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New York|Preserving a Cluster of Fishing Shacks From Hudson's 'Forgotten' Past
Preserving a Cluster of Fishing Shacks From Hudson's 'Forgotten' Past
The 17 shacks, once used as year-round residences by fishermen, are considered one of the last remnants of "Old Hudson." Efforts are underway to save some of them.
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By William Shannon
HUDSON, N.Y. — In the city of Hudson, known to tourists for its antique shops and fine dining, a cluster of century-old fishing shacks from the Hudson River estuary's once prosperous shad fishery teeters on the waterfront.
Some of the shacks were once used as year-round residences by sportsmen and commercial fishermen over the years, said Leo Bower, 63, who grew up in Hudson and now lives in the neighboring town of Greenport. As a resident historian, Mr. Bower has collected binders full of black-and-white photographs of the shacks and shares stories with visitors about the fishermen and hunters he met who used the shacks.
For the most part, he said, the shacks were used for getaways and as staging areas for people fishing in the river and hunting on the bay and on a nearby island for duck and deer.
When he was a boy, he said, it was also a place where older fishermen told stories and taught practices from an earlier era.
Now, an effort to preserve some of the 17 remaining shacks is underway.
The shacks sit on city-owned land on the shore of North Bay and have been vacant since the last denizens were evicted in 2012. The site has appeared on maps since the 1880s.
In 2015, Hudson's City Council voted to demolish almost all of the shacks, but before the razing began, the New York State Historic Preservation Office declared the site eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
On Aug. 1, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said the state would award a $10 million grant to the city for waterfront and downtown projects. Listed in the application was $165,000 for stabilizing structures and improving access on the North Bay at the site known by various names, including the Furgary, Shantytown, the North Dock Tin Boat Association and also "the shacks."
"It's part of Hudson's really sordid and unique past, and I think it should absolutely be preserved," said Sheena Salvino, head of the Hudson Development Corporation, which helped prepare the city's grant application. "In what form, I don't pretend to know. But with a little creativity, something cool could happen."
Mr. Bower and another resident, Timothy O'Connor, have begun planning to preserve 10 or so of the shacks. Mr. O'Connor said he envisions a museum showcasing tools and memorabilia from the shad fishery, which closed in 2010.
Leo Bower in front of one of the 17 remaining shacks, which have been vacant since 2012, in the city of Hudson, N.Y.
"We would like to see the shacks that are preserved be used in commemoration of the river activities, which were always the focus of successive generations of Shantytown dwellers," he said.
Mr. O'Connor, a bird-watcher who was the personal assistant to the poet John Ashbery for 10 years, said $165,000 would be more than enough to preserve the shacks, especially if volunteers helped.
"These are shacks," he said. "They require annual work after the winter. But it's not a great deal of work."
Mayor Tiffany Martin Hamilton said an effort to save some shacks needs to begin as soon as possible.
Ms. Hamilton, whose grandfather built one of the shacks, said the site was one of the last remnants of "Old Hudson," which was a closer community than today's version of the small city.
Hudson Mayor Tiffany Martin Hamilton, whose grandfather built one of the shacks, said they are one of the last remnants of "Old Hudson."
"It's a forgotten era, a closed chapter in Hudson's history," she said. "It represents generations of people — old Hudson grit in a good way. And it represents all of the things our community struggles with today — economic disparity in the community that drives this divide between people. It all played out here."
Last year, Ms. Hamilton had fencing removed to restore access to the land surrounding the shacks, including a boat launch.
Mr. Bower reconnected with his estranged father nearly 50 years ago at the shacks. They netted shad and herring on the river, made turtle soup over a wood-burning stove and prepared fish for a homemade smoker at the site. The younger Mr. Bower held his wedding reception outside the shacks in 1983. He kept a 13-foot boat docked there that he used to take his wife and two sons on river excursions.
A cluster of century-old fishing shacks in Hudson, N.Y., once at risk of being demolished, is now being preserved. Step inside one of the shacks and wander around the site.CreditCreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.
In the 2015 report for the state's historic preservation office, the authors Linda Mackey, a historic preservation specialist for 14 upstate counties, and Daria Merwin, a co-director of the cultural resource survey program at the New York State Museum in Albany, wrote that the site has "the tangible remains of a traditional way of life that is rapidly disappearing," which "represent a time when sturgeon and shad were abundant in the Hudson River, and people made their livelihoods fishing the river and selling their catch on the shore."
Ms. Merwin said she has since given two presentations about maritime cultural landscapes and featured the North Bay shacks as a case study.
"I'd like to see as much of the fabric retained as possible," she said. "I hope there's some common ground that everyone can buy into in terms of seeing some of them preserved, seeing some public access and seeing some interpretation of the site so people understand their local history. It really tells a story of the Hudson River in a bigger way."
The shacks were mostly used for getaways and as staging areas for fishermen and hunters, Mr. Bower said.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 21 of the New York edition with the headline: In Shacks by the River, A Town Sees a Chance To Recall a Fishing Era. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe


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The secure, CAA-accredited facility now boasts a team of 19 staff with an extensive range of clients from various industries.
Andrew Christie, director, Davies Turner Air Cargo said: "Our newly designed unit is perfect for both customers and staff, and meets our current and projected requirements.
"From the facility, we operate a fleet of vehicles for delivery and collection of cargo, so easy access to both Glasgow airport and the main transport arteries is essential.
Davies Turner Group chairman, Philip Stephenson adds: "The expansion in Glasgow, follows last year's doubling in size of our regional distribution centre in Cumbernauld, from where our ocean and overland logistics services for Scottish importers and exporters are managed.
In Britain and Ireland, Davies Turner has seven strategically located regional hubs and national logistics centres in Birmingham, Bristol, Dartford, Heathrow, Manchester, and Cumbernauld, as well as Dublin, with another 15 branches supporting the company's nationwide distribution network.


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Q: Passing a Model instance to an already initialized Backbone View I would like to pass the Model of a View to an already initialized View here.This is the View that has the data,it can be considered an ItemView of the Collection:
var app=app||{};
app.ContactView=Backbone.View.extend({
  tagName:'li',
  className:['contact-view'],
  model:app.Contact,
  events:{
    'click .editing-icon':'showEditView'
  },
  initialize:function contactViewInit(){
    this.render();
    this.listenTo(this.model,'change',this.render);
  },
  template:Handlebars.templates.contactView,
  render:function contactViewRender(){
    var html=this.template(this.model.toJSON());
    this.$el.html(html);
    return this;
  },
  showEditView:function(){
    //show edit view...this should also be handled by app view...
    //(1)how do I pass a message to editview;how can I generate an event in Backbone
    app.EditView.set({
     //there is an error here...
      model:this.model
    });
  }
});

