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EFF Files Amicus Brief Arguing That Law Enforcement Access to Wi-Fi Derived Location Data Violates the Fourth Amendment
By Jennifer Lynch and Nathaniel Sobel
With increasing frequency, law enforcement is using unconstitutional digital dragnet searches to attempt to identify unknown suspects in criminal cases. In Commonwealth v. Dunkins, currently pending before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, EFF and the ACLU are challenging a new type of dragnet: law enforcement's use of WiFi data to retrospectively track individuals' precise physical location.
Phones, computers, and tablets connect to WiFi networks—and in turn, the Internet—through a physical access point. Since a single access point can only service a limited number of devices within a certain range, WiFi networks that have many users and cover larger geographic areas have multiple stationary access points. When a device owner moves through a WiFi network with multiple access points, their device seamlessly switches to the nearest available point. This means that an access point can serve as a proxy for a device owner's physical location. As an access point records a unique identifier for each device that connects to it, along with the time the device connected, access point logs can reveal a device's precise location over time.
In Dunkins, police were investigating a robbery that occurred in the middle of the night in a dorm at Moravian College in eastern Pennsylvania. To identify a suspect, police obtained logs of every device that connected to the 80-90 access points in the dorm—about one access point for every other dorm room—around the time of the robbery. From there, police identified devices belonging to several dozen students. They then narrowed their list to include only non-residents. That produced a list of three devices: two appeared to belong to women and one appeared to belong to a man who later turned out to be Dunkins. Since police believed the suspect was a man, they focused their investigation on that device. They then obtained records of Dunkins' phone for five hours on the night of the robbery, showing each WiFi access point on campus that his phone connected to during that time. Dunkins was ultimately charged with the crime.
We argued in our brief that searches like this violate the Fourth Amendment. The WiFi log data can reveal sensitive location information, so it is essentially identical to the cell phone location records that the Supreme Court ruled in Carpenter require a warrant. Just like cell phone records, the WiFi logs offered the police the ability to retrospectively track a person's movement, including inside constitutionally protected spaces like students' dorm rooms. And just as the Carpenter court recognized that cell phones are essential for participation in modern life, accessing a college WiFi network is equally indispensable to college life.
Additionally, we argued that even if police had obtained a warrant, such a warrant would be invalid. The Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant based on probable cause before searching a particular target. But in this case, police only knew that a crime occurred—they did not have a suspect or even a target device identifier. Assessing virtually the same situation in the context of a geofence warrant, two federal judges recently ruled that the government's application to obtain location records from a certain place during a specific time period failed to satisfy the Fourth Amendment's particularity and probable cause requirements.
The police's tactics in this case illustrate exactly why indiscriminate searches are a threat to a free society. In acquiring and analyzing the records from everyone in the dorm, the police not only violated the defendant's rights but they also wrongly learned the location of every student who was in the dormitory in the middle of the night. In particular, police determined that two women wholly unconnected to the robbery were not in their own dorm rooms on the night of the crime. That's exactly the type of dragnet surveillance that the Fourth Amendment defends against.
The outcome of this case could have far-reaching consequences. In Pennsylvania and across the nation, public WiFi networks are everywhere. And for poor people and people of color, free public WiFi is often a crucial lifeline. Those communities should not be at a greater risk of surveillance than people who have the means to set up their own private networks. We hope the court will realize what's at stake here and rule that these types of warrantless searches are illegal.
Locational Privacy
Carpenter v. United States
reverse location search
Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Mackey | January 11, 2022
Court Orders Authorizing Law Enforcement To Track People's Air Travels In Real Time Must Be Made Public
The public should get to see whether a court that authorized the FBI to track someone's air travels in real time for six months also analyzed whether the surveillance implicated the Fourth Amendment, EFF argued in a brief filed this week.In Forbes Media LLC v. United States, the news...
Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | December 31, 2021
In 2021, the Police Took a Page Out of the NSA's Playbook: 2021 in Review
While dragnet searches were once thought to be just the province of the NSA, they are now easier than ever for domestic law enforcement to conduct as well. This is because of the massive amounts of digital information we share—knowingly or not—with companies and third parties.
Deeplinks Blog by Eva Galperin | November 25, 2021
Coalition Against Stalkerware Celebrates Two Years of Work to Keep Technology Safe for All
In this guest post by the Coalition Against Stalkerware marking its second anniversary, the international alliance takes a look back on its achievements while seeing a lot of challenges ahead.Two years ago, in November 2019, the Coalition Against Stalkerware was founded by 10 organizations. Today, there are more than...
Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | November 16, 2021
Podcast Episode: What Police Get When They Get Your Phone
If you get pulled over and a police officer asks for your phone, beware. Local police now have sophisticated tools that can download your location and browsing history, texts, contacts, and photos to keep or share forever. Joinus to hear about a better way for police to treat you and...
EFF to Supreme Court: Warrantless 24-Hour Video Surveillance Outside Homes Violates Fourth Amendment
Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged the Supreme Court today to review and reverse a lower court decision in United States v. Tuggle finding that police didn't need a warrant to secretly record all activity in front of someone's home 24 hours a day, for a...
Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers | November 10, 2021
Data Broker Veraset Gave Bulk Device-Level GPS Data to DC Government
In the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a location data broker called Veraset offered officials in Washington, DC full access to its proprietary database of "highly sensitive" device-level GPS data, collected from cell phones, for the entire DC metro area.The officials accepted the offer, according to public...
Deeplinks Blog by Saira Hussain, Adam Schwartz | October 19, 2021
EFF Files New Lawsuit Against California Sheriff for Sharing ALPR Data with ICE and CBP
The Marin County Sheriff illegally shares the sensitive location information of millions of drivers with out-of-state and federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The Sheriff uses automated license plate readers (ALPRs)—high-speed cameras mounted on street poles or squad cars—to scan license...
Press Release | October 14, 2021
California Activists Sue Marin County Sheriff for Illegally Sharing Drivers' License Plate Data With ICE, CBP and Other Out-of-State Agencies
San Francisco—Community activists in Northern California today sued Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle for illegally sharing millions of local drivers' license plates and location data, captured by a network of cameras his office uses, with hundreds of federal and out-of-state agencies—a practice that violates two California laws, endangers the...
Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers, Jason Kelley | August 19, 2021
Illinois Bought Invasive Phone Location Data From Banned Broker Safegraph
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) purchased access to precise geolocation data about over 40% of the state's population from Safegraph, the controversial data broker recently banned from Google's app store. In an agreement signed in January 2019, IDOT paid $49,500 for access to two years' worth of raw location...
Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers, Hayley Tsukayama | August 12, 2021
Why Data-Sharing Mandates Are the Wrong Way To Regulate Tech
The tech companies behind the so-called "sharing economy" have drawn the ire of brick-and-mortar businesses and local governments across the country. For example, take-out apps such as GrubHub and UberEats have grown into a hundred-billion-dollar industry over the past decade, and received a further boost as many sit-down restaurants...


