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Do China's bloggers threaten or bolster Communist rule?
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Mark MacKinnonSenior International Correspondent
Published September 8, 2012 Updated September 8, 2012
It was just after dawn on Aug. 24 when the city of Harbin, in northeast China, awoke to a thunderous crash.
There was nothing on local radio stations to explain what had happened, nor, initially, on the official Xinhua newswire. Local officials were still deciding how they would explain the partial collapse of the city's new bridge, a $300-million span that had opened with great fanfare just nine months earlier.
But while they dithered, China's real source for breaking news – the social-networking site known as Sina Weibo – was alive with reports from Harbin residents who were on the scene and telling others what they could see, and speculating about why another newly built piece of infrastructure had crumbled.
"The ramp of the Yangmingtan Bridge collapsed, with four trucks dropping into the river. Unclear how many victims [it was later confirmed that three people had died and five were injured]. They were trapped by shoddy construction," wrote one of the first Harbin residents to report, posting under an alias. Others quickly noted that it was the seventh piece of sidewalk or road to collapse in Harbin in just nine days.
In their hundreds, the denizens of Weibo began adding more to the online public record, including photographs and shaky mobile phone videos that showed how a piece of the bridge's on-ramp slid clean off its supports and sent the trucks tumbling onto the road 30 metres below.
By the time Huang Yusheng, secretary-general of the municipal government, made his first statement to Xinhua just before 11 a.m. – he tried to blame overloaded trucks for the disaster – he already had been judged in the court of Weibo.
"It's not because of overloading. You should blame the Earth for its gravity instead," one user snarled back.
"In this country, the completion of an infrastructure project lays the groundwork for the beginning of an anti-corruption project," social critic Li Chengpeng wrote on his Weibo account, which has six million readers. Mr. Li's comment was forwarded more than 66,000 times.
Welcome to Sina Weibo, a giant speakers corner frequented by about 300 million Chinese, making it the largest national public square in history.
It's fast, it's rude and, even though it just turned three years old, it's a 24-hour-a-day nightmare for government officials across China, who for decades have kept tight control on information. Many have never before been questioned, let alone ridiculed, in public.
The public backlash after the Harbin bridge collapse was just the latest example of how people have used Weibo (pronounced "way-bwah") to break news, expose corruption and challenge a power structure that has little experience in dealing with public opinion. For the first time, many Chinese can choose which news they want to read and to believe, and let others know what they think about it.
"There was already a growing credibility crisis [in China]. People just don't believe what the government is telling them. Weibo has drastically exacerbated that," says Bill Bishop, the Beijing-based author of Sinocism China, a daily email roundup of news and Internet trends.
Weibo's defining moment came last July when a pair of high-speed trains collided near the coastal city of Wenzhou, killing 40 people. Users trapped on the trains were the first to report the accident, and to call for blood donations to help the injured.
The subsequent online outrage forced the government – after local officials initially tried to cover up the disaster by literally burying one of the train cars – to launch an investigation that eventually laid blame on faulty equipment and a culture of corruption in the Railway Ministry.
Of course, much of the chatter on Weibo – as on Facebook or Twitter– is devoted to celebrities, gossip and sometimes inane updates about people's day-to-day existences. But it can also be credited with creating the first genuine public debates about previously off-limits topics such as the atrociously polluted air in Chinese cities, the privileges enjoyed by the Communist Party elites, and the country's hated one-child policy.
"If the Internet has developed into something approximating a public space in China, Weibo is the white-hot centre of that," says Kaiser Kuo, a blogger who is also the spokesman for Baidu, China's largest search-engine company. "It dictates the national conversation much of the time."
Weibo (the word means "microblog") was actually born out of the ruling Communist Party's desire to control social media. U.S.-based websites such as Facebook and Twitter were just making headway in China when they were blocked in 2009 by the so-called Great Firewall – the country's sophisticated Internet-filtering system – ahead of the 20th anniversary of the bloody confrontations at Tiananmen Square. Shortly afterward, fanfou.com, an upstart Chinese service modelled on Twitter, was forced to shut after it was used to spread information during deadly riots in the restive province of Xinjiang.
Sina was already one of the giants of China's increasingly unique Internet: It was a Yahoo-like portal that provided news, e-mail and a search engine to tens of millions of users. In August, 2009, barely a month after the violence in Xinjiang, Sina Weibo launched a service consciously modelled on Twitter, right down to the 140-character maximum (although you can say a lot more with 140 Chinese characters than with 140 Latin letters). There was a crucial difference: Sina was willing to co-operate with the government and to censor "sensitive" topics.
Internet experts say Sina and other Chinese Internet companies regularly get instructions from the State Council Information Office about which terms are currently considered taboo.
All Weibo posts are scanned automatically, and any containing the forbidden keywords are either deleted, or – if ambiguity is detected – marked for further scrutiny by a growing army of human censors. Among thousands of other topics, it is currently off-limits to write anything on Weibo that directly refers to the coming leadership transfer in China, which is expected to see current Vice-President Xi Jinping introduced as the head of a new Politburo this fall.
