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Zambia silences critics with lawsuits, Web blocking
The charges leveled against a Zambian journalist suspected by authorities of being linked to the blocked news website Zambian Watchdog make for interesting reading.
By Sue Valentine/CPJ Africa Program Coordinator
The charges leveled against a Zambian journalist suspected by authorities of being linked to the blocked news website Zambian Watchdog make for interesting reading.
Cape Town, July 30, 2013--Zambian authorities should stop blocking access to critical news websites and halt their harassment of journalists accused of working with the websites, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today after reports emerged of widening government obstruction.
Cape Town, South Africa, July 17, 2013--Zambian authorities should stop their ongoing harassment of the Zambian Watchdog, a site that reports on alleged government corruption, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police arrested another journalist they accused of contributing to the site, and blocked domestic access to the site for the second time, according to the Watchdog's editor and news reports.
Do you believe the free flow of information must be protected? Sign the #RightToReport petition and demand that President Obama immediately:
1. Issue a presidential policy directive prohibiting the hacking and surveillance of journalists and media organizations.
2. Limit aggressive prosecutions that ensnare journalists and intimidate whistleblowers.
3. Prevent the harassment of journalists at the U.S. border.
Or click here to see the full petition, and join leading journalists like Christiane Amanpour, The Guardian's Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the AP Kathleen Carroll, and Arianna Huffington in signing on.

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Energy Star Industrial Hot & Cold Bottom Loading Water Dispenser
Description & Highlights
Primo Energy Star Industrial Hot & Cold Bottom Loading Water Dispenser - Black
Dispense your bottled water at home easily with the Primo Energy Star Industrial Hot & Cold Bottom Loading Water Dispenser (601000). Its triple spouts allow you to dispense cool. icy-cold, or piping hot water with the touch of a button and can accommodate three (3) or five (5) gallon water bottles. The 2.5 compressor based cooling system keeps the water perfectly chilled and the hot water is great to use for teas and other hot beverages whenever you want without the hassle of using the microwave. Made from stainless steel, both the hot and cold water tanks are built to last.
The convenient bottom loading design saves you the trouble of heavy lifting and guards against spills. Stability brackets keep the unit from tipping over and the child safety switch guards against unsupervised use. With a UL certification this water cooler is energy efficient, and the energy saver on/off switch keeps the unit from wasting energy when not in use. Other features include an LED nightlight, and indicator lights for on, cooling, heating and replace bottle. Have your bottled water readily available in your home with this easy to use and efficient water cooler.
Single Spout:Dispense either cool. icy-cold, or piping hot water at the touch of a button
Bottom Loading:Guard against spilling and avoid heavy lifting with the easy bottom loading design
Energy Efficient:To cut utility costs, this unit features an energy saver on/off switch to that energy will not be wasted when the cooler is not in use
- Model: 601000Primo Energy Star Industrial Hot & Cold Bottom Loading Water Dispenser
- Brand: Primo2.5 compressor cooling system
- Single spoutCompatible with 3 and 5 gallon bottles
- Powerful 2.5 CompressorChild safety latch
- Heavy Duty Dispenser For High Traffic OfficesStainless steel drip tray
- Energy saving switchSilver plated spout
- Stainless steel cold tanksInput voltage: 120 V/60 Hz
- UL certifiedWeight: 43 lbs
- Warranty: 1 yearDimensions: 41.3" H x 14.2" W x 12.2" D
- Height: 41.3"
- Width: 14.2"
- Depth: 12.2"


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Deyda Hydara, a friend and colleague murdered in impunity
I can still vividly recall how the news of Deyda Hydara's killing was relayed to me on the morning of December 17, 2004, after I returned from a trip to Zambia the previous night. Very early that morning, I called his childhood friend and partner at The Point, Pap Saine, who told me: "They shot him dead last night." I had to pinch myself to realize that I was not actually dreaming.


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By The Associated Press
JACKSON – Mississippi lawmakers never may have to debate payday loan interest rates again.
The state Senate gave final approval Friday to a bill that deletes the requirement that lawmakers periodically renew authorization for the loans. The bill, which passed 31-13, goes to Gov. Phil Bryant for his consideration.
At a payday lender, a consumer can get a short-term loan by writing a check that covers the amount borrowed, plus fees. State law gives consumers 30 days to repay loans, capping fees at $20 for every $100 borrowed.
Many consumer advocates attack payday loans for their high interest rates, saying they trap borrowers in a cycle of debt. Supporters of the bill say that no matter how distasteful, they're one of the few options for people to borrow small amounts of money.


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Web Stories
Workshop to address U.S. electricity markets, Oct. 10
Posted October 9, 2003; 01:41 p.m.
Leading energy experts will convene at Princeton Friday for a workshop aimed at addressing issues of risk and deregulation in the U.S. electricity markets.
The workshop, "Price Risk and the Future of the U.S. Electricity Markets," is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in 113 and 114 Friend Center. It is sponsored by the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and the Bendheim Center for Finance .
The keynote talk will be delivered by Vernon Smith, an economist from George Mason University and the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics. Three panel discussions will address issues of the structure of the electricity markets, energy trading and risk management, and capital investment. Further details about topics and panel members are available online .
The workshop will address problems of management, service disruptions, price fluctuations and changes in the regulatory environment that have beset the energy markets for the last two years. Its goal is to bring together policy makers, regulators, business representatives, consumer advocates and academicians to address these issues in an independent setting.
Contact: Lauren Robinson-Brown (609) 258-3601


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Big hacking weekend. Spent most of Saturday and Sunday working on OpenPrivacy... in one way or another.
Java is in need of a better component management framework. It is basically Component Oriented Programming so it is similar to XPCOM, COM, EJB, Avalon, etc. There are some Zen like differences that you only start to realize when you do a lot of Java stuff.
The system would be very thin and portable to any framework (Servlet, EJB, etc).
I came up with a basic set of initial requirements. Just soemthing I threw together.
- Talon???
- Talon should be able to use its own Components without causing holes in the system?????
- Cross platform, cross project, cross licensing
- Dual licensed BSD Style/GPL
- Thin factory/component mechanism for managing components.
- Pool/Singleton
- Question... what do I do about the interface??
- Initializes itself on request. Basically just a snap-in library that any application can use.
- Throw Exceptions if the object is not available
- Method to deliver properties to a component.
- XML component/object deployment mechanism.
- Serve up Component objects
- CompomentManager
- getInstance() releaseInstance( Component comp )
- If the object is a Singleton releaseInstance is redundant. It is necessary if it is a pool
- Support the ability to obtain an object by a Handle... Example... files, URLs, etc.
- Ship with some basic interfaces.
- Logger (Singleton) - BasicTextLogger - Log4JavaLoggerImpl
- PropertyManager - Implementations: - PropertyFileManager... properties backed by a file.
- ObjectPool
// get the number of objects available for use. - getFreeInstanceCount()
// total number of objects being used elsewhere... - getUsedInstanceCount()
// get the maximum number of objects to serve. - getMaxInstanceCount()
- Need to have a ComponentHandle object so that we have tight bindings between properties and handles.
- ComponentNotAvailableException if the Factory can not serve this.
Also spent more time thinking about how we are going to handle input into a Reputation Server... asumming it is a black box. Advogato of course is one of the examples. It would be a Reputation Calculation Engine and its integration within the system would be provided by Sierra.
Sierra is coming along nicely. Hopefully we will be able to officially announce something soon.
Also spent a few hours moving Arrowhead over into the Sourceforge CVS. Ant Unit Tests are now in Sierra and everything is running nice. Still have a lot of features I want to move over from Jetspeed though.... but no time.


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Creating a Recycled Robot Giant - Thursday, 28 March 2013
Children are being invited to help create a giant 7ft robot from 1,500 pieces of card as part of a recycling project at Britain's oldest public museum.
The Royal Armouries in Leeds is running the summer holiday event as part of its commitment to community and partnership working, in conjunction with not –for-profit, low-carbon expert company, CO2Sense, and greetings card manufacturers, Hallmark.
In a week-long project, from Monday, August 13, to Friday, August 17, children will be invited to colour in sections of card, as museum technicians build a giant robot in The Dojo, in the Oriental Gallery.
Youngsters can also design their own robot on paper and take part in a competition to name the robotic giant.
