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Is PokemonGo Illegal?
This past week Nintendo unleashed Pokemon Go in U.S., Australia and New Zealand and subsequently jumped in value nearly 8 billion dollars:
Pokemon Go has added almost $8 BILLION to Nintendo's value. That's like the entire worth of Supercell pic.twitter.com/3GOU1z60qR
— Yuji Nakamura (@ynakamura56) July 11, 2016
Why? As Forbes notes, it's about to surpass Twitter on Android in daily active users. It's insanely popular. More people have installed Pokemon Go on their Android devices than Tinder, which makes it more popular than sex if you want to think about it that way.
What Is Pokemon Go?
So what the hell is Pokemon Go? Bloomberg has a good primer if you want to get up to speed:
After downloading the app and creating a character, users see an anime-like version of Google Maps that hides street and area names, and replaces real-life landmarks with Pokemon-specific buildings. As users navigate the real world, their in-game character mirrors their movements and will randomly encounter Pokemon characters which, with luck, they'll be able to capture and add to their team.
Essentially, Pokemon Go is an augmented reality application that you download to your smartphone. Augmented reality (AR) is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It superimposes computer-generated graphics and sound via an electronic device, typically a smartphone.
So at the moment, people are running around the world with their smartphones out, trying to capture virtual pets. Not exactly my cup of tea, but whatever floats your boat.
But because we can't have nice things, people are already using it to lure children out and rob them.
"The way we believe (the app) was used is you can add a beacon to a Pokéstop to lure more players," the O'Fallon Police Department wrote in a Facebook post.
The app, which allows users to interact virtually with Pokémon characters nearby in the real world, has a "Lure Module" that players can use to attract both Pokemon and other users to their location. Pokéstops are locations where players can collect items and level up faster.
Despite having been around for a decade, augmented reality is still in its nascent stages of development. Pokemon Go is the first big, breakaway hit. If you hop on Twitter or Insta and look for #pokemongo, you'll find thousands of people posting pictures of themselves in all sorts of places, trying to capture Pokemon.
Wherein Lawyers Ruin Everything
But should they? Should Nintendo & developer Niantic have given more consideration to where the Pokemon (AR objects) are placed? Do they have the right to place them wherever they want? In a lake? In a public park? In your backyard?
Does placing an AR object on a person's property, without their permission, affect their interest in exclusive possession of property?
Does owning property in "the real world" extend property rights to any geo-locative, intellectual property elements that may be placed on it?
Is placing an AR object on a person's private property, without their permission, a creation of an attractive nuisance?
Trespass is an injury to possession. It is tort against possession committed when one, without permission, interferes with or invades another's exclusive right to possession of property. It involves an intrusion that invades a possessor's protected interest in exclusive possession. The term "intrusion" denotes that a possessor's interest in the exclusive possession of his or her land has been invaded by the presence of a person or thing upon it without the possessor's consent 75 Am. Jur. 2d Trespass § 1.
Trespass is about exclusive possession. It's an affirmative act interfering with possessory rights.
To constitute a trespass (a tort) there must be an unlawful physical invasion of the property or possession of another.
Dickie's Sportsman's Centers, Inc. v. Dep't of Transp. & Dev., 477 So. 2d 744, 750 (La. Ct. App. 1985)
Liability for trespass may be imposed only if the trespass is intentional, reckless, negligent, or the result of ultrahazardous activity. 75 Am. Jur. 2d Trespass § 5
The law undoubtedly is that any unauthorized entry on the land or premises of another is a trespass; and this is true even though no force be exerted (Kimball v. Custer, 73 Ill. 389); and ignorance or mistake of the trespasser will not exempt him from liability for actual damages. Checkley v. Illinois Cent. R. Co., 257 Ill. 491, 499, 100 N.E. 942, 945 (1913)
Every unauthorized entry is a trespass, even if no damage is done. Aguilar v. Morales, 162 S.W.3d 825 (Tex. App. El Paso 2005)
You might argue that AR object aren't real. That they don't constitute a physical invasion of property. But:
To recover in trespass for an intangible invasion to property, a plaintiff must show: (1) an invasion affecting an interest in exclusive possession; (2) the act resulting in the invasion was intentional; (3) reasonable foreseeability that the act could result in an invasion of the plaintiff's possessory interest; and (4) substantial damage to the property. Borland v. Sanders Lead Co., Inc., 369 So. 2d 523, 2 A.L.R.4th 1042 (Ala. 1979).
Does your exclusive rights to property extend to cyberspace? Can someone place lights, sounds, objects, that are only viewable with technology assistance, on your property without your permission?
Attractive Nuisance
A possessor of land is subject to liability for physical harm to children trespassing thereon caused by an artificial condition upon the land if:
(a) the place where the condition exists is one upon which the possessor knows or has reason to know that children are likely to trespass, and
(b) the condition is one of which the possessor knows or has reason to know and which he realizes or should realize will involve an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm to such children, and
(c) the children because of their youth do not discover the condition or realize the risk involved in intermeddling with it or in coming within the area made dangerous by it, and
(d) the utility to the possessor of maintaining the condition and the burden of eliminating the danger are slight as compared with the risk to children involved, and
(e) the possessor fails to exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger or otherwise to protect the children.
Restatement (Second) of Torts § 339 (1965)
Translated from legalese, that means that some things are so irresistible to kids that they can't help themselves. And if you own the irresistible thing, you're held liable for injuries that kids sustain while playing with it.
For example, railroads were originally held to be attractive nuisances to children in the past. If you own a pool, you're likely familiar with the concept as well. Property owners are generally held liable for any injuries or deaths that take place in or around the pool, even if the victims were trespassing, scaled a fence to access it, or used it without the homeowner's permission. It doesn't matter that you didn't invite them or that they snuck in.
By placing AR objects (Pokemon) on private property, have Nintendo and Niantic been creating attractive nuisances?
Is it reasonably foreseeable that a child would scale a fence to catch a rare Pokemon? Were Nintendo and Niantic negligent in their placement of the Pokemon (AR objects)?
Do they owe a duty of care to not place the Pokemon on private property or dangerous locations (especially given that people are already using the application to set robbery traps for people)?
If something does happen to a trespasser while trying to catch a Pokemon on private property, the property owner would likely continue to be strictly liable to a trespasser for an injuries that occurred, but it also seems likely that they would have a right to seek indemnification (where one party bears the monetary costs, either directly or by reimbursement, for losses incurred by a second party) from Nintendo and Niantic.
Augmented Reality is new. So new that the law hasn't even begun to broach the topic. It lends itself to lots of big, novel questions from a legal perspective. At the moment, they are unanswered, theoretical questions.
But with the release of PokemonGo on the world, Nintendo has pushed these questions from theory, to reality.
P.S. – If you want to read more Pokemon Go analysis, I made another post asking if Pokemon Go (and augmented reality in general) must comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Update (July 13, 2016):
And of course, the individual below has "retired." In the PokemonGo Terms of Use, it quite clearly states:
(viii) Use any Service for the benefit of any third party or transfer access to the Services to any third party;
and also a term under their use of Player Trainer Club Accounts: (iv) Never use another person's PTC Account.
Who woulda thought??? Lulz.
Quick note, hiring someone to hunt down Pokemon for you by sharing your account with them a la the below picture, could be construed as a federal crime in the near future:
To everyone pointing out to me that lawyers ruin everything, my reply:
IT ISN'T MY FAULT I THINK THIS WAY, LAW SCHOOL MADE ME LIKE THIS. https://t.co/6Vywim4gzd
— Keith Lee (@associatesmind) July 11, 2016


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Victoria was a graduate of Pine Dale High School and attended NE community college. She married Walter Porter Jr in June of 1961 and they moved to Truman Arkansas. In 1963 they moved to Marietta Georgia where she raised a family. Upon retirement, in 1999 she returned home to Union County. She loved her husband, children and grandchildren and they never had any reason to doubt that. She grew flowers, canned vegetables and made the best Lemon Pie and Chicken Salad I have ever tasted. She paid special attention to animals and people older than her. She loved Mississippi State women's basketball and watching them play gave her great joy.
She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Walter Porter Jr; son, Kenneth Walter Porter; granddaughter, Anna Elizabeth Porter; grandson, Mitchell Garrett Porter; and an over fed cat named Boots.
Her Christian faith assured her that she is joining her Father, James Vardaman Jumper; mother, Patti Jumper; brothers, James Royce and Charles Jumper; and her youngest son, Hugh Vernon Porter.
Visitation will be Thursday, May 31st at United Funeral Service in New Albany Mississippi from 6:00-7:30 pm. Services will be Friday, June 1st at 2:00 pm at the funeral home. Burial will be at Enterprise Community Cemetery. Her life will be celebrated by Reverend Dan Darling and Reverend Kyle Ivy.
Pallbearers will be Trevor Tow, Mitchell Porter, Mitchell Jumper, Jim Jumper, David Colins, and Charles Durso.
Her son remembers her saying to "save flowers for the living" but donations to Salem Methodist Church or St Jude Children's Hospital are always a good idea. Victoria was also known to say "Praise The Lord and Go Dawgs".


