SCOCAL in the news and its recent growth spurt (with a new feature in development too).
We have 67 students in our Advanced Legal Research class this spring (67!) and they each have to write two annotations. The first is due today, so 67 new annotations will be appearing online before (or perhaps at) the first stroke of midnight.
Later this summer, in partnership with a law firm, we will be adding a new feature to the database, so please stay tuned.
There are many more posted at SFGate.com.
without paying for them, either in book form or online. . . .
Into this maze of fuzzy law and competing ownership claims enters Carl Malamud, who for 15 years or so has used the Internet to liberate information that nominally exists in the public domain. He has pulled up federal court decisions, corporate filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission and, in an example of near performance art, the copyright registrations at the United States Copyright Office.
"So many people have been moving into the public domain and putting up fences," he said in an interview from his office in Sebastopol, Calif., where he runs a one-man operation, public.resource.org, on a budget of about $1 million a year. Much of that money goes to buy material, usually in print form, that he then scans into his computer and makes available on the Internet without restriction.
As of Labor Day, he had put, he estimates, more than 50 percent of the nation's 11 public safety codes online, including rules for fire prevention. "We have material from all 50 states, but we don't have all 11 codes for all 50 states," he said.
In the latest instance of states claiming copyright over their laws, public information activist Carl Malamud posted the California Code of Regulations online at public.resource.org. According to the Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, Calif., the state government is asserting a copyright over its laws so that people will be forced to buy a digital copy for $1,556 or a print copy for $2,315. The state rakes in nearly $1 million a year from sales of its code.
Oregon relented in June following negotiations with Mr. Malamud and Mr. Stanley.
Mr. Malamud told the Press Democrat he is willing to go to court.
"If that happens, it opens the doors to innovation," he said.
III. FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1: A REAL CHANGE?
C. Is Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 a Real Change?
IV. COURTS SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO GIVE UNPUBLISHED OPINIONS THE RESPECT THEY ARE OWED.
A. Skidmore v. Swift & Co.
A. Why Do Attorneys Want to Use Unpublished Opinions?
B. Can Attorneys Provide Competent Representation Under No-Citation Rules?
C. Are Attorneys Able to Provide Diligent Representation in the Face of No-Citation Rules?
D. Can an Attorney Argue Points Based on Unpublished Opinions Without Bringing a Frivolous Claim?
E. Does an Attorney Ethically Have to Cite an Unpublished Opinion Contrary to His or Her Position in Jurisdictions Where No-Citation Rules are Banned?
F. Is Ignoring Unpublished Opinions in Criminal Cases a Violation of the Constitution?
With the availability of unpublished opinions, the original reasons for no-citation rules no longer justify their continued existence. In the face of a long and heated debate, FRAP 32.1 is a step toward appropriately addressing the problems associated with unpublished opinions. Citation to unpublished opinions is extremely important. However, FRAP 32.1 is extremely limited and allows unpublished opinions only to reach the very bottom tier of precedent, which does not require courts to give unpublished opinions any particular weight.
Courts should employ a uniform rule requiring a Skidmore type deference that gives unpublished opinions respect when due based on four factors: (1) if the facts are indistinguishable; (2) if the unpublished opinion is issued in the same or a controlling court; (3) if the opinion addresses a unique question of law or fact not addressed in published opinions; and (4) all those other factors which give it power to persuade, if lacking power to control. Such a rule would bring uniformity to the treatment of unpublished opinions across federal circuits, give strong guidance to attorneys in assessing their cases, and balance the concerns of judicial efficiency and judicial accountability.
Attorneys face real ethical conundrums even though FRAP 32.1 has prohibited no-citation rules in federal circuits. Attorneys are still bound to (1) local federal rules for unpublished opinions issued prior to January 1, 2007 and (2) the rules of the state courts in which they practice. This means that attorneys must carefully consider their ethical duties of competence, diligence, candor toward the tribunal, the appearance of frivolous claims, and also consider whether they are violating their duties of effective assistance of counsel owed to criminal defendants. Until a uniform rule is in place, such as requiring a Skidmore type deference, attorneys will continue to face challenging ethical conundrums in relation to unpublished opinions.


France is the city of astonishing and fascinating beauty and it is an epitome of paradise. Apart from beauty, the most crucial point that is related to this city is its astounding native language i.e. French. There are numerous compelling points that are related to this beautiful and literary language and i.e. this language is a perfect blend of Vulgar Latin, which is full of Roman essence. This language has got enough of its own advantages and in the contemporary world, the knowledge of French language can be prolific in various corners of career.
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The privileges of learning French language are numerous. Having the knowledge of English with French can be fruitful in the international market as French is spoken in various countries like in Switzerland, Canada, Belgium and in the continents of Africa. Apart from this, the prime reason behind learning the French language is that France has the fifth biggest economy and it stands in the third rank of foreign investment. Therefore, one can easily deduce that learning the French language can present amazing and remarkable results. Hence, if you are daunting for the French tutoring then must visit Preply, as there are many experts and skilled teachers, who can assist you better.
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Frankly, I never wanted to do pitcher projections, but I didn't feel I could avoid it if I did the hitter projections from NPB to MLB. I'd never seen pitcher projections done, and I'm still unfamiliar with the workings of the other efforts out there to do such projections of pitchers. I thought I could get away with simply using the inverse of the factors for hitters, and so I tried that. The truth is, it didn't work too well.
I didn't have much of a clue on how to fix the pitching projections for quite some time. The first breakthrough I had was the realization that projecting runs based upon the runs (allowed, scored, or batted in) in one place to the other league when the leagues have such differing effects on the pieces which make up those runs just doesn't work. What I'm trying to say is that average is much less effected by the difference of the leagues than homers are. As a result, an Ichiro will retain much more of his value in the majors from NPB than a power hitter like Hideki Matsui will. If you try to use one run factor for both Hideki Matsui and Ichiro, that truth is lost in the run and RBI projections. If you project the run and RBI figures from how many runs each man projects to produce under a runs created formula, Hideki Matsui's RBI and runs scored will be reduced more than Ichiro's will, as will occur in real life. The same is true for pitchers.
The means for calculating pitching runs came from Bill James' component ERA. I tried to use component ERA on the existing conversions of hits, homers, walks, and homers, and it was quite clear that my conversion factors worked poorly, especially the ones for walks and strikeouts. A major problem, beyond even the fact these particular statistics do not seem to project quite as well as many of the others, was that the factors were based on the hitters that played in both leagues. This subset of hitters had a lot of slow power hitters, and few singles hitters. This created major distortions in the conversion factors.
From the runs, I calculated a won-loss percentage using Bill James Pythagorean Theorem, and gave each starter one decision for each 9 innings pitched. As before, for pitchers from 1990 on, I allowed their innings pitched to rise in the projection, as innings pitched in Japan had dropped to levels similar to what one would expect in the majors in seasons as short as those played in Japan. Reliever won/lost totals were left alone, as the way the pitcher is used has such a dramatic effect on won-lost records for relievers that I thought it best not to mess with it. Saves were reduced if a pitcher's ERA rose over 3.00 by a very crude approach. Now I had all the means to try my new adjustment method, and I think it performs much better.
Now, it is time to show you how this method performs so you can decide for yourself. I'll do projections from the last five seasons of the main pitchers imported from Japan in the 1990's (so long as they played at least that many), then put a break, then show their first five seasons in the majors (again, so long as they played that many). After that, I'll make some comment on how I think the projection performed for that pitcher.
It's a little hard to make the comparisons for him as he was used as a starter in Japan, and as a reliever in the majors. He pitched better than the projection, but I've got to wonder how much of the improvement was due to the change in role.
I'd say he pitched a bit better than his projection.


