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July 2019 (Volume xl Issue 7)
In association with www.TradeArabia.com
World transport roadmap signed as IRU event ends
The IRU World Congress, an event of the world road transport organisation, concluded today (November 8) in the Omani capital with the signing of the Muscat Compact, a roadmap for the future of road transport, mobility, trade and logistics.
As a principle-based framework for cooperation, it will bring the industry together to take control of its future by using innovation to overcome current challenges and uncertainty.
The Muscat Compact focuses on four key elements: talent, trade, environment and innovation. It spurs collective action and guides public-private collaboration at a local, national, regional and global level.
The Compact was discussed in a closed ministerial dialogue, examining how governments can work better with transport operators in supporting trade facilitation, building human capital, decarbonising and supporting innovation.
Governments from 25 countries came together to plan a course of action to achieve industry objectives and global goals, notably as set out in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Muscat Compact was presented during the closing session by Emil Kaikiyev, Minister in charge of Energy and Infrastructure of the Eurasian Economic Commission, who called for collaboration between the public and private sectors in taking transport, trade and mobility forward.
He said: "IRU has long advocated an end to silo approaches, with harmonisation and shared global best practices. This is more important now than ever, as we face accelerated change and also significant opportunities. The Muscat Compact is the beginning of a new proactive era for transport, where we act together to design our future and we start building it."
Secretary general of IRU, Umberto de Pretto, added: "This is a defining moment for the industry. We can't predict the future, but we can forge our own destiny within it. The survival of the industry – of global prosperity – depends on it."
The Compact was one of many positive outcomes of the three-day global event, which saw global decision-makers come together to support transport operators in boosting trade facilitation, good regulation, digitalisation and intermodal efficiency.
In addition, Mwasalat, Oman's national transport company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Busworld, the biggest and most experienced bus and coach exhibition in the world, to host the event in Muscat in 2021.
The final day of the congress also explored avant-garde solutions from leading business figures who have successfully ridden the wave of disruption and prospered from innovation
André Borschberg, co-founder, CEO and pilot of Solar Impulse, said: "Innovation is all about pushing boundaries. It's about having the vision to see what existing technology can do and the expertise to bring that vision to reality. It's about having a license to fail, try again, fail again and eventually succeed. And it's about courage."
Dr. Rand Hindi of Snips.ai, added: "This is what the digital revolution is all about. It's about using this artificial intelligence to make technology disappear in a way that you can just go about your day and not care about it anymore."
The round table sessions focused on autonomous road transport, responding to new challenges in urban mobility, and reaping the benefits of innovative practices that can generate new revenue streams and optimize resources.
"After three decades of globalisation, many companies expect their supply chains to shorten in the years ahead. But while some manufacturing processes will migrate 'closer-to-home', speeding the shift towards regionalisation, numerous well established and finely tuned supply chains will remain in place, adapting to serve expanding local markets. For businesses, supply chains may be shrinking, but the era of complex supply chain ecosystems is still far from being over," said author, logistics expert and lecturer Mark Millar.
The IRU World Congress was organised by IRU and hosted by Asyad in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Over 1,000 participants from more than 75 countries attended the three-day event. – TradeArabia News Service
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Beat the Devil's Tattoo is Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's fifth studio album. This release signifies the band's first full-length on their own Abstract Dragon label, in partnership with Vagrant records and co-op music group. The band wrote and recorded the majority of the album at the basement studio in Philadelphia, PA - the same room where they wrote and recorded Howl, the rest was done in their hometown Los Angeles. Beat the Devil's Tattooalso marks the first album with drummer Leah Shapiro. The album is a mixed up hot-pot of all the band's previous work - an americanised blend of blues-inspired garage and folk-driven rock 'n' roll.

