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Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change announced Canada will invest nearly $1.8 billion to mobilize private-sector support for developing countries' efforts to transition to cleaner, more sustainable economies.
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- According to the World Bank, the Paris Agreement will help open up nearly $23 trillion in new opportunities for climate-smart investments in emerging markets, between now and 2030.
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"Love One Another as I Have Loved You and Still Do!"
On this 'Son Day for Sunday', we continue our journey together; exploring the "Breastplate of Righteousness." What does this section of armor represent spiritually?
The Breastplate of Righteousness keeps out the fiery darts of life with God's Protection.
Are you nurturing yourself with God's Truth or are you blocking it from opening within?
All matters of life stem from the heart. Take care to cover your sensitive and emotional areas.
Allow your eyes to see beyond one's peripheral vision; opening up to God and others. We are to see ourselves as God sees us.
Jesus said, "If you are my disciples, you must be right not only in your actions but also in your motives, your aspirations and the deep recess of one's heart."


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To say that actress Lee Grant has seen it all would be an understatement.
She barreled onto the Broadway scene at the age of 23 in 1949 with Detective Story, and was nominated for an Oscar two years later when it was adapted into film. Just as her career looked like it was going to take off, she found herself blacklisted for 12 years by the House Committee on Un-American Activities because of her marriage to screenwriter Arnold Manoff.
Grant, however, would be one of the few who would stage a successful comeback, going on to win an Emmy for the '60s television series Peyton Place and then Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for The Landlord and Voyage of the Damned. She won the award outright in 1975 for Shampoo. She would go on to have a career in directing, and one of the documentaries she directed, Down and Out in America, also won an Oscar.
Her new memoir, I Said Yes to Everything, hits on—and these are just some highlights—her childhood as the daughter of a Jewish immigrant, fake rape stories, making Grace Kelly cry, and one hell of a makeout session with Warren Beatty. Just like her memoir, Lee Grant does not disappoint when it comes to candor in an interview with The Daily Beast.
Why did you want to write your memoir now?
I wrote it the last four years, and I wrote it because I needed to have contact with myself. I'd been having trouble with my memory, and I couldn't talk about it with my husband because he'd be afraid for me. And so I just sat down and started writing, and it just became such a healthy thing for me to do, to kind of rediscover my life and myself and my past, and I just couldn't stop doing it.
Your career in show business has been a long one. You say in the book you had your first role at the age of 4 on the stage. Did you always know you were going to be in the entertainment business?
No, I didn't. That was a kind of serendipitous thing that grew out of my taking ballet classes at the Met. And it was on the way to ballet class that this impresario stopped me and said, "You're going to be a little Chinese prince."
It was an extravagant experience for me as a child. And in writing about it—to go back to that stage and remember what it felt like, and what I saw, and what the music was like—was a really thrilling thing for me.
One of the things you are famous for, besides your work, was coming back from being blacklisted. You were blacklisted for 12 years. If you look back on that, do you think often about what could have been if that hadn't happened?
You know what I think? In those years, there were a lot of beach movies, and I would not have fit in to that kind of Hollywood prototype. So, the blacklist and those 12 years, while I made sure I made up for it—I really savagely went back after the 12 years that I had lost—in those times in that America in the blacklist period, I wouldn't have had the parts that I had 12 years later.
You certainly hustled in your comeback. You used some pretty ridiculous things for your career. You had the mayor of Los Angeles change your license to say you were five years younger…
Oh, I don't think that was ridiculous at all. I felt I had 12 years to make up for, and knowing the lifetime of an actress in Hollywood, I had to lie to keep working. I felt it was absolutely the right thing to do, and I did it without any shame. It meant a lot to me to get hired.
You had a facelift at 30, and that would've been dangerous for you if word got out…
I was at a pretty desperate place in my life at that time. My husband was saying if you take a job, we're through. My only way out was to keep working. I was being blacklisted from inside the house as well as the outside when you think of it. I was psychologically at a very, very bad place. I think the surgery helped me enormously. Everything that was in my face that wasn't smiling, went up. It helped me look in the mirror and feel younger and prettier.
In 1964 you were given a guest star spot on the series The Fugitive. When you arrived you got into a war with the director because you wanted to do your own makeup. After you insisted, you write that, "no one from the crew would meet my eyes or say hi." To get them to like you again you end up claiming you were almost raped by a makeup artist…
That was a lie so that the crew would like me again. It was a lie I told them because I felt so left out because I wouldn't let the makeup man put on my makeup.
There was a lot of stuff about behind the scenes on the set. There were multiple interactions with Shelley Winters in particular. You call her a "serious bully" on the set of The Balcony, and after your battles on set (during which you had to kiss) you chased her at the Playboy Club during a party for the movie and called her a "cunt."
I pretty much said it. She was a diva. In this movie I was in, The Balcony, while I was still blacklisted, and I didn't know I had this much rage when I attacked her at the Playboy Club.
Do you have any advice for young women in the industry nowadays, as an actress or a director?
It's so hard. The one thing I can say about today is that the camera is available. You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.
[As an actress] I don't today know how you make it. When I was on stage in the '50s, it was a glory time, a golden time with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, there was real talent. And now, the theater is a little Disney-fied.
Do you still watch a lot of movies, television, or theater?
I do. I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like The Americans and Game of Thrones, it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.
So you're telling me you're a Game of Thrones fan?
Absolutely. What's there for me at the movies? First of all, I'm an Oscar person so I get all the films sent to me and I'm able to find the one or two. That Woody Allen movie with Cate Blanchett, there's one or two films they make in Hollywood. I find that the stuff on television is more exciting than the films, which are for teens almost.
You talk about Mervyn Nelson, who directed and starred with you in Ghosts at the Poconos resort Tamiment in the '50s, being your first gay friend in a time where that wasn't necessarily publicly discussed. Have you been surprised or pleased as far as how much has changed in the industry?
How interesting that you found that. It wasn't so much in the industry as it was our lives. You know, for theater people, for film people, gay or straight was always like normal. It was just a normal reaction, your friend was straight or gay. It was taken for granted, and it just took the rest of the world to catch up to us. He made a big difference in my life, he was my first director out of the Neighborhood Playhouse, and he was a great friend.
You had a difficult first marriage with Arnold Manoff. Why do you think you weren't able to leave it sooner?
I'll tell you the truth. I'd be in a sanitarium for the rest of my life if I hadn't had that order of, "Either you do this or we're through." Because I'd never have left him. And I was becoming sicker and sicker in that marriage. If he hadn't said, "You can't take this job," I would never have gotten up the courage to leave. Because I knew that I had to earn money and raise my kid. It was the best thing he could have done for me.
Finally, out of all the work you've done, is there one you look back on with the most fondness, or you're most proud of?
Well, the one I had the most fun in was Shampoo. The Neon Ceiling was the most challenging piece of work for me, it was like an independent movie for television, and I loved it. And they took me to the desert, which was a great thing.


