Although they are mutually intelligible, each dialect is traditionally referred to as if it were a separate language, and there is no native term to encompass them all.
North Straits, along with Klallam, forms the Straits Salish branch of the Central Coast Salish languages. Klallam and North Straits are very closely related, but not mutually intelligible.
See Saanich dialect for the phonology.
Laurence C. Thompson; M. Terry Thompson; Barbara S. Efrat (1974). "Some Phonological Developments in Straits Salish". International Journal of American Linguistics. 40 (3): 182–196. doi:10.1086/465311.
Timothy Montler (1999). "Language and dialect variation in Straits Salishan". Anthropological Linguistics. 41 (4): 462–502.
^ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "Aboriginal Mother Tongue (90)". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Northern Straits Salish". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
^ Patterson, Travis (2011-06-01). "Traditional language comes alive on breakwater". Victoria News. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
Klallam (also Clallam, although the spelling with "K" is preferred in all four modern Klallam communities) refers to four related indigenous Native American/First Nations communities from the Pacific Northwest of North America. The Klallam culture is classified ethnographically and linguistically in the Coast Salish subgroup. Two Klallam bands live on the Olympic Peninsula and one on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state, and one is based at Becher Bay on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
The Lummi ( LUM-ee; Lummi: Xwlemi [χʷləˈmi]; also known as Lhaq'temish (LOCK‐tuh‐mish), or People of the Sea), governed by the Lummi Nation, are a Native American tribe of the Coast Salish ethnolinguistic group in western Washington state in the United States. The federally recognized tribe primarily resides on and around the Lummi Indian Reservation (48°45′N 122°39′W) to the west of Bellingham in western Whatcom County, 20 miles (32 km) south of the border with Canada.
Lummi (Xwlemi Chosen, IPA: [xʷləmi tʃɔsən]) is a dialect of the North Straits Salish language traditionally spoken by the Lummi people of northwest Washington, in the United States. Although traditionally referred to as a language, it is mutually intelligible with the other dialects of North Straits.
Lummi language is still spoken on the Lummi reservation and is taught at Ferndale High School, Lummi Tribal School and the Northwest Indian College.
Pender Island (Saanich: st̕ey̕əs ) is one of the Southern Gulf Islands located in the Gulf of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada. Pender Island is approximately 34 km2 (13 sq mi) in area and is home to about 2,250 permanent residents, as well as a large seasonal population. Like most of the rest of the Southern Gulf Islands, Pender Island enjoys a sub-Mediterranean climate and features open farmland, rolling forested hills, several lakes and small mountains, as well as many coves and beaches.
Saanich (also Sənčaθən, written as SENĆOŦEN in Saanich orthography) is the language of the First Nations Saanich people. Saanich is a member of a dialect continuum called Northern Straits which is a Coast Salishan language. North Straits varieties are closely related to the Klallam language.
Semiahmoo First Nation ( SEM-ee-AH-moo) is the band government of the Semiahmoo people, a Coast Salish subgroup. The band's main community and offices are located on the 312 acres (1.3 km2) Semiahmoo Indian Reserve which is sandwiched between the boundary of White Rock, British Columbia and the Canada–United States boundary and Peace Arch Provincial Park.
The Semiahmoo ( SEM-ee-AH-moh, SEM-ee-AH-moo; Semiahmoo: SEMYOME) are a Coast Salish indigenous people whose homeland is in the Lower Mainland region of southwestern British Columbia, Canada.
The Lekwungen or Lekungen nation (often called the Songhees or Songish by non-Lekwungens) are an indigenous North American Coast Salish people who reside on southeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia in the Greater Victoria area. Their government is the Songhees First Nation, a member of the Te'mexw Treaty Association and the Naut'sa Mawt Tribal Council. Their traditional language is Lekwungen, a dialect of the North Straits Salish language.
There is evidence of a fortified village existing at Finlayson Point in Beacon Hill Park prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Songhees' traditional foods included salmon, shellfish, whale, deer, duck, berries, camas root, and herbs. The Coast Salish traditionally lived in bighouses, which were large rectangular communal houses of cedar planks, adorned with carved and jointed totem posts.
The Songhees First Nation is a First Nations government located around Victoria, British Columbia on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.