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New `no-fly' tall ship cruises for 2012
Jan 29, 2012 News 0
Star Clippers ( www.starclippers.co.uk) has introduced new travel-inclusive, no-fly holidays in the Mediterranean and the Baltic in 2012 for those tired of airport delays and luggage restrictions. Travelling outbound or return by rail to within a short transfer of the ship there's no need to check in hours in advance and there are no restrictions on how much luggage to take.
The new rail-sail combination holidays combine the romance of train travel through Europe with the gentle pace of life on board a genuine sailing ship, where guests can either help the crew hoist the sails and try their hand at mast climbing, or simply soak up the sun or relax in the al fresco Tropical Bar with the cocktail of the day.
All packages include train travel to or from the UK to the port; transfers and all meals on board Star Clippers' magnificent, head-turning tall ships.
Sample 'Rail and Sail' offers in 2012 include:
5th May 2012 : Sail from the UK on the stunning Star Flyer
Join the head-turning tall ship `Star Flyer' in Southampton, where the four-masted, full-rigged clipper will be making a rare appearance twice in 2012, the first time one of the Star Clippers has been in British waters since her launch in 1992. Departing on 5th May 2012, Star Flyer sets sail from Southampton to Hamburg, with two days at sea to enjoy life under sail, followed by a full day in Amsterdam. The five night cruise holiday, departing on 5th May 2012, costs from £1,095 per person, and includes a transfer from Hamburg port to the station; and rail travel home in an overnight double sleeper from Hamburg to Paris, followed by Eurostar to London. To book, tel. 0845 200 6145 or visit www.starclippers.co.uk
16th May 2012 : Sail & rail to Hamburg & Amsterdam
Enjoy the excitement of sailing on a fully rigged clipper ship as Star Flyer cruises from one great maritime port to another on a three day mini-break from Amsterdam to Hamburg, both cities in which the ship will attract a huge amount of attention. The voyage also includes a day in the Frisian holiday island of Borkum. The cruise costs from £945 per person, including three nights' on board Star Flyer, with all meals, return transfers to the ship and Eurostar/InterCity rail travel to Amsterdam, via Brussels, by overnight / Eurostar rail from Hamburg to London, via Paris. Departs May 16th, 2012 to book, tel. 0845 200 6145 or visit www.starclippers.co.uk
27th July 2012 : Rail-sail from Venice, the most romantic small-ship port in the Med
Travel by train from the UK to Venice to join the head-turning four-masted tall ship, Star Clipper, to sail out of Venice, one of the most beautiful and spectacular small-ship port calls in the Mediterranean. Having left the spires and palaces of Venice behind, sail south to Croatia, exploring Losinj, Hvar and Rovinj, the true yachting ports of the Adriatic, calling at harbours and secluded anchorages inaccessible to bigger ships. The four night cruise costs from £1,245 per person, including all meals on board Star Clipper; transfers to and from the railway station in Venice; return overnight sleeper train between Venice and Paris, and return Eurostar travel between London and Paris. Departs July 27th, 2012. to book, tel. 0845 200 6145 or visit www.starclippers.co.uk
24th August 2012 : Rail out, sail home
Spend a night in 5* luxury in Cologne, arriving by rail from London, followed by a seven-night tall ship cruise on board the magnificent four-masted Star Flyer, cruising home from Hamburg back to the UK (Southampton). Departing on 24th August 2012, the holiday travels from London by rail via Brussels to arrive at Cologne rail station, immediately adjacent to the spectacular Cologne cathedral, Germany's most visited tourist sight. An overnight stay in the 5* Hotel Excelsior gives time to take in Cologne's medieval streets, bier kellers and pedestrianised shopping streets, before continuing a short rail journey to Hamburg to join the beautiful tall ship, Star Flyer. The ship sails to Amsterdam, where a late evening departure ensures maximum time in port to enjoy this vibrant and cosmopolitan city, before cruising to Ljmuiden, Antwerp and Zeebrugge, the port for the picturesque town of Bruges, and over the Channel to make a rare appearance in British waters when she arrives into Southampton on September 1st. The cruise costs from £1,499 per person, including full board on the ship, train travel from London to Cologne and on to Hamburg; a night's B&B at the 5* Hotel Excelsior in Cologne; transfer from Hamburg station to the port; and port taxes. Departs August 24th 2012, to book, tel. 0845 200 6145 or visit www.starclippers.co.uk
1st September : 13 night land-cruise from the UK to France, Portugal & Spain
Join Star Flyer in Southampton for a rare appearance in British waters on September 1st and cross the Channel to cruise the coastlines of France and Spain, calling at Brest, La Coruna and Vigo, before arriving in Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, on September 9th. Spend two nights exploring Lisbon, staying at the Hotel Tivoli Jardim, before travelling by train to Hendaye on the Spanish/French border enjoy two nights in the Spanish sea-side town of San Sebastian, with b&b accommodation at the four-star Villa Soro. The final leg of this exciting journey is via TGV from Biarritz to Paris, followed by Eurostar on to London. The thirteen night land-cruise holiday costs from £2,199 per person, including all meals on the ship, two nights' B&B in Lisbon, two in San Sebastian, transfers, train fares (double cabin on the sleeper train), a bottle of wine, Lisbon card and port charges. Departs September 1st, 2012.
Star Clippers operates three of the world's largest and tallest sailing vessels. Visiting ports often untouched by larger cruise ships and offering passengers the activities, amenities and atmosphere of a private yacht, Star Clippers is recognised as one of the premier speciality cruise lines.
Passengers can enjoy the romance of sailing on board a true tall ship in a relaxed atmosphere with high standards of service provided by an attentive crew. All three ships have expansive teak decks, swimming pools, informal dining, a convivial Tropical Bar on deck and a comfortable piano bar and are large enough to offer first class accommodation and dining, but small enough to call into intimate ports, untouched by large cruise ships.
The two smaller ships, Star Flyer and Star Clipper, take 170 passengers each, with a crew of 70, while Royal Clipper carries 228 with a crew of 106.
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Access All Ages—Older Workers and Commonwealth Laws (ALRC Report 120) was tabled on 30 May 2013.
The ALRC 'Age Barriers to Work' inquiry arose out of concerns about the implications of an ageing population and the recognition that expanding the workforce participation of older Australians may go some way to meeting such concerns. The ALRC was asked to identify what, if any, changes could be made to relevant Commonwealth legislation and legal frameworks to remove barriers.
In this Final Report, the ALRC makes 36 targeted recommendations that capture some of the momentum for reform, complementing other work in the broader area of policy development affecting mature age people. The ALRC also gives voice to wider concerns where those have been highlighted throughout the Inquiry.
A smaller Summary Report is available.


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THOU SHALT Not Steal:
The Baseball Life
And Times
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Bill 'Ready' Cash
William Walker "Ready" Cash Sr., born February 21,1919, in Round Oak, Georgia, was a powerhouse catcher for the Philadelphia Stars of the Negro Leagues from 1943 to 1950. He also played in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Venezuela, and Canada. When Bill came to Philadelphia with his mother and brothers to join his father in 1924, they were southern ragamuffins escaping a dismal farming life in Georgia.
Poor and new to the city, the Cashes ate white potatoes and ribs and dug up wooden railroad ties to burn for heat. But soon young Bill and his brothers discovered baseball, and playing with cobbled bats and balls wrapped with packing tape, they challenged all comers in Elmwood, their diverse neighborhood.
Baseball became Bill's passion. Nicknamed "Ready" because he was always ready to play ball, Bill dropped out of Ovebrook High School to work and help the family. In 1943 he joined the Stars and played for them for seven years -- going against the likes of Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Larry Doby, and Roy Campanella. He built a reputation as one of the league's best catchers and was named to the prestigious East-West All-Star Team in 1948 and 1949. "If I could catch, hit and throw like you," white catcher Clint "Scrap Iron" Courtney once told Bill, "I'd be the greatest thing the American League ever had."
But Bill's chance to make it to the majors was stymied, some say, by a controversial play in 1946 where he accidentally clipped a white umpire. And Bill believes he was blackballed by the Chicago White Sox organization after he refused to cooperate with them. He didn't take kindly to liars.
Bill's talents were also displayed in other countries, including Cuba (Almendares, Marianao),the Dominican Republic (Licey, Santiago), Mexico (Mexico City, Culiacan, Obregon, Hermosillo), Venezuela (Vargas), Canada (Granby, Brandon-Manitoba), and remote parts of the United States in the 1940s through and '50s. During his travels, Bill faced racism: he couldn't eat in certain restaurants, or sleep in the same hotel as his white roommates – even though he was the team's best player.
Bill, who also participated in the 1960s civil rights movement, was the father of three children, Bill Jr., Janet (deceased), and Michael. He is enshrined in three local halls of fame. Bill was a Shriner, a member of the First African Baptist Church of Darby Township, Pa., and 33rd-degree Prince Hall Mason. He was married for 63 years to his wife, Sadie, who passed in 2003. Bill did not live to see his autobiography published. He died from pneumonia on September 12, 2011, three months before his book came out. He was 92.
Bill's career statistics:
Negro Major Leagues
Teams Played For and Minor Leagues
(Despite researchers' best efforts, Negro League statistics can be frustratingly inconsistent and incomplete.)
Al Hunter Jr.
Albert L. Hunter Jr. spent nearly thirty years in the newspaper business as an award-winning reporter, editor, jazz columnist, and editorial writer.
In his seventeen years at the Philadelphia Daily News, the city's feisty tabloid, Al spent a decade covering the music industry, specifically jazz and R&B. In 2004, he joined the editorial board, where he shaped public opinion on issues such as education, violence, and the arts. He left the Daily News in September 2008, convinced that God had other plans for him. He's now a high school English and African American History teacher at Dobbins Career and Technical Education High School in North Philadelphia.
Al met Bill Cash in 1996 and spent hundreds of hours interviewing him -- mostly at his and Sadie's dining room table in West Philadelphia -- and attended many of Bill's Negro League functions and personal appearances.
Al received his Bachelor of Arts in journalism in 1980 from Shippensburg State College and worked at newspapers in Indiana and Delaware before joining the Daily News as night city editor in 1991. In 1996, Al moved to the features department and covered the city's jazz and R&B scene.
Al has made numerous presentations to children and community groups about journalism. For several years he served as a judge on the Philadelphia region's Ronald McDonald House Charities/African American Future Achievers scholarship panel. He was an instructor at the Daily News' Urban Journalism Workshop, where high school students learn how to report, write and publish a newspaper. He was an adjunct professor of journalism at Temple University, where in the summer of 2013 he was a co-director and instructor for the school's high school journalism work shop. He was an instructor at the Dell East Music Business Institute. A flutist, he volunteered as a music instructor once a week at the KIPP Philadelphia School in North Philadelphia and later taught Saturday School there.
Al has held several leadership positions with the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, including president from 1997 to 2001. He was editorial consultant for Grammy-award winning singer Dionne Warwick's autobiography, My Life, as I See It, written with David Freeman Wooley. Al's work has appeared in Down Beat and Heart & Soul magazines. He has written CD liner notes for the Prestige jazz label, Reika Records, and Four String Records. In 1999, he won first place in the Keystone Press Awards for a selection of his work with the Daily News. In 2004, he was presented with the Visions in Jazz Visionary Award for his writing, and in 2005 was inducted into the Chris' Jazz Café Hall of Fame.
A voracious reader, music lover, and sports fan, Al lives in West Philadelphia.


