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Louisville Needs More Trees to Curb Fast-Growing Urban Heat Island Effect, Researcher Says
By Jacob Ryan
Published June 18, 2014 at 12:55 PM EDT
Downtown Louisville residents live in one of the fastest growing urban heat islands in the U.S., according to preliminary results of an ongoing study.
A city's urban heat island effect is defined as the temperature difference of rural areas compared to downtown areas. That temperature difference in Louisville ranked highest among 50 of the country's largest metropolitan areas, according to the study by Brian Stone, a professor of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech.
In a public presentation on Tuesday, Stone said the root cause of Louisville's excessive urban heat island is the lack of tree cover downtown.
The study found that Louisville has room to add about 1.2 million trees, though he added it isn't feasible to plant that many trees, he said.
Louisville is working on growing the tree canopy in Louisville, but the process will take time, said Maria Koetter, Louisville's director of sustainability.
"Since the mayor took office, in his term, we have planted about 10,000 trees in the community," she said.
Despite that effort, the downtown area has just about an 8 percent tree canopy cover, she said.
Neither Stone or Koetter could say what the recommended number of trees would most effectively decrease the urban heat island effect while maintaining a high quality of life, but there is a consensus that there needs to be more.
"A big part of the issue is that Louisville has a very sparse tree canopy downtown and is one of the only large cities that doesn't have a tree ordinance," Stone said.
As WFPL previously reported, an expertbelieves the city could benefit from such an ordinance.
In addition to the need to plant more trees, Stone said his study found that different approaches to residential and commercial construction and upkeep could also lower the surrounding air and surface temperatures.
He said incorporating more reflective material and living material, such as garden rooftops, are good ways to combat excessive heat in downtown areas, which can often be 5-20 degrees warmer than surrounding rural areas.
Excessive heat can lead to a number of issues for urban dwellers— increased mortality rates, heightened utility costs, poorer air and water quality, and added stress to existing infrastructure, Stone said.
From 1979–2003, excessive heat exposure contributed to more than 8,000 premature deaths in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control.
"Heat kills many more people than any other form of extreme weather," he said. "This is obviously a problem that is significant."
He said for his study to have any impact, the entire community will have to take responsibility.
"The city cannot do this alone," he said. "It is a relatively slow moving problem, but it is something that needs to be worked on year after year from this point on."
Stone said he is about five months into the 12-18 month study of Louisville's urban heat island. The $135,000 study is the first of its kind in the country, and Stone said it may be the first in the world.
The study was completely funded by private grants, Koetter said.
Here are slides from Stone's presentation:
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Shelton High School held its Seventeenth Annual Book and Achievement Awards Program as a school-wide celebration of student achievement on Thursday, May 20, in the school's gymnasium.
Dr. Beth Smith, Headmaster, opened the program speaking to the core values of the school requiring students to meet high academic and behavioral expectations.
She stated "We believe it is important to celebrate student achievement and to gather as a learning community to recognize those students who have met our learning expectations as stated in our core values."
She acknowledged the donors who made the day possible and congratulated and thanked the more than 200 family members in attendance. Mrs. Kathy Riddle, Guidance Curriculum Leader, welcomed honored guests. Jillian Ortoli, Student Council President, led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance.
The SHS Concert Choir sang the Star Spangled Banner. Henry Jiang, senior class president, provided the welcome address. Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Christopher Clouet, Chairman of the Board of Education, Mark Holden, and Mayor Lauretti provided greetings. Housemasters John Skerritt, James Zavodjancik and James Colandrea announced the award recipients.
Awards of $100 and under totaling over $8,000, as well as the university and college book awards and certificates of recognition, were presented to 172 students. All of the award recipients have taken advantage of the many opportunities offered to them at Shelton High School and in their community. They have displayed qualities of scholarship and have demonstrated the important traits of leadership, citizenship, and community service. The award recipients were nominated for these awards by their teachers, school counselors, administrators, coaches and club advisors. The evening Awards Program will be held on Thursday, June 2, in the SHS auditorium.


