The American Civil Liberties Union has joined with a journalist, a college professor and an activist to sue the Los Angeles Police Department over what they describe as a "systemic violation" of California's public records law.
The civil complaint documents nearly a dozen examples of such requests, including some that were allegedly made years ago and have yet to be answered.
"More and more, police departments throughout the United States acknowledge the value of transparency — to increase public trust, promote better law enforcement, and facilitate effective oversight," the lawsuit stated. "The LAPD's pattern and practice of violating the [state's records act] and ignoring requests for public information is not only unlawful, but also out of step."
The suit asks the court to compel the LAPD to follow the law and order the department to track — and report publicly — how it responds to public records inquiries for at least three years to ensure it continues to do so.
An LAPD spokesman said the department had no immediate comment Tuesday morning.
Adrienna Wong, an attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, said public records allow residents to evaluate how their law enforcement agencies are performing and look for ways to improve them, and can help improve community trust in police. Access to agency documents is particularly important during this era of increased scrutiny of law enforcement, she said.
"All of that information is really relevant to this public discussion and has real concrete impacts," she said.
Though commonly used by journalists and advocacy groups such as the ACLU, public information can be requested by anyone under the California Public Records Act.
Once an agency receives a request filed under the Public Records Act, it must respond within 10 days, saying whether it will provide that information. The law allows agencies to make some exceptions if there are "unusual circumstances," giving them an additional 14 days, at most, to respond.
If an agency determines the information can be released, the law requires it to provide an estimated date and time when that will happen. Once an agency decides records are public, the law states, it must release them "promptly."
The ACLU filed the lawsuit with three other people: Ali Winston, a journalist whose stories have been published by the Center for Investigative Reporting; Kelly Lytle Hernandez, a UCLA professor known for her work on race, policing and incarceration; and Shawn Nee, a community activist and photographer based in L.A.
The lawsuit cataloged records inquiries made by Winston, Hernandez or Nee that the LAPD failed to respond to by the 10-day or 24-day deadline. In some cases, the lawsuit states, the department never replied.
Such was the case in early 2014, the lawsuit said, when Winston requested records from the LAPD about facial recognition cameras as well as software the department used to target potential criminals. The department didn't respond to the requests within 10 days, the lawsuit said. Three years later, Winston alleged, it still hasn't.
Times reporters have also experienced lengthy delays after requesting records from the LAPD, including cases in which the department has not responded within the 10-day window.
Recently, the LAPD's Discovery Section — which handles such requests — has sent automatic replies that say the processing time for requests is six to eight weeks "due to limited staffing."
The ACLU filed its own inquiry in November, asking for information about the oldest records requests the LAPD had yet to fulfill and the department's policies for handling such requests. On the same day, the lawsuit stated, the LAPD responded via email, confirming only that it had received the inquiry.
As of Wednesday, the lawsuit said, the ACLU had heard nothing more.


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Orange Walk Town est une ville du nord du Belize, capitale du District d'Orange Walk.

Avec une population estimée à 18 000 habitants, c'est la deuxième ville du pays.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Johnny Briceño (1960-), homme politique bélizien.

