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October 5, 2015 JarretR 2 Comments
Americans like to believe that they're a special people. Every waking hour in the U.S. of A., we try to spin new yarns into the gargantuan American mythology quilt, trying to add new patches that somehow reiterate the idea that America is a better place than anywhere else in the world. We're the Land of the Free;™ the Home of The Brave.™ But the reality is that the United States of America is prone to many of the same vices that have characterized humanity for centuries, especially violence. If you want evidence of this, you need look no further than the blood-consecrated national death cult that is American gun culture.
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Alabama, Gay Marriage, and Roy Moore's Christian America
February 18, 2015 JarretR 3 Comments
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore once told God that He wasn't religious enough. True story.
In the 1998 Cohen brothers cult-classic film The Big Lebowski, the mustachioed narrator (played by Sam Elliot) ruminates on how some people truly are authentic products of the age in which they live. "Sometimes there's a man…I won't say hero, 'cause, what's a hero? Sometimes, there's a man well, he's the man for his time and place," the narrator notes. In the film, this narration refers to The Dude (Jeff Bridges), a doobie-smokin,' former hippy turned middle-aged slacker who is thrust into a series of events of that give the impression that he's more important than he actually is.
In 2015, there's another man who is indeed "the man for his time and place." His name is Roy Moore. He's the current (and former) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. And while Judge Moore couldn't be more different from the Cohen Brothers' fictional "Dude" character, he's nonetheless a man thrust into a series of events that have overly magnified his own importance and rendered him a symbol of a particular American subculture that is taking its last gasps in a very public manner. Continue Reading →
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November 16, 2014 JarretR 5 Comments
Well, dear readers, American Thanksgiving is almost nigh, and that means it's high-time that the turkey gets its due as a true American original.
Follow this link over to the History Vault, where I discuss the mighty turkey in all of its well-earned historical glory!
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Sigh. Rush Limbaugh. You're familiar with him, right? He's a formidable natural force that once spewed forth an estimated 1.5 million metric-tons of gas into the atmosphere. Wait, that was Mt. St. Helens in 1980. But Rush isn't far behind. Since the 1990s, Rush has been contributing heavily to global warming by emitting dangerous levels of toxic, right-wing effluvium into America's radio waves on a daily basis — and this gas has poisoned the minds of many an impressionable, angry white guy. After all, Rush is the radio blow-hard who once compared Obamacare to slavery, and slavery is bad!! But now, El Rush-bo is focusing his plume of billowing exhaust on America's children.
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Hobby Lobby and the Real Meaning of Religious Liberty
July 3, 2014 JarretR 2 Comments
As these protesters recognize, you have a right to religious beliefs that are scientifically inaccurate, but you don't have a right to make others subscribe to those beliefs.
Ah, yes, America: it's a country with no official state religion in which people of all backgrounds can practice their respective faiths without the government deciding which faith is "true" via legislative action. Well, at least that's the kind of country the United States is supposed to be, but thanks to the right-wing Catholic dude-bro contingent of the United States Supreme Court, "religious freedom" apparently now constitutes the right to make other people (especially women) accept as fact your own particular religious dogma via laws that sanctify (in more ways than one) those beliefs.
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Richard Cohen, Thomas Jefferson, and the Legacy of White Privilege in America
November 13, 2013 JarretR Leave a Comment
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen. Even his beard is white.
Richard Cohen, columnist for the Washington Post, understands something. He understands that white people have it rough. Or, at least they think that they have it rough. Some white people think that they're losing their traditional privileges as the default ruling demographic in America. Their ensuing anger has, of late, once again lit the age-old fuse of white grievance in the United States, and numerous media outlets have spilled plenty of real and electronic ink trying to access the implications of this anger on American culture.
Richard Cohen is, like me, a white person, and he wants to understand a particular brand of grievance that motivates other white people and manifests most potently in the form of that drooling, reactionary blob of grammatically challenged rage, the Tea Party. In a recent column, Cohen pissed off a large chunk of humanity by attributing Tea Party rage not to racism, but to fear of change. Despite devoting portions of his column to mocking Tea Party rodeo clowns like Sarah Palin, many readers saw a particular paragraph in Cohen's column as evidence of the author's apparent sympathy for conservative white cultural dominance.
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Pumpkin Flavored History
It didn't used to be like this. Only five years ago, I swear that pumpkin-flavored stuff was still a bit of an anomaly. Oh, you could get a pumpkin spiced latte at Starbucks, and your standard pumpkin pies and pastries lined bakery sections everywhere, but now it seems that the very minute autumn begins to peek out from summer's sweaty, smothering armpit, the pumpkin conglomerate unleashes a now ubiquitous barrage of pumpkin spice-flavored everything. Its fall and you must eat pumpkins! There's even a pumpkin pie flavored vodka, because Russian alcoholics enjoy the fall season too, dammit.
So what's the deal with everything being pumpkin flavored? Well, as with so many things these days, it all goes back to the 19th century. Pumpkins function as big, squashy symbols of idealized rural life, and rural nostalgia has always been popular with Americans. For a people stuck in the high-tech, urbanized twenty-first century world, pumpkins invoke more simple times and landscapes dotted with small family farms untainted by modernity's impersonal touch.
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Q: My regexp not working correct how to change this? I have a little string:
JIW.sql;XXX.txt;Qwij.DLL;saasa.sql;ttt.txt;lok.SQL;ddd.jpg;aas.sql

and i need make select with like this
SELECT regexp_split_to_table('JIW.sql;XXX.txt;Qwij.DLL;saasa.sql;ttt.txt;lok.SQL;ddd.jpg;aas.sql', '[0-9A-z]*.sql');

And i would like expect:
JIW.sql
saasa.sql
lok.SQL
aas.sql

but now i have
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;XXX.txt;Qwij.DLL;
;ttt.txt;lok.SQL;ddd.jpg;

(4 rows)

How to change this ?

