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University of Florida
Location: Gainesville, Florida
Website: http://www.ufl.edu
Type: Public
Federal Circuit: 11th Circuit
Speech Code Rating
University of Florida has been given the speech code rating Green. Green light institutions are those colleges and universities whose policies nominally protect free speech. Read more here.
University of Florida: Reaffirmation of Right to Show Documentary
November 29, 2007
The University of Florida drew criticism from FIRE after the administration was critical of students promoting an event showing the controversial film "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West." Several student groups-including UF's Law School Republicans, College Republicans, Jewish Student Union, and Jewish Law Students Association-had posted fliers to advertise a November 13, 2007, screening of the film. The fliers used the headline, "RADICAL ISLAM WANTS YOU DEAD." Vice President for Student Affairs Patrica Telles-Irvin e-mailed all students at UF stating that "the groups that posted [the fliers] owe the campus, and particularly campus members of the Islamic faith, an […]» Read More
University Regulations: Campus Demonstrations
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: November 17, 2017
Demonstrations may be held anywhere on the campus, so long as they do not disrupt the normal operation of the University or infringe on the rights of other members of the University community, except that no demonstrations are permitted inside University buildings.
Institutional Diversity & Equity: Sexual Harassment
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: November 17, 2017
Sexual Harassment is a form of sex discrimination that can occur when: … Unwelcome physical acts of a sexual nature, unwelcome requests for sexual favors, or other verbal conduct of a sexual nature have the effect of creating an objectively hostile environment that interferes with employment or education on account of sex.
Student Conduct Code: Philosophy and Definitions
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: November 17, 2017
As an educational institution, the University recognizes that the transmission of knowledge, the pursuit of truth, and the development of individuals require the free exchange of ideas on any subject whether or not controversial, self-expression, and the challenging of beliefs and customs.
Student Conduct Code: Scope and Violations
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: November 17, 2017
Verbal or written threats, coercion or any other conduct that by design, intent or recklessness places another individual in reasonable fear of physical harm through words or actions directed at that person, or creates a hostile environment in which others are unable reasonably to conduct or participate in work, education, research, living, or other activities, including but not limited to stalking, cyber-stalking, and racial harassment.
Stop Bias: Bias Education & Response Team
Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
Last updated: November 17, 2017
The purpose of the Bias Education and Response Team (BERT) is to provide impacted parties of bias incidents opportunities to be heard and supported; understand and respond to situations that effect the University of Florida; educate and inform the community; and create awareness of ignorance and intolerance. The BERT provides services to witness(es), bystander(s), targeted individual(s), offender(s), or a member(s) of the community. It is not the purpose of the Bias Education and Response Team to investigate, adjudicate, or to take the place of other University of Florida processes or services; rather, the aim is to complement and work with campus entities to connect impacted parties and communities with appropriate support and resources.
Division of Student Affairs: Sexual Harassment FAQ
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: November 17, 2017
What is sexual harassment? Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for favors, and/or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when: … Viewed from an objective standard, the conduct is sufficiently serious that it affects an individual's ability to participate in or benefit from an education program or activity, or creates an intimidating, threatening or abusive educational or work environment.
What are some examples of behavior that could lead to a claim of sexual harassment?
- Making sexual propositions, invitations, or creating pressure for sexual activity
- Touching, fondling, kissing, patting or hugging another person without permission
- Coerced sexual intercourse, sexual battery or other unlawful sexual misconduct
This list of examples is not meant to be exhaustive. Whether a particular set of circumstances equate to sexual harassment depends on many factors to be evaluated on a case by case basis.
How to Respond to Richard Spencer
October 19, 2017
By Will Creeley at The New York Times. The white nationalist Richard Spencer is scheduled to give a speech at the University of Florida on Thursday. It is to be his first campus event since he and other members of the alt-right marched through the University of Virginia in August, wielding torches and shouting Nazi-era slogans… Read more here.» Read More
Fit to Print: Campus Journalists Face Down Those who Want to Stop the Presses
April 13, 2016
By Matthew Kassel at Observer It has been a tumultuous year or so for student journalists. Around the country, they've have had to contend with campus protesters and school officials who frame the concept of a free press in opposition to notions of politically correct speech… Read more here.» Read More
University Rebukes Instructor Who Banned 'Mom,' 'Dad' and Other Gendered Words from Class
February 17, 2016
By Peter Maxwell at The College Fix The University of Florida's stellar free-speech rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education may be at risk of slipping. Read more here.» Read More
Professor Forbids Terms 'Husband' and 'Wife' Because They're not 'Inclusive'
February 8, 2016
By Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix Slippery slope, meet Professor Jennifer Lee. … Read more here.» Read More
Prof Bans Students From Saying 'Husband' Or 'Wife' Because It's Not 'Inclusive'
February 5, 2016
By Peter Hasson at The Daily Caller In just the latest instance of taxpayer-funded censorship, students in one University of Florida course have been banned from using words such as "husband," "wife," "mom," or dad" in the classroom and risk losing points off their grade if they don't comply. … Read more here.» Read More
UF Eliminates All "Speech Codes"
December 15, 2014
By Jeff Schweers at The Gainesville Sun Colleges and universities across the nation are adopting policies that restricts students' speech rights as part of the White Houses's crackdown on campus sexual assaults, The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education said in its annual report. But UF is not among those. "Most universities continue to enforce speech codes that don't satisfy First Amendment standards," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said in a released statement. "For the seventh consecutive year, however, the percentage of speech codes has dropped, and we're happy to see that." Fifty-five percent of 437 colleges and universities surveyed by […]» Read More
University of Florida Gets Speech-Friendly Designation from Student Rights' Group
August 13, 2014
By Greg Piper at The College Fix Just three months after it started working with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education to revise policies, the University of Florida has earned the student rights' group's highest rating for free-speech protection on campus. FIRE and the university said in a joint statement Wednesday that the new "green-light" designation is only the 19th granted by FIRE. Arizona State University, Dartmouth College, James Madison University and Oregon State University are among other green-light institutions. The designation means UF has "eliminated all of its speech codes," FIRE and the school said. Jen Day Shaw, UF dean of students, said […]» Read More
Conservative study lauds university system, pans admin costs
June 19, 2013
by Jeff Schweers The Gainesville Sun A conservative Florida think tank commends Florida's university system for offering an affordable and quality higher education for students during a deep economic downturn and state budget cuts. But it also criticizes the system for the growth in administrative costs and salaries, and for policies that appear to restrict student speech and academic freedom. "Florida Rising: An Assessment of Public Universities in the Sunshine State," a report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni and The James Madison Institute, looked at 11 public four-year undergraduate programs in the state university system. It's […]» Read More
McCollum blasts UF over free speech
December 12, 2007
No stranger to free speech issues of late, University of Florida officials are now under fire for criticizing students who recently hung fliers on campus reading "Radical Islam Wants You Dead." State Attorney General Bill McCollum claims UF officials stifled free speech by asking the students who posted the fliers to apologize for offending Muslims. In a Dec. 3 letter, McCollum accused Patricia Telles-Irvin, UF's vice president for student affairs, of creating a "chilling effect on the free speech rights of students." McCollum's office said as late as Tuesday that he was still unsatisfied with UF's response to his concerns, and he […]» Read More
Campus controversy
March 9, 2006
A Georgia man told "dead baby jokes" for more than an hour on the University of Florida's campus Wednesday while protesting an anti-abortion display. Then he went too far, in the view of UF administrators. Joined by a UF student, Matthew Jones held a plastic tarp in front of an anti-abortion display, partially obstructing pictures of aborted fetuses, lynchings and acts of genocide exhibited on display behind him. Before University Police Department officers prevailed upon Jones to lower the tarp, he said he was protesting the "disgusting images" brought to UF by a group called the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform. […]» Read More
Free speech can provoke
October 5, 2005
The First Amendment has been getting a workout in recent weeks on two college campuses — the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — where students are learning that free speech is a messy business. The two cases, one involving a columnist at UNC and the other a political cartoonist at UF, have inflamed minority groups — Muslims and blacks, respectively — provoking protests and debate. That's the good news insofar as protest and debate are the currency of free speech. What's not such good news is that the columnist was fired, while the […]» Read More
UF flag flap: Patriotism or politics?
