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package com.kings.model.phases;

import java.util.List;

import com.kings.http.GameMessage;
import com.kings.model.GameState;
import com.kings.model.Player;

public abstract class Phase {
	private String phaseId;
	private boolean over;
	/**
	 * Contains the list of players in their correct order, this should be updated to the correct order once the sequence
	 * of phases is over
	 */
	private List<Player> playersInOrderOfTurn;
	private GameState gameState;
	private Phase nextPhase;

	public abstract void handleStart();
	public abstract void setupNextPhase();
	public abstract GameMessage getPhaseOverMessage();
	public abstract GameMessage getPhaseStartedMessage();

	public Phase(GameState gameState, List<Player> playersInOrderOfTurn) {
		this.gameState=gameState;
		this.playersInOrderOfTurn=playersInOrderOfTurn;
	}

	public void start() {
		sendPhaseStartedMessage();
		handleStart();
	}

	public void end() {
		sendPhaseOverMessage();

		setOver(true);
		setupNextPhase();
		handlePhaseOver();
		gameState.setCurrentPhase(nextPhase);
		nextPhase.start();
	}

	public void sendPhaseOverMessage() {
		GameMessage msg = getPhaseOverMessage();
		if(msg != null){
			getGameState().queueUpGameMessageToSendToAllPlayers(msg);
		}
	}

	public void handlePhaseOver(){
	}

	public void sendPhaseStartedMessage() {
		GameMessage msg = getPhaseStartedMessage();
		if(msg != null){
			getGameState().queueUpGameMessageToSendToAllPlayers(msg);
		}
	}

	public GameState getGameState() {
		return gameState;
	}

	public void setGameState(GameState gameState) {
		this.gameState = gameState;
	}

	public Phase getNextPhase() {
		return nextPhase;
	}

	public void setNextPhase(Phase nextPhase) {
		this.nextPhase = nextPhase;
	}

	public List<Player> getPlayersInOrderOfTurn() {
		return playersInOrderOfTurn;
	}

	public void setPlayersInOrderOfTurn(List<Player> playersInOrderOfTurn) {
		this.playersInOrderOfTurn = playersInOrderOfTurn;
	}

	/**
	 * Given a order of players, returns the new order of the players for the next sequence of phases.
	 * <b> This should only be called at the end of sequence of phases</b>
	 * @param players
	 * @return
	 */
	public static List<Player> recalculateOrder(List<Player> players) {
		players.add(players.remove(0));
		return players;
	}

	public synchronized boolean isOver() {
		return over;
	}

	public void setOver(boolean over) {
		this.over = over;
	}

	public String getPhaseId() {
		return phaseId;
	}

	public void setPhaseId(String phaseId) {
		this.phaseId = phaseId;
	}

	public GameMessage newGameMessageForAllPlayers(String type) {
		GameMessage msg = new GameMessage(type);
		msg.addPlayersToSendTo(getPlayersInOrderOfTurn());
		return msg;
	}

}


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How do we know when a story is done? It seems, mostly, like a feeling. If your movie cuts out a little early your response would probably be, "That didn't seem quite right, I don't think that is where it ends." This happened to my mother a few days ago and that was her reaction. Orson Scott Card talks about how we can tell when a story should end by what it focuses on. That idea is what I am going to play with today.
Orson Scott Card is a successful author most known for "Enders Game." His two books on writing, "How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy" and "Characters and Viewpoint," are both excellent. In them he talks about something called the MICE Quotient. MICE stands for milieu, idea, character, and event. Milieu just means all of the setting/context, I looked it up. I will let Card quickly explain the basic structures of each.


