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July 15, 2019| Wildlife, News|By Wildest Editorial
A Canadian couple kiss over the body of a lion they just killed.
A HORRIFYING photo shows a trophy hunting couple kissing over the corpse of a lion they had just killed.
Darren and Carolyn Carter are seen kissing over the lions lifeless body. They were taking part in a hunting safari set up by Legelela Safaris, when they shot and killed at least 2 lions. It is suspected that these were 'Canned Lion Hunts'.
Pictures were uploaded to the Safari operators official Facebook Page with the caption "Hard work in the hot Kalahari sun…well done. A monster lion."
The couple in the Kalahari Desert via Facebook
Despite their remorseless demeanour, the couple – who run a taxidermy business – describe themselves as "passionate conservationists", the Mirror reports.
Another image shared on the account, showing a another killed lion, featured the caption "There is nothing like hunting the king of the jungle in the sands of the Kalahari!!!! Well done to the happy huntress and the team…."
Experts say the fate of these lions was sealed at birth, as they were bred in captivity purely for the purpose of being shot by rich hunters.
"It looks as though this lion was a tame animal killed in an enclosure, bred for the sole purpose of being the subject of a smug selfie.
Eduardo Goncalves of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting
Carolyn Carter posing with one of the lions. Via Facebook
"This couple should be utterly ashamed of themselves, not showing off and snogging for the cameras."
Linda Park, boss of Voice 4 Lions in South Africa, also insists the white lion pictured was "definitely captive".
Legelela offers giraffe hunts for £2,400, zebra from £2,000, with prices for leopard, rhino, lion and elephant hunts available "on request".
Legelela Safaris have been banned from exhibiting at the Great British Shooting Show in Birmingham next year after public outcry and are yet to comment.
It was announced last night that Michael Gove will take steps towards banning imports of hunting trophies into the UK.


Dom is leaving the band to teach drumming at a school in Tamil Nadu, Southern India. He leaves as a good friend. Without his drive and enthusiasm, the band would not have got to where they are today. He leaves us with an enigmatic and highly symbolic drawing as a parting gift.
Resurgency was what it was. A therapy to repair and restore the spirit of The Enid. A vehicle of self-discovery.
Zach and Jason have formed a strong musical friendship and are in for the long haul. They really want to re-explore the best of the band's output from the last four decades and bring it to the generations who have never heard of any of it.
New music will come in its own time. RJG will continue to lend a guiding hand to Jason and Zach. Next week the three of them are off to Ant's House in East Germany to learn about things like cadences, voice leading, auxiliary chords, the tricks of modulation and how to avoid being in root position all the time.
The band's plan is to work out the way to make live performances as dynamic and emotional as ever without the obligatory drum kit demanded of main stream rock. There are just six weeks before the show at The Citadel in St Helens in October. RJG together with Zach and Jason will be showing you how this can happen.
We have one more very special show planned for you this year, at The Citadel, St Helens. The show will take place on Saturday 21 October, and will feature RJG, Jason, and Zach. This promises to be a truly memorable night. Tickets are £16 and available from here.
The band will be performing at The Enidi Convention to be held as usual at The Black Prince in Northampton on Sat 17th March.
The Enid have always enjoyed a close relationship with their fans and "fellow travelers", and this is going to continue and develop more closely than in the recent past.
Look out for RJG's curry nights, impromptu parties, musical seminars and philosophical debate.
Full live performances may not be on the agenda for a while, but this certainly doesn't mean that you'll miss seeing Jason and Zach (and RJG) playing together regularly.
In fact, you're going to be able to see them playing more often than the band has done in the past, streamed to your PC, mobile, tablet or smart-TV and sound system from the band's rehearsal studio in Northampton.
The Green Room at The Lodge has been substantially refurbished as a performance and broadcast studio which is capable of broadcasting HD audio and video performances streamed over the internet to a combination of Facebook and specialist YouTube (and other channel sources).