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Q: Unable to redirect page by clicking login button if credentials are correct Javascript I've been trying to make a simple javascript log in page that redirects me to a different file if the username and password match.
For simplicity, I made the correct username = "a" and correct corresponding password="b".
<form>
    <input class="user-pass" name="username" type="text" id="username" placeholder="Username">

    <input class="user-pass" name="password" type="password" id="password" placeholder="Password">

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Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm new to this so any help would be appreciated!

A: You should study about forms,we use them to collect data and send it to a server.
Your form has no action method,and does'nt know what to do with the data inside it,so it returns you back to the original page.
You could achieve the functionality you want just by removing the form tags and calling your function from an onclick event instead of onsubmit

    <input class="user-pass" name="username" type="text" id="username" placeholder="Username">

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    <button class="user-pass" id="login" style="background-color: rgb(81, 122, 199); color: white; font-weight: bold;" onclick="login()">Log In</button>

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 Marion Leonard as Fanny Webster
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 1909 in film
 D. W. Griffith filmography

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In a previous interview, Bachmann said if she were to run, she'd quickly establish her constitutional qualifications for the presidency.
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A T-Rex, Oklahoma, and the unfortunate fate of Charles Darwin. Todd Shoemake/ShutterStock and WikiMedia Commons
UPDATE: On February 19, HB1674 passed through the Oklahoma Common Education committee on a 9-8 vote. On March 14, the bill died in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, according to the National Center for Science Education.
In biology class, public school students can't generally argue that dinosaurs and people ran around Earth at the same time, at least not without risking a big fat F. But that could soon change for kids in Oklahoma: On Tuesday, the Oklahoma Common Education committee is expected to consider a House bill that would forbid teachers from penalizing students who turn in papers attempting to debunk almost universally accepted scientific theories such as biological evolution and anthropogenic (human-driven) climate change.
Gus Blackwell, the Republican state representative who introduced the bill, insists that his legislation has nothing to do with religion; it simply encourages scientific exploration. "I proposed this bill because there are teachers and students who may be afraid of going against what they see in their textbooks," says Blackwell, who previously spent 20 years working for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. "A student has the freedom to write a paper that points out that highly complex life may not be explained by chance mutations."
These bills are "a kind of code for people who are opposed to teaching climate change and evolution."
Stated another way, students could make untestable, faith-based claims in science classes without fear of receiving a poor mark.
HB 1674 is the latest in an ongoing series of "academic freedom" bills aimed at watering down the teaching of science on highly charged topics. Instead of requiring that teachers and textbooks include creationism—see the bill proposed by Missouri state Rep. Rick Brattin—HB 1674's crafters say it merely encourages teachers and students to question, as the bill puts it, the "scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses" of topics that "cause controversy," including "biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning."
Eric Meikle, education project director at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) in Oakland, California, says Oklahoma has proposed more anti-evolution legislation than any other state, introducing eight bills with academic freedom language since 2004. (None has passed.) "The problem with these bills is that they're so open-ended; it's a kind of code for people who are opposed to teaching climate change and evolution," Meikle says.
HB 1674 goes further than a companion bill under consideration in the state Senate by explicitly protecting students, teachers, and schools from being penalized for subscribing to alternative theories. It does, however, say that children may still be tested on widely accepted theories such as anthropogenic climate change. "Students can't say because I don't believe in this, I don't want to learn it," Blackwell says. "They have to learn it in order to look at the weaknesses."
"An extremely high percentage of scientists will tell you that evolution doesn't have scientific weaknesses," says the NCSE's Meikle. "If every teacher, parent, and school board can decide what to teach on their own, you're going to have chaos. You can't deluge kids with every theory that's ever been considered since the beginning of time."
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Minor regrets, major changes: the EU's former UK rep on a tumultuous four years
By Ian Hall on 14/02/2019 | Updated on 05/08/2019
Jackie Minor: some UK politicians haven't yet understood the trade-offs demanded by Brexit
Until 2017, Jackie Minor was the European Commission's Head of Representation in the UK. As Brexit negotiations enter a dangerous and painful endgame, she reviews her time at the Commission – and considers how clashing cultures have derailed Britain's relationship with the EU
Ever since Brexit negotiations got underway, many British politicians have been constantly surprised by the EU's stance – particularly its refusal to compromise the Single Market's core principles, and its wholehearted support for Ireland over avoiding a hard border with Northern Ireland. But Jackie Minor, the EU's Head of Representation in the UK from 2013 to 2017, says the EU's inflexibility on these points was entirely predictable. Many in the UK, she believes, have simply never understood the drivers at the core of the EU project.
For British leaders and commentators, she explains, the country's relationship with the EU has long been seen as largely transactional – a simple matter of finding common interests. As former Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg noted, Britons have typically adopted a "detached, objective weighing-up of the benefits and costs: 'What do I have to put in? What do I get out?'," she notes. From this perspective, it would make complete sense for the EU to permit – for example – the UK to enjoy tariff-free trade whilst ending freedom of movement, in order to maintain Continental exports to Britain.
But that, says Minor, is to ignore Europeans' widespread commitment to EU unity and the core principles underpinning the Single Market. "When there's an external risk, solidarity comes into play," she says. "There is a recognition that smaller member states might be over-ridden in the internal legislative process of qualified majority voting. But when it comes to something as important as Brexit, everyone will line up to protect and support a smaller country. The Baltics will really want to know that the EU would protect them from any threat from the East, for example."
Similarly, on the trade relationship, leaders across the EU are agreed that nations must obey all of the Single Market's rules in order to participate. "The way I used to explain it was that EU membership is a complex bundle of rights and obligations, and you can't extract from that bundle one thread without unravelling the whole thing," she says. "The Brexit process has demonstrated that leaving the EU is very difficult: there are trade-offs that some British politicians are still to face up to."
High-risk strategy
Unable to secure her own party's acceptance of those trade-offs, UK prime minister Theresa May is pushing the UK ever closer to a disorderly, No Deal exit – something that Minor calls "an incredibly high-risk strategy." So far, the EU shows no signs of granting further concessions along the lines demanded by the Tories' hard Brexiteers; and tensions are rising on both sides. "Europe is getting immensely frustrated with this kicking the can down the road," Minor comments.
Even if May does get her deal through Parliament, Minor adds, this will only represent "the end of the beginning" of the Brexit story. "One way or another, the manner of withdrawal will be determined in the near-ish future," she says. "But that still leaves the negotiation of the future relationship which, even leaving aside the differing views in the UK as to what it should be, will be complex and highly technical."
And all of this was, for those who knew and understood the EU – like Britain's former civil service legal chief Sir Paul Jenkins, now tragically deceased – entirely predictable. "During the final six months or so that I was Head of the Representation, I spent a lot of time explaining to people how Article 50 [of the Lisbon Treaty] would work. And if there's an element of schadenfreude in me, it's because the way I explained it, is the way it has largely worked."
"I don't pretend to have spotted – at that stage – the importance of the Irish border," she adds. "But the rest of it, I think, was fairly predictable from a European perspective: the sequencing, and the unity and solidarity."
"You could make the European Union more democratic, but that would take more power away from sovereign states"
A revived EU
Paradoxically, the shock of Britain's Brexit vote and the subsequent negotiations have, Minor believes, left the EU stronger. It "might be more obvious now to other populations" how difficult it would be to leave the union; and some of the union's other difficulties have faded. "In 2016 people were talking about the perfect storm: Brexit, the instability of the Euro, the migration crisis. But, for the moment, some of the other issues have ebbed away," she comments
The EU is also, Minor argues, slowly addressing its 'democratic deficit'. "It's probably true that the Commission has more powers – perhaps significantly more powers – than most national administrations," she says; but this is a consequence of the Council of Ministers' hoarding of democratic legitimacy. "The only way you could enhance the parallel with what goes on in individual countries is to have European Commissioners directly elected somehow," she comments. "But that would give them the kind of democratic mandate that most national governments – and perhaps most national electorates – would find unacceptable."