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For some reason, I find friendship to be difficult. I suppose it's my reserved, shy personality. I tend to be the one that sits back watching the dynamics of the social situation and only chime in when I see fit. I have had, what I thought to be, great friendships that over the years have fizzled out. Fortunately, I do have a handful of amazing friends. These are those friends that you might not see or talk to on a daily basis, but as soon as you do get to chat, you pick up right where you left off.
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by Voice of San Diego February 6, 2007 March 15, 2022
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 | Froot Loop Airport
The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority is going back to do a basic study of building an airport at Naval Air Station North Island — even though a detailed study is already well underway.
Board member Paul Nieto, who called for the basic study at North Island, had this to say about the out-of-sequence study: "You've got to juggle. Unfortunately, it's not a cereal-box process. We just want to make sure, in those iterations, they've studied the Tier I criteria."
Cereal-box process?
We don't know what that means, either.
But for more on the North Island study, look for the story Tuesday.
— ROB DAVIS
Plane Gazing
The director of Mount Laguna Observatory is a bit worried.
Putting an airport in Boulevard — 15 miles away from the observatory — could render the space-gazing station nearly useless.
The problem? Light pollution.
As it stands, Mount Laguna is buffered by Anza-Borrego State Park and Cleveland National Forest. When the sun sets, it gets dark at Mount Laguna. Very dark.
But building an airport nearby would change that, Paul B. Etzel, the observatory's director, told a San Diego County Regional Airport Authority committee today.
Boulevard — also known as the Campo site — is one prospective home for a new San Diego airport.
The light pollution from an airport would be troublesome, Etzel said. But airplanes flying directly over the observatory would be much worse, he said. Bright landing lights could ruin dark skies.
"It'd be like moving Mexicali to Campo," Etzel said.
An Imperial Valley airport could also pose problems, Etzel told the authority's strategic planning committee. If flight paths crossed the observatory, he said even a plane's running lights could impact stargazing.
The uncertainty about the airport's future home is hindering fundraising at the observatory. Etzel said efforts to raise $7.1 million to construct a 96-inch telescope have stalled.
If the authority chooses Boulevard as the airport's future home, it would have to mitigate its impacts on the observatory. Etzel said the site is valued between $15 million and $45 million.
New Parks Chief
Monday, March 13, 2006 — 1:06 p.m.
Mayor Jerry Sanders appointed Grossmont College President Ted Martinez, Jr., on Monday to oversee the city's libraries, parks and recreation programs.
Martinez will replace Ellie Oppenheim, a longtime city administrator who recently split town to take a job in Reno, Nev., as the deputy chief operating officer for Customer and Neighborhood Services.
Martinez has run Grossmont College for the past six years.
— EVAN McLAUGHLIN
Council Members Play Defense
Monday, March 13, 2006 — 11:11 a.m.
Four members of the San Diego City Council are up for re-election this year, and all will face challengers in the June primary.
Councilman Kevin Faulconer of District 2, which stretches along the coast from downtown to La Jolla, was just elected to a council post in January. He will face Kennan Kaeder, business attorney and former head of the local Democratic Party, in June.
Also in January, Councilman Ben Hueso was also elected to represent District 8, which includes the city's neighborhoods below downtown and along the border. In June he will compete against teacher Remy Bermudez and businessman Tim Gomez after defeating both in the primary last November.
Councilwoman Donna Frye will defend her District 6 council seat, which represents Clairemont, Mission Valley and Kearney Mesa. Community volunteer Judy Riddle and Sandy Summers will challenge Frye for her seat. No occupation was listed for Summers, though he is one of the more colorful speakers to address the council on a regular basis.
Councilman Tony Young will defend the District 4 post, which oversees Southeast San Diego, after taking office just one year ago. Young will face community volunteer Bruce Williams.
The primary will be held June 6. If no candidate achieves more than 50 percent of the vote in June, the top two vote-getters will advance to a runoff election in November.
Redeveloped Airports
For everyone following the development of a new airport proposal, it's worth reading The New York Times' look at what happens when old airports close.
Interesting stuff. Might the Times revisit the topic in 2030 and write a story about the redevelopment of Lindbergh Field?
Imperial Closure
Imperial Beach's waters are closed again.
The county's Department of Environmental Health posted IB's beaches Saturday, after rainfall sent sewage-laced rain runoff from the Tijuana River into the Pacific Ocean.
The Tijuana River was more than gurgling Saturday. I took a first-hand look at what happens in the river basin post-rainfall Saturday afternoon. One word that describes it: Brown.
About 200 million gallons of the sewage-y stuff flowed through the river Saturday, and it's still chugging along, according to a river gauge maintained by the International Boundary and Water Commission. Currents are pushing it north.
Water access at Border Field State Park and Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge remains closed. That's been in effect since Feb. 21.
Sanders: Workers Should Stay
City Attorney Mike Aguirre on Thursday told city workers they would be better off finding work elsewhere because the service they perform for the city won't earn them the pension they were promised. The city doesn't have the money to pay it, he said.
Hours later, Council President Scott Peters said Aguirre's comments were irrelevant, and the mayor stepped in Friday with a memo to "all city employees" quell reaction to the fiery city attorney's comments.
Mayor Jerry Sanders wrote an e-mail thanking city workers for their service and, in a polite way, said Aguirre's comments were off-base.
"Unfortunately, often times things get said in the public arena that are either wrong or just plain unfortunate," he wrote. "I think the City of San Diego is a great place to work and that your hard work and daily efforts are very important."
Spam Scam?
The city seems to have run into another e-mail glitch.
The San Diego Union-Tribune, a local newspaper, reported Friday that up to 9,000 of e- former City Manager Lamont Ewell's were intentionally erased and opened an investigation into the matter. The discovery came as the city and its information technology arm were honoring a public records request the newspaper had filed.
Following up on the request, the city's Information Technology & Communications determined that there were only 43 e-mails for all of 2005 in Ewell's e-mail box. The San Diego Data Processing Corp., a nonprofit arm that handles IT for the city, later found a snapshot of his e-mail box that showed that he had more than 8,800 total messages.
"It is important to note that we have no factual knowledge what occurred between these two snapshots," Sanders wrote in a memo Friday.
It is uncertain whether Ewell's scenario was isolated, or if other City Hall inboxes are missing their e-mail data.
The revelation comes months after Ewell, now Santa Monica's city manager, declared a don't-delete directive for city employees. The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been probing City Hall's financial dealings and searched e-mails as one tool for its investigation. It's unclear whether Ewell's e-mails have been subpoenaed.
The city has fallen victim to a problem with accessing its documents before. The city's audit committee, who is preparing a report for outside auditors before they certify the City Hall's books, announced that the Vinson & Elkins law firm was unable to access nearly one-third of the 160,000 documents it compiled for its own probe.
City officials called for an investigation into the Ewell matter and for an overhaul of the city's record-keeping practices on Friday. Mayor Jerry Sanders said policies for retaining documents differ from department to department and need to be standardized.
A task force consisting of City Clerk Liz Maland, City Attorney Mike Aguirre, acting Chief Information Officer Matt McGarvey and San Diego Data Processing Corp. chief Tom Fleming will evaluate the city's e-mail retention policies. The panel will prepare a report on the policies and practices and also offer suggestions.
Aguirre also said that his office has opened a separate investigation into the matter and will keep the Justice Department and SEC updated on its findings.
But Did They Get the Message?
A few posts ago, the attorney for the city's white-collar workers basically said, "Thanks, but no thanks," to the mayor's request to mediate the continuing pension dispute, which challenges over $700 million in employee benefits.
"This is to advise you that I received your letter dated March 5, 2002," Sanders wrote Wednesday.
New Subpoenas
A federal grand jury has issued a new subpoena for information regarding a meeting of the San Diego City Council in January 2002.
The U.S. Attorney's office has been sifting through information about San Diego's pension crisis looking for criminal behavior since 2002. In January, prosecutors announced that they had secured an indictment of five former players in the city's retirement system.
Now, according to the a new subpoena released by the City Attorney's Office, a grand jury has asked for "any and all documents and communications related to the San Diego City Council's closed session meeting on January 29, 2002. Documentation should include, but is not limited to, draft and final versions of presentations, notes, draft and final versions of Closed Session Reports, and draft and final versions of memos and e-mails."
The indictments handed out in January indicated that the five people charged with felonies for their actions while administering the city's pension system worked closely with "others."
The subpoena was sent on March 6 and the documents are expected to be in the Grand Jury's hands March 31.
Doh! McGuigan
A former city employee's case against the city of San Diego for underfunding its retirement system from may be wrapped up as early as May, a judge said Friday.
Superior Court Judge Richard Strauss said he will decide on May 26 how to rule on William McGuigan's case to force the city to make a $178 million payment to the retirement fund. If denied, McGuigan can ask for a full jury trial, which would begin Sept. 15.
The city also has until April 21 to decide whether it will admit or deny certain statements made by City Attorney Mike Aguirre in various interim reports. Michael Conger, the attorney for McGuigan, contends that he has the supporting evidence to prove that the city paid a less-than-actuarially-sound amount into its pension fund from 1996 to 2005, but said the city is arguing other lawsuits based on those facts too.
"The city can't eat its cake and have it," he said Friday.
Council President Scott Peters has indicated that the council will weigh in on whether to make those admissions, probably at a meeting in the next two weeks.
Blowin' in the Wind
Plans to build a supplemental airport at Naval Air Station North Island may not takeoff if the wind gods have anything to do with it.
A San Diego County Regional Airport Authority analysis found that meeting Federal Aviation Administration wind-standards might reduce the proposed site's capacity.
FAA regulations require airports to be able to operate 95 percent of the time.
Ten years of analysis show that gusts at the Coronado site would force the authority to create four different flight patterns to comply with that standard.
But some intersect with Lindbergh Field's flight patterns. This creates what agency staff call a "dependent operation," as the two runways would have to coordinate their arrivals and departures with one another.
