd_extension.py
import pandas as pd

@pd.api.extensions.register_dataframe_accessor('spam')
class Spam:
    def __init__(self, df):
        self.df = df

    @property
    def shape(self):
        return self.df.shape

# my_module.py
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]])
print(df.spam.shape)

# __init__.py
import source.pd_extension

Now lets test the code by executing my_module.py which works as expected
$ python -m source.my_module
(2, 3)

A: Yes, it is possible to add it to pandas's __init__.py and just import pandas but I would first create a virtual environment before you do that.
Here is how you can go about it using conda
conda create -n test_env python=3.10
conda install pandas

navigate to the pandas folder in test_env
/Users/.../opt/anaconda3/envs/test_env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pandas/__init__.py

at the bottom of the __init__.py I added
import pandas as pd

@pd.api.extensions.register_dataframe_accessor("geo")
class GeoAccessor:
    def __init__(self, pandas_obj):
        self._obj = pandas_obj

    @property
    def center(self):
        # return the geographic center point of this DataFrame
        lat = self._obj.latitude
        lon = self._obj.longitude
        return (float(lon.mean()), float(lat.mean()))

    def plot(self):
        # plot this array's data on a map, e.g., using Cartopy
        pass

Now you should just be able to do
(base) ~ % conda activate test_env
(test_env) ~ % python
Python 3.10.9 (main, Jan 11 2023, 09:18:20) [Clang 14.0.6 ] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> import numpy as np
>>> ds = pd.DataFrame({"longitude": np.linspace(0, 10),
...                    "latitude": np.linspace(0, 20)})
>>> ds.geo.center
(5.0, 10.0)
>>>


