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By Peter Lacey Special to The Christian Science Monitor
Munden, West Germany
When I was a child, one of my favorite books was a very large, very old volume of Grimm's Fairy Tales. It was not one of the sugar-coated editions; its stories retained the sinister overtones of the originals. The book's old-fashioned illustrations fascinated me: small children lost in dark forests, bold young heroes, beautiful princesses, and intimidating monsters of various sizes. None of my other books was like that one. It was definitely not the Disney version of the folk tales. I loved it.
The landscape shown in those wood-engraved pictures was as haunting as the characters within it: turreted castles on craggy mountains, half-timbered houses on narrow streets, and lonely cottages amidst ancient trees. The landscape of legends. I can't vouch for the legends -- compelling as the Grimm Brothers made them -- but I can for the landscape. It's still there, tucked away in a relatively unvisited part of West Germany. Not illogically, the Germans call it the ''Marchenstrasse,'' or fairy-tale road.
One week in May -- a good time to go to Germany -- I visited some parts of this road, which starts with Bremen in the north and ends in Hanau near Frankfurt, and saw for myself the castles and forests, the queer old towns, and quiet rivers that intrigued the Grimms almost 200 years ago.
In Hanover I joined a small tour group that was soon heading south by train to Gottingen, the venerable university town where Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm were both philologists. In Gottingen we were at the edge of the countryside that had inspired the peasant tales the brothers collected. There we boarded a minibus driven by an amiable guide named Gottfried, and went hurtling down narrow roads (no autobahns here) leading into a forest. Gottfried pointed out various sights along the way, including occasional castles on distant peaks. We itched to explore them, but that would come a bit later; first we were to see the town of Munden.
Munden is at the juncture of three rivers -- the Fulda, the Werra, and the Weser -- that meander thorugh ''Grimm-land.'' Though nowhere near so famous as the Rhine, these streams travel past a countryside with even more legend attached to it than to the Wagnerian Rhineland. In addition to being the setting of familiar tales from Grimm -- like ''Sleeping Beauty,'' ''Hansel and Gretel,'' and ''Little Red Riding Hood'' -- the area also claims Baron Munchausen, the Pied Piper of Hamlin, Max and Moritz, and other characters of the German imagination.
Munden was a fine place to begin. It looks exactly as it should: narrow, winding streets lined with tall, half-timbered buildings; steeply pitched roofs, clustering in a tiled hillscape around the central tower of a medieval church; and near the church a charmingly decorated Renaissance ''Rathaus,'' or city hall.
It was just this kind of town, I thought, which in a Grimm tale would ask a strong young lad to defend it from a marauding giant. The lad would succeed, of course, and be rewarded with the mayor's daughter in marriage. As I mused in the Rathaus square, a low, clattering sound issued steadily from a nearby store where some contemporary lads and daughters were playing electronic games. There were no giants in sight.
The thorough Michelin ''green'' guide to Germany states that there are more than 450 half-timbered houses in Munden, more than enough to give a visitor a feeling of being in pre-World War II Germany. This part of the country suffered relatively little damage during the fighting, and in places like Munden we can see the kind of romantic quaintness that characterized most German towns before 1945.
The old town is also on the Marchenstrasse, which runs north from Hanau, the birthplace of the Grimm Brothers, to Bremen of the Brementown Musicians. In between, the ''fairy-tale road'' touches the city of Kassel, where there is an interesting Grimm Museum. North of Kassel, lies the heart of the road, the beautiful upper valley of the Weser River, which begins at Munden.
Skirting the Reinhardswald forest, the Weser flows through a Germany that will pleasantly surprise visitors accustomed to the comparatively populous northern and western parts of the nation. The upper valley, as the Michelin says , ''has neither railway nor industry, appearing silent and at times deserted in its wooded setting.''
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The day you've been building up to for months is finally here, and although you're very excited, you're probably very stressed as well. You want everything to run smoothly so that your special day is one to remember.
If you are having a three-course meal as your first meal as a married couple, you need to give a considerable amount of time for service. Obviously service depends on the amount of guests you have, but give yourself around two hours for the service from start to finish.
Cutting the cake is a significant part of your wedding day and a popular option is to serve hot drinks to your guests at the same time. It's best you serve your cake during the reception, as your guests will most likely be full from the meal. This part should only take around half an hour, and before you know it, your reception will be starting!
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The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd (LOCOG) has awarded the contract to record the core orchestral soundtrack for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies to the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) – one of Britain's world leading orchestras.
The LSO draws on an enviable roster of soloists and conductors, including Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev, LSO President Sir Colin Davis, and Principal Guest Conductors Daniel Harding and Michael Tilson Thomas. The Orchestra is set apart from other international orchestras by its depth of commitment to music education, reaching over 60,000 people each year.
The award-winning programme, LSO Discovery works locally, nationally and internationally, with thriving community projects both in London and the UK and on tour. Continuing the Orchestra's long association with film music, the LSO has recently recorded soundtracks for Twilight: New Moon, Tamara Drewe and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Parts 1 & 2).


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AHRA climate statement
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In light of the global ecological crisis, the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) is declaring a climate emergency. As an international architectural research association, we acknowledge and support the various declarations on climate change that are starting to emerge, and we will endeavour to foreground environmental and social justice in our activities and approaches.
Architecture and urbanism are critical to the history of the planetary environmental crisis, yet also to the earth's possible futures. Responses to the crisis are needed from different aspects of the discipline, including those from practice and from schools of architecture, as we have seen.
The architectural research community is crucial to these struggles, and the AHRA is committed to supporting and promoting critical, inter-disciplinary, experimental research that seeks to understand past architectures and propose ways to act beyond the technical, employing ecological thinking towards new politics and relations. We engage with architectural humanities that open to the non-human, with the planet and other species.
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Les intérieurs aujourd'hui/ Interiors today
Méthodes de production et d'analyse interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinarymethods of productionand analysis
ENSA-Versailles
October 11 2019 - October 12 2019
Interior spaces have often lent themselves to the experimentations of different professionals (architects, interior designers, decorators, ensembliers, designers, artists, etc). By themselves or in collaboration and in frequent interaction with the client, these creators work at the frontiers of several disciplines: architecture, visual arts, design, decoration, etc. These practices testify certain kinds of permeability that take the form of dialogues, transfers, and contaminations, and that aim to produce effects in terms of spaces, uses, perceptions, and emotions.
