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Police arrest five syndicates selling fake COVID-19 certificates at Lagos airport
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The police command at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, has arrested five suspects who allegedly deal in selling fake COVID-19 certificates to people.
Daily Trust reports that the police said two other suspects are still at large.
It was gathered that the suspects, Achibong Idonrenyin, Moses Samuel, Popoola Adewale, Wale Aderele and Abdulmalik Ibrahim, were paraded over the alleged sale of the fake certificate to unsuspecting travelers within the precinct of the airport.
The police commissioner in charge of the airport, Bature Umar, also gave the names of the fleeing suspects as Shehu Imam and Adeola Darlington who work with a cleaning service at the airport.
Briefing newsmen at the airport, he disclosed that the incident occurred on February 19, 2021, at the airport where a British Airways passenger, Michael Osagbogun, was defrauded of the sum of N50,000 for the COVID-19 test.
Umar said that one of the suspects had approached Osagbogun, promising to produce a COVID-19 test negative certificate for him.
He added that two of the suspects, Popoola Adewale and Adeola Darlington, allegedly took the victim to a restroom within the airport where the sum of N50,000 was obtained from him for the 'valid' COVID-19 negative certificate.
Umar explained that one of the suspects took the victim to DAT Cybercafe at No. 4, Oriyomi street, Ikeja where a fake COVID-19 negative certificate was eventually procured for him.
The report said that the victim, who was travelling to London, United Kingdom, was denied boarding when the airline officials detected that he was holding a fake COVID-19 certificate.
The commissioner said the victim immediately raised the alarm, which led to the arrest of four suspects and a guarantor to one of the two suspects at large.
Umar explained that the combined team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Aviation Security (AVSEC), a department in the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), had to lay an ambush for the suspects before they were arrested.
"Upon interrogation, the suspects confessed to the crime and the sum of N50,000, which they obtained from the victim was recovered from them, while the computer used for the crime has been impounded and will be used as an exhibit in the court of law.
"The passenger as far as we are concerned is a victim. He was the one that reported the case to us after he was denied boarding by the officials of the airline. So far, the suspects are providing information that will aid investigation to the police."
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Q: Loading csv with quotes into MySQL I have a csv file with some fields within double quotes, as they contain commas within them. Sample data:
ID, NAME, ADDRESS
1, Tom Jones, "Home, 123 Ave, TX"
2, John Thomas, "Office, 321 St TX"

I tried to follow the steps here, using OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' to load the data to my DB but I keep getting
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'' at line 1

My load command is as follows:
LOAD DATA INFILE
'C:\Users\Craig\Downloads\de1\Data\contacts.csv'
INTO TABLE TEST1.contacts
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
;

What am I doing wrong here?

A: I tried you SQL both in navicat and cmd.exe. I got the same error on cmd.exe as yours, but worked well on navicat. The key is symbol "" on you file path in SQL. You should replace backslash with slash.
Just like this:
LOAD DATA INFILE
'C:/Users/Craig/Downloads/de1/Data/contacts.csv'
INTO TABLE TEST1.contacts
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
;

