This semester, Hillel launched its newest program, Hillel North Ambassadors, a leadership development program for Jewish freshmen living on North Campus.
According to Hillel's website, Hillel North Ambassadors is a one-semester long program designed for first-year students to help create opportunities for Jewish life on North Campus, and to teach participants how to become campus leaders through Maryland Hillel. Unlike the Hillel North fellowship that took place in previous years, this program is not solely focused on planning programs for their peers; it is more about fostering a Jewish community.
The new program is comprised of many different components, explained Jessa Cameron, who oversees the Hillel North Ambassadors and serves as the springboard innovation fellow for Maryland Hillel.
The group meets once a month for leadership development workshops, and ambassadors are in charge of hosting Shabbat dinners on North Campus in pairs or small groups. The group also coordinates coffee dates with other North Campus Jewish freshmen.
Photo on file. Dovid Fisher/Mitzpeh.
Freshman elementary education major and ambassador Alexis Mergruen said her favorite part of the program so far was planning a tailgate-themed Shabbat with another fellow.
To freshman elementary education major Sydney Moed, being a Hillel North ambassador is all about the responsibility she has to the Jewish community.
Since the Hillel building is near South Campus, the program gives students the option to still keep Shabbat or holidays in a more convenient way, and the hope is to make more students feel acclimated with Hillel after they move away from North Campus.
"The group of ambassadors have definitely been meeting more people… but I think we still need to improve our retention rates and make sure that the people we do talk to stay involved," said freshman economics major Lauren Gershon.
Ambassadors are given a coffee budget to take interested students out for drinks to introduce them to Hillel and discuss upcoming opportunities to get involved. Similarly, each week ambassadors host a "bagel club," a stress-relieving event where students can schmooze over coloring sheets and bagels for, which alternates weekly between Mondays and Tuesdays.
"We're only a month in, but it's exciting seeing the program grow and shift as they bring their own spin to things," said Cameron.
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State Department 'Deeply Disturbed' by Latest Chechnya Anti-LGBTI Crackdown
Michael K. Lavers January 21, 2019
The State Department on Thursday said it is "deeply disturbed" by reports that indicate at least two people have been killed and upwards of 40 others have been detained in the latest anti-LGBTI crackdown in Chechnya.
"We are deeply disturbed by credible reports out of Chechnya about renewed attacks against individuals perceived to be members of the LGBTI community," said Deputy Spokesperson Robert Palladino in a statement.
The Russian LGBT Network on Monday said a "new wave of illegal detentions in Chechnya based on the alleged sexual orientation of victims, both men and women" began last month with the detention of an administrator of a social networking group. Igor Kochetkov, a prominent Russian LGBTI activist, has suggested more people may have been taken into custody.
"Civil society groups report that at least 40 individuals have been illegally detained since December, including two who reportedly died in custody after being tortured," noted Palladino in his statement. "We call on Russia to live up to its international obligations and commitments and its own constitution, and launch an immediate investigation into these human rights abuses."
Chechnya is a semi-autonomous Russian republic in the North Caucasus.
Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper, in 2017 reported Chechen authorities had arrested more than 100 men because of their sexual orientation. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a Vienna-based group of which the U.S. is a member, released a report last month that documents extrajudicial killings and other human rights abuses against LGBTI people in Chechnya.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov — a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin — and the Kremlin have either denied the reports or downplayed them. President Trump — who is under increased scrutiny over his alleged involvement in the Russian government's interference in the 2016 presidential election — has not publicly commented on the crackdown.
"Nearly two years after reports first surfaced of anti-LGBTQ violence and killings in Chechnya, we are once again hearing disturbing accounts of state-sanctioned detentions and abuse," said Human Rights Campaign Global Director Ty Cobb in a statement he released earlier this week. "We have repeatedly called on the Trump-Pence White House to speak out and help bring an end to this persecution, but instead the White House has largely ignored the actions of the Russian-backed regime in Chechnya. Human rights violators in Chechnya must be held accountable and be brought to justice. Lives are hanging in the balance."
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Great Flash Fiction Festival Throwdown February 26th
On February 22, 2022 February 21, 2022 By nancystohlmanIn flash fiction, flash fiction challenge, Reading, The Writer's Life, Uncategorized, workshops, writing
For a number of (good) reasons, I will not be teaching any online workshops until the late summer/early fall (more on that soon). So I wanted to make doubly sure you knew about this wonderful opportunity to work with not only me but an entire program of flash fiction greatness THIS SATURDAY via Zoom.
I will be ending out the program and teaching one of my favorite types of writing: The Strange, the Surreal, and the Absurd
Details and links to register are below. Note that all the times are London/UK time!~
more soon! xo Nancy
Online programme February 26
On the programme below, all the information to let you know what's happening each month – 11.00 am – 6.30 pm GMT
You can book here.£30 for the whole day
A 'Throw Down' writing challenge set and judged by different judges.
one or one and a half hour workshops on different aspects of flash fiction;
at least two half hour mini workshops or talks on different aspects of flash fiction;
three fifteen minute readers' slots;
yoga stretches for writers;
small break out groups to chat to writer friends from around the world.
Read more about the workshops on these two days here.
Note: If you can't attend the whole day, events are recorded and videos are sent to participants after the day is completed.
Session and Workshop Descriptions
The Strange and Surreal: Opening the Back Door into Our Big Truths with Nancy Stohlman, February 26th 5.00 pm – 6.30 pm
While realism in fiction has its place, some truths can be clumsy when faced head on. When you cannot take the front door into your material because it's too raw, painful, blunt or overdone—then you must find the back door, a less obvious way into the story where The Big Truth can be revealed. The strange and surreal can create faster pathways to emotional resonance by keeping the audience off guard, unprepared, and more receptive. Come prepared to get weird!
Nancy Stohlman has been writing, publishing, and teaching flash fiction for more than a decade, and her latest book, Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2020) is her treatise on the form. Her other books include The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, The Monster Opera, and Madam Velvet's Cabaret of Oddities, a finalist for a 2019 Colorado Book Award. Her work has been anthologized widely, appearing in the W.W. Norton New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Macmillan's The Practice of Fiction, and The Best Small Fictions 2019, as well as adapted for the stage. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and around the world.
Hermit Crab Hangouts, February and March half hours
'Hermit crab'stories take different forms of writing, anything from recipes to flat pack instructions, to parking tickets to wild-life guide books, Q & A's. It's endless.She will introduce a different hermit-crab form each month with examples and get you to try out hermit-crab flash during the session.
Jude Higgins devised and programmed this and the previous online Flash Festival six month seroes as Director of Flash Fiction Festivals UK. She founded Bath Flash Fiction Award in 2015 and is Director of Ad Hoc Fiction, the short short fiction press. She runs a popular weekly online class to write and get feedback on flash fiction and this summer ran her first series of Hermitcrab Hangouts online. She has stories published or forthcoming in the New Flash Fiction Review, Flash Frontier, FlashBack Fiction, The Blue Fifth Review, The Nottingham Review, Pidgeon Holes, Storgy, Inktears,The MoonPark Review, Fictive Dream, the Fish Prize Anthology, National Flash Fiction Day anthologies and Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine among other places. She has won or been placed in many flash fiction contests and was shortlisted in the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize in 2017 and 2018. Her debut flash fiction pamphlet The Chemist's House was published by V.Press in 2017. She has been nominated for Best Small Fictions 2020 and for Pushcart Prizes and will be included in Best Microfictions 2022 has had stories included in BIFFY50 in 2019 and 2020.
Susmita Bhattacharya
Hour long Workshop For Young People wih Susmita Bhattacharya
A workshops happening in parallel with the events for adults with a special prize.
Susmita Bhattacharya is an Indian-born British writer. Her novel, The Normal State of Mind, was published in 2015 by Parthian (UK) and Bee Books (India) in 2016 and was long listed for the Words to Screen Prize, Mumbai Association of Moving Images (MAMI) Film Festival in 2018. Her collection of short stories, Table Manners, was published by Dahlia Publishing in 2018 and won The Dorset Award in 2019.She teaches contemporary fiction at Winchester University and also facilitates the Mayflower Young Writers workshops, a SO:Write project based in Southampton. She lives in Winchester.
Farhana Shaikh
Small Good Things. The joy of small press publishing: half an hour talk with Farhana Shaikh on February 26th.
In this 30 half-hour talk, founder of Dahlia Books, Farhana Shaikh will discuss independent publishing, building writing communities and what she's learnt about her own writing from her publishing adventures.
Farhana Shaikh is a writer and publisher born in Leicester. She is the founding editor of The Asian Writer. In 2010 she established Dahlia Publishing to publish regional and diverse writing and the Leicester Writes Festival to celebrate local writing talent.
She was part of Curve Theatre's Cultural Leadership Programme 17/18. In 2017 she won the Penguin/Travelex Next Great Travel Writer competition and has since been longlisted for the Thresholds International Short Fiction Feature Writing Competition and Spread the Word Life Writing Prize. Her short play Risk was developed through the Kali Discovery programme. She is the author of From Imposter to Impact: Arts Leadership in the 21st Century.
Meg Pokrass
Writing Collaborative Fiction a half hour talk with Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedmann, February 26th
Have you ever thought about writing stories with another writer? Meg and Jeff have a collection coming out with Pelekensis Press in March 2022 and will tell you about the process of writing together.
Meg Pokrass, is the author of seven flash fiction collections, two novellas-in-flash, and an award-winning book of prose poetry. A recipient of San Francisco's Blue Light Book Award, her work has been internationally anthologized in two recent Norton Anthologies, Best Small Fictions 2018, 2019, Wigleaf Top 50 (multiple times) and has been published in over 500 literary magazines including Electric Literature, Craft, Tin House, Passages North, Wigleaf and McSweeney's. Meg serves as Flash Challenge Judge for Mslexia, Co-Editor of Best Microfiction, 2020, Co-Founder Flash Fiction Collective Reading Series (SF), & Founding/Managing Editor of New Flash Fiction Review and a festival curator for Flash Fiction Festivals, UK.
Jeff Friedmann's eighth book, The Marksman, was published in November 2020 by Carnegie Mellon University Press. He has received numerous awards and prizes for his poetry, mini tales, and translations, including a National Endowment Literature Translation Fellowship in 2016 and two individual Artist Grants from New Hampshire Arts Council. Two of his micro stories were recently selected for the The Best Microfiction 2021. Meg Pokrass and he have co-written a collection of fabulist microfiction that will be published by Pelekinesis Press in March 2022.
Fifteen minutes of Yoga stretches for writers with writer and yoga teacher Sudha Balagopal. Both February and March.
Sudha Balagopal
Each of the five months, Sudha will introduce stretches to rejuvenate and refresh writers sitting in front of a computer screen on our long festival days. Something really useful to take and practice at home as well as writing prompts and ideas.