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The 15 Safest Cities in California in 2022
May 18th, 2022 / Author: Zachariah Peterson
The cost of living, employment opportunities, schools in the area, home prices, and emotional attachments are all important factors when deciding on where you want to live (at least for those that have the luxury to choose). But crime statistics always rank at the top – Californians want to find the safest cities in California to raise their children.
This is entirely natural. You want to freely walk home at night, know that there's a minimal chance of your home getting burglarized, and not worry about your kids' safety every waking moment. Unfortunately, a majority of Californians regularly report not being safe in their communities.
Because of this, choosing a safe place to live is essential to sleeping soundly. To help you make plans, we have provided a list of the 15 safest cities to live in California. But, before we get to the list, let's see how California compares to the rest of the nation and how safety is determined.
California vs the Rest of the US
Is California a safe place to live? Regrettably, no, California is not one of the safest states. By volume, the most crimes are committed in California annually out of the entire US; that is to be expected as it is the state with the largest population. But even when adjusted for its population, CA still ranks in the upper half of states for crimes committed per capita.
However, crime is often hyper-localized so there can be large discrepancies between cities. Thus, even though California is somewhere in the middle of the pack when it comes to crimes committed per capita, it still has some of the safest cities to live in the US.
The Criteria Used to Assess the Safest Cities to Live in California
Compiling FBI statistics, Safewise issues an annual report on the rate of violent and property crime per 1000 residents in California towns and cities. This means that other public safety issues, such as natural hazards or COVID -19 infection rates, are not counted to determine the safest cities in California.
Violent crime includes aggravated assault, murder, rape, and robbery; property crime encompasses burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. The safest place to live in is the one with the lowest combined rate per 1000 residents, but we'll also separate both statistics so that you have better insight.
As a side note, places that did not submit a crime report to the FBI are excluded from the rankings. Now that you understand how we define safety, let's get to the list of the 15 safest places in California.
1. Danville
Danville, CA comes in as the safest city in California. Located in Contra Costa County, it has a lower population than Rancho Santa Margarita but a higher one than Moorpark (no. 2 and 3 on the list), at about 44 000 residents. In 2020, it was named the safest town in California and is so again in 2022. It has a violent crime (VC) rate of 0.5 and a property crime (PC) rate of 5.3, combining for 5.8.
Danville is consistently one of the safest cities in California. Namely, it was no. 1 in 2020, no. 3 in 2021, and once again tops the chart. However, safety comes at a price – Danville is an affluent community and the cost of living index is approximately 2.5 times higher than the US average.
2. Rancho Santa Margarita
Situated in Orange County close to the Santa Ana Mountains, Rancho Santa Margarita is the second safest city in California for 2022. It has a population slightly below 50 000, a multitude of homeowners associations, and a significantly higher rate of people holding bachelor's and higher degrees than the rest of CA.
It is no big surprise that Rancho Santa Margarita is one of the safest places to live in California. The violent crime (VC) rate per 1000 people is 0.4 and the property crime (PC) rate is 5.9, combining for only 6.3. Rancho Santa Margarita took the first spot in 2021, but residents shouldn't be discouraged that they are the second safest town in California in 2022 - the combined rate for 2021 was 6.7, so it has become safer. It's just that Danville has done even better.
3. Moorpark
Located in Southern California in Ventura County, Moorpark is one of the smallest cities on the list with a population of around 37 000. However, it is also one of the fastest-growing ones, which can be expected with such a low crime rate. The VC and PC rates of Moorpark are 0.5 and 6.2, respectively, totaling 6.7.
4. Aliso Viejo
A second representative from Orange County (you will start noticing a trend), Aliso Viejo is located in the San Joaquin Hills. It has a VC crime rate of 0.5 and a PC crime rate of 7.6, equalling an 8.1 crime rate total. Aliso Viejo is a suburban community, but sitting right next to Laguna Beach means that most benefits of an urban lifestyle are easily accessible.
5. Poway
The first city from San Diego County to make it on the list of the safest places to live in California, Poway has a VC rate of 1.1 and PC rate of 7.4 – for a total of 8.5. Poway is an unincorporated community and only became a city in 1980. Approximately 50 000 people call Poway home.
Poway residents should be proud, as it has risen nine places on the list of the safest cities in California since 2021. Way to go Poway!
6. Yorba Linda
Located approximately 37 miles SE of Downtown LA in Orange County, Yorba Linda comes in at number 6, with a VC rate of 0.5 and a PC rate of 8.4, combining for 8.9. A relatively small city (and much smaller in the past), Yorba Linda is known as the birthplace of former president Richard Nixon.
7. Rancho Palos Verdes
Located in Los Angeles County, Rancho Palos Verdes has other things going for it aside from safety. Founded on the bluffs atop the Palos Verdes Peninsula, it provides a breath-taking view of the Pacific Ocean, Santa Catalina Island, and Los Angeles itself. It also has some of the best horse and hiking trails in all of California.
