Six prisoners have been injured at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after battling guards with makeshift weapons.
Military officials said on Friday that the clash erupted on Thursday, the same day two detainees attempted suicide in other parts of the camp.
The battle was one of the most violent incidents reported at the isolated prison, where the US holds about 460 men suspected of links to al-Qaeda or the Taliban. Most of the detainees have been held for more than four years without charge.
Navy Rear Admiral Harry Harris, the prison's commanding officer, said: "This illustrates to me the dangerous nature of the men we have detained here."
The turmoil at the detention centre perched above the Caribbean on a US Navy base in southeastern Cuba began on Thursday morning, when a detainee who failed to show up for morning prayers was found unconscious in his cell, Harris said.
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Early in the afternoon, guards searching the prison for contraband prescription medicine found another detainee "frothing at the mouth" from an overdose of drugs.
"Under these circumstances, it's hardly surprising that people become desperate and hopeless enough to attempt suicide"
He was also hospitalised in a stable condition, the admiral said.
In the early evening, guards had spotted a detainee in Camp Four, a medium security, communal-living unit for the "most compliant" prisoners, apparently preparing to hang himself with a bed sheet tied to the ceiling of the room he shared with nine detainees.
Army Colonel Michael Bumgarner said that the detainees, who had made the floor slippery with faeces, urine and soapy water, attacked 10 members of Guantanamo's quick-reaction force with fan blades, pieces of metal and broken light fixtures when the team went to investigate.
For several minutes the detainees appeared to have the upper hand, knocking some of the soldiers to the ground in the struggle, Bumgarner said.
Outside, Guantanamo officials mustered 100 more guards before the force gained control using pepper spray, unspecified physical force, five blasts of a shotgun that fires rubber pellets and one shot from a non-lethal weapon that Bumgarner said fires a sponge-like projectile.
Detainees in two other units of Camp Four began damaging security cameras, light fixtures and other items in their rooms in a show of support for those engaged in the melee, officials said, doing an estimated $110,000 in damage.
Six detainees had minor injuries and no guards were injured, Harris said. The prisoners involved were moved to a higher security area.
uthorities did not provide the names or home countries of those involved.
Defence lawyers said the suicide attempts reflect increasing despair among detainees.
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a lawyer for a detainee from Bahrain who has repeatedly tried to kill himself, said: "Under these circumstances, it's hardly surprising that people become desperate and hopeless enough to attempt suicide."
Also on Thursday, the military transferred 15 Saudi detainees to their country, but Harris said he did not think there was a connection.
Guantanamo officials said there had been 41 suicide attempts by 25 detainees but no deaths since the camp opened.