Women's jacket from Hima Ālaya. Collected by Cameron David Warner 2018.
Nyema Dronma's collection of contemporary women's fashion draws on her life growing up in urban Lhasa and her education in fashion design at the London College of Fashion. Here she uses plant-based materials to update the sheepskin look typical of Tibetan peasants and nomads.
Men's formal robes from Rewa. Collected by Cameron David Warner 2018.
Opera Mask Hooded Sweatshirt (from the 1376 store) Collected by Cameron David Warner 2018.
This hooded sweatshirt features an opera performer's white mask on the hood when fully zipped up. Look for it in the music video by the hip-hop group Anu Ranglug. Mixing hip-hop and opera helps to introduce classical Tibetan opera to a new generation of young, urban Tibetans.
Untitled (2017), by Nyema Dronma (b. 1995).
Nyema Dronma suggested that I collect this photograph of a young Nangma (choreographed dance) performer, because her costume necklace refers to the ornamented amulet case Prince Peter collected from Pema Dolkar. The contemporary necklace is an imitation made of rayon fabric and cannot hold an amulet.
Pema Dolkar's amulet case (གའུ). On loan from the National Museum.
Pema Dolkar would have kept her amulet, a special prayer for protection written on paper wrapped tightly in cloth, inside this ornament. The shape resembles the zemaramgo flower and the necklace in Nyema Dronma's photograph.
Pema Dolkar's hair ornament (སྤ་ཕྲུག). On loan from the National Museum.
Before 1950, aristocratic women like Pema Dolkar wore hair ornaments like this one to show off their wealth. It is made of pearls, coral, jade, silk, and dzi (the brown and white agate stones with eyes).
Tenzin Nyima's tangka (portable art) depicts White Tara, one of the most popular Buddhist deities across the Himalayas. White Tara is a compassionate mother figure, who sits on a moon disc coming out of a lotus. She wears royal garments and holds a blue lotus. Each feature of the tangka has a multilayered significance. For example, her seven eyes enable her to see all beings who need her wisdom and kindness. It took Tenzin Nyima and his team six months to complete it.
Dawa Thulong's painting is a reproduction of a small piece of a 15th century mural from Thubchen Monastery in Upper Mustang, Nepal. Dawa Thulong used the same natural materials as in the original, such as crushed Himalayan minerals and gold, to restore the mural and paint this reproduction. It took Dawa Thulong and his assistants six months to complete the painting.


Carlisle Area School District's Summer Reading is an ambitious and wide-ranging program from 6th to 12th grades, including AP levels. Most are always in stock, and we are committed to stocking them all from May through August. Don't put it off 'til the last moment!
One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina sets the impossible and destructive triangle of Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky against the marriage of Levin and Kitty, thus illuminating the most important questions that face humanity. The second edition uses the acclaimed Louise and Alymer Maude translation, and offers a new introduction and notes which provide completely up-to-date perspectives on Tolstoy's classic work.


