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U.S. NOW TRYING TO CONTROL FREE SPEECH: "Death Of Press Freedoms? Julian Assange Charged Under The Espionage Act"
Death Of Press Freedoms? Julian Assange Charged Under The Espionage Act On 17 Counts
TOPICS:Aaron KeselMediaWhistleblowersWikiLeaks
By Aaron Kesel
WikiLeaks founder and former editor Julian Assange has been charged under The Espionage Act on 17 new counts in a superseding indictment for his role in obtaining and publishing classified military and diplomatic documents prior to his extradition hearing on May 30th, Reuters reported.
✔@wikileaks
WIKILEAKS RESPONDS TO ESPIONAGE ACT INDICTMENT AGAINST ASSANGE: UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK ON FREE PRESS
The charges carry a shocking sentence of 175 years in prison if found guilty by the secret Espionage court — a horrendous statement to send to journalists and truth tellers.
"The Department of Justice wants to imprison Assange for crimes allegedly committed outside of the United States. This extraterritorial application of US law is explicit throughout the indictment… thereby classifying any territory in the world as subject to US law," WikiLeaks wrote in a statement, adding,
In response to the unprecedented espionage charges filed against Julian Assange today, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson declared:
This is the evil of lawlessness in its purest form. With the indictment, the 'leader of the free world' dismisses the First Amendment — hailed as a model of press freedom around the world — and launches a blatant extraterritorial assault outside its borders, attacking basic principles of democracy in Europe and the rest of the world.
WikiLeaks went on to write that the indictment carries "serious implications for WikiLeaks publishing partners, numbering over one hundred across the globe, including The New York Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian, who collaborated on the publications and may now face co-dependent charges."
WikiLeaks concluded: "The final decision on Assange's extradition rests with the UK Home Secretary, who is now under enormous pressure to protect the rights of the free press in the UK and elsewhere. Press rights advocates have unanimously argued that Assange's prosecution under the Espionage Act is incompatible with basic democratic principles. This is the gravest attack on press freedoms of the century."
A little over a month ago, Julian Assange was charged under the CFAA for helping crack a password without a single key stroke in an external computer, a charge that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted was weak, not fresh and has been known for nearly a decade as the Obama DOJ refused to charge him because it "endangered journalism," Activist Post previously reported.
✔@Snowden
The weakness of the US charge against Assange is shocking. The allegation he tried (and failed?) to help crack a password during their world-famous reporting has been public for nearly a decade: it is the count Obama's DOJ refused to charge, saying it endangered journalism.
✔@ggreenwald
Replying to @ggreenwald
The DOJ says part of what Assange did to justify his prosecution - beyond allegedly helping Manning get the documents - is he encouraged Manning to get more docs for him to publish. Journalists do this with sources constantly: it's the criminalization of journalism
2:45 PM - Apr 11, 2019
Now, Trump's administration has taken that a step further, "endangering journalism" by charging Julian Assange under the outdated Espionage Act which will undoubtedly challenge the First Amendment, or the right to Freedom Of The Press.
The indictment accuses Assange of complicity in Chelsea Manning's leaks, stating he solicited unauthorized disclosures of classified information and encouraged his source over several months (which basically describes journalism).
Something that, Barry J. Pollack, a lawyer for Assange, said shows the "gravity of the threat of prosecution" of his client.
"These unprecedented charges demonstrate the gravity of the threat the criminal prosecution of Julian Assange poses to all journalists in their endeavor to inform the public about actions that have taken by the U.S. government," Pollack said.
"Assange, WikiLeaks affiliates and Manning shared the common objective to subvert lawful restrictions on classified information and to publicly disseminate it," according to the indictment, the NYT wrote.
The NY Times noted that "in a briefing with reporters that most of the new charges against Mr. Assange were related to his obtaining of the archives of documents, as opposed to their publication."
Julian Assange's friends, former British ambassador Craig Murray and journalist John Pilger, stated that the indictment declares war on the Press.
✔@CraigMurrayOrg
The US espionage act charges against Julian Assange for publishing leaked classified information showing US war crimes is a massive attack on media freedoms and free speech.
The poison is out - we always knew this was what we were really fighting.
10:31 PM - May 23, 2019
✔@johnpilger
The war on Julian #Assange is now a war on all. Eighteen absurd charges including espionage send a burning message to every journalist, every publisher. The target today is #Assange. Tomorrow it will be you on the New York Times, you on the BBC. Modern fascism is breaking cover.
Snowden once again chimed in via Twitter to echo much of the same, "The department of justice just declared war – not on Wikileaks but on journalism itself. This is no longer about Julian Assange: This case will decide the future of media."
The Department of Justice just declared war––€"not on Wikileaks, but on journalism itself. This is no longer about Julian Assange: This case will decide the future of media. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/us/politics/assange-indicted-espionage-act-first-amendment.html …
Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces 17 new counts in a superseding indictment over his role in publishing classified documents in 2010.
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After Julian Assange was sentenced in a Kangaroo Court in London for "skipping bail" for 50 weeks of a defunct bail warrant and fraudulent rape case, as well as having his first hearing on his extradition trial, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden expressed, "it is not just a man who stands in jeopardy, but the future of the free press."
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· May 2, 2019
Edward Snowden's statement for the assembly for Julian Assange, at Berlin Brandenburg Gate. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw9TE6slJ3n/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=n3ev48300c07 …
Bella Magnani @BellaMagnani
Edward @Snowden on the US extradition of #Assange: "No one today disputes that the revelations of @xychelsea were news of the highest order... immediately carried on the front pages of every newspaper. It is not just a man who stands in jeopardy, but the future of the free press" pic.twitter.com/ocePgdS9Wh
12:26 PM - May 2, 2019
"Any government use of the Espionage Act to criminalize the receipt and publication of classified information poses a dire threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public interest, irrespective of the Justice Department's assertion that Assange is not a journalist," Bruce Brown, executive director Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said.
Politics aside, presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard noted the need for freedom of the press going on a historic rant on CNN, stating, "the purpose of arresting Assange is to send a message to the people, especially journalists, to be quiet and don't get out of line. If we, the people, allow the government to control us through fear, we are no longer free, we are no longer America."
Presidential candidate Mike Gravel (the Senator who read the infamous Pentagon Papers into the Congressional record) stated that the indictment was a disgrace under the outdated Espionage Act. Thus far no other presidential candidates have commented on the situation with Assange which could start a precedent against Press Freedoms.
✔@MikeGravel
No matter your thoughts on Julian Assange, the latest indictments—under the outdated Espionage Act—are a disgrace. If you support the indictments out of hate for him, you're giving Trump a weapon to restrict the press. The charges should be dropped and the Espionage Act repealed.
Assange was first arrested on April 11th last month, dragged out the embassy in a shocking video. Interestingly enough, WikiLeaks announced one day prior of Assange's arrest that its former Editor In Chief had all his meetings with doctors, lawyers, and visitors recorded in both audio and video. As well as videos and pictures of Assange walking around his living quarters inside the embassy.
WikiLeaks then held an emergency press conference, revealing the riveting information that Assange had been spied on and that unknown suspects at the time had tried to extort 3,000,000 million euro from the journalism organization for the destruction of the videos and pictures, which included videos of private situations such as doctors visits and lawyers meetings, Reuters reported.
Since then, police have made at least one arrest of the ring leader named Jose Martin Santos, previously convicted for fraud, arrested in Alicante for trying to bribe WikiLeaks for millions in exchange for private videos of Assange.
YouTube @YouTube
Ecuador caught in espionage operation against its refugee Julian Assange which:
1. Spied on his legal, medical visits
2. Stole legal notes during the middle of a court hearing against them
3. Secretly cooperated with US
4. Tried to extort him for 3M Eurohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=QFq38d3Q9qY …
Further, Julian Assange's belongings including two manuscripts from his time living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for 7 years was also handed over to U.S. prosecutors earlier in the week, ahead of the indictment issued today, The Guardian reported.
If the Trump administration gets its way, journalists could be treated as criminal conspirators by future governments.
Shockwaves were felt throughout the world when the frightening image of journalist Julian Assange was illegally removed from the Ecuadorian embassy, violating international law, as Ecuador illegally revoked Assange's asylum and citizenship.
