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'Is this civilisation?' ask residents as Aleppo reels from relentless shelling
'Anger has filled everyone who remains in this city of rubble … God curse humanity if this is what it has become,' says nurse
Kareem Shaheen and Martin Chulov in Beirut and Julian Borger in New York
Fri 23 Sep 2016 12.06 EDT First published on Fri 23 Sep 2016 07.02 EDT
Girl pulled from rubble after airstrike in Aleppo
Residents of rebel-held east Aleppo have described scenes of devastation after one of the heaviest and most sustained nights of bombardment the city has experienced. Activists said that Syrian and Russian warplanes attacked the city hours after the announcement of a major new offensive dashed any hopes of restoring a US-Russian ceasefire.
At least 91 deaths were recorded in the province on Friday, but activists said the figure was probably an underestimate because many bodies remained buried in rubble.
The body of an infant is retrieved from the rubble of a building in the al-Muasalat area of Aleppo. Photograph: Thaer Mohammed/AFP/Getty Images
One attack, on a town west of Aleppo city called Bashqateen, killed 15 members of a family who had been sheltering in a residential building housing internally displaced people, activists said.
As the bombing entered a second day, three medical facilities and two centres belonging to the White Helmets, a volunteer rescue group, were hit in airstrikes that disabled some of their vehicles, cut off roads in the city and left victims trapped in collapsed buildings. The White Helmets said more than 40 buildings were destroyed.
Activists posted images of huge craters that they alleged were the first instances of warplanes dropping bunker buster bombs – a claim the Guardian could not independently verify.
"Are we in the era of technology and civilisation?" said a resident of eastern Aleppo. "Is this Russian civilisation and democracy? The killing of children, women and elderly people?"
The Syrian military announced its new offensive late on Thursday as the US secretary of state, John Kerry, met his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and other foreign ministers on the margins of a UN summit in New York, with the ostensible hope of restoring a week-long truce that collapsed on Monday.
Kerry and Lavrov met again on Friday, but they appeared to have made little progress towards a ceasefire. "I met with the foreign minister, we exchanged some ideas and we had a little bit of progress," Kerry said. Earlier, when asked by reporters whether the truce could be reinstated, Lavrov said: "You should ask the Americans."
Aleppo, once Syria's commercial capital, is divided into a western portion controlled by the government and an eastern area held by rebels. The eastern part has been besieged for two months, with an estimated 250,000 people in dire need of humanitarian aid.
In a stark illustration of the challenges facing rescuers on the ground, dramatic footage emerged of a girl being pulled from the ruins of a building and rushed away for treatment. Five-year-old Rawan Alowsh could be heard wailing on the footage, broadcast by Sky News from the Bab al-Nairab district of Aleppo.
Rawan was shown later on Friday recovering in hospital. Neither her parents nor her four siblings were reported to have survived the attack.
We will ignore the bombs to continue delivering humanitarian aid in Syria | Sonja Meyer
Medics in eastern Aleppo spoke of their despair at international efforts to alleviate their suffering and anger at the continued assault on the population. Bara'a, a nurse at a hospital that doctors in Aleppo refer to with the codename M2 to conceal its location, said she had witnessed several children brought in with severe injuries on Friday.
"It is so saddening," she said. "The strikes and massacres do not stop. Bombings, siege, homelessness, exhaustion, fear, manpower shortage. The silence of the world is killing us.
"Anger has filled everyone who remains in this city of rubble. Many of the wounded are children and, when you look in their eyes, they weep and say we have nothing left. Curse this justice. They lose their limbs and become disabled for life and their only sin is that they are the children of Syria.
"They have burned their childhood and their innocence and made them homeless in their country and all we get in return are words and promises from outside. God curse humanity if this is what it has become."
Syria civil defence volunteer recalls Aleppo attack – video
Activists claimed the government and its Russian allies had deployed phosphorus and cluster munitions as well as barrel and vacuum bombs. It was unclear if government forces were planning an imminent ground incursion into the rebel-held districts, but some observers interpreted the intense shelling as a sign that such an effort would follow in due course.
Scouts on the city's eastern outskirts reported that pro-government positions, which are dominated by Iraqi militias, were making plans to advance in large numbers.
Abu Yousef, a former teacher from the Bustan al-Qasr district of east Aleppo, said: "For many months now, the Shia militias have gathered near the airport. They are Iraqis mainly and they came here in big numbers in July. There are several thousand of them and they are very sectarian.
"They do the fighting, the Iranians give the orders and the Syrians army follows. All the eastern approaches to the city have been destroyed. And the bombing today was crazy. Rubble is bouncing around. They are dropping every type of bomb they have. They are getting ready to invade."
Rebels fire a rocket in the town of Azaz in Aleppo province. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Map of Aleppo attacks
A Syrian military source told Agence France-Presse that the timing of the ground operation would "depend on the results of the strikes and the situation on the ground".
Activists said the government of Bashar al-Assad also bombed one of two water distribution plants in the opening move of what the military command described as an operation to reclaim the opposition-controlled eastern districts of the city. "We need a miracle to save us from inevitable death," said a doctor in the city.
A still image from a video posted on social media shows a baby being rescued from rubble in Aleppo. Photograph: Reuters Tv/Reuters
One western diplomat said he did not believe that the rebel-held districts were in immediate danger of a ground incursion. Speaking on condition of anonymity, they said that at the meeting in New York on Thursday, Lavrov had denied there was any offensive planned to retake Aleppo.
"It seems highly improbable that there would be a quick defeat of eastern Aleppo," the source said. "The only way to take it is with such a monstrous atrocity that it would be remembered for decades or generations. To take it quickly, much of Aleppo would be destroyed."
A destroyed ambulance is seen outside the Syrian Civil Defence HQ after airstrikes in Ansari. Photograph: AP
Syrian children return to school as airstrikes on Aleppo continue
Residents say weapons like bunker-buster bombs could damage even schools that have built their facilities underground
The Observer view on Russia's actions in Syria and the failure of international law
Serial disregard for the United Nations in the Middle East and elsewhere risks a global conflagration
On the shattered streets of Aleppo, survivors recall a life before bombs
Showered by shells and rockets, those holed up in rebel areas cling to memories of the anti-Assad uprising
'Hell itself': Aleppo reels from alleged use of bunker-buster bombs
People in the rebel-controlled east of the city express horror at the impact of the bombs – and fears of what may come next
Russia accused of war crimes in Syria at UN security council session
Syria: Aleppo hospital hit by barrel bombs and cluster bombs, reports say
Two Aleppo hospitals bombed out of service in 'catastrophic' airstrikes
Syria bombings leave 1.75 million without running water in Aleppo