"Weibo was blessed by the government. It has never, therefore, been a threat to the regime, by definition," says Jing Zhao, a Beijing-based blogger and political activist who goes by the screen name Michael Anti. "Weibo can't unite people [against the central government] because of the keyword system."
But because much of the censorship is automated, space remains for clever users to get around the government's defences. For instance, the date of the Tiananmen Square crackdown – June 4, 1989 – has long been blocked on Weibo, leading to prolonged discussions of the importance of "May 35th." But the problem with writing in code is that only those who already understand the code can read it.
Mr. Anti and others say that rather than being threatened by Weibo, the central authorities have turned it into yet another tool of control. Local officials who ignore directives from Beijing – or who discredit it with corruption and mismanagement – can now be punished simply by allowing Weibo criticism to continue without the intervention of the censors (as in the bridge disaster).
When the police chief of the southwestern city of Chongqing fled into a U.S. consulate earlier this year and police vehicles surrounded the building, Weibo users were shocked that the photos and comments they posted about the standoff were not rapidly deleted. The reason soon became clear: Bo Xilai, the previously powerful and popular Communist Party boss of Chongqing, had fallen into disfavour in Beijing and was about to be purged.
So is Weibo a threat to Communist Party rule, or does it fact entrench it? The latter might be true in the short term. Replacing Facebook and Twitter with a medium they can control means that China's rulers are unlikely to face the rapidly spreading unrest that has marked the Arab Spring.
In fact, a 2011 effort to organize a Tunisia-inspired "Jasmine Revolution" on the streets of Beijing quickly fizzled. Few in China were ever aware of the call to mobilize, since it came via websites blocked by the Great Firewall, and all discussion on Sina Weibo was quickly shut down.
Score one for the censors, then. But in the longer term? Despite the filtering, Weibo is changing China. The conversation is often angry, and is increasingly leading people to take action at the local level. That must eventually lead people to question the broader system that allows corruption and injustice to thrive.
"Maybe this is working for the government, in that [China] is a big pressure cooker and this is a release valve," says Mr. Bishop, the Internet expert. "But, clearly, this has gotten much bigger than anybody expected."
The network's hottest moments
Wenzhou train disaster
Arguably Weibo's biggest moment to date. When two high-speed trains collided outside the city of Wenzhou on July 23, 2011, killing 40, Netizens on the trains were the first to report the crash and to call for blood donations. When the Railway Ministry tried to hide what had gone wrong – at one point burying one of the railway cars involved – millions of Weibo messages demanded that the car be dug up and an investigation be launched. A government panel ended up concluding that faulty equipment and corrupt officials shared the blame.Environmental protests
For weeks, Weibo users traded information about the health risks posed by living near a molybdenum copper plant like the one the local government planned to build in the city of Shifang, Sichuan. On July 1, thousands of residents took to the streets, shouting, "Kick out the copper factory!" After two days of intense confrontation – demonstrators smashed police cars, while police responded with truncheons and tear gas – the local government halted construction. The latest in a series of "not-in-my-backyard" protests organized via Weibo.
The photos were gruesome: 23-year-old Feng Jianmei lay exhausted on a hospital bed; beside her was the bloody body of her stillborn baby that doctors had forcibly aborted. Because Ms. Feng already had a six-year-old daughter, she was barred from having another by China's one-child policy. Seven months pregnant, she was abducted by family-planning officials in Shaanxi province and given an injection to induce labour. The photos that were uploaded by enraged relatives sparked outrage online – "seven-months pregnant forced abortion" became the most-searched term on Sina Weibo. "This is just the tip of the iceberg," one user wrote.
Dog-meat festival
For centuries, the city of Jinhua in coastal Zhejiang province held a "dog-meat festival" each October without incident. But last fall, Chinese animal-rights activists took to Sina Weibo with a jarring and simple campaign featuring photographs of dogs being caged, skinned, cooked and eaten. "This is not a festival, this is a massacre! Call on China to pass animal protection laws!" read the accompanying petition. It was quickly forwarded hundreds of thousands of times, and Jinhua officials decided to cancel the festival.
Official orgy
Being the local Communist Party boss in rural China used to mean you could misbehave with impunity. No longer. The party secretary in Lujiang, Anhui province, and the deputy party secretary of a Communist Youth League chapter discovered that Weibo really is everywhere in China after they were identified online as participants in orgy photographs that someone uploaded earlier this month, under the cheeky caption, "Comrades in Charge." The younger comrade took the fall, admitting that he and his wife were two of the six swingers involved, while claiming the others were "strangers," not the top party officials they resemble.
