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Identification of pp film and pe film
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(Summary description)Polyethylene and polypropylene are the most commonly used olefin plastics. Polybutene-1 and poly-4-methylpentene-1 are also used. Some copolymers of ethylene ethylene and polyisobutylene used for gaskets are also important polyolefin plastics. The easiest way to identify these plastics is by infrared spectroscopy. But some information can also be obtained from the melting temperature range
The host said: Polyethylene (related to density) 105~130℃ Polypropylene 160~170℃ Polybutene 120~135℃ Poly-4-methylpentene-1 more than 240℃
The reactions of the pyrolysis gases of these plastics and mercury oxide are different from each other. Therefore, first soak the filter paper with a sulfuric acid solution containing 0.5 g of yellow mercury oxide (1.5 ml of concentrated sulfuric acid added to 8 ml of water), and then put a small amount of dry sample into the cracking tube, cover the mouth of the tube with the above filter paper, and heat. If the steam causes golden spots on the filter paper, this indicates that these plastics may contain polyisobutylene, butyl rubber, and polypropylene (in small amounts it may take a few minutes for the color to develop). Polyethylene does not react. Natural rubber, nitrile rubber and polybutadiene can produce brown spots. Polyethylene and polypropylene produce waxy products during pyrolysis. Polyethylene has a paraffin-like odor, while polypropylene has a slightly aromatic odor.
Simple identification method of common plastics (2): polystyrene
The identification method of polystyrene and most styrene-containing copolymers is as follows: put a small amount of sample in a small test tube, add four drops of fuming nitric acid, and acid vapor will be released without destroying the polymer. The residue is heated on a flame for about 1 minute, the test tube is positioned so that the open end is slightly downward, and the mouth of the tube is covered with a piece of filter paper. The filter paper was treated by soaking with 2,4-dibromoquinoneimine in ether and drying in air. If you add a drop of ammonia on the filter paper, the filter paper turns blue indicating styrene.
If the sample still contains some free nitric acid, the test is completely affected and the filter paper turns brown to mask the blue color. This identification reaction is also useful for styrene-butadiene copolymers and abs (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymers). The presence of acrylonitrile can be verified by assaying for ammonia.
Simple identification method of common plastics (3): chlorine-containing polymers
In addition to polyvinyl chloride (pvc), chlorinated polymers and various copolymers of vinyl chloride are: polyvinylidene chloride, chlorinated rubber, hydrochlorinated rubber, chlorinated polyolefin, polychloroprene and polytriene Chlorofluoroethylene. In addition to using the Bolstein test to detect chlorine, these polymers can also be identified by their color reaction with pyridine (see table).
First, the sample must be extracted with ether to remove the plasticizer. The sample can also be dissolved in tetrahydrofuran. Filter to remove possible insoluble components, add methanol to re-precipitate, after suction filtration, dry at below 75°C, and react with 1 ml of pyridine with a small amount of sample. Let stand for a few minutes, then add 2~5 drops of 5% sodium hydroxide solution in methanol. (1 g of sodium hydroxide dissolved in 20 ml of methanol). Note the color change just after adding the reagent, 5 minutes and 1 hour later
A further test was to boil a small amount of plasticizer-removed specimen with 1 ml of pyridine for one minute, then divide the solution into 2 portions, reheat to boiling, and immediately add 2 drops of 5% sodium hydroxide in methanol To one part of the solution, the other part is cooled first, then add 2 drops of sodium hydroxide methanol solution, observe the color and observe the color change after 5 minutes.
Polyethylene and polypropylene are the most commonly used olefin plastics. Polybutene-1 and poly-4-methylpentene-1 are also used. Some copolymers of ethylene ethylene and polyisobutylene used for gaskets are also important polyolefin plastics. The easiest way to identify these plastics is by infrared spectroscopy. But some information can also be obtained from the melting temperature range
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When two object balls are frozen to each other, players often guess as to whether the ball closest to the desired pocket will go. A simple calculation will remove the throw guesswork on your road to shot victory! An easy to understand formula using object ball direction and the distance to the pocket for that ball is at your doorstep! Hitting the 1st ball in the combo half ball and on the opposite side that you want the pocket ball to go will produce huge benefits and add a boost to your shooting confidence! Medium speed and no english required!!
Adding a third ball to the throw arena can be confusing until a simple directional principle is understood. By pretending the 3rd ball in a multiple ball combination acts like the cue ball in a two ball combination makes it easy to determine the direction of the ball desiring to be pocketed. A much better understanding of speed and english application is also acquired in the process!
When 3 or more frozen balls are included in game situations and/or trick shot setups, a player can quickly calculate respective ball patterns, throw directions, and intended make or miss factors for game/shot strategies. Better understanding of the gear principles between frozen balls and the respective energy factors applicable to the execution process can bring shot victory and new artistic shooting enjoyment to an otherwise standard game.
One of the most common skills that fascinate players is the jump shot. Many believe they can not jump, when in fact almost everyone that has moved a cue at a rapid rate of acceleration has in fact jumped. A skipping action of the cue ball occurs when struck at a fast speed due to the tip causing a slight downward pressure on it. Anyone that has ever thrown a stone across water has the principle in hand, so to speak, using speed and a slight incline of the motion being applied to achieve this beauty! A faster and more inclined cue generally creates a higher jump effect!!
The vertical applications of English to a jump shot are for position requirements to a specific shot at hand. High hits on the cue ball will make the cue ball follow after the jump and low hits on the cue ball will make the cue ball draw after the jump, assuming the prior foundation principle for jumping is followed. Speed and incline for the jump!! High and low tip placements for position!!
Players have been focusing on masse shots for centuries! Masse mean to hammer and normally is magnetic to the fans of our sport when the cue is raised to elevations over 45 degrees. The foundation for this difficult technique is found in less dangerous cue movements with lower angles to the table playfield. Anyone wanting to learn the vertical masse technique is encouraged to start with simple aiming and stroke principles of the half masse. Curving around an object ball that has you half blocked will build confidence before attempting the extreme and could save you hundreds of dollars in the process!!
The half masse has a special beauty of its own, as evidenced by one of the most popular challenges of all time the Passing Lane shot! A cue ball frozen to an object ball provides pure shooting enjoyment when the half masse allows the cue ball to pass the object ball on the way to the corner pocket with the object ball following it into the same pocket. Also called the Great Race and Sea Biscuit shot!! Mike Massey calls this shot Scratching with Style!!
One other type of curve is achieved by keeping the cue stick as level as possible. Mostly the result of an extreme draw application as the cue ball compresses the cushion. A resultant bend or arc of the cue ball provides what is often referred to as a level stroke masse. This one is easy to learn and will give you specific knowledge for getting out of some sticky game situations.
