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The Bridgeport Fire Department uses one Narcan dose per day on average and it now needs to replace its cache of the drug and train new recruits on how to use it.
The Firemen's Association of the State of New York and its members want legislators to pass a law allowing volunteer fire departments to charge for the ambulance services they provide.
A 25-year-old man has made a settlement with the city of Peabody to clear his poor driving record and is now at the top of the competitive list for appointment as firefighter.
The reprimand stemmed from two anonymous complaints sent to the Spokane Fire Department about the 27-year department veteran who is also a lieutenant.
Firefighter Michael Kennedy of Ladder Co. 15 and Lt. Edward Walsh of Engine Co. 33.were killed in a nine-alarm fire that tore through a Back Bay brownstone dwelling five years ago.


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Canada received first shipment of 100,000 rapid coronavirus tests this week
Clarrie Feinstein
Oct 23 2020, 9:47 am
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed that 100,000 rapid test kits have arrived in Canada and it's up to the provinces on how to best distribute them.
On Friday, Trudeau said that rapid tests have advantages and disadvantages and must be part of "a whole strategy to trace and control COVID-19."
Trudeau said that his government needed to ensure that the tests got safely approved by Health Canada. Now that the first shipment has arrived, the federal government has started to distribute them to the provinces.
"They [provinces] will need to determine the best ways to use those tests. It's ultimately up to the provinces," he said.
Ontario receives first shipment of 100,000 rapid coronavirus tests: Ford
Health Canada approves of rapid coronavirus testing
"There are strategies they need to explore to focus on the needs of certain areas in the best possible way. While we work with them to give them the best strategies there, it's ultimately up to them."
On Thursday, Premier Doug Ford said that Ontario has obtained 100,000 rapid tests which are part of the first shipment for the province.
Ford said that the tests will be prioritized in rural and Northern Ontario as well as vulnerable populations in long-term care and congregate care settings.
He said his government wants as many of the rapid tests "as we can get our hands on," but given the limited numbers, they will deploy them to "high priority" areas for now.
"This is a game-changer. It is not everything, but it is a game-changer," Ford said.
On October 21, Minister of Public Services & Procurement Anita Anand said Canada received it's first shipment of 100,000. And that they are on track to receive 2.5 million of. the test by the end of the year.
#RapidTests❗
Canada has received the first delivery of 100,000 Abbott ID NOW rapid tests, with more on the way. We are on track to receive 2.5 million of the ID NOW tests by year end, with first deliveries of the Abbott Panbio rapid antigen tests also arriving shortly.
— Anita Anand (@AnitaOakville) October 21, 2020
Last month Canada bought almost eight million rapid testing kits approved by Health Canada.
The technology can detect the virus directly from a nasal swab, returning results in between five and 13 minutes.

