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KMR Blog Legislation & Reform Sentencing Discrimination
Sentencing Discrimination
Published on Friday, 26 December 2008
Written by ACLU
S. 1711/H.R. 4545, the Drug Sentencing Reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act of 2007 introduced by Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Representative Shelia Jackson-Lee (D-TX) would eliminate the current disparity in federal sentences for crack versus powder cocaine offenses.
The 100 to 1 disparity has had a disproportionate impact on African-Americans. For example, in 2006, whites constituted 8.8% and African-Americans constituted more than 80% of the defendants sentenced under the harsh federal crack cocaine laws, despite the fact that more than 66% of crack cocaine users in the United States are white or Hispanic.
In four separate reports to Congress issued in 1995, 1997, 2002 and 2007, the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) urged Congress to reconsider the statutory penalties for crack cocaine. Judges, federal prosecutors, medical professionals and other experts have all joined the USSC in calling for a reassessment of current sentencing policy. Additionally, there have been a number of recent developments surrounding this issue:
In November 2007, new sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses went into effect as the result of an amendment proposed by the USSC in April that went unchallenged by Congress. The USSC estimates that the amendment would reduce crack sentences by 15 months on average and reduce the size of the federal prison population by 3,800 in 15 years.
On December 10, 2007 the Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision in Kimbrough v. United States held that federal judges can sentence crack cocaine offenders below the federal sentencing guidelines if they disagree with the 100 to 1 statutory disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
One day later, after holding a hearing and receiving public comment from over 30,000 individuals and organizations, the USSC voted unanimously to apply the reductions to the sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses retroactively. The decision, effective March 3, 2008, makes an estimated 19,500 persons in prison eligible to apply for a sentence reduction expected to average just over two years. The releases are subject to judicial review and will be staggered over 30 years. Defendants convicted of crack cocaine offenses are still subject to harsh mandatory minimum sentences and the 100 to 1 sentencing disparity.
Even with all these very exciting developments, it is critical to remember the changes represent only incremental progress in the effort to reform the federal crack cocaine law.
The USSC's guideline changes will not eliminate or even significantly alleviate the very long mandatory minimum sentences that many people are serving for crack cocaine offenses. Congress still must act in order to eliminate the statutory 100 to 1 disparity between crack and powder cocaine. It has been more than 20 years . . . 2008 is the time for Congress to crack the disparity!
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Q: request.ERROR: Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\NotFoundHttpException: No route found for "GET /" I have installed Symfony2, after fixing the file permissions, I can access the dev environment from my browser by pointing it to:
http://localhost/app_dev.php
However, when I try to access the production environment by pointing the browser to http://localhost, I get the following exception (from app/logs/prod.log):

[2012-08-13 11:30:03] request.ERROR:
  Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\NotFoundHttpException: No route
  found for "GET /" (uncaught exc    eption) at
  /path/to/frameworks/Symfony2/app/cache/prod/classes.php line 4584 []
  []

I then checked the available routes for the prod environment from the command line. here is the result of that investigation.

root@yourbox:~/path/to/frameworks/Symfony2$ php app/console
  router:debug -e=prod [router] Current routes Name Method Pattern

Incredibly, it shows that there are no routes defined for this environment (I didn't believe the error message - which essentially said the same thing).
So, my conclusion is this: out of the box installation of Symfony2, and the production environment has no default routes - is this true, or have I made a mistake somewhere?
More importantly, how do I fix this?. In SF1.x, it was straight forward to switch from dev to prod and vice versa. How do I view the AcmeDemo app for example, in a prod environment. ?
[[UPDATE]]
After feedback from thecatontheflat, I added a simple test route to my routing.yml file. The contents of app/config/routing.yml are now:
_welcome2:
    pattern:  /test
    defaults: { _controller: AcmeDemoBundle:Welcome:index }

When I try http://localhost/test in the browser, I get the same 404 error. When I debug the routes available at the console, I get the following output:
root@yourbox:~/path/to/frameworks/Symfony2$ php app/console router:debug -e=prod
[router] Current routes
Name      Method Pattern
_welcome2 ANY    /test

A: I had the exact same problem!!
Symfony2 has two generic routing files called:
app/config/routing.yml and app/config/routing_dev.yml

However, it also has a bundle specific routing file in each bundle. The standard procedure is to define all of your bundle routes in your bundle routing.yml file then reference this from the main routing.yml file by adding:
YourbundlenameMainBundle:

resource: "@YourbundlenameMainBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml"

prefix:   /

This is what I had and I was still getting the error. But then I read the error more closely... no route found for GET / .... then I checked my routing_dev.yml file and of course it had a route for / from the Acme demo bundle _welcome route. This is why it works for the dev version but not the prod version!
Solution:
Add a route for / to either your routing.yml global file or your routing.yml bundle file by adding the following:
_welcome:

pattern:  /

defaults: { _controller: YourbundlenameMainBundle:Default:index }

you can change index to some other route if your welcome page is not index

A: I had the exact same problem. And it was caused because of a missing bundel in the AppKernel.php.
A little late but you might try to change this line in the web/app.php:
$kernel = new AppKernel('prod', false);

to:
$kernel = new AppKernel('prod', true);

That will enable debugging and you should be able to find your problem. When fixed you will ofcorse need to change it back to false ;).
Hope this helps.

A: After you make sure you have your / route defined in any of your routing.yml
_welcome:
pattern:  /
defaults: { _controller: YourbundlenameMainBundle:Default:index }

