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My First and Last Visit to Hudson Yards
Figuring I did not need to invite any more darkness and vulgarity into my head than that provided on a daily basis from Trump's White House, and after reading horrific account after horrific account following its opening, I had avoided an actual visit to the thing called Hudson Yards, which cost a zillion dollars to make even as it received lots of those zillions in massive tax breaks.
Today, fortified perhaps by the lovely weather, my curiosity got the best of me, and so I set out on my trusty Trek to take it in and see for myself what all the hoopla was all about.
After all, I reckoned, how often does a city like New York suddenly sprout nothing short of a "new neighborhood " out of a bunch of old railroad tracks?
From a distance, approaching from the south, there is a moment or two when the Hudson Yards is reminiscent of a scene in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and Toto and company glimpse the Emerald City looming far past the poppy fields. Indeed, in the High Line, the Hudson Yards even has its own version of the Yellow Brick Road, where I saw thousands of pilgrims and leads straight into the place.
I arrived and looked around and looked around some more and still have no idea what all the hoopla is about. There are a number of exceedingly tall, exceedingly scary looking buildings where people are meant to live or work in or do something in and which made me feel paramecium -like when I looked up at them.
There was a very high-end shopping mall catering to people with way too much money.
There were insane and deeply cynical signs all over the place exhorting people to "Climb to new heights" and "Work where it matters" and "Discover your new home, " as if Hudson Yards were engaged in a public self help project or, ya know, affordable to anyone.
My favorite sign read, "Welcome to your new neighborhood," as if this terrifying collection of towers could ever properly be referred to as a neighborhood.
There was something called The Shed, which is meant to be an art space and where videos blare at you concerning the wonders of The Shed. From a distance, I thought that part of The Shed was covered by an enormous plastic sheet, but no. The thing that looks like an enormous plastic sheet is part of The Shed. Permanently.
Finally, in what seems to be the center of the "Yards" stood the thing called The Vessel, where people were invited to climb up many flights of stairs and take "selfies," peering out over the high-end mall or The Shed or, for the more adventurous, in the direction of the Westside Highway.
And I'm here to tell ya, many, many people did.
I tried to find beauty and found none. I then settled for finding something remotely interesting and found none of that either. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. What I found is a place reeking of a certain moneyed banality. And all I knew was I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. The idea that any sane, more or less educated human being would want to hang out in Hudson Yards, never mind live there, is inconceivable to me. But then again, the fact that millions of Americans believe that Donald Trump was chosen by God to be president is inconceivable to me.
I am happy to be away from the thing called Hudson Yards and I cannot imagine ever returning there. Why would I? As Gertrude Stein said of Oakland, "There is no there there."
What is there is an absolute contempt for all that is human, scaled, and empathetic that no amount of public relations can disguise.
Hudson Yards may well be the most cynical development in the history of New York City. It is certainly the most cynical location I have ever visited.
Give me my apartment with a bathtub in the kitchen, which, though cramped, feels like a home. Give me my neighborhood, which, even when it drives me mad, is, in actual fact, a neighborhood.
Addendum: Apparently massive tax breaks were not enough for the makers of New York's newest "neighborhood:" they had to rob from funding meant for the most struggling communities. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/04/hudson-yards-financing-eb5-investor-visa-program-immigration/586897/
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Tags: Hudson Yards, The Shed, The Vessel
David McReynolds R.I.P.
Herein a brilliant, courageous and profoundly decent man who lived his beliefs whatever the cost. He will be missed by many.
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Scenes for the March For Life in New York
Central Park West Looking North.
And so they came and came by the thousands, flooding Central Park West with citizens of all ages, all races, all creeds, all who have had enough of insane gun laws. And so they spoke from the stage of their loss and sorrow and rage: a survivor from the slaughter at a concert in Las Vegas, a mother from Harlem whose two children were gunned down in the streets, a leader of Black Lives Matter, a librarian who survived the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, student survivors of the carnage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and parents of the dead. A great beginning. May it proceed and grow.
Following are scenes from the day.
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A Horrific Reality
A Lonely Trump Guy
One Man's Perspective
Inter-generational
Tired of Thoughts and Prayers
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Paul Ryan Comes To Harlem
In a sense, the visit of such a person to such an institution made perfect sense, that much the more in the Age of Trump. After all, here you had Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, one of the leading proponents of the ceaseless war on the remnants of the social contract, fresh off his successful orchestration of a billionaire tax cut masquerading as a health care bill intended to strip millions of healthcare, visiting Harlem Success Academy, the flagship school of Eva Moskowitz, one the most successful practitioners of the publically funded privately managed scams called charter schools.
The two, after all, have a lot in common. Both owe their careers to the largesse of the richest people in the country and, in the case of Moskowitz, the politicians in their employ. Ryan, of course, is a prime example of such an employee.
Hence, Moskowitz beckoned, Ryan came.
Despite their almost limitless financial backing, and a government that seems pleased to give them both almost anything they ask, both parade around as heroic strivers for the underclass against the wily tyranny of the status quo, i. e. the public sector and labor unions.
Both are corporatists, through and through.
Please note that Harlem Success Academy is but one of three schools housed in the building in which Ryan made his visit.
What was the purpose of Ryan's visit? A visit that necessitated police barricades and TV crews at 7:30 in the morning when I arrived to teach in the school that Ryan had no intention of visiting . A visit that brought hundreds of furious protesters whose whistles and howls I could hear intermittently throughout the day, one especially loud volley signaling Ryan's arrival, another, his hasty exit.
For Moskowitz, Ryan's visit was a public relations bonanza, made to show the world how connected to power she really is. A few years ago I literally bumped into presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the hall of my school as he was leaving Success Academy after visiting with Moskowitz.
It is not hard to imagine what would happen if a public school official called Ryan's office and offered a tour of a public school.
For Ryan the visit was an opportunity to show how much and how deeply he cares about the children and people of Harlem, even if he and Donald Trump and a bunch of rich white guys recently celebrated stripping them of their healthcare while taking aim at Medicare.
Full disclosure: Ryan, who arrived hours late, did make a last minute gun-at-the –head, perfunctory visit to a special needs class in the 811 school which Moskowitz tried ruthlessly to gobble up as part of her ever expanding empire, to hell with the special needs kids who are schooled there. Almost certainly agreed to because of the pressure asserted by 811 teacher Mindy Rosier, Ryan was reportedly escorted into a classroom of children who had no idea who he was, smiled, said hello, shook the principal's hand and was hustled up the stairs for an hour long visit with Success Academy.
Using children for political props is nothing new to Moskowitz, even if the same act would find any DOE principal out of a job and possibly in jail should they pull such a stunt. Over the past few years Moskowitz has bussed children up to Albany and had them parade over the Brooklyn Bridge, all on school time, all as their teachers were on the city's dime, all under the pretext of giving the kids a "civics lesson."
Ryan's visit, presumably, was just another such "lesson. "
But what, precisely, was the nature of the lesson? What did the students learn? That it was somehow OK for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to visit their school and not the public school next door in the same building? That the students my colleagues and I teach are somehow not as important? That passing savage health care bills that will destroy people's lives and render millions helpless so the richest people in the country can have yet another tax break is just fine?
That some people count and some people don't ?
Yes, it made perfect sense that these two should meet, as it is so perfectly revealing of the nature of all things in the Age of Trump.
Ryan and friends celebrating stripping millions of Americans of healthcare.
Addendum: http://thechiefleader.com/news/news_of_the_week/house-speaker-gets-a-private-look-at-success-and-a/article_a5d7128c-2ab7-11e7-8d4d-6364c3ca180d.html
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Tags: Eva Moskowitz, healthcare, Paul Ryan, Success Academy, Trump
A 150 Mile Journey For Justice: 10 Years after Legal Decision, Billions Are Still Owed New York State Schools
Parents, students, teachers and elected officials gathered together in downtown Manhattan this morning at a press conference before some of the participants began a 150 mile walk to Albany to demand the payment of billions of dollars New York State owes their schools. The protest pilgrimage called "EdWalk2016" commemorates the ten-year anniversary of the decision
reached in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case that directed New York State to adequately and equitably fund poor school districts. During the same decade, the New York State has implemented draconian "reform" after draconian "reform," such as ever changing and incomprehensible teacher evaluations linked directly to ever more difficult student tests.
Former NYC Councilman Robert Jackson
I met the marchers in Times Square.
Bringing the word to Times Square
