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By Katie Pinke on Jan 24, 2019 at 2:58 p.m.
The North Dakota Legislature is considering opening family farm corporations to include second cousins.
Are you against corporate farming? In 2016, 75 percent of North Dakotans voted against exempting dairy and swine operations from corporate ownership laws, instead sticking with the family farming law that's been intact since 1932. Eight other states — Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin — also have corporate farm laws on the books. North Dakota's law is the most restrictive and the only one that doesn't allow an exemption for livestock. Now legislators are trying to at least open up the limiting law to allow extended family into farm businesses.
Many have fought to keep the "family farm" going in North Dakota, but does a more restrictive corporate farming law champion the same cause and grow our agriculture industry? I turned to 2017 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
North Dakota has 29,000 farms, 984,000 beef cows, 147,000 pigs, 70,000 sheep and 15,500 dairy cows. The average farm is 1,308 acres.
South Dakota has 31,000 farms with 1.8 million beef cows, 1.5 million pigs, 4.1 million turkeys, 260,000 sheep, and 119,000 dairy cows. The average farm is 1,397 acres.
Minnesota has 73,200 farms that average 354 acres. The state includes nearly 60 million chickens, 42 million turkeys, 8.5 million pigs, 455,000 dairy cows, 365,000 beef cows, and even 25,000 meat goats and 14,000 dairy goats.
Iowa has nearly 87,000 farms operating an average 351 acres. The state is home to 970,000 beef cows, 220,000 dairy cows, 22.8 million pigs, and 12 million turkeys. Iowa's farming law is far less restrictive than North Dakota's in terms of who can be a part of a family farming corporation. It also requires 60 percent of a farming corporation's income to come from farming.
Based on the numbers, North Dakota lags far behind nearby states. We need to help grow agriculture.
My husband and I own a lumberyard, started by his parents, and home-building business. You don't have to be a family member to partner or invest in our small business. But you must be a family member to be a part of a family farming business. North Dakotans have an antiquated view of what a family farm should or should not be.
A majority of North Dakotans by their vote in 2016 believe family farms should remain with generations of immediate family working the land and caring for the livestock. It's picturesque and accurate. In the U.S., 97 percent of farms are family owned, meaning majority owned by family members. But I think farms and ranches should have the freedom to operate, which includes deciding who partners and invests in the business, just like I can do in my small non-farm business.
Two of my dear friends are technically my fourth cousins if I've done my family tree math correctly. They are like brothers to me. Our great-great-grandfathers immigrated together from Norway and our extended families still live within miles of each other. As of right now, I couldn't form a farm or ranch partnership with them. We need to allow exemptions and fewer restrictions on the farming corporation laws in North Dakota.
I love the family farm. But families are smaller than they used to be. Farms need more capital. If amending North Dakota's law to include second cousins helps keep one farm in business, let's do it.
If change requires baby steps, this is one. More changes are necessary if we want to continue our livelihood and the state's largest industry, agriculture. No matter what you think a farm should or shouldn't be, farmers should have the freedom to operate the same way any non-farm business does, with the partners and investors they need to be successful.
In 2019, maybe that would be second cousins for a few North Dakota farms.


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She is the sister of Andormu, whom she stands next to (in both forms), and also co-leader of Keepers of Time.
Nozari appears as a legendary card for the paladin class in the Rise of Shadows expansion for Hearthstone. Her flavor text reads: "In another timeline, she was called Yeszari."
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The suspects in the San Bernardino holiday party shooting were armed with four guns, an explosive device and several magazines of ammunition in a "well-planned" attack, police and federal officials said.
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, a U.S.-born health inspector for San Bernardino County, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were carrying two .223-caliber assault rifles and two semi-automatic handguns.
Two of the four weapons were found to be legally purchased, sources familiar with the investigation told NBC News.
An "explosive device" was found at the scene of the Wednesday's shooting spree, while items made to look like pipe bombs were thrown during the pursuit, according to Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokeswoman Meredith Davis.
"They were in tactical gear and had several mags full of ammunition fashioned to their body so they were ready for a gunfight should that occur," Davis said. "With my experiences with other mass shootings, there are indicators this was well-planned out and it was to be violent in nature."
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said the two .223-caliber assault rifles were a DPMS model and a Smith & Wesson MMP 15 model, while the two semi-automatic hand guns were manufactured by llama and Smith & Wesson.
"The weapons we recovered — two long guns and two pistols — they will also have serial numbers on them that we can trace as long as they were produced by manufacturers either here in the U.S. or imported to the U.S.," Davis said.
Bomb technicians were sent to make safe the explosive device located at the Inland Regional Center, a state-run center for people with developmental disabilities in San Bernardino, Davis added. The device was found during a sweep of the scene.
She added that fears of pipe bombs were based on "an abundance of caution" after similar tactics were used by the Boston Marathon bombers.
"I do recall in the Boston bombing that they threw devices, explosive devices at the police as they were being pursued," Davis said. "They planned that out very thoroughly, I would make a connection to that."
However, ATF experts found that the items thrown were in fact "a very thick pipe with a piece of cloth that was made to look like a fuse [but] did not contain any explosives."
Burguan echoed her comments that the assault appeared to have been well-planned.
He reporters: "I think that, based upon what we have seen and based upon how they were equipped, there had to be some degree of planning that went into this. I don't think they just ran home, put on these types of tactical clothes, grabbed guns and came back on a spur of the moment."
Davis described the involvement of a woman in the attacks as "odd."
"Being a female that is experienced with firearms and explosives ... in my world it's odd to me ... when we look at cases like this across the U.S. and maybe across the world, it is unusual to have a female suspect," she said.


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KPIT Technologies net profit dips 22% to Rs 24 crore in June quarter
August 4, 2020 Editor
IT company KPIT Technologies on Monday reported around 22 per cent fall in consolidated net profit to Rs 24.2 crore for the June 2020 quarter.
It had posted a net profit of Rs 31 crore in the corresponding period a year ago, according to a BSE filing by the company.
The firm's consolidated revenue from operations during April-June 2020 dropped 2.6 per cent to Rs 492.7 crore, compared with Rs 505.7 crore in the year ago period.
"The performance of this quarter is in line with our expectations in the face of the global pandemic," KPIT co-founder, CEO and MD Kishor Patil said in a statement.
He added that the mobility industry is stabilising and the company is witnessing increased interest from its strategic clients with prioritising of investments in electric powertrain, autonomous driving and digital cockpit.
Patil said the firm closed two large deals in consecutive quarters now and remains optimistic about growth and gradual improvement in other operating parameters in the second half and beyond.
"Our priority during the last quarter was to keep the well-being of our employees in the centre, uphold all our commitments to our clients, and to remain liquid to get through the difficult spell," said KPIT President and Whole-Time Director Sachin Tikekar.
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Infosys divests partial stake in US-based Whoop for about $10 million

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RightNow says time is right for an IPO
The hosted contact center vendor announced plans today to take the company public.