At the peak of the economic crisis in Argentina, workers demanded – and secured – a six-hour day, citing the hazardous nature of the work. In 2005 they fired the starting gun to a wave of wage strikes in Argentina by enforcing a 44 per cent wage increase. After that the workers of the Subte (short for subterraneo: underground trains) made sure that their casualised work-mates in the cleaning and security services would also benefit from these gains. All these struggles would not have been possible with the old union apparatus. After years of underground organising efforts the Metrodelgados have established a new union.
"I guess I will never forget the strike of the 28th of May 1997. I am more and more convinced about this: The strike against the redundancies was the mother of all battles. I think everything else which happened afterwards would not have been possible if we had lost at that point. We would not have been able to lead those struggles, particularly the great struggle which re-enforced the six-hour day.
"Back then I worked part-time at the Subte. On that particular day I had to rush from my other job to arrive at the Miserere station, but I felt rather worried. Only one thing was on my mind: Did Virginia manage to stop the trains? I ran down the steps, nearly fell, arrived on the platform. I saw a train standing still and over the loudspeaker I heard the announcement that traffic had been disrupted – I started crying like a little boy. This strike was a direct result of our organising activities which we have undertaken as clandestine as possible. It was the result of a collective effort of militant workers. We had managed to build a network of active workers, though initially only amongst the workers at the ticket counters. After this strike the arbitrary dismissals ceased, which had happened on a daily basis since privatisation. Today we can see with pride: this is what we have achieved".
This is a quote of Flavio Baigorria from Virginia Bouvet's book A spectre is haunting the Subte (1). The title refers to the spectre evoked in the Communist Manifesto, but also to a legend about Line A of the Subte, the first underground railway in Latin America, which opened in 1913. To travel on this line is like a travel through time: You travel in antiqu coaches with wood panels, passing stations with historical decor. Between the two 'half' stations Pasco and Alberti (which only serve one direction each), the coach light becomes temporarily defunct. If you look out of the window at that particular instant – so they say – you can a ghost station and two workers sitting at the edge of the platform: Two dead workers, Giuseppe and Leonardo, migrants from Italy, who were buried alive by an landslide while working on the construction of the station. The station has never been finished.
"Virigina has written the book, but it is the history of all people working at Subte, about the best fifteen years of our conscious life, when we were no longer 'employees of the company', but when we had reclaimed our identity as workers, our dignity, which had been rendered unrecognisable by neoliberalism and privatisation". Beto Pianelli, like Virginia and Flavo, belongs to the Metrodelgados, those delegates who have organised themselves independently and against the bureaucratic Peronist union UTA and who have won more and more influence among the work-force. The little book about the struggles in the privatised Subte is directed, last but not least, at the own work-mates. It has been published in a third edition of 1,000 copies (via the 'occupied' and self-managed print-shop Chilavert).
The Subte had been nationalised since the 1950s, until the wave of privatisation in the 1990s. On 1st January 1994 the corporation Metrovias took over. Out of 3,643 workers only 1,100 continued working, the others were dismissed. The old collective contract was abolished, wages were cut and working-times increased. The cleaning and security services and the main chunk of maintenance work were sub-contracted to other companies. By hiring new people the work-force was re-shuffled. The enterprise started with 2,200 workers, out of which only 1,600 had the same contractual conditions. The management felt safe: The dictatorship had left fatal traces within the workers' movement, the increasing group of unemployed was still largely subdued and a strike at the railways against privatisation had ended in defeat. But with the newly hired batch of workers the Metrovias had swallowed an unruly inner-enemy. While the union UTA churned out the usual slogans "We cannot do anything about it", the organising started from below.
In 1996 a group of militant workers decided to stand as independent candidates for the works-council elections. When two of them were dismissed they organised a demonstration – this was the first time they came out in action. This was unsuccessful, but it was a start. In the same year the Metrovias announced an internal re-location scheme for 500 ticket sellers. Traditionally these workers used to work on those lines closest to their place of residence. The workers assumed that with the internal re-location the management intended to break up their recently established connections. 150 workers came to an assembly. They printed thousands of stickers, making their miserable working conditions public in trains and stations. They were not able to prevent the re-locations – but their anger had found a collective expression.
On 20th February 1997, three years after privatisation, the first strike kicked off at 5:15 am on Line E after a driver had been sacked. The union UTA first tried to sweep the issue aside: workers were supposed to wait for the results of a meeting with the management the following day. None of the work-mates had ever been on strike, but after a discussion in the break-room they decided to take the risk. They prevented the attempt of a superior to get the trains in motion by blockading the tracks. From 9am onwards the other four lines joined the strike. The same afternoon an arbitration meeting took place at the Ministry of Labour. The dismissed worker was re-instated. When three months later a female ticket seller was supposed to be kicked out for unexcused absence from work, the idea of the strike had already established itself. This dismissal was itself also prevented.
After that the wooden chairs in the ticket booths were replaced by upholstered chairs and for the first time the company provided soap and loo rolls in the toilets. The repression eased. Superiors would not even ask for reasons when some work-mates did not turn up during the days after the strike. But there was a back-lash as well. When workers struck against the dismissal of a colleague in 1999, Metrovias answered by dismissing 200 more workers. Workers managed to negotiate the re-instatement of the 200 workers, but the dismissed driver had to go – a bitter experience.
In 2000 Argentina collapsed in crisis, and the protests throughout the country increased. After the works-council election in September the independent faction obtained the majority for the first time. In February 2001 Metrovias announced to cut all jobs of ticket conductors on Line B. UTA in turn proclaimed that any resistance against the cuts would be crazy. And again, the "crazy folks" win: after a conflict of 110 days – including strikes and threats of dismissals – they won.
Within the workforce of the Subte there had been discussions for some time about the hazardous working conditions – noise, dust, graphite – and a new demand, the six-hour day. In 1946, under president Peron, the six-hour day had been granted due to the health-risk. During the dictatorship of 1966 working-times were increased to seven hours. During the 1970s it was reduced to six hours and the military rule post-1976 re-introduced the seven-hours. After the retreat of the military junta, workers enforced the six-hour day in 1984 by going on strike. Until privatisation: Since then people had to work eight-hours – the longest hours since 1945 and longer even than during the dictatorship.
The delegates handed in a petition at the city hall, asking to declare their work as hazardous. The work-mates had good arguments for this demand, which seemed rather unfit for the predominant crisis-austerity logic of the time: Better health for the workers, more safety for the passengers and more work for the unemployed. The sedated old union did not like all this activism. Time and again physical confrontations with the thugs of the UTA erupted. In August 2002 their claim was approved by the city hall, as hundreds of Subte cheered and celebrated workers in front of the building. Too soon though: one month later the mayor Ibarra issued his veto. When the claim was reviewed fights broke out in parliament, and a ticket conductor was left with a bad head injury after a police attack.
Despite the official no-strike obligation the work-mates stopped running trains at Subte. Later on they chased Ibarra during his election campaign and disturb his stage-shows. Thousands of Piqueter@s [unemployed workers] occupied the stations and distribute leaflets for the six-hours day. It was not easy to establish this collaboration with the unemployed. The time of unity between "piquete and cacerola" – between the urban poor and the middle-class threatened by social demise – which had emerged during the uprising of December 2000, was already over.
The six-hour day was enforced for everyone and the introduction of ticket machines was prevented. The next – larger – conflict was about wages. At the end of 2004 they raised the modest demand of a 53 per cent wage increase. The company agitated against the 'high waged employees', who already earned more than other workers. The work-mates counter-argued that it is not about survival, but a good life. Thus the scandal is not that they earn so much, but that other workers and pensioners get way too little.
On posters they publicised the wages of managers and company profits. The Subte is used by one and a half million passengers a day. Conflicts automatically become public and for many people strikes cause considerable troubles. But the work-mates showed how to organise a strike in the public service sector without harming the users. They struck at the ticket-booths and opened the turnstile, so that everyone was able to travel free. Thanks to such actions – both thanks to a clever means of making their struggles public, and thanks to their determination – the Subte workers gained wide sympathy. The result of this conflict was 44 per cent increase on average and 53 per cent for the lower waged workers. This was the beginning of a strike wave in Argentina. There were more wage disputes in 2005 than in any other year during the last quarter-century. During that time the subcontracting of work was also put to a halt.
In the cleaning companies the work-mates still worked eight to eleven hours per day. In support of the Subte delegates they took their first strike, at Christmas 2004. By March 2005 the workers of the cleaning company Taym had won their incorporation in the Subte collective contract. Other subcontracted companies followed.
After all the bad experiences with UTA the Metrodelegados decided in 2008 to establish their own union, allowing more transparency, more participation and common decisions. Instead of 21 delegates as there were before there are now 100, and 300 additional work-mates are active in various committees. After a referendum in February 2009 nearly 70 per cent of the work-force voted for the new union. This union is still not officially recognized, but after several strikes the Metrodelegados were granted by the Ministry of Labour the right to negotiate collective contracts. For the first time delegates were accepted as negotiating partner without official union. This could have an impact for other rank-and-file delegates, because the question of representation is on the agenda again.
What, in hindsight, seems like a success story from beginning to end, has been a time of major efforts, repression and back-lashes for many work-mates. At the beginning they followed something like a union focal-theory: small organised group of workers start to fight and others follow. This resulted in active workers having to stick out their necks and being victimised. In the long run the movement had to be based on a broader base. They introduced a method which had been long forgotten during the times of the union bureaucracy: the assembly. They related to the so-called Clasismo, the combative workers' movement in Argentina in the 1970s, and at the same time they became part of the new horizontal movement after the uprising of December 2001.
Besides the concrete demands the Subte-struggles transport the question about a different life: a good life for everyone, without poverty, without exhaustion through work, with time for just being, good relationships, learning and fun. May be these often unvoiced dreams explain the enormous determination and unity of the work-mates. A spectre is haunting the Subte. Together with the spectres of Guiseppe and Leonardo it seeks justice for the victims – and together with the work-mates of today it is searching for a better future.
(1) Virginia Bouvet: Un fantasma recorre el subte. Crónica de la lucha de los trabajadores de Metrovías. Buenos Aires 2008, Editorial Desde el Subte. All quotations are from this source.