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Akiva Thalheim
University Launches Ethics-Forward Data Science Major
The new major consists of five courses in data science and four each in computer science and mathematics.
Akiva Thalheim, Social Media Editor
NYU's new undergraduate major in Data Science teaches students the science of data collection and analysis. (via Pixabay)
A new major and minor in data science has launched, the College of Arts and Science announced last week. It's the first new major in over five years.
In development for more than a year, the new major is hosted by NYU's Center for Data Science. Its program of study requires five new courses in data science designed specifically for the major, in addition to four courses each in computer science and mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Data science seeks to extract insights from scores of data collected across disciplines as wide-ranging as finance, biology and urban development. Some of its most significant applications are in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning. For instance, the algorithms used in self-driving cars are based on large amounts of data collected from human-driven cars outfitted with many sensors.
CAS Dean Gene Jarrett said that he was inspired by NYU Shanghai's data science major on a trip there during his first year as dean and wanted to make it available for undergraduates in New York. He also emphasized that data science's applicability to a wide domain of fields meant many students would likely be interested in it.
"One of my priorities is to really address what are the interests of students today in terms of how they want to develop or have some degree of command over their education," Jarrett said in an interview with WSN. "I think this degree really would launch them any number of directions."
CAS junior Jonathan Shaw took the pilot course Data Science for Everyone last year, which sparked his interest in majoring or at least minoring in data science, instead of just studying economics.
"I realized that data science would be even better [than economics] because in this age there's basically data on everything," Shaw said. "And data science I view as a tool for you to have to better understand any other field."
The major also requires students to have a minor in CAS unless they have a double or joint major, which is meant to draw on the interdisciplinary nature of data science, according to Center for Data Science Director Julia Kempe.
"We wanted to kind of steep the major in the liberal arts to have a meaningful connection to some fields, be it biology, social science, anthropology, even history or English, can benefit tremendously, we believe, from this data science know-how," Kempe said.
A significant issue within the field of data science and its applications is that algorithms can be severely biased when they are fed "dirty data." Algorithms used in police departments across the nation, for example, attempt to predict crimes before they occur by analyzing historical data points such as arrest records and police reports. These predictive policing algorithms have been found to be biased when flawed data is used. In New Orleans, past discriminatory behaviors of officers led to skewed data and a program that disproportionately predicted crimes to be committed by people of color.
The new major seeks to specifically address and prevent these issues through a required course in the ethics of data science, Kempe explained. She added that the course was developed with the assistance of a National Science Foundation grant.
"We are hoping to educate young people to be data savvy and also data critical, because nowadays, everything is about data but often it's done in a very uncritical way," Kempe said. "We have to understand where the biases are [and] how to use data ethically — it's something that we want to impart on every student, if we can."
Californian and Monta Vista High School senior Surya Dantuluri interns at a company that develops the operating system for autonomous cars and is interested in studying data science at NYU. He said he appreciates the inclusion of the ethics course as he recognizes how data science can be used incorrectly or maliciously.
"There's a lot of bad things you can do with [data science]," Dantuluri said. "And hopefully, once some more ethical laws come in, we can make them regulate [and] mitigate the bad usage of data science."
CAS senior Brad Davis is majoring in computer science and agreed with Dantuluri. He said it's important for companies to handle data ethically, an issue Facebook has repeatedly come under fire for — the first instance of which was in 2018, when it was reported that voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica obtained more than 50 million users' private information without their permission from the company.
"We say Facebook, because Facebook got found out the most, it's most obvious that they're doing this, but every tech company has massive amounts of data about their consumer," Davis said. "How they choose to use it and if they choose to use it in an ethical way is really such an important topic."
Correction, Sept. 16: A previous version of this article stated that an ethics course within the Data Science major was inspired by NYU's AI Now Institute, which was incorrect. The article has been modified to reflect this, and WSN regrets the error.
A version of this article appeared in the Monday, Sept. 16, 2019 print edition. Email Akiva Thalheim at [email protected]
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Should being a woman allow you to escape prosecution for infanticide?
By Nancy Flanders | August 21, 2020 , 12:38pm
Because abortion is legal, women alone have the power to kill another human for any reason in the United States.
In order for women to be treated as equals to men in the U.S., they were encouraged to suppress their fertility with hormonal birth control, and then a group of men (beginning with Larry Lader and Dr. Bernard Nathanson and ending with the Supreme Court of the United States and its Roe v. Wade decision) successfully legalized abortion and gave women the power to decide whether their children live or die.
This "gender perspective" in the law treats men and women differently. While men rightly face homicide convictions and imprisonment for causing the deaths of children in the womb (in most states), their biological mothers can choose to end those young lives at any time throughout pregnancy for any reason.
In El Salvador, this "gender perspective" in the courts has widened to justify infanticide.
READ: Newborns in El Salvador were stabbed and strangled… but media claims mothers were jailed for 'miscarriage'
In El Salvador, abortion is illegal but its Criminal Code is interpreted to include a "necessity" defense for abortion in which the life of the mother is at risk (abortion – the deliberate killing of a preborn child – is never actually medically necessary). There is an international movement among pro-abortion groups and individuals to legalize abortion in El Salvador, but in the meantime, attorneys are using the "gender perspective" that applies to killing preborn children in the United States to cases involving infanticide in El Salvador in which women have violently killed their newborns.
A group of women, known as Las17+, have been convicted of murdering their newborns by strangulation, stabbing, and drowning. There is photographic evidence and there are witnesses, yet attorneys argue that these women suffered miscarriages, stillbirths, or pregnancy complications — and claim that if abortion were legal, the women would not have been prosecuted for their newborns' deaths.
Many of the women have been released from prison based on this argument, meaning they are now free because they are women.
"The campaign against El Salvador […] proposes the application of a 'gender perspective' to criminal prosecution, according to which the perpetrator's female gender would lower the criminal degree, reduce penalties, or eliminate the crime altogether for a crime against a very young child," explained Ligia De Jesús Castaldi, a professor of law at Ave Maria School of Law, in an article for The Public Discourse.
The end goal of Las17+'s attorneys is to legalize abortion in El Salvador so women can kill their children before birth, yet these women were not convicted of illegal abortion. Each of these women was convicted of infanticide.
De Jesús Castaldi says it is "unclear" whether or not these cases will actually lead to the decriminalization of abortion in El Salvador. "The litigation, however, seems already to have desensitized public opinion somewhat to the killing of unborn and newly born children," she explained. "Several government officials, including a supreme court judge, have actively supported the campaign and advocated tolerance of infanticide and decriminalization of abortion."
While infanticide is still a crime in the United States, the fact that a pro-life nation such as El Salvador is freeing women who have been convicted of the crime does not bode well for a nation like the U.S. in which abortion is celebrated by a large part of society. As infanticide by women is becoming accepted in El Salvador, abortion may soon follow. And with Americans — including politicians — throwing their support behind Las17+, the possibility of legalized infanticide in the U.S. can not be ignored.
READ: Planned Parenthood is helping to free El Salvador women who stabbed and strangled newborns
Infanticide and abortion are the same in essence, yet infanticide kills a child illegally who could have been killed legally just seconds earlier, before emerging from the womb. For consistency, both should be made illegal, but El Salvador seems to be pushing in the other direction — to make both legal for women.
"The treatment of abortion and infanticide as equivalents, on the part of pro-abortion organizations involved in this litigation, is obviously meant to deceive the public; but it also seems to be based on equal disregard for the life of the unborn and the newly born child," said De Jesús Castaldi. "The argument that gender alone justifies the deliberate killing of one's own child in both situations is also very telling. It seems to confirm what pro-lifers have known all along, namely, that abortion and infanticide are not that different after all."
Legalized abortion has given women alone the power to kill innocent preborn humans — a right no person should hold.
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Discussion in 'Radio Circuits, Repair & Performance' started by VK2MTC, Feb 28, 2009.
The Set Up I was aiming for was for one of Hands Free Operation but not using the Standard Yaesu Microphone/s on offer …. In other words using a Stage/Studio Mic.
I purchased a RODE Studio Arm so I could have flexibility of movement from the radio to the computer and have the mic in front of me if I wished to do so .
The Microphone I finished up using – with very good results – was a "REDBACK C0384" Supercardioid Dynamic Microphone with a 300 Ohm Impedance … This microphone has some good features with excellent sensitivity ….
I have wired my set up in the fashion using a stereo plug and socket in the line about 150mm from the 8 pin plug so that I can plug in a head set mic if required ….
The FOOT SWITCH has been wired to the RCA Plug on the Rear Panel of the FT-950 – making it easier to wire the 8 pin plug at the front and negating any feedback from incorporating the foot switch into the 8 pin plug.
I have had some trouble with other forms of wiring for these XLR Mic's – enough to make one very frazzled – but NOW I have Eliminated any form of HUM, BUZZ, SQUEAL, SCREACH, ETC from the Outgoing Audio and have some very good audio reports from operators near and far ….
I hope that this information may be of some use to other operators of Yaesu Transceivers (Other 8 pin plug Yaesu's may be wired different).
"I have had some trouble with other forms of wiring for these XLR Mic's – enough to make one very frazzled – but NOW I have Eliminated any form of HUM, BUZZ, SQUEAL, SCREACH, ETC from the Outgoing Audio and have some very good audio reports from operators near and far …."
Please give us some background on your reducing the buzz, sqeal, screech, etc.
I assume the mike had a transformer making it a balanced output circuit? Most mike input circuits in these portable transceivers seem to be 500 ohms impedance using electret elements with single ended phantom power from the same center conductor as the audio.
Was there enough audio from the mike to feed the audio input circuit or did you have to provide some additional gain?
Hum and buzz (50Hz/60Hz and it's harmonics) occur in unbalanced systems when currents flow in the cable shield connections between different pieces of equipment. Hum and buzz occur in balanced systems when the ground voltage differences between different pieces of equipment are so large that the Common Mode Rejection of the input stage of the receiving device is insufficient to reduce the noise signal to in-audible levels.
A professional XLR audio (microphone) connector is normally BALANCED.
just like with a balanced (half-wave dipole) antenna and an unbalanced (coaxial) feedline.
Heil Sound deals with this issue in their microphone products and accessories.
Audiophiles consantly talk about this subject!
My experience with noise reduction is that I interface the balanced mike using either an op amp (if I need gain) or using an isolation or impedance transformer with RF beads and then feed the unbalanced output.
Just trying to compare notes.
so, I have seen Jensen site, but I don't know what is the correct product!!!
Please, anybody have idea about it??? 73 de iz7khr,Frank.
Most studio mikes are 150 ohm impedances with the electret mike circuits having an 500 ohm to 600 ohm impedance, so a 150 to 600 ohm mike transformer such as the JT-16-X series does well. If the mike is a condenser mike, don't forget the 6.81k pullup resistors on the primary.
One can also reverse the JT-MB-D.
ok Phil, thank you very much for infos!
the dinamic capsule is a 600ohm unbalanced!
73 and thanks for infos...Frank iz7khr.
http://www.jensen-transformers.com/as/as002.pdf which uses the JT-11P-1 1:1 isolation transformer.
wiring pins 2,3 of the XLR connector (from the dynamic mic element) to the input of the JT-11P-1 transformer with ferrite beads on the input leads (Red, Brown) and the output leads (Yellow and Orange). I would also use the suggested damping network as well. Depending on the mic input circuitry of your rig, you may need a DC blocking capacitor at the output side of the isolation circuit; I recommend bipolar electrolytics with the proper voltage rating.
Using these isolation transformers is a good way to reject common mode noise.
You guys are making it too complicated.
Pin 1 is ground. It is also tied to the shield in the cable, and back to the body of the mic. This should go to chassis ground on your plug to the radio.
Pins 2 (Sig +) and 3 (Sig -) are the balanced output of the mic. But you don't have a balanced input to the radio.
Simply tie either of these pins 3 to ground, and the remaining Pin 2 will be your signal wire.
The difference is impedance is not significant, you don't need a matching transformer.
Not complicated at all if you have common mode noise.
The circuit I recommended is a balanced to unbalanced circuit and works fine for dynamic element mikes 200 to 600 ohms.
For most ricebricks, all you need is about a 0.33 uFD decoupling capacitor on the right side feeding the audio to the rig.


