It is unfortunate that so much of our heritage is lost to future generations because those who participated in the making of it do not have the time to record it for us, or else do not see the need for recording it for posterity.
For the benefit of my children, and for others who may be interested, I am recording at this late date my memories of the Unitarian School in the community of Shelter Neck, Pender County, North Carolina.
There is no known person living today who knows why the Unitarians from Boston, Mass., chose this isolated community, enclosed partially between the waters of Shelter Creek and the Northeast River, to establish a school.
Mr. Wayne Arnold has been able to trace some of the history of the purchase of the property by searching through old deed records. This reveals that a deed was drawn on August 4, 1900, to Mrs. Abbey Peterson and Mrs. Edith Dukes of Pender County for the purchase of the tract of land from Mrs. Frances G. Newton and Charles Sears, and wives, respectively, "for the love of God and humanity and the sum of $1.00. Mrs. Peterson represented the National Alliance of Unitarian Women of Boston. I remember my mother stating that Mr. Dukes was the first Unitarian minister to preach in the chapel, which was built about 1900.
Three-fourths of an acre adjoining the chapel was purchased July 25, 1907, from M. B. and Charlotte Hanchey "to be used for advancement of the gospel of God as taught by Jesus of Nazareth and for the good of humanity." There may be other information regarding transfer of property after that date which could not be located.
During 1905, Mrs. Peterson was joined by Mr. Key, a minister from Boston.
In the fall of 1913 I enrolled in the school, and was there until the spring of my 16th birthday in 1923. It was three miles from my home to the school, and various modes of transportation were used to travel it. My brother, who also attended the school as a boy, used his goat and cart. Sometimes, along with other neighborhood children, we drove the mule hitched to a cart or buggy. As we grew older, we started riding our bicycles, and when the weather was nice, we walked. Traveling in the early morning and late afternoon, as we had to do, gave us time to observe and appreciate the changing seasons and natural phenomena of the area.
When I was 10 years old a Mrs. Von Lavner arrived to teach piano and French. She was living in exile from her native country, Austria, having escaped from there to Paris, France, during WWI. She was a member of nobility, and also had been a student at the leading music conservatories in Europe. From Paris she migrated to Boston, and then to Shelter Neck. There she taught 9th grade French, and music to those who would work hard. Being a perfectionist, she demanded the best of all her students. When the school was discontinued she went to Alabama to teach music in a university.
Our history teacher was Mrs. Pratt. She was a handsome aristocrat, and was related to the Calvin Coolidge family. I particularly enjoyed having her teach English History and literature.
The library housed many outstanding books, which were sent to the school from Boston. They enabled me to read extensively from Shakespeare, Thoreau, Longfellow, Keats, Browning, Shelly, and many more. It was not unusual for us to put on Shakespearean plays, with the moss-covered trees serving as the backdrop setting.
When we were in our teens my parents decided that my sister, Gladys, and I should board at the school. The girls' dormitory housed 12 girls and three teachers. The boys roomed on the second and third floors of Dix House. It also housed the housekeeper, minister, and other teachers.
A school day began with singing and devotionals in the auditorium. The boarding students went to Dix House at noontime for a hot meal. The day students ate their lunches under the trees, and also fed their teams, and played. After school, the boarding students went to their rooms to rest. Those who studied piano practiced an hour each day, and had a lesson twice a week. Study time was from 7:00-9:00 pm, and was rigidly enforced, and teachers were available to help us with our studies. At 9:00 p.m. we went to the living room where we were joined by the teachers in a discussion of things of interest, which had occurred that day. Also we had read to us some of the great poems or an inspiring bit of philosophy.
The highlight of a week was the Saturday night party, where we were taught folk dances. They always concluded with the Virginia Reel. Young folk from nearby communities joined with us in our parties.
On Sunday mornings we had church services. Frequently, these were followed by discussions of our religious views. Sunday school was held in the afternoon. When the weather permitted, we would follow this with a leisurely stroll to the river. On Sunday nights we gathered in the school auditorium for an hour to sing.
Mrs. Peterson had to be taken to the hospital in Wilmington early in April 1918. The trip was made in a surrey over roads which, for the most part, were unpaved. This was a sad day for all of us, as she did not return. She died on April 20.
Not very long after the death of Mrs. Peterson, Mr. Key returned to Boston. Others came from Boston to take over the school, among which were Mrs. Norton and Mrs. Damon.
When transportation of high school students was provided by the public school systems, there no longer was a need for the Shelter Neck school. Consequently, it went out of existence. However, its influence in the community it served continues to be felt today.
I deem it a great privilege--and blessing--to have served as a teacher in the primary grades there during 1924-25.
Norma Rowe Sawyer, former student, became a well-known and respected teacher in the public schools.
Mrs. Sawyer's brother, Roy Rowe, also a student at Shelter Neck, became the director of the Unitarian's Emmerton School in Swansboro and later became a prominent businessman, one of the first to build movie theaters in several towns in NC. He served as President of the Theatre owners of North and South Carolina for two terms, Board member of the Theatre Owners of America, and also as Chairman of the NC March of Dimes, President of the Carolina Aero Club and Chairman of the Burgaw School Board.
He served for forty years in the NC General Assembly, beginning in 1936 through six terms in the Senate, a term in the House, and eight years as Principal Clerk of the NC Senate until his retirement in 1976. For 28 years, he was a Trustee of the Greater University of NC, including service on the Executive Committee. The Association of Governing Boards of American Universities and Colleges elected him president.
As a Major in the Civil Air Patrol he helped organize their war efforts in NC and served as Vice-Commander of the NC CAP and as their Legislative liaison. He also was the first Chairman of the Governor's Council for the Aging.
An active member of the Unitarian Fellowship of Raleigh until his death, he is buried in the cemetery near the intersection of Highway 117 and US I-40.
For her thesis for a Master of Arts Degree in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, Eunice Milton Benton, a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill NC, researched and wrote, Shelter Neck's Unitarian School. Copies are in various libraries, including the Pender County Library and several university libraries. Eunice retired in the summer of 2011 from her position as District Executive of the Mid-South UU District. She and her husband were former residents of Winston Salem where she was a member of the Winston Salem UU congregation. She resides in Mississippi and a coastal home near Wilmington NC.
Other publications with information about Shelter Neck and the sister school in Swansboro are in the archives at the Andover Harvard Theological School Library near Boston and in other libraries.