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Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of power, motivated by self-interest and oblivious to the rules and shared values under which the Greeks had operated for centuries. Gregory Crane demonstrates how Thucydides' history brilliantly analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of realist thought.
The tragedy of Thucydides' history emerges from the ultimate failure of the Athenian project. The new morality of the imperialists proved as conflicted as the old; history shows that their values were unstable and self-destructive. Thucydides' history ends with the recounting of an intellectual stalemate that, a century later, motivated Plato's greatest work.
Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity includes a thought-provoking discussion questioning currently held ideas of political realism and its limits. Crane's sophisticated claim for the continuing usefulness of the political examples of the classical past will appeal to anyone interested in the conflict between the exercise of political power and the preservation of human freedom and dignity.
Gregory Crane is Associate Professor of Classics at Tufts University and author of The Blinded Eye: Thucydides and the New Written Word (1995) among other publications.
"Crane's approach is original and quite stimulating. He takes a set of old questions—Thucydides' objectivity, 'realism,' and understanding of human nature—and gives them a new and exciting twist."—J. Peter Euben, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Tipp County Council wants economic plan for Littleton briquette factory
"FRIGHTENED THE SITE WILL BE LEFT DORMANT"
Tipperary Co. Council has written to Bord na Mona calling on it to develop an economic and environmental plan for the future use of its Littleton briquette factory site and surrounding boglands in the wake of its decision to close the plant next year with the loss of more than 70 jobs.
The Council's elected members unanimously passed a motion requesting the local authority to issue this appeal to Bord na Mona at their June meeting .
Littleton Cllr Sean Ryan (FF) tabled the motion because his constituents were very concerned about the future aftercare of the Bord na Mona site both economically and environmentally.
He said Bord na Mona had not given any indication of its plans for the 10,000 acres of bogland stretching from near Killenaule to Co. Laois that provided the peat for the factory.
They wanted the semi-state to provide an environmental aftercare plan for the factory and bogland.
"We are very frightened the site is going to be left dormant there and open to abuse," he told meeting.
"We are very concerned its going to be left derelict and become a haven for dumping, that it's going to become a haven for illegal settlements and that horses will be put in there. It's a serious issue for us."
Cllr Ryan said the Council should call on Bord na Mona to outline its future economic plans for the factory site and boglands in terms of alternative industries such as solar and wind power that may be established there.
He also wanted Bord na Mona's specific plans in relation to what re-training opportunities would be offered to the briquette factory workforce and its social and economic responsibilities to the area.
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This dissertation details the synthesis with satisfactory reaction yields (between 56.3 and 96.5%) of mono- and bimetallic complexes of copper(II) and of cobalt(III), containing as ligands, tridentate and tetradentate Schiff bases. The compounds were characterized, for different techniques, such as melting point, elemental analysis, solubility in various solvents, conductometry, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and spectroscopy in region of the IR and in the UVvis. The results of melting point indicate that the compounds have high purity and the elemental analysis showed consistent values. The solubility tests indicate different capabilities of intermolecular interactions and labilization distinct between the compounds. The obtained molar conductivities in electrolyte solution indicate proportions expected by the proposed structures. The obtained data by 1H and 13C NMR in compounds with cobalt(III) showed concordance with the proposed structures in solution. The spectra of the compounds in the IV region show proper bands, referring to the stretch of C=N bond, in the range of 1600-1650 cm-1, stretches relating to the bonds of the metal ion with the oxygen of the phenolate group, with chlorides and with the nitrogen atoms of the imine, amine groups, the imidazole and imidazolate were evidenced, besides to help differentiation of monometallic and bimetallic compounds. In the UV-vis region measured spectra were verified the presence of bands that should correspond to the electronic transitions of π → π* type which involve the molecular orbitals imine group (C=N), of bands d-d transitions due to the metal ion present also, but related transitions to the n→π* type were not verified. The compounds were tested as a catalyst in the oxidation of 3,5-DTBC and in studies of catalytic oxidation using O2 at 25°C were obtained values of enzyme kinetics parameters and these values are comparable with the literature, kcat = 1.28 x 10-1 s-1 εcat = 6.79 x 102 L mol-1 s-1 for CuCu3EtOtetraB (best of the series), there is evidence that the mechanism is different for each used complex.


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40/100G Ethernet transceiver market to reach half billion in 4 years
By Jim Duffy
Managing Editor, Network World |
The market for 40G and 100G Ethernet transceivers will reach $545 million in revenues by 2014, with about two-thirds coming from 40G Ethernet products, according to market research firm CIR.
With standards due to be completed by the middle of 2010 and products arriving on the market, CIR says the 40/100G Ethernet space is ready to emerge.
100 Gigabit Ethernet: Road to Terabit Ethernet
Juniper, Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent have all announced 40G or 100G Ethernet router products for service providers, and all expect to ship this year.
Suppliers of pre-standard 40G and 100G Ethernet transceivers, meanwhile, include Avago, Finisar, Opnext and Sumitomo, according to CIR. The first products in this space are active optical cables and are based on 10G Ethernet technology with new media access controller/physical coding sublayer programmable chips, the firm notes.
Although 40G OC-768 continues to be deployed in carrier networks, carriers are preparing for a leap to 40/100G Ethernet, CIR reports. A key advantage of 100G Ethernet over OC-768 is the lack of required dispersion compensation of the optical signal because 100G Ethernet transceivers use coherent detection, CIR notes. Coherent detection helps to control optical impairments at high speeds, such as signal dispersion, and recover the modulated signals.
CIR estimates that the market for 100G Ethernet LR and ER transceivers will reach approximately $195 million in revenues by 2014.
The main market for serial 40G Ethernet will be in the access and metro markets and in some parts of the long-haul core, CIR says. By 2014, revenues from serial 40G Ethernet are expected to reach almost $140 million, according to the firm.
On the demand side, high-performance computing markets will be where 40/100G Ethernet finds some of the earliest traction. CIR believes the technology will find its way into "the typical enterprise" in three to five years.
Learn more about this topic
100G Ethernet cheat sheet
100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet
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New 40G Ethernet spec sought
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Jim Duffy has been covering technology for over 28 years, 23 at Network World. He covers enterprise networking infrastructure, including routers and switches. He also writes The Cisco Connection blog and can be reached on Twitter @Jim_Duffy and at jduffy@nww.com.


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Al Jazeera America Puts Docs In New Blocks
By Kent Gibbons
As Al Jazeera America continues to seek a U.S. audience for its brand of straightforward news coverage, documentaries are expected to play a key role.
In addition to deep dives into topics and investigative reports, the network is looking to burnish a brand as "a place where you get really great documentaries," network president Kate O'Brian said.
The upcoming debut of original series Borderland marks the true launch of that effort, according to Shannon High-Bassalik, senior vice president of documentaries and programs. It debuts Sunday, April 6, at 9 p.m., which for now at least will be a steady time slot for docuseries.
A four-episode blend of documentary and reality formats, Borderland takes six Americans with differing perspectives on immigration, sends them to U.S.- Mexico border areas and guides them through the experiences of people who died trying to come into this country. They meet with ranchers and border patrol agents, and with families of those who died trying to make the clandestine crossing, and finally attempt to cross the desert themselves, having learned how dangerous that is.
"It really shows you immigration up-front, personal, real, from every angle," High-Bassalik said. "There's no left, there's no right."
Al Jazeera America wants to come to documentary series "from a storytelling, character-driven angle," she said. "We want the viewer to be engaged. It's very immersive, but you're also learning and going on a journey with the characters. You don't really see the [news-network] competition doing that."
"I think when people think of documentaries they think boring, very staid, very traditional," she said. "That's not what we want to be. You want a program that's engaging and gets people thinking."
After Borderland — and a follow-up with the participants to discuss what they learned — comes eight-part series The System With Joe Berlinger, about various aspects of criminal justice, from the points of view of both victims and suspects.
In September comes Edge of Eighteen, in which documentarian Alex Gibney profi les 15 high-school seniors and gets viewers immersed in that experience. That starts in September, High-Bassalik said.
Al Jazeera America's own journey has been well documented. After buying Current TV from an ownership group including former Vice President Al Gore for the hefty sum of $500 million, the network lost some important distributors, including Time Warner Cable and AT&T U-verse.
Since the launch last August, it's won back TWC and Bright House Networks, and has climbed back to 50 million subscribers, down about 8 million from the Current days. Distribution gaps, other than U-verse, include Cablevision Systems, Cox Communications and Charter Communications.
Viewership, though, is minuscule, even compared with the low numbers Current racked up. On a totalday basis, the Nielsen average count for Al Jazeera America in February was 10,000, down from 20,000 a year ago. February 2014 averages for CNN (272,000), MSNBC (349,000) and Fox News Channel (924,000) are, of course, much higher.
Its coverage of the State of the Union Address on Jan. 28, between 9 and 10:30 p.m., was its highest-watched telecast to date, reaching a 0.1 rating with 90,000 viewers tuning in during the average minute, officials said. And they said the median viewer age during the SOTU telecast was 32.8 years old, versus other cable news networks that averaged more than 50 years of age. They also cite Nielsen audience research they said shows the audience is younger, more affluent and more educated than other major news channels.
"We are still young and still new," O'Brian said. "What we have really been looking at is, what is our impact? That is really how we are measuring ourselves internally. To look at the kind of pieces we are doing and the reaction to those pieces. By not looking at ratings, of course, but really looking at the impact those pieces have on human beings and the press and other places. And by that measure, I think we have an incredibly strong foundation, and we're just going to get better and better."
Al Jazeera America hopes documentaries will help burnish its reputation as a home for straightforward, in-depth news.
Kent Gibbons
Kent has been a journalist, writer and editor at Multichannel News since 1994 and with Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He is a good point of contact for anything editorial at the publications and for Nexttv.com. Before joining Multichannel News he had been a newspaper reporter with publications including The Washington Times, The Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal and North County News.