clear your prod environment cache!
app/console cache:clear --env=prod

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AYS DAILY DIGEST 27/8: Animal-like treatment of people in refugee camps
Aug 27, 2016·10 min read
List of all appointments by the Greek Asylum Service released. Government in Greece announced opening of new centers that will have better living conditions, but no details are known to the public. Meanwhile, more people are arriving to Greece and help is needed. Police brutality in Hungary continues. In Macedonia, around 70 people still stacked in Tabanovici with no freedom of movement.
"No one can take my smile away from me". By Through Refugee Eyes.
Officially, there was 58.580 refugees today in Greece.
The Greek Asylum Service have released a list of all appointments in Greece in September. You can look up your appointment at the official GAS pag.
The Mobile Info Team translated it into Arabic.
If you are not on the list, you have to wait for your SMS from the Asylum Service.
Greek government promises and reality of refugees
Deputy Defense Minister Dimitris Vitsas responded on criticism about conditions at refugee camps in Greece saying that they were "created in order to take in evacuees from a large makeshift camp that had been set up last year on the country's border" (eg Idomeni) and that they would either be "shut down or rebuilt".
He also said that the government plans to keep between 30 and 33 of the current 50 camps operating on the mainland, adding that new facilities will be made to hold a smaller number of people, while many will be relocated to apartments and hotels within the next few months. However, minister gives no details about these plans, even though the summer is almost over.
Most of the camps AYS team visited in Northern Greece are not places where a human being can and should live. People are sleeping in deserted wear-houses, in old industrial facilities; some of the camps are located near the swamps and garbage dumps, almost all of the camps are placed in remote areas with almost nothing around and people are forced to stay inside. In some places tents are placed out in the open with no shade at all. People are sleeping on the floor, on wooden pallets and military or UNHCR blankets. Medical health is poor as well as food, while the activities for people who are living in camps are provided only by volunteers. "We just sit and wait," most of them told us.
A team of volunteers offers psychological help in some camps in the North and they are saying that the conditions in these camps are unbearable.
"People keep telling us they are treated like animals. They feel desperate. Can you imagine a mother whose child get a fever in the night and she has nothing to give to him, and there is no doctor before the morning… Can you imagine young, strong, intelligent people having nothing to do but just to sit and wait. Some of the camps are dangerous places to live and people are too afraid to walk around, especially during the night… But what is the hardest part for them is the lack of information. They live in uncertainty that is killing them and makes them angry and desperate."
Softex camp one of the most dangerous camps in Northern Greece, where mafia rules and police and military close their eyes. Women more than anybody are afraid to walk freely around the camp. Photo AYS.
Distracting attention from real issues
While people is camps are too afraid to walk around because of gangs that are present inside, smugglers are operating freely, the Europe is announcing that a team of 200 counterterrorism officers will be deployed to the Greek islands over the next few weeks "to track down jihadists". The officers will be placed even in camps. And it does not look like there are any plans to open borders or improve life of people in camps.
Community Center "We Are Here" continues to operate
We Are Here — Community Center had now access to Serres, the new Yazidi camp and this week their team has been there to start work on building up our activities.
"On Sunday we had our first community centre team meeting with some old friends, and on Wednesday we ran two workshops with the adults: one with the team of people who have volunteered themselves to run children's activities including song, dance and drama, and one with the teachers who will be teaching English to the children. We left center managers with the material needed to organize the placement tests for the adults to be able to begin, or continue, English language lessons."
Their center at Nea Kavala is still up and running. Recently, the Spanish theater group Paramythades visited them and brought music, theater, and creative expression. Last Saturday the play written by people from the camp was performed. They provide also English language classes, and dance and yoga classes in the women's space.
"All of these things are plasters on a wound but it is important, in spite of knowing that, that we keep working together to try to make sure the plaster stays in place."
Plasters on a wound, but important plasters. Photo by We Are Here — Community Center.
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Your help is needed
Soul Food Kitchen is a new project in Thessaloniki area that Are Your Syrious supported, together with The Distant Horizon group from Sarajevo, Bosnia, Graz Spendenkonvoi, Austria, Catch a Smile from Luxembourg, and many others are helping. It aims to bring food for about 250–400 people who are sleeping in parks, being refugees or homeless people. They also provide water and necessities.
Park near Thessaloniki train station, people waiting for food. Photo AYS.
The cook is Pixi, a long-term volunteer, who is cooking on Balkan Route since Sept 2015. He cooked in Croatia, Serbia, Eko camp and Idomeni, and helped to establish and cooked in the Kalochori community kitchen.
Photo by Soul Food Kitchen.
With somewhere between 0.35 and 0.50 euro cents, the cook is able to prepare a fresh hot nutritious meal for 1 person. In order to keep running the Soul, kitchen needs 100–200 euro a day. The existence of a Kitchen is based only on donations.
Help if you can. All info available from their FB Page.
Volunteer needed to help families in private accommodation in Athens. The task is to, together with our long-term friend and volunteer Rando Wagner, get families familiar with locations of key organizations in Athens so that they can access hot meals, showing them where health organizations are etc.
Please PM Rando if you are interested in this role and with helping families in private accommodation.
Health Point Foundation dental team needs Arabic-speaking volunteers, with or without clinical background (they will receive training for assisting the dentists on the job..) Accommodation will be provided, the rest isself-funded.
Boat Refugee Foundation is trying to start looking a dental mission in Moria Refugee Camp in Lesvos where there has never been a dentist. Currently, dental cases only receive analgesics and antibiotics, causing the problems and the severe discomfort to persist.
The plan is to start a dental mission of 4 weeks in Moria to provide acute dental care from 9.00h-16.00h. They have received a donation of dental material from a foundation specialized in this kind of missions. The time frame we are looking at is somewhere in September-October 2016.
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They need:
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Forgotten people of Tabanovci center
Since March this year, around 70 people are locked down in the center in Tabanovici. They did not get any status or recived information about what will happen to them or when they will be informed about their future, and they have no freedom of movement. They can go out from the center only if somebody needs to go to a hospital.
Meanwhile, the number of refugees passing through Macedonia is increasing daily. Some people are trying to cross without smugglers. Families who manage to arrive at Tabanovici, 2 km from Serbia, are sometimes let to stay and rest for a while. Daily, about 30 people are treated in this way.
It is not possible to establish numbers, and Macedonian government is giving little information to the public, but volunteers in this area informed AYS about a huge number of people in villages of Lojane and Vaksince, two places that became smuggling hubs in Macedonia over the last year, and has been active again. In June, Macedonian president told the media that smugglers had poked hundreds of holes in his country's 50-kilometre razor fence on the border.
According to the AFP, every day Greek police intercept 50 to 200 people trying to reach the border with Macedonia. Police turn them back, but they keep on trying.
650 new arrivals over the last week
Media are reporting that the refugee center in Harmanli, southeastern Bulgaria, will be expanded to accommodate a further 400 people. It will increase a capacity of the center to about 3.000 people. Between 50 and 60 migrants and refugees arrived daily in the center last week, while around 650 new arrivals have been found in Bulgaria over the past week, according to the Interior Ministry data.
Hate atmosphere created by the government
Despite public pressure, the Hungarian government is doing nothing to stop systematic abuse of refugees at the border. People are being beaten and tortured and bitten by police dogs. Most of these people are pushed back to Serbia. This has to be stopped.
Lydia Gall, a European researcher at Human Rights Watch, in her opinion piece for the EUobserver, describes the atmosphere of hate created by pro-government media.
"Asylum seekers and refugees are called "intruders," and "potential terrorists," bent on destroying Western civilization and Christianity. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban himself in July referred to migration as "poison… A nationwide, government-financed billboard campaign began in July with messages including: "Did you know that since the beginning of the immigration crisis more than 300 people died as a result of terror attacks in Europe?" and "Did you know that Brussels wants to settle a whole city's worth of illegal immigrants in Hungary?".
Another poster said: "Did you know that since the beginning of the immigration crisis the harassment of women has risen sharply in Europe?"
The campaign is state-sponsored. So far the EU has done nothing to stop this.
Scholarships for refugees
King's College London, in partnership with UNHCR, offers summer school places to refugees. The university is waiving the usual fees of £1,590 for refugees, in exchange for UNHCR staff teaching specialized classes on refugee protection and humanitarian issues on the international human rights module.
People demand a new start based on respect and human principles
Not many, but still significant numbers of people gathered today in London, Trafalgar Square at a demonstration demanding that dehumanization of refugees must stop.
"The refugees are housed in shocking, subhuman conditions such as the 'Jungle' camp at Calais, where they are constantly harassed by police and threatened with eviction by the State. Indeed, this camp (home to 7000 people and 500 (unaccompanied children) is now threatened with another demolition; which will rob these homeless people of the little they have. The camps already have almost no facilities and are run by hardworking overstretched volunteers relying on donations, not official agencies.
The people who have reached the camps, after difficult and dangerous journeys, have clearly not done it from choice. Our failure to treat them with decency and humanity shames us.
We are demonstrating to demand a new start, based on respect and human principles."
Calls for protests
Protest are announced on the Mall in Washington, D.C on August 28, from 10am-2:30pm. Organizers are calling everybody to join and to stand in solidarity with the millions of refugees fleeing war and violence.
Mass demonstrations are announced for August 29, at 18.00 at Propylaea in Athens in solidarity to the Notara 26 refugee housing squat. The squat has been attacked last week.
"The flower of solidarity is not just blooming, it has taken deep root in the social ground. It cannot be burned by the fire of fascists, it cannot be uprooted by riot police, it cannot be withered by mayoral smear campaigns. Refugee housing squats, the hundreds of solidarity initiatives throughout Greece, the unwavering pro-refugee stand taken by a large part of society, have created a political current the flow of which cannot be stemmed. Sharing daily life with refugees opens up kernels of humanity and civilization, opposite to state organized misanthropy.
We live together, we struggle together, we will win together."
Meanwhile, in Australia thousands of people marched in solidarity with refugees.
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AYS Special 2019/2020: A Year of Violence — Monitoring Pushbacks on the Balkan Route
AYS Special — Sentinels of the Sea: why NGOs like Mare Liberum are important now more than ever
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As my career has progressed, I have discovered writing to be an invaluable skill to develop and polish as an engineer. The skill of writing well translates to a number of areas outside of tech including things like writing good emails, networking and chat using real time collaboration tools (IRC, Slack, etc.), writing documentation, writing specs, or even just asking for help in online formats like message boards or communicating on social media sites.
For example, when asking for help in a technical public forum, e.g. GitHub issues or Stack Overflow, knowing exactly what the problem you are having and describing it in a way that makes sense to others (who often don't speak English as a first language) is much more difficult than it looks. It takes time and practice to learn how to craft questions well and to frame technical problems in easy to understand ways. In my own experience, people are almost always happy to help but I've seen so many bad questions on Stack Overflow.
There are two books that I recently read that have had a tremendous impact on how I think about and approach writing, which has helped me grow as a writer, engineer, and technical collaborator, which I'd like to share with readers today. These books have been around for a long time so if you've already heard of them or it has been some time since reading them, I encourage you to reread or at least skim through them again.
is a great book and really forced me think a lot about my writing and what I could be doing better. Instead of focusing on a lot of the mechanics and building blocks of writing (it does touch on these a little bit), On Writing Well focuses mainly on the style and how to make your writing better by making it more interesting and less wasteful. The book teaches readers that often times, more is less in writing, and it focuses on teaching lessons of simplicity as well brevity, boiling things down to their simplest forms and avoiding certain traps and pitfalls.
. There are some really good tricks and tidbits in this book that 100% improved my writing fundamentals and mechanics, even without much practice outside of reading the book. I would highly recommend this book for anybody that is interesting in improving the foundations of their writing, from things like improving vocabulary to improving the structure and overall quality of their writing. The book is fairly short so doesn't take long to work through and is a great tool for improvement and you will more than likely find some tips that are immediately useful in your own writing style.
Getting better at writing is a process, just like learning any other skill. The more time you spend thinking about it and practicing, the better you will get. Obviously in my own personal experience, having this blog has been a great way for me to learn and grow my writing skills. Not every blog post is a success in my eyes but I have learned lessons from doing things over and over again and discovered things that work or don't work.
One lesson from On Writing Well that has really stuck with me is the idea that your writing should be written for yourself. Instead of thinking about things that other people want, or what you think they want, just write about things that are interesting or that have personal meaning and the writing process will be much more rewarding. Applying this concept makes the process of writing much more enjoyable and keeps the gears turning.
Another idea from the book that stuck with me is that everybody has their own style of writing and none of them are bad. So if you feel pressure to write or create a certain way, don't. Your writing process works best for you and that is fine, you just need to find it if you don't know what it is already. One of the most important lessons in writing that I have discovered over the years is that I'm not really interested in writing my blog posts according to any set of formulas or criteria.
In my own writing process, I usually like to find a problem that is interesting or challenging to me, sit down and just start writing. This process helps me internalize and understand the problem I am attempting to solve better, as well gives me a platform to help others. I attribute my own process and writing style to a lot of practice and just using the lessons I have learned to eventually build up my own style, which works for me.


