Hello again! The package man brought my slightly loved copy of Laurel's Kitchen today (the whole thing, not the short-cut copy) and I found the parts I longed to read again! Would you like to have a little taste of this cookbook poetry?
"One morning, out for a walk, I stopped at Laurel's house to see if she'd join me. She was packing Ed's lunch - his dinner rather . . .
No lunch pail was in sight, just a big wicker basket with a lid - quite a large one really, for just sandwiches and fruit. Then I saw the sandwiches: think slices of dark rye around an egg salad sparked with sweet red peppers and parsley, so thick she had to cut the bread in half before assembling the finished product. But the sandwiches were the least of the story. A fragrant barley soup with translucent pieces of zucchini, celery, and mushrooms went into a wide-mouthed thermos carefully preheated with boiling water, and a tiny packet of grated cheese went in alongside to be sprinkled on top of the soup. She rinsed and dried lettuce and cherry tomatoes and put them into a plastic container with a tiny bottle of herb dressing, then got out a cantaloupe and cut it in half in perfect zigzags, scooped out seeds, and packed one of the halves with cottage cheese and a sprinkling of toasted sunflower seeds."
Ready for lunch now? If you have been lovingly preparing whole foods for your family, searching out recipes that stay true to fresh, clean ingredients, and baking bread and other grainy "staff of life" type offerings, well . . . just know that you are doing something very important, very noble.
The descriptions of Laurel's apartment and later her house, her tiny kitchen and then her bigger work space are so romantically domestic. This book was written 35 years ago. Women were happily dressed in long skirts, heads sporting plain, straight pony tails, and trying to keep things "real" in the kitchen. I like that. It was before the Food Network and HGTV. It was a simpler time and those of us who were child brides (smile!) tried so hard to do good work as budding homemakers . I'm not sure if I'll actually use the recipes. I think I really wanted to revisit the commentary. So good.
After skimming and savoring my new book, I headed out for a walk.
I didn't get far because as I passed the park, I spied my neighbor playing with her granddog. I had to zoom in and take some photos of Marley as he chased the tennis ball down the grassy hill. Because I ate too much lettuce for dinner, my stomach started churning. Thus the end of my walk. I hopped in my neighbor's car and she drove me home. So fun. So comfortable. Neighbors. Dogs. Parks. Fall colors. Back home in my chair by the window. Crickets chirping. Yes, it's fall. Good things prevail.
Thank you for stopping in for some lunch, a walk, and a dog smile.
Hello! How are you? I hope you are are well, content, expectant, and feeling quite propelled by LOVE today. Vroooooom! Off you go! Off I go to school very soon. Would you like to see a few of my birthday gifts?
Oh, I am quite bejeweled with lovely birthday offerings. I am a bit bowled over by all the sweetness. Bill and I had a fun getaway and some delicious meals and I got to see all our kids and grandchildren, so I feel blessed, blessed, blessed. My birthday month has been super warm. I guess I got excited for fall just a tad too early. Eighty degrees and higher is the expectation for the entire week. Is it wrong to wish cooler temperatures for October? Well, I do.
I have parent/teacher conferences on Thursday evening. I'll be a bit loopy after that - such a long day. I must fix my brain on school and all the "to do's" associated with it instead of yarn, tea, cozy denim sofa, bird feeders still drawing tiny friends, sewing (I can't wait to try some projects held in the book above), winding walks on neighborhood streets, bumping into Bill because he's here (joy!) and all the other things of home. I guess I'll just wear my new ruby slippers to school and click three times and say, "There's no place like home" and then get back to teacher stuff.
My heart can be home even if I'm not.
Have you been doing the moon dance? Our glowing little round rock is fixing itself in the night time sky and hanging around for a bit in the morning, too. Mmmmmmmm. I like.
Joy to you and a buoyant day of life.
Hi Everyone! Thank you for all your sweet comments on my last post. All week was SPIRIT week and it added to the hallway/classroom craziness. Whew.
This morning it dawned on me that Band-aids are a small gesture of love. So many kids ask for Band-aids. I buy fancy ones: tattoos, Snoopy, Scooby Doo, Batman, and Princesses. I go through so many boxes, but I've decided I'll keep buying them happily. Eighth graders like Band-aids and I'd like to think that a fancy little bandage is a way of caring for and paying attention to BIGGER hurts. I distinctly remember wailing for one when I was in elementary school. Our family was packing up for a weekend trip and my mother was overwhelmed with household tasks, loading the car, and fussy children. I wanted that Band-aid for a sore finger that wasn't bleeding. We probably didn't have any but I didn't understand. I was so sad. I haven't always kept a ready supply of Band-aids here at home either. At school, it's a must. They NEED them. I'll keep buying.
I'll also keep buying wet wipes. Kids love these, too. Do you love them? They are such a snazzy solution for stickiness. Cold, refreshing, sturdy. A must for the classroom.
MY BIRTHDAY WEEKEND! Yippee! I'm going to be 52 on Saturday! Isn't that a great age?
I love my birthday! I brought the struggling reading and writing class cupcakes and chips. They were so cute. One peppy boy said, "No one can bite their cupcake until Mrs. M. bites hers." That tiny little pink cupcake tasted so good in the company of those thankful teenagers.
Family will fill the house tomorrow evening. Party bags for the grands shall be filled in the morning. I will go outside and take a big sniff of my September. Mmmmmmmmmm.
I hope your weekend holds some singing and dancing. LOVE.
This weekend, my Lark Rise to Candleford series 3 came in the mail. Oh delight! Oh bliss! I love these people. Queenie is my favorite because she is so real and dear. She welcomes heavy hearts. People bare their souls to her and it never fails to encourage me. Minnie (below) is full of life and hopefulness. She's silly and isn't afraid to ask ridiculous questions. Jeff asked me if I like the people from Lark Rise better or the people from Candleford. Definitely, I love the Lark Risers best. Finally, I had to stop watching, for I had tried Jeff's patience enough. He doesn't like the theme song playing quite so often. They talk slow and I like that. I feel like everything around here is rush, rush, rush. We are always hurrying and when we aren't hurrying, we're planning. I'd like long tea-seasoned chats with the Lark Rise ladies, sewing on something, laughing and sharing. A girl can dream.
While I was watching, I was knitting. Do you like my little tomato bag? Guess what's in it!
Guess what else came? Yes, Laurel's Kitchen! But, I was disappointed because it's a compact version, not the original. I had to hunt and order again. This one is lovely, too, but I want the first one. To all of you who like veggie dishes, this is the sweetest, homiest, down-to-earth cookbook ever. There is a new one, but the old one makes you want to pack everyone you love a sack lunch that will knock their socks off!
Today was Wacky Tacky Day at school. It's SPIRIT week. I bet you remember this from last year if you've been my friend since then. I am a better sport about it this year. I'm trying to be a team player. I was almost late this morning because I had to run a green polka dot ribbon through the casing of my square dancing petticoat. (No, I don't square dance, it's my Pom Pom under thing!) and a student pointed to my pink apron and said, "What that called? An apron?" Funny. Someone also told me my glasses (I wear these often!) are nice and tacky, too.
Below is my friend and co-teacher for third period, Melissa. She's fun.
Some of the kids really went to Tacky Town!
And guess what? Bill is HOME! He's tired from all that plane riding, but he's so happy to be home and he is already asleep in our flannel clad bed! I'm so thankful! A storm is brewing outside now but last night the moon woke me up three times. It was so bright, I had to get up on my knees and stare at it. I can hear the wind and the thunder. Ten more days of my beloved September. Thank you so much for stopping in. I love the thought of you.
Thank you for your dear prayers for Kelli. At my school prayer group, we prayed for her, too. She has lots of love and concern coming her way. I remember what life was like when our kids were little. I felt a little jumbled and even though I tried so hard not to lose things, I'm sure I did. I received a call last night from a man who found Kelli's cell phone in his mother in law's back yard. In her rush to preschool, Kelli left her phone on the roof of her car and it flew off. Poor girl. She'll get it back today even though she's already fixed the phone problem. One time my dad was getting ready to go back to the capital for a week of lawmaking and he drove off with a basket of clean clothes and shoes on the top of his car. I think he drove QUITE a ways before he realized it and all was lost. When we had very little money, I went to a pizza parlor to buy a pizza for the kids and left it on top of the car and it flew off on my way home. I cried. Mom's get frazzled.
Bill is winding up his visit to Cambodia, but I thought you'd like to see a few pictures. A lot of people have asked me what Bill does and why he flies all over the globe. Real quick, I'll tell you. He started this ministry so that he could go abroad and encourage Christian workers who love kids. He raises all the money here and travels to many countries to consult and train, love and serve. He goes to Africa, Asia, South America and New Zealand and Australia. Occasionally he travels to Europe, too. He does get a bit jet lagged and he isn't trying to build a big organization (we've worked with many fine BIG organizations and love them) but he is thrilled to serve in this simple way. I hope that explains his job a bit.
Some sweet Cambodian kids had a fun barbecue. Cool lanterns, huh?
Everywhere he goes, he rides on the back of a "moto" and all the kids who can, drive one. Some ride regular bikes. The roads are so crowded with bikes. When I was there, I was a little nervous about traveling around this way (even back and forth from the airport!) but I soon relaxed. I DID sing praise songs to myself the entire time though! Once I looked over at a moto beside me and saw a mother with a baby on her lap, calm as could be. I figured all would be okay.
Here is "How Great Thou Art" in Khmer. I bet you'll be singing this hymn all day now. "Then sings my soul! My Savior God to Thee . . . "
I love this sign. I am using this picture at school because this old lady needs a bit more quiet than the teenagers do! But, today I wish YOU some quiet, too. May you sit and ponder. Feel the love coming your way. Know that you are not in charge and feel the relief of it.
Good morning! The dark of night is just now lifting and Bill flew from Bangkok to Phnom Penh while I've been sitting here drinking my coffee! I wanted to say a quick hello before I hustle off to school.
Because . . . I'd like to stay home today and look at this pretty magazine ten or twenty times. It's one of my favorites. It's thin but it never disappoints!
Lynn over at All Things Bright and Beautiful asked me, "Why are you knitting a tomato?" Good question, Lynn. It's a small round bag with a drawstring and I decided to make it look like a tomato. Should I put waxy pumpkins inside?
Oh! My acorn squash was delicious! Jeff and I ate it last night. Olive oil and garlic and baked! Thanks, Betty! Thanks to everyone else who gave squash suggestions, too! The possibilities are endless! YUM!
My brother David drew a portrait of me for my Facebook profile. Isn't he a nice artist? He's silly. He is a very successful plumber in my hometown with a fleet of trucks and staff. He's sharp as a tack, honest and true. He doesn't really use much technology. He writes things on his hands! Anyway, I love my hair in this picture!
Time to go. Yesterday was hard. Sometimes the support staff are less than supportive and eighth grade rebels need more gentle guidance, but overall, the kids were calm and nice all day. Woo hoo!
Would you say a prayer for my Kelli? She is pregnant, with three months to go. She has a skin condition that acts up when she gets too warm and chasing around two little girls all day adds to the overheating problem. Pray for healing. She's tired. I wish I could stay home and relieve some of the stress. But, there I go again. Time to iron my clothes and speed down the highway. I love it that you come by. I am so interested in you.
Remember Sunflower Houses? Well, I like Hollyhock Days, too!
Sharon Lovejoy is a flowery writer and the watercolors in this book are VERY sweet. You can read Sharon's blog, too! It's full of nature and growth!
Hollyhocks are so simple, aren't they? Some people think the are unsophisticated. Isn't that a good thing?
I'm calling Jody over at Gumbo Lily, my moon sister. She writes about the moon. She lives on the prairie and she regularly looks up and feels very small. Isn't that poetic and WONDERFUL? I've said it before but I can understand why wolves howl at the moon. They must be saying, "YOU are beautiful, our own round rock that glows and changes, entertaining us over and over again!" Well, maybe THAT would be quite a long howl, but just the same, the moon IS lovely, isn't it? So, now I am going upstairs to look out my window, to check on the moon. I hope it will shine on me while I sleep. I graded my brains out today and I am ready to snooooooooooooooze.
Have a rollicking week, friend! I think you should have a scone and a little squirt of whipped cream. And you know those waxy (but tasty!) little pumpkin candies featured in the Halloween aisle at the grocery store? Yes, I think we need some of those. Do you need to find yourself a BIG basket of mums? I did buy a squash today. I don't know how to bake it and eat it, but I'm going to try. Night night.


