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Membership of the Drainage Council
Rivers and flooding
Northern Ireland Drainage Council
Stated below are the names and interests of the current members of the current term of the Drainage Council. The terms for specialist representatives were extended from 1 July 2020 to 30 April 2021. Also available from this page is information on the criteria and competencies expected for some of the posts held on the Council.
This page is currently under construction and any relevant changes will be made as soon as possible.
Mr Alan Strong
Vice Chairperson
DfI Rivers Head of Corporate Support Services - Mr Shaun Donnelly
Current Members of the Drainage Council
Interest represented
Mr Shaun Donnelly Secretary
Mr Jonathan McKee DfI Rivers Ex Officio
Mr Angus Kerr Planning Ex Officio
Mr Alan Strong Drainage Specialist
Mr Andrew Wilson Agriculture
Mr Brendan Kerr Fisheries
Cllr Siobhan Currie Fermanagh and Omagh District Council
Ald Maurice Devenney Derry and Strabane District Council
Cllr Cadogan Enright Newry, Mourne and Down District Council
Cllr Bill Keery Ards and North Down Borough Council
Cllr Dan Kelly Derry and Strabane District Council
Cllr Tim McClelland Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council
Cllr Sean McPeake Mid-Ulster District Council
Cllr John Palmer Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council
Cllr Kyle Savage Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council
Cllr Billy Webb Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council
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Q: Show that $(X+Y+Z)^n = X^n + Y^n + Z^n$ if $XY = qYX$ and $YZ = q ZY$ and $ZX = qX Z$ Let $XY = qYX$ and $YZ = q ZY$ and $ZX = qX Z$ for $q^n = 1$ a root of unity.  Does it follow that:
$$(X+Y+Z)^n = X^n + Y^n + Z^n $$
In other words, all the middle terms cancel out.  If $q^m \neq 1$ for $0 < m < n$ (that is a primtive root of unity) at least we could group into monomial terms.
$$ \sum_{a+b+c = n} \Big[ \sum q^{\dots }\Big] X^a Y^b Z^b $$
After I'm not 100% sure the middle terms all cancel out.  Since neither the left and right sides change under the map $q \mapsto q^k$ (for $k \neq 1$) the only possible invariants are constants... so these coefficients certainly do not depend on $q$ but they might be zero.
If $q=1$ the middle numberes are the multinomial coefficients:
$$ (X+Y+Z)^n = \sum_{a+b+c = n} \binom{n}{a,b,c} X^a Y^b Z^b  $$
Let $n = p$ a  prime number if it makes this easier, so that $q = e^{\frac{2\pi i }{p}}$.  If $p = 5$  we'd have something like:
$$ (X+Y+Z)^5 = X^5 + Y^5 + Z^5 $$

A: I assume that $ZX = qXZ$ should be $XZ = qZX$ instead.
Let $$\binom{n}{k}_q=\frac{\prod_{i=1}^n(1-q^i)}{\prod_{i=1}^k(1-q^i)\cdot\prod_{i=1}^{n-k}(1-q^i)}$$ denote the $q$-analog of the binomial coefficients. These satisfy the $q$-Pascal identities
$$
\binom{n}{k}_q = q^k\binom{n-1}k_q + \binom{n-1}{k-1}_q=\binom{n-1}k_q + q^{n-k}\binom{n-1}{k-1}_q\tag1
$$
which shows that $\binom{n}{k}_q$ is a polynomial in $q$, not obvious from its definition.
You can $(1)$ to prove by induction on $n$ that, whenever $X$ and $Y$ are non-commuting variables satisfying $XY=qYX$ for $q$ commuting with $X$ and $Y$, then
$$
(X+Y)^n=\sum_{k\ge0} \binom{n}k_qX^kY^{n-k}\tag2
$$
Specializing to the case when $q^n=1$, $(2)$ proves that $(X+Y)^n=X^n+Y^n$, since $\binom{n}k_q$ has a factor of $(q^n-1)$ in the numerator which is only canceled in the denominator if $k=0$ or $k=n$.
Finally, this is entended to three variables via
$$
\begin{align}
(X+Y+Z)^n = X^n+(Y+Z)^n = X^n+Y^n+Z^n,
\end{align}
$$
where the first equality follows since $X(Y+Z)=q(Y+Z)X$.

A: Just to answer the original question (with $ZX = qXZ$): the answer is "No". Here is a counterexample for $n = 3$, computed using SageMath (containing a lot of my old legacy code):
class ListOfVectors():

    # List of vectors in some given module (not necessarily a concrete
    # vector space). Certain methods, however, will require the ground
    # ring to be a field, or at least certain elements of it to be
    # invertible.
    #
    # This probably implements some functionality from
    # https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/11111 , but it does so
    # in a rather clumsy way.

    def __init__(self, basering, module, xs):
        # Create a list of vectors.
        # Syntax: ``ListOfVectors(R, M, xs)``, where
        # ``R`` is the base ring, ``M`` is the module
        # containing the vectors, and ``xs`` is the list
        # of the vectors.
        # NOTE: Make sure ``xs`` is never mutated. The
        # safe way is to use
        # ``ListOfVectors(R, M, xs.copy())``.
        self.vectors = xs
        self.basering = basering
        self.undermodule = module
        return object.__init__(self)

    def __repr__(self):
        return "List of vectors " + str(self.vectors) + " in " + str(self.basering) + "-module " + str(self.undermodule)

    def base_ring(self):
        return self.basering

    def underlying_module(self):
        return self.undermodule

    def list(self):
        return self.vectors[:]

    def show(self):
        print('List of vectors in module:')
        print self.undermodule
        print('over the base ring')
        print self.basering
        print('The vectors are:')
        for i in self.vectors: print i

    def reduction_blind(self, v):
        # Computes the reduction of a vector v modulo self, under the
        # assumption that self is in echelon form already.
        # It is assumed that the module knows division by elements of
        # the base ring and equality checking.
        w = v
        xs = self.vectors # the vectors in the list - in echelon form,
                          # with highest terms strictly decreasing.
        for t in xs:
            wcoeffs = w.monomial_coefficients()
            tcoeffs = t.monomial_coefficients().items()
            tleader = max(tcoeffs)
            if tleader[0] in w.monomial_coefficients():
                w = w - (wcoeffs[tleader[0]] / tleader[1]) * t
        return w