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"The human brain has amazed and baffled people throughout the ages. Some scientists and researchers have devoted their entire lives to learning how the brain works. Here are some facts about your brain."
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Module NHS-4207:
Principles & Prac. Pub. Health
Run by School of Health Sciences
Organiser: Dr Jaci Huws
The module aims to identify and analyse the theory and practice of public health and health promotion. Students will develop a critical understanding of the concepts and determinants of health and wellbeing. The origins and principles of health promotion and public health will be explored and evaluated. The conceptual, theoretical and philosophical frameworks that underpin public health and health promotion practice will be examined in detail. This will enable students to critically evaluate different models and approaches, and justify their use in different contexts. A key component of this module is the focus on sustainability and sustainable health. Critical skills and understanding relating to the conduct of health needs assessment will be developed. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the Covid 19 crisis, the module will be delivered using a blend of online teaching approaches for all students through Blackboard Ultra. Students will be required to have access to IT and up to date computer and software.
The module explores and critically appraises key concepts in health education, health promotion, and public health. Course content may include the following:
• Principles relating to health, health education, health promotion and public health policy and practice.
• Approaches to health education, health promotion and public health.
• Public involvement and empowerment.
• Public health surveillance.
• Social marketing and communication.
• Needs and processes of health needs assessment.
• Political and ethical issues relating to health education, health promotion, and public health.
• Sustainability and sustainable health.
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Demonstrates some knowledge and understanding of relevant material for this module, and a limited use of it to answer the question set with little independent thinking. Limited use of material from the module and other relevant information to support arguments; most of the references are drawn on appropriately to support discussion and presented correctly in both text and references list. Limited awareness of conflicting arguments and ideas but no real attempt to address them; some limited ability to analyse and to critically evaluate material. A framework for the assignment is apparent but logical flow and coherence not always consistent with acceptable use of written language.
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Demonstrate adequate knowledge and understanding of relevant material, using it to answer the question set and showing independent thinking. Good use of material from the module and other relevant information to support arguments; references are drawn on appropriately to support discussion and are presented fully and correctly in both text and references list. Some awareness of conflicting arguments and ideas and a good attempt to address them; some ability to analyse and to critically evaluate material. Sensible use of the major points with very good signposting and balance between sections with good use of written language.
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Demonstrate excellent knowledge and understanding of relevant material, using it to answer the question set and showing independent thinking. Excellent use of material from the module and other relevant information to support arguments; references are drawn on appropriately to support discussion presented fully and correctly in both text and references list. Excellent awareness of conflicting arguments and ideas and a good attempt to address them; ability to analyse and to critically evaluate material. Excellent organisation of the major points with very good signposting and balance between sections with fluent use of written language.
Demonstrate a critical understanding, knowledge and ability to conduct a health needs assessment in developing evidence-based health promotion and / or public health.
Discuss and critically analyse the concepts of health, health education, health promotion and public health.
Critically understand political and ethical issues relating to health education, health promotion, and public health.
Critically evaluate the concept of empowerment, and understand the value of public involvement.
Understand and critically analyse prominent theories and models of public health, health promotion and health education.
Discuss and critically appraise local, national and international public health promotion strategies, programmes, health directives or health initiatives, with consideration of sustainability and sustainable development.
ESSAY Health Needs Assessment Essay: 3 parts
A 4000 word essay comprising 3 parts: Part I (1500 words = 40% weighting): Using a specified tool or approach, conduct a health needs assessment of a defined population and setting, and identify what the population's health needs or priorities are. Part II (2000 words = 50 % weighting): Use the findings from Part I to identify a health priority for action and discuss intervention(s) to address this. Part III (500 words: 10% weighting): Write a media release (targeted at a lay audience) that summarises the findings described in Part I and II above.
Tutorials: Students are required to attend individual and group tutorials to facilitate the development of critical appraisal skills.
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I am currently in Japan and bought a prepaid data-only SIM card from IIJmoi that uses the NTT service. I put in the card and set up the APN settings according to the manual. The card seems to work and the two "mobile data arrows" get displayed, but the signal strength bar stays greyed out. However, this seems to be expected behaviour, as native Sailfish apps work perfectly fine and can access the internet.
The problem arises with android apps. With my german SIM card back in Germany the apps worked perfectly well with mobile data. But with the data-only sim here in Japan they don't. The ones that I tried (LINE, Aptiode, Hyperdia) all tell me that there is no network connectivity or that I should check my network. I already tried reinstalling the apps, reinstalling the android support and upgrading to version 1.1.9. and reinstalling the android support again. None of these worked.
I am encountering the same problem, presently in Japan with same data plan sim card. It seems Jolla native apps work. But for Android apps, it depends. For example : - I use K9 for mail, it works manually but automatic sync is deactivated - Biggest issue for me : I cannot use Google maps. But Waze seems to work perfectly. It is kind of like the missing voice call signal makes apps "think" there's no connection at all.
And absolutely no problem with a genuine Android phone.
I have the same issue in japan today with umobile apn. Dolphin works great, other apps won't be able to use the 3G. Wifi is fine. I thought it might be DNS : net.dns1 is NOT set. It could be other apps would.be using hard coded DNS, but it's just a guess.
Same problem here, tested with Signal and Conversation, with a Yamada-SIM U-Mobile card powered by NTT docomo.
Probably the Alien Dalvik implementation somewhere does the assumption that Voice Connectivity means Connectivity, which is exposed wrongly to android applications then. Could be the same cause as why the reception widget icon displays not available, while still having the mobile data connection icon working and right next to it.


