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Providing genuine cost-saving potential while remaining focused on improving customer relationships is crucial when it comes to customer retention. Offered as a new service in the KYOCERA Cloud, KYOCERA Fleet Services (henceforth 'KFS') makes it easy for service providers to expand and optimise their service offerings. A KFS subscription enables dealers to drive efficiency and increase their competitive edge, allowing them to retain existing customers and attract new business.
Subscribing to KFS will allow dealers and service providers to drastically reduce the number of customer visits and remotely maintain, troubleshoot and configure customer devices. Should an on-site visit be required, service technicians will be much better prepared in terms of device status information, enabling them to bring any parts and tools that may be required. This means the duration of customer visits will be optimised, minimising service costs while maximising device uptime and customer productivity.
KFS also enables service providers to greatly improve their supply management to the customer by providing real-time information on the toner levels of customer devices and sending email notifications when supplies are running low. In addition, this solution can generate scheduled device counter reports for customer billing and click contracts. Thanks to its multivendor support, Kyocera's new solution helps dealers get the most out of their MDS deals.
"We are very excited about the huge potential of our new remote maintenance and management tool. KFS empowers service providers by providing valuable user insights that enable them to deliver much better customer service. Our constantly evolving KFS offerings guarantee our partners to always be ahead of the competition", comments Vindhesh Kumar, Senior Manager Strategic Business Development at KYOCERA Document Solutions Europe. "At the same time, end-users need not be concerned about the security of their information assets, because the device information obtained from customers only contains information necessary for management and maintenance of the devices. It doesn't contain sensitive customer information, such as address books. Also, our partners will only access their customers' networks as long as the customer agrees", Kumar explains.
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KYOCERA Fleet Services will be available throughout the Europe, the Middle East and Africa from September 1st.
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Great British Pub Food by Gordon Ramsay and Mark Sargeant
Picked in association with Waterstone's, this cookbook comes from the UK's most successful chef who brings Michelin-star glamour to pub grub.
Scores of pubs lay claim to the 'gastro' prefix, whether they deserve it or not, but Gordon Ramsay's gastropub was always going to be a cut above the rest. When The Narrow opened in 2007, critics bedgrudgingly acknowledged Ramsay's refusal to fail at anything, and two more pubs opened in the following year.
Now, with the help of his right-hand-man and top drinking buddy Mark Sargeant (who runs the pubs when he's not being a head chef or appearing on Market Kitchen), Gordon reveals the secrets of perfect pub grub in this enticing new book.
This is a homage to simple food made great. Take the pork dishes, for example. The porky treats that sweat beneath Cellophane in grotty pubs are brought squealing into gastro-land: Scotch eggs are lovingly, properly prepared and sausage rolls are reinvented by the use of wild boar. There are even recipes for home-made pork pies and pork scratchings.
In the idealised pub this book envisages, the crisps are fresh from the fryer, and the pickled eggs…well, they're quail's eggs. For anyone who's drawn to bar snacks, but wishes they weren't quite so horrible, this book will come as an exciting revelation.
The mouthwatering snacks continue in 'Savouries with toast', a whole chapter devoted to little plates of Scotch woodcock, potted shrimp, devilled kidneys and Welsh rabbit – which are all surprisingly easy to prepare.
The enticing index of mains is divided into categories like 'Catch of the Day', 'Comfort Food' and 'Grills and Sautés'. Cooks looking to emulate the food at Claridges or Pétrus will be better off with one of Ramsay's other books, but for everyone else this book is full of homely, comforting, achievable food, made great by the flourishes of a culinary talent whose restaurants have won him a total of 14 Michelin stars.
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Ok so I decided to do this NYC thread.
Unfortunately for NYC, a city of skyscrapers, a lots of zonings, construction costs and NIMBY's makes it impossible to built too tall in the city. But somehow something tall gets built. And that is all good. Keep in mind that most of the construction boom in the city are conversions from existing buildings like Offices, Hotels and Rental buildings to Condominiums apartments and there is alot of under 12 floors. So I wont post anything below 12 floors here. It is too much work to keep track. I also can't find a few renderings for somewhat tall buildings under construction yet.
If anybody thinks I got the hight in feet or the floors of a building wrong or if I missed a building please let me know. If you have a rendering for a building that I don't have please let me know. I will also try to store renderings in my photo service so I can have easy access for posting them. Hope nobody minds.
I also have not listed the proposing buldings and their renderings yet. But I will do that another time. This has been alot of work and time consuming.
I am posting based on number of floors as oppose to height. Much easier for me. But there are some towers with lesser floors but are much heigher in feet. So keep that in mind.
Hopefully I did this one right and I hope you enjoy it.
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Ok this is a list of alot of proposed buildings over 12 floors in Manhattan. I know there are probably more but I don't have those renderings yet. But if someone has one that I haven't posted please let me know.
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New York - STILL the skyscraper king of the world!
Although I can report that the Arcadia and Cielo are completed. And so is 7WTC, though it's still empty.
Otherwise, it would be best to put the heights in meters, not feet, like the rest of the world.
Wow, I thought NY was asleep in comparasion with Chi and Dubai, but it is not. Btw, why is 7 WTC empty still?
To my knowledge, as of Feb of 2006, Silverstein has signed 3 tenants. So while its not empty, he still has a ways to go.
The tenants will come though.
^NYC builds, but mostly residential towers, and has started to go outside of Manhattan.
The towers aren't as grand as what you see in Chicago, however we already have enough anyway.
As for 7WTC, there's tenants, but very few still. And that's knowing some experts believe Manhattan will run out of office space soon, and the paradox is that the Freedom Tower and other new WTC redevelopment don't cause companies to rush in. It's as if they want to come to New York, just not there.
That's my opinion, and I'm far from being an expert, so do not take my word, at least this post could provoke those who know better to correct me if I'm wrong.
Isn't construction of Freedom Tower supposed to start in a few days? I've been watching the sight. Activity, especially by the base of Freedom Tower, increases every day.
I don't know. It's been supposed to start for years.
The new plan they have will have all five WTC skyscrapers completed by 2012.
Finally Manhattan is sharing with its neighboors. I hate seing that lonesome building in Queens, is there anything tall planned next or around it?
^yup, they're building two towers right next to it.
I personally don't like it, because I love seeing the Citibank all alone.
Oh, and why isn't Eighty South Street Tower on this list? It's one of the coolest!
^The list is for U/C towers only, and 80 south street might not even be built.
I hope they built it. It's so starange that it might become a classic.
This is a great list of projects, and thanks for the renderings!
So, New York is reinventing itself by putting up a modern face like Chicago, Hong Kong and the likes?
NY doesn't have to reinvent itself.


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This is a unique Music Business Administration program from Trebas Institute and is the only one of its kind in Quebec.
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To survive and thrive in this industry, you need more than talent. It's vital tounderstand the sector inside-out so you can manage artists in the best possible way to negotiate contracts for them.
In this Music Business Administration program from Trebas Institute, you'll gain the knowledge to help you successfully start your own business and collaborate with artists.
Upon graduation, you'll be able to work with record labels, music publishers,licensing organizations, production companies, concert promoters and app developers.
Plan and manage all aspects of an artist's career
Protect an artist's rights and ensure equitable remuneration
Plan and execute professional marketing campaigns
Draft and negotiate the music industry's most important contracts and agreements
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The first refueling flight took place on Tuesday night with a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker providing fuel for an F-15 fighter jet operated by Saudi Arabia and an F-16 flown by the United Arab Emirates, spokesman Colonel Steven Warren told reporters.
"We will have a tanker sortie every day," Warren said, adding that all flights will be outside of Yemeni air space.
Pentagon had announced plans for aerial refueling earlier and officials say American forces stand ready to fly early warning radar aircraft if necessary.
The move signaled an expanding role for the U.S. military as Washington said Tuesday it was stepping up intelligence sharing with the coalition and expediting the delivery of precision-guided bombs to the Saudis and their Gulf allies.
But U.S. officials and military officers insisted the American assistance was "limited" and would not escalate with aircraft taking part in any bombing raids in Yemen.
President Barack Obama approved intelligence and logistics support for the Saudi-led coalition after Riyadh announced its armed intervention in Yemen.
About 12 U.S. military troops are working with the Saudis at a "joint fusion center" in Riyadh, led by a two-star U.S. Marine Corps general, officials said.
U.S. Forces, including a helicopter, helped rescue two Saudi pilots on March 26 from the Gulf of Aden after their F-15 fighter suffered engine trouble.
Meanwhile, on his two-day visit to Islamabad, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that Pakistan and Iran should cooperate to solve the deepening crisis in war-ravaged Yemen.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are both currently holding a live-fire military exercise. On Wednesday, a media official said one soldier was killed and three others wounded during the drill. The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) report did not specify which country the casualties were from.
The incident occurred as Pakistan debates whether or not to join a Saudi-led coalition battling Shiite rebels in neighboring Yemen.