RightNow Technologies Inc. is the latest high-tech company aiming to join the public ranks.
The Bozeman, Mont.-based provider of hosted customer service software joined other high profile companies like Google and Salesforce.com when it announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. It hopes to raise $60 million and plans to be traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol "RNOW."
The number of shares and the price range for the offering have not been determined.
Morgan Stanley & Co. will act as sole book runner for the offering.
Read a recent interview with RightNow CEO Greg Gianforte.
Learn more about RightNow's latest product offerings.
Representatives from RightNow couldn't comment on the move, citing SEC regulations. In an interview last month, however, RightNow CEO Greg Gianforte said Salesforce.com's public offering meant good news for RightNow and the hosted CRM market as a whole.
"We're rooting for Salesforce.com," Gianforte told SearchCRM.com. "Salesforce is the largest on-demand CRM company in the world. We are the second largest in terms of revenue. We feel their IPO is going to create a lot more visibility on this emerging space."
The offering comes after some strong financial performances by the company. The fourth quarter of 2003 was the 25th consecutive quarter of revenue growth and seventh consecutive quarter of cash flow positive business, RightNow said. The company has recently doubled its engineering staff and is in the midst of doubling the field organization, Gianforte said last month.
RightNow focuses on the customer service side of CRM, supporting multiple communication channels, including Web, interactive voice, e-mail and telephone. It currently has more than 1,000 active clients.
As a private company, RightNow has been relatively quiet about its fiscal success, and the IPO should certainly bring some more visibility to its larger deals, said John Ragsdale, principal analyst with Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. Don't expect RightNow to use all its new capital on marketing and advertising, though.
"They've always put a huge amount of their dollars back into development, and I don't think that's going to change," Ragsdale said. "I don't see them becoming a full CRM vendor, though. I do see them expanding their offerings."
With today's announcement, RightNow becomes the second hosted CRM provider in recent months to plan a public stock offering. In December, Salesforce.com said it would go public. The San Francisco-based company's stock will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CRM."
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Early today, Rupert Murdoch, owner of the STAR Television Network, officially announced that they have run out of any and all original programming for broadcast on their English language channel, STAR World.
With viewers clamoring "I watch STAR World, get me out of here!", the broadcasting giant's management find themselves looking at the graying anatomy of their line-up.
The network's current choice of sad and revolting reality-based shows have left audiences asking if the people at STAR really were smarter than a fifth grader?
With STAR TV refusing to act on the feedback of millions of viewers, one is left wondering whose line it is, anyway?
Is Karan Johar indeed a closet homosexual?
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NAPALM DEATH AND VOIVOD ANNOUNCE 2015 THROUGH SPACE AND GRIND TOUR
By Matt Bishop November 4, 2014 November 4, 2014 Rock News
Grindcore icons Napalm Death and heavy metal legends Voivod have announced the 2015 Through Space and Grind Tour. The North American co-headlining run kicks off on January 27 at Grand Central in Miami, FL and wraps up on February 28 at Fitzgerald's in Houston, TX. Support for the tour with be provided by Exhumed, Iron Reagan,… Continue reading
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OTHERWISE PREMIERE NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "DARKER SIDE OF THE MOON"
By Matt Bishop October 16, 2014 October 16, 2014 Rock News
Today, Otherwise premiered the official music video for "Darker Side of The Moon", the first single from their new album Peace at All Costs. The album dropped on September 16 via Century Media Records, and was one of the most anticipated discs in our Fall Album Preview. The record's lead single is currently dominating rock radio.… Continue reading
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Press Release – Project launch – 7th October 2016
Currie High School pupils helped celebrate the completion of a project to install energy-saving solar panels across a range of Council-owned buildings on Friday, 7 October.
Members of the solar co-op were joined by councillors, pupils and community representatives to toast the occasion over a solar panel-themed cake at Currie High School – the last building to be energised.
Vice Convener of Transport and Environment, Councillor Adam McVey, said: "I am delighted to see this project come into action, providing a wealth of environmental and economic benefits in the long term.
"As a Council we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and it is through developments such as this we are able to make a real change. Co-operatives are also a great way to involve the community, in this instance to increase the city's renewable energy together."
Dr Richard Dixon, Chair of the ECSC, said: "Schools, community centres and sports halls are now creating clean, green electricity for themselves and for the wider community, in a project funded by local investors. This is the biggest scheme of its type in the UK and we would be delighted to see this kind of project spreading to other Scottish cities. Many congratulations to the team, who have worked really hard over the summer to meet the deadlines to get all 24 solar installation installed and generating electricity."
It is estimated that the newly-installed solar panels will supply a million units of zero-carbon energy a year, contributing to the Council's target to reduce emissions by 42% by 2020. Any surplus energy will be sold to the National Grid and profits made by the project will be reinvested locally through a newly-created Community Benefit Fund.
Members of the Co-op will receive annual interest on their investment (capped at five percent increasing with RPI), with any surplus profit invested in the Community Benefit fund.
The panels will also help educate school pupils on environmental themes such as renewable energy, with each equipped with a real-time display of electricity generation, accessible online or on the building.


West Fannin Elementary School became GaDOE STEM Certified on March 20th, 2018. We invite you to come talk to our administration and teachers about their successes and failures through our STEM Certification journey. We also invite you to come see natural math and science integration, STEM project-based learning, and how we use the outdoors to bring learning alive for students. West Fannin's next goal is GaDOE STEAM Certification. We hope to obtain GaDOE STEAM Certification during the spring of 2020.
Email school principal Lucas Roof to schedule your visit.


The Health and Human Services Department doesn't want to talk about its Health Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center. And that's no surprise, since it doesn't seem to know what to do with it, and no one who was responsible for standing it up is involved with it anymore. Lawmakers from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions sent a letter on June 5 to HHS Secretary Alex Azar pointing out some significant omissions in the department's Cybersecurity Threat Preparedness Report, which the department is required to submit to Congress. The report is supposed to detail HHS' responsibilities and preparedness to deal with cyber threats in health care.
As we observe the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it may seem like the threat from nuclear weapons has receded. But it hasn't; the threat is actually increasing steadily. This is difficult to face for many people, and this denial also means that we are not very well-prepared for nuclear and radiological events. I've been studying the effects of nuclear events – from detonations to accidents – for over 30 years. I've been involved in research, teaching and humanitarian efforts in multiple expeditions to Chernobyl- and Fukushima-contaminated areas. Now I am involved in the proposal for the formation of the Nuclear Global Health Workforce.


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LONDON — In the United Kingdom, the use of digital sources for radio has reached 50.9%, up from 47.2% a year ago, accounting for the majority of all listening for the first time, according to RAJAR Q1 2018 data.
"With the 50% digital listening threshold now met, it is anticipated that the UK government will undertake a review to assess digital radio progress and determine next steps in due course," according to a Digital Radio UK press release.
Digital listening share is comprised of listening across all digital platforms: DAB in homes and in cars, apps and online (which includes the growing number of smart and voice-controlled speakers) and DTV — and this is the first time that listening to digital has been greater than analog platforms — FM and AM.