The authority is still evaluating exactly what effect it will have on air traffic control coordination and the number of flights that can take off and land from the site. They expect that it will reduce the airfield capacity.
The authority's strategic planning committee will take up the issue when it meets Monday morning.
— SAM HODGSON
A strange wet substance is falling from the sky, causing the ground to dampen and cars to slow on San Diego's freeways.
Through extensive research and in-depth reporting, the investigative team at Voice has determined that the aforementioned substance is in fact rain.
More than half an inch of rain is expected today. We have found umbrellas are a good weapon in the battle against this strange phenomenon.
Peters on Promises
At his weekly press briefing, Council President Scott Peters sharply rebuked City Attorney Mike Aguirre's comments about the city not honoring its pension promises to employees (see entry below).
"I intend to honor the city's debts," said Peters, who added that bankruptcy was not an option and that the city will likely issue pension obligation bonds to pay down its pension deficit once it regains its financial footing. "We owe it to our city employees … to stand behind our obligations."
The city currently has an estimated pension shortfall of about $2 billion. A more precise number is due out next Friday.
Peters added, "I'd hope that the public recognizes the irrelevance" of Aguirre's estimates when an actuary, who forecasts the pension fund's financial standing, has approved the system's numbers.
Aguirre has long stated that Peters is not a credible source of information because he sat on the council that approved a pension funding deal that provided new benefits for employees at the same time the city was seeking relief from its pension bill. The city attorney has also sued the actuary Peters referred to for malpractice.
Get Out While You Can
City Attorney Mike Aguirre on Thursday advised current city employees to seek work elsewhere if they are concerned with their future retirement pay because the city will likely not have the money needed to pay the pension benefits it promised.
After sharing with reporters statements that allegedly show that half of the retirement fund's money is promised to the one-third of the pensioners — the current retirees — Aguirre said that retirement system's funding level is inadequate to pay the 13,000 members of the plan who are not yet drawing pension checks.
"When you're retired, you've already made a judgment to leave the workforce, so you're options are dramatically reduced," Aguirre said. "As to other 13,000, they are still active members of the workforce. The other 13,000 can make life-changing decisions still."
Aguirre said city employees could find work elsewhere to avoid the heartbreak of working for decades only to find that the money that was promised to them was gone.
Leaders of the city's public employee unions have vowed to enforce the benefits that were granted to employees though labor negotiations, despite Aguirre's attempts to roll back benefits increases that were granted in 1996 and 2002. The city attorney is challenging those benefits because he said there was no legal stream of funding provided to support them and that they were created by retirement trustees who had a conflict of interest in a deal that made effective the benefit boosts.
The departure of workers would also benefit the city, he said, because the city could restructure the bureaucracy to create lesser-paying jobs that would not be so burdensome on City Hall's books.
"Our workforce is just too expensive," he said.
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Another Manager Bails
Ellen Oppenheim officially jumped from the city of San Diego's teetering ship March 6, sending a letter of resignation to Mayor Jerry Sanders and the City Council.
As the deputy chief operating officer of neighborhood services for the city, Oppenheim had just been brought into Sanders' new fold. She had been a deputy manager under the old system of government. She leaves to take a job as head of the Reno Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority.
"San Diego is a wonderful city and your city government is doing good work for the residents and visitors to the area," she wrote. "While there are clear challenges ahead that must be addressed, there are also great strengths and opportunities."
— SCOTT LEWIS
The water was reopened in Pacific Beach today. Turns out that the sewage spill we reported on didn't get to the water. The county's Department of Environmental Health sent out a correction this afternoon.
A low-flow diversion structure in the storm drain sent the sewage back to the pump station.
Water contact closure signs have been removed. Tourmaline Surf Park has reopened.
I should've gone surfing this morning.
Swimmingly Clean
Imperial Beach surfers can hop back in the water for the first time since Feb. 28. The county's Department of Environmental Health announced reopening of the IB water and Silver Strand State Beach today.
But the shorelines remain closed at Border Field State Park and Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge. The water there has been off-limits since a quarter-inch of rain fell Feb. 19.
The small rainfall — compounded by currents pushing north and another heavy rainfall last week — brought toxic sewage sweeping down into the Pacific from some of Tijuana's poorest, under-developed neighborhoods. Many lack sewage infrastructure or plumbing.
Downtown Inventory Spikes
For the last two weeks it looked like spring was in the air for downtown San Diego. For the first time in weeks, inventory levels of unsold condos in downtown San Diego dropped, undoubtedly resulting in a sigh of relief from downtown sellers and Realtors.
But this week the inventory has spiked again, according to Lew Breeze, a downtown Realtor who has been compiling statistics about the 92101 ZIP code for the last three years. Breeze's Web site, www.92101.info lists all the condos currently for sale in the downtown ZIP code.
The inventory level this week stands at 478 condos, up from 467 condos a week ago. Since last week, the median price of condos for sale has dropped from $645,000 to $636,250, its lowest level since September 2005.
With downtown set to add some 11,000 condos in the next few years, rising inventory levels concern sellers hoping to offload their condos at a profit. Many experts have said that the high level of growth seen in downtown is unsustainable, and that many planned condo projects will not end up being built.
Another Spill
The water is closed in Pacific Beach after a 16,200-gallon sewer spill Monday night.
We would have told you sooner, but the Voice of San Diego and other news outlets didn't get the news from the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health until late last night. The news release landed in our inboxes at 6:44 p.m.
A blockage in a sewer main at Cass and Van Nuys streets in PB started at 4 p.m. Monday and was cleared by 9:24 p.m. About 13,200 gallons of sewage were recovered, but the other 3,000 went into a nearby storm drain that empties north of Tourmaline Surf Park.
The beach has been posted between Law Street and Tourmaline; signs will stay up until samples show the water is safe for recreation.
A second spill Monday night spewed sewage into San Diego Bay. The Department of Environmental Health said a grease blockage was to blame for that 5,480-gallon spill in the 2800 block of 39th Street.
All of the sewage flowed into Chollas Creek, which feeds San Diego Bay at the 32nd Street Naval Station.
That spill didn't impact recreational waters.
Atkins' Absence
Councilwoman Toni Atkins was noticeably absent from a vote Monday that, if approved, would have changed the city's policy on funding the legal defense of former retirement officials. So were Council President Scott Peters and Councilman Jim Madaffer.
The measure garnered a 4-to-1 vote from the council members who were present Monday, but the proposal ultimately failed because it was one vote short of the five needed for approval.
Peters and Madaffer notified the press days ago that they were attending the American Public Transportation Conference in Washington, D.C.
On the other hand, Atkins had attended a press conference in Barrio Logan hours earlier. Her absence at the 2 p.m. council meeting drew the ire of City Attorney Mike Aguirre. A spokesman said she fell ill shortly afterward and went home for the day.
Aguirre accused Atkins of running away from a controversial vote that would have repealed a resolution providing unconditional legal defense for the employees the city attorney is suing in pension-related lawsuits.
"I don't shy away from votes. It's ludicrous. I'm not even going to respond to that," Atkins said through a spokesman Tuesday.
Atkins and several other sitting council members voted to enact the resolution on the same day in 2002 that they granted new pension benefits to employees. The benefits are the center of Aguirre's ongoing legal battle against the retirement system.
The council's failure to approve the proposal affirms a judge's ruling that the city must pay the legal bills for several retirement officials. The council initially denied the funding in August, when the majority of that shorthanded council favored picking up the tab but was also unable to collect five votes.
The attorney for the city's white-collar union scorned Mayor Jerry Sanders' invitation to mediate the ongoing dispute over pension benefit increases in a letter Sunday, saying the style and substance of the mayor's proposal was unacceptable.
"In sum: What were you thinking?" wrote Smith, who represents the 6,000-member Municipal Employees Association. "If your intention was to communicate in good faith, sending a letter late on Friday afternoon followed by a press conference the next day is not the way to do it."
The mayor asked the four unions currently entangled in the city's pension-related litigation to begin mediating the dispute March 22 with a retired federal judge. Mediation may reduce the time and money it will take to judge whether benefit increases granted in 1996 and 2002 are legal. City Attorney Mike Aguirre is attempting to roll back the estimated $700 million in benefits, claiming the officials who approved them had a conflict of interest.
Smith reaffirmed her union's stance that the benefits are constitutionally guaranteed and cannot be rolled back, posing a problem for the mayor. Sanders is hoping to find the middle ground between the city's claims and the union's beliefs.
"Since my view is that the pension benefits in issue cannot be rolled-back or diminished due to the Constitutional protection they enjoy as vested benefits and due to a host of other legal and equitable reasons, I explained to the Court that mediation — which contemplates compromise — was not likely to be useful to the parties at this stage of the litigation," Smith wrote.
Objective Airport
The San Diego County Taxpayers Association is calling for more objectivity as the region draws closer to choosing a potential new airport site. So far, the association says, the discussion has been one-sided — with the airport authority's promotional materials providing the loudest voice.
The non-profit, non-partisan association wants a more thorough disclosure of facts as the November ballot measure draws closer, association President and Chief Executive Officer Lani Lutar said.
A lot is at stake. Lutar said the airport could be "the largest single investment of public funds in the history of the area."
The association's chipper-sounding TGIF committee — that's Transportation, Governance, Infrastructure and Finance — drafted six criteria that will determine whether the group will endorse the airport proposal.
Among them: The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority should increase the capacity of Lindbergh Field by maximizing the use of the area's other airports — and should look into uniting all local airports under one umbrella. Eight airports are managed by San Diego County (not the authority) — including McClellan-Palomar Airport and Gillespie Field.