In recent years, she's witnessed a shift in power from the Commission towards both the European Parliament and the Council: "There has been increased democratic legitimacy for the Parliament, and they have seized and exploited all the powers [offered] them cleverly and with enthusiasm. So the Commission now listens very much to the Parliament – some people would say too much – and I think the Council, which didn't formally exist as a body until quite recently, has also seized power in terms of creating a direction and setting policy objectives, in a way that it didn't in the early years of the European Community. So I think you have to admit that a 'democratic deficit' does exist but the issue is somewhat addressed in practice."
"You could make the European Union more democratic, but that would take more power away from sovereign states," she concludes; the current "uneasy compromise" is likely to persist for a while.
Don't blow that trumpet
Some argue that the EU should have done more to shout about its own achievements, making people aware of the contribution it has made to infrastructure and economic development across its poorer regions. But again, Minor challenges the narrative: "Spending by government bodies – whether at European, national or local government level – on promoting the merits of what they are doing always strikes me as somewhat suspect, and it's rightly regarded as somewhat suspect by voters: 'This is our money being spent by you to tell us how well you are doing!'."
And communicating through multiple languages and cultures is challenging, she argues: "What plays well in Finland might go down like a lead balloon in Italy".
Minor's four-year stint as head of the EU's UK representation ended in February 2017. It had not been a straightforward four years: just one month after she relocated to London to take up the job, David Cameron promised to hold an in-out referendum on EU membership. Two years on, she's coming to the end of her mandatory two-year 'cooling-off' period, during which time she has to notify her former employer of her professional activity.
"They are very concerned that I shouldn't be writing anything – opinions, recommendations, etcetera – that might assist the British government. Basically, they don't want me to be helping directly the British negotiating team," she explains. But she is allowed to provide training on EU issues; and nowadays works part-time for the Centre for Political and Diplomatic Studies (CDPS), which has a training contract with the British civil service.
Will the deal fly?
Minor is also a member of UK regulator the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)'s Consumer Panel – a role that gives her insights into how the chronic uncertainty around Brexit is affecting a key industry. "Like everybody else, [the CAA] are awaiting direction from the top to some degree," she says. "They can contingency plan, of course, and they are doing so. But my sense is that, like everyone else, they are waiting – and so are their interlocutors in other countries – to see what the situation is on 30 March".
If a No Deal exit was certain, then aviation bodies would be working overtime to plug the huge regulatory gaps it would create. But British and overseas agencies can't be expected to plough vast resources into an outcome that almost nobody is advocating. "If the Withdrawal Agreement – or a Withdrawal Agreement – goes through with a transition period, then that gives everybody time to breathe, and certainty for the length of the transition," she says. "But if it doesn't go through, there will be a scramble to put in place these new arrangements.
"In the case of arrangements with the EU, there has already been a notice, I think, to say this is what the EU will do unilaterally to ensure that planes can still take off and land. But it's a short-term measure that will then still need to be subject to further negotiation."
Consumer power
Prior to returning to the UK in 2013, Minor was Director for Consumer Policy at the Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Consumers (DG Sanco).
She took up that role in 2008, when EU consumer policy first gained a dedicated Commissioner: Bulgaria's Meglena Kuneva. "This really made a difference," she recalls. "To have an advocate within the College [of Commissioners] who could spend her entire time promoting our policies was quite different to having a Commissioner who has considerable other responsibilities."
But this positive structural change was not to last: "After [Kuneva] left, it got folded back into the whole Sanco portfolio and it has now moved to Justice," says Minor. "Since Kuneva, the person responsible for consumer policy has had a lot of other things on their plate. This may be entirely justifiable, but inevitably it means that consumer policy isn't as much front and centre as it was under Kuneva."
Challenges that she recalls at Sanco include battling what she describes as "misconceptions" that her department was aiming to "tie businesses down with red-tape"; and the struggle to integrate consumer interests into all fields of EU policy. But the Commissioner did make an impact: she points to the EU's well-known initiatives on delayed flight compensation and mobile-phone roaming charges, as well as Sanco's co-operative work with the EU's energy department to make it easier to change energy provider.
And how much of a difference did DG Sanco make? "I think we made some progress," she replies carefully – though she accepts that "consumer bodies might be a little wary of the 'fig-leaf' approach to taking the consumer interest into account.
"What I mean is that on a consultative body they would have 10 business representatives and one consumer representative, and say: 'Well, we do have a consumer representative'. So there was a bit of that: cosmetic changes. But there was some recognition that if you wanted to get public subscription to economic policy, you couldn't just listen to business."
Painful lessons
As Minor exits her EU cooling-off period, the UK is about – apparently – to exit the EU. And we choose a bittersweet location for interview photographs: she's been moderating an event in Westminster's Europe House, where she ran the European Commission's team for four years.
"It's discombobulating to be back – being here as just a transitory user," she reflects, as the gathering wraps up. And does she have any thoughts for former UK PM David Cameron, whose referendum prompted Brexit?
"I'd remind him of something [ex-Commission president José Manuel] Barroso used to say," she replies. "And that is: 'You can't decry the EU six days a week, and expect the public to admire it on Sunday'.
"His chosen strategy – renegotiate and then swiftly put the deal to the referendum – reinforced the antagonistic narrative, and left very little time to persuade voters of the merits of continuing membership."
Then our chat draws to an end, and the lights go out for the night in Europe House.
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About Ian Hall
Ian is editor of Global Government Fintech a sister publication to Global Government Forum. Ian also writes for media including City AM and #DisruptionBanking. He is former UK director for the pan-European media network Euractiv (2011-2018), editor of Public Affairs News (2007-2011) and news editor of PR Week (2000-2007). He was shortlisted for 'Editor of the Year' at the British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) Awards in 2010. He began his career in Bulgaria at English-language weekly the Sofia Echo. Ian has an MA in Urban and Regional Change in Europe and a BA in Economics, both from Durham University.
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I could tell you stories. Oh, how I could tell you stories!
Stories of intrigue and romance. Stories of great courage and swashbuckling advantage. Sorry… I got this blog confused with my dating blog. These stories are about how my ignorance, impatience, or indignation caused me to screw up freelance writing projects and hurt client relationships.
I hope you'll learn from my mistakes and use this article as a play-by-play of what not to do with your freelance writing projects.
Mistake #1 – Don't require a deposit.
You complete a project, down to every last jot and tittle.
More time passes, and your anxiety mounts. Where is the payment? They have the payment link right there. They could click through and be done with it in two minutes flat. What's the deal?
My mentor Bruce says that money makes people stupid. Money has certainly made me stupid. Back in the days when I didn't require a deposit, I would paint myself into a corner.
Desperation stinks, and people can smell it on you. Without the cash reserves to tide me over, I would become desperate for money. I would turn up the pressure on situations where clients were slow to pay.
But as soon as you bulldoze right through the required patience and business etiquette and start asking for your money too often or even making demands, you make things WEIRD.
Clients don't like demands. Really, none of us do.
Even if you're in the right, and they do owe you, and they didn't pay you on time, they can and will spin an alternate story about you, consciously or unconsciously. The next time they need a freelance writer, they won't hire you.
The best way to avoid these awkward conversations and to avoid losing a client is to establish clear boundaries from Day 1.
Don't start on the project until the client has paid a non-refundable deposit.
This requirement seems so obvious to me now. Wunderbar LLC is a pay-to-play business. No one on my team works for free, and as the owner, I don't offer "work advances." If clients want me to make their projects a priority, then they pay the first invoice. Then, I add the project to Wunderbar's production queue.
An added benefit of this pay-to-play model is that I avoid most (not all) complications down the road, such as no-pay scenarios. Were the client to go incommunicado later, at least I keep the 50% deposit and break even, more or less.
Deposits help to keep both parties on their best behavior. I get paid, so I start working. The client has skin in the game and wants to finish the project and see ROI.
Further Reading: I have written at length about non-refundable deposits for freelancers. You'll benefit from reading that post.
Mistake #2 – Don't use a rock-solid contract.
I hate legalese almost as much as Excel spreadsheets and waiting in line at the post office. But like deposits, contracts help people to be on their best behavior.
Your contract can be the bad guy so that you don't have to.
For example, let's say a client asks for revisions beyond the number included in your quote and tries to blow scope.
The vast majority of clients aren't trying to pull one over on you. Most of them either didn't the contract closely, or they haven't kept track of the number of revisions already requested.
It is thus your responsibility to remind your clients, in a matter-of-fact manner, that the contract includes two rounds of revisions. The client has already requested two. Does she want you to open a new invoice? Or would she prefer to move forward with the existing drafts?
You offer two choices, and neither is the I-do-free-work-because-you're-requesting-nitpicky-changes option.