WikiLeaks has consistently highlighted that its founder and former editor Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained 8+ years without charge by the UK Govt (6+ years within the Ecuador Embassy in London where he was granted asylum from U.S. threats) and 2 years house arrest.
RT affiliate Ruptly captured his arrest as several UK police officers dragged him out of the embassy into a police van.
In the video, Julian Assange can be heard yelling, "The UK must resist this attempt by the Trump administration" as he was hauled into the van.
Assange was arrested on behalf of the United States authorities for an extradition warrant under Section 73 of the Extradition Act.
As both the current and former administrations continue forward with an ongoing nine-year investigation into WikiLeaks since their 2010 leak of almost 100,000 State and Defense Department secret documents dubbed Cablegate pertaining to U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, neither administration has been able to charge a single member of WikiLeaks with a criminal indictment. Nor has any of the documents in the cache of leaks ever been successfully disputed in an international court or court of public opinion.
In total WikiLeaks has leaked at least 10 million classified documents to date from various governments including the United States revealing corruption and war crimes — just like the Pentagon Papers embarrassed the Johnson and Nixon administration, the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs embarrassed the Bush administration exposing war crimes.
In that case, only the alleged source of the leak was punished: former U.S. intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who spent seven years in prison before former U.S. President Barack Obama commuted 28 years of her 35-year sentence on his way out of office, calling it "very disproportionate relative to what other leakers have received" and that "it makes sense to commute and not pardon her sentence."
Now, Chelsea Manning is back in prison in solitary confinement for contempt of the court in the Eastern District of Virginia that indicted Assange for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks and its founder, a testimony which the DOJ is hoping will create a perjurious statement.
U.S. DOJ originally gave Chelsea Manning limited immunity over her Grand Jury testimony and confirmed she was not herself a target. To illustrate this point for the reader, Julian Assange's extradition warrant/FBI affidavit dates from March 2018 — as such the DOJ does not need Chelsea's testimony to indict Assange. In fact, it's improper for them to try to use a Grand Jury to prepare for a pending trial once he is extradited. It should be stressed the DOJ are trying to trick Manning to perjure herself into giving a false statement over her original truthful trial testimony where she said her actions were not directed by Assange. This is to undermine Manning's usefulness as a defense witness in Julian Assange's trial.
WikiLeaks has literally shaped our history since its inception and arguably changed its direction by exposing the corrupt, bringing transparency to the darkness and opening governments worldwide. We owe Julian Assange for his brave historic revelations and contribution to our society. WikiLeaks has revealed everything from corruption, war crimes, spying to financial offshore tax havens.
Julian Assange deserves a Nobel Peace Prize and a Pulitzer for his incredible reporting as a journalist that has leaked countless documents that have had an impact on the world we live in without political bias criticizing all political parties and countries.
Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner nominates arbitrarily detained WikiLeaks' founder Julian #Assange for 2019 Nobel Peace Prize https://worldbeyondwar.org/mairead-maguire-nominates-julian-assange-for-nobel-peace-prize/ …
11:33 PM - Jan 7, 2019
Mairead Maguire Nominates Julian Assange for Nobel Peace Prize - World Beyond War . . .
Mairead Maguire, has today written to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo to nominate Julian Assange, Editor-in-Chief of Wikileaks, for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. In her letter to the Nobel...
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Assange doesn't deserve the treatment that he has received from the Ecuadorian government and its staff at the embassy and assassination attempts on his life according to the WikiLeaks founder whose testimony about his treatment was made public a few days prior to his arrest.
FULL DOC: Never seen before Assange court testimony sheds fresh light on US-backed Ecuadorian expulsion plans https://www.scribd.com/document/405228034/Transcript-JA-Ecuador-Court-Intervention …
5:10 PM - Apr 7, 2019
Transcript JA Ecuador Court Intervention
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It's worth mentioning, since the mainstream press is pushing that Julian Assange isn't a journalist, that WikiLeaks and Assange has received countless journalism awards. Further, WikiLeaks was found to be a media organization by a UK tribunal in 2017 as The Guardian reported.
WikiLeaks, its publisher, and its journalists have won many awards according to the website, including:
The Economist New Media Award (2008)
The Amnesty New Media Award (2009)
TIME Magazine Person of the Year, People's Choice (highest global vote) (2010)
The Sam Adams Award for Integrity (2010)
The National Union of Journalists Journalist of the Year (Hrafnsson) (2011)
The Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal (2011)
The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2011)
The Blanquerna Award for Best Communicator (2011)
The Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (2011)
The Voltaire Award for Free Speech (2011)
The International Piero Passetti Journalism Prize of the National Union of Italian Journalists (2011)
The Jose Couso Press Freedom Award (2011)
The Privacy International Hero of Privacy (2012)
The Global Exchange Human Rights People's Choice Award (2013)
The Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts (2013)
The Brazillian Press Association Human Rights Award (2013)
The Kazakstan Union of Journalists Top Prize (2014)
As well as nominations for the UN Mandela Prize (2015) and nominations in six consecutive years for the Nobel Peace Prize (2010-2015)
Assange added to that collection of awards when "for the award his longtime friend, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire, accepted the joint GUE/NGL prize for 'Journalists, Whistleblowers and Defenders of the Right to Information. Assange was nominated by Courage Foundation, based on his contributions to journalism and whistleblower protections, his dire circumstances and need for public support, and what his case means for journalists and whistleblowers around the world," the Courage Foundation wrote.
Maguire gave an incredible heart-wrenching speech in support of her friend Julian Assange stressing he exposed corruption and the war empire.
It certainly appears as if the attempted "takedown" of WikiLeaks stated in Stratfor documents is at a crossroads, and with it the possible death of adversarial journalism.
"This is possibly the beginning of the end of Press Freedoms" as historic antiwar activist Daniel Ellsberg, a former Defense Department analyst who worked for the RAND Corporation and the man that leaked the Pentagon Papers, has said.
Daniel Ellsberg on Assange arrest: The Beginning of the End For Press Freedomhttps://youtu.be/tw8yf6Luwo4?t=78 …
11:45 AM - Apr 12, 2019
The Trump administration is threatening to step over a never-crossed line – applying the secret documents provision of the Espionage Act to journalistic practices, according to the EFF, which in 2017 condemned the threats of prosecution against WikiLeaks and Assange.
Even Trump's own lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks in favor of the WikiLeaks founder stating Assange should not be prosecuted for his journalism and revelations of corruption referencing the Pentagon Papers.
"Let's take the Pentagon Papers," Giuliani told Fox News. "The Pentagon Papers were stolen property, weren't they? It was in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Nobody went to jail at The New York Times and The Washington Post."
Trump campaigned on draining the swamp but has done anything but appointing John Bolton (an Iraq war hawk), Gina Haspel to the CIA director position (a former torturer at Americas first Blacksite), former CIA director Mike Pompeo (Iran war hawk) to Secretary of State and now bringing convicted Iran-Contra war criminal Elliot Abrams out of retirement as Venezuelan envoy in plans for regime change.
Trump who previously cheered on the leaks by WikiLeaks, mentioning WikiLeaks over 200 times in the 2016 campaign cycle and once stating "I love WikiLeaks" during a campaign rally, has now responded with "I know nothing about WikiLeaks."
Numerous civil liberties and digital rights groups have previously condemned the arrest of Julian Assange and called to stop his extradition to the U.S. including – Trevor Timm, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Ben Wizner, American Civil Liberties Union, Robert Mahoney, Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jameel Jaffer, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Center For Investigative Journalism.
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"Leaks are a vital part of the free flow of information that is essential to our democracy. Reporting on leaked materials, including reporting on classified information, is an essential role of American journalism," the EFF wrote.
Assange's lawyers stated previously in an urgent application to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) to unseal the charges against Assange that the Trump administration has pressured Ecuador to hand over Assange. In December, The New York Times reported that Ecuador's new president, Lenín Moreno, tried to negotiate handing over Assange to the U.S. in exchange for "debt relief."
