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Orion's eyes snapped open again. He'd been squeezing them tightly shut against the onslaught of freakish words and images bounding through his wearied mind. When he cried out in shock, the sound now had a raspy, metallic edge: an artificial note that bastardized the cadence of his teenage voice. His vision cleared, coming into focus: the beings were clustered around him, staring down, bordering his view of the smooth, sterile ceiling above.
The Greys. What mind could fathom the unearthly secrets within those glabrous, orbicular heads? What bizarre perplexities had those passionless, inky eyes studied? Even now, his second time in their clutches, they seemed somehow less than truly alive. Aloof and disinterested, coolly gazing, they regarded him silently as he wondered at what they had done to him, wondered if he was now less than truly alive as well.
His final stertorous breath had been drawn some time ago. His torso no longer rose and fell with suspiration, and many of the organs within had been replaced with their alien contrivances. Of this he was certain. He felt dried blood matted near his left temple, but the hole in his skull was presumably restored somehow from where they'd drilled into it. He struggled to sit upright, feeling the tautness of the restraints loosen and then release.
The aliens retreated by one or two paces, giving him room to swing his aching legs over the edge of the table and hop down to the lustrous metal deck. He still had to lean against the operating slab, but was surprised at how vigorous he actually felt. After only a few moments, he was able to take a couple of unsteady paces. Again, the aliens moved to allow him a berth.
Silence reigned in the spacious cabin. Stillness echoed after his tentative steps. Regaining his surefootedness, he found his way to an open door, and passed into the corridor beyond unmolested.
The hallway was dim, and pulsed with low, ambient light. It curved gently to the left as he walked, suggesting the contour of the alien craft he was on board. There were viewing bays to the left and right as he walked, massive windows looking into operating rooms like the one he had just left. The first two were empty and dark. The third was a scene of horrendous revulsion.
A human man was restrained on the slab, fully conscious as the cosmic outsiders administered freakish violations to his writhing body. Gore-drenched utensils were nimbly employed with callous objectivity; the blood pooled and oozed into troughs along the sides of the table, and drained into canisters at the floor. Orion's eyes flicked over the modifications to the tortured man's form: twisted appendages sprouted at sickening angles from the victim's chest and sides. Metal tentacles squirmed around him, flailing and grasping at nothing, indifferent to the panicked shrieks that reached Orion only as muffled crescendos, a grisly soundtrack to the twitching spider's dance of the wretched experimental subject.
Orion turned away, shuddering, and cringed again sharply as a new, sickening tableau greeted him: the next viewing bay showcased a pair of Greys bending over a restrained female. Her head was shaved smooth and bald, lending her a faint air of similarity to the hairless alien captors. One of them had both hands firmly on the sides of her face, holding her still, while the other drew a spinning rotary saw in a straight line around the top of her cranium. Deft and careful movements removed the dripping dome, exposing the brain. The alien that was holding the subject's head stared knowingly into Orion's eyes, its mouth a thin straight line upon a blank, emotionless face.
Orion stumbled backwards, away from the viewing bay, and rested one hand on the sleek bulkhead. Meagerly throbbing luminescence revealed that he was not alone in the corridor: several Greys were shuffling toward him from the direction he had come. Repulsed, he continued along the hallway. Up ahead, there were more sticklike silhouettes, eerily backlit, shambling forward. A side door was open and he ducked into it, wondering how long he could aimlessly wander this peregrine craft, avoiding the inevitable schemes of his unflappable captors. This room was shadowed and bare; as he turned back, the door slid shut with a menacing hiss, trapping him inside.
Pale, teardrop-shaped faces with giant, glistening black eyes regarded him silently through the viewing bay. The panic began to well up in him again, manifesting as a jittery tingling that prickled the patches of skin between his cybernetic grafts. The whispering in his head returned from the edge of consciousness, from where it had left him in a fitful slumber on the operating table.
"Who are you?" the teenager spoke aloud.
"Excellent. You're learning quickly." The serene voice was pleased.
"The machines they put in place of my internal organs—they create and dispatch trillions of microscopic robots, conducting the electricity of each Action Potential as if it were an electric synapse, and making it faster and stronger." Orion was in disbelief.
A sharp, alarming hiss cut through the dark chamber. Orion's adrenaline surged instantly—he wheeled around, facing the far wall, opposite the viewing bay, where a previously unseen doorway bled feeble illumination into the tenebrous shroud. The unmistakable silhouette of a bipedal reptilian beast staggered through, and the portal hissed shut again.
Half crouching in a combat stance, empty fingers splayed, Orion cursed, fighting despair. No weapons, no aid, no escape. He was locked in this room, unarmed, with a murderous Lacerta, while those manipulative freaks watched outside.
Hooked claws chattered with staccato clicks on the metal floor. The lizardlike tail whipped violently. Then it charged, crossing the chamber in three giant bounds. Teeth and claws flying at him like a storm of glittering daggers, Orion sprang aside, narrowly dodging the Lacerta just before it collided against the bulkhead. The impact didn't faze it, though, and it whirled around, pushing off the wall to pounce again. This time he couldn't get out of the way fast enough and the jaws locked onto his left forearm—the one that was mostly metal, housing the cybercomputer that was built into his flesh. Its teeth squealed against the alloy; he felt pressure, but no pain. With his right fist he hooked flurries of hard punches against the tough hide of its neck and head, doing minimal damage but succeeding in making the Lacerta flinch away, its mouth opening to release his metal arm.
Orion leapt backwards, instinctively avoiding a further melee, but knowing that there were no environmental advantages offered in this empty room. The reptilian beast seemed to be sizing him up as well, temporarily taken aback by this bizarre unchewable foe. Its maw was still hanging open as it panted, and he saw jagged, broken teeth. His frame tingled with the hormones released by battle and fear; he felt the fuzzy ionization of static electricity all around him.
The beast didn't charge again, maintaining the distance of about ten feet that was between them. Instead, the open mouth began to gurgle hungrily. Orion had experienced this before, and braced himself for the impending lethargy and fatigue. Instead, though, he continued to feel the crackle of energy and adrenaline building to a crescendo, begging for release—his own feral monster within crying out for a victim.
Orion pounced on the monster, shrieking aloud. Sparks flew as his fingertips contacted scaly skin. The Lacerta was poised to strike, to eviscerate him before throwing him off, but its form seized and went rigid. The scavenger's hands found purchase on its shoulders and chest, hot current buzzing from them into the reptilian body. Electric convulsions jerked and twitched through it, but his grip tightened with fury. The alien's jaw locked down, its broken teeth grinding together, splintering into ruined shards. Its flesh scorched, cooking with an eye-watering stench. The yellow eyes rolled back in their sockets and then burst into thick pus that dribbled down the sides of the paralyzed visage. By the time the charred carcass fell away from his arcing fingertips, smoke curled through the air in a lazy dance.
Inscrutable faces still lined the window. "I assure you that no one here is joking," the Noble replied.
"Let me get my hands around one of their scrawny necks." The fuzzy, static feeling was returning again.
There was a blinding flash, a moment of disorientation and vertigo, and Orion was in the causeway once more, transplanted into the middle of a scene that was already unfolding. As he'd feared, he was standing on the outer fringes of the AAF demonstrators that had been present before. It appeared that on the outside of the group, near the shade of a building, no one had actually witnessed his instantaneous return… but heads turned at the movement, focusing on the strange newcomer, giving him no chance to conceal himself.
Angry shouts and insults filled the air. Orion looked down at himself, knowing what they saw: a dirty, tattered jacket and tank top not fully covering the mechanical supplementations to his wiry teenage frame. The Anti-Augmented Foundation was often hungry for just such a scapegoat during one of their potentially violent demonstrations. Did he even have a chance to convince an angry mob that he wasn't in fact some sort of agenda-laced spy, following orders from the Greys? Could he, in truth, even make such an argument to himself?
Orion backpedaled, preparing to run, but coarse hands were already seizing him from the sides. Squirming, twisting, he was dragged farther into the street, his protests drowned out in a bedlam of accusations. He'd always been careful not to run afoul of these zealots, and the injustice of being made a sudden target for their unthinking hatred was maddening. He'd be denounced and shot in a matter of minutes, and the Protectorate would do what they did best—pretend it had all never happened. Orion had the insane thought that the aliens in the colossal disc floating above, with their gruesome vivisections and their sterile, callous designs, actually had more respect for life than the human race of which he was now only marginally a part.
Tanned, oval faces regarded him hatefully with leering eyes. An unwashed brute curled up a meaty fist and drove it into his stomach—then drew back, howling, cradling his broken hand. Someone behind him smashed a splintering piece of wood over his shoulders, staggering the youth and exploding a burst of white pain through his bones and muscles. Orion's pulse intensified, growing sonorous and more rhythmic. Hormones flooded into his system, prickling the patches of skin between his cybernetic grafts. Oh, no. No… He tried to steady his nerves somehow, failing, unable to utilize the old standby of taking deep breaths because his mechanized body would no longer do such a thing.
He wrenched free of his captors just as a massive torrent of voltage was unleashed. A crackling flash ignited the air in a shockwave that tossed members of the crowd in all directions, arms and legs akimbo. His metallic voice croaked; an awful sound that cut the pained, echoing cries of men colliding roughly with walls, with cobblestones, with each other. For several slow, amaranthine seconds he was at the epicenter of a deadly flower of destruction. Forks of current branched from him to nearby fallen bodies, vellicating them with a fervor that belied their helpless, lifeless postures. Flesh sizzled and scorched. He was the king of a world of pain, standing tall and supreme among his writhing, groveling victims.
Then it ended. His eyes were seared with visions of horrid white death. Gradually the color returned to his reality: things that he had broken and ruined lay scattered all about.
Weirdly, he was thinking of how to somehow mitigate the damage he'd done. Could a human life, hopelessly mangled, be repaired? For the entire fifteen years he'd spent in the badlands, his skills had been so well attuned to taking something old, broken, and cast aside, and restoring it… perhaps even improving upon the original.
And then the Greys had come, to improve upon his own original form. To cast his prior existence aside and replace it with a new purpose.
After narrowly avoiding the Protectorate, Orion had traversed the deepest reaches of the unknown alleys in the metropolis. A rank, rotten honeycomb at the core of Glitter City, these twisting urban mazes were rife with criminals and thugs—but he was left alone, the hard, weathered faces turning down to scowl at filthy, beaten shoes and steaming sewer grates. Holostacks like those advertising businesses on the Thoroughfare were absent here, and he'd searched for asylum using the faded signs above rusty, ramshackle doors.
His luck had seemed to hold. An unassuming hostel booked him using the credits he'd stolen from the supernet terminal yesterday and only a feeble mimicry of registration. He'd discarded his tattered rags in favor of a black long-sleeved sweater and loose-fitting cargo pants. These garments were now slung over a scarred wooden chair nearby while he soaked in a four-legged brass bathtub in the tiny washroom down the hall from his rented room.
A single naked, fly-specked bulb swung from the ceiling like a noose. The water had been comfortable, but was now growing cool. In contrast to the technological marvels abundant in the more upscale regions of the city, here in the brick-and-mortar core of the metropolis, working amenities could be uncommon.
"Hot water?" It was a gentle female voice, spoken aloud, that seemed to read his thoughts—not the persuasive, clouded speech of the Noble that had so far remained silent in his mind. He twisted to look at the doorway, cracked open a few inches: a raven-haired teenage girl wearing a yellow flowered kimono held a dented metal bucket by a hand towel wrapped around the handle. Steam wafted from the liquid within, curling into light, misty curtains in the air.
He smiled, nodding but not wanting to speak, not wanting this lovely creature to hear his freakish voice. She nudged the door open further and smoothly cascaded the water into the tub with him, raising the temperature back to pleasant warmth. He expected her to demurely retreat with the empty pail, but instead she hovered nearby. The kimono had slipped down to reveal one slender white shoulder.
"I can help you relax," she said.
Orion's lips parted, but he couldn't exhale, couldn't think of anything to say. He felt that he had better not speak—but instead of interpreting his silence as refusal, the girl tossed the yellow kimono over the wooden chair and lithely hurdled into the tub with him. She cradled herself under his left arm, not flinching at his bionic grafts. Water sloshed. The perfumed steam was dizzying.
"You have money, right? It's five thousand," came the gentle purr.
Conflicted, he nodded, trying to stay completely still. Something stirred in his blood, a hesitant arousal, a contradictory excitement. She rested against his shoulder, tracing designs on his chest, trailing narrow fingers across the pale, raised disfigurements latticing his body. The palm of her hand found his thumping heart. He was sweating from the hot bath and from the wired, anxious sensation that was wrapping around him, ghostly and intangible, like a kimono.
"No. No," his pulse was rising, as were the hairs on his arms. "No, don't," he murmured.
The girl's body snapped rigid, her eyes locked, her teeth clinched. Shuddering hideously, grimacing, she was imprisoned in an immobile dance of death. Orion couldn't extricate himself, couldn't disengage their tangled limbs, couldn't scrabble out of the slick, smoothly burnished brass tub. Steam wafted from the liquid within, curling into heavy, funereal shrouds in the air.
When it was over, he stood in splotchy puddles upon the aged linoleum, studying the blue forks in her sizzled skin. The black hair was delicately arrayed out in the water, floating in gauzy clouds. He draped the silken robe over the slender, lifeless body before recovering the baggy sweater and cargo pants, pulling them on hastily, and fleeing down the hallway to the gloomy, claustrophobic staircase.
Orion exited to the street once more, not knowing where he was headed, feeling the dying rays of the sunset yawning behind him. Trash was piled in the alleys and gutters, discarded remnants of people's lives. Husks of things that were contrived, made to be useful for a time, and then consumed. He had to scavenge his own life back from the Greys, salvage some kind of existence out of what they had appointed for him.
Shuffling though the landfill of human lives, one face fired a sudden spark in his mind as it passed. He pushed against the throng, turning, breaking into a run. Catching up to the retreating figure, he reached with one outstretched hand, resting it on the shoulder, turning the individual to confront him.
The familiar face was that of a young woman, blinking at him in surprise and then in swift recognition. Circumnavigating her newly shaved head, in a full and perfect revolution, was a puffy pink scar.


