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Round And Round, Featuring What's Next For David Haye, Nonito Donaire, Sergio Martinez, Saul Alvarez And More
Posted by Tim Starks on Mar 8, 2011 03:02
How long has it been since we last went Round and Round? Judging by the long list of fights in the works below, too long. Too, too long.
Besides the men in the headline, we have the latest on Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather, plus what's next for Juan Carlos Burgos, Antwone Smith, Marco Huck, Erislandy Lara and a bunch of other boxers. Disclaimer: I rarely can attest to the actual in-the-worksness of some of these fights, so don't be disappointed when I tell you Pacquiao-Mayweather is… not so much.
Here we go again: Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye, creeping up on a deal — even with, reportedly, signed contracts, with July 2 the date. There are some significant holes in some of the details; for instance, they don't apparently have a site picked yet, which in the past has been a problem. They don't have a U.S. network picked — reportedly, it could be HBO, could be Showtime, could be an independent pay-per-view. Also, there's a chance that if Wlad is injured, big bro Vitali steps in to replace him. Also, there's a chance that Haye just mysteriously up and pulls out, because that's his track record with the brothers Klitschko. I hope he doesn't. Really, I could like Haye so, so much. His quip that all he needs for this fight is a ref who can count to 10… it's hilarious, it's bold, and I'm not going to hold it against him later if he gets knocked out thoroughly, because I'd rather see Haye man-up and lose than keep up the "I'm gonna kill you gonna maim you gonna beat you and never mind I'm out of here" routine.
There was a brief blip in the Pacquioa-Mayweatheriverse when Mayweather's uncle Jeff said there were talks to have the welterweight fight right in Nelson Mandela's front yard (not kidding, basically) and that it was gonna happen, for real this time. Then the promoters said no, not happening. Except when Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said that the second Don King signs May, the fight will happen. And then, I hadn't noticed it until a commenter pointed it out, but last month Zab Judah said that Floyd had told him he was "finished." As with Klitschko-Haye, don't get your hopes up on this bout happening until the opening bell rings.
Somehow, Nonito Donaire-Anselmo Moreno is very much looking like the reality for May 28 on HBO. I guess Moreno couldn't sign with Golden Boy Promotions fast enough for Top Rank to use that as a reason not to make the fight. And for real, it's a good fight. And every boxing fan in their right mind wants to see Donaire back on HBO as soon as possible. Moreno's a tricky vet and the current #2 man at bantam; depending on how things go in the Showtime bantam finale in April, this fight could still be for the legitimate, lineal Ring magazine championship.
Middleweight champ Sergio Martinez has a fight this weekend but is already dreaming about his next move, with the winner of Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr.-Sebastian Zbik on his mind while he waits for a maybe-fight with Miguel Cotto. I give Martinez-Chavez about a 0% chance of happening, because no way Top Rank cashes Chavez out that way, and I don't blame them, really. Martinez-Zbik could happen, though, if Chavez loses. You should know that WBC prez Jose Suliaman, which just gifted Saul Alvarez a junior middleweight belt so as to suck up percentages of his big purses, thinks we could get Alvarez-Chavez in 2014, which would be a marination job for the ages. Maxboxing's Steve Kim raised an interesting point about what Alvarez getting the belt means — that is, that his competition level could step up by necessity, what with a bunch of quality 154-pounders ranked by the WBC. Kim also suggested the WBC would protect him as long as it could, and I suspect that's the most likely outcome. If they found a way to leap over all those 154-pound dudes who are actually good and proven to make way for Alvarez-Matthew Hatton, I'm sure they'll find some other exceptions in there rules for Saul. As for Hatton, he'll move back to welter, and Golden Boy says he'll be in line for a title shot there, and that HBO is interested in him. I'd like to see him do something more significant at welter before that happens, but maybe Hatton's gutty showing was enough for HBO to return interest, or maybe they just owe GBP some more dates.
This Round and Round is super long, to say the least, so we need something to break it up and make it interesting. Usually I would insert some hot chick but I can't think of any right now. So here's some Roy Jones porn:
There's a little bit of confusion about which Pinoy Julio Cesar Miranda will face next in defense of his flyweight strap: Brian Viloria or Richie Mepranum. Six of one, half dozen of the other. Viloria hasn't been impressive much lately and Miranda has already knocked out Mepranum.
ESPN2 just keeps loading up its schedule with nice little fights, with a welterweight clash between Joel Julio and Antwone Smith due up May 20. Julio and Smith have lost recently but both are entertaining and should make a good fight with one another, and the winner is poised for a revival.
The Celestino Caballero-Juan Carlos Burgos featherweight bout could go down in May. Caballero looked like crap in his last fight, but he does that sometimes; the issue here is whether it was because of that pattern or because of the move up in weight, or because he's aging now and has lost it. If Caballero has something left, Caballero-Burgos is a helluva nice fight.
On the Devon Alexander-Lucas Matthysse undercard on HBO this summer, we could get a junior middleweight bout between Cornelius Bundrage and Erislandy Lara. A year or two ago, I would have turned that fight down on the spot; Bundrage was in boring, hugging awkwardfests and Lara needs an aggressive opponent to look good. But with Lara gunning for the KO a bit more lately — and getting it because his opposition was so poor, granted — and with Bundrage also getting more entertaining of late, it's now a bout that has appeal beyond it being a match-up of two of the better junior middles.
Not that anyone is mourning it much, I'm guessing, but the middleweight bout between Winky Wright and Matthew Macklin originally scheduled for the April 9 pay-per-view headlined by Erik Morales-Marcos Maidana that got canceled helped kill some more of what little appeal that card had. Yeah, Wright historically isn't very fun, but he's not as boring as he used to be, and at least it was a meaningful fight in the division to make up for such a horrid headliner. So, thanks, Winky, for getting injured.
If Haye fights Klitschko and the winner were to move up to "super" champion or whatever idiotic designation the outfit that sanctions his belt deems him, Alexander Povetkin would be in line to fight for whatever "regular" title remained. That would most likely put him in against Jean-Marc Mormeck in June. That fight doesn't do anything for me but it would be the first singificant opponent for Povetkin for years, and not even THAT significant, since all Mormeck has done is struggle at heavyweight since moving up from cruiser.
Junior lightweight Roman Martinez could be facing fellow Puerto Rican Luis Cruz on April 16 in a bout that's been discussed before, or if that doesn't work out, Bernabe Concepcion on May 6. The main thing is I'd like to see it, since Martinez is can't-miss TV.
Another fringe-y heavyweight bout: Robert Helenius vs. Sam Peter April 2. Okey doke.
A fringe-y light heavyweight super middleweight bout: Robert Stieglitz-Dmitri Sartison April 9. Okey doke. One division up: Yusaf Mack won his eliminator this weekend over Otis Griffin, so he's next in line for Tavoris Cloud, who should slaughter him.
There's no Joshua Cottey-Calvin Green this weekend on the Miguel Cotto-Ricardo Mayorga undercard, and I'm sure we're all very, very sad about this news. I'm going to try and soldier ahead through this "dregs" section of Round and Round.
Cruiserweight Marco Huck is wasting time fighting Giacobbe Fragomeni on April 2. Frag was fun for a while but he's done as a legit contender and should've stayed retired, probably.
Eric Morel-Martin Castillo, the rematch, at bantam, April 1, Solo Boxeo. Castillo should be even more retired than Frag.
Former cruiserweight Enzo Maccarinelli plans to return at 175, but he'll get knocked out there savagely, too, because that's what Enzo Mac does exclusively now. Should've stayed retired.
Roy Jones could be fighting Denis Lebedev June 4. On the "should've stayed retired" continuum, Jones is nearly off the chart.
(Round and Round sources: BoxingScene; ESPN; Irish Times; GMA; Maxboxing)