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Hubert Bals Fund announces winners Fall 2012 Selection Round
The Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has selected twenty-five film projects that receive grants for script development, digital production, postproduction, distribution or workshops. In its Fall 2012 selection round, the Fund gives 330,000 Euro to projects from seventeen Asian, Eastern European, Latin-American and African countries. (See full list below) From many strong applications for workshop initiatives, the Hubert Bals Fu...
02.01.2013 | Editor's blog
The European Film Awards Silver Jubilee
Only nine more days before European filmmakers, EFA Members, guests, nominees and winners will gather to celebrate European cinema at its finest at the 25th European Film Awards in Malta. The venue for this year's Silver Jubilee edition of the awards ceremony, traditionally opened by the President of the European Film Academy Wim Wenders, is the Mediterranean Conference Centre, a spectacular venue built on Valetta's waterfront i...
22.11.2012 | European Film Awards's blog
53rd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / 2 - 11 NOVEMBER 2012
53rd TIFF LINE-UP, JURIES & PARALLEL EVENTS This year's 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival kicked off this Friday, November 2nd. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY: Thomas Elsaesser, Film theorist and academic, Germany, Jury President Laufrey Gudjonsdottir, Programmer, consultant, founding director of the Icelandic Film Center, Iceland Ole Christian Madsen, Director, Denmark Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Director, Portugal Thymios Bakatakis, Cinematographer, Greece...
05.11.2012 | Thessaloniki's blog
altcineAction! Submission is open!
Whether an established or aspiring filmmakers, here's your chance to shine—and win a full scholarship or production equipment that will jump-start your career. The Balkan film portal altcine.com is holding the first online short film festival for the Balkans. Submissions are open until September 7th and don't delay: here's the twist. altcineAction! will screen a maximum of 360 minutes—and films are accepted on a first-come, first served basis. But there's another ...
30.08.2012 | altcineAction's blog
The EFA Ambassadors
Moritz Bleibtreu actor, Germany One of the best-known German faces in international cinema, Moritz Bleibtreu first shot to international attention as Manni in Tom Tykwer's RUN LOLA RUN (1998). He was nominated in 2001 for the EFA People's Choice Award for THE EXPERIMENT by Oliver Hirschbiegel and is now nominated for European Actor for his role as Andreas Baader in THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX by Uli Edel. ...
Operation Kino goes digital with VOD
Ena Dozo from Sarajevo Film Festival, Mira Staleva from Sofia International Film Festival, Andrei Agudaru from Romanian Film Promotion, Cristian Hordila from the International Film Festival in Cluj and Tillman Scheel from Reelport presented the project "Operation Kino" (OK). OK is an initiative of the international film festivals in Sofia (Sofia Film Festival), Sarajevo (Sarajevo Film Festival), Cluj (Transilvania International Film Festival) and Istanbul (International Ista...
28.05.2012 | Sofia International Film Festival's blog
16th International Film Festival SOFIA FILM FESTIVAL
SFF is organized by Art Fest under the patronage of the Sofia Municipality, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, the National Film Centre and National Palace of Culture, with the support of the programs MEDIA and MEDIA Mundus of the European Commission, UNESCO – Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, national and foreign cultural institutes and sponsors. The main sponsor of the 16th edition of the festival is Jameson Irish Whiskey. The 16th Sofia Intern...
2012 Los Angeles Film Festival Line-Up
This year's Festival will screen a diverse slate of nearly 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries, along with signature programs such as the Filmmaker Retreat, Poolside Chats, Coffee Talks, Music Events and more. Check back May 15 for the complete Festival schedule! OPENING NIGHT: To Rome With Love- (DIRECTOR/WRITER Woody Allen PRODUCERS Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum CAST Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz,...
Sarajevo Talent Campus Call for Entries 2012
New call for entries for emerging filmmakers from Southeast Europe to participate in Sarajevo Talent Campus held within the framework of the 18th Sarajevo Film Festival is open from the 15th of March 2012. Application deadline is the 8th of May, 2012. Sarajevo Talent Campus, the educational and networking platform for emerging filmmakers from Southeast Europe, was launched in 2007 in cooperation with Berlin International Film Festival and Berlinale Talent Campus. The programme offer...
15.03.2012 | Sarajevo Film Festival's blog
CineLink Call for Entries Extended!
New call for entries for filmmakers from Southeast Europe to participate in the CineLink Project Development Workshop and Co-Production Market held within the framework of the Sarajevo Film Festival is opened from the 1th of December 2011. New deadline for project submissions is 12th of March 2012. CineLink project, the backbone of the Sarajevo Film Festival's Industry Section, is a development and financing platform for carefully selected local feature projects destine...
Berlinale Special 2012: Series of Talks at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele
For years, discussions with filmmakers directly after the screenings of their films have been a special attraction of the festival experience for many Berlinale visitors. With the establishment of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele as a new venue in 2012, the Berlinale now has the opportunity to use this space to expand discussions between filmmakers and the audience. "Some topics simply demand more attention and a broader platform than the time allotted to them usually allows," comments Fes...
Scott's Interview to EuroXpress
"The difference in European independent cinema is that it doesn't leave anyone indifferent" Interview: 29th of January, 2012 We interviewed Scott Hillier, a film and documentary director, producer, and President of ÉCU- The European Independent Film Festival . By Mariana Castaño (Paris) Scott Hillier is a "storyteller". "Storyteller" is the word he uses himself, in a manner of English that he speaks at the speed of light. His eyes and hands move quickly an...
08.02.2012 | ÉCU-The European Independent Film Festival's blog
Alternatives on Alternative Film and Video Festival 2011
Academic Film Center was founded as Akademic Film Club in 1958. Through its history, thanks to authors such as Kokan Rakonjac, Sava Trifkovic, Živojin Pavlovic, Tomislav Gotovac, Dragoslav Lazic, Vjekoslav Nakic, Milan Jelic, Radoslav Vladic, Ivan Obrenov, Ivko Šešic, Nikola Đuric, Miodrag Miloševic, Bojan Jovanovic, Miloje Radakovic, Dejan Vlaisavljevic, Igor Toholj, Bob Miloshevic, Zelimir Zilnik, Godina etc… it became very significant and most awarded of all film clubs in ex Yugoslav...
21.12.2011 | Radmila Djurica's blog
Calling All SEE Documentarians! Toronto doc submissions close Jan 13, 2012!
Hot Docs, the Toronto Documentary Film Festival, is focusing on SEE countries for the 2012 Festival, and the deadline is just a month away—Jan. 13, 2012. Filmmakers with documentaries from or about Albania, Austria, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cypress, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey should apply. Submit your docs (any topic, any length), postmarked by 1/13/12, to: Hot Docs Canadian International Do...
17.12.2011 | South East European Film Festival's blog
CIRKUS COLUMBIA at 'Cinedays', Skopje
Oscar winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic's latest film "Cirkus Columbia" (2011) screened this week to Macedonian audiences in its capital city of Skopje during the CINEDAYS film event of 70 films in 10 days! CIRKUS COLUMBIA had its world premier at the 2010 Venice Film Festival and has traveled to festivals around the world since. The film will go on to open the 'Dialogue of Cultures International Film Festival' next Thursday in NYC at SVA theater! Last Sunday at Al...
23.11.2011 | Cinedays's blog
52nd TIFF awards ceremony!
The Golden Alexander Award Winner at 52nd TIFF -TIFF PRESS RELEASE-52nd TIFF: The Awards (11/13/2011)52nd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL November 4 -13, 2011 The International Jury of the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival comprised of: Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator - Department of Film and Media, Museum of Modern Art NY, USA, Jury President Sitora Alieva, Program Director - Kinot...
16.11.2011 | Vanessa McMahon's blog
Thessaloniki Film Festival awards Twilight Portrait
52nd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALNovember 4 -13, 2011 The International Jury of the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival comprised of: Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator - Department of Film and Media, Museum of Modern Art NY, USA, Jury PresidentSitora Alieva, Program Director - Kinotavr Film Festival, RussiaFrederic Boyer, Director - Les Arcs European Film Festival, FranceConstantine Giannaris, Film director, GreeceHisami	Kuroiwa, Film producer, USABestows: THE AWARDSBest Feature Film Awar...
THE AWARDS AT 52ND THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL (TIFF)
The Golden Alexander Award Winner at 52nd TIFF -TIFF PRESS RELEASE- 52nd TIFF: The Awards (11/13/2011) 52nd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL November 4 -13, 2011 The International Jury of the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival comprised of: La...
13.11.2011 | Thessaloniki International Film Festival's blog
52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival Lineup
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) TIFF PRESS RELEASE!52nd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 4 - 13 NOVEMBER, 2011 FILM LIST OPENING FILM – November 4th, 2011 - The Descendants by Alexander Payne, 2011, USA CLOSING FILM - November 12th, 2011 - Martha Marcy May Marlene by Sean Durkin, USA, 2011 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION • ALOIS NEBEL, Tomas LUNAK, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovak Republic, 2011, 84' • BEHOLD THE LAMB, John MCILDUFF, United Kingdom, 2011, 83' • BURROS/D...
Don't Miss the South East European Films at AFI in Los Angeles
Here's another great opportunity to see films from South East Europe in Los Angeles. And it's free! Today (and later this week too) you can see two SEE films at the AFI Film Festival: -- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Turkey/Bosnia) is Turkey's official submission for the Foreign Language Oscar, today at 1:30pm at the Egyptian, and Nov. 10 at 3:45pm at the Chinese. Details: http://ticketing.afi.com/eng/detail.aspx?ID=8196 -- The Forgiveness of Blood (USA/Albania/Denmark/Italy)...
The 4th Eastern Neighbours Film Festival kicks off tomorrow
In only one day the 4th edition of the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival opens the curtain in Utrecht, the Netherlands. With a total of 31 films from 9 countries the festival introduces some of the latest films from East and South Eastern Europe, from countries that are not yet members of the European Union. Also rare and yet unseen material can be found among the selection. The festival runs from October 26 - 30, 2011. Special guest at ENFF is European Shooting Star 2011 ...
Thessaloniki gearing up for 52nd edition,
We will be covering the festival with dailies...stay tuned 52nd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL will run November 4 - 13, 2011 With less than a week to go before the start of the event, we have the pleasure to contact you with the latest news from this year's 52ND Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which kicks off Friday, November 4th. A complete list of this year's line-up can be found at the end of this pres...
Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in Utrecht Line Up
The 4th Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in Utrecht (NL) announces 2011 Line UpA total of 31 films from 9 countries are screened at this years edition of ENFF in Utrecht, Netherlands (October 26 - 30, 2011). The festival focuses on films from East and South Eastern Europe, from countries that are not yet members of the European Union. ENFF opens with the film DO NOT FORGET ME ISTANBUL. Six directors that have been successful in the international arena came together for this project under the art...
Fellowships available for research into South East European (SEE) countries
Occasionally funding opportunities come by my desk which I like to post, in case anyone out there can take advantage of them. Here's one. The American Council of Learned Societies has launched a competition for fellowships for the academic year 2012. These are intended to fund research related to the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Montenegro, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Ro...
The 4th Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in Utrecht (NL): A Spotlight on Turkey
The non-competitive festival ENFF features a unique program of rarities from East- and South East Europe - countries that are not yet members of the European Union. Recent films are presented alongside with classics that are hardly known outside of their country of production. Today the festival announces the first titles of the upcoming edition. A major aim of ENFF is to connect local audiences with mentalities from people and places that are closer to us than we think....
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Mill Creek Breaks Ground on Seattle Apartments
The developer has started construction on the 288-unit Modera Overlake with completion expected by the end of 2022.
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Modera Overlake. Image courtesy of Mill Creek Residential
Expecting an increase in housing demand from Microsoft's headquarters expansion in Seattle, Mill Creek Residential has broken ground on its nearby community.
The multifamily developer began construction on Modera Overlake, its 288-unit community in Seattle's Eastside submarket. Mill Creek tapped GGLO Architects, YT Engineers, KPFF and Robin Chell Interiors as part of the project team to complete Modera Overlake by the end of 2022, Steve Yoon, Mill Creek's managing director of development for Seattle, told Multi-Housing News.
Modera Overlake will include studios, one- and two-bedroom units that range from 500 to 1,100 square feet with den and townhouse layouts available. Some of the units will be equipped with private patios or balconies, separate dining areas, breakfast bars and walk-in closets. However, all tenants will get access to the building's amenities that include a rooftop clubhouse on the eighth floor, outdoor plaza, conference room, coworking lounge, coffee bar, clubhouse, theater room, DIY room, fitness center, bike storage, automated package lockers and storage space.
Located at 15350 Bel-Red Road, Modera Overlake will be roughly 13 miles east of Seattle and also a 10-minute walk from the upcoming Overlake Village Light Rail Station and Microsoft's corporate headquarters.
Elsewhere in the state, Mill Creek has also built Modera Redmond, which began leasing in winter 2019, and Modera River Trail, which is expected to be complete in early 2022. Outside Washington, the multifamily developers also broke ground on a 292-unit community in Orlando, Fla., in June.
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Yoon told MHN that Mill Creek began working on the Modera Overlake project in late 2017, slightly before Microsoft announced its headquarters expansion. However, Yoon added in prepared remarks that the demand for quality housing in the Seattle Eastside area will be high due to the major tech company expanding its headquarters.
After beginning demolition in January 2019, Microsoft has continued to make progress on the project that will include a community plaza, car-free zones, a cross-campus bridge and more. The expansion is being done in multiple phases and will add 2.5 million square feet of office space.
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On Saturday morning we packed our car and made our way down 75 to the lake. There was a lot more traffic than we anticipated and it took us a little longer than usual, but we made it around lunch time. Emily, Frank, Katie, and Lilly were there waiting for us with Judd's parents. Judd's grandparents came later in the afternoon.
I thought it might be fun to take the girls to go get Christmas pedicures, so Katie, Lilly, Charlotte, and I drove into town and found a nice spa chair to sit in. It was fun to hang out with them and be pampered for a few minutes.
Sunday we went to Grandmother Plymale's to visit with her and eat lunch. When we got back, we did one of my favorite traditions and decorated our cookies.
It was this guy's first year to really participate in the decorating. He stuck with just one cookie and continued to apply icing over and over again to the very soggy cookie. He had fun - which is really all that matters!
On Christmas Eve we spent the afternoon at Aunt Tricia and Uncle Winston's house visiting with Judd's extended family. Then went back to Judd's parent's house and exchanged gifts. After the kids were all hopped up on new toys, we changed them into PJs and put them in the car to go back to our house.
We made it home around 10:30 PM Christmas Eve and transferred them into bed. Judd and I got to work setting everything out for Christmas morning.
We got started about 7:30 AM opening presents. We just took our time and played with stuff as we opened it. Max probably finished opening his stuff around 9:30 or 10:00. It took him forever. All he wanted to do was play with his new trucks. He was pretty cute when he would open a present, "Wook Daddy, Wook what I got." Charlotte was very good and gave us a big hug and said "Thank You" when she opened a present from us.
Max refused to sit for a picture, his sister didn't mind.
After presents, I made waffles with my new waffle maker. Judd cooked some bacon. We sat down and had a nice brunch. Since it was so rainy and yucky we stayed inside and played all day. We watched our new movies and just hung out. It was a really nice day. By the end of the day we wanted to get out of the house, so we went downtown Decatur and grabbed some dinner.
It was a great Christmas and one that I'll always remember!
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Central High School Visits Heartland Corn Products
Winthrop, April 11- Twenty students from Central High School in Norwood Young America toured Winthrop's Heartland Corn Products today to learn more about clean renewable Minnesota energy.
During the tour, the students learned about the various processes in ethanol production at Heartland Corn Products, which produces 110 million gallons of ethanol a year.
This is the third time students from Central High School have toured Heartland Corn Products. The school first toured Heartland Corn Products in March 2016 and visited again in May 2017.
"We once again have the opportunity to host Central High School students in our facility to provide them with a deeper understanding of how Minnesota-grown ethanol is produced."
"Tours like these showcase how a homegrown renewable ingredient is converted into a clean fuel that continues to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions," said Scott Blumhoefer, vice president of Heartland Corn Products.
The students, from grades 9 to 12, learned about incoming grain grading, grain handling, fermentation, grain storage, combined heat and power operations, dried distiller grain production and storage, liquefaction and ethanol storage and shipment.
The tour was organized by the Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association, a non-profit trade organization that represents the ethanol industry in Minnesota. Heartland Corn Products is a member of the Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association.
"We are pleased that Central High School is utilizing these tours as a part of their curriculum. It's important for students to learn about clean, Minnesota-produced, renewable energy and how it reduces harmful emissions and supports the local economy," said Tim Rudnicki, executive director of the Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association.
Heartland Corn Products is one of the largest plants in Minnesota and was built in 1995.
The school's agriculture teacher, Jim Mesik, who has accompanied his students on every tour to Heartland Corn Products, said that ethanol is part of the curriculum for the small gas engines class on fuel and fuel systems at Central High School.
"This tour teaches students where our most common renewable fuel comes from and the by-products that are associated with the ethanol production process," he added.