"We have teachers from Buffalo, Schenectady, Syracuse, Westchester County, Long Island, and every part of New York city. Twenty-three of us are walking to 153 miles to demand the $3.9 billion that have been denied our students and our schools," said special education teacher Henry Montalto, one of the walkers.
Pilgrims-teachers Mindy Rosier and Henry Montalto
The protest is organized by the Alliance for Quality Education.
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Nigeria FG Announces Plans To Introduce Tollgates On 12 Highways
FG Announces Plans To Introduce Tollgates On 12 Highways
Editor February 23, 2021
The Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has announced plans to concession no fewer than 12 federal highways to private entities to manage. According to the information, the recent development is in a bid to ensure the regular maintenance of the different road networks across Nigeria.
The was first published by Vanguard news and would enable the private companies to introduce toll gates on the 12 highways and collect revenue which they would use and regularly maintain such roads.
In its bid to ensure the regular maintenance of its road network across Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing plans to concession no fewer than 12 federal highways to private entities to manage.
The 12 highways to be concessioned under the Ministry's "Highway Management Development Initiative", HMDI, are: Benin-Asaba, Abuja-Lokoja, Kano-Katsina, Onitsha-Owerri, Shagamu-Benin and Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga.
Others are: Kano-Shuari, Potiskum-Damaturu, Lokoja-Benin, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Ilorin-Jebba, Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta and Lagos-Badagry-Seme Border.
Meanwhile, in other news, Rochas Foundation students have been spotted protesting against the recent arrest of Sen. Anayo Rochas Okorocha. The students of the school which has been reportedly been sponsored by the former governor were protesting with cardboard sheets in the midst of the tussle between the former governor of Imo State, and the present.
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In July 2015 the Obama administration has given Royal Dutch Shell PLC approval to begin with limited exploratory oil drilling off Alaska's northwest coast, in the Chukchi Sea. The permits were granted despite the nationwide protest (where people in 13 states gathered for a "ShellNo" Day of Action) and protests by many environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Friends of the Earth. In this blog I will give a summary of the history of Arctic drilling and I will also discuss shortly the environmental concerns and technological and safety risks relating to offshore oil drilling in the Arctic.
The Arctic is home to four million people, many of whom are descendants of indigenous communities who have lived in the far North for thousands of years. The Arctic also houses a diverse range of unique wildlife: hundreds of seabird species, millions of migrating birds and 17 different species of whale, while experts believe that 90% of the world's narwhal population can be found in Baffin Bay alone. Mammals such as Polar Bears, Arctic Foxes and various species of seal inhabit the Arctic at different points throughout the year. The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas are home to a diverse array of marine life, including salmon, herring, walrus, seals, whales, and waterfowl. Additionally, the Chukchi Sea is home to higher occurrences of benthic marine fauna. Scientific understanding of these ecosystems and the anthropogenic effects on them, are both not yet sufficiently understood. The Arctic is estimated to hold the world's largest remaining untapped gas reserves and some of its largest undeveloped oil reserves. The region above the Arctic Circle accounts for just 6% of the Earth's surface area, it accounts for as much as 20% of the world's undiscovered but recoverable oil and natural gas resources. Large Arctic oil and natural gas discoveries began in Russia in 1962, with the discovery of the Tazovskoye Field, followed in 1967 by the discovery of the US Alaskan Prudhoe Bay Field. By 1975, five offshore wells have been drilled in Greenland by companies like Shell, BP and Statoil with the aim of extracting oil and gas for commercial use.
Due to climate change, the Arctic sea ice is melting in an alarming rate. Because of this change the Arctic drilling season is limited to a the few months of summer. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released proposed regulations on february 2015 to ensure that future exploratory drilling activities on the U.S. Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) are done safely and responsibly, subject to strong and proven operational standards. The regulations focus solely on offshore exploration drilling operations within the Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea Planning Areas. Using a combination of performance-based and prescriptive standards, the proposed regulations codify and further develop current Arctic-specific operational standards that seek to ensure that operators take the necessary steps to plan through all phases of offshore exploration in the Arctic, including mobilization, drilling, maritime transport and emergency response, and conduct safe drilling operations. However, offshore oil drilling is a complex and technologically advanced industrial activity especially in the Arctic. In freezing conditions, oil is known to behave very differently than in lower latitudes. Mainly it takes much longer to disperse in cold water and experts suggest that there is no way to contain or clean-up oil trapped underneath large bodies of ice. Toxic traces would linger for a longer period, affecting local wildlife, be transported large distances by ice floes and leave a lasting stain on this pristine environment.
The Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico has demonstrated that despite innovative technology, drilling is an inherently risky operation and safety cannot fully be guaranteed. The problems with drilling safety are compounded in the Arctic. Shorter days, harsh weather, presence of ice and lack of infrastructure are just some of the problems in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas that do not exist in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell has only been given legal permission to drill during the warmer months of July to October. The question is whether lessons has been learned from the Deepwater Horizon accident and are whether these lessons have been translated into increased safety. While the technology used in deepwater oil extraction has improved over the last several decades, oil spill response has remained largely unchanged. Although the U.S. government has set up bodies to address oil spill response and recovery (Oil Pollution Act of 1990, Interagency Coordinating Committee on Oil Pollution Research (ICCOPR)), there has been little innovation in oil spill response. In the event of an oil spill, response and cleanup operations involve oil containment, skimming, and even burning. These are techniques that have not changed since the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. Shell has included similar operations in its oil spill response plan for the Arctic. The Government Accountability Office noted in a report of February 2012 that these technologies face additional technical and logistical challenges in the Arctic. If a blowout were to occur at the end of drilling season in October, surface ice could prevent an effective response. Also consider BP's response to the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico. The company needed over 6,000 ships, more than 50,000 people and a lot of money to control its leaking well, causing the biggest environmental disaster in US history. If big oil companies cannot adequately respond to a spill in temperate conditions, close to large population centers and with the best response resources available, how can we be assured by claims that these companies like shell are prepared to deal with a spill in the extreme Arctic environment?
The Deepwater Horizon accident has additionally shown that oil drilling in the marine environment has deleterious effects on the marine environment. Scientific evidence suggests that noise from seismic surveys conducted during oil exploration harms acoustic animals such as whales, walruses, and seals. Increased tanker traffic associated with higher oil exploration and production will increase noise pollution in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Additionally, the impacts of hydrocarbon releases in the marine environment have been shown to cause detrimental impacts on reproductive health, immunological and neurological functioning, as well as higher incidences of mortality for marine wildlife. Shell's 2012 exploration plans include drilling exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea, where bowhead whales migrate to during spring time. The impact of a spill on the Arctic environment, ecosystems and already vulnerable animal species would be devastating and long-lasting.
The oil industry is not able to guarantee the safety of Arctic drilling. Profit comes before the environment.
The effects of a very large oil spill on the marine environment in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas are unknown. Since oil production in the Arctic has thus far been limited, the impact have not been thoroughly studied. The lack of scientific evidence raises critical concerns about further oil and gas development in the Arctic. However, the acquisition of scientific knowledge on the Arctic has been relegated to a secondary priority when it concerns oil and gas development. We know that Offshore oil drilling in the Arctic is a challenge, both technnically and safety wise. The question now is if the profit and the immense technical, economic and environmental risks of drilling in the Arctic are really worth it?
Amos, W., "Development of Canadian Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling : Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico", in Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 20 (2011), No. 1, pp. 39-46.
Johnstone, R. L., Offshore oil and gas development in the Arctic under international law : risk and responsibility, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2015.
National Commission on the BP deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, "The Challenges of Oil Spill Response in the Arctic", in : Berkman, P.A. and A.N. Vylegzhanin, Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean, Dordrecht, Springer, 2013, p. 255-279.
Scott, K.N., "Drilling at the Poles: Environmental Protection in the Antarctic and the Arctic", in Fitzmaurice, M., Ong, D.M., Merkouris, P. (eds.), Research Handbook on International Environmental Law, 2010, pp. 654-679.
Tedsen, E., Cavalieri, S., Kraemer, R.A. (eds.), Arctic Marine Governance, Berlin, Springer, 2014.
Thompson, T., Should drilling be allowed in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?, Farmington Hills, MI, Greenhaven Presss, 2013.