Let this author remind readers, that Julian Assange was sold out for a loan deal with the U.S. and a coincidental 4.2 billion loan by IMF, even when he's arrested Assange is exposing corruption. In essence, these countries and the IMF central bank traded in freedom of the press and human rights, this could set a monstrous precedent for journalism if the U.S. or any country is allowed to prosecute a foreign journalist reporting on its crimes.
Assange now faces a "nightmarish future" which in the short term for 50 weeks will so far be spent in Britain's Guantanamo Bay – Belmarsh prison, as Elizabeth Vos expresses in an article written for Consortium News.
"The reputation of HM Prison Belmarsh raises natural concerns about the wellbeing of the WikiLeaks publisher there." It's worth noting as Vos detailed that the last time Assange was in a British prison he had an extra ingredient of metal added to his food.
Elizabeth Vos reports:
The last time Assange was held in a British prison, in 2010, he says that he was given food containing metal objects that severely damaged a tooth. This was at London's HM Prison Wandsworth. The incident caused serious injury and he did not receive proper medical treatment during the six and a half years of his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy. A medical report published by WikiLeaks in 2015 describes Assange's version of the event.
For up-to-date accurate pertinent information on Julian Assange's plight, see @Wikileaks, @AssangeMrs, and @Unity4J @couragefound and — @AssangeLegal the editor of Justice 4 Assange.
Supporters are asked to donate to the numerous defenses for WikiLeaks by visiting this link or purchasing merchandise from the WikiLeaks Shop, which goes towards Assange and other WikiLeaks volunteers' defenses and future releases.
Courage Foundation@couragefound
Now more than ever: Fight back against the US war on journalism #NoExtradition #FreeAssange
Donate: https://defend.wikileaks.org/donate/
Take Action: https://defend.wikileaks.org/take-action/
Liveblog: https://defend.wikileaks.org/2018/07/23/liveblog-julian-assange-in-jeopardy/ …
Resources: https://defend.wikileaks.org/resources/
Grassroots movement Unity4J will be holding solidarity vigils for Julian Assange every Friday, from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m EST. Citizens interested in all views of the current case or present erosion of liberties can view the broadcast on YouTube or Periscope.
An organized up-to-date list of known street actions can be found on Unity4J's Pinterest accountwhich will be kept promptly up to date by volunteers. While there is a planned protest by Wise Up Action outside Westminster Magistrates Court starting at 9 a.m. on May 30th.
This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/us/politics/assange-indicted-espionage-act-first-amendment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share …
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Julian Assange said on his moment of arrest "UK Resist US Extradition" Join our solidarity action 30/05/2019 outside Westminster Magistrates Court from 9am, to protest efforts to extradite him to the US, details below. pic.twitter.com/MGVCdHi9fg
According to reports, May 30th begins Assange's extradition hearing – however, the U.S. has till June 14th to bring all charges. So there may still be pending charges the U.S. has not yet revealed.
The question must be asked, who will rise to become the next WikiLeaks? At a time where a former CIA director, current Secretary Of State is admitting, "we, lied, we cheated and we stole" while describing the CIA and when a National Security head advisor is bluntly admitting to the American people that the U.S. wants to invade Venezuela for oil. Who will prevent the coming regime change war operations in Venezuela and Iran if WikiLeaks is pressured from not publishing potential information it receives that could save thousands or even millions of lives?
WikiLeaks gave transparency by allowing access to freedom of information in order to make better decisions for our children's future, which undoubtedly doesn't include endless wars feeding the military-industrial complex and its cronies' retirement funds.
Stratfor email on Assange's arrest (from 2010):
"Pile on. Move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years. But, seize everything he and his family own, to include every person linked to Wiki."https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/10/1056763_re-discussion-assange-arrested-.html …
Assange now faces extradition to the U.S. and potential extradition to Sweden for the re-opened provably false rape allegations this writer exposed for Activate Now, as Assange is "moved from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years" as a Stratfor doc once said.
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walmart no longer carry in stock their brand of tucks, that were half the price of name brand ...Tucks... can you not sell your brand are you just to greedy to make twice as much.......I have bought and use your brand of tucks,Equate, for a number of years due to a medical problem.
Review #205429 is a subjective opinion of PissedConsumer205429.
Walmart is not the only store that sells their own house brands.
Hey ***, stores make MORE money from selling their house brands than they do expensive name brands so take your greedy conspiracies and shove them up your pooper.
You will just have to stop being a cheap *** and buy the name brand while you wait for more equates to come in.


Gaya, Aga and Awan form a band, Garasi, to promote alternative rock. They are supported by the D'Lawas music store, the place where true music lovers hang out. But their background differences become an obstacle in their band dynamics, although their music is widely accepted. Gaya lives only with her mother, Kinar, after the latter's separation. Gaya is the child of an extramarital affair. Meanwhile, Aga's family comes from a traditional musician community and Awan, who has been living in Japan, returns to Bandung to start his own career. Aga has feelings for Gaya even though the latter ignores it. On the other hand, Gaya's closeness with Awan makes Aga jealous. They even fight for her. In the end, Gaya goes away and Aga looks for her.


I want to take enough time to make sure it's the reinvention of pop music, That's the ultimate goal, to reinvent pop music. So I'm planning on taking as much time as I need, but May sounds about right.
Ambitious, but misguided. Not that we doubt that K-Money can destroy every single one of our preconceived notions about pop music and create a new universal standard for what we will from then on know to be the Top 40, but really, David Guetta and Hot Chelle Rae aside, we kinda like where we are right now. Who's to say the Ke$ha era of pop music will be any better? Better the devil you know, we say.


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Moving a Decision-Making Game from the classroom to Second Life. This session introduces Rockville, a role playing game used in ethics education of teachers and other educators. Session participants will learn about the purpose, aims, and flow of the game and then, participate in a walk through the game environment in Second Life. One purpose of the session is to provide feedback to the game creator and to suggest improvements and modifications.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rockville/40/127/27 . Scot will help us get the lay of the land and then enter into discussion about how to accomplish the goals of the game: through technical means, through strategies and tactics.
Su Nacht: Susanna Nocchi lecturer in the Technical University Dublin (Ireland). I lecture in Italian and research in 3D virtual environments for language learning.
Sheila Yoshikawa: Do you want to start while people are finishing up introductions, Scot?
Scot Jung: sure. Thank you Sheila for this invite. I have a project going in the beginning stages and need your help. The concept is working in face to face courses, but most of my work is online. So, today, as you visit Rockville, I encourage you to imagine with me how I can make this work well. If you read the intro card, you see I am a professor of educational leadership. Most of my students are educators, working on a doctoral degree or in admin preparation.
Scot Jung: shortly we will be traveling to Rockville. My colleague, Morena Tully, who is the public works director will join as well. Has everyone had a chance to scan the Rules card?
The Goal of Rockville: Life on the Margin is to be a finalist in a competition, permitting you to receive an "Education for Life" grant from the Thousand Points of Light Foundation. Up to two awards will be granted, allowing for all educationally related expenses to be paid for the rest of your life.
Players will play in character throughout the game, unless specifically instructed to step out of character for a particular activity. Each player is responsible for keeping track of her/his own attribute levels, locations, and turns.
Characters will proceed through Rockville along the designated path (observe numbered stations and directional arrows) unless specifically instructed otherwise by the Mayor or by a superior rule.
In the event of any disputes or differences of opinion, or in cases where judgment needs to be used to determine an outcome, the decision of Rockville Mayor J. L. Jackson (Game Master) is final.
Players are expected to play by the rules of the game. If you break the rules you will suffer consequences.
Each player must complete his/her current round before proceeding to the next, unless instructed to do so by the Mayor or by situation cards or superior rules of the game.
Station 1: Florence Knight Park. All characters assemble here at the beginning of the game. Each person, in turn, from youngest to oldest, introduces her/himself in one minute and advances to the Community Hall.
Station 2: The Red White and Blue Community Hall. Each character forms a team with two others, per the following instructions. Each team must have at least one male and one female member, and each team must have at least one member 18 or older. Once you form a team, you have six minutes to create a community service project for Rockville. At the conclusion of the six minutes, each team will have two minutes to present their project. The Mayor will judge each project, and whether the pair stayed within time limits. Each winning project team will advance to The School District Office. If your project is not selected, you lose a turn and then advance on your next turn.
