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Dwayne Johnson & Ryan Reynolds Show Off Matching Tattoos In A New 'Hobbs & Shaw' Photo
by Jane Kenney
The Fast & Furious spinoff of Hobbs & Shaw has just been released, bringing Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds together. Audiences were surprised at Reynolds's brief cameo. Reynolds plays Locke, a CIA agent who used to work with Johnson's character, Hobbs. In the film, Locke shows Hobbs that he got a tattoo on his chest that matches one of Hobbs's own.
With this being said, true 'The Rock' fans know that his tattoo is very real. Reynolds' matching tattoo, however, is not! It would've been a bromance for the ages.
See their matching tattoos in action
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Reynolds takes to Instagram to show the exposed matching tattoos that he and Johnson would share (at least for the time being)! "I can only imagine how upset I was to discover this," he captions the photo on Instagram.
Johnson comments on the photo, "You pull your shirt back to reveal our ink and it looks cool & sexy. I pull my shirt back and it looks like an indicator that I eat women and children."
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'Hobbs & Shaw' director talks about Reynolds's role
Johnson posts the same photo on his Instagram. "I've known this brilliant SOB for years and we jumped at the opportunity to mash up our tequila and gin chemistry to deliver some magic for the audience. Thanks RR for helping make our lil' spin-off movie, the #1 movie in the world."
The movie's director David Leitch reveals that Reynolds's role actually changed when he came on board. "I reached out to Ryan: 'Dude, I have this exposition scene with the CIA agent. He's sending Hobbs and Shaw on the journey. It's a lot of boring exposition. How would you like to come in and play it?' And he's like, 'I would love to! It'd be so fun,' " he says.
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Leitch goes onto say that Reynolds "re-crafted his character."
He continues, "I sent him the pages. Doing what Ryan does best, he really re-crafted them into something special that had a ton of jokes and pop culture references and this weird dynamic of this character who's kind of quasi-obsessed with Hobbs — that's all from Ryan's mind. So without approaching Ryan, we never would have had this gold. He created a character that I was hoping would live in this world that's a little bit more fun-forward than the other Fast franchise."
In conclusion, the film Hobbs & Shaw expects to gross well over $100 million domestically.
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Biographies of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, have portrayed him as anything from a schizophrenic wandering ascetic to a hedonistic pleasure-seeker. But who was the real man behind the misconceptions?
In this spiritual biography, Ray Silverman explores the stories and the popular misconceptions about Johnny Appleseed as well as the truths behind the legends. Chapman was not only a savvy businessman with nurseries and land holdings throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, he was a compassionate friend and neighbor. But it is only once we talk about Chapman's spiritual beliefs that we come to the core of who he was: a thoughtful and joyful Christian who was deeply moved by the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.
The picture that emerges is of a light-hearted person whose convictions led him to seek harmony not only in nature but in the spiritual realms also–and to share his bounty with as many people as he could.
Nancy Poes was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and received a BA in history from the University of California Berkeley. She studied illustration at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She spent twenty years in Hawaii and extensive time in Portugal, and since 2006 she has lived and painted in Santa Fe. Her work is part of many international public, corporate, and private collections.


The design of the euro banknotes depicts the architectural styles of seven periods in Europe's cultural history. Compared to the former notes of the member states of the euro area which can be regarded as glorious portrait galleries, the euro notes no longer depict portraits from famous persons of the euro area. Questions that might have given rise to discussion were, amongst others: who? males? females? what nationality? In the 20th century the portrait became one of the main motifs of the Belgian notes.


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The Bible (Tagalog Ang Dating Biblia )
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Most adherents of the movement believe that the Textus Receptus is very close, if not identical, to the original autographs thereby making it the ideal Greek source for the translation. King James Only movement Verbal plenary preservation. The terms of the letters patent prohibit any other than the holders, or those authorized by the holders, from printing, publishing or importing the Authorized Version into the United Kingdom.
List of Bible verses not included in modern translations. Here translated and edited by Ward Allen. Want more information about Bible Gateway Plus?
For commercial and charitable publishers, editions of the Authorized Version without the Apocrypha reduced the cost, while having increased market appeal to non-Anglican Protestant readers. History of the Bible in English. That gathering proposed a new English version in response to the perceived problems of earlier translations as detected by the Puritan faction of the Church of England. The Geneva Bible continued to be popular, and large numbers were imported from Amsterdam, where printing continued up to in editions carrying a false London imprint.
Chronological order of publication newest first Burke, David G. Society and Puritanism in pre-revolutionary England. The rest of the Apostles with Judas facing away stand around Peter and Paul.
Print Twitter Facebook Email. The case was different in Scotland, where the Geneva Bible had long been the standard church bible. Later editors freely substituted their own chapter summaries, or omitted such material entirely. These editions have soft- and hardbound covers. Choose a book from the list on the left, or start reading one of the suggested stories below.
The spelling, punctuation, italics, capitals, and distribution into lines and pages are all followed with the most scrupulous care. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Many British printings reproduce this, while most non-British printings do not. This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
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Begin reading God's Word ad-free with instant access to your new online study library. Despite royal patronage and encouragement, there was never any overt mandate to use the new translation. In all other cases, the user must first get permission from the Philippine Bible Society.
Such cross-references had long been common in Latin Bibles, and most of those in the Authorized Version were copied unaltered from this Latin tradition. Click the button below to continue. Pilcrow marks are used to indicate the beginnings of paragraphs except after the book of Acts. It was only in that modern bilingual Bibles appeared in which the Authorized Version was compared with counterpart Dutch and French Protestant vernacular Bibles.
Blayney's version, with its revised spelling and punctuation, helped change the public perception of the Authorized Version to a masterpiece of the English language. The first printing used a black letter typeface instead of a roman typeface, which itself made a political and a religious statement. In the Great Bible, readings derived from the Vulgate but not found in published Hebrew and Greek texts had been distinguished by being printed in smaller roman type. On the contrary, on a few occasions, they appear to have inserted these words when they thought a line needed to be padded.
The Text of the New Testament. Vanderbilt University Press. Even the modern alphabet has been changed several times to incorporate foreign sounds from both Spanish and English. Early modern English second ed.
The Greek word susoichei is not well translated as now it is, bordereth neither expressing the force of the word, nor the apostle's sense, nor the situation of the place. Punctuation was relatively heavy and differed from current practice. This translation, though still derived from Tyndale, claimed to represent the text of the Latin Vulgate.
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With the rapid development and wide application of the Internet technology, many problems of Artificial Intelligence, for example scheduling, planning, resource allocation etc., are formally distributed now, which turn into a kind of multi-agent system problems. Accordingly, the standard constraint satisfaction problems turn into distributed constraint satisfaction problems, which become the general architecture for resolving multi-agent system. This paper first briefly introduces the basic concepts of distributed CSPs, and then summarizes the basic and the improved algorithms. Their efficiency and performance are analyzed and the typical applications of distributed CSPs in recent years are discussed. Finally, this paper presents the extensions of the basic formalization and the research trends in this area. Recent related work indicates that the future work will focus on the theoretical research to present the solid theoretical foundation for the practical problems.