The 'coup'
If the response to the Wenzhou train disaster was Weibo at its finest moment, the worst was seen in March when some users began posting that they had seen military activity – and even heard shots fired – near Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party's leadership compound in the centre of Beijing. Coming amid the spectacular political defenestration of one-time party star Bo Xilai, Weibo lit up with rumours of an alleged coup d'état. There was no coup, and the online hysteria led to the introduction of a new system that can see Weibo users punished for perceived misconduct.
With research by Yu Mei in The Globe's Beijing bureau.
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Eight children, journalist among yesterday's Gaza dead
Palestinian Center for Human Rights 17 April 2008
A wounded Palestinian is evacuated after an Israeli artillery strike hit the place in southeast Gaza City, 16 April 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
In the past 24 hours, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated attacks against the Gaza Strip, while they maintained the tightened siege imposed on Strip. On Wednesday evening, 16 April 2008, and in less than half an hour, IOF killed 13 Palestinian civilians, including a journalist, eight children and two brothers, and wounded 32 others, including 17 children and a woman, in Juhor al-Dik village in the central Gaza Strip. They also razed large areas of agricultural land and demolished a number of houses during an incursion into the village. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights's (PCHR) investigations strongly indicate that IOF used excessive force and willfully targeted journalists in spite of the clear markings on their suits and vehicles.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 04:00, IOF moved nearly 1,200 meters into Juhor al-Dik village in the central Gaza Strip. They raided and searched a number of houses and started to raze areas of agricultural land. At approximately 7:00am, IOF fired a tank shell at a house belonging to Salem 'Ali Abu Sa'id, 73. Abu Sa'id and his daughter-in-law, 36-year-old Hala 'Atiya, were wounded by shrapnel to their shoulders. Medical sources described Abu Sa'id's wounds as serious. At approximately 4:30pm, an IOF aircraft that provided air cover for the incursion fired two missiles at a number of Palestinian civilians who gathered near al-Ihsan Mosque, nearly 300 meters away from the area in which IOF troops were deployed. As a result, nine Palestinian civilians, including six children and two brothers were killed, and 18 others, including 12 children, were wounded. The civilians who were killed were identified as:
Mahmoud Ahmed Mohammed, 45;
Sofian Ahmed Mohammed, 41;
'Abdullah Maher Abu Khalil, 15;
Tariq Fareed Abu Taqiya, 16;
Islam Hussam al-'Eissawi, 16;
Talha Hani Abu 'Ali, 13;
Bayan Sameer al-Khaldi, 17;
Mohammed Mohammed al-'Assar, 17; and
Fadi Jamal Musran, 20.
Fadel Shana'a, 23, a cameraman of Reuters, accompanied by Wafa Abu Mezyed, 25, a soundman, arrived at the area to photograph the children who were killed by Israeli missiles. When they finished photographing, they got in a Reuters vehicle, which was clearly marked with the press badge. They then traveled back to continue their work in the area. They stopped hundreds of meters away from the area where IOF troops were deployed. They got out of the vehicle and a number of children gathered around them. Soon after, IOF fired a tank shell at them. Shana'a was instantly killed and Abu Mezyed was wounded. Abu Mezyed was able to flee from the area. IOF soon fired another shell that hit the back of the vehicle and heavily damaged it. Three civilians, including two children, were also killed by the attack, and 12 others, including five children, were wounded. The civilians who were killed were identified as:
Ahmed 'Aaref Farajallah, 14;
Ghassan Khaled Abu 'Otaiwi, 17; and
Khalil Isma'il Dughmosh, 22.
At approximately 9:30pm, IOF troops redeployed outside the village after razing at least 200 donums of agricultural land and demolishing six houses.
PCHR strongly condemns and expressed utmost concern over these crimes, and:
1) Asserts that these latest crimes are part of a series of continuous crimes committed by IOF in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) with total disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians.
2) Warns of further escalation in attacks against Palestinian civilians in light of statements and threats by Israeli political and military officials, which may cause more civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip.
3) Expresses utmost concern over continued crimes committed by IOF against journalists and media professionals, and stresses that such crimes aim at silencing the press and prevent journalists from covering crimes committed by IOF against civilians.
4) Calls upon the international community to immediately intervene to stop such crimes, and calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Convention, Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, to fulfill their obligation under Article 1 of the Convention to ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances, and their obligation under Article 146 to search for and prosecute those who are responsible for perpetrating grave breaches of the Convention. Such breaches constitute war crimes according to Article 147 of the Convention and the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I).
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
BY TOPIC: Israel declares Gaza "enemy entity" (19 September 2007)

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                annotation.subtitle = "\(city) \(state)"
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            userMap.addAnnotation(annotation)
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            let smallSquare = CGSize(width: 30, height: 30)
            let button = UIButton(frame: CGRect(origin: CGPoint.zero, size: smallSquare))
            button.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(named: "briefcase"), for: .normal)
            button.addTarget(self, action: Selector(("getDirections")), for: .touchUpInside)
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A: You need to make the request with the MKLocalSearchRequest object you made:
let search = MKLocalSearch(request: request)
search.start { (resp: MKLocalSearchResponse?, e: Error?) in
    if let resp = resp {
        // Update your map in here
    }
}

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Christine Mary Crawley, Baroness Crawley FRSA (* 9. Januar 1950) ist eine britische Politikerin der Labour Party und Life Peer.