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Shouting down speakers doesn't work
October 24, 2017
Our nation's commitment to the principles and ideals of free speech is most often tested in the face of expression that many people reject as repugnant and harmful. So it was when the federal government attempted to stifle communist expression during the Red Scare and the Cold War. So it was in the 1970s, when the National Socialist Party of America wanted to march through Skokie. So it was in the 1990s and 2000s, when cross burnings drew the attention of state and local governments. And so it is now, when white nationalist and alt-right figure Richard Spencer has embarked […]» Read More
Public colleges, the cancellation of white nationalist events, and the First Amendment
August 16, 2017
As the nation reels from the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, two public colleges this week have canceled or disallowed campus events featuring white nationalist Richard Spencer. Yesterday, Texas A&M University canceled a "White Lives Matter" event, featuring Spencer, planned for Sept. 11. This morning, the University of Florida denied a request from Spencer's organization, the National Policy Institute, to rent campus facilities. FIRE defends the expressive rights of college students and faculty. Neither the Texas A&M event nor the University of Florida event involved students or faculty. (The Texas A&M event was planned by an alumnus; the University of Florida […]» Read More
Universities Give Students Frightening Halloween Assignment: Pick a Costume
October 31, 2016
Is your "exhausted undergrad" costume ready for tonight's festivities? That might be one of the frighteningly few outfit choices remaining if you attend a university expecting you to avoid "cultural appropriation" this year. And beware: The rules are petrifyingly hard to follow. While institutions are well within their rights to suggest costume considerations to their students, in practice, young adults are choosing their outfits these days under unprecedented levels of scrutiny. This year, these regulations/"suggestions" have come in a variety of forms, including handouts, seminars, and even a "Simple Costume Racism Evaluation and Assessment Meter (or SCREAM)" modeled after the […]» Read More
Student Government Commends U. of Florida for Earning 'Green Light' Rating
May 7, 2015
Last August, the University of Florida (UF) revised its policies to eliminate all undue restrictions on student free speech rights, becoming the 19th institution to earn FIRE's highest Spotlight rating—a "green light." (Last month, George Mason University became the 20th.) It's encouraging to see the number of green light schools grow, and just as encouraging to see the response from students. This semester, three members of the UF student government worked to pass a resolution commending UF's administration for partnering with FIRE to reform their speech codes: WHEREAS, the exemplary and enduring work of the Dean of Students Office (DSO) […]» Read More
'Las Vegas Review-Journal' Tells UNLV to Commit to Free Speech
September 4, 2014
Yesterday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal published an editorial lamenting that students are returning to college campuses where free speech too often falls victim to speech codes. As the editorial notes, opposition to the First Amendment is all too common on campus. Using FIRE's recent case at the University of Oregon as an example, where a student was hit with five conduct charges for a four-word joke ("I hit it first"), the Review-Journal points out that many universities enforce broad harassment policies against their students in an attempt to create an environment of tolerance. FIRE rightly and specifically noted that the […]» Read More
Azhar Majeed's Simple Message to College Administrators: End Censorship, or Else
September 3, 2014
My colleague Azhar Majeed, Director of FIRE's Individual Rights Education Program, published an op-ed in The Huffington Post yesterday with an important back-to-school message for college administrators: Eliminate speech codes, or get ready to head to court.» Read More
Modesto Junior College's Lawyer: Colleges, Dump Your Speech Codes
August 22, 2014
Every advocate dreams of winning over an opponent, but it rarely happens. It's just possible, though, that FIRE might have done so. David Urban of the law firm Liebert Cassidy Whitmore has written a thorough and insightful post on his firm's blog advising colleges and universities to review their speech-related policies to insulate themselves from the threat of litigation—like FIRE's new Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project.» Read More
University of Florida Earns FIRE's Highest Rating for Free Speech
August 13, 2014
GAINESVILLE, Fla., August 13, 2014—The University of Florida (UF) has eliminated all of its speech codes, earning the highest, "green light" rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). After working with FIRE to ensure its policies comply with the First Amendment, UF has joined a select group of colleges and universities nationwide to earn FIRE's most favorable rating for free speech on campus.» Read More
Student Spotlight: Kelly Barber, a Leader for Liberty and Student Rights at U. of Florida
April 22, 2014
Kelly Barber stands out as a leader at the University of Florida (UF) and has been actively involved with FIRE, most recently attending FIRE's Leaders in Student Rights Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. Kelly, now a member of Students For Liberty's North American Executive Board, says she experienced the undeniable benefits of free and open debate when she began attending College Libertarian meetings, where she was "blown away by the environment of integrity, critical thinking, and tolerance they created" that allowed students "to exchange ideas on a level much higher than anything I ever experienced in classes."» Read More
Why Free Press Shouldn't Have a Price
July 30, 2012
Shelli Gimelstein is a FIRE summer intern. Next to squirrels and Apple products, student newspapers are perhaps the most ubiquitous items on a college campus. You can see them peeking out of backpacks during the morning rush to class, sticking out amid a sea of coffee cups in the study lounge, or lying flat on lecture hall chairs as students sneak glances at the headlines while taking notes. So why are some universities and state commissions treating student newspapers — a staple of campus life that students rely on to know what's really going on at their school — like […]» Read More
U of Florida Seems to Have Control Issues When it Comes to Student Newspapers
July 19, 2012
This is an odd one. A controversy is brewing at the University of Florida over the administration's demand that century-old student newspaper The Independent Florida Alligator remove 19 of its signature orange newspaper racks from campus. Why is this happening? I have no idea, and the Alligator doesn't seem to either. Here's a segment of the Alligator article on this development, interspersed with my comments and questions: During Fall 2009, administrators proposed to UF's Board of Trustees a rule that would prohibit distribution of all publications on campus unless approved by the UF vice president for business affairs, according to […]» Read More
Compelling 'Civility'
June 1, 2012
Earlier this week, an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) discussed the growing popularity on college campuses of programs aimed at promoting civility. While one might reasonably ask whether there is a connection between exorbitant tuition rates, administrative bloat, and programs such as the "transformational, saturation approach" civility projects discussed in the article, there is no problem from an individual rights standpoint with colleges promoting civility. The individual rights problem, which the article barely even hints at, is that a large number of colleges and universities actually compel civility rather than simply encouraging it. The article focuses […]» Read More
University of Florida Revises 2011 Speech Code of the Year; Many Problems Remain
January 12, 2012
Just one day after FIRE announced that the University of Florida (UF) maintained the only remaining Speech Code of the Year for 2011, UF deleted the offending language from its policy. UF earned co-Speech Code of the Year "honors" for its Student Rights and Responsibilities policy, which warned students that "Organizations or individuals that adversely upset the delicate balance of communal living will be subject to disciplinary action." Precisely what would be deemed to upset this undefined "delicate balance"—and, therefore, what students would be punished for saying or doing—was left completely to the discretion of administrators. This impermissible vagueness meant […]» Read More
Victory for Free Speech: California's Chico State Scraps Unconstitutional 'Speech Code of the Year'
January 4, 2012
Today's press release announces a welcome victory: After FIRE named California State University-Chico's definition of sexual harassment one of two "Speech Codes of the Year" for 2011, the university has scrapped the language in question. As of mid-December 2011, Chico State maintained an informational page on sexual harassment stating that faculty members committed sexual harassment if they "implicitly devalue[d] students for their gender or sexual orientation." Examples of such harassment included "reinforcement of sexist stereotypes through subtle, often unintentional means," including the use of "stereotypic generalizations" and the "continual use of generic masculine terms such as to refer to people […]» Read More
Speech Codes of the Year: 2011
December 27, 2011
Each month, FIRE singles out a particularly reprehensible campus speech code for our Speech Code of the Month designation. While all of 2011's Speech Codes of the Month flagrantly violated students' and faculty members' right to free expression, two of them were so egregious that they deserve special mention as 2011's Speech Codes of the Year. University of Florida. According to the University of Florida's Student Rights and Responsibilities policy, "Organizations or individuals that adversely upset the delicate balance of communal living will be subject to disciplinary action by the University." If there has ever been a textbook example of […]» Read More
Speech Code of the Month: University of Florida
April 1, 2011
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for April 2011: The University of Florida. According to the University of Florida's (UF's) Student Rights and Responsibilities policy, "Organizations or individuals that adversely upset the delicate balance of communal living will be subject to disciplinary action by the University." Come again? If there has ever been a textbook illustration of unconstitutional vagueness, this policy is it. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that laws must "give a person of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to know what is prohibited, so that he may act accordingly," or else they are unconstitutionally vague. […]» Read More
Former Student Wins Public Records Suit Against University of Florida
January 18, 2011
The Independent Florida Alligator reports that a Florida state court has ruled in favor of University of Florida (UF) graduate Frank Bracco, who filed suit against the university after it denied him access to video and audio recordings of UF Student Senate meetings. UF had claimed that the recordings were confidential educational records under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The court rejected this contention, finding that UF's actions were in violation of Florida's public records law. Read the full story here.» Read More
Victory for Religious Liberty at University of Florida, But Freedom of Association Still in Jeopardy
February 4, 2009
University of Florida (UF) has revised its student organization policy to recognize the right of religious organizations to limit membership and leadership positions to those who share the group's religious beliefs. This policy might sound obvious, but it is not. Student affairs officials often get confused about religious freedom and the freedom of association. They mistakenly believe that the university's non-discrimination policy trumps the First Amendment. While a non-discrimination policy may be well-intentioned, it may not be enforced at a public university against the religious or political beliefs of a student organization. Likewise, any private university that truly values liberty […]» Read More
The strange case of 'Obsession' at the University of Florida
January 28, 2008