A: You're using the regexp_split_to_table function, which splits your string when it matches the pattern.
You'd use regex_matches to find matches for your regex pattern:
SELECT
  regexp_matches(
    'JIW.sql;XXX.txt;Qwij.DLL;saasa.sql;ttt.txt;lok.SQL;ddd.jpg;aas.sql',
    E'([^;]+\.sql)',
    'gi'
  );

Where, the gi parameter are the modifiers for global and case-insensitive search. The result would be something like this.
You can also use the unnest function to get the result returned as rows instead. The query would then be:
SELECT
  unnest(
    regexp_matches(
      'JIW.sql;XXX.txt;Qwij.DLL;saasa.sql;ttt.txt;lok.SQL;ddd.jpg;aas.sql',
      E'([^;]+\.sql)',
      'gi'
    )
  );

A: I think you are looking for:
SELECT regexp_matches('JIW.sql;XXX.txt;Qwij.DLL;saasa.sql;ttt.txt;lok.SQL;ddd.jpg;aas.sql', '[0-9A-z]*.sql', 'g');

instead ie. regexp_matches instead of regexp_split_to_table

A: I've never seen regexp_split_to_table, but based on a quick Google search (and the name of the operation) I guess that the pattern you give to it is the delimiter pattern. In other words, what is returned will be the values between the strings matched by your pattern, and whatever matches the pattern will be removed from the results.
If you gave ';" as a pattern, it would produce
JIW.sql
XXX.txt
Qwij.DLL
saasa.sql
ttt.txt
lok.SQL
ddd.jpg
aas.sql

I'm not sure a split is what you're trying to do.

A: If you really want to use regexp_split_to_table, try with:
SELECT result.filename FROM
  (SELECT regexp_split_to_table('JIW.sql;XXX.txt;Qwij.DLL;saasa.sql;ttt.txt;lok.SQL;ddd.jpg;aas.sql', ';') AS filename) result
 WHERE result.filename ILIKE '%.sql'

Output:
"JIW.sql"
"saasa.sql"
"lok.SQL"
"aas.sql"

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Class ModelEvents

An enumerated list of values used to define events a model may trigger

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				Author:
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Constants summary

		string

				CREATE

Called to create a new record

Called to create a new record

				#
				'create'

		string

				FETCH

Called to retrieve a given record

Called to retrieve a given record

				#
				"fetch"

		string

				FETCH_ALL

Called to retrieve a collection of records

Called to retrieve a collection of records

				#
				"fetchAll"

		string

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Called to update a record with data

Called to update a record with data

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				'update'

		string

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Called to remove data, be it one or many records

Called to remove data, be it one or many records

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PawSox 9, Red Wings 3: Repko, Valencia lead 14-hit attack
Special to the Journal
ROCHESTER, N.Y. � Jason Repko drove in three runs and newcomer Danny Valencia was 3-for-3 with a pair of RBI as the Pawtucket Red Sox pounded out 14 hits in a 9-3 victory over the Rochester Red Wings.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. � Jason Repko drove in three runs and newcomer Danny Valencia was 3-for-3 with a pair of RBI as the Pawtucket Red Sox pounded out 14 hits in a 9-3 victory over the Rochester Red Wings on Friday night.
The offense backed the pitching duo of Daisuke Matsuzaka and Nelson Figueroa. Matsuzaka made another rehab appearance and went 42/3 innings, allowing two runs on five hits while walking two and striking out three. Figueroa came on in relief and got the win, improving to 9-4. He pitched 41/3 innings, giving up one run on four hits.
Rochester held a 2-1 lead after the first inning before the PawSox put up two in the second and four in the third for a 7-2 advantage.
Nate Spears had an RBI double and later scored on a Jose Iglesias double for the two Pawtucket runs in the second.
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Pawtucket closed out the scoring with two runs in the sixth inning. Iglesias led off with a single and moved to third on a J.C. Linares double. Mauro Gomez struck out for the first out but Valencia followed with a two-run double to the right field gap.


The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida recently granted summary judgment in favor of a defendant debt collector in a putative class action alleging violations of sections 1692g and 1692e of the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA"), holding that the "debt validation notice" letter at issue was neither confusing nor misleading under the applicable least sophisticated consumer standard.
In so ruling, the Court held that naming the payment processing company with whom the consumer had dealt, as well as the bank that had actually issued the credit at issue, did not violate the FDCPA.
The plaintiff consumer sued a debt collector that sent him a demand letter, alleging that the letter failed to name the creditor to whom the debt was owed, and claiming abusive and misleading practices in supposed violation of FDCPA sections 1692g(a)(2) and 1692e.
The demand letter showed one entity as the "Client" on whose behalf the debt collector sent it, and another entity as the "Original Creditor."
The "Client" was the credit-arm of a national Internet-based payments company that "allows consumers to make online purchases without using a credit card by offering an open-ended credit plan" from the entity listed as the "Original Creditor".
The "Original Creditor" was a bank that offered the line of credit, but the product was branded on the "Client" company's website with the name of the "Client." In this case, the bank named as the "Original Creditor" was still the entity to whom the debt was currently owed. Just like an ordinary credit card, the Original Creditor company paid the merchant for the consumer then looked to the consumer for repayment.
The plaintiff alleged that only by clicking through to an "FAQ" link could a consumer understand that the actual creditor providing the line of credit was the bank, not the website owner "Client." Other "FAQ's" and screens throughout the online application process mentioned only the "Client's" name. The terms and conditions did, however, state that while the product was called by the "Client's" name, the consumer's agreement was with the bank.
The consumer made payments through the website or by mailing a check to the "Client" rather than the bank.
The debt collector moved for summary judgment, arguing that "the demand letter does not fail to name the creditor to whom the debt is owed under § 1692g(a)(2) and it does not otherwise contain any misleading or false statements in violation of § 1692e."
The Court first explained the purpose of the FDCPA as eliminating "abusive debt collection practices to ensure that debt collectors who refrain from using abusive debt collection practices are not competitively disadvantaged, and to promote consistent state action in protecting consumers against debt collection abuses." It then explained that "[i]n an FDCPA claim, a plaintiff must prove that: '(1) the plaintiff has been the object of collection activity arising from consumer debt; (2) the defendant is a debt collector as defined by the FDCPA; and (3) the defendant has engaged in an act or omission prohibited by the FDCPA.'"
Because the first two elements were undisputed, the only issue before the Court was whether the defendant debt collector "engaged in an act or omission that the FDCPA prohibits."
The Court next explained the legal standard applied in evaluating FDCPA claims as requiring the Court to adopt "the 'least sophisticated consumer' perspective, which assumes the consumer 'posses[es] a rudimentary amount of information about the world and a willingness to read a collection notice with some care.' … Using this standard, the FDCPA protects 'naïve consumers' while at the same time 'prevent[ing] liability for bizarre or idiosyncratic interpretations of collections notices by preserving a quotient of reasonableness.'"
The Court then addressed each claim.
As to the section 1692g claim, the Court rejected the plaintiff's argument that defendant debt collector violated this section because the demand letter failed to identify the "current creditor," instead agreeing with the defendant that the letter disclosed the actual creditor -- the bank -- while also describing the "Client" as the party the consumer would recognize.
Reasoning that because when "[c]onfronted with whether a creditor's identity was adequately disclosed under the FDCPA, the Eleventh Circuit recently held that 'a debt collector may use the creditor's full business name, the name under which the creditor usually transacts business, or a commonly used acronym[,]" the Court concluded that "from the perspective of the least sophisticated consumer receiving the demand letter at issue, [the defendant debt collector] identified the name under which [the bank] transacted business with [the "Client's"] account holders, such as Plaintiff."
The Court relied upon a 2015 Southern District of Florida case in which the creditor issued a "private-label" credit card that the plaintiff used to purchase tires. The demand letter listed the tire retailer/seller as the creditor instead of the card issuer, but the Court in that case granted summary judgment in the debt collector's favor because the least sophisticated consumer would understand that the reference to the tire retailer meant that the debt collector was trying to recover the consumer's debt arising from his or her purchase of tires.
Because the demand letter at issue "allowed the consumer to easily identify the nature of the debt by disclosing [the online payments company] as [the debt collector's] client, [the bank] as the original creditor, the amount of the debt, and the [online payment company's] account number[,]" it "left no room for confusion in eyes of the least sophisticated consumer."
The Court rejected the plaintiff's argument that the debt collector violated section 1692g by not disclosing the name of the "current creditor" because "[n]owhere in §1692g is there a requirement that such verbiage be used. All that is required is that the debt collector disclose the creditor to whom the debt is owed and … the Court finds that [the debt collector] adequately satisfied this requirement."
Turning to the section 1692e claim, the Court reasoned that, because it had already found that "the demand letter adequately identified the creditor to whom the debt is owed" and under the case law only abusive and material misrepresentations or omissions are actionable rather than "mere technical falsehoods that mislead no one[,] … even accepting that there exists a hyper-technical violation FDCPA violation here, the Court's review of the demand letter leads it to conclude that it is not material as there is nothing misleading about its content. There is nothing that would influence the consumer's decision to pay the debt or otherwise cause an unsophisticated consumer to be concerned about paying the incorrect creditor."
This was particularly true, the Court noted, because since the beginning of the relationship, the consumer dealt only with the "Client" online payment provider, not the bank. "For that reason, the least sophisticated consumer receiving the letter at issue would not be concerned about the possibility of being defrauded or paying the incorrect creditor."
Because the letter was "neither confusing or misleading to the least sophisticated consumer[,] … the Court [found] as a matter of law that there does not exist a violation of § 1692g."
The Court accordingly granted defendant debt collector's motion for summary judgment.