Sudha Balagopal's fiction straddles continents and cultures, blending thoughts and ideas from the east and the west. She is the author of a novel, A Dawn, and two short story collections, There are Seven Notes and Missing and Other Stories.Her short fiction has been published in journals around the world, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. Her novella in flash, Things I Can't Tell Amma was highly commended in the 2021 Bath Flash Fiction Award and published by Ad Hoc Fiction in 2021. When she's not writing, she's teaching yoga.
College, runs the yearly Culturama Workshops in the Arts month and lives in the Inland Empire.
One Sentence Stories with Matt Kendrick
Matt Kendrick
There are many flash fiction pieces written in the form of a single, looping sentence, rippling through their narrative without a solitary full stop. These one-sentence stories are often described as breathless. They can feel effortless, as if they have arrived on the page by magic; but there is often a clever architecture holding everything in place. In this mini workshop, we'll look at some brilliant examples, considering the why, the where, the what and the how of this wonderful – but also wonderfully tricksy – narrative form.
Matt Kendrick is a writer, editor and creative writing teacher based in the East Midlands, UK. His short fiction has appeared in Bending Genres, Cheap Pop, Craft Literary, FlashBack Fiction, Fictive Dream, Lunate, Spelk, Splonk, Storgy, and elsewhere. He has been listed in various writing competitions including Bath, Flash 500, Reflex and Leicester Writes, and he won the Retreat West "Abandoned" flash fiction competition in June 2020. His stories have been featured in the Biffy 50 list for 2019-20 and Best Microfiction 2021. He has also been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize.
Summer Workshops: Registration Open!
On April 27, 2021 May 12, 2021 By nancystohlmanIn flash fiction, Uncategorized, workshops, writingLeave a comment
Friends! It's that time of year again! These will be the only "live" (asynchronous) workshops I will be offering until January 2022–I'm looking forward to working with everyone this summer!
Flash Flood: Write a Flash Novel
May 31-June 11, 2021 (FULL)
July 19-July 30 (FULL)
Do you have a large, book-length idea that you've been wanting to bring to fruition? Do you want to end 2020 with your flash novel in progress? Do you love the intensity of FlashNano or NaNoWrimo? Then get ready: In 10 days we will create a literal "flash flood" and you will leave the workshop with the bones (at least) of a flash novel.
What's a flash novel? With the scope and complexity of a novel, and the size and ingenuity of flash fiction, the flash novel is a new type of book, a breakout genre that can deliver a sophisticated reading experience in a compact space. In this online workshop will envision, draft, collage and create the momentum for that large-scale idea you have been wanting to tackle.
Participants should come with a basic understanding of flash fiction and have ideas for a book-length project.
NOTE: This class (taken this summer or previously) is the pre-requisite for the Flash Novel Mastermind
Going Short: Writing Beautiful Flash Fiction
June 14-18, 2021 (FULL)
August 2-6, 2021 (FULL)
This 5-day generative class will take a deeper dive into the concepts from Going Short to examine the fundamentals of flash, try a variety of approaches to the compressed narrative, discuss what makes successful flash, and generate your own original flash pieces.
This course is open to writers with all levels of experience in the form, whether you are brand new to flash fiction, a writer coming from other genres, or a veteran flasher looking for a dose of inspiration and some writing camaraderie.
Questions? Feel free to contact me at nancystohlman@gmail.com
The 12-Week Flash Novel Mastermind
Returning in September, 2021!
Get First Access to all courses
From Past Participants:
"Nancy's class was a delight to take. Her incorporation of multimedia into each day's approach motivated me on new levels, and her prompts opened doors to reimagining my stories in ways I had never before considered. The focus is on creation, not critique, which offered a comfort in that foggy, not-knowing phase of writing, something I've long struggled to find. This class was the gentle push I needed to dive head first into my ideas and let them carry me for while, before taking the reins. Thank you!"~Meagan Johanson
"Nancy Stohlman's Flash Novel workshop was so helpful and so much fun I took it twice. Nancy's wonderful course materials—readings, commentaries, exercises, critiques—arrive each morning like a magical gift to unwrap with the day's first coffee. Now I'm hoping she'll offer a Flash Novel Next Steps workshop!" ~ Sally Reno
"Nancy will help you to become a better writer—while having an awesome time. The best thing about working with her is that it doesn't feel like work; the atmosphere is positive, generative, encouraging. I took her "Write a Flash Novel" class. These days I've become a slower, finicky writer, but her class pushed me out of my finickiness and into producing work. I wrote the hell out of those two weeks. Every day there was an inspiring prompt and lesson. It coaxed me out of dull perfectionism and allowed me to make a mess (a requisite for any artist)." ~Leonora Desar
"Nancy is a gifted teacher and coach, striking just the right balance between inspiration and discipline. In her Flash Novel workshop, I learned how to let go of preconceived ideas about my material and explore its larger possibilities for characters, structure, and plot. By the end of the class, I had lots of great ideas and a road map for getting them on the page." ~Pedro Ponce
"The day I signed up for Nancy Stohlman's "Flash Flood: Write a Flash Novel" workshop, I entered with five underdeveloped ideas. By the workshops conclusion, one of these ideas blossomed into a cast of characters with personalized desires, humor encompassed in varying flash forms, and previews of my fellow writers flash novels in-progress. This workshop enables writers to construct a table of contents, toy with characters (new and old), and exchange ideas on how to proceed in writing their novel in flash once the workshop ends." ~K.B. Carle
"Nancy Stohlman's Novel-in-Flash Workshop was a thoroughly rewarding experience. Nancy was an encouraging and passionate instructor. She fostered a supportive community of writers. Her knowledge of flash fiction helped me move out of my comfort zone and try out different techniques I would otherwise have been afraid of trying."~Candace Hartsuyker
"Nancy Stohlman's Novella in Flash Workshop moved my writing ahead in a direction I never imagined. Before it began, I feared I'd signed up for more than I could handle. But, in a 'flash', Nancy, a generous person, with an infectious creative spirit assuaged those worries. From the first workshop day to the last I received encouragement and insightful responses to my writing." ~Jo Goren
During these times of uncertainty and unknowing, Nancy Stohlman opens up the writer's mind to embrace uncertainty and unknowing as a source of creativity and discovery for our potential as writers. Her workshops provide a safe environment to let things go and see what surprises return. ~Annie Bien
The Flash Novel workshop with Nancy Stohlman was an amazing immersive experience. I looked forward to each morning, wondering what she would cook up next! Her prompts worked miracles, opening my story, helping to push it out, guiding the work to the next place it needed to go. I'm so grateful for her wise suggestions, her boundless support—and for the tools to maintain a daily writing practice to continue my project after the workshop was over. ~Jean Wolfersteig
Flash Flood: Writing the Flash Novel was the most inspiring and transformative writing workshop I have ever experienced, and I've participated in many good ones over the decades! The structure was brilliant, including a craft lesson each morning replete with sample readings, reflective observations from Nancy, and a multi-layered prompt. The flexibility allowed for each writer to respond in the way that was most meaningful for their project and where they were in their process. The small class size and the general good will of the writers created a warm and supportive sense of community from the first introductions. Nancy's personalized and thoughtful comments arrived daily in response to each person's work. I learned a wealth of new strategies that will continue to serve my writing for years to come. I also gained valuable insight into areas where I needed to push myself to explore new directions and approaches. I wrapped up this workshop with a solid collection of new work and a strong foundation for moving forward. Flash Flood was a game changer for my writing and I will be forever grateful for having had the opportunity to work with Nancy! ~Katie Maxim
Write a Flash Novel May 11-22
On April 15, 2020 April 18, 2020 By nancystohlmanIn flash fiction, flash fiction challenge, Uncategorized, writing
Write a Flash Novel
This workshop is now SOLD OUT. Stay tuned for additional summer offerings.
Do you have a large, book-length idea that you've been wanting to bring to fruition? Do you love the intensity of FlashNano or NaNoWriMo? Then get ready: In 10 days we will create a flood of words and you will leave the workshop with the bones (at least) of a flash novel.
What's a flash novel? With the scope and complexity of a novel, and the size and ingenuity of flash fiction, the flash novel is a new type of book, a breakout genre that can deliver a sophisticated reading experience in a compact space. In this workshop will envision, draft, collage and create the momentum for that large-scale idea you have been wanting to tackle.
Participants should come with a basic understanding of flash fiction and have ideas for a book-length concept. Limited availability.
Questions? Contact me at nancystohlman@gmail.com
"Nancy Stohlman's Flash Novel workshop was so helpful and so much fun I took it twice. Nancy's wonderful course materials—readings, commentaries, exercises, critiques—arrive each morning like a magical gift to unwrap with the day's first coffee. Now I'm hoping she'll offer a Flash Novel Next Steps workshop!"~ Sally Reno
"Nancy will help you to become a better writer—while having an awesome time. The best thing about working with her is that it doesn't feel like work; the atmosphere is positive, generative, encouraging. I took her "Write a Flash Novel" class. These days I've become a slower, finicky writer, but her class pushed me out of my finickiness and into producing work. I wrote the hell out of those two weeks. Every day there was an inspiring prompt and lesson. It coaxed me out of dull perfectionism and allowed me to make a mess (a requisite for any artist)."~Leonora Desar
"I feel very lucky to have taken three of Nancy's workshops. They have all been fantastic and exceeded my expectations. Not only are they well-organized and in-depth, but Nancy has a knack for making course material accessible in a way that also reaches beyond writing at times, pulling examples from other mediums to bring a point across in a different way. No one else does that, and I love it! The classes have introduced me to some of my new favorite authors and ways of approaching stories that I've not encountered anywhere else. These courses have stretched my skills and my writing has only grown stronger as a result. My only wish is that there were more of them on offer." ~ Sara Hill
"I am always blown away by Nancy's insights, comments and concrete suggestions and the deep attention given to each piece by the other writers. Of all the real life and online workshops I have participated in, Stohlman Workshops have provided me with the best critique, guidance and greatest sense of connectedness, albeit brief, to other writers. The materials are organized, clear and interesting. Nancy's expertise as an instructor, editor and writer are greatly appreciated. I am challenged but never intimidated. Nancy embodies what it means to be a great teacher: she remembers what it was like not to know how, breaks the objective down into manageable lessons, gently guides and raucously encourages every success."~Katherine Beck
"Nancy Stohlman's Novella in Flash Workshop moved my writing ahead in a direction I never imagined. Before it began, I feared I'd signed up for more than I could handle. But, in a 'flash', Nancy, a generous person, with an infectious creative spirit assuaged those worries. From the first workshop day to the last I received encouragement and insightful responses to my writing."~Jo Goren
Write a Flash Novel with me in July!
On June 10, 2019 June 13, 2019 By nancystohlmanIn flash fiction, flash fiction challenge, Uncategorized, writing
Write a Flash Novel (online course)
This class is now SOLD OUT.
Do you have a large, book-length idea that you've been wanting to bring to fruition? Do you love the intensity of FlashNano or NaNoWriMo? Then get ready: In 10 days we will create a literal "flash flood" and you will leave the workshop with the bones (at least) of a flash novel.
Participants should come with a basic understanding of flash fiction and have ideas for a book-length concept.