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Now that the website is back up (happy New Year to you as well support staff thanks for the hard work), I wanted to round the year out on a small, but important aspect of typography — crossbars. A crossbar is usually defined as the horizontal stroke of the letters A and H. Sometimes, the crossbars are lumped into a horizontal stroke or an arm. Although few type people use the crossbar to define the T,F,A,H,E, and sometimes the (capital i); type design purists define the crossbar as only the A and H.
In addition to those who adhere to the broader definition, there are some who don't consider the capital i to have crossbars. The capital i in many serif and slab serif faces contain serifs that although mimic short arms, are just the serifs on the vertical stroke. Nonetheless, as technology moved forward and the typewriter was invented and the era of monospaced typefaces began. Type designers, who now had to fit a M and an capital i together on same width metal blocks faced some challenging issues. A solution was to extend those serifs to make arms or to add arms on the top of san serif faces. This solution fixed the unsightly space and allowed the reader's eye movement to be more fluid. After a few years and due to the popularity of typewriters, people became used to seeing large arms on the capital i and type designers began experimenting with them in their designs. Below is example of the different capital i that appear in typefaces. (monospaced, modern, grotesque, old-style) It is because that adaptation from the original the capital i is not considered is not considered by some to have arms (crossbars).
From here on in, we will be referring to the crossbar in it's purest form — only as the horizontal stroke that connects the A and H. Following the rough guide of the typeface's x-height, the location of the crossbar is dependent on the style of the typeface. Ranging from low x-heights (think art-deco typefaces) to very tall (handwritten and display typefaces) the crossbar usually sits right above the x-height and is slightly thicker than any vertical stroke of that letter. Due to the imperfection of the human eye, the crossbar is never perfectly centered on the x-height. Doing so would cause our eye to see it too low and look slightly of center.
Sometimes crossbar is used interchangeably with arm or horizontal stroke.
Crossbar in a more generalist sense include T,F,A,H,E and sometimes the capital i.
The Crossbars (or arms) on the capital i were a result of the a solution for monospaced typefaces.
Crossbars usually roughly follow the x-height and are usually slightly higher than the x-height.
It's been too long! But today, we will be talking about numerals and the two different types of numerals. The two types are called by many different names, but most commonly known as Lining and Old-Style numerals.
Lining numerals, also known as tabular, ranging, or uppercase numerals (figures) are the typical numerals we see on a regular basis. These numerals are the same proportions as uppercase characters and share the same widths across the numbers. Lining numerals get their secondary name, tabular numerals, due to their use in spreadsheets and other mathematical purposes.
Lining numerals, function the best when utilizing them in a tabular nature. Adding numbers, spreadsheets, and display numbers (such as addresses, licence plates, or any use in which numbers appear by themselves). Below there are both lining numbers and old-style numerals in two different typefaces. The widths of the lining numerals are uniform and play nicely with each other in a table layout. However, when old-style figures are used, there is an apparent breakdown in readability. Ascenders and descenders overlap, widths are nonuniform and due to their descenders, the eye has trouble following the progression of numbers.
After examining the pros of Lining numerals versus old-style, you may be wondering why old-style numerals even exist. Old-style figures are also known by another name, lowercase figures. Where lining numerals fail; old-style thrive — body copy. Lining numerals (also called uppercase) look overbearing in copy just as all CAPITALS LOOK UNSIGHTLY IN PARAGRAPHS OF TEXT. The fix is using old-style figures. Dates, numbers, any use for numbers in a body of copy should be set in old-style numerals. Below is an example of copy where in one paragraph lining numerals are used and the other, old-style.
In the first paragraph, lining or uppercase figures are used and the numerals appear quite large. However, in the second paragraph old-style or lowercase figures are used and blend well with the copy. Just like using words set in all capital letters in body copy, using tabular numerals is a big no-no.
Use Lining numerals for spreadsheets and when they are used by themselves.
Strokes and stems, strokes and stems, gotta have me some strokes and stems. In my type that is… And that is what we will be talking about today. Let us start off talking about stems.
In typography, a stem is a vertical, full-length stroke in upright characters (ie. L, H, f, l , h,P, etc.) As long as the vertical stroke reaches it's appropriate x-height, cap-height, or ascender height, it is considered a stem. When attempting to identify the stem on a particular character, it will help associating the character with a plant. Just as a plant has a stem which the leaves, branches and flowers originate, so does the parts of the letter. For example, the lower case h. The strong vertical line acts as a base in which the shoulder of the h connects to.
A stroke is the main diagonal line in letters and the stem is the main vertical line.
Letters such as: h, n, k, l, L, H, K, R, etc have stems.
Letters such as: W,Z, N, M, z, x, v, etc have strokes.
Like our biological eyes, typographic eyes come in all shapes and sizes and color (think paper color)! In typography, an eye is a special counter reserved for the lowercase e.
There is something special about the lowercase e and why it gets a special name.
One reason is back in the early days of printing, there were several factors to consider when preparing your design. Poor paper quality, inks, and presses made choosing an appropriate typeface even more important than it is today. It is with that in mind, typesetters would look at the eye (counter) of the e to insure that it would be large enough to prevent ink blotting (or filling in).
Typically, the more readable a typeface is, the larger the eye of the e.
Now arriving at the Terminal. It is now okay to use approved typographic devices. Terminals, in typography, are the finishing element to a stroke that does not contain a serif. There are a few different types of terminals such as: ball (lachrymal), beak, and teardrop. Below is an example of teardrop terminals.
Teardrop Terminals are named so due to their resemblance to actual teardrops (duh, right?) Commonly seen on a,c,f,j,r, and y.
Ball Terminals, also called Lachrymal Terminals, are named so due to their round terminals. Found in many modern typefaces (think Bodoni), ball terminals are seen in all the same letters as teardrop terminals.
Finally, Beak Terminals (pictured below) are terminals often found on the uppercase T, E, and L in most serif typefaces. They can also be found on older humanistic typefaces that have sharp calligraphic terminals. Beak terminals are associated with their jaunting, sharp spurs.
Although Beaks are sometimes considered their own entity and not a terminal, most often they are considered one.
Look for identifying terminals through a,c,f,j,r, y, E, L, T and you should be able to categorize them as beak, ball, or teardrop.
It's been a few weeks since my last post, but I want to get back on top of it, so here we go! Today we are diving right into counters. In typography, counters are the partially or fully enclosed space in a letter. Counters come in all shapes and sizes and, because of that reason, play an important part in legibility.
Due to the large, open counters that give a typeface a portion of it's legibility a direct byproduct is usually a taller x-height to accommodate the larger counters. Taller x-heights (usually) result in an overall increase in legibility, thus causing a direct correlation between counters and x-height. Finally because the majority of the letters we read are lowercase, the overall effect is a positive step in gaining better legibility.
Below is an example of a typeface with small counters and a typeface with large counters. When set in body copy, it is easy to see how typefaces with larger counters (therefore larger x-heights) are more legible.
Counters have a direct impact on x-height and because of that, impact the overall legibility of the typeface.
Counter: the partially or fully enclosed space in a letter. Examples include a,b,c,d,g,o,p,q.s,A,B,C,D,G,O,P,Q,R, and S.
To the next topic that is! Today we are discussing leading (pronounced led-ing). Leading also known as line spacing gets it's name from the days of metal type in which typographers would physically insert thin pieces of lead between lines of type to achieve the desired spacing. In digital typesetting, this is done automatically; however, can (and usually should) be adjusted manually for the optimal legibility. The default standard is 120% of the type's point size. Meaning, if the type is set in 12pt then the leading is 14.4pt. If the type is set in 10pt then the leading is 12pt or in shorthand 10/12.
Leading is measured from baseline to baseline and that extra space is important to let our eyes not only rest, but stay focused on the current line. If the type is set 12/12 (also called set solid) it can be difficult to read.The ascenders and descenders seem to mash together causing our eyes to jump lines.
Before auto leading, text blocks were normally spaced with 2 extra points of lead. Whether it was 8/10, or 10/12, or 12/14 the 2 points of space would allow our eyes to stay on the line and provide even color space to the page.
With the advent of digital desktop publishing, software took control of auto leading. Using the spacing standard of 120% of the type's point size, this formula works well on a large variety of sizes from small to medium sizes. As with all automatic type tools, some manual adjustments need to be made (especially at large point sizes.
Finally, type that is set too loosely can be difficult to follow as well. As I am sure most of us were trained in school about double spacing, this is not good for legibility (that trend was for teachers to correct things in between the lines. How it became the standard is beyond me.) It forces the eye to search for the next line and causes a washed out color when set in large bodies of copy.
Leading, also known as line spacing, is measured from baseline to baseline and is important to the overall color of the page.
10/12: Shorthand for 10 point type with 12 points of leading.
120%: The digital standard for auto leading. This works well until large point sizes.
So now does that mean if someone sets a title in 72 point type the letters will be 1 inch high? No. As counterintuitive as it sounds, 72 point letters will not be an inch tall. Looking back at the post Typography 101, letters reside in an em square. If the type size is set to 72 points the em square will be 72 points high. Meaning, from the descender to the ascender roughly 72 points or 1 inch. I say roughly because although the type designer lays out the type in the square, it doesn't necessarily mean he/she used all the space within for their ascender and descender (including the overshoots). 95% of the time; however, the line height of a 72 point typeface will be an inch high. For example, highlighting the em square in the background, one can see where the baseline , cap-height and the descender are in relation to the overall square.
Although 72pt is equal to an inch, 72 point letters are not an inch tall, but the line height usually is.
pica: (pronounced pie-ka) A unit of measurement corresponding to 12 points or 1/6 of an inch.
Every character resides in an imaginary square called an Em Square. An Em Square is an imaginary square container that contains a coordinate system that directly correlates to the point size of the typeface (ie. If the typeface is set in 12pt then the em square will also be 12pt) The square is a direct descendant of the golden(or should I say lead) age of metal type. In metal type, each character sits on what is known as the body. All bodies must be the same height, from the capital M to the lowercase i in order to maintain straight lines. Looking at the metal type below, the individual letters all line up thanks to their body heights being the same.
Although there are differences in width (the metrics of individual characters in modern typefaces will be discussed later), highlighted by the blue boxes, the heights remain the same.
So every character resides in this imaginary square and within this square there are imaginary lines. Makes sense right? Well, first they aren't necessarily imaginary, but they are invisible. Altogether these invisible lines make up what is known as the typeface's metrics. A typeface's metrics set the parameters such as the height of the capital letters, the lower case, and more. Let's look at an example of a typeface's metrics. Below is the word Typography in Adobe Garamond Pro Regular with visible lines representing where the typeface's metrics(invisible lines) are.
Starting with the baseline, the baseline is the invisible line where all characters sit. Think of it as the blue line on ruled paper. Next we have the x-height. the x-height is named after the character height of the lowercase x. All lowercase letters are as tall as the x-height (sans overshoots, but that will be discussed later on) Another obvious name is the cap-height, which is the height of the uppercase letters in the given typeface. Finally we get to the ascender and the descender. The Ascender is the height of the lowercase letters that have a portion of their letter reaching above the cap-height such as: b,d,f,h,k, and l. The descender is the portion of the lowercase letters that extend below the baseline such as: g,j,p,q, and y.
All Typefaces are based on an em square that contains metrics which are invisible lines that set the height of all the elements within a typeface.
em Square: An invisible square that contains the coordinate system for a given typeface and point size.
baseline: An invisible line where all characters reside.
x-height: the height of the lowercase x in a given typeface.
cap-height: the height of the capital x in a given typeface.
Descender: the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline.
Ascenders: the portion of a letter that extends above the cap height.