Lutar also called for the authority to spell out costs of building roads and related infrastructure leading to an airport. That could have the greatest impact on area taxpayers, she said.
NAR's Monopoly Challenged
A story in today's Wall Street Journal reports that the US Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors over the trade group's Internet listing policy. According to the article, the suit alleges that the practice restricts competition from Web-based brokers.
"NAR's policy prevents consumers from receiving the full benefits of competition and threatens to lock in outmoded business models and discourage discounting," the story quotes the department as saying.
The article also quotes J. Bruce McDonald, deputy assistant attorney general for antitrust:
"The purchase of a home is one of the most significant financial decisions a family can make, and NAR's policy stifles competition to advantage some of its members at the expense of home buyers and sellers across the country."
The NAR defended its policy, saying that it has merely harnessed technology to the benefit of consumers, and said that it did not understand the motives behind the case, the article says.
We'll have more on this as it develops.
IT Chief Gone
Mayor Jerry Sanders accepted the resignation of Rey Arellano, the city of San Diego's chief information officer, this week.
Under the previous city manager, the chief information officer oversaw the technology and networking functions of the city. But Sanders and Ronne Froman, the city's new chief operating officer, are methodically reorganizing the city. The patchwork of information-technology systems at City Hall is next on their list for reform.
It's unclear whether Arellano goes willingly. In January, scores of managers like him sent in their voluntary resignations to comply with a mayoral edict. Sanders had promised in his campaign for mayor that he would demand resignations from all city managers. He said he would then decide which ones he would accept.
It was kind of an awkward request. How do you write a letter of resignation when you don't want to resign?
Sanders' staff figured out a solution, offering managers a form letter that they merely had to sign.
Arellano, however, was one of the few who sent in a personal letter along with his form.
"It is very difficult for me to write this letter although I understand the need to take this action, for I strongly believe I would make an active member of your leadership team, working toward solutions that will demonstrate that the city is the best run government in the country," he wrote.
Ruling Released
Wow, just as I finished that last post, we got this. Judge Jeffrey Barton appears to have stuck to his tentative ruling that the pension board can have a lawyer independent of the city.
A Lawyer's Word
The City Attorney's Office has dug up a couple of archives that might be interesting to those following the continuing debate about whether the city's pension system should be allowed to have an attorney independent of the city of San Diego.
City Attorney Mike Aguirre says no. The San Diego City Employees' Retirement System is a department of the city, he says, and because Aguirre's the lawyer for all city departments, he's the lawyer for that department as well.
The pension system's attorneys disagree, claiming Aguirre would have a conflict of interest. The retirement system and the city will have to be at odds, at times, they argue, and which side will he choose when they are?
Many of Aguirre's critics, including former city attorneys, have taken up the fight.
Their old boss, however, former City Attorney John Witt, was of a different mind. The recently released documents show him vigorously defending the right of the city — and therefore, voters — to determine who is the legal counsel for the pension system.
"Until a court rules otherwise, it is the people's prerogative to decide who should provide legal services to the board and they have spoken through (City) Charter Section 40," Witt wrote in April 1993.
That "until a court rules otherwise" part may be key, though, considering Judge Jeffrey Barton appeared to be ready to do just that.
What's your opinion on Aguirre's move? Send a letter to Voice of San Diego to argue with the man himself.
Fake Neighbor Fun
Just to carry on the "It's a grey Monday morning and we need something to cheer us up" theme, check out this hilarious photo essay about a downtown condo sales event.
The "fake neighbors" are a special treat, but the dead-pan running commentary was what got me.
Cute Fixer-Upper
If home prices in San Diego put even the most modest of condos out of your reach, there's always Tijuana a short drive south.
Though the border waits can be a hassle, and there may be a few problems with crime, there are a few bargains to be had south of the border.
Check out this cute fixer upper on the market for a mere $39,000.
Cleaner at Coronado
The beaches reopened today at Coronado, just in time for another winter rain shower.
(In fairness, though, should we really call it a winter rain shower? How about an early, early summer shower.)
Beaches remain closed from the border north to Silver Strand State Beach, the result of sewage-contaminated runoff from the Tijuana River.
Duke Gets 8+ years
Former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham was sentenced to 100 months in prison Friday, several months after the disgraced public official admitted accepting $2.4 million in bribes. During his prison term and after, Cunningham will be required to make payments on $1.804 million in fines and back taxes.
The emotional Cunningham was immediately taken into custody. He had pleaded for time to see his aging mother before her death.
Prosecutors said they were pleased with the verdict, which they called the harshest punishment of a corrupt member of Congress ever.
U.S. Rep Duncan Hunter appeared at the sentencing hearing to support Cunningham.
"Duke Cunningham has been a close personal friend for more than 30 years," Hunter said.
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Should a supplemental airport be built in North County? Should a military base be used? And just what happened in that meeting with B.J. Penn, the assistant secretary of the Navy?
Suffice to say, the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority will have a lot on its plate when it meets Monday morning.
If you're following the issue, it's worth taking a look at some of the reports the authority will address at its 10 a.m. meeting. The full board will be briefed (for a second time) on the viability of joint-use airports at each of the area's three military bases. The authority's four-member strategic planning committee heard the presentation earlier this week — though all board members were there listening and commenting.
Earlier in February, the same committee recommended ending considerations of two North County sites near Escondido as possible supplemental airports. The board can formally axe
And some light will be shed on the closed-door meeting with Penn, whose boss, Donald Winter, panned the idea of joint-use civilian-military airports in a letter last week.
Check back next week for the Voice of San Diego's continuing airport coverage.
Who Appoints Whom?
A friend reminded us today that — in contrast to what we implied in an earlier post — Mayor Jerry Sanders' two picks to fill spots on the city's pension board are not necessarily shoo-ins. The City Council must confirm the appointments.
In San Diego's new "strong mayor" system of government, the mayor, according to a Feb. 28 legal opinion, retains the power to nominate people to such boards as the pension board, Centre City Development Corp., the Ethics Commission and several others. But those nominations are still subject to confirmation by the City Council.
In one interesting twist, however, the mayor will have very little say now over who becomes a commissioner on the San Diego Unified Port District's governing board. The port's by-laws say that its San Diego representatives are appointed by that city's "legislative body."
So, the City Council now has full control over those appointments, although it's subject to a veto by the mayor. That veto may only be symbolic, however, because the council can easily override it with the same number of votes that made the appointment.
That will be a bit of a change from the past. Former Mayor Dick Murphy, for instance, took it upon himself to select port commissioners that the City Council then approved. One of his picks, remember, was Peter Q. Davis. Who is now the current pick of Mayor Sanders to take over a seat at the retirement board.
Want another twist?
The mayor gains a little power his predecessors didn't have before. Last year, the City Council demanded that the city manager take control of the board that oversees the San Diego Data Processing Corp. Now that the mayor is the city manager, he will exercise full control over that board.
So if DPC officials start buying $20 tequila shots for all their buddies again, we'll know who to blame.
The beleaguered city retirement board will have a new class of entering freshmen: two new appointees from Mayor Jerry Sanders and a new representative of city employees.
Retired banker and former mayoral candidate Peter Q. Davis has the biggest name of the new group. Davis has served as the chairman of the Board of Port Commissioners for the San Diego Unified Port District. He was also the chairman of the Centre City Development Corp.
Mayor Sanders also appointed V. Wayne Kennedy to the board. Kennedy is the former vice chancellor for administration at the University of California San Diego.
Finally, Franklin Lamberth will be one of two representatives of general members of the retirement system on the board. Police and fire have separate representatives. Lamberth will take over the seat vacated by John Torres. Torres is currently facing felony conflict-of-interest charges for his alleged role in approving pension enhancements that he will benefit from.
Lamberth, who works in the environmental services department, won his election to the seat after a run off. Part of his campaign was to convince his colleagues that he could stand up to City Attorney Mike Aguirre the best. Aguirre has been working diligently to become the attorney for the pension board.
"I will not let this fox into our henhouse," Lamberth wrote on a ballot statement.
Pointing Out Problems
Voice of San Diego's reach may be spreading throughout the globe, a recent story we published seems to have touched a nerve.
In Kelowna, British Columbia, a condo project called Discovery Bay was built by Pointe of View Developments — a company based in Calgary, Canada. The project was recently identified as "under designed" and structurally unsafe. That's relevant to San Diegans because the Canadian developers are currently working on what will eventually become the largest condo development in downtown San Diego.
While writing the story, I interviewed the city of Kelowna's inspection services manager, Ron Dickinson. Residents of the Kelowna building were informed in an October letter from Dickinson that their building was unsafe, and that they should move out. I wanted to know why, four months later, the building was still inhabited.
Dickinson was nonplussed, offering little. Finally he protested "Isn't this story about San Diego, not Kelowna."
He was right, and I left it there.
But it's not the end of the story in Canada. This morning I received an email from a journalist in Kelowna, who copied a story he had outlining the following policy changes taking place in our neighbor (way) to the north:
"The final solution to the Discovery Bay construction troubles is still a ways off, although the city has implemented a lesson learned from the shaky structure," writes the reporter, Grant Jones of the Kelowna Daily Courier.
"As a result of the design and foundation problems at the Sunset Drive condos, the city is now requiring that the design of all major structures undergo a peer review by others in the business,"
Jones quotes the beleaguered Dickinson:
On another note, drilling at Pointe of View's downtown development began yesterday after a hiatus of several weeks. You can be sure we'll be keeping an eye on them to ensure none of the Kelowna Conundrums make it this far south.

