Joint publication of FIG-Task Force on "Spatially Enabled Society"
This publication on "Spatially Enabled Society" is the culmination of a three-year effort by the Task Force that was established by the General Assembly of the Federation in May 2009. The Task Force included representations from the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association and Working Group 3 of the United Nations sponsored Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific. This is a collaborative effort led by the FIG Task Force and the publication has been compiled and edited by Dr. Daniel Steudler, Chair of the FIG Task Force on Spatially Enabled Society, and Prof. Dr.
Abbas Rajabifard, President of the GSDI Association.
with information on land ownership and custodianship, in a consistent manner to underpin good governance of land and its natural resources, whole-of-government efficiency, public safety and security towards the well being of societies, the environment and economy.
The main issue societies have to focus on is probably less about spatial data, but much more about "managing all information spatially". This is a new paradigm that still has to be explored, deliberated and understood in the context of a spatially enabled society. This collaboration between FIG and GSDI is within the aim of the MoU signed in 2010 between these two professional bodies. Together with PCGIAP WG3, this collaboration has allowed for the participation and contribution from contributors and authors with varied expertise, from differing backgrounds and in different regions of the world. We would like to congratulate the FIG Office, members of the Task Force, all contributors, all co-authors and the two editors for this superb effort. We extend the deep appreciation and gratitude of our Federation and Membership for their invaluable and unselfish contributions.
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I'm a 16-year-old high school student from Bergen County Academies in New Jersey. I'm interested in many computer-related subjects, from algorithms to hardware. I'm a self-taught programmer, and have gotten the chance to use interesting technologies such as the Leap Motion. I plan to study computer science or a related subject in college. I also play piano and practice Taekwondo on the side.
I worked on a program to solve the N-Queens problem using a genetic algorithm. The goal of the N-Queens problem is to place N queens on an N x N chess board in an arrangement where they cannot attack each other. Using the genetic algorithm, I created an initial random population of boards, and they are bred together. The population evolves until one of them ends up being a solution to the N-Queens problem.


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Jerry Jones' Blue Star Land is ready to start 1,800-home community in Prosper
Blue Star Land's Star Trails community is being built on the west side of Proper along the route of the Dallas North Tollway. (Prosper Economic Development)
Dallas Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones is making another big play in the town of Prosper.
Jones' real estate company just broke ground on a major shopping center in the town north of Frisco on Preston Road.
And now Jones' Blue Star Land is ready to kick off work on a big residential community on Prosper's west side.
"We are in city hall with plans for an 1,800-home lot development called Star Trail," Joe Hickman, who heads Blue Star Land, said Monday. "The first phase will be approximately 400 home lots on the northwest corner of Prosper Trail and the Dallas North Tollway.
"We just finished our Star Creek community in Allen," Hickman said. "So we are looking for the next opportunity to go."
He said Blue Star already has homebuilders lined up for the new Prosper community.
"Builders are looking for opportunities further north," Hickman said. "Obviously with the growth and development happening around the Tollway and State Highway 121 and the jobs that have been announced with Toyota, FedEx and Liberty Mutual."
Hickman was one of several developers who spoke at a presentation hosted by the Prosper Economic Development Corp. More than 300 real estate professionals and business people attended the session.
Blue Star Land and the Jones family have been buying property in Prosper – a former farm town that's grown to almost 19,000 people – since the mid 1990s.
The 1,000-acre Star Trails community will be located just west of the route of the Dallas North Tollway expansion along First Street and Prosper Trail.
A few weeks ago, Blue Star Land and developer Lincoln Property broke ground for the Gates of Prosper shopping center at Preston and U.S. 380.
"The first phase is 93 acres on the northeast corner," Hickman said. "There is a mix of retail, restaurants big box stores and other things."
"We feel like with the roof tops now being in prosper, it's time for retail."
The shopping center with more than 300,000 square feet will be anchored by a new Wal-Mart store.
Hickman said restaurant tenants, a sporting good store and home goods retailer have also been signed up for the retail center.
The shopping center is on part of 600 acres Blue Star plans around the Preston/380 intersection.