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Mortgage Servicers Playing the Blame Game
Posted on24 July 2010. Tags: bank of new york, blame game, foreclosure fraud, goldman sachs, investors, Litton, modification, mortgage servicers, wall street
When Denying Loan Mods, Loan Servicers Often Wrongly Blame Investors
by Karen Weise
ProPublica, Yesterday, 7:50 a.m.
Arthur and Alberta Bailey are about to lose their home near New Orleans, and their mortgage company says one thing stands in the way of relief: The investors who own their mortgage won't allow any modifications.
It's a story heard again and again across the country as desperate homeowners try to participate in a federal program created to foster loan modifications and prevent foreclosures. Loan servicers say their hands are tied by Wall Street.
Federal officials, bank officers, housing counselors and investors themselves say that excuse is cited far more often than is justified. In fact, they say, few mortgage deals include such restrictions.
Consider the case of the Baileys. Litton, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, services their loan, and Litton's contract with investors has no clear language banning modifications. In fact, documents show that over 115 other mortgages [1] from the same investment pool have already been modified.
Even the representative of investors in the Baileys' mortgage says only the servicer can decide when to modify loans. While he couldn't comment on an individual case, Bank of New York Mellon spokesman Kevin Heine says it's "misinformation" to say that investors make these decisions.
Servicers can pass the buck because one mortgage often involves many different companies. During the housing bubble, banks often sold mortgages to investors on Wall Street so they wouldn't have to keep the loans on their own books, freeing them to make even more loans and protecting them from those that went bad. They then hired servicers to handle the day-to-day work of collecting payments from homeowners – and to decide when to modify loans. Now loan servicers have been inundated with requests from homeowners trying to avoid foreclosure through the government's $75 billion mortgage modification program. The Treasury Department estimates that 1.7 million homeowners should qualify for help.
For homeowners, it can be difficult to understand who is responsible for what. This confusion gives servicers a ready excuse for refusing modifications.
Indeed, nobody knows the exact extent to which servicers are passing blame on to investors. Some housing counselors estimate that 10 percent of the denials they see are attributed to investors; others say they see as many as 40 percent. Either way, tens of thousands of homeowners may be affected, their attempts to modify their mortgage wrongly denied.
The prevalence of such false claims by servicers is a "legitimate concern," said Laurie Maggiano, the Treasury Department's director of policy for the modification program. "It's been very frustrating for us."
Investors are also dismayed, saying servicers are not acting in their best interests. "This is one of those rare alliances where investors and borrowers are on the same page," according to Laurie Goodman, senior managing director at Amherst Securities, a brokerage firm that specializes in mortgage securities. She says investors have "zero vote" in determining individual loan modifications and, instead of foreclosures, prefer sustainable modifications that lower homeowners' total debt.
Investor-owned mortgages represent more than a third of trial and permanent modifications in the government's program [2]. Under the program, servicers must modify the loans of qualified [3] borrowers unless contracts with investors prohibit the modification, or if calculations [4] determine that the investors won't benefit from a modification. Investors' contracts rarely prohibit modifications, and at times, ProPublica found, they have been blamed for denials even though other mortgages owned by the same investors have been modified.Even when contracts with investors do have restrictions, servicers don't appear to be following federal requirements that they ask investors for waivers to allow modifications.
Such requests "never happen," says David Co, a director at Deutsche Bank's department that oversees 1,600 residential securities, the complex bundles of mortgages sold to investors.
Treasury's Maggiano says the government is investigating investor denials and considering greater consequences for servicers that wrongfully deny modifications. Servicers' compliance and accountability have been a major problem for the government's program. Treasury has threatened penalties before, but it hasn't yet issued any [5].
Whose decision is it?
"The very phrase 'investor restriction,' I think, is deliberately confusing," says Joseph Sant, an attorney with Staten Island Legal Services, which represents homeowners in foreclosure. "What we're talking about are not business entities or people, but inert documents."
Typically, financial institutions set up mortgage-backed securities as a trust — legally their own entities — and then sell bonds from the trust to investors, which can range from mutual funds to pension funds. At the same time, they sign up trustees to manage the security and hire divisions of their own banks or other companies to act as servicers that work directly with homeowners.
While servicers often tell homeowners that investors decide whose loans can be adjusted, Heine, the spokesman for Bank of New York Mellon, one of the largest trustees that administer mortgage securities, says the responsibility to modify loans "falls squarely to the servicer."
And the contracts that servicers often blame are usually not a roadblock. A report by John Hunt, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, looked at contracts [6] (PDF) that covered three-quarters of the subprime loans securitized in 2006 and found that only 8 percent prohibited modifications outright. Almost two-thirds of the contracts explicitly gave servicers the authority to make modifications, particularly for homeowners who had defaulted or would likely default soon. The rest of the contracts did not address modifications.
Jeffrey Gentes, an attorney at the Connecticut Fair Housing Center who works with hundreds of homeowners across the state, estimates that in 80 percent of the cases in which he has seen the servicing contracts, no language prevents modifications as the servicers have claimed.
Homeowners' advocates say that when they successfully disprove a contractual restriction, the servicer just gives another reason for denying the modification. "The investor is cited first until the borrower can prove it otherwise," says Kevin Stein, associate director of the California Reinvestment Coalition, which helps low-income people and minority groups get access to financial services.
Sant, the Staten Island attorney, says a servicer told one client that the contract with investors forbade extending the length of the mortgage, one key way monthly payments can be reduced through government's program. But the government has addressed the objection, ruling that if a servicer can't extend the length of a mortgage, it can still give a modification and just add a balloon payment to the end of the loan. Sant pushed back on the servicer's attorney, who dropped that reason for denial and instead said the homeowner had failed the computer model [4] that determines eligibility. Sant currently is reviewing the case to determine how to proceed.
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65GRAND
1369 West Grand Avenue / +13127194325 / 65grand.com
Fri – Sat 12pm to 5:30pm
Interview with Bill Gross, Owner/Director of 65GRAND, Chicago, IL by Rajee Aryal
On Dec 11, 2012 I sat down with Bill Gross in my studio at the School of the Art Institute and talked about 65GRAND, his gallery in Chicago.
RA: Could you say something about your personal background?
BG: I was born in Omaha, Nebraska. I moved to Minnesota for high school. Late in high school, in 1973, I was in the back of a VW bus driving back to school and there was an announcement on the radio that Picasso died. That's when it struck me that people were still making art. I thought all art had been made like 400 years ago. I started to get interested – I thought, well this is an active pursuit that people are involved in. I just kind of started going to school. I got really restless so I moved around a lot. Anyway I got through undergraduate school with a degree in painting.
RA: Where did you go for undergrad?
BG: I went to five different schools throughout the Midwest. I was really interested in making art. But I was also, in retrospect, always really interested in art history. Art history from the 1890s to the present. I studied the earlier art history but I just never really connected to it. I was interested in exhibitions more than the individual paintings or drawings. I graduated from University of Nebraska, went to Illinois State University and studied painting. I took a lot of art history classes, particularly contemporary art history or modern. I was interested in the dealers. How did Sydney Janis end up showing these people? Who was this person? I've always been interested in how art gets into the world and, in a way, how that history has always been very fickle. Because there are sort of some important gate keepers and they are the people who determine certain things.
RA: When did it occur to you that you wanted to have your own space?
BG: I was asked by some friends to co-curate a show in an apartment space, called the Guest Room Project. They would have people who didn't know each other curate shows in the guest room in their house. The openings were just like barbecue parties at their house. I think they wanted to get people who didn't know each other together. I enjoyed doing the show. Later, the friend who had the space was moving to Portland. He'd done all these exhibitions but people hadn't seen his work. He wanted to show his work and I said, well we could just hang it in my house. Like in my kitchen and clean up the space a little bit and invite people for a party. He was like, yeah let's do it. We said, Ok let's make a name and see if we can get it listed. So I did that in my apartment and people came right away. I have been in Chicago for a long time. I have lots of different friends who are involved in the arts. They were like, this is cool. What is your program gonna be?