Adopting synergetic, critical, contemporary and experimental perspectives, we will question the notion of interior, specifically its versatility, its ambiguity, and its wealth, with regard to its modalities of production, appropriation and perception: from the scale of the body to that of the metropolis (from the object to the space, from domestic spaces to shared spaces of activity, consumption, or entertainment), measured in terms of ecological challenges (the production environments), modern and contemporary practices and uses (lifestyle, services, transportation, mobility) or with regard to new kinds of spatiality (new spaces of sociability, tools and practices of digital spaces). By going beyond the divisions, categorizations, and traditional oppositions (between the outside and the inside, the private and the public, the individual and the collective, etc.), we will reflect and redefine the interior in its relation to environments, territories, and uses, to perceive its historical and synchronical relevance and to grasp its conceptual operationality for the process of the project. What makes an interior? How is it conceived? How is it read, interpreted? How is it lived and felt?
IDEA Journal 2020 call for Expression of Interest
Interior Technicity: Unplugged and/ or Switched On
September 17 2019 - October 01 2019
Dear Researchers, Students and Professionals,
Though interest in the forthcoming issue of IDEA Journal has been healthy, we are extending the deadline for EOIs to 1 October.
See the IDEA website for details: https://idea-edu.com/blog/idea-journal-2020-call-for-expression-of-interest/.
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Biourbanism: Designing a Home of Language
Artena (Rome, Italy)
July 13 2019 - July 20 2019
The International Society of Biourbanism wishes to share its 2019 Summer School with you. Would it be possible to circulate such details among your students and colleagues?
Biourbanism: Designing a Home of LanguageArtena, Italy July 13–20, 2019Program: https://tinyurl.com/y3hclopb
Keynote lecturers from around the world will counterpoint circular transdisciplinary workshops to prototype a biourban model of city, landscape, and civic organization that encompasses politics, epistemology, and design.
Among these, may I highlight Arch. Marwa Al-Sabouni (Syria), author of The Battle for Home, Prof. Sergio Los (Italy), father of bioclimatic architecture, and artist and biourbanist Prof. Marco Casagrande (Finland).
Please note our early bird tuition for those who register before April 30.
The final deadline is June 20.
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Call for Papers: Divergence in Architectural Research
Ph.D. Symposium
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
June 19 2019 - September 07 2019
We would like to bring your attention to a research event taking place next March at the School of Architecture of Georgia Institute of Technology. We'd love your help in spreading the word, and are pleased to extend an invitation to all Ph.D. student fellows and researchers allied with the Canadian Center for Architecture.
The Ph.D. Symposium: Divergence in Architectural Research, will take place on the campus of Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, on March 5-6, 2020. The symposium, organized by the ConCave Ph.D. Program of the School of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology, seeks to create a platform for sharing current research in architecture with invited scholars and other doctoral students, in architecture and allied fields. By divergence, we mean the multiple paths, epistemological frameworks and interrelationships that are active today across the spectrum of architectural research. We hope to bring attention to this state of agency that exists and the emergent future directions this portends.
The Call for Papers invites doctoral students to present their ongoing research. The symposium will act as a nexus for connections with established scholars and fellow researchers. Interested students should submit their abstracts by September 7, 2019, on the symposium website.
FRASCARI SYMPOSIUM IV: Call for papers
The Secret Lives of Architectural Drawings and Models: From Translating to Archiving, Collecting, and Displaying
Kingston University London
Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models, their ownership, placement and authorship in a ubiquitous digital age deserve careful consideration. Despite them being the first handiwork of the architect, not enough attention is given to discussions about the sites of drawing activity, or to the matter of housing them, which is essential to the active relations between drawing and buildings, building and drawings, before, during and after construction.
Expanding on the well-established discussion of the translation from drawings to buildings, the Frascari Symposium IV questions the significance of the lives of drawings and models- before, during and after construction. Where drawings and models dwell in relation to buildings, impacts their seminality and their potential future translations, from drawing to building, building to drawing. In this process of multi-directional and multi-temporal constructions, who has ownership of the drawings and models, and where do they belong?
Robin Evans outlined the translational gap between drawings and buildings. The Latin word translationem during the Renaissance period indicated literally a physical transporting, including that of building elements. The translations of architectural elements were a documented and planned act that resulted from meaningful changes and led to changes in meaning.
The relevance of the physical presence and location of drawings and models within the buildings that they represent, their physical transporting from one place to another, from the places where they have been made to where they are kept during construction, or to designated locations in the thereafter of the fabrication process deserves scholarly critical analysis.
Nowadays, architectural drawings often reside in private, or public archives, and in museum collections housing the body of work of individual architects. This is the case with many collections, including the works of the Modernist masters of architecture. Archives are progressively making their physical collections digitally accessible online facilitating research and potentially having a tangible impact on the future teaching of architecture.
Architectural drawings can sometimes be found in hidden compartments inside the newel post of staircases in buildings from the Victorian up to the Modern period. The attention to maintaining architectural drawings in buildings shifted to the pragmatic aspects of construction drawings. Nowadays a set of working drawings may be kept in mechanical rooms.
The on site presence of elected representations is emblematic of the process of on-site inventory in its dual nature of cultural recollection and fostering of future imaginings. The storytelling of the site, the site of building construction and the edifice exist in various relations to each other extending the lives of drawings in meaningful ways beyond the time of construction, which is often perceived as an end to the translational relations between them. The continuity and contiguity of drawings, models and building may define an extended site, which is open even after construction has ended.
The digital age is characterized by a ubiquitous site of drawing production. Even though it is now possible to reproduce digital drawings and models in multiple originals, facilitating the construction of a twinned theory and pondering its significance, digital drawings and models might not remain fully accessible long into the future due to the rapid obsolescence implied by software development. Archives are faced with the challenge of what and how much to preserve.
Architects and scholars are invited to consider these questions before they become an archival question and plan for the representations that inform the future of an extended site in becoming, if past and future are to engage in meaningful relations. A new criticality requires moving beyond the either/or option of the office, the laboratory, the factory, the construction site as separate fabrication and archival sites. The contemporary architect moves between them looking for a critical presence on the construction site, before, during and after construction.
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Monday's NHL playoffs: Bruins put away Blue Jackets to advance to conference final
The Bruins advanced to the Eastern Conference final for the first time since the 2012-13 season, when they lost in the Stanley Cup finals.
