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Police officers who issued fines for breaches of COVID-19 restrictions have been instructed to hand out cautions for unpaid infringements rather than proceed with charges in a move that the Police Association warns could undermine future enforcement of public health orders.
More than 19,000 penalty notices were issued for breaches of chief health officer orders by October last year. The new direction would mean all but the most egregious offenders will avoid paying.
A man is issued a fine on August 9, in Melbourne. Credit:Darrian Traynor
Premier Daniel Andrews insisted in October that rule-breakers must pay fines, warning there was "too much at stake" and "we will come after you if you don't".
But under the new advice, even people who received numerous coronavirus-related infringements will now be placed on a diversion order, which allows the accused to avoid a conviction and payment of the fine by giving an undertaking to the court.
Police Association Victoria secretary Wayne Gatt said the decision had inflamed tensions within the force after officers spent months enforcing the deeply unpopular COVID measures.
"Our members were asked to do a thankless job by the government and they did that," he said.
"If offenders form a view from this experience that penalties will be readily converted to cautions or diversions as a matter of course, then that sends a concerning message. We want to encourage wilful compliance and not encourage civil disobedience."
Police union secretary Wayne Gatt. Credit:Jason South
The decision is expected to infuriate the people who have already paid their fines, of which there were only 845 up until October last year.
Fairfield man Michael O'Reilly, who paid a $1652 fine for breaching public health guidelines, said the new policy served to highlight the government's inconsistent approach.
He said police were now more lenient after playing "hard ball'' at a protest he took part in outside Preston's Mantra Hotel last April. Dozens of other protesters were also fined.
According to the most recent data from Fines Victoria, more than 19,000 penalty notices were issued by October last year. Of those, 18 per cent had reached a "notice of final demand" stage, while a further 3455 had been registered with Fines Victoria for enforcement action.
Michael O'Reilly was fined for attending a protest to free refugees at the Mantra Hotel in Preston.
The new guidelines, prepared by the force's legal services department and circulated in an internal email on December 17, urge police prosecutors and officers involved in contested cases to take the most lenient approach.
"There are three tiers in the guide and informants/prosecutors must proceed with the lowest tier option unless inappropriate to do so," the email states.
Charges will only proceed for people classified as tier three, who demonstrated "repeated, deliberate or continuing breaches of the chief health officer's directions," or those infected with COVID-19 who refused to isolate.
The guidelines represent a major backflip of enforcement action by the Andrews government and Victoria Police, which had previously adopted a hardline approach and issued thousands of fines after the state of emergency was declared in March.
Victoria Police issue fines to protesters.
People were fined $200 for not wearing a face mask in public and up to $1652 for most stay-at-home order breaches. Fines of $4957 applied for unlawful gatherings and COVID-positive people who failed to self-isolate.
Mr Gatt said the decision to avoid prosecuting offenders has fuelled tension with the Police Association, whose members were forced to implement the tough measures.
"These penalties, once issued, were reviewed. In all other cases police have already used their discretion," he said.
"Once police have issued a penalty however, and it's contested, matters should be heard at court as there is surely a public interest in ensuring ongoing deterrence and compliance."
Liberty Victoria President Julia Kretzenbacher called on the government to review the fines that had already been paid, in the interest of fairness.
"We need the response to COVID-19 to be health-based, not a policing response, so it is encouraging Victoria Police has been told to exercise discretion in most circumstances, so that people are not saddled with huge fines," Ms Kretzenbacher said.
She said disadvantaged communities have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 fines.
Mr O'Reilly, 62, was fined as he gathered with fellow Refugee Action Collective supporters on Good Friday.
His written objection to the fine was rejected and he chose not to take the matter to court because he has health issues and didn't want the stress or the conviction.
Refugee Action Collective spokesman Chris Breen said ''heavy handed, discriminatory policing and crushing fines have never been an acceptable part of dealing with a public health emergency".
He said while the police change in policy was welcome, police were still pursuing 30 refugee supporters for $50,000 in fines resulting from the Preston car convoy.
"I am still facing an incitement charge to be heard in the Magistrates Court ... for being one of the organisers of the convoy," Mr Breen said.
"Police should withdraw the fines and the charge, which are both inconsistent with the new approach, and an outrageous attack on the right to protest."
Berhan Ahmed, a University of Melbourne adjunct professor and African-Australian community leader, said infringements issued to residents from nine public housing towers who found themselves in ''hard lockdown'' in July had further traumatised them.
He said some residents who had mental health issues and drug addictions were fined for leaving their apartments.
"They wanted to sneak out of the place and needed health workers instead of police," he said.
Dr Ahmed said many of those who received fines were already under great financial and emotional stress.
"They are already struggling to pay their bills and then they receive a fine that they can't afford."
Katherine Ellis, CEO of Youth Affairs Council Victoria, welcomed a "compassionate and constructive approach" from authorities.
"It is cruel and distressing to ask children, young people and their families to pay thousands of dollars of fines on top of all the challenges COVID-19 has presented with job loss, disrupted education and social isolation," she said.