Station 3: Rockville School District #89 Office. Representatives from the Thousand Points of Light Foundation will be conducting a seeding lottery for the grant award process. Characters will be given the opportunity to accumulate points and advance out of the District Office to the Parking Lot upon amassing 20 points. Probability cubes will be used to determine point accumulation. On the first try, a character gets to roll twice, on the second round, three times, on the third try, four rolls are permitted to accumulate 20 points. If a character does not move on to the Parking lot on her/his turn, all accumulated points are lost and on the next turn, start at zero.
Station 4: Parking Lot. Await transportation home. Any character with a low social or family/friend level wait one turn, all others proceed to Home on that turn.
Station 5: Home. At home, select a situation card, read it aloud and follow the instructions on the card. Once you have read the card, or as a result of the card, move on the Day of Rest (unless instructed otherwise by the situation card).
Station 6: Day of Rest. Enjoy worship and a day of rest here (Sermon for the day: Would we be better off dead?). No adverse effects can happen to you while on your day of rest (e.g. losing a turn, being moved back or dropping a level). You may choose to remain here for one additional turn. Upon leaving the Day of Rest, proceed to First and Main.
Station 7: The corner of First and Main. On the turn of the first and fourth character to reach this station, a rally of the "Kinder, Gentler Machine Gun Hand Association" occurs in town. This group's slogan is "America for Americans". Their purpose is to return America to its past glory. During the rally, all characters with an X factor lose a turn. Proceed to the Pizza Parlor on your next turn.
Station 8: This activity is done Out of Character (OOC) The Free World Pizza Parlor. The Pizza Parlor has a karaoke and game night when the first and third characters reach the parlor. On these nights, the first or third character pick three friends to form a team and the other five players comprise another team. Each team is presented with a Pre-assessment question and has 10 minutes to discuss and 3 minutes to present a response. The Mayor judges the correctness of the answer and the winning team(s)' characters all advance one station. From the Pizza Parlor, advance to the Percival Young Elementary School Auditorium.
Station 9: Young Elementary School Auditorium. The PTO is offering a quiz night at the school. When you arrive at the auditorium, you create a quiz question based on course content and call on a friend to answer it (short answer type). If your friend answers correctly, you both move forward one station. The Mayor will decide if the question is too easy. The Mayor and group will decide if the answer is correct. If the question is too easy, you will have one more chance to create a question on your current turn. If your friend answers incorrectly you and your friend wait until your next turn. When you proceed to the Bush Memorial Gym, you have become a finalist in the grant competition. Once four finalists have entered the gym, the final round will begin.
Station 10: The Bush Memorial Gymnasium. Four finalists will have five minutes to develop a brief statement as to why they should be awarded the Education for Life grant. Each of the finalists will be given 3 minutes to make their statement. After the four finalists have presented their statement, the remaining players, as a scholarship committee and OOC, will decide who receive the grants, and defend their decision based on one or more of Shapiro and Gross's four ethical models. One or two awards may be given.
Sheila Yoshikawa: BTW I could drop the landmark on everyone, although it's in the notecard it might be helpful?
Marly (marly.milena): If one has never played a game like this in virtual, will it be too complicated to follow?
ThinkererSelby Evans (thinkerer.melville): Can I publish an article about this in my blog?
Ellie Brewster: Sorry, Scott, but where is the link to the Google form?
Su Nacht: Are the rules of the game only in the card? Or do you have them around the island?
Scot Jung: so, are we ready?
ThinkererSelby Evans (thinkerer.melville): ready to go?
Scot Jung: is Sheila here?
Marly (marly.milena): Do we need to keep the Station info on our screens to do this?
ThisGhost: depressed as in the 'great depression'?
Shailey Garfield: what is the motivation for this game?
Scot Jung: what do you mean motivation? mine or students?
Sandrine Han (kristy.handrick): Scot, the target students who "play" here are teachers, is that correct?
Shailey Garfield: so, how do you feel it would help the students? is it to sensitise them?
Shailey Garfield: ok, that's helpful to know, Scot. Thank you.
Ellie Brewster: Can we turn off the streaming media and still participate in the game?
Beth Ghostraven: Scot, Sandrine had a question about your target audience–is it teachers?
Sandrine Han (kristy.handrick): Thank you, Beth!
Sheila Yoshikawa: how long does it take to play in the physical world – did you say it was a board game?
Su Nacht: So, your students are give a character, which could be at risk of being disadvantaged for instance?
Sandrine Han (kristy.handrick): why do you want to use SL to replace the board game/role play? are these students online students?
Sheila Yoshikawa: what if they choose to opt out, to just stay in the park and play?
Marly (marly.milena): What, specifically, will you want feedback on since we are not actually playing the game?
Su Nacht: I guess the experience in the VW is more immersive and would make identifying with the character easier?
Sandrine Han (kristy.handrick): I see! thank you, Scot!
Marly (marly.milena): You mean metaphorical experiences to bring out inequities?
UBCDude: what does it mean (InAEA)?
Beth Ghostraven: UBCDude, what is UBC?
Scot Jung: my students have embraced this as a concept as a board game as a viable alternative to engage content, as opposed to lecture discussion.
Marly (marly.milena): Can you give an example of how an inequity might work in this space? Do you mean that certain characters, for instance, would prevent others from using the swings?
UBCDude: i got it. thank u.
Sandrine Han (kristy.handrick): Have you consider to have your students to just explore instead giving them "rules"? So they need to find their way by themselves?
Beth Ghostraven: Where is the Red White and Blue Community Hall?
Scot Jung: okay, thanks, Marly. The community hall is now city hall.
Beth Ghostraven: which direction from here, Scot?
Sheila Yoshikawa: if they haven't used a virtual world before, to some extent they are disadvantaged already. I wonder if that could be built in?
Kristy Handrick: I might want to create some distractions in the game, such as no food (but you ask them to get food…), no place to stay, no guidance… to really help my students to "experience" the situation?
Sheila Yoshikawa: a distraction for me is this is a lovely place to wander round,perhaps they need some time to get to know the place, as you would if it were a real place? Rather than starting straight in the task.
Sheila Yoshikawa: I thought the first task sounded rather challenging to start off with e.g. just getting into groups of three, physically getting away from other groups of three, working out how to start discussion could already take the 6 minutes. in some ways starting with a more emotional experience, that was simpler?
ThisGhost Resident: some of the interiors of these homes are too nice for poverty.
Scot Jung: not all of the folks are poor. I will wait here as others gather.
Su Nacht: Once you are in character, it would help to have bots (or humans) you can interact with, who can really make the experience more realistic and immersive.
Sheila Yoshikawa: I was saying I thought the first task sounded rather challenging to start off with e.g. just getting into groups of three, physically getting away from other groups of three, working out how to start discussion could already take the 6 minutes. in some ways starting with a more emotional experience? that was simpler?
Scot Jung: well, in the board environment it worked, but I like what you are suggesting for this, Sheila.
Shailey Garfield: I don't have any feedback today but I will come back and explore.
Sheila Yoshikawa: Yes I can see doing something like that in the classroom, but everything takes longer in SL.
Shailey Garfield: I am not fully clear in my mind – why SL? why game? for making students aware of hardships of others?
Scot Jung: Shailey, good questions and i may not be able to fully answer now.
Sheila Yoshikawa: I mean using the fact that the environment may be a little confusing as a metaphor.
Shailey Garfield: that's ok, Scot. I was just thinking out loud.
Ellie Brewster: You know, you might think of creating some kind of online app in which they are assigned their social status before they even begin. Sort of like an online crapshoot. Then you avoid having to establish the parameters of your exercise.
Scot Jung: good idea, Ellie, that is what I have been doing in the board game, I love the idea.
Scot Jung: i have had a number of the students say, "I am her, she is me", and "I cried when i lost a turn or when I did not get the scholarship".
Scot Jung: cool ideas, Su and Marly!
Su Nacht: Good idea Sheila!
Scot Jung: Colleagues, you are being so helpful.
Shailey Garfield: If they are given a chance to socialise in SL and so some other activities, they would find it more comfortable to settle in the game.