Monday's NHL playoffs: Bruins put away Blue Jackets to advance to conference final The Bruins advanced to the Eastern Conference final for the first time since the 2012-13 season, when they lost in the Stanley Cup finals. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nhl/2019/05/07/bruins-put-away-blue-jackets-advance/1126241001/
Mitch Stacy Published 1:02 a.m. ET May 7, 2019 | Updated 1:28 a.m. ET May 7, 2019
Boston Bruins' David Krejci, of the Czech Republic, celebrates a goal against the Columbus Blue Jackets during the third period of Game 6 Monday. Boston won 3-0 to win the series 4-2. (Photo: Jay LaPrete, Associated Press)
Columbus, Ohio — Tuukka Rask was impenetrable when it counted in Game 6, and the Boston Bruins are on their way to the Eastern Conference final.
Rask made 39 saves and recorded his sixth career playoff shutout as Boston beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-0 Monday night to clinch their second-round series 4-2.
Rask was supported by great defensive play in front of the net by the Bruins, who were outshot 39-29 in a tight physical game that has been the norm in this series.
Boston advances to face the Carolina Hurricanes, who swept the New York Islanders in four games. The Bruins advanced to the Eastern Conference final for the first time since the 2012-13 season, when they lost in the Stanley Cup finals.
"(Rask) was definitely our most consistent player throughout the whole series," Boston coach Bruce Cassidy said. "We had guys give us good performances from game to game. He was there every night."
Boston's top-liners were kept off the scoresheet again, but it didn't matter.
David Krejci scored in the first period , and Marcus Johansson and David Backes had third-period goals for the Bruins, who gave up four power plays to the Blue Jackets but Rask stonewalled Columbus on a number of high-danger chances.
Columbus hit posts at least four times.
"We peppered him," Blue Jackets captain Nick Foligno said. "It wasn't through lack of trying or competing on anyone's part. I thought everyone brought it, and it's just disappointing."
Rask said he put up with increased pushing and shoving in the crease and kept Columbus from taking him out of his game.
"As the series went on, they kind of felt like they needed to do that," Rask said. "Trying to get in my head a little bit. It's funny when that happens because you know you got the better of them at that point."
Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky had an outstanding postseason but allowed the two quick goals in the third period that sealed it for Boston. He finished with 26 saves.
The Bruins appeared to have a goal in the first period when Sean Kuraly put one in after an extended close-in attack on a power play, but it was overturned after a replay showed that Joakim Nordstrom had pushed Bobrovsky out of the crease.
After Jake DeBrusk hit a goal post, Krekci got the rebound off the boards and scored the first goal of the game with a slap shot from the top of the right circle with 7:47 left in the second.
"I was comfortable even with the one-goal lead just the way (Rask) was going," Cassidy said. "You're not sitting there nursing it by any means, but I wasn't worried about Tuukka. … He's been in a real good place, consistent, just solid and composed."
Near the end of the second, Boston's Charlie McAvoy nearly took off Josh Anderson's head with a hit, but the officials leveled only a two-minute minor penalty for an illegal check. The Blue Jackets had 1:41 of the power play remaining to start the third period but again couldn't capitalize.
Boston got its second goal 8:58 into the third when Bobrovsky allowed a shot by Johansson to bounce behind him after the initial stop. Backes got the third on a rush about 2 ½ minutes later .
Columbus faces a daunting offseason. Bobrovsky and star forward Artemi Panarin are unrestricted free agents and have refused, so far, to re-sign with the Blue Jackets. Matt Duchene and Ryan Dzingel, picked up in trades at the deadline, also will be unrestricted free agents.
"We just have to remember how tough it is in the playoffs," Columbus forward Cam Atkinson said. "Next year, who knows what's going to happen, who's going to be in this locker room, so this one stings."
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(At) Colorado 4, San Jose 3, OT: Captain Gabriel Landeskog scored 2:32 into overtime after Colorado squandered a late lead in regulation and the Avalanche beat the Sharks to force a decisive Game 7 in their Western Conference semifinal series.
Landeskog dumped the puck into the zone, turned in a big hit along the boards, got up in time to take a pass from rookie Cale Makar and knock in the goal past Martin Jones to help the Avalanche escape elimination. J.T. Compher had two goals and an assist, while Tyson Jost added another.
Game 7 is Wednesday in San Jose. The winner will play either Dallas or St. Louis in the conference final.
The Stars and Blues are tied heading into Game 7 in St. Louis on Tuesday. The Sharks are 7-4 all-time in Game 7s, including a win over Vegas in the first round, while the Avalanche have a 4-6 mark since relocating to the Mile High City.
Philipp Grubauer made 23 saves, including a pad save on Tomas Hertl early in OT.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic scored twice, including the tying goal off the skate of an Avalanche defenseman with 2:28 remaining, and Brent Burns added another for the Sharks, who fell to 22-19 when opponents are facing elimination.
This has been a back-and-forth series. San Jose captured Game 1 and the two have alternated wins the rest of the way. The combined score in the series is 17-16 in favor of the Sharks.
Colorado has been playing desperate hockey since late in the regular season just trying to sneak into the playoffs. The team went 8-0-2 down the stretch to secure the eighth seed. The Avs haven't lost back-to-back games since mid-March.
"Every game was kind of an elimination game for us, so to speak," defenseman Erik Johnson said. "We didn't have a choice."
The last time Colorado won Game 6 when facing a 3-2 deficit was the 2002 conference semifinals, which also happened to be against San Jose. The Avalanche then knocked off the Sharks 1-0 in Game 7.
Nathan MacKinnon nearly gave Colorado a 4-2 advantage late in the game, but his attempt was deflected away by the stick of Burns. Soon after, Vlasic tied it up when he banked a shot off the right skate of Colorado defenseman Nikita Zadorov. It all was set up when Zadorov broke his stick on the play and Landeskog handed him his.
Colorado took a one-goal lead on two separate occasions in the second period, only to have the Sharks tie it right back up. After Jost scored, Vlasic answered. And after Compher's goal from the blue line, Burns responded with 9.8 seconds left.
It was a painful second period for Mikko Rantanen, who took a hip check from Burns in the right hip/thigh area. Rantanen immediately went to the bench and into the locker room. Rantanen gingerly returned about 4 minutes later.
Colorado hit two posts in a scoreless first period. Jones has surrendered just one goal to Colorado in the opening period all series.
Sharks captain Joe Pavelski made another step toward a return as he went through drills Monday morning at Pepsi Center. He's been out since his head slammed against the ice in Game 7 of a first-round series against Vegas.
"It still really is day-to-day," Pavelski said. "Wish I had a set-in-stone answer – go here, do this and be ready. We're taking everything into play."