But, we're here to talk about safety – Rancho Palos Verdes has a VC rate of 1.0 and a PC rate of 8.1, combining to a reasonably low 9.1. Unfortunately, safety comes with a price tag once again. The Rancho Palos Verdes zip code is one of the most expensive locations when it comes to property prices.
8. Laguna Niguel
Like the bordering city of Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel comes close on the heels of its neighbor as one of the safest places to live in California. It has a VC crime rate of 0.6 and PC crime rate of 8.7, totaling 9.3. Another affluent city, the median household income of Laguna Niguel nearly doubles the US average.
9. Mission Viejo
The first larger city on the list, Mission Viejo has a population slightly below 100 000. Unsurprisingly, it is also located in Orange County. It has a VC rate of 0.8 and PC rate of 9.0, for a total of 9.8 – the same total as in 2021. However, the violent crime rate has risen by 0.1 and property crime fell by 0.1 since last year.
10. San Juan Capistrano
Another city in Orange County, San Juan Capistrano has a VC rate of 1.7 and PC rate of 8.4, with the combined crime rate of 10.1 placing squarely in the 10th position. However, there is a large caveat here – the 1.7 VC is the second-highest on the list. The low property crime rate allows for San Juan Capistrano to be this high on the list.
Asides from safety, there is more that makes San Juan Capistrano interesting - it can be considered the birthplace of California's wines. Namely, it is here that Franciscan missionaries planted the first vineyards in California in 1779. While it is not a famous American Viticultural Area in its own right, it has left a mark on the history of winemaking.
11. Santa Clarita
With a population of around 220,000, Santa Clarita is the largest city on the list by a large margin. Even with the largest population, it boasts a respectably low VC rate of 1.3 and PC rate of 9.1, to combine for 10.4. It is located in Los Angeles County and is often considered a satellite or edge city.
12. Temple City
Temple City is a new entry on the list with a violent crime rate of 1.4 and property crime rate of 9.0, for a combined 10.4. It is located in Los Angeles County and has a population of 36,000 people. You may have noticed that Temple City has the same total crime rate as Santa Clarita. We have decided to place it lower on the list because the VC rate is higher.
13. Santee
The second representative from San Diego County and another newcomer, Santee comes in as the 13th safest city in California. It has a VC rate of 2.8 and a PC rate of 7.7, adding up to 10.5. However, while Sante has a low total crime rate, the number of violent crimes committed is the highest on this list.
On the plus side, the property crime rate fell from 13.7 in 2021, but the violent crime rate rose from 1.7. Still, Santee is one of the safest areas in California and deserves to be on this list.
14. Lake Forest
Yet another representative from Orange County, Lake Forest comes in at no. 14 on our list. It has a VC rate of 1.1 and a PC rate of 9.8, adding up to 10.9. Unfortunately, Lake Forest barely managed to hold on, as it was no. 5 last year. While still one of the safest cities in California, the rising crime rates are worrisome.
As a side note, if you are wondering about the name, the immediate area of Lake Forest is not actually forested land. The forest for which it got its name is located relatively close and, interestingly, consists mostly of eucalyptus trees. However, it is situated between two man-made lakes, so that part of the name holds true.
15. Thousand Oaks
Thousand Oaks is the third and last newcomer on the list, and the second entry from Ventura County. It has a VC rate of 0.6 and a PC rate of 10.4, for a total combined crime rate of 11.0. It is also the second-largest city here, with a population of approximately 126,500 people. Good job Thousand Oaks and we hope to also see you here in 2023.
An Honorable Mention
Murrieta from Riverside County just barely didn't make the list, but it deserves a mention. If for no other reason than because it would be the only representative of Riverside County. It has a violent crime rate of 0.8 and a property crime rate of 10.2. The total is 11.0, the same as Thousand Oaks, but because the VC rate is higher in Murrieta, it couldn't beat Thousand Oaks to make no. 15 on the list of the safest cities in CA.
How the List of the 15 Safest Places to Live in California Looked in 2021
Rancho Santa Margarita (▼ 1)
Moorpark (▼ 1)
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The fatal crash of a business jet points to the need for decision points during landing that are analogous to those in takeoff.
For example, there is V1 in takeoff, the critical engine failure speed at which there is enough runway remaining to stop the airplane. Beyond V1, the takeoff must be continued on the remaining engine(s). Indeed, there are a host of speed thresholds used during takeoff (VR, V4, etc.) and for the cruise portion of flight (VA, VS, etc.). The definitions of these V speeds is not important for purposes of this discussion; the essential point is that there are not equivalent speeds used in landing. In the case of this accident, the need for either a speed at which one must stop (VS) or stay on the ground (VG) might have prevented the late decision to go-around, which led to the crash.
The case involves a July 2008 fatal accident of an East Coast Jets business aircraft, a Hawker Beechcraft 125-800A, at Owatonna, MN. The two pilots and six passengers aboard were killed. The tragedy was recently the subject of a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing.
The accident airplane
"This is the fourth major accident in three years in which the pilots could not stop after landing," declared NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman.