Downstairs, in the museum's Hall of Steel, CO2Sense will stage an exhibition stand, showing various products made from recycled material, close to a replica of one of the most famous movie robots of all – Iron Man – also currently on display.
CO2Sense helps businesses and public-sector organisations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions and their costs. They work with some of the largest companies in the world to develop projects that will make huge savings in carbon emissions. For more details, visit www.co2sense.co.uk
Royal Armouries Museum director Peter Armstrong said, "We're delighted to be working with CO2Sense in this way and the project will hopefully encourage children to become more environmentally conscious and aware of the world in which they live."
The activity runs from 10am to 5pm daily, Monday to Friday – museum admission is free.
For more information and the latest news about the Royal Armouries:
Royal Armouries website
Royal Armouries newsletter
Follow us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Notes to editors
- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
- Admission to the museum is free. However, there may be a small charge for some special events.
- Open all year daily, 10am-5pm. Closed 24-25 December
- Information Line: 0113 220 1999
- Website: www.royalarmouries.org
- The Royal Armouries Museum should not be confused with Royal Armouries International plc, the private sector corporate hospitality business.
Download the PDF press release.


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Web Stories
Forum planned on spending school tax dollars
Posted January 30, 2009; 08:35 p.m.
A forum titled "The 'E' in Thorough and Efficient: How Can We Ensure Efficiency in Spending School Tax Dollars?" is set for 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in Robertson Hall.
The event is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs' Policy Institute for the Region and the New Jersey School Boards Association.
In the first morning session, experts will discuss the wisdom and feasibility of the consolidation of school districts and address issues such as economy of scale, organizational efficiency, sharing of services, provision of special services and transportation.
The second morning panel of experts will discuss relationships between efficiency measures and school formulae, consider whether or not a school formula can guarantee efficiency, analyze the methods of measuring a school district's efficiency and debate the cost efficiency of school programs.
Paul Tractenberg, the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor and Alfred C. Clapp Distinguished Public Service Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law in Newark, will deliver the morning keynote address. Hugh Price, the Weinberg/Sachs Visiting Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School and former president of the National Urban League, will deliver the luncheon address.
The forum will conclude with an afternoon panel discussion that focuses on performance accountability and service delivery. Experts will explore the current thinking related to accountability and performance to include how to best measure performance of the student, the teaching team and the school.
The forum is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, visit the Policy Institute for the Region website. For more information, contact Georgette Harrison at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I shall answer that with this from IJG's rancor pit thread.Originally Posted by Banthaholic
You may feel free to insert an " " at the end of the "offending" sentence if you deem it necessary.
I shall answer that with this from IJG's rancor pit thread.Originally Posted by Banthaholic
You may feel free to insert an " " at the end of the "offending" sentence if you deem it necessary.
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!
There are plenty of fireworks laws in Washington. In Bellingham, you can only set them off between 9am and midnight on July 4. I think outside the city, where I used to live with my parents, the time was longer. Of course, someone not far from me was setting some off after midnight last night. If you are on the Indian Reservation, you can set off the stuff that they sell there, like the bottle rockets and other explosive stuff.Originally Posted by plasticfetish
Bellingham has a nice fireworks display on the bay at 10:30 on the 4th. I walked/jogged downtown the last two years to watch it, but passed this year. I considered taking my ladder out of the garage to see if I could see them if I climbed up it. I'm not sure if this hill blocks the line of sight or not.
I think you can set off fireworks on New Year's Eve as well. There is usually a fireworks display at Civic Field (the main track and football field in town) then, which I can see fine from my house. That is an even shorter walk if I want to get closer to them.
I don't know about any regulations in the rest of the state. I don't know how much they enforce the restrictions either. Maybe if someone called and reported those after midnight fireworks, then something would be done.
I got to see some fireworks on Sunday night at a family picnic and that was really good, had to work last night until 11:30 and just saw the ones we aired on our television station.
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
Here in Illinois, we are only allowed stuff that makes smoke, very boring. The fireworks displays put on by the cities are pretty nice, but as far as using your own it's a big no no. You can drive to Wisconsin or Indiana to purchase illegal fireworks, well illegal here in Illinois. I've even heard radio advertisments prompting people from Illinois to come across the border to buy all sorts of fun explosive fireworks. I'm not sure what would happen if you were caught smuggling the stuff back into Illinois, but I'm sure there would be a large ticket, plus confescation of said fireworks.
2015 RFL Thank You to, TeeEye7 & Slicker, JediTricks, Tycho, El Chuxter, and Darth Jax!!!!
Be an organ donor, save lives!
Meanwhile, all the stoners think this means that marijuana is legal on the 4th.Originally Posted by bobafrett
Hah! I love that people down here are telling me that it's anarchy up there. I was (and am) still amazed by the fireworks for sale here though. Huge tents on every corner selling them... and it's such a combustible place with all the trees. I suppose it's wet enough though.Originally Posted by Mad Slanted Powers
There was an article in my local paper the other day and it said anything that blows up or comes off the ground is illegal. Which pretty much eliminates anything and everything other then snakes.
We had some great smoke bombs this year actually, the red, blue, and green smoke all looked tremendous (the yellow looked decent, the 2 purples looked like regular smoke). Those snakes leave a pretty permanent scorch mark in the ground, it's cool. Most of the safe & sane fireworks we had didn't blow up or fire off the ground, they shot sparks and crackles and made noise.Originally Posted by JimJamBonds
One of the best new s&s ones this year did blow up though, the Crazy Eyeball, a mini-spinner that spun a few times (or didn't spin at all sometimes) then its plastic eyeball center glowed momentarily before it blew up in a shower of crackle sparks - very small, but surprisingly entertaining.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
When I was younger (many a year ago) my freids and I would light smoke bombs and through them onto the neighbors roof after it rained and it would leave pretty colored patterns on the rooftop.
2015 RFL Thank You to, TeeEye7 & Slicker, JediTricks, Tycho, El Chuxter, and Darth Jax!!!!
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Hi to the whole universe of Star Wars.
I think i have found a place for me to let off steam from a yet another tiring day!!
To kick things off, i would like to share with fellow collectors my collection. I'm a avid collector of Japanese and US toys and that is the reason why i created a East and West Toy Haven within my home.
For Japanese collection, i have tried to streamline into Ultramans and Kamen Riders, but often get myself into trouble by dabbling into other Jap characters.
I love Marvel Heroes but due to space constraint, i can only devoted half of my Toy Room into a 12" Star Wars Pod. I have almost all the 12" available except Defense of Naboo and Masterpiece Aurra Sing.
Please do write emails to me at firstname.lastname@example.com and attached pictures of your best figures/toycollection.
I would certainly love to store them and "drool" over the pictures whenever the day hits rock bottom
BTW, i have uploaded many poorly taken digipixs of my whole collection, some toys i'm clearing at the present moment and shots of my house designed by our local Interior Archi Firm StudioFishmongers! Enjoy


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Achebe, Chinua 1930–
See also Chinua Achebe Criticism (Volume 1), and Volumes 3, 5, 7, 26, 127.
Achebe, a Nigerian-born novelist, poet, short story writer, and author of children's books, is considered one of the finest contemporary African writers. In his works Achebe explores traditional tribal values and the cataclysmic cultural changes invoked through the influence of European colonization. Achebe is recognized as a consummate craftsman for his innovative use of language, notably his use of traditional Ibo proverbs given in literal English translation, evoking the clash between the two cultures.
Arthur Ravenscroft
[Things Fall Apart] is a short and extraordinarily close-knit novel which in fictional terms creates the way of life of an Ibo village community when white missionaries and officials were first penetrating Eastern Nigeria. The highly selective details with which Achebe represents the seasonal festivals and ceremonies, the religion, social customs, and political structure of an Ibo village create the vivid impression of a complex, self-sufficient culture seemingly able to deal in traditional ways with any challenge that nature and human experience might fling at it…. [The] greatest strength of Things Fall Apart is the tragic 'objectivity' with which Achebe handles a dual theme.
There are two main, closely intertwined tragedies—the personal tragedy of Okonkwo, 'one of the greatest men in Umuofia', and the public tragedy of the eclipse of one culture by another. (pp. 8-9)
Things Fall Apart is impressive for the wide range of what it so pithily covers, for the African flavour of scene and language, but above all for the way in which Achebe makes that language the instrument for analyzing tragic experience and profound human issues of very much more than local Nigerian significance….