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SITA is a global provider of IT and communications solutions to the air transport industry. For more information about our corporate structure, see About SITA.
We fully recognize the issue of modern slavery and human trafficking and the emotional and physical impacts of this problem for individuals and communities. SITA takes its responsibilities concerning these issues seriously, and we are committed to doing business the right way – acting honestly, fairly, and with high standards of integrity.
We are proud to be signatories to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), a strategic policy initiative for businesses committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. For more information on this, please refer to our Sustainability page on our website.
We know that responsibility goes beyond what we can do alone as a business and that our supply chain has an important part to play. We need our employees, suppliers and third parties to ensure they act in an ethical and sustainable manner when carrying out business on behalf of SITA and reinforce positive labor standards across supply chains.
Like many businesses, SITA has a complex supply chain that works with many suppliers around the world, of which 456 suppliers accounted for around 90% of our spend in 2021. Our supply chain includes key suppliers that provide IT software and hardware, professional and support services, and other service industries that support our business.
Our respective Codes of Conduct1 define our expectations in addressing the risk of slavery and human trafficking.
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In addition, our Purchasing Policy governs the purchase of all goods and services, providing details on both the selection criteria and the due diligence requirements on new and existing suppliers.
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Our SITA Code of Conduct and relevant corporate policies are periodically reviewed and agreed by our Executive Team.
Our exposure to the risk of slavery and human trafficking has been acknowledged and is monitored in SITA's Enterprise Risk Register. The register is reviewed quarterly by SITA's Audit and Risk Management Committee, which consists of SITA's Board Members.
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We provide mandatory online training around responsible procurement and on slavery and human trafficking for UK and procurement employees as part of our global compliance program. It is required for all new joiners and refreshed yearly. These training modules are also available to all SITA employees. Reports of completion are made available to the Ethics and Compliance Office.
Beyond training, communicating the ethics and compliance message is accomplished through internal webinars, bulletins, websites, sales materials, and similar tools, all of which go hand-in-hand with a strong leadership tone.
The Purchasing Team monitor supply chains in cooperation with SITA's Corporate Social Responsibility Office. Areas of concern are shared with the Ethics and Compliance Office, which oversees our ethics and compliance program.
A confidential and anonymous whistleblowing process is available to all employees to raise any concerns they may have, including on issues related to human trafficking or slavery. SITA will not tolerate any form of retaliation against anyone who has raised a concern and/or assisted in an investigation in good faith.
This statement is made pursuant to section 54 of the UK's Modern Slavery Act 2015 and has been signed by a Director. This statement constitutes SITA's slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending December 2022.
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Bad Philanthropy: The Rinsing of Toxic Money
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Ese Emerhi
Nkasi Wodu
By Ese Emerhi & Nkasi Wodu
If philanthropy can be defined as the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed by the generous donation of money to good causes, then for centuries, philanthropic activities have done a lot of good. History is replete with philanthropic organizations changing the course of people's lives for good. Whether it is building schools, endowing a Chair in a University, providing loans to small businesses at low-interest rates, establishing soup kitchens for the marginalized, or setting up shelters for the vulnerable, philanthropy has done a lot of good and will continue to do a lot of good.
For the 10 percent of the world's population — 734 million people who live on less than $1.90 a day — philanthropy is the only bridge between them and hope for the realization of a better life and future for their kids. But what happens when the purpose of philanthropy isn't just to do 'good'? What happens when the source of funds used for philanthropy is tainted and toxic? Does this cancel out the good deed that is done with those funds? Why and how are illicit funds used for philanthropic purposes by criminal networks? It can be argued that even if there are good intentions, the money used to do that good also has to come from a good source. And in 2020, sources of good money are few and far between. For the most notorious amongst us, no matter how many times that toxic money is rinsed, it will still drip sludge on the innocent, still taint that "good thing", and leave behind a legacy that is hard to swallow.
The reason toxic money can be recycled and has been used so popularly from criminals to governments is that it is used to give a false sense of agency and hope to the very people and communities that were once the victims of horrific crimes. Even when the giving and or philanthropic effort is cloaked anonymously, once revealed, the damage it causes in tearing down good reputations is devastating; the pieces become too many to count and account for. We needn't look any further than the recent case of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender (who later committed suicide in his cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in Manhattan), and his $7.5 million in donations to the MIT Media Lab. The revelation of his donations to the institution, once considered one of the most innovative programs creating "disruptive technologies" in the United States, has resulted not only in the resignation of the MIT Media Lab founder and professor Joi Ito, but ruined the reputations of several other professors connected to the scandal.
Dirty diesel, petrol, and kerosene; the toxic trio for Nigerians' lungs and livelihoods
The tactics of persons linked with organized crime groups, utilizing philanthropy or charity to provide material benefits to people that have been victims of their actions is not novel, neither is it restricted to one region. In the 1980s in Colombia, Pablo Escobar, a murderous drug lord ran the Medellín cartel, one of the deadliest criminal syndicates in South America, and known to have been responsible for over 4,000 deaths. Pablo Escobar was at one time estimated to have a net worth of $30 billion and was responsible for over 80% of the world's supply of cocaine. He is also known for investing large sums of his fortune in charitable public works, including the construction of schools, sports fields and housing developments for the urban poor. The poorest people in Medellín lived in a literal garbage dump due to a lack of government support. Using his vast wealth, Escobar helped pay for an entire neighborhood to be built, complete with a sanitation system and multiple soccer fields, so that the less fortunate of his city would have a non-garbage place to live. The whole neighborhood was renamed as the Barrio Pablo Escobar, which loosely translated into English means, the neighborhood of Pablo Escobar.
Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was one of Jamaica's most notorious criminals and drug trafficking kingpin. During his reign of terror, he and his gang operated out of Tivoli Gardens, a neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica known for its squalor and for being the center of drug trafficking activities and social unrest. Tivoli Gardens was also one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Kingston, often lacking access to basic services. Coke was the leader of the 'shower posse' named after their penchant to shower bullets on people, and he ran the multi-billion dollar crime syndicate with ruthless efficiency. His penchant for murder and drug trafficking notwithstanding, Coke was a well-known philanthropist. During his trial, defense attorneys cited members of Coke's family and other supporters, who portrayed him as a benevolent, philanthropic, and well-mannered individual.
Africa is also not exempted from activities of illicit money being used for philanthropic purposes. High Chief Ateke Tom is the Amanayabo of Okochiri in Okirika Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. He is widely regarded as a Peace Ambassador, the recipient of a humanitarian award by the Actors Guild of Nigeria for his "advocacy and empowerment drive for youths in all spheres", and the Peace Achievers Award. He is known for his philanthropic work in the entertainment sector, towards widows and other marginalized people in society. He has been described as a "powerful force who has contributed in no small measure to the rapid development" of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. This hasn't always been the case for the enigmatic character fondly called 'the godfather' by most of his followers. He will be the first to tell you of his humble beginning as was described in his Vanguard interview in June 2009; "The man spoke about his original means of livelihood before engaging in militancy, sayings he was a farmer, sand digger/seller, as well as a poultry farmer". From this humble background, he rose to become a warlord, a prominent militant general in the Niger Delta, leading the Niger Delta Vigilantes (NDV) and a leading figure in the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), known for kidnapping oil workers and blowing up oil and gas assets of oil multinationals, including the oil theft popularly known as bunkering. He was also admitted on the record being involved as an enforcer, used by politicians in Rivers State to rig elections in the 1999 and 2003 elections, and according to Jennifer M. Hazen[1], he was a patron of one of the dreaded cult groups in Rivers State — the Icelanders.
Two of Africa's deadliest terrorist groups are Boko Haram and Al Shabaab. Both groups, although existing independently within East and West Africa respectively, have been responsible for devastating attacks on people and properties for over a decade. The 2018 Global Terrorism Index listed both Al Shabaab and Boko Haram as among the top four deadliest groups in the world. In 2016 and 2017 for instance, both terrorist groups contributed to more than 5,000 terrorism-related deaths in Africa. Besides beheadings and carrying out deadly attacks on soft targets, both terrorist groups have been known to provide social services within their strongholds in Somalia and Nigeria as a means of recruiting soldiers and maintaining a long list of informants. In Borno State, the founder of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf was said to have used funds received from Osama Bin Laden to 'fund a micro-credit scheme for his followers and give welfare, food, and shelter to refugees and unemployed youths'. Similarly, in southern Somalia, Al Shabaab was providing goods and services including policing, judicial decision making, and welfare to residents. According to a case study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 'this brought a level of stability to southern Somalia and fostered a great deal of goodwill among the local populace and helped build close relationships with village and clan leaders, creating an audience supportive of Al Shabaab recruitment.'
In the United States, renowned philanthropists like John Rockefeller, Cecil John Rhodes, and Alfred Nobel, all have shady pasts and dealings connected to their wealth. Rockefeller ran a monopoly that the U.S. government later dismantled, Rhodes was a British white supremacist, and Nobel was a munitions manufacturer.
In 1889, Andrew Carnegie wrote in his first essay in what was later known as "The Gospel of Wealth", that "The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship." The problem becomes, however, in who is doing the giving and for what purpose. And if that giving results in more injustice, more division, more wars, and if it ties organizations to donors whose values clash with their own, the problems continue to become entrenched. Mr. Carnegies' thoughts on how wealth should be managed later became the foundation of philanthropy for the last century.
Philanthropy has been defined as an "altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by the endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes." And as stated above, millions of people all over the world have been significantly impacted by activities of philanthropic organizations and individuals. For criminal networks, altruism, however, has not always been the major motive for engaging in philanthropic work. Philanthropy confers legitimacy and is a veritable mechanism for building credibility and trust. Philanthropy can be used to develop networks of ties and connections that bond people together and can help increase social capital.
For decades, organized criminal groups have employed philanthropy to good effect in one way or the other. The pertinent question though is why? The reason cannot be merely for a tax rebate (and in a place like Nigeria, where tax incentives are absent, this is certainly not the case). Often, the activities of these criminal groups are illegal and as a result, are not projected to form part of the revenue-generating activities of governments. Why then would groups well known for perpetrating violence and terror as instruments of coercion, still resort to the provision of education, healthcare, sanitation, etc. to people that are largely their victims?