    @cached_method
    def echelon(self):
        # Returns an echelon form of self. This is a list of vectors
        # which spans the same submodule as self, but has its
        # sequence of highest terms strictly decreasing.
        # It is assumed that the module knows division by elements of
        # the base ring and equality checking.
        echeloned = [] # The echeloned variable contains a list of
                       # vectors already brought into echelon form.
                       # This list will grow step by step until it
                       # spans the same submodule as self.
        xs = self.vectors
        for v in xs:
            w = v
            # Now reduce v modulo echeloned:
            for t in echeloned:
                wcoeffs = w.monomial_coefficients()
                tcoeffs = t.monomial_coefficients().items()
                tleader = max(tcoeffs)
                if tleader[0] in wcoeffs:
                    w = w - (wcoeffs[tleader[0]] / tleader[1]) * t
            # Now w is the reduction of v modulo echelon.
            # If w == 0, then v was linearly dependent on echelon,
            #      and we don't have to do anything.
            # If w != 0, then we now add w to echelon.
            if w != 0:
                echeloned.append(w)
                # w might have been added to the wrong place, so
                # let us sort. I know this is not the best way;
                # if the bisect module would allow for keys, then
                # this would be easy to improve.
                echeloned.sort(key=lambda x : max(x.monomial_coefficients().keys()), reverse=True)
        res = ListOfVectors(self.basering, self.undermodule, echeloned)
        res.echelon.set_cache(res)
        return res

    def echelon2(self):
        # Another way to get an echelon form. Possibly sometimes
        # faster than echelon. It saves the result into the cache
        # of echelon.
        from bisect import insort
        echeloned = [] # The echeloned variable contains a list of
                       # pairs (i, v), with i being a monomial and v
                       # being a vector such that the highest monomial
                       # appearing in v with nonzero coefficient is i.
                       # This list will grow step by step. At every
                       # step k, the vectors v appearing in the list
                       # will be a basis of some submodule of the
                       # module spanned by self (namely, of the
                       # submodule spanned by the first k vectors of
                       # self). At the end, the vectors v appearing in
                       # the list will be a basis of the submodule
                       # spanned by self. At every step, the list will
                       # be sorted by increasing i, so the v's form a
                       # basis in row echelon form (whence the name
                       # "echelon").
        xs = self.vectors
        for v in xs:
            w = v
            # Now reduce v modulo the span of the vectors in echeloned:
            for i, t in reversed(echeloned):
                wcoeffs = w.monomial_coefficients()
                if i in wcoeffs:
                    tleader = t.monomial_coefficients()[i]
                    w = w - (wcoeffs[i] / tleader) * t
            # Now w is the reduction of v modulo the span of the
            # v's in echeloned.
            # If w == 0, then v was linearly dependent on the v's in
            #      echeloned, and we don't have to do anything.
            # If w != 0, then we now add w to echeloned.
            if w != 0:
                insort(echeloned, (max(w.monomial_coefficients().keys()), w))
        # Now forget the i's in echeloned. This is probably not very
        # efficient.
        res = ListOfVectors(self.basering, self.undermodule, [t for i, t in reversed(echeloned)])
        res.echelon.set_cache(res)
        return res

    @cached_method
    def echelon_reduced(self):
        # Returns the reduced echelon form of self. This is an
        # echelon form of self such that the highest term of
        # any of its vectors occurs in no other of its vectors.
        # It is assumed that the module knows division by elements of
        # the base ring and equality checking.
        ech = self.echelon().vectors
        k = len(ech)
        for i in range(k-1, -1, -1):
            w = ech[i]
            # Now reduce v modulo ech[i+1:]:
            for t in ech[i+1:]:
                wcoeffs = w.monomial_coefficients()
                tcoeffs = t.monomial_coefficients().items()
                tleader = max(tcoeffs)
                if tleader[0] in wcoeffs:
                    w = w - (wcoeffs[tleader[0]] / tleader[1]) * t
            ech[i] = w
        res = ListOfVectors(self.basering, self.undermodule, ech)
        res.echelon.set_cache(res)
        return res

    @cached_method
    def echelon_reducer(self):
        # Returns the matrix whose i-th row contains the coefficients
        # of the i-th vector of self.echelon() with respect to the
        # spanning set self.
        # The matrix is returned as a list of lists (the inner lists
        # being its rows).
        from itertools import izip
        echeloned = [] # The echeloned variable contains a list of
                       # pairs (v, hs). The v components are vectors
                       # already brought into echelon form. The hs
                       # component of each v contains the
                       # coefficients of v with respect to self.
                       # This list will grow step by step until its
                       # v components span the same submodule as
                       # self.
        xs = self.vectors
        zero = self.basering.zero()
        one = self.basering.one()
        for (i, v) in enumerate(xs):
            w = v
            whs = [zero] * len(self.vectors)
            whs[i] = one
            # Now reduce v modulo echelon:
            for (t, hs) in echeloned:
                wcoeffs = w.monomial_coefficients()
                tcoeffs = t.monomial_coefficients().items()
                tleader = max(tcoeffs)
                if tleader[0] in wcoeffs:
                    coeff = wcoeffs[tleader[0]] / tleader[1]
                    w = w - coeff * t
                    # Subtract coeff * hs from the vector whs:
                    whs = [whs_i - coeff * hs_i
                           for (whs_i, hs_i) in
                           izip(whs, hs)]
            # Now w is the reduction of v modulo echelon.
            # If w == 0, then v was linearly dependent on echelon,
            #      and we don't have to do anything.
            # If w != 0, then we now add w to echelon.
            if w != 0:
                echeloned.append((w, whs))
                # w might have been added to the wrong place, so
                # let us sort. I know this is not the best way;
                # if the bisect module would allow for keys, then
                # this would be easy to improve.
                echeloned.sort(key=lambda x : max(x[0].monomial_coefficients().keys()), reverse=True)
        return [e[1] for e in echeloned]