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Cybertech Global Tel Aviv conference announces new dates
Due to the spread of the Omicron variant, this much-anticipated gathering is now expected to take place between March 1-3, 2022
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Cybertech Global Tel Aviv, the leading regional summit for the cyber industry, has been postponed to the spread of the Omicron variant. This much-anticipated three-day conference, originally scheduled for January 25-27, 2022, is now expected to take place between March 1-3, 2002
"This decision was taken with the best interest of our community in mind, its health, and safety. We will continue our efforts to deliver the most exceptional in-person event this coming March in Expo Tel Aviv," say the conference organizers.
From Tel Aviv to Tokyo, New York to Kigali, Miami to Singapore – Cybertech Global (owner and operator of IsraelDefense) is the foremost networking platform of the cyber ecosystem, the global hub for the latest innovations, solutions and collaborations.
Cybertech's conferences, exhibitions and industry-related events which take place several times a year around globe, are where business happens, and lasting connections with remarkable people and companies are fostered. Every year, Cybertech Global attracts market-leading companies, government officials, world-renowned speakers, innovative startups, and investors from all sectors
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UK: They are playing a waiting game with us
A special report on the situation for asylum-seekers housed in hotels in the UK. By Ali Zalme (PhD), A British-Kurdish freelance researcher, author of 'Home and Sense of Belonging among Iraqi Kurds in the UK'.
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Pegasus spyware scandal: Cypriot government response to European Parliament questionnaire
"The Republic of Cyprus reaffirms its unwavering commitment to the promotion, protection and effective enjoyment of human rights, both domestically and internationally, and acknowledges that the matter currently inquired by the PEGA Committee has raised questions regarding the actual status of certain rights and freedoms in the EU itself."
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Joint statement: The EU Artifical Intelligence Act must protect people on the move
Joint statement signed by over 160 organisations and 29 individuals, in the run-up to votes in the European Parliament on the position to be taken in negotiations with the Council of the EU.
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Austria calls for EU to adopt UK-style Rwanda plan for refugees
A demand for "asylum procedures in safe third countries" is one of five items on a wishlist put together by Gerhard Karner, Austrian interior minister.
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EU: 'Instrumentalisation' Regulation: latest Council Presidency compromise text
On 21 November, the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU circulated an updated compromise text of the proposed 'Regulation addressing situations of instrumentalisation in the field of migration and asylum'.
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EU: Mediterranean migration plan underpinned by more policing and border enforcement in repressive states
An extraordinary meeting of the EU Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council will take place tomorrow to discuss migration. The European Commission has published a plan setting out the general direction for action in the central Mediterranean. Other documents obtained by Statewatch shed more light on the matter: more intensive police cooperation with repressive states and externalisation of borders instead of relocation of refugees, in full knowledge of the dire situation for people seeking safety, in particular in Libya.
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Schengen border crossing times to increase massively when new database comes into use
EU institutions and member states are racing to have the Entry/Exit System (EES) in place by May 2023. The system will be used for the biometric registration of all travellers to the EU, compiling the times and places they entered and left the bloc. Stay times will be automatically calculated with the hope of catching and removing 'overstayers'. However, the waiting time for travellers at borders looks set to increase substantially. A compilation of member states' comments gives an overview of progress with the system's implementation.
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Council seeks to water down human rights safeguards in migration "instrumentalisation" rules
References to child's best interest and non-refoulement removed; derogations could be applied to people "disembarked following search and rescue operations".
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New Europol rules massively expand police powers and reduce rights protections
The new rules governing Europol, which came into force at the end of June, massively expand the tasks and powers of the EU's policing agency whilst reducing external scrutiny of its data processing operations and rights protections for individuals, says a report published today by Statewatch.
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New online map of the EU's 'interoperable' immigration and policing databases
Statewatch has published an online 'map' providing a visual representation of, and information on, the data architecture in the European Union's "area of freedom, security and justice".
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New document collection available on Frontex and "operational personal data"
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Europol management board in breach of new rules as soon as they came into force
The EU's police agency, Europol, has landed itself in trouble again. Having been formally admonished by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) late last year for its illegal processing of vast quantities of personal data, and in September for refusing an access request to the personal data of a political activist and trying to cover it up by deleting his data from the system, Statewatch can now reveal that the agency's management board was in breach of the new rules governing the agency as soon as they came into force in June.
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Migrant smuggling in the Western Balkans: Europol, Frontex and EU Asylum Agency presentations
On 28 September the Council of the EU's Working Party on External Aspects of Asylum and Migration (EMWP) discussed migrant smuggling in the Western Balkans. Representatives of Europol, Frontex and the EU Asylum Agency were there to give presentations, which we are publishing here.
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Tracking the Pact: EU seeks to seal off Balkan Route with expanded Frontex deployments
The European Commission wants to launch negotiations with Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Albania so that EU border agency Frontex can extend its zone of operations. Currently, Frontex operations in those states can only take place at the borders they share with EU member states, in accordance with the 2016 Frontex Regulation. Upgrading the EU's agreements with the Balkan states to take into account the powers granted to Frontex by the 2019 Regulation will make it possible to deploy EU border guards at non-EU borders - for example, between Bosnia and Serbia, or between Serbia and Montenegro. An agreement with North Macedonia has already been signed. The aim is to halt the irregular movement of people through the Balkans towards "core" EU member states.
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EU: Anti-encryption Regulation: Presidency compromise proposals for Chapter I and Chapter III
Negotiations are proceedings on the EU's proposed Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse, which will oblige communications service providers to undermine encryption and use unproven automated detection technologies in the hope of detecting online child abuse imagery. In mid-October, the Czech Presidency of the Council circulated compromise proposals on Chapter III, dealing with supervision, enforcement and cooperation. Two weeks later, proposals on Chapter I (general provisions) followed. They are published here.
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Council agrees to "intensify police checks related to illegal immigration across the entire territory"
At a meeting of the 'Schengen Council' on 14 October, interior ministers agreed to a number of recommendations on "the migration situation" supposed to address "the current challenging situation at the external borders". Those recommendations have not, until now, been made public.
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Spanish government approves another €30 million for migration control in Morocco
On Tuesday last week Spain's Council of Ministers approved sending another €30 million to the Moroccan authorities for migration control purposes, the fourth such financial aid package since 2019, according to an article in Spanish newspaper Público.
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'Voluntary Solidarity Platform' for relocating refugees failing to meet targets
On 22 September the European Commission hosted a meeting on the "Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism" (VSM), the latest ad-hoc system set up to relocate refugees from the EU's Mediterranean member states to other member states. It appears that the speed of transfers is not as quick as is hoped, with the conclusions noting that it is "crucial that all Member State initiate to implement the pledges," with the need for "a higher pace of transfers already ahead of the December Council meeting."