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Space, time, love, violence, and the human body: these are but some of the themes explored in this provocative book of state-of-the-art video installations. Each a separate and carefully delineated environment created through multimedia technologies, the eight installations described and illustrated here were produced by an accomplished international group of artists: Judith Barry and Brad Miskell, New York; Stan Douglas, Vancouver; Teiji Furuhashi, Kyoto; Gary Hill, Seattle; Chris Marker, Paris; Marcel Odenbach, Cologne; Tony Oursler, New York; and Bill Viola, Long Beach, California. In the related exhibition, which ran at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1995, the viewer entered the space and became part of what he or she observed. Vivid, complex, and endlessly inventive, these works demonstrate the range and sophistication of an art form born in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Amazing Eclipse Pictures... And Something More?
Today's historic eclipse is now over. This amazing sign in the heavens crossed the United States in 1 hour and 33 minutes, beginning in the 33rd state and ending at the 33rd parallel. It occurred on the 233rd day of the year, 133 days before 2018, and happened 33 days before what might be the Great Sign of Revelation 12. Featured below are some amazing pictures from across the nation.
Whether in the path of totality or not, the entire nation was covered in crescent-shaped illumination, a phenomenon that only occurs during a solar eclipse. Trillions and trillions of these little shadows covered the United States. This caught my attention seeing as the Feast of Trumpets is the only biblical holy day that is marked by the sighting of the moon's waxing crescent. It is a signal that the day "no one knows the day or hour" has begun. Could these tiny crescents be a reminder that the Feast of Trumpets begins in about one month?
Regulus, the King Star, the brightest star in the constellation Leo, can be seen above and slightly to the right in the above photograph. This was a reminder to us all that all eyes were on one of the two constellations involved in next month's Revelation 12 Sign.
The above picture is a time-lapse photograph of the eclipse over the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
What is the elongated, crescent-shaped object below and to the left of the eclipse? A number of spectators noticed this object. Some described it as a light-blue color.
Is this the same object? The picture was taken from a different angle, but the object is at about the same distance as in the previous photo. Closer investigation revealed that this object was probably a lens flare. However, the same can't be said for the previous photograph.
The above picture was taken shortly before totality. To the right you can see the planet Venus, which will join Mercury and Mars on September 23, 2017 to form a crown of twelve stars on the head of the constellation Virgo.
Who was able to see the eclipse? Did you take any interesting photographs or see anything that piqued your interest? If you can share a link in the comments below I may include it in this post.
I wasn't sure we would still be here for this eclipse a few months back, but now I'm glad that I got to see it. We continue to wait on God to send His Son, Jesus Christ for us. Hope it's soon. Maranatha!
Amazing stuff, Kris! Even where I was in Texas temperatures dropped about 3-4 degrees. The sky changed from bright blue to almost a greyish-blue like you might see before a storm comes.
Yes, like before a storm! When I mentioned how different the colors looked outside during the eclipse, my husband's response was that it almost looked like it does before a tornado - everything seems to take on a different hue... No totality here in NW Ohio, but pretty amazing nonetheless!
The 5th picture down was what I saw here in St. Louis. It was amazing to be able to take the glasses off. At one point the space station crossed when the moon was over the sun about 25%.
Yeah guys it looked as if a storm is coming and now I'm convinced it's going to start when that crescent moon appears between September 20 and 22nd. How can God make it any clearer?
Shortly before the eclipse got it's fullest here in Wichita, Kansas, a hawk swooped in from the south and kind of glided over the neighborhood before leaving. I definitely believe that to be a sign as well. We only had 93% coverage here but it was still a sight to behold.
In Spokane I had that same lower left light. I thought it was a sunspot of the actual eclipse as my camera ont phone still recorded more light than there was. I'll try to send a picture.
About to pop a Pizza in the oven and end the 18 hour fast dedicated to the day and our Lord's Graces during these times. Here in CO, near Denver, I took the day off work and the Fam and I watched from the back deck, pinhole shoebox and a neighbor's welding goggles did the trick. Odd to have sunlight dimmed with no clouds, off-hues on the yard and trees, the semi-circle shadows on the drive, as above, and a noticeable coolness. Now the event has passed and the waiting resumes, praying for steadfastness amongst us all, Maranatha!
Hey Jimboni, I contacted you on G+. Hope you got my message!! God bless.
I also saw a rainbow about 5 hrs after eclipse in Illinois.
Dallas, Texas. I took 3 pictures and all 3 have the object/blue light just like the one above!
What is your take about that object? If you can upload them and share a link I would be curious to take a look. File Dropper is useful for that.
Definitely a lens flare/reflection from the camera. I have it in a couple of the photos taken today and it is in a video as well. Moved around with my hand shaking in the video.
The Blue Kachina of Hopi fame?
Even here in Maine, at only 60%, you could feel the slight drop in the temp.
Here in Missouri, south of St. Louis, we had a totality eclipse.
It turned to a dark dusk, the cicadas and crickets were singing, the birds started chirping at sun break.
During totality I could hear cheers and fireworks from close neighborhoods.
I don't think a lot of people understood what this was, a warning.
Same for me. My wife and I were in Villa Ridge and heard many cheers and saw fireworks in the distance. Kinda strange to be honest. While the eclipse was absolutely gorgeous and an incredible experience I couldn't shake the feeling that it was very ominous.
I somehow deleted my post... This is Dallas, Texas with the same picture. I have 1 that is clear and 2 that are blurry. My son said they are flares. What I don't get is how could the flares be so similar and the pictures so alike. I will try to load the pics.
Pictures #2 and 3 are definitely flares, but I can't quite tell with #1.
My husband read that the international space station crossed in front of the sun during the eclipse. Could that be the object which would have been reflecting the sun? Not sure why it would be crescent shape unless it was caused by a slow shutter speed.
Check out Richard Faulkner's HufPo link a few posts down. It looks like the ISS is much too small to be the crescent-shaped object.
Had around 90 seconds of totality here in Nashville where I work. Looking with the naked eye when the all you could see was the very edge of the sun encircling the moon was quite amazing. I must say, in the environment where I watched it, there was a part of me that almost felt like this was anti-climatic. People enjoyed the celestial novelty, but I had no sense of any appreciation for the awesomeness of our Creator among those who were around me. Then it was over and everyone went back inside to their cubicles where the tyranny of the urgent resumed its rule over the lives of many. I cannot help but wonder if what I felt/sensed was because I was immersed amidst a crowd of people who, as best as I can tell, had absolutely no appreciation for the spiritual significance of what we were observing. I mentioned to one person how Jerusalem went dark at precisely the same time that the path of totality began in Oregon. No response of any kind. Only the Lord knows people's hearts, but it sure felt like a blanket of unbelief to me. I must say, it is patently absurd when I hear the secular astronomers refer to this God-created phenomenal sign in the heavens as nothing more than a "cosmic coincidence". Truly,as the Psalmist has written, the fool has said in heart, there is no God.
"Then it was over and everyone went back inside to their cubicles where the tyranny of the urgent resumed its rule over the lives of many. I cannot help but wonder if what I felt/sensed was because I was immersed amidst a crowd of people who, as best as I can tell, had absolutely no appreciation for the spiritual significance of what we were observing."
When the rebel host are kicked down from heaven and they turn up with ships, life as your co-workers know it will be forever changed. Either that will come first or the mass disappearances, but pray for them. They're victims.
It is most profound that as darkness fell in Jerusalem that darkness fell in America via the eclipse. Sunset in Israel marked the beginning of a new month, the sixth month being 1st of Elul. More importantly the 40-days of Teshuva (repentance) has begun and will end on 10 Tishri (Yom Kippur).
My camera caught those too here in Helena Montana. It isn't present in all of the photos (which were taken with my cellphone) It is definitely odd.
A childhood friend of mine and her husband recently moved from Billings to Helena. I've been waiting to hear what they experienced!
I took several photos and noticed the objects in the photo. My daughter's friend in Texas took pictures the resembled mine as well.
As totality approached I noticed that it was going to occur lined-up DIRECTLY OVER the church steeple! We all gathered to take pictures and what did we find? We had all taken pictures that shown a perfect cross in light formed by the union of sun and moon! It filled the sky and reached down to the cross atop the church! I'm waiting on a copy to be sent to me from a gentleman who got a better picture of it than I.
I have seen eclipses before but none as stunning and awe inspiring as this. My wife put it best. She was simply overwhelmed.
I think today we had a taste of what it may be like in one month from now.
I think that picture rules out the crescent-shaped object people were seeing from being the ISS. The ISS looks tiny compared to the sun!
I live in NC and I have 3 pictures with the same crescent object as well.
We were blessed to be in Smith's Ferry, Idaho today to experience the eclipse. What a wonder filled experience. The sky turned an unusual color of grayish-blue as the eclipse progress with the light of the moon changing from a warm yellow to a LED like light. Very unusual.
We were also surprised how much the temperature dropped as the eclipse was waxing. We also noticed the animals in the area. The dogs became quiet and then all of them laid down, as though it were evening. While the eclipse was waning, we also noticed a very large proportion of farm animals lying down in their pastures, over 80% estimate. I mentioned this because I had read it happens during an eclipse and we witnessed it. We also witnessed the brilliant "diamond ring" of the eclipse.
It was quite the experience!
Nice video! Thank you for sharing.
Outstanding video! Thanks for sharing it!
The Big Ben had its last 12 booms on the day of the eclipse. It will not boom for 4 years. The grand monumental identity came to a stop.
Wow hope daily crow is all over that. The maker of Big Ben (Elizabeth tower) called it the "prince of time keepers". Wowsers !!!
Btw, that other object next to the sun was Mercury. You can use sky view app, to check it out before things move.
Great articles love the website. I have a question about the Rev 12 sign. I didn't know where to put it so I am putting it here. If the great sign of v1-2 is a constellation how can a constellation flee to the wilderness in verse Rev 12:6?
That's a good question. I think it is because Revelation 12 is also a narrative describing earthly things. In that instance, Israel fleeing into the wilderness. There are signs and then there is the reality. Signs point to the reality.
I love it that God included the "diamond ring" as part of the eclipse . . . What the bride wears as she prepares for the wedding . . .
As always I pray for the patience and ability to help these people see and that they might open their eyes and hearts and even receive some God-given discernment.
Here's a video I made of our experience chasing and watching the eclipse.
It was an incredible sight to behold!
"When you see all these things, look up to heaven for your redemption is drawing near!"
My phone captured a similar scene but slightly earlier and not as pronounced. Special thanks to Pastor Blinson of Cross Roads Baptist Church for allowing us to share this special moment with them!
Glory to God in the Highest!!
There are many dissecting our eclipse noting it may NOT have been the moon after all. Has this all been a hoax or was the circular object something else, like a hologram? Why was there heavy chem trailing in the skies above? Was this a final test run of Project Blue Beam and HAARP prior to their pinnacle event? Apparently, it should have been a lot darker and much cooler than it was in the path of totality. In some places the eclipse happened an entire earlier than it was "scheduled" to.. You decide.
I took a picture that captured the light blue crescent shape in the lower right hand portion of the photo with the sun high up in the middle. There is no way that was lens flare. I've seen that in my other photos but it's always located right next to the sun.
We as Christians know that solar eclipses are a warning to the gentiles whereas lunar eclipses are a warning to the Jews.
One thing that stuck me was when the diamond ring happened. It was as if we were being shown a wedding ring for a soon coming wedding.