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These things notwithstanding, I propose a very special agency (you may recall a whisper in Dale Cooper's ear): that, in your stead, I may be permitted to hunt crime through the Library's Crime Fiction collection. While I cannot promise to dally with Jack Reacher, I may skirt around Todorov, as I file evidence on the most recent crimes, crime scenes, criminals, and detectives to be found in that location. Inspired by your methods of detection and particularly your book A Case of Hysteria, I suggest the compilation of a dossier that charts what I imagine that you might read at leisure. I will undertake the work like a ghost in the night – evoking perhaps Alberto Manguel's post-midnight encounters – from the comparative safety of my own office, but I will certainly make one trip to case the joint and observe directly.
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Brexit now having an impact on SHARKS at Blue Planet Aquarium
With the uncertainty surrounding the UK leaving the EU, it is starting to affect the most famous group of fish in the world
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With little over a month to go until the UK departs the EU, sharks have become the latest - and perhaps one of the most surprising - group to be impacted by the country's impending departure from the European Union (EU).
The prospect of a calamitous no deal Brexit is moving ever closer as the UK struggles to agree on a way forward, with many businesses in the region fearful about the future.
And one of those is the very popular Blue Planet Aquarium at Cheshire Oaks .
The Ellesmere Port aquarium is having to take action to make sure that its sharks are not affected by the fall-out of a possible no deal Brexit on March 29, the Liverpool Echo reports .
The Blue Planet Aquarium in in Ellesmere Port. (Image: Julian Hamilton/Daily Mirror)
The centre's 3.8m litre shark tank relies on a salting process that takes place on site at the aquarium.
Currently, all of the salt used in that process is imported from France because it is of the best quality and meets the centre's strict requirements.
A spokesman explained where the problem lies.
He said: "We take delivery of this salt usually every three months, however with the uncertainty surrounding Brexit we have hired a facility to store our salt, with an extra order, as there is no guarantee of a delivery being on-time after Brexit.
"Indeed we have had to hire a haulier from Romania to drive to France as there are so many lorries now unavailable due to stockpiling of all sorts of goods prior to Brexit.
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Q: Why is my output showing X despite all inputs driven in my simulation? This is a follow up to my previous question: Why is my output showing as X?.  I implemented the Verilog code fix provided by the answer by making the proper signal connections. However, the simulation is still showing X on the output for some other reason.
I have written a Verilog file for memory error correcting that takes an n-bit input and using certain logic, it would output an n-bit output that would possess the corrected code. Here are my modules I am using.
module Majority3(input wire [2:0] S, output wire O);

    assign O = S[0]&S[1]&S[2] | S[0]&S[1]&~S[2] | S[0]&~S[1]&S[2] | ~S[0]&S[1]&S[2];

endmodule

module OLS(input wire [15:0] Data, output wire [15:0] Errors);

    wire [1:0] xorOut0;
    wire [1:0] xorCheck0;
    assign xorCheck0[0] = Data[0] ^ Data[1] ^ Data[2] ^ Data[3];
    assign xorCheck0[1] = Data[0] ^ Data[4] ^ Data[5] ^ Data[6] ^ Data[7];
    assign xorOut0[0] = Data[1] ^ Data[2] ^ Data[3] ^ xorCheck0[0];
    assign xorOut0[1] = Data[4] ^ Data[5] ^ Data[6] ^ Data[7] ^ xorCheck0[1];
    Majority3 m0 (.S({Data[0], xorOut0[0], xorOut0[1]}), .O(Errors[0]));

    wire [1:0] xorOut1;
    wire [1:0] xorCheck1;
    assign xorCheck1[0] = Data[0] ^ Data[1] ^ Data[2] ^ Data[3];
    assign xorCheck1[1] = Data[1] ^ Data[4] ^ Data[8] ^ Data[9] ^ Data[10] ^ Data[11];
    assign xorOut1[0] = Data[0] ^ Data[2] ^ Data[3] ^ xorCheck1[0];
    assign xorOut1[1] = Data[4] ^ Data[8] ^ Data[9] ^ Data[10] ^ Data[11] ^ xorCheck1[1];
    Majority3 m1 (.S({Data[1], xorOut1[0], xorOut1[1]}), .O(Errors[1]));

    //....

    wire [1:0] xorOut15;
    wire [1:0] xorCheck15;
    assign xorCheck15[0] = Data[2] ^ Data[5] ^ Data[8] ^ Data[12] ^ Data[13] ^ Data[14] ^ Data[15];
    assign xorCheck15[1] = Data[15];
    assign xorOut15[0] = Data[2] ^ Data[5] ^ Data[8] ^ Data[12] ^ Data[13] ^ Data[14] ^ xorCheck15[0];
    assign xorOut15[1] = xorCheck15[1];
    Majority3 m15 (.S({Data[15], xorOut15[0], xorOut15[1]}), .O(Errors[15]));

endmodule

There are n "chunks" of that code based on how many bits are in the input, in this case there are 16 that look somewhat similar with different combinations of xor'd bits. I am not including them all for the sake of space, but if needed I can edit my question to include the full code.
And here is my testbench:
module testbench();

//inputs
reg [15:0] Data = 0;
//outputs
wire [15:0] Errors = 0;

OLS uut (
    .Data (Data),
    .Errors (Errors)
);

integer k = 0;

initial
begin
    #100;
end

initial
begin
    Data = 0;

    for(k = 0; k<16; k=k+1) begin

        Data[k] = 1;

        if(k>0) begin
            Data[k-1] = 0;
        end
        #5;
    end
    #5 $finish;
end

initial
    begin
        $dumpfile("dump.vcd");
        $dumpvars;
    end

endmodule

So the problem I am having is regarding my simulation. The Errors output shows an 'X' wherever there is a bit being turned to 1 in my testbench; however, I expect the output to be 0 at all times for this first testbench iteration because using a majority voter of 3 inputs, at most only 1 of those inputs would be a 1 while the other 2 are 0, hence the assurance of the output being 0 at all times. I am failing to see where I went wrong that is causing the 'X' to be present despite ensuring all bits for my modules are driven.

A: You get X (unknown) because the Errors signal in the testbench has multiple drivers.  It is driven both by the wire assignment and the uut instance Errors output port.  You get X whenever the wire value differs from the instance value.
You should not "initialize" the wire because this continually drives it as 0.
Change:
wire [15:0] Errors = 0;

to:
wire [15:0] Errors;

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The ACT's highly successful Energy Efficiency Improvement Scheme will be expanded to include several new programs and will be extended to 2030, Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability Shane Rattenbury announced.
"The ACT's Energy Efficiency Improvement Scheme (EEIS) assists households and businesses to reduce their energy bills and to become more energy efficient. It is scheduled to expire in 2020," said Minister Rattenbury.
"I am pleased to announce that the ACT Government intends to extend the EEIS for another 10 years, to 2030, as well as to significantly update and improve the scheme.
"This revised EEIS scheme will optimise environmental and social outcomes, focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as lowering energy bills for low income priority households.
Increasing opportunities for low income households to benefit from the scheme.
Expanding the available energy efficiency activities, particularly to incentivise a transition from natural gas to efficient electric appliances, and to incentivise installation of residential insulation.
Extending the energy saving obligation beyond electricity retailers to also include gas retailers.
Potentially expanding EEIS activities beyond the energy sector, to also cover transport activities. This could allow innovative initiatives such as incentives for zero emissions vehicles.
In 2018, a review of the scheme found it has made a big dent in Canberra's energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions.
"The scheme has also achieved a carbon dioxide reduction equivalent to removing 144,000 cars off Canberra roads for a year, and in 2017, the EEIS saved enough energy to power over 21,000 Canberra households for a year.
The existing scheme has assisted more than 45% of Canberra households, including 17,900 low income priority households and 15,000 rental properties.
A consultation report and online survey on the proposed new EEIS, are available at the EEIS website.


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Gov. Murphy proposed great investments for kids in FY2023 budget, but what about child care?
Post author By Eloisa Hernandez-Ramos
On Tuesday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy delivered his sixth state budget address—the first in two years before a full audience at the Statehouse, and outlined his major initiatives for the 2023 budget in order to move New Jersey towards becoming a "stronger, fairer and more affordable" state. Read budget in brief.
While the centerpiece of the Governor's $48.93 billion proposed budget includes $900 million in property tax relief, his speech also included funding increases to programs that will support children and their families. Highlights of these increases include:
$68 million for preschool expansion, with $40 million to assist eligible new school districts expand preschool to an additional 3,000 3- and 4-year olds
$650 million for K-12 funding, bringing the total state education spending to $9.9 billion
$17.4 million for implementing the universal newborn home visitation program
$500 thousand for a Nurture NJ public awareness campaign, which will promote the new universal newborn home visitation program
$15 million for increasing state Medicaid spending for maternity care and higher reimbursement rates for midwives and doulas
$11 million for Cover All Kids health care program that will support all children having access to health insurance, regardless of immigration status
$2.1 million to increase case management capacity in Central Intake hubs
Unfortunately, the speech made no mention of how the proposed budget would address the child care crisis, which impacts working families, particularly mothers, who need to return to the workforce and the child care programs themselves, as they continue to struggle to remain open.
As more details emerge, we will provide updates to ensure that children have a voice in this budget process.


