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BASEBALL HEADS TO GRAND PRAIRIE FOR WAC TOURNAMENT
• For the second consecutive season, the Sacramento State baseball team will be competing in the Western Athletic Conference Tournament. The 2013 tourney will take place at QuikTrip Park in Grand Prairie, Texas from May 22-26. The eight-team field is divided into two four-team pools. Each pool will consist of round robin play with the two winners meeting in Sunday's championship to play for the automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.
• The Hornets will open against UTSA on Wednesday at 9 a.m. PDT. The team will play top-seeded CSU Bakersfield on Thursday at 5 p.m. PDT and San Jose State on Saturday at 9 a.m. PDT.
• Sacramento State enters the week at 33-23 overall and finished WAC play with a 14-13 record. The team was swept by UT Arlington in its most recent series, losing the final two games by one run.
• The Hornets reached the championship game of the 2012 WAC Tournament before losing to Fresno State in the 13th inning.
Broadcast Notes
• An audio broadcast of the game will streamed for free via hornetsports.com with Kyle Madson and Brian Berger calling the action.
• Live stats can be viewed on wacsports.com as well as a video stream which can be purchased.
Series Histories
• Sacramento State is 1-2 all-time against UTSA with each meeting coming this season.
• The Hornets are 2-4 all-time against CSU Bakersfield.
• San Jose State leads the all-time series, 38-23, in the Div. I era.
A LOOK BACK AT THE UTSA SERIES
Sacramento State lost three game series at UTSA, 2-1. The first two games broke the norm for the team and were not close before the third one was decided in the final innings.
On Friday, the Hornets scored first and led 2-0 after the top of the fourth. However, from that point, UTSA scored the final seven runs to win 7-2. The Roadrunners picked up single runs in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh before adding three in the eighth.
Sacramento State had just four hits as a team, including a home run from Justin Higley.
On Saturday, the Hornets' offense awoke and run-ruled UTSA, 12-1, in eight innings. Brennan Leitao allowed singles to the first two batters he faced but allowed only one more for the remainder of the game.
All nine Sacramento State hitters had at least one hit and five players had two or more hits, including a 4-for-5 effort by Nathan Lukes.
The Hornets took charge of Sunday's game early on, leading 4-1 before UTSA tied the game, 5-5, at the end of the sixth inning. The score remained tied until the eighth inning when Daniel Rockett hit a two-out three-run home run for an 8-5 Roadrunner win.
SCOUTING THE ROADRUNNERS (PART I)
UTSA swept New Mexico State and Louisiana Tech to claim the fourth seed in the tournament. The team is hitting .303 with six regulars hitting above .300. That group is led by RJ Perucki (.354, 10 HR, 40 RBI) and Daniel Rockett (.350, 9 HR, 45 RBI).
The pitching staff owns a 4.55 team ERA. Brock Hartson, who the Hornets will face on Wednesday, is 8-4 with a 3.31 ERA in 14 starts. Matt Sims is the team's closer with eight saves.
A LOOK BACK AT THE CSUB GAME
Sacramento State opened WAC play by winning one of three games against CSU Bakersfield.
The Roadrunners captured the series opener with a 4-2 victory on Friday. The Hornets bounced back with a 5-0 shutout on Saturday. CSUB took the rubber game on Sunday with a 6-3 win in 10 innings.
In the final game, the Hornets led 3-1 in the eighth inning before Bakersfield scored two in that frame to tie the game. Cael Brockmeyer then clubbed a three-run home run in the top of the 10th for the decisive runs.
Brennan Leitao threw seven strong innings as part of four pitchers on Saturday. Leitao scattered nine hits and did not allow a walk in the win.
Friday, the Roadrunners scored three runs in the third inning which proved to be enough.
SCOUTING THE ROADRUNNERS (PART II)
The top seed in the tournament, CSUB enters after losing two of three at San Jose State last weekend. The Roadrunners are 35-21 overall and tied UT Arlington for the regular season WAC title at 18-9.
Shortstop Tyler Shyrock is the team's leading hitter at .363. Cael Brockmeyer leads CSUB with four home runs at 50 RBIs.
Jeff McKenzie (1.79, 12-2) and Scott Brattvet (2.66, 9-1) highlight a staff that has a 3.48 ERA. Dylan Christensen and Taylor Aikenhead each own five saves.
A LOOK BACK AT THE SJSU SERIES
Sacramento State won its third consecutive series and fifth in its last six by taking two of three games against San Jose State.
The Hornets began the set with a 4-1 win on Friday. Starter Brennan Leitao continued his brilliance against WAC foes, throwing eight innings and allowing five hits and a run. Sacramento State scored two runs in the first and a run in the second to take control of the game.
Saturday, the Hornets squandered a late lead for the first time in over two months as SJSU rallied for an 8-6 victory. The Spartans scored three runs in the ninth off of closer Sutter McLoughlin to even the series.
Sacramento State won the rubber game on Sunday when David Del Grande scored from third on a wild pitch to claim a 3-2 victory.
SCOUTING THE SPARTANS
San Jose State (17-38, 11-16) claimed the final berth into the tournament by taking two of three at home against CSU Bakersfield.
First baseman Matt Carroll paces the Spartans with a .333 average and 40 RBIs. D.J. Slaton and David Wayne Russo are tied for the team lead with four wins each.
ENCORE PERFORMANCE
Sacramento State enters this week's tournament with a similar path to last season. In 2012, the Hornets were swept by UNLV during the final weekend of the year but managed to advance to the WAC championship game. The team began the tourney with a 15-5 win over Nevada in eight innings and advanced to the finals with an 8-3 win over Fresno State. The Bulldogs, however, earned the title with a 9-6 win on April 26 and a 4-3 victory in 13 innings the following day.
Freshman Sutter McLoughlin did not allow his blown save on Saturday against San Jose State to have a lasting effect on him. The closer returned to action at Pacific to record his 17th save of the season. McLoughlin entered with runners on first and second and one out. He struck out the first batter he faced before getting the next hitter to fly out to center.
The Rio Americano HS graduate now has an ERA of 2.36 in his 34.1 innings of work. He ranks third in Div. I this season, trailing only Austin Peay's Tyler Rogers (20) and Oregon's Jimmie Sherfy (20).
His next save will move him ahead of Michael Penbera for sole possession of second on the school career list. The career record of 26 was set by Mike Frame from 1987-89.
Earlier this season, McLoughlin was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Watch List.
BACK ON THE BUMP
Sacramento State will turn the ball over to Brennan Leitao to start the WAC Tournament on Wednesday. The sophomore is coming off a tough start where he was charged for seven runs (four earned) and seven hits in just 1.2 innings.
Despite that off day, Leitao is still the team leader with a 2.79 ERA and an 8-3 record. He's also logged a team best 93.2 innings and has a WHIP of 0.98.
Leitao has been even better in WAC games, logging a 7-2 record with a 2.11 ERA in nine starts.
EXPERIENCE NOT NEEDED
While freshman Sutter McLoughlin may be garnering the national attention, a pair of freshmen have been leading Sacramento State at the plate.
The duo of Chris Lewis and Nathan Lukes have combined for 144 hits, 72 runs, and 77 RBIs during their first active seasons with the team.
Lewis leads all Hornets with a .351 average and is tied for the team lead with 46 RBI. In conference play, he hit .396 with a .439 on-base percentage. Lewis has reached base in all but six games this season and has recorded a pair of 13-game hitting streaks.
Lukes has 70 base hits and his batting .320. The Center HS graduate seems to get his hits in bunches as he leads the team with 23 multi-hit games. Lukes has also been exceptional in right field where he has seven assists.
The previous Hornet freshman record was 62 set by Tim Wheeler in 2007. Wheeler went on to become a first round draft choice of the Colorado Rockies and is currently in Triple-A.
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June 27, 2013 BASEBALL WELL REPRESENTED IN SUMMER COLLEGIATE LEAGUES
June 26, 2013 FOURTEEN HORNETS NAMED TO WAC ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM
June 10, 2013 McLOUGHLIN, LEWIS ADD TO POSTSEASON AWARDS
June 8, 2013 AYERS DRAFTED BY KANSAS CITY ROYALS
June 8, 2013 HIGLEY, MENDONCA SELECTED ON THIRD DAY OF MLB DRAFT
June 5, 2013 McLOUGHLIN, LEWIS NAMED FRESHMEN ALL-AMERICANS
May 25, 2013 BASEBALL ENDS SEASON WITH 3-0 WIN OVER SAN JOSE STATE
May 23, 2013 CSU BAKERSFIELD HANDS BASEBALL SECOND LOSS IN WAC TOURNAMENT
May 22, 2013 BASEBALL BEGINS WAC TOURNAMENT WITH 3-2 LOSS IN 14TH INNING
May 21, 2013 FOUR HORNETS NAMED ALL-WAC; LEWIS EARNS FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
May 20, 2013 BASEBALL HEADS TO GRAND PRAIRIE FOR WAC TOURNAMENT
May 18, 2013 BASEBALL CLOSES REGULAR SEASON WITH 6-5 LOSS TO UT ARLINGTON
May 17, 2013 BASEBALL'S COMEBACK FALLS SHORT IN 3-2 LOSS TO UT ARLINGTON
May 16, 2013 BASEBALL CAN'T OVERCOME ROUGH START IN LOSS TO UT ARLINGTON
May 16, 2013 BASEBALL WRAPS UP REGULAR SEASON WITH HOMESTAND AGAINST UT ARLINGTON
May 14, 2013 BASEBALL CONTINUES MIDWEEK DOMINANCE WITH 3-1 WIN AT PACIFIC
May 12, 2013 BASEBALL WINS IN WALK-OFF FASHION, 3-2, OVER SAN JOSE STATE
May 11, 2013 BASEBALL LETS LATE LEAD SLIP AWAY IN 8-6 LOSS TO SPARTANS
May 10, 2013 LEITAO, BASEBALL KEEP ROLLING WITH 4-1 WIN OVER SAN JOSE STATE
May 9, 2013 BASEBALL STARTS HOMESTAND AGAINST SAN JOSE STATE ON FRIDAY
May 5, 2013 BASEBALL HAS WIN STREAK SNAPPED IN LOSS AT SEATTLE, 10-7
May 4, 2013 AYERS' HOME RUN GIVES BASEBALL ITS FIFTH STRAIGHT WIN
May 2, 2013 BASEBALL MEETS SEATTLE FOR FIRST TIME IN WAC SERIES
April 30, 2013 QUICK START LIFTS BASEBALL TO 7-6 WIN AT NEVADA
April 29, 2013 SOTO, McLOUGHLIN NAMED WAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
April 28, 2013 BASEBALL CAPTURES SERIES WITH 4-1 WIN OVER LOUISIANA TECH
April 27, 2013 ONE RUN ENOUGH FOR BASEBALL IN 1-0 WIN OVER LA TECH
April 26, 2013 BASEBALL STUMBLES IN 5-4 LOSS TO LOUISIANA TECH
April 25, 2013 BASEBALL RETURNS HOME TO FACE LOUISIANA TECH
April 24, 2013 BASEBALL CONTINUES MIDWEEK SUCCESS WITH 7-2 WIN AT USF
April 23, 2013 McLOUGHLIN NAMED TO NCBWA WATCH LIST
April 23, 2013 BASEBALL COMPLETES SEASON SERIES SWEEP OF SAINT MARY'S
April 21, 2013 LATE HOME RUN GIVES UTSA 8-5 VICTORY AND SERIES WIN OVER BASEBALL
April 20, 2013 BASEBALL EVENS SERIES WITH 12-1 VICTORY AT UTSA
April 19, 2013 UTSA PULLS AWAY LATE TO WIN FIRST GAME OF SERIES
April 18, 2013 BASEBALL RETURNS TO TEXAS TO PLAY UTSA IN WAC SERIES
April 14, 2013 LUKES' TRIPLE HELPS BASEBALL TO SERIES VICTORY AT NEW MEXICO STATE
April 13, 2013 BASEBALL CRUSHES NEW MEXICO STATE, 16-4, IN RUN RULE GAME