Discussion in 'Introduce Yourself' started by satrebil, Oct 3, 2018.
The relentless censorship on modern day social media has led me to drop them altogether. I was a big participant in forums and chat rooms before the days of Facebook and Twitter, and I aim to be again. I'm strongly conservative and my support of the Bill Of Rights is unwavering, doubly so for the 1st and 2nd Amendments.
I'm happy to engage in thoughtful & productive conversations on just about any topic, but I will say this straight out: I have NO use for the regressive left wing commies who claim themselves to be "liberals".
Looking forward to discussions here!
My, that's a handsome devil.
Welcome. I'm curious to know how you were censored on social media.
I've been banned more times than I can count for making leftists look like idiots on Twitter/Facebook.
Oldest form of "social media" right here. You made a GREAT decision. We don't shadow ban. But there's public plank-walking into a tank of sharks on Friday nights that you don't want to miss.
Man! I hope you stick around!
FB hasn't gotten me yet, but I've had posts deleted.


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Home Tampa Bay Vipers Why the XFL Will Not Fail the Second Time Around
Why the XFL Will Not Fail the Second Time Around
Tom Chang
To millions of NFL fans, today is the saddest day due to the fact that fans have to wait two months before the NFL Draft and six months before the start of the 2020 season. To other football fans, the start of the XFL 2.0 starts Saturday. Why should John/Joan Q Football fans be excited? Here are the major reasons why XFL won't fail as the first incarnation did.
Disney is NOT NBC
Just to remind those who have any doubts, FOX is completely invested in the WWE due to their weekly Friday night wrestling series, SmackDown. With their commitment, the opportunity left behind by NFL football is too good to pass up investing in Vince McMahon's XFL. Keep in mind, it's not just Fox Sports throwing its weight around, but Disney's other networks in ABC and ESPN also throwing their support for the XFL. The foundation is far more solid than the Alliance of American Football ever had because of greater investment in business partnerships among networks. TNT and CBS didn't have the investment in the AAF compared to FOX and by extension, Disney to McMahon.
McMahon (Presumably) Learned from Previous Mistakes
When McMahon made the announcement to bring back the XFL, he promised not to mix his brands up with the WWE and the XFL. One is operating independently from the other thanks to his formation of Alpha Entertainment. He's delegated the football side of operations to Oliver Luck, who had zero ties to the WWE and its hierarchy prior to his hiring. That means no Michael Cole, Corey Graves, or Jerry "The King" Lawler calling football games.
As the league started building infrastructure, it had over a year to produce input from football minds from across the country. Greater pools of talent became available from the bankruptcies of the Arena Football League and the AAF. The league benefitted from a wait-and-see approach. Rule changes in the current incarnation speed up the game and adopted rules from the NFL, CFL, and the NCAA for a smoother transitioning game.
Broadcasting Options are Wider Now Than Before
The XFL of 2020 has far more options than the league in 2001 ever had. Citing the success of Amazon and Facebook, McMahon opened the possibility to make the league more accessible online through streaming venues. Even if broadcast viewership were down in certain parts of the season, there's always an opportunity for fans to watch the game and the league to maintain exposure.
McMahon's not new when it comes to streaming revenue given the success to his WWE Network, which completely supplanted his reliance on Pay Per View broadcasting. What's worked for WWE will likely work for the future of the XFL. Ultimately, the league's had experience and head start to success where it failed before.
Gone are the days of the grammatically cringing, Rod "He Hate Me" Smart. We're approaching a true upstart league with a rare second opportunity others not afforded before. The USFL, UFL, and AAF didn't have those with dreams to continue once their leagues folded. McMahon isn't as ignorant as he's stubborn when it comes to second chances.
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The Government Would Like You to Write a 'Social Media Will'
By Rebecca J. Rosen
Planning for your digital life after your physical life is no longer a strange niche behavior.
By some estimates, nearly a half a million people with Facebook accounts passed away last year, leaving family and friends to navigate what to do with those pages. Leave the account open? Shut it down entirely? Convert it to an official Facebook memorial page? What would you want for your own Facebook profile? And forget Facebook, what do you want to become of your email account?
If you want any say in such matters, you might want to consider creating a social-media will, as the US government is now recommending as part of its advice on estate planning. As per their blog:
If you have social media profiles set up online, you should create a statement of how you would like your online identity to be handled. Just like a traditional will helps your survivors handle your physical belongings, a social media will spells out how you want your online identity to be handled.
Like with a traditional will, you'll need to appoint someone you trust as an online executor. This person will be responsible for closing your email addresses, social media profiles, and blogs after you are deceased.
Sounds good, but legally it's tricky territory. As Naomi Cahn, a professor of law at George Washington University, explained to me, "Formal wills become public. So you need to be careful what you put in a will, because anyone in the world could have access to it." Instead, you might want to consider establishing a trust or just an informal agreement with information about your passwords and how you would like your accounts to be handled.
A further complication is that people's social-media and other online accounts are not static, nor are their passwords. Cahn says that the average person has 25 password-protected accounts and types about eight passwords a day. Most people will likely not be able to keep their "social-media wills" up to date on that many accounts.
Planning for the care of your online trail post-mortem presents different issues than planning for money and physical objects. In part this is because our legal regimes and social norms are less solidified in these areas, and, in part because they are actually different animals: A Facebook account can become a participatory memorial that many friends and family can return to over the years, in a way that's not true of your physical belongings. But despite their differences -- or, perhaps, because of them -- they each require their own plans for after you go.