"Adventures in Odyssey" co-creator Phil Lollar presents a new show about a boy, a strange mansion, and a train traveling through time.
Fourteen-year-old orphan Jesse Davidson lives with his peculiar uncle Christopher Portalis in the Iliad House, a mysterious old mansion on an island off the east coast of the United States. Just when Jesse is finally getting used to living on the island, he discovers that the old abandoned train he and his friends have been using as a clubhouse for the past year can actually move - through time!
They get caught up in a series of adventures fraught with temporal distortions, political intrigue, secret societies, and supernatural battles, all as they try to cope with the daily pressures and craziness of adolescence. While traveling through the future and the past, they learn hard truths and secrets about themselves, and that there is forgiveness and redemption available to all who desire it. And, as Jesse and his uncle come to understand each other, Jesse begins to see that there is much more to Iliad House, and to why he and his uncle are there, than anyone realizes.


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Richard W. Perkins is a former scientist at the Hanford Site and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at Richland, Washington state.

His research included study of nuclear reactors and their effect on their environment, study of the ash from the eruption of Mount St. Helens, and Operation "Star Wars."  He also worked with the first moon rocks. Although too young to join, he joined the U.S navy to fight in WW2.
He learned to use SONAR as part of his training in the navy.
He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Richard Perkins died December 29, 2016 at home at the age of 90.