From the cockpit voice recorder, the flight crew appeared hurried; an approach briefing was not conducted and the before-landing checklist was only partially completed. Flaps were not deployed, and neither pilot called out "FLAPS – SET". The captain was the pilot flying and the first officer was performing pilot monitoring duties, but in this case that responsibility was not executed. The first officer was engaged in radio calls to the Owatonna fixed base operator (FBO) when the aircraft was below 10,000 feet altitude. Such nonessential activity is a violation of the sterile cockpit rule. There was no landing distance assessment before landing on the wet runway. The wet, ungrooved pavement increased the distance at which the airplane could be safely brought to a stop. An 8 knot tailwind also contributed to the difficulty in slowing the aircraft.
According to the NTSB's Malcolm Brenner, neither pilot had adequate sleep the night before, and the poor cockpit resource management, decision-making, coordination and late decisions during landing were symptoms consistent with fatigue. He noted that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a proposed rule on pilot fatigue, but this initiative addressed rest and duty requirements for Part 121 scheduled airline pilots only. The proposed rule does not cover Part 135 operations of the type flown by East Coast Jets. (See Aviation Safety Journal, September 2010, "Rule Proposed on Pilot Rest Requirements")
The airplane was not equipped with engine thrust reversers. A lift-dump function would extend the flaps to 75º, thereby increasing drag, but the captain delayed moving the airbrake handle beyond the OPEN position, which was necessary to engage lift-dump.
Rolling rapidly to the end of the runway, at 17 seconds after touchdown the captain initiated a go-around. The airplane lifted off the runway, struck a localizer antenna, and the airplane skidded to a halt about 2,100 feet past the runway end.
"If they had stayed on the ground and overrun the tarmac 100 to 300 feet, there probably would not have been fatalities," Hersman observed.
If the captain had stayed on the ground, an overrun would have occurred which was probably survivable
According to the NTSB:
"If the captain had continued the landing and accepted the possibility of overrunning the runway instead of attempting to execute a go-around late in the landing roll, the accident most likely would have been prevented or the severity reduced because the airplane would have come to rest within the runway safety area.
"Establishing a committed-to-stop point in the landing sequence beyond which a go-around should not be attempted for turbine-powered aircraft would eliminate ambiguity for pilots making decisions during time-critical events."
Of the 14 recommendations issued by the NTSB to the FAA as a result of this accident, the very first one dealt with a committed-to-stop distance for all jets, not just small business/charter aircraft, to include transport-category airliners:
"Require manufacturers of newly certificated and in-service turbine-powered aircraft to incorporate in their Aircraft Flight Manuals a committed-to-stop point in the landing sequence (for example, in the case of the Hawker Beechcraft 125-800A airplane, once lift dump is deployed) beyond which a go-around should not be attempted."
On takeoff, beyond V1 speed the airplane should be gotten airborne as there is not sufficient runway to stop after that threshold is passed. There is no equivalent for landing, such as VG for "stay on the ground" because it is too late for a go-around. The absence of such cues on landing – equivalent to such lifesaving V speeds on takeoff – raises an obvious question: what other basic safety provisos are missing and awaiting an accident to be revealed?
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null The number or people with dementia is expected to quadruple in the next 30 years. New findings suggest eating less may help prevent the syndrome.
If you look at old photos of Paolo Jimenez, it would be hard to recognize him today. Paolo blames his extra weight on his love of junk food.
Paolo decided to cut the junk food out and began working out. He also ate better. He finally lost more than 60 pounds. However, he noticed more than just a change on the scale.
"Your energy level is better, you think better ... you just remember things," said Paolo. "Just, everything follows after you start losing weight ... you cut your calories."
A new German study suggests improved memory is an extra benefit to eating less. Researchers followed three small groups of 60-year-old people. One group ate normally, another ate more fish and olive oils, and the third cut their calories.
In the study, those who reduced their caloric consumption by 30 percent had an improvement in world-learning tasks. That may suggest a boost in verbal memory.
"I think if you're cutting your calories, hopefully you're making better food choices," said Ruth Pupo, registered dietician, White Memorial Medical Center.
Pupo says eating less fatty and processed foods means less fat, less bad cholesterol and less plaque build-up in the arteries.
"If we reduce the fat, reducing the plaque in our body and improving our good cholesterol, we can, therefore, keep our brain cells healthier and regenerating at an appropriate rate," said Pupo.
Pupo says it's an added benefit that might inspire more people to eat less and exercise more.
"If they feel that they are investing in their future -- and their memory function improves -- I think that would be another motivator," said Pupo.
"Once you start to eat healthy, maybe your brain functions better. And I think that in general, it just follows through with that," said Paolo.
Study authors believe decreased levels of blood sugar and inflammation may boost brain cells and improve memory.
The group in the study that ate more unsaturated fatty acids found in olive oil and fish did not see a difference in memory.