Biografie
Crawley ging auf die Notre Dame Roman Catholic Girls' School in Birmingham und studierte anschließend am Digby Stuart College auf Lehramt. Nach ihrem Examen unterrichtete sie Kinder im Alter von 9 bis 15 Jahren und betreute auch ein Jugendtheater. Als sie Unterstützung für das Theaterprojekt suchte, kam sie in Kontakt mit Lokalpolitikern; sie begann, sich in der Politik zu engagieren, und wurde Mitglied der Labour Party. Schon kurz nach ihrem Eintritt wurde sie Vorsitzende des Ortsvereins und war verantwortlich für die Frauengruppe des Ortsvereins. Sie wurde zum District Councillor in South Oxfordshire gewählt, zu einer Zeit, als die Labour Party eine Minderheitsparty im Bezirk war.

1983 kandidierte sie für einen Sitz im Unterhaus, erreichte aber nicht die Mehrheit. Sie war ein weiteres Jahr in der Lokalpolitik tätig und kandidierte dann erfolgreich für einen Sitz im Europäischen Parlament für den Wahlkreis Birmingham East. Sie saß von 1984 bis 1999 im Europäischen Parlament. Sie war im Ausschuss für die Rechte der Frau und die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter.  Nach dem Ende ihrer Parlamentarierzeit im Europäischen Parlament saß sie im Regionalparlament der West Midlands Regional. 1998 wurde sie zur Baroness Crawley, of Edgbaston in the County of West Midlands, erhoben. Von 2002 bis 2008 war sie Whip ihrer Partei im House of Lords.

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Dartmoor Hay and Corn Ricks
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A vital part of any harvest on Dartmoor was storing the crop until it was needed for processing or feed and bedding. Due to the small size of many farmsteads it was not possible in the barns and linhays so the answer was to build 'ricks'. Numerous crops would be stored this way at various locations in and around the farm such as corn, hay, furze, faggots and even peas. When cut and dried the hay would be carted back and 'ricked' and in the case of corn it would be made into field stooks or sheaves (see below) to dry and then made into in ricks which were located in the rickyard, known locally as the "Mowhay" or in the fields. In some cases the rick would be built on purpose-built rickstands such as the two granite ones still visible at Bullaton farm (see below). Some other ricks would simply be built on level ground, either in the field or in the rickyard at the farm. On Dartmoor such ricks may have stood on a platform of furze, gorse or faggots which was in plentiful supply. The idea of the rickstands was to allow the air to circulate which helped prevent the crop from getting damp and to prevent vermin from entering. Very occasionally some farmers would use mushroom shaped staddle stones which again helped air the crop and by its shape help stop vermin from getting into the crop. On Dartmoor there are still examples of rectangular, upright granite blocks which served similar purposes. Once the rick had been constructed it was then thatched with straw or reed and in later years corrugated iron sheets. If you look at any old farm sales notices many will state that there are various ricks up for auction (as can be seen below). If the farm was not purchased 'lock, stock and barrel' then it was the purchasers responsibility to remove them which could be a problem. It was not unusual to see court cases where the vendor or new owner/tenant was suing the purchaser for not removing ricks after the sale. Unfortunately, once built the ricks were subject to several problems and perils which could result in the loss of the harvest.
Rick Building.
For obvious reasons every structure needs a roof to make it watertight and the same applied to corn and hay ricks. It became standard practice on most farms to thatch the ricks but even this was not straightforward. The original idea of using straw to thatch a rick came about because in the early days it was a cheap and of little value plus the fact other alternatives were not available. But if there were no workers who knew how to thatch then this was an issue. In 1892 it was widely reported that there was a dire shortage of thatchers in Devon and in many cases despite the ricks being built it was several days before a thatcher could roof them. At the end of the First World War in 1918 many men who were able to thatch a rick were either in service, deceased or injured. To help overcome the shortage the Devon County Agricultural Committee were offering to pay any experienced thatchers to train boys of about 16 years of age £2 a month per pupil subject to the training being of the committee's satisfaction.
However, another solution was the use of corrugated iron 'slabs' were available. They were portable and re-usable and easy to erect, it also meant that there was no need for labourers to be able the thatch ricks which in some cases was a great advantage to the farmer. On the downside, unlike straw and reed they were not a cheap or free by product and had to be purchased. Around this time many agricultural societies were advocating the building of 'Dutch Barns'. These were strongly framed roofs covered with slate or tile and supported by sturdy wooden or granite posts and always oblong in shape. The main disadvantages of this type of structure was that they could never be completely filled due to settling. This meant there was a gap between the top of the crop and the roof which led to the layer nearest the top got spoiled and also dust could blow in and settle.
