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Happier Than EVER This Holiday? Give a Gift That Lasts a Lifetime.
Ever since the restrictions caused by Covid, we have been working our way back to a new "normal". For a lot of us, that's been surprisingly difficult. And for others, it's been a golden opportunity to create new traditions.
THIS holiday season, we can still take some cues about what was always "normal" before and create a new and better normal going forward. Something simpler. More serene. More lastingly meaningful.
Consumer Reports did one of those surveys a few years ago about how much time people spend shopping for Christmas, both in stores and online. The average was 19 hours. That didn't include the time devoted to list-making, gift wrapping, and all the other bells and whistles which are part of the flurry
around holiday shopping.
As we know, those hours are often breathlessly sandwiched in on lunch breaks, after work and the 3:00 am, high anxiety wake-up calls reminding us that we still haven't ordered Aunt Ethel's fluffy green bathrobe.
The question is….is this kind of high performance, checklist "giving" creating actual joy?
Are we filled with the Christmas spirit or setting the timer for another countdown day? And, just as a reminder….the season is about the birth of Jesus Christ and the eternal, unconditional love for humankind that the gift of his life represents. Are we giving...or checking the get-it-done boxes?
Honestly, for many years, everything around the event of Christmas has filled me with much more dread than joy or wonder or sugar plums. I DO love to decorate the house. And I love listening to Christmas music, even by Alvin and The Chipmunks and Dolly Parton and Andrea Bocelli. And, oh boy, do I love to cook. (And eat) Last year, it even snowed on cue, on Christmas Eve right into Christmas Day. "Hallmark" came to our house. Still, over the years, most days, I have been in count-down mode, wondering how I will get it all done, and keep my happy face intact.
Maybe THIS year, there is a new way to experience the true meaning of Christmas, to feel more loved and loving, than stressed. Maybe THIS year, we could consider new, positive and thoughtful ways to give of ourselves. Maybe THIS year, the "new normal" would allow us to spend less on things that will just get re-gifted or shoved in the closet for next year's white elephant party. Do you know anyone who really needs more stuff?
Is the gift about THE thing? Or is it about the acknowledgment of our caring for one another? How important is it to have the bright, shiny boxes to open on Christmas Day? Does a mountain of packages mean we love one another more? How often do our kids ignore the shiny stuff in the box, and end up playing in the ocean of gift wrap and empty boxes?
A few years ago, my stepdaughter, Christy, wrote me a letter for Christmas. No flashy gifty-poo-poo, wrapped for an extra $20 at the store, to create a bigger, better show. It was just a simple envelope with a little bow. She wrote it on pretty, plain white stationery in green ink and drew little holly doo-dah's around the edges.
She wrote to me about how much she loved the way I loved her dad. And her brothers and herself. She wrote about how much it meant to her to get to really know her father, as a real person, not just as "dad", after her parent's divorce. She wrote about how much fun we had together and how great it was to count on laughing a lot when it was just us. She thanked me for including her friends on long weekends and for holiday plans. She wrote about how much she had learned from me just by watching me be me.
Could any THING compare to this?
How often do we let the people we love really KNOW it? How often do we let them know we are inspired by the way they love and laugh and live? How often do we let them know we are appreciating certain ways they touch our hearts and enhance our lives? And...that we treasure their lives as one of our greatest gifts.
Love and hugs on Christy's wedding day
What if those 19 frantic hours of scurrying and rushing and spending could melt away into quiet time set aside to write a note from the heart to someone you love? Does this feel too scary or airy-fairy? Is it easier to spend the money than to extend ourselves? Are we conforming and performing our way through the expectations of another "normal" Christmas only to find our energy and our wallets depleted when it's all over?
All I know is that the opening of one heart beats the opening of any gift-from-the-list, any time, anywhere.
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Special Program for Ex-Offenders
For more than 600,000 people who leave prison and re-enter society every year, finding employment can be a severe challenge. Prison time carries a social stigma, which makes finding any job, let alone a good job, all too difficult...A 2006 study by the Independent Committee on Re-Entry and Employment found that up to 60% of formerly incarcerated people are unemployed one year after release... And even when they find employment, people who have been incarcerated earn less than 40% of people in similar circumstances who have never been imprisoned, according to a study by the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Reform Coalition. Faced with obstacles to gainful employment, it is not surprise that 43% of people released from prison end up back behind bars within three years, according to a recent PEW study on recidivism. The costs of incarceration extend across generations. Nearly three million American children have a parent in prison or jail. Growing up with an incarcerated parent can harm childhood development. Research by PEW shows that children with fathers who have been incarcerated are nearly six times more likely to be expelled or suspended from school. Incarceration, therefore, helps perpetuate the cycle of family poverty and increase the potential for next generation criminal activity...Many of the people who end up in prison are already disadvantaged to begin with. In terms of basic education, more than a third of people in prison do not have a high-school diploma or G.E.D. according to the Justice Department...We need new policies that are designed to foster positive change, giving those who are incarcerated the skills they need to re-enter society as productive members of the workforce.
(The Wall Street Journal, "The Steep Cost of America's High Incarceration Rate" by Rubin and Turner, Dec. 26, 2014.)
The creators of the Independence Program have designed special features specifically for helping an ex-offender while he is still incarcerated. The ex-offender can complete the entire program through the mail.
The following is an example of one person this program is designed to help. This description would fit a large percentage of those currently incarcerated:
A man dropped out of high school and started selling drugs for a living. He has been arrested a few times. Each time he is arrested, the amount of time that he serves increases. He is a repeat offender. His most recent sentence is 10 years. Upon release, he will be in his late 30's. The prison system did not have the funds to offer him job training. When this man is released he is effectively unemployable. He has never worked a legal job because he has been in prison for the last ten years, he has no marketable job skill.
No wonder the unemployment rate for people like this is over 60%! Even if he does not want to go back into the drug trade, it is highly likely that he will. His only source of generating income for himself and his family would be the drug business. While there are certainly felons who have no desire to go straight, it is estimated that over 30% of the current prison population, if offered the opportunity to obtain a good legitimate income, would never return to a life of crime. The Independence Program will give these men the tools to help them accomplish their goal of providing for themselves and their families legally.
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Q: Change document value from string to ObjectId using Update Query I need to Update the Value of Profession_id from string to ObjectId for all document in a mongodb collection.
My Collection Profession is (Here I pasted only 2 Documents, in real I'm having more than 10K Documents)
{
    "_id" : ObjectId("575845a713d284da0ac2ee81"),
    "Profession_id" : "575841b313d284da0ac2ee7d",
    "Prof_Name" : "Chief Officer"
}