April 12, 2013 DEFENSE FALTERS IN BASEBALL'S 5-4 LOSS AT NEW MEXICO STATE
April 11, 2013 BASEBALL TAKES FOUR GAME WIN STREAK TO NEW MEXICO STATE
April 9, 2013 BASEBALL RECORDS HISTORIC SHUTOUT IN 7-0 WIN OVER SIMPSON
April 7, 2013 LEITAO'S GEM, DEFENSE HELP BASEBALL COMPLETE SWEEP OF TEXAS STATE WITH 1-0 VICTORY
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March 7, 2013 RED-HOT BASEBALL HOSTS CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE THIS WEEKEND FOR THREE-GAME SET
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Securities and Exchange Board of India vs. Alka Synthetics Ltd. and Ors.
Aditi Mishra
Before the High Court of Gujarat
(1999) 1 GLR 275
Securities and Exchange Board of India
Alka Synthetics Ltd. and Ors.
Date of Judgement
Justice J.R. Vora and; Justice M.R. Calla
This appeal concerns itself with the limits of power of the Security and Exchanges Board of India to issue orders and directions for the regulation of the Securities Market and the protection of the interest of the investors. This appeal also deals with the question of whether or not SEBI can withhold a property for fulfilling the aforesaid duty.
Magan Industries Limited is a public limited company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The price and volume movement of the company between December 5, 1995, and January 25, 1996, was unreasonably high, calling for an intervention by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (hereafter referred to as SEBI) to initiate an investigation. Price and volume are high, short-sellers failed in delivering the shares which they had sold which resulted in an auction of the shares of the company called by Bombay Stock Exchange. This auction was to be held on February 7, 1996. Alka Synthetics Limited is a registered public limited company having its office at Ahmadabad. It offered to sell its 50,000 shares which it owned in Magan Industries. The sale was to be conducted through a short seller.
The auction was held and the price of the shares which the Alka Synthetics had offered was received by the stock exchange from the purchasers. But before this amount could be paid to Alka Synthetics, SEBI through a notification dated 15 February 1996 directed the retention of the payment by the Clearing House until the completion of the investigation. This was done to ascertain whether or not any provision of the Security and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 has been violated or not. SEBI was of the view that artificial manipulation of the price of the scrip of Magan Industries had been done and that Alka Synthetics had been heavily buying and selling in these scrips. The report of the Bombay Stock Exchange dated 11 April 1996 further cemented this view.
In March, a petition was filed challenging the SEBI notification dated February 15 on which judgment was delivered by a single judge bench on the date May 6, 1996, in which the court directed interim relief to Alka Synthetics. On 4 July 1996 SEBI directed the Bombay Stock Exchange to credit the impounded monies to its Investors Protection Fund. Thereafter on the date July 14, 1996, the petition was amended and the order dated February 15 was challenged on the grounds of being violative of Article 300A of the Constitution of India. On October 17, 1996, SEBI called upon Alka Synthetics to appear before its committee on the question of impounding to which Alka Synthetics made no response and did not turn up on the day on which it was asked to. Therefore, this appeal has been filed before this court against the relief order given by the Single Judge Bench.
Statutes and Provisions discussed:
Section 11 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992
Article 300A of The Indian Constitution, 1950
Whether SEBI has the authority to impound or forfeit monies received by the stock exchange during the auction from the purchasers?
Whether the order passed by SEBI is violative of Article 300A of the Constitution of India?
Arguments Advanced:
Arguments on behalf of the Appellant:
The Counsel appearing for the appellant contended that the order dated July 4 is only an interim order and has been passed to preserve the subject matter till the final decision is taken. The Counsel also contended that SEBI has the power to regulate the Stock Market which includes regulation through issuing prohibitory orders.
The appellant also contended that Section 11 of the Act makes it the duty of the Board to protect the interest of the investors to regulate the securities market and to work for its development.
Arguments on behalf of Respondent:
The Counsel appearing on behalf of the respondent contended that SEBI has no power to issue an order to impound the money and deprive the respondent of its property resulting in violation of Article 300A of the Constitution of India.
He further contended that the term 'law' used in Article 300A means a law made by the legislative authority and not an executive authority and SEBI being the latter, is transgressing its power limit. The respondents also contended that the Principles of Natural Justice has also not been followed.
The Court held that the order dated July 4, 1996, issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India is valid and has been issued under the authority of law. The Court further held that there is no violation of Article 300A of the Constitution of India and hence, the finding of the single judge bench was withheld.
The Court held that the legislation by which SEBI has been constituted is reformative legislation enacted to reform the economic conditions and it invests the SEBI with statutory powers to regulate the securities market to protect the interest of the investors and so that there is a healthy growth of the securities market. Therefore, the order dated July 4 cannot be said to be without the authority of law. On the reading of Section 11 and Section 11(2), it can easily be understood that SEBI is empowered to regulate the securities market to protect the interest of the investors and for this purpose, it can take whatever steps which it deems fit. The securities market is speculative markets and therefore its exigencies and measures to be taken to reform it cannot be comprehended beforehand. Thus, SEBI has been empowered under the act to take measures and such measures cannot be declared wrong just because they have not been laid down in advance.
Court held that it had already held that the order dated July 4 is under the 'Authority of Law' as contemplated in Article 300A and hence no question of its violation is arising. It was further observed that the order dated July 4 does not deprive the respondent of its property. It is just not allowing the respondent to take always the money until the proceedings are pending.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has been constituted for the protection of the interest of the investors in securities and to promote healthy security exchange. For this purpose, SEBI has been empowered to issue such orders as it deems fit by considering the statue of the market as the exigency at hand.
Edited by Parul Soni
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If Rank is ever blessed with children, he is praying for triplets because the names are already picked out.
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Now, a little bit of disclosure. If my wife and I are ever blessed with children, and we have triplets, we can name those kids after the Rat Pack. That's right, my triplets would be named Frank, Dean and Sammy Rank. But enough of this nonsense. If you want a creative name, here are some of the best first names of NFL players to inspire you.
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Naming your kid after former Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham would be a fitting tribute. Randall is a great name. But for many of us who grew up playing Super Tecmo Bowl on Nintendo, we should probably avoid the legal hassles and go with his proper name, Eagles QB.
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Here is a good name with double meaning that should appeal to everybody. For the football fans in your family, they would marvel over having a young lad named after one of the greatest quarterbacks in history, Otto Graham. The younger generation could appreciate having a kid named after the cannabis-smoking bus driver from the Simpsons.
My brother-in-law will never admit it, but I was very close to convincing him to name my youngest nephew after the greatest player in Rams history, Deacon Jones. But crisis averted in hindsight because my first born son will have the name of Dino Deacon Rank.
Did I miss one? You can send more suggestions via Twitter, and be sure to catch the latest on the Dave Dameshek Football Program.
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FILE PHOTO: Public Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda attends the trial of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda at the ICC (International Criminal Court) in the Hague, the Netherlands August 28, 2018.
The statement comes after the International Criminal Court said in a statement earlier in the day, that it chose to decline the request of Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to launch an inquiry into allegations of war crimes perpetrated by U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
With its limited budget, the court needs to prioritise resources on "activities that would have a better chance to succeed", the judges said.
In 2017, chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda asked judges to allow a full-blown probe not only into the Taliban and Afghan soldiers, but also global forces, particularly United States troops and members of the Central Intelligence Agency. Last week, it was confirmed that ICC prosecutor's visa had been officially revoked, barring travel to the USA with the exception of official business at the United States.
In March, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States would impose visa restrictions and possibly economic sanctions on individuals linked to any International Criminal Court investigation into alleged war crimes by US personnel in Afghanistan or by US allies, particularly Israel, elsewhere.
In the Afghanistan case, judges said Friday that a large number of victims had come forward: some 699 applicants in total made representations on behalf of "several millions of victims". The judges considered the time since the 2006 preliminary examination "and the political changing scene in Afghanistan since then" as well as "the lack of cooperation that the Prosecutor has received", which they said was "likely to go scarcer should an investigation be authorized".
However, the pretrial chamber decision to take political factors into consideration in its decision was unusual, Human Rights Watch said. "It sends a unsafe message to perpetrators that they can put themselves beyond the reach of the law just by being uncooperative".