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Q: R In SQL Server I've recently downloaded the CTP for SQL Server 2016 in order to get a grasp with the integration of the R language with SQL Server.
I haven't been able to find any resources/documentation on the topic as of yet.
Has anyone else had any joy with it?
Thanks

A: I've been researching this as well and here are my findings.
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*During Microsoft Ignite conference (2015), Lindsey Allen demo'd R integration in the new SQL Server 2016. Link

*The feature is not yet ready in CTP 2. This is discussed here.

*Books online for SQL Server 2016 Books Online
Please update me with any new information you come across!! Thanks.

A: R is available on SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.

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Jenny Holzer's piercing beacons of truth light up Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Tom Seymour Wallpaper* 29 March 2019
Exhibition view: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (22 March–9 September 2019). © 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: José Miguel Llano.
Jenny Holzer was 26 when she arrived in New York. The freshman art student at the Whitney Museum had grown up in Gallipolis, Ohio, a sleepy town in America's Midwest, and had spent her early twenties jumping from place to place in search of her artistic identity. She started out as an abstract expressionist. Then she tried to capture the human form at its most explicit. But she was frustrated; the themes that animated her – sexual and physical violence against women, systemic abuses of power, meditations of love, lust and longing – could not be properly evoked by her canvas.
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Artist Profile Jenny Holzer
For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Center, the Reichstag, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Her medium, whether formulated as a T-shirt, as a plaque, or as an LED sign, is writing, and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of her work. Starting in the 1970s with the New York City posters, and up to her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor, kindness, and moral courage.
Holzer received the Leone d'Oro at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum in 1996. She holds honorary degrees from Ohio University, Williams College, the Rhode Island School of Design, The New School, and Smith College. She received the Barnard Medal of Distinction in 2011.
Holzer lives and works in New York.
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Home » Environment » NAP derogation applications and fertilisation account deadline extended in NI
NAP derogation applications and fertilisation account deadline extended in NI
Feb 5, 2021, 8:02am
The submission deadline for manure export records and NAP derogation applications and fertilisation accounts in Northern Ireland has been extended.
Farmers will now have until March 1, 2021, to submit manure export records to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA).
In addition, the deadline for applying for a Nutrients Action Programme (NAP) derogation, and the submission of 2020 fertilisation accounts for derogated farms, has also been extended to March 31, 2021, newly-appointed DAERA Minister Gordon Lyons has confirmed.
However, for farms intending to apply for a derogation, a fertilisation plan must still be prepared on the holding by March 1 and kept updated during the year.
The extensions come as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic and is part of the department's effort to adhere to guidance such as social distancing and self-isolating in order to reduce the spread of the virus.
It also takes the pressure off farmers and their agents who along with the agri-food sector are working extremely hard to ensure the food supply chain keeps moving.
Minister Lyons said: "Unfortunately, given the current status of the pandemic, we once again need to consider the impact this is having on the ability of farmers to meet with agents and departmental advisors.
Farmers may need to discuss key business issues decisions such as applying for a derogation, and the preparation of fertilisation accounts and submission of manure export records.
"It is essential that this is done in accordance with Public Health Guidance and Covid-19 restrictions.
"I am, therefore, extending the deadline for submission of manure exports records to March 1, 2021. to ease some of the pressure on farmers and their agents.
"Minister Edwin Poots extended the deadline for applying for a NAP derogation and submitting accounts last year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
"Again, this year, I am extending the deadline for doing so to March 31, to enable farmers and their agents additional time to correspond and prepare their submissions in a safe manner.
"I would encourage all farmers to check their farm nitrogen loading figures which can be done via the department's online services and apply for a derogation if necessary.
Farmers who intend to apply for a derogation must still prepare a fertilisation plan for their holding by March 1 and keep it updated during the year.
"I trust that these pragmatic extensions will be welcomed and continues to demonstrate that we are willing to listen to our stakeholders and work collectively with them during this challenging time."
What's involved in a derogation?
The Nutrients Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (NAP Regulations) set a livestock manure nitrogen loading limit of 170kg N/ha/year.
For farms operating under an approved derogation, this is increased to 250kg N/ha/year, subject to implementing additional measures.
Derogated farms are required to have a fertilisation plan, produce an annual fertilisation account, carry out soil sampling once every four years, have a farm phosphorus balance below 10kg P/ha/year and have at least 80% grassland.


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Bergman to study COVID-19 economic recovery
Milgard School economic Margo Bergman has been awarded a COVID-19 economic research recovery grant, one of 18 funded by UW's Population Health Initiative.
Milgard School Senior Lecturer Margo Bergman
UW Tacoma Senior Lecturer Margo Bergman has been awarded a COVID-19 economic research recovery grant. Bergman's project is one of 18 funded through the University of Washington's Population Health Initiative.
The recovery grants are meant to help researchers at all three UW campuses examine the economic challenges created by the pandemic. For her project, Bergman teamed up with the City of Puyallup's Economic Development Manager Meredith Neal to look at why people are choosing to stay home even as the state reopens under the four-phase Safe Start plan.
Bergman, an economist on the faculty of the Milgard School of Business since 2014, is looking specifically at two factors: concerns about public health measures and concerns about the economy. "There are two kinds of uncertainties we are facing," she said "People have been out of work and may not have enough money to return to their standard level of economic activity and the other kind of uncertainty involves public health and whether measures taken by businesses address people's concerns. Bottomline is, we do not know if people aren't going out because they don't have the money or they are afraid of getting COVID-19."
The study will focus on restaurants in Puyallup during Phase 2 and possibly Phase 3 if and when Pierce County receives approval to move forward. "We're focusing on restaurants because that's where the public health uncertainty is likely to be the greatest because eating a meal means having to take off your mask."
Bergman is creating online surveys that the City of Puyallup will help distribute to business owners and customers. The data will ultimately be compiled in a report, but Bergman says she will be sharing information with the City throughout the process. "This will help the City of Puyallup make decisions on what they need to do in terms of either supporting economic programs or public health programs," she said.
Puyallup is a smaller city with two distinct shopping corridors. "Smaller towns and cities don't have a lot of money to work with in terms of helping support businesses," said Bergman. "Puyallup is interesting because it has two economic drivers. One is Main Street, which is mostly local businesses and the other is their mall which is mostly larger chains. So, this also gives us a way to differentiate between trust centers and who the public thinks does a better job with public health."
No two cities are the same, but Bergman thinks the information collected will be valuable to other small municipalities. "The city planners and managers in these places talk to each other," she said. "They might be able to take this information and see if the same holds true in their town."
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Biografia
Nato il 29 settembre 1938 a Vicenza, ma residente a Costabissara (Vicenza), primo di quattro figli, dopo aver conseguito la licenza media inferiore abbandona la scuola e gli studi per affiancare la madre Lucinda, rimasta vedova giovanissima, nel nascente commercio di oreficeria, che lo porterà a diventare un imprenditore orafo.

Nel 1963 fonda la Stefano Stefani srl, azienda specializzata nell'importazione e l'esportazione di pietre preziose, con particolare attenzione ai mercati indiani e sudamericani.

Successivamente diventa presidente della Sezione Orafi di Confindustria Vicenza.

Inizia a fare politica con la Lega Nord di Umberto Bossi a partire dai primi anni '90, ricoprendo diversi incarichi all'interno del partito come segretario provinciale di Vicenza dal 1992 al 1994, Responsabile esteri, Responsabile media e presidente federale del partito dal 18 maggio 1995 al 22 febbraio 2002, contribuendo in modo determinante alla nascita dei mass media della Lega Nord come La Padania, quotidiano ufficiale del partito, e Radio Padania Libera.

Alle elezioni politiche del 1994 viene candidato al Senato della Repubblica nel collegio maggioritario di Vicenza, sostenuto dalla coalizione di centro-destra Polo delle Libertà in quota leghista, dove viene eletto per la prima volta senatore con il 41,99% dei voti contro i candidati del Patto per l'Italia, in quota Partito Popolare Italiano, Mario Zocche (22,53%), dei Progressisti Antonio Franco Dal Maso (17,13%), di Alleanza Nazionale Tonino Assirelli (8,66%) e la Lega Autonomia Veneta Enzo Trentin (6,36%). Nella XII legislatura della Repubblica è stato componente della 8ª Commissione Lavori pubblici, comunicazioni, in sostituzione del sottosegretario ai trasporti Sergio Cappelli, e della 10ª Commissione Industria, commercio, turismo.

Stefani è stato eletto senatore nella XV Legislatura (2006-08) e deputato nella XIII, XIV e XVI Legislatura (1996-2006 e 2008-13). È stato presidente della III Commissione permanente Affari Esteri e Comunitari della Camera dei deputati e si colloca fra i dieci deputati più produttivi per quantità ed efficacia dell'attività svolta.