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Swifties, are you sitting down? Good, now make sure your breathing.
Taylor Swift's first recorded album has dropped, and I couldn't be more excited.
The 31-year-old singer-songwriter dropped a rerecorded version of her second studio album, Fearless. The re-recorded version is titled "Fearless (Taylor's Version)".
The re-release is swift keeping her word to re-record her music before the "Lover" album. In the event, you're not up-to-date on the Scooter Braun-Taylor Swift battle here's the low down.
Scooter Braun purchased her masters which ignited a heated public battle between Braun and Swift over music ownership. And, swift made the announcement she would rerecord her first six studio albums, to call them her own.
She shared on Good Morning America "I just think that artists deserve to own their work, I just feel very passionately about that."
Swift re-recorded "Fearless (Taylor's Version) in late 2020, the first re-recording released.
The new release provides fans 27 tracks and includes incredible talent like Keith Urban and Maren Morris: All the songs from the original and platinum of "Fearless", six unreleased songs, and a bonus track.
You can stream Fearless (Taylor's Version) right now on platforms like Spotify or Apple Music.
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Is there anybody out there? On the quest for extraterrestrial life.
Leiden Professor of Astronomy Mike Garrett is searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. In his Kaiser lecture on 23 April he will discuss how far science has progressed in this quest.
Technology still not advanced enough
From the simplistic viewpoint of the astronomer or physicist, the Milky Way should be teeming with life, according to Leiden Professor by Special Appointment Mike Garrett. 'The fact that no evidence has yet been found for advanced civilisations raises some difficult questions about our understanding of the evolution of intelligent life in the cosmos. We don't yet have the technology to trace civilisations like our own, not even if they are on our very - astronomical - doorstep.'
Stepping up the quest
That crucial technology is developing fast. In recent years the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been stepped up and the number of scientific articles on the subject is increasingly rapidly. Over the coming years, Russian milllionaire Yuri Milner will be pumping 100 million dollars into SETI research (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Garrett is a member of the advisory council of Milner's 'Breakthrough Listen project'.
Special star discovered
In his lecture Garret will give examples of various SETI studies in the world and how advanced intelligences could manifest themselves in astronomical observations. With the help of NASA's Kepler telescope, scientists discovered in 2015 a remarkable light curve around a special star. The find generated a lot of excitement, but so far no clear evidence has been found for advanced civilisations in our local universe, according to Garrett.
Energy-hungry civilisations
Garrett is currently the only Leiden scientist looking for extraterrestrial intelligent life, in the form of evidence for advanced civilisations. How does he do that? 'We suspect that such civilisations would consume a lot of energy, which must have a visible effect on the observable characteristics of their host galaxies. A surfeit of infrared emissions in relation to their radio emissions could be a sign of an advanced civilisation. My research has shown that there do not appear to be any such energy-hungry civilisations in our 'local' universe.'
Algorhythms to trace deviations
Garrettt is also Director of Astron, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. Astron and a number of partners developed the world's biggest radio telescope, the LOFAR network, that has a base in the Netherlands and antennae in different European countries. Astron is also involved in the development of a new generation of radio telescopes that will be constructed in Australia and South Africa. Garreett develops algorhythms that can trace discrepancies in large amounts of data.
Aq number of Leiden astronomers are conducting research on the atmosphere of exoplanets that orbit around other stars than our Sun. The ultimate aim of Professor Ignas Snellen and other researchers is to detect ozone and oxygen in the atmosphere of exoplanets located in the 'habitable zone' of the star. Oxygen and ozone could be a strong indication of life, but it's very difficult to actually detect them. A new generation of telescopes will be built over the coming years that we badly need to be able to carry out this research. according to Garrett.
Lecture (in English) on Alien civilisations in the local Universe – good night, sleep tight!'


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Bill Cosby prosecutors take case to US Supreme Court
PHILADELPHIA - Prosecutors asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling that overturned Bill Cosby's conviction, arguing in a petition Monday that a decision announced in a press release does not give a defendant lifetime immunity.
Prosecutors said the ruling could set a dangerous precedent if convictions are overturned over dubious closed-door deals. They have also complained that the chief judge of the state's high court appeared to misstate key facts of the case when he discussed the court ruling that overturned Cosby's conviction in a television interview.
"This decision as it stands will have far-reaching negative consequences beyond Montgomery County and Pennsylvania. The U.S. Supreme Court can right what we believe is a grievous wrong," Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele wrote in the petition, which seeks a Supreme Court review under the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Cosby's lawyers have long argued that he relied on a promise that he would never be charged when he gave damaging testimony in an accuser's civil suit in 2006.
The admissions were later used against him in two criminal trials.
The only written evidence of such a promise is a 2005 press release from the then-prosecutor, Bruce Castor, who said he did not have enough evidence to arrest Cosby.
The release included an ambiguous "caution" that Castor "will reconsider this decision should the need arise." The parties have since spent years debating what that meant.
Castor's successors, who gathered new evidence and arrested Cosby in 2015, say it falls far short of a lifetime immunity agreement. They also doubt that Castor ever made such a deal. Instead, they say Cosby had strategic reasons to give the deposition rather than invoke his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, even if it backfired when "he slipped up" in his rambling testimony.
However, defense lawyers say the case should never have gone to trial because of what they call a "non-prosecution agreement."
Cosby, 84, became the first celebrity convicted of sexual assault in the #MeToo era when the jury at his 2018 retrial found him guilty of drugging and molesting college sports administrator Andrea Constand in 2004.
He spent nearly three years in prison before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court set him free in June.
Steele's bid to revive the case is a long shot. The U.S. Supreme Court accepts fewer than 1% of the petitions it receives. Legal scholars and victim advocates will be watching closely, though, to see if the court takes an interest in a high-profile #MeToo case.
Two justices on the court, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, were accused of sexual misconduct during their bitterly fought confirmation hearings.
Appellate judges have voiced sharply different views of the Cosby case. An intermediate state court upheld the conviction. Then the seven justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court wrote three separate opinions on it.
The majority found that Cosby relied on the decision not to prosecute him when he admitted giving a string of young women drugs and alcohol before sexual encounters. The court stopped short of finding that there was such an agreement, but said Cosby thought there was — that reliance, they said, marred his conviction.
But prosecutors call that conclusion flawed. They note that Cosby's lawyers objected strenuously to the deposition questions rather than let him speak freely.
Cosby himself has never testified about any agreement or promise. The only alleged participant to come forward is Castor, a political rival of Steele's who went on to represent President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. Castor said he made the promise to a now-dead defense lawyer for Cosby, and got nothing in return.
He never mentioned it to top assistant Risa Ferman, who led his Cosby investigation.
She later became district attorney, and reopened the case in 2015 after a federal judge unsealed Cosby's deposition.
At a remarkable pretrial hearing in February 2016, Castor spent hours testifying for the defense. He said he typed out the press release himself, after office hours, and intended it to convey different layers of meaning to the lawyers, the press and the public.
The judge found him not credible and sent the case to trial.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in its June 30 ruling, called Cosby's arrest "an affront to fundamental fairness."
Weeks later, the ruling prompted the state attorney general to dismiss charges against a jail guard accused of sexually abusing female inmates, because of an earlier agreement with county prosecutors that let him resign rather than face charges.
Cosby, a groundbreaking Black actor and comedian, created the top-ranked "Cosby Show" in the 1980s. A barrage of sexual assault allegations later destroyed his image as "America's Dad" and led to multimillion-dollar court settlements with at least eight women. But Constand's was the only case to lead to criminal charges.
Five of them testified for the prosecution to support Constand's claims, testimony that Cosby's lawyers also challenged on appeal. However, the state's high court declined to address the thorny issue of how many other accusers can testify in criminal cases before the evidence becomes unfair to the defense.
In a recent memoir, Constand called the verdict less important than the growing support for sexual assault survivors inspired by the #MeToo movement.
"The outcome of the trial seemed strangely unimportant. It was as if the world had again shifted in some much more significant way," Constand wrote in the book, "The Moment."


