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By craigmedred on November 24, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )
A fish stomper at a Maine salmon farm/Compassion Over Killing
The state of Maine has cleared a Cooke Aquaculture salmon farm of animal abuse, according to various reports, or at least the state has decided it can't prosecute the company because its employees were stomping live fish and composting unwanted fry.
An animal rights group called Compassion Over Killing had provided the Animal Welfare Program of Maine's Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry with a videotape of employees behaving badly.
The employees "sometimes composted fish fry while they were still alive," reported Undercurrent News.
Compassion's videotape also shows Cooke employees tossing about and stomping market-size adult salmon, a practice frowned upon in the salmon business everywhere because of the risk of leaving bruises on the salmon's flesh, making filets unsightly, distasteful and unmarketable.
Once a common practice in Alaska commercial fisheries, the tossing of fish became unacceptable once production shifted from canning to fileting in the 49th state. What happened to a fish before it went into a can didn't much matter, but appearances are important in the market for filets.
Compassion's concern, however, is not with marketability.
"Our shocking video illuminates the truth of how these animals are forced to live," the organization said. "Carelessly and cruelly handled, the way fish are treated would be considered unconscionable if they were a dog or even a bird. Despite having a similar ability to feel pain as mammals and other animals, fish do not receive the same protection or consideration."
The group wanted charges levied against Cooke, the parent company of Icicle Seafoods, a well-known business in Alaska. Icicle got its start in Petersburg. It is now based in Seattle but maintains fish processing plants in Petersburg, Seward, Larsen Bay on Kodiak Island and Bristol Bay.
It was Icicle that provided the "salmon prechewed by a bear" that the New York Times erroneously claimed former President Barak Obama ate while on his global-warming tour of Alaska in 2016.
Whether Icicle/Cooke treats the wild fish it catches and kills any better than the farmed fish it raises and kills in an unknown.
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What fish do and don't feel is greatly debated.
A team of German neurobiologists, behavioral ecologists and fishery scientists who studied the issue early in the decade concluded that fish lack the "neuro-physiological capacity for a conscious awareness of pain," Science Direct reported.
Fish certainly respond to stimuli, but the Germans argued they lack the ability to translate that into pain.
"Injuries stimulate what is known as nociceptors," as Science described it. "These receptors send electrical signals through nerve-lines and the spinal cord to the cerebral cortex (neocortex). With full awareness, this is where they are processed into a sensation of pain.
"However, even severe injuries do not necessarily have to result in an experience of pain. As an emotional state, pain can…be intensified through engendering fear, and it can also be mentally constructed without any tissue damage. Conversely, any stimulation of the nociceptors can be unconsciously processed without the organism having an experience of pain. This principle is used in cases such as anesthesia.
"It is for this reason that pain research distinguishes between a conscious awareness of pain and an unconscious processing of impulses through nociception, the latter of which can also lead to complex hormonal reactions, behavioral responses as well as to learning avoidance reactions."
There are, of course, those who argue otherwise and would contend the world would be appalled if Alaska salmon dipnetters on the beaches at the mouth of the Kenai River spent their July days beating dogs to death instead of salmon.
Hug a fish
"It is impossible to definitively know whether another creature's subjective experience is like our own," Ferris Jabr of Hakai Magazine wrote in a story the Smithsonian last year headlined "It's Official: Fish Feel Pain."
But Jabr argued it's irrelevant whether humans can document a fish's feelings.
"We do not know whether cats, dogs, lab animals, chickens, and cattle feel pain the way we do," he wrote, "yet we still afford them increasingly humane treatment and legal protections because they have demonstrated an ability to suffer.
"In the past 15 years, (Penn State University biologist Victoria) Braithwaite and other fish biologists around the world have produced substantial evidence that, just like mammals and birds, fish also experience conscious pain.
'More and more people are willing to accept the facts," he quoted Braithwaite saying. "Fish do feel pain. It's likely different from what humans feel, but it is still a kind of pain."
Whether "a kind of pain" is anything like what humans feel would seem to be the difference between an ache and a pain.
Jabr, however, claimed evidence of a new scientific consensus on the subject of fish pain pointing to 2013 American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) "guidelines for the euthanasia of animals, which included the following statements: 'Suggestions that finfish responses to pain merely represent simple reflexes have been refuted….the preponderance of accumulated evidence supports the position that finfish should be accorded the same considerations as terrestrial vertebrates in regard to relief from pain."
The AVMA is an organization in the business of selling euthanasia services. It is unlikely to suggest people get rid of their tropical fish by flushing them down the toilet simply because that would be bad business.
"Yet this scientific consensus has not permeated public perception," Jabr continued. "Google 'do fish feel pain' and you plunge yourself into a morass of conflicting messages. They don't, says one headline. They do, says another. Other sources claim there's a convoluted debate raging between scientists. In truth, that level of ambiguity and disagreement no longer exists in the scientific community. In 2016, University of Queensland professor Brian Key published an article titled "Why fish do not feel pain" in Animal Sentience: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling. So far, Key's article has provoked more than 40 responses from scientists around the world, almost all of whom reject his conclusions."
Jabr's references to "responses" appears to refer to other studies and articles linked at the bottom of Key's abstract. Those are a mixed bag of science, philosophy and feelings.
"I argue that Key makes a number of conceptual, philosophical, and empirical errors that undermine his claim," Robert C. Jones, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, argues in one.
Jones' view is that the "precautionary principle" should apply, ie. people should presume fish feel pain just like we do barring proof that they don't.
How exactly one would determine this is unclear. Unlike dogs, which whimper and cry when beaten, fish make no sound. Jabr dismissed this as irrelevant.
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"The thrust of (the) argument…that fish lack brains complex enough to generate a subjective experience of pain…that fish do not have the kind of large, dense, undulating cerebral cortices that humans, primates, and certain other mammals possess. The cortex, which envelops the rest of the brain like bark, is thought to be crucial for sensory perceptions and consciousness," Jabr wrote.
