Week 3 has flown in, which means another interview and another unwilling victim ecstatic guest to grill.
I'm very, very pleased to have been able to grab some time with the venerable Roger Ballen; multifaceted photographer, painter and sculptor.
Today we'll be exploring Roger's motivation, drives and work, so let's get cracking.
RB: This image, "Mimicry" is one of my favourite images as it was one of my first that successfully integrated drawing, painting and sculpture through photography. The image is humorous and enigmatic; precise and formally perfect; multi-layered and complex in meaning.
I commonly point out that this iconic photograph is a good example of how other media can be transformed through photography.
RB: The short version: I was Born in New York in 1950, studied psychology as an undergrad student and then went on to complete a PhD in Mineral Economics.
I originally came to South Africa to work as a geologist but as my love and enthusiasm for photography began to grow, I found motivations to stay a while. That was about 30 years ago.
People familiar with my very early work say that it was rather socio-politically oriented, some say it had elements of the photojournalist.
Whilst I'll say that it encompassed elements of all that, I believe that it was coming to and shooting my small part of South Africa, which allowed me to develop a more empathetic style.
I believe that photography can do more than document simple reality; becoming part of the community I was shooting helped me to explore the inner world of my subjects beyond the stark physical nature of their environment.
RB: In the 1960's my mother worked for Magnum Photos and helped set up one of the first photographic galleries in the US, so you could say that photography was an early passion influenced by her. I really started shooting film in 1968 when I received a Nikkormat FTN for my birthday. I can't say how much I shot but I can tell you that it was mostly Kodak Tri-X and Plus-X.
RB: For me, there's a mystery attached to the medium. You don't know what you're really going to get until you develop your film, make your adjustments and then finally blow it up and see a print.
The entire process fascinates me. Loading film, considering, composing and then capturing the image, developing the negative, tweaking it and printing it.
It really is impossible to replicate using a digital medium, where you can just keep taking photos until you get it right. Shooting film really is intensely physical in all aspects.
I believe that it's important to note that I grew up in a time where film cameras were everywhere. The last generation that had it so, if you will. So, taking photos and specifically taking them using film as the method of capture is something that I have a very deep, ingrained connection with.
Oh, and I also shoot square…it's part of my aesthetic and there aren't any medium format, square format digital cameras out there… I've checked… Exhaustively!
RB: I don't walk the streets to point and shoot. For me, my photographs need to tell a story that requires more than just words to describe. So sure, sure, I have ideas and concepts in my head that I'd like to explore but I don't just walk the streets trying to find a shot to match them.
I go to the same places I've always gone to and I shoot the things I feel help me convey the meaning I'm after. You might say that I enter with an empty mind and leave with an empty mind.
One important thing to note is that like everything to be sharp and in focus, I don't like blur. I shoot with flash or strobes, so I'm afforded the ability to capture everything I want at very small apertures, f11, or f16.
I also feel that my sculpture, drawing and painting have helped to evolve my work and I think you can see a transition in my work, as I have begun to integrate other art forms into my pictures. If you compare my early work to that of today, I feel that my photographs are more multilayered than before. There's a deeper context and story.
RB: I mostly shoot Kodak TMAX 400. It's sharp, it's consistent and I connect with how it represents the imagery I try to capture. As I said, I aim to get everything in focus, so shooting a fine grain film is essential to my work.
If I only had one roll left to shoot, it would be TMAX 400 and I'd go shoot it exactly where I've been shooting for the past 30 years. I'd finish that roll knowing that I'd have captured everything I wanted to capture in exactly the way I'd wanted to capture it!
RB: That depends but as I don't know what I'll be shooting, I'd have to say my Rolleiflex SL66 with the stock 80mm f/2.8 Zeiss lens, or the 90mm macro. They're both great lenses and capture stunning images. The 90mm especially, can go from being a 'normal' lens to a macro in a flick and the SL66's bellows mean I don't need to take extra macro gear.
Film-wise, I'd take a roll of TMAX 400 and a roll of my backup: Ilford Delta 400 Professional.
I'd also probably cheap a little and take my Leica M Monocrom. Yes, it's digital but it's a great camera; fast, compact and captures great images. For me, it's another reason that confirms there's not really much difference between film and digital as it relates to sharpness or detail.
RB: No question about it. Same film, same places.
RB: Photography is an easy art to master technically but technical mastery of a camera doesn't mean you've mastered photography. Almost anyone can learn to meter a shot and then capture an image but it takes years of effort and dedication to become a really good photographer.
It's not something that is easily come by!
The explosion in digital photography and the ease at which everyone is able to take photos means that the vast majority of people seem to think that anyone can become a photographer. This is simply not true.
Taking photographs has become commoditized, and many professions which used to thrive on the knowledge, experience and quality of the photographer have been torn apart. I consider myself lucky to not have to rely on shooting weddings, events and such in order to make a living today.
RB: We can't stop the digital march, or even slow it down. That's just progress.
I believe that film photography will continue as a form, much in the same way that painted portraits still exist. It's my belief that using film as a photographic medium will simply become more and more antiquated, peripheral, specialised.
That's not a negative viewpoint. Just to say that should the medium follow the route I've described, it will become more valuable than what's replaced it and give future photographers a niche they can use to express their thoughts and ideas.
And there we have it. I've been following Roger's work for some time now and whilst some of his pieces have made me feel genuinely uncomfortable in the past, I've learned to appreciate them at less of a surface level and look at the humour in the dark. It's nearly always there and I think the headline image on this page is a great example of it.
I'd like to encourage you all to take in Roger's website, http://www.rogerballen.com, where you can find more details of Dorps, Boyhood, Asylum of the Birds and everything else in between.
You can also follow Roger on Twitter and Facebook, or try and get yourself to one of his 2015 exhibitions. This year Roger's work will be up for consumption in (at the time of writing), 13 countries.


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require 'fog/arubacloud/service'
require 'fog/arubacloud/error'
require 'benchmark'

module Fog
  module ArubaCloud
    class Compute
      class Real
        def get_loadbalancer(data)
          body = self.body('GetLoadBalancers').merge(
              :GetLoadBalancers => {
                  :loadBalancerID => data[:id]
              }
          )
          options = {
              :http_method => :post,
              :method => 'GetLoadBalancers',
              :body => Fog::JSON.encode(body)
          }

          response = nil
          time = Benchmark.realtime {
            response = request(options)
          }
          Fog::Logger.debug("GetLoadBalancers time: #{time}")
          if response['Success']
            response
          else
            raise Fog::ArubaCloud::Errors::RequestError.new('Error during the Load Balancer deletion.')
          end
        end # get_loadbalancer
        class Mock
          def get_loadbalancer
            raise Fog::Errors::MockNotImplemented.new(
                      'Mock not implemented. Feel free to contribute.'
                  )
          end # create_loadbalancer
        end # Mock
      end # Real
    end # ArubaCloud
  end # Compute
end # Fog