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Council of the EU discussing migration and security on the 'Silk Route' and Prague Process action plan
The growth of EU policy-making on the "external dimension of migration" shows no sign of abating. Two recent documents, published here, cover "migration and security challenges on the Silk Route" and a Ministerial Declaration and the 2023-27 Action Plan for the Prague Process.
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namespace Mautic\Middleware;

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class VersionCheckMiddleware implements HttpKernelInterface, PrioritizedMiddlewareInterface
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Indians Uniform Number - 6 (Part 3 of 3)
Today, I present to you the final installment of the Uniform Number 6 contenders. I will let you mull over the players, and then I will post my pick for All-Time Triber in a #6 uniform sometime this weekend. Enjoy the trip down Tribe-way #6:
Jorge Orta - 2 seasons (1980-81) - Orta may have only played two seasons with the Tribe, but he batted .291 his first year and .272 his second. In 1980, he was selected for the All-Star game, but in those days, not everyone played, so he sat the bench. Over his time with the Indians, he struck out only 10.6% of the time! He was walked just hair more than that. When I was a kid, he was one of my favorite Indians players, and until now, I had not realized that he only played in two seasons with Cleveland. Here's an interesting tidbit: "On June 15, 1980, while playing for the Cleveland Indians, Orta collected 5 singles and 1 double in 6 at bats in a nine inning game, making him one of only 35 American leaguers to have accomplished such a feat" (Wikipedia). I also read that Harry Caray called him "George" Orta, which is funny, because also until now, I thought his name WAS George...
Jose Escobar - 1 season (1991) - Escobar played in 10 games during his MLB career. In his 15 at-bats, he got 3 hits (1 RBI), 1 walk, and 4 strike outs. His time with the Indians and his baseball career ended with a .200 average. I found the image on eBay, and to be honest, I don't even know if it is the same Escobar or not. For the sake of argument, I'll say it is.
Ken Keltner - 12 seasons (1937-1944, 46-49) - Keltner couldn't decide just what number he wanted to wear. He spent 4-1/2 as Number 25, then 3-1/2 as Number 8, and three as Number 6. Figuring out just where to cast him in the voting is going to be tough. Keltner appeared in SEVEN All-Star games and the '48 World Series. He batted in one game his rookie year, and though he was not walked nor did he get a hit, he managed to score an RBI. I have no idea how he managed to do that, so if you know, feel free to chime in. While wearing Number 6 (1947-1949), he scored 175 runs on 362 hits. He had 62 doubles, 9 triples, and 50 home runs, which led to 225 RBIs over the three year span. His average during that time was .262, giving him two all-star appearances and his ALCS amazing feat. Feat, you ask? Keltner had a single, a double, and a three-run homer that went over the Green Monster in the first-ever one-game playoff. Over his entire Tribe career, Keltner's stats include: 5655 at-bats, 735 runs on 1561 hits with 306 doubles, 69 triples, and 163 home runs, all of which led to 850 RBIs. He was walked 511 times and struck out 474 times. He came to play. His Indians career average was .249. And if all that weren't enough, he is the guy whose career is responsible for the "Keltner List" of thought-provoking questions Hall of Fame voters should ask themselves before making a selection. (more info on the Keltner list here) Sidebar: I reference Wikipedia more often than I personally care to, but when it comes to down-and-dirty easy-to-find info, it is hard to beat. Just remember to take everything on "what-the?"-pedia with a grain of salt, okay?
Larry Doby - 10 seasons (1947-56, 58) - I hate to disappoint you, but Doby only wore the Number 6 for part of one season. He wore the Number 14 for every other season (including the pother part of the one he wore Number 6). Because of this, he is listed in the Number 6-wearing players as a matter of being "official," but I am going to save my all-out discussion of him for Number 14. I will say, however, for those that may not know, Doby is the first black baseball player to play in the American League. Jackie Robinson received much of the "fanfare," and I think Doby himself had a lot to do with the muted celebration of his initial appearance in the MLB: "Lawrence, you are going to be part of history." - Indians' owner Bill Veeck "Part of history? I have no notions about that. I just want to play baseball." - Larry Doby (as quoted on baseball-almanac.com)
Mark McLemore - Part of 1 season (1990) - McLemore finished out the 1990 season with Tribe, after being let go by the Angels. He batted in 8 games, getting 2 runs on 2 hits and striking out 6 times. He came to the Indians with a .146 average and left the Indians with a .167. That about says it all.
Minnie Minoso - 3+ seasons (1949, part of 51, 1958-59) - Minoso, like Keltner, did not sport the Number 6 for long. In fact, he wore it only during his 8 games in 1951. He wore the Number 18 in '49 and the Number 9 for the other times as a Triber. While wearing Number 6, though, he managed to pull off a .429 average. Now, this was 1951, in which he only had 14 at-bats. Those 14 at-bats netted him 3 runs on 6 hits with 2 doubles, 2 RBIs, a walk, and a strike out. He was also hit by the ball twice. Ouch. I have no idea what the Indians were thinking, but they gave up a guy batting .429 to the White Sox for Lou Brissie. Brissie was a pitcher who had 3.20+ ERA's while with the Tribe. That'll make you scratch your head. We'll be taking a closer look at Minoso's career when we get to Number 9. But, to whet your whistle, except for his rookie year, he never batted less than .302 for the Tribe, and amazingly, he batted that .302 in back-to-back seasons!
Moose Solters - 2+ seasons (1937 - half of 1939) - Julius (as he was born) came to the Tribe from St. Louis in 1937 and knocked out a .323 average. He belted a career-high 20 home runs that season. In 1938, he played in half as many games and his average sank to .201, getting just 40 hits on 199 at-bats. He pulled things together in '39 for a .275 average before being traded back to the St. Louis Browns. He was born and died in my hometown of Pittsburgh.
Paul O'Dea - 2 seasons (1944-45) - What happens when you take an outfielder and ask him to pitch? In his rookie year, O'Dea pitched 4.1 innings and had an ERA of 2.08. The next year, he pitched in one game (2 innings) and gave himself a 13.5 ERA. That's what happens! His rookie year at the plate was a different story. In 173 at-bats, he had 55 hits, 25 runs, 9 doubles with 13 RBIs for a very nice .318. That fell off his 2nd year, dropping to a .235 before he was let go. At least his overall career average was .272, all the while keeping the same number on his jersey. Oh, did I mention he was completely blind in one eye as the result of a freak accident during training camp in 1940? A .272 career with only ONE EYE!?