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Lack of Risk Assessment Led to My Injury: A Case Study
By: Susan Hunt MA - Updated: 15 Apr 2017 | *Discuss
Not carrying out a risk assessment led to my injury
A "walkabout" by a towering animatronics creation was a great treat for families in Sunderland – but not for an employee who was struck in the head by the monster!
Mary Taylor says she was injured because her employers failed to realise the problems that could arise from the display – and didn't take any precautions to protect staff or the public.
Mary, 22, said she was surprised when she found out that the creature would be allowed to take any route it chose during the display and was even allowed to approach the crowd.
Scared Children
"It was 10 feet tall and very heavy and bulky," she said. "It also had sound effects which were really scary for children and when it suddenly altered direction, youngsters turned and ran."
The huge figure was allowed to walk freely amongst the public when staff involved felt onlookers should have been behind safety barriers.
"It was actually pretty scary," said Mary. "Parents were pushing each other out of the way to try to get to their children and at one point I was really worried that little children in the crowd might be knocked over and trampled on. "
Poor View
The animatronics attraction was manned from the inside but the operator's view was of above head height. He couldn't see small children or objects ahead of him and more than once bumped into people.
"It was a very big and really heavy but it moved very quickly. A lot of children were really frightened," said Mary.
"We were told that whoever was close-by had to supervise it – but since we didn't know which way it would turn or when it would lift its huge arms it was a nightmare. The sound effects and the control console that followed it around were really loud so the man inside couldn't even hear if we shouted to him.
"There were at least a hundred people watching the display and they should have been kept well clear. I don't think management realised how terrifying it would be!"
She said staff weren't given any training – or even told what to expect from the creature.
"It was very hard to keep the public from getting too close, and there was very little I could do to keep so many people at a safe distance. We really needed an area where it could 'perform' safely."
Mary said she realised at one point that the creature was turning around unexpectedly and she ran forward to ask people to give it some room.
"I was gesturing to people to get back when it suddenly turned, just as the crowd pushed forward. I was forced closer and as it turned, I was struck in the side of the head by its metal shoulder. It then grazed me as I tried to squeeze past.
"The man inside the creature didn't even know that he had hit me, but I was almost knocked out. I was really dizzy, my head was bleeding and a workmate had to help me to the staff toilets to clean up."
She said when she reported the accident and told her manager that she felt the creature needed closer supervision and a safe performance area, he told her that since it had only one more performance to give, it didn't warrant bringing in barriers or roping an area off.
"I definitely think that it posed a real danger to both the public and members of staff. We were not even given any training on crowd control and I was completely out of my depth."
As part of its menacing act, the creature rushed at people and a lot of the children watching were scared.
Lucky Escape
"Fortunately I wasn't seriously hurt," said Mary. "But it could have been so much worse. People often say that companies have gone overboard on risk assessments and that sort of thing but it certainly made me realise how important these procedures are.
Any activity or work that could pose a danger to employees or members of the public should not begin until a risk assessment has been carried out and if there are five or more employees, the risk assessment needs to be completed in writing.
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from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
from gi.repository import GLib
import argparse
import logging
import sys
import os