Ha ricoperto le cariche governative di sottosegretario del Ministero delle Attività produttive durante il governo Berlusconi II e sottosegretario del Ministero dell'Ambiente e del Territorio durante i governi Berlusconi II e Berlusconi III.

In una lettera aperta del 2003 su La Padania, quando era sottosegretario, Stefani definiva i tedeschi "biondi stereotipati dall'orgoglio ipernazionalista" che "invadono rumorosamente le nostre spiagge ma sul loro quotidiano più letto, la Bild (…) non dimenticano di menzionare (…) il numero dei furti d'auto a Rimini o addirittura le ultime statistiche dei morti di mafia in Sicilia". Stefani si riferiva a Martin Schulz, allora eurodeputato socialista, protagonista di uno scontro con Silvio Berlusconi a Strasburgo, definito "ubriaco di tronfie certezze", abituato a sentirsi "primo della classe" e ad assumere "atteggiamenti protervi". La lettera di Stefani causò la cancellazione delle ferie del cancelliere tedesco Gerhard Schroeder in Italia, e la vicenda si concluse con le dimissioni di Stefani da sottosegretario. Stefani venne poi reintegrato come sottosegretario nel dicembre 2004.

Alle elezioni amministrative del 2003 si è candidato a sindaco di Vicenza, sostenuto solo dalla Lega Nord, che non aveva stretto un patto con la Casa delle Libertà. Al primo turno Stefani raccoglie il 9,63% dei voti, arrivando terzo e non accedendo al ballottaggio, per cui si apparenta al secondo turno col sindaco uscente Enrico Hüllweck.

Il 5 aprile 2012 il consiglio federale della Lega Nord lo nomina nuovo tesoriere del partito subentrando al dimissionario Francesco Belsito coinvolto in una inchiesta su presunti fondi neri al partito che hanno portato anche le dimissioni di Umberto Bossi da segretario federale. Stefani è affiancato da un nuovo comitato amministrativo di tesoreria composta da Roberto Simonetti e Silvana Comaroli, che sostituiranno i senatori Roberto Castelli e Piergiorgio Stiffoni, membri del comitato durante la gestione Belsito. Il consiglio ha deliberato inoltre che il comitato amministrativo sottoponga immediatamente ad una società di revisione contabile esterna la certificazione della situazione patrimoniale della Lega Nord. Stefani è anche presidente della Lega Nord Estero.

Vita privata
Grande appassionato di sci, ha ricoperto dal 1978 al 1992 la carica di presidente della Commissione Nazionale Sci della FIE.

Inchieste giudiziarie
Stefani è stato coinvolto nelle inchieste giudiziarie sul fallimento del villaggio turistico "Skipper" ad Umago, della Credieuronord, e nel caso dei finanziamenti pubblici a Il Giornale d'Italia.

Nel caso del villaggio Skipper, Stefani fu raggiunto da un avviso di garanzia della procura di Padova nel luglio 2004 per bancarotta fraudolenta (poi passata a bancarotta semplice) riguardo al fallimento della società "Ceit", intermediaria nell'investimento. Stefani fu assolto nel dicembre 2011 "per non aver commesso il fatto", dopo aver risarcito 500.000 euro ad una banca carinziana.

Nel 2000 Stefani, assieme a Maurizio Balocchi, tesoriere della Lega prima di Belsito, sono i due sottosegretari che siedono nel CDA della banca Credieuronord, sostenuta da Bossi e finanziata tramite 3.000 sottoscrizioni nelle sezioni leghiste. A seguito del fallimento, rilevato da Bankitalia nel 2003, la banca "padana" viene rilevata dalla Banca Popolare di Lodi di Gianpiero Fiorani. Il Carroccio offre come pegno la storica sede di via Bellerio, la scuola leghista di Varese e il prato di Pontida, per evitare la bancarotta e la perdita dei risparmi dei sottoscrittori. Stefani, assieme agli altri membri del CDA, viene colpito da una sanzione amministrativa di circa 7.000 euro comminata dal Ministero dell'Economia di Giulio Tremonti.

Nel 2007 la procura di Roma mette Stefani sotto indagini per concorso in truffa ai danni dello Stato e riciclaggio nella vicenda dei finanziamenti pubblici a Il Giornale d'Italia, usato per rastrellare 14 milioni di contributi all'editoria di partito. Stefani era accusato di aver intascato una parte dei fondi ottenuti da Massimo Bassoli, immobiliarista ed ex direttore-editore del quotidiano, in cambio del "patrocinio" prestato o promesso dalla Lega. Bassoli versò alla Lega 117.000 euro, contabilizzati in bilancio; le intercettazioni di Bassoli non poterono essere utilizzate in indagine secondo la legge Boato, e la posizione di Stefani venne archiviata.