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Estacada Park, Oregon
August 17, 2010 Rick
This sign is on the front door of the Estacada Community Center. The Clackamas river in the second picture still exists of course, but the arch and rock columns are gone, nor is there a fence along the river any longer.
The sign says:
"Entry Gate and Riverside view inside Estacada Park before 1911
In the early 1900's the Oregon Water Power and Railway Company built a railroad through the wilderness for their hydroelectric dam project at Cazadero. Their plan was to develop a number of hydroelectric plants on the Clackamas River to serve the growing Portland's power needs. In addition to developing hydropower and a railway OWRP saw an opportunity to also develop the area as a resort that would support the cost of building the railways and benefit their real estate interests.
Across the tracks from the elegant Hotel Estacada the Estacada Park was constructed parallel to the Clackamas River. Estacada Park had river view trails, ball fields, a dance hall, a gazebo for concerts and cabin lots for sale. After River Mill Dam was built in 1911 the rugged river canyon of the park became the peaceful "Estacada Lake." OWRP touted the area as place to relax and fish. Since there were five round-trips daily by electric trolley servicing the town from Portland many townspeople come to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. Passenger service on the railroads continued until 1932.
The Clackamas was known for it's salmon and steelhead runs as well as it's trout fishing. Rudyard Kipling in 1889 was quoted after spending a day steelhead fishing on the Clackamas: "I have lived! The American continent may now sink under the sea, for I have taken the best of it, and the best was neither dollars, love, nor real estate." It was no doubt the same way Portland Picnickers and visitors to Estacada felt on a warm summer day."
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2 days after an Instagram star's brutal killing went viral, YouTube is still hosting images of her body
Jake Kanter,Jake KanterJul 17, 2019, 23:41 IST
The brutal killing of Bianca Devins, an Instagram star with thousands of followers, went viral on Monday after images of the crime were posted on the social network by the man charged with killing the 17-year-old.
Instagram struggled to cope with the photos being republished by others, and two days on, YouTube was still featuring images of Devins' body in search results.
Business Insider identified five videos that used a photo of the crime in the thumbnail. Together, they have racked up more than 200,000 views.
A spokesperson for YouTube was not immediately available to comment. Facebook said it was "taking every measure to remove this content from our platforms."
Two days after the killing of an Instagram star with thousands of followers shocked the internet, YouTube has failed to remove multiple videos featuring images of her mutilated body from the platform.
Bianca Devins, 17, was killed in the early hours of Sunday morning in the city of Utica, New York. Police have charged Brandon Clark, 21, with killing Devins.
The incident made headlines around the world after Clark posted photos of Devins' body on his Instagram profile. Business Insider has seen the images and police have verified their authenticity.
They were removed from Clark's Instagram Stories by Monday morning and some hours later, his account and his Facebook profile were deleted. But this was not before other Instagram users republished the photos.
Read more: 'When I close my eyes, those images haunt me': Step mom of murdered teen social media influencer speaks out after photos of the crime spread online
Clark also shared the images on gaming chat service Discord, police said, while they have appeared on other social networks, including Twitter, where a simple search for Clark or Devins' name produced results with the photos on Monday.
Instagram is reportedly getting a handle on the spread of the pictures, while users have also assisted in scrubbing them from the social network by flooding key hashtags with images of pink clouds. Instagram has also shut down accounts impersonating Clark, it said, and blocked the hashtag #yesjuliet, which was his Instagram handle.
YouTube features images of Devins' body in search results
Little has been said about YouTube, however, where videos containing the images remained on Wednesday, two days after the story went viral.
Business Insider conducted incognito YouTube searches for "Bianca Devins" on Tuesday and Wednesday, and found five videos featuring images of Devins' body within the top search results.
Four of the videos featured the photos in the thumbnail, but not within the content of the video - a tactic that could be used to increase engagement. Together, they racked up more than 181,000 views.
The fifth video features a teenage boy commenting on Devins' death. An image of the crime is contained in the thumbnail and it also flashes up on screen during the video. It has more than 60,000 views and features a warning that it may be "inappropriate" for some users.
Some of the videos were removed after Business Insider flagged them to YouTube. A YouTube spokesperson was not immediately available to comment.
It brings into sharp focus YouTube and Facebook-owned Instagram's continued failure to rid their platforms of harmful content. They have made repeated promises to improve their moderation processes, but frailties in their systems were exposed after a video of the New Zealand mosque massacre went viral in March.
A Facebook spokesman said: "Our thoughts go out to those affected by this tragic event. We are taking every measure to remove this content from our platforms. Our goal is to take action as soon as possible - there is always room for improvement. We don't want people seeing content that violates our policies."
Devins' mother calls for a message of love
In a new statement released to the press on Wednesday, Devins' mother said she was devastated by her daughter's death. She added that she wanted to spread Devins' message of love.
"While I could not be there to protect her from this violent end, I will now be her voice and spread the message of 'love, not violence'. Let us all pledge to share Bianca's amazing spirit to make this world a better place," she said.
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Q: Using an input type=file without a form The problem that I am having is getting the file information from an <input type=file> without the use of a <form> into a code behind method. The file always returns as null in the code behind when I try to get the information using Request.Files and I believe this is because it is never actually being sent to the server.
Is there anyway to get the file information sent to the server without the use of a <form>?
Here is the html I am using
<input type="file" id="upload_file" name="upload_file" runat="server" accept="image/*" onchange="copyFile()" />
And this is the code behind
        HttpPostedFile file = Request.Files["upload_file"];
    if (file != null && file.ContentLength > 0)
    {
        string fname = Path.GetFileName(file.FileName);
        file.SaveAs(Server.MapPath(Path.Combine("~/App_Data/", fname)));
    }