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By Arnold T. Rice | January 9, 2019
A nine-second video of the Hip-Hop room in Peterborough's Hijinks nightclub has surpassed critic expectations by becoming the first Instagram Story to be nominated for the prestigious award.
The acclaimed Story, captured entirely on a screen-cracked iPhone 7, has amassed an impressive 130,000 views and been featured at both the Cannes and Venice film festivals this year.
The short has been singled out specifically for its multi-layered sound design as it mixes the exalted screams of several twenty-somethings with a 130-decibel soundtrack of Cardi B's 'I Like It' (Dillon Francis Remix).
"I wanted to show something real about my nights out, and a big part of that was the sound design," said rising-auteur Tina Chapman, 25, who shot and directed the project. "The acute loudness – the way it crushes your eardrums if you're wearing headphones – that's what it feels like to not only be in Hijinks, but to be Hijinks."
Featuring performances and choreography by two of Tina's best friends and one she is "okay with", the Story also employs a subversive flip to selfie-mode half-way through – an impressive feat that has led many fans to complain of a snub in the Cinematography category.
Esteemed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris is one such fan, writing in a lengthy op-ed for the New Yorker, "It's incredulous to me that there's no recognition for the camera-work… The Selfie Flip is the linchpin of the whole picture, at once a meta-reflexive comment on the destructive role of self in contemporary society and an earnest celebration of the emergent female gaze. Tina, poised in mid-shot with an errant vodka-coke in hand, looking down the lens into her own creation, is unequivocally living her truth – living her story. And yeah, maybe that makes no real sense, but what the fuck are you going to do about it? I'm Errol Goddamn Morris."
Tina, meanwhile, remains contented regardless of the awards drama. "Honestly, I'm just glad people know I was there at Hijinks that night; that I'm loving life in Peterborough and expressing myself the way four years of very expensive film school taught me to."
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ASEAN – Who Are The Biggest Military Spenders?
Posted By: Dan Steinbock May 16, 2017, 8:37 am
Who Are ASEAN's Biggest Military Spenders, Really?
By Dan Steinbock
The conventional military narratives highlight aggregate expenditures and downplay per capita spending. Realities are more nuanced, both globally and in Southeast Asia.
The conventional narrative is that China has become assertive, while the West is ignoring its defense needs. According to SIPRI research, in the past decade military spending in China and Russia increased 118% and 87%, respectively, while US spending plunged almost 5%.
Yet, the list of top-10 military spenders includes the US ($611 billion), China ($215 billion), Russia ($69 billion), followed by Saudi Arabia, India, major EU economies, Japan and South Korea. Together, they account for three-fourths of the total. Washington spends more dollars a year on its military than the next seven biggest spenders combined – which penalizes US living standards and stability abroad.
Moreover, the US is escalating. The Trump administration is planning a huge Reagan-style rearmament and requesting $54 billion; an almost 10% increase in a single year – even as its public debt amounts to $20 trillion (105% of US GDP).
Indeed, military spending should also be assessed in per capita terms. In this view, Saudi Arabia and the US lead, with $2,000 and $1,900 per person, respectively. The two are followed by Europeans, South Korea, Russia and Japan. In contrast, China and India come last (with just 8% and 2% of the US level, respectively).
In the past decade, increases in military budget in per capita terms have soared in Saudi Arabia (40%), but been slower in China and India (less than 15% each); and even less in Russia (6%). Moreover, in the past decade, per capita incomes in China and India increased strongly (10.8% and 8%, respectively). In both, military spending has increased faster but after a very low starting point.
There is a deep gap between current realities and perceptions of military spending. ASEAN nations are not an exception to the rule.
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ASEAN's military spenders
In Southeast Asia, the largest military spenders are the tiny Singapore ($10 billion) and Indonesia ($8.2 billion), followed by Thailand and Vietnam (about $5-6 billion), and Malaysia and Philippines (around $4 billion) (Figure 1).
The per capita picture is very different. In this view, Singapore ($1,750) and Brunei ($940) are ASEAN's big spenders, far ahead of Malaysia ($136). What this means is that, in per capita terms, Singaporeans spend on average 46 times more than the Filipinos in their military. In the past, Myanmar puts almost as much money into the military as Vietnam ($53) and more than the Philippines ($38), whereas Indonesia is a more moderate player ($31) (Figure 2).
So if Singapore is ASEAN's Uncle Sam in per capita big spending, then Brunei is comparable to France, Malaysia to China and Philippines to India.
In effect, until 2010, the Philippines' military expenditures decreased two decades from 1.6% to 0.8% as share of GDP. During the Aquino era, Washington initiated its pivot to Asia and Manila executed its pivot toward the US. In the process, the Philippine military expenditures soared to almost 1.4% of GDP. In this view geopolitics rather than economic development motivated the Aquino priorities.
Economic development or military needs
If per capita incomes rise fast, then relative increases in military budgets are to be expected, and vice versa. In the past decade, per capita incomes rose by 4.2% in Singapore; but military expenditures even faster. In Brunei, the gap was worse as per capita incomes shrank by more than 0.4%, but military spending grew by 2.8%.
In per capita terms, such gaps between incomes and military spending are not sustainable over time. And as newly-industrialized economies are now stagnating and high prices do not favor oil exporters, policymakers must consider reassessments in the future or prepare for popular resentment.
Indeed, where gains in per capita incomes exceed those in military expenditures, economic development tends to prevail over defense. In Southeast Asia, these countries include Malaysia, Myanmar and Laos.
Conversely, where gains in per capita military spending exceed those in per capita incomes, defense needs tend to prevail over economic development. In addition to Singapore and Brunei, these countries include Cambodia, Indonesia, and Philippines in the past decade.
With scarce resources, there are always priorities. If nations truly seek economic development, they must often make difficult choices. The more countries focus on economic growth and the less they exhaust monies in military spending, the more they may enjoy rapid economic growth – and vice versa.
If ASEAN countries that still have relatively low per capita incomes seek rapid economic development, excessive military spending is the best way not to achieve the targeted economic objectives and an even better way to undermine social goals.
Living standards seldom rise fast in countries that favor geopolitics.
Dr Steinbock is the founder of the Difference Group and has served as the research director at the India, China, and America Institute (USA) and a visiting fellow at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China) and the EU Center (Singapore). For more information, see http://www.differencegroup.net/
The original version was released by The Manila Times on May 15, 2017
Dan Steinbock
Dr Steinbock is an internationally recognized expert of the multipolar world. He focuses on international business, international relations, investment and risk among the major advanced economies and large emerging economies; as well as multipolar trends in stocks, currencies, commodities, etc. Altogether, he analyzes some 40 major world economies and a dozen strategic nations, across all world regions.His commentaries are released regularly by major media in all world regions (see www.differencegroup.net). Dr Steinbock is CEO and founder of DifferenceGroup (for more, see www.differencegroup.net). In addition to advisory activities, he is affiliated as Research Director of International Business at India China and America Institute, and as Visiting Fellow in Shanghai Institutes for International Studies SIIS (China) and EU Center (Singapore). As a Senior Fulbright scholar, he is affiliated with Stern/NYU, Columbia Graduate School of Business and has cooperated with Harvard Business School. He has advised/consulted for the OECD, the European Commission, the Nordic Council and European government agencies, multinationals and SMEs, financial institutions, competitiveness and innovation organizations, and so on.
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James Batchelor is a prize-winning choreographer and dancer from Australia. His mission as an artist is to make work that inspires curiosity, shifts expectations, expands awareness and creates possibilities. He aspires to finding new ways to make dance into a conversation, a collaboration and an interchange. Batchelor studied dance at the Victorian College of the Arts. Since 2012 he has been commissioned by Chunky Move ("Redshift"), Dance Massive ("Deepspace"), Dancehouse ("Island"), the Keir Choreographic Award ("Metasystems", "Inhabited Geometries") and the National Portrait Gallery of Australia ("Smooth Translation"). His choreographies have been seen in Paris, Versailles, Luxemburg, Bassano del Grappa, Chongqing, Bangkok and elsewhere. In 2016 he was resident artist on the Australian marine-research ship RV Investigator, which travelled to sub-Arctic areas and the McDonald Islands. As a performer he has worked with Iván Pérez, Anouk van Dijk (Chunky Move), Antony Hamilton, Prue Lang, Stephanie Lake, Sue Healey and others.
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By the time you read this, Michael Weatherly will have given away his last farewell gift (a Swiss Army knife engraved with Big Kiss) to the NCIS crew. His trailer will no longer be parked on the show's lot in Santa Clarita, California. Tony DiNozzo, the role he inhabited for the last 13 years, won't be on the series' call sheet. The characters rumored to be replacing Tony, FBI vet Tess Monroe (Sarah Clarke) and British MI6 agent Clayton Reeves (Duane Henry), will be introduced in the May 10 episode. And Weatherly himself will soon know if his new CBS pilot, Bull, which is based on the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, has been picked up for the 2016-17 TV season. Either way, life for the actor will be very different.
"Family First" -- Coverage of the CBS series NCIS, scheduled to air on the CBS Television Network.
When Weatherly announced in January that he was leaving NCIS at the end of the season, it wasn't that much of a surprise. It had been 13 years, after all. "I meet 20-year-olds who were in first grade when we started. Basically, their entire lives they've known me as 'Hey, you're on television, playing that guy,'" he points out. His exit, in fact, was a long time in the making. It's something, says Weatherly, he began thinking about seriously two and a half years ago, in Season 11, after the departure of Cote de Pablo, who played his verbal sparring partner and love interest, Ziva.
During Season 12, Weatherly informed his bosses that this year would be his last on NCIS. "I think initially they thought I was negotiating my salary or trying to box clever," he remembers. "Then very quickly they realized I wasn't and I wanted everyone to be able to prepare and put time into Tony's leaving." And it worked. If you haven't noticed, Tony has had a big year that's led to a lot of soul-searching. He briefly, and unhappily, took over as boss in the season premiere. He reunited—twice—with his true love, Jeanne Benoit, who is now married to another man. He had his identity stolen, then had to hear from two of the thieves how lame his life had become (OK, that was funny). All of it, showrunner Gary Glasberg says, is leading to a major decision Tony will make in the finale, the plot of which revolves around the team's continued hunt for rogue British spy Jacob Scott (Vince Nappo), who recently murdered their former chief (Alan Dale).
On the lighter side, he says he also went to great lengths to include several inside jokes for DiNozzo fans. Plot elements from way back in the NCIS story vault will resurface as the episode unravels. And since Scott is out to avenge his wife's death during a sting operation by targeting current and former NCIS agents, the finale features cameos from several familiar faces from NCIS history ("It's probably the largest guest cast we've ever assembled," Glasberg says).) Just don't expect the return of Ziva David. While Glasberg insists "that relationship is part of who Tony is and that impacts his reason to go," de Pablo already confirmed at a recent screening of her film The 33 that she didn't shoot any new scenes for the episode.