Victoria Police did not respond to questions from The Age, but released a statement.
"Victoria Police supports the chief health officer by enforcing the directions that are in place at the time and issues infringements to those who blatantly breach the directions," a spokeswoman said.
"To ensure consistency across the organisation when dealing with reviews or contested infringements for breach of CHO directions, guidance in the form of a three-tiered system was developed. This approach provides direction, consistency and parity."
A Victorian government spokesperson said fines had played a critical role in sending a clear message that anyone who blatantly and deliberately breached the Chief Health Officer's directives would face a penalty.
"Victoria Police makes prosecutorial decisions independent of government, and it would be inappropriate to intervene in these decisions," the spokesperson said.
"Victoria Police have had extensive checks in place throughout the pandemic to ensure all fines are appropriately issued."
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Georgia Bulldogs defeat SEC rival South Carolina Gamecocks 48-7
The Georgia Bulldogs defeated their Southeastern Conference rival, the South Carolina Gamecocks, 48-7 in the third game of the season. This was both teams' 75th encounter throughout college football history, with Georgia earning 54 wins.
According to sports analysts, the victory strengthened Georgia's position as the defender of the championship title. Although 15 players have left the team to join the NFL, the Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart said that the team still maintains talents and spirit after winning the title.
"That was a very special group," Kirby said. "That's going to linger in our building. Not the championship, but the way they practiced, the way they carried themselves."
Bulldogs 'overwhelm' Gamecocks
Georgia's offense accumulated a total of 547 yards up to the third quarter of the game. They managed to take advantage of their pigskin possessions by scoring on eight of their first nine chances. Additionally, they recorded an average of ten yards per snap up to that point.
The backup offense players then came in to take over in the fourth quarter, just like in their previous two games against the Oregon Ducks and the Samford Bulldogs.
Despite achieving a three-win streak so far in the season with that arrangement, the Bulldogs QB Stetson Bennett said that the team's journey to the championship would not be smooth.
"We're going to have to play a four-quarter game at some point," Bennett said. "We're going to have to stay in shape. This isn't going to happen every week."
Bennet landed two touchdowns and completed 16 passes of 23 attempts for 284 yards up to the third quarter.
Analysts praised Georgia's defense for their performance on Saturday, saying that it "overwhelmed" the Gamecocks' offense.
South Carolina QB Spencer Rattler only managed to get three deep balls and had the two of them intercepted by Georgia. When Rattler left the game at the end of the third quarter, he only completed 13 passes out of 25 attempts for 118 yards.
Among Georgia's defensive side, TE Brock Bowers was the most prominent player on Saturday—making two touchdowns and five receptions for 121 yards.
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Georgia's next game
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The art of Calligraphy
With the video of Master Penman Jake Weidmann making its rounds on the internet, the art of calligraphy is enjoying a very moderate resurgence of interest. Why have we abandoned this art form? Is it even relevant in a day and age when computers can reproduce any form of script, in any size for any occasion on any type of paper? Can calligraphy or any form of artistic writing provide a substantial benefit for modern society and if so, should "we" reconsider teaching such forms of writing in schools?
I think Jake Weidmann gets more recognition because he uses his calligraphy in art. Calligraphy in it's rawest form has nothing to do with the intricate ink animals and designs be adds to the text, so that does make him a master penman as is his medium but I doubt any of the other master calligraphers extend their skill beyond text; Jake is an artist. It would be great if this article explored which he is best described as, and the difference between regular penmen, how to make a living from and what do they even do? – Slaidey 6 years ago
Sympathy for the Villain?
We all know that there cannot be a hero without having a villain but does this mean that we have to hate the villain? Sure there are those people/creatures that are truly monstrous and who want to destroy the world or inflict pain and terror but what about more innocuous villains? villains who just happen to share a different moral code than the hero? or rivals that engage in the same behaviour as the hero but happen to be on opposite sides (Gangs of New York, The Godfather). It is Manichean to see the villain as evil but are they totally unredeemable?
Wouldn't that make them anti-heroes? Villains are defined as villains when there is no good in them, or when they were once good but there is no redeeming factor for them. To which the other term that should be brought up is antagonist. Who is an opponent for the protagonist, but is not really evil, and is often mistaken for a villain despite the morality differences between antagonist and pure villain. – Ryan Walsh 6 years ago
A good example of a villain versus an antagonist is in "Les Miserables" with Thenardier and Javert. Thenardier does evil for his own gain while Javert believes he is doing good while he is the antagonist to Jean Valjean. In the end Thenardier doesn't change while Javert realises the harm he has caused and *spoiler* commits suicide. – smartstooge 6 years ago
I think I agree with Ryan Walsh. You seem to be conflating the anti-hero and the villain. Perhaps it would be more productive to study the rise of the sympathetic villain in Pixar. – InAugust 6 years ago
Another good example of two differing viewpoint of antagonist and protagonist are Marvel Comics' Magneto and Professor X. They both want mutants to be treated better, but because of Magneto's past as a Jewish boy during WWII, he believes that the humans will never see the collective "other" as their equal - at the very least, not through talk. Magneto believes he is doing the right thing by mutant-kind, but so does Prof X, who wants nothing more than for humans and mutants to get along. Another example is Regina from Once Upon A Time, who is a sympathetic villain and could be seen as the protagonist of her own story. – VelvetRose 6 years ago