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Supreme Court Spanks HUD
Mark Calabria
Posted: Jun 05, 2012 12:01 AM
A Challenge to Former President Obama
Having one's read of the law vindicated by the Supreme Court is always a nice feeling, even if I had to wait about a decade. From 2002 to 2003, I managed the HUD office which administered the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA).
In 2001, prior to my arrival, the legal staff at HUD released a "policy statement" claiming that RESPA's Section 8(b) prohibited some instances of fees as excessive or unreasonable because said fees would constitute a person "giving or accepting any unearned fees".
How HUD even knows what is earned or unearned is besides the point, Section 8(b) of RESPA only prohibits fees that are basically split between two or more parties. As far as statutes go, RESPA is actually quite clear. That clarity, however, did not stop HUD from taking the convoluted position that one can split or share a fee with one-self. This was obviously an attempt to create a "reasonable" test for fees where one did not exist.
During my brief tenure at HUD, the RESPA office largely ignored this section of the 2001 policy statement. The staff there related to me that its inclusion was largely "political" anyway, an attempt to the make the remainder of the policy statement more palatable.
I made clear at the time that the policy statement went far beyond any actual authority in RESPA. It seems, however, that the trial bar was not willing to let this statement remain dormant, and assembled a class action based upon this erroneous reading of RESPA, leading to last week's decision, which rejected 9 to 0 HUD's reading of RESPA.
Dodd-Frank moved the RESPA office from HUD to the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). It moved much of the HUD enforcement and legal staff as well. What is not clear is whether the willingness to simply make up law where there is no statutory authority was also left behind.
One of the reasons why I, among others, have strong concerns as to the current structure of the CFPB is this trend of regulators constantly going around the letter of the law. How are we to hope for respect for the law when those tasked with enforcing it show so little respect themselves.


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module Dbmgr
  class PostgreSQLCLI < Thor

    desc "backup", "Create a backup"
    method_option :filename,
                  aliases: ["f"],
                  type: :string,
                  banner: "my_backup.sql",
                  desc: "Name of the backup created"

    method_option :path,
                  aliases: ["p"],
                  type: :string,
                  default: "#{ENV["HOME"]}/.db_backups",
                  banner: "#{ENV["HOME"]}/.db_backups",
                  desc: "Directory of database backups"

    method_option :port,
                  aliases: ["P"],
                  type: :numeric,
                  default: 5432,
                  banner: "5432",
                  desc: "PostgreSQL database port"

    method_option :host,
                  aliases: ["h"],
                  type: :string,
                  default: "localhost",
                  banner: "localhost",
                  desc: "PostgreSQL database host"

    method_option :user,
                  aliases: ["u"],
                  type: :string,
                  default: 'postgres',
                  banner: "postgres",
                  desc: "PostgreSQL database user"

    def backup db_name
      Database.new(options)
              .extend(PostgreSQL)
              .backup db_name
    end

  end
end

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Co-founder of the ÍON Distillery and James McLornan, the Spirits Buyer for Centra and SuperValu, announce that selected SuperValu and Centra off-licences will be the first in Northern Ireland to stock ÍON homemade rum.
New figures published by the Wine and Spirit Trade Association have shown that annual sales of rum in the UK have topped £1billion for the first time, now ranking it alongside whisky and gin as one of the nation's favourite tipples.
Northern Ireland convenience retailers, SuperValu and Centra, owned by Musgrave, are seeing a similar story in their store network, explained James McLornan, the Spirits Buyer for Centra and SuperValu.
Rum lovers will be delighted to learn that Northern Ireland's only homemade rum, created by the ÍON Distillery in County Tyrone, is available at selected SuperValu and Centra off-licences. All ÍON's spirits are made using water from their own artisan well, which is filtered through ancient volcanic rock that lies beneath their distillery.
Darren Nugent, ÍON's Distiller and Co-Founder, said: "We're delighted to announce that SuperValu and Centra off-licences will be the first off-licence chain in Northern Ireland to stock our Rum, Gin and Vodka. ÍON rum is made with the finest Central American Molasses, using a purpose built Caribbean Doubler-style copper column still which is unique in Ireland and the UK. We use authentic rum yeasts and age some of our spirit in bourbon barrels for a totally authentic, yet unique product.
For further information on SuperValu and Centra visit www.supervalu.co.uk and www.centra.co.uk.


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Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City
In 1838, Jerusalem was desolate and forsaken, a remote provincial town of the Ottoman Empire which pilgrims visited at their peril. By 1898, it had been transformed into a modern city in which six European powers – Russia, France, Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy – had each established their political presence. Its holy sites had been rebuilt, systematic archaeological excavations had begun, new churches, monasteries, convents, synagogues and mosques proliferated. The population had trebled, and immigrants hurried to its new prosperity and safety. This book tells the story of those sixty turbulent years and explains not only the rediscovery and revival of one of the most famous cities of the world, but also the way it which the seeds of Twentieth Century dissension were sown.
1898: "Herzl was never to see his dream: he died eight years later, at the age of 42. But Jerusalem, already transformed, already showing so many of the signs of a modern city, was now an integral part of the political conflicts and emotional longings of the new century. Jew, Arab, and European, Christian and Muslim, inhabitant and visitor, had built up the city, and given it its character. None were to find it perfect; each was to seek to change it; few were to leave it in peace; but all were to cherish its golden glow."
What the author says
"I am also grateful to Shlomo and Irene Gotman, formerly of Leningrad, and to Eitan, Alexandra and Miriam Finkelstein, formerly of Vilna, who, coming to Jerusaelm after many years of struggle, allowed me to re-explore the city with them, and to re-tell the stories unfolded in these pages to those for whom Jerusalem's sites and stones had long been but a dream."
"His mastery of the source material and his skilful use of these materials produce a riveting, charming and moving account – proving that Mr Gilbert is not only a first-rate historian, but a good storyteller." Washington Times
"Mr Gilbert's scholarship is impeccable." Colin Thubron, Sunday Telegraph
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.. _arch_overview_cluster_manager:

Cluster manager
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Envoy's cluster manager manages all configured upstream clusters. Just as the Envoy configuration
can contain any number of listeners, the configuration can also contain any number of independently
configured upstream clusters.

Upstream clusters and hosts are abstracted from the network/HTTP filter stack given that upstream
clusters and hosts may be used for any number of different proxy tasks. The cluster manager exposes
APIs to the filter stack that allow filters to obtain a L3/L4 connection to an upstream cluster, or
a handle to an abstract HTTP connection pool to an upstream cluster (whether the upstream host
supports HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 is hidden). A filter stage determines whether it needs an L3/L4
connection or a new HTTP stream and the cluster manager handles all of the complexity of knowing
which hosts are available and healthy, load balancing, thread local storage of upstream connection
data (since most Envoy code is written to be single threaded), upstream connection type (TCP/IP,
UDS), upstream protocol where applicable (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2), etc.