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Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell to star in season 2 'True Detective'
Zachary Goldstein, AOL.com
Sep 23rd 2014 3:13PM
By ZACHARY GOLDSTEIN
The male leads for the upcoming Emmy-nominated HBO original "True Detective" have finally been confirmed.
Vince Vaughn will be joining Colin Farrell in replacing Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson on the show for its second season, according to Huffington Post Entertainment. The story will revolve around three cops and a career criminal who navigate a web of conspiracy after a murder.
The new character descriptions have also been released:
Farrell plays Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him.
Vaughn plays Frank Semyon, a man in danger of losing his criminal empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner.
Although rumored for some time, the addition of funnyman Vaughn may come as a surprise to many "True Detective" fans. Vaughn, famous for his roles in "Old School" and "Wedding Crashers," has been most recently attached to box-office duds such as "The Watch," "The Internship" and "Delivery Man."
Rumors have also been swirling that Jessica Chastain, Elisabeth Moss or Rachel McAdams could be joining the cast as the show's female lead.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Photo: Two Way Street Editorial Team during Public Safety District press conference.
Nick: Downtown is one of the places in the City least lacking in having a police presence. Why have you identified the downtown area as the place for the public safety district?
Sarita Nair: For the City, public safety isn't just about being safe. We wanted this to be a model for interdepartmental cooperation with a geographic boundary to see how much we could do if we really work on working together. We have Solid Waste, the Block-By-Block folks, the graffiti folks, the people who clean the alleys, transit and transit security officers, police, and we have more of the fire and rescue departments working together in one place, because we see that as a way to help people feel safer without feeling threatened. As a person of color, you know, I'm never worried about the paramedics. It's a nice way to provide that presence for the people who might not always feel safe when they see the police. We're also bringing in all of the contractors we work with for family and community services for street outreach, substance abuse treatment, and behavioral health services so they can talk to each other and more effectively provide services for the community. We're so accustomed to working in silos, because there is a lot of work to be done between providers and recipients, but this will let us practice working together to see how we can improve the outcomes for the community.
Kharlos: We've seen that crime has taken a dramatic plummet over the last several months, and we think we can attribute that to the City's new approach to more of a community policing model. Is this a part of that initiative?
Chief Bañez: Yes. When we came in with the new administration, we found that officers were receiving a lot of support from the administration, but we still have to deal with the stigma associated with police in the community. We wanted to make sure that the force was supported and trained to be better suited to interact with people of color and people struggling with mental health. While we have been more active in dealing with crime through stops and arrests, we have also realized that arrests may not be the best way to resolve a situation. Particularly in the downtown area, where we have a lot of homeless residents, we're trying to get them services. By having these departments together, we are able to provide more services. What happens in Albuquerque, which is in the heart of the State, what we do affects the communities around us, so we are also getting a lot of support from the State on this program as well.
Nick: This seems right in line with the City's approach to community policing. What other kinds of coordination will be going on interdepartmentally?
Chief Bañez: We're reaching out beyond just the City departments. The downtown area has a number of faith-based and community organizations providing services as well. The plan is to involve these organizations as well. Previously, when we would come across someone on substances, we would take them to the hospital, but there would be no follow up. Now, we can find a way to help these people after they are released from the hospital. We're also looking for support from businesses, because we can't do it ourselves. We've done something like this before out on Central and Coors. We created a coalition of business owners who can help us have more eyes on the street. When we cultivated these relationships, we saw drops in violent crime, auto theft, robberies, and property crimes. This will be a similar program, but on a larger scale.
Sarita Nair: Our relationship with business owners revolves around being responsive to their needs. With Solid Waste, for example, we have already been able to be more responsive to the needs of businesses on Central, like 516 Arts, who would be left with a mess on the street after the weekend. Now we have teams going out every Monday to address this need. It's just one of those small things only possible through open communication between the community and the administration. Lighting is another issue. For some reason, we can't seem to get the streetlights to work all the time, so we're coming up with other solutions. This type of community engagement lets us be responsive to and aware of those needs.
Chief Bañez: Once we develop the facility completely, there will be people trained and on the premises so that they can provide the services and resources directly. Our directive is to make sure that we are available and accessible for anyone. It will be a place to go to get back on your feet.
Sarita Nair: In the City Administration, we are just now discussing the Mayor's vision for working with people who are experiencing homelessness. The number one thing that we have consensus on is that there is not a single place with a low bar of entry where people can go to get out of the elements, have access to basic medical care, and get additional services. It will take time to site and build, but in the meantime, we are opening the Westside Shelter 24/7, seven days a week, all year. There will be more frequent transport, and you will not get kicked out in the morning, like you are now. It's one of the first places we toured when we came into office, and people were living there, even though they could not stay throughout the day. There were bedspreads, things on the wall, family units were family homes. We needed to acknowledge that reality and keep it open all the time. It will be more expensive, with the additional transport and we need on-site medical care. Our response times from Station 14 out there where too slow. That is our plan for the next two years, because we need to build a new facility closer to the center of town, where our residents will have more immediate access to services. It'll be a huge lift. We'll need to pull a whole bunch of capital that would ordinarily go to discretionary projects and district improvements, but we're going to ask everyone to get onboard with this project. It's the only way we're going to take a chunk out of this. The other piece is that we need a crisis triage center, where people can go for behavioral and mental health, substance abuse, or just general counseling, if you're having a terrible day and you have no support network. The County seems like they want to take the lead on that. We need to start small. One of the things they're talking about is having medical supervision at MATS Detox. Right now, we never take people to MATS because the bar to entry is so high. If you have a blood pressure over 120 or so, you can't get in. A bad text will send me over that threshold. You also can't get in if you're clean or if you're wounded. The County is really working on that. So, I think if we get both of those, a campus to provide emergency housing with services with an exit strategy, like access to housing vouchers and a way for people to progress through the system, and the crisis triage center, we can make some progress on outcomes for people who need these resources.
Kharlos: Tell us more about the public washrooms and facilities. Other cities have experimented with public facilities, usually monitored by an attendant or monitored by police, to have available downtown?
Sarita Nair: Our administration is all about experimentation. Our first public bathroom experiment did not go great. We put portable toilets in Coronado Park, because that's where we need them. Very quickly it got to the point where we needed hazmat teams to come out daily. It became expensive right away, but we learned some great lessons. They were used a lot, but we couldn't afford it. We just bought a more permanent unit, and we have finalized some sites to place it. We've learned that there does need to be security. If we need that security 24/7, again it becomes a more expensive, but we'll see what works. We've also found portables with showers. We need to find the right balance for what we can afford.
Kharlos: What steps are you taking to develop the police force to understand trauma and interact with people who are in crisis?
Chief Bañez: One of the biggest things we've done is create a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT). I was one of the first officers trained, back in the 90s, to look at an individual's behavior, whether it is drug induced or if they're dealing with a catastrophic event. We try to determine what is going on with them, and help us get them to advise us on the right next step. Everyone has been through the basic CIT training. We also have the Advanced CIT, and Mobile Crisis Teams with trained counselors and doctors.
Sarita Nair: That's not to say that we do it perfectly. We're really trying to recruit new officers who, like Chief Bañez, want to be a guardian for their communities. We don't want to recruit officers the way our City once did, with ads running helicopter sounds in the background. It's going to be a long process. Shifting culture takes time.