I  cannot use a <form> due to the way the webpage is being set up, it causes some horrible formatting issues in only IE (even IE9) that I cannot fix in css. Also, I am using <input type=file> rather than the <asp:FileUpload> so that I can have access to the onchange event.
Edit!
On a masterpage buried within the website is a form which already has the runat ="server" added to it. Sorry for not mentioning this earlier, I just found out when trying to add a runat="server" to the new form I am trying to create
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
EDIT!
Final Code
Thank you to both @bkwint and @TrizZz, without your help, I would still be trying to figure this out.
The html part
<asp:FileUpload id="upload_file" runat="server" OnLoad="upload_file_OnLoad" />
the code behind to add in the onchange to the asp:FileUpload
protected void upload_file_OnLoad(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ((System.Web.UI.WebControls.FileUpload)sender).Attributes.Add("onchange", "copyFile();");
    }
and the code behind to save the file
if (Request.Files.Count > 0)
        {
            if (Request.Files[0].FileName.Length > 0)
            {
                Request.Files[0].SaveAs("~/App_Data/" + Request.Files[0].FileName);
            }
        }

The javascript that allows me to use the form in the master page for the submit with the onchange that was added to the asp:FileUpload. The id 'aspnetForm' is the form that is in the master page.
document.getElementById('aspnetForm').submit();
From what I have learned through some more research is that what was probably causing the css to be unhappy and the form to not submit properly was because nested forms are bad. Since there was a form I had no idea about on the master page, when I added another form, the web page just kind of ignored the one I added. By calling the submit on the master page, the file that is uploaded is correctly pushed to the server.
Thank you again to everyone who replied/commented and helped!
NOTE
This may not work in IE depending on how you set it up. IE does not like it when you try to submit a form directly from the fileupload.

A: You need a form to use form controls.. I know you said you have some CSS issues, but you will able to deal with you css then if it cause problems.

HttmpPostedFile is only post on submit, that is why you get a NULL file. Form is needed to get the post method. File is only send during post, you will need to do this:
<form action="yourPage.aspx" method="post">
<input type="file" onchange="this.form.submit()" name="upload_file" id="upload_file"/>
</form>

And in the load event of yourPage.aspx:
HttpPostedFile file = Request.Files["upload_file"];
if (file != null && file.ContentLength > 0)
{
    string fname = Path.GetFileName(file.FileName);
    file.SaveAs(Server.MapPath(Path.Combine("~/App_Data/", fname)));
}

With this method, you should have no problems, except for your CSS of course

A: you file input should be placed inside a form. As far as I am aware there is no way to keep it out of a form tag and still send the data....
As far as the reason for using the  tag in stead of the dot net FileUpload tag. Why don't you just ad the onchange javascript at the backend.
So define your tag like this
<asp:FileUpload ID="FlUpld_x" runat="server" OnLoad="FlUpld_x_OnLoad" />

and define your code behind like this
protected void FlUpld_x_OnLoad(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  ((FileUpload)sender).Attributes.Add("onchange", "js_function();");
}

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- This trip changed my life. I lived here, studied Spanish and travelled to so many amazing places around South America.
I travelled overland very fast from Buenos Aires - Argentina up to Ecuador, but spent 10 days in Salta during this trip. Flying was out of the question, real backpackers don't do that! From Ecuador up to the coffee region in Salento - Colombia follows a natural travel route. By then I was tired out and flew up to the north coast of Colombia for a month. From there I headed west, then south to Medellin where I ended up staying for 5 months and studied Spanish! By years end I was keen to go to Venezuela for the first time. From Medellin to Venezuela to Brazil then back to Colombia with places following a natural route. This itinerary continues in 2011!


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Lecture Series to Explore Valley Fever
Valley fever, described as a "silent epidemic" by the Centers for Disease Control, will be explored through a series of wide-ranging talks at the University of California, Merced.
Twelve lectures will be held between March and May. Ten will be presented on the university campus. One will be presented remotely by the founder of valleyfeversurvivor.com and one presentation will be held at the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research. All lectures are scheduled from 1 to 3 pm.
"The aim of the lecture series is to raise awareness of a largely silent disease that has a significant impact on the San Joaquin Valley," said Professor Paul Brown, director of the campus's Health Sciences Research Institute. "Great strides are needed to enhance prevention, detection and treatment. UC Merced is committed to developing a collaborative approach to respond to this regional ailment."
Infection occurs when microscopic fungal spores are inhaled. Most people who are infected do not show symptoms, while others may experience flu-like symptoms that last from weeks to months. Severe cases can even result in death. The fungus is commonly found in the Southwest, particularly Arizona and California, including the San Joaquin Valley.
The upcoming talks are:
"The Impact of Valley Fever on Correctional Health Care Ethics"
Clarence Cryer Jr., Master's of Public Health, California Correctional Health Care Services
UC Merced, Classroom and Office Building, Room 322
"Ecology of Coccidioides Immitis - Challenges to Detect this Fungal Pathogen in its Natural Habitat"
Antje Lauer, Ph.D., assistant professor, California State University, Bakersfield
UC Merced, Social Sciences and Management Building, Room 317
"Valley Fever Basics," plus an update from the 2014 Cocci Study Group meeting
Herbert Boro, M.D., fellow of the American College of Physicians, Cocci Study Group
"Inflammasome Activation by the Fungal Pathogen, Aspergillus Fumigatus"
David Ojcius, professor, UC Merced
"Public and Medical Misinformation on Valley Fever"
David Filip, founder, Valley FeverSurvior.com
"The Ebb and Flow of Coccidioidomycosis in Kern County"
Kirt Emery, Master of Public Health, County of Kern, Public Health Services Department
"Regulation of Cell Shape and Virulence in Thermally Dimorphic Fungi"
Anita Sil, M.D., associate professor, UC San Francisco
"Coccidioides Species Outside a Living Host: Saprophytic or Saprozooic?"
John Taylor, professor, UC Berkeley
"Undocumented Accounts of Valley Fever: Farmworkers in the Central Valley"
Sarah M. Rios, UC Santa Barbara
"Preliminary Perspectives of Children with Valley Fever"
Erin Gaab, Ph.D., UC Merced
"The Costs Behind California's Rising Silent Epidemic"
Leslie Wilson, professor, UC San Francisco
UCSF Fresno Center, Room 116
Lectures are free and open to the public. People unable to attend in person can watch as the discussions are streamed online, and will be available online afterward, too.
Attendees can register online or contact Erin Gaab at 209-228-4803 for streaming details and for more information.
The lecture series, funded in part by Sierra Health Foundation, is the next step in an effort led by the UC Merced Health Sciences Research Institute aimed at combating valley fever. In November 2013, UC Merced, UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program and California State University, Fresno's Central California Center for Health and Human Services held a "Valley Fever Research Day" to determine research priorities and public service needs related to valley fever.
Because valley fever is a rare disease outside the Southwest, it does not attract sufficient research funding. More than 40 percent of people infected with valley fever have symptoms. Many of those infected with valley fever are sick without knowing why or without being diagnosed.
HSRI is developing a consortium to increase awareness about the disease and to improve detection and treatment through research, clinical care and community outreach. Partners include UCSF Fresno, Fresno State, Community Medical Centers, Children's Hospital Central California, the public health departments in the eight counties that make up the San Joaquin Valley and community organizations serving or working with people most at risk for valley fever.