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Voici une interview d'Ivan Passer (en anglais) réalisée lors du Festival de Fribourg et également publiée (dans une forme légèrement différente) dans le dernier numéro de l'excellente revue canadienne Cinema Scope de notre ami et collègue Mark Peranson.
If 70s American cinema was part of the questioning of classical Hollywood values, myths and narrative structures, then Cutter's Way was the final swansong of that era of doubt. It would be hard to be darker, more desperate or pessimistic than Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way, made ten years after the Czech director's stunning American debut with Born to Win, an all too often overlooked masterpiece that remains the most sensitive, realistic and harsh films on drugs ever made.
For the carte blanche offered by Fribourg Festival, we chose to show the brilliant Cutter's Way. Ivan Passer came to introduce the film and we had the opportunity to discuss it at length with the audience. Ivan Passer is a delightful man and a fascinating filmmaker whose immense moral and artistic integrity must have proved an obstacle to a successful Hollywood career, but which nonetheless resulted in a handful of brilliant films, rare and invaluable in contemporary cinema. The encounter transcribes here was a chance to go back over his exceptional experiences, and the early phase of Passer's career, the exciting Czech beginnings alongside his childhood friend Milos Forman up until the American masterpiece that is Cutter's Way, the high point of a filmography that subsequently took a much lower profile, (numerous TV movies and some chaotic theatrical films) but which one day we should make the time to find and re-evaluate.
When I was thirteen years old (in 1946), in Poděbrady, a small town about twenty kilometers east of Prague, there was a boarding school, which was founded by the wife of Baden-Powell, the creator of the Boys Scouts.
There were two kinds of kids there: one group was children who had lost their parents during the war, e.g. Milos Forman, the other group was kids of parents who didn't know what to do with their children, and that was me.
I still remember when I first saw Milos I didn't like him very much because he always won in every competition. One day we were waiting on a court, the boarding school was in an old castle, and somebody came up with a silly idea to hold our caps with our heads against the walls. And I decided that Milos was not going to win this time. We were there for hours, everybody left and there were just he and I talking together and holding these caps. I don't remember who won but I remember I couldn't move my head for like three days. My neck was totally frozen.
There were these two fanatic film buffs running the Film Archive in Prague. They were using all methods possible including stealing films and making illegal copies. They were making non-stop screenings during the weekends. Thanks to these guys we had the chance to have a film education and see all the movies that were forbidden in Czechoslovakia. The Communist censorship was very stupid. They forbad one of my favorite movies of all time, De Sica and Zavattini's Miracle in Milan because at the end of the picture they flew from the East to the West!
One day, after film school (Milos was four years ahead of me), we got together and said: how in this God-forsaken country could we make some good movies?
There was the socialist realistic aesthetic, which came from Russia by a gentleman called Jdanov. The films were boring to begin with and hypocritical. They showed steel workers living in extremely luxurious apartments, build in a studio, it was not true.
We took a piece of paper and we wrote down several points, how our movies should go by. And I remember some, like "it should be a comedy" because the Communist Party and the censorship were more tolerant with comedies because according to their slogan you should entertain people. "It should be shot outside of the studio, in the streets" because they would not look over our shoulder that much. "We will use non actors" because we felt that the actors were corrupted and too busy, and because we were very young and we felt that we would not respect us. "We will use natural light." It was very similar to the Danish Dogma years before that.
The beginnings: Konkurs (Audition, 1964) by Milos Forman, written by Milos Forman and Ivan Passer.
We wrote another short story about a folk band, Kdyby ty muziky nebyly (If Only They Ain't Had Them Bands, 1964) and finished the film and to our total surprise the film played even in New York.
The first feature: Intimni osvetleni (Intimate lighting, 1965).
A subversive and experimental comedy.
It was an absolute surprise. I didn't want to be a director because I had a very good time being a screenwriter. I had no responsibilities. We were always three, Milos, wonderful Jaroslav Papousek and I. It happened by accident like most of the things in my life. One screenwriter called me about a treatment, which the studio didn't want to do unless he found a director. Several directors rejected it and I was his last chance. I agreed without reading the script. When I read it I realized why the other directors didn't want to do it. It was a trip on a canoe down to the river with a piano player and his girlfriend. It was not very interesting. But at some point they see somebody fishing, they stop and he recognizes his friend from the conservatory. They studied music together. His friend invites them for lunch in his house. I said "okay, from this scene we are going to make the movie." And we made the movie; it was a very small story. And because it was so small they let us do everything we wanted to. I personally don't like very strong stories because it doesn't give you time to do all these little things which I love in the films, the banalities, moment of emptiness… Intimate Lightningis considered a film about nothing, but in the meantime I hope it is about many things, what are hidden. When we left, the Communist Party banned the film for twenty years, it was scratched out of the books.
The Communist Party would even tolerate if the filmmakers argue with them about politics, but they really hated when you ignored them. My film ignored them totally.
The film was an international hit.
I met a guy who saw Intimate lighting sixty times. When I make a film I like to have an emotional target, I like to imagine what state of mind the audience should leave the theatre with, and in this movie I was hoping they would like to come back because they liked the characters. We visit our relatives, our friends, we know what they are going to say, to do, but we like them. I thought that is how my movie should be, and it did happen.
We didn't have any plans to work outside Czechoslovakia. I had two scripts. I was kicked out of the High school three months before graduation. They called me an "enemy of the people", I was seventeen years old and they were sending me to a coalmine. I run away and I spend the best year of my youth with gypsies, living in a caravan. I travelled around Czechoslovakia with them and worked in a Luna-Park. One of my scripts was about one weekend with the gypsies. I never had the chance to do it. It was a very tragic and violent love story.
The other script was an adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Castlewritten with Václav Havel.
During the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets tanks I was in England preparing a film for Carlo Ponti. I went back to Prague after the invasion and so did Milos. We didn't want to leave at first but six months later in January 9, 1969 we left and again accident played a big part. We left around one o'clock in the morning in Milos' car with one piece of luggage. Milos chose a border crossing to Austria not used very much. There was nobody there, patches of snow. An officer came out of the house with a Kalashnikov and he asked "where are you going?" Milos was driving and I roll down the window answering "we are going to Vienna for the week-end". I gave him the passports but we didn't have the yellow piece of paper that was an exit visa they didn't give to anybody. The officer asked where our exit visas were. I was pretending looking in the luggage back of the car and I hear this kind of dialogue I still don't believe. The officer said "are you Milos Forman the film director?" and Milos said "yes". The officer said "I have seen all your movies" and Milos said "and I bet you didn't like any of them." The officer loved and knew all his film by heart. Then he said "don't look for these exit visas" and he open the gate and he used in Czech a word for "goodbye" that you used only when you know you will never see the person again. He let us go.
We didn't have so much of a plan. We went to Paris where we knew a few people like Claude Berri. Milos had possibilities to make some deal with Paramount for a picture. I was offered a picture in France. But when I heard that the screenwriter wanted to make the movie, I rejected the offer. Milos said to me "you are so stupid, we are here, penniless, and you refused a job! Now come with me to America!" So I did.
We arrived in New York. A Czech art director had a house in East Village and he gave it to us, to babysit the house. We had no money.
I didn't go to America to make movies. I felt "why would Americans need a Czech director who doesn't even speak English?" I was ready to have a manual job. I went to the docks to get a job, eight dollars an hour. One day, six months after we came to America, some Czech friend of mine organized a birthday party with a lot of Czech people and invited me. In a melancholic mood there was an American guy so I went to him and talked to him. His name was David Scott Milton. He was a playwright-novelist and he invited me to the opening of his play, which was off Broadway, three days later. I went there and there were five people in the audience, three of them left after the first part, and after the play we went to have a drink together, he was very depressed. He said he was doing that for fifteen years and couldn't make a living. I said "did you ever write a film? We could take the characters of your play and write a script." The play was about a junkie. I didn't know anything about drugs, so I learned a lot of new things, did research. It interested me because here in the country of freedom – for me who came from a country of restricted freedom – there are these people who voluntary give their freedom away, and are enslaved by drugs. That fascinated me. But we treated it with humor. Basically there are two junkies, one is white, one is black, they are friends, what was unusual at that time, and they hustled together. Nobody paid us for this script. David knew a director of a film theatre who had some connections with United Artists and gave them the script. United Artists had a contract with George Segal and they were obliged to give him three projects a year, so they gave him the script. Segal decided to do it. But I didn't want George Segal to do it! He was a very difficult actor. The writer begged me on his knees to take George Segal because otherwise the film wouldn't have been made. I accepted but he was a real prima donna.
I gave one of his first parts to Robert De Niro; he is playing an undercover cop in the movie. I saw him on a stage and I liked him. I met another interesting actor I liked very much. His name was Burt Young. I wrote a scene for him. Three years later he became famous with Cinderella Liberty (Mark Rydell, 1973), Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) and of course Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976).
My next film was Law and Disorder (1974). I met a taxi driver who told me he was part of a vigilante group in Lower Manhattan, trying to protect the neighborhood against crime. I thought it was a great idea for a comedy. I wrote the script and I made a big mistake: it was almost like a slapstick comedy, Ernest Borgnine was one of the guys, and for some reason I killed Ernie's character in the film. It was a change of genre inside the film. The audience was laughing all the time, suddenly this guy was killed and the audience was stunned. I learned that you should never do that.
I refused to do violent films. I consider it is dangerous. I have seen real violence during WW2. The violence affects some people who are not able to realize the difference between reality and fantasy. So I take myself out of 80% of the American market. I got offers all the time and I rejected them. I was teaching at Sundance and Robert Redford offered me a film about an American Indian that was so violent I refused it. I don't want to see these movies, how should I make them?
I had a project, which was a very Czech script. It was the story of a banker in Brooklyn who has two sons who don't want to be bankers. Nobody wanted to produce it because it was not expensive enough. I was going from one company to another for three years. So I was totally broke and I got a phone call from Austria. Karen Black who was in my previous films called me up and she said they just fired an American director on the set of a film with Omar Sharif and Claude Chabrol suggested my name to take over. I asked for the script and she said they had to shoot before I had time to read it. I said it was like a blind date and I took it because I was totally broke. With my last money I took a taxi to Kennedy Airport and went to Vienna. Eight people were waiting for me. I went to my hotel room and I read the worst script in my life, based on a James Hadley Chase novel: An Arabic prince chasing an international star… I threw it out the window and I said to the producer it was terrible. He said "do whatever you want but you have to keep the location because I already pay for it." The crew was half Austrian, half German, and they were waiting for work, I had to keep them busy. With an American screenwriter we had to rewrite the script. And I was supposed to shoot the next day. It was a nightmare. I look into the sky and said "do something, and one day I will make a religious movie" and a miracle happens. There was a blue sky and suddenly a snowstorm arrives, we couldn't get out of the hotel for three days, it was impossible to shoot, and we took time to rewrite the script. And I kept my word; I did a movie called Creator with Peter O'Toole in 1985, with some religious meaning.
Superficially, Cutter's Way is a modernist contemporary reading of film noir, alongside Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye and Roman Polanski's Chinatown: the detective story serving as a pretext to depict a community (here the peaceful and prosperous Santa Barbara in California) and a gallery of picturesque characters on the fringes of society. At a deeper level, Cutter's Way is a damaging account of a nation that has lost its final illusions in the Vietnam War and of a society eaten away by corruption. Cutter, from a good family, returns from Vietnam crippled (minus an eye, an arm and a leg): he is the American hero reduced to a loud and obnoxious wreck. Cutter is slowly drinking himself to death in city dives, while Bone, the blue-collar guy with the looks of a Greek god, flunkey to the rich by day and gigolo to their wives at night, is unhealthily attached to his best friend: guilt at having stayed at home while his more brilliant friend was blown up by a mine; the guilt of a physically able and attractive man in love with his friend's wife. Though physically and morally bereft, Cutter is however a kind of oracle, with a lucidity that goes beyond the paranoid conspiracy laid out in the film, denouncing both Western pacifist and anti-racist self-righteousness, as well as the rampant fascism and ruthless capitalism that rides roughshod over all under the Californian sunshine. A last sudden burst of courage and heroism offers the protagonists in this murky business an opportunity for a redemptive and sacrificial finale, in which death seems to be the only real dispenser of justice, and the only way to restore one's dignity. Cutter's Way is undeniably as important and political a film as was Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, made the same year, also for United Artists. In fact, both films feature the excellent Jeff Bridges (two journeys into the heart of darkness, two romantic and devastated visions of American civilization) while John Heard (Cutter) and Lisa Eichhorn (Mo) give unforgettable performances, undoubtedly among the most under-rated in contemporary cinema. Eschewing any showiness, cleverly recreating the feel of a thriller in order to transcend it, Passer's film also offers a sensitive account of a magnificent and tragic love triangle, whose protagonists are bound together in failure and sadness.
Robert Mulligan was supposed to do the film with Dustin Hoffman, and then Mark Rydell with Richard Dreyfuss. Dreyfus chickened out, so United Artists stopped the film and Mark Rydell stepped out. Many American directors would not make a movie without a star in it. All Sydney Pollack films are with stars. Later, Richard Dreyfuss came back and the producer Paul Durian proposed me for the film. I liked the book and the script but I didn't want Richard Dreyfuss. He was not right. So United Artists stopped the film again. The producer was desperate. Trying to convince me he asked me to go to New York where Dreyfuss was acting in a Shakespeare show and during the performance I noticed a wonderful actor. His name was John Heard. After the show I spend ten minutes with Richard Dreyfuss and three days with John Heard. The producer agreed because he was afraid to lose a third director. United Artists was making at that time what they considered "the biggest hit of all time", Heaven's Gate, and the star of the film was Jeff Bridges. If I get Jeff Bridges to play the other part, Bone, they accepted to hire John Heard for the part of Cutter. When I know who is going to be acting in a movie, I like to tailor the script for the actors. Not everybody can do everything. Intimate Lighting was made with non-professional actors, but actors are not so much different. It is better to respect their natural personality. I didn't like the ending of the novel "Cutter and Bone" by Newton Thornburg, because it was to close to Easy Rider's ending. With the screenwriter Jeffrey Alan Fiskin we only used half of the book. I had the tremendous luck to meet the director of the photography Jordan Cronenweth. I like to use the locations and the environment if possible, as another character. With these two miserable unhappy people, Cutter and Bone, in this beautiful surrounding, Santa Barbara, I was looking for a cinematographer able to capture that. I know the best cinematographers personally, but none of them had the eye and sensitivity I was looking for. The casting director showed me some TV movies and I was impressed by the work of Jordan. I was stunned when I met him because he was around 40 and he behaved like if he was 90 years old! The slowest person in the world! I learned that he was not able to do more than 6 set-ups a day, so I adjusted and did long shoots which I could intercut. It is always very difficult to control the color in a film. We couldn't paint things like Antonioni. It was too expensive. Si we took out one color, blue. There is no blue in the film, which is difficult in California because of the sky. That forced me to put the camera above the eye level, camera is always looking a little down, and you have the sense there is some aesthetic order in the film. Jordan was a real artist, always surprised by everything, like a child. He never made a shot that needed some reshoot or correction. After Cutter's Way, everybody wanted to work with him: Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, and Coppola did two movies with him, Peggy Sue Got Married and Gardens of Stone.
There was one of the reasons why I agree to make the film because I felt I knew Cutter's character very much. I have seen people after the war that came from concentration camps, they were violated in their bodies and their minds, and they were like contaminated by the violence. They became violent themselves. This is what I wanted to show in Cutter's Way. That deals with paranoia and also the irrational behavior of violence coming from the victims and the oppressed people.
Interviewed on March 30, 2012 in Fribourg, Switzerland. Thank you to Ivan Passer, Thierry Jobin, Artistic Director of the Fribourg Festival and Mark Peranson (Cinema Scope).