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Giuliani sprays New York with toxic pesticides. Bloomberg and now deBlasio continue Giuliani's "legacy". Painting by Robert Lederman.
NYC'S GOVERNMENT again sprays the Bronx and other parts of the City with adulticides to kill mosquitoes, with no thought given to how the toxic spray of the Bayer Corp.'s pyrethroid DeltaGard (with the cancer-causing piperonyl butoxide) intersects with the Covid-19 pandemic and what that means for the already endangered population of the Bronx.
Twenty years ago the No Spray Coalition sued the Giuliani administration to stop the spraying. Today, despite the Coalition's victory in federal court, the deBlasio administration continues to repeat the mendacity of the Giuliani administration with a stupidity all its own.
In 2007, the No Spray Coalition — the grassroots group founded in 1999 to oppose New York City's spraying of pesticides to kill mosquitoes said to be carrying West Nile virus—met with Julius Spiegel, then Brookyn commissioner of City parks. Also present was Jean Halloran of Consumers Union, and a biologist working for the New York City Parks Department. The No Spray Coalition and Halloran urged the city officials to stop spraying glyphosate not only in the parks but also on New York City's sidewalks around schoolyards and playgrounds.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio continues Giuliani's and Bloomberg's spraying NYC with toxic pesticides in the middle of the pandemic.
The coalition's representatives (Mitchel Cohen and Connie Lesold) handed Spiegel several studies on the disastrous effects pesticides have, especially on children, the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems—a solid majority of the people who live in Brooklyn. Spiegel's parents were Holocaust survivors. He seemed truly concerned with the spraying of the public parks he presided over and of the surrounding sidewalks, which often abutted
children's playgrounds.
Spiegel explained that more than 70 percent of the Parks Department workforce had been laid off over the preceding decade as a cost-cutting measure, which meant that chemical herbicides were now replacing city workers who had previously weeded public parks and sidewalks by hand.
Of course, spraying Monsanto's Roundup and other toxins for cosmetic reasons is unnecessary and should simply be stopped. Even small amounts of pesticides are poisonous to children.
Further, what some call "weeds" in today's urban environment were once upon a time medicinal or nutritious plants used by American Indians and healers. Connie Lesold, a community activist, and Mitchel Cohen both noted in their conversation with Spiegel that the dyes the city had added to the herbicides expressly to warn the public to "stay away" were having an unintended opposite effect. Lesold lived along Eastern Parkway, a main traffic artery cutting across the heart of Brooklyn, and had observed children attracted to the bright yellow and green areas, which they saw as play zones. Mitchel Cohen also witnessed numerous children in Coney Island rolling around in the newly sprayed weeds and riding their bicycles and scooters through them. They tracked the chemicals into their classrooms and parents' apartments. So the first of No Spray's suggestions (apart from the main demand that all spraying be stopped at once) was that the Parks Department at least inform teachers when spraying would be occuring near schools and parks, and have them warn students to stay away from those areas. Spiegel agreed with the coalition's proposal to contact all school principals in advance of any spraying by the city, who would then inform their young students to stay away from those areas.
New York City's biologist didn't agree. He defended the use of Roundup, as well as the spraying of pesticides to kill mosquitoes. Glyphosate, he said, was "perfectly safe—unless you are a weed." Commissioner Spiegel, however, took note of the city biologist's arrogance and overruled him. He agreed to implement the proposal and thought favorably of a second one: to set up a pilot project in which volunteers would take responsibility for hand-weeding unsprayed sections along Eastern Parkway. This too was opposed by the city's biologist, who now appeared to be taking personally No Spray's criticisms of the herbicide. Officials, activists learned, are frequently wary of establishing a prototype relying on the mobilizing of local volunteers—risky business for those in positions of authority, whenever people get together around any project and begin to discover their own power.
The city's biologist sneered: "What do you propose for areas where you can't get volunteers?" Mitchel Cohen's reply came as a shock: Goats. Sheep. He had recently met Lani Malmberg, a sheep and goat herder from Wyoming, at a Beyond Pesticides conference in Washington, DC. Beyond Pesticides was one of the organizations (along with Disabled in Action, Save Organic Standards, and the Brooklyn Greens) that had joined with the No Spray Coalition in suing New York City's government to stop its aerial and truck-spraying of chemical pesticides. Beyond Pesticides—formerly the National Coalition Against Misuse of Pesticides—sponsored annual gatherings of activists, scientists, and occasionally government officials, who would strategize ways to vastly reduce, if not outright ban, the use of chemical pesticides. Lani explained that she travels around the western United States bringing hundreds of animals to "weed" urban areas. This approach seemed both beautiful artistically and functional—a way to solve problems in line with nature, rather than going to war with it — a change from the modus operandi of the pesticide industry.
The city's biologist ridiculed the idea. Even Spiegel was taken aback by it.
Over the years, more and more people have come to understand the importance of the anti-pesticides work. But activists kept meeting the same intransigence from government officials, even after a federal judge ruled in favor of the No Spray Coalition and against New York City in a lawsuit the Coalition brought under the Clean Water Act, and even after the City administration signed a settlement agreement with the No Spray Coalition that it soon ignored.
When New York City's new mayor, Bill de Blasio, assigned two assistants in 2015 to meet with the Coalition, it became clear that the City had learned nothing in the sixteen years following the filing of the lawsuit; there was no institutional memory. They asked the Coalition's
Cathryn Swan and Mitchel Cohen the same question: "Which less toxic chemical
sprays should we use?" And they answered with the same response the Coalition had given
Spiegel eight years earlier: "None! Bring in goats, dragonflies, bats!"
But the use of natural predators of the so-called pests in question was to them so far outside the boundaries of the dominant chemical mindset as to seem absurd.
REV. BILLY, SAVITRI D. & The Church of Stop Shopping Choir in NYC's Foley Square
In the years since the No Spray Coalition first made that proposal, Rev. Billy Talen and Savitri D., the choreographer and director of the Church of Stop Shopping's performances, led New Yorkers in the fight to block NYC officials from applying Roundup to city parks. Weekly performances of their show, "Monsanto is the Devil," sold out the fashionable Joe's Pub in the Public Theater in SoHo and mobilized audiences for protests. At last, in the summer of 2016, goats were finally brought into the city from an upstate New York farm to feed on weeds in a fenced-off section of Prospect Park. The goats chomped happily on the wild plants. Children got to see them "at work," and appreciated their new connection to nature. That section of the park was safely "weeded" in record time.
Goats eating weeds in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
But instead of expanding the use of goats or assigning workers to weed by hand, the city government continued to spray glyphosate, which bioaccumulates in bone marrow. It also "applied"—and continues to apply—other cancer-causing and endocrine-disrupting adulticides throughout the five boroughs, despite the well-documented harmful effects on people and the environment.
As a result of the work of the No Spray Coalition and sister groups such as East Bay Pesticide Alert (Don't Spray California), Beyond Pesticides, and Organic Consumers Association, California has now listed glyphosate as a likely carcinogen. Meanwhile, an important study (2018) of glyphosate's affect on pregnant women confirms that the widely used herbicide ends up in women's bodies and that prenatal glyphosate exposure may be linked to shorter pregnancies and lifelong adverse health consequences for children.
In New York City, Paula Rogovin, a teacher at Public School 290-Manhattan New School on the Upper East Side, and jazz pianist Jill McManus are currently mobilizing students, teachers, and the community to press the City Council and the Mayor to ban all synthetic pesticides from city parks.
While some City Council representatives have signed onto the new legislation introduced by Manhattan Council representative Ben Kallos, and despite the increasing consciousness over the dangers of pesticides, environmental and health activists are at every turn confronted by corporate power, corporate profiteering, corporate control of investments to government officials, and corporate ways of thinking that Monsanto and others, in conjunction with governments, propagate at the expense of future biodiversity and children's health.
With the City now in 2020 having begun to apply massive quantities of Bayer/Monsanto's Roundup and DeltaGard in the Bronx and throughout the City, environmental and health activists have their work cut out for them. What we do today makes all the difference in whether there will even be a future in which to argue the finer points of our philosophies, theories, and proposals. But it needs to be done.