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("575845d213d284da0ac2ee82"),
    "Profession_id" : "575841b313d284da0ac2ee7d",
    "Prof_Name" : "Executive Officer"
}

Kindly assist me how to update the value in MongoDB.

A: We need to iterate over the snapshot() of our documents and update each document using the $set update operator. And to do this we use bulk operation for maximum efficiency.
Starting from MongoDB 3.2, we need to use the bulkWrite() method
var requests = [];
let cursor = db.collection.find({}, { "Profession_id": 1 }).snapshot();
cursor.forEach( document => {
    requests.push( {
        "updateOne": {
            "filter": { "_id": document._id },
            "update": { "$set": { "Profession_id": ObjectId(document.Profession_id) } }
        }
    });
    if (requests.length === 1000) {
        // Execute per 1000 operations and re-init
        db.collection.bulkWrite(requests);
        requests = [];
    }
});

// Clean up queues
if (requests.length > 0)
    db.collection.bulkWrite(requests);

From MongoDB 2.6 to 3.0 you need to use the now deprecated Bulk API and it associated method.
var bulk = db.collection.initializeUnorderedBulkOp();
var count = 0;

var cursor = db.collection.find({}, { "Profession_id": 1 }).snapshot()

cursor.forEach(function(document) {
    bulk.find( { "_id": document._id } ).updateOne( {
        "$set: { "Profession_id": ObjectId(document.Profession_id) }
    } );
    count++;
    if (count % 1000 === 0) {
        // Execute per 1000 operations and re-init
        bulk.execute();
        bulk = db.collection.initializeUnorderedBulkOp();
    }
});

// Clean up queues
if (count > 0)
    bulk.execute();

A: Starting from 4.0, you can use $toObjectId of aggregation pipleline. Combined with $set, you can do this (https://mongoplayground.net/p/YFqRLMvEpCG):
db.collection.update({},
[
  {
    $set: {
      "Profession_id": {
        $toObjectId: "$Profession_id"
      }
    }
  }
],
{
  "multi": true
})

A: You can just do this:
db.collectionName.find({
    id: {
        $type: 2
    }
}).forEach (doc => {
    db.stringToObject.update({
        _id: doc._id
    }, {
        "$set": {
            "Profession_id": ObjectId(doc.Profession_id)
        }
    })
})

A: I have used below code for mongo 4.0

var requests = [];
let cursor = db.collection.find({}, { "to": 1 });
cursor.forEach( document => {
    requests.push( {
        "updateOne": {
            "filter": { "_id": document._id },
            "update": { "$set": { "to": ObjectId(document.to) } }
        }
    });
    if (requests.length === 1000) {
        // Execute per 1000 operations and re-init
        db.collection.bulkWrite(requests);
        requests = [];
    }
});

// Clean up queues
if (requests.length > 0)
    db.collection.bulkWrite(requests);