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SOUTHAMPTON boss Ronald Koeman claims he tried to sign Memphis Depay last season.
Depay clinched a £25million deal to Manchester United on Monday after passing his medical.
Saints have enjoyed an excellent debut campaign under Koeman, flirting with the Champions League spots for long periods of it.
But as far as Depay goes, it could have been a different story.
"I wanted to get him last year already," Koeman told Dutch paper Voetbal International.
"With Erwin [Koeman] we tried that, he's with the same management as Memphis, but the boy wanted to stay another year at PSV.
Depay, who was named Eredivisie's Young Player of the Year, scored 28 goals in 40 appearances for PSV this term.


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Cool, Medical Experts Still Can't Agree on When People Should Start Getting Mammograms
Marie Solis
Photo: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP (Getty Images)
Widespread conventional wisdom—pushed by breast cancer screening centers across the country—dictates that people with breasts get an annual mammogram starting at age 40. But the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which is responsible for making federal recommendations for the screenings, continues to recommend that people only seek mammograms after the age of 50, and only get them every two years.
If this baffling discrepancy sounds familiar it's because it has been the subject of debate for more than a decade now, and, frustratingly, it seems no closer to being resolved. A recent study reported on by the New York Times found that hundreds of breast cancer screenings sites in the U.S. encouraged women 40 and over to get yearly mammograms, sparking outrage among researchers and public health experts who say it's irresponsible.
"I don't think breast cancer centers that have clear financial benefits from increasing mammography should be the ones that are giving out patient advice, particularly when it conflicts with the patient's primary care provider's advice and the task force's advice," Rita F. Redberg, the editor-in-chief of JAMA Internal Medicine, the journal in which the study was published, wrote in an editorial alongside two other doctors.
But the disagreement is not merely between screening centers and medical institutions; there is disagreement among medical institutions themselves. Some maintain that 40 is the best age to start annual mammograms—the college of radiology and the American Society of Breast Surgeons, for example—while others argue that these early screenings can do more harm than good since women in their 40s are much more likely to get results that show false positives.
And others still advise that women get regular mammograms beginning around 40, but with certain stipulations: According to the Times, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that most women start getting the screenings at 40, but only "every one or two years."
All of this is very confusing! And for the layperson, it can be difficult to accept the idea that more screenings from an earlier age isn't automatically better: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force found that getting mammograms every other year reduced the frequency of false positive and had no effect on the life-saving benefits of the tests, the Times reports.
Breast cancer is a terrifying threat that looms over people with breasts; the apparent lack of a true consensus about when and how often to screen for it only makes it scarier.


Water always has been an integral part of civilization, and mankind has harnessed its power for different purposes for millennia.
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TOTO's EcoPower faucet is similar to other sensor faucets in hotels, restaurants and public restrooms, in that it anticipates your need for water with a discreet sensor. This trigger alone reduces water consumption dramatically — water flows only when it's needed, and the faucet can't accidentally be left running.
But TOTO's EcoPower models are different in a big way. Unlike other sensor faucets, TOTO's sensor faucets don't require electricity or disposable battery replacement for sensor operation. Instead, contemporary-styled spouts provide a cascading flow of water over the users' hands — less than one-tenth of a gallon per cycle — while a hydropowered turbine charges up from the very same flow of water, storing the electrical current in rechargeable cells that, in turn, power the sensor for the next user.
EcoPower is highly efficient, replenishing its charge in as few as five daily uses, with optimum performance at 10 uses per day. Hands-free operation also provides for another added benefit: cleanliness. Because there never is a need to touch the spout, or any lever handles, water residue and fingerprints are never left behind. This means less cleaning for you.
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Thanksgiving - my all-time favorite holiday. Any reason to fill my plate as much as I want and gather around with my closest friends and family to share laughs is reason enough to make me smile! I don't know about you, but I'm that girl that immediately whips out the Thanksgiving decorations the day after Halloween. I just WAIT for this holiday to roll around.
One of my favorite parts about the holiday is the cooking - we all head to my parents house and everyone picks a dish to prepare. My dad and grandpa are always in charge of the turkey, my mom and grandma do most of the sides - the green bean casserole, stuffing, rolls, salad, and I am the mashed potato- pro and all things appetizers and dessert. My brother, well, we leave him to what he's best at: the beverage selection.
Before the family gathers together, I always put together a berry and cheese platter - manchego, gouda, gorgonzola, pepper jack, brie - you name it. We're Italian, so there is never a shortage of cheese. But then, there's the fresh, juicy berry pairings - raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and blueberries - another favorite that also adds such a vibrant pop of color to the display.
For added protein you can always add various salami cuts - I typically add finocchio salami and iberico ham. Some marcona almonds can be a nice touch for some crunch - I love the rosemary flavor from Whole Foods.
Then, we continue to prep for the feast - half-focused on the recipes at hand, the multiple conversations we're in, and diving into the berry and cheese tray while trying to leave room in our bellies!
Thanksgiving is not Thanksgiving without a cobbler, am I right? From the beginning of time my family has ALWAYS been a berry-cobbler-family. We even have berry cobblers on birthdays .. yes, I'm serious.
Our most favored family cobbler recipe is this blackberry raspberry cobbler - it's the perfect pick for the holiday and has so much flavor and sweetness, and the most delicious, melt-in-your-mouth golden crust.
I usually prep the cobbler earlier in the morning before the rest of the family arrives, and pop it in the often while we work on our main course so it's warm and ready-to-eat as soon as we lick our turkey plates clean. After topping off the day with cobbler, we're headed straight for the couch to watch holiday movies while we let the Thanksgiving feast digest.
These are the moments I'm most grateful for - the quality time spent with my family. The baking, cooking, sharing recipe advice - tips and tricks, laughs around the table, stories and movies around the fire after we eat. I'm so incredibly thankful for the roof over my head and the means to prepare a delicious, hearty meal with my family.
So cheers to health, happiness and days spent at home with family. I'm wishing you all a happy holidays with the ones you love most - and don't forget to enter our 10 Days of Giving Promotion and tag someone you're thankful for this Thanksgiving season for a chance to win a $50 Visa Gift Card. 'Tis the season of Giving, and we can't wait to pay it forward to all of YOU!


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*I've implemented a number of socket.io namespaces that a user can connect to based on the page they are on.

*Emitting data to a particular namespace:room combination seems to require excess boilerplate.

*This is how I'm currently setting up the namespace and emitting events to sockets in a given room:

1) Setting up the namespace
let newsNs = io.of('/news');
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});

2) Emitting an event to sockets in the /news namespace and political room:
newsNs.in('political').clients((err, clients) => {
    clients.forEach(c => newsNs.connected[c].emit(EVENT, 'data'));
})

Is there a cleaner and more concise way to emit to all sockets in a namespace:room combination without first iterating over each client and then deriving the sockets from someNs.connected?

A: A simple newsNs.to('political').emit(payload) should suffice.
Check out http://socket.io/docs/rooms-and-namespaces/#joining-and-leaving as an example.

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Thanks, Dave Peck, for making me aware of this new plan for coming to the aid of monarch butterflies.
The strategy document is lengthy, but I found the sections on Urban Conservation & Engagement (Sec 3.6, p 102), State Summary Introduction (Sec 7.1, p 144, p 243-WI) and Urban Conservation Examples in the Mid-American Region (App D, p 291) enlightening. I had no idea there were so many different organizations and programs focusing on the conservation and management of monarch butterfly populations.
Two groups I found missing from your strategy plan were non-Master Gardener gardeners and for-profit landscapers and landscape designers. Both of these groups will be critical to carrying out your plan with respect to urban conservation. Included in your membership should be representatives from one or more of the national garden clubs and the landscaper associations – and not just Ecological Landscape Alliance https://www.ecolandscaping.org/ You'll need to sell the idea to the non-ecological landscapers.
At Wild Ones we found that educating/convincing people to plant native plants and specifically milkweed was relatively easy. But, convincing landscapers to use these plants was not. Nurseries will grow what landscapers want to use. If we can't convince the landscapers to use milkweed in their plantings, nurseries won't grow them. There's no profit for them.
Good point to include professional landscapers in the plans to educate the public. They would be in a better than average position to influence what is planted.