We need to force the City, as well as munipalities across the country, to stop the applications of toxic pesticides and herbicides, and make it a national issue that hopefully the presidential candidates will treat seriously.
There's a saying from the 1960s: "The future will be what we the people struggle to make it." While micro-organisms will no doubt continue to thrive no matter what, humans won't. The fate of complex life on this planet, including human life, is in our hands.
(excerpted from Mitchel Cohen's book, The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides (SkyHorse publishers: 2019), available by clicking here.)
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Study: You are not Gluten Intolerant; You are Glyphosate Intolerant
Study blames Roundup herbicide for gluten intolerance and celiac disease epidemic From Get Holistic Health: "Celiac disease, and, more generally, gluten intolerance, is a growing … Read more
GOATS IN BROOKLYN'S PROSPECT PARK – ALTERNATIVE TO HERBICIDES!
PHOTO BY JULIE LARSEN MAHER Not kidding around: Prospect Park-goers can watch these goats gobble up invasive species in Brooklyn's backyard until October. Enabling goats … Read more
Stop the Poisoning of New York City Parks [Petition Against Glyphosate/Roundup]
A new petition has been started to get glyphosate, known commercially as Roundup, out of New York City Parks by NYC-based The Black Institute. Despite … Read more
NY City to spray toxic pesticides over Brooklyn & Queens again, tonight. Is the spraying under Mayor de Blasio worse than under Bloomberg?
Tonight (Monday, September 21, 2015), the City will be spraying (from trucks) the pyrethroid pesticide Anvil 10+10 in the Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, … Read more
California EPA Plans to Label Monsanto's Roundup As "Known to Cause Cancer"
News this week via East Bay Express — The California Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it plans to label glyphosate — the most widely … Read more
Ready for the "Round-up"? Saying "No" to Glyphosate in New York City's Parks
When will the City re-examine and change its methods when it comes to its creation of environmental and health chaos? On August 24, 2015, Reverend … Read more
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It took five people to encircle his northern red oak during a previous tree tour, including local ornithologist Dave Blockstein (left) and FOSC past-president Jim Baird.
Join tree champion and Sligo resident Joe Howard on Saturday, October 20, for a bicycle tour of the watershed's biggest trees, some of them county champions.
The ride begins at 9:20 am at the Schweinhaut Senior Center, 1000 Forest Glen Road (just east of Sligo Creek Parkway) with an orientation followed by departure at 9:30. The tour will visit 18 trees and cover about ten miles, returning to the senior center around 12:30.
Joe is a member of the Montgomery County Forestry Board and founder of the champion trees registry for Montgomery County. He can fairly be called Sligo's preeminent champion of champion trees.
A highlight of the itinerary is the newly-documented biggest tree in the Sligo watershed: a native Willow Oak with a massive circumference of 18 feet. We'll also meet a new champion Loblolly Pine (a species native just east of Sligo), a rare native Umbrella Magnolia, and a newly documented Southern Red Oak with a fifteen-foot circumference.
In addition, bikers can pay their respects to some old champions like our Yellow Buckeye, Shingle Oak, and Yellowwood.
If you're running late, catch up at the the first tree: a white pine near the building to the right of the center. The second stop is in a wooded area, but the third and fourth trees are easily found at 1400 Dennis Ave and 1715 Dublin Drive.
For questions, contact the event organizer at his email here: Pat Ratkowski.
Join other volunteers in planting shrubs and perennials on a 200-foot-long median strip adjoining Sligo Creek Park in the Carole Highlands neighborhood on Sunday, October 21, from 10 am to 1 pm.
The garden project is located between the north edge of the Park and the intersection of Drexel Street and 15th Avenue in Hyattsville. This planting is part of the Prince George's County "Clean Up Green Up" program.
The county will provide work gloves, shovels, trowels, trash bags, and safety vests, along with drinking water and snacks. It would be helpful, however, if you can bring your own tools.
Our thanks to Carlo Sanchez, Maryland House Delegate (District 47B), for sponsoring this community beautification initiative. Gratitude also to Wayne Lucas, landscape architect wit the county's Department of Public Works and Transportation for investigating the ownership of the median section and to gain approval for this planting from the county.
Learn about the top predator in Sligo's waters, the American eel, when aquatic biologist Matthew Rinehimer, of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, speaks on Wednesday, November 14, at the Sligo-Dennis Avenue Local Park.
The talk begins at 7:30. Come at 7:15 for refreshments and to meet other enthusiasts for nature in Sligo Creek. The building is located on the west side of Sligo Creek Parkway just north (upstream) from Dennis Avenue and next to the basketball courts.
Even though eels were the third most abundant fish found in a survey of Sligo by the county last summer, they are rarely seen by humans since they are mostly nighttime hunters.
Matthew Rinehimer is a biologist with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and is based in Stevensville. He joined the DNR in 2007 after graduating from McDaniel College and has worked since on monitoring eel, yellow perch, white perch, and catfish.
His talk will cover eel biology and its life stages from birth in the Sargasso Sea (in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean) to migration to our waters, their seasons in our fresh and brackish waters, and their return to oceanic spawning grounds.
He will also discuss trends in their statewide abundance, their role in our ecosystems, Maryland's commercial eel fishery, DNR's data population monitoring, threats to the eels, and a variety of interesting fun facts about these fascinating aquatic animals.
A multi-year saga to preserve "Dorothy's Woods" in Takoma Park finally reached a happy conclusion on September 12 when the city arrived at an agreement with the mortgage holder of the original property to prevent its sale at an unexpected second auction and preserve the city's control of the property.
While the city appeared to have purchased the land at auction in 2015, it was learned that the larger McLaughlin School property (that included the Woods) retained several "encumbrances." One of these was the original mortgage lien on the overall school lot, which was sold to an outside mortgage company.
In September, just before the new auction date, the mortgage company and the city agreed on a price of $250,000 for release of the lien and dismissal of its foreclosure action against the city. About $100,000 of this payment came from personal donations by neighbors and others dedicated to preserving the woodland.
The 2.68 acre site -- a mix of mature and understory trees and open areas -- is located along the west side of Woodland Avenue, just northwest of the intersection with Circle Avenue. For the last three years many volunteers (including neighbors and FOSC members) have spent time removing trash and invasive vines from the woodland.
The City Council chose to make this further commitment to the land "based on its recognition of the importance of the environmental and climate benefits of the parcel." Among the considerable variety of canopy and understory trees are sycamore, American beech, American elm, tulip-tree, northern red oak, southern red oak, white oak, willow oak, red maple, box elder, American holly, sweet gum, and black gum.
For a blow-by-blow chronology of the complex legal and financial maneuverings, and the dogged research by dedicated city lawyers, see the city's web page on this project.
Celebrate the Year of the Anacostia at the Third Festival del Rio Anacostia on Saturday, October 13, from 11 am to 4 pm. Advocacy groups for tributaries of the Anacostia will be represented, including Sligo Creek.
All events take place at Bladensburg Waterfront Park (4601 Annapolis Road), where you can enjoy boat rides, fishing, displays of live birds and fish, nature walks, arts and crafts, and more. Along with live performances and ethnic foods, there will be workshops to learn about the Anacostia River and its tributaries, drinking water, and conservation gardens.
You can also help Friends of Sligo Creek by joining board members Delia Aguilar and Kit Gage at our information table: contact advocacy@fosc.org to volunteer.
The free bilingual and family-friendly event connects Latino residents with the Anacostia River and the groups working to encourage environmental education and outreach about our watershed. For more information, visit the festival's website.
2018 was declared the Year of the Anacostia by the DC City Council and the Prince George's County Council to honor the river's history, celebrate recent restoration progress, and enjoy the river and its surroundings. It's also the 100th anniversary of Anacostia Park, created by the National Park Service.
Earlier this year the massive Anacostia River Tunnel was completed by DC Water (the city's water utility). It is expected to reduce pollution from "combined sewer overflows" (which can occur doing heavy rain) into the river by 81 percent. The 23-foot diameter tunnel runs from RFK Stadium to Poplar Point in DC.
For more information, contact Kit Gage here: advocacy@fosc.org.
Friends of Sligo Creek is a nonprofit community organization dedicated to protecting, improving, and appreciating the ecological health of Sligo Creek Park and its surrounding watershed.