I managed to get a further 10 hours to add to the initial 7 hours taken using the Sky 90/M26C array – 20-minute sub-exposures.
I don't think that the additional 10-hours added much in the way of depth to this image, but it did mean that I didn't need to use any noise reduction like I had to with the 7-hour image. This is worth remembering for future "marathon" imaging sessions. Probably not worth going beyond the "magic" 8-hours per frame.


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Two years ago, Jamie and Cate Henry's mother was murdered. As the only suspects they were questioned and Jamie's sister taken away to juvenile facility. Now she is out, and Henry fears for his life.
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James Whitman has a serious affinity for the poet Walt Whitman, and uses poetry to cope with depression (along with help from his imaginary giant therapist-pigeon), all while trying to solve the mystery of why his father kicked his sister out of the house
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Well-written and compelling, this title focuses on several mental illnesses including OCD, in addition to Anorexia. As a memoir, there is a depth and grit only found in personal accounts and does not gloss over how difficult it is to treat this illness.
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After an incident at school, Audrey avoids human contact by hiding behind dark sunglasses and staying in her house, but therapy, her loving and hilarious family and a boy named Linus help draw her out of hiding.
I Will Save You
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After Kidd leaves a group therapy home, he attempts to find his niche working at a campground with a beloved mentor, but his past is never far behind.
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A teenage boy contemplates suicide but instead checks himself into a psychiatric hospital to learn how to cope with his depression. The title is slightly older and there was a movie version but it still stands out as an excellent representation of what de
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Many times, the wounds we cannot see are those left after a traumatizing incident, accident, or loss. Showcasing grief at its grittiest, this book explores loss, grief and guilt as an extension of invisible wounds.
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A closeted gay teen who previously attempted suicide contemplates having his memory erased after he is rejected by his new best friend.
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Tell the truth, or don't tell the truth? Theo really doesn't want to think about it, but when her best friend Donovan finally returns home after being kidnapped for four years, she doesn't have a choice. Can she do the right thing without having to give u
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Rani joins a new rap group to cope with her turbulent home life.
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Anny Winther (født 5. maj 1951) er en dansk politiker, der i perioden 2007-2013 var borgmester i Rebild Kommune, valgt for Venstre. Hun er desuden formand for KL's social- og sundhedsudvalg.