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Film review: The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke has brought us the acclaimed Caché and 2 versions of the disturbing Funny Games over the last 15 years, and the Austrian auteur continued his run of highly praised movies with the 2009 Palme d'Or-winning The White Ribbon. Although Haneke's uncompromising directorial style has led to some accusations of pretension, the slow-burning, black-and-white drama of his latest picture suits him down to the ground.
Following the bizarre events in a north Germany town in 1913, The White Ribbon reveals itself as a critique of the social norms pre-first World War which, it is very strongly hinted, will eventually lead to the second. The characters Haneke focuses on are all notionally figures of societal pride and moral responsibility – the doctor, the schoolteacher, the pastor – but as we pass through the film's quaint opening half hour it becomes abundantly clear that more than just neighbourly goodness lurks within these houses' walls.
What Haneke does so well in the first act is to paint an uncomfortable backdrop. We are transported into this turn-of-the-century Teutonic scene via a series of atmospheric panning shots, unafraid to linger for half a minute or more on the idyllic countryside surrounding this insular village. However, the movie's opening third also sees the town doctor fall from his horse as a wire is stretched between two trees and this, we're told by the schoolteacher's voiceover, is what starts the bizarre events.
After the first half an hour, in which the locals harvest crops for the baron who owns most of the town's houses and employs its populace, there is an act of rebellion from a farmer's son which prompts the baron's anger. His family are sacked and now penniless, the young farmer banished. The doctor's return from hospital does little to settle the mood of uncertainty as his ruptured, incestuous home life is revealed. The pastor's children begin to act up in worrying fashion, and cruel events grip the town's mind, with children being abducted, beaten and found utterly traumatised.
Funny Games has already shown Haneke's adeptness at dealing with the causes and effects of horrible violence, but where The White Ribbon sets itself apart is that it chooses not to show the events themselves. Just as the townspeople keep their secrets locked up behind closed doors, so too Haneke elects to keep these horrendous acts off-camera. It's mightily unsettling to watch such a quaint-looking down degrade into acts of sadism, torture and suppression.
The grainy black-and-white film that the German director has used is all stark whites and mysterious shadows; the darkness in which the villagers search for missing children is absolute, Haneke building tension in a near-Hitchcockian way, and the jump cuts from the depths of night to noontime daylight strain the eyes. Haneke forces every shot to be scrutinized as we search for clues of the true illicit identities of a populace who aren't what they seem.
But for all its true brilliance, The White Ribbon does have moments of excessive idiosyncrasy from its director, and does occasionally slow to a near-comatose pace. The long panning shots are lovely to enjoy, but they do occasionally loiter on the same subject a touch too long: a street is nowhere near as interesting or important as the director would have us believe, for example. His characters, especially the wonderfully creepy kids, are fairly well thought-out, but suffer from sheer numbers – some don't receive the benefits of long screentime as we follow numerous individual stories. In addition, all the adult characters remained unnamed, leaving a bit of a disconnect between audience and character sympathy. There are also points where we wonder what The White Ribbon really wants to be – it's part controversial love story, part fantasy-horror and part societal critique and never really settles into any of them, bouncing between all three.
To call The White Ribbon an enjoyable watch would be an overstatement, difficult German cinema such as this could seldom be thus described, but it is certainly an interesting proposition. Haneke's latest may never settle on a genre, but his ability to juggle three different ones with evident relish is certainly worthy of high praise. His film shows a thoroughly unsettling underbelly lurking below the façade of normality, and undercutting every scene is our knowledge of how utterly this village will be ripped apart by the impending start of World War One.
Verdict: An interesting, provocative and evocative effort from one of the most individualistic auteurs working today, The White Ribbon is certain to divide opinion and response. However, it's also certain to provide talking points about the genesis of Nazism and a world left unrecognisable by the devastation of the Great War. The question is, do we think these people deserve what's coming to them?


April 4th 1841 the following named persons who had been immersed by Brother STREATOR were admitted into the church.
David LAMPLE** who had been immersed by Brother SMITH was admitted.
In the interval of time between 11th April and 18th July 1841 Sarah Ann STONE, who had been immersed by Brother STREATOR and Elizabeth LEWIS who had been immersed some years ago were admitted.
From the 1st April to the 18th July 1841 letters of ______ (someone wrote in despensation?) were given to Brothers Alex CARSON, John DILLOW and sister Elizabeth DILLOW, Alex DALGLEISH withdrew and Margaret BEEBOUT died.
Brother Robert Hanson was excluded for Drunkennefs (sic=drunkenness).
Sarah PETTIT, Mary CHAMBER, Martha MARTIN, Jacob MONIGER (sic) and John SHOAF who had been immersed by Brother STREATOR were admitted.
James C. CHAMBERS, William HUGHES, Charles C. CLARK, Jacob SHOAF, Hary (sic) SHOAF and Susannah RED, the first three who had been immersed by Brother WARD and the last three who had been immersed by Brother STREATOR were admitted.
Mariah PLYMIRE, Mary Jane SHOAF and Mary BEACH who had been immersed by Brother STREATOR were admitted.
John L. DYE was admitted to the Church on letter.
Sister Elizabeth DUVALL was admitted into the Church. she had been a member of the Baptist Church in Washington, Penn.
Bro. James DICKSON was admitted into the Church. he was immersed by Brother STREATOR.
Sister Mary PRIGG was had been (sic) a member of the Baptist Church in Washington was admitted.
Sister Jane BIRCH departed this life in her eightieth year.
** This webmaster wonders if the name was SAMPLE, a well-known Washington family, rather than LAMPLE?


Callid, this is awesome! You've totally inspired me! (If only I had a better camera to record video. I guess my crappy point and shoot will have to do.) What software do you use to edit video? I'm totally on board. I love videos and sharing them so why not try making them?! Thanks for the invitation to share, I hope to be able to soon!


See if candy dissolves faster in hot or cold water.
Fill one cup with hot tap water and one with cold water (for better results, add ice cubes).
Put one candy in the hot cup and one in the cold cup.
Watch to see which dissolves faster.
Because molecules move faster when it's hot, the candy in hot water dissolves much faster. The candy in ice water might take all night to dissolve.
With chocolate, the difference is even more impressive. Since the cocoa butter in chocolate doesn't dissolve in water, chocolate placed in cold water just sits there. But chocolate in hot water melts and mixes with the water.
this expermint was such fun!! Thanks for the info. I recomnd doing this one!
How Do I make a data graph on this?
You could try graphing how long it took for Skittles shells to dissolve in different temperatures of water. It happens pretty fast, and it's something that you could probably put a pretty clear end point on--when the shell is gone, the white layer underneath is exposed. Otherwise you could try dissolving just about anything in various temperatures of water, just make sure that each cup contains the same amount of water and you put in the same kind of candy.
Try using something with a colored shell that dissolves quickly, like Skittles, M&M's, or Nerds. Smarties and Conversation Hearts don't work as well.
Can u help me? I'm doing this for my science fair project and I want to know if I could mix the candy? Can I use jolly ranchers? Can I use starburst? I really want to get an big fat A to bring my grade back up. I want your help about telling me more. Please I want to pass the seventh grade.
For a science fair project, teachers often want to see you try to research and experiment on your own ideas. So if you have Starbursts, see if this experiment works with Starbursts. If you have Jolly Ranchers, try them too. See what happens if you flatten the Starbursts before the experiment, or crush the Jolly Ranchers. See if you notice results from one kind of candy but not another, and if you do, why might that be? If you conduct several experiments, and think about what is happening with each one, I'm sure you'll do great. Good luck!
Can you break down the meaning of hypothesis?
A hypothesis is a prediction--you're writing down what you think will happen when you do your experiments. Then you conduct your experiments and see if the results match your hypothesis.
Here's the link to a blog post I wrote about science fair projects, which I just reposted on my blog. You can also learn more about science fair guidelines at sources like ScienceBuddies.org. Those will be good places to find answers to the rest of your questions.
If you're asking how much candy to dissolve at one time, you'll just have to experiment and see what happens. Some dissolve pretty slowly. If you crush the candy, or use smaller amounts, it will dissolve faster than if you try to dissolve a big chunk of candy at once.
The dependent variable is the variable that depends on what is changing in the experiment. In this case, the independent variable is the heat, and the dependent variable is the rate at which the candy dissolves.
Great question! Experiment and tell me. It depends of course on how warm the water is, how much candy you use, whether the Jolly Rancher and Mentos are their original size or whether you crush them...so many variables.