You know how colleges and universities write themselves off as bastions of free and controversial thought? Ha. Funny story. A couple of months ago, a number of student groups at the University of Florida-including the College Republicans, the UF Law School Republicans, the Jewish Student Union, Gators for Israel, and the Jewish Law Students Association-planned a showing of the documentary Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. In an effort to promote the film, the groups posted flyers with the headline "Radical Islam Wants you Dead." One familiar with the sensitive culture on contemporary college campuses probably knows where this […]» Read More
Florida Throws In the Towel
December 14, 2007
It seems that the administration at the University of Florida (UF) has completely capitulated in its conflict with the First Amendment. Last month, several student groups at UF posted flyers advertising the showing of a movie about Islamic terrorism with the headline, "RADICAL ISLAM WANTS YOU DEAD." In response, Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin e-mailed all UF students, writing that the student groups "owe the campus, and particularly campus members of the Islamic faith, an apology and a clarification." Dr. Telles-Irvin backed away from her claim that the students must apologize after FIRE wrote a letter defending the […]» Read More
University of Florida Victory on FOXNews.com
December 12, 2007
FIRE's victory at the University of Florida was featured in a news brief on FOXNews.com's Special Report with Brit Hume. Click here for the full text of the article.» Read More
Coming attractions
December 12, 2007
A student advocacy group reports an administrator at the University of Florida has backed down after demanding an apology from a students showing a movie about radical Islam. Several student groups advertised a screening of a film called "Obsession—Radical Islam's War Against the West." On the fliers was the phrase—"Radical Islam wants you dead." Florida vice president for student affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin e-mailed all students and said the groups owe the campus, and particularly Muslim students, an apology. But the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education quickly reminded Telles-Irvin that the flier was unquestionably protected free speech under the constitution. […]» Read More
Victory for Free Speech at the University of Florida
December 10, 2007
After FIRE and the Attorney General of Florida intervened, the University of Florida (UF) has lifted its pressure on student groups to apologize for putting up posters advertising the film "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West." Several student groups—including UF's Law School Republicans, College Republicans, Jewish Student Union, and Jewish Law Students Association—had put up the posters to advertise a November 13, 2007, screening of the film. The posters used the headline, "RADICAL ISLAM WANTS YOU DEAD." On November 26, Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin e-mailed all students at Florida a letter entitled "Official Response to a […]» Read More
Victory for Free Speech at the University of Florida
December 10, 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla., December 10, 2007—Student groups at the University of Florida (UF) will be allowed to freely promote the controversial film "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" following a controversy with the school's administration. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) intervened after a university official e-mailed the student body demanding an apology from the student groups sponsoring the film. "The University of Florida chilled expression on campus when it publicly demanded an apology from student groups simply for promoting a film," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. "Now, all students have been assured that UF will support their […]» Read More
Florida Attorney General Challenges University of Florida on Free Speech
December 5, 2007
On Monday, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum wrote the University of Florida (UF) about the "chilling effect on the free speech rights of students" caused by an official letter sent to all students by Dr. Patricia Telles-Irvin, UF's Vice President for Student Affairs. Telles-Irvin had taken issue with the posters that students had put up for the movie Obsession using the headline "RADICAL ISLAM WANTS YOU DEAD." She wrote that "the groups that posted [the posters] owe the campus … an apology and a clarification." McCollum wrote: By not only criticizing the ad, but also calling on the groups that […]» Read More
Different Angles on the UF Tasering
September 18, 2007
One thing I'll readily admit is that as more video of the incident surfaces, the situation looks a lot worse for University of Florida student Andrew Meyer, the student tasered by UF police for disrupting a speech by John Kerry and resisting arrest. In this video you see that he was being quite disruptive, and that he was resisting arrest. It demonstrates that the university police had reason to be concerned. In this video, you get a longer view of the incident, and you get to see him dazed, confused and more than a little unhinged afterwards. I was fully […]» Read More
Florida college student tasered at John Kerry campus forum
September 18, 2007
A University of Florida student who was arrested and Tasered during a forum featuring Sen. John Kerry not only touched off a national debate about campus free speech but also a discussion on whether campus police went too far. A judge released Andrew Meyer, 21, a student at the University of Florida, from jail Tuesday on his own recognizance. A phone call seeking comment from Meyer's attorney, Robert Griscti, was not returned. A video of the incident shows Meyer, a journalism student, trying repeatedly and heatedly to ask Kerry why he conceded the 2004 election after multiple reports of disenfranchisement […]» Read More
Buckeyes vs. Gators: Clash of the (Unconstitutional) Titans
January 8, 2007
Tonight, millions of Americans will watch the Ohio State Buckeyes battle the Florida Gators for college football's national championship. Beverages and junk food will be consumed, face paint will be applied, and fight songs will be bellowed until voices go hoarse. (Indeed, I imagine that in many parts of Ohio and Florida, all of these things have already come to pass.) While commentators and fans will spend the next several hours trumpeting the various strengths of each squad, gamely debating whether Ohio State's Troy Smith is a more valuable quarterback than Florida's unconventional tandem of Chris Leak and Tim Tebow, […]» Read More
Policies are rated on their inclusion of 10 due process safeguards. Each policy may receive 2 points for fully including that safeguard, 1 point for partial inclusion, and 0 points for no meaningful inclusion. Most, but not all, institutions have separate policies for sexual misconduct and all other misconduct. See FIRE's Spotlight on Due Process report for more information.


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Sensegiving and wind power developmentRisberg, Annette; Corvellec, Herve (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This article intends to contribute to the conceptualising of organisational sensegiving. Based upon a qualitative analysis of how Swedish wind farm developers manage the permit application process for their projects, we describe in a first order analysis how they contextualise and ontologise their projects and defend them against criticisms. To emphasise the precarious conditions of agency that govern the activity of sensegivers, we introduce in a second order analysis the notion of mise-en-sens, a neologism that borrows both from the performing sens art notion of mise-en-scene and the fact that 'sens' can in French mean both meaning and direction. Mise-en-sens underscores that stage-setting and direction providing are key activities of wind farm developers. In our concluding remarks we even suggest that mise-en-sens could serve to describe the activity of others involved in sensegiving, for example project managers or entrepreneurs. Keywords: Mise-en-sens, sensegiving, wind power, infrastructure development URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7030
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En systemteoretisk analyse af offentlig meningsdannelseVallentin, Steen (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: .."the thesis tries to show how – with the appearance of the themes ethics and democracy – new conditions have evolved for the administration of the Danish pension fund investments. It should be emphasized that the thesis not only aims to provide a description of the Danish debate about ethical investments; it makes a separate contribution to systems theory. This contribution consists in a general presentation of Luhmann's theory (chapter 2) followed by discussions of Luhmann's concepts of risk (chapter 3), morality and ethics (chapter 4) and public and public opinion (chapter 5). In theoretical terms the contribution of the thesis lies in showing how Luhmann's systems theory can be used to describe and analyze public opinion formation in general and the debate about the Danish pension fund investments in particular. The thesis focuses on Danish developments but international developments are not ignored. To put Danish developments into perspective, a part of chapter 1 focuses on developments surrounding ethical – or socially responsible – investments in the US and the UK. Matters of definition, historical developments and praxis forms are presented and lead up to an overview of key events in the domestic debate. It is argued that the Danish debate – unlike the very individualistic anglo-saxon debate – has focused on collective matters. The debate has focused on institutions which make investment decisions on behalf of many – often hundreds of thousands of – people, institutions which do not operate in a free market setting. A brief description of Danish developments is followed by a summary of and further reflexions upon the analytical arguments of the thesis. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7131
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keywords in British political discourseWerther, Charlotte (København, 1997)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7021
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More than three years after drawing attention and visitors to the Dry River Canyon east of Bend in 2010, a lone Rocky Mountain goat continues to roam Newberry Crater.
The billy goat has been in the crater east of La Pine since the summer of 2010 — about three and a half years — and doesn't appear to be planning to leave.
Meanwhile, there's a new goat in the Dry River Canyon. Another billy goat arrived there about three weeks ago, said Corey Heath, Deschutes district wildlife biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. He said it's unclear how long the new goat will stay in the canyon.
"If I had to guess, I would say it is probably going to winter in the canyon and this spring it will move on," Heath said.
That's what the goat in 2010 did before finding his territory in Newberry Crater, which is home to Paulina and East lakes. Whether the goats end up in the same place remains to be seen.
It's likely the billies have already gone through a similar trek to bring them to Central Oregon, Heath said, dispersing as young males from a herd of mountain goats in the Elkhorn Mountains near Baker City. The goat in Newberry Crater is now nearly 6 years old, while the new goat in the canyon is likely about 2½ years old. Full-grown billy goats can be about 3½ feet tall at the shoulder and weigh as much as 250 pounds. The new goat is still growing and likely weighs about 150 pounds.
Rocky Mountain goats were wiped out in the area by the late 1800s as settlers moved into Oregon, according to ODFW. Since 1950, state wildlife officials have been reintroducing the animal around the state.
The herd of mountain goats in the Elkhorns, now numbering in the hundreds, started with 21 transplant goats from Idaho, Washington and Alaska, according to the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. They were let loose between 1983 and 1986.
More recently, ODFW and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs teamed up to release mountain goats onto Mount Jefferson. They released 45 goats in July 2010 and another 24 goats in July 2012.
Those goats are closer to Dry River Canyon than the Elkhorn herd. Mount Jefferson is about 60 miles to the northwest and the Elkhorns are more than 120 miles to the northeast, but Heath said the two billies that have shown up at Dry River Canyon are likely from the Elkhorns.
He says this because the goats didn't have an ear tag or radio collar. All the goats released onto Mount Jefferson have ear tags and many carried radio collars.