"(But) the notion that fish do not have the cerebral complexity to feel pain is decidedly antiquated. Scientists agree that most, if not all, vertebrates (as well as some invertebrates) are conscious and that a cerebral cortex as swollen as our own is not a prerequisite for a subjective experience of the world. The planet contains a multitude of brains, dense and spongy, globular and elongated, as small as poppy seeds and as large as watermelons; different animal lineages have independently conjured similar mental abilities from very different neural machines. A mind does not have to be human to suffer."
Authorities in Maine appear to have decided in the end that this great philosophical argument doesn't matter to whatever was going on at Cooke because it was outside their regulatory purview given that Maine has no regulations governing the treatment of fish.
Maine lacks formal protocol for identifying or disseminating best management practices," Seafood Source reported. Animal Welfare Division Director Liam Hughes told the website that he used Global Aquaculture Association's Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) program standards to assess Cooke's operation and expressed concern that hatchery facilities have not been designated for regulation to any branch of the Maine government."
"The Department of Agriculture informed us on 8 November that they had closed the complaint, as we had made every effort to improve the standards of the facility," CookeVice President of Public Relations Joel Richardson told the Source. "At this time, we are working with BAP to verify all corrective actions are in compliance with the BAP standards. We feel we have done what we needed to do with the state and are now working with our certification body."
A relative newcomer on the animal rights front, Compassion says it has been "working to end animal abuse since 1995; COK exposes cruelty to farmed animals and promotes vegan eating. Our mission is to build a kinder world for all animals."
On its website, it brags that its "groundbreaking work has been featured in: ABC News, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The New York Times (and) CNN."
It is currently in the middle of a campaign to get iHop to add vegan pancakes to its menu and has convinced 14,916 people (as of this writing) to join a campaign to lobby food guru "Martha Stewart: Cut ties with cruel salmon and make a splash with vegan seafood!"
"True North Seafoods," a Cooke company, has partnered with Stewart on her line of allegedly abused seafood.
A self-described "undercover investigator for Compassion Over Killing" writes that "during my time at the hatchery, I witnessed workers throwing improperly anesthetized fish across great distances. Sometimes they were thrown into another tank; other times, into waterless buckets, where they were left to either be crushed by others or suffocate to death. Imagine the horror if this violence were committed against any other animal, like a dog, cat, or chicken!
"At Cooke, it was like a game to the workers as they attempted 'trick shots' and blocked each other's tosses.
"I also frequently saw hatchery employees stomping on fish's heads and slamming them against the ground multiple times in failed efforts to kill them. Often, they were left on the ground, still conscious and writhing in pain."
The undercover operative, who identified as "Pat," wrote that "fish are intelligent, sensitive animals who feel pain, stress, and fear just like other animals. Recently, researchers have found that they use tools and can recognize themselves in mirrors. Fish pain receptors are remarkably close to our own–likely from a shared common ancestor. Fish scientist Becca Franks says it best: 'The science on fish sentience is clear: fish have the capacity to suffer and feel pain.' Yet they are denied even very basic protections afforded to other animals."
Franks, according to the Campbell Center for Animal Welfare, is "a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at New York University" with a PhD in social psychology from Columbia University who earned a doctorate at "Killiam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the Animal Welfare Program at The University of British Columbia (where) her research…addressed issues at the intersection of animal welfare, motivation and personality."
Franks believes that not enough has been done to investigate the "positive welfare" of fish.
"A life without positive experiences is not merely a neutral life, it's a bad life," she argued during a lecture. "It actually is bad if we don't have positive experiences….animals want to engage in the world, and that is important to them as well."
What "is important" to animals other than humans is impossible to know. All science can conclude is that most animals (suicidal humans being among the few exceptions) want to survive because they are hardwired to do so.
This is an evolutionary dictate. Animals lacking a desire to survive would be destined to become quickly extinct. Thus all animals want to survive. Rats want to survive. Mosquitoes want to survive. Even viruses want to strive.
But it's a big leap from there to the idea that any animals want to "engage in the world."
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If you've ever caught a salmon that has survived an attack by an eagle or a seal you will quickly understand that they do not feel pain the way we do. When their flesh has been laid open for over half of their body length and they continue to swim, there is no doubt. When half of their guts are outside of their body because of their wounds and they swim on their is no doubt they do not feel pain the way we do, human would be dead just from the shock to their system.
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John McPhee, in his 1970s Alaska-book Coming into the Country, relates a wildlife behavior incident that took place out on the frozen Yukon river, in front of downtown Eagle, with many witnesses. Mostly-frozen.
There's a pronounced little mountain just north of town, hard against the river and sharply changing its course. The boiling turbulence often keeps a spot of open water there.
One day, folks noticed a group of 12-14 caribou loitering up on the little mountain, which was odd. Then they picked their way down the slope, walked alongside the downtown area to the river. 'That was weird … but you ain't seen nothing yet'.
The deer single-filed out onto the ice, changed course slightly for the small open patch of swift-moving water … and jumped in, one by one, each being promptly swept under the ice, in turn. In full view of all the other caribou, and half of the astonished town of Eagle.
McPhee goes out of character and looks into the camera. 'How sure are you about that old saw that animals don't commit suicide'?
Steve Stine says:
Looks like animal rights activists have also been active this month in Alberta, Canada at large commercial sled dog lots as well…
The animal agricultural industry is gonna have its hands full of lawsuits in the years to come…not too mention "disruption" and video uploads of the toxic environment many animals are forced to endure to benefit the needs and mouths of "Man".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D68yLp6ebqU
agimarc says:
Makes you wonder how many of those guys are pro-life in the abortion wars. Cheers –
Agi, they wouldn't bat an eye. Now stepping on a fish, oh my…as Steve S. says, let the lawsuits begin.
People are insane and should be treated as such.
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Narin Idriz
This article belongs to the debate » The Informalisation of the EU's External Action in the Field of Migration and Asylum
A 'Complete' System of Legal Remedies?
The EU-Turkey Deal as a Litmus Test
The basics of judicial protection in the EU legal order are clear and well established since the early days. Neither the Member States nor the EU can escape the review of legality of measures they have adopted, since the EU is based on the rule of law. To that effect, the Treaties provide for what the Court of Justice calls a 'complete system of legal remedies' (Les Verts).