Superficially No Longer at Ease seems merely to carry the themes of [Things Fall Apart] into the 1950s, but the differences of approach and treatment should warn against pressing the...
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Gerald Moore
[Achebe] has recreated for us a way of life which has almost disappeared, and has done so with understanding, with justice and with realism….
Achebe's Things Fall Apart, which appeared in 1958, was the first West African novel in English which could be applauded without reserve. (p. 58)
[Things Fall Apart] is an extremely well-constructed short novel, fully equal to its theme and written with confidence and precision. Achebe's theme is suggested in the Yeatsian title, but although he sees the disintegration of Ibo society as a communal and personal tragedy for those who lived through it, this does not in any way obscure his objectivity in describing that society as it was. (pp. 58-9)
Achebe's brief, almost laconic style, his refusal to justify, explain or condemn, are responsible for a good deal of the book's success. The novelist presents to us a picture of traditional Ibo life as just as he can make it. The final judgement of that life, as of the life which replaced it, is left to us. Only Achebe insists that we should see it as a life actually lived by plausible men and women before we dismiss it, with the usual shrug, as nothing but ignorance, darkness and death. His people win, and deservedly win, our full respect as individuals whose life had dignity, significance and positive values. (p. 59)
In dealing with Iboland sixty or more years ago [as he did in...
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R. Angogo
In his two books, Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, Achebe uses a language I would like to refer to as 'Ibo in English'. Both these books share a rural side setting. They describe a relationship between society and individual. Achebe shows us how important communal life in Ibo was. We are presented with people who when supported by the society continue to live profitable and progressive lives, yet when they act as individuals, they meet with dead ends.
To show that the situation he is describing needs more than one person, Achebe in his two novels employs the style of conversation, which would be termed linguistically as casual-register. The casuality is seen through use of vocabulary that would be well known and recognised by everyone in the Ibo society. The imagery is local. (p. 2)
The adoption of casual conversational style gives the Oral literature taste, to Achebe's work. As a matter of fact, Achebe is recording the History of the Ibo. A lot of values found in the two novels mentioned above cannot be found in the society today….
Sometimes Achebe uses Ibo words with English sentences. Such form of style reminds us again and again that we are reading an Ibo story and that the Ibo vocabulary is not limited in explaining the Ibo Culture. (p. 3)
The ability to shape and mould English to suit character and event and yet still give the impression of an African story is one of the greatest of Achebe's achievements. It puts into the reader a kind of emotive effect, an interest, and a thirst which so to say awakens the reader. (pp. 3-4)
Achebe integrates character and incident through imagery that is tropical. Okonkwo's character is compared to roaring thunder; flamer of fire; as contrasted to Unoka the weakling who dies through ailing and Nwoye who is compared to 'Cold Ash', and a bowl of foo foo could throw him down. The positive abilities of Okonkwo show us the importance the Ibo attached to physical strength. It is through the use of proverb and similes that Achebe develops his theme on this subject. (p. 4)
Arrow of God has taken the same 'Ibo in English' dialogue-like style [as Things Fall Apart]. In fact Achebe's wise invention of the [District Commissioner's] book gives a setting for Arrow of God; because that is when the British Government has taken root in Nigeria and the D.C.'s book is being used for guidance in administration. It can be noted Achebe attaches a lot of importance to dialogue when he is representing a traditional Ibo society. Where dialogue fails, the means of communication is cut and destruction follows. Ezeulu's failure can be...
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Philip Rogers
In Chinua Achebe's view, the African writer of our time must be accountable to his society…. To Achebe, it is 'simply madness' to think of art as pure and autonomous, happening by itself in an aesthetic void…. Each of Achebe's four novels has had an obvious (but never obtrusive) purpose. Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God both aim to show that the African past 'with all its imperfections—was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans, acting on God's behalf, delivered [Africans]'. The public problems of bribery and the osu caste are examined in No Longer at Ease; A Man of the People, his most purposeful novel, was written with the deliberate aim of providing 'a serious warning to the Nigerian people' about corruption in government and the cynicism of the masses…. Written during and shortly after the Nigerian Civil War, the poems [of Beware, Soul-Brother] are centrally concerned with the regeneration of belief after the blight of war…. In 'Beware, Soul-Brother' and implicitly throughout the collection he identifies the enemies of the public spirit and admonishes his readers to beware. And in the more personal poems of the collection, which dramatize the rebirth in the poet himself of hope for love, new life, and order, Achebe creates a representative spokesman, an exemplary persona whose experience realizes the goal Achebe seeks for his society as a whole, 'the regeneration of its deepest aspirations'. (pp. 1-2)
Achebe's recovery of spirit is sustained more through dessicating irony and indignation than a positive faith, and in the sequential ordering of the poems, is achieved only after an ordeal of horror, disgust, and cynicism.
The poems are arranged so as to suggest a chronological unfolding of perceptions, beginning with 'The First Shot' of the revolution…. The poem sharply contrasts the human time of historical 'first shots' with the mechanical time of real bullets…. Achebe foresees the moment when it will lodge 'more firmly than the greater noises ahead' (real bullets) 'in the forehead of memory', where of course, it will resume the pace of human 'striding' in the 'nervous suburb' of the mind. The contrast of historical and mechanical forces announces a central concern of these poems, exploring the kinship of things human and inhuman.
'Air Raid' further defines the contrasting modes of time seen in 'The First Shot'. 'A man crossing the road / to greet a friend / is much too slow'. 'His friend [is] cut in halves' by the 'bird of death' from the 'evil forest' of technology. The poem's juxtapositions are immediately and simply effective: the potential unity of two men coming together, crossing the road that separates all men, is set off against abrupt, literal division as the friend is cut in half; the flying shadow from technology's evil forest eclipses the full light of noon; human slowness is contrasted with the dreadful quickness of mechanism. (p. 2)
'Refugee Mother and Child' and 'Christmas in Biafra' are longer, more ambitious poems that attempt to evoke pathos through direct description of civilian casualties—mothers and starving children…. Although 'Refugee Mother and Child' and 'Christmas in Biafra' are perhaps the least successful poems in the collection, they are nonetheless important to its central themes…. Seen against the plaster immortality of the rosy-cheeked Jesus, the perishing child becomes 'a miracle of its own kind': his mortality emphasizes the vital humanity of his mother's devotion. The spectacle arouses in...
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Sola Soile
[In] Things Fall Apart the society is forced to give way to an inevitable change because of its violent collision with an alien institution. In Arrow of God, however, we have a more explosive situation of a society cleaving apart largely from its own internal strain. The latter novel illustrates the classic situation of a house divided against itself which, with or without any assistance from an external force, must collapse. To be sure the destructive colonial forces that we encounter in the first novel are still very much alive and thriving, but they now stand on the periphery of the doomed society, waiting on the wing to swoop down, like vultures, the moment the society commits harakiri. In...
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Take the Sprains and Strains Quiz
Sprain? Strain? The terms for these injuries sound so similar, what's the difference? Find out by taking this quiz, based on information from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
1. If you have a sprain, it means you've injured a ligament.
2. In a strain, a muscle or tendon is involved.
3. The most common site for a sprain is the wrist.
4. A typical sprain occurs when a person missteps and lands on the side of the foot.
5. One symptom of a sprain may be a popping sound from the affected joint when the injury occurs.
6. You should see your health care provider for a sprain if you cannot move or put weight on the injured joint.
7. The back is a common site for strains.
8. A muscle spasm can be a symptom of a strain.
9. You should treat a sprain or strain by putting moist heat on it right away.
10. Wearing shoes that fit properly is one way to prevent a sprain or strain.


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What does ssh -t do?
Using the
-t option allocates a pseudo-terminal for
ssh. This comes in handy when you want to "double
Let's say you can reach the host bastion and bastion can reach internal but you can't reach internal. No problem, right? You can log into internal like this:
ssh bastion ssh internal
No joy: "Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal."
Now try that again with -t...
ssh -t bastion ssh internal
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Why Did Jodon Romero Kill Himself On Live Television?
Last September, a car chase through Arizona turned from afternoon diversion to tragedy to referendum on media ethics, but lost in the noise was any sense of who was on the run or why. This is the story behind the spectacle.
Denny's, 75th Avenue and Interstate 10, Phoenix, about 10:45 a.m.