While the billy from 2010 didn't enter the canyon with a collar, he left with one. He's had it since March 2010. Heath said ODFW officials haven't decided whether to collar the new goat. Doing so disturbs the animal, which the agency is trying to avoid.
Heath asked the public to also give the goat his space.
His advice to people who want to see the goat in Dry River Canyon: "Just stay as far away as you can," he said. "Look at it through optics."
He does expect the goat to draw interested visitors to the canyon.
"People aren't used to seeing mountain goats in this part of the state in modern times," he said.
Among the people excited about another goat in the canyon is Brent Fenty, executive director of the Oregon Natural Desert Association. The Bend-based nonprofit helped lead the designation of the Badlands Wilderness, which is adjacent to Dry River Canyon. The canyon is on land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management and is subject to a closure from Feb. 1 until Aug. 31. The closure, which covers the 3.2-mile trail on the canyon bottom, is to protect sensitive wildlife while they breed, according to the BLM.
While just a white speck among the dark rocked cliffs, the goat might be spotted from the canyon overlook off U.S. Highway 20 by Horse Ridge. The goat from 2010 was also often seen from this vantage point.
"It's a rare opportunity to be able to drive up to an overlook and see a mountain goat," Fenty said.
Locals in 2010 called the goat "Witty," in honor of Jim Witty, The Bulletin's longtime outdoors reporter who died in 2008 at age 50, he said. The new goat doesn't yet have a name.
"I'm sure some people will want to put out some ideas," Fenty said. "We'll see what comes up."
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|Choosing the frequency -
The most important decision to be made when choosing an RFID system is the operating frequency as many of the characterisitics you require are defined by the laws of physics. This is particularly true for passive RFID systems( no battery in the transponder) where the laws of physics and local regulations regultate how much one can squeeze out of the performance. For passive transponders the operating frequency choices generally are 125Khz (magnetic), 13.56 MHz (magnetic), 860Mhz to 956 MHz (UHF) (electric) and 2.45GHz ( electric)
Magnetic coupled RFID transponder systems
Electric field RFID transponder systems
|Types of RFID systems
The first major catgeory of choice is between active and passive transponders. Active contain a battery to provide their energy, while passive extract energy from the energising field of the reader.Active and passive. For passive transponders a second category of choice is in the type of protocol, being either a Reader-talks-first(RTF) or a Tag-talks-first(TTF) protocol. RTF protocols generate much higher levels of interference compared to TTF protocols meaning fewer readers can operate in close proximity.Comparing protocols
|Uses of RFID systems
RFID systems are capable of providing "vision" to computer systems. This means they are found in applications where-ever information is to be gathered automatically for computer networks. RFID is the fourth leg of IT systems, after computers, networks and software. Applications are found in areas such as asset tracking, courier parcel tracking, tyre identification for hire cars, files and book monitoring in buildings, sports timing, logistics, laundry tagging for automatic processing in a centralised laundry, personnel access control, vehicle access control, toll roads, and even in labelling goods in a supermarket trolley. Typical uses of RFID
Unusual applications of RFID Technology
RFID at present is a rapidly changing technology. Originally transponders were expensive to produce and had very short operating ranges. Recent developments allow cheap UHF transponders to be made that can operate at distances further than 10 meters, read up to 1000 transponders in a zone at a time, and can be produced at prices that make it economical to use them for use in applications that need low price labelling. In this sections we detail trends that are occuring in this industry.Current trends in RFID applications
Future trends for RFID
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Following a widely shown demonstration of RFID being used to read the contents of a supermarket trolley (cart) in South Africa in 1994, it was realised that the ultimate application of RFID will be the automated scanning of the supermarket trolley.
Although this is now technically possible, the lack of production facilities to produce transponders in sufficient quantities means that this application is still many years away from reality.
"Is it possible to scan a supermarket trolley using RFID?" by Mike Marsh
Scanning systems for retail?
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Tests of the accuracy of RFID-radar and the development of long range transponders
The biggest and fastest item ever scanned with UHF RFID
Recycling for Active Tags and batteries by Dave Miller
Pushing the Range Boundaries in UHF Passive Tags by Mike Marsh
RFID Coal Tracking Technology By Deryck Lauf
A Modulating Retroreflector as a Passive Radar TransponderBy J.Thornton,D.J.Edwards.
Transponder's sensitivity - a new way to specify UHF transponders? by Mike Marsh
Dynamic Performance of Passive-Tag Inductive RFID Systems by Michael Beigel
Range versus power and frequency for passive electric coupled tags by Mike Marsh
Read range for Animal Transponders by S Farnham
Microwave ID by Staffan Gunnarsson
Performance of magnetic coupled Passive Injectable tags by Michael Beigel
Battery Technology choices for RFID Tags by Sol Jacobs
Process synchronisation using 2.45 GHz RFID by Staffan Gunnarsson
Improved logistics with 2.45 GHz RFID by Staffan Gunnarsson
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What is a Transponder/What are RFID systems
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Single bit, read only, read/write,smartcards and RFDC
Designing RFID systems by Mike Marsh
Communication issues for transponders
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The manufacturing challenge - Where are all those transponders going to come from?
Restrictive RFID power regulations and IT
Compatibility between the US and Europe radio frequency regions for International trade
Can RFID tags replace barcodes cost-effectively?
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The Daily Beast has a bizarre report that says two things. First, that Trump talked Michael Flynn into being his first National Security Advisor, a job he did not want. Second, that he wants to bring Flynn back if the investigation of him doesn't turn up anything.
President Donald Trump pressured a "reluctant" Michael Flynn into accepting a job as the White House's top national security official even after Flynn warned the president that he was under investigation over undisclosed lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, The Daily Beast has learned.
The president's continued loyalty to his ousted former aide is so strong, in fact, that the two have remained in touch despite the potential that their communication could be portrayed as White House interference in a federal investigation.
Now both men could pay a huge price for it.
"He did not want to be national security adviser," Michael Ledeen, a friend of the retired Army general, told The Daily Beast on Thursday. "He didn't want to be in the government. He wanted to go back to private life."
"But Trump insisted on it," said historian Ledeen, co-author of Flynn's 2016 book The Field of Fight, their manifesto for defeating Islamic militancy. "He likes him, he trusted him, he was comfortable with him," he said.
But Trump doesn't just hope that Flynn will beat the rap. Several sources close to Flynn and to the administration tell The Daily Beast that Trump has expressed his hopes that a resolution of the FBI's investigation in Flynn's favor might allow Flynn to rejoin the White House in some capacity—a scenario some of Trump's closest advisers in and outside the West Wing have assured him absolutely should not happen.
Those sources said Trump didn't believe Flynn should be under investigation in the first place.
"Trump feels really, really, really bad about firing him, and he genuinely thinks if the investigation is over Flynn can come back," said one White House official.
One former FBI official and a second government official said Trump thought he owed Flynn for how things ended up and was determined to clear Flynn's name and bring him back to the White House.
If that's true, it's craven and weird even for Trump. Regardless of whether he colluded with Russia during the campaign, we know that he was lobbying on behalf of Turkey without registering as a foreign lobbyist. We know that he was using his position of influence on behalf of Turkish dictator Erdogan. There's no way in hell he should be allowed anywhere near the White House.


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The Nature and Wonder of Heaven
from R.C. Sproul Dec 14, 2018 Category: ArticlesIn the book of Revelation, the Apostle John records the vision he received on the island of Patmos. In that vision, Christ showed John many things, including the new heaven and the new earth: Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the... Keep Reading
Celebrate Dads and Grads
from Karisa Schlehr May 21, 2009 Category: Ligonier ResourcesIt's a time of joyful celebration for students all over the world as graduates prepare for the next phase of life. We've put together this list of resources that will help guide these students in their faith as they head off to college, the work force, or other avenues God has orchestrated. Keep Reading
The Meaning of God's Will (pt. 1)
from R.C. Sproul May 20, 2009 Category: ArticlesWe yearn for simple answers to difficult questions. We want clarity. We desire to cut through the entanglements to the heart of the question. Sometimes the answers are simple enough in themselves, but the process of finding them is laborious and confusing along the way. Sometimes the answers are simplistic, giving us temporary relief from the pressures and the burdens of confusing questions. However, there is a profound difference between the simple answer and the simplistic answer. The simple answer is correct; it accounts for all the data found in the complex problem. It is clear and can be easily grasped in its fullness. It abides, being able to stand the test of rigorous questioning. Keep Reading
Can I Know God's Will?