This is the View which should recieve the data,it is based on static html which opens a modal and prompts the user to edit the model data which will re-render the first view,it has already been initialized because I think there is no point in initializing it repeatedly:
  var app=app||{};

var EditView=Backbone.View.extend({
  el:'#edit-modal',
  initialize:function initializeEditView(){
    console.log("Initializing Modal for editing");
    console.log(this.model.toJSON());
    this.$form=this.$el.find("form");
    this.initializeEditForm();
    this.showYourself();
  },
  initializeEditForm:function initializeEditForm(){
    this.$form.find('#edit-name').val(this.model.get('name'));
    this.$form.find('#edit-email').val(this.model.get('email'));
    this.$form.find('#edit-phone').val(this.model.get('phone'));
  },
  showYourself:function showYourself(){
    this.$el.modal('show');
  },
  hideYourself:function hideYourself(){
    clearEditForm();
    this.$el.modal('hide');
  },
  clearEditForm:function clearEditForm(){
    this.$form.find('#edit-name').val('');
    this.$form.find('#edit-email').val('');
    this.$form.find('#edit-phone').val('');
  },
  events:{
    'click #edit-contact button':'submitEditedData'
  },
  submitEditedData:function submitEditedData(){
      var data={
          name:this.$form.find('#edit-name').val(),
          phone:this.$form.find('#edit-phone').val(),
          email:this.$form.find('#edit-email').val()
      };
      console.log("Data recieved from the edit form");
      this.model.set(data);
      this.hideYourself();
  }
});

app.EditView=new EditView();

I have an AppView which handles creating data with a html form,should I instead have handled this there?
UPDATE:
This is the AppView that I built in order to handle creating a model and adding it to the collection(which will cause a collection view to render this item view and add it to the collection):
 var app=app||{};
app.AppView=Backbone.View.extend({
  el:'#app',
  initialize:function appInit(){
    //mostly caching selectors here
    this.$form=this.$('#new-contact');
    this.$contactList=this.$('#contacts-list');
  },
  events:{
    'click #new-contact button':'createContact'
  },
  createContact:function createContact(e){
    e.preventDefault();

    //build a model based on form and clear the form
    var contact=this.createModelUsingForm();
    this.clearForm();
    //add model to the collection
    app.ContactsCollection.add(contact);
  },
  createModelUsingForm:function createModelUsingForm()
  {
    var data=this.processFormForContact();
    var contact=new app.Contact(data);
    return contact;
  },
  processFormForContact:function processFormForContact()
  {
    return {
      name:this.$form.find('#name').val(),
      phone:this.$form.find('#phone').val(),
      email:this.$form.find('#email').val()
    };
  },
  clearForm:function clearForm(){
    this.$form.find('#name').val('');
    this.$form.find('#email').val('');
    this.$form.find('#phone').val('');
  }
});

A: Consider triggering an event from the ContactView that passes the model back to a central controller. The controller can then listen for this event and react accordingly, i.e., instantiate the EditView using the model it receives from the event.

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The simplest way to invoke RegPayS is to link to its URL without passing any parameters.
return the complete HTML that displays an empty loan calculator page.
You can also invoke RegPayS by first displaying an empty form manually, if you like.
The first thing you might want to try is converting the other financial applets into servlets.