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Government-backed liquid hydrogen plane paves way for zero emission flight – EQ Mag Pro
UK project unveils plans for a new liquid hydrogen plane.
passengers could one day fly anywhere in the world with no carbon emissions as £15 million UK project unveils designs for a new liquid hydrogen plane
this comes as 8 companies secure the go-ahead for their sustainable aviation fuel developments from the government's separate £15 million Green Fuel, Green Skies competition
officials and industry leaders today discussed progress towards achieving zero carbon emission flight at the fourth meeting of the Jet Zero Council
Passengers could one day fly to the other side of the world with zero carbon emissions and just one refuelling stop, thanks to government-funded technology being unveiled today.
The concept aircraft was today (6 December 2021) unveiled by the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) ahead of the fourth meeting of the Jet Zero Council, which is chaired by the Transport Secretary.
The FlyZero project, led by the ATI and funded by the government, has developed a concept for a midsize aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen. It is capable of flying 279 passengers halfway around the world without a stop or anywhere in the world with just one stop to refuel.
This means that a zero carbon, non-stop flight could be operated between London and San Francisco, or that passengers could fly around the world from London to Auckland, New Zealand with just one stop, at the same speed and comfort as today's aircraft.
The project showcases the huge potential of liquid hydrogen powered aircraft as the UK drives for a cleaner and greener air travel future and builds on progress already achieved by the Jet Zero Council, a partnership between industry and government with the aim of delivering zero emission transatlantic flight within a generation.
The council will today meet for the fourth time, ahead of International Civil Aviation Day on 7 December.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said:
As we build back greener, it's crucial that we place sustainability at the heart of the aviation industry's recovery from COVID-19.
This pioneering design for a liquid hydrogen powered aircraft, led by a British organisation, brings us one step closer to a future where people can continue to travel and connect but without the carbon footprint.
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said:
These designs could define the future of aerospace and aviation. By working with industry, we are showing that truly carbon-free flight could be possible with hydrogen a front-runner to replace conventional fossil fuels.
Fuelling planes sustainably will enable the public to travel as we do now, but in a way that doesn't damage the planet. It will not only help us to end our contribution to climate change, but also represents a huge industrial opportunity for the UK.
Jet Zero Council CEO Emma Gilthorpe said:
The Aerospace Technology Institute's pioneering research highlights the potential for hydrogen in realising zero-carbon global connectivity.
This ground-breaking green technology looks set to play a critical role in decarbonising flight and through the work of the Jet Zero Council, the UK aviation sector is exploring all avenues to ensure we protect the benefits of flying for future generations while cutting the carbon cost.
FlyZero Project Director Chris Gear said:
At a time of global focus on tackling climate change, our midsize concept sets out a truly revolutionary vision for the future of global air travel keeping families, businesses and nations connected without the carbon footprint.
This new dawn for aviation brings with it real opportunities for the UK aerospace sector to secure market share, highly skilled jobs and inward investment while helping to meet the UK's commitments to fight climate change.
Another technology with the potential to decarbonise flying is sustainable aviation fuel, a low-carbon fuel made from waste materials.
Earlier this year, the UK government set out its ambition to become a world leader in the production of sustainable aviation fuel, launching the £15 million Green Fuel, Green Skies competition to support the early development of trailblazing UK facilities working to turn everyday waste into jet fuel.
The shortlisted winners, 8 industry-led projects that will receive a share of the £15 million in funding, have now had their final funding agreements confirmed by the Department for Transport.
Today's announcement comes shortly after the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, which saw ambitious new international pledges to decarbonize transport, including the agreement by 24 countries – representing around half of global aviation emissions – to work together to achieve a new aviation decarbonization goal.
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Good morning everyone and happy Wednesday! The clue words all came instantly into view and were no problem at all. This is one one of those days where I'll let our friendly Jumble panel pick the most difficult one. If I were a betting man, I'd be bullish on ICING.
The market is open and shares of JUMBLE are way up in early morning trading! David looks rather pleased as he monitors the exchange board with a smile. In case you weren't able to make out the other three symbols, they were SDKO (Sudoku), XWORDS (Crosswords) and WRDSRCH (Wordsearch). Jeff illustrated the pit of this exchange perfectly with characters in trading jackets using handheld devices to conduct trades. Everyone seems calm and relaxed except for the man in the far right of the panel. With his hands up to his head and his mouth wide open, he seems shocked to see the value of his stock plummeting. My favorite detail in this piece was the dollar sign earring being worn by the woman partaking in the IBM trade. It could have easily been mistaken as part of her hair if you didn't look close enough (see below).
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The 2 letter locution threw me.I thought it was to or no but when I figured it was in,the 5 letter solution,stock came readily to mind.
I used to think he checked me out when I walked through the door.
But I pay you to work for me, so maybe be more nice…?
I like the fun, the happy times, that all my friends can bring.
Today's words are nothing new, but they're WORTHy of praise. Easy, breezy, and a nice MIX. So, on to our cartoon. Jeff PUTs us on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange. We see five traders, or four traders and Dave Hoyt moonlighting as one. The Stationary BIG BOARD is showing a lot of PAPER products! Jumble, Sudoku, Crosswords, and Word Search. Puzzles! The trader furthest right, must be the one heavily INVESTED in the three that are DROPPING, because he looks so UPSET! Do you think he does his puzzles in PENCIL? Maybe they also lost a few POINTS? OW JONES? Whatever…Anyway, the dialogue is showing that one broker wants to buy IBM, and the other has plenty to sell, because, it's…WAIT for it.. IN STOCK! SOLD! Good one, Dave! I think I'll SHARE it! Ok, eye candy. Hmm. What am I INTERESTed in today? Should I BUY into the belief that the only STOCK making a PROFIT is the JUMBLE? Can I AFFORD to be that naive? No, don't BANK on it. I'll PASS. Ok, then there's the guy in the man bun with that distinctive look of a "real" person, but I don't have the time to INVEST researching it. The GROUP does seem to like one another…like a "Feeling is MUTUAL FUND", but that can just be my TAKE on it. Oh, I SEE it! I'm ZEROing in on the broker looking to BUY. Her earrings? DOLLAR SIGNS! COINy? Maybe, but it's my PICK! It just seems MINT to be!
So, There you have it Folks, DUN!
9:01 AM, you've over slept again.
For the pot luck dinner, we did not want to INVITE those who in the past brought: cupcakes with no ICING, a NOODLE casserole with Limburger cheese or the lady whose habit was to SKIMP on the dip for her chips.
Good eye for all those details Mike—I could not see the $ ear ring in my paper and appreciate you drawing attention to it.
No trouble with scrambled words and a blind solve of IN STOCK. Happy Day.
Angela as usual provides us with a plethora of puns and plays with plenty of pedestrian passages that turn into precious gems.
Pray tell, I can't pretend that I'm not particularly pleased by your praise!
You perpetually prove to be a Prince among your peers!
Hi all – Actually NOODLE took a bit extra and INVITE took the longest – had to get INVENT out of my head first.
Couldn't that be the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange?
"Hello, I'd like to take my entire bank account and house and buy one Bitcoin future please." NOT! That would be WACKY (Chicago trivia).
Good afternoon. Been busy running around early doing things before Christmas. Today's puzzle was fun for me with noodle being the hardest word to get. It took a long second look. The cartoon was no problem. You guys were tops as always. When you have Limburger cheese,you have to have it on a good German black bread or pumpernickel bread with a little salt and pepper and very thin slices of red onion. Of course you have to have a cold iced glass of German beer. Now we're talking. Until tomorrow stay well.
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Francis Goes to West Point is een Amerikaanse film uit 1952 van Arthur Lubin met in de hoofdrollen Donald O'Connor en Lori Nelson.

Na het succes van Francis (1950) en Francis Goes to the Races kwam in 1952 de derde film uit rond de pratende muilezel Francis en diens baasje Peter Stirling. Francis en Stirling kwamen oorspronkelijk uit het leger en keerden in deze film weer terug op vertrouwd terrein. De film was een redelijk succes in de bioscopen en maakte de weg vrij voor een volgende Francisfilm. Zie ook Francis (filmreeks).

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Peter Stirling is bezig aan zijn zoveelste baantje als zijn muilezel Francis hem waarschuwt dat terroristen de atoomfabriek waar hij werkt willen opblazen. Stirling rent naar de politie die met groot materieel uitrukt. Die nacht komen er echter geen terroristen en de politie verklaart Stirling voor gek. Maar de laatste ziet dan plotseling een watertruck aan komen rijden. Als de politie de truck aanhoudt blijkt deze gevuld met explosieven en nu wordt Stirling uitgeroepen tot held. Ondanks het feit dat Stirling maar minnetjes oogt en niet zo slim is mag hij als beloning voor zijn dapperheid naar West Point, de officiersopleiding van het Amerikaanse leger. Hij raakt bevriend met William Norton en Wilbur Van Allen, zijn slapies op de academie.
Stirling merkt snel dat de oudere cadetten de nieuwe studenten minachten en zo veel mogelijk vernederen. Al snel is hij ook nog eens de domste van de klas en krijgt te horen dat hij zich binnen twee weken moet verbeteren om te voorkomen dat hij van school wordt gestuurd. Als Francis dit hoort, gaat hij ook naar West Point om 'dienst te nemen' als schoolmascotte. Hij neemt Stirling onder zijn hoede en al snel stijgt die weer in de ranglijsten van zijn jaar. Als hem wordt gevraagd wie hem heeft geholpen is Stirling zo dom om Francis te noemen en krijgt hij zes weken wachtlopen als straf. De zaak wordt erger als Stirling verliefd wordt op Cynthia, de dochter van kolonel Daniels, en helemaal als hij de revue van de school in het honderd stuurt. Francis helpt weer en zet zich in om het Amerikaans voetbalteam van West Point, waarin het slapie van Stirling, William Norton speelt, te laten winnen. De muilezel fluistert tips door aan de coach van het team die later moet toegeven dat de muilezel kan praten. Niet lang daarna ontvangt Wilbur Van Allen, het andere slapie, een brief van zijn zuster dat ze zwanger is en haar vader moet vertellen van haar geheime huwelijk. Later vindt Stirling de brief op het bed van Norton en denkt dat zijn maatje een geheim huwelijk heeft en dat zijn vrouw een baby verwacht. Als de kolonel iets te horen komt over een geheim huwelijk roept hij Stirling op het matje. De laatste denkt dat hij Norton moet redden en zegt dat hij zelf een geheim huwelijk heeft, waarop hij wordt weggestuurd van de academie. Maar Francis praat met de kolonel en weet de officier ervan te overtuigen dat hij nog even moet wachten om Stirlings ontslag te bevestigen. Cynthia, die het verhaal van Wilbur heeft gehoord, bevestigt later dat de brief van Stirlings slapie was. De muilezel gaat op zoek naar Stirling en vertelt hem hoe de vork in de steel zit. Iedereen is weer gelukkig en gaat naar de grote wedstrijd tussen het leger en de marine waar William Norton met behulp van de aanwijzingen van Francis een sterrol vervult op het veld. Als de kolonel later Francis naar een onderzoekslaboratorium wil laten overbrengen, weet Stirling een dubbelganger in diens plaats te smokkelen. Terwijl Pete de nummer 1 wordt van zijn klas vertrekt Francis weer naar meer grazige weiden.