For more than a quarter century native American Rosemary Cambra has provided a voice for her people. This week, Cambra, chairwoman for the Bay Area's Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, brought her message to Berkeley, where she urged the city to preserve and protect local burial grounds under University Avenue at the train tracks near Fourth Street.
WBPAC members hope the meeting will establish a partnership between Berkeley and the Ohlone Tribe in which Cambra will serve as a consultant and protect the tribe's interests – mainly respecting the dead – during a city development project near the 500-year-old Ohlone burial site.
The city is looking to build a transit hub at the west Berkeley rail stop, linking bus, ferry, train and taxi services. The purchase and restoration of the defunct Southern Pacific Rail Station would be part of the project.
While improvements are being made to the area, however, including leveling and paving surrounding roads, burial tombs would need to be protected, according to planners and archeologists.
A "treatment plan," designed to preserve the burial grounds during construction, is being put together by city engineers and an archeologist selected by the Ohlone tribe, said Iris Starr, senior city planner.To protect the sacred remains, much of the initial paving and leveling "will be done by hand, not by machines," said Starr.
With the guidance of Cambra and Alan Leventhal, an ethnohistorian the Ohlone Tribe picked to consult with the city, planners hope paving and preservation will begin by December.
"This is where the rubber meets the road," Starr said.
The burial remains will remain undisturbed beneath the new transit hub after it is built.
In addition to protecting the Ohlone burial site, planners hope to celebrate the tribe's history and culture by including Ohlone art displays at the new transit hub.
One such display could consist of a large mural reflecting tribal life or a series of displays located inside a restored train station.
While she is pleased with the plans for commemorating the tribe, Cambra warns that preservation efforts should not to be taken lightly. Instead, she says, city and tribal leaders must work closely to establish a true partnership.
As the representative of the Muwekma Ohlone, Cambra is all too familiar with disappointment. Having gone 100 years without recognition from the United States government as being an official native tribe, the Muwekma have taken matters into their own hands.
They have established both a strong legal team and a group of knowledgeable cultural historians to preserve the rights and heritage of the tribe.
Since 1989, the Muwekma have incurred more than $10 million in legal debt in their fight to gain status as a federally-recognized group. Though a ruling on Sept. 6 by the Bureau of Indian Affairs denied their latest request, the tribe continues to seek acknowledgment.
"One needs to defend our bloodline and take on any government when they try to terminate our culture, our history and our existence. We are the symbol and the example of what the U.S. government can do to a group if you let them," Cambra said.


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The new polymer £10 note is being sold on eBay days before it goes into circulation
Josie Cox,
Vendors on eBay are already pre-selling the new polymer £10 note, even though it does not officially come into circulation until Thursday.
Several dozen offers to pre-order the new tenner were listed on the UK version of the platform on Wednesday morning. Prices ranged from just above £10 to over £25.
Sellers are offering the opportunity to pre-order notes with particularly low serial numbers, or packs of multiple notes with consecutive serial numbers.
Earlier this week experts already said that some of the new notes, adorned with Jane Austen's face, could be worth significantly more than £10.
According to website Change Checker, those with serial numbers corresponding to the author's date of birth and date of death – 16 121775 and 18 071817 – are likely to be in particularly high demand.
The note with the serial number 17 751817 – the author's birth and death year combined – could also fetch a significant sum.
The Bank of England is due to hold an official auction on 6 October, where members of the public and collectors can bid for a selection of notes, including special serial numbers of the new £10 note.
The Bank has not commented on how much the auction might raise, but a similar auction last year, which included new polymer £5 notes with low and interesting serial numbers, raised a total of £194,500. More than 230 lots were sold at the time and the highest bid for a single note was £8,500.
Proceeds from that auction were split between three charities -- The Myotubular Trust, The Lily Foundation and Bliss – chosen by the Bank of England. Proceeds from next month's auction will also go to charity, the Bank of England said.
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The design of the tenner that enters circulation this week was unveiled in July. At the time it was particularly praised by members of the blind and visually impaired community for its tactile features. Raised dots, similar to braille characters, on the left hand side of the note and fine raised lines on the right, will help those who can't see to differentiate it from notes of other denominations.
"I'm absolutely delighted with the new ten pound note. The tactile feature on it makes it very simple for someone with sight loss like myself to know it's definitely a £10 note," 48-year old Ian Morris from Portsmouth, who is blind and gets around with the help of a guide dog, said this week.
"The non-vision impaired community may see the introduction of an inclusive £10 note as something minor, but it's another area where I can organise my own life without having to rely on sighted help."
When the note enters circulation, Austen will be the only woman apart from the Queen to appear on a current UK bank note. The old £5 note, featuring prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, ceased being legal tender on 5 May.
It will be the second to be printed on a plastic polymer, which the Bank has said is cleaner, safer and more hard-wearing than the traditional cotton paper it will replace. The plastic fiver, featuring Winston Churchill, entered circulation last September.
Speaking at the launch of the new £10 note at Winchester Cathedral, where Ms Austen was buried, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney in July said the author, "certainly merits a place in the select group of historical figures to appear on our bank notes."
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Kane retains England starting spot against Kosovo as Southgate makes changes
Kane bagged a hat-trick in Saturday's game against Bulgaria to move to 25 goals for his country.
Gareth Southgate confirmed captain Harry Kane would start Tuesday night's Euro 2020 qualifier against Kosovo, but the England boss will make other changes.
Kane scored a hat-trick in Saturday's game against Bulgaria to move to 25 goals for his country, one ahead of World Cup winner Geoff Hurst.
The Tottenham striker is looking lean this season, having overcome injuries which dogged the build-up to Spurs' Champions League final and the Three Lions' Nations League finals.
Southgate said he would freshen his side up at St Mary's, but Kane will not be one of those dropping out.
"In the end in the summer we decided that he wasn't ready to start so I don't think you can have a player that is undroppable, because that is a dangerous route for any team and it is not a healthy position for a player," Southgate said.
"It is safe to say we won't be dropping him for tomorrow. His level of performance is so high that dropping him would be a rare occurrence."
On his team selection, Southgate added: "We might freshen the team a bit, that will be important.
"We don't need to, everyone is fit and available. We need to make sure we get the balance right.
"We need to get the right attacking an defending profiles to make sure we win the game."
The Three Lions obliterated Bulgaria at Wembley, but Southgate is expecting a different type of game against the surprise package of Group A.
"We are expecting a different sort of challenge to Saturday but one we are looking forward to," Southgate said.
"It will be a very different style of game. Kosovo will be very high pressing, hard working – a more attacking threat than we faced on Saturday.
"Maybe there will be more space to play up front. Whatever we learned from Saturday's game, this is a completely different challenge."
The Three Lions are back on the road, travelling to Southampton for their first game at St Mary's since 2002.
Southgate added: "We're delighted to be coming down to Southampton to play.
"Our experience of taking the team around the country has been positive and we're looking forward to a brilliant atmosphere."
England's form under Southgate – and their impressive start to qualifying – suggests that they will be among the favourites to win Euro 2020 on home soil next summer.
And midfielder Jordan Henderson is keen to add a winners' medal with England to the
Champions League one he won with Liverpool in the summer.
"It would mean a lot, any trophy that I win, I will be over the moon," he said. "That is all I ever want is to win, whether that's at Liverpool or England.
"It means so much to me to win trophies or win as a team.
"To win a trophy in the summer was massive and huge for me and my team, for England that is what we want to achieve. We want to win trophies and be as successful as we can be.
"Hopefully one day we can do that."
Gareth Southgate