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Put 3 tablespoons of the olive oil in a large frying pan. When hot lightly brown the onions, peppers, and zucchini slices.
Then remove them to a casserole dish. Place the eggplant slices in to the frying pan.
Put the tomatoes and garlic in to the frying pan add some more oil if needed.
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Around the House in February
Sam did a snow angel (or something) on the back porch outside of the door. He cracks me up.
I got a new pair of L.L.Bean house slippers because my old slippers had worn out. I think L.L.Bean has now replaced Ugg as my favorite house slipper brand.
I did a puzzle in February. Here's it's progress during the month:
500-piece puzzles are the way to go! (One of my new mottos in life is "I love an easy challenge." 😂)
Morning light in the dining room
It's a pretty dining room area (if I do say so myself, and I do 😉).
A common place in which to find Sam
Through a series of signs and events over the last year of my life, "42" has become my special number. I have a feeling that big things are going to happen when I'm 42. Good things, I hope. (Hopefully not my death! 🙈🙏)
(Another) failed attempt at a good selfie with Violet
My girl all bundled up, nice and cozy.
A better attempt, but still not great!
I've had this couch for sixteen years, and I want to have it in my life always! It's aged very well, and it's always been so comfortable. I do a lot of reading on this couch and I also take really good naps here. It's the one spot in the house where I know I can fall asleep for a nap. I sometimes refer to it as my "black hole of productivity" because I know if sit down on it at a certain time of day, I might be out for awhile. So I sometimes have to avoid it. But man, do I love it!
Crazy Times Scrapbook, March 2022
Out and About in March
Around the House in March
March Hair Selfies
Overnight at the Lizzie Borden House!
March Birthday Celebrations!
February 2022 Randoms
Wisdom, Humor, and Inspiration in February
Crazy Times Scrapbook, February 2022
Out and About in February
Surprise at the Cape House!
Assembly Project: New Office Chair
Organizing Project: Headbands
Love is in the Hair
Wrestling J in February


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YMCA Hostel
New 74-bedroom hostel, with a ground floor packed with community facilities for up to 250 people. The double-heighted ground floor aims to inspire cultural activities, exhibitions and displays.
The building comprises entrance, communal spaces, cafe, commercial kitchen, event hall, conferencing facilities, training rooms, gym, workshop, wellbeing centre and offices together with enclosed gardens and car parking.
The site is located on Freeman Street in Grimsby at the junction with Kent Street and Thesiger Street. To prepare the site the existing buildings were demolished by the Freemen of Grimsby.
The new building has a total gross internal floor area of around 4,100m2 over four storeys and was constructed with piled foundations, steel frame, concrete floors, masonry external walls with some glazed curtain walling. The design incorporates a double-height atrium space to the main entrance area fronting on to Freeman Street. The building is fully fitted out including all fixtures, fittings and furniture ready for occupation by the YMCA.
External works included alterations to the vehicular entrances, forming a new car parking area, drainage and alterations to existing pavings.
YMCA Humber
Grimsby, NE Lincolnshire
Hodson Architects Ltd


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Scott Barrows and James Kimmel, co-founders of Epic Seats.
If you're dying to go to the sold-out Lady Gaga concert or get a seat on the 50-yard line at the Super Bowl, a Seattle start-up has your back. Epic Seats helps clients buy and sell tickets to all major concert, sporting and theater events throughout North America, and specializes in hard to find tickets, premium locations and sold out events. But what's more epic than the seats is the company's commitment to providing exceptional service.
While living in Chicago, Scott Barrows (BA 2000) maintained his Cubs habit by buying extra game tickets and reselling them on eBay. As luck would have it, his longtime friend and fellow CIE alum James Kimmel (MBA 2005) was doing the same thing with Mariners tickets in Seattle. The two decided to pool their assets—two $10,000 credit cards—and started Epic Seats together in 2003. Two years later they competed in the UW Business Plan Competition, making it to the Sweet 16. In a marketplace that included hundreds of other companies selling the same product, Barrows and Kimmel knew they'd need to differentiate themselves early on and focus on their core competencies: customer service and innovation.
"Our number one goal has always been to be the most customer-centric company in our industry," says Barrows. "Many companies choose profits over clients, and we'll always do the opposite." Kimmel echoes that sentiment. "Any brand equity we have as an organization is directly attributable to our customer base and what they say about us to their friends and associates. For seven years we have relied on referrals and positive word of mouth as our primary form of marketing," says Kimmel. One need only do a quick search for Epic Seats online to see their strategy is working; customer after customer raves about what great customer service they've received.
Case in point: about a year after going into business, Epic Seats purchased 16 ticket packages through a travel company for the BCS title game between the Texas Longhorns and USC Trojans and resold 12 of them for a nice profit, holding on to four for themselves and a couple of friends. When they arrived at the hotel, they found the travel company had oversold the packages and was cancelling them, simply telling people they'd refund their purchase price. Rather than do the same to their clients who had brought their families to Pasadena for the game, Barrows and Kimmel scrambled to find new hotel rooms and plenty of tickets so their clients could all go to the game. "We ended up losing $20,000 and had to stay in a dumpy motel and watch the game at Hooters, but we just decided that was going to be who we are," says Barrows.
Epic Seat's other core value is to always be innovating and with two life-long entrepreneurs at the helm, it's easy to see where that comes from. In recent years, the company expanded to include Epic Inventory Management, providing back-end operations—everything from customer service to order processing and shipping—to small and medium-sized ticket brokerages around the country. Epic is also gearing up to launch TicketsThatGive in June, a new venture that will allow charities and foundations to raise money via a promotional code for any ticket sales generated by their constituents.


Is a hold-down kit required for panels with a back-fed plug-in breaker as main?
According to NEC 408.36(D) Plug-in-type overcurrent protection devices or plug-in type main lug assemblies that are back-fed and used to terminate field-installed ungrounded supply conductors shall be secured in place by an additional fastener that requires other than a pull to release the device from the mounting means on the panel. "Field-installed" is the key, if we as the manufacturer use a back-fed breaker or main lug assembly in a panel a hold-down kit is not necessary. If a customer back-feeds a plug-in breaker or main lug assembly that they field install a hold-down kit is required.


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Q: Can anybody parse this sentence for me, please? "Quarles is viewed by many policy analysts as a business-friendly pick who benefits from having experience in the federal government and his business ties are unlikely to be viewed by senior senators his Wall Street ties as a handicap."
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-regulation-quarles-idUSKBN19X2ZT?il=0

A: This is an editing error by Reuters.
If I had to guess, the original sentence was:

Quarles is viewed by many policy analysts as a business-friendly pick
  who benefits from having experience in the federal government and
  senior senators are unlikely to view his Wall Street ties as a
  handicap.

That's a sentence that can be parsed, but contains a parallel structure error because the first clause is passive voice and the second is not. The editor also seems have decided to replace "Wall Street ties" with "business ties." In the effort to make both changes, a phrase was left duplicated. I imagine the intended correction should look more like:

Quarles is viewed by many policy analysts as a business-friendly pick
  who benefits from having experience in the federal government and his
  business ties are unlikely to be viewed by senior senators as a
  handicap.