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Jose de Jesus Davila Duenas 21
Manuel Davilla Duenas 31
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Manuel Lopez Guardado 21
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2. ACLU. Race and Ethnicity in America: US Violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. December 2007 pg. 37
3. Commission de.la Verdad y Reconciliacion. 28 August 2003
4. Committee on Migrant Workers. Report of Ecuador.
5. Committee on Migrant Workers. 7th Session. Geneva, 26 – 30 November 2007
6. Dignity and Justice for All. Human Rights Day. 10 December 2007
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10. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. 4 January 1969
11. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families. 1 July 2003
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1. Jorge Lopez is entitled to be reinstated to his job as an installer with Time Warner. He has a wife and children to care for. He was employed in the capacity of installer for three months and was then laid off for, "not speaking English". It is true his English is accented but it is understandable to anyone with a legitimate purpose and he is able to perform his job. Shortly before he was laid off Jorge installed the Internet in my new apartment. Because we had to wait for the landlady to deliver the key we had a lengthy conversation in Spanish and he gave me his email address and is subscribed to my newsletter that I hope he will use to perfect his English. When the decomposed bodies of four Mexican workers were found dead on the 133h of December, the day Time Warner was involved in the theft of two emails and I received a Christmas card from Time Warner that said, "the elves ate my cookies" and the Committee on Migrant Workers served the 7th Session held from 26 to 30 November 2007, I contacted Jorge.
2. Jorge had expressed concern for grave violation of human rights tried by the Commission de la Verdad y Reconciliacion of 28 August 2003 in his native country of Peru, that is now free of both revolutionary and government terrorism and their former dictator Fujimori is newly in jail, apparently justly although I hope not for long because people have to respect the indignity of having to go to their own trial for a long time, so I thought he would be interested. He responded to thank me for the kindness of reporting the news in his interest but informed me that he had been laid off after 3 months. I am therefore writing this complaint under Arts. 7, 9 & 55 of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families of 1 July 2003 to ensure non-discrimination with respect to rights whereas workers who have been granted permission to engage in a remunerated activity, subject to the conditions attached to such permission, shall be entitled to equality of treatment with nationals in the exercise of that remunerated activity and that the right to life be protected by law. Jorge's English has not gotten worse since he was hired. He is perfectly able to perform the duties he was hired to do and is entitled to equal treatment with people who speak only English working for Time Warner.
3. I am sure that Time Warner will reconsider their decision to lay off Jorge whereas it is obvious that their seemingly harmless media born discrimination caused the community to leave the protection of the Convention on Migrant Workers to witness the horrors opposed by the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 4 January 1969. Art. 1(1) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination mandates the eradication of racial discrimination. The article defines racial discrimination as "any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life." The definition of racial discrimination includes indirect discrimination. The test of discrimination is whether actions have an "unjustifiable disparate impact" upon a minority group. Thus member states must ensure that racial equality exists both de jure and de facto, and extends to citizens and non-citizens alike. ACLU. Race and Ethnicity in America: US Violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. December 2007 pg. 37
4. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported, they lived a sparse existence, sleeping on mattresses on the floor with little other furniture in an apartment that fetches about $700 a month. The men worked for Abc Precision Masonry & Concrete Inc. in Mason and hadn't shown up since Dec. 4. For the past two years, the men could be seen getting into a car and dutifully heading off to work before 8 a.m. each day. Around the large complex, they were simply known as "The Mexicans." Sharonville police were asked to do a wellness check on the four men, found themselves in the middle of a crime scene. The bodies of the men were found in their apartment, heavily decomposed. One was found in the hallway inside the unit, the others in two of the bedrooms. The deaths of the men at the Timber Ridge Apartments were homicides, Hamilton County Coroner O'dell Owens said. Owens did not release the identities of the men but said they were Hispanic. Both he and police suggested that it would take time to track down families. There were signs of violence and struggle, police said. Early indications suggest that the men were stabbed to death, not shot. The deaths are the second, third, fourth and fifth homicides for the city of roughly 14,000 residents this year. Last year was homicide-free. Investigators are looking for a purple Plymouth Voyager minivan with Ohio license plate EFL 6029 thought to have been owned by one of the men. The similarity between the license plate number between the Time Warner "Elf" Christmas card and my phone number 513-281-3029 and two telemarketing calls, is too glaring to ignore the smoke pouring out of Canon 1 pertaining to the integrity and independence of the judiciary of the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct and the gaping hole in the Feliz Navidad indicating an unjustified disparate impact on the Spanish speaking community.
5. The Committee on Migrant Workers encourages State parties to take the necessary measures to guarantee to migrant workers and members of their families the right to form, and to form part of the executive bodies of, associations and unions, in accordance with article 40 of the Convention as well as with ILO Convention n° 87 concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise for the promotion of sound, equitable, humane and lawful conditions in connection with international migration of workers and members of their families. In Cincinnati and all of Ohio there was a massive crackdown on immigrants that made a significant impact on the immigrant population. The immigrant community was never very large in Ohio and therefore not able to effectively organize in response to the crackdown on undocumented aliens. As the result of the Sheriff led anti-migrant politics a significant percentage of the immigrant community was disappeared, ostensibly by deportation, now it is very rare to see a Latino or migrant on the street. A legitimate political organization is definitely needed to defend the rights of migrant workers and their employers in Ohio that is capable of reviewing all the deportation decisions, organizing labor and cutting through the red tape and bribery of Citizenship Immigration Service and reporting on the statistics pertinent to the immigrant community in Ohio counties under Emiliano Gonzalez, Director US Citizenship and Immigration Service v. Alberto Gonzalez, Attorney General HA-11-4-06
6. What seems to have occurred is that Jorge's supervisor, inspired by a debate in the newspapers regarding the EEOC's position on English-only policies that is set forth in its "Guidelines on Discrimination Because of National Origin" at 29 C.F.R. § 1606.7, and perhaps indirectly by the racial discrimination of the local judiciary, came to the conclusion that it is not a violation of to fire Mr. Mendez for "not speaking English". The Guideline states, if an employer adopts a rule requiring employees to speak only English "at all times" in the workplace, the EEOC "will presume that such a rule violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits national origin discrimination, and will closely scrutinize it" exceeded the protection of the convention. Whereas I spoke Spanish with Jorge, while he was working, so shortly before he was fired, I bear responsibility for his violation of the rule against speaking Spanish in the workplace. I am also guilty of using the wrong US mailbox on Court St on the 3rd although the cemetery of their victims may be more populated than their jail. There had been a great deal of discussions in the press at the time regarding these guidelines and without the guarantee of an independent judiciary, the supervisor made a rash decision, that we now hope to redress.
7. Title VII lawsuits are filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the latter may refer cases to DOJ. DOJ typically receives 500 referrals per year, and after review, files suit on about 10 to 14 of them. These cases are brought under the disparate treatment theory, which requires the plaintiff to prove intent to discriminate. If an employer has a rule requiring that employees speak English "only at certain times," the EEOC will consider the rule permissible only if it can meet the stringent standard of "business necessity". While Mr. Mendez's English is not exactly fluent he is perfectly able to perform the duties he was hired for. Jorge can hold a polite conversation, discover the whereabouts of the cable box, fill out the forms and report the numbers to the dispatcher. It would seem that the enforcement of English only rule by Time Warner exceeds the standard of "business necessity".
8. It is hoped that Time Warner will rehire Jorge to redress the racial discrimination that they did not intend to take part in, without further ado. To bury the Mexicans with dignity it is hoped to petition the Department of Justice via the EEOC and report their names to the press after having verified if they were also victims of a falsification of records at the Hamilton County Clerk's Office. To defend the secrecy of Cincinnati Time Warner Cable from future infringement of the judiciary Time Warner is referred to the counsel of Cincinnati Regional State Treasury Rep. Terry Tranter Esq. whereas the secrecy of correspondence is every bit as sacred as bank secrecy. Thus we seek the reinstatement of Jorge Lopez to his job as Time Warner Cable installer, so we would all be dismissed from the Court for Christmas.
Sanders, Tony J.
Title24uscode@aol.com
Jorge Lopez
jflopezmendez@yahoo.com
info@ask.eeoc.gov (not working)
Eileen Kelley, Cincinnati Enquirer
ekelley@enquirer.com
Terry Tranter Esq., Cincinnati Regional Treasury Representative
terry.tranter@tos.ohio.gov
Senator Eric Kearney
Senatorkearney@maild.sen.state.oh.us
Committee on Migrant Workers
tbru@ohchr.org
Dear Anthony:
Thanks for your help, i didn't expect it. Your words make me feel better, i worked like a cascom inc. contractor time warner since the firts week of september until the december 6th. Friday 7th i arrived the office looking for my work routes, like everyday and i got the big surprised that i didnt have any, and the manager called me to the office, and he told me that i wasnt eligible to work at time warner anymore, when i asked why he answered '...because of your english'. this new made me feel bad in many ways, but im conscious that i dont speak english good enough and he asked me if i still wanted to work in the office of cascom and that i couldnt go to the field, since time warner doesnt aloud this. and that he gives me that opportunity because he consideres me as a good worker. Because i didnt have any other choice i agreed. i have to recognize that i miss the field since my skills are of a cable and telephone technician. i am honest and conscious of my bad english, but i consider that the most important thing is communicate with the clients, and i could do so in all of my jobs and 98%of all the clients i worked with were very satisfied with my job. time warner was very harsh with me according to my own opinion, without a previous warning they fired me, as you see i was very confused and if you think you could help me, i would be very glad and thankful. I wouldn't like to have any problems with them either. Feliz Navidad and i hope to hear from you soon, and again thank you very much.
Jorge F. Lopez