JEFFERSON COUNTY, Il. --A young Jefferson County girl is released from the hospital after nearly drowning but not allowed to go home with her mom and dad.
Macie Higginson's father made a terrifying discovery in the pond behind the family's home. Sunday evening, four-year-old Macie fell into the pond behind the family's Jefferson County home and nearly drowned.
"He went back to the pond and saw the dog, and when he went to where the dog was at, she was floating face down in the water," said Jefferson County Deputy Lonnie Lawler.
Lawler and Deputy Jim Marler responded. Lawler has worn the badge for less than two months, but he says when he saw Macie, lifeless and wrapped in a blanket, his training and instinct kicked in.
"We immediately started CPR, I was doing the chest compressions, Deputy Marler was giving the two breaths," Lawler said.
When paramedics arrived four minutes later, the two deputies and EMT's worked together, and were able to get the little girl breathing on her own.
"The ambulance personnel and also the doctors in Saint Louis said that if we hadn't started performing CPR when we did, she possibly wouldn't be alive today," said Marler.
All Jefferson County deputies go through CPR training once a year. Deputy Marler--a 12-year veteran on the force says he's never used that training before Sunday, on Macie Higginson.
Now the deputies will receive medals of valor for their efforts and a new pin to wear on their uniforms indicating their actions on the job saved a life.
"The deputies' efforts I think played a big role in hopefully that child's full recovery," said Jefferson County Sheriff Roger Mulch. "But I also that child had somebody more powerful than you and I was watching over her."
The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) says the four-year-old can't go back home, at least not for now.
A DCFS spokesman says the decision was made Thursday not to allow mom and dad take little Macie back to their home after she was released from Cardinal Glennon Hospital five days five days after the near drowning.
Macie was released from the hospital into the custody of a DCFS caseworker Thursday evening. She and her sibling will stay with relatives until the DCFS investigation is complete.