How do social movements move? Tiqqun, the French collective that authored The Coming Insurrection, suggests that "movements do not spread by contamination," but by "resonance" between radical moments, and that is certainly what we have seen with the upsurge of popular resistance in recent years. 1 If the autoimmune spreads by contagion, autonomy spreads by resonance. In this spirit, I would like to suggest that there is a chain of resonance from the Haitian revolutionaries through the US Abolitionists and Reconstructionists down to today's critiques of the prison-industrial complex and the global justice movements. Specifically, while those who campaign against debt are often told that there is no precedent for their ideas, the history of these radical moments in the Americas suggests that any democracy worthy of the name is also an economic transformation that takes into account the racialization of debt. Running though this chain is what Toni Morrison called the "re-memory" of slavery, a physical or visual evocation of the past that "comes back whether we want it to or not." 2 Each of these moments returns periodically, repeatedly, because justice has not yet been served. 3 Abolition, whether of chattel slavery or debt, is not a simple event or a moment but a chain of interwoven and interactive events. Far from being a neutral tool of accounting, debt is always a method of racializing subjects, whether into "whiteness," "blackness," being "indigenous," or otherwise. Any campaign against debt thus becomes a campaign for a democracy comprised of free subjects.
Data varies from study to study but a clear pattern emerges overall. Home ownership has plummeted among African Americans, leading to a dramatic drop in median net wealth and an increase in the "wealth gap" between "whites" and African Americans. The Pew Center reports that "white" households have twenty times the net wealth of African American households, the largest multiple in over a century. From this perspective, it's as if the Civil Rights movement never happened. It has become increasingly clear that a transformation of current economic practice so thoroughgoing that it could be called a form of abolition would be required in order to salvage any form of meaningful democracy. In this respect, it is useful to consider historical examples of similar kinds of choices. In this essay, I want to find the resonances in the debt abolition campaign with the abolition of slavery in the Americas and the Reconstruction effort that followed. In so doing, we can compare the replacement of slavery, an economic system that was held by many to be indispensable right up until the moment of its extinction, with the current status of debt today.
The discussion around debt is not, then, simply one of repayment or default. It concerns democracy, land, and, now, the future viability of the biosphere. The freed in the Americas saw clearly that land reform was the economic vehicle for wealth redistribution and the reconfiguration of the economy. The need for this kind of program is still all too evident in underdeveloped nations, where land monopolies are a primary political problem. With climate change and food supply issues altering the planetary sense of what a strong economy might mean, away from growth and towards sustainability, debt abolition becomes a moral requirement and a sensible choice. For in order to "pay back" debt, the economy has to grow, creating a parallel rise in carbon emissions within the current energy-generating framework. The choice is not between debt abolition and "responsibility" so much as it is between abolition and extinction. Already, extinction rates are so high that scientists are referring to this era as the Sixth Great Extinction, with the difference being that the present one is caused by human beings.
Much of Occupy practice was sustained by the principle of autonomous action and self-rule. This ethos was in direct opposition to a capitalist culture so self-destructive that it appeared to be the victim of an autoimmune disease, like AIDS, in which the system's own defenses turn on itself. To reclaim the democratic "self" away from capital requires a refusal of the present order that is abolitionist in nature. Implicit in the Occupy movement was the renewal of what W. E. B. Du Bois called "abolition democracy." 7 Over the period of abolition democracy, which begins, in his account, with the Haitian Revolution in 1805, a tension has played out between "free" meaning nonslave, "free" as "able to enter into contract," and finally "free" being without price. Any autonomous claim to selfhood is contested within capitalist ideology.
Whatever the future(s) of Occupy and democracy will turn out to have been, we will miss the full historical significance if we fail to recognize the continuing resonance with abolition. Wall Street, it should be recalled, was the site of New York's own slave market. Its "wall" was a barrier against the indigenous population, and the future citadel of financial speculation fed off the profits from slavery and land grabs. Transatlantic slavery was a system heavily dependent on debt financing. 8 The slavers borrowed money for the costs of the voyage and for the trade goods they exchanged for human property in Africa. These goods were far from worthless and their exchange developed into a form of money based on copper. The enslaved were themselves purchased by American planters buying on credit. It was only with the sale of the products of the plantation back in Europe that apparent profit entered the system. But this profit was spectacular: one ship, called the Lively, left Liverpool in 1737 with cargo worth £1307 and returned with £3080 in cash, plus a cargo of sugar and cotton. In short, that one journey brought a profit of at least 500%, unavailable anywhere else in the early modern financial system. As Adam Smith himself observed: "The profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West Indian colonies are generally much greater than those of any other cultivation that is known." The French colony of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was the wealthiest place on the planet when its revolution began in 1791.
This clause undid colonialism, neocolonialism, race, and segregation. If the rest of the document reinstituted other masters and proprietors, it nonetheless insisted, against the highly complicated racial hierarchy of miscegenation created by slavery, that all such persons were to "be known only by the generic appellation of Blacks." In short, if you were in Haiti, you were Black. "Race" became a correlative of residence, not some transcendental "essence." As a result, the spectre of Haiti, its revolution and its example, h, its aunted the nineteenth century.
This moment of apparent success contained a key element of failure. In 1801, Toussaint Louverture was able to issue a constitution for the new nation. For Toussaint, large-scale cash-crop agriculture was vital both to the formation of the nation-state in general and to its ability to repay its debts to the United States in particular. The formerly enslaved were to work as wage laborers. In response, the subalterns revolted against their own revolution, preferring to secure small plots of land they could farm collectively and create a long-term guarantee against re-enslavement. Toussaint felt compelled to suppress the revolt, and even assassinated his own nephew Moïse who was its leader. Writing in 1938, the Trinidadian radical C. L. R. James saw this as the decisive moment of the revolutionary movement's failure because it could not reconcile the desire of the subaltern for "land," meaning autonomy, and the perceived needs of the nation-state. So while Lenin and other revolutionaries argued for the right of nations to self-determination, the more radical goal inherent in the subaltern desire for autonomy was really the abolition of borders and states, leading to a globalization of and for people.
No response was forthcoming, but in the interim, public intellectuals writing in op-ed pages began to endorse the push for small-scale sustainable agriculture as the way ahead for the country—a direction that Haitians themselves had favored two centuries earlier. Local activists are making slow progress in groups like the Mouvement Paysan de Papaye (Peasant Movement of Papaye), working with clusters of peasant farmers on irrigation techniques, health care, and sustainable agriculture. Multinational mining enterprises on the island are moving much faster, buying up mineral rights for gold and copper in the mountains and taking over key watersheds for industrial use. In many respects, it's 1801 all over again, with a struggle between those who want to see large-scale revenue generation at the elite and (multi)national level and those who advocate local and commons-based production. However, the tropical storm season of 2012 has proved devastating to those who hoped the island could become sustainable. Weakened by Hurricane Isaac, Haiti was then saturated with rain from Hurricane Sandy, leading to the almost total loss of the harvest, widespread soil erosion, and the macabre drowning of some sixty-five thousand livestock. At the time of writing, relief organizations are warning that half a million people face starvation. Meanwhile, Haiti's external debt has climbed back up to six hundred million dollars, about half the official government budget.
From the outset of OWS through the May Day demonstrations of 2012, it was common to see stickers and fly-posters bearing the phrase: "I would prefer not to." Taken from Herman Melville's 1853 story Bartleby, the Scrivener, the slogan showcased the resonance between a past abolitionist era and the present-day one. Bartleby, the Wall Street clerk who "would prefer not to," decides not to take on additional clerical work assigned by his employer. He is, without ever saying so, on strike. His assigned work entailed copying contracts. According to the literary scholar, Tal Kastner, Bartleby displays "the tensions in the notion of contract as a paradigm of freedom, which become evident in the latter part of the nineteenth century as wage labor, as an asymmetrical relation of power, comes to symbolize the opposite of slavery." 10 For slavery was literally an affair of contracts in which human property was exchanged, mortgaged, bonded, and redeemed like any other form of property.
Not surprisingly, after the abolition of slavery, Reconstruction was thus centrally concerned with questions of contracts and the debts they enshrined. At the radical South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868, many days were spent debating the legality of contractual debts. In the decade from 1868–1877, the governance of South Carolina, in Du Bois' view, amounted to nothing less than a "dictatorship of the Black Proletariat." He did not mean this in the classic Leninist sense; rather, he was simply asserting that those without wealth were able to determine how the state should be run and duly "dictated the forms and methods of government." 11 The Convention had been charged with drawing up a new state constitution in light of the Reconstruction statutes, and to bring the state into line with the rest of the Union. Whites boycotted the election for the Convention, with the exception of antislavery factions and some canny former Confederates seeking to limit the damage to their interests.
The Proceedings of the Convention are a remarkable document, over a thousand pages of debates, motions, and discussions, with a distinctly familiar feel to Occupiers. There was a great deal of discussion about process, even more about money, and the participants ended up renaming the sessions of the Legislature as the General Assembly, which is still their name. 12 Here the resonances with Occupy are striking. The freed occupied land and refused to leave, or else they worked on their former plantations but declined all wages, claiming the land was theirs. They also voted, because that was a form of direct action in 1867. The direct action outside the Convention clearly shaped what happened inside, just as the characterization of the proceedings as a "menagerie" by the Charleston Mercury gave solace to the white minority. 13 Consider how it was all depicted in D. W. Griffith's 1915 film Birth of a Nation, often presented as a classic of early cinema. Griffith showed African American delegates (played by actors in blackface) eating, drinking, taking off their shoes, propositioning women, and otherwise acting out the worst stereotypes. The result is so offensively racist that I can't show it to young people without very careful contextualization.
In the actual Convention, a serious if at times highly charged set of debates took place, the longest of which by far were about debts, or, more precisely, whether debts contracted by those selling and purchasing slaves during the war had to be honored. These debts were the result of the mortgaging of the enslaved to raise money for the Confederate war effort. There were thousands of such debts outstanding, totaling millions of dollars. Debtors were said to be on the verge of selling their plantations in order to recoup some of the money. In the midst of a postwar recession, with no established labor system, land was very cheap and these sales would not in many cases have raised enough to clear the debtors. They would, however, have provided an opportunity for the freedmen (as they were known at the time) to purchase land and establish an economic foothold. Initially there was a proposal to freeze the debt. The transparent hope was that three months later, if and when the Union army departed, the debts would be quietly forgotten. Delegates rejected this by a large majority. The motion was reframed as if it was motivated by antislavery sentiments. The revised argument was presented as follows: as there is no "right of property in man," no debt could have been incurred, since that which was being mortgaged was not owned in the first place.