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History of the United States : from the compromise of 1850 to the final restoration of home rule at the South in 1877 : vol. 1. 1850-1854
Rhodes, James Ford (1848-1927) / Macmillan / 1902
Proceedings in a cause lately depending before the Parliament of Paris, : in the nature of a ravishment of ward: wherein Philip Journeaulx, Esq; guardian to Deodata and Elizabeth Roach (children of John Roach of London, Merchant, deceased, and formerly Major of Fort St. George) was appellant; and Richard Quane (late a Bankrupt in London, but now a Refugee at Paris) and others were defendants; For secreting and detaining the said Young Ladies in divers Convents from their Mother and Guardians in England, and for clandestinely marrying the Eldest (not Twelve Years old) to the said Quane's Son. Containing the arguments and Pleadings in Court (in Presence of the English Minister) of M. Gueau de Reverseaux, a Learned Advocate, and Counsellor of the Parliament, and of Mr. Journeaulx the Guardian, demanding Judgment for annulling the said Marriage, and Delivery of his Wards, as Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain: In which a great Principle of the Law of Nations was debated, Viz. To what Nation two Children belong that were born at Fort St. George in the East-Indies? Translated from the French originals sign'd by the said advocate and guardian
Journeaulx, Philip / Cengage Gale / 2009
Two sermons : the first from Psalm CII. 19, 20. Delivered the Lord's-Day before the execution of Levi Ames. Who was executed at Boston, Thursday October 21. for burglary. Aet. 22. This discourse was preached at the desire of the criminal, who also attended on the occasion. The second from Proverbs XVII. 25. Preached the Lords-Day after his execution; and designed as an improvement of that awful event, by way of caution to others. To which is added, at the request of many, an account of the exercise of his mind, from the time of his condemnation, till he left the world; together with the conversation the author had with him as he walked with him from the prison to the gallows. By all which, compared with his latter conduct, he may be thought in a judgment of charity, to have died, a penitent thief. By Samuel Stillman, A.M. Pastor of the First Baptist Churc in Boston. [One line from Luke]
Stillman, Samuel (1738-1807) / Cengage Gale / 2009
The speech of the Right Honourable Philip Lord Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, made by him as Lord High Steward of Great-Britain, on Thursday the 19th day of March 1746-7. : upon giving judgment against Simon Lord Lovat, in Westminster-Hall, on the impeachment of high-treason exhibited against him by the House of Commons
Great Britain. Lord High Steward (1747 : Hardwicke) / Cengage Gale / 2009
Humanism and letters in the age of François Ier : proceedings of the fourth Cambridge French Renaissance colloquium, 19-21 september 1994
Cambridge French Renaissance colloquium (04 ; 1994) / Cambridge French colloquia / 1996
Sermons to young persons, on the following subjects : Viz. I. The importance of the rising generation. II. Christ formed in the soul the foundation of hope. III. A dissuasive from keeping wicked company. IV. The young Christian invited to an early attendance on the lord's table. V. The orphan's hope. VI. The reflections of a pious parent on the death of a wicked child. VII. Youth reminded of approaching judgment. By P. Doddridge, D.D
Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751) / The fourth edition. / Cengage Gale / 2009
Sermons to young persons, on the following subjects : viz. I. The importance of the rising generation. II. Christ formed in the soul the foundation of hope. III. A dissuasive from keeping wicked company. IV. The Young Christian invited to an early Attendance on the Lord's Table. V. The Orphan's Hope. VI. The Reflections of a pious Parent on the Death of a Wicked Child. Vii. Youth reminded of approaching Judgment. By P. Doddridge, D. D
Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751) / The second edition, corrected. / Cengage Gale / 2009
Eight famous Elizabethan plays
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593) / Modern Library / cop. 1950


DeltaV S-Series delivers cutting edge technology to conservative process automation markets while integrating Human Centered Design principles.
Emerson technologists developed a technology that would reduce the number of wiring connections in large process management installations by half. The benefits to their customers were potentially huge, however the market is extremely conservative and resistant to change, and with good reason. What refinery plant manager wants to take the risk of having their plant shut down because of bugs in new technology? On top of that, Emerson's customers were also facing an aging workforce creeping closer to retirement with their replacements not being nearly as skilled. Emerson engaged M3 to uncover and deliver a solution for the next generation DeltaV system that would address these challenges so that the benefits of this new technology would be embraced by their customers.
M3 immediately realized that the key to solving the challenge would be the application of HCD to the new DeltaV. A product life-cycle / stakeholder matrix was created to ensure that key product interactions were clearly identified. Extensive stakeholder interviews and field research was performed to uncover insights and recommendations for the new customer experience at each stage of the product life-cycle, from pre-sales through decommissioning. This information was then used to craft a Design Language and user experience designed to both ensure product acceptance with superior usability and strengthen Emerson's brand recognition. The resulting DeltaV S-Series was familiar yet technologically advanced as well as extremely intuitive to install, operate, and service.
The DeltaV S-series dramatically increases revenue and maximizes plant uptime for Emerson's customers by reducing the time it takes to go from start to commissioning and drastically cutting downtime required for maintenance. The design language showcases the DeltaV's functional improvements by communicating the attributes of reliability, simplicity and ease of use which reinforces Emerson's position as a market leader. HCD principles were applied to reduce interaction errors and deliver a system that is simple to operate and maintain. The result is an award-winning, revolutionary system that leads the market by providing its clear, fundamental advantages in a user-centric, intuitive way to all of the stakeholders in the chain including Emerson sales teams, channel partners, plant process engineers, and plant maintenance teams.
STRATEGY: M3 Design used a broad range of research tools that revealed opportunities and identified unmet needs and desires of stakeholders across the entire DeltaV product journey. These findings informed the strategy that helped develop an entirely new approach to making process control more effective and intuitive.
CONCEPT: Through a rigorous ideation process, the M3 team transformed research findings into compelling and innovative solutions. Together they addressed user needs, market needs and integrated new technology into a design language that strengthened brand recognition, while improving aesthetics and usability.
DEVELOPMENT: M3's engineers successfully integrated the envisioned concepts into feasible solutions. We closely dealt with rapid prototypers, tool makers, and mold vendors to maintain the integrity of the design intent all the way to the product launch. To this day, M3 continues to support DeltaV products and future developments.


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module Waggle
  module Adapters
    module Solr
      module Search
        class Hit
          attr_reader :solr_doc
          private :solr_doc

          def initialize(solr_doc)
            @solr_doc = solr_doc
          end

          def id
            fetch(:id)
          end

          def name
            fetch_text(:name)
          end

          def at_id
            fetch_string(:at_id)
          end

          def unique_id
            fetch_string(:unique_id)
          end

          def part_parent
            fetch_string(:part_parent)
          end

          def collection_id
            fetch_string(:collection_id)
          end

          def type
            fetch_string(:type)
          end

          def thumbnail_url
            fetch_string(:thumbnail_url)
          end

          def last_updated
            fetch_datetime(:last_updated)
          end

          def description
            fetch_text(:description)
          end

          def short_description
            fetch_text(:short_description)
          end

          def creator
            fetch_text(:creator)
          end

          def date_created
            fetch_text(:date_created)
          end

          private

          def fetch_text(field)
            fetch(Waggle::Adapters::Solr::Types::Text.field_name(field))
          end

          def fetch_string(field)
            fetch(Waggle::Adapters::Solr::Types::String.field_name(field))
          end

          def fetch_datetime(field)
            value = fetch(Waggle::Adapters::Solr::Types::DateTime.field_name(field))
            if value.present?
              Waggle::Adapters::Solr::Types::DateTime.from_solr(value)
            end
          end

          def fetch(field)
            value = solr_doc.fetch(field.to_s, nil)
            if value.is_a?(Array)
              value.first
            else
              value
            end
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