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Our programs emphasize critical thinking and problem solving, project-based learning, multidisciplinary teams, and interaction among students, faculty, and staff. Additionally, our strong ties to industry have enabled us to shape our programs to best meet today's needs and be prepared for tomorrow's challenges.
Mendieta has found a home in student government. As vice president she makes sure that all students have what they need to succeed.
Diaz Acosta's research in sustainable packaging led his class to a biodegradable solution. Developing corn-based packaging is not only being used to counteract the amount of food waste going into landfills, but also making the world a more sustainable place.
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'In the moment': Goo Goo Dolls 'experience all the love' during live performances
By Adrian Gomez / Journal Arts and Entertainment Editor
Friday, November 29th, 2019 at 12:02am
The Goo Goo Dolls are touring in support of their album "Miracle Pill." (Courtesy of Ed Gregory And Dan Cooper)
After 33 years in music, Robby Takac is experiencing some firsts.
As a member of the Goo Goo Dolls, Takac and Johnny Rzeznik have never had leftover songs from an album – until now.
"I don't know how that quite happened," Takac says during a recent interview. "There are another four songs kicking around."
Takac is referring to the group's latest album, "Miracle Pill."
The band will perform a few songs from the new album during its stop at Isleta Resort and Casino on Monday, Dec. 2.
The band rose to prominence in the 1990s with a string of hits that include "Iris," "Slide," "Name," "Broadway" and "Long Way Down."
It took Rzeznik a few years to put together the songs for the album – a process that has stayed pretty consistent for the band since its inception in 1986.
"Miracle Pill" also marks the band's 12th album.
One could imagine what Takac and Rzeznik go through, with more than 100 songs in its catalog.
"We've been very lucky to have our share of hit songs," Takac says. "Set lists get tougher; they don't get longer. We were having trouble years ago with performing 90 minutes. Your tendency is going to play every hit song for the people. You don't want to disappoint. It's been one of the most tenuous parts of this job."
Takac goes on to say that there are four or five Top 20 songs that don't make the set list night after night.
"It's been pretty amazing to put out a new album and see the audience singing it back to you," he says. "This wouldn't have happened 10 years ago. The way people consume music is very different. We're still trying to be in the moment to experience all the love."
Takac says some days on the road, it feels like 30 years has passed quickly.
"Some nights it feels like we've been doing this 70 years," he says with a laugh. "It's what we've been doing our whole life. I think we've been lucky enough that when a lot of people got pounded down by the new order of the music industry, we weren't affected. We found that sweet crest in there, and the fans continue to come out and support what we're doing. John and I have been prepping for another job for the past 25 years because we don't know when it will end. That's always been in the back of our minds."
With Maddie Poppe
WHEN: 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2
WHERE: The Showroom at Isleta Resort & Casino, 11000 Broadway SE
HOW MUCH: $25-$45, plus fees at holdmyticket.com
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DOH, DTI sign order on RT-PCR testing price range
The Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) signed on Nov. 24 the Joint Administrative Order (JAO) for setting the price range for reverse transcription-polymerase reaction (RT-PCR) testing for Covid-19.
The JAO is pursuant to Executive Order No. 118 of President Rodrigo Roa-Duterte ordering the agencies to implement a price range for Covid-19 testing.
During the DOH Media Forum on November 25, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said this price range will promote quality, equitable access, and affordability to COVID-19 testing.
"With this Joint Administrative Order, the government seeks to strike a balance of equity, access, and consumer's choice. In determining the price ranges, we strived to ensure that they are just, equitable, and sensitive to all stakeholders," Duque said in a news release.
Meanwhile, DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez stressed the importance of regulating the testing prices as the country resumes economic activity.
"We have been seeing signs of recovery. And with the increased testing capacity of our country, the demand for testing has also increased. This policy is an opportunity for the government to regulate the prices of testing to make it more affordable and accessible to all Filipinos," Lopez said.
According to the DOH, public and private licensed Covid-19 testing laboratories were surveyed to determine the price range. Factors such as geographic location, ownership, brand, type of test and extraction machine, facility set-up, and turn-around time were also considered. The JAO also underwent a series of consultations and negotiations, stakeholder reviews, and technical deliberation before coming up with the said guidelines.
Upon effectivity of the JAO, prices will be made transparent and readily available for the public to access and will be subject to monthly monitoring to ensure that it remains fair amid current developments.
When asked why the government imposed a price range instead of a price cap, Duque said the President's EO, DOH, and DTI were directed to determine and implement a price range for Covid-19 testing.
He added that in coming up with the price range, implementing agencies have to balance equity with access, such that laboratories that are overcharging will lower their prices without going out of business.
Provided that the quality of service is maintained, laboratories may charge patients below the reference price.
While the goal of the JAO is to protect Filipinos by making Covid-19 testing accessible, Duque said the observance of minimum public health standards set to minimize or prevent viral transmission remains critical.
"While the objective of this endeavor is to make Covid-19 testing accessible and affordable to all, I would like to underscore that we need to remain vigilant — strictly adhering to our minimum public health standards of mask wearing, hand hygiene, and physical distancing. Ito po ay upang maprotektahan hindi lang ating mga sarili, kung hindi, lalung lalo na ang mga mahal natin sa buhay. Kasabay ng pagpapatupad ng price range, ang ating pagiging BIDA Solusyon ang pinakamagandang regalo ng kalusugan, kaligtasan, at kinabukasan para sa lahat (This is for us to protect not only ourselves but of course our loved ones. In line with the implementation of the price range, our BIDA Solusyon is the best gift for our health, safety and for everyone's welfare)," Duque said.
Lopez reiterated the government's call to strictly follow the 7 Commandments of Minimum Health Standards as the country gradually reopens the economy.
"The health and safety of Filipinos remain our top priority, even as we gradually reopen the economy. As emphasized by DOH Sec. Duque, we need to remain vigilant and continue to adhere to the minimum health protocols. This will not only ensure the safety of our countrymen but also secure their jobs and sources of income," Lopez said.
The JAO only covers the price range for plate-based RT-PCR testing.
Supplemental guidelines on per item costing and price range of test kits and other testing modalities such as cartridge-based RT-PCR tests, and antigen tests, among others, will also be issued separately. (PR)
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Insurance Law Client Alert: Ordinance or Law Exclusion Bars Coverage for Forced Demolition of Nonconforming Remodel
In Reichert v. State Farm General Insurance Company (No. G046582, filed 12/28/12, ord. pub. 1/24/13), a California Court of Appeal upheld summary judgment for a homeowners insurer based on its denial of coverage under an ordinance and law exclusion for demolition of a home ordered by local authorities after discovery that construction did not conform to municipal design and federal floodplain regulations.