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One joy of going to Jacob Lake in the past was the lake where you could go fishing or take a quick swim.
Twenty-one Native American high school students from 10 high schools and four tribes received training in mass media while attending the 6th annual Andy Harvey Native American Broadcast workshop June 18-24 in Flagstaff.
The Weatherford Trail may not have been the smartest trail to start with this summer. The trail is considered strenuous.
After performing at the Flagstaff Blues and Brews Festival June 10, guitarist Mike Howard was recognized for being in the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame.
After 35 years working in the Bay area in California, Judith Namoki came home to Tewa Village to help her dad, but now, as coordinator of the elderly program at Tewa Village, she wants to help the community.
Ophelia Goatson wants to help children and families. She said the way to get there is through education.
Dennis Williams, a former Hopi Junior High math teacher, returned to the school with a geography lesson.
The Hopi Jr/Sr High School Governing Board voted to give contracts for next school year to seven administrators and 40 of 42 high school teachers.
Students attending the Hopi Jr/Sr High School Youth Summit were able to attend sessions ranging from dealing with drugs and alcohol to preventing suicide and using their Hopi and Navajo cultures to improve their lives.
Deanna Bogart, an international blues performer, created a magical ark of music with Hopi High music students while spending the week at Hopi High last week.
Three Hopi High media students toured a high school radio station in Seattle on their way to the National High School Journalism Conference at the Seattle Convention Center. C89.5 FM plays electronic dance music.
Thirty students from the West Metro Educational Program (WMEP), an ethnic studies program from the Minnesota area, visited Hopi High School April 4 for a cultural exchange.
Major Marella Big Mountain, professor of Aerospace Studies for the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, along with Embry-Riddle students, visited Hopi High to tell them what the university has to offer them.
Katrice Puhuhefvaya, a Gates Millennium Scholarship winner out of Hopi High School, is having a successful freshman year at Northern Arizona University (NAU).
Nine Hopi High media students learned about college media programs while attending the Arizona Latino Media Association (ALMA) Conference at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication March 3.
Hopi Jr/Sr High School Dean of Students Charlene Youvella wants a positive behavior program in place that would help students make better decisions, including staying away from drugs and alcohol.
Paul Sidney was recently named Hopi police chief after Jamie Kootswatewa received a promotion to the Phoenix Bureau of Indian Affairs Police Department.
Hopi Jr/Sr High School (HJSHS) received pointers on how to improve its special education services during a special governing board meeting with Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) officials March 1 in the Hopi Jr/Sr High School Governing Board's conference room.
Hopi High girls basketball team made it to the Sweet 16 before falling to second ranked Leading Edge Academy, 72-41, in the state playoffs at the Prescott Valley Events Center.
Hopi High School won a thrilling 52-51 victory against Morenci in a girls "play-in" basketball game to win a spot in the state playoffs.
The Hopi Opportunity Youth Initiative (HOYI), an arm of the Hopi Foundation, has formed a partnership with Hopi High School's AVID program to show support for students.
Jason Lobik, Hopi High School's new principal, said his main goals are filling any vacancies, getting acclimated to the school and building relationships with the staff and students.
Ivan Sidney, recently appointed president of the Hopi Jr/Sr High School Governing Board, recounted how the school was built in the 1980s so Hopi children would no longer have to go off the reservation for their education.
After attending Tribal Nations Day, five Hopi High media students went to Arizona State Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication where they learned about digital, print, broadcast and photography programs by working with ASU students.
Hopi High swept Round Valley in girls and boys basketball games Jan. 14 at Hopi.
Arizona State Sen. Jamescita Peshlakai's goal is to get more funding for public education and that means holding Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to his words during the State of the State address that he would push for better funding for public education.
Arizona Sen. President Steven Yarbrough and House Speaker J.D. Mesnard gave opening remarks welcoming tribal leaders to the 22nd annual Indian Nations and Tribes Legislative Day by recognizing the contributions the tribes have made to Arizona.
Taylor Seechoma tallied a game high 18 points as Hopi edged Pinon, 56-51, in girls high school basketball Jan. 3 at Pinon.
Laurel Poleyestewa, who will take her seat on the Hopi Jr/Sr High School (HJSHS) Governing Board in January, said she wants to make sure the school has a curriculum, make sure that the teachers are certified and see how the budget relates to students' needs.
Hopi High School is getting closer to having a new principal.
Twenty-five students from Keams Canyon Elementary School received toys for the holidays, thanks to the Hopi High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program.
At Arizona Highways, the Hopi High students looked up at the editor's wall where they could see all 60 pages laid out for the next edition.
Nine Hopi High media students attended Phoenix Suns Journalism Day, took tours of Spot 127 and Arizona Highways as they learned about sports media, videography, magazine writing and editing.
Seventeen Hopi Jr/Sr High School teachers and staff who served as veterans were honored Nov. 10 during a schoolwide assembly hosted by the school's Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC).
Evaluators gave Hopi Jr/Sr High School staff and emergency responders high marks for their actions during an active shooter drill Nov. 2. However, they did say there is room for improvement, which was a reason for the drill.
The Legend continues to grow. Hopi High School Coach Rick Baker has been tagged with the nickname of The Legend after leading the Bruins to a national and state record 26 straight boys championships.
In April the Hopi Tribal Council passed an ordinance addressing the problem of loose dogs roaming around the Hopi Reservation, an effort that has been underway since 1977.
POLACCA, Ariz. — Duane Uses Arrow, a former chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, joined a Hopi group that made the trek to Standing Rock to show support for that tribe's battle against a pipeline that could contaminate the water supply.
On Nov. 2, the Hopi Junior and Senior High School Governing Board have voted to have an active shooter simulation drill. The board took action Sept. 13 during its regularly scheduled meeting. In addition to board members and administrators, over a dozen visitors attended the meeting.


In Chicago, the new Maggie Daley Park and Chicago Riverwalk exemplify the trend for cities to build high-profile works of landscape architecture to spur reinvestment in historic urban cores. In this era of decreased federal and municipal funding for such projects, private investment is increasingly called upon. As a result, and as a range of new spaces in Chicago demonstrate, the landscape architect has emerged as a mediator between commercial interests and civic responsibilities.
The opening of the Chicago Riverwalk coincides with an increase in tourism and recreational activity.
Commercialization overpowers Chicago's civic aspirations at the "The Marina Plaza".
By removing barriers next to the water's edge, designers encourage direct engagement with a cleaner Chicago River.
But whose renaissance is it? Who is returning? It is urgent to frame these spaces historically and geographically to take stock of the effects recent works are having on the spatial, social, and ecological dimensions of American cities. Reframing the urban as a multi-scalar process producing historically specific moments of urbanization, not just a politically bounded aggregation of individual objects, helps productively complicate this popular narrative.
It eventually became Grant Park and its status as an open and free space is protected by law. Likewise, an ethos of publicness pervades Burnham and Bennett's 1909 Plan of Chicago, which to this day has an astonishing influence on local planning and design decisions.
Urbana-Champaign, Michael Van Valkenburgh proposed a thesis investigating aspects of children's play in Urbana's Carle Park. Thirty-six years later and 130 miles northward, his trademark passion is unmistakable in the colorful carnival of custom-designed children's playground equipment at the new Maggie Daley Park. The topographically rich 28-acre park, which opened in December 2014, is already a premier regional destination for families with young children. Connected by Frank Gehry's BP Pedestrian Bridge to the west, it is an accessible counterpoint to Millennium Park.
For more information on the Riverwalk and Maggie Daley Park, read on in Topos 94 – City Visions.