However, in practice, Member States and the EU increasingly rely on informal instruments for cooperation with third countries, especially in the area of migration control, with important implications for the rule of law. The choice for informality becomes particularly problematic when it affects the legal situation of irregular migrants, including refugees because it makes it very difficult for them to challenge these instruments in front of EU courts. This blog post explores the effects of EU's recourse to informality on the judicial protection of the rights of irregular migrants by using the EU-Turkey Statement as an example. The Statement, also known as the EU-Turkey 'deal', raises serious doubts as to whether the EU legal order indeed provides for the promised 'complete' system of legal remedies.
Challenging the EU-Turkey Statement in front of the European Court of Justice
The adoption of the EU-Turkey Statement affected the lives of many who crossed the Aegean from Turkey to the Greek islands. According to the very first point of the deal, all irregular migrants who made the crossing as soon as after two days the Statement appeared on the website of the European Council (20 March 2016) were to be returned to Turkey. To implement the deal, Greece passed Law No. 4375 for the re-organization of its asylum system and the establishment of a fast-track border procedure to apply to the Eastern Aegean islands. The latter entailed 'an extremely truncated procedure with fewer guarantees'. The execution of the crux of the deal depended on the controversial assumption that Turkey was a Safe Third Country (STC) in accordance with Art. 38 of the Asylum Procedures Directive.
There are two main procedures available to individuals affected by the deal for challenging its application under EU law. The first is the annulment procedure (Art. 263 TFEU) that can be brought directly in front of the CJEU, and the second one is the preliminary ruling procedure (Art. 267 TFEU), which enables national courts of the Member States to refer questions concerning the legality and interpretation of Union acts to the CJEU. National courts need to make these references when they doubt the legality of Union measures, as they can declare them valid, but not invalid (Foto Frost).
The Annulment Procedure
The annulment procedure was already used by Afghan and Pakistani nationals affected by the deal (NF, NG, NM) to bring cases in front of the General Court (GC). They argued the Statement was an act of the European Council that established an international agreement and should be annulled. The Court rejected that argument ruling that the Statement was not an act of an EU institution, but one of the Member States of the EU acting as Heads of State or Government. Hence, it had no jurisdiction to rule on the cases. However, even if the Court were to find the Statement to be an act concluded by an EU institution, the admissibility requirements of the Court under the annulment procedure are notoriously strict. The requirements of 'direct and individual concern' for applicants who wish to challenge an EU act as defined by the Plaumann case still stand and make it extremely difficult for individuals to mount a successful challenge.
The GC's reasoning and conclusion in these cases have been widely criticized (see here, here and here), mainly based on the argument that Member States had no competence to conclude the deal on their own, as many issues covered by the deal were within the exclusive competence of the EU. The hope that the appeal to the CJEU would bring clarity on the issue did not materialize as the Court dismissed the appeal as manifestly inadmissible for being incoherent and not specifying the points where the GC erred in law. It has been argued that since the CJEU did not yet rule on the matter, a national court could still refer questions for preliminary reference regarding different aspects of the deal. In other words, the second one of the legal remedies available to individuals under EU law has not been exploited yet.
The Preliminary Reference Procedure
However, t is no coincidence that there has not been a preliminary reference on the issue so far. While theoretically, such a possibility exists, an analysis of the cases brought before the Greek Appeals Committees and the Greek Council of State in the context of the application of the EU-Turkey deal, sheds light on why that has not been the case. The main issue around which the appeals revolved was whether Turkey was a STC in line with Art. 38 of the Asylum Procedures Directive for the individual concerned. The issue of Turkey being a STC was not addressed in the deal itself. Similarly, the fast-track border procedure (Art. 60(4) Law No. 4375), which was introduced for the effective implementation of the deal, is not to be found in the deal. That procedure, which was introduced by Law No. 4375, transposes various provisions of the Asylum Procedures Directive into Greek national law.
Both of these elements (Turkey as a STC and the fast-track border procedure) were challenged in the case that reached the Greek Council of State. The Council of State confirmed the finding of the Appeals Committee that the applicant's claim was dismissed as inadmissible on the basis of the STC concept and not on the basis of the deal (para. 44). It found it unnecessary to refer a preliminary question on the interpretation of the STC concept and found the diplomatic assurances provided by Turkey (and by the European Commission) to be sufficient to declare Turkey a STC. It also confirmed the legality of the fast-track border procedure as it was an implementation of the provisions of the Asylum Procedures Directive, which provided for the possibility of introducing such an accelerated procedure in 'mass influx' situations. In other words, since the source of the tools to implement the deal are to be found in EU law, which was transposed into national law by Law No. 4375, challenging the implementation of the deal in essence means challenging these tools/concepts that derive from EU law. It seems very difficult to challenge the legality of the deal itself, which is the source or the trigger for the adoption of Law No. 4375. When coupled with other obstacles, such as detention, lack of legal aid, and lack of information on their status, taking legal action to challenge the deal comes close to being 'mission impossible'.
This is not to say that it is overall impossible to challenge the EU-Turkey deal. The CJEU would have looked into whether the deal was an agreement in disguise if the annulment case had been brought by a privileged applicant such as the European Parliament (EP). The fact that EP brought no action in front of the Court, despite being sidelined during the process leading to the adoption of the deal, shows how politically charged and sensitive the issue is. In the same vein, the possibility to bring infringement proceedings (Art. 258 TFEU) was not even considered by the Commission, as it was also involved both in the process leading to the deal and in its aftermath in monitoring of its implementation. This demonstrates how difficult it is for individuals to access courts and successfully challenge informal deals when Union institutions and Member States collude to shield their actions from judicial review. In those cases, the mantra of the 'complete system of legal remedies and procedures' rings hollow, and fundamental rights appear to be more 'fundamental' for some than for others.
SUGGESTED CITATION Idriz, Narin: A 'Complete' System of Legal Remedies?: The EU-Turkey Deal as a Litmus Test, VerfBlog, 2020/9/30, https://verfassungsblog.de/a-complete-system-of-legal-remedies/, DOI: 10.17176/20200930-100438-0.
EU-Turkey Deal, informalisation, legal remedy, refugees
Narin Idriz Dr. Narin Idriz/ Tezcan is a researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute within the strand "Human Dignity and Human Security in International and European Law" in The Hague.