Clusters known to the cluster manager can be configured either statically, or fetched dynamically
via the cluster discovery service (CDS) API. Dynamic cluster fetches allow more configuration to
be stored in a central configuration server and thus requires fewer Envoy restarts and configuration
distribution.

* Cluster manager :ref:`configuration <config_cluster_manager>`.
* CDS :ref:`configuration <config_cluster_manager_cds>`.


Home > News > Finds > A Stitch in Time!
Our Milton Keynes Team have unearthed a Romano-British Copper Alloy Needle.
Measuring 131mm long by 3.7 mm wide, this slightly bent needle has a small amount of polished surface visible around the eye but this may be due to use rather than intentional decoration.
Such needles were primarily used to sew coarse cloth although experiments have shown that they can be used for finer work despite the size of the head.
The groove was designed to hold the thread, reducing the profile and hence causing less damage to the cloth.


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It is a new search engine, wanna try?
(idea) by naked_ape Sat Jun 24 2000 at 11:49:47
That's what I say if someone asks while I am noding at work. In fact, I am not lying, as a writer, I do use Everything to research topics and to look for information that would be hard to find in other places. Everything is a good cultural snapshot of the net, and thanks to the XP system, it has (for me), a lot of credibility.
So, if you're a documentalist, a journalist, a writer or similar, don't be shy, don't feel guilty to node while working, don't hide the Everything window, because
YOU ARE WORKING FOR EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING IS WORKING FOR YOU.
Non-everythingian friends and their responses to this place Putting Everything on your Resume Everything as your preferred search engine Advanced Everything2 the Role Playing Game
E2 Searching Without Linking Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits MD5 hash function Everything Theme Song
additive and subtractive environments Baking bread in Ultima VII Gas Station Love Story What is Everything?
Milli Vanilli Silicon Valley Everything Wind-powered Erection Motor
Everything2 Help Google Search Appliance Elizabeth CIA World Factbook
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Everything Quests - The High Seas
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Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
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You may think that one portable hard drive is very like another; and that is a problem for manufacturers like Seagate which want to differentiate their range and build customer loyalty.
The trouble is, one portable hard drive really is very like another; so what can it do? The FreeAgent GoFlex range is its answer, and Seagate has sent me the 320GB model for review.
It is billed as the "world's most upgradeable hard drive," though you can't upgrade the thing you might most want to, its capacity.
What you can upgrade is the interface. The GoFlex drive has a detachable interface which in the model supplied to me has a mini USB port on one end, and what looks like a SATA (Serial ATA) connector on the other.
You can see from this that USB 3.0 is theoretically the fastest, though if I am right in thinking that the drive itself has a SATA interface, it will not be any faster than eSATA and will likely be a little slower. However, USB 3.0 is the future and will be more commonly found on PCs and laptops – except for Apple fans who now have Thunderbolt at 10Gbps – so that is the pragmatic choice. Currently though, most computers only have USB 2.0, in which case you will need to get a USB 3.0 card for your computer as well as for the hard drive.
I question whether many users will bother to upgrade the interface on a portable hard drive. They are more likely simply to buy another one, especially as capacities steadily increase, making new drives better value in terms of the amount of storage you get. The downside of the GoFlex removable interface is that it makes the drive slightly bigger than it would otherwise be.
That said, it does have an additional benefits. You can plug the drive directly into a GoFlex media dock, which will be the subject of my next review, or into a variety of other docks which Seagate offers.
There are a few other things to mention. I use both Mac and PC, and while the GoFlex drive works fine with a Mac, it comes formatted as NTFS which on most Macs is read-only. However, the drive comes with a Mac installer that offers to install the Paragon NTFS driver, which enables read-write, or to reformat for OS X.
I'd suggest reformatting for the Mac, unless you are likely to use the drive for exchanging files between Mac and PC.
I should also mention that the GoFlex drive comes with some bundled software. Seagate has done a deal with Memeo and offers to install various pieces of free and trial software.
Since you can get all this software easily enough from the Memeo website, I am not greatly impressed, though there is a free copy of Instant Backup which would otherwise cost $29.95. Personally I use Windows 7 and I am happy to use Microsoft's built-in backup software, though Memeo has a continuous backup system that looks interesting.
Online backup, which is a feature of Memeo's paid-for Premium Backup, is definitely a step up from what is built in, but in this case you have to buy online storage space as well as the backup software so it is not going to be cheap – especially if, like me, you have ripped a large CD collection to a hard drive.
The big question: do the extra features in GoFlex amount to enough to meet Seagate's goal of differentiating its range? The ability to dock the drive is handy, and if you plan on using the media dock then yes, but otherwise you may not really notice any benefit, though it is worth getting a USB 3.0 drive if you can use it or expect to be able to soon.
That said, from what I can tell there is little if any price premium for the GoFlex drives and my 320GB sample worked well, though 320GB is rather small these days, and I'd suggest that at least a 500GB model makes more sense if you plan on storing multimedia files or keeping backups.
GoFlex portable drives are also available in 500GB, 750GB, 1TB and 1.5TB capacity. The sizes of 750GB and above have a fatter case: 22mm instead of 14.5mm. The 1.5TB drive is USB 3.0 only.
Disclosure: Kudos to Seagate for asking me to mention in my review that that the review sample does not have to be returned.