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Why are some PS4 Pro titles running slower than base hardware?
UPDATE: Watch Dogs 2 also runs more smoothly on the standard PS4.
UPDATE 15/11/16 9:20am: While we've had some excellent PS4 Pro results recently from the likes of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Battlefield 1 and FIFA 17, our latest testing with Watch Dogs 2 reveals some concerning results.
For the majority of gameplay, the game hits its 30fps cap and delivers a crisp 1800p image, achieved via checkerboard upscaling and delivering excellent image quality. However, what's clear is that stability in performance is an issue, with the game tearing and dropping frames sporadically during city traversal, while the base PS4 game runs without issue. Police pursuits ramp up transparent alpha effects which clearly exacerbate the problem - surrounded by squad cars with a helicopter search light illuminating the scene, Pro drops frames badly and introduces screen-tear when, once again, the standard PS4 retains its 30fps cap.
Again, the concept of the top-tier console producing sub-par performance isn't really acceptable and it's dismaying to see results like this. The bottom line is that Pro users with 1080p screens may well get a boost to image quality via super-sampling, but reduced performance under any circumstances can only call into question the whole point of a more powerful console.
Original story: PlayStation 4 Pro testing continues at Digital Foundry and while impressions remain positive for what this system is capable of - especially when paired with a 4K display - there's an aspect of platform performance affecting some games that we find concerning. Several titles are running at lower performance levels than the base PlayStation 4 versions, presumably owing to higher resolution support. As we understand it, this constitutes a fail according to Sony's technical requirements for developers, so it's fair to say that we were not expecting to see this issue manifest in completed launch software.
It's certainly not a universal issue that applies to all software (many of the upgrades we've seen so far have been tremendous) and the extent of the issue varies not just from title to title but also from scene to scene in affected releases. However, the bottom line is this: for games like Skyrim, The Last of Us and Mantis Burn Racing, gameplay will actually be smoother overall on base PlayStation 4 hardware [UPDATE 19/11/16 6:24pm: Mantis Burn Racing has had a title update and now runs very smoothly]. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a little more complicated: we find that some scenes play at a noticeably lower frame-rate, while others hand in more consistent performance overall.
For 1080p support, the Pro down-samples the 4K mode for all of these titles, offering enhanced image quality via super-sampling. However, the areas where performance is degraded remain impacted when running on a full HD display - meaning that there's nothing that Pro owners can do to get a smoother experience overall on these titles. In fact, the base PlayStation 4 will run these releases at a higher performance level overall at the expense of some image quality.
Probably the most surprising example of this is The Last of Us Remastered, a Naughty Dog production. The team has a reputation not just as one of the most cutting-edge developers in the industry, but also for their superb optimisation skills. Generally speaking, The Last of Us has been an absolute joy to revisit on PS4 Pro. You get a 3200x1800 resolution in 60fps mode, rising to native 4K at 30fps. It's also one of the best HDR titles we've tried. So if you have a 4K display, losing 2-5fps in performance in the 60fps mode doesn't feel like a bad trade as such, but the point is that you cannot opt for enhanced performance instead.
However, if your Pro is connected to a typical 1080p screen, there's no HDR and the resolution boost is repurposed into enhanced anti-aliasing via down-sampling. At that point, the trade isn't so favourable - we want the game to play as smoothly as possible. And to be frank, this is PlayStation 4 Pro - we shouldn't need to be discussing compromises at all, and the experience should be protected via Sony's technical requirements that apply to all game-makers. All Pro software should be running at the same frame-rate or better regardless of resolution increases or any other enhanced features. The Last of Us is the most obvious example, because for the most part, any perf impact on the base PS4 hardware is worse on the Pro. Meanwhile, in some scenarios, the standard game runs at a locked 60fps, while the Pro may drop frames.
The Last of Us stands out because the performance differential is fairly frequent. However, other titles only show minor fluctuations during general gameplay and for the most part, performance is mostly on par. For Skyrim for example, the general experience feels pretty much like-for-like - it's a game with a 30fps cap, which the Pro version adheres to, by and large. Enhancements include improved foliage draw distance, but the key boost is resolution - the Pro version runs at 4x the resolution of the standard PS4 version, offering full, native 4K. However, in scenes heavy on alpha transparency effects, frame-rate can drop where it doesn't on base hardware.
Super-sampling on PS4 Pro offers detail improvements, but the anti-aliasing boost is actually rather limited, as the game's base temporal AA solution at native 1080p resolution is actually very good. The presentation is fairly soft anyway, so again we have a 1080p/4K divide: on an ultra HD display, we'd rather play on Pro and enjoy a huge resolution boost all of the time and frame-rate dips only occasionally. However, at 1080p, we'd prefer more consistent performance throughout the game and so the base PS4 provides a smoother experience overall. But the point is that once again, we shouldn't be seeing these divides at all, on any title.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is an interesting game. Just testing the first mission, followed by an engine-driven cut-scene, throws up some interesting results. The higher resolution mode consists of a dynamic framebuffer system that scales all the way up to 4K, using the checkerboarding technique. The Prague cinematic is notable for its poor performance on base PS4 hardware, while the Pro actually improves on it in most scenarios - boosting frame-rates overall and eliminating tearing. However, the first mission runs at a close to a locked 30fps on base hardware and it doesn't on Pro. At worst there are 20fps dips - something that surely isn't acceptable for a Pro experience. The alpha-heavy conclusion to the first mission sends frame-rates plummeting on Pro while they're closer to a more solid 30fps on base hardware. It sticks out like a sore thumb for any one who has played the original game, and would surely have been obvious to both the developer and the QA team.
We're still continuing testing of PlayStation 4 Pro titles and plan to roll out coverage on each as soon as we can - though we've been limited by console availability. You can check out our YouTube let's plays for initial impressions on titles as we test them, but while only a selection of titles appear to be affected, we feel strongly here that this particular issue should be out in the open as soon as possible. PlayStation 4 Pro should in no way offer any kind of downgrade to any part of the experience in any title compared to the standard model, and while we realise that any hardware launch is going to be challenging for developers, it's really not a good idea to be bending the rules on Pro technical requirements when the system still has so much to prove. Performance is so closely linked to the quality of the gameplay experience and PS4 Pro really must match or exceed base PS4 frame-rates, as per the technical requirements.
While this is an issue we feel passionately about, we should remember that this is still early days and we've seen enough software that either matches performance or improves it while handing in visually superior results. However, more in-depth analysis is starting to show that even some 1080p Pro-optimised software may exhibits issues. Rise of the Tomb Raider gets everything right in terms of offering enhanced full HD modes and it looks beautiful at 4K. However, after a promising start in earlier levels, we're now finding that more challenging stages are causing issues - check out this shot. Base PlayStation 4 runs this at a locked 30fps with perfect frame-pacing. However, both 4K and enriched graphics modes are exhibiting really bad frame ordering, while the former is also running at a lower frame-rate in some cases compared to the original PS4 title. Unlocked frame-rate is faster, but not consistent. Those after a locked, consistent 1080p30 experience throughout Rise of the Tomb Raider are best off sticking to the standard PS4 right now.
With all of this in mind, it's worth stressing that plenty of titles on Pro are working as they should, offering enhancements and the same frame-rate or better, but we'd still like the option to run at base mode spec with Pro's CPU and GPU boosts fully unlocked. At the very least, being able to run with fewer (or indeed no) performance drops from the target frame-rate would be welcome. So, for The Last of Us, a plain and simple 1080p60 mode that guarantees performance in the way that no current version of the game can would be nice (maybe downscaling from 1440p instead of 1800p could work?) and would require little development work. Not every Pro patch upgrade needs to offer revelatory improvements - but there must be a fundamental guarantee that Pro will never hand in reduced performance compared to base hardware. The bottom line is that titles that do this serve to undermine the whole Pro concept.
We presented our findings to Sony yesterday and received this comment: "We are aware of the issue and currently investigating."