# our own packages
sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '../ext/velib_python'))
from dbusdummyservice import DbusDummyService
from logger import setup_logging

# Argument parsing
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
    description='dummy dbus service'
)

parser.add_argument("-n", "--name", help="the D-Bus service you want me to claim",
                type=str, default="com.victronenergy.tank.builtin_adc5_di0")

args = parser.parse_args()

print(__file__ + " is starting up, use -h argument to see optional arguments")
logger = setup_logging(debug=True)

# Have a mainloop, so we can send/receive asynchronous calls to and from dbus
DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)

s = DbusDummyService(
    servicename=args.name,
    deviceinstance=0,
    paths={
        '/Capacity': {'initial': 100},
        '/FluidType': {'initial': 0},
        '/Level': {'initial': 50},
        '/Remaining': {'initial': 50},
        '/Status': {'initial': 1},
    },
    productname='Generic Tank sensor',
    connection='ADC port 1')

logger.info('Connected to dbus, and switching over to GLib.MainLoop() (= event based)')
mainloop = GLib.MainLoop()
mainloop.run()


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History > Regional & national history > Europe
History > Military history > Second World War
Politics, Society & Education > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations
The Origins of the Second World War in Europe - Origins Of Modern Wars (Paperback)
P. M. H. Bell (author)
PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War. He approaches the subject from three different angles: describing the various explanations that have been offered for the war and the historiographical debates that have arisen from them, analysing the ideological, economic and strategic forces at work in Europe during the 1930s, and tracing the course of events from peace in 1932, via the initial outbreak of hostilities in 1939, through to the climactic German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 which marked the descent into general conflict.
Written in a lucid, accessible style, this is an indispensable guide to the complex origins of the Second World War.
Edition: 3rd New edition
"At last we have a good survey of Europe's route to World War II. P.M.H. Bell's study is a worthy sequel to its distinguished predecessor, James Joll's The Origins of the First World War. On the whole the accuracy, precision, and balance are outstanding. Bell's words are carefully chosen, and he has produced a remarkable synthesis, complete with concrete detail and intelligent but not excessive use of statistics. The resulting work is reliable and judicious, very erudite but never ponderous."
Sally Marks, American Historical Review
"Bell's new book transcends (A.J.P.) Taylor and can replace him. Bell has delved more thoroughly into the intricate problems they both treat. He handles the evidence more fairly, and is less sure that he knows all the answers."
M.R.D. Foot, Albion
"This is a vast topic, and all one can do, by way of brief review, is to commend the masterly equity, lucidity and inclusiveness of Philip Bell's survey of its bewildering complexities."
Martin Fagg, Times Educational Supplement
"lucid, balanced and sane"
Eric Summers, History Teaching Review
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Big Week
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The Shortest History of Europe
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Daisy Dunn
Chernobyl Prayer
Travellers in the Third Reich
Julia Boyd
Philip Mansel
The Diary of a Young Girl
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Burundi signs visa waiver with United Arab Emirates
byWILLIAM LUBUULWA
Ezéchiel Nibigira, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Burundi. The minister was in Dubai to sign a visa waiver Memorandum of Understanding with United Arab Emirates. (TWITTER PHOTO)
DUBAI – Burundi and United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in which their nationals will travel to either country visa-free.
The MoU was signed on Thursday, January 3 in Dubai between UAE Minister of State Zaki Nusseibeh and Burundi's Ezéchiel Nibigira, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
According to Khaleej Times, a local daily, the waiver was signed in the presence of Khalid Al Mana'i, Executive Director at the Political Affairs Office of the UAE Vice President in Dubai, and the Ambassadress of Burundi to France, Dr Christine Nina Niyonsavye, along with a number of officials from both countries.
The two ministers underlined the importance of advancing bilateral cooperation at the diplomatic and cultural fronts.
The UAE minister welcomed Burundi's affirmed participation in EXPO 2020 Dubai, an international platform which will help underpin channels of cultural cooperation between the participating countries.
On his part, the Burundian Minister underlined his country's keenness to further cooperation with UAE at all levels.
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Q&A: Preventing hospital outbreaks with surveillance technology Special
By Tim Sandle Apr 10, 2019 in Health
Misdiagnosis of infection strains in hospitals is leading to a public health crisis, as doctors treat these infections unnecessarily and ineffectively with antibiotics. To tackle this, new precision medicine solutions are being tested.
New precision medicine solutions are capable of rapidly identifying and managing superbugs in healthcare facilities. These have the goal of cutting down on costly and dangerous misdiagnoses. One such solution comes from OpGen, a genomics and informatics company offering technology solutions in this space.
OpGen is currently rolling out an initiative with the New York State DoH and Merck to track these infections across state hospitals and recommend treatments based on precision medicine data, with the goal of reducing infection transmission and cutting down on antibiotic overuse.
To understand more about the technology, Digital Journal spoke with Evan Jones, CEO of OpGen.
Digital Journal: How big a problem are nosocomial infections?
Evan Jones: Nosocomial infections are a major challenge for the healthcare industry. The CDC recently estimated that each day, one in 31 patients is affected by a hospital-acquired infection. Even with more strict attention being paid to infection control practices, there are many factors present in hospital environments which make these types of infections common, particularly in high-risk populations.
Patients are more susceptible to infection after undergoing surgery, if they are using a medical device, such as a catheter, or if they have a preexisting condition, such as diabetes. And, of course, elderly patients living in nursing and long-term care facilities are at a higher risk of infection. In addition to patient suffering, these infections often lead to longer hospital stays and higher rates of readmittance, racking up billions of dollars in healthcare costs.
DJ: How frequently does misidentification of a bacterium occur?
Jones: While multiple bacteria may be present, identifying which bacteria is causing an infection can present challenges, it is not the most significant problem we face because rapid technologies are available to identify the pathogen. The problem is rooted in knowing which antibiotics will be effective to treat the infecting bacteria at the time of prescribing the first dose. For example, we may identify the bacteria as E. coli, but not all E. coli can be treated with the same antibiotics. In fact, in more than one-third of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) cases, it has been shown that the infecting bacteria is resistant to front-line antibiotics. Unfortunately, traditional laboratory methods can take up to three days to identify the appropriate antibiotic therapy to treat the infection.
DJ: What are the implications of the wrong identification in relation to patient care?
Jones: First and foremost, patients who are initially treated with ineffective antibiotics often go through needless suffering as ineffective treatments are administered to no avail. Infection patients are also more likely to remain in the hospital for longer periods of time, which can be stressful, particularly for older high-risk patients and the individuals who manage their care. The longer a stay, the more nurses and doctors become involved in helping with patient care, which increases the likelihood of a miscommunication or mistake when it comes to keeping track of the patient's symptoms and treatment courses. This process also significantly adds to hospital costs.