from R.C. Sproul May 19, 2009 Category: ArticlesAlice in Wonderland came to a fork in the road. Icy panic stung her as she stood frozen by indecision. She lifted her eyes toward heaven, looking for guidance. Her eyes did not find God, only the Cheshire cat leering at her from his perch in the tree above. "Which way should I go?" blurted Alice. Keep Reading
Study Theology at Home with Ligonier Academy
from Keith Mathison May 18, 2009 Category: Ligonier AcademyEvery Christian is a theologian. Not all Christians are professional theologians, but we are all theologians because we are all thinking and learning about the things of God. The question is not whether we are theologians or not, but whether we are good theologians or bad theologians. Because our theology affects every aspect of our lives, from our worship to our work, it is vitally important that we be good theologians. Keep Reading
Top 5 Commentaries on the Book of Haggai
from Keith Mathison May 16, 2009 Category: ArticlesIt was almost twenty years after the decree of Cyrus when the prophet Haggai was called to bring the word of God to the people of Jerusalem in 520 B.C. There are a number of helpful commentaries on the Book of Haggai, and the following are five of the best. Keep Reading
Dealing with Differences
from Roger Nicole May 15, 2009 Category: ArticlesWe are called upon by the Lord to contend earnestly for the faith (Jude 3). But that does not necessarily involve being contentious; it involves avoiding compromise, standing forth for what we believe, standing forth for the truth of God -- without welching at any particular moment. Thus, we are bound to meet, at various points and various levels, people with whom we disagree. Keep Reading
The Lord of the Church
from John MacArthur May 14, 2009 Category: ArticlesThe truth that Christ is Lord of His church may sound somewhat benign to a casual listener in our generation, but the struggle for Christ's authority in the church has come to us through the ages on a sea of blood. Thankfully, literal bloodshed over the issue is no longer very common. But faithful Christians are still waging a fierce moral and intellectual battle for Christ's lordship over the church. Keep Reading
Take Time to Focus on Family This Summer
from Karisa Schlehr May 13, 2009 Category: Ligonier ResourcesSchool is almost out, and summertime is just around the corner. While taking a break from the hustle and bustle of a regular routine and the busyness of life, it can be easy to take a break from our biblical studies as well. Keep Reading
The Letter to the Church in Laodicea
from Mark Bates May 12, 2009 Category: ArticlesThe pipes in our home sprung a series of leaks. Since most of my neighbors had replaced their plumbing, I knew it was time for me to do the same. However, hiring a plumber to do this would cost thousands of dollars. My friend, Monte, had just repiped his house himself and offered to help me with mine. I am not a handyman, but I am a tightwad. So, I figured, he could be the plumber and I could be the plumber's helper. Within a week, I had a new plumbing system. Keep Reading
Divine Immutability and the Doctrines of Grace (pt. 5)
from John MacArthur May 10, 2009 Category: ArticlesIn 1 Corinthians 15:25-28, we find a remarkable conclusion to this whole discussion. There Paul says, "For he [Christ] must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For 'God has put all things in subjection under his feet.' But when it says, 'all things are put in subjection,' it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all." Keep Reading


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Galaxy Nexus gets new GPU drivers with promise of future Android L port
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was released three years ago now. In the technology world, it might as well be a dinosaur. However, the device still has life left in it, along with a large development community working to keep the device alive. With TI leaving the processor game, and Google discontinuing support for the ... Read More »


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PY03 Dislocated Worker Entered Employment Rate State RankingsThis map shows the Entered Employment Rate rankings for the WIA Dislocated Worker program in PY 03. The rate ranges from a high of 93.3% in Maryland to a low of 71.0% in New York. The ten highest and ten lowest states for this ranking are highlighted on the map. The ten highest states in order are Maryland, Idaho, Nebraska, North Carolina, New Jersey, Delaware, Alabama, Maine, Tennessee and Michigan. The ten lowest states, from top to bottom, are Massachusetts, Hawaii, the District of Columbia, Kansas, Nevada, New Hampshire, Montana, Utah, Florida and New York.
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Welcome to the Town of Kingsmouth!
Welcome to the official Kingsmouth home on the Internet! Kingsmouth is a beautiful seaside small town in the northeast of Maine. Here you will find peace in rural surroundings and still find yourself in a friendly town that's filled with excitement, opportunity and activity.
We invite everyone to find out about local attractions, explore the Town's hidden gems and check our calendar for upcoming events – whether it's our fascinating history that captures your attention or if you just want a quick peek at what's happening, we hope you enjoy your time with us!
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Her early leafs a flower;
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Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
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Summertime ended a month ago, but two astronomical markers of the summer season are still hanging in there. One of them will be gone from view pretty soon, though, while the other will linger a while longer.
As twilight begins to drain from the evening sky, look toward the southwest for the sinuous trail of stars that outlines Scorpius, the scorpion. It's so low in the sky that you need a clear horizon to pick it out. Its brightest star, Antares, shines dull orange, a little below the similarly colored planet Mars.
And to the upper left of Scorpius, look for the other summer marker, Sagittarius, the archer. Its brightest stars form the shape of a teapot, with the steamy Milky Way rising from the spout.
Scorpius will drop from sight within a few days. But Sagittarius will remain in view until around the middle of next month.
All the stars and constellations have their own "seasons" — the time of year when they're best viewed. For Scorpius and Sagittarius, it's summer and early fall, when they scoot low across the southern sky for those of us in the United States. Because they're so far south, they remain in view for a much shorter time than constellations like Leo and Virgo, which climb high overhead.
Yet Scorpius and Sagittarius will both return to view when the weather grows hot and the nights grow short — once again heralding a changing of the seasons in the stars.
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We are breaking out the eggnog and stockings early with the 2012 Holiday Sale Event!
Starting on November 20th and lasting until January 14th, 2013,wargamers can pick up dozens upon dozens of incredible strategy games for as much as 36% off! Titles like the critically-acclaimed Panzer Corps, the classic Field of Glory series, the amazing Distant Worlds series, the challenging Unity of Command, the Battle Academy series, and even the mega-strategy game Gary Grigsby's War in the East are part of this wonderfully cheerful sale!
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Yale Outshoots Waterloo But Comes Up Short
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale men's hockey team, which began practice eight days ago, warmed up for the 2011-12 regular season by hosting the University of Waterloo tonight in an exhibition contest. The Bulldogs had the advantage in shots, 42-32, but came up a goal shy in a 2-1 decision at Ingalls Rink.
The Warriors, winners of five of their six games this season, got a pair of goals from forward Chris Ray to take the first of a two-game swing through ECAC Hockey. Ray tallied at 13:30 of the first to even things at 1-1 and then slipped a low wrister past Connor Wilson (7 saves) at 7:32 of the third for the game winner.
Waterloo, which did not allow a shot on net after the Elis pulled their goalie for the last 74 seconds, plays at Brown on Sunday.
The Bulldogs had a 1-0 lead in the first period when junior forward Antoine Laganiere converted a feed from sophomore Clinton Bourbonais. Laganiere, with a man-advantage, held the puck for a moment before firing a low wrister stick side on Keaton Hartigan (41 saves).
Yale, ranked No. 9 in both Division I polls this week, suited up all but two players on its roster and experimented with a variety of line combinations.
Junior Jeff Malcolm got the start in net for Yale and stopped seven of eight shots in the first frame. Classmate Nick Maricic had the most action by stopping all 16 shots in the second period before Wilson, the newcomer, took over in the third. The three Bulldog netminders combined to blank the Warriors on five power plays.
"I think we learned a lot tonight," said Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey. "This sends a good message to our guys. You need a certain intensity level to compete in our league, and it's hard to simulate that in practice."
The Elis open the regular season in the Ivy Shootout next Friday afternoon at Hanover, N.H. Yale plays Princeton at 4:00 and then skates against Dartmouth Saturday at 7 p.m.
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Round 3 of Chapter Grants: More money!
Three more chapters were awarded funds from SPJ's Chapter Grants, which provides money to chapters for unique and innovative programming, thanks to a little help from the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation.
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Shayne and Andrew's Vintage and Thrifted Family Kitchen
How do you create a beautiful home on a budget? If you're Shayne and Andrew, the owners of a 100-year-old home in Los Angeles, you learn to "negotiate your way into almost every last furnishing in the home" with the help of eBay, Craigslist, garage sales, and flea markets. (The whole house—all 1,600 square feet of it—was furnished for around $10,000.) It also needed to be a very family-friendly home, and the kitchen is particularly inviting. Check out the mini table just for the kids!
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Mostafa GehaThe writer, political activist, journalist and publisher survived a Hizbullah assassination attempt on 14 April 2012. The son of the Lebanese author, Mostafa Geha who was assassinated by Hizbullah in 1992. Mostafa Geha has co-founded the Lebanon Israel Peace Project with Israelis.
Huzbullah, the name of a military, political, and security organization in Lebanon, is now running world public opinion.
Hizbullah terror threatens Lebanese interests, regionally and internationally . Their expansion of terror has translated into activity in the international arena though, they have been active in committing acts of terror within Lebanese borders for a much longer term.
In recent years, with the advent of the internet and other media outlets, they have been able to expand and influence world politics.
The Hizbullah organization was created in Lebanon, while it receives orders and instructions from Syria and Iran as a means for Khameini to export his ideas abroad and to extend Iranian influence. Khameini chose Lebanon owing to the large Shiite presence coupled with the lack of a strong state military, and a lack of security and stability in Lebanon during the civil war.
This all aided to facilitate a sphere of society within Lebanon sympathetic to and one which would adopt Khameini's doctrine. This was important to the Ayatollah because he was able to extend his hand far beyond the Iranian borders and allow terror to reach into other societies.
As a result of Iranian and Syrian support for Hizbullah, they were able to increase their influence in many areas in Lebanon, eventually achieving the complete domination of the Lebanese government as well as the Lebanese security forces, which in turn affects all aspects of life in Lebanon.