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Evidence and Its Degradation II
Why Does the Devil Do God's Work?
Why Does the Devil Do God's Work for Him?
By Dennis Loo (1/2/15)
If the Devil is God's adversary - whom the Bible tells us he is, his polar opposite - why doesn't the Devil reward people instead of punishing them for sinning against God? If you are a sinner, according to the Christian faith, then why do you go to Hell and eternal fire and suffering, presided over by Satan with great delight? Why would Satan take delight in seeing those who follow his ways suffer for eternity? Wouldn't Satan, who supposedly opposes God, make Hell into a pleasurable afterlife, rewarding those who have followed the Devil's evil ways, rather than giving them everlasting damnation?
Why is the Devil doing God's work by punishing people for defying God and for following the Devil? If you do the Devil's bidding and do as he recommends, then why should the Devil then punish you for doing what he asks you to do, unless, of course, the Devil is a device invented in the Bible as an enforcer of God's will, and merely pretending to be an adversary of God?
What's Hell anyway but a cudgel for believers in God to use to warn people against sinning? In which case, the Devil would have nothing to do with such a Hell because he'd want people to take pleasure in crossing God and would make Hell a Heavenly place to be.
In which case, the Devil is not God's opposite at all, but his helpmate. Does Satan not know how to think at all? If he's so damn crafty and cunning, which the Bible says he is and preachers never tire of saying over and over again that he is, then you would think that he would notice - I mean, the guy's got eternal time to figure this out - that he's punishing people for doing precisely what he wants them to do - defy God and sinning right and left - and is therefore contradicting himself all of the time.
A very clear and consistent portrait of Satan is painted in the Old Testament: he is the enemy of God and the adversary of man. He seeks power and recognition for himself, arrogantly resisting and rebelling against God. He is rebellious, evil, cunning, and unteachable. He persists with his devious work. In his ambition and efforts to further his own position, he willingly sacrifices mankind and indeed all creation. He may approach us as an ally, but sooner or later he is unmasked as our adversary, a deadly foe. (Boldfacing added).[1]
If the Devil is cunning, he cannot be unteachable. To be cunning, to be clever, to be smart, means that you have to be able to learn. Now if what is meant here by "unteachable" is that Satan is incorrigible, than say that, don't say that he's unteachable, because he is obviously going to be teachable if he's cunning, otherwise he can't be cunning or clever or smart. He can't make adjustments. He can't learn from his mistakes.
And if the Devil keeps rebelling against God, why doesn't God who is supposed to be by definition, all-powerful and all knowing, punish the Devil for his evil ways? What's keeping him from doing that? If God has a "perfect plan" then how come the Devil is part of that perfect plan? It can only be if that perfect plan also includes using the Devil as a device who doesn't really exist to threaten people with for them to stay within the Church. Verily I say unto Thee, the Church exists but God does not.
If the Devil really existed, and God really existed, and if Heaven and Hell really existed, then Heaven and Hell would be indistinguishable from each other: they'd both be like staying at Four Seasons forever and ever for free.
Because in Heaven God would be rewarding you for being a righteous, moral follower of Him, and in Hell, Satan would also be rewarding you for being a sinner and defying God's will. For Satan to be consistent, and this is really a very simple matter folks, then Hell should be a pleasurable place forever and ever, not a place to punish people eternally for "defying God." Why would the Prince of Darkness who wants you to defy God, punish you for doing exactly what he wants you to do? Verily, I say under Thee, that Satan would heap Bounty upon Thee for being a Sinner, and He would grant Thee every wish Thee would have.
So the Christian God and Devil are like professional wrestlers where they pretend to be adversaries of each other but really they're the best of buddies and making people side with one or the other when the fix is already in.
Or God and the Devil are like Good Cop/Bad Cop where the goal for both cops is to get the suspect to go along with what the cops both want.
Or they are like the Democrats and the Republicans who fight each other and point fingers at each other, but really they're both trying to keep us in a game that is fixed against the public.
It's all about social control and keeping people in line. That is what the Bible is about.
And here is an admission of that by a preacher:
The New Testament Scriptures, as well as the Old, reveal that while Satan opposes God and man in an attempt to frustrate God's plan, his efforts are used by God to further His plan.[2]
Damn right!
[1] https://bible.org/seriespage/3-satan-s-part-god-s-perfect-plan
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This site aims to accomplish two related goals. First, it complements Dennis Loo's book Globalization and the Demolition of Society so that people reading the book can get more deeply into it. (See navigation bar above, labeled "GDS Book Annotations"). We believe that his book is a landmark, providing a solid foundation for politics of a new path. Taking such a path is critical to humanity and the planet's future. As his book's dust jacket states:
[F]ree market fundamentalism - also known as neoliberalism - makes us not more secure or prosperous: it tears the social fabric and undermines security, leading inevitably to disasters on the individual, regional, and global levels.
Neoliberalism is based on the mantra that market forces should run everything. It aims to eliminate job and income security, the social safety net (including welfare and other social guarantees), unions, pensions, public services, and the governmental regulation of corporations. It consequently undermines the basis for people to voluntarily cooperate with authority as almost everyone is increasingly left by themselves to face gargantuan private interests, with governmental and corporate authority ever more indifferent to the public's welfare.
Those in charge of our collective fates in government and business personify a heartless system based on profit and plunder. They have been relentlessly instituting profoundly immoral and unjust policies even while they insist that they are doing the opposite. We, on the other hand, stand for and are fighting for a radically different system and set of values than this.
Second, in order to get at the truth and because the ways in which humanity's historic striving for understanding and its capacity to wonder and imagine are very rich and diverse, we seek to reflect that richness and diversity on our site. See "About Us" on navigation bar. We intend to be engaging and compelling, as the best investigative journalism and art are, and relentlessly scientific, rigorous, and direct, as those who cherish the truth are. We believe that we can be both accessible and sophisticated. As Loo lays out in his book,
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A season that provided a carousel of teams at the top of the rankings and plenty of upsets portended an unpredictable and entertaining March Madness. The Tournament's first weekend was even better than expected. Your bracket is likely busted, but it was totally worth it.
It looked like Northern Iowa was on its way to the Sweet 16—and by "looked like," I mean people had crossed out Texas A&M on their brackets and UNI fans were checking out flights to Anaheim—until Texas A&M's historic comeback. Down 12 points with 44 seconds left and (10 with under 30 seconds), the Aggies went on a 14-2 run to close the game, the biggest final-minute comeback in NCAA Tournament history. They won 92-88 in double overtime. If you missed it, just watch the highlights and pretend you didn't. The Aggies' full-court press forced four turnovers, three of which they immediately turned into layups, including one to tie it with two seconds left. The Panthers missed shots from beyond halfcourt at the end of regulation and the first overtime. When you consider their win at the buzzer in the Missouri Valley Conference championship, Northern Iowa's last three games have been fantastic.
In the final game of the first round, no more than a couple of minutes after the Northern Iowa halfcourt heave on Friday, St. Joseph's Isaiah Miles hit a three to give the eighth-seeded Hawks a 78-76 lead over Cincinnati with seven seconds left. Octavius Ellis answered with a dunk at the buzzer, but replay showed the ball was still in his fingertips with no time on the clock. It didn't matter how far into the net the ball was, given that Ellis was still touching it.
Of all the upsets and thrilling endings, none were more surprising than Michigan State losing in the first round. The second biggest favorite to win the entire thing (behind Kansas), the 2 seed Spartans were stunned by Conference USA champ Middle Tennessee State on Friday. The Blue Raiders never trailed, shot 56 percent from the floor and 11-of-19 (58 percent) from deep, and won 90-81. Like all but one of the previous seven 15 seeds to win, Middle Tennessee was bounced in the second round (by Syracuse; Florida Gulf Coast was the only 15 seed to reach the Sweet 16). The Spartans had some bumps in the road this season, but entered the Big Dance having won 13 of 14, including the Big Ten tournament. Their loss was the most unpredictable in a weekend full of unpredictability. Ten double-digit seeds won, the most ever in the first round.
Despite all the madness, the four No. 1 seeds are still alive. North Carolina only led Florida Gulf Coast by one at halftime, but finished with an 83-67 victory. The Tar Heels carried that momentum into a blasting of Providence in Round Two. Kansas crushed Austin Peay and looked very strong in a 12-point win over UConn. Tony Bennett collapsing on the sideline was the only scare Virginia got during its opening round game, and the Cavaliers dominated the second half to beat Butler by eight. Oregon trailed St. Joseph's 58-51 with five minutes left but made key plays down the stretch on both ends of the court and won 69-64. The Ducks will play Duke next, while the Jayhawks face a very talented Maryland team, Carolina draws Indiana in what figures to be a very high-scoring game, and Virginia takes on a hot Iowa State team.
If you've been counting, you've already noticed references to five remaining ACC teams: UNC, Notre Dame, Virginia, Syracuse, and Duke. There's a sixth—Miami, which beat Wichita State in a great second-round matchup—which is the most a single conference has placed in the Sweet 16 in Tournament history. The only ACC team to lose so far is 10 seed Pittsburgh, which lost a close first-round game to Wisconsin. Going strictly by seeds, the league is favored to have two all-ACC Elite Eight matchups: UNC vs. Notre Dame in the East and Virginia against Syracuse in the Midwest. Syracuse, however, is an underdog against 11 seed Gonzaga, just as 3 seed Miami is against 2 seed Villanova and Duke is against Oregon. Because of upsets, the ACC teams all got to play worse seeds than expected in the second round, but the feat is no less impressive.
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Open Registry of Game Information
Talk about specific features of our upcoming online game database.
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#37347 by jotaroraido
Okay, so I haven't seen any discussion of this around here yet, but as anyone who ever saw my work at Moby should know, game credits are my passion. One problem I always had with credits on Moby was the way aliases were handled. They had to be manually entered on a per-game basis, were far too easy to lose when updating data, and got to be a real mess when you had, say, a translated alias with a known real name attached to a translated company name.
One place that seems to have a pretty good grasp of how to handle aliases (and developer profiles in general) is VGMdb. Take a look at this profile for an example -- you've got a dedicated field for original characters if someone has a non-English name, a list of aliases (which is populated automatically based on what credits have been linked to them), links directly to companies and organizations the individual has been associated with, and even sub-entries if someone has particular distinct aliases that they use.
The works list shows what titles they've been credited on, what they were credited for, and even what alias they were credited with -- which makes it really easy to do research on a particular person. The actual release pages list what was actually credited, alias or not, but still linking back to the person's main entry. There's also a dedicated discussion thread for each developer, making it a simple task to discuss, say, splits/merges, known aliases, or bio details before they go into the main entry.
Another thing they do that I was always amazed Moby never had is profile pages for unknown aliases. Quite often people used the same (or similar) aliases throughout their tenure at a company, and even if their real name is unknown, it's still incredibly useful to have them linked together for research purposes.
If we'd had these features, the work I did on Moby to clean up, say, old Sega credits would have been much easier.
Anyway, that's my spiel. Thoughts?
jotaroraido
Re: Credits
#37389 by idrougge
All I know is that this has been discussed in the German forum and that everyone came to the same conclusion as you.
idrougge
Well, in that case, I shall sit patiently and await the day when I may flood the system with Japanese names.
#37434 by MZ per X
jotaroraido wrote: Okay, so I haven't seen any discussion of this around here yet, but as anyone who ever saw my work at Moby should know, game credits are my passion.
First of all, a belated welcome to you, just glad to have you discussing with us. I'd like to jump on this thread to ramble a bit about people data, which we already discussed to quite some detail in German. I also adjusted our data model here and there to incorporate your examples.
1) People Data
Up until now, people data will be covered in two layers, a basic layer for the most common data and easy entry, and an advanced layer to enable more complex data to be entered into the database.
The basic layer contains the main name, as in the name the person became famous with. This can be a real-life name, nick, or both, all of these can be saved with their native spelling, too. Furthermore, birth and death dates are covered, nationality, gender, and a description. This basic layer provides the easy way for people data to get into the database, thus enabling credits listings.
The advanced layer is a personal event table. As the name suggests, this table can be used to save data about personal events like birth, death, marriage, gender change, degree, etc., all of them with a date, decription, and the possibility to enter a change of name(s) like at marriage. This facility can be used to fine-grain people data, enabling us to provide the possibility for full developer biographies / timelines, if need be.
Furthermore, there's links to company data with which we can map staff relationships like CEO/CTO/COO etc., or shareholder relationships. Other extensive linking of people data will arise when modelling the data of gaming magazines.
2) People Credits
As regards to people credits, the main data structure is the credit set. A credit set is every list of names that can be found, be it in a manual, in the game itself, on publisher websites, or whereever. We aim for preserving not only the data itself, but also the formatting of the credit set, if that's possible. The sets will need to contain a source, title, and language, and can contain a description, and whether it is a set for uncredited people, like that artist of the box art, or those Japanese programmers hiding in the source code.
The link between the credit set and the people will be Connection 5 in the wiki. As main data, this link will contain the job title as given in the source, the area of expertise, and standard role of this person (Data List 8 ), and his/her experience level (Data List 9). Furthermore, we will be able to enter the name(s) used for the person within the credit set, and whether this used name is a misspelling or abbreviation. With these data, we can then populate the people entry with all the names he/she was credited, and where.
Finally, we have the Connections 26 and 27 set up, where we can link a credit set to a specific release (usual case), or to a release group, if these credits are not release-specific.
3) Corner Cases
So much for the basics, let's take a look at some corner cases already solved.
1) More than one credit set per release.
One list in the manual, one list in-game, and additional credits within a readme file? Or different credits per language within a multi-language release? No problem, just enter every list as a separate credit set, and link to the same release.
2) Uncredited people
As mentioned above. These poor people get their own credit set with the flag "Uncredited". This set can then be linked to a release (e.g. for the cover artist), or a release group (e.g. for uncredited programmers).
3) Compilation credits
If a compilation contains a humongous credits list for every game bundled, it can be linked to the compilation itself, or split up in different sets per game, if that's possible, and linked to the game releases.
4) Credits changed by patches
Here we would save an additional, complete credit set, and link it to the patch entry.
5) Add-on credits
If an add-on overwrites the credits of the main game, and main game and add-on credits cannot be separated, this would be a new credit set, too, which would get linked to both the main game and the add-on.
6) Website / Youtube credits
These cannot be linked to a special release, so will be linked to one or more release groups.
Okay, now is the time to throw your corner cases at us. Or someone could think about the data lists 8 and 9, and expand or improve them. For instance, the standard roles for people per area of expertise are still missing. We agreed that these roles shouldn't be as detailed as in Mobygames, but a little more general.
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Thanks for the detailed write-up. I don't think I 100% understand all the connections in the data model yet, but it seems like a lot of eventualities have already been accounted for.
My main concern, as I wrote above, is with the actual credits sets and their display, particularly with foreign-language credits and credits with lots of aliases. Let's say, for example, I come across the following credit:
原作 広井王子/レッドカンパニー
Romanized, this would be: Gensaku Hiroi Ōji / Reddo Kanpanī
Or translataed: Original Work Prince Hiroi / Red Company
Hiroi Ōji is the pen name of Teruhisa Hiroi (who goes by several other aliases as well), who is representing developer Red Company. I'm trying to wrap my head around how we could best display this sort of data while keeping it complete but still readable. At Moby, I would have entered it as:
Original Work (原作) Teruhisa Hiroi (Hiroi Ōji / Red Company [広井王子/レッドカンパニー])
...which is obviously rather cumbersome. With the model we have now, I'm assuming we could remove his real name from display, and just have "Hiroi Ōji" link straight to his person data page, but it's still somewhat cumbersome. Would we be able to have "Red Company" link to said company's data sheet while still being attached to the person credit? Perhaps there could be a toggle between translated and original text, like VGMDB does for tracklists?
jotaroraido wrote: ...which is obviously rather cumbersome. With the model we have now, I'm assuming we could remove his real name from display, and just have "Hiroi Ōji" link straight to his person data page, but it's still somewhat cumbersome. Would we be able to have "Red Company" link to said company's data sheet while still being attached to the person credit?
I imagine credit listings as being some sort of formatted text with links in it. This way, we could preserve the original formatting, if possible and worthwhile, while linking to people and companies behind the text, or enter transliterations for Japanese credits. Of course, we also could provide unformatted lists with all the data entered, for easier research.
jotaroraido wrote: Perhaps there could be a toggle between translated and original text, like VGMDB does for tracklists?
If we've got the above done right, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to let the user decide whether he/she wants to see the native spelling, the transliterations, or both. Or even toggling between the three options.
gene might want to throw something at me for all my technically complicated ideas, but this I have to risk.
Excellent. I like the idea of having relatively free formatting... so long as usability isn't compromised.
Anyway, something tangentially-related that I didn't feel it worth making a new topic for:
Will it be possible to have hierarchical relationships between companies? Just as an example, the company I work for is US company owned by a European company, which is itself a subsidiary of a Chinese company. The US division I work for itself owns another studio, which itself owns a further satellite studio. So it should be possible to have parent/child relationships to represent, in descending order of ownership:
Perfect World Co., Ltd. -> Perfect World Europe B.V. -> Perfect World Entertainment, Inc. -> Cryptic Studios, Inc. -> Cryptic North
I imagine that such parent/child relations between companies is already in the plans somewhere (though I couldn't find it when I looked earlier), but a further complication is those credited, named teams that nevertheless wouldn't count as their own company. For example, Namco's Project Soul, Tecmo's Team Ninja, or Taito's Zuntata. Certainly worth crediting, but one big problem with the way this was done at Moby was that if we credited, say Team Ninja for development, it wouldn't show up when browsing the main Tecmo listings, even though Team Ninja is wholly part of Tecmo. When a team name is only used for one or two games, or when the specific division isn't always known, crediting them in isolation actually makes the information *harder* to use.
In short: Will it be possible to have company entries that imply their parent companies when credited?
#37454 by Ultyzarus
jotaroraido wrote: Excellent. I like the idea of having relatively free formatting... so long as usability isn't compromised.
I second that! Companies were always blurry at MG, sometimes, the main Studio was credited, some other time, the specific studio (like Atlus for Dragon's Crown, that I submitted, was changed for its parent company)
If every developer is put in relation with the company/studio they work for at a specific time (using the timeline described above), I think that hierarchy will be created by itself and that the whole Credits and Company listing will almost sort itself out.
Ultyzarus
#37457 by Rola
Relations between companies are not set in stone.
If you want to link them, how would you track changes?
I'd also want to point out the possible cases of company revisionism that crept into MobyGames. Things like Atari making claims of creating Alone in the Dark simply on the grounds that they acquired Infogrames few years ago (read: long after the game was made).
I'd prefer such relations only being mentioned in company description page - and not adding another database relation.
#37458 by Patrick
Rola wrote: Things like Atari making claims of creating Alone in the Dark simply on the grounds that they acquired Infogrames few years ago (read: long after the game was made).
Isn't it the other way around?
#37459 by hydr0x
Yep, Infogrames aquired the Atari trademark and renamed to Atari, so if they, under their new name, claim to have done Alone in the Dark, that's absolutely correct.
hydr0x
So I finally got around to taking a closer look at the current data model, and one thing jumped out at me as perhaps a bit too limiting: First Name / Last Name / Nickname. I can see several issues with a strict implementation of this right off the bat:
1. It doesn't account for middle names, suffixes, or any other type of name that has more (or less!) than a given name + family name.
2. It doesn't account for names in languages that use the reverse order; IE family name then given name. Many east-Asian languages do this, including Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. I'm sure there are others.
3. Specific to Japanese (at least, I'm not aware of it being an issue for other languages) is readings for names. VGMdb handles this with a separate field next to the native name. While in general it can be inferred from the romanized name, you're still going to wind up with ambiguities if it isn't specifically given. Additionally, it's not uncommon for credits to list hiragana readings, as opposed to the original kanji, and many names have numerous valid romanizations (Sato, Satou, Satoh, Satō...)
4. This may just be a matter of simplicity for display in the chart, but there doesn't seem to be support for multiple nicknames. It's not uncommon to come across a developer who has used a dozen or more different aliases, including variations.
Of course, these could all be accounted for already, and just not included in the chart for simplicity's sake. But hey, I need to keep up my reputation as being completely anal about this stuff.
jotaroraido wrote: 2. It doesn't account for names in languages that use the reverse order; IE family name then given name. Many east-Asian languages do this, including Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. I'm sure there are others.
Oh, and as an addendum to this, would we be using the native order (family name + given name, "Iwata Satoru") or the standard English order (given name + family name, "Satoru Iwata") for names in such languages?
jotaroraido wrote:
I would implement an option to choose between "Standard" name order and "Reversed" name order when first entering the person in the database. The display should be marked as such ie:
-Iwata Satoru (Surname first)
-Satoru Iwata
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During a gun control speech today, President Barack Obama was moved to tears.
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Emotional, yes, but the general urgency behind Obama's words is worth noting.
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Reactions to Obama's remarks were mixed. People turned to Twitter during and after Obama's address, and both criticism and support have been flooding the social media platform under the top U.S. trend, #StopGunViolence.
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Obama can use his fake tears to drum up support for his executive orders which will do nothin to #StopGunViolence CRIMINALS DON'T OBEY LAWS.
I welcome Pres. Obama's work to #StopGunViolence. Just one question though: does he also cry for the Pakistani children he killed by drones?
This MAN. This HUMAN. This President. NOW IS THE TIME. Thank you @POTUS for shedding tears with us. We can #StopGunViolence.
I support responsible gun ownership. Background checks do not infringe on that. Let's be reasonable, folks, and #StopGunViolence.
What do you think of the president's remarks, Ragan readers? Were his emotions and use of strong words powerful, or did he fall short of persuading gun enthusiasts and others with his rhetoric?