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Letter From Montana
Galloping Scared
Before 1971, when Velma "Wild Horse Annie" Johnston won her crusade to save the country's wild horses, they were being trapped in brutal airplane roundups, slaughtered, and sold as steaks overseas. Now Republican Montana senator Conrad Burns, through a bill signed by President Bush, has gutted the 35-year-old law protecting these cherished symbols of the American West.
Kurt Brungardt
Exhausted and terrified, a herd of wild mustangs gallop around the side of the mountain, miraculously managing to skirt the treacherous prairie-dog holes and deep crevices as they try to escape the screaming, whirling predator on their tail. Their instincts tell them they can out-run most any animal, but this one is relentless.
You wish a director would yell "Cut," and the horses would be led to a plush Hollywood stable for rest, food, and water. But it's not a movie, and the pilot flying the helicopter is not an actor. He works for a government program to round up wild horses from public lands. The target horses this week are from the Sandwash Basin herd, in northwestern Colorado.
As the horses hit a straightaway at full stride, a camouflaged fence gradually funnels them into a trap. Close to the neck of the trap, the roundup crew releases a "Judas horse," which runs to the front of the pack and leads the mustangs directly into a tiny corral. Once inside, the horses screech to a stop, piling up on top of one another as dust flies, the gate slams, and the helicopter pulls away to go back for more horses. When the crew is finished, a few of the horses will be released back onto the range, some will be put up for adoption, but most will be relocated to government holding facilities, and a large number will be eligible to be sold to slaughterhouses, thanks to Senator Conrad Burns (Republican, Montana).
Senator Conrad Burns last year. Photograph by Matthew Minnard/Las Vegas Sun/AP Images.
In 1971, Congress passed a law that banned the inhumane treatment of wild horses and put safeguards into place so they couldn't be sold for slaughter. That law was the result of a two-decades-long crusade by Velma Johnston, better known as "Wild Horse Annie." But in December 2004 that law was gutted. Just days before the Thanksgiving holiday recess, when most of Washington was getting ready to leave for the long weekend, Senator Burns put the final touches on his rider No. 142, which removed all protections for wild horses (and burros) that were over the age of 10 or had been offered unsuccessfully for adoption three times. Such animals could now be sold "without limitation, including through auction to the highest bidder, at local sale yards or other convenient livestock selling facilities." Burns inserted his one-page rider into a 3,300-page budget-appropriations bill on the eve of the bill's congressional deadline, and there would be no opportunity for either public or legislative debate.
The following week rider No. 142 was uncovered, thanks in part to a tip from the Government Printing Office. Animal advocates and politicians from both major parties were outraged. Representative Ed Whitfield, a Republican from western Kentucky, observed, "The thing that is so damaging about this Conrad Burns amendment is that he passed it on an appropriations bill that no one knew about.… It is precisely the way the legislative process should not work. I don't know his motivations, but more than likely he was protecting the ranchers who have leased those lands [for cattle and sheep grazing]."
Despite protests, President Bush, who likes to borrow the imagery and ethos of the American cowboy (and whom Burns once praised as having "earned his spurs"), signed the rider into law, capping a series of policy moves at the Bureau of Land Management (B.L.M.), the government agency in charge of managing the horses, that have sought to diminish the protected status of these "living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West," as the 1971 law called them.
The rider caused such anger that in May 2005 the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill to restore the original intent of the 1971 law. A similar amendment in the Senate had to make one stop before its confirmation vote: the appropriations subcommittee for the Department of the Interior, which has jurisdiction over all federal lands and the National Park Service. Burns is chairman of that committee. Proving again that one man can make a difference, he blocked the amendment from going to vote.
The B.L.M., part of the Department of the Interior, is responsible for administering America's 261 million acres of public land. Historically, it has worked closely with ranchers and other commercial interests, such as gas and oil, coal, and timber, in the management and use of these lands. Overseeing the wild horses is one, small part of what the bureau does, but to the general public, which has an emotional attachment to them, it is one of its most important responsibilities. Celebrated in film, literature, and our nation's history, the mustangs helped Lewis and Clark complete their historic expedition, and during the opening of the frontier, they pulled plows, delivered mail, and carried soldiers in battle.
Senator Robert Byrd (Democrat, West Virginia) summed up the feelings of many when, in his speech to overturn the Burns rider, he criticized the B.L.M.'s management of the wild horses. "Surely there are actions that can be taken by the BLM to ensure the proper operation of the wild horse and burro program without resorting to the slaughter of these animals."
Horse Whisperers
When you drive up the dirt road to Karen Sussman's double-wide trailer, in South Dakota, you are greeted by two dogs, 12 cats, and the 300 mustangs that roam her 680 acres. Suss man meets you at the door, and the first thing she asks is "Have you eaten?"
An intern who worked for Sussman once called her "the mother of all living things." But she is no pushover. As president of the 750-member International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros, Sussman, 59, is a fiery activist who also works part-time as a nurse, in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, for the Indian Health Service. Small and energetic, with short hair that stays in place when she moves, she looks like a former gymnast and seems always ready to jump to the next task. Her home is packed with the late Wild Horse Annie's personal items, making it a kind of unofficial museum—she even has Annie's saddle resting on a sawhorse.
Sussman, who never knew Annie personally, grew up in rural Pennsylvania. In 1981, she adopted her first horse and began volunteering for Annie's organization. She became president of it in 1989, and both president and executive director in 1993. During these years, she worked closely with Helen Reilly, who was Annie's good friend and personal secretary. (Reilly passed away in 1993.) Sussman knows Annie's story inside out, and so, at one time, did many other people. By the time her 1971 law passed, Annie had been featured in countless newspaper articles, on national television, and in popular magazines as diverse as Reader's Digest and Esquire.
At age 11, while living outside Reno, Annie contracted a severe case of polio and underwent an experimental operation, after which she was hospitalized in a body cast for nearly nine months. A bright spot in her day was looking at a large painting of mustangs entitled Roaming Free, which hung in the hospital hallway. "I studied it with all my senses. I could just feel what it was like out there, winging along with the herd," Annie wrote.
When Annie's cast was removed, it turned out the constricting plaster, which covered much of her neck and head, had not allowed space for her face to develop evenly, and while she would grow to a height of five feet seven inches, she was twisted out of alignment by the polio. Annie's disfigurements proved to be traumatic. Kids taunted her, so she retreated into her studies, wrote poetry, drew, and helped her father take care of the animals on their ranch. Her best friend was a rodeo horse named Hobo, which her father had given her when she got out of the hospital.
"Then there's her most famous story," Sussman says, "the one that changed her life." On a beautiful morning in 1950, Annie was driving to her secretarial job in Reno when she approached a truck pulling a livestock trailer—a common sight. As she pulled closer, she saw blood dripping out of the trailer. Through the wooden slats she saw it was jam-packed—not with cattle, but with horses. Trampled under their feet was a young foal, no more than a few months old.
When the truck turned off the highway onto a dirt road, Annie followed it. Its destination was a slaughterhouse that processed horsemeat for pet food. The truck parked next to a holding pen, and a man unlocked the trailer gate. As the gate swung open, a tight pack of mustangs untangled and scrambled to get out, falling over the trailer's edge, landing on top of one another, fighting to get to their feet, running into the holding pen.
The horses were battered and bloody. Most had wide swaths of flesh torn from their sides, which were oozing blood. Annie would later learn that such wounds were inflicted when the horses were roped, pulled off their feet, then dragged up a ramp into the cattle trailer. Many were spotted red from shotgun blasts fired by wranglers in planes. Still in the trailer was the foal, trampled to death. Annie gasped and leaned forward, sick to her stomach.
She received the nickname "Wild Horse Annie" a few years later, as her reputation as a mustang advocate grew. In Carson City, Nevada, she entered a packed room in the state-senate building to speak before a committee about banning the airplane roundup of wild horses. As she walked down an aisle, a local rancher, in an attempt to ridicule her, said in a loud voice, "Well, if it isn't Wild Horse Annie." The press in the room picked up the nickname, and in a genius public-relations move, Annie adopted it. As a result of her activism, "Annie faced regular death threats," Sussman says, "and answered the door at her ranch outside Reno—the Double Lazy Heart—with a pistol behind her back."
Before she faced the U.S. Senate, in 1971, Annie orchestrated one of the largest letter-writing campaigns in U.S. history, and Congress was flooded with letters, many written by children and teenagers, on behalf of the horses. Widespread, unregulated commercial exploitation had brought the mustang numbers from two million in the early 1900s to fewer than 18,000 in 1971. Arthur Miller and John Huston's 1961 film, The Misfits, depicted the increasing desperation of the down-and-out cowboys who trafficked in the few remaining wild horses.
The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act passed both houses of Congress unanimously. It protected the mustangs "from capture, branding, harassment, or death." The B.L.M. was the main agency assigned to enforce this law.
Annie died of cancer at age 65 on June 27, 1977, but Sussman and others continue her work, which they believe is far from over. "The B.L.M. has consistently exploited the intent of the law," says Sussman. "They have constantly chipped away at key provisions. The horses on my ranch come from two herds—one of which comes from the B.L.M.—that were zeroed out. The total land that was set aside for mustangs in the 1971 law has been reduced by over 10 million acres."
Sussman, like many wild-horse advocates, thinks that the mustangs, under the stewardship of the B.L.M., could one day reach numbers so low that their ability to survive in the wild would be at risk.