Top players execute high quality mechanical movements in a repeatable fashion. Quite often there is a paralysis of analysis aspect in the often-illusive quest for game perfection. To help eliminate confusion in the overall process, a simple two - part formula for each shot should be remembered 1) place cue stick directly under shoulder and 2) allow cue stick to swing straight during the stroke process. Mirror image training provides proven visual feedback for the real time correction of poor mechanics and the programmed repetition / fine tuning of good ones.
When the cue ball and object ball are both frozen to a cushion it is very difficult to make the shot unless the object ball is reasonably close to the designated pocket. In addition, position play becomes harder since the cue ball comes out from "under the cushion nose" when shooting direct to the object ball. The use of draw with appropriate sidespin and special "cushion compression" technique is the best way to increase the make percentage of the object ball and cue ball position.
Sometimes we have the luxury of playing position to a more favorable side of the next ball in order to make it. Less effort can be used with the same 2 balls frozen as in Segment #41 by aiming slightly away from the cushion and by hitting slightly less than a full hit on the object ball. A rather short follow thru with a very rapid cue movement is important. Using follow with the appropriate sidespin works very nicely. Keep in mind your better play side when shooting shots of this type.
One of the game's most valuable shots is shown in this instructional nugget. When the object ball is "behind the side pocket point" special force follow application is required for getting select position on your next shot or for making a game winning shot. A level cue movement with a smooth rapid rate of acceleration, plus a slightly less than full hit on the object ball will help you control the cue ball like a "dog on a leash".
Shooting an object ball that is frozen to the cushion down the entire length of the long rail runs the risk of catching the point of the side pocket. Extreme force follow on the cue ball and a full hit on the object ball provides a nifty method of sending the cue ball down the table to make the game winning shot. When blocking balls are in the path of the cue ball travel, the cue ball can make a "diving" effect around those balls with reverse spin and extreme force follow technique.
Every player should have some special spin and stroke knowledge when confronted with certain "tricky" situations. Hitting an object ball 95% full with a rapid rate of acceleration causes the cue ball to "twist and turn" in a very unique way when extreme high and appropriate sidespin is applied. Going around another ball or making multiple balls in one stroke will surely make your opponent take note of your ability to get the most out of any game situation.
Knowing the "kiss back" principle of a cue ball can be used time and time again to play position and make balls when it appears like no shot exists. Hitting the cue ball with low will allow it to "double kiss" the object ball on a full hit and send the cue ball "back" to the intended target. Opportunity will also arise when the cue ball "kiss back" will trigger a combination to the selected target. Remember to keep the cue stick level and use a very short bridge for accuracy of the hit.
If the cue ball is "trapped" behind a group of balls and it is difficult to jump over them directly, it is best to shoot away from the balls into the cushion with a slightly elevated jump stroke. Special occasions will come up when a player can shoot directly into an object ball frozen to the cushion. This latter scenario will provide the "double kiss" effect explained in prior segments, causing the cue ball to jump backwards over the blocking ball(s) to the target of choice.
Normally the "ball in hand" process provides a huge opportunity to win most games; however, there are some unique "ball in hand" situations when there is little freedom to control the game or so it seems. Knowing how to "double kiss" the cue ball back when the object ball is not frozen to the cushion is a treasured instructional tip that will enhance your overall playing ability. Critical elements to satisfactory results are a full hit, level cue, short bridge, and appropriate spin!
Having a few special compression kick shots in your bag of winning tricks will go a long way to building your total game confidence. Understanding cushion compression at different speeds and angles is paramount to the learning experience. Adding a special prop to any shot can be used to entertain your friends, plus teach them something about table cushions with designated cue ball interaction in the process. Level and elevated cue movements provide maximum feedback.
When the natural effect of running english is not an option, the challenging use of "reverse english" must be applied to specific shots. It is very interesting to see the change that takes place when "reverse english" hits the 2nd cushion, as it turns into "natural roll" on its journey around the table. One of the most popular applications for this is when the cue ball is frozen to the cushion, and it is "trapped" by a blocking ball. The only way of escape is to shoot with fast speed into the cushion at a calculated angle of success. Using a firm, short, closed bridge assures accuracy!!
Knowing how to jump and knowing how to judge the hit on a cushion point can provide valuable assistance when both must be done. Some game situations require a player to hit the point of a cushion while using a controlled jump technique and then go over one or more blocking balls. A closed firm bridge, short follow thru, and a "punch" type of stroke usually provide the best chance of shot success in these cases. Adjust with various speeds, spin, and cue elevations!!
Just when you thought you had seen everything, a very unusual game situation comes up, and you must pull out all stops to achieve the ultimate victory! Having the ability to execute many options is always important to make your opponent think twice about leaving certain shots again. This segment provides six legal options for game success and one "fun" option when you just feel like entertaining for awhile among friends. Pocket point shots like this one do occur, so practice them often to enhance personal shooting enjoyment and increase your overall game knowledge.
Almost every player has certain shots that they do not like and consequently "miss" them over and over again. The problem with this scenario is that once a shot gets missed literally dozens of times, the "right brain" becomes programmed to assume that the literal miss is what the player is supposed to do because that is what is always sees and simply "goes along for the ride". In other words the "literal miss" becomes a "make in disguise" even though it is still on the table. The left-brain argues the point and a mental feud of sorts takes place until something is done to deprogram the right brain assumption. By shortening the distance between the cue ball and the object ball substantially the object ball is made literally over and over again. This creates a repetitious implant of a ball dropping by sight, sound, and feel. Increasing this distance in small increments will allow for the "make in disguise -- former literal miss" to become a "literal make" with mental harmony.
Each table has its own unique "personality"! The best time to find out if a table is level and what type of angle response the cushions provide is obviously before the game begins. When time allows, shooting a cue ball around the table with a simple cushion testing system will provide valuable knowledge and feedback of those intricate adjustments that will surely be needed during the actual game experience. Knowing your playfield environment is the key to game excellence and approach confidence!!


