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The Literary Programme Offering of the Reichssender [Reich Broadcasting] Hamburg
The project concerns the literary programme offerings of the Reichssender [Reich Broadcasting] Hamburg between 1933 and 1939/40 with the aim of comprehensively analysing these in the context of the literary field of Hamburg or respectively the northern German broadcasting area.
The project is based on research conducted by the "Research Centre for History of Broadcasting in Northern Germany" for the Historical Commission of the ARD, which investigated in all just over 5,000 "literary programmes" of the Reichssender Hamburg, announced in the programme guide "Die Norag" or, respectively "Funk-Wacht", which in a broad sense touched on the frame of reference of literature.
The investigation is dedicated to the development of the literary field in the media metropolis of Hamburg. The core questions are: Does radio represent a medium of modernisation? What was its role in the development of the "media worker" in the 1930's? Did it provide regional offers of identity and/or new programmes specific to the Nazis, old and/or new experiential worlds?
The revised lectures of the lecture series on the literary field in Hamburg 1933-1945 held in winter semester 2010/11 will be published with the support of the Hamburg Foundation for the Suport of Science and Culture.
Duration: 2008-2012
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Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner • Janina Fuge, M. A. • Dr. Christoph Hilgert
Historische Kommission der ARD, Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung, Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur
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#include <Library/ArmGicLib.h>

#include "ArmGicDxe.h"

#define ARM_GIC_DEFAULT_PRIORITY  0x80

extern EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_PROTOCOL gHardwareInterruptV3Protocol;
extern EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_PROTOCOL gHardwareInterrupt2V3Protocol;

STATIC UINTN mGicDistributorBase;
STATIC UINTN mGicRedistributorsBase;

/**
  Enable interrupt source Source.

  @param This     Instance pointer for this protocol
  @param Source   Hardware source of the interrupt

  @retval EFI_SUCCESS       Source interrupt enabled.
  @retval EFI_DEVICE_ERROR  Hardware could not be programmed.

**/
STATIC
EFI_STATUS
EFIAPI
GicV3EnableInterruptSource (
  IN EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_PROTOCOL    *This,
  IN HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_SOURCE          Source
  )
{
  if (Source >= mGicNumInterrupts) {
    ASSERT(FALSE);
    return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
  }

  ArmGicEnableInterrupt (mGicDistributorBase, mGicRedistributorsBase, Source);

  return EFI_SUCCESS;
}

/**
  Disable interrupt source Source.

  @param This     Instance pointer for this protocol
  @param Source   Hardware source of the interrupt

  @retval EFI_SUCCESS       Source interrupt disabled.
  @retval EFI_DEVICE_ERROR  Hardware could not be programmed.

**/
STATIC
EFI_STATUS
EFIAPI
GicV3DisableInterruptSource (
  IN EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_PROTOCOL    *This,
  IN HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_SOURCE          Source
  )
{
  if (Source >= mGicNumInterrupts) {
    ASSERT(FALSE);
    return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
  }

  ArmGicDisableInterrupt (mGicDistributorBase, mGicRedistributorsBase, Source);

  return EFI_SUCCESS;
}

/**
  Return current state of interrupt source Source.

  @param This     Instance pointer for this protocol
  @param Source   Hardware source of the interrupt
  @param InterruptState  TRUE: source enabled, FALSE: source disabled.

  @retval EFI_SUCCESS       InterruptState is valid
  @retval EFI_DEVICE_ERROR  InterruptState is not valid

**/
STATIC
EFI_STATUS
EFIAPI
GicV3GetInterruptSourceState (
  IN EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_PROTOCOL    *This,
  IN HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_SOURCE          Source,
  IN BOOLEAN                            *InterruptState
  )
{
  if (Source >= mGicNumInterrupts) {
    ASSERT(FALSE);
    return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
  }

  *InterruptState = ArmGicIsInterruptEnabled (
                      mGicDistributorBase,
                      mGicRedistributorsBase,
                      Source
                      );

  return EFI_SUCCESS;
}

/**
  Signal to the hardware that the End Of Interrupt state
  has been reached.

  @param This     Instance pointer for this protocol
  @param Source   Hardware source of the interrupt

  @retval EFI_SUCCESS       Source interrupt EOI'ed.
  @retval EFI_DEVICE_ERROR  Hardware could not be programmed.

**/
STATIC
EFI_STATUS
EFIAPI
GicV3EndOfInterrupt (
  IN EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_PROTOCOL    *This,
  IN HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_SOURCE          Source
  )
{
  if (Source >= mGicNumInterrupts) {
    ASSERT(FALSE);
    return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
  }

  ArmGicV3EndOfInterrupt (Source);
  return EFI_SUCCESS;
}

/**
  EFI_CPU_INTERRUPT_HANDLER that is called when a processor interrupt occurs.

  @param  InterruptType    Defines the type of interrupt or exception that
                           occurred on the processor. This parameter is
                           processor architecture specific.
  @param  SystemContext    A pointer to the processor context when
                           the interrupt occurred on the processor.

  @return None

**/
STATIC
VOID
EFIAPI
GicV3IrqInterruptHandler (
  IN EFI_EXCEPTION_TYPE           InterruptType,
  IN EFI_SYSTEM_CONTEXT           SystemContext
  )
{
  UINT32                      GicInterrupt;
  HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_HANDLER  InterruptHandler;

  GicInterrupt = ArmGicV3AcknowledgeInterrupt ();

  // Special Interrupts (ID1020-ID1023) have an Interrupt ID greater than the
  // number of interrupt (ie: Spurious interrupt).
  if ((GicInterrupt & ARM_GIC_ICCIAR_ACKINTID) >= mGicNumInterrupts) {
    // The special interrupt do not need to be acknowledge
    return;
  }

  InterruptHandler = gRegisteredInterruptHandlers[GicInterrupt];
  if (InterruptHandler != NULL) {
    // Call the registered interrupt handler.
    InterruptHandler (GicInterrupt, SystemContext);
  } else {
    DEBUG ((DEBUG_ERROR, "Spurious GIC interrupt: 0x%x\n", GicInterrupt));
    GicV3EndOfInterrupt (&gHardwareInterruptV3Protocol, GicInterrupt);
  }
}

// The protocol instance produced by this driver
EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_PROTOCOL gHardwareInterruptV3Protocol = {
  RegisterInterruptSource,
  GicV3EnableInterruptSource,
  GicV3DisableInterruptSource,
  GicV3GetInterruptSourceState,
  GicV3EndOfInterrupt
};

/**
  Get interrupt trigger type of an interrupt

  @param This          Instance pointer for this protocol
  @param Source        Hardware source of the interrupt.
  @param TriggerType   Returns interrupt trigger type.

  @retval EFI_SUCCESS       Source interrupt supported.
  @retval EFI_UNSUPPORTED   Source interrupt is not supported.
**/
STATIC
EFI_STATUS
EFIAPI
GicV3GetTriggerType (
  IN  EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_PROTOCOL      *This,
  IN  HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_SOURCE             Source,
  OUT EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_TRIGGER_TYPE  *TriggerType
  )
{
  UINTN                   RegAddress;
  UINTN                   Config1Bit;
  EFI_STATUS              Status;

  Status = GicGetDistributorIcfgBaseAndBit (
             Source,
             &RegAddress,
             &Config1Bit
             );

  if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
    return Status;
  }

  if ((MmioRead32 (RegAddress) & (1 << Config1Bit)) == 0) {
     *TriggerType = EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_TRIGGER_LEVEL_HIGH;
  } else {
     *TriggerType = EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_TRIGGER_EDGE_RISING;
  }

  return EFI_SUCCESS;
}

/**
  Set interrupt trigger type of an interrupt

  @param This          Instance pointer for this protocol
  @param Source        Hardware source of the interrupt.
  @param TriggerType   Interrupt trigger type.