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The regulation of petroleum exploration and production in Russia
Tina Soliman Hunter, Irina Fodchenko
Russia is handsomely endowed with petroleum reserves. As of 2018, Russia holds proved oil reserves of 14.6 billion barrels (b/bbl) or 6.1 per cent of global reserves, ranking it among the top six proved reserves in the world. In addition, holding 1,375 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of proved gas reserves, Russia has the largest global gas reserves. There has been a long history of petroleum production in Russia, commencing during the late Tsarist period with oil production from the Baku region. During this period, Russia was one of the top global exporters, with the Russian state exercising direct control over production through ownership of all the resources. This altered in 1872 with the auctioning off of state-owned land, placing petroleum-producing land in the hands of private landholders, and led to a rapid increase in production. During the Soviet era, all petroleum ownership and operations were nationalised, which led to a 60-fold growth in oil production from 10 million tons in 1917 to over 600 million tons in the 1980s. In the period 1928–1939, rapid industrialisation occurred under Stalin's five-year plans, laying the foundations for strong growth in petroleum production in the post-war era. After 1945, exploration and production (E&P) gradually shifted from the Caucus/Baku region to the Volga-Ural region, and from 1965 to Western Siberia.
Routledge handbook of energy law
Tina Soliman Hunter, Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, Penelope Crossley, Gloria M. Alvarez
London ; New York
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429450891-14
10.4324/9780429450891-14
Dive into the research topics of 'The regulation of petroleum exploration and production in Russia'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
petroleum Earth & Environmental Sciences 100%
regulation Earth & Environmental Sciences 91%
ownership Earth & Environmental Sciences 55%
oil production Earth & Environmental Sciences 52%
land Earth & Environmental Sciences 29%
industrialization Earth & Environmental Sciences 27%
ranking Earth & Environmental Sciences 24%
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Consortium of Researchers & Experts in Aquatic & Marine Ecosystems (Pollution & Contamination) (External organisation)
Tina Soliman Hunter (Chair), Andrey Trifonov (Member), Yulia Frank (Member), Danil S. Vorobiev (Member), Mikhail Makarov (Member) & Tatiana Sorokina (Member)
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Soliman Hunter, T., & Fodchenko, I. (2020). The regulation of petroleum exploration and production in Russia. In T. Soliman Hunter, I. Herrera Anchustegui, P. Crossley, & G. M. Alvarez (Eds.), Routledge handbook of energy law (pp. 185-200). Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429450891-14
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Writing at the State U presents a comprehensive, empirical examination of writing programs at 106 universities. Rather than using open survey calls and self-reporting, Emily Isaacs uses statistical analysis to show the extent to which established principles of writing instruction and administration have been implemented at state comprehensive universities, the ways in which writing at those institutions has differed from writing at other institutions over time, and how state institutions have responded to major scholarly debates concerning first-year composition and writing program administration.
Isaacs's findings are surprising: state university writing programs give lip service to important principles of writing research, but many still emphasize grammar instruction and a skills-based approach, classes continue to be outsized, faculty development is optional, and orientation toward basic writing is generally remedial. As such, she considers where a closer match between writing research and writing instruction might help to expose and remedy these difficulties and identifies strategies and areas where faculty or writing program administrators are empowered to enact change.
Unique in its wide scope and methodology, Writing at the State U sheds much-needed light on the true state of the writing discipline at state universities and demonstrates the advantages of more frequent and rigorous quantitative studies of the field.
Emily J. Isaacs is an associate dean for academic affairs at Montclair State University and a professor specializing in writing pedagogy, assessment, and programming in higher education. Her articles have appeared in Pedagogy, College English, Writing Program Administration, Writing Center Journal, and Journal of Teaching Writing, and she has coedited and contributed to several books, including Public Works: Student Writing as Public Text and Intersections: A Thematic Reader for Writers.