Sticking to the terms of the agreement doesn't mean that you're stingy. Like everybody else, you have limited time in which to make a living.
Freelance writing isn't a blank check in terms of unlimited edits/tweaks/revisions/unicorn rides, and besides, you're fighting for the desired outcome: not getting sidetracked by unimportant changes but instead finishing the project so that the client can get the writing out into the world.
By honoring your own contracts, you also avoid feeling resentful of your client later when you're trapped in a cycle of endless free revisions and perfectionism.
Mistake #3 – Leave the scope vague.
Years ago, a software company hired me to write 20-30 pages of new web content. I wrote the content and got final approval.
As far as I was concerned, the project was finished.
The smaller problem was this: The new designs had significantly less room for content. On each page 400 words would need to become 200, and despite assumptions clients may have, the process of condensing is never as simple as removing 200 words.
The bigger problem was this: My contract was vague about the scope, word count, revisions, and the approval process.
250 words of tight sales copy. Two different types of pages require more or less time and expertise to deliver.
And what about the equally significant time difference between polishing up old content and writing new content from scratch?
Scope creep will bite you in the derrier.
Sure enough, I had to eat the extra time and trim down ALL of those pages. Vagueness in the scope doubled the time I had to put in the project and cut my effective hourly rate in half. Ouch.
When you're scoping out a project and assigning a price to that scope, be sure to explain what is and is not included.
What is the cap on the per-page word count?
How many revisions does the price include?
How do you differentiate between light and heavy editing?
Who will be responsible for keyword research?
Will you be writing custom meta data for web pages?
Are you drafting, editing, and proofreading/spell-checking?
What happens if the client changes the designs that you used to make your estimates mid-project?
How do you define the end product that you're selling? A certain number of drafts of a certain number of pages at a certain price, whether or not they feel like those drafts are ready to go live?
How will you handle additional payments if the client opts to add to the scope or buy more revisions mid-project?
What happens if the client gives final approval then later changes his or her mind?
Be thorough now, and you will protect your profit margin later.
Mistake #4 – Leave the complete payment schedule out of your contract.
If you require a 50% up-front deposit before adding a project to your queue, how will you handle the remaining 50%?
I break up the balance into two to four payments.
After years of waiting for clients to send feedback so that I could finish the project and paid, I decided enough was enough.
When a client doesn't want to cough up the dough, then you are at his or her mercy unless you decide to sue. A lawsuit will probably cost you more money than it recovers.
I wish I could say I had ferreted out a way to get paid on time every time. No dice.
Here is what I have landed: In the client service agreement, I tie post-deposit payments to dates, not project-related milestones. Even if a client goes dark mid-project, I send invoices on the those dates.
Clients are contractually obligated to pay those invoices, and though some folks will certainly ignore your invoices (and legal agreements), they are in the minority.
Invoices get most clients attention.
You can also simply stop working on the project.
If your clients aren't honoring their side of your agreement, then you are within your rights to prioritize other projects. Your clients aren't working for free, and they stop working when their clients and customers stop paying.
Mistake #5 – Use email to express frustration.
Email is never the appropriate medium for expressing frustration. There's simply too much open for misinterpretation in emails. It's too easy to slip in passive-aggressive jabs and to start thinking the other person is a real jerk.
More often than not, the client will backpedal on the aggressive or accusatory language that he used in the email. Or he will apologize. Or he will explain what was going on in his head.
The two of you can work together to resolve the problem instead of using email to exacerbate it.
Mistake #6 – Don't explain your writing process.
For whatever reason some clients have a hard time understanding that a first draft is just that: a first draft.
I like Peter Elbow's book Writing Without Teachers (affiliate link). In it Elbow compares writing to cooking. You throw some ingredients into a pot and let them simmer. You taste the stew and add more salt. As the flavors meld, you dial in the herbs and spices.
Writers know that this is how writing works. If your client doesn't love what you sent over, there is no cause for alarm. You want the client to love the stew, and you can change anything to better fit her taste. Writing for clients, especially the ones with lots of their own opinions, always involves give and take.
Though it's nice when the client loves your first drafts, not nailing them doesn't mean that you've wasted your time (or the client's money). Imperfect first drafts mean that you are in the middle of the writing process and that you need to adjust the flavor for the client's palate.
When I first began writing for client, I didn't understand why I should have to explain my writing process. They write emails, project briefs, and other stuff everyday. Surely everyone knows how writing works?!
Nope. Many clients think of writing as transmitting thoughts to a page, not cooking a stew. When your first drafts don't meet their standard, they want to blame a garbled transmission, a critical error.
Sometimes our writing simply doesn't get the job done. We have to make our peace with that. More often, however, the client simply doesn't understand the process of writing.
Writers aren't machines that stamp out staples and iPhone cases. We must synthesize many disparate pieces of information and turn them into a cohesive whole. We're cooks.
You and I know that one weak spoonful of stew doesn't mean the whole meal is ruined. Still, we have to communicate how the process works. We have to diffuse in advance a client's potential freakout moments.
Communicating your process also positions you as the expert. You'll get less pushback during the project.
Mistake #7 – Don't start by writing and discussing sample pages.
Like most of us, clients don't know exactly what they do want until they see what they don't want.
I give them two or three pages of content then ask for feedback. That sample gives us something concrete to discuss. What do they like? What do they dislike?
I only miss the mark on a few pages, not all of the pages, and later, I can bake their preferences into the remaining first drafts and work more efficiently.
In the past I have made the mistake of finishing a big batch of content, and then after a client took issue with stylistic choices I made throughout, I felt sick to my stomach. I had wasted so much time!
Mistake #8 – Don't age for quality.
Finish your drafts. Let them sit for a few days or over the weekend, and when you come back, you'll notice rough spots you missed before.
You know this. Clients know this too. We all experienced this in grade school with our essays and term papers.
And yet, when our clients have their own deadlines and they need this ad copytomorrow, they forget that we cannot promise the same level of quality if the turnaround doesn't leave any time for aging.
That's fine. You can say yes with integrity. You can say yes with assurance that any blemishes won't hurt the client's opinion of you.
We all know it's highly unusual to do our very best work very fast with something big at stake. Writing may be cooking, but writing gains quality and character the same way as wine: over time.
This is sensible, logical. So age for quality.
And if you don't have enough time to achieve top quality, then set realistic expectations with your client. Better to be a wet blanket in the short term than to cause clients to believe that you lack talent.
Mistake #9 – Miss deadlines.
Always dazzle with responsiveness. Beat deadlines.
That's what I advise now that I've done the opposite and asked for extensions.
I wasn't fooling anyone. If I had started the project sooner, I would have asked that question sooner. Rather than buy me time, the question signaled that I was getting a late start.
Lack of clarity around the project requirements wasn't the problem. Mismanagement of my time was the problem.
These days, when a freelancer asks me an "important" question the day I expected to receive the finished product, I roll my eyes and move that freelancer down on my list.
We have our work cut out for us. In order to beat deadlines, we must first fight for realistic timelines. Then, we must manage projects effectively. Then, we must allow for the aging period. Then, we must allocate time for any back-and-forth.
Freelancing is hard. We had all better get used to it.
Relationships die from a thousand cuts. Or they gain strength from a thousand promises kept.
Mistake #10 – Don't define success.
Have you ever done the right thing for the wrong person?
There was this one guy who wanted me to stuff keywords into these excellent—he even said so!—product descriptions I had written for him.
I tried to explain that keyword stuffing isn't effective anymore. I dug up and shared links from Moz.com and Search Engine Land to prove that I knew my stuff and was looking out for him. Google penalizes keyword stuffing.
He didn't listen to a word.
What's a conscientious freelance writer to do?
For starters, I wish that we had outlined the project requirements in advance in a project brief.
I defined success as "excellent original content," and in my mind "excellent" would not include outdated SEO tactics that Google would penalize. After all, what good is excellent content if Google buries it on the seventh page of results and no one ever sees it?
Be that as it may, my client defined success as writing that fit his preferences, which include SEO tactics that stopped being effective several years ago.
He was convinced that he knew best. No amount of articles and videos from widely recognized thought leaders would convince him otherwise.
Don't bang your head against a brick wall if you don't have to! Use a brief to outline the project requirements and define what success looks like for your client. If they won't listen to reason and adjust that definition, give them exactly what they want. And start looking for a new client.
One definition of a bad client is someone who will ignore your advice yet blame you for poor results.
A project brief would have saved me time and frustration.
Do you use a project brief template?
You should. If you don't have one of your own, you're welcome to use mine. Plug in your name and email address below, and I'll send you the download link for it.