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Voices for Change - Sarah Kerr
Voices for Change speaks to Sarah Kerr, who is the Director of the Modern Slavery Evidence Unit at the Rights Lab.
Date of Recording: 9th of May 2019
Voices for Change - Minh Dang
Minh Dang is the Director of Survivor Alliance, and is currently studying for a PhD at the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham.
Date of Recording: 29th of April 2019
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Voices for Change speaks to Robin Brierley, who is an independent consultant who works for a number of organisations in the UK.
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Voices for Change - Doreen Boyd
Voices for Change speaks to Doreen Boyd, who is one of the Associate Directors in the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham, where she oversees the Data Programme.
Date of Recording: 16th of March 2019
Voices for Change - Kevin Bales
Voices for Change speaks to Kevin Bales who is the Rights Lab Research Director, and Professor of Contemporary Slavery. He is on the Board of Directors for Freedom Fund and is a member of the Global Slavery Index Expert Working Group.
Date of recording: Friday 29th of March 2019
Voices for Change - Katarina Schwarz
Voices for Change speaks to Katarina Schwarz leads, who the Rights Lab's work on antislavery legislation as part of its Governance Programme.
Date Recorded: 8th of March 2019
Voices for Change - Helen McCabe
Voices for Change speaks to Helen McCabe, who is an Assistant Professor in political theory in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham.
Date of recording: 8th of March 2019
Voices for Change - Leila Segal
Voices for Change speaks to Leila Segal, the director of Voice of Freedom.
Voices for Change - Bethany Jackson
Voices for Change speaks to Bethany Jackson, who is a PhD student at the University of Nottingham in the Geography Department. Her thesis and work with the Rights Lab focuses on the usage of remote sensing in industries that utilise modern slavery.
Voices for Change - Annie Kelly
Voices for Change interviews Annie Kelly, who is a reporter and editor at the Guardian, where she leads their modern slavery reporting.
Date of recording: 27th of February 2019
Voices for Change - Patricia Carrier
Voices for Change interviews Patricia Carrier, who is the Project Manager of the Modern Slavery Registry at Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
Date of recording: 5th of February 2019
Voices for Change - International Justice Mission
Voices for Change interviews three members of the International Justice Mission: David Westlake, the CEO of IJM in the UK; Steve Webster, the Chief Operating Officer; and Paul Newton, who is an international advocate for IJM.
Date of Recording: 12th November 2018
Voices for Change - Todd Landman
Voices for Change interviews Todd Landman who is the Executive Director of The Rights Lab, a Professor of Political Science, and the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham
Date of recording: 14th of December 2018
Voices for Change - Shayne Tyler
Voices for Freedom interviews Shayne Tyler, who is the Operations Executive at Manor Fresh Limited, and has campaigned tirelessly against modern slavery since discovering it within his organisation in the year 2000.
Date of recording: 18th of October 2018
Voices for Change - Zoe Trodd
Voices for Freedom interviews Zoe Trodd, who is the Director of the Rights Lab which is the Unviersity of Nottingham Beacon of Excellence that focuses on research to end slavery by 2030.
Date of recording: 14th December 2018
Voices for Change - Kieran Guilbert
Voices for Freedom interviews Kieran Guilbert, journalist at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, where he is the Slavery and Trafficking Editor.
Date of recording: 9th January 2019
Voices for Change - Paddy Tipping
Voices for Freedom interviews Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner Paddy Tipping as part of the Anti-Slavery Day events put on by the Rights Lab at the Nottingham Council House.
Voices for Change - Alison Gardner
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Voices for Change - Alex Norris MP
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Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London
Nigel: They fed me, that was it. That was the only thing they did do, you know what I mean? They said the money would be there at the weekend. I went, 'Make sure my money's there, you know what I mean?' I said, 'I just want my money. I work hard, I just want my money, that's all I want.' Come Friday, I fronted them, they surrounded me – 'Just get back in your caravan.' They threatened me. They said, 'Go back in your caravan or we'll dust you up,' they said. It was a bit terrifying, wasn't it, you know what I mean? I mean you don't want to beat twenty people. They're nasty people, they're just nasty people.Men from 18 to 60 have been targeted from this area and are largely exploited in the block paving and tarmacking industry as well as areas such as agriculture, food processing and factory work.Transcript: Street Slaves, File on 4, BBC Radio 4.The Dark Figure* is an ongoing photographic project that investigates and documents UK neighbourhoods where victims have been identified as modern-day slaves.Photo: Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, courtesy of The Dark Figure