Ray Mack - 8 seasons (1938-1944, '46) - We first met Mack wearing the number 2. In 1940, Mack was part of the Feller/Boudreau killer defense of the Tribe and managed to get himself on the AL All-Stars with a .283 average (his full-season career high). He is most notably known for saving Bob Feller's 1940 opening day no-hitter with a diving catch for the final out. His eight-season stint with the Indians was a roller coaster ride, ranging from a rookie-year two-game .333 average to a 61-game final Tribe year average of .205. He covered the gamut in-between that time span. As a Triber, he ended up with a .235 overall average that covered 2629 at-bats which produced 264 runs on 612 hits with 107 doubles, 24 triples, and 32 homers for a total of 266 RBIs. He was walked 256 times while sporting an Indians uniform and struck out 350 times. He sported the Number 6 for five of his seasons, but wore #36, #38, and #2 for one season each.
Rocky Colavito - 7+ seasons (5 games in 1955, 1956-'59, 1965-'67) - Colavito was a fickle a jersey number wearer could be. He wore #38 his first three seasons, #6 for the next two, then #21 when he came back in 1965. During his full major league career, Rocky has ELEVEN straight 20+ home run seasons, and actually averaged 32 homers during that time span. Holy smokes! Some folks may not know this, but he actually pitched in a game in 1958. He pitched three innings with 3 walks and one strike out. There were no hits made against him, so he accrued a 0.00 ERA. Talk about an all-star player! Unfortunately, he is also blamed for the drought of post-season appearances by the Tribe until the 90's (refer to Kuenn, another #6 uniform wearer). In his first season with the Tribe, he played in five games. In 9 at-bats, he scored 3 runs on 4 hits with two doubles and two strike outs - a whopping .444 out of the gate! As an Indian, he had only two sub-.250 seasons, 1966 and '67. His overall Indians career stats are full of big numbers: 464 runs on 851 hits with 136 doubles and 190 home runs. He also hit 9 triples (better than one per season average) and brought in 574 RBIs. He was walked almost as often as he struck out (468 walks, 478 strike outs). In just over seven seasons, he earned a .287 batting average with a 369 OBP and a 508 slugging percentage. Oh yeah, he also made six career all-star appearances, half of which were during his Tribe-playing days. We'll take a look at some of his other feats as the countdown rolls on!
Willie Tasby - 1+ seasons (part of 1962-'63) - Tasby was better known for his days as an Oriole, and even more so for his being on the Red Sox with Ted Williams. Like other Tribers in this list, he couldn't decide what number to be. In '62, he wore #6 and in '63, he switched to #28. If there are any players out there, or future players, please, for the love of Pete, please pick a number and stick with it... I digress as the wee hours of the evening begin to creep in. As a #6er, Tasby had 199 at-bats with 25 runs on 48 hits. He was also walked 25 times. I'm sure there's a connection there somewhere. His average for that season was .241, and the next, he may have traded up in uniform numbers, but his average slipped to .224. At least he can say he played with Williams and watched from the bench as Williams hit his last home run.
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Stephen @ Bear River May 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Don't blame Tasby. Almost every Indian uniform number changed between 1962 and 1963 when Gabe Paul tried to bring the National League's "uniform number by position" system to the AL. In this system, begun by the Reds in the 1930s, all pitchers wore 30-49; outfielders, 20-29; infielders, 10-19 (18 in Cleveland's case); catchers, coaches and managers, 1-9. Selected other changes included Jerry Kindall, from 1 (1962) to 14 ('63); Woodie Held, 3 to 12; Johnny Romano, 11 to 5; Tito Francona, 14 to 24; Dick Donovan, 20 to 30. Pitchers Gary Bell (39) and Mudcat Grant (33) didn't have to change as their pre-1963 numbers fit in with the new scheme.
BTW, can anyone post a list of uniform numbers for Cleveland COACHES since 1932? Thanks!
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DATE OF LAST REVISION: JUNE 1, 2020
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"HqO Service" has the meaning set forth in the Customer Agreement, and does not include any Third Party Service.
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Any outage, network unavailability, or downtime outside the HqO Data Center.
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Availability Objective
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Availability Calculation
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White Evangelicals Largely Approve Of How Trump Is Handling The Coronavirus Outbreak
Even when faced with plague and pestilence, white evangelicals are placing their hopes in President Donald Trump.
About 7 in 10 white evangelical Christians approve of the way Trump is handling issues related to the coronavirus outbreak, including 52% who strongly approve of his performance, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted over the weekend.
In contrast, only 45% of all American adults surveyed said they strongly or somewhat approve of how Trump is handling the outbreak.
Seventy percent of white evangelicals also approve of the way the U.S. government is managing the outbreak. Only 47% of all respondents surveyed said the same.
The data suggests that the president's most loyal religious supporters are standing by their man despite reports of infighting and indecision at the White House as the pandemic unfolded.
Until recently, Trump sought to downplay the threat of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Since January, he has lied repeatedly about the severity of the threat and about the U.S. government's ability to handle an outbreak ― at one point claiming that criticism of his coronavirus strategy was a hoax concocted by Democrats to undermine his presidency.
But Trump's approach to the virus has changed in recent days, as he has announced new measures to curb the spread of the pandemic and boost the economy. The president has also canceled campaign events in light of the virus.
White evangelicals are on the same page as all Americans about the need to cancel large events such as conferences or political rallies due to the coronavirus. Seventy percent of white evangelicals said these cancellations were the right decision, which is about the same percentage as all respondents.
A 61% majority of white evangelicals said the U.S. government has a responsibility to provide free coronavirus testing for any Americans who might have the virus ― that's 11 percentage points lower than the public as a whole. Roughly half (48%) of white evangelicals said the government has a responsibility to provide free medical treatment for confirmed cases, 14 points lower than the result among all Americans. White evangelicals' views on these two questions aligned quite closely to those of Republican respondents ― which makes sense since most white evangelicals lean Republican.
However, there are some key differences. For example, Republicans are about 18 points likelier than white evangelicals to say they approve of Trump's handling of the outbreak. Republicans are also more likely than white evangelicals to say that they are at least somewhat confident that the U.S. government's statements about the coronavirus are reliable and accurate (82% vs. 67%). Looking at the bigger picture, about 46% of all respondents said they're confident that the government's statements about the virus are reliable and accurate, while 41% said they're not very or not all confident.
Partisan disagreements about government preparedness during disease outbreaks are nothing new. During President Barack Obama's presidency, surveys suggested that Republicans were far less confident than Democrats in the federal government's ability to respond effectively to Ebola in 2014. And when President George W. Bush was in charge, the opposite was true during a potential avian influenza outbreak in 2006.