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When it comes to print, catching mistakes is even more important than online. Costs of reprinting aside, grammatical errors can have a negative impact on your brand and even mean the difference between winning or losing business.
Try reading the text out aloud or backwards to focus on the spelling of words. Then compare any images and artwork to the original. Also look at how your text sits within the design. Sometimes the spelling is correct, but the way the words break (or look) can be the problem. When in doubt, it never hurts to bring on another pair of eyes for help.
It doesn't take much extra time to prepare your file so it's print-ready. Your effort will be rewarded with an impeccable finished product.


Combat Mission: Shock Force 2 is by all accounts a great wargame and worthwhile upgrade over the 2007 original. It also has the curious experience of being a game set in a hypothetical war, where the theatre of operations has since become an actual conflict zone. While the game still pits Western forces against the Syrian Army in a conflict that begins in 2008, 2011's Arab Spring and the subsequent escalation of violence in Syria brought about a terrible struggle for that country's future, one that has yet to be fully decided.
Playing a game, fictitious narrative or not, set in a modern war-torn Syria gave me an odd feeling, and one that I did not think I could shake until I had dedicated some time to learning more about the war that has destroyed the lives of so many innocent people. It still does, while I sit comfortable in the knowledge that I can turn the game off, go to sleep in warmth and safety, and be sure I'll wake up tomorrow for another predictable day. The distance of history can often lessen the horror of the conflicts we game, but something that is still ongoing deserves more attention.
To that end, I've put together a list of some books that I've gathered to better inform myself about the ongoing conflict, its origins, history, and the experiences of some individuals who have survived it. I'm no expert in this field, but these works helped contextualize not only my gaming experience, but also better inform my understanding of what is by all accounts the worst conflict of our century.
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This is a fairly straightforward academic work that offers one of the simplest explanations of a complex topic. Sorenson begins with a short history of Syria and its peoples before concentrating more on the development of the conflict and the rise of the Islamic State, one of the worst results of the escalation of violence in Syria. While this work will tug at the heart strings, the nature of its presentation is more sanitary, explaining the specifics of the conflict and attempting to answer the question of why Syria, when so many countries attempted to find reform in the spring of 2011, was the only one to see war escalate to such a degree.
The answer, according to Sorenson, and echoed elsewhere, are the multitude of foreign interests vying to support either the ruling Ba'ath regime or one or more of the dozens of anti-government groups struggling for power. In addition the very real impact the war has had on shifting geo-political alignments has led to a very different system from that of the early 2000s. The final result, tragically, is a war that was allowed to continue and grow far beyond its initial prospects.
Following upon Sorenson's overview, Nikolaos van Dam, the former Dutch Special Envoy for Syria, and one of the foremost experts on the conflict, offers a more granular, yet still entirely absorbing, look at the why and how of the Syrian Civil War. Van Dam begins with a thorough history of the Ba'ath Party and explores how their response in 2011 not only mirrors closely their usual pattern for dealing with any political opposition, but also illuminates the difficult bind they've placed themselves in as a dictatorial regime. One of van Dam's conclusions, that the civil war in Syria could hardly have been avoided because of this history and the nature of the regime, is sobering.
The level of detail is welcoming, and I believe this remains one of the best single volume works currently out on the conflict that will give the reader a sense of the depth and breadth of the struggle that has engulfed Syria. If you pick only one book from this list to read, I urge you to find Destroying a Nation.
The human side of such a conflict like the one is Syria is often hard to comprehend. Janine Di Giovanni's gut wrenching journalism lays out before the reader the often unimaginable horror that accompanies war in general, and protracted civil conflicts especially.
Di Giovanni's style is easy to digest and I found myself in that difficult position of being horrified by the nature of what I was reading, but unable to put the book down. Her various journeys across Syria and her experience as a war reporter reveal the experiences of individuals from a wide variety of social situations, from reports of young girls dealing with sexual violence to the fear felt by security forces trying to take the next building. It is brutal, but essential to see the human cost of this war.
Diana Darke's work is quite a bit different from the other three on this list, but I felt I needed to include it. Grabbing it on a whim while finding works relating to the war in Syria, I initially dismissed it in favour for the more direct and explanatory works. Yet after returning to it, I find Darke's writing has a certain charm, and My House in Damascus does a great justice to the spirit and culture of Syria, and wonderfully describes the history and architecture of a world I never knew. Darke, a British specialist, presents a unique narrative of her attempts to buy and restore a house in the Old City of Damascus before offering it as a refuge to friends in need as the war intensifies. She has a positive style, something that is often needed when discussing such lamentable situations.
Though this list isn't quite as related to the game in question as a more militarily focused list could be, I feel my having read these works has given me a better understanding of what is happening in our world, and allows me a moment to reflect as I'm loading the next game. I hope some of these works make an impression on you as well. This crisis is ongoing, and people continue to suffer everyday. There are numerous charities and foundations that individuals can contribute to in an effort to help those displaced by the fighting, and I encourage you to find one you trust in to lend a helping hand.
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The psychological effects of this kind of trauma are generally grouped together under the umbrella term 'post-traumatic stress disorder', and can include depression, panic attacks, disturbing flashbacks and a withdrawal from day to day life. The combination of physical and/or psychological damage can have a major effect upon the life of the victim and it's therefore only right that you should be able to seek the compensation which you deserve.
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well on sunday i cant play long, till 9.30 pm (in belgium = +1), on friday i can play long, but why we dont take saturday, the best day for me ??
yes, maybe its true, but it was a very nice idea!
we are not enough for an own server i think.....and shall make us a server....???
How much cost a really nice server $/mounth?
We should ask some1 in El!te.
i talked with some guy of rod, and he said that a server would cost about 1 € per slot.
so a 12 slot server would cost 12 € per month.
If you help me, it could be possible.
Cause now, we are more, so a 4vs4 is possible and you said you can maybe host a server one night, can't you?
Or just give the big list of command.
We can begin by making 2vs2.(easier to schedule). But we will need a website to gather results.


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The National Council of State Boards of Nursing does, in fact, state that all LPNs require a license. The Nurse Aide Registry controls the nursing registry that dictates who is able to work as a LPN. Job eligibility, higher pay, and much more are available to you when you get credentialed and included.
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how dark, how cool ~ am I in the grave? Where was I?
and I was in a passion of unspeakable yearning.
Where was I? I was completely sun.
Take your God with you. Bear him down to your dark land where people live who rub their eyes each morning and yet always see only the same thing and never anything else. Bring your God down to the haze pregnant with poison, but not like those blinded ones who try to illuminate the darkness with lanterns which it does not comprehend.
Instead, secretly carry your God to a hospitable roof. The huts of men are small and they cannot welcome the God despite their hospitality and willingness. Hence do not wait until rawly bungling hands of men hack your God to pieces, but embrace him again, lovingly, until he has taken on the form of his first beginning.
Let no human eye see the much loved, terribly splendid one in the state of his illness and lack of power. Consider that your fellow men are animals without knowing it. So long as they go to pasture, or lie in the sun, or suckle their young, or mate with each other, they are beautiful and harmless creatures of dark Mother Earth. But if the God appears, they begin to rave, since the nearness of God makes people rave. They tremble with fear and fury and suddenly attack one another in fratricidal struggles, since one senses the approaching God in the other.
Set the egg before you, the God in his beginning.
And incubate it with the magical warmth of your gaze.
I have prepared a rug for my God, an expensive red the land of morning.
He shall be surrounded by the shimmer of magnificence of his Eastern land.
I am the mother, the simple maiden, who gave birth and did not know how.
I am the shepherd, who received the message as he guarded his herd at night on the dark fields.
I am the holy animal that stood astonished and cannot grasp the becoming of the God.
I am the wise man who came from the East, suspecting the miracle from afar.
And I am the egg that surrounds and nurtures the seed of the God in me.
Whence do you delight me, Oh God!
'He is the eternal emptiness and the eternal fullness.
Subjugated when victorious.old in youth.
I forgive myself these words, as you also forgive me for wanting your blazing light.
What else shall we fulfill for you?
We go to all points of the compass according to your wish.
We carry up what is below, and we turn what is above into what is below,as you command.
We wanted to turn right, but go left, obedient to your sign.
And we evolve around ourselves again and comprehend and live the understandable.
We love and live the loved, true to your law.
I have slain a precious human sacrifice for you,a youth and old man.
I have cut my skin with a knife.
I have turned my night into day and went about at midday like a sleepwalker.
I saw warriors form into line of battle and I destroyed my suit of armor with a hammer.
I made small everything that was great and made everything great that was small.
I exchanged my furthest goal for the nearest, and so I am ready.
However, I am not ready, since I have still not accepted that which chokes my heart. That fearful thing is the enclosing of the God in the egg. I am happy that the great endeavor has been successful, but my fear made me forget the hazards involved. I love and admire the powerful. No one is greater than he with the bull's horns, and yet I lamed, carried, and made him smaller with ease. I almost slumped to the ground with fear when I saw him, and now I rescue him with a cupped hand. These are the powers that make you afraid and conquer you; these have been your Gods and your rulers since time immemorial: yet you can put them in your pocket.
What is blasphemy compared to this? I would like to be able to blaspheme against the God: That way I would at least have a God whom I could insult, but it is not worth blaspheming against an egg that one carries in one's pocket. That is a God against whom one cannot even blaspheme.
I hated this pitifulness of the God. My own unworthiness is already enough. It cannot bear my encumbering it with the pitifulness of the God. Nothing stands firm: you touch yourself and you turn to dust. You touch the God and he hides terrified in the egg. You force the gates of Hell: the sound of cackling masks and the music of fools approaches you. You storm Heaven: stage scenery totters and the prompter in the box falls into a swoon. You notice: you are not true, it is not true above, it is not true below, left and right are deceptions. Wherever you grasp is air, air, air.
But I have caught him, he who has been feared since time immemorial; I have made him small and my hand surrounds him. That is the demise of the Gods: man puts them in his pocket. That is the end of the story of the Gods. Nothing remains of the Gods other than an egg. And I possess this egg. Perhaps I can eradicate this last one and with this finally exterminate the race of Gods. Now that I know that the Gods have yielded to my power – what are the Gods to me now? Old and overripe, they have fallen and been buried in an egg.