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NAME: Tito Montes Bobadilla
ALIASES: Alejandro Montes Bobadilla, "Pimpi"
DOB: June 20, 1989
POB: Limon, Colon, Honduras
NATIONALITY: Honduran
CITIZENSHIP: Honduran
HEIGHT: Unknown
WEIGHT: Unknown
SCARS, TATTOOS, OR MARKS: Unknown
On or about October 8, 2015, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned an indictment charging Tito Montes Bobadilla (also known as Alejandro Montes Bobadilla or Pimpi), Herlinda Bobadilla (also known as Erlinda Ramos Bobadilla or Chinda), Juan Carlos Montes Bobadilla (also known as Mono), Noe Montes Bobadilla (also known as Ton), and two others with conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine knowing and intending that it will be unlawfully imported into the United States, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 959(a) and 963.
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We wish we could recommend the San Francisco Chronicle's big piece on how different parts of California view Proposition 8, the proposal to ban same-sex marriage. Because the writer put a lot of work into it, riding along with supporters and opponents as they canvass in Stockton and Oakland. But sadly, it doesn't tell you anything you don't already know: people in the Central Valley will vote for the measure, while folks in the Bay Area will vote against it. Young people are more likely to be tolerant of gay marriage. Once in a while, you get an outlier like a few no-on-prop 8 people in Stockton. What you really get is a sense that this story started with a lot of promise ("I'm gonna get into the trenches, tell the story of a profound cultural divide as it's lived from the ground up."), but turned mostly cliches during the reporting. Hey, sometimes them's the breaks.