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About Rob
Rob Lewis
Walking to the Restoration
A few months ago, the word restoration took up residence in my mind and began setting roots there. In the manner of an oak in a field, it rose above the other words around it, kin to wider things, like the horizon and the earth's turning. It was sure of itself, this word, spreading in a constellation of directions, commanding my thoughts, bearing the energy and authority of something whose time has come.
Perhaps what drew me is what it's not – new or technological. Restoration is no one's innovation. It's also not 'environment', a word I find problematic. If the aim of a word is to speak for its subject, to lend an appropriate feeling for it, environment fails. Try as it might, it can't reach beyond its political confines into the depths of the actual living world. Instead, it functions like an ideological marker, partitioning people onto one side or another of an increasingly dangerous divide. Perhaps it's the vacuum left in the wake of this unfortunate word that allows restoration to emerge so succinctly, to be the oak in the clearing.
The more I circled it, the more it revealed its universality. There is no end to what you can restore. In addition to land, you can restore health, trust, balance, justice, democracy, civility, vision: all of which seem broken today. You can restore a river and you can restore a Model T. A farmer distrustful of 'environmentalism' might welcome a conversation about restoring fertility to his or her soil. A building contractor may not think he has much in common with an 'environmentalist,' but both might equally appreciate the craft in an old Victorian home, and agree the building should be restored. With restoration, political identity becomes a little less predictive, its borders more porous.
It also has a bridge-like quality. You can imagine divergent peoples meeting at the middle of such an intention, approaching it from different directions but agreeing on its suitability, its rightness. It could sit as easily in a conservative conversation as a liberal one and, in today's fractured world, that is no small thing.
One day, while walking down a country road I made it a noun and capitalized it. I called it 'the Restoration': a coronation it accepted rather nobly, I thought. Now I felt myself apprehending more than a resonant phrase, but a potential human era, an organizing principle capable of competing with capitalism itself, as though its natural successor. Is that too grandiose? A few feet overhead, a sharp-shinned hawk floated over, the scalloped dark and light design on the undersides of its wings clearly discernable. The soundlessness of the passage stopped me. Whether coincidence or not, I felt an affirmation. Nature approved, I decided, and kept walking.
That journey soon took a more practical turn when I came across a notice about the Global Earth Repair Conference taking place near where I live in the northwest corner of the US Pacific Northwest. The conference promised a four-day exploration into every imaginable aspect of restoration, and I signed up immediately.
Looking for a broad overview, The first sessions I attended were 'Earth Repair in India', delivered by Rajendra Singh – known as 'the water man of India' – and 'Earth Repair in Africa', by Precious Phiri.
Singh is credited with bringing water back to over a thousand villages and resurrecting numerous dried-up rivers throughout some of India's most desiccated landscapes. Though he started out doing medical work, he was challenged one day by an indigenous farmer who told him that if he really wanted to help the villagers he would bring them water. Then this farmer explained to him the old ways of harvesting the rains; ways largely undone by subsequent British colonial rule. The principle was simple: hold the rainfall on the land, not with industrial-scale dams, but small, traditional catchments called check dams, or johads. Once held, the water would drain down, recharging aquifers, feeding vegetation and calling back long lost weather patterns.
It worked, almost magically, as it had worked for centuries before the British imposed centralized engineering. Not only did the old methods restore land previously barren, they also prevented flooding, moderated droughts and cooled the local climate by a rather auspicious 2oC. In time, forgotten rivers began flowing again, and young people, who had fled the region, began returning. Villages revived, farming resumed, wildlife reappeared.
Phiri's presentation, 'Earth Repair in Africa', began like Singh's, with photos of cracked and barren landscapes. Then pictures of the miracle: chest-high pasture grass, wildlife browsing, children playing in a river. Like Singh, Phiri didn't bring new knowledge, imposed from outside, but instead restored something pre-existent which had been lost. In this case, it was the once-teeming herds of wildlife, ungulates such as zebra and wildebeest, which had fertilzsed and hoof-tilled the landscape for millennia. Phiri and her team, using grazing techniques pioneered by Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory, began moving cattle in patterns similar to the ancient herds, to which the land responded exuberantly, as though remembering itself. Forgotten shrubs and grasses appeared again, and, as in India, a local river once thought extinct started to flow.
Along with wildlife, human culture returned too. Cow herding had lost status against the advance of technology, coming to be considered work for high school dropouts. But as the land returned to health, more and more young people showed up, wanting to learn the trade.
I could have also attended 'Reforesting Scotland', 'Mycorrhizal Fungi and Jamaica', 'Wetland Restoration with Ranchers in Harney Basin, East Oregon', 'Agroforestry in the Pacific Northwest', 'Earth Repair after Hurricanes', 'Earth Repair in War-Torn Areas', and would probably have heard the same basic story, in which not only is the land renewed, but so are the people, and the relationship between them. But it was 'Ecosystem Restoration for Climate' that caught my attention. I'd brought a question with me, and I was hoping this panel might answer it. The question, or questions, went something like this: If climate projections are modelled on a current baseline of ruined landscapes, biocidal farming and collapsing ecosystems, what would they predict on a planet that was healthy, or being restored to health? Doesn't the Earth have a say in this?
Apparently, I wasn't the only one with questions. The room was packed and I found a place against the wall with about twenty others. A panel of eight presenters from various parts of the world had been pulled together; most Skyped in remotely.
Professor Millán M. Millán, who began his career as an aeronautical engineer (and who also happened to design the metal detectors we pass through at airports) got things started by referencing a 1971 MIT publication called Inadvertent Climate Modification. This early scientific treatise on climate change reflected what the modern climate narrative seems to have forgotten: that there is more to climate than the build-up of carbon gases. There is also a local and regional basis moderated by hydrologic cycles. In fact, the most significant driver of climate, both in terms of heating and cooling, by volume and weight, isn't CO2 but H20, water. It affects climate in all its various phases: as a potent greenhouse gas, as heat-reflecting ice and cloud, through the cooling by evaporation, amongst others. 'Back then,' he said, 'the idea was that there were two legs to the climate, one being carbon gases and the greenhouse effect, the other land use and hydrology, because whenever you alter land surface you immediately change critical hydrologic cycles, from very small-scale to very large.' And that profoundly affects climate.
This was news for me. In years of climate activism, I had never heard much about land use – urbanization, industrial agriculture, deforestation and the like – or the hydrologic cycle. It was always about atmospheric carbon. Millan wasn't dismissing atmospheric carbon, it was just that for him the carbon that mattered most was the carbon in the soil and vegetation, for through them ran the prize – water.
'Water begets water, soil is the womb, and vegetation is the midwife', continued Millán. Apparently, when scientists go down the restoration road, they start talking like poets. Unlike the common perception that rain originates over large water bodies like lakes and oceans – which to some degree it does, depending on the location – it mostly develops and regenerates itself over living landscapes, via hydrologic cycles which are profoundly local, cycling through watersheds large and small. 'Clouds begin in the ground', he said, calling to mind what Singh and his indigenous guide accomplished in India. Through various, local means of holding water on land, they 'planted' future clouds in the ground and eventually 're-grew' lost rain patterns, cooling their local climate as they did so. Not surprisingly, in India they say 'water is climate, climate is water.'
Vegetation is the midwife because it delivers moisture from the soil to the atmosphere via transpiration, thus feeding the formation of clouds. Like this, plants help water propagate itself through soil, landscape and atmosphere, cooling all three on its journey. We've seen in India and Zimbabwe that rain can be convinced to return to an area it seems to have abandoned. Millán is now working to re-establish lost summer storms over arid regions of the Mediterranean, which in Roman times were wetlands. He hopes to accomplish this with the strategic planting of woodlands. Since rain there is now scarce, he must hold what little falls on the land as long as possible. The means for this is soil, but not just any kind will do. It has to be living soil, capable of creating what he called the 'soil sponge'.
Didi Pershouse, a soil sponge strategist, author and educator, described the soil sponge as 'the basic infrastructure that makes life on land possible.' She demonstrated with a plate heaped with dry flour. The flour represented the degraded soils of modern agricultural, heavily tilled and chemically sterilised. She poked holes in the bottom of a cup to simulate rain and 'rained' over the flour. The water slid off as if repelled, or carved deep gouges and ravines, before flooding the plate. What remained resembled a classically eroded landscape.
Then she did the same onto three slices of bread. The bread represented living soil, or soil 'leavened' with carbon-based microorganisms into a living, sponge-like matrix. This 'soil' absorbed nine times the water as the flour, and the water that did drain through sank downward, seeping out of the bottom into what – in a natural system – would be an aquifer, getting filtered both physically and biologically along the way.
Then she gestured to the two plates, asking 'In a dry climate, with infrequent rain and strong wind, which would you rather have? In a wet climate with heavy and frequent rain, which would rather have? If you were a seed trying to grow, where would you rather make your home? If there were hazardous chemicals in the soil that you wanted to keep out of local rivers and streams, which would you want?' Another question one could ask: 'if you were trying to draw carbon out of the atmosphere, which would you need?'
The difference between these two soils is life, or, chemically speaking, carbon. One has it, the other doesn't. Or you could say, one has vegetation, the other doesn't. When plants pull carbon out of the air they essentially make themselves out of it, mixing it with mineral nutrients drawn up from the soil, making carbohydrates, or carbon sugars, which they then feed to the soil microbial community, down through their roots but also when they decompose into the ground. Like this, you could say, plants 'sweeten' the soil with carbon.