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For Facebook, Amazon and Google, we have traded our privacy for something we find useful and put on hold our support for ethical shopping in exchange for the ease of low (or no) price and almost-instant gratification. This month's magazine looks at just how far down the line we are and asks how deeply exploitative and anti-democratic is this new 'surveillance capitalism' under which we now live. This month's contributors include security expert Bruce Schneier, psychologist Robert Epstein and engineer and software activist Prabir Purkayastha.


We are officially 7 days out from when the music begins at this year's 12th annual Sonic Bloom Festival!! I am crazy busy right now but feeling oh so blessed and honored to have been asked to help promote this fabulous fun summer event over the last several months. I wanted to share the updated FULL ART LINEUPS + MUSIC SCHEDULE just released this week + share with you all my top 7 musical picks for this year's festival.
I have always had a hard time with festivals like SONIC BLOOM as the lineups are always ABSOLUTELY STACKED WITH AMAZING TALENT FROM AROUND THE WORLD and it seems nearly to impossible to actually see everything. So this year following my inner voice after continuing to see a lot more of those lucky 777's I mentioned in my prior post "The 7 Lucky Things I learned as an Envision 2017 Intern" I have narrowed it down to ANOTHER LUCKY 7. This is a simple and NON-CONFLICTING list of sets that I hope will provide attendees a well-rounded taste of the SONIC BLOOM festival experience as the acts booked for this year's fest span across a wide range of genres and styles. While I do believe that "genres" are close to obsolete in this style of music environment I also feel that each artist does have a special gift for creating a certain type of musical environment that is different and generally is characterized by certain types of rhythms and sounds, samples used, and particularly specific fan bases.
A unique lineup never before assembled featuring members of 3 pioneering live electronic bands coming together for a one-time very special set of music: Dominic Lalli, Jeremy Salken (Big Gigantic), Michael Kang, Michael Travis, Jason Hann (The String Cheese Incident / EOTO), Marc Brownstein & Aron Magner (The Disco Biscuits).
SO MUCH LOVE TO ALL OF THESE & ALL OF THE OTHER TALENTED & WONDERFUL PERFORMERS COMING TO THIS YEAR'S BLOOM!
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Supreme Court: The fee for filing petitions for review in civil cases and writ petitions within the original civil jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is now $710. The corresponding fee for filing responsive documents is now $390.
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The weekend is almost here! But it's not too soon to plunge into some young adult paranormal fantasy and revel in Irish lore. The Cauldron Stirred, the first book of my Guardians of Erin series, is being featured on N. N. Light's Book Heaven today as part of the ongoing Fall Bookathon. (The second installment, The Stone Awakened, is coming soon!) Read an excerpt from my book, and while you're at it, make sure to enter the giveaway to win a $150 Amazon gift card!
Hope you enjoy the excerpt and your weekend! Good luck with the giveaway!
The kids are back in school, and the weather is shifting toward the blissfully cool temperatures of fall. It's the perfect time to find a new read, and while you're at it, enter for a chance to win a $150 Amazon gift card!
The drawing will be held on October 1. Good luck!


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Beach Preservation Committee Success at the Coastal Commission
On Thursday, March 7, members of the Surfrider San Diego Chapter Beach Preservation Committee and Policy Staff attended the California Coastal Commission Meeting in Los Angeles. The Chapter achieved two important victories for our coastline that have the potential for huge impact in the future.
As always, there were numerous items to be heard by the Commission over its three-day meeting. Of importance to the San Diego Chapter were two applications involving seawalls. One permit requested that an existing seawall serve as protection for a proposed demolition and remain in place to support a new home on the bluff top in Encinitas. The other was a permit application for the construction of a new seawall that would front three properties in Solana Beach.
The construction of seawalls over the last several decades has intensified the thinning of the sandy shoreline at many San Diego beaches. This has a direct impact on surfers and beachgoers across the county. The California Coastal Commission is tasked with the duty of upholding the California Coastal Act of 1976 by ensuring, among other things, that development and maintenance of properties in the coastal zone do not destroy California's precious recreational resources and iconic views. This often means that the Commission has to make difficult decisions affecting people's homes for the greater long-term benefit of the general public. The March meeting was no different.
Application No. A-6-ENC-16-0068, Encinitas
After extended debate, the Commission voted to deny the permit application for the proposed home in Encinitas. The decision is a step in the right direction for finding balance between the rights of homeowners and the rights of the beach going public. The standard of review for the decision was the Encinitas Local Coastal Program and the California Coastal Act, which both indicate that new development cannot rely on existing seawalls for stability. The Coastal Act requires new development to be set back far enough from bluff's edge or the beach so that it will not require coastal armoring in the future. It is the intent that as pre-Coastal Act homes need to be demolished and rebuilt due to age, they will migrate landward, eliminating the need for protective structures and eventually restoring the coast to a natural state. By following the staff recommendation for denial in this instance, the Commission took an important step forward in upholding the intent of the Coastal Act. You can see our letter submitted to the Commission, here.
Application No. 6-18-0288, Solana Beach
Immediately following the conversation regarding the Encinitas development, the Commission considered an application from three property owners in Solana Beach who were requesting a continuous seawall to protect two pre-Coastal Act homes and one home that was constructed in the 1990s. The owners of the newer constructed home knowingly accepted the risk of building their home on the bluff top, closer to the edge than recommended, with the understanding that they would not be legally entitled to protective structures on the bluff front. The commission amended the application, holding that only the two pre-Coastal Act homes were legally entitled to a seawall. The third home was built after the Coastal Act had been adopted and therefore, the homeowners were not entitled to protective devices. Surfrider's written comments can be seen, here.
This is a particularly important decision as it provides a glimmer of hope that there may be a break and reversal in the tide of seawalls that affront the bluffs in Solana Beach. Because many of the homes in Solana Beach were built prior to the implementation of the Coastal Act, large swaths of the bluffs along Solana Beach have been armored to protect the homes above. While the impact of bluff erosion is a very real and present danger for the homeowners, the impacts of coastal armoring on the long-term existence of public access to the beach and bluffs cannot be overlooked. The bluffs in Solana Beach belong to the public and are not the private property of the homeowners. The natural beauty of Encinitas, Solana Beach, and all San Diego beaches is enjoyed by many, beyond the fortunate few who live directly adjacent to the shoreline.
While these properties cover only small pieces of the coast, they have the potential to set major precedent for the future. Surfrider San Diego will continue to advocate for maintaining the natural beauty of the bluffs and beaches of San Diego in accordance with local coastal programs and the California Coastal Act. To watch the full Coastal Commission Meeting, visit the Commission's website here.