Is this perhaps the first use of the 99% meme? His vision encompasses a future of sustainable local agriculture as an alternative to the single cash-crop of the plantation business—exactly the kind of agrarianism being promoted today by food activists, environmentalists, and de-growth economists. But Cardozo and his allies lost the vote to a majority comprised of African Americans opposed to slavery in all forms and self-identified "whites." While the debt freeze was voted down as being a patently pro-planter measure, framing debt abolition as a refusal of the principle of slavery proved to be effective. A combination of the desire to conciliate the planters, who had boycotted the Convention, and the conviction that it was necessary to deny any legality to slavery, produced this paradoxical gift to the oppressors from the oppressed. Finally, there was a quid pro quo in the minds of the African American delegates that we can formulate as: if we forgive your debts, you give our people land.
For the freed wanted above all to own land, as a means to form autonomous communities. They clearly saw that the alternative was poverty and/or the penitentiary. All the new labor systems that were subsequently developed by planter elites were, as Angela Davis puts it, "dramatic evidence of the persistence of slavery." That is to say, sharecropping, tenant farming, the scrip system, and the convict lease system of imprisoned labor all depended on a new series of connections between debt, labor, and penal confinement. Sharecropping meant that the farmers were entitled to only a portion of the crop they produced, usually a third. However, as they were paid only once a year, they had to make purchases on credit for the rest of year at the notorious crossroads or company stores. Very often, the annual payment would not cover this debt, meaning that the sharecropper could never escape being tied to the land. In fact, wage laborers were often not paid in cash but in scrip, a paper form with which to buy necessities, at inflated prices, in the company stores. Even this kind of labor was too expensive for the planters. The new Black Codes passed in the South after Reconstruction criminalized minor financial transgressions. In Mississippi, for example, any person who "handled money carelessly," an action very clearly defined in the eye of the beholder, could be declared a vagrant, and imprisoned. Simple theft, whether of bread or an animal, was turned into a grave felony and those convicted were certain to be imprisoned. The new prison population, almost wholly African American, was cherished as a virtually free labor force by a lease system which made convicts available to employers to work for almost nothing. Even today, the presumedly liberal University of California gets its office furniture from prison workshops.
The fate of Reconstruction, as Cain and others saw clearly, lay in the emergence of the prison-industrial complex, and from the determination of planters to offer only starvation wages to make sharecropping seem preferable to the use of the state apparatus to confound the efforts of ex-slaves to buy land.
The resolution to request a loan from the Bureau of Freedmen passed but was ignored in Washington, so, in 1869, the state established its own Land Commission to buy and resell land. The freed made all the efforts they could, but, for the most part, their ventures in land ownership did not end well. The repayments proved beyond them, in an era when mortgages were on average three to five years long, especially when the Wall Street crash of 1873 depressed prices for all produce. Among the success stories was the Charleston Land Company itself, which created a community now known as Scanlonville, in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, after its leader Robert L. Scanlon (or Scanlan). The land was first settled by Seewee Indians, colonized by the British as early as 1680, and later belonged to a plantation called Remley's Point, a name still used by local realtors. In Scalonville, the freed bought the land in parcels and then redivided it into farm plots and town plots, where it has remained in place since Reconstruction, one of four such collectives in the state. Cain himself established a settlement called Lincolnville with six others, and the town is still there today. Other communities survived in what had long been liminal spaces along the coast.
This Carolina case study can be seen as a determining moment for the future of American democracy. Much would have been different had the plantations been broken up to make way for a system of communal agriculture. But what does this story portend for Strike Debt? It is a complex, but prescient, example—a reminder that there are many precedents for considering debt annulment. The South Carolina case was an earlyexample of what modern finance labels as "odious debt," created under circumstances so morally repugnant that repayment cannot be enforced. That is why most of the African American delegates voted for debt cancellation, even though it may have deprived them of the opportunity to purchase land cheaply from their former masters. Three years after the end of the war, nailing slavery's coffin shut was of the utmost importance. At the same time, the prospect of getting land to the landless and establishing a democratic economic system was critical to achieving long-term freedoms, but those goals were largely passed over. Exceptions like Scanlonville show how well similar efforts could have succeeded.
At the same time, this example makes clear that debt is never just about money. From the Haitian Revolution to US Abolition of slavery to the 2008 foreclosure crisis, property, land, and debt have been tightly intertwined. The product of this interaction has been racialized segregation and impoverishment. It can now be argued that what we call "debt" in the Americas is the political economy that results in the formation of "race," given that we understand race to be a social hierarchy with no biological grounding. The notorious mass incarceration of people of color, especially African American men, in the United States is both the cause and the consequence of this impoverishment. In each case we have looked at, the majority has had its interest suppressed by the minority in the name of national or state solvency. Each situation depended on appeasing Wall Street, or at least US-based lenders, rather than fulfilling a democratic mandate. By taking on debt as a central tactic in its anticapitalist campaign, Occupy thus confronts the formation of a nation-state that uses poverty as a means of sustaining racialized hierarchy. When we speak of a "Rolling Jubilee" to abolish debt, it also implies that debt abolition will have to confront these other disciplinary structures that both enable and are sustained by the debt society. This has always been precisely the strength of Occupy, that it does not compartmentalize issues but seeks a radical reformulation of the social order as a whole via the interfaces of the economic, with identity, history, and temporalities. For democracy, strike debt.
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Oconto facility named Wastewater Treatment Plant of the Year
Quiet efficiency at treatment plant Oconto facility named Wastewater Treatment Plant of the Year Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: http://gbpg.net/2sYE76X
Kent Tempus, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 2:43 p.m. CT June 8, 2017
Wastewater plant operator Adam Filz and Superintendent of Streets and Utilities Jeremy Wusterbarth stand next to one of the final clarifiers at the city's Wastewater Treatment Plant. The fenced area in the background is where the water is treated with chlorine.(Photo: Kent Tempus/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)Buy Photo
Most of us, after blithely flushing the toilet, never give a second thought about what happens next.
"Out of sight," explains the city of Oconto's Superintendent of Streets and Utilities Jeremy Wusterbarth, "and out of mind."
That's not the case for Wusterbarth, or the plant's two operators, Steve Woodworth and Adam Filz.
All three are acutely aware of what happens after … uh, you know … starts its trek to the plant in the 1600 block of Main Street, is treated and then discharged into the Oconto River.
"When you test the water leaving the plant, it's typically cleaner than the river on every level they test for," Filz said. "I've yet to drink it though. If you got really thirsty, you could."
Reaching that point means, though, means the water goes through the elaborate treatment process – one that Oconto's staff manages so well it was named "Wastewater Treatment Plant of the Year" by the Wisconsin Rural Water Association.
The honor was presented at the end of March at the WRWA's annual conference in La Crosse.
According to Dave Lawrence, executive director of Plover-based WRWA, said most of the state's 700 wastewater treatment plants are members of the organization, which receives eight to 10 nominations each year.
Lawrence said the Oconto plant is highly-ranked by the Department of Natural Resources.
"It's one thing for a system to meet the regulations," he said. "What we see a lot with our winners is that they go beyond, they take pride in their plant, and go above and beyond what the basic requirement is."
Lawrence noted the wastewater industry is among the most highly regulated.
"It is lot of work to maintain a plant well and keep it in compliance with all the regulations," he said.
WRWA helps provide training and education for water and wastewater professionals, said Wusterbarth, who credits Woodworth and Filz for keeping the plant running well.
Much of that, he said, comes down to "making sure you have maintenance on a daily basis."
There plant's most recent major upgrade was in 1994, and before that was in 1970.
"You've got an old plant, and for it to run as efficiently as it does, you've got to have experienced operators down here," Wusterbarth said.
Woodworth, who has been with the city for 31 years, and Filz, with nearly five years on the job, have plenty to watch over.
There's 13 lift stations that propel the waste of several thousand people toward the plant.
"They require a lot of maintenance and time, making sure pumps are running correctly," Fliz said.
In March, two of those pumps had be replaced – at a cost of $7,000 – in when they got clogged by "flushable" wipes, which have plagued other treatment systems around the state and nation.
After reaching the plant, the two main pumps direct the flow toward to primary clarifies, where sediment falls. The water moves into the two aeration tanks, huge outdoor pools with a walkways over the long dimension.
Large motors turn surface aerators, or large paddles, that agitate the water to keep it oxygenated as bacteria does its job. Eventually, the water flows into final clarifies, where any leftover sediment drops.
Last stop is a smaller pool with baffles. Water rushes toward the center and a small tube drips chlorine to kill any remaining bacteria. On the way to the Oconto River a hundred yards away, the water gets treated with a chemical to neutralize the chlorine.
The sediment – which is 2 percent solids, is pumped to the other side of the facility into another building with a huge belt press. That squeezes out excess water, coming out in a pancake-thick layer moved by a conveyer to an adjacent large warehouse.
Over the course of year, the process creates about 1,500 cubic yards of material. It's picked up twice a year and spread on fields.
The belt press is one of several processes they've worked to make more efficient. It originally only processed 20 gallons of waters per minute, but now handles 90 to 120 gallons per minute, Wusterbarth said.
That means the staff only needs to run it one day per week, instead of everyday, to keep up with the flow of sludge coming in. Wusterbarth said he's hoping that means the 22-year-old machine, now at the end of its normal life cycle, will last another five to 10 years.
The staff continues to work on efficiency. Last year, they started recapturing clean water to use in the treatment process, rather than pumping it from city wells. That saving 800,000 to one million gallons of water a year.
That's only two to three days of water usage in the city, "but what you're essentially doing is saving wear and tear on that well."
Another project starting next month will also improve the operation. The surface aerators – which are 45 years old – are being replaced with a fine bubble diffusion system, which will blow air into the tanks.
The new system, which will cost about $250,000 will save about $5,000 a year in electricity.
More importantly, it will provide more accurate treatment of sewage, Filz explained. The optimal amount of oxygen content, which changes with the weather needs, so the bacteria – which Filz calls "bugs" – can do their work.
The project, which will take about three months to complete, is the first of several major upgrades that will are planned for over the next four to five years.