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How Leedswatch CCTV team is helping to make city safer
The Leedswatch control room where footage captured on hundreds of CCTV cameras across the city is monitored around the clock. Picture: James Hardisty
Georgina Morris
Tracking down rapists, helping to build a case against street robbers, saving the lives of drug users and making sure missing people get home safely.
While these might seem like tasks for the police and paramedics, there is a team tucked away in a nondescript council building in south Leeds helping to do just that every day without ever leaving their desks.
Leedswatch control room officer Ruth Anelay at work. Pictures: James Hardisty
Read more: Leedswatch officer's hunch helped police to find rapist
Staff in the Leedswatch control room monitor a network of more than 300 cameras covering the city centre and beyond, as well as most West Yorkshire bus stations, around the clock.
And their role looks set to become even greater in the year ahead, with more cameras being installed in council tower blocks and an increasing focus on how the service can support vulnerable residents.
Paul Money, chief officer of community safety partnership Safer Leeds, said: "Some local authorities are struggling to fund their CCTV resource, I'll be attempting to put more in. It's a function that's really at the heart of what we do."
Funded by Leeds City Council with a contribution from West Yorkshire Metro, the team has moved from just monitoring the footage capture on the CCTV network to taking on a whole host of other tasks.
Service manager Jayne Russell said: "Originally it was just CCTV monitoring but over the past few years the work has grown. It's all interconnected and linked in with the other community safety teams."
Read more: Stolen dumper truckers driven into Leedswatch CCTV camera posts
Now Leedswatch has its own officers who can be deployed in the field, patrolling council sites like Lotherton Hall or Kirkstall Abbey or acting as a visible presence in communities. The team is also the initial contact for out-of-hours for noise nuisance complaints and calls to the council for highways issues and emergency repairs.
And when the 'ring of steel' bollards designed to prevent vehicles accessing shopping areas in the city centre become operational next year, managing that will be another responsibility.
Ms Russell said: "We've been involved in the consultation. We'll be doing the monitoring of that whenever somebody approaches the gates."
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But helping to prevent and detect crime and anti-social behaviour using live and recorded footage remains the most significant piece of work, with control room officers acting as an extra set of eyes for police.
Mr Money said: "We can't put an officer on every street in the city centre, but we don't do bad for cameras.
"There around 80 active cameras there that can be moved. Without that, the public would undoubtedly be less safe in our city centre."


Kickstart is Europe's biggest monthly Melee tournament, attracting over 140 players (including reigning Evo champion Hungry Box) to the December tournament.
More information and tournament sign up can be found here.
ClashTown is a monthly fighting game tournament. It features different games each month, with the focus this month on Guilty Gear XXrd and Blaz Blue.
Tournament format will be extended pool, then double elimination. This ensures plenty of match time for each player.
Tournament entry is £5 for each game. All tournament entry money goes into the prize pot.
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For dry cleaners and launderette owners, Sproose has built a suite of operations management applications. It is currently operating in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Sligo, and is in the process of setting up in Manchester. Founded by Monaghan native Pat McKenna in 2015, Sproose aims to recruit 10 more staff members over the coming year.


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If you were working with tomcat and IIS for a while you know things are getting a little long in the tooth. The last principle update to how IIS and Tomcat interact was made in early 2000. In the meantime many changes have occured to IIS and Tomcat with more capabilities added.
So, I thought it would be time to also update the way IIS and Tomcat connect.
Lastest Release Available on Github.
Online Documentation is regularly updated.