Scot Jung: This has been wonderful for me.
Scot Jung: i have so many ideas now, almost overwhelming.
Sheila Yoshikawa: then part way through they are on their own, have to leave the team.
Marly Milena: Thanks for trying to use the SL environment for some meaningful work on important issues!
Beth Ghostraven: Scot, are you speaking to another education group in SL soon?
Scot Jung: any last questions or comments? you are always welcome here. Wander around, enjoy the peaceful surroundings away from town.
Sandrine Han (kristy.handrick): Thank you, Scot! Very interesting game idea!!
Ellie Brewster: Thanks so much, Scott, I'll definitely leave feedback.
Sheila Yoshikawa: Thanks very much Scot for suggesting this.
Shailey Garfield: Thank you, Sheila and Scot. It has been a great session. Nice to visit Rockville.
Scot Jung: the concept, not the woman!
Beth Ghostraven: Morena, the landscaping here is gorgeous!
Scot Jung: Thank you all for visiting and for the great suggestions and questions!


I was designing an absorber for flue gas application wherein CO2 from incoming flue gas will be absorbed by amine. The absorber operating pressure would be slightly above atmospheric pressure.
1) What should be design pressure of absorber? - Will it be 0.07 barg or 3.5 barg or some other value? Reference to any standard would be greatly appreciated.
2) Whether this absorber would be excluded from PED classification since it is operating close to atmospheric conditions or not. If not, then it should belong to which PED Category? Since it is having both gas Group 2 & liquid Group 1, what is to be mentioned as fluid phase & group classification?
1) As per PDVSA (Company located in USA) : Max. Op. Pressure (MOP) < 247 psig , you may calculate : Min. Design pressure (Process) as : MOP +/- 25PSI , The max. operating pressure should be 5% higher than controlling case.
Hope in this way, you can fix process design pressure.
2) The PED scope is set by the Design Pressure, not the operating pressure. So a vessel operating at 0.05 barg with design pressure of 2 barg falls into PED while a vessel operating at 0.4 barg with a design pressure of 0.48 does not.
Thanks Saml for your response.
What do you mean by the acronym "PED"? Please do not use acronyms in our Forums without defining their meaning.
I believe you are referring to the "Directive" of the European Parliament and the Council on pressure equipment, which is one of the main product "harmonization" Directives based on the European "New Approach" principles. Am I correct?
I have designed and built numerous flue gas systems for the selective removal of CO2 (as have many other U.S. engineers who have applied the famous Bottoms Amine Process patented in 1930 for the Girdler Corporation). There must be thousands of such units operating in the world today based on that technology and the basis for designing the amine absorber has always been that the flue gas is first cooled, cleaned, stripped of any contaminants such as sulfides and soot at the flue gas available pressure - which is normally the pressure exiting the combustion chamber where the flue originates. This pressure is usually measured in inches of water column - depending on the design of the combustion device (usually a boiler). What kind or type of combustion chamber are you dealing with that has such a high operating pressure on the flue gas side? Please furnish detailed basic data on this application.
I identify the acronym "PDVSA" as Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company. This company may have an office in the USA, but I don't believe it has engineering offices here. Venezuela is certainly not a member of the European Union (EU), so I don't see the relationship between both entities. Please explain.
The document you refer to is a British document and Britain is now seeking to remove itself from the EU, as I understand it. If this is true, then the document may not be acceptable to the EU.
If you are in India, why would you be applying a EU directive to a South American application? Just my curiosity and interest in learning the details of your application.
I am referring PED as 2014/68/EU - Pressure Equipment Directive. I am in India and working for Norwegian Project wherein this directive compliance is to be followed. There are two sources of the flue gases. One in ammonia reformer flue gases (operating P& T are 1 bara & 200 C) & other source is incineration of waste (operating P & T as 1.01 bara & 80-100 C). Currently in both cases gases are emitted from stack to atmosphere. Therefore we are providing one fan for compensating for pressure drop across direct contact cooler column and absorber column. Their design pressure are considered as 1.3 bara & 1.4 bara since operating pressure would be very close to atmosphere.
I am curious about increase in cost of equipment (factor?) by PED compliance as compared to ASME or other relevant less stringent design standards?
Are you trying to recover the CO2 in the flue gas? If so, what "amine" are you employing? There are a lot of different amines that can be used; simply state which one you are using.
As I stated previously, you must first cool down and "scrub" the flue gas in a packed tower, using scrubbing water. Next, you should submit the cooled flue gas to a soda ash scrubber for further removal of impurities. You should show this in a sketch, with temperatures and pressures.
Any direct-fired reformer is going to essentially have "atmospheric" pressure flue gas being generated. You should show in your sketch how you intend to make the flue gas flow through the required water scrubber and soda ash towers. HINT: use a centrifugal, induced blower after the soda ash tower and before the amine absorber. Show this in the flow sketch.
You say one flue gas source is at 1 bara & 200 oC while the other is at 1.01 bara & 80-100 oC. I don't believe this until you can prove otherwise. No flue gas exiting a combustion chamber - even with a heat economizer - will have temperatures that low. State how you expect to accomplish that.
I don't know if you are an engineer or not, but you show little if any practical knowledge of what is involved in this application - regardless of the PED. Practical, common sense should tell you that the flue gas pressures involved do not merit a pressure vessel design for either the water scrubber, soda ash tower, or the absorber. All these towers are essentially atmospheric pressure design-based and their wall thickness is given more for structural, seismic, wind, and external stress needs than for any internal pressure. Why you want to apply the PED "directives" is beyond me.
The process pressure design of the absorber should logically be the maximum discharge pressure of the induced draft blower that has to overcome the absorber packing pressure drop. This should be approximately less than 1/2 psi - depending on the size of the packed beds and their diameter. However, as I have indicated, common sense dictates that you will wind up with more absorber shell steel required to sustain the required ladders, platforms, pipe supports, wind, seismic, corrosion allowance, and other external loads than you will need to contain the internal pressure. That is why I believe you are wasting your time with PED, ASME, etc., etc.
I don't know. Why don't you ask the Norwegian engineers who specify it. I'm a USA engineer who has done this application many times and who believes the Euros are doing nothing more than building bureaucratic paperwork empires with their so-called directives. Perhaps one of our European Forum members can help here.
PED applies to pressure vessels with a design pressure greater than 0.5 barG. If your vessel is operating close to atmospheric pressure, then maybe you can get away with specifying a design pressure below this, however it is more down to the overall process in case there is an upset condition where the pressure could raise above this. You will need to speak with your client to find out what design pressure they want for the vessel.
Fluids are defined via CLP Regulation (No 1272/2008, classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures).
All in all, you might ending up falling under SEP (sound engineering practice), which has its own rules under PED and is quite lax to be honest!
Regarding PED, you must remember that Europe is made up with many different countries each with their own pressure vessel design rules and standards. CODAP, AD Merkblatt, BS5500, Stoomwezen, to name a few. The New Approach method was developed to remove technical barriers to trade - and this was done by "ensuring that all equipment place on the market or put into service in the EU for the first time, meets minimum safety requirements."
You can still use ASME codes as well to meet the EU PED, it is just that the ASME codes do not have a presumption of conformity with the PED which means that you are required to do extra work. If you were to follow the EN 13445 for instance, it should be easier (and cheaper), to meet the minimum requirements.
I am using patented amine for CO2 capture from flue gases. I am using centrifugal fan followed by cooling in direct contact cooler and absorption & water wash in Absorber Column. Both are packed column.
The outlet temperature is waste incineration is really 80-100 C since they want to extract heat for their district heating network.
I am aware that wind load, structural, snow load & other factors would be deciding factor for thickness calculation rather than design pressure.
Upstream of the column is fan with just enough pressure to compensate for the pressure drop across packing & flue gas duct.So, I think a design pressure of 1.3 bar would be more than sufficient.
What do you mean by "patented amine"? If it is patented, then the design should be fixed and handled by the entity that owns the patent. Are you referring to the a-MDEA as patented by BASF? If so, then BASF has a voice in deciding how to apply the process and what to expect from it.