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Рубенис () — латышская фамилия, (буквально — тетерев); имеет женскую форму .

Известные носители:
 Рубенис, Андрис — (1951—2017) — советский и латвийский ученый, доктор философии, член-корреспондент Академии наук Латвии.
 Рубенис, Виталий Петрович (1914—1994) — латышский советский партийный и государственный деятель, председатель Совета Министров Латвийской ССР 1962—1970 годах.
 Рубенис, Мартиньш (род. 1978) — латвийский спортсмен-саночник.
  (род. 1933) — советский футбольный судья.
 Рубенис, Оскарс (род. 1999) — латвийский футболист.
 Рубенис, Роберт (1917—1944) — лейтенант латвийской армии и офицер латышского легиона.
 Рубенис, Юрий Янович (1925—2004) — латышский советский партийный и государственный деятель, председатель Совета Министров Латвийской ССР в 1970—1988 годах.
 Рубенис, Янис (род. 1940) — латвийский кинорежиссёр и кинооператор.


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202 refers to the wiring diagram of the phone. The main body holding the dial is called the mount and this is a "D" mount.
The Western Electric 634BA Sub set is a metal box that holds a wooden terminal block (GND, L2-Y and B) to connect to the phone line, a 101A induction coil, dual capacitor and the B1AL bell with a 41A and 41B gong. Inside the cover of the sub set it looks like 554C in paint.
The D1 (U.S.A.) phone proper has the F1 handset that uses the F1 Carbon mike element and HA-1 speaker element, 5H dial and cradle type hook switch.
In later phones like the 302 and 500 all the parts were in the phone proper and no separate sub set was needed.
Black, Red, Green and Yellow wires go between the sub set and the phone.
Red, Black and White wires go between the handset and the phone.
The Red and Green wires from a modular plug go to L1 and L2 on the coil to make the phone able to answer and dial out.
To get the ringer to work you need to connect the Bell and .5 MF capacitor in series and across the L1 and L2 terminals on the coil (same as across the incoming Line).
Practical Wiring Diagram - omits details of components and concentrates on what goes where, wires shown in color.
There was noise in when the dial tone stops after dialing a digit. Caused by a noisy transmitter capsule. The Transmitter capsule of the 302 phone and this 202 phone are the same. But the 500 phone uses a smaller transmitter.
Current through the transmitter capsule is 35 ma.
15 Feb 2013 - send 5H dial to Steve Hilsz (Dial repair, Phone Surplus) for rebuild since the KX-TA824 would not recognize the digits (probably too slow). He also has a replacement B1AL ringer and an E-1 handset with the spit cup.
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5 Movies to watch if you liked Turning Red
Still, obsessing over Turning Red? Of course, you are, because who won't? And we are sure you are wanting more. If you haven't watched it yet, Turning Red is the story of a 13-year-old girl, Mei Lee who battles the ups and downs of her adolescent age while trying to please her mom. Mei Lee is a Chinese-Canadian student who transforms into a giant red panda whenever she feels a strong emotion. This is the first-ever cartoon movie that talks freely about menstruation and that is one of the most unique features of this movie.
It is an animated coming-of-age comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Pictures. If you liked Turning Red, here are some movies that you'll definitely like:
A story about adventure, acceptance, and love triumphing over hate. Moana is a story of a young girl, Moana who is strong-willed, adventurous, and brave. She is the daughter of the chief of Polynesian village and the inhabitants of this village worship the goddess of nature Te Fiti who is known for bringing the ocean to life long ago by using a stone called pounamu as her heart but Maui who is the shape-shifting demigod steals the heart and give humanity the power of creation. Maui is attacked by a volcanic demon after some time and he loses his magical fishhook as well as the heart. Now, a thousand years later Moana has been chosen by the ocean to reunite the heart with Te Fiti. The story is about Moana's adventures, how she left her family to find her true identity even when she loved them dearly. Watch this movie if you love powerful, enjoyable, and female-centric movies.
2. Brave
Brave is one of the best Pixar movies ever, the beautiful storytelling, adventurous plot and cultural references make this movie a must-watch for everyone. This movie conveyed a very strong message that "Where there is a will there's a way" and we must not stop fighting for the people we care about. The story starts when Princess Merida who is a 16 years old girl, discovers that she is about to be betrothed to the son of one of her father's friends and according to her mom, this union is very important for the safety of their country. Merida is a talented archer and doesn't want to be a dutiful wife for the rest of her life. On the day of the Highland game, she demands that whoever beats her in an archery competition will be her husband, being a superior archer, she easily bests her suitors and runs away into the forest afterward. In the forest, she meets an old witch who gives her an enchanted cake and when Merida gives this cake to her mom, her life changes forever. This story is about Merida's attempts to save her mother and her family from the magic. Watch this movie if you're looking for something cute, funny yet thought-provoking.
3. Zootopia
Zootopia is a movie about turning your dreams into reality and how you can achieve even the impossible-looking things if you are determined enough. It is the story of Rabbit Judy Hoops who is from rural Bunnybrow and has a dream of becoming a police officer, she fulfills her childhood dream by getting posted as an officer in urban Zootopia but even after her achievements, and talent, she is designated to parking duty. She is hustled by a fox named Nick on the first day of her job who is a con artist. The suspense part of the movie begins when 14 animals went missing, one of them is Emmitt, whose wife demands help from the officers. Judy is assigned the task of finding these animals and later she blackmails Nick into helping her. The story is about an accidental friendship, determination to win, and a strong female lead, who after waiting for so long, finally gets an opportunity to show her talent to the world. This movie is a must-watch if you like cute, fluffy, and strong women-centered movies.
4. Frozen
A magical tale about finding one's true identity and believing in the power of dreams and fate. The story is about a princess who has to leave her castle and another princess who wants her sister back at any cost. Princess Elsa of Arendelle has some magical powers that allow her to control and create ice but this power does more harm than good as she accidentally injures her sister with her magic while playing. Elsa ceases all contact with her sister, Anna to protect her. After the death of her parents in a sea storm, Elsa is to be crowned queen of Arendelle but she is afraid that people will find out about her powers and fear her. During the ceremony, she avoids Anna. Anna falls in love with Prince Hans at first sight and when they talk to Elsa and seek her blessing, Elsa objects. Anna demands to know the reason for her isolation and fear and accidentally, Elsa unleashes her power and out of fear, leaves the castle and flees to Northern Mountain. The story is about Anna trying to get her sister back and Elsa who has to find how to control her magical power. Frozen is the most beautiful movie that Pixar has ever produced and you have to watch this movie to experience its beauty and magic.
Tangled is a musical adventure comedy movie produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The movie is about Rapunzel, who is a lost and young princess with magical long blonde hair who just has one dream, to leave her isolated tower and see the outside world. The story starts with Mother Gothel, an old beggar woman who uses a magical flower to stay young but when the soldiers find out, they uproot it and use it to save their ill queen. After some time, the queen gives birth to a girl with long blonde hair. When Gothel finds out that the magic of flower transforms into the hair of that girl, she kidnaps her and raises her in an isolated tower. Rapunzel thinks that Gothel is her real mother and she is not evil but every year, when she watches thousands of sky lanterns, she wants to visit that place at least once in her life but Gothel objects to this. Later, a young and handsome thief Flynn Rider steals the kingdom's crown and comes to the tower to hide. Rapunzel blackmails him into taking her to that place and having no other choice, Flynn agreed. The story is about their adventures, filled with action, suspense, drama, and love. Watch this movie if you are looking for something cute, light, and romantic.