After the successful Ethereum crowdfunding campaign, musician and web developer Peter Harris saw a path to creating a fair, decentralized music streaming platform. Out of that Resonate was born. Peter joined us to discuss why the dysfunctional structure of the music industry results in a bad deal for musicians and why a decentralized platform supported by blockchain technology and run as a cooperative represents a better way forward.


It is no secret the leaders of Rogue Ales in Oregon are savvy businessmen. Rogue has built their brand with the same dedication with which they brew their beer; the quality of both has, since 1988, been rock solid. In 2006, when Rogue took the plunge and began distilling whiskey, it was expected this product, too, would bear the hallmark of good craftsmanship. But when the whiskey rolled out bearing an age statement of 90 days, public opinion was given a hard shake.
Using the same mash bill as their famous beers, Rogue pulled the reputation card and leapt. In theory, this could be a viable, if creative, way to make whiskey, but there has been, up to this point, little way to tell – their whiskies, being so young of until late, generally have not been well received by many reviewers, us included.
Can age improve Rogue's products? Anything is possible so, to find out all we could about what's coming up, we took a tour of Rogue's distilling operation in Newport, Oregon, recently under the expansive guidance of their head distiller John Wilcox (Editor's Note: now their former head distiller – see the end of the story to learn more).
Built in a series of old ship maintenance buildings, the Rogue distillery and "Ocean Aging Room" are not the sleek, antiseptic industrial areas of their brewing operations. While the distillery is a cozy hodgepodge of tasting bottles and old labels, the aging room is methodically arranged, and Wilcox knows the exact locations of every whiskey. The original Rogue still (nicknamed Tracy) is a 150 gallon columnar still. When their operations expanded, a 500 gallon still (Tory) took on the extra work with a vodka column added in 2012 and a gin basket in 2014. The distillery currently processes 6,000 gallons of mash per week, trucked over from the brewery next door, and is constantly in production, with an average of 150 cases per week of finished product.
The focus at the beginning of production, we are told, was all about capacity. Rogue's corporate philosophy is heavy on moving product, and a product sitting on a shelf is a liability (think shoes, think beer). When distilling, this ethos can translate to gin and vodka, but when it comes to whiskey, nothing beats time in creating a good product. Although slow to embrace this idea, the paradigm shift is beginning to happen, Wilcox said, as Rogue continues to age things such as their rye and Dead Guy whiskies.
In addition to longer time in current barrels, Rogue has invested in a state-of-the-art cooperage, now named Rolling Thunder. Not only to showcase their self-sufficient brand (they grow their own grains on farms throughout Oregon), Rogue's investment in a cooperage is shrewd business. There is an impending barrel shortage, and full orders are almost impossible to get from America's current coopers. Additionally, it is another chance to promote Oregon products, as Rolling Thunder exclusively uses locally sourced Oregon Oak.
Head cooper Nate Linquist, a long-time employee on the eve of retirement, was enticed into running the cooperage. Apprenticed to Oregon Barrel Works' Rick DeFerrari, Nate now builds around three barrels per week for Rogue. We caught a glimpse of Barrel One in the Ocean Aging Room. A char #3 barrel with char #2 head, it was filled earlier this year with Dead Guy whiskey. We sampled a bit, and were pleasantly surprised. Although a "banana bomb" on the nose, the spirit does exhibit a bit of complexity heretofore not found in Dead Guy, with less of a biscuit flavor – more tropical fruit forward, with a hint of caramel popcorn.
What's next for Rogue distilling is, with luck, a continued focus on quality over quick turn-around. The exact focus will be for another Head Distiller to determine, though, said Wilcox. His term as Rogue's distiller, since we first visited, has come to a close, though he is still a consultant with them for the moment. With three distillers in four years, Rogue could change course yet again, as each new distiller arrives with their own ideas, experience and vision. Jake Holshue is the man scheduled to take the wheel, and he's happy with the direction Rogue is taking.
Every distiller wants to make the best whiskey. It takes patience, and that's what has been missing from Rogues offerings so far. If today's emphasis becomes ethos, Rogue whiskey has the potential to live up to its rock solid brand.