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Any review of The Wicked + The Divine (Image Comics, 2014) and its first collected work, entitled The Faust Act, needs to first address the influence of Jack Kirby in comics.
Jack Kirby was a masterful writer and artist responsible for the creation or co-creation of many immediately recognisable comic book properties, primarily for Marvel Comics, including the X-men, the Hulk, Captain America, and many others. In 1970 Kirby moved from Marvel Comics to its longtime rival DC Comics. During his four year stint with DC, Kirby created a pantheon of science fiction gods: cosmic beings representing various archetypes, all viewed through a decidedly 70s hallucinogenic prism. Evidence of this includes an abundance of abstract and psychedelic geometric forms in the art, together with bubbling manifestations of unearthly energy; satanic villains carved from granite with deadly, glowing crimson eyes; and the godlike but decidedly hippie Forever People with names like Mark Moonrider and Beautiful Dreamer. Contemporary flower-power influences define and guide Kirby's creative output during this period.
If Kirby had moved from Marvel to Image Comics in 2014 instead of to DC Comics in 1970, he might have collaborated with Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie on The Wicked + The Divine (Image Comics, 2014). The work features the same integration of current pop themes into mythological figures and archetypes. Instead of flower power as the blueprint, the work explores the contemporary obsession with the famous. We can see French techno musicians Daft Punk very plainly in a character, grim Scandinavian god Wotan: the effervescent and personable Florence from Florence and the Machine in Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu: temperamental pop singer Rihanna in North African goddess Sakhmet. With others, the characters constitute a group called the Pantheon. And they are each singers and stage performers, drawing obsessive adoration as both pop stars and as gods.
One of the overarching premises of the story is that these characters are reincarnated every ninety or so years in an event called The Recurrence. A prologue flashback to 1927 features the group suicide of four of the characters, the others having died and being reduced to skulls arrayed around the Pantheon's table. In the flashback, Susanoo, a Japanese god of thunder, strikes a pose and in a singular frame (skilfully rendered by artist McKelvie) conveys the ethnic supremacy underpinning the culture of 1920s Imperial Japan. But with the gods' reincarnation in 2014, he is Baal, a god of lightning, black and lordly, imbued with the arrogance and indifference of rapper Kanye West.
The immediate protagonist, Lucifer, is a woman in a white suit with the charming and impetuous personality of the devil archetype. The text itself makes reference to this character giving a nod to David Bowie (Bowie's Thin White Duke phase of stagecraft). But perhaps the more obvious source material is the androgynous Annie Lennox or Grace Jones. Lucifer is wilful, devious, engaging, and does not care much about rules.
The other lead character is an ordinary girl named Laura, a resourceful English fan who is picked out of a concert crowd by Lucifer for reasons still not obvious. She is a pretty girl of mixed ethnicity and entirely ordinary, a student enacting the university pantomime of petty rebellion against her well-meaning parents, not caring about her studies, immersed in the pop culture of the Pantheon.
Linking contemporary musicians to gods or godly archetypes, some obscure and some obvious, is not new but it is clever. It provides two levels of accessibility to the characters, one being through the frame of pop culture, and the other through myth. Even though the story, at least as first, does not reveal much about each of the characters, the reader almost immediately knows a lot about most of them.
Within the first chapter, the story becomes a murder mystery. Lucifer is in an English court facing an irate judge (echoing both an actual 1971 US court case brought against Satan, and a 2011 film with a similar concept). Here, the devil is being judged in a mortal court, and she is plainly amused. Lucifer has killed two would-be assassins by snapping her fingers, and she baits the judge with the impossibility of that. She teases the judge by threatening to do it again. As her thumb snaps on her fingers, the judge's head explodes. Lucifer is clearly baffled and surprised. She voices her innocence. Has Lucifer been framed by one of her contemporaries? In this first volume, Laura's quest to learn the truth of the murder, meeting the immortal suspects, is the mechanism by which we meet each of the reincarnated entities and learn the pecking order.
The story is appealing for any number of reasons. The violence of the murders, the constant references to the insatiable sexuality (and bisexuality) of the gods, Lucifer's snide rebellion against authority reaching a crescendo in her jail break (a display of awesome and unstoppable power juxtaposed with the casual nonchalance of a takeaway coffee, a cigarette and an iPod), each tick many boxes of popular appeal. The murder mystery is baffling and engaging. The way in which the Pantheon are policed in their excesses indicates ancient and unrevealed rites and rules. The depth of the backstories of the gods provide plenty of fodder for those wanting to read outside of the text. And the art is clean and beautiful, with meticulous focus on facial expression.
Archetypes as protagonists is not a new concept (see most notably Julian May's Many-Colored Land series of books) and neither is the idea of human avatars for gods (Piers Anthony 1983 novel "On a Pale Horse" and its sequels, and even the initial concept behind Marvel Comics' Thor envisaged Donald Blake as merely an avatar for the god of thunder). But the twist here is that the gods are on an egg-timer existence. We are told that the Pantheon's cohort lasts only two years before almost all of them burn out and die. Their shining and glorious existences, like those of many pop stars, is ephemeral.
Worse for the characters, premature attrition seems inevitable. The flashback at the beginning of this first volume, with the eight skulls of the gods arrayed in front of empty seats and the final four engaging in a ritual of group suicide, indicates the immortal characters face grim destinies before their time is done. Do they remember their past lives? It seems that the characters do not learn from their mistakes upon being reincarnated, evidenced by their high public profiles and visible excesses. As archetypes, they each will inevitably be true to form and are unlikely to change or grow as the series progresses. That is probably left to Laura, who by the end of first volume makes a discovery about herself which is either going to be euphoric or catastrophic. Or, given the high level of craftmanship exhibited in this comic books so far, possibly both.