Update: America, You Asked For It! reports that "House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives voted 345-75 to pass the Defund ACORN Act: "Today's overwhelming bipartisan vote to stop all federal funding of ACORN is a victory for American taxpayers. Of course, it is only the beginning. We need to keep up the fight to end taxpayer funding for this troubled organization. . . ."
The Senate will resume consideration of H.R. 3288, the fiscal 2010 Transportation-Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. It will then proceed to a series of votes on 4 amendments to the bill and a motion to recommit offered by Republican Whip Jon Kyl, which would rescind unspent stimulus funds for next year. Among the amendments expected to receive votes is one from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) to prohibit funding in the bill for the John Murtha airport in Johnstown, PA.
Yesterday the Senate rejected several Republican amendments to the bill. Among the amendments rejected: Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) to prohibit funding for stimulus project road signs and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) to prohibit earmarks of funds in the bill from going to museums. Also rejected was a motion from Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) to recommit the bill and have it reported back with $12.7 billion less in spending. However, they approved an amendment from Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) to allow the secured transport of legal firearms on Amtrak trains.
A new Gallup poll today finds that despite a near-constant P.R. blitz by the administration, disapproval of the President's handling of health care remains significantly higher than approval, and as Gallup puts it, "may have become fairly entrenched." 52% of Americans disapprove of Obama's handling of health care, compared with 49% in August and 50% in July. His approval has stayed nearly flat, from 44% in July to 43% in August and September. The higher disapproval numbers on health care have not improved since the drop in July despite dozens of speeches, weekly addresses, town halls, innumerable interviews, a prime time press conference and his speech to the joint session of Congress.
So it seems the debate on health care is back to where it was prior to Obama's supposedly game-changing speech. A majority of Americans disapprove of the president's handling on health care, Democrats in Congress are touting bills that only bring both parties together in disliking major provisions in them, and the American people are left wondering where the common-sense reforms they could support are.
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If we can win on all these things get acorn defunded and at least a couple of czars removed why can't we all get this illegal muslin tossed out on his ears and tried for the crimes he's done against this nation!
Let's pray for a veto by Obama. Remember, Jimmy Carter had over 30 vetos overturned by a Democrat Congress that used him like a doormat.
They've been 'under investigation for years,' but see the impact on a few concerned citizens!!!! I am so proud to be an American, and to live to see the silent millions wake up and make a stand against the corrupt!!!
Reorganize, Mark...they're already operating under a MULTITUDE of names!
James, I'm afraid this one will sit on BHO's desk for the next 3+ years. He probably won't veto it and won't sign it.
He has 10 days to sign or it becomes law unless Congress is out of session then it is becomes a pocket veto.
So his promise to not sign a health care bill that adds to the deficit rings hollow? Interesting. He can keep his promise and screw us the same as if he had signed it.
Its about time they lose their funding.
I thought they were pretty adept at trafficking 13 year old prostitutes and tax evasion. It's good to see hard working Americans doing their jobs with pride!!!


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Das Projekt Kuiper ist eine geplante Konstellation von Kommunikationssatelliten des Amazon-Konzerns. Das Projekt ist noch in einem frühen Stadium. Langfristig soll es mittels 3236 Satelliten weltweiten Breitband-Internetzugang bereitstellen. Amazon möchte mehrere Milliarden US-Dollar in die Satellitenkonstellation investieren.

Namensgeber des Projekts ist der nach dem Astronom Gerard Peter Kuiper benannte Kuipergürtel, ein Bereich des Sonnensystems jenseits der Neptunbahn, in dem zahlreiche Asteroiden um die Sonne kreisen.

Organisation
Für die Entwicklung und den späteren Betrieb des Systems ist das Amazon-Tochterunternehmen Kuiper Systems LLC in Washington, D.C. verantwortlich. Das Topmanagement des Unternehmens rekrutierte Amazon aus ehemaligen Mitarbeitern des Konkurrenten SpaceX, der selbst an der großen Internet-Satellitenkonstellation Starlink arbeitet. Dessen CEO Elon Musk hatte im Oktober 2018 das Starlink-Management ausgetauscht, weil er mit der Fortschrittsgeschwindigkeit des Projekts unzufrieden war.

Geplanter Aufbau
Publik wurde das Projekt Kuiper erst durch die Pflichtveröffentlichung von drei Anträgen für internationale Funkfrequenzen im März 2019. Weitere Details sind dem entsprechenden Antrag für US-Funkfrequenzen vom Juli 2019 zu entnehmen. Die Anträge umfassen drei Gruppen von geplanten Satelliten in drei verschiedenen Umlaufbahnkategorien:

 784 Satelliten in Höhen um 590 km, Bahnneigung 33°
 1296 Satelliten in Höhen um 610 km, Bahnneigung 52°
 1156 Satelliten in Höhen um 630 km, Bahnneigung 42°

Hiermit ließe sich die Erdoberfläche zwischen etwa 56 Grad nördlicher und südlicher Breite abdecken. In diesem Bereich leben zirka 95 % der Weltbevölkerung.

Der Aufbau der Konstellation soll in fünf Phasen erfolgen, beginnend mit 578 Satelliten um 630 km Höhe und einem Netzwerk aus Bodenstationen ("Gateway earth stations"). Bereits nach dieser ersten Phase kann das System in Betrieb gehen, allerdings nur mit einer Abdeckung im Bereich von 39–56° nördlicher und südlicher Breite.

Der erste Start soll in der ersten Jahreshälfte 2024 erfolgen, ein genauer Zeitplan für den Start der Satelliten wurde jedoch noch nicht genannt. Die Lizenzbedingungen für die genehmigten Funkfrequenzen verpflichten Amazon allerdings dazu, die Hälfte der Satelliten bis 2026 in Betrieb zu nehmen und die übrigen bis 2029.

Umsetzung
Es war zunächst nicht bekannt, ob Amazon die Satelliten so wie SpaceX selbst bauen oder – wie der zweite Hauptkonkurrent OneWeb – extern fertigen lassen wird. Für den Start der Satelliten möchte Amazon die Dienste verschiedener Raumfahrtunternehmen nutzen. Die ersten neun Starts wurden im April 2021 bei der United Launch Alliance gebucht; zum Einsatz kommt deren bewährte Rakete Atlas V.

Am 5. April 2022 verkündet Amazon die Buchung von bis zu 83 weiteren Starts durch die Unternehmen Arianespace, Blue Origin, und United Launch Alliance mit deren in Entwicklung befindlichen Trägerraketen. Im Detail verteilen sich die Starts wie folgt: 18 Starts für die Ariane 6, 12 Starts mit New Glenn mit einer Option für 15 weitere Starts und 38 Starts mit Vulcan.

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Kommunikationssatellitenkonstellation
Internetzugang
Amazon
Wirtschaft (Washington, D.C.)
Raumfahrt der Vereinigten Staaten