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Jane Fonda Praises Colin Kaepernick at ACLU Gala: "Keep Kneeling Until You Can Stand Up!"
11:40 AM PST 12/4/2017 by Marc Malkin
The actress and the NFL star were both honored Sunday night at the annual Bill of Rights Awards event along with Viola Davis, Gina Rodriguez and Judd Apatow.
The ACLU of Southern California's annual Bill of Rights Awards gala on Sunday evening was a star-studded affair with honorees such as Viola Davis, Gina Rodriguez, Jane Fonda and Judd Apatow, but it was Colin Kaepernick who received the loudest applause.
The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback took home the Eason Monroe Courageous Courage Award.
"He's been viciously and unfairly criticized," said ACLU Southern California's executive director Hector Villagra. "He's been called a traitor because too many people in this country confuse dissent for disloyalty. He took a stand knowing some would threaten him and he has had his life threatened, which is why we are profoundly honored to have him here [and] we didn't publicize his presence tonight."
When Kaepernick hit the stage, the audience jumped to its feet. "We must confront systematic oppression as a doctor would a disease," he said. "You identify it, you call it out, you treat it and you defeat it. We all have an obligation, no matter the risk and regardless of reward, to stand up for our fellow men and women who are being oppressed with the understanding that human rights cannot be compromised. In the words of Frederick Douglas, 'If there is a no struggle, there is no progress.'"
Kaepernick received a second standing ovation before Billy Eichner came onstage to present a Bill of Rights Award to Apatow. "I have to follow Colin Kaerpernick?!" Eichner joked. "I didn't even wear the ACLU ribbon at the Emmys because it didn't match my tuxedo, which I feel terrible about now, by the way."
Apatow delivered more of a politically charged stand-up act than an acceptance speech, which included his hope that the alleged "pee tape" of President Donald Trump would be released.
"But if there is a pee tape, then who becomes president? Mike Pence," Apatow said. "Then we need another pee tape, maybe of Trump sitting next to Mike Pence. So, we need another pee tape because then who becomes the president? Paul Ryan. … We basically need a tape of a Russian hooker urinating like a firehose on, like, 40 Republicans until we finally get Bernie Sanders."
Davis, who was presented with a Bill of Rights Award by California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, struck a much more serious tone, recalling her childhood growing up in abject poverty.
The How to Get Away With Murder star and Oscar winner told a story about the time her father was suffering from gall bladder problems.
"He had an infection and he walked three miles to the hospital in 12-degree weather and got to the hospital to sit for another five hours before the doctor said, 'You got to go home, you look like a drug addict,'" Davis said.
"He leaves the hospital," she continued. "He walked three miles back home. He sits for another three days before gangrene start setting in and he walked back to the hospital and they finally admitted him. That is the dignity being taken away from you when you don't have any money. You don't have access to healthcare. You have no food. I scurried in garbage bins for food. I have fallen asleep within 10 minutes of being in school because I had no food. I would walk to school in shoes that had holes in the bottom, so by the time I got to school, I literally was basically walking in my socks."
The actress said she is committed to working and fighting for the 46 million Americans living in poverty today. "I have two mottos for 2017 and they are, 'I'm doing the best I can' and 'I'm gonna leave it all on the floor,'" Davis said.
Rodriguez was honored for her advocacy work on behalf of women's and immigrants' rights.
The actress called on the entertainment community to do a better job at showing diversity in movies and television. "Hollywood likes to pride itself as a mecca for liberalism and cultural progress," she said. "But the America I see represented in Hollywood films and television has never represented the America that I know."
Additionally, political commentator and Democratic strategist Van Jones was on hand to present an award to longtime producer Reginald Hudlin, whose most recent work is Marshall, a biopic about the country's first black Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall. Dolores Huerta was given the Lifetime Advocate for Justice, and Martin Sheen presented the Ramon Ripston Liberty, Justice & Equality Award to his Grace & Frankie co-star Jane Fonda.
Fonda added that she was thoroughly impressed seeing Kaepernick. "Colin," she said at the start of her remarks, "you are woke!" Fonda ended her speech by telling him, "Keep kneeling until you can stand up!"
The evening also included a Johnnie Walker-sponsored performance from Common and Andra Day singing the recently Grammy-nominated "Stand Up for Something" from the Marshall soundtrack.
Other celebrity guests included Will Poulter, John C. Reilly, Frances Fisher, Richard Schiff and Nnamdi Asomugha, Kerry Washington's actor husband who recently became a first-time Independent Spirit Award nominee for his work in the drama Crown Heights.
Marc Malkin


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Located on the sands of Guaxindiba Beach, Pousada Mirante has a swimming pool with sea views, sports court and barbecue facilities. It offers free Wi-Fi, a breakfast buffet and free private parking.
Pousada Quebra Mar is offering accommodations in Conceição da Barra. The property has a garden, as well as a terrace. Both private parking and free WiFi are accessible on site.
Located in Conceição da Barra, Hotel Pousada Barra Beach has accommodations with free WiFi and TV. There's a fully equipped private bathroom with shower and free toiletries.
Hotel Rusticos in Conceição da Barra features 3-star accommodations with an outdoor swimming pool and a fitness center. This 3-star hotel offers a garden.
Pousada Brisa do Mar is offering accommodations in Conceição da Barra. Free WiFi is available. All guest rooms in the guesthouse are equipped with a TV.
Located in Conceição da Barra, Hostel Pelicano offers rooms with free WiFi. The hostel features a shared lounge. At the hostel, the rooms come with a wardrobe.
Pousada Nativos, in Itaúnas city center, provides accommodations with a garden and a shared lounge. Free WiFi is included. At the guest house, every room has a balcony.
Located in Conceição da Barra in the Espírito Santo Region, 31 mi from Guriri, Pousada Itaúnas features an outdoor pool and fitness center.
Located in Conceição da Barra, Pousada Dolce Vita has a shared lounge and free WiFi. All rooms feature a flat-screen TV with satellite channels and a private bathroom.
Pousada NP is located in Conceição da Barra. Free WiFi is provided. Every room comes with a private bathroom. A continental breakfast is served at the property.
Featuring an outdoor swimming pool, free Wi-Fi and air-conditioned rooms, Pousada Beth Shalom is located 164 feet from Guaxindiba Beach. Praia do Farol Beach is a 5-minute drive away.