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Producer/Director/Writer: MarÍa Agui Carter
Program Length: 60 minutes
Broadcast Date: Friday, May 24, 2013 on PBS (VOCES)
REBEL, the true story of Loreta Velazquez, Confederate soldier turned Union Spy.
Shrouded in mystery and long the subject of debate, the amazing story of Loreta Velazquez, confederate Soldier turned Union Spy, is one of the Civil War's most gripping forgotten narratives. While the U.S. military may have recently lifted the ban on women in combat, Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a Cuban immigrant from New Orleans, was fighting in battle 150 years ago – one of an estimated 1000 women who secretly served as soldiers during the American Civil War. Who was she? Why did she fight? And what made her so dangerous she has been virtually erased from history? Directed by María Agui Carter, REBEL is the story of a woman, a myth, and the politics of national memory.
REBEL is a co-production of Iguana Films, L.L.C. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), in association with WPBT2/Miami and Latino Public Broadcasting with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
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MarÍa Agui Carter is an award-winning filmmaker, scholar, and President of Iguana Films, a film and New Media company working in Spanish and English language productions. She is a graduate of Harvard University, and former staff producer for WGBH Boston. Ms. Agui Carter was the only woman director commissioned for Discovery En Español's Director's Showcase series with her dramatic film Cleats, and her work has premiered at film festivals including Tribeca (Chevolution, Writer) and the LA Latino film festival (Cleats, Writer/Director). She began her career in public television, producing documentaries about the Latino community for the La Plaza series on WGBH in Boston. Her credits as Writer/Producer/Director include many films for PBS including Tango Duel Dance (La Plaza Series), Rumble Over West Side Story (La Plaza series) and The Devil's Music (National Program Service, PBS). She has served as a consulting producer for numerous series and independent projects for PBS and cable, including The College Track Series on access to college for underprivileged kids (Pilot producer) and the Unnatural Causes Series on health disparities in America (Consulting Producer). Her recently completed new feature documentary about women war journalists, No Job For a Woman (Producer), opened at the UN Women's Film Festival in 2011. Her latest independent feature documentary film Rebel about a woman Civil War soldier, is slated for PBS broadcast in January 2013. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Tulane, and Brandeis, and the recipient of a Peabody Gardner, Warren, Rockefeller, CPB/PBS producer's Academy, and NALIP Producer's Academy Fellowships. She is a member of the Writer's Guild of America, is Chair of the Board of NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers), and is past Chair of the New England based social issue filmmaker's group Filmmaker's Collaborative. She is a native of Ecuador and grew up Nuyorican.
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Trzy siostry (ros. Три сестры) – dramat Antona Czechowa. Jego prapremiera odbyła się 31 stycznia 1901 r. w Moskwie.

Treść
Irina, Masza, Olga i ich brat Andriej żyją od 11 lat w prowincjonalnym mieście gubernialnym znacznie oddalonym od Moskwy, z której pochodzą i do której pragną powrócić. Zostali tu zesłani z powodu ojca, generała brygady. Ale ojciec już nie żyje. Andriej poprzez swoją karierę akademicką mógłby umożliwić rodzinie rozpoczęcie nowego życia w Moskwie. Poślubia on jednak kobietę z tutejszej społeczności, Natalię Iwanownę, uzależnia się od hazardu i traci w ten sposób spadek.

Olga, najstarsza siostra (l. 28), jako jedyna pracuje. Jest nauczycielką, ale nie odczuwa satysfakcji; porzuciła nadzieję na sensowne małżeństwo. Mimo to jest pomocna i serdeczna.

Masza, średnia siostra (l. 24), elegancka, rozkapryszona młoda kobieta, marzy o wielkiej, romantycznej miłości. W wieku 18 lat poślubiła Fiodora Ilijicza Kułygina, którego uważała za inteligentnego mężczyznę. Okazał się jednak głupcem i gadatliwym przemądrzalcem. Jej romans z podpułkownikiem Wierszyninem kończy się nieszczęśliwie – regiment opuszcza miasto.

Irina, najmłodsza siostra (l. 20), marzy o znalezieniu wielkiej miłości w Moskwie. Młody baron Tuzenbach i kapitan Solony zakochują się w niej. Irina przyjmuje oświadczyny Tuzenbacha, jednak na dzień przed ślubem zostaje on zabity w pojedynku przez Solonego.