    @cached_method
    def syzygies(self):
        # Returns a dictionary whose items `i: xs` stand for the
        # syzygies of self. More specifically, `i: xs` means that
        # the `i`-th vector in self equals the linear combination
        # of the first `i-1` vectors with coefficients taken from
        # `xs`. (Note that `xs` is a length-`i-1` list.)
        from itertools import izip
        echeloned = [] # The echeloned variable contains a list of
                       # pairs (v, hs). The v components are vectors
                       # already brought into echelon form. The hs
                       # component of each v contains the
                       # coefficients of v with respect to self.
                       # This list will grow step by step until its
                       # v components span the same submodule as
                       # self.
        syzzies = {}
        xs = self.vectors
        for (i, v) in enumerate(xs):
            w = v
            whs = [self.basering.zero()] * len(self.vectors)
            whs[i] = self.basering.one()
            # Now reduce v modulo echelon:
            for (t, hs) in echeloned:
                wcoeffs = w.monomial_coefficients()
                tcoeffs = t.monomial_coefficients().items()
                tleader = max(tcoeffs)
                if tleader[0] in wcoeffs:
                    coeff = wcoeffs[tleader[0]] / tleader[1]
                    w = w - coeff * t
                    # Subtract coeff * hs from the vector whs:
                    whs = [whs_i - coeff * hs_i
                           for (whs_i, hs_i) in
                           izip(whs, hs)]
            # Now w is the reduction of v modulo echelon.
            # If w == 0, then v was linearly dependent on echelon,
            #      and we record a syzygy.
            if w == 0:
                syzzies[i] = [-s for s in whs[:i]]
            # If w != 0, then we now add w to echelon.
            else:
                echeloned.append((w, whs))
                # w might have been added to the wrong place, so
                # let us sort. I know this is not the best way;
                # if the bisect module would allow for keys, then
                # this would be easy to improve.
                echeloned.sort(key=lambda x : max(x[0].monomial_coefficients().keys()), reverse=True)
        return syzzies

    def coefficients(self, v):
        # Computes a list [a_1, a_2, ..., a_k] of coefficients
        # such that v = a_1 v_1 + a_2 v_2 + ... + a_k v_k, where
        # self == [v_1, v_2, ..., v_k].
        ech = self.echelon()
        l = len(ech.vectors)
        ring = self.basering
        blinds = ech.coefficients_blind(v)
        k = len(self.vectors)
        res = [self.basering.zero()] * k
        red = self.echelon_reducer()
        return [ring.sum((blinds[i] * red[i][j]
                         for i in range(l)))
                for j in range(k)]

    def coefficients_blind(self, v):
        # Computes a list [a_1, a_2, ..., a_k] of coefficients
        # such that v = a_1 v_1 + a_2 v_2 + ... + a_k v_k, where
        # self == [v_1, v_2, ..., v_k], under the assumption that
        # self is in echelon form, and that v is a linear
        # combination of the vectors of self.
        w = v
        coeffs = [self.basering.zero()] * len(self.vectors)
        for (i, t) in enumerate(self.vectors):
            wcoeffs = w.monomial_coefficients()
            tcoeffs = t.monomial_coefficients().items()
            tleader = max(tcoeffs)
            if tleader[0] in wcoeffs:
                coeff = wcoeffs[tleader[0]] / tleader[1]
                w = w - coeff * t
                coeffs[i] = coeff
        return coeffs

    def reduction(self, v):
        # Computes the reduction of a vector v modulo self.
        return self.echelon().reduction_blind(v)

    def contains_blind(self, v):
        # Finds out whether a vector v lies in the submodule generated
        # by self, under the assumption that self is in echelon form
        # already.
        return (self.reduction_blind(v) == 0)

    def contains(self, v):
        # Finds out whether a vector v lies in the submodule generated
        # by self.
        return (self.echelon().reduction_blind(v) == 0)

    def isbiggerthan(self, anotherlist, verbose=False):
        # Finds out whether the submodule spanned by self contains that
        # spanned by anotherlist (another list of vectors).
        xs = self.echelon()
        for y in anotherlist.list():
            if not xs.contains_blind(y):
                if verbose == True:
                    print "The offending vector is: "
                    print y
                return False
                break
        return True

    def issmallerthan(self, anotherlist, verbose=False):
        # Finds out whether the submodule spanned by self is contained
        # in that spanned by anotherlist (another list of vectors).
        return anotherlist.isbiggerthan(self, verbose=verbose)

    def isequivalentto(self, anotherlist, verbose=False):
        # Finds out whether the submodule spanned by self equals
        # that spanned by anotherlist (another list of vectors).
        # (For instance, self.isequivalentto(self.echelon()) should
        # always return True.)
        return (anotherlist.isbiggerthan(self, verbose=verbose)
                and self.isbiggerthan(anotherlist, verbose=verbose))

    def add(self, anotherlist):
        # Gives the disjoint union of self with anotherlist (another list
        # of vectors, which of course should be in the same module).
        # This union spans the sum of the respective submodules.
        us = self.vectors[:]
        us.extend(anotherlist.list())
        return ListOfVectors(self.basering, self.undermodule, us)

    def intersection_blind(self, anotherlist):
        # Gives the intersection of the span of self with the span
        # of anotherlist (another list of vectors, which of course
        # should be in the same module), as an echelonized list of
        # vectors.
        # This assumes that self and anotherlist are in echelon form
        # already.
        vs = self.vectors
        ws = anotherlist.list()
        R = self.basering
        M = self.undermodule
        n = len(vs)
        m = len(ws)
        vsws = vs + ws
        syzzies = ListOfVectors(R, M, vsws).syzygies()
        reslist = []
        for (k, syz) in syzzies.iteritems():
            # Throw the vs-part of syz away.
            k2 = k - n
            syz2 = syz[n:]
            reslist.append(ws[k2] - M.sum(syz2[i] * ws[i] for i in range(k2)))
        return ListOfVectors(R, M, reslist)

    def intersection(self, anotherlist):
        # Gives the intersection of the span of self with the span
        # of anotherlist (another list of vectors, which of course
        # should be in the same module), as an echelonized list of
        # vectors.
        return self.echelon().intersection_blind(anotherlist.echelon())

    def product(self, anotherlist):
        # Gives the list formed by pairwise products of vectors in
        # self with vectors in anotherlist.
        # This, of course, makes sense only when the underlying module is
        # an algebra.
        # This new list spans the product of the respective submodules
        # (in the sense in which, e. g., the product of ideals is
        # defined).
        us = self.vectors
        vs = anotherlist.list()
        ws = [p * q for p in us for q in vs]
        return ListOfVectors(self.basering, self.undermodule, ws)