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Today I went along with the novices to their Pirivena (monks' school) to take some photos. It's about a mile and a half through the jungle lanes and they walk back and forth each weekday. We took a tuk-tuk today. They leave the temple at 12:30 in order to get their by 1:00. Classes are over by 5:00 and they are generally back here before 5:30.
This pirivena is situated at the edge of a temple that is quite a bit larger than ours. Novices come from surrounding temples to attend classes. They are taught Sinhala grammar, English, math, Pali, Buddhist history and culture, and the study of the Suttas (Buddhist scriptures).
Some of these boys come from very poor families and this is the only prospect they have for an education. Some will leave the sangha by the age of 18, some will run away if they find the life too difficult or they are treated harshly by older monks. Most will take higher ordination when they reach 21. Then again some may disrobe after 2 or 3 years if they find the 200 plus vows too difficult to live by each day.
Monks (the correct term is bhikkhu) generally migrate into one or a mix of several life endeavors. A few will seek to reach spiritual enlightenment and devote themselves to near constant meditation, isolation in remote monasteries or even caves, and depravation of anything sensual , eating only the most basic food. These true ascetics are rare these days. I would venture that the majority would be western convert monks.
Another group will become scholars not only of Buddhist history, culture, and philosophy but even more traditional academics. Many go on earn Doctorates in Philosophy, Literature, etc. and publish scholarly books. Some like Bhante Wimalaratana even become chancellors of universities. Teachers at all levels in the education system often come from this group.
Others become business administrators, managing the affairs of large temples and community development centers. In this case, the Buddha's proscription against monks handling money has to be waived. Senior monks from this and the previous group serve as advisors to government officials and serve on government committees.
One radical group of monks here in Sri Lanka actually formed a political party and got members elected to parliament.
Others may devote themselves to social service. In a city temple they will work in a community development center running vocational schools or support centers for the aged. In small, remote rural village temples they will try to muster support from local governments, NGOs and the villagers themselves to develop irrigation works, or flood control projects. They obviously serve as spiritual advisers but also in roles similar to marriage counselors, small claims court judges, and general peace makers.
Sometimes, whether they were born in the big cities (Colombo, Galle, and Kandy) or the rural countryside will determine their path. And of course there are many combinations of these roles.
There are 3 major divisions amongst the sangha in Sri Lanka. Fortunately, the Buddhist teachings had been well established in Sri Lanka before it was practically destroyed in India. This southern tradition then made its way to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Burma. A northern tradition had also taken the route through Tibet to China, Japan and Korea before the Indian collapse.
But after centuries of colonial rule by the Portuguese and Dutch, the sangha in Sri Lanka had fallen on hard times and the direct lineage of ordination back to the Buddha had been lost. In 1753, a delegation of reformers went to Thailand (Siam) to seek help in reestablishing the lineage. This was done and it subsequently became known as the Siam Nikaya. However, most of the monks came from the high caste Govigama families originating chiefly in the mountain capital of Kandy. They kept membership exclusive to their own caste for many decades.
As a result another group from a lower caste went to Burma to reestablish their own line of ordination. And later another group from the then remote rural south formed another line. I often liken it to the many church groups within the Protestant religion although I'm not sure this is an appropriate analogy.
Bhante Wimalaratana in Colombo and his older brother, Bhante Dhammaratana in Singapore are both senior leaders in the Siam Nikaya. Rev. Piyananda here in Godagama was also trained in this nikaya.
I find it interesting that the monks who practice the strictest discipline are often western convert monks. Many of them served in the Peace Corp in Southeast Asia and stayed on for many years thereafter to study under such famous teachers as Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Buddhadasa in Thailand or similar famous teachers in Burma. A few of have stayed in the jungle but many more have gone on to establish monasteries and meditation centers in the U.S., Australia, Canada, the U.K. and Europe. I even correspond with a Ugandan monk who studied under the inspiring and often published Sri Lankan monk, Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, who now resides in West Virginia at his Bhavana Society forest meditation center. He is now establishing a meditation center near Kampala in Uganda. Many of these centers are supported by expatriate cultural Buddhist communities (Thai, Sri Lankan, Cambodian, etc). But the western monks are not that involved with the cultural necessities that would be expected of a native monk. So they have a certain freedom to pursue their ascetic practice.
Anyway, that's about all that I think I might know about these things.
I'm concerned about Rev. Piyananda and where he might be headed. He has great responsibility for such a young monk (he just turned 25 last month). He's very bright and he works hard to support and guide the village. He attracted Bhante Wimalaratana's attention and subsequent support in the first day after the Tsunami. While delivering water and medical supplies in the area, Bhante observed Rev. Piyananda and his monks tearing their robes into bandages and turning the temple compound into a relief and grief counseling center. He is truly loved by the villagers.
But because of Bhante Wimalaratana's international associations, there had been a large number of foreign visitors after the Tsunami. Rev. Piyananda was exposed to people and a way of life unlike what he knew growing up. He now has urges to travel. He went to India for Buddhist pilgrimage in December. Most monks do at sometime. Bhante Dhammaratana invited him to Singapore so that some of the supporters there could meet him. He took the occasion to go on to Melaka, Malaysia for a few days. Last week he went to Colombo to get a Korean visa. And I think he is establishing a history of going abroad and then returning home in the hopes of getting a visa for the U.S.
If he has a significant fault it is, I believe, that he is too tolerant. There are a lot of young men in the village who are unemployed or underemployed. They are very nice boys and are very helpful with all sorts of projects around the compound. But they tend to hang around the monks' residence quite a bit of the day. I think Samanera Dassana (who I mentioned a few letters ago) attracts them as he is a bit of a loafer himself, at least as far as religious duties. It's hard to fault the boys because life without a job is very boring in a rural village. I think perhaps Rev. Piyananda tolerates it is because the alternative is for them to be at one of the several houses that sell arrack and bootleg liquor. He does not tolerate this and sends them home if he thinks they've been drinking. So the sanghawasa looks and sounds like a social club sometimes. It is not a place for serious religious study or contemplation. But all religious duties and rituals are performed with great diligence.
I'm afraid that he might eventually disrobe and that would be a real loss to the village.
For those anxiously waiting to hear about the continuing saga of the ants, a few found their way into my electric water kettle and were unceremonious boiled to death as I had not looked in the pot that morning. I expect retribution any night now. As for the refrigerator being used to keep ants out of the food, forget it. I think they infiltrate by hiding on the bottom of the jam jar.
It seemed as if yesterday was field day here. Everything was swept and mopped, the refrigerator was cleaned out, and the curtains were taken down, washed and laid on the ground to dry. The curtains in my room are a white, machine woven mesh, made to look like lace. At least they were white once upon a time.
Somebody brought a clay pot of curd and a bottle of palm honey to our kitchen yesterday. This is a favorite treat of mine although no one else here seemed all that excited. It's made from buffalo milk and has the smooth creamy texture of a good Greek yogurt. Asian Buffaloes don't carry tuberculosis like cows do and as its not pasteurized, that's a good thing.
There was a funeral in the new village last week. So the family donated a few items to the temple that had belonged to the deceased. I looked out the computer lab door to see 2 boys and a monk carrying a chair up to my room. It looks quite old but is very well made. It has a stuffed plush back and seat. I look very grand setting in it in the evening while wearing my sarong.
Enough for now.
I've attached a few photos of the boys at school.