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By Jun Ray Navarres
Danny Kingad has already laid out his plans for the 2023 season and has high hopes for his return inside the ONE Circle on Feb 25 during the ONE Fight Night 7: Lineker vs. Andrade II.
The Team Lakay stalwart eyes Eko Roni Saputra as a springboard for his run to the coveted ONE Flyweight title.
"My goal for 2023 is to get a good winning streak going," said Kingad.
"I'm coming off a loss, so I have to get back on the winning track, start a winning streak, and then become a World Champion before the year ends. That's my goal this 2023."
The King is sure to be ready when he faces Saputra at the Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, especially after his December return in Manila was postponed.
Kingad was supposed to be a part of ONE Championship's return to Manila, but his opponent Gurdashan Mangat had to pull out due to an injury, pushing back Kingad's title run.
"My training pretty much continued even after Mangat dropped out. I never stopped and I stayed in shape, so training and preparation is not an issue for me," shared Kingad.
Kingad won't be facing a pushover against the Indonesian wrestling machine, but he believes that aside from Saputra's wrestling, nothing will really threaten him.
"Eko Roni Saputra has been impressive. He's on a seven-fight winning streak. What I see from him, though, is that he always favors his ground game and wrestling. That's where he's at his best, and that's what I've observed from his previous fights," Kingad added.
"I've watched his every fight, and it's the ground game that I have to worry about. Sure, he had a knockout win, but his opponent wasn't a good striker."
Kingad only has a few things in mind heading into the fight – to derail the red-hot Indonesian mixed martial artist and start his own momentum.
With his bottomless tank and quick feet, the Team Lakay dynamo hopes to score Philippines' first MMA win in 2023.
Danny "The King" Kingad, Eko Roni Saputra, Kairat Akhmetov, Mark Sangiao, ONE Championship™ (ONE), ONE Fight Night 7: Lineker vs Andrade II, Team Lakay
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Brandon Vera retires from MMA after TKO loss to Aliakbari
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Lies and Betrayal Finally Exposed in Explosive 'Bachelorette' Finale -- So What About Hannah?
Television By TooFab Staff | 7/30/2019 11:13 PM PT
Meet All 33 of Hannah B's 'Bachelorette' Suitors View Photos
Hannah finally chooses between Jed Wyatt and Tyler Cameron, but the story doesn't end there!
It was the moment Bachelor Nation has been waiting for -- and the other moment Bachelor Nation has been waiting for -- as "The Bachelorette" came in for a landing and Hannah Brown made her choice between Jed Wyatt and Tyler Cameron.
The whole evening was a roller coaster affair from start to finish, with multiple attempts at proposing and Jed finally facing the music about those allegations of having a girlfriend back home when he left to film this season of the show. But how and when did that truth come out, and what did Jed and Hannah do about it next?
'Bachelorette' Hannah Brown Reveals Her Final Two Ahead of Finale -- Plus, More Windmill Details
Let's just say Chris Harrison hasn't had topics this juicy to talk about since ... well, last week when he got to lay into Luke Parker for his awful behavior throughout the season. But we bring Luke up because of something Hannah said about why she held onto him so long on the show.
One of her biggest fears coming into the show, she revealed, was trusting the motivations of her suitors. She was worried that some of them might not be there for the right reasons, and they might be using the show and her experience for personal gain and/or simply lying to her.
And yet, that's exactly what Jed has been accused of doing.
All the Abuse Luke P Took from Hannah, Chris and Everyone on 'The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All'
"This Isn't It"
But before we could get to that heartbreak, we had to find out which guy Hannah picked, and first up it was Tyler. As expected, he was incredibly respectful and forthright about what he wanted out of his future. He talked beautifully about how Hannah had helped him grow as a man and how deeply he's fallen in love with her.
And then, in the middle of a sentence, Hannah simply said, "Tyler--"
"This isn't it," he realized after a brief pause.
Hannah Brown, from the moment I met you you've captivated my soul. I always knew the man I wanted to be and I knew I'd get there one day, but I didn't know how. And then I met you and I realized the man I'm meant to be -- [it] took you to push me to get there. I have grown so much emotionally, spiritually and so madly in love. I know our love was slow start but it has a light that will burn forever, just like the lighthouse we met under in Jupiter, Florida. I started falling in love with you the first moment I got to hold you, dance with you and have you in my arms on our first date--Tyler--This isn't it.No just-- just-- I am so lucky to be loved by you and to feel that. You have supported me. You have been so sweet and strong for me and done everything that I've asked and more and loved me so much. And my life with you would be amazing. And when I told you I was falling in love with you, I mean it. But I love someone else. I'm so sorry. I don't--
It was a gut-wrenching scene for Bachelor Nation to watch, and especially because they knew the allegations looming over Jed. Did Hannah really just throw Tyler away a week after getting rid of Peter?
'Bachelorette' Star Jed Wyatt Pleads with Fans to Leave His Family Alone Amid Cheating Claims
"Talking Is Hard for Me Sometimes"
So is honesty, apparently. As expected, Jed worked a song into his proposal and Hannah "really liked" it. Bachelor Nation may have been seeing red, but the only red Hannah could see was in the final rose she offered to Jed. If only it had all ended there, things would have at least had the illusion of a happy ending for the newly-engaged couple.
But less than a month ago while pleading with fans to leave his family alone, Jed asserted that he was not able to talk about the allegations he'd left a girlfriend behind to go on the show, indicating this would likely come up in the season finale. And it came up in a huge way as Hannah invited cameras back into her life just as the story broke wide.
"I came on the show hoping to find love and wanting to spend my life with someone and with Jed I was so happy because I thought I was getting this person that I can spend life with who is sweet and sincere and honest and-- That's not been the case," Hannah said.
Haley,You're truly an amazing person. Someday we'll be thankful for all of this. You know where my heart will be. See you at the dock. --J
It was one of the most painfully awkward conversations ever seen on a "Bachelor" show, as Hannah yanked and tugged and pulled at Jed to try and get some semblance of the full truth out of him. Instead, she got assertions that he loved her and what certainly sounded like attempts to tell her as little as possible.
Luke P. Slams Hannah Brown for Windmill Sex in Heated Twitter War After Being Cut from 'Bachelorette'
"It Was Just for Your Career"
Every word was calculated, and while he did answer pointed questions about whether they had sex and how serious they were, he still wasn't offering up the most damning details. As he saw it, he was afraid to lose her. So instead, he put his fiancee in the worst possible light on a public stage making her look like a fool.
He also proved her worst fear had come true.
"It didn't seem like it was a dating show to you, it was just for your career.""In my mind, yeah, I was going there for a music thing.""And you probably kept reassuring her it was a music thing, you don't have to worry. I know this is what happened. That's what happened.""Yeah, I told her like this is going to be a really good thing for music. I just highly doubt that this could actually ever be a relationship, that I'd go in there and actually like someone."
"When you said you were coming for music, I thought oh, like he doesn't know what this is about, not knowing it was a conversation all the time with another girl you were talking to. That makes it totally different."
Jed even admitted that he'd told Haley that he loved her right before heading off to do the show. Honestly, it looks like he was hoping for some exposure to take his music career to the next level (as many people go on reality shows for) and got caught off guard by how much Hannah was falling for him.
Did he fall for her? Or did his ego not allow him to step away? We may never know for sure, because Jed came across as very egocentric, disingenuous, arrogant and insincere. At one point, he lamented that the cameras might see him cry while talking to Hannah.
"There's just a lot that does feel like it's career and being noticed and it feels like it's like using me, our relationship for that.""I don't want you to feel that way, so what can I do to like not-- like what will demonstrate otherwise with that."
Note that even at this point, Jed can't simply say that it's not about his career anymore and that he's fallen in love with her. Instead, he doesn't want her to feel that way. It may be that way, but he doesn't want her to feel like it is. What is that he said to Haley? "Someday we'll be thankful for all of this."
Well, that line clearly didn't work with Haley, who dumped him, and it didn't work with Hannah, either as she left the ring on the table and broke it off with Jed shortly after.
Kaitlyn Bristowe Stands Up For Hannah Brown After 'Bachelorette' Gets Slut-Shamed For Having Sex During Filming
"I Make Bold Moves"
But it wasn't all sadness and frustration for Hannah or Bachelor Nation, as Chris Harrison brought out fan-favorite Tyler for the final segment. "I mean, those feelings just didn't go away," Hannah told Chris as the crowd erupted in cheers.
Tyler again was gracious and so sweet, lifting up Hannah and praising her strength of character throughout their short time together. He also admitted he felt awful for what had happened, because he really thought she'd be in good hands with Jed.
All the while, Hannah was smiling and using every bit of body language she could muster to indicate that she's still totally into Tyler. But this is Hannah Brown, and she doesn't just let subtle hints and suggestions to do the work for her.
"I want somebody to be bold and I'm bold and I make bold moves so I mean, I--" she said to Tyler haltingly. "You're an incredible guy and I'm a single girl, so I don't know, I thought maybe we could just go for a drink and hang out."
'Bachelor' Creator Mike Fleiss Denies Attacking Pregnant Wife, Claims She Attacked Him
After the audience and Chris calmed down, Tyler replied, "I would love to. Just tell me when, I'm there."
And that's about as close to a happy ending as Hannah is going to get on this journey, and it's certainly an ending Bachelor Nation can be satisfied with. She got to have it out with both Luke and Jed, telling both men how their awful behavior had tainted the experience for her, and she still got to meet a great guy.
Hannah's had to have been one of the most painful "Bachelorette" experiences yet. She dealt with Luke throughout, had her biggest fears about being lied to realized and the guy she ultimately chose proved to be the biggest liar of all. That she is able to come out of it with even a date with a great guy is a huge plus.
But perhaps more importantly, Hannah came out of it with a new strength of character and sense of her own self worth. By enduring awful people like Luke and Jed on national television, Hannah learned that she is enough. She can supplement her own bold greatness with a man if she chooses, but she's also just fine by herself.
She can tell Tyler all about it on their date, but she'd be preaching to the choir. He already knows all of that.
Melissa Rycroft's Parents Thought She Died in the Dominican Republic
Check out some other great (and some tragic) lines from the season finale of "The Bachelorette" below:
"I've always prayed for my future husband and as little girl I can remember sitting in my room, I never knew who I was praying for but I was always wondering just what their life was like, what they were doing, what their passions were. I sometimes questioned God has allowed things to happen in my life the way they did, the struggle, the way I've struggled and had the heartbreaks I've had and why this was my journey. There are so may times in my life that I thought would be it and it wasn't and I didn't understand why. But it's led me to this moment, it's led me to you. I've been praying for this moment for a long time. I've been praying for you. You've supported me, you've loved me, you've challenged me, you've moved me and it's made me love you so ,so much. And I am in complete love with you. I love you, Jed Wyatt." --Hannah
"I love the person I got engaged to. I don't know how I feel about this person." --Hannah
"This is the time to be as blunt as I am." --Hannah (to Jed)
"You told me to tell you the truth." --Jed
"I want you to tell me the truth but I'm also going to react to the truth and be like what the freak!" --Hannah
"Her parents got me a vacation to the Bahamas. It's for my birthday but the day of the vacation is her birthday." --Jed
"But you don't call that dating?" --Hannah
"She was upset because I'm leaving and we're sitting there on this extravagant trip. I'd been drinking. I'm not going to make that an excuse but I had been and I told her that I loved her. And when I said it it didn't feel right and I knew it was a mistake because I was leaving." --Jed
"Just selfish." --Hannah
"It is selfish."
" It's so selfish to her. It's selfish to me."
"I know. I know. So I leave and after I landed in LA and started this whole thing that was like a goodbye for me. Which is not a proper goodbye. It's not the right way to do it. It's not close to the right way to do it."
"How is it a goodbye? Because you know I've seen the text messages.
"It wasn't a verbal goodbye."
"No, it was a, I love you."
"To me I ended it in my heart and not verbally."
"How? You said you loved her on a phone call and in a text the day of."
"Like what do those words mean to you?"
"I didn't know until I met you."
"It's not just the words, you slept with her the night before you left."
I can't-- I don't want to cry on camera." --Jed
"Who cares, Jed?" --Hannah
"I just feel like this experience was taken away from me because I didn't know all the details. I was being told half-truths and lies. You wanted me to have clarity and clarity means truth. You got to see all of me, I didn't get to see all of you. All the scars that have been on my heart is because of people not being honest with me. You're really selfish in this and I just feel like right now, my decisions, my choices were all tainted." --Hannah
"I need some good grace and patience." --Jed
"I have grace for you. I can be mad and I can be upset but I do have grace for you. But also this doesn't mean the same thing. That's not what I said yesto." -- Hannah (taking off the engagement ring)
"I think I speak for everybody when... We can 'ship this." --Chris (after Hannah asked Tyler out)
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On Friday, December 5, 2014, NASCENT delivered the 1000th AGS kiosk to NS.
During the ceremony, in a moving tribute to James Z. Peepas, Fabio Teti explained that the kiosk is named in memory of James Z. Peepas, an industry pioneer, colleague, and friend whose tireless efforts enabled NASCENT to enter the railroad sector, providing NS with their first AGS in 2002.
A crystal commemorative plaque engraved with the words, "Dedicated in honor of James Z. Peepas, an Intermodal Industry Pioneer. His tireless dedication to improving the intermodal industry resulted in the introduction of NASCENT to the railroad sector" was presented to Mr. James Shondel, grandson of James Peepas and CEO of Remprex, who received it on behalf of his grandfather.