    def commutator(self, anotherlist):
        # Gives the list formed by pairwise commutators of vectors in
        # self with vectors in anotherlist.
        # This, of course, makes sense only when the underlying module is
        # an algebra.
        # This new list spans the commutator of the respective submodules.
        us = self.vectors
        vs = anotherlist.list()
        ws = [p * q - q * p for p in us for q in vs]
        return ListOfVectors(self.basering, self.undermodule, ws)

    def power(self, n):
        # Returns the n-th power of the list with respect to the
        # above-defined product function.
        if n == 0:
            return ListOfVectors(self.basering, self.undermodule, [self.undermodule.one()])
        elif n == 1:
            return self
        else:
            m = int(n) / int(2)
            M = n - m
            return self.power(m).product(self.power(M))

    def dimension(self):
        # Gives the dimension of the submodule generated by self.
        return len(self.echelon().list())

    def image(self, f):
        # Returns the list of the images of the vectors under a morphism f.
        # The module in which they lie is the codomain of f.
        ys = [f(x) for x in self.vectors]
        return ListOfVectors(self.basering, f.codomain(), ys)

    def kernel(self, f):
        # Returns a basis of the kernel of a morphism f (restricted
        # to the span of self).
        img = self.image(f)
        syzzies = img.syzygies()
        vects = self.vectors
        R = self.basering
        M = self.undermodule
        ker = []
        for i, xs in syzzies.iteritems():
            ker.append(vects[i] - M.sum((c * vects[j] for (j, c) in enumerate(xs))))
        return ListOfVectors(R, M, ker)

def subalgcomp(A, U, n):
    # INPUT:
    # A: a graded algebra over a base ring.
    # U: a list of listsofvectors, where each vector in U[i] lies in the
    # (i+1)-th graded component of A.
    # n: an integer.
    # OUTPUT:
    # a list of listsofvectors, the i-th of which spans the (i+1)-th
    # graded component of the subalgebra of A generated by U. The list
    # has length n.
    # (As should be clear from the above description, generators in the
    # 0-th graded component are not supported. This is because there is
    # no algorithm for finding the subalgebra generated by them in the
    # general case.)
    BR = A.base_ring()
    A = [0]*n
    l = len(U)
    if l > n: l = n    # forget about the generators that are too high for us to use
    for i in range(l):
        A[i] = U[i]
    for i in range(l, n):
        A[i] = ListOfVectors(BR, A, [])
    for i in range(n):
        for j in range(1,i+1):
            if i - j < l:
                A[i] = A[i].add(A[j-1].product(U[i-j])).echelon()
    return A

def gradedideal(A, U, V, n):
    # INPUT:
    # A: a graded algebra over a base ring.
    # U: a list of listsofvectors, where each vector in U[i] lies in the
    # (i+1)-th graded component of A.
    # V: a list of listsofvectors, where each vector in V[i] lies in the
    # vector subspace of A generated by U[i].
    # n: an integer.
    # OUTPUT:
    # a list of listsofvectors, the i-th of which spans the (i+1)-th
    # graded component of the two-sided ideal generated by V inside the
    # subalgebra of A generated by U. The list has length n.
    # (As should be clear from the above description, generators in the
    # 0-th graded component are not supported. This is because there is
    # no algorithm for finding the subalgebra generated by them in the
    # general case.)
    BR = A.base_ring()
    B = subalgcomp(A, U, n)
    A = [0]*n
    l = len(V)
    if l > n: l = n    # forget about the generators that are too high for us to use
    for i in range(l):
        A[i] = V[i]
    for i in range(l, n):
        A[i] = ListOfVectors(BR, A, [])
    for i in range(n):
        for j in range(1,i+1):
            A[i] = A[i].add(B[j-1].product(A[i-j]).add(A[i-j].product(B[j-1]))).echelon()
    return A

DefaultBase = CyclotomicField()
q = CyclotomicField().gen(3) # Primitive 3rd root of unity.

def FA(N):
    # Free algebra over the cyclotomic field in `N` generators.
    return FreeAlgebra(DefaultBase, N, names='x')

def FABasis(N, n):
    # Basis of the `n`-th graded component of the free algebra
    # over the cyclotomic field in `N` generators.
    FAN = FA(N)
    gens = FAN.gens()
    import itertools
    xs = [FAN.prod(w) for w in itertools.product(*([gens] * n))]
    return ListOfVectors(DefaultBase, FAN, xs)

A = FA(3) # Free algebra on 3 generators
X, Y, Z = A.gens()

def MSIdeal(n):
    # The `i`-th graded components, for `i = 1, 2, ..., n`,
    # of the ideal of `A` generated by
    # `XY - qYX, YZ - qZY, ZX - qXZ`.
    nothing = ListOfVectors(DefaultBase, A, [])
    gs = [X * Y - q * Y * X, Y * Z - q * Z * Y, Z * X - q * X * Z]
    gslist = ListOfVectors(DefaultBase, A, gs)
    V = [(gslist if h == 1 else nothing) for h in range(n)]
    U = [FABasis(3, h+1) for h in range(n)]
    return gradedideal(A, U, V, n)

MSI3 = MSIdeal(3)

MSI3[2].contains((X+Y+Z)**3 - X**3 - Y**3 - Z**3)

The answer is "False", which signifies that $\left(X+Y+Z\right)^3 - \left(X^3 + Y^3 + Z^3\right)$ is not in the ideal generated by the relations you gave.
Alternatively, you can check this by using the multigrading on the free algebra (in which the degree of a word $w$ is $\left(\text{number of $X$'s in $w$}, \text{number of $Y$'s in $w$}, \text{number of $Z$'s in $w$}\right)$). Clearly, if $\left(X+Y+Z\right)^3 - \left(X^3 + Y^3 + Z^3\right)$ would lie in the ideal, then the multidegree-$\left(1,1,1\right)$ component $XYZ+YZX+ZXY+XZY+YXZ+ZYX$ of $\left(X+Y+Z\right)^3 - \left(X^3 + Y^3 + Z^3\right)$ would also lie in this ideal (because the ideal is homogeneous with respect to this multigrading). But an easy verification shows that this is not the case.