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Libby all set to conquer Lake Wanaka Half
Having retired from competitive swimming last year, Libby McGee is turning her attention to a new challenge – the Lake Wanaka Half.
The Oamaruvian swimmer spent nine years on the swimming circuit, at one point coming fifth in the country.
Having finished her time as a New Zealand age group swimmer, the 19-year-old said she wanted a new challenge, and after doing the swim section at last year's half, she decided this year she would go all in.
With a 90km bike ride, 1.9km swim and an about 21km run ahead of her on Saturday, the Oamaru Aquatic Centre lifeguard and swim coach said she is "half nervous, half really excited".
With triathlons through school under her belt, she said the Lake Wanaka Half was not the first triathlon she has tried her hand at, but with her previous efforts having about a 7km distance involved, biking, swimming and running over 100km is a new challenge.
"It's kind of a new experience."
The young athlete said she had been training hard since October to ensure her running and biking skills were up to scratch – and having done much of it alone, it was not always easy.
"I bought myself a road bike so I couldn't back out of it," McGee said.
"Once I'm out there I'm fine but getting going is the hard bit."
McGee said she wants to be in the front group for the swimming section, wants to "at least" run the whole running section and just wants to get through the biking part of the half.
"A lot of people around work have said, 'no, you'll be fine' . . . and it's not like I'm gonna come last, I hope," she said.
"I feel ready, I feel confident that I can do it."
Challenge Wanaka media manager Sam White said McGee would join about 50 other Oamaruvians on the day taking part in the Half.
Only two Oamaruvians were trying their hand at the full marathon this year, he said.
Race director Victoria Murray-Orr said about 1200 people were taking part in the Half this year, and about 400 in the full.
Competitors would face an eight and a half hour triathlon, and double that for the full.
People needed a lot of physical and mental strength to handle the triathlon, she said.
Murray-Orr had a simple message for McGee and other competitors.
"Enjoy . . . I hope it's a day to remember."
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NFL roundtable: Why can't Rams, Chargers get their offenses in line?
Gary Klein, Sam Farmer, Jeff Miller
Odell Beckham Jr. greets fans before the Rams' game in Green Bay against the Packers. With Robert Woods out for the season, the Rams are going to need more productions from OBJ. (Jeffrey Phelps / Associated Press)
The Chargers and Rams both were man-handled during road losses to the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers, respectively. Of course, they are both very much in the playoff hunt, but matters are not looking as super in SoCal as they were a month ago. Moderated by Los Angeles Times NFL editor Athan Atsales, Rams beat writer Gary Klein, Chargers beat writer Jeff Miller and NFL writer Sam Farmer discuss the teams' futures:
It's not a coincidence that the Rams seem to have lost their identity on offense since receiver Robert Woods was sidelined with knee injury, is it? Or am I missing something?
Klein: You're not missing anything. You're right on target, which is what Sean McVay no doubt wished Matthew Stafford had been as he watched the Packers return an interception for a touchdown — the third time in three games an opponent came up with a pick six. Before he was injured, Woods did not have near as many catches as Cooper Kupp. He is not as flashy as Odell Beckham Jr. But Woods, as Van Jefferson reiterated Sunday, was the heart and core of the team because of pass-catching skills, his knowledge of the offense and his willingness to do the dirty work. As I was sitting in the press box watching the Rams facing third-and-medium distances for first downs, I thought, "This is where they really miss Woods," because of his ability to make tough catches in traffic and the flexibility he gave McVay to free other receivers.
Farmer: There's no question the Rams are missing Robert Woods. Just look at the way defenses can zero in on Cooper Kupp without the threat of Woods on the field. They are two No. 1 receivers and that's really hard to replace. Odell Beckham Jr. isn't the answer, nor is Van Jefferson, even though he has come a long way in his second year. The Rams are going to have to find creative ways to get Kupp open, and that's no simple task without a consistent running game.
What do you think are the latest issues hindering the Chargers' offense?
Miller: The issues Sunday were pressure on Justin Herbert and the inability to consistently run the ball. Denver had 19 quarterback pressures, according to Pro Football Focus, and that's a season worst for the Chargers. Their offensive line against the Broncos featured only two players who were starters to open the season. It showed.
What do you think has led Matthew Stafford to have so many passes intercepted after a great start, when he had just four in eight games?
Klein: McVay said every Stafford turnover has a different narrative — and he is not wrong. Some interceptions have resulted from poor decisions or throws by Stafford. At least one resulted from tight end Tyler Higbee not securing the ball on a catch. And some resulted from great anticipation and plays by talented opponents. But the bottom line is that quarterbacks are responsible for what happens when the ball is in their hands. They get credit when receivers or running backs catch short passes and turn them into long touchdowns. They bear responsibility when they fumble or passes are intercepted. Stafford has been in the league a long time. He won't experience a confidence crisis. This streak of three pick sixes in three consecutive games will end.
Farmer: Tough guy, amazingly strong arm, stellar deep ball, average accuracy. Right, not all of those interceptions can be attributed to Stafford, but he's made his share of mistakes. At least two of his misfires slipped through the hands of Packers defenders, too. The Rams are falling behind early and too often Stafford is looking to get them back in it with chunk plays. Pick-sixes in three consecutive games? That shouldn't be happening.
At this point, do you think the Chargers still will make the playoffs? Of course they could, but there are only two potentially "easy games" remaining, and they also have three more always-tough division games.
Farmer: Of course that could happen. The AFC West is knotted tighter than any division in football, and any one of those four teams could get hot down the stretch. But the Chargers have to do a better job of stopping the run. As the weather turns colder, teams are going to keep it on the ground more and more, controlling the clock and relegating opposing offenses to spectator status.
Miller: They remain the AFC's No. 7 seed even after the loss Sunday. So, yeah, the Chargers can still absolutely make the postseason. But that was a brutal loss in Denver since it was in the conference and in the division and came against a team behind them in the standings. Beating a team in front them now — like, hey, Cincinnati this weekend — would be major.
Quarterback Justin Herbert watches as the Chargers defense tries to stop the Broncos. Denver's defense outdid the visitors this time. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Klein: The Chargers will make the playoffs. They must so we can continue talking about a possible Rams-Chargers Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium, right?
If the Rams don't take care of business and beat the Jaguars at home next week, and considering the remaining schedule, how difficult would it be for them to make the playoffs?
Klein: The Rams are going to beat the Jaguars. There is no way that Jalen Ramsey will allow the Rams to lose to the team he escaped from. And as good as No. 1 pick Trevor Lawrence might become, he's a rookie facing Aaron Donald, Von Miller and Leonard Floyd for the first time. The Rams have a tough schedule after that. Arizona on the road and more holiday weekend trips to Minnesota and Baltimore. Home NFC West games against the Seahawks and 49ers. Barring a complete collapse, the Rams can win only three of their remaining games and still make the playoffs.
Farmer: Again, Rams too can make the playoffs. Teams have turned it around after worse stretches. But their confidence is eroding with each loss, and opponents — Tennessee, San Francisco, Green Bay — have put a recipe out there for beating them. Really rough schedule to finish the regular season.
This could change, as the NFL does from week to week, but with an all-L.A. Super Bowl less likely after Week 12, what other team in the AFC and the NFC would you guess will reach the Super Bowl.
Miller: Right now, the trending teams are probably New England and Green Bay, right? In another week, it could be two completely different teams. I still think Kansas City might get on a crazy run and — by now! — haven't we figured out that Tom Brady is always relevant when it comes to discussing the Super Bowl?
Farmer: In the AFC, I like New England and Indianapolis. Both have the components necessary to win in January. In the NFC, Tampa Bay and Green Bay are going to put up good fights, and Arizona is really fun to watch. As the Cardinals continue to get healthy their confidence is only going to grow.
Klein: Hey, let's not take an all-L.A. Super Bowl off the table! If/when the Rams and Chargers make the playoffs, they probably won't be favorably seeded. They will have to beat good teams on the road. But we all know that a team does not have to be great in Week 12. They just need to get hot enough to win three playoff games to reach the Super Bowl. But since you asked, the Chiefs in the AFC and the Packers in the NFC.
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Final arguments presented in Ohio History Connection case against Moundbuilders
The judge will make a determination if the case will proceed at a later date.
Final arguments presented in Ohio History Connection case against Moundbuilders The judge will make a determination if the case will proceed at a later date. Check out this story on newarkadvocate.com: https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2019/04/08/final-arguments-presented-case-against-moundbuilders/3399261002/
Benjamin Lanka, Newark Advocate Published 7:01 p.m. ET April 8, 2019 | Updated 7:12 p.m. ET April 8, 2019
NEWARK - The fate of the Moundbuilders Country Club rests in the hands of a Licking County judge after the conclusion of an evidentiary hearing Monday afternoon.
In November, the Ohio History Connection, previously the Ohio Historical Society, filed a civil lawsuit against the country club, intending to buy back its lease on the Newark property, which has been operated as a golf course since 1910.
Attorneys representing Moundbuilders continued to present evidence on Monday after a two-week recess in March.
John Mazzone, manager of Moundbuilders Country Club in Newark, gives testimony about damaged signage for the Octagon Earthworks during the final day of evidentiary hearings in the civil case between Moundbuilders Country Club and Ohio History Connection on Monday, April 8, 2019. Mazzone testified that the maintenance of such educational and directional signage for the earthworks was the responsibility of the Ohio History Connection. (Photo: Sara C. Tobias/The Advocate)
Volunteer club manager John Mazzone, who has served in his current role for nearly three years, testified that he and Erin Bartlett, a regional site coordinator for Ohio History Connection, worked each fall to schedule visitation for the upcoming season.
In photos presented as evidence, Mazzone said the photos showed Moundbuilders hosting Rally for the Cure, as well as visitation days, and other events. For those civic and charitable events, Mazzone testified, Moundbuilders didn't charge a fee.
More:Attorney: Ohio must have rights to Moundbuilders to pursue World Heritage
Looking at photos of fallen trees at the Great Circle Earthworks, which is owned and maintained by OHC, presented as evidence, Mazzone testified that when Moundbuilders has storm damage, it's cleaned up immediately and he contacts OHC to inform them of the damage. Three weeks after a major storm about 18 months ago, Mazzone said Moundbuilders had all the downed trees cleaned.
During cross examination, Mazzone told Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Croskey he initially was unaware of what the agreement relating to public access days were, which is why he inquired to see if they could be predominately on Mondays. Croskey presented an email exchange from December 2017, where he said anything they can do to move as many public access days to a Monday would be optimum.
Mazzone told Croskey he wanted Bartlett to understand Moundbuilders is closed on Mondays, and there is un-tethered access to that. He thought it would be more of a benefit to the OHC, he said.
The Ohio Principal Assistant Attorney General Keith O'Korn gives his closing statement, arguing that the Octagon Earthworks will be best maintained and preserved for future generations by being part of a World Heritage Site during the final day of evidentiary hearings in the civil case between Moundbuilders Country Club and Ohio History Connection on Monday, April 8, 2019. O'Korn argued that any application for the earthworks to become a World Heritage Site would be limited if it were still part of an active golf course, as it is now. (Photo: Sara C. Tobias/The Advocate)
During closing arguments, Principal Assistant Attorney General Keith O'Korn started off by saying testimony showed the historical and archaeological essence of the Octagon Earthworks.
"That history and archaeology belongs to everyone, including all those that live in Licking County and Ohio," O'Korn said. "The site should be shared with and experienced by everybody, but sharing and truly experiencing the Octagon with a golf course on the site is not possible and for that reason, we believe our client, the Ohio History Connection, should prevail in these preliminary proceedings."
The evidentiary hearing, according to O'Korn, boiled down to two issues: proving OHC has the authority to acquire the lease and that it's necessary.
O'Korn said OHC's board passed a resolution, saying it planned to open the Octagon as a park for the public and intended to restore the site. OHC Director Burt Logan, O'Korn said, testified OHC's mission had changed and it wants to connect Ohioans with its history.
More: Witness: Ohio's Hopewell Earthworks designation rests on Moundbuilders leaving
The public shouldn't have to work around Moundbuilders hours and should have access to the entire property, O'Korn argued, adding the fact Moundbuilders has four open house days annually demonstrates that public access is limited. He also argued OHC wouldn't be able to control access until 2078 under the current lease.
"Although we want the whole property back, in sum, you can see from the evidence that we want the complex at the same time the club wants it," O'Korn argued. "It's full public access, where it would be most conducive for the public to visit in the warm months and on weekends, or it's golf. At this stage, it is one or the other. It's open to all Ohioans for most of the time or it remains a private club for members and their selected guests."
O'Korn referred to testimony about research being conducted in Chillicothe with college students over two summers. A magnetic survey of the golf course would be time consuming because of the course and trees, O'Korn argued, adding that research isn't possible with the golf course on the site.
More: Moundbuilders civil suit hearing recessed until April
World Heritage designation, O'Korn argued, is an added bonus. He referred to testimony from Steve Morris, who works at the U.S. Department of Interior, which showed World Heritage designation isn't possible while the golf course remains on the site.
According to O'Korn, OHC submitted a good faith offer with its notice of intent to acquire that it served in November 2018. Any challenge Moundbuilders had to the original appraisal, he said, could be brought up in the trial phase of the case.
In court documents, O'Korn said Logan testified he could raise $800,000, which was OHC's offer to Moundbuilders in its letter of intent. Any claim OHC hid a second appraisal or made a bad faith offer wasn't true, O'Korn argued.
"We want to open to Octagon up, so all people, including Licking County and central Ohio school children, year after year after year - Licking County and Ohio residents, college students who are researching with Dr. Ruby, researchers, present day Native Americans and even the world, can come experience this incredible site," O'Korn said.
Mounbuilder Country Club attorney Joe Fraley gives his closing statement, arguing that the private golf course has done a better job maintaining the Octagon Earthworks than the Ohio History Connection has done maintaining other similar sites, during the final day of evidentiary hearings in the civil case between Moundbuilders Country Club and Ohio History Connection on Monday, April 8, 2019. (Photo: Sara C. Tobias/The Advocate)
In his closing arguments, Joe Fraley, who represented Moundbuilders, said evidence showed an appraisal of the property was in the amount of $1.75 million. After receiving that appraisal, Fraley said, OHC got a second appraisal for $800,000.
Fraley argued that OHC chose the lower appraisal and questioned if that indicated bad faith. In his experience, Fraley said, actions are a better indicator than words.
In his research, Fraley said someone told him there was another appraisal than the $800,000 appraisal, and it was significantly higher.
When it comes to access, Fraley argued that OHC had already agreed to a mutual site plan agreement. He then argued OHC didn't want to live up to its lease. Moundbuilders, he added, has held up their end of the deal.
Mentioning testimony from individuals such as Dr. Brad Lepper, curator of archaeology at Ohio History Connection, and others, Fraley argued their testimony suggested Moundbuilders does a better job at managing their grounds than OHC manages the Great Circle Earthworks.
More: Readers offer differing opinions on Moundbuilders in letters to the editor
The acquisition, Fraley argued, has always been about one thing and that's World Heritage designation. Testimony earlier in the hearing, Fraley said, said the golf course didn't have to be removed from World Heritage designation, however, the witness believed it should be removed. Fraley continued, arguing Moundbuilders' site doesn't have to be part of the nomination.
"If the court allows OHC to take this property and they do nominate it, you got a 60 percent shot at best or less in my opinion. And they would like you to do that and balance public interest - 100 jobs, $1 million in payroll, $2 million in activity, preservation that has occurred over 109 years - not to mention just the old fashioned farmer in me. If you make a deal, maybe you ought to to stick with it," Fraley argued. "If you make a deal and you sign a contract, maybe you ought to adhere to it. If you make a deal on a site plan, maybe you ought to adhere to it and stick to the rules. And I think that's in the public interest."
Referring to the dozens of individuals seated in the courtroom, Fraley said it's in their public interest that he fights on behalf of Moundbuilders Country Club.
Judge David Branstool gave OHC and Moundbuilders' attorneys a two-week deadline to file their proposed findings of fact and arguments. A necessity hearing will be set for a later date.
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During 2017, I left my job, sold my, house, separated from my husband, and set off backpacking the world in search of finding myself. Through my travels in Europe, I learned so much but did not connect deeply with myself. When I arrived in Chiang Mai in October, I was interested in focusing on spirituality. Without even searching, the Life Purpose retreat through Mahasiddha Yoga was suggested to me and I was excited to delve into yoga and meditation. I felt as if the Divine led me to this event.
I was quite nervous the first day of the Life Purpose workshop. Having little experience with yoga, I was worried about embarrassing myself. However, participating in the interactive exercises brought me out of my social comfort zone. By the end of the retreat, I could feel how positive yoga, meditation, and the exercises were and how they brought me closer to my true self. It was then that I knew this studio was the key to healing myself on all levels and discovering my inner happiness.
I continued going to all the classes and attended the Tantra Immersion 1 retreat until I was scheduled to go to Australia. Having a daily practice of yoga and meditation for a month noticeably changed how I saw the world and handled my emotions. It amazed me how much better I felt physically and mentally after my practice. I was hooked and did not want to lose something that had already been incredibly beneficial to my life, so I decided I would return to Chiang Mai after my trip to Australia. I am so grateful I made this decision because during my three weeks away, my practice suffered as well as my wellbeing.
After experiencing that contrast while I was away, I was eager to be a part of the spiritual community again and focus on healing. December was a month of going deep within myself to heal old wounds, leading up to the 10-day silent meditation retreat. I feel that it was during this retreat that I finally began finding myself. Through the silence I learned that I can find all the answers to my problems within and heal. For the first time since I was a child, I began to pray and feel a connection with God. This gave true meaning to trusting the universe, which I had previously struggled to do. I gained a higher level of consciousness during the retreat and now find myself able to catch when I become distracted more often.
I feel so blessed having found Mahasiddha when I did. It has made a strong impact on me that I believe will last my lifetime. When I do move on from Chiang Mai, I will remain involved in the amazing classes through Skype. Also, I plan to integrate what I have learned into fulfilling my life purpose and continue to maintain a daily practice. This studio truly is a gift to the world and I believe everyone should have the privilege of experiencing themselves in such a true state of love and presence.