You body needs to know what time it is. It uses cues like daylight and your own activity to figure out if it is day or night. Travel, night shifts and poor sleep habits can confuse your body's clock and make good quality sleep difficult.
There is a tiny structure in the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) inside the hypothalamus that controls your body's clock. The SCN is located just above where both optic nerves come together. From the optic nerves, the SCN gets information about whether it is day or night. The SCN controls body functions associated with sleep, including body temperature, urine production (we make less during sleep so we don't have to wake up to urinate) and changes in blood pressure. The SCN also controls the hormone melatonin.
When the SCN detects light, it signals the pineal gland (which produces the hormone melatonin) to stop making melatonin. Melatonin is the hormone that makes you feel sleepy at night. When there is less light, the SCN tells the pineal gland to make more melatonin and you feel sleepy.
Researchers have discovered that our body's own circadian rhythms are based on a 25-hour cycle. Because a day is 24 hours, the SCN needs information about light to reset itself daily. This information can come in the form of daylight exposure or other cues associated with your daily sleep/wake cycle (such as your alarm clock, an evening bath or your sleep habits).
Jet Lag: The time changes experienced in travel can disrupt your body's clock. Your body stays on the time in the time zone it is used to. The SCN can only adjust at a rate of about 1 hour per day.
Night Shift: People working at night must override their body's natural circadian rhythms. Reversing the normal sleep/wake cycle can result in drowsiness at work, an increased risk of accidents and workplace errors.
Blindness: People with total blindness may experience sleeping problems because they are unable to receive cues about light. As a result, their body clocks remain set to a 25-hour day. Medications and supplements may help people with blindness regulate their circadian rhythms.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Alligators are everywhere in Florida and an increase in temperatures is causing them to be more active.
Late August to early September is still hatchling season for alligators and between that the late summer heat, and higher waters, the reptiles will be at their most active.
This means that they are more likely to turn up in places they shouldn't be like pools, roadways and ditches.
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alaTest has collected and analyzed 525 reviews of Jabra Supreme. The average rating for this product is 4.1/5, compared to an average rating of 4.0/5 for other Headphones for all reviews. Reviewers really like the size and portability. The comfort and sound are also appreciated. There are some mixed views about the reliability.
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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Headphones the Jabra Supreme is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 85/100 = Very good quality.
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Expert review by : Brian Bennett (cnet.com)
Jabra SUPREME Bluetooth Headset review
Despite the rise of data-centric smartphones, quite a few people still use their handsets for simple voice calls. And for some of those people, a quality Bluetooth headset is a great solution when talking in the car or chatting for long periods in...
The Jabra Supreme offers powerful active noise canceling, plenty of volume, and advanced voice controls.
The Supreme's ear loop is large and has a loose fit. You may have to perform a software upgrade.
It's hard to beat the Jabra Supreme's strong noise canceling and voice command features. If you're willing to pay a premium and don't mind the design or lack of stereo audio, the Supreme may have your name on it.
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Bluetooth supremacy.
Excellent sound quality, easy to use and light
Short cable on charger, quite bulky
Turning the headset on is very simple, you extend the arm (the long stick thingy) and you will hear a female voice telling you it's "on". Initially it will start in pairing mode and will give you instructions on how to pair your headset to your phone....
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The £99 Jabra Supreme is claiming to be the first mono Bluetooth headset to truly offer active noise cancellation but can it justify this price?
Active Noise Cancellation, Superb sound quality, Pair with two devices at once
Flimsy feel, Loose fitting
Expert review by : Brian Bennett (cnet.com.au)
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The ; offers powerful active noise canceling, plenty of volume, and advanced voice controls.
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Jabra's latest Bluetooth headset has noise cancellation and supports HD voice calls - the improved audio quality on 3G networks currently available on Orange and Three on phones such as Nokia's X7, Samsung's Omnia 7 and HTC's Desire HD. You can use it...
A good Bluetooth headset, but you pay a hefty premium for the extra features
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The benefits of these hands-free, wireless devices are obvious, and the law in the UK now requires the use of a headset while driving. But what's less apparent is the differences between the huge range of headsets on the market. The latest model from...
The only downsides are that it's is a little flimsy and it doesn't come with a protective carrying pouch. The ear cushions are also a nightmare to reattach, should you make the mistake of removing one. It's a little bulky and insecure to wear all day,...
Expert review by : Matt (tech-reviews.co.uk)
Priced at £99, the Jabra SUPREME is among the most expensive headsets around at the moment. Being a product designed and developed by Jabra, we shouldn't see any problems at all though. The Jabra SUPREME features active noise cancellation technology...
Extremely high quality audio thanks to the HD Audio feature
Overall, I'm very impressed with the Jabra SUPREMEs performance, and I expected nothing less that amazing for a Jabra product.
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"Best hearing aid friendly headset on the market."
I wear Oticon behind the ear hearing aids. They have a microphone that goes into the ear canal. I've tried MANY Bluetooth headsets and they either are very uncomfortable on top of the aid, cause my aid to pop off my ear and hang by the microphone line...
Loud. Clear. Comfortable. HUGE answer/call end button. You can hold the boom while pushing it so you are not jamming the headset into your ear.
Although it is light as a feather and comfortable to wear all day my house has a smaller footprint.
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Tony Conrad stands among the pinnacle of modern artistic practice; a pioneering and influential experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, artist and educator whose body of work can rarely be traced within the framework of just one discipline or school of thought. A longtime educator in conjunction with his expansive practice, Conrad's work moves at a sprint through ideas and constructs, and has remained influential on much of the artists who worked around and with him. One of these artists was Tony Oursler, who met Conrad in 1979 and performed in a number of Conrad's films, ultimately forging a bond that would lead to a range of collaborations and pieces. Among these is TC: the most interesting man alive, a short biopic piece that incorporates a range of cinematic, graphic, narrative and autobiographical approaches to produce a new form of biopic about the late artist Tony Conrad.
"You know if you're talking about your own life, then you've got a lot of things you can draw on, you can fall back on all kinds of things you make, you remember. You can't really go wrong because according to what they say, all stories are autobiographical," Conrad states at the beginning, a subtly comical twist on the format he quickly dives into, and fills with the same sense of the comedic and creative. The work ultimately presents itself as just this type of fusion, mixing interpretation and translation into a piece that is as much a loving homage to the artist's work and life as it is an homage to his process and body of work. Fittingly, the work seems to pose the question of history and its progression, whether one's combined contributions and actions will echo down the halls of history, or will gradually fade from memory. Are we merely a collection of our experiences and actions, or will our contributions to the world live beyond us? For an artist whose work has constantly expanded questions of time and human experience, few works could serve as such a fitting memorial.