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Ville au Belize

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Our weather policy is simple. Sunday worship will take place at the normal time for those who can safely travel.
Even during inclement weather or the threat of icy roads, church will always be open for Sunday worship.
Why? Because not everyone has the same travel conditions or family issues.
That means that you must carefully consider for yourself if it is safe for you to travel, and if you can't that's okay.
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Luc Besson's Valerian Comes to Games via Spil Games
by ComicMix Staff · October 15, 2016
Amsterdam – Europacorp, Luc Besson's film studio, has selected Spil Games to create the official mobile and web game for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the director's upcoming $180M sci-fi movie.
The film is in post-production and will be released globally in July next year. EuropaCorp has asked Spil Games to develop a strategy game in parallel with that process, ready for launch a few weeks before the film.
"Spil Games impressed us with their vision and understanding of the world of Valerian," said Valerian producer Virginie Besson-Silla. "We are very excited and feel they are the perfect partner to help us share Valerian with the gaming universe."
The quality and creativity of the game is vital for a Triple A Hollywood property like Valerian but the long-term partnership with EuropaCorp also relies on Spil Games' proven experience in creating and monetizing multi-million-dollar game franchises. The company's ability to engage with an international audience of more than 120m will be key to the game's commercial success, but it also opens up cross-marketing opportunities for the film.
"People are talking about this film as the spiritual successor to Fifth Element. It's going to be huge," says Tung Nguyen-Khac, Spil Games' CEO. "We're excited and honored to be making the game for Luc and I believe we can really intensify the audience experience around the themes and ideas within the movie."
Engaging an audience in a genuinely immersive game is increasingly important in the movie business.
"It's no longer enough to make a game that just mimics the movie," says Tung. "Yes, players want to dig further into the story but the game also has to be cool and fun to play in its own right. The producers of the New Hollywood understand that a game which captivates its audience can massively amplify a movie brand."
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Reality is a consensus
We shape reality by actions that emanate from our minds.
Reality is a consensus. Yes, each of us is capable of having different but consistent experiences, but for the most part we agree upon reality as a shared experience. However, like most things in life, it's not that simple — but then reality never is.
At its most fundamental, reality is subjective. While it appears obvious that a tree is a tree to everyone observing a tree, reality has other ideas, negating an objective perspective, and with it reality itself. What's more weird is the fact that in spite of the consensus of reality, there are multiple such realities, and we drift between them, often without realising.
The realities of nature itself
If I were giving a talk, the audience would see me stood or moving around on a stage — animated perhaps as I often am — explaining things both prosaic and profound. On the face of it, everyone would be seeing the same thing, but the reality of it is, this objective perspective wouldn't be valid.
In ancient Greece there were a number of theories of vision, one of them — Emission theory, as espoused by Plato — was that the our eyes were emitting visual rays, and that these rays combined with the luminous rays from our environment and the Sun, giving the appearance of the things before us. As theories go, it wasn't unreasonable, given that the Sun and other such sources of light would illuminate various objects, so it must have seemed obvious that our eyes did the same.
The fact is, the light of the Sun or sources of artificial light bathe our environment and everything in it with countless trillions of photons, the essential particles that are the source of the light we see (and also of what we do not see, since the portion of the visible spectrum is the merest slither of the whole thing).
So when the audience perceives me on the stage, I'm but a figment to them, one of countless instances of me — or at least, instances of the myriad photons that have reflected from the various surfaces of me, travelling at the speed of light, such as skin, hair, clothes and so on. Each person would be perceiving a different assortment of light that is nothing more than a representation of what it is that I am and where I was at a specific moment, when in fact the true nature of reality remains unknown.
Since each person in the audience would be seeing a different instance of me, each person would then be experiencing a subjective reality, similar but different to that of everyone else.
At the macroscopic scale, the differences are so trivial as to be imperceptible, giving the appearance of an object reality that everyone is able to agree on. But at microscopic and astronomical scales, the differences could — and sometimes do — have profound consequences.
I could be a tree.
But the strangeness does not end there.
American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler — who counted the father of Many-Worlds Interpretation, Hugh Everett, among his students — conjured up a profound thought experiment:
Most of us have heard of the famous double-slit experiment. Usually it's played out in a lab in seconds. But there's one version, dreamt up by physicist John Archibald Wheeler, that can be played out over much of the galaxy, over millions of years. His thought experiment suggests that we could retroactively determine the fate of ancient photons.
Nature itself is not as absolute as we imagine it to be.
Realities of the mind
Take the Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Aztecs, Purépechas, Toltecs, and perhaps the Mayans, who made human sacrifices to their gods, and that — to them — was a time-honoured custom.
The rationale for Aztec human sacrifice was, first and foremost, a matter of survival. According to Aztec cosmology, the sun god Huitzilopochtli was waging a constant war against darkness, and if the darkness won, the world would end. The keep the sun moving across the sky and preserve their very lives, the Aztecs had to feed Huitzilopochtli with human hearts and blood.
Of course, like so much of religion in general, such beliefs are a contrivance and a nonsense to everyone else who does not consider themselves to be an adherent to those beliefs, where each adherent of one religion dismisses the one before it — so on and so forth. Mesoamerican civilizations, for centuries, believed the sacrifice of human life to be essential, and the numbers of those slain is perhaps in the tens of thousands.
Although this practice shocked the Conquistadores who witnessed it, they would weaponize their own religion and use it as a justification to almost wipe out those same civilizations.
Religion is a furious maelstrom of ignorant and violent realities.
While across the Pacific Ocean in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, cannibalism was common, not out of a bestial need for food, but as an act of inconsolable grief:
In many villages, when a person died, they would be cooked and consumed. It was an act of love and grief.
However, this custom was not without its problems, and it gave rise to a terrible disease known as kuru by the people of the highlands, and it was often fatal.
Our knowledge of the Romans is somewhat mixed: on the one hand, a huge, advanced, and sophisticated empire that bestrode significant portions of the ancient world for several centuries; while on the other, the endemic use of slaves, and a predilection for warfare and conquest. But our understanding of ancient cultures has revealed customs that to us are sometimes shocking and horrific, and the Romans are no exception.
While excavating what was thought to be a brothel at the site of a Roman villa in the Thames Valley, Buckinghamshire, England, archeologists found the remains of human infants:
Archaeological records suggest infants were not considered to be "full" human beings until about the age of two, said Dr Eyers.
Since this was a brothel, unwanted births would have been an unavoidable consequence of the sex trade:
Children any younger than that age were not buried in cemeteries. As a result, infant burials tended to be at domestic sites in the Roman era.
Physical realities
So far, we've learned of the realities of the mind that manifest as customs and rituals, but what of physical realities?
In the Kanyemba region of Zimbabwe you'd find the Vadoma people who are afflicted with a genetic condition known as ectrodactyly or lobster claw syndrome, which results in the absence of one or more fingers or toes, and in the case of the Vadoma tribe, they have but two toes.
As a people, the Vadoma tribe share in this physical trait, which — to them — is normal, and perhaps advantageous to climbing trees, as some have speculated.
Realities of perception
What of our perception, and would that give rise to alternate realities?
William Gladstone, a British Prime Minister from over a hundred years ago, had a fascination with the work of the Greek poet Homer, but took a specific interest in a colour, though not because of the excess of it, but its complete absence:
Gladstone used examples of things we know to be blue to work out the Greek term for the color.
Gladstone reported that Homer used the word "iron" and the word "copper" to describe the sky. The adjective employed in the Iliad to describe the sea is even more puzzling – "οἶνοψ πόντος" (oinops pontos), literally "wine-face sea". Gladstone interpreted this as "wine-dark" in color. Others have since seen it as "wine-like", suggesting that it might have to do with the sloshing of wine similar to the rough sea, rather than the color.
How could the people of the Hellenic Republic — a culture, and once a significant civilization that influenced the Roman Empire that would in time subsume it, surrounded by the azure of the waters of the Mediterranean Sea and the skies — have no understanding of the colour blue?
Amongst the loss or lack of senses, blindness has to be the most terrifying, leaving a person exposed and isolated in a world designed for those that see. But this isolation — an individual reality, shared by millions around the world — is one that, for a time, is conquered by those who choose to participate in the game of football for the blind or those with impaired vision, a sport that becomes a new reality by consensus, and a measure of fitness and fun!
Individual realities
A while ago, I happened to share the conclusion that reality is a consensus, and in spite of these instances, someone decided I was wrong. The simple fact is, if reality wasn't a consensus then we would have no basic — or basis — for a common rule of law.
You're not convinced?
Imagine a consensus doesn't emerge, and chaos ensues. Out of this chaos, a bunch of people decide murder is on the table of possibilities, proceeding to enact their intentions. Spot the problem? Should but two people decide murder is a good idea, their realities would begin to coalesce, as would the realities of those opposing them.
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Tehran, Astrakhan to cooperate in shipbuilding
in Shipbuilding News 13/09/2021
Iranian Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali met with Sergey Milushkin, the director-general of Special Economic Zone Lotus in Russia's Astrakhan during which the two sides discussed cooperation in various sectors including manufacturing and overhauling cargo vessels.
As IRNA reported, the meeting was held on the sidelines of Jalali's visit to the mentioned zone.
Following the meeting, Milushkin said: "We had fruitful negotiations on the construction of ships for Iran [to be used] on the north-south corridor, as well as the participation and investment of Iranian companies in this economic zone."
The Iranian side is interested in repairing and building ships in this zone and we are ready to cooperate in this field, he stated.
The official also called for the cooperation of Iranian businessmen and companies in the Astrakhan region and said: "[Iranian] Companies can operate here without any restrictions and with special incentives and exemptions."
During the visit to the Lotus SEZ in Astrakhan, Jalali also told IRNA that he visited three major sites in the region, including a safflower processing unit, a factory for the production of infrastructure related to road and airport runways, as well as a huge shipyard for constructing vessels and overhauling them.
"It was also decided that the Russian side would prepare and submit a draft of the facilities that they would grant to the Iranian side, such as bank loans and credit lines for purchasing vessels or establishing joint ventures in the field of shipbuilding," Jalali said.
During his meeting with Milushkin, Jalali also stressed the need for taking the necessary measures for completing the North-South corridor as soon as possible.
The Russian official for his part, called for the establishment of a single operator among the three countries of Iran, Russia, and India to focus on the issues related to the North-South corridor, and said that in this regard, he will soon have a visit to Iran and then to India.
"If we reach an agreement in 2022, the corridor could be completed a year later," Milushkin said.
Welcoming the proposals of the Russian side, Jalali emphasized the importance of this corridor and added that many meetings have been held to complete this corridor over the past year.
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On Larry King Live last night radar expert Glen Schulze and Robert Powell, MUFON Director of Research released their findings concerning UFOs in the Stephenville Texas area in January 2008. The 77 page report is replete with data received from the FAA, National Weather Service, nearby military bases and other official sources.
Among the expert analysis of the data received by the investigators from official sources, charts and radar data clearly show the track of an unidentified non-military craft with no transponder beacon vectoring towards Crawford Texas, the location of the Bush Ranch – also known as the Western White House.
- Blacked out US Air Force pilot flightlogs from 457th NASJRB Ft. Worth Tx.
…and much more for the interested reader.
The significance of this report and its implication is nothing less than astounding – as it verifies the existence of craft of unknown origin operating in controlled air space without the knowledge of the America military. Furthermore, it is implicit and thus evident by the response of military officials that they were helpless or at least lacked any significant management of the entire series of events during the period of the air activity.
It supports the eye-witness testimony of many Stephenville residents who saw what has now been proven to have actually occurred.
The report addresses and dispels on-going critique by critics that no available, substantive or scientific data indicating anything of interest concerning the reality of UFOs exists.
The radar report clearly demonstrates that there are in fact unknown craft with superior flight capabilities far beyond known technology operating and moving at will within controlled air space, thus demonstrating that it appears our most sophisticated craft and military monitoring devices are ineffective in dealing with the phenomenon.
Only two possibilities now remain. These craft are either highly sophisticated secret human technology or they are craft from off-world origins. In either case – each possibility is an enigma and the skeptics and military are running short of explanations.
Our thanks to Exopolitics Toronto for providing this information.