No one knows for sure how long Jodon Romero had been pacing outside that Phoenix Denny's. He doesn't attract much attention — this 5-foot-6, 33-year-old man in a black Raiders jersey. But then again, his .45-caliber Glock is hidden away in his waistband.
It's an unremarkable Friday, hot and swollen with the last gulps of summer. This appears to be Romero's second carjacking attempt of the day — his first try, at an apartment complex three blocks away, ended with the driver speeding off, the back of his car dented from Romero flinging a still-unidentified object at it.
This time will be different. Romero will pick two younger men to follow. He'll wait for them to climb into their maroon Dodge Caliber and then he'll get in the backseat with them. He'll pull out his gun and point it at their heads and they will run.
By the time he'd stepped off the sidewalk, Romero may well have known how this story would end. But he couldn't have known there would be hundreds of thousands of people watching it.
When Jodon Romero was 16, he watched his older brother die. It was 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 1, 1995. A few dozen people were hanging out in the parking lot of a Chevron Station on Tucson's South Side. Romero was there with his 21-year-old brother, Jason. A fight broke out, and Jason pushed his girlfriend out of the way. She ran toward his car while shots fired behind her. She later said Jason caught the bullet for Jodon.
Four others were hurt that night — three who survived gunshot wounds and one who was severely beaten. The Pima County Attorney's Office offered $2,500 for any information on those responsible, but the only lead came from a witness who saw a gray Cadillac with California plates leaving the scene after the shooting. Jason's killer was never identified.
"He blamed himself," says Nature Romero, Jodon's younger sister. She was 12 when Jason died. "My mom used to tell me Jodon's like a big marshmallow. He's tough on the outside, but really soft. He was more gentle than me. He took things so much to heart."
One year after his brother's death, Romero's father died of prostate cancer. Three years after that, when Romero was 20, his mother and her boyfriend were murdered in a home invasion in Phoenix — another unsolved crime.
Between his parents' deaths, Romero was caught with weed. He was charged with one count of possessing marijuana and one count of possessing drug paraphernalia, both felonies in Arizona. The first charge was dropped when he pled guilty to the second. His sentence was two years of probation.
Romero's record stayed relatively clean for the next decade. He started having kids — three sons — with one longtime girlfriend. He worked at an auto body shop and cooked big family dinners, traditional Valley Mexican plates.
"He cooked better than his girlfriends," Nature says. "And he used to love to always be with the kids. Playing basketball, doing barbecues. Oh my god, the barbecues. Randomly he would call me and say, 'Hey, mija, do you wanna grill? We'll throw some hamburgers and hot dogs on?' And we would laugh, like, 'Again?'"
Romero racked up two more marijuana violations — one in 2008 and one in 2010 — landing him, again, with probation. But in late 2009, he was caught owning a gun. As a felon, he was prohibited from carrying deadly weapons. This time, he was going to jail.Friday, Sept. 28
Denny's, 10:54 a.m.
Misael Avalos Hernandez turns around to look at the sweaty, nervous-looking man in the backseat. His friend is already outside the car, yelling at Hernandez to come on.
"Leave the keys," Romero says, pointing his gun at Hernandez's head. The 21-year-old slides out and runs back toward the restaurant. Inside, he asks the hostess to call 911.
Romero climbs into the driver's seat but hesitates before starting the car. Maybe he can't, or maybe he decides that he won't, or maybe he deliberately doesn't, holding off until he knows the 911 call has been made. It isn't until Hernandez comes back outside that Romero finally drives away.
A police officer arrives to take Hernandez's story. While he's running the boys' IDs, a call comes over the radio. The Caliber has been spotted about a mile away.
Nature Romero is sitting on her couch, facing me, her daughter fussing in her lap. It's March 2013. Keeping Up With The Kardashians is muted on her TV. The furniture is cozy and clean, various shades of wholesale brown. Family photos are everywhere: lining the walls, upright on end tables, pinned down with magnets on the refrigerator. The 6-year-old girl tunes out, fiddling with her mother's hands, while we talk about murder and barbecues.
After Nature's parents died, it was just her and Jodon — no more siblings, no extended family. They were the survivors.
Romero's two-year, six-month prison sentence began at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson on April 23, 2010. He was 30.
"I was the only one who went to see him," Nature says. "He told me, 'I don't know how people do it.' He said, 'I can't do it.' He wasn't made for that. Some people adapt to it. He never did. He could never get past that."
Nature plays me a video that Jodon recorded for his kids while he was in prison. He's sitting in a trailer, wearing his orange jumpsuit, reading Dr. Seuss.
Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored, there are games to be won.
And the magical things you can do with that ball
Will make you the winning-est winner of all.
Fame! You'll be famous as famous can be,
With the whole wide world watching you win on TV.
He reads slowly, bobbing his head along with the rhyme, barely looking up. But when he does, his eyes are soft.
I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too.
Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
All Alone! Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot.
"I love you kids. Just a little somethin', you know. Your dad was a little nervous. I don't like being in front of cameras. But ayyyyy," — a shy smile turns into a sloppy one — "love you guys. Sleep good. If you guys get lonely, put this on. Think I'll be comin' home real soon."
In prison, Romero worked as a kitchen helper, janitor, and groundskeeper. He had about a dozen disciplinary infractions, mostly minor disorderly conduct violations (horseplay, generally), though he was reprimanded once for drugs and once for tattooing. He was released on supervised parole on June 7, 2012, four months before his sentence ended. He was determined not to go back.
"We didn't have no family. The only family support he had was me," says Nature, staring past me at the empty air in her living room. "I used to visit him with my children and my nephews, and he just didn't want that life for any of us."Friday, Sept. 28
43rd Avenue and Roosevelt Street, Phoenix, 11:07 a.m.
A small army of undercover and patrol vehicles forms behind Romero. He drives east for five miles, ignoring their sirens, eventually turning onto a two-way street parallel to the freeway. He twists through a complex of commercial warehouses and truck depots. There's a stoplight ahead.
Emeterio Medina, a 32-year-old Phoenix Police Reserve officer, is lingering behind Romero in his marked Impala, staying a half-mile back in case Romero decides to ditch the Caliber and run on foot. Medina stops for a moment behind another officer's Chevy Tahoe. The officer is pulling out his stop sticks, but Medina waves to him that spikes aren't authorized yet. On the radio, they hear that Romero has made a U-turn. He's heading back toward them.
Medina stays in his seat. The other officer takes cover behind his SUV. Romero swerves toward them, and Medina draws his gun, keeping it low and out of sight. Romero passes by slowly, hunching over with his window down. As soon as the officers are behind him, Romero sticks his gun out the window and fires. The bullet hits the driver's door of Medina's car.
Medina doesn't have a clear shot to fire back. Two minutes later, Romero is surging down the freeway, heading west.
The first time Romero met with a parole officer, he was told he wouldn't "last out here," Nature recalls. Statistically, the officer had a point. In a 2011 U.S. Department of Justice study, 32% of 532,500 parolees were reincarcerated within a year of being released.
"That killed his self-confidence," Nature says. Romero tried to go back to his life before prison — back to basketball and barbecues — but the late summer brought trouble. He was seeing a woman, the mother of his fourth child (who would soon become pregnant with his fifth).
"The two of them had a volatile relationship," Nature says. "He loved her. They couldn't really make it work, but for the sake of his little girls, he wanted to make it work."
They got into a fight one Thursday night at her mother's house, and the cops showed up — Romero was reportedly intoxicated and disorderly. An Arizona Department of Corrections parole manager instructed police to either arrest him or transport him to an ADC facility, "neither of which occurred," an ADC spokesman later said. Instead, Nature says, the officers told Romero to report to his parole office first thing Friday for an appointment he already had scheduled.
Romero brought Nature with him the next morning. He met with a supervising officer and admitted to fighting with his girlfriend. "He was ready," Nature says. "We hugged, we said bye. He was ready to go back to prison that day. His mind-set was there." The officer gave Romero some policies to comply with — go to counseling, do a urine test, avoid contact with the woman — but otherwise, he could go home.
"I was like, 'See? You were worried over nothing!'" Nature says.
They were back at Nature's house, getting ready to eat lunch, when she got a call from the supervising officer. There was a miscommunication between the officer — who apparently didn't know about Romero's police contact the night before — and the parole manager. Now they both wanted Romero back in the office.
"That's where everything went downhill. When I took him that morning, he was ready to go. But it's because they let him go. They told him everything was fine, they thought he was OK…" Nature trails off. "Of course his mind-set changed. He was relieved he wasn't going, and then they threw it on him."