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Man commits suicide after being dumped by his girlfriend …leaves a suicide note
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A man from Mpopoma suburb committed suicide after his sweetheart ditched him and left him for a businessman.
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"He told his mother that he was depressed because his girlfriend dumped him for a businessman. And he was deeply hurt and heartbroken," said the family member.
His mother got worried and asked a family friend to go and check on him.
"He found him hanging from the roof truss in his bedroom," the source continued.
The family friend reported the matter to the police. Police attended the scene. They found a suicide note which the man left behind.
The suicide note read: "I'm sorry I had a problem. I love you all. Mama I'm sorry I was your only child. But I wish I could say something…"
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Ulcers For Birds
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October 20, 2014: Things aren't too hot for Tim right now. He goes into a Bat-induced rage loop, and Keith tries to break him out of it.
Keith and Miguel's Apartment
Yesterday had plain sucked, and there were no two ways about it. Being abducted by a staff-swinging crazy-bird-woman and then failing to secure her Nth-metal accoutrements was particularly bittersweet, but then John Constantine's visit did not give Keith any desires to hop on tables and sing.
Today, he had spent most of the day on the futon, recouping energies. That infusion from the Cait had givem him a brief spike, but now it was clearly plummeting once more. Even to non-magical eyes, Keith would occasionally look transluscent for a moment or two, though the redhead himself didn't seem to notice.
The Starkpad was next to his futon, playing some mellow tune or another (http://miriambast.deviantart.com/art/Gabriel-The-snow-leopard-367457257).
There's a knock at Keith's door. It's late afternoon, and so sneaking in the window seemed like a terrible idea. As did putting on the entire Robin outfit. Which is why, for the first time ever, Keith is going to be introduce to Robim — the place where Robin and Tim shall meet. The bird wears a very large pair of sunglasses over his eyes and extremely nondescript clothes.
While some might wait for an answer to the door, Robim doesn't. While he's never used it, he's never seen the door locked. He treads into the room, his blue jeans and black jacket matching so many others on the streets below. "Hey…" there's a pause and then he states, "Uh. I'm Robin." Because he is. "Just couldn't — " there's a flush of his cheeks, yeah he's distinctly Robin. "Don't tell anyone you saw me like this, okay?" Even though he is still very concealed.
In his grasp he carries a white paper bag which he remembers almost instantly. Underneath the sunglasses, his eyebrows draw together, "Uh. I brought tacos." Pause. "Do you like tacos?"
Keith props himself up on his elbows, arching his eyebrows as Robin enters the room.
"Bird…" he asks quietly, and hops out of his futon to pull the blinds down. "… you couldn't…"
Despite feeling miserable about his own situation, there's clearly something going on. Heck, Robin not wear his outfit, coming in like this? "I like tacos. C'mere," he pats the space next to him on the futon.
"Your feathers are all out of place, bird. What's wrong?"
There's a flicker of a smile, but it's unconvincing, even without the ability to see his eyes. Tim-Robin sighs as he strolls over to the futon and sits beside his friend. "No feathers today," he admits honestly.
His jaw is tighter set and he plops the takeout bag on the coffee table in front of them. His head leans back against the futon and he stares upwards at the ceiling. "Just. Life, I guess," he mutters quietly while his eyes train on the ceiling above. There's nothing distinctive about Tim Drake at this moment aside from the spirit of dejection he carries with him.
There's a pause, "I couldn't change. Not twice over. I've got — " he shakes his head.. "Ugh." He sighs and then shakes his head. "Just things. And. Life. And." His teeth clench. "Sorry."
The redhead sighs. Yeah, he knows exactly how life goes. He slips an arm around Tim's shoulder and pulls him into a hug. "Let me guess, ninety percent of shit showers, with increased chance of poo flurries throughout the evening? I'm here, you know, if you need to get something off your chest. These are trying times for us all, and Titans stick together no matter what."
"Yeaaaah," Tim isn't skeptical as much as already-questioning himself thanks to outsiders. "Maybe I don't know anything," he finally offers with a shrug. "Kind of got… sort of berated about Spoiler today. Apparently I've blurred the lines." He sighs. "I knew I was playing with fire. But - " he inhales a sharp breath. "Whatever. It's fine. I'm just a kid, right? I'll always be just a kid."
oooh boy. This. Keith knows that at one point, the old Robin became Nightwing. What exactly was that process, he's never asked Gar, but his boyfriend has mentioned the previous Robin chafing at the tight leash.
"You're not a kid, Robin. You'll never be a kid again," Keith says, turning to look at him. "I wouldn't trust my life to a kid, now, would I?" a slight smirk. "Blurring the lines. Yeah, because you actually have a part of your life that isn't dedicated to being antisocial?"
"Right," Tim says in response to never being a kid again. "Maybe." But he doesn't change his tone. Not wholly. He's still undecided on this entire thing. "I." His cheeks flush. "A lot of people have trusted their lives to a kid." His jaw tightens. "I'm just a solider to — " his forehead creases and he sighs. "And nothing can get in the way of the night job. That's clear." His arms cross over his chest and then he mutters, "You should eat the tacos. I'm not actually hungry."
"To hell with the tacos," Keith says quietly, "I'm worried about you." He leans over to look at Tim in the ey—sunglasses, hands on his shoulders. "Look, Robs, I'mnot exactly stupid, I just play one on TV. You're my friend and there's obviously something bouncing around in your sternum and playing macramme with your insides. I know you came to check up on me, but I wouldn't be a friend if I also didn't check up on you. What's this 'soldier' thing?"
"They're only good hot," Tim states towards the bag rather than Keith. He shakes his head just a little and then murmurs, "I'm fine." Because that's how Tim has learned to be: fine. All the time. His hands grasp each other tightly and he emits a sigh. "I'm a soldier of the night. I've been told that's what I am. And that's all there is. Because. Reasons." He sucks on the inside of his cheek. "What if I can't be who they need me to? Who I need to be to do all of it?" He squints. "I'm now personally responsible for Spoiler's safety. I. Can't. Even." He runs a hand through his hair. "And all the while evidently I'm… horrible. Or something." It's not definitely or clear what he's working through. But it's something. That much is clear.
"Yeah, you're fine and I'm perfectly healthy," Keith retorts and reaches to grab Tim by the chin. Not firmly, just a focusing gesture.
"Don't pull that 'fine' crap. Gar doesn't let me get away with it, and I'm not letting you either. The first thing to solving an issue is to acknowledge it exists. Soldier of the night my foot."
Green eyes narrow, "Robin, I need you to snap out of this little ball of anger you're curling up into so we can talk, or else I'm afraid I'm going to have to startle you in some way to get you to do so."
There's a huff of breath that follows the focus and Tim hesitates. Having just been accused of blurring the lines, and essentially not having enough walls, doesn't inspire him to let any down that easily. "Uh. It's fine. Honestly. I'm… fine." His eyes squeeze shut behind the sunglasses and he tries to think of a way to explain what eats him. "It's like. Identity. And what that is. And what anyone can expect that to be." He hisses out a quiet breath.