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Q: Installing PHP_codesniffer with Pear and MAMP Pro on OSX I've tried all kinds of fixes to get php_codesniffer working with OSX and Pear and am having no luck. The installation works, the scripts are there, but when I run, for example, phpcs -h, nothing happens.
I am doing the following to install and try to run:
chris@DEATHSTAR:~$ pear clear-cache
reading directory /var/folders/r5/3s2lsmc10zj07nw56xbx1k1m0000gn/T//pear/cache
14 cache entries cleared
chris@DEATHSTAR:~$ pear install php_codesniffer
Unknown remote channel: pear.phpunit.de
Did not download optional dependencies: channel://pear.phpunit.de/PHP_Timer, use --alldeps to download automatically
pear/PHP_CodeSniffer can optionally use package "channel://pear.phpunit.de/PHP_Timer"
downloading PHP_CodeSniffer-1.4.6.tgz ...
Starting to download PHP_CodeSniffer-1.4.6.tgz (402,882 bytes)
.................................................................................done: 402,882 bytes
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/PHP_CodeSniffer-1.4.6
chris@DEATHSTAR:~$ which phpcs
/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin/phpcs
chris@DEATHSTAR:~$ phpcs -h
chris@DEATHSTAR:~$

The PHP directory is correct in Pear config:
chris@DEATHSTAR:~/.vim$ pear config-show | grep php_bin
PHP CLI/CGI binary             php_bin          /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin/php