Po wyjeździe Wierszynina i śmierci Tuzenbacha zrezygnowana Olga pociesza siostry.

Czechowowska decentralizacja
Formalnie można rozróżnić następujące aspekty: brak głównego wątku, zamiast tego szereg wątków pobocznych. Przy tym występują różni główni bohaterowie (tytułowe trzy siostry; do tego Andriej, Tuzenbach, Wierszynin). Dialogi w tej sztuce prowadzą donikąd: typowa sytuacja dialogowa składa się z większej ilości partii monologów, które się nawzajem przecinają. Również zagospodarowanie przestrzeni jest niezwykłe: akcja wypełnia ją całą. Zamiast punktu zbiegu występują "wyspy akcji", na przykład miejsce za kulisami albo umiejscowienie Maszy w pokoju.

Dramaturgia i struktura dramatu
Do dramaturgii i struktury dramatu można zaliczyć następujące punkty widzenia: nie ma żadnych punktów kulminacyjnych, fabuły w arystotelesowskim sensie, która mogłaby budować napięcie, a więc żadnych nagłych zwrotów akcji. Ramy czasowe wydają się rozciągać; ogólnie wydają się liczyć ponad 3 lata. Element czasu nie ma za zadanie budowania napięcia, jest sam w sobie tematem sztuki.

Postaci wydają się niezdolne do życia we współczesnym im świecie. Wspomnienie lepszego świata w oddalonej Moskwie opanowuje ich myśli i uczucia. Ich wszystkie dążenia skupiają się na tym starym świecie. Wierszynin sprowadza to, filozofując, do punktu: "Myślę często: Co by było, gdyby można było życie zacząć od nowa, do tego z pełną świadomością? Gdyby to życie, już przeżyte, było brulionem, jak się mówi: "Na brudno", a to drugie: na czysto! Wtedy każdy z nas, myślę, starałby się przede wszystkim się nie powtarzać, stworzyłby sobie przynajmniej inne otoczenie…".

Śmierć pojawia się na początku i na końcu sztuki: na początku Olga wspomina śmierć ojca, na końcu umiera Tuzenbach. W obu przypadkach pojawia się orkiestra wojskowa.

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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- WestRock Company (NYSE: WRK) today reported that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.465 per share on its common stock, an increase of $0.01 per share from its previous dividend rate and representing an annualized increase of $0.04 per share, or 2.2%. The quarterly dividend of $0.465 per share will be paid to stockholders of record as of the close of business on November 19, 2019 and will be paid on December 3, 2019.
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Addressing the partnership forum of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó noted that the Hungarian government has so far spent more than 25 million euros on helping Christians in the Middle East. Further, developing countries need access to the right technologies in order to create the conditions for a basic standard of living, he said. Hungary helps a number of these countries in the form of tied aid programmes to help with the development of their water management systems, agriculture and food industry, he added. If the world cannot carry out these tasks, "migration will rule everything", Szijjártó warned.