On the Morality of Monsters
We all know that Dracula is evil, Frankenstein's monster is a brute and the hidden gods of Lovecraft drive humanity insane but could we be misinterpreting this? Harker gets a posse together to brutally slay Dracula while he is helpless, Victor Frankenstein creates his monster and abandons him and Humanity has forgotten about the Lovecraftian gods in favour of newer kinder ones. Could it be that each of these stories (and many others) can be read in an alternate way such that the "monsters" are actually mistaken, misinterpreted and working from a "good" motivation? This can transcend the canon literature and even look at modern day monsters
"Beauty and the Beast" anyone? – smartstooge 6 years ago
Hey there, I don't think that we should create "monsters" like Frankenstein, or wipe them out without knowing whether or not the "monster" in question as actually a monster. A monster is something intrinsically evil...it works for evil, and doesn't repent and turn back to good. Many people would call Hitler a "monster", but the truth is, Hitler was a human, and that means he was fully capable of making moral decisions, and even loving every single person he had control over. "Monstership", I believe, is something that pertains to nature, not choice. You can't become a monster unless you ARE a monster. I'm not sure how helpful this note was, but it's some food for thought! – Hedekira16 6 years ago
This is a great opportunity to talk about how subjective morality is. For example - if a vampire has to drink blood to survive, and do so, are they truly evil just because humans have decided it is an evil act to drink blood? Why are vampires in fiction considered 'good' if they drink animal blood instead of human blood, when it makes no difference to them because they are a different species anyway? It would be interesting to discuss humans imposing their moral system on other creatures. – Grace Maich 6 years ago
Uh, I thought Frankenstein's monster was a victim? The author of the novel made his plight entirely sympathetic, and despite all his faults and flaws, Frankenstein's monster was pretty remorseful and set out to kill himself after his creator die. I'm also currently reading Dracula, so I'll get back to you on that, but from my understanding, Dracula really is just plain ol' evil. And from my understanding, Lovecraftian gods have a sort of bizarre morality, where our concepts of good/evil don't really... work with them. This isn't the first time this topic's been explored, but I welcome you to take a stab at it. – Helmet 6 years ago
I think one of the issues in Frankenstein was also that of education. Or maybe the more accurate term to use is cultivation? When the creature was born, he was a blank slate. He had equal potential to be either a blessing or a curse to mankind--what settled it was the treatment he received. The creature himself says, "I am malicious because I am miserable." – chemis3 5 years ago
The subtleties of terror across genres
We are all aware that video game and movie adaptations take liberties with source material (the literature that they are drawn from) but how does a scary piece remain scary? When a reader engages with the text, terror and horror come from anticipation and foreshadowing. Video game users are directly engaged in making decisions and movie watchers are observers of somebody else's vision of the "creature". In what ways does terror/horror translate across media? what makes something scary when it is taken outside our realm of imagination? Does horror/terror run the risk of being campy or cliché because it is no longer on the page?
Perhaps you can add the psychological component of fear to help address terror in these genres. – Venus Echos 6 years ago
You've made a good point that video games are frightening because the player is consciously making a decision. In regards to film, the score (background music) usually helps build suspense. Lack of background music also makes things scary, because it usually leads to things popping up. – YsabelGo 6 years ago
In gothic literature there is a reliance on the "sublime" the feeling of terror that is ultimately pleasant. This is achieved through the use of the setting in literature so spooky castles, dark weather and subtle changes to the environment are all a must. Now when this translates to lets say video games, these factors are exemplified! Music is added, the once purely imagined setting is now present, and there is the game mechanics to consider. Stress levels rise and your senses go into overdrive causing those factors which allow the sublime to thrive to grow even more palpable. – jonavitua 6 years ago
Animals as symbols for humanity
It is not a new idea to have talking animals as characters in literature. Animal Farm is probably the most famous example but there have been more than just this. With the rise of comics/graphic novels we see emotionally stirring and intricate portraits of humanity being played out. The events of Maus, Squarriors and others are undeniably political, emotional and social. Why would an author and artist use animals as the main subject of their works when most of the time the plot/meaning of the work revolves around human experience? Is this a way to distance readers from the action so they focus on the main plot points or is this a way to make readers pay closer attention?
Where does gothic and fantasy meet?
Gothic novels of the 1790s and beyond are characterized by certain medieval and fantastic circumstances "furnishings", which makes them easy to recognize. The modern world, however, has blurred that line and contemporary gothic is often conflated with fantasy. Why are fairies and dragons now seen as being gothic? why is there a preoccupation with fantastic creatures instead of monsters? Analyze historical periods or pieces of fiction that best represents this turning point. Art work/websites like Alchemygothic.com may be a good starting point.