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Birthdays occurring on March, 28
1496 Queen Mary I of England was born on March 28, 1496
English princess and queen Consort of France. Third wife of King Louis XII of France and sister of England's King Henry VIII. "Bloody" Mary (Tudor)'s aunt. 1496-1533
When I am dead and opened, you shall find `Calais' lying in my heart.
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1515 St. Teresa of Avila was born on March 28, 1515
Spanish nun, mystic and writer, 1515-1582
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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1640 William Wycherley was born on March 28, 1640
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
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1862 Aristide Briand was born on March 28, 1862
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
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1868 Maxim Gorky was born on March 28, 1868
Russian novelist and playwright, 1868-1936
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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Deaths occurring on March, 28
1941 Virginia Woolf died on March 28, 1941
English Modernist writer. She is best known for her feminist essay "A Room of One's Own" and the novel "Mrs. Dalloway". Committed suicide at age 59. 1882-1941
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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1942 Miguel Hernández died on March 28, 1942
Spanish poet and dramatist, 1910-1942
Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.
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1943 Sergei Rachmaninov died on March 28, 1943
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music
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1944 Stephen Leacock died on March 28, 1944
Canadian humorist, 1869-1944
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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1957 Christopher Morley died on March 28, 1957
American writer and editor 1890-1957
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
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(Source: http://www.foodlogistics.com, Sue Rutherford). We are entering an exciting phase in the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) technology and solutions in supply chain management and operations. Worldwide, we are witnessing an explosion of smart, connected things, exploiting technological advances and reduced costs in telematics devices, sensors, applications, software and communications networks. Analyst IHS Markit predicts that the IoT market will grow from 15.4 billion devices in 2015 to 30.7 billion devices in 2020 and 75.4 billion in 2025.
By incorporating IoT technologies and solutions into supply chain networks, we can seamlessly connect business processes, such as shipping and receiving, with people, data and things, such as pallets, containers, trailers, warehouses, distribution centers (DC), terminals and yards, to run these networks at maximum efficiency.
The coming IoT generation will be driven by products and solutions that are much more software centric, with robust cloud technology and an open architecture that enables connectivity of fixed and mobile telematics devices, sensors and actuators. This next generation technology will provide for "multi-tenancy," or the ability to easily encompass different ecosystem participants, such as shippers, third-party logistics providers (3PL), carriers, ports, DCs and hauliers, in a single IoT network—and the flexibility to work with different IoT devices and technologies.
With these kinds of platforms in place, and the choice of technologies multiplying rapidly, IoT can become integral to supply chain communities, helping beneficial cargo owners (BCO) and their logistics and transport providers to safeguard shipments, manage timelines, proactively mitigate delays and breakdowns, comply with regulations, increase operational efficiency across the network, break down silos, and launch new data-driven business services.
As supply chains become more complex and regulated, managers everywhere need to know what is going on across their entire network, communicating with suppliers, customers and, often, government agencies at the same time. Any weak points in the chain can cause problems—and where temperature-sensitive food is involved, these problems can escalate all too quickly.
Supply chains, especially cold chains, are particularly vulnerable at hand-off points, where different lines of business meet, or where a supplier's process meets a customer's process. In a typical international refrigerated container shipment, such hand-offs typically occur at the ship-port interface, during transfer of containers to/from port by truck, rail or inland waterway, and when devanning goods from containers for cross-docking or storage prior to onward delivery by truck—or vice versa from origin to outbound port.
Processes at these hand-off points are still often manual. What data exists generally lives in silos and often is "after the fact." As a result, hand-offs frequently lack visibility and control, resulting in errors that can have serious negative downstream effects.
Take a typical cold chain process, when chilled or frozen goods are unloaded from a deep-sea reefer container into a cold store and then onto a reefer truck for landside delivery. Despite having good temperature control, the reefer's door could be open for too long, affecting the quality of the product loaded closer to the door. Or the case of a reefer container arriving at a seaport or other supply chain node and not being put on power. Or pallets of fresh produce being loaded too hot into a reefer box or trailer in the first place, ultimately resulting in shortened shelf list, reduced revenue and possible cargo loss. Then there are the perennial challenges of equipment malfunction and human error, leading to cold chain deviations and breakdowns.
Improved IoT technology makes locating, monitoring and addressing these errors far simpler. What was previously invisible becomes visible, allowing informed, data-driven decisions to be made, versus a historic "blame and claim" culture that is ultimately very costly for all involved and does nothing to actively tackle what the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates as more than a 30 percent worldwide wastage of food from farm to fork at an annual cost of $890 billion.
IoT also can help break down information silos, making it easier to comply with regulations, such as the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which require visibility and traceability throughout the food supply chain. It also can help build a better relationship with customers at the end of the supply chain, for example, making it easier and quicker to recall product in the event of contamination or compromise, ship perishables out of the DC earlier than scheduled, or re-route to a closer destination to maximise shelf life.
Of course, the food supply chain is already awash with data—commercial, legal, regulatory and operational. All this latent data potentially can deliver operational and business value when properly mined on a massive, automated scale, as various start-ups are now aiming to do. But all too often, the information on which today's supply chains run is fragmented and unreliable—not surprising, given how much manual keying and rekeying still is involved and how many parties are involved along the complex journey from producer to end consumer.
By contrast, data from IoT-connected containers, chassis, gensets, trucks and vessels is reliable, real and real-time. It reveals what is, versus what was planned or anticipated, shining a light not just on asset operations—crucial though they are—but on the fundamental supply chain processes, flows and hand-offs that make or break a shipment.
Announcing its investment in 350 new smart refrigerated containers earlier this year, U.S. carrier TOTE Maritime says that a core value is in "providing clients [with] crucial real-time, end-to-end visibility of their shipments in TOTE Maritime's cold chain." Expediting cargo distribution and providing the "precise monitoring and record-keeping" needed for FSMA compliance were also cited as key benefits.
Having deployed smart reefers since 2011, TOTE recently invested in new on-ship cellular GSM technology to provide on-board and shore-side monitoring of reefer shipments, closing the real-time traceability gap at sea. Maersk Line has similarly equipped its whole vessel fleet, and further such investments are anticipated in the future as vessels become generally more connected for diagnostics, schedule management, crew welfare and cargo care.
Today, the big drivers for much IoT investment by cold chain asset owners revolve around better fleet utilization; reduced maintenance, repair (M&R) and claims costs; regulatory compliance; and security. However, a growing number of operators are starting to think about how they can deliver extra value beyond transporting or storing goods by helping their clients achieve new levels of shipment visibility, velocity and more proactive cold chain management. Indeed, end-to-end real-time visibility may in due course simply become an accepted cost of doing business.
But before we get ahead of ourselves, it's worth remembering that we are in the early stages of the journey. Though an estimated 80 percent of the U.S. OTR reefer trailer fleet is now fitted with IoT telematics and sensors, only around 13 percent of the 2.7 million TEU global reefer container fleet is likewise equipped. Most container ships similarly are not GSM-enabled for wireless reefer box monitoring. Meantime, shippers and 3PLs focused on the shipment, rather than the means of transport, are not sitting idly by, deploying a growing range of cargo-level devices and sensors for live monitoring of in-transit condition and location.
As IoT technology continues to advance and industry practices evolve, we may expect to see more convergence of asset-level and cargo-level monitoring in the future. Indeed, some traditionally asset centric IoT providers in the cold chain space already are starting to add more cargo level and trip-based monitoring capabilities via acquisition or organic research and development. Current reality may not yet match up to the aspirations, but the technology genie is well and truly out of the bottle. Change is coming, and the current and next generation of IoT technology will be central to cold chain transformation—in ways we probably don't yet even grasp.
Sue Rutherford has more than two decades of global marketing and business development expertise in the technology sector. As the vice president of marketing for ORBCOMM, Rutherford is responsible for advancing the strategic direction of ORBCOMM marketing and its leading M2M/IoT solutions.