Silkscreen design features Minoan dolphins inspired by the fresco of dolphins which was painted on the wall of the Queen's Hall in the Palace of Knossos in Crete. The swirl pattern in the corners is connected to Greek Mythology and the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. It symbolizes the labyrinth which was thought to be at Knossos.


Conceived, and born, in Johannesburg.
Moved to London as a youngster.
Refused to hold the violin under my chin, rejected my piano teacher but embraced the piano.
Played the trumpet - a lot.
Sister gifted me a cassette of Hunky Dory. My Dad, a guitar. My Mum, the language of emotion.
Formed my first band. Wrote my first love song, my first breakup song.
Moved to Paris to attend the Sorbonne, then to Manchester.
Back to London, where I was smitten by my first orchestral session.
Got myself married and we have two children.


Constanta Port plays a special role in connecting the maritime & the inland transport. The development plans for Constanta Port therefore take into account the requirements established for seaports as well as those for inland ports. Constanta's position at the eastern gateway of the EU has a vital role in distributing freight throughout the continent, linking Central and South-Eastern Europe to the Black Sea, Middle East and Central Asia. Its position and the high amount of vessels (14.370 in 2015) and freight (56.3 million tons in 2015) also make it susceptible to a lot of environmental risks and accidents that are usually associated to port activities.
Although the port administration has a defined set of procedures in place in regards to providing ship waste collection services within its jurisdiction area, the available equipment is obsolete as compared to the requests submitted by the port users. The vessels now used to provide ship waste collection services date back to 1963 and have already undergone 5 reclassification cycles. The maintenance costs associated to such a fleet are considerable and taking into account the long service periods required for the vessels, it is becoming increasingly difficult to comply with the provisions of the international regulations Romania is a party to. In line with the Romanian legislation, the port administration is also required to provide assistance when putting out fires, to depollute the port waters, to collect oily and greasy ship waste and other residues.
In addition to this, due to the high traffic volume registered so far and to the favourable geographical position of Constanta, extensions of the breakwaters have been made in order to enlarge this transport hub (see project "Completion of the North breakwater in the Port of Constanţa"). The increased port area also implies the need for modern vessels capable of providing high quality services in a reduced time interval. More vessels also necessitate an adequate place to be moored and a corresponding on-shore waste collection facility to properly store and treat the collected amounts of residues.
Furthermore, the above mentioned extension of the northern breakwater also triggers the need for the reconfiguration of the port's signalling system to ensure safe access and prevent any sort of accidents that might result in oil spills or other sort of pollution incidents.
Taking into consideration the current needs of Constanta Port, the project will focus on safe maritime port access in the form of navigational aids (upgrading the signalling system in the port basin and the fairway), extension of basic infrastructure in the form of quays, constructing a new state of the art on-shore waste collection and treatment facility, and purchasing a technical vessel. The overall objective is to tackle environmental tasks that will bring Constanta Port at the same foot with other ports of similar size.
It is a mixed project including both studies and works.
Elaborating the feasibility studies and the detailed technical designs for the infrastructure and superstructure associated with an on-shore waste collection facility in Midia Port. This satellite port located 13,5 NM North of Constanta is operating oil products and other derived products, LPG and metal products. At this moment, there are no waste collection facilities or specialized vessels capable to intervene in this location, should accidents occur.
In addition to this, a special activity will be dedicated to the training needs of the port administration staff members. The possibility of attracting private investors to deal with renewable energy projects will also be analysed within this activity.
The proposed Action is included in the list of pre-identified sections and projects stipulated in Annex I, Part I.2 of the CEF Regulation and is thus eligible for funding under the above mentioned CEF priority.
Activity 1 will include all the project management tasks needed for the successful implementation and completion of the project. Dissemination activities are also foreseen in line with the requirements of the funding program.
Activity 3 consists in the works performed within the project. A 130-meter-berth extension is planned to provide the basis for the construction of an on-shore ship waste collection facility. One vessel will be purchased to reinforce the fleet the port administration now uses to provide ship waste collection and fire-fighting services. The signalling system within the port will also be upgraded to correspond to the recent infrastructure extensions of the port and to the IALA regulations.
Activity 4 will deliver the training classes needed by the employees of the port administration in order to properly use and exploit the newly purchased equipment and the ship waste collection facility. Furthermore, investigations will be made to assess the potential that the port renewable energy projects have to attract private investors and generate public private partnerships.
Constanta Port is 85nM from the Danube's mouth by the sea and is also linked to it by the Black-Sea-Danube Canal, thus interacting with the Danube ports and the Black-Sea ports as well. A high quality of the ship waste collection services in the Port will limit the risk of pollution and oil spills that might affect the Black Sea Region and pose a threat to the environment and the population.
High quality port services provided efficiently by the port administration will also attract more responsible business partners to the area.