It is generally accepted that aging and memory loss go together, but it's also known that there are ways of keeping our aging brains sharp. Staying active both mentally and physically can help prevent memory loss. Most of us think gingko when we think of an herb with memory- boosting effects. However, where gingko shows some effectiveness in the treatment of dementia (multi-infarct and Alzheimer's type), it appears to have only weak potency in improving the memory of healthy patients. New research, however, suggests that the herb bacopa might offer additional memory benefits. One study, published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, included 98 healthy people over 55 years old. They were randomly assigned to receive either 300 mg of Bacopa monnieri extract per day or placebo for twelve weeks. Memory and learning tests done at the beginning and end of the trial included tasks such as remembering lists of words, recreating complicated geometric shapes from memory, and following letter and number patterns. Participants also answered questions about recent memory changes. The authors of the study concluded that bacopa significantly improves memory acquisition and retention in older Australians. This study was well designed and executed but of course an improvement on one test does not prove decisively that bacopa improves memory acquisition and retention. Like most studies it had some limitations and bears repeating and refinement.
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Play By The Regs – FINRA and OCIE Announce Examination Areas of Focus
FINRA and OCIE Announce Examination Areas of Focus
FINRA and OCIE each have issued their 2017 examination priorities. Not surprisingly, there are many common subjects, including (1) high-risk and recidivist brokers, (2) senior investors, and (3) operational risks such as cybersecurity and anti-money laundering. FINRA's Annual Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter covers fewer subjects than in previous years and, in contrast to both the 2015 and 2016 letters, this year does not offer a set of discrete themes.[1] Instead, FINRA focuses on what the cover letter emphasizes as the core "blocking and tackling" issues of compliance, supervision, and risk management. OCIE's 2017 priorities include more focus on its oversight of FINRA, which now has greater responsibility for conducting exams of registered broker-dealers. OCIE also will engage in a number of examination initiatives aimed at registered investment advisers. Both regulators emphasized their expanded capabilities to analyze data and the role that data analysis plays in their exam programs.
We highlight some of the more significant priorities for financial services firms focused on retail investment activities.
High-Risk and Recidivist Brokers
FINRA notes that it recently established a dedicated examination unit to identify and inspect brokers who may pose a high risk to investors, and it says that in 2017, it will review firms' supervisory procedures for hiring or retraining statutorily disqualified and recidivist brokers, including whether the firm conducts a national search of public records to validate an applicant's Form U4. FINRA also plans to continue to evaluate firms' branch office inspection programs and supervisory systems for branch and non-branch locations. This emphasis on problem brokers is not too surprising given FINRA's historical interest[2] and recent concern expressed in Congress about the problem,[3] one that FINRA has been working on with varying degrees of success for some time. OCIE says it will continue to use data analytics to identify and examine high-risk and recidivist brokers and the investment advisers that employ them this year.
Senior Investors
The protection of senior investors remains a top priority for both FINRA and OCIE in 2017. OCIE will focus on the recommendation of variable insurance products and target date funds. OCIE also says it will examine investment advisers to state pension plans, municipalities, and other government entities that hold a large amount of investors' retirement assets, focusing on assessments of how those advisers manage conflicts of interest, gift and entertainment practices. FINRA says it will assess firms' controls to protect senior investors from fraud and improper advice. FINRA is especially concerned about recommendations to senior investors involving complex or speculative products that promise high yields and microcap securities.
Product Suitability and Concentration
FINRA again will focus on unsuitable product recommendations to retail customers. It notes the concern that registered representatives themselves may not adequately understand a product's features, citing as examples complex or novel exchange-traded products, structured retail products, leveraged and inverse exchange-traded funds, non-traded real estate investment trusts, and unlisted business development corporations. FINRA will focus attention this year on firms' reasonable-basis and customer-specific suitability review processes, including product vetting processes, supervisory systems and controls to review recommendations. FINRA will also increase its scrutiny of the controls firms use to monitor for excess concentration.
Excessive and Short-Term Trading of Long-term Products
Echoing concerns regarding excessive trading and concentration controls expressed in its 2015 priorities letter, FINRA highlights instances of registered representatives recommending that their clients trade long-term productions on a short term basis, which is detrimental to clients who may experience diminished investment returns because of increased costs. For example, in May 2016, a firm was censured and fined $250,000 for, among other conduct, failing to establish, maintain, and enforce a supervisory system and WSPs reasonably designed to prevent unsuitable short-term trading of UITs. Similarly, in June 2016, FINRA sanctioned a firm $100,000 for failing to establish and maintain a system and procedures that were reasonably designed to supervise its registered representatives' sales of close-end funds (CEFs) to their customers, including detection and prevention of unsuitable short-term trading of CEFs. In that case, FINRA focused on how the firm did not appropriately act upon proper flagging by the firm's centralized supervision unit. For 2017, FINRA cautions that firms need to evaluate whether their supervisory systems can even detect activity intended to evade automated surveillance for excessive switching activity. That is, the proper infrastructure of supervisory systems and surveillance needs to be in place to detect the excessive trading and prevent any registered representatives from "cheating" the system.
Outside Business Activities and Private Securities Transactions
FINRA continues to emphasize the importance of firms' controls to review registered persons' written notification of proposed outside business activities and proposed private securities transactions. FINRA expects that firms will not only collect information about their representatives' activities but further engage in ongoing supervision over associated persons' approved private securities transactions for compensation. Monitoring outside business activities and private securities is especially critical when firms employ representatives who are dually-registered with unaffiliated investment advisors. For example, in July 2016, FINRA sanctioned a firm who had dually-registered representatives because it failed to record the transactions that the representatives executed away from the firm.
Cybersecurity has become a perennial examination topic. This year, FINRA highlights two areas where it has observed shortcomings in controls: cybersecurity controls at branch offices and failing to fulfill one or more obligations under Securities Exchange Act (SEA) Rule 17a-4(f). The former issue involves poor controls regarding daily practices, including passwords, encryption of data, portable storage devices, virus protection, and physical security of assets and data, which are not as strong in branch offices. The latter issue involves, among other problems, failing to preserve certain records in a non-rewritable, non-erasable format, a.k.a. WORM format. FINRA notes that it announced actions against 12 firms for, in part, failing to preserve broker-dealer and customer records in WORM format. FINRA acknowledges cybersecurity's effect on firms and continues to provide resources on its industry issues page dedicated to cybersecurity, which includes relevant notices, guidance, and news releases. Notably, in May 2016, FINRA added the "Small Firm Cybersecurity Checklist" to help smaller firms establish cybersecurity programs. OCIE also promises to continue its initiative to examine for cybersecurity compliance procedures and controls, including testing the implementation of those procedures and controls.
Supervisory Controls Testing
Consistent with recent years, FINRA again says that it will assess firms' testing of their internal supervisory procedures. It notes that control breakdowns can include record-retention omissions and failures to deliver requisite disclosure or other documents to clients, as well as situations where automated alerts fail to identify activity in client accounts for further review or where extensive manual intervention is necessary to make the data useable. FINRA encourages firms to engage in regular testing of their supervisory systems to identity and mitigate gaps. Note that this is more than simply a best practices suggestion, as firms must engage in controls testing and certification under FINRA Rules 3120 and 3130.
Anti-Money Laundering and Suspicious Activity Monitoring
Similar to cybersecurity, anti-money laundering and suspicious activity monitoring remain top of mind for securities regulators. This year, FINRA calls out gaps in firms' automated trading and money movement surveillance systems caused by data integrity problems, poorly set parameters or surveillance patterns that do not capture problematic behavior such as suspicious microcap activity, and weaknesses in systems monitoring foreign currency transactions and transactions that flow through suspense accounts. In May 2016, FINRA fined two affiliated firms a total $17 million for failing to establish and implement adequate AML procedures, which resulted in the firms' failure to properly prevent or detect, investigate, and report suspicious activity for several years. One of the firm's former AML Compliance Officer was also fined $15,000 and suspended for three months. FINRA noted that the firms' significant growth was not matched by commensurate growth in their AML compliance systems and processes. Also, in September 2016, FINRA censured and issued a $350,000 fine to a firm with no former disciplinary history for failing to establish and implement an adequate AML program and procedures tailored to its Venezuelan bond business or its foreign customer base. OCIE says it will continue to examine broker-dealers to assess whether AML programs are tailored to the specific risks faced by the firm. OCIE also emphasizes the importance of effective independent testing. Thus, it remains critically important for firms to concentrate on AML compliance this year.
There are no big surprises in either the FINRA or OCIE 2017 priorities, and many of the areas identified carry over from previous years. As always, firms should use the letters as a checklist to critically evaluate the quality of their control procedures and to ensure that their procedures are specifically tailored to their practices, product mix, and customers.
[1] In 2015, FINRA identified five key areas that it said compromise the ability to protect investors and undermine integrity of the markets: alignment of customer and firm interests, ethical standards, strong supervisory and risk management systems, novel products, and conflicts management. In 2016, FINRA identified three broad issues—culture, conflicts of interest, and ethics; supervision, risk management, and controls; and liquidity.
[2] In 2013, FINRA launched the "High-Risk Broker Initiative" to "identify for targeted, expedited review those individuals who pose a significant risk to investors or the industry—and where they have harmed investors and violated our rules, to bar them from the industry as quickly as possible." FINRA expanded the program in 2014 by creating a dedicated enforcement team to prosecute such cases.
[3] In March 2016, at a Senate Banking subcommittee hearing, Senator Elizabeth Warren recounted the number of recidivist registered representatives who have engaged in civil, criminal, or regulatory misconduct but are still practicing based on a study issued by economists from the University of Chicago. She pressed then FINRA CEO Rick Ketchum: "As the head of FINRA, what are you doing to make sure that the elderly and people who can least afford bad financial advice don't fall into the net of someone who has already got a documented history of misconduct?"
The contents of this Alert are general in nature, for informational purposes only, and do not constitute legal advice. For more news and updates regarding financial industry regulatory compliance, please visit www.PlayByTheRegs.com