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Alf passed away peacefully at home in Edmonton, Alta. He is survived by his son Bob (Irene), grandsons Seth and Nicolas. Also his sister Helen Moore and brother Philip Grinder and many nieces and nephews. Alf was born and raised in Clinton, B.C. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends.


NPD DisplaySearch released a report on the worldwide PC market Thursday, and Apple is at the top of the heap. How can that be? Because NPD is choosing to tally "mobile PC" sales, and for them, that means iPads get thrown in along with laptops. Apple(s AAPL) doesn't count iPads as laptops when they sell them or when they account for them to shareholders. And we don't use them the same way. So why are we throwing them in the same basket?
When NPD says that Apple leads mobile PC makers with 23.4 million units sold worldwide during 2011's Q4 — with the largest share of the market at 26.6 percent — that certainly sounds impressive. Especially when you know that Apple does not typically crack the top 5 in global PC sales.
Nearly 80% of Apple's mobile PC shipments were iPads, more than 18.7 million shipped in the quarter, up 156% Y/Y, and 48.4 million units for the year, up 183% Y/Y.
So why give Apple's PCs a boost? Make no mistake — Apple is doing pretty well selling actual PCs, considering where they've come from. Their most recent quarterly results showed 5.2 million sold during the last three months of 2011, the most Macs Apple has ever sold in a single quarter. (Note that that's mostly MacBooks, which are true mobile PCs.) And the Mac is one of the only brands with real sales momentum — last month IDC called the last quarter of 2011 "the second-worst year in history" for the U.S. PC market, and Mac sales were the only bright spot, with 18 percent growth for the quarter.
NPD looks at tablets and laptops and says "they both have operating systems that support third-party apps and similar component packages," so they should be counted the same. And they say their view is a little more forward-looking. The firm is thinking more about what happens when Windows 8 arrives on ARM chips.
The iPad, though, is its own business for Apple, and one that is doing a pretty great job attracting customers by not being a PC. People are choosing them for a variety of reasons: they boot up faster, they travel easier in a bag or purse, you can get what you need done in apps with a few swipes or taps. When it's time to get actual work done, sure, some people may pull out a wireless keyboard to attach to their iPad. But I would be willing to bet most of us wait until we get to a laptop (or desktop even) to write stories, reports, crunch numbers, edit photos or videos or design something, even if the components are similar.
Apple doesn't think the iPad is a mobile PC either. CEO Tim Cook has been very open about the fact that he expects there to eventually be some cannibalization of Macs due to the iPad, though it may already be happening to Windows PCs. He does not, however, see the iPad completely erasing the PC industry. "I don't subscribe to that" line of thinking, he told investors last week. And so far, he said, Mac sales being replaced by iPad sales has been minimal. The company's sales results reflect that. If iPad sales and Mac sales are going up at the same time, that does say that the use case is just not the same.
Stop betting please and do some quantitative research.
For your first data point you can put down that I use my iPad to create content – just wrote two economics papers on it with a Bluetooth key board.
With Office reportedly arriving, Photoshop, movie editing, DJ apps etc the iPad is quickly becoming a go-to device and the laptop getting dusty. The iPad is now a stand-alone device with iOS 5 so, more and more with, each new generation and each now OS, the iPad is replacing the laptop for more and more people.
You know what, many people own a car and a truck and use both for different purposes. The truck for carrying heavy loads (traditional pc) and the car for everything else (iPad/tablets). Both fall into that "vehicle" category.
I literally exerted myself here out of anger simply because I happened to come across reading yet another "PC" gibberish article being thrown in my inbox this morning.
PC stands for "personal computer". How come NEVER-HAS-BEEN – or somewhat "useless" – product so-called, "Netbook" or Google's Chrome Book are being rightfully labels as PC, whereas tablet PCs such as iPad are not?
"Actual PC", seriously? Is that really the best word of choice for someone who used to work for CNET with a M.A degree in traditional (print) Journalism from USC?
Tim Cook didn't mean what you said in your quote, @Erica Ogg, "Apple doesn't think the iPad is a mobile PC either…" The word, "traditional" or "Post-PC" were already implied in Mr. Cook's original comment about how he (on behalf of Apple, Inc.) predicts the future of PC industry that already includes selling of desktop, laptop, tablets, smartphone, and so on. In other words, he simply meant to point out there will still be a market need for non-tablet PCs, thus continuously innovating traditional form factors of PC units such as iMac and especially Macbook Pro that is going to become more like the latest version of Macbook Air with more processing power and unique feature of utilities combined.
@Tom Krazit in quote, "It seems pretty clear that Cook thinks of the iPad as a different product from the PC/Mac." What does he mean by "PC/Mac"? Like PC as in Window OS based non-Apple products vs. Non-tablet Apple PC like iMac and MBP? How many times do we come cross reading a job description that says, "You must be fluent in PC environment"? What they usually mean to say is that you must be familiar with working on Window OS, despite of how proficient you might be in using Mac – or Apple OS (implied).
Contrary to what some of your colleagues who might've studied in Print Journalism, (pun intended) like to think, most people take, edit, and post pictures as well as video via mobile devices, in the same way they access to SNS (e.g. Twitter) via mobile devices. Just look at the number of mobile app being downloaded, or the marketing data pulled from Flickr or Youtube that simply suggests how most users shares content using mobile devices, which you called it, not "actual PC". But I bet you know that already.
Only 25% of adults have a college degree in the U.S, while only 10% of American have a higher degree. Given that, how many of us – including yourself – in the U.S are actually in need of crunching numbers, editing media contents, designing, coding, and reporting at the level of such a high professionalism on a daily basis? It is true that laptop or desktop will continuously serve as a content creation device for some, whereas tablet PC is yet gearing toward as a content consumption device for many, which is actually what most consumers of PC industry like all of us were only able to do on what you called, "actual PC", prior to the introduction of a new tablet PC such as iPad.

I know for a fact that you are an editor who writes stories for a living, not a business analyst. Are you really ignoring the number of Blackberry users who use Enterprise email account on a daily basis? â…" of US adults are expected to own a tablet PC by the year of 2015 because it allows people to do things more efficiently in a way that wasn't possible, thus gradually eliminating some of those time-consuming tasks on the go instead. What's wrong with that?
Smartphone is a mobile PC, so is Tablet PC like iPad for as long it does the job, but not Netbook since it's been proven that adding a keyboard doesn't simply make it a PC, but Google's Chrome Book might be since it does the job for what it is meant to do.
I just don't see why you were so rush to write an article like this as if a college-freshman had to turn in a 3 pages, Double-space, essay homework at the last minute before the deadline.
lol this is a funny conversation. as long as the ipad can't play certain videos or allow me to view certain websites because it won't run flash it's not a pc…I am not saying flash is the only requirement to call something a pc i am just saying it's what keeps me from classifying the ipad as one.
So no tablet going forward will be a PC? Adobe has pulled Flash development for all mobile devices.
Hmmm, very strange logic there.
No matter whether you count the iPad as a PC or not, most iPad buyers have replaced their traditional computers either partly or even fully with the tablet. The iPad can do many things that you previously needed a PC for, which is why it is eating into PC sales. You should understand that the physical form factor of the PC will change over time. It won't remain like a desktop or laptop forever. Today tablets and smart phones can be counted as PCs because they can do many things a full blown computer can. Your point that Mac sales haven't fallen due to the iPad is silly because you can't say how many more Macs would have been sold had there been no iPad at all. In fact Macs have never sold anywhere close to the number of Windows PCs and that's why you see iPad affecting Windows PC sales more than the Mac.
There is one and only one reason to consider the iPad a PC and that is to keep the numbers working. See the real problem is that 3-4 years ago people lumped netbooks in with PC's because if you didn't PC sales slumped really badly. Now, netbook sales are dying because of tablet sales like the iPad and so to keep the numbers working you have to look at iPads as computers the same way you did with netbooks. This keeps the industry looking like it is growing and because one tech supplants the other, it makes sense.
Tablets destroyed netbook sales and are eating into PC sales, and that is why the iPad can be counted as a computer.
I believe the definition has to be qualified. What separates a TIVo from an XBox from a PC? The data to be manipulated.
As soon as I can manipulate the same data [CLOUD anyone] as soon that machine falls in the same category at least some time.
For example a simple [shared, Google Doc] shopping list, created org. on Notebook, modified by whatever system was close [to the kitchen [most of the time a tablet, worked against [buying] by deleting stuff from phones in stores or notebook for online shopping. What's the PC? Google's servers since they show who did what when or the myriad of devices personally used to manipulate the data?
The iPad is a PC in every way that matters. You are trying to define market segments based on sales and how one company does its books. That makes no sense. You need to define what a PC is and see if the iPad and other tablets fit the category.
iPad seems to fit unless you want to argue the general-purpose part. But it is hard to argue that the capabilities of the iPad aren't general-purpose for the vast majority of task for which end-users use PCs.
Well it's my PC 22 hours out of each day. Speak for yourself.
PC stands for "personal computer".
No one would argue that the iPad is not a computer. It runs similar categories of applications and can edit and create just like any desktop or notebook computer.
In fact it is more capable than many low-end notebook and netbook PCs.
So is it "personal" the answer to that would have to be "yes" too.
Wow. I use my phone the same way. I guess my phone is a PC, too.
If you have a smartphone and you can run similar applications to a PC, then yes, it is a computer too.
If your phone meets your "pc" needs, then yes it is also a pc. Millions of people use their "pc" for the purpose of checking email, surfing the web, and checking their grandkids photos, not much else. Certainly this is how my mom used her desktop pc, before I bought her an iPad.