RA: Did you sell the works? Were they priced?
BG: It was mostly just a going away party for a friend. I don't think we had a price list or anything. I can't remember if we sold anything. But I had already done some projects with other people, at art fairs, where we curated booths. The other people were really shy about selling things. But right from the beginning, I always thought if someone is interested in a work, I'm gonna sell it to them. But I wasn't thinking too much about doing that. Then after a few months, there was another friend who was making work from heavy cast iron that she didn't think would be shown anywhere. Since I already had the place painted and cleaned up, I thought let's use my space. So we did that. People did come over to see these shows. I thought that was kind of weird. And somewhere in the middle of all of this, I thought, I like doing this. I don't have a background in business or anything, but what is a gallery really? You just hang some artwork and people look at it, obviously it's more complicated than that but that's what went through my head at the time. So I began to consider a more regular kind of schedule. That's when this became an idea that I could run a gallery.
RA: How long did you do the shows in your apartment?
BG: I started in October 2005, so like 5 years. It was in my kitchen.
RA: You were selling the works too right?
BG: Yeah. At some point we started selling. We started getting ArtForum reviews. Our first ArtForum review was before we expanded. My girlfriend moved in with me and I told her that we were going to convert our bedroom into another gallery space. Because it was a nice space, it didn't have any windows or anything.
RA: Where was this? Which neighborhood?
BG: Right across the street from where I am now, Grand and Noble. My girlfriend (now my wife) was also really involved in arts and she was excited. There were two rooms in the apartment and in one of the rooms we could project videos. There were all these funny little steps and we just evolved.
RA: So after five years of that you rented a separate space?
BG: At first I just exhibited friends. Then after a couple of years, I was showing people mostly from New York. I showed an artist from LA who's now doing a show in MOMA, Zoe Crosher. I started to think about things a little differently. We had our third ArtForum review. There was a person in town who was getting kind of irritated that apartment spaces were getting a lot of attention. He contacted the city and lodged a complaint that I was running a business in my apartment. …it wasn't zoned; I wasn't able to get a permit. We couldn't work out a deal with the city. By that time I was ready to have a regular space anyway. That was 2009. I think we reopened in Sep 2010 in the store front that we are in now.
RA: Were you thinking specifically about the kind of gallery you wanted to be?
BG: There were two things. Chicago has had this history of apartment spaces that were mostly students, they would come from various programs and they would focus on their colleagues, which makes sense. But I'm not connected with a school. I thought it would be interesting to show artists from a wider spectrum in terms of the programs they went to and their age. I'm older so I thought there'd be a value to having space where it wasn't just college students but a wider age range. Some kind of notion like that was in my head. The other thing, there were the kinds of work that hadn't really been shown much in Chicago. This was before the Unmonumental exhibition at the New Museum. But I was interested in that type of work, sort of raw work that was a reaction to, I think, the over-produced Matthew Barney kind of stuff. It was work that I really liked and I didn't see really full-on versions of it here. So I gravitated to artists that made that kind of work.
RA: Since you opened this more formal space, what has your experience been like?
BG: Well first of all, I miss the old space. I wish I had documented everything better. I had fun. Lots of people have memories of it – it kind of had its little history. I miss it but at the same time, I always felt bad that I was forcing people to hang their work in this really awkward place. So when I found a space, I could gut it completely and start from scratch. I knew the size of the place I wanted. I cleaned it up as well as I could. I guess I'm comfortable with the white cube, it seems to be the most neutral situation. But it's hard to fight the perception of what a gallery is. The one thing nice about apartment space is that people can engage with artwork in a way that has less pretense and I think that does something for the art. There are interesting challenges to the more formal space as to how to make things more interesting. Partly that's the artist's job but I feel like as a gallerist, I want to make sure it is a lively program, also that the shows look awesome.
RA: How involved are you in the installation process?
BG: Some artists I work with are older. If they come in and have an idea about what they want to do in the space… I am pretty comfortable with people coming up with their own thing. But I sort of feel like my role is to be a little bit of a safety net for younger artists who come in, and they have just finished something that doesn't really fit in with the rest of their work but they want to put it in any way because they are excited about it so I try to- I get involved there a little bit.
RA: As a gallerist, are you also always thinking about the market?
BG: I started in an apartment gallery so selling stuff wasn't critical. When I moved, I tried to keep that situation. I very purposely stayed away from having a backer because backers want to see things happen in a certain way. I want to present work that is challenging and see if I can figure out ways to get people engaged in it. It isn't always necessarily about sales because I am more interested in getting the artist one more step toward having a career and develop a base of people that are interested, it could be writers, curators, hopefully collectors but sometimes collectors kind of come later. The other thing is I'm always looking for and working with new artists, but there's basically a core of maybe eight artists I have – some people would say that I represent them but I'd say it's looser than that. What I can offer them is that when they are ready, we can start scheduling. I mean they are still looking for other places to show but they know that they will have a chance to show their work. So for those artists, I want to be there to support them.
RA: What has been the most memorable of your experience as a gallery owner?
BG: As an artist working in the studio, I focused on art in a certain way. As a gallery owner, I am very open. I don't know what's going on with some stuff but I am more interested in things where I can't figure out what is going on. For me the most fruitful or memorable thing is that it's helped me change the way I engage with art work.
RA: So your business model is based on sales?
BG: Yes, it's a for-profit gallery.
RA: Has the recession affected your position as a gallery owner in any tangible way?
BG: When I had the apartment space, my expenses were different. Not only was the rent different but when you have a storefront the expectations are different. I would say the most tangible way it has affected me is that when I moved it was really hard to get a loan. I just had to build out my space with credit cards. If I hadn't done that, it would now be easier to do art fairs and stuff. But I can't do that until I get all those expenses taken care of. So the economy had something to do with that.
RA: So what is it that keeps you going?
BG: It's something I love. I feel a commitment to the artists I work with. I'm always curious. Right now there is lot of talk about certain artists and I'd like to be a part of that conversation.
RA: What is your hope/fantasy for your future and for 65GRAND?
BG: Most base level, I just hope I can keep it going. I hope that more people start to trust what 65GRAND does. There's some of that but I feel like 65GRAND didn't become a part of some people's consciousness until we moved to a storefront. Apartment spaces are certain things and they are an important part of Chicago but it's not really a commerce space for an artist, so I really hope that people can be convinced to trust 65GRAND.
RA: Being part of the conversation, would you say that is very important to you?
BG: Like I said before, when I started, the kind of work I was most excited about had very little opportunity in Chicago. My fantasy is that we can have more opportunity for artists. I live in Chicago and my frustration is like, why doesn't certain art come to Chicago ever? I can't always get to New York or LA to see it. I could bring those works here but it is expensive with shipping and insurance. The reality is I cannot bring certain things here but my fantasy would be that I can do certain things in the gallery that really enlivens the dialogue. Not that I am critical of what other places do. I am a pluralist in that way.
RA: Few words about art and the art market in Chicago?
BG: Chicago is a great place for young artists. There's so much dialogue. But it is a difficult place for artists who are past that emerging state. It's a real hard market. It is hard to continue as an artist in Chicago. That neglect can be very damaging. Unless you are teaching, it is hard for those artists to mentor younger artists. If a younger artist asks me, I feel irresponsible telling them to stay in Chicago. In other ways I think Chicago is a great place. There's so much opportunity for conversation. There are all these smart people at the University of Chicago, the smart people here at the Art Institute and other schools.
There are a few local collectors who will buy from galleries here in Chicago, if there were a few more it would help.
RA: Is Chicago then a good launching ground for artists?
BG: It's worked like that for a long time. It's a good place for people to get a start.