The homeowners attempted a remodel of their newly purchased house. After several modifications to the building plans to conform with and avoid other expensive and burdensome ordinances, but before construction was finished, city building inspectors discovered the project did not conform with city ordinances and FEMA floodplain regulations and ordered the entire building demolished. The homeowners sued their architect and contractor and made claim to their homeowners insurer. The insurer denied the claim on the grounds that the demolition was not an accidental loss and was excluded by the ordinance or law exclusion to the policy.
In affirming summary judgment for the insurer, the appeals court first noted the possibility that the loss was not an "accidental direct physical loss" under the first party coverage at issue. But the court pointed out that a factual question existed whether the loss was "accidental" from the standpoint of the insured. (Citing MRI Healthcare Center v. State Farm (2010) 187 Cal.App.4th 766, 781.)
However, the appeals court agreed that application of the ordinance or law exclusion was "fairly obvious." The court noted a split in authority as to whether, after a loss from a covered peril such as fire, a first-party property insurer is required to pay for code upgrades needed to effectively replace the lost or damaged property, even if the required code upgrades mean the insureds effectively receive something better than they originally had. That is, whether a party whose house was non-compliant before the loss deserves a code-compliant house after the loss.
The Reichert court cited Bischel v. Fire Ins. Exchange (1991) 1 Cal.App.4th 1168, which held a property insurer was not obligated to repair a dock destroyed by careless and unauthorized mooring during a storm (a covered peril) to the extent of bringing the dock up to the condition local code required. Instead, the insurer was only obligated to pay to bring the dock back to its pre-loss condition. The Bischel court said that "the purpose of insurance is not to put the insured in a better position than he or she was before the loss but rather to compensate for the actual loss sustained."
By contrast, the Reichert court stated that Fire Ins. Exchange v. Superior Court (Altman) (2004) 116 Cal.App.4th 446, severely criticized such a result for cases where the policy provides replacement cost coverage. The Altman court concluded that where an insured has replacement cost coverage, then it is "inherent" in the idea of usable replacement that, if required by code compliance, insureds will receive something better than they had before the loss if the policy contemplated replacement of the property.
The Reichert court concluded that the split in authority did not affect the immediate case, because the split involves situations where the loss is caused by a covered peril. However, the Reichert court said that Altman (and consistent out-of-state authorities) cases are instructive for noting that the clear intent of the ordinance or law exclusion is to exclude loss when it is the law or ordinance itself – as distinct from a covered peril, such as fire – that is the cause of the loss. The court said that there is a small but consistent body of cases that have routinely applied the law or ordinance exclusion (or its predecessor, the civil authority exclusion) to losses caused by enforcement of a building ordinance or law.
The Reichert court also dismissed the argument that the policy's optional Building Ordinance or Law coverage affects the result. The optional coverage provided an additional 25% above the policy's dwelling coverage limit for required code upgrades in certain situations. However, the court said that the option did not restore coverage which the ordinance or law exclusion otherwise removed, but merely provided additional coverage when there is a "loss insured" in the first instance. That is, there must still be a loss caused by a covered peril, and the law or ordinance exclusion means there is no coverage when enforcement of a law or ordinance is the peril.
Finally, the Reichert court rejected an argument that the efficient proximate cause of the loss was the third-party negligence of the architect and that the loss was covered despite the ordinance or law exclusion. The court said that insurers had responded to the third-party negligence argument by adding broad policy language to exclude losses caused by third-party negligence. The Reichert court thus refused to agree that the architect's decision to deviate from plans was the efficient proximate cause of the loss sufficient to circumvent operation of the ordinance or law exclusion.
While the Reichert decision bolsters the enforceability of an insurer's ordinance or law exclusion where the cause of the loss itself is the enforcement of an ordinance or law, it appears that resolution of the split in authority in California for increased building costs imposed by ordinance or law as the result of a covered cause of loss under replacement cost coverage will have to wait for another day.
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Newspapers Piling Up Since 2009 While State Historical Society Decides How To Preserve Them
By Lauren Mills | March 12, 2015
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Bundles of daily papers have overflowed onto the floor in the library of the State Historical Building in Des Moines on Feb. 17, 2015.
Bundled stacks of newspaper fill shelves and overflow onto the floor in the archives of the State Historical Society of Iowa in Des Moines. Traditionally, the papers would have been sent off to for preservation, but a 2009 budget cut ended that 50-year practice.
Some historians and activists are anxious to have the papers preserved to ensure the so-called first draft of Iowa history is available to future generations.
A bill proposed last year would have provided funds for the backlog, but the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, which oversees the historical society, put on the brakes. It rejected the proposed funding citing pending completion of a master planning process and assessment study to evaluate what it has in the archives and how to preserve those materials in the future.
Following budget cuts in 2009, the historical society no longer has funds to microfilm the papers.
The moves come as newspapers increasingly are adopting digital means of producing and publishing their work, and while historians and preservationists debate whether future preservation should move abandon microfilm for that digital world. Microfilm long has been considered a preservation gold standard but it lacks the accessibility of digital archives.
The backlog, which includes 1,600 to 1,700 bundles of newspapers, would cost roughly $255,000 to preserve on microfilm. And papers continue to pile up.
Officials with the historical society said the collection assessment will provide the cultural affairs department with a complete picture of what exactly is in the state archive. It also will help officials plan for future preservation efforts for newspapers and other items in the collection such as photographs and manuscripts.
"It's not an exaggeration to say that we have never done an assessment this detailed and this extensive across a hundred plus years of holdings," Anthony Jahn, the state historical society's archivist, said.
FIRST DRAFT OF HISTORY
Bill Sherman, who has been on the State Historical Society of Iowa's Board of Trustees for nearly four years, said he is concerned about the current backlog and frustrated with the lack of progress in preserving the newspapers, which he said is needed to create an historical record for future researchers.
Bill Sherman
Sherman has used the newspaper archives himself in conducting research. A three-paragraph news story from a 1947 Fort Dodge Messenger chronicling a teacher strike kicked off a recent foray into the archives.
"I said, 'Well, that couldn't be. We've only had one teacher strike in Iowa and that was in Keokuk in the mid-70s," he said.
But research from the archive showed additional strikes dating back to the 1920s.
"They weren't in the records by the state Department of Education. They weren't reported anywhere except in local newspapers," he said.
Jennifer Ewing, executive director of the Iowa State Genealogical Society, said the newspaper archives also are vital for individuals looking to research their heritage.
"It provides the stories behind the cold names and dates. It's those stories that make us who we are," she said.
In conducting research on her great-grandfather, she found a 1943 article with a clue to an idiosyncrasy friends and family members had often wondered about but never understood: when he parked his car on the street, why did he take the battery out and place it on the curb?
Apparently, in 1943 there was a problem with his Ford's battery that caused the car to catch fire, she said. The experience must have stuck with him.
"He was on his way home from the tavern, which was owned by his brother, on Christmas Eve and his car caught on fire and he escaped with his life and a few valuables," she said.
Without local newspapers, Ewing said, details that fill in family stories like her own would be missing.
Sherman said he understands that budgets are tight and newspaper preservation "isn't a flaming, burning problem with rank-and-file Iowans. I understand that, but we need to preserve our history."