The equation is simple: SSC (sand, silt, clay) plus C (carbon) = soil sponge. The carbon in this equation comes as life: mycelia, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, earthworms, other soil microorganisms and the slimes and glues they exude. Only this mixture, fed by plants sipping carbon out of the air, can produce the soil sponge, of which she showed us a highly magnified photograph. You could see the individual mineral particles and clumped aggregates and, between them, translucent slimes and threads holding the particles both together and apart. This created spaces that Pershouse, who also tends toward the poetic, called 'cathedrals'. It is where the water is held, much like the air pockets in bread. This stored water feeds more vegetation, which draw down more carbon, while feeding the clouds more moisture to spread more life, and around and around it goes.
'It's a very, very elegant, natural system', added Walter Jehne, a renowned Australian soil scientist and UN climate advisor. He referred to the soil sponge as the soil-carbon sponge, emphasizing its carbon-sequestration capabilities. Like Millán and Pershouse, he took a broader view of carbon, presenting it as a necessary element in the cycle of life. Also like them, he didn't speak much in numbers, but the few he offered were illuminating. At present, 130 billion tonnes of atmospheric carbon are produced on the planet each year, through various oxidative processes, such as forest fires, modern agricultural practices and the burning of fossil fuels. However, 120 billion of those tonnes are then re-absorbed by the various processes of life and sequestered in soil, plants and animals. It's this second number that turns the lens, bringing the nature of our present crisis into clearer view. This is a crisis of balance – not just of chemicals in the atmosphere, but in the overall functioning of life on earth. The planet, if allowed, and even helped, to flourish, can cool itself naturally, absorbing carbon along the way. If we weren't busy paving, tilling and poisoning its living membrane of soil, it would be turning the excess carbon in the atmospheric into more life.
Here Jehne reminded us that while sequestering carbon is important and necessary, we need to go beyond that and begin to cool the planet. This has become increasingly important as the oceans, which have been steadily absorbing our excess heat, are now full, and will begin throwing heat back out, with future land-based warming baked into the proverbial cake. Cooling the planet may sound like a mammoth undertaking, but according to Jehne, it is quite doable. He estimates that restoring one percent of the planet's natural cooling capacity through restored hydrologic cycles would offset the heating effects of current anthropogenic carbon gases. At two percent we are cooling down.
Pershouse provided a visual explanation, showing a fence-line photo of barren, rocky soil next to a section of land restored to rangeland grasses and shrubs, both under the same blazing sun. She then asked us to imagine standing on one side, and then the other, in bare feet. Not only would our feet feel cooler on the grassy side, but so would our heads. The air temperature above vegetated landscapes is cooler than that over bare soil or pavement, by as much 11.6°C (53°F).
We started burning life off this planet long ago, Jehne explained. Through deforestation, the draining of marshes and exhaustive agricultural practices, we've not only been heating the earth, we've been desiccating it, with a trail of over twenty self-made deserts left in our wake. They reach around the globe on virtually every continent, not to mention the once heavily forested Middle East. The obvious opportunity – and this spoke directly to my question – is in bringing all those places back to life, with all the extra carbon in the atmosphere helping to feed the growth, and all that growth helping to cool the atmosphere. Restore soil and nature does the rest. As though speaking in the voice of the planet, he said, 'I can run a monsoon, I can re-green continents.'
The Q&A session at the end was dominated by questions like 'why isn't anybody talking about this?' It was as though we found ourselves standing in a new conceptual geography. Zach Weiss, who runs an ecological restoration firm, laid out this new terrain. Carbon, he pointed out, is invisible, and its cycling is so slow we can never see the results of our work with it. With water, though, the results are almost immediate, occurring within a single rainy season. And when people witness the rebirth of their landscapes, they no longer need convincing, he said. 'They come running.'
Charles Eisenstein, the philosopher on the panel and author of Climate: A New Story, flipped the narrative completely, pointing out that when he googled the term 'effect of biodiversity on climate', the results always came back for the opposite request: the effect of climate on biodiversity. He encountered the same with soil erosion. He was researching what he called his 'living earth hypothesis,' that the climate is a product of a living biosphere, and discovered how skewed we are towards seeing it the other way around. He brought up the classic image of the 'cracked field.' We've all seen versions of it alongside articles about climate change. The image implies that global warming, or anthropogenic carbon gases, caused the field to dry and crack, when actually abusive land use practices likely did that by ruining regional hydrologic cycles. The same is true of most flooding, where the soil sponge has been destroyed and the land can't hold and store the rain when it falls. And as Millán pointed out, our forests are drying out mostly because of damaged hydrologic flows. 'I think,' said Eisenstein, 'we are just beginning to understand how this planet actually works, and the role of life in maintaining climate.'
The role of life in maintaining climate. I hadn't before considered the notion, but felt its validity immediately, and it came as a relief. For years I've watched the climate narrative gradually push the non-human sphere to the side and place us, our technological innovations and economic interests, at the centre. We've been peering skyward for invisible carbon, fixating on abstract numbers, predicting far futures based on ice cores from deep pasts, all the while somewhat blind to the saws, roads, bulldozers and industrial farms busily dismembering the living remnants of what ultimately creates and maintains the climate. Now we turn to face a scale of ecological collapse we scarcely possess the vocabulary to describe.
How ironic, and even mysterious, that it's the places we've most injured that now look back with such profound capacity to help us. There is forgiveness in that, a generosity that is nearly unaccountable, and yet it's here, all around us, vibrant with potential. Somewhere during the discussion, the host joked about the need for a new bumper-sticker phrase: 'make carbon life again'.
I had more than enough for my brain to process at this point, but as I was to find out at the closing ceremony, the restoration story isn't to be fully comprehended with the mind alone.
We had gathered in a large circle, and an elder of the Rogue River People, Grandmother Agnes Baker-Pilgrim, invited us to drop from the intellectual mind to the heart-mind, that place from which we truly meet the world and each other. A Lakota man – who 'comes from a place also surrounded by seas; seas of grass' – spoke of flying over the Arctic and seeing vast cracks in the ice below him, and the deep grief the sight produced in him. He then sang a song: an old song, and you could hear the sadness in it. It stretched all the way back to the days of invasion and massacre, an ancient grief singing through a present one.
Another elder, a white elder, slowly tapping a drum, invoked the place itself: the giant madronas branching overhead, the grass and soil beneath our feet, the surrounding hills and ocean-fed breeze. The sun was warm on our faces. Birds sang into the silence. I rarely tear up, especially in public, but all the grief I'd been holding for this earth suddenly started to move. I felt my chest beginning to shake, and, though surprised, I welcomed it, and let my eyes brim. Water again, salt water, like the water in the ocean so near I could smell it.
A few weeks have passed since I returned home, and I realize I no longer see the climate the same. Or perhaps more accurately, I've actually begun to see the climate, in the soils, the waters, in the flows and cycles of life. Before, it was always a featureless abstraction. I imagined a kind of vast atmospheric bubble, which one could presumably stick a thermometer into for a temperature reading. But I've since learned global temperatures are actually averages of thousands of individual local readings, each from specific landscapes. One is out my window, another yours.
Look around. Imagine seeing, say, twenty miles in all directions. How much of the land is covered in concrete, gathering heat? How much is laid out as monocrop, vast tracks of chemically sterilised soil, bare much of the year, sequestering and transpiring nothing? If there is grassland, how much is wrongly grazed? If there are mountains, how desiccated are they from not receiving moisture from the lowlands, which have been crippled of their hydrologic function, dammed at their own headwaters?
Looking out my window I see a clouded fragment of the Salish Sea, the inland waters between the US and Canada. Seen from overhead it resembles a bodily organ, spreading lung-like, north and south into inland bays fed by a densely veinous tapestry of streams and rivers. There its apex predators, the Southern Resident Orca Whales, are starving. They're not starving because of carbon in the air, but because we've dammed the rivers that once fed them massive runs of salmon. We can convert the entire global auto fleet to electric, and they will likely slip over the edge while we're at it. So it is with so many creatures and remnant ecosystems. In many ways, the last thing they need is for us to embark on a new industrial revolution, however green it proposes to be. What they need from us is far more obvious and immediate – to repair the damage we've already done. And then join in the renewal.
Here is the nexus, the spark point. It's where the human hand and the living earth, our intention and the regenerative genius of life, meet. Magic happens here, and points to the first thing we need to restore – our relationship with the rest of life. We are human, after all, as in humus – of the earth – and so also 'humility'; which I would offer as the operative demeanor of the Restoration: to humbly restore our place as humans among, not over, the greater life community. If we could accomplish that simple grace, we would find ourselves hitched to the will of the planet itself, on the side of the very forces that can save us. Our human ship, tossing about in self-made gales, might find a compass point, a common destination by which to reach calmer waters. The Restoration could be just that at first, a directional bearing.
Where is it pointing? It's pointing here, where we've always been, toward vast landscapes hungry for life again, lost rivers ready to flow again. Here soils are building, not washing away, and restored farmlands are calling displaced peoples back home. Here, no miracle technologies come to save us, and the tech billionaires are surprised to find they're no longer at the center of the story. The earth has taken their place, and each day it grows back a little more skin, breathes a little more cooling water, lends a little more credence to the idea of hope.
Does this mean we can go on indiscriminately burning carbon? Of course not. Carbon gasses do trap heat, frustrating the planet's already- degraded ability to cool itself. They're also turning the oceans to vinegar. And they remain in the atmosphere for as long as centuries, subjecting all life to planetary changes of geologic scale, an epically irresponsible thing to do.
But there are two legs to the climate—CO2 and H20. We can think of the carbon-gasses leg as the pushing- off leg, the one that says no: to our reliance on fossil fuels, to the pipelines, the drilling, the concentrated greed, the asthmatic kids. Stepping forward is the land use and hydrology leg, saying yes: to rebuilding soils, repairing rivers, rehydrating forests, reviving land-based economies, restoring human respect for the earth and each other. Together they provide a stride we can maintain for the long haul, twin determinations with a common confidence, on the earth and toward life.
putting the land back in climate
On the Matter of Hope