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One of the area's largest health care providers has added another medical facility in Woodland Park under its umbrella.
UCHealth Pikes Peak Regional Hospital recently purchased the medical office property, Woodland Medical Center, on the Pikes Peak Regional Medical Campus for $5.9 million, according to Wednesday press release from local real estate firm London Commercial.
Jerry Knauf and Paul Cohen of the London Commercial along with Nick Hier of Hier & Company, Inc. represented the seller in the transaction.
"The purchase-sale transaction included pre-paid ground lease and concept plans for a 30,000 square foot addition/expansion medical office building property to be further developed by the hospital at its election and timing," the release said.
The seller of the 20,163 square foot medical office property is California-based American Oaks-Woodland, LLC, which owned the building since 2007.
RMI Capital Management, LLC along with representatives from UCHealth's Denver and Colorado Springs offices completed the transaction, the release said.
UCHealth announced in February it was acquiring Pikes Peak Regional Hospital in Woodland Park.


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La USS Marion era uno sloop da guerra di terza categoria della Union Navy durante la guerra civile americana.

Storia

Lo sloop USS Marion venne costruito, sotto la direzione di , presso il Boston Navy Yard, e varato il 24 aprile 1839. La nave era costata 212.842,51 dollari.

Il 10 novembre 1839 salpò da Boston per la sua prima crociera, in Brasile. La Marion, mentre all'inizio del 1842 si trovava nel porto di Rio de Janeiro affondò nella rada. Una volta recuperata salpò per ritornare a Boston, dove arrivò nel mese di a maggio. Salpò quindi per i Caraibi, ritornando negli Stati Uniti nel maggio 1843. Per gli anni successivi prestò servizio ordinario a Boston e poi navigò al largo della costa occidentale dell'Africa e nel Mediterraneo fino al 1848. Catturò una nave schiavista, la Casket, vicino a Cabinda il 2 agosto 1846. Dopo una missione nelle Indie Orientali dal 1850 al 1852, riprese le operazioni in forza alla Africa Squadron dal 1853 al 1855 e dal 1858 al 1860, catturando altre tre navi schiaviste: Brothers al largo di Mayumba l'8 settembre 1858 e Orion e Ardennes alla fine di aprile 1859 al largo della costa del Congo. Tra il 1856 e il 1857 prestò servizio ordinario a Norfolk.

La Marion prestava servizio ordinario a Portsmouth, nel New Hampshire, quando scoppiò la guerra civile americana. Fu rimessa in servizio il 21 giugno 1861 e il 14 luglio salpò alla ricerca dell'incrociatore corsaro degli Stati Confederati d'America Jeff Davis. A settembre si unì al Gulf Blockading Squadron, partecipando alla cattura di Ship Island il 16 dello stesso mese. Nel marzo-aprile 1862 si trovava appena fuori da Apalachicola, in Florida, nel West Pass quando fu sostituita dalla Mercedita.
Nel maggio 1862 la Marion ricevette l'ordine di recarsi a Boston per eseguire lavori di riparazione. Tornata in servizio il 24 luglio, salpò verso Annapolis, nel Maryland, dove fu impiegata come nave da addestramento per gli aspiranti guardiamarina fino al 1870. Nel 1871 entrò nel Portsmouth Navy Yard dove fu ricostruita come piroscafo a vapore di terza categoria.

Rimessa in servizio il 12 gennaio 1876, navigò negli squadre navali dell'Europa e del Sud Atlantico fino al dicembre 1882, quando ritornò a Portsmouth. Il 15 gennaio 1885 le fu ordinato di recarsi nell'Oceano Pacifico, dove fu impiegata nella Asiatic Station fino al 1890. Tornò quindi negli Stati Uniti d'America, dove prestò servizio brevemente nel Bering Sea Squadron collegato alla pesca delle foche e, alla fine del 1891, riprese operazioni con la Asiatic Station. Assegnata allo Pacific Squadron nel 1895, navigò lungo la costa occidentale delle Americhe e tra le isole delle Hawaii fino all'11 dicembre 1897, quando fu radiata a Mare Island Naval Shipyard, in California.
Successivamente, trasferita alla custodia dello Stato della California, fu impiegata come nave scuola e quartier generale della Milizia navale dello Stato della California. Rimase attraccata a San Francisco, presso il molo n. 10 fino al 1907. Il 14 marzo 1907 fu cancellata dal registro delle unità navi e venduta il 24 luglio a C.E. Boudrow, San Francisco per la demolizione. L'unità salpò per l'ultima volta dal Mare Island Navy Yard il 15 agosto 1907 trainata dal rimorchiatore Sea Queen