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Guus Hiddink wants to encourage Oscar's emotion and aggressiveness
By Fellipe Miranda Jan 10, 2016, 1:06am GMT
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Chelsea attacking midfielder Oscar has had a rather inconsistent 2015-16 season so far, which would be surprising were it not for the inconsistent seasons he's had in 2012-13, 2013-14, and 2014-15 as well. It's one of the enduring knocks against the talented young man from Brazil, especially after Jose Mourinho anointed him the chosen one at the no.10 position at the expense of other options like Juan Mata and Kevin De Bruyne. When Oscar's on top of his tremendous two-way game, it's a decision that's easily justified. When he isn't, it looks like a tremendously bad decision.
To new manager Guus Hiddink, what might be holding Oscar back the most is just a bit of emotion. Oscar's like a machine. Just needs that emotion chip.
"When [Oscar] puts the emotion in, automatically his level of play rises. That's encouraging, so we try to punch him every now and then a bit to get him on this level! He's a cold player with vision and getting very good information, but when he goes into this with a little bit more of a mood of action, his play can get even better."
Even though Hiddink enjoys a bit of aggressiveness coming from his players and he wants the squad to put in the proper amount of effort and motivation, he obviously won't be encouraging any more bust-ups on the training ground.
"No, not that kind [of aggression] because we don't want to have many repetitions of this. When you go on the edge within the rules there's no problem. It's not intentionally provoked by us to have 10-a-side, 5-a-side and say 'Guys, start fighting,' because then you damage the team as well."
"You have to transfer it to the game and if you do this in a game then there might be a red or dark yellow card. I don't like when they start hitting [each other] but I like it more when I have to say 'Hey guys, I'll have to put the break on, control your emotions.' When you have to push people then your motivation is at too low a level, so I like it more that I have to be alert."
-Guus Hiddink; source: ESPN
Since his arrival, one of Hiddink's running themes has been that the players might have been relying too much on their natural talents and less on hard work and dedication on the pitch. Such lack of commitment could have easily resulted in an untimely exit from the dressing room in the past, but given that this seemed to be a squad-wide ailment, the board decided to put their trust in the players instead. It was probably their only reasonable choice, anyway.
So far, the trust seems to be paying off, with performances and results much improved from the early months of the season. It's still too early to say that Chelsea's situation will be completely reversed but at the current pace, we should have a much better end of the season than what we expected only a month ago.


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Q: Data types usage in java I am not new in java but when I write program I always use int Type of my variables. I want to know when I need to use int data, when byte, when long and so on... Can U explain me this with examples please.

A: If you are asking when to use float, double and long etc. This document can help you to understand.
For example, int is 32 bit but long is 64 bit. If you need to set a value over 32 bit you should use long to store data.
Good luck.

A: It basically depends on how you wanna use them and what considerations would you have (size, data type,..etc). I would recommend going throw Oracle's docs.

A: The types used should be the product of a deep thought about various of things, including (but not limited to) int over long (32bit vs 64bit), char over byte (user friendliness vs performance) , complex data structures over simple ones (Performance), backwards compatibility (JRE version), platforms the program's gonna run on (Windows? Unix? Mac OS?), readability of the code (Sometimes writing "byte x = 0xFF; char ch = (char)x; is worse than char ch = 'a' and the list goes on... of course some of the stuff I mentioned fit into more than one category.
This usually comes with experience. The more you code, the more platforms you want to support, the faster you want your program to respond etc...
You should always have a plan regarding your program:

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I'm not saying you should carefully consider every type you choose, I'm saying you should always make the effort to tick all the V's and be satisfied about it, accomplishing everything you wanted.

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HEBI is striving to make creating personalized robots as uncomplicated as enjoying with LEGO
by admin | Jun 23, 2017 | Productivity, Technology, UK App News | 0 comments
The X-Series Actuator does not glance like considerably. Basically, if I'm remaining genuine, it form of appears to be like a crimson steel scotch tape dispenser with ribbed sides and a few of ethernet ports. The merchandise is scattered all around HEBI's one-area Pittsburgh business office in numerous states of disarray. The palm-sized steel ingredient is the startup's principal merchandise — its full reason for present, really. The actuator's unassuming profile hides a whole lot of impressive know-how that has assisted make the 3-calendar year-old business a growing star in the city's bustling robotics startup community.
Its capabilities arrive into clearer aim as you glance all over the area at a range of wildly various robots that use the small crimson actuator as a type of connective tissue — a type of robotic knee or elbow joint. There's a greedy arm, a milling equipment and a number of other 50 %-concocted builds that glance like robotic rejects from the Island of Misfit Toys.
Co-founder Dave Rollinson introduces us to Igor, a peculiar and skinny robotic that balances on two wheels like a Segway. On top rated of its square body are a pair of extended arms that arc down in an L-form, each and every with a circular paddle for palms. With quite light-weight controls, the robotic can clasp and decide on up objects. It's not the most sleek robotic we have seen on our 3-working day journey to the Metropolis of Bridges, but it is a excellent illustration of how the company's merchandise can be used to rapidly piece with each other a advanced robotic prototype. It's form of like an Erector Established for grownups with computer science levels.
"A whole lot men and women imagine that it is just motors and gears," says Rollinson. "But there is a whole lot extra essential to do it. There are a whole lot of sensors and a whole lot of embedded regulate to make the joint go where by you want it to. The critical point that we establish into all of our parts is the ability to regulate power."
The business, like most of Pittsburgh's flourishing robotics community, began lifestyle at nearby Carnegie Mellon. The actuator has its origins in CMU's snake robotic, a modular mechanical serpent that's tested to be one of the school's most enduring initiatives. In point, we very first seemed at the 'bot back in 2008, when it was however in its earliest stages.
Given that then, it is tested a various and robust task — however, even with the university's intense approach to spinning off startups, it hasn't been uncomplicated to monetize. The nascent business flirted with the idea of positioning it as a lookup and rescue robotic, touting its ability to squeeze into pipes and other tight areas. Ultimately, even so, it was the snake's parts that gave rise to HEBI.
"We have been building these snakes that have been created up of a bunch of various modules that have been chained up with each other," says Rollinson, who, together with the rest of the founding staff was a member of the school's Biorobotics lab. "We understood what we experienced was the creating blocks of a personalized program. We resolved to make a business focused to building creating these personalized robots as uncomplicated as enjoying with LEGO."
The modules are assembled and analyzed by HEBI's eight-individual staff. Demand from customers is however manageable, but the company's LEGO-like approach to robotic creating has created it a hit in Pittsburgh's tight-knit robotics community. The advanced fundamental systems could inevitably wind up in industrial robots, which would reward from their ability to regulate power, building it safer for them to interact with manufacturing unit workers. In the meantime, even so, the X-Series is largely getting achievements as a prototyping software.
For now, the company's product is however fairly confined. The company's confined on the internet distribution product is largely aimed at startups, universities and analysis amenities. As amazing as it would be to establish your individual robotic at home, you are not likely to be able to go and decide on up the actuator at a Greatest Invest in like a Arduino board any time soon. The company's however confined by size and the merchandise is probably charge prohibitive for your run of the mill maker. If you are wanting to mock up a prototype of a robotic for long term merchandise, HEBI's featuring may possibly be proper up your alley.
"If somebody is striving to make a robotic to walk old men and women as a result of a nursing home or a thing, they may possibly establish prototype devices and get points up and operating true rapidly," says Rollinson. "We're creating the applications that men and women will establish on top rated of. So if there is an application that really slots on top rated of our aim and vision, we will pursue an precise program, but proper now we're focused on giving the proper set of applications to aid other men and women level up."