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Havering Compact, The Fore and Havering Council are launching the second round of the pilot grants programme for small charities and social enterprises in Havering.
Are you a great small charity or social enterprise changing the lives of the people of Havering? Have you ever felt that funding application processes for trusts and foundations favour organisations with experienced fundraisers?
The second round of the Havering Funding Programme is offering unrestricted grants of up to £15,000 to help fantastic small charities plan for the longer term and gain a stronger footing in a post-coronavirus world.
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Since the beginning of 2013 there have been 2.9 million new jobs created.
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A new job can often involve relocation to a new area and create a 'have to move' situation.
This stimulates demand to buy/sell/rent/let a home, and supply and demand affects prices.
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May Day – a much coveted long weekend, and a time for dancing, singing and fetes on the village green, but what is the price premium attached to living in such a locality?
To live in a small village across England's green and pleasant land commands a price premium of close to 24% compared to the average price of a property across England and Wales.
The presence of a village green adds on average, an additional £21,000 to the price of a village property.
Although London is heralded as one of the 'greenest' cities in the world, the premium attached to a village with a green compared to a village is equivalent to just over £125,000. Those in the South West can expect to pay close to £44,000 for the privilege of a green.
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Wisbech home values up 38% in five years!
Here's the latest trends in the UK's housing market, with a detailed focus on Wisbech PE13 & PE14.
UK house prices rose by 5.2% over 2017 according to the UK house price index, taking the average price of a home to £226,756. Within England, strongest growth was recorded in the South West (7.5%) and both the East and West Midlands (6.3%).
Inflation remained unchanged at 3% in January. The rate was expected to drop slightly from the December figure and a number of measures including food and fuel prices have begun to fall back. These were offset, however, by a rise in price for cultural goods and services.
There were 102,610 residential transactions recorded in January across the UK (on a seasonally adjusted basis). While up slightly on the end of 2017, this is on a par with the level recorded in January 2016.
The National Association of Estate Agents report a large pick up in demand in January compared to the end of last year, although levels remain 14% lower than January 2017. Over a quarter (27%) of all sales in the month were to first time buyers.
Tenant demand across much of the country edged upwards in the three months to January, while landlord instructions fell back according to the latest survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Agents are moderately positive about rental price growth over the next three months.
Average home values have continued to increase annually by 10%, double the national average of just 5% - and increased by 38% over the last five years - despite transaction levels being 8% down lower compared to the last 12 months. Detached homes continue to be the most type of home sold in the area at 53% of all home types and also show the highest growth in value annually at almost 11% over the last 12 months. Annual house price growth for other home types are 10% for semi-detached homes, 8% for terraced homes and 5.5% for flats in the Wisbech PE13 & PE14 area. The average home value in the area is now approx £180,000 with average values for detached homes now reaching £228,000. The Wisbech area is still an area of high inward migration from other areas of the country, especially at the upper end of the market from £250,000 upwards with 81% of our clients homes being sold to buyers from out of the area, predominantly to buyers from the South East and other counties surrounding the London area.
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Local home values up 10% - DOUBLE the national average!
House prices across the UK increased by 5.1% in the year to November according to the latest UK house price index.
This compares to an annual rate of growth of 5.3% a year ago.
While prices are rising fastest across the West and East Midlands, in the Wisbech PE13 & PE14 area we are experiencing DOUBLE the annual house price growth compared to the national average at 10%!
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Initially focused on logic and proof theory, the team was renamed "LIMD" in 2007, following its opening to new activities. The general topic is Mathematical Computer Science, as in the eponymous GDR IM, a CNRS research group: we develop mathematical objects and methods to address problems from computer science.
Within mathematical computer science, our main themes are Logic and Programming and Discrete Mathematics1.
Both themes have as central objects of study the notions of computation, programs, and algorithms, although considering them from various viewpoints: some of us work on the very concept of computing, others explore more algorithmic and programming questions.
Concerning proof theory and programming, our activity ranges from foundations to actual implementation of an experimental tool, PML, which is both a programming language and a proof assistant. On the foundational side, our focus is mainly on the Curry-Howard correspondence between proofs and programs, and its extensions to realisability. More generally, we work on programming languages, from their specification to their compilation. A central mathematical object in this theme is Church's λ-calculus.
This paper presents a type system for call-by-value mixin modules. It also contains the first interpretation of call-by-value mixin modules in terms of recursive definitions.
Formal topology is a constructive approach to standard topology. In a very different setting, the notion of "interaction structure" is used to formalise component-oriented programming. This paper connects these two worlds (topology and programming), defining an equivalence of categories between the spaces of formal topology with continuous functions as morphisms, and interfaces with simulations as morphisms.
This paper provides a purely combinatorial proof of strong normalisation for the simply typed λ-calculus with mutually recursive equations on types satisfying the Mendler conditions (shown by Mendler to be necessary and sufficient for strong normalisation). Mendler's proof of strong normalisation uses reducibility candidates, and is not formalisable in first order logic. So, our proof shows that the strength of the considered system is weaker than that of Peano arithmetic.
This paper is an introduction to recent work in realisability, mainly Jean-Louis Krivine's work on realising the axiom of choice. We also show how to optimise the extracted programs, distinguishing formulas with and without algorithmic contents. Indeed, some care is needed in adapting the optimisation techniques from intuitionnistic realisability to the the classical case.
PML is both a functional programming language and proof assistant, featuring a common language for types, proofs, and programs. This unification goes beyond the standard paradigms of proofs as programs and propositions as types, replacing them with programs as types and propositions and proofs.
Our research in discrete mathematics revolves around a common range of objects (images, finite or infinite words, configurations, tilings, sub-shifts), but considering different issues, from their geometric understanding to the study of dynamic systems acting on them. Combinatorics on words (substitutions, Sturmian sequences, discrete straight lines, etc) provide a central tool for this research. On the conceptual side, a central question underlying our work is that of understanding the links between local constraints, or laws, and global configurations, or dynamic processes.
We introduce the first local geometrical estimator on discrete contours proved to be asymptotically convergent. We show that it can be computed in time linear in the size of the data. We further demonstrate that it behaves in practice better than the others, even at low scale, according to various criteria (mean and maximal quadratic errors, isotropy, conservation of convexity properties, continuity).
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Hörmann UK is opening its doors for a series of events throughout 2023 to showcase its "concept to completion and beyond" solutions for the industrial market. With its recent acquisition of Fen-Bay and Transdek, Hörmann now offers a total solution for industrial customers with an ever-expanding portfolio of best-in-class products supported by nationwide, 24/7 service support.