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The Shelton Democratic Town Committee is proud to announce that 314 Action has endorsed Kevin Kosty for Second Ward Alderman, and David Gioiello for Board of Education. 314 Action is a nonprofit 501(c)4 founded by members of the STEM community, grassroots supporters and political activists, and is committed to electing more STEM candidates to office to advocate for evidence-based policy solutions.
Kevin Kosty graduated from Nazareth College of Rochester with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. He has worked as a laboratory scientist in environmental, metals, and materials laboratories, and is currently employed at PerkinElmer as a Senior Technical Support Specialist. "As a scientist and first-time candidate, I'm proud to have the support of an organization dedicated to helping candidates who are committed to STEM innovation and environmental quality," Kosty said. "The knowledge and skill sets that STEM trained professionals can bring to government will help us make smart decisions in our community on issues like development, taxes, education and protecting the environment. I will bring that balanced approach and reason to Shelton as Alderman."
In his campaign for office, Kevin is advocating for the revitalization of our downtown, including infrastructure improvements, walking access, improved traffic flow and parking, contamination clean-up, and preservation of green space for the benefit of residents.
David Gioiello holds a BS from the University of Detroit and an MS from Wayne State University. Mr. Gioiello has worked for GE, NASA and currently is co-owner of a consulting firm specializing in occupational safety and health. He has served on several national professional boards and is past president of a Foundation that provides scholarships to students pursuing degrees in safety and health. Mr. Gioiello is committed to increasing student SAT scores and graduation rates. If re-elected, he will continue working to ensure that the children of Shelton receive a quality education. "STEM education must grow within our educational program, as one trained in science I know firsthand the key to our future is through good science and engineering."
Kevin Kosty and David Gioiello are the only candidates in Connecticut to be endorsed by 314 Action for the 2017 election. Mr. Kosty is also endorsed by the Naugatuck Valley Young Democrats.
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Former FBI profiler Will Graham (William Petersen, To Live and Die in L.A., CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) reluctantly returns to his old job to track a horrific serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy. ", But in order to get into the mind of this maniac, Graham must face another: Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox, X-Men 2, RED), the imprisoned psychiatrist whose own insanity almost cost Graham his life… and whose insights into "The Tooth Fairy", could prove as dangerous as the killer himself. Tom Noonan (Heat, RoboCop 2), Joan Allen (The Bourne Legacy), Dennis Farina (Get Shorty), Kim Greist (Brazil) and Stephen Lang (Avatar) co-star in this gripping thriller from director Michael Mann (Heat, Miami Vice) and adapted from the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. Manhunter is one of the most unnerving serial killer movies ever made. Special Features Include: Disc 1: Theatrical Version (HD) -"The Mind of Madness" – an interview with William Petersen (18 minutes) -"Courting a Killer" – an interview with actress Joan Allen (16 minutes) -"Francis is Gone Forever" – an interview with actor Tom Noonan (22 minutes) -"The First Lecktor" – an interview with actor Brian Cox (40 minutes) -"The Eye of the Storm" – an interview with director of photography Dante Spinotti (36 minutes) -"The Music of MANHUNTER" – including interviews with composer Michel Rubini, Barry Andrews (Sh...
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Person of Interest: The Complete Second Season (DVD)In this crime thriller, a former CIA agent, John Reese (Jim Caviezel) teams up with mysterious billionaire Harold Finch (Michael Emerson) to prevent violent crimes before they happen. Reese's special training in covert operations appeals to Finch, a software genius who invented a program, aka "The Machine," that can identify people soon to be involved in violent crimes. Tapping into ubiquitous surveillance feeds throughout the city, the two work outside of the law, combining Reese's black ops skills with Finch's technological prowess and unlimited wealth to unravel the mystery of the person of interest, and stop the crime before it happens. Also working with Reese and Finch are detectives Carter and Fusco (Taraji P. Henson & Kevin Chapman). With infinite crimes to investigate, Reese and Finch find that the right person, with the right information, at the right time, can change everything.]]>
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Based on the novels by Kerry Greenwood "A blockbuster hit" —The Sydney Morning Herald "Witty and elegant" —The Australian Seen on public television In 1920s Melbourne, the Honorable Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis, Girl with a Pearl Earring) is a thoroughly modern woman operating in a mostly male world. The glamorous "lady detective" goes about her work with a pistol close at hand—and, more often than not, a male admirer even closer. To the dismay of Detective Inspector Jack Robinson (Nathan Page, The Secret Life of Us), Phryne's investigations take her through back alleys, jazz clubs, and shady neighborhoods. Ignoring the dangers all around her, she glides through life determined to enjoy every moment. But beneath her devil-may-care attitude, Phryne hides ghosts from the past that continue to haunt her. Gorgeously costumed and evocatively shot, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries also stars Hugo Johnstone-Burt (Cloudstreet), Ashleigh Cummings (Tomorrow, When the War Began), Miriam Margolyes (Little Dorrit), and Nicholas Bell (Shine). Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings) guest stars. Contains violence, coarse language, nudity, sexual situations, and drug use
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The Trump administration is pulling out of an "obsolete" 63-year-old friendship treaty with Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday, just hours after an international tribunal ruled the U.S. government must roll back some of the economic sanctions it has imposed on Tehran over its nuclear and missile programs.
Mr. Pompeo appeared in the State Department briefing room to personally deliver the news, calling the termination of the 1955 agreement "overdue" and accusing Iran of abusing the International Court of Justice in The Hague to undercut U.S. policy.
Iran cited the 1955 agreement as the basis for arguing at the ICJ that curbs on humanitarian trade announced by the Trump administration after President Trump pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal this spring were illegal under international law.
In a preliminary ruling, the court said that Washington must remove "any impediments arising from" the re-imposition of sanctions to the export to Iran of medicine and medical devices, food and agricultural commodities and spare parts and equipment necessary to ensure the safety of civil aviation.
Mr. Pompeo noted that the court refused to grant Iran much more sweeping relief from U.S. sanctions that Tehran had demanded. He also said the U.S. sanctions policy already took into account exceptions for humanitarian transactions with Iran, and accused the regime in Tehran of spending money on military adventures abroad rather than on the needs of its own citizens.
National Security Adviser John R. Bolton made his own surprise appearance at the White House press briefing to amplify the U.S. case against both Iran and international bodies such as the ICJ.
In May, the Palestinian Authority filed a complaint with the U.N. tribunal, challenging the administration's move of the embassy to a city that Palestinians want to become their capital.
To stop the suit, Mr. Bolton said the U.S. would withdraw from an optional provision of the Vienna Convention on dispute resolution.
The little-known 1955 "Treaty of Amity" with Iran was many signed after World War II as the U.S. tried to assemble a Cold War coalition of nations to counter the Soviet Union. Like many of the treaties, this one was aimed at encouraging closer economic relations and regulating diplomatic and consular ties.
Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, accused the Trump administration of acting "impetuously" in abrogating the accord, even given the current hostility between Washington and Tehran.
"That treaty has proven immensely valuable to the United States historically, including in the judgment against Iran over the 1979 hostage crisis," Mr. Abdi said in a statement.
Mr. Pompeo said it remained to be seen what the practical effect of abrogating the deal would be. He said Iran has been "ignoring" the agreement for a long time, and the ICJ ruling provided just one more justification for ending the accord.
Mr. Pompeo also told reporters he was "optimistic" ahead of his trip to Pyongyang this weekend for a new round of talks with North Korea on ending its nuclear programs. He said he hopes the meeting will not only set up a second summit between Mr. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un but also give both sides a "better understanding" of the pathway to total denuclearization.