Winther blev valgt til regionsrådet i Region Nordjylland i 2013 og genvalgt i 2017 og i 2021

Winther, der er opvokset i og omkring Støvring, er uddannet hospitalsøkonoma og senere merkonom i regnskabsvæsen og statsautoriseret ejendomsmægler. Hun var genmem 20 år regnskabschef i KK Fritidshuse, der ejes af hendes mand. Hendes politiske karriere begyndte i 1990, da hun blev medlem af Støvring Kommunalbestyrelse. Fra 1998 til 2007 var hun borgmester i Støvring Kommune. Efter strukturreformen blev hun den første borgmester i den nye store Rebild Kommune. Efter kommunalvalget i 2009 så det i første omgang som ud som om Venstre måtte afgive borgmesterposten, men takket være en konstituering med Socialdemokraterne og Konservative – svarende til 17 ud af 25 byrådsmedlemmer – lykkedes det hende at beholde posten. Winther genopstillede ikke ved kommunalvalget i 2013, men skiftede i stedet til at være regionsrådspoltiker.

I forbindelse med den såkaldte Rebild-sag  og Rebild Kommunes afskedigelse af kommunaldirektøren, socialdirektøren og familie- og handicapchefen  i 2012, krævede DF's byrådsmedlem Rikke Karlsson, at Anny Winther skulle gå af.