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Q: Eclipse 3.7.0 Indigo CDT, symbol vector could not be resolved This might very well be similar if not the same to question that has already been asked. I am running eclipse CDT on ubuntu machine. I get false compilation error saying 'vector' symbol could not be resolved.
I have tried to fix it by manually looking for vector file location with the following command:find /usr/include/ -name vector -print
This lists the location of vector in my machine as /usr/include/c++/4.5/vector
I manually add it to the GNU C++ include directory by going to
project properties -> C/C++ General -> Paths and Symbols ->GNUC++->Add and add the location but to no avail. I also tried adding other paths as suggested in one of the comments in this post by Catskul.
I am pretty sure its the linker issue, the tool chain I use is the default Linux gcc, have also tried the cross gcc tool chain. And yes I #include <vector> and include using namespace std as well. Also intellisense popup did not have vector when I typed std::. F3 on #include<vector> took me to the source.
Any help in this issue is appreciated.
Edit 2: Well I had to do a fresh install of eclipse to make it work. I had tested the same application in another system, worked like a charm, so I went for an easy fix.

A: I meet a similar error, and I find the answer from website  error , Symbol 'vector' could not be resolved .
You can do this:
In Eclipse, right-click on the project name...Select Index...Rebuild.And the you clean and build the project.


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Sales Open for 2016 United States Mint Presidential $1 Coin Proof Set on Feb. 16
WASHINGTON – Sales for the 2016 United States Mint Presidential $1 Coin Proof Set (product code 16P3) will open on Feb. 16 at noon Eastern Time (ET).
The set contains three Presidential $1 Coins in proof condition with the portraits of Presidents Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, and Ronald Reagan on their obverse (heads sides). All coins were struck at the United States Mint at San Francisco.
The 2016 United States Mint Presidential $1 Coin Proof Set is priced at $17.95, one dollar less than the price of the 2015 set. Orders will be accepted at www.usmint.gov/catalog and at 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468), while hearing- and speech-impaired customers with TTY equipment may order at 1-888-321-MINT. Information about shipping options is available at catalog.usmint.gov/customer-service/shipping.html.
The United States Mint Presidential $1 Coin Proof Set is also available for purchase through the bureau's Product Enrollment Program. To learn more about this convenient ordering method, please review the FAQs at catalog.usmint.gov/customer-service/faqs/.
Each Presidential $1 Coin has a common reverse (tails side) design featuring a striking rendition of the Statue of Liberty. These coins have large, dramatic artwork, as well as edge-incused inscriptions that include the year of minting or issuance, "E PLURIBUS UNUM," and the mint mark. The motto "IN GOD WE TRUST" appears on the obverse.
About the United States Mint
The United States Mint was created by Congress in 1792 and became part of the Department of the Treasury in 1873. It is the nation's sole manufacturer of legal tender coinage and is responsible for producing circulating coinage for the nation to conduct its trade and commerce. The United States Mint also produces numismatic products, including proof, uncirculated, and commemorative coins; Congressional Gold Medals; and silver and gold bullion coins. The United States Mint's numismatic programs are self-sustaining and operate at no cost to taxpayers.
Note: To ensure that all members of the public have fair and equal access to United States Mint products, orders placed prior to the official on-sale date and time of Feb.16, 2016, noon ET, shall not be deemed accepted by the United States Mint and will not be honored.
Information about the Presidential $1 Coin Program is available at //learn/coin-and-medal-programs/presidential-dollar-coin.


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Pediatric Physician
Arleta, California
Seeking a full-time, board-certified Pediatric physician to join a well-established community clinic closely associated with Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley community of Arleta. Provide treatment for a full spectrum of pediatric conditions and care for a diverse patient population, while experiencing all that southern California has to offer.
No visa sponsorship
Must have CA license or have application in process
Experience preferred, but new graduates are welcome to apply
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, a 377-bed facility, has attained Magnet Status for nursing excellence and has been rated in the top 5 percent of hospitals multiple times by a leading national ratings organization. The medical center includes a state-of-the-art Cancer Center, a Heart Center, Orthopedics, Neurosciences and Rehabilitation Services, Womens and Childrens Services, as well as providing our communities with a Level II Trauma Center, one of only two 24/7 trauma centers in the San Fernando Valley. Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is the preferred hospital of the leading physician groups in the north valley.
The San Fernando Valley, home to more than 2 million people, is made up of several cities, including Glendale, Burbank, San Fernando and Calabasas. Locally known as "the valley," this urban sprawl is home to several media companies, Universal Studios theme park and the Valley Performing Arts Center. The San Fernando Valley dining scene is incredibly diverse, offering world cuisine from the Latino, Middle Eastern and Vietnamese cultures and more.
Providence Health & Services (PH&S) is a not-for-profit system of 34 hospitals, more than 600 clinics and hundreds of locally driven programs across five western states: Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Providence is committed to improving the health of the communities it serves, with a special emphasis on its mission to serve the poor and vulnerable. PH&S is a partner organization of the Providence St. Joseph Health family and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity organization.
Job ID Number: 10780
Facility Name: Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
Location Name: San Fernando Valley, CA
Brand Name: Providence Health & Services
Medical Specialty: Pediatric General
Job Setting: Hospital, Medical Clinic
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The construction is done and just about all the little jobs that did not get done in the first pass are done.
I finally did that task and took a rest!
And besides no one should work on their birthday!
PS, Yes it is VERY comfortable!