  @retval EFI_SUCCESS       Source interrupt supported.
  @retval EFI_UNSUPPORTED   Source interrupt is not supported.
**/
STATIC
EFI_STATUS
EFIAPI
GicV3SetTriggerType (
  IN  EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_PROTOCOL      *This,
  IN  HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_SOURCE             Source,
  IN  EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_TRIGGER_TYPE  TriggerType
  )
{
  UINTN                   RegAddress;
  UINTN                   Config1Bit;
  UINT32                  Value;
  EFI_STATUS              Status;
  BOOLEAN                 SourceEnabled;

  if (   (TriggerType != EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_TRIGGER_EDGE_RISING)
      && (TriggerType != EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_TRIGGER_LEVEL_HIGH)) {
          DEBUG ((DEBUG_ERROR, "Invalid interrupt trigger type: %d\n", \
                 TriggerType));
          ASSERT (FALSE);
          return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
  }

  Status = GicGetDistributorIcfgBaseAndBit (
             Source,
             &RegAddress,
             &Config1Bit
             );

  if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
    return Status;
  }

  Status = GicV3GetInterruptSourceState (
             (EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_PROTOCOL*)This,
             Source,
             &SourceEnabled
             );

  if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
    return Status;
  }

  Value = (TriggerType == EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_TRIGGER_EDGE_RISING)
          ?  ARM_GIC_ICDICFR_EDGE_TRIGGERED
          :  ARM_GIC_ICDICFR_LEVEL_TRIGGERED;

  // Before changing the value, we must disable the interrupt,
  // otherwise GIC behavior is UNPREDICTABLE.
  if (SourceEnabled) {
    GicV3DisableInterruptSource (
      (EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_PROTOCOL*)This,
      Source
      );
  }

  MmioAndThenOr32 (
    RegAddress,
    ~(0x1 << Config1Bit),
    Value << Config1Bit
    );
  // Restore interrupt state
  if (SourceEnabled) {
    GicV3EnableInterruptSource (
      (EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT_PROTOCOL*)This,
      Source
      );
  }

  return EFI_SUCCESS;
}

EFI_HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_PROTOCOL gHardwareInterrupt2V3Protocol = {
  (HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_REGISTER)RegisterInterruptSource,
  (HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_ENABLE)GicV3EnableInterruptSource,
  (HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_DISABLE)GicV3DisableInterruptSource,
  (HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_INTERRUPT_STATE)GicV3GetInterruptSourceState,
  (HARDWARE_INTERRUPT2_END_OF_INTERRUPT)GicV3EndOfInterrupt,
  GicV3GetTriggerType,
  GicV3SetTriggerType
};

/**
  Shutdown our hardware

  DXE Core will disable interrupts and turn off the timer and disable interrupts
  after all the event handlers have run.

  @param[in]  Event   The Event that is being processed
  @param[in]  Context Event Context
**/
VOID
EFIAPI
GicV3ExitBootServicesEvent (
  IN EFI_EVENT  Event,
  IN VOID       *Context
  )
{
  UINTN    Index;

  // Acknowledge all pending interrupts
  for (Index = 0; Index < mGicNumInterrupts; Index++) {
    GicV3DisableInterruptSource (&gHardwareInterruptV3Protocol, Index);
  }

  for (Index = 0; Index < mGicNumInterrupts; Index++) {
    GicV3EndOfInterrupt (&gHardwareInterruptV3Protocol, Index);
  }

  // Disable Gic Interface
  ArmGicV3DisableInterruptInterface ();

  // Disable Gic Distributor
  ArmGicDisableDistributor (mGicDistributorBase);
}

/**
  Initialize the state information for the CPU Architectural Protocol

  @param  ImageHandle   of the loaded driver
  @param  SystemTable   Pointer to the System Table

  @retval EFI_SUCCESS           Protocol registered
  @retval EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES  Cannot allocate protocol data structure
  @retval EFI_DEVICE_ERROR      Hardware problems

**/
EFI_STATUS
GicV3DxeInitialize (
  IN EFI_HANDLE         ImageHandle,
  IN EFI_SYSTEM_TABLE   *SystemTable
  )
{
  EFI_STATUS              Status;
  UINTN                   Index;
  UINT32                  RegOffset;
  UINTN                   RegShift;
  UINT64                  CpuTarget;
  UINT64                  MpId;

  // Make sure the Interrupt Controller Protocol is not already installed in
  // the system.
  ASSERT_PROTOCOL_ALREADY_INSTALLED (NULL, &gHardwareInterruptProtocolGuid);

  mGicDistributorBase    = PcdGet64 (PcdGicDistributorBase);
  mGicRedistributorsBase = PcdGet64 (PcdGicRedistributorsBase);
  mGicNumInterrupts      = ArmGicGetMaxNumInterrupts (mGicDistributorBase);

  // We will be driving this GIC in native v3 mode, i.e., with Affinity
  // Routing enabled. So ensure that the ARE bit is set.
  if (!FeaturePcdGet (PcdArmGicV3WithV2Legacy)) {
    MmioOr32 (mGicDistributorBase + ARM_GIC_ICDDCR, ARM_GIC_ICDDCR_ARE);
  }

  for (Index = 0; Index < mGicNumInterrupts; Index++) {
    GicV3DisableInterruptSource (&gHardwareInterruptV3Protocol, Index);

    // Set Priority
    RegOffset = Index / 4;
    RegShift = (Index % 4) * 8;
    MmioAndThenOr32 (
      mGicDistributorBase + ARM_GIC_ICDIPR + (4 * RegOffset),
      ~(0xff << RegShift),
      ARM_GIC_DEFAULT_PRIORITY << RegShift
      );
  }

  // Targets the interrupts to the Primary Cpu

  if (FeaturePcdGet (PcdArmGicV3WithV2Legacy)) {
    // Only Primary CPU will run this code. We can identify our GIC CPU ID by
    // reading the GIC Distributor Target register. The 8 first
    // GICD_ITARGETSRn are banked to each connected CPU. These 8 registers
    // hold the CPU targets fields for interrupts 0-31. More Info in the GIC
    // Specification about "Interrupt Processor Targets Registers"

    // Read the first Interrupt Processor Targets Register (that corresponds
    // to the 4 first SGIs)
    CpuTarget = MmioRead32 (mGicDistributorBase + ARM_GIC_ICDIPTR);

    // The CPU target is a bit field mapping each CPU to a GIC CPU Interface.
    // This value is 0 when we run on a uniprocessor platform.
    if (CpuTarget != 0) {
      // The 8 first Interrupt Processor Targets Registers are read-only
      for (Index = 8; Index < (mGicNumInterrupts / 4); Index++) {
        MmioWrite32 (
          mGicDistributorBase + ARM_GIC_ICDIPTR + (Index * 4),
          CpuTarget
          );
      }
    }
  } else {
    MpId = ArmReadMpidr ();
    CpuTarget = MpId &
      (ARM_CORE_AFF0 | ARM_CORE_AFF1 | ARM_CORE_AFF2 | ARM_CORE_AFF3);

    if ((MmioRead32 (
           mGicDistributorBase + ARM_GIC_ICDDCR
         ) & ARM_GIC_ICDDCR_DS) != 0) {

      // If the Disable Security (DS) control bit is set, we are dealing with a
      // GIC that has only one security state. In this case, let's assume we are
      // executing in non-secure state (which is appropriate for DXE modules)
      // and that no other firmware has performed any configuration on the GIC.
      // This means we need to reconfigure all interrupts to non-secure Group 1
      // first.