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In de derde Francisfilm is er weinig veranderd. Vrijwel hetzelfde team dat Francis en Francis Goes to the Races maakte is weer present. Scenarist Oscar Brodney gebruikte weer de personages uit het boek Francis van David Stern uit 1946 en creëerde daar weer een nieuwe film omheen. De eerste film rond het pratende muildier was het meest succesvol en dus keerde men na een uitstapje naar de paardenraces weer terug naar het leger. Op zich een beetje gezocht, want Peter Stirling was in de eerste film al officier, dus waarom hij weer naar de officiersopleiding moet, blijft onduidelijk. De productie verliep goed, de buitenopnamen werden gemaakt bij de echte West Point academie in New York. In de film zijn een aantal acteurs te zien die nog furore zouden maken in de jaren zestig. David Janssen, die de rol van korporaal Thomas speelt, zou halverwege de jaren zestig wereldberoemd worden door zijn hoofdrol in de Amerikaanse televisieserie The Fugitive. Leonard Nimoy, Spock in de televisieserie Star Trek, heeft een klein rolletje als voetbalspeler.

Amerikaanse film
Film uit 1952
Komische film
Film van Universal Studios

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Q: FFMPEG - mute or unmute audio from incoming stream while ffmpeg is running I got the following issue:
I want to be able to mute and unmute the audio from a ffmpeg stream whilst the ffmpeg is running. I was searching for a while now and wondered how you would do it. I read a lot on the internet but I wasn't finding the problem I searched for.
I only know now that you can do it with sendcmd or zmq filters but the API of ffmpeg for this to things are not getting me any further.
Can anybody explain me how to do it? If I understand correctly you have to insert the filter parameters into the running programm via sendcmd or zmq filters.
Here is what i have in a .bat to start ffmpeg:
start cmd /K ffmpeg -i "rtsp://[IPADRESS]" -b:v 6000K -minrate 6000K -maxrate 6000K -vcodec copy  -acodec copy -f flv rtmp://[IPADRESS]

A: For interactively mute and unmute the audio, you may use azmq filter with volume filter.
For using interactive commands, we need a tool named zmqsend.
You may download ffmpeg-tools.zip Windows version from here.
(For testing, I have extracted the tools to be in the same folder as ffmpeg.exe).

Add the following audio filter: -af "azmq,volume@my=volume=1" to your FFmpeg command.

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*volume@my uses "interactive name" for the volume filter.

*azmq is required for allowing interactive commands for the audio filter that comes after azmq (interactive commands to the volume filter).

Here is a batch file that executes FFplay, and listens to FFmpeg RTMP stream:
start ffplay -listen 1 -timeout 10000 -f flv rtmp://127.0.0.1:5000/mystream/test
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 6 > nul
start ffmpeg -y -re -f lavfi -i testsrc=duration=25000:size=192x108:rate=25 -f lavfi -i sine=frequency=500 -af "azmq,volume@my=volume=1" -vcodec libx264 -tune zerolatency -crf 17 -pix_fmt yuv420p -f flv rtmp://127.0.0.1:5000/mystream/test

The above commands stream synthetic audio and video (for testing).
The ping command is used for waiting few seconds before starting FFmpeg.
You may place the batch file in the same folder as ffmpeg.exe and zmqsend.exe

Execute the batch file...
For muting the audio, execute (from the console):
echo volume@my volume 0 | zmqsend

For unmuting the audio, execute:
echo volume@my volume 1 | zmqsend

There may be other methods, but the interactive commands subject is not well documented...

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A poorly designed website is kind of like a sales assistant who shrugs their shoulders every time you ask them a question. And given that your website is probably the first place customers will go to find information about your business, it's important to get it right. Here are 5 web design mistakes to steer clear of.
We know those website builders that let you 'drag and drop' website elements are tempting, but believe us when we tell you that they'll make you want to pull your hair out pretty soon. In order to give you the ability to drag and drop certain things, these website builders are adding lines upon lines of otherwise unnecessary code. Your page load speeds will quickly become unbearable, and you'll start to see glitches that are difficult to fix.
If you're new to web design and you want a website that will be simple to edit, WordPress is your best bet. WordPress websites come with easy-to-navigate content management systems, all the while successfully hosting large and complex websites with minimal hiccups.
In the age of Instagram and Netflix, people have pretty short attention spans. If they come to your website and see a wall of text, it's a safe bet that they won't take the time to read it. Be selective about the most important aspects of your business that you want potential customers to know about, and put these salient points front-and-centre.
By all means, link to in-depth info on other pages of your website, but keep your home page clean and tidy.
Now, don't get us wrong, we're all about making websites look as aesthetically pleasing as possible – it's an integral part of making a brand stand out. That being said, the visual appeal of your website should never come before functionality. After all, what use is a beautiful website if you can't find contact details, or even a navigation menu?
It's important to think about what you want your visitors to be doing, whether that's buying products, registering for email newsletters or reading your content. If your website design isn't encouraging those actions, it isn't serving its purpose, and you're missing valuable opportunities to convert website traffic into returning customers.
Ever come across those email sign up forms that want your first name, last name, mobile number, date of birth and the song you listened to last Thursday? Chances are, you were out of there pretty quickly. Registration forms should be asking for as little information as possible to provide customers with quality information related to your business.
Studies also show that your email sign-up form will be more successful if you disclose how often you'll be sending them stuff. So give your visitors a heads up that you'll only send them info once a day, fortnight, month, etcetera, and keep your promise. Nobody likes spam.
Once you've spent hours upon hours perfecting your web design, it would be so disappointing to discover that it displays completely differently on a mobile phone, or a massive iMac. As a business owner or digital marketer, you want to make sure that every single one of your customers has a seamless experience navigating through your website.
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Daily Devotional: The Final Day?
I passed the school marquee this morning and saw listed: Dec 20 - Final Day. Yikes! I was sure that the Mayan calendar ended on December 21st. I thought I had one more day! I wondered this morning how many people think they have one more day. Traveling their life's path down the wide and smooth path to destruction, they see the church and the Christian, hear of the wonderful works of Christ on their behalf, but fail to believe because they are convinced that they have one more day.
We can see today, or at least we think we can see today. We have plans and duties to perform. The chores must be done and the personal maintenance (aka 'war paint') must be applied. You might have a date or an appointment or two. We think we can see today pretty well. However, tomorrow is often assumed even when we are aware that Jesus said we don't know what tomorrow will bring. How much more does the casual sinner on the wide path to eternal destruction assume that tomorrow will always be there for him? How many, I wonder, will arrive at the judgment seat saying, "I thought I had one more day!"
We do not know that tomorrow will come for us. In that we are blessed, for if tomorrow does not come on this earth, then we will be with Jesus in paradise. That should increase our compassion for those who do not have this good news in their heart. How terrible to stand before God and realize that there is not one more day for you to decide. The final day is not one of decision, or even to say goodbye for many of us. The final day will pass just like many before it, and then it will be too late for decision. Better by far for us to make the choice for Christ right now.


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Q: postgres daylight savings timezone I have a postgres table with a column which is timestamp with timezone. The data stored is in UTC. I want to convert this column from UTC to different time zones. How do i select the correct timezone which will take the daylight savings into account in postgres? I have had a look at the pg_timezone_names view and am aware of the actual supported abbrev by postgres. My concern is that certain states like California use a PST and PDT for parts of the year.
I suspect, a code like select current_time at time zone 'PDT', or select current_time at time zone 'PST' won't give me the correct current time in California all year. Have I understood this right?
I am aware that I could do sometime like select current_time at time zone 'America/New_York' or America/Los_Angeles. I expect something like this to take into account the day light savings time as I have explicitly specified the location. Is this the only correct way to handle the daylight savings issue in postgres?
Ideally, I do not want to specify locations explicitly and would have preferred to go with postgres timezone abbreviation. Can that be done at all?