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Firstly, philanthropy is used to gain social capital and legitimacy. When Jamaican authorities wanted to raid Tivoli Gardens to arrest the drug kingpin Christopher Coke, they appealed to the "law-abiding residents of Tivoli Gardens" to immediately evacuate the area. Despite the warnings, according to reports, most residents remained loyal to Coke. He was regarded as their rightful leader or 'Don'. A few days later, thousands of women took to the streets of downtown Kingston with placards reading, "Taking Di Boss is Like Taking Jesus", "After God, Dudus Comes Next" and "Jesus Die for Us. We Will Die for Dudus". In Mexico, hundreds of protesters gathered in defense of arrested Mexican drug lord, Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman. Some of the protesters were chanting "long live, El Chapo". It is this type of legitimacy and social capital that organized crime lords crave for and live for. It is important to bear in mind that by the nature of the activities of these groups, they need to often rely on their 'beneficiaries' to not tip off security operatives or cooperate with authorities in investigations against them.
Secondly, philanthropic work is used as a recruitment strategy by these criminals. Not a lot of people would openly follow a cutthroat and ruthless criminal. However, throw in some charity work, build a few roads and invest some of that ill-gotten wealth into changing a few lives, and you have the right moral authority to champion a cult following and a ready supply of foot soldiers such as informants, enforcers, and middlemen. In their paper on Bandit Organizations and Their (IL) Legitimacy; the authors Cederstroem, C. & Fleming, P., argue about moral authority that "rests not on judgments about whether a given activity benefits the evaluator, but rather on judgments about whether the activity is 'the right thing to do.' These judgments, in turn, usually reflect beliefs about whether the activity effectively promotes societal welfare, as defined by the audience's socially constructed value system". Essentially, when organized criminal networks engage in philanthropy, they are hacking into the people's value systems.
Thirdly, philanthropy helps organized criminal networks to fill up power vacuums and institute informal governance processes. When organized groups engage in philanthropy, they replace often non-existent or non-functional state authorities in the areas of their operations. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that organized criminal networks often thrive in areas where there is abject poverty, squalor, and high levels of illiteracy or unemployment. These spaces are ungoverned, where government distrust and suspicion is rife, sometimes leading to clashes between residents and agents of the government. Consequently, organized criminal networks fill this existing vacuum, capitalizing on the distrust of government and compensating for absent public justice through philanthropic work. However, the motive here isn't altruistic, it is mainly about distracting from their numerous reprehensible acts and to trigger what Tereza Kuldova referred to as a 'but still'- structure in the minds of the general public. Or better, a structure that can be summed up as 'I know well, but all the same…', effectively succeeding in birthing cognitive dissonance in the minds of the people. As one Jamaican resident aptly captured it "Dudus may have done some bad things but he kept order."
Finally, engaging in philanthropic acts allows for the widening of moral licensing — that mental glitch that strengthens positive self-image that makes worrying about the consequences of immoral or bad behavior disappear. In essence, doing something good to justify doing bad; it reassures them of their virtue, and as such, with moral credits in hand, they feel entitled to (continue to) be bad.
For philanthropic institutions doing good, there are some guidelines to ensure they keep to the true meaning of their mission and to avoid scandals where they may have used or accepted funds from questionable sources:
A strong charitable mission needs to be established. This needs to be written in founding documents and shared with staff so they clearly understand its intentions, as well as its limitations.
Take care in choosing trustees and staff who share in the foundation's principles. Family members, friends, and close business associates such as lawyers, bankers, and accountants may not be good choices unless they share the same worldview.
Donor intent tends to suffer when philanthropic interests and the need to maintain control of the institution are mixed. These two should be separate.
For philanthropists who found institutions, keep in mind a sunset provision for when the foundation would close its doors, perhaps a generation or two after the founder's death. This is more in line with the earlier advice from Carnegie in the Gospel of Wealth, where he argues that donors should give away as much of their wealth while they are alive.
Should foundations be established to exist into perpetuity, create strong procedures for electing future trustees who share in the original founder's principles, and make respect for donor intent part of their fiduciary duty.
A thorough due diligence on sources of funding must be done by philanthropic foundations. The freedom and ability to reject funding, even if to the detriment of the foundation, cannot be shaken and must be insisted upon. However, this can only happen when a strong mission and vision for that institution is clearly articulated and understood by all.
Until justice (the removal of systemic issues and processes that keep the poor poor) and philanthropy are linked, opportunities for criminals to use philanthropy to whitewash their sins will always exist. Big philanthropy, in the way these criminal networks operate, is simply an exercise in power; it is not trying to solve in any meaningful way societies' problems.
[1] (2013), Armed Groups and Contemporary Conflicts: Challenging the Weberian State
This article was written by Nkasi Wodu, PeaceBuilding Manager, PIND; and Ese Emerhi, Project Director, Kiisi Trust Fund/TrustAfrica
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As many of you know, the cast of RHOC can't stop hurling insults to each other through social media, and it looks like it is going to cost them some money.
"This season, the Housewives were asked to refrain from attacking one another on social media. They were told that if they were able to control their posts, they'd receive a $30,000 bonus.
However, Tamra Judge, Vicki Gunvalson, Kelly Dodd and Meghan King Edmonds have already lost there potential bonuses.
"Tamra lasted less than a week, and Vicki wasn't far behind," an insider told In Touch. And we've all seen Kelly and Meghan going at it on Twitter.
I'm not jealous of you and never have been!! I was always happy for you!!
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Time to stop police from extorting cash and property
Posted by Thomas Mitchell | Apr 3, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
The appalling Constitution-bending practice by which law enforcement agencies have for years seized private property under the presumption it is the product of criminal activity without ever having to go the bothersome effort of actually, you know, obtaining a criminal conviction continues apace.
The latest ignoble example of what is called civil asset forfeiture comes to us from Texas in the case of Leonard v. Texas.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case because the attorneys for Lisa Olivia Leonard, whose $200,000 in cash was confiscated when her son was detained during a traffic stop, were arguing the seizure violated the Due Process Clause of the Constitution, but they had failed to make that argument before the lower courts. So, it was not yet ripe for the high court.
The Fifth Amendment provides: "No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law …"
In April of 2013, a police officer stopped James Leonard for a traffic infraction, and, during a search a safe was found in the trunk. Leonard told police the safe belonged to his mother. After a search warrant was obtained, police found the safe contained $201,100 and a bill of sale for a home in Pennsylvania.
Texas filed for civil forfeiture of the money, claiming it was the profits from illegal drug sales, though Lisa Leonard said the money was from the sale of a house. A trial court and an appellate court did not believe that, even though no one was convicted of a crime.
Though he agreed the court should not yet hear the case, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a six-page commentary on the evils of civil asset forfeiture.
Justice Thomas said of civil asset forfeitures, "This system — where police can seize property with limited judicial oversight and retain it for their own use — has led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses. According to one nationally publicized report, for example, police in the town of Tenaha, Texas, regularly seized the property of out-of-town drivers passing through and collaborated with the district attorney to coerce them into signing waivers of their property rights. …In one case, local officials threatened to file unsubstantiated felony charges against a Latino driver and his girlfriend and to place their children in foster care unless they signed a waiver."
Nevada has its own record of suspect civil asset forfeiture cases. Over a two-year period Humboldt County deputies seized $180,000 in cash from motorists.
In one case a dashboard camera caught a deputy seizing $50,000 from a man who claimed he won it at a casino. "You'll burn it up in attorney fees before we give it back to you," the deputy said. The man was threatened with having his car impounded, too, if he did not cooperate and waive his rights.
Some states have passed laws to curb the extortionate practice by police by requiring that an actual criminal conviction before assets may be taken.
During the 2015 legislative session Republican state Sens. Don Gustavson of Sparks and James Settelmeyer of Minden sponsored a bill that would have established just such a requirement, but by the time the bill came out of the legislative sausage grinder it merely required police agencies to report their confiscations to the state and specifically declared convictions would not be necessary.
No one has deigned to try to challenged civil asset forfeitures this year in Carson City, but someone should. — TM
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NeuroChain moves towards collective artificial intelligence
NeuroChain project believes that modern blockchain is still slow and unable to scale adequately.
The project has envisioned a solution in the form of collective intelligence, achieved through digitalization.
NeuroChain is moving towards this goal, it launched its community-driven smart contract app.
Blockchain technology has come a long way over the past several years, particularly since came into the light of day following the biggest crypto bull run in history, which took place in 2017. However, the modern-day blockchain is still not at its fullest potential, and it still has many limitations. This is something that projects like NeuroChain aim to change.
NeuroChain mission and goal
NeuroChain believes that blockchain is still far too slow, unsustainable, and not scalable enough. It plans to change this with its own advanced technology, which is still in development, but the project is making progress.
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This is a five-year project, which has decided to take an alternative approach to blockchain, basing it on intelligent decision-making mechanisms.
NeuroChain's blockchain is composed of two components — Bots, as well as a set of rules represented by scalable and flexible protocols, including Proof of Involvement and Integrity, as well as Proof of Workflow.
The company's mission is to achieve collective intelligence, which will be the result of every citizen's contribution. As a result, it will build a fair ecosystem that will deliver a protocol for creating simple, but scalable business applications.
COVID-19 pandemic shows the importance of collective intelligence
The project has been progressing slowly, although it still follows its roadmap to the letter, currently focusing on digitalization. This is particularly important given the global pandemic of 2020, when digitalization provides the world with the ability to share and enrich data and information. Information sources, as well as interaction needs, are multiplying, as the project noted.
There is a great need for geolocation, medical data, and feedback from the field to interact, which is essential for handling the COVID-19 pandemic. This is why focusing on responsible digitalization is more important than ever.
To help achieve this, the project has already launched its Neurochain Token App, and moving forward, it aims to deliver other distributed smart applications, and eventually, to introduce the NeuroChain V2 collective artificial intelligence feature, which is expected to come by 2023.
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Take a look at this video sent to us by the Layton Ondrias crew where we were out Venice LA Fishing for Yellowfin Tuna.
There is no where along any coast of the United States that you can catch the size and numbers of Yellow fin Tuna that we do within a 1 hour boat ride. Some days we catch them as close as 5 miles off the coast.
We do Venice LA fishing year round.
The limit for Yellow fin tuna was per person 27″ and over.
The Techniques we use are Chunking, Live Baiting, Trolling, and Casting top water poppers. Most of the Tuna fish roam in areas where the depths range from 250ft. all the way to 3000 ft. Although, most of the time they are targeted on the surface.
Yellow fin tuna range in size from 27″ (6lbs.) all the way up to 200 plus lbs out of Venice LA fishing at various times of the year. During the months of January (late), February, March, late-September, and October we catch the big one, this is when you have your best shot at catching one well over 180lbs., possibly over 200lbs.