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#EndEbolaNow | Twitter Interview with Nzinga Blake
Producer, writer and director Nzinga Blake (center) took questions on Twitter Wednesday about the End Ebola Now campaign. From PSAs to informational flyers to viral campaigns, the Los Angeles, California-based group made up of Sierra Leonean-Americans in the entertainment industry, are focused on ending the Ebola crisis.
To do that, the campaign is reaching out to West Africans in the United States, and works with organizations such as Emergency USA in Sierra Leone to raise awareness about the work they do.
Since 2001 EMERGENCY has helped over 464,801 people in Sierra Leone.
The goal is to spread information and raise awareness about the disease and its impact through artistic community activism. To read the interview via the Sewa News Twitter channel @SewaNews, click here https://twitter.com/SewaNews/status/527514062255849472
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Massah Kaikai has been missing since August 2018, no new leads
Stephen Douglas, a Canadian journalist, photographer, author, and media development specialist is leading an online campaign to find Massah Kaikai, who went missing sometime between August 4 and 8, 2018.
According to Douglas's blog, one suspect, Ibrahim Mansaray, Massah's driver, is currently in custody and has been questioned by the Inspector General of Police and the Head of CID.
The suspect has provided very little information as to Massah's disappearance but was in possession of Massah's iPhone when he was arrested.
Mansaray reportedly looted Massah's apartment of furniture, clothing and kitchen items before returning the keys to the landlords. The apartment was paid for until the end of December 2018.
After 45 days, the Cyber Crime Unit of CID finally retrieved scant information from Massah's phone but it has not proved useful in tracking Massah's movements or whereabouts.
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Mehari, Hermon: Bleu
Twenty-nine year old musician Hermon Mehari has been a member of the band Diverse and acted as a sideman for the last few years so the time was right to release his first album as a band leader. The expert trumpeter has gathered some outstanding musicians including Logan Richardson (alto saxophone), Aaron Parks (piano, keyboards), Peter Schlamb (vibraphone), Rick Rosato (bass) and Ryan J. Lee (drums).
The album is titled Bleu and the band delivers in a big way. The musicianship is uncompromisingly professional in every aspect and the melodies are outstanding throughout. These guys groove like a well-oiled machine; it's like they have been playing together for many years. Besides a good helping of modern jazz with the occasional nod to the past, covers of Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" and "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face", taken from the 1956 musical My Fair Lady, immediately spring to mind. The trumpet melodies are outstanding on both tunes and on the Coltrane piece Mehari really lets his trumpet shine with an outstanding solo. Schlamb's vibe work also deserves special mention with his gritty tone revved up through huge slabs of reverb. Other highlights include the album opening "Tatra" with trumpet front and center as well as that distorted electronic sound coming through in the song's latter half. It really brings a modern element to the band's sound. On "Eleven Thirteen" the vibe is more mellow with the drum work more understated but no less impressive. The piano and trumpet solos are excellent.
Bleu mixes interesting electronics, the vibes and Rhodes in particular, with classic jazz making a modern musical statement that is as infectious as any jazz album I have heard this year.
1.	Tatra (6:22)
2.	Eleven Thirteen (Une Nuit Noire) (7:42)
3.	Don't Ya Think (Interlude) ((0 :51)
4.	Moment's Notice (5 :55)
5.	Awakening (4 :42)
6.	Cold (3 :50)
7.	Sunset Park (5 :31)
8.	Our Journey Revisited (4 :28)
9.	I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (4 :39)
10.	We Love (5:13)
Added: May 7th 2017
Reviewer: Jon Neudorf
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Battleground 2020Elections 2020Texas Battleground: GOP Candidates Target State House District 135
House District 135 turned blue in 2018 after Rep. Jon Rosenthal beat incumbent Republican Rep. Gary Elkins. Republicans look to flip the seat back in 2020.
Holly HansenJune 20, 2019
Rep. Jon Rosenthal (D-Houston)
In the 2018 general election Democrats in the greater Houston area won several races in historically right-leaning districts, including Texas House District 135 which had been held by Republicans for decades.
Now two candidates are vying for a chance to return the north-west Harris County district to GOP control: Mark McCaig, an attorney and Republican precinct chair, and Justin Ray, a business development manager and former Mayor of Jersey Village.
The winner of the 2018 contest, Representative Jon Rosenthal, ran as the "Progressive candidate," for HD 135.
With the backing of the AFL-CIO, the Texas chapter of the American Federation of Teachers Union, and the Houston GLBT Political Caucus, Rosenthal edged out incumbent Gary Elkins with 50.8 percent to 47.6 percent. Libertarian Paul Bilyeu took 1.5 percent.
According to the biennial legislative analysis provided by Mark P. Jones at Rice University, at the end of the 2019 Legislative Session Representative Rosenthal ranked as the fifth most liberal member of the Texas House, and the most liberal member from Harris County.
GOP candidate Mark McCaig says that Rosenthal's victory was a "Beto anomaly" and that Rosenthal's politics do not represent voters of the district.
McCaig adds, "I do have to respect his honesty. He [Rosenthal] is not pretending to be someone he's not."
Prior to the 2018 elections, HD 135, which straddles State Highway 290 in a rapid-growth area of northwest Harris County, had been held by Republican Gary Elkins for 24 years. Elkins first won the seat in 1994 and repeatedly easily won re-election with as much as 65 percent of the vote at times, but his take had fallen to 54.85 percent in 2016.
The district also overlaps with Congressional District 7, in which Democrat Lizzie Fletcher defeated 9-term GOP Congressman John Culberson by 5 points.
Democrat Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke carried HD 135 with 52.9 percent, but Governor Greg Abbott also won in HD 135 with 51.2 percent of the vote.
McCaig said the voters of HD 135 "deserve a principled conservative voice again."
Republican candidate Justin Ray, was elected to the Jersey Village City Council in 2012, and in 2015 was elected as the youngest Mayor in city history. A life-long resident of Jersey Village, the only city in the district, Ray says he's watched the area evolve from "suburban to urban-suburban."
When asked by The Texan what he thought was needed for the GOP to reclaim HD 135, Ray emphasized appropriate messaging and hard work.
"We must articulate a Republican message that resonates with our 2020 voters, including younger voters and suburban moms." Ray added that a priority issue for his campaign would be support for public education, which he says is the number one issue for families in his district. "I am uniquely situated to understand what voters and families in the area want."
In the 2018 campaign, Rosenthal had emphasized his support for public education, and was a visible presence at all board meetings for Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, the only public school district in HD 135.
Ray has been cultivating support from other elected officials in the area, and the host committee for a recent Justin Ray fundraiser included trustees from both Cypress-Fairbanks ISD and the Harris County Board of Education, as well as Jersey Village city council members and the city's current mayor.
Ray cautioned that Republicans cannot take any historically right-leaning districts for granted, and that he would be working to personally interact with voters. "There's no more straight-ticket voting; you've got to motivate voters to vote for you individually. It's going to take getting in front of voters and lots of shoe leather."
McCaig also noted the importance of being highly visible in the district and crafting a strong message. "We've got to talk to people about how conservative government affects them in their day-to-day lives. People are prosperous when government stays out of their way."
According to the most recently available American Community Survey estimates, nearly 75 percent of the district consists of family households, and more than half of those have children under 18. ACS also reports that most district households have an income of between $50,000 and $200,000, and about 10 percent live in poverty.
Rosenthal raised $114,007 for his 2018 campaign, and according to January 2019 campaign finance reports, still had $45,344.15 cash on hand.
Many new Texas House members receive a "Freshman of the Year" award from some group or another, and Rosenthal received his from the Legislative Study Group, a left-leaning caucus led by Representative Garnet Coleman (D-Houston).
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We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It's Thea's turn today, with a list celebrating all things New York Comic-Con!
NYCC is a treat for many fandoms–but it is especially fun for fans of science fiction and fantasy. So Thea compiled a list of the books she's most excited to hunt down at the converntion: head over to Kirkus to get the full list.