Wusterbarth said the cost will be $3.5 million to $5 million.
"We're doing as much as we can on our own to save money," he said "We're trying to do it within our equipment replacement budget, so we don't have to borrow or increase rates."
Oconto Wastewater Treatment Plant
The facility serves the city of Oconto, as well as the towns of Oconto, Pensaukee and Little River.
Daily average flow of 600,000 gallons. About one-fourth the volume is from outside the city.
2017 operating revenues: $2.15 million
2017 operating expenses: $1.5 million
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San Gimignano was founded around the 3rd century BC as a small Etruscan village, situated on a hill dominating the upper Val d'Elsa.
But the real development of the town and its urban fabric began around the 10th century, the period when it was named after the beatified Bishop of Modena (St Geminianus) who was said to have protected the town from occupation by Attila. During the middle ages San Gimignano underwent formidable development through trade in excellent agricultural produce (Saffron and Vernaccia), favoured by the Via Francigena that passed through it from north to south and by the many "salt transport roads". In 1199, at the height of its economic splendour, it gained independence from the Bishops of Volterra to whom it had been subject and became to all effects a Municipality.
In this period San Gimignano was embellished with works of art and stupendous architecture. In 1300 the Municipality had the honour of playing host to the poet Dante Alighieri in his role of ambassador of the Guelph League in Tuscany. The town's splendour would last until 1348 when, as a result of the black death which infested all of Europe, and the subsequent famines, it had to succumb to Florence. San Gimignano underwent a period of decadence and marginality before returning to the forefront of world attention in the 19th century.
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Understanding what leads firms and their employees to register with the formal system and to declare their true income to the government are first order public finance issues for most economies around the world. For developing and middle-income countries, this is an important issue because of widespread tax non-compliance, poor enforcement of regulations, and low levels of social insurance coverage. Higher levels of registered employment and more reporting of income subject to payroll taxes would result in increased access to social insurance for workers and their families. Moreover, a reduction in tax non-compliance could also help remedy a variety of market distortions that limit economic growth and economic development (La Porta and Shleifer, 2008; Levy, 2008). This issue is also relevant in advanced economies with smaller but still sizeable underground sectors (Schneider, 2005).
In a recent study (Bergolo and Cruces, 2014), we explore how social insurance programs shape individuals' incentives to take up registered employment and to alter the reporting of earnings to the tax authorities. This question is addressed empirically by examining a large-scale policy change in Uruguay's social insurance system.
In Uruguay's social insurance system, most benefits are made available only to employees registered with the social insurance administration who pay contributions and payroll taxes. Until 2007, a health insurance benefit was in place according to which the social insurance administration (SIA) covered the employee's insurance premium from a private healthcare provider. However, the plan did not cover the employee's family. The 2008 reform extended the healthcare coverage funded by the SIA to include all registered employees' dependent children under the age of 18 (Figure 1). The reform also increased the payroll tax contribution deducted from employees' salaried earnings from three to six percent of wages.
This health insurance benefit extension (HIBEX) reform modified several margins of adjustment for eligible individuals (i.e., adults with dependent children). The reform introduced incentives to move into benefit-eligible employment (i.e., 25 hours or more per week at a registered job) to take advantage of the subsidy for dependent children's insurance premiums. The new benefit created an additional incentive for those not working to enter benefit-eligible employment, for those working in unregistered employment to formalize, and for registered workers below the 25-hour cut-off to increase their declared hours of work per week to at least 25.
In addition, the reform could also have affected an additional margin of non-compliance, i.e, the underreporting of earnings to tax authorities to evade payroll tax and social insurance contributions. The HIBEX may have affected this form of non-compliance with the tax authorities because of the higher health insurance contribution rate and because those entering registered employment had to face the payroll taxes associated with the whole bundle of social insurance benefits.
To test the above hypothesis the identification strategy relies on the fact that childless adults were not eligible for the benefit extension. Specifically, we estimate the impact of the reform using a difference-in-difference approach, comparing the behavioral responses of adults with children to that of childless individuals before and after the reform. The analysis is based on a pool of repeated cross-sections of a nationally representative Uruguayan household survey that covers three years prior to and after the reform.
The empirical analysis suggests that the benefit extension had a significant effect on labor market outcomes for eligible individuals. Specifically, the number of individuals in benefit-eligible registered employment increased by 1.6 percentage points with respect to the comparison group, about 5 percent higher than the pre-reform level (Figure 2).
The evidence suggests that this aggregate effect was mostly the result of a reduction in the number of those not working rather than a consequence of increased work hours among registered employees below the threshold, or a movement of unregistered workers to registered employment. The effects were substantially larger for single parents, parents with several children, and parents with younger children, for whom the reform represented a stronger financial incentive. For single parents, a sizeable fraction of the effect can be attributed to movements from unregistered to registered employment. The response from individuals in couples depended on the benefit eligibility of their partners, with larger effects on individuals with a partner whose employment health insurance arrangements did not already offer coverage to the couple's children. Overall, these findings are in line with the theoretical literature on the effects of benefits tied to registered employment on individual choices between formal and informal employment (Levy, 2008; Galiani and Weinschelbaum, 2012).
Additionally, our study finds that the extended benefit increased the incidence of underreporting of salaried earnings for individuals with children by about 4 percentage points, almost 25 percent higher than the pre-reform level. Moreover, this effect was confined to workers employed at small firms. This confirms the results of recent theoretical models (Kleven, Kreiner and Saez, 2009) and reinforces empirical findings found for other countries, including the United States (Chetty, Friedman and Saez, 2013).
The findings of our research indicates that additional tax evasion margins of response mean complex trade-offs for workers and governments in the context of tax and benefit systems. In terms of tax evasion, the decision is not simply between off-the-book versus registered employment, but between full non-compliance, full compliance, and on-the-book salaried employment with under-the-table payments. These results confirm the insight that work incentives do not necessarily operate within the framework of the law and that the design of social insurance systems should take into account these additional dimensions.
The implications of this analysis are relevant not only for developing economies with large informal labor forces. The policy consequences are also relevant for OECD countries, most of which have experienced an increase in their shadow economies over the past two decades (Schneider and Enste, 2000; Schneider, 2005); they may well face trade-offs similar to those described for Uruguay, at least for part of their labor forces. Moreover, it is necessary to understand the channels through which the tax and benefit system yields changes in evasion behavior in the context of salaried employment. For instance, it would be important to distinguish between situations where the employer and the employee collude to evade taxes from settings where the firm engages in unilateral evasion. Third- party information reporting (which has been highlighted as an effective measure to induce compliance) and other specifics of tax law and implementation details may also play an important role in the reduction of unregistered employment and of the informal sector in developing countries.
Bergolo, M., Cruces, G. (2014).Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extension. Journal of Public Economics 117(September):211-228.
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ISIS beheads Russian intelligence officer in Syria
2017/05/09 12:38:49 / NO 107841
ISIS has published a video through social media showing the beheading of a Russian intelligence officer who was captured in Syria, according to the US-based SITE monitoring website.
Russian authorities have not yet commented on the issue.
The footage, which was released on the day Russia celebrates the anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany with military parades, depicted the Russian intelligence officer dressed in a black jump suit in the desert, urging other Russian agents to surrender.
During the 12-minute Russian-language video, the man said, "This idiot believed the promises of his state not to abandon him if he was captured."
He was then beheaded with a knife by a bearded man.
The authenticity of the footage and identity of the victim could not be verified. And it is not still clear when the killing occurred.
According to Al-Masdar News, the Russian spy was said to be gathering information on the terrorist group and secretly leaking it back to the Kremlin.
His main task inside ISIS task was to befriend the late Omar Al-Shishani.
He had also infiltrated other terrorists groups in Syria, Turkey and the Caucasus on behalf of Moscow.
FBI translator marries ISIS militant
ISIS in trouble as Kurdish forces retake more areas in Syria
'Certain regional countries are transferring terrorists from Syria, Iraq into Afghanistan'
Top terrorist commander killed in Syria
Forty Al-Nusra terrorists killed in Syria's Dara'a
Some 130 Yemeni children die every day as result of Saudi-imposed war: group
Israel offers help to the Saudis to counter 'Iran's influence'
Muslim woman in Kuwait asked to remove hijab if she wanted to teach British children
Lebanese president: Riyadh holding Hariri an 'act of aggression' against Lebanon
Paralympic champion auctions gold medal to help Iran quake victims
'U.S.-Israel-Saudi Arabia coalition in Mideast is the latest Axis of Evil'
Balfour mentality has no place in civilized society
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I blog about Florida History. This is mainly an organizational question as to what headings I will use so people can find the post once I write it.
Florida used to be the capitol of the Silent Movie industry. Yes, some were made in Hollywood but Hollywood didn't become the focus until Talkies came out.
There was one silent movie producer/director who is white. He filmed movies that had all black casts where black people were the main characters with the major plot lines in movies that didn't portray them as servants or slaves.
Gone with the Wind where black people are only portrayed as servants and slaves.
Could I put this guy with my Black History Month posts or should I put him under one of my other categories. I can't remember his name but if you are interested I can post his name later. I just have to find the book. I only ask because he is white and I don't want to be offensive. I can easily list him in under another category.
I thought I would put him in my Black History category because he employed black actors/actresses and created well-rounded 3-D black characters that went against the stereotypes of the day.
Even though he made great contributions and went against the norm, Black History is about black contributions to society. So is it possible to research about the black actors and actresses that he hired to be in his films? And/or the conditions they had to endure to become actors and actresses before being presented with the golden opportunity to portray characters that were not the norm for that particular era. Then you can explore his intentions as a secondary connection.
But to focus primarily on him, I am not so sure.
Yeah, that is what I pretty much figured. So I'll just put him under another category. Thanks for your response.
But you could add him as a white hero supporting black progress and perhaps use a link to his piece. Unless further examination proves that he cruelly exploited his stars.
I agree here. He could still be represented, but for black history month focus on the actors, but you could still maybe mention him as an aside if you wanted.