And there is a reason we listen to the rivers that nourish both the land… and the mind.
There is a reason…in autumn. Look again.
To be continued…in the Tetons…..
Me too. It IS home for me, but haven't lived there for a long time. Thank goodness for family still there so we can make frequent trip at the right time of year. Thanks for stopping by.
Joyous color. Autumn in is place looks like a party of color every day.
Thanks Ali. Agreed, which includes jumping in large piles of them. Thanks for swinging by. Have a good rest of your weekend.
That sounds wonderful. Here in Arizona, we welcome autumn with blooming flowers and grateful plants (and humans)that have survived the intense.
Couldn't resist commenting but then can't resist checking all the previous posts either. These photographs are absolutely gorgeous.
Thank you. I feel pretty lucky to have walked this journey. Humbled…thanks again.


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ESL helps ODOT monitor traffic and roadway conditions from the air
Technology always has a way of moving forward when there is a need.
As drone numbers soar, DriveOhio's unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) Center is investing $5.9 million for a three-year study on how to safely fit UAS into an already congested airspace (click here to read more about the study). Led by The Ohio State University College of Engineering, the research looks at both air and ground vehicles to complement DriveOhio's current initiatives in autonomous and connected vehicle testing.
A key component of this research is being conducted at The Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory (ESL).
Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Assistant Professor Graeme Smith's team will oversee ESL's contribution to the project. "Whether we like it or not, the drones are coming," Smith said. "Widespread UAS use is going to happen at some point, and it's exciting that Ohio State is involved in defining how."
ESL researchers will develop passive radar systems in support of the DriveOhio project to extend the 33 Smart Mobility Corridor capabilities through the use of UAS--sometimes called drones--to monitor traffic and roadway conditions from the air. The inclusion of passive radar in the project represents a major technological advancement that, despite it's long history, has rarely been used outside of research.
Smith will lead ESL's contribution to the overall project which includes measuring commercial UAS to understand how they appear to radar, and developing two passive radars to be integrated into the final UAS Traffic Management (UTM) system that will be developed through the initiative.
Smith's co-investigators at ESL include Professor Chi-Chih Chen who will oversee antenna design for the passive radar, and research scientist Dr. Andrew O'Brien who will lead the development of beamforming algorithms to determine the bearings to the detected UAS.
Unlike optical systems, the size, shape, construction material, and moving parts of the UAS has a significant impact on how easy it is for the radar to detect its presence. For the passive radars being developed at ESL, the electromagnetic frequencies used and the radar-target geometries employed will be different than in traditional air traffic control networks which use active radar.
To better understand the passive radar design requirements, the ESL team will measure commercial UAS, such as the common DJI Phantom, in ESL's Compact Range--a dedicated facility used to measure object electromagnetic reflectivity and antenna patterns.
"There has been much speculation in the academic community on just what a UAS will look like to a radar. With the work being done on this project we will finally know the answer," Smith observed.
The ESL team's principal task will be to develop and evaluate the passive radars' performance within the overall UTM system. The passive radars will detect and track UAS using ambient electromagnetic signals. Their outputs will be combined with the data from a Gryphon Skylight UTM system, which uses active radars and spectral monitoring nodes. By using the passive radars alongside the more conventional sensors, the team will be able to understand the passive radars' performances and fine-tune their use within the overall solution.
"Passive radar is exciting for this type of task because it doesn't have its own transmitter. This means that the extra sensors required to provide UAS UTM system will not contribute to the problem of spectral congestion," Smith said. "It also means the sensors we're developing are expected to be much cheaper than a conventional active radar. Therefore, you can have more of them and achieve better coverage for tasks such as detecting and tracking UAS."
In addition to ESL, other research partners for the DriveOhio overall project include The Ohio State University Aerospace Research Center, CAL Analytics, Gannett Fleming, AiRXOS (a GE Venture), SRC, Inc., Transportation Research Center, Inc., Woolpert, The Ohio State University Airport, and Midwest Air Traffic Control.