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Spiral galaxy facts for kids
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A famous spiral galaxy, the Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101 or NGC 5457)
A barred spiral galaxy, NGC 1300
A spiral galaxy is a kind of galaxy that looks like a flat, slowly rotating disk with a bulge in the centre, and spiral patterns extending outward from the bulge. It contains stars, gas, dust, dark matter and a supermassive black hole at its centre.
Galaxies were long thought to be nebulas. The spiral nebula as a type was first described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae. They are now listed as galaxies, and are named after their shape.
The barred spiral galaxy is an important and common type of spiral galaxy. There are three other kinds of spiral galaxies. Grand-design spiral galaxies have two well-shaped and well-defined arms. Multiple-arm spiral galaxies have more arms. In flocculent spiral galaxies, it is hard to see the arms at all, as they are choppy and are ill-defined.
About 60% of galaxies in the universe near us (the 'local universe') are spiral and irregular galaxies. They are mostly found in low-density parts of the universe, and are rare in the centers of galaxy clusters.
Spiral arms
Spiral arms are regions in spiral galaxies. They often contain dust,gas and star clusters of young ,hot and massive stars. They extend from the central bulge area of spiral and barred spiral galaxies. The young, hot and massive stars are why the arms are brighter than the center of the galaxy. Some spiral galaxies have yellow, 'fossil' arms of older stars.
Our own Milky Way was found to be a spiral galaxy in the early 20th century. In the 1990s it was found to be a barred spiral galaxy. The bar is difficult to see from our position in the Galactic disk. The most convincing evidence for its existence comes from a survey, performed by the Spitzer Space Telescope, of stars in the Galactic center.
Barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158.
NGC 1300 in infrared light.
Spiral galaxy NGC 1589
NGC 428 is a barred spiral galaxy, located approximately 48 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cetus.
Spiral galaxy NGC 6384 taken by Hubble Space Telescope.
The bright galaxy NGC 3810 demonstrates classical spiral structure in this very detailed image from Hubble. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA.
Milky Way Galaxy Spiral Arms – based on WISE data.
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Formerly a tax lawyer and a private equity investor, Tsai was an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell and worked for Sweden's Investor AB, the Wallenberg family holding company.
Originally from Taiwan, Tsai started playing lacrosse at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. He went on to play college lacrosse at Yale, where he earned a BA in Economics and East Asian Studies in 1986. Tsai received his JD from Yale Law School in 1990.
Steve Govett - President
Steve Govett was named president of the San Diego Seals when the expansion team was awarded by the League and publicly announced on August 30, 2017.
From 2002 to June 2017, Govett was the president, general manager and governor of the Colorado Mammoth, owned and operated by Denver-based Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE). In Govett's tenure, he built one of the League's most successful organizations both on and off the field. The Mammoth was one of just two teams to make the playoffs 14 times in his 15 seasons, and the city took notice. Colorado finished first or second in League attendance 14 times.
He was instrumental in bringing the National Lacrosse League and the former Washington Power franchise to Colorado, just as he was in bringing professional lacrosse to southern California in 2017.
Under Govett's direction, the Mammoth claimed three division titles and won the NLL championship in 2006. His leadership helped grow downtown Denver's sports and entertainment economy, while the team made a positive impact on area youth with various charitable donations and community outreach programs including player clinics, school appearances and hospital visits.
Govett was named the NLL's Executive of the Year in 2004, and has served as a long-time contributor to the League on multiple business fronts. He works closely with the Commissioner to ensure the long-term vitality of the NLL and its teams, and has served as the NLL's Chairman of the Board of Governors on two occasions.
Govett has extensive experience in international competition, having twice served as general manager of the U.S. world indoor lacrosse team. He served on the staff of the 2006 Team Canada world champion outdoor team, and helped assemble the roster that won the world title in the 2014 FIL World Lacrosse Championships. In the 1990s, Govett was a medal-winning player for his native Canadian squad.
Josh Gross - Vice President
Josh Gross enters his 16th season in professional lacrosse with the launch of the San Diego Seals. He was formally named the team's vice president of business operations when the team was announced on August 30, 2017.
Gross is a veteran of the professional sports industry, having previously overseen ticket sales, sponsorship, public relations, fan development and marketing efforts across multiple sports properties. He spent the past 13 seasons with the Colorado Mammoth, a division of Denver-based Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE). The Mammoth shattered NLL attendance records during his tenure, while becoming the model franchise in the League.
As vice president of business operations for the Mammoth, Gross was responsible for providing a superior fan experience while connecting departments within KSE to ensure consistent messaging and information-sharing. His work included growing the Mammoth brand in the marketplace while leading the team's public relations and fan development initiatives. His 2017 'Lacrosse Out Cancer' effort was recognized by NLLTV as the League's top community moment of the year.
He previously represented the Mammoth while serving as Alternate Governor on the NLL's Board of Governors, and has similar responsibilities in San Diego. Gross is a member of the league's Marketing Committee, helping craft a narrative that grows the League on both micro and macro levels. He also singlehandedly spearheaded the League's ticket sales information-sharing application, which provides teams a platform to discuss best practices and quantitative results.
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Let's suppose Server With MAC A ( 10.10.10.2 ) want to talk to Server with MAC B ( 10.10.10.3) and Host A will search for Host B MAC address ins it ARP table and will be a MISS.
Now when this ARP request will hit to S3 on Eth1/5, Source MAC A will be learned on this interface on its MAC table.
Now as this is ARP, HASH algo will be used between DMAC FFFF and SMAC MAC A, and will find one link from Port-channel vPC 10 and let suppose it will select the port E1/1 and ARP will traverse on it.
ARP request will hit to Eth1/1 of S1 and puts its entry on MAC table and because of CFS running the Same SMAC MAC A will also be learned on Eth1/2 or port-channel interface on S2.
The ARP request will be forwarded to Eth1/2 and Po100 peer-link on S1.
Switch S2 and S4 will receive this broadcast and update its MAC table with its respective receiving port-channel interface also S4 will forward the ARP request to any of vPC member port due to Loop avoidance. Likewise S4 will also not forward this ARP request in vPC 20 but will forward this packet to Eth1/4 where destination Host B resides.


I think felt play food is so fun! Check out these adorable felt food patterns! Many of them go together super quick and make fun sewing projects. Felt projects can also make great party favors. These felt carrot pencil holders make a cute activity for a child's table. Wrap up special treats with these felt bunny bags. You might also like this felt crayon and note pad holder.
Wouldn't this felt birthday cake make the perfect birthday gift? A child could celebrate all year long!
Fill a berry basket with these sweet little gems. I child could pretend they have a fruit stand!
Who doesn't love donuts and with sprinkles. Whip a few of these up and I bet your child will have fun bringing you play breakfast in bed!
Kids love to pretend cook and this felt chicken noodle soup will have them serving up hours of fun. What a clever pattern!
These simple felt patterns are perfect for the child that likes to feed their doll and also play restaurant.
Have fun playing movie theater with this cute felt popcorn and candy.
Yes, please! Is what I say to pie. This one is a must for a child that loves to play restaurant.
This one is mine. My kids loved to pretend they were having a sack lunch to I whipped up this felt food set. It has everything you need from a fully loaded sandwich to even a ding dong.
Fill up a child's pretend grocery store with this felt bounty!
I love how woven pieces of felt make this felt corn on the cob look realistic.
Just found you through Pinterest. Couldn't help but think how fun it would be to adapt the birthday cake to a hat (to REALLY embarass the recipient)! Although children might find it fun!
These are adorable. It makes me want to figure out how to use my sewing machine. These would be AWESOME in my dramatic play center in my preschool room. Thanks for sharing your amazing ideas. Now if only I could get the chicken soup one to open, it tells me "denied".
Check out my latest felt food craft. A breakfast in bed tray!
wow, you are inspiring. i think i'll go dust off that old sewig machine and get to work. my daughter would LOVE some of this stuff!!
I stopped by and decided to leave a comment!
Wow, these felt foods looks so delicious, thank you for the patterns!
Wow! I love all of these ideas!
I am really loving your site!! I'm a new follower and just yesterday we made marshellow and toothpick creations (thanks for the idea). I gave you credit and posted pics on my blog: www.cowsgomooandducksgoquack.blogspot.com Too cute!!
I got such a nice surprise when reading this in Google Reader. Thanks for including my felt corn. I really do need to make some more felt food.
These are absolutely adorable!!! How creative. That takes real talent.
Oh how fun! Makes me wish I was a little girl again!
I LOVE this... felt food is on my project list!
These are fantastic. I recently cheated and got a heap from Ikea bit now I think I'm going to give it a go making some.
I made felt food a Long time ago. I'm feeling inspired to make some more!
So cute! It really is amazing how felt just makes everything more fun... and even more appetizing. Thanks for sharing these items.
I love making items from felt and these creations are adorable. My kids would go crazy over them.
I love them! Too cute, and a must try!
These are so cute - really must try making some felt food.
These are the cutest things ive ever seen! I love the whipped cream and the corn! Ha! Great job, so creative.
I love felt food...and the strawberries are one of my kids' favorites...along with those chocolate cupcakes in the background. Thanks so much for featuring them!
Oh My Gosh!! These are so creatively awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I want that pattern SOOOO bad!!!!!! I love the felt food too.
OMG! These are too cute. I especially love the can of chicken noddle soup!
Love the felt food, Have a friends baby who just turned 1 and these would be great for her, and quiet for her work at home mom. Will be making these soon. Thanks.
Adorable! I loved play food when I was a kid!