In a recent discussion on my Facebook group "You Are Stronger Than You Know", the subject of forgiveness came up. But this wasn't your typical forgiveness conversation…this was one about how to forgive our friends, loved ones, and colleagues for the stuff that's been uncovered or stirred up during this unusually divisive political climate.
The recent level of vitriol had certainly made it very difficult to have conversations about politics these days without emotions running high. I'm not going to pretend I have all the answers but do have a couple of thoughts on the subject. I understand how hard it is when you feel betrayed by others. Even though it's not "personal" it certainly feels that way, doesn't it?
Is there a way you can channel your strong emotions into something positive, constructive? Doing something for others is very rewarding and it benefits you and the people you help. Volunteer your time for something that will make a positive difference, something that you care about. It doesn't have to be political (but it certainly can be), there are lots of volunteer opportunities all over the country. Here is a resource that helps you "Find a cause that lights you up".
Another idea (bear with me here) is to try to understand the others points of view. Not to agree with them, but to simply understand where they are coming from. There is a lot of fear and fear-mongering going around these days and fear can do crazy things to people. I know how hard this can be…emotions are running really high. People we know and love are supporting a candidate who is against everything we believe in, even who we are, and that's incredibly difficult to swallow. Why do they feel that way? Do my friends and family hate me because I'm gay/Hispanic/a woman/an immigrant/_____(fill in the blank). For the record, I fall into three of the four categories I just mentioned so I too am feeling threatened and scared. Despite this fear (or maybe because of it), I need answers.
Yup, I said it…meditate. I know I probably lost some of you there but, if you're still reading let me explain! There is scientific proof that meditation improves and grows your brain. I swear…Harvard affiliated researchers (yes, that Harvard) did a study at Massachusetts General and proved that mediation resulted in measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. You can read the resultshere or, for the visual learners among us, watch Sara Lazar's Tedx talk on Youtube. If you prefer a celebrity endorsement, watch Dan Harris from GMA talk about the impact meditation has had in his life.
I have first-hand experience with this too. I've been meditating for about a year now and I can tell you that it has seriously changed my stress and frustration levels. Ask anyone that knows me if they're surprised at my level of restraint on Social Media about the topic of this year's election and you will likely get a resounding YES! A year ago, I would have been arguing and yelling and been hyper-defensive. Today, because of meditation, I'm able to control my emotions…Do I have strong feelings about it? You bet! Do I sometimes want to rant & scream and shout WHY??? Absolutely. But I don't. Because here's one thing I know for sure, having arguments about these things doesn't change minds, in fact it's more likely to make everyone dig in their heels. If we listen, and then share ideas (backed up with facts and relatable personal stories) the conversations can be much more civil and maybe, just maybe, someone's heart will be opened and a glimmer of hope for a new level of understanding can be born.
Take a break from Social Media, from the news, from the political conversations…really! There is so much anger & hate going around, sometimes you just need a break! A friend of mine recently swore off Facebook for a while and says it's been a game changer! So, give it a try. When you do, see if you can measure your stress levels (if you can't gauge for yourself, ask the people who live with you!). Are you less irritable, less angry if you stay away from the noise? I bet you are!
Bottom line - you need to love yourself enough to be authentically you. That doesn't mean you should dismiss everyone else's point of view, quite the opposite. If you love yourself enough, you can listen to others without feeling threatened or diminished. If you are comfortable in your own skin, your emotions are much less likely to get out of control. You can still disagree, and even debate, but you can do so without getting heated. And if the other person can't keep their cool, just walk away…it's not worth your dignity!
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In September I entered a training program with CR England to get a CDL (Commercial Drivers License) in California. It was a fast and furious immersion into a new skill. I got a permit within a week and within another two weeks had learned how to operate a semi tractor to pull containers/trailers and had taken the exam by a California certified DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) examiner. The CR England program entails entering two phases of training culminating in driving 30,000 miles and staying on a truck for about 2 months straight. In December I graduated their program and now I'm working on the Relief & Recovery Fleet – finding my way and gaining experience and confidence. The program was not easy, it was one of the most difficult things I've ever done in my life…definitely out of my comfort zone.
My first trainer, Laura, is only 24 years old but a consummate professional with a great work ethic. Compassionate and funny she was a blessing. As a lover of music she introduced me to "The Weekend" aka Abel Tesfaye, a Canadian recording artists and record producer. He's really hot right now and is often categorized as alternative R&B. His voice has been compared to Michael Jackson.
Learning about music is important to me as I market "Island Voices Reggae & New Jamaican Music," written by Fureus and I. I'm grateful to have the opportunity to get a CDL – finding a corporate position has eluded me since being downsized by AT&T Wireless several years ago and making stable income with my consulting company, art gallery and other efforts has not been successful. Trucking for some reason is the door that continues to open now and I'm embracing it.
It has been a surreal transition going from a "white collar" corporate person to a "blue collar" worker. I have considerable investment in my education and spent the last several years gaining more technology skills, teaching certifications, etc. Those efforts were for naught in terms of employment but looking at the big picture – all good in terms of my interests and goals. My maternal grandfather was a teamster and I come from good solid people – father and brothers in the auto body business though my Dad was the mayor of our hometown, Leominster, MA. I was the first in my family to have the privilege of a college education, with my mother following quickly after (she graduated at the top of her class – I did not). As "smashing the ego" is a good thing all the way around, I welcome being on the open road instead of in a cubicle but as with all professions there are good and bad aspects. One feature of trucking that I love is my exposure to America – new vistas everyday and the ability to make images along the way and interact with a multitude of people. Some of them look sad at the truck stops but I think they are mostly tired and I am of the philosophy that a smile is a free gift I can give to all. I have decided this journey is in alignment with my publishing goals to create and market electronic and audio books about travel and tourism. In my blog and social media sites I'll be sharing photos and reflections along the way.
Thanks for the encouragement and good luck on your own music production. Hey we are all doing what we love. How cool is that?
One of the things I love about you is your endless capacity for making the best of a situation. I know each opportunity you take expands your potential even further. That's a blessing to everyone.
That is so awesome Dona. Did not know you were trucking. My dad did that as a third career for years until he really retired around the age of 80. As the saying goes, "Keep on Trucking." Good luck Dona. Much love. Keep on smiling, too. You never know whose life might be saved by a smile.
Linda, I am amazed how many people have loved ones who are truckers the last of the American cowboy. Yes a smile goes a long way being a nurse you certainly know that! Thanks for reading my blog see you back in Cali!


A more apt description for what Walsh creates is functional sculpture. Created primarily from wood, the vast majority of his pieces are usable. This roster includes the Magnus Celestii, a desk whose top continues into a 25-meter long wood spiral that swirls up into the ceiling or the stunning Enignum Canopy Bed that inspires images of magical sailing vessels or an Fairytale sleigh while still managing to look completely relevant in a 21st century residence.
Of course, wealthy homeowners aren't the only ones who appreciate his ability to produce furniture and sculptures, which are simultaneously delicate and sturdy while juxtaposing hard wood surfaces against their ability to appear soft and fluid. His work has also been commissioned by Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the National Museum of Ireland among other collectors.
Perhaps a comparison could be made between Walsh's works, which celebrate wood in all her unrestrained glory, and Robby Cuthbert who produces similarly captivating wood pieces but, not surprising given Cuthbert's training, imbue a more structured impression.
It is our sincere wish that Walsh continues to choreograph dances between his ideas and wood's inherent layering and form. There is no doubt that his unmistakable and unrivaled works will appreciated for generations to come.
Are you a fan of exquisite woodwork and craftsmanship? Don't miss the extraordinary exhibit "Audacious: The Fine Art of Wood," at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. The exhibit consists of nearly 100 pieces of exquisite, contemporary wood art forms, curated from the collection of Robert M. and Lillian Montalto Bohlen. The collection includes a wood wall hanging that looks like a fabric quilt, a sculpture made of a sliced wooden bowl, and tiny worlds in a box. They will be available on display to the public until June 21, 2015.


DuMouchel: That is a real difficult issue when there is an ongoing criminal investigation -- or, for that matter, when people are concerned about potential civil liability as well. Obviously, a person who has been identified as a target in a criminal investigation is not likely to meet with an internal investigation team; that is not an absolute, and there are exceptions, but they are rare. The person's lawyer might want to meet and put the client's position forth, and that might/might not be useful. It also might require certain unusual methods of obtaining information, such as an agreement not to have the witness' statement verified, reviewed and adopted by the witness, etc. The "compel" part is dicey. If the person is a current employee, the company directs that person to cooperate with the internal investigation, and refusal to do so can have serious employment consequences. The internal investigators know this as well, and if they can avoid putting some people to that Hobson's choice, often they will try and do that -- e.g., where they know the person just cannot submit to an interview, and the investigation can be completed without such an interview, accommodations can be considered. But, as in the response to #1, the investigation has to be complete, thorough and lead to the truth, and if that means a current employee has to be interviewed, has to produce documents, even if they are in harm's way, and they refuse, there will be unfortunate consequences no matter how much no one wants that to occur. Of course, if the witnesses are not current employees, there is virtually nothing that can be done to compel their cooperation. You can ask, urge, cajole, beg ... but you are going to have a very hard time compelling.
DuMouchel: I think they will have success in arriving at answers to most of the ultimate questions. I do not know, given the age of the alleged events, the fact that some of the witnesses they would want to talk to will be unwilling or unable to talk to them due to the ongoing criminal investigation and upcoming trial, whether all of the surrounding facts will be uncovered, and whether those that are will be able to be verified as much as the investigators would like, but, as I said above, there is usually more than one road that leads to a particular place, and these investigators know how to get to a location by different routes. It also is not always difficult to tell when a person's story is truthful or untruthful -- surprisingly so. These are experienced investigators who can get "pretty close" to the truth without a lot of trouble -- and then it is much harder to verify those early inclinations or disprove them, and that is what takes the time. Then, the real frustration comes when you are almost "done" and everything looks like it fits -- and the late witness comes in and blows the theory away. I will be surprised if that does not happen, and happen several times -- but eventually, the truth will come out. Then, there will be people on various "sides" who will criticize the investigation, that it was a "whitewash" and "what do you expect?", or it was a "witch-hunt" and "what do you expect?" -- and when the investigation has been conducted with care and thoroughness and integrity, those responses just can't matter.