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James Frederick "Jimmie" Rodgers (* 18. September 1933 in Camas, Washington; † 18. Januar 2021 in Palm Desert, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Popsänger, der vor allem in den späten 1950er Jahren mit rockigen Aufbereitungen traditioneller Folksongs eine Reihe von Hits hatte. Sein größter Erfolg war Honeycomb aus dem Jahr 1957.

Anfänge
Rodgers wuchs in Camas im Staat Washington auf, wo er früh Klavier- und Gitarrenstunden bekam. Seine erste Band gründete er, als er in der United States Air Force diente. Später trat er in den Talentshows Arthur Godfreys auf und unterschrieb schließlich bei Roulette Records, dem neuen Label der ehemaligen RCA-Records-Mitarbeiter Hugo Peretti und Luigi Creatore.

Erfolge

Seinen einzigen Nr.-1-Hit in den Billboard-Charts hatte Rodgers im Sommer 1957 mit seiner ersten Single Honeycomb. In den englischen Charts gelangte das Lied bis in die Top 30. Im Folgejahr erreichten Kisses Sweeter than Wine, Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again, Secretly, Are You Really Mine und 1962 English Country Garden die Top 10. Ab März 1959 hatte er eine eigene Show bei NBC.

1962 wechselte Rodgers zu Dot Records und 1966 zu A&M Records. Dort hatte er im selben Jahr noch einen Top-40-Erfolg mit dem Titel It's Over (US #37) und im nächsten Jahr mit Child of Clay (US #31), seiner letzten Platzierung in den US-Charts. Im Dezember 1967 erlitt er bei einem Zwischenfall einige schwere Verletzungen, unter anderem eine Schädelfraktur. Die genauen Umstände wurden nie offiziell geklärt; bekannt ist, dass er während einer Autofahrt gestoppt wurde und es zu einer Auseinandersetzung oder einem Unfall mit Streifenpolizisten kam. Rodgers wurde operativ eine Stahlplatte eingesetzt und er musste einige Zeit pausieren. 1969 streifte er mit dem Album Windmills of Your Mind  noch ein letztes Mal die Charts.

Privatleben und Sonstiges
Rodgers war in dritter Ehe mit Mary verheiratet und hinterließ drei Kinder. Er ist nicht mit dem namensgleichen Country-Musiker Jimmie Rodgers verwandt.

Bemerkenswert war Rodgers' Gitarrenstil: Bei der Begleitung seiner Lieder spielte er lediglich einige Durakkorde, jedoch weder Moll- noch Septakkorde. Dazu verwendete er einen stark vereinfachten Barrégriff nur mit dem Daumen von oben an das Griffbrett und nicht wie üblich mit dem Zeigefinger von unten; die anderen Finger fanden keinen Einsatz. Bei einer Liedbegleitung mit mehreren Instrumenten fällt diese simple Form des Gitarrespielens akustisch kaum auf.

Diskografie

Alben

Singles

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Website über Jimmie Rodgers (englisch)
 Interview mit Jimmie Rodgers (englisch)