No flue gas CO2 removal system using an amine absorber that I've seen has a blower located directly downstream of the flue gas generator followed by the required water scrubber. The blower is located downstream of the water scrubber in order to subject it to cool flue gas, not hot flue gas. I have done this process analysis in the past and the most efficient and reliable operating location for the flue gas blower is downstream of the water scrubber. I offer this personal field experience for your benefit and profit.
Another experience factor: Be sure to ensure that your flue gas generator has careful and continuous excess oxygen content control on the flue gas generated - especially if comes from an incinerator. If you don't ensure this, your water scrubber will be subjected to excessive corrosion and quick failure due to corrosion - necessitating that you furnish extra corrosion allowance on the water scrubber wall thickness. Also, I would not proceed with the design described without a soda ash scrubber. Experience has shown it is a necessary safeguard.


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The United Nations Skydiving Brotherhood. 33 Years strong
By Fuz Caforio
How it all began.
Back in November 1988, brothers Marco and Fuz Caforio arrived at Wonderboom Dropzone having completed their freefall conversions at Triangle Parachute Club in Vanderbijl Park.
They met Beppe Piazzoli, part owner and then manifest officer at Pretoria Skydiving Club and a close friendship was formed.
Soon thereafter, another Italian, Giuseppe Zabotto joined them and together with another regular skydiver, Brian Schwartz, they became a small group jumping together most weekends.
The group honed their skills under the mentorship of Beppe Piazzoli, who was a celebrated skydiver at that time.
They were often found in the shade of a large tree at the dropzone, deep in discussion about the upcoming jumps. Talk was always animated and delivered in a mixture of English, Afrikaans and Italian! It was at this point that somebody quipped: "You guys sound like the United Nations talking in foreign languages!" It wasn't too long after this that other skydivers jokingly started to refer to them as the UN.
The UN's Club Badge affixed to the table under the tree where they congregate.
Celebrating thirty years together as a team.
The team that on Saturday 25 September competed in the 8 Way Speedstar discipline.
Front row left to right; Madelein Schmidt Ries, Giuseppe Ziaboto & Marco Caforio.
Back row left to right; Angelo Castignani, Fuz Caforio, Dave Cronje, Tony Straughan & Eddie Hanekom.
The group grew steadily when Stefano Zabotto, Angel Castignani, Madeleine Viljoen (still the only female member to date) and Eddie Hanekom were invited to join under the continued mentorship of Beppe.
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��.and forming to formation.
In December 2006, Beppe Piazzoli was tragically killed in a motor vehicle accident. It was at this point that the group decided to dedicate themselves to the memory of their mentor and the 'United Nations Skydiving Brotherhood' was officially formed. A badge was designed incorporating Beppe's license number: D16 and each member proudly wears it on their jump suit.
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�� the result, a perfect formation
And the reward? Being again crowned the winners of the Peter Lawson Cup 2021
The group continues to grow to this day, with the addition of Tony Straughan, Mike Talerico, Nic Karigiannakis, Dave Cronje, Dave Wright and Manny Cordeiro over recent years. It may very well be the oldest group of active skydivers in South Africa today with ages ranging from 47 to 70. We calculate our total age to be in the region of 684 years!
The Brotherhood today:
Giuseppe Zabotto. "The Godfather". D236. Age: 70
Angel Castignani. "The Stuntman". D712. Age: 66
Dave Wright. "Paparazzi". (Camera man). C1886. Age: 63
Marco Caforio. "Shrapnel Man". D871. Age: 61
Fuz Caforio. "The Artist". D872. Age: 59
Eddie Hanekom. "Major Ed". C1820. Age: 56
Manny Cordeiro. "Pablo". D392. Instructor: 161E. AFF Instructor: A122(E)(U). Age: 55
Madeleine Viljoen. "Princess". C1837. Age: 49
Tony Straughan. "Batman". C888. Age: 51
Dave Cronje. "yo-yo". C1915. Age: 59
Mike Talerico. "The American". D20253 (USPA). Age: 49
Nic Karigiannakis. "Fatboy". D875. Age: 46
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Running the Iraq rapids with an "exceptionalist" United States
What hasn't changed in your life since September 11 2001? Almost everything hasn't changed. Helen Clark is still Prime Minister. The economy bowled on with hardly a hiccup. The big change was to be searched at airports by paranoiacs who believed you could destroy tall buildings with nail scissors.
So why the wash of remembrance? Because it was spectacular television. Because it was the United States.
Contrast the 3212 dead in the attacks on New York and Washington with the millions being herded to starvation by Zimbabwe's demented ruler. They are black and in Africa and out of sight.
Black Africans don't "change the world". Americans do. They do it economically, militarily and culturally.
So there is no cathedral service or wave of books, programmes and newspaper supplements for the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 as there is for New York's dead. Flick through newspapers from the New York Times to the Herald over the past few days and marvel at the creative talent and insightful writing dedicated to this event.
On Friday the United States embassy put out three pages of scheduled events in this country, with times "strictly not for publication", no doubt for fear some nail-scissors-wielding Islamo-fascist might turn up.
The most useful article was by Paul Kelly, an Australian journalist who knows the United States well. George Bush, he wrote on Saturday, had "lost an historic opportunity" to present the Twin Towers attack as an assault on "the universal values of tolerance, democracy, freedom and human rights that unite mankind".
Instead, Bush cast it as a "unique American event and only Americans could understand its tragedy", Kelly argued. This had led Bush to adopt a "language and style that is more exclusive than inclusive: the more he talked, the more sympathy for the United States declined across the world".
Ponder that, for it is true on three counts.
* The United States does most nearly embody, in its birth as a nation, in its constitution and in its practices, those "universal values" — which, however, are, Robert Mugabe reminds us, not at all universal. It is a nation founded on an "idea".
* Americans therefore believe they are both superior and different. This makes the United States "exceptionalist". It is, said one essayist, "the greatest beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity and affection in history". Its democracy, says another commentator, is "the best system on earth".
So it believes it may act in its own interests with confidence it is right. Bush could say: "You are either with us or with the terrorists". The danger of that, American scholar Francis Fukuyama said here last month, is that the United States risks becoming the issue, instead of terrorism.
* And, indeed, anti-Americanism is on the rise in Europe. Sympathy for the Twin Towers dead is one thing. Being lectured that to invade Iraq is proper because the United States fears an attack from that quarter is quite another.
European leaders have jibbed. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who backed Bush in Afghanistan, said last week of Iraq that "it would be a big mistake if this [post-Afghanistan] feeling of need for one another should be destroyed by excessively unilateral actions".
Britain's Tony Blair, who backs Bush on Iraq, nevertheless urged him at the weekend to push hard at the United Nations first (and he will). The United States has the military might to do what it wants where it wants — and it will. But for durable support for its "war on terrorism" it needs others onside over Iraq, some wider mandate.
Australia is onside over Iraq. It hopes its "loyalty dividend" will be a free trade agreement.
With whom is New Zealand onside? Europe and the notion that international law and multilateral mandate is relevant over Iraq.
That may steepen our climb to a free trade agreement with the exceptionalist United States — especially if our enemies there (given comfort last week by Lockwood Smith and Ken Shirley) bang the Iraq drum against us.
So Phil Goff is on a delicate mission in the United States this week. Afghanistan gave Helen Clark an opening to get back in favour which she exploited skilfully. But negotiating the Iraq rapids will test her diplomatic skills to the limit, at home and abroad.
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USDA Announces $2.6 Million in Grants for Infrastructure and Economic Development Projects on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack awarded $2.6 million in grants for seven projects to support economic development and improve the economy on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
"Investing in and rebuilding hard-hit communities are important parts of this Administration's plan to ensure that every child has a fair chance at success," Vilsack said. "Working in conjunction with our public and private partners, USDA is supporting much-needed infrastructure and economic development improvements to help create jobs, improve access to education opportunities and quality, affordable housing, and reduce crime throughout the Pine Ridge community."