      MmioWrite32 (
        mGicRedistributorsBase + ARM_GICR_CTLR_FRAME_SIZE + ARM_GIC_ICDISR,
        0xffffffff
        );

      for (Index = 32; Index < mGicNumInterrupts; Index += 32) {
        MmioWrite32 (
          mGicDistributorBase + ARM_GIC_ICDISR + Index / 8,
          0xffffffff
          );
      }
    }

    // Route the SPIs to the primary CPU. SPIs start at the INTID 32
    for (Index = 0; Index < (mGicNumInterrupts - 32); Index++) {
      MmioWrite64 (
        mGicDistributorBase + ARM_GICD_IROUTER + (Index * 8),
        CpuTarget
        );
    }
  }

  // Set binary point reg to 0x7 (no preemption)
  ArmGicV3SetBinaryPointer (0x7);

  // Set priority mask reg to 0xff to allow all priorities through
  ArmGicV3SetPriorityMask (0xff);

  // Enable gic cpu interface
  ArmGicV3EnableInterruptInterface ();

  // Enable gic distributor
  ArmGicEnableDistributor (mGicDistributorBase);

  Status = InstallAndRegisterInterruptService (
             &gHardwareInterruptV3Protocol,
             &gHardwareInterrupt2V3Protocol,
             GicV3IrqInterruptHandler,
             GicV3ExitBootServicesEvent
             );

  return Status;
}

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Archdiocesan disabilities advocate seeks a kidney
by Christine L. Bordelon
By Christine Bordelon, Clarion Herald
Janet Pesce has been an advocate for people with disabilities for a long time and is currently co-chairperson of the reorganized, 16-member Archdiocese of New Orleans Commission for Persons with Disabilities.
Pesce, a diabetic since age 10, has been a teacher – first in the school classroom, and then, after diabetic retinopathy caused eyesight failure, taught living skills at the Jewish Community Center and Lighthouse for the Blind. She's also conducted classes for the visually impaired at nursing homes.
Long-term diabetes has impacted Pesce's organs. Thirteen years ago, she required a pancreas transplant. Now, she's on kidney dialysis and on Tulane Transplant Institute's list for a kidney.
A friend suggested a novel way to find a kidney donor – placing magnetic signs on cars with the words, "Kidney needed. (504) 455-6801. Blood Type A or O." Her friend had seen a similar sign on the back of a truck saying, "Save a Life. Donate an Organ."
Pesce has printed 60 signs so far, distributing many to friends and fellow choir members at St. Philip Neri Church, where she and husband Jerry have been parishioners for 47 years. The signs have generated several donor calls.
"I guess this comes from my teaching background," she said. "I like to educate, and this would involve me and might get people interested in helping."
Can live with one kidney
The teacher in Pesce also wants the word out that being a living donor isn't as hard as it used to be and can help the more than 2,000 Louisianians waiting list for an organ transplant.
"I don't think people realize that organs like kidneys or particularly your liver can be donated, and it doesn't (negatively) affect you," Pesce said.
The process to determine if someone is an eligible donor begins with blood and urine tests that check for kidney function and signs of disease.
According to Tulane Transplant Institute's brochure "All You Need to Know About Living Kidney Donation," the average person has six to eight times the amount of kidney needed for normal kidney function. Donating a kidney won't affect normal kidney functions or create a higher risk for kidney problems. Those with the universal O blood type can donate to individuals needing a kidney of any blood type. The two, common transplant procedures include: an open nephrectomy (requiring a six-inch incision, three hours surgery, 3-5 day hospital stay, six weeks' recovery) or the minimally invasive laparoscopy nephrectomy (three small incisions in abdomen and a slightly larger incision, a two-hour surgery, 2-3 day stay, 2-6 weeks full recovery).
"The kidney is one of the few organs that you can donate before you die," said Kirsten Heintz, director of marketing and communications for LOPA, the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA), an independent, not-for-profit organ and tissue recovery agency in Louisiana. "Most organs – heart, lungs, pancreas and intestines – come from deceased donors."
Heintz said individuals can survive and thrive with just one kidney. In New Orleans, Tulane is one of three institutions that take living donations, Heintz said. The others are Ochsner and Willis-Knighton in Shreveport. While most living donors donate to people they know, some are altruistic and donate to someone they match, she said. Donors do a blood test and genetic testing to see how close a match they are, so there is less rejection, Heintz said.
Commission re-organizes
The disabilities commission, which helps persons with all disabilities, was initially established by the archdiocese many years ago to ensure that those with mobility issues could enter churches (via ramps).
Katrina rendered the commission dormant, but Pesce and other former commission members re-established the annual Mass for Persons with Disabilities, and the archdiocese revamped the commision with a vision statement and goals that include having a disabilities advocate in all Catholic parishes. Currently, there are about 15 to 20 parishes with advocates.
Pesce and commission co-chair Shirley Bertucci also speak at priest deanery meetings to recognize the needs of disabled parishioners so "people with disabilities can participate in Mass and are treated well" at a parish.
The commission meets approximately five to six times a year. Orientation for new parish advocates is available at most meetings.
The next Mass for people with disabilities is July 15 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary's Assumption, 923 Josephine St., New Orleans. The commission also will hold a Saturday workshop Nov. 10, 9 a.m.-noon, at Transfiguration of the Lord Parish, 5621 Elysian Fields Ave., for ministers interested in becoming parish advocates for the disabied.
Interested organ donors can call Elizabeth Wands, Tulane's living donor transplant coordinator, at 988-5263 or (888) 988-4344 or the nonprofit MatchingDonors.com, the nation's largest living organ donor organization at 861-6295. Persons can register to be a donor (after death) in Louisiana by saying "yes" when obtaining a driver's license, state ID or sign up at the Louisiana Donor Registry at www.donatelifela.org.
Christine Bordelon can be reached at cbordelon@clarionherald.org.