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There will be no change in law to allow for TENs to be amended by the licensing committee at hearings. As such, they are to remain either accepted or not, which has proven on occasion to be inflexible and has led to objections where otherwise there would be none.
As expected, CIP's to be placed on a statutory footing at the next available opportunity.
Require licensing authorities to publish information about how the revenue raised from the levy is spent.
Government will consult on the level of charge appropriate for late night refreshment premises and will not commence the measure to allow licensing authorities to charge the levy to late night refreshment premises until this is completed.
There will be no immediate changes to licensing fees, although the policy will be considered 'in due course'.
Strangely, given the confusion and difficulty caused by no coherent personal licence registration system, there is no intention to implement a national personal licence database.
Other proposals have been made, but these are likely to have the most effect, or may be of some surprise given the House of Lords recommendations.
It is worth checking licences to see whether the local licensing authority carried over the old restrictions on New Year's Eve trading from the previous licensing legislation. Look out for a section, usually with the conditions, headed 'embedded restrictions'. In there, you may find a nasty surprise in relation to trading on New Year's Eve where it falls in a Sunday, as it does this year. If you have such a condition on your licence, we would recommend obtaining a TEN for New Year's Eve to ensure that you are covered. Whilst most council's may be unaware of the restriction, some are, and have notified premises that they will enforce the restricted hours. Remember to apply early to avoid having the TEN refused if applied for under the late TENs procedure.
This should only apply if you have not already extended your hours by way of variation to have later hours on New Year's eve as a seasonal variation. In which case, the seasonal variation should apply as this superseded the earlier embedded restriction.
Gambling Minister Tracey Crouch has announced the Government will review the maximum stakes on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) with a view to reducing them. As Gambling is reserved to Westminster the effect of a reduction would be UK wide.
The Government Consultation is looking at cutting maximum stakes of B2 gaming machines, otherwise known as FOBTs, from £100 to between £50 and £2.
Pressure has been mounting on regulators with headlines like "crack-cocaine of gambling" being attributed to the machines. The Government has also asked the Gambling Commission for more information on monitoring player and also if spin speed (on games such as roulette) should be modified.
Find the full consultation here.
October was a month of regional and national conferences. Members of the team attended the ALMR autumn conference, the Festival and Events Outdoor Show, the National Licensing Forum, the Bar and Nightclub Conference, SIBA's Southwest meeting, the IOL Welsh meeting, the NTIA conference in London and the AIF conference in Cardiff. In addition there were various hearings and meetings to squeeze in. One matter that we think will become increasingly important in hearings is the overreach of councillors, often prompted by the police, in relation to CCTV conditions on premises licences. Despite the guidance issued by the Information Commissioner's Office to the contrary, there is still a view prevalent amongst councillors hearting licensing matters that CCTV is a panacea and conditions, no matter how draconian and likely to breach data protection laws, need to be imposed. Changes to data protection legislation due to come into force in April next year will only exacerbate matters. Worth thinking about now if you are being required to install CCTV or are being asked to add conditions in relation to CCTV to your licence.