There are many reasons why I believe that Facebook will be worth over $10bn, maybe as much as $20bn but I will focus on one, its open immigration policy. Joanna Rees (CEO of FON USA) and I went to see the folks at Facebook in order to make a deal on how Fon could appear in Facebook. The visit was amazing in the sense that we basically learned that we could do whatever we wanted at Facebook. All our ideas were greeted with a yes, yes and yes.
Basically, the Facebook system resembles a country with open immigration in which the best are allowed to thrive, kind of like USA who manages to attract the best of the best…and thrives. But of course you have to live by certain rules like for example disclosing who you are, a rule that we also have at Fon and that while potentially hackable Facebook told us that they frequently delete accounts of people they believe are not disclosing their true identity. Interestingly Second Life has the opposite principle, namely that people would like to live in an imaginary world of second identities, and some do, but most like to have a real relationship with real friends.
To me there´s no doubt that Facebook will be hugely popular and will overtake Myspace sometime during 2008 and become the largest social network in the world. The only lingering doubts center around monetization but with Google nearby and with the famous Myspace Google deal as a starting point I see that selling ads to people who disclose their identity and so much about themselves will be like shooting fish in a barrel.
I love your visionary posts! Keep on going.
I see were you're going, but it also seems to me that this type of social network still has a ways to go before it can really be valued that high (what's the PE of a $20b market cap for Facebook?).
The open platform a-la-MSFT is very interesting indeed, and a brilliant step in the right direction, however it would have to be very near ubiquitous in order to be worth that much.
Never mind the possibility of a game changing technology in the next 2-3 years.
Anyway, that's just me being the devil's advocate, I would definitely consider FB the cream of the crop (though I still find LinkedIn more practical).
Is that the reason you allow for anonymous test accounts at Fon?


