Did Ferguson's City Council break transparency laws?
Emotions in Ferguson, Mo., roiled by unrest last month after a white police officer fatally shot an 18-year-old black man, were still raw Tuesday night as the City Council heard from often angry residents demanding justice for Michael Brown and better treatment of African Americans in the city.
"Ferguson does need to change," one woman told the council.
An earlier version of this post said that Thomas Harvey, executive director of the Arch City Defenders, saw the council's proposals as not as far-reaching as he'd like but called them "unequivocally great." Harvey said at least one of the proposals was "unequivocally great," not all of them.
Other African American residents in the audience complained that city officials were reluctant or unable to answer many questions. A live video feed of the meeting, held at a large church to handle the crowd, showed one woman who referred to Brown's death as an "assassination." Residents described being harassed by police and called on the city's black community to register to vote and change the power structure in the St. Louis suburb.
The meeting came a day after the city made an announcement that was greeted by many community advocates, at first, as a relief.
On Monday, the City Council issued a statement saying it would be launching several reforms in the wake of the Aug. 9 police shooting of Brown and the unrest that followed.
Among the changes: a new citizen's review board to oversee the predominantly black city's predominantly white police force; the abolishment of some municipal court fees that had overwhelmed many of the city's 21,135 residents.
Some speakers applauded the creation of a review board. But if the City Council's aim was transparency, some Missouri advocates and attorneys say the City Council has already fallen short, by potentially breaking state and city laws on public meetings.
City statute requires that the council meet "not less frequently than once each month," which didn't happen in August when the city was engulfed in weeks of protest and unrest.
After Brown's death, an Aug. 26 meeting was canceled. In a statement, the city did not cite a reason for the cancellation but said it did so in consultation with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which had been brought in to provide security in Ferguson. The city also said it was looking for a larger venue to hold the meeting.
When the City Council announced the new policies Monday, some observers wondered whether the council had broken Missouri's sunshine law, which generally requires that public meetings and deliberations be accessible to the public.
"When they come up with a proposal that they're going to implement, one assumes they have been meeting," said Jean Maneke, an attorney specializing in 1st Amendment law who represents the Missouri Press Assn. "If they haven't been meeting, it kind of begs the question: How did they come up with these policies and decide they were going to implement them?"
Maneke added, "Something went on here that just smells."
Although the council's Tuesday night schedule indicated that members would be going through a first reading of the proposed policies -- two readings are generally required under Ferguson statute -- language in a statement the council issued Monday seemed to treat the passage of the new policies as a foregone conclusion.
The statement said that "these changes have been accomplished or are in the process of implementation," and that the council "will be abolishing" municipal court fees, despite no votes apparently having been taken.
"The overall goal of these changes is to improve trust within the community and increase transparency, particularly within Ferguson's courts and police department," City Councilman Mark Byrne said in the statement, which was released through an outside public relations firm. "We want to demonstrate to residents that we take their concerns extremely seriously. That's why we're initiating new changes within our local police force and in our courts."
City Council members could not be reached for comment shortly before the Tuesday's meeting, which, according to a video live feed, had quickly turned into a raucous affair as residents came up to the microphone for public comment.
One resident directly challenged the council on how it came up with its proposals. "How can you propose a bill for a first reading? Have you been meeting in secret?" the man asked.
At least two advocates who support those changes said in interviews that they were troubled by how the council introduced them.
"It seems as though they had a closed-door meeting and came up with this stuff," said Patricia Bynes, a committeewoman for the Democratic Party in Ferguson.
"It gives the appearance that they've been moving pretty fast, that they held a meeting to come up with this legislation," Bynes told The Times. She added, "This seems like a first step, but we need to slow this stuff down to see what's in here. What's in these bills? What's the effect going to be?"
Thomas Harvey, executive director of the Arch City Defenders, a legal nonprofit that represents many St. Louis-area residents in municipal cases, said the proposals were as not as far-reaching as he'd like, though he called at least one of them "unequivocally great."
Harvey's group has criticized Ferguson and other St. Louis County cities' municipal court systems for "unintentionally" pushing the poor "further into poverty." According to the Ferguson city budget, 21% of the expected revenue in fiscal 2014 will come from municipal court fees and fines, which often fall on down-on-their-luck residents and passersby.
The City Council has proposed removing a "failure to appear" charge for its municipal court appearances and cutting the city reliance on fine revenue down to 15% of the budget, with the excess being diverted toward city improvements.
However, Harvey said, "If I were a citizen of the city of Ferguson, I'd have some questions about these proposals. To my knowledge they haven't met to discuss these things. Does this mean they've been meeting in secret somewhere? ... They've been communicating about this somehow, and it's not [been] in public meetings."
Transparency was a running theme in some comments from residents Tuesday night. Some complained that they still hadn't received answers to key questions. One speaker, referring to the officer who shot Brown, asked bluntly, "Why hasn't Office Darren Wilson been arrested?" When a city official replied that the case was being handled by St. Louis County prosecutors and not Ferguson officials, the audience jeered.
If the City Council did break state open-meetings law and then passes the proposals, there might not be legal consequences, even if someone files a lawsuit, said Maneke, the attorney for the Missouri Press Assn.
"A court has to decide if the acts so violated the law that they needed to be undone or redone properly," Maneke said. If not, nothing might happen.
However, Maneke said, given the existing concerns about transparency in Ferguson over the shooting death of Michael Brown, "This is not a time for the city of Ferguson to be engaging in activity that looks like subterfuge."