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/* epic100.c: A SMC 83c170 EPIC/100 fast ethernet driver for Etherboot */

FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER );

/* 05/06/2003	timlegge	Fixed relocation and implemented Multicast */
#define LINUX_OUT_MACROS

#include "etherboot.h"
#include <ipxe/pci.h>
#include <ipxe/ethernet.h>
#include "nic.h"
#include "epic100.h"

/* Condensed operations for readability */
#define virt_to_le32desc(addr)	cpu_to_le32(virt_to_bus(addr))
#define le32desc_to_virt(addr)	bus_to_virt(le32_to_cpu(addr))

#define TX_RING_SIZE	2	/* use at least 2 buffers for TX */
#define RX_RING_SIZE	2

#define PKT_BUF_SZ	1536	/* Size of each temporary Tx/Rx buffer.*/

/*
#define DEBUG_RX
#define DEBUG_TX
#define DEBUG_EEPROM
*/

#define EPIC_DEBUG 0	/* debug level */

/* The EPIC100 Rx and Tx buffer descriptors. */
struct epic_rx_desc {
    unsigned long status;
    unsigned long bufaddr;
    unsigned long buflength;
    unsigned long next;
};
/* description of the tx descriptors control bits commonly used */
#define TD_STDFLAGS	TD_LASTDESC

struct epic_tx_desc {
    unsigned long status;
    unsigned long bufaddr;
    unsigned long buflength;
    unsigned long  next;
};

#define delay(nanosec)   do { int _i = 3; while (--_i > 0) \
                                     { __SLOW_DOWN_IO; }} while (0)

static void	epic100_open(void);
static void	epic100_init_ring(void);
static void	epic100_disable(struct nic *nic);
static int	epic100_poll(struct nic *nic, int retrieve);
static void	epic100_transmit(struct nic *nic, const char *destaddr,
				 unsigned int type, unsigned int len, const char *data);
#ifdef	DEBUG_EEPROM
static int	read_eeprom(int location);
#endif
static int	mii_read(int phy_id, int location);
static void     epic100_irq(struct nic *nic, irq_action_t action);

static struct nic_operations epic100_operations;

static int	ioaddr;

static int	command;
static int	intstat;
static int	intmask;
static int	genctl ;
static int	eectl  ;
static int	test   ;
static int	mmctl  ;
static int	mmdata ;
static int	lan0   ;
static int	mc0    ;
static int	rxcon  ;
static int	txcon  ;
static int	prcdar ;
static int	ptcdar ;
static int	eththr ;

static unsigned int	cur_rx, cur_tx;		/* The next free ring entry */
#ifdef	DEBUG_EEPROM
static unsigned short	eeprom[64];
#endif
static signed char	phys[4];		/* MII device addresses. */
struct {
	struct epic_rx_desc	rx_ring[RX_RING_SIZE]
	__attribute__ ((aligned(4)));
	struct epic_tx_desc	tx_ring[TX_RING_SIZE]
	__attribute__ ((aligned(4)));
	unsigned char	 	rx_packet[PKT_BUF_SZ * RX_RING_SIZE];
	unsigned char		tx_packet[PKT_BUF_SZ * TX_RING_SIZE];
} epic100_bufs __shared;
#define rx_ring epic100_bufs.rx_ring
#define tx_ring epic100_bufs.tx_ring
#define rx_packet epic100_bufs.rx_packet
#define tx_packet epic100_bufs.tx_packet

/***********************************************************************/
/*                    Externally visible functions                     */
/***********************************************************************/

static int
epic100_probe ( struct nic *nic, struct pci_device *pci ) {

    int i;
    unsigned short* ap;
    unsigned int phy, phy_idx;

    if (pci->ioaddr == 0)
	return 0;

    /* Ideally we would detect all network cards in slot order.  That would
       be best done a central PCI probe dispatch, which wouldn't work
       well with the current structure.  So instead we detect just the
       Epic cards in slot order. */

    ioaddr = pci->ioaddr;

    nic->irqno  = 0;
    nic->ioaddr = pci->ioaddr & ~3;

    /* compute all used static epic100 registers address */
    command = ioaddr + COMMAND;		/* Control Register */
    intstat = ioaddr + INTSTAT;		/* Interrupt Status */
    intmask = ioaddr + INTMASK;		/* Interrupt Mask */
    genctl  = ioaddr + GENCTL;		/* General Control */
    eectl   = ioaddr + EECTL;		/* EEPROM Control  */
    test    = ioaddr + TEST;		/* Test register (clocks) */
    mmctl   = ioaddr + MMCTL;		/* MII Management Interface Control */
    mmdata  = ioaddr + MMDATA;		/* MII Management Interface Data */
    lan0    = ioaddr + LAN0;		/* MAC address. (0x40-0x48) */
    mc0     = ioaddr + MC0; 		/* Multicast Control */
    rxcon   = ioaddr + RXCON;		/* Receive Control */
    txcon   = ioaddr + TXCON;		/* Transmit Control */
    prcdar  = ioaddr + PRCDAR;		/* PCI Receive Current Descr Address */
    ptcdar  = ioaddr + PTCDAR;		/* PCI Transmit Current Descr Address */
    eththr  = ioaddr + ETHTHR;		/* Early Transmit Threshold */

    /* Reset the chip & bring it out of low-power mode. */
    outl(GC_SOFT_RESET, genctl);

    /* Disable ALL interrupts by setting the interrupt mask. */
    outl(INTR_DISABLE, intmask);

    /*
     * set the internal clocks:
     * Application Note 7.15 says:
     *    In order to set the CLOCK TEST bit in the TEST register,
     *	  perform the following:
     *
     *        Write 0x0008 to the test register at least sixteen
     *        consecutive times.
     *
     * The CLOCK TEST bit is Write-Only. Writing it several times
     * consecutively insures a successful write to the bit...
     */

    for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
	outl(0x00000008, test);
    }

#ifdef	DEBUG_EEPROM
{
    unsigned short sum = 0;
    unsigned short value;
    for (i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
	value = read_eeprom(i);
	eeprom[i] = value;
	sum += value;
    }
}

#if	(EPIC_DEBUG > 1)
    printf("EEPROM contents\n");
    for (i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
	printf(" %hhX%s", eeprom[i], i % 16 == 15 ? "\n" : "");
    }
#endif
#endif

    /* This could also be read from the EEPROM. */
    ap = (unsigned short*)nic->node_addr;
    for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
	*ap++ = inw(lan0 + i*4);

    DBG ( " I/O %4.4x %s ", ioaddr, eth_ntoa ( nic->node_addr ) );

    /* Find the connected MII xcvrs. */
    for (phy = 0, phy_idx = 0; phy < 32 && phy_idx < sizeof(phys); phy++) {
	int mii_status = mii_read(phy, 0);

	if (mii_status != 0xffff  && mii_status != 0x0000) {
	    phys[phy_idx++] = phy;
#if	(EPIC_DEBUG > 1)
	    printf("MII transceiver found at address %d.\n", phy);
#endif
	}
    }
    if (phy_idx == 0) {
#if	(EPIC_DEBUG > 1)
	printf("***WARNING***: No MII transceiver found!\n");
#endif
	/* Use the known PHY address of the EPII. */
	phys[0] = 3;
    }

    epic100_open();
    nic->nic_op	= &epic100_operations;

    return 1;
}

static void set_rx_mode(void)
{
	unsigned char mc_filter[8];
	int i;
	memset(mc_filter, 0xff, sizeof(mc_filter));
	outl(0x0C, rxcon);
	for(i = 0; i < 4; i++)
		outw(((unsigned short *)mc_filter)[i], mc0 + i*4);
	return;
}

   static void
epic100_open(void)
{
    int mii_reg5;
    unsigned long tmp;

    epic100_init_ring();

    /* Pull the chip out of low-power mode, and set for PCI read multiple. */
    outl(GC_RX_FIFO_THR_64 | GC_MRC_READ_MULT | GC_ONE_COPY, genctl);

    outl(TX_FIFO_THRESH, eththr);

    tmp = TC_EARLY_TX_ENABLE | TX_SLOT_TIME;

    mii_reg5 = mii_read(phys[0], 5);
    if (mii_reg5 != 0xffff && (mii_reg5 & 0x0100)) {
	printf(" full-duplex mode");
	tmp |= TC_LM_FULL_DPX;
    } else
	tmp |= TC_LM_NORMAL;

    outl(tmp, txcon);

    /* Give address of RX and TX ring to the chip */
    outl(virt_to_le32desc(&rx_ring), prcdar);
    outl(virt_to_le32desc(&tx_ring), ptcdar);