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Statues of 6 American Presidents in London
Edwin Lerner
Students and fans of American politics will be pleasantly surprised to find that dotted across London are seven statues of six American presidents. These can be discovered on a guided tour of London with a knowledgeable Blue Badge Tourist Guide but I have highlighted below:
American tourists are often surprised that there is a statue of their first president in the heart of London at Trafalgar Square. The statue shows Washington holding a bundle of 13 fasces which represent the original 13 states of the newly created United States of America. There is a popular legend that Washington, whose family came from the North East of England, had said he would never set foot on British soil again so some American soil was put under the statue comply with his wishes. It is a replica of an original by Jean Antoine Houdon and was given to Britain by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1924.
Statue of United States President George Washington in London. Photo Credit: ©Ham via Wikimedia Commons.
Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most admired American president in Britain despite the fact that the southern states of the Confederacy provided slave-produced cotton which English factories and mills in the north were dependent on and they suffered badly because of the American civil war. Lincoln's statue stands opposite the Houses of Parliament near to those other champions of the oppressed: Mandela and Gandhi. As with the Washington statue, Lincoln's is a replica of one in the United States by Augustus Saint Gaudens which can be seen in Chicago's Lincoln Park. It was unveiled in 1920 to commemorate 100 years of peace between the United Kingdom and the United States.
Statue of United States President Abraham Lincoln in London. Photo Credit: ©Sir James via Wikimedia Commons.
If Lincoln has a rival in the affections of the British people, it is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) whose statue stands in Grosvenor Square where there has been an American presence for over 200 years. A monument like FDR's would be impossible today as it shows him upright when in reality he was confined to a wheelchair after contracting polio in 1921. Roosevelt assumed that his political career was over but his formidable wife Eleanor told him that 'the only thing he had to fear was fear itself', a line he recycled effectively when he led the United States out of depression in the New Deal. He also led the United States into war and effectively ended any possibility Hitler had of gaining victory. The statue, by William Reid Dick, was unveiled by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1948 with the Queen, Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill present. It was paid for by the British people, 160,000 of whom paid five shillings (25p) each at a time of rationing and hardship, the money raised in under a week. Apart from the official statue of Roosevelt in Grosvenor Square, there is an informal one of him and Churchill sitting and chatting in Bond Street.
Statue of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in London. Photo Credit: ©Bill Harrison via Wikimedia Commons.
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
Ike, as he was popularly known, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's general in World War II and was based in Grosvenor Square, which had sustained an American presence virtually since the United States was born. I once heard a story that the Duke of Westminster, whose family owned the land, refused to sell it and insisting on a leasing agreement instead. Eisenhower pestered the Duke so much that eventually he agreed to do so but only on condition that his family regained all the land they had owned in America before independence. As this was most of Illinois, including Chicago, that deal never came about. It is a good story, but I can find no confirmation of it. Eisenhower's statue, the only one of a President in uniform, was unveiled in 1989 with Margaret Thatcher in attendance.
Statue of United States President Dwight Eisenhower in London. Photo Credit: ©Ham via Wikimedia Commons.
Mrs. Thatcher would have really liked to have unveiled this monument to her friend Ronald Reagan, but ill health prevented her attending when it was unveiled by the US Ambassador. Reagan never quite enjoyed the affection of the British people in the way that other American presidents did but he was given credit by his admirers for helping to end the Cold War, maybe his most famous saying being his appeal to "take down that wall, Mr. Gorbachev!" The Ronald Reagan Foundation paid for the ten foot (three metre) tall bronze statue which was unveiled on Independence Day 2011 when Reagan would have been 100 years old.
Statue of United States President Ronald Reagan in London. Photo Credit: ©Ham via Wikimedia Commons.
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
This is a personal favourite, a modest bust of JFK standing next to a magnolia tree opposite Regent's Park, where the American ambassador has his official residence at Winfield House. Jack Kennedy spent part of his youth there after his father Joe was made ambassador to Britain by Roosevelt. Jack, as he was called, had planned to study at the London School of Economics, but returned to the USA before this was possible and enrolled in the navy, became a war hero and, after his brother Joe was killed on a bombing mission, became the focus of his father's hopes for the presidency. Coming from Irish ancestry, the elder Kennedy never lost the anti-British attitudes he was born with and tried to persuade Roosevelt to stay out of the war. His son loved Britain, however, and was loved in return. Like Roosevelt's statue, this one was paid for by the British, the readers of the Daily Telegraph raising £50,000 in donations of a pound each. The statue was unveiled by his brother Bobby, like Jack a victim of the assassin's bullet.
Statue of United States President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy in London. Photo Credit: ©Edwin Lerner.
Named Edwin (an early king of Northern England) but usually called 'Eddie', I conducted extended tours around Britain and Ireland for the well-established company Trafalgar for many years but now work as a freelance guide and tour manager. I specialise in tours themed on cars, religion, music, theatre, literature…
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John Breaux says:
I'm surprised the George Washington statue hasn't been removed. He fought against his own country at the time – sort of a civil war back then, if you're British.
Ulterior Motive says:
He didn't lose. People only take down statues of losers. For instance all the slave owning losers from the Confederacy. Those really are some spectacular losers. Also had the confederacy won the civil war, and then went on to defeat the Nazi's and the Kaiser, well I bet we would have statues of Lee and Davis in New York and D.C. But we don't because they were losers. Losers that lost really badly. Total defeat type of losers. Pathetic. SAD!
Jeremie Edwards says:
that entire post sounded a lot like Trump.
45thPresidentIllBeMoneyOneDay says:
Why thank you. Not a lot of people know this, but let me tell you, sounding like the greatest President in history, I mean any president, even presidents of colleges, okay, so that is, at least I've heard, people have told me, is a GREAT COMPLIMENT> #MAGAMAN #MEGAMAN #TPFORYOURBUNGHOLETRUMPPENCE2020
lol, glad I didn't offend, just made an observation. Cheers!
Sean Thechef says:
You don't understand. Under Trump's leadership we've reached the year 2019.
The highest numbered year in history.
Much higher than Obama.
Well, that was about the weakest attempt at trolling that I have seen in a very long time.
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SpaceX to launch their ship to Mars in 2024.
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Space X, owned by the billionaire Elon Musk, is all set to send a spaceship to Mars. The billionaire has confirmed that the next window to reach Mars will open up in 2024 when the red planet will be closest to earth. The window appears after every two years, due to which they are planning to use the next window in 2022. The company was previously sending a robotic mission to Mars in 2020, followed by a crewed trip.
However, the next generation of spaceship development has been delayed, due to which the spaceship will now be ready till 2023, giving the company the opportunity to launch the spaceship in 2024. This year July, the planets were closest to each other due to which three robotic missions were sent to Mars in July 2020, including NASA's Perseverance rover. The company has been trying to create the new generation of Starship, which can carry dozens of people into space at one time.
Elon Musk did confirm that they will be sacrificing a few ships on the way, but it will make sure that the development process finished in 2023 and we have the spaceship ready. Till now, the prototype has made short, low-altitude "hops" from the SpaceX test facility in Texas. They hope that the initial model will be able to edit the planet next year. Once they could demonstrate the refueling capacity, they will be making trips to the moon after 2022. However, these are just guesses and actual timing and dates will be released in the future.
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For the past 30 years, telecoms regulation has largely been designed to keep the market power of incumbent telcos in check. Now, the growing maturity of the market, the massive power of global digital players, and the pressing need for more investment are combining to prompt a regulatory rethink. How should telcos and regulators change their approaches to accelerate the cycle of growth and innovation?
As one of the most regulated sectors of the economy, telecoms services are the product of a complex mix of market forces and a multitude of rules governing everything from prices to the availability of spectrum. Many of these rules date from the days when an incumbent telco, often state-owned, was the dominant player in the market and needed to be carefully scrutinised by regulators. However, some of these rules, such as those governing Net Neutrality, are relatively new and relate to telcos' role as the gateway to the Internet, which has become so fundamental to modern life. For more on this topic, please see STL Partners' recent report: Net Neutrality 2021: IoT, NFV and 5G ready?
As telcos' profitability has come under increasing pressure, they are lobbying hard for greater regulatory freedom. This report outlines and analyses telcos' various campaigns to improve the business case for infrastructure investment and level the playing field with Internet players, such as Google and Facebook. It also considers whether telcos are actually putting their money where their mouth is. Is the current regulatory and competitive climate actually prompting them to cut back on investment? What will be the impact on 5G?
For their part, governments are increasingly aware of the need to stimulate new investments and new solutions in the digital economy. Greater digitisation could help solve important socio-economic problems. For example, most governments believe that digital technologies can improve the business environment, and support lower-cost, but effective, healthcare, education and security services, that will make their economies function and grow. The EU, for example, is trying to build a Digital Single Market, while the Indian government's Digital India initiative aims to make all public services available online.
Thus governments need telcos and tech companies to succeed. Given that telcos are typically more national than global in their outlook and organisation, they tend to seem a more natural partner for national governments than the giant Internet players, such as Google and Apple.
In light of these factors, this report explores whether policymakers' priorities are changing and how regulatory principles and competition policy are evolving. In particular, it considers whether policymakers and regulators are now taking a tougher stance with the major Internet platforms. Finally, the report analyses several areas of uncertainty – arenas in which telcos and others are likely to concentrate their lobbying efforts in future, and gives our high level analysis of areas of potential for telcos – and regulators – to make progress.


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Home News & Events»Prof. Kermit Roosevelt warns that SCOTUS expansion 'may be the only thing that will save our democracy for the next generation'
Prof. Kermit Roosevelt warns that SCOTUS expansion 'may be the only thing that will save our democracy for the next generation'
Prof. Roosevelt also advocates for term limits for Supreme Court Justices, with staggered eighteen-year terms.
The following is an excerpt from "I Spent 7 Months Studying Supreme Court Reform. We Need to Pack the Court Now," an op-ed written by Kermit Roosevelt, David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, for TIME.
I spent the last seven months on President Biden's Supreme Court commission, talking, listening, and sometimes arguing with experts from a variety of legal backgrounds — activists, professors, and former judges. I went into the process thinking that the system was working but that improvements were possible. I came out scared. Our system is broken in two obvious ways that threaten America's self-governance. One of them is about the long-term legitimacy of the judiciary. The other is an immediate crisis.
These problems overlap. The first is mostly about we could call high politics, or theories of constitutional interpretation. It is generated by the combination of life tenure and Senate confirmation for the Supreme Court, and it is that the composition of the Court is not tied in a predictable and uniform way to the outcome of presidential elections. Some presidents appoint several Justices; some presidents appoint none. What determines how many appointments a president gets is a combination of pure luck and partisan hardball. We do not staff any other branch of our government that way, and it has distorted the relationship between the Court and democracy….
The second problem is related, but somewhat broader. It is generated by the structure of our constitution more generally, which allows a well-placed minority to take over every branch of the federal government… .
Read more at TIME.