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We Were Told By Mainstream Media And Trump's Critics It Would Never Happen – Mueller Conglomerate – Two Part Article.
PART 1 – Mainstream Media Wrong Again!
The Mainstream Media have reported for months that Americans shouldn't be concerned about the migrant caravan headed to the U.S.- Mexico border. But President Trump has been preparing since day one to stop them in the name of American sovereignty.
The reason the Western Media want open borders and amnesty for illegals is, of course, due to the fact they are working with the Democrats to oppose the President. It has nothing to do with the plight of the poor, and everything to do with destroying President Trump and those who support him.
The following is the latest video from Fox News – one hour ago.
'President Trump offered Mexico some advice on deporting migrants massed in Tijuana and threatening to storm the U.S., telling the neighboring nation in a tweet to send them "back to their countries" by plane or by bus – or face a permanent closure of the border.
Trump's tweet followed a vow from Mexico to deport migrants who tried to illegally enter the U.S. The Trump administration has said asylum claims from members of a series of caravans originating in Central America must be processed outside the U.S., and that all those entering illegally will be denied. A federal judge has at least temporarily ruled against the policy, but the administration has taken steps to harden the border.
President Trump is no quitter. And our Secretary of Homeland Security is right by his side upholding his every word. Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen made a very clear statement that U.S. authorities will continue to have a "robust" presence along the Southwest border. They will prosecute anyone who damages federal property or violates U.S. sovereignty.
More than 5,000 migrants have been camping in Tijuana after making their way through Mexico in recent weeks. On Friday Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city.
President Trump told us it would happen, and now it has. He was right again, while the American people were lied to by Mainstream Media. The scene at the border that the American people were told was impossible by the Media and Trump's critics occurred on Sunday.
U.S. border agents were forced to fire tear gas on hundreds of migrants on Sunday after some of them attempted to get through the fencing and wire separating the U.S. and Mexico. Soon following American authorities were forced to shut down the nation's busiest border crossing.
Mexican police had tried to stop them from walking over a bridge leading to the Mexican port of entry, but the migrants pushed past officers to walk across the Tijuana River below the bridge. Police carrying plastic riot shields were on the other side, but migrants still succeeded in breaching the crossing.
An AP reporter said he saw U.S. agents shoot several rounds of tear gas after some migrants attempted to penetrate several points along the border. Mexican TV showed images of migrants climbing over fences and peeling back metal sheeting to enter.
PART 2 – Mueller Conglomerate Is The Shadow Government Operating In The Light Of Day.
Never did I imagine the Mueller Conglomerate would be without end – that it might be infinite. Has it become a central part of our government? I would say so. It has become an American institution – a facet of the Judicial System. In fact, it is the Judicial system, and it runs this Country.
How could this criminal conglomerate currently dominating our Country – based upon a fake dossier and an illegal FISA warrant – become permanent and the basis of terror for a sitting President and his supporters? It is the Shadow Government making its appearance in the light of day – we now see, and we now know what has been hidden.
Is it serious? Yes, it is serious, and there is no stopping it now. Mueller is handing down indictments left and right. Frankly, I believe this is only the beginning.
How many people have been indicted thus far? How many more to come?
George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign adviser – Papadopoulos turned himself in on Monday to serve his prison sentence. He made the following statement -"The truth will all be out. Not even a prison sentence can stop that momentum. Looking forward to testifying publicly shortly after. The wool isn't going to be pulled over America's eyes forever," he tweeted, adding "Much love" and an American flag emoji. "Keep the focus on FISA declassification. Do not get distracted. See you on the other side," Papadopoulos added in another message.
Politico reported the following – 'Sunday morning Papadopoulos retweeted a comment from a political ally painting the prosecution as a "set up" and calling for Mueller's probe to be ended.
While Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 days in prison, he was held in custody overnight after being arrested as he returned to the U.S. from Europe last year. That could entitle him to up to two days credit on his sentence.
Papadopoulos' wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, has urged President Donald Trump to pardon her husband. Just two days ago, she also retweeted a message noting that the president could commute the former campaign aide's sentence. There has been no indication from the White House that he plans to do so.
13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies – They are: Mikhail Bystrov, Mikhail Burchik, Aleksandra Krylova, Sergey Polozov, Anna Bogacheva, Maria Bovda, Robert Bovda, Dzheykhun Aslanov, Vadim Podkopaev, Gleb Vasilchenko, Irina Kaverzina, Vladimir Venkov, and Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch lawyer tied to Manafort and Gates, who represents the interests of numerous Russian oligarchs. He is the son-in-law of German Khan, the Ukrainian-Russian billionaire who controls Russia's Alfa Bank. The 'fake' dossier published by former British spy Christopher Steele alleged that Alfa Bank had played a role in meddling in the 2016 US election.
12 Russian intelligence officers – All 12 indicted are members of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence unit. The accusations against them include conspiring to interfere with the election by hacking computers, stealing documents, and releasing those documents with intent to interfere.
Rick Gates, one of Manafort's business partners – Gates took a plea deal in late February, pleading guilty to one charge of lying to investigators and one charge of conspiracy in exchange for becoming a cooperating witness in the Mueller probe. He testified against Manafort as the prosecution's star witness in its case in Virginia.
Who is next? Dr. Jerome Corsi believes he is going to be indicted soon. Dr. Corsi gained attention when he became involved with the secret QAnon operation. Now, he is speaking with a loud voice that he fears indictment and spending the rest of his life in solitary confinement.
Yes, he did say, 'solitary confinement,' as I listened to him on video. He shed tears, and he truly was in speaking in fear. I was shocked, but I definitely believe him. Now ABC is reporting he is refusing to take a plea deal from Mueller. God bless him for that.
'In an interview with ABC News on Monday, Corsi said the special counsel offered to allow him to plead guilty to one count of lying to federal investigators in exchange for cooperation in the probe and leniency at sentencing.
The unknown associate mentioned by Mueller matches the description of Roger Stone, who hired Corsi to do research for him during the 2016 election.
Corsi's involvement in Mueller's probe is believed to be related to the hacking and leaking of emails between Democratic National Committee insiders meant to undermine Hillary Clinton.
I cannot believe any of this – what is really going on?
Stone made statements in August of 2016, which some allege showed he knew that WikiLeaks was going to leak damaging information on Clinton before it was released.
Seven weeks later, WikiLeaks released a cache of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's private emails. In a report released in January 2017, the U.S. intelligence community concluded "with high confidence" that the information was provided to WikiLeaks by a hacker with ties to Russian military intelligence.
The rumor of an Assange indictment appears to be legitimate, but President Trump says he knows nothing about it.
However, the reports are continuing saying the Justice Department is about to indict Julian Assange.
Assange hinted prior to the election that the Russians weren't the source of the Democratic Party e-mails he published. But, of course, that has been forgotten by most of the world at this point.
I don't think the truth will ever make a comeback in my lifetime; in fact, I think we will have to wait until Judgment Day for that to happen.
President Donald Trump submitted written responses to special counsel Robert Mueller's office to respond to questions surrounding collusion between Russian officials and Trump's team during the campaign. But the president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani made clear the process isn't over and the President's legal team is willing to answer follow up questions from Mueller's team.
The written responses submitted to the special counsel on came following months of negotiations between Trump's legal team and the special counsel over how exactly the President would answer questions in the Mueller investigation.
The responses dealt with events during the presidential campaign and before Trump was sworn into office, but there are still looming questions about how much Trump's legal team addressed events during the presidential transition in its responses, as well as any additional questions from Mueller. The prospect of an in-person interview with Trump is also unresolved, although Trump said this week that was "probably" off the table.


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Because it's an election season (and that's because it's ALWAYS an election season), my thoughts have turned to that particularly perfect (I know "perfect" is an absolute but Jefferson said "more perfect" so take it up with him) document, the Constitution of the United States. This is a document so close to perfect, grammar fans, that it has been amended a mere 26 times in the past 232 years, a decent record if you consider that this year alone Major League Baseball has instituted the 16-team playoff schedule, the seven-inning doubleheader and the runner-on-second extra-inning system, all of which are stupid.
Nonetheless, I've been giving the Constitution some thought. It's been 49 years since the ratification of the 26th Amendment, which gave 18, 19 and 20-year olds the right to vote in federal elections. If you average out 26 amendments over 232 years, that comes to an amendment every 8.9 years, so we are falling way behind in our amending.
Therefore, I respectfully propose the following amendments to the U.S. Constitution:
27. An amendment outlawing the 16-team playoff schedule, the seven-inning doubleheader and the runner-on-second extra-inning system. If necessary, this would be expanded to robo-umpires and a pitch clock.
28. An amendment stipulating Tom Hanks to be the best person we have. When other countries need to talk to someone, Tom should get the call.
29. An amendment outlawing any product whose name includes the words "pumpkin spice."
30 An amendment limiting the amount of snow in New Jersey to three inches a year. The rest of you are on your own.
31. An amendment declaring dogs better than cats.
32. An amendment mandating that every citizen over the age of 18 MUST vote in every election available to them. Those who don't will be subject to an IRS audit and public shaming.
33. An amendment setting the minimum annual income for freelance writers to be $100,000. The minimum salary for a Major League baseball player is currently $563,500.
34. An amendment mandating the death penalty for anyone caught making or creating a robot that will make "an apology call from your utility company." Let's see if it's REALLY a deterrent.
35. An amendment making it illegal to insist that everyone stand for an Irving Berlin song (or a Neil Diamond song) at the seventh-inning stretch. The amendment would further require the playing and singing of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," but you can sit or stand at your own discretion.
36. An amendment outlawing the display of Christmas items in stores before November 1. It's August. Calm down.
37. An amendment stipulating that only one superhero movie can be made each year. It's the same story anyway. Just space them out better.
That should do it for now. If you have amendment suggestions, feel free to post them below. But if they are actual politically motivated ones, I urge you NOT to post them and will delete them when they appear. That's not what this space is for.
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An Amendment that the New York Jets have to win the Super Bowl at least once every 32 years. It's the statistical average and the NFL must stop conspiring against that.
An amendment mandating the death penalty for people who drive at or below the speed limit in the left hand lane, and refuse to move over for faster traffic.
An amendment repealing the amendment that dogs are better than cats. Both species are equally lovable. Mostly.