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Ashford Castle. The architecture and gardens were so beautiful. And it was also a lovely day, which only made things even more perfect!
Walks in the sunshine, amongst the trees.
The romantic bench under the romantic tree.
This is a little stone fishing house built near the monastery for the monks. Apparently they even had it set up so that whenever they caught fish, a bell would ring inside the abbey so that the cook's would know that there was fresh fish available. Smart monks!
The remains of the abbey.
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text: Business Finance Junction – December 2014 by admin | Dec 1, 2014 | Blog, Business, Business Finance Junction, Economy, Finance, Monthly Musings, News, Small Business Blog, Uncategorized | 0 comments The Bank of England stress test results on the British banking system are being issued December 16, alongside its half-yearly financial stability report. The tests focus on the housing market and the Bank's 'adverse scenario' which has a correction factored in. Tenancy checks for private landlords in the West Midlands are liable for a 'Civil Penalty' of up to £3,000 if a residential tenancy is given to a person 'without the right to rent', from 1 December. Landlords may still be liable if premises are sub-let, despite the tenancy agreement being applicable to a person with the right-to-rent, however, responsibility for the checks can be given to an agent to remove the liability from the landlord to the agent, but a written agreement (between the landlord and the agent) stating the agent has the obligation to make the applicable checks, must be in place. If successful as a scheme it will be rolled out nationally during 2015. Started in the US with the support of American Express, the second of what is an annual event now for the UK, is happening on 6 December. Intended to encourage and highlight the support of shopping locally, keeping trade local and the importance of small businesses, Small Business Saturday has marketing materials available to make the most of the event. The beginning of December (1st) sees Leeds Building Society changing its lending criteria for borrowers subject to Section 106 (S106) Agreements. This is being applied across its whole range of mortgages including Shared Ownership. The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill having being approved by Commons, has its second reading during December. Contained within the Bill is the appointment of 50 Small Business Champions, to handle appeals against decisions by the regulators; including publicans pay disputes, or tied tenants' right to request a rent review (if they haven't had one for five years), additionally it contains an amendment to allow pub landlords the right to buy beer on the open market. Will pub companies and brewers work together with their landlords? Currently seeking a new Chairman and recently fined £56m from the FCA and the Bank of England, RBS continues to make the headlines. Likely facing more fines in the New Year connected to Forex, the most recent fine was connected to its 2012 IT 'glitch' which saw millions of its customers unable to make payments for up to three weeks. Apparently, since the incident, some £500m has been spent on the system, although whether that means the system has been fixed, 'patched' or replaced, isn't clear (the system being IT and not a reference to service and products). IT and software can be labour intensive, yet RBS have laid-off staff so there seems to be quite a lot that's not clear in that quarter. The European Commission has approved Britain's new Business Bank, saying that it would address small firms' access to finance without distorting completion. Its aim is to put all current Government schemes under one umbrella and use a funding boost to stimulate lending. Autumn Statement (December 3rd), has whisperings of an announcement regarding financial support to cover the cost of SME business rates, as a way of encouraging business back onto the High Street, but, as a final statement before an election the press is mainly guesswork… with a lot of Scrooge or Santa headlines thrown in. Image and Article credit: Copyright SUF © 2014 Share/Save/Print Submit a CommentYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment * Name * Email * Website Δ


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Burkini controversy renewed after swimsuit banned from French leisure park
The mayor of a small town in central France has reignited the burkini debate after banning the full-body swimwear from a new leisure park, despite a high court ruling the bans illegal last year.
Gerard Tardy is the mayor of Lorette, a small town south of Lyon with less than 5,000 inhabitants which on Friday opened the Les Blondières leisure park. Covering an area of nearly 4,000 square meters, it contains large gardens, fishing ponds, two artificial swimming areas, and a beach.
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But if visitors want to enjoy Les Blondières, they might need to observe some controversial new rules. Article 4 of the Town Hall's decree governing the site says that swimmers must "have decent attire and a correct attitude."
"On the beach monokinis, burkinis, veils that partially or totally conceal the face are banned," it adds.
A sign outlining the rules has been posted at the park's entrance.
France 2017 : un panneau public de la ville de Lorette interdit l'accès aux femmes voilées et aux chiens pic.twitter.com/JbejNKVuiy— Widad.K (@widadk) June 27, 2017
Tardy's office also banned dogs, alcohol, and football. Anyone not abiding by the rules will be removed by security or police.
"Wanting to ban the veil in this swimming area is an attack on the individual freedom of Muslims," Aldo Oumouden, the spokesman for the Grand Mosque in the nearby city of Saint Etienne, said in an interview with France Bleu, as quoted by the Local. "The mayor does not realize that this decision will further increase stigma. It is not only unnecessary but also devastating for community harmony."
Tardy defended his decision in the local newspaper Le Progres, saying "We do not want aggressive and provocative outfits."
Last year, a fierce debate raged in France when around 30 seaside towns in the French Riviera banned the burkini, a kind of Islamic swimsuit that allows women to go to the beach while abiding by the modesty required by their religion. In August, the State Council, France's highest administrative court, overruled the ban, calling it "a serious and illegal attack on fundamental freedoms." The legal status of Tardy's order can therefore be called into question.
The mayor courted controversy before when last year he put up electric billboards around Lorette, asking Muslims to celebrate Ramadan "without making any noise."