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Despite all the cosplay, movie stars, TV stars, toys, video games and other assorted stuff, comic books are what started all of this and comic books remain, for some of us at least, the most important part of an event like NYCC. As such, we've saved the best for last. All the big publishers are, as per the norm, setup in the main hall. Marvel had a lot going on this year, like they always do, promoting Black Panther and Doctor Strange in a big way this year.
Also in the main hall? Dark Horse, Dynamite, Oni, IDW, Image, 2000 A.D., and Archie! There was a lot of great stuff going on at the Archie booth, including a signing for the Archie Meets Ramones comic that came out a few weeks ago, complete with the requisite NYCC variant cover on sale! Alex Ross had a booth set up too, selling prints and other expensive but awesome paintings.
And then there's the vendors. Granted, a lot of the same guys show up year after year, but there's a reason for that. If Gold and Silver Age comics are your thing, step right up. There were loads of key books on sale, everything from a Detective Comics #27 to an Amazing Fantasy #15 to an Amazing Spider-Man #129 to Daredevil #1. Loads of E.C. Comics on display for sale in various conditions, early Superman and Flash comics and lots of original artwork too.
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Lots of interesting creators on hand this year – Sean Chen, Klaus Janson, Millennium/X-Files scribe Joe Harris, Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (these guys had a pretty decent line going) and the man behind the demented visuals of The Nameless, Chris Burnham!
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John Waterton (died 1417) was an English landowner, administrator, courtier, diplomat, and politician who sat in the Parliament of England.