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title: "TPS: Paths and Plots"
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project: serenity-forge
projectName: Serenity Forge
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tech:
  - Unity
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description: "Finding decent looking pathways across varying terrain using flow fields."
# demo: /assets/peg/
# github: https://github.com/andymikulski/work-work
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# World pathway planning

After generating the base terrain, paths must be placed through the world leading park guests from one section of the park to another. Guests don't really need to do much other than wander, so there is not much complexity there. The real challenge is in generating decent-looking pathways through the world which don't look "robotic." Using some flow fields, I was able to achieve some decent path layouts running through the world.

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There are a couple elements involved in how paths are determined through the world:

> A **portal** is a doorway/connection to another _section_ of the world. These are basically anchor points in the world which we build paths from, and tell the wandering guest AI to wander towards.
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> A **flow field** (or **vector field**) is a 2D map of arrows pointing towards a particular target (see [this image example](https://i.imgur.com/ct5SiV4.jpg)). After calculating the field, an AI agent can be placed anywhere within that field and can effectively navigate to the target.

Each step in the path planning process is outlined below.

#### 1. Portal Placement

Four portals are placed on the edge of the given section, one for each side. A portal will aim to never be too close to another, though is not placed if the chosen piece of land has water or mountains.

> These portals are also useful in that they can later be used to transfer guests to different park sections, they provide a logical spawn point for new AI agents, etc.

#### 2. Generate Flow Fields

The `FlowFieldManager` class handles both generating flow fields for sections and storing those fields for later lookup. Given a section, the FFM uses the positions of the portals as targets when generating flow fields. For each portal, the manager:

- Calculates a cost field for the given terrain by flood-filling an array and noting each node's collective distance from start point (the current portal). Mountains are given the max cost possible, which creates fields that properly avoid them.
- Calculates the actual flow field by iterating over each cost node and pointing that node towards its neighbor with the lowest distance towards the target.

By the end of this process, four flow fields are generated, each one leading to a different section portal.

![Example flow field](https://i.imgur.com/0DDJJMd.png)
A visual representation of a generated flow field. After an agent is spawned into the world, it simply checks against this field to determine which direction it should be facing, and moves forward. The agent will reach its destination from (almost) anywhere within the flow field. [Click](https://i.imgur.com/lNeCLdV.png) for a larger example.

#### 3. Simulate Flow Field Agent

Once the section's flow fields have been calculated, an AI agent is created (in memory, _not_ in world space) and simulates traversing the flowfield. By starting the agent at a portal and targeting another portal, it inherently generates direct path spanning from one section edge to another.

As the agent moves across the world, its positions are tracked, and that trail in turn becomes the path actually placed in the world. Each section is guaranteed to have at least one intersection, though there is an element of randomness applied to which portals are connected leading to some variation.

Here are a few examples of paths laid out using this virtual agent approach. Ideally there would be a bit more space around mountains/lakes, though that is a matter of simply adjust node weights during the cost field stage.

#### 4. Generate Paths using Marching Cubes

Using the path data collected from the simulated agents, a Marching Cubes algorithm produces the final path mesh for the section. Vertices are altered according to the underlying terrain height, in order to slightly follow the terrain.

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# Plot Discovery

Plot creation ties directly into section path planning. After the proper paths have been found for the section, the remaining non-path areas of the map are 'discovered' and used for ride plots. To discover plots, an algorithm flood fills the map/array until each cell is full, tracking when a new/unconnected area of land has been found.

The image below demonstrates what the 2D representation of the section looks like after placing paths and identifying a handful of plots (indicated by varying colors):

Once plots are found, grids are spawned in world space accordingly, to denote to the player that those areas are for placing rides:

# Plot Validation

This general discovery approach works pretty well, though as with all procedural generation, there were some weird quirks for some seeds. For instance, in the below screenshot, there is a small section of a generated plot which is just a little bit _weird._

For design purposes, we wanted control over plots so they looked a bit more contained and 'natural,' as if a human had designed the layout. This plot is an example of a generally fine, but incorrect plot layout.

Beyond unexpected shapes, occasionally a plot would not have enough area to actually be built on. In order to use a bit of math on whether not a plot was buildable, the plots are converted from their 2D map/array representation into appropriate `Polygon` classes. The Polygon class handles calculating a shape's perimeter distance, its area, etc. This allowed us to simply filter out plots that were too small to be built on.

In order to determine how "strange" the polygon shape was, I relied on using some formulas that are actually used to determine the [degree of gerrymandering in a given political district](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polsby-Popper_Test), which I thought was pretty neat. The following graphic gives a quick visual summary of how the Polsby-Popper formula can be used in our situation:

![Example distribution](https://i.imgur.com/DMxap8q.jpg)
Image by Daniel McGlone from his post [Measuring District Compactness in PostGIS](https://archive.is/7oddl).

Using a handful of rules based on the polygon area, Polsby-Popper measure, and Schwartzberg score, we are able to quickly determine if a plot is able to be built on, or if it matches the general design aesthetic/compactness we were aiming for. Invalid plots can be filled using the [Foliage Manager](/serenity-forge/foliage/) to produce areas that look a bit more 'environmentally interesting':

![Example scenery filling](https://i.imgur.com/W9wmpMX.jpg)

### Handoff to Foliage + AI systems

From here, the [Foliage Manager](/serenity-forge/foliage) and [AI Manager](/serenity-forge/ai) begin working in tandem to wrap up the world generation and prepare it for the player to enter the game.