DJ: Does misidentification exacerbate the antimicrobial resistance issue?
Jones: Misidentification is certainly an issue, but the length of time required to determine the correct antibiotic can create an even larger challenge. Often doctors' first course of action when diagnosing an infection is to treat with frontline antibiotics. However, if the pathogen is multi-drug resistant there's a likely chance that their first round of treatment will be ineffective. Not only will the patient not improve, but the use of the front-line antibiotics can drive antibiotic resistance in the patient's other bacteria. Should these other bacteria flourish to infection levels or be transmitted through the hospital; this can lead to proliferation of antibiotic resistance through the hospital leaving a reduced supply of effective drugs left in the pharmacy.
DJ: What is the OpGen solution to this issue?
Jones: OpGen combines advanced, rapid diagnostics with precision analytics to quickly identify and treat antibiotic resistance threats in healthcare institutions. The Acuitas AMR Gene Panel rapidly detects the DNA of common bacterial pathogens in complicated Urinary Tract Infections and antibiotic resistance genes for common antibiotics used to treat these cases. The Acuitas Lighthouse interprets the genetic data and accurately predicts antibiotic resistance to help guide the appropriate antibiotic therapy.
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Jones: We have developed the Acuitas AMR Gene Panel, a PCR assay capable of detecting 47 resistance genes covering nine classes of antibiotics and the five most common bacterial pathogens in complicated UTI cases. Results, which are typically available in under three hours are uploaded to the cloud-based Acuitas Lighthouse software which predicts effective antibiotics and displays genetic resistance profiles for each bacterial organism tested.
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Percival Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) was a well-decorated officer in the British army who, by the elite, was considered "unfortunate in his choice of ancestors." But, he was a highly regarded explorer and took the daunting task, commissioned by the Royal Geographic Society, of exploring and mapping the uncharted land of Bolivia. There, he finds signs of an advanced, past civilization and becomes obsessed with discovering "The Lost City of Z."
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Yet another historical biopic of a hitherto unknown figure comes to us with the story of soldier, explorer, surveyor and advanced thinker Percy Fawcett. He accepts the Bolivia mission and is joined by fellow explorer Henry Costin (Robert Pattinson) in the tough trek. Braving horrid conditions, disease, hunger and hostile natives, the explorers come upon pottery shards and signs of civilization that should not be there.
When Fawcett returns home to RGS acclaim, and his stoic, stand-by-her-man wife, Nina (Sienna Miller), he is convinced that he was on the brink of finding the legendary lost city "of gold and maize." Other expeditions ensue, then Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated and Fawcett's obsession to find the mythical place is put on hold by the Great War. It all ramps up again following the war, culminating with Fawcett and his grown son, Jack (Tom Holland), making the final push in their adventure of discovery.
Writer-director James Gray adapts the book by David Grann and tells of a grueling set of arduous and dangerous adventures to fulfill one man's quest for truth and science. The film is divided in chapters with Fawcett leaving his wife for extended periods of time, like years. Somehow, Nina, every time he returns from South America, presents him with a new-born baby. There are other plays with the film's timeline that are there more to push the story forward than to make real sense.
The film's leads are well played by Hunnam, Miller and Pattinson and gather sympathy and give strength to their characters. The episodic nature of the storytelling harkens back to the days when adventurers were strong, noble types who are hyper aware the land and its people. It is kind of like Indiana Jones without the bullwhip, stolen idols and Nazi conspiracy and all the hard work. I give it a B.
In 1905 Ireland, British Major Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam, TV's 'Sons of Anarchy') was frustrated by the class bigotry that kept him from rising in the ranks. He is offered a mission with the Royal Geographical Society to define the border between Bolivia and Brazil, both countries land grabbing for precious rubber resources. Hoping to distinguish himself, he left his expectant wife Nina (Sienna Miller, "American Sniper") and set off into the jungle with aide-de-camp Henry Costin (Robert Pattinson, "Cosmopolis") and a native guide, but the experience led to his obsession with finding "The Lost City of Z."
Writer/director James Gray ("The Immigrant") has made a film the like of which hasn't been seen in years, a classical, shot on 35 mm (by cinematographer Darius Khondji, "Se7en," "The Immigrant") adventure story which also serves as a biography of one enlightened man wishing to change the mindset of the colonialists who charted his fate. The film doesn't aspire to the madness of Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo" or the dreamlike spirituality of "Embrace of the Serpent," instead focusing on the drive of one man with a restraint suitable to its time period.
A week into his initial journey, Fawcett attacks a man who's been following him aboard the ship. It's Costin (a heavily bearded Pattinson), the man who answered his ad but held back, wanting to see if Fawcett 'was up to the task.' These two accomplish their mission under seriously adverse conditions, including arrow attacks and a meeting with an unsavory Rubber Baron (Franco Nero), heading farther into the jungle than any white men before them. When their guide quietly slips away, Fawcett doesn't blink, accepting the natural order of a civilization he believes predates his own. The stories he's heard about an ancient city prove more than possible when he discovers broken shards of pottery at his journey's end. He's determined to return, but WWI calls him to French battlefields.
Fawcett returns home to a hero's welcome, but his son Jack doesn't recognize him, resenting his father's frequent absences. He petitions the RGS for funding to return to the jungle and prove his theory, attacked by an old guard who disbelieve 'savages' could have accomplished what he believes. But James Murray (Angus Macfadyen, "Braveheart") not only supports him, he accompanies Fawcett and Costin on their second attempt in 1912. This trip finds them making allies with a cannibal tribe, but Murray turns out to be more foe, a dead weight who seriously depletes their supplies, causing the expedition to end tantalizingly close to Fawcett's goal.
It is not until his middle age that Fawcett makes his third, fateful expedition, this time with his adult son Jack (Tom Holland, "Captain America: Civil War"), who has grown to admire his father (Costin, now a father himself, declines). A letter makes it back to Nina, but her husband and son never return, their fate unknown.
Gray's ambitious undertaking is both a glorious paean to man's exploratory spirit and a vicarious experience of the hardships of 19th century travel into the unknown. Hunnam projects a man divided between family and his overriding obsession, an open-minded individualist yet period perfect. Pattinson continues to impress in independent supporting roles, his taciturn and hirsute Costin a man of his times.
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Racoviță, o Racovitza, è una nobile famiglia di boiardi moldavi, attestata sin dal XV secolo. A partire dal XVII secolo strinse legami con i Cantemir e con influenti famiglie fanariote, tra cui i Cantacuzini, i Rosetti, i Maurocordato, gli Ypsilanti, i Suțu. Alcuni suoi membri governarono i principati di Moldavia e di Valacchia nel XVIII secolo. La famiglia mantenne una larga influenza anche durante il Regno di Romania.