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package com.navercorp.pinpoint.web.dao.memory;

import com.navercorp.pinpoint.web.dao.WebhookDao;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.web.dao.WebhookSendInfoDao;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.web.vo.Webhook;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.web.vo.WebhookSendInfo;

import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

public class MemoryWebhookSendInfoDao implements WebhookSendInfoDao {
    private final Map<String, WebhookSendInfo> webhookSendInfos = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
    private final AtomicInteger webhookSendInfoIdGenerator = new AtomicInteger();

    private final WebhookDao webhookDao;

    public MemoryWebhookSendInfoDao(WebhookDao webhookDao) {
        this.webhookDao = Objects.requireNonNull(webhookDao, "webhookDao");
    }

    @Override
    public String insertWebhookSendInfo(WebhookSendInfo webhookSendInfo) {
        String webhookSendInfoId = String.valueOf(webhookSendInfoIdGenerator.getAndIncrement());
        webhookSendInfo.setWebhookSendInfoId(webhookSendInfoId);
        webhookSendInfos.put(webhookSendInfoId, webhookSendInfo);
        return webhookSendInfoId;
    }

    @Override
    public void deleteWebhookSendInfo(WebhookSendInfo webhookSendInfo) {
        webhookSendInfos.remove(webhookSendInfo.getWebhookSendInfoId());
    }

    @Override
    public void deleteWebhookSendInfoByWebhookId(String webhookId) {
        for (WebhookSendInfo webhookSendInfo : webhookSendInfos.values()) {
            if (webhookId.equals(webhookSendInfo.getWebhookId())) {
                webhookSendInfos.remove(webhookSendInfo.getWebhookSendInfoId());
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void deleteWebhookSendInfoByRuleId(String ruleId) {
        for (WebhookSendInfo webhookSendInfo : webhookSendInfos.values()) {
            if (ruleId.equals(webhookSendInfo.getRuleId())) {
                webhookSendInfos.remove(webhookSendInfo.getWebhookSendInfoId());
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void updateWebhookSendInfo(WebhookSendInfo webhookSendInfo) {
        webhookSendInfos.put(webhookSendInfo.getWebhookSendInfoId(), webhookSendInfo);
    }

    @Override
    public List<WebhookSendInfo> selectWebhookSendInfoByApplicationId(String applicationId) {
        List<WebhookSendInfo> selectedWebhookSendInfos = new LinkedList<>();
        List<Webhook> webhooks = webhookDao.selectWebhookByApplicationId(applicationId);
        for (Webhook webhook : webhooks) {
            for (WebhookSendInfo webhookSendInfo : webhookSendInfos.values()) {
                if (webhook.getWebhookId().equals(webhookSendInfo.getWebhookId())) {
                    selectedWebhookSendInfos.add(webhookSendInfo);
                }
            }
        }
        return selectedWebhookSendInfos;
    }

    @Override
    public List<WebhookSendInfo> selectWebhookSendInfoByServiceName(String serviceName) {
        List<WebhookSendInfo> selectedWebhookSendInfos = new LinkedList<>();
        List<Webhook> webhooks = webhookDao.selectWebhookByServiceName(serviceName);
        for (Webhook webhook : webhooks) {
            for (WebhookSendInfo webhookSendInfo : webhookSendInfos.values()) {
                if (webhook.getWebhookId().equals(webhookSendInfo.getWebhookId())) {
                    selectedWebhookSendInfos.add(webhookSendInfo);
                }
            }
        }
        return selectedWebhookSendInfos;
    }

    @Override
    public List<WebhookSendInfo> selectWebhookSendInfoByWebhookId(String webhookId) {
        List<WebhookSendInfo> selectedWebhookSendInfos = new LinkedList<>();
        for (WebhookSendInfo webhookSendInfo : webhookSendInfos.values()) {
            if (webhookId.equals(webhookSendInfo.getWebhookId())) {
                selectedWebhookSendInfos.add(webhookSendInfo);
            }
        }
        return selectedWebhookSendInfos;
    }

    @Override
    public List<WebhookSendInfo> selectWebhookSendInfoByRuleId(String ruleId) {
        List<WebhookSendInfo> selectedWebhookSendInfos = new LinkedList<>();
        for (WebhookSendInfo webhookSendInfo : webhookSendInfos.values()) {
            if (ruleId.equals(webhookSendInfo.getRuleId())) {
                selectedWebhookSendInfos.add(webhookSendInfo);
            }
        }
        return selectedWebhookSendInfos;
    }

    @Override
    public WebhookSendInfo selectWebhookSendInfo(String webhookSendInfoId) {
        for (WebhookSendInfo webhookSendInfo : webhookSendInfos.values()) {
            if (webhookSendInfoId.equals(webhookSendInfo.getWebhookSendInfoId())) {
                return webhookSendInfo;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
}

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Q: Difference between "mortals" and "the mortals" in a text where "the" doesn't seem to be referring to specific ones Here is a tale from a video game. Sheogorath is a god, a so-called Daedric Prince, whose sphere is Madness, and whose motives are unknowable.

In the earliest of days, in a time when the world was still raw, Sheogorath decided to walk amongst the mortals. He donned his guise of Gentleman With a Cane, and moved from place to place without being recognized. After eleven days and eleven nights, Sheogorath decided that life among mortals was even more boring than his otherworldly existence.
"What can I do to make their lives more interesting?" he said to himself. At that same moment, a young woman nearby commented wistfully to herself, "The sounds of the birds are so beautiful."
Sheogorath silently agreed with her. Mortals could not make the beautiful and inspired calls of birds. Their voices were wretched and mundane. He could not change the nature of mortals, for that was the purview of other Daedric Princes. However, he could give them tools to make beautiful sounds.
Sheogorath took hold of the petulant woman and ripped her asunder. From her tendons he made lutes. From her skull and arm bones he made a drum. From her bones he made flutes. He presented these gifts to the mortals, and thus Music was born.

I don't see why the is being used in those two sentences. The definite article doesn't seem to be describing any specific mortals.
There was an answer about half a month ago:

I was in the N.Y. Library. I was reading the books there, and one book interested me.

This sentence treats "the books" as a single fixture in the New York Library. That doesn't make sense if you're reading them; it makes sense in a context like this:

The yearly cost to insure the books in the New York Library is over a million dollars.