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A crisis exists for older Americans who need affordable housing, and the crisis is getting worse. Decreased production, dwindling resources, and conversion of affordable properties to market rate all contribute to the crisis identified by the Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Facility Needs for Seniors in the 21st Century (2002) established by Congress.
All the statistics detail the exploding elder population, and it is not just baby boomers. The population of people over age 65 is expected to double by the year 2030, from 35 million to 70 million. Fifty percent of today's elders are over 75. The number of people over 85 - now 3.5 million-is expected to double by 2020 and double again by 2040. Half of the elders over 85 are disabled or frail, and that number is projected to double by 2030. More than one-third of elder households have incomes at or below $17,500. Indeed, a Harvard University report, State of the Nation's Housing2002, found that 8.4 million of the nation's 21 million elderly households have incomes of less than $10,500 a year. Among those with the lowest incomes (6.5 million), 38 percent pay more than 50 percent of their annual income for rent. About 1.3 million affordable government-assisted housing units are occupied by elders-with almost as many there as in nursing homes.
Given these data, the Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Facility Needs for Seniors (2002) estimated that an additional 730,000 rent-assisted units will be needed by 2020 to house elders age 65 and older who have housing problems.
Under various programs, the federal government has financed the construction of senior housing units and provided rental subsidies to make them affordable for low-income elders. However, of the programs described below, only the Section 202 program is dedicated to providing senior housing with supportive services, and that funding is always limited and even threatened in the current budget environment.
Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly. The Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly program was established in 1959 and remains the only direct-financing resource for construction of housing for older people. Today's Section 202 grant program provides capital advance funds to awardees, all of which must be nonprofits, as well as rental assistance (in the form of Project Rental Assistance Contracts, PRACS) to subsidize the operating expenses of the developments.
There are more than 300,000 Section 202 units in more than 6,000 developments across the United States. Although the loss of many federally subsidized housing units, including the Section 236 elderly stock and the early Section 8 developments, has meant a significant decline in the number of units affordable to low-income elders, the Section 202 stock in all its forms continues to be the mainstay of the federal senior housing programs. In its 2001 report, AARP estimated that there are nine elders waiting for each Section 202 unit that becomes available (Heuman, Winter-Nelson, and Anderson, 2001).
The Section 202 program serves the very lowest-income elders, those with few options. Qualified tenants generally must be at least 62 years old with incomes that are less than 50 percent of the median for their area. Some facilities have a percentage of units designed to be accessible to non-elderly people with mobility impairments or other targeted disabilities. Congress intended that all the Section 202 properties be built as supportive housing, requiring sponsors to describe in detail what supportive services will be offered; however, the rents may only cover 15 percent of the cost of services, typically a service coordinator in the newly developed Section 202s.