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About Caltrans
Caltrans Executive Biographies
Jeanne Scherer
Chief Counsel
Jeanne Scherer is the Chief Counsel of Caltrans Legal, responsible for managing a staff of 148 attorneys and investigators, paralegals, legal secretaries, district claims officers and administrative personnel. The Legal office is the only state office that handles all its own legal affairs, including transactional work and litigation in the State's judicial forums.
The Caltrans Legal office was established on August 22, 1911, by a Governor's Order to handle all matters pertaining to State Highways pursuant to the State Highway Act. Carrying on this proud tradition-the Caltrans Legal Division is regarded as the nation's premier government transportation legal office with locations in Sacramento, Oakland, Los Angeles, and San Diego.
Jeanne has an extensive background in risk management and litigation defense. She began her legal career in the private sector, representing a variety of national and international corporate clients and public entities in general liability and contract litigation. Jeanne joined the Caltrans Legal office as a deputy attorney in 1991 and successfully litigated a number of cases in superior and appellate courts statewide before being promoted to Assistant Chief Counsel in 2006 and Deputy Chief Counsel in 2012. Jeanne is the first attorney to sit on the Caltrans Design Management Board and the Project Delivery Advisory Committee. Jeanne was appointed to Chief Counsel by Governor Jerry Brown on August 18, 2015.
A nationally recognized expert in tort liability and risk management issues, Jeanne has spoken at numerous national conferences and is a member of the Transportation Research Board Committee for Tort Liability and Risk Management, as well as a subject matter expert on a variety of National Cooperative Highway Research Program panels.
Jeanne graduated from the University of California, at Davis (B.A.) and earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.


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Інна Миколаївна Лісняк (26 травня 1978, м. Дніпропетровськ) — бандуристка, дослідниця кобзарства, бандурного мистецтва, виконавець, педагог. Канд. мистецтвознавства (2017), член НСКобУ.,  Лауреат III міжнародного конкурсу виконавців на українських народних інструментах ім. Г Хоткевича (Харків, 2004. II премія, номінація бандурист-інструменталіст).

Життєпис
У 1988–1995 — навчалася у ДМШ № 10 по кл. бандури (викл. Корчевська Р. Й.). В 1995–1998 — навчалася у Дніпропетровському державному музичному училищі ім. М. Глінки по класу бандури (викл. з. пр. культури Овчарова С. В.). У 1998–2003 — навчалася у Донецькій державній музичній академії ім. С. С. Прокоф'єва по класу бандури (викл. Симонова О. М.), здобула кваліфікацію магістра мистецтвознавця. В 2005–2008 — навчалася. в аспірантурі Київського національного університету культури і мистецтв.

З 2008 працює в ІМФЕ ім. М. Т. Рильського НАН України у відділі музикознавства на посаді мистецтвознавця. Протягом 1999–2006 — викладач по класу бандури та вокалу ДМШ м. Донецька (1999–2003, ДМШ № 6) та м. Києва (2003–2006, ДМШ № 15, 28). Створила дитячий ансамбль бандуристів «Веселе коло», який посів II місце на VI відкритому обласному фестивалі «Дзвени бандуро» (Дніпропетровськ, 2002). Перша виконавиця творів сучасних українських композиторів: О. Рудянського, В. Павліковського, М. Лебедь. Виступала із сольними концертами та у складі різних ансамблів в Україні, Фінляндії, Німеччині. У рамках всеукраїнського фестивалю ім. М. Лисенка «Дзвени, бандуро» провела майстер-клас (Ялта, 2009).

Твори
 Академічне бандурне мистецтво кінця ХХ – початку XXI ст. як відображення провідних тенденцій розвитку сучасної української музичної культури: дисс. канд. мистецтвозн.: 17.00.03. "Музичне мистецтво"- Київ, 2017.- 249 с.
 Функції бандури у камерних ансамблях мішаного складу (культурознавчий аспект) // Наукові записки Тернопільського Нац. пед. унів. ім. В. Гнатюка та Нац. муз. академії Укр. ім. П. Чайковського. — № 1(16). — 2006. — С. 49-55. — (Серія: Мистецтвознавство);
 Етапи розвитку бандурного мистецтва // Вісник КНУКіМ: [Зб. наук. праць Київського національного університету культури и мистецтв]. — К., 2006. — Вип. 14. — С. 38-44. — (Серія: Мистецтвознавство);
 Лісняк І. Становлення академізму у бандурному мистецтві XX століття // Сучасні проблеми художньої освіти в Україні. Еволюційні процеси у музичному мистецтві: від минулого до майбутнього [Зб. наук. праць / упор. Б. Чернуха] / Акад. мист-в України, Ін-т проблем суч. мист-ва АМУ. — К.: Муз. Україна, 2006. — Вип. I. — С. 142–150;
 Репрезентування бандурного мистецтва в умовах сучасної культурологічної ситуації (на прикладі творчості О. Герасименко та Р. Гриньківа) // Музичне мистецтво: [Зб. наук. праць / ред. упор. Т. Тукова, О. Скрипник]. — Донецьк: Юго-Восток, 2007. — Вип. 7. — С. 40-51;
 Особливості репертуару бандуристів 50-80-х рр. XX ст. (дискурс-аналіз) // Актуальні проблеми історії, теорії та практики художньої культури: [Зб. наук. праць]. — Міленіум, 2007. — Вип. XIX. — С.204-211;
 Культурологічні аспекти вивчення бандурного виконавства XV–XX ст. // Вісник КНУКіМ: [Зб. наук. праць Київського національного університету культури і мистецтв.]. — Вип. 16. — К., 2008. — С.107-114. — (Серія: Мистецтвознавство);
 Сучасний вимір бандурного мистецтва: Орієнтири ансамблевої творчості // Музична україністика: сучасний вимір: [Зб. наук. ст. на пошану А. Терещенко / ред. упо-ряд. М. Ржевська] — Київ-Івано-Франківськ: Видавець Третяк І. Я., 2008. — Вип. 2. — С.329-335;
 Трансформації виконавської творчості кобзарів-бандуристів на межі XIX–XX століття // Українське мистецтвознавство: матеріали, дослідження, рецензії [Зб. наук. праць / голов. ред. Г. Скрипник]. — К., 2009. — Вип. 7. — С.131-135;
 Характерні особливості розвитку українського бандурного виконав-ства в контексті музично-культурних процесів 1920-х — початку 1930-х рр. // Музична україністика: сучасний вимір: [Зб. наук. ст. на пошану Б. Фільц / ред. упоряд. В. Кузик]. — К.: ІМФЕ ім. М. Т. Рильського НАН України, 2010. — Вип. 5. — С. 232–241;
 Вимогливо й патріотично! (рецензія на диск Галини Менкуш «Струни серця мого»)//УМГ. — 2010. — № 2 (76). — квіт.-черв. — С.7;
 «Дзвени, бандуро!» (До 50-річчя з дня народження Світлани Овчарової) / УМГ. — 2010. — № 3 (77). — лип.-верес. — С.7.Літ.: Ломко О. Концерти — дітям // Світлиця. — 2003. — № 10. — 14 лют.;
 Абрамова Т. И снова в гости к нам… // Росток по-русски. — 2007. — № 57. — с. 10;
 Iung. Musiker aus Kiev zu Gast // Neueste Nachrichten. — 2005. — № 294/53. — 17- 18 dezember. — S. 19.