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Board index Politics/ Legal The Legal Eagle
The legal aspects of owning, shooting, importing arms/ ammo and other related legal aspects as well as any other legal queries. Please note: This INCLUDES all arms licensing issues/ queries!
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Re: NOTIFICATIONS
Postby cottage cheese » Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:39 pm
Division II - Exemptions, Exclusions and withdrawals
Persons of Coorg race and Jumma tenure holders in Coorg - exempted
II.3. S.O. 1920, dated 6.7.1963 - -
Whereas the Central Government is of the opinion that it is necessary and expedient in the public interest to exempt certain classes of persons from the operation of some provisions of the Arms Act, 1954(54 of 1959)
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41 of that Act, the Central Government hereby exempts the classes of persons specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 hereto annexed, in respect of the arms and ammunition of the category or description specified in column 2 thereof when carried or possessed for their own personal use, from the operation of such of the provisions of the said Act and subject to such conditions as are mentioned in column 3 and 4 respectively of that schedule:
Provided that the exemption hereby granted shall be subject to the following further conditions, namely:
(a) it shall not be deemed to render lawful the import of arms or ammunition through the medium of post office;
(b) the classes of persons exempted shall-
(i) Unless specifically exempted by the Central Government by notification in the Official gazette, register in such manner and at such place as the Central Government may prescribe from time to time, any fire-arm or ammunition in respect of which the exemption has been granted;
(ii) render such statistical information about different description of arms and ammunition in respect of which the exemption has been granted in such proforma, if any, as may be required by the Central Government
(iii) whenever any arm or ammunition in respect of which exemption has been granted is stolen, forthwith report the occurrence of such loss or theft together with the details of the articles lost or stolen at the nearest police station.
Schedule (This is actually in the form of a table)
(Column 1)Classes of Persons: Every person of Coorg race and every Jumma tenure Holder in Coorg.
(Column 2)Categories/descriptions of arms and ammunition : All except categories I and II of Schedule I to the Arms Rules, 1962.
(Column 3)Provisions of the Act: Those contained in sections 3 and 4
(Column 4) Conditions: The arms and ammunition carried or possessed by any person herein exempted whilst residing or traveling outside the district of Coorg shall not exceed one rifle with 100 rounds of ammunition for the same and one smooth bore breech or muzzle loading gun with 500 cartridges or the equivalent or in leaden shot and gun powder.
2. In the table appended to the Ministry of Home Affairs Notification No. F.15/13/59 (VI)-P.IV, dated 13th July, 1962 (GSR No. 993 published in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section 3(i), dated 28th July, 1962) clause (b) in column 3 against Item 7 thereof shall be deleted.
(MHA Notn. No. F.17/4/62-P. IV, dt. 6.7.1963)
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Postby goodboy_mentor » Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:20 pm
and i thought that we live in the largest demon chrasy in the world it not a case of equity for all but the case of being in the right job
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"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
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"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
- George Santayana (applicable to the present situation in India)
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
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Postby m24 » Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:57 am
I have been trying, in vain, to find 2 particular MHA notifications w.r.t. import of AR. If anybody has any idea about these notifications, do help. Otherwise I'll just file an RTI and get it from MHA. The notifications are:
1) SO 667(e) dated 12/09/1985, and
2) SO 831(e) dated 02/08/2002.
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1) All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
2) Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
3) Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target.
4) Identify your target, and what is behind it.
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Postby nagarifle » Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:47 am
hi m24
can you do some RTI for me ?
1) SO 667(e) dated 12/09/1985,
as you would have it i have it somewhere but it very long winded. it deals with exempt of certain classes of person form the some of the provisions of the arms act ie top shooters who can be exempt 4and 5th guns etc.
and second one is smiler. here is the link as it would take up lots of forum web space to have printed here.
http://www.nrai.in/not6.pdf
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Postby m24 » Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:16 pm
Thanks Naga. I'll file whatever RTI you want. I'll pm you my e-mail address.
vinaymk47
Location: Coorg/Bangalore
Postby vinaymk47 » Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:19 pm
thanks for your information on "Persons of Coorg race and Jumma tenure holders in Coorg - exempted"
can you send me the link, so that I can download this Notification or the PDF format of the ACT which contains below schedule
Postby nagarifle » Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:29 pm
no link for the above as it is from an Arms manual.
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Location: New Delhi, India
Contact mundaire
Postby mundaire » Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:16 pm
Posting the following two notifications here as PDF attachments:
S.O 667(E) - Notification exempting certain sports persons from some provisions of the Arms Act/ Rules
sports_exemt_not.pdf
And the latest one from Min of Youth Affairs & Sports which amends certain provisions relating to the import of arms & ammunition as well as rules regarding the resale of such arms for renown shooters
renshot_latest _notification.pdf
Both notifications provided courtesy Shutzen.
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Postby vinaymk47 » Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:23 am
Can anyone please provide the copy of Arms Manual which contains this exemption
Postby mundaire » Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:28 am
vinaymk47 wrote: Persons of Coorg race and Jumma tenure holders in Coorg - exempted
In stead of a copy, you can just go down to Coorg and apply for an exemption certificate from the local licensing authority - it is issued in lieu of an arms license. AFAIK even after you get a copy of the relevant notification you would have to follow the same process as these exemption certificates can only be issued in Coorg Distt.
Postby vinaymk47 » Thu Apr 08, 2010 5:41 pm
I belong to coorg dist and I have obtained EC recently.
But I am looking for the copy of the schedule
Postby vinaymk47 » Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:48 am
Can anyone pls provide me the copy of this schedule or any link?
Postby nagarifle » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:28 pm
do a rti to MHA asking a copy of it
Postby cottage cheese » Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:39 am
One more for clarity's sake....
SUB.- Arms Act and Rules - Semi-automatic .22 Bore rifles - Grant of license to members of rifle club/Association.
I am directed to refer to your letter No. 7222-R/VIII-B-644L/67, dated 20.11.1967 on the subject mentioned above and to say that the provision in section 13(3)(a)(ii) of the Arms Act, it would be observed, does not make any distinction as to the type of .22 bore rifles in respect of which a license shall be granted under this provision. As such, licenses under provision of the Act shall be granted in respect of all types of .22 bore rifles (including semi-automatic type). It may, however, be noticed that the use of the weapons covered by a license issued under this provision of the Act, is to be restricted to target practice only.
(GOI/MHA Letter No.F.13/7/68-P.IV dated..... 1968 to the Secretary to the Govt. of U.P., Home (Police-B.II) Department, Lucknow).
For quick reference.... Section 13(3)(a)(ii) of the Arms Act 1959.....
13 (3) The licensing authority shall grant -
(a) a license under section 3 where the license is required -
....(ii) in respect of a point 22 bore rifle or air rifle to be used for target practice by a member of a rifle club or rifle association licensed or recognised by the Central Government;
Postby nagarifle » Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:33 pm
nice one mate.
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Leah recently shared with us her excitement to be one of the first students with USAC to venture into La Habana, Cuba. Enjoy her first entry 28 Days Left Before I Leave for Cuba!
Surprisingly enough, the days are flying by! I was going to post 30 days out but I got so excited I started packing instead! Problem is, I still need a lot of the things I'm going to be taking on my trip. Not to mention my suitcase is starting to look a lot like a rainbow. I'll have to work on that. The final count down is definitely in full effect!
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Sara Blakely used to sell fax machines all day before coming home to her apartment to fulfill orders of Spanx all night.
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For these 11 famous entrepreneurs and celebrities, their side hustles became more than just a way to supplement their income.
Some of these successful entrepreneurs, like Marc Benioff, stayed at their full-time jobs even after their companies took off.
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield never intended for the messaging platform he built for the employees of his video game company to become his main source of income.
A side hustle can be more than just a way to supplement your income.
These 11 entrepreneurs built their fortunes from ventures that started out as part-time gigs. Not all of them were quick to give up their day jobs, however. Ashton Kutcher has continued to act even after his venture capital firm took off, while Slack's Stewart Butterfield gave the corporate messaging app his full attention after his video game company went under.
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Keep reading for a look at 11 people who made more from their side hustles than their primary jobs.
Stewart Butterfield was trying to build a now-defunct gaming company when he created Slack to ease communication with his employees.
Stewart Butterfield has twice tried to build a video game, and twice ended up with lucrative, though unrelated businesses.
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Lucrative side hustle: Slack
Slack isn't the 46-year-old CEO's first successful side hustle. He built Flickr, which he later sold to Yahoo for a reported $35 million while attempting to develop a video game called "Game Neverending," according to Money Magazine.
Butterfield subsequently returned to video games and founded a new gaming firm. After Butterfield's new company, Tiny Speck, shuttered in 2012, he realized the messaging platform he built for his employees might be worth something.
Butterfield is now worth $2.4 billion thanks to his stake in Slack, according to Canadian Business. Slack is now preparing to go public and will be one of the year's most anticipated IPOs.
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Basketball legend Michael Jordan is worth $1.65 billion — mostly because of his shoe line with Nike, according to Forbes.
The Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan celebrates after the Bulls beat the Phoenix Suns 99-98 to win their third consecutive NBA title in Phoenix, June 20, 1993.
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Lucrative side hustle: Nike Air Jordan, The Charlotte Hornets
Jordan, 56, is the highest-paid athlete of all time, but not because of his salary from the Chicago Bulls. Jordan earned $1.4 billion before taxes from corporate sponsorships during his professional basketball career. His film debut, "Space Jam," also earned $250 million at the worldwide box office, according to IMDB.
He went on to purchase an NBA team, The Charlotte Hornets, in 2010. The Hornets may be the third least-valuable NBA franchise according to Forbes, but the team's valuation at $1.05 billion is still a major part of Jordan's wealth. Jordan has also made a lot of money from Nike's Air Jordan line, which made him a billionaire in 2015, according to CNN Business.
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Sara Blakely revealed on LinkedIn that she ran Spanx out of her apartment at night — even after her products were featured on Oprah.
Sara Blakely used to sell fax machines all day before coming home to her apartment to fulfill orders of Spanx all night, she wrote on LinkedIn.
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Lucrative side hustle: Spanx
Sara Blakely, 48, spent her days selling fax machines for office-supply company Danka long after she founded Spanx, according to a post she wrote on LinkedIn. Blakely ran her side business out of her Atlanta apartment and would often come home to boxes of Spanx stacked in front of her front door so high that she needed help from neighbors to move them. She didn't quit her day job as a Danka salesperson until after Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue started selling Spanx in their stores in 2000.
While it's unclear how much money Blakely made at her day job, her net worth was probably a lot lower than it is now: Forbes estimates that she's worth $1 billion because of Spanx.
Salesforce was just a side hustle for Marc Benioff while he worked full time at Oracle, until a disagreement with his boss led him to strike out on his own.
In addition to a 4% stake in Salesforce, Marc Benioff also has a 3% stake in software firm Zuora and owns Time Magazine, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Lucrative side hustle: Salesforce
Benioff, now 54, got hired as a salesperson at Oracle right after graduating from the University of Southern California in 1986, according to Bloomberg. Benioff had worked his way up to being an executive before he came up with the idea for Salesforce during a 6-month sabbatical from the company.
Benioff worked on Salesforce while holding on to his position at Oracle, and even received a $2 million investment from Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Business Insider previously reported. Benioff later quit his day job as Salesforce began to compete with Oracle.
Oracle paid Benioff $300,000 for his work as a vice president when he was 26. Benioff is now worth $6.7 billion, with most of his wealth coming from his shares of Salesforce, according to Bloomberg.
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Rihanna is the world's wealthiest female musician according to Forbes, but she didn't make her fortune from her 14 No.1 songs.
Rihanna became the first woman of color to lead a fashion house at LVMH when Fenty launched in May.
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Lucrative side hustle: Fenty
Billboard reported that Rihanna, 31, made $22 million from her music in 2016, but that number is dwarfed by her earnings from her fashion and beauty ventures. Rihanna is the creative director of Puma, and she partnered with French luxury-goods maker LVMH to launch Fenty Beauty in 2017 and a fashion house of the same name in 2019.
Rihanna's beauty line alone is worth $3 billion, she owns 15% of the company, and she has a net worth of $600 million, according to Forbes.
Read more: Rihanna is the world's richest female musician — from yachting trips on the French Riviera to a staff that includes a chef and personal trainers, see how she spends her $600 million fortune
Bonobos cofounder and former CEO Andy Dunn got started by selling chinos out of his car while earning his MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business, according to NPR's "How I Built This with Guy Raz."
Bonobos' pants are designed to eliminate what the company calls "Khaki Diaper Butt." The company has since expanded into shirts, outerwear, and swimwear.
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Lucrative side hustle: Bonobos
Dunn's first involvement with Bonobos was to help his cofounder and roommate Brian Spaly sell Spaly's design for more flattering men's pants while both were full-time students at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Spaly is no longer involved with the company, according to NPR's "How I Built This with Guy Raz."
Dunn, now 40, sold Bonobos to Walmart for $310 million in 2017, and stayed on as the company's CEO until 2018, according to Inc. He is currently the senior vice president of digital brands at Walmart.
Jay-Z may be the first hip-hop billionaire, but he made most of his money from streaming service Tidal, his clothing line, and cognac brand D'Ussé — not hip hop.
Jay-Z has won 22 Grammy awards.
Lucrative side hustles: Tidal, D'Ussé
The stake Jay-Z, 49, has in premium streaming service Tidal is worth $100 million alone, according to Forbes. Jay-Z acquired Tidal for $56 million in 2015. Sprint bought a 33% stake in the company for $200 million in 2017, which put the company's valuation at $600 million.
In comparison, Jay-Z only made about $500 million from his 14 No. 1 album before taxes.
Ashton Kutcher was one of the highest-paid actors in television in 2013, according to Forbes, but he's made even more in venture capital.
Kutcher became well known as an actor after starring in "That 70s Show" before turning to venture capital.
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Lucrative side hustle: Sound Ventures
Kutcher made $24 million between June 2012 and June 2013 from his role in hit series "Two and a Half Men," Forbes reports, but his investment portfolio is worth even more.
The investment portfolio Kutcher built alongside talent manager Guy Oseary was worth $250 million in 2016 according to Forbes. Kutcher and Oseary began by investing $30 million in companies including Uber, Skype, Airbnb, Spotify, Pinterest, Shazam and Warby Parker. Kutcher, 41, invests in startups because he wants to help "brilliant people trying to solve hard problems," the actor explained in a blog post he wrote on Atrium.
Kutcher still finds time to act and currently stars in Netflix sitcom "The Ranch."
Nike founder Phil Knight sold Japanese running shoes out his car at track meets while working as an accountant.
Nike cofounder and chairman emeritus Phil Knight has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to his alma maters, the University of Oregon and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Lucrative side hustle: Nike
Knight, now 81, founded Nike with his old track coach Bill Bowerman after becoming inspired by the running shoes he saw on a trip to Japan. Knight first became interested in selling shoes while still a student at Stanford, but he decided to become a CPA and pursue a career in accounting instead. When Knight found success selling shoes after hours, he decided to turn Nike, then called Blue Ribbon Sports, into his full-time career in 1968, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
After 52 years at Nike, Knight retired from his role as the company's chairman in 2016. He owns 20% of the Oregon-based giant and is worth $33.9 billion, according to Forbes.
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Actress Jessica Alba made her fortune from the natural consumer products company she cofounded to create safe products for her children, according to Forbes.
Alba currently stars in drama series "L.A.'s Finest."
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Lucrative side hustle: The Honest Company
While the 38-year-old "Fantastic Four" star may be best known for her acting career, the biggest source of her wealth is The Honest Company, according to Forbes. Alba cofounded the all-natural household and baby products producer in 2011, and currently serves as the chair of The Honest Company's board.
Forbes estimates that Alba's net worth was $200 million in 2017, down from $340 million in 2016 after the Honest Company's valuation peaked at $1.7 billion.
Daymond John founded FUBU in between 12-hour shifts at Red Lobster, according to CNBC.
Daymond John is one of six investors on ABC's hit series "Shark Tank."
Lucrative side hustle: FUBU
John, 50, founded his hip-hop fashion brand by making hats out of his home in Queens with the help of his mom while waiting tables full time at Red Lobster, according to Investopedia. FUBU has now sold over $6 billion of clothing and accessories.
"I would get up at 6 in the morning, I would answer all the calls that were on the voicemail and then I would (deliver) as many hats as I could, or t-shirts, to all the stores I could until about 12," John said told CNBC. "I probably need(ed) to get to Red Lobster about 2. I would work till about 10, 11, 12 at night. I would then come home and sew the labels on things … until 3, 4 in the morning."
John is worth $300 million, according to Investopedia. John still works at FUBU, in addition to starring on "Shark Tank."
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Odessa is a one of the largest cities city in Ukraine and is known for its immense beauty and magnificent sea port. Being among the most visited places in the world; Odessa might not have made a mark amongst the most visited international travel destinations, but is considered to be a one of the best when it comes to luxury and recluse. A family trip to the city is all it takes to unwind the daily boredom of your life and the craving for something adventurous that gets you going.
Laocoon: It is a sculptural ensemble that represents he mythological story of Laocoon-the Greek Pagan priest and Poseidon who was dissatisfied with him. Following this, Poseidon sent snakes upon the priest and his sons. While the original painting of Laocoon by El Greco is present in the Museum of Washington, the original sculpture is at the Vatican. The one at Odessa is just a replica of the one at the Vatican.
Archaeological Museum of Odessa: The achievements of North Pontic Greek states had greatly influenced local populations of the Southern Ukraine. The museum houses close to 200 rare examples of Greek antiquities, most of which have never been published. The publication of the catalogue would have never been possible without the efforts, initiatives and support from the Hellenic Foundation for Culture Odessa, Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis as well as the Consulate General of Greece in Odessa.
Odessa Philharmonic: Representative of the combination of the architecture of Odessa and the Venetian Gothic style, the Philharmonic is a heritage building that was designed by Mario Bernardazzi. The Philharmonic Hall opened its door in the year 1899. It is one of the popular historical monuments of the city and stands as a fine example of the architectural splendor of the city and also of Venetian Gothic style.
Svyato-Pantelemonovskiy cathedral: The cathedral is considered to be a piece of art since its construction on May 9, 1893. Designed and executed by architect N. Nikonov, the church located on the third floor symbolized the holy Aphon Mountain with gold icon stands; the cathedral holds the attention of anyone and everyone. Adding on to the beauty of the cathedral are the mural paintings that represent the Byzantine style of art.
Spaso-Preobrazhenskiy cathedral: The cathedral was built on Sobornaya square in 1795, just one year after the founding of Odessa. One of the biggest in Russia, it was approximately 50 meters wide and over 100 meters long. Accommodating over 10,000 people, it is the representative of Odessa's culture and history. Having faced a number of political turmoil and demolition, the cathedral was bombarded on Stalin's order in 1936. However, it was rebuilt and resurrected since 1999.
Odessa State Literature Museum: This museum opened in the year 1984. The museum is housed in a building which was constructed in 1840 by Ludwig Otton on order from Prince Gagarin family. Ludwig was a popular architect of Odessa at that time. By the end of XIX century, the building where the museum is housed was occupied by artistic literature society. Today, the museum boasts of 21 exhibition halls with more than five thousand exhibits of 358 masters.
Potemkim Stairs: Designed by renowned architect F. Bofford, the Potemkin Stairs were built between 1837- 1841 and well known as formal entrance in this city especially from the direction of the Black Sea. The Potemkin Stairs leads from Prymorsky Boulevard down to the Black Sea. This imposing monument of Odessa has a total of 192 stairs that are arranged in 10 flights and is flanked by parapets which are 2 metre thick. The difference in the width between the lowest and the highest is what creates an optical illusion enhancing the grandeur of this structure.
Odessa Opera House: Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater is an impressive structure that ranks in magnificence with Moscow's Bolshoi and Milan's La Scala. This Opera has witnessed several concerts performed by Peter Tchaikovsky and ballets which featured Anna Pavlova. The exquisite interior of this imposing structure is the finest example of the Viennese Baroque style combined with elements of French rococo, Italian Renaissance, and sculptural groups from the Greek mythology. The guilt friezes, stucco moldings combined with red velvet of boxes and seats tend to create a welcoming and special ambiance for guests and visitors.
Odessa Local History Museum: It was May 6, 1956 when Local History Museum Odessa was first opened. This palace type structure was designed and architected by Felix Gonsirovskyy in the year 1876. The building was erected for Alexander Yakovlevich Novikon the well known representatives of the commercial industrial elite of the bygone era. The very first exhibition organized there was in August 1944. The first exposition was on "Heroic defence of Odessa" and on the basis of which the Republican Museum of Defence in Odessa had also been created. Today, there are about 12 expositions that narrate the history of Odessa since 15th century.
City Hall: Located on Primorskiy Boulevard, the site of City Hall was the former venue for the old Stock Exchange in Odessa. Worth a look pertaining to its design, the city hall is a place that one should not miss. It is said that trading has been the major source of Odessa's budget income. Therefore, it is natural that the building of Stock Exchange had occupied the center of the city and then transformed into the Mayor Place and City Council.
A vacation to the city needs to be planned well. However, if it's an ad hoc plan, you can be rest assured that you would find a place to put up. Apartments in Odessa are very good options for visitors of the city.