    /* Start the chip's Rx process: receive unicast and broadcast */
    set_rx_mode();
    outl(CR_START_RX | CR_QUEUE_RX, command);

    putchar('\n');
}

/* Initialize the Rx and Tx rings. */
    static void
epic100_init_ring(void)
{
    int i;

    cur_rx = cur_tx = 0;

    for (i = 0; i < RX_RING_SIZE; i++) {
	rx_ring[i].status    = cpu_to_le32(RRING_OWN);	/* Owned by Epic chip */
	rx_ring[i].buflength = cpu_to_le32(PKT_BUF_SZ);
	rx_ring[i].bufaddr   = virt_to_bus(&rx_packet[i * PKT_BUF_SZ]);
	rx_ring[i].next      = virt_to_le32desc(&rx_ring[i + 1]) ;
    }
    /* Mark the last entry as wrapping the ring. */
    rx_ring[i-1].next = virt_to_le32desc(&rx_ring[0]);

    /*
     *The Tx buffer descriptor is filled in as needed,
     * but we do need to clear the ownership bit.
     */

    for (i = 0; i < TX_RING_SIZE; i++) {
	tx_ring[i].status  = 0x0000;			/* Owned by CPU */
    	tx_ring[i].buflength = 0x0000 | cpu_to_le32(TD_STDFLAGS << 16);
	tx_ring[i].bufaddr = virt_to_bus(&tx_packet[i * PKT_BUF_SZ]);
	tx_ring[i].next    = virt_to_le32desc(&tx_ring[i + 1]);
    }
	tx_ring[i-1].next    = virt_to_le32desc(&tx_ring[0]);
}

/* function: epic100_transmit
 * This transmits a packet.
 *
 * Arguments: char d[6]:          destination ethernet address.
 *            unsigned short t:   ethernet protocol type.
 *            unsigned short s:   size of the data-part of the packet.
 *            char *p:            the data for the packet.
 * returns:   void.
 */
    static void
epic100_transmit(struct nic *nic, const char *destaddr, unsigned int type,
		 unsigned int len, const char *data)
{
    unsigned short nstype;
    unsigned char *txp;
    int entry;
    unsigned long ct;

    /* Calculate the next Tx descriptor entry. */
    entry = cur_tx % TX_RING_SIZE;

    if ((tx_ring[entry].status & TRING_OWN) == TRING_OWN) {
	printf("eth_transmit: Unable to transmit. status=%4.4lx. Resetting...\n",
	       tx_ring[entry].status);

	epic100_open();
	return;
    }

    txp = tx_packet + (entry * PKT_BUF_SZ);

    memcpy(txp, destaddr, ETH_ALEN);
    memcpy(txp + ETH_ALEN, nic->node_addr, ETH_ALEN);
    nstype = htons(type);
    memcpy(txp + 12, (char*)&nstype, 2);
    memcpy(txp + ETH_HLEN, data, len);

    len += ETH_HLEN;
	len &= 0x0FFF;
	while(len < ETH_ZLEN)
		txp[len++] = '\0';
    /*
     * Caution: the write order is important here,
     * set the base address with the "ownership"
     * bits last.
     */

    tx_ring[entry].buflength |= cpu_to_le32(len);
    tx_ring[entry].status = cpu_to_le32(len << 16) |
	    cpu_to_le32(TRING_OWN);	/* Pass ownership to the chip. */

    cur_tx++;

    /* Trigger an immediate transmit demand. */
    outl(CR_QUEUE_TX, command);

    ct = currticks();
    /* timeout 10 ms for transmit */
    while ((le32_to_cpu(tx_ring[entry].status) & (TRING_OWN)) &&
		ct + 10*1000 < currticks())
	/* Wait */;

    if ((le32_to_cpu(tx_ring[entry].status) & TRING_OWN) != 0)
	printf("Oops, transmitter timeout, status=%4.4lX\n",
	    tx_ring[entry].status);
}

/* function: epic100_poll / eth_poll
 * This receives a packet from the network.
 *
 * Arguments: none
 *
 * returns:   1 if a packet was received.
 *            0 if no packet was received.
 * side effects:
 *            returns the packet in the array nic->packet.
 *            returns the length of the packet in nic->packetlen.
 */

    static int
epic100_poll(struct nic *nic, int retrieve)
{
    int entry;
    int retcode;
    unsigned long status;
    entry = cur_rx % RX_RING_SIZE;

    if ((rx_ring[entry].status & cpu_to_le32(RRING_OWN)) == RRING_OWN)
	return (0);

    if ( ! retrieve ) return 1;

    status = le32_to_cpu(rx_ring[entry].status);
    /* We own the next entry, it's a new packet. Send it up. */

#if	(EPIC_DEBUG > 4)
    printf("epic_poll: entry %d status %hX\n", entry, status);
#endif

    cur_rx++;
    if (status & 0x2000) {
	printf("epic_poll: Giant packet\n");
	retcode = 0;
    } else if (status & 0x0006) {
	/* Rx Frame errors are counted in hardware. */
	printf("epic_poll: Frame received with errors\n");
	retcode = 0;
    } else {
	/* Omit the four octet CRC from the length. */
	nic->packetlen = (status >> 16) - 4;
	memcpy(nic->packet, &rx_packet[entry * PKT_BUF_SZ], nic->packetlen);
	retcode = 1;
    }

    /* Clear all error sources. */
    outl(status & INTR_CLEARERRS, intstat);

    /* Give the descriptor back to the chip */
    rx_ring[entry].status = RRING_OWN;

    /* Restart Receiver */
    outl(CR_START_RX | CR_QUEUE_RX, command);

    return retcode;
}

static void epic100_disable ( struct nic *nic __unused ) {
	/* Soft reset the chip. */
	outl(GC_SOFT_RESET, genctl);
}

static void epic100_irq(struct nic *nic __unused, irq_action_t action __unused)
{
  switch ( action ) {
  case DISABLE :
    break;
  case ENABLE :
    break;
  case FORCE :
    break;
  }
}

#ifdef	DEBUG_EEPROM
/* Serial EEPROM section. */

/*  EEPROM_Ctrl bits. */
#define EE_SHIFT_CLK	0x04	/* EEPROM shift clock. */
#define EE_CS		0x02	/* EEPROM chip select. */
#define EE_DATA_WRITE	0x08	/* EEPROM chip data in. */
#define EE_WRITE_0	0x01
#define EE_WRITE_1	0x09
#define EE_DATA_READ	0x10	/* EEPROM chip data out. */
#define EE_ENB		(0x0001 | EE_CS)

/* The EEPROM commands include the alway-set leading bit. */
#define EE_WRITE_CMD	(5 << 6)
#define EE_READ_CMD	(6 << 6)
#define EE_ERASE_CMD	(7 << 6)

#define eeprom_delay(n)	delay(n)

    static int
read_eeprom(int location)
{
    int i;
    int retval = 0;
    int read_cmd = location | EE_READ_CMD;

    outl(EE_ENB & ~EE_CS, eectl);
    outl(EE_ENB, eectl);

    /* Shift the read command bits out. */
    for (i = 10; i >= 0; i--) {
	short dataval = (read_cmd & (1 << i)) ? EE_DATA_WRITE : 0;
	outl(EE_ENB | dataval, eectl);
	eeprom_delay(100);
	outl(EE_ENB | dataval | EE_SHIFT_CLK, eectl);
	eeprom_delay(150);
	outl(EE_ENB | dataval, eectl);	/* Finish EEPROM a clock tick. */
	eeprom_delay(250);
    }
    outl(EE_ENB, eectl);

    for (i = 16; i > 0; i--) {
	outl(EE_ENB | EE_SHIFT_CLK, eectl);
	eeprom_delay(100);
	retval = (retval << 1) | ((inl(eectl) & EE_DATA_READ) ? 1 : 0);
	outl(EE_ENB, eectl);
	eeprom_delay(100);
    }

    /* Terminate the EEPROM access. */
    outl(EE_ENB & ~EE_CS, eectl);
    return retval;
}
#endif

#define MII_READOP	1
#define MII_WRITEOP	2

    static int
mii_read(int phy_id, int location)
{
    int i;

    outl((phy_id << 9) | (location << 4) | MII_READOP, mmctl);
    /* Typical operation takes < 50 ticks. */

    for (i = 4000; i > 0; i--)
	if ((inl(mmctl) & MII_READOP) == 0)
	    break;
    return inw(mmdata);
}

static struct nic_operations epic100_operations = {
	.connect	= dummy_connect,
	.poll		= epic100_poll,
	.transmit	= epic100_transmit,
	.irq		= epic100_irq,

};

static struct pci_device_id epic100_nics[] = {
PCI_ROM(0x10b8, 0x0005, "epic100",    "SMC EtherPowerII", 0),		/* SMC 83c170 EPIC/100 */
PCI_ROM(0x10b8, 0x0006, "smc-83c175", "SMC EPIC/C 83c175", 0),
};

PCI_DRIVER ( epic100_driver, epic100_nics, PCI_NO_CLASS );

DRIVER ( "EPIC100", nic_driver, pci_driver, epic100_driver,
	 epic100_probe, epic100_disable );

/*
 * Local variables:
 *  c-basic-offset: 8
 *  c-indent-level: 8
 *  tab-width: 8
 * End:
 */

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Q: how to save user entered dynamic input in Shiny data.frame - no. of input changes per user and so does dataframe I have a program where I ask user to enter Asset Name and the Weight (% owned) of the asset. It is dynamic i.e. one user can have 3 assets, another can have 20 assets. So the data.frame used to save the inputs has to be dynamic too.
I am trying to figure out how I can save the data in this - dynamic - way. I tried using matrixInput using the shiny_incubator package but doesn't work all that well for me especially because it's a matrix and I am trying to store a data.frame (numeric + strings in my inputs).
below is the code to enter inputs based on total number of assets the user holds in his portfolio. Disclaimar -  treysp helped me write this.
server.UI
 shinyServer( function(input, output, session) {

   output$tickers <- renderUI({
       numAssets <- as.integer(input$assets)

         lapply(1:numAssets, function(i) {
          list(tags$p(tags$u(h4(paste0("Asset ", i)))),
          textInput(paste0("ticker", i), label = "Ticker Name", value = "Enter ticker..."),
         numericInput(paste0("weight", i), label = "Weight of Asset", value=0))
                                })
                          })
                                               })