By the late 70s the population of wild horses had increased to 44,000, and changes were made to the 1971 law, adding provisions for "excess animals" to be removed from the range—the excess to be determined by the secretary of the interior when he saw a threat to "a thriving natural ecological balance and multiple-use relationship in that area [i.e., ranching]." A 1976 amendment to the law allowed for mechanized roundups (helicopters and trucks), and roundup numbers began to increase dramatically. More revisions in 1978 allowed for old, sick, and lame animals "to be destroyed in the most humane manner possible," a measure Annie supported, according to Sussman. "Annie wanted to create an airtight bill, and she foresaw population problems in the future," she says. "She wanted to deal with such problems on the range and to avoid the roundups and slaughterhouse horrors." The 1978 revisions also specified how the horse-adoption program should dispose of healthy excess animals: "qualified individuals" were allowed to adopt no more than four horses each (for which the B.L.M. charged a fee of $25 a horse). After proving they had treated the animals humanely for one year, the new owners were given title. The four-horse limit and one-year probationary period were intended to eliminate the economic incentive for ranchers to take large numbers of horses to sell to slaughterhouses.
Thanks to former Nevada Republican senator Paul Laxalt, however, a loophole big enough to drive a truck through—one straight to the slaughterhouse—was also included in the revisions. It stated that wild horses and burros would lose their protected status once the new owner received title. The implications of this became all too clear after Ronald Reagan installed the pro-ranching-and- mining James Watt and later the lesser-known but like-minded William P. Clark and Donald Hodel as secretaries of the interior. In 1984 the B.L.M. instituted a fee-waiver program, whereby most anyone willing to take at least 100 wild horses would get them for free, and from 1985 to 1987, after Congress appropriated $51 million for roundups (thanks mostly to Republican senator James McClure, of Idaho), the B.L.M. began enthusiastically removing wild horses from the range—around 40,000 between 1984 and 1987.
Journalist Tad Bartimus, in an article for the Associated Press, revealed how ranchers and the B.L.M. had gotten around the four-horse adoption limit: dozens of individuals would adopt four horses each, then give the ranchers power of attorney. Bartimus quoted a Montana rancher who had gotten 1,100 horses this way, which he planned to sell to the slaughter house. The rancher said, "We have powers of attorney from people in Arizona, California, Texas and Montana Of course, they went to slaughter. Everybody knows what's happening, but nobody will admit it."
According to a 1990 report by the G.A.O. (the General Accounting Office, now the Government Accountability Office, which does independent, nonpartisan reports at the request of Congress), 20,000 wild horses were placed with "79 individuals and 4 Native American tribes.… We found that hundreds of these horses died of starvation and dehydration during the 1-year probation period and that many adopters, primarily ranchers and farmers … sold thousands more to slaughter after obtaining title from BLM." The G.A.O. report concluded, "By its very design the fee-waiver program was a prescription for commercial exploitation of wild horses."
The Animal Protection Institute of America and the Fund for Animals took the B.L.M. to court in response to such abuses, and in 1988 a federal judge ruled that the B.L.M. could not issue a title if it knew the adopter intended to sell an animal to slaughter. This terminated the fee-waiver program.
But in the 1990s abuses under the adoption program were still being reported, becoming more of an internal B.L.M. issue. In a series of articles for the A.P., published in the mid-1990s, Martha Mendoza documented how the B.L.M. had falsified rec ords used to identify and track horses, and how bureau officials were selling horses to slaughter after enlisting their friends and relatives to adopt them to circumvent the four-horse-per-person limit.
In 1997, to address these abuses, President Clinton's B.L.M. announced additional regulations to protect the horses, including checking with adopters and spot-checking slaughterhouses. Buyers now had to sign an affidavit ensuring they had no intent to sell the horses for slaughter or processing. Under the Bush administration things would again take a turn for the worse.
An American Classic
The mustang is a relatively small and sturdy horse, measuring close to five feet (15 hands) high and weighing on average 900 pounds. Its chest looks narrow from the front but deep in profile, more sub stantial than an Arabian's but not as bulky as a quarter horse's. Its legs spread out from its body in a distinctive slight "A" shape. Mustangs come in all colors, from black to brown to dun to cream, some red dish, some bluish, and in many these are mixed with whites and grays to produce roans, speckles, paints, and other patterns.
One of the best places to observe mustangs in their natural habitat is the Pryor Mountains, in Senator Burns's home state of Montana. And one of the best guides to take you through this territory and teach you about mustangs is documentary-film maker Ginger Kathrens. Kath rens is a rock star in the wild-horse world. Driven and tough, she lets out frequent sparks of good humor. You'd never want to get on her bad side, though, or she would stare you down with her intense blue eyes. For her PBS series, which began in 2001 with Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies, Kathrens is filming Cloud, a majestic white mustang stallion. She has followed him for more than 10 years, from his birth. Now he is lead stallion of his own family.
The Pryor Mountains are rugged and beautiful, filled with steep canyons and expansive valleys. The Big Horn Canyon cuts across the plains as far as the eye can see. To film the latest installment in Cloud's life, Kathrens treks on foot to find him. She is loaded down with gear: an Arriflex Super 16–mm. film camera, a large Canon digital video camera, a heavy tripod, a Nikon 35-mm. still camera, and binoculars. Pointing to a tree-filled valley that leads to the main watering hole, she looks through her binoculars, and a smile breaks across her face. "There's Cloud," she says. "He's making his way to the watering hole."
"The lead mare chooses when and where to feed and water," Kathrens explains. Cloud waits on top of a low hill just above the water hole. "Cloud typically takes the rearguard position to make sure it is safe for everyone else before he goes down to water." She checks the view through her telephoto lens as she explains the makeup of a family band: a stallion, a lead mare, plus several other mares, and all of their offspring under three. Usually, when the stallions are two years old, the lead stallion kicks them out and they join a bachelor band.
"Made up of horses ranging in age from two and up, the bachelor bands serve an important role in wild-horse society," says Kathrens. "The bachelors join up with one another for protection and social activities. They don't have family responsibilities, so they can hang out and cause mischief. The younger bachelors spar with the older ones to hone their fighting skills. A bachelor's ultimate goal is to steal a mare and start his own family."
"He's still letting Flint stay around," observes Kathrens. Flint is Cloud's four-year-old stepson. "When they stick around this long, we call them 'lieutenants.' They help protect the band and scare away the bachelors. Cloud has always liked Flint."
Other family bands arrive at the top of the hill above the water hole. They wait until Cloud's family is done. Kathrens's camera rolls as Cloud and his family drink and play, then head off. The next family band comes down.
"The hierarchy among the families is determined by the status of the stallion," Kathrens explains. Each new group drinks for about five minutes and moves on. Then the next family comes down. The process works in a peaceful and orderly way.
As the sun sets, Kathrens packs up and begins to hike back to camp. "This area is primarily the herd's summer area. To protect the health of the range the B.L.M. wants to lower the numbers of the Pryor herd from 153 horses to 95. When the B.L.M. originally determined the size of this range area, they didn't take into account the historic use area of the herd, which is far larger than the designated range. We're trying to get the herd area increased to include the horses' historic range, which they're legally entitled to in the 1971 Wild Horses and Burros Act. Increasing the size to include this land would keep the herds at a healthy number. The numbers are already so low that the health and future of the herd is in danger." (The B.L.M. says it did incorporate the historic use area of the herds.)
Kathrens points to the research of Dr. Gus Cothran, a leader in the field of equine-population genetics at the University of Kentucky. He uses DNA analysis to study wild horses. His research concludes that for long-term health and survival of the herds a minimum size needs to be between 150 and 200 horses. Otherwise, interbreeding will create genetic weaknesses, leading to serious health problems. More than 70 percent of the herds the B.L.M. manages fall below Cothran's minimum number. (The B.L.M. maintains that these numbers are high. They are monitoring genetic diversity in the herds, and they say that "at present, there is no immediate cause for concern about inbreeding.")
Turf Wars
In 2001, President Bush appointed Kathleen Clarke as director of the B.L.M. Before that she had served as executive director of Utah's Department of Natural Resources, where she built a reputation for favoring mining and drilling interests. At the B.L.M. she has been at the center of controversy. According to sworn testimony by the public-lands chairman of the Utah Cattlemen's Association, she encouraged ranchers to sue her own agency, after having failed in an effort to prevent Interior from issuing grazing permits to a conservation group. (At the time, Clarke denied she did anything inappropriate.) The Bush administration has rounded up wild horses at a record-setting pace, including more than 50,000 under Clarke's aegis.
The Department of Interior building, on Washington's C Street, is a stone monument to permanency and power, one of the first buildings constructed by the Public Works Administration during the Depression. As you walk down the wide main corridor, with its high ceiling, you feel safe, but small. In a back office of this landmark building, sitting around a table, Tom Dyer, until recently the B.L.M.'s deputy assistant director of renewable resources and planning, Dean Bolstad, its wild-horse-and-burro-operations lead, and Tom Gorey, a B.L.M. spokesperson, look at the numbers on their chart. They are confused. They have just applied their own formula to calculate the wild-horse population. The calculations don't match their official census sheet. "These numbers have always been a little confusing," Bolstad says. The current census numbers for 2006 seem disproportionately high, estimating 9,000 more horses on the range than their formula could account for.
Gorey says, "We think our count is accurate. It is an estimate; we can't say it is the literally correct number."
When asked its position on the Burns rider, Gorey says, "The B.L.M. has not taken a stand on the Burns rider. We see it as another management tool." Horse advocates say this is merely added proof, as if any were needed, that the B.L.M. is more or less in cahoots with Burns. "They [at the B.L.M.] are not upset that one man, Burns, covertly set the horses up for slaughter," says Chris Heyde, a deputy legislative director for the Society for Animal Protective Legislation, located in Alexandria, Virginia.