Covering industrial doors, loading technology together with its service and maintenance support offering, the events will be held at the company's Coalville headquarters. Featuring tailor-made presentations and live demonstrations, attendees will have the chance to meet with Hörmann's product experts and discuss forthcoming projects.
Managing Director of Hörmann UK, Wolfgang Gorner, comments: "Hörmann are well known within the industrial market and are ideally placed to bring real value to any project. Not only are we a large, multi-national manufacturing business synonymous with quality products and engineering, but we also have the flexibility to work with customers to provide innovative, customised solutions. The launch of our seminar programme for 2023 enables us to create a unique opportunity for clients, specifiers, and customers to come to see for themselves the difference Hörmann can bring to a project.
"Our aim is to make each seminar as bespoke and interactive as possible, with key product demonstrations being available onsite. I would like to extend my personal invitation to come and join us to find out how Hörmann can support you from concept to completion and beyond."
Hörmann has created a micro-site which provides more information regarding the seminar programme and available dates. This is available to view by clicking THIS LINK. Bookings for the seminars can also be made online via the microsite.
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Select Board holds off on reinstating HDC advisory boards
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2022 10:33 pm
By Dean Geddes
Email: dgeddes@inkym.com
Twitter: @DGeddesIM
(Nov. 15, 2022) The Historic District Commission is still without its advisory boards. The Select Board on Wednesday voted to hold off on reinstating them after they were abrubtly disbanded this summer.
In a rare 3-2 vote, the board decided to gather more information, get more feedback from the HDC and the town's Planning & Land Use Services Department, and possibly enlist an independent agency to review that advisory board process and suggest ways to make it more efficient.
Jason Bridges, Brooke Mohr, and Dawn Holdgate voted in favor of putting off the reinstatement, with Malcolm MacNab and Matt Fee voting against.
The HDC requested the reinstatement of the Madaket Advisory Board, Tuckernuck Advisory Board, Sconset Advisory Board and Historic Structures Advisory Board in an effort to help shoulder its massive workload, which is the busiest of any architectural review board in the nation, town preservation planner Holly Backus said.
The Select Board in early September reinstated the HDC's sign advisory committee.
Land use specialist Esmeralda Martinez said there is a six-week backlog of HDC applications, which shocked Holdgate.
"That's insane," she said. "If people have to wait months to erect a fence, that's not right, that's not a proper process."
Members of the town's Planning and Land Use Services Department said that setting agendas, posting meeting dates and minutes for the advisory boards takes a significant amount of time. The advisory boards are still meeting informally and sending recommendations to the HDC, as any member of the public is able to do.
That was ultimately what Bridges cited in casting his deciding vote to hold off on reinstatement: that the advisory boards are still able to provide input to the HDC while the issue is hashed out by the Select Board, with the possibility of finding ways to make the HDC more efficient.
But Fee warned of the push and pull between speeding up the process of the HDC and losing the historic authenticity of the island.
"There's a cost," he said. "We need to make sure we don't lose our authenticity, what makes Nantucket special. There has been a slow erosion of certain things we need to get back to."
In other Select Board news Wednesdsay, the board heard from three longtime Massachusetts town administrators. Andrew Sheehan from Middleborough, Julie Jacobson from Auburn and Jeff Nutting from Franklin spoke about other forms of municipal government and the pros and cons of changes to the town charter that could be possible for the island, as well as state trends in municipal charter and bylaw changes.
In 1978, Franklin, with a population approaching 18,000, changed from a Town Meeting to a city council form of government, and Nutting said he "fell in love with it."
"In a world that has left carbon paper and fax machines behind and speeds up every day, the ability to have a Town Meeting twice a month, which is how often the council met, worked very well. We didn't have to wait nine months for a Town Meeting," he said.
Nantucket town counsel John Georgio said that changing to a town council form of government is a major process., and noted that creating a nine-person council to become the town's legislative body concentrates much political power within a small group and can create political infighting.
Two citizen articles on the 2023 Town Meeting warrant either call for the study of, or creation of a town council form of government for the island.
Select Board adopts 104-article Town Meeting warrant
Town could ask voters to fund $6.5 million annually for affordable housing
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BAT WARNING: SPOILERS
Bruce Wayne should've truly hated Gotham City. As a young man returning from Princeton, he should've voiced his hatred for the city that took away his parents, calling it a cesspool, a place of hopeless corruption. He should've flown his Travis Bickle flag and talked about a real rain coming and washing away all the scum off the streets.
If he did, Ra's al Ghul's offer to destroy Gotham would've had weight. Ghul (Liam Neeson) would've handed Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) what he'd wanted since he was a boy, since he saw his parents murdered before his eyes; and in that moment, Bruce would've discovered that what he'd always wanted wasn't what he wanted:
Ra's al Ghul: You know Gotham is dying. It's dying from the inside. It's a cancer. It's time to put it out of its misery so more good people like your parents won't die. Are you strong enough for the task?
Bruce Wayne: I... My hatred of Gotham came from the weakest part of me. I see that now. But I'm stronger now. Thanks to you.
Thus Ra's al Ghul would've trained a man to do a task for which the very training made him ill-suited. The filmmakers could've worked this into a major theme: that the desire for destruction is borne of weakness, the desire to save comes from strength. And Bruce Wayne was strong now. He was Batman.
Instead we have what we have. Bruce Wayne carries a hatred for Joe Chill, the two-bit mugger who killed his parents, but not for Gotham, the city that created Joe Chill. Ra's al Ghul's offer is the offer of a madman. It's treated as such. None of it resonates.
Carmine Falcone, we hardly knew ye
The last time we saw a cinematic Batman, in 1997, he was saddled with Robin, Batgirl, erect nipples, camp villains, and a lead actor who emanated the absurdity of playing a cape crusader. "Batman Begins" is, as the kids say, way better. It's Batman modeled on Frank Miller's dystopian vision rather than William Dozier's camp vision. It's dark and moody and realistic.
So why is it curiously unsatisfying?
I blame the relentless direction of Christopher Nolan, who pushes the story along with the same speed and tone throughout. Every scene has the same weight, the same growling intensity: dining, talking, fighting, falling, fighting again. There are no peaks and valleys. It's a flat-lined film.
There's also a problem with the villains.
We don't see Batman until an hour into the movie. The first hour is all about training to become Batman so Bruce can take on the Carmine Falcones of the world. Falcone (Tom Wilkinson), the leader of the Gotham underworld, is a nasty piece of work. He's the one who has Joe Chill killed; and he's the one who sends Bruce on his mission. He tells him:
You think because your mommy and your daddy got shot you know about the ugly side of life, but you don't. You've never tasted desperate. You're Bruce Wayne, the Prince of Gotham. You'd have to go a thousand miles to meet someone who didn't know your name. So don't come down here with your anger, trying to prove something to yourself. This is a world you'll never understand. And you always fear what you don't understand.
That's good. And it's why Bruce goes on his seven-year trek: to find those who don't know him; to understand the underworld; to face his fears. He does all of this. And he brings it all back to Gotham to face Carmine Falcone ... who is dispatched in like two minutes of screentime.
Really? That's it?
Turns out Falcone, for whom we've waited an hour, is just a pawn. The greater power lies with Dr. Jonathan Crane (Cillian Murphy), AKA the Scarecrow, who, with his magic powder and scary mask, makes Falcone mad.
But Crane, too, is a pawn. The greater power lies with ... wait for it ... Ra's al Ghul, the man who trained Bruce Wayne in the first place. The man who made him Batman.
Batman is thus a product of criminals. Joe Chill gives him the thirst for revenge, Carmine Falcone sends him on his mission, and Ra's al Ghul trains him to be Batman.