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COWs of Dodge City offers 16' COWs – Container On Wheels® mobile storage containers for daily, weekly and monthly rental. COWs Mobile Storage containers are great for helping people move from one house to another; perfect for temporary storage during a home remodeling project and very convenient for folks that just need to put some stuff into storage.
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Then the couple decided to open K&M Storage as a way to recoup the millions they lost in dodgeball. As K&M gained momentum they decided to enhance the business by adding a COWs Mobile Storage Dealership.
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Police Scotland's Deputy Chief Constable Johnny Gwynne and Stephen Whitelock, lead investigator at the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, announced they were leaving their jobs as a potentially criminal shambles at an undercover unit run by the now-defunct Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency was laid bare.
Both men and their organisations say their decision to leave their jobs has no connection to the fiasco at the SCDEA, once known as Scotland's FBI when it led the fight against the country's most serious and organised crime gangs.
A legal action by a whistleblower, who claimed she was unfairly frozen out of her job for raising the alarm, revealed how senior officers ordered the incineration of secret and highly sensitive files after she reported serious concerns about the finances of a unit managing undercover operations.
Mr Gwynne was number two at the SCDEA at the time and Mr Whitelock was number three.
The agency was then led by Gordon Meldrum, who has already left the police.
The chaos, suspected fraud and cover-up operation prompted calls for a full, independent inquiry yesterday.
There were calls for Police Scotland to ask an external force, from England or Northern Ireland, to investigate or for the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner, who can investigate any police issues in the public interest, to get involved.
Liam McArthur MSP, justice spokesman for the Scottish Liberal Democrats, said: "Asking officers to buy an incinerator and burn documents is not normal practice in Scottish policing, and for good reason. It certainly does not speak to a willingness to be open, transparent and accountable.
The mismanagement at the special operations unit emerged in 2011 after the officer, known only as Mrs K, took over responsibility for managing the financial infrastructure that was designed to bolster undercover operations.
Mr Gwynne's retirement as Police Scotland DCC was announced on Wednesday by Chief Constable Iain Livingstone at a Scottish Police Authority board meeting in Kilmarnock.
The next day a ruling by Lord Brailsford was published which revealed details of a dramatic clean-up operation at the SCDEA when he was deputy director.
Mr Whitelock announced his retiral as lead inspector at HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) on the same day as the judgement was published.Sources suggest he submitted his notice three months ago.
Mr Whitelock's judgment and decision-making in removing the whistleblower from the SCDEA was questioned by the judge, Lord Brailsford, who found in favour of the former undercover police officer who brought a damages claim against Police Scotland over her treatment.
Mr Whitelock left the SCDEA in 2013 and went on to work on an HMICS review into undercover policing in Scotland.
The review was published on February 7 last year – the day after Whitelock gave evidence before Lord Bailsford at the Court of Session.
Mr Whitelock told the court that he had ordered Superintendent Ian Thomas to carry out a "review" of the discovery of paperwork at covert premises "to ensure they hadn't compromised anything".
One experienced officer, familiar with the structure and operations of the SCDEA at that time, said the destruction of highly-confidential, potentially crucial documents must now be properly investigated.
He said: "Ordering intelligence officers to go and buy an incinerator to burn documents detailing possible fraud in the unit managing undercover officers is not something that happens every day.
"It is not something that should happen at all.
"There are a lot of questions but the biggest is why was this order given? For what purpose?
"The finances of this unit were clearly in disarray and had been for some time.
"Everything is destroyed so we will never know if there was deliberate fraud or just chaotic management.
"Who was signing the accounts off every year, who was meant to be monitoring this work? Who would want evidence of this absolute mess covered-up?
The documents detailing the secret lives of undercover officers waging war on serious and organised crime were stored, in the language of Scotland's elite police agency, off-site.
The phone bills and rent receipts, mailbox numbers and bank documents, passports and credit cards supporting their cover stories were held at a secure location, away from Osprey House, the HQ of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, once billed as the country's FBI.
Behind the doors of a nondescript unit on a humdrum industrial estate was the meticulously-maintained paperwork. Well, it should have been meticulously maintained. Instead, it was a shambles.
There were bags and boxes of files and unopened mail, some shredded, most not. Beside them lay passports, bank cards, and travel documents in a range of names, some of them linked to undercover operations, many not.
There were bank statements, demands from credit agencies, envelopes full of cash. There was an empty bottle of whisky.
It might have been fraud, it might have been the chaos left by an officer in personal and professional meltdown, an officer meant to be painstakingly building the financial infrastructure around Level One undercover operations, including the infiltration of some of Scotland's most dangerous gangs.
It is unlikely, however, that anyone will ever know exactly what was found in that unit – if there was evidence of possible crimes, if covert operations were possibly compromised, or if undercover officers' safety had been risked – because a clean-up operation was immediately ordered with officers told to buy a garden incinerator and petrol and burn the lot.
But, after taking the papers to wasteland in an unmarked car, usually used for surveillance, they were challenged by uniformed colleagues before returning to the HQ of Scotland's premier crime-fighting agency and setting the documents alight in a car park.
The incident was described by the officer, known as Mrs K, during a revelatory civil action against her former bosses, when she accused them of unfairly forcing her out of the job she loved and putting her under unbearable stress.
She had raised the alarm after taking on a new role and, after visiting the unit, discovering financial documents in names of individuals not linked to any undercover operations.
After the papers were taken to the HQ of the now-defunct SCDEA at Osprey House, beside Glasgow Airport, Mrs K told the court, she and another officer were told to buy a garden incinerator and petrol.
She added: "I have never ever in any of my life seen anything like this. I was panicking, in real fear, and had no idea who to speak to.
"Two intelligence officers were instructed to put that material in a surveillance vehicle, go to the other side of the river and burn it.
The officers came back to Osprey House and then put the garden incinerator in the back yard, which is where unmarked surveillance vehicles were kept and is concealed from the public.
It was going well but the charred scraps of those burning files have drifted through the years and have now ignited calls for an inquiry to uncover exactly who ordered the unprecedented clean-up and, more importantly, why?
I am not enthusiastic about the use of undercover officers but acknowledge there are circumstances when, to take forward an investigation into terrorism or organised crime, nothing else will work.
However, policing depends on honesty, integrity and transparency and when officers are selected to live a life of "authorised" lies and deceit without effective management, problems will occur.
Their "Walter Mitty" existence makes it difficult to properly assess and oversee the officer's wellbeing and their activities.
Oversight of their activities relies heavily on trusting the individual officer's integrity, maturity and wellbeing in what is often a dangerous and stressful working environment.
In this case an absence of management allowed highly irregular activities to develop unnoticed.
Unfortunately once identified the management responses demonstrated a panicked concern for reputations rather than dealing with the actual problem.
The whistleblower was then left to feel isolated and her welfare overlooked.
Police undercover work is the source of some of the most worrying situations faced by the service and a rigorous reassessment is needed to take account of public expectations and Scots law.
Secret techniques must be protected but rules around welfare and governance need revisited.
The former undercover police officer – frozen out of the job she loved after reporting the shambolic, possibly criminal, finances of a special operation unit – was hailed yesterday.
Politicians praised her actions while condemning her bosses for unfairly making her a scapegoat, effectively ending her career and putting her under unbearable stress.
A judge has ruled the actions of the Scottish Crime and Drugs Enforcement Agency were unfair and risked the mental health of the woman, known as Mrs K. She could be awarded up to £1 million compensation after Lord Brailsford's judgment on Thursday.
She had raised the alarm in 2011 after taking charge of the financial management of undercover operations and found records in chaos, with thousands, possibly tens of thousands of pounds, unaccounted for in the shambolic files kept by the officer formerly in charge.
The detective sergeant, referred to in court documents as DSG, took responsibility for the debts and said Mrs K was not involved. Mrs K was later ordered to buy a garden incinerator so that the paperwork could be burned.
She was later transferred out of the Special Operations Unit to a job in a witness protection unit, and was told it was a temporary move.
However, Chief Superintendent Stephen Whitelock, one of her superior officers, admitted he decided she had no future at the SCDEA.
However, that decision was questioned by Lord Brailsford, who said she was "deliberately misled" about a move to the witness protection unit.
In 2013 Mrs K was granted ill health retirement from the police because she was suffering stress, anxiety and depression.
She brought a damages claim for £1m against Police Scotland. Lord Brailsford ruled in Mrs K's favour and the judgment said further procedures may be required to assess the compensation she was due.
Police Scotland said it was considering the terms of the judgment.
Police watchdog Stephen Whitelock faced conflict of interest claims after he helped lead a probe into undercover policing that found no evidence officers infiltrated campaign groups.
The long-delayed report was published on February 7, 2018, the day after he gave evidence in a Court of Session case which revealed a shambles and cover-up at the crime-fighting agency where he was number three. Neil Findlay MSP believes the incident at a special operations unit running undercover officers, and how the officer who raised the alarm was frozen out of her job, demands investigation.
Mr Findlay said: "How can it be that officers are being ordered to burn documents yet there are no repercussions for those who gave the orders, and the officer who complained has had to face the end of her career and years of torment?
"I can only commend the woman at the heart of this case who has gone out of her way, at great personal cost, to uphold the law.
"Just as it was with victims in the scandal of undercover policing across the UK it seems that some police officers think they can operate with impunity.
Mr Whitelock was head of intelligence at the SCDEA in 2011 when a clean-up operation was launched after a management of an undercover unit was exposed as a shambles.
He was lead inspector at the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland until his retirement was announced on Thursday – the day a damning court judgement against the agency was published. The HMIC say the timing was a coincidence and that his notice was put in three months ago. Nick McKerrell, law lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, said the Scottish Government's decision not to follow England and order an inquiry into undercover policing should now be reviewed.