It'd be helpful to note which type of fantasy you're going for. The genre is so vast and ambiguous nowadays that a distinction would be necessary. From what you describe, I'm guessing that it's high fantasy (HF) you're going for. Also, I think what makes Gothic different is its handling of high fantasy tropes. That is where dark fantasy (DF) would come into play, which is pretty much a mixture between HF and gothic. While DF uses HF settings and character tropes, it borrows heavily from Gothic structure and storytelling. – Tecohen0 7 years ago
For the gothic novels side of things, some classics to look at would be... The Castle of Otranto Dracula The Monk (by Matthew Lewis) (my personal favourite gothic novel!!) books by Ann Radcliffe such as A Sicilian Romance It could also be interesting to consider the role of religion in modern fantasy/gothic versus older gothic novelisations. There was a lot of anti-Catholic rhetoric in English gothic novels, for example (see The Monk as a classic example. There are even demons in that novel, bringing in the more fantastical element). – Camille Brouard 7 years ago
The title should say, "Where do gothic and fantasy meet?" -- subject/verb agreement – VBarclay 6 years ago
What is next for the figure of the monster?
Generally speaking monsters have had an ideological or didactic purpose. Ancient monsters taught us about social ill, medieval monsters were often used to demonstrate religious doctrines and enlightenment monsters taught the public something about the dangers of science. Contemporary monsters, however, seem to be much better looking and a whole lot friendlier (Twilight, Teen Wolf). What has this done to the meaning of monsters? Do they still teach us something? If monsters are going to be friendlier then what "should" we be scared of/ what is taking the place of traditional monster?
Ehh... I don't think you should quite judge the monsters in Twilight and Teen Wolf as their own original "monsters". They already have creative bases in vampires and werewolves/lycanthropes respectively, both respectable and influential monsters. Lycanthropes were popular as far back as Grecian days, so there's not too much in terms of originality there. However, a look at real contemporary monsters and what criteria encapsulates the essence of such a creature would be interesting. What human aspect does the monster reflect? What fear or worry does the monster embody? How are representations in media representative of these claims? Things like that would be interesting. A study into why Edward Cullen sparkles? Not so much. – Austin 7 years ago
Modern monster? Dexter. – Jeffrey MacCormack 7 years ago
I second Jeffrey MacCormack's comment. Our modern-day conception of "monster" has transformed from external, physical grotesqueness to a sense of internal othering. I would say this is true in both literature and TV (i.e. Dexter, Breaking Bad). The meaning of what constitutes a monster has become the trope of "the monster within," and I think this is certainly stirring and fascinating. I wonder what the specific angle would be that someone could take on this topic. – Rachel Watson 7 years ago
E.L. James V.S Marquis De Sade: Who did it better?
Both the Marquis De Sade and E.L. James have garnered attention for their explicit sexualized literature. The Marquis crafting perverse pieces in the late 18th century and James writing hers in the 21st. Each of these authors claiming the reason behind their writing is liberation; the Marquis for liberation from an oppressive regime and James liberation from oppressive masculine hegemony. But who did it better? This is not an uncritical question of who had the more titillating stories, but who used their literature to best define sexual politics in their time. Is one more eloquent than the other? Do they share a common ground of exploration? Does the sublime play a role in both of their writings? These questions not only point to the changing relationship society has with sexuality but also how sexual politics continues to be a major source of debate.
Having read portions of both authors work, I'm not sure if this topic has much to go with except for the fact sex and bondage show up with more frequency then they do in say The Old Man and the Sea. De Sade would be as offensive today, and perhaps even more so, then he was in his day. (I thought about including an example, but if you want to know just google "De Sade Juliette", which is not even his most "ambitious" work) James on the other hand, is perverse to people who've never seen an R rated movie and is probably offensive to people who've actually had sex. James seems to have a lot of fondness for the themes of female purity civilizing the Byronic man, sacrificing one's self for love, and pursuing monogamous, heterosexual marriage as telos. For a series of books that's all about taking a turn into the sexual wild side, it's pretty vanilla in its moral sensibilities. If De Sade had to read the Shades trilogy, he'd think it was the dumbest dumb thing in the history of dumb things. He'd then probably write some angry fanfiction where James is subject to the kind of experiences De Sade typically makes his female characters endure, all the while having a stand-in for himself calling her stupid from the side lines. (De Sade would probably cast himself as some kind of heckler who James, in her delusion, believes to be her inner Goddess/Sadist) Quite honestly, each author's body of work is tough to "swallow", but for different, unpleasant reasons. James is in terrible need of an editor and De Sade follows the literary conventions of the 18th century, which doesn't always sing to contemporary ears. Before we even talk about the content in their works, just arguing for which is the more eloquent writer is like saying whether a pigeon or pterodactyl would do better swimming across the English channel. It's amusing to think about, but dreary to pursue. – rj2n 7 years ago
What a thorough and well researched article. You presented this amazingly! it makes me want to protest the take-down/changes that have occurred.
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I think that horror has to operate on some degree of stereotyping, it is essentially built in to the fabric of the gothic. It is always interesting to see how far creators/writers take the stereotypes and how well they handle them. I agree that Scream Queens uses these old stereotypes but they are at least attempting to modernize them and bring in issues that are relevant. Nice article.
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The Tashkent tramway network () formed part of the public transport system in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan.