A: I have the same question as you. The best I can offer is to point to their documentation page, which I just found. pg_timezone_names documentation

The view pg_timezone_names provides a list of time zone names that are
  recognized by SET TIMEZONE, along with their associated abbreviations,
  UTC offsets, and daylight-savings status. Unlike the abbreviations
  shown in pg_timezone_abbrevs, many of these names imply a set of
  daylight-savings transition date rules. Therefore, the associated
  information changes across local DST boundaries. The displayed
  information is computed based on the current value of
  CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.

I think this makes sense and is the best we can hope for. Time zone abbreviations unfortunately do not encompass DST rules, I think because no specific geographic region can be implied, therefore they are just symbols for UTC offsets.


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Rep. Clark is standing up for our health
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Recently, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) released the 2020 National Environmental Scorecard, with our Representative Katherine Clark earning a top score of 100 percent. We're lucky to have her representing our district and continuing to fight for issues we care about!
The Scorecard has been used for over 50 years to analyze the environmental records of members of Congress, evaluating key congressional votes on the environment and environmental justice. As we saw play out across 2020, the same damaging system — racism — is at the root of COVID-19 vulnerability, climate injustice, environmental injustice, and police brutality. The 2020 Scorecard includes votes that reflect LCV's belief that these struggles are intertwined and must be addressed together.
The 2020 Scorecard measures votes cast during the second session of the 116th Congress. Highlights from the 2020 National Environmental Scorecard include the Great American Outdoors Act, investments in climate infrastructure, renewable energy research and development, and Environmental Protection Agency funding. Representative Clark voted with the environment on every one of these 21 bills.
As we move forward to take bold action on climate and the conservation, LCV and its state affiliate, the Environmental League of Massachusetts (ELM), applaud champions like Representative Clark for standing up for our health, communities, and environment. The 2020 National Environmental Scorecard is available online in both English and Spanish at https://scorecard.lcv.org/.


EPIC2018 is in Honolulu, Hawaii 9–12 October, 2018.
The EPIC2018 is the premier global conference on ethnography in business. In this conference we will tackle the theme Evidence. At a time when research methods are proliferating, the connection between evidence and decisions seems more tenuous than ever.
· how to make a case with evidence in a challenging social environment The committee particularly encourages submissions at the emerging intersection of data science and ethnography. In addition to contributions from the many fields that regularly engage in ethnographic work, we invite data and computer scientists, as well as teams of ethnographers + data/computer scientists.


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A Horrible Day in the Neighborhood
When I was a tween and beyond, we made fun of Mister Rogers. His name was not linked in our minds to kindness and compassion, but to simplistic, naive, pretend-everything-is-happy goody-goodism. Raise your hand, right now, if you remember Mister Robinson's Neighborhood. (I know, you're at your computer or on your phone at the coffee shop or, God forbid, driving your car. What the heck. Raise it anyway. And put down your phone while you drive!)
Eddie Murphy spoofed Mister Rogers on SNL and gave us a glimpse into a very different neighborhood than the one we'd grown up on. Do you know how popular Mister Robinson's Neighborhood was? Nike paid NBA star David Robinson beaucoup bucks to do a series of commercials also entitled "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood" (get it?) in which other basketball stars like Charles Barkley, Gary Payton, and Rudolph Firkosny (check it out) showed up at the door and they would make a quick joke and show you the Swoosh Stripe (TM). You know you're popular when they make a parody of your parody.
Fred Rogers and Eddie Murphy
You also know you're popular when they make a parody of the parody about you.
As a teenager I thought I knew nearly everything* and that my jaded, cynical, reality-is-ugly-but-at-least-I-get-it perspective made me superior to those who lived in a fantasyland of goodness. Even though I wanted to make the world a better place (while getting famous and rich), I was clear that people are generally awful. Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, 1984, Animal Farm awful.
The brilliance of Mister Rogers–which I completely missed when I knew everything but get so clearly now that I know so much less–is this: Mister Rogers was not pretending that every day was perfect and thus beautiful; he knew that some days are horrible and could be beautiful, anyway. No, better than that: he knew we could make them beautiful, anyway.
The humor of Mister Robinson's Neighborhood is that an innocent-sounding narrator describes and encounters nasty features of inner city life ("The word for today is 'Racist'"). But the brilliance of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood is that he acknowledged the painful, sometimes horrible aspects of life–for children!–and continuously spoke a message of hope, that we can be okay in this real world. We can make this painful real world better for one another.
"There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth." Fred Rogers
Rather than putting on a fake smile or burying our head in the sand, Fred Rogers "preached" that we can smile, for real, and still look our problems in the eye. The very act of offering our smile to people in pain while standing with them in their suffering is an act of courage and compassion.
Think I'm making something deep that wasn't? I'm not.
"When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed."
― Fred Rogers
Dostoyevsky wrote The Idiot, arguably his most personal and intimate novel, about a loving, compassionate, authentically good character at the center of a culture that valued none of those things. Many of the other characters take Prince Myshkin to be simple-minded and foolish, an idiot. He does and says such things because he doesn't know better. Ready for this?
I thought Fred Rogers was an idiot.
But I was.
The beauty of this, to me, is that people, generations, loved Mister Rogers. Loved him and recognized him as a hero in our midst. In A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, the main character, based on the journalist Tom Junod, suspects that Fred Rogers must be fake, must have an angle, must be playing people with that "goodness and kindness" act. I just thought he was a fool. We were both wrong. As Dostoyevsky depicted with Prince Myshkin, many people felt drawn to Fred Rogers, but unlike Dostoyevsky's embodiment of good in a corrupt culture, Fred Rogers remained grounded all his adult life, did not go mad, and offered his message of hope in kindness through the end of his life.
With this as context, look again at this picture that circulated through social media.
Fred Rogers and Francoise Clemmons
That image on a children's television show was a radical act of racial reconciliation in 1969. Fred Rogers, whom I mistook for a fool, was a social justice warrior.** He confronted systemic, generational sin in our culture and fought for human rights: racial equality, education, disability rights, mental health, peace. You'd better believe he's one of my heroes and certainly a role model for us to emulate.
"Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil." (Ephesians 5:15-16) What if the days are evil and we seek to make them beautiful? I've wrestled aloud on this blog, over and over, with how we confront these evils running rampant right now as Jesus followers, in his spirit of compassion and shalom. "Do not repay anyone evil for evil…" "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." (Romans 12:17, 21)
I have a better idea how to do that now.
So please excuse me, I need to go binge some Mister Rogers' episodes.
*By twenty-five I did, in fact, know everything. That started to get shaky with Rowan's birth and went severely downhill from there, leading me at my current age to hang out with Uncertainty as my near-constant companion. Uncertainty is a strangely comforting bud to hang out with, once you stop fighting her. But hey, aren't we all nicer to hang out with when the other person stops attacking us constantly?
**I know that term is used as an insult (I recognize the belittling, mocking tone from when I used it on others as a teenager). I'm reclaiming it. I'd love to be worthy of the title. I think following Jesus requires this, in whatever small ways we can. If we're not fighting for social justice, what is the alternative?
A Pretty Nice Day in the Neighborhood
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Thanks, Rhonda.
Adam Cole
See what I do with my time when I'm not on Facebook too much?
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In "The Idiot", Prince Myshkin is thought to be a fool because he believes, 'beauty will save the world'. I believe Dostoyevsky was onto something with that statement. Our world would do well to re-evaluate it's belief systems about redemptive practices. It appears the common credo these days is 'ugliness and hatred will save my world '. God have mercy. Good article, my friend.
I love that line. "Beauty will save the world." And beauty has, more than we'll ever know.
Thanks, Brother. The Kingdom is about that re-evaluation, right? Starting with me.