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public class FilePersistenceManagerTest extends TestCase
{
    private File file = new File( System.getProperty( "java.io.tmpdir" ), "config" );

    private FilePersistenceManager fpm;

    protected void setUp() throws Exception
    {
        super.setUp();

        fpm = new FilePersistenceManager( file.getAbsolutePath() );
    }

    protected void tearDown() throws Exception
    {
        File[] children = file.listFiles();
        for ( int i = 0; children != null && i < children.length; i++ )
        {
            children[i].delete();
        }
        file.delete();

        super.tearDown();
    }

    public void testPidPlain()
    {
        assertEquals( "plain", FilePersistenceManager.encodePid( "plain" ) );
        assertEquals( "plain" + File.separatorChar + "path", FilePersistenceManager.encodePid( "plain.path" ) );
        assertEquals( "encod%00e8", FilePersistenceManager.encodePid( "encod\u00E8" ) );
        assertEquals( "encod%00e8" + File.separatorChar + "path", FilePersistenceManager.encodePid( "encod\u00E8/path" ) );
        assertEquals( "encode" + File.separatorChar + "%1234" + File.separatorChar + "path", FilePersistenceManager
            .encodePid( "encode/\u1234/path" ) );
        assertEquals( "encode" + File.separatorChar + " %0025 " + File.separatorChar + "path", FilePersistenceManager
            .encodePid( "encode/ % /path" ) );
    }

    public void testCreateDir()
    {
        assertTrue( file.isDirectory() );
    }

    public void testSimple() throws IOException
    {
        check( "String", "String Value" );
        check( "Integer", new Integer( 2 ) );
        check( "Long", new Long( 2 ) );
        check( "Float", new Float( 2 ) );
        check( "Double", new Double( 2 ) );
        check( "Byte", new Byte( ( byte ) 2 ) );
        check( "Short", new Short( ( short ) 2 ) );
        check( "Character", new Character( 'a' ) );
        check( "Boolean", Boolean.TRUE );
    }

    public void testQuoting() throws IOException
    {
        check( "QuotingSeparators", "\\()[]{}.,=\"\"''" );
        check( "QuotingWellKnown", "BSP:\b, TAB:\t, LF:\n, FF:\f, CR:\r" );
        check( "QuotingControl", new String( new char[]
            { 5, 10, 32, 64 } ) );
    }

    public void testArray() throws IOException
    {
        check( "StringArray", new String[]
            { "one", "two", "three" } );
        check( "IntArray", new int[]
            { 0, 1, 2 } );
        check( "IntegerArray", new Integer[]
            { new Integer( 0 ), new Integer( 1 ), new Integer( 2 ) } );
    }

    public void testEmptyArray() throws IOException
    {
        check( "StringArray", new String[0] );
        check( "IntArray", new int[0] );
        check( "CharArray", new char[0] );
        check( "ShortArray", new short[0] );
    }

    public void testVector() throws IOException
    {
        check( "StringVector", new Vector( Arrays.asList( new String[]
                                                                     { "one", "two", "three" } ) ) );
        check( "IntegerVector", new Vector( Arrays.asList( new Integer[]
                                                                       { new Integer( 0 ), new Integer( 1 ), new Integer( 2 ) } ) ) );
    }

    public void testEmptyVector() throws IOException
    {
        check( "StringArray", new Vector() );
        check( "IntArray", new Vector() );
        check( "CharArray", new Vector() );
        check( "ShortArray", new Vector() );
    }

    public void testList() throws IOException
    {
        check( "StringList", Arrays.asList( new String[]
            { "one", "two", "three" } ) );
        check( "IntegerList", Arrays.asList( new Integer[]
            { new Integer( 0 ), new Integer( 1 ), new Integer( 2 ) } ) );
    }

    public void testEmptyList() throws IOException
    {
        check( "StringArray", new ArrayList(0) );
        check( "IntArray", new ArrayList(0) );
        check( "CharArray", new ArrayList(0) );
        check( "ShortArray", new ArrayList(0) );
    }

    public void testMultiValue() throws IOException
    {
        Dictionary props = new Hashtable();
        props.put( "String", "String Value" );
        props.put( "Integer", new Integer( 2 ) );
        props.put( "Long", new Long( 2 ) );
        props.put( "Float", new Float( 2 ) );
        props.put( "Double", new Double( 2 ) );
        props.put( "Byte", new Byte( ( byte ) 2 ) );
        props.put( "Short", new Short( ( short ) 2 ) );
        props.put( "Character", new Character( 'a' ) );
        props.put( "Boolean", Boolean.TRUE );
        props.put( "Array", new boolean[]
            { true, false } );

        check( "MultiValue", props );
    }

    // test configuration keys not conforming to the recommended specification
    // for configuration keys in OSGi CM 1.3, 104.4.2, Configuration Properties
    public void testNonSpecKeys() throws IOException {
        check( "with\ttab", "the value" );
        check( "with blank", "the value" );
        check( "\\()[]{}.,=\"\"''", "quoted key" );
        check( "\"with quotes\"", "key with quotes" );
        check( "=leading equals", "leading equals" );
    }

    private void check( String name, Object value ) throws IOException
    {
        Dictionary props = new Hashtable();
        props.put( name, value );

        check( name, props );
    }

    private void check( String pid, Dictionary props ) throws IOException
    {
        fpm.store( pid, props );

        assertTrue( new File( file, FilePersistenceManager.encodePid( pid ) + ".config" ).exists() );

        Dictionary loaded = fpm.load( pid );
        assertNotNull( loaded );
        assertEquals( props.size(), loaded.size() );

        for ( Enumeration pe = props.keys(); pe.hasMoreElements(); )
        {
            String key = ( String ) pe.nextElement();
            checkValues( props.get( key ), loaded.get( key ) );
        }
    }

    private void checkValues( Object value1, Object value2 )
    {
        assertNotNull( value2 );
        if ( value1.getClass().isArray() )
        {
            assertTrue( value2.getClass().isArray() );
            assertEquals( value1.getClass().getComponentType(), value2.getClass().getComponentType() );
            assertEquals( Array.getLength( value1 ), Array.getLength( value2 ) );
            for ( int i = 0; i < Array.getLength( value1 ); i++ )
            {
                assertEquals( Array.get( value1, i ), Array.get( value2, i ) );
            }
        }
        else
        {
            assertEquals( value1, value2 );
        }
    }
}


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Sony to Government: PSN Attackers Signed File 'Anonymous'
By Matt Peckham May 04, 2011
Sony just put up its response to the U.S. House of Representatives about the PlayStation Network debacle, and it looks like we've seen our first bit of finger-pointing.
The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing today in Washington, D.C. on "The Threat of Data Theft to American Consumers." Declining an opportunity to appear in person, Sony Deputy President Kazuo Hirai supplied written answers to subcommittee questions about the recent attacks on Sony's PlayStation Network.
According to Sony spokesperson Patrick Seybold, Sony followed four principles to deal with the cyber attack: "Act with care and caution," "provide relevant information to the public when it has been verified," "take responsibility for our obligations to our customers," and "work with law enforcement authorities."
Sony called the attack "criminal," "very carefully planned," "very professional," and "highly sophisticated." More or less what they've been saying all along (well, with more adverbs, anyway).
Here's a wrinkle we hadn't heard: Sony says the intruder(s) "planted" a file on a Sony Online Entertainment server. The file was named "Anonymous" (same as the anti-Sony hacker group) and contained the words "We are Legion."
Shortly after Sony took its PSN and Qriocity servers down, Anonymous released a graphic through its AnonOps site, writing "For Once We Didn't Do It" and denying any formal involvement in the hack.