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Migrant rescues along US-Mexico border climb amid sweltering heat and high water levels
Jun 19, 2022, 10:38 PM | Updated: Jun 25, 2022, 8:52 pm
El Paso Fire Department water rescue team trains to take a body out of the canal in the event of a drowning. (Credit: CNN)
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BY PRISCILLA ALVAREZ, CNN
(CNN) — In the roaring waters of the canal, first responders train for the worst: migrants who have been swept away while trying to cross the US-Mexico border.
The canal, which runs for miles along the international border, is intended to get water to farmers during the summer months. But as migrants try to cross into the United States, the canal also poses a unique danger, with high water levels and a fast-moving current.
"You get pushed underneath. You get pushed out," said Kris Menendez, captain of the El Paso Fire Department water rescue team. "It could mean life or death. No doubt."
Authorities say there have been eight deaths here in the span of a week, signaling a grim outlook for the summer as migrants head to the border in extreme conditions. Between Saturday and Sunday, three more bodies were recovered from the canal.
"The canals are deeper than they appear and often have a significant water current and undertow this time of year as water is released from reservoirs upstream for irrigation purposes," a June 11 news release from US Customs and Border Protection said. "The risk is not worth the loss of human life."
Already, rescues across the US southern border have outpaced those of the last fiscal year.
Since October, there have been more than 14,000 searches and rescues along the US southern border, according to US Customs and Border Protection. That's up from 12,833 in fiscal year 2021, with more than three months left to go.
Border officials are on high alert, issuing warnings about the oppressive desert heat and crossing dangerous waters. This week, CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus warned of the extreme conditions this time of year, which can put migrants attempting to cross the border at greater risk.
"As temperatures start to rise in the summer, human smugglers will continue to exploit vulnerable populations and recklessly endanger the lives of migrants for financial gain," Magnus said in a statement. "The terrain along the Southwest Border is extreme, the summer heat is severe, and the miles of desert that migrants must hike after crossing the border are unforgiving."
Migrants will also try to climb over the border wall and fall in the process. In the El Paso sector, there were more than 229 injuries from October through May from those falls, ranging from ankle injuries to brain injuries. Agents try to render aid themselves and take migrants to hospitals if necessary.
Despite the dangers, migrants still try to cross the US southern border, often to seek refuge. Last month, CBP stopped nearly 240,000 migrants along the US-Mexico border, marking a record high and 2% increase compared with April, according to agency data.
The impact of Title 42
The Trump-era pandemic restriction known as Title 42 remains in effect along the US southern border after a lower court blocked the Biden administration from terminating it. While Title 42 allows authorities to turn away migrants at the border, effectively barring them from seeking asylum, there's little legal consequence for those who attempt to cross again.
In a recent release, CBP acknowledged that expulsions under Title 42 have contributed to "a higher-than-usual number of migrants making multiple border crossing attempts." Single adults made up most apprehensions in May, the data shows, though encounters of families and unaccompanied children increased last month compared with April.
Dylan Corbett, head of the Hope Border Institute in El Paso, told CNN that built-up pressure and insecurity have driven migrants to make risky decisions.
"It's an index, really, of desperation, an index of pain, an index of frustration of not being able to access asylum at our border," Corbett said.
Migration continues
Mass migration across the Western Hemisphere has fueled a growing number of arrivals at the US southern border. In recent months, a new trend has been taking shape that's posed a challenge to the Biden administration: An increasing number of migrants are from countries outside of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Once apprehended, migrants might be released from government custody for a variety of reasons, like their nationalities — which can determine whether the US can easily remove or expel them — vulnerabilities or other limitations. Nongovernmental agencies along the border assist migrants who are released from custody as they travel to their final destinations in the US, where they may have relatives and will continue their immigration proceedings.
Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House, runs a network of shelters in El Paso.
"Over the past several months, the numbers have consistently been at 3,000 per week. … So there were nights where we had close to 400 people sleeping here," he said, while showing CNN one of the major shelter sites, which is set to close this summer amid a shortage of volunteers.
Southern border cities are adjusting to the reality that migration flows won't slow down. El Paso County is weighing a processing center to alleviate stressed shelters.
"I really believe that this is the new world that we're going to be experiencing and it's not going be a temporary situation. Nothing that we do and we've done before … none of that is functional," said County Judge Ricardo Samaniego.
DHS may send migrants to cities away from the border
The Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, is considering sending migrants to some US cities farther from the US-Mexico border depending on NGO capacity, according to a department official.
As part of ongoing planning to deal with a high volume of migrants, DHS has focused on more efficiently processing those who are released from custody while they go through their immigration proceedings.
The plan would send migrants to Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston and Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to the official, and help alleviate border shelters that have been overwhelmed.
A DHS spokesperson previously told CNN that a decision hasn't been made.
"Should a decision be made, DHS will continue to closely coordinate with and support cities and NGOs to facilitate the movement of any individual encountered at the Southwest border who is placed into removal proceedings pending the next steps in their immigration proceedings," the spokesperson added.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, in a rebuke of President Joe Biden's immigration policies, began sending dozens of migrants to Washington who had been apprehended at the US-Mexico border and released from custody. After arriving in Washington, migrants have continued to other destinations in the US.
Samaniego bemoaned the partisanship over immigration, stressing that migrant flows are unlikely to subside in the near future.
"What keeps me up at night about what's going to happen is that it requires a tremendous amount of unity at the local, state and federal government," Samaniego said.
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Arts and Entertainment Wrap Up: 09-27-18
September 28, 2018 by newtheme
The Chamber Orchestra of Kona presents two concerts
featuring local soloists
The Chamber Orchestra of Kona (COOK), a local community orchestra comprised of approximately 30 musicians, will presents a pair of concerts at the Aloha Theater in Kainaliu at 6 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday.
Each concert will present just over an hour of orchestral music. Tickets can be purchased online at www.chamberorchestraofkona.com/concerts.html.
The concerts, called "Spotlight on Soloists," will feature members of the orchestra in four dynamic and exciting performances, including Peter Bosted on oboe performing "Gabriel's Oboe" from the 1986 movie The Mission composed by Enrico Morricone and Charlie O'Kelly on trumpet playing selections from The Trumpet Concerto in E Major by Johann Nepomuk Hummel. David Turner will be featured in The Clarinet Concerto by Maria Von Weber, known for operas such as Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon and Ursula Vietze, well-known Kona area violinist and the orchestra's concert master, will perform The Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, considered one of the most popular violin concertos in the repertoire
In addition the orchestra will perform selections from The Chronicles of Narnia film series that were first released in 2005.
Info: Visit http://www.chamberorchestraofkona.com/concerts.html.
Teen improv workshop
held at Honua Studios
This Saturday, The Alohaha Comedy Company presents Sonya Meyer's Improv Basics for Teens.
In this four-hour introductory workshop for players ages 13 to 17, participants will form a team mentality and become more comfortable with fellow players by learning how to connect with eye contact and support one another.
The workshop will be held at Honua Studios (located below Costco) and runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets are $40 for new students and $20 for Alohaha members.
Info: To register or for more information visit www.thealohahas.com.
The Zodiac Trio to perform at Kahilu
Kahilu Theatre invites classical music lovers to a performance by the Zodiac Trio at 4 p.m. Sunday. The group is one of the most recognized ensembles in the world chamber music scene today. They have earned distinctive honors for their work and created a non-traditional synergy by including a wind instrument in the genre. Tickets can be purchased at 885-6868 or kahilutheatre.org.
Zodiac Trio is comprised of prize-winning musicians: Riko Higuma on piano, Vanessa Mollard on violin and Kliment Krylovskiy on clarinet. The trio was originally formed in 2006 at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. They became the first American group to enter the esteemed Ysaÿe Quartet Chamber Music program at the Paris Superior Conservatory.
The internationally acclaimed Zodiac Trio is founder of the Zodiac Music Academy &Festival. The festival, started in 2015, invites advanced students and pre-professionals for two weeks of intense training and ample performance opportunities on the famed Côte D'Azur in France.
Youth under the age of 18 are free with an accompanying adult. Tickets are $65/$45/$25 and can be purchased at kahilutheatre.org, 885-6868 or at the Kahilu Theatre Box Office located at 67-1186 Lindsey Road, Kamuela.
Info: Visit kahilutheatre.org.
Aloha Theatre casts 'The Addams Family'
Halloween season is fast approaching and who better to get you into the spirit than the creepy, kooky, altogether ooky Addams Family, live on stage? You know them, and chances are you'll know the Kona performers playing these legendary roles when the Aloha Theatre brings them to life and death.
The hilarious, macabre Addams clan is led by Victor Lugo as Gomez and Jaquelynn Collier as Morticia. Playing other classic family members are Cambrey White, as Wednesday; Maka Cabatbat, as Pugsley; Miguel Montez, as Uncle Fester; Kelly Spangler, as Lurch; and Karen Hollinger, as Grandma.
The family is joined in the musical by the Beineke family. Lucas is Wednesday's new boyfriend, played by Stephen Alves, and his parents Alice and Mal, are played by Nikki Johnson and Joel Michaelson. Their visit to Casa de Addams sets the show's plot spinning.
The Ancestors, a motley crew of singing, dancing ghosts from the Addams family crypt, are played by Peggy Andersen, Ariel Cohen, Fletcher Johnson, Kent Kane, Kira Kane, Raise Klyne, Nathan Lublin, Brett McCardle and Riley Newton.
Other production crew members include Peter Schonberg, producer; Tiffany Kutsunai, staff producer; Rich Bickel, technical director; Robin O'Hara, assistant director; Bernaldo Evangelista, music director; Marinella Savarese, vocal director; Rexanne Ring, choreographer; Gerald Lucena, set designer; Kaitlin Moore, costume designer; Lisa Week; props designer; Jeff Rowand, sound designer; Cameron Miculka, lighting designer; Catherine Williams, hair and makeup designer; Nicole Aragon, stage manager; and Ikaika Bredeson, stage crew. Other crew members include Yasir Bey, Reggie Koffman, Jen Ancheta, and Gwen Protea. Rehearsal accompanists are Dove DeMoss, Dale Ross, Gloria Juan, Cindy Cohen, and Wendy Buzby.
"The Addams Family: A New Musical" is appropriate for all ages, based on characters created by The New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams. Music and llyrics are by Andrew Lippa, with book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. The Big Island premiere will be performed at the historic Aloha Theatre, weekends from Oct. 12-28, with Friday and Saturday shows at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. The theatre is approximately 15 minutes south of Kailua-Kona, in the village of Kainaliu.
Info: More information and tickets are available at www.AlohaTheatre.com.
14th annual Stringed Instrument Show
The Big Island Ukulele Guild is hosting its 14th Annual Stringed Instrument Show at the Wailoa Art Center in Hilo from Oct. 5-25. The exhibit showcases finely crafted ukuleles by guild members as well as a juried ukulele contest. The exhibits are open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Opening Night festivities start the show from 5-8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5. Meet the artists, and enjoy music and pupus while browsing the exhibit. On Saturday, Oct. 6, and again on Oct. 21, bring your ukulele to a kanikapila from noon to 3 p.m. And on Saturday, Oct. 13 from noon to 3 p.m., a ukulele building demonstration will provide an informative view on creating an ukulele.
All events are free at the Wailoa Center and open to the public. All four special events include a drawing for a free ukulele.
Info: For further information, please contact Tom Russell at BI_UkuleleGuild@icloud.com.
Kahilu Theatre presents the return of classical pianist Mark Salman
Kahilu Theatre presents pianist Mark Salman at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21. Kahilu Theatre is excited to have Mr. Salman return to perform on the beautiful Steinway Model D concert grand for another solo piano event.
Salman is a native of Connecticut and a graduate of The Juilliard School of Music, where he studied with Richard Fabre and Josef Raieff. He previously attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years, where he concentrated on chamber music and composition, studying with the noted composer, John Harbison.
Salman currently lives in Seattle and serves on the faculty of the Seattle Conservatory of Music.
Salman has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States including performances at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York. Besides his wide-ranging repertoire, Salman is perhaps best known for his expertise on Beethoven, having performed the complete cycle of the thirty-two piano sonatas on both coasts.
Tickets are $65 / $45 / $25 and are available for purchase at kahilutheatre.org, 885-6868, or at the Kahilu Theatre Box Office located at 67-1186 Lindsey Road, Kamuela. Ages 18 and under are free with an accompanying adult.
Kona Science Cafe presents Honua Studios, GVS Accelerator
Several years ago, newly-formed Honua Studios came to Kona Science Café to describe their studio and the partnership with the State of Hawaii and the County of Hawaii that created the Global Virtual Studio Transmedia Accelerator program. Since that time, Honua Studios has grown and supported a number of film projects on Hawaii Island.
Join the cafe this month on site at Honua Studios for an update on the progress that the company has made and how the accelerator program has impacted media projects in Hawaii. Derek Hall will also discuss the latest project to hit the theaters, "Running for Grace." a feature film recently released in A tour of the Honua Studios facility, including green stage and production rooms, is also scheduled.
This event is scheduled for 5-7:30 p.m. Monday at Honua Studios, 73-4855 Kanalani Street, Kailua-Kona.
Info: For more information, contact Rod Hinman at rod@auroraresearch.com or 989-0977.
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Radio, Radio, How Does Your Garden Grow?
by Fred Jacobs · February 22, 2021
The big news last week was the NASA's Rover, Perseverance, landing on the surface of Mars.
But to hear media critic and tech savant, David Pogue, tell it, the excitement was all here on earth. He discovered a unique service available to all that allow you to listen to radio from virtually anywhere on earth from the comfort and convenience of your mobile phone or laptop. How's that for technology?
Last week, the erudite Pogue fired off this giddy tweet, extolling the virtues of radio here in the U.S. and around the globe:
This is the COOLEST. A Google Earth-type representation of the planet. Every green dot is a radio station. Click any dot to listen in. It's like cultural teleportation. You could spend hours with this thing… https://t.co/rdEHUUfgvk pic.twitter.com/VJgyzVClJD
— David Pogue (@Pogue) February 14, 2021
The story about an Netherlands-based organization in Amstserdam called Radio Garden was originally reported in Bored Panda by young writer Violeta Pročkytė, who obviously couldn't get enough joy out of this technology that mashes up broadcast and internet radio.
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Here's the mission of Radio Garden:
By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined both connecting with distant cultures, as well as re-connecting with people from 'home' from thousands of miles away.
It's fascinating. The app/website opens with a very Google Earth-like animation that spins the globe until it lands on your location. And from there, you can see the list of available stations from the regions or city that you land on.
As you move across the Planet Earth, discovering radio, you begin to have that odd sensation many of us radio lovers of a certain age remember from our youths. Lying in bed, spinning the AM radio deal carefully up and down. Thanks to the properties of amplitude modulation, the weather and other atmospherics, you might be in Detroit tuning in stations from New York City, Louisville, Chicago, or in your own town. Many of us first learned about many of these faraway places by listening to their local radio.
I zoomed into Detroit, of course, to see what was available in my hometown – and what was missing. But despite living here, I bumped into Radio Explosiva at 1480 on the AM dial – not a station I would normally scan in my car. I will not be a P1 anytime soon, but I most certainly discovered it was there for Detroit's Mexican community.
Radio Garden is a souped up version, allowing users to literally "visit" thousands of dots all over earth, stopping in long enough to check out its local radio offerings.
And it's fascinating to hear Pročkytė (pictured right) wax poetic about the virtues of radio in a digital world. Here's how she's explains radio's advantages over playlist services:
"When it comes to music, it's likely you have favorite tools and programs. Maybe you prefer Spotify, or perhaps iTunes or even YouTube is more to your liking. The thing with those platforms, however, is that they present carefully curated lists that you yourself select. You know exactly what will play and that's great, if it's what you want! You can simply queue up your favorite songs and enjoy.
"But if you want something more surprising, radio might be a better pick. Of course, you will have to listen to commercials and other breaks, but if you want a totally surprising playlist that will give you variety of genres, that's the way to go."
But it turns out, this "digital garden" isn't the only platform devoted to radio from around the world. As I was researching and exploring Radio Garden, I started getting that deja vu feeling I'd been here before.
And it turns out, I wrote a blog post about this amazing service back in 2016, "It's A Small Radio World After All." But a lot has changed about the service and the technology. Now there are apps for iOS and Android, a helpful search feature, and the entire look and feel of Radio Garden and the website have been upgraded and reimagined.
Image: Radio Garden
As you troll around the globe, anywhere you see a green dot – and there are thousands of them – there's radio for you to stream and sample.
As you "teleport" from Cairo to Cleveland to Cancun, you'll note the list of offered stations in each market is spotty, and even random. I noticed Cumulus stations are usually represented here in the States, but other companies are scarce or M.I.A.
There's a page on the site that allows you to submit a station, and the main requirement appears to be that you stream full-time. You can access the form here.
At a time when many American stations have put up barriers to prevent people outside your coverage are to access your stream – "geo-fencing" – sites like Radio Garden are taking an open, accessible approach to the medium.
Instead of being limited by the boundaries of AM and FM frequencies or even the laborious act of typing and texting in stations to "umbrella radio apps" like TuneIn, iHeartRadio, and Radio.com, Radio Garden is about discovery.
And while learning about musical culture and local affairs are accessible via a host of stations and services on Radio Garden, it's the serendipitous act of spinning the virtual globe, stopping wherever, and bumping into a radio station that provides surprises and the unexpected.
It is new technology that harkens back to the "old school" joy of tuning in faraway stations with an AM or ham radio – or a crystal set. And in scanning through replies and retweets to Pogue's tweet, radio discovery can still be fun:
No matter how you say it, whether it's French, Russian, Hebrew, Spanish or just plain radio-ese, we all speak a common language when it comes to the radio:
"Play the hits."
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Jim Kerr says
When I started in radio at what was then WYNZ, 1480 was WYSI, Ypsilanti. A 500 watt directional daytimer that played country music. Jack Wilkerson, Mornings, Jimmie Blake, mid-days and Farris Wilder, afternoons. A salesman from WXYZ (Bob Koch) bought it and changed the call letters to WSDS. I believe the great Jim Hampton of WXYZ fame was on the air there at one time. I'm glad in its present incarnation it's getting some worldwide love!
Jim, I love how every frequency and set of call letters has a story (or in some cases, an entire book!). Thanks for the background on 1480 AM. Thanks to Radio Garden, they might generate a little cume.
BTW congrats on signing your new deal, which should cement your record as the Cal Ripken of morning radio in NYC.