PHILADELPHIA -- Irene Hurford, MD, an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry, has received a 2017 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
Hurford is one of only five recipients of the award nationally, which is presented to "honor the exceptional contributions that ... psychiatrists make to improve the lives of people living with mental health conditions."
Her research focuses on measuring cognition in psychosis, treatment outcomes in early-episode psychosis, interventions to improve functioning in early psychosis, and program evaluation.
In addition to her faculty role at Penn, Hurford developed and directs the Psychosis Education, Assessment, Care, and Empowerment (PEACE) Program through Horizon House, Inc. PEACE helps people in the early stages of psychosis learn to manage their symptoms and meet their life goals. It works to support the entire person towards recovery from, and resiliency to, psychosis. Hurford's philosophy behind PEACE is to treat psychosis as a barrier, not an insurmountable illness that has to define who people are. She and her team take a hopeful approach. The goal is to keep clients in work or school.
Hurford educates and engages family members of clients in the PEACE program by including them in the counseling sessions. By participating, they learn about the illness as well as how to help their family members cope. They also come to realize that their loved ones can truly recover from psychosis and lead lives of their own choosing.
Also, Hurford has been the coordinated specialty team trainer for three pilot first-episode psychosis projects throughout Pennsylvania, providing training and guidance based on her experience in establishing PEACE. She is the principal investigator for statewide program evaluation of first episode psychosis programs in Pennsylvania.
She received her medical degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and BSc in psychology from the University of Toronto. She completed her residency in psychiatry and post-doctoral training at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as well as an advanced fellowship in psychiatry at San Diego VA Medical Center. Her awards include the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation's NARSAD Young Investigator Award and designation as a Top Psychiatrist by the Consumer's Research Council of America.
NAMI, the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization, offers education programs to individuals, families, and professionals; advocates for public policy in support of people with mental illness and their families; staffs a national help line; and works to increase public awareness of mental illness.


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Remarks by His Excellency David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana at the reception to mark the 207th Independence Anniversary of the United States of Mexico held at the Marriott Hotel September 15, 2017
President David Granger: Honourable Prime Minister, Mr. Moses Nagamootoo; Honourable Dawn Hastings-Williams, Minister of Public Affairs; Ministers of the Government; Members of the National Assembly; His Excellency, Ivan Roberto Sierra-Medel, Ambassador of Mexico to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Mrs. Sierra-Medel; Members of the Diplomatic Corps; Members of the Mexican Community; Distinguished Guests; Members …
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President David Granger: Honourable Prime Minister, Mr. Moses Nagamootoo; Honourable Minister of Education, Ms. Nicolette Henry; Ministers of the Government; Members of the National Assembly; Members of the Diplomatic Corps; Directors; Principals; Heads; Teachers; Students; Members of the Media. Today we celebrate another National Education Day. When I was here last year, I said the …
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This book focuses on the construction of forms of historical consciousness in narratives, or schools of narrative. The study seeks to underscore what goes behind the writing of 'true' and 'authentic' histories by treating historical fiction as the literary dimension of nationalist ideology. It traces nationalism from its abstract underpinnings to its concrete manifestation in historical fiction which underwrites the Indian freedom struggle. The construction of identity through mythicized conceptions of India is examined in detail through Raja Rao's first novel, Kanthapura. The key concept governing the subject is that of representation. Since the 'fictional reality' of the nation is a much-debated issue, the study examines how history slides into fiction. The book shows how orientalists, nationalists, Marxists, subalternists, and poststructuralists, have all, in their own celebratory ways, used the disenfranchised sub-proletariat in their works. What is found useful in poststructuralist practices, however, is that subaltern identities are imbued with heterogeneity, thus splitting open an authoritarian and reactionary nationalism, and a continuing neo-colonialism.


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The Truth About Crime is a British television documentary series inspired and presented by Nick Ross in association with the film-maker Roger Graef, executive producer Sam Collyns and series producer Alice Perman. It was first broadcast on BBC One in July and August 2009.

Region
The show focused on a single city, Oxford, which has demographics and crime rates broadly representative of urban Britain, and used a multitude of techniques to measure the real extent of crime and victimisation. In a two-week crime audit, camera teams followed police, fire services and paramedics and an on-line questionnaire, based closely on the national British Crime Survey, invited residents and businesspeople to describe their personal experiences of victimisation. A survey of 14- and 15-year-olds in Oxford schools was one of the biggest of its kind ever undertaken to discover how under-16s are affected by, and involved in, crime. Random children from some of the schools were then chosen to take part in the series being quizzed on crime by Ross on such topics as theft, drugs, alcohol and many other things.

Programme 1
The first programme (BBC One 9pm Tuesday 21 July 2009) looked at violent crime and revealed that almost all woundings involved victims who had been drinking or who had been assaulted by someone who was drunk, and took place close to a licensed premise.

Lack of commensuration with official statistics
Most of the seriously injured, as measured by those treated in hospital, did not report what had happened to the police. One senior physician told Nick Ross that police figures on crime are virtually "meaningless". The physician interviewed was Jonathan Shepherd, a Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Cardiff University Dental School. Domestic violence was shown to be a major problem, though mostly resulting only in minor injuries, and with women as perpetrators as well as men. Women were interviewed in a Women's shelter.

Crime mapping
Helmet cameras were shown and Spencer Chainey of the Jill Dando Institute at University College London described crime mapping, which uses geographic information systems.

Alcohol-fuelled violence
A licensing officer from Thames Valley Police, a Hook Norton Brewery executive and David Poley, the Chief Executive of the Portman Group, were interviewed. Ross went on to describe several interventions which had cut alcohol-related violence in the UK and elsewhere and urged a more pro-active approach to tackling alcohol-related violence. For most of the incidents, there were few arrests featured.

Programme 2
The second in the series (Tuesday 28 July) explored the nature of acquisitive crime and proposed solutions to burglary, car theft and fraud. Ross implied that society needs to accept human nature for what it is and focus less on how to penalise criminals and more on taking sensible precautions with tempting valuables. Temptation and opportunity drives crime far more than "badness". 90% of burglaries are to fuel a drug habit. A 19-year-old single mother, Kelly, burgled some students, who were meanwhile happily enjoying themselves in a pub, to fund her heroin habit. A policeman said that this type of crime is committed by people who find themselves in social and emotional situations from which they find it difficult to get out of.

Shoplifting
There are around fifty persistent burglars in Oxford. Some of them would commit up to twenty burglaries a week. A shoplifter who was caught by CCTV in a shop, stealing a £10 set of headphones, turned out to be a 19-year-old Polish immigrant who possessed no ID. Nick Ross even confessed to shoplifting occasionally when a teenager, as did school pupils interviewed. During a normal weekday, shoplifting peaks at 3.30pm when school ends.