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A calesa, in a typical scene of the 19th to early 20th century Philippines. Image credit: New York Public Library.
This article continues our series dedicated to showing how the towns of Batangas were like in the nineteenth century, as described by the Spanish former government official and historian Manuel Sastron in his 1895 book "Batangas y Su Provincia1." Presumably, the information that Sastron wrote in his book was either observed or collected in the years preceding the publication of the book.
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It was approximately 20 kilometers from the capital town of Batangas and at the time had a population of 6,624. In contrast, as per the 2015 Philippine Census, the town's population had grown to 32,7832.
Sastron decribed Cuenca as a "beautiful town" with eight barrios, the largest of which had 2,425 inhabitants. These barrios were scattered over both flat and hilly terrain, in places lush with vegetation. He enumerated the barrios as Macolot, San Felipe, Dalipit, Bungahan, Emmanuel, Labac, Ibabao and Dita.
Like Lipa, Cuenca also benefited from the nineteenth century coffee boom; and also felt the economic impact of its decline. Its farmers, Sastron wrote, planted their fields with rice, corn, sugarcane, monggo, cacao, abaca, tobacco and a wide variety of tubers and leguminous crops; but they also mostly just produced for local consumption. The fields, Sastron noted, were not irrigated and were, thus, dependent on rainfall.
Cuenca, according to Sastron, enjoyed an almost year round pleasant climate, with the temperature rarely exceeding 30ºC except in the three months of summer. One had to wear warm clothes until 9 or 10 in the morning.
The town's insulation against temperature fluctuations, he observed, made it a healthy place to stay. Because of this, the wealthy families of Manila often travelled the 106 kilometer distance to vacation there for peace, health and solitude.
The healthy conditions in Cuenca were such that it was conducive to population growth. In 1893, Sastron cited as an example, there were 283 births as opposed to just 145 deaths, for a population growth of 138. This may not sound a lot by present day standards; but this was still an era when many towns did not even have doctors, let alone medical facilities.
As soon as the railway service from Manila to Taal via Batangas was completed, Sastron conjectured, Cuenca was destined to become a "place of recreation" and a refuge to recover from the stresses brought along by city life.
Sastron noted the ease with which houses could be built of "good wood." There was an abundance of granite and other hard stones. Wages were cheap and people were very peaceful.
This was not to say that the people were not courageous, for they had defended their properties with heroism when the town was attacked by armed brigands in previous years. Sastron predicted that wealthy families in Manila would soon start to seek refuge away from the heat and stress of city living for three months each year in Cuenca.
At the time of Saston's writing of his book, Cuenca had a young priest named Fr. Mariano Calleja, whom he described as "full of zeal and activeness." His presence, he wrote, could only be to the benefit of the moral interests of the simple folks of Cuenca.
Cuenca's church, along with the convent near it, were built of solid materials, Sastron observed. One Fr. Dionisio Ibañez, who was responsible for the construction of an extension to the convent, was also responsible for the setting up of a town cemetery far enough from the population centers for its location to be hygienic.
Education was something upon which Cuenca could be improved, for there were no public schools, according to Sastron. Neither did the place have a court house of its own.
Every year, he wrote, the town of Cuenca observed a "solemn religious feast" in honor of its patron, San Isidro Labrador.
1 Pequeños Estudios, Batangas y Su Provincia, by Manuel Sastron, published 1895.
2 Philippine Census of 2015, online at the Philippine Statistics Authority.


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47.37 The Commissioner has the function under s 27(1)(g) of maintaining and publishing annually a record of 'the matters set out in records maintained by record keepers in accordance with clause 3 of IPP 5'. Record keepers, in this context, are agencies; and the record is known as the Personal Information Digest (Digest). The matters that must be included in the Digest are:
the nature of the records of personal information kept by or on behalf of the record keeper;
the purpose for which each type of record is kept;
the classes of individuals about whom records are kept;
the period for which each type of record is kept;
the persons who are entitled to have access to personal information contained in the records and the conditions under which they are entitled to have that access; and
the steps that should be taken by persons wishing to obtain access to that information.
47.38 Currently, agencies provide their Digest entries to the OPC, which then makes them available on the OPC website.
47.39 In DP 72, the ALRC identified support in submissions and consultations for changing the Digest requirements. A number of agencies submitted that the Digest entries were repetitive to prepare annually and not useful for the public, particularly given the increasing tendency of agencies to publish a privacy policy on their websites.
47.40 In DP 72, the ALRC proposed that the general notification principles currently located in the IPPs and NPPs should be consolidated and simplified into an 'Openness' principle.[61] The proposed principle would require an agency to produce a 'Privacy Policy' setting out the type of information currently required in the Digest entry, with some additions. The agency or organisation would be required to take reasonable steps to make its Privacy Policy available to an individual electronically, such as on its website, or in hard copy.[62]
47.41 The Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre did not disagree with the proposal to abolish the Personal Information Digest, which it acknowledged has rarely been used. It argued, however, that the OPC should prepare and publish a consolidated index of all Privacy Policies, which would allow public interest groups and the media to compare the policies.[63]
47.42 The implementation of the recommendations in Chapter 24, dealing with the 'Openness' principle in the model UPPs, would obviate any need for the current requirement to prepare a Digest entry. It would also mean that the corresponding obligation on the Commissioner to prepare the consolidated Digest could be removed.
47.43 It is not necessary for the OPC to undertake a corresponding obligation in relation to Privacy Policies—that is, to prepare and publish on its website a consolidated index of all Privacy Policies. Such a process would be resource intensive and is unlikely to increase awareness of privacy policies more generally. In the current electronic environment, individuals seeking an agency's Privacy Policy are more likely to go to the agency's website than look on the OPC website. The key concern is that Privacy Policies should be readily available to members of the public, which would be achieved by the requirement to make them available without charge electronically; and, on request, in hard copy or in an alternative form accessible to individuals with special needs.[64]
Recommendation 47-3 Subject to the implementation of Recommendation 24–1, requiring agencies to develop and publish Privacy Policies, the Privacy Act should be amended to remove the requirement in s 27(1)(g) to maintain and publish the Personal Information Digest.
[61] See Ch 24.
[62] Rec 24–2.
[63] Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre UNSW, Submission PR 487, 19 December 2007.


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Isak Gustaf Clason, född 28 mars 1893 i Stockholm, död 29 december 1964 i Stockholm, var en svensk arkitekt och etsare. Han var son till Isak Gustaf Clason och Kristina (Kerstin) Augusta Petre och bror till Peder Clason.

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Han studerade arkitektur vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan i Stockholm 1912–1917 samt vid Konstakademiens byggnadsskola 1917–1919, samtidigt som han var privatelev i etsning för Axel Tallberg. Han anställdes som arkitekt vid byggnadsstyrelsen 1923.

Åren 1923–1936 arbetade han och Wolter Gahn med ombyggnaden för Kanslihuset i Stockholm efter en uppmärksammad arkitekttävling. År 1935 gestaltade han biograf Spegeln, som var en av Stockholms första biografer i funktionalistisk stil. Clason ritade Thulehuset på Sveavägen, som när det stod färdigt 1942 ansågs vara det mest rationella i landet.

Som etsare har Clason huvudsakligen utfört arkitekturmotiv.

Gustaf Clason var från 1925 gift med konstnären Märtha Bolin (1902–1988), dotter till överste Arvid Bolin och Anna Gibson, och fick barnen Ann Charlotte 1927, Lena 1930, Gustav 1935 och Martina Clason 1938. Clason finns representerad vid Nationalmuseum  och statens porträttsamling på Gripsholms slott.