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American Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Jordan on Wednesday for a hastily arranged meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, just as Arab leaders released a communique saying they would never recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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2 John in Wikipedia
The Second Epistle of John, usually referred to simply as Second John and often written 2 John, is a book of the New Testament attributed to John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the Gospel of John and the other two epistles of John. This Epistle is the shortest book (by verse) in the Bible, comprising a mere thirteen verses...
The Epistles of John pt.1-3 in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE
LITERATURE Among the 7 New Testament epistles which from ancient times have been called "catholic" (universal) there is a smaller group of three in which the style alike of thought and language points to a common authorship, and which are traditionally associated with the name of the apostle John. Of these, again, the first differs widely from the other two in respect not only of intrinsic importance, but of its early reception in the church and unquestioned canonicity. THE FIRST EPISTLE I. General Character. 1. A True Letter: Not only is the Epistle an anonymous writing; one of its unique features among the books of the New Testament is that it does not contain a single proper name (except our Lord's), or a single definite allusion, personal, historical, or geographical. It is a composition, however, which a person calling himself "I" sends to certain other persons whom he calls "you," and is, in form at least, a letter. The criticism which has denied that it is more than formally so is unwarranted. It does not fall under either of Deissmann's categories--the true letter, intended only for the perusal of the person or persons to whom it is addressed, and the epistle, written with literary art and with an eye to the public. But it does possess that character of the New Testament epistles in general which is well described by Sir William Ramsay (Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia, 24): "They spring from the heart of the writer and speak direct to the heart of the readers. They were often called forth by some special crisis in the history of the persons addressed, so that they rise out of the actual situation in which the writer conceives the readers to be placed; they express the writer's keen and living sympathy with and participation in the fortunes of the whole class addressed, and are not affected by any thought of a wider public. .... On the other hand, the letters of this class express general principles of life and conduct, religion and ethics, applicable to a wider range of circumstances than those which called them forth; and they appeal as emphatically and intimately to all Christians in all time as they did to those addressed in the first instance." The 1st Epistle of John could not be more exactly characterized than by these words. Though its main features are didactic and controversial, the personal note is frequently struck, and with much tenderness and depth of feeling. Under special stress of emotion, the writer's paternal love, sympathy and solicitude break out in the affectionate appellation, "little children," or, yet more endearingly, "my little children." Elsewhere the prefatory "beloved" shows how deeply he is stirred by the sublimity of his theme and the sense of its supreme importance to his readers. He shows himself intimately acquainted with their religious environment (1 Jn 2:19; 4:1), dangers (1 Jn 2:26; 3:7; 5:21), attainments (1 Jn 2:12-14,21), achievements (1 Jn 4:4) and needs (1 Jn 3:19; 5:13). Further, the Epistle is addressed primarily to the circle of those among whom the author has habitually exercised his ministry as evangelist and teacher. He has been wont to announce to them the things concerning the Word of Life (1 Jn 1:1,2), that they might have fellowship with him (1 Jn 1:3), and now, that his (or their) joy may be full, he writes these things unto them (1 Jn 1:4). He writes as light shines. Love makes the task a necessity, but also a delight...
IV. Canonicity and Authorship. 1. Traditional View: As to the reception of the Epistle in the church, it is needless to cite any later witness than Eusebius (circa 325), who classes it among the books (homologoumena) whose canonical rank was undisputed. It is quoted by Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria (247-265), by the Muratorian Canon, Cyprian, Origen, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and Irenaeus. Papias (who is described by Irenaeus as a "hearer of John and a companion of Polycarp") is stated by Eusebius to have "used some testimonies from John's former epistle"; and Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians (circa 115) contains an almost verbal reproduction of 1 Jn 4:3. Reminiscences of it are traced in Athenagoras (circa 180), the Epistle to Diognetus, the Epistle of Barnabas, more distinctly in Justin (Dial. 123) and in the Didache; but it is possible that the earliest of these indicate the currency of Johannine expressions in certain Christian circles rather than acquaintance with the Epistle itself. The evidence, however, is indisputable that this Epistle, one of the latest of the New Testament books, took immediately and permanently an unchallenged position as a writing of inspired authority. It is no material qualification of this statement to add that, in common with the other Johannine writings, it was rejected, for dogmatic reasons, by Marcion and the so-called Alogi; and that, like all the catholic epistles, it was unknown to the Canon of the ancient Syrian church, and is stated to have been "abrogated" by Theodore (Bishop of Mopsuestia, 393-428 AD). 2. Critical Views: The verdict of tradition is equally unanimous that the Fourth Gospel and the First Epistle are both the legacy of the apostle John in his old age to the church. All the Fathers already mentioned as quoting the Epistle (excepting Polycarp, but including Irenaeus) quote it as the work of John; and, until the end of the 16th century, this opinion was held as unquestionable. The first of modern scholars to challenge it was Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), who rejected the entire trio of Johannine Epistles as unapostolic; and in later times a dual authorship of the Gospel and the First Epistle has been maintained by Baur, H.J. Holtzmann, Pfleiderer, von Soden, and others; although on this particular point other adherents of the critical school like Julicher, Wrede and Wernle, accept the traditional view. 3. Internal Evidence: Thus two questions are raised: first, what light does the Epistle shed upon the personality of its own author? And second, whether or not, the Gospel and the Epistle are from the same hand. Now, while the Epistle furnishes no clue by which we can identify the writer, it enables us very distinctly to class him. His relation to his readers, as we have seen, is intimate. The absence of explicit reference to either writer or readers only shows how intimate it was. For the writer to declare his identity was superfluous. Thought, language, tone--all were too familiar to be mistaken. The Epistle bore its author's signature in every line. His position toward his readers was, moreover, authoritative. As has already been said, the natural interpretation of 1 Jn 1:2,3 is that the relation between them was that of teacher and taught. (By this fact we may account for the enigmatic brevity of such a passage as that on the "three witnesses." The writer intended only...
Second Epistle of John in Smiths Bible Dictionary
The second epistle is addressed to an individual woman. One who had children, and a sister and nieces, is clearly indicated. According to one interpretation she is "the Lady Electa," to another, "the elect Kyria," to a third, "the elect Lady." The third epistle is addressed to Caius or Gaius. He was probably a convert of St. John, Epist. 3Jo 1:4 and a layman of wealth and distinction, Epits. 3Jo 1:5 in some city near Ephesus. The object of St. John in writing the second epistle was to warn the lady to whom he wrote against abetting the teaching known as that of Basilides and his followers, by perhaps an undue kindness displayed by her toward the preachers of the false doctrine. The third epistle was written for the purpose of commending to the kindness and hospitality of Caius some Christians who were strangers in the place where he lived. It is probably that these Christians carried this letter with them to Caius as their introduction.
Second Epistle of John in Easton's Bible Dictionary
is addressed to "the elect lady," and closes with the words, "The children of thy elect sister greet thee;" but some would read instead of "lady" the proper name Kyria. Of the thirteen verses composing this epistle seven are in the First Epistle. The person addressed is commended for her piety, and is warned against false teachers.
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Q: Nested JSON with SQL OPENROWSET and OPENJSON I have multiple JSON files to parse into SQL, most of it I have been able to sort with OPENROWSET, OPENJSON and CROSS JOINS but there is one bit I am having trouble with.  A sample of the JSON:
{
    "MInfo": {
        "MName": "XGUA",
        "Instance": "1",
        "MAvailable": "Yes",
        "CB": "XG0A",
        "mo": "ENTRC"
    },
    "PG": [
        {
            "Name": "XI0BS.XI0SZE",
               "SIM": {
                "XGUA": {"XGUA->BEGIN": {"CC": ["XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "XIM1": {"XIM1->XIM2_1": {"CC": ["XIM1","XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "XIM2": {"XIM2->BEGIN": {"CC": ["XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "XIMA": {"XIMA->XIM2_1": {"CC": ["XIMA","XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TIIA": {"TIIA->BEGIN": {"CC": ["TIIA","TIQ2","XPD1","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}}
               }
        },
        {
            "Name": "D0549.XI0EXLA",
               "SIM": {
                "XGUA": {"XGUA->BEGIN": {"CC": ["XGUA"],"value": [""]}}}},
        {
            "Name": "D0549.XI0EXTA",
               "SIM": {
                "XGUA": {"XGUA->BEGIN": {"CC": ["XGUA"],"value": [""]}}}},
        {
            "Name": "EB0EB.CE1FA0",
               "SIM": {
                "IGR4": {"IGR4->XGN1_1": {"CC": ["IGR4","NGT1","XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TQU7": {"TQU7->BEGIN": {"CC": ["TQU7","TQE2","FMSG","XIMZ","XIPK","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TIH4": {"TIH4->TIX1_1": {"CC": ["TIH4","TIH5","SUB1","XPEN","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "XIS9": {"XIS9->XIS3_1": {"CC": ["XIS9","XGNP","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "FRI2": {"FRI2->FRI3_1": {"CC": ["FRI2","TIL2","TIMR","TIMQ","XPD1","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "XIDN": {"XIDN->XID3_1": {"CC": ["XIDN","FMSG","XIMZ","XIPK","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TIV2": {"TIV2->TIV3_1": {"CC": ["TIV2","TIV3","NGT1","XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TID2": {"TID2->TIDQ_1": {"CC": ["TID2","SLII","XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "PNK2": {"PNK2->TOB1_1": {"CC": ["PNK2","PRP1","XCC0","XG0A","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TIN4": {"TIN4->BEGIN": {"CC": ["TIN4","TIM3","XPD1","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
               }
        }
        }
    ],
}