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Died – Dying – Obituary : Mike Davis, 'Metropolis of Quartz' creator who chronicled the forces that formed L.A., dies
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Died – Dying – Obituary
Mike Davis, 'Metropolis of Quartz' creator who chronicled the forces that formed L.A., dies
When it was first revealed in 1990, Mike Davis' "Metropolis of Quartz" hardly appeared a candidate for bestseller standing.
There was its creator, for starters. Davis was a Marxist city scholar whose major contribution to the general public discourse on the time consisted of a little-read ebook concerning the historical past of labor within the U.S., together with dispatches on associated topics within the LA Weekly and the New Left Evaluation.
There was additionally the ebook itself. Launched by the lefty publishing home Verso, it was 462 dense, unsparing pages concerning the methods wherein highly effective pursuits in Los Angeles — particularly, actual property builders, aided and abetted by politicians and the Police Division — had ruthlessly molded the panorama of the town to their whim, principally on the expense of the working class and other people of colour, all whereas selling myths about yard residing.
"Metropolis of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles" was virtually irrationally bold. The ebook contained a kitchen sink's value of material protecting the design of company superblocks, cul-de-sac NIMBY-ism and the continued faceoff between the cultures of boosterism and noir, buttressed by copious footnotes and references to Marxist theorists resembling Antonio Gramsci and Herbert Marcuse. And its cowl? A looming picture of the Metropolitan Detention Middle in downtown Los Angeles by photographer Robert Morrow.
But "Metropolis of Quartz" rapidly materialized on bestseller lists when it debuted. As reporter Susan Moffat wrote in The Occasions in 1994, Davis' work "managed to show native zoning battles into revolutionary excessive drama."
It additionally turned Davis right into a public mental. His visions of the town's "spatial apartheid," as described in "Metropolis of Quartz," had initially been chided as apocalyptic by some critics. However the 1992 uprisings, which left swaths of L.A. in cinders, confirmed that his evaluation had been prescient.
A long time later, in a 2020 podcast interview with Los Angeles critic and scholar David Kipen, Davis nonetheless appeared a bit baffled by his work's success. "I used to be totally shocked that anyone bothered to learn this ebook," he mentioned.
"Metropolis of Quartz" wasn't simply learn, nonetheless. It was devoured.
"Whenever you choose the work of any individual, it's what the work itself did, the methods it makes us suppose otherwise," mentioned historian William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. "Equally essential: What number of ships did it launch? And 'Metropolis of Quartz' launched so many ships — whether or not it's dissertations or conferences or articles."
Davis, a author whose work uncovered L.A.'s social fractures and disquieted its most ardent boosters, and whose mark on the mental historical past of Southern California stays indelible, died Tuesday at his residence in San Diego from problems associated to esophageal most cancers, based on his daughter and literary agent Róisín Davis. He was 76.
In an interview with Occasions reporter Sam Dean in July, he accepted his terminal prognosis however mentioned he had hoped for a extra dramatic ending. "If I've a remorse," he mentioned, "it's not dying in battle or at a barricade as I've at all times romantically imagined — , combating."
Davis is survived by his fifth spouse, artist, curator and scholar Alessandra Moctezuma, their twin youngsters, James and Cassandra Davis, in addition to two youngsters from Davis' earlier marriages: Jack and Róisín Davis.
Although finest identified for "Metropolis of Quartz," Davis wrote greater than a dozen notable books over his greater than four-decade profession, together with 2020's "Set the Night time on Hearth: L.A. within the Sixties," which he co-wrote with historian and journalist Jon Wiener. In true Davis model, it's an intensive work — 800 pages — and a profound examination of '60s activism in a metropolis that had usually been written off as apathetic throughout that period. Critic Jeff Weiss, who edits TheLAnd, described it as "a love letter" to "the thought of collective battle."
Extra polemical was "Ecology of Concern: Los Angeles and the Creativeness of Catastrophe," launched in 1998, about how the town's city design was exacerbating fireplace and drought. It additionally, fairly famously — or, quite, infamously — featured a chapter titled "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn," arguing in opposition to deploying huge public assets to avoid wasting an space the place "nouveaux riches" had constructed "with scant regard for the inevitable fiery consequence."
D.J. Waldie, the mild-mannered essayist behind "Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir," wrote in his evaluation of "Ecology of Concern" that the ebook offered "a imaginative and prescient so dismal that it's in the end paralyzing." Jill Stewart, a columnist for New Occasions Los Angeles, described the creator as a "city-hating socialist."
Mike Davis at residence in San Diego in July.
(Adam Perez / For The Occasions)
And there was Brady Westwater (actual identify: Ross Ernest Shockley), a Malibu actual property agent and novice historian who took it upon himself to fact-check Davis' work and ship his voluminous findings to only about any journalist inside attain of a fax machine. A few of the errors chronicled by Westwater and others had been trivialities, however in addition they turned up bent truths: L.A. media and meteorologists weren't, as Davis claimed, conspiratorially taking part in down the occasional tornadic storms that touched down within the metropolis.
The Occasions adopted up with a 5,600-word front-page story, wherein reporter Ted Rohrlich fact-checked a number of dozen claims in Davis' books. His view: "Most of his stretchers seem like the results of haste, wishful pondering and a style for entertaining hyperbole quite than malice."
In response to that epic piece, Wiener wrote a letter crucial of The Occasions. "When you put the identical assets into checking footnotes in different books, you'd discover related 'minor' errors," he wrote. "So how come The Occasions targeted on social critic Davis, as an alternative of, say, on a voice of the institution like Henry Kissinger?"
The brouhaha in the end did little to shake Davis' mental standing, nor did it undermine a few of the larger factors he was making concerning the methods energy and coverage form cities.
"That's the level with Davis: extra theoretician than historian, extra intuition than analysis," wrote the late journalist and L.A. River activist Lewis MacAdams. "The purpose is much less what he discovers than which elements of the file he chooses to take a look at. All people is aware of that Malibu burns; it was not till Davis that anybody mentioned, 'Let it.' Those that argue together with his information should nonetheless grapple together with his argument."
Mike Davis, proper, at an occasion on the now-defunct Midnight Particular bookstore with actor Viggo Mortensen in 2004.
(Annie Wells / Los Angeles Occasions)
If "Metropolis of Quartz" was an unlikely bestseller, then Davis was an unlikely mental star.
He started his profession not in academia however as a truck driver for his uncle's wholesale meat firm outdoors San Diego. The picture of working-class powerful was one he deployed to nice impact. His creator photograph for "Metropolis of Quartz" exhibits him scowling beneath a flattop, arms folded protectively throughout his chest, a chunk of brutalist city infrastructure as backdrop.
This, alongside together with his dour view of cities, led to some funereal descriptions of Davis within the press, the place he was dubbed L.A.'s "darkish prophet" and the "poet laureate of pessimism." The French day by day Le Monde as soon as baptized him a "prophète de malheur" — prophet of misfortune.
But when his public persona appeared foreboding, his persona wasn't. A beneficiant scholar and mentor, Davis was at residence in all worlds, conferring with feminist theorist Susan Faludi one minute and a former Crip chief the following. Within the '90s, he held common gatherings at his Angelino Heights residence the place neighborhood activists just like the late Levi Kingston would cross-pollinate with rising younger essayists resembling Lynell George and Rubén Martínez.
He was instrumental in supporting younger writers, particularly younger Black and Latino ones. He inspired George to publish "No Crystal Stair: African-Individuals within the Metropolis of Angels," her assortment of observations about Black L.A. within the aftermath of the '92 uprisings.
"When he mentioned, 'You need to do that ebook,' I felt I wasn't prepared," George mentioned. "He mentioned, 'No, you're prepared.'" He then helped set her up with a ebook contract.
George mentioned Davis' most essential legacy, nonetheless, stays the paradigm shifts he helped put into movement.
"He shifted the dialog," she mentioned. "We had been lastly speaking about L.A. not in relation to New York, however Los Angeles as Los Angeles."
Michael Ryan Davis was born on March 10, 1946, in Fontana, one in all three youngsters of working-class dad and mom from Ohio (his father was a meat cutter) who hitchhiked to California through the Nice Melancholy. When Davis was a younger boy, his household relocated to Bostonia, a tiny hamlet in San Diego County on the outskirts of El Cajon.
As a teen he held conservative views: "Proper-wing, ultra-patriotic," he as soon as instructed a newspaper reporter. And that was when he was really excited about politics. As a youth, he mentioned, he was extra preoccupied with "stealing automobiles a bit, attempting to pull race and moving into bother." He was, he instructed The Occasions in 1994, "just about your common redneck 16-year-old."
However a collection of formative occasions would change his worldview — and, in the end, the course of his life.
In highschool, Davis grew to become intrigued by "Hiroshima," journalist John Hersey's account of the atomic bombing of the Japanese port metropolis throughout World Battle II. Throughout this identical interval, a cousin who was married to a Black civil rights activist took him to an illustration in downtown San Diego. There, as Davis later recalled in a 1997 interview with the journal Lingua Franca, "A gaggle of redneck sailors drenches us with lighter fluid, and one of many guys began flicking his lighter."
There have been additionally the shifting circumstances of his household life. When Davis was 16, his father suffered a "catastrophic coronary heart assault," an occasion that rattled the household financially. Out of necessity, he took a semester off from college to drive a supply truck. The gig offered a wanted paycheck. It additionally launched him to the politics of labor and Marxism.
Over the following twenty years, Davis lived an intensely peripatetic life, intertwining intervals of labor and research with journey and activism.
He attended Reed School in Oregon briefly, lasting solely a few weeks earlier than getting thrown out for residing in his girlfriend's dorm. That stint, nonetheless, related him with the left-leaning College students for a Democratic Society, and he grew to become the group's first regional organizer in Southern California. The expertise was important to cultivating his activist streak. Later in life, nonetheless, he expressed disappointment with the coed motion. "The New Left weren't heroes," he mentioned. "We misplaced. The civil rights guys had been the actual heroes."
By the tip of the '60s, Davis had not solely joined the Southern California Communist Social gathering, he was working its Los Angeles bookstore. (His FBI file, by one estimate, exceeded 100 pages.)
Largely, he made ends meet as a big-rig driver, delivering Barbies for an L.A. wholesaler. For a time he additionally drove a Grey Line bus, hauling vacationers to picturesque L.A. websites such because the Fairfax Farmers Market, all of the whereas sneaking in particulars about grim historic occasions resembling the Chinese language bloodbath of 1871.
By the mid-'70s, Davis was again at school, finding out historical past and economics at UCLA courtesy of a scholarship from a butchers union. After receiving his bachelor's diploma, he started coursework for a doctorate however by no means earned it. As a substitute, he relocated to Scotland, Eire, then London, the place for half a dozen years within the '80s he served as editor of the New Left Evaluation.
He returned to Los Angeles in 1987 — to a metropolis, as he instructed Moffat, that "had modified past recognition." He resumed truck driving however a scarcity of unionized jobs meant worse hours and decrease wages. "I felt like a sharecropper on the interstate," he later mentioned.
He took a wide range of educating jobs at native schools — although, with out a doctorate, his choices had been restricted. And he started to work in earnest on the manuscript for "Metropolis of Quartz," which introduced collectively concepts he had been cogitating on for years.
The ebook catapulted Davis into the stratosphere. He was a finalist for a Nationwide E-book Critics Circle Award the 12 months it was revealed. Different honors and educational residencies adopted. In 1998, he acquired a MacArthur fellowship, the so-called genius grant.
Mike Davis at residence in San Diego in July. "I'm not a author's author in any respect," he mentioned, "however I'm a rattling good storyteller."
"Metropolis of Quartz" is often cited as one in all a cluster of extremely influential books on Los Angeles and its environs. Since its preliminary publication, the ebook has been launched in three English-language editions and translated into seven different languages.
In his evaluation within the New York Occasions, the late USC journalism professor Bryce Nelson in contrast the "Metropolis of Quartz" creator to "Nathanael West at his most somber." Davis, he added, "provides a darkish, virtually unrelievedly oppressive image of life in a tricky, hardhearted metropolis."
Martínez, a journalist and a professor of literature at Loyola Marymount College, who has written on Davis' private {and professional} legacies, first met the creator once they had been each at LA Weekly within the late Nineteen Eighties. He mentioned those that see solely darkness in Davis aren't studying very deeply. "There's humor throughout his work," he mentioned. "It's a darkish humor, however it's humor."
Certainly, to comb "Metropolis of Quartz" is to repeatedly stumble into Davis' barbs. Early civic booster Charles Lummis was "a malarial journalist" from Ohio. Yuppies are positioned into an invented scientific taxonomy known as "homo reaganus." The structure of Bunker Hill is dismissed as "a Miesian skyscape raised to dementia."
"I'm not a author's author in any respect," he instructed The Occasions' Dean, "however I'm a rattling good storyteller."
All through his profession, Davis used darkness and humor (and significant concept) to color a fancy image of Los Angeles. "It's not all apocalyptic," Martínez mentioned. "It could be a cautionary story, however it's on the service of a hopeful undertaking."
As Davis as soon as instructed a author for Salon: "I really like Los Angeles. How are you going to not see that? I suppose the ebook is, in the long run, a failure if it betrays not one of the sense of deep feeling I've concerning the metropolis. However that's the place being a radical is available in — it's a must to rain on the parade."