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'She's going to be really missed'
By Kaylee Tornay of the Mail Tribune
Kelli Lawson will remember her neighbor Robin Meinhart — especially her tomatoes.
From the time the women met, Meinhart would give Lawson fresh homegrown tomatoes — vibrantly colored and bursting with sweetness.
"She would just bring them over here by the bagful," Lawson said. "She was really good at gardening and told me she would teach me how to make a nice garden."
So consistent was Meinhart with her trips across the worn pavement of New Ray Road in Central Point to Lawson's home that when she didn't appear for a few days, Lawson noticed almost immediately.
"It wasn't like her to not come," she said. "It wasn't like her to just be in her house, and not come out."
It was another week before Meinhart's neighbors learned the sinister reason for her absence. The 68-year-old mother was dead, shot along with two pets by her 44-year-old son, who had owned the home they shared. Shayne Justin Cleaveland then turned the gun on himself, said the Jackson County Sheriff's Office. Their bodies were discovered Labor Day.
As the local community reacted to the horror rippling out of the neighborhood, Lawson wanted to communicate that Meinhart was more than a victim vaguely referred to in news alerts. Lawson felt that Meinhart should be remembered for what she did in life.
"She was a beautiful person who just wanted to take care of us," she said. "She's going to be really missed."
Meinhart came over immediately to ask Lawson about her Aug. 22 ultrasound for her third expected child. Meinhart said she would bring Lawson cantaloupe from her garden in the next couple of days.
Lawson described the quiet neighborhood off Beall Street as the tightest-knit community she has ever lived in.
Somehow, she said, none of the neighbors heard the shots Cleaveland fired. What they noticed were the cars lingering in the driveway while all was silent at the house for days.
Lawson last saw Cleaveland Aug. 25, a few days after she last saw Meinhart, she said. After that, she and her husband began knocking on the door daily.
Later, notices to vacate were left on the doors of two neighboring residences— the cottage where Meinhart slept and the mobile home that Cleaveland occupied.
Court records show the property had been under foreclosure since 2017. In February, a bank trust purchased the pair's home at auction, according to a record from the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.
Lawson said she and her husband read the notices — which told the occupants to vacate the property by Friday, Aug. 30 — while knocking on the door looking for Meinhart.
Those notices were one reason why a sheriff's deputy who responded to the Lawsons' first call for a welfare check Aug. 29 left without entering the residences.
"The deputy concluded at that point that it was possible the residents weren't answering intentionally because of that prospect, which we do see occasionally," said Sgt. Julie Denney, public information officer for the sheriff's office. "Every case is different."
On Labor Day, they called law enforcement again. Flies were visible in the windows, she said, and a bad smell had become noticeable.
Later, she said, "I saw them take out the bodies, and I knew that was it."
Cleaveland, who left a note after killing the rest of his household, was reserved and not particularly responsive to waves or conversation, Lawson said. Meinhart didn't often talk to her about her son, she said.
Neither Meinhart nor Cleaveland had a criminal record in Oregon beyond a basic traffic violation apiece.
"We all talk about, is there something we could have done sooner?" Lawson said. "I wish that their family and loved ones had found out sooner. I wish it wasn't drawn out as long as it was."
In addition to increasing awareness of mental health resources, Meinhart and Cleaveland's story can serve as a reminder to neighbors to look out for each other and not to be timid when calling for welfare checks, Lawson said.
"Keep an eye out," she said. "Keep an eye out for weird red flags."
Jackson County Mental Health offers confidential in-person and remote crisis help. The department staffs a 24-hour help line at 541-774-8201. Walk-in mental health services are available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the county's mental health building, 140 S. Holly St., Medford.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-TALK (8255), and the Veterans and Military Crisis Lines are at 1-800-273-8255, ext. 1. People can text the crisis line at 741-741.
Reach Mail Tribune reporter Kaylee Tornay at ktornay@rosebudmedia.com or 541-776-4497. Follow her on Twitter @ka_tornay.
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Paul Steimer (* 22. Januar 1883 in Steele; † 25. Januar 1943 in Würzburg) war ein deutscher Jurist und nationalsozialistischer Generalstaatsanwalt am  deutschen Oberlandesgericht Kattowitz, nachdem 1941 Katowice völkerrechtswidrig zur Hauptstadt des deutschen Gaus Oberschlesien während der Deutschen Besetzung Polens 1939–1945 gemacht worden war.

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Nach der Zweiten Juristischen Staatsprüfung 1914 nahm Steimer am Ersten Weltkrieg zunächst als Frontkämpfer und dann als Oberleutnant der Reserve teil. Er wurde mit dem Eisernern Kreuz II. Klasse und dem Verwundetenabzeichen ausgezeichnet. 1920 trat er in den Dienst der Staatsanwaltschaft ein und wurde 1921 zum Staatsanwaltschaftsrat in Kassel ernannt. Von 1923 bis 1933 war er bei den  Strafvollzugsanstalten in Naumburg (Saale) und Kassel als Justizrat tätig.

Am 1. Mai 1933 trat er in die NSDAP ein.

Im Juni 1933 wurde er zum Oberstaatsanwalt in Neuwied ernannt. Vorübergehend war er dann in Greifswald beschäftigt. Anschließend war er viele Jahre als Oberstaatsanwalt bei einem Sondergericht in Düsseldorf tätig. Er war dort sogar Leiter der Anklagebehörde.

Am 3. Juni 1941 wurde er zum Generalstaatsanwalt am Oberlandesgericht Kattowitz ernannt, das erst im April 1941 neu eingerichtet worden war. In einem namentlich nicht gekennzeichneten Nachruf, der in der Zeitschrift Deutsche Justiz (Herausgeber: Reichsminister der Justiz Otto Thierack) am 29. Oktober 1943 erschien, ist zu dieser letzten Tätigkeit Steimers zu lesen:

Dr. Steimer war ein anerkannter Fachmann auf dem Gebiet des Strafvollzugswesens und hat sich auch bei dem Aufbau der Staatsanwaltschaft des neugegründeten Oberlandesgerichtes Kattowitz besondere Verdienste erworben, vor allem bei der Organisation des Vollzugswesens und der Gefangenenarbeitsbetriebe in der Umstellung auf Kriegszwecke.

Es gehörten folgende sieben Haftstätten zum Vollzugswesen in Kattowitz, das Steimer organisiert hatte und in denen Gefangene Zwangsarbeit leisten mussten: Das "Polenlager Kattowitz-Eichenau" (auch: "Katowice 15"), das "Polenlager Kattowitz-Idaweiche", ein "Schweres NS-Gefängnis Kattowitz", "Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden Kattowitz", "Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden Kattowitz-'Franzosenstraße'", "Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden Kattowitz-Idaweiche", "Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden Schoppinitz". Diese und andere Haftstätten des nationalsozialistischen Staates sind im  Haftstättenverzeichnis der Stiftung "Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft" aufgeführt, das 2010 vom Bundesarchiv (Deutschland) übernommen worden ist und vom Bundesarchiv über ein datenbankgestütztes Internetverzeichnis zugänglich gemacht wird. Grundlage dieser  nationalsozialistischen Unrechtspraxis war die Polenstrafrechtsverordnung vom 4. Dezember 1941.

Am 18. Juni 1942 schlug Steimer als Generalstaatsanwalt dem kommissarischen  Reichsjustizminister Franz Schlegelberger in einem Brief mit dem Betreff "Strafvollstreckung gegen jüdische Gefangene" eine Regelung zur "Aussetzung des Verfahrens" auf Antrag des Leiters der Staatspolizei vor. Alexandra Przyrembel zufolge bedeutete "diese Regelung eine Vorwegnahme der erst ein Jahr später erlassenen 13. Verordnung zum Reichsbürgergesetz, mit der die Strafverfolgung jüdischer ‹Delinquenten› der Polizei übertragen wurde."

Neben seiner Tätigkeit als Generalstaatsanwalt für den nationalsozialistischen Staat war Steimer für die NSDAP im Rahmen des Nationalsozialistischen Rechtswahrerbundes Hans Franks im Gau Oberschlesien als Bezirksgruppenwalter der Staatsanwälte tätig.

Am 25. Januar 1943 ist er an den Folgen einer Gallenblasenoperation in Würzburg verstorben.

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 Nachruf. in: Zeitschrift Deutsche Justiz (Herausgeber: Reichsminister der Justiz Otto Thierack), Heft 35 vom 29. Oktober 1943, S. 500.
 Brief vom 18. Juni 1942 von Paul Steimer an den Reichsjustizminister Franz Schlegelberger, Bundesarchiv Berlin R 22/856.