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Creating a high quality real estate website is extremely important for companies and individuals today to be successful. It is not enough to be on the Internet. You need to do it the right way if you want to make a real impression.
Think about the number of websites that people visit each day, especially when they are looking at real estate. They are inundated with site after site and everything seems to blur together. When you have the right elements on your site though, it will be a standout and a site they remember. That's just what you want.
Let's look at what the best sites out there today are doing.
Getting around the real estate website has to be as simple and as intuitive as possible. Your front page is the gateway to the rest of your website, so that means that the navigation must be very easy to find and use. Do not make the visitors hunt for it, or they will leave the site. Once you are on other pages of your site, visitors need an easy way of getting back to that front page as well.
It is quite important to have typography that is easy to read. This means it needs to be in a legible font, and it needs to be large enough to see. Never use script or hard to read type, or you will risk losing many of the viewers who navigate to your site. You need to also think about the placement of the text and the colors it uses. Everything must work well together in order for it to be a good fit for your site.
Videos and photos are great for any website, and this is particularly true for real estate websites. Having these elements on your front page, as long as they aren't getting in the way of the rest of the content, is a good idea. If you feel that it makes the front page too busy though, simply put them on another page. The easy navigation, the previous element, will make it easy for your visitors to find the images and videos that you have. ShaneHicks.com.au has a great use of images and videos.
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Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Electoral Map for Being Too Partisan
by Alberto Luperon | 6:56 pm, January 9th, 2018
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled Tuesday that the tar heel state's congressional electoral map was unconstitutional for being too partisan. GOP lawmakers went too far in their 2016 Congressional Redistricting Plan by establishing disadvantages to Democrats, said the majority opinion.
From the ruling:
The Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly expressly directed the legislators and consultant responsible for drawing the 2016 Plan to rely on "political data"–past election results specify whether, to what extent, particular voting districts had favored Republican or Democratic candidates, and therefore were likely to do so in the future–to draw a districting plan that would ensure Republican candidates would prevail in the vast majority of the state's congressional district.
Judges determined that this map violated the First Amendment, the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and parts of Article I.
Now there is an injunction on the 2016 plan, which had been the proposed solution to another problem–voters in two black-majority districts had sued, alleging that the congressional map made in 2011 resulted in unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. They won in court on February 5, 2016 when the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina agreed, and struck down those districts. (The U.S. Supreme Court upheld that decision in Cooper v. Harris.)
Gerrymandering under the 2011 plan, which was created by a GOP-controlled state legislature, carried big ramifications for the U.S. Congress. Before the 2012 general election, Democratic representatives had 7 out of the 13 seats. According to Tuesday's ruling, however, Republican won 9 in spite of only getting a total of 49 percent of the statewide vote.
Tuesday's ruling is part of a lawsuit by Common Cause, a watchdog group that describes itself as nonpartisan, and the League of Women Voters of North Carolina. Defendants include the North Carolina State Board of Elections, the State of North Carolina, and lawmakers like North Carolina House Speaker Timothy Moore (R-11th District). When Law&Crime reached out for comment from the defense's legal team at the North Carolina Department of Justice, Chief Deputy Attorney General Alexander Peters said they are still reviewing the court's decision.
Note: Added Peters's comment, which was made Wednesday morning January 10.
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North Carolina Academic Probe: Much Ado About Nothing?
When it comes to academics, it is hard to argue that the Atlantic Coast Conference is second to only the B1G in academic prestige. On the football field, the ACC teams have had their fair share of NCAA trouble lately, with issues at Miami and North Carolina garnering the most attention. An academic fraud situation at North Carolina is even more troubling. Or is it?
But as an offshoot of the NCAA investigation, a UNC internal probe found that 54 AFAM [African-American Studies] classes were either "aberrant" or "irregularly" taught from summer 2007 to summer 2011. That included unauthorized grade changes, forged faculty signatures on grade rolls and limited or no class time.
A four-member UNC Board of Governors panel is reviewing UNC's original investigation into the AFAM department. The State Bureau of Investigation is looking into whether any computer fraud, forgery or conspiracy to commit those crimes in the AFAM department took place. June's faculty report called for an independent commission of outside experts in higher education to take a forward-looking review of athletics and academics at the university.
Meanwhile, the NCAA, fresh off imposing sanctions on the football team for non-academic reasons, is going to have an interest in the North Carolina self-study.
The Confidential does not want to defend North Carolina, but this issue seems very overblown. About half of the students in these easy classes were athletes. The idea of classes like "Rocks for Jocks" was invented long before ESPN and billion-dollar TV deals. Is one easy class REALLY the end of the world?
Frankly, even a non-athlete can obtain a college degree without ever truly challenging himself or herself. That is part of the beauty of college–you have a lot of freedom to determine what you want to learn. Some students become engineers or architects and devote massive effort into difficult undergraduate curricula. Other students (ahem, the Confidential, ahem) choose to take a broader spectrum of classes (i.e. not challenging themselves sufficiently). But there is always graduate school. And part of college is the learning that takes place outside the academic corridors. So taking one or more easy classes is actually quite normal.
The Confidential believes that the fraud issues are certainly worth looking into. Athletes' grades should not be changed. Everyone has an obligation to be ethical. But if this is just a matter of steering athletes towards easier classes, it needs to just go away.