As in the above example, is the article in my text referring to all mortals as a single entity (i.e. not individually)?

A: It's normal usage, and your hunch is correct: this has nothing to do with describing any "specific" mortals. This is a case where English uses "the" to reference a group of people or a species in a generalized sense. For example:

I like walking alone in the woods so that I can listen to the birds.
There he [Biddle] lived with the natives, learned their language, and worked at his painting.
Through characters like Tom Bombadil and the Ents, Tolkien seems to be saying that nature is an entity separate from ourselves. (Anne Pienciak)
You have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor. (Ps. 8)

Some additional information about  varied uses of the can be found at this related ELL question.

A: The 'the' refers to all mortals as a single entity.
Note that when you omit the 'the', you are usually referring to mortals as a class, you are signaling to the reader that you are about to describe or define that class.
like below...
"Mortals could not make the beautiful and inspired calls of birds."

A: A way to explain the use of the is to ask what the choice of determiner means to the person whose thoughts the words reveal, whoever that may be.
In normal conversation, people speak for themselves. In a story, sometimes the narrator is revealing his or her own thoughts but sometimes the thoughts of the character whose story is being told.
The choice of a definite article here implies that someone, either the narrator or Sheogorath, has in mind members of a particular class, just as we might if we were to say

The king decided to walk among the commoners.

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It is the last enzyme in the chain, Complex IV, and is so named because it makes the final electron transfer of the chain from cytochrome c, residing in the periplasm, to the oxygen inside the cell.
Some bacteria are capable of aerobic respiration but have a different terminal oxidase system and give a negative result for the oxidase test.
the gain of electrons or a decrease in oxidation state by a molecule, atom, or ion.
the loss of electrons or an increase in oxidation state by a molecule, atom, or ion.
any enzyme that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction reaction involving molecular oxygen (O2) as the electron acceptor. In these reactions, oxygen is reduced to water (H2O) or hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).
Enzyme that catalyzes the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen.
Peroxidases are the plant enzymes that use peroxide to break down bacteria and other harmful material. They are located in the granules of neutrophils.
Understand why aerotolerants would not use catalase. Identify an example of this characteristic.
They do not use oxygen, so they have no need to use catalase to convert hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen.
Once the vial has been opened, oxidase reagent will turn purple over time due to oxygen in the air. To avoid false positives, be sure to: 1) use oxidase reagent that is still clear and 2) to read your test quickly once you have performed it.
The addition of zinc dust is used to determine if the nitrates were reduced past nitrite stage. If a red color develops after the addition of zinc, the nitrates were not reduced to nitrites. If there is no color after the addition of zinc, the nitrates in the media were reduced beyond nitrites to ammonia or nitrogen gas.
anaerobic respiration involves the reduction of an inorganic molecule, something other than oxygen, as a final electron acceptor in the ETC. In this case, it is nitrogen that gets reduced and the nitrate reductase is what reduces nitrate to nitrite.
Hydrogen peroxide and superoxides are produced when aerobes, facultative anaerobes, and microaerophiles use the aerobic respiratory pathway during degradation of carbohydrates for energy production. Accumulation of these substances will result in death of the organism unless they can be enzymatically degraded. Catalase or peroxidase rapidly degrades H2O2 into H2O and O2.
All aerobes and some facultative anaerobes are catalase positive. Superoxide dimutase is the enzyme responsible for degradation of the superoxides in catalase negative aerobic organisms. Strict anaerobes are not able to produce these enzymes. Therefore, they cannot be cultivated in the presence of oxygen.
Reduction of nitrate is generally an anaerobic respiration in which an organism derives its oxygen from nitrate. In this test, if the organism reduces he nitrate to nitrite, the nitrite reacts with the reagents sulfanilic acid and alpha-naphthylamine to produce a red color. No color after addition of these reagents indicates nitrates are not reduced or nitrites were reduced further. If the organism possesses a strong nitrate reductase it can further break down nitrites to ammonia or molecular nitrogen. The addition of zinc dust is used to determine if the nitrates were reduced past nitrite stage. If a red color develops after the addition of zinc, the nitrates were not reduced to nitrites. If there is no color after the addition of zinc, the nitrates in the media were reduced beyond nitrites to ammonia or nitrogen gas.


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For one, it's someone who creates a word to describe someone who loves and studies ideas. I LOVE clever concepts, funny thoughts/observations, and anything that gets your thinker thinking.
Baxter Beaver is so excited to get to his buddy's burrow that he leaves the house – forgetting to do something very important. Along the way bouquets of Bachelor Buttons wilt and Blue Birds belly flop – all because of bad breath.
I love challenges. For 8 years, each week I would give myself (or get) a topic to find humor in. Then I would share it as a single panel comic that ran in weekly newspapers around the country! You can see some of them here on Facebook!
I love building thinking skills. This comic book series features a main character who speaks using pictograms and rebus puzzles! Use context clues to figure out what the Kid is saying. If you ever get stuck, the "answers" are on the bottom of the page. Get your copy of the collection right here!
Everyone knows what happened the NIGHT before Christmas, now find out what happened during the DAY!
Told as a prequel to the classic poem – this story tells of how two families prepare for the holiday together.
What ideas spark when you and your 5 year old play with dinosaurs? Did you know a novelty Christmas song inspired one of my comic concepts? How about a super sleuth that attends Watson Elementary? More of my personal projects will be added to this page. Stay tuned!


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Q: OSX Mavericks shell mount NTFS network drive that has no share I migrated from Windows 7 to OSX. I am trying to recreate the functionality of "net use" on the Mac via Terminal. Problem is the machine I want to mount has no shares.
In Windows7 I could map the drive and have full access via:
 net use \\address\C$ /USER:user pass

Is there no bash method similar to this this?
rmdir /Volumes/test
mkdir /Volumes/test
mount_smbfs //user:pass@address/ /Volumes/test

Finally realized that the no shares was cause of my problem with that mounting.

A: You probably missed the C$ part.
mount_smbfs '//user:pass@address/C$' /Volumes/test

Quoting ('') may not be necessary since $ does not follow a parameter name but let's just be explicit.
You also need to add your username and password:
mount_smbfs '//user:pass@address/C$' /Volumes/test -o user='user',pass='pass'

Sometimes it doesn't work due to many causes I don't technically know but you can also try:
mount -t smbfs '//user:pass@address/C$' /Volumes/test -o user='user',pass='pass'
mount -t smbfs '//user:pass@address/C$' /Volumes/test -o username='user',password='pass'
mount -t cifs '//user:pass@address/C$' /Volumes/test -o user='user',pass='pass'
mount -t cifs '//user:pass@address/C$' /Volumes/test -o username='user',pass='password'

See Mounting samba shares from a unix client.