Origins
From a family that had lived on the Isle of Axholme since about 1150, he and his brother Hugh Waterton (died 1409) were sons of a prominent Lincolnshire landowner, William Waterton, of Waterton, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Roger Newmarch (died 1352), of Womersley, and his wife Maud.

Career
Born before 1360 and spending his early life in Lincolnshire, in common with his father and other members of the family he entered the service of John of Gaunt and his son Henry of Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV. In 1391 he accompanied Henry on his crusading expedition to Prussia and Lithuania during the Lithuanian Civil War. He did not appear on the national scene in England until involvement in court cases in London in 1394 and 1397, followed in 1399 by a mission to  buy horses for the new king in Ireland.

The year 1400 saw a number of appointments: he served as High Sheriff of Hampshire and was made Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall for Henry, Prince of Wales, remaining in post until the prince became king in 1413. He was given a ten-year lease of the manor of Pyworthy in Devon, which had been confiscated from the beheaded Earl of Salisbury,  the valuables of another traitor, the MP Thomas Shelley, and in addition the lands forfeited by a third rebel, Thomas Wintershall, of Bramley in Surrey. Himself a widower, Waterton married Wintershall's widow, through her gaining valuable estates in Surrey and Hampshire which gave him a base close to the seats of power at Westminster and Windsor. With the property to qualify for Parliament, he was elected for the Surrey seat in 1402.