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New Chairman For Dstl's Technology Transfer Company
Piers White MBE has been appointed as the new Chairman of Ploughshare Innovations, formed in 2005 to commercialise and exploit Dstl's intellectual property generated from its research.
Stockbridge, Hampshire (March 27, 2013) — Dstl maximises the impact of science and technology for the defence and security of the UK. It provides the Government with a wide programme of scientific and technical support based on deep and widespread research.
Ploughshare Innovations was formed in 2005 to commercialise and exploit Dstl's intellectual property generated from its research. Since its establishment, Ploughshare has licensed more than 75 technologies and launched five spin-out companies, principally for civilian applications. Ploughshare, supported by Dstl's Intellectual Property Group, has also negotiated licences in the defence field resulting in research being pulled through into defence products to meet defence requirements.
The new Chairman, Piers White MBE, takes over from Nick Winterton who has been in post for four years, during which time Ploughshare has continued to develop and improve its business. Piers is a banker by background and has held Board/Senior Executive positions at Insinger de Beaufort, where he was UK CEO, Flemings and Barclays. He brings more than 10 years experience as a Non-Executive Director within technology-orientated Public Sector and public purpose organisations.
Dstl's Chief Executive Jonathan Lyle says: "We are fortunate to have secured someone of Piers' calibre and experience for this key role, and I look forward to working with him to help Ploughshare go from strength to strength."
Piers says: "I am delighted to have the opportunity to build on the good work of Nick Winterton in leading the Board of this exciting business. Ploughshare Innovations Limited is at an important point in its development and represents an interesting opportunity for private sector businesses to benefit from the leading scientific work of Dstl."
About Ploughshare Innovations and Dstl
Ploughshare Innovations manages the commercial licensing to industry of intellectual property developed by the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). Ploughshare's goal is to give clients a competitive edge, by lowering technology risk, reducing R&D costs, speeding time to market, and maximizing the business opportunity. It provides leading edge, application focused technology, backed up with the assurance of advanced IP support and protection. Ploughshare is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dstl. Dstl maximises the impact of science and technology for the defence and security of the UK. It supplies sensitive and specialist science and technology services for the UK Ministry of Defence and wider government, saving lives in the UK, overseas and on the frontline.
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Ploughshare Innovations Ltd.
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Farm worker took his own life after stand-off with police, inquest concludes
By Lisa O'Brien | Craven Arms | News | Published: Nov 3, 2017
A father of two, who shot himself after a stand-off with police, took his own life, a jury has concluded.
Farm worker James Massey, aged 35, died in the courtyard of his home in Hungerford, near Craven Arms, south Shropshire, on December 10 last year.
A jury hearing his inquest at Shrewsbury's Shirehall yesterday delivered a unanimous conclusion of suicide.
Coroner John Ellery said he now plans to write to the chief constable of West Mercia Police over the use of body-worn video cameras on officers' vests that can record incidents.
They were introduced to frontline officers in Shropshire earlier this year. The inquest was told there are plans for police negotiators to use the technology from next year.
Mr Ellery said he would be writing to the chief constable for confirmation. It comes after the inquest heard that during negotiations between police and Mr Massey, no recording of the conversation was made. A review found this was down to human error.
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During the inquest, the jury heard that Mr Massey and his partner had been out for the night on December 9 but the evening had ended in an argument.
She had called police in the early hours of December 10, telling them Mr Massey had a gun and was threatening to kill himself. He had also been drinking.
Armed police arrived at about 3am and began negotiating with Mr Massey. The inquest was told that trained negotiator, detective sergeant Beth Wells, took over at about 4.30am. Despite police officers thinking they were making progress, Mr Massey shot himself over an hour later.
Summing up to the jury, Mr Ellery told them that Mr Massey's family had some concerns about how the police had handled the situation. But he said there was no evidence that anything the police did or didn't do had caused or contributed to Mr Massey's death. He said: "James died despite police involvement, not because of it."
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Despite the good intentions of its architects, the PATRIOT Act betrays bedrock constitutional principles. The individual is the center of the Constitution's universe. Aggrandizing government is the center of the PATRIOT Act. The Constitution salutes freedom and citizen sovereignty over absolute safety and citizen vassalage. The PATRIOT Act turns that hierarchy on its head. Where experience and facts are inconclusive as regards the need for government authority, the Constitution's default position is liberty. Under the PATRIOT Act, if a threat passes a microscopic threshold of danger, a Big Brother government is exalted, a descendant of the 1 percent doctrine. The authorization of "lone wolf" surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is exemplary. It has never been employed, yet it is defended as a cornerstone of the nation's defense against a second edition of 9/11.
The Alien Act of 1798 was similar. It answered political or popular fears of French immigrants. The president was empowered to deport unilaterally any immigrant thought "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States." During its two-year life, the president never once invoked the Act's deportation authority. Congress sensibly declined to renew it.
PATRIOT Act champions boast that only a handful of judicial rulings have cast a cloud over its provisions, for instance, gag orders on National Security Letter recipients. But even the U.S. Supreme Court stumbles. In Olmstead v. United States (1928), the Court held conversations were outside the ambit of the Fourth Amendment because its text protected only "persons, houses, papers, and effects." In Katz v. United States (1967), 39 years later, the Court overruled Olmstead and held the Amendment protected "reasonable expectations of privacy." As Saint Paul preached, "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life" (2 Corinthians 3: 6). The Supreme Court sustained the constitutionality of race-based concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II. Congress repudiated the Court's odious decisions in the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
No federal court voided the Sedition Act of 1798, despite its flagrant trespass on free speech. Over 150 years later in New York Times v. Sullivan (1964), the Supreme Court denounced the Act as unconstitutional. Many PATRIOT Act provisions hinge on the decision of the High Court in U.S. v. Miller (1976), that bank records or other information "voluntarily" shared with third parties are outside a suspect's zone of privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment. The Miller precedent seems increasingly anachronistic in the Age of the Internet in which a virtual diary of individual activities is in the hands of third-party Internet service providers.
Moreover, extra-constitutional reasons explain the dearth of court challenges. The lion's share of information sought under the PATRIOT Act is aimed at third parties, not the target of surveillance or investigation. The former have little or no incentive to incur the legal costs and public opprobrium inherent in fighting the government. In addition, many recipients of PATRIOT Act demands, like telecommunications companies or banks, are motivated to cultivate government goodwill to preserve contracts or friendly regulatory relations. The government has also sought to stigmatize any opponent of the USA PATRIOT Act as semi-traitorous or un-American through its title or otherwise. Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft decried its critics as "aiding and abetting terrorists." But in the true Republic created by our Founding Fathers, the people censure the government; the government does not censure the people. Finally, the vast majority of victims of illegal or unconstitutional surveillance under FISA are never informed of the spying. They do not know the government has compiled a dossier against them.
In light of the hostility toward PATRIOT Act dissenters generated by the government and general concealment of violations, the diminutive number of federal court cases is readily understandable. Why bring a lawsuit and risk losing your neighbor, your friends, your job, and your public standing? It might equally be said in defense of Jim Crow that "separate but equal" must have been benign because so few blacks initiated lawsuits seeking its reversal (at the risk of their homes, families, ostracisms, and lives).
At least one member of Congress has insinuated that a constitutional violation is harmless as long as the government conceals the violation from the victim, for example, an unconstitutionally seized and retained email or phone call. That assertion seems first cousin to the nonsense that government assassinations are innocuous if the victims are never acknowledged and their bodies are never found.
President John F. Kennedy taught, "Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was 'civis Romanus sum.' Today, among the disciples of liberty, the proudest boast should be 'I am an American.'" On Gettysburg battlefield, seven score and eight years ago, President Lincoln noted that our forefathers "brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty." Repealing the PATRIOT Act would honor what they so nobly begot.
Persons are born with unalienable rights to liberty. Liberty for its own sake is the definition of America. Lectures that only citizens with something to hide would balk at invasions of liberty are counter-constitutional and un-American. The whole purpose of the Fourth Amendment is to saddle government with a heavy burden of demonstrating by indisputable evidence a compelling need to disturb the domain of any citizen before crossing his threshold. Non-particularized roving wiretaps justified to prevent surveillance targets from outfoxing the government miss the point. Making the convenience of law enforcement or intelligence collection subservient to liberty is the amendment's whole purpose.
The government has been endowed with PATRIOT Act authorities for a decade—ample time to prove their indispensability to national security. Every provision should be repealed forthwith absent proof by the executive that but for the authority conferred an act of international terrorism would have succeeded. If the evidence is vague or inconclusive, the Constitution's default position favoring liberty dictates repeal.
PATRIOT Act defenders argue that the absence of "bodies on the sidewalk" proves its respect for the Constitution and civil liberties. The argument misconceives the fundamental premises of America. Every citizen is born with the unalienable right to be left alone. Government is instituted to secure that right, not to cripple it. Government in the United States, as opposed to the People's Republic of China, has no business collecting or retaining information about citizens without "probable cause" to believe that a crime has been or will be committed by a target who is identified with particularity; or, that a particularized search will unearth evidence of crime. Each and every PATRIOT Act investigation involving citizens triggered by less than probable cause or involving nonparticularized targets or searches is an abuse of government power. At present, the number of victims probably exceeds one million, including recipients of National Security Letters or targets of section 215 surveillances.
Section 206 of the PATRIOT Act authorizing roving wiretaps to collect foreign intelligence; section 215 authorizing orders to seize any "tangible thing" like books or computer hard drives to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities; section 505 authorizing National Security Letters to seize customer records of financial institutions, credit bureaus, and telecommunications providers by the government's assertion of relevance to preventing international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities; and, section 6001 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 authorizing surveillance against hypothetical "lone wolf" international terrorists are all abusive of citizen liberty because they encroach on the right to be left alone without probable cause to believe the target is implicated in crime.
* Violations of the PATRIOT Act compound the abuse inherent in investigations without probable cause to suspect crime. Estimating their frequency is problematic. Implementation of the Act is shrouded in secrecy; and, the involved parties have little incentive to disclose compounded abuses. The absence of public documentation of a single sanction against a government official despite thousands of violations publicly reported by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice is worrisome.
The climate of antagonism towards liberty fostered by the PATRIOT Act has facilitated abusive application, as chronicled below.
A. Brandon Mayfield. Brandon Mayfield is an attorney, a decorated veteran of the United States Army, a Muslim, and a United States citizen. The government aggressively investigated him under the PATRIOT Act for alleged complicity in the March 11, 2004, bombings of several commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, despite definitive exculpatory evidence supplied by the Spanish National Police. He was detained for two weeks. He was subject to electronic surveillance with no showing of probable cause to believe he was complicit in crime. His home was repeatedly invaded and scoured. He was consistently followed, and his "shared and intimate" rooms were "bugged." Personal information obtained as a result of the investigation was shared among several intelligence agencies and stored in government databases.
B. Sami Al-Hussayen. Sami Al-Hussayen was known to his Moscow, Idaho, community as a family-oriented father of three who, shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, organized a blood drive and a candlelight vigil that condemned the attacks as an affront to Islam. The government investigated and detained him for providing "expert advice or assistance" to international terrorists outlawed by a PATRIOT Act amendment to 18 U.S.C. 2339. His alleged crime was volunteering to use his computer skills to run Web sites for a Muslim charity. While the charity generally promoted peaceful religious teachings, prosecutors alleged that buried deep within the Web sites were a handful of violent messages—written by others—encouraging attacks on the United States and donations to terrorist organizations. Al-Hussayen was eventually acquitted of all terrorism-related charges.
C. Tariq Ramadan. Tariq Ramadan is an Oxford University professor and a leading Muslim scholar who advocates the peaceful integration of Muslim values and Western culture. His lectures include a discussion on "Why Islam Needs a Feminist Movement" and "Muslim Democrats in the West and Democratization in the Muslim World: Prospects for Engagement." In August 2005, at the invitation of Prime Minister Tony Blair, Professor Ramadan accepted an invitation to join a U.K. government task force to examine the roots of extremism in Britain.
Professor Ramadan has been a consistent critic of terrorism and those who use it. In October 2001, Professor Ramadan publicly deplored the Sept. 11 attacks, saying to fellow Muslims, "Now more than ever we need to criticize some of our brothers. … You are unjustified if you use the Koran to justify murder." Professor Ramadan publicly condemned the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq in August 2004, the attacks on Jewish synagogues in Istanbul in November 2003, and the terrorist bombing in London in July 2005.
In January 2004, Professor Ramadan was offered a tenured position as the Henry R. Luce professor of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame's Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Professor Ramadan was granted a specialized nonimmigrant visa on May 5, 2004, but on July 28, just nine days before Professor Ramadan and his family were to move to Indiana, he was informed that his visa had been revoked. Professor Ramadan was not directly provided an explanation for the revocation and neither Professor Ramadan nor the University of Notre Dame has ever received a written explanation. At a press conference on Aug. 25, 2004, however, Russ Knocke, a spokesman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security, cited the ideological exclusion provision of the PATRIOT Act as the basis for the revocation.
D. Wiretapping of Children. After FOIA requests and a review of FBI responses, the Electronic Frontier Foundation discovered that, in 2005, FBI agents devoted five consecutive days to monitoring the telephone conversations of two "young children" under a roving wiretap mandate.
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Robert Byrd hopes a week off is the recipe for success this week for the New Hope High School boys basketball team.
A little home cooking won''t hurt the Trojans, either.
Byrd and the defending Class 4A state champions will kick off action at 7:30 tonight against seventh-seeded Neshoba Central on day two of the Class 4A-District 4 tournament at New Hope High.
The second-seeded Trojans (20-4) closed the regular season last week with a victory against Caledonia. New Hope used its trademark defense to force turnovers and a patient attack in its half-court sets to get to 20 victories.
But Byrd wasn''t entirely pleased with the Trojans'' effort. New Hope has had a week to regroup and to rediscover what Byrd believes it will need to challenge top-seeded Noxubee County and the rest of the teams for a district title.
"We have been playing pretty bad coming in," Byrd said. "We have been winning but we haven''t been playing very well, so we had a good week of practice."
Even though New Hope will have the home-court advantage, Byrd believes Shaunessy Smith and the Tigers have to be considered the team to beat.
Noxubee County beat New Hope by three points in the Trojans'' first district game of the season in what Byrd called an "ugly" game. He said both teams had their football players return to their lineups shortly before the game, so neither team was in sync.
Byrd said a week of practice could affect his players'' timing, but he hopes the Trojans will come out focused and ready to make a run at a district tournament.
"We worked on some things defensively and got better defensively," Byrd said. "Offensively, we just have to be able to make some shots. We spent most of the week working on some things defensively. We just didn''t have any urgency the past couple of games."
Byrd hopes team leaders Quentin Shirley and Jonathan Brandon can be difference-makers and build on the tradition of last season''s state championship squad.
"They know how to compete, and we expect them to compete hard," Byrd said of New Hope''s five senior starters. "They have been around. They know what is going on. I expect a lot out of them."
The fourth-seeded New Hope girls basketball team also will have to contend with top-seeded Noxubee County and do-it-all sophomore guard Jeraldine Campbell.
To get to that game, though, the Trojans will have to take care of fifth-seeded Neshoba Central at 6 p.m. today.
Coach Tim Vaughan''s squad will be without shooting guard Tarran King, who suffered a season-ending knee injury late in the year.
Without King, Vaughan said point guard Kelli Petty and center Rachel Hollivay will have to carry a big part of the load.
Vaughan said he learned a lot this season, which began with promise after a 20-6 finish in 2007-08. He hopes the Lady Trojans can find a third player to deliver scoring punch.
If that happens, Vaughan likes his team''s chances to go far.