Popsänger
Gitarrist
Pianist
Musiker (Vereinigte Staaten)
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1933
Gestorben 2021
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Netgear's release of its Nighthawk X4 AC2200 (EX7300) saw it join up with other major networking manufacturers such as Amped Wireless and Linksys, in providing Multi-User Multiple Input, Multiple Output or MU-MIMO technology for plug-in range extenders. It is easy to manage and install the EX7300, but it doesn't have a pass-through outlet and is fairly large. However, in the 5 GHz tests that we conducted it did deliver good range performance and high scores, and had a very solid MU-MIMO throughput as well. We've rated this as one of the top options this year.
The EX7300 is a bit larger than the Linksys RE7000 and TP-Link RE 450 Wi-Fi extenders, however, unlike the TP-Link RE450 it does not utilize external antennas. It instead has an internal antenna array located in its chassis, in addition to multiple high-power amplifiers. The AC2200 is a dual extender that is able to reach 450 Mbps maximum speeds on its 2.4 GHz band and 1,733 Mbps on its 5 GHz band. The most recent performance-enhancing Wi-Fi technologies are supported, including beamforming, where data is sent to clients directly instead of via a broad spectrum, along with MU-MIMO stream, where data is transmitted to compatible clients at the same time rather than sequentially. It may be used as a wired access point or wireless extender.
There is a three-pronged plug at the back of the gray-and-white extender, and on the bottom there is one Gigabit LAN port. Although the second receptacle on a regular wall outlet is not blocked by the EX7300, it is lacking a pass-through outlet.
On the left hand side is a WPS button, a Reset button, On/Off button, and Access Point/Extender switch. On the front panel there are LED indicators for client link activity, router link activity, WPS activity, and Power. When the connection is poor the client and router LEDs are red, with a good connection they are amber, and with an excellent connection they are green.
To access the settings on the EX7300, type http://mywifiext.net in the address bar of your browser. This launches the console and then a Status page is opened that displays router and Internet connectivity status, SSID information on each of the extended radio bands, and wireless signal strength. On the Wireless Settings page you can disable or enable each band, limit the speed on each band, change Wi-Fi passwords, and rename your SSID. Connected Devices enables you to see information on each connected client, which includes the MAC address, Name, and IP address. On the Do More menu, there is the FastLane option which enables you to dedicate one radio band to extender/router communications and your other band to client/extender communications. That might provide across the board enhanced performance, but you should only use if all clients are either 5 GHz clients or 2.4 GHz clients. Leave that option disabled if there is a mixture of clients. There are other settings that enable you to update firmware, create access schedules, and back up settings.
It is very easy to install the EX7300. All I did is pull it into one of the wall outlets that is in the same room that my router is in and then pressed on the WPS button. Within seconds, the WPS LED started to blink. Then I pressed on the router's WPS button and waited a couple of seconds until the LED glowed a solid green color, which indicated that it had linked successfully to the 2.4 GHz band on the router. To connect with the 5 GHz band I repeated the process and then was all set.
Some of the highest scores from the 5 GHz throughput tests have been turned in by the EX7300. On the close-proximity (or same room) test it had the highest score to date at 338 Mbps, which beat out the 310 Mpbs from the Linksys RE7000, the 288 Mbps of the Amped AC2600, and the 192 Mbps of the TP-Link RE450. The EX7300 scores also led the field at 50 feet with 115 Mbps and 25 feet at 170 Mbps. Its 66.7 Mbps throughput at 75 feet, trailed the 85 Mbps of the TP-Link RE450 and 81.5 Mbps of the Amped Wireless REC44M, but did score higher than the 29.1 Mbps of the Linksys RE7000.
On our 2.4 GHz tests, at close proximity the EX7300 had a score of 57.8 Mbps, at 25 feet a score of 43.7 Mbps, at 50 feet a score of 25.1 Mbps, and at 75 feet a score of 12.6 Mbps. It beat out the Linksys RE7000 scores across the board (46.1 Mbps, 39.8 Mbps, 18.6 Mbps, and 8.4 Mbps), but the same was not the case with the TP-Link RE450 (47.6 Mbps, 44.5 Mbps, 42.5 Mbps, and 32.1 Mbps). The scores of the Amped Wireless REC44M were 53.6 Mpbs for close proximity, 48 Mpbs at 25 feet, 21.4 Mbps at 50 feet, and 18.7 Mbps at 75 feet.
For testing MU-MIMO performance three Acer Aspire R13 identical laptops were used that featured Qualcomm QCA61x4A MU-MIMO circuitry. Throughput was measured to all three of the clients at a 30 foot distance and at close proximity. On the close proximity test the EX7300 had an average 107 Mbps score, compared with the 115 Mbps average score of the Linksys RE7000, and the 99.8 Mbps throughput of the Amped Wireless REC44M. O the 30-foot test, the 90.1 Mbps of the EX7300 was below the 92.4 Mbps of the Linksys RE7000 but higher than the 89.9 Mbps of the Amped Wireless REC44M. To put the scores in perspective, the D-Link AC3150, a leading midrange router, had a close-proximity test score of 237 Mbps and a 30-foot test score of 165 Mbps.
If you need to fill dead spots in that cannot be reached by your router, the Netgear Nighthawk X4 AC2200 (EX7300) is a great option to consider. It is very easy to install and also scored some of the fast throughput that we have see from plug-in range extenders, especially when operated on the 5 GHz band. It doesn't have a pass-through outlet and is a bit on the bulky side, but with these devices that is not uncommon. Compared to the TP-Link RE450, you will pay a little more money for the EX7300, but MU-MIMO stream is supported and it offers better overall performance. Therefore, the Netgear EX7300 is out top pick in range extenders, replacing the TP-Link RE450. However, it your router is getting ready to die, you should instead consider a Wi-Fi system. They require no or very little technical knowledge to use them, are easy to get to set up and provide whole-house Wi-Fi coverage.


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A TRAGIC soldier from Huddersfield was killed on the day he planned to get engaged.
Ashley Uttley, 19, died after the car he was driving crashed into a Land Rover on a country road in Northamptonshire on December 10.
He was killed instantly. He was out to collect a newspaper but then planned to pick up his girlfriend, 19-year-old Kerry-Ann Richardson.
The young couple were going to choose an engagement ring before driving up to Yorkshire to tell his family the happy news.
Ashley's father Richard said his son was very much in love.
He added: "It was going to be such a happy day. He loved to surprise us and not tell us he was coming.
"That's what he planned to do again with the great news. It is just a tragedy."
Mr Uttley said his son's girlfriend was "distraught" at the loss of her future husband.
And he also revealed that Ashley - a Sapper in the Army - had his promotion confirmed, days after his death.
Mr Uttley paid tribute to Ashley, saying he was the kind of son any dad would be proud of.
He added: "He was a man's man but at the same time he was a loving son.
"Whenever he came home from the Army he would give me a hug and wasn't bothered if his Army friends were there.
"He was his own man."
Ashley, who has a brother Kyle, 15, was a former pupil at Shelley High School.
He joined the Army as a sapper in the 48 Squadron 39 Engineer Regiment (Air Support) - a dream job.
His dad, who now lives in Barnsley but works for Schwarz on Northumberland Street, Huddersfield, said: "When I looked back through his school and college appraisals all he wanted to do was join the Army.
"He wanted to join earlier but when he was finally accepted into the Army he was over the moon."
Ashley, who represented England at American football, was also due to go to Afghanistan after Christmas.
His father said: "We had heard that he may also be getting a promotion but the letter confirming this only arrived after he had died.
"He absolutely loved his job."
Mr Uttley said Ashley's funeral service at Grenoside crematorium in Sheffield on Tuesday was packed.
He added: "The crematorium seats 140 people and there weren't enough seats - people had to stand up around the walls.
"He had so many friends. He was a great laugh. Ashley was a total fun person and everybody said he cheered them up when they were miserable."
Mr Uttley admitted Christmas this year would be difficult.
He added: "Ashley could make Christmas.
"Every year he used to come home and he and my partner Tracey would decorate the tree together.
"That will be hard this year but some of his friends are going to come around and help.
"He was a great boy who turned into a wonderful man and all his family and friends are going to miss him."