I have parsed everything apart from the CC array, I am not sure how to return the elements in this array.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

A: …
declare @j nvarchar(max) = N'
{
    "MInfo": {
        "MName": "XGUA",
        "Instance": "1",
        "MAvailable": "Yes",
        "CB": "XG0A",
        "mo": "ENTRC"
    },
    "PG": [
        {
            "Name": "XI0BS.XI0SZE",
               "SIM": {
                "XGUA": {"XGUA->BEGIN": {"CC": ["XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "XIM1": {"XIM1->XIM2_1": {"CC": ["XIM1","XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "XIM2": {"XIM2->BEGIN": {"CC": ["XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "XIMA": {"XIMA->XIM2_1": {"CC": ["XIMA","XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TIIA": {"TIIA->BEGIN": {"CC": ["TIIA","TIQ2","XPD1","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}}
               }
        },
        {
            "Name": "D0549.XI0EXLA",
               "SIM": {
                "XGUA": {"XGUA->BEGIN": {"CC": ["XGUA"],"value": [""]}}}},
        {
            "Name": "D0549.XI0EXTA",
               "SIM": {
                "XGUA": {"XGUA->BEGIN": {"CC": ["XGUA"],"value": [""]}}}},
        {
            "Name": "EB0EB.CE1FA0",
               "SIM": {
                "IGR4": {"IGR4->XGN1_1": {"CC": ["IGR4","NGT1","XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TQU7": {"TQU7->BEGIN": {"CC": ["TQU7","TQE2","FMSG","XIMZ","XIPK","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TIH4": {"TIH4->TIX1_1": {"CC": ["TIH4","TIH5","SUB1","XPEN","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "XIS9": {"XIS9->XIS3_1": {"CC": ["XIS9","XGNP","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "FRI2": {"FRI2->FRI3_1": {"CC": ["FRI2","TIL2","TIMR","TIMQ","XPD1","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "XIDN": {"XIDN->XID3_1": {"CC": ["XIDN","FMSG","XIMZ","XIPK","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TIV2": {"TIV2->TIV3_1": {"CC": ["TIV2","TIV3","NGT1","XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TID2": {"TID2->TIDQ_1": {"CC": ["TID2","SLII","XIM2","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "PNK2": {"PNK2->TOB1_1": {"CC": ["PNK2","PRP1","XCC0","XG0A","XGUA"],"value": [""]}},
                "TIN4": {"TIN4->BEGIN": {"CC": ["TIN4","TIM3","XPD1","XIM0","XGUA"],"value": [""]}}
               }
        }
    ]
}';

select isjson(@j);

select sim.[key], simv.[key], cc.value
from openjson(@j, N'$.PG') as pg
cross apply openjson(pg.value, N'$.SIM') as sim
cross apply openjson(sim.value) as simv
cross apply openjson(simv.value, N'$.CC') as cc;


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Boys State é um documentário estadunidense de 2020 dirigido e produzido por Jesse Moss e Amanda McBaine. O flme acompanha mil adolescentes que frequentam o Boys/Girls State - programas de verão de liderança e cidadania para alunos do segundo grau, que se concentram em explorar a mecânica do governo e da política americana, no Texas, visando a construção de um governo representativo a partir do zero. O filme teve sua estreia mundial no Festival Sundance de Cinema em 24 de janeiro de 2020, onde venceu o Grande Prêmio do Júri da Competição na categoria de melhor documentário dos Estados Unidos; a obra foi lançada na Apple TV+ em 14 de agosto de 2020 e pela A24.

Enredo
O filme acompanha mil adolescentes que frequentam o Boys State em Austin, Texas, se unindo para construirem um governo representativo a partir do zero, de todas as origens políticas diferentes, enfrentando desafios de organização de partidos políticos, consenso e campanha pelo mais alto cargo, o de governador do Texas.