He said the board, which has the power only to recommend policy and actions, had unanimously passed a motion requesting the department include a budget item for resuming microfilming. But, he said, the board was told the effort would have to wait until the department finished its master plan and received recommendations from a consultant.
The master plan also was a barrier when Rep. Marti Anderson, D-Des Moines, presented a bill during the last legislative session proposing $250,000 be put toward microfilming the newspaper backlog. The bill gained 22 co-sponsors, but did not make it out of subcommittee.
Rep. Marti Anderson, D-Des Moines
Anderson said she was told the department "didn't want the money," that there was a study analyzing the department's collections and the department didn't want to do anything before that point.
"We had a good healthy economy last year. We had a healthy forwarding of money from the previous year. We had a good reserve. To choose not to take up what hasn't been done for four or five years when it is possible was very hard on me. It was one of the harder things that I had to do as a freshman legislator," Anderson said.
A statement from the department's spokesperson Jeff Morgan stated using the words "opposition" or "opposed" would be inaccurate in describing the department's position on the bill.
"In March 2014, Director Cownie shared the Department's appreciation with Rep. Anderson for bringing attention to the newspaper collection," he wrote in an email to IowaWatch, referring to Mary Cownie, the Department of Cultural Affairs' director.
"Director Cownie explained that rather than investing at that point, without a comprehensive plan for responsible use of state funds, it made more sense to wait for the Master Planning progress to give the [department] a better understanding of:
Newspaper preservation efforts being done across the state;
Best steps forward for preserving its own collection, including newspapers;
Best timing for the investment of taxpayer dollars into preservation efforts, including newspapers."
MICROFILM VS. DIGITAL
Jahn, the historical society archivist, entered the job in July and immediately started planning for the collection assessment that began in December.
The assessment is to be completed in June or July. In addition to the newspaper collections, historical society archives include governors' papers, archival documents, manuscripts and photographs.
Anthony Jahn, archivist for the State Historical Society of Iowa, opens a drawer of newspaper microfilm in the State Historical Building Library in Des Moines on Feb. 17, 2015. The Des Moines archives include more than 30,000 rolls of microfilm.
He said most of the newspapers have been put on hold since the 2009 budget cuts, which were ordered statewide. The department is using the collection assessment to see if unpreserved papers from before 2009 exist as well.
The bundled papers are either awaiting preservation or are in the process of being shipped off for microfilming through a partnership with local libraries, Jahn said.
The historical society, at last count, collects roughly 299 weekly papers and 35 dailies. Currently seven daily papers and 53 weeklies are completely preserved through library partnerships, according to preliminary numbers from the department. The libraries put up the money to have local newspapers microfilmed, sending copies to the state archives. In return the historical society helps the libraries fill in gaps in their own archives.
One such library, the Manchester Public Library, hosts a genealogy room with microfilm archives of city and county newspapers, including current issues of the Manchester Press that are updated twice a year. The Delaware County Genealogical Society maintains the room and funds the Manchester Press microfilms as part of the partnership with the historical society.
"Having the newspapers on microfilm is invaluable. That's the only way we can look up, especially for genealogy purposes, death records, obituaries and some marriages," said Kathy Heyer, the library's assistant director.
Preservation of an additional 110 weekly papers is "partially complete" and 136 weeklies have had "no action to date," the historical society's preliminary numbers show. Although some daily papers, such as the Des Moines Register, handle their own preservation, a spokesman from the historical society said the number of papers that do so is unknown. The Gazette in Cedar Rapids also handles its own preservation.
AN ENORMOUS TASK
A tour through the state archives showed the daily papers overflowing their shelves and stacking onto the floor, each labeled and tied up with string in a sort of ordered chaos.
Each bundle represents about 550 microfilm images, a full microfilm roll. Each microfilm image shows two newspaper pages, as though a reader had unfolded it and laid it out on a table. Pages are put into chronological order until reaching the maximum number and are then wrapped in Kraft paper to protect the edges and prevent fading.
Backlogged newspaper storage is based on the microfilm process, with bundle sizes determined by maximum reel capacity, Jahn said. Yet, whether or not the department continues with its current preservation process or changes course and starts digitizing papers, remains to be seen.
On one hand, digitization follows the preservationist practice of preserving the most primary form of a record. In the past, historical societies couldn't save the plates and typesets used in printing papers, but could save the papers themselves. Digital technology has changed that approach.
"The writers who create the content, the advertisers who provide the advertising that funds the content, and the papers themselves have all moved to a digital form, " Jahn said.
But digital archives face some issues, such as copyright law.
While the historical society owns the physical copy of the paper, it does not own the intellectual property for items published after 1923. Without permission, the historical society cannot create a digital archive for current papers.
Additionally, Jahn said a change to digitization would require both a commitment to managing the archive and operational savvy.
"The thing that we have to be concerned with is in 10 years, when those digital formats have evolved a couple generations and the content itself has gone through a number of years either sitting on a server with activity or constantly being used, will you be able to get access to that content?" he said.
Newspapers bundled into Kraft paper waiting to be sent off for microfilming are shown in the State Historical Building Library in Des Moines on Feb. 17, 2015. Seven daily papers and 53 weeklies are currently preserved through partnerships between local libraries and the historical society.
Microfilm has longevity on its side.
Depending on the quality of the microfilm and storage conditions, it can last from 75 to 500 years, and although the quality and standards have changed over the years Jahn said at least 100 years would be a safe bet.
"Three hundred or 500 years from now, all you need is a light source and you can view those images. With digital we don't know — with how fast everything changes — whether you will be able to access those images in the future," Jeff Brown said. He is director of sales with Advantage Preservation, a division of the Advantage Companies in Cedar Rapids, which partners with the State Historical Society of Iowa to provide newspaper microfilm.
Brown said that while digitization can provide wider access to material, microfilm still is the best practice for preservation.
Advantage charges the historical society a discounted rate, $150 per bundle, Brown said, which puts the cost between $240,000 and $255,000 to complete the backlog given the archive's current numbers.
Currently the company produces microfilm for local libraries partnered with the historical society. Advantage can create a searchable digital archive for libraries that have permission from publishers.
Although microfilm can be digitized, the practice can be pricy. The process of scanning microfilm doesn't take much time. But the additional work of running the scans through Optical Character Recognition, which makes the scans searchable, and indexing records by city, state, date, title and page, brings the price up to $95 per reel of microfilm, Brown said.
Advantage doesn't tackle some of the more demanding projects, but he said that for some highly indexed records, such as those in the Library of Congress' Chronicling America series, he has seen price tags upwards of $500 to $1,000 per reel.
The company maintains copies of digital images as well as master copies of the microfilms it produces. Currently the company holds some 100,000 reels of film for the historical society, Brown said.
FUTURE PRESERVATION
Chris Mudge, executive director of the Iowa Newspaper Association, said the association is working to help Iowa papers create digital archives and e-editions of their current and future content. The association has been part of discussions with the Department of Cultural Affairs on newspaper preservation.