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Poffy The Cucumber December 2, 2008
Epic Saddlebag Superhero.
Being a son of Australia, this movie was calling to my blood. I had to watch it, right? I had to know it, feel it, taste it. And report back on whether it hides behind the faux-Aussie Outback Steakhouse jive, or whether it truly captures the wild frontier Dreamtime spirit of Downunda; the vast ochre countryscapes, the earthy indomitability of the fledgling nation… and Hugh Jackman's sky-tanned, whip-leathered, torpedo-ripped, v-shaped body.
Drover Poffy
All of the above… No fake Outback Steakhouse accents in sight.
You've gotta have some ballsac to name your movie AUSTRALIA. It better be as epic as the story that drove a continent from convict colony to commonwealth.
Well, it's Baz Luhrmann, so it's gonna be stylish; it's Nicole Kidman, so it's gonna be painfully pretty; it's Hugh Jackman, so it's gonna be oozing sexual bacon like a piston on powerdrive.
Set in 1939, on the threshold of World War II, directed by Luhrmann, AUSTRALIA is a fitting update to the lowbrow image that CROCODILE DUNDEE burned into a blinkered world in 1986.
Kidman is Lady Sarah Ashley, who travels to Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, to hold onto her middle-of-nowhere property against the clutches of land baron King Carney (Bryan Brown). She finds herself in a massive cattle drive with a ragtag team of drovers, led by a man known as Drover (Jackman, doing some fine tragic acting over and above his bacon).
What can a man say about Hugh Jackman without going slightly bi-curious in the process? I'll try. I counted at least seven Superhero Entrances, three Sexiest Man Alive pose-downs and lost count of the times I was caught looking at his gun-belt slung so low that I accidentally imagined his package brushing against my naked face. (Failed again with that "bi-curious" thing…)
We meet Wolverine in a barroom brawl – big surprise! – biceps thrumming and wisecracks humming, his native Aussie accent so broad and true-blue I was flat out like a lizard drinkin' tryin' ta catch the Strine. Snooty Lady Ashley's outspoken British disdain for this rowdy bushman tells us they are soon going to be tonguing breathlessly in the moonlight or dancing in the rain or running tearfully towards each other with uplifting music swelling the soundtrack.
Again: all of the above.
But now comes the element that separates this sloppy love story from its many mindless hormonal Teen Model copies.
It's not just the soaring cinematography (AUSTRALIA must be viewed on the widest of wide screens); it's not just Nicole Kidman's padded baseball breasts straining against harsh schoolmarm blouses (eternally 23 years old, how come she has no pores?); it's not just exhibiting bravery in killing kangaroos (the equivalent of killing American bald eagles – like the eagle, the kangaroo is a national symbol, but to a whole native people, the kangaroo is merely food); that which separates AUSTRALIA from the conveyor belt of epic, sweeping, tiresome love stories is… the Dreamtime – the rich, mysterious Aboriginal culture…
…embedded in this movie like the trail dust under Drover's taut-buttocked saddle. Personified by the regal David Gulpilil, veteran Australian Aboriginal legend, playing an old-world tribal loner named King George, in touch with The Land and destiny in ways we "civilized" muckies cannot fathom.
Dr. Strange got nuthin' on the Dreamtime!
And 12-year-old Brandon Walters as Nullah. In his first feature role, this young Aboriginal with the golden-black hair dominates the screen with confidence, frailty, innocence and empathy. The film is his – he stands as tall as Kidman and Jackman. He narrates from his perspective as the bastard son of a "white fella" and an Aboriginal, a half-caste the bigots call "creamy." Nullah attaches himself to Lady Ashley after his mother dies; together with Drover, they form an informal family unit. (And Drover is not just a shallow white fella – his best mate is a "black fella" (David Ngoombujarra) and his deceased wife was that mate's sister. The racist townsfolk consider Drover a black fella – which makes for a great excuse to start barroom brawls.)
AUSTRALIA marries the three disparate elements of Australia – the pompous city (Kidman), the rugged country (Jackman) and the beating blood of the land (Walters) – in one inadvertent family thrown together by range war and world war. It is heartening that Luhrmann and his co-writers (Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan) remembered that all these elements together shaped the Australia we know today.
Never has there been an Australian movie that gives such respect, acceptance and influence to Aborigines. Which makes this film an old-fashioned epic with new-fashioned values.
AUSTRALIA comes with two happy endings (not counting the scene where Hugh Jackman pours a bucket of water over his nude beefcake). Ending #1 finds Lady Ashley, Drover and Nullah settling on her hard-won property (after that dance in the rain), but instead of the credit roll which would seem fitting here, we get – WAR! And land baron King Carney (your average "twirling mustache" villain) is succeeded by his henchman, Fletcher (David Wenham), who is truly monstrous – the type who would gun down his own son for financial gain.
Stakes are ramped up as Fletcher almost destroys Lady Ashley, while sending his own illegitimate son, Nullah, to a boys' home on Mission Island. Which the Japanese immediately bomb.
I promised myself I wouldn't cum.
Whole third act is a tearjerker movie in itself, as everyone thinks everyone else is dead, leading to the inevitable "running tearfully towards each other with uplifting music" moment.
In a horrifying display of callousness, Fletcher tries to shoot Nullah, his own estranged son, until King George – a ubiquitous mystical presence throughout the movie – descends on him like a bird of prey. You will never again use the word "spearchucker" as derision.
Despite terribly inauthentic lighting, some iffy green-screen (worst offender is Nullah staring down stampeding CGI), and the mystical "I will sing you to me" moments involving Over the Rainbow, AUSTRALIA is a cry of elation for a southern desert land that was seemingly conquered by Hollywood with the DUNDEES, now reclaiming its mystery and majesty; a complex tale of three worlds in harmony, gleefully destroying Australian archetypes and shaping brave new ones.
Ending #2 is the bravura stroke, as Nullah goes a-Waltzing Matilda into the Australian bush with King George, on "walkabout" (Aboriginal transition to manhood). Luhrmann could have easily opted for a crass generic scene of two white lovers riding slomo into a red sun; rather, this movie is Nullah's journey, Lady Ashley and Drover watching him fade into manhood, as a magic hour sunset burns into the sad horizon…
Think I'll go start a barroom brawl at Outback Steakhouse.
AUSTRALIA (Nov 2008)
AKA: AUSTRALIA THE MOVIE
Director: Baz Luhrmann.
Writer: Stuart Beattie, Baz Luhrmann, Ronald Harwood, Richard Flanagan.
Music: David Hirschfelder.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, David Gulpilil, Brandon Walters, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, David Wenham, David Ngoombujarra, Ray Barrett, Jacek Koman, Bruce Spence, John Jarratt.
Word Count: 1,100 No. 294
Tags:2008, Adventure, Alpha-A, AUSTRALIA THE MOVIE, Australiana, Baz Luhrmann, Brandon Walters, Bruce Spence, Bryan Brown, David Gulpilil, David Hirschfelder, David Wenham, Drama, Hugh Jackman, Jack Thompson, John Jarratt, Nicole Kidman, Rating-8, Richard Flanagan, Romance, Ronald Harwood, Stuart Beattie

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There are plenty of ways to find out how to get to the destinations you want to visit. Your iPhone includes Google Maps, which works great for finding precise directions, and there are a number of other GPS apps that give you turn-by-turn directions and more. But how are you going to find new restaurants, libraries, doctor offices, and more?
Today, there's tons of new data being saved daily about places all around you. The problem is just that it's hard to put all of the info together. You could search on Google or Bing, or check Foursquare and Twitter to see where people are going. The Problem is, this can be time consuming. Localscope is an exciting new app that does the legwork for you and makes it surprisingly easy to find destinations all around you. Keep reading to find out more.


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Mobile communications giant Vodacom took its NXT LVL,a youth brand aimed at South African Youth under the age of 25 took the annual Major League Gardens event.
The NXT LVL event saw performances from some of the best stage blazers which included Ricky Rick, Nadia Nakai, Babes Wodumo, Em-Tee, KO to mention but a few.
The event was also graced by the likes of Khanyi Mbau and Somizi who were the event MCs; Mbali Nkosi, Blu Mbombo, Cassper Nyovest, DJ Shimza, Raphael Griffiths also made an appearance.
Did you go to Major League Gardens this year?


2) implements as many of those as possible.
Add your website to Search Console – This is important because you can get notices from Google about site issues and indexing issues.
Check site speed and optimize – Visitors will abandon any site that takes longer than two to four seconds to load. Use caching or faster hosting to improve load times.
Use an SEO plugin for your CMS – In order to make the best use of on-page SEO, you will need a good SEO plugin.
Ensure site is responsive – Google gives ranking benefits to sites that are responsive and mobile friendly.
Check for and remove broken links – Broken links can cause indexing issues and should be removed as quickly as possible. Use a tool like Xenu link sleuth to scan your website.
Use structured data where possible – If you have elements like recipes or guides, then use structured data to improve click through rates.
Use SSL – Installing a certificate will also give you a definite rank boost. Especially if competing sites remain HTTP.


BARNSLEY MP Dan Jarvis has questioned the Government's commitment to giving Yorkshire more control over its own affairs after it emerged new prime minister Theresa May is concerned about creating new 'metro-mayors'.
Mr Jarvis warned the Government against allowing plans for new elected mayors to go ahead in Manchester and Merseyside but not do the same in Yorkshire.
Mrs May's apparent reservations about elected mayors, which were championed by former chancellor George Osborne, has raised questions over the future of the devolution deal covering South Yorkshire.
IT is two months since people across the North of England, including in my Barnsley constituency, made a bold and clear decision to leave the European Union.
All three northern regions, including Yorkshire, voted Leave and just 11 out of 72 areas across the North voted Remain. The will of the people is clear and, while I campaigned to remain in the EU, it is now the duty of politicians to implement that decision.
This entry was posted in Information, Labour Party and tagged Barnsley, Dan Jarvis, Labour Party, RMBC, Rotherham, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council by Rik. Bookmark the permalink.
To a degree, I agree with May about the elected mayor gravy train, but Jarvis strikes a very pertinent chord, particularly as how May is supporting the shambles that is HS2 i.e. the-drain-everything-out-of-the-region-and-direct-it-to-London service.
Strikes me that May needs to bring some focus upon her plans for the England that exists beyond the so-called Home counties.
Scrap HS2 and Elected Mayors, especially the odious Sadiq Khan !
The devolution deal would work without an elected mayor. The only likely difference is that the decision-making process would be slightly slower.
The only fair devolution for England would be to an English parliament.
Tamworth, Mercian capital? Winchester was capital before London. Alfred's capital Was Winchester. Not Milton Keynes.
York would do as it was a Northumbrian capital and Ecliastical capital of the North. A bit far from Cornwall!