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Still No Global Warming For 17 Years 10 Months
John Reece replied
Global Warming Pause Puts 'Crisis' In Perspective
From Forbes
James Taylor Contributor
Much has been written and argued, from all sides in the global warming debate, about the meaning of the asserted 17-year pause in global warming. Is a 17-year pause significant? Is a pause even occurring? Does the pause signal a longer-term halt to global warming or even a long-term cooling trend? Would a resumption of global warming to pre-pause rates end the global warming debate? A look at recent temperatures and their appropriate context provides helpful meaning to the much-discussed global warming pause.
UAH Global Temperature Update for July
From Roy Spencer's blog
UAH Global Temperature Update for July, 2014: +0.31 deg. C
The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2014 is +0.31 deg. C, unchanged from June (click for full size version):
Note the El Niño warming spike circa 1998-1999.
I recommend extended browsing on Dr. Spencer's blog. See each of the six other bulleted categories under the Home/Blog section at the top of the page; also, the links to articles listed in the side bar of the Home/Blog page. All these features combine to form a gold mine of reliable information about global warming.
A sample article from the list on the side bar is here.
I just happen to be reading the "Climate Change Happens" chapter in The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists, (Encounter Books, 2010), by Roy Spencer, principle research scientist at the University of Alabama; formerly a senior scientist for climate studies at NASA; he is co-developer of the original satellite method for precise monitoring of global temperatures from Earth orbiting satellites.
Spencer makes the point that satellite instruments provide our only truly global source of temperature information. He says that the biggest headache he and his colleague have had in trying to monitor climate trends with satellites is not related to calibration but to the kind of Earth orbit the satellites are in. He says that that problem has been alleviated only since mid-2002 with the launch of NASA's Aqua satellite, which carries extra fuel to adjust its orbit periodically so as to maintain a constant observation time, year after year. He says that all measures of temperature variability are imperfect. And even if they were perfect, the huge amount of natural variability in the climate system―on time scales from yearly to millennial or longer―makes the definition of a temperature 'trend' very difficult. "While we can probably say with high confidence that the climate has warmed in the last 50 to 100 years, it is more difficult to say by exactly how much, still more difficult to say whether it is unprecedented or not, and impossible to say what any of this means for future temperatures."
Spencer describes some kinds of chaotic behavior in the climate system, partly because they occur with some regularity. He mentions the fact that El Niño and La Niña events come around every few years, but they are not well enough understood to predict which years will experience an event. "When you do hear a forecast of El Niño or La Niña conditions for the coming month, it is only because an event has already started."
Here is his theory: "My claim is that this chaotic behavior also occurs on much longer time scales. The chaotic climate fluctuation that I highlight in this book is known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO. Somewhat like El Niño and La Niña in the tropical Pacific, the PDO is a regional shift in weather patterns, but over the North Pacific Ocean. And rather than having a time scale of only a couple of years, the PDO changes phase much more slowly, every thirty years or so. This makes it a potential player in global warming."
He goes on to say that since the atmospheric circulation is coupled with the ocean circulation, a change in one is almost always accompanied by a change in the other as they work together to move heat energy from where there is more to where there is less.
"While the importance of the PDO to the global warming debate has been largely ignored, it's thirty-year time scale is long enough to cause climate change. This is comparable to the period in which the IPCC claims to have evidence of mankind's fingerprint on climate. To remind you, a major conclusion of the IPCC's 2007 report was: 'Most of the observed increase in global-average temperature since the mid-20th Century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.' So, the IPCC is claiming to be confident that warming in the last 50 years is manmade, and since there was slight cooling from the 1940s to the late 1970s, they are mostly referring to the warming over only a thirty-year period!"
Spencer presents a graph showing "Running five-month average values of the PDO index for 1900-2008" that has a marker to show the start time of satellite monitoring of the earth near the end of the 1970s. He says "Guess what? As shown [in the figure I just described -JR] that thirty-year interval [see end of paragraph above -JR] just happens to be the same period when the PDO was in its 'positive' or 'warming' phase."
Spencer remarks that one would think that the IPCC reached its conclusion that mankind very likely caused the recent warming after ruling out natural climate variability, like that associated with the PDO as a cause. "But the truth is they never seriously investigated it. The IPCC has taken for granted that there are no natural variations in global average temperatures once one gets beyond a scale of 10 years or so. Specifically, the IPCC's most important (and incorrect) assumption is that the average cloud cover of the Earth always remains the same."
He notes that the 2007 IPCC report does indeed mention the PDO, and other types of multidecadal variability, "but for some reason never asks the obvious question: Could these natural climate fluctuations cause a change in global cloudiness?"
Spencer says we would need fifty years to prove or disprove the existence of a natural mechanism of climate change. Unfortunately, those measurements do not exist. Consequently the IPCC can correctly claim that there is virtually no published research to support natural sources of long-term climate change. "This is not arguing from evidence, though, but from lack of evidence." The lack of said evidence for natural sources of climate change "will require some digging. It's like trying to solve a murder mystery when one has very little to go on initially. Since a possible weapon (green house gas emissions) was found at the scene of the crime (warming), that's good enough for the IPCC to pin the rap on humanity."
Spencer notes the fact that scientists write proposals to study the effect that anthropogenic global warming has had on any number of natural phenomena. "Is it any wonder that they find what they were paid to find?"
Spencer repeatedly emphasizes the fact that there is no unique fingerprint of manmade global warming. "Any warming due to manmade greenhouse gas emissions looks the same as warming due to, say, increasing water vapor (Earth's main greenhouse gas) resulting from a warming of the oceans. The ocean warming could, in turn, be the result of low clouds changing how much sunlight is absorbed by the oceans, or by a change in how fast cold water wells up from the ocean depths. Therefore, while patterns of warming across the Earth in the past fifty years might be 'consistent' with manmade global warming, they are equally consistent with natural causes of warming."
ETA: see here, and also click on the link within the article ― i.e., the one titled "PDO might explain most of the climate change"
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sylas replied
The graph for Greenland is highly misleading; it simply omits all the modern warming.
It speaks of data up to 2000 AD. That's just wrong; it only goes up to 1855. That graph completely omits the modern warming peak. To add it in you would need to include a sharp RISE at the end of the graph, going up to above the level of "Medieval warming", but not as high as "Roman warming"; an extra about 1.44C. Here is the data plotted together with a marker for where the year 2000 SHOULD be.
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What is shown is a portion of the GISP2 ice core data. It is readily available from NCDC here.
The data goes back some 50 thousand years; though the plot only shows the last 10 thousand, just after the really big jump in temperature coming out of the most recent ice age. The last data point is 95 years before present; and in GISP2 data, "present" is the baseline standard year of 1950.
That 1950 is called the "present" is now a standard. This is in part because radiocarbon dating cannot work past this date due to the massive amounts of radiocarbon added to the atmosphere during nuclear bomb testing. I can try to chase up references on this if anyone is actually skeptical on this point; but I went through the whole issue here years ago. In the GISP2 and other ice core data, when dates are years before "present", the present is a 1950 standard. For scientists working with this data, this would simply be taken for granted. Unfortunately it is not explicit in the data file I have linked.
The little red tick at the end of the graph is a dead giveaway that the original source of the graph is one confused individual called Don Easterbrook. He is trying to suggest that the little red bit corresponds to modern warming. It does no such thing. There is nothing special or difference about the little bit of red at the end of the data, and the data ends at 1855; well before modern global warming.
This was pointed out by several people, who also contacted the original GISP2 researchers for clarifications and for the 1.44C rise of the modern period at this site. Read more here: Easterbrook's wrong (again)
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This is the graph of Greenland temperatures - only one location in the world, but illustrative. Current temperatures nowhere near as high as they were about 900 years ago.
Does it make sense to assume that both Greenland and the Scandes mountains should show scientific evidence of higher temperatures than recorded today, but that no such warming occurred elsewhere on the planet? We are not taking about temporary weather events; rather we are talking about extended periods of warming.
Not arguing against that - I am satisfied that human activity is contributing and probably accelerating the process - but the question is trying to separate the significance of the human contribution. This current rising cycle started before the 20th century. (I think)