Principi regnanti di Moldavia e di Valacchia
 Michele Racoviță (c. 1660–1744), Principe di Moldavia (1703-05; 1707-10; 1716-27) e di Valacchia (1730-31; 1741-44)
 Contantino Racoviță (1699–1764), Principe di Moldavia (1749-53; 1756-57) e di Valacchia (1753-56; 1763-64)
 Stefano Racoviță (c. 1713–1782), Principe di Valacchia (1764-65)

Altri esponenti illustri
 Emil Racoviță (1868–1947), biologo, zoologo ed esploratore
 Ioan Mihail Racoviţă (1889–1954), generale rumeno
 Nicolae Gr. Racoviță (1835–1894), politico rumeno

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Voci correlate
 Fanarioti
 Principi di Moldavia
 Principi di Valacchia

Collegamenti esterni

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Now that school's back in session, we've found the perfect solitary haven for reading, writing, and studying. A minimal cube in the woods, the Scholar's Library by Gluck+ Architects is located in a serene, forested area of Olivebridge, New York. The design is enclosed on the bottom, but open with wrap-around windows on the top. It's "walls" change with the seasons, turning green in the summer, orange in the fall, and white in the winter.
The Scholar's Library is a tranquil sanctuary in the Catskill Mountains near the firm's stunning Tower House. Made with economic standard materials, it wears its two functions on its sleeve–the bottom floor is solid and contains stacks for a library of books, while the top floor is an open, light-filled work space.
The floating, cantilevered roof further showcases the distinction between the solid and the void. The windows, which are standard-issue sliding doors, open on all four sides to create the feeling of being one with nature as the cubic retreat seems to dissolve into the forest.
If you like this project, visit Gluck+ Architects' webpage here to see more of their work.


The Lakeside Swim & Racquet Club, Inc., is governed by the Board of Directors, as established by the Articles of Incorporation. The Board of Directors will consist of a maximum of twenty-one (21) persons and a minimum of fifteen (15) persons. Each year, one-third (1/3) of the 21 members of the Board are replaced with the election of new Board members during the annual membership meeting.
The Board of Directors conducts monthly meetings on the second Thursday of the month, excluding the month of December. The location and time for the meetings are set by the Board.
In addition to the Board of Directors, the Club is supported in its management and routine conduct of business operations through the following Standing Committees: Buildings & Grounds, Management, Membership, Finance, Nomination, Recreation, Swim, Tennis and Grievance. Members of the various committees come from the Board of Directors and the general membership.
LSRC is governed and operated by its members and volunteers who donate their time and energy through its several committees and officer positions. The various committees are described here.
Buildings & Grounds Committee: This committee has responsibility for ensuring that the Club property and all facilities are kept in a safe, attractive, and operable condition. The committee also has authority to enter into any necessary contracts required to meet these obligations, with the approval and or endorsement from the Board of Directors.
Finance Committee: This committee has responsibility for overseeing the financial health of the Club. This committee is heavily involved in the annual budgeting process. The committee members receive financial budgeting data from respective committee leaders and/or other officers and prepare the budget proposal to the full Board for its review and approval or modifications. Through the budgeting process, the Finance Committee also makes the budget recommendation, which sets the annual dues and other fees, and this committee also arranges for the annual financial review of the Treasurer's records.
Management-Operations Committee: This committee has responsibility for general facility operations, member services, and facility staffing. This committee oversees the operation of the snack bar and its staff, oversees sales of guest passes, and also manages the member validation function through the check-in window at the Club. This committee also oversees the rentals of the picnic pavilion as well as the canopy shelter.
Membership Committee: This committee has responsibility for maintaining accurate and reliable membership records, for recruitment of new members, and for implementation of plans for membership retention. The committee also has responsibility for participating with the Board in any issues involving membership validation. This committee has responsibility for preparing and presenting to the Board (for approval) all applications for new memberships as well as special request memberships, and the committee is charged with the task of preparing new membership and renewal membership forms for providing to members or prospective members, as well as for presentation on the LSRC website. A member of this committee also has responsibility for the maintenance of all the membership records within the database of the computer application used by the Club and has the added responsibility for providing a current set of membership records to the Management Committee for use by employees at the Check-In Station of the Club. Additionally, this committee has responsibility for evaluation of marketing and advertising methods, making recommendations to the Board on which solicitation programs should be pursued, and for working with companies that deal with mass marketing.
Recreation Committee: This committee has responsibility for organizing and coordinating all social events and activities at the Club, to promote member satisfaction and retention. This committee also has responsibility for recruiting other members to serve on the committee, as well as solicit members for assisting at the various social events to ensure that the events and activities are successfully executed.
Swim Committee: This committee has responsibility for all swim team operations. There are many & varied duties and obligations for this committee, such as: maintaining accurate swim team registration files; making recommendations to the Board for the hiring of coaches; establishing practice schedules for the swim team and working with the Buildings & Grounds Committee to coordinate the schedules so that the pool can be ready for the season's initial practice; recruits and trains volunteers to ensure successful running of swim meets; assigns appropriate representatives for the JRAC league; oversees fundraising activities and events to ensure a constant positive revenue flow in support of the swim team, the committee, and the Club; manages the Robbie Ashworth College Scholarship Fund and the associated swim marathon which raises revenue to support the scholarship; and provides annual projections for input to the budgeting process. This committee also has responsibility for the management and maintenance of the committee's software application that is used for registration and records management of swim team participants, for communicating with swim team parents, for presenting a parents portal for access to the online application, and for administration of the swim committee's website as to accepted standards and practices.
Grievance Committee: This committee has responsibility for receiving and processing complaints from members against any other member and/or the Board of Directors members and/or officers. There is a defined procedure of steps to follow when the committee members conduct their research and render a recommended course of action to the Board.
Nomination Committee: This committee has responsibility for recruiting member volunteers who agree to be nominated to election to the Board of Directors. The committee assembles a slate of proposed candidates and provides this information to the Board which then presents the candidates to the general membership for election at the annual membership meeting.
Tennis Committee: This committee has responsibility for conducting the Club's tennis activities. The committee also advises the Board on the condition of the Club's tennis facilities. With the approval of the Board, the committee also manages the selection and hiring of instructors and/or coaches for any competitive or instructional tennis programs.