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<>pportunitybefore he sailed for the discharge of his duty to the shippers and to the ship as respects the storage of flour in the place most suitable for it with a cargo of cooperage. The ship was; I think, liable to the shippers for improper stowage, no matter by whom the stevedore was employed, or whosoever may have been liable per8onally. The master's mate evidently retained some control over the disposition of the cargo. Richardson v. Winsor, 3 Cliff. 404407; Sandeman v. Scurr. L. R. 2 Q. B. 86; The T. A. Goddard. 12 Fed. Rep. 174; 184. The master was bound, therefore, to avoid the particular risk of damage from stowing the bags in the hatch, and either to make provision for those bags in the proper plMe below, or' else give notice and obtain the assent of the shippers to their remaining there, or to reject the goods until properly stowed by the charterer's stevedore. The Star of Hope, 17 Wall. 651; Peek v. Larsen, L. R. 12 Eq. 378. Not having done so, I think the ship is answerable for any Ilamage arising to the bags stowed in the main hatch in excess of that happening to the similar bags stowed below, if there was anysuch excess. · The amendment of the libel asked upon the trial cannot be allowed. It introduces a new and somewhat inconsistent ground of claim, to which <>bjection is rightly made; since the evidence in reference to such a Claim has not been taken, and the witnesses for the defense are gone. .A reference may be taken to ascertain the excess ofdahtage, if any, as above indicated, and the question of costs will be reserved until the coming in of the report. .
In rePetition of LORD, Owners,
(Oircuit Oourt, D. Maine. March 7, 1887.)
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The circuit court has not original jurisdiction of proceedings to limit the liability of ship-owners by virtue of· admiralty rule 58, which provides that all the rules and regulations for proceedings in cases where ship-owners desire the benefit of the limitation of liability "shall apply to the circuit courts of the United States, where such cases are or shall be pending in said courts upon appeal from the district courts," or otherwise. The proceedings must originate in the district court.
In Admiralty. On motion to dismiss the petition. in The collision, which was the subject of the original suit, November, 1883. The libel was filed in December, 1884,Jlnd the opinion of the district court, finding the Mary Lord solely in fault for the <:ollision, is reported in 26 Fed. Rep. 862. In June, 1886, the circuit <lourt, on appeal, affirmed the decree of the district court, and entered It
decree providing for judgment and executions against the principals and in the several stipulations which had been entered intoin the suit. Before executions issued, however, the respondents and petitioners filed in this suit a petition for limitation of their liability as owners of the schooner Mary Lord. ' And, upon application, the court, following the practice indicated in Norwich Co. v. Wright, 13 Wall. 104. 126, 128; The Benefactor, 103 U. S. 239, 243, 244,249, 250,-ordered a stay of execution upon the final decree in the original cause of colliRion. Libelant now moves to dismiss the petition, on the ground that the circuit court has no original jurisdiction of it. Almon A. Strout, for respondents and petitioners, owners of the schooner Mary Lord. . Edward S. Dodge, for libelant, Carson. COLT, J. The point taken by the libelant, that the circuit court has no jurisdiction over this, proceeding.except upon appeal, and that the petition should be filed in the district court, appears to me, on a review of the whole subject, to be ao,und.. That such was the law previous to the adoption of admiralty rule 58 cannot be doubted, and I do not think this rule was intended to give original jurisdiction in these cases to the circuit court, but only jurisdiction where, as the rule specifies, "such cases "-i. en cases of proceedings to limit liability-are pending, upon appeal froIlJ.the district court,. This rule was the outcome of the decision in The Benejactm, 103 U.S. 239. In that case the supreme court reversed the decision of the circuit court, and the question arose whether further proceedings fol' limiting the liability of the owners should be had in the district or the circuit court. The original proceeding was begun in the district court, appealed to the circuit court. and then to the supreme court, and the snpreme court decided that further proceedings might be had in the circuit court, and, in order to avoid all future objections as' to the ability of the circuit court to proceed, promulgated the fifty-eighth rule. It has been held that, under the statute (sections 4282-4287 , Rev. St.) conferring the right of limitation of liability of ship-owners, the d.istrict courts, as courts of admiralty, have jurisdiction; that the circuit court has not jurisdiction; and that, unless the district courts have jurisdiction, it must be inferred that congress passed a law incapable of execution. Norwich OJ. v. Wright, 13 Wall. 104, 123; PrO'l7idence & N. Y. S. S. OJ. v. Hill Manuf'g OJ., 109 U. S. 578,598, 599, 3 Sup. Ct. Rep. 379, 617. In the rules promulgated by the supreme court, vessel owners are directed to file in the proper district court a libel or petition. Admiralty Rules 54, 57. Neither the decision of the supreme court in The Benefactor nor rule 58 changes this. Indeed, it is difficult to see how original jurisdiction can be conferred on the circuit court except by act of congress. In no case has it been held that the circuit court has any original jurisdiction under this act. The Luckenback, 26 Fed. Rep. 870, is a recent case bearing on this question, and the reasoning of Judge v.31F.no.7-27
BROWN is to theeft'ect that rule 58 was not intended to determine the plaM where the 'original proceedings to limit liability should be commenced. These considerations render it unnecessary for me to express any opinion upon the other point taken by libl;llant, viz., that this petition cannot properly be filed in thi8 auit, and at this stage thereof, aside from the question of jurisdiction. PetitiQn dismissed.
THE WH. F. BABCOCK. WAI,SH .". THE WH. F. BABCOCK, Her Tackle, Apparel, etc.
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The libelant, an employe of the master stevedore, who was loading a vessel under contract, was injured by stepping into a snlall trimming hatch, ill the between-decks,while in storing cargo. The light in the betweendecks was dim, and libelant did not know of \he existence of the batch, or that it was uncovered. When the vessel was turned over to tbe master steve-' dore to be loaded, this trimmin'g hatch was covered. It was BUbsequentlyuncovered by the' stevedore's foreman. .Held, that the vell8el was not liable for
In Admiralty. . Walter G. Holmea and O'Brien k Morri8on, for Milton Andros, for claimant. " HOFFMAN, J. The libel in this case is filed to, recover damages for injuries sustained by the libelant while engaged as a stevedore in lading the cargo of the above vessel. The gang of men to which he belonged was employed in taking cases of salmon on board the vessel, and stowing them in the between-decks, forward of the after-hatch. In the direct course of the, men to the place where the cases' were to be stowed was a hatch known hatch," which had been partly uncovered. Into this thelibe]ant, who had just come down from the broad daylight on the Wharf, Bllepped his foot, and the case, escaping from his grasp, struck his arm, fracturing or otherwise injuring it. The hatch was perhapsin a somewhat unusual position,lleing amid-ships, instead of, as is more common with trimming hatches, midway between the mid-ships feet square, but it line andthe;wings. !twas about was ,divided in the center by 'shifting boards, which were attached to. the stanchions of the between-decks. The aperture left on either side of the shifting boards was 21 feet in length by 12 or 18 inches in width. It was into this aperture that the libelant put his foot.. The uSllalattempt is made tosq.ow that the accident was caused by


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June 27th, 2007 | Matt Kelly
There are days I consider myself one of the luckiest people on earth. When I visited the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Mich., I knew it was one of those days. More than just a museum, it's a living repository of automotive history, housing such famous classic, antique and concept vehicles as the 1931 V-16 Cadillac, the 1938 Buick Y-job, 1949 Buick Roadmaster, and 1968 Chevrolet Camaro. Only open to GM employees, scholars, analysts and the media, I was in car heaven during my personal tour of this ultimate automotive enthusiast's garage.
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Private sponsors in Canada are paying refugees' resettlement costs. But can – and should – such a programme be replicated elsewhere; or is it just a way for governments to save money? By Sian Griffiths.
Just one day after President Donald Trump banned citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the US, Canada's Immigration Minister, Ahmed Hussen – himself a former Somali refugee – recommitted Canada to welcoming 'people in need of protection'. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted: 'To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. #WelcomeToCanada.'
According to figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are over 21 million refugees globally, and 1.1 million of them are in need of resettlement. Every day, 34,000 people are forced to flee their homes; about 50 per cent of them are children.
In Canada, the welcome can be very personal: global citizen to global citizen. Alongside its government-assisted refugee programme, the country is unique in having a Private Sponsorship of Refugees Programme (PSR). The policy was developed in the late 1970s after citizen groups – mainly church-led – demanded that the Canadian government do more to help refugees affected by the Vietnam War. As a result, PSR became an official part of Canada's refugee policy and, in 1986, the People of Canada were awarded the Nansen Medal, an award given to individuals or groups for excellence in service to refugees. The programme enjoys cross-party consensus, though disagreements sometimes occur over how many refugees to accept and under which programme.
PSR remains so popular that the government admits to being overwhelmed with demand, struggling to process a backlog of 19,000 applications for 45,000 refugees. Already, the programme has found homes for some 280,000 refugees over and above government-assisted places.
Care in the community
Since November 2015, Canada has welcomed nearly 40,000 Syrian refugees, about a third of whom have been privately sponsored.
Ann Hustis and her husband Nick Assad, who is of Syrian heritage, had been watching the Syrian tragedy unfold since the conflict began in 2011, but it was the image of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler found dead on a Turkish beach, which spurred them into action. They were familiar with the PSR programme because friends had sponsored a Syrian family who were now part of the couple's social circle.
Sponsors form groups which agree to assume financial responsibility and to care for refugees for at least a year. They organize furnished accommodation, food, transportation, schooling and English/French-language training. They take refugees shopping and help them settle in Canada. Most refugees find their feet fairly quickly and are entitled to work immediately – under this scheme they arrive as permanent residents.
Ann and Nick's sponsor group ballooned to 45 people, including extended family, friends and neighbours. The group's co-sponsor is the Anglican Church, which has much experience in refugee resettlement. 'In a world where everybody is shutting their borders, we're opening them up,' says Vicky Assad, Nick's niece and one of the sponsors.
Through fundraising and personal donations, the group raised C$80,000 (US$61,000) to look after three families. Ann, who took a six-month leave of absence from her job as a computer consultant, says she really enjoys being a sponsor: 'It's fun, social. You learn a lot about the families. They become part of your family. I am seriously considering taking the rest of my life off and just doing this! It's very, very rewarding.'
A key principle of the private sponsorship programme is that it should be 'over and above' what the government does, not instead of it
Her experience has deepened her knowledge of the conflict in Syria and her understanding of the plight of refugees. 'I have a big map on the wall in my home office, pinpointing exactly where they escaped, what route they took, what bridge they crossed at,' she says.
The first family the group of sponsors brought to Canada were the Al Khatoufs, who are clearly grateful. 'I've never been treated so well, not even by my family!' says 41-year-old Ali, who was a house painter in Syria. He and his wife and four children have now settled into a comfortable three-bedroom home in an Ottawa suburb provided by their sponsors and are embracing the Canadian outdoors lifestyle, including visits to local farms for apple-picking and hayrides.
It is all a far cry from the dangers the family faced before arriving in Canada. In May 2012, they were forced to flee their home under bombardment. Thinking the conflict wouldn't last, they took little with them and travelled the first 20 kilometres of their journey on foot. Later, they found shelter in a converted security guard's office in Lebanon – but the conditions were very cramped. It was here that youngest daughter, Hiba, now three, was born.
Helping hands
Don Smith wanted to help, too. Having worked with church groups for nearly four decades, he is a veteran private sponsor who has helped well over 100 refugees, from countries as diverse as Vietnam, Czechoslovakia , Hungary, Rwanda and, now, Syria. The PSR programme, he says, also 'saves the taxpayer money' since private sponsors assume financial responsibility for the refugees.
Lisa Hebert, co-ordinator of the Ottawa-based Capital Rainbow Refuge, has helped to sponsor refugees from the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. She says the programme gives Canadian LGBTQ activists a unique way to reach out to LGBTQ refugees across the world.
'They are fleeing state persecution, from criminalization to the death penalty... They are on the run.' Often, she says, it is their own families who want to hurt them.
It is hard to find refugee advocates who would criticize Canada's Private Sponsorship programme. It is endorsed officially by the UNHCR, which praises it for 'its ability to provide additional settlement spaces for refugees' over and above those spaces provided by the Canadian government. The UNHCR also points out that 'the involvement of civil society leads to better integration outcomes for the refugees being sponsored'.
The agency's conclusion is backed up by a 2007 Canadian government study which found that PSRs become self-supporting far more quickly than those resettled through the government-assisted refugee programme – though the latter catch up over time. Don Smith attributes these results simply to 'tender, loving care'. A government counsellor who works only during daytime hours can't give the full-time personal support and commitment that private sponsors can – and clearly want to.
But the reason the programme works so well in Canada and has such widespread support is that it enhances, rather than replaces, government support for refugees. While the Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) supports the programme ('it can double the number of refugees who get homes'), its executive director, Janet Dench, says the government still needs to pull its weight. She says that a key principle of the programme is 'additionality' – that the PSR programme should be 'over and above' what the government does, not instead of it. And she adds a note of caution, saying that the CCR was 'shocked' when Canada announced its 2017 refugee levels. The PSR allocation of 16,000 was more than double the government-assisted refugee figure of 7,500.
'The government part should be as high,' argues Dench. 'It's disappointing the government isn't doing more. The government is taking credit for the overall number of settled refugees without doing its fair share.'
Added value
But Ann Hustis believes that private sponsors should be taking the lead.
'They do it much better than the government,' she argues, while noting that the refugees do still get government support by way of free healthcare, schooling, child tax credits and other government services.
Government support such as this is key to the success of the PSR programme, but it cannot always be taken for granted. In 2012, the then-Conservative government cut benefits to thousands of failed refugee claimants and refugees from countries Canada deemed 'safe'. Four years later, the new Liberal government restored the health benefits in full after Canada's Federal Court struck down the policy, which it denounced as 'cruel and unusual' and in violation of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The world began paying closer attention to Canadian refugee policy after images of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau personally welcoming Syrian refugees with warm winter coats went viral on social media. Now his government is seeking to promote the PSR model internationally through its Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative (GRSI).
Caritas, in the Catholic Diocese of Salford, is the first Canadian-inspired private sponsor in Britain to take in a refugee family – from Syria. 'It's all very ordinary and very human to want to help anyone who has faced such a terrible experience, and this community sponsorship scheme enables refugees to be helped by welcoming people,' says Mark Wiggin of Caritas.
However, with austerity-driven governments across Europe looking for ways to pass on welfare costs to 'Big Society', there is a danger that adopting – and adapting – Canada's approach could become a means of balancing budgets rather than ensuring more help for refugees.
Back in Canada, Lisa Hebert says that being a sponsor has transformed her life. 'It just gives your own life value. Their hope for the future is very infectious. Refugees are survivors… They are people who have been brave enough to leave everything behind to find a new life.'
Sian Griffiths is a former BBC producer and reporter now based in Ottawa, who contributes regularly to Deutsche Welle and BBC radio. She has reported for The Guardian and the Christian Science Monitor.