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Menacer 6-Game Cartridge was released as a pack-in cartridge for the Menacer light gun. It is a compilation of six games:
Pest Control: in this game the player has to defend a pizza from the attack of assorted bugs. The player smokes the bugs while controlling a spotlight, but it is also possible to see the whole table while pressing a second button (in this case, it won't be possible to use the insecticide). The game is over when the pizza is all eaten. Different bugs will appear throughout the levels, such as some big ones which explode in smaller ones when shot.
Space Station Defender: the player has to shoot aliens inside pods which appear on the screen in a given sequence and in specific positions. As the player follows the pattern, he has to reload the weapon by aiming the lower end of the screen where "power" can be read. There's also a random mode, where all pods appear at the same time and the player has to guess the order in which they'll open. The aliens shoot back if the player takes much time to shoot them. Once in a while a little flying saucer will cross the screen; shooting it will give the player a shield point. The game is over when player's life is depleted.
Ready, Aim, Tomatoes!: this game is set in Toejam & Earl's universe. As the screen scrolls right, Toejam has to shoot tomatoes at enemies such as the Cupid, the Dentist, the Boogie Man, the little Devil and so on. There are also special items to shoot, like bombs which will kill all enemies at the screen or tomato baskets which will give ammunition. For each level there's a target score to achieve. In advanced levels the enemies will shoot back. The game is over when Toejam's life is depleted.
Whack Ball: this is some sort of a Breakout game. The player controls a paddle and has to bounce a ball against a frame of blocks. Once a block is touched by the ball, its color is changed, and the objective is to change all blocks colors. Some glowing blocks have special effects when hit like sticking the ball to the paddle, giving an extra ball or shrinking the paddle. A time limit is given to each leval, and if the player doesn't succeed, another chance is given. The game is over when all balls are lost though the holes in the frame.
Front Line: in this game the player has to shoot tanks, trucks, planes and helicopters before they shoot back. There are two weapons available: a cannon with unlimited ammo and 10 missiles per stage.
Rockman's Zone: in this game the player has to shoot cardboard pictures of bandits while avoiding shooting pictures of women, children and policemen. Bonus points are given for acurracy.
In the shooting games the player can choose to have the Accu-Sight on or off. If it is on, a crosshair will be displayed. If it's off, the player can also choose to use the Menacer's Binocular Module.
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Born in 1956 at Kolkata, Manoj Dutta is a self-taught artist whose work is reflective of the traditional two-dimensional format of Indian folk art. His paintings and pastels feature stylized images and look deceptively simple, though coated in a luminous palette. The subtle textures and variations of tone and shade help to enhance the imagery. The blue, red, violet or ochre enlarges into a fine symphony of designed compositions with depth and detail. His delineation of images, whether with pen or brush, is similarly simple, fluent and eloquent. They stand out against muted backgrounds, receding artfully behind cross-hatching of lines, or freezing mid-movement. The mood can be whimsical, tranquil or nostalgic. The artist has had several exhibitions in India and abroad. He has also been a part of many workshops including those organized by HUDCO Delhi and Max Mueller Centre in Kolkata. Manoj lives and works in Kolkata.