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Wheat price hike threatens to spark mill war
President of the Groupement inter-patronal du Cameroun Célestin Tawamba. © CelestinTawamba.GicamOfficiel/Facebook
In the midst of a wheat price boom, prominent entrepreneur and head of Cameroon employers' federation, Célestin Tawamba, has shut down his La Pasta flour mill in an attempt to obtain a tax break on imported cereals and to try to change the regulated price of flour. This has infuriated trade minister Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana. [...] (397 words)
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Célestin Tawamba, head of Cameroon's employers' federation and owner of La Pasta, is leading the Cameroonian flour mills' revolt against the government. After failing to obtain tax and customs exemptions, he and his competitors have decided to flout their sector's regulations. [...]
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The petroleum products trading and distribution company Rubis is gearing up for the succession of its co-founders, Gilles Gobin and Jacques Riou, as their children, including Clarisse Gobin Swiecznik, enter the scene. However, the transfer of power is taking place at the same time as a strategic reorganisation and a move into development in hydrogen and photovoltaic energy, in which the African subsidiaries, until now the driving force of the group, have been barely included. [...]
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Jess B. Weiss (Born 1917 Bronx, New York - died June 28, 2007 Fort Lauderdale, Florida) was an American anesthesiologist and medical doctor.

Weiss was best known for redesigning the shape of the epidural needle by adding a T-shaped set of wings.  This allowed anesthesiologists and physicians to more easily guide the needle into the spine of the patient.

External links and references
Boston Globe: Jess Weiss, 90; redesigned an epidural needle