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Knitting this week included swatching for the Winter TNNA trade-show
It's pretty appropriate that my first post of 2014 is a yarn-along since one of my resolutions for 2014 is to be more organized with my postings … more regular to encourage regular readership … to show my knitting expertise as often as possible. I will be developing a regular "editorial calendar" of postings to include:
- Motivated Mondays — posts about the week ahead: designing schedule and planned submissions; homeschooling and cooking/baking ideas, etc. I REALLY need to be more organized! All these posts can be accessed thru the "plans & projects" tab above
- Tip Tuesday — posts about tips, tricks and techniques that will help my readers be better knitters. Let me know if you have specific questions you'd like answered. All these posts can be accessed thru the "tips & tricks" tab above
- Yarn-along Wednesdays — posts all about my knitting and reading. To find all these, click the "yarn-along" tab
- Discovery Thursdays — posts all about discoveries on the 'net, including fiber-fun on Ravelry, interviews with knitterly folks, and reviews of books. To access these posts, please click "round the 'net" tab above
- Friday's Family Fun and Faith — posts about family doings in our homeschool, faith life, and other fun. Click "about" and then "family fun and faith" tabs above for these posts.
- Saturday Sum-up — posts that summarize the week's info with links to posted designs, book reviews, and fibery fun. The "wrap-up" tab will get you to all those posts.
I'm hoping putting this in writing helps ME stay accountable this year … and adds to your reading enjoyment. Let me know if there is a topic you'd like to know about … a knitting stitch you don't understand … a design issue … whatever.
Looking forward to this year's weekly yarn-alongs and hope you'll come play along too!


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Twenty wild boar have been killed by residents of a village in Zanjan.
The Zanjan Department of the Environment reports that the boar had gathered at a water hole to drink in the farming region of Ijrood when the residents attacked them with hunting weapons, clubs, stone and iron bars.
In recent years, several farmers have complained about the boar destroying their crops. Sporadically, local officials have issued licences to hunt wild boar.
The Zanjan Department of the Environment has announced that 15 people were involved in killing the 20 boar. The report adds that rangers have managed to arrest three of them so far and continue in their efforts to identify and arrest the others.
The accused will have to pay eight million rials in damages for each dead wild boar. They could also face fines and prison terms.
The Department of the Environment says the public is not allowed to attack the boar without a permit, and offences in this regard will be subject to prosecution.


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2016 Jazz Honors Project
Bill Snodgrass
Bill Snodgrass is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Texas at Arlington where served as Director of Jazz Studies and head of the Music Industry Studies program from1976 to 2004. Under his direction the UTA Jazz Orchestra has recorded fifteen albums/Cds and has appeared as invited guest artists for prestigious international jazz festivals and concert tours in Montreux, Switzerland; Beijing, People's Republic of China; Nassau, Commonwealth of the Bahamas; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Montreal, Canada; Vienna, Austria; Manila, The Philippines; and the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, The Netherlands. The UTA JO has also given feature performances for the national conferences of MENC, American Broadcasting Association, and IAJE. The UTAJO has appeared on Japanese, American, and Brazilian public television telecasts.
Mr. Snodgrass served two terms as President of the Texas Unit of International Association of Jazz Educators, was Band Editor for Stan Kenton's Creative World Music Publications, and has published many compositions and arrangements for jazz ensemble, marching band, and orchestra.
Mr. Snodgrass received his master's degree from Texas Tech University where he majored in violin performance and music education. In addition to performing on bass in several professional jazz groups and serving nine years on the faculty of the Stan Kenton Summer Jazz Workshops, Mr. Snodgrass also performed in the Kansas City and Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestras. For fifteen years he served as State Auditions Coordinator for the TMEA All-State Jazz Ensemble. Mr. Snodgrass has served as an adjudicator and clinician for college and public school orchestras, wind ensembles and jazz ensembles throughout the Southwest. In addition to his being asked to be guest clinician for numerous TMEA All-region groups across the state, he also served as guest conductor/clinician for the Oklahoma and New York All-State jazz ensembles.