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IDLO Director-General Jan Beagle's statement to the High-level Segment of the Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Statement by the Director-General, Jan Beagle at the 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Mr. President,
Executive Director Waly,
It is an honour to address the Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on behalf of the International Development Law Organization.
As the only international intergovernmental organisation dedicated to promoting the rule of law and access to justice, IDLO was an early advocate for SDG 16.
We work to promote its essential contribution to sustaining both peace and development in over forty countries globally, including in some of the most fragile and challenging environments.
The current session is dedicated to "advancing crime prevention, criminal justice and the rule of law" and their contribution to the 2030 Agenda.
Allow me to share three insights from IDLO's work relevant to your deliberations.
First, we have seen in complex contexts, such as the Sahel and Somalia, that effective laws and justice institutions can play an important role in preventing conflict and sustaining peace.
Research from the World Bank and other sources shows that insecurity exacts a heavy toll on development, and that poverty is becoming increasingly concentrated in fragile and conflict affected settings.
By fairly resolving disputes, promoting peaceful collaboration, and reducing crime and violence, justice systems can help break the cycle of violence that holds back the development potential of countries and individuals.
Supporting effective, accountable and accessible criminal justice institutions in such contexts, is therefore critical to the achievement of the SDGs.
My second point is that the criminal justice system is key in tackling corruption, which diverts funds from essential services and initiatives, undermines confidence in public institutions, and is a major impediment to sustainable development.
IDLO works in countries as diverse as Armenia, Bahamas, the Philippines and Ukraine to promote integrity and transparency of justice institutions and strengthen their ability to investigate, prosecute and adjudicate offenses related to corruption.
COVID-19 has dramatically aggravated both the scale and impact of corruption, as countries mobilize and disburse significant emergency relief and recovery funding.
Ensuring that this support is put to its intended use, and benefits those who need it most, will be essential in rebuilding people's trust in governance and laying the foundations for a more just, equitable and sustainable recovery.
My third and final point is that while COVID-19 has dramatically exposed underinvestment and weaknesses in the functioning of the justice sector, it also inspired adaptations and innovations.
Over the past year, IDLO has supported its partners to mitigate the impact of the crisis on justice systems and justice seekers through approaches including virtual legal aid hotlines, digitized case management systems, leveraging Alternative Dispute Resolution and customary and informal systems, and adopting restorative approaches to corrections.
Applied equitably, these and other "justice innovations" have the potential to transform criminal justice systems, increasing transparency and efficiency, while expanding access to previously excluded groups.
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La villa La Reine Jeanne est une imposante maison de villégiature, construite en 1933 par l'architecte américain Barry Dierks pour l'industriel Paul-Louis Weiller.