Weblinks
 Bernward Dörner: "Heimtücke": das Gesetz als Waffe: Kontrolle, Abschreckung und Verfolgung in Deutschland 1933-1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 1998.
 Verzeichnis der KZ-ähnlichen Lager und Haftstätten sowie von Institutionen und Betrieben, in denen Zwangsarbeit geleistet wurde (ehemals Haftstättenverzeichnis der Stiftung EVZ)

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Nature versus Naturalism
Posted by Gary Herstein in General Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics, naturalism, Philosophy of Science, Process Philosophy, Whitehead
naturalism, Process Philosophy, Science, Whitehead
Nature is that which is studied by physical science. Saying as much does not answer many questions; most particularly, it tells us neither what nature nor science happen to be, only that they are connected as inquiry and thing inquired into. That being said, one can also notice that it is necessary to have some notion or concept of what it is that one is inquiring into, in order for that inquiry to have any sort of systematic or methodologically sound structure. Absent such a concept, inquiry loses any possibility of systematicity, and instead becomes nothing more than random shifting around and arbitrary clutching at straws. Such shifting and clutching will, ideally, eventuate in a more systematic concept of the topic being inquired into, at which point inquiry "moves into a new gear," and begins to become genuinely organized. Physical science has long since moved past such a phase of randomly poking things with a stick; it has long been operating with a detailed and thoroughly developed concept of nature. But while the sciences have A concept of nature, does that mean they have the best concept of nature? There are reasons to believe that the answer to this question is "no."
This brings us to the philosophical question of naturalism. Some forms of naturalism take the position that "nature is all there is," which might seem like a fairly strong metaphysical commitment until one realizes that saying, "nature is all there is," tells us nothing about what all nature is. So in order to have any cognitive content, any and all forms of naturalism – regardless of whether or not they admit the possibility of anything beyond nature – must, primarily, be a thesis about what nature is. So a form of naturalism will be the source of a concomitant concept of nature. I will state without argument that the two stand in a one-to-one relationship: if "a" form of naturalism resulted in a "family" of concepts of nature, then in reality what we would have is a family of forms of naturalism as well – one member of this latter family for each concept in the former.
With regard to the contemporary, "scientific" concept of nature, three problems in particular deserve to be singled out: the inability to deal with mind and consciousness, the mutilated notion of possibility, and the dismissal of time (and hence, experience.)
The first, mind and consciousness, has dogged modern thought since the scientific revolution in the guise of the "mind/body problem." This is a truly modern problem, as neither the Greeks nor the Medievals entertained it. It came about in its most explicit articulation from the works of Rene Descartes, in the early 17th C. (Descartes also is the man who brought algebra and geometry together with his cartesian system of coordinates that we all now learn in high school. So yeah, philosophers used to study mathematics, and vice versa.)
As with all such dualisms, the problems arise from making the differentiation in the first place. But the dualism is fixed by accepting one pole of the dualism, and then trying to collapse the other pole into it. This does not fix the problem, so much as try to strangle it. (H/t Ernst Cassirer.) Nevertheless, such has been the approach of nearly all philosophy and science for the past 400+ years. No amount of fMRI images will suffice to solve the problem, for reasons that William James already laid out over a century ago, under the pejorative label "medical materialism."
As for possibility, this is treated as a merely recondite abstraction with no basis in reality other than as a short-form for talking about concrete actualities; it has no substantive form of its own beyond such parasitic functions. As a result, when dealing with real possibilities, as one must in quantum mechanics (for example), there is no way to deal with that genuine reality except by postulating alternative, but "actual", universes to magically fill in the blanks fabricated by a theory of nature that makes no room for real possibilities. This has led to one of the single most asinine postulates ever advanced in the history of human thought – the "many worlds" thesis.
The "many worlds" twaddle holds that every physical possibility is realized in some "possible world" that is to be found in an "alternate universe." Thus, consider an electron in an excited state, in a molecule somewhere in your body. There is an envelope of probabilities that it will jump down to its normal state within a definite frame of time, emitting a photon in the process. According to the "many worlds" nonsense, ENTIRE UNIVERSES spring into existence at every infinitesimal moment within that time frame, representing the way this universe would be had the electron actually made its jump at that moment. There is, of course, absolutely no way to test such a thesis, so it fails to even qualify as an hypothesis, much less a theory. As such, it is devoid of even the abstract "possibility" (a small pun) of scientific content. Yet it is advertised as the pinnacle of scientific thought, a profound insight into the "true" nature of Nature.
It beggars the imagination that intelligent people could seriously entertain such fatuous absurdities, yet it is certainly the case that they do; Brian Greene and Stephen Hawking both insist this is how reality is. All of this idiocy could be avoided, however, if our operational form of naturalism merely took relational possibilities seriously, as genuinely real on their own account, rather than making them merely parasitic, a short-hand way of talking about concrete actualities, which alone are permitted to be part of nature by our currently operational system of naturalism.
Finally, current theories of nature require that we dismiss time as an illusion and unreal. Brian Greene has characterized time by the metaphor of a "frozen river." How it is supposed to be the case that something as manifestly and indisputably real as time is a mere illusion, an artifact of consciousness, is met pompous hand-waving, and smug declarations about how it is necessary to correct the illusions of experience with theory. No account is given about how theory is supposed to be corrected; but for the model centrists like Greene and Hawking, no such correction is ever necessary – merely a refinement of the mathematics. This stems from Minkowski's (NOT Einstein's, though he eventually adopted it) interpretation of relativity as "space-time." Rejecting time necessitates (as we saw, just above) rejecting experience, which leaves physical science completely ungrounded, floating about in empirical vacuity as little more than a more mathematically dense version of medieval speculation. (And for the record, the medievals never talked about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin; this was a modern creation used to describe their concerns.)
There are, of course, alternatives. Alfred North Whitehead not only formulated the first credible alternative to Einstein's theory of relativity, he proposed an entirely new form of naturalism, and concomitant concept of nature (which, to this day, is not taken seriously by the scientific community), as well as a renewed vision of empirical science that retains the empirical without loss to the theoretical. Whitehead's form of naturalism takes time, possibility, and experience seriously, because it treat them as real, as opposed to something to be brushed aside with clever excuse making. But that clever excuse making has now become deeply entrenched, and it is a rare scientist indeed, who will challenge it (but there are a few!)
One way to start the process of actually moving forward (rather than merely digging the hole deeper) is to refuse to accept the model of naturalism foisted upon us by the settled gate-keepers of science – secure as they are in their careers – and face up to the fact that this version naturalism is a philosophical choice, not a demonstrated scientific "fact." As the above examples hopefully suggest, the ossified, contemporary view of nature not only writes human beings out of the picture, it is frankly incoherent at its core. To reject this version of naturalism is not an attack on science, but rather a refusal to permit science to be uncritically undermined.
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He has shared his belief that present day India has a lot to learn from the Ramayana especially that our nation-building effort must be based on the strong foundation of tolerance, pluralism and inclusiveness.
Professor Ajay Sood from the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has been elected as the fellow of prestigious Royal Society.
Prof Sood is India's leading experimental physicist working in the field of Quantum Condensed Matter with focus on nanomaterials since 35 years. He is presently a faculty at the Department of Physics, IISc.
Sood and his team have designed Field Effect Transistors (FETs) using materials like carbon nanotubes, graphene, Molybdenum disulphide and black phosphorus and superconductors such as iron pnictides.
Ajay Sood and his team works on 'time-resolved pump probe spectroscopy' in which they perform Raman spectroscopy on the device, while it is working, in order to study the electron-phonon coupling process.
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Detente in Europe
The Soviet Union & The West Since 1953
Book Pages: 510 Illustrations: Published: April 1991
Author: John Van Oudenaren
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The monumental events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union must be understood, Jan Van Oudenaren argues, in the context of a process of East-West détente begun in 1953 in the aftermath of Stalin's death. Van Oudenaren's comprehensive and timely study examines the development of Soviet-Western détente from the death of Stalin to the unification of Germany.
In redefining détente as a process, rather than a code of conduct, Van Oudenaren looks to its origins in Soviet policy earlier than previously identified and analyzes both its history and character. His study explores the restoration of four-power negotiations in Germany and Austria in the mid-1950s, their subsequent breakdown in the Berlin crisis, their unexpected revival in 1990 in the form of "two plus four" talks on German unity, and the future of the Soviet Union as a European power.
Among the key elements of détente discussed are diplomacy, particularly the role of summit conferences; cooperation among parliaments, political parties, and trade unions; arms control; economic relations; and links among cultural institutions, churches, and peace movements.
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Love to sing? Want to sing? Come and join us at my Streatham choir, Sing Out Streatham!
Sing Out Streatham is a fun and friendly community choir based in Streatham and led by Xenia Davis.
We meet on Thursday evenings from 7.30-9pm at Dunraven Sixth Form, Leigham Court Road, Streatham Hill. We sing beautiful a cappella folk, gospel and world music songs in 3 and 4 part harmony, and all songs are taught by ear.
Sing Out Streatham started in January 2013 and we've grown to around 50 members.
Everyone is welcome to come and sing with us, whether your singing is limited to the shower or you belt out ballads on the London Overground. There is no need to read music, and you don't need to audition.
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When do you meet? Thursday evenings during term time, from 7.30 – 9.00pm.
Where do you meet? Dunraven Sixth Form Common Room, Leigham Court Road, Streatham Hill, SW16 2QB
How much does it cost? The first session is free! After that it's £7.50 waged/ £5.50 concessions per week. If £5.50 ever feels out of range though, come along anyway and pay what you can. Money should never be a reason for not singing!
I really want to come but I don't know if I can commit to every week. Is that ok? Come along every week, or just come once or twice a term, whatever works for you. No need to commit to every week – we get that people have busy schedules.
Does Sing Out Streatham perform? Yes we do. We usually do 1-2 performances per term. We've sung at the Southbank Centre, the British Home, at local community festivals, and we've flash mobbed Brixton Village. We also took part in Singing For Unity events in London in 2016. Performing is totally optional though, it's fun, but not everyone's cup of tea, so if you're not into performing, that's totally fine.
What kind of songs do you sing? Listen to some of the songs we've been singing recently here:
How do I join? Just come along on a Thursday evening at 7.30. We don't have auditions, and there are no limits to how many people can join per part.
Questions? Get in touch or just turn up on a Thursday night!
Hang on. Did you say you did a flash mob? Yup, we did. Here's a video of it. Enjoy.
"The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best"
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Tuesday, 3 April 2018 11:43:39 Europe/London
James Wade reached a second Euro Tour semi-final in seven days in Munich at the weekend, but it was Michael van Gerwen who again took the big prize,
Wade's confidence and belief is returning and it is showing on the oche with another terrific run at the German Darts Grand Prix.
Van Gerwen clinched a 22nd Euro Tour title with an 8-5 win over Peter Wright in the final.
But the Unicorn man showed good form all weekend. In the 2nd Round he produced a brilliant display to win an all Unicorn affair 6-4 against Jelle Klaasen after being 0-3 and 2-4 down. The highlight was a superb 150 finish to keep him in the game.
In the last 16, 'The Machine' won another all Unicorn clash beating Michael Smith 6-1 before he saw off local favourite Max Hopp 6-3 in the last eight. But in the semi-finals he ran into an inspired Wright who triumphed 7-3.
There was another quarter-final appearance for Joe Cullen, who had produced THE moment of the weekend in Munich. The Unicorn star banged in a brilliant 164 check-out to win a last leg decider against Yordi Meeuwisse. He had survived match darts and hit a 120 finish to force the deciding leg.
In the last 16, Cullen dispatched Steve West 6-0 but in the quarters Wright averaged 110 in beating the Yorkshireman 6-1.
And Keegan Brown enjoyed a great run in Germany as he reached the last eight. He had no answer to Van Gerwen, losing 6-0 but it was still a successful weekend. Brown held his nerve to beat Darren Webster in a final leg in the last 16.
Team Unicorn's Ian White got through to the last 16 but lost out to Daryl Gurney.
Michael Smith had beaten fellow Unicorn ace Chris Dobey in round two with a 106 average, hitting seven 180s.
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Travel video spurs teacher's suspension
Two high-profile incidents in Colorado that raise questions about academic freedom have a counterpart in Cortez.
Shortly before winter break, a Montezuma-Cortez High School teacher was suspended for showing a travel video in which sex reared its ugly head in more ways than one.
In response to a student's complaint, District Re-1 administrators on Dec. 18, 2005, placed Spanish teacher Allison Kercher on paid administrative leave, not even allowing her to return to the school that day to collect her belongings.
The video, shown to her class on Nov. 4, 2005, was part of the adventure travel series "Globe Trekker," shown on PBS.
The segment on southern Spain begins with a visit to the city of Ronda and a traveling exhibit from the Spanish Inquisition era that focuses on witches. Walking through the museum, narrator Christina Chang relates briskly, "Witches were women who didn't believe in Christian chastity. In fact they promoted sexual liberation with orgies, etc."
Stopping in front of a chair with a protruding phallic-shaped implement, she says, "If you were a woman who owned this particular sexual tool and you used it in secrecy, then you were either considered a witch or someone who was affected by a witch. Or maybe you weren't a witch at all and you were just a modern girl who liked to have a good time.
"So this is I think how this chair works. You sit on it, just turn the wheel like that, and it goes up and down just like that. Pretty self-explanatory. . ."
She turns a crank and the dildo moves up and down.
She moves on to describe a torture device known as the rack, then picks up a small implement and says, "This is a nipple-cutter — snipper — and this just lays across the breast like this." She holds it toward her shirt. "Just pull that nipple right through and snip, snip." She then matter-of-factly moves on to another torture device.
The segment in the torture museum lasts about 2 minutes. The remainder of the hour-long show is devoted to other aspects of southern Spain, including wind-surfing and local cuisine.
Kercher, a teacher in her second year at MCHS under a mentoring program through Western State University, said she showed a travel video every Friday afternoon to her beginning Spanish class and had shown this one to other classes. "I'd shown it last year and I showed it to all my other classes this last semester and there was no problem," she told the Free Press.
Kercher said the DVD was in the school library and had been selected by the head of her department, Danny Gerlach, chair of the department/head Spanish teacher. "He had said there might be a [questionable] part in there but he had still shown the video," Kercher said.
A freshman girl in the class was strongly offended by the torture-museum segment and told her mother, Jennifer Green of Cortez, who filled out a school complaint form Nov. 24, 2005.
"Mrs. Kercher showed my daughter and 2 other classes a very sexually explicit DVD," she wrote on the form. In answer to what specific action she was requesting, she wrote, "I want the school board to review DVD. I would like to ask for the termination of (the) teacher. Severe reprimand or termination of Dept. Head (Denny Gerlach) who gave DVD to teacher knowing its contents. Apology to my child. Compensation for damages to her."
Green told the Free Press that when she heard about the incident and later viewed the show, "I was scared for [my daughter]. I was very mad that she'd been violated that way.
"Sexual torture is just not something graphically you show children," she said. "It's just not."
Part of history
District Re-1 "Movie and Video Guidelines" state that "a parent permission slip must be obtained for any materials not rated or pertaining to a potential controversial nature."
Another district policy statement on "Teaching about Controversial/ Sensitive Issues" states, "Each teacher has the right and the obligation to teach about controversial issues. It is their responsibility to select issues for study and discussion which contribute to the attainment of course objectives…"
In a letter of response to the complaint, Kercher wrote that the video was not sexually explicit and was shown "with clear educational objectives in mind."
"This segment is but brief and didn't negate my purpose for showing this video, which was to expose my students to Spain, the cradle of Spanishspeaking civilization, and its history," she wrote.
She added that she was never informed there was a district guideline stating the need for a parental permission slip to view videos "pertaining to a potential controversial nature." She said she would follow guidelines in the future and would make sure everything she showed was either on an approved list or had a parental permission slip.
Kercher told the Free Press that she met with the girl and her parents, and they had questions about whether she would show the program again.
"I basically said that I was sorry that she was so offended by it but I wasn't sorry for showing the movie. It was a part of history."
Subsequently, Kersher was summoned to a meeting with MCHS Principal Ember Conley, Superintendent Stacy Houser, and assistant Superintendent Dave Crews.
"Basically they told me I could resign and they'd give me a good recommen- dation or I would be suspended with pay and they would report me to CDE (the Colorado Department of Education).
"That was at 10 o'clock in the morning on a Friday and I couldn't go back to school to get my stuff."
She said it occurred about a week before winter break. "I didn't even get to finish the semester. They said it was best for the kids that I wasn't there."
A few weeks later, Kersher said, she did go back to the school to talk the matter over with administrators. "I said, 'Was it because of the video?' They said, 'You keep thinking it's the video when it was your communications skills with the parents.'
"Afterwards I was thinking, if it was that, then how come no one helped me? I had asked Ember before this meeting with the parents and [the student] if she could help me prepare for it. I asked if we needed mediation. She e-mailed back that she didn't think it was necessary. I never had much support from the beginning."
Kersher said, after she was put on leave, she was also told that she "needed to stay by the phone. I said, 'What are you going to have me do?' They said, 'We thought you would substitute but then we thought that would defy the whole purpose of not being in school. Then we thought maybe you could tutor one-on-one.' I said, 'You want me to tutor when I'm not even allowed in the school?' and they said, 'Oh, good point'."
Kersher will be paid through the end of the school year. She said she remains unhappy with how the situation was handled and worries how it will affect her career. "Because they wrote 'very sexually explicit' [on the complaint] it could prevent me from getting a job in the future as a teacher or working with children," she said.
Rough treatment
Green, on the other hand, likewise is not satisfied with way things were resolved. "They fired the teacher but they never gave my daughter anything. They didn't offer her counseling, the whole school was against her, a lot of the teachers made remarks to her, they didn't protect her from any of that.
"What I'm really upset about is no one's contacted us. We got together and had a meeting with the teacher and all we asked for was an apology from the teacher. We got in there. . . and the teacher ridiculed my daughter. She was in tears when we left. She told her that she needed to grow up, she didn't see anything wrong with the video, stuff like that."
Green said if Kersher had said she'd made a mistake and wouldn't repeat it, she would have been satisfied.
"If she had gone on about it that way …. but she wasn't, she was callous, she saw no problem with it and I think that's why the school got rid of her."
The girl, a straight-A student, was sick with a stress-related illness for three months after the incident.
"It hurt her a lot. She got really sick."
Her daughter has always been a public- school student, she said, but will be going to Lighthouse Baptist Christian school next year. "She's asked us to pull her," Green said — not because of the video itself but because of her treatment after the incident.
"The video was bad, but she's a big girlt," Green said. "I think what happened to her afterwards, the way she was treated, was worse. It dragged out for a long time. People were very mean to her. There was a write-up in the school paper pretty much aimed at her.
"It's going to cost us $3,000 [in tuition] next year but when they ask, what do you do?"
But her daughter will finish the year at MCHS, she said. "The treatment has died down. She's a tough kid, it's not like she's some little wuss."
An editorial in the school's March issue of the Panther Press, by managing editor Nelsa Burkett, stated, "One teacher got in trouble this year, for showing a movie that has been shown many times to students before. . . . Another teacher talked about a controversial personal experience during class time and was escorted off campus. . . .
"For our MCHS teachers, it only seems to take one comment from a student to be removed from class. Is that fair?"
Sensitive to standards
Superintendent Houser declined to discuss the action taken against Kersher, since it is a personnel issue, but did talk in general terms about student complaints and academic freedom. "Personnel decisions aren't done in a vacuum," Houser said, but rather "made on a body of evidence and done in the students' best interest."
He said of the video: "I thought it was objectionable. If my child had been in that class, I would not want my child to have seen it."
He said it was not true that the entire travel program had been shown to students before.
"That's not exactly true — the DVD itself had been shown before, [but] the portion of it that was shown in [Kersher's] class had not been shown before."
Houser said public-school systems have to remain more in tune with popular views than higher education does.
"Universities have a much higher standard of academic freedom than public schools do," he said. "We have to be more sensitive to the predominant mores within a community, and go by community standards as to what is offensive and what is not."
He said he believes, although teachers have to follow policy, there is plenty of latitude for teaching. "I don't think we've had problems in the past with teachers complaining about not being able to teach or even to teach on controversial topics."
But Kersher said she wonders whether her suspension is part of a general climate of repression in classrooms in the state. In Aurora, Overland High School teacher Jay Bennish was suspended, then reinstated, for comparing President Bush to Hitler in class. In the town of Bennett, an elementary teacher was put on paid leave because she showed a video about opera that included a sock-puppet segment on "Faust" that featured the devil.
"I don't know what's happening in Colorado," Kersher said.