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Simon Carty was interviewed for today's Irish Independent, who published an article about the healthy state of the Irish film and television sector.
Anybody curious to get a sense of Victorian London could do a lot worse than visit Dublin right now. Pockets of the south-inner city have been given an 1890s makeover thanks to Sky Atlantic's period thriller Penny Dreadful wh is entirely filmed in Dublin and Wicklow.
Its second season began shooting in September and, in what's something of a massive production, will continue filming until the end of March. That's good news for the estimated 350 Irish cast and crew who will enjoy sustained employment either side of the festive period.
It wasn't the only big production set in late 19th century London that took over a chunk of Dublin this year. Ripper Street – and its 130 Irish cast and crew – returned to the city for its third season this summer. And there's talk that they will be back next year to work on Season Four.
It's not an exaggeration to say that there are times when it is difficult to walk through Dublin and other towns and cities and not see a camera crew filming a TV drama or feature film. From Ireland-set series like Moone Boy and the soon-to-be-screened Charlie – which centres on former Taoiseach Charles Haughey – to foreign dramas using the country as a 'double' for somewhere else, including a German soap opera, Ireland's film and TV industry has never known anything like it.
And audiences are responding in kind. More than one million people watched the season finale of RTE's hugely successful crime series Love/Hate on Sunday night and a significant number tuned in for the opening episode of the second season of the Anglo-Irish hit show The Fall which, while set in Belfast, boasts a large contingent of actors and crew from the Republic.
IBEC estimate that more than 6,000 people are directly employed in film, television and animation in Ireland – and that's up from a figure of just 700 20-odd years ago.
There's less certainty in other areas of the audiovisual entertainment, but Taylor Black points out that skilled technicians who cut their teeth in Ireland can find themselves in demand internationally. "You've got a young filmmaker like Gary Shore who's given an $80 million budget to make Dracula Untold and you have a cinematographer like Ruairi O'Brien working on The Fall," he says.
It's not the only worry for those keen to see Ireland cement its place as a European Hollywood. Siún Ní Raghallaigh, the head of Ardmore Studios, Co Wicklow, says a lack of studio space in Ireland is stymieing the country's ability to meet its potential. "The lack of studio space is an issue of great concern for the industry," she said this week. "Studios are essential enablers for the industry to scale.
Ireland has in the region of 110,000 sq ft of such facilities at present and Ní Raghallaigh believes almost double that capacity is needed to meet the target of creating 5,000 new jobs and increasing annual revenue to €1 billion by 2016 as outlined in an arts department report published in 2011. It's feared that the republic has lost big projects – including Game of Thrones and Dracula Untold, which were both made in Northern Ireland – for this very reason.
For an Irish producer, who does not wish to be named, Section 481 is the primary reason why big international projects have set their stalls in Ireland. "Yes, it helps that there are are really accomplished actors, brilliant technical staff and some fantastic locations and so on in this country," he says, "but the primary reason is the tax break. Lots of other countries are offering them too but, for once, we were quick off the mark and got in there early.
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Little Big Planet By: John "Award" Del Percio
Developer : Media Molecule
Publisher : Sony Computer Entertainment
Release Date : November 2008/November 2009 (PSP)
Platform : Sony PlayStation 3, Playstation Portable
Aw Bless, Isn't it Cute?
On the surface, if you were to look at Little Big Planet purely based on what comes in the box, you'd find a cute, yet relatively small platform game. If you dig a bit deeper, you'll find there's quite a bit to be had in this simplistic looking platform game. In fact it's among the first true platform games to be seen on the PS3, not to mention being one of the very few good old side-scrolling platformers in quite some time. After a remarkably clever introduction sequence that gives you both the credits and a simple introduction to basic controls, you're off into the first kingdom to play a game.
The first thing that strikes you when you fire up the game for the first time is the amazing detail in the graphics and textures. Most surfaces look photo realistic, and theres' a very elegant design to the "cardboard cut out" style artwork that assembles the maps. The cardboard cutout design is a clever mechanic in the game, both lending to the doll house feel the game is intended to project, but also as a convenient excuse for having a logical but understandable system for level construction without having an AutoCAD or 3DS Max or Radiant style editor many PC gamers are accustomed to for complex 3D world editing. The effect comes across very well.
Gameplay is reasonably simple to explain for anyone that's played a Mario, Sonic, or Oddworld game. It's a good old classic side-scrolling platform game; something we don't see a whole lot of these days since the 3D gaming world got started (thanks, id.) There are a few notable differences from the conventional side-scroller, however. Most notably is the 3-planes of gameplay. The world is rendered in 3D, and thus allows you to move toward the front of the screen or rear of the screen over three planes of surfaces. Of Equal or greater importance, however, is the physics system. The entire world revolves around a Half-Life 2 style physics system where everything has physics model to it. Everything from your sack person to mine carts, to hanging lights, to carryable objects, and even some platforms have weight, and this affects their movement. Moreover, all objects and surfaces have a surface type that affects their grip, weight, lighting, and other attributes. The physics is not just a graphical effect in this case, it is a critical component of how you play the game.
The game is structured into several kingdoms, each of a unique theme. While an attempt is made to form a story out of it, it often makes little sense. This isn't truly a negative for the game though, as the wacky environments certainly fit in with the lack of a continuous plot. More importantly, each kingdom serves as a "texture pack" for the map editor. Unlike most games, playing the single player game is not optional, it's actually a part of the mapping process for online play. As you play levels in the single player game, the items you find throughout the level, including hidden areas and bonus sections, are actually objects, decals, surface types, and other components or you to use in your own maps. You can only use objects you've discovered in your own maps, how's that for incentive?
Most of the objects are cleverly hidden and quite difficult to get to throughout the game, so it will take quite some time hunting them all down. For veterans of the classic SNES' Super Mario World, the concept of hunting down any available objects even through multiple runs of the same level will feel right at home, right down to finding keys for a "bonus level" to be discovered, sometimes multiple within a single map. Indeed the replay value of the single player game can be quite extensive given the vast number of well hidden objects. Completing the game once is hardly approaching complete for most levels.
UPDATED: January 2009 (New PSP Release)
Precisely one year after the initial wave of Little Big Planet hit the world, Sony has taken it upon themselves to release a PSP port of the title. Though developed outside Media Mollecule, it would be nearly impossible to tell the difference in creative direction. All of the sack-charm remains in the game, from its cardboard dollhouse visual approach to it's physics-driven platforming play style, it's all here. Of course, the PSP isn't a DualShock 3, and no critic seems to be satisfied with a PSP review without mentioning the lack of controls. This effect is much reduced on Little Big Planet's gameplay, however, due to its simple platforming nature. Extraneous details like independent micro-controlled sackboy dancing has been sacrificed in exchange for quick taunts and gestures, but these details don't hamper the game in a measurable way. While the only impediment to the gameplay has been the reduction of a three-plane 2D world to a two-plane 2D world, the actual level design is, arguably, superior to that of the original game. Designed for the PS3's multiplayer concept, level mechanics had to be simple enough that four players don't get in each others way (something Miyamoto San should have considered for New Super Mario Bros. Wii.) With the single-player-only attitude of the PSP, levels have become more interactive with complicated machinery and lever systems for your sack person to operate and drag around to get to the end of a level. The removal of limited respawns also proves to be a boon for the game. One of the greatest frustrations of the original title is the limit to four respawns at especially difficult areas of the game. In the PSP version, while you'll lose "bubble" points, you won't see a hard limit at the respan gates. Finally!
While the level design and creativity has increased, the lack of controls on the PSP present a specific problem for the game's tagline feature: The level editor. The good news is the PSP version includes a level designer, turing your handheld into a creative workstation. The bad news is that complicated controls and limited features presents some frustrating challenges with level design. It's still extremely workable, but not quite what PS3 players are used to. It's also clear that Sony designers were not creating their top-notch levels on mere PSPs. Beyond that the gameplay is nearly identical, and is one of the most worthy titles on Sony's flagship handheld.
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[Submitted on 13 Feb 2014 (v1), last revised 18 May 2017 (this version, v5)]
Title:A minimal-variable symplectic integrator on spheres
Authors:Robert I. McLachlan, Klas Modin, Olivier Verdier
Abstract: We construct a symplectic, globally defined, minimal-coordinate, equivariant integrator on products of 2-spheres. Examples of corresponding Hamiltonian systems, called spin systems, include the reduced free rigid body, the motion of point vortices on a sphere, and the classical Heisenberg spin chain, a spatial discretisation of the Landau-Lifschitz equation. The existence of such an integrator is remarkable, as the sphere is neither a vector space, nor a cotangent bundle, has no global coordinate chart, and its symplectic form is not even exact. Moreover, the formulation of the integrator is very simple, and resembles the geodesic midpoint method, although the latter is not symplectic.
Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
MSC classes: 37M15, 70H06, 70H08, 53Z05, 65L06
Cite as: arXiv:1402.3334 [math-ph]
(or arXiv:1402.3334v5 [math-ph] for this version)
Journal reference: Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 86, No. 307, pp. 2325-2344 (2017)
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mcom/3153
From: Olivier Verdier [view email]
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REVIEW: Blues guitarist Sonny Landreth's influences shine, but he makes Musikfest Cafe show his own
Sonny Landreth in file photo (DOULAS KILPATRICK/Special to The Morning Call)
Slide guitar is popular among blues musicians, and when a player is covering a standard such as "Walkin' Blues," he runs the risk of sounding just like those who played the song before him.
But when bluesman Sonny Landreth played those songs Friday at Musikfest Café at ArtsQuest Center in Bethlehem, he owned them: his impeccable playing creating limitless sounds as he combined the sounds of Delta blues with a more modern rock/blues influenced twist.
More than a third of the set was songs off his new disc, "Bound by the Blues," released June 9, and each song fit right in with the theme of the night.
Both the album and his stage performance displayed his roots beautifully, demonstrating his expertise of the instrument, immense knowledge of music and, perhaps most importantly, soul.
Landreth, 64, opened with "Z. Rider" then played three blues standards, all from his new album. The first was Robert Johnson's "Walkin' Blues," which also has been covered by greats such as Eric Clapton and Muddy Waters. The same goes for Elmore James' "It Hurts Me Too" and Skip James' "Cherry Ball Blues."
"I'm going to get you all standing on these tables before the night is over," Landreth said to the audience after "Cherry Ball Blues," adding that he might come down and join them.
Then, he launched into the instrumental "The Milky Way Home," which he originally played with Eric Johnson on his star-studded album (featuring artists like Eric Clapton, Dr. John and Robben Ford) "From the Reach."
Landreth's jazz influence could be heard throughout the night. In interviews, he cites John Coltrane and Miles Davis among his many of his influences, and "The Milky Way Home" and "Brave New Girl" made it clear he's is not your average blues guitarist—mixing his jazz influence with a rock/blues feel.
In "Brave New Girl," especially, Landreth made the guitar sing, holding out notes as a slow, funky bass line played behind him. It is a rare treat to hear a guitarist who can shred and play melodious lines. But Landreth, who played trumpet before he took up guitar, let the guitar breathe on this instrumental, giving greater depth to his playing and showing off his vast amount of influences.
The guitarist also played tribute to another of his influences, Johnny Winter, who passed away last year, in a song off his new album "Firebird Blues." The song is named after the Gibson Firebird, a type of guitar Winter often played.
Landreth didn't break out his Firebird for the song, as he did on the album, but he still was able to channel Winter's aggressive and raw guitar playing.
"Blue Tarp Blues," which followed, showed another new element to Landreth's playing and guitar technique. The song, named after photos of New Orleans after Katrina devastated the city, began with Landreth rubbing the fingers of his left hand over the guitar strings, creating a watery echo sound.
On his last song before the encore, Landreth unleashed a long blues solo at the end of "Back to the Bayou Teche." At one point, he put another slide on his left hand to pick the guitar strings, creating a strikingly harsh sound, but one that fit perfectly with the build of the solo.
Other songs that shined during the show were "Congo Square," again illustrating the more raw side of his playing, and "Uberesso," which again demonstrated his knowledge of music beyond the blues.
Landreth's blues singing was a little weak on some songs, especially during "Back to the Bayou Teche," where he sung with the bass player on the chorus, but his guitar playing more than made up for it. At the end of the show, he received a standing ovation from much of the audience.