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Joe Abdo began his life in film in 1952 as an "extra" and one of his first films was War of the Worlds where he was one of the little boys in front of the movie theater seeing the Martian invaders arrive. He continued working as a background actor, joined SEG and helped put himself through university. After a stint in the USAF, he went to grad school and then entered on a very busy career in health care administration. When he could eke out the time he took part in small theater in Hollywood and had a SAG film role.
Joe took a mid-life break and moved to Portugal where he joined the local English-language theater group and performed in more than 20 plays. In addition, he acted in several films, musicals and plays for foreign companies doing productions in Lisbon. He did some voiceover work, including a cartoon, and was a radio announcer for the 1998 World Exposition in Lisbon.
Back in Hollywood, he has not lost his love of film and theater and is involving himself in the local work scene. Joe is often cast as a grandfather, a professional or a homeless person and has shown some dancing skill.
Aside from work as an actor in a number of films, as well as commercials, Joe is a writer; his books can be seen on http://www.joeabdobooks.com. He also wrote and produced a short film entitled Mary (http://youtu.be/hFUu6lV0rsU).


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Q: Android Notification not being triggered I am trying to trigger a basic notification. However, when I run my code, no notification appears. This seems strange, considering that I believe I have constructed the notification properly and called the notification manager to launch it (notificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, builder.build()).
MainActivity.java:
package com.example.basicalarmsetter;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.AlarmManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;