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Q: How to fix an extensive echoing while recording audio using navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia? So, I am working on a small electron desktop app that captures desktop screen and records video and audio.
When I am trying to add audio to the stream it starts echoing really badly and I am not sure why.
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*Windows 10 PRO 18362.778

*Chrome 81.0.4044.113

*Electron 8.2.3

Here is some code.
I create these constraints when I want to capture and record video only:
const constraints = {
        audio: false,
        video: {
            mandatory: {
                chromeMediaSource: 'desktop',
                chromeMediaSourceId: source.id
            }
        }
    }

Then I pass is to the stream like that:
const stream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(constraints)
It works like a charm. However when I start adding audio it gives me echo:
const constraints = {
        audio: {
            mandatory: {
                chromeMediaSource: 'desktop',
            }
        },
        video: {
            mandatory: {
                chromeMediaSource: 'desktop',
            }
        }
    }

Also, I can't just set the audio to true. It then gives me this error:

Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: Error starting screen capture

An interesting fact. When I go to Mozilla documentation page on audio constraints and use the demo button it gives me echo too. I tried doing it on Edge and the result was better, but still had echo. So can it be the audio codec?
Here it says that echoCancellation constraint is supported and on by default starting Chrome version 62.
Here is the branch on the Github where I tried to find solution, but failed.
Here is my git repo if you want to look at it more closely.
PS: this is my first post here. Let me know if I did something wrong here and can improve the post. Thank you!