"I expect you to be nothing more than who you are, Robin." Keith frowns. "What others expect from you… isn't important. It's what is good for you that's important. Look, I don't even know your name, but that in itself isn't important to me. I know your character. If other people are far too blind to that… fuck them."
He reaches over and grabs Tim's hand, giving it a squeeze. "Playing around for identity is all well and good for theater majors who like to pretend. But what's important is who you are beneath the costume, beneath the mask. And that's not a name, or a driver's license, or marital status. It's something far more basic, far more powerful. I know you, even if I don't know the names under which you go, and you're clearly disturbed because the sense of who you are is in conflict with the sense of who others think you should be."
A pause. "We can't have everybody approve of us, Rob. I know my mother would disapprove of me… in many ways, right now. Because I'm with a man. Because I go and risk my life. Because I never went to college. Oh well…" he shakes his head. "Parents have to live with disappointment. They're big boys. So do mentors. As long as you're a good person and do good… who you should be is entirely up to you."
"Except these are the people that really know me," Robin counters quietly. Tim emits a sigh and shakes his head. "I need…" his gaze turns downwards and his eyebrows draw together. "Whatever. It doesn't even matter. I'm less man than machine. That's what I was trained to be." He shrugs. "And this is so far beyond disappointment. It's purpose… and… stuff." He heaves another sigh. "Whatever." He srhgus, trying to leave the attitude behind.
"I've spent years with these people and they still think I'm that fourteen year old kid." Pause. "I haven't been a kid for awhile — "
Anger. Frustration. Keith sees what Robin is doing to himself- anger feedback loop. He's been there- it's like your brain comes under attack by its own hand, and unless something is done, the pit of anger and resentment gets deeper and deeper-
Keith reaches out and grabs Robin by the shoulders and pulls him in. And yes, the Boy Wonder gets a kiss.
It really is a rather cruel tactic, but Keith has a point to make, and it was either do this or slap Robin. And he's pretty sure that Robin's instincts would take that slap as an attack and go into instant defense.
Frozen. Completely frozen.
And red. Very. Very. Red.
Keith can't see Tim's eyes behind the mask, but he's frozen in both time and space with that action.
When he comes back to, he's pretty sure his brain has imploded and he just sits there staring ahead behind his dark sunglasses.
Finally Robin twitches, and presses up to a stand, finally stating, "I have to go." Fight or flight. And evidently FLIGHT is the key when exposed to kisses. Badguys he can deal with. Smooching? Evidently not.
Keith grabs Robin's wrist. "No, you don't." Khe says, holding fast.
"Dude, I only kissed you to break you out of that Bat-induced anger feedback loop. Because it was either that or slap you, and you would have kicked my ass if I had slapped you." A smirk. "A kiss seemed a little safer. And also? Machines don't react to kisses." Keith sighs, still holding Robin fast.
"Look, I am worried about you. You're competent, you're a great guy and you do a lot. But it's clear that you need someone to unburden yourself to. Someone outside of that Bat-circle which is clearly pissing you off. I'd love to help you… but I also respect your secrets." He stands up, his hand still around Robin's wrist. "Since I can't be your confidant, all I can be is your friend. But you need to open up to me at least in what you can… and not get trapped in a loop that forces me to shock you to break. Because I'm going to run out of ways to shock you, you know?"
"I love Steph," he says, probably for the first time to someone else, as if needing to establish that boundary even with the explanation given. Because STEPH. Tim stares at Keith a few moments longer.
But with that said, he sighs, "I'm between a rock and a hard place. I told Batman about Spoiler. And her other self. And that she's my girlfriend. And evidently it makes me less than what I am. Less than Robin. Less than me. Less." He swallows hard. "None of them trust me. None of them think I'm worthy of the mantle I've been given, that much is becoming clearer. But I have a responsibility. That comes with the mask." He shrugs. "And I still need to work with Batman. At least a little."
"Well, I trust you. I know I'm nowhere near as important as Batman, but I don't think you are less than Robin. And if Batman thinks that-" his rather pale skin turns a bright scarlet "He can go fuck himself. I'd rather trust you than someone who clearly can't behave like a human like him."
"You are the best Robin, Robs, and the Titans are honored to have you among their ranks as a team-mate… and I am extremely lucky to have you as my friend." He squeezes Tim's wrist.
"Don't let anyone tell you you are less than what you are. You, Oracle and Steph are here trying to save my life, I don't see His Royal Bat-Ass moving a finger to help me. And I don't see that Other Robin either, even though Gar is his friend. SO yes, you are already doing more than he is, because it's not just about me but also about a threat to Gotham as well."
Keith smirks. "Do you want to argue 'bout this, boy wonder? 'cause I'll totally fight you over it. You're great, and perhaps the only thing that needs improvement is that you need to… you know, actually sleep at one point before you drop."
While Tim had been blushing before, it hasn't eased with the compliments. While he could argue, and it certainly doesn't look like he -believes- Keith, he concedes enough, almost too defeated to fight further. The exhaustion is enough to keep him from continuing his argumentation. And so he responds to one piece: "I don't need much sleep."
His smile strains, almost painfully, as the defeat continues to wear on him, but he doesn't make any further remarks or scoffs. "I don't even know. I don't feel appreciated." He sighs softly. "And it's not like I expected Batman to react differently. Honestly. It's how he is. He's Batman. He trusts no one." There's a pause. "But it's my heart. I tried to ignore it… How can I not blur lines when something so… important as my heart is in the balance?"
Keith pulls Tim into a tight hug and sighs. "For what is worth, bird, we appreciate you. You're not Batman, and you should never try to be him. And he has to realize that you can't be him. There's only one Barman, and every Robin is different. "
A pause. "I wish you could believe me. Being like this does you no good…" r
"Thanks friend," Robin states as he returns the hug. "And no, I'm not Batman. But I… I need to be ready in the event that something happens and I need to take up the mantle," he sighs and then shakes his head. "Because. Someday." He sighs lightly. "And I'll be fine Keith. I will. I can handle it. Maybe."
"If that day ever comes, you can count on me to be your Bat Cat, and Gar can be an actual bat, too. You need help? we're a bat - zoo signal away." The mischievous smile grows gentle. "And if you can't handle it, that's what your friends are for. It's OK, not being able to handle. You've been here for me when I couldn't handle. I'm here whenever you need me to return the favor, bird. " Keith hugs tight, "Just… don't be Atlas. There's more than one Titan in this team. Ok?"
"Thanks Keith. Really," Robin says with another flicker of a smile. But the smile doesn't get much prominence. He sighs and then glances towards the door, "I gotta go. I have this… thing." Because Robin doesn't have classes. Tim does. He nods at the notion of not being Atlas, "I'll try not to be Atlas." He nods a little, "I trust you guys, but my secrets aren't my own… thanks though. And. Uh. Eat the tacos."
"I don't need your secrets, Rob. Just need you to be well. " One of us had to, he thinks. "I'll eat the tacos. promise. " Keith accompanies him to the door and closes it after him, sighing. "Dear god, bird…"
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Chijindu Ujah (ur. 5 marca 1994 w Londynie) – brytyjski lekkoatleta specjalizujący się w biegach sprinterskich.