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Hear the untold stories of enslaved people and learn about historical and contemporary slavery. Historical and contemporary slavery.
Visit the International Slavery Museum website
Lady Lever Art Gallery
A beautiful building housing one of the UK's finest collections of fine and decorative art. Paintings, Wedgwood and Chinese ceramics.
Visit the Lady Lever Art Gallery website
Uncover objects from the Titanic, find out about life at sea and learn about the port of Liverpool. The Titanic, life at sea and Liverpool's port.
Visit the Merseyside Maritime Museum website
This museum tells the story of Liverpool with diverse exhibits housed in a stunning building. Liverpool's history and popular culture.
Visit the Museum of Liverpool website
Sudley House
Explore a Victorian merchant's house with its period furniture and beautiful paintings. Paintings, vintage fashion and furniture.
Visit the Sudley House website
Beautiful paintings, sculpture and decorative art from the 13th century to the present day. Paintings, sculpture and decorative art.
Visit the Walker Art Gallery website
Discover treasures from around the world, explore outer space and meet live creatures! World cultures, space and live creatures.
Visit the World Museum website
Shipping posters
Discover more than 100 years of travel, from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Our Pride and Prejudice research project explores items in our collection with an LGBT+ connection.
Victorian Treasures
View highlighted paintings from our Victorian Treasures exhibition.
Black histories
Explore Black social history within National Museums Liverpool's collections.
Highlights from our varied collections of Beatles-related material.
Ince Blundell Roman sculpture
This collection of Roman sculpture is the largest collection of classical sculpture in Britain outside the British Museum.
Our collections are among the most important and varied in Europe and contain everything from Impressionist paintings and rare beetles to a lifejacket from the Titanic.
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Collections by venue at National Museums Liverpool
Explore transatlantic slavery and its legacies, as well as our modern day slavery collections.
A fascinating collection including Chinese ceramics, Pre-Raphaelite paintings and some of the world's finest Wedgwood jasperware.
Maritime Museum
Objects and archives connected to ships, boats, the port of Liverpool and its role in maritime history.
The story of Liverpool and Merseyside including social and community history, archaeology, the King's Regiment and land transport.
Fine and decorative art from Sudley House and our art gallery collections.
Beautiful paintings, sculpture and decorative art from the 13th century to the present day, including stunning Pre-Raphaelite collections.
From Antiquities to Zoology, World Museum has over 1.7 million internationally significant artefacts and specimens.
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Q: Indicating an empty array in a PHP switch The code below displays a table row with one cell, featuring the words "Cultural Symbols," followed by a second, database-generated row ($SymbolRow3). How can I modify it so that the first (static) row doesn't display if there's no data in $SymbolRow3?