This far reaching control permeates all sectors of society including the power of authorizing or denying of licensing private publishing houses and all forms of media, which of course has the residual effect of censoring all literature and schoolbooks. A group that attempts to control and censor information is indeed dangerous.
The United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Israel classify Hizbullah in whole or in part as a terrorist organization, but not the EU.
Recently there has been an emergence of many who are calling for international rejection of Hizbullah, and the need to have them classified as a terrorist organization. It was striking how The European Union turned down a recent request by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to blacklist Hizbullah as a terrorist group!
The whole world must know that the classification of Hizbullah as a terrorist organization is not only an Israeli demand, albeit a legitimate one from the Israeli state, it is also a demand of many Lebanese who have fallen victim to Hizbullah terrorism, as well as the Syrian victims of Hizbullah's terror today through their participation in the Syrian regime's killing of Syrian protestors against the Assad regime.
There have been numerous terrorist acts carried out by Hizbullah, and I will mention a few:
In 1982, Hizbullah held three operations: the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut in April 1983 and which resulted in killing 63 Americans, and the bombing of the headquarters of U.S. Marines in Beirut, the killing 241 Americans, and the bombing of a camp of French soldiers in the Bekaa Valley, which killed 58 French.
And there were those who were involved in a failed attempt to assassinate the late Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah in 1983 as he left the palace and made way to Kuwait City. This was one of the major acts of international terrorism.
There was the TWA Flight 847, an international Trans World Airlines flight, which was hijacked by members of Hizbullah, on Friday morning, June 14, 1985, after originally taking off from Cairo. The flight was en route from Athens to Rome and then scheduled to terminate in London. The passengers and crew endured a three-day intercontinental ordeal. Some passengers were threatened and some beaten. Passengers with Jewish-sounding names were set apart from the others, and U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem was tortured and murdered. His body was thrown onto the tarmac.
Hassan Nasrallah in 1985, said: "Our project [demands] that we have no choice but to adopt other faithful ideologues; [it] is a project of the Islamic state and the rule of Islam, and that Lebanon is not one Islamic republic but part of the major Islamic Republic ruled by the [Iranian] religious leader ".
He also stated in his speech: "We are talking about an Islamic state. We will not forgive the Christians [ nor allow them] to hold [any] region in the Eastern Provinces [such as] Jubail and Keserouan because these regions were Muslim and the invaders were Christians who came to here [and] who were brought by the Byzantine Empire to be a thorn in the side of the nation".
Here lies the danger, in this thought planted by Hizbullah in the minds of the Lebanese Shiites to make them think that their compatriots are Christian invaders, throwing out the historical fact that many Christians preceded Muslims in Lebanon and certainly so the integration of Shiites in Christian Lebanese villages.
Slain Hizbullah commander Emad Mughnieh was behind the hijacking of a Kuwait Airways flight in 1988 and the death of two of its Kuwaiti passengers, according to Kuwait's interior minister.
There have also been many assassinations carried out by Hizbullah against the Lebanese intellectuals, the only reason being their intellectual opinions, as if there is a desire not to have any voice of opposition. The great thinker and prolific writer Suhail Tawileh was assassinated in 1986, after he was kidnapped from his home next to the Iranian Embassy in Beirut.
The intellectual writer Dr. Hussein Mourouwe had his appointment with the obscurantist ideologies on 17 February of the following year in his home, where his pen was silenced with bullets from a gun equipped with a silencer; so he never attained eighty-years of age.
Insofar as the Mahdi Aamel (Hassan Hamdan), who held a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Sorbonne, he met baseball bats in the darkness on 18 May 1987, which succeeded in assassinating him in cold blood on his way to his university lectures in Beirut.
Then, let us move forward to January 15th, 1992 (after the Lebanese war) when these terrorists assassinated Lebanese thinker and writer Mostafa Geha.
The attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was a suicide-bombing attack on the building of the Israeli embassy in Argentina located in Buenos Aires which was carried out on the 17th of March, 1992. Twenty-nine (29) civilians were killed in the attack and 242 additional civilians were injured.
The AMIA bombing was an attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA; Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) building. It occurred in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, it killed 85 people and injured hundreds.
On October 7, 2000, three Israeli soldiers – Adi Avitan, Staff Sgt. Benyamin Avraham, and Staff Sgt. Omar Sawaidwere – were abducted by Hizbullah while patrolling the Israeli side of the Israeli-Lebanese border. The soldiers were killed either during the attack or in its immediate aftermath.
On the 14th of February 2005, the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri occurred. Hizbullah was implicated by the International Tribunal in charge of looking into the assassination. Hizbullah's involvement in the assassination of Hariri, in coordination with some of the leaders of the Syrian army, has been made clear.
It yielded the court the names of four leaders belonging to Hizbullah, who, allegedly, were the plotters of the assassination: Mustafa Badr al-Din, Salim Ayach, Asad Sabra and Hussein Noaisi.
Hizbullah's attack on Israel caused a war of aggression in 2006 ,claiming the lives of many victims and resulting in huge material losses in Lebanon and Israel.
On May 7, 2008 Lebanon was on the verge of a new civil war when Hizbullah and other pro-Syrian militias entered west Beirut and wreaked havoc. In the following days, Hizbullah and the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party (SSNP) went on a rampage in Aley and the Chouf.
Another Lebanese-Swedish man has been accused of plotting attacks against Israeli targets. In January 2012, Thai authorities arrested Hussein Idris, a Lebanese- Swedish national, together with another Lebanese man on suspicion that they were plotting a series of bomb attacks against Israeli targets in Bangkok.
This planned attack against Israeli tourists in Cyprus appears to have been preempted by the arrest of this Lebanese man who had been tracking Israelis on the island.
Regarding the July 18th, 2012 bombing in Burgos, Bulgaria, American officials confirmed Israel's assertions that the suicide bomber who killed five Israelis on a tour bus was a member of a Hizbullah cell.
Hizbullah terrorism and intimidation pose a huge threat to Lebanese society through the group's control of the security network, where false accusations and charges can be levied against those who oppose the fabrication of files putting them in prisons or worse - for example, Shiite cleric Mohammed Ali Al-Husseini, and Sheikh Hassan Mouchaymech.
The list goes on and on Hizbullah's terrorism in Lebanon, terrorism against Israel and terrorism against the Syrian people, as well as sponsorship of drug cultivation, manufacturing, trafficking, and money-laundering operations carried out by the organization, is well-documented.
Terrorism and its support for organizations such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad and the export of terrorism requires that the international community as a whole, unite to fight Hizbullah, an act which will reflect better on Lebanon, Israel and the whole world.
And I would like to add that, in addition to Hizbullah's failed assassination attempt on my own life, they murdered my father, a leading Lebanese intellectual and author of numerous books, in 1992.
The fight against this terrorism is the duty of moral individuals and humanitarians. It is a demand of the people who want to live in peace with each other and who wish to benefit from freedom, this being a human right that everyone deserves.


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Magnolia Pictures Wrap-Up 2 (US - BD RA)
Gabe checks John Dies at the End, Sushi Girl, and The Sorcerer and the White Snake...
John Dies at the End
It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly, a silent otherworldly invasion is underway and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't. (From author David Wong's official synopsis)
Cult director Don Coscarelli's films aren't always good, but they're usually interesting, or, at the very least, unique. In fact, his work is most disappointing when it's not outstandingly weird. It's difficult to argue that Survival Quest or Masters of Horror: Incident On and Off a Mountain Road are any 'worse' than the third and fourth Phantasm movies, but their conventional genre trappings keep them heavily cemented in the 'mediocre' category. Really, my biggest problem with Coscarelli is that he takes such huge breaks between movies, which is really just a symptom of his fiercely independent behavior. After a decade of Don Coscarelli-free theaters, John Dies at the End finally scratches that maddening itch. In fact, the film is so specifically tweaked to the director's usual specifications that it's kind of shocking that this isn't an original screenplay; rather, it's based on an original webserial-turned-novel by Cracked.com writer Jason Pargin (pseudonym David Wong). I've never read Pargin's book, but have been informed that Coscarelli made some substantial changes to the final act, which is the part of the movie that turns into an alternate universe Phantasm pseudo-sequel. The pastiche of ideas and influences (both parties take huge inspiration from Lovecraft) never quite gels into a cohesive whole.
So John Dies at the End is too scattered to be a real 'triumph' and definitely isn't Coscarelli's best, but it might be his most tightly edited and visually constructed film – almost in defiance of the story's jagged and random structure. It's tonally an obvious cousin of Bubba Ho-Tep, but rarely recalls that film's languid pace. At best, the effect is an engaging bit of stream of conscious storytelling. At worst, it feels like a 60 year old man trying too hard to harness punk rock energy he doesn't quite understand, which is still an awfully admirable achievement. And honestly, something as weird for weird's sake as John Dies at the End kind of requires the hand of an experienced weird filmmaker. Coscarelli also manages to score a typically strong cast of character actors, including Paul Giamatti, Glynn Turman, Daniel Roebuck, Doug Jones (out of make-up!), personal favourite of mine Clancy Brown, and Coscarelli favourite Angus Scrimm. None of these guys appear to have worked for more than a day, but add a lot of texture to the bouncy, introduce-a-new-character-every-five-minute story structure and give relatively unknown leads Chase Williamson and Rob Mayes something extra to work off of.