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Monday, August 27, 2012
In Memoriam: The Passing Of A Cosmic Legend
17 comments:
I was so sad to hear that he passed away! What a man he was.ReplyDelete
Very sad! He was quite the humble person as well.ReplyDelete
RIP Neil Armstrong ):ReplyDelete
He was a great man. I guess it's a reminder to us all that space exploration is one of the greatest achievements of mankind.ReplyDelete
What a legend! No one will ever forget this man.ReplyDelete
Indeed a legend and an inspiration.ReplyDelete
Neil Armstrong has taken a step to his next great adventure. He accomplished a great feat, the whole team rather. And his memory will live on.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 27, 2012 at 12:34 PM
I'm still jealous of the man. I wish we could all get to the moon in my lifetime.ReplyDelete
RIP, and yes- let's make Mars next! of course, we'd have to revive the space program, but that only costs a few billion. :)ReplyDelete
A2Z Mommy and What's In Between
What a moment for the world and the USA on the day of those first steps on the moon. I guess it was night, not day.ReplyDelete
What an incredible man. Even if you didn't dream of becoming an astronaut he was certainly a role model for those with big dreams. The world lost a good one.ReplyDelete
SO sad. What an incredible man.ReplyDelete
Nice tribute, David. Can you imagine what it must have been like? To see earth from such a new perspective. To be part of that first giant step!ReplyDelete
I wonder if he can see the moon from where he is now?ReplyDelete
He truly was a legend.ReplyDelete
I still can't believe that happened, even though it was before I was born. What a legend though... Hey, how much time do you put into thinking of that final line every blog post? They're always so awesome.ReplyDeleteReplies
About a minute. It's a good exercise in thinking up something unique and quick on the spot. :)Delete


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Bumper Bubba Wallace gave Michael McDowell after Bristol crash will be auctioned off for charity
Michael McDowell is going to raise some money for charity with the gift that Bubba Wallace gave him.
McDowell crashed Wallace out of Wednesday night's All-Star Race qualifier. A frustrated Wallace then left the front bumper of his car at McDowell's team hauler.
Friday, McDowell's team announced that the bumper would be auctioned off to benefit Motor Racing Outreach, a charitable organization that serves those in the NASCAR garage on race weekends.
"Everyone has an opinion of what happened," McDowell said in the release announcing the auction. "I have my side of things, Bubba has his and all of the fans have theirs, too. It's one of the reasons NASCAR wanted to go to Bristol for the All-Star race. We created the excitement and now fans can make a difference and own a piece of history."
It's pretty clear that McDowell's car turned left on the straightaway to hook Wallace. You can judge for yourself if that was an intentional act or just a mistake from a professional race car driver. Wallace had bumped McDowell seconds earlier when he made a pass for position.
"What a joke he is." @BubbaWallace on @Mc_Driver. pic.twitter.com/3l2RIloWqH
— NASCAR Alerts (@NASCAR_Alerts) July 15, 2020
"People say he's one of the nicest guys in the garage, can't wait for the God-fearing text that he's going to send me about preaching and praise and respect," Wallace told Fox after the race "What a joke he is."
Wallace does not, however, believe the auction is a joke. He supported the idea on social media.
When life gives you lemons, auction them off and raise money for @FollowMRO. May not agree to what happened on track, but we can agree on a positive outcome from the situation. https://t.co/F8cyXdjEmv
— Bubba Wallace (@BubbaWallace) July 17, 2020
Wallace was a contender to make the All-Star Race either with a stage win in the qualifying race or via the fan vote, a vote that he led when NASCAR released the in-progress results ahead of the race. But since his car was destroyed in the crash he was ineligible to get voted into the main event won by Chase Elliott.
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If you are looking to change a particular setting on Windows but you are unsure whether such a setting even exist or where to find it, Group Policy Search will come to your help.
This online solution made available by Microsoft allows you to easily find existing Group Policies and registry keys for different settings under Windows. You can either browse through the tree structure to find the settings you are looking for or use the search box to find them.
You can also switch from the Group Policy view to Registry view, where you can see the corresponding registry key/value. Once you have found the registry key or Policy name you were looking for, you can quickly copy the Policy name or registry values using the Copy menu.
You can also specify for which products you want to search. For instance, if you select IE7, it will find all policies which are usable with IE7, or you can select Windows 7 and hide all policies for Windows XP and Windows Vista.
If you want an offline registry search tool, checkout this downloadable registry guide.


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Trash & Recycling
General RulesGeneral guidelines and rules of trash and recycling are:
- City regulations require bags to be tied and large empty boxes to be flattened and bundled. There is no limit on bags of grass or leaves.
- Contents in containers placed out for pickup must weigh 50 pounds or less. Bags that are too heavy to lift without tearing will be left. Bulky items such as large household furniture, beds, chairs, etc., must be set three feet or closer to the curb for collection on your regular pickup day.
- Curb Side Pickup – The city's contract requires pick up of refuse from the curb side. If a resident is disabled, Waste Management will pick up the trash from the front of the residence for a short time until arrangements can be made for a family or neighbor to get the trash to the curb
- Garbage or trash should be in plastic bags 50 pounds or less or a container (50 gallons or less and weigh 50 pounds or less) with adequate handles for lifting and a tight fitting lid
- It shall be unlawful for a person, owner, owner's agent, or occupant to set out or allow to be set out any garbage or trash for collection before 4:00 pm of the day prior to the day of collection or allow to remain at or near the curb (including emptied trash cans) after 7:00 am on the day after scheduled for collection
- Place all items three feet or closer to the curb for collection
- Place refuse outside of any enclosure and at ground level. No refuse to be placed on vehicles
- Trash containers should not exceed 50 gallons. The preferred method of refuse collection is bags
- Trash misses or complaints should be called in directly to Waste Management at (913) 631-3300. If you experience a continued problem with trash service or have other complaints about your trash service, please call the City Clerk's office at (913) 667-1716
Drop Off Locations and Additional Recycling Information
Curbside Recycling Information
Waste Management Recycling Information
Metro Recycling Centers


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#include <err.h>
#include <fnmatch.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, const char* argv[]) {
size_t num_as;
char* p;
setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF8");
if (argc < 2) {
errx(1, "Missing argument.");
num_as = atoi(argv[1]);
if (num_as < 5) {
errx(1, "Need 5.");
p = malloc(num_as);
if (!p) {
errx(1, "malloc() failed.");
memset(p, 'A', num_as);
p[num_as - 1] = '\0';
p[0] = 'f';
p[1] = 'o';
p[2] = 'o';
p[3] = '.';
fnmatch("*.anim[1-9j]", p, 0);
return 0;
./a.out 3000000
Segmentation fault
(If your default max stack size is greater than the default 8MB then you may
need a larger number)
I chatted to some people and they suggested that there's probably a missing
__libc_use_alloca() somewhere.
This was the source of a nasty Chromium bug which was worked around for now.
[Random aside: I can't seem to find the default value for __libc_alloca_cutoff
but if it is > PAGE_SIZE then that in of itself would cause serious issues since
most people don't compile glibc with -fstack-check, combined with the fact that
pthread stacks by default are separated with a single guard page]
I cannot reproduce any problem. I did check in changes to keep the alloca use
*** Bug 260998 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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The spread of teleworking According to DARES[1], during the 2020 spring lockdown, 25% of employees in France were teleworking full time, compared to the previous (...)
As millions of Europeans were asked to work from home to help curb COVID-19 infection rates, the long running debate on the optimal work-life (...)
Can real estate permanently escape this gloom that is spreading to France? At the end of Simi, all indicators are green. The sector is the (...)
Cain International's acquisition of a €225m Spanish office portfolio from Merlin Properties this week shows, quite separate from the deal itself, just how deep (...)
Real estate investment in non-capital cities has been a trend that has taken a few years to catch on in some countries. Turning the (...)
For the first time, Expo Real 2019 in Munich fell in the midst of the year-end spurt for German real estate. Usually, the trade (...)
Watershed moments are difficult to pick. But the one we are passing through in European real estate is benefiting regional cities, with France right (...)
The Berlin Senate has opted for the rent cap (Mietendeckel), according to which, among other things, rents may not be increased for five years. (...)
Even if the direct benefits of the European Union for the real estate industry are not immediately apparent, the EU has a major impact (...)
The initiative Expropriate German Housing & Combat Speculation aims to expropriate private homeowners with more than 3,000 apartments in Berlin. On the agenda are (...)
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Crisis, what crisis? Where are the bubbles? Well, they continued to sparkle in the champagne glasses in Cannes this year. Mipim is always a solid (...)
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The property cycle is at or near the top, most ULI Europe attendees think. But gloom is not rife. Time to adjust strategies, assess (...)
A few hours after the clapper board sounded the end of the 2018 edition of Simi, the French real estate community's annual trade fair, (...)
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The participation of Germany's Vonovia and Zurich's Swiss Life in the winning bid for French SNCF's housing portfolio is good for Europe, good for France – (...)