She said about 60 to 70 percent of Iowa newspapers are using Newz Group, a Columbia, Missouri, company, to digitally archive their content. The company, a subsidiary of the GeoTel Corporation, provides newspapers that are part of a partnering state press association with a free digital archive. The company also offers options for e-editions.
In the future, Mudge said the association would like to digitize all member newspapers, but preserving past newspapers is cost prohibitive.
She said the organization is focused on digitization rather than microfilm because online material provides greater access and many newspapers already are designed and formatted digitally before being printed.
"If newspapers are already being captured and archived digitally somewhere, there is no reason that it needs to be captured and archived somewhere else," she said.
For now, the historical society has not indicated whether it will continue microfilming, go digital or opt for another route entirely. And the newspaper bundles likely will continue in limbo until completion of the department's master plan and collection assessment in June or July.
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Bundles of daily papers have overflowed onto the floor in the library of the State Historical Building in Des Moines on February 17, 2015.
Drawers in the State Historical Building Library in Des Moines, shown on February 17, 2015, are filled with over 30,000 rolls of microfilm.
Rep. Marti Anderson, D-Des Moines, pictured in the State Law Library in Des Moines on February 6, presented a bill last session that proposed $250,000 to begin microfilming the newspaper backlog. The bill didn't get past the subcommittee.
Bill Sherman, pictured in the State Law Library in Des Moines on February 6, has been on the State Historical Society of Iowa's Board of Trustees for nearly four years and said he is frustrated with lack of progress in preserving state newspapers that he considers a vital part of Iowa's historical record.
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In 2015 and 2016, then Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Wade Phillips cultivated one of the best defenses in the NFL, if not all time.
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Now, Phillips returns to Denver on Sunday as a member of the Los Angeles Rams coaching staff just two seasons removed from being replaced by Joe Woods on the Broncos staff.
And following a 34-point drubbing at the hands of a middling New York Jets offense, "Stokley and Zach" co-host Brandon Stokley said it was a "big mistake" letting Phillips walk.
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The real-time consumption is going to take place while you're actually using software to create the game. Coming up with the idea is something that should happen on paper. Paper is easy, paper is cheap, and paper uses much less effort.
For your first game, you might have this awe-inspiring behemoth of a game in mind. You're picturing Fallout 4 but with Minotaurs instead of humans, drivable, flyable vehicles, and magic spells that can turn Dogmeat into a rideable, radiation-breathing dragon. That is an unrealistic expectation for your first game, so get a grip!
It's OK, you are new to this. And, to be fair, your game idea does sound awesome. We'd hang on to that one for later in your career if we were you.
Instead of thinking about AAA games, distill down a concept into a very attainable game idea. The simpler the idea and design, the better off you will be. When your game is built on a simple, solid foundation, everything you add to it will make more sense.
With a solid idea comes easier decisions. A well-thought-out game concept makes it easier for you as a designer, because what you add to the game will make sense. Think of building a game almost like you're assembling a puzzle. But instead of a normal puzzle, you have pieces from a few different puzzles mixed in.
If you know what the final picture is supposed to be, you'll have an easier time solving the puzzle. You'll be able to sift through the pieces that you don't need in order to find the ones that belong in the puzzle your solving.
If you are trying to put a puzzle together by just picking the coolest pieces you find in the box, what you end up with won't make very much sense. As with your jumbled puzzle, so too with game design.
If you have a loose idea of what you want to do, you could waste time implementing elements that sound cool, but make no sense when you put them in a game together. Think back to "your" game example from earlier, the Fallout 4 with Minotaurs and dragon magic, and vehicles.
It's stuff that might sound kinda' cool on its own, but when you throw it together in a game like that, the elements don't work because there is no cohesion.
So you have your distilled, finely-tuned, impressively cohesive idea. Good work, we're proud of you! Now you're ready to tune the controls. This is a really important step. Controls are hugely important to the success of the game. If the controls are even a little off, players will get frustrated. Water environments get this wrong a lot.
Ninja Gaiden's water levels come to mind. They had a knack for being pretty frustrating. You don't want the player to feel like they have less control over the controls in the game than they used to.
To use the Ninja Gaiden example, the player goes from such excellent control on the land (killer combos, wall runs, agility through the roof) to an uncomfortable lack of control in the water (a slow shooting harpoon gun and poorly calibrated directional response). Not a good switch.
Compare that to Call of Duty: Black Ops III, where the water feels just as easy to navigate as the land (and the walls, for that matter). Make sure you design your controls to hit the way they're supposed to throughout your whole game. That will contribute to the fun of the game, big time.
You should feel really good about your game at this point. If you have a killer concept and fun controls, you're in great shape to move forward with this game! If you aren't excited about making it, it's back to the drawing board. Either Controls, concept, or both need to change.
Remember, the hard work hasn't started yet; in order to get through what's to come, you will need to really want to make this game.
Humans are engaged when they feel like they're learning. The trick, then, is to incorporate learning right into the game mechanics. How do you do that effectively?
First, you need to identify your target audience. Once you do that, you'll have a better idea of the learning curve you should shoot for. If your game is cute and gentle, maybe it's for a younger audience. If your concept is sharp-tongued and edgy, maybe you anticipate an older audience.
Consider the probable skill level of the majority of your players, and design your learning curve around that.
This one is another obvious one so we're going to keep it brief. Pick the right program to design your game. There are a bunch of free game design programs on the web, and we even have a list of some good ones to use, and when to use them. Take 20 minutes to shop around and you'll no doubt find what you're looking for.
Better yet, you've already been experimenting with the different programs, and that's what has you building a game! Either way, pick a good one.
It's things like that. Maybe you forgot to add sound effects for a specific character action, or you wanted something in-game to look a certain way, but you forgot to change it. Give your game a once, twice, thrice-over. Then it's on to….
Oh god, now it's time to test it oh god. Self-conscious, sweaty palms, slick controller.
Here's the most important question throughout this entire game development process: Is it fun? The game needs to be fun. It can be challenging and be fun. It can be easy and be fun. But it needs to be fun. If it's not fun, it won't be played! Simple as that.
So maybe you think it's fun. Time to get it into other people's hands! This could be friends, family members, or even acquaintances. Regardless of who it is that you have playing your game, you need to make sure they'll be completely candid with you.
You don't benefit from hearing "your game is good" from someone who would never play that game ever again as it currently stands, but was too scared to be honest with you. Make sure you can take the criticism, and then make sure your testers are willing to lay it on you, and lay it on thick.
OK, you've gotten feedback from some people. It was good, it was bad, it was ugly. Whatever it was, now it's time for you to tinker. Trial and error is the best way to get better at this. Use forums, use friends, and use tutorials to figure out how to keep making your game better.
Eventually, it'll be so shiny and polished and fun that you'll know it's time to let it go out into the world. When that day comes, publish that sucker and smile. Until then, keep tinkering!