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Stefanskyrkan, Stockholm (invändig ombyggnad) 1925–1926
Ombyggnad av Stockholms handelskammares hus, Västra Trädgårdsgatan 9, 1922–1923
Åbyggnad av B Carlssons hus, Jakobstorg 1, 1925–1928
Kanslihuset, Mynttorget 2 (tillsammans med W Gahn) 1923–1937
Städernas allmänna brandstodsbolag, Birger Jarlsgatan 16, 1934–1935
Tingshus i Katrineholm, 1938–1939
Thulehuset, Sveavägen 40–48, 1938–1940
Ombyggnad av von Rosenska palatset, Strandvägen 55, 1940–1941
Murmästareämbetets hus, Nybrogatan 22, 1951 (fasadändring)
Restaurering av Bergslagets museum 1920–1921
Bergslagets direktörsbostad, Falun 1932 (Ursprungs-arkitekt av bostaden Klas Boman 1907). Ombyggnation, Inklusive utformning av ny trädgård. Villavägen 10 / Lorichsvägen 2 Till stor del Identisk med interiör från fadern Isak Gustaf Clasons ritningar av Kåvi Säteri 1929
Dalarnas brandstodsbolag, Falun 1933.
Södermanlands läns brandstodsbolag 1924–1926
Trefaldighetskyrkan i Kristianstad 1925–1928
Stockholms Byggmästareföreningens hus, Wennerbergsgatan 10, 1959
Sundsvallsbanken, Storgatan 30, Luleå 1960–1961

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• Court - Ordered Absolute • 1,085+/- Acres in 24 Tracts • 9 Farms - All with a 5 Mile Radius • Tracts Ranging from 5+/- to 103+/- Acres • Investment Quality Land • 863+/- FSA Crop Acres • 2019 Crop and Timber Rights to Buyer • Multiple Houses w/Barns • Complete 400+ Free-Stall Dairy Set-up • Cattle Finishing Cafo site w/120k bushel of Storage • Wooded/Pasture/Recreational Acreage • These farms present a great opportunity for the farmer, investor, or livestock producer. Come examine all the possibilities these unique farms have to offer. • Only 50 Miles to Dayton, OH and 45 miles to Indianapolis, IN • Online Bidding Available You may bid online during the auction. You must be registered One Week in Advance of the Auction to bid online. For online bidding information, call Schrader Auction Company.
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TRACT 1: 73+/- Acres with 70+/- tillable. This is an investment quality tract with extensive pattern drainage tile (new in 2015) and a good mix of Cyclone, Miami and Crosby soils. Ease of farming operation with frontage on SR 38 and a nice culvert entrance. 2.8+/- acres of woods included on this tract.
TRACT 2: 5.1+/- Acres nearly all tillable. 72% Cyclone soils.
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Tract 6: 71+/- Acres nearly all tillable w/frontage on Bear Creek and Brick Church Rds. Predominately Treaty, Crosby and Losantville soils, excellent fertility. Nice long rows for ease of operation. Also includes a leased service tower with monthly income.
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301+/- Acres located in Section 4 of Dalton Township, Wayne Co. w/frontage on Franklin and Dalton Rds.
TRACT 8: 91+/- Acres with 87+/- tillable. Entrance off of Dalton Rd. This is quality land with a mix of Westland, Shoals, and Eldean soils.
Tract 9: 11± ac Swing Tract with 8+/- tillable acres and the balance in creek and trees.
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Tract 11: 20± ac nearly all tillable w/frontage on Franklin Rd.
Tract 12: 43± ac with a mix of pasture, woods and rolling hills. Great recreational tract or potential homesite. 40 ft. owned access along Franklin Rd.
Tract 13: 53± ac with 16+/- acres of tillable ground. Features mature woods and rolling hills. Excellent opportunity for hunting tract with areas suitable for food plots. Great recreational tract or potential homesite. 40 ft. owned access along Franklin Rd.
Tract 14: 34± ac with woods, grassland, and 5+/- acres of open tillable land. 40 ft. owned access along Franklin Rd. Consider combining Tracts 12-14 for 133+/- acre hunting/recreational tract that is situated between (2) larger wooded areas.
(4) Silos including: (2) concrete stave silos and (2) Harvestores converted to dry grain storage.
Multiple open-sided cattle barns including: (1) 50 ft.x114 ft.x14, (2) 54 ft.x163 ft.x14 ft., (3) 36 ft.x226 ft.x8 ft., (4) 21 ft.x60 ft.x14 ft.
Tract 16: 61+/- Acres all tillable less Rds. Consists of a nice mix of Cyclone, Crosby, & Miamian soils. Frontage on 2 Rds.
Tract 17: 9± ac with a single family home and 2-story livestock barn. Approximately 5+/- acres of productive tillable ground included in this tract.
Tract 18: 44± ac with 42+/- tillable acres. Abundant frontage along CR 200 N and CR 900 E.
Tract 19: 6± ac including fenced pasture and old home-site. There is an existing septic system on this lot.
Tract 20: 70± ac nearly all tillable with frontage on CR 200 N. Quality Cyclone and Crosby soils included here.
Tract 21: 80± ac with 51+/- tillable acres and 25+/- acres enrolled in the Indiana Classified Forest Program. Frontage on (2) Rds.
Tract 22: 17± ac with fenced pasture and tillable land. Older improvements including multiple livestock barns, metal sided machinery shed and (2) older houses. Established lane and well on this property.
Tract 23: 103± ac with 94+/- tillable acres. Nice long rows for ease of operation. There is a mature woods consisting of approximately 8.52+/- acres at the back (northwest) corner of this tract.
29+/- Acres located in Section 24 of Blue River Township with frontage on Buck Creek Rd.
TRACT 24: 29+/- Acres all tillable less Rds. Consists of a nice mix of Cyclone, Crosby, & Losantville soils.


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Naked Browser-If you need an incredibly simple and basic Internet browser for Android, while still being useful, Naked Browser is for you. There's a learning curve thanks to its extremely minimalist user interface, but if you're interested in being a little more technical with things for the sake of speed and efficiency, it's worth it.
Naked Browser is very simple, but this means it uses very little memory and there is no risk of tracking anything. This is ideal for both mindful security, and users with aging Android phones who need to worry about memory and disk space.
Naked Browser still offers some useful features, such as tabs, and the ability to restore where it was in the event of an accident. For the most part, however, this is a browser designed for more minimalist needs.
Opera-If you want a feature-rich browser that still manages to be fast enough, Opera is a good option to chase. It has a native ad blocker that effectively gets rid of intrusive ads while maintaining your privacy and has a built-in VPN that further enhances your privacy and security while browsing.
Elsewhere, there's a personalized news feed that provides A-curated news tailored to your interests. There is also a night mode to make browsing at night easier, as well as other accessibility settings, such as being able to adjust the text size. For an all-round Android browser, Opera has above all.
Firefox -A popular name over the years, Firefox for Android is very stable regardless of the age of your Android phone, so you will rarely experience a crash or a crash. It is also designed with privacy in mind, with monitoring protection that automatically blocks parts of web pages that attempt to monitor browsing activity.
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Vietnam competed in the 2021 Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi as host nation from 12 to 23 May 2022. The Vietnamese contingent consists of 965 athletes, competing in all 40 sports.

The host Vietnam emerged in the medal tally as the overall champions after nineteen years recording 205 gold medals (the most by any country thus far) along with 125 silvers and 106 bronzes, accumulating 446 total medals in total.