The trend right at the start of the twentieth century was cooling; which reversed to give a strong warming trend from about 1910 to 1940 or so. Then there's a plateau, in fact a slight cooling dip, around 1945 to 1965 or so. From 1975 or so there was the start of a strong increase. The rate had varied; and as this thread points out over recent decades the increase in atmospheric temperatures has dropped off somewhat. (The "pause", or "hiatus", or whatever you call it.)
There are various factors at work here of course. The early twentieth century warming starting from 1910 or so is quite strong.. and physically it's really hard to explain that as being entirely a human influence. A major factor here is almost certainly recovery from short term volcanic cooling, from Krakatoa and other big eruptions. The latter part of the twentieth century is pretty clear human driven; most of the other non-human influences over this time are for cooling rather than warming, so it's credible that more than 100% of that warming is human driven. We not only raised temperatures; we actually overcame a weaker solar influence to do so!
Confounding everything, of course, is that there are substantially short term variations in temperature which are local to Earth rather than being driven by changes in the Sun or the atmosphere or by albedo. A big one (it seems; this is hard to measure well!) is ocean currents and exchanges of heat between the atmosphere at the ocean. So as temperatures increase, there are some significant "pauses" along the way; decades over which the warming doesn't show up well in temperature data. For this reason, trends measured over any short term period are not a good guide to long term trends. They may run higher than the underlying trend, or lower. We see both in the temperature record.
The recent 17 year "pause" isn't really a pause. The OP uses a rather strange dataset (RSS lower troposphere temperatures) which is a bit of an anomaly from all the other temperature datasets available. All of them show warming over the last 17 years, but but not enough warming to represent a statistically significant trend. RSS is the odd one out, it shows a small decline (but again, not statistically significant). Curiously, the UAH dataset, which uses precisely the same satellite microwave data, shows warming. The difference is entirely due to ways in which two groups process the data. (Getting temperatures from satellites isn't easy.)
The key to getting significant trends is to measure for longer periods. In the short term, we expect (and this shows up in both data and models) to get regular periods of time over which measured trends are substantially more, or less than the long term trend. It's called "natural variation"; but it's not actually random. It is largely chaotic; and hence we cannot predict well when you get the "pauses" and the "accelerations". But we will get them.
Here is some example data. I'm using the HadCRUT4 temperature data from Met Office Hadley Center (UK). Blue is the temperature data itself. Black is a smooth of that data, using a Butterworth digital filter tuned to remove frequencies less than cycle per 17 years. The red cross is a regression trend line of the last 17 years, 95% confidence bounds. The dotted yellow is a rate of change taken as the slope of the smoothed data. It diverges at the end because the trend depends on data from the future, and I simply projected the trends from the 95% confidence bounds in red. Most likely it will end up somewhere in the middle.
This is my own calculation, so I'm open to questions about it. It's a spreadsheet I put together for my own interest a while ago, and I can plot plenty of other datasets with it if anyone would like.
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For comparison, here is the UAH data (which only starts at 1979) and the RSS data (which is using precisely the same satellites; the discrepancy of these two datasets is not well understood as far as I am aware).
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Note that the trend over 17 years is not significant in either RSS or UAH. These are not measuring the same thing as surface temperatures; they are actually attempting to measure the atmosphere (lower troposphere). This data has much more variation than the surface, and you cannot hope to get a significant trend over 17 years. The atmosphere has too much variation to get a good idea of the long term trend from 17 years. The OP mentions Christopher Monckton citing the RSS dataset. (Just a caution; Monckton is right over at a far extreme of lunacy and ignorance with the science.) That's a bit of a giveaway; you get a better idea of what the pause is all about looking at the last 17 years in one of the surface temperature datasets. They all show warming; but over 17 years the confidence bounds include a possible flat trend within 95% confidence limits. So rather than "pause" I prefer to say that surface warming over the last 17 years is below statistical significance.
The ideal thing would be to measure the ocean -- it has less short term variation and it is also where most of the heat goes. But that's really really hard. We would need to get accurate profiles across all depths, and all around the planet, and all through the year. We don't have that kind of resolution, alas. Indirect indications do show that the oceans are continuing to warm even as the atmosphere trends are showing a short term pause.
It's a pretty safe bet that the current pause won't last. It's possible (though not at all certain) that 2014 will be a new record high. I definitely expect that one of the next five years will show a very clear record high global surface temperature anomaly. But we'll see....
Cheers -- sylas
firstfloor replied
This has the "recent" temperature rises (section marked with the red curve underneath rising from left to right) mirrored and laid alongside past temperature falls. (red curve dropping from left to right). The black sections are what was projected, almost covering the red of actual recordings.
Also, argument is that CO2 levels show an historic pattern of increasing after temperatures rise. I haven't been able to confirm that argument.
This is worth a read: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/educati.../iscurrent.pdf
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/climate/
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Okay, but what do you conclude from that chart?
This seems to be referring to the same study:
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_ba...ry.php?id=2040
tabibito replied
For Greenland, yes. But it is certainly not "illustrative" in the sense of being typical for the whole planet. It isn't typical at all; it is very much regional; a similar (weaker) pattern holds in Europe; a likely factor is ocean currents along the Gulf Stream. It most certainly is not a global pattern.
This is a reference to changes as we go in and out of the ice ages.
The timing is not completely clear; but in general it seems credible (and also makes good physical sense) that temperatures start to rise before CO2 starts to rise, during the ice age cycles of the quaternary period (the last 2.8 million years).
In any case, the actual changes most certainly overlap; that is, CO2 and temperatures rise together. The issue is which one starts to rise first.
It makes good sense to me that temperature will start to rise first. We have strong evidence that the changes with ice ages (more properly "glacials") over the last 2.8 million years are linked to changes in Earth's orbit; which in turn leads to change in seasonal insolation (energy from the Sun). The physical problem is that the changes are TINY; much too small by themselves to adequately explain the temperature changes involved.
The key is feedbacks. Warmer oceans are less above to hold dissolved carbon dioxide. So as waters begin to warm, there is also a transfer of CO2 from the ocean into the atmosphere. And when you add CO2 to the atmosphere you get an additional feedback effect.
Another really important feedback in these events is the albedo changes. As glaciers retreat, less sunlight is reflected and more is absorbed; which ALSO leads to more warming.
These two feedbacks together are major players in amplifying the small effects of insolation change and driving the large temperatures changes we see.
Physically, the extra heating from increased CO2 is crucial for explaining the warming as we move out of glacial periods. It's inevitable from physics; the trick as always is to adequately quantify everything that goes in a complex system. But heating from increased CO2 is most certainly a part of it.
That CO2 starts to increase somewhat after temperatures start to rise is no particular surprise; since CO2 is not the trigger for change. Orbital variation is the trigger. But once you get the warming, and the CO2 release from the ocean, and then more warming, you end up with the two increasing together (which is precisely what we see in the geological record), with the CO2 increase starting a little bit later (which might be what we see; it makes sense, but it's still hard to nail down timing; on geological scales they are pretty close to lock step.
In the present, CO2 is increasing in both the ocean and atmosphere; because the source at present is transfer of carbon from fossil fuel deposits. So yes, humans really are changing the atmosphere -- and also the chemistry of the ocean. Ocean pH is measurably decreasing as carbon levels increase. This is a human effect. With 7 billion plus of us we really do have the capability to change the face of the planet substantially, in many ways. In land cover, in climate, in ocean chemistry, in atmospheric composition.
Other factors have worked to change them in the past; which means they can change. And now, we are changing them as well.
And records from Alaska show much the same. Temperatures now are around the level that they were 400 - 500 years ago, and quite a margin lower than they were 900 years ago.
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I'm not saying that the recent rate of change is trivial, but that the human contribution is trivial. Similar sharp rises (and drops) are a matter of geological record.
Where did I put that pic???
Which geological record are you referring to?
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Q: Compare the last digit of a string with that at the same place of another string I need to compare 2 numeric strings in iOS. The first string, stored, is a fixed long number, and I want to check that the last digit of the second string entered is the same as the corresponding digit on the stored string (which isn't necessarily the last digit).
For example...
entered = 123456789
stored =  12345678902345678