In 1410 two royal grants added to his interests in the north of England, both in Yorkshire, first being the lands of the late William Bowes  and secondly those of Richard Duffield. In 1411 he served as High Sheriff of Surrey. When the young prince became king in 1413, further promotions followed. He was made Master of the Horse, holding the post until 1416, and next year Constable of Windsor Castle, which he held for life. Beyond these important national offices, he was employed on the international scene. In 1414 he acted as English ambassador to the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, then in 1415 to King Ferdinand I of Aragon, and in 1416 was beside Henry V for a meeting with his ally John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, followed in 1417 by a meeting with ambassadors from France.

He was dead by 1 November 1417.

Family
His first wife (died before 1400) was a daughter of Thomas Methley, tenant of Waterton, and they had five known children:
Robert.
Richard, also an MP, who married Constance Assenhull and had a daughter Jane (died 1461), the wife of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt (died 1457).
John (died 1414).
Eleanor, who in about 1409 married Sir Robert Babthorpe, later Comptroller of the Household.
Mundane, who married Thomas Metham.
By licence dated 24 April 1400 for a wedding at Burpham in Surrey, he married Joan, widow of the MP Thomas Wintershall.

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Interview – Colin Harker
How long have you been writing for?
I've been writing ever since I can remember. When I was a kid, I mostly wrote fantasy imitative of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles and Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising series, then detective fiction when I became obsessed with Agatha Christie. I didn't begin to seriously commit myself to horror until I turned 15 and read Lovecraft and Robert Bloch for the first time.
What is it about horror that made you think 'This is the genre for me'?
When I was a kid, I was absurdly easy to terrify. Edgar Allan Poe's tales and Roger Corman's adaptations of them traumatized me for months on end. I read Susan Hill's The Woman in Black in one night and wasn't able to sleep, it haunted me so deeply. I was, in other words, ridiculously sensitive to even the slightest stimulant of terror. Then I found an anthology with one of Robert Bloch's stories — his blend of humor and horror really appealed to me and made the terror more palatable while not robbing it of its visceral strength. Lovecraft's writing, both his fiction and his essay on the supernatural, was the final revolution of my metamorphoses. He articulated the genre's philosophical and spiritual implications, its ability to open the reader up to the perception of eerie, alien phenomena outside the realm of ordinary experience, more clearly and eloquently than any writer since Edmund Burke in his transformative theory of sublime terror. All of a sudden, the genre's power didn't seem like something wholly chaotic: or if it was chaotic, there was a spiritual dimension to this terrifying yet somehow pleasurable chaos that I wanted to understand and harness. At the age of 15, I began to write stories that were basically pastiches of Lovecraftian horror and even though they weren't very good, I think I learned a lot as a writer from these early experiments. After that, I began to mature into my own peculiar brand of horror, though I like to think that I still have a touch of these early influences.
Any tips for combating writer's block?
As someone who struggles with it quite a lot, especially during the editing stage, I am still working to find the most effective cure-all for this problem myself. However, I've found that it's best to know when to quit the field with a project and try something different. There's a lot to be said for returning to a frustrating project with fresh eyes rather than try and force it into submission. Another thing that I've found helpful is to channel your current obsessions or interests into a project: experiment with trying to write in the voice of a favorite writer, or capturing the atmosphere of a scene in a film that you enjoyed. It's surprising how returning to early exercises in imitation that young writers engage in quite frequently can still be of invaluable use to maturer writers who have hit a creative roadblock.
Any rituals you have before starting a new story?
Besides, of course, making certain that I'm nicely caffeinated, I like to write a short blurb-like paragraph with the basic plot of the story so that I feel like I have something of a guideline. I don't like to outline too much with short stories because that takes away the spirit of improvisation and can rob the process of its creative energy. Novels are a bit different — it's good to have at least a skeletal outline of each chapter. Then, for both short stories and novels, I like to think of three or four distinct images or impressions that I want to depict in the story and write these down. I like to think of them as guiding nodes that allow me to remember vividly what kind of atmosphere I'm trying to generate. I have a very cinematic imagination, probably due to watching too many movies, and so usually for me these take the form of brief "scenes" or "stills" from an imagined production of my story. These nodes also allow me to vividly imagine my characters as physical beings inhabiting a particular world.
How do you handle character creation?
I find using Dungeons and Dragons character sheets helpful but it's fun to see the many ways other people go about this. I too find RPG manuals to be creatively stimulating! I love paging through my Call of Cthulhu guidebook for ideas on monsters and villains in particular. I find that my sources of inspiration tend to be varied: sometimes a particular actor will serve as the physical inspiration for a character's movements and mannerisms, while a character in a novel will serve as an insight into a character's psyche. I play "what if" a lot while I watch movies and read books and often I'll see certain characters in fairly typical situations and wonder what that same type of character would do in a wholly unrelated situation. History, too, provides a wealth of inspiration. The villainous Judge Complin in my serial Gothic novel The Cost of a Rose, for instance, is loosely based on Thomas Burnet, an early 18th-century hanging judge and libertine, infamous for his sardonic and wittily blasphemous sense of humor.
Any projects coming up (or currently out) you'd like to share with us?
I'm currently working on editing a final draft of a Gothic horror novel set in 17th century Scotland called The Feast of the Innocents. It involves grisly, ritualistic murders; a sinister, social-climbing chimney-sweeper; and a young hero with a mysterious past, on the run from a bloodthirsty assassin-torturer. I'm also, of course, continuing my serial Gothic thriller The Cost of a Rose on my blog, which features a young servant falsely accused of murder and tormented and pursued by his arch-enemy, the sadistic Judge Complin. It's all very Sadean — something like the adult, Gothic version of A Series of Unfortunate Events. I am also working on several short stories — one, a reimagining of Jonathan Harker's encounter with Dracula's brides and the other a dystopian sci-fi horror tale.
How can we support your work?
Visit my blog and leave a comment if you enjoy what you read — reader encouragement truly means so much. Of course, if you're an agent or know an agent who would be interested in a 17th century Gothic horror tale with large doses of folk horror, grisly terror, and brooding atmosphere, do let me know!
I've noticed quite a few Silent Hill nods in your writing; do you have a favourite game in the series?
Well, firstly, thank you for saying so as that's quite a compliment. I've always admired the atmosphere and masterful blend of supernatural and psychological horror in that franchise. If I had to choose a favorite game, well, that's a bit difficult. I've only played through Silent Hill 3 myself, though I've watched playthroughs of the other games. I guess that 2 & 3 hold a special place in my heart: I love the Dantean horror of Silent Hill 2 as each character confronts some manifestation of their past guilts and traumas, but I also love the Lovecraftian horror of Silent Hill 3 which has a stronger emphasis on the sinister cult at the heart of the town's history.
What about 'gothic horror' drew you in so much? You're one of my favourite authors currently dealing with truly gothic tales.
Thank you so much! As you probably guessed from my Silent Hill reply, I am very drawn to horror that has a strong emphasis on atmosphere — that is, the texture of a particular setting. I think that the Gothic, with its emphasis on history, landscape, and larger-than-life characters really foregrounds atmosphere and gives it a symbolic and emotional resonance. Castles, for instance, aren't just dwellings in Gothic novels — they're symbolic of a dark past, of the character of their past and present owners, and of some sinister and inescapable power. Indeed, everything in the Gothic is alive with some kind of malignant power and meaning and mystery. As a kid, I was always drawn to the paperback Gothic romances that I would find in used bookstores, as well as the Gothic writings of Poe and Hawthorne. As I grew older and read the British Gothic novels of Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, and Charles Robert Maturin, my love for the genre was confirmed. Moreover, I've always been drawn to historical settings, particularly 17th and 18th century Britain, and my love for setting horror tales in the past makes the Gothic a natural habitation for me. There is a stylistic attraction as well: my novel The Cost of a Rose could, of course, be set in modern times with a few tweaks and adjustments, but it would be a bit trickier to have those same grandiose flourishes of language and setting — and I think the Gothic, with its love for exuberance, gives me an opportunity to really play with prose as poetry.
Any advice to people just starting out in their writing careers?
Keep trying and don't be too hard on yourself if there are times in your life when inspiration runs dry. I know that common wisdom often dictates that a writer should write every day, but sometimes due to other responsibilities or the fickleness of the Muse, that's simply not possible. Just do the best you can and remember that there's more to writing than getting words down. Reading history and literature, listening to inspirational and evocative music, communing with kindred spirits, is essential as well. No great writer ever writes in a vacuum.
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Baby Giraffe Update: Height, weight of newborn announced
Chance Q. Cook
More than a million people around the world watched live as internet sensation April the giraffe went into labor Saturday morning at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville.
The calf finally arrived at 9:53 a.m. in what Park owner Jordan Patch described as a "perfect birthing process."
A short time later, the park announced the calf is a boy.
The park said on the official April the Giraffe Twitter page its team got hands on with the calf for a vet check Sunday, announcing to its legion of fans the newborn giraffe stands 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 129 pounds.
As for April, the park said on its Facebook page Sunday morning the mother is doing just fine. "April has recovered perfectly and is eating everything in sight!"
Up next is deciding on a name for the calf, a process the public will be able to play a part in.
Anyone interested in casting a vote for a name can nominate it for $1 on the park's website, http://nameaprilscalf.com/, which was launched Saturday night. Money raised will be divided between giraffe conservation in the wild, giraffe care at Animal Adventure and Ava's Little Heroes annual fundraiser. Six names will be selected for a social media naming contest.