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Q: Azure - ASP.NET MVC connect to mysql database Actually, i wanted to check is my connection string valid.
There are asp.net mvc web app and mysql db deployed on azure, so i want use second thing in first. So, i added db to visual studio server explorer - db and all tables are visible.
Now i tried to add connectionstring to my project, and, wow, there are two of them i found:
First: In Visual studio data connection properties:
server=us-cdbr-azure-central-a.cloudapp.net;user id=userid;persistsecurityinfo=True;database=crawlerdb

Second: In azure workplace's database property:
Database=CrawlerDB;Data Source=us-cdbr-azure-central-a.cloudapp.net;User Id=userid;Password=userpass

And both of them doesn't work. Never lucky.
Connection state checking code:
using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connstr))
        {
            try
            {
                conn.Open();
                var q = conn.State;
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                var q = ex.Message;
            }
        }

What am i doing wrong?:) Tell me plz:)

public class CrawledDataContext : DbContext
{
    public CrawledDataContext()
    {
        Database.SetInitializer<CrawledDataContext>(null);
        using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("server=us-cdbr-azure-central-a.cloudapp.net;user id=bb15193d20f901;persistsecurityinfo=True;database=crawlerdb"))
        {
            try
            {
                conn.Open();
                var q = conn.State;
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                var q = ex.Message;
            }
        }
    }
    public DbSet<GroupInfo> GroupInfoes { get; set; }
}

Here is exception message:
"A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)"

A: SqlConnection is for SQL Server Databases. you should use MySqlConnection instead.
using (MySqlConnection conn = new MySqlConnection("server..."){}


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Time to finish off my "review worst games thingy" topic by reviewing Sonic Spinball (the Megadrive version)! Instead of reviewing a game with a bad reputation (even though it may or may not deserve it), I decided to do the opposite and talk about a game that is considered mediocre, and see if it deserves that reputation. Is this game fun? Let's find out!
Let's start with the gameplay; it's pinball. I'm assuming you already know how to play pinball, but just in case you don't (and are still living under a rock from Pac-Man 2600), here's a quick summary: you move a ball in a playing field to score points. To get points, you have to hit multiple targets. At the bottom is 2 plastic bats called flippers. Don't let your ball fall in the drain!
Well, that sounds like exciting gameplay (not). In the previous article, I stated how I despise this game. And I do. That is because of the terrible controls. I don't mind the game being different, and "not a platformer", as long as the game controls well, and is fun. But, they messed up this game too much for it to be enjoyable.
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There is a story, but it's basically nothing. The back of the box says that "Dr Robotnik's latest fortress is a giant pinball machine!" and Sonic needs to destroy it. That's it. According to Wikipedia, there is a bigger story, but most players won't get to hear it. It's basically saying Tails and Sonic …
SataniaHD April 4, 2015 Retro Games, Reviews Permalink
Keeping with the theme of my last two articles, it's time to tackle another poorly rated game. The arcade Pac-Man is probably one of my favorite Coin-Op games. But, the 2600 home port is something to be desired. As I've found with both ET 2600, and Sonic '06, bad games aren't really as bad as many say they are. But, we're only half way through the bad game list. Here is my "review worst games thingy", with the game Pac-Man: on the Atari 2600!
The gameplay is very similar to the arcade game. But, if you've lived under a rock for at least 30 years, here is a recap: you eat pellets, travel around a maze and avoid ghosts. There are bigger pellets, that turn you super. This means you can eat ghosts.
But, porting an arcade game to an inferior system never ends well. In this game, Pac-Man eats wafers, the game only displays one ghost at one time so the ghosts flicker, and a poorly designed maze. But, we all expected modified graphics and level layouts. But the ghost flickering is not excusable.
But, I can't really complain about the game as much as other games (say ET, or the next game that I will review next week). The reason is that there is another Pac-Man game on the Atari 2600. This game is Ms Pac-Man. If you really wanted a Pac-Man game on the 2600, just go for Ms Pac-Man.
However, this is a review of Pac-Man 2600, and not Ms Pac-Man. Is this game fun? The result is similar to Sonic '06, and ET: the games are fun, but only when reviewing, Let's Playing, or with a friend. You wouldn't go back to play this game, as there are better games. But, it's still …
SataniaHD March 28, 2015 Retro Games, Reviews Permalink
Is Sonic The Hedgehog (Sonic '06) Really That Bad?
Last week I wrote about ET being counted as "the worst game of all time". This week, I decided to try and tackle another game that is hated by many; Sonic '06. Many call this "the worst Sonic game", and "if you like it, you must be crazy". But, is it really as bad as people say? Let's find out!
Let's start with the story: Why did they decide to make the story this bad? I would usually try and explain the story, but this story is so putrid, so bad, that I just can't. I have no idea who thought this story was good. This story is also so convoluted, that it would take over 9000 years to explain. If you want to see the story in it's entirety, watch Sonic '06 The Movie. Actually, scratch that. The story sucks, and you shouldn't go and watch it.
The graphics look a lot like an early PS3/360 game. But, they decided to put the anthropomorphic characters inside a "realistic" world. Most of the main animal characters (Sonic, Tails, Silver, ect) have mediocre models with poor animations. The humans are very bland, and have terrible models AND animations. So the graphics are pretty meh.
The music is some of the best in the whole series. Seriously, even if you hate the Sonic franchise, you still need to hear the music. The world tracks and atmospheric tracks are both amazing. Just listen to the music. Please. It's one of the main things you should own from this game.
The gameplay is very similar to Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2. There are 3 main hedgehogs that you can play as, with 3 slightly different move-sets. These are Sonic (obviously), Shadow and newcomer Silver the Hedgehog. The levels are different, so you won't get bored.
However, it wouldn't …
SataniaHD March 21, 2015 Reviews Permalink
Is ET Really the "Worst Game of All Time"?
When browsing the internet for games to avoid, you will find many people who will say E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 is the "worst game of all time", and you should avoid at all costs. But, is the game really that bad? Let's find out!
Let's start with the graphics. For the 2600, it is pretty good. While everything looks green, it isn't blinding, and you wouldn't have moaned back when it was made. I will say that I prefer the simpler graphics of other 2600 games, because they are more streamlined. But this game isn't that bad.
There is no music, except the title screen music that is pretty ear-grating. The sound effects are mediocre; when you walk around, it is just noise. But, the noise isn't that bad, as it is at a pitch that isn't deafening.
The gameplay is pretty good, especially as the game was rushed. The objective is to collect three pieces of a telephone, so ET can call home. The pieces are randomly scattered throughout pits. If you walk too much, you will run out of energy and "die?". It's not explained what happens when you run out of energy, ET just collapses.
To get out a pit, ET uses it's neck to levitate out of a hole. It makes no sense, but what did you expect? Avoid the other people, as they will steal your phone pieces. When you collect three pieces of the telephone, you have to call home when nobody is onscreen.
So, the answer to the question: Is ET really the worst game of all time? I'd say no; while the game is mildly fun, it's not a masterpiece. But, it is not as bad as other games. (Crazy Bus anyone? What about Big Rigs?) …
Crash Bandicoot Review
Crash Bandicoot is counted as one of the most influential video games of the original PlayStation era. Crash had many great games during his hay-day, but the multiplatform games (that came afterwards) were mediocre. But, this article is only about the first game. Was it as good as Mario and Sonic? Let's find out!
Crash Bandicoot is a 3D platformer that was created back in 1996. This game was developed by Naughty Dog (they would continue developing the games until 1999). This games codename was "Sonic's Ass Game", meaning they wanted to make a 3D platformer to rival the 3D Sonic that was in development hell.
Crash Bandicoot is set on 3 islands that are south-east of Australia. These islands are all owned by Dr Neo Cortex, the villan of this game. With help from Dr Nitrus Brio, he creates a Evolvo-Ray that turns animals into beasts with superhuman strengths. He wants to make a peaceful bandicoot named Crash into the leader for his army. Cortex uses a "Cortex Vortex" to put him under his control. It doesn't work (what a surprise) and Crash escapes. Cortex decides to use a female bandicoot instead of Crash (this bandicoot is named Tawna). Crash has to save her.
We all know how this story goes. Care to sing along? "Princess Peachy is captured, Mario save her! Same with the Crash, just bash Cortex!" (not the best song ever, but sums up my reaction to the story). This is very similar to Mario and Sonic. An evil scientist capturing animals is Dr EggButNik, and saving a female character (in this case a female bandicoot) is Mario. Could have been a little more subtle, but oh well.
Instead of starting with gameplay (that will be left to the end, as I've got a lot to say), let's start …
SataniaHD March 7, 2015 Retro Games, Reviews Permalink
SNES-CD Add-On
The most well known add-on with a CD-ROM slot for a retro system would most likely be the Sega-CD (or the Mega-CD, depending on the region that you live in). Nintendo never got to see an add-on for the SNES that added this format. Or did they? In this article, I will talk about the SNES CD add-on, and the more well known "Nintendo Playstation" system.
Back in 1988, the NES had dominated the market, and Sony wanted in on the video game industry. 久夛良木 健 (Ken Kutaragi) bought a Famicom for his kids. He wasn't impressed. He went to Nintendo, and signed a deal. With the NES successor approaching, Sony would supply the audio chips for the system.
The Famicom already had an add-on called the Famicom Disk System, and this was Nintendo's first attempt at a disk based add-on. However, it broke often, and was unreliable. Despite this, Nintendo were still keen to use CD-based technology for their systems. Sony noticed this, and went to Nintendo for another deal; Sony would build and release a system that played both SNES cartridge games, and CD games (that Sony would provide).
The Super Disk was finally in development. A few years past, and in 1991, Nintendo re-read the contract they had signed with Sony. They were shocked. Sony (being the evil company they were), had made it so that they had all control over CD based games, and Nintendo got no money from the games.
June 1991; Sony unveils the Nintendo Playstation to the world. Games weren't the only things this system could play; it could play movies, music, software and more. Nintendo had a plan. The day after Sony unveiled their system, Nintendo showed off the SNES (as planned), but also announced a partnership with Philips (Sony's rival).…
SataniaHD February 28, 2015 Editorials, Retro Games Permalink
Top Gear Rally Review
Where do I start with this game? It is such a strange combination of good and bad, that it is interesting to play. But, is this game good, or worse than mouldy bread that you left in your bread bin? Let's find out!
Let's start with the plot. There is none. Didn't expect that, did you? You did? Anyway, this is just a racing game, where you race against other drivers. That's it. The full plot. Nothing wrong with it though, as a racing game doesn't need to be about saving a princess.
The game play is the same as every other racing game; drive around a track, and overtake other players. We all know how a racing game works.
The graphics are mediocre. If you compare it to other 3D games on the N64, it isn't anything special, and it is worse than other games. However, if you compare it to 2D games, this game looks amazing. But, this was for the N64. So, they aren't great graphics, but they are much better than other games (on older systems) that came before it.
The controls are also mediocre. They control fine, but there is one problem; they are exaggerated massively. By this, I mean that if it you are playing the game, a slight tap of the analogue stick will send you in a 360 degrees turn.
However, the controls make the game very fun to play. It makes it hilarious to go and spin off the tracks. Yes, this is bad design, but you cannot help laughing at the results.
The music is really good, and can rival some of the best video game music. You would listen to these tracks in your spare time.
One problem with the game is with it's name; why relate it to …
SataniaHD February 21, 2015 Retro Games, Reviews Permalink
Sonic Eraser Review
Didn't expect this obscure game, did you? Sonic Eraser is a game that was exclusively for the MegaNet service. However, this game seems to be more of a cheap tie-in game, and doesn't live up to the quality of the original trilogy. Also, this game makes a great game for Valentines Day (that's actually a lie; don't give your Sega fangirl wife this game, because there are better games than this). So, in this article, I will review Sonic Eraser.
The first thing to point out is the game is in Japanese. But, it is also in English. The instructions/How to play screen is in Japanese, and there isn't an option to turn it to English. But for the UI, some of it is in English (like text that says "1 Player" and "2 Player").
There is no story for this game (as far as I can tell). I can't read all of the Japanese text, so I cannot be sure about this. With all I know about Hiragana, and a mix of Google Translate, the pages in the title book include the controls, the gameplay and the credits, but no story.
The gameplay is a mix between Tetris and Columns. You can't rotate the blocks, you can only change the order of them, and move them left and right. When they land, they are affected by gravity. This is a nice change from other games, but it's nothing revolutionary.
The graphics in this game are alright. It uses some sprites from the main games, but the new graphics (like the new UI or the blocks). I wouldn't say it looks as good and vibrant as Sonic 1 or Sonic 2, but it doesn't look terrible like Sonic 3D: Flickies Island. They hold up, only for the …
SataniaHD February 14, 2015 Editorials, Retro Games, Reviews Permalink
Sonic Generations Beta
Sonic Generations: one of the best modern Sonic games to date. This game features Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic, running through old levels from their past, in glorious HD. However, it wasn't always like this. So, in this article, I will talk about the beta of Sonic Generations.
Generations started out as a game codenamed, "Sonic Anniversary". In an interview with a SEGA representative, it was leaked that it would be a combination of 2D and 3D gameplay, and would be for the Wii, PSP, PS3 and DS. When he was asked about the Xbox 360 version, he indicated that talks were still ongoing. The cut ports (Wii, PSP and DS versions) were most likely cancelled not far into development.
Ryan Drummond (one of the original voice actors for Sonic) was contacted by SEGA to re-audition for Sonic. He would have played Dreamcast Era Sonic. However, due to a fundamental professional disagreement, he declined the opportunity. Classic Sonic was also going to have a speaking role. Aaron Webber (the brand manager, at the time) said it would have to be Jaleel White. However, Jaleel was never contacted about the game, meaning the idea was dropped early on, and they made Classic Sonic mute.
While looking through the game, hackers have found Sonic Unleashed Debugger files. This wouldn't be that interesting, if it wasn't for the extra files that were found. They found multiple files leftover from an install process, more debug files and an old video renderer.
There were images that would be used in an install process. However, they weren't images from Generations. It had Modern Sonic, but it also had Werehog Sonic. Generations most likely started out as a port of Sonic Unleashed to the PC platform. However, since the 20th Anniversary of Sonic was coming up, and …
SataniaHD February 7, 2015 Editorials, Retro Games Permalink
Castlevania – Symphony of the Night Review
I did not expect this game to be so fun. Castlevania – Symphony of the Night is one of the best games for the PS1. And the PS1 is home to some of the greatest games of all time! So, without further ado, here is my Castlevania review!
Let's start with the plot; this game begins after the previous game. Four years later, Richter has gone missing. So, Alucard travels to the castle. Inside, he meets Dracula's servant (his name is Death), who wants him to stop his quest, and wants him to destroy the castle. Death strips Alucard of his weapons. So, you are on a quest to find Richter.
The story is pretty good. I expected something less complicated, but the story complements the game nicely. Could the story have been improved? Only if they had recapped what happened in the previous game. It is a lot like most RPGs; you have to play the previous games to understand the story. But, it is still fun, even if you don't pay attention to the story.
The music is amazing. These tracks are songs that you may listen to while working on other projects, or in the background of YouTube videos. They are really well composed, and as a result, they sound amazing to the ear. Even if you don't like Castlevania, you should still go and check out the soundtrack.
Graphics-wise, this game looks beautiful. This is especially important, as the PS1 had a lower resolution than the rest of the consoles. So, this game really shows off what the PS1 can do. And, just for that reason alone, it makes this game superior to many other PS1 games. The graphics are a mix between 2D and 3D; the main part of the game is 2D, while some …
SataniaHD January 31, 2015 Retro Games, Reviews Permalink