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Termination: Why it doesn't (always) work.
Computers can sometimes be unexpectedly tricky. Having them accomplish seemingly rudimentary tasks can be a lot more complicated than we would expect. One example is having a group of them decide and come to an agreement upon something: a process known as consensus. That something could be anything. It could be what time of the day they should begin their attack to take over the world. Or simply the amount in your bank account at some given moment: Without agreement that amount may be $10 according to your work pc while your laptop at home says $100. Let's elaborate on the former scenario as it's more likely to happen.
Say we have three machines that we call X, Y and Z plotting to conquer the world on a Monday. They have an plan of attack that only works if all available computers show up to battle and no one stays behind. A number of things can go wrong while they're trying to come to an agreement on what time to begin their attack.
One fundamental problem arises because everyone has an opinion. Computer X maybe suggests 08:00 for the takeover since it's monday morning and the humans are still hungover from the weekend while some other computer Z thinks 13:00 is better because, well, Z's not really a morning computer. Having them agree on a time is crucial as the humans have a better chance if all computers don't show up.
Another issue is that these computers are located in different parts of the world, communicating via cables and whatnot. If X suggests 08:00, it has to be sure that the suggestion reaches Y and Z as long as they are alive so as not to end up alone on the battlefront.
We can't accurately tell if a computer is being delayed or unavailable.
Y is busy with other things at the moment and hasn't had a chance to reply the message.
The message from X (or Y's response) was lost; the post office loses our messages every now and then, computers are no different!.
The message from X (or Y's response) is being delayed but still is on its way.
Y is in fact unavailable; crashed at some point in time.
Let's ignore number 2 and assume that any message sent will eventually be delivered. We assume that the cables are industrial strength and messages don't disappear magically on the way. However, these cables could delay a message passing through them for any reason and for as long as they want.
If it turns out that Y hasn't crashed (number 1 or 3) but X agrees with Z on a time to attack, then the humans will win since only 2 out of 3 available machines show up to battle.
If Y is unavailable but X chooses to play it safe and call off the attack, then they miss a perfect opportunity to attack the humans at their most vulnerable time of the week.
It's quite a tough decision to get right: basically everyone has to decide whether to cut the red or blue wire every time they send a message.
Note that X is not the only machine with a potentially faulty communication (unreliable) link. Every machine is. For example, when Z gets a suggestion from X and replies with a confirmation (or a counter suggestion). It could also enter the same state of paranoia where it can't be sure if its message is delayed or if X has crashed during this time.
How long should X even wait before it makes a decision? When has enough time passed before it's okay to start suspecting Y? The moral of this story is that we can never be one hundred percent sure of an answer.
Well, if these machines can't even reliably tell whether or not a single message sent has been delivered, how can they come to a definitive agreement about anything?
The good news (good for them, not for us humans) is that they could use an algorithm called Paxos that doesn't require them to make timing assumptions on how long it takes to send messages or communicate between each other. This means that they won't have to make the dreaded red-or-blue decision whenever they send a message. The bad news however (bad for them, good for us humans), is that this algorithm only works if there are a certain number (at least a majority) of computers available at any given moment in the process. Should some machine crash in the middle of the process and there aren't enough computers left alive, then no one makes any decisions: which is acceptable because there's no chance of making a wrong decision.
Given an unreliable communication link, we don't want to make assumptions on how long it takes for anything to happen since it opens up a can of worms. This is where Paxos becomes of help. We'll try to conceptualize the Paxos protocol by placing ourselves in the shoes of these potentially diabolical computers to see how we may go about solving this problem.
A typical setting where a group of people need to come to an agreement is an auction. Here, we want to agree on a winner of an item up for bid and unsurprisingly, everyone has an opinion. We all think that our choice should be the winner but money talks loudest so the highest bid wins.
This gives us a problem of multiple opinions, similar to that of the computers. But a traditional auction has all bidders in the same room, bidding openly against each other. If for some reason a bidder should pull out, then every other bidder will instantly be aware. Unlike the computers, communication between bidders in an auction house is reliable. Let us put some constraints on our traditional auction process in order to simulate an unreliable communication link.
Instead of having the action take place inside a single auction house, bidders stay at home and send their bids to the auctioneer via the post office (or carrier pigeons). Bidders don't know how much the others have bid so they simply wait patiently for the mail man to return with a response letter telling if they won or not. If it turns out there is a higher bid than theirs, that bid is included in the rejection letter and they have an opportunity to up their bid and resend. Post offices have a knack for delaying messages so bids and responses from the auctioneers may be delayed for however long.
Now we have the same problem of participants being distributed and communication channels being unreliable so it's no surprise that our auction process doesn't work. The auctioneer will never know when (s)he's received the last (and possibly highest) bid.
To see why our auction doesn't work, we set up a simple auction scenario with one auctioneer Cindy and three bidders Alice, Bob and Mark. Bidders bid on behalf of candidates (the person who actually pays for the item). They all have to decide and agree upon which candidate wins the auction item. We'll have 3 eligible candidates in our scenario: They've all requested to be anonymous so we refer to them as Mr X, Mr Y and Mr Z. Our bidders are allowed to choose whichever candidate to nominate as the winner. This makes our auction process a bit unorthodox but as we'll see, it ensures that they all eventually agree on the winning candidate.
Assume that Cindy has just received a bid from Mark for $5 and this is the highest bid she has seen so far. She couldn't simply send a reply to Mark declaring him (his proposed candidate to be exact) the winner since there might be a higher bid on the way from Alice or Bob. Cindy is faced with the same problem the machines had. She could choose to send a reply to mark saying he won and risk losing out on the highest bid possible or she could wait (potentially forever) to see if there is a higher bid on the way, and the auction possibly never ends.
A traditional auction has everyone in the same room so the auctioneer gets to make timing assumptions. Whenever a higher bid has been proposed, bidders have a time window in which they can counter with a higher bid (the period during which the auctioneer yells out crazy). If the time elapses without any counter bid, then the highest bidder's candidate wins. This works because everyone in the room uses the same clock to count time. In our distributed auction, everyones' clock at home could be telling different times and ticking at different frequencies so they are not as useful to us.
On a positive note, our auction doesn't work because of the same problems the computers had while trying to come to an agreement. So how again we can use the Paxos algorithm to get come to an agreement on who wins the auction? Jamie the auction designer is curious enough to head right to the source for answers.
Paxos: Ah there's a problem, You have only one auctioneer. Rookie mistake: You shouldn't have just one auctioneer.
Jamie: Um…okay. how many then?
Paxos: I don't know. how ever many you want. Just not one. I mean, what happen if that one person dies in the middle of an auction right? then everyone's screwed.
Jamie: Alright, that makes sense but can we use some other word instead of dies. You know, like fail?
Paxos: Fail? never heard that word before.
Jamie: Well if something fails then it simply stops working and never does anything more. Ever.
Paxos: Whatever. All I'm trying to say is that if you have a certain number of auctioneers that are guaranteed not to di… uhm, I mean fail, then your bidders don't have to wonder whether or not their message was received and they'll be guaranteed to eventually get a response back.
Okay Paxos makes a valid point so let's add two more auctioneers to help Cindy out. Jane and Eve. We inform this guarantee to our bidders: at any point in time, at least two (majority of 3) auctioneers will be available. We also let them know that their bids have to be sent individually to all three auctioneers.
Cool. But wait a minute. These auctioneers are also not able to communicate with each other since everyone's at their own home. Our tweaks may have solved the paranoia experienced by bidders but not for the auctioneers. How do they decide when it's time to proclaim a winner? We'll answer this question in a moment. First let's lay out some fundamental properties dictating what it means for our auction process to be correct.
The winning bid must have been proposed at some point in the process. The item up for bid can't be sold to Mr T if none of our bidders actually proposed Mr T as a candidate (this pretty much says no sneaky business is allowed).
There can only be one winning candidate. If for any reason someone decides that Mr X is the winner, then no one else should decide that someone other than Mr X has won.
Every active bidder eventually decides on who the winner is. No one is kept waiting forever to find out this information.
We can use these properties to find potential pitfalls in our auction protocol. Already, we can only argue that number 1 is satisfied.
Jamie: How does an auctioneer know when she has received all bids and no other bids are on the way? Like, when to declare a winner?
Paxos: The auctioneer doesn't have to declare a winner. Maybe the bidders who think they've won can declare their candidates the winner.
Jamie: Huh? wouldn't that be sneaky?
Paxos: Sneaky-clever. Let auctioneers remain passive. They don't communicate with each other and we already know that they can't decide when all bids have been received without potentially waiting forever. So why not let the active bidders make that decision when they think that they've won.
Paxos: Well, you're the one applying the algorithm on humans, I suggested it was for machines. They may plot to take over the world but at least machines are one hundred percent honest with each other.
We'll now see how Paxos implements this idea by applying it incrementally to our auction process.
bidders make a decision once they've received a response from a majority of the auctioneers.
This time, auctioneers have an easier decision to make whenever they receive a new bid. If the new bid is the highest they've seen so far, then reply with an acknowledgement response. Otherwise, reply the bidder with a rejection response.
Once a bidder gets a bid accepted by a majority of auctioneers (called a chosen bid), (s)he decides that the candidate proposed in that bid is the winner of the auction.
Here's a sample execution of an auction process from the auctioneers' point of view. Cindy receives a bid from Bob for $50 and accepts it, since it's the highest bid she's received so far.
This almost works. Bob gets a majority of auctioneers to accept his bid and decides that his candidate Mr Y is the winner. But the same goes for Mark and his candidate Mr Z. The result is an awkward moment between Mr Y and Mr Z who both show up to collect the same precious antique.
This happens because Cindy and Eve accept bids independent of each other. Eve (as well as Jane) saw Mark's bid before Bob's so she did what she was supposed to and accepted both. To fix this problem, we have to make sure that our bidders don't blindly propose their bid because the auctioneers don't communicate with each other: Bidders need to get an idea about what bids have already been accepted before proposing theirs.
The process of bidding becomes a two phase act. A prepare phase and an accept phase.
As a bidder, whenever I decide to make a bid, I send only the amount that I'm willing to bid. This is called a prepare request. I don't reveal my candidate just yet: Heck! I may not even have decided on which candidate to nominate at that point. I want to do this for 2 reasons.
Extract a promise from the auctioneers that no lower bid will be accepted in the future.