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Will wet weather erase the April-like conditions across the Northeast this week?
A storm will replace the sunny conditions in the Northeast with wet weather, but how will the recent mild conditions endure?The same storm spreading wet weather across the center of the country and into the Midwest on Monday will move through the Ohio Valley and Northeast for the first few days of the week."Mild air will surge ahead of the wet weather, bringing midspring warmth to cities along the I-95 corridor," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Jake Sojda. After an already mild Monday, temperatures again will range from the lower 60s to near 70 degrees Fahrenheit from Boston to Washington, D.C.High temperatures in the lower 60s in Boston is more characteristic of early May, while high temperatures in the upper 60s in D.C. are more characteristic of mid-April.CLICK HERE FOR THE FREE ACCUWEATHER APPAs for the wet weather, the storm will spread rain from the Ohio Valley Monday night, to the Northeast Tuesday and Tuesday night. "Overall, rainfall amounts will stay below half an inch, and will be light enough to avoid widespread flooding," added Sojda.Some isolated locations in the higher elevations of the Appalachians and Adirondacks may have rain amounts near 1 inch.Behind the rain, a new air mass will move in, bringing with it cooler conditions, but most residents will still be able to escape typical early March weather.Temperatures will bottom out on Wednesday near the Great Lakes, and on Thursday in the northern half of the Northeast, but still remain about 5 degrees above normal. Highs in the middle 40s to the lower 50s are expected for cities like Detroit and Pittsburgh on Wednesday, and then in New York City and Boston on Thursday.Farther south, cities like Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., will drop as much as 10 degrees from Tuesday to Wednesday, but will still hold on in the upper 50s and lower 60s.Albeit not as warm as the start of the week, mild conditions are likely for the latter half of the week from the Ohio Valley to the Northeast. Another brief cooldown could return by next weekend.Keep checking back on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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Funny To A Point – Ranking Overwatch League's Teams...By Their Logos
Blizzard's newly minted Overwatch League is taking the esports scene by storm, but which team is the best of the best? G.I.'s most prolific and professional analyst is here to rank the competition by the only criteria that matters: their logos.
Normally when I present a ranking in one of these dumbs columns I go through a whole link-laden song and dance to prove how obviously qualified I am to judge the topic at hand – and today is no different. However, unlike my recent Dragon Ball FighterZ ranking (which received STUNNING praise from readers), I actually know something about Overwatch! In fact, I've already ranked every single character in the game*, so you could say that I'm as much of an Overwatch professional as anyone in the Overwatch League. I still don't know why Blizzard didn't invite me to join, but I won't let their insulting oversight taint my opinions.
Anyway, is that enough links? Cuz it doesn't really feel like enough links. Just to be sure, here's a ranking of all the 1, 2, Switch games Joe made me play, as well as the Top 10 Funnies To A Points** – See? I even rank myself!
Why Metro Exodus' Train Reminds Us Of Mass Effect's Normandy
Metro Exodus takes players on a journey away from the Moscow underground and across the Russian countryside. Artyom and the rest of the Spartan collective primarily make this trek through mountains, forests, and even deserts along the railroad tracks. But their primary mode of transportation – an armored locomotive named the Aurora – is a lot more than a means to get from one end of the irradiated wasteland to the other. It plays a critical role throughout the game that players continually visit.
Similar to the Normandy in Mass Effect, the Aurora operates as a moving settlement Artyom calls home. When the train arrives in one of the new sandbox spaces in Exodus, the train hits the breaks and the Spartans set up their base of operations around it. A lot of things can happen – both good and bad – during a cross-country expedition. Expect that to be reflected at your home base throughout the story. "The Aurora will be constantly changing along the journey with more cars, different types of cars, and people that join you," says creative director Andriy Prokhorov. "Before in Metro you had different stations, and now the Aurora acts as your station."
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New Gameplay Today – Fe
Fe is the latest game to come from EA's Originals brand. It tells an alien invasion story of sorts with an abstract art style and weird animal singing.
Join Kyle Hilliard (sorry, Jeff Cork is on vacation) and Leo Vader as we play through an early portion of the game that has gigantic deer (moose? [reindeer?]) in it.
Path Of Exile's Next League Adds Monster Hunting, Ascendancy Overhaul, Insane Challenges
Path of Exile's next league kicks off early next month, giving players of the popular action-RPG a series of all new challenges to tackle and systems to master during its three-month cycle. There's a lot to look forward to when Bestiary goes live, including some fundamental changes to the core game's ascendancy system as well as a new monster-hunting crafting loop. Chris Wilson, producer and lead designer at Grinding Gear Games, walked me through what players will be seeing soon – either firsthand or by watching the hardest of the hardcore players streaming on Twitch.
Writer Ian Flynn Discusses Giving The Sonic Comic Series A Fresh Start
Variant cover for Sonic The Hedgehog Issue #1 by artist Nathalie Fourdraine.
Sonic The Hedgehog ran with Archie Comics for nearly 25 years until Sega partnered with IDW last year. With unfinished storylines and an unclear direction, the most notable constant is writer Ian Flynn: a Sonic series regular who has also worked on Mega Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and an upcoming Arms storyline. With several other old friends and a bold, fresh start, we talked with Flynn about the new Sonic line that will be debuting April 2018.
You worked on Sonic comics long before you got your start with issue #160 since you wrote fan-made comics. How did those specifically help you break into that industry and get you the role of writing official issues?
Blog Herding – The Best Blogs Of The Community (February 15, 2018)
This week brings us plenty of great blogs, though I am surprised to not see more on Monster Hunter: World. As a veteran hunter, I would love to write more about it – blog or freelance articles – but I can't rip myself away from playing it to write about it. Plus, I already wrote about it. And nobody can ever top these two pieces, here and here, by Jeff Marchiafava. Now get reading!
Community Blogs For February 8 – February 14:
A Brief Intro to Accessible Gaming Prince of Snark Euphoric Ennui has experienced what it is like to work for a non-profit that helps enrich lives. But he wonders if there could be more done through gaming to enrich the lives of those with disabilities. Everyone should have access to video games.
The Top 10 Coolest Cats In Gaming
Sometimes it seems like cats are taking over the world. You can't get more than three videos into a YouTube binge without coming across some sort of cat clip. If any of those cats have half the personalities that cats have had in video games, we understand why. Here are some of the coolest cats we've come across in video games.
Morgana — Persona 5Morgana might argue with you if you call him a cat, but his coolness can be broken down into three parts: There's the real-world version, who is able to communicate with other Metaverse users via some sort of meowing telepathy. Then, we have Codename: Mona, a spunky combatant who also acts as the gang's guide through the Metaverse. Finally, there's Mementos Mona, who can turn into a freaking cat van and shuttle everyone around the darkest corners of the Metaverse. Add it all up and you have yourself a formula for one of the best games of 2017 and a pretty cool cat (sorry, Morgana).
The Secret Details Behind Metro Exodus' New Guns
With Game Informer's new cover story on Metro Exodus, we cover a lot of ground and explain the biggest changes that the series is making with the upcoming sequel. One of the most interesting aspects of previous games are the guns. This time around, not only will players be given more crafting options and the ability to clean their weapons this time around, but the team at 4A Games is going above and beyond to ensure that the weapons could be built in the real world. One of the leading voices in the visual direction of the game's guns is art director Sergei "Karma" Karmalsky. While visiting the studio in Malta, we spoke with Karma about the full creative process behind making new guns and how the new arsenal compares to Metro: Last Light's.
Watch the interview with Karma below to see some of the new guns in action.
Overwatch League Interview – Babybay, Offense For San Francisco Shock
Andrej "Babybay" Francisty is a jack-of-all-trades player who brings a considerable amount of firepower to the San Francisco Shock. At the end of the first stage, he ranked the highest in damage dealt within a 10-minute timeframe with 9,668 damage, edging out Hooreg of the London Spitfire, who posted 9,656 damage. Francisty has been a fun person to watch both in Overwatch League and on social media, where he started a movement called the Babybay Challenge. Every time someone takes on the Challenge, the Shock donate money to mental health organizations in the San Francisco area.
I talked to Francisty about this movement, his path into Overwatch League, and what we can expect from Stage 2, which begins on February 21. You can follow Francisty on Twitter and Instagram. Make sure you take the Challenge, and see if you can get your friends to keep the chain going.
How The Marvel Vs. Capcom Community Is Dealing With Infinite's Absence At Evo
Last week the fighting game community (FGC) watched as Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar revealed the eight games which would comprise this year's Evolution Championship Series (Evo) on a livestream. The announcement is big news; Evo is often the one time a year people outside the various FGCs tune into the fighting game scene. It's also a marker of a game's presence within the scene itself. If your game of choice makes it in, it's likely there's a healthy competitive scene for it.
But as Cuellar announced each game (you can find the full list here), he also made an announcement through omission: Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite would not make the cut, marking the first time in 18 years a game from the Marvel Vs. Capcom series would not be on the main lineup.
Fans immediately took to the livestream chat to ask why. The game being relatively new wasn't an issue: Both Dragon Ball FighterZ and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle made the cut, with the former having released less than a week before the announcement and the latter out this June. Instead, Cuellar pointed to a lack of competitive interest. "We know it was on a slippery slope and it had a lot of competition going forward ... and it just kind of fizzled," Cuellar said on the livestream. "I don't think people are playing it, and that's the problem."