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NHL on NBCSN: Can the Bruins find enough offense?
By Adam GretzMar 28, 2021, 10:45 AM EDT
NBCSN's coverage of the 2020-21 NHL season continues with Sunday's matchup between the Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils. Bruins-Devils stream coverage begins at 5:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN. You can watch the game online and on the NBC Sports app by clicking here.
The Boston Bruins have been in a bit of a funk over the past month, winning just six of their past 17 games entering Sunday's game against the New Jersey Devils (5:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN).
Go back to the start of the season and the biggest concern with the Bruins may have been their depth on defense after losing Torey Krug and Zdeno Chara to free agency without bringing in anybody from outside the organization to replace them. Defensively though, the Bruins have been strong this season with some more strong goaltending from the duo of Tuukka Rask and Jaroslav Halak and some great defensive work from the blueliners in front of them, particularly Charlie McAvoy.
The concern instead is a similar one that has existed with the Bruins for years. That concern? Do they have enough scoring depth beyond their top line of Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand, and David Pastrnak to make a significant difference.
When that line is on the ice — or even any two of them — the Bruins play at a championship level.
With any of two of them the Bruins attempt more than 60% of the total shots, control more than 54%of the Expected Goals, and outscore teams by a 22-13 margin. Overall, they average 3.55 goals per 60 minutes.
When all three of them are on the ice together they control more than 64% of the shot attempts, 58% of the expected goals, and outscore teams by a 17-8 margin. About as dominant as you can get.
But when none of those three are on the ice during 5-on-5 play, things badly regress.
[COVERAGE OF BRUINS-DEVILS BEGINS AT 5:30 P.M. ET – NBCSN]
At various points over the past few years the Bruins' scoring depth has been an issue. It is an extraordinarily top-heavy team with a significant chunk of the team's offense coming from those three forwards. Entering play on Monday Pastrnak, Marchand, and Bergeron are the only players on the team that have scored more than eight goals this season. Together, they have scored more than 46% of the team's goals.
When none of those three are on the ice, the Bruins plummet to below 50%, while they get outscored by a 33-25 margin.
When all three are on the ice, the Bruins score 4.34 goals per 60 minutes. It is 3.55 with any of two of them. With none of them, their offense drops all the way down to just 1.55 goals per 60 minutes. That is the lowest that number has been in five years for the Bruins. This is a problem and a concern because top-heavy teams do not tend to win the Stanley Cup. If the Bruins are going to get through the East Division playoffs and then compete with the other top teams in the NHL they are going to have to find some sort of offense beyond the Marchand-Bergeron-Pastrnak trio. You can only go so far with just a single line.
So how do the Bruins fix this?
The easiest solution is improvement from within.
The quartet of David Krejci, Charlie Coyle, Craig Smith, and Jake DeBrusk has combined for 14 goals this season, and as a group have scored on only a collective 7% shooting percentage. That is 3-4 percentage points below what you would expect that quartet to shoot at. All of them are capable of more and should be expected to provide more.
But would that be enough?
The Bruins are in a pretty good position with the salary cap this season and could add some significant talent ahead of the trade deadline. When the season began you might have expected them to be in the market for a defenseman right now. And while they could certainly still use some extra depth there, goal prevention is not an issue for Boston right now. It is goal scoring where they rank 20th in goals per game and are almost totally dependent on only three players.
Taylor Hall? Kyle Palmieri? Rickard Rakell? Any of them would be an upgrade to the Bruins' lineup.
This is still a playoff team, but if it is going to compete for the Stanley Cup — seriously compete for the Stanley Cup — it is going to have to do something about that punchless offense beyond the top line.
Adam Gretz is a writer for Pro Hockey Talk on NBC Sports. Drop him a line at phtblog@nbcsports.com or follow him on Twitter @AGretz.