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UConn football suffers worst loss since 1919; Nate Carter out vs. NC State
Nate Carter suffers 2+ grade shoulder separation, MRI reveals.
Author: Jonah Karp
Published: 7:46 PM EDT September 20, 2022
STORRS, Connecticut — As UConn Football looks to bounce back from a 59-0 defeat to the Michigan Wolverines, the Huskies will be forced to plan without Nate Carter. An MRI has revealed that the sophomore running back has suffered a 2+ grade shoulder separation, ruling him out for Saturday's game with NC State.
"I know Nate will work as hard as he can to get back as quickly as he can," said UConn Head Football Coach, Jim Mora. "Fortunately, we believe Devontae [Houston] will be. This means that Victor [Rosa] will get a heavy load. Rob Burns will get a heavy load. Devontae will get a heavy load."
RELATED: Coach Jim Mora gets first win with UConn
Carter posted 21 yards on six carries in the loss to Michigan. True freshman Victor Rosa posted a career-high 14 carries during that game, picking up 23 yards.
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The injury narrative has persisted since the season began. Starting quarterback Ta'Quan Roberson tore his ACL in the opening game against Utah State. Wide Receiver exited the same contest with a broken collarbone. Carter tallied a career high 190 rushing yards in that game.
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The 59-0 loss to Michigan was the most lopsided shutout defeat for the UConn football program in 103 years. Holy Cross beat the program (then named the Aggies) 69-0 in 1919.
The Huskies have now dropped three of their first four games to begin the season, and 19 consecutive games against an FBS opponent. UConn continues its difficult non-conference schedule with a road game at NC State.
Kickoff against the Wolfpack is on Saturday, September 24 at 7:30 P.M. in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Paul McCartney wins Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize
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Jewish 'Fifth Beatle' figures prominently in new book about band's first U.S. tour
"The Beatles and Me" details the pressure, adulation, booze, drugs and girls in the lives of the group — as well as the foursome's relationship with the band's Jewish manager, Brian Epstein.
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Gov. Mary Fallin inviting Oklahomans to Septemberfest
Posted 11:11 am, September 2, 2016, by Dallas Franklin, Updated at 11:12AM, September 2, 2016
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is inviting Oklahomans to Septemberfest.
Governor Mary Fallin and First Gentleman Wade Christensen will host Septemberfest on Saturday, September 10, at the Oklahoma History Center.
"Septemberfest is a beloved fall tradition for many Oklahoma families," said Fallin. "The First Gentleman and I are proud the event has grown so much over the past 20 years that it is now hosted at the Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, just north of the Governor's Mansion."
"We're thrilled Oklahomans have shown they love Septemberfest as much as we do," she continued.
Septemberfest celebrates what makes Oklahoma unique. The event was founded in 1997 by Friends of the Mansion, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to preserving and improving Oklahoma's historic Governor's Mansion as well as its grounds and furnishings. The Oklahoma History Center began co-hosting Septemberfest with Friends of the Mansion in 2004.
"Septemberfest is a gift passed from governor to governor for the people of Oklahoma and it continues to grow each year," said Studio Architecture President Jim Hasenbeck, who is in his 14th year as chairman of the event. "It's exciting to welcome new generations to this fall tradition."
The festival, which will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., features more than 50 attractions for people of all ages. Activities include:
Bungee station
Chuck wagon cooking
Face-painting
Oklahoma musicians and performers
Storytime with Governor Fallin
The Oklahoma History Center will be open and free to the public all day, while tours of the Governor's Mansion will be available from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Food vendors will be on site and families are encouraged to bring picnics to enjoy on the lawn.
Septemberfest is free and open to the public, with no registration or tickets required. For more information, click here or call (405) 557-0198.
Septemberfest was started in 1997 by Friends of the Mansion, Inc., a non-profit organization to restore and preserve the Oklahoma Governor's Mansion. The mission of Septemberfest is to provide an interactive opportunity for Oklahoma families and children to celebrate the state's past, present and future heritage and many diverse cultures.
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The other potential return tonight might overshadow Joerger, though: The Grizzlies haven't made it official, but yesterday they waived fill-in guard Toney Douglas and sent rookie guard Wade Baldwin to their developmental team in Iowa, this combination of moves suggesting that the early return of point guard Mike Conley isn't just imminent but could be immediate.
National Lampoon's Germantown Christmas light display.
J.D. Reager surveys a shaken-up Memphis sports-talk landscape in this week's Memphis Flyer cover story.
More than 65,000 traversed the Harahan Bridge in the first six weeks after its pedestrian extension opened.
Smart City Memphis says the University of Memphis is an asset we take for granted.
Bob Mehr got a rare sit-down with Al Green on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Green's ministry.
Happening in Memphis This Weekend: Fans of new jack swing-era R&B are having a good weekend, with Bobby Brown, Boyz II Men and En Vogue all in the region this weekend. That and more in this week's Go Memphis Go Out guide.
The Fadeout: Lucero has been one Memphis music's biggest success stories over the past couple of decades. If they aren't mainstream stars on the magnitude of a Timberlake or Gotti, they've shown how you can forge a real, long-standing career by steady recording and touring and building a sustaining national fan base. As a consequence, the band doesn't play many local shows anymore. But they've made a tradition of doing a hometown Christmas show, and they'll do it again Saturday night at Minglewood Hall, with garage/soul rocker Nikki Hill (who played the Levitt Shell earlier this year) opening. Doors are at 7 p.m., showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets are $23 at the door. Here's the band doing "Like Lightning" from the concerts that were documented in their double-disc "Live From Atlanta" album, a de facto career overview I'd recommend as the best place to start for anyone just coming to the band.


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Q: Enable Hardware Virtualization on HP CompaqDX2420? After installing vmware7, I tried to run a virtual machine with Mac OSX installed. When I tried to run this virtual machine I got an error message saying:
Mac OS X is not supported with software virtualization. To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Workstation supports hardware virtualization.
I'v googled and found out that my processor (Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Processor (2.93 GHz, 3 MB L2 cache, 1066 Mhz FSB)supports Hardware virtualization. Does anyone know how to enable this in order to get this virtual machine running?

A: You need to enable 64 bit mode in the BIOS of the host PC. This is generally straightforward but some vendors do not support it.

A: Use VMware version velow 7.0.0 build-203739

A: Only 2 of the 3 E7500 parts supports VT-d (Clicky), plus not all HP BIOSs or chipsets support it anyway, there have been no updates to the firmware either - I think you're out of luck sorry.