It's a win for Michael!
IT was Colin Tizzard's Sizing Tennessee who won the Ladbrokes Trophy at Newbury last weekend.
Over 23,000 people descended onto the racecourse across two days of racing as the Ladbrokes Winter Carnival took place.
As always, the Newbury Weekly News were in attendance to cover all the action as the most prestigious event in the racecourses calendar didn't disappoint in excitement.
Have a look through our picture gallery from the two days of racing, taken by our photographer Phil Cannings.
A full report and more pictures are available in this week's Newbury Weekly News - out now!


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Camera IconAn artist's impression of the new Indiana Tea House building. Credit: Supplied/Supplied
Cottesloe's Indiana Tea House: First look at Tattarang's new plans to revamp iconic building
Kim MacdonaldPerthNow
December 5, 2021 12:49PM
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The much-loved Indiana Tea House in Cottesloe is set for an amazing facelift, with plans to renovate and extend it with a luxury boutique hotel.
New plans submitted to Cottesloe Council reveal the renovated venue will include three levels of kiosk, cafe and fine dining, a rooftop pool and bar, as well as a 31-room hotel to be built on the beach side of Marine Parade.
The redesign means the world-class beach will finally get al fresco dining, while a new lift and public amenities will make it a place for everyone.
Leaseholders Andrew and Nicola Forrest, of Tattarang, said the plan concluded years of community consultation which showed a strong attachment to the existing beach-front facade.
Ms Forrest said the Indiana's next chapter would be one that respected the history of the site while improving its functionality.
"We share the community's passion to retain Indiana's iconic western facade and to preserve the building's legacy for future generations," she said.
"As the committed custodians of this important site, we believe Indiana can, and should, play a more meaningful role in the lives of locals and visitors alike, and our ambitions are clear — we want to deliver the best beachside precinct in Australia, one for all Australians to enjoy."
The decision to maintain the existing structure not only reflects its current importance, as the redesign will give a nod to the area's longer-term history.
A proposed promenade through the complex is similar to the Cottesloe boardwalk of the 1960s, while the rooftop bar is reminiscent of the open-air dance floor known as Palais de Danse when the site was the Centenary Pavilion in the 1930s.
The complex seeks to fit into its surroundings, with a stepped-down design from the hotel towards the beach in line with Cottesloe's famous tiered grass terraces.
Controversially there is no on-site parking, despite estimates the venue will attract 600 to 700 people at any time. In lieu of this, Tattarang will contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to the local council, to assist it with offsite parking.
Under the plans by architecture firm Woods Bagot, the boat storage facility would be moved to a new, bigger beach-front site closer to Cottesloe Surf Club.
Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club general manager Kim Welch welcomed the move, claiming a bigger facility would better enable it to serve the public.
In place of the boat store at the base of the pavilion, the ground floor will provide public toilets, indoor and outdoor showers and the only beachside changing places facility for people with complex disabilities between Scarborough and Mandurah.
A separate 31-room, three-level hotel facing Marine Parade will include a subterranean hydrotherapy and day spa.
An open area beneath the hotel would provide covered public space to escape the heat and stage community events.


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We are delighted to bring you high quality spirits from all natural, locally sourced ingredients, that we hope you can share with friends and family time and time again.
They get considerable gratification from the fact that we create very unique, signature flavours from our one-of-a-kind still named "Kirby", the first "legal" still to be designed and constructed in Nova Scotia. Built by both owners Owen Ritchie and Andrew Cameron, along with the help of a family friend, Daniel McSparron, this still is truly unique. Kirby is easily transformable from a pot still, for making spirits like rums and whiskies, or quickly interchangeable to a reflux or column still to create a very pure, high proof product for spirits like our vodkas, gins and moonshines.