W 2011 biegł w finale biegu na 100 metrów podczas mistrzostw świata juniorów młodszych w Lille Metropole. W tym samym roku zdobył dwa medale igrzysk Wspólnoty Narodów młodzieży. Startował na mistrzostwach świata juniorów w Barcelonie, na których zajął 6. miejsce w finale biegu na 100 metrów. W 2013 został mistrzem Europy juniorów na dystansie 100 metrów. W 2016 wszedł w skład brytyjskiej sztafety 4 × 100 metrów, która sięgnęła po złoto mistrzostw Europy w Amsterdamie. Półfinalista światowego czempionatu w Londynie oraz złoty medalista tej imprezy w sztafecie 4 × 100 metrów (2017). Rok później powtórzył sukces w biegu rozstawnym podczas czempionatu Europy w Berlinie. W 2021 wszedł w skład brytyjskiej sztafety 4 × 100 metrów, która zdobyła srebrny medal igrzysk olimpijskich w Tokio (później im odebrany z powodu wykrycia dopingu u Ujaha).

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Rekordy życiowe
 Bieg na 60 metrów (hala) – 6,53 (1 lutego 2015, Londyn, 7 lutego 2018, Newham oraz 4 lutego 2020, Düsseldorf)
 Bieg na 100 metrów – 9,96 (8 czerwca 2014, Hengelo) / 9,95w (27 maja 2017, Eugene)
 Bieg na 200 metrów – 20,39 (8 kwietnia 2017, Tempe)