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package com.ikasoa.core.utils;

import org.junit.Test;

import com.ikasoa.core.TestConstants;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

/**
 * 服务器工具单元测试
 */
public class ServerUtilTest extends TestCase {

	@Test
	public void testIsIpv4() {
		assertTrue(ServerUtil.isIpv4("127.0.0.1"));
		assertTrue(ServerUtil.isIpv4("192.168.1.111"));
		assertFalse(ServerUtil.isIpv4("99999.99999.99999.00000"));
		assertFalse(ServerUtil.isIpv4(TestConstants.LOCAL_HOST));
		assertFalse(ServerUtil.isIpv4(" "));
	}

	@Test
	public void testisPort() {
		assertTrue(ServerUtil.isPort(8080));
		assertTrue(ServerUtil.isPort(80));
		assertFalse(ServerUtil.isPort(-1));
		assertFalse(ServerUtil.isPort(65536));
	}

	@Test
	public void testIsSocketPort() {
		assertTrue(ServerUtil.isSocketPort(8080));
		assertFalse(ServerUtil.isSocketPort(80));
		assertFalse(ServerUtil.isSocketPort(-1));
		assertFalse(ServerUtil.isSocketPort(65536));
	}

	@Test
	public void testCheckHostAndPort() {
		assertTrue(ServerUtil.checkHostAndPort(TestConstants.LOCAL_HOST, 8080));
		assertFalse(ServerUtil.checkHostAndPort("", 6666));
		assertFalse(ServerUtil.checkHostAndPort(TestConstants.LOCAL_HOST, 65536));
	}

	@Test
	public void testBuildCacheKey() {
		assertEquals(ServerUtil.buildCacheKey(TestConstants.LOCAL_HOST, 8080),
				StringUtil.merge(TestConstants.LOCAL_HOST, ":8080"));
	}

}

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