  Cultural Symbols

<?php echo join ($SymbolRow3, ''); ?>

I apparently can't put $SymbolRow3[] inside a switch, so I tried this, without success:
switch($SymbolRow3)
{
 case '':
 case ' ':
 break;
 default:
 echo '

   Cultural Symbols

';
 break;
}

A: you could check for rows in the variable instead of using a switch
<?php
    if (count($SymbolRow3) > 0) {
        echo '

            Cultural Symbols

';
        echo join ($SymbolRow3, ''); ?>
    }
?>

A: This will ensure $SymbolRow3 contains something before outputting the rows.
if ($SymbolRow3){
    echo '
Cultural Symbols
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    echo $SymbolRow3;
}

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Integrated risk management with costs, time and outcome-based graphs and reports.
It's time to actually practice risk management on your projects. Get your team involved and track the success of your risk management plans. Allow project teams to see and mitigate risks key to their projects as well as rate and assign risks to relevant team members. Make your sponsor and governance group aware of what it is you do to mitigate risks.
By using UniPhi's risk management module, the IR can integrate this decision making with the actual surveillance so that custom inquiries as to why only limited surveillances were carried out or why more were can be responded to in seconds with a detailed risk mitigation response.


Bayes' Theorem or Price's Theorem?
I'm indebted to a fellow blogger for drawing my attention to the person shown in the above picture, Dr Richard Price who has been described as "the most original thinker ever born in Wales", and who has a Society named after him.
Price was a moral philosopher, nonconformist preacher and also a mathematician of some note. Of particular interest to this blog is the role he played in the development of what is now known as Bayes' Theorem, after the Reverend Thomas Bayes.
However, the paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society that contains the first published form of this theorem was not published until 1763, over a year after Bayes' death and, as you can see if you follow the link, is attributed jointly to "Mr Bayes and Mr Price". It appears that there was an original manuscript written by Bayes around about 1755 which was communicated to Price when Bayes died in 1761 and then presented for publication over a year later; Price had been asked to act as "literary executor" of Bayes' estate.
Unfortunately the original manuscript has never been found and it is therefore impossible to say for sure how much Price contributed to the final version. However, a relatively recent and very interesting article raises this question, and argues (reasonably convincingly to my mind) that Bayes' part stops at page 14 of 32 pages. It is therefore quite possible that Price wrote over half the paper himself although most historical discussions of this matter simple state that Price "edited" Bayes' work.
It has to be said that the paper is not exactly a model of clarity and pertains only to a particular case of the full theorem. The form in general use today was first published by Laplace in 1812, so it should really be called Laplace's Theorem, but Laplace did give generous credit to the work of Bayes which is no doubt why the name stuck.
I don't suppose we will know for sure exactly how much Price contributed to the development of Bayes' theorem, but this may be yet another example of the law that any result in science or mathematics that has a person's name attached to it has the wrong name attached to it!
We call on the Welsh government to acknowledge the important contribution of Dr Richard Price not only to the eighteenth century Enlightenment, but also to the making of the modern world that we live in today, and develop his birthplace and childhood home into a visitor information centre where people of all nationalities and ages can discover how his significant contributions to theology, mathematics and philosophy have shaped the modern world.
Tynton Farm in Llangeinor, the birthplace and childhood home of Dr Richard Price is for sale. Once derelict, the farm has been sensitively restored and almost all of the original features have been preserved. The Richard Price Society is aware that the house attracts visitors from all corners of the globe and this is attested by the previous owner's Visitors Book that was signed by visitors to the farm. The position of the farm and its provenance would make it an ideal learning centre where people can find out just what an important person he was and remains. This is an opportunity to buy the property at market value and help celebrate the achievements of Wales' intellectual giant and apostle of liberty.
I have signed it, and hope you will consider doing likewise!
A couple of interesting pieces have appeared which discuss Bayesian reasoning in the popular media. One is by Jon Butterworth in his Grauniad science blog and the other is a feature article in the New York Times. I'm in early today because I have an all-day Teaching and Learning Strategy Meeting so before I disappear for that I thought I'd post a quick bit of background.
Many versions of this, including the one in Jon Butterworth's blog, exclude the third proposition and refer to A and B only. I prefer to keep an extra one in there to remind us that every statement about probability depends on information either known or assumed to be known; any proper statement of probability requires this information to be stated clearly and used appropriately but sadly this requirement is frequently ignored.
is the number of distinct combinations of x objects that can be drawn from a pool of n.
You can probably see immediately how this arises. The probability of x consecutive successes is p multiplied by itself x times, or px. The probability of (n-x) successive failures is similarly (1-p)n-x. The last two terms basically therefore tell us the probability that we have exactly x successes (since there must be n-x failures). The combinatorial factor in front takes account of the fact that the ordering of successes and failures doesn't matter.
The binomial distribution applies, for example, to repeated tosses of a coin, in which case p is taken to be 0.5 for a fair coin. A biased coin might have a different value of p, but as long as the tosses are independent the formula still applies. The binomial distribution also applies to problems involving drawing balls from urns: it works exactly if the balls are replaced in the urn after each draw, but it also applies approximately without replacement, as long as the number of draws is much smaller than the number of balls in the urn. I leave it as an exercise to calculate the expectation value of the binomial distribution, but the result is not surprising: E(X)=np. If you toss a fair coin ten times the expectation value for the number of heads is 10 times 0.5, which is five. No surprise there. After another bit of maths, the variance of the distribution can also be found. It is np(1-p).
So this gives us the probability of x given a fixed value of p. Bayes was interested in the inverse of this result, the probability of p given x. In other words, Bayes was interested in the answer to the question "If I perform n independent trials and get x successes, what is the probability distribution of p?". This is a classic example of inverse reasoning, in that it involved turning something like P(A|BC) into something like P(B|AC), which is what is achieved by the theorem stated at the start of this post.
Bayes got the correct answer for his problem, eventually, but by very convoluted reasoning. In my opinion it is quite difficult to justify the name Bayes' theorem based on what he actually did, although Laplace did specifically acknowledge this contribution when he derived the general result later, which is no doubt why the theorem is always named in Bayes' honour.
This is not the only example in science where the wrong person's name is attached to a result or discovery. Stigler's Law of Eponymy strikes again!
So who was the mysterious mathematician behind this result? Thomas Bayes was born in 1702, son of Joshua Bayes, who was a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and one of the very first nonconformist ministers to be ordained in England. Thomas was himself ordained and for a while worked with his father in the Presbyterian Meeting House in Leather Lane, near Holborn in London. In 1720 he was a minister in Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. He retired from the church in 1752 and died in 1761. Thomas Bayes didn't publish a single paper on mathematics in his own name during his lifetime but was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1742.
Bayes, in the Transactions Philosophiques of the Year 1763, sought directly the probability that the possibilities indicated by past experiences are comprised within given limits; and he has arrived at this in a refined and very ingenious manner, although a little perplexing.
The reasoning in the 1763 paper is indeed perplexing, and I remain convinced that the general form we now we refer to as Bayes' Theorem should really be called Laplace's Theorem. Nevertheless, Bayes did establish an extremely important principle that is reflected in the title of the New York Times piece I referred to at the start of this piece. In a nutshell this is that probabilities of future events can be updated on the basis of past measurements or, as I prefer to put it, "one person's posterior is another's prior".
This morning on Twitter there appeared a link to a blog post reporting that the Court of Appeal had rejected the use of Bayesian probability in legal cases. I recommend anyone interested in probability to read it, as it gives a fascinating insight into how poorly the concept is understood.
Although this is a new report about a new case, it's actually not an entirely new conclusion. I blogged about a similar case a couple of years ago, in fact. The earlier story n concerned an erroneous argument given during a trial about the significance of a match found between a footprint found at a crime scene and footwear belonging to a suspect. The judge took exception to the fact that the figures being used were not known sufficiently accurately to make a reliable assessment, and thus decided that Bayes' theorem shouldn't be used in court unless the data involved in its application were "firm".
If you read the Guardian article to which I've provided a link you will see that there's a lot of reaction from the legal establishment and statisticians about this, focussing on the forensic use of probabilistic reasoning. This all reminds me of the tragedy of the Sally Clark case and what a disgrace it is that nothing has been done since then to improve the misrepresentation of statistical arguments in trials. Some of my Bayesian colleagues have expressed dismay at the judge's opinion.
So what I'd say is that while statistical arguments are extremely important for investigating crimes – narrowing down the field of suspects, assessing the reliability of evidence, establishing lines of inquiry, and so on – I don't think they should ever play a central role once the case has been brought to court unless there's much clearer guidance given to juries and stricter monitoring of so-called "expert" witnesses.
Here's a puzzle. There are three cups upside down on a table. You friend tells you that a pea is hidden under one of them. Based on past experience you estimate that there is a 90% probability that this is true. You turn over two cups and don't find the pea. What is the probability now that there is a pea underneath? You may want to think about this before reading on.
So this gives us the probability of x given a fixed value of p. Bayes was interested in the inverse of this result, the probability of p given x. In other words, Bayes was interested in the answer to the question "If I perform n independent trials and get x successes, what is the probability distribution of p?". This is a classic example of inverse reasoning. He got the correct answer, eventually, but by very convoluted reasoning. In my opinion it is quite difficult to justify the name Bayes' theorem based on what he actually did, although Laplace did specifically acknowledge this contribution when he derived the general result later, which is no doubt why the theorem is always named in Bayes' honour.
This is not the only example in science where the wrong person's name is attached to a result or discovery. In fact, it is almost a law of Nature that any theorem that has a name has the wrong name. I propose that this observation should henceforth be known as Coles' Law.
So who was the mysterious mathematician behind this result? Thomas Bayes was born in 1702, son of Joshua Bayes, who was a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and one of the very first nonconformist ministers to be ordained in England. Thomas was himself ordained and for a while worked with his father in the Presbyterian Meeting House in Leather Lane, near Holborn in London. In 1720 he was a minister in Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. He retired from the church in 1752 and died in 1761. Thomas Bayes didn't publish a single paper on mathematics in his own name during his lifetime but despite this was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1742. Presumably he had Friends of the Right Sort. He did however write a paper on fluxions in 1736, which was published anonymously. This was probably the grounds on which he was elected an FRS.
The paper containing the theorem that now bears his name was published posthumously in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in 1764.