In the December of 1836 a mighty hurricane blasted across Devonshire and it was reported that; "hay ricks and corn ricks few about like feathers." This was by no means a singular event as over the coming years many more moorland ricks were destroyed by strong winds. Even if only the thatch was lost there was every chance that the underlying crop would be spoiled, especially if the storms were accompanied by heavy rainfall. In 1893 numerous corn and hay ricks were completely destroyed when a gale blasted over the Widecombe-in-the-Moor area. The another issue with wind where ricks were stacked close to each other was that if a fire ever broke out sparks could be blown from rick to rick thus causing even grater damaged if not extinguished in time.
Wet conditions were always a headache to the farmer where ricks were concerned from both the spoliation of damp grain and because damp hay and straw was liable to spontaneous combustion in a confined space. There could also be headaches if ricks that had already been constructed during very hot weather were then subjected to periods of heavy rain which again would cause these issues. In many cases it mean that the ricks had to be dismantled and the crops lost.
Lightening or as it was once referred to, "electric fluid" was another concern as will be seen later, could often ignite a corn or hay rick fire with very little warning.
Probably the biggest threat to a farmer's rick was that of fire either by an act of nature such as a lightening strike or by a deliberate act of arson. Should a fire ever break out then it could mean a huge loss both in economical and management terms as the crop could not be easily replaced. As the contents of a rick were a valuable commodity many farmers would insure the ricks with various insurance companies of the time. In 1895a rick was destroyed by fire at Eastwray near Lustleigh and this loss was covered by the West of England and Commercial Union. As can be seen below, at onetime some insurance companies issued metal plaques (see below) which would be mounted around the farm and even on the ricks.
In 1855 the secretary to the Devonshire County Fire Office suggested to "Forbid the use of Lucifers (matches), and the practice of smoking in or near rick yards. Ricks to be placed in a single line, and as far from one another as conveniently possible. Hay ricks and corn ricks to be placed alternatively. Rick-yards to be clear of all loose straw. A pond to be provided close to the rick-yard. The steam threshing machine to be always placed to leeward of the rick, and as far from it as may be; the loose straw to be removed continually from it and two or three pails full of water provided close to the ash pan which should always be full of water." In 1890 the Superintendent of the West of England's Insurance Company's Fire Service reported that in the Newton Abbot area from 1884 to 1889 there had been 45 fires in the neighbourhood, these included house thatch and rick fires all occurring six to eight miles from the town
In 1869 a corn rick and two hay ricks at Rushford Barton, Chagford, were found to be on fire. Mr. Nichols of Sandy Park saw a man at the ricks when they caught alight at 4.00 am. But he ran away and the police were in pursuit of him. There were always tramps and vagrants roaming Dartmoor and a hay or corn rick would provide a warm and comfortable shelter for the night. In 1890 William Towill appeared at Tavistock Magistrate Court charged with vagrancy. A police constable found him asleep under a corn rick with a pipe in his mouth which clearly was a fire hazard – sentenced to one month's hard labour. There were other instances of tramps etc lighting fires near ricks to cook their meals which again led to disastrous fires.
In 1928 fire broke out in two ricks of oats and a rick of barley were totally destroyed in a fire at Charford Farm near South Brent. At the time these crops were the harvest from fifteen acres and valued at £200. These ricks were situated in a roadside field which again highlighted another danger, being so accessible exposed them to arson or even a lighted cigarette being tossed over a hedge.
Other fire problems were caused both by vagrants, gypsies and other travellers whom often camped or slept near or in them. In the March of 1848 one William Smith, an 18 year old vagrant, appeared at the Lent Assizes was indicted with setting fire to a rick of barley at Soldridge Farm, Bovey Tracy. In a statement Smith stated that he came from Hertfordshire and had been traveling around the country for three years. On the occasion of the fire he had visited the farm begging for charity which was denied him. He the went into the field with the rick and dropped a match in it. Once the flames appeared he then agitated the flames until they completely took hold of the rick. Finally he added that; "I did it for envy, and because they would not give me anything." – found guilty and sentenced to 12 months' hard labour. In the October of 1906 there was a corn rick fire at Gatehouse Farm near Peter Tavy. There was no nearby water supply so there was no way of extinguishing the flames. Whilst burning the local P.C. noticed an indentation in the rick and returned the following day to investigate. He noticed a gap in the field hedge which suggested someone had entered the field. On searching through the rick's ashes he found fragments of human bones although no one in the locality had been reported missing. It was therefore assumed, although never proven, that a tramp had crawled into the rick for shelter and lit a cigarette thus catching the rick alight and died from either suffocation or severe burns.
Another fire hazard to ricks was surprisingly enough – children. There were several assize court cases around the Dartmoor area where young children, normally boys were charged with firing a rick by playing with matches (lucifers).