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Our Fundraiser
W.O.L.F. has worked hard since 2011 to raise money to help the wolves in the California Wolf Center and all around the country. W.O.L.F. Fundraisers has already raised almost $900, thanks to all the support of our donators and supporters! Every penny counts, and every penny is donated to help the recovery of wolves.
Next Fundraiser
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Last Fundraiser
Our last fundraiser, which took place on July 3rd, 2016, we raised a total of $193! As always, all donations and money raised will be donated to the California Wolf Center. We would like to personally thank all who came to our fundraiser and supported our cause. We had many fun activities, including a new game called "Lucky Ducks". Hopefully our next fundraiser will be just as successful. Thank you all for supporting, donating, and raising awareness to our cause.
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(The Previous Location) The location is 3420 Camino De Los Coches, Carlsbad, CA 92009.
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Koh Young America opens new office in Guadalajara, Mexico
The inspection equipment and solutions provider, announces that it has officially opened its new sales and support office in Guadalajara, Mexico
"Our new office represents a significant regional investment to bolster our local presence with best-in-class facilities for machine and process demonstrations, customer training, and technical support," says Ramon Hernandez, Country Manager for Mexico and South America at KYA Mexico, in a press release. The office is the regional headquarters for a growing team of over 20 current regional employees; including administration, sales, training, service, and technical support. With the dedicated areas for demonstrations and training, the new facility provides a technological showcase for KYA Mexico and its solutions. "This investment reinforces our growing presence in Mexico and solidifies our presence in North America, while providing the means to support our continuous growth," says Juan Arango, Managing Director of Koh Young America. "This is more than an office; it is a milestone in our history, and a realization of our value to deliver outstanding customer service and support."


Fernando Alonso fears a long development path for McLaren to compete at the front in F1 with its Renault engines after a disappointing Bahrain GP qualifying.
Fernando Alonso accepts McLaren has a long development path to complete before it can consistently fight at the front with its Renault power units after a disappointing qualifying in Bahrain having been "too confident" with balance changes.
Both McLaren drivers exited qualifying at the bottom of the order in Q2 which means Alonso will start from 13th place and teammate Stoffel Vandoorne from 14th place at the Bahrain Grand Prix in a drastic turn of form after both drivers finished in the points at the 2018 season opener in Australia.
Having declared in Melbourne that McLaren's targets in 2018 would be catching fellow Renault-powered team Red Bull, the Woking-based squad were off the pace in qualifying which the two-time F1 world champion fears may continue until its finds strong upgrades with its MCL33.
"On Sunday in Australia we were P5 nad it was the McLaren comeback and we may fight for championship this year," Alonso said. "Now, out of Q3 again, is something that as I said we did not expect but we were afraid of looking at last year's performance here.
"It's a tough race, a tough circuit for us but tomorrow if we both are in the points again it will be a great result, and is what we are aiming for.
Pressed on where McLaren were lacking to its F1 rivals, Alonso conceded it was "probably a little bit everywhere" and its issues were compounded by the changing temperatures in Bahrain running practice during the day in the sunshine and qualifying at night under the floodlights.
"We know that we are not the strongest on the top speed and braking performance was also not great today," he said. "With traction I think we struggling a little bit too much. Yesterday was fine, the long run pace was good.
"This morning was good also on the hot track and then probably we got too confident with that balance on the hot track and then with the cooler conditions in the evening we had some negative surprises.


1.) What are the most valuable things learned from your Southwestern Advantage experience?
I learned that discipline, keeping a positive mental attitude, and working together as a team are all key factors in achieving success. The experience also helped in building confidence so that I knew I could achieve anything that I wanted to do in life.
2.) What was the most difficult part of your experience?
The most difficult part was controlling my state of mind and keeping perspective despite changes in my circumstances. I learned that we are energized by thinking positive thoughts and, as a result, project success and happiness and ultimately achieve our goals.
3.) What are a couple pieces of advice you would offer a first year salesperson?
This is an opportunity for a life-changing experience. Give it absolutely all that you can. You will learn and experience things that will have a positive impact on your life. You will go home with a lot of pride and your parents and best friends will also be extremely proud of you.
4.) Before you were invited to sell, what was your plan after graduation (i.e. pre med, law school, etc.)?
I was planning to be a physician but, at the time I started selling, changed and decided to pursue a veterinary career.
5.) Tell us about your career path after the Southwestern Advantage.
I wish that I had started selling books earlier in my college years but wanted to go home from college in the summers to be with my girlfriend. So, I didn't start selling until the summer before my senior year of undergraduate school but was still able to sell for four summers, into my veterinary school years. As a sophomore in vet school, I decided that I wanted to serve as a veterinarian in the Army so was commissioned as a 1LT in September of 1979. That put an end to my summer book sales since I then had a commitment to attend training for 45 days during my remaining summers in school.
Following veterinary school, I served on active duty in the Army Veterinary Corps for four years with duty at Redstone Arsenal, AL (1 year) and the Netherlands (3 years). I left active duty to go into a veterinary practice but continued to serve as a veterinarian in the Army Reserves until retiring as a Colonel just a couple years ago with 33 total years of service. My service included a variety of assignments and senior level positions and global service to include deployments to Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
I practiced veterinary medicine and surgery in a primarily small animal practice near Charlotte, NC for four years after leaving active duty military service. During that time, I always visited with our pharmaceutical reps and thought I would enjoy that type of work. So, after hearing about a new animal health drug company startup, I decided to apply for a sales position. When the interviewing sales manager learned that I sold books for Southwestern, he was extremely impressed. He had previously hired Southwestern alumni and knew the experience builds character. I landed the job and really think the book sales experience was a key factor that made me stand out above the other candidates.
Starting with that sales role, I have now served 25 years in the veterinary pharmaceutical industry. I have had a very fruitful and enjoyable career in many ways and am so thankful for my book field experiences in those early years. Aside from the fact that I made and saved a ton of money in those summers (at least 4x what my friends did), I learned things that have helped me for my entire life. I've occasionally noticed differences compared to some of my peers in how I approach problems and think some of my attitudes and strengths are a result of my Southwestern experience. I seek out strangers and feel that I can communicate in a positive way with anyone. Even 'difficult' days seem easy. I know that I am a winner and can overcome obstacle in life. I attribute a lot of that confidence to Southwestern Advantage. If you are considering selling this summer, just do it! You'll reflect back on that for decades and be glad that you did.


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What we need is a good opening sentence. Something that will smack the reader right between the eyes, and then take him on a virtual roller coaster ride of self awareness and discovery. Frasier, while you were over there, mixing metaphors like a Cuisinart, I have had a breakthrough.


NEW YORK; May 24, 2004 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been selected to implement its underwriting solution at Allmerica Financial Corporation's property and casualty insurance division.
The Accenture Underwriting Components solution is a Web-based software platform designed to help improve the efficiencies of insurers' underwriting systems through diagnostics and rules-based technology that can help insurers implement consistent underwriting practices and may improve data accuracy. The solution can allow underwriters to manage their accounts more efficiently and to segment and evaluate risks more effectively.
Accenture's underwriting solution will be used to help provide Allmerica's underwriters with an integrated, Web-based system that interfaces with the insurer's policy and point-of-sale applications. The new system is designed to help automate underwriters' routine tasks, allowing underwriters to focus on activities that are more directly related to the business of underwriting, such as improving loss and expense ratios.
Worcester, Massachusetts-based Allmerica Financial is group of insurance companies headed by Allmerica Financial Corporation, a Fortune 500 company. Allmerica's lead companies include Howell, Michigan-based Citizens Insurance Company of America, founded in 1915, and Worcester-based The Hanover Insurance Company, founded in 1852. Citizens and Hanover offer a range of property and casualty insurance coverages to individuals, families and business through a wide network of independent agents. The Citizens and Hanover Insurance Companies are ranked among the top 30 property and casualty insurers in the country.