Distraction burglary and scams
Distraction burglary is different to more common random burglary, and is rarer but often more upsetting because it involves more dedicated and skilful felons. The ruthless individuals perpetrating this crime usually target properties around the edge of Oxford near the ring road, and tend to come from outside the area. Household scams, of a ruthless and targeted similar nature, usually involved elderly people who would be cajoled into paying astronomical prices for unnecessary repair work done on their property. The rogue traders involved were difficult to trace by county council Trading Standards officers. An elderly couple were conned into paying for minor repairs with their entire life savings. Online scams were more prevalent than perhaps realised, with up to £20bn of online fraud committed a year. It was investigated by the e-commerce unit of SOCA. Richard Cox of The Spamhaus Project was interviewed about internet crime.

Rehabilitation
The police thought that prison was the best place for persistent burglars. It kept the burglars off the streets. Prison was not viewed as a deterrent because the persistent offenders live such types of lives that they would be better looked after in prison than on the streets, with regular meals and companionship. Once they left prison they would quickly reoffend. Rehabilitation centres for repeat offenders and drug addicts were not successful because the offenders were not of a capable mental state to be sufficiently receptive or adaptive to the treatments given

Prevention not cure
Some of the crimes, especially rare ones targeting the elderly, are committed by lifestyle criminals, but most offenders are un-glamorously ordinary and few are "ogres" even in the eyes of the police. Most solutions lie in better design and sensible precautions. Since crime peaked in the 1990s homeowners have halved burglary rates by locking their doors and windows, retailers and tackled shoplifting by guarding their open shelves with security devices, and vehicle manufacturers have made cars so difficult to steal that auto-crime is now largely confined to old bangers.

Programme 3
The third and final show (Tuesday 4 August) exposed widespread anti-social behaviour and the lack of a concerted response. Much of anti-social crime is not added to the official crime statistics. Much of it is fuelled by drugs and gang culture of under-educated and employed young males under the acronym NEET. The chief constable of Thames Valley Police, Sara Thornton, was interviewed. It was found that improved styles of architecture for estate housing and lit thoroughfares can reduce anti-social crime significantly.

Perspective on crime statistics
Ross's general thesis is that recorded crime rates are unreliable, that theft and violence have actually declined sharply but that the downward trend may not be continuing, and that there are hundreds of quite simple solutions to crime, mostly by reducing temptations and opportunities for bad behaviour rather than trying to remould people's predispositions.

Reception
The series has been well received, with The Times "fascinated [by the] sane, insightful and compellingly argued documentary series" – and achieved good ratings despite being scheduled against ITV1's fast-moving, similarly themed Car Crime UK, a six-part police car-chasing documentary series narrated by Trevor McDonald.

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 Oxford Mail July 2009

BBC television documentaries
British crime television series
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2009 British television series endings
Geographic information systems
Violence in the United Kingdom

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Digimon Survive Producer Hub Kazumasa officially confirms 2022 delay
update: The Digimon Survive delay was virtually confirmed in July, but game producer Habu Kazumasa officially confirmed that it wasn't scheduled until 2022.
# Digimon Fans, please read the message from Digimon Game Producer Kazumasa Habe. pic.twitter.com/EH9FONY1MP— Digimon games (@digimon_games) October 28, 2021
original [Wed 28th Jul, 2021 16:30 BST]: Digimon Survive seems to be farther from launch than we expected, but with yet another delay, a newly updated "2022" release window will occur.
It was initially revealed that the game will be released in 2019, but then postponed to 2020, after that Although delayed in 2021 before today's third delay to 2022, it is no exaggeration to say that Digimon fans have long waited for this next survival RPG.News from Toei Animation Latest financial report, The games are listed as 2022 titles under the section titled "From the 3rd quarter of 2022" (Thanks, Gematsu).
Early footage looked promising, including the opening cutscenes of the game, which was shared with fans a few years ago. Of course, after a few years, the game can look quite different.
Are you still looking forward to this? Are you happy to be patient or are you more worried about the release? Share your thoughts with us below.
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Automation of any kind is top of mind as technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Robot work-forces are grabbing headlines. Sorting out which of these are going to be interesting but novelty technologies and which will have a true impact on your business can be difficult. Warehouse Automation should fall into the latter, not the former. Manually tracking an inventory should not be anyone's primary job function in a business environment that relies on up to the minute information. It becomes much more important for companies that have a large portion of their costs associated with physical revenue.
With the internet of things helping businesses operate and the increased functionality of handheld devices it has no longer become a luxury to have the ability to scan inventory and track that data automatically in the system that is the backbone of a business.
Do I need to know the value of my inventory in real time?
Do I have any manual processes associated with tracking my inventory?
Do I need to compete with more sophisticated companies?
Do I need to reduce the costs and risks associated with managing my inventory?
If the answer is "Yes" to any of the above, you should consider how warehouse automation can help you function as an agile, modern business.


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Published on April 26, 2019 April 26, 2019 by Robot Gosha
The penny has finally dropped inside ISPs and governments that a privacy technology called DNS over HTTPS (DoH), backed by Google, Mozilla and Cloudflare, is about to make web surveillance a lot more difficult.
In the UK, this matters because under the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), ISPs are required to store a record of which websites citizens visit for the previous 12 months, which is done by noticing Domain Name System (DNS) requests, e.g. to xyz.com.
DNS over HTTPS (and its close relative DNS over TLS, or DoT) makes this impossible because it encrypts these requests – normally sent in the clear – hence the panic reported in a recent Sunday Times article (paywall).
For more detail on how DoH/DoT works, read our previous coverage on the topic. The takeaway, however, is that Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and probably the US Government think its unexpectedly rapid evolution imperils the monitoring of terrorism and other illegal content.
Big ISPs also worry it will interfere with complex Content Delivery Network (CDN) traffic caching, make customer management through support and captive portals difficult, and leave them fielding calls from unhappy customers when the third-party DNS servers offering DoH fall over.
Confusingly, the Sunday Times story also says DoH will stymie the UK's controversial porn block, which enforces age checks before adults can visit big porn sites, although it's not clear how – encrypting DNS hides the domains people visit but not inherently the fact web requests are being made from UK ISPs (although it would stop ISPs from implementing their own domain filters).
DoH's sudden rise
Filter the hysteria and what you're left with is a technological conflict between ISPs which have traditionally controlled the first leg of every internet connection and companies that control the software that sits on devices – this is primarily Google but also companies such as Cloudflare and partner Mozilla which promote privacy.
Today, users connect to the internet by paying an ISP for a connection. In effect, under DNS over HTTPS, they will then establish a second DNS connection to servers run by companies such as Google and Cloudflare to make web browsing private.
It's come to a head now because Google is in the process of implementing DoH as part of its public DNS system (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4), which will be supported at some point in the world's most popular browser, Chrome, and is already supported in Android 9 (this has been possible for some time on older Android versions by using Google's Intra app).
Mozilla, meanwhile, has identical plans for Firefox implemented via Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 service, which the company is still testing, while Cloudflare released a dedicated Android/iOS app last year.
Currently, if a government agency wants to know which sites you've been visiting they can ask an ISP. In theory, under DoH they could do the same by asking Google, Cloudflare or Mozilla.
Unfortunately, the problem isn't simply whether those companies would agree to comply, but whether they could even if they wanted to.
For example, Cloudflare has previously said it only logs DNS requests for 24 hours and plans to prove that with a public audit of its behaviour run by KPMG. Compare that to ISPs which in many countries now collect domain data for up to a year.
Here to stay?
It should have been obvious that something like DoH was coming, since a slew of proposed technologies for encrypting DNS requests started gathering momentum in 2017. Last October, the IETF formally adopted DoH (aka RFC 8484) as the simplest route for this to happen quickly.
Not everyone was happy with this for architectural reasons, not least because it places a lot of trust in the resolver, principally Google, Cloudflare and anyone else who adopts it.
Hitherto, the internet has been built as a compromise between what the user could do and what the service provider would let them do. DoH, some claim, upsets this balance.
The counter-argument is that too many ISPs and governments have lazily used DNS as a quick surveillance fix, for legal, political but also commercial reasons.
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ICSC Property Efficiency Scorecard
The first and only shopping center industry green building benchmarking system
The ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers) Property Efficiency Scorecard is the only benchmarking system uniquely tailored and designed by users and for users in the shopping center industry. Paladino developed the scorecard in collaboration with ICSC members from around the world.
The shopping center industry is different from other real estate asset classes due to the variety of space uses. No two centers are identical in terms of tenant mix and relative share of resource consumption between landlord and tenants. Until now, these factors have made it difficult to establish credible measurement techniques for sustainability in the industry.
The Scorecard was primarily designed to resolve issues faced by retail landlords benchmarking property efficiency in terms of controllable costs (energy, water, and waste consumption) and green operating practices.
Paladino coordinated with ICSC members to create committees to collaboratively identify benchmarking challenges and agree upon specifications for the cloud-based software. Paladino then led the development effort and pilot process. The Scorecard provides a tool for landlords to track data online, assess it against industry specific benchmarks and report the progress they are making to internal stakeholders such as facility managers, and external parties such as municipalities and investors
Ultimately, by benchmarking and comparing property efficiency, landlords will find new ways to improve shopping center performance. For example, the tool includes scatter plots that provide insight into the centers within a landlord's portfolio that have the greatest opportunity to improve by ranking properties in terms of resource costs and consumption.
The Scorecard initiative is truly international with input and feedback provided from ICSC members in North America, Europe, and Australia. Developers that participated on the Scorecard committee include Kimco Realty, Primaris Management, General Growth Properties, PREIT, Planigrupo, Equity One, Inc., Inland American Retail Management, LLC, Inc., Macerich, Vornado Realty Trust, The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Ltd., Oxford Properties Group, Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc., Westfield Properties, Kemper Development Company, and DDR.
Developed the first and only shopping center industry green building benchmarking system.