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From dump-bound to table: Philabundance turns surplus milk into cheese and yogurt for hungry Philadelphians
Catalina Jaramillo
Cows graze at the Cedar Dreams farm in Peach Bottom, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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The Stoltzfus farm in Peach Bottom, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Yogurt made from surplus milk is distributed by Philabundance. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philabundance clients said they love the drinkable yogurt they receive with their produce. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Food distributed by Philabundance. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Surplus milk is turned into drinkable yogurt and bottled at Stoltzfus' Cedar Dreams farm in Peach Bottom, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
On a beautiful sunny day recently in south Lancaster County, farmer Abner Stolztfus and seven of his eight children were inside, bottling yogurt in a room next to the barn. "The younger one is only 2 months old, so she's not working out here yet," he said, laughing.
Stolztfus and his family own Cedar Dream dairy farm in Peach Bottom. He and his kids milk 50 cows twice a day — at 5 in the morning and 5 in the afternoon. His family has been farming for generations.
"I learned milking cows from before I started going to school," he said.
But yogurt is a whole new business for him.
Dairy farmers like Stolztfus have been struggling financially during the last few years. While new technologies have allowed farms to produce more milk, fewer people are consuming it. That's causing milk prices to plummet and creating a surplus that often ends up going to waste. According to the Center for Dairy Excellence, Pennsylvania lost 120 dairy farms in 2016. In that same year, dairy farmers across the country dumped 43 million gallons of excess milk.
So last year, Stolztfus decided to invest almost $200,000 in equipment and learned how to make yogurt from scratch. Today, he produces about 3,000 pounds of milk and yogurt a week. His No. 1 seller is drinkable yogurt, a light but creamy, all-natural yogurt.
Things were not easy at the beginning, though. With an upset market, he struggled to find customers until an unlikely client emerged: Philabundance, the local nonprofit that turns waste food into food donations.
Forty percent of all food produced in the United States is wasted and ends up in landfills. Yet in Philadelphia, one in five residents doesn't have enough to eat. To combat waste and help feed hungry people, Philabundance is rescuing perfectly good milk that was going to be dumped to make cheese and yogurt for families in need. In the process, it helps farmers like Stolztfus.
"We are testing out a new model with him where we work with another farmer to source excess skim milk from his butter production," said Kait Bowdler, director of sustainability at Philabundance. "Every time you produce butter, there's the whey and the skim that's left over, and a lot of that ends up being thrown out."
Skim milk can be processed into other products, such as cheese or yogurt. But because dairy farmers are struggling, they are left with no money to pay for that processing and end up dumping it. Same happens with other types of milk.
"Think about it: Cows still produce the same amount of milk no matter what you use it for, and if a co-op says that you can only produce a certain amount or that they can buy a certain amount, you end up having to throw that out," Bowdler said.
Last year, food banks statewide came up with an idea. Using funding from the Pennsylvania Agricultural Surplus System and donations from the dairy industry, they got 12 tanker loads of surplus milk a local co-op was going to dump. (Milk-transport trucks can hold anywhere from 5,000 to 8,000 gallons.) They took the rescued milk to local cheesemakers and made thousands of pounds to give away free at food pantries and shelters. For farmers, it meant total revenue of $165,000.
Philabundance purchased 27,680 pounds of that cheese for donations, but then took the idea one step further. It bought more milk to make more of the same cheese, this time to sell in fancy food stores, like DiBruno's and Riverwards Produce in Philadelphia, under the brand Abundantly Good. For every pound of cheese sold, $1 goes back to the farmer to process milk into free cheese for hungry people.
Giving people in need food of the same high quality as that sold in gourmet stores is what the whole program is really about, Bowdler said.
"It's rebellious in a way, it's saying that people who are poor don't just need to take whatever you give them — we can give them a better product," she said.
According to Philabundance, in a year farmers have received $9,000 from retail sales — the equivalent of selling 18,000 half-pound units. That has allowed them to produce 3,500 pounds of cheese for donations. Due to the success of the program, the organization is testing out a new product: excess skim-milk yogurt.
Stolztfus said leftover skim milk by itself looks and tastes like colored water. But with the right equipment and ingredients, it can be transformed into delicious yogurt.
"We pump the skim milk in there [the pasteurizing tank], we heat it up, to about 108 degrees, and we add the culture. We let it incubate for 12 hours, and we stir it back up, add the flavoring, sugars, and mix it up good, and that creates the yogurt," he explained while overseeing bottling of the product.
At the end of the day, Stolztfus transforms 4,500 pounds of skim milk that might have become waste into 4,500 pints of drinkable vanilla yogurt for people in need.
"It's a very good way to get people drinking more milk, getting dairy in them…," Stolztfus said, "It's a very good feeling, it makes me feel really good."
And it helps him pay his bills. For now, Philabundance is paying Stolztfus to process the excess skim milk from butter production into both drinkable and spoonable yogurt. But if the Abundantly Good program grows, the organization will try to sell the yogurt in stores, and have the retail sales pay for food donations.
In July, a new retail product will debut: spiced tomato jam. Proceeds from sales of the jam, produced in collaboration with TBJ Gourmet, will go to provide tomato sauce and soup donations for people in need.
Several years ago, Delaware County was "incarcerating at levels that were unmatched across the state." Now, county officials say they have changed course.
Meet the teens behind a Montco Food Not Bombs group
They cook together every other Thursday, then set up a table in Norristown the following Saturday to distribute free meals and groceries.
Everybody Eats Philly opens its first location, in Chester. The mission to fight food insecurity is the same
After two years of giving away food in Philadelphia and other cities, the chefs behind the project now have a home at Chester's Vittles Food Court.
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Q: Instance of custom class not working inside a struct, but works outside I have a question about an error I'm getting when trying to compile a card game I am making.
I have a class named Player which takes a const char* as a parameter for it's constructor.
I am trying to create 4 instances of Player in a struct called GameState however it is giving me this error.
In file included from testfile.cc:5:0:
gamestate.h:22:17: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:22:17: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant
gamestate.h:23:17: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:23:17: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant
gamestate.h:24:17: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:24:17: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant
gamestate.h:25:18: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:25:18: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant
In file included from player.cc:3:0:
gamestate.h:22:17: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:22:17: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant
gamestate.h:23:17: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:23:17: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant
gamestate.h:24:17: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:24:17: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant
gamestate.h:25:18: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:25:18: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant
In file included from game_functions.cc:3:0:
gamestate.h:22:17: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:22:17: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant
gamestate.h:23:17: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:23:17: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant
gamestate.h:24:17: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:24:17: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant
gamestate.h:25:18: error: expected identifier before string constant
gamestate.h:25:18: error: expected â,â or â...â before string constant