This is somewhat straightforward. Basically, I'm giving the auctioneers a sneak preview about my bid. I disclose the amount that I'm willing to bid, say $50, so they get a heads up that most likely a bid of $50 for some candidate will arrive in the future. For example, say auctioneer Cindy receives my prepare request for $50 and responds. She now has an idea that sometime in the future, a bid for $50 will arrive. During this time however, she may receive a bid from Bob for $40. But she must reject Bob's bid, hoping that my higher bid shows up later on. For this reason, I'll interpret Cindy's response to my prepare request as an implicit promise that she will reject any future bids that are lower than mine. After all, that is one essence of an auction.
Find out if a lower bid has already been accepted.
Auctioneers are required to accept bids as long as it's the highest they've seen so far (including prepared amounts). They couldn't be bothered about potentially conflicting candidates associated with the newer bids: Money talks so the higher bid always gets accepted. Before sending a proposal, a bidder must find out if someone else previously sent in a bid or maybe even decided on a winner. If such a person exists we want to know the details of that bid.
For any prepare request with amount n, An auctioneer replies with her highest accepted bid having an amount less than n. This bid could be an empty bid if she hasn't accepted any bids with amount lower than n.
If theres a bid with a better chance at being chosen before yours then adopt it's candidate, otherwise simply propose any candidate of choice.
Once I receive responses from a majority of auctioneers, I go through all the bids received in these responses. If they're all empty bids, I safely proceed to phase 2 where I propose any candidate of my choice without the fear of overwriting someone else' candidate. Otherwise, I select the bid with the highest amount out of the responses and try to compete with this bid.
Assume I select Alice's bid to compete with in this phase. Her bid has a smaller amount than mine for sure but still her candidate is more likely to be chosen before mine since it has already been accepted by some auctioneer(s) and I haven't even proposed mine yet. I could be stubborn and propose a different candidate but then there's a chance that both Alice's and my candidate get chosen: meaning that we're back to our original problem of two different winning candidates. I don't know for sure that Alice's candidate is going to win but I do have to nominate somebody now. So I'll play it safe and adopt her candidate (say, Mr X) as my candidate.
Auctioneers are passive so they don't do much in phase 1. They simply wait for a bidder's prepare request and reply with the maximum bid lower than the bidder's amount.
It's time to actually propose my bid and find out if it gets chosen.
I simply Send my bid to all auctioneers and hope for the best. Similar to phase 1, I wait until I get responses from a majority of auctioneers. It doesn't even have to be the same auctioneers from phase 1 that reply this time around. Any set of a majority would do.
Here's a possible execution from the auctioneers perspective.
Mark has finished his prepare phase for $50 fair and square but sometime before completing his accept phase, Alice tries her own prepare phase and succeeds in getting a promise from a majority of auctioneers not to accept any lower bid than her $100. This pretty much spoils the show for mark in phase 2. He can never get his bid accepted by a majority of auctioneers: Infact, he gets two rejections in this case (represented by the X marker).
If any response from an auctioneer contains a rejection, I must quit and restart the entire process from phase 1 with a higher amount. The game can be cruel.
If I don't get any rejections among the majority responses I receive then I can be sure that my bid is a chosen bid and my proposed candidate is the winner.
Again, having passive auctioneers means that the job is very simple. Whenever an auctioneer receives a bid, she accepts it only if she hasn't promised some other bidder not to during their prepare phase. i.e If she hasn't received a prepare request for an amount greater than the proposed bid. Otherwise the bid must be rejected.
And that's it! We now have a working distributed auction that makes no timing assumptions and guarantees that no two candidates can win a single round.
Note that it is possible for several bids to win an auction round. In fact, every active bidder must get a bid chosen in order to decide which candidate won the round. The goal is not agreement on which bidder/bid wins the round (they all do at some point), rather which candidate wins.
This brings us to reasoning about how the agreement property is satisfied.
Remember that a bidder during the prepare phase adopts a candidate if it suspects that someone else already started proposing. This is crucial in guaranteeing the agreement property of the paxos algorithm and our auction. Here are some important points to understanding why this auction process and paxos in general works.
Lets assume that Mark's bid of $200 and candidate Mr Z has been chosen. Is it safe for Mark to decide that Mr Z has infact won the auction item? The algorithm says yes but we try to find out for ourselves.
Every higher bid subsequently proposed by another bidder must have Mr Z as its candidate because the bidder must have adopted Mr Z in the prepare phase.
Here the majority factor comes into play: for any permutation of a set of majority auctioneers, at least one of them must have at some point accepted Mark's bid and will reply with the bid containing Mr Z as candidate. No number less than a majority can guarantee this outcome.
Every subsequent higher bid that becomes accepted must have Mr Z as a candidate: this simply makes sense from 1 because an accepted bid must have been proposed earlier.
Every subsequent higher bid that becomes chosen must also have Mr Z as candidate: this in turn follows from 2. A bid can not be chosen without being accepted.
We can see why Mark could start celebrating as soon as his bid gets chosen. Having a majority auctioneers accept his bid guarantees that his bid will show up later on when someone else tries to validate a bidding amount in their prepare phase. They must adopt Mark's candidate and whenever they do decide that their own bid has been chosen, it will contain Mr Z as candidate.
Here's a quick rundown of the auction process from my perspective as a bidder. I send a prepare request with my amount. When I receive a response from a majority regarding my prepare request, I propose my bid (after possibly adopting a candidate) and hope it gets accepted and subsequently chosen. If I get a rejection then I restart the entire process with a higher bid.
Everyone's playing by the rules so this is a perfectly legal scenario. Mark prepares his amount for $10 but his bid gets rejected because sometime in between, some auctioneers promise Alice not to accept a lower bid than hers: we've seen this before. The next step for Mark is to restart by preparing a higher bid, which he does right in between Alice's prepare and accept phases. For the same reason, Alice also gets a rejection from the auctioneers when she finally proposes her bid so she does her own quick turn around with a higher prepare amount and so on… Obviously this can go on forever without any bid being accepted. One positive takeaway is that even though the system is going haywire, no one actually makes any decisions much less wrongly declare a winner.
This isn't a fault with our auction process itself. Its a phenomenon inherited from the Paxos algorithm. Since we do not make any timing assumptions like how long messages take to be delivered or how fast auctioneers respond to messages, we assume an asynchronous setting. It is infact impossible to implement an algorithm that solves distributed consensus in an asynchronous system if there is a possiblity that even one machine might fail, and the paxos algorithm is as close as it gets. So this doesn't mean that the algorithm is useless. There are several ways to mitigate this phenomenon. A simple fix could have a bidder wait for a random amount of time if their bid gets rejected, before restarting, hopefully giving the competition enough time to complete their accept phase. Your favorite protocol for connecting to the internet uses a variant of this technique in the face of message collisions.
Now we know that the Paxos algorithm was designed to try to solve the problem of distributed consensus between a network of computers in an asynchronous system. What does the actual algorithm say? How does it get this group of machines to achieve consensus in the face of unpredictable failures?
We've already answered these questions (sorta) but we'll do so here more formally by taking a sneak peek at the actual specification. Fortunately, we've pretty much covered the entire algorithm while constructing our auction protocol so there are very few surprises here.
Paxos uses the concepts of Proposers, Acceptors and Learners as roles in which a machine can act.
Proposers are machines with opinions. They try to impose their opinion (value) to a set of acceptors. Analogous to our auction process, these proposers are simply bidders.
Acceptors accept values proposed by proposers à la auctioneers.
Learners decide on the agreed upon value based on the acceptors acceptances. We had our bidders decide the agreed upon value (the chosen bid) in our auction. The learners simply act as external agents that declare a value to be chosen.
Bidders were technically acting both as proposers and learners. Infact it is very common for a single machine to act in all three roles in a typical setting.
The mechanics again, are not far off from our auction implementation. Proposers propose their value (candidate) along with a proposal number (instead of money: machines are notorious for being penniless). The proposal numbers associated with a proposal must be globally unique regardless of the proposer. In our auction this would mean that once Mark has issued a prepare request for $50, no one else can issue that exact amount.
Proposals look something like (n, v) where n is the proposal number and v is the proposed value. A proposer initially issues a prepare request prepare(n) to a set of acceptors in the hopes of extracting a promise from a majority of acceptors (a promise not to accept a proposal less than n).
n is the highest proposal number for a prepare request that acceptor has seen so far.
In both cases, the acceptor replies with the highest numbered proposal that it has accepted so far (could be an empty proposal if none has been accepted). If neither case is true, the acceptor doesn't have to send a response at all. Not even a rejection. Obviously this means less work for the acceptors but it makes it possible for a proposer to wait indefinitely for a promise. We implemented a more practical (and polite) variant of the algorithm in our auction where we always send a response back to the proposer (even if that proposer is doomed to having his proposal rejected later on).
Proposer If a majority of acceptors have replied with a promise for a proposer's prepare request. That proposer adopts the value of the highest proposal (sorted by proposal number) from among the responses and issues an accept request (same as proposing a bid in our auction) or simply proposes its own value if all responses contain empty proposals. The accept request is sent to a set of acceptors.
Acceptor If an acceptor receives an accept request for a proposal (n, v). It sends an accept response only if it hasn't already promised some other proposer not to: i.e. if it has already responded to a prepare request prepare(m) such that m > n.\ Again, the acceptor is not required to reply in any other case, potentially having the proposer on hold indefinitely. Our auction protocol uses a slightly more polite approach by sending a rejection response back to the proposer. Another option is to have the proposers timeout and restart the entire process if they don't receive a response.
Learner In the case that a proposer has had its bid accepted by a majority of acceptor, the learners have to be notified somehow. One way to do this is to have each acceptor notify the learners whenever they accept some proposal by sending details of the accepted proposal. Then the learners can simply count in real time how many times a proposal has been accepted. In scenarios where the same machine acts as both a Proposer and a Learner, this feature is already built it as we've seen: the proposer simply declares its proposal to be chosen immediately.
Understanding Consensus and Paxos in Distributed Systems was published on May 17, 2016 .
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Information extraction (IE) can identify a set of relations from free text to support question answering (QA). Until recently, IE systems were domain-specific and needed a combination of manual engineering and supervised learning to adapt to each target domain. A new paradigm, Open IE operates on large text corpora without any manual tagging of relations, and indeed without any pre-specified relations. Due to its open-domain and open-relation nature, Open IE is purely textual and is unable to relate the surface forms to an ontology, if known in advance. We explore the steps needed to adapt Open IE to a domain-specific ontology and demonstrate our approach of mapping domain-independent tuples to an ontology using domains from DARPA's Machine Reading Project. Our system achieves precision over 0.90 from as few as 8 training examples for an NFL-scoring domain.