BBC America's latest series import Green Wing brings new meaning to bedside manner, laying the idiosyncrasies, romantic trysts and everyday nonsense of the hospital staff on the table for examination.
The series begins as surgical resident Dr. Caroline Todd (Tamzin Greig, Black Books) arrives for her first day on the job unshowered and exhausted, having slept in her car while locked out of her house. Egotistical Swedish anesthetist Guy Secrertan (Stephen Mangan, Billy Eliot), offers her the keys to his flat for the night, then leads the staff to believe they've had a romantic link. While fighting for her reputation, Todd is persuaded to take in Dr. Angela Hunter (Sarah Alexander) as a roommate, despite being uncomfortable with the slightly affectionate attention her fellow resident lavishes upon her.
On the surface, the characters read quite pat, especially with the young and attractive surgeon Dr. MaCartney (Julian Rhind-Nutt, Notting Hill) and the socially uncoordinated radiologist Dr. Stratham (Mark Heap, About a Boy), who is consumed by his not-so-undercover love affair with human resources director Joanna Clore (Pippa Haywood).
But as the chemistry begins to gel, the combination of characters and multiple storylines reveals a well-crafted, often laugh-out-loud comedy that plays as a delicate balance of The Office meets Grey's Anatomy, sans heavy drama. Intermittently off-pace camera work highlights the comedic action as a light touch of physical humor manages to entertain without being too full of schtick.
The sheer quirkiness of the staff is comfortably amusing and senselessly offbeat, especially the helplessly neurotic liaison Sue White (Michelle Gomez) whose antics know no boundaries from counseling staff in costume, offering magic potions or casting spells on those who disagree with her.
The everyday doldrums — one staff member wages a poster campaign when his yogurt is moved in the refrigerator — help to balance out the silliness and pace the storylines. Overall, the strength of the show is in its simplicity. It's just plain funny in an everyday sort of way and you don't need a track to cue your laughter.
Created, produced and devised by Victoria Pile, who also directs on some installments, the nine-episode season is executive-produced by Peter Fincham. Taking off when another Thursday night medical skein is about to go on summer holiday, Green Wing makes its U.S. premiere on BBC America May 19 at 10 p.m. (ET)/ 11 p.m. (PT).