I recently made these face scrubbies- free crochet pattern here, courtesy of the Stitchin Mommy. So easy and fun to make!
Then I came across this clay mask recipe using Bentonite clay and I thought these two would go so well together! So I whipped up some mask and got ready for a mini-spa treatment. Fun stuff- except the mask kinda burned my skin, so beware. It's supposed to "tingle" or so it says on the bottle of clay I have.


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import java.io.File;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLClassLoader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class ModuleLoader {
    private static Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger("ModuleLoader");

    /**
     * Big thanks to votiifer, too stupid to write my own ClassLoader
     */
    public static List<JavaModule> load(String directory) /* throws Exception */{
        List<JavaModule> modules = new ArrayList<JavaModule>();
        File dir = new File(directory);

        if (!dir.exists()) {
            LOG.log(Level.WARNING, "No modules loaded! Cannot find module directory '" + dir + "' ");
            return modules;
        }

        ClassLoader loader;
        try {
            loader = new URLClassLoader(new URL[] { dir.toURI().toURL() }, JavaModule.class.getClassLoader());
        } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
            LOG.log(Level.SEVERE, "Error while configuring module class loader", ex);
            return modules;
        }
        for (File file : dir.listFiles()) {
            if (!file.getName().endsWith(".class")) {
                continue; // Only load class files!
            }

            String name = file.getName().substring(0, file.getName().lastIndexOf("."));

            try {
                Class<?> clazz = loader.loadClass(name);
                Object object = clazz.newInstance();
                if (!(object instanceof JavaModule)) {
                    LOG.info("Not a module: " + clazz.getSimpleName());
                    continue;
                }

                JavaModule module = (JavaModule) object;
                modules.add(module);

                LOG.info("Loaded module: " + module.getClass().getSimpleName());
            }

			/*
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            catch (Exception ex) {
                LOG.log(Level.WARNING, "Error loading '" + name + "' module! Module disabled.");
                ex.printStackTrace();
            } catch (Error ex) {
                LOG.log(Level.WARNING, "Error loading '" + name + "' module! Module disabled.");
                ex.printStackTrace();

            }
        }

        return modules;
    }
}


Jazz up your pram/pushchair with this gorgeous pink frilly bling hood trim. It has 2 elastic tags on each side that hook on over either side of pram hood. If you would like it made to size, please leave measurement in message box otherwise standard size (42 inches) will be sent out. PLEASE NOTE, ONLY 1 BOW IS INCLUDED IN PRICE. 2ND BOW IS FOR PICTURE PURPOSE.


I have been working on finishing the details on my farm site which is used as part of my NMRA Scenery AP. I have now finished the fencing, the window treatments on the house, the fence for the chicken coop, the metal gates, the slab corral fence, wood fence and gate, feed and water toughs, and touch ups of the ground cover. The barn, wood bins, fuel tank, fences, grain auger, rotary mower and chicken coop are all scratch built with the plans that have been drawn up in Auto Cad. I will go through the construction of some of these in the future.
This picture was taken by my friend Ron. He is an engineer for the Battle River Railway (BRR) and saw this car sitting at the Cargill Terminal East of Camrose on the Alliance Sub. The only way to see it was from the sub as it sits at Cargill. Note that it looks like the artist repainted the car number when he was done. I would buy an HO decal of this.
Since I am finishing details work on my town I needed to determine if and when natural gas came to towns in Saskatchewan. You would think this should be dead simple thing to google NO. As near as I can find it came in the fifties I have a picture of the Sask Power Gas trucks lined up in front of the head office in Regina in 1957. I did come across the logo that Sask power used during this time which will come in handy for a truck or 2. Why do I need to know this you ask...well I need to determine what percent of houses would have had coal delivery or fuel oil delivery in 1959. So as a result most house will get gas, 1 will get coal and 1 will get fuel oil. I do know that during this time period that almost all farm houses would have received heating oil. So my farm house has an outside connection for this. The line is connected to a tank that would have been in the basement to keep it warm and thus fewer problems during extreme cold.


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The Windsor Guildhall is the town hall of Windsor, Berkshire, England. It is situated in the High Street, about  from Castle Hill, which leads to the main public entrance to Windsor Castle. It is a Grade I listed building.

History

A deed of 1369, now in the possession of Eton College, refers to the "gildaule", and a charter of 1439 states that "pleas happening in the said borough... shall be pleaded and holden in the guildhall there, before the mayor and bailiffs for the time being". Norden's map of 1607 shows a market house in the location of the present guildhall: the main part of it is raised on wooden pillars to allow the space beneath to be used as a covered corn market.

The erection of the present guildhall was begun in 1687, under the direction of Sir Thomas Fitz (Fitch or Fiddes) but the story is that on his death in 1689, the task was taken over and completed by Sir Christopher Wren. The cost of construction was £2687/1s/6d. The new building was supported by stone columns, like its predecessor. This allowed for corn markets to be held in the covered area. It has been told for many years that Wren was asked to insert additional columns to support the weight of the heavy building above; Wren supposedly did not believe they were necessary and made them slightly short, so that they do not quite touch the ceiling. However, there is little evidence that Wren was ever involved with the design or construction of the Guildhall. It is now believed that the story grew out of Wren's connections with Windsor along with the actions of his son, also called Christopher Wren. The younger Wren served as a Member of Parliament for Windsor and commissioned the statue of Prince George of Denmark in 1713 on the south end of the building with his name was engraved underneath. The pillars were probably moved into the corn market from the east side when the extension was added in 1829. The gaps at the top of the pillars are now filled with tiles smaller than the capitals. A statue of Queen Anne was commissioned by the council in 1708 on the north side of the building.

The 1829 extension was a two-storey building at the back of the existing hall, designed by James Bedborough. Major restorations of the building were undertaken in 1851, and, following its use as a food office during the Second World War, again in 1950–1951. The restored building was reopened during the Festival of Britain by Princess Elizabeth. The guildhall was a facility for dispensing justice and Quarter Sessions were held there until 1971.

Since the formation of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in 1974, the guildhall has been used by the borough council for ceremonies and committee meetings. On 9 April 2005, the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles took place there and, on 21 December 2005, it hosted one of the first same sex civil partnership ceremonies to be held in England, that of Sir Elton John and David Furnish. On 12 March 2011, the new Windsor and Royal Borough Museum was officially opened in the Guildhall by Queen Elizabeth II.