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Bibliografia

 Profil zawodnika na stronie World Athletics  [dostęp 2 maja 2017].

Brytyjscy sprinterzy
Brytyjscy olimpijczycy
Lekkoatleci na Letnich Igrzyskach Olimpijskich 2020
Lekkoatleci na Letnich Igrzyskach Olimpijskich 2016
Medaliści Mistrzostw Świata w Lekkoatletyce 2017
Lekkoatleci ukarani za doping
Ludzie urodzeni w Londynie
Urodzeni w 1994

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Park & Ride Parking Charges: a small victory for democracy
Last week I had a bit of a rant here about a County Council decision which was simply a bad idea, yet looked like it was going to be implemented anyway. I'm referring, of course, to the proposed introduction of parking charges at the city's Park & Ride sites. In a small victory for democracy today, the proposal was at least sent for discussion.
Nobody objects to people having ideas, it's how society progresses. To be honest, as citizens we should all contribute more ideas, rather than leaving so much to councillors. But whoever comes up with them, ideas should be discussed, evidence weighed up, and only the sensible ones implemented. That's not always the case. Often discussions become irrationally politicised, even if they have nothing to do with party politics. Councillors declare themselves either "for" or "against" an idea depending on what party they belong to (and who their mates are), rather than what's best for the area they represent …or what the evidence suggests. It's how we got a disaster like the misGuided Bus, for example.
For several years in Cambridgeshire, the situation has been made even worse by the County Council having been run using something called a "Cabinet System". This means the largest party just elects a small group amongst themselves (the "cabinet") which can make decisions without having to go through the irritation of having to discuss things with Councillors who might have the temerity to want to disagree. Proponents call it the "strong leader" system, and you can see where it might work (and how it might "get things done"). But it doesn't work where you're running a deeply divided organisation (like Cambridgeshire, where the rural areas elect politicians from one party and the city elects politicians from anything but that party). In this case, one part of the organisation is going to trample all over the other if it's allowed to, and with the "Cabinet System", that's exactly what happens. The minority (in this case, city residents) don't even have a democratic recourse: all their transport and other issues get made and implemented, without public discussion, by a group of people from out in the Fens who'd probably rather be sorting out their own issues. A small group around a small table making decisions which probably don't even affect them …or the people who vote for them. You can see how a bad idea can be waved through so easily.
Fortunately, after last May's election, Cambridgeshire County Council reverted to no single party having a majority, and the first move from the smaller parties was to combine forces and vote out the "Cabinet System". Good riddance. Unfortunately, for tortuous "legal reasons", we have to put up with the system for one more year, and there's still a "cabinet" in place. That's how the Park & Ride parking charges idea nearly went through to implementation, despite being such a bad one. Someone came up with the suggestion, and his mates around the table presumably said: "mmm, whatever" without even thinking it through. Or at least that's what it seems like to those of us out here whose vote at election time has seemed irrelevant for so long.
Once the proposal went public last week, the arguments made for it by its proponent were so weak as to be laughable. If it had gone to proper debate in the council and the flaws in the plan outlined, the idea would surely have been suggested, discussed and eventually dismissed. Having ideas which don't stand up to discussion is healthy. But it could so nearly have been implemented without sufficient consideration. Fortunately, there seems to be a procedure in the council where something like this can be "called in" for discussion, and councillors did just that. Both Liberal Democrat and Labour councillors understandably wanted to take credit, but regardless, it was a small victory for democracy. Today the idea was sent to the council's "Enterprise, Growth and Community Infrastructure Overview and Scrutiny Committee", which consists of 13 councillors who – crucially – come from across the political spectrum. The result was that the idea has been sent back for reconsideration (see the BBC news item at the top), and we must hope that reconsidering the idea means coming up with a better one.
2 Replies to "Park & Ride Parking Charges: a small victory for democracy"
mrsdoigy says:
Thursday 12 September 2013 at 7:37 pm
@CherryHintonBlu very glad they are having a moment of reflection. 'cos charging for park and ride parking is a daft decision, i reckon.
LibralLady says:
Thursday 12 September 2013 at 10:32 pm
Park & Ride Parking Charges: a small victory for democracy http://t.co/f705HNTSAP via @cherryhintonblu
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