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Significant Damages Recovered for Former School Cleaner Exposed to Asbestos Dust
Slater and Gordon was instructed by a former cleaner at Blackheath & Bluecoat School in London who was diagnosed with asbestos-related lung cancer.
Slater and Gordon Solicitor: Edmund Young is a Personal Injury Lawyer at Slater and Gordon Lawyers in London.
Settlement value: £150,000
What happened: The client was a member of a team of ten cleaners at Blackheath & Bluecoat School in London. She was employed by the school from 1990 to 1992, 1995 to 1998, and 1999 to 2006. Cleaning equipment and supplies were kept in two very large storerooms - the size of about five classrooms. Pipework ran through these rooms, and the pipework was insulated with asbestos, which was labelled as such.
The atmosphere in the rooms was chronically contaminated with asbestos. Contractors were employed to remove the asbestos; the dust was not contained in the sheeted-off area of this work, escaping to the adjacent classrooms, with the cleaners using a room only ten-feet away. It was the job of the cleaners to sweep away the asbestos dust. At the end of the day, the client's clothes were covered with asbestos dust.
In her second period of employment at Blackheath & Bluecoat School, the client returned to work in the old building on the school grounds. A "danger asbestos" sign had been hung on the door, and yet the cleaners had to use the room.
Impact: The client has since developed Mesothelioma. This was diagnosed in mid-2014. Her respiratory capacity deteriorated in late 2013. She has since had to give up work as a result of her Mesothelioma.
How Slater and Gordon helped: Slater and Gordon helped the client to recover significant damages for her truly horrendous fatal illness in the face of strong opposition and a denial of liability. It was only when a trial date was obtained for October 2015 that the defendants agreed to negotiate settlement of the claim.
Decision: Slater and Gordon helped the client recover significant damages for her truly horrendous fatal illness in the face of strong opposition and a denial of liability. It was only when a trial date was obtained for October 2015 that the defendants agreed to negotiate settlement of the claim.
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China / Defence
China 'preparing for an Armed Combat'
by Madhur Sharma · 28th May 2020
Image source: The Asian Age
Chinese President Xi Jinping has asked the People's Liberation Army to step up their war preparedness. In a meeting with the Chinese military leadership on the sidelines of the National People's Congress, the Chinese parliament, President Xi was quoted as saying, "It is necessary to step up preparations for armed combat, to flexibly carry out actual combat military training, and to improve our military's ability to perform military missions."
This comes as China announced a 6.6% annual hike in its defence budget, with their defence spokesperson Mr Wu Qian saying that China faced heightened security threats, particularly from Taiwan. He said, "The Democratic Progressive Party authorities in Taipei are relying on external forces and going further down the path of separatism. The situation against separatism is getting grimmer."
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Such comments come in the midst of all-round aggression by Beijing. China has clashed with India at the border, the South China Sea has seen Chinese muscle-flexing, Taiwan has been harassed, Australia has been bullied, and, in the latest move, Hong Kong is being stripped of its autonomy with a new national security law. This has led experts to ponder whether such aggressive posturing can now push China into an armed confrontation.
One should be worried regarding India and China, Dr Sumit Ganguly, a professor of political science at Indiana University and Dr Manjeet S Pardesi, Senior Lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington, write for Foreign Policy. They write that as it has been decades since the last bullet was fired, an understanding has developed that it will not escalate to that scale now as well, but one may be cautious with such an understanding.
The 1988 India-China compromise, Dr Ganguly and Dr Pardesi write, was reached when India and China were more or less at par in power dynamics but a disparity has come since then.
They write, "At $13.6 trillion in 2018, China's GDP is now more than five times India's $2.7 trillion. Similarly, China spent $261.1 billion on defence expenditure in 2019, almost four times India's total of $71.1 billion. A new economic dynamic means that the underlying bedrock of the [Rajiv] Gandhi-Deng bargain—of similar means and goals—is fizzling out."
Image source: CGTN
Aggressive posturing with muscle-flexing everywhere and now a call for war preparedness in the midst of a pandemic is not incidental. About the move in Hong Kong, CNN's James Griffiths writes, "Beijing may be counting on the fact that the coronavirus pandemic has weakened the ability and determination of the international community to pressure it over Hong Kong — the UK in particular, newly outside of the European Union, is dependent on increased trade with China to boost its flagging economy."
Similarly, Beijing may corner Taiwan as well in the pandemic. Mr Bertil Lintner suggests the time may be ripe for China to make a move on Taiwan. He writes for Asia Times, "Pandemic has left a US security vacuum around the self-governing island China has oft-vowed to 'reincorporate' with the mainland. China watchers believe that Chinese President Xi Jinping has set an undeclared deadline of this year for a final decision on whether to invade Taiwan, but opinions vary as to whether that is truly his intent."
Experts have also raised fears of a conflict in the South China Sea in the pandemic. China and the US have also engaged in tit-for-tat actions in the South China Sea, sailing their warships one after the other through the troubled waters between China and Taiwan. About Chinese posturing in the pandemic, Carl Schuster, a retired US Navy captain and former Director of Operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center, told CNN, "I think China is exploiting the US Navy's coronavirus challenges to improve its position in the South China Sea by giving the appearance it can and will operate there at will while the US is hamstrung."
However, it has also been commented that, rather than seeking confrontation and assertion, Chinese actions may be driven by its sense of insecurity. Mr Yoram Evron, a China expert at the University of Haifa, told The South China Morning Post, "China doesn't feel safe enough – externally but maybe also internally – to slow down its military build-up, no matter what the economic circumstances are. But at the same time, it is still constrained by economic developments and it probably doesn't want to project an aggressive image."
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Conference proceedings include presentations delivered at academic and other conferences.
Baltruschat, D. (2012). Media Ecologies in Film: Defining Cross-border Dynamics of Canadian and U.S. Cinema. Invited Keynote Speaker for 'The Art of Cinema – Canada & the United States' conference held at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Baltruschat, D. (2014). I-Docs for Change (!?): How Convergence has changed the Production, Distribution and Consumption (and expectations) of Documentaries . 'What is Documentary?' conference. University of Oregon, Portland, OR
Baltruschat, D. (2013). Digital Cinema in Transition: Story-flows across Screens: An Analysis of Canadian Transmedia Production. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences/ Film Studies Association of Canada. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Baltruschat, D. (2013). Critical Perspectives on Film and Transmedia Production in the Digital Age. Advancing Media Production Research: IAMCR pre-conference. Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Baltruschat (2011). Media Production Ecologies. A Theoretical Paradigm for Studies of Visual and Participatory Media. Annual conference of the International Visual Sociology Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Baltruschat, D. (2009). Global Media Ecologies and Film Production. 'What is Film? Change & Continuity in the 21st Century' conference. University of Oregon, Portland, OR
Baltruschat, D. (2008). Global Media Ecologies: Networked Film and TV Production and the Interactive Audience. Media, Communication and Humanity: Media@lse Fifth anniversary conference. London School of Economics, London, UK
Baltruschat, D. (2007). Global and Local Media Networks: Contrasting Modes of Production. 'Enclosure, Emancipatory Communication and the Global City'. A conference of the Union for Democratic Communications. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
Baltruschat, D. (2006). Television Formats: the Cross-border Adaptation of Formulaic Productions and Narratives. 'Cross-Border Cultural Production: Economic Runaway or Globalization?' conference at the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Baltruschat, D. (2005). Global Civil Society and Media/Democracy Action. The Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Baltruschat, D. (2003). Television and Canada's Aboriginal Communities—Seeking Opportunities through Digital Technologies. Media in Transition 3: Television conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
Baltruschat, D. (2002). Film and TV Co-productions: A Canadian Case Study. Media in Transition 2: Globalization and Convergence conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
Erickson, Mary. "Television in the Peace Arch Country: Regional Identification of KVOS-TV in the Pacific Northwest." Paper presented at the Second International Culture and the Canada-US Border conference, Nottingham, UK. June 2014.
Erickson, Mary. "KVOS-TV and Canawest Film Productions: A Case Study of Cross-Border Industry Dynamics, 1960-1977." Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Seattle, WA. May 2014.
Erickson, Mary. "Bordering an Industry: KVOS-TV and Canawest Film Productions in the Pacific Northwest." Paper presented for James W. Scott Fellowship, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. September 26, 2013.
Erickson, Mary and Macey, Deborah. "Anatomy of a Twitter Spat: Producing Media Activism for Teen Girls." Paper presented at the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language & Gender conference, Tacoma, WA. October 2012.
Erickson, Mary. "Placing Regional Filmmaking 'on the Motion Picture Map with Great, Big Letters': A History of Film Production in the Pacific Northwest." Paper presented at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association conference, Seattle, WA. August 2011.
Erickson, Mary. "At the Edge: Independent Filmmakers Working at Outpost Locations." Paper presented at the What is Film? Conference, Portland, OR. November 2009.