Lançamento
Após ter sua estreia no Festival Sundance de Cinema em 24 de Janeiro de 2020, o filme teve seus direitos de distribuições comprados pela A24 e Apple por US$12 milhões. Apesar de ter sido programado para ser exibido no South by Southwest no dia de 13 de março de 2020, o festival foi cancelado por conta da pandemia de COVID-19 nos Estados Unidos. Posteriormente, o filme foi lançado na AppleTV+ em 14 de agosto de 2020, após o  seu lançamento online no Sundance do Reino  de 2020 em 9 de agosto.

Recepção

Crítica
No agregador de resenhas, Rotten Tomatoes, o filme tem uma taxa de aprovação de 94% com base em 130 resenhas, com uma classificação média de 8,21/ 0. O consenso dos críticos do site diz: "Surpreendente, perturbador e, de modo geral, absorvente, Boys State retrata de maneira impressionante as divisões políticas americanas - e maquinações - criando raízes na próxima geração." No Metacritic, o filme tem uma pontuação média ponderada de 84 em 100, com base em 32 críticos, indicando "aclamação universal".

Prêmios e indicações
No Festival Sundance de Cinema de 2020, o filme venceu o Grande Prêmio do Júri da Competição de Documentário dos EUA. E na South by Southwest, o prêmio especial de reconhecimento do júri do prêmio Louis Black Lone Star para documentário.

Referências

Ligações externas

''Boys State on Apple TV+

Filmes dos Estados Unidos de 2020
Filmes originais da AppleTV+
Filmes em língua inglesa
Filmes dos Estados Unidos
Documentários de 2020

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Eastern Sports Club é um clube de futebol de Hong Kong e que atua na Liga da Primeira Divisão de Hong Kong.

Foi uma equipe muito bem sucedida, principalmente nos anos 90 quando começou a ser chamada de "Dinastia Oriental".

Títulos

Ligas
  Liga da Primeira Divisão de Hong Kong Campeão
 1955-56, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95 e 2015-16
  2ª Divisão Campeão
 1947-48
  3ª Divisão A Campeão
 2004-05

Copas
  Copa FA Campeão

1983-84, 1992-93, 1993-94 e 2013-14
  Protetor Sênior de Hong Kong Campeão

1952-53, 1955-56, 1981-82, 1986-87, 1992-93, 1993-94, 2007-08, 2014-15 e 2015-16
  Copa Viceroy de Hong Kong Campeão
 1970-72, 1980-81

Performance na Copa dos Campeões da Ásia
 Copa dos Campeões da Ásia: 3 participações
 1994: Segunda Fase
 1995: Segunda Fase
 1996: Primeira Fase

Recorde
Na temporada de 1992/93, o Eastern manteve uma série de 100% de aproveitamento nos primeiros 9 jogos da primeira metade da Liga da Primeira Divisão de Hong Kong. Além disso, o time marcou 30 gols e não sofreu nenhum. Foi um maravilhoso récorde de 3 zeros (0 empates, zero derrotas e 0 gols tomados).
Naquela temporada o Eastern ganhou 3 troféus e voltou a vencer a Liga depois de 37 anos.

Ligações externas
Site oficial (em chinês)
Facebook oficial (em chinês)
Informações do clube no site da HKFA (em chinês)

Clubes de futebol fundados em 1932


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"two" & "finger" on QPA ざっと気になったところを、、
どうやら、一日分のデータ量をオーバーしちゃったみたいだ。QPAのタイトルだけ欲しいところを、本文付であっぷしたりとかしちゃってるからかな、、
つづきは、霊際社に一旦上げとくかな、どうすっかな、あっちか、タッチタイプかな
Mrs. M. V. Longley: ``Writing Machines'', Proceedings of the First Annual International Congress of Shorthand Writers, pp.14-16 (August 31, 1882).
"The next paper will be upon the subject of
WRITING MACHINES,
by Mrs. M. V. Longley, of Cincinnati."
Mrs. M. V. Longley said:
"So much has been said about type-writers and type-writing in your conventions and periodicals, that I scarcely know what there is left for me to say.
I have seen a person write with the two index fingers, using them for both printing and spacing, but such an one would not expect to get a position as type-writing clerk.
Mrs. M. V. Longley: Type-Writer Lessons for the Use of Teachers and Learners Adapted to Remington's Perfected Type-Writers, Cincinnati (1882).
In other cases the persevering owner, or clerk, is plodding along as best he can, using but one or two fingers of each hand, instead of all the fingers and a thumb,
Mrs. M. V. Longley: Caligraph Lessons for the Use of Teachers and Learners Designed to Develop Accurate and Reliable Operators, Cincinnati (1882).
Until the present time, except in large cities, each person owning or using one of these instruments has had to gain this experience for himself by slow and uncertain steps, plodding along as best he can, emplying but one or two fingers of each hand, instead of utilizing all as piano-players do.
F. E. McGurrin: "How McGurrin Fingers the Typewriter", The Phonographic World, Vol.4, No.5 (January 1889), pp.90-91.
There being ten diagonal rows of keys, five for each hand, and only four fingers, the duty of taking care of the extra row is placed upon the first and second fingers of each hand, they being the best fingers for use ordinarily, and consequently the fourth diagonal row from the outside is to be taken care of by those two fingers in common, the one being selected which is most convenient in the particular word to be written.
The principal exceptions to the above rule are two: First, where it would require two successive keys to be struck by the same finger; in which case the next most convenient finger is to be used. Second, where it would necessitate turning the hand outward, i. e., so that the thumb would be brought upward overthe keys, instead of downward in front of the machine.
The principal advantages of this system of fingering over the one-finger system are: First, by distributing the labor among eight fingers, there is less fatigue to each finger. Second, each finger, having but one-fourth of the labor to perform, sooner acquires the faculty of doing the work mechanically, thus producing greater speed with less mental labor or liability to error. Third, it enables the operator to run the machine without looking at the key-board.
As to whether this system of fingering permits of higher speed than the one-finger system, would seem to be questionable in view of the contests during the past summer, in which the two systems were brought into direct competition. The writer believes that Miss Orr's marvelous speed was achieved, not by reason of the system which she used, but in spite of it, and that if she had used the system mentioned above, her speed would have been much greater than it was. She is a lady apparently well adapted to rapid typewriting, and has adopted it as her sole profession. The writer on the other hand, is not naturally adapted to it, has no taste for it, and has pursued it merely as an incident to another profession. It is quite certain, therefore, that any ordinary person, by the use of this system, can with practice, equal any speed which has been reached thus far; and, if naturally adapted to it, can far exceed it.
F. E. McGurrin: "Shift-key vs. Double Key-board Typewriters", The Phonographic World, Vol.4, No.6 (February 1889), p.115.
"The question, which method of capitalizing, that of the shift-key, as used on the Remington typewriter, or that of the double key-board, as used on the caligraph, is more conducive to speed, is one worthy of careful consideration. The two methods are diametrically opposed. In the former case, te labor of capitalizing is put entirely upon the fingers, by necessitating an extra, purely mechanical stroke to shift the paper, while in the latter case the labor is put entirely on the mind, by necessitating the keeping track of double the number of keys.
The question must be considered in reference to speed in actual work, (which includes accuracy) for it is poor consolation to a tired operator at the end of a day's work to know that he can writer on his machine "Chippy get your hair cut" an incredible number of times in five minutes, if another operator, next to him, and using another style of machine, has quit work two hours before after doing the same amount of work which the former has done, by reason of the superiority of the latter's machine in practical work.
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The prizewinners in the dissertation/essay category
Place: Dr. André Schenek, "Short- and long-term excess returns when shares are issued"
Studied economics at the University of Freiburg. Financial market analyst at the Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt.
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Place: Dr. Jana Henze, "What do financial analysts do?" Appeared in the publication series: Financing, Capital Market and Banks. Eul-Verlag, publisher. Klaus Röder, Regensburg, Hermann Locarek-Junge, Dresden, and Mark Wahrenburg, Frankfurt. Volume 38. Order at: www.eul-shop.de
Studied business management at the Universities of Göttingen and Münster. Works in group controlling of Fielmann AG, Hamburg.
Jury member Dr. Röder abstained, because he was an advisor for the dissertation
Place: Christian Klein, "The Effect of Weather on the German Stock Index" The work appeared in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft (2005), Volume 75, pp. 1-18.
Studied business management at the University of Augsburg. Academic employee at the University of Augsburg
Place: Dr. Julia Wenzel, "Value-Oriented Reporting from a Theoretical and Empirical Perspective " Studied business management at the University of Munich. Auditing assistant at Dr. Röver & Partner KG, Berlin.
The prizewinners in the thesis category
Place: Norbert Keimling, "The Prospects of Success of Simple Value Strategies" Studied computer science in economics at TU Ilmenau. Analyst at Huber Portfolio AG Frankfurt.
This year's jury:
Professor Dr. Klaus Röder, University Regensburg
Dr. Dirk Schellenberger, CEO Deutsche Balaton AG, Heidelberg
Professor Dr. Detlev Stock, Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
Awarding of the ACATIS Value Prize at the 4th Value Seminar, Fri., 09/23/2005, Kranichstein near Darmstadt