A big question is why Senator Burns has inserted himself so prominently into the wild-horse controversy when the issue is not even an important one in his state. The only wild horses in Montana are the 153 mustangs at the Pryor mountain range, and they're a tourist attraction. (Of the approximately 31,000 wild horses counted in the B.L.M.'s 2006 herd-area data were 13,384 in Nevada, 3,166 in California, 4,615 in Wyoming, 2,545 in Utah, and 2,113 in Oregon.) The senator has given several reasons. They include to prevent the horses from starving on the range, to protect the health of the range, to push the B.L.M. to get serious about its adoption program, and to cut the costs of boarding horses in holding facilities. Critics claim that these issues are already addressed by the law.
Burns grew up on a farm in Missouri, and as a young man he moved to Montana, where he sold ads for a livestock magazine and worked as a livestock auctioneer. In this world, horses are bought and sold like cattle. What do you do with old and lame horses? You sell them to a slaughterhouse to recoup a little money. It is just business as usual. Burns once explained to a journalist, "I'm in the livestock business, and I've bought and sold horses my whole life. Basically, the marketplace works."
The ranchers believe they should be the ones to control the use of their leased public lands. In many cases, they have worked these public plots for generations and regard them as their own. They see the wild horses merely as pests, consuming food and water that are meant for their livestock and tearing up fences. Steve Raftopoulos, a rancher in northwestern Colorado, faces the daily challenges of running livestock on public land. He grazes sheep in the Sandwash Basin with the wild horses. His family has been ranching in the area since 1934. "What it comes down to is proper management of the range," he says. "In managing anything you have to have flexibility. We can control how much livestock we are going to put on a range area. We have no control over the wild horses, no matter what the range condition is. Horses can really tear it up. I'm dependent on the B.L.M."
Raftopoulos speaks with clear determination. He is suspicious of reporters and environmentalists, but once he gets talking about public-land issues he doesn't slow down. "Everyone is caught up in the emotion of this, and they can't look at it logically. When the range is in great shape and the rain falls when it's supposed to, the horses and the livestock can coexist. But when there's drought, the range can be permanently damaged. Right now we have drought. And now the government wants to make it illegal to slaughter horses. This leaves no management flexibility, except to just let the horses die in an ex pensive government hold ing facility."
In the basement of the Forest Service of fice in Red Lodge, Mon tana, range specialist Wayne Burleson pulls down a projection screen and then turns off the lights. Burleson, 64, has studied the eating behavior of cattle and horses for more than 20 years, photographing and documenting their habits. He clicks through his slide show, illustrating how the eating tendencies of each animal impact the range. "The truth is they're both right," he says. "A cow can destroy the range and so can a horse. A horse can pinch out the whole grass plant with its teeth, and the cow can wrap his long tongue around a plant and pull it out. Any animal will overgraze if he doesn't have enough territory to graze or isn't properly managed."
To evaluate the impact of grazing on public land, consideration needs also to be given to big game (elk, deer, antelope). Most calculations estimate that more than four million head of livestock and three million big-game animals graze on public land. This means that wild horses account for less than one-half of 1 percent of the large animals grazing on public land. The most comprehensive independent study of this issue, done in 1990 by the G.A.O., states, "Wild horses are so vastly outnumbered on federal rangelands by domestic livestock Even substantial reduction in wild horse populations will, therefore, not substantially reduce total forage consumption." The G.A.O. report also states, "BLM could not provide [the General Accounting Office] with any information demonstrating that federal rangeland conditions have significantly improved because of wild horse removals." The study concluded, "The primary cause of the degradation in rangeland resources is poorly managed domestic livestock (primarily cattle and sheep) grazing."
Senator Burns refused to meet with V.F. to discuss his rider, but Chris Heggem, Burns's point person on this issue, says, "He did it because other people asked him to." Senator Burns has a history of being sensitive to the needs of those who donate large amounts of money to his campaign. Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who arranged for, by some estimates, close to $150,000 to go to Burns, told *V.F.'*s David Margolick, "Every appropriation we wanted [from Senator Conrad Burns's committee] we got." From 2001 to 2006, the senator received $380,512 from agribusiness, which includes the livestock industry. He receives more money—$69,800 so far for his 2006 re-election bid—from livestock interests than all but one senator, Texas Republican Henry Bonilla.
In Slate magazine, Deanne Stillman theorized that Montana rancher Merle Edsall may have been instrumental in getting Burns to act, because "the language in the Burns rider was the exact same wording floated by Edsall at a meeting of the BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board." Edsall denies this connection to Burns. He says he wanted to take 10,000 wild horses in order to create a tourist-attraction sanctuary in Mexico. He claims that the White House and the B.L.M. wanted to privatize the wild-horse program, to which the B.L.M.'s Gorey responds, "We did receive a proposal, and we turned it down." Edsall explains, "I had a three-part plan. Part one was to give the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board authority over the wild-horse program. Part two was the sale authority. You have to have a threat before you solve a problem. The sale authority would allow the horses to go to slaughter. [I thought], People will go through the roof, and they did. But don't make a threat without a solution. Part three was the solution: Mexico and giving the horses to 501(c) nonprofits."
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Last February the B.L.M. initiated a program similar to the Reagan-era fee waiver. For the mustangs that have lost protections because of the Burns rider, it makes the adoption fee "negotiable," and drops both the one-year probationary period and the limit of four horses going to one person in any one-year period. In a letter of February 21, 2006, Clarke appealed to 15,000 ranchers with B.L.M. grazing permits to take the horses. Thanks to the Burns rider no one will be able to stop the program with a lawsuit this time. Now the B.L.M. will deliver loads of 20 or more horses free of charge to any destination. Although recipients of these horses have to sign an agreement that they do not intend to send the horses to slaughter, wild-horse activists doubt the B.L.M. will do much checking up to see that the ranchers are keeping their word. (Gorey says the B.L.M. has compliance guidelines that range from inspections to phone check-ins.)
The rationale for the fee-reduction program, as it was the last time, is to save money by removing horses from government holding facilities. But Chris Heyde says, "If the B.L.M. and the administration want to talk about money, they should look at their grazing program. According to the government's latest G.A.O. study, in 2004 the grazing program lost almost $115 million a year. The ranchers pay a nominal fee of $1.56 a month for each cow-and-calf pair to graze. The free-market rate for ranchers to lease the same amount of private land to graze their cattle is a little over $13 a month. It's a giveaway.
"This does not include the million spent each year on behalf of ranchers for predator control, to kill coyotes, foxes, and mountain lions to protect cattle and sheep," he adds. "These are the animals that would naturally help control wild-horse population. All of this when less than 3 percent of America's beef is raised on federal rangelands. And economically, livestock grazing on federal land produces only a tiny percentage of income in western states, between 1 and 3 percent. The irony is that most of the land is leased to millionaires."
He is referring to a nine-month investigation in 1999 by the San Jose Mercury News, which revealed that the top 10 percent of those holding grazing permits control 65 percent of all livestock on B.L.M. land. One of the largest livestock lessees of B.L.M. land is a company founded by one of the richest men in America, John Simplot, who is worth an estimated $2.3 billion. He lives in Boise, Idaho, and supplies half of McDonald's French fries. Other major holders of government grazing leases include the Hilton Family Trust.
Heyde and other advocates outline their solutions. Give the wild horses back all their original acreage and herd areas. Keep herd sizes large enough to maintain the future health of the herds. If the range is in crisis, support the horses with water and hay. Manage the herd areas principally for mustangs, not sheep and cattle. Keep roundup and adoptions in sync. "Just enforce and follow through on the legal guidelines of the 1971 law. After all, it is a law," Heyde says.
On September 7, 2006, the House of Representatives voted 263 to 146 in favor of a bill sponsored by John Sweeney, a New York Republican, and Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican, to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. There are currently three horse slaughterhouses in the U.S., one in Illinois, and two in Texas. They sell horsemeat primarily to Europe and Japan, where it is regarded as a delicacy. Chris Heyde has been inside a slaughterhouse, and he has been to horse auctions. "The majority of horses are not sold to slaughter by their owners," Heyde says, "but instead arrive via livestock auction, where 'killer buyers' purchase them. Owners are often unaware of their ultimate fate. And most of the horses are not old and lame. They are healthy racehorses, riding-school and show horses, stolen horses, and federally protected wild horses." Horse advocates are hopeful the anti-slaughter bill will pass the Senate and become law.
In Washington, D.C., the politicians fight. In South Dakota, Karen Sussman faces the daily challenges of managing her mustang herd. This morning an old mustang with a surgically repaired leg has fallen in her stall. This is a life-threatening situation for a horse. Sussman made a deal with this old mustang. "As long as she has the will to live, I'll stick by her." She is not sure if Janie Grayce, named after the two donors who paid for her surgery, wants to go on or give up.
With the help of Denny, a part-time worker from the Lakota tribe, Sussman has rigged a series of ropes to help lift the horse to her feet. She talks to the old mustang. "You tell me what you want to do." Sussman has been dreading this moment. But she is prepared to put the mare down if she won't fight to get up. "It is going to happen one day," she says. Janie Grayce lies motionless on her side with each attempt to raise her.
"Let's give her one last try," Sussman says as they pull the rope taut around the horse's body. The mare's eyes brighten. She begins to struggle, kicking her legs, trying to fight to her feet—suddenly she's up. A little unsteady, but she's up.