While they can typically be pretty hit or miss, Meghan Markle's Madame Tussauds wax figure was revealed in London on May 9 — and, honestly, it looks really real. It even includes the facial feature that Markle loves most: her trademark freckles. The famous museum unveiled her replica in anticipation of the royal wedding, and fans can get up-close-and-personal with the (fake) soon-to-be duchess starting on May 19, according to the Madame Tussauds website.
Markle's statue was styled to reflect her appearance during the couple's engagement announcement, the museum's website notes, and is dressed in a hunter green P.A.R.O.S.H shift. It also includes a carbon copy of her Cleave and Company-crafted engagement ring, but it's safe to assume that the one her figure is wearing does not include diamonds from Botswana and Princess Diana's personal collection.
Most importantly, though, Markle's wax figure kept her freckles in tact. The former actor spoke to Allure in March 2017, and told the magazine that she couldn't stand it when the facial feature got eliminated in photos. "To this day, my pet peeve is when my skin tone is changed and my freckles are airbrushed out of a photo shoot," Markle said.
She went on to recount a sweet adage about her signature trait, saying, "For all my freckle-faced friends out there, I will share with you something my dad told me when I was younger: 'A face without freckles is a night without stars.'" Aw. Definitely stealing that.
Harry's figure — which will now appear alongside Markle's — was originally created to mark his 30th birthday in 2014. Now, though, the Prince's replica matches his appearance from the couple's engagement announcement as well. The museum updated Harry's look by dressing him in a copy of his sleek, navy suit, and also made sure to add the Prince's "dashing beard," according to their website. Dashing, indeed.
The website also noted that some fans will have a chance to get a sneak peek of Markle and Harry's statues on May 18 — the eve of the couple's "last night of freedom." Tussaud's is throwing the replicas a "hen and stag do" (the British version of a bachelorette and bachelor party, respectively) that night, "complete with a bar and live DJ — the perfect way to party with the golden couple ahead of their big day." No word yet on whether or not Markle's figure will include a "bride" sash for the event, though.
The museum will also be live-streaming the royal wedding when Markle and Harry's new figures are unveiled to the public on May 19, and fans can take photos with the replicas in front of a variety of backgrounds. Can't make it to London for the occasion? According to the Telegraph, Madame Tussauds sister venue in New York City will be revealing their version of Markle — dubbed "American Princess" and featuring a different outfit and pose — on May 9.
In all seriousness, Markle is super lucky that her replica does her justice, because that's definitely not always the case when it comes to wax figures. Prince William and Kate Middleton's wax figures are actually pretty good, but remember what happened to stars like Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, and Emma Watson? Oof. Not the best work.
If you're not in New York or London, though, and still want to see Markle and Harry up close, your best bet is to head to the movies on May 19. 200 theaters across the U.S. will be showing the royal wedding — titled "Harry & Meghan: The Royal Wedding" — on the big-screens, which will undoubtedly give you a pretty good view of everything, including Markle's signature freckles.