The code for GameState is
#ifndef __GAMESTATE_H__
#define __GAMESTATE_H__

#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include "deck.h"
#include "player.h"
#include "trick.h"

using namespace std;

struct GameState
{
    GtkWidget *ai1_hand_image;
    GtkWidget *ai2_hand_image;
    GtkWidget *ai3_hand_image;
    GtkWidget *play_area;
    GtkWidget *info_label;
    GtkWidget *pass_button;
    GtkWidget *play_card_button;
    GtkWidget *player_hand;

    Player ai1( "ai1" );
    Player ai2( "ai2" );
    Player ai3( "ai3" );
    Player user( "user" );
    Deck deck();
    Trick current_trick;
    int trick_num;
    bool hearts_broken;
};

#endif

The header file for Player is
#ifndef __PLAYER_H__
#define __PLAYER_H__

class GameState;

#include <vector>
#include "card.h"

using namespace std;

class Player
{
    public:
    Player( const char *_name );
    void add_to_hand( Card _card);
    void remove_from_hand( Card _card );
    bool hand_contains( Card _card );
    void set_valid_cards( GameState *game_state );
    vector < Card > get_valid_cards();
    const char *get_name();
    private:
    const char *name;
    vector < Card > hand;
    vector < Card > valid_cards;
};
#endif

However when I make them Pointers in the struct it works fine. Also creating instances of Player outside of GameState also works.
This works:
Player *ai1;
Player *ai2;
Player *ai3;
Player *user;

and this when it is in testfile.cc:
Player user( "user" );

Can anyone tell me why I get those errors when I create them inside GameState.
Thanks alot guys!

A: You can not provide initializer
Player ai1( "ai1" );

in class definition. You can declare the member and then initialize it in constructor. Like
Player ai1, ai2, ai3, user;
GameState() : ai1("ai1"), ai2("ai2"), ai3("ai3"), user("user") { }

A: You can't declare objects inside a class (or struct) definition. You have to do it in a function.
Either use a special function that initializes the objects, or better yet have a constructor do it (in C++ a struct is just a special class where all members are public by default):
struct GameState
{
    Gamestate()
        : ai1( "ai1" ), ai2( "ai2" ), ai3( "ai3" ), user( "user" ), deck()
        { }

    // The other fields...

    Player ai1;
    Player ai2;
    Player ai3;
    Player ai4;
    Player user;
    Deck deck;
};

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An Amazon logo appears on a delivery van, Oct. 1, 2020, in Boston. Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing health care business. The retail giant said Tuesday that it will launch RxPass, a subscription service for customers who have Prime memberships. Credit: AP Photo/Steven Senne, File
Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing health care business.
The retail giant said Tuesday that it will launch RxPass, a subscription service for customers who have Prime memberships. Amazon said people will pay $5 a month to fill as many prescriptions as they need from a list of about 50 generic medications, which are generally cheaper versions of brand-name drugs.
The company said the flat fee could cover a list of medications like the antibiotic amoxicillin and the anti-inflammatory drug naproxen.
Sildenafil also made the list. It's used to treat erectile dysfunction under the brand name Viagra and also treats a form of high blood pressure.
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