This week, many of Trump's closest evangelical allies tweeted to thank the president for designating Sunday as a national day of prayer.
Franklin Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham, praised Trump for reminding the country to turn to God for strength and protection in difficult times.
The HuffPost/YouGov poll consisted of 1,000 completed interviews conducted March 13-15 among U.S. adults, using a sample selected from YouGov's opt-in online panel to match the demographics and other characteristics of the adult U.S. population. The poll included a subgroup of 211 white respondents who described themselves as evangelical Christians, the majority of whom identified as Protestants.
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Q: Notation for null vector with one entry = 1 Is there a common notation for a vector which has all elements equal to 0 except for one, which is equal to 1? I was considering using a Kronecker delta, but the standard use of two subscripts, $\delta_{ij}$, seems unnecessary since it is a vector and therefore a rank 1 tensor, whereas the two indices suggest a rank 2 tensor. Any thoughts?

A: A common notation (the most common, as far as I am aware) for a vector with one component $1$ and all other components $0$ is $e_i$, where the $1$ is in the $i$-th place. This notation is not only common for vectors in $F^n$, where $F$ is a field, also in sequence spaces ($\ell^p$ etc.) and products $F^A$ where $A$ is an uncountable index set, and subspaces thereof (like $\ell^p(A)$).


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Rush Green, Barking & Dagenham/Havering
A predominantly white working-class neighbourhood situated south-west of Romford
The hamlet, with its green where the rushes grew, was first recorded in 1651 and retained a concentration of small farms until the late 19th century. In 1871 the Romford burial board opened a cemetery on Crow Lane to replace the former parochial graveyard. The first residential development was the Birkbeck estate of 1885, consisting of West Road, Wolseley Road, Grosvenor Road and Birkbeck Road.
Rush Green hospital opened in 1900 as an isolation unit for Romford, Dagenham and Hornchurch and was enlarged to become a general hospital after the creation of the Becontree estate.
Romford council built some of its earliest houses in Rush Green in the 1920s. A mission hall was provided at Rush Green in 1946 and the brown-brick St Augustine's church was built on Birkbeck Road in 1958, later gaining its own parish made up of corners of Romford, Dagenham and Hornchurch.
Rush Green College was established in 1961 and has since expanded to become the main campus of the vocationally oriented Barking & Dagenham College.
The area has seen significant housing association building in recent times, and there has been a small increase in the size of its ethnic minority population. Rush Green hospital closed in 1995 and its site has now been covered by houses arranged in a series of cul-de-sacs with flowery names.
In 2009 West Ham United bought the former Ford sports ground on Rush Green Road and redeveloped the 29-acre site as a training facility, which has been used by the first-team squad since 2016. West Ham's women's team play their home fixtures at the facility's stadium, which is located just beyond the western edge of the map below.
Despite the open spaces that flank it on most sides, Rush Green feels like an untidy part of east London's peripheral sprawl. The fact that it straddles two boroughs may have contributed to the locality's unfocused form. (Click here to see the borough boundary on Streetmap.)
The entertainer Max Bygraves lived on Thornton's Farm Avenue after the Second World War and performed in local pubs.
Postcode area: Romford RM7
* The picture of Rush Green Gardens on this page is adapted from an original photograph, copyright Glyn Baker, at Geograph Britain and Ireland, made available under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Licence. Any subsequent reuse is freely permitted under the terms of that licence.


I'm sitting under a tree in the shade, sorting through piles of maps. Some I've found here; some I've brought with me. They're rectangles mostly, a few folded, others spread out- the creases adding to the flattened landscape. They are floating and stacked, underneath and on top.
"Put them aside and choose a path- just decide on a route. I know it's hard; there are too many choices, too many maps."
This one could bring us treasure, that one doom. We may land in the water with that one, or locked up with this. I see dotted lines, markings and notes. Previous keepers of the maps must have left these for me.
It's all here. All options are included on these rectangles. Paintings made of other paintings, sections dug up, carried away from the dig site, and finally, put back down.
Are we still on Peach Beach? How should we use these maps? To explore deep inland? Maybe we should use them to get off the island.
I can't sit still under the tree. There are many paths for these familiar traveling thoughts. Looking for grids and things to hold on to.
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Want to know more about jazz?
Intrigued by jazz? This is a series of fortnightly sessions run by the University of the Third Age (U3A), which is a learning co-operative of people no longer in full time employment and has a (modest) membership fee. More details of the U3A and membership can be found here.
The Jazz Appreciation group meets fortnightly at the atmospheric Verdict Jazz Club. By listening and watching jazz via recordings, DVD presentations and You Tube downloads, the group looks at jazz styles and musicians from across the world. In Spring 2017 they hope to look at the work of renowned recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder, iconic pianist McCoy Tyner, the jazz clubs of New York City – as well as Brighton-based double bassist and composer Terry Pack.


This report outlines strategies aimed at building communities through the use of a Social Inclusion Framework. This framework was created to serve as a helpful tool for policy creation and implementation. It adds social infrastructure to the already existing programs and initiatives that support the physical and economic infrastructures of municipalities. Social inclusion recognizes the interrelationship of health, social well-being and economic prosperity.
This report highlights the findings from 11 'soundings' organized by the Laidlaw Foundation during the summer-fall of 2002. These 'soundings' took place in ten communities across Canada to elicit community perspectives on the social issues facing urban centres and the civic capacities required to respond to these issues. More than 240 community participants contributed their views in this process. This report reflects the community soundings' identification of four broad areas important to creating social infrastructure for inclusive and supportive communities.


Palolo Elementary fifth-grader Brazen Malong reads to his 5-year-old sister Kalinani. Brazen, along with other fifth-grade volunteers, shows up on campus at 7:30 a.m. to tutor his sister. The school may face federal sanctions because of low test scores.


BOSTON -- Massachusetts has plenty to gain or lose as policymakers weigh the state's response to the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on sports betting.
After all, the state is home to some of the nation's most ardent sports fans and successful professional sports franchises.
Massachusetts' first two resort-style casinos, both scheduled to open in the coming months, have a vested interest in decisions the state makes about legalized sports wagering.
Massachusetts also is home to DraftKings, the Boston-based company hoping to expand its daily fantasy sports offering to include sports betting in states that allow it.
About the only certainty, however, is that no major decisions are expected on Beacon Hill anytime soon.
Some states are moving swiftly to legalize sports betting -- perhaps by the start of the NFL season in September.
Massachusetts isn't one of them.
Democratic House Speaker Robert DeLeo has all but ruled out passing any new laws around sports betting during the legislative session that ends July 31, citing the complexity involved.