Située sur un terrain de  du hameau de Cabasson, dans la commune de Bormes-les-Mimosas (Var), cette propriété voisine du fort de Brégançon a reçu la visite d'innombrables célébrités, vedettes, écrivains, souverains et chefs d'État parmi lesquels Charlie Chaplin, Richard Nixon, Juan Carlos d'Espagne ou encore Georges Pompidou.

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Au milieu des années vingt, à la recherche d'un terrain pour établir sa résidence d'été, Paul-Louis Weiller explore la Côte d'Azur aux commandes d'un avion. Il découvre le site de la pointe de la Galère sur le hameau de Cabasson, à Bormes-les-Mimosas.

Le lieu dont il fait l'acquisition s'étend sur , une forêt de pins et de chênes-lièges près d'une plage où, en 1347, a débarqué la reine Jeanne de Naples, comtesse de Provence. À sa demande, l'architecte Barry Dierks construit à cet endroit, en 1928, une villa moderniste pouvant loger une trentaine de personnes.

Jusqu'en 1992, soit un an avant sa mort à l'âge de cent ans, Paul-Louis Weiller reçoit à La Reine Jeanne têtes couronnées, vedettes de cinéma, célébrités des arts et lettres, chefs d'État, princes de la finance et grands industriels. L'été 1969, le président Georges Pompidou, en vacances au fort de Brégançon, vient régulièrement dîner en voisin.

Il en va de même du grand-duc Jean de Luxembourg dont la propriété de La Tour sarrasine est mitoyenne. C'est à Cabasson que son fils cadet Guillaume, prince de Luxembourg, rencontre la petite-fille de Paul-Louis Weiller, Sybilla, qu'il épouse en 1994.

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Among the geekerati and technosnobs, Internet Explorer has long been an object of scorn and derision. The browser that Microsoft bundles with its Windows operating system has a reputation for being slow, bloated, buggy, insecure and riddled with proprietary, non-standard technology.
Much of that reputation is from IE's past, with versions 6 through 8 being the worst offenders. But recent versions – and particularly IE 11, the current release – are much improved. IE is more secure and more standards-compliant now, but it still draws sneers from those who think they know better.
Nevertheless, Internet Explorer remains the most-used browser globally by a wide margin. In November, it had a nearly 59 percent share of the browser market, according to NetMarketshare. Google's Chrome, the nearest competitor, clocked in at under 21 percent.
Still, Microsoft apparently thinks that IE's time is nearing an end. According to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, the company is considering ending its development and focusing on a new, leaner browser – code-named Spartan – that will be released next year with Windows 10.
However, if my sources are right, Spartan is not IE 12. Instead, Spartan is a new, light-weight browser Microsoft is building.
Windows 10 (at least the desktop version) will ship with both Spartan and IE 11, my sources say. IE 11 will be there for backward-compatibility's sake. Spartan will be available for both desktop and mobile (phone/tablet) versions of Windows 10, sources say.
Spartan is just a codename at this point. My sources don't know what Microsoft plans to call this new browser when it debuts. The IE team hinted during a Reddit Ask Me Anything earlier this year that the team had contemplated changing the name of IE to try to get users to realize the much more standards-compliant IE of today is very different from older, proprietary versions of IE.
Foley – who is one of the best reporters who focuses on Microsoft – speculates that Spartan could be ported to other platforms, which would mark a dramatic change in the company's approach. Microsoft hasn't made a non-Windows Web browser since it halted development of Internet Explorer for Mac OS X. But she notes that Microsoft's strategy is now multi-platform, that Spartan could find its way to OS X, iOS and Android.
Does the notion of an all-new, lightweight browser from Microsoft intrigue you?