The projects being financed by USDA Rural Development include:
$1.85 million for a Water and Waste Disposal grant to Oglala Sioux Tribe to construct a cell for the solid waste landfill, construct a building, make repairs and purchase equipment;
$160,800 for a Community Facilities Tribal College Initiative grant to Oglala Lakota College for a communications/phone system for the main campus in Kyle;
$134,259 for a Socially Disadvantaged Groups Grant to the InterTribal Buffalo Council to provide training and teach best practices to socially disadvantaged ag producers for disease management programs;
$49,500 for a Rural Business Development Grant to the Value Added Agriculture Development Center, based in Pierre, S.D., to teach local businesses in Oglala Lakota County, which is on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, how to commercially process and successfully market buffalo meat;
$48,700 for a Community Facilities Grant to the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety to purchase two police vehicles in Oglala;
$18,800 for a Community Facilities Economic Impact Initiative grant to the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety to purchase a police vehicle in Oglala Lakota County.
July 2, 2015 In News
USDA Awards Nearly $2 Million for First Phase of Regenerative Community Planned for Pine Ridge Reservation
On June 22, the Oglala Lakota Community on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new sustainable and energy-self-sufficient community conceived and championed by the people who live there. At the ceremony, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) joined other federal, state, and tribal leaders to announce that USDA Rural Development is awarding $1.97 million to Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation (CDC) for a community center for the project, which in later phases will incorporate single- and multi-family housing, a small farm, an aquaponics greenhouse, a grocery store, powwow grounds, a youth center, a workforce development center, and more.
April 29, 2015 In News
Pine Ridge Selected as Federal Promise Zone
The Pine Ridge Reservation will get five free workers and preferential points on federal funding applications through a new Promise Zone designation announced Tuesday.
Tom Vilsack, secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced the addition of Pine Ridge and seven other impoverished areas of the country to the Promise Zone roster, which already included the original five communities designated last year.
Pine Ridge suffers 22 percent unemployment and a 49 percent poverty rate, according to information provided with the announcement.
"There is probably no other place in America that needs the focus, the coordinated effort, the additional points and the personnel more than the Pine Ridge area," Vilsack said on a conference call with reporters.
Obama Administration Announces Eight Additional Promise Zones to Build Community Prosperity
The Obama Administration announced today eight additional Promise Zones across the country, including six cities, one rural area, and one tribal community. Promise Zones are high poverty communities where the federal government partners with local leaders to increase economic activity, improve educational opportunities, leverage private investment, reduce violent crime, enhance public health and address other priorities identified by the community. Through the Promise Zone designation, these communities will work directly with federal, state and local agencies to give local leaders proven tools to improve the quality of life in some of the country's most vulnerable areas.
USDA Announces $2.6 Million in Grants for Infrastructure and Economic Development Projects on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation September 29, 2015
USDA Awards Nearly $2 Million for First Phase of Regenerative Community Planned for Pine Ridge Reservation July 2, 2015
Pine Ridge Selected as Federal Promise Zone April 29, 2015
Obama Administration Announces Eight Additional Promise Zones to Build Community Prosperity April 28, 2015
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In response to the load times for the textures, you're right, which is why I had asked in another section about an llPrecacheTexture function. Argent brings up a good point I had also thought about, allowing texture animation for scripted prims (like the blink scripts for most furry heads) that swaps between a set of frames. It could mean long load times for some animated prims though if there isn't some kind of interpolation built in for 'tweening the frames, as people would probably try doing 512x512 textures to smoothly animate stuff. -- [[User:Feynt Mistral|Feynt Mistral]] 14:05, 29 April 2007 (PDT)
For a four stage animation, there wouldn't be any advantage to using more than 128x128 or 64x256 (depending on the scheme). This does assume we're talking about small animations (raised eyebrow, for example, or a slight ripple effect on a surface), or that (as Feynt suggests) "tweening" animations are available. For situations where you're "morphing" between multiple mostly-static states (opening furled wings, for example) smooth transitions would probably be unnecessary... the shapes are just too different. -- [[User:Argent Stonecutter|Argent Stonecutter]] 10:11, 30 April 2007 (PDT)
== Flexible ==
Elle, I tried importing/exporting your models for you, these are the results: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8019908@N02/ THey look a bit strange to me and with no way of testing them, who knows? But the exporter seems to work .....
Will the Maya exporter work with Maya Personal Learning Edition? [3] --Kamilion
haven't tried it - but i believe the personal edition puts gaudy maya watermarks on images - which would definitely cause sculpties grief... but this isn't a typical rendering, so perhaps not. worth an experiment. --Qarl Linden 09:58, 28 April 2007 (PDT)
Hi, I just tried it and and it does unfortunately watermark the resulting image with the free edition. (P.S. Even so, still, WOOOT!!! :)) --Logan Bauer
This is unlikely to happen because of SL's potential commercial applications, Buuuuut..... Epic Software apparently has a standing deal where their export plugin for Unreal Tourniment 2k3 mods works in Maya PLE without the normal restructions (this may be holdover from before Autodesk bought them). Might it be possible for Linden Lab to look into a similar deal? Elle Pollack 14:58, 28 April 2007 (PDT)
8 MEL Broken?
9 Error in the mel - or not?
10 Tutorials
-As I understand it, they did maya first because that's what Qarl knows how to do. He learned the think while working on the 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies. Elle Pollack 18:17, 27 April 2007 (PDT)
[PRIM_TYPE_SCULPTED, integer pase_type, key sculp_texture, integer rows, integer cols, integer index, float rate]
- On her flikr stream. See the link I did way at the top of this page. Elle Pollack 10:19, 28 April 2007 (PDT)
-- I'ld need the UUID of an in world texture...--Simil Miles 13:24, 28 April 2007 (PDT)
---They won't be "system textures" at this point, and I don't know if they will be...we'll see what happens on Preview I guess? Elle Pollack 15:14, 28 April 2007 (PDT)
- -- I'm afraid that default sculpted prims won't render or will render as sphere if they don't have a default sculpt texture.--Simil Miles 19:10, 28 April 2007 (PDT)
(Merging related questions under this header. Elle Pollack 13:14, 28 April 2007 (PDT))
I know of three perfectly free modellers that run on many platforms: Blender, Google's SketchUp, and the open source Wings3D which I use with X-Plane. It would help the "pennyless" content makers tremendously to have exporters for these.
- I'm not sure if Sketchup has the functionality required for this sort of thing. It can do plugins (Python, IIRC) , but it doesn't have much in the line of map rendering and export of non-native formats except maybe for .jpg renders is tied to having the paid "Pro" version. There might be importers for skp files into other programs. Might. Elle Pollack 12:05, 28 April 2007 (PDT)
In considering programs to offer export support for, is there any chance of offering support for Caligari Truespace [4]? It is priced much more in reach for the average users than 3d Studio Max/Maya, and is not as esoteric as Blender. Cristiano Midnight 21:12, 27 April 2007 (PDT)
- these exporters are really easy to create - basically if your program has a normal-map generator (most do) it's a simple mod to make a sculpt exporter. so i challenge YOU Cristiano to make the truespace exporter. :) --Qarl Linden 09:43, 28 April 2007 (PDT)
-- if i understand the issue right, the main obstacle at the moment would be: the displacement map is "baked" into texture which is created based on UV map associated with low resolution prim. In case of SL sculpt prims, this low res UV map is "hard coded" property of the sculpt prim as it's rezzed in SL rather than anything user would create themselves, and so the displacement map generator has to be given this exact prim with this exact UV map to use it as baking reference or Bad Things(tm) happen. Is there any chance such reference "sculpt prim" with its UV map could be provided for download, perhaps in .obj format for easy use?
- Gonna post tech specs for that sort of thing any time soon? Won't help me much since I'm not a coder, but... Elle Pollack 13:14, 28 April 2007 (PDT)
- Eddy Stryker says he made an exporter for Blender.