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Flexbox: changes since the previous spec
Don't use <picture> (most of the time) by Jason Grigsby. TL;DR: if you just want resolution switching (smaller image to non-"retina" devices, big image only to high-dpi screens), just use
Using ServiceWorker in Chrome today and, indeed, other Chromium browsers. Excellent article by Jank Architect.
Better @font-face with Font Load Events by Zach Leatherman
The initial work for Manifest in Chromium M39 is done, and will hopefully be in Firefox OS 2.2. (Explainer article.)
A Greater Voice for Individuals in W3C: Tell Us What You Would Value
Primary Key issue on iOS8 implementation of IndexedDb. "when you have two different object stores in the same indexeddb, primary key values appear to be "shared" across all stores." hurray.
Accessibility issues with html5 : not exposed; should be exposed with an IA2 footer role and xml-roles/implicit aria role of contentinfo in some circumstances – fixed in Chromium.
Brum Tech Scene – That nice @sil came round to my house and videoed me answering his questions about the Birmingham tech scene and biscuits.
When can a High Court grant an injunction to trade mark holders against ISPs to block access to "infringing" websites? – Open Rights Group on an important test-case
Support the independents "If you use a product that has a free version and a paid version, paying out for that "pro" or commercial license even if perhaps you could get away with not doing so, puts cash into the company, helps to ensure the survival and development of the product" says Rachel Andrew.
LULZ: "JSONx is an IBM® standard format to represent JSON as XML." – for those who want the joys of JSON with the piquant frisson of XML. Who doesn't?
EXTRA LULZ: Even Apple didn't want my iPhone 6 Plus – unusual satire piece from The Verge, spoofing a cryPhone user whose emotional rollercoaster (caused by the new device being slightly bigger than his other one, which is why he bought it) culminates with the hilarious "I spent all this money on something that I thought would make me happy, and instead I felt like trash". Genius.
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Web Components punch list – "Considerations for web component and custom control design: If your control has the stuff below covered, excellent! If not then please implement it before shouting to the world about it being the next big thing." by Steve Faulkner
Brum Tech Scene – On Monday, Stuart Langridge launched a series of interviews and conversations with interesting people doing interesting things in the Birmingham tech community. First is Simon Jenner, Head of Oxygen Startups and co-founder of Silicon Canal. He videoed me, too; coming soon.
Who is "Joe Developer"? asks @johnfoliot. The background is the "living standards" vs "W3C snapshot" holy war. It's a good question.
What next for HTML? – now HTML5 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation, how should the language be further developed? Put your questions to editor Robin Berjon for an HTML5 Doctor interview
The URL mess on the competing standards for defining how URLs work, by Larry Masinter
Chromium: Web Application Manifest implementation chugs along (@marcosc & I wrote an explainer)
All You Need To Know About Vertical-Align – "vertical-align can be a real scumbag sometimes. I set myself the target to clarify the behavior once and for all"
Opera Mini to be pre-installed on all upcoming Micromax Android devices available in India, Russia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal
Getting Started with Sass by Laura Kalbag
iOS 8 and iPhone 6 for web developers and designers: next evolution for Safari and native webapps – they kept it quiet, but there's a new phone and OS from FruitCo. Maximiliano Firtman does some testing so you don't have to.
Life Changed Much? – "Occasionally, new technology changes lives. But mostly it doesn't." by Tim Bray
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Reflections on Extensible Web Summit, Berlin
I was lucky enough to visit Berlin very briefly for the Extensible Web Summit. It was organised, it seems, by members of W3C (but was not an officially branded W3C) and hosted by Beuth University, Berlin. Lunch was provided by Google, beers afterwards by Yandex (although I missed those as I'd taken the inexplicable decision to fly back straight after rather than hobnob with the great, the good, and Chaals.) Thanks to all organisations.
This isn't a record of the day; the event notes were crowd-scribed. It's my preliminary thoughts about the concept of the "extensible web".
As far as I can deduce – because the term "extensible web" wasn't actually defined on the day – it's about giving/ exposing primitives so developers can extend various parts of the platform. (Read The Extensible Web Manifesto for a longer description and statement of intent.)
In the current world, we wait for something like Appcache to be specified, then implemented and then scoffed at. This can take a long time, and we might not get what we want; Hixie told me "The appcache API is another big mistake. It's the best example of not understanding the problem before designing a solution … Appcache works great if you want to do what it was designed for, but it turns out most people want to do something different enough that appcache feels horrible to them".
So, an example of Extensible Web practices/ methodology is Service Worker – it allows you to control how websites fetch and store information across the network (and when there is no network) but it's very low-level; you have to do everything yourself in JavaScript – but that gives you great power and flexibility.
One of the tests of Service Worker is: can we explain how AppCache works by coding it via Service Worker in JavaScript? Yes, we can. Similarly, Chrome's Chris Wilson said how he hopes to be able to explain how the <audio> element works in terms of the Web Audio spec. Explaining how things work and giving us hooks in is a good idea, it seems to me. For example, in a sane, Extensible Web-world, we'd never have had the <canvas> element, but instead would have extended  with a scriptable API.
But while it's good to explain magic, I feel we need to be careful about using the word "magic" pejoratively. A lot of the success of the Web was that simple HTML tags (, <input>) made magic happen. You write  and a vomiting otter appears; you don't need to worry about how it gets there over the network, its caching, its format, etc. Similar with <input> – you just code a reasonably obvious word in angle brackets and it works.
As Steve Faulkner notes, a lot of the success of accessibility on the Web is/was that simple HTML elements makes accessibility happen.
Service Workers, and the spec that I've been closer to, <picture>, are great examples of listening to developers (partnership). Service Worker came out of a meeting between Opera, Mozilla, Google, BBC, Financial Times etc and was specified by Google, Mozilla and Samsung (and many others). <picture> came about because developers demanded it, even when the browser vendors and standards bodies didn't care.
The Extensible Web Manifesto says "We prefer to enable feature development and iteration in JavaScript, followed by implementation in browsers and standardization". I hope the end result is standardisation of a canon of best practice and then native implementation. Although JavaScript and C++ performance are (allegedly) very close now, I'd still rather see Sexy Feature implemented in 20K of C++ in a one-time download of a browser than loads of devs use a different Sexy Feature polyfill that gets downloaded squilions of times by billions of users of millions of sites.
But I've already heard potentially good ideas for extensions to core HTML handwaved away with "oh, that's a job for Web Components". So I'm not yet entirely convinced that we're not heralding a new era of JavaScript-only web development. I don't want to see the fossilisation of the declarative web and a new Programmer Priesthood (re-)emerge.
How can developers make their voices heard? It's true that browser vendors are OBSESSED with solving developer's problems. If we don't, you'll make native apps, and then browsers disappear, we default on our mortgages, our partners leave us for Apple employees and our hamsters starve. None of us want this to happen. So we try to listen.
Then there is the question of how developers can participate. The bravery barrier to entry for many of the mailing lists is already too high – I periodically get emails from people asking me to propose a feature or ask a question on a list as a proxy because lists are scary places.
W3C has set up a Specification forum where you can ask questions about specs/ propose a feature. Read around it to see if anyone else has a similar proposal, and if appropriate, add comments to that before you set up a new thread. Use Mozilla's guidelines WebAPI Design Guidelines and please remember that use-cases are much better than a fully-worked out proposed syntax.
I'm enthused about the Extensible Web manifesto and the progress we've already made, eg baking popular jQuery-like syntax into browser engines via the Selectors API, getting our hands on the network with Service Worker, and the heady new world of Web Components. We need to ensure that all devs who want to can participate by allowing ease of collaboration, courteous discourse. And it would be perilous to forget that the declarative web reduces the barrier to entry and enhances accessibility.
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Standards smörgåsbord
A feature history of the modern Web Platform When and where selected new Web-platform features were first specified, post-HTML4 and post-CSS2.1, by @zcorpan (Opera's Simon Pieters)
Grid by Example – simple usage examples for the CSS3 Grid Layout Module, by Rachel Andrew.
How a new HTML element will make the Web faster (arstechnica). First article about <picture> in the wider tech press?
Now that <picture> is almost there, RICG is turning its attention to Use Cases and Requirements for Element Queries.
"our own inability to make accessibility engaging, interesting or even exciting to people outside our field" – mail to WebAIM mailing list. I entirely agree.
OS Battle – Porn by the Platform – "11% of Pornhub desktop users arrive using Apple's Mac OSX while Net Applications reports that only 6.64% of desktop computers currently run OSX." (No naughty images, but maybe NSFW if your boss is silly.)
Responsive Web Design podcast: Capital One's redesign – "We saw within the first two months an 8 percent increase in product conversion on mobile devices and 17 percent on tablets."
Opera chums become members of Chromium Security Group – the first external company to be accepted.
Making the web "just work" with any input: Mouse, Touch, and Pointer Events– Imagine a crazy world in which developers didn't have modality-specific code just to listen to input!
Notes on notes (of smart people) about web components by the Henry Kissinger of Accessibility diplomacy, Steve Faulkner. (Read Jeremy and Alexs' articles, too.)
Improving Smashing Magazine's Performance: A Case Study. good stuff. But it makes me long for a "fuck off with your massive webfonts" setting on mobile phones. I just want the words.
Changing The Shapes with Sara Soueidan – The Web Ahead podcast. (transcript)
HTML Semantics with Bruce Lawson – I didn't know The Web Ahead published transcripts (yay Jen Simmons!) so here's the transcript of the edition I appeared on.
Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices – I haven't tried it yet, but anything that makes devs' lives easier is good, and earns Nyman and Heilmann a big snog each from me (which is probably why they wrote it.)
PDFy – "anybody can instantly upload and share a PDF. PDFy is free, ad-free, and non-commercial. All public PDFs mirrored to the Internet Archive for preservation."
Security Soufflé
Why you need to care about HTTPS by Tom Morris. Content-only sites matter too; for example, if you use Comcast Wi-Fi, they inject ads into the pages being returned from the server.
Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1. (Opera plans to adopt same behaviour.)
Video Dessert
A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie, made by moving individual atoms at IBM, magnified 100 million times.
Jeff Lawson 6 June 1944 – 14 August 2014
Here's the eulogy I delivered at my Dad's funeral last Thursday.
Jeff Lawson, or ("Grandpa Fifi" as my kids called him, as when they were little they couldn't pronounce "Jeffrey") was born on D-day to Jim and Elsie. He spent his first few years with his brother Colin up in the North East for a while. One of his earliest memories was of running away from home, and getting on a bus to go and live with his Auntie, who spanked him and immediately put him back on the return bus. When his father retired, the four of them moved way down south to Southampton where he mostly lost his Geordie accent, although it returned after a few on the rare occasions when he'd had too many glasses of beer.