History
The network opened with horsecars in 1901. Since 1912 the system was converted to electric tramway. As of its closing in 2016, the network consisted of six lines of  of route, a decline from the tram system's maximum of 24 lines.

Tashkent Mayor Rakhmonbek Usmonov announced on March 29, 2016, that the network would close by year's end in order to make way for more cars and thus aid in reducing congestions within the capital. City-owned operating company Tashgorpastrans also plans to sell the 30  KTM-19 and 20 Vario LF trams, which it acquired in 2007 and 2011, respectively. The system was closed on May 2, 2016.

The plans are to restore the tram system by 2024. This will be done by the French company Alstom.

See also

 Tashkent Metro
 List of town tramway systems in Asia
 Trolleybuses in Tashkent

References

External links

Tashkent Trams
Transport in Tashkent
Metre gauge railways in Uzbekistan
Tashkent

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class Inventory extends CI_Controller {

	public function index()
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		$this->load->view("assets/style");
		$this->load->view("assets/script");
		$this->load->view("assets/nav");

		$this->load->model("hpp");
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		$keyword = $this->input->get("keyword");

		$data['delivery'] = json_encode($this->hpp->inventory_list($keyword),true);

		$this->load->view("inventory/page", $data);

		$this->load->view("assets/footer");
	}

	public function upload()
	{
		$batch = $this->input->post("batch");
		$drno = $this->input->post("drno");
		$datedelivered = $this->input->post("delivery");

		$insert_data=false;
		$insert_count=0;
		$insert_array=[];
		$file = $_FILES['list']['tmp_name'];
		$handle = fopen($file, "r");
		$row = 0;
		while(($filesop = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== false)
		{
			if($row == 0){
				$row++; continue;
			}
			$num = count($filesop);

			$brandcode = $filesop[0];
			$devicetype = $filesop[1];
			$rank = $filesop[2];
			$imei = $filesop[3];
			$model = $filesop[4];

			$row = 1;
			$this->load->model("hpp");
			$this->hpp->inventory_add($brandcode, $devicetype, $rank, $imei, $model, $drno, $datedelivered, $batch);
			$insert_count++;
		}

		$tmp_name = $_FILES['drattach']["tmp_name"];
		$fileName = $_FILES['drattach']["name"];
		$ext = pathinfo($fileName, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
		$newname = $this->input->post("drno").".".$ext;

		move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, "./assets/DRs/$newname");

		redirect(base_url('inventory') . '?success=' . $insert_count);

	}

	public function view()
	{
		$this->load->view("assets/header");
		$this->load->view("assets/style");
		$this->load->view("assets/script");
		$this->load->view("assets/nav");

		$this->load->model("hpp");
		$imei = $this->uri->segment(3);

		$data['details'] = json_encode($this->hpp->inventory_list($imei),true);
		$data['imei'] = $imei;

		foreach($this->hpp->inventory_list($imei) as $value) {
			$data['brand'] = $value->BrandName;
			$data['model'] = $value->Model;
			$data['drno'] = $value->DRNo;
		}