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American anesthesiologists
2007 deaths
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1917 births
Date of birth missing
20th-century American physicians
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Home News Brief Evidence Points to Sinaloa Cartel Behind Multi-ton Peru Cocaine Haul
Evidence Points to Sinaloa Cartel Behind Multi-ton Peru Cocaine Haul
Kyra Gurney
Elites and Organized Crime
Sinaloa Cartel
Officials are still counting the cocaine bricks
Officials in Peru have said the two companies whose shipments of coal were found to contain tons of cocaine earlier this week were set up as fronts by Mexican drug traffickers, a modus operandi that suggests the involvement of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Peruvian authorities are still counting the quantity of cocaine hidden amongst coal shipments seized on August 25 — finding six tons so far — but have already taken action against the export companies involved, arresting the directors of both companies.
According to Interior Minister Daniel Urresti, the two coal companies, which were both founded in the last three years, were legally constituted companies but were set up as a front for the cocaine trafficking of a Mexican cartel, reported La Republica.
The companies had already sent 30 shipments to Spain and Belgium, but according to Urresti, authorities have yet to determine how many of the shipments contained drugs since they believe the criminal group's strategy was to send legal shipments to Europe at the beginning of their operations to build credibility, reported AP.
Anti-drug police have so far searched 14 companies and houses in conjunction with the investigation, reported La Republica. The investigation has also revealed that some of the properties belonged to a political figure from the province of La Libertad, where the drugs were found.
Although Peruvian authorities have yet to name the Mexican drug cartel they say is responsible for the shipment, the creation of two legal front companies to ship large quantities of cocaine points to the involvement of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The organization used a similar tactic to transport a massive 20-ton cocaine shipment in 2007, sending two members to Panama to create a legal shipping company and buy a cargo vessel to traffic the drugs. For the first two months, the company sent legal shipments from Guyana through the Panama Canal and on to Mexico to give the business a facade of legitimacy.
In addition, the Sinaloa Cartel has reportedly used front companies to purchase and ship heroin from Afghanistan to the United States, working with Turkish and Indian criminal organizations to set up the operations.
SEE ALSO: Sinaloa Cartel Profile
The geographical location of the port used for the most recent trafficking scheme also indicates Sinaloa Cartel involvement. According to Peruvian authorities, the shipment was destined for the ports of Callao, near Lima, and Paita, in Piura. As far back as 2011, Peruvian authorities warned of a Sinaloa Cartel presence in Piura, a transshipment point near the border with Ecuador.
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Is the internet a culture killer? Hardly.
This was published 13 years ago
By Graeme Philipson
August 15, 2007 — 12.11am
Over the past couple of months, I came across so many comments about Andrew Keen's book The Cult of the Amateur that I just had to read it. It is subtitled How today's internet is killing our culture, which pretty well tells you the book's thesis.
Keen believes that the internet, by giving unbridled access to the masses and allowing everybody to be a publisher, is lowering the standard of expression and debate. "I've spent the last two years observing the Web 2.0 revolution, and I'm dismayed by what I've seen," he says.
"Democratisation, despite its lofty idealisation, is undermining truth, souring civic discourse, and belittling expertise, experience and talent. It is threatening the very future of out cultural institutions.
"What the Web 2.0 revolution is really delivering is superficial observations of the world rather than deep analysis, shrill opinion rather than considered judgement. The information business is being transformed by the internet into the sheer noise of 100 million bloggers all simultaneously talking about themselves."
And so on, for a couple of hundred pages. No one could accuse Keen of understating his case. The trouble is, by so vastly overstating it, he demolishes his own arguments.
He is not only upset with untalented amateurs competing with "real" writers and YouTube videos competing against "real" films. He sees problems everywhere he looks. Wikipedia is one target, of course: "Every visit to Wikipedia's free information hive means one less customer for a professionally researched and edited encyclopedia such as Britannica".
He criticises the practice of corporations creating fictional characters on MySpace and of people creating spoof ads on YouTube. He hates the way the internet makes it so easy for students to plagiarise ("destroying the sanctity of authorship"). He criticises the idea of the "Long Tail", as providing "infinite shelf space" for inferior ideas. He hates the way the internet makes it so easy to copy content.
Now you don't have to read the book. I have neatly summarised its arguments, or at least the flavour of its polemic. It's very consistent. Interaction and democratisation is bad, bad, bad. By bypassing the editors and publishers and others whose job it is to vet what is written, it exposes us to lies, half-truth and distortions, and to smear campaigns from ideologues of all persuasions.
Now, I am no friend of sloppy thinking. There is no doubt that the internet is full of the most abhorrent drivel, and that at times it can be very difficult to find quality among all the pap. But the alternative is the kind of limited access to information we had before this "democratisation".
Think back, if you will, to the dim dark days of 15 years ago, when we didn't use email, when Google and YouTube and Wikipedia and Amazon didn't exist, when the only way to read a newspaper was to find a physical copy, when you had to go into a shop to buy music.
Finding information back then was much more difficult, but according to Keen at least we could be assured that the information was more likely to be correct than what we find today. The argument is whether we are better off with restricted access to vetted information, or with unrestricted access to unvetted information.
When I first heard of this book, I thought it might make some interesting points. And it does, to an extent. It is also well written, which helps hide its intellectual sloppiness. Yes, folks, Keen is as guilty of this as the most ignorant and illiterate blogger. The very existence of his book, and the spurious arguments it contains, refutes his basic premise that the publishing process is likely to ensure quality.
Some of its examples defy belief. Take Keen's criticism of Google. It is dismissed as a mere aggregator of content, a "parasite; it creates no content of its own". This argument is so laughable, so absurd, as to make you question the whole basis of his other arguments.
Information has no value on its own - it becomes useful only when it can be easily accessed and shared. That is what Google does. Indeed, that is what the internet does, on a massive scale. By attacking the internet, and in particular the information-sharing capability that is loosely known as Web 2.0, Keen is attacking the whole notion of information sharing, which is to attack the notion of information itself.
The internet is a facilitator. It makes the process of sharing information infinitely easier than it was in the past. Keen's protestations remind me of those who regarded the rise of the printed word as an attack on human memory, or of the more recent critics who regarded television as presaging the death of cinema.
If the internet did not exist it would have been necessary to invent it. The whole process of human history has been about improvements in access to information.
The internet has vastly accelerated this inexorable process. To argue against because it has given too many people the ability to do what was once the preserve of an elite is rather missing the point.
It's a shame Keen's book is so wide of the mark and his arguments so poorly made. There is much room for debate about intellectual sloppiness and dishonesty, about misrepresentation, and about ownership of content.
As one of the many (mostly unfavourable) reviews on Amazon says, "this is a debate we should be having, but this book is not the best place to start". Indeed it isn't. There are very many more reasoned overviews of the internet culture and the challenges it poses and the benefits it brings than this poorly argued little diatribe.
graeme@philipson.info
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NSA Intercepted Data from Google and Yahoo Servers; Monitors Nearly Everyone's Internet Use
Posted on November 3, 2013 by Alfredo Lopez
The technology of MUSCULAR, a program jointly carried on by the NSA and its British counterpart, isn't hard to explain. Essentially, technologists at the spy agency have figured out a way to intercept data being exchanged among servers that store everything you do on Google and Yahoo.
Here's the difference between this and other previously revealed spying programs. Your data travels over the Internet to get to those servers and be stored there. For others to see what data you've stored, it must travel out, again over the Internet. That's legally protected data and the NSA (at least theoretically) needs a court order to remove it from those servers. The FISA court (the NSA's blessing source) almost always rubber stamps NSA requests so it's pretty easy to conduct that kind of data extraction but at least there is still a record of what the NSA is looking for and why and some grounds for taking legal action against it.
Muscular doesn't go near the data as it's travelling on the Internet or while it's on those servers. Instead it intercepts data that's already been stored and is travelling through non-public connections between each company's many servers as the companies synchronize stored data or transfer it internally. Internet giants like Google transfer data among their servers constantly in networks of servers known as (you've heard it before) "clouds". This constant transfer helps distribute server activity so that a sudden spike in requests for data on a particular server doesn't crash it (called "load management") or for maintenance, security and other reasons. To do this they use special fibre-optic wires that connect their various servers and are not publicly available.
The data transferred among these servers is typically encoded so nobody can read it without having the decoding keys. That's a security measure. According to these reports, the NSA has figured out a way to de-code those formats, then captures the data being transferred by tapping into these internal connections and then, without anyone outside the NSA knowing it, decodes the stuff and analyses it to decide what, if anything, they want to do with it. If they decide to store it, they have several NSA storage centers that can easily handle it. They then allow the data to resume its journey. It all happens in micro-seconds.
This is typically called a "man in the middle interception" and it's like tapping the wire between your computer and an external hard drive you use for storage — except multiplied hundreds of millions of times.