As a teenager in Southampton he developed a love of music, also shared with his younger brother Colin, and won a twist competition at the hop in the early 60s. In your order of service, you'll see photograph of him and Colin's wife Barbara shaking their booties at Jeff' 60th birthday party.
He was the first Lawson male for generations not be a coal miner, and moved to London to join the civil service. After some time being generally groovy (see the photos in your Order of Service), he met Anthea and they married, honeymooning by being posted by the Civil Service to Aden, South Yemen, where I was born precisely 8 months to the day after the wedding. (They told their parents that I was premature).
On returning to the UK, they lived in Hastings where Guy was born, and then they moved to Birmingham where he and Anthea brought us up. Times were hard, so family meals were supplemented with home-grown vegetables that were planted in Party 7 beer cans, empty 7 pint beer cans that spontaneously appeared in the kitchen over the weekend.
Guy remembers that, when he would walk us home from the bus stop where we'd meet him after work, he'd always discover a stash of sweets hidden in the undergrowth somewhere by a mysterious person known as the Magic Man, whose identity is still unknown to this day.
We remember his proud acquisition of a music centre in the 1970s, where he would listen to ELO, Abba and Alma Cogan through headphones and "sing" along.
His singing style was unique – he never believed changing pitch was as important as maintaining a high decibel count. He nevertheless never tired of telling his family that some young girl had once told him he had a lovely voice. And so he had – when he wasn't singing.
An example of his non-singing voice was when he had to go to a training course in Edinburgh, and he recorded a series of stories about an Octopus named Oscar on his cassette player for them to listen to every night before bed during his absence.
Jeff worked for many years for the Civil Service as a Welfare Officer – a kind of staff counsellor – along with John who later became his next-door neighbour. In his spare time he used to enjoy music, gardening and amateur dramatics, as well as brewing foul-tasting but strong beer.
Tim, a schoolfriend of ours, recalls "Saturday afternoon, I'd peddled to your house to find you and your dad sat in the back garden "testing" the home brew. I remember it getting very giggly. I think we had about 3 or 4 pints each. Guy had to go to bed after 2 pints". On his way home, Tim was arrested for being drunk in charge of a bicycle. Two other friends of mine crashed their bicycles into a steel gate on a building site – there was no fence around it, just a free-standing gate.
In the late 80s, Jeff separated from Anthea and moved to London, settling in Eltham with his new partner, Big Bruce (so named because I'm "little Bruce") and his dog Digger of which he was exceptionally fond.
Jeff found life as a Civil Servant dis-spiriting, although he loved the Royal Parks that he helped administer. So, as soon as he could, aged 50, he retired and the last 20 years of his life were full of activity – caring for his mother, Elsie, who moved in with him, holidays (lots of holidays!), acting and directing at the Bob Hope Theatre, listening to children read at a local school, judging gardens and volunteering to use his counselling skills at Stepping Stones, a support service for those with life-limiting illnesses at Greenwich & Bexley Hospice. Ann from Stepping Stones wrote to us saying "we have so many wonderful memories of him over many years working together – in his easter bonnet and dressed up for Christmas and yet so sensitive and compassionate with all our users."
Four years ago, the day after his mother's funeral here, Jeff had heart surgery to replace a valve. Once he'd recovered from that, he took us all to a large villa in France where we spent a lovely summer holiday – although the restaurant meals meant he couldn't indulge his love on elaborate and detailed menu planning.
He remained healthy for most of his retirement – as recently as Christmas he was at our house with Anthea and her new husband for Xmas dinner, and – although he was suffering from leg pain that made it difficult for him to walk – treated the family to a weekend at Centreparcs in June for his 70th birthday. After his admission to hospital, he was still texting Guy and me to arrange to visit Centreparcs again at Easter next year "when I'm better".
His death was sudden – he'd been discharged from hospital. We were on holiday at the time, at a place he recommended, and using a map he'd sketched for us. We didn't cut the holiday short; he'd have hated us to, especially as Dalyan was special to him.
We're comforted by the fact that it was sudden, swift and at home; he was a private man who hated to be seen frail and would have hated to "become a burden" as he would have put it.
We remember him with love, and are grateful that you are all here to do that with us.
See you, Fifi.
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Review: Wizardborn
Series: The Runelords: #3
The Runelords
Man these stories keep escalating. It's really kind of impressive. From the story of a powerful invading lord to bugs from the depths of the Earth to dark magic, super powerful evil beings from another world, and perhaps even worse… Man there's a lot here.
On top of that, we're digging a lot more into the various magic systems of this universe. Averan is Earth Wizardborn and can eat the brains of Reavers to learn from them , which gives us a much better idea of how the Revears work internally. We're seeing a lot more about the Air powers, along with the continued Earth (Gaborn) and Fire (Raj Ahten). Even Water, although that's a bit more subtle thus far (which fits).
Craziest of all… the end of the world is coming in five days (according to Gaborn's feelings). And this story doesn't even cover all that yet. It's a hefty book, for how little time it covers. It just keeps escalating!
"Milady," he said, "what do you know of the stars?"
"They're pretty," Iome said dryly.
"Yes," Jennaise said. "And you may also know that as the seasons progress, the constellations rotate about the sky. At the first of the year, Elwind rides over the mountains of the north. But at high summer he is almost > straight overhead."
"I know," Iome said.
"Then it is with great…bewilderment that I must report that the stars are wrong."
"What?" Iome asked.
"The stars are wrong tonight. It is all very baffling. Tonight is the third of the month of Leaves. But by our charts, the stars read as if it were the twentieth of the month of Harvest–off by two weeks."
"How can that be?" Iome asked. "Could the charts be wrong? Perhaps–"
"The charts are not wrong. I've been over them a hundred times. I can think of only one explanation," Jennaise answered. "The world is taking some new path through the heavens. Even the moon–by my preliminary measurements–"
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State ethics commission revokes Cuomo's book deal
WXXI News | By Karen DeWitt
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The New York State Capitol Building in Albany.
The state ethics commission on Tuesday voted to revoke permission that it granted to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to write and publish what became a controversial memoir about how he handled the COVID-19 crisis. Cuomo, who resigned in August, was paid $5.1 million for the book, but the commission's vote could mean he has to return at least part of the money.
The resolution, which was approved by a 12-to-1 vote, says that Cuomo promised not to use his staff or other state resources to help him write the book, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic." It details how he handled the pandemic at the height of the spread of COVID-19 in New York.
When the Joint Commission on Public Ethics executive staff gave him permission on July 17, 2020, to proceed with the memoir, the former governor said he had not yet begun work on the book. He portrayed the subject matter as a continuation of a previous memoir, written in 2012, that focused more on his personal life and recollections than on his job duties.
But evidence revealed through multiple investigations, including ones conducted by the state attorney general, the state Assembly and federal prosecutors, found that Cuomo had nearly completed the book by the time he asked for the ethics panel's approval. The probes raised questions about whether he used top staff to help him write and edit the manuscript. Using state resources for personal gain is a violation of the state's Public Officers law.
The resolution, presented by Commissioner David McNamara, says that Cuomo's "omissions and misrepresentations" constitute grounds for revocation.
"It is resolved that the conditional approval letter be and is hereby revoked," McNamara read.
McNamara, who was appointed to the panel by Republicans in the state Senate, previously sought to rescind the book deal, but the panel, which was dominated by Cuomo appointees, resisted.
Some commissioners have complained that they were not given the details about the proposed book deal and that it was improperly approved by JCOPE's executive staff.
Cuomo's successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, has since replaced several Cuomo appointees with her own choices.
The lone objector to the resolution was William Fisher, a Cuomo appointee who remains on the panel. Fisher said he disagreed with the resolution's finding that Cuomo misrepresented the book's contents as being unrelated to his duties as governor.
"It's not a series of speeches he gave to the state Legislature, it's not the transcripts from his daily press conferences, nor a simple recounting of what the governor and his office did during the period of time covered by the book," Fisher said.
Fisher offered to support an amended resolution, but the 12 other commissioners did not agree.
The ruling means that Cuomo has to reapply, retroactively, for permission to publish the book. If JCOPE does not grant that approval, the commission can try to force the former governor to return all or part of the $5.1 million in profits he made from the memoir.
Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Cuomo, called the vote "the height of hypocrisy" and claims that Hochul and leaders of the Legislature who appointed the commissioners "routinely use their own staff for political and personal assistance on their own time."
Azzopardi denies that Cuomo illegally used government resources for the project, saying that staff who helped the former governor volunteered their time.
Karen DeWitt
Karen DeWitt is Capitol Bureau chief for New York State Public Radio, a network of public radio stations in New York state. She has covered state government and politics for the network since 1990.
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Saxi-Bourdon és un municipi francès, situat al departament del Nièvre i a la regió de Borgonya - Franc Comtat. L'any 2007 tenia 286 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Saxi-Bourdon era de 286 persones. Hi havia 128 famílies, de les quals 48 eren unipersonals (28 homes vivint sols i 20 dones vivint soles), 48 parelles sense fills, 24 parelles amb fills i 8 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 217 habitatges, 140 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 55 eren segones residències i 22 estaven desocupats. 210 eren cases i 2 eren apartaments. Dels 140 habitatges principals, 118 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 16 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 6 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 3 tenien una cambra, 16 en tenien dues, 32 en tenien tres, 42 en tenien quatre i 47 en tenien cinc o més. 122 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 75 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 49 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 178 persones, 123 eren actives i 55 eren inactives. De les 123 persones actives 110 estaven ocupades (59 homes i 51 dones) i 13 estaven aturades (8 homes i 5 dones). De les 55 persones inactives 19 estaven jubilades, 10 estaven estudiant i 26 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Saxi-Bourdon hi havia 144 unitats fiscals que integraven 300 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 14.810,5 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 7 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 4 eren d'empreses de construcció, 1 d'una empresa de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 1 d'una empresa d'hostatgeria i restauració i 1 d'una empresa classificada com a «altres activitats de serveis».