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Cyclists Shouldn't Get To Play By Their Own Rules
Sarah Goodyear,
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The other day, something happened in Chicago that made bicycling a little more boring.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced an ordinance that would double the fine for "dooring" a cyclist.
Motorists who open their doors into the path of a person riding a bicycle, one of the most dangerous hazards that bike riders face, would have to pay $1,000. This is good. Dooring kills people, like Neill Townshend.
At the same time, Emanuel proposed increased fines for cyclists who break the law, bringing them from $25 up to $50-$200. This is also good.
It was a move that the Chicago Sun-Times referred to as "even-handed." And at least one major element of the bicycling community perceived it the same way. "Too often we see people on foot, on bikes and driving cars traveling recklessly," wrote Ron Burke, executive director of the Active Transportation Alliance, Chicago's largest and oldest cycling and pedestrian advocacy group. "Active Trans supports increased traffic fines as an important way to improve safety (along with better education and infrastructure)."
Not that there isn't disagreement in the city's bicycle community. In fact, if you want to read what is commonly referred to as a "lively debate" on the issue, look no further than the pages upon pages of comments on The Chainlink forum in response to the Sun-Times story.
Some people commenting are mad. The ordinance should have included a provision for "Idaho stops" that would have allowed cyclists to slow at stop signs and red lights before cruising on through! Cars cause more damage when they hit people than bikes do! It isn't fair!
But here's the thing: A lot of other people agreed with the ATA position, saying things like this:
The core of the "scofflaw cyclist" is not reckless endangerment of oneself, requiring protection by some nanny-mayor to keep you from killing yourself. It's the selfish, dickish rudeness of those who ride through stop signs like Mr. Magoo at the expense of people in all directions -- other cyclists, people in the cross walk, and drivers who are waiting their turn -- that makes it very hard for the people doling out the cash for the bike lanes and bike share to quiet the critics.
What's happening in Chicago is the same thing that's happening in cities all over the country: Bicycling is becoming mainstream. According to the city's figures, 20,000 people now ride their bikes to work in downtown Chicago on a regular basis. That's up 200 percent since 2005.
In New York, it's the same story. Bicycles are now a routine form of transportation for tens of thousands of people. The bike commuting rate doubled between 2007 and 2011. In San Francisco, bikes made up 66 percent of inbound traffic on Market Street in a recent count - and it wasn't "bike to work day," when the share rose to 76 percent.
When bike-share hits New York City later this month, biking is only going to get more quotidian, as it has in other bike-share cities such as D.C. or Minneapolis. Sorry, haters, but that's reality now.
Riding a bike in the United States has long been perceived as a statement. Being a bicyclist has been an identity, burdened with its own identity politics. The cyclist as renegade, outsider, maverick, or outlaw - that has been the image, or self-image, depending on where you stand on the "issue" of cycling.
But in the last couple of years, we have been moving at an almost imperceptible pace toward a different kind of reality - one in which American cities, from Chicago to Miami to Los Angeles to Boston and back around again — have been building bike infrastructure, implementing bike-share systems, passing laws protecting bicyclists, and the like.
And biking is slowly, slowly becoming just another way to get around.
The flip side is that in places like Chicago, they have also been ticketing bicyclists for violating laws. In New York, the Department of Transportation has deployed safety officers on busy bike routes to remind people of the right way to ride. Ticketing blitzes seem to be happening more regularly.
This is what has to happen for things to get to the next level.
In New York, the city where I live and ride and walk and drive (which, yes, I do sometimes), cycling manners remain appalling, despite advocacy campaigns like " Biking Rules" to change that.
Take as an example Court Street in Brooklyn, a hundred feet from my front door. I walk up and down this busy street several times a day, and on almost every trip I see people riding their bikes against the one-way traffic. It's stupidly dangerous for them, for other cyclists who are riding with the traffic, for pedestrians, and for drivers of motor vehicles who might be forced to swerve to avoid a crash.
If every single one of those people got a ticket every time they tried this nonsense, I would be thrilled.
(My one caveat is that I'm concerned about enforcement being disproportionately aimed at young men of color and becoming part of the stop and frisk problem.)
I am truly sick, at this late date, of people wanting to have it both ways: calling for protected bike lanes and a bike-share system, demanding that cops step up enforcement when it comes to cars, and then blithely salmoning up a major thoroughfare and expecting everyone look the other way.
It makes all of us look terrible and it's a real hazard. Same goes for blowing through a stop sign or red light, or blocking the crosswalk when you're impatiently waiting for the light to change. Not to mention shouting at pedestrians to get out of the way when they are crossing legally. I saw someone yell at an old lady the other day. Seriously?
Have I ever done these things? Well, not all of them. I have never been a wrong-way rider, and I don't yell at small children and older people who impede my relentless forward motion. But I plead guilty to riding through lights and blocking crosswalks in the past. I need to do better.
I am trying to see myself as an ambassador for bicycling and to break the bad habits I formed over years of biking on streets designed solely for cars. If I am going to fight back against the forces that want to intimidate and marginalize me when I am on my bike, I think that riding as squeaky clean as possible is my best strategy these days.
The balance has shifted, and with the advent of bike share, modeling good behavior is going to be more vital than ever. Not just to prove the naysayers wrong, but also to be truly safer riders.
Does obeying the law mean that you will reach your destination more slowly? Yes. Over long distances, it can even add a significant amount of time to your trip. Get over it. Plan for it.
Is it fair if bikers get tickets when motorists don't? Nope. You know what else isn't fair? Everything. Deal with it.
There is a price to be paid for trying to move beyond the life-threatening rodeo days of cycling in major American cities. It's called civic responsibility. Playing by the rules. Making nice.
Whatever you want to call it, it may mean that you're going to have to give up your identity as a special person who does some special activity known as cycling.
You're not so special any longer, just another regular part of the urban landscape. And that means you're going to have to find another way to set yourself apart from the crowd. A bike just won't do it anymore. And that's just great.
Sometimes, being boring is a good thing.
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High school band camps underway, performances still up in the air
Across North Alabama, bands are preparing to perform in fall sports, but are aware things could change quickly.
Posted By: Megan Reyna
Right now, band camp is underway at several high schools across our area.
The Alabama High School Athletics Association suggests allowing bands and cheerleaders to participate in fall sporting events.
However, it is up to each district. Just last week, practice began for the Brewer High marching band in anticipation it will join the football team for its first game on Aug. 21.
"I would love to have them at football games, what that's going to be exactly, I'm not sure at this point?," Band Director Courtney Lankford said.
This is Lankford's first year as director of the Marching Patriots. She knows just how important this program is for these students. More than a decade ago, she was a Patriot herself.
While this is not what she expected her first year, she said she is staying optimistic.
"Just had to zig and zag with our plans and just make adjustments as we go," Lankford said.
There is a set entrance and exit for the band room, and several steps are taken before a student can participate in practice.
"I have to screen everybody that comes into the band room, have to check their temperature, check their symptoms," Lankford said.
In Lauderdale County, at Brooks High School, Band Director Russell Kershaw is staying busy during his second week of band camp.
"It seems like they have a little more enthusiasm honestly," Kershaw said. "It's amazing to see how much we've accomplished in the time we've been working, we've been working about a week and a half."
He too is taking as many precautions as he can to keep his students safe.
"We try to spend more time outside, spaced out, six feet, we did markings on the outside edge of our field so we could tell our students very easily okay go to the marks so we can stay spaced out," Kershaw said.
Back in Morgan County, Lankford says even during a pandemic, it is important to have something to work toward.
"Being involved in may activities still makes for a well-rounded kid and we still need that even though we have the covid 19 situations," Lankford said.
Lankford said when the band does perform they will not be wearing the uniforms and the marching will be limited in order to space out.
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Eating Human Brains Led To A Tribe Developing Brain Disease-Resistant Genes
Jun 11, 2015 12:08 PM By Susan Scutti
Researchers say they have identified a gene that protects against some forms of prion conditions among a tribe known for their former practice of cannibalism. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.
The Fore people, a Papua New Guinea tribe, are most famous for kuru, a disease caused by eating the dead. By studying this tribe, University College London researchers say they have identified a gene that protects against some forms of prion conditions, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. According to the scientists, continued research in this area could result in a better understanding of — and possible treatments for — many types of degenerative brain illnesses, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Mad Cow, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob among them.
But first let's backtrack a bit... eating the dead?
Approximately 20,000 Fore people live in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, where they are separated by the Wanevinti Mountains into North and South groups. The Fore people are subsistence horticulturalists, who practice a slash-and-burn technique of cultivation. However, during the late 1950s and early 1960s — shortly after outsiders began to enter their world and study the tribe — the tribe experienced an epidemic of kuru, a degenerative neurological disease. More than 1,000 tribe members died of this always fatal illness, which scientists classify as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or prion disease.
Observing the tribe, scientists traced the rare viral infection of the central nervous system to a unique cause: Cannibalism.
Apparently, the Fore people expressed respect for their dead family members by consuming them. In particular, the men ate the flesh, while the women ate the brains (and also fed bits of this organ to children and the elderly). The pattern of deaths, which were far more common among the women, suggested kuru was linked specifically to the consumption of brains.
In the Fore language, kuru means shiver. The usual first symptoms of the disease are tremors, difficulty balancing, and slurred speech. Mood changes soon follow. Eventually, afflicted people become unable to stand or eat, and usually they die in a comatose state within six months to a year following the first signs of disease.
However, some families at the very center of last century's kuru epidemic never developed this disease. Naturally, Dr. John Collinge of UCL Institute of Neurology's prion unit and his colleagues wondered why, and so they investigated.
Examining the genes of these exposed but resistant families, they found an unusual alteration in their code: the amino acid, valine, had been swapped for glycene, a different amino acid. Remarkably, Collinge and his colleagues had never seen this difference anywhere else in the world. They experimented to see if indeed this unique swap-out linked back to kuru-resistance.
After genetically engineering special mice with the same variation, they discovered the mice to be completely resistant to kuru and to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A second group of mice they genetically modified for even stronger protection were found to be resistant to 18 prion strains. (Prions, type of protein, change shape and then accumulate, causing damage to the brain.) Collinge and his colleagues describe the unique genetic variation as an example of human evolution, since the ravages of an epidemic "selected" a gene that would confer protection against this form of death.
Continued research will help the researchers better understand the molecular basis of this genetic effect on prion diseases. With millions of people suffering from dementia today — and total cases projected to reach 75.6 million by 2030 — this research could prove life-changing for citizens around the globe.
Importantly, the Fore people no longer practice cannibalism.
Source: Asante EA, Smidak M, Grimshaw A, et al. A naturally occurring variant of the human prion protein completely prevents prion disease. Nature. 2015.


Rick has been with Hazen Transport for ten years. He has served a variety of roles including driver helper, supervisor, manager, director, vice president, COO and now serves as the president. Rick is a graduate of Albion College and was a member of the Carl A. Gerstacker Program for Professional Management. Rick his wife Megan and three children live in Metro Detroit.
Tom joined Hazen Transport in 1998 after many years as an outside CPA consultant. He is responsible for all financial aspects of the Company. Tom is a graduate of Wayne State University and is a member of both the American and Michigan Associations of Certified Public Accountants. He is married to Patty and has two sons.
After receiving his Bachelor's Degree from Michigan State University and graduating from MSU's Eli Broad Business Program he started with Hazen in 2004. Starting as a helper in Hazen Transport's Car Hauling Division he moved into the office working through Accounting to Dispatch to Operations Manager. Derek now serves as Hazen Transport's Vice President of Operations.


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