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Troubled Zardari ready to quit: Report
Islamabad: Pakistan`s beleaguered President Asif Ali Zardari is ready to resign and call an early general elections if parties in the ruling coalition wanted him to take such a step, according to a media report today.
Zardari made the announcement while chairing a meeting of the top leadership of the ruling Pakistan People`s Party and its coalition partners on Tuesday night after the Supreme Court warned that action could be taken against him and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for failing to reopen high-profile graft cases, The News daily quoted its sources as saying.
The President, who is also co-chairman of the PPP, told his allies "that he was elected as the President with their help, and if they wanted, he was ready to resign and even to hold new elections", the report said.
There was no mention of Zardari`s offer to quit in a statement issued by the presidency after the meeting. The statement said the leaders of the ruling coalition had decided to call an urgent session of parliament to discuss the apex court`s warning.
The President cut short a visit to Karachi and rushed back to Islamabad On Tuesday for a series of meetings that assessed the fallout of the apex court`s order in a case related to the National Reconciliation Ordinance, a graft amnesty that had benefited Zardari and over 8,000 others.
Since the apex court struck down the NRO in December 2009, it has been pressuring the government to reopen cases of alleged money laundering against Zardari in Switzerland. The government has refused to do so, saying the President enjoys immunity from prosecution under the Constitution.
During the meeting of the PPP and its coalition partners, some leaders like PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Awami National Party head Asfandyar Wali Khan advised the government to avoid an "emotional reaction" and to find a way forward in keeping with a policy of reconciliation. However, some hawks within the PPP advocated the adoption of an "aggressive stance" and asked the government to move ahead with a "no-surrender policy".
Zardari assured his allies that he would "go to last stage to save democracy and democratic institutions as he did not believe in confrontation", The News reported. At the same time, Zardari made it clear that there would be "no compromise on principles".
Prime Minister Gilani said the elected representatives of the people would "not take dictation from anyone for following the Constitution". Gilani was quoted as saying: "The parliament is a supreme institution of the country."
The Express Tribune quoted its sources as saying that an "overwhelming majority of the core committee members" of the PPP, which too met on Tuesday night, wanted to "fight the party`s case in the full glare of the public eye".
However, "quieter voices" urged the PPP leadership not to adopt a confrontational posture. The PPP and its allies also considered a proposal to bring a resolution in parliament in support of the government.


Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron Safe Harbour enhances the wellbeing of sailors in Port Philip Bay.
This major redevelopment focuses on creating an attractive and welcoming multipurpose facility for members and visitors. It includes 110 additional wet berths and upgrade of 35 visitor marina berths, extension of existing wave wall and removal of existing wave attenuator. The existing slipway, winch house and gantry crane are also to be replaced.
Original timber from the slipway is being reused for the stairs, joinery and cladding on the external facade of the new clubhouse.
The new clubhouse and upgraded safe harbour means visiting sailors can enjoy temporary membership as well as high grade marina facilities such as 24 hour toilets, showers and laundry with Wi-Fi access at the berths.


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W3C Looks to Improve Responsive Design With New Media Queries
Scott Gilbertson
The W3C, the group that helps create web standards, is hard at work on CSS Media Queries level 4, which gives developers several handy new tools for building responsive websites.
A handful of the many screens your site needs to handle. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com
The W3C, the group charged with overseeing the creation of web standards like HTML and CSS, recently gave its official blessing to one of the cornerstones of responsive web design – CSS Media Queries.
CSS Media Queries are the basic building block of responsive design, which, at its simplest, just means building websites that work on any device. That way, when a dozen new tablets suddenly appear on the scene you can relax knowing your site will look and perform as intended, no matter which device your audience is using.
Now that the Media Queries Level 3 spec has been finalized, work has started on CSS 4 Media Queries, or more formally, Media Queries Level 4.
The W3C's draft spec of Media Queries Level 4 adds three new features you can query in your stylesheets, including:
script – Query to check if JavaScript is enabled.
pointer – Query to see what sort of input device is being used (mouse, finger, stylus etc).
hover – Query to see if the :hover pseudo-class will work on the current device.
Perhaps the most interesting is the middle option, pointer, for which the user agent (your browser) is expected to return the value "none," "coarse" or "fine." According to the current draft of the spec, "typical examples of a 'fine' pointing system are a mouse, a track-pad or a stylus-based touch screen. Finger-based touch screens would qualify as 'coarse.'"
Using the pointer query would make it possible to enlarge, for example, form controls on screens where a larger radio buttons might make things easier to select, or perhaps to change how paint flow is handled in a drawing app.
Of course, while potentially handy, none of these queries are yet supported in any web browser, so don't go using them just yet. That said, the more progressive browsers like Opera, Chrome and Firefox will likely add preliminary support as the spec progresses. It's also likely that some enterprising web developer will create a polyfill for older browsers before too long.
Scott Gilbertson is a senior writer and reviewer for WIRED, specializing in portable technology. He was previously a writer and editor for WIRED's Webmonkey.com, covering the browser wars, web standards, the independent web, and all aspects of internet culture. He studied at the University of Georgia.
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"Shooting star" was his first album closer since "Every Grain of Sand" to share that slightly somnambulant feel, a gorgeous melody, caressed vocal and an abiding conviction that there are two kinds of people, good (i.e. saved) and lost people.
This was the 6th "Oh Mercy" recording session, and Dylan also landed another master: "Everything Is Broken".
If it wasn't for Elvis and Hank Williams, I couldn't be doing what I do today.
Hank Williams" box set (Mercury Records, 2000).
For wealth and what it will buy.
That gold and silver will melt away.
And deny my God and doom my soul.
"House of Gold" – original recording: Hank Williams demo, late 1949/early 1950 (registered with Library of Congress, Apr 21, 1950; released — with overdubs — on Polydor LP 833-752, 1987).


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Anne DeFrance is president of Club Deportivo in Kino Bay, Mexico.
Welcome to our website -- a virtual tour of our unique club, established in 1977 where friendships are formed and soon become family. We are unique because first and foremost Club Deportivo offers Rescue One, the only 24/7 rescue service of its kind in Mexico. The club also offers a social life, connection, security and information. It's a place to go for help, friendship and fun. To the Kino Bay community, it's an example of the best that we can offer in return for the "good life" in this beautiful place. As you travel through Mexico, you will find no place that offers a club like Club Deportivo; it's one of a kind. Enjoy browsing.
Many of our activities take place in a steel arched building three blocks east of Mar de Cortez on Cadiz that was built in 1981. Club Deportivo is now seeking to acquire the land it occupies and secure its home in Kino Bay on a permanent basis.
Rescue One is the number one activity of our club and is the reason the club was established. Rescue One is a 24/7 365 days per year service that provides a safety net for boaters using the Sea of Cortez and travelers crossing the Sonoran Desert. It is also the communications hub for emergencies in our community. This service is open to all, not just our members. It is the only service of its kind in Mexico.
The Club membership has grown and changed from a mostly fishing population to a population of expatriates from the United States, Canada, and other places around the world. Many members now own homes in Kino, with some retirees living here year round. The Club building has been enlarged and expanded to include a large meeting space, kitchen, bar, library, and offices.
The Club's activities include sporting events and games, fishing and golf tournaments, dinners and breakfasts, fund-raising events for local organizations, classes, and informational and social gatherings. The facilities are often used by community groups and governmental agencies for large gatherings. It serves as a collection site for emergency food and supplies and for recyclable goods.
The Club and its members are active in Kino, providing humanitarian and emergency services, employing local workers, hiring local contractors, frequenting local restaurants, and buying local products. The economic impact is great, and the presence of Club Deportivo and its member population contributes to the perception of Kino Bay as a highly attractive tourist and retirement destination.
Officers of Club Deportivo 2019-20
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First Vice President: Ron Leetch
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Second Vice President: Laurel Hakim 242-1193
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Secretary: Maggy Becker
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Treasurer: Joan Fairweather
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Club Deportivo Manager: Betty Martinez at the Club 242-0321
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SYNOPSIS: The purpose of this research is to explore Aboriginal understandings of suicides from a Social and Emotional Wellbeing Framework. Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people believe that mental health and mental illness focus too much on problems and don't properly describe all the factors that make up and influence wellbeing. The best way to understand these different terms is to think of mental health and mental illness as part of a person's social and emotional wellbeing. The term social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) is used by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to describe the social, emotional, spiritual, and cultural wellbeing of a person. It further recognises that connection to land, culture, spirituality, family, and community are important to people and can impact on their wellbeing (Australian Health Ministers, 2003). It also recognises that a person's social and emotional wellbeing is influenced by policies and past events.
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A plurality of registered voters in the US have chosen not to identify with a political party, one sign that the influence of the two major parties is receding. The west coast — Oregon, Washington, and California — a region that has traditionally been thoroughly Democratic, is beginning to see a party identification shift.
According to a poll conducted by Pew Research, 37 percent of US voters chose the 'Independent' label over 32 percent who chose Democrat, and 25 percent who identified as Republican. While the percentage of independent voters at the national level is still higher than it is across all West Coast states, that gap is beginning to close.
Following the 2012 elections, an estimated 33 percent of Washington voters identified as either independent or chose not to associate with either of the two major parties. In 2005, nearly 29 percent of Washingtonians identified as an independent, a four percent increase in seven years.
California voters do lean more Democratic, with an estimated 44 percent endorsing the party label. Twenty-seven percent of California voters are unaffiliated, the highest percentage ever. In 2000, the number of registered voters unaffiliated with either of the two major parties was 15 percent , a 12 percent point swing over the course of three presidential elections.
Oregon bucks the trend somewhat. An estimated 45 percent of the electorate identify as Democrats, with Republicans at 37 percent and Independent/Others at 18 percent. This illustrates a 5 percent decrease from 2005.
While Oregon may have seen a rise in partisan identification, the number of independent voters across the West Coast is still vastly increasing. Washington contains roughly 6.8 million people represented by 10 representatives in the House, California's roughly 33 million people are represented by 53 House representatives, while Oregon's 5 House members represent 3.8 million people.
The rate at which nonaffiliated voters have grown along the West Coast may ebb and flow as policies and regimes change, but there is certainly an overarching trend that could soon envelop more states with key influence at the federal level.