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Hiland Partners, LP and Hiland Holdings GP, LP Announce Extension of Merger Agreements
ENID, Okla., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Hiland Partners, LP (Nasdaq: HLND) and Hiland Holdings GP, LP (Nasdaq: HPGP) announced today that each company will adjourn its special meeting of unitholders scheduled for this morning. The meetings are being adjourned to allow the boards of directors and conflicts committees additional time to consider the previously announced proposals made by Harold Hamm, on behalf of certain of his affiliates, to increase the merger consideration payable to each company's common unitholders.
The Hiland Partners special meeting will be adjourned and the vote postponed until November 3, 2009 at 3:30 p.m., central time, and the Hiland Holdings special meeting will be adjourned and the vote postponed until November 3, 2009 at 4:30 p.m., central time. Each special meeting will be held at 302 N. Independence, Ball Room, Second Floor, Enid, Oklahoma 73701.
On October 26, 2009, in letters to the conflicts committees of the Hiland companies, Mr. Hamm proposed amending the merger agreements between certain of his affiliates and each Hiland company to increase the consideration payable to Hiland Partners common unitholders from $7.75 to $10.00 per common unit and to increase the consideration payable to Hiland Holdings common unitholders from $2.40 to $3.20 per common unit, respectively.
In connection with Mr. Hamm's proposal and the adjournment of the Hiland Partners special meeting, Hiland Partners and Mr. Hamm have agreed to amend the merger agreement between Hiland Partners and affiliates of Mr. Hamm to extend its end date to November 6, 2009. Similarly, Hiland Holdings and Mr. Hamm have agreed to amend the merger agreement between Hiland Holdings and affiliates of Mr. Hamm to extend its end date to November 6, 2009. In his letter to each conflicts committee, Mr. Hamm indicated that, if his proposals are accepted, he expects that the end date under each merger agreement would be further extended as necessary to consummate the transactions.
The record date for determining unitholders eligible to vote at the special meetings will remain September 9, 2009. Valid proxies submitted by unitholders of Hiland Partners or Hiland Holdings prior to the adjourned October 27, 2009 special meetings will continue to be valid for purposes of the reconvened special meetings scheduled for November 3, 2009.
Common unitholders of Hiland Partners or Hiland Holdings as of September 9, 2009 who have not voted but wish to do so or who would like to change their vote should contact D.F. King at 1-800-967-4612.
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Health Canada wind turbine study released
Health Canada Wind Turbine Study 2014
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TORONTO – A Health Canada study has found no evidence to support a link between exposure to wind-turbine noise and health effects reported by people living near the towering structures.
The Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study, conducted over a four-month period in 2013, involved more than 1,200 residents in southwestern Ontario and P.E.I., whose homes were located at various distances from almost 400 of the electricity-generating structures in 18 wind-turbine developments.
The use of turbines to generate electricity by harnessing the wind — whether clustered on land in so-called farms or anchored offshore in lake or ocean floors — is controversial, and reaction to release of the study findings Thursday reflected long-established divergent opinions.
The study found no link between wind-turbine noise and respondents' reports of sleep disturbances, dizziness, tinnitus, migraines or chronic headaches, increased blood pressure or ongoing health conditions such as heart disease, chronic pain or diabetes. Read article
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44 thoughts on "Health Canada wind turbine study released"
Admin on 11/07/2014 at 08:43 said:
Who pays the piper, calls the tune. The Federal Gov't got what it wanted: non-interference in Provincial Green.
The federal government got more than non-interference in provincial affairs!
Backs up Environment Canada radar change, MT at C-K airport affair, NAV Canada and now Health Canada.
Look at the recent federal negotiations to ok transmission lines to the U.S. Min. Federal Natural Resources involved.
IWTs no harm so IWTs are a go in Canada!
Let's make a deal. IWTs in exchange for oil pipelines?
shocked and disgusted on 11/07/2014 at 09:22 said:
Compare federal government "expectations" (ie – contract terms) with provincial government admissions:
"NRCan noted in its letter of April 8, 2005 […] that it is expected that all residences, regardless of whether a property intends to host a wind turbine, will not be at risk of significant environmental impacts with respect to operational noise."
– May 14, 2005 NRCan, Mr. Curtis Lockett, Wind Power Production Incentive to AIM PowerGen, Mr. Mike Crawley, Erie Shores Wind Farm
"The audible sound from wind turbines is nonetheless expected to result in a non-trivial percentage of persons being highly annoyed. As with sounds from many sources, research has shown that annoyance associated with sound from wind turbines can be expected to contribute to stress related health impacts in some persons."
– "Low Frequency Noise and Infrasound Associated with Wind Turbine Generator Systems: A Literature Review", Howe Gastmeier Chapnik Limited (HGC Engineering), Ontario Ministry of the Environment RFP No. OSS-07869, December 10, 2010
yabder4 on 11/07/2014 at 09:30 said:
This section is going un-reported. We need to get this message out: (from the report Summary)
5.2 Community Annoyance Findings
Statistically significant exposure-response relationships were found between increasing WTN levels and the prevalence of reporting high annoyance. These associations were found with annoyance due to noise, vibrations, blinking lights, shadow and visual impacts from wind turbines. In all cases, annoyance increased with increasing exposure to WTN levels.
The following additional findings in relation to WTN annoyance were obtained:
At the highest WTN levels (≥ 40 dBA in both provinces), the following percentages of respondents were highly annoyed by wind turbine noise: ON-16.5%; PEI-6.3%. While overall a similar pattern of response was observed, the prevalence of WTN annoyance was 3.29 times higher in ON versus PEI (95% confidence interval, 1.47 – 8.68).
A statistically significant increase in annoyance was found when WTN levels exceeded 35 dBA.
Reported WTN annoyance was statistically higher in the summer, outdoors and during evening and night time.
Community annoyance was observed to drop at distances between 1-2km in ON, compared to PEI where almost all of the participants who were highly annoyed by WTN lived within 550m of a wind turbine. Investigating the reasons for provincial differences is outside the scope of the current study.
WTN annoyance significantly dropped in areas where calculated nighttime background noise exceeded WTN by 10dB or more.
Annoyance was significantly lower among the 110 participants who received personal benefit, which could include rent, payments or other indirect benefits of having wind turbines in the area e.g., community improvements. However, there were other factors that were found to be more strongly associated with annoyance, such as the visual appearance, concern for physical safety due to the presence of wind turbines and reporting to be sensitive to noise in general.
The last paragraph says it all, 110 participants received personal benefit and their annoyance was significantly lower!
The government's new buzz word "Annoyance"
It's more than likely that any participant who received any personal benefits from IWTs is under a gag order which also includes any negative information supplied for government studies.
Did any of the participants in this Health Canada study keep copies of the questions they were asked?
And would any of them care to share this information?
Mike Smith on 11/08/2014 at 04:06 said:
Could you give us a link to the Summary Report you are referring to. Thanks.
Sommer on 11/07/2014 at 10:29 said:
This study will be subjected to the peer review process. It will be very interesting to see both professional and clinical comments on the details in the next few months.
And rural Ontarians don't have months to reverse the IWT tide.
Martin on 11/07/2014 at 11:41 said:
The danger from the start was that the 2 organizations involved would produce a wishy washy report, still this goes far beyond that. Wynne and her Wind cronies could not have dreamed of a better report had they composed it themselves. Just look at the headlines in national media and headlines are all most readers remember. A significant number of residents adjacent to turbines report being sick, but the cause is not the turbines themselves. Many others are annoyed, but a simple perusal of local press could have told us that.
We are destined to hear these headlines repeated ad nauseam for months to come by Wind proponents; they will replace reference to the King study, which wasn't a real study at all. This one has the advantage of being published by respected agencies outside the Ont government, and therefor "objective".
I can see no benefit whatever in this study. Yesterday other hot items kept this story off the 2 national supper time news programs, but the study will continue to be a background irritant for years.
You can look forward to some members of the study team losing their professional licenses because of ethics and criminal offenses.
I think we need to look at the details if we are allowed to. I have trouble seeing how a person can be disturbed by flicker at 550 m . Like why can't they close the curtains?
To me the annoyance is more likely to come from low level sound.
I think most of us are not bothered by low level sound but a small percentage of the people are. We have to give these people some credence. Its like telling a person who is allergic to peanut butter that it is all in his head.
If we are going to recognize the reality that some people are bothered by the low level noise, then we have to do something about it. "Quiet Nights" seems like a very practical solution. It may only be 10% of the turbines. The energy is not needed anyway. Why don't we just turn a few of the turbines off at night?
Because that doesn't stop the infrasound/vibration Mike.
We're talking multiple turbines running in the background even if you do shut a few down.
Plus the electrical system is a mess and many homes now have electrical pollution which is not being corrected. They leave the electrical systems running even if the blades are stopped.
You see, health canada/Stats canada could have learned an awful lot if they had spoken with people who have been through it, and the reserachers but they didn't want to….actually refused plenty of offers from plenty of credible people.
This was intended and is not a legitimate study whatsoever.
Wind Wraith on 11/07/2014 at 12:11 said:
There is some good news in the report (but nothing that we didn't have before) that needs to be stressed….
From the new Health Canada report, "Annoyance ….was associated with increasing wind turbine noise"
From other Health Canada articles (bulletin on community noise),"the most common effect of community noise is annoyance, which is considered an adverse health affect by WHO".
… so it seems they did find health effects.
futhermore from the Health Canada report, "the findings support a potential link between long term annoyance and health"
claire on 11/07/2014 at 12:15 said:
Thank-you for pointing this out.
"Annoyance" now replaces "stress." It is widely understood and accepted that stress underlies all illness, so the spinmeisters have simply eliminated the word. Post traumatic annoyance" is so watered down as to be meaningless. As governments sacrifice soldiers in war – then fail the traumatized survivors – now it is citizens who are "collateral damage" in the fight for the largest profits in the Green Energy/renewable infrastrusture scam. Birds, animals, plants and humans: all are expendable. Even endangered species matter not.
I could never, ever have imagined that this would occur in my lifetime. Most veterans I know would not have sacrificed anything, let alone their lives, for this.
I would be very careful on commenting on this report. There is virtually no data available to support (or refute) any conclusions published.
The actual data appears to be pay-walled and only available to university based researchers. I, for example, would have to pay for time limited access to the data. The data is in unspecified form — so even if I did pay it may be useless to me and my analysis tools.
As has been pointed out — there are "talking points" being circulated that appear to differ from material in the "study"
I have skimmed all the material available and have not had time to find all the data published — but there does not seem to be anything significant that backs up much of anything.
While I hate to call it Junk Science — until I see enough data to justify their "talking points" — that assessment is the way I'm leaning. If the people who worked on this study see this comment and are offended — sorry — but I can only comment on what I see — and that's not much so far.
For example — measuring infrasound and sound pressure in the house and comparing to external data was "too difficult". Sure…
It appears that mostly the A-Weighted dB scale was used — the C-Scale "sometimes".
Little if any infrasound assessment — especially inside houses.
Perhaps Dr. Richard Mann and other researchers can access the data and do some analysis.
Maybe I'll get some data access in the future — but I'm not counting on. It seems that only "the right people" get to see and analyze the data.
I should add that some of us have already sent request for documents and data. We will see what comes of it.