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What about our own superpowers? Are they just the stuff of fantasy and wishful thinking? Or does the fact that we are each created from the stuff of stars – and by the same invisible hand – indicate that we may have innate powers that we cannot even imagine at this time?
What if we knew that this time of extraordinary peril and uncertainty is providing us with unprecedented opportunities to accelerate our conscious evolution and contribute great value to the world?


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Two Polygamist Sect Survivors Tell Their Stories
"When I Thought of My Dad, I Thought of Him Being God"
ABC News/July 7, 2008
By Jen Pereira, Kiran Khalid and Emily Yacus
There's been a lot in the news recently about polygamist groups, but what is it really like for the children who grow up in them? [Ms. L.] and Estephania LeBaron are two women who spent their childhoods in two very different -- and very troubled groups -- and later escaped.
The women shared with "Good Morning America" what it is like to live in and to survive the secret society of a renegade polygamist sect.
"The children were all taught that if we were ever to talk about what happened sexually inside the group, that we will go straight to hell," [Ms. L.] said of her time spent inside the Zion Society.
After she was abandoned by her mother, [Ms. L.] was adopted and her new parents joined the Zion Society, a group led by a retired landscaper and excommunicated Mormon named Arvin Shreeve.
"I always had a feeling that something wasn't right. That it wasn't normal," said [Ms. L.].
Shreeve divided the women into groups called Sister Councils in which it was their job to sew lingerie to sell to local strippers. But first they had to model the lingerie. Shreeve reportedly even hired strippers to train his wives for the sect's fashion shows.
[Ms. L.], who as part of a Sister Council learned to sew at a young age, said that she "hoped that I could stand out somehow to Arvin, and that he'll notice that I'm here too."
[Ms. L.] also said that the children suffered repeated physical and sexual abuse. "A 15-year-old girl would be instructed to teach the 9-year old girl how to sexually satisfy a man or woman," she said.
"Arvin sort of came out of nowhere. There are a lot of independent polygamists," according to senior reporter Mike Watkiss at KTVK in Phoenix. "That's what they call themselves, and they're just guys who basically put their hands up and say, 'I'm a prophet.'"
Estephania LeBaron said she knew about the horrors from a different sect. She is the daughter of polygamist Ervil LeBaron, founder of the Church of the Lamb of God.
"When I thought of my dad, I thought of him being God," she told "GMA." "I just had a huge feeling of awe." She also feared that if she deviated from her father's sect, she "might not get into heaven."
Although neither the Zion Society nor the Church of the Lamb of God were affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ervil came to be known as the Mormon Manson, for allegedly ordering the death of 22 people. And in 1979 he was convicted of ordering a hit on rival polygamist leader Rulon Allred.
"Ervil LeBaron was crazy," said Watkiss of KTVK. "He was a bad man, and really, I think really, intoxicated with his own alleged connection to God."
His daughter Estephania was one of 52 children, and her mother was one of 13 wives. Growing up in Mexico, she was forced into marriage twice at age 13. Those who attempted to leave the group risked death, a practice Ervil called "blood atonement."
"I had my aunt and my younger sister who were blood atoned. And I was 11 years old, and it was traumatizing," Estephania said while trying to hold back her tears. "Anybody that threatened to go to the police, or young mothers who wanted to leave with their children, those were grounds to kill them."
When asked how the two women survived their cult experiences, [Ms. L.] said that it took some time. "I did a lot of drugs. I felt like I couldn't fit in. I felt different in the group and outside the group."
LeBaron said it was consoling to realize "that others had it much worse. Like with Hitler, and they went on."


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The Milky Way and constellation Sagittarius shine above the Turret Arch in the Arches National Park of Utah, USA. As noted by the photographer "It's probably one of the most recognized silhouettes in Arches. Standing off by itself in the Windows Section of the park, this is a very easy formation to spot, and very easy to get to as well. Facing the arch from the path, it was easy to see the Milky Way being pulled behind the horizon out to the west. I realized that if I moved along the pathway, I could place myself in a position where I could align the Milky Way with the opening in the arch itself. That was the shot I wanted. It seemed to accentuate the arch, and gave it the spiritual power it needed. I wondered how many others had noticed and shared that view over the centuries. Surely there had been many others. But I know this evening this view belonged only to me, as I set up my camera in the dark. It made it look as though there was some kind of star fire burning in the distance out behind the arch. I would imagine the tallest stone in this formation must be near 30 meters tall, as the size of these stone monsters can never be sensed in these night silhouetted shots. You have to be standing there in the silence to be awed by what is sitting out before your eyes. There was no moon this night, but sometimes a moon is not needed to get a sense of the magic that can be discovered in the magic parks of Utah." © LeRoy Zimmerman
Photographer: LeRoy Zimmerman
Location: North America | United States | Arches National Park
Date: 2010, Sep 01
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Home › Publications › Reports & Studies › Will the Trans Mountain Pipeline and tidewater access boost prices and save Canada's oil industry?
One of the primary rationales for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project (TMEP) is to maximize the price for Alberta bitumen by getting oil from Alberta to "tidewater". Tidewater refers to ocean access in order to ship oil to overseas markets via tankers. Industry and the federal and Alberta governments argue that a pipeline to tidewater will unlock new markets (Asia in the case of the TMEP) where Canadian oil can command a better price than in the US, where the majority of Canadian oil is currently exported.
This paper examines the tidewater argument and other problematic assumptions that led to the pipeline's approval.
This study is part of the Corporate Mapping Project, a research and public engagement initiative investigating the power of the fossil fuel industry in Western Canada. The CMP is jointly led by the University of Victoria, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Parkland Institute.
(Vancouver) As Kinder Morgan Canada turned to the stock market to finance its Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMEP), a new report by veteran earth scientist David Hughes finds that Alberta oil sold on international markets would likely command a lower price than if sold in North America.


After talking to a friend, I realized something this Easter: the Cross leads to salvation, but the Resurrection gives us hope for a new life. We often focus on the cross, which is appropriate. But without understanding of the Resurrection, we merely exist as saved dead people.
God planned Resurrection from the start; not just the Resurrection of Jesus but the resurrection of you and me. God planned on bringing recreation and new life again to what died from sin. Its written throughout the Bible, even in the Old Testament.
I had the privilege of working on a video for an Easter Vigil for Asbury Theological Seminary. I must admit, I'm not sure if I've ever read the Book of Ezekiel thoroughly, yet after producing this video I've come to a wonderfully new perspective on God's plan.
God redeems and resurrects His creation.
The other day, I posted a blog questioning the exact thing that you are affirming.
Have you ever read anything by Leslie Weatherhead? Check out my post at hamiltonmj1983.wordpress.com and let me know what you think.
My biggest question is how planning the Resurrection from the beginning lines up with free will.


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