WASHINGTON - American leaders unveiled a statue of Rosa Parks yesterday, briefly setting aside political differences to honor the civil-rights heroine, who is the first black woman to have a monument inside the Capitol.
WASHINGTON � American leaders unveiled a statue of Rosa Parks yesterday, briefly setting aside political differences to honor the civil-rights heroine, who is the first black woman to have a monument inside the Capitol.
Parks� refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus for a white passenger in 1955 sparked a boycott that galvanized the movement for equal rights for blacks in Montgomery and nationwide.
Black men and women stayed off the buses, instead walking or arranging other rides to work for more than a year to push for desegregation.
President Barack Obama joined congressional leaders from both political parties to unveil the statue of Parks, who died in 2005 at age 92.
Unlike nearby statues of men standing, the one of Parks shows her seated � the position of quiet resistance that led to her arrest.
�We celebrate a seamstress, slight in stature but mighty in courage,� Obama said in his remarks.
�She lived a life of activism, but also a life of dignity and grace. And in a single moment, with the simplest of gestures, she helped change America � and change the world,� he said.
Obama, who seemed moved by the spirited singing of a military chorus, joined House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi at the event.
Masking their political differences, the five leaders made polite conversation, and each gave a tribute to Parks.
Boehner, R-West Chester, compared her likeness to the Statue of Liberty and noted the irony of her statue�s placement near the statue of the man who led the Confederacy in its fight to maintain slavery during the Civil War.
�We place her � here in a chamber where many fought to prevent a day like this, and right in the gaze of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy,� Boehner said.
Obama said it was people such as Parks who paved the way for his election as the first black president in 2008.