Not sure what else I can do to troubleshoot?
Possible related note: PHP Mass Detector does essentially the same thing...it installs correctly, but running it seemingly does nothing as well!

A: I think the phpcs binary file is not inside your $PATH. Use the follow steps to figure out if this is true:

*

*Call the codesniffer on your command line with entering the full path:
$ /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin/phpcs -h
If you get the help output then proceed with step 2. If not something else is broken in your setup.

*Export this path to $PATH:
$ export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin/phpcs

*Call the CodeSniffer like you try before:
$ phpcs -h

*To make this change permanent you need to insert the command from 2. into you .profile/.bashrc/.zshrc or whatever you use as a shell


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Shroud Magazine Interview!
July 24, 2010 — jeffstrand
Lincoln Crisler interviewed me for Shroud Magazine, which you can read right here:
http://shroudmagazinebookreviews.blogspot.com/2010/07/interview-with-jeff-strand.html
A Guest Blog With Actual Writing Advice?
I just did a guest installment of Ty Schwamberger's Hellnotes column "Tying Up The Genre," where I talk about the scariest thing imaginable to an author…rejection!!!
http://hellnotes.com/ty-ing-up-the-genre-the-scariest-thing-imaginable
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Stokers 2011 – Be There!
The next Bram Stoker Awards Weekend will be held July 16-19, 2011 in Long Island, New York. Guests include Peter Straub and David Morrell, and the Artist Guest of Honor is the wildly talented Deena Warner.
And, hey, I'll be emcee of the awards banquet again! You can watch me continue to grow more and more bitter about my own failure to win a Stoker award as I facilitate the process of other people receiving theirs!
Click HERE for the official website.
Nerdapalooza!
This past weekend I went to Nerdapalooza, mostly to beat up nerds, score with hot cheerleaders, and show off my varsity letters. Also to listen to some nerd music. It was two days of musical performances, and as somebody who once enthusiastically drove three hours each way to see The Arrogant Worms play at a library, you can bet that I was going to drive one hour and forty-five minutes each way for two solid days of this kind of stuff.
Nerdapalooza had a great setup, with the action taking place in a large ballroom with stages at each side, so that when one act ended you'd rush to the other side and the next one would begin, keeping things moving at a nice pace, except for the occasional (okay, frequent) bit of technical difficulties! Not every act was of high quality, or even quality, and I only watched about half of them, but there were several that I really enjoyed, starting with…
Devo Spice. "Nerdcore Comedy Hip-Hop," according to his website. I'm not really a hip-hop kinda guy, but there's no question that he's a talented performer, and the songs were catchy and funny. Lest you think that the "nerd" part was inaccurate, one of the songs is about the frustrating life of being an IT guy, with a line that ridicules dumb people who don't know the difference between an ethernet port and a USB cable. This is nerdy stuff, kids. And it gets into your head…and doesn't leave…and I may start shouting "Google it yourself!" at people, which can't be healthy…
George Hrab. Probably the most musically polished act I saw. Very funny songs, but it was the bits between the songs (a hilarious series of political ads about odd and even numbers) which take this into extreme nerd territory. My favorite song was "When I Was Your Age," even though I don't like songs about old people where I relate to the old people.
Kirby Krackle. I think that Kirby Krackle is officially a duo, but this was just one guy. I knew his song "Zombie Apocalypse," (somebody shouted out a request for it, but tragically he didn't have his ukulele, and you can't play "Zombie Apocalypse" without a ukulele) but I didn't know his other work. I would have to classify him as more "geeky" than "nerdy," but it was a very entertaining show.
Schaffer the Darklord. A dorky little white guy rapping about geeky stuff. The crowd freaking loved him.
Worm Quartet. My favorite show of the weekend. A big, crazed-looking, heavily perspiring gentleman with unruly hair, his lyrics fly by so quickly that you can't even catch them all, but his songs were the most genuinely funny and most demented of the bunch. I loved them all, but particularly "Great Idea For A Song," which includes lyrics like "But if only your name rhymed with twisted psychotic slut, I'd have a great idea for a song." I bought one of his CDs while I was there, but I'll probably go on an iTunes downloading spree in the near future. (Actually, like Kirby Krackle, I think Worm Quartet is a band who only had one representative at Nerdapalooza, so this was just Worm Solo.)
The only performer whose music I actually owned before the show was The Great Luke Ski, a parody artist much like "Weird Al" Yankovic, who I'm going to see in concert on Sunday (JEALOUS???). Nerd music, of course, is mostly about the references to nerdy stuff, and I'm ashamed to admit that I've never watched an episode of Battlestar Galactica or Dr. Who, so his songs based on those shows kind of went over my head. But a song about Disney acquiring the Marvel characters (accompanied by a video with drawings by Luke Ski himself) was laugh-out-loud funny.
And he provided the most hilarious moment of the entire weekend, with a song about being a kid on Christmas morning and the unbearable anticipation of waiting to open your presents because you know–you just know–that there's an Atari 2600 under the tree! The song, whose refrain is delivered in sheer horror, is "My Parents Bought Me Intellivision!" The song of my own experience would be "My Parents Bought Me Odyssey 2!" but the experience was the same, although the Great Luke Ski, during the course of the song, eventually realizes that his parents were right, and that Intellivision was a superior gaming system to the Atari 2600, whereas there was no such realization with the Odyssey 2, because the Odyssey 2 really sucked.
(Which did not stop me from playing 83,719 hours of Odyssey 2 until we eventually upgraded to ColecoVision.)
Overall, it was a lot of fun, and I'll almost certainly go back next year. To beat up more nerds.
Dweller. Kindle. Cheap.
Do you own a Kindle? If so (and I apologize if this announcement causes your head to explode with thoughts of this inconceivable awesomeness) then you can get my novel Dweller for the mere scrap of a price of $2.99.
Think about it! If you don't like the book, you can say "Well, at least I only paid $2.99!" If you love the book, you can say "Holy cow, I received hours of top-notch entertainment for only $2.99! What a miracle of a world we live in!"
If somebody came up to you and said "I'll give you $2.99 if you let me jab you in the leg with this pushpin," you'd almost certainly decline, even though the pain would be brief and it wouldn't really leave a scar. That's how miniscule $2.99 is! And Dweller is a 2010 release, not some dorky little backlist title where I'm saying "Ah, screw it, this thing has run its course; I might as well dump it for $2.99."
You know what? You don't even need a Kindle. Just get the Kindle app for your computer.
$2.99. Right here.
Wolf Hunt – Hardcover Edition
July 7, 2010 — jeffstrand
He's a friendly werewolf! Just look at that smile!
This is the cover (by Frank Wells) of the hardcover edition of WOLF HUNT from Dark Regions Press. Watch for pre-order information soon…
Dark Regions 30% Off Sale!
Dark Regions Press is having a special Fourth of July Weekend sale…30% off everything in the store! (To the best of my knowledge, they do not rip out 30% of the pages.)
That means 30% off the hardcover edition of Dweller, and/or 30% off the paperback edition of Gleefully Macabre Tales (which includes my novella Disposal).
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Just add them to your cart, go on a mad shopping spree to check out their other great authors, and enter the coupon code JULY4TH.
Order as much stuff as you want! Hoard copies of Gleefully Macabre Tales to distribute after the apocalypse!


A picture of a boy praying over a sleeping homeless man in Baltimore, Maryland, has gone viral on Facebook.
Jonathan A. Stormz said he watched the young boy walk past the homeless man, who was sleeping on the sidewalk. Stormz pulled out his phone as the boy began to approach the destitute stranger.
Stormz said he could not help but snap a photo as he watched the boy place his hand on the man's body and begin praying over him.
Stormz said he had to share the moment with the rest of the world. The iconic picture has been shared more than 32,000 times on Facebook.


The retailer booked costs linked to the deal to buy InMotion.
Retailer WH Smith has seen half-year profits fall 21% after being stung by costs linked to its acquisition of InMotion and a restructuring programme.
The high street chain saw pre-tax profit drop from £82 million to £65 million in the six months to February 28.
WH Smith booked £9 million in costs linked to the deal to buy InMotion, a US travel accessories retailer, and another £7 million linked to a restructuring.
With those costs stripped out, pre-tax profit was down 1% to £81 million.
Sales rose 8% to £695 million, or 1% on a like-for-like basis.
In travel, WH Smith's standout operation, total revenue rose 18% and 3% on a comparable basis. Profit at the arm was up 7% to £44 million.
High street revenue fell 1%, with like-for-like revenue down 2%, but this was the retailer's second-best sales performance in the past decade and was driven by growth in Christmas cards, wrapping paper, diaries, calendars, and art and craft ranges.
"The integration of InMotion is progressing well. This acquisition doubles the size of our business outside of the UK, where we are now present in 99 airports and 30 countries.


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Margaret "Maggie" Bell (Maryhill, Glasgow, 12 de janeiro de 1945) é uma cantora de rock escocesa.