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As many of you know, we collaborate with One Million Photographers (1MP), a beautiful online photography gallery. Once a month we pick a 1MP contest winner, and they feature it on their blog, and the winning photographer gets a free Fracture print.
We are happy to share with you that 1MP has an exciting new partnership with 100cameras, a non-profit organization. 100cameras helps give children in underprivileged communities the tools to express themselves through photography. They teach the children basic photojournalism skills. Then their photos are turned into sellable products that fund their own educational and medical supplies.
1MP is committed to giving back to society through photography. 1MP announced that it will be donating $1 from every photo entry directly to 100cameras through its new partnership. 100cameras hopes to empower these youngsters and teach them that they can foster positive change.
We love seeing partnerships like these, and we couldn't be more proud to be working with 1MP. Giving back to the community is something Fracture holds near and dear to our heart, and seeing organizations encourage positive change gives us such great joy. Be sure to keep up with 100cameras on Facebook.
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Airbnb cracks down on NYE party bookings in Canada
Sara2022-12-11
Ahead of New Year's Eve, Airbnb is once again cracking down on unauthorized parties after announcing a ban on one-night bookings in Canada and 10 other countries for Dec. 31.
On Thursday, Airbnb released a statement saying the ban was aimed at stopping unsanctioned parties and neighborhood disturbances after a ban last year dropped New Year's party incidents to 56%.
The ban will prohibit accounts with a negative or no booking history from renting full house listings for one night. There will also be restrictions for the same accounts trying to book two or three night reservations, especially in their local area.
Last year, Airbnb introduced this ban for eight countries, including; Canada, the United States, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, France, Spain and the United Kingdom This year, the ban will not only include these countries, but three others; Ireland, Portugal and the Netherlands.
"These proactive defenses will help promote responsible travel and prevent rare instances of undesirable behavior, and allow hosts, guests and communities to enjoy their holiday celebrations with added confidence," said Naba Banerjee. , Director of Trusted Products and Operations at Airbnb. in the statement.
According to Airbnb, around 340,000 guests were blocked from booking stays on New Year's Eve, the majority of which were in the United States with 120,000 guests.
The ban comes as the company implemented a modified party ban that was originally announced in 2020 to limit large gatherings amid COVID-19. The permanent ban announced in June codifies serious consequences for guests hosting large parties, including account suspension and removal from the platform.
In October, Airbnb underscored its ban on Halloween parties after introducing its "anti-party technology," which examines the account's booking history, length of stay desired and whether the rental is a local stay.
In 2021, 114,000 people in Canada were unable to book a stay over Halloween weekend, according to Airbnb.
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Han Solo vs Indiana Jones: Who Would Win?
Two ofHarrison Ford's most iconic roles are experiencing somewhat of a Renaissance lately. While we wait for the official announcement as to which lucky young actor will guide theMillennium Falcon in the upcoming Han Solo origin movie, we have also learned that a fifth Indiana Jones movie starring Ford himself has been greenlit. People are curious if the new Indiana Jones will be good since Kingdom of the Crystal Skull left many fans sour, and fans are speculating on many facets of this Han Solo origin movie, but nobody is asking the real question here: Who would win in a fight between Indiana Jones and Han Solo?
There are many things to keep in mind when speculating about this, one of which being: Which Indy and Han? The Indy and Han in their primes, or the current, much older incarnations? For the sake of this hypothetical, we're going with Prime Time Indy and Han; though, regardless of their ages, I'm sure a lot of people are reading this and saying Han Solo wins because of space weapons.
True, he has a laser gun that makes cool noises; sure, he has a space ship; and sure, there's a plethora of explosives he has used the likes of which Indiana Jones has never seen... However, we have no idea how much stronger any of those things are (the Millennium Falcon, of course, is very strong regardless), as Star Wars takes place a "long, long time ago". Key word is "long", meaning all of those weapons might actually be garbage, like muskets during the Revolutionary War. All I'm saying is, maybe those laser blasters aren't as powerful as we may think. But for the sake of conversation, this scuffle between the two of them takes place when the Millennium Falcon understandably stalls and crash lands on Earth in the 1930s shortly after Indy is party to when (spoilers!) the Ark of the Covenant melts the faces off a bunch of Nazis. In this case, Han Solo emerges from the ship and begins to hit on Indy's former lover, Marion Ravenwood (because of course he does, he's Han Freaking Solo).
At first, Indy will feel upstaged by Han's superior skills in wooing a woman (or "game", as the kids call it these days), causing Indy to challenge Han to a duel. Han tries to dismiss the eager Indy by stating he is a lover and not a fighter, until he realizes that Indy is as attractive as he is but in a more rugged sort of way. "There's only room for one scoundrel in this galaxy… Wait. What galaxy am I in?" Han would ask. Indy would laugh at what an imbecile Han is and take pity on him. As Indy walks away, Han would call him out for being Bantha fodder and a Nerf herder, and just like the Ivy League graduate Indy is, he gets mad at not knowing what that means. Han explains that it's kind of like a "space chicken" and "space trash". Indy doesn't care. The insult stung enough without explanation and the fight is back on.