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(5) The series "The Knowledge of Adam
The series "The Science of Adam" (5) Barbarossa
The series " (5) "The Knowledge of Adam " (5) Barbarossa
Written by Iman Abu Al-Layl
We agreed in the previous article from the series "The Knowledge of Adam," that Satan has tools and aides from the demons of mankind and the jinn, including (influential personalities, media and science).
I will not hide a secret from you, as I was confused as to what to start with, as each element is nothing but a thorny gate that is difficult to penetrate, and in the end I decided to start with the easy one, which is the (influential personalities).
The focus was on the soft building block of society, and they are the children because they are the next generation, and the men of tomorrow. It was necessary for Satan to direct his helpers from the devils of mankind and demons of the jinn, to control the minds of these children, in an effort to change their identity.
And since Satan knows that identity has elements, he focused on distorting those elements in children, and the most important is the "symbols" element, such as important historical figures, and making them integrate into the cartoon films that the child loves.
All children know who Barbarossa is, but it is false knowledge. If you ask any child: Who is Barbarossa?
His answer will be: He is a pirate, a thief and an evil one.
With this mental image that was implanted in the child's mind, a distinct historical image of a brave man named "Khair El-Din Barbarossa", the hero who helped Algeria against Spain, was able to liberate the African coasts from the Spanish occupation and saved the Muslims of Andalusia, was distorted, as he assumed the mandate of Algiers, then the Sultan appointed him "Suleiman the Magnificent" the task of the Ottoman fleet, so he left to his son "Hassan" the state of Algiers, and history bears witness to him for his courage in the Islamic conquests.
That is why Satan decided to manipulate the identity of the child, so he, through his followers, distorted symbols in the same way as distorting a character like Barbarossa.
And Satan made some of the characters that have the ability to influence the child and adolescent in particular, making them public figures with power, fame and money, and made them appear as Hollywood stars.
And Satan used them as a tool to implant in them customs and traditions that contradict the nature upon which God created us.
He decorated the bullying for them as if it was courage, and made chaos into a doctrine of objection and vibration of the country's stability, and concealed from them that the correct approach is the need to develop a conscious plan to achieve stability and development, instead of demolition and bloodshed.
And everyone should come back to God's warning to us, as he said,
"O you who believe, wine and gambling, idols and divining dice are an abomination from the work of Satan, so avoid it, so that you may be successful. Satan only wants to cause enmity and hatred between you in wine and gambling and prevent you from the remembrance of God and prayer.
God has taught us that Satan adorns people with wine, gambling, idols, and arrows, because its result is enmity and hatred, and in the end, blood, and this is one of the goals of Satan until he reaches these people to disbelief in God.
And for the rest of the talk…
The chain and science of Adam(4) Lucifer
The chain and the knowledge of Adam (3) Where is the devil
The chain and knowledge of Adam (2) Instinct is the enemy of Satan
Adam's Science Series (1)
Adam. Angels. barbarossa; The good. evil. the Paradise. fire.


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