import androidx.core.app.NotificationCompat;
import androidx.core.app.NotificationManagerCompat;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        NotificationManagerCompat notificationManager = NotificationManagerCompat.from(this);
        NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this, CHANNEL_ID)
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher_foreground)
                .setContentTitle("Notification from MainActivity")
                .setContentText("Notification from MainActivity successfully launched!")
                .setPriority(NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_DEFAULT)
                // Set the intent that will fire when the user taps the notification
                .setContentIntent(pendingIntent)
                .setAutoCancel(true);
        // notificationId is a unique int for each notification that you must define
        notificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, builder.build());
    }
}

AndroidManifest.xml:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        package="com.example.basicalarmsetter">

        <uses-permission android:name="com.android.alarm.permission.SET_ALARM" />

        <application
            android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
            <activity
                android:name=".MainActivity"
                android:label="MainActivity" >
                <intent-filter>
                    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
                </int

ent-filter>
        </activity>
            <receiver android:name=".AlarmReceiver" android:process=":remote" />
    </application>

</manifest>

App Gradle:
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 29
    buildToolsVersion "29.0.2"
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.example.basicalarmsetter"
        minSdkVersion 26
        targetSdkVersion 29
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.2'
    implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.0'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.1.1'
}

A: For APIs greater than 26 you must create a NotificationChanel before creating your notification and you must add this chanel to the NotificationManger like below:
 if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
            //Create the chanel
            NotificationChannel notificationChannel = new NotificationChannel(CHANNEL_ID, "Notification_name", NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT);

            NotificationManagerCompat notificationManager = NotificationManagerCompat.from(this);
            NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this, CHANNEL_ID)
                    .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher_foreground)
                    .setContentTitle("Notification from MainActivity")
                    .setContentText("Notification from MainActivity successfully launched!")
                    .setPriority(NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_DEFAULT)
                    // Set the intent that will fire when the user taps the notification
                    .setContentIntent(pendingIntent)
                    .setAutoCancel(true);

            // add the chanel to the notification manger
            notificationManager.createNotificationChannel(notificationChannel);

            // notificationId is a unique int for each notification that you must define
            notificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, builder.build());
        }

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Slacklining has became increasingly popular in recent years. And while the act of balancing on lines is in no way novel to our generation, it was only in the past few decades that athletes began to experiment with webbing material at various tensions to create a more dynamic line in which bouncing and tricks can be performed on.
So naturally, as any outdoor adventure loving photographer must, I decided it was a rite of passage to undertake my own project of capturing slacklining in the Southeast. Luckily for me, the Linville Gorge was right at my backdoor at the time and was becoming a premier spot for highlining in the region. Also, fortunately for me, the Linville Gorge is probably one of the most beautiful wilderness areas we have in the Southeast, and an area that I'm relatively familiar with.
The Linville River sits about 1,400 feet below the ridge, allowing for some dramatic views from the cliffs above.
A local group called the South East Slackliners were having a gathering in the gorge last October. They were all nice enough to let me hang out with them and snap some images over the course of the week as they set up their rigs throughout the gorge.
Damon Hill sets up a sunrise line on the eastern side of the gorge.
As you might imagine, setting up these lines can be difficult and time consuming. Depending on the size and location of the rig, setting them up can take patience, communication, and teamwork, and often times it takes trial and error to set up their tension correctly. With such an experimental sport as high lining is, falling off the lines frequently is to be expected and is part of the learning process. Needless to say, I captured more images of people falling than I did actually walking across the lines. It actually made for some pretty neat images. Of course, they were all securely tied to the main webbing.
On the last day of the event, just as the sun was setting I was finally able to capture "the shot" I had been seeking all week. After taking some pretty huge falls, slackliner and all around badass Dave Humphrey was able to stand up and take a short walk just as the sun disappeared behind the cliffs. I was told the name of this line in this particular location is called, "Linville Gorgeous" and its easy to see why.
Dave Humphrey walking across Linville Gorgeous high above the valley floor.