Using all their tricks and cunning, the battles ensues with neither getting a good shot at the other. Indy's whip skills aren't an even match for Han's swiftness as he can't land a blow. Finally, when they come face to face and shoot at each other, Han's laser beam and Indy's bullet collide with each other and creates an explosion. The two see that they are evenly matched, shake hands, and exchange how they each hate but respect each other. But they need a way to settle this. The dust from the explosion clears, showing that it actually created a rip in the space-time continuum, and Indy's sidekick from Temple of Doom, Short Round, appears. He greets Indy asking where he went? It's clear he's been looking for Indy for a while and the tear brought them together again… much to Indy's dismay, obvs.
Han comes up with an idea on how he and Indy can settle this -- he proposes that they let their sidekicks square off instead. With no hesitation or even so much as a description of Han's sidekick, Indy aggress. "Chewie! Stop fiddling with the hyper drive and get out here!" Han yells. Chewie growls back. "If you're that frustrated with the maintenance, then you can come out here and rip this kid's arms out."
"What?" Short Round trembles in fear. Indy winks at the young adventurer, assuring the young man that he's got this.
Chewbacca emerges from the Millennium Falcon looking angrier and hairier than ever. He towers over the young Short Round. As Han calls for the fight to begin, it ends almost as quickly as it starts as Short Round is torn apart to pieces by the furry dog-faced beast, while screaming "Doctor Jones!" as his final words in complete agony. The fight is over. Han won. The two men, who both share the flawless face of Harrison Ford, shake hands, agree to meet up sometime and possibly grab a beer, or maybe even a space beer.
So, there you have it. In a fight between Indiana Jones and Han Solo, it is clear after all that Han would win, but another questions remains -- Is it is only settled by the fact that Chewbacca is a sidekick unmatched by any other sidekick, or was it Han's cunning in seeing the dismay in Indy's face that gave him the "W" today? We may never know, but I'm sure even if Han fought Batman and it came to a match between Robin and Chewbacca, it would end quite similarly. Anywho, be sure to keep looking as we will update you more on the battle of whether Indiana Jones or Han Solo hit theaters first!
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We did draw their attention to the fact that folk just don't find it easy or fun to chat to the police. No one wants to get involved in law enforcement if they don't have to, walking up to police is intimidating and raising concerns seems unlikely to garner results – who's going to listen? I don't feel "the police" would have time or the inclination to listen to me! I am glad to say that I feel proved wrong.
In conclusion, I have learned that while it often feels like one person can't have any positive effect in a world of large corporations, corrupt politicians, and overstrained institutions, sometimes, it really does help. As members of society, we should feel able to ask these questions of the systems we set up. It is especially important to get involved even if YOU are not personally being attacked or jeopardized, so if you're a white, middle class man (Ben), or an East Asian woman (me) or not a resident of Lambeth (Grace and Kai), we have agency.
Even if the police had been negative, Kai, Grace and I would have learned a huge amount. Thank you to Ben who "simply" asked some questions, posted a Facebook status, and organized the meeting. It wasn't the easiest thing, coordinating the schedules of three adults in London but look at the pay off. In a time when world politics seem to be spiralling out of control, I value any chance to have local, human, contact in my community.
This type of visual campaign is a last resort for the police (and not instigated by budget cuts, as Ben had been told by a police officer on the street). The faces that appear on the billboards are long-term wanted persons who have been contacted and warned.
It costs a lot of money but has proven effective in both preventing crime AND bringing in long–term wanted persons.
Lambeth and a few other boroughs trialed this for 3 days at the end of last year, and based on that, implemented a week long campaign in March where there were 8 billboards both parked and driven about across Lambeth.
100 of the 579 long-term wanted in Lambeth were contacted via a clear letter (we got to read them) two weeks prior to the appearance of the billboards. People were selected based on the severity of the offence.
Because of the trial last year, some of those wanted came forth, as they didn't want their names, faces and offences on display.
In total, 20 people off the wanted list were found or turned themselves in, a 20% success rate.
Community leaders had been approached before the campaign started and they brought up the question of representation. It was established that 55% of the wanted list were people of colour. However, Ben stated that watching the display, this did not seem to be the case. The police will be looking into this but admitted that while they did make sure that each PowerPoint slide didn't contain all-black or all-brown faces to begin with, the display would change as people came forth or were found, and this was not monitored in the same way. They also stated that they could pick out the Latino and Eastern European faces in the display board which we, as lay people, would, in passing and without examining their names, assume were people of colour.
Feedback from community and businesses in Brixton centre was extremely positive. Crime figures went down/the streets were quieter during the week the billboards were up, indicating a preventative effect of the billboards. Businesses were asking for the billboards to be parked close to them. It is worth noting that Brixton has a specially created role, Community Liaison Officer, to bridge the police-civilian divide. PC Edmondson attends community meetings and goes on regular walkabouts to stay connected with the community.