During the Second World War there was a danger of enemy bombs setting fire to corn ricks and crops. Although Dartmoor was at less risk than many areas it was not unknown for enemy aircraft to ditch their loads for one reason or another. Therefore, in 1941 the Ministry of Agriculture issued the following guide lines; "Ricks must not be too big. They must be well separated and not concentrated in stockyards. If on stubble they should be surrounded by a wide ploughed strip forming a firebreak… Water carts should be kept filled near ricks and crops. Firewatchers should be organised for day and night lookouts."
Vermin.
The biggest problem with any rick is that it provided a cosy winter shelter for rats and mice. It was not unknown for a large rick to house hundreds of them which was always a nightmare for the farmers. It was not unknown for moorland farmers to go to the ricks on moonlit nights armed with a long pole and a terrier. The pole would be thrust into the rick which caused the rodents to bolt out into the awaiting jaws of the dog. Some men made a living by dint of their rat-catcher dogs who would visit the ricks, eject the rats and mice from the stacks straight into the jaws of their eager canines. The was one famous dog who worked some of the moorland farms called Bob, his record for one day was 68 large rats and 320 mice. Ferrets were also used to great effect from eliminating vermin from corn ricks. In 1857 it was possible to purchase for around £3; "A set of cast-iron pillars are so formed that an animal ascending to the top finds himself completely at bay, being covered with an impenetrable dome. With these pillars a set of iron clips are supplied, by means of which a farmer may readily construct a stack frame from any waste timbers found on the farm."
Throughout the early 1900s there were growing concerns about the huge increase in the number of rat infestations. When living in ricks they not only destroyed valuable crops but almost travelled into nearby homes and gardens. As it was vital that farmers made their ricks rat proof, especially by means of thatching it was an offence. A number of farmers on the edge of the Moor found themselves in court charged by the local Food Controller under the 1914 Defence of the Realm Act with if found guilty hefty fines for each rick. Such was the extent of the infestations that Devon's Agricultural Committee were appointing rat catchers and distributing poison to local farmers via the local police. In 1919 a farmer near Newton Abbot had offered to supply three men and a boy to go around local farms administering the poison. The only condition was that the council paid their wages, six pounds a week, and provided the poison. It was also decided to divide the cdounty into blocks of 20,000 acres. Each area would have an official rat catcher and over the entire county 80 experienced men to assist them.
During any wartime the production of any food resources is vital and in 1941 the Ministry of Agriculture made an order requiring that; "any rick of corn before being threshed shall be surrounded by a fence of material that is impenetrable by rats. This fence must be placed at a distance of no less that 6ft from the rick, so that any rats escaping from the rick itself may be destroyed inside the fence. Where the foundation of the rick consists of faggots, brushwood, gorse or other material which is likely to afford cover or protection of rats, such material shall be broken up when the rick had been threshed, so as to dislodge any rats therein."
Although not classed as vermin poultry could also cause a great deal of damage to corn ricks. At Ashburton's Magistrates Court in 1842 a Mr. Bradridge became tenant of a Mr. Bickford's estate. At the time the tenancy was drawn up it was agreed that Mr. Bickford's poultry could run on certain fields "unmolested". It soon became apparent that the birds were causing a great deal of damage to Bradridge;'s corn ricks and so he wrote a letter of complaint which fell on deaf ears. As a result Bradridge shot three of the birds and as a result was summoned to the court – as a result he was found liable for the loss and fined 6s. for the value of the birds and 14s. expenses. It was the corn ricks located in the rickyards close to the farm that were often damaged by the domestic geese, ducks, and other fowl as these normally roamed the open farmyard
Another issue although not the vermin's actual fault on game estates was that of poachers. As game birds such as pheasant and partridges and rabbits often frequented corn ricks and they provided an ideal opportunity for poachers to set their snares and wire traps. Numerous men appeared at local magistrates' courts charged with "trespassing in the pursuit of game." As many of the magistrates were themselves owners of game estates the poachers rarely received any leniency.
Perils and Miscellanea.
Due to the height and weights involved with ricks there always were numerous risks to life and limb for those working on them, for instance, "Two large ricks of new hay on Down Estate, Ashburton, were late on Tuesday night discovered to be on fire, supposed to have been caused by being saved too quickly. James Bowden, a married man and father of several children, was engaged up to the middle of the day yesterday in putting out the smouldering ricks, when he fell of a hedge adjacent and broke his leg. Bowden was removed the Ashburton Cottage Hospital. As an aside on the same day on the same farm – "John Milton, a young man who assisted to put out the fire, afterwards going into the house of Mr. Pitts to supper, fell over some steps and broke his leg. He was removed to the Ashburton Cottage Hospital early yesterday morning." – The Exeter & Plymouth Gazette, August 27th, 1885.