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Oregon's Doctor Assisted Suicide Law
Adapted from SAVES — South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia SocietyThe following Fact Sheet has been prepared by the South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society (SAVES). For further information visit their website athttp://www.saves.asn.au
SAVES Fact Sheet No.18
In November 1994 a Citizens' Initiated Referendum was held in Oregon on whether to legalise medically assisted suicide in certain limited circumstances. The measure was narrowly won by 51% to 49%, making Oregon the first government in the USA, and indeed in the world, to allow medically assisted suicide as a clear legal option for the terminally ill.
The Oregon Death with Dignity Act includes the following provisions:
Allows an attending doctor to prescribe medication to end life in a humane and dignified manner under prescribed conditions;
medication is for self administration but the doctor is allowed to be present;
Requires a fully informed, voluntary decision by the patient;
Applies to the terminally ill with a prognosis of less than 6 months to live;
Requires a concurring second medical opinion;
Requires two oral requests with a 15 day waiting period from the first;
Requires a witnessed written request with a 48 hour waiting period from time of signing;
Allows cancellation of the request at any time;
Provides for penalties in the event of coercion of patients;
Provides for counselling as appropriate;
Promotes informing next of kin at patient's discretion;
Requires documentation and reporting to a monitoring authority.
The Act does not authorise the doctor to administer the medication.
Oregon's new law was due to come into effect on 8 December 1994 but was blocked by an appeal to the District Court from a National Right to Life Committee. The appeal claimed that the new law was unconstitutional and that vulnerable people could be disadvantaged.
On 26 June 1997, the US Supreme Court ruled, in another context, that there is no right to medically assisted suicide under the US Constitution, but that legislation on the issue is up to individual States.
As the legal processes blocking the implementation of the Act drew to a close, the Oregon Government decided that the issue would be put to the people of Oregon again. The result of vote taken in November 1997 was 60% to 40% for the Act to stand.
The Oregon Government issued its first report on the use of the Act in August 98, nearly 10 months after it came into effect:
10 Oregon residents (5 men and 5 women) had obtained lethal prescriptions
8 used the medication to die and two died of their illnesses
The 10 prescriptions were written by 9 different doctors
Average age was 71: one had heart disease and the remainder cancer
No pain or distress during dying was reported in any of the cases
No doctors were disciplined for non-compliance with the requirements of the Act.
Subsequent reports have been consistent with this cautious use of the Act. The second annual report is expected towards the end of 1999.
Oregon strengthened its Death with Dignity Act in June 1999 with a number of amendments to make it more effective. Residential requirements were clarified and protection offered to organisations and individuals not wishing to participate. The amendments made clear that the qualification for use of the Act was not to be based on age or disability, but on the requirements set out in item 2 above.
Currently the Act is under threat by proposed Federal Legislation which would ban doctors in all States from using drugs for assisting suicide. The so-called Pain Relief Promotion Act passed the Lower House (271-156) in October 99 but requires approval of the Senate and the US President before it becomes law.
Further information contact SAVES at: http://www.saves.asn.au
Or contact: Hon Secretary, SAVES, PO Box 2151, Kent Town, SA 5071, Australia – Fax + 61 8 8265 2287


AT FIRST glance, the resolution on "religious defamation" adopted by the UN's Human Rights Council on March 26th, mainly at the behest of Islamic countries, reads like another piece of harmless verbiage churned out by a toothless international bureaucracy. What is wrong with saying, as the resolution does, that some Muslims faced prejudice in the aftermath of September 2001? But a closer look at the resolution's language, and the context in which it was adopted (with an unholy trio of Pakistan, Belarus and Venezuela acting as sponsors), makes clear that bigger issues are at stake.
In other words, it protects individuals—not religions, or any other set of beliefs. And this is a vital distinction. For it is not possible systematically to protect religions or their followers from offense without infringing the right of individuals.
What exactly is it the drafters of the council resolution are trying to outlaw? To judge from what happens in the countries that lobbied for the vote—like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan—they use the word "defamation" to mean something close to the crime of blasphemy, which is in turn defined as voicing dissent from the official reading of Islam. In many of the 56 member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which has led the drive to outlaw "defamation", both non-Muslims and Muslims who voice dissent (even in technical matters of Koranic interpretation) are often victims of just the sort of persecution the 1948 declaration sought to outlaw. That is a real human-rights problem. And in the spirit of fairness, laws against blasphemy that remain on the statute books of some Western countries should also be struck off; only real, not imaginary, incitement of violence should be outlawed.
In much of the Muslim world, the West's reaction to the attacks of September 2001, including the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, has been misread as an attack on Islam itself. This is more than regrettable; it is dangerous. Western governments, and decent people everywhere, should try to ensure that the things they say do not entrench religious prejudice or incite acts of violence; being free to give offence does not mean you are wise to give offence. But no state, and certainly no body that calls itself a Human Rights Council, should trample on the right to free speech enshrined in the Universal Declaration. And in the end, given that all faiths have undergone persecution at some time, few people have more to gain from the protection of free speech than sincere religious believers.


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Elementary School District 159 (ESD 159), also known as Matteson School District 159, is a school district headquartered in Matteson, Illinois near Chicago, United States.

The district serves portions of Matteson, Richton Park, Frankfort, and Tinley Park.  it has 2,100 students.

History
The first school in what would become the district, the Sieden Prairie Schoolhouse, opened in 1869. The district headquarters is located on the former site of the schoolhouse. The district considers 1869 as its date of establishment.

From 2007 to 2016, multiple employees were related to a total of eight people who served on the school board. In 2016 the school district did not have a specific policy that addressed the practice of nepotism.

Mable Alfred served as superintendent. In December 2018, the school board voted to remove Alfred from per position. In May 2019, five members of the school board voted to make Alfred the superintendent again, while one voted against the proposal and with one more not voting.

Schools
Middle schools:
 Colin Powell Middle School (Matteson)

Elementary schools:
 Neil Armstrong School (Richton Park)
 Sieden Prairie School (Matteson)
 Woodgate School (Matteson)
 Marya Yates School (Matteson)

It previously operated Sedan Prairie School in Tinley Park.

The Vollmer Road headquarters is on the grounds of the former Sieden Prairie School. The previous headquarters was in the Marya Yates Building on Allemong Drive.

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School districts in Cook County, Illinois
1869 establishments in Illinois
School districts established in 1869

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Acetyl-CoA synthase (EC 6.2.1.1), Propionyl-CoA synthase (EC 6.2.1.-) and butyryl-CoA synthase (EC 6.2.1.2) were measured in subcellular fractions prepared by primary and density-gradient fractionation from adult rat brain by a method resulting in recoveries close to 100%. Most of the activity of the three enzymes was recovered in the crude mitochondrial fraction. On subfractionation of this crude mitochondrial fraction with continuous sucrose density gradients, most of the activity of the three enzymes was found at a higher density than NAD+-isocitrate dehydrogenase and at about the same density as glutamate dehydrogenase, confirming earlier reported data for acetyl-CoA synthase. The finding that propionyl-CoA synthase and butyryl-CoA synthase had about the same distribution in the gradients as acetyl-CoA synthase adds support to the hypothesis that mitochondria involved in the metabolism of these short-chain fatty acids (all three of which have been shown to result in a rapid and high labelling of glutamine in vivo) form a distinct subpopulation of the total mitochondrial population. The three synthase activities were found to differ from each other in their rate of change and their subcellular localization during rat brain development. This, in combination with the observation that in gradients of adult brain preparations the three activities did not completely overlap, suggests that the three synthase activities are not present in the same proportion to each other in the same subpopulation (s) of mitochondria in the brain.