		$data['trail'] = json_encode($this->hpp->device_trail($imei),true);

		$this->load->view("inventory/view", $data);

		$this->load->view("assets/footer");
	}

	public function get_list_perrank()
	{
		$rankcode = $this->input->get("rankcode");
		$keyword = $this->input->get("keyword");
		$this->load->model("hpp");
		echo json_encode($this->hpp->get_list_perrank($rankcode, $keyword),true);
	}
}

?>

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To be fastened by seat belts it is necessary before each trip.
Пристегивание: during the moment пристегивания the belt lock should be locked with heard click.
Отстегивание: press the red button and, holding a belt tape, direct it to involving device.
On the growth you can make belt adjustment by adjustment of the top point of its fastening.
For this purpose displace the button downwards or upwards.
The lock with an inscription "CENTER" is intended only for a belt of the passenger sitting in the middle on a back seat.
For the sake of your safety observe resulted below instructions on using a belt, differently it cannot execute the protective function completely. Do not forget to inform all your companions on necessity of observance of instructions for use seat belts.
By one seat belt only one person always should be fastened. During movement of the car of chest and juvenile children it is impossible to hold in a lap at adult passengers. The belt tape should be hardly tense and without перекручивания to adjoin to a breast and a belt, and under it in clothes pockets there should not be firm or fragile subjects. The belt should not cover a neck. Its jamming or a friction about keen edges is inadmissible.
The belt should adjoin densely whenever possible to a body, therefore the clothes should not be muffling up. Tighten a belt in the field of a shoulder is more often. Otherwise at head-on collisions leaky adjoining zone belt can slide off on hips upwards and injure the bottom part of a stomach. Because of the increased backlash between a belt and a body the keeping effect of a belt is realised with delay.
By seat belts pregnant women always should be fastened, watching thus, in particular, behind that the zone strap covered hips from below and did not press on a stomach.
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Small children till 18 months can be carried in the cradles established on a back seat against a course of movement and fixed by serial seat belts.
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Is inadmissible to establish systems of safe transportation of children on a forward passenger seat, differently at operation of an inflatable pillow of safety reception of traumas is possible.
Is inadmissible to make changes to a design of systems of transportation of children, differently they cannot execute the protective function completely.
These two children's seats built in on extreme places of a back seat and corresponding to requirements, developed on the basis of the instruction of the Economic commission of the United Nations for Europe at number R-44, intend for children from 3.5 till 12 years (from 15 to 36 kg).
For children from 18 months till 3.5 years (from 9 to 18 kg) these seats should be used in a combination to a special back and травмозащитным a table which can be got on HUNDRED BMW.
Undertake a forward part of a back seat and pull it upwards and hardly back, as shown an arrow. Then press on a seat back to it защелкивания.
Undertaken a loop, pull forward and downwards, as shown an arrow. Then press on a seat from above to защелкивания.
The built in children's seats should be used only at presence in the car of headrests.
At adjustment of forward seats watch that feet of children have not appeared clamped.
Never leave children in the car without supervision even if they sit on children's seats.
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At damage of belts or after failure address on HUNDRED BMW for replacement of the built in children's seat and - if necessary - other accessories.
Shift downwards the clamp located on a back door. Now this door cannot be opened from salon.
1 Forward inflatable pillows of safety for the driver and the passenger.
2 Top inflatable pillows of safety for head protection (over forward seats).
3 Lateral pillows of safety (on lobbies and задних* places).
Inertial gauges constantly supervise forces of acceleration operating on the car. If as a result of collision on the driver and the passenger such force of acceleration at which one only seat belts cannot provide sufficient protection any more in parallel with each other work газогенераторы inflatable pillows of safety for the driver and the forward passenger operates. However НПБ for the forward passenger it is put in action only in the event that the gauge established in a seat, distinguishes that on it really someone sits.
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НПБ which are located under appropriate amount the designated safety facings, are developed, for some milliseconds being filled with gas. Thus they break off or squeeze out safety facing in in advance certain places.
Fast deployment which is necessary for normal functioning НПБ, is accompanied запальным by a clap and noise from надувания which, however, against failure simply are not perceived. The gas necessary for надувания НПБ, does not represent any danger and after a while disappears together with the formed smoke.
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Lobbies НПБ protect the driver and the forward passenger at a head-on collision when protective action of one only seat belts appears insufficient. Top and lateral НПБ provide protection at lateral collisions. Lateral НПБ protect corresponding lateral parts of a thorax.
The lamp signals about readiness of system NPB for work already after ignition key turn in position 1.
Control lamp, having lighted up for a short while, dies away and again lights up.
In case of malfunction of system there is a danger of that at collision it will not work, even if failure will appear enough heavy.
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Settle down on a seat as to you it is more convenient, but thus as it is possible further from a steering wheel, the forward panel or a door.
Steering wheel always hold for a rim. In case of operation НПБ non-observance of this rule can lead to traumas of brushes or forearms.
Between a pillow of safety and the person protected by it there should not be extraneous subjects. Facing НПБ for the forward passenger cannot be used in quality of a shelf for things.
Safety facing of a steering wheel, the forward panel and lateral upholstery of forward and back doors, and also it is impossible to paste over, fit racks of a cover and edge of facing of a ceiling anything or somehow to alter.
Is inadmissible to strengthen systems of safe transportation of children on a forward passenger seat. Transportation of children is younger than 12 years and growth less than 150 sm are authorised only on a back seat.
At a car complete set lateral НПБ in a back part of salon watch that the children's seat was established correctly and on the maximum distance from a door. Do not allow children to deviate from a seat aside НПБ as in case of pillow operation serious traumas are possible.
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Columbia police close case of sexual assault claims made by MU swimmer
By rokur March 19, 2015 No Comments2 Mins Read
The Columbia Police Department has closed its investigation into sexual assault allegations made by deceased University of Missouri swimmer Sasha Menu Courey.
Menu Courey committed suicide in June 2011, after which ESPN discovered that she alleged to have been raped by Mizzou football players. ESPN's "Outside the Lines" first reported the allegation in January 2014 as part of a story on sexual assaults on college campuses. Menu Courey, 20 at the time of her death, had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
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Uplands and lowlands are the main types of landscapes that can be distinguished in Belarus.
Belarusian uplands were created during the Ice Age.
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The first member of the Fence collective to hail from Fife, Yorkston found his feet supporting luminaries like John Martyn and Bert Jansch. Hailed as 'the finest songwriter of his generation' by the late, great John Peel, he's now ten years into his career, and has released a string of acclaimed full-lengths.
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We'll be delivering the work to Blairmore Gallery on Saturday morning and so this week is one of getting everything ready and packed.
I had the final couple of paintings back from the framer last week and have had all the work spread around in the studio. There's not a large space to exhibit at Blairmore Gallery and in the past I've usually selected a maximum of 20 pieces. This year, after much consideration and many changes of mind, I've decided to take 17 pieces, (15 paintings and 2 drawings). I had hoped to take one of the new large graphite drawings but at 56 inches long, I reckon this would be just too big for the space. Instead, (for the one large piece) I'll be taking one of my 80 x 80 cm paintings instead.
It's always difficult selecting which pieces to include, but now that I've made my final choice I'm quite pleased with how it should look. Here then are six of the paintings to be included in the exhibition.