Дискографія
 CD — Лісняк І. Кришталева мить. — студія РЕМА. — 2006.

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If you have lived in Michigan for any length of time, you know how snowy it gets. In fact, only Alaska, New York, and North Dakota get more days where it snows at least 0.1 inch. Unlike a state like New York, which mainly sees snow accumulations in select areas like Buffalo and Syracuse, Michigan sees regular snow accumulation all throughout the state. Since snow season is upon us, we are going to take a look at the snowiest cities in Michigan, then break it down by region.
As one would expect, the farther you head north, the greater the snow totals get. Nine of the top 10 snowiest cities in Michigan are above the 45th parallel and six are in the Upper Peninsula. Here are the totals, in inches.
Now, let's get a little more local.
It should be noted that all snowfall totals are averages from 1981-2010, which is the most recent data available. Also, if you or someone you know is in need of commercial snow removal services, please contact E.P.M. online or call us at (517) 990-0110 today!


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Most Intolerant Religion
Exposing The Violent and Intolerant Nature of Islam
Errors and Contradictions
Abuses From Muslims
Errancies
ISLAM & SEX
Terrorism and Mass murder
Saudi Arabia: Muslims are leaving Islam For Atheism In Alarming Numbers
[By Sameera Ehteram] Despite the fact that Atheism is considered equal to terrorism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the number of such people is blowing up overnight. In April this year, Saudi Arabia passed a terrorism law declaring all non believers of Islam to be enemies of the state. It was probably random acts like the tweet below…
July 1, 2014 in Op-Ed.
Atrocities against Hindus by Muslim goons in West Bengal
Muslims are told by their homicidal god to fight and kill every Non-Muslim, until the religion is only for Allah alone. It is obligatory for Muslims to kill, rape, loot & murder when they are in power in any Non-Islamic state, to make it a perfect Dar-Ul-Islam, and West Bengal in India is turning a best…
June 6, 2014 in Op-Ed.
Palestinian TV Teaches Kids The Way to 'Jihad Street'
[By Abigail R. Esman] Every day, hundreds of millions of children in more than 120 countries settle in to watch their local versions of "Sesame Street" or similar shows inspired by the Muppet model. They learn to read, to write, to count. They learn about things like "sharing," and "friendship," and how to be kind to others. They learn…
May 24, 2014 in Op-Ed.
Why Muslims lag behind
[Khushwant Singh, Nov 2007] At the recent Book Fair in Delhi there was a stall selling Islamic literature. Friends who went round the stalls told me that among the hottest sellers was Answer to Non-Muslim Common Questions About Islam by Dr Zakir Naik (Madhur Sandesh Sangam). The learned doctor, who has a phenomenal memory when it…
March 20, 2014 in Op-Ed.
Islamic Cleric: Indian Politicians should be more critical of Modi to get certificate of secularism
Imam of city's Tipu Sultan Mosque Maulana Barkati lashed out at Modi for seeking the votes of the Muslim community. He asked Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee to be more critical of Modi in order to prove her secular credentials. He added, "Mamata Banerjee (CM of West Bengal) should be more critical of Narendra Modi (BJP…
Hindu communities in Pakistan are under constant attack
[PCP] Global Minorities Alliance, which fights for the rights of persecuted minority communities the world over, has documented that the discrimination facing communities does not just come in the form of violence on the streets, but also comes through institutional and systematic discrimination in the law courts and in the police stations. "Subsequent Governments have…
Temporary Marriages and Prostitution is allowed in Islam
Few days earlier, we came across a news which said, that a minor Muslim girl (17 years old) from Hyderabad (India) was forced to marry 6 different people by her parents for a good sum of money. As per the police complaint, she accused her parents of selling her off in the name of marriage six…
February 24, 2014 in Op-Ed.
Attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh are Religiously Motivated
[By: M. Sophia Newman] The first month of 2014 was a tough one for Hindus in Bangladesh. Violence raged in over two dozen separate Hindu villages across the country, ending in the murder of two men, the rape of at least five women, and the destruction of many homes, temples and businesses. Typically, the attacks…
USA NGO urges only Muslims to vote for Arvind Kejriwal's party
[Indian Express] Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party, which is already under attack from within and outside, is facing a new quandary from one of its supporters – a non-profit group from US – that has issued an advertisement in a community newspaper appealing the Muslim voters to support the AAP PHOTO: AD URGING MUSLIM VOTERS…
February 6, 2014 in Op-Ed.
Indian Muslims- Are they trustworthy?
[By Sujit Das] "Janani Janma-bhoomischa Swargadapi Gareeyasi." (The Mother and the Motherland are more significant than paradise itself.) – Lord Rama exclaims in Valmiki Ramayana India is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-linguistic country, and Muslims constitute the largest minority group. Though Indian Government gave them enough incentives and provided them facilities to participate fully in…
January 4, 2014 in Op-Ed.
Islamic report: Sharia science proves dogs can't be kept as pets
[Examiner.Com] Putting aside the Islamic scientific proof that the earth is flat, or that Mecca is the center of the universe, the Islamo-centric information and cultural news portal Islam Online (of Doha, Qatar) has reported on Dec. 21, 2013, that Islamic Sharia Law proves scientifically that humans should never keep dogs as pets. Of the millions of websites on the internet, Islam Online ranks as one…
December 26, 2013 in Op-Ed.
Actor Salman Khan Booked:What Makes Muslims So Extremists & Radical
A Muslim from Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh (India) has lodged a complaint against megastar Salman Khan and T.V reality show Big Boss 7 for hurting religious feeling and sentiments of Muslims. Interestingly, when I came to know on what grounds this complain has been filed and under which section of Indian Penal Code, I was less…
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To be a successful soccer player, you need certain skills.
Whether you're just getting started and are beginning to develop your skills or you're a seasoned pro looking to fine-tune your game, solo drills can and should be a big part of your training.
Soccer(football) requires finesse, but it also requires laser like focus, cat like reflexes and pinpoint accuracy.
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So I tested Count and TFIDF for vectorisers (in most cases TFIDF worked better) and played with n-grams (1-4) , min-df, max-df, stop words also provided improvement in performance.
Classification methods on top were: Logistic Regression, Decision Tree (dismal performance), SVM, XGBoosts and Naive Bayes.
SVM had a clear advantage over Linear Regression , Naive Bayes and XGBoost. I spent rest of the time experimenting with values for SVC parameters.
Achieved F1 score on dev input set on Leader Board was up to 0.8569 (with Precision 0.9414).
The code is provided as an attached ZIP with ipub file.
A very simple, yet effective approach based on TF.IDF and character n-grams.
This is the winning system for Task 1.