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Lee Suckling: How to avoid Divorce Month
17 Jan, 2018 8:05am 4 minutes to read
How to be a vegan, safely
Margaret Atwood triggers online row with criticism of #MeToo movement
Author Margaret Atwood wrote that the #MeToo movement is the product of a broken legal system. Photo / File
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Rob Crilly
Margaret Atwood is facing a feminist backlash after writing about the downside of the #MeToo movement and calling for greater transparency in the case of a former university professor accused of sexual misconduct.
Her critics say she has let down younger women whose views have been ignored for too long.
But the author of The Handmaid's Tale, which portrays a dystopian, misogynistic future, says she has ended up in the firing line simply for insisting that due process be applied and everyone's rights be respected.
The result is bitter series of online exchanges in which each side tussles over their version and vision of feminism.
In a provocative article, published in Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper, Atwood writes that the #MeToo movement is the product of a broken legal system, using the internet to cause stars to fall from the skies.
I have been listening for approx 60 years. Endorsing basic human rights for everyone is not warring against women. In order to have rights for women you have to have rights, period. Me being a blood-drinking monster does not make that untrue.
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) January 14, 2018
But with that comes a danger.
"If the legal system is bypassed because it is seen as ineffectual, what will take its place? Who will be the new power brokers? It won't be the Bad Feminists like me," she writes.
She also returns to the case of Steven Galloway, a former University of British Columbia (UBC) creative writing professor who was fired in 2016.
The results of a months-long investigation were never released and the faculty association later said there was no evidence to support all but one of the allegations.
She accuses her opponents of a rush to judgement. Her point is that failure to respect everyone's rights, she says, risks introducing a new form of tyranny (of the sort that often follows revolution and the race to ideological purity).
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"Are these Good Feminists fair-minded people? If not, they are just feeding into the very old narrative that holds women to be incapable of fairness or of considered judgment, and they are giving the opponents of women yet another reason to deny them positions of decision-making in the world," she writes.
Her words provoked outrage among online commentators, who perceived a powerful figure failing to show solidarity with less powerful women.
Erika Thorkelson, a graduate of the UBC creative writing course, wrote on Twitter: "If Margaret Atwood would like to stop warring among women, she should stop declaring war against younger, less powerful women and start listening."
She also identified a divide with an older general of women who had developed tactics for self-preservation.
I realize that for a lot of older women, self preservation meant blinding oneself to the plight of other women. I realize that the skills that allowed you to make it to a position of power are the very skills that are making it difficult for you to feel empathy now
— Erika Thorkelson (@ethorkel) January 13, 2018
Others seized on a passage in which she had discussed witch hunts, Stalinists and purges to illustrate how an allegation is not the same as conviction, except under totalitarian regimes.
Atwood literally compares women who make accusations of sexual assault to Stalinists. https://t.co/FXVDr8GWDP
— Alexander Offord (@offordwrites) January 13, 2018
Child-friendly restaurant's dog ban gets customers barking mad
Lizzie Marvelly: Let's face it - who really needs a man?
Steve Braunias: The secret diary of 2019 horoscopes, part 2
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Below is a list of prizes and species for our December 2016 South Australian State Fishing Tournament.
Prize: 2 x 12-month Fishing SA subscriptions – 1 for you and 1 for a mate ($95 value) PLUS a $5 GetFishing.com.au voucher!
Fishing SA magazine is South Australia's premier fishing publication, dedicated to all things fishing, boating and outdoors down south. With a focus of keeping South Oz anglers and water users informed and entertained, this high quality 100-page bi-monthly publication showcases the work of the state's leading fishing photojournalists.
The Lower Murray Lure Fishing Club is a not for profit Lure fishing association that encourages freshwater fishing for people of all ages. They have an emphasis on fishing education, safe boating and healthy competition as well as having a great respect for the river.


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City urges residents to report infrastructure concerns
23 August 2016 • News, VOC News	• No Comments
This weekend Rondebosch East residents were abuzz after a motorist unwittingly became entrenched in a sinkhole. The sinkhole opened up early Saturday afternoon on the corner of Burwood and Gordon Road after a Kia Picanto entered the intersection. While the sinkhole only opened up on Saturday, residents say that a traffic cone was placed on the area after a pothole began to surface. Aside from the expected shock that accompanies such an event, the motorist is thankfully unharmed.
The traffic cone that residents placed on the area after a pothole surfaced is clearly visible.
To understand the circumstances that surround the surfacing of a sinkhole and the process of claiming from the City, VOC spoke to mayoral committee member for Utility Services in the City of Cape Town, councillor Ernest Sonnenberg.
Sonnenberg explains that while the investigation into the Rondebosch East sinkhole incident is not complete, the council suspects that the sinkhole may have opened up as a result of a rupture around one of the sewer lines.
He says that the sewer line may have overtime disintegrated, consequently weakening the top surface around the area.
"We obviously could not pick this up. So a void starting to form, so there was obviously there was nothing supporting it. So when the vehicle drove over it, it then collapsed," he added.
In light of concerns of new sinkholes opening up, Sonnenberg affirms that he is only aware of one other incident in 2014 in which a sinkhole opened.
"We looked at our records as far back to 2006 and we only had one other [sinkhole opening]. I have spoken to senior engineers and they say that in the time that they have worked for the City it has never happened, other than the 2014 incident."
Sonnenberg notes that once the investigation is complete, the exposed pipe and the surface area are scheduled to be repaired.
"After that we will send a robotic crawler down the entire pipeline to inspect if there are any other fractures or weak points within the pipe," Sonnenberg continued.
Considering the damage that the vehicle may have incurred, he explains that generally individuals, who incur damage due to the City's negligence, would be required to complete a public liability form, which can be found on the City's website.
Alternatively, Sonnenberg says that claimants may claim directly from their private car insurance, which will in turn claim from the City.
The form may be allocated on the city's website, at https://www.capetown.gov.za.
He further urges residents to report any structural concerns with City infrastructure to 0860103089.


Unframed ink and watercolor on 9x12 140# watercolor paper. This original piece was also painted with authentic Zoisite and Jadeite, so the magical energies are also infused in this photo!
Your Journey is Your Gift.
Both a gift for you, because it's your Sacred Training Ground, and a gift to others. Because it is through your journey - the moment by moment, magical unfolding - that you become multicolored. Many layered. Relatable. Connect-able. Strong. A gentle leader who can reach out to others who are lost, and gently guide them back to themselves. Because YOU KNOW. You ARE. Embrace the gift of YOU.


Judy Dawn Child's 76 of Coal Grove formerly of Wayne WV. Gained her wings to heaven at 11:23 pm on Thursday March 21, 2019 leaving from Crystal Care of Coal Grove.
She was born September 30, 1942, a daughter of the late Helen and James Walter Christian. Judy was a member of the Huntington High School class of 1961 and member of the Madison Ave Church of God in Huntington, WV. She was a loving mother, sister and an avid Bowler.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband; Theodore Dealba Childs Sr. and a son; Theodore Dealba Childs Jr.
Those left to mourn her passing include her daughter; Julie Marshall of Catlettsburg, Kentucky, a brother; Richard Christian, 2 sisters; Jean Langley and Jane Diamond and a host of family and friends.
Keeping with her wishes her remains will be donated to Science and Memorial donations should be made in her honor to your local Hospice facility.