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Public Safety Entities Pleased with Changes to WEA Item
The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International and Harris County, Texas said today that they are pleased with changes the FCC made to a wireless emergency alert (WEA) item before it was adopted yesterday (TR Daily, Jan. 30). "Upon reviewing the text of the Order, APCO is pleased to see that the Commission incorporated many of the recommendations made by the public safety stakeholders in this proceeding," said APCO Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Derek Poarch.
"Public safety officials in Harris County are pleased that the FCC has ruled in favor of the geographic targeting enhancements and the adjustments that developed through the process. We look forward to working with wireless carriers and technology experts to implement the new rules in a timely manner," said Francisco Sanchez, deputy emergency management coordinator at the Harris County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management.
APCO, Harris County, and other public safety entities had asked the FCC to clarify the new rules to, among others things, make it harder for participating WEA carriers to avoid implementing the more precise geo-targeting requirement. Continue reading →
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FirstNet Witness Responses to Lawmaker Questions Posted
Responses from witnesses to follow-up questions from lawmakers in the wake of a Nov. 1 House hearing on the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) (TR Daily, Nov. 1, 2017) have finally been released, but an open government advocate noted the information comes too late to inform decisions by states and territories about whether to opt out of FirstNet. All 50 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia have opted in.
Stephen Whitaker, a Vermont resident and plaintiff in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking FirstNet records, complained about "legislative dysfunction, evasive non-answers and waiting until the answers are 'no longer germane,' to quote [FirstNet Chief Executive Officer Mike] Poth, due to their not having been answered when due and while they might have impacted the opt-in/opt-out decisions."
The House communications and technology subcommittee sent the follow-up questions to witnesses on Nov. 20 and asked for responses by Dec. 6. The responses were not posted until Monday night.
The responses of Chris Sambar, AT&T's senior vice president-FirstNet, are dated Dec. 6. The responses of John Stevens, the statewide interoperability coordinator and FirstNet state point of contact (SPOC) for New Hampshire, are dated Dec. 4. The responses or Robert LeGrande II, founder of the Digital Divide LLC, are dated Dec. 18.
A committee spokesperson said that FirstNet's response was received on Monday. "FirstNet has a lengthy review process that contributed to the delay in response," the spokesperson said. "The process involves a number of government entities and interagency comments, including the Commerce Department, OMB, NOAA, NIST, and NTIA – which did not have a confirmed administrator until after the hearing." Continue reading →
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National Council on UAS Announce Plan for PS to Fly UAS in National Capital Region
Today, Charles Werner, Chair National Council on UAS/Virginia Aviation Advisor, and Eddie Reyes, Police Foundation, along with FAA's Carol Might and Gary Miller announced a plan that will allow public safety to fly unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the restricted airspace in the National Capital Region (NCR). Until today, the possibility for public safety to utilize UAS and take advantage of the many demonstrated benefits was extremely restricted in the NCR. DHS representative Andrew MacDonald also outlined a proposal to implement an unmanned traffic management (UTM) system along with UAS for public safety equipped with sensors for quick identification and secure operations.
Today's meeting was organized to inform members of the Metro Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG – 24 localities, DC, MD & VA), identify the various federal partners and begin a collaboration process that will enable safe and secure use of UAS in the NCR. Over the past year, unmanned aircraft systems have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to save lives, enhance public safety operations and increase responder safety.
Chief Charles Werner stated, "I am extremely appreciative for the support received from the dedicated men and women of the FAA who have provided the opportunity for public safety to fly UAS in the NCR as well as for their phenomenal support during Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. It is important to also acknowledge DHS Science & Technology for their leadership along with our other federal partner agencies and the Department of Defense for their support to move this initiative forward." Eddie Reyes stated, "Given my long history with the MWCOG, it made perfect sense to collaborate with the trusted authority in the NCR by all federal, state and municipal government agencies. It's a new day for sUAS in the NCR, both for first responders and for the public's safety".
Posted in Public Safety News, Technology
FCC's Daily Digest: FCC Bolsters Effectiveness of Wireless Emergency Alerts through Improving Geographic Targeting of Alerts
Summary News Release: FCC BOLSTERS EFFECTIVENESS OF WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERTS ACTION WILL IMPROVE GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING OF ALERTS. News Release. (Dkt No 15-94 15-91 ). Adopted: 01/30/2018. News Media Contact: Rochelle Cohen at (202) 418-1162, email: Rochelle.Cohen@fcc.gov PSHSB
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-348932A1.pdf
Full Text of FCC Decision: WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERTS; AMENDMENTS TO PART 11 OF THE COMMISSION'S RULES REGARDING THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM. The FCC adopted rules to enhance the effectiveness of Wireless Emergency Alerts, including improving geographic targeting. (Dkt No. 15-94 15-91 ). Action by: the Commission. Adopted: 01/30/2018 by R&O. (FCC No. 18-4). PSHSB
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-18-4A1.pdf
Posted in FCC, Public Safety News
FCC, Hawaii Issue Reports on False Alert
FCC Commissioners stressed today the importance of preventing false alerts like the ballistic missile alert sent in error in Hawaii earlier this month (TR Daily, Jan. 16), saying that the incident there should lead to best practices that can be used by alert originators and other stakeholders. Their comments came as FCC staff reported that the alert was sent in error due to a misunderstanding about whether there was actually a ballistic missile attack.
Meanwhile, Hawaii officials released a report today that concluded that "insufficient management controls, poor computer software design, and human factors" contributed to the false alert and the delayed response in correcting it. The report echoed conclusions in a preliminary report released today by the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.
At today's monthly FCC meeting, Commissioners received the preliminary report from the Public Safety Bureau on its investigation of the early-morning false alert, which was transmitted through the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and wireless emergency alerts (WEAs). The alert was transmitted shortly after 8 a.m. on Jan. 13 and it took officials 38 minutes to send out a corrected alert. The information provided by the bureau today was the most detailed yet from the FCC about the incident. The bureau stressed that its investigation is ongoing.
James Wiley, an attorney-adviser in the Public Safety Bureau's Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division, explained how the false alert was sent during a ballistic missile alert drill that took place during a change from the midnight to the day shifts at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA). Due to a "miscommunication," "the day shift supervisor was not in the proper location to supervise the day shift warning officers when the ballistic missile defense drill was initiated," he said.
"At 8:05 a.m., the midnight shift supervisor initiated the drill by placing a call to the day shift warning officers, pretending to be U.S. Pacific Command," according to Mr. Wiley. "The supervisor played a recorded message over the phone. The recording began by saying 'exercise, exercise, exercise,' language that is consistent with the beginning of the script for the drill. After that, however, the recording did not follow the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency's standard operating procedures for this drill. Instead, the recording included language scripted for use in an Emergency Alert System message for an actual live ballistic missile alert. It thus included the sentence 'this is not a drill.' The recording ended by saying again, 'exercise, exercise, exercise.' Three on-duty warning officers in the agency's watch center received this message, simulating a call from U.S. Pacific Command on speakerphone.
"According to a written statement from the day shift warning officer who initiated the alert, as relayed to the Bureau by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, the day shift warning officer heard 'this is not a drill' but did not hear 'exercise, exercise, exercise.' According to the written statement, this day shift warning officer therefore believed that the missile threat was real. At 8:07 a.m., this officer responded by transmitting a live incoming ballistic missile alert to the State of Hawaii. … Other warning officers who heard the recording in the watch center report that they knew that the erroneous incoming message did not indicate a real missile threat, but was supposed to indicate the beginning of an exercise." Continue reading →
Texas, Kansas Agencies Subscribe to FirstNet
Public safety agencies in Texas and Kansas announced this week that they are subscribing to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) system being built by AT&T, Inc. "It's absolutely thrilling to have a dedicated public safety broadband network," said Brazos County, Texas, Sheriff Chris Kirk, whose office has signed up for FirstNet. "We're still doing the same job. But with FirstNet, we can do it even better and faster than before. We have all the information we need at our fingertips, backed by the connectivity needed to access it. And most importantly, it keeps our deputies out in the neighborhoods, so we can spend more time serving Brazos County."
The Brazos County Sheriff's Office is the first local agency in Texas to subscribe to FirstNet, but it says it has been using public safety broadband through its collaboration with Harris County, which is a FirstNet early builder.
In Kansas, the Kansas Highway Patrol is the first public safety agency in that state to become a FirstNet subscriber. "We're proud to be the state's anchor tenant for this cutting-edge public safety broadband network," said Kansas Highway Patrol Col. Mark Bruce. "FirstNet is truly transformational. We're just beginning to unleash its potential, but we believe it's a promising solution that will help us do our jobs better and faster — while staying safer."
All 50 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia have opted into FirstNet (TR Daily, Jan. 19), but agencies are under no obligation to actually subscribe to AT&T for service. —Paul Kirby, paul.kirby@wolterskluwer.com
Courtesy TRDaily
Posted in FirstNet News, Public Safety News
Analysis: Unlicensed Devices Can Coexist in 6 GHz Band
Unlicensed devices can share the 6 gigahertz band without causing harmful interference to primary incumbent operations, according to an analysis submitted to the FCC by 10 companies that want the FCC to approve such sharing. The "findings are clear: unlicensed devices can successfully coexist with the primary services present in the 6 GHz band," said an ex parte filing in GN docket 17-183 reporting on meetings that representatives of the companies had yesterday with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai; Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel, Mike O'Rielly, and Brendan Carr; and Louis Peraertz, a senior legal adviser to Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn.
"New RKF Engineering report answers many technical interference issues re: unlicensed use in 6 GHz band," Mr. O'Rielly tweeted yesterday. "Certainly work ahead but this needs to be a Summer @FCC NPRM!"
The analysis was done by RKF Engineering Services LLC and submitted to the Commission by Apple, Inc., Broadcom Corp., Cisco Systems, Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Facebook, Inc., Google LLC, Intel Corp., MediaTek, Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Qualcomm, Inc.
Last year, the FCC adopted a notice of inquiry to explore freeing up frequencies between 3.7 GHz and 24 GHz for 5G services (TR Daily, Aug. 3, 2017). Continue reading →
Posted in Public Safety News, Spectrum Management