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Oprah picked me! Really! I swear!
Now this takes some serious stones: A self-published author claims that his new book was selected for Oprah's Book Club, and even publishes the "transcript" of his appearance on her talk show, not knowing (or, perhaps, caring) that such a claim could be easily disproved. Thomas Kilduff of Boston's Weekly Dig seems to have been the first to peel this particular onion:
We called him and asked when exactly he went before a live studio audience on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
"June 18, I believe," Schneider said, "but you'll have to check with my publicist."
Schneider's publicist didn't return calls for comment, nor did the author respond to requests to elaborate on his story.
Unfortunately, Oprah's people did, and they weren't amused. I suspect that they were particularly unamused by the "transcript" of the appearance on the liar's website, which has all the verisimiltude of one of those dreams we've all had where we accept an Oscar or a Heisman Trophy. If this is an example of the liar's literary skill, it's safe to assume he won't be moving out of self-publishing any time soon:
Oprah: So fasten your seat belts… because you are about to meet the author of Crossed Paths, who flew in from Cape Cod, Massachusetts just to spend some time with us today. Please join me in welcoming Bill Schneider.
Oprah: Bill, I must tell you that I immediately fell in love with this book when I first read it.
Schneider: Thank you. Thanks very much.
Oprah: Crossed Paths is truly a gem of story. Tell me how you came to write this very poignant book.
Schneider: Well, Oprah, it's a story that really tugged at my heartstrings… and, ah, I felt very certain about this being a story that needed to be shared....
One person who swallowed this whole is Steve Desroches, a reporter for the Cape Codder, who profiled this liar and seemed to do no fact-checking at all. Apparently nothing about the story tripped his bullshit meter. Not the fact that Oprah isn't inclined to select publish-on-demand titles. Not the fact that no one else in a very small town seemed to be talking about it. Not the fact that this best-selling author was still working for the town's tourism board. Today Desroches explains:
I think it is important that as I go about my work as a reporter to not become too cynical and to think with compassion and understanding as I learn and write about people who may be different from myself. So I've thought hard about this. I guess everyone lies from time to time....
What I do know is that I feel like a fool and I was taken for one. And since I guess I didn't learn it in journalism school, I will check out the facts in my stories much more closely...
And as for the bogus transcript, well, hey, Dan Rather didn't check out those fake documents about the Bush administration and the Iraq War.
Well, hey.
I can only surmise that Mr. Desroches is very, very young. And his editor is equally to blame for this. But here's a tip for both of them. The liar has taken down the Oprah claim from his website (and that website should've been a clue right there), but his biography is still up there:
Bill's analysis (primarily about the travel and the music industries) has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Billboard, New York Times, London Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Village Voice.... Bill's teleplays include Terror on the Thames for the BBC and Luck of the Draw for PBS.
That's quite a c.v. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be "too cynical."
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The violence-plagued world of poetry criticism
Normally I wouldn't give a rip about squabbles in the world of academic poetry, but this 2002 Slate piece by Eric McHenry, about a controversial poetry critic named William Logan, had me from this sentence:
"For the most part, academic poetry has managed to remain free of the rivalries, violence, and excess that trouble its more flamboyant cousin, gangsta rap...."
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The funniest novel I've read this year
...is Winner of the National Book Award, by Jincy Willett. (Yes, that's the title.)
I picked it up because Willett showed up on that New York magazine list of The Best Writers You've Never Read, which was dead-on in this case. The back cover had blurbs from the likes of David Sedaris, Tom Perrotta, and Augusten Burroughs ("the funniest novel I have read...ever"). The phrase "laughing out loud" has been seriously devalued in our LOL world, but twice in the first 20 pages I had to stick my finger between the pages to keep from losing my place as I shook from laughter.
What's it about? Well -- middle-aged twins. Abigail is the town pump and accused murderess whose story has just been told in a cheapjack true-crime book; Dorcas is her mordant sister, the town librarian who is leafing through the book while awaiting Hurricane Pandora. That's it. And it's hilarious.
Willett's website, "I Would Not Burn the Library of Alexandria For You," is just as funny; her sales page is called "Buy Something, You Cheap Chiseler," and it has the best author biography ever:
Who is Jincy?
An aging, bitter, unpleasant woman living in Escondido, California, who spends her days parsing the sentences of total strangers and her nights teaching and writing. Sometimes, late at night, in the dark, she laughs inappropriately.
I half-love Jincy Willett, and I'm quite sure the sentiment is not reciprocated, which makes me love her even more.
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Fiction & disasters (natural and unnatural)
Whenever there's a crisis in America, writers spring up to try to make sense out of it, to turn tragedy into art. For a few years, everyone is too close. What comes out is agitprop, or sentimental slop, or some sort of placeholder that takes up the space until another writer has the time and wisdom to turn the incomprehensible into a story that both encapsulates the crisis and, somehow, doesn't need the crisis to be a work of art. It took John Steinbeck to make The Grapes of Wrath out of the Dust Bowl and the Depression, Michael Herr to synthesize the Vietnam experience into Dispatches, Tony Kushner to forge Angels in America out of the devastation of AIDS.
It took Patty Friedmann less than two years to produce A Little Bit Ruined, which is one of the earliest in a raft of novels about Hurricane Katrina, but I think it will end up being remembered as one of the first and best. I finished it last night and am still blown away by Friedmann's storytelling and sense of humor. Not sure yet if it's her best novel (that may be Side Effects), but there are characters and passages in there that are both universal and so Katrina-specific that they're indelible. Like this one, in which the delusional narrator, Eleanor Rushing, finds herself in Houston and can think of nothing but going home:
And from all I sense, people from New Orleans now are citizens of everywhere and should have hermit crab sorts of privileges. If we burrow in somewhere, we're home, and no one should take anything away from us....
Houston is hundreds of square miles of nothing but Metairie. A warehouse for extremely comfortable people. Their homes probably don't have grease in the kitchens or dirt on the baseboards, they park in their driveways, for Chrissakes. And I've never seen so many supermarkets. One supermarket has a Barnes & Noble next door. Every franchise in the world has an outlet every ten blocks here. No one needs to worry about imagining anything because whatever they see on TV is available, and they don't have to make anything up. If they see an infomercial and want that stuff that sprays on carpets and eliminates pet odors, it's in a store nearby. If their kid sees the XBox360 at a friend's house, it's in six Houston stores when it's not anywhere else.
I heard Richard's little girls turning into Houstonians in Radio Shack that day. Too much comfort here. I haven't seen one bumper sticker. This is a terrible excuse for a city because it is just a giant suburb, and people with character shouldn't live here.
Richard can leave Tina and his children here, but he needs to go back to New Orleans. He can do reconstructive surgery. There will always be damage.
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Writers to be grateful for: Patty Friedmann
One of New Orleans' best writers, Patty Friedmann, is back with a new book: A Little Bit Ruined, the sequel to her second-most-wonderful book, Eleanor Rushing. ( Eleanor was #1 until Patty published Side Effects last year and blew her previous works out of the water...or "out da box," as we say.)
A Little Bit Ruined is also one of the first big pieces of fiction to examine the city post-Katrina. As Patty says on her website:
Except for education and natural disasters, I've always lived in New Orleans. That's the only part of my bio anyone needs to know. As a writer, I need to be here to hear the voices on the streets—and, yes, in my head. My work is darkly comical, and New Orleans is an engaging old lady in every story, a beauty past her prime who still looks in mirrors, unaware that she's ravaged, even now, too preoccupied with her looks ever to have taken care of her goofy children....
The storm lifted the board and showed the termites underneath here, but I'm still not sure anybody gets us. We're the only city in the world with a collective sense of humor and irony, and that's all anyone needs to know when reading one of my books.
Yes, yes, yes, and true dat.
Years ago, Patty and I both had short plays in the wonderful omnibus series Native Tongues. Mine was about a convenience-store clerk in the French Quarter; Patty's was about one of the city's ubiquitous meter maids, complaining about her job, her family, her hyperactive kid. The woman was running short on the boy's medication, and was trying to decide how to ration out the last Ritalin -- should she give it to him before school, or when he got home? -- which spawned a line that made me crack up every time I heard it: "What's the use of him being good if I'm not home to see it?"
A Little Bit Ruined is, today, at #297,657 at Amazon.com. In a perfect world, Patty would be jousting with J.K. Rowling for #1 and the woman who wrote The Secret would be gathering trash alongside the I-10. But that's life.
(Oh, and Patty now has a blog, and that's pretty funny, too.)
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Today's Willamette Week
I've got two short pieces in today's Willamette Week--a look at some Oregonians who are continuing the Katrina relief effort, and a review of John Sheppard's novel Small Town Punk (Sheppard is reading at Powell's on Thursday night).
Very much worth reading, in a "welcome to Portland" way: Julie Sabatier's story about a local collective bookstore, the 9/11 "alternative theory" group that meets there, and the former AM Northwest happy-chat woman turned gubernatorial candidate and vegetarian Christian 9/11 conspiracy theorist (are you following me?) who was disinvited from speaking to the group because it turns out she's also against gay marriage and abortion rights. I hate it when that happens.
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Books are obsolete
No one reads book reviews. At least that's the conclusion of the shareholders (I hope it's not the editors) at the Los Angeles Times, which is planning to shrink its Sunday book review section, package it with the op-eds, drop it from the Sunday paper, and put it in the Saturday edition (which is the least-read edition of the week at any major daily).
The San Francisco Chronicle had a good piece on what it might mean for other newspapers, which will be watching the Times experiment:
The plan to retool the L.A. Times Book Review was first reported by LAObserved, an online media review. The report set readers on edge. Any such change could suggest a reduction in book coverage nationwide, since the Times runs one of the few remaining stand-alone book sections in a daily newspaper. (The others are in the [San Francisco] Chronicle, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and San Diego Union-Tribune. The Boston Globe merged its opinion pages and book review in 2002.)
And the Wall Street Journal chimes in:
Book publishers in recent years have moved away from buying ads in standalone book-review sections in favor of paying to stack mounds of books in the front of chain bookstores....
In an era of targeted marketing, publishers say the best time to reach readers is when they are in the stores with money in their pockets looking to make an immediate purchase. But with a sea of titles in the stores -- the average 25,000-square-foot store in the Barnes & Noble Inc. chain now stocks between 125,000 and 150,000 titles -- the only way for publishers to stand out is to pay for real estate in the front and pile those books up high.
Technology writer and book reviewer Mark A. Kellner offers an interesting take on the situation:
It may not be an exact equivalent, but 35 years ago, a lot of newspapers had regular columns -- by 'moonlighting' staff or low-paid or non-paid freelancers -- covering both stamp and coin collecting....
Times change. One- or two-paragraph book reviews on amazon.com often carry as much weight with book buyers as anything Michiko Kakutani might write in the NYT.
Mmmmaybe. A reader-submitted Amazon review is certainly cheaper. But most of the reviews I read there are either one-star or five-stars (total crap! total genius!), and a lot of them are obviously written by people who haven't read the book, but who have an ideological ax that needs scratching, an ideological itch that needs grinding.
Naturally, I don't like the trend -- book reviewing puts ducats in my pockets. But I think the papers are missing a larger point: When you're complaining about slumping subscription rates, why would you make a move destined to disappoint people who are avid readers?
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Liveblogging the Tennessee Williams festival
I'm going to New Orleans at the end of March for the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, and I've decided to liveblog the event for those who want to be there but can't attend.
The Festival is always a blast--besides the panels, interviews, booksignings, and such, it wouldn't be New Orleans without lots of parties (both planned and impromptu), food, and liquor (they sell mint juleps in the courtyard outside the main venue). Somebody is guaranteed to misbehave.
It's a great list of participants this year, including Pulitzer Prize winners Richard Ford and Yusef Komunyakaa; local notables like Douglas Brinkley, Chris Wiltz, and Andrei Codrescu; and big names including Calvin Trillin, Sharyn McCrumb, and John Waters. And I'm really looking forward to meeting Haven Kimmel, whose A Girl Named Zippy is one of my favorite modern memoirs ever.
Will liveblogging work? Does New Orleans have a reliable wireless Internet connection anywhere in the French Quarter? Will anyone care? Who knows. It'll be fun.
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Swami Vivekananda Yoga & Meditation School is situated in Rishikesh, which is known as "world Capital of Yoga."The beauty, serenity and climate of this place features the ideally suitable environment for the practice of Yoga. Our Teachings are based on the five points of yoga—postures, breathing, relaxation, meditation, and philosophy. We offer drop-in classes, intensive-courses and yoga-teacher-training-course as well as courses in yoga and meditation.
Every yoga instructor and staff member of S V Yoga School is well behaved and providing the best for each and every student. It is a family where you built love, strength and belief by the powers of yoga. You feel motivated after each yoga class.
Our school is very close to near Ganga River, because of very close to Ganga River we take blessings from the Goddess Ganga with its magical and positive energy along with fresh air which help to transform your thoughts.
As we know in yoga, a perfect posture is needed otherwise a wrong posture will effect your body. Yoga with proper alignment offer a way for students to correct their own poses. We focus this problem and managed two trained and qualified yoga teacher in one class.
We believe "Perfect Alignment often feels like the holy grail of any Vigorous yoga practice".
Those students did yoga from our school they are also part of our yoga family, after doing the 28 or 35 days yoga teacher training course. So, we organized a special opportunity only for our Ex-YTTC students.
If they want to do yoga classes at our place after finished the yoga teacher training or in future, they can do 5 yoga classes free of cost.
It's my second time in Swami Vivekananda and I affirm that It's an excellent school. I have done the TTC for 200 hours and I would definitely repeat it again with the 300 hours. A very enriching experience, I've felt very comfortable and I've made an important learning about Yoga. Magnificent teachers, profesionalism and a very complete program. If you are looking for quality teaching, I highly recommend this school. Learning: 5 Teaching:5 Management:5 Facilities: 5 Thank you so much for all, I hope to come back soon!
I finished my 200 hour TTC course with Swami Vivekananda Yoga & Meditation School in July in 2016. I have learned so much with them and they are always happy to share and giving supports in all aspect of yoga,even when I am far away, answering my questions on line! All teachers in this school have their own strength and quality. For those who are looking for good yoga teachers to practice with in Rishikesh, you won't be disappointed!
I just finished the 200 hour yoga training course. The teachers are very passionate and full of yogic knowledge. All of them are not only my teachers but they are also friends and family. I learned how deep and extense Yoga is compared to whats popular in the western world. I highly recomend to study here.
The teacher training we just completed brought so much joy and love. The team are of excellent quality, with so much care, knowledge and professionalism. To get a chance in being part of the special family at Swami Vivekananda was blissful and heart warming. Namaste.