A: I think the easy fix here would be to add a muted element to the playback on your page.
 // Preview the source in a video element
    videoElement.srcObject = stream
    videoElement.muted = true
    videoElement.play()

That will work in all browsers and you'll still record the audio.

A: The problem comes from attempting to initiate a single stream of your microphone audio and computer screen video at the same time. To fix this issue, you will need to create an audio stream first, then separately create a video stream that captures your computer screen, and finally, combine the streams into one.
// create audio and video constraints
const constraintsVideo = {
    audio: false,
    video: {
        mandatory: {
            chromeMediaSource: 'desktop',
            chromeMediaSourceId: source.id
        }
    }
}
const constraintsAudio = {audio: true}

// create audio and video streams separately
const audioStream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(constraintsAudio)
const videoStream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(constraintsVideo)

// combine the streams
const combinedStream = new MediaStream([...videoStream.getVideoTracks(), ...audioStream.getAudioTracks()])

After you combine the streams, you can use combinedStream as if it originated as a single stream.

A: A very late answer I know, but I was trying to understand your issue, because I'm currently dealing with echo cancelling issues via WebRTC in regards to desktop capturing and I was wondering why your initial approach (adding chromeMediaSource: 'desktop' as a mandatory constraint to video and audio) causes echo, because this is the correct usage, as described in the Electron docs. I don't think that post which is marked as the correct answer, really solves the problem. Instead the second answer is correct in this case. The problem is not related to the usage of the constraints / streams. The reason you are hearing echo is, that you are adding the captured audio to your speaker output implicitly again, by assigning it to the <video> element. This creates the echoing loop. To avoid this, the correct solution is to mute the <video> element like you did in your repo. I tried your code and recording works fine (also with the muted <video> element), when re-enabling the code section which captures video/audio at once (via the constraint mentioned above).

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Session organizers: Sebastian Thöns, Michael D. Todd, Maria Pina Limongelli.
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The King of Toy Cars Lives Right Here in Central New York
Credit: Mike Zarnock
Meet Mike Zarnock, the Jim Boeheim of Hot Wheels.
If the Syracuse University head coach is our most famous Central New Yorker in the world of basketball, then Zarnock takes the checkered flag when it comes to the realm of toy cars. The 61-year-old Deerfield resident was born in Utica. He's considered to be THE authority on Hot Wheels, the toy cars and accessories made by Mattel. He's also a Guinness World Record holder, with the largest collection of different model cars (8,128) and more than 20,000 toy cars overall.
He's written books, collector's guides and magazine articles, and regularly appears at schools, conventions, toy shows and Hot Wheels club functions all over the world.
In 2009, Zarnock was among the inaugural inductees into the Diecast Hall of Fame (now the Model Car Hall of Fame), an exclusive membership that includes comedians Tim Allen and Jay Leno, racing legends Mario Andretti and Richard Petty, and rock star Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.
You can go kick the tires of Zarnock's website, which gets a lot of...um...traffic.
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Colton Herta Wins Long Beach, Alex Palou Takes the IndyCar Championship
Season-long rival Pato O'Ward retired early, leaving Palou a comfortable path to his first career championship.
By Fred Smith
James Black / IndyCar
Alex Palou entered the 2021 IndyCar season as a winless second-year driver called up unexpectedly to Chip Ganassi Racing only because Felix Rosenqvist made a move to Arrow McLaren SP and the team had an opening. He ends the season as a three-time winner, an Indianapolis 500 runner-up, and a series champion.
It was an exceptional season, and, until last weekend, an exceptionally competitive one, too. Palou came into the season-ending west coast swing trailing Pato O'Ward by ten points in a five-way title fight between them, Josef Newgarden, Marcus Ericsson, and reigning series champion Scott Dixon. He would win while O'Ward floundered at Portland, finish runner-up while the other contenders struggled at Laguna Seca, and hold a steady fourth to clinch the championship today at Long Beach. The three-race battle was open enough that any of the group could have taken the title, but it was Palou who struck gold as the contender to do what they needed to do in all three races.
It was a less fortunate day for his chief rival, Arrow McLaren SP's Pato O'Ward. After two disappointing weekends, the Mexican rising star needed to win the day while Palou finished 11th if he wanted to walk away as a champion. Instead, he was wrecked in the hairpin on the opening lap by Ed Jones, who was attempting a dive-bomb pass for eighth but ended up crashing into O'Ward in seventh. The McLaren driver attempted to stay in the race, but the car gave out in the pit lane 20 laps later. O'Ward fell to third in the season standings after a two-win season, opening the door for Josef Newgarden to record a runner-up finish after a two-win season of his own.
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— Matt Archuleta (@indy44) September 26, 2021
Scott Dixon and Marcus Ericsson, both teammates of Palou at Chip Ganassi Racing, finished the season fourth and sixth, respectively, after combining for three wins. Surprisingly, Ericsson won one more race than Dixon.
But the star of the last two weekends in racing was not a championship contender at all. Colton Herta seemed to glide effortlessly to his second win of the season at Laguna Seca last weekend, but this weekend's fight was much more difficult. He led both practice sessions before qualifying, but a brush with the wall in his group qualifying round pool left him outside of the Fast 12 and Fast 6 sessions and starting from behind when the race began. It got worse on lap 1, when he was collected in the crash caused by Ed Jones further up in the field and actually briefly hopped a front wheel over teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay's left-rear tire. But the car was relatively undamaged, so Herta stayed in the race.
He charged to the lead within 30 laps. He spent the next 30 building an enormous 14 second lead. A caution for Oliver Askew's brief trip into the tires erased that gap, but Herta held off Newgarden at a gap of just one second in the race's closing laps. Newgarden closed within half a second with two to go, but he ran out of time. Herta took his third win of the season.
2021 was always going to be a season of decorated veterans holding off the charge from unproven young talent. As the season went on, it became clearer and clearer that the young talent was not going to stay unproven for long. At the beginning of the season, the group of Herta, O'Ward, and Palou was one driver with three wins and two more without one. Now, all three are multi-time winners. O'Ward will get a promised F1 young driver test with McLaren at the end of the year as a reward from company boss Zak Brown directly. Herta doubled his career win total and proved his place as the lead driver at a championship-level Andretti Autosport program. And Palou did more than anyone else: He recorded his first three wins, his first career pole, his first first podium finish at the Indianapolis 500, and his first career championship.
This year, the future was Herta, O'Ward, and Palou. Next year, that trio will be the present. They will take their position alongside Scott Dixon, Will Power, and Josef Newgarden as preseason favorites to win a championship. Their golden age is here already.
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Q: Traffic spikes - elastic beanstalk What is the best way to deal with traffic spikes on elastic beanstalk? In my experience this does not seem to scale quickly enough i.e. the new instances take a few minutes to get going.
Should I be doing some more calculations to optimise the scaling process?
Is there a formula for working these thing out?

A: Yeah, it takes 5-10 minutes (depending on the stack you're using; not counting Windows instances) to launch a new Beanstalk instance via CloudFormation, install and configure the environment software, add the instance to the load balanced cluster, deploy your application code, and run any of your .ebextensions. (All of which you can follow along with by watching the event log for the environment, or the log for the CloudFormation template executing in the background.)
There are a couple of ways to handle this:

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*Use larger instances that won't need to scale-out so quickly.

*Tweak your Auto Scaling triggers for your environment (via the AWS Console, web service API, or CLI tools) so that scale-up happens sooner. That way you'll have the extra capacity by the time the existing servers get maxed-out.