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How do you determine the phonemes in small phonemic inventories?
Languages with small phoneme inventories such as Pirahã often encourage different constructions of the phoneme system. In the case of Pirahã, it either lacks phonemic velars or phonemic nasals. Are there any metrics to measure which option is more likely?
phonology phonemes
Anthony MilesAnthony Miles
Pirahã has a consonant phoneme that's pronounced [g] in some contexts and [n] in others. (It has no other nasal phonemes, and arguably no other velar phonemes.) So the question here is, "Is this Mystery Consonant really a /g/, or is it really an /n/?"
As a matter of convention, linguists tend to name consonants after their default pronunciation if there is a clear default. According to the Wikipedia article, the Pirahã Mystery Consonant is pronounced [n] after a pause and [g] elsewhere. That suggests that [g] is the default pronunciation, and that we should name the phoneme /g/. And by the looks of it, that's what the linguists who work on Pirahã have done.
For what it's worth, too, it's not terribly uncommon for languages to lack nasal phonemes. Whereas it's quite uncommon for languages to lack velar phonemes: /k/ is the most common consonant across languages. (There are some languages without phonemic /k/, including Tahitian and maybe some varieties of Hawaiian. But it's very, very rare.)
Leah VellemanLeah Velleman
Kind of an aside, but for anyone that is interested, and in case you see this "out in the wild", for the commonality of features linguists will often use markedness, where a marked feature is uncommon and an unmarked feature is common.
– Mark Tuttle
Do you have a source for /k/ as most common consonant? I was under the impression that the distinction belonged to /t/, with Hawai'ian being unusual precisely because it lacks /t/ after a *t > k sound change.
– Aaron
I'm afraid I don't have a source handy, and it's possible I've misremembered. I should have just said that lacking /k/ is rarer than lacking /m/ or /n/ and left it at that. (As for Hawai'ian: most varieties have /k/ but no /t/, but at least one has /t/ but no /k/. I believe the story is that all had *k go to glottal stop, and most but not all then had *t go to /k/.)
– Leah Velleman
Only a tiny number of languages lack nasal phonemes. WALS (combining features 18A and 10A) records a single language with neither nasal consonants or vowels.
– Gaston Ümlaut
Related: linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/342/…
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The six weeks following surgery when you are prohibited from putting basically any weight on your operated leg presents a special set of circumstances. On the one hand, you are tired and recovering and need a lot of sleep and are happy to hang out at home. On the other hand, you have basically been in the house for six weeks straight (in my case, almost four weeks to date) and you are starting to go stir crazy. As a result, I decided to venture beyond my apartment door a few times in the last couple of days to see, what the kids these days call, the outside.
Yesterday I went for my disability evaluation with the MTA Access-a-Ride paratransit program (http://www.mta.info/nyct/paratran/guide.htm). Basically, its an on-demand alternative to standard public transportation which, if I am deemed eligible, I could use to get to my appointments and even to work since wheelchair accessible public transit is not really an option where I live.
The evaluation required that I use an Access-a-Ride bus to visit the evaluation center.
In the wheelchair and used the lift to get into the bus. Once onboard, I was SHOCKED (see shocked face) by how many cables and belts they used to make sure I did not roll around.
My friend Dave helped push me around in the wheelchair. I am really bad with the wheelchair, like bad enough that the nice lady at the evaluation center suggested I take lessons. I get stuck in corners, a lot. I always think of that scene in Austin Powers where he tries to do a three point turn and gets stuck in the hallway. At least I can laugh — otherwise it would be tragic.
I'll hear within 21 days whether I'm eligible for service. Fingers crossed!
My husband and I realized that it had been a long time since we'd taken our dog to the park to run around so on Saturday we bundled up like crazy and Guy wheeled all the way to Fort Greene Park so that Boris could play with his buddies.
After all of that activity, it was nice to have a visit from my husband's Aunt Margaret and cousin Elaine.
They were so kind and brought pastries, bagels and a cake. We relaxed for a while — it has been so nice to have visitors. Since my energy is still FAR lower than it used to be and since my mobility is basically non-existent, I have appreciated that people have been willing to stop by.
This entry was posted in Exercise, Hip Dysplasia, PAO, Recovery, Uncategorized and tagged Access-a-Ride, accessibility, ADA, Brooklyn, dog park, Fort Greene, MTA, paratransit, Wheelchair on January 8, 2013 by dramaticallyhip.
I'm three weeks post op and I wonder why you have to use a wheelchair. I use a walker. I walk around campus with it. Hopefully I have not hurt something. I imagine a wheelchair would be too difficult to handle. My doctor wouldn't even give me one. Do you guys not have a car? Is that why you need the transportation. My mom takes me to school or wherever. Your looking good.
Great questions. We live in NYC and don't have a car so getting around anywhere requires I walk, often long distances. I'm still toe touch weight bearing. I can crutch a block or two but get tired easily and the worst us being out somewhere and getting stuck because you wear out. I only use my walker at my house. The wheelchair made it possible for me to go longer distances. I will stop using the wheelchair at all once I am flat foot weight bearing and can actually get around.