But that's not the problem with the villains. The problem with the villains is that we wait an hour for an encounter with Carmine Falcone, and, poof, he's gone. Falcone is more interesting than Ra's al Ghul, too. That speech above is brilliant. It's savvy. Ghul? He spews vaguely eastern nonsense.
"The training is nothing!" he tells Bruce Wayne ... as he trains him.
"What you really fear is inside yourself. You fear your own power."
Can I answer that one? I'm not sure about Bruce, but the last thing I fear is my own power. Probably the last thing you fear, too.
Guhl's logic, as the head of the League of Shadows, is bizarre stuff. Cities are dying so let's kill them off. He mentions three: Rome, London, Gotham. He says:
The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats, burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance.
But Rome survived. So did London. So will Gotham. Shouldn't someone have mentioned this? "Restore what balance, you self-important twit?"
Got guilt?
Most classic superheroes were created by young men in the 1940s, or by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the early 1960s, which means there's always room for improving their origins. Modern movies usually oblige. That's not an "S" on his chest but a Kryptonian family crest ("Superman: The Movie"). "A weak man knows the value of strength" ("Captain America: The First Avenger"). "I missed the part where that's my problem" ("Spider-Man").
Nolan and screenwriter David S. Goyer introduce two improvements, or complications, to the classic origin of Batman. Back in 1939, Bruce chose a bat as his symbol because "criminals are a cowardly lot"; Nolan's Bruce chooses a bat because he is a cowardly lot. As a boy he fell down an abandoned shaft and startled the bats in the caverns under Wayne Manor. It led to a lifelong phobia. As an adult we see him overcome this phobia, standing tall as CGI bats flit all around him. It's a cool scene but... Doesn't it recall, a bit much, Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy? It's bats instead of rats, but both phobias are overcome with willpower. Bruce Wayne just doesn't grill and eat his.
The second complication borrows from Spider-Man's origin, which—alley oop—borrowed from Batman's.
Batman was the first costumed hero to have a psychological motivation for fighting crime. He saw his parents killed before his eyes and is out for revenge. He wants to get the bastards. Twenty years later, Spider-Man was the second superhero to have a psychological motivation for fighting crime, but Stan Lee added a twist. When Peter Parker's Uncle Ben is killed by a burglar, Spider-Man, seeking revenge, gets the bastard, then realizes the killer is a petty crook he had the opportunity to stop days earlier. So Spider-Man fights crime less for revenge than from guilt. He's trying to cleanse himself as much as society.
Nolan borrows this idea for "Batman Begins." The Waynes leave an opera early because young Bruce is afraid of the bat-like characters on stage, and they wind up in a nasty back alleyway where the mugging/killing occurs. If Bruce hadn't been afraid, he realizes, they wouldn't have left early. If they hadn't left early, his parents would still be alive.
Except Nolan doesn't do much with this. Alfred (Michael Caine) soothes young Bruce's guilt; and as a young man, training in the ninja arts in the Himalayas, Bruce tells Ghul, "My anger outweighs my guilt." That's about the only time the word "guilt" or "guilty" is even spoken in the movie.
Batman is a character obviously associated with anger rather than guilt so I'm not sure why Nolan even introduces the concept. Besides, Nolan's notion of guilt is Catholic rather than Jewish. He thinks it can be cleansed. Stan Lee (né Stanley Lieber) knew better.
The ghost of William Dozier
So Bruce Wayne spends seven years abroad learning about the underworld and ninja arts, returns to Gotham as an avenger, creates a bat persona, and slowly, with the help of Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), the weapons developer for Wayne Enterprises, arms himself. "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" the Joker (Jack Nicholson) asked in the 1989 version. That Batman created his own. Nolan's outsources.
Some traditions are kept: Bruce still slides down the batpole to the batcave, where the batmobile still resides. The batmobile is now like a tank with big wheels, and after one of the best scenes in the movie—Batman's descent through the bats at Arkham Asylum—we get one of the worst: an extensive chase scene around Gotham. It's the kind of car chase, common to Hollywood, where the chased performs impossible stunts (literally driving over church rooftops; literally chewing the scenery) only to find several police cars right on his tail. If Gotham cops were really that good, Batman wouldn't be needed in the first place.
The entrance to the batcave is improved upon. It's now hidden by a waterfall and a chasm, which requires jet propulsion to leap over, all of which beats the flopping vehicle barrier of the '66 TV show. But surely any interested party could follow the tire tracks? Hey, they lead here. Hey, it's under Wayne Manor. Hey, maybe Batman is Bruce Wayne. No matter how gritty and realistic they try to make these guys, there's always some absurdity sticking out. The biggest absurdity being, of course, a man who wears a bat costume to fight crime.
Second-half plot? In his effort to "restore the balance," Ra's al Ghul imports Dr. Crane's crazy powder to Gotham, where minions pour it into the water supply. The plan is to use a microwave emitter, stolen from Wayne Enterprises, to evaporate the water and cause everyone to go nuts and tear each other apart. Dark and gritty but ... a bit of a William Dozier vibe, no? I can see the '60s version of the microwave emitter: silver, with knobs and an antennae, wheeled in by a middle-aged, hipster-dressed minion, while Ra's al Ghul (Roger C. Carmel) rubs his hands together and whoops it up. There's also the problem of Ghul reappearing and burning down Wayne Manor. It's poetic justice, yes, since Bruce burned down Ghul's Himalayan hideout, but Ghul handles Bruce so easily here it feels a trifle convenient. I get another Dozier vibe. Will Wayne Manor burn to the ground? Can Alfred return from his mission in time to get Bruce out from under the heavy log beam?
There's a girl. I haven't mentioned her yet. Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes), Bruce's childhood playmate, who grows into a tall, girlishly attractive, forever threatened assistant D.A. She's disappointed in young Bruce (slaps him when he talks about killing Joe Chill); she's disappointed in playboy Bruce ("It's not who you are underneath," she tells him, in the movie's most famous line, "it's what you do that defines you"); but after Batman saves her from Dr. Crane, and after he reveals his true identity to her, she shows up in the ashes of Wayne Manor and says she's never stopped thinking of him. Then she kisses him. Yay! But no. We get this exchange:
Rachel: Then I found out about your mask.
Bruce: Batman's just a symbol, Rachel.
Rachel [touches Bruce's face]: No, this is your mask. Your real face is the one that criminals now fear. The man I loved—the man who vanished—he never came back at all. But maybe he's still out there, somewhere. Maybe some day, when Gotham no longer needs Batman, I'll see him again.
What the hell? Throughout the movie she's been bitching that Bruce doesn't care about Gotham the way she cares about Gotham. Now she finds out he cares more, now she finds out that the man she loves is the true avenger of the city she loves, and she still blows him off? And I thought I had problems with women.
The above dialogue might've resonated if Bale, as Bruce, had seemed hard, cold and distant around Rachel, but his face and voice actually soften when she's around. He's constantly revealing his true face to her. She just doesn't see it. Neither does Nolan.
Good cast, though. Bale is tall, dark, good-looking, and plays intense and off-kilter well—probably because he's intense and off-kilter. Still, he's a straight man here, so, as with 1978's "Superman: The Movie" and 1989's "Batman," you surround him with talent: Freeman and Caine and Wilkinson and Murphy and Gary Oldman, wonderfully plain as Jim Gordon. That's a lot of Brits. Too many? Who isn't British in this thing? Batman is. So is Alfred, Ducard, Gordon, Crane, Falcone, Finch, Loeb, Joe Chill, Judge Faden, and Thomas and Martha Wayne. Americans are allowed Fox, Dawes, and Flass (Mark Boone Junior), this movie's Lt. Eckhardt. "Hey, we need a fat, scummy cop." "What do we have in Yanks?"
"Batman Begins" is acclaimed among fanboys, and currently has an 8.3 rating on IMDb, but to me it's mid-range stuff. We push aside interesting villains for dull ones, twiddle our thumbs during car chases, and wait for a girl who isn't worth it. Nolan misses opportunities even as he maintains a pace that's overly relentless. It beats erect nipples but it hardly makes my nipples erect.
Still, the Joker card at the end set up the sequel well. Wonder how that went?