"Good girl. Good girl," Sussman says, petting her. Janie Grayce lets out a whinny, as if she's saying thanks. "She's a tough old mustang. She wasn't ready to go," says Sussman.
Kurt Brungardt is a writer and personal trainer in New York.
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Indiana Telemarketer Registration Update
By Angela Garfinkel, President
The State of Indiana has amended its Telemarketer Registration law as of July 1, 2019. Effectively the amendment to the existing statute removed the numerous exemptions that sellers and telemarketers previously relied on.
Did you know that inbound call centers (and sellers that employ them) that do any type of sale are now required to register in Indiana as a telemarketer? Inbound calls are now covered by the law.
Did you know that telemarketing companies conducting B2B and B2C outbound telemarketing sales calls (and sellers that employ them) must register? B2B outbound telemarketing is now covered by the law.
Did you know that if you employ a telemarketing or call center firm for making outbound telemarketing sales calls or handing inbound sales calls, your company is most likely also required to register as a telemarketer in the state of Indiana?
And speaking of changes to the Indiana law — another key change is a requirement to promptly disclose the sales agent first and last name and the company they work for in the beginning of a sales call (if calling a consumer or business for sales purposes in the state of Indiana). Check your scripts and update them accordingly.
Angela Garfinkel is the President and Founder of Quality Contact Solutions, a leading outsourced telemarketing services organization serving the healthcare, financial services, automotive, market research, professional associations and numerous other B2B focused verticals. Angela has the pleasure of leading a talented team that runs thousands of outbound telemarketing program hours daily. Angela is also a certified Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO) auditor with the Professional Association for Customer Engagement and she is a designated Customer Engagement Compliance Professional (CECP). Angela can be reached at [email protected] or 516.656.5118
This entry was posted in Articles, Compliance, News and Announcements and tagged B2B Outbound Marketing, B2C Outbound Marketing, Compliance Consulting, Inbound Telemarketing Services, outbound on August 23, 2019 by .
Dean Garfinkel Receives PACE Distinguished Service Award
Aurora, NE (November 7, 2018) – Dean Garfinkel, Quality Contact Solutions' Chief Operating Officer and Quality Voice & Data's President was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Professional Association for Customer Engagement (PACE) during the group's annual Summit in Washington DC, September 23-25, 2018.
Dean's dedication and service to the association has spanned more than 15 years while serving on the PACE board of directors with six of those years on the Executive Committee as Treasurer. With Dean's leadership, the organization has successfully navigated the changing landscape faced by all associations. Dean has also been an active force behind the Self-Regulatory Organization and the Customer Engagement Compliance Professional programs.
Also receiving PACE Distinguished Service Awards were James Danz, Wyndham Worldwide Vacations and Michael Rauscher, HomeServe USA. Both Mr. Danz and Mr. Rauscher, along with Mr. Garfinkel, are retiring from the PACE board at the end of 2018
According to PACE Chair, Lori Fentem, Ring's Head of Call Center Growth and Strategy, "Dean will be missed from both the association board and the Executive Committee. We thank Dean for his tremendous service to our association and to the industry as a whole."
About the Professional Association for Customer Engagement (PACE)
PACE is the only non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of companies that utilize contact centers as an integral resource for customer engagement. Founded as the American Teleservices (ATA) in 1983 and renamed to PACE in 2012, PACE represents more than 4,000 contact centers that account for over 1.8 million customer engagement professionals worldwide.
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Dean Garfinkel recognized as Treasurer of the PACE Board of Directors
Dean Garfinkel, PACE National Board of Directors member, Treasurer and Executive Committee member, and other board members were recognized for their service during the PACE National Convention and Expo (ACX'18). The 2018 PACE National Board of Directors includes chair Lori Fentem (Synergy Solutions), Vice Chair Ken Sponsler (CompliancePoint), Secretary Mark Boehmer (Ameritas Group), Andy Balthaser (Alorica), James Danz (Wyndham Resorts), Sam Falletta (Incept Corp.), Stephen Ferber (Golden Gate BPO), Joe Galvin (Comcast), Christa Heibel (CH Consulting Group), Mandy Horton (Careington International Corporation), Bob Kobek (CustomerCount), Karl Koster (Noble Systems), Harvey Livingston (AT&T), Rob Marshall (VoiceTeam), John Nelson (Bank of America), Michael Thompson (TPG TeleManagement) and Michele Shuster, General Counsel, (Mac Murray & Shuster, LLP).
Dean has been on the PACE National Board for 15 years, serving for 4 years as Treasurer. Dean is a frequently-sought after thought leader on all telecom and compliance issues relevant to the call center and telemarketing industry. To reach Dean, email him at [email protected].
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Outbound Call Center and Telemarketing TCPA Case Update
TCPA Case Update
On March 16, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit released it decision in the ACA Int'l vs. FCC case, about 17 months after oral argument. The decision provided some relief for companies that use the telephone to make outbound telemarketing contacts.
The court's decision set aside the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) broad definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) and its reassigned telephone numbers ruling in 2015 but failed to provide relief for handling revocation of consent. Continue reading →
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Contact Management Services Expert Featured on Business Radio
Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School of Business interviewed call center and telemarketing industry expert, Angela Garfinkel, for the drive-time segment on SiriusXM 111 titled, "Work of Tomorrow"
Christian Terwiesch, Professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania hosts the segment each week which looks at how new technology is causing disruptions in existing industries, changing the meaning of work along the way.
In the episode featuring Angela Garfinkel, Christian and Angela discussed how call centers are evolving and how live agents are critical to business success in 2018. The episode aired on 1/15/2018 at 5 pm ET and is being repeated throughout the week.
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Indian team has never won a Test series in South Africa
India and South Africa are set to clash in the three-match Test series with the first match starting this Sunday at the SuperSport Park in Centurion. Indian team has never won a Test series in South Africa and the upcoming series is their eighth tour to the Rainbow nation. Team India might have failed to win a series in South Africa but there were many memorable performances by the touring side against the Proteas. From S Sreesanth's masterclass in 2006 to Jasprit Bumrah's emergence in Test cricket in 2018, India had witnessed some great bowling performances in South Africa.
Ahead of India's much-anticipated eighth tour to South Africa, let's take a look at the top 5 performances by Indian bowlers:
Sreesanth- 5/40 & 3/59 Johannesburg, 2006
No one can forget S Sreesanth's brilliance in 2006 when India registered their maiden Test victory in South Africa. The Indian team led by Rahul Dravid had defeated South Africa by 123 runs in the first match of the series at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. After scoring 249 runs in the first innings, the visitors bundled out the Proteas for 84 runs thanks to a top-class bowling performance by Sreesanth who picked 5 wickets in the first innings followed by three wickets in the second.
Jasprit Bumrah- 5/54 & 2/57 Johannesburg, 2018
Even after a good all-round display on the field, India lost the first two Tests of the three-match series. This was India's first Test series loss after the 2014/15 Australia tour. However, India managed to win the final game of the series. Jasprit Bumrah who was playing his first Test series had picked 7 wickets in the Test that included a five-wicket haul in the first innings.
This was Bumrah's maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket and since then he has played 24 Test matches and picked up 101 wickets. The pacer will also spearhead India's bowling attack in the upcoming series.
Harbhajan Singh- 4/10 & 2/70 Durban, 2010
In the 2010 tour to South Africa, India spinner Harbhajan Singh was at his best. The off-spinner picked 4 wickets by giving away just 10 runs in the first innings of the second Test match of the three-match series. South Africa were bowled out for 131 runs in the first innings and they scored just 215 runs in the second innings in their chase of 302. India won the Test match by 87 runs and this was their second win in South Africa. Harbhajan also picked two wickets in the second innings and all his wickets came at crucial times.
Harbhajan Singh also has the best bowling figures by an Indian bowler in South Africa when he returned with the figures of 7/120 in the first innings of the third Test of the same series.
Anil Kumble- 2/60 & 6/53 Johannesburg, 1992
This was India's first Test tour to South Africa and the first Test ended in a draw. The second Test too ended in a draw but Anil Kumble showed some of his brilliance with the ball on a pitch that was conducive for fast bowling. Kumble had picked six wickets in the second innings and also two in the first.
This was also the first Test series for South Africa at home after ICC lifted the ban on them.
Javagal Srinath- 6/76 & 2/28 Port Elizabeth, 2001
After losing the series opener in Bloemfontein, the India team managed to save the second Test of the series in Port Elizabeth. Herschelle Gibbs scored 196 runs in the second Test but that match is also remembered for India's Javagal Srinath's magical spell of 6/76 that kept India's hope alive to draw the series. Srinath also picked two wickets in the second innings but the match ended in a draw.
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A Calderdale woman is weaving her plans for the future since retiring after 25 years at a textile company.
at Shaw Lodge Mills, Halifax, in the dispatch department.
And after working her way up to sales order clerk she has left her friends and colleagues and is spending more time with her family.
Mrs Lord now sees her husband, Willie, 64, who is also retired, more often, as well as her children and grandchildren.
Originally from Middlesex, she moved to Calderdale in 1966 after meeting Willie in the Navy in the late 50s.
The couple have three daughters, Christine and twins Gillian and Teresa, who each have a daughter and a son.
Mrs Lord also plans to do lots of walking and charting her family tree.
and done the job that needs to be done," she said.
"I'll miss the friends I have made, but I'm looking forward to retiring because I have done my stint."
Chairman Mrs. Dina M. Holdsworth presented Rosemary Lord with retirement gifts, including a clock, wine glasses, a canteen of cutlery and a cut-glass bowl.