Início de carreira e The Power
De uma família de músicos, ela cantou desde sua adolescência, deixando a escola com quinze anos de idade, para trabalhar como vitrinista de dia e cantora de noite. Bell foi apresentada a Leslie Harvey, por seu irmão mais velho Alex, após levantar-se no palco para cantar com o último. Leslie Harvey era, naquele tempo, guitarrista dos Kinning Park Ramblers. Bell juntou-se ao grupo como uma dos vocalistas. Após a banda se separar, ela mudou-se para a Mecca Band da Sauchiehall Street Locarno, e mais tarde para o Palais Band, de Dennistoun.

Ela então se reuniu com Harvey, formando o Power inicialmente conhecido como The Power of Music e, eventualmente, The Power. Bell e The Power se apresentaram regularmente no The Easterhouse Project, dirigido por Archie Hind e Graeme Noble. Eles também visitaram a base da Força Aérea dos Estados Unidos na Alemanha, em meados dos anos 1960. Peter Grant, que estava administrando os Yardbirds na época, ouviu o Power tocar em uma dessas bases e concordou em produzir e gerenciá-los, impressionado com a capacidade vocal de Bell e do toque da guitarra de Harvey.O grupo foi então rebatizado como Stone the Crows, uma expressão usada por Grant ao ouvir esta banda.

Primeiro álbum solo
Os Stone the Crows se separaram em 1973, após a morte acidental de Leslie Harvey por electrocussão em 2 de maio de 1972. Harvey tinha sido uma parte integrante da banda e sua música. Peter Grant permaneceu como gerente de Bell após a separação, e, juntamente com Mark London, se ofereceu para ajudar Bell a gravar um álbum solo. Posteriormente, ela gravou dois novos álbuns para a Atlantic Records, um produzido por Felix Pappalardi e outro produzido por Felix Cavaliere. Nenhum tinha sido lançado ainda. Grant então supervisionou seu primeiro álbum solo lançado, Queen of the Night (1973), que foi gravado em Nova Iorque com o produtor Jerry Wexler.

Swan Song, Midnight Flyer e B. A. Robertson
Bell assinou com a então recém-formada Swan Song Records em 1974, juntamente com o Bad Company e The Pretty Things, como uma das primeiras contratações do rótulo. Jimmy Page contribuiu para o seu segundo álbum Suicide Sal (1975). Ela então tentou capturar as glórias passadas do blues rock a frente do Midnight Flyer, uma banda ao vivo fenomenal, mas seu único álbum homônimo lançado em 1981 não foi um sucesso comercial. Jimmy Page mostrou um álbum de tributo a Maggie com Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, assim como John Bonham, tendo Mark Hitt na guitarra.

Voltando à sua carreira solo, ela teve seu maior sucesso no Reino Unido, em 1981, através de um dueto com B. A. Robertson em uma versão cover de "Hold Me", que alcançou a posição de número 11 no UK Singles Chart. Bell também se apresentou em vários concertos de caridade durante este período.

Televisão, Países Baixos e o British Blues Quintet
Bell cantou o tema de enceramento para o final do drama policial Hazell, da ITV em 1970, com letras escritas por Judy Forrest e música de Andy Mackay. Sua canção "No Mean City", escrita por Mike Moran, foi a música-tema para o drama policial Taggart. Ela também apareceu em um único episódio de Taggart chamado de "Evil Eye", em 1990, atuando como uma cartomante cigana chamada Effie Lambie que é assassinada no início do episódio.

Em 2009, ela fez a voz da cantora de rock Esme Ford (interpretada por Joanna Lumley) no episódio "Counter Culture Blues" da série Lewis, da ITV.

Depois de viver nos Países Baixos por 20 anos, Bell retornou ao Reino Unido no início de 2006 e se juntou ao The British Blues Quintet, dividindo os vocais com Zoot Money. Também com o ex-baterista dos Stone The Crows Colin Allen e o baixista Colin Hodgkinson, a banda rapidamente se estabeleceu nos circuitos de blues ao vivo europeu e do Reino Unido. Seu álbum de estréia, Live in Glasgow (2007), foi gravado em um de seus primeiros shows, em Renfrew Ferry, Glasgow, em 2006. Além disso, Bell saiu em turnê com Chris Farlowe no outono de 2006 e The Manfreds durante 2006 e 2008.

Ligações externas

Naturais de Glasgow
Cantores de blues
Cantores da Escócia
Artistas da Atlantic Records

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Entone DVR Amulet | HTC Inc.
Q: Is there a user guide for my cable box?
Please click here to download or view the the user guide for your cable box.
First, ensure the cable box is powered on by verifying that the power light is illuminated.
Using the HTC issued remote control, press the STB button and then the Master Power button. You should see a blue power light illuminate on the front of the cable box.
If the cable box does not respond to the power button on the front of the box, power cycle the cable box and try another power outlet.
Check and tighten ALL coaxial connections & Ethernet connections (at the wall plate, at the back of the cable set-top, the modem or any other HTC issued equipment).
Make sure all HTC issued equipment is plugged in and has power.
Power cycle ALL HTC issued equipment.
Q: Why is my guide not displaying all of my channels or I am missing channels that I am paying for?
Q: Why don't I have audio?
Please click here and walk through the steps to program the remote for your TV.
Q: Can I dim or turn the display completely off?
Yes, you can set your LED display to a dimmer/brighter setting or select to turn it off completely. You can also set it to change at a certain time and then return to its normal setting at a certain time.
Keep in mind, that when you extend a recording past an allotted time, that extended time is occupying one of your tuners for the next timeframe.
The first step in setting up parental controls is to set up a pin number to restrict access.
Move down and select OK.
Select Users from this menu.
There should already be one user listed – this is the primary user.
Select the user that you want to edit, then select the "Edit" option at the bottom of the screen.
You can change the Pin by entering the current default Pin (1234) and then entering and confirming the new Pin.
Select "Submit" to apply changes.
Verify that Enable Pin is checked.
**NOTE**Password is for login purposes & Pin is for purchases.
With your Pin set up you can move down and select OK on the Parental Control option.
Press OK on the Movie Rating and/or TV Rating setting. You will be able to press the Left and/or Right arrows on the remote to choose your preferred rating. When your preferred rating is shown press OK to lock it. Example: If you choose a Movie Rating of PG all ratings higher than PG will be blocked. If you choose a TV Rating of TVPG all ratings higher than TVPG will be blocked.
This offers 5 categories: Violence, Sexual Situations, Language, Suggestive Dialog and Fantasy Violence. Choose a category and Press OK to enable or disable the lock.
When are you finished modifying the Parental Control screen select the Submit button on the bottom of the screen. This will save your changes.