If you want to take a more indepth look at Designing an Awesome Video Game, click here. It's a great, high-caliber checklist article from James, one of the creators of Velocity. Good luck!


This fabulous Church called San Gennaro is located in Praiano's town center and is consecrated to St. Gennaro, the Neapolitan bishop of Benevento who has made Martyr of Pozzuoli on the 19th of September 305.
The church was built in 1589 on an existing structure dating back to 1200 until 1572 was the property of the Corsario family who were noblemen from Amalfi.
The structure is flanked by a bell tower with a cupola covered in majolica tiles.
The belfry has a high octagonal coping.
According to Matteo Camera (Amalfitan historian) the new building was finished in the 1602.
The structure is divided in three naves, in the right one there are many altars dedicated to the Rosary, the Sacred Family, St. Bartolomeo and the Immaculate Conception. On the same side there is also the Sacred heart chapel built in 1898 by Domenico Rispoli – Zingone. On the left nave three are other altars dedicated to the Carmine, San Gennaro, Santa Lucia, the Crucifix, San Michele Archangel (a spiritual place for the fisherman and the seeman in the 1600 and the 1700).
Catholic Wedding Ceremonies in Praiano can be celebrated in English. Only Catholic Weddings are allowed.
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"Carrying a heavy load, like a pack for an overnight snowshoeing trip," says Musnick, "is going to challenge your balance even on level ground." Standing on one foot facing a wall eight to 12 inches away, hold a three- to five-pound medicine ball with both hands over your head. Bend your trunk to the right and then return to the center. Do the same toward the leftand when that gets easy, try leaning forward and touching the wall with the ball at ten, 12, and two o'clock. Easy? Speed up the movements. No problem? Try it with closed eyes. Do two to three sets of 15.
To develop important stabilizer musclesthe obliques and transversustake your crunches to the wonderful, wobbly world of the balance ball. Sitting on the ball, walk your feet out until your weight rests on your shoulders or upper back and your hips are in the air. Raise your torso and perform a crunch as you would on flat ground. Do two to three sets of 12 to 20 reps.
"A lot of injuries from kayaking occur to the rotator cuff," says Musnick. The same holds for cycling. Develop a seated ability to keep your center of gravity. Sit on a balance ball facing a partner and play catch with a medicine ball. Throw two-handed to alternate sides, arms out. Keep a minimum of weight on your toes. Do two sets of 30 to 45 seconds.
"We have three planes of motion," says Musnick. "Front-to-back, side-to-side, and rotational. People should think about doing exercises in each of these." Or one that does all three, like this: Secure resistance tubing with handles to a door frame or other anchor about head height. (You can also use weighted cables at the gym.) Hold a handle in each hand and position yourself to create tension on the cords. Balance on one leg, place your arms over your head, and quickly push one handle forward while the other moves back. Focus on rotating your trunk, rather than pulling your arms, to make the twisting motions. Do one to two sets of 30 seconds on each leg.


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The Vatican Playlist: Pope Benedict XVI's Myspace Playlist Includes Tupac, Fleet Foxes
FILE - This April 19, 2005 file photo shows Pope Benedict XVI greeting the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica moments after being elected, at the Vatican. On Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 Benedict XVI announced he would resign Feb. 28, the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years. The decision sets the stage for a conclave to elect a new pope before the end of March. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis/FILE)
It was announced Monday that Pope Benedict XVI will be resigning on Feb. 28, citing health concerns for his need to step down. In looking back at his career as Pope, Buzzfeed dug up a 2009 Myspace playlist that the Vatican publicized as music from the Holy See.
The playlist was a part of a series of celebrity playlists, put together for the launch of Myspace's UK site. Most of the playlist features expected tracks such as Mozart's "Don Giovanni," but things get interesting with the inclusion of Tupac's "Changes," and Muse's "Uprising." The Vatican explained the choices at the time as "A perfect mix of classical, world and contemporary music. The genres are very different form each other, but all these artists share the aim to reach the heart of good minded people."
Take a look at the full playlist below.
The Vatican Playlist
"Advocata Nostra" – Music From The Vatican
"Uprising" – Muse
"Causa Nostrae Laetitiae" – Music From The Vatican
"Il Mare Mi Salva" – Rossomalpelo
"After The Rain" – Dame Shirley Bassey
"Coexist" – Nour Eddine
"Don Giovanni" – Mozart
"Rafaele Merry Del Val" – Lorenzo Perosi Inni Mottetti e Canzoni, Pablo Colino & Coro Academica Filarmonica Romana
"He Doesn't Know Why" – Fleet Foxes
"Changes" – Tupac Shakur
"Regina Coeli" – Music From The Vatican
"Mi sarete Testimoni" – Santo Subito!
[via Buzzfeed]
Vatican The Vatican Pope Benedict Entertainment


23 October 2012, at 1:00a.m.
ECUADOR - The national government is offering alternatives to the industrial fishing sector which must leave trawling from 15 December 2012.
Guillermo Moran Velasquez, Aquaculture and Fisheries Deputy Minister said the Government through the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture and Fisheries MAGAP and Aquaculture and Fisheries Deputy Minister, has devised a contingency plan for the crew and vessel owners affected.
Alternatives include: Access to credit up to $20,000 for crew members who purchase a boat and pursue traditional fishing or, for those who choose to retire to other productive activities. Loans have an interest rate of five per cent with a grace period of three years and a term of 10 years.
With the National Finance Corporation, loans are from $50,000 for owners who choose to modify their boats to go to other fisheries. These have a seven per cent interest with a period grace of two years within a 10 year contract.
For owners who do not wish to continue in the fishery, a compensation programme for the quota granted by boat will be conducted through MAGAP.
Crew members and operators can access the credit by sending a request to the Deputy Minister of Aquaculture and Fisheries indicating the alternative, name of the ship, Ministerial Agreement number, serial number and current fishing permit.


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Black Eagles
"They make you watch it all, man. They make you watch through the eyes of the person you killed. It's all for show, really, but they do it so well. I saw the guy come in, brush his teeth, kiss his son good night... then I felt my bullet go into his skull just seconds after it shattered the window. Back when I'd shot him, you know, I didn't know anything... all I saw was a man leaning down in the spot where I'd been told he would be, then I squeezed the trigger, twice to make sure, and got the hell out of there. But they had to make me relive it all through this bullshit virtual scenario. They want you to know that you're gonna be called upon to kill innocent people, good people, Federation people, and that you have to be comfortable with doing it because it serves the greater good. Whatever the fuck that's even supposed to mean."
Audio transcript from "Agent Mornay," alleged Black Eagle defector
The Gallente Federation's image within the popular sphere is well known. It's a place of wonder and opportunity, home to open-minded and welcoming people, filled with intellectual discourse and quality arts in every sphere. Traditionally it's been a haven for those hailing from parts distant, unsatisfied with their surroundings and seeking a new home in which to express themselves. Renowned in equal part for its liberalism and its boundless appetite for individual uniqueness, Gallente has always been a place where misfits can slot in, where artists can find their venues, and where champions of every cause can find their soapbox.