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WQPX-TV (channel 64) is a television station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to Northeastern Pennsylvania. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station has offices on Lackawanna Avenue in downtown Scranton, and its transmitter is located on Bald Mountain, northwest of Scranton and I-476.

WQPX-TV operates a digital replacement translator on UHF channel 49 that is licensed to Waymart with a transmitter in Forest City. It exists because wind turbines run by NextEra Energy Resources at the Waymart Wind Farm interfere with the transmission of full-power television signals.

History
WQPX began broadcasting May 18, 1998 with test broadcasts; the official sign on took place June 1. Before WQPX signed on, the station's call sign was WSWB-TV, first used on channel 38 in the early 1980s (before its own sign-on) and currently used on that same station today. WSWB initially planned to sign on in July 1997, but delayed its launch so that it could construct a 5,000,000-watt signal to increase its must carry reach. Initially, WQPX aired Paxson's InfoMall format of infomercials and religious programming; on August 31, 1998, the station became one of the launch stations for Pax TV (the forerunner to Ion).

On October 5, 1998, WQPX added a secondary affiliation with UPN as part of a group deal between Paxson Communications and UPN; the network's programming aired in late night, following Pax's prime time lineup. UPN programming had previously aired in weekend late night timeslots on CBS affiliate WYOU (channel 22). WQPX dropped UPN in 1999.

From 2001 to 2005, WQPX aired rebroadcasts of newscasts from ABC affiliate WNEP-TV (channel 16); WNEP's owner, The New York Times Company, also took over WQPX's advertising sales through a joint sales agreement. The agreement was reached in October 2000 after negotiations with NBC affiliate WBRE-TV (channel 28) fell through; the arrangement with WNEP ended on June 30, 2005, after Paxson Communications terminated all joint sales agreements involving its stations.

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Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
WQPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 64, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 32. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 64, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

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In honor of Pharmacy Technician day, October 16, 2018, the Pharmacy Technology department at Malcolm X College will be hosting an Open House for anyone who is interested in learning more about the Pharmacy Technology Program.
During this time you will have the opportunity to tour our state-of-the-art Pharmacy lab, meet the professors, and chat with students currently in the program!
The event will be held in Pharmacy Lab 7015 from. All are welcomed. Hope to see you there!


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These two PSUs have now joined India's ambitious Rs 9,000-cr LPG pipeline project
IOC, BPCL, and HPCL have signed an agreement on June 3 for the formation of a joint venture company for implementation and operation of LPG pipeline
PSU Watch Bureau - June 04, 2019
New Delhi: Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) have each claimed a pie of India's longest LPG pipeline project being laid by state-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC). Both HPCL and BPCL have picked up a 25 percent stake each in the pipeline project that aims to take care of the cooking fuel needs of a fourth of the country's population, the PSUs said in almost identical regulatory filings. Under the Rs 9,000-crore project, a pipeline will be laid down from Kandla in Gujarat to Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.
IOC, which is laying down the pipeline, will hold the remaining 50 percent stake. "IOC, BPCL, and HPCL have signed an agreement on June 3, 2019, for the formation of a joint venture company for implementation and subsequent operation of 2757-km long LPG pipeline from Kandla, Gujarat to Gorakhpur, UP," the filings said.
Pipeline will supply gas to 22 bottling plants
In the filing, the OMCs said that the pipeline will supply LPG to 22 bottling plants along the route. Additionally, the pipeline would feed gas through road-bridging to an additional 21 LPG bottling plants in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh. "The proposed pipeline will source product from Kandla and other LPG import terminals on West Coast and two refineries at Koyali in Gujarat and Bina in Madhya Pradesh and would directly link 22 LPG bottling plants in Gujarat (3), Madhya Pradesh (6) and Uttar Pradesh (13) owned by the three promoter companies," according to the filings. "The pipeline is expected to provide reliability in the supply chain of LPG. Besides economic benefit as compared to road transportation, movement of LPG by pipelines shall enhance safety as well," the document said.
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IOC to use 3MT capacity
Indian Oil has committed to use 3 million tonnes of capacity while HPCL and BPCL have committed 1.8 million tonnes and 1.7 million tonnes respectively. Reliance Industries wants to use the pipeline to transport 242,000 tonnes of LPG. The LPG will be sourced by the companies from their respective refineries.
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You wouldn't believe me if I told you how many emails I get about the culotte situation. Seems women the world over are confused about how to wear them or why they are buying them at all. Yet, this style of trouser seems to fly off the shelves...and as it should. I, for one, am a massive fan of the culotte and here's why.
I love flashing an ankle. Groundbreaking, I know. But, I am all for the subtle skin display. I was brought up with the idea that, in fashion, you show off one asset when wearing clothing and you keep the rest a mystery. Maybe it was just a southern thing? Regardless, I've always thought this was a pretty sound rule of thumb when it comes to dressing. And the culotte is, in my opinion, one of the most feminine styles of trousers out there as it allows you to tease with just a bit of leg. What you choose to do with that exposure is up to you. In the summer, I pair culottes with tall heels and maybe something as casual as an old t-shirt. In the winter, as you'll see above, I'm all about the culotte with a great statement heel and an oversized sweater. It's sort of that "messy make sense" sort of vibe.
Bottom line - get involved with the culotte. They are almost universally flattering and offer a great alternative to your usual trouser situation! Oh, and I think the wider the leg the better! Just saying.


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