In this example, I'd like to check that 9 on entered is the same as the digit in the same position on stored.
I'm thinking there's 2 possible ways of achieving this, but if there's a simpler way that'd be great...

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*Check the entered string length and compare the character at that position of entered and stored.

*Check if the entered string is equal to the value of the corresponding length in stored.

Could someone please offer some advice in this area.

A: Breaking up the 'about to get stored' string in character set and comparing the 9th element (or with whatever position of element you want to compare) with the 9th element of the existing stored string.
Have a look at this: Breaking NSString 'word' in characters..
After breaking up 'about-to-get-stored' NSString in characters, take the 9th element and then get its intValue (like [lastElement intValue];) and on the other side retrieve your 'already-stored' NSString, break up in characters, take the 9th element and then get its intValue (as shown above) and now you have two int values, you can easily compare two integers..
Hope that helps a little. :)


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Definitions of Secularisation Theory
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By Vexen Crabtree 2016
#modernism #religion #secularisation
Secularisation Theory is the theory in sociology that as society advances in modernity, religion retreats and becomes increasingly hollow. Since the rise of science in the 17th Century, sociological commentators have realised that religion may be in a permanent decline, and some have proposed that science and intelligence, both rooted in the Enlightenment, are anathema to religious faith. Karl Marx (1818-1883), Durkheim (1857-1917), Max Weber (1864-1920), the founders of sociology, and William James (lectures from 1901-1902) are four eminent men who all noted this decline. The case was over-confidently stated by C.Wright Mills in 1959 who thought religion will decline and "disappear altogether except, possibly, in the private realm"1. It wasn't until the late 1960s that a coherent theory was developed, principally by "Berger, Luckmann, and Wilson, referring to processes developed by Durkheim (differentiation), Weber (rationalization), and Tönnies (Gemeinschaft-Gessellschaft)"2. The theory holds that intellectual and scientific developments have undermined the spiritual, supernatural, superstitious and paranormal ideas on which religion relies for its legitimacy, and, the differentiation of modern life into different compartments (i.e. work, politics, society, education and knowledge, home-time, entertainment) have relegated religion to merely one part of life, rather than an all-pervading narrative. As this continues, religion becomes more and more shallow, surviving for a while on empty until loss of active membership forces it into obscurity - although most theorists only hold this happens for organized public religion, not for private spirituality.
There is not a single definition of Secularisation Theory. The following are mostly very short descriptions for the purpose of showing quickly what type of thing this theory is. One very reasonable and oft-quoted definition by Bryan Wilson (1982) is:
"[Secularisation Theory is] that process by which religious institutions, actions, and consciousness, lose their social significance."
Wilson (1982)3
But this definition is quite wide and includes most theories as to why religion is declining. It also specifically ties the description to social (public) significance. Whereas other sociologists such as Steve Bruce have collected data that proves that private religion is also declining4. Another definition by William Sims Bainbridge goes too far in stating that:
"[Secularisation Theory] in its simplest form holds that social and intellectual progress is rendering religion obsolete."
"Atheism" by William Sims Bainbridge (2011)5
But few are far between are the brave anthropologists or sociologists who agree with the theory that religion will become obsolete! Bainbridge's piercing prediction doesn't correctly define the bulk of Secularisation Theory, just one extreme end of it. Roger Finke (1997) gives secularisation theory a more useful definition that doesn't concentrate on just social effects:
"[Secularisation Theory predicts] religion will decline as modernity erodes the demand for traditional religious beliefs."
Roger Finke (1997)6
Here the word "traditional" takes into account the fact that it seems that new-age, individualistic and self-help religions are rising in popularity - although this rise is nowhere near enough to curb the overall downward trend in religious involvement. But "modernity" isn't the only element of secularisation that is causing this trend - or rather, it could be if you define it in the right way. It would be more useful if the definition included what it is about modernity that causes secularisation. One fuller description by an academic who has analysed various definitions' shortcomings arrives at this conclusion:
"[Secularisation Theory is a] process by which overarching and transcendent religious systems of old are confined in modern functionally differentiated societies to a subsystem alongside other subsystems, losing in this process their overarching claims over these other subsystems (... polity, economy, family, education, law, etc)."
"The Meaning and Scope of Secularization" by Karel Dobbelaere (2011)7
My initial instinct is to question the need for the word transcendent. There is no particular evidence that non-transcendental religions are less affected by secularisation - highly down-to-Earth and practical religions like Anglican Christianity are declining just as much as other established religions. Aside from that, the explicit mentioning of differentiation is a great element in Dobbelaere's approach.
Now it isn't fair to judge the relative worth of the above definitions as they are only tiny extracts of the authors' total work on the topic, and most are one-liners designed to give an initial feel, not a full definition. But they do serve to highlight some of the differences in opinion as to how far secularisation will go, and they do point you in the direction of the authors whom whose works you would read in order to understand Secularisation Theory.
Author: By Vexen Crabtree
Current edition: 2016 Aug 25
Last Modified: 2016 Aug 25
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Bainbridge, William Sims
(2011) Atheism. This is chapter 17 of "The Oxford Handbook of The Sociology of Religion" by Peter B. Clarke (2011)1.
Bowman, Herbert & Mumm
(2009) Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change: Course Introduction. 2nd edition. Originally published 2001. Part of the Open University religious studies module AD317.
Bruce, Steve
(1996) Religion in the Modern World: From Cathedrals to Cults. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. A paperback book.
Clarke, Peter B.. Peter B. Clarke: Professor Emeritus of the History and Sociology of Religion, King's College, University of London, and currently Professor in the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, UK.
(2011) The Oxford Handbook of The Sociology of Religion. Originally published 2009. Current version published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. A paperback book.
Dobbelaere, Karel
(2011) The Meaning and Scope of Secularization. This is chapter 33 of "The Oxford Handbook of The Sociology of Religion" by Peter B. Clarke (2011)2 (pages p599-615).
Hefner, Robert W.
(2011) Religion and Modernity Worldwide. This is chapter 8 of "The Oxford Handbook of The Sociology of Religion" by Peter B. Clarke (2011)3 (pages 152-171).
Heffner (2011) .^
Dobbelaere (2011). p599.^
Wilson (1982) p149-150 in "Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change: Course Introduction" by Bowman, Herbert & Mumm (2009)8 p73.^
Bruce (1996). p56-58.^
Bainbridge (2011). p327.^
Roger Finke (1997) in "Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change: Course Introduction" by Bowman, Herbert & Mumm (2009)8 p76.^
Bowman, Herbert & Mumm (2009) .^
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Via da Las Vegas (Leaving Las Vegas) è un film del 1995 diretto da Mike Figgis.