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Parties to the NAD agree to adhere to the NAD's rules and principles and in exchange can apply for telephone numbers to provide services to end-users. If a new subdivision is created, or a brand new type of service invented, providers look to the NAD to supply fresh numbers to meet that demand. Telecommunications providers are free to wholesale telephone numbers to other providers, though they remain ultimately responsible for that number's use through their allocation under the NAD. The NAD is the only way a New Zealand provider can obtain new number ranges to activate and provide services. New Zealand generally has an ample supply of numbers to meet future demands, but some number ranges are in higher demand and have smaller supplies than others. The NAD maintains a careful watch over these ranges to ensure that numbers are administered with the best interest of end users in mind.
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This flavorful shredded beef can be cooked ahead and added to your favorite dish. I like to use it for burritos, tacos, and enchiladas.
Stew beef is a lean way to enjoy beef, long slow cooking is the ticket when it comes to taste.
Warm the oil in a large stockpot over high heat. Brown the beef 5 to 6 minutes turning once or twice. Reduce the heat to medium and add the cumin, chili, paprika, and star anise. Cook an additional minute until the spices become fragrant. Add the beef broth and bring to a slow boil. Reduce to a simmer and cover.
Cook 1 to 1/2 hours until the beef is tender, adding a little water if the beef starts to stick. Cool slightly then shred with your fingers or two forks.
I'd say 1/2 cup is a serving since you want to keep meat portions smaller and ramp up the veggies on your plate.
This is a great recipe! I have made it many times. My entire family loves it!


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CSS Grid: strategy and first steps | Fuzzy Logic to improve your experience and security.
Over the course of 2018 I've been trying to get the hang of CSS Grid.
I'd already become fairly adept at using Flexbox – a game-changing responsive layout technology which I love – but the prevailing wisdom suggested that I get with the program and learn this new system, too. At first I wondered whether I should even be using Flexbox at all any more; whether it was already old hat. After all, whereas Flexbox was essentially for laying out items in a single dimension, CSS Grid felt more important, being the web's first ever purpose-built system for two-dimensional layout.
I have to admit that learning Grid did not come easy at first. Wrapped up in this new system is a whole load of new terminology, new units of measurement and new ways of thinking. Rachel Andrew's book The New CSS Layout had been helpful but by autumn the concepts still weren't fully clicking with me. Nor was I totally clear on the appropriate situations to use Grid. So I limited my first production forays to small components where I felt there was less risk of things going badly wrong.
For me, concentrating primarily on the grid-lines and not the stuff within and without helped simplify the overall concept and make all the supporting features click into place.
Jen Simmons also gave a presentation that included several code examples which used Grid at the layout level and Flexbox at the component level.
Now, I know that neither speaker was saying that it has to be split that way, however I personally liked the idea of applying this rule as a means of avoiding choice paralysis.
I was reminded that Flexbox makes developing responsive components such as navigation menus, fixed-height cards, lists of social icons etc much easier than they previously were with floats and absolute positioning. And for most of these components, because they are one-dimensional, CSS Grid would be overkill. So I realised: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Don't stop using Flexbox for things that it excels at.
I resolved to create a CSS Grid page layout on Fuzzy Logic, sticking to Flexbox for the components.
realising how useful subgrid will be.
I started by knocking together a rough prototype, before fleshing things out and applying the layout to the main site. Depending on when you read this, you'll see that layout in place now. If you want to check out the grid lines and areas I recommend using the Firefox (or Firefox Nightly) Grid Inspector.
Overall, it feels good to have taken the plunge into using CSS Grid for page layout, and it has given me confidence to explore further and try more interesting layouts. More to follow, I hope.