I found my wedding dress last night and put a deposit down on It... I have until Jan to lose some weight and they will order from those measurements.
Hey girl! Yes, 8-9-14 is the date.
I wanted to lose more as well but I bought one with a corset back so you can lose and still be able to fit it to you!
Good luck on dress shopping next week. Be patient and do not settle. Get what you want!
When is your wedding? I would love to hear all about it. I do not have a lot of people I can share wedding stuff with.
How is all your planning coming along? I too am engaged! I don't have a dress yet....but will go next Monday to try some on and order. I wanted to lose but hvae to get one ordered!
I am EXCITED for you! Your date for wedding is 9 AUGUST ??


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from scout.commands import cli
from scout.server.extensions import store

def test_update_user(mock_app, user_obj):
    """Tests the CLI that updates a user"""

    runner = mock_app.test_cli_runner()
    assert runner

    # Test CLI base, no arguments provided
    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["update", "user"])
    # it should return error message
    assert "Missing option" in result.output

    # Test CLI with wrong user
    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["update", "user", "-u", "unknown_user_id"])
    # it should return error message
    assert "User unknown_user_id could not be foun" in result.output

    # Test CLI with right user, update user role
    # remove admin role first:
    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["update", "user", "-u", user_obj["_id"], "--remove-admin"])
    assert "INFO Updating user {}".format(user_obj["_id"]) in result.output
    updated_user = store.user_collection.find_one()
    assert "admin" not in updated_user["roles"]

    # Test CLI to add admin role to user
    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["update", "user", "-u", user_obj["_id"], "-r", "admin"])
    assert "INFO Updating user {}".format(user_obj["_id"]) in result.output
    updated_user = store.user_collection.find_one()
    assert "admin" in updated_user["roles"]

    # Test CLI to remove an institute from a user
    result = runner.invoke(
        cli, ["update", "user", "-u", user_obj["_id"], "--remove-institute", "cust000"]
    )
    assert "INFO Updating user {}".format(user_obj["_id"]) in result.output
    updated_user = store.user_collection.find_one()
    assert "cust000" not in updated_user["institutes"]

    # Test CLI to add a institute to user's institutes
    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["update", "user", "-u", user_obj["_id"], "-i", "cust000"])
    assert "INFO Updating user {}".format(user_obj["_id"]) in result.output
    updated_user = store.user_collection.find_one()
    assert "cust000" in updated_user["institutes"]

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The Leabhar na hAiséirghe, or Book of Resurrection, is an unfinished Celtic Revival manuscript intended to be a memorial for those who died in the Irish struggle for independence, specifically the Easter Rising of 1916. It was the work of Irish artist Art O'Murnaghan (1875-1953). O'Murnaghan worked on the manuscript from the early 1920s until the end of his life, with some interruptions, but had only completed 26 pages before his death. They are now on display in the National Museum of Ireland's permanent exhibition on The Easter Rising: Understanding 1916.
The Leabhar na hAiséirghe was made with traditional materials and methods and utilizing the traditional Celtic stylistic vocabulary. It would not look out of place next to the Book of Kells or the Book of Durrow, yet it is a completely original, modern work of O'Murnaghan's own creation.
O'Murnaghan was the last 'Celtic' artist who actually understood his models and was able to 'think' in their vocabulary. He did not copy the ancient models, he assimilated them in a new style, without artificiality and in excellent taste.
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Q: What's the difference between '(' and '\(' in LaTeX I'm new to LaTeX and I'm wondering is there any difference between ( and \(? If there is, does the difference apply to other types of parentheses and keywords? Thanks :)

A: This small document shows the usage of the various brackets and the slight ambivalence of \... and ...
\(...\) is meant to start the normal inline math mode, which can be written as $...$ as well. Pure (...) will display parentheses, but they can occur as delimiters as well, see the pstricks macros or commands defined with \NewDocumentCommand from xparse where other delimiters are possible.
\[...\] enters the display mode of math.
[...] can either have the meaning of literal brackets or they are interpreted as the delimiters of an optional argument to a command, such as \chapter[Foo]{Foo bar}. Those [...] are not displayed then.
Now the slightly contradictory definition: {...} are group delimiters and are not displayed directly. If you want to typeset them, use \{ and \}
\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

Starting math mode: \( E=mc^2 \)

Display parentheses:  ( E -- non-math mode ) and \( ( E ) \)
\vskip\baselineskip
\hrule
\vskip\baselineskip
Starting display mode: \[ E = mc^2 \]

Displaying brackets  [ ]
\vskip\baselineskip
\hrule
\vskip\baselineskip
Starting group mode { \bfseries this is bold }

Displaying braces  \{ \}

\end{document}


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