Il film, tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di John O'Brien, morto suicida il 10 aprile 1994 all'età di soli 34 anni, senza poter di conseguenza assistere al film, permise a Nicolas Cage di aggiudicarsi numerosi premi per la sua interpretazione del protagonista.

Trama
Ben Sanderson è un uomo che ha perso tutto, prima la famiglia e poi il lavoro. Alcolizzato, decide di andare a Las Vegas per ubriacarsi fino a morire. Ma il destino è dietro l'angolo, e proprio là Ben incontra Sara, una disperata prostituta. Tra i due nasce un amore profondo, capace di soddisfare il loro bisogno di non sentirsi soli. La loro vita però pare già segnata: Ben accetta a malincuore la professione di Sara, mentre lei non riesce a dissuaderlo dall'alcool.

Produzione
È stato girato a Burbank, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Laughlin, e Halifax in Canada. Costato 4 milioni di dollari, fu un successo al box office americano, incassando più di 32 milioni di dollari.

Riprese
 Mike Figgis è anche autore della colonna sonora e compare brevemente come attore nei panni di un mafioso russo.
 Il film che Ben e Sara guardano mentre sono a bordo piscina del Desert Hotel è Il terzo uomo.
 Il barista presso il bar di motociclisti che asciuga il sangue dal volto di Ben è interpretato da Julian Lennon, figlio di John Lennon.
 Il regista Bob Rafelson compare in un cameo nei panni di un uomo al centro commerciale.

Distribuzione
La visione del film è stata vietata ai minori di 14 anni.

Colonna sonora
La colonna sonora del film comprende molteplici musiche del regista, e allo stesso tempo compositore, Mike Figgis, ed anche Sting ne è partecipe.
 Intro dialogue
 Angel eyes - Sting
 Are you desirable?
 Ben & Bill
 Leaving Las Vegas
 Sera's dark side
 Mara
 Burlesque
 On the street
 Bossa vega
 Ben pawns his Rolex - Sera talks to her shrink
 My one and only love - Sting
 Sera invites ben to stay
 Come rain or come shine - Don Henley
 Ben and Sera - Theme
 Ridiculous - Nicolas Cage
 Biker bar
 Ben's hell
 It's a lonesome old town - Sting
 Blues for ben
 Get out
 Reunited
 Sera talks to the cab driver
 She really loved him
 I won't be going south for a while - The Palladinos

Critica
Su Rotten Tomatoes Via da Las Vegas ha ricevuto il 94% di approvazione complessiva su 31 recensioni, mentre critici come Roger Ebert del Chicago Sun-Times e Rick Groen del canadese The Globe and Mail diedero ad esso voti molto alti. Ebert scrisse: "l'ubriaco e la prostituta dal cuore d'oro sono stereotipi. Cage e Shue rendono gli stereotipi dei personaggi indimenticabili". Ebert incluse il lungometraggio nella sua personale lista dei film più belli del decennio, posizionandolo ottavo.

Riconoscimenti
Il film è stato candidato a quattro Premi Oscar: Miglior regia, sceneggiatura non originale, attore e attrice protagonisti e a quattro Golden Globe. Nicolas Cage vinse il premio come miglior attore sia agli Oscar che ai Golden Globe. Via da Las Vegas ricevette anche quattro Independent Spirit Awards tra cui miglior film, miglior regia e miglior interpretazione femminile per Elisabeth Shue.

 1996 - Premio Oscar
 Miglior attore protagonista a Nicolas Cage
 Nomination Migliore regia a Mike Figgis
 Nomination Miglior attrice protagonista a Elisabeth Shue
 Nomination Migliore sceneggiatura non originale a Mike Figgis
 1996 - Golden Globe
 Miglior attore in un film drammatico a Nicolas Cage
 Nomination Migliore regia a Mike Figgis
 Nomination Miglior attrice in un film drammatico a Elisabeth Shue
 Nomination Migliore sceneggiatura a Mike Figgis
 1996 - Premio BAFTA
 Nomination Miglior attore protagonista a Nicolas Cage
 Nomination Miglior attrice protagonista a Elisabeth Shue
 Nomination Migliore sceneggiatura non originale a Mike Figgis
 1995 - National Board of Review Award
 Miglior attore protagonista a Nicolas Cage
 1996 - Chicago Film Critics Association Award
 Miglior attore protagonista a Nicolas Cage
 Miglior attrice protagonista a Elisabeth Shue