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Appellate Division, September 7, 2018.
Consolidated plaintiffs filed an action in lieu of prerogative writs challenging the City of Garfield's classification designating their properties as an area in need of redevelopment. Attorney James M. Turteltaub of Carlin & Ward represented Zion Lutheran Church, et al. The trial was held on September 6, 2018, in New Jersey Superior Court, Bergen County. Christine A. Farrington, J.S.C., was the presiding judge. The court vacated the designation of the First Ward Study Area as being a Condemnation Redevelopment Area under the Local Redevelopment Housing Law (LRHL). The decision in the case was issued on September 7, 2018. To read the decision, click here.
Appellate Division, May 18, 2009.
The Appellate Division affirmed the jury verdict and upheld the trial court's rulings regarding compensability of loss of parking and access. Download a PDF of the New Jersey Transit opinion here.
Commercial tenants are not entitled to notice provisions of the Local Redevelopment Housing Law, but may raise blight issues as a defense to eminent domain in the condemnation case. Download the PDF of the Iron Mountain opinion here . See March 28 post on the New Jersey Eminent Domain Law Blog for more discussion of the Iron Mountain opinion.
The court rejected Union's attempt to find the area located at the intersection of Stuyvesant and Morris Avenues to be an area in need of redevelopment. The court identified a misapplication of the law by the Planning Board based on the erroneous advice of counsel, which was misleading in its use of the term "blighted area." The court concluded,"not only were the legal instructions (to the Planning Board) erroneous, to make matters worse, they clearly influenced the Board's decision." Download the PDF of the transcript of Assignment Judge Walter R. Barisonek's oral opinion here. See blog post on the New Jersey Eminent Domain Law Blog for more discussion of the Union matter.
The Appellate Division reversed in part and remanded this case to the trial court. The court found that the Long Branch did not find actual blight under any subsection of N.J.S.A. 40A:12A-5, that the record lacked substantial evidence that could have supported the New Jersey Constitution's standard for finding blight, and that the absence of substantial evidence of blight compels reversal. Download the PDF of the Anzalone opinion here . See August 7 post on the New Jersey Eminent Domain Law Blog for more discussion of the Anzalone eminent domain case.
The Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court granted the request of property owners Louis and Lillian Anzalone for a stay of the eminent domain action threatened against their home located at 32 Ocean Avenue, Long Branch, New Jersey. The Order for Stay, signed by presiding judge Jack L. Lintner, will prevent Long Branch from seizing the Anzalone property while the appeal is pending. The City of Long Branch also filed a motion to accelerate the appeal. That motion was denied. Download both orders of the court.
The court upheld the August 3, 2005 decision of Essex County Assignment Judge Patricia Costello, who dismissed the condemnation complaint and concluded that the record lacked adequate basis for finding that the use of defendant's property posed a detriment to the public health, safety or welfare, or was underutilized. Click here to read the entire decision. For further commentary on the decision please visit the New Jersey Eminent Domain Law Blog.
The court heard oral arguments on March 24 and reserved decision. The court decided to deny the application of the defendants for a hearing on the right to take issue, and issued final judgement in favor of the plaintiff, City of Long Branch, and will appoint condemnation commissioners. Since the decision is a final judgement, it is appealable within 45 days. For further commentary see the New Jersey Eminent Domain Law Blog post of June 23, 2006.
The court found that the underlying planning process was fatally flawed. The Heyer and Gruel Planning Report improperly designated 110 Washington Street as meeting the definitions of blighted property under the Local Redevelopment Housing Law. In addition, the court ruled that it was improper for attorney Steven Martino to represent both the planning board and the mayor and council during the consideration of the redevelopment plan and the approval of the plan by the municipality.To read the decision in PDF click here. For further commentary about this case, please read the NJ Eminent Domain Law Blog post of August 5, 2005.
City of Long Branch v. Strahlendorf, et ux, etc.
Appellate Division (per curiam), 10 pages, November 19, 2004.
The City of Long Branch did not file its appeal from the date of the order of final judgement until over 100 days after the final judgement was entered. The panel dismissed the appeal as untimely, as the notice of appeal was clearly filed beyond the 75 days permitted by rule, and time was not tolled in the interval. The jury determined that the defendants were entitled to $500,000 in just compensation for the City's acquisition of their property. To read the decision of the Appellate Division in PDF file, click here.
Appellate Division (Carchman, J.A.D.), 34 pages, February 11, 2004.
Eminent Domain - The City of Linden condemned land in front of the Benedict Motel on Route 1 and 9, thus eliminating 15 parking spaces that existed on the property. The panel upheld the ruling of the trial judge that the spaces were lawfully created and properly utilized and that the motel was entitled to compensation for damages to the remainder. The verdict of the jury was two million dollars. To read the decision of the Appellate Division in PDF file, click here.
Supreme Court of New Jersey, May 21, 2004.
The Petition for Certification by the plaintiff, City of Linden, was denied.
New Jersey Supreme Court, A-68/69, July 10, 2003. By Long,J. joined by Poritz, Coleman, Verniero, LaVecchia, and Zazzali. Albin, J. did not participate. On certification to the Appellate Division, 355 N.J. Super. 530 (2002).
Contaminated property that is the subject of condemnation must be valued as if it has been remediated, and the condemnor should reserve the right to maintain a separate cost-recovery action to obtain remediation or cleanup costs. The value of the condemnation award should be deposited into a trust-escrow account with the court, and the condemnor may seek and order requiring that a portion of the award be set aside to satisfy the condemnee's cleanup and transfer obligations.
For appellant/cross-respondent: James M. Turteltaub (Carlin & Ward; William J. Ward of counsel and on the briefs).