"These aren't very easy questions that you can just expect to resolve in a short period of time and say, 'OK, let's just do it this way and see how it works and them come back later,"' DeLeo said. "I think we have to listen to all sides pro and con ... and come up with a piece of legislation that I think we can all be proud of.
The speaker indicated he is likely to tap Rep. Joseph Wagner to take the lead on crafting any sport betting proposal. The Chicopee Democrat was among the principal authors of the 2011 law that legalized casino gambling in Massachusetts.
"It's more important to get it right than to do it quickly," said Wagner, in response to questions about whether Massachusetts risks falling behind other states. "I think only time will tell whether states that have already taken action will in fact have gotten it right."
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker also has said much "homework" is needed before any conclusions are reached.
If sports betting were to be legalized in the Bay State, would it be allowed online or through mobile apps? Would it be offered through the state lottery? How would the tax rate be set? Who would regulate and enforce rules around sports betting and make sure children and teens are protected?
Those are just a handful of the thorny issues policymakers need to sort out.
Other concerns include protecting the integrity of sporting events and preventing a surge in gambling addiction.
The Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling has urged lawmakers to keep in mind "the protection of those suffering from or at risk of developing a gambling disorder."
In February, prior to the Supreme Court ruling, an analysis of the potential market for legalized sports betting by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission projected annual state tax revenues would be between $8.6 million and $61.3 million.
The calculations were based on three potential tax rates, 6.75 percent, 10 percent or 15 percent, along with three models for the availability and ease of sports betting: "limited," "moderate," or "convenient." Those rates and terms were borrowed from a 2017 national study by the American Gaming Association.
Using the lowest tax rate and a limited availability model, the Gaming Commission's analysis arrived at the $8.6 million estimate; a 10 percent tax rate with moderate availability would produce revenues of about $27.2 million, and combining a 15 percent rate with convenient availability of sports betting options generated the $61.3 million estimate.


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If Oklahoma Was A Candle, What Would It Smell Like?
Kelso Published: January 24, 2022
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I stumbled across a thread on the Oklahoma reddit that almost instantly made me snort a little laugh just based on the headline. The comments and replies only drove the comedy further.
Simply put, if a company were to make a candle that smelled of Oklahoma, what would it smell like?
It all stems from your typical bunch of born or adopted Okies that somehow remain completely clueless about the state in which they live.
So there is a company in Fort Wayne, Indiana called Simple Nature that makes what are called air-diffusers. Imagine a candle you don't have to light with fire. You simply insert some stick-like reeds into the concoction of essential oils and the wicking action releases that scent into the air. They were really popular in the 90s.
As a schtick, the company makes these diffusers named after cities, states, and countries. Marketing 101: Tie someone's sense of identity to the product and they'll buy it. Naturally, there's an Oklahoma scented one.
From the website:
Welcome to the land of hidden treasures, from the bygone days of the wild-and-rowdy Great American Frontier, sparkling lakes, glorious mountains, cypress-lined bayous and picturesque towns, Oklahoma has a place for you.
...to which reddits most undereducated Okies respond with your average, everyday dumping on this state because "nothing is in Oklahoma."
For the record, while there are no natural lakes, there are some real sparklers off in the Northeastern part of the state. Obviously, there are glorious mountains here in the Southwest portion, and if you travel far enough to the Southeast you'll stumble across magnificent cypress-lined swamps and bayous.
Spend enough time exploring the state, you'll find those picturesque towns too. Drive down the historic downtown areas of Guthrie, Broken Arrow, Ponca City, or countless other old small towns across this state and tell me it's not picturesque. Martin Scorsese just wrapped filming for Killers Of The Flower Moon in Pawhuska and Fairfax, chosen because they are so historically accurate to the early 20th century and picturesque all the same.
I've said it before, I'll say it again... If the people that lived in Oklahoma got out more and explored Oklahoma, they'd stop complaining about Oklahoma. Too many people are way too comfortable living in their own little bubble. With that, we're back on topic and on to the fun stuff.
I think it's fair to say that each place you can visit has a distinctive smell. That being said, I don't think you can just easily cram Oklahoma into just one candle. There are so many different places that are diverse and unique. It's a loaded question beyond what most people can answer. Instead, here are a few different candles to represent the places I've lived and traveled to in Oklahoma.
America's Various Lawton's Ranked
For the record, Canada has a Lawton way off in Alberta but it doesn't count because a country's chosen icon can't be a leaf when it should have been an equally awesome bird of prey. 'Merica.
New Oklahoma Laws On The Books In 2022
Over 350 new laws have taken effect in Oklahoma this year. It's practically impossible to keep them all organized and well known. Here's a shortlist of the new Oklahoma laws that will most likely affect you.
Legal Means Of Capital Punishment In Oklahoma
Oklahoma is the only state in the nation that offers more than two ways to carry out a death sentence. Here there are explained for the curious.
Source: If Oklahoma Was A Candle, What Would It Smell Like?
Categories: Oklahoma News, Opinion
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Oklahoma Restaurants and Chefs Among Semifinalists for James Beard Awards


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SSEP National Conference, July 2-3, 2013, at Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Delegations Arrive from Around the Nation
Published on July 1, 2013 by Jeff Goldstein in News, Program News
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum as seen from the National Mall in Washington, DC.
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education are proud to host the 2013 SSEP National Conference at the Museum on July 2 and 3, 2013.
Delegations from 12 SSEP communities will be in attendance, with oral presentations from 15 student microgravity research teams.
All student teams that were engaged in SSEP experiment design and proposal writing—across all six SSEP flight opportunities to date (SSEP on STS-134 and STS-135, and Missions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to ISS)—were invited to attend their own research conference with their teachers and school administrators, and their families. The conference provides a formal gathering place where students present on their experiment designs, and those teams that flew experiments report results.
An invitation was also warmly extended to representatives of the over 350 partnering organizations, including underwriting institutions, and research institutions whose researchers have been engaged as expert advisors and as members of Step 1 Proposal Review Boards, and to members of the SSEP Step 2 Review Boards.
The SSEP National Conference is taking place in one of the most visited museums on the planet, and in the Moving Beyond Earth gallery. A section of the gallery will remain open to the public so that the conference can be part of the public visitorship experience.
The conference was also scheduled immediately before July 4th in the nation's capital, so that attendees can stay on and watch the 4th of July fireworks on the National Mall.
For an overview of the Conference agenda, descriptions of the student oral presentations, and descriptions of featured presentations, you are invited to visit the 2013 SSEP National Conference page.