He told his parole officer he'd come back by the end of the week, but he kept putting it off. On July 20, a warrant for Romero's arrest was issued. Six weeks later, on Labor Day weekend, Romero was pulled over, Nature says. He fled and escaped — an offense that would add years to his already guaranteed prison time. Within a few weeks, the U.S. Marshals showed up at Nature's door, looking for her brother.Friday, Sept. 28
Salome Road, Tonopah, 12:24 p.m.
Romero holds steady on the 10 for about an hour. The city becomes the suburbs and then the desert, speckled with rest stops and gas stations. He drives and drives, zigzagging past other cars at 90 mph toward the California border, and soon it seems like he's going to drive until he runs out of gas — the way a lot of car chases end.
But then he exits in Tonopah — not even a small town but a "census-designated place," home to 60 people, a few farms, and the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. Off the interstate, he barrels down roads that alternate between pavement and gravel without much warning, before finally turning onto a dirt path in a patchy field.
He rolls forward for 40 yards, then stumbles out of the car. Above him are two helicopters: one belonging to KSAZ, Phoenix's Fox affiliate, and one operated by the Phoenix Police Air Support Unit. From above, Officer Jeffrey Hughes records every move Romero makes.
"As he exited, he looked around, carrying something in his hand. He then leaned back into the vehicle manipulating something in his hand."
The driver's door is still open when Romero begins sprinting — arms flapping, pants drooping.
"He then ran a short distance before falling down in the dirt. [He] got up and walked southeast toward some tall bushes."
He pushes through the brush, finally stopping in a small patch of dirt. He shuffles from side to side.
"He then positioned himself in the direction of the officers that were approaching from the north."
He spreads his legs slightly, knees locking, as he fumbles with something in his hands. The white of his jersey is beaming, the sun beating down on his back.
Television stations didn't start routinely covering car chases from the sky until the 1970s, about a decade after the first news helicopter took flight. But the first major live police chase didn't air until 1992, when Los Angeles's KCOP famously broke in during a rerun of Matlock. A 22-year-old man suspected of murdering a hitchhiker was leading police on a 300-mile chase, and viewers were transfixed. When KCOP cut back to Matlock before the chase ended, station officials reportedly received hundreds of calls demanding they bring the chase coverage back. (They did.)
The man eventually ran out of gas and was shot during a standoff with police, right on TV. The Los Angeles Times called the footage a "marriage of technology and tragedy."
By the end of the 1990s, news choppers were ubiquitous — and the source of deep competition between networks, especially in Los Angeles, the car chase capital of the country. There are close to 1,000 pursuits in L.A. each year, roughly 250 of which require air support.
Robert Tur, the helicopter reporter who provided KCOP's aerial footage during that historic '92 chase, estimates that "7 or 8%" of the 230 car chases he's covered in L.A. have ended in death.
"Almost because of your bird's-eye view, you can tell the future. You can see the traffic. There have been numerous incidents where I've seen an accident about to happen," says Tur, who retired in 2000 after 10,000 hours of flight. "It's despair. I hate seeing it. It's a terrible feeling to see what's coming."
Tur calls himself the father of modern news helicopters, and for good reason. In 1992, he captured footage of Reginald Denny being brutally beaten during the L.A. riots. In 1994, he offered the first live shot of O.J. Simpson fleeing police in his white Bronco, perhaps the most famous car chase of all time. Both segments were hugely popular among viewers, and newsrooms allocated their resources accordingly.
"What the news helicopter did was give us real insight into what was really going on," Tur says. "People got to see things that they never saw before." But more live chopper coverage also meant more opportunity to inadvertently broadcast graphic images.
In 1998, 40-year-old Daniel Jones parked his truck on a Los Angeles freeway, fired several gunshots into the air, and unfurled a banner that read "HMOs are in it for the money!! Live free, love safe or die." He ignited a Molotov cocktail, setting his truck and himself and his dog on fire, and eventually put a gun underneath his chin. Cameras rolled throughout the entire bizarre episode. This time, the Times called it a "quintessentially Los Angeles story," complete with "guns, traffic jams, cellular phones, swarms of news helicopters, desperate self-promotion — and a sudden, tragic, cinematic conclusion."
If L.A. is an incubator for dramatic car chases, Phoenix is more of a swarming petri dish. The two cities have similar highway systems and commuter cultures, and Phoenix once had more motor vehicle thefts than any other city in the country — though police have seen a decline over the last few years.
On the first day I was supposed to meet Nature in Phoenix, I got stuck on the freeway, traffic barely moving for nearly an hour. A few miles away, two men and a teenage girl were fleeing police in a stolen yellow Honda Civic Coupe. They would lead authorities on a 20-mile chase before eventually rolling off the road into a desert embankment. They walked away in handcuffs.
Friday, Sept. 28
Fox News Headquarters, New York, 12:26 p.m. (3:26 ET)
Megyn Kelly's America Live had been the first national program to broadcast Romero's chase, just before 3 p.m. ET. Trace Gallagher narrated as Kelly chirped in with her daytime-news deadpan: "Somebody carjacked a Dodge Caliber?" Minutes later, Live transitioned to Studio B. "Shepard's up next," Kelly said. "Shepard. Car chase. You know you should stay tuned."
Over the next 30 minutes, the signal goes in and out, snapping viewers between a black screen, footage from minutes ago, and live pictures of the Caliber darting through farmland. The local Fox affiliate ends its coverage with its noon show. The national Fox News broadcast goes on.
"Look at this," Shepard Smith says. "Dingbat here has gotten off the freeway… This guy is right smack-dab in the middle of nothingness… Maybe he's a farmer in his day job. Maybe he's just a part-time shoot-at-cops suspect…"
The signal continues to falter, though it's steady by the time Romero turns onto that last dirt road.
"Maybe this is home," Smith says. "You never know. Maybe he's taking the carjacked victim to the victim's house."
There is no victim, and there are no houses even remotely within sight. But narrating car chases is Smith's specialty. He knows the vocabulary. He knows how to improvise. He knows when to make it light and fun, and when to make it intense and frightening.
"Now this scares me. What are you doing out in the middle of nowhere, getting out of the car? Uh. I'm just not sure about this. He's getting things out of the vehicle, clearly. It doesn't appear that there's anyone else with him. Well, you know, you wait for the end of these things and then you worry about how they may end. There's nobody else around him. Um, this makes me a little nervous, I gotta tell ya. A little nervous, I gotta tell ya."
"I'm just not really sure," Smith continues, "but he is looking kind of erratic, isn't he? Um. I don't know. No. And. Look at this. He's just running. Oh my. Well, it looks like he's a little disoriented or something. It's always possible guy could be on something. Um."
There's a sudden deep gasp — loud enough to be picked up by Smith's mic, but muffled, as if whoever made the noise tried to contain it with his hands.
"Oh — get off, get off, get off, get off, get off, get off, get off, get off, get off it. Get off it! Get off it! Get off it!"
When I tell Robert Tur about Romero's live TV suicide — about Fox's failure to use its five-second delay, or even "go wide" with the chopper camera, effectively blurring out the grisly moment — I have to hold the phone back from my ear.
"Why should they cut away? I'm in the news business! We produce news stories, and this belief that the news media is there to censor is ridiculous," says Tur, who also hosted a MSNBC show called Why They Run in 2007. "If you believe that the pursuit is newsworthy, you have an obligation to show what happened. Period."
It's a controversial opinion — one that Tur may have had more support for 10 or 20 years ago, when live footage was truly live. But now there's YouTube and technology that allows you to quickly rip footage off your television and put it onto YouTube. "Live" can live forever online, and that makes the ethics of covering car chases a lot more confusing.
Around 2002, Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute coauthored guidelines for broadcast journalists to consider before airing live car chases. They're meant to ensure that TV stations show police pursuits for their news value — not for their entertainment value. They include questions like, "Beyond competitive factors, what are your motivations for going live?" and "Are you prepared to air the worst possible outcome that could result from this unfolding story (such as, a person killing himself or someone during live coverage)? What outcomes are you not willing to air?"
Ten years later, Tompkins stands by his guidelines, particularly in light of technological developments like YouTube. "Imagine for a minute that that's your loved one or someone that you care about [being chased]," he says. "It seems doubly damaging that it could be preserved for someone else's leisure viewing."