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VA Ct. App.
WILSON v. COMMONWEALTH
Court of Appeals of Virginia,Richmond.
Edward Thomas WILSON v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.
Record No. 0560-04-2.
Decided: March 01, 2005
Present: FITZPATRICK, C.J., ELDER and KELSEY, JJ. 195W. Todd Watson (Hargett & Watson, P.L.C., on brief), Richmond, for appellant. Steven A. Witmer, Assistant Attorney General (Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.
Edward Thomas Wilson (appellant) appeals from his bench trial conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol in violation of Code § 18.2-266. On appeal, he contends the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress was error. He argues the off-duty law enforcement officer from another jurisdiction, who observed his driving, acted improperly under color of office to effect a seizure and conduct the investigation that led to appellant's conviction. He also contends the Commonwealth's failure to procure or permit him to obtain a blood test amounted to a violation of his due process rights under the United States and Virginia Constitutions. We hold the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, established the off-duty officer did no more than a citizen would have been entitled to do under similar circumstances and, thus, that the "color of office" doctrine was not 196implicated. We also hold that the Commonwealth's failure to permit or provide a breath or blood alcohol concentration test did not violate appellant's due process rights under the facts of this case. Thus, we affirm the conviction.
At about 12:30 a.m. on September 9, 2003, Reed Partlow, an off-duty deputy sheriff from Loudoun County, was passing through Culpeper County with his wife and daughter on the way home from a vacation. While Partlow was traveling in his personal vehicle on a curving, two-lane portion of Route 3 that was marked with a "double yellow line for no passing," a convertible Rolls Royce traveling in the opposite direction "almost collided with [Partlow's] vehicle head-on" and "actually ran [Partlow's vehicle completely] off the road." Partlow was able to turn his van around without losing sight of the convertible and began to follow it. While they followed the convertible through Culpeper, Orange and Spotsylvania Counties, Partlow's wife contacted authorities in the various counties in an effort to get someone to intercept the convertible.
The convertible's top was down, and Partlow saw only one person in the car, appellant. When Route 3 "change[d] into four lane[s] a little further down the road," Partlow flashed his headlights a few times, "trying to get [appellant's] attention and hoping he would pull over," but "[i]t didn't appear that [appellant] even noticed." After additional unsuccessful attempts to get appellant to pull over, Partlow ceased trying to get appellant's attention and simply continued to follow him.
When the convertible entered Spotsylvania County, it "continued weaving from side to side," "crossing the center line several times" "as [two cars] were passing by [it]" in the opposite direction. At one point, the convertible's right wheels "actually left the roadway" and were "on the dirt," and the convertible "swerved, just barely missing several mailboxes ․ and paper boxes."
197Some distance later, the convertible made "a relatively sharp turn" into the parking lot of a Fasmart convenience store. The convertible then came to a stop directly "in front of the store[, taking] up two spots." Partlow had followed appellant's vehicle a total of about ten miles from the point where appellant's driving had forced Partlow's van off the road.
Partlow parked his van about thirty feet away from appellant's vehicle "so that [he] would be completely away in case [appellant] threw it up in reverse and started to back up." Partlow was in civilian clothing but put his badge and his holstered service weapon on his belt "because [he] wasn't sure what [he] was getting into at that point."
As Partlow approached the convertible on foot, appellant was stepping out of the driver's seat, and appellant placed one foot on the ground "before [Partlow] even said anything." When Partlow "got closer" to the convertible and appellant had placed one foot on the ground, Partlow
identified himself as a deputy sheriff from Loudoun County and advised [appellant] that ․ [he] was not from this jurisdiction, that [he] suspected [appellant] was driving under the influence and that [he] had called Spotsylvania County and that they were sending a deputy sheriff and that they would be looking into that situation.
Although appellant was already in the process of getting out, Partlow asked him to step out of the vehicle. Partlow made no physical contact with appellant at that time. Appellant "finished stepping out of the car and just stood there" with "both hands, one on the door and one on the side of the car, as if he was balancing himself." He told Partlow he had stopped there to get milk on his way home. Appellant asked to see Partlow's badge, and Partlow showed it to him. Partlow "could smell the odor of alcohol about [appellant's] person," observing that it "seemed to be most notable when he would speak," and Partlow repeated that he suspected appellant was driving under the influence. Appellant responded that he was 198"trying to get to Culpeper and must have taken a wrong turn," and he asked Partlow how to get to Culpeper.
Partlow noticed appellant's eyes "had a glassy appearance," his speech was "slightly slurred," and he "had an unsteady gait" that was very different from the gait Partlow saw appellant display later "when he came to court the first time." Partlow asked appellant "if [he] could pat [appellant] down for [Partlow's] safety, to make sure he didn't have any weapons on him." Appellant agreed, and Partlow "patted him down lightly." Partlow then asked appellant to walk to the back of the convertible, and while doing so, appellant "grabbed the vehicle ․ three times ․ as if to keep him[self] from falling over." When appellant got to the rear of the vehicle, "he couldn't stand without wavering back and forth," and Partlow "asked him just to put his hands on the trunk of the vehicle to keep from falling."
Partlow and appellant stood at the back of the car for about five minutes before the Spotsylvania County authorities arrived. During that time, appellant asked at least three more times to see Partlow's badge and sheriff's department identification. Appellant also "appeared to be somewhat confused as to where he was" and "had some periods of [what] appeared to be memory lapse [s]."
While waiting for someone to arrive from the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office, Partlow inquired whether appellant
remembered almost hitting a vehicle head-on near Stevensburg and [appellant] stated, no, no, I don't remember any of that. And then [Partlow] asked him, ․ do you remember running off the road and almost hitting some mailboxes. And [appellant] said, no, I don't, but ․ it may have happened.
Partlow asked appellant if he had had anything to drink that night, and appellant responded that he had. Partlow then asked "when was the last time that [appellant] had had something to drink," and he responded "about an hour ago." When Partlow asked appellant "where did he have his last drink," appellant responded simply that he "was trying to get 199to Culpeper." When Partlow asked appellant how much he had had to drink, appellant "said, well, I'd rather not answer that."
At that point, appellant "appeared to be getting a little bit antsy" about remaining at the scene, so Partlow "[tried] to initiate something that would voluntarily keep him there." Appellant "never attempted to leave," and Partlow "never actually asked him to stay there" or said "you're detained, you can't leave." Partlow did, however, tell appellant something like, "[I'm] going to give [you] some field tests for sobriety." Partlow inquired whether appellant had any physical or health problems that would prevent him from taking the tests, and appellant responded that he did not. Partlow then asked appellant "what his education level was." Appellant "never really said," so Partlow inquired whether he could "say [his] ABCs," and appellant responded that he could. Partlow then "explained again to him that Spotsylvania was sending a deputy there and that, as soon as they got there, that they were going to take over everything that was transpiring, that everything that was said, I would tell them and they would go from there." Partlow then said, "[C]an you say your ABCs from A to L?" Appellant responded, "A, and then it was, uh, uh, well, I don't understand why I have to do this." At that point, Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Deputy K.C. Butler arrived on the scene, and Partlow had no additional direct contact with appellant.