Coscarelli and cinematographer Mike Gioulakis utilized Red One digital HD cameras and this 1.78:1, 1080p transfer is particularly spic and span. Details are finely cut from foreground skin and clothing textures to background patterns, though Coscarelli and Gioulakis aren't consistently interested in creating the sharpest edges while experimenting with the Red system's lavish blending abilities. The colours are quite vibrant and eclectic, as if the filmmakers were trying to cram as many hues as possible into some sequences. The Chinese restaurant interiors are especially impressive with all of their smooth, warm gradients. I didn't notice any notable digital noise effects on the bright reds or along the poppier contrasting hues, but there are some minor haloes along the otherwise solid black edges and occasional banding effects on some of the out of focus backgrounds. Aggressive sound design has been a vital part of Coscarelli's movies since Phantasm, so it's no surprise that this relatively cheap and simple motion picture features such a lively DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack. The busy, multi-channel mix is entirely unnatural in terms of element placement, but not in a slapdash or random manner – every bizarre twitch of directional noise is fully intended and expertly tweaked. Workhorse composer extraordinaire Brian Tyler's score definitely recalls the spaghetti western, hillbilly rock meets eerie ambient tones he wrote for Bubba Ho-Tep. My only complaint in regards to this track is that the dynamic ranges are perhaps pitched a bit too high. I found myself scrambling for the remote to turn the volume up and down between dialogue-heavy and action-cue moments. The extras include a commentary with Coscarelli, producer Brad Baruh, and actors Chase Williamson and Rob Mayes, seven relatively important deleted/extended scenes (9:40, HD), Getting Sauced: The Making of John Dies at the End (6:50, HD), Creature Corps: The Effects of Soy Sauce (8:40, HD), Casting Sessions (7:10, HD), an interview with producer/star Paul Giamatti (9:50, HD), and trailers, including a trailer for the book sequel, This Book is Full of Spiders (1:10, HD).
Sushi Girl
Fish (Noah Hathaway) has spent six years in jail. Six years alone. Six years keeping his mouth shut about the robbery, about the other men involved. The night he is released, the four men he protected with silence celebrate his freedom with a congratulatory dinner. The meal is a lavish array of sushi, served off the naked body of a beautiful young woman. The sushi girl (Cortney Palm) seems catatonic, trained to ignore everything in the room, even if things become dangerous. Sure enough, the four unwieldy thieves can't help but open old wounds in an attempt to find their missing loot. (From the director's official synopsis)
Kern Saxton's Sushi Girl was released to little fanfare on a limited basis. Even several weeks past its initial release date, I was unable to find much in the way of opinions or buzz, despite an interesting looking trailer and an extensively cool cast. Saxton, working for the first time in a feature-length capacity, is absolutely a student of the Quentin Tarantino school of filmmaking. It doesn't only match the glut of talky gangster flicks that came out of Pulp Fiction's popularity, but Sushi Girl follows the lead set by every film in Tarantino's oeuvre, including the slicker, post- Kill Bill movies. Visually, the film works pretty well – the gory torture scenes sort of turn into a gruesome short film all their own – but the anecdote-driven storytelling style and Tarantinoesque cultural fetishism is continuously awkward (unlike John Dies at the End, the pastiche feels extraneous). Saxton and co-writer Destin Pfaff's (the guy with the mohawk from Millionaire Matchmaker, of all people) screenplay is built around a unique concept (one that cleverly keeps the location to a budget-friendly minimum), but the storyline is disappointingly predictable (I really thought I was in for a surprise) and the dialogue veers between overly-chatty to annoyingly gabby. It's hard not to appreciate Saxton's collection of top-shelf cult character actors, though, including go-to sleazeball Andy Mackenzie, fellow Grindhouse thespians Michael Biehn and Jeff Fahey, and some other guys that don't need an introduction, like Danny Trejo, Tony Todd, Mark Hamill, and Sonny freakin' Chiba. The cast is a little better on paper than in action, largely due to limited screen times, but Hamill's performance is so out-of-hand campy that it's hard to resist.
According to specs, Sushi Girl was shot using top of the line Red One digital HD cameras, but I suspect/assume all of the flashback sequences were shot 16mm. The current timeline detail levels suffer occasional inconsistencies, but are generally complex and well-separated where needed, though shallow focus leaves most of the backgrounds foggy. The palette is lively, complex, and saturated, revolving mostly around a warm backdrop and cool costumes (some of which feature additional poppy warm bits). Those plush Red One colour blends are certainly pretty, but aren't the most pure I've seen from the format, especially in terms of green and blue blobs bleeding into the black levels. The flashbacks are gritty, grainy, and made to look as if they were shot on film. The focus is more even-handed here, but there's also more detail lost in the grain, not to mention minor edge enhancement. The colours are also much more de-saturated. The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack is dynamically strong without being particularly aggressive. The film's limited scope means that directional and immersive effects are mostly limited to off-screen voices and the sound of a rainstorm, though there are some exceptional ambient moments and a few punchy gunshots. The stereo and surround channels are often left dry in favour of Fritz Myers' omnipresent, droning piano and bell score. The music is actually the track's key problem. Besides the listless and overbearing melodies, the music extends surprisingly far back into the rear channels and has a strange 'digital' quality that sets it apart from the rest of the soundtrack. Extras include two commentaries – one with Saxton, Pfaff, and producers Neal Fischer and Suren M. Seron, the other with Saxton, Pfaff, and actors Tony Todd, James Duval, Noah Hathaway, Andy Mackenzie, David Dastmalchian – Sushi Girl: A Documentary (60:00, SD), two alternate scenes (2:22), outtakes (17:00, HD), three fake commercials, producer's diaries (7:20, HD), a music video, cast and crew interviews from the international premiere, poster and behind-the-scenes galleries, storyboards, and trailers.
The Sorcerer and the White Snake
It wasn't until after receiving the review disc for The Sorcerer and the White Snake that I realized it was a remake of Tsui Hark's Green Snake – one of my personal favourites among the director's films. The last time I watched a remake of a Tsui movie, it was a beautiful disaster called The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate. The time before that was a hideous disaster called Legend of Zu. The words 'remake' and 'Tsui' don't really mix. However, remaking legendary stories has been a successful Chinese cinema staple for generations (the legend of the White Snake had already been filmed at least three times before Green Snake) and, perhaps more importantly, Tsui personally had nothing to do with this production (as far as I can tell). The Sorcerer and the White Snake was directed by Ching Siu-tung, an unfortunately less famous name than Tsui, but one of the most important directors in fantasy wuxia filmmaking. A famed second unit action choreographer, Ching's first film as lead director was the popular Duel to the Death, but his real breakthrough (as far as I'm concerned) was the wuxia/horror/comedy/romance classic A Chinese Ghost Story – a film often attributed entirely to Tsui, who worked in a production capacity. Ching continued working under Tsui on both Chinese Ghost Story sequels and the Swordsman series (the best of which is The Swordsman III: The East is Red). He also worked with Stephen Chow, directing him in The Royal Tramp and The Mad Monk, and choreographing action for Shaolin Soccer. More recently, he choreographed action for Zhang Yimou's loose wuxia trilogy ( Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and Curse of the Golden Flower) and directed Steven Seagal in a STV throwaway called Belly of the Beast.
Much like Tsui's recent blockbuster releases, The Sorcerer and the White Snake recalls the genre hybrids Ching was making during the '80s and the '90s in tone and style, then updates the old school effects with expensive (occasionally cartoonish) digital animation. It was never easy to overcome the culture shock and follow every element of those older movies, but I was usually able to make sense of the plots and characters. With the exception of Detective Dee, I've found it nearly impossible to comprehend even the most basic story elements of the last dozen Chinese action and effects spectaculars I've seen. Perhaps being familiar with Green Snake and the original legend helps, but I also believe Ching is just better at/more interested in telling a straightforward story. Unfortunately, he's stuck telling two straightforward stories and, though he's adept at making sense of them, the two stories usually feel like two entirely different movies cobbled together. The first movie concerns the burgeoning love story of an ancient demon disguised as a woman (the White Snake of the title) and a humble physician, while the second movie features Jet Li's largely episodic crusade against various animal-themed demons. There's an awful lot of (sometimes admittedly cool) extraneous footage of Li playing Chinese Ghostbuster and Susu/White Snake talking to animals. The effects certainly look expensive, but the animated and live-action elements are rarely composited in a convincing manner. The action is a bit over-edited, but Ching captures a truly grand scale that has eluded many effects-heavy Chinese features lately by keeping his camera far enough from the fighting to capture the full choreography. He's also clearly more comfortable with special effects in terms of action as well, though scenes like the one where Jet Li rides a demon into the center of the Earth (ala Gandalf the Grey) still look sort of embarrassing for a movie made only two years ago. At a certain point, though (a little over an hour in), I have to admit it was pretty easy to let go of my effects-based criticisms and just go with silly extremes.