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Florence 1 schools to be virtual Friday ahead of possible winter weather
Mayo High School alum to celebrate 101st birthday on Saturday
by: Lacey Lee
Posted: Dec 9, 2021 / 07:38 PM EST / Updated: Dec 11, 2021 / 09:27 AM EST
DARLINGTON, S.C. (WBTW) — Ethel Bramhan of Darlington will be 101 years old on Saturday.
She spoke with News13's Lacey Lee Thursday about her life, her love for God, family and making cakes, just to name a few things that she holds dear to her heart.
"Woo, I'm wonderful," Bramhan said. "When I was coming up you know, they said, 'child you're going to live a long life.' "
During her 100 years of life, Bramhan gave birth to nine kids, and she now has 45 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great grandkids.
"When she had us coming up she had us stand by her when she was cooking," Ethe's daughter, Fran Goodson, said. "She did so much stuff. She preserved. We watched the preserving. We used to go out in the woods and pick blueberries, blackberries. She canned a lot. She taught us how to survive."
Bramhan recalls after she graduated from Mayo High School in Darlington back in the late 1930's – which was the first of 3 African-American public high schools in SC to be accredited by the State Dept. of Ed during the early 1920s. Her daughter said she's the school's oldest living alumni. Bramhan says she moved up north after graduating to provide for the ones she loved the most.
"When I left here, when I went to New York that's where I lived the most of my life in Brooklyn, New York," Bramhan said. "That's where my money came. I worked came back home to Darlington for my mother. I had to do what I had to do because they always told me that I'm going to live a long life when I was coming up."
Bramhan also had her own catering business in Darlington and worked at The Lunch Box on Pearl Street.
by Kaitlyn Luna / Jan 19, 2022
FLORENCE COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) -- Florence 1 Schools will have a district-wide virtual learning day on Friday ahead of the predicted winter weather.
Friday's weather prediction includes icy weather and hazardous road conditions, and as a result, all students will be completing assignments from home.