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When Azadeh Pourzand was invited by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join the "Supporting Iranian Voices" dinner on July 22, 2018, she agreed. However, not everyone in the Iranian-American community liked her decision. But Azadeh has an unshakable belief in dialogue. If you want to know, you've got to go.
Azadeh Pourzand comes from a family of human rights activists. Her father is Siamak Pourzand, an Iranian journalist and a former prisoner of conscience in Iran who took his own life under house arrest in 2011. Azadeh is an independent human rights researcher based in the United States and the Executive Director of the Siamak Pourzand Foundation, which was launched in April 2013 in memory of her late father. The foundation challenges censorship, promotes freedom of expression, and defends the rights of those who struggle to be heard.
Being an immigrant herself, giving voice to those who are often unheard und invisible is very close to Azadeh's heart. "Every time you think you transcended it, the world around you reminds you that you're always gonna be an immigrant."
Azadeh's research and writing focuses on human rights in Iran, with an emphasis on freedom of expression, rule of law, ethnic rights, and women's economic empowerment. An alumna of the Kennedy School of Government, she served as the editor-in-chief of its Women's Policy Journal and a teaching fellow at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
Azadeh Pourzand is a member of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network and the Oslo Women's Rights Initiative. Most recently, she was a panelist at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. discussing Rule of Law in Iran, as well as a panelist at the Oslo Freedom Forum where she spoke about women's rights in the Middle East.
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Several hour shad past, Lion-O had slowly awaken from a most horrid sleep. But, soon he discovered that he had awakened inside of a cage like structure. He looked all around him when he discovered Tygra, lying next to him. A whisper called out to Lion-O from behind the wall behind him. It was Cheetara's voice.
Cheetara: "Lion-O, is that you?"
Lion-O: "Cheetara! Cheetara, are you alright?"
Cheetara: "Well, I'm cold, Naked, and sitting next to a pile of rotting meats. Other than that I'm fine. And you?"
Lion-O: "Same here, and a little light headed."
There was another voice calling out to them from the other side of the hall. There Wiley Kat and Kit were calling out.
Wiley-Kat: "Guys, you alright?!!"
Cheetara looked around the little room. She began to think that this was some sort of cell or cage at least.
Cheetara: "Where are we?"
Lion-O: "Looks like a prison."
Panthro yawned awake and aware of the situation at hand, and pushed himself up from the hay pile he was sleeping on.
Panthro: "Sounds just about right to me."
A knock was heard by the ThunderCats, coming from the door way leading out of the little jail. Standing there in the door way was none other than Morconas.
Morconas: "Good, you're up. About damn time."
Lion-O: "Morconas?!! We're at the inn."
Morconas: "No Duh! Brought you all a new set of clothes, Figured you'd need them after last night. Liliotus' waiting for you in the dining room."
He then reached for the nearby lever that triggered the cage doors to retract up, opening the cell doors for the captive ThunderCats. He left the pile on the floor for the felines to sort through.
Morconas: "Be quick, it's important that you should know."
Lion-O: "Know what?"
Morconas: "You'll see."
Lion-O and the others stood from where they were, then made their way towards the pile.
After getting dressed, the ThunderCats made their way into the dining hall. There, Liliotus sat with her face looking down on a medallion. To Wiley-Kats' surprise, that medallion was completely identical to the same amulet that Milena had given him. Liliotus cleared her throat softly, and raised her head.
Liliotus: "I suppose you all want answers about the cages I had set up?"
Lion-O: "Well..., yes, that would answer my questions."
Tygra: "It'll keep me from giving you a piece of my mind."
Morconas: "Watch yourself, kid. That's all..."
Liliotus: "Morconas! It's alright. They have a right to know."
Lion-O: "Know what exactly?"
Liliotus gestured her feline guests to seat themselves.
Liliotus: "Remember, a while back, I was about to tell you about a local legend, Lion-O?"
Lion-O: "Yeah, what about it?"
Liliotus: "There are tales throughout this world, and worlds beyond about people of every race, and social status becoming one with nature. Mostly becoming beastly beings with enhanced abilities. Most cam change at will, while others can only maintain one single form. I happen to be one of those Man-Beasts that can change from one form to another, and back. So is Arcion, and Morconas. A Lycanthrope."
Lion-O: "Lycanthrope?"
Tygra: "What's that?"
Liliotus: "In other words, I am a Werewolf."
Lion-O looked to Cheetara, hoping she knew what Liliotus was talking about. Alas, she knew not of the creature Liliotus announced she was.
Lion-O: "What's a Werewolf?"
Liliotus: "A Werewolf is a person that's been given the ability to change their shape into the likeness of a wolf. They usually change during the nights of the full moon. However, the Werewolf can change at will, if they can. The Transformations can be caused by other things, like allowing your primal senses and instincts to be affected."
Cheetara: "Not to interrupt, but what has this got to do with us being inside all those cages?"
Liliotus: "The reason why you were inside those cages was because you're all werewolves now, ever since the incident a night ago."
Their eyes widened, they turned to one another, confused and shocked at the news that was delivered to them.
Cheetara: "That's the most ridiculous explanation! That's impossible!"
Lion-O: "That..., that would explain what happened to all of us last night. The way Kat behaved, the way he looked, why we felt such horrible pain. Think about it. We all suffered from these transformations. "
Tygra: "What I don't understand is, how'd we end up as these "Lycanthropes"?
Liliotus: "There are several ways to become one, however, most of them never worked. The only real way to be infected by Lycanthrope is to make direct contact with someone infected by it. Through bites, scratches, even seemingly harmless acts such as kissing, and even through intercourse. Lion-O, Kat and Kit caught it by coming into contact with a Werewolf that night. Tygra and Panthro must have caught it by being bitten by Kat. How Cheetara caught it is beyond me. Unless you'd like to fill us in?"
Cheetara's' eyes widened. Nervously, she cleared her throat and filled in how she came into contact with the disease.
Cheetara: "You said that it can spread from kisses, right?"
Liliotus: "That's right. But, who..."
Tygra: "If I had to guess..., Lion-O."
The king nodded in acceptance to the accusation. Tygra gave Lion-O a look that of disappointment and anger towards him.
Liliotus: "Well..., that explains that."
Wiley-Kat observed the amulet, he continued to notice the striking similarity between his amulet, and hers. Finally, He got the courage to step forward to Liliotus.
Wiley-Kat: "Liliotus, Can I ask you a question?"
Liliotus: "Of course. What is it?"
Wiley-Kat: "That amulet you're wearing..., what is it?"
Liliotus looked at the amulet, picked it up from the table, and began to observe it. She continued to stare at the piece of jeweler for a few more seconds, until...
Liliotus: "This amulet was given to me by a member of the most highly regarded werewolf clans in all of the mortal realm. It's called "The Order of the Wolfs' Star." They are made up of those who have been deemed worthy by the Groups' Alpha, the leader of the Order. They run much like a pack, they hunt and work together, dedicated to the kill, or their objective. Only those few, or anyone else the Alpha see worthy may run with the pack. I happen to be one of them. Why do you ask?"
The young boy reached into his shirt pulling out and revealing an identical amulet to that of Liliotus'. Liliotus gasped at the very sight of the amulet. Lion-O observed the amulet, comparing it to Liliotus'.
Lion-O: "Hey, I knew I'm stating the obvious. But, the amulets match each other. Does that mean..., He's one of them?"
Liliotus stood from her chair and walked up to Wiley-Kat. She placed her hand on his shoulders, and knelt down to make eye contact.
Liliotus: "Kat, Where did you get this?"
Wiley-Kat: "I got from Milena, when she took me in."
Liliotus stood up and made her way to the window. She stared off into the distance, over viewing the town. She knew that Milena would have the answer for giving Wiley-Kat the amulet.
Liliotus: "We're going to find out. Have your things packed, all of you. We're heading off to Milena's shop first, then we make for the wilderness. That's where the Order meets."
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Q: how to merge two select queries? I solved that query... but now I have to merge these two queries:
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FROM PanjikaranMaster, AbhidayMaster
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GROUP BY
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I changed your JOIN syntax to use the proper ANSI/ISO standard JOINs - an explicit INNER JOIN with the JOIN condition right there where it belongs (see Bad habits to kick : using old-style JOINs to learn why the "old-style" JOIN is a really bad idea and should be avoided).
I also changed your date string literals to be language- and regional settings-safe - the format is YYYYMMDD (no dashes!)


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we don't need psychologists / psychiatrists...
Posted by alexandra_k on September 5, 2021, at 1:21:38
the mental health foundation can make decisions about who is and who is not appropriately detained under the mental health act without that person having been examined by a health professional.
apparently it would 'stigmatise' people with mental illness (in problematic ways) if the 'terrorist' had have been detained under the mental health act. apparently being diagnosed with 'mental illness' means that one is to get treatment but the guy was a terrorist who should be punished but diagnosing him under the mental health act in order to punish him would mean our mental health services would be punative rather than rehabilitatory.
i think that was the general gist of the idea attributed to the mental health foundation.
who appears to be the biggeset source of stigmatisation.
is it really far fetched to suppose that refugees who have experenced violence wouldn't have some kind of trauma response to that violence?
no it is not.
post-traumatic stress disorder was the very very very very first sort of diagnosis that freud and others were working on. shell shock. war vets.
the guy was asked about what he was doing looking at all these pictures of horrible things happening to children. he was saying that there wasn't anything wrong with the pictures that he could see. that he'd seen worse. that worse had happened.
and did anybody say 'that's terrible! oh no! have you seen worse than that? that must have been terribly traumatic to / for you. hard to forget soemthign like that. hard to put those kinds of images out of your head.'
he was at risk to others. thinking about participating in doing those kinds of things to others. posting about those kinds of things being done. associating with people known to do those kinds of things.
there were religious beliefs associated with the ideology... but that was incidental.
the mental health thing...
if he had have received the help he needed then he likely never would have become a 'terrorist'.
but you know new zealand... cycles of abuse. check.
terrorising the terrorists. check.
following them around under gun surveillance. check.
his family should sue the new zealand government for failing to provide adequate care for him given that he was a refugee in this country.
particularly: The courts had ordered him to have a psych assessment and the new zealand government authorities should have ensured he was given a psych assessment.
but everybody has got an opinion. and we won't pay clinicians to do their job.
the autism support people... they were like 'we can't help you access accommodation to live independnelty. you will have to live with othes'.
and i said 'you sound very very very committted to that belief of yours'. and that means you are... well... basiclly working to ensure tha tyou are right. that your clients never have what it is that many of them say that they need.
i think it likely that baby toa (the baby whale) wasn't abandoned by it's mother or it's pod at all.
i imagine what happened was that we do what we always do in nz.
people who don't have a clue help themselves to.
they took him out of the ocean to prevent and prohibit him answering to his mother.
i'm sure the whales communicate under ground over vast distances... and babies are exploratory and playful.
i suppose his mother called and called and called...
and he couldn't hear her. or, if he could, he couldnt' get to her.
he was too busy drowning in a tiny pool of his own excrement getting infected.
because that's how much we loved him.
then we put him back when he was too sick to get way.
and he died.
and we pronounced 'natural causes' without having done an autopsy.
we pronounce people died of 'natural cuases' or 'innoculation' when we haven't done an autopsy.
people who have teh skills to have an informed opinion cannot do their jobs, here. cannot employ their skills here. will not be employed for their skills here.
because all these people who dno't have a clue must decide. on teh basis of irrelevnat things. and then cling to their conclusions totally recaltruant to any evidence to the contrary.
it is quiqte the mass delusion of the administration of new zealand.
resulting in much harm to the people of new zealand. for the supposed good of the administration.
a sort of harm to self and others that is quite non-sensicle.
because they will not listen.
and they cnanot idenitfy it when they see it / hear it. that's the worst of it. that they can't do that and delegate appropriately.
will not listen.
i mean.. what do you have to do? blow up a school?
new zealand appears to want to be the terrorist breeding ground for the world.
we don't need psychologists / psychiatrists... alexandra_k 9/5/21
Re: we don't need psychologists / psychiatrists... alexandra_k 9/5/21
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