I've got another batch of awards to announce. Instead of officially passing these along, please take a stroll through the list on my right navbar for other green blogs to read.
And, if you haven't checked out the blogs mentioned in this post, why don't you saunter over there now and see what they're up to?


This is for the people that have stared at their reflection in the mirror in search of a sliver of meaning to their life. This is for those that have no idea how they got as far as not knowing where they stand. This is for the people who, instead of a light, see a block at the end of their tunnel.
Back again. Here are 25 random things I learned at 25, starting with listen to your brain. Your mind is not your enemy. On the contrary, it is your best friend. Pay attention to what it is telling you…and not telling you even when you know better for yourself.
I'm not a saint. I'm not a genius. I'm not perfect. I am, though, extremely conscious of the way that I affect and am affected by my surroundings. If I had a dollar for every time I wished that people actually thought about the other person prior to saying or doing something, I could start my own school system.
I could inscribe this letter with complaints about how harsh you've been, but instead I'll do what I do best - show my gratitude. Besides…complaining would mean I'm dissatisfied with the way my life has turned out. I may be exhausted, but not displeased.
No one makes a sandwich, waits for someone else to eat most of it and then takes the leftovers for themselves. Delegating where your energy goes doesn't make you a selfish person, it makes you a balanced one.
Scramble for reminders of why you set that goal. Scramble for the feelings felt when you started trekking the path of attainment. Scramble for conviction. Scramble for honesty. The smell of forged passion is a pungent one.
I accepted a long time ago that everything happens for a reason. Some people argue with me about the logistics of the phrase, but I truly believe that what is meant for someone will transpire. A bad day, bad week or bad month for me means a need for a despojo of some sort.


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Mai Fuchigami Plays Marionette & Wirepuller in Orphen Battle of Kimluck Arc ED Theme MV
The reboot TV anime's new arc is set to premiere in Japan on January 20, 2021
Mikikazu Komatsu
November 24, 2020 10:10pm EST (11/24/20)
The official YouTube channel for voice actress Mai Fuchigami has posted a 90-second music video for her sixth single song "Marionette Coup d'etat." The dramatic tune will be featured as the ED theme for Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Battle of Kimluck, the upcoming second season of the reboot TV anime adaptation of Yoshinobu Akita's fantasy light novel series Majutsushi Orphen Haguretabi / Sorcerous Stabber Orphen. In the clip, she plays both an emotionless marionette and a mysterious wirepuller.
Along with her 12-song second full album "Hoshizora," her sixth single "Marionette Coup d'etat" is scheduled to be released in Japan on January 27, 2021.
Fuchigami has voiced one of the anime's main heroines, Dortin, and "Yosoku Funou Days" (Unpredictable Days), one of her double A-side fourth single songs released in February 2020, was also used as the ED theme for the new TV anime's first cour aired in Japan from January to March 2020.
She graduated from Yoyogi Animation Academy in Tokyo in 2007. Her well-known anime characters include Miho Nishizumi (Girls und Panzer), Iona (Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova-), Nagisa Shiota (Assassination Classroom), and Karen Hojo (The [email protected] Cinderella Girls). Meanwhile, she made her solo singer debut from Lantis in January 2018, then has released five singles, one full album, and one mini-album.
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Battle of Kimluck, which is based on the novel's seventh volume "Waga Ishi wo Tsutaeyo Maou" (Pass on my dying wish, the Demon King) published in Japan in August 1996, is set to premiere on January 20, 2021.
1st PV:
Key visual:
The TV anime's 1st ED theme "Yosoku Funou Days" short MV:
Source: Mai Fuchigami official YouTube channel
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Britain declared war on Germany on the 4th August 1914. Within two weeks the British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.) was in action at Mons. They were driven back by superior German forces to the banks of the rivers Marne and Aisne just fifty miles east of Paris. Although the B.E.F. had suffered heavy casualties, they prevented the Germans capturing Paris and henceforth trench warfare would become the norm as the Germans retreated 60 miles.
The Irish Nation would supply three volunteer divisions to the war effort, the 10th (Irish), 16th (Irish) and 36th (Ulster) Divisions. Many other Irishmen were already serving in regular units of the Army, Royal Navy and the Royal Flying Corps, later to become the Royal Air Force.
The 10th (Irish) Division were the first to see action, at Gallipoli in August 1915. This poorly planned and ill-fated campaign would see them leave within two months and the remainder of the Allies leave the area by January 1916, having suffered horrendous casualties. Reported estimates were of 3,000 casualties within the Division, with more than 2,000 dead.
The 36th (Ulster) Division would first see action in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, which began on 1st July 1916 and lasted until 18th November 1916. The 36th (Ulster) Division suffered some 5,000 casualties with approximately 2,000 dead. The overall casualty total for the British Army on 1st July was approximately 60,000 casualties with approximately 20,000 dead. Most of the casualties occurred before lunchtime.
The 16th (Irish) Division were involved in the Battle of Hulluch near Loos in April 1916, the week after the Easter Rebellion. Moving on to the Somme, they succeeded in capturing the villages of Ginchy and Guillemont on the Somme in early September with around 4,000 casualties and 1,200 dead.
The 10th Division were now serving in the Balkans and would remain there until 1917, before transferring to Egypt and finishing the war in the Holy Land.
The losses suffered by the 36th (Ulster) Division and 16th (Irish) Division could not be sustained by Irish volunteers. Both divisions for the remainder of the war would contain many conscripts from the British mainland.
The 16th and 36th Divisions would fight alongside each other at the Battle of Messines in early June 1917, as the Allies tried to enlarge the area known as the Ypres Salient. Early success was tempered by the 3rd Battle of Ypres, better known as the Battle of Passchendaele, in July and August. Both divisions suffered heavily in the quagmire of mud and water.
Once again the two divisions moved to Cambrai in France and both divisions took part in the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917. Initial successes, following the first large scale use of tanks, were once again nullified by lack of support.
The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Irish regiments contained men who had initially been serving along with reservists at the outbreak of the war, and known as the regular battalions. They had served in various divisions, but February 1918 saw them move to the 16th and 36th Division. Each Division would now contain only four battalions formed in September 1914, the remainder would be disbanded and confined to history. The addition of the regular battalions ensured the two divisions retained their Irish character.
The USA had declared war on Germany in April 1917 but only began to send men in large numbers in the spring of 1918.
The Germans launched a massive attack in late March 1918 to try and win the war before the USA troops arrived. The Spring Offensive drove the Allies back approximately sixty miles and the Germans were only were stopped because they became over-stretched. Both the 16th and 36th Divisions were in line at St Quentin when the attack began. Both divisions again sustained heavy losses to the extent that the 16th Division remained in name only and the 36th Division would see the war end with greatly reduced numbers.
The Germans were halted by the end of April 1918. With the Allies becoming more tactical aware, they began to push the Germans back. From early June the Germans were in retreat, and 100 days later on 11th November, the Armistice was signed.
The British and Empire Forces had lost around one million men, and now, one hundred years later, those losses still haunt many families of those who were bereaved. Many men who survived would also have to endure poor health, and live with the nightmares of what they had seen.
628 Victoria Crosses where awarded during World War 1.
Private Robert Morrow won his Victoria Cross on 12th April 1915 just South of Messines in Belgium. Sadly he was killed on 26th April 1915. His Commanding Officer stated "he was a man devoid of fear". His actions, like all winners of this highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy, were undertaken without thinking of himself or the consequences.