Spokane, Wash. – A former NAACP leader in Washington state whose life unraveled after she was exposed as a white woman pretending to be black pleaded not guilty to welfare fraud on Wednesday.
Nkechi Diallo, formerly known as Rachel Dolezal, made a brief appearance in Spokane County Superior Court.
State charges of welfare fraud and false verification for public assistance are related to income she received from a book and other sources while also receiving welfare benefits, prosecutors said.
Superior Court Judge James Triplet ordered that she remain free on her own recognizance and set her trial date for Sept. 10.
Diallo did not talk to reporters after the brief hearing. Her lawyers also declined comment.
She resigned as head of Spokane's NAACP chapter in 2015 when it was revealed she was born to white parents and raised in rural Montana.
The welfare fraud case started in March 2017 when a state investigator received information that Diallo had written a book. The investigator reviewed Diallo's records and found that she had been reporting her income as usually less than $500 per month, court documents said.
But a subpoena of her bank statements and other records showed Diallo had deposited nearly $84,000 into her account from 2015-17, without reporting most of it to the state Department of Social and Health Services.
The money came from her memoir, "In Full Color," speaking engagements, soap making, doll making and the sale of her art, according to the case file.
The charges accuse her of improperly receiving about $8,800 in public assistance.
She has said previously that she grew up near Troy, Montana, and began to change her perspective as a teenager, after her religious parents adopted four black children. She decided some years later that she would publicly identify as black.
The ruse worked until 2015, when her parents, with whom she has long feuded, told reporters that their daughter was white but was presenting herself as a black activist.
The story created an international uproar. She left her position at the Spokane NAACP and was kicked off a police oversight commission. She also lost a position as a freelance columnist for a weekly newspaper in Spokane and lost her job teaching African studies at nearby Eastern Washington University.


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EAPII interacts with ETS1 and modulates its transcriptional function
Huiping Pei, John S. Yordy, Qixin Leng, Qinghua Zhao, Dennis K. Watson, Runzhao Li
Ets proteins constitute a family of conserved sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins and function as transcription factors. ETS1 plays important roles in differentiation, lymphoid cell development, invasiveness and angiogenesis. Such diverse roles of ETS1 are likely to be dependent on its associated proteins. A yeast two-hybrid screen was conducted and here we describe a novel ETS1 interacting protein designated as ETS1-associated protein II (EAPII). EAPII protein interacts with ETS1 and other Ets proteins (ETS2 and FLI1) both in vitro and in vivo. Indirect immunofluorescence demonstrated that EAPII is predominately localized to the nucleus of mammalian cells. EAPII negatively modulates ETS1 transcriptional activity and attenuates synergistic transactivation by ETS1 and AP-1. Significantly, re-expression of EAPII inhibits the migration of epithelial cancer cells, but does not affect cell viability. Therefore, EAPII is a novel ETS1 modulator that regulates specific aspects of the ETS1 functions.
EAPII
Transcriptional control
10.1038/sj.onc.1206374
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Proteins Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Conserved Sequence Medicine & Life Sciences 30%
DNA-Binding Proteins Medicine & Life Sciences 27%
Transcription Factor AP-1 Medicine & Life Sciences 27%
Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Technique Medicine & Life Sciences 26%
Cell Nucleus Medicine & Life Sciences 25%
Transcriptional Activation Medicine & Life Sciences 22%
Yeasts Medicine & Life Sciences 19%
Pei, H., Yordy, J. S., Leng, Q., Zhao, Q., Watson, D. K., & Li, R. (2003). EAPII interacts with ETS1 and modulates its transcriptional function. Oncogene, 22(18), 2699-2709. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1206374
EAPII interacts with ETS1 and modulates its transcriptional function. / Pei, Huiping; Yordy, John S.; Leng, Qixin et al.
In: Oncogene, Vol. 22, No. 18, 08.05.2003, p. 2699-2709.
Pei, H, Yordy, JS, Leng, Q, Zhao, Q, Watson, DK & Li, R 2003, 'EAPII interacts with ETS1 and modulates its transcriptional function', Oncogene, vol. 22, no. 18, pp. 2699-2709. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1206374
Pei H, Yordy JS, Leng Q, Zhao Q, Watson DK, Li R. EAPII interacts with ETS1 and modulates its transcriptional function. Oncogene. 2003 May 8;22(18):2699-2709. doi: 10.1038/sj.onc.1206374
Pei, Huiping ; Yordy, John S. ; Leng, Qixin et al. / EAPII interacts with ETS1 and modulates its transcriptional function. In: Oncogene. 2003 ; Vol. 22, No. 18. pp. 2699-2709.
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