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Are the Romance Languages Really More Romantic? Learn to Fall in Love With Latin Languages
Kaitlyn Tagarelli
Valentine's Day is here, and we're feeling romantic. But when you bring up romance in an office full of linguists and polyglots, you're bound to get schooled on what it really means to be Romantic. Honestly, we wouldn't have it any other way.
After all, the history of the Romance languages is fascinating and wide-reaching: there's the rise of Vulgar Latin, the decline of the Roman Empire — even the conquest of England comes into play.
We know you consider yourself a romantic. With the season of love in full swing, pay homage to the original Romantics and learn a thing or two about the history of some of the most widely-spoken languages in the world.
What is a Romance language?
Romance languages are languages derived from the dialect of Latin widely spoken in fifth century Rome, called Vulgar, which means 'crowd' in Latin. The word 'romance' comes from the Latin word romanicus, meaning 'of Roman origin.' With the expansion of the Roman empire, Vulgar Latin spread throughout all of Rome as the unifying, more casual spoken language of its people. When the Roman Empire eventually disintegrated, Vulgar Latin spread to many new nations, began to take on different variations and dialects, and eventually, new Romance languages were born.
Which languages are Romantic?
While any language can be romantic (love is the universal language!), only a select few qualify as Romantic. Today, there are as many as 35 unique languages that could be considered Romance, but most scholars stick to the list of the most widely-spoken, national languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian. You might also find these languages cross-listed as Italic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European language family. That's just a fancy way of organizing the groups of languages that were spoken in what was, at the time, middle and southern Italy.
Are you a Romantic?
With Valentine's Day upon us, we certainly hope you're brushing up on your romance skills. But to determine if you're a 'capital-R' Romantic, just ask yourself one simple question: do you speak a language descended from Latin? If you do, you've given yourself a great head start in learning any other Latin-derived or influenced language. If you speak a Romance language, you're even further ahead — since Romance languages evolved specifically from Vulgar Latin, they share a lot of DNA.
When you start learning another Romance language, you'll recognize similarities in vocabulary and root words right away. Many people are even able to hold an intelligible conversation across Romance languages, like a French speaker comparing their cité [city] with a visiting Italian's città [city]. Because the Vulgar Latin word for 'city' iscīvitās, you'll get a closely-related iteration of that across Romance languages. Learn one language, and get four more (almost) free!
Is English a Romance language?
During that little lesson in linguistics, did you notice how well the English word 'city' fits in with the other Romance languages: city, cité,città?Despite a dictionary packed with Latin-derived vocabulary words, the English language can't officially tout itself as a Romance language. In fact, English is considered a Germanic language, putting it in the same family as German, Dutch, and Afrikaans languages. The roots of Old English (an Anglo-Saxon language spoken from the fifth century to 1150 A.D.) go all the way back to prehistoric Common Germanic, which then became West Germanic, and eventually evolved into a dialect that became Old English. If you compare Old English to modern-day English, the structure and grammar systems are incredibly similar — now-famous works like the play Beowulf are proof of that.
So, how did all of these Latin-derived words wind up in the English language? In its 1400 years of documented history, English speakers have come in contact with a lot of speakers of Romance languages. In fact, at certain moments in history (like the Battle of Hastings, when the Norman forces of William the Conqueror invaded England), the ruling class actually spoke a Romance language, and they were quick to leave their mark by introducing new words into the lexicon. In fact, William the Conqueror made French the official language of the King's court during his rule — that's why many Latin-derived words we use in English today are associated with the law, the government, and the church.
But enough about English. Now that we've got you feeling all warm and fuzzy over Romance languages, why not learn how to wax poetic in one? Our easy and fun Romantic Introduction mini-courses are a free crash course in pick-up lines, flirty phrases, and romantic terms of endearment in Spanish, Italian, French, and Brazilian Portuguese. Increase your love language IQ just in time for Valentine's Day and start learning!
What language do you consider to be the most romantic? Share your thoughts in the comments section below!
Sources:http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/battle-of-hastings,http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/society/romance languages.html,http://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/language-linguistics-and-literary-terms/language-and-linguistics/romance,https://www.britannica.com/topic/Romance-languages, http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/01/why-is-english-a-germanic-language.html


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Emily Lakdawalla • September 27, 2016
Rosetta end-of-mission event schedule
The end is near for Rosetta. As I explained earlier this month, ESA plans to set Rosetta down on the surface of the comet on September 30, with its final signals reaching Earth at 04:20 PDT / 07:20 EDT / 11:20 UTC / 13:20 CEST, give or take 20 minutes. Upon impact, the spacecraft will automatically "passivate," cutting the radio connection to Earth and ending the mission forever. (Why does the mission have to end? Read ESA's FAQ.) I'll be flying to the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany later today to be onsite for the mission's final hours, and will be Tweeting up a storm. Here is a schedule of what to expect (courtesy of ESA), and how you can follow online.
UPDATE 29 SEP: ESA has posted an article describing the science observations that will be performed during the final descent.
ESA / ATG Medialab
Rosetta impact
Artist's impression of Rosetta shortly before hitting Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 30 September 2016.
September 29: Science Highlights Livestream (3 hours)
05:30 PDT / 08:30 EDT / 12:30 UTC / 14:30 CEST
A program featuring members of many of the Rosetta science teams discussing the scientific accomplishments of the mission so far. I look forward to hearing both about what Rosetta has accomplished and what work there is yet to do on the mountains of data returned by the spacecraft.
To watch: Tune in to the livestream viewer at rosetta.esa.int or via https://livestream.com/ESA/rosettagrandfinale or ESA's Facebook page. I'll be Tweeting.
September 29: Rosetta's final maneuver
From an orbital altitude of 19 kilometers, Rosetta will fire its engines to cancel out its motion and begin a slow free-fall toward the comet's surface.
To watch: Check for updates at the Rosetta blog and via Twitter through the spacecraft's account @ESA_Rosetta and @esaoperations. (I'll be doing the same, as there will not be an event at ESOC for this moment.)
September 30: Rosetta's descent images
"Early morning of 30 September" (so, late night 29 Sep EDT/PDT, early morning 30 Sep UTC/CEST) and onwards
During its final descent, Rosetta must return all data in real time. ESA will share some of these final images via ESA's Space in Images and on Twitter via @ESA_Rosetta. Jet lag permitting, I'll be Tweeting and discussing the photos.
September 30: Rosetta's final commands
Overnight, navigators will have worked with Navcam images taken shortly after Rosetta's final maneuver to determine the spacecraft's precise trajectory. They'll use this information to update the commands for pointing the spacecraft during the final hours of its descent, and to determine Rosetta's precise impact time to within 2 minutes.
To watch: There will be a short transmission streamed via rosetta.esa.int, https://livestream.com/ESA/rosettagrandfinale and ESA's Facebook page, and the expected landing time will be posted at the top of this page and via the Rosetta blog and via Twitter through the spacecraft's account @ESA_Rosetta and @esaoperations. Again, I don't think this will be an event open to the media at ESOC, so I'll be following the same as you.
September 30: End of mission
03:00 PDT / 06:30 EDT / 10:30 UTC / 12:30 CEST (subject to change depending on confirmed impact time)
To watch: The event will be live streamed via rosetta.esa.int, https://livestream.com/ESA/rosettagrandfinale and ESA's Facebook page featuring status updates from mission controllers live from ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. And, of course, follow me on Twitter and at this blog for my impressions of the final moments of this great mission.
Just for fun, here is a roundup of all the cute Rosetta cartoons posted throughout the mission.
Once Upon a Time... (20 Dec 2013)
Are We There Yet? (9 Jul 2014)
Once Upon a Time... (21 Jul 2014)
Fabulous Fables and Tales of Tails (31 July 2014)
Preparing for Comet Landing (5 Nov 2014)
Comet Landing (9 Mar 2015)
Living with a Comet (9 Nov 2015)
Rosetta's Second Year at the Comet (1 July 2016)
Rosetta's Grand Finale (27 Sep 2016)
Read more: Rosetta and Philae, mission status
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Marco Parigi: 2016/09/28 02:54 CDT
Hi Emily, The fantastic thing about this mission (belatedly) and promoted by this blog is being able to download images to do citizen science. Please vote for citizen science on Twitter. https://twitter.com/marcoparigi1/status/780994670851678208 Thanks in advance
Rules For: 2016/09/28 03:37 CDT
Any chance Rosetta will bounce upon impact like Philae?
LocalFluff: 2016/09/30 03:50 CDT
@Rules For Yes, it will "bounce and tumble" at impact. But it will not enter orbit again, although it lands at the same speed as Philae. One reason is that Rosetta is about 12 times heavier than Philae. Link to the last ESA Rosetta hangout a few days ago: https://youtu.be/x9lIPUjFe40?t=655
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