A warning issued in 1872 advised that during a thunderstorm a corn or hay rick was not the best place to take shelter, it stated that "many" people had been killed whilst doing so. This was due to the fact that when dry a rick was a worse conductor than the human body. This meant that the 'electrical fluid' would pass through the rick to a human body and then into the ground with obvious consequences. Ricks that had been badly constructed also could be dangerous, especially when the corn was being taken out to thresh. There were some fatal cases when the entire rick collapsed on top of the workers and due to the weight they died before being extracted. Another common injury and in some cases death was falling from the rick whilst pitching sheaves from a waggon to the stack. When horse drawn waggons were used it was vital the horse remained still whilst unloading was taking place because should it suddenly moved it was possible for the pitcher to lose his balance and fall off. In 1906 a man was killed in such a manner at West Venn farm on the edge of Dartmoor whilst standing on top of high load of corn sheaves – his neck was broken in the fall.
Theft of unthreshed corn stolen from the ricks was another headache farmers had to contend with. In 1880 a hawker was apprehended at Ashburton for committing such a crime. He along with two others had parked their caravans near some ricks overnight. The next day the farmer discovered that one ricks had been pulled apart and a large quantity of wheat corn stolen. he followed a trail of corn to the camp and saw some horses eating it. He called the local P.C. but by the time they got to the camp the hawkers had gone. They were soon tracked down and on searching one of the caravans found the rest of the stolen corn. – found guilty and fined 2s.
In the November of 1881 a prisoner named Scott was working in an outdoor gang from Dartmoor prison during a thick fog. They were repairing a boundary wall near the gas works when he managed to escape through a door of an adjoining building. A search party of warders, police and locals was soon sent out but for most of the day could find no sign of him. However, late in the day a young boy saw a man hide himself in a hay rick at Blackdown. He immediately fetched the local P.C. from Mary Tavy who along with the lad went to the rick and apprehended the prisoner. On capture Scott remarked, "I did not expect to see you."
At many of the Devonshire ploughing matches and Agricultural Society shows there would always be rick thatching and spar making competitions which were always fiercely competitive events. If the winners were employees this also gave the respective farmers some degree of pride. If they were thatchers in their own right then this put them in high demand at harvest time. Quite often these skilled thatchers or rick builders would be asked to make miniature corn ricks to place in a church or chapel's as part of their harvest festivals. Although described as "miniature" in some cases they were quite large, there was one occasion where a rather short vicar was unable to see over the rick it was that large.
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Switching game of backward stochastic differential equations and associated system of obliquely reflected backward stochastic differential equations
A stochastic maximum principle with dissipativity conditions
November 2015, 35(11): 5467-5498. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.5467
A Dynkin game under Knightian uncertainty
Hyeng Keun Koo 1, , Shanjian Tang 2, and Zhou Yang 3,
Graduate Department of Financial Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon 443-749, South Korea
School of Mathematical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433
School of Mathematical Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Received November 2012 Revised October 2014 Published May 2015
We study a zero-sum Dynkin game under Knghtian uncertainty. The associated Hamiton-Jacobi-Bellman-Isaacs equation takes the form of a semi-linear backward stochastic partial differential variational inequality (SBSPDVI). We establish existence and uniqueness of a strong solution by using the Banach fixed point theorem and a comparison theorem. A solution to the SBSPDVI is used to construct a saddle point of the Dynkin game. In order to establish this verification we use the generalized Itó-Kunita-Wentzell formula developed by Yang and Tang (2013).
Keywords: Backward stochastic partial differential equation, variational inequality, Dynkin game, super-parabolicity..
Mathematics Subject Classification: 93E20, 93E03, 49L20, 60H15, 35R60, 34F0.
Citation: Hyeng Keun Koo, Shanjian Tang, Zhou Yang. A Dynkin game under Knightian uncertainty. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2015, 35 (11) : 5467-5498. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.5467
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Engage 08
By SAM LAW
Over the weekend I drifted up to Katoomba with about 2,500 other workers for the second annual Engage Conference; aimed specifically at Christian workers. It's a little different than other Katoomba Christian Convention (KCC) organised conventions, with a catch-phrase of 'late starts and coffee carts'. This year a couple of drawcard speakers were on board: Mark Driscoll and Don Carson, resulting in tickets being sold out within minutes. The talks were to address the question of "So, is this it??".
Driscoll was first off the ranks as Carson was still airborne on the friday night when things kicked off. Throughout the weekend Driscoll would speak on the gospel of John. Mark gave us some background on John; being one of Jesus' inner inner circle who shared in the most intimate moments of His life. He also mentioned that the gospel of John was the last one written, having 92% of it's content unique and targeted at the Greek people. The Friday night session covered most of John 1:1-18 and then 3:1-8 which addressed who Jesus was; the Word and the son of God, and why he came; as a missionary so that we may be born again or regenerated, making the differentiation between being religious & regenerated. This regeneration doctrine says that when one is born again the Holy Spirit takes up residence in a persons heart and changes them, giving them
a new Lord
A new mind
New desires
Driscoll's second talk was around John 4 which tells of Jesus encounter with a Samaritan woman at a well. Mark continued to speak of regenerative doctrine and expanded into worship, this is a way that God has Glory. He mentioned that readers should put themselves in the position of the sinner that encounters Jesus. I guess I've never really thought to do this explicitly. Mark gave the ultimatum of whether we worship creator or creation. His final point was to ask some questions for people to ponder:
What do you long for most?