Dels 5 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era un paleta, 2 fusteries, 1 electricista i 1 perruqueria.

L'any 2000 a Saxi-Bourdon hi havia 15 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 1.716 hectàrees.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia una escola elemental integrada dins d'un grup escolar amb les comunes properes formant una escola dispersa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Saxi-Bourdon a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Saxi-Bourdon a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis del Nièvre

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Transcendentalfilosofi er en form for filosofi der behandler de grundlæggende betingelser for den menneskelige erkendelse. Argumentet er struktureret således: A er et givent faktum, B er en betingelse eller forudsætning for A, ergo må B gælde.

Betingelserne må således gælde universelt og for altid, og de kan som sådan ikke kritiseres, da de er uomgængelige betingelser. Transcendentalfilosofi gør det umuligt at se 'bagved' disse begreber, da man således skal gå ud over betingelserne for erkendelse og tænkning overhovedet. Derfor bliver metafysik umulig, i de fleste udgaver af transcendentalfilosofi.

Historie

Transcendentalfilosfien blev grundlagt af Immanuel Kant. Han argumenterede ud fra eksistensen af syntetiske a priori sætninger. Edmund Husserl gik i en af sine faser ind for en Transcendental fænomenologi. I det tyvende århundreses argumenterer analytisk sprogfilosofi ud fra kommunikationens faktum således: Meningsfuld Kommunikation er et faktum, disse og disse begreber er en forudsætning for dette, ergo gælder begreberne. I Danmark har flere filosoffer udarbejdet sådanne teorier, eksempelvis Peter Zinkernagel, David Favrholdt og Kai Sørlander. David Favrholdt supplerer argumentationen med handlingsbegrebet, med et argument struktureret således: Handling er et faktum, disse og disse begreber er betingelser for handling, ergo gælder de. Ian Hacking kan også siges at bruge handslingsbaserede transcendentale argumenter i sin videnskabsteori.

Etymologi
Ordet kommet af det latinske transcendere, hvilket betyder at overstige eller at gå ud over. Dette kan ses i sammenhæng med, at transcendentalfilosofien overstiger eller går ud over erkendelsen, da den behandler de første betingelser for at erkendelsen overhovedet kan finde sted.

Referencer
 Favrholdt, David (1999): Filosofisk Codex, Gyldendal
 Kant, Immanual (1781): Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Da udg. Kritik af den rene fornuft, 2005, Det lille forlag).
 Sørlander, Kai (1994): Det Uomgængelige, Munksgaard/Rosinante
 Zinkernagel, Peter (1957): Omverdensproblemet, Gad