Partlow gave Deputy Butler the keys to appellant's vehicle, which Partlow had obtained from appellant "at some point" during the encounter. Partlow may or may not also have given Deputy Butler appellant's driver's license. Partlow knew he did not ask appellant for his driver's license but testified "he may have asked [appellant] ․ if he had a driver's license." (Emphasis added).
Deputy Butler, who had been a sheriff's deputy for only five or six months at that time, responded to the scene as a call about a reckless driver. When Deputy Butler arrived, Partlow suggested to Deputy Butler that appellant should be 200charged with driving under the influence. Deputy Butler observed appellant's behavior, asked him some questions, and informed appellant he suspected appellant of being drunk in public. Deputy Butler did not indicate an intent to arrest appellant for driving under the influence and testified that he believed he could not do so because he did not personally observe appellant's driving.
Deputy Butler contacted another officer, Deputy Pittman, to bring a preliminary breath test device to the scene. Deputy Butler advised appellant "of his rights with respect to th[e] preliminary breath test" and the implied consent law by reading from the beige card issued by the sheriff's department even though he did not plan to charge appellant with DUI. Deputy Butler said he gave appellant the implied consent advice even though he was not planning to charge him with DUI because it was "just a procedure [he did] with everybody." Deputy Butler also administered three other field sobriety tests. After receiving the results of those tests, Deputy Butler arrested appellant for being drunk in public and transported him to the magistrate's office.
When Partlow learned that Deputy Butler planned to charge appellant only with being drunk in public and not with driving under the influence, Partlow followed Deputy Butler and appellant to the magistrate's office in an effort to obtain a warrant charging appellant with the driving offense. The magistrate would not allow Partlow to charge appellant with DUI, and "she wouldn't give a reason." The magistrate issued a warrant charging appellant with being drunk in public, and appellant was transported to the regional jail, where he was held overnight without bond. Deputy Butler did not offer appellant "a more formal [alcohol concentration] test like the one that's at the Sheriff's Department on a machine that's calibrated regularly by the forensic bureau."
The following morning, Partlow contacted the magistrates' office again and spoke to a different magistrate. He "explained what had happened, explained what [he] wanted to do and asked [the magistrate] if there was any reason that [he] 201couldn't [obtain a warrant charging appellant with DUI] and [the magistrate] said, no, absolutely not." Partlow then drove back to the magistrates' office and swore out a criminal complaint, and at 11:00 a.m., the magistrate issued a warrant against appellant for DUI. The warrant was served on appellant at 1:24 p.m. that same day.
Prior to appellant's trial for DUI, he moved to suppress evidence on dual grounds. He contended that because Partlow was out of his jurisdiction, he had the authority to make only a citizen's arrest and that any evidence obtained after Partlow exceeded the scope of that authority was inadmissible.1 He also contended that Partlow's actions constituted an arrest for DUI-even though Deputy Butler obtained a warrant only for being drunk in public-triggering his rights under the implied consent law to a blood or breath test.
The trial court denied the motion on both grounds, ruling as follows:
I don't think ․ Partlow ․ acted under color of his office. He explained who he was and he explained the presence of the gun, to protect himself, for heaven's sake. He doesn't know what he's getting into with this guy who ․ a while ago ran him off the road and has done other erratic driving behavior. But he explained very clearly that he had no jurisdiction, ․ wasn't his bailiwick, he was from somewhere else. So, he didn't use his position to detain [appellant].
[W]hat he did in the so-called investigation was to use a ruse. He did what a citizen might do. He said, you know, the police are coming and they're going to give you this test and he ․ used a ruse, if you will, to try to get [appellant], voluntarily, to stay and that [appellant] didn't take it as a 202police officer is pretty well shown by [appellant's] reaction to it. He starts to do it and then he says, why do I have to do this. He wasn't ․ fooled by the police officer or made to think that he was acting under color of law and under color of office and I don't think Partlow was. I don't find that Partlow arrested [appellant] at the scene. He simply took steps to try to get him to stay until the real police officers with the jurisdiction could get there. There was no arrest by Partlow there.
And I don't think the implied consent law applies at all․
The parties then agreed to offer no additional evidence on the merits of the charge, and the court convicted appellant on the evidence already presented, noting appellant's case was "one of the strongest cases of DUI without the chemical test" that the court had seen.
Appellant noted this appeal.
Appellant makes no "complaint" regarding "the initial arrest or approach by Deputy Partlow" but contends that the encounter became an "investigation" and that the information Partlow obtained during that investigation constituted a "collection of evidence under the color of law" in violation of his constitutional rights because the investigation "[went] far beyond" what "a citizen could or would [have] achieve[d] in the context of a citizen's arrest." We disagree. We hold further that the Commonwealth's actions in failing to procure a blood or breath alcohol concentration test for appellant did not constitute a violation of due process under the facts of this case.
An appellant's claim that evidence was seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment "presents a mixed question of law and fact that we review de novo on appeal. In making such a determination, we give deference to the factual 203findings of the trial court and independently determine whether the manner in which the evidence was obtained [violated] the Fourth Amendment." Murphy v. Commonwealth, 264 Va. 568, 573, 570 S.E.2d 836, 838 (2002) (citations omitted); see also Ornelas v. United States, 517 U.S. 690, 691, 699, 116 S.Ct. 1657, 1659, 1663, 134 L.Ed.2d 911 (1996). An appellant has the burden to show that, when the evidence is considered in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress constituted reversible error. Murphy, 264 Va. at 573, 570 S.E.2d at 838.
"COLOR OF OFFICE" DOCTRINE
The Virginia Supreme Court recognized the " 'under color of office' doctrine" in Hudson v. Commonwealth, 266 Va. 371, 377, 585 S.E.2d 583, 586 (2003), describing it as " 'prohibit[ing] a law enforcement officer from using the indicia of his or her official position to collect evidence that a private citizen would be unable [to] gather,' " id. (quoting State v. Gustke, 205 W.Va. 72, 516 S.E.2d 283, 293 (1999)).
[T]he language of the case law indicates that the "under color of office" doctrine limits the power to arrest. But this doctrine does not prevent officers from making an otherwise valid citizen's arrest just because they happen to be in uniform or otherwise clothed with the indicia of their position when making the arrest. When officers outside their jurisdiction have sufficient grounds to make a valid citizen's arrest, the law should not require them to discard the indicia of their position before chasing and arresting a fleeing felon. Any suggestion that officers could not make a valid citizen's arrest merely because they happened to be in uniform or happened to be in a police car at the time they inadvertently witnessed a felony outside their jurisdiction would be ridiculous.
Gustke, 516 S.E.2d at 293 (quoting State v. Phoenix, 428 So.2d 262, 266 (Fla.Dist.Ct.App.1982) (citations omitted)).