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In the School of Music, there are 47 full-time faculty, 10 part-time faculty and 9 full time staff. Currently there are 266 B.M. and 18 B.A (284 undergraduate students total) and 84 M.M. students for a total of 368 music majors.
The School of Music is housed in the brand new Natalie L. Haslam Music Center. As of August 2013, the School of Music at UT is an All-Steinway School, meaning that at least 90 percent of its pianos are Steinway-designed pianos.
The School is extremely proud of its record of achievement in education, performance, and service. Internationally recognized performing artists and conductors, members of major symphony orchestras, leading performers in commercial music and jazz, composers, and faculty members of leading academic institutions are included in the ranks of the School's graduates.
The School of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), the accrediting agency for music units at institutions of higher education in the United States.
The mission of the School of Music is to provide the highest quality of instruction in the musical arts and to cultivate creative activity and research in the areas of composition, education, musicology, pedagogy, performance, and theory.
As part of its mission, the School enriches the musical and educational lives of its students, the university community and citizens of Tennessee.
encourage interpretive, creative and scholarly expression.
Such preparation enables students to be competitive in music careers and related fields and to continue study at an advanced level.
To foster a greater understanding of music, the faculty regularly engage in artistic, educational, and scholarly activities through performances, workshops, publications, and participation in professional organizations.
The School fulfills its service mission to enrich the educational and cultural life of the university at large by offering a broad range of courses, performance opportunities, as well as public concerts, recitals, and musical productions.
The School also aims to promote a greater understanding of cultural diversity among faculty and students; build a diverse student and faculty community; and offer curricula that require students to engage with the musical richness of our world and develop their own musical identities within an increasingly interconnected globe.
The School of Music offers an honors program for exceptional undergraduate students.
The University of Tennessee is located near downtown Knoxville, TN. Knoxville, a city of 178,000 residents, is in East Tennessee, near the Smoky Mountains.
Knoxville has a vibrant music community. In addition to the performances sponsored through the School of Music, the University Center Cultural Attractions Events series brings concerts, dance troupes, theatre companies, and other professional touring groups to the campus.
The University of Tennessee's Frank H. McClung Museum, the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, the Dance area, the Clarence Brown and Carousel Theatres, and International House also present many exhibits, performances and productions by students and faculty.
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Knoxville Opera Company, City Ballet, the Bijou and Tennessee Theatres, Thompson Boling Arena, The Arts Council of Greater Knoxville, The Knoxville Museum of Art, and the Knox County Tourist Commission supplement artistic activities in the area. The annual Dogwood Arts Festival sponsored by Knoxville brings more than 200,000 people from the city and surrounding area to see performances by many university and civic groups as well as to observe visual artists.