"I knew the NSA drawing was real from the smiley-face," wrote Slate's David Auerbach, referring to the Internet smile icon used in the leaked diagram and replicated above. "Only an eager and myopic software engineer — seeing the interception of Google and Yahoo's data as a challenge and game rather than as a security and political matter — would make such a light-hearted and self-satisfied gesture at the prospect of hacking into Google's internal servers."
Of course, it's not a game. It is a highly sophisticated and intentionally intrusive method of data-gathering: spycraft at its most pernicious performed constantly on the email, photos, videos and other data posted by the people of this country (and many others).
NSA chief Keith Alexander was immediately dispatched to issue his predictable disclaimers: "It would be illegal for us to do that. So, I don't know what the report is," he told a cyber-security conference last week. "But I can tell you factually we do not have access to Google servers, Yahoo servers. We go through a court order." Alexander has proven himself a master of evasion in the past but this was a doozy. This is about tapping wires not accessing servers.
Officials at both Google and Yahoo tried to put make-up on their black eyes through statements of outrage, calls for "restraint", and assurance that they were not "advised" of a massive surveillance effort they would never have approved. But the point is that it's happening and their PR-driven assurances to users that our data is safe mean absolutely nothing.
What a mess! In the space of two weeks, President Obama publicly states that he didn't know the extent of the spying but will aggressively "look into it". Secretary Kerry admits it may have gone too far but it's all in a good cause. Alexander side-stepped comment on the real revelation and his National Security Advisor boss James Clapper seemed intent on avoiding the issue entirely be issuing another of his famous non-denial statements. In fact, the non-denials were bouncing like a bunch of ping-pong balls during an earthquake — colliding with each other in a nonsensical frenzy. That was coupled with the flow of rhetorical outrage emanating from many governments as Snowden information made clear that surveillance was being conducted on everything from Spanish citizens' email accounts to the personal emails (and perhaps phone calls) of German chancellor Angela Merkel.
Obviously, data gathering of this scope isn't about catching terrorists. That certainly could be part of the outcome but there's no way you analyze over 183 million pieces of data in a month to identify crazies. Something else is going on.
Post reporter Bart Gellman, who broke the story, told PBS that "…on its face I don't see any evidence that they're flouting the law here. They're using it in ways that the companies and the public didn't expect." But that challenges logic. Going into a company's internal systems to remove data without that company's knowledge sure seems illegal. At the very least, it reflects a disturbing cynicism on the Administration's part about the spirit of the law and what privacy laws tell our government about how it should relate to its citizens.
The question, however, isn't whether this is legal but what the Obama Administration is trying to do with the definition of legality. The history of this Administration demonstrates that it's preparing for some very troubled times and its preparations are obscenely repressive. With an economy that simply cannot return 25 million unemployed people to work, the massive retrenchment of people's rights, the slashing of our social safety nets, a society ripped apart by the frantic hysteria of weekly domestic terrorism, an insane but growing extreme right-wing and a Congress that has no popular support and is no longer governing anyone, the eruption of massive protest and resistance in every corner of the society is no surprise. Nor does it take much vision to predict that things are going to get a whole lot hotter.
The politically powerful are involved in an intense debate about how to govern this society while the social contract it has used to govern in the past can't be met. The debate rages but it's clear that all sides are talking about a more restrictive society. The key to such repression is data capture. No matter how intense and widespread this repression turns out to be, they have the data they need to make all options possible including the crushing of protest movements. Do we trust them not to use the data that way?
In past contributions to these web pages, I've written that, while we are not in a police state, the government has constructed an apparatus capability of turning this country into one with a flip of its legal switch.
That's the meaning of the MUSCULAR revelations. As far as data is concerned, everything is in place.
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A young girl, who works in the Mumbai airport's security department, recently conducted an 'Ask Me Anything' session on Reddit and made some shocking revelations about our Bollywood stars like Sonam Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Kajol, Tiger Shroff among others.
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LinkedIn recently went over 300 million active users.
And in my view, that makes it the #1 online career advancement tool for HR professionals.
Estimates of professional participation in LinkedIn range as high as 83%. So it's the place to be if you're in any profession, but especially if you're in HR.
But if you're like a few HR folks, you may be making four very simple, but costly mistakes in using it.
Recruiters and headhunters get paid big bucks to find HR talent. And all of them use LinkedIn as their #1 source.
But you frustrate the crap out them by making it impossible for them to get in touch with you.
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If you want to remove this info once you've landed the HR job of your dreams, that's fine. But in the meantime, make it easy for executive search pros to reach you so that they can help deliver it to you.
2. Your Profile Summary is too dense.
Dense paragraphs of 4 lines or longer are tough to skim in a LinkedIn Summary.
Remember, you are writing for the Web, not providing a detailed performance review to your boss.
Instead of creating a lengthy description or bio on your Summary, simply do this...Break up those large paragraphs!
I recently made this change in my own profile and I'm very pleased with the results.
Shorter, easy-to-consume sentences draw in more readers, especially those with tiny attention spans.
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-Helped increase 401(k) plan enrollments by 9.75% through aggressive education efforts.
-Contributed to a reduction of 32% in the response time of third-party employee benefit providers.
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In the above summary, this human resources director, who specializes in Employee Benefits, concisely outlines the scope of her authority and her experience.
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3. Your profile has job titles, but no story.
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An incomplete profile like this doesn't tell anyone anything other than you've had some jobs.
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So today, right now, go back and flesh out a story for each of the jobs on your profile.
By this I mean, along with those jobs you've listed, include a description of the results you achieved in the past. Three to four sentences for each job is ideal.
And, yes, quantify those accomplishments where possible. Numbers, not words speak volumes and help sell your value.
You want your profile to grab people by the throat and clearly let them know why you're remarkable and worthy of being in their network, contacted or referred.
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I recently came across an experienced HR VP's profile page with just three contacts.
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Maple Leafs snap losing streak in 3-2 overtime win against Blackhawks
Tim Cronin
Published October 27, 2021 Updated October 28, 2021
William Nylander, left, of the Toronto Maple Leafs celebrates getting the game-winning goal in overtime against the Chicago Blackhawks with teammate Rasmus Sandin at the United Center on Oct. 27, 2021 in Chicago, Ill. The Maple Leafs defeated the Blackhawks 3-2.Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
William Nylander scored in overtime to lift the Toronto Maple Leafs over the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 on Wednesday.
The Leafs snapped a four-game losing streak with the victory, and extended the Blackhawks' record to 0-6-1.
John Tavares and David Kampf also scored for Toronto, and Jack Campbell stopped 25 shots.
"This feels good, getting two points at the end of a long road trip," Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe said.
Chicago got 36 saves from Kevin Lankinen, and goals from Kirby Dach and Alex DeBrincat.
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The decisive OT goal happened when Nylander broke in on a 2-on-0 and snapped a wrist shot past Lankinen.
"It hasn't been looking too pretty the last few nights," Nylander said. "Tonight, we got closer to where we want to be, but not fully there yet. I just tried five-hole and it worked."
The Maple Leafs outplayed Chicago as the game went on, but the Blackhawks ended one streak early, taking the lead for the first time this season when Dach beat Campbell with a power-play wrist shot over the glove side 5:44 in.
The Blackhawks had been tied or trailed for more than six games at that point, the longest such streak in the NHL since 1979-80.
DeBrincat scored at even strength for a 2-0 Chicago lead at 11:48 of the first, accepting Seth Jones' long pass following Toronto defenceman Justin Holl's turnover. DeBrincat's shot sailed over Campbell's shoulder.
"We played more the style we want to play," Chicago's Tyler Johnson said. "There were still moments we played too cute, not making the simple plays."
Keefe said the Leafs "talked a ton about protecting our goal and they scored two. That's got to stop."
Tavares cut the lead to 2-1 at 6:14 in the second, outmuscling Jonathan Toews in the slot and backhanding a shot over Lankinen's glove hand.
"A good character win," Tavares said. "We had a good (first) intermission, getting our mindset right. We challenged each other."
Kampf, a former Blackhawk whom the Leafs signed as a free agent in July, tied the game at 2, beating Lankinen on a sneaky backhand from the slot with 7:29 left in regulation. Kampf took a pass from Rasmus Sandin on the boards and barely looked at Lankinen as he let the shot go.
Chicago's Patrick Kane, Henrik Borgstrom, Jujhar Khaira and Riley Stillman remain in COVID-19 protocol and missed the game. Toews tested negative earlier on Wednesday and was put back on the active roster. The non-sellout crowd in the United Center was noticeably subdued in the day after revelations that team executives in 2010 failed to take allegations of sexual assault by then-assistant coach Brad Aldrich against a backup player to authorities. The player, Kyle Beach, came forward in a Canadian television interview on Wednesday. "At the end of the day, my heart goes out to Kyle," Blackhawks captain Toews said. "It's not an excuse looking back, but the truth is, a lot of us were focused on hockey every single day. You hear rumours, but it's at the back of your mind."
Chicago: Hits the road for two games against teams that are 5-0-0, at Carolina on Friday and at St. Louis on Saturday.
Toronto: Begin a five-game homestead on Saturday, hosting Detroit.
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Hasan Cemal (* 1944 in Istanbul) ist ein prominenter türkischer Journalist und Schriftsteller.