 1995 - Boston Society of Film Critics Award
 Miglior attore protagonista a Nicolas Cage
 1996 - Independent Spirit Award
 Miglior film a Lila Cazès e Annie Stewart
 Migliore regia a Mike Figgis
 Miglior attrice protagonista a Elisabeth Shue
 Migliore fotografia a Declan Quinn
 Nomination Miglior attore protagonista a Nicolas Cage
 Nomination Migliore sceneggiatura a Mike Figgis
 1995 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award
 Miglior film
 Migliore regia a Mike Figgis
 Miglior attore protagonista a Nicolas Cage
 Miglior attrice protagonista a Elisabeth Shue
 1995 - New York Film Critics Circle Award
 Miglior film
 Miglior attore protagonista a Nicolas Cage
 1996 - Screen Actors Guild Award
 Miglior attore protagonista a Nicolas Cage
 Nomination Miglior attrice protagonista a Elisabeth Shue

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Film drammatici
Film sul suicidio
Film sull'alcolismo
Film ambientati a Las Vegas
Film girati in Canada
Film girati in California
Independent Spirit Award per il miglior film


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Closure orders
There have been two recent cases on closure orders of passing interest. The first, less important case was reported in The Guardian's Society pages. The hearing appears to have been an amusing event, attended by "a large group of sex workers and their maids", at which the police officer giving evidence could give no direct evidence that the premises were associated with the occurrence of disorder or serious nuisance to members of the public, because there was no such record on the police computer. Not surprisingly, the judge refused to confirm the Closure order. After the hearing, apparently one of the maids asked the police sergeant "I don't want to rub it in, but when can we have our keys back?". One does feel for the local priest, though, who has had to put extra bars on the church doors to stop drug dealing (closure order on the church, anyone?).
More importantly, though, in Hampshire Police Authority v Smith [2009] EWHC 174 (Admin), the Divisional Court held that an appeal against a closure order has to be issued within 21 days from the date of the closure order. It does not have to be heard within that timeframe. Section 6(2), Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003, says that "An appeal against an order or decision to which this section applies must be brought to the Crown Court before the end of the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which the order or decision is made". Although s 6(2) is not particularly clear, and the closure order only lasts for three months, Wyn Williams J said that the contrary result, where the whole thing would have to be wrapped up within 21 days, would lead to practical problems.
The Crown Court Rules 1982 apply to such civil appeals and there is power under those rules to grant leave to appeal out of time (r 7(5)). The further question raised in the case was whether that power applied to closure orders. It was held that it did not. The policy of the 2003 Act was clear on this issue, particularly when one compares the closure order provisions with those of graffiti removal notices (s 51) and high hedges (s 71), both of which have express powers for appeals to be made out of time (which are not included in the closure order provisions): "If Parliament had intended there to be such a power it would have said so expressly" (at [29]).
All of this is fine and makes sense (at least, it's difficult to disagree on the face of the provisions). But one must feel for Ms Smith whose family can't access their property and whose reason for seeking leave to appeal out of time was that her solicitors had not been in receipt of public funding. And she hadn't attended the original hearing because she hadn't understood the closure notice as well as being with her one of her children who was in hospital at the time of the hearing.
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Marcin	on 20/02/2009 at 4:05 pm
Surely Article 6 is engaged here, given that there is an interference with Article 8. It seems wrong that there is no discretion to have the appeal heard out of time in domestic cases.
NL	on 20/02/2009 at 9:03 pm
The good, if harrassed, father was giving evidence in support of the brothel, which had apparently seen considerably less drug dealing than the Church. But one doesn't mess with a determined maid:
"One time a man pulled a gun on a girl. I went in, jumped on his back and stopped him. The fact that we're there makes the girls feel safe." I can see that.
On Marcin's Art 6 point, this is outside my turf, but given the interference with Art 8, proportionality of the interference would surely support an Art 6 argument. The respondent did not appear and was not represented, so I doubt a further appeal on those grounds will happen in this case.
J	on 21/02/2009 at 9:21 am
Why can't you seek judicial review of the decision of the Mags to grant the order, notwithstanding the failure to lodge an appeal in time? In seeking permission, you'd have to explain the reasons for not taking the statutory appeal and, of course, if those reasons are poor, then you won't get permission.
But I don't see why there is an Art. 6 issue. There is no reason to suppose that the hearing before the Mags would violate Art. 6. It is not a requirement of Art. 6 that there be a right of appeal, merely that, if a right is granted, the appeal must also comply with Art. 6. There is a right of appeal in a closure order case and it can't be an Art. 6 violation to impose a time limit on when the appeal is brough.
Lodging an appeal in time is also very, very easy. All you have to do is lodge the formal notice (which is merely a statement of intent to appeal – you don't need Grounds!), you don't, for example, have to supply your witness statements or skeleton argument.
As I said, this is not my turf, but a complete absence of judicial discretion on appeal out of time where so much is at stake – Art 1 as well as Art 8 – surprises me. Given the importance, is an absolute limit on time to appeal proportionate? (when offending hedges do get discretion.)
JR would surely be a higher hurdle than an appeal – the Mag's decision would have to be not just wrong but unreasonable.


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Little Known Black History Fact: Lloyd "Little Willie" Adams
Written By: Erica Taylor, The Tom Joyner Morning Show
Lloyd "Little Willie" Adams was a black businessman and well-known gangster who gave opportunities to a number of black entrepreneurs by funding their dreams. When there were no black savings and loan, there was Lloyd "Little Willie" Adams. Adams later became a venture capitalist, building small empires, from liquor stores to mortuaries.
The Zebulon, North Carolina native moved to Baltimore as a teenager and was cared for by close relatives. After completing a fast track of advanced college courses, he took on multiple jobs during the Depression era in a rag factory, delivering newspapers, repairing bicycles and operating a shoe shine parlor. The job he was most known for around the city was running numbers for an illegal lottery. One day, his numbers boss rejected his tickets, accusing Little Willie of arriving too late. Forced to make up the money, he decided to become his own lottery boss at age 16.
Now a gangster himself, Adams opened Little Willie's Tavern in 1938 with his earnings. Soon, jealous gangs blew up his bar and the law intervened by arresting him.
Adams managed to beat the Supreme Court system on a $5 million numbers conspiracy charge. When the lottery became legal, Adams served as consultant. He then invested in the dream of Henry Parks & the Parks Sausage Company. By 1969, Parks Sausage became one of the first black-owned companies to go public on Wall Street. Next was the Super Pride Markets chain and Carr's Beach amusement park. Adams made money on investments as 51% owner of the companies. Unfortunately, some were failures, like a soft drink by prize fighter Joe Louis called Joe Louis Punch.
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