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Q: Get User Info after successful authentication using Windows Broker Authentication in Windows Metro App I am working on Windows Broker Authentication.I can successfully authenticate in to the calling app and  can comeback to the home page after authentication.
I am not able to get the user info (username) .I have tried but I get one message as written below.
A first chance exception of type 'System.Exception' occurred in mscorlib.dll
WinRT information: Response status code does not indicate success: 401 (Unauthorized).
Additional information: Unauthorized (401).
Response status code does not indicate success: 401 (Unauthorized).
If there is a handler for this exception, the program may be safely continued.
I have written my code below.Please friends help me.
  private const string RESOURCE_NAME ="id_token";

  public async Task<UserInfo> GetName(string accessToken)
        {
            try
            {
                var client = new HttpClient();

                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new Windows.Web.Http.Headers.HttpCredentialsHeaderValue("OAuth", accessToken);

                var result = await client.GetStringAsync(new Uri(loginUri));

                var profileInformation =JsonObject.Parse(result).GetObject();

                var name = profileInformation.GetNamedString("username");
                return new UserInfo { Name = name };
            }

            catch (JsonException ex)
            {
                throw new JsonException(ex.message);
            }

        }

  private async void btnHomeLogin_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        string Scope = "openid profile";
        var client = new OAuth2Client(new Uri(loginUri));

        var startUri = client.CreateAuthorizeUrl(
            ClientID,
            RESOURCE_NAME,
            Scope,
            RedirectURI,
            state,
            nonce);
        string Authresult;
        try
        {
            var webAuthenticationResult = await WebAuthenticationBroker.AuthenticateAsync(WebAuthenticationOptions.None, new Uri(startUri),new Uri(RedirectURI));

            switch (webAuthenticationResult.ResponseStatus)
            {
                case Windows.Security.Authentication.Web.WebAuthenticationStatus.Success:
                    //Successful authentication.
                    Authresult = webAuthenticationResult.ResponseData.ToString();

                    UserInfo userInfo = await GetName(RESOURCE_NAME);

                    break;
                case Windows.Security.Authentication.Web.WebAuthenticationStatus.ErrorHttp:
                    //HTTP error.
                    Authresult = webAuthenticationResult.ResponseErrorDetail.ToString();
                    break;
                default:
                    //Other error.
                    Authresult = webAuthenticationResult.ResponseData.ToString();
                    break;
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            //Authentication failed. Handle parameter, SSL/TLS, and Network Unavailable errors here.
            Authresult = ex.Message;
        }

    }

A: If you are exactly using the above code, then based on the above, you are calling GetName function with a constant string (RESOURCE_NAME) instead of the actual AuthResult (accessToken) that was returned from the webAuthenticationResult. If the intention of calling the WebAuthenticationBroker is to get back an Access Token which should later be used with HttpClient, then you need to adjust your code accordingly and make use of the right access Token when calling the HttpClient code. Otherwise the 401 is not unexpected if you are not passing the right token.


Thanks to Serena who took the blog reins tonight! Morning dawns, and we get ready to begin a new and exciting day.
Building on the skills developed during the chariot races, Gever presents the new challenge - wheel your entire team down four and a half miles down the Half Moon Bay Coastal Trail. We head to the barn to discuss and plan.
In order to begin, we must first access and divide the scrap pile - and then for the fun part, the gathering and examining of the wheels. New teams are assembled for the new challenge - Piki: Griffin, Emma and Josh, Kablooi: Lauren, Noah, Zachary, Nooi: Adam, Eloise and Mori, and the Panda: Liora, Harry and Brigid.
Our new guests from Madrid have come to learn how Tinkering School works. Adam explains and guides them through proper chop-saw operation.
The newly formed Panda team, Liora, Harry and Brigid begin to assemble their tandem skateboard.
Emma's (not quite complete) scooter goes for a test run.
Just before being sent back to the house to put on real shoes, Noah hangs ten on his mini board.
Harry takes a nose dive as he tries out the Panda skateboard.
And of course, after a new start, we need a new goat break.
It is terrible to see such suffering on the faces of young and innocent children. Griffin suffers along through the abysmal sweat shop conditions.
In the cathedral of the barn, Gever and Mackenzie kneel at the altar of tinkering as they discuss difficult design choices.
Lunch has become home to a secret reading society. Head of this, is, of course, Lauren.
Emma at work on her prototype.
Adam at work on yet another mount for their scooter-sidecars.
Brigid gets a plumber's tape tutorial.
Emma works on a brake for her scooter.
Harry's work with plumber's tape comes to a screeching halt when he sees the clementines arrive.
Caravaggio's got nothing on us. Noah working on his scooter.
Brigid tries out the Panda's tandem skateboard - will it hold her?
Lauren works on a parts basket for the Kablooi bicycle.
Gever asks for advice on the placement of his new hat - "Do I look more intelligent with it in back? Or in front?" Lauren and Zachary wonder what has come over the director of Tinkering School, but offer their opinions.
Mackenzie and Griffin share a moment of mutual appreciation as they work out the details of Griffin's scooter.
Noah builds a steering handle for his scooter.
Zachary works on his scooter - there will be squadrons of scooters tomorrow.
During the afternoon lull, we decide to take a hike break.
Little did they know, that the "little" hike was about to become an adventure.
Eloise demonstrates how to properly jump over a fence - wearing a big grin.
"Let's take this well graded road! It must lead somewhere… " - these might of been the last words of Doctor Livingstone.
A well graded road becomes a somewhat groomed trail - but it's no trouble for us tinkerers. We press on.
From a hillside down into a verdant canyon. Suddenly, we aren't quite as sure of where we are.
Refusing all of Serena's efforts to give (sound) advice, Noah tests his scooter without handle bars. It looks like this.
When his doesn't work, he borrows Griffin's.
Noah plays tube toss, using Griffin as a post. A moving one.
A short trip to the eucalyptus grove is declared necessary. On the way back, eucalyptus on top a'flyin', the truck returns triumphant.
Gever on the top of the truck. Again.
Thursday evening barbecue- Brigid gets cozy with her burger as Liora looks on.
Another well loved Thursday night tradition is the campfire. We all gather up to enjoy its heat and one another's company.
Gever and Mackenzie harmonize on the John Prine classic - Angel from Montgomery.
Tonight we feast on s'mores. Tomorrow will be a new adventure.


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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in a he iconic 1962 Cartier Tank watch. (Photo: Getty)
Nathalie Atkinson discovers how to move forward with starting a watch collection.
Nathalie Atkinson
Are you thinking about buying a watch? As a beautiful object and as a metaphor, the wristwatch may be the ultimate heirloom. It witnesses both the mundane moments and the milestones in our daily lives, and its design is an intimate expression of taste. Collecting watches is like embarking on a lifelong adventure; both vintage and new models, either of which can be rare, appreciate with changing trends – as do historically important timepieces or those with a celebrity pedigree. For example, the iconic 1962 Cartier Tank watch that belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was sold for over $500,000 to Kim Kardashian West at a Christie's auction in 2017.
Here are eight things watch collectors Dan Tanenbaum, Jeremy Ong, Pedro Mendes and Kat Shoulders and Katlen Schmid say you need to know before buying a watch.
1. Do your research
To talk shop about watch specs, learn the lingo pertaining to shape, finishing and balance as well as engineering: Think case size, thickness and crown, and know a tourbillon from a minute repeater. And bone up on a piece's background. "Know the history behind it, get it checked out and don't hesitate to pay a premium with a dealer," says Dan Tanenbaum. "It'll give you peace of mind and give the watch credibility."
2. Know your size
Familiarize yourself with dimensions that work best for you. Kat shoulders, of the horology podcast Tenn & Two, advises that most vintage men's watches from the '30s and '40s are particularly suited to women's wrist proportions. Know thicknesses and dimensions, because brands like Rolex list case sizes (for example, 34 mm, 36 mm and 41 mm) as opposed to "women's" or "men's" on the label.
3. Get a few tools, and store watches properly for protection
A loupe and watchmaking repair tools like fine screwdrivers, a spring bar tool (for changing the strap without scratching the case) and a case opener are essential; try precision-made Swiss brand Bergeon's wares. Make sure to budget for the fact that in order to maintain their mechanical movements, higher-end and vintage watches should be professionally serviced about every five years. Toronto podcast producer and writer Pedro Mendes stores his watches in display boxes so he can appreciate them while keeping them clean, free of dust and away from the sun's damaging rays.
4. Buying a watch is best done in person
Unless you're dealing with a reputable auction house or an horology dealer, vet significant vintage purchases (anything in the five figures) in person – especially with harder-to-find grails. Collector Jeremy Ong once flew to Manila to inspect a private seller's Universal Genève Tri-Compax 222102 from the '60s (a rare variant model nicknamed "the Evil Clapton") before buying it.
5. Combine your interests
"If they include water or outdoor activities, there's a whole genre of dive and field watches," says Mendes. "And if they're art deco or jazz, there are whole streams of watches that come out of that design aesthetic. For me, it's satisfying to make those connections."
6. Join a community to satisfy your curiosity
"I've met collectors from all walks of life, all bonded together by a common hobby," Ong says of joining Instagram to share collection photos. "It gets your name out there, and I've made a bunch of new watch friends and also attained some pretty amazing pieces." While gatherings like RedBar Group have gone virtual for now, Mendes suggests seeking them out once COVID restrictions let up. In pre-pandemic times, podcast Tenn & Two's Katlen Schmidt loved these personal connections. "More than the watches, the neat thing about this and any hobby is the people," she says. "You make so many friendships."
7. Know when to let go
Trial and error is part of collecting. As you grow more confident, you can swap and sell watches you're less interested in to fund other pieces and trade up. "I think it's always changing," says Schmidt. "You can never say it's your watch collection until the end of time." Adds Shoulders: "I went through a major flipping phase – watches coming in and going out. I don't regret it. I think I learned a lot about myself."
"You should never be in a rush, like 'I have to get this tomorrow' or 'It's my husband's 50th birthday in a week,'" advises Tanenbaum, especially with hard- to-find models. "If you're not in a hurry for it, you'll get a great example – that's true with the collecting of anything."
A version of this article originally appeared in the Winter issue of FASHION magazine.
This article was originally published by Fashionmagazine.com. Read the original article here.