Cemals Großvater, Cemal Pascha, war ein Mitglied des jungtürkischen Triumvirats. Dieses Triumvirat führte das Osmanische Reich in den Ersten Weltkrieg an der Seite des Deutschen Reiches unter Wilhelm II. Das Triumvirat war daher auch mitverantwortlich für den Völkermord an den Armeniern 1915.

Karriere
Hasan Cemal schloss 1965 erfolgreich das Studium an der Politischen Fakultät der Universität Ankara ab. 1969 begann er seine Tätigkeit als Journalist bei der Zeitschrift Devrim. Danach arbeitete er bei den Zeitschriften Yeni Ortam, Anka Ajansı und Günaydın, bis er 1973 zu einer der ältesten türkischen Zeitungen, der Cumhuriyet, wechselte. Zwischen 1981 und 1982 war er Chefredakteur der Cumhuriyet. Danach schrieb er zwischen 1992 und 1998 bei der Sabah, später schrieb er für die Milliyet. Neben seiner Arbeit als Journalist schrieb er Bücher über kontroverse Themen. Sein letztes Buch 1915: Ermeni Soykırımı behandelt den Völkermord an den Armeniern.

Familie
Hasan Cemal stammt aus einer Familie, die den multikulturellen Charakter des osmanischen Reiches widerspiegelte. Seine Großeltern väterlicherseits waren der osmanische Pascha Cemal Bey und Serezli Hanım aus Nordgriechenland. Seine Großeltern mütterlicherseits waren der tscherkessischstämmige Sait Bey und die Georgierin Seniha Hanım. Beide Großväter hatten eine militärische Laufbahn durchlaufen. Hasan Cemals Vater Ahmet Rüştü Bey (1900–1980) war der älteste Sohn der Familie. Einige Zeit lebte er in Deutschland und kehrte Ende der 1920er wieder in die Türkei zurück. Eine diplomatische Karriere in der neuen türkischen Republik blieb ihm wegen der Zugehörigkeit Cemal Paschas zur alten Elite verwehrt. Er arbeitete unter anderem als Dolmetscher für Deutsch in verschiedenen türkischen Firmen. Seine Ehefrau wurde später Ayşe (Bozok). Hasan Cemal selbst hat zweimal geheiratet. Aus seiner ersten Ehe mit Necla (Aksoy) stammt die Tochter Elif (* 1972) und aus der zweiten Ehe mit Ayşa Hanım die Tochter Defne.

Völkermord an den Armeniern
Hasan Cemal setzte sich in seinem 2012 veröffentlichten Buch 1915: Ermeni Soykırımı (1915: Der Völkermord an den Armeniern) mit der eigenen Familiengeschichte in Bezug auf den Völkermord, zu dessen Hauptverantwortlichen sein Großvater Cemal Pascha gehörte, auseinander. Bis in die 1980er Jahre folgte Hasan Cemal der offiziellen Lesart der türkischen Regierung, die den Völkermord leugnet und eine Anerkennung der Ereignisse 1915 als "Genozid" ablehnt. In den 1990er Jahren fing Cemal an, sich mit den Büchern des türkischen Historikers Taner Akçam zu beschäftigen, die ihn dazu bewegen die offizielle türkische Geschichtsschreibung, den türkischen Umgang mit dieser Thematik und in diesem Zusammenhang auch seine eigene Familiengeschichte zu hinterfragen. Bei einem Vortrag vor Vertretern der armenischen Diaspora in Los Angeles im März 2011 spricht Hasan Cemal erstmals öffentlich von "Völkermord":  Cemals Buch 1915: Ermeni Soykırımı ist seinem armenischen Journalistenkollegen und Freund Hrant Dink gewidmet, der 2007 auf offener Straße in Istanbul erschossen wurde. Dinks Tod stellte einen Wendepunkt für Hasan Cemal dar, sich intensiv mit diesem Teil der türkischen Geschichte auseinanderzusetzen. Im Jahre 2008 besuchte Cemal das Völkermordmahnmal in Armenien und legte weiße Nelken vor der "ewigen Flamme" nieder. Er gab an, dass in der Türkei die Angst vor der Geschichte regiere. Von türkisch-nationalistischen Kreisen wurde Cemal, so wie Taner Akcam zuvor, für seine Haltung als Vaterlandsverräter beschimpft.

Anlässlich des Welttages der Pressefreiheit 2014 wurde er von Reporter ohne Grenzen als einer der weltweit "hundert Helden der Informationsfreieheit" genannt.

Platform 24
Cemal hat 2013 die "Plattform 24 für unabhängigen Journalismus" gegründet und leitet sie auch seit dieser Zeit.

Werke
 Tank Sesiyle Uyanmak. Everest Yayınları, Istanbul 1986, ISBN 605-141-078-3. (Mit Panzerlärm aufwachen)
 Demokrasi Korkusu. Doğan Kitapçılık, Istanbul 1986, ISBN 975-6770-84-8. (Die Furcht vor der Demokratie)
 Tarihi Yaşarken Yakalamak. Doğan Kitapçılık, Istanbul 1987, ISBN 975-6770-66-X.
 Özal Hikayesi. Everest Yayınları, Istanbul 1989, ISBN 605-141-611-0. (Die Geschichte [Turgut] Özals)
 Kimse Kızmasın, Kendimi Yazdım. Doğan Kitapçılık, Istanbul 1999, ISBN 975-991-903-6. (Keiner soll schimpfen, ich habe mich selber geschrieben)
 Kürtler. Doğan Kitapçılık, Istanbul 2004, ISBN 975-991-515-4. (Die Kurden)
 Cumhuriyet'i Çok Sevmiştim. Everest Yayınları, Istanbul 2005, ISBN 605-141-664-1. (Ich liebte die Republik sehr)
 Türkiye'nin Asker Sorunu. Doğan Kitapçılık, Istanbul 2010, ISBN 978-605-111-628-0. (Das Problem der Türkei mit den Soldaten)
 Barışa Emanet Olun. Everest Yayınları, Istanbul 2011, ISBN 978-975-289-931-5.
 1915: Ermeni Soykırımı. Everest Yayınları, Istanbul 2012, ISBN 978-605-141-513-0. (1915: Der armenische Völkermord)

Weblinks
 Cemal Paschas Enkel veröffentlicht Buch zum Armeniergenozid
 O artık gazetecı, Artikel über Hasan Cemal in der Zeitschrift Aksiyon vom 5. Juli 1999