Tompkins says he isn't opposed to all media coverage of car chases, but he thinks there's little defense for airing them live on national broadcasts. "Reasons for showing it locally are very different than reasons for showing it nationally," he says. "In a rural area, a chase can have real newsworthiness. It's a story of significant local relevance."
After a commercial break, Shepard Smith returned that Friday afternoon with a somber apology: "Well, some 'splainin to do … We really messed up. We're all very sorry. That didn't belong on TV. We took every precaution we knew how to take to keep that from being on TV. And I personally apologize to you that that happened."
Later that day, Michael Clemente, executive vice president of news editorial at Fox, issued a statement as well. "We took every precaution to avoid any such incident by putting the helicopter pictures on a five-second delay," he said. "Unfortunately, this mistake was the result of a severe human error, and we apologize for what the viewers ultimately saw on the screen."Friday, Sept. 28
499th Avenue and Courthouse Road, Tonopah, Arizona, 12:31 p.m.
It's over in three seconds. When the police arrive, Romero is facedown in a pool of blood, hands tucked under his body near his waist, along with his gun. Three officers stand by guardedly, trying to determine if he's still alive.
A fourth officer arrives and rolls Romero over. A faint heartbeat is detected, so the officer begins chest compressions. Two others relieve him, continuing CPR and strapping an oxygen mask to his face. When the Harquahala Valley Fire Department arrives, Romero still isn't responding. Soon he has no pulse at all.
There aren't any hospitals for miles, so a doctor determines time of death over the phone: 1:14 p.m.
Testimonies are recorded, briefings are given, inventory is taken. The first responders had cut through Romero's clothes — through his Tim Brown jersey and his black Dickies with the white bandanna tied through the belt loop. In his right pocket, an officer finds a plastic bag of marijuana — about four grams — and a disposable lighter. In the other, a gram of crack cocaine and a live round of ammo.
Five hours later, as the sun sets, a medical examiner removes the body.
The story could have ended there. And maybe, if it had happened during Tur's tenure in the '90s, it would have. But Studio B's viewers weren't the only people following the chase. Dozens on Twitter — reporters, editors, a community of national news breakers and consumers — were broadcasting it too. It was a slow news day.
There had already been another car chase that morning. A pursuit developed in Los Angeles around 8:30 a.m. local time — 11:30 a.m. on the East Coast — and ended half an hour later with the peaceful arrest of two carjacking suspects. BuzzFeed's Mike Hayes was among the first to tweet a link to the chase's live feed. Twenty minutes later, a Bloomberg editor tweeted, "The feeling you get when you come back to your desk with lunch and a car chase is on must be what it feels like to win the lottery." Five retweets. This is Twitter on a late summer Friday.
Fox News Channel ignored repeated requests to participate in this story. But if you want to know the company's philosophy on police pursuits, just ask its anchors.
"Car chases are like potato chips," Red Eye host Greg Gutfeld said in 2011. "They're loud and crunchy, and once you start, you can't get enough."
When the gunshot fired and Romero fell to the ground, there was a half-second of silence. Then, an eruption.
At that same moment, in a suburb 2,500 miles away from Studio B, the sister of "THAT CAR CHASE GUY" was watching too.
Friday, Sept. 28.
A cul-de-sac in west Phoenix, Arizona, 10:30 a.m.
Nature's phone glows with a text from Jodon: "Thanks for everything."
Earlier that morning, she was getting her kids ready for school when the mother of Jodon's children called, saying she couldn't get a hold of him. Neither, it turned out, could Nature.
She was concerned; Jodon seemed unhappy lately, running and hiding from an arrest that seemed inevitable. Finally, he called her back. They spoke for a few minutes, but Nature still felt uneasy. She had woken at two that morning with an eerie, queasy feeling, and it hadn't left her yet.
About an hour later, she turns on the TV, flipping through channels before landing on Fox. A man is fleeing police after stealing a car from a Denny's. It happened less than a mile from Jodon's house.
She waits a few minutes, then dials the non-emergency police line: "I have reason to believe that's my brother."
It's agony. She feels gutted, hope drained, as she waits for a detective to call her back. Miles away, Jodon zooms past cars and weaves through lanes — but Nature doesn't see a car chase. She sees a man — her brother — deliberately orchestrating something. Stealing some kid's car, even though he had a nicer, faster truck at home; shooting at the door of a police car, even though officers are clearly within his aim. She sees a man purposefully backing himself so far into a corner that it seems like he has no other option.
Nature looks at the last text from Jodon. He was thanking her, again, and telling her that no one else ever loved him like she did.
There are dozens of reasons Nature feels sad and angry and confused about her brother's death, but one trumps the rest: "On the news, they publicized that he was a violent offender and he went to jail for violent crimes, and it was never nothing like that," she says. "He wasn't a violent person at all. He was just like a genuinely good person."
"It's one thing to lose somebody under those circumstances," she continues. "But then when you're grieving and going through that, to have to see it all over the internet, it's unspeakable."
Over the last 18 years, Nature's family has shrunk from five to one. Now she's approaching 30, with two children and a solid job as a nursing assistant, but her home is full of urns. She shows me Jodon's, on a shelf in her dining room, next to a photo of him and a small pile of Jolly Ranchers — his favorite. She answers all of my questions openly, often through tears. But when she asks me a question — "Did you watch the chase?" — I stumble.
I was born and raised in Phoenix, but I was sitting at my desk in New York when I saw the first tweets about a car chase in Arizona. I began tuning in while Romero was still on the westbound I-10 — a stretch of highway I've spent an ungainly amount of my life driving. I watched him swiftly switch lanes and narrowly pass semi-trucks on the shoulder, and I thought of every time I'd seen a frustrated driver pull the same hasty moves on that long, dull desert road (albeit without a dozen patrol cars following them). Yes, I watched the chase. Yes, I saw its awful conclusion.
But I also reported on it. I wrote about Fox's mistake, and uploaded a video of Fox's mistake, and helped make Fox's mistake go viral. How do you tell a grieving sister that? Because of a "severe human error," thousands watched her brother die in real time, but because of you, hundreds of thousands watched it later?
You tell her the truth. And then you listen as she tells you about her brother — about all the details that weren't on the news that day. About his personality (always laughing), his hobbies (remodeling his house), his five children (the oldest is 15, the youngest was born in March), and his funeral. (A formal church ceremony, then a more casual memorial. They played Tupac.)
Car chases can be thrilling to follow, but they're often consumed with little context. When we watch a chase, we never really know the full details of how or why it began. Shepard Smith didn't know the man he called a "dingbat" had no history of violent crimes. The scores of people watching the chase didn't know Romero was a father of four with a baby on the way. I didn't know Romero had lost all but one of his relatives by the time he was 21.
Before I leave her house, I ask Nature what she would say to the people responsible for airing — and sharing — her brother's death, if they were, say, sitting cross-legged on her couch right now.
"They can never know the kind of impact that leaves, the lasting impression on us."
Her voice is charged, but her expression is exhausted.
"To see my brother shoot himself and to see him fall down — that's embedded in my head forever."
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During this orientation, you may hear for the first time about the real challenges of fostering/adopting. You will learn more about the background of some of the children and the length of the process.
At this point in the journey, you may become conflicted. Your emotions may come to the surface. Don't be afraid to ask any questions you may have. You don't have to make any major decisions right now. The only decision you need to make is whether or not you want to continue to the next step.
>> Attend an Initial Orientation Meeting Near You (listed as "Information Meeting" on the Idaho Child Welfare Research and Training Center website)
Child and Family Services Agencies and ID #'s:
Region 1 (Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Shoshone, Benewah counties) - 1460
Region 2 (Latah, Nez Perce, Clearwater, Lewis, Idaho counties) - 1460
Region 3 (Adams, Washington, Payette, Gem, Canyon, Owyhee counties) - 1226
Region 4 (Valley, Boise, Ada, Elmore counties) - 1236
Region 5 (Camas, Blaine, Gooding, Lincoln, Jerome, Minidoka, Twin Falls, Cassia counties) - 1103
Region 6 (Bingham, Bannock, Power, Caribou, Bear Lake, Franklin, Oneida counties) - 1274
Region 7 (Lemhi, Custer, Butte, Clark, Jefferson, Fremont, Madison, Teton, Bonneville counties) - 1531
Feel free to ask for help if you have questions or don't understand something in the application. The Recruiter Peer Mentor (RPM) and/or social worker will be happy to assist you.