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Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (Caracas, 10 d'octubre de 1944) és un prelat veneçolà que actualment serveix com a Arquebisbe metropolità de Mérida. El 19 de novembre de 2016 va ingressar al Col·legi Cardenalici.

Biografia
Nascut a Caracas, estudià al seminari interdiocesà. Posteriorment aconseguí titular-se en teologia per la Universitat de Salamanca. Al 1975 es doctorà en teologia pastoral a l'Institut Superior Pastoral de la Universitat de Salamanca.

El 13 d'octubre de 2008 rebé un doctorat honoris causa en història per la Universitat Catòlica Andrés Bello.

Presbiterat
Va ser ordenat prevere el 30 de juliol de 1967 per Miguel Antonio Salas Salas.

Episcopat
Va ser elegit bisbe auxiliar de Mérida el 23 de juliol de 1983. El 17 de juliol següent va ser consagrat bisbe pel cardenal José Alí Lebrún Moratinos, arquebisbe de Caracas, amb Miguel Antonio Salas Salas, arquebisbe de Mérida i Domingo Roa Pérez, arquebisbe de Maracaibo actuant com a coconsagradors.

Esdevingué arquebisbe de Mérida el 30 d'octubre de 1991.

Ha estat president de la Conferència Episcopal Veneçolana (CEV). Des del 2007 és Vicepresident Primer del Consell Episcopal Llatinoamericà (CELAM).

Ha estat opositor del president Hugo Chávez i ha estat objecte d'agressions verbals per part de Chávez.

El 9 d'octubre de 2016 el papa Francesc anuncià la creació a cardenal en el consistori a celebrar el 19 de novembre següent. Va rebre el títol de Cardenal Prevere de Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio.

Controvèrsies

Baltzazar Porras ha estat crític del govern del president veneçolà Hugo Chávez, la qual cosa ha fet que patís agressions verbals per part de Chávez i atacs dels seus seguidors.

Tot i aquesta evident animadversió quedarà per a la història el moment quan Baltazar Porras acceptà de bon grat acompanyar a Chávez durant la seva sortida temporal del poder, durant els fets del 2002. Encara no es coneixen els detalls d'aquell encontre.

 WikiLeaks
El 10 de desembre de 2010, el diari espanyol El País publicà l'extracte d'un cable de l'ambaixada estatunidenca a Caracas filtrat perWikiLeaks. El cable, de data de 2005, tracta d'una presumpta reunió en la que Porras hauria suggerit el govern dels Estats Units parlar més clar en contra d'Hugo Chávez. Porras també hauria dit que els europeus havien estat febles amb Chávez, especialment després de la marxa de Jose Maria Aznar del govern espanyol.

En una conversa telefonia realitzada el 15 de desembre per a l'agència de notícies catòlica ACI Prensa, Baltazar Porras qualificà de «guió cinematogràfic de ciència-ficció» la informació donada per Wikileaks sobre ell. A més, acusà l'Agència Veneçolana de Notícies de divulgar el cable de forma tendenciosa i amb "qualificatius" en contra dels bisbes veneçolans.

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Arquebisbes
Cardenals
Cardenals creats pel Papa Francesc
Persones de Caracas
Alumnes de la Universitat de Salamanca
Catolicisme a Veneçuela
Alumnes de la Universitat Pontifícia de Salamanca
Religiosos americans
Naixements del 1944


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Countering Russia
A bipartisan group of researchers from America have launched a new website aimed at tracking Russia-supported dis-information..
A bipartisan group of researchers from America have launched a new website aimed at tracking Russia-supported dis-information and propaganda found on Twitter.
Russia has been accused of tampering with the elections in US and France in the past 12 months. The site was developed by a group called Alliance for Securing Democracy.
The general consensus among the US intelligence agencies is that Russia interfered with the US Presidential elections. The country has been accused of conducting an influence campaign against Hillary Clinton. The servers of the Democratic National Committee were hacked and the contents were reportedly shared with Wikileaks, which published them. The email account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta was also hacked. Kremlin has denied any role in the hacking.
Similarly, just days before France's presidential election took place, hackers leaked emails from then-candidate Emmanuel Macron. The leaks were ultimately not successful as Macron still won the election. However, the director of NSA, Michael Rogers told the US Congress that the agency could see Russia's handprint in this hacking as well.
The Alliance for Securing Democracy is a non-profit bipartisan group aimed at tracking Russian propaganda on Twitter. It has been endorsed by former Deputy Director of the CIA, Michael Morell and Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff.
The main objective of the site, which has been called Hamilton 68, is to provide real-time analysis of Tweets from 600 accounts that the researchers believe advance Russian propaganda. The group hopes to help journalists and ordinary people make informed decisions on the data they receive through Twitter.
Laura Rosenberger, Director of the Alliance said, "The approach we're taking is not about labeling anything as 'real' or 'fake', or exposing particular accounts. We're simply using analytical tools to show what messages this network is promoting." The group also notes that not all these accounts "take a paycheck from Kremlin."
Our assessment is that websites like Hamilton 68 can provide users with tools to sort through the multitude of content that is available online. However, it remains to be seen if such sites can truly counter the incredible speed in which information and dis-information spread through social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.