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The world has gone mad. Official.
Posted: March 10, 2013 in Political musings, Popular Culture et al
Tags: bath photos, child protection, Child Protection Services, couple lose children because of bath photos, one year before children's custody is returned after bath photos
The Demarees' family photos were eventually ruled harmless. Photo: ABC News (US)
A US couple are suing supermarket chain Walmart after their innocent family snaps were reported as child pornography.
When Lisa and Anthony Demaree dropped photos of their family holiday for development, they had no inkling of the storm that would follow.
Most of the photos showed the usual family holiday antics, but some were of the couple's three young daughters, then 5, 4 and 1 1/2 years old, naked at bath time.
"Some of the photos are [bath] photos," Lisa Demaree told ABC News at the time, "but there are a few after the bath. Three of the girls are naked, lying on a towel with their arms around each other, and we thought it was so cute."
The Walmart employee developing the photos disagreed, and reported them to a manager. They were then passed to the police department, who called in Child Protective Services, and the Demaree's nightmare began in earnest.
The couple lost custody of their three young children for a month, and their names were added to a central registry of sex offenders.
Lisa Demaree was suspended from her job at a local school for a year during an investigation of the matter.
While the couple were eventually cleared of all wrongdoing and the pictures were ruled harmless by a court, they are far from satisfied with the outcome.
"We've missed a year of our children's lives as far as memories go," Lisa Demaree told ABC News.
"As crazy as it may seem, what you may think are the most beautiful innocent pictures of your children may be seen as something completely different and completely perverted."
Lawyers for Walmart told Courthouse News there was no malice intended by Walmart employees.
"I fear that what may happen after this case is [that the] employee will sit there and say, boy, if I turn these over my employer is going to spend millions of dollars in legal fees, and I'm going to get hauled in front of a deposition for eight hours, [so] maybe I'll just stick them back in the envelope and not worry about them," lawyer Lawrence Kasten said.
The Demarees are awaiting a verdict on their case against the city of Peoria and Walmart.
Wellthisiswhatithink asks one simple question:
How can this case separate these children from their parents for a month? And then it's a year before they are cleared and their reputations reinstated.
I am less annoyed by Walmart – their employee will have acted in good faith – than I am with the ludicrous over-reaction and then delay from the Child Protection Service and the court.
We also ask: What the hell happened to commonsense? As the old joke says: What's the difference between a rottweiler and a social worker? The rottweler will eventually give you your children back.
Lastly, we remind everyone that in much of the world children of these ages cheerfully wander their villages naked for the whole day with no one paying a blind bit of notice. Civlisation is all very well, but not when it distances us from the natural life of a human being.
Let us hope damages are severe and exemplary, and this family can get on with their lives again.
gwpj says:
Hypersensitive (or sensitised) Walmart employee, police and CPS social workers that read way too much into this. However, as a career mental health clinician, I do understand the caution . . . but not the action taken.
But it must be very obvious what are perfectly innocent family snaps and what are something sinister. And to break up a family for a YEAR? Bizarre.
mlshatto says:
Correct me if I'm wrong, please, but the way I read the article, they lost actual custody of the children for a month. Mrs. Demaree's comment about losing a year of memories appears to refer to the year that they spent under suspicion and unable to live a normal family life. A month is still way too long, but not quite so unreasonable as a year would be.
An explanation, but not an excuse, can be found in the current climate of hyper-awareness in the U.S. about child abuse and the criminality of not reporting it. We have the on-going Sandusky scandal at Penn State, the pervasive corruption in the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and now the release of the "pervert files" by the Boy Scouts. Fear of potential criminal charges overrides common sense in cases like this, and that fear spreads from Walmart clerk to photo processor to Child Protective Services and beyond. The real outrage should be directed at the court system, which took a year to resolve this case.
I have checked the story and you are right – and it was a year till they were cleared – it is still a total schemozzle.
jvdix says:
Wow! And I was furious about this:
http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_20800163/lamborn-says-no-apology-needed-child-porn-interrogation
And particularly furious because he represents the District I live in (I will not say he represents me, because he doesn't). (And putting him on an environment committee is just ridiculous. He has a well-known position on the environment; he's against it.)
What a total dickhead.
(Rescued from my personal file of pithy, well-reasoned political responses.)
Naval officer forced to cover uniform in pyjamas on Virgin flight
How can this happen? That's all we ask. That's all we DEMAND an answer to. How?


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1,487 - That's The Number Of Cars Destroyed Making the Fast & Furious Franchise
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The price of entertainment is steep for all of these cars
by Kirby Garlitos, on March 5, 2021, 10:00
The Fast and Furious franchise has wrecked a total of 1,487 cars from the first movie of the franchise all the way up to Furious 7. That total does not include all the mangled cars from Fast 8 (Fate of the Furious), Fast 9, and the Hobbs & Shaw spin-off movie. Put those together and the vehicular carnage in the franchise probably exceeds 2,000 cars. That's a lot of twisted metal spread out over two decade's worth of Fast and Furious movies.
A 2020 article on Screenrant broke down how many cars were wrecked in each of the first seven films in the Fast & Furious franchise. You can tell how much more emboldened Universal Studios became when it came to crashing cars for entertainment's sake.
The OG Fast & Furious movie only saw 78 cars wrecked.
That number almost doubled in 2 Fast 2 Furious with 130 wrecked cars. Another spike occurred in Tokyo Drift when 249 cars got gobsmacked during the course of the movie. The fourth movie, Fast and Furious, saw 190 cars get tossed around while Fast Five hit a then-record 260 crashed cars. Fast & Furious 6 pushed the car wreckage counter to 350 cars and Furious 7 contributed the final 230 crashed cars, adding up to 1,487 cars in the first seven movies of the franchise.
The fate of these crashed cars differs depending on their stature in the movie.
Stunt cars, or "zombie cars," as they're called, typically don't serve any purpose other than to get destroyed.
Other cars go straight to displays or museums after production ends. Then there are the hero cars that benefit from full restorations before living happy lives. One example of the latter is the Saleen Mustang that got crushed by an 18-wheeler in 2 Fast 2 Furious. That model was fully restored and lives on to this day.
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Kirby's first exposure into the world of automobiles happened when he caught Knight Rider on television as a five-year old boy. David Hasselhoff didn't leave much of an impression on him (that happened later on in Baywatch), but KITT certainly did. To this day, Kirby remains convinced that he will one day own a car with the same 'spirit' as the original KITT (not the 2008 monstrosity). He doesn't know when that will be, but until then, he's committed to expressing his love for KITT, and all cars for that matter, here at TopSpeed. Read full bio
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Do You Believe in Harvey Dent?
And Carbonell elected mayor of Gotham City.
By Stax
Posted: 17 May 2007 6:20 pm
The official film site for The Dark Knight has been updated with a special new feature. If you click on the Bat-logo on the site's main page, it takes you to a political campaign ad for Harvey Dent, the Gotham City district attorney played in the film by Aaron Eckhart.
The ad declares Dent's candidacy for the office of District Attorney with the slogan, "I Believe in Harvey Dent." It also features the first official image of Eckhart as Dent, which can be seen below.
With filming now under way on The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan has been filling the supporting roles in his sequel to Batman Begins. Nestor Carbonell (Lost, Smokin' Aces) will play the mayor of Gotham City in the film. Ironically, Carbonell is also known to fanboys as "Batmanuel" from his days on The Tick.
Variety announced Carbonell's casting as they also belatedly confirmed the casting of Heroes' Eric Roberts as a Mafia crime boss. The New York Post says Roberts plays Sal Maroni, the hood responsible for scarring D.A. Harvey Dent and turning him into Two-Face.
Have you seen The Dark Knight?
In related casting news, MTV.com reports that "rapper/actor David Banner auditioned this week for a role in The Dark Knight. ... According to the beefy Black Snake Moan supporting actor, he would play a villain named 'Gamble,' another criminal to help fill out the rogue ranks alongside Heath Ledger's Joker."
Finally, Batman-on-Film.com claims that the character of Gotham police commissioner Loeb (played by Colin McFarlane in Batman Begins) will be back for The Dark Knight.
The follow-up to the action hit Batman Begins, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman.
Genres:Superhero, Drama, Action, Crime
For intense sequences of violence and some menace.
Platforms:Theater, Blu-ray, DVD, UMD-Video
Distributors:Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Home Video
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