In a sense the damage has already been done, the text released is referred to by HC as a summary. It may be possible to critique parts of the analysis when data becomes available, but this will be enormously difficult to do. This is unlike the A. King review where she talked to none of the victims, this was done by Health Canada and Statistics Canada, usually respected research agencies. Further, many in the wind resistance community asked for just such a study, it will be portrayed as sour grapes when the same people claim it is biased, People here may agree, but it is the general public who needs to be convinced.
I am afraid that in the battle for public perception of health risks posed by IWTs the big winners yesterday were wind developers and their McGuinty-Wynne supporters.
Sell on good news?
Free Thinker on 11/07/2014 at 16:36 said:
Hey WillR,
Canada is not an island – in the Ocean.
Ontariowoe on 11/07/2014 at 18:10 said:
Well Martin, both citizens and health professionals have been asking for an independent study from day one. NOT a study by the government who is giving money to and supporting the industry. Blatant bias matters and is NOT sour grapes. Policy is interfering in health protection.
The study is incredibly flawed by any standard protocol, health professionals know it and they know it.
Again, your attention to the CMOH Report, May, 2010, "King Report"
Appendix 1, Citations for this report: List of Documents on Wind Turbines
Journal Articles and Books
E. Pedersen is lead author for 6 of the 11 articles cited.
Also F. van den Berg + R. Bakker are also used.
WHO/World Health Organization
Then you see "gray" literature list which is not much relied on.
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/common/ministry/publications/reports/wind_turbine/wind-turbine.pdf
This list of citations with 6 out of 11 by same lead author should have raised questions to begin with and the other two authors along with them.
Watch the bibliography of this just released Health Canada Study along with any data presented.
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/common/ministry/publications/reports/wind_turbine/wind_turbine.pdf
EWEA/ European Wind Energy Association
Some background information on Health Canada study
Workshop, Dec.11, 2012, Oxford, UK
Session two: Wind Farm Design-Being a good neighbour.
Tom Levy, CanWEA
David S. Michaud, Health Canada
Outlines what the Health Canada study will include.
Health Canada Study Research Team includes:
Werner Richarz,, Phd., PEng.
http://www.ewea.org/events/workshops/past-workshops/wind-turbine-noise/proceedings
Werner Richarz testified at the Ostrander Point ERT, June 6, 2013, at which time he expressed his opinions on IWT "noise".
Continued as member of Health Study Canada Research Team.
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This following message was sent to Michaud et al when they announced this study. And it was just one of many. There is no trust in any government or industry influenced studies. We've know this for years.
In 2009, my husband and I had our lives turned upside down due to a wind project that started up around our home. We begged for help from every level of government and public agency, and not one would assist us.
We suffered severe sleep deprivation (from audible and inaudible turbine noise), among other things, and eventually had to hire legal help to get out to save our health.
During and since this time, I attended ministry-sponsored workshops, presented before and submitted comments to the standing committee and the EBR registry on the Green Energy Act, attended meetings at government level, submitted information to provincial and federal health officials, to the senate, to the Premier to the Prime Minister, and so on. We followed every formal complaint protocol and sent numerous messages, personally and via email, through our Member of Parliament and Member of Provincial Parliament.
You can multiply the above comments by the actions of other families in this province who have done the same. The federal government had the power to intervene and did not.
During our time through this and after we moved, with limited knowledge I researched and inquired as much as I could, trying to understand why so many people were being affected and why no one was helping them. Though a senior provincial ministry employee was claiming my husband and I were the only "complaint" in our project—and we hear the repetitive public message from provincial leaders that there were few if any problems in Ontario—we soon found out that not only had there been already hundreds of complaints, but many homes had been purchased [by the wind developers] and there were families in Huron County who, unable to live in their homes, were being housed in a motel by wind developer, Suncor–Acciona.
It did not take long for other families to come forward and get connected, including those in Clear Creek and Kincardine, Goderich, and so on. The numbers became shocking and the harm irrefutable.
It wasn't just a case of an odd "unlucky receptor," as we were called. We also learned of the proliferation of confidentiality agreements, gag clauses, non-disclosures—call them what you will—that are rampant in this industry, from the initial signing of an option to lease, to the final abandonment of a home.
How can people speak when they are under legal constraints not to?
How will you ever be able to grasp the scope of harm when people have been silenced?
How will you know what families have left their homes because of the turbine project, who simply gave up because they received no help?
How will you contact them?
Since at least 2006, families of 1st generation wind projects have been pleading for help. Many, as I say, have had to leave their homes.
How is it that Health Canada is only just now, in the summer of 2012, investigating what has been happening to citizens across the country for at least 6 years?
If I am reading correctly, you are going to decide to whom you talk in order not to create a situation of bias. Let's consider bias for a moment.
You have been in the background for 6 years while multiple families reported serious degradation of their home environment and adverse health issues after the wind projects started operating. Some of them have had to permanently leave their home, some without any compensation whatsoever.
You, as the federal level of government, repeatedly deferred issues back to the province as it was their policy, all the while knowing they were not assisting families or mitigating complaints.
Your panel has 2 NRCan (Natural Resources Canada) representatives on it.
» Antoine Lacroix, Eng., M.Sc., Wind Energy Engineer, Renewable Energy Technologies, Natural Resources Canada
» Paul Dockrill, M.Sc., Acting Program Manager, Wind Energy Technology Group, Natural Resources Canada
NRCan is a federal government body which, I discovered, has granted at least $250 million in repayable and non-repayable loans to prominent wind corporations, lobbyists and other proponents of wind, some of whom have actually used this money to buy-out aforementioned homes.
How can all of this not be a case for bias?
In fact, one NRCan employee made an anonymous derogatory comment in a public online site about my home's property value. This was a home we loved and had invested much of our personal finances into.
"Please let me know when the property comes up for sale. Since everyone claims that property values will decrease, I will expect a bargain basement price!"
How can this not be a case for bias?
How can this possibly be a sincere and genuine effort when you continue to let wind projects operate, knowing there are families who are suffering ill health and families who have had to abandon their homes?
How can you continue without imposing a moratorium on new projects until the investigation is done?
You have ignored information, overwhelming evidence and offers of help from the most peer-reviewed and published independent researcher in Canada. Why was Carmen Krogh not included on your panel?
Would you agree overall that the health of Canadian citizens holds lower rank than the financial interests of prominent corporations, or is this simply a bias for the wind energy industry?
Would you agree that policy triumphs over the health and welfare of Canadian families, or is this simply a bias toward the wind energy industry?
Public trust in all levels of government has been severely eroded. We require and we deserve an independent review. A formal inquiry is necessary so everyone can be heard, not just those whom you choose to hear.
To retain any sense of integrity, ethics and duty to "do no harm," you must impose a moratorium and mitigate the existing problems, first. How can you not? Canadians deserve to live in a healthy environment in their own homes. That fundamental right has been taken away and has been pulverized.
I think you meant "study", not "investigation".
I'm not aware of Health Canada conducting any IWT investigations.
Henny is pissy! on 11/07/2014 at 18:01 said:
Well put Ontariowoe, thank you. "Pulverized" is right. It's time to call an eye for an eye. I hope this does not create an annoyance!!
Ontariowoe:
I was at a rally where a community association specifically asked for a study by Health Canada and the local MP (cabinet minister) helped facilitate that, at the time this was seen by many as a forward step. Outside government if is hard to see just who would fund an objective, independent study.
It is very hard to critique the HC study, when many activists were calling for exactly that.
This is precisely the argument that Wind proponents will be making.
Agreed, but other government ministries are involved with wind interests to grant them what they want and make IWT installations possible. These cover all of Canada with federal level IWT issues.
Need the radar system changed? No problem. The federal government will give this to them at taxpayers' expense.
Actually, Martin, it's very easy to critique a [garbage] study; one has to be scientific about it.
This is right out of the Summary Pamphlet Brochure:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/noise-bruit/turbine-eoliennes/pamphlet-brochure-eng.php
'[excerpt] Key Finding FINDINGS
Annoyance and quality of life
– An association was found between increasing levels of wind turbine noise and individuals reporting to be very or extremely annoyed.
– No association was found with any significant changes in reported quality of life, or with overall quality of life and satisfaction with health. This was assessed using the abbreviated version of the World Health Organization's Quality of Life Scale.'
4,000 hours of noise testing but how was this done and by whom?
Then again WHO Quality of Life Scale?
There was no way of proving IWT health effects at ERTs to begin with. So nothing much as changed.
Does anyone have a copy of the actual questions that were asked for this health study?
Very easy to critique to this audience, but not the general public who are the important body. They are the ones needding convincing.
Dr. Hazel Lynn, Ontario Medical Officer of Health
has questions about Health Canada's definitions.
She questions
"what they're defining as annoyance"
and points out there is
"a problem with using that term because it doesn't have a definition"
What's "valid"?
'[excerpt] Footnote #3: 434 were not valid dwellings; upon visiting the address Statistics Canada noted that the location was either demolished for unknown reasons, under construction, vacant for unknown reasons, an unoccupied seasonal dwelling, residents were outside the eligible age range, or not a home at all.'
"vacant for unknown reasons"?
"an unoccupied seasonal dwelling"?
How were these determined?
Ontariwoe on 11/08/2014 at 07:41 said:
Yes, and I can almost guess what group your talking about that either did and knew what they were doing or did not understand that the government was doing it to help delay the issue while more approvals were signed and to help facilitate wind energy proponents for good.
That is why the warnings and red flags went up the minute they announced it. Not sour grapes. Warnings a long long time ago.
You were hoodwinked by the feds Martin.
Fedup on 11/07/2014 at 20:39 said:
It's a study done by the government did anyone ever think it would say anything else!?
We pegged that from the start, they're not going to stop this ball rolling, they can't touch the green elephant in the province!
I personally didn't give a crap about what it said. They did not lift gag orders and the lesers would NEVER compromise their $$$ and speak a word of truth.
No big surprise. Anyone can buy an opinion and put it in writing…
FRED on 11/07/2014 at 21:17 said:
Is it just coincidental that this report gets released only days before the Drennan court case ?????????
Richard Mann on 11/07/2014 at 21:52 said:
Exactly my thoughts, they released this data before the expected date (Decemeber) to make court case.
I hope Falconer brings up the following points:
– Likelihood of harm is sufficient, we don't need absolute certainty, the higher standard required of the tribunals.
– Possibility of harm was already established at Chatham-Kent tribunal,
– Gag orders invalidate this report.
Momabear on 11/08/2014 at 00:55 said:
Mike, I can tell you recently a met tower from a wind farm lite up like a lighthouse becon every 2 seconds of insanely bright light in our area.
Even though I have curtains on
My large windows at night the light came through my door side windows and bounced off my hall to stobe all night every night. I am many side roads away from this thing!
for decades we have been used to dark quiet nights. Why is it simply OK to
be totally invasive? Light, sound or otherwise?
Colin Henderson on 11/12/2014 at 15:38 said:
I noticed that they only studied individuals that were not affected, i.e. those still living in the area, and not those that had been driven out. Perhaps a study of smokers that do not have lung cancer (yet) would indicate smoking poses no health risks.