-- Linkage?
i spoke with Eddy Stryker - he does indeed have a procedure for extracting sculpt textures from blender. currently it's a bit of manual labor - he's looking from someone who knows blender's scripting language so he won't have to learn it himself. :) --Qarl Linden 13:03, 29 April 2007 (PDT)
- IIRC, I belive Blender uses Python for scripting. Eddy hangs out with enough programers that he ought to be able to find *someone* with that qualifation. :) (Jeffery Gomez is the reigning guru of Blender to/from SL projects, last I checked.) Elle Pollack 15:54, 29 April 2007 (PDT)
If NURBS are going to be the recommended methood of making SL objects...for about the price of a Photoshop suite ($995 for the full licence, $195 for students) there's Rhino 3D, which is made with NURBS in mind. I don't know much else about it at this point but it supports plugins and has a trial version (full functionality for 25 saves). http://www.rhino3d.com Elle Pollack 13:14, 28 April 2007 (PDT)
whoa, no need to buy rhino, I think its overkill, besides - you can't really texture anything in it. if I read correctly, this is more like maya, in which case we're talking patch models. there are lowcost to free patch modelling programs, like A:M, hamapatch, etc. rhino doesn't function like that really, it's a great program but it's not as good for organic modelling. but this is all under the hood stuff. I suspect a polygon model made to approximate the control points and uvspace of the prim will be plenty good enough to work with - and you can sculpt it to your hearts content in a variety of low-cost programs from blender (free) to silo, hexagon, up to programs like zbrush (which would be my preferred method, as I can up and downsample the resolution). I'm guessing based on the info provided about the texture, we're talking about a low poly model limited to 64 control points. --Hypatia Callisto 14:23, 29 April 2007 (PDT)
One of the programmers responsible for Rhino is working on a tool called Moment of Inspiration. Functional beta is available online. Not sure how long it'll be useful, but it does export to .3ds, .obj, .iges, .stl, and OpenNURBs (aka Rhino3D format).
In addition, there are other NURBs-capable modelers available. Art of Illusion is an open source, Java-based hybrid modeler iirc. Ayam is another NURBs modeler that some people might prefer. -- Csven Concord 17:40, 28 Apr 2007 (PDT)
Why not provide (for example) a 3DS to texture converter instead of a conversion plugin? Most programs I've seen will save and load 3DS format, so this would be just the same as writing an exporter plugin. Yumi Murakami
- If someone were to go that route, they might be better off using OBJ format, which every polygon modeler worth it's salt can export, or MDL which is less common but the files can be read as plain text like BVH (Neverwinter Nights uses it and there are some existing tools to work with it); it's closer to being a "standard" format than 3DS. I like the idea, but for programers, a lot of existing 3d suites have the ability to render textures built in, which I think would make plugins easier to write initialy.
-- the reason it's better to write an exporter is for programs which can generate a normal map from displacement painting a low polygon mesh. Most of these programs let you subdivide the model to higher resolutions, letting you displacement paint with better detail, giving you a map that can better approximate nurbs-style patch curves, rather than the blocky nature of a polygon model. (OBJ and 3DS are polygon model formats) --Hypatia Callisto 16:20, 29 April 2007 (PDT)
While on the subject of export formats, does anyone know the prefered format to export NURBS objects in? (OBJ and 3DS are both polygon exports). Elle Pollack 12:16, 29 April 2007 (PDT)
to answer this question - Rhino's 3DM format is becoming a standard in that area. But my previous statement holds - no need for Rhino for sculpties. You need a modeller that can export a normal map. Probably best would be some kind of converter to deal with Zbrush's normal maps to turn them into sculptie format. Most programs which can import/export and use normal maps can deal with Zbrush-type maps. --Hypatia Callisto 03:15, 30 April 2007 (PDT)
one problem is that no one can agree on which program is the best, which format, etc, etc. ideally i'd like to see our vibrant community develop the import/export mechanisms - they're the ones who know exactly what the want/need. --Qarl Linden 13:09, 29 April 2007 (PDT)
MEL Broken?
Error in the mel - or not?
For folks like me who aren't already playing with the alpha versions :)
If I understand right.. we start from a normal map, which is basically a texture that we wrap around a 3D shape to give our 3D application more information about how light hits it, so it can shade it based on that, and thus look better than it otherwise would without needing to add more vertices.
But now instead of encoding the normal vector, we are going to encode the position of each point? In what coordinate system? Relative to the object's origin (which is.. the centre?) or relative to where the point "would otherwise" have been had the map not been applied (assuming such a concept exists). How do we encode a negative value is a colour? What is the scaling?
yes - you are exactly correct. the coordinates are in "object space", relative to the center of the object. positions are translated, rotated, and scaled by the placement matrix (the prims position, rotation, and size parameters.) --Qarl Linden 07:49, 30 April 2007 (PDT)
To clarify, the 0-255 range of a given color channel value (R, G or B) is converted to the -0.5 - +0.5 range of a given axis (X, Y or Z, respectively), representing an offset from the position vector of the prim, which is then multiplied by the prim's overall Scale value for that axis. So, a few concrete examples, assuming a scale of <1,1,1>:
Color -- Coordinates in "prim space"
Red (255,0,0) -- < 0.5, -0.5, -0.5 >
Green (0,255,0) -- < -0.5, 0.5, -0.5 >
Blue (0,0,255) -- < -0.5, -0.5, 0.5 >
50% Grey (127,127,127) -- < 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 >
If the scale of the prim were <2,1,1>, then of course you'd multiply the X components of the above vectors by 2. (Any corrections to this, Qarl?) --Deanna Trollop 08:04, 30 April 2007 (PDT)
Ok, I'm starting to see this now! So if I wanted to make a unit cube, then I need:
The top face: <-0.5,-0.5,0.5> to <0.5,0.5,0.5>, ie, a gradient of blue > white
The bottom face: <-0.5,-0.5,-0.5> to <0.5,0.5,-0.5) ie a gradient of black > yellow
The left face: <-0.5,-0.5,-0.5> to <-0.5,0.5,0.5> ie a gradient of black > cyan
The right face: <0.5,-0.5,-0.5> to <0.5,0.5,0.5) ie a gradient of red > white
The front face: <-0.5,-0.5,-0.5> to <0.5,-0.5,0.5> ie a gradient black > magenta
The back face: <-0.5,0.5,-0.5> to <0.5,0.5,0.5> ie a gradient green > white
And I can put these gradients anywhere I want in the texture, with the proviso that if I want to texture the prim, the texture mapping will correspond to the pixel locations in the sculpt texture, so I ought to put them somewhere sensible.
Is that right? I'll confess that I'm still not seeing why I can't make a cube with just 6 pixels - I have the idea that I can choose the level of detail for bits of a sculpted prim by how many pixels I assign them in the texture, but for a cube you only need 6 vertices and 12 triangles as long as you don't want to texture it surely.. Yumi Murakami
Edit.. I just looked at Eddy's explanation.. so I can't just put them anywhere I want, because the 4 neighbours of a pixel determine the other ones that it's linked to, but on the other hand there's no idea that the pixel that's above another in the sculpt texture has to be "above" it in the object, because there is shape to the object and thus no concept of aboveness in the object save that defined by the pixel colour values.
So for my minimum pixel cube the map would be something like:
Green, Yellow, UNUSED, UNUSED
Cyan, White, UNUSED UNUSED
Blue, Magenta, White, Cyan
Black, Red, Yellow, Green
So that the wrap around across the lower two horizontal lines creates the front, right, back and left faces, and the wrap around across the left-hand two vertical lines creates the front, top, back and bottom faces? How do you say that a given pixel isn't used, or can't you?


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OECIA Walsingham, 1897 was referred to the HOLCOPOGONIDAE from the LECITHOCERIDAE by Vives-Moreno, 1984, SHILAP (Sociedad Hispano-Luso-Americana de Lepidopterologia) Revista de Lepidopterologia 11 (4) : 276.
Subsequently the HOLCOPOGONIDAE has been downgraded to GELECHIIDAE : HOLCOPOGONINAE by Minet, 1986, Alexanor 14 (7) : 298.
OECIA was included in the "Gelechiadae" by Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dep. Agric. India (Ent.) 11: 151; it is placed in the Gelechiidae : Lecithoceriinae, now Lecithoceridae, by Le Marchand, 1947, Revue fr. Lépidopt. 11: 153.
Hodges, in Kristensen (1999) designated OECIA as the type-genus of a new subfamily SCHISTONOEIDAE : OECIINAE.
Search the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) for references to OECIA and included species.
Aecia ; Fletcher, 1920: 95.