PRIDE (Parent Resources for Information, Development, and Education) is a 27-hour pre-service training for potential foster and foster/adoptive parents. This training is completed during the licensing assessment, or "Home Study". PRIDE will help you acquire the knowledge and skills you need to make an informed decision about fostering and/or adopting.
It is important to make the commitment to attend and actively participate in all training sessions. Additionally, if you are looking to foster/adopt with a partner, it's necessary for both parties to attend these sessions.
Sessions are designed to:
During this step, you will begin the home study process. You will make friends with other prospective parents, staff, and experienced foster/adopt parents. You will start to feel like part of an enthusiastic, hard-working and competent team. You are not in this alone!
Find out more about PRIDE Training
During the Dual Assessment and Home Study, a social worker will meet with you in your home to talk about your personal history, family relationships, and reasons for wanting to foster and/or adopt, and the supports you have available. The social worker will also want to include any children in your home in some of these conversations.
The term "Dual Assessment" indicates that the completed home study can be used for both foster care and adoption. Unless you specifically request foster or adoptive care only, all home studies completed by Child and Family Services are Dual Assessments.
Home visits may occur during and after completion of the PRIDE pre-service training. The social worker will use information obtained from your written autobiography, personal and medical references, home visit interviews and PRIDE participation to write your home study.
The purpose of this step is to determine if foster or adoptive care is a good fit for your family, and to determine the characteristics of the children whom you are most able to parent. Additionally, the home study must be approved before a family can be considered as a possible resource for children.
During this step, applicants for foster care and/or adoption will:
Don't be afraid to ask for help if you need it. You can postpone this step if you feel that you or members of your household are not yet ready to continue.
This step requires patience. You may need to wait for the results of your background check, or you may need to wait while the social worker reviews your provided information and completes your written home study along with other paperwork. All of this takes time.
During this step, try to be patient and stay productive. Pursue further reading or begin networking with other foster and adoptive parents. Don't be afraid to contact your Resource Peer Mentor (RPM) or social worker. They are available to answer questions and help solve problems during this period. It's also a good time to contact your local Recruitment Coordinator and attend a training and support group meeting.
If you've reached this stage, you've already come a long way towards becoming a foster and/or adoptive parent. If you are approved and you choose to participate, you'll be ready to proceed to the next step in this journey – placement.
Find a support group near you!
What does a foster parent do?
A family home is the best place for a child to live. But some parents cannot provide a safe home and, as a result, the child is placed in foster care. As a foster parent, you are responsible for providing a safe and nurturing living environment. At the same time, your role includes working with the child's social worker and family so that the child can, hopefully, return home at some point in the future.
Who can foster or adopt?
Foster and adoptive parents are as varied as the children needing homes. Successful foster and adoptive parents are everyday people who come from all races, religions, incomes and educational backgrounds. No two families are alike. They are:
Children in foster care have been through a lot of life-changing experiences in their short lives. The maturity, coping skills, experience and knowledge you've accrued over the years will aid in caring for a child as a foster and/or adoptive parent.
Are there any age restrictions to foster or adopt?
You must be 21 years old to become a licensed foster parent and Idaho law requires an adoptive parent be at least 25 years of age OR 15 years older than the child they are adopting. There are no maximum ages for foster care or adoption.
How long does the licensing and adoption process take?
The length of time it takes to complete the assessment and licensing process depends on how quickly your application, personal and medical references, and background checks are received, and when you are able to complete PRIDE training. It seldom takes longer than 6-12 weeks to begin the training phase of the home study process.
Once you are for foster and/or adoptive care, the time it takes to receive a placement depends on many variables. These may include: the type of child (age, sex, race, health, etc.) you are willing to accept, the number and type of children in need of placement, and the type of placement you are willing to accept (short-term or long-term).
In foster care situations, the Department typically works towards reunification with the birth family in 12 months. If the Department is unable to achieve reunification, the Court may terminate parental rights. The child is then available for adoption.
If you are selected to adopt a child, the law requires a six-month supervision period before adoption finalization. However, if you have provided foster care for the child prior to adoption, this supervision period may be reduced to three months.
Is there an application, home study, or criminal history background fee?
There are no fees for the application or home study process for prospective parents who are becoming licensed and approved to provide foster or foster/adopt care for children placed by Children and Family Services (CFS).
There is a fee for processing background checks through the criminal history unit. However, these fees are waived for prospective foster parents who are becoming licensed and approved to provide foster or foster/adopt care for children placed by CFS. This fee is waived when the prospective foster or foster/adopt parent uses the 4-digit employer (CFS) ID # provided at the time of application.
If a prospective parent wishes to be considered for adoption only, or if they choose to use their completed home study to be considered for the placement of a child not in the custody of CFS, they will be required to pay:
Is financial assistance available?
Foster parents are reimbursed for the cost of caring for each child based on the foster care room and board rate according for that child's age. There are three foster care payment categories: Shelter (Level 1), Basic (Level II) and Specialized (Level III). Shelter foster care payments are paid for the child's first thirty days of placement. Basic foster care payments are made to foster parents who provide care for a child who has no identified exceptional needs. Specialized foster care payments may be made for a child who requires additional care above room, board, daily supervision and incidental costs.
Children in foster care qualify for Idaho Medicaid for their health care coverage. In addition, clothing and payments for day care (as necessary due to the foster parent's employment) are provided. Financial assistance for clothing and day care is not available after adoption.
The Department does not charge a placement or supervision fee for families adopting a child in the foster care program. Your family will need to obtain the services of an attorney to file the petition for adoption. If you are adopting a child eligible for adoption assistance, these fees can qualify for reimbursement after adoption finalization. Financial assistance for adoption may be available through one or more of the following sources:
Who are the children in care?
They are Idaho children who are removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Children needing foster and adoptive homes look like other children and have a wide range of abilities and personalities. Many of the children in foster care come from minority backgrounds. Many have special needs. Most are school-aged. Brothers and sisters need a family where they can live together.
In most cases, when children are placed in foster care, the plan of first preference is to return the child to their birth family and the service plan will identify the efforts of all parties for this to occur. For that reason, families whose exclusive goal is to adopt are encouraged to contact one of Idaho's licensed private adoption agencies or certified adoption professionals.
What are "special needs"?
Many children in need of foster or adoptive care are described as having "special needs". Special needs can refer to: the age of the child; the need to be placed with at least one sibling; and/or emotional, developmental and medical problems.
Some special needs are the result of abuse, neglect, or abandonment experienced by the child. Other special needs have biological causes, which may be further aggravated by neglect and abuse. Examples of special needs include Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, learning disabilities, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, and fetal alcohol and drug syndromes.
Regardless of their special needs, the important thing to keep in mind is that these are children in need. What they need most is the stability of a strong, loving family to support them during their journey through the child welfare system.
Can foster parents adopt?
Yes, they can. However, adoption is rarely the goal at the time a foster placement is made. Children continue to be involved with their parents while in foster homes, and most children are eventually returned to their birth parents. Others are placed with relatives. Families who have experienced fostering are a great resource for children who are not able to return home safely. In more than half of foster cases that end in adoption, relatives or non-relative foster parents eventually adopt the child for whom they have provided care. Some families choose to become dually licensed and approved to foster and adopt.
Why adoption?
If it is determined that reunification with the birth parents is not in the best interest of the child, parental rights may be terminated and the child becomes available for adoption. Adoption gives a child legal and emotional security, and gives the new parents the same legal rights and responsibilities as birth parents. Every year, many children in Idaho need an adoptive home.
What is the difference between a public agency, private agency, and independent adoption?
A public agency adoption is one facilitated by the Department or other state or county social service department. It is limited to the adoption of children within its custody. The focus of a public agency adoption program is to locate families for the children in their care. Thus, these programs do not help you find a child to adopt.
A private agency is state-licensed and may be for-profit or nonprofit and may or may not have a religious affiliation. Private agencies may specialize in domestic infant adoption, special needs adoption, and/or international adoption. These agencies will help you find a child to adopt.
An independent adoption is one in which the birth parent places the child directly with an adoptive parent for the purpose of adoption.
What is ICPC?