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I'll be there Friday evening and a good chunk of Saturday. Probably not on Sunday at all, though, given that it's VALENTINE'S DAY.
I expect I'll be MCing the Cosplay, and other than that most of the time I'll be in the great hall at my usual table.


This year there's a new streaming provider for the Pittsburgh Peregrine nestcams at the Cathedral of Learning and Gulf Tower. The video links are found on the National Aviary website with streaming provided by Ozolio.
THE STREAM STOPS AFTER 5 MINUTES: Yes it does. Here's how to restart it.
If you see a Play button click on it to restart the stream (screenshot below).
(using Windows) If the stream stops but doesn't show a play button, press F5 to refresh the page. The stream will start again.
If you cannot see the stream at all and your computer gives you the message below, click on the Activate Adobe Flash link to see the stream. If your browser screams at you that this might be dangerous, say yes anyway. Otherwise you can't see the nest.
Thanks for all the interesting information on the birds and nature.
You probably know that WildEarth dropped their beta site so us Android people have had problems but Jellybean and Lollipop versions of Android w/new enough version of Adobe Flash Player to allow viewing of the web cams but the viewing of Videomarks sometimes is blocked. Older versions of Android operating system don't open up the Wildearth web cams and to install newer versions of Adobe Flash player onto older Android platforms requires some "work around" software. Need some tech support/search to make it happen.
This message was put up on WildEarths web site last November/December.
John Thomson, thanks for the information. The National Aviary falconcams no longer stream at WildEarth.
I saw a Falcon, I think it was a falcon, it was grey and white, and it was flying low, sitting on a big pine tree limb and then flew around the area..low. It was a bigger bird, but not as big as a hawk or eagle.
I live in Fair Oaks, CA..near the Sacramento River.
What kind of bird do you think it was?


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package com.jjinterna.pbxevents.discovery.lldp;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.camel.RoutesBuilder;
import org.apache.camel.scr.AbstractCamelRunner;
import org.apache.camel.spi.ComponentResolver;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Component;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.ConfigurationPolicy;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Properties;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Property;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Reference;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.ReferenceCardinality;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.ReferencePolicy;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.ReferencePolicyOption;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.References;

import com.jjinterna.pbxevents.discovery.lldp.internal.LldpDiscoveryRoute;
import com.jjinterna.pbxevents.discovery.lldp.internal.SnmpTrapRoute;
import com.jjinterna.pbxevents.discovery.lldp.internal.TimerRoute;
import com.jjinterna.pbxevents.model.SnmpTrapEvent;
import com.jjinterna.pbxevents.routes.EventMediator;
import com.jjinterna.pbxevents.routes.EventSelector;
import com.jjinterna.pbxevents.routes.selector.EventTypeSelector;

@Component(description = LldpDiscovery.COMPONENT_DESCRIPTION, immediate = true, metatype = true, policy = ConfigurationPolicy.REQUIRE)
@Properties({
    @Property(name = "camelContextId", value = "pbxevents-lldp"),
    @Property(name = "active", value = "true"),
    @Property(name = "host"),
    @Property(name = "snmpCommunity", value = "public"),
    @Property(name = "snmpVersion", value = "0"),
    @Property(name = "port", value = "161"),
    @Property(name = "timeout", value = "1500"),
    @Property(name = "retries", value = "2"),
    @Property(name = "period", value = "60000")
})
@References({
    @Reference(name = "camelComponent",referenceInterface = ComponentResolver.class,
        cardinality = ReferenceCardinality.MANDATORY_MULTIPLE, policy = ReferencePolicy.DYNAMIC,
        policyOption = ReferencePolicyOption.GREEDY, bind = "gotCamelComponent", unbind = "lostCamelComponent")
})
public class LldpDiscovery extends AbstractCamelRunner {

	public static final String COMPONENT_DESCRIPTION = "PBXEvents LLDP Discovery";

    @Reference
    private EventMediator mediator;

    private String host;
    private static final String[] directSnmpTrap = { "direct:snmptrap" };

    @Override
    protected List<RoutesBuilder>getRouteBuilders() {
    	context.getManagementNameStrategy().setNamePattern("#name#");

        List<RoutesBuilder>routesBuilders = new ArrayList<>();
    	routesBuilders.add(new LldpDiscoveryRoute());
    	if (host == null) {
    		String queueUri = mediator.queueUri(LldpDiscovery.class.getName());
    		List<EventSelector> selectors = new ArrayList<>();
    		selectors.add(new EventTypeSelector(SnmpTrapEvent.class.getSimpleName()));
    		routesBuilders.add(mediator.subscriber(selectors, directSnmpTrap));
        	routesBuilders.add(new SnmpTrapRoute(queueUri));
        } else {
        	routesBuilders.add(new TimerRoute());
        }
        routesBuilders.add(mediator.publisher());
        return routesBuilders;
    }

}


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The City of Fort Atkinson is part of the Rock River Stormwater Group. They are a community of 12,335 in Jefferson County, which is in southern Wisconsin. Both the Rock River and Bark River are in Fort Atkinson. Just five miles outside of Fort Atkinson is Koshkonong Lake. For more information about Fort Atkinson's stormwater management, go to fortatkinsonwi.net/departments/stormwater_utility/index.php.
Fort Atkinson is working with Hey and Associates, Inc. on a Stormwater Quality Improvement project at Larson Lagoon slated for construction in 2018. The city received a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to fund the project. The primary objective of this project is to construct a sediment basin on the eastern side of the lagoon. In addition, the project will include a redirection of a 60-foot storm sewer, changes to the existing pond outlet and construction of a new outlet to the north. Currently, stormwater drains toward the western lagoon through a spillway, but changing the flow pattern can help the City of Fort Atkinson achieve water quality benefits before the stormwater enters the Rock River. This project will not only be an opportunity for water quality treatment, but may also create flood storage, enhance the habitats of the variety of species and promote better ecology, and provide recreational opportunities.
The City of Fort Atkinson is committed to improving the water quality of the Rock River. The City has hired MSA Professional Services, Inc. to update their Stormwater Management Plan (SWMP) to indicate how the City can make required reductions in pollution inputs to the Rock River. The new plan will identify Best Management Practices (BMPs) that the City can implement to reduce the amount of sediment and other pollutants found on the streets, driveways, and sidewalks that are washed into the river during every rain event. The final plan should be available toward the end of 2018.
On September 8th, 2018, the City of Fort Atkinson will be participating in an eight-city Rock River Sweep event. This event will focus on cleaning up the shorelines of the Rock River and related waterways in the Rock River basin. More information will be coming soon. To learn more about how you can get involved sign-up for updates on our Rock River Sweep event page.