Where do you run to for comfort?
What makes you angry with God?
What do you make sacrifices for?
Who's approval do you seek?
What makes you happiest?
The third Driscoll talk was to cover John 6 which tells of Jesus feeding of the five thousand, but he cut this very very short (3 minutes, if that??) to answer questions put forward by the audience by way of SMS to a mobile specifically setup to take them. Now whilst this hour of question time was useful, I would have preferred at least a half/half split due to the uniqueness of Johns' gospel would have liked to hear how this part was different from the other books. Someone pointed out that all of the questions did seem to ask about themselves and what they should do, which were contrary to what Mark had been speaking about in the previous talks. He also seemed to use them as a springboard into things that he wanted to talk about that were slightly related.
Carson was the speaker for Saturday evening after landing in Sydney sometime that afternoon. His talk was on Matthew 11, more specifically on Christian identity and how that is grounded in Jesus. Most of the content in the chapter is about John the Baptist: Jesus sending a message to him and then speaking to the people about him. The talk was broken down into a few sub-sections:
Portrait of a discouraged Baptist
John is discouraged because not only is he in prison, but he's heard of the deeds of Christ, which he's longed to see. He sends his disciples to ask of Jesus, who sends a rather cryptic reply in language very similar to that used in scripture: Isaiah 35: 5 & 6 and Isaiah 61. These two passages speak of the day of The Lord – when the messiah will come to restore things, however in the context of the scriptures there is also mention of massive judgement, which Jesus doesn't address in his message, rather he hints at the blessings that are starting to be fulfilled in himself
Portrait of a defended Baptist
John is defended by Jesus!! Jesus questions the crowd asking what they came out to see. If it was a shaken reed, representing something that was weak & limp, or a man in soft clothing, signifying a rich man; someone who would give hand-outs, or a prophet, which is what John is. He is the one that Malachi prophesied about, not unlike Elijah. He is the greatest because he introduces Jesus: Gods visitation to Earth.
Portrait of an eclipsed Baptist
John is indeed greater than those born of women because he points to Jesus with greater clarity, yet the least in the kingdom, i.e.; those living after Jesus death & resurrection are greater still then John. Yet those against the kingdom of Heaven have been forcefully advancing, trying to take it by force and exploit it. Jesus then goes on to explain how this generation didn't accept John & doesn't accept Jesus in the roles they played, drawing from the scriptures again to show fulfillment of them and to illustrate how John & Jesus' roles were different and both unaccepted.
Sunday morning Carson spoke first, running through Psalm 40 which was excellent. I have a real appreciation for Carson on Psalms after hearing him speak on Psalm 1 about 5 years ago. One pearl of wisdom he gave was that it was common that older Christians tended to read, enjoy and understand the Psalms as they'd had enough diverse experiences to understand this diverse collection of work, however if you are to read and study them at a younger age, they will help you through through those situations in life.
He went on to explain how Psalm 40 was the last in a triplet from 37; which talks about the Psalmist waiting on God, 38 & 39; the Psalmist going through a phase of self-examination, and then turning to joy in Psalm 40. The talk was particularly encouraging in how God looks after us in times of struggle, which were referred to as a miry bog. Carson said that were either removed from the bog or kept there as God heaps grace on us to help others in the same or similar situations.
The final Driscoll talk was from John 10, which is about Jesus the shepherd and sheep.
He spoke of how much of a sacrifice the shepherd makes for his flock in great detail, especially how horrible his crucifixion was, making quite a number of people around me cringe and weep, definitely putting things into perspective.
So there is a wrap up of the speakers… The social aspects of the weekend mainly frustrated me as the group I went with was particularly cliquey, as I guess most Christian groups tend towards, so I didn't have much of a chance to interact and converse with them. I did get a chance to catch a few friends from days gone by like Mark & Jess Bootes, Phil from ACC (Asian Church Carlingford) and Dave Irving. I also had an alright time on Saturday evening with the Guthries, Lawsons, Lovells, Russells, Tooses, Geoff, Tiff and Issac; watching the hopeless union match, drinking beer and discussing various aspects of Engage up to that point. I also found myself serving the cliquey group by cleaning the house and washing dishes by myself on the Sunday morning which seemed to fuel the weekends fire….
Overall a great weekend for Christian teaching which has set my mind racing over changes going on in my life and how to approach things, but a less than mediocre time for relationships which has also set in motion some steps to help me in that respect and possibly be less accommodating and polite.
I've also picked up a Mark Driscoll power pack of 7 books, so expect to be hearing about those sometime after I've waded through reading them.
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