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Parasitology for Civilians
A Scotsman down under
Callum R. Scott
Archive | January 2013
hissing bitches and naked killjoys
Confest, Easter 1995: hissing bitches and naked killjoys
This was my last Confest before I went home to Scotland. Not my most memorable one having fallen into the fire NYE Confest 93/94 and burned all the skin off my arse; nothing that a bottle of vodka and micro dot couldn't fix and also a woman with 4 mm gaps between her teeth (if you're reading this I still deny vomiting in your tent). If I was to be honest Confest 95 was pretty shite and I remember coming to a realization how pretentious the stalwarts of the festival really were. Regardless, I ended up doing all the typical Confest activities except going to one of the spurious workshops, which I looked upon with disdain and suspicion because they always seemed to be run by middle-aged sexual predators.
Now, judging by the paragraph above you might think I'm hating Confest but you'd be wrong. Prior to 95 I had some great Confests and met some great people. 95 was sullied by institutionalized regression in the form of a naked 'older man' (probably ran a workshop: A Left Wing Guide to Preying Upon Young Women or Nothing Significant Has Happened Since The 70s). Anyway, me and my Confest comrade, Mr Gorgonzola – patron saint of Doof – were kicken' about the Chai tent discussing the itinerary for the night, which was pretty much the same as previous nights – find some acid, take it, get some scran from the Margas, dance round the fire and get lost trying to get back to your tent in the dark, while fighting the demons in your head. But this was to be a very different night, even by Confest standards. Some may even say historical.
Electronic music had just started to infiltrate Confest and the older members of the community had become rather confused and upset by this new aspect of the Confest experience. I have an image of them all sitting cross legged in a Tee-Pee, sharing a bush weed spliff, discussing the problem in dulcet tones, as young acolytes danced for them, wearing slutty barbarian chic outfits. Electronic music had become the cold piece of steel between their ribs and as older people do, they blamed the younger generations for their lack of moral fibre. Positive progress is always labeled as the path to moral bankruptcy by older generations. Mark Davis calls this generationalism – a concept honed and refined by the Baby Boomers.
Mr Gorgonzola and I knocked back a wee square of paper and waited for the special bus to arrive. When it did, we went for a wander to take in the sights, sounds and smells of Confest. There is nothing like it. I always felt I was being transported back in time to a bacchanalian medieval festival, where the world is turned up-side-down. Victor Turner called it liminality, an eclectic hyper reality, where we come to escape and follow a different set of rules. Yes, rules. Even though it looked like a place where anything goes it still had its own prescribed set of rules, which involved mutual respect and the right to express yourself without hurting others. The bogans across the river never got this.
Every year the bogan horde amassed on the other side of the river like hungry consumers out the front of a department store on Boxing Day. Salivating men on jet skis, over weight party animals, wearing loud shirts and novelty boxers, chicks like Shaz with lines around their mouths from smoking and bitching about people behind their backs and kids, dressed as their parents. The all-consuming face of Australia – the battlers, the larrikins, the keepers of the key consumer products, the children of the plasma screen TV (not ready for widespread distribution yet but etched onto the consciousness of every true blooded bogan child in 95). However, it was difficult to work out who the barbarians were on either side of the river but more importantly who had the key to the gate.
Once the wee piece of paper delivered its goods Mr Gorgonzola and I embarked on one of those Confest journeys into the known unknown. It wasn't long before we discovered a haphazard maze, made from twigs and bright stuff. We ventured in. Had I been sober I'd have taken one look at it and kept on living my life. About half way in we stumbled upon two women in their 20s careering around like a couple of special needs kids at a disco. They claimed to be witches but as soon as they opened their mouths I had them clocked for what they actually were; a couple of privately educated, upper middle class snobs playing counter culture dress ups before Daddy gave them a job in the family business. They hissed at us and clawed the air. To this day I've never seen two adults make a bigger arse of themselves. Being at the end of my Confest odyssey this compounded all my misgivings about the festival and its overall intentions.
A man, who Mr Gorgonzola met again years later, stepped in between ourselves and the private school girls and acted as a buffer. I never found out if he knew them or not but the hissing stopped. He told us they were 'white witches'. This meant nothing to me. I just saw a couple of idiots in a crap maze. He suggested we withdraw because they were performing a rite. Aye, I thought, their inherited right to cultural capital – Bourdieu would have decapitated the fuckers. Mr Gorgonzola and I withdrew and found ourselves back in the village square surrounded by the usual stalls and dirty faces.
This was the final turning point for me, or so I thought.
Later that night we heard there was going to be some electronic music being played somewhere on the periphery of the action. This lifted my spirits because I needed a break from the drums and the fire twirling and the suburban witchcraft. This is what I wanted from Confest, to see it rise up from the dark ages and embrace the digital world. I longed to banish the saggy-balled old men and the sexual predators and bring in the true spirit of the 90s that had taken so long to travel to Australia. The rest of the world had been dancing to a different beat, while Australia was still pounding out mainstream Oz Rock, the scourge of modern music. When I emigrated to Australia from Scotland in the late 80s it was the music I missed the most – its progressive qualities, the way it came with a new look and a different lifestyle. In comparison, Australian music seemed stuck in a 70s rut – in fact, a lot of Australian culture seemed stuck in the 70s. I remember being particularly disturbed by Young Talent Time and Australian adverts where people shouted at the camera, as a method of persuading viewers to buy their wares.
From memory, we bought another tab and shared it in preparation for the coming of a new Confest era. We could hear the deep bass from a long way off. It directed us through the bush. For the first time I knew where I was going at night; heading towards the music and strobe. This made a pleasant change from the usual imbroglio. There had been a couple of times I gave up on the trek home and just slept next to any available camp fire.
Dancing in the warm depths of the crowd was just what I needed. This was my Confest. There weren't a lot of people there but just enough to fill the designated area and bring exactly the right atmosphere. It was like a Gen X haven, away from the antiquated rules set out by the elders of Down To Earth. At some stage, the old need to fuck off and let the new generation take over, it's the natural progression of life. All animals practice this cultural rite, it's nature. This music felt like my nature.
Now, I could wax lyrical about beats and sensations and drug-induced epiphanies etc. but I'm not going to because that sort of writing is pretentious and ultimately debases the feeling of being fucked up in the bush and dancing all night. I will say this, I was having a very good time, that is, until, some naked man in his 50s or 60s appeared out of the night and disabled the generator that fed my good time. Everything descended into darkness as I saw the only light in the vicinity, his naked wee arse getting smaller and smaller. It was like a willow o' wisp. I groped around for Mr Gorgonzola but felt a tit instead, in more ways than one. I staggered from the makeshift dance floor looking for light and Mr Gorgonzola (he knew the way home).
I remember a lot of commotion and booing after the naked man spoiled our fun but what I didn't realize was that I'd been there for some Confest history. The old guard taking a swipe at a new generation's choice of music. It reminded me of playing chess with my Dad's mate's eldest son when I was about 8. I was winning, thrashing the little bastard, so when I wasn't looking he put his arse on the board and wiggled it about, sending chess pieces all over the floor. I had the same feeling when I saw the naked man disable the generator.
Back at the camp site I rolled myself a bifter and decided never to return to Confest. It was at this point that I also made my mind up to go home. After years down under I was going to pack my bags and spend my inheritance unwisely. It wasn't just the naked man and Confest that made me want to leave, or the bad adverts and Oz rock, I just realized that everything had run its natural course and it was time to go. But this is my last strong memory before I left, so it's important to me and pivotal in its own way and I'll never forget that white arse diminishing in the darkness.
It was that last act against musio-cultural progress that pushed me over the edge and led me to Flight Centre, where a week later I bought a one-way ticket back to Edinburgh. A month later I was staring at the Granite City with a decent wedge of cash down my jocks and notebook full of bad poems. From there I jumped on a bus and went back to a place I left for very good reasons in the first place. I didn't last long and then Morocco beckoned and it changed me forever, and not for the better.
I've always wanted to meet the man who stopped the music. These days, I imagine he's either re-living the 70s in a home or had his ashes scattered across the Murray by the Down To Earth Elite Guard. Either way I wonder how he felt in the morning after his solo raid on our little party. Did he feel like a hero or did part of him feel some regret for what he'd done? I hope its regret because he broke his own rules: mutual respect and the right to express yourself without harming others. Maybe he should have taken some advice from Hal in 2001 A Space Odyssey; when Dave returns to the ship after Hal has killed all the other crew members he says,
'Look Dave. I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over'.
Bogans
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Myna Birds
A good kicking on the way home from the pub, by the hobo chic quartet (excerpt from a novel – The exit line)
Vapour trails – 1996, Holland (excerpt from a novel)
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the idiot prince
Gary Sweet was my swimming teacher


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From the encounter between the prized grappa of the Franciacorta hills and the best chestnuts of the Valle Camonica comes this crystal-clear distilled liquor with its round and deep taste. To be served in light tulip glasses to enhance the pleasant dry and dried fruit nuances.
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