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December 8, 2020 | By John Lorinc
Of course, the Ford government responded with misdirection and a bit of money.
In the wake of David Crombie's weekend resignation from the Greenbelt Council, followed by the rest of its members, Premier Doug Ford and his chief municipal flack, Steve Clark, sought to deflect the former mayor's sharp criticism ("high level bombing") of the Tories' sneaky bid to undermine conservation authorities' ability to protect watersheds from encroaching development.
Look, here's some money for wetlands! And: It was all Crombie's fault for not coming up with a solution… mumble mumble mumble….
Much has been said about the significance of Crombie's gesture. He's long been seen, correctly, as an 'art-of-the-possible' kind of politician, someone who has an instinct for finding the middle ground, and also a public figure, rare in these times, who prefers not to lob rhetorical grenades. Indeed, since the first time I interviewed him, at a food court in Queen's Quay Terminal in the late 1980s, I don't think I've ever once heard him make a sour or snide remark about anyone else in public life.
His decision to throw down the gauntlet invites us to connect many dots, linking a long-ago storm, harbourfront speculation scandals, and the provincial government's failure to equip long-term care homes with the resources they need in a crisis.
The through-line is about the importance of looking upstream.
As I'm sure the majority of Ford's cabinet neither knows nor cares, Ontario's conservation authorities trace their roots to Hurricane Hazel, the devastating 1954 storm that triggered flood surges along the Humber River and Etobicoke Creek, killing 81 people and leaving thousands homeless.
That natural disaster prompted Queen's Park to enact sweeping flood plain protection rules that evolved into a network of conservation authorities with the mandate to manage watersheds as a means of preventing future floods. Ontario, in fact, was known internationally for its progressive approach, which recognized that the relevant locus of flood protection planning is the entire watershed that feeds river systems, such as those that run through Greater Toronto and on into Lake Ontario.
Ignore what's happening upstream, and trouble develops downstream.
This all played out 15 years before Crombie and his reformers arrived at city hall, and it's worth noting that much of his municipal (and subsequent federal) career was devoted to issues that had little to do with watersheds.
But after a series of land speculation scandals around Harbourfront in the mid-1980s, Crombie found himself heading a royal commission and then a trust devoted to reconnecting the city and its heavily polluted lakefront. Those intensive examinations led to a civic a-ha moment that revisited the lesson of Hurricane Hazel. Lake Ontario is a filthy mess, Crombie stressed, because we've degraded the watersheds feeding the seven rivers that drain into the GTA's waterfront.
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So no one should be surprised that Crombie, someone who has been intimately involved with the waterfront and watersheds for 35 years, drew a red line at conservation authorities, which represent the policy bedrock beneath so much that has accrued over the three generations since Hazel inundated central Etobicoke.
There's also a clear philosophical link between sound conservation policy and public health. Both involve rules and investments that consider risk, and the likelihood of future disaster. Many politicians have real difficulty with this kind of thinking. The spending and policy-making is designed to avert, so the political dividends are abstract. It's hard to campaign about something that didn't happen.
Before the pandemic, and indeed back to Rob Ford's term as mayor, the premier has repeatedly demonstrated that he doesn't understand public health. Sure, through COVID-19, he's had to learn, and can now make the right noises, and even front decisions that seem appropriately responsive.
But the disaster in the long-term care sector is in part about a failure of imagination. The Tories' outlook prizes short-term financial efficiencies over long-term risk mitigation, which requires both resources and a willingness to prepare for worst-case scenarios. No one should be shocked that the same crowd that slashed public health and community care budgets pre-pandemic are also incapable of recognizing the preventative role played by conservation authorities, which could be seen as public health agencies tasked with protecting the region's ecosystem.
In the months to come, as politicians of all stripes will be bloviating about "building back better," Crombie's principled resignation serves as a timely reminder about what the pandemic should have taught us: that life-saving systems fail when our governments ignore what's happening at the remote edges of the watershed.
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Brian Moss
Many valid points .. the issue with conservation authorities is 'mandate creep' .. hazard land management, flood management, water quality concerns .. all good .. the growth of definitions of 'natural heritage system' .. the secondment of development lands .. one authority tried to take 10 acres of agricultural lands (in production) from an owner to 'round out' the natural heritage system, the owner could re-forest the lands .. really? Stick to the knitting and we can all get along .. CAs do have a place .. and an important one .. the government is reeling in the mandate creep ..
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I'm not convinced that "mandate creep" is a problem where keeping a liveable environment is concerned. More of a virtue than not.
Patrick Molloy
In the interest of accurate reporting,not all members of the Council resigned.


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Husband accidentally kills elderly wife with car in Rhinebeck
Nina Schutzman
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RHINEBECK – An elderly woman was killed when her husband accidentally struck her with his car, after letting her out so he could find a parking spot on Sunday, said Rhinebeck Fire Department public information officer Henry Campbell.
The elderly woman's name was not released at press time because the "family has not all been advised," said Rhinebeck Sgt. Peter Dunn.
Authorities expect to release her name today, Monday.
The man was treated and released from Northern Dutchess Hospital.
Rhinebeck Fire and Police departments were dispatched for a call of a pedestrian hit by a car in front of 22 E. Market Street at 12:15 p.m., according to a news release.
The investigation is pending, but it appears the car was still in drive, and the driver may have thought it was in reverse, Campbell said. "When the vehicle accelerated, it shot forward" and struck the woman, who was standing in the street and got knocked onto the sidewalk.
When asked about those details, Dunn said, "we have no information about that and it's still under investigation."
The car crashed into the front of the building, which sustained minor damage.
When emergency personnel got to the scene, they "began treating both the injured woman who was struck by the car and the driver who was still inside of the car," the news release stated. "Both victims were transported to Northern Dutchess Hospital where the pedestrian was pronounced deceased."
The car has been impounded and the accident is under investigation by the Rhinebeck Police Department and state police, Dunn said. Assistance was provided by Northern Dutchess Paramedics and the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office.
Nina Schutzman: nschutzman@poughkeepsiejournal.com, 845-451-4518 Twitter: @pojonschutzman


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