204In Gustke, the West Virginia Supreme Court interpreted these principles as permitting uniformed officers to make a valid citizen's arrest for an offense that "was a misdemeanor that amounted to a breach of the peace and was committed in [the officers'] presence." Id. The court approved a citizen's arrest by an off-duty police officer outside his jurisdiction who " observed a vehicle that was being driven erratically and was weaving from lane to lane." Id. at 286. The officer acting as "citizen" was still in uniform and driving his marked police vehicle when he made the arrest, which he accomplished by "engag[ing] the siren and lights on his cruiser." Id. The officer asked to see the arrestee's identification and requested that he await the arrival of a deputy sheriff from the appropriate jurisdiction, but he did not collect any "evidence regarding [the arrestee's] sobriety, or lack thereof." Id. at 293. The West Virginia Supreme Court held that "[b]ecause [the officer] did not use the indicia of his official position as a law enforcement officer to gather evidence against [the arrestee], we need not decide today whether to adopt the 'under color of office' doctrine." Id. It concluded only that a uniformed officer's use of his marked vehicle's emergency lights and siren to effect a traffic stop of an erratic driver, accompanied by a request for identification from that driver, did not violate the Fourth Amendment. Id. Thus, the West Virginia Supreme Court had no occasion to consider the parameters of a citizen's ability to gather admissible evidence in the course of a citizen's arrest.
Contrary to appellant's assertions, Hudson does not require the suppression of any evidence obtained by a police officer effecting a citizen's arrest. At most, it supports the suppression of "evidence that a private citizen would be unable [to] gather" if the method the officer used to gather that evidence amounted to a constitutional violation. Hudson, 266 Va. at 377, 585 S.E.2d at 586 (quoting Gustke, 516 S.E.2d at 293). Further, in Hudson, like in Gustke, the Virginia Supreme Court had no occasion to consider the parameters of a citizen's ability to gather admissible evidence because the officer "made no attempt of any type to gather evidence 205against Hudson" and "merely detained him until a duly authorized police officer arrived." Hudson, 266 Va. at 378, 585 S.E.2d at 587.
The District Court of Appeal of Florida has held that officers acting as citizens "may investigate and gather evidence only through the use of their own senses and through the voluntary cooperation of citizens; they may not employ the power or color of their office either expressly or by implication in order to gather evidence or ferret out criminal activity not otherwise observable." Phoenix, 428 So.2d at 266 & n. 2.
Here, Partlow clearly did not use the color of his office to observe appellant's erratic driving or to stop appellant's vehicle after following it for about ten miles. Although Partlow made numerous attempts to signal appellant to stop, Partlow was driving his personal vehicle at the time and was not displaying any visible indicia of his authority as a law enforcement officer when he did so. Only after appellant had already parked his convertible and placed one foot on the ground as he began to exit the vehicle did Partlow approach, wearing his badge and service revolver, and identify himself as a law enforcement officer. Further, Partlow testified that when he told appellant he was a deputy sheriff, he also clearly indicated he was outside his jurisdiction and that he had notified the proper authorities because he believed appellant had been driving while under the influence of alcohol. Appellant provided no evidence to contradict Partlow's testimony, and the trial court found that testimony credible. Further, although appellant concedes that, per Hudson, Partlow would have been justified in making a citizen's arrest for DUI, the trial court found that no arrest occurred, and the evidence supports a finding that Partlow's actions amounted, at most, to a detention.
Finally, Partlow's testimony concerning his observations of appellant and appellant's behavior at the scene of the encounter-including that appellant smelled of alcohol, had difficulty standing, seemed confused while talking, and claimed not to remember almost running Partlow's vehicle off the road but 206admitting that "it could have happened"-constituted evidence that could have been gathered by any citizen engaging appellant in conversation while attempting to detain him until a law enforcement officer from that jurisdiction could arrive. Although appellant argues Partlow's request to him to perform a field sobriety alphabet test exceeded the scope of a citizen's authority, appellant refused Partlow's request to perform such a test. Thus, assuming without deciding that the administration of field sobriety tests is the sort of investigation that would implicate the "color of office" doctrine and would amount to a constitutional violation requiring suppression, no evidence resulted from Partlow's attempts, and there was nothing to suppress. Further, by refusing Partlow's request to perform that field sobriety test and declining to answer Partlow's question about how much he had had to drink, appellant indicated an awareness of Partlow's lack of official authority.
The trial court expressly found as follows:
[W]hat [Partlow] did in the so-called investigation was to use a ruse. He did what a citizen might do. He said, you know, the police are coming and they're going to give you this test and he ․ used a ruse, if you will, to try to get [appellant], voluntarily, to stay and that [appellant] didn't take it as a police officer is pretty well shown by [appellant's] reaction to it. He starts to do it and then he says, why do I have to do this. He wasn't ․ fooled by the police officer or made to think that he was acting under color of law and under color of office and I don't think Partlow was.
The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, supports those findings and conclusions. Thus, we hold the trial court did not err in denying the motion to suppress on that ground.
Appellant contends his due process rights were violated because the implied consent law required the Commonwealth 207to procure or permit him to obtain blood or breath testing to determine his level of intoxication. We hold the implied consent law did not come into play because the record supports the trial court's finding that appellant was not arrested for DUI in the Fasmart parking lot.
Code § 18.2-268.2 provides in relevant part as follows:
A. Any person, whether licensed by Virginia or not, who operates a motor vehicle upon a highway, as defined in § 46.2-100, in this Commonwealth shall be deemed thereby, as a condition of such operation, to have consented to have samples of his blood, breath, or both blood and breath taken for a chemical test to determine the alcohol, drug, or both alcohol and drug content of his blood, if he is arrested for violation of §§ 18.2-266, 18.2-266.1 or § 18.2-272 or of a similar ordinance within three hours of the alleged offense.
B. Any person so arrested ․ shall submit to a breath test. If the breath test is unavailable or the person is physically unable to submit to the breath test, a blood test shall be given․
Here, the trial court found Partlow did not arrest appellant in the Fasmart parking lot. We held above that the record supports the trial court's finding and indicates that Partlow's actions constituted, at most, a detention rather than an arrest. Further, when Deputy Butler arrived on the scene shortly before 1:00 a.m., he arrested appellant for public intoxication rather than driving under the influence. Thus, although Deputy Butler advised appellant of the implied consent law, the Commonwealth had no duty to provide appellant with an opportunity for a blood or breath test based on an arrest for public intoxication. Although appellant was subsequently arrested on a warrant alleging he drove under the influence, that arrest occurred about twelve hours later, at 1:24 p.m. Thus, his DUI arrest did not occur "within three hours of the alleged offense," as required to bring the implied consent and testing provisions of Code § 18.2-268.2 into play.
208III.
For these reasons, we hold the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, established the off-duty officer did no more than a citizen would have been entitled to do under similar circumstances and, thus, that the "color of office" doctrine was not implicated. We also hold that the Commonwealth's failure to permit or provide a breath or blood alcohol concentration test did not violate appellant's due process rights under the facts of this case. Thus, we affirm the conviction.
1. In his written motion, appellant alleged Partlow "illegally detained and ․ arrested [appellant] while acting under color of law ․ in violation of the Fourth Amendment." At the hearing on his motion, appellant conceded that Hudson v. Commonwealth, 266 Va. 371, 585 S.E.2d 583 (2003), permitted Partlow, acting as a private citizen, to detain and arrest appellant. He argued only that Partlow's investigation exceeded the scope of that in which a citizen was authorized to engage.
LARRY G. ELDER, Judge.