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What is a film maker called? – Movie Credit Roles
We need to start calling that, 'I have to be here for all people,' " he told me. "So as a performer, as a filmmaker, it's important and valid to do something, to have a story that touches, to touch people in so many different ways. It's a matter of people not seeing the movies that I've created and what I've put in their mouths and what has been created on so many levels for them to experience."
The film industry's current state, of course, makes it unlikely such a movie could get made today. Most of today's best-selling Hollywood scripts are derivative, written by writers who have never done the kind of work that might get a movie on the screen. But even if this were true, it would scarcely help the situation for those writing, producing and starring in the new movies. (And I would argue that, at an individual level, a great deal of what these new movies do is already being done: a recent survey asked moviegoers to name the best screenwriter of the last 30 years from a list of hundreds.)
To be clear: Not every person who makes a film makes a "better" one. Sometimes they are not even "different" in their writing styles, and sometimes the "best" script comes from a group of filmmakers working in similar ways. (That could include a writer (or editor) at the top in one area, say, or a director (or editor) in one area who writes a script that's also directed by the next artist who happens to be in their field.) What makes people "better" is the amount of creative freedom they have — not what kind of work they do.
Still, it's worth thinking about. One film, a film made of three different filmmakers by two different directors, which was a critical and box-office flop, should serve as a model to anyone who thinks creative freedom is a bad thing in Hollywood.
If the movie that made the most people see and believe in "Dunkirk" is a derivative, derivative work, then the movie that has made the most people see and believe in "Star Wars" is the one that could be the one that will have a bigger impact on our culture and how we talk about what we're watching and watching movies with today.
What's happening now might help the one that is trying to make the greatest impact.
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My granddaughter Madison wanted a Tea Party cake for her 8th birthday. I've used this site many times over the years for inspiration and helpful tips. When I searched for teaparty cakes, the teacups seemed to be the most challenging to recreate. I wanted to share this picture because at the last minute I checked with a local cake shop that carries numerous candy molds and found a mold for a teacup, saucer and spoon in one mold.
I used white chocolate melts and tinted them pink to match the teapot. She was very pleased with how the cake turned out! Thanks to everyone that submits pictures and helpful information.


For such a small state, Vermont seems to have an endless supply of fun facts. When I worked for the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing, travel writers would often contact me for lists of interesting trivia, facts, and figures. Favorites would include Montpelier being the only state capital without a McDonald's, or Vermont having the most breweries per capita in the nation. I admit that after a while, I had a little bit of fact-and-figure fatigue.
Esther M. Swift's "Vermont Place-Names: Footprints of History"—an out-of-print book that was published in 1977 and is the best researched book about Vermont towns—has renewed my interest in obscure facts about the state. Over the past few months, I've been gathering Vermont facts from the pages of Swift's book and elsewhere that are perhaps not as well known.
1. The Green Mountain State is home to 8,696 miles of dirt roads, and 7,105 miles of paved roads.
2. The ridge of Mount Ascutney in West Windsor is unusual because it runs east and west rather than north and south, as do the other peaks of the Green Mountains and Taconic Range.
3. The first copper mine in the United States opened in Strafford in 1793, where it operated until the 1950s.
4. The town of Chittenden has a small population with about 1,260 residents. However, the size of the town is 74.2 square miles—or 46,000 acres—making it the largest town by area in Vermont.
5. Mount Aeolus in Dorset was named by a group of geology students from Amherst College in the 19th century. The students were impressed with the mountain, and because the wind was howling during their visit, they felt it deserved to be named Aeolus for the legendary Greek god of the winds.
6. The base elevation of Bolton Valley Ski Resort is 2,100 feet, the highest in the Northeast.
7. The lost hamlet of Mountain Mills sits beneath the Harriman Reservoir in Wilmington.
8. Vermont's most famous peaks include Camels Hump, Mount Mansfield, and Stratton Mountain. Some of Vermont's lesser-known mountains have more ominous names: Vulture Mountain in Stockbridge, Terrible Mountain in Weston, Hurricane Hill in West Windsor, and Devils Gap in Eden.
9. Established in 1788, Vergennes is the smallest city in Vermont and one of the smallest cities in the United States. It is only two square miles in size and has just 2,588 residents.
10. Vermont is home to 106 covered bridges. One of the state's oldest covered bridges is the Pulp Mill Bridge in Middlebury, which was built in 1808.
Grist Mill Covered Bridge in Jeffersonville.
This is a great list. I didn't know any of these things, although I did know the bit about Montpelier and the breweries.
Thanks, Tara! It was a fun list to put together.
Really enjoyed all the facts., very interesting info!
Never knew but not surprised about the breweries!
Great list, but I would also like to see reference to your source(s) for each of these facts?
I thought Winooski was a one-square mile city…not sure of the population. Very interesting facts about our beloved state!
Hi Barbie — I think Vergennes is the smallest in when you consider size and population. I called the Vergennes town clerk's office yesterday to verify smallest status. Thanks!
Hi Barbie — Also, Vergennes used to be the smallest in the country, but it can no longer make that claim.
I grew up in Winooski, it is 1 sq mile. Her facts are incorrect.
Trisha – Vergennes is the smallest city in VT based on population. Winooski has more people than Vergennes.
I was born in Barre, Mom in Peacham as well as her 4 brothers and 1 sister. Spent time in W. Barnet. There is just something about being a native Vermonter. Thanks for the memories.


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Lorraine O'Grady
Ulrich Museum
September 9, 2017 – March 25, 2018
Untitled (Crowd Watches Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Whipping Herself), performance, 1980-83/2009
Lorraine O'Grady included in the exhibition titled Unmoored Geographies: Works from the Permanent Collection At the Ulrich Museum of Art Wichita, KS.
Exploring themes related to space and place, Unmoored Geographies showcases new acquisitions from the Ulrich Museum of Art's permanent collection. While the individual works may differ in execution and concept, they all share a connection to the notion of movement and challenge the proposition of "place" as something that is fixed and final. Whether referencing geography, architecture, or time, each artist examines how our relationships to site, memory, and physical structures speak to where we, as viewers, stand in relation to them.
Given that the works within this installation reference topics that range from submerged histories and identities, to landscape, to the liminal positions that result from migration, to metaphysical states of being, to the site of the art museum, their movement through and around these issues suggests that our relationships to locations are always shifting. Highlighting works from emerging and established international artists based in countries that include the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Austria and the United Kingdom, the installation will feature works in video, sculpture, photography, and printmaking.
Unmoored Geographies: Works from the Permanent Collection
Wichita State University
1845 Fairmount Street, Wichita, KS 67260


Responding to criticism that he didn't do enough to combat terror during his presidency, Bill Clinton spends much of the second half of his book detailing his efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and other terrorists around the globe.
"Since we had been going after his organization for several years, I had known for some time that he was a formidable adversary," Clinton writes after mentioning dual car bombings of the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 257 people.
And efforts to rid the world of bin Laden had started years before the embassy bombings, according to Clinton. Elsewhere in the book, Clinton focuses on the capture of terrorists set on inflicting harm on the United States.


The release date for Mafia 3 was announced this week. The game will be available on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 7, this year. Also along the release date was released a new trailer called "Mafia III One Way Road Story Trailer", which you can see below.
The game was first rumored in August 2012 and the story revolves around Lincoln Clay, a biracial orphan and Vietnam veteran. He returns from Vietnam war to New Bordeaux (a fictionalized version of New Orleans) in search of peace and his friends and he rejoins The Black Mob (his old gang).


Something had me do or Something had me doing something else?
I understand it's not the present tense, else it would be "goes". Is the sentence grammatically correct? If so, does it mean "you are seeing that it is going away"?
Why do we call the verb in the first sentence in the infinitive form while we don't in the second one?
Is it ungrammatical to start a description of the functionality of a mechanism with a bare infinitive?
I wanted to see whether this phrase is grammatically correct or not. I want to use it in my PhD thesis. "Customers have more freedom to whether buy a new product or to get their money back. "
Which is correct: I am excited to see these guys growing up. or I am excited to see these guys grow up. Having hard time figuring out how to use gerunds in a sentence.
When do we use subjunctive after "unless"?
How does the word "to" function with an infinitive?
Make something "have" or make something "to have"?
He proposed that this meeting to be held annually instead of monthly. Should to be omitted or kept?
Why can't I use the word 'to' after the verb 'helped'?
Can the verb "tend" be followed by a bare infinitive ("tend be" v.s. "tend to be")?
Why do these verbs take bare infinitives?
I can't do anything rather than waiting. I can't do anything rather than wait. Which one is correct and why?
Is this an it-cleft with bare infinitive?
Which is the correct expression, looking to build or looking to building? Whether you are looking to build. . . . or Whether you are looking to building. . . .