The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) is a binding agreement between all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It sets forth the requirements that must be met before a child can be placed from one state into another state. The Compact ensures prospective placements are safe and suitable before approval, and it ensures that the individual or entity placing the child remains legally and financially responsible for the child following placement. There are no fees charged to a family being considered for foster and/or adoptive care as the result of a request made through the ICPC.
How can I help a child without being a foster or adoptive parent?
There are many ways to help these children without being a foster or adoptive parent. Volunteering, mentoring, donating, making space available in your community for parent/child visitation, and assisting foster parents with transportation are all examples of ways you can help. Please contact your local One Church One Child VISTA/Liaison by calling 2-1-1. If you are interested in helping a specific child, contact the child's social worker directly.
What if I have additional questions?
A current licensed or approved foster/adoptive parent can be a great resource for prospective or adoptive parents. If you have additional questions, you may wish to talk with a Resource Peer Mentor (RPM). Check with your regional Child and Family Services office for contact information or contact the Idaho Child Welfare Research and Training Center. RPM's provide valuable support, expertise and resources for prospective foster and adoptive parents.


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I noticed we are now at least 3 on this forum, trying to create a proper car simulation. It seems everyones main goal is to create something fun (drifts...), based on realistic physics, but not too hard for the player. So closer to something like GRID than Forza.
I think i am right when i say this : we all want the kind of fun we can find in games like NFS. If a game like NFS or GRID (or even the Steam racing casual games) can only be achieved by using some cheats or specific player input tweaking, i suppose we all want to know what they are.
What i propose here is :
- Share the fundamental basics every car simulation based on newton physics should have. eg : weight transfer, pacejka-like curves for getting output of SR/SA....
- Share one or two basics car models and parameters to be sure we are talking about the same thing.
- Share some reference values/behaviours in predetermined situations, so that everyone can compare their own values with some reference to know if things are going right or wrong.
- Share math/physics formula, tips & tricks, or cheats & shortcuts that would allow us to make the game more fun. Because we must not forget, it is all about fun in the end.
I'll start to fill the blanks, and i hope the car experts will bring their knowledge to be sure future readers won't be misleaded by the things listed here.
One of the goals here is to cover 2D and 3D games, as the car behaviour will be similar in both situations.
Part 1 - What should i absolutly do to make this a fun game with drifts, skids and such things ?
Let's make an exhaustive list of things needed to achieve a drifting behaviour on a racing car.
- Get basic newton physics right : forces, acceleration, torque, integration. You can use a physics engine for this, like box2d or PhysX.
- At first use a 1ms timestep to update the simulation at a decent rate and avoid bad approximations.
- Create 4 wheels and attach them to the body.
- Use wheel distance to CG to calculate weight transfer lateraly and longitudinal. Combine those two.
- Use real car suspension/springs/anti roll bars, or the weight transfer will just be instantaneous and make the car highly unstable.
Subsidiary question : is it vital to have proper car suspensions ?
- Use some "soft" player inputs, and try to limit steer angle at high speed to get good lateral forces, or the car might be totally uncontrolable. Or use realistic driving accessories.
- Find out velocity for each wheel contact patch, transformed in the wheel space. So if the wheel is heading 45° and the car going straight, the front wheels will have both X/Y velocities, as rear wheels will only have Y (if Y is front).
- Use the powered wheels velocity to determine motor RPMs. Based on player throttle input, and engine torque curve, generate a torque force for powered wheels.
- Apply torque on wheel so it increase their angular velocity.
- Calculate wheel slip angles and slip ratios.
- Use a plotted pacejka curve, or a real formula to find out the normalized force the tire must produce front/lat.
Subsidiary question : is it vital to have the original formula instead of a simple pre-plotted curve ?
Subsidiary question : is it vital for nice drifting to have combined lateral/front formula ?
Subsidiary question : is it vital for nice drifting to feed directly the real load to the formula ? If i multiply the normalized 1N value by the wheel Fz result is supposed identical right ?
- Create a vector for front/lat forces, and check this vector on friction circle/ellipse. Cut any part which is not inside the circle.
Subsidiary question : should ellipse max values be the same as pacejka normalized max values ?
- You can now multiply the remaining vector by the wheel weight (Fz)
- For the longitudinal component of the force, reintegrate it in the wheel (with the radius), so it decrease their angular velocity. That part is what makes the wheel angular velocity adapt to the car speed.
- Apply the resulting forces to the body, at the attach point of the wheel, or directly the contact patch in 3D, and calculate resulting torque/acceleration on the body.
- When 4 wheels have generated torque/forces for the car body, integrate those values in the physical engine to produce velocity and move the car.
- Apply damping forces (rolling friction, air drag). It is not supposed to be vital to car behaviour, but it might help a little. It will mostly influence acceleration time and maximum speed.
That should be all what is needed to get a car simulation right. At least theorically. I think i have forgotten nothing.
Part 2 - The reference car(s)
The goal of this part is to have reference values for a classic car, so we can compare our values and behaviours.
The classic car inspired from some Corvette C5 values and other frequent values seen here and there. Let's call it X-Car-1
To be honest i must say this reference values don't make a nice car. I'll post a general handling video soon.
Here are some parameters taken from Edys Car Vehicle Physics for the Red Pickup you can try in the demo. Some of the values can be monitored with B and the SHIFT+B in the demo. I post it here to give some elements to discuss about as a part of those values are not present above, and for some i just dont know what they mean. Any idea / insight would be appreciated.
Part 3 - Reference handling and values
The goal of this part is to put the car in a typical situation with controlled environment, and to look at what happens. Game may be written in Java, .NET, Unity or whatever, if you have taken control of the physics, and if you have the right car parameters, the values should look like these.
X-Car-1_T01 : apply 100% throttle for 10.00 seconds
Coming soon...
X-Car-1_T02 : launching directly the car with a front velocity of 50 meters/s
Coming soon...
X-Car-1_T03 : launching directly the car with a side velocity of 50 meters/s
Coming soon...
X-Car-1_T04 : launching directly the car with an angular velocity of 10 radians/s
Coming soon...
X-Car-1_T05 : launching directly the car with a combined front/lateral velocity : 50m/s in each direction
Coming soon...
X-Car-1_T06 : launching directly the car with a combined front/lateral velocity : 50m/s in each direction and a 10 radians/s angular velocity
Coming soon...
X-Car-1_T07 : apply 100% throttle for 10.00 seconds, then without releasing throttle, press the right key for the next 10.00 seconds (right + full throttle)
Coming soon...
X-Car-1_T08 : apply 100% throttle for 10.00 seconds, then release throttle, and press the right key for the next 10.00 seconds (right + free roll)
Coming soon...
X-Car-1_T09 : apply 100% throttle for 10.00 seconds, then apply brake, and press the right key for the next 10.00 seconds (right + brake)
Coming soon...
X-Car-1_T10 : a controled drift situation (still have to find a reference test)
Coming soon...
Part 4 - Tips & tricks
This part is still R&D, and i am more open to debate and wanting to collect ideas and tests than trying to explain to do this or not. I do not have the solution for doing most of those things anyway.
List of "legit" tricks :
- Limit maximum steer angle according to speed & max grip peak SA
- Same for throttle/brakes with peak slip ratio output
- Decrease gently (or not) steer angle after input release
- Be aware (you, programmer) of when a drift situation occurs and change car control inputs to help player have more fun
- Instead of modelizing a complex combined front/lat grip formula, just determine how much percent of lateral grip you lose in function of the slip ratio
Cheap tricks or cheats :
- If player apply throttle, just directly add front Y velocity to car
- Disable real front/rear weight calculations. Just decide of a prefixed weight change on acceleration/braking situations
- Gently decrease forces near/after traction circle max value, instead of just cutting it
- Rotate directly car velocity vector by a very small percent of the front wheels slip angle
- Use a linear slipAngleInRadians * someConstant formula for lateral pacejka output
Part 5 - Reference formulas and ressources
More content to come...
Reference physics formulas, tutorials and references...
Part 6 - Questions, FAQ, things we don't know
Questions :
- What is the formula to have a friction ellipse instead of a circle ?
- Where can we find a simple formula for combined long/lat grip ?
- Should we apply a static friction force or something like that or just pacejka ?
- Should i apply forces lateraly to car body or to the wheel ?
To the wheel.
- More classic question and answers to come...
- What value can i use to decide if i must draw lateral drift skidmarks ?
- What value can i use to decide if i must draw burnout skidmarks ?
I'm looking forward to read your answers and contributions, if anyone interested !
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