See also
 Guild
 Guildhall

References

1687 establishments in England
Buildings and structures in Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor
Government buildings completed in 1689
Windsor Guildhall
Grade I listed government buildings
Guildhalls in the United Kingdom

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TileLayer用webgl渲染时, 你可以通过设置fragmentShader, 来替换默认的fragment shader.

[默认的fragment shader GLSL源代码](https://github.com/maptalks/maptalks.js/blob/master/src/renderer/layer/tilelayer/TileLayerGLRenderer.js#L8)如下:

```c
  precision mediump float;

  uniform sampler2D u_image;
  uniform float u_opacity;

  varying vec2 v_texCoord;

  void main() {
      gl_FragColor = texture2D(u_image, v_texCoord) * u_opacity;
  }
```

源代码中必须提供的几个GLSL变量: `u_image`, `u_opacity`, `v_texCoord`.

你可以在shader中定义新的uniform变量, 并在图层的canvascreate事件中给它们赋值.


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We are in the midst of a golden age of hacking. Data breaches are an increasingly common occurrence, impacting small businesses and multinational corporations alike. The question for most companies now is not whether an incident will occur, but when it will occur. Defending against cyber intrusions is...
Should the Tech Industry be Concerned About its Image?
Popular perception of corporations and industries are built carefully over time, but destroyed by the popular media in an instant. The family fun time image of Sea World was forever changed by "Blackfish". The pure-bred American brand of General Motors was dented by "Roger & Me". McDonald's made...
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The cold war around data privacy just turned into an open conflict. On October 6, the European Court of Justice struck down the "Safe Harbor" agreement between the United States and the European Union. For the past fifteen years, Safe Harbor was the only protection technology businesses had from...
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The news just keeps getting worse for Federal government employees. On the cusp of another morale-destroying, productivity-sapping, meaningless government shutdown, the Office of Personnel Management announced last week that the recent Chinese hack of its systems included over 5.6 million fingerprint records. On the face of things, it would...
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Rainbow Cake a great dessert for a children's party, holiday, or anytime.
Today I am reviewing Raw Spice Bar's December spices.
A Detox Green Smoothie using the Power Spice Blend from Raw Spice Bar.
I am reviewing a monthly subscription service, Raw Spice Bar. This company offers unique spices from around the world.
Today I am reviewing the October Raw Spice Bar monthly subscription service.
Lynn demonstrates how to make a Red Velvet Cake Roll that would be a perfect Valentine's Day dessert.
A from scratch red velvet cookie that you can bake with white or dark chocolate chips.
A super quick and easy, very moist red velvet cookie that takes very few ingredients to make.


Welcome to the fifth day of Blogmas with Sara Laughed, where I'm blogging every day 'til Christmas Day. Head over to my Blogmas calendar to see the full collection, or click on the gift tag below!
Here in the Netherlands, fall is rolling into winter and clementines are everywhere. Our supermarket is having them on sale all season long, which means that, between these and the lemons I squeeze into my water, Ken's and my fruit bowl is almost entirely filled with citrus. I'm not complaining — I love the taste of clementines, and even the smell that peeling one leaves on your fingers. But after seeing a Pinterest pin a few days ago, I've found a new potential use for clementine peels: making our house smell like Christmas.
The trick I'm showing you today is nothing new. If your mother didn't do it when you were growing up, then you've probably seen it around the internet: throw a bunch of wintery ingredients into a pot of boiling water, and simmer, uncovered, for a few hours to make your house smell like heaven.
My personal favorite combination is cranberries, clementine peels, cinnamon, and cloves. It's a great air freshener for the house and we often get comments from our guests about it. The one downside is that Ken sometimes thinks I'm baking something delicious and is disappointed when it turns out there's nothing new for him to eat!
Choose your ingredients and combine them in a large pot of water. Put the pot on the stove, uncovered, and let it boil. Once it's boiling, reduce so that it simmers, and let it sit for a few hours. Your house will smell heavenly!


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Anne Keys
Obituary of Anne Keys
Anne Keys of the Black Creek Retirement Community
The Black Creek Retirement Community and the St. John's Stevensville United Church are mourning their loss in the death of Anne Keys on Sunday, March 14. They are also rejoicing to think of her in glory with her beloved spouse, Robert, who passed from this earth on July 13, 2010. She is survived by her brother Friedhelm Przygodda and nieces and nephews in Germany.
Born in Lünen, Germany in 1924, Anne grew up with eight siblings, a loving mother and a strict father. She endured hardship during the war years and emigrated to Canada, soon thereafter to begin a new life. After marriage to Bob, she shared experiences in business, hospitality, farming and Toronto's hockey community with the Keys family. Anne and Bob had a retirement home in Florida, followed by full retirement in Stevensville. After Bob's passing Anne's special relationships continued with Barbara Hancock, John Hatch, Doreen and Bob Ellah, members of the Brown family, business associates and others at her church and at the Black Creek social hall.
The Fort Erie Embrace Centre opened in 2019 on Jarvis St. under Anne's sponsorship to re-establish a United Church presence in the downtown area in a ministry of care, healing, inspiration and community life, as described on the plaque below.
The funeral is at St. John's Stevensville United Church at 2:00 pm on March 27. Due to Covid-19 the service is by invitation only. The ministers, Rev. Cheryl Wood-Thomas and Rev. William Thomas, sincerely invite friends and family in Black Creek and the church to join Anne's family in Lunensud, Germany, Bob's family in Balcarres, Saskatchewan and friends in St. Petersburg, Florida in the service live-streamed at www.NiagaraOnlineWorship.com (click Live-stream access) under the direction of John Bedell, or anytime later on YouTube (by entering Niagara Online Worship). Such arrangements have all been made possible through Anne's own generosity in support of Bob's vision for this church.
THE ANNE KEYS EMBRACE CENTRE
Provided and Refurbished for Spiritual and Community Life Through
The Eternal Memorial Building, Religion & Charitable Endowment of
St. John's Stevensville United Church
In dedication to our church & faith in God from Robert and Anne Keys.


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Amerikanska Samoa (engelska American Samoa, samoanska Amerika Samoa eller Samoa Amelika) är ett amerikanskt territorium bland Samoaöarna i Polynesien i södra Stilla havet. FN anser området vara ett icke-självstyrande område.