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Q: ASP.NET WebAPI multiple actions were found I have a web api controller and two GET methods:
public class ImagesController : ApiController {
    [HttpGet]
    public HttpResponseMessage GetImages() { }

    [HttpGet]
    public HttpResponseMessage Download([FromUri]int[] ids) { }
}

Why I'm getting multiple actions found error, when trying to reach /api/Images, why both actions are the same?

A: When you created controller, you have assigned HttpGet to two different methods. Making that you have confused web server when it tries to process your request. Since you are sending GET verb to the controller it self, instead directly to the method, web server can not determinate what method should be invoked.
You can try with /api/Images/GetImages in order to directly hit a method, or remove one of listed.

A: If you see the Web API feature it work for the selected httm methods like GET,PUT,POST,DELETE.
So if you create two action method with same name it will give error. To avoid this error you have to redefine the DefaultAPI path in route.config file.
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Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
In 1903 the great African American scholar W. E. B. Du Bois predicted that the great problem of the twentieth century would be the "color line." Unfortunately, he was right. The twentieth century was one in which disputes over and discussions about race, ethnicity, and diversity often took center stage in the United States and abroad. As the volumes here show, however, the observation of Du Bois cannot be limited to the twentieth century. From the earliest settlement of America to the present, relations between Africans and Europeans—and then later African Americans and white Americans—have been central to U.S. history.
In many ways there are two African American histories: an internal history that charts how black communities developed over time, and an external history that shows how the interaction of blacks and whites has shaped the larger national history as well as the internal history of African Americans. In order to offer a comprehensive window into both of these histories Oxford University Press has developed a series of two encyclopedias: the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass and the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century (forthcoming).
The encyclopedias have been developed at the same time by the same group of editors. This first three-volume set covers the period from the earliest settlement of what became the United States until the death of Frederick Douglass in 1895. The second set begins with the rise of Jim Crow in the 1890s and ends with the present day. The editors and press have chosen to end the first set with the death of Douglass because he was the most important African American of his age, and perhaps the most significant figure in all of African American history. For nearly half a century Fred Douglass, as he was often called, was the de facto leader of black America. He was a towering figure in the antislavery movement, an adviser to President Lincoln, and a key player in postwar politics. In many ways he was the symbol of his age: a former slave who became a writer and a public speaker with an international reputation; a fugitive slave whose escape from bondage made him subject to seizure under federal law, yet who became the Marshal of the District of Columbia; an African American who as a citizen became a diplomat and thus an official representative of his nation. His death marked the end of an era for African Americans—an era that began with most blacks being held as slaves and ended with all African Americans as free citizens.
Ironically, Douglass's death also marks the beginning of a new era overshadowed by attacks on black freedom and black rights-an era of pervasive segregation, poverty, and second-class citizenship. The year that Douglass died, Booker T. Washington gave his famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech, in which he conceded that blacks would no longer, at least for the foreseeable future, be able to participate in politics in a meaningful way. Perceptions of Washington's role as a black leader have undergone a significant transformation since the early 1970s. Though he was once called an "Uncle Tom," most scholars today understand that he was politically shrewd, and politically powerful, despite his "compromise" speech. Even as he proclaimed to southern whites that he was uninterested in politics, he was working behind the scenes to enhance black political and economic power. But however we view Washington's political maneuvering, by the time Douglass died it is clear that the mantle of black leadership had shifted to Washington and that black life in America had clearly changed as most white politicians, with the support of most white Americans, maneuvered to put new limits on the everyday circumstances and lifelong aspirations of African Americans. A year after Douglass's death the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the concept of separate but equal in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
Because Douglass's death coincides with the advent of the age of segregation, we have chosen to end the first set with the year 1895. Doing so responds to divisions natural to the chronology of black history in the United States. We think this makes more sense than imposing a more typical and arbitrary end point, such as 1900, the beginning of the twentieth century, or even 1898, the year America entered the international political arena with its victory in the Spanish-American War. Some entries carry on their discussion for a few years beyond Douglass's death because history never falls neatly into compartmentalized events made up of precise developments. For example, though discussion of topics in this encyclopedia cuts off at 1895, many entries in this volume use census figures from 1900 as well as 1890 to explain developments in African American history.
The chronological organization of these two sets will allow readers to see and compare both the evolution of African American history and continuity within that history from one era to another. In fact, more than eighty topics can be found as entries in both sets-for example, entries on the military, literature, the performing and fine arts, on health and medicine, on science and technology, entrepreneurship and racial uplift, politics and political participation, childhood, the family, marriage, women, gender, and sexuality. Moreover, in the present set, many topics are treated as composite entries in order to accommodate the vast changes from 1619, when the first blacks arrived in Virginia, to 1895 when African Americans began a new fight for freedom from segregation, poverty, and political powerlessness-one that would shape American history throughout the twentieth century, and which affects all Americans to this day. By organizing large topics as composite entries we provide a way for the reader to focus on particular time periods, such as the colonial period, the antebellum era, or the post-Civil War and Reconstruction era. At the same time, this treatment allows the reader to look at these issues across the nearly three centuries covered in the encyclopedia.
There are nearly seven hundred entries and subentries in the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895, arranged in alphabetical order. Composite entries gather together discussions of similar or related topics under one headword. For example, under the entry "Slave Narratives" the reader will find three subentries: "The Slave Narrative in America from the Colonial Period to the Civil War," "Interpreting Slave Narratives," and "African British Slave Narratives." A headnote detailing the various subentries introduces each composite entry.
The contributors have sought to write in clear language with a minimum of technical writing or scholarly jargon. A selective bibliography at the end of each article directs the reader who wishes to pursue a topic in greater detail to primary sources, the most useful works on the topic, and the most important scholarly works in field. To guide readers from one article to related discussions elsewhere in the encyclopedia, cross-references appear at the end of all articles. Blind entries direct the user from an alternate form of an entry term to the entry itself. For example the blind entry for "Slave Codes" tells the reader to look under "Black Codes and Slave Codes, Colonial." The encyclopedia includes approximately three hundred images.
Volume 3 contains a chronology of African American history from the first arrival of blacks with Spanish explorers to 1895, a topical outline of articles, the directory of contributors, and the index. Readers interested in finding all the articles on a particular subject (e.g., resistance to slavery) can consult the topical outline, which shows how articles relate to one another and to the overall design of the encyclopedia. The comprehensive index lists all the topics covered in the encyclopedia, including those that are not headwords themselves.
The three volumes that make up the first set and the four volumes that make up the second set have substantial biographies of key figures in African American history, such as Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X. The lengthy entries are not to be viewed as history based on the "great man" or "great woman," but rather as an acknowledgment that throughout American history these and other individuals have been central to the African American experience. However, the bulk of coverage in both sets is dedicated not to individual biographies, but to the wide range of events, activities, and issues that have shaped African American history. We hope these volumes will not only answer specific questions that users have, but also surprise anyone who might delve into them. We note facts and aspects of African American history that may surprise even some specialists. For example, most Americans believe that blacks did not hold public office until after the Civil War. Scholars may know of the few blacks like John Mercer Langston who held local office in the 1850s. But readers of these books will discover African Americans who were elected to public office in the colonial period and at least one black man who served in a state legislature in the 1830s. Most Americans have heard the phrase "the real McCoy," but few know that it refers to the authenticity of machines built by Elijah McCoy, one of the most successful black inventors and businessmen of the nineteenth century.
African American history did not develop in a vacuum, nor did it happen in isolation from the rest of American history. Thus, this encyclopedia includes entries on Americans who were not black, but who nonetheless had an impact on the development of African American history. Some were white activists, like William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown, who dedicated their lives to black freedom. Others were slaveholders and opponents of black liberty, who nevertheless were significant figures in the history of African Americans.
While these volumes are about "black history," in the end they tell the story of "American" history. Every February in schools across America teachers and students focus on black history month. My hope is that these two encyclopedias will help persuade all Americans that black history cannot be taught in a month, or segregated to one month. Rather, the history African Americans is part of the history of all Americans. Wherever our ancestors came from, whatever our ethnicity or race, all Americans have been affected by slavery, segregation, and integration, by black culture and by African and African American influences on American culture. My goal is not only to educate and teach people about black history, but more importantly, to show users of these volumes how the history of America is, to a great extent, the history of race and race relations. All Americans are in a sense "African Americans" because our culture and history has been deeply affected by the experience of Africans and their descendants in what is now the United States.
At another level, the history of African Americans provides the best measure for what the American people have tried to achieve through nationhood and the rule of law. The United States began with the assertions that all Americans were "created equal" and entitled to the same rights. Much of the history of our nation has been about implementing these ideas and applying them to all Americans. As these volumes show, for most of our history we failed to live up to these ideals. Enslaved African Americans before the Civil War and segregated blacks later on were clearly not treated as equals-neither legally nor socially. They did not have the same rights as other Americans. The struggle to end slavery and to provide equal rights for all Americans has been, in many ways, the central and most enduring problem of American history. These volumes help us better understand the ongoing struggle for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans.
The creation of this encyclopedia has been a group effort. My coeditors-Diane Barnes, Graham Hodges, Gerald Horne, and Cary Wintz-worked tirelessly on this project, as did my editors at Oxford, Tony Aiello and Tim Sachs. This project began under the general direction of Karen Day, the reference publisher, and Timothy DeWerff, the director of editorial development and production, both of whom enthusiastically supported it. When Karen moved on to other opportunities, Casper Grathwohl provided creative leadership and his own enthusiastic support for the project.
We have dedicated these volumes to the "dean" of African American history, John Hope Franklin. For me, John Hope has been a friend, a mentor, and a role model. At age ninety he continues to write and speak out on the importance of understanding our history so we can make our future better. We hope this work will aid all Americans in achieving that goal. We also hope these volumes will enable Americans to have a better understanding of the history of race in our nation, and thus learn how to overcome our past in the future.
Paul Finkelman
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Q: Javascript object used as parameter becomes undefined I am designing a web-based Choose Your Own Adventure game using JavaScript and jQuery, and am running into a problem with one of my functions. The basic structure is like this:
//leftSide, rightSide, thirdOption defined up here

var exampleScene = {
    sceneText: "
Some narrative text
",
    optionNames: ["Go Left", "Go Right", "A Third Option"],
    linkedScenes: [leftSide, rightSide, thirdOption]
};

function fillBox (scene) {
    $("#textBox > *").remove();
    $("#textBox").append($.parseHTML(scene.sceneText));
    promptPlayer(scene);
}

function promptPlayer (scene) {
    for (i = 0; i < scene.linkedScenes.length; i++) {
        $("#input > ol").append("

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        $("#input > ol > li").last().text(scene.optionNames[i]);
        $("#input > ol > li").last().click(function () {
            fillBox(scene.linkedScenes[i]);
        });
    }
}

The idea is to show the text of a "Scene" object in the output area, and generate clickable options in an input area. The info for the options is drawn from the linkedScenes property of the "Scene" object. However, the reference to the linkedScene property becomes undefined when it is used as an argument in the fillBox function.
I have verified using console.log() that it is defined while in the promptPlayer function. I have also tried instead pushing scene.linkedScenes[i] into a global array and using its indices as the argument, but this also becomes undefined.
I am truly stuck here, and any help would be greatly appreciated. I am still learning JavaScript and jQuery, so any links to resources that would help clear up these sorts of issues on my own in the future would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


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Q: How do I recover a .env file that was gone after I commited a .gitignore I created a branch called chat-feature but when I merged it in my master suddenly I found my .env file is gone..

A: Go back to your previous branch: git checkout master (or replace master by the name of the previous branch where your .env file is).
You can now make a copy of the file.
Also, check that your .gitignore to see if .env is listed or not. If your git repo was set up for you automatically or if it was imported from another project, then it is likely that it is being ignored by default.
If it is in there then simply remove it to include the .env file in your next commit.
I would not recommend pushing a .env file, unless your repo is private and you are sure about what you are doing.