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import bunch
import fixtures
import mock

from muranoagent import app
from muranoagent.common import config as cfg
from muranoagent import exceptions as exc
from muranoagent.tests.unit import base
from muranoagent.tests.unit import execution_plan as ep

CONF = cfg.CONF

class TestApp(base.MuranoAgentTestCase, fixtures.FunctionFixture):

    @mock.patch('os.path.exists')
    def setUp(self, mock_path):
        super(TestApp, self).setUp()
        mock_path.return_value = True
        self.agent = app.MuranoAgent()
        CONF.set_override('storage', 'cache')

    def test_verify_execution_plan_downloable(self):
        template = self.useFixture(ep.ExPlanDownloable()).execution_plan
        self.agent._verify_plan(template)

    def test_verify_execution_plan_wrong_format(self):
        template = bunch.Bunch(
            ID='ID',
            FormatVersion='0.0.0',
        )
        self.assertRaises(exc.IncorrectFormat,
                          self.agent._verify_plan, template)

    def test_verify_over_max_execution_plan(self):
        template = self.useFixture(ep.ExPlanApplication()).execution_plan
        template['FormatVersion'] = '1000.0.0'
        self.assertRaises(exc.IncorrectFormat,
                          self.agent._verify_plan, template)

    def test_verify_execution_application(self):
        template = self.useFixture(ep.ExPlanApplication()).execution_plan
        self.agent._verify_plan(template)

    def test_verify_wrong_execution_application(self):
        template = self.useFixture(ep.ExPlanApplication()).execution_plan
        template['Files']['ID1'] = {
            'Name': 'tomcat.git',
            'Type': 'Downloadable',
            'URL': 'https://github.com/tomcat.git'
        }
        template['FormatVersion'] = '2.0.0'
        self.assertRaises(exc.IncorrectFormat,
                          self.agent._verify_plan, template)

    def test_verify_execution_plan_no_files(self):
        template = self.useFixture(ep.ExPlanDownloableNoFiles()).execution_plan
        self.assertRaises(exc.IncorrectFormat,
                          self.agent._verify_plan, template)


There are about 10 million speakers of Kurdish, scattered over four countries. There are over 25 millions each in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, about 15 millions in Syria. The general area in which they live is often referred to as Kurdistan.
The Kurds are an ancient people who have always had a strong sense of ethnic identity. Their language belongs to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family. It is generally written in a variation of the Arabic script, though the Cyrillic alphabet has been introduced in the Soviet Union, though a Roman script exists in Iraq and Syria.
If beauty is a tender succulent plant, then eyes are two bright flowers crowning it. Eyes are a pair of kingly stars glittering through the deep heavens; two precious stones that adorn the crown of love and beauty; two bright windows overlooking the garden of the soul.
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Why Don't You Take Die Hard: The Nakatomi Heist Board Game Under Consideration?
Die Hard: Nakatomi Heist, one of the big summer releases from The op, is a…complex game. Fans of the movie will likely quite enjoy it, particularly those who wanted to be John McClane or Hans Gruber. And fans of complex board games that require lots of balancing and moving of the physical board will also enjoy it. But for casual fans of both…well, it'll be an adjustment, in many ways.
So, this is a game for two to four players. One player will be playing as John McClane, and will be working to defeat the other players, who will be playing as Hans Gruber and the thieves. The objectives will make it quite immediately clear to anyone that, while the game does its best to balance things, whoever is playing John will be on hard mode, especially if there's three or four players. The game itself comes with the double sided game board, a player board for John McClane, and a variety of cards, tokens, figures, cubes, tiles, and a die. For a better look at the game and "what's in the box," check out Dan's unboxing here.
What are those objectives? Well, for the one playing as John McClane, the goal is to make it through all three 'Acts' (essentially rounds, with each act set on a new, larger segment of the board) by completing the key objectives for each 'Act', not get killed by the thieves, and push Hans Gruber out a window in 'Act Three'. For those playing as thieves, the goal is to steal the money in the safe. They must work their way through the six level lock, and then set charges on the roof, before 'John' can complete all of the key objectives. If they succeed in this, or if they manage to just kill 'John', they win.
Broken glass not included
This does have the unfortunate result of stacking the odds against whoever is playing John. Which is, admittedly, in the spirit of the film, but that doesn't necessarily make for the best gaming experience. It does depend on the players though, and it certainly doesn't seem to stack the odds against him to the degree that it makes the game broken or unwinnable. Just…difficult. The game does give you a chance to adjust however, with the First Act's map taking up a quarter of the board, the Second Act half, and the Third Act the entirety of the back. Though that in and of itself, the need to reset everything after some time, can be difficult to adjust to.
The meat of the game comes from the action cards, which determine how well the players perform in working towards completing their objectives. For John, these cards go into a hand, and he can select which ones to use at will. The cards he uses in each Act carry over to the next one, and in fact get a little bit better each time. In a method of counterbalancing the comparative ease of the thieves' gameplay though, there is an element of randomness to their actions. Their cards contain not just actions, but also the code sequences for the safe. They need the right sequences, but cannot communicate with each other when picking the three action cards they use per turn (if there's only one thief then one of the cards must be picked without said thief looking at it first). This element of randomness helps keep things somewhat more balanced than they would otherwise.
Presentation-wise, the game is very true to the aesthetic of the film. Lots of black and grey, with a small amount of red, green, and white as accents. And while that is not necessarily my favored aesthetic on a personal level, it's certainly not a bad one by any stretch. It's quite striking. The cards and small figures are distinct and well made as well, which helps a good deal.
Ultimately Die Hard: Nakatomi Heist is a very well made game that will please fans of the movie and fans of more complex board games, but may be difficult to grasp to newcomers more used to more casual fare. And with an estimated run time of at least an hour, it's not a game to pick up quickly. But, as I said, it's well made and worth your time if you like the more complex games!
You can get Die Hard: Nakatomi Heist on Amazon or your FLGS, where it retails for $39.95. Thanks to The op for the chance to check this game out, and be sure to check out our other reviews of games by The op, as well as Dan's preview of all their games from GenCon.
All images via The op
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