The Sorcerer and the White Snake was shot on 35mm film and is presented here in 2.40:1, 1080p video. I usually hate to take sides in the film vs. digital war, but the grain and minor film-based artefacts on this transfer are a welcome change of pace compared to the uncanny utter clarity of most of the similar Chinese films I've seen recently. The effects really aren't any better, but the 'universe' feels more anchored in reality. What's interesting about this particular image is that it's clean enough to make the difference between the shot-on-film and digitally composited shots and the shots created almost entirely with special effects. The detail levels are pretty consistent and sharp throughout both image types, but the artefacts all but disappear during some scenes. Colour quality is incredibly vibrant, though rarely what one would call natural. The eclectic palette is divided among locations, including basic blue/orange contrasts and super complex blends of entire rainbows of hues. The colors are tightly separated with strong shadow and highlight support without edge enhancement or noticeable blocking effects. The disc features two DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtracks, one in the original Mandarin and the other in dubbed English. As per usual, this review pertains only to the Mandarin track. The sound design is predictably lively, especially the big action sequences, where demon bats flutter, snakes slither, and Jet Li shoots chi from his hands. The waterlogged climax, though not particularly convincing on a visual effects level, is brimming with multi-channel noise and throbbing LFE support. Like the Flying Swords of Dragon Gate Blu-ray, the centered dialogue track is often pitched too loudly, making it sound like all the dialogue was dubbed in post. Mark Lui's score settles pretty nicely beneath the action for most of the film, but when the music becomes the key aural element and spreads more widely throughout the channels, there is some odd reverb and other aural artefacts that mark the track as a bit over-produced. The extras are made up of promotional material, include Fighting, Stunts & Laughs (6:20, SD), Visual Effects & Production Design (6:50, SD), Beauties & The Beasts (5:20, SD), AXS TV: A Look at The Sorcerer and the White Snake (3:00, HD), and trailers.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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You can read my review of "Sushi Girl" here - http://geektasticfilmreviews.blogspot.com/2013/...
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I can agree on JOHN DIES AT THE END, but I liked Sushi Girl and was entertained by The Sorcerer and the White Snake despite its shortcomings
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Disc Details
Release Date: 18th February 2013
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: Various
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Mandarin (Sorcerer and the White Snake)
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Cast and Crew Commentaties, Getting Sauced: The Making of John Dies at the End, Creature Corps: The Effects of Soy Sauce, Casting Sessions, Sushi Girl: A Documentary, Producer's Diaries, Deleted/Extended/Alternate Scenes, Outtakes, Fake Commercials, Fighting, Stunts & Laughs, Visual Effects & Production Design, Beauties & The Beasts, Trailers, Image Galleries
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Don Coscarelli,
Cast: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Glynn Turman, Daniel Roebuck, Doug Jones, Clancy Brown, Angus Scrimm, Noah Hathaway, Cortney Palm, Andy Mackenzie, Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Danny Trejo, Tony Todd, Mark Hamill, Sonny Chiba, Jet Li, Eva Huang, Raymond Lam, Charlene Choi, Wen Zhang
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Film-Noir, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi and Thriller
Length: 0 minutes
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1. "Native American" is used to refer to, um, uh, Native Americans (the people formerly known as 'Indians'). You can probably just use 'American' or if it's critical that it only include people born in America, try to put it in the middle of the sentence so 'native' doesn't have to be capitalized.
2. from your questionaire: ". . . senior high school students should be able to critically think about social affairs"
i'm pretty sure that in Japan, just as in the US, 'think critically' is a keyword for pushing your views on them by presenting skewed 'facts' and then asking them to 'make up their own mind' on the basis of the one-sided presentation you just gave them
3. your webpage looks really bad w/o japanese font support. see attached screenshot


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Originally Posted by Pinoy59
I started to put the axle under the Jeep but noticed a problem right away. The u-bolt plates had a hole in the center where the retaining bolt and nut fit but since I have different leaf packs the nut was bigger and would not fit through the hole. The hole needed to be enlarged to about 3/4" to fit. I have a 25/32" drill bit that I used to install my lift kit so I planned to use that. I put the plates on a drill press but the bit got dull so fast it was like trying to drill through unobtainium. After a lot of cutting oil and a few smaller bits, I managed to get them to fit over the nut.
Then I ran into another problem. The truss sits right on the center of the axle tube, and the space between the perch and the truss was not big enough for the u-bolts to fit through. I had to cut off some of the truss on both ends to get them to fit.
Once I got the nuts torqued down I tried to put the bolts through the shock mounts, but the u-bolt made it impossible to get it through the hole. So I had to take the u-bolts back off and put the shocks on first.
I got the axle shafts back in and the cross pin as well but found that the spider gears had moved while the pin was out so that the pin wouldn't go through initially. Luckily that's a pretty easy fix. I got the brake rotors and calipers on and just need to get the hard lines figured out.
I did learn that the e-brake cables from a ZJ will not work on a 97+ XJ because the ZJ cables mount in the center and are the same length while the XJ cables mount on the drivers side and one is much longer than the other. East coast gear supply has a set but they cost $100 + shipping. I will most likely have to spend the money since no one makes them.
The only thing left to do is drill the hole for the vent and mount the soft line to the axle and connect the hard lines to it.
Here is a picture of the current state.
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While porting some of my plugins to ST3, I was annoyed enough with the edit changes (view.insert, replace, erase can only be used in a TextCommand now) to make an edit abstraction with easy syntax that works with both ST2 and ST3.
This module allows use of insert, replace, and erase. It also batches all edits made inside the "with" block so they appear as one "edit" to Sublime.
Hopefully this makes your life easier if you enjoy writing text manipulation plugins as much as me
Example (should work in both ST2 and ST3):
with Edit(view) as edit:
edit.insert(0, 'hi\n')
edit.insert(0, 'more stuff\n')
Compare to:
ST2 edit:
edit = view.begin_edit()
view.insert(edit, 0, 'hi\n')
view.insert(edit, 0, 'more stuff\n')
ST3 edit (repeat for erase, replace? or roll your own / use callbacks if you want multiple operations in a single edit):
class InsertCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit, pos, text):
self.view.insert(edit, pos, text)
view.run_command('insert', {'pos': 0, 'text': 'hi\n'})
view.run_command('insert', {'pos': 0, 'text': 'more stuff\n'})
Awesome. Would be great to publish more of these abstractions.
This is awesome. Thank you.
Really like it, can't think of any way to improve it right now.
I found this in this commit and since we already have something "similar" for ST2 in sublime_lib I'd like to add this too when migrating to ST3.
Hopefully, Package Control will, at some point, get a decent dependency and python-only packages so other packages/pugins can use sublime_lib without requiring AAAPackageDev (which could then finally be renamed to "PackageDev"). Really excited about that.
Edit: Well, there is a way to improve it, imo. Instead of monkeypatching "sublime.edit_storage" you could use a global (in that module) or just pass "self.run" as is, because command arguments are preserved even if they are non-linear types (like a function/method here). Should not be unsafe because the Edit instance will be unreferenced anyway at the execution of exit, as long as the programmer uses it sanely.
This wasn't my experience. I had bad results when I put persistent data anywhere but in an imported Python module. I picked sublime.edit_storage because I could guarantee a working import (sublime) in both ST2/3. When I tried storing it in other places (like the current module) or passing the callback directly, I had issues with edits failing.
The load order is still controlled by ST, so I wouldn't get your hopes up.
Dependency management and things like it are on my mind, but unlikely to happen in the near term just dealing with what I have on my plate for now. More than happy to have contributions to the discussion github.com/wbond/sublime_packag ... issues/166. Mostly someone needs to come up with a good plan for dealing with dependencies. Probably not going to be able to pin dependencies to specific versions since everything is loaded into a single process. But yeah, install-time dependency resolution would be great.
Yes, this is true. However, in ST3 (mainly) you can also directly import modules that are not exactly a plugin because the packages directory is added to sys.path. At least this is what I think, so you should be able to load required modules if you need them without relying on ST's load order. And if that doesn't work you can also import in "plugin_loaded()".
I am monitoring that issue and plan to step onto the discussion 1) when PC2.0 is ready and 2) when I have a decent (implementation) idea. I'm perfectly fine with no version dependencies because that introcudes a bunch of complexity for both, the dependency and the depedency-using packages (even a simple thing). But well, this does not really belong here but in #166.
Edit: While I think about this, it could lead to terrible name clashes (e.g. "YAML" package and "yaml" Python module)...
So toss them in a package folder - you can import somethingunique.yaml instead of just yaml if you don't want name collisions
Yes, I could do that. I could just as well just name it "pyyaml" instead but that is out of the purpose because in real world Python you use "import yaml" and not "import pyyaml" or "import somepackage.yaml". So I currently see one main with two sub options:
Either way, this is not the right place to discuss this even though this small snippet would certainly be useful when distributable.
github.com/FichteFoll/AAAPackag ... ib/edit.py
I changed it a bit:- Added some documentation.- Removed sel method, because I have no idea what it is supposed to do.- Removed FutureEdit stuff that you added recently and instead check if a parameter is "callable". Reduced the required amount of code.- Added classmethod Edit.call(func) which is basically with Edit(edit) as edit: edit.callback(func). With this you just need to write a function like TextCommand.run and pass it.
with Edit(edit) as edit: edit.callback(func)
FYI, my latest incarnation of it is in ActualVim: github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim ... er/edit.py
I have defer vs call. I use Edit for selection, because sometimes you need a command to kick through a proper buffer refresh.