How can I perform API call (written in php) inside .tpl file ? I have following php code inside .tpl file & If I'm trying to run below code its showing this error 'A system error has occurred. Please try your request again in a few minutes. '.
Its because of SoapClient call. I don't know the proper way to use SoapClient inside the .tpl file, so please suggest me one good example.
You may want to hold off until the smarty has been corrected fully.


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"For me, there were so many highlights: the group cohesion, the mix of historical and spiritual perspectives, the great organization of the whole trip, allowing us to see everything that we wanted; all the laughter and playfulness of the group and Patrick. For me, there were two spiritual highlights, one standing on the place where Luther said his first mass. I suddenly had a rush of emotion that my own work has followed in his footsteps. Wow!
The other moment for me was to sit in Meister Eckhart's chair in the church in Erfurt. He was one of my spiritual teachers during a crucial time in my life, through the work of Matthew Fox. Again, a feeling of connect with a mystic from the Middle Ages.
Traveling in the 500th year, too, was a highlight. It felt like we were part of a pilgrimage, people streaming to these places from all over the world, all of us walking together in Luther's footsteps. So many new and deeper insights into this thinking and his life!


Trae Patton/NBCThe Biggest Loser has added Princeton-native Brett Hoebel to the reality television weight loss show.
Brett Hoebel was shopping with his mother at the Princeton Army & Navy store when an adult made a comment about the teen's weight.
Hoebel, however, gently told his mom that he could defend himself, and instead asked for help with getting in shape. His mother gave him all kinds of great advice, and by his sophomore year at Princeton High School, Hoebel dropped 50 pounds and excelled in three varsity sports: football, wrestling and lacrosse.
Hoebel, the founder of Hoebel Fitness and an international fitness expert, never forgot what it was like to be an overweight teen. Now, as one of the most sought-after weight loss, nutritionist and lifestyle coaches in New York City, Hoebel has landed a dream job as a new celebrity trainer on one of the most inspirational weight-loss shows on television: "The Biggest Loser," now in its 11th season.
Hoebel, along with newbie Cara Castronuova, has joined Biggest Loser gurus Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper in the task of helping overweight contestants shed pounds and regain control of their lives in the weekly show, which airs through May.
With his brains, brawn, and hunky good looks, Hoebel is already making a splash on the program. For the first week, the show posted the most weight loss in the show's history.
His own personal journey to television stardom began in academia, which Hoebel said gives him nutritional insight into weight loss from a scientific perspective.
Hoebel, the son of retiring Princeton University psychology professor Bart Hoebel, graduated Princeton High School in 1989, with a goal of following in his father's footsteps. He majored in pre-medical studies at Claremont McKenna College, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree with a dual major in psychology and biology. Hoebel continued his education at Rutgers University with graduate classes in biomedical sciences, and eventually found work in neurology labs.
It was a broken heart, however, that motivated Hoebel to begin learning the martial arts and kickboxing moves that would one day attract the attention of Michaels. Hoebel is well versed in Eastern and Western disciplines, including his martial arts training in Afro-Brazilian capoeira and Muay Thai kickboxing. He also possessed an educational background in functional strength training, nutrition, yoga and holistic health.
"A girl I was dating broke up with me," he said. "Fitness was my salvation. I trained hard in martial arts, and it saved me from depression."
When Hoebel moved back to New York for a job as a lab technician, he lacked the funds to afford a gym membership. A friend suggested he try for a job at New York Sports Club, which hired Hoebel as a boxing instructor in 1995.
"I was hired to teach a class," he said, explaining that it was primarily group fitness.
Still, Hoebel found himself missing science. He applied for certification as a personal trainer, and was happy to learn that his scientific background could be utilized in the area of weight loss. After a few years of hard work as a fitness professional, Hoebel began to gain a good reputation around New York City. Soon, he was employed by a clientele that included Victoria's Secret models, A-list actors, actresses, musicians, and fashion designers.
Michaels came in contact with Hoebel because she wanted to learn capoeria, a form of martial arts that incorporates music and dance. Hoebel trained Michaels and her friends.
"We formed a great friendship," he said, adding that Michaels became very good at capoeria.
Hoebel is thrilled to join "The Biggest Loser," which is already proving to be the most challenging season in the show's history.
"This is the biggest group they've ever had on the show, and the most unhealthy," he said, noting that some contestants began the show weighing 500 pounds.
It is an especially big challenge for Hoebel, who has never trained obese clients. He does, however, see hope in this group, including Olympian Gold Medalist Rulon Gardner, who wrestled in the 200s but is now 474, and is hoping that his background in science will bring positive results.
Hoebel is ready to continue on with the show after Michaels departs, he said.
He is also ready to join the ranks of P90X home workout trainer Tony Horton with the release of his own motivational workout DVD, RevAbs.
"It's going to hit the airwaves in May, right around the time of the season finale, so it's great timing," he said.
Although Hoebel splits his time between taping in Los Angeles with training clients in New York and Brazil, he said he misses New Jersey.
And now, New Jersey has another television star.
"The Biggest Loser" airs on NBC 8 p.m. Tuesday nights.