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South China Sea: Fishing in Troubled Waters
Features | Diplomacy | Southeast Asia
Could partnered fisheries enforcement be the best follow up to the recent PCA ruling?
By Kerry Lynn Nankivell for The Diplomat
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The United States Navy does fisheries enforcement.
That's not a headline, a recommendation, or a prediction for the future. It's a practiced fact.
Today, the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard routinely operate together under the Oceania Maritime Security Initiative (OMSI) to conduct fisheries enforcement missions in partnership with other countries, embarking their representatives on U.S. platforms for enforcement patrols within non-U.S. EEZs.
The Navy's innovative interagency and mutinational experience in fisheries enforcement is not widely noted. (After all not much is sexy about fish policing.) But it might be the appropriate model for a low-risk, high-impact operational response to the recent Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruling in the South China Sea. Partnered fisheries enforcement in the Philippine EEZ might consolidate both the PCA ruling and demonstrate Manila and Washington's joint commitment to the rule of law in a tangible and effective way.
The Deafening Silence of the Status Quo
Since the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) tribunal issued its ruling on the landmark Philippine-China arbitration on July 12, there has been a deafening silence from most of the primary stakeholders in the outcome. China, of course, has been an exception: Immediately following the ruling (and arguably before) Beijing moved quickly to maintain political, diplomatic, and operational momentum. Dismissing the ruling as "waste paper," calling for a "people's war at sea," and continuing to make infrastructural improvements on its artificial installations in the Spratlys, Beijing's escalatory activities have remained steady — this despite confirmation from the Court that many of China's activities have no basis in law.
For its part, Vietnam has not been left flat-footed. Keeping pace with Beijing's activities, Vietnam contributed to a hardening of positions by placing new rocket launchers on several of its holdings in the Spratlys. Though Vietnam's capabilities are much more modest and its operational position at great disadvantage to Beijing's, Hanoi has clearly signaled that it won't accept a fait accompli in the South China Sea, at least while it has some wherewithal to resist. Vietnamese resolve means that its artillery and Chinese missiles now sit less than 200 nautical miles from one another in what must surely be the world's most dangerous sea.
Meanwhile, the Philippines' newly minted President Rodrigo Duterte has mounted a diplomatic initiative that reaffirms the ruling of the PCA while also recognizing the need for continued dialogue; Indonesia's government has recently set up a legal task force to explore Jakarta's options in the same vein. Malaysia has remained curiously silent on the ruling and the ongoing maneuvers by Vietnam and China, but no less silent than ASEAN, which (incredibly) failed to mention the South China Sea or the arbitral ruling in the communiqué emerging from its foreign ministers' meeting* last month.
The anemic response isn't only disappointing, it's dangerous. While it is entirely understandable that all parties remain prudent and cognizant of the dangers of escalation, neither does it pay to acquiesce to Chinese behavior, which has clearly been destabilizing. Beijing's intransigence has been significant: rejecting international law and legal procedure out of hand and encouraging other governments to do the same, reckless military posturing despite its diplomatic commitments under the 2002 ASEAN Code of Conduct, and incitement of nationalist fervor at sea outside the traditional military chain of command and control. Acquiescence to what can only be interpreted as China's reckless disregard for regional stability will not only encourage Beijing to believe that it alone sets the rules for regional waters, but might also set legal precedent that undermines the broader rule of law.
Between Escalation and Acquiescence?
An appropriate response by stakeholder nations would underscore and extend the ruling of the PCA by means that are as non-escalatory as possible without being acquiescent. So far, most insightful commentaries have focused exclusively on the military or legal aspects of this dispute alone. Unfortunately, neither discussion permits much room for creative policymaking, one being excessively escalatory, the other being excessively normative and, so far at least, unable to influence Beijing. But there's a forgotten policy space that lies between those two poles. Constabulary power offers a tantalizing prospect for progress here, that is, fisheries enforcement in confirmed areas of EEZ.
It should be acknowledged that the PCA ruing left many things unresolved – most notably, ultimate sovereignty of the features in the Spratly Islands. It clarified a few things as well, but these are dauntingly difficult to enforce, such as the validity of the nine-dash line and the illegality of Beijing's construction on Mischief Reef. However, the ruling did undeniably confirm two things: that Mischief Reef is not capable of generating maritime zones, and so falls within Manila's EEZ; and second, Scarborough Shoal only generates a 12 nautical mile territorial sea within the larger Filipino EEZ, and that all traditional (including Filipino) fishermen should retain access.
In principle, these rulings are easily consolidated through maritime law enforcement activity in confirmed areas of Philippine EEZ. But with a high volume of Chinese-flagged and -subsidized fishing vessels regularly fishing in the zone with the apparent rear-guard support of the China Coast Guard, Manila couldn't mount an uncontested operation alone. The Philippine Coast Guard and even the Philippine Navy have limited capacity. But acting with the United States under a partnered agreement suited to the circumstances is an option worth exploring. Such a framework might be modeled after Washington's existing fisheries partnerships in the Pacific Islands under OMSI. Regular credible fisheries patrols in Philippine waters (including those around Mischief Reef and near Scarborough Shoal) would operationalize the spirit and the letter of the least controversial parts of the PCA ruling.
For the United States, a fisheries pact with the Philippine Coast Guard would be a natural and non-escalatory activity under its alliance with Manila in line with its stated commitment to the rule of law in Southeast Asian waters. And, as the United States Navy already has both a near-consistent presence in Philippine waters and direct experience in partnered fisheries enforcement, the operation is "shovel-ready." It should be noted that partnered fisheries enforcement in the Pacific represents a best practice in innovative governing. There are two enablers: an operating agreement between the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard on the one hand, and bilateral ship-rider agreement between the United States and the partner nation on the other. The result is that today, a U.S. Navy vessel carrying U.S. Coast Guard personnel and partner authorities can detain, inspect, confiscate, and arrest foreign fishing vessels operating illegally in partner EEZs. This creative interagency and international framework has been successfully operating in the Pacific for half a decade, putting some much-needed muscle behind fisheries management there. Is this the model for U.S.-Philippine partnership going forward?
There are downsides to this proposition. It is well known that "commercial" fishermen around the nine-dash line are affiliated with and perhaps directed by Chinese government authorities, which means that confronting these trespassers carries some risk. To say nothing of the fact that the U.S. Navy cannot and should not be Southeast Asia's fish police for the long-run; that mission properly belongs to the region's residents. But in the immediate term, limited use of U.S. Navy platforms for this purpose is a proposal that has much to commend it. It will unequivocally underscore Manila and Washington's joint commitment to abide by the PCA ruling while demonstrating that the Philippines' sovereign right to police its own jurisdiction is sacrosanct, no matter its size or capability. It will signal to Beijing that it does not have a free hand in Southeast Asia, particularly in the sovereign jurisdictions of Southeast Asia's smaller states. It may reduce the volume of official and semi-official activity undertaken by China's maritime services in Philippine EEZ, diminishing the operational risks of confrontation or dangerous unintended encounters around the Spratly Islands. And it may also provide some badly needed deterrence to ongoing construction projects on and around Mischief Reef.
All things considered, strengthened fisheries enforcement – partnered, legal, and effective – may be the best way to extend the PCA ruling with the least possible risk to regional stability. The baseline reality is that the United States Navy knows how to do partnered fisheries enforcement. That capability is badly needed in the Philippine EEZ. And the apparent alternatives, either military posturing or de facto acquiescence to Chinese behavior, might prove the riskier options in the not- so-long-run.
Kerry Lynn Nankivell is an Associate Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, HI. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and do not represent the official view of U.S. Pacific Command, the U.S. Department of Defense or the United States government.
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import org.apache.sling.metrics.api.MetricsUtil;
import org.apache.sling.metrics.api.TimerContext;
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