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Rick Santorum: Kids Get 'Weird Socialization' In Public Schools (VIDEO)
By Laura Hibbard
Comments from GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum during a June Meet the Press roundtable have gained new context in light of his recent appearance at an Ohio Christian Alliance event, where he said that the U.S. public school system is "stuck in the factory era."
During the roundtable, Santorum defends a quote from his best-selling book It Takes a Family, which according to The Hill, reads as follows:
"Never before and never again after their years of mass education will any person live and work in such a radically narrow, age-segregated environment," Santorum wrote. "It's amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools."
He continues to note that home-schooling, by contrast, allows for children to interact "in a rich and complex way with adults and children of other ages ... and in general a lot better socialized than their mass-schooled peers."
"Where else in America, outside of school, do kids go to a place where they sit with people basically the same age, same socioeconomic group, and interact for, for a defined period of time?" Santorum says during the roundtable. "That's not what life is like. Life is very different than that."
During the discussion, Santorum maintains that parents should be heavily involved in their children's education.
"We need to transform public education to reflect more of what the dynamism is in the private sector, and that includes a whole way of infusing parents into the system," he said. "I would say that it's not the federal government's job to overhaul public education. What I would do is talk about how we need to make some transformation, but it should be left to the states and localities to do that."
These are sentiments Santorum continues to echo. In a campaign event in Idaho last week, the candidate once again noted his plan to home-school his children in the White House, if elected, and denounced heavy governmental evolvement in the education system. He said that for the "majority of the time in this country," parents "actually controlled the education of their children. What a great idea that is."
The New American's Michael Tennant points out, however, that Santorum's assertions may not be in line with his previous policies:
"While serving in the Senate, Santorum voted to increase federal funding for teacher testing in 2001 and to give the Education Department a $3.1 billion raise in 1996. Perhaps most egregiously, he voted for the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which vastly extended federal control over the education system and now has grown so onerous that the Obama administration is handing out waivers to states that cannot meet its requirements."
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WA's Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research is holding a Hike for Health in China to raise money for groundbreaking research at the institute.
Harry Perkins Institute has teamed up with Inspired Adventures, which gives people the opportunity to "push themselves to accomplish things greater than they ever thought possible" while helping charities.
The five-day challenge is part of a nine-day trip from May 16-24.
"On the Hike for Health, you'll travel through history to the very heart of China's ancient culture," organisers say.
For more details phone 1300 905 188 or visit Hike for Health.


In the past 6 days, I have lost 6 pounds, and I am just happy. I weighed myself today and I am down to 136 lbs. and I was like "wow" for I haven't reach that far. I can't help to brag about it to my friends and my folks.... A big grin from ear to ear.
Congrats!!!! I am on my own weight loss quest and know it is not easy.
It is very hard... it took me almost a year to lose this much.
Great job! It's so hard! Thanks for stopping by today and linking up!
Congrats! I know exactly what you are talking about. It is very hard to loose weight.
It is... I am just glad that I lose a little at a time.
Congrats! It's so easy to put it on, but oh so hard to take it back off!
Very true! I wish I could just eat and eat without gaining any weight.
Congrats! Not an easy thing to do.
How is your weight loss program going?


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To reach these landmark commitments, our brands have been working tirelessly to update packaging. Below we highlight some of the most recent and significant moments of progress from our brands in North America.
Dove recently announced that its iconic beauty bar single packs will be sold plastic-free starting next year. Dove will also start to launch new 100% recycled plastic (PCR) bottles where technically feasible by the end of 2019 across all ranges – Dove, Dove Men+Care, and Baby Dove.
By 2020, all Hellmann's Mayonnaise and Mayonnaise Dressing plastic bottles and jars sold in U.S. retail stores will be made from 100% recycled plastic materials. The recycled plastic packaging is rolling out now, beginning with Hellmann's Mayonnaise and Mayonnaise Dressing squeeze bottles and followed by Hellmann's jars by the end of 2019. Over 200 million Hellmann's bottles and jars will be converted.
Earlier this year, Ben & Jerry's committed to removing single-use plastics from its Scoop Shops, and the transition has been completed for straws and spoons. Plastic cups and lids are being addressed by the end of 2020.
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Love Beauty and Planet's bottles are made from 100% recycled plastic. And the brand has made a commitment to convert other components, such as caps, by 2021. The brand also recently launched its Clean Oceans edition, which is packaged in 100% recycled ocean-bound plastic.
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Founded on a mission of transforming the world into a healthy, sustainable and equitable place for the next seven generations, this brand has been incorporating recycled content into its packaging for years. One of its most recent innovations is an ultra-concentrated laundry detergent that uses 50 percent less water, 60 percent less plastic, and is 75 percent lighter than the standard detergent bottle.
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Ohio Court Of Appeals: Absolute Pollution Exclusion Bars Coverage For Workplace Coal-Tar Pitch Exposure Claims
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By: Sara Tilitz
On December 28, 2017, the Ohio Court of Appeals (Eighth District) held in GrafTech International, Ltd., et al. v. Pacific Employers Ins. Co., et al., No. 105258 that coverage for alleged injurious exposures to coal tar pitch was barred by a liability insurance policy's absolute pollution exclusion. Applying Ohio law, the court concluded that Pacific Employers had no duty to defend GrafTech or pay defense costs in connection with claims by dozens of workers at Alcoa smelting plants that they were exposed to hazardous substances in GrafTech products supplied to Alcoa as early as 1942.
The pollution exclusion at issue provides, in part, that
[t]his insurance does not apply to any injury, damage, expense, cost, loss, liability or legal obligation arising out of or in any way related to pollution, however caused. Pollution includes the actual, alleged or potential presence in or introduction into the environment of any substance if such substance has, or is alleged to have, the effect of making the environment impure, harmful, or dangerous.
"Environment" is defined to include "any air, land, structure or the air therein, watercourse or water, including underground water." The exclusion further stipulates that "[w]e have no duty to defend any suit arising out of or in any way related to pollution excluded by this endorsement."
"The alleged toxic exposure in this case occurred in an industrial setting that would be a prime example of a 'traditional' case of environmental pollution," the court said. It rejected GrafTech's argument based on Andersen v. Highland House Co., 93 Ohio St.3d 547 (2001) (carbon monoxide from malfunctioning residential heater not a "pollutant" unless specifically enumerated as such) that "localized" releases of pollution in part of a manufacturing plant fell outside the exclusion. "Nothing in the words used by the parties suggests that the 'air' inside a 'structure' was intended to make the pollution exclusion inapplicable to minimal, localized releases of pollutants into the air within a structure. . . . Nothing in the way the parties defined the word 'pollution' makes the pollution exclusion apply only to a release of pollutants in a structure that is so pervasive that it renders the air throughout the entire structure harmful or impure."
The court also dismissed GrafTech's suggestion that tort allegations in underlying worker complaints – essentially, that it failed to provide a safe product which in its normal use released toxic chemicals – stated a potentially covered claim and gave rise to a defense obligation. "These are allegations that GrafTech's products had the effect of making the environment impure, harmful, or dangerous. The pollution exclusion thus applies."
White and Williams represents Pacific Employers Insurance Company in this case.


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through a lace of equations.
everything that could be seen and touched.
I do not know if I found him.
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of things. That, and the hunger.