Territoriets formella status är att det är icke-inkorporerat och icke organiserat, det vill säga att det inte är förenat eller en del av USA på samma sätt som de 50 delstaterna i unionen samt att det inte har tillerkänts någon egen lokal författning. Under en stadga åtnjuter man dock ett lokalt självstyre. Invånarna har amerikanska pass och tillerkänns amerikansk nationalitet, men de är inte amerikanska medborgare. Detta innebär exempelvis att de inte har rösträtt vid amerikanska federala val, samt att de har möjlighet att ansöka om uppehållstillstånd och medborgarskap som andra icke-medborgare för att kunna åtnjuta dessa rättigheter.

Historia
Samoaöarna beboddes av polynesier sedan 1000-talet f.Kr.. Den nederländske upptäcktsresanden Jakob Roggeveen blev den 13 juni 1722 den förste europé att besöka Samoaöarna. Även franske Louis Antoine de Bougainville besökte området 1768 som då namngav öarna "Iles Navigateurs". Européernas intresse för ögruppen var litet en lång period efter deras upptäckt men 1871 föreslog den nyzeeländska förvaltningen att området skulle annekteras av Storbritannien dock utan att detta verkställdes. 1872 undertecknade USA genom Commander Richard Meade ett fördrag med lokalbefolkningen där USA garanterades en kolpåfyllningsstation i Pago Pago.

Senare utökades stormakternas rivalitet i området när även Kejsardömet Tyskland etablerade kolonier i Stilla havet och 1884 lämnade den lokale kungen en petition till drottning Viktoria av Storbritannien där man önskade bli en brittisk koloni. 1899 reglerade slutligen USA, Storbritannien och Kejsardömet Tyskland sina konflikter genom Berlinfördraget där Samoa delades mellan USA (se även USA:s territoriella expansion) och Kejsardömet Tyskland. Tyskland fick  Västra Samoa medan USA fick Amerikanska Samoa. Den 17 april 1900 övergår först Tutuilaöarna formellt till USA:s förvaltning och den 16 juli 1904 tillkommer även Manu'aöarna och Roseatollen. Den 4 mars 1925 annekteras slutligen även Swainsön och införlivas i Amerikanska Samoa.

Amerikanska Samoa förvaltades av den amerikanska flottan (US Navy) från den 17 februari 1900 till den 29 juni 1951 då förvaltningen övergick till det amerikanska inrikesdepartementet (US Department of the Interior). Den 22 april 1960 erhöll Amerikanska Samoa status som autonomt territorium och den nuvarande flaggan antogs den 24 april. Den 31 oktober 1988 inrättades American Samoa nationalpark som omfattar delar av Tutuila, Ofu och Ta'u.

Geografi
Amerikanska Samoa ligger cirka 350 kilometer öster om Wallis- och Futunaöarna och cirka 550 km väster om Cooköarna i den östra delen av ögruppen Samoaöarna.

Öarna har en sammanlagd areal om cirka 199 km² och består av fem större öar fördelade på två ögrupper och två atoller:

 Tutuilaöarna med
 Tutuila, huvudön
 Aunu'u
 Manu'aöarna, cirka 110 km öster om huvudön med
 Ta'u
 Ofu
 Olosega
 Roseatollen, cirka 250 km öster om huvudön
 Swainsön, cirka 300 km nordväst om huvudön

Den högsta höjden är Lata Mountain på cirka 964 meter över havet och ligger på Ta'u. Befolkningen uppgår till cirka 57 500 invånare där cirka 19 000 bor i huvudorten Pago Pago på Tutuila.

Ögruppens huvudflygplats Pago Pago (Pago Pago International Airport, flygplatskod "PPG") ligger på Tutuilas sydvästra del och har kapacitet för internationellt flyg.

Klimat och miljö
Amerikanska Samoa har ett tropiskt klimat, dvs varmt och fuktigt. Regnperioden varar från november till april och tyfoner är vanliga mellan december och mars. Den bästa restiden är mellan maj och oktober.

Administrativ indelning
Amerikanska Samoa är uppdelad i tre distrikt och två öar:
Eastern, Western, Manu'a samt Rose och Swain. Parlamentet "Fono" har sitt säte i stadsdelen Fagatogo i Pago Pago.

Sport

Amerikanska Samoa är kraftigt överrepresenterat i NFL, den professionella ligan för amerikansk fotboll i USA. Omkring 30 etniska samoaner spelar för lag i NFL och mer än 200 spelar i collegeserien NCAA division ett. Fotbollskulturen på ön beskrevs i TV-programmet 60 Minutes den 17 januari 2010.

Referenser

Externa länkar

 om Amerikanska Samoa

Polynesien


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Q: Error in adding figure to Latex file: Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! I tried to use the other answers for thses kind of errors but that couldn't help me. This is a simple part of the code in TexLive.
Error:
Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
libpng error: Not a PNG file

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{geometry}
\newcommand{\norm}[1]{\left\lVert#1\right\rVert} % norm: double vertical bars
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{ {c:/Users/Amin/Desktop/} }

\begin{document}

\fontsize{12pt}{12pt}\selectfont

\includegraphics{Drawing1}

\end{document}

A: Probably adding the extension to figure will work.
Just replace
\includegraphics{Drawing1}
by
\includegraphics{Drawing1.png}

A: I think you should add the name of your figure,
\begin{figure}[H]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.85]{test.jpg}
\caption{test}
\label{fig:test_figure}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

this how I did

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Communities in Australia, Canada and Sweden, are making similar changes to their playgrounds, Barry reports. NPR has also reported on an adventure playground in Wales.
Could limited-risk playgrounds like these ever catch on in the United States?
It's common enough to see the argument made that "risky activities give kids a chance to develop confidence and competence as they master challenges." But could an evolutionary perspective — as well as a cross-cultural one — on child development add some weight to this view? After all, we humans are primates and we've been shaped by our long evolutionary trajectory as such.
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Among mammals, Nguyen explained, primates have unusually long juvenile periods. This relatively slow pace of development gives youngsters time to acquire the skills they need to be successful as adult members of their societies.
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And it's not just playgrounds. In Germany, outdoor "forest kindergartens" are popular, and in Norway, too. Once in a while, kindergarten teachers in the U.S. adopt a similar practice, as happened during "forest Mondays" at this elementary school in Quechee, Vt.
"After a year of having weekly campfires at her Norwegian preschool, my 3-year-old knows how to behave around a campfire. A few of her American relatives, who were initially skeptical about children as young as a year old sitting around a campfire singing songs in Norway, concluded that her exposure to the campfires (in a controlled risk, fun-filled setting) was enriching to her personal growth and development after all. I couldn't agree more.
That a combination of extra challenge and adult supervision in these limited-risk situations would end up benefiting many kids really makes sense. Not every child is physically and mentally equipped in the same ways, however, and needs of disabled children at play in particular need to be considered front-and-center as these initiatives begin to gain popularity.
Barbara J. King is an anthropology professor emerita at the College of William and Mary. She often writes about the cognition, emotion and welfare of animals and about biological anthropology, human evolution and gender issues.


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