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Ryan Lochte Cleared Of Charges – Friendly Reminder That The Media Was Wrong Again
David Hookstead Sports And Entertainment Editor
July 15, 2017 11:52 AM ET
American swimming star Ryan Lochte was cleared Friday by a Brazilian court on allegations that he filed a false police report.
Lochte and three of his teammates were held at gunpoint and robbed of their money at a gas station during the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The incident became international news when Lochte was accused of falsifying a police report and making the robbery up.
In America, pointing a gun at somebody and taking their money is considered a robbery. In Brazil, it apparently is considered a legit way to do business. It's the small cultural differences that tend to matter the most.
Police claimed Lochte and his teammates broke the gas station's bathroom and vandalized the building. These claims were quickly disproved, and the credibility of the Brazilian police was brought under a microscope.
The saga is finally over after a Brazilian court decided in a 2-1 ruling that Lochte's claims about what happened never broke Brazilian law, according to USA Today.
Lochte's lawyer Jeff Ostrow told USA Today, "We are pleased that the court has finally dismissed the criminal prosecution against Mr. Lochte, while at the same time, appropriately recognizing that he committed no crime. It has been a long year, but in the end, justice prevailed."
This saga is one of the most incredible sports and cultural stories in recent memory, not because of the actual alleged crime, but because the media wanted Lochte to be a villain so badly they ignored any and all evidence that supported him.
Who could ever forget the outstanding piece from Huffington Post titled, "Al Roker Goes In On Ryan Lochte, Becomes Internet Hero," which praised Roker for shutting down Billy Bush for simply questioning the police's narrative.
Lochte and his three teammates were robbed at gunpoint, and instead of the American media crying out for justice they instead threw the swimmers under the bus. In fact, I was essentially the only person in the media actively calling for President Obama and intervene on behalf of our American swimmers. I was even willing to leave the military option on the table if Brazil did not release the swimmers, who at one point were essentially being held as hostages until a ransom was paid.
While the rest of the media sold out as fast as they could so Lochte could metaphorically be executed in the eyes of the public for being a rich and successful white man, I was willing to die on the hill of truth and freedom.
So, congrats to all the media members out there who care more about their narrative than the truth. You have once again been exposed as nothing more than arrogant people who don't give a damn about the facts. A lesser man would rub this in their face even more, but I've got a busy day ahead of myself.
I fought the good fight for a year. I was told repeatedly that I was an idiot for defending Lochte and his "white privilege." I was constantly told I was wrong, but here we are on this fine Saturday morning. Feels like it would only be right to celebrate with an ice cold, American made beer.
I was right, Lochte was innocent and the media played themselves for complete fools. Job well done by everybody.
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