Over the past year, however, a new presence has made itself known across the Federation, casting its protective shadow over all it surveys. For the average Gallente citizen the change has been minimal, but to those who follow along with the events of the day it has become evident that a deep new tone has begun its quiet rumble across the political landscape.
The Black Eagles were founded in the aftermath of the Gallente's historic Luminaire defeat of YC110, when prominent figures of the Federal milieu came together in agreement that the nation's armed forces were all but crumbling at the seams with corruption. A sizable group of politicians, corporate figureheads, lobbyists and cultural icons petitioned President Foiritan to create an "Emergency Integrity Commission" which would ensure that the nation's military leadership not only had the aptitude to lead their forces to victory, but that they met the high moral standards of the Gallente Federation while doing so.
This influential coalition was distrustful of the methods employed by the president to tackle the issues erupting within the nation at the time, and felt that the search for the turncoat admiral Anvent Eturrer – at the time, a major rallying cause for a nation so freshly bludgeoned by humiliating defeat – was no more than a simple patch on a festering wound. Though the exact degree of their involvement is debated to this day, they were nonetheless able to exert enough pressure on the establishment that when the President a short while later announced the creation of a new internal investigation department within the Federal Intelligence Office, the general consensus was that the coalition deserved a good deal of the thanks.
The new division would be empowered with exclusive and unconditional oversight of all Federal assets and agencies. Though officially titled the Special Department of Internal Investigations and Federal Security, and carrying the sanctioned acronym of SDII, this secretive new organization nonetheless immediately became known to everyone as the Black Eagles. This moniker is most commonly associated with the SDII logo – a black Gallente eagle outlined in white against a dark background – but there are a fair few who proclaim the name is a direct allusion to the man chosen to lead the department, Head Senator Mentas Blaque.
Since Blaque was (and is) an outspoken political opponent of Foiritan's, his appointment initially seemed a bolt from the blue. Though conspiracy theories (along with a healthy smattering of general confusion) arose immediately, the national zeitgeist, in the absence of any more believable theories, was eventually made to settle into the somewhat uneasy solution that Foiritan had simply needed someone for the post who quite obviously wasn't in his pocket and never would be. Indeed, in the months immediately following the division's founding, a record number of corrupt military personnel and government officials were apprehended, even people who had fairly substantial (though always safely peripheral) ties to Foiritan himself.
Though the Black Eagles operate under a strict military hierarchy, they are, at heart, an intelligence agency. Their official purview is the internal security and integrity of the Federation and all its official entities, but it is an open secret within intelligence circles that the Eagles operate a spy network that, in addition to keeping tabs on domestic affairs, bypasses familiar waters in favor of territories seldom ventured by the four empires' intelligence entities. Blaque himself has never commented publicly on anything to do with the agency, preferring instead to let dry press releases and carefully calculated public operations do the talking for him.
Nonetheless, there have been a fair share of defectors from the agency since its inception, people who view the Eagles' methods as violations of long-sacred Gallente ideals. Under conditions of strict anonymity these former agents have leaked certain information, none of which is officially verified, but a substantial portion of which is considered believable by experts in the field and generally taken to be implicit in discussions involving the Black Eagles. From among these bits and pieces of info, a few salient patterns have emerged:
The Black Eagles have a well-equipped, highly trained paramilitary arm. Black Eagle-uniformed troops have been seen on more than one occasion conducting security sweeps in high-sensitivity public zones. They are trained in every manner of covert infiltration, spaceborne and terrestrial, as well as the use of cutting-edge weaponry and tools of the trade. Due to prohibitive selection and training their numbers are not great at present, but growing rapidly.
The Black Eagles have a presence in space, though reports vary widely about the extent of their operational capacity. They are known to travel in specially commissioned dark-hulled versions of Gallente Navy staples. The exact capabilities of these vessels are unknown, but they are invariably reported to be more poweful than both their standard and Navy counterparts. Reports also unanimously agree that the Eagles possess a capsuleer contingent numbering over one hundred pilots (and presumably growing).
The Black Eagles have built up a ruthless image, one that indicates the agency will go to considerable lengths to make sure its objectives are met. This is the area most sparsely commented on by former agents. With very few exceptions, defectors have completely disavowed all knowledge of the illicit activities so often attributed to the Eagles, such as torture, blackmail and kidnapping. Whether this is down to the extreme sensitivity of such subjects or the actual absence of such activities from the modus operandi remains wholly unknown.
For the common citizen of the Federation, the Black Eagles are a distant spectre. For the more discerning members of the populace, they are a subtly pervasive force. For anyone conducting business with foreign interests, they are a nagging worry. In the past months there has been a growing trend toward domestic surveillance within the Federation. Propaganda has been pervasive. In a society as awash with stimuli and information as the Gallente's, these things can be hard to spot... but broader trends rarely misdirect, and the word on the street never lies. Given the Black Eagles' extreme effectiveness since its inception, it might not be all that surprising were they found to have engaged in any of the activities they are so often accused of. In the absence of concrete evidence, however, the veil remains intact, and the shadow protective. Whatever hidden threats the Gallente may once have feared, they can rest safe in the knowledge that at the very least, their foes are hidden no more.
Gallente


On behalf of Girardi Keese of Girardi | Keese posted in Motor Vehicle Accidents on Thursday, July 13, 2017.
Intersections, by their very nature as a focal point for traffic, are the site of many crashes every year. As it turns out, L.A.'s are some of the most dangerous.
In terms of crash frequency, Los Angeles intersections appear to have a lot of places beat. In an article on Curbed, Elijah Chiland writes that "more than 90 percent" of dangerous intersections in the state are in SoCal, and half of those are in L.A.
This may leave you wondering: What intersections, exactly, are thought to be the most dangerous?
Curbed's report indicates Devonshire and Reseda, as well as Imperial Highway and Vista Del Mar, as topping the list for the most dangerous intersections in terms of crash numbers.
Another Curbed report argues that Los Angeles is the most unsafe place for pedestrians in the entire country. If you're walking in L.A., especially at an intersection with heavy traffic, it's best to keep an eye peeled.
"Not only does LA County have the most pedestrian deaths in America, they absolutely dominate the category. The 207 pedestrians that died in LA County is more than double the traffic deaths than the second-ranked county in the country."
Wattenhofer cites the Vincent Street and Pacific Coast Highway intersection in Redondo Beach as the most dangerous for pedestrians.
"Vision Zero Los Angeles is our city's commitment to eliminate all traffic deaths by 2025."
The interactive Vision Zero website says that one life is lost every 40 hours in Los Angeles due to traffic crashes, and in 2016, 260 people died. The many dots on the Vision Zero map each represent a person who died. These are a way for family members left behind to share their stories.


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Engaged to evaluate and rate over 300 resumes received for the role of Vice President, Human Resources. Additionally, retained to review, screen, and interview ~100 candidates for an Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manager position.