When is it worth spending the time and money to litigate a divorce?
Settling out of court is a great way of saving time and money, but when you and your spouse are having trouble agreeing, or you know you're not getting your fair share, letting a judge take control may be your best bet.
The short answer is: when the offer to settle is obviously unfair and you would clearly get a better result from the judge.
That's coercion and not fair. In litigation, the judge will determine the value of the business, and whichever party keeps it must buy out the other party. The judge must make a decision about child-sharing that's in the best interests of the children. All assets and debts will be divided equally.
It is best to negotiate and settle the issues, but when an offer on the table is so much less than the law entitles you to, it is a wise decision to go to court.
The other main reason to litigate is when one of the spouses is intimidated and afraid of the other spouse. The mediation process will not work in such a case; he or she needs the protection of the court.
Georgine Brave is dedicated to assisting her clients through the family-law process with understanding and support. Brave, Weber & Mack, offers family lawyers with knowledge, experience, and strong advocacy skills to support clients through any divorce issues.


Coriander chutney is made with Coriander leaves for more of a kidney cleanse, or diuretic. It is an important part of Indian cuisine for all ages and it's the most popular savory chutney made of cilantro, ginger and lime juice and chili. These fragrant greens although used like a relish are a large and important part of our meals. Their fresh taste complements Indian herbs and they may be used as daily vitamin supplements. Adding some coriander leaves to your daily meals keep diabetes at bay.
A. Clean the Coriander Leaves well in fresh water and grind them together with green chillies and coconut scrapings.
B. Take a small pan, heat the gingelly oil and add the mustard seeds, curry leaves to it and allow spluttering.
C. Mix them all with the grinded paste prepared at the start and add some Asafoetida powder.
D. Stir well, add some salt for you taste and water for consistency.
Adding up a little of Coriander leaves are exactly what you need for breakfast and dinner. It helps in lowering blood glucose levels in diabetics and also helps in digestion.
Adults & Children above 8 years.
You can have Coriander chutney anytime. As a constant companion to authentic Indian cuisine, they are good to go in the morning as they help in kidney cleanse, or diuretic.


Our talented member Ben Buja has made a great time lapse video of the breathtaking new dynamic clouds in Project CARS.
Make sure to follow the link below to watch the video!
Project CARS members can now experience a first pass of the new feature in the current build as the system will be much more refined in the weeks to come. But beware, don't get too distracted by the eye candy in the sky and make sure to keep an eye on the road!
I'm a member, but cant try it till Friday? Friday works for me. Looks great.
Considering taking my 1st sick day in 3 years this Friday and when pitcrews and marshals arrive I will be taking my 2nd.
Will have to wait till day after muliplayer is implented as I would prefer not to get fired.
Several months ago, I asked, could we have moving clouds, now we have moving clouds, absolutely fantastic, you're all graphic and physic Gods SMS.
Have not stopped playing today, and the clouds make one hell of a difference.
PS: I think it was a wise decision for me, to not wait more starting to build a new powerful PC, such beautiful 3d dynamic cloulds shoud have probably some cost on the fps !!!
It just gets better and better. Nothing will touch this game for years. Great work team. Keep up the fantastic effort......bring on Friday.
I like how I have been here since the beginning and by now I should be fully used to the amazing features SMS is capable to bring on....yet every time I see a new feature such as this I am still as much amazed like was when I saw the very first screenshots of pCARS.
Looks awesome. Almost realistic. ^^ This is a feature that, sadly, no one really will have time to focus enough on, because as the text below the video says: We need to keep our eyes on the road instead of the sky. But nevertheless, it's amazing. Work very well done!!!! This game is so going to crush all competition out there.
When is this build released to us? Some said Friday, but I haven't gotten any confirmation on that yet.
Can clouds be too good looking? I keep crashing due to being distracted.
Also lol at the comments on youtube for the video, its either people liking the clouds or a full on pointless argument about WII U hardware power and PC vs consoles debate.
First of all this is no criticism! The video and the cloud system are really just amazing and as I've pointed out in another thread already, they are for me the best graphical improvement ever.
BUT... there is a question I have, even though I know the cloud system is not finished. Real clouds are not just moving, they are transforming themselves (changing their appearance) while doing so. I hope you know what I mean. Will this be in the final version of the cloud system?
Guys, stop demanding so much from unnessessary details. For every single added advanced feature, the demand from computer-power goes up. My PC is already strugeling with the current graphics. Races goes by so fast that you won't notice the change in cloud formation.
As long they make random-generated clouds and that they follow the wind, then there's really no point in having them transforming and changing form. Currently I think they should focus on basic physics and car handeling,and car damage animations.
I wasn't demanding anything. It was just a question. And seriously, if your computer is too slow, then you still have the possibility to turn down the detail level. As you've probably noticed, the majority of the forum users have kind of high end systems, so why shouldn't the game benefit from this power?
And what isn't necessary and what is, isn't your decision and it's not holding me back from asking a simple and legitimate question.
Daniel, I have a technical explanation why, what you ask, will most probably never occur.
All clouds you can see in this sky are textures (an image, if you prefer). To obtain a natural transformation, would require to use instead an animation with multiple images ! Something which would cost much to much in every aspects (resources, computing, development). As say num better to invest this power and time to more important stuffs in the game !
MS Flight Simulator tried to "cheat" this, by making the cloud rotating on itself, but to my view, the result was (and still is) worst !
I agree with Daniel. He wasn't demanding but suggesting. Additionally, physics/car handling isn't done by the arts team afaik. No need to discuss on which parts SMS should focus on. They know better than anyone else what is necessary and what is only second priority.
Thanks ACSoft. The MS Flight Simulator indeed was the reason why I was asking about this feature. I didn't know about the technical background in the game. The clouds in pCARS so far, looked just kind of similar to the ones in FSX. So I thought it might be kind of easy to make them "more real" in terms of this transformation thing I was asking about. Actually it's nothing I really need or think to be needed, it was just a question/proposal.
Clouds shape-changing would be great, but indeed performance impact should be top priority with that. If it would be just blending different pre-define textures, would that have a low performance impact?
I'm sorry if I offended you. My comment wasn't referring to you alone (which I poorly indicated with a "guys" in the beginning). This is a developers/suggestion-forum; OF COURSE you should give suggestions and ask about new features. But I just wanted to point out that there's no use in raising the CPU/GPU-demand due to some esstetic VFX that occurs in an area which isn't in any focus when racing. If we want to turn up the processing needs, then put it into physics instead of graphics. The graphic in this game is already (in Pre-Alpha) waaaay better than any car game/sim I've ever seen (apart from perhaps Forza 5).
I've got another question relating to the clouds/lightning.
Will we see cloud rays?
Yes, just watch the task list in the thread.
FSX clouds were not great, tho if you got the REX weather engine that improved the clouds no end.
Well, IMHO the current cloud system fits perfectly to a racing sim. If you ask me, there's no need to sacrifice further performance for hyper-realistic clouds.
This time the crew really impressed me (and when didn't they? xD).
This is just amazing! When will the lower level member be able to try this out? I wish i had the money to become a full member! I have build 249 and been playing non-stop since i got it.
I don't know when it will come out for junior class, but you've spend 10 dollars already on the junior class. Just another 15 dollars and you will be a team member and you'll gain access to weekly builds. Just a suggestion.
When will the lower level member be able to try this out?
August the 3rd for the Junior members.