Se også
 Immanuel Kant
 Erkendelsesteori

Filosofi


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I learnt string bass and trumpet at school in Nottingham and played soprano cornet with the RAF Station Band where my father was stationed.
I joined the Royal Artillery's Junior Musicians Troop where I played many different wind instruments. After a year at Kneller Hall, The Royal Military School of Music, I joined the Woolwich Band (the main band of The Royal Artillery), where I remained for the duration of my Army service. I played the string bass throughout my service but played BBb bass and euphonium on parade and cabarets, as well as other instruments including bass fanfare trumpet.
Unable to stay full time in music when I left the Army, I taught as a peripatetic instrument teacher at schools and I ran an ATC (Air Training Corps) youth band and assisted the startup of the Gillingham (Kent) Youth Marching Band as well as maintaining a healthy finger on the pulse of music.
In 2009 I was working as I.T. Manager for a national training company that suddenly went into liquidation. The shock aggravated my passive congenital heart problem and subsequent tests revealed associated and unassociated lung disorders which can leave me very breathless and unsteady on my feet. I am certainly unable to blow a brass instrument any more! Looking to keep my brain active I helped to start up Felixstowe Community Radio (107.5FM) where I presented a weekly brass band show for over three years, recording several of the local bands for broadcast. I moved to a bungalow in Gislingham in March 2010 which is when I became aware of this talented band and, despite being unable to play any more, I offered any assistance I could. I helped with the Training Band and am honoured to have been appointed the Musical Director of the main band in January 2014.
I learnt to play at an early age with the Salvation Army on tenor horn. At the age of 18 I moved onto euphonium. I have played with a few bands but had not played for 20 years until I joined Gislingham Silver Band in September 2010.
Note that some of the training band juniors are now playing with the main band.
I started playing trumpet aged 9 and then very quickly became involved in a number of school groups as I improved. In September 2012 aged 17 I joined the cornet section of Gislingham Silver Band in order to continue to improve my skills after achieving my grade 8.
Eloise has been playing the cornet from the age of 7, and was the youngest ever entrant at her Primary School for her Grade 1 exam. Eloise also studies piano, and classical lyric soprano, and hopes one day to study at the Royal Academy in London. She also trains and performs regularly with Bury St Edmunds Stagecoach, and performed in her first professional pantomime at Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds 2013/2014 production of Aladdin.
I started playing the cornet at the age of 8 when I joined my local Silver band in Newport Pagnell. I remained until I left for college aged 18.
In 2016, after a break of 50 years, I picked up my cornet again and joined Gislingham Silver Band.
A great group who's support and encouragement has helped me to get back the brass buzz!
I learnt to play the cornet at the age of 8 and later began playing tenor horn with a Salvation Army band. I also played French Horn in the school orchestra in my teens. I dropped out of the SA in the 1960's and although there were always various musical instruments around the house I didn't actually play them or practise. In early 2016 my wife joined Gislingham Silver band to improve her clarinet playing and encouraged me to take my father's old cornet along and join as well. To my surprise after a gap of 50 years I could still play as badly as ever.
I played as a lad in the Markham Main Colliery Band and joined the senior band at the age of twelve. After doing National Service in the Army I went to Bretton Hall College, at the age of twenty-six, where I specialised in music. I took up a teaching post, at Eye Secondary Modern School, as Head of the Music Department in 1970. I managed to encourage many of the pupils to take up an instrument and join the School Band.
In 1983 I was encouraged to join Gislingham Silver Band as musical director.
Many of my pupils were to become band members.
I retired as the band's musical director in Sept 2010 after 27 years and played various instruments in the band until January 2012 when the musical director resigned and I agreed to take up the baton again. I handed the baton over to Adrian Waite at the band AGM in January 2014.
Several years ago, at my wife's suggestion, I joined the Gislingham Silver Band as they were short of players (Michele wanted to get me out from under her feet, I think). I play the solo Eb Tenor Horn in the band and the bagpipes, when requested, at weddings, funerals and Barmitzvahs!
I came to Band Practice one night in 2000 with my late husband who played Trombone. I was given a Tenor Horn to try and joined the band as a novice player.
I played the trumpet at middle school but gave it up as a teenager. 25 years later I saw an advert for the band and decided to try again! I started in the training band and I've been playing tenor horn in the main band since 2014. I'm so glad I joined, they're an encouraging and friendly bunch and it's always fun playing. It's never too late!!
I started to learn to play a cornet, as a 7 year old, in a Salvation Army band.
However, I did not get on too well with that and was moved to tenor horn instead.
After being struck with Bell's Palsy I was not able to play for many years.
However, about 5 years ago I managed to start playing again. I played for another band for three years. I joined Gislingham Silver Band in June 2016 and am enjoying every minute of it.
Ron taught me music at school and he encouraged me to take up the trombone and to join the school band. At Ron's invitation I joined Gislingham Silver Band in 1979. I am now one of the longest serving band members.
I started my brass band life as a youngster in the Boys Brigade in London playing a cornet. Then continued in the 'Old' Boys Band for a few years. In 1982 after moving to Hampshire I joined 'Tadley Concert Brass' band in Tadley near Reading. On joining them I switched to Trombone and played 1st.Trom. until 2001. In the 60's I also played guitar in a group playing 'Shadows' type music. I moved up from Hampshire to Wattisfield in Suffolk in December 2014, looked around for a local band and found Gislingham Silver Band.
My musical education started, at 7, with piano lessons. Moving to a new Junior School at 9 I found that all we children had to play in the headmaster's band. I remember playing the French Horn, something very much bigger and "Do You Ken John Peel?"!
Fast forward 60 years to a chance remark by Sheila Wright to the effect that Ron was concerned because of a scarcity of trombone players in the Gislingham Silver Band to which I replied "Well I did play something when I was 9, but never a trombone and I don't know if I could still play now!" A trombone was duly produced, I bought a tutorial, Ron gave me some lessons and the rest is history except to say that I love being part of Gislingham Silver Band and it appears that "an old dog (certainly can) learn new tricks"!
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Gary plays when he can - he's a busy man!
I have played the piano since the age of eight and in the '70's played keyboards in a group. I am also a church organist.
Kay, my wife, came home from band practice one evening and thrust me a baritone horn and told me that I had to learn to play it as the band needed a baritone horn player. I did as I was told! I joined Gislingham Silver Band in 2001.
I thoroughly enjoy playing with the band - we are such a mixed bunch! I am also the band secretary.
My musical education was strumming a guitar during 1960's. I reached my 70th birthday and realised I really ought to do something with my life. I was persuaded, by a friend, to blow into a tube. As it wasn't a breath test I had a go on the baritone horn in the Ipswich over 50's band. After moving house I joined the Gislingham Silver Band. At first I was terrified but I am learning to relax with a very friendly and laid-back collection of enthusiasts. We love to do our best in an atmosphere without personal criticism, just the pleasure of each others' company and the satisfaction of giving enjoyment to others.
I joined Gislingham Silver Band in 1969 and was their first female member and I am now the longest serving band member. My dad, Charlie White, was for many years, the Band's president. My two sons - Barry and Ian were also cornet players prior to following their careers. I also play with the Diss Salvation Army Band.
I learnt the trombone at school for a dare and played in a junior band for a short while before going to teacher training college. I was in great demand by the music department once it was discovered I played. Not having my own instrument meant I didn't play until I joined the Copthorne Silver Band in Sussex. After a few years I found working full time and bringing up three children meant I didn't have time so I gave up. I was delighted to hear that there was a band in Gislingham after we had moved here in 1999 and went along. As there was a shortage of euphonium and baritone players I learnt to play the euphonium. I really enjoy playing with Gislingham Silver Band.
I have had the pleasure of teaching a number of our younger players and I am now running the Training Section of the band.
I met Gislingham Silver Band at Yaxley Cherry Tree one Christmas when they were playing carols. I mentioned that I played the euphonium they said come along which I did and I have been going ever since. That was in 2008. I have improved my playing and enjoyed their company while doing so.
I went to Eye Secondary Modern School and was encouraged by my music teacher, Ron Wright, to join Gislingham Silver Band as a trombonist in 1972. I later moved across to play Eb bass. Two of my sons joined the band - Wayne one of our percussionists and Ian, who was our principal cornet player prior to going off to university. I am a trustee of the band, the band chairman and the treasurer.
Kay is temporarily playing BBb Bass whilst we are looking for a permanent player - in fact we're looking for 2 permanent BBb players as well as an Eb Bass player.
I first joined Gislingham Silver Band in 1961 and after a break came back in 1975 for one season to play the cymbals but stayed on to become the bass drummer until 1984 when I became the Drum Major.
As a village band we welcome all local musicians. In the past we have have flautists, violinists and clarinettists. We currently have a flautist, a clarinettist and a saxophonist in the main band with more in the training band.
One day whilst going around the house singing to myself my dear husband called me a musical moron and that I could not hold a tune. I was soon to be 40 and I took this as a personal challenge and routed out an old clarinet that was in the loft, had it refurbed. Then I took myself off to the local music shop and asked about teachers . One of the people recommended was a retired Jazz musician who proved to be a lovely person who took me up the grade 4 in two years from scratch, I could not read music or even blow the thing. He also encouraged me to join a band to help my music.
Then we moved and with a very busy life I did not play again for nearly 20 years. We now lived in Bacton and we had retired. I took up my clarinet again and my husband suggested I join the local band as that would push me along and improve my music. I joined the band in 2016, playing both with the Junior Band and the Senior. The next week I took my husband along as they needed cornet players (he had not played for around 50 years).
This is a lovely band with friendly, helpful people, I am so glad I got my courage together to come along!


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