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I didn't realize that ten minutes could change someone's life permanently.
I didn't realize the harm that could be caused by someone who abuses a child.
I didn't realize that the person who I had come to befriend had battled with suicidal thoughts and attempts for my whole lifetime.
I didn't realize that when I first went up to Albany to advocate for the Child Victim's Act, that I would see the world and certainly people differently.
I didn't realize how long, deep, and permanent the damage is of children who have been abused.
I didn't realize the extent of the problem.
I didn't realize that it was systemic.
I didn't realize how many communities and organizations have allowed this to happen.
I didn't realize that most children have no idea that they are being abused nor that they had been abused until age 40.
I didn't realize that New York State only allows until age 23 for a young adolescent to prosecute their aggressor.
I didn't realize how uncomfortable it makes people to talk about abuse.
I didn't realize.
But now I do.
New York State is one of the two states with the worst laws for children who have been sexually abused. Currently, individuals have until age 23 to file a claim against their abuser. The Child Victim's Act would extend the statue to age 28 in criminal cases and age 50 in civil ones. But the bill has been stalled from coming to a vote on the New York Senate floor for more than a decade.
We are not protecting these victims.
This year, Governor Cuomo has made his support known to all. The State Assembly passed the CVA. The last hurdle was the state senate.
What stands in the way? According to what I've gathered from Assembly people and their staff on multiple trips to Albany this year, it is the Religious Right. Our own.
Large institutions on the Religious Right fear the number of claims that would be filed against them by adults who were abused as children if the statue were to be extended to age 28 or 50. These institutions have silently (or, not so silently) put pressure on the senate to prevent the bill from coming to a vote.
If you didn't realize, now you do. It takes a village to enable child sex abuse.
Please do not stand by silently. Contact your New York State Senate representative and urge them to bring the Child Victim's Act to a vote during the senate's next session.
Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, PhD is the Executive Director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance.
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04 Sep 2020
PHLEBOLYMPHEDEMA: A hidden side of advanced vein disease
By Bryan Groleau COTA/L, CLT-LANA, WCC, LLE Over the last decade, oncology surgeons have succeeded in reducing the frequency and severity of oncology related lymphedema through dramatic improvements in axillary treatment. The days of vast radical mastectomies are gone. For years surgeons have been removing fewer lymph
03 Sep 2020
By Manu Aggarwal, MD It has been almost three years since we added lymphedema therapy treatments to our vein practice at Vein Care Center Laser Specialists. In this time, we have had trained (via Norton School of Lymphedema) two certified lymphedema therapists (CLTs), both part-time and both originally occupational therapists.


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Toronto Grand Prix Tourist - A Toronto Blog
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Toronto FC races to the bottom
The #Toronto FC professional soccer club has enjoyed a solid losing 2012 season as they sit at the bottom of the 19 team league standings with zero points. I think that they have spent too much time asking themselves WWLD or "What Would the Leafs Do?" And the answer is .... lose.
Toronto now sits at zero points or dead last in the Eastern Conference and even the bottom team in the Western Conference has points. On Saturday May 5 the FC hosted DC United where they lost 0-2. MLS noted that "Both sides went into the match aware that they needed to defend better than they have been. United was coming off a 5-3 loss at San Jose on Wednesday. Toronto's defensive woes were obvious for most of the season with 16 goals against in their first seven games. United did a better job of it."
I dropped by the stadium to see the stands fill with fans hoping for the best and plenty of people cheering for United - some with some giant flags and banners.
Wednesday May 9 will be Toronto's chance to earn some much needed points on their climb to the top as they play Montreal Impact at BMO field in Exhibition Place (8pm). I hope to see you there.
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Today's MediaPost featured an article (reg. req'd) about Fox starting to use MySpace to promote a new show, "Free Ride." It had begun to cleverly "seed" the campaign by creating character profiles on MySpace last month and now there are going to be full-blown ads. In addition, the new network being developed by Fox, "My Network TV," will be similarly promoted on MySpace.
It's too back Fox doesn't have a show called "backlash," because that would be a perfect promotional tie-in. Here's a Wired piece (just the latest in a series) that documents the growing PR problems of the much celebrated youth site.
I wrote more generally about the PR problems of MySpace here.
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It's taken a while (well, a few weeks, but we're impatient like that) and we've finally got our hands on it. The Punisher. Without a shadow of doubt the most surprising thing about the game is that it's violent. Exceptionally so.
You already knew that, you say? We've got news for you. You may have read the words. You may have seen the screenshots. But it's only once the on-screen uber-violence is being directed by your very own sticky fingers that your jaw will finally drop at the gruesomeness of this claret carnival.
And rightly so: this is shaping up to be one of the most brutal videogames we've ever experienced. Granted, at heart it's a relatively straightforward third-person shooter, with a couple of snazzy add-ons including a Max Payne-esque dodge-dive and a zoomed, arm-mounted camera that works with all weapons.
But, more than this, it's a pitch perfect comic book realisation, where scenes of the cheesy and unrealistic are intermingled with action that would have the owner of an X-rated shop looking away in disgust. When we visited the studios of US-based developers Volition, they even hinted to us that the PAL version will probably be the goriest of the lot.
Apparently the inhumanity fests that are the Environmental Kills are a little too violent for the certificate they're aiming for in the 'land of the free' so they will be viewed in non-bloodlust-quenching black and white, Kill Bill style. Over here, it's safe to say that the game will be drenched in the red stuff and an 18 certificate is a dead cert. (Sorry.)
The Environmental Kills are the showpiece post-interrogation executions that have been earning the game a nice (or rather, nasty) little reputation: Punisher can identify characters with crucial information (from plot revelations to door codes and the like) and, wouldn't you know it, they always seem to be standing foolishly close to wood-chippers, industrial lasers, deep fat fryers, tanks of piranhas and... the list goes on. There are over 70 of these, uh, 'attractions' in the full game.
It's a simple case of grabbing the perp, dragging him over there and bashing the action key. Actually extracting info from the poor saps is a more delicate process - you have to gently move the joystick up and down to keep the stress levels of your victim high, without being overly enthusiastic and accidentally bringing them to a premature demise.
This has a direct effect on screen: for instance, with the piranha tank, you'll slowly be forcing the face of the hapless crim toward the tank, trying to hold it those crucial few inches above the waters surface, ever aware that the superbly cynical design of the control system coupled with your own nerves might result in a twitch of the thumb and then...
Thankfully though, all is not lost if you fail to extract the information, stuff it up and waste the sucker. Instead of a game over-and-repeat process, the game features a back-up system that means you can usually find another way to get through the level without that crucial elevator code or card-key - it'll just be a damn sight harder.