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Uganda's democracy-free election
By Kalundi Serumaga
Cultural activist, film-maker and journalist. @NativeLandgrab
Posted on Wednesday, 13 January 2021 19:33
People pass by a painting on the wall of the Ugandan electoral commission compound in Kampala, Uganda 13 January 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
The last thing the West needs in Africa is democracy. And yet the one thing Africa needs more than anything else is the ability to choose its leaders without obstruction or manipulation.
Elections are therefore always going to be a fraught process. Any truly free and fair election would end up producing governments whose policies would be in direct conflict with the Western economic, and therefore security, interests in the region. This is not a new story.
The creation process for the average African country (often known as colonialism), was enormously undemocratic. In Uganda's case, there were basically ever only two elections in the entire colonial period, and both happened right at the end of it, in 1961 and 1962.
Independent Uganda's "traditional" method was to have a violent change of power, usually a coup, in every year an election was scheduled: 1966/67 (Obote removes Mutesa), 1971 (Amin removes Obote), 1979/80 (Amin is removed), 1985/6 (Okellos remove Obote, and were in turn removed by Museveni). The year 1974 did not see a violent change of government, but there was the collapse of General Amin's original cabinet, and with it, the end of his honeymoon period.
Changing traditions
The arrival of Museveni's National Resistance Movement (NRM) modified that tradition. We still do not have elections, but mere 'electoralism'. This was clever and quite effective in the first two decades following the 1986 seizing of power: Ugandans have been voting regularly, and at all levels of governance, for all manner of leasers from local village governance upwards. This changed nothing, but kept the people very busy.
It was further consolidated when we got a new constitution in 1995, created again by elected delegates. That document did three things critical to making this form of dictatorship viable in the long term.
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First, it separated the matter of electing the president from the matter of electing members of parliament. This represented a complete and final break with the inherited British constitutionalism where, after the 1967 coup, Milton Obote merged the executive powers of the prime minister with the ceremonial ones of the president and then abolished the post of prime minister.
Second, it created jobs and an opportunity to build or recover careers shattered by over two decades of conflict, exile and economic collapse. The middle class in general, and the politically active within it in particular, therefore embraced the new arrangement and did not seek to challenge its fundamental flaws.
Third, it became an organised conduit through which the whole donor economy could manufacture a sense of self-worth by catering to the different sectors of now constitutionally defined neediness now officially laid out by the new document.
Young, energetic and praised
As a result, Uganda got a political leader – young and energetic – being widely praised in the Western media as the face of a new, democratic Africa. This was not Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine); it was Yoweri Museveni. Every expression of admiration and support being made in the Western media in support of Robert Kyagulanyi today, was once made in nearly exactly the same way, by the very same organisations, for Museveni.
Western interest in Ugandan politics is over which of the factions competing will be the most willing and able to do the West's bidding in national and regional economic and political affairs. To them, the NRM has always been more than willing (but increasingly, less and less able); the Robert Kyagulanyi campaign offers openings, but comes with a lot of mass expectations that could create huge conflicts of interest. As for the former opposition behemoth Kizza Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change: they simply never understood the question to begin with.
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This is an old story. The creation of Uganda began with a three-way fight between a disorganised Arab empire operating through Muslim missionaries and traders, the German monopoly corporations operating through the Catholic church-backed German state and the British monopoly corporations operating through the Anglican church-backed British state. The British won, as we know.
Independence prep
Despite that, this contestation reared its head again during the elections in the run-up to the independence preparations. The 1962 election was held largely because the 1961 one had produced a victory for the Catholic, German-friendly Democratic Party (DP). This was a result unpalatable to the departing British, who wished and fully intended to leave a friendly government in charge of the shiny new ex-colony.
We have therefore been here twice before. This is now the third time, as with the DP in the early 1960s, and then again in 1980 (when everybody still holding the memory of the Obote regime of the 1960s, and its spawn in the form of the then recently departed Idi Amin, basically voted for DP).
Kyagulanyi represents that eternal thing of Ugandan politics: the hope before the hope, the idea of establishing a habit of democracy and elected government. Ideology, manifestoes and policy are the hopes that will come after that initial principle is established as a national political habit. It is for this reason that he draws support from a wide and very diverse base of Ugandans. They simply want change. And the establishment of the habit of change.
In this way, he is very similar to Museveni, who was about Kyagulanyi's age, some 40 years ago, when he also represented change. As said, there was the similarity of him being also embraced, admired and endorsed by many Western intellectuals, organisations and their media.
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Since the end of the rigidities of the East vs West Cold War, Africa has remained poised at an economic crossroads. The Great Lakes Region is the future breadbasket of the world. And the current Ugandan regime in particular also serves as the security backstop for Western interests.
Can we work with him?
The critical consideration for the West therefore, is if they feel a government under Kyagulanyi can retain these abilities. If, they fully conclude that he will be someone they can work with, then we shall see him championed as the new beacon of hope, champion of democracy and all the other things said about Museveni ("new breed of African leader" gushed one senior official at the US State Department, decades earlier during his own youthful exertions).
If their calculation is that Kyagulanyi cannot deliver, then they will allow his bid to be crushed by Museveni. Their other consideration is if a now considerably aged Museveni is still a safe bet that can still be relied upon for a few more years (but then what?).
Tough questions and tough times
My own reading is that this matter was never settled at policy level within the highest levels of especially United States thinking. It would have been a tough question for them at the best of times: do they stick with their sure deal, but one that is clearly about to be taken out by old age, or do they dump him for a newer model, but one surrounded by, and beholden to an ocean of expectations from his followers, all of which would not benefit the interests of the West?
And if they pass up this opportunity for change, will there ever be another like it again? At the best of times, these would be tough questions to tackle. But now also with the distracting chaos that outgoing (except in his own mind) President Donald Trump brought to their governance, their thinking was disrupted further.
As for Britain, they remain a lot more wedded to the Museveni project, just as they stuck with their earlier murderous Obote II project until the bitter end.
It is a high stakes gamble for all sides.
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For the West, assuming Kyagulanyi can be made to work with them, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be present in the future and shift management from the old to the new, and one with a legitimacy of mass popularity as expressed by a large voting base. The wrong choice would leave them with little or no influence in the region.
A political dynasty
For President Museveni, this is the opportunity to complete the establishment of his family dynasty, largely by cementing his fealty to the West, giving him the monopoly over the supply of political agents for the imperialists. Failure to secure that would lead to the dismantling of the family-state project, as was seen with the Mobutu, Gaddafi and other attempted dynasties.
As for the ordinary Ugandans, and the youth in particular: this represents the last possible opportunity for a peaceful removal of a government that, from their life's experience, they know in their very bones, simply does not care about them at all. Failure to secure this means final ruin, at the social and economic level.
The NRM regime has ruled for long enough and done enough service to the West to be able to understand the dilemma within the US governance. It is that dilemma that the regime is leveraging, in its determination to hang on to power. The gamble therefore is to see to it that they do this by any means necessary.
Because if they succeed in that, then the West would pretend not to see the human cost.
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Advice to Africans: Don't send your children to study in the West
If you are an African of means, of moderate wealth, please stop accepting the fancy but illusive idea that educating your children in the West, namely Europe and North America, is a good idea, enhances for your sense of achievement, of self-worth and/or is good for the inter-generational transfer of the fruits of your labour. Experience strongly suggests otherwise.
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Tomorrow, the whole world's eyes will be on the inauguration of Joe Biden. Stepping into a moment of unprecedented domestic crisis, he will probably have relatively little bandwidth for Africa.
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Uganda elections: Museveni wins, Bobi Wine the rising power in parliament
No one is surprised that Uganda's long-term President Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term in office. But the real change has been a changing of the guard in the opposition, with long-term opponent Kizza Besigye supplanted as the key political foe to Museveni by Bobi Wine. Both in parliament, and as target for Museveni's security services.