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Evergy Ventures is the investment affiliate of Evergy, Inc., based in the Midwest, that focuses its investment portfolio in the core areas of digital utility, connected utility, distributed energy resources, and intelligent connected buildlings. They look to spur on innovation and growth in progressive companies that make energy technology more accessible, cheaper, and more efficient. Spear Power Systems is supported by Evergy Ventures to foster energy solutions that move us forward into a future of cleaner, safer, and more reliable energy solutions.
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Emerald Technology Ventures is an industrial technology investment leader that focus on expanding businesses in Europe and North America. In the sectors of advanced materials, agriculture, energy, industrial IT, and water, Emerald brings expertise and an industrial network that helps growing companies accelerate growth and overcome challenges. Spear Power Systems added Emerald to its global syndicate of advanced energy investors to promote the continued expansion of Spear's battery solutions. Together, Emerald and Spear look to further develop battery energy technology that is both smarter and safer.
Spear Power Systems is proud to partner with the U.S. Department of Defense and to provide customized energy and battery management solutions to the different military departments. With the U.S. Army, Spear assisted operations through the development of a lithium-ion 6T battery concept design. Spear also provided an advanced lithium-ion battery system for the first Counter-UAS Laser System, developed by Raytheon, deployed by the U.S. Air Force. Spear is priveleged to provide defensive support to American troops and their allies through advanced battery technology.
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Energy Innovation Capital is a premier capital provider for innovators serving the energy industry. They provide early and growth-stage funding for visionary entrepreneurs tackling global energy challenges with transformative, market-leading solutions. Spear Power Systems added Energy Innovation Capital to its global syndicate of advanced energy investors to fund the growth of Spear's high-performance energy storage systems with an emphasis in greener, safer technology.
Demetree Global
Demetree Global is a family investment firm that has pioneered the areas of land development, construction, commercial real estate, and land use for over 65 years. By investing in assets that improve lives today, they seek to help foster a better future for the world. Demetree and Spear Power Systems are partnered to continue the development of green energy solutions and battery management systems. This strategic partnership allows the eco-friendly battery technology of Spear, supported by Demetree, to help contribute to a future of cleaner and more efficient energy use.
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La  est une ligne de métro à Tokyo au Japon gérée par le réseau Tokyo Metro. Elle relie la station de Shibuya à la station d'Oshiage. Longue de 16,8 km, elle traverse Tokyo du sud-ouest à l'est en passant dans les arrondissements de Shibuya, Minato, Chiyoda, Chūō, Kōtō et Sumida. Elle est également connue comme ligne 11. Sur les cartes, la ligne est de couleur violette et identifiée par la lettre Z. Son logo est ainsi .

Histoire
La première section de la ligne Hanzōmon ouvre le  entre Shibuya et Aoyama-itchome. En 1979, la ligne est prolongée à Nagatachō puis à Mitsukoshi-mae en 1989 après avoir dû faire un détour pour éviter de passer sous le palais impérial. Le dernier tronçon jusqu'à Oshiage est inauguré le .

Interconnexions
La ligne est interconnectée à Shibuya avec la ligne Den-en-toshi de la compagnie Tōkyū et à Oshiage avec la ligne Skytree de la compagnie Tōbu. Il existe un projet pour continuer la ligne depuis Oshiage jusqu'à Matsudo (ligne Jōban).

Stations
La ligne comporte 14 stations, identifiées de Z-01 à Z-14.

Matériel roulant
La ligne Hanzōmon est parcourue par les trains des compagnies Tokyo Metro, Tōkyū et Tōbu.

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 Bureau des Transports de la Métropole de Tokyo

Lien externe
  Site Tokyo Metro

Hanzomon
Tokyo, Hanzomon

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