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Still locked down? One-year anniversary of '15 days to slow the spread' of coronavirus
Bobby Eberle | Mar 17, 2021 | 13-Minute News Hour | 12
15 days to slow the spread. That's what Americans were told one year ago. Americans were told to lockdown to "flatten the curve" of coronavirus infections, but even when the curve was flattened, the lockdowns continued. Now, there is a vaccine, the science says to reopen, and America has spent trillions of dollars. But some are still locked down. Are you?
A year of lockdowns brought with it increased depression, suicide, and drug use. Yet, Democrats in many states don't "follow the science," because it's not about science. It's about control.
The number of illegal border crossing is hitting a level not seen in twenty years. Plus, a Michigan court rules against the Democrat Secretary of State in a case involving the 2020 election.
Check out today's show for all the details.
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backpacker on 12:16 pm March 17, 2021 at 12:16 pm
On Fox News, they indicated that Dr. Fauci uses the six foot separation model for people, to keep people from getting covid. This practice was instituted in Germany in the late 1800's. This is the so called model that Dr. Educated Idiot Fauci is using. Recent studies in the United States indicate that a three foot distance between people is just as effective, as the six feet that Dr. Educated Idiot is using. So much for following the science, airhead Fauci. Of course Fauci sent money to the communist lab in Wuhan, so that is all we need to know about Fauci the Fraud / Traitor!
disqus_biffbaby on 4:32 pm March 18, 2021 at 4:32 pm
Not only did Fauci send money to the Wuhan lab, but the actual experimentation in creating new forms of viruses it was undertaking was transferred from Fauci's NIH after it was banned in the USA. How the hell has he been getting away with it?
ltuser on 12:13 am March 19, 2021 at 12:13 am
BECAUSE we have cowards for law makers and justice officials.
ltuser on 3:20 pm March 17, 2021 at 3:20 pm
Follow the science? FROM THE PARTY of climate change (sorry global warming, sorry global cooling) and LGBTQISWPQERCIEICYDSET??
praireliving on 3:34 pm March 17, 2021 at 3:34 pm
The whole thing was a scam to control the country and influence the election. The vast majority of people who get COVID recover. People die from the flu, people have long term illnesses from flu and pneumonia, We don't have lockdowns, masks, and vaccine passports for influenza and ought not to have them for COVID either.
NOT influence the election, but LET THEM STEAL IT…
ggfilthy on 6:20 am March 18, 2021 at 6:20 am
It's CHINA virus…not covid.. and … I agree…. the pathogen itself is 1/2 the size of all existing covid common cold virus, nature does NOT mutate like that… this strain was engineered to do exactly what it did. I suspect the communist occupier democrats (COD) and RINOs worked with the Chinese and orchestrated this whole obscene mess to remove President Trump so they can keep selling out the country for their own financial gain. AND there is more proof of that than what the COD had of President Trump colluding with the Russians to steal the 2016 election…. where's the investigation? One option left.
you're not the only one, who feels this whole shebang, was MANUFACTURED. CHINA is well known for NOT caring if their own citizens die.. AND the left, is just as heartless.
elderal on 9:18 pm March 17, 2021 at 9:18 pm
Fauci is now just another politician and politicians are infamous for telling lies. Thus, after the long line of misleading and untrue statements made by the "leading experts," no one should believe anything whatsoever that they say now. In fact, do the exact opposite and you will well served.
"Lie to me once, shame on you. Lie to me twice and I believe it, shame on me."
Yep… Sloutchy is a liar… and we the people paid this fraud $419,000 a year to lie. sick and wrong.
TallnOld on 9:10 am March 18, 2021 at 9:10 am
The fear must stop. We're being horribly manipulated. You might want to view this short 12 minute video.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/canadian-